Jamestown Passenger List & the Mayflower Compact
Background: The 2 earliest colonies were founded by different groups of people for different reasons. We will look at a document from each colony to see what we can learn from these primary sources. Use the documents below to answer the questions on the attached sheet. As you read, mark up the documents by finding things that puzzle you, crossing out “extra” words, and making notes in the margin. Your goal is to understand what you read and marking up text or text coding helps you to do that.
Jamestown Passenger List: May 13, 1607
Name / Occupation- Master Edward Maria Wingfield
- Captaine Bartholomew Gosnoll
- Captaine John Smyth
- Captaine John Ratliffe
- Captaine John Martin
- Captaine George Kendall
- Master Robert Hunt
- Master George Percie
- Anthony Gosnoll
- Captaine Gabriell Archer
- Robert Ford
- William Bruster
- Dru Pickhouse
- John Brookes
- Thomas Sands
- John Robinson
- Ustis Clovill
- Kellam Throgmorton
- Nathaniell Powell
- Robert Behethland
- Jeremy Alicock
- Thomas Studley
- Richard Crofts
- Nicholas Houlgrave
- Thomas Webbe
- John Waler
- William Tanker
- Francis Snarsbrough
- Edward Brookes
- Richard Dixon
- John Martin
- George Martin
- Anthony Gosnold
- Thomas Wotton, Surgeon
- Thomas Gore
- Francis Midwinter
- William Laxon
- Edward Pising
- Thomas Emry
- Robert Small
- Anas Todkill
- John Capper
- James Read
- Jonas Profit
- Thomas Couper
- John Herd
- William Garret
- Edward Brinto
- William Love
- Nicholas Skot
- John Laydon
- William Cassen
- George Cassen
- Thomas Cassen
- William Rods
- William White
- Ould Edward
- Henry Tavin
- George Golding
- John Dods
- William Johnson
- William Unger
- William Wickinson, Surgeon
- Samuell Collier
- Nathaniel Peacock
- James Brumfield
- Richard Mutton
- With divers others
Mayflower Compact 1620
Charter = A legal document, or contract, outlining rules and rights.
Background: When the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts as the first colonists in New England, they wrote a charter, or document agreeing to live together. Read the charter below to try to find the reasons the Pilgrims wanted to create a colony in North America.
Agreement Between the Settlers at New Plymouth : 1620
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We…the Loyal Subjects of our…Lord King James, Defender of the Faith, Having [set out] for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do… solemnly…in the Presence of God…combine ourselves together into a civil [government], for our better Ordering and Preservation…And [we do] enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws…as shall be thought [appropriate] for the general Good of the Colony;…we promise all due Submission and Obedience [to these laws]. IN WITNESS whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape-Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, Anno Domini; 1620.