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The MayFlower Compact
In ye name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwriten, the loyall subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord King James by ye grace of God, of Great Britaine, Franc, & Ireland king, defender of ye faith, &c.
Having undertaken, for ye glorie of God, and advancemente of ye Christian faith, and honour of our king & countrie, a voyage of 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, covenant & combine our selves togeather into a civill body politick; for our better ordering & preservation & furtherance 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 & convenient for ye generall good of ye Colonie: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witnes wherof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cap-Codd ye .11. of November, in ye year of the raigne of our soveraigne lord King James of England, France, & Ireland ye eighteenth, and of Scotland ye fiftie fourth. Ano: Dom .1620.
The above is the exact transcription of the Mayflower Compact made by the original page of William Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation in his own Handwriting.

The Signers of the Mayflower Compact:
John Alden Francis Eaton John Ridgedale
Isaac Allerton Thomas English Thomas Rogers
John Allerton Moses Fletcher George Soule
John Billington Edward Fuller Miles Standish
William Bradford Samuel Fuller Edward Tilly
William Brewster Richard Gardiner John Tilly
Richard Britteridge John Goodman Thomas Tinker
Peter Brown Stephen Hopkins John Turner
John Carver John Howland Richard Warren
James Chilton Edward Leister William White
Richard Clarke Edmund Margeson Thomas Williams
Francis Cooke Christopher Martin Edward Winslow
John Craxton William Mullins Gilbert Winslow
Edward Doten Digery Priest
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