Matthew Fuller Robert Fuller Edward Fuller
Samuel and Edward Fuller, passengers on the Mayflower signed the famous 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 fahh and honor 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 of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, 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 and ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from lime to lime, as shall be thought most meet and convenient, for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due subjection and obedience. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names, at Cape Cod, the Hlh day of November, m the year of the reign of our sovereign Lord King James of England, France and Ireland, the etghteenih, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620.' This compact was subscribed in the following order by No. m family. No. in family.- Mr. John Carver f 8
John Alden 1.
Mr. William Bradford f 2
Mr. Samuel Fuller 2 Mr. Edward Winslow f 5
* Mr. Christopher Martin f 4
Mr. William Brewster f 6 Mr. Isaac Allerton f 6 * Mr. William Mullins f 5 Capt. Miles Standish 12 * Mr. William White f 5 '* Those with this mark brought their wives, i Those who died before tlae end of the next March are distinguished by && asterisk. 1630] Hiflnom; or pltmouth. 17 No. in fkmilj. (Besides a son born in Cape Cod harbor, and Danied Peregrine) Mr. Richard Warren John Howland (of CarTer's family) ♦Edward Fuller t '3 * John Turner 3 Francis Eaton f 3 * James Chilton f 3 * John Crackston 2 John Bellington f 4 * Moses Fletcher 1 * John Goodman 1 *Degory Priest 1 * Thomas Williams 1 Gilbert Winslow 1 * Edward Margeson I No. in funilj. Peter Brown 1 * Richard Butteridge 1 George Soule (of Edward Winslow's family) Mr. Stephen Hopkins f 8 * Edward Tilley f 4 * John Tilley f 3 Francis Cook 2 * Thomas Rogers 2 * Thomas Tinker f 3 * John Ridgdale f 2 * Richard Clarke 1 Richard Gardiner 1 * John Allerlon 1 * Thomas English 1 Edward Dotey, Edward Leister (both of Ste- phen Hopkins' family.)
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