William Bradford, 1621 to 1632, 1635, 1637, 1639 to 1643, 1645 to 1656; 3.

Edward Winslow, 1633, 1636, 1644; 4.

Thomas Prince, 1634, 1638, 1657 to 1672; 5.

Josiah Winslow, 1673 to 1680; 6.

Thomas Hinckley, 1681 to 1692;[12] when the colony of Plymouth[13] (which had never increased in population beyond 13,000) was incorporated with that of Massachusetts Bay, under the name of the Province of Massachusetts, by Royal Charter under William and Mary, and by which religious liberty and the elective franchise were secured to all freeholders of forty shillings per annum, instead of being confined to members of the Congregational Churches, as had been the case down to that period under the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay--so that equal civil and religious liberty among all classes was established in Massachusetts, not by the Puritans, but by Royal Charter, against the practice of the Puritans from 1631 to 1692.
The government of the Pilgrims was of the most simple kind.