Mayflower Compact

The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was drafted by the Pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower, looking for the freedom to believe in Christianity according to their own beliefs in God. It was signed on 11 November 1620 (OS) by 41 of the ship's more than one hundred passengers, where they first landed.  According to the customs of the time, the signers were all male.George Ernest Bowman,  The Mayflower Compact and its signers,  (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1920). Photocopies of the 1622, 1646 and 1669 versions of the document pp. 7-19. Of the 41 men who signed the Compact, 21 died during the first year in United States of America.

 List of men who signed 
This is a list of names of the 41 men who signed the Compact.
 John Carver
 William Bradford 
 Edward Winslow 
 William Brewster 
 Isaac Allerton 
 Myles Standish 
 John Alden 
 John Turner
 Francis Eaton 
 James Chilton
 John Crackston
 John Billington 
 Moses Fletcher
 John Goodman
 Samuel Fuller 
 Christopher Martin 
 William Mullins
 William White 
 Richard Warren 
 John Howland
 Stephen Hopkins 
 Degory Priest
 Thomas Williams
 Gilbert Winslow 
 Edmund Margeson 
 Peter Browne 
 Richard Britteridge
 George Soule 
 Edward Tilley
 John Tilley
 Francis Cooke 
 Thomas Rogers
 Thomas Tinker 
 John Ridgdale
 Edward Fuller
 Richard Clarke
 Richard Gardiner 
 John Allerton 
 Thomas English
 Edward Doty 
 Edward Leister

 References 

Category:Official documents of the United States
Category:1620
Category:1620s in the Thirteen Colonies