The Mayflower Compact
The kids trampolines indoorMayflower Compact
November 11, 1620
[This was November 21, old style calendar]
In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjectsof our dread Sovereigne Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of GreatBritaine, 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 inthe Northerne Parts of Virginia; doe, by these Presents, solemnly and mutuallyin the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselvestogether into a civill Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation,and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to enact,constitute, and frame, such just and equall Laws, Ordinances, Acts,Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meeteand convenient for the Generall Good of the Colonie; unto which we promise alldue Submission and Obedience.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod theeleventh of November, in the Raigne of our Sovereigne Lord, King James ofEngland, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland, thefiftie-fourth, Anno. Domini, 1620.
| Mr. John Carver | Mr. Stephen Hopkins |
| Mr. William Bradford | Digery Priest |
| Mr. Edward Winslow | Thomas Williams |
| Mr. William Brewster | Gilbert Winslow |
| Isaac Allerton | Edmund Margesson |
| Miles Standish | Peter Brown |
| John Alden | Richard Bitteridge |
| John Turner | George Soule |
| Francis Eaton | Edward Tilly |
| James Chilton | John Tilly |
| John Craxton | Francis Cooke |
| John Billington | Thomas Rogers |
| Joses Fletcher | Thomas Tinker |
| John Goodman | John Ridgate |
| Mr. Samuel Fuller | Edward Fuller |
| Mr. Christopher Martin | Richard Clark |
| Mr. William Mullins | Richard Gardiner |
| Mr. William White | Mr. John Allerton |
| Mr. Richard Warren | Thomas English |
| John Howland | Edward Doten |
| Edward Liester | |
(Editor: Reading Week)
- ·The Evolution of Modern Medicine, by William Osler
- ·Derrick Vaughan
- ·Protagoras, by Plato
- ·The Life of Christopher Columbus, by Edward Everett Hale,
- ·Critias, by Plato
- ·Seventeen, by Booth Tarkington
- ·The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Lion and the Unicorn, by Richard Harding Davis
- ·The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Legends of the Jews, Volume 1, by Louis Ginzberg
- ·The Life of Henry the Fift
- ·The Life of Henry the Fift
- ·The Pool in the Desert, by Sara Jeanette Duncan
- ·The Apology, by Xenophon
- ·Ballads of a Bohemian, by Robert W. Service
- ·The Elixir of Life, by Honore de Balzac
- ·The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe
- ·The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare
- ·The Jolly Corner
- ·The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe
- ·The Jew of Malta, by Christopher Marlowe
- ·Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde, by Oscar Wilde
- ·Taras Bulba and Other Tales, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- ·The Project Gutenberg eBook of King Henry VI, Part 2, by William Shakespeare
- ·The Project Gutenberg eBook of Ethics — Part 5, by Benedictus de Spinoza
- ·Cabin Fever, by B. M. Bower
- ·The Project Gutenberg eBook of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare
- ·Typhoon, by Joseph Conrad
- ·A Man of Business, by Honore de Balzac
- ·The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Merry Wives of Windsor, by William Shakespeare














