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Thanksgiving - The Mayflower Compact


The Mayflower Compact was signed by the Pilgrims
on-board the Mayflower in 1620. There was unanimous
agreement that their ocean journey was providential.
They celebrated the first Thanksgiving one year later.


      "In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are under-written, 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, etc.

      Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor 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 of another, covenant and combine our selves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, 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 hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the eleventh of November (New Style, November 21) in the year of the reign of our sovereign lord, King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Dom. 1620."

      John Carver
      William Bradford
      Edward Winslow
      William Brewster
      Isaac Allerton
      Miles Standish
      John Alden
      Samuel Fuller
      Christopher Martin
      William Mullins      		 William White
      James Chilton
      John Craxton
      John Billington
      Richard Warren
      John Howland
      Steven Hopkins
      Edward Tilly
      John Tilly
      Francis Cook      		 Thomas Rogers
      Thomas Tinker
      John Rigdale
      Edward Fuller
      John Turner
      Francis Eaton
      Moses Fletcher
      Digery Priest
      Thomas Williams
      Gilbert Winslow      		 Edmond Margeson
      Peter Brown
      Richard Bitteridge
      Richard Clark
      Richard Gardiner
      John Allerton
      Thomas English
      Edward Doten
      Edward Liester
      John Goodman
      George Soule