The Mayflower Compact November 11, 1620
The Mayflower Compact November 11, 1620
The “Mayflower Compact” was signed on 11 November 1620 onboard the Mayflower shortly after she came to anchor off Provincetown Harbor. The image above is of the original handwritten page of Governor William Bradford’s history Of Plymouth Plantation. The following transcript contains original spelling and punctuation.
In ye name of God Amen· We whose names are vnderwriten,
the loyall subjects of our dread soueraigne Lord King James
by ye grace of God, of great Britaine, franc, & Ireland king,
defender of ye faith, &cHaueing vndertaken, for ye glorie of God, and aduancemente
of ye christian ^faith and honour of our king & countrie, a voyage to
plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia· doe
by these presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God, and
one of another, couenant, & combine our selues togeather into a
ciuill body politick; for ye our better ordering, & preseruation & fur=
therance of ye ends aforesaid; and by vertue hearof, to enacte,
constitute, and frame shuch just & equall lawes, ordinances,
Acts, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought
most meete & conuenient for ye generall good of ye colonie: vnto
which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witnes
wherof we haue herevnder subscribed our names at Cap=
Codd ye ·11· of Nouember, in ye year of ye raigne of our soueraigne
Lord king James of England, france, & Ireland ye eighteenth
and of Scotland ye fiftie fourth. Ano: Dom ·1620·|
Signers
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 Stephen Hopkins
Edward Tilley John Tilley Francis Cooke Thomas Rogers Thomas Tinker John Rigsdale Edward Fuller John Turner Francis Eaton James Chilton John Crackstone John Billington Moses Fletcher John Goodman
Degory Priest Thomas Williams Gilbert Winslow Edmund Margesson Peter Browne Richard Britteridge George Soule Richard Clarke Richard Gardiner John Allerton Thomas English Edward Doty Edward Leister
For more information about The Mayflower Compact, visit The Mayflower Compact page at MayflowerHistory.com.
For historical information regarding the Mayflower passengers, genealogy, history of the pilgrims and more, visit MayflowerHistory.com.
Cole’s Hill National Historic Landmark: Mayflower Pilgrims’ First Cemetery
Cole’s Hill is a National Historic Landmark containing the first cemetery used by the Mayflower Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. The hill is located across the street from Plymouth Rock. Owned since 1820 by the preservationist Pilgrim Society, it is now a public park.
The images show the Mayflower Pilgrim Cemetery monument erected in 1920 by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Mayflower Cemetery Monument – Front
Monument Text Front:
This Monument marks the first burying ground in Plymouth of the passengers of the Mayflower.
Here under cover of darkness the fast dwindling company laid their dead, leveling the earth above them lest the Indians should learn how many were the graves.
Reader: History records no nobler venture for faith and freedom than that of this Pilgrim band. In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and cold they laid the foundation of a state wherein every man through countless ages should have liberty to worship God in his own way. May their example inspire thee to do they part in perpetuating and spreading the lofty ideal of our Republic throughout the world.
Mayflower Cemetery Monument – Rear
Monument Text Rear:
Of the one hundred and four passengers these died in Plymouth during the first year.
(Listing of names.)
Mayflower Cemetery Monument – Right Side
Monument Text Right Side:
“About a hundred sowls (sic) came over in this first ship and began this work which God of His goodness hath hitherto blessed. Let His Holy Name have ye praise.”
Bradford, 1650
Mayflower Cemetery Monument – Left Side
Monument Text Left Side:
The bones of the pilgrims found at various times in and near this enclosure and preserved for many years in the canopy over the rock were returned at the time of the Tercentenary Celebration and are deposited within this monument.
Erected by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants A.D. 1920.