21 April 1621 A.D. William Bradford and Plymouth Plantation
21 April 1621 A.D. William Bradford and Plymouth Plantation Graves, Dan. “William Bradford and Plymouth Plantation.” Christianity.com. May 2007. http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1601-1700/william-bradford-and-plymouth-plantation-11630075.html . Accessed 20 Apr 2015 . William Bradford attended two schools: the school of hard knocks, and the school of Christ. He lost his father at sixteen months old. Shortly after that, he was sent to live first with a grandfather and then with other relatives. He became a devout student of the Bible when just twelve, reading it through. When he was seventeen, he joined a group that wanted to pull out of the Church of England. Betrayed as he attempted to leave England, he was thrown into prison. But when he was twenty, Bradford left England in the company of other Separatists and settled down to hard work as a weaver in the Netherlands. Well-read, he became a leader of the Pilgrims who sailed to Plymouth in 1620. T...