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{{Short description|First governing document of Plymouth Colony}}
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| document_name        = Mayflower Compact
| image                = The Mayflower Compact 1620 cph.3g07155.jpg
| image_size           = 300px
| image_alt            = ''Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620'', a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1899
| caption              = ''Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620'', an 1899 painting by [[Jean Leon Gerome Ferris]]
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| title_orig           = Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth
| date_created         = {{Old Style Date|November 21|3=November 11}}, 1620
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| date_repeal          = First repealed in [[Dominion of New England|1686]], reinstated in 1689, and repealed again in [[Massachusetts Charter|1691]] 
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| signers              = [[Mayflower Compact signatories|List of signatories]]
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| wikisource           = Mayflower Compact 
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The '''Mayflower Compact''', originally titled '''Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth''', was the first governing document of  [[Plymouth Colony]]. It was written by the men aboard the ''[[Mayflower]],'' consisting of [[Separatist Puritans]], adventurers, and tradesmen. Although the agreement contained a pledge of loyalty to the [[King James I of England|King]], the Puritans and other [[English Dissenters|Protestant Separatists]] were dissatisfied with the [[Millenary Petition|state of the Church of England]], the limited extent of the [[English Reformation]] and reluctance of [[King James I of England]] to enforce further reform.

The Mayflower Compact was signed aboard ship on {{Old Style Date|November 21|3=November 11}}, 1620.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Bennett|first=William J.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-hl0Fc6AQUkC&pg=PA460|title=The American Patriot's Almanac: Daily Readings on America|last2=Cribb|first2=John T. E.|date=2013|publisher=Thomas Nelson|isbn=978-1595553751|pages=460|language=en}}</ref> Signing the covenant were 41 of the ship's 101 passengers;<ref name="Prince1736" /><ref name="passengers" /> the ''Mayflower'' was anchored in [[Provincetown Harbor]] within the hook at the northern tip of [[Cape Cod]].<ref name="Young1841" />