inheritance & granted to all the King & fubjects inhabiting within the Governmt of New Plymouth.
   Wheras John Carver—Will. Bradford—Edw. Winslow Wm.—Brewster—Isaah Allerton and divers others, the subjects of our late Sov. Lord James, by the grace of God, King of Eng. Scot, ffrance & Irel. Defender of the ffaith &c. did in the eighteenth yeare of his raigne of Engl, ffrance & Ireland, and of Scot l. the fifty four which was in the yeare of our Lord God 1620 undertake a voyage into that pt of America called Virginia or New England, thereunto adjoining, there to erect a plantacon & colony of English, intending the glory of God, the inlargemt of his maties dominions and the speciall good of English nation.   And whereas by the good providence of our gracious God the said John Carver—Will. Bradford—Edward Winslow—Wm. Brewster—Isaac Allerton & their associates arived in New England aforesaid in the harbour of Cape Cod or Paomet scituate in New England, aforesaid, where all the psons entred int a Civill Combinacon being the eleaventh of Novb in the yeare afore mentioned as the subjects of our said Sov. Lord the King to become a Body-politick binding ourselves to observe such lawes & ordinances and obey such Officers as from time to time should be made & chosen for our wellordering & guidance, And thereupon by the favor of the Almighty began the first Colony in New England (there being then no other wthin the said Continent.) at a place called by the natives Apaum a Z s Patuxet, but by the English New Plymouth.   All wch lands being void of inhabitants, we the said John Carver—Will. Bradford Edward Wynslow—Wm. Brewster—Isaack Allerton the rest our Associates entring into a league of peace with Massassowatt, since called Woosamequin Prince or Sachim of those pts.   He the said Massassowat freely gave them all the lands adjacent to them & their heires forever, acknowledging himselfe content to become the subject of our Soveraigne Lord the king aforesaid, his heirs, successors," etc., etc.