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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, &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 Virginia; 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 Officers, 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 hereunto subscribed our names at Cape-Cod the eleventh of
November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England,
France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the
fifty-fourth, Anno Domini; 1620.
Mr. John Carver,
Mr. William Bradford,
Mr Edward Winslow,
Mr. William Brewster.
Isaac Allerton,
Myles Standish,
John Alden,
John Turner,
Francis Eaton,
James Chilton,
John Craxton,
John Billington,
Joses Fletcher,
John Goodman,
Mr. Samuel Fuller,
Mr. Christopher Martin,
Mr. William Mullins,
Mr. William White,
Mr. Richard Warren,
John Howland,
Mr. Steven Hopkins,
Digery Priest,
Thomas Williams,
Gilbert Winslow,
Edmund Margesson,
Peter Brown,
Richard Britteridge
George Soule,
Edward Tilly,
John Tilly,
Francis Cooke,
Thomas Rogers,
Thomas Tinker,
John Ridgdale
Edward Fuller,
Richard Clark,
Richard Gardiner,
Mr. John Allerton,
Thomas English,
Edward Doten,
Edward Liester.
Source:
The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of
the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United
States of America
Compiled and Edited Under the Act of Congress of June 30, 1906 by Francis Newton
Thorpe
Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 1909.
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