William Bradford (governor)

English Separatist leader (1590–1657)

William Bradford (c. 19 March 1590 – 9 May 1657) was an English Pilgrim Separatist and Governor of Plymouth Colony, originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. He moved to Leiden in the Dutch Republic in order to escape persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620.

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