November 11, 1620 - The Day The Pilgrims Signed the Mayflower Compact

Today a small group (due to COVID restrictions) of members of the New Hampshire Mayflower Society met at Odiorne Point State Park to remember the signing of the Mayflower Compact at Provincetown 400 years ago.  This new memorial to the Mayflower Compact was dedicated here on October 1, 2020 at the spot where a small group of Plymouth Colonists met with David Thompson at his fishing colony in 1623.  The memorial includes a bronze plaque with the Mayflower Compact, and the names of the men who signed the compact in 1620.  

MAYFLOWER COMPACT

"America's First Constitution"

Nov. 11, 1620  - In the name of God, Amen.  We...do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic,

for our... preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid;... to enact, constitute, and frame, such

just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices... as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due obedience.

John Alden    Richard Clarke       John Howland     George Soule

Isaac Allerton     Francis Cooke        Stephen Hopkins     Edward Tilley

John Allerton    John Crackstone       Edward Leister       John Tilley   

      John Billington       Edward Doty           Edmund Margesson     Thomas Tinker   

William Bradford      Francis Eaton      Christopher Martin      John Turner  

William Brewster    Thomas English     William Mullins   Richard Warren

Richard Britteridge    Edward Fuller     Degory Priest     William White

   Peter Browne         Samuel Fuller         John Rigsdale    Thomas Williams

    John Carver      Richard Gardiner     Thomas Rogers    Edward Winslow

James Chilton     John Goodman     Myles Standish    Gilbert Winslow

In 1623 Pilgrim Captain Myles Standish was given cod fish by English fisherman David Thompson to assist the 

struggling Plymouth Colony.  This plaque dedicated November 11, 2020 by New Hampshire Society of Mayflower

Descendants in honor of their ancestors who signed the Mayflower Compact "America's First Constitution".

If you have not yet visited this lovely memorial, please take some time to walk along the shore of Odiorne Point in Rye, New Hampshire and read our new plaque.  You can watch our October 1st dedication ceremony at this link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZornc-Vh-Q  

New Hampshire Mayflower Society:  https://www.nhmayflower.org/   

The General Society of Mayflower Descendants:  https://www.themayflowersociety.org/    

Odiorne State Park, Rye, NH:  https://www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/odiorne-point-state-park  

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Cite/Link to this post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "November 11, 1620 - The Day The Pilgrims Signed the Mayflower Compact", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 11, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/11/november-11-1620-day-pilgrims-signed.html: accessed [access date]).