Gov. Bradford's History of Plymouth Colony
Published: 1844
Language: eng
Subjects: Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony); History
Notes: In Young, Alexander. Chronicles of the Pilgrim fathers. 2d ed. Boston, 1844. 23 cm. p. 1-108.

Comprises less than one-fifth of the Bradford history, coming down to 1620 only.

The original ms., after being used by Hutchinson, Prince and other early historians, was deposited in the Old South church, Boston, and disappeared at the time of the British evacuation, 1776.

Young discovered that the records of the First church of Plymouth contained a transcript of the first part of the original ms. made by Nathaniel Morton. This had been wrongly attributed to Morton as author and partly printed in Ebenezer Hazards's "Historical collections, consisting of state papers." Philadelphia, 1792. v. 1, p. 349-373.

In 1855 the original Bradford ms. was found in the Fulham library of the Bishop of London. It was copied for the Mass. hist. soc. and printed in its Collections, 4th series, v. 3. In 1897 the ms. was formally returned to Massachusetts and a new edition printed.