Covenant Stone

Covenant Stone. . , We whose names are hereunder written, intending by God’s gracious permission to plant ourselves in New England, and if it may be, in the southerly part about Quinnipiack, we do faithfully promise each to other, for ourselves and our families and those that belong to us, that we will, the Lord assisting us, sit down and join ourselves together in one entire plantation and to be helpful each to other in any common work, according to every man’s ability and as need shall require, and we promise not to desert or leave each other or the plantation, but with the consent of the rest, or the greater part of the company who have entered into this engagement. As for our gathering together in a church way and the choice of officers and members to be joined together in that way, we do refer ourselves until such time as it shall please God to settle us in our plantation. In witness whereof we have subscribed our hands this first day of June 1639 , Robert Kitchell · John Bishop · Francis Bushnell · William Chittenden · William Leete · Thomas Jones · John Jordan · William Stone · John Hoadly · John Stone · William Plane · Richard Guttridge · John Housegoe · William Dudley · John Permewly · John Mepham · Thomas Norton · Abraham Cruttenden · Francis Chatfield · William Halle · Thomas Naish · Henry Kingnoth · Henry Doude · Thomas Cooke · Henry Whitfield