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Archiving Early America "The American Sense of Puritan" - graduate project by Scott Atkins Anne Hutchinson Archives and Analysis of Plymouth Colony, 1620-1691 A Biography of America: English Settlement (1607-1691) - Annenberg/CPB A Brief History Of Jamestown, Virginia Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism: 1619-1789 Common-Place - The Interactive Journal of Early American Life Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy "Divining America: Religion & the National Culture" (17c & 18c) DRY DRUNK: The Culture of Tobacco in 17th- and 18th-century Europe The Early American Review Fire & Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings Four Faces of Pocahontas "The Great Migration" - lecture by Prof. Terry Matthews (Wake Forest Univ.) The Historic Hudson Valley The Huguenot Historical Society (New Paltz, NY) Indians of North America - Theodore De Bry's Copper Plate Engravings The Iroquois Confederacy The Jamestown Online Adventure The Jamestown Records of the Virginia Company of London: A Conservator's Perspective - by Sylvia R. Albro and Holly H. Krueger Jamestown Rediscovery John Winthrop King Philip's War Map-->"Black-White Colonial America Outline Map: 1776" Map-->"U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map" Map-->"U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline" Map-->"U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map" The New Netherland Museum Pictorial Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Pilgrim Hall Museum The Plymouth Colony Archive Project and the Univ. of VA Plymouth: Its History and Its People Pocahontas, John Rolfe, Jamestown and Virginia The Powhatan Confederacy The Puritan Morphology of Conversion The Puritans and Church & State "Puritanism in America" - lecture by Prof. Terry Matthews (Wake Forest Univ.) Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (LOC) Resources on the Puritans Seeds of Change Garden - The Columbian Exchange Where Food Crops Originated Society of Early Americanists The Story of the Pilgrims Thanksgiving Prayer of the Iroquois The Trial of Anne Hutchinson Virtual Jamestown Wills of the Mayflower Passengers William Penn: Visionary Proprietor Primary Source Documents 1567: “Carried Thence for Trafficke of the West Indies Five Hundred Negroes” - Job Hortop and the British Enter the Slave Trade 1584: Discourse of Western Planting - Richard Hakluyt 1600: Principal Navigations, Voyages of the English Nation, III - Richard Hakluyt 1602: “We Took Great Store of Codfish and Called it Cape Cod” - Bartholomew Gosnold Sails Along Northeastern North America 1606: First Virginia Charter 1606: Instructions for the Virginia Colony 1606-1660: Selected Virginia Statutes Relating to Religion 1660-69 1607: The Starving Time - Capt. John Smith 1608: Powhatan to John Smith 1608: “What Can You Get By Warre” - Powhatan Exchanges Views With Captain John Smith” 1609: “The Iroquois were much astonished that two men should have been killed so quickly” - Samuel de Champlain Introduces Firearms to Native Warfare 1609: Second Virginia Charter 1612: Third Virginia Charter 1614: Letter of John Rolfe on his decision to marry Pocahantas 1616: John Smith's Letter to Queen Anne Regarding Pocahontas 1617: John Rolfe's letter to Sir Edward Sandys 1619: Laws Concerning Religion - Virginia General Assembly 1619-1670: Selected Virginia Statutes Relating to Indentured Servants 1620: Charter of New England 1620: Charter of the Colony of New Plymouth Granted to William Bradford and His Associates 1620: The Mayflower Compact 1621: The First Thanksgiving in Plymouth 1621: An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virginia Company in England 1621: "The Sin and Danger of Self Love" - sermon by Robert Cushman 1622: Mourt's Relations - a journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth 1623: “Our Plantation Is Very Weak” - The Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1624: Generall Historie by John Smith excerpts 1624: Images from John Smith's Generall Historie 1624-1705: Excerpts from wills, deeds, and the recorded minutes of the Virginia Assembly and Council to illustrate the treatment of African slaves and Native American servants and slaves in Virginia during the 17c 1629: Charter of Massachusetts Bay 1629: Reasons for the Plantation in New England - John Winthrop 1629: The Salem Covenant 1629-72: Laws Pertaining to Slaves and Servants, Virginia 1629-1705: Selected Virginia Statutes relating to Slavery 1630: The Divine Right to Occupy the Land - John Cotton 1630: The Humble Request of the Puritan Emigrants 1630: A Model of Christian Charity - John Winthrop 1630: The True Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captain John Smith in Europe, Asia, Africa and America 1630s-1770s: Various documents on the Antinomian Controversy 1631: Letter from New England by Richard Saltonstall 1631: Reasons for Emigrating to New England - John Winthrop 1632: A Relation of the Successful Beginnings of the Lord Baltimore's Plantation in Maryland 1635: "The forme of a binding servant" - an indentured contract 1635: Passengers to Virginia 1635: “Thus This Poore People Populate This Howling Desart”- Edward Johnson Describes the Founding of the Town of Concord in Massachusetts Bay 1636: The Constitution of Plymouth Colony 1636: John Cotton Condemns Democracy 1636: 1637: Account of the Pequot War 1637: "The Examination of Mrs Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newton 1637: "Manners and Customs of the Indians of New England" - Thomas Morton 1637: "Revels in New Canaan" - Thomas Morton 1639: Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 1640: New England's First Fruits - the first written history regarding the founding of Harvard College 1640s: “So Must We Be One..., Otherwise We Shall Be All Gone Shortly” - Narragansett Chief Miantonomi Tries to Form an Alliance Against Settlers in New England and Long Island 1641: The Massachusetts Body of Liberties 1642: Massachusetts Bay School Laws 1642-1700: Harvard College Admission and Graduation Requirements 1643: “Their Extraordinary Great Labor” - Roger Williams Observes Indian Customs and Language 1644: The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience - Roger WIlliams 1644: "George Gillespie refutes Roger Williams" 1644: A Plea for Religious Liberty - Roger Williams 1645: On Liberty - John Winthrop 1647: Against Toleration - Nathaniel Ward 1647: The Simple Comler of Aggawam in America - Nathaneil Ward (click and then scroll down the page) 1649: Maryland Toleration Act 1650, 1678: Poems by Anne Bradstreet 1651: "A declaration of the General Court of the Massachusets holden at Boston, in New-England, October 18, 1659. Concerning the execution of two Quakers " - broadside 1651: Sumptuary Laws in New England - laws regarding what one may and may not wear 1660: British Navigation Acts - excerpts 1660: Margaret Fell's letter to the King on the persecution of the Quakers 1662: Connecticut Colony Charter 1663: “They Live Well in the Time of their Service” - George Alsop Writes of Servants in Maryland 1666: Indentured Servitude in Maryland 1668: One Year in the Life of Thomas Minor, Connecticut Farmer 1669: Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina - John Locke 1670: The Tryal of William Penn and William Mead, for Causing a Tumolt 1671-4: "Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary" - painting by Freake Limner 1675: Metacom Relates Indian Complaints about the English Settlers 1675-77: “Philip Is Breathing Out Threatenings and Slaughter”- Hetty Shepard’s Fears about the Future of New England 1676: The First Thanksgiving Proclamation 1677: “Such Was the Tumultation These Women Made” - The Women of Marblehead Wreak Revenge Upon Indian Captors 1680: “As They Had Been in Ancient Times” - Pedro Naranjo Relates the Pueblo Revolt 1681: Proposals for the Carrying on the Negro's Christianity - Morgan Goodwyn 1682: Letters of Thomas Newe to His Father from South Carolina 1682: Petition for a Democratic Government - town of East-Hampton, Long Island 1682: Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims - William Penn 1683: Edward Randolph Condemns the Massachusetts Bay Company Before the Board of Trade 1683: Frame of Government of Pennsylvania (2/2) 1683: The Original Constitution of New York 1685: Causes of King Phillip's War - Edward Randolph 1686: Instructions to Sir Edmund Andros 1688: On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law by Samuel Pufendorf - based law and right on natural law (AN INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY) 1689: Toleration Act of William and Mary 1690: Declaration of the Oppressions of Jacob Leisler 1694: "The Character of a Good Ruler" - sermon by Samuel Willard 1698: Discourses Concerning Government, Table of Contents by Algernon Sidney - built principles of popular government from foundation of natural law and the social contract. This book has been considered by scholars the "textbook of the American Revolution." 1701: Charter of Privileges Granted by William Penn, esq., to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania and Territories (10/28) 1760s: The Dutch Arrive on Manhattan Island - An Indian Perspective Hundreds of Documents (many non-repetitive) from 1400 to Present
Primary Source Documents
Hundreds of Documents (many non-repetitive) from 1400 to Present
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