id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7703 William Bradford (governor) - Wikipedia .html text/html 5220 575 73 His widow Alice emigrated to Plymouth Colony after Bradford's wife died, and they were married.[21] Joining the Scrooby congregation were about 50 colonists who had been recruited by the Merchant Adventurers for their vocational skills, which would prove useful in establishing a colony.[25] These passengers of the Mayflower, both Separatist and non-Separatist, are commonly referred to today as "Pilgrims." The term is derived from a passage in Bradford's journal, written years later, describing their departure from the Netherlands (itself an allusion to Hebrews 11:13 in the Bible): ^ Charles Edward Banks, The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers: who came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620, the Fortune in 1621, and the Anne and the Little James in 1623 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2006) p. Wikimedia Commons has media related to William Bradford (Plymouth Colony governor). Wikiquote has quotations related to: William Bradford (Plymouth Colony governor) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7703.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7703.txt