page_title: Mayflower Compact
section_title: Signers
hierarchical_section_title: Mayflower Compact / Signers
caption_attribution_description: English: 5 cent United States postage stamp issued 1920 to celebrate the tercentenary of the signing of the Mayflower Compact in 1620
context_page_description: The Mayflower Compact, originally titled Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth, was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Puritans, adventurers, and tradesmen. The Puritans were fleeing from religious persecution by King James I of England.
  The Mayflower Compact was signed aboard ship on November 11, 1620. They used the Julian Calendar, also known as Old Style dates, which was ten days behind the Gregorian Calendar. Signing the covenant were 41 of the ship's 101 passengers while the Mayflower was anchored in Provincetown Harbor within the hook at the northern tip of Cape Cod.
context_section_description: A list of 41 male passengers who signed the document was supplied by Bradford's nephew Nathaniel Morton in his 1669 New England's Memorial. Thomas Prince first numbered the names in his 1736 A Chronological History of New-England in the form of Annals. The original document has been lost, so Morton is the sole source for the signers. He probably had access to the original document, but he could not have known the actual order in which it was signed simply by inspecting it. Morton's arrangement of names might not have been the arrangement on the original document, and the names on the original may not have been arranged in any orderly fashion. Prince's numbers are based solely on Morton, as he himself stated.
  Morton's list of names was unnumbered and untitled in all six editions (1669–1855), although their order changed with successive editions. In his original 1669 edition, the names were placed on two successive pages forming six short columns, three per page. In subsequent editions, these six short columns were combined into three long columns on a single page in two different ways, producing two different orders in unnumbered lists of signers. The second (1721) and third (1772) editions changed the order of the first edition by combining the first and fourth columns into the first long column, and similarly for the other columns. The fifth (1826) and sixth (1855) editions returned the names to their original first edition order by combining the first and second short columns into the first long column, and similarly for the other columns. Prince numbered the names in their original 1669 Morton order. He added titles (Mr. or Capt.) to 11 names that were given those titles by William Bradford in the list of passengers at the end of his manuscript.
  The following list of signers is organized into the six short columns of Morton (1669) with the numbers and titles of Prince. The names are given their modern spelling according to Morison. Use the numbers for the order used by genealogists and half of unnumbered lists (Samuel Fuller will be the eighth name), but merge the half columns vertically into full columns for the order used by the other half of unnumbered lists (John Turner will be the eighth name).
  
  
   
  Mr. John Carver
  William Bradford
  Mr. Edward Winslow
  Mr. William Brewster
  Mr. Isaac Allerton
  Capt. Myles Standish
  John Alden
   
  Mr. Samuel Fuller
  Mr. Christopher Martin 
  Mr. William Mullins
  Mr. William White
  Mr. Richard Warren
  John Howland
  Mr. Stephen Hopkins
   
  Edward Tilley
  John Tilley
  Francis Cooke
  Thomas Rogers
  Thomas Tinker
  John Rigsdale
  Edward Fuller
   
  
  
   
  John Turner
  Francis Eaton
  James Chilton
  John Crackstone
  John Billington
  Moses Fletcher
  John Goodman
   
  Degory Priest
  Thomas Williams
  Gilbert Winslow
  Edmund Margeson
  Peter Browne
  Richard Britteridge
  George Soule
   
  Richard Clarke
  Richard Gardiner
  John Allerton
  Thomas English
  Edward Doty
  Edward Leister
caption: 1920 U.S. postage stamp depicting the signing of the compact
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