William Bradford1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

#1660, b. 19 March 1589/90, d. 9 May 1657

Spouse 1

Dorothy May b. c 1597, d. 7 Dec 1620

Spouse 2

Alice Carpenter b. 3 Aug 1590, d. 26 Mar 1670
Child

BMDB

     William Bradford was born at Austerfield, York, England, on 19 March 1589/90.9 He married, first, in Holland on 10 December 1613 Dorothy May.9 He married, second, in Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass, on 14 August 1623 Alice Carpenter.9,10 He died at Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass, on 9 May 1657 at age 67.9 He was buried at Burial Hill Cemetery Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass, on 11 May 1657.11

Other Events

     Dorothy and William Bradford emigrated from England to Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass, on the Mayflower in 1620.8,9
William was a Mayflower passenger.

Time Line

Birth1590, Austerfield, York, England9
Marriage1613, HollandDorothy May9
Emigration1620, Plymouth, Plymouth, MassDorothy May8,9
Death of Wife1620, Cape Cod Harbour, MassDorothy May
Marriage1623, Plymouth, Plymouth, MassAlice Carpenter9,10
Birth of Son1624, Plymouth, Plymouth, MassWilliam Bradford Jr12
Death1657, Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass9
Burial1657, Burial Hill Cemetery Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass11
ChartsDescendants of William Bradford
Pedigree of Caspar Wever Collins
Pedigree of Edward Collins
Pedigree of Hannah Collins
Pedigree of William Collins Whitney

Flags

Patriarch
Mayflower Passenger
F-A-G Memorial Found

Citations

  1. James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 4 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862), 1:231.
  2. Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 2011), 1:188.
  3. Martin E. Hollick, New Englanders in the 1600s (Boston: NEHGS, 2012), 030.
  4. Meredith B. Colket, Jr, Founders of Early American Families, 2nd rev. ed. (Cleveland: Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 2002), 041.
  5. Donald Lines Jacobus, Index to Genealogical Periodicals, Together with "My Own Index", 3 vols in 1 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2010), 3:48.
  6. Ann Smith Lainhart and Robert S Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 22, Family of William Bradford. (Albany: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004), 005.
  7. Dwight Brainerd and Donald Lines Jacobus, Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd (Montreal: The Author, 1948, Reprinted by Higginson Book Company, Salem, Mass), 052, 081.
  8. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 1996), 1:207.
  9. Lainhart and Wakefield, Bradford of the Mayflower, 05.
  10. Brainerd and Jacobus, Brainerd Ancestry, 081.
  11. Find A Grave Memorial.
  12. Lainhart and Wakefield, Bradford of the Mayflower, 07.