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 God 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 Honour 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 of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together in 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, Acts, 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 11th of November, 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. Anno Domini 1620.

    (William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Samuel Morison, 75-6.

John Carver

Edward Tilly

Digery Priest

William Bradford

John Tilly

Thomas Williams

Edward Winslow

Francis Cooke

Gilbert Winslow

William Brewster

Thomas Rogers

Edmund Margeson

Isaac Allerton

Thomas Tinker

Peter Brown

Miles Standish

John Rigdale

Richard Bitteridge

John Alden

Edward Fuller

George Soule

Samuel Fuller

John Turner

Richard Clark

Christopher Martin

Francis Eaton

Richard Gardiner

William Mullins
	
James Chilton
	
John Allerton

William White
	
John Craxton
	
Thomas English

Richard Warren
	
John Billington
	
Edward Doten

John Howland
	
Moses Fletcher
	
Edward Leister

Stephen Hopkins
	
John Goodman