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The Mayflower Compact
November 11, 1620 [This was November 21, old style calendar]
In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the
Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereigne Lord, King James, by the
Grace of God, of Great Britaine, 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 Northerne Parts of Virginia; doe, by these

Presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of
another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civill 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 equall Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and
Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete and
convenient for the Generall Good of the Colonie; 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 Raigne of our Sovereigne Lord,
King James of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of
Scotland, the fiftie-fourth, Anno. Domini, 1620.
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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