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…
Once Bradford arrived in Plymouth, the furthest he is recorded making was to Monhegan, a little island ten miles off…
As I research the life of William Bradford for a new biography, I plan over the next few years to…
Note: I’ve rewritten this post after coming across more evidence on the topic during my further research for my William…
During my recent studies on Bradford and the Pilgrims, I was reading about some archeology conducted in Fort Pentagoet, a…