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On Bradford’s Trail: Plymouth!

Two rival churches at the foot of Plymouth's burial hill - a split between the descendants of the Pilgrims This…

4 days ago

On Bradford’s Trail: Clark’s Island

Clark's Island was the first landing spot of the Pilgrims in Plymouth Bay. It remains a rather remote spot, accessible…

3 weeks ago

On Bradford’s Trail: Cape Cod

Outer dunes of Cape Cod The Pilgrims hiked through landscape like this in their first explorations Tradition has assigned this…

4 weeks ago

On Bradford’s Trail: Connecticut

During the summer we made the last big research trip for William Bradford research, and this is the first of…

2 months ago

Was William Bradford Secretly a Jew?

I recently came across some pretty salacious claims about William Bradford and the Pilgrims. As some who has done a…

4 months ago

On Bradford’s Trail: Delftshaven

Bradford and the Pilgrims left the Netherlands from Delftshaven. Today it a quaint street with an historic feel The harbor…

8 months ago

On Bradford’s Trail: Home in Leiden

One interesting place that we visited during our trip to Leiden was the American Pilgrim Museum. It was a house…

8 months ago

An Update on My William Bradford Biography

Since I announced several years ago that I was writing a new biography of William Bradford, I’ve had quite a…

8 months ago

On Bradford’s Trail: Leiden

Bradford lived in Leiden during a truly formative period of his life, and we spent several days here. It has…

9 months ago

Rediscovering a Thanksgiving Poem – “The Mayflower Pilgrims”

While researching for my Bradford biography, I just came across a short poem about the Pilgrims. Seeing that it was…

1 year ago