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History of Plymouth Plantation
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Historical SummaryThe Mayflower Compact, drawn up on shipboard, was intended not only as a basis for the government of the colony in the absence of a patent, but also, according to Bradford, as an offset to the "discontented and mutinous speeches" of some of the company, to the effect that when they landed "they would use their own liberty; for none had power to command them, the patent they had being for Virginia, and not for New England, which belonged to another government, with which the Virginia Company had nothing to do." REFERENCES. — Text in Bradford’s Relation (Dexter’s ed., 1865); Morton’s New England Memorial; Young’s Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers. 1602–1625; Arber’s Story of the Pilgrim Fathers. The laws of the colony, 1623–1682, are in the Plymouth Colony Records, XI.
No. 4.
Mayflower Compact
November 11/21, 1620
In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyall subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord, King James, . . . haveing undertaken, for the glorie of God, and advancemente of the Christian faith, and honour of our king & countrie, a voyage to plant the first colonie in the Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant & combine our selves togeather into a civill body politick, for our better ordering & preservation & furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just & equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & convenient for the generall good of the Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. . . .
Chicago: History of Plymouth Plantation in Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1913, ed. William MacDonald (1863-1938) (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916), Original Sources, accessed April 11, 2025, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=Q4WBAHR79ZG9ICW.
MLA: . History of Plymouth Plantation, in Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1913, edited by William MacDonald (1863-1938), New York, The Macmillan Company, 1916, Original Sources. 11 Apr. 2025. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=Q4WBAHR79ZG9ICW.
Harvard: , History of Plymouth Plantation. cited in 1916, Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1913, ed. , The Macmillan Company, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 11 April 2025, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=Q4WBAHR79ZG9ICW.
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