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Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' / From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts

William Bradford

  • History
  • Book language: English
  • 504 pages

William Bradford's History of Plimoth Plantation is a firsthand historical chronicle of the Pilgrim settlement in New England. Written by the colony's long-serving governor, it describes the Mayflower voyage, early hardships, and daily life of the settlers. It is valuable for listeners interested in primary-source colonial history.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Numbers (Roman and Arabic) in square brackets, [29], in the right margin represent original manuscript pages.

Letters in Square brackets, [AB], represent a link to a footnote located at the end of the book. m̄ and n̄ sometimes are used to represent a double letter.

16li. represents 16 pounds in monetary terms. The original manuscript used a middle dot before and after the numbers, but this publisher used only a single period/stop after the number.

The 'li' appears to mean libra and in this book the 'l' is crossed with a middle bar or stroke. It was very difficult to represent in a Latin-1 text, so 'li' must suffice.

Most often y, such as ye, represents a thorn and the word is 'the'.

Sometimes you will encounter the actual word 'the'.

This book is composed of many letters written by a number of authors and each writer uses their own spellings and abbreviations, which was common for the time in which they were written.

Spelling is inconsistent and is left unchanged from the original printing of this book.

BRADFORD'S HISTORY
"OF PLIMOTH PLANTATION."
FǡLjƽ ǵƒŧ OǡƗƄƗƿĵƯ MĵƿǼǪŕǡƗǙǵ.
WITH A REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS INCIDENT
TO THE RETURN OF THE MANUSCRIPT
TO MASSACHUSETTS.
PRINTED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH,
BY ORDER OF THE GENERAL COURT.
BOSTON:
WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS,
18 PLjǪǵ Offiŕŧ SǟǼĵǡŧ.
1898.
Cover of Manuscript
Cover of Manuscript
Table of Contents
PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE

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Contents

  1. E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Leonard Johnson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (h
  2. Transcriber's Notes:
  3. BRADFORD'S HISTORY "OF PLIMOTH PLANTATION."
  4. Table of Contents
  5. INTRODUCTION.
  6. PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
  7. DECREE OF THE Consistorial and Episcopal Court of London.
  8. RECEIPT OF Ambassador BAYARD.
  9. RECEIPT of His Excellency ROGER WOLCOTT.
  10. ADDRESS OF THE Hon. GEORGE F. HOAR.
  11. ADDRESS OF THE Hon. THOMAS F. BAYARD.
  12. ADDRESS OF His Excellency ROGER WOLCOTT.
  13. ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY THE BISHOP OF LONDON.
  14. Of Plimoth Plantation.
  15. The 2. Booke.
  16. APPENDIX.
  17. INDEX.
  18. Index
  19. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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