Question: Which state did this English Separatist of the journal regarded as the most authoritative account of the Pilgrims and the early years of the colony they founded and originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire represent?
Context: The Brooksbank Baronetcy, of Healaugh Manor, in the parish of Healaugh, in the West Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.  It was created on 15 September 1919 for Edward Brooksbank.  He was a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire.  He was succeeded by his grandson, the second Baronet (the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Brooksbank, eldest son of the first Baronet).  He was a Colonel in the Yorkshire Yeomanry and also served as a justice of the peace and as a Deputy Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire.  As of 2007 the title is held by his son, the third Baronet, who succeeded in 1983. The Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers were early European settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.  The Pilgrims' leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownist English Dissenters who had fled the volatile political environment in England for the relative calm and tolerance of 16th–17th century Holland in the Netherlands.  The Pilgrims held Puritan Calvinist religious beliefs but, unlike other Puritans, they maintained that their congregations needed to be separated from the English state church.  As a separatist group, they were also concerned that they might lose their English cultural identity if they remained in the Netherlands, so they arranged with English investors to establish a new colony in North America.  The colony was established in 1620 and became the second successful English settlement in North America (after the founding of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607).  The Pilgrims' story became a central theme of the history and culture of the United States. The County Borough of Leeds, and its predecessor, the Municipal Borough of Leeds, was a local government district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, from 1835 to 1974.  Its origin was the ancient borough of Leeds, which was reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835.  In 1889, when West Riding County Council was formed, Leeds became a county borough outside the administrative county of the West Riding; and in 1893 the borough gained city status.  The borough was extended a number of times, expanding from 21593 acres in 1911 to 40612 acres in 1961; adding in stages the former area of Roundhay, Seacroft, Shadwell and Middleton parishes and gaining other parts of adjacent districts.  In 1971 Leeds was the fifth largest county borough by population in England.  The county borough was abolished in 1974 and replaced with the larger City of Leeds, a metropolitan district of West Yorkshire. The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England.  From 1889 to 1974 the administrative county, County of York, West Riding (abbreviated: "County of York (W.R.)") (the area under the control of West Riding County Council), was based closely on the historic boundaries.  The lieutenancy at that time included the City of York and as such was named West Riding of the County of York and the County of the City of York. The West Riding County Cup is an annual football competition held between the clubs of the West Riding County Football Association which was first competed in 1927.  It is the senior county cup for the historic West Riding of Yorkshire since the demise of the Senior Cup in 1999.  The first winners were Leeds United Reserves in 1927. The East Riding of Yorkshire is a local government district with unitary authority status, and is a ceremonial county of England.  It is named after the historic East Riding of Yorkshire which was one of three ridings alongside the North Riding and West Riding, which were constituent parts a Yorkshire ceremonial and administrative county until 1974.  From 1974 to 1996 the area of the modern East Riding of Yorkshire constituted the northern part of Humberside. The Scrooby Congregation were English Protestant separatists who lived near Scrooby, on the outskirts of Bawtry, a small market town at the border of South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.  In 1607/8 the Congregation emigrated to the Netherlands in search of the freedom to worship as they chose.  They founded the "English separatist church at Leiden", one of several English separatist groups in the Netherlands at the time. 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. Staincross is a village in South Yorkshire, England, on the border with West Yorkshire.  Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it formed part of the defunct Barnsley West and Penistone borough constituency, following the Boundary Commission for England's report on South Yorkshire's Parliamentary constituencies in 2004 and the subsequent inquiry in 2005, it is now part of the Barnsley Central borough constituency.  The population now falls within the Darton East ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley.  The village also gave its name to the Staincross wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire. William Bradford ( 19 March 1590May 9, 1657) was an English Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire.  He moved to Leiden in Holland in order to escape persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the "Mayflower" in 1620.  He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact and went on to serve as Governor of the Plymouth Colony intermittently for about 30 years between 1621 and 1657.  His journal "Of Plymouth Plantation" covered the years from 1620 to 1657 in Plymouth.
Answer: Massachusetts