Mayflower
Compact 1620
Agreement
Between the Settlers at New Plymouth : 1620
IN THE
NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects
of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of
Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender
of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement
of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage
to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do
by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one
another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick,
for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends
aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such
just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers, from
time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general
Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience.
IN WITNESS whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape-Cod
the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James,
of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth,
and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, Anno Domini; 1620.
Mr. John
Carver,
Mr. William Bradford,
Mr Edward Winslow,
Mr. William Brewster.
Isaac Allerton,
Myles Standish,
John Alden,
John Turner,
Francis Eaton,
James Chilton,
John Craxton,
John Billington,
Joses Fletcher,
John Goodman,
Mr. Samuel Fuller,
Mr. Christopher Martin,
Mr. William Mullins,
Mr. William White,
Mr. Richard Warren,
John Howland,
Mr. Steven Hopkins,
Digery Priest,
Thomas Williams,
Gilbert Winslow,
Edmund Margesson,
Peter Brown,
Richard Britteridge
George Soule,
Edward Tilly,
John Tilly,
Francis Cooke,
Thomas Rogers,
Thomas Tinker,
John Ridgdale
Edward Fuller,
Richard Clark,
Richard Gardiner,
Mr. John Allerton,
Thomas English,
Edward Doten,
Edward Liester.
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