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data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/The_Mayflower_Compact_1620_cph.3g07155.jpg/600px-The_Mayflower_Compact_1620_cph.3g07155.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3170" data-file-height="2233" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><i>Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620</i>, an 1899 painting by <a href="/wiki/Jean_Leon_Gerome_Ferris" title="Jean Leon Gerome Ferris">Jean Leon Gerome Ferris</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created</th><td class="infobox-data">November 21 [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> November 11], 1620</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Repeal" title="Repeal">Repealed</a></th><td class="infobox-data">First repealed in <a href="/wiki/Dominion_of_New_England" title="Dominion of New England">1686</a>, reinstated in 1689, and repealed again in <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Charter" title="Massachusetts Charter">1691</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signatories</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mayflower_Compact_signatories" title="Mayflower Compact signatories">List of signatories</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ededed;">Full text</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/16px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/32px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mayflower_Compact" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Mayflower Compact">Mayflower Compact</a> at <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Mayflower Compact</b>, originally titled <b>Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth</b>, was the first governing document of <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Colony" title="Plymouth Colony">Plymouth Colony</a>. It was written by the men aboard the <i><a href="/wiki/Mayflower" title="Mayflower">Mayflower</a>,</i> consisting of <a href="/wiki/Separatist_Puritans" class="mw-redirect" title="Separatist Puritans">Separatist Puritans</a>, adventurers, and tradesmen. Although the agreement contained a pledge of loyalty to the <a href="/wiki/King_James_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="King James I of England">King</a>, the Puritans and other <a href="/wiki/English_Dissenters" title="English Dissenters">Protestant Separatists</a> were dissatisfied with the <a href="/wiki/Millenary_Petition" title="Millenary Petition">state of the Church of England</a>, the limited extent of the <a href="/wiki/English_Reformation" title="English Reformation">English Reformation</a> and reluctance of <a href="/wiki/King_James_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="King James I of England">King James I of England</a> to enforce further reform. </p><p>The Mayflower Compact was signed aboard ship on November 21 [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> November 11], 1620.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Signing the covenant were 41 of the ship's 101 passengers;<sup id="cite_ref-Prince1736_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Prince1736-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-passengers_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-passengers-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <i>Mayflower</i> was anchored in <a href="/wiki/Provincetown_Harbor" title="Provincetown Harbor">Provincetown Harbor</a> within the hook at the northern tip of <a href="/wiki/Cape_Cod" title="Cape Cod">Cape Cod</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Young1841_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Young1841-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Pilgrims" class="mw-redirect" title="Pilgrims">Pilgrims</a> had originally hoped to reach America in early October using two ships, but delays and complications meant they could use only one, the <i>Mayflower</i>. Their intended destination had been the <a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Virginia" title="Colony of Virginia">Colony of Virginia</a>, with the journey financed by the <a href="/wiki/Company_of_Merchant_Adventurers_of_London" title="Company of Merchant Adventurers of London">Company of Merchant Adventurers of London</a>. Storms forced them to anchor at the hook of <a href="/wiki/Cape_Cod" title="Cape Cod">Cape Cod</a> in <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, however, as it was unwise to continue with provisions running short. This inspired some of the non-Puritan passengers (whom the Puritans referred to as "Strangers") to proclaim that they "would use their own liberty; for none had power to command them" since they would not be settling in the agreed-upon Virginia territory.<sup id="cite_ref-bradford1620_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bradford1620-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To prevent this, the Pilgrims determined to establish their own government, while still affirming their allegiance to the Crown of England. Thus, the Mayflower Compact was based simultaneously upon a <a href="/wiki/Majoritarianism" title="Majoritarianism">majoritarian</a> model and the settlers' allegiance to the king. It was in essence a social contract in which the settlers consented to follow the community's rules and regulations for the sake of order and survival.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoung1841120_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoung1841120-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Similar arguments had been unsuccessfully made by the shipwrecked passengers of the <i><a href="/wiki/Sea_Venture" title="Sea Venture">Sea Venture</a></i>, a similar, earlier group bound for the Colony of Virginia, and specifically by one <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Hopkins_(Mayflower_passenger)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Hopkins (Mayflower passenger)">Stephen Hopkins</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Kelly_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kelly-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who had, as a result, been convicted of mutiny and sentenced to death, but pardoned,<sup id="cite_ref-Johnson_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Johnson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published_sources" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag may rely on a self-published source. (December 2017)">self-published source</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 162–163">: 162–163 </span></sup> and is thought to be the Stephen Hopkins aboard the <i>Mayflower</i><sup id="cite_ref-Kelly_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kelly-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and among the Compact signatories. </p><p>The Pilgrims had lived for some years in <a href="/wiki/Leiden" title="Leiden">Leiden</a>, a city in the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Republic" title="Dutch Republic">Dutch Republic</a>. Historian <a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Philbrick" title="Nathaniel Philbrick">Nathaniel Philbrick</a> states, "Just as a spiritual covenant had marked the beginning of their congregation in Leiden, a civil covenant would provide the basis for a secular government in America."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Text">Text</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mayflower_Compact_Bradford.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Mayflower_Compact_Bradford.jpg/220px-Mayflower_Compact_Bradford.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="393" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Mayflower_Compact_Bradford.jpg/330px-Mayflower_Compact_Bradford.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Mayflower_Compact_Bradford.jpg/440px-Mayflower_Compact_Bradford.jpg 2x" data-file-width="841" data-file-height="1504" /></a><figcaption>Bradford's transcription of the Compact</figcaption></figure> <p>The original document has been lost,<sup id="cite_ref-Bowman_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bowman-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but three versions exist from the 17th century: printed in <i><a href="/wiki/Mourt%27s_Relation" title="Mourt's Relation">Mourt's Relation</a></i> (1622),<sup id="cite_ref-Mourt1622_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mourt1622-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mourt1865_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mourt1865-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was reprinted in <i>Purchas his Pilgrimes</i> (1625);<sup id="cite_ref-Purchas1906_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Purchas1906-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> hand-written by <a href="/wiki/William_Bradford_(1590-1657)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Bradford (1590-1657)">William Bradford</a> in his journal <i><a href="/wiki/Of_Plimoth_Plantation" class="mw-redirect" title="Of Plimoth Plantation">Of Plimoth Plantation</a></i> (1646);<sup id="cite_ref-Bradford1901_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bradford1901-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and printed by Bradford's nephew <a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Morton" title="Nathaniel Morton">Nathaniel Morton</a> in <i>New-Englands Memorial</i> (1669).<sup id="cite_ref-Bowman_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bowman-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The three versions differ slightly in wording and significantly in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.<sup id="cite_ref-Mourt1865_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mourt1865-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> William Bradford wrote the first part of <i>Mourt's Relation</i>, including its version of the compact, so he wrote two of the three versions. The wording of those two versions is quite similar, unlike that of Morton. Bradford's handwritten manuscript is kept in a vault at the State Library of Massachusetts.<sup id="cite_ref-vault_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vault-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The text as presented in modern sources is as follows: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p><b>IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN</b>. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King <i>James</i>, by the Grace of God, of <i>Great Britain</i>, <i>France</i>, and <i>Ireland</i>, King, <i>Defender of the Faith</i>, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of <i>Virginia</i>; Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil 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 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. <b>IN WITNESS</b> whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at <i>Cape-Cod</i> the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King <i>James</i>, of <i>England</i>, <i>France</i>, and <i>Ireland</i>, the eighteenth, and of <i>Scotland</i> the fifty-fourth, <i>Anno Domini</i>; 1620.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The document was signed on November 21 [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> November 11].<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Signers">Signers</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Mayflower_Compact_signatories" title="Mayflower Compact signatories">Mayflower Compact signatories</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1920USstamp5centPilgrimTercentenarySigningCompact.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/1920USstamp5centPilgrimTercentenarySigningCompact.jpg/220px-1920USstamp5centPilgrimTercentenarySigningCompact.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/1920USstamp5centPilgrimTercentenarySigningCompact.jpg/330px-1920USstamp5centPilgrimTercentenarySigningCompact.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/1920USstamp5centPilgrimTercentenarySigningCompact.jpg/440px-1920USstamp5centPilgrimTercentenarySigningCompact.jpg 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="431" /></a><figcaption>1920 U.S. postage stamp depicting the signing of the compact</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MayflowerCompactBasrelief.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/MayflowerCompactBasrelief.jpg/220px-MayflowerCompactBasrelief.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/MayflowerCompactBasrelief.jpg/330px-MayflowerCompactBasrelief.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/MayflowerCompactBasrelief.jpg/440px-MayflowerCompactBasrelief.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1520" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Signing_the_Mayflower_Compact" class="mw-redirect" title="Signing the Mayflower Compact">Signing of the Mayflower Compact</a> Bas-relief by <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_Edwin_Dallin" title="Cyrus Edwin Dallin">Cyrus Dallin</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Pilgrim_Monument" title="Pilgrim Monument">Pilgrim Monument</a> Provincetown, Massachusetts</figcaption></figure> <p>A list of 41 male passengers who signed the document was supplied by Bradford's nephew <a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Morton" title="Nathaniel Morton">Nathaniel Morton</a> in his 1669 <i>New England's Memorial</i>. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Prince_(historian)" title="Thomas Prince (historian)">Thomas Prince</a> first numbered the names in his 1736 <i>A Chronological History of New-England in the form of Annals</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Prince1736_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Prince1736-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The original document has been lost, so Morton is the sole source for the signers. He probably had access to the original document, but he could not have known the actual order in which it was signed simply by inspecting it. Morton's arrangement of names might not have been the arrangement on the original document, and the names on the original may not have been arranged in any orderly fashion. Prince's numbers are based solely on Morton, as he himself stated.<sup id="cite_ref-Bowman_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bowman-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Morton's list of names was unnumbered and untitled in all six editions (1669–1855), although their order changed with successive editions. In his original 1669 edition, the names were placed on two successive pages forming six short columns, three per page.<sup id="cite_ref-Bowman_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bowman-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In subsequent editions, these six short columns were combined into three long columns on a single page in two different ways, producing two different orders in unnumbered lists of signers. The second (1721) and third (1772) editions changed the order of the first edition by combining the first and fourth columns into the first long column, and similarly for the other columns. The fifth (1826) and sixth (1855) editions returned the names to their original first edition order by combining the first and second short columns into the first long column, and similarly for the other columns. Prince numbered the names in their original 1669 Morton order. He added titles (Mr. or Capt.) to 11 names that were given those titles by William Bradford in the list of passengers at the end of his manuscript.<sup id="cite_ref-Prince1736_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Prince1736-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bradford1901_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bradford1901-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The following list of signers is organized into the six short columns of Morton (1669) with the numbers and titles of Prince. The names are given their modern spelling according to Morison.<sup id="cite_ref-Morison_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Morison-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Use the numbers for the order used by genealogists and half of unnumbered lists (Samuel Fuller will be the eighth name), but merge the half columns vertically into full columns for the order used by the other half of unnumbered lists (John Turner will be the eighth name). </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 50em;"> <ol><li>Mr. <a href="/wiki/John_Carver_(Mayflower_passenger)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Carver (Mayflower passenger)">John Carver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Bradford_(Plymouth_governor)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Bradford (Plymouth governor)">William Bradford</a></li> <li>Mr. <a href="/wiki/Edward_Winslow_(Mayflower_passenger)" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Winslow (Mayflower passenger)">Edward Winslow</a></li> <li>Mr. <a href="/wiki/William_Brewster_(Mayflower_passenger)" title="William Brewster (Mayflower passenger)">William Brewster</a></li> <li>Mr. <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Allerton" title="Isaac Allerton">Isaac Allerton</a></li> <li>Capt. <a href="/wiki/Myles_Standish" title="Myles Standish">Myles Standish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Alden" title="John Alden">John Alden</a></li> <li>Mr. <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Fuller_(Mayflower_physician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Samuel Fuller (Mayflower physician)">Samuel Fuller</a></li> <li>Mr. <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Martin_(Mayflower_passenger)" title="Christopher Martin (Mayflower passenger)">Christopher Martin</a></li> <li>Mr. <a href="/wiki/William_Mullins_(Mayflower_passenger)" title="William Mullins (Mayflower passenger)">William Mullins</a></li> <li>Mr. <a href="/wiki/William_White_(Mayflower_passenger)" title="William White (Mayflower passenger)">William White</a></li> <li>Mr. <a href="/wiki/Richard_Warren" title="Richard Warren">Richard Warren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Howland" title="John Howland">John Howland</a></li> <li>Mr. <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Hopkins_(Mayflower_passenger)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Hopkins (Mayflower passenger)">Stephen Hopkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Tilley" title="Edward Tilley">Edward Tilley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Tilley_(Mayflower_passenger)" title="John Tilley (Mayflower passenger)">John Tilley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Cooke" title="Francis Cooke">Francis Cooke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Rogers_(Mayflower_passenger)" title="Thomas Rogers (Mayflower passenger)">Thomas Rogers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Tinker" title="Thomas Tinker">Thomas Tinker</a></li> <li>John Rigsdale</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Fuller_(Mayflower)" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Fuller (Mayflower)">Edward Fuller</a></li> <li>John Turner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Eaton_(Mayflower_passenger)" title="Francis Eaton (Mayflower passenger)">Francis Eaton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Chilton" title="James Chilton">James Chilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Crackstone" class="mw-redirect" title="John Crackstone">John Crackstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Billington" title="John Billington">John Billington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moses_Fletcher" title="Moses Fletcher">Moses Fletcher</a></li> <li>John Goodman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Degory_Priest" title="Degory Priest">Degory Priest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Williams_(Mayflower)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Williams (Mayflower)">Thomas Williams</a></li> <li>Gilbert Winslow</li> <li>Edmund Margeson</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Browne_(Mayflower_passenger)" title="Peter Browne (Mayflower passenger)">Peter Browne</a></li> <li>Richard Britteridge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Soule_(Mayflower_passenger)" title="George Soule (Mayflower passenger)">George Soule</a></li> <li>Richard Clarke</li> <li>Richard Gardiner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Allerton" class="mw-redirect" title="John Allerton">John Allerton</a></li> <li>Thomas English</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Doty" title="Edward Doty">Edward Doty</a></li> <li>Edward Leister</li></ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2></div> <p>On November 23, 1920, at a commemoration ceremony for the 300th anniversary of the <i>Mayflower</i> landing, then <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Massachusetts" title="Governor of Massachusetts">Massachusetts governor</a> <a href="/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Calvin Coolidge</a>, who became the 30th <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">U.S. President</a> a few years later, said the following about the Mayflower Compact: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>The compact which they signed was an event of the greatest importance. It was the foundation of liberty based on law and order, and that tradition has been steadily upheld. They drew up a form of government which has been designated as the first real constitution of modern times. It was democratic, an acknowledgment of liberty under law and order and the giving to each person the right to participate in the government, while they promised to be obedient to the laws.<br /> <br /> But the really wonderful thing was that they had the power and strength of character to abide by it and live by it from that day to this. Some governments are better than others. But any form of government is better than anarchy, and any attempt to tear down government is an attempt to wreck civilization.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fundamental_Orders_of_Connecticut" title="Fundamental Orders of Connecticut">Fundamental Orders of Connecticut</a> (1638)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Instrument_of_Government" title="Instrument of Government">Instrument of Government</a> (1653)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Mayflower_passengers" title="List of Mayflower passengers">List of <i>Mayflower</i> passengers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Mayflower_passengers_who_died_in_the_winter_of_1620%E2%80%931621" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Mayflower passengers who died in the winter of 1620–1621">List of <i>Mayflower</i> passengers who died in the winter of 1620–1621</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mayflower" title="Mayflower">Mayflower</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayflower_Compact_signatories" title="Mayflower Compact signatories">Mayflower Compact signatories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayflower_passengers_who_died_at_sea_November/December_1620" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayflower passengers who died at sea November/December 1620"><i>Mayflower</i> passengers who died at sea November/December 1620</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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.cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBennettCribb2013" class="citation book cs1">Bennett, William J.; Cribb, John T. E. (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-hl0Fc6AQUkC&pg=PA460"><i>The American Patriot's Almanac: Daily Readings on America</i></a>. Thomas Nelson. p. 460. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1595553751" title="Special:BookSources/978-1595553751"><bdi>978-1595553751</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+American+Patriot%27s+Almanac%3A+Daily+Readings+on+America&rft.pages=460&rft.pub=Thomas+Nelson&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-1595553751&rft.aulast=Bennett&rft.aufirst=William+J.&rft.au=Cribb%2C+John+T.+E.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D-hl0Fc6AQUkC%26pg%3DPA460&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMayflower+Compact" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Prince1736-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Prince1736_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Prince1736_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Prince1736_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Thomas Prince, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/chronologicalhis01prin"><i>A chronological history of New England in the form of annals</i></a> (1736) Chronology 73, 84–86. Internet Archive.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-passengers-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-passengers_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bradford listed 104 passengers, including: William Button, a servant of Samuel Fuller who died five days before landfall; Oceanus Hopkins, born at sea; Perigrine White, born two weeks after landfall; and seamen William Trevor and someone named Ely, both hired for one year. If the two seamen and Perigrine White are ignored (William Button's death is offset by Oceanus Hopkins' birth), one is left with the "101 who sail'd from Plimouth in England, and just as many arriv'd in Cape Cod Harbour" as listed by Prince.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Young1841-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Young1841_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYoung1841" class="citation book cs1">Young, Alexander (1841). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/chroniclespilgr05youngoog"><i>Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony of Plymouth from 1602 to 1625</i></a>. C. C. Little and J. Brown. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/chroniclespilgr05youngoog/page/n141">117</a>–124.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Chronicles+of+the+Pilgrim+Fathers+of+the+Colony+of+Plymouth+from+1602+to+1625&rft.pages=117-124&rft.pub=C.+C.+Little+and+J.+Brown&rft.date=1841&rft.aulast=Young&rft.aufirst=Alexander&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fchroniclespilgr05youngoog&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMayflower+Compact" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bradford1620-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-bradford1620_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBradford1898" class="citation book cs1">Bradford, William (1898). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/Ted_Hildebrandt/NEReligiousHistory/Bradford-Plimoth/Bradford-PlymouthPlantation.pdf">"Book 2, Anno 1620"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. 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Photocopies of the 1622, 1646 and 1669 versions of the document.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Mourt1622-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Mourt1622_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">William Bradford, Edward Winslow (printer G. Mourt [George Morton], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:image:10930"><i>Relation or Iournall of the beginning and proceedings of the English Plantation setled at Plimoth in New England</i></a>, Early English Books Online, p.b4</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Mourt1865-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Mourt1865_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Mourt1865_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Henry Martyn Dexter, [G. Mourt = George Morton], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=mQB1lN0cIpUC&pg=PA6"><i>Mourt's Relation or Journal of the Plantation at Plymouth</i></a>, 1865, pp. 6–7, a reprint using original typeface, paragraphs, punctuation, spelling and embellishments, but not pagination.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Purchas1906-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Purchas1906_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Samuel Purchas, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/hakluytusposthu29purcgoog/page/n337"><i>Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes</i></a>, Vol. XIX (Glasgow:James Maclehose, 1906) 313–314. Reprint of 1625 edition except that letters i, j, u, and v are used according to modern custom, contracted letters extended, printers' errors corrected, and repaginated from original four volumes to twenty volumes (I.xxvi).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Bradford1901-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bradford1901_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bradford1901_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">William Bradford, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xD0WAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA110"><i>Bradford's History "Of Plimoth Plantation" from the original manuscript</i></a> (Boston: 1901) page 110 (photocopy of manuscript page follows). Passengers listed on pp. 530–540. No annotations. Official printing by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This printing of the compact is identical to the 1856 version by the Massachusetts Historical Society. Spelling and contractions follow manuscript except for modern usage of u and v. Capitalization and punctuation differ from manuscript. 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<ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mayflower" title="Mayflower">Mayflower</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Mayflower_passengers" title="List of Mayflower passengers">List of <i>Mayflower</i> passengers</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Mayflower_passengers_who_died_at_sea_November/December_1620" title="List of Mayflower passengers who died at sea November/December 1620">who died at sea November/December 1620</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Mayflower_passengers_who_died_in_the_winter_of_1620%E2%80%9321" title="List of Mayflower passengers who died in the winter of 1620–21">who died in the winter of 1620–21</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Jones_(Mayflower_captain)" title="Christopher Jones (Mayflower captain)">Captain Christopher Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_More_(Mayflower_passenger)" title="Richard More (Mayflower passenger)">The More family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cole%27s_Hill" title="Cole's Hill">Cole's Hill</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink 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Allerton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Allerton" title="Mary Allerton">Mary Allerton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Bradford_(governor)" title="William Bradford (governor)">William Bradford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_Brewster" title="Love Brewster">Love Brewster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Brewster_(Mayflower_passenger)" title="William Brewster (Mayflower passenger)">William Brewster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Browne_(Mayflower_passenger)" title="Peter Browne (Mayflower passenger)">Peter Browne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Butten" title="William Butten">William Butten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Carver_(Plymouth_Colony_governor)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Carver (Plymouth Colony governor)">John Carver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Chilton" title="James Chilton">James Chilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Chilton" title="Mary Chilton">Mary Chilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Cooke" title="Francis Cooke">Francis Cooke</a></li> 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