An American history . onnectionwith the crown of England. This was the settlement of thePilgrims. How it came to be there, what made it differentfrom other places, and how it came to an end, let us now see. As we know, the original intention of the Pilgrims was tosettle in Virginia. With that end in view a party of a hundredsailed in the Mayflower, September, 1620. But these en-thusiasts never reached Virginia. The voyage was a stormyone, and they werecarried far out of theircourse. Early in No-vember they were offthe coast of Cape Cod,where the captain ofthe Mayflower, in spiteof their protes
An American history . onnectionwith the crown of England. This was the settlement of thePilgrims. How it came to be there, what made it differentfrom other places, and how it came to an end, let us now see. As we know, the original intention of the Pilgrims was tosettle in Virginia. With that end in view a party of a hundredsailed in the Mayflower, September, 1620. But these en-thusiasts never reached Virginia. The voyage was a stormyone, and they werecarried far out of theircourse. Early in No-vember they were offthe coast of Cape Cod,where the captain ofthe Mayflower, in spiteof their protests, in-sisted upon landingthem. Thus theyfound themselves adriftpolitically in a part ofthe English dominionswhere they had not title to so much as a foot of land and where, as yet, there was noestabhshed government nor any settlement of Englishmen. 52. The Mayflower Compact. Instinctively they formeda commonwealth. In the cabin of the Mayfloiver, NovemberII, 1620, they signed a compact, which is the first document 35. THE MAYFLOWER 36 AMERICAN HISTORY of its kind known to history. By their own deliberate act agroup of men bound themselves to form a civil body were to be governed according to the simple plan ofmajority rule. The whole body was to vote upon all pubHcquestions. They also decided to have a governor regularlyelected, and John Carver was chosen to be the first head of thecommonwealth. However, they had no intention of doinganything in defiance of the English crown. In their compactthey expressly stated that they were loyal subjects of ourdread sovereign Lord, Ring James.
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