The Mayflower, the ship that brought Governor Bradford to Plymouth

He sailed to the new world in 1620

England was persecuting his religion so he fled


Most considered his parents well off, but his father died when he was one years old

As a child he was sickly, so he spent his time reading and becoming smart

Year of 1613 he married Dorothy May

From her he had a son, John, born in 1617

Leaving their son was hard when he came to America
with Dorothy

Of Plymouth Plantation, was his journal


Was governor of Plymouth for thirty years

Everything we know from this time and place came
from his journal, Of Plymouth Plantation

Right up until his death, he was the Governor for the final thirty years of his life