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On Bradford’s Trail: Austerfield Manor

No research trip on William Bradford is complete without a visit to Austerfield Manor, his purported ancestral home. Unfortunately we…

1 year ago

On Bradford’s Trail: Duke’s Place, London

Early one morning I visited a London street where there is some chance Bradford lived A scant modern reference to…

1 year ago

The Pilgrims’ View on Slavery (via William Perkins)

One of the hottest topics in modern history is slavery. This has bled over into study of the Pilgrims, even…

1 year ago

What Year Was Bradford Born Anyway?

I’ve reached a milestone in my Bradford biography – I’ve finished a draft of the first chapter. I still have…

1 year ago

John Quincy Adams’ Pilgrim Hymn

I recently came across this poem by John Quincy Adams on the Mayflower Pilgrims. It doesn’t seem readily available on…

1 year ago

Did the Puritans Incite War to Capture Slaves?

English Attack during the Pequot War A while back I was reading The Problem of Slavery in Christian America by…

2 years ago

On Bradford’s Trail: Penobscot

While in Maine this summer we visited the other Pilgrim trading post in the area - Penobscot, or Fort Pentagoet,…

2 years ago

The Mayflower Compact: Why It Mattered (Video)

When the Pilgrims arrived off of the coast of New England, before they landed, they signed a document called the…

2 years ago

All the Books and Poems of William Bradford

Plymouth Grist Mill This will be a pretty quick post, but I thought it would be worth assembling in one…

2 years ago

Mary Brewster: The Chief Lady of Plymouth

Depiction of the First Thanksgiving The smoke curled upward from an open-air fire as the smell of roasting turkey filled…

2 years ago