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Born c.1576 • Derbyshire • Nottinghamshire • England
Died April 15, 1621 • Plymouth • Massachusetts
Title / Office governor (1620-1621), Plymouth
Bradford, William
William Bradford
Plymouth colony governor
William Brewster
British colonist
Edward Winslow, detail of an oil painting by Robert Walker, 1651; in the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Mass.
Edward Winslow
governor of Plymouth colony
John Alden
English colonist
Standish, portrait by an unknown artist
Myles Standish
American colonist
Thomas Hooker
Thomas Hooker
American colonial clergyman
Bartholomew Gosnold
English explorer
John Davenport
Puritan clergyman
Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore of Baltimore
British statesman
Priscilla Alden
English colonist
William Penn
William Penn
English Quaker leader and colonist
Humphrey Gilbert
Humphrey Gilbert
British explorer
Sir William Berkeley
British colonial official
Leonard Calvert
British colonial governor
Josiah Winslow
United States military leader
Sir Edmund Andros
Sir Edmund Andros
English colonial official
New English Canaan
Thomas Morton
English clergyman
Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson
American religious leader
Margaret Brent
British colonist
John Rolfe
John Rolfe
British colonial official