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Born 1567 • England
Died April 1644 (aged 77) • Plymouth • Massachusetts

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Mayflower
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John Alden
English colonist
John Carver
British colonial governor
Bradford, William
William Bradford
Plymouth colony governor
Edward Winslow, detail of an oil painting by Robert Walker, 1651; in the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Mass.
Edward Winslow
governor of Plymouth colony
Standish, portrait by an unknown artist
Myles Standish
American colonist
Priscilla Alden
English colonist
Josiah Winslow
United States military leader
New English Canaan
Thomas Morton
English clergyman
Thomas Hooker
Thomas Hooker
American colonial clergyman
Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson
American religious leader
Margaret Brent
British colonist
John Rolfe
John Rolfe
British colonial official
William Coddington
colonial governor of Rhode Island
Bartholomew Gosnold
English explorer
John Davenport
Puritan clergyman
Theophilus Eaton
British colonial governor
William Claiborne
American colonial governor
Thomas Dudley
British colonial governor
Squanto
Squanto
Native American interpreter and guide
Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore of Baltimore
British statesman