sentences:  During the battle, his eye was wounded and he was hit by a musket ball which he carried in his body to his grave.He later served as the deputy governor of Plymouth Colony under Governor Thomas Hinckley from 1682 to 1686 and from 1689 to 1692 when the colony was merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony to form the Province of Massachusetts Bay.Bradford was suspended from office during the governorship of Sir Edmund Andros from December 20, 1686 to April 18, 1689.