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Alice Carpenter and her sisters (Agnes, Juliana, Mary and Priscilla) were part of the Leiden Separatist community. Alic e married Edward Southworth; they had two sons, Constant and Thomas. After Edward Southworth died, Alice Carpenter Southworth sailed to Plymouth on the Anne in 1623. Shortly after her arri val, she married Plymouth Governor William Bradford. The marriage of William Bradford and Alice Carpenter Southworth was noted in a letter written by Emmanuel Altham to hi s brother Sir Edward Altham in September, 1623: "Upon the occasion of the Governor's marriage, since I came, Massasoit was sent for to the wedding, where came with hi m his wife, the queen, although he hath five wives. With him came four other kings and about six score men with their b ows and arrows - where, when they came to our town, we saluted them with the shooting off of many muskets and trainin g our men. And so all the bows and arrows was brought into the Governor's house, and he brought the Governor three or f our bucks and a turkey. And so we hadvery good pastime in seeing them dance, which is in such manner, with such a nois e that you would wonder... "And now to say somewhat of the great cheer we had at the Governor's marriage. We had about twelve pasty venisons, besi des others, pieces of roasted venison and other such good cheer in such quantity that I could wish you some of our shar e. For here we have the best grapes that ever you say - and the biggest, and divers sorts of plums and nuts which our b usiness will not suffer us to look for." Sidney V. James, Jr., editor, Three Visitors to Early Plymouth (Plymouth, Mass.: Plimoth Plantation, 1963), p. 29-30. Constant and Thomas Southworth came to Plymouth sometime after 1627, they probably lived with their mother and stepfath er. Alice and William Bradford had three children: William, Mercy and Joseph. William Bradford died in 1657, Alice die d in 1670. Her death was noted in the Records of Plymouth Colony: "On the 26th day of March, 1670, Mistris Allice Bradford, Seni'r, changed this life for the better, haueing attained t o fourscore years of age, or therabouts. Shee was a godly matron, and much loued while shee liued, and lamented, tho ag ed, when shee died, and was honorabley enterred on the 29th day of the month aforsaid, att New Plymouth." Before her death, Alice Carpenter Southworth Bradford wrote a will. (From Beyond the Pilgrim Story — http://www.pilgrimhall.org/alice_carpenter_bradford.htm ) from: Descendants of Governor William Bradford (through the first seven generations) complied by Ruth Gardiner Hall, 19 51. born about 1591, one of five daughters of Alexander and Priscilla Carpenter of Wrington, co. Somerset in England and la ter Leiden, Holland. She was the widow of Edward Southworth, who died 1621/22, and her future husband was William Bradf ord. She marriedGovernor William Bradford in Plymouth on August 14, 1623, a few weeks after arriving on the ship Anne . He sister Julian was on the accompanying ship Little James with husband George Morton and her children. In the 1623 L and Division she is listed as “Allice Bradford” and in the 1627 Division of the Cattle as “Alles Bradford” with her chi ldren William Bradford Junior and Mercy Bradford. Sometime after 1627 her sons with Edward Southworth, Constant (born c . 1614) and Thomas (born c. 1617) joined her at Plymouth.