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William Bradford Interview


1.I was born in 1590 on a small farming community of Austerfield,Yorkish my father died when I was one year old my mother died when I was seven.
 * Tell us about your life in England or the Netherlands.**

I was raised by my uncle Robert Bradford. I started reading the Bible at age 12. I moved to the Netherlands to have religious freedom. In the Netherlands I crowded in small houses and worked at low paying jobs. Children becoming like the Dutch and the Dutch did not observe Sundays.


 * Why did you decide to go to the New World on the Mayflower? What was that voyage like?**

2.I left my hometown to go on the Mayflower for religious freedom because I was a saint. 3.The voyage was terrible the food had bugs in it and we ran out of water so we had to drink beer. We didn’t have a lot of room when we went to bed and we usually had to stay on the lower deck unless told different and all to do at night was to listen to the captain shout orders. One night there was a terrible storm and one of the beams cracked and we thought the ship would sink. And at the end of the voyage my wife fell overboard and drown. I felt terrible because I was all excited to go to the new world and then I heard she died. **How did the land and climate of Plimoth compare to what you were used to in England or the Netherlands?** 3: Life in England was much different then the New World because in the New World there were no shelters built and we had to build them. In England there were very few forests and there were lots in the New World. There were no bridges in the New World and everything was the king’s land in England. But, in the New World it wasn’t and we were allowed to hunt and cut down trees. I was so excited to be in this New Land because nothing belonged to the king like in England. But when I heard that my wife drown it made me really sad and not so exciting anymore.

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 * What was the first year like? What was hardest about adjusting to life in a new place?Type in the content of your page4.

The hardest thing to adjust to was the Native Americans because they hardly wore any clothes and we found that offensive. Another thing was adjusting to all the new food because we had to hunt for it. Instead of it just being there for us cause we did not really have vegetables and we had to plant it because by the end of the voyage the vegetables were all rotten .There was also no wheat, cheese or milk.** But the hardest was that there was no civilization so that meant that we had to build our own houses but we were all happy and full of joy to finally get off the ship. All of the cold weather, people were dying and some. But thanks to the Indian Squanto he helped us survive the first winter by teaching us how to plant all kinds of vegetables like corn.

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