November · Cape Cod
A document of one short paragraph.
On the eleventh day of November, anchored off the tip of Cape Cod and before they came ashore, forty-one men signed the Mayflower Compact — the first written framework of self-government in the colonies. Its language is plain. Its work is durable.
The document
The Compact
The full text of the document signed in the cabin of the ship, off the tip of Cape Cod, before they came ashore.
The voyage
Pilgrim history
The voyage, the first winter, the planting, and the years that followed — in brief, for those who keep the line.
The line
Research your line
Links and starting points for those who suspect Mayflower descent and would like to prove it.
They knew they were pilgrims, & looked not much on those things, but lift up their eyes to the heavens, their dearest country.
— William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation