Whereas it hath pleased the Lord to move the heart of our dread Sovereign Charles by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France & Ireland, to grant license & liberty to sundry of his subjects to grant themselves in the western parts of America - We his loyal subjects, brethren of the church in Ecceter, situate and lying upon the river Pascataquacke with other inhabitants there, considering with ourselves the holy will of God and our own necessity, that we should not live without wholesome laws and government among us, of which we are altogether destitute, do in the name of Christ and in the sight of God combine ourselves together to erect and set up amongst us such government as shall be to our best discerning agreeable to the will of God professing ourselves subjects to our Sovereign Lord King Charles, according to the liberties of our English colony of the Massachusetts, and binding ourselves solemnly by the grace and help of Christ, and in his name and fear, to submit ourselves to such godly and christian laws as are established in the realm of England to our best knowledge, and to all other such laws which shall upon good grounds be made and enacted amongst us according to God, that we may live quietly & peacably together in all godliness and honesty.

John Wheelwright Augustine Storer Thomas Wright William Wentworth Henry Elkins George Walton Samuel Walker Thomas Petit Henry Roby William Winborne Thomas Crawley

Christopher Helme Darby Field Robert Read Edward Rishworth Francis Matthews Godfrey Dearborne William Wardhall Robert Smith Ralph Hall Robert Seward Richard Bulger Christopher Lawson George Barlow

Richard Morris Nicholas Needham Thomas Wilson George Rawbone William Cole James Wall Thomas Leavitt Edmund Littlefield John Cramme Philemon Purmot Thomas Wardhall