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William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony, was a year old when his father died so he was sent to live with his grandfather, who died two years later so he was sent to live with his mother, she died one year later.
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John Peter Zenger apprenticed with William Bradford for eight years beginning in 1711, learning the printing trade. He was 14 years old when he began.
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The Baldwin brothers; (Alec, Daniel, William, and Stephen), Julia Child, Clint Eastwood, Sally Field, John Lithgow, Christopher Reeve, and many other notable people are all descended from William Bradford (1590–1657), Mayflower passenger and colonial governor of Plymouth Colony.
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In 1976 William Bradford Bishop murdered his wife, 3 kids & mother with a sledgehammer and then disappeared. Placed on the FBI most wanted list in 2014, there have been credible sightings of him in Sweden, Italy & Switzerland. A former soldier & State Department employee, he speaks 5 languages.
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William Bradford was considered to be one of America's printing pioneers.
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The Wampanoag captured Squanto when they discovered he had been giving information about them to Governor William Bradford.
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The Baldwin brothers(Alec, Stephen, Daniel, and William), Sally Field, Christopher Reeve, John Lithgow, Julia Child, and Clint Eastwood are all descendants of William Bradford, one of the original founders of Plymouth Colony, Governor of Plymouth Colony, and author of *Of Plymouth Plantation*.
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Actor Clint Eastwood is descended from Mayflower passenger William Bradford, and is the 12th generation of his family born in North America.
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William Bradford's newspaper was the New York Gazette. New York's new governor in 1732, William Cosby, used the Gazette to further his own political agenda and fortune.
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Clint Eastwood has at least 8 children (two of whom came from separate extra-marital affairs) from 6 different women and is a descendant of Mayflower voyager William Bradford, who served as Governor of the Plymouth Colony for 30 years.
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John Peter Zenger worked with William Bradford for a while once back in New York, but in 1726 decided to start his own printing business.
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Squanto went on to work as an interpreter for Governor William Bradford in 1622, but in November he died from "Indian fever" while in Chatham, Massachusetts. He was 42 years old.
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William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony and born in 1590, has descendants that include Christopher Reeve, John Lithgow, Sally Field, Clint Eastwood, Julia Child, and the Baldwin brothers.
