Mayflower Compact, William Bradford, Pilgrims – Puritans Landed – 1620
Mayflower Compact
Alternative Mayflower Compact 1620 Video
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists, also known as the Pilgrims, who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower.
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, etc.
Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and 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 of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, 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 hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620.
1. John Carver
2. William Bradford
3. Edward Winslow
4. William Brewster
5. Isaac Allerton
6. Miles Standish
7. John Alden
8. Samuel Fuller
9. Christopher Martin
10. William Mullins
11. William White
12. Richard Warren
13. John Howland
14. Stephen Hopkins
15. Edward Tilly
16. John Tilly
17. Francis Cooke ( [sic])
18. Thomas Rogers
19. Thomas Tinker
20. John Ridgdale
21. Edward Fuller
22. John Turner
23. Francis Eaton
24. James Chilton
25. John Craxton (sic)
26. John Billington
27. Joses Fletcher (sic)
28. John Goodman
29. Digery Priest (sic)
30. Thomas Williams
31. Gilbert Winslow
32. Edmund Margeson
33. Peter Brown
34. Richard Bitteridge (sic)
35. George Soule
36. Richard Clark (sic)
37. Richard Gardiner
38. John Allerton
39. Thomas English
40. Edward Doten (sic)
41. Edward Leister
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Jamestown VA Settlement
Pilgrim Memorial State Park
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