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Governor William Bradford's Letter Book
Hardcover
Gifts & Stationery GeneralLetters & EssaysRegional: New England
ISBN13: 9781515459934
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Feb 15 2023
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A foundational document of early colonial America, preserving the correspondence of Plymouth's long-serving governor.
Governor William Bradford's Letter Book gathers the surviving letters of William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony for more than three decades. Written in the formative years of New England settlement, these documents illuminate the daily challenges of governance, diplomacy, trade, and religious community in the seventeenth century. Through official exchanges and practical negotiations, Bradford's correspondence reveals the fragile realities behind the idealized narrative of colonial beginnings.
The letters provide invaluable insight into relations with Indigenous peoples, financial arrangements with English backers, and the internal tensions of a community striving to sustain itself in unfamiliar terrain. Direct, measured, and purposeful in tone, Bradford's prose reflects both the spiritual seriousness and administrative burdens of early colonial leadership.
As a companion to Of Plymouth Plantation, this volume offers a documentary perspective on the lived complexities of settlement and survival, forming an essential primary source for students of early American history.
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