The Pilgrims that settled in Plymouth, MA back in 1621 tried socialism and it failed. William Bradford, the governor of the colony, wrote in "Of Plymouth Plantation", that their charter contained, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The debate staged in New English Canaan (1637) between Thomas Morton and the "cruell Schismaticks" of Plymouth colony, and William Bradford's ...

In 1630 William Bradford (1590-1657), who had arrived at the Wampanoag community at Patuxet a decade earlier, began to write a history of Plymouth. It was the first colony the English managed to plant ...

The general custom of thanking the director of one's destiny for its favoring fortunes goes back, presumably, to antiquity or beyond. In America, however, the custom originated at Plymouth, ...

"First published at London in 1622 as A relation or journal of the proceedings of the plantation settled at Plymouth in New England. The book is commonly called Mourt's relation, because the preface ...

NMAI copy 39088019366103 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Historical gazetteer -- Historical introduction -- Religious dissenters are driven from England by persecution -- Their ...