History of Plymouth Plantation

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History of Plymouth Plantation

Originally manuscript titled "Of Plimoth Plantation".

• by William Bradford (1590-1657), the second governor of the Colony, wrote this manuscript, starting in 1630. The concluding portion, left evidently unfinished, was written in 1650.
• published for the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1856
• See The Connecticut Magazine, Vol. 12, Page 101, for a facsimile of one page.
• The edition used by Robert Charles Anderson in The Great Migration Begins, for his page citations is William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York, 1952) It is not free, but is available online at Univ. of Michigan. Searching it for free is available at Hathi Trust Digital Library
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Available online at these locations:

• https://books.google.com/books?id=tYecOAN1cwwC
• https://archive.org/details/historyofplymout00brad_0
• https://archive.org/details/historyplymouth00bradgoog
• https://archive.org/details/historyofplymout00inbrad
• https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfPlymouthPlantationcorrectedSpelling
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100734424
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001268220
• scanned images of original manuscript:
  • https://www.mass.gov/info-details/bradfords-manuscript-of-plimoth-plantation

Other editions were published in following years:

• (1890)

• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009610128

• (1898)

• https://archive.org/details/bradfordshistory00brawi
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009584977
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001261946

• (1899)

• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008651219
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009590087

• (1901)

• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008651220

• (1908)

• https://archive.org/details/bradfordshistor02bradgoog
• https://books.google.com/books?id=YRQOAAAAIAAJ
• https://books.google.com/books?id=SfFEdrVdTMwC
• https://books.google.com/books?id=HYvhwLs6XWMC
• https://archive.org/details/cu31924028814824
• https://archive.org/details/bradfordshistor03bradgoog
• https://archive.org/details/bradfords00brad
• https://archive.org/details/bradfordshistor04bradgoog
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001261947
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009908911
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001873703
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009792380
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001261947

• (1912)

• https://books.google.com/books?id=mGcOAAAAYAAJ
• https://books.google.com/books?id=N6hVgkcv3dIC
• https://archive.org/details/historyofplymout02brad
• https://archive.org/details/historyplymouth00socigoog
• https://archive.org/details/historyofplymout2162brad
• https://archive.org/details/historyofplymout1162brad
• https://archive.org/details/historyplymouth01socigoog
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000004094

• (1920)

• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008651221

• (1952) reprint

• https://books.google.com/books?id=IRQOAAAAIAAJ
• https://archive.org/details/bradfordshistory02brad
• https://archive.org/details/bradfordshistor01bradgoog
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/004389685

• (1962)

• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006784529

• (1959) reprint of the 1946 edition

• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006000815

• (1982)

• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009796775

Citation Formats

• <span id='Bradford'></span>Bradford, William. ''[[Space:History of Plymouth Plantation|History of Plymouth Plantation]]'' (Massachusetts Historical Society, 1856) [ Page ].
• ([[#Bradford|Bradford]])

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