Mayflower Compact 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 Honor 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 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
| John Carver | Edward Tilley | Degory Priest |
| William Bradford | John Tilley | Thomas Williams |
| Edward Winslow | Francis Cooke | Gilbert Winslow |
| William Brewster | Thomas Rogers | Edmund Margeson |
| Issac Allerton | Thomas Tinker | Peter Browne |
| Myles Standish | John Rigdale | Richard Britteridge |
| John Alden | Edward Fuller | Georoe Soule |
| Samuel Fuller | John Turner | Richard Clarke |
| Christopher Martin | Francis Eaton | Richard Gardiner |
| William Mullins | James Chilton | John Allerton |
| William White | John Crackston | Thomas English |
| Richard Warren | John Billington | Edward Dotey |
| John Howland | Moses Fletcher | Edward Leister |
| Stephen Hopkins | John Goodman | |
