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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
</table>
</body>
</article>
</text>