Plymouth Plantation

"My Current Knowledge" During my brief research on the passage, Of Plymouth Plantation, I've come to the understanding that it was written by the leader of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, William Bradford. Bradford slowly wrote the passage in question over a twenty-one year time span allowing him to tell vivid stories of the life of Puritans and their Mayflower voyage, making them highly favored [which critics supports by referring to them as, "Spiritual ancestors of all Americans" (Samuel Eliot Morison)]. The passage describes the story of the Puritans from when they settled in the Dutch Republic through the Mayflower voyage. Bradford ended his journal with a list, written in 1651, of Mayflower passengers and what later happened to them. I have also learned that Bradford's journal was not published in print until nearly two hundred years after his death. The text was read and quoted by several historians of colonial New England (such as his descending family and etc.), then disappeared during the Revolutionary War. The journal was recovered in the 1850's in a library located in London. It was later transcribed and published in print in 1856. Since 1865 the text has accumulated several titles. Of Plymouth Plantation was not originally published in the modern day spelling of Plymouth, therefor it read," Of Plimoth Plantation". Since then the passage has also carried the titles of History of Plymouth Plantation, History of the Plantation of Plymouth, William Bradford's Journal, Bradford's History Of Plimoth Plantation, The Bradford History, and The Mayflower. Knowing these factoids, and that the document floated around for two hundred years and when published still appeared compelling to American readers, allowed me to navigate the internet and perceive that Of Plymouth Plantation is the sole authority for the story of the Pilgrims/Puritans and the early years of their founded colony.

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