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People from England came to America. They were called Pilgrims. They came to America in 1620. The Pilgrims wanted freedom of religion. They wanted to choose their own church. â¦ They came on a ship they called the Mayflower. The Pilgrims lived in a place called Plymouth.
Bad weather, however, put them farther north, near the coast of Massachusetts. Since they had did not have permission to start a colony in Massachusetts, and therefore had no governing laws, the Pilgrims decided to set up their own society and rules while they waited for permission from England. The document is named for the Pilgrimsâ ship, the Mayï¬ ower. The original document has been lost. Below is the text as written by William Bradford, one of the signers, in 1646. A 1930 painting of the signing of theMayï¬ ower Compact.