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Governor William Bradford's letter book

Chapter 2: PUBLICATIONS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS
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About This Book

A fragment of a letter-book spanning 1624–1630 collects correspondence and administrative papers from the Plymouth plantation, presenting exchanges on governance, financial disputes with investors and individual partners, management of admissions and covenants among settlers, complaints about idleness and mismanagement, and reports of arrivals from Leyden. Editorial material recounts the manuscript's discovery, transmission, and editorial decisions used in its printing, and letters reveal daily difficulties of sustaining the plantation, negotiations over debts and shares, and instructions for discipline and communal order. The volume presents first-hand documentary evidence of early colonial administration and practical concerns rather than continuous narrative.

Thomas Todd, Printer
14 Beacon St., Boston

PUBLICATIONS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF
MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS


Editor

GEORGE ERNEST BOWMAN

Committee on Publication

Charles A. Hopkins Nathaniel U. Walker
Edward H. Whorf Stanley W. Smith
George Ernest Bowman

THE MAYFLOWER DESCENDANT

An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography. (Begun in January, 1899.)

Subscription price, $2.00 per year, in advance.

Single current numbers, 60 cents each. Single Bound Volumes, $3.00 each.

Complete Set of 7 Bound Volumes (1899-1905) $14.00
Complete Set of 7 Bound Volumes (1899-1905), with Subscription for Volume VIII (1906) 15.00

TOWN RECORDS

(Each volume contains a literal copy of all the entries of births, intentions of marriage, marriages and deaths found on the records of the town.)

Vital Records of Brewster, Mass., to 1850 $2.00
Vital Records of Halifax, Mass., to 1850 2.00
Vital Records of Eastham, Mass., to 1850 (In press) 3.00
Vital Records of Truro, Mass., to 1850 (In press) 3.00

GRAVESTONE RECORDS

Death Records from the Ancient Burial Ground at Kingston, Mass., to 1860. Over 900 Inscriptions. (Limited Edition of 200 Copies only, printed from type and Numbered) $1.00
Gravestone Records from the “Ancient” and “Woodside” Cemeteries at Yarmouth, Mass., to 1851. Over 900 Inscriptions. (Limited Edition of 300 Copies only, printed from type and Numbered, of which only 250 are for sale) 1.00

MISCELLANEOUS

Governor Bradford’s Letter Book $1.00