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Title: The General society of Mayflower descendants; meetings, officers and members arranged in state societies, ancestors and their descendants
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: General Society of Mayflower Descendants cn
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Publisher: (New York, The De Vinne press)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ted of murder by a trial jury inSeptember of that year. Agry, Mrs. George, Jr. Lazell, Theodore Studley Allen, Mrs. Charles Frederick Parker, Edward Ludlow Jones, Mrs. Erastus Prince, George Jones, Julia Frances Ryder, Mrs. Godfrey Kingsbury, Mrs. Chas. Langdon Turner, Mrs. Frederic Alonzo Lazell, James Draper Turner, Frederic Alonzo, Jr. William Bradford William Bradford, for thirty-one years Governor of Plymouth Col-ony, son of William and Alice (Hanson) Bradford, was baptized at Austerfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, March 19,1589. He was a thoughtful, studious boy, and, as Scrooby wasbut two miles distant, a fellowship sprung up between Brewster andthis serious youth, who was but eighteen years old when the emi-gration to Holland took place. To support himself while at Leyden he apprenticed himself to a fustian weaver. He was married there,November 30, 1613, to Dorothy May of Witzbuts (Wisbeach?),England, who accompanied him in the Mayflozver, but was drowned a,3- o ^
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IMAGE: Monument of Governor Bradford, Fort Hil, now Burial Hill, Plymouth.. Facing page 396 (see list of illustrations)
AND THEIR DESCENDANTS 397 while the ship lay at Provincetown Harbor, December 7, 1620. Hisname is the second in the signing of the Compact. After the deathof John Carver, in April, 1621, Bradford was chosen to succeedhim as governor, an office which he filled, with but five years inter-mission, until his death. His second wife, married August 14, 1623,was Mrs. Alice (Carpenter) Southworth, who came in the Anne in that year. In 1627 he joined with seven others in purchasingthe colonial rights from the Merchant Adventurers. In addition tohis official duties, in which he was unselfishly faithful to the bestinterests of the struggling colony, he found time for study, formuch correspondence, and for writing his invaluable history OfPlimoth Plantation. In the relations of the colony with its neigh-bors, as well as with its friends and enemies at home and abroad,he displayed a worthy dignity, much tact, no little shrewdness andworldly wisdom, mingled with a becoming piety and sound businessju

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