John Howland was born about 1599, probably in Fenstanton, Huntington. He came on the Mayflower in 1620 as a manservant of Governor John Carver. During the Mayflower's voyage, Howland fell overboard during a storm, and was almost lost at sea--but luckily for his millions of descendants living today (including Presidents George Bush and George W. Bush, and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt) he managed to grab hold of the topsail halyards, giving the crew enough time to rescue him with a boat-hook.

Before the passengers went ashore, they drew up an instrument of self-government for the little band to replace the original patent.  This immortal Mayflower Compact was modeled on the Covenant by which the Pilgrims had lived in Leyden for more than a decade and was later hailed by John Quincy Adams, among others, as the first example in modern times of a social compact or system of government instituted by voluntary agreement by men of equal rights.  It was signed by all of the adult male passengers on the 11th of November (Old Style) 1620. The Mayflower Compact was signed in the cabin of the Mayflower, November 21, 1620 (New Style).  It was signed by forty-one of those who made the voyage.  Lines of descent have been proven from twenty-four of these men.  Richard Moore and Henry Samson were too young to sign.   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 advancement 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 of 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 hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11 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 Ano.  Dom. 1620. John Carver Edward Tilley Digery Priest* William Bradford* John Tilley* Thomas Williams Edward Winslow* Francis Cooke* Gilbert Winslow William Brewster* Thomas Rogers* Edmund Margeson Isaac Allerton* Thomas Tinker Peter Browne* Miles Standish* John Ridgdale Richard Britteridge John Alden* Edward Fuller* George Soule* Samuel Fuller* John Turner Richard Clarke Christopher Martin Francis Eaton* Richard Gardiner William Mullins* James Chilton* John Allerton William White* John Crackstone Thomas English Richard Warren* John Billington* Edward Doty* John Howland* Moses Fletcher* Edward Leister Stephen Hopkins* John Goodman  

New Deal, the domestic program of the administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1939, which took action to bring about immediate economic relief as well as reforms in industry, agriculture, finance, waterpower, labour, and housing, vastly increasing the scope of the federal government’s activities. The term was taken from Roosevelt’s speech accepting the Democratic nomination for the presidency on July 2, 1932

By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation. Whereas, on the twentysecond day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: