What follows is a section from an early draft of an introductory chapter to my Bradford biography. It ended up…
No research trip on William Bradford is complete without a visit to Austerfield Manor, his purported ancestral home. Unfortunately we…
Early one morning I visited a London street where there is some chance Bradford lived A scant modern reference to…
One of the hottest topics in modern history is slavery. This has bled over into study of the Pilgrims, even…
I’ve reached a milestone in my Bradford biography – I’ve finished a draft of the first chapter. I still have…
I recently came across this poem by John Quincy Adams on the Mayflower Pilgrims. It doesn’t seem readily available on…
English Attack during the Pequot War A while back I was reading The Problem of Slavery in Christian America by…
One invaluable resource that researchers of William Bradford have is an inventory of his goods taken after his death. While…
This is one of those questions that may be impossible to ever get a definitive answer, and would be of…
I just found out that Austerfield Manor, likely the childhood home of William Bradford, is for sale. This has the…
While in Maine this summer we visited the other Pilgrim trading post in the area - Penobscot, or Fort Pentagoet,…
Plymouth Grist Mill This will be a pretty quick post, but I thought it would be worth assembling in one…