Randy,

It's in Bradford's [History] Of Plymouth Plantation, chapter 4.  He
listed:

  1. Increase the size of their company as many were unwilling or unable
     to migrate to the Netherlands;
  2. Improve their standard of living as those who were permitted to
     migrate could only hold low-paying craft jobs;
  3. Prevent the corruption of their children being exposed to worldly
     temptations, a special problem (as they saw it) among the Dutch;
  4. Propagating the gospel "in those remote parts of the world."

Of course, the impending war between Spain and the Netherlands probably
figured into their calculations, along with "other like reasons."

alex :-)


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On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Randy Cabell wrote:

>
> Back to the legend of goodness that surrounds Plymouth, I continue to wrack
> my brain on the four reasons that Gov. Bradford gave for leaving Holland and
> going to the New World, without ANY success on where I read them, or what
> the four were.  But out of the mists of my mind, I seem to recall the first
> reason he gave that they left Holland for the New World had to do with
> perserving the community as a community which was beginning to be
> infiltrated by foreign notions there in Holland.  And the fourth reason was
> Religious Freedom.  I'm sorry I cannot pin it down any better, but maybe
> somebody can find that document.
>
> Randy Cabell
>

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