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Quotation from Mourt's Relation by William Bradford and Edward Winslow

“solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation”

William Bradford and Edward Winslow (spoken by The Mayflower compact, as printed in the Relation)

Mourt's Relation, The compact made at Cape Cod, November 1620 (Young 1841 typography)

The 1622 book already contains the compact. This page quotes a clean span of Young’s modernized typography; Bradford’s history preserves the same agreement in original spelling.

Citation: "solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation" — William Bradford and Edward Winslow, Mourt's Relation, The compact made at Cape Cod, November 1620 (Young 1841 typography). (id mourts-relation-q6)

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