U.S. HISTORY RESOURCES Colonial Period, 1492-1774

• Colonial America Resource Links
• American History and Art from New England
• Rare Map Collection - Colonial America
• Christopher Columbus:  Extracts from Journal, 1492
• Columbus Letter Translation
• The Letters Patents of King Henry the Seventh Granted unto Iohn Cabot and his Three Sonnes, Lewis, Sebastian and Sancius for the the Discouerie of New and Unknown Lands
• The Colony At Roanoke
• Petition of Right, 1628
• Penn's Plan for a Union, 1697
• Governor Gabriel Johnston's request to repeal the Biennial act, 18 October 1736
• Petition to Parliament: Reasons for making bar, as well as pig or sow-iron, ca. 1750
• Petition to Parliament: Reason against a general prohibition of the Iron Manufacture in Plantations
• Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard Improved (1752)
• Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard Improved (1753)
• Albany Plan for a Union, 1754
• Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard Improved (1759)
• Explore the Amazing World of Early America Through the Media of the Day
• Colonization and Print in the Americas
• The Treaty of Paris, 1763
• Daniel Dulany, Considerations, October 1765
• Soame Jenyns, The Objections to the taxation consider'd, 1765
• The Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, October 19, 1765
• William Pitt's speech on the Stamp Act, January 14 1766
• John Dickenson's Letter 2, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768
• John Dickenson's Letter 4, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768
• The Avalon Project: Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents

• Who Was Henry Hudson?

Massachusetts
Mayflower Society
• Pilgrim Hall Museum
• Mayflower Compact, 1620
• Massachusetts House of Representatives on the Governor's Salary, 11 September 1728
• Governor Burnet of Massachusetts on the Governor's Salary, 17 September 1728
Virginia
• The First Virginia Charter, 1606
• The Second Virginia Charter, 1609
• The Third Virginia Charter, 1612
• Jamestown Rediscovery, APVA
• Virtual Jamestown
• Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion, 19 May 1676
• Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People, 30 July 1676
Pennsylvania
• Some Fruits of Solitude by William Penn
• Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History
Maryland
• Maryland State Archives
• Maryland Colonial Government
New York
• New York State Archives
• Hudson Valley Indians
New Jersey
• The Constitution of New Jersey, 1776
• Duke of York's Second Grant to William Penn, Gawn Lawry, Nicholas Lucas,    John Eldridge, Edmund Warner, and Edward Byllynge, for the Soil and Government of West New Jersey-August 6, 1680
• New Jersey Books
Connecticut
• The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
• Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636-1776
North Carolina
• The North Carolina Biennial Act, 1715
• Disposition of the North Carolina Biennial Act, 1737
• Historical Highlights of  North Carolina
• Historical Publications: Colonial Records of North Carolina
South Carolinia
• South Carolina: Colonial Maps
• South Carolina: Formation of Counties: Timeline

• Select Sermons of Jonathan  Edwards
• Revival Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
• The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
• The Salem Witch Trials

• King William's War
• King William's War, 1689-1698
• King George's War: The War of the Austrian Secession
• Colonial Wars: King George's War: Select bibliography
• Fighting for a Continent: Newspaper Coverage of the English and French War For Control of North America, 1754-1760

• Letters from an American Farmer
• Journal of John Woolman - born in New Jersey in 1720

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