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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The three major documents that laid the foundation for a limited and representative government were The Mayflower Compact, The Petition of Rights, and The Magna Carta.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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Mayflower Compact, 1620 ; Peace Treaty with Massasoit, 1621 ; Division of Land, 1623 ; Division of Cattle, 1627.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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The pilgrims founded a colony at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts in 1620 and signed the famous Mayflower Compact - a declaration of self-government that would later be echoed in the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.
The Mayflower Compact, signed by all adult male Pilgrims in November 1620, created a civil body politic to enact law and established majority rule.
Mayflower Compact - Signed by all the males on the Mayflower, constituted the group a civil government.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Joe has traced one branch of his ancestry, through his mother's DYER ancestors, to William and Susannah WHITE who were Mayflower pilgrims and William was a signer of the Mayflower Compact.
What does exist is a handwritten copy of the Compact made by Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony governor William Bradford, made about 1630 in his manuscript history Of Plymouth Plantation.
12, 1687, was one of the Pilgrim Fathers who came to America in the Mayflower, signed the Mayflower Compact, and founded Plymouth Colony in 1620.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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The Pilgrim Monument was built by Cape Codders as a tribute to a group of refugees who conceived the Mayflower Compact, touchstone of the American ideal of self government and personal freedom nearly 300 years earlier in the shelter of our harbor.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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The Mayflower Compact of 1620 proclaimed the original intent upon which this country was founded - " for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith"
1620 - The Mayflower Compact written by the Pilgrims before they got off the Mayflower said: "In the presence of God, Amen.
Turning to the right by 90 degrees brings the The Mayflower, The Journey, compact and thanksgiving Mayflower Steps into view, the departure point for the Pilgrims on their epic voyage to New England in the Mayflower.
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