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CARVER, JOHN (x575?-1621)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 437 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARVER, See also:JOHN (x575?-1621) , one of the " See also:Pilgrim Fathers," first See also:governor of the See also:Plymouth See also:colony in See also:America, was See also:born, probably in See also:Nottinghamshire, See also:England, about 1575. Owing to religious persecution at See also:home he took See also:refuge in See also:Holland about 1607, and eventually became a See also:deacon in the See also:church at See also:Leiden of which John See also:Robinson was the pastor. In 162o he emigrated to America in the " See also:Mayflower," and founded the Plymouth colony. Before leaving England he had probably been elected governor; after the See also:signing of the famous " Compact " this See also:election was confirmed; and on the 23rd of See also:March 162o (1621 N.S.) Carver was re-elected for the ensuing See also:year. See also:Early in See also:April, however, he died from the effects of See also:sunstroke.

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