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Contents

• Colonial North America
• Early Conquest and Exploitation
• Political Forms
  • Virginia
  • New England
  • Middle Atlantic
• American Society

Colonial North America

Early Conquest and Exploitation

• Edward Haies: Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage To Newfoundland, 1583 [At this Site]
• Richard Hakluyt: Discourse of Western Planting, 1584 [At American Revolution]
• Elizabeth I: Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, 1584 [At Yale]
• Charter of the Dutch West India Company, 1621 [At Yale]
• 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]

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Political Forms

• Samuel de Champlain: The Foundation of Quebec, 1608 [At this Site]
• Virginia
  • Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606 [At American Revolution]
  • The First Virginia Charter, 1606 [At American Revolution]
  • The Second Virginia Charter, 1609 [At American Revolution]
  • The Third Virginia Charter, 1612 [At American Revolution]
  • First, Second, & Third Virginia Charters  [At U Oklahoma]
  • An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virginia Company in England for a Council of State and General Assembly, 24 July 1621 [At American Revolution]
  • Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People, 30 July 1676 [At American Revolution]
    The rebellion in Virginia
  • Governor William Berkely: On Bacon's Rebellion, 19 May 1676 [At American Revolution]
  • Edward Randolph Condemnation of the Massachussetts Bay Company, 12 June 1683 [At American Revolution]
• New England
  • Mayflower Compact, 1620 [At Yale], or here [At National Center.org] or here [At American Revolution]
  • Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629   [At U Oklahoma] or here [At American Revolution]
  • William Bradford: History of Plymouth Plantation, c. 1650 [At this Site]
  • John Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation, full text. [At AOL]
  • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639 [At Yale] or here [At American Revolution]
  • 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 U Oklahoma]
  • Sir Henry Vane: Healing Question, 1656 [At this Site]
    A proposal for civil and religious liberty by the former governor of Massachusetts.
  • Instructions to Sir Edmund Andros, 1686 [At Hanover]
  • Commercial Orders to Governor Andros, 1686-1687 [At Hanover]
  • Orders For Sending Sir Edmund Andros To England, 1689 [At Hanover]
• Middle Atlantic
  • The Maryland Toleration Act, 1649 [At American Revolution]

American Society

• John Winthrop: A Model of Christian Charity, 1630 [At Hanover]
• Anne Bradstreet: A Dialogue Between Old England and New, 1630 [At Hanover]
• Samuel Green, ed.: Groton in Witchcraft Times, c.1671 [At Hanover]
• First Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1676  [At U Oklahoma]
• William Penn (1644-1718): Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims, 1682 full text, [At this Site]

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