1. Their Governor, William Bradford, proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving that was to be shared by all of the colonists and the neighboring Native American Indians.

2. Among the Mayflower's most distinguished voyagers were William Bradford and Captain Myles Standish.

3. They elected a man called William Bradford as the first governor of their Plymouth colony.

4. William Bradford Shockley was born in London, where his father, a mining engineer, and mother, a mineral surveyor, were on a business assignment.

5. Governor William Bradford does mention taking turkeys that year, but not in connection to the harvest celebration.

6. Governor William Bradford sent"four men fowling"after wild ducks and geese.