LINKS TO DOCUMENTS

 

EXPLORATION

    Christopher Columbus - Grant of Privileges

    Sir Walter Raleigh Charter - 1584

    Hakluyt's Discourse of Western Planting

VIRGINIA

    Virginia Charter - 1606

    John Smith on the "Starving Time"

    Nathaniel Bacon's Declaration

    William Berkeley's Declaration

NEW ENGLAND

    Massachusetts Charter - 1629

    Letter from Massachusetts - 1631

    Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

    Navigation Acts - excerpts

    Massachusetts Charter of 1691

    Plymouth Colony Records

            Mayflower Compact

            Mourt's Relation

            Servant Records

            Miles Standish Will

            Miles Standish Probate Records

New Haven Colony Records

INDIAN VOICES

    Powhatan's Response to John Smith

    Speech of Miantonomi

    King Philip's Complaints

    Account of Pueblo Revolt of 1680

    Constitution of the Iroquois Nation

INDENTURED SERVANTS

    Richard Frethorne -Virginia 1623

    Redemptioners in Pennsylvania - 1750

    Elizabeth Sprigs - Maryland 1756

    Account of servant - Pennsylvania 1729

    Master's view of indentured servitude

SLAVERY

    Description of Slave Society - Virginia 1724

    Equiano on the Middle Passage

    Slave Petition - Massachusetts 1777

    Petition of Cato for Freedom - Pennsylvania 1780

    Account of Venture Smith

RELIGION

    Examination of Anne Hutchinson

    Roger Williams - A Plea for Religious Liberty

    George Whitefield in Wethersfield, Conn

PERSONAL ACCOUNTS

    Diary of Thomas Minor, Connecticut Farmer - 1668

    Journal of Sarah Knight

FRONTIER

    John Lawson's Account of Carolina - 1709

    Woodmason on the Carolina Backcountry

    Daniel Boone on Kentucky

    Herman Husband's Pamphlet - 1769

    Proclamation Line of 1763