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The Mayflower Society House / Being the story of the Edward Winslow House, the Mayflower Society, the Pilgrims

Chapter 5: THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT
By Walter Merriam Pratt
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The text traces the history of the Edward Winslow House, outlining successive owners, sales, and architectural alterations while describing interiors, gardens, and preservation efforts. It recounts the house's associations with Loyalist sympathies and an execution sale, and highlights noteworthy events connected to the property, including Charles Thomas Jackson's ether experiments and the marriage of Lydia Jackson to Ralph Waldo Emerson. The account details restoration work by a noted preservationist, later landscape and structural improvements, and concludes with the twentieth-century acquisition of the estate by a hereditary society to protect its historic fabric.


The signing of the Mayflower Compact in the cabin of the Mayflower

THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT

Signed in the Cabin of the “Mayflower,” Nov. 11th, Old Style, Nov. 21st, New Style, 1620

“In the name of God, amen, we whose names are underwritten, the loyall subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britaine, Franc and Ireland king, defender of the faith, &c., haveing undertaken, for the glorie of God, and advancemente of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and countrie, a voyage to plant the first colonie in the northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly and mutualy in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civill body politick, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherence of the ends aforesaid; and by vertue hereof to enacte, constitute and frame such just and equall laws, ordenances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the general good of the colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cap-Codd the 11 of November, in the year of the raigne of our soveraigne lord, King James of England, Franc and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, ANo Dom 1620.”

‡ John Carver ‡†* Edward Fuller
‡* William Bradford ‡† John Turner
‡* Edward Winslow ‡* Francis Eaton
‡* William Brewster ‡†* James Chilton
‡* Isaac Allerton ‡ John Crackston
‡* Myles Standish ‡* John Billington
* John Alden † Moses Fletcher
* Samuel Fuller † John Goodman
‡† Christopher Martin           †* Degory Priest
‡†* William Mullins † Thomas Williams
‡†* William White Gilbert Winslow
* Richard Warren † Edmond Margeson
* John Howland * Peter Brown
‡* Stephen Hopkins † Richard Britteridge
‡† Edward Tilly * George Soule
‡†* John Tilly † Richard Clarke
* Francis Cooke Richard Gardiner
†* Thomas Rogers † John Allerton
‡† Thomas Tinker † Thomas English
‡† John Rigdale * Edward Doty
Edward Leister

(Note: November 21st of our Calendar is the same as November 11th
of the Old Style Calendar.)

* Has descendants now living.

‡ Brought wife.

† Died first winter.