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...we should all be focused on what our Founding Fathers believed and fought to bequeath us.

The Mayflower Compact

In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, etc.
Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.^[13]

a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia,
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so when they landed elsewhere, Jesse de Forest, the French Calvinist, living in Leyden (Amsterdam) in 1621, petitioned the English Ambassador to The Netherlands for permission to take a group of French and Dutch Wallons/Huguenots to Virginia...

56 Walloons signed the “Round Robin” to go with him..

When that didnt work out, the Dutch allowed them to go to what would become NYC...

In 1623 they set out with at least 2 ships, the Nieuw Nederlandt which went to “New Netherland” with 30 families and the Pigeon which went to Dutch Guania in South America to drop of some families there..

The English raced them across but the Nieuw Nederlandt arrived in NYC first...

Jesse de Forest died in South America and never made it to NYC although he is credited with bringing the first European settlers...men, wonen and children to NYC...

BTW in 1850 the Canterbury Compact for 16 ships sent by the Church of England to New Zealand was based loosely on the Mayflower Compact but with a warning not to end up as they did.

When the First Four Ships (the Summer Ships) arrived in Lyttleton harbour in December 1850, there were already houses, stores, wharves, and some streets laid out for them...

The church had sent carpenters and engineers on ahead to build a town...

It worked...

The first major city, Christchurch, was a success from the start...

Even if my “labourer” family did have to live in a tent in Hagley Park for the first few weeks...

They too succeeded with the first hotel and ferry on the Rakaia River...