Biographies of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.

Excerpt from The Mayflower Compact and Its Signers: With Facsimiles and a List of the Mayflower Passengers This combination which was called The Compact as early as 1793, was signed on the Mayflower, Saturday, 21 Novem ber, 1620, New Style, by the forty - one passengers who were then of age and were free agents, and the original document, Of course, remained on the ship until carried ashore at Plymouth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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