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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]
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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]
Back to Index
Political Forms
- Samuel de Champlain: The Foundation of Quebec, 1608 [At
this Site]
- Virginia
- New England
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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]
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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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