William Bradford was one of the founders, and a longtime governor, of the Plymouth Colony settlement. Joining the Separatists who rejected the Church of England, Bradford spent many years in the Netherlands before coming to America on the Mayflower in 1620. He served as Plymouth Colony governor on and off for 30 years and was instrumental in the creation of the colony's legal code. Bradford's two-volumeOf Plymouth Plantation is one of the primary sources used by historians about the history of Plymouth Colony written by a Mayflower passenger.
