Essay:William Bradford the Governor

=========================================================================================================== William Bradford Papers, first governor of Plymouth Colony  The beginning of right wing WASP America

A very small group of very extreme people, who believed the way you carried yourself was important

What follows is from the preface of the Bradford history of Plymouth Colony Such as it is, the book is put forth that the public may know what manner of men the Pilgrims were, through what perils and vicissitudes they passed, and how much we of today owe to their devotion and determination. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek another country, a better country. They sought a heavenly one, wherein God was not ashamed to be called their God.

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The Mayflower, and its captain/part owner Christoropher Jones, and the journey
In addition to wine and wool, with [Christopher] Jones as captain, the Mayflour had transported hats, hemp, Spanish salt, hops and vinegar to Norway. Jones may have taken the ship whaling in the North Atlantic and traveled to Mediterranean Sea ports, being then, equal part owner with Nichols, Robert Child, and Thomas Short. In 1620 Capt. Jones and Robert Child still owned their respective quarter shares in the ship, and it was from them that the entrepreneur and swindler Thomas Weston chartered her in the summer of 1620 for the Pilgrim voyage.