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Born 1576 • Northampton • England
Died July 31, 1653 (aged 77) • Roxbury • Massachusetts
Notable Family Members daughter Anne Bradstreet
New English Canaan
Thomas Morton
English clergyman
Thomas Hooker
Thomas Hooker
American colonial clergyman
Bradford, William
William Bradford
Plymouth colony governor
William Brewster
British colonist
Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson
American religious leader
Margaret Brent
British colonist
John Rolfe
John Rolfe
British colonial official
William Coddington
colonial governor of Rhode Island
Bartholomew Gosnold
English explorer
John Davenport
Puritan clergyman
Edward Winslow, detail of an oil painting by Robert Walker, 1651; in the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Mass.
Edward Winslow
governor of Plymouth colony
Theophilus Eaton
British colonial governor
William Claiborne
American colonial governor
Endecott, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 17th century; in the State House, Boston
John Endecott
British colonial governor
John Carver
British colonial governor
Priscilla Alden
English colonist
Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore of Baltimore
British statesman
John Alden
English colonist
William Penn
William Penn
English Quaker leader and colonist
Title page of Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation
Richard Hakluyt
British geographer