Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Colonial North America
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Colonial North America
Early Conquest and Exploitation
- John Cabot (c.1450-1499):?
Voyage to North America
, 1497? [At this Site]
- Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales:
The Founding of St.
Augustine
, 1565 [At this Site]
St Augustine, now in Florida, was the first European city in what is now the territory of the US.
- Edward Haies:
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage To
Newfoundland
, 1583 [At this Site]
- Richard Hakluyt:
Discourse of Western Planting
, 1584 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version
here
]
- Elizabeth I:
Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh
, 1584 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version
here
]
- Charter of the Dutch West India Company
, 1621 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version
here
]
-
Thomas Hariot:
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of VIRGINIA
, full text, [At Project Gutenberg]
- Samuel de Champlain,
Voyages
, excerpts,
1604 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version
here
]
- WEB
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
[At Alexander Street] [Internet Archive backup
here
]
- WEB
Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans
1778-1848 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup
here
]
- WEB
TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE DATABASE
- John Pory, Secretary of Virginia:
Letter to Sir Dudley Carleton
1619 [At Virtual Jamestown] [Internet Archive version
here
]
Documents the arrival of enslaved people in Jamestown in 1619
- WEB
The First Africans
(Virginian 1619) [At Historic Jamestown] [Internet Archive version
here
]
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Political Forms
- Samuel de Champlain:
The Foundation of Quebec
, 1608 [At
this Site]
- Virginia
- New England
-
Mayflower Compact
, 1620 [At
Yale] [Internet Archive version
here
], or
here
[At American Revolution]
[Internet Archive version
here
]
- Charter of Massachusetts Bay
, 1629 [At
American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- William Bradford:
History of Plymouth Plantation
, c.
1650 [At this Site]
- John Bradford:
Of Plymouth Plantation
, full text. [Project Gutenberg]
- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
,
1639 [At Yale]
[Internet Archive version
here
]
or
here
[At
American Revolution] [Internet Archive version
here
]
-
Massachusetts
Body of Liberties
,
1641 [At Hanover]
- John Winthrop:
Arbitrary government described and the
Government of the Massachusetts vindicated from that aspersion
, 1644 [At this Site]
- Connecticut Colony Charter
, 1662
[At Yale] [Internet Archive version
here
]
- Sir Henry Vane:
Healing Question
, 1656 [At this
Site]
A proposal for civil and religious liberty by the former governor of Massachusetts.
- Edward Randolph
Condemnation of the Massachussetts Bay Company
, 12 June 1683 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version
here
]
- Middle Atlantic
American Society
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