William Bradford is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 19, 1590 in Austerfield, England, United Kingdom. The Founder and Governor of the Plymouth Colony, the first British colony to be established in North America. He was among the few hundred people who left England to a new land aboard The Mayflower and he is often credited with inventing and naming the term “Pilgrim” to describe those who were aboard the ship.
Noah Webster was a distant descendant of his. was an ancestor distantly related to his.
He and his partner Dorothy May traveled with him to settle in the area that became Massachusetts but she passed away on the journey after falling onto the deck of the Mayflower and drowned.
