                             The Mayflower Compact
                                     1620
                         November 11, 1620

  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, etc., 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 Northerne parts of Virginia,
doe, by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the presence of God
and one 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 Cap-Cod the llth 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
