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Excerpt from American Biography, Vol. 3 of 3
William bradford was born in 1588, at Ansterfield, an obscure village in the north of England.* His parents dying when he was young, he was educated, first by his grand-parents, and afterward by his uncles, in the practice of agriculture. His paternal inheritance was considerable, but he had no other learning than such as generally falls to the share of the children of husbandmen.
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