Agreement
Between the Settlers at New Plymouth, 1620
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.