What where the people who were signing the mayflower compact agreeing to and why?

if you can, a website would be helpful. also if you can consider this:





what bound them together?

What where the people who were signing the mayflower compact agreeing to and why?
Of the 102 passengers aboard the Mayflower, about 1/2 died that first winter. What bound them together? Only half of them were religious; the other half were "strangers", or what I would call atheists.


Check: www.RevJohnRobinson.com for starts. Also, from google: http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/fact...


Trouble is, this last site is not correct: "Pilgrims" were not a part of the "Puritans". These terms were invented by school teachers; they did not call themselves either of those names, but were sometimes, back in the 1500s and 1600s, known as "Separtists", because they wanted to separate from the State Church.


At least 3 of those passengers (the religious half) were my ancestors.
Reply:I believe the Mayflower Compact was a document that spelled out a basic governing body and set of laws agreed upon by the Pilgrims who came to America on the Mayflower.

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