
Mayflower Compact
(circa 1620)
IN THE NAME 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, 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.
John Carver |
William Bradford |
Edward Winslow |
William Brewster |
Isaac Allerton |
Myles Standish |
John Alden |
John Turner |
Francis Eaton |
James Chilton |
John Craxton |
John Billington |
Joses Fletcher |
John Goodman |
Samuel Fuller |
Christopher Martin |
William Mullins |
William White |
Richard Warren |
John Howland |
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 |
John Allerton |
Thomas English |
Edward Doten |
Edward Liester |
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