It sighted land off of Cape Cod on November 9, 1620, well north of its intended ... year terms), and a through line runs from the Mayflower Compact to our contemporary democracy that hasn ...
On September 6, 1620, 102 passengers -– dubbed Pilgrims by William ... single men and three male servants–signed the famous Mayflower Compact, agreeing to submit to a government chosen by common ...
One group left for Holland in 1608 and in 1620 others, making the first wave of Puritan ... It was here that the male pilgrim settlers write and signed the Mayflower Compact, the first governing order ...
The bill references civil documents like The Mayflower Compact of 1620, citing phrases such as “a Covenant with Almighty God to ‘form a civil body politic’” in an attempt to put the ...
He was a separatist and New England political leader who travelled on the Mayflower ship in 1620. He was one of several ... the signatories of the Mayflower Compact, which was effectively the ...
In 1620 he helped organize the Mayflower's expedition to the New World. To bind the group into a political body, Bradford helped draft the important Mayflower Compact en route to America.