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The Puritans originally sought to settle near preexisting communities in the colony of Virginia. Their ship, the Mayflower, was blown off course, and they landed far to the north. But they had intended from the first to establish a separate community devoted to a pious life lived in common. They self-consciously formed this community among themselves, without looking to a higher temporal authority, through the Mayflower Compact.

The Mayflower Compact

In the Name of God, Amen. We whose Names are under-written, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Soveraign Lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defendor of the Faith &c. Having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our K[i]ng and Countrey, 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 our selves 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 Soveraign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty fourth, Anno Dom. 1620.

John Carver,

Digery Priest,

William Bradford,

Thomas Williams,

Edward Winslow,

Gilbert Winslow,

William Brewster,

Edmund Margesson,

Isaac Allerton,

Peter Brown,

Myles Standish,

Richard Britteridge,

John Alden,

George Soule,

John Turner,

Edward Tilly,

Francis Eaton,

John Tilly,

James Chilton,

Francis Cooke,

John Craxton,

Thomas Rogers,

John Billington,

Thomas Tinker,

Joses Fletcher,

John Ridgdale,

John Goodman,

Edward Fuller,

Samuel Fuller,

Richard Clark,

Christopher Martin,

Richard Gardiner,

William Mullins,

John Allerton,

William White,

Thomas English,

Richard Warren,

Edward Doten,

John Howland,

Edward Liester.

Steven Hopkins

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