 Among the Strangers were Myles Standish , who was the colony 's military leader , Christopher Martin , who had been designated by the Merchant Adventurers to act as shipboard governor during the trans @-@ Atlantic trip , and Stephen Hopkins , a veteran of a failed colonial venture that may have been the inspiration for Shakespeare 's The Tempest . The group that later became the Leiden Leaders after the merging of ships included John Carver , William Bradford , Edward Winslow , William Brewster , and Isaac Alberton . 
