The Mayflower had a harrowing two months crossing ... the right to make such a compact as the signers are making.” “Here,” John Adams marveled, “was a unanimous and personal assent by ...

#OTD in 1620, passengers aboard the Mayflower signed the Mayflower Compact, agreeing to abide by the laws of the government that they would establish. Read about the 17th-century Puritans aboard ...