Show it it was the intention ol 01 f the fathers to settle in the beautiful country of the hudson but for 01 sixty three days the ship was driven by storms and the storms carried them out of their course the first land seen was the desolate cape cod on the ath of november the vessel was wai anchored in the bay then a meeting was held on board and the colony organized under a solemn compact in the charter which they there made for themselves the emigrants declared their loyalty to the english crown an and covenanted together to live in peace and harmony with equal rights to all obedient to just laws made for the common good such was the simple ant sublime constitution of the oldest new england state stale A nobler document s not to be found among the records of the world to this inspru ment all te llie heads of families forty one in number solemnly sit set their names an election was held in which all had an equal voice and john carver was unanimously chosen governor of the colony |