Is it possible for two people to be so alike and at the same time be completely different? Is it possible for two people to take two different paths but get the same results? And is it possible for two people to encounter the same problems and have practically the same outcome? William Bradford and John Smith are alike and different in many ways and end up being, in a way, the same person.

William Bradford was born in 1590 in England and later moved to Holland with the Puritan group. In 1613 he married Dorothy May who died seven years later on the Mayflower. Her death was either an accident or was suicide when she fell off overboard and drowned. While in Plymouth, John Carver, the Governor of Plymouth, died and Bradford was elected Governor. He held this position for the rest of his life (with the exception for...