OBJECTS OF THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS

1.      To perpetuate to a remote posterity the memory of our Pilgrim Fathers.
      To maintain and defend the principle of civil and religious liberty as set
       forth in the Compact of the Mayflower,  "For the glorie of God and the 
       advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our countrie."
2.       To cherish and maintain the ideals and institutions of American freedom
        and to oppose any theories or actions that threaten their continuity.
        To transmit the spirit, the purity of purpose and steadfastness of will 
        of the Pilgrim Fathers  to those who shall come after us,
        an undiminished heritage of liberty and law.
3.        To propose the interests that are common to all by the State Societies
         of the Mayflower descendants which can best be served by a federal body,
         and to secure united effort to discover and publish original matter 
         in regard to the Pilgrims, together with existing data known only to antiquarians,
         and to authen-ticate, preserve and  mark historical spots made memorable by Pilgrim association.