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“About the begining of Aprill they heard of Captain Standish his arrivall, and sent a boat to fetch him home, and the things he had brought…”
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From the Middle — Chapter 4: Anno 1629 — The London Partners, the Leyden Coming, and Ashley at Penobscot
WILLIAM BRADFORD
Mr. Allerton carries the colony's letters into England and finds their friends there forward and willing: the London partners join the partnership of trade, and the Leyden people — so long kept back — come over at last with the ships that came to Salem. Sherley's letter of May 25, 1629 rides in the chapter, telling how the Leyden company is on its way, and Mr. Ashley is planted at Penobscot to trade for beaver.
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What’s Inside
- Anno 1626–1632, in seven chapters — complete: 32,583 words, Bradford's own text exactly as he wrote it, closing in his own words: “Your afflicted brother in Christ, WILLIAM PEIRCE. Virginia, Des: 25. 1632.” Volume Four takes up the history at Anno 1633.
- 3 hours 13 minutes of narration — Governor William Bradford himself stands in golden light on the stage and reads his own history aloud, page by page, in a reading room you can follow with your eyes.
- The plates — the Mayflower Compact in Bradford's own hand (facsimile), Halsall's Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor (1882), and Weir's Embarkation of the Pilgrims (1843).
- The fourth book of the Mayflower line — behind it stand Book One, Mourt's Relation · The Mayflower Journal · 1622, and Volumes One and Two of the Plantation history, and ahead of Volumes Four–Five of the history, all at $79.
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This is the public-domain text of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation (Project Gutenberg transcription #24950), presented as a talking hologram book, with all modern editorial matter removed and Bradford's spelling untouched. The narration is a performed reading of that public-domain text, made for this edition. No portrait of Bradford painted from life survives, and the book says so plainly in its disclaimer, which stands first, before the book begins. Editor: Franklin Langston.
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