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Home » Colonial America » Plymouth Colony

Mayflower Compact Text

Published: Jun 18, 2017 · Modified: Nov 10, 2023 by Russell Yost · This post may contain affiliate links ·

The Mayflower Compact Text was the first written Constitution in Colonial America. The original document was signed on November 11, 1620, outside of Provincetown. The original document was lost, but many copies survive.

mayflower compact

Mayflower Compact Text

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 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 to enacte, 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 hereunder subscribed our names at Cape-Codd the 11. of November, in the year of the raigne of our sovereigne lord, King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Dom. 1620.

Signers

John CarverEdward TilleyDegory Priest
William BradfordJohn TilleyThomas Williams
Edward WinslowFrancis CookeGilbert Winslow
William BrewsterThomas RogersEdmund Margeson
Issac AllertonThomas TinkerPeter Browne
Myles StandishJohn RigdaleRichard Britteridge
John AldenEdward FullerGeorge Soule
Samuel FullerJohn TurnerRichard Clarke
Christopher MartinFrancis EatonRichard Gardiner
William MullinsJames ChiltonJohn Allerton
William WhiteJohn CrackstonThomas English
Richard WarrenJohn BillingtonEdward Dotey
John HowlandMoses FletcherEdward Leister
Stephen HopkinsJohn Goodman

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