We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King defender of the Faith, etc.: Before heading ashore, 41 male passengers signed a now-famous document - the Mayflower Compact. It dropped anchor near the tip of Cape Cod on November 11, 1620. This fall marks the 400 th anniversary of the Mayflower’slanding at Plymouth Rock. “But it is a narrative that resonates with America.” Plymouth wasn’t where America formally began, Philbrick told me. It is a magnificent retelling of one of America’s origin stories. His book Mayflower: Voyage, Community, and Warwas a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. “In the beginning, there was Plymouth,” Nathaniel Philbrick told me.
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