CCD   HISTORY 201 - History of United States 1

University of Georgia Hargrett Rare Maps Collection Colonial American Maps

Thomas Mun, from England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664) 
The Qualities which are required in a perfect Merchant of Foreign Trade

Colonial Documents
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/18th.htm
The key documents of the Colonial Era are reproduced here, as are some of the important documents from earlier and later time periods in American History.

History Buff's Reference Library
http://www.historybuff.com/library/refseventeen.html
Brief journalistic essays on newspaper coverage of sixteenth- to eighteenth-century American history.

Benjamin Franklin Documentary History Web Site
http://www.english.udel.edu/lemay/franklin/
University of Delaware professor J. A. Leo LeMay tells the story of Franklin's varied life in seven parts on this intriguing site.

Jonathan Edwards
http://www.jonathanedwards.com/
Speeches by this famous minister of the Great Awakening are on this site.

Kura Hulanda Museum: From Origins of Man and West African Empires through the Middle Passage to the Americas
http://kurahulanda.com/

The Papers of Sir William Berkeley (1605-1677) Project, Warren M. Billings, Editor:
http://www.uno.edu/~history/berkeley.htm

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic

Puritanism and Predestination

George Bancroft, History of the United States of America as Colonies
http://www.history.uiuc.edu/UIText96/Text/bncrftc1.html

Primary Documents: 
http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/ 

Town of St. George in Bermuda 
 http://www.bermuda-online.org/seetown.htm 

 

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New Spain

Visión de los Vencidos
Relaciones indígenas de la Conquista 

From the Virtual Jamestown Project First Hand Accounts:

1570-1600:

• "Letter of Luis de Quirós and Juan Baptista de Segura," 1570

• "Letter of Juan Rogel," 1572

 

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Southern Colonies

  Virginias

From the Virtual Jamestown Project First Hand Accounts:

1570-1600:

• "The letter patents, granted by the Queen's Majesty to M. Walter Raleigh, now Knight, for the discovering 
  and planting of new lands and countries" by Queen Elizabeth, 1584

• "The first voyage made to the coasts of America, with two barks, where in were 
  captains M. Philip Amadas, and M. Arthur Barlowe, who discovered part of the 
  Country now called Virginia" by one of said captains, 1584

• "The True Pictures and Fashions of the People in that Part of America Now Called Virginia" by John White(?), 1584 & 1588

• "The voyage made by Sir Richard Grenville, for Sir Walter Raleigh, to Virginia" by Sir Richard Grenville(?), 1585

• "An account of the particularities of the employments of the English men left in Virginia 
  by Sir Richard Grenville under the charge of Master Ralph Lane" by Ralph Lane, 1585-86

• "The third voyage made by a ship sent in the year 1586, to the relief of the colony planted in Virginia, 
  at the sole charge of Sir Walter Raleigh," 1586

• "The fourth voyage made to Virginia with three ships, in the year 1587, wherein was transported the second colony," 1587

• "A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia" by Thomas Hariot, 1588

• "The fifth voyage of M. John White into the West Indies and parts of America called Virginia," 1590
  

1601-1650:

• "Instructions, by way of advice, for the intended Voyage to Virginia" by John Smith, undated (probably early 1600's)

• "The relations of Captain Gosnold's Voyage to the North part of Virginia" by Gabriel Archer, 1602

• "Master Bartholomew Gosnold's Letter to his Father, touching his first voyage to Virginia" by Bartholomew Gosnold, 1602

• "Observations Gathered out of 'A Discourse of the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English'" by George Percy, 1606

• "A True Relation of Occurrences and Accidents in Virginia" by John Smith, 1608

• "A Short Relation made by the Lord De-La-Warre" by Lord De-La-Warre, 1611

• "A Map of Virginia, with a Description of its Commodities, People, Government, and Religion" by John Smith, 1612

• "Good News from Virginia sent to the Counsell and Company of Virginia, resident in Virginia" by Alexander Whitaker, 1613

• "John Rolfe's Letter to Sir Thomas Dale," 1614

• "A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia" by Raphe Hamor, 1614

• "Don Diego de Molina's Letter to Don Alonzo de Velasco (Spanish Ambassador in London)," 1613

• "Father Pierre Biard's Letter to Reverend Father Claude Acquaviva," 1614

• "John Pory's Letter to Sir Dudley Carleton," 1619

• "Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, 1619"

• "Two Tragic Events: 1. The Seafight of Capt. Anthony Chester, 1621 2. The Indian Massacre, 1622," 1620, 1622

• "Richard Frethorne's Letter to his Mother and Father, concerning the experiences of an indentured servant" by Richard Frethorne, 1623

• "A Voyage to Virginia," by Colonel Norwood, 1649

1651-1700:

• "A Discourse and View of Virginia" by Sir William Berkeley, 1663

• "The Declaration of the People, against Sr: Wm: Berkeley, and Present Governors of Virginia," 1676
  

1701-1750:

• "The History of Virginia, In Four Parts" by Robert Beverley, 1720

   

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Colonial Williamsburg

Texts of Imagination and Empire: The Founding of Jamestown in Its Atlantic Context (a Summer 2000 NEH Institute)
http://www.folger.edu/institute/jamestown/index_main.htm

Jamestown 2007, the 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Jamestown
http://www.jamestown2007.org/

APVA Jamestown Rediscovery Project
http://www.apva.org/

Colonial National Historical Park (Jamestown)
http://www.nps.gov/colo/

The Jamestowne Society 
http://www.jamestowne.org/ 

John Smith's Map of Virginia (Library of Virginia)
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whoweare/exhibits/mapping/empire/smith.htm

John Smith Website 
http://www.seacoastnh.com/johnsmith/links.html

Pocahontas: Icon At The Crossroads Of Race And Sex
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/POCA/POC-home.html

Pocahontas,  John Rolfe, Jamestown and Virginia (Lots of links but some may not work)
 http://members.tripod.com/~AlanCheshire/index-15.html 

The Royal Charters Between England and Virginia 
http://www.bermuda-online.org/RoyalCharters.htm

  Maryland

The Jesuit Plantation Project: Maryland's Jesuit Plantations, 1650-1838 
http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/amer_studies/jpp/coverjpp.html
The Jesuit Plantation Project involves the conversion of the Maryland Province Archive to an electronic format. 
The archive contains over 200 years of personal, legal, and financial documents produced by the six Jesuit-owned 
plantations in Maryland. As an electronic archive project, the Jesuit Plantation Project is fully integrated with the 
American Studies Core Curriculum at Georgetown University.

  North Carolina
  South Carolina
  Georgia

 

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Middle Colonies

  New Amsterdam

The New Netherland Project
http://www.nnp.org/index.shtml
Presents a timeline of the Netherlands and Scandinavia relating to North America, 
a "historical calendar" of New Netherland, online documents, a newsletter, and more. 
From the independent New Netherland Project sponsored by the New York State Library 
and the Holland Society of New York.

African Burial Ground Memorial            History
The African Burial Ground is believed to have encompassed five to six acres of lower Manhattan, 
including City Hall Park. During the 1700's when the burial ground was mainly in use, Africans made up 
from 14.4% to 20.9% of the population. Consistent with the marginal status of Africans in colonial society, 
the burial ground was described as a desolate piece of unappropriated land and was located outside of the 
city limits. According to city maps, by the late 1700's the oldest portions of the cemetery were already being 
covered over by development. As the city expanded, the existence of the African Burial Ground was eventually forgotten.  

  New York
  New Jersey
  Delaware
  Pennsylvania

William Penn, Visionary Proprietor
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PENN/pnhome.html
William Penn had an interesting life, and this site is a good introduction to the man and some of his achievements.

 

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New England Colonies

  Massachusetts Bay

The Mayflower Compact (~1630)

Plimouth Plantation

Witchcraft in Salem Village
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/
Extensive archive of the 1692 trials and life in late seventeenth-century Massachusetts.

Salem WitchcraftTrials (1692)
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm
Images, chronology, court, and official documents from the University of Missouri—Kansas City Law School.

  Connecticut

The Story of the Pequot War from Mystic Voices: 

  Rhode Island and Providence    
  New Hampshire

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New France

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Russia

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