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William Bradford

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William Bradford
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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 6 to 8
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	6.72

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		further, widow, original, settlement, death, government, establish, member, prison, among, hire, arrest, jobs, celebration, ability, manage
	content words:		William Bradford, New World, Mayflower Compact, Alice Carpenter Southworth

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William Bradford By Mary L. Bushong

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¹     What do you do for Thanksgiving? Do you eat turkey and stuffing until you are stuffed? Thanksgiving is a time for us to be thankful. The holiday can trace its roots to the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony. We know a lot about their first Thanksgiving feast in 1621 because a man named William Bradford was there, and he wrote about it in his journal.
 
²     William Bradford was born in the Yorkshire area of northern England in 1590. When he was still a small boy, both of his parents died. He grew up being passed from one relative to another. When he was about 12 years old, he discovered a church he liked in the nearby town of Scrooby. By the time William was 17 years old, he was an active member of the church, but things were becoming hard for these churchgoers.
 
³     They wanted to be free from the Church of England so they could worship a different way, but the government would not let them. Many people had already been arrested and put in prison, but William and many others left the country to go to the Netherlands. They lived there for twelve years, but with poor jobs and little money, their futures were not very bright. They decided the only way they could really be free was to go to the New World and start a new colony.

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