Born in England in 1590, died at Plymouth, Mass., in 1657;
governor of Plymouth Colony from 1627, except for five
years, to 1657; wrote a "History of the Plymouth Plantation"
for the period 1602-47, the manuscript of which was lost in
England, but after the lapse of about seventy-five years it
was found in a library in 1855, and in the following year
published.