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The Pilgrims & Plymouth Colony:1620 Upper Level Compact Study of
the Mayflower Compact THIS DOCUMENT STANDS AS A CORNERSTONE OF
OUR GREAT AMERICAN FORM OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT Upper Level
Compact Study of the Mayflower Compact THIS DOCUMENT STANDS AS A
CORNERSTONE OF OUR GREAT AMERICAN FORM OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
The Virginia Company of London had given the Pilgrims the first
Pierce patent, granting them permission to settle in the
Virginia's. The Mayflower, carrying the patent, set out from
Plymouth, England, on September 6, 1620. Arriving on the bleak
New England coast in the middle of winter, this sturdy little
band of idealists faced a combination of hardships and
difficulties almost unparalleled in history. Winter was coming
on and the land off which Mayflower anchored looked desolate and
dreary. Weakened by a stormy voyage of more than two months,
lack of proper food, medical supplies and all the ordinary
necessities of civilization, the