Mayflower Passengers & Mayflower Compact
There were 102 men, women and children that were passengers on the Mayflower. They left England late in the season and when they arrived off the coast of present day Massachusetts it was nearly winter, so the first winter everyone stayed on board the ship. Nearly half of the passengers died that first cold winter. In the spring, their supplies, tools and equipment were unloaded from the ship an they built homes and planted crops. Only half of the passengers survived and have descendants.
List of Mayflower Passengers with decedents. If one of these passengers is your ancestor and you have documentation to prove it, you qualify for membership in the Mayflower Society.
- John Alden
- Bartholomew Allerton
- Isaac Allerton
- Mary (Norris) Allerton
- Mary Allerton
- Remember Allerton
- Elinor Billington
- Francis Billington
- John Billington
- William Bradford
- Love Brewster
- Mary ( ) Brewster
- William Brewster
- Peter Browne
- James Chilton
- Mrs. James Chilton
- Mary Chilton
- Francis Cooke
- John Cooke
- Edward Doty
- Francis Eaton
- Samuel Eaton
- Sarah ( ) Eaton
- Moses Fletcher
- Edward Fuller
- Mrs. Edward Fuller
- Samuel Fuller
- Samuel Fuller (son of Edward)
- Constance Hopkins
- Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins
- Giles Hopkins
- Stephen Hopkins
- John Howland
- Richard More
- Priscilla Mullins
- William Mullins
- Degory Priest
- Joseph Rogers
- Thomas Rogers
- Henry Samson
- George Soule
- Myles Standish
- Elizabeth Tilley
- John Tilley
- Joan (Hurst) Tilley
- Richard Warren
- Peregrine White
- Resolved White
- Susanna (Jackson) White
- William White
- Edward Winslow
The Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was a document signed by most of the male passengers on board the Mayflower after they dropped anchor at Cape Cod. Most historians today view the Mayflower Compact as a foundational document to the government later instituted as the United States of America.
Text of the Mayflower Compact:
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, 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 ourselves 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 Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, Anno Domini; 1620.or
| John Carver | John Billington | Thomas Williams | John Ridgdale |
| William Bradford | Moses Fletcher | Gilbert Winslow | Edward Fuller |
| Edward Winslow | John Goodman | Edmund Margesson | Richard Clark |
| William Brewster | Samuel Fuller | Peter Brown | Richard Gardiner |
| Isaac Allerton | Christopher Martin | Richard Britteridge | Mr. John Allerton |
| Myles Standish | William Mullins | George Soule | Thomas English |
| John Alden | William White | Edward Tilly | Edward Doten |
| John Turner | Richard Warren | John Tilly | Edward Liester |
| Francis Eaton | John Howland | Francis Cooke | |
| James Chilton | Stephen Hopkins | Thomas Rogers | |
| John Craxton | Digery Priest | Thomas Tinker |