Welcome to David Jay Webber’s
William Bradford Web Site
“The LORD is the help of my life”
Dallin’s William Bradford, courtesy of Pilgrim Hall Museum
Welcome to David Jay Webber’s
William Bradford Web Site
“The LORD is the help of my life”
Dallin’s William Bradford, courtesy of Pilgrim Hall Museum
Hello! Thank you for visiting my William Bradford Web Site. The purpose of this site is to offer accurate information about William Bradford, and to provide links to other sites that contain useful data about him and the times in which he lived. Suggestions, corrections, and additional information are always welcome.
CATEGORIES:
William Bradford’s Biography
William Bradford and the “Pilgrim” Story
William Bradford’s Writings
William Bradford’s Faith
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He was indeed a person of a well-tempered spirit, or else it had been scarce possible for him to have kept the affairs of Plymouth in so good a temper for thirty-seven years together... The leader of a people in a wilderness had need be a Moses; and if a Moses had not led the people of Plymouth Colony, when this worthy person was their governour, the people had never with so much unanimity and importunity still called him to lead them. -- Cotton Mather
He was a person for study as well as action; and hence, notwithstanding the difficulties through which he had passed in his youth, he attained unto a notable skill in languages... He was also well skilled in History, in Antiquity, and in Philosophy; and for Theology he became so versed in it, that he was an irrefragable disputant against the errors, especially those of Anabaptism, which with trouble he saw rising in his colony... But the crown of all was his holy, prayerful, watchful, and fruitful walk with God, wherein he was very exemplary. -- Cotton Mather
Bradford’s birthplace, from Addison’s The Romantic Story of the Pilgrims
Governor Bradford’s Cottage at Austerfield
LINKS:
William Bradford (MayflowerHistory.com)
(one of the top two Bradford resources on the Internet)
William Bradford (Pilgrim Hall)
(one of the top two Bradford resources on the Internet)
William Bradford in 17th Century Records (Pilgrim Hall)
William Bradford (1590-1657) (Wikipedia)
William Bradford of Plymouth (Albert Hale Plumb)
Governor William Bradford, and His Son, Major William Bradford (James Shepard)
William Bradford, Governor (Virtual American Biographies)
Bradford, William (Infoplease)
Bradford, William, 1590-1657, Governor of Plymouth Colony (Columbia Encyclopedia)
William Bradford: Governor of Plymouth Colony
William Bradford: Puritan of Plymouth
William Bradford [1]
William Bradford [2]
Bradford History (Androscoggin County, Maine)
William Bradford (1590-1657) (Perspectives in American Literature)
William Bradford (1590-1657) (An Outline of American Literature)
William Bradford: the Pen and the Person (Pilgrim Hall)
William Bradford Family (Thru the Looking Glass)
William Bradford Will (and Inventory) (Thru the Looking Glass)
Descendants of William Bradford
Pedigree of William Bradford, 1589/90-1657
Our Bradford-Brewster Heritage
Lineage from Gov. William Bradford
Pilgrims Lay Base for U.S. Capitalism
The Economic History of the Puritan Settlement at Plymouth Plantation
Cottage at Austerfield where William Bradford was Born (photograph)
Pilgrim Country Tour: Austerfield
The Font, Primitive Methodist Chapel, Lound (photograph)
(formerly in St. Helena’s Church, Austerfield)
Bradford Chair (Pilgrim Hall)
Silver Wine Cup Belonging to William Bradford (Smithsonian Institute)
William Bradford (Find A Grave)
(photographs of Bradford’s gravestone)
Governor Bradford’s Monument, Burial Hill, Plymouth (photograph)
Virtual Tour of Plymouth, Massachusetts
(includes two photographs of the William Bradford Statue)
William Bradford Statue (photograph)
Haywood’s A Prosperous Wind, courtesy of Marine Art from Mike Haywood
LINKS:
Caleb Johnson’s MayflowerHistory.com
Mayflower and Pilgrim-Related Primary Source Documents (MayflowerHistory.com)
Historical Essays on the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, and early Plymouth (MayflowerHistory.com)
The Mayflower (MayflowerHistory.com)
The Voyage of the Mayflower (MayflowerHistory.com)
Mayflower Genealogy Resources (MayflowerHistory.com)
History of Thanksgiving (MayflowerHistory.com)
The Family in Plymouth Colony (MayflowerHistory.com)
The Pilgrims & Plymouth Colony: 1620
The Pilgrim Story (Pilgrim Hall)
Beyond the Pilgrim Story (Pilgrim Hall)
Discover History (Pennsylvania Mayflower Society)
The Good Ship Mayflower (Pennsylvania Mayflower Society)
The Mayflower at Sea - 1620 (Pennsylvania Mayflower Society)
Pilgrims and Puritans in 17th Century New England (Pennsylvania Mayflower Society)
Pilgrims and Wampanoag: The Prudence of Bradford and Massasoit (Pennsylvania Mayflower Society)
The Pilgrims and Election (Pennsylvania Mayflower Society)
Natural Disasters Hit New Plymouth (Pennsylvania Mayflower Society)
Historical Background (Plimoth Plantation)
Full Text Primary Sources (Plymouth Colony) (MayflowerHistory.com)
The Pilgrim Fathers’ Story Begins
A Brief History of the Pilgrims
The First American Thanksgiving
The First Colonists: The Survivors
The Pilgrim Fathers U.K. Origins Association
Disordered and Unlawful Conventicles
(from The Pilgrims, Leiden, and the Early Years of Plymouth Plantation by Jeremy D. Bangs)
The Pilgrims’ History in a Nutshell
The Pilgrims (Pieterskerk Leiden)
Pilgrim Fathers (Leiden)
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project: Topical Articles
Partakers of Our Plenty: The Pilgrim Myth
A New Insight into the Early Settlement of Plymouth Plantation
Passengers on the Mayflower: Ages & Occupations, Origins & Connections
The England and Holland of the Pilgrims
An Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth (Francis Baylies)
Our Plymouth Forefathers: The Real Founders of Our Republic (Charles Stedman Hanks)
The Pilgrim Republic: An Historical Review of the Colony of New Plymouth (John A. Goodwin)
Plymouth and the Pilgrims: Or, Incidents of Adventure in the History of the First Settlers (Joseph Banvard)
The Romantic Story of the Pilgrims (Albert Christopher Addison)
The Story of the Pilgrims (Morton Dexter)
The Pilgrims in Their Three Homes: England, Holland, America (William Elliot Griffis)
The Pilgrim Fathers of New England and Their Puritan Successors (John Brown)
The Pilgrim Fathers of New England: A History (Carlos Martyn)
Plymouth and the Pilgrims (Arthur Lord)
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans: Their Ancestry and Descendants (Joseph Dillaway Sawyer)
Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers (Alexander Young)
Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers (Alexander Young)
John Pory’s Lost Description of Plymouth Colony in the Earliest Days of the Pilgrim Fathers
The Pilgrims (Frederick Alphonso Noble)
The Pilgrim Fathers (W. H. Bartlett)
Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth (William T. Davis)
New-England’s Memorial (Nathaniel Morton)
Pilgrims (Infoplease)
Plymouth Colony (Infoplease)
The Mayflower and Emigration to New England
Early Settlement of Plymouth Plantation
History of the Mayflower Pilgrims (Mayflower Society)
Pilgrims and Puritans: Context and Development
The Pilgrims and Their Struggle for Freedom
Plymouth, MA, Genealogy (USGenWeb)
Thru the Looking Glass: Mayflower and Early Families
Coming to America (dr.who?)
Charter of the Colony of New Plymouth
William Bradford, &c., Surrender of the Patent of Plymouth Colony to the Freemen
The Constitution of Plymouth Colony
The Winter of 1620-‘21 (Stormfax Weather Almanac)
Thanksgiving Day - The True Story
A New English Canaan (excerpt)
Title Page of Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation, courtesy of Pilgrim Hall Museum
First Page of Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation (facsimile)
Mayflower Passenger List From Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation (facsimile)
LINKS:
Bradford’s History “of Plimoth Plantation” (Commonwealth of Masasachusetts edition)
Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation (Davis edition)
Of Plymouth Plantation (Davis edition)
History of Plymouth Plantation (Massachusetts Historical Society edition)
Bradford’s History of the Plymouth Settlement (Paget edition)
Governor William Bradford’s Letter Book
William Bradford’s Mayflower Passenger List
Governor Bradford’s Accounting of the Mayflower Passengers
Bradford’s 1620 Sketch of Plymouth
Of Plymouth Plantation (excerpts) [1]
Of Plymouth Plantation (excerpts) [2]
Of Plymouth Plantation (excerpts) [3]
Of Plymouth Plantation (historical introduction and excerpts)
Of Plymouth Plantation (chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, and 36)
Of Plymouth Plantation (chapters 9, 10, and 28)
Of Plymouth Plantation (excerpt on “Property”)
Mourt’s Relation Or Journal of the Plantation at Plymouth
The Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth (Mourt’s Relation)
Mourt’s Relation (excerpts)
Letter of William Bradford and Isaac Allerton (MayflowerHistory.com)
William Bradford’s Letter Book
William Bradford’s Letter-book
And Truly It Is a Most Glorious Thing
Last Will & Testament of William Bradford
Of Plymouth Plantation: the Journal of William Bradford (Pilgrim Hall)
Purloined, Found and Recovered: The History of Bradford’s History (Pennsylvania Mayflower Society)
William Bradford (Cambridge History of English and American Literature)
The History of Historical Writing in America: The Historians of the Seventeenth Century
The Seventeenth Century: Echoes of the Renaissance and Reformation
(scroll down to “William Bradford (1590-1657) and Plymouth Plantation”)
Silent Partners: Historical Representation in William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation
William Bradford
(a literary analysis of Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation)
William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation
Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
William Bradford: Mayflower Compact (C-SPAN American Writers)
Bradford’s Bible, courtesy of Pilgrim Hall Museum
The Seven Articles of the Church of Leyden
LINKS:
Religious Beliefs of the Pilgrims (MayflowerHistory.com)
A Catechism by the Rev. John Robinson
The Works of John Robinson (Vol. I)
The Works of John Robinson (Vol. II)
The Works of John Robinson (Vol. III)
The Works of John Robinson (Vols. I-III)
Religion (Pilgrim Hall)
Our Pilgrim Heritage (Pennsylvania Mayflower Society)
Conformists - Puritans - Separatists
The Pilgrim Fathers Neither Puritans Nor Persecutors (Benjamin Scott)
The Pilgrims and the Anglican Church (William Deverell)
The History of the Primitive Yankees, Or, The Pilgrim Fathers in England and Holland (William Macon Coleman)
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THE GENEVA BIBLE (sometimes called the “Breeches Bible”), with extensive study notes by various Reformed
theologians, was the preferred Bible of the “Pilgrims.” William Bradford’s own copy of the Geneva Bible (printed in London in 1592)
LINKS:
Four Early Bibles in Pilgrim Hall (Pilgrim Hall)
Geneva Bible (with study notes)
The Geneva Bible: The Forgotten Translation
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SEVERAL THEOLOGICAL BOOKS were listed among William Bradford’s possessions in the inventory of his estate. Included among these were “Mr Perkines workes,” “Luther on the galations,” “Calvins harmony and Calvins Comentary on the actes,” and “Calvin on genises.”
LINKS:
The Order of the Causes of Salvation and Damnation (William Perkins)
A Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians (Martin Luther)
Commentary on a Harmony of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Vol. 1 (John Calvin)
Commentary on a Harmony of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Vol. 2 (John Calvin)
Commentary on a Harmony of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Vol. 3 (John Calvin)
Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Chapters 1-13 (John Calvin)
Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Chapters 14-28 (John Calvin)
Commentary on Genesis, Chapters 1-23 (John Calvin)
Commentary on Genesis, Chapters 24-50 (John Calvin)
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Hello again! In case you are interested in knowing a bit more about me, I am a Lutheran minister with a deep interest in theology, colonial American religious history, and genealogy. I have served as a parish Pastor in Missouri and Massachusetts, and as the Rector of a theological seminary in Ukraine, in eastern Europe. I am currently the Pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Scottsdale, Arizona. I descend from William Bradford through one line, and my wife Carol descends from William Bradford through two lines. Our three children are therefore triple Bradford descendants. We also descend from several other Plymouth Colony families.
Mayflower Ancestry of David Jay and Carol Ruth (Wimble) Webber
Ancestors of David Jay Webber in Plymouth Colony
Ancestors of Carol Ruth Wimble (Webber) in Plymouth Colony
Descent from John Robinson
(Pastor of the English Church in Leiden, Holland)
Major William Bradford’s Second Wife: Was She the Widow of Francis Griswold?
Saint Helena’s Church, Austerfield, Yorkshire, England
...to keep a good conscience, and walk in such a way as God has prescribed in his Word, is a thing which I must prefer before you all, and above life itself. -- William Bradford
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