Of Plymouth Plantation is the story of the first settlers from The Mayflower and how they were able to survive and flourish in a hostile land despite incredible odds. Enduring starvation plague internal and external conflicts natural disasters and countless other calamities about a hundred of those first arrivals lived long enough to establish the foundational foothold that would grow into modern America. This is their story originally penned as a journal during 1630-1651 by William Bradford who was Plymouth Colony Governor five times for a period of nearly thirty years.