[Oe List ...] Mayflower Compact
Charles or Doris Hahn
cdhahn at flash.net
Tue Nov 23 16:25:11 CST 2010
Hi All
Here is a copy of The Mayflower Compact. It is from the 1951 World Almanac.
Enjoy
Charles Hahn
The 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 Good, 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 honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the
northern parts of Virginia, so by these presents solemnly and mutually in the
presence of God, and on of 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 to enact, constitute and frame such
just and equal laws, ordinances, act, 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 hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11 of
November, (Nov. 21 new style Calendar), in the year of the reign of our
sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of
Scotland the fifty-fourth, Ano. Dom. 1620.
John Carver
William Bradford
Edward Winslow
William Brewster
Isaac Allerton
Myles Standish
John Alden
Samuel Fuller
Christopher Martin
William Mullins
William White
Richard Warren
John Howland
Stephhen Hopkins
Edward Tilly
John Tilly
Francis Cook
Thomas Rogers
Thomas Tinker
John Rigdale
Edward Fuller
John Turner
Francis Eaton
James Chilton
John Crackston
John Billington
Moses Fletcheer
John Goodman
Degory Prist
Thomas Williams
Gilbert Winslow
Edmond Margeson
Peter Brown
Richard Britterdge
George Soule
Richard Clark
Richard Gardiner
John Allerton
Edward Doty
Edward Leister
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