MAYFLOWER COMPACT

Mayflower Compact 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 politic, 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 officers, 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, 1620.1 Mr. John Carver Mr. Samuel Fuller Mr. Edward Tilly Mr. William Bradford Mr. Christopher Martin John Tilly Mr. Edward Winslow Mr. William Mullinsr Francis Cooke Mr. William Brewster Mr. William Whiter Thomas Rogers Isaac Allerton Mr. Richard Warrenr Thomas Tinker Miles Standish John Howlandr John Ridgdale John Alden Mr. Steven Hopkinsr Edward Fuller John Turner Digery Priestr Richard Clark Francis Eaton Thomas Williamsr Richard Gardiner James Chilton Gilbert Winslowr Mr. John Allerton John Craxton Edmund Margessonr Thomas English John Billington Peter Brownr Edward Doten Joses Fletcher Richard Bitteridger Edward Liester John Goodman George Souler Source: Ben Perley Poore, ed., The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the United States, vol. 1 (1878), p. 931.