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Oct 29, 2009 · Mayflower Compact. Updated: July 17, 2023 | Original: October 29, 2009. The Mayflower Compact was a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New ...
Mayflower Compact. 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 men aboard the Mayflower, consisting of Separatist Puritans, adventurers, and tradesmen.
- November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620
Mayflower Compact, document signed on the English ship Mayflower on November 21 [November 11, Old Style], 1620, prior to its landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory that is now the United States of America. Rough seas and storms prevented the Mayflower from reaching its ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 29, 2020 · Definition. The Mayflower Compact is the agreement between the 41 male passengers of the ship Mayflower establishing the form of government of the Plymouth Colony (1620-1691 CE), signed on 11 November 1620 CE off the coast of present-day Massachusetts, USA. The passengers were almost evenly divided between religious separatists (who called ...
- Joshua J. Mark
The influence of the Mayflower Compact has far outlasted and outgrown the Pilgrims’ original intent. Legally, it was superseded when the Pilgrims obtained a patent from the Council of New England for their settlement at Plimoth in 1621. However, the Compact had already gained symbolic importance in the Pilgrims’ lifetimes, as it was ...
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