title: Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647
author: William BRADFORD
description: Written over a period of years by William Bradford, the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, Of Plymouth Plantation is regarded as the most authoritative account of the Pilgrims and the early years of the colony they founded. Written between 1630 and 1651, the journal describes the story of the Pilgrims from 1608, when they settled in the Dutch Republic on the European mainland through the 1620 Mayflower voyage to the New World, until the year 1647. The book ends with a list, written in 1651, of Mayflower passengers and what happened to them.
zlib_text: Of	Plymouth	Plantation
  By	William	Bradford
  IN	MODERN	ENGLISH
  
  Table	of	Contents
  Title	Page
  Of	Plymouth	Plantation
  BOOK	I:	1608-1620
  Chapter	I	|	Suppression	of	Religious	Liberty	in	England—First	Cause	of	the	Foundation	of	the	New
  Plymouth	Settlement.
  Chapter	II	|	Flights	to	Holland	(Amsterdam	and	Leyden):	1607-1608.
  Chapter	III	|	Settlement	at	Leyden:	1609-1620.
  Chapter	IV	|	Reasons	which	led	the	Congregation	at	Leyden	to	decide	upon	Settlement	in	America.
  Chapter	V	|	Decision	to	make	New	England	the	place	of	Settlement,	in	preference	to	Guiana	or	Virginia
  —Endeavor	to	obtain	a	Patent	from	the	King	of	England:	1617-1620.
  Chapter	VI	|	Agreement	between	the	Congregation	at	Leyden	and	the	Merchants	and	Adventurers	in
  London	for	the	accomplishment	of	the	Settlement	in	New	England:	1620.
  Chapter	VII	|	Departure	from	Leyden—Arrival	and	Preparations	at	Southampton—Letter	of	Farewell
  from	John	Robinson	to	the	whole	party	of	Pilgrims:	July	and	August,	1620.
  Chapter	VIII	|	Departure	from	Southamp