The Mayflower CompactMayflower Compact • October 23rd, 2011
Contract Type FiledOctober 23rd, 2011The Mayflower Compact, a written agreement, was composed by a consensus of the new Settlers arriving at New Plymouth in November of 1620. They had traveled across the ocean on the ship Mayflower which was anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Mayflower Compact was drawn up with fair and equal laws, for the general good of the settlement and with the will of the majority.