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- <text id=93AT0009>
- <title>
- The Mayflower Compact
- </title>
- <history>
- Compact ALMANAC--United States Federal Directory
- Documents Of American History
- </history>
- <article>
- <source> </source>
- <hdr>
- The Mayflower Compact
- November 11, 1620
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> This Compact was written by Pilgrim leaders as a means of
- establishing a form of government for themselves and the 70
- others who had joined them when they sailed from Plymouth,
- England in September 1620.
- </p>
- <p> 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 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 out
- 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
- 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 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
- </p>
- <table>
- Mr. John Carver Mr. Stephen Hopkins
- Mr. William Bradford Digery Priest
- Mr. Edward Winslow Thomas Williams
- Mr. William Brewster Gilbert Winslow
- Isaac Allerton Edmund Margesson
- Miles Standish Peter Brown
- John Alden Richard Bitteridge
- John Turner George Soule
- Francis Eaton Edward Tilly
- James Chilton John Tilly
- John Craxton Francis Cooke
- John Billington Thomas Rogers
- Joses Fletcher Thomas Tinker
- John Goodman John Ridgate
- Mr. Samuel Fuller Edward Fuller
- Mr. Christopher Martin Richard Clark
- Mr. William Mullins Richard Gardiner
- Mr. William White Mr. John Allerton
- Mr. Richard Warren Thomas English
- John Howland Edward Doten
- Edward Liester
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- </table>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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