mayflower compact

     

The Mayflower Compact was the first governing ocument of Plymouth Colony. It was drafted by the Pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower, seeking the freedom to practice Christianity according to their own determination. It was signed on November 11, 1620 (OS) by 41 of the ship's more than one hundred passengers, in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.

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  • John Alden was the last surviving signer of this
  • 1620:"We whose names are underwritten... combine ourselves together into a civil body politick"
  • 41 male passengers onboard the Mayflower signed it in November
  • Famous document being signed aboard ship in the Tompkins Matteson painting seen here
  • Ulysses S. Grant could count among his ancestors Richard Warren, a signer of this 1620 document

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