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1.1 “Treaty between Spain and Portugal concluded at Tordesillas, June 7, 1494,” in Frances Gardiner Davenport, ed., European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States to 1648 (Washington, DC: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1917), pp. 93–100.
http://www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails.php?fileID=22093
1.2 “The Requirement,” translated by Lewis Hanke in History of Latin American Civilization: Sources and Interpretations (Boston, MA: Little,Brown, and Company, 1967), vol. 1, pp. 123–125.
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1.3 “Letters Patent to Sir Humfrey Gylberte June 11, 1578,” in Rev. Carlos Slafter, ed., Sir Humfrey Glyberte and His Enterprise of Colonization in America (Boston, MA: Publications of the Prince Society, 1903), pp. 95–102.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/16th_century/humfrey.asp
1.4 “Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, 1584,” in Francis Newton Thorpe, ed., The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1909), vol. 1, pp. 53–57.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/16th_century/raleigh.asp
1.5 “Charter of the Dutch West India Company, 1621,” in Francis Newton Thorpe, ed., The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1909), vol. 1, pp. 59–67.
http://www.nnp.org/vtour/xpages/wic.html
2.1 Bartolome de Las Casas, “Brevissima Relacion or Short Report of the Destruction of the Indies (1552),” in Francis Augustus MacNutt, Bartholomew De Las Casas: His Life, His Apostolate, and His Writings (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1909).
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2.2 Henry Stevens, ed., The New Laws of the Indies for the Good Treatment and Preservation of the Indians Promulgated by the Emperor Charles the Fifth, 1542–43 (London: The Chiswick Press, 1893), pp. iii–xvii.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1542newlawsindies.asp
2.3 Genaro Garcia, ed., The True History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz Del Castillo (London: Hakluyt Society, 1908).
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2.4 Miguel Leon-Portilla, ed., The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2006).
The excerpt from The Broken Spears can be accessed here:
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3.1 Thomas Hariot, Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (London, 1588).
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3.2 “Indian Tradition of the First Arrival of the Dutch, at Manhattan Island, New York,” New-York Historical Society Collections (1841), 2nd ser., vol. 1, pp. 71–74.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5829
3.3 William Bradford, “Of Plimoth Plantation,” from the Original Manu - script (Boston, MA: Commonwealth of Massachusetts by Wright & Potter Printing Co, State Printers, 1898), pp. 388–389.
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4.1 “Letter of John Rolfe, 1614,” in Lyon Tyler Gardiner, ed., Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606–1625 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,1907), pp. 239–244.
http://www.virtualjamestown.org/rolfe_letter.html
4.2 “Letter of John Rolfe, 1620,” in Susan Myra Kingsbury, ed., The Records of the Virginia Company of London, 4 vols. (Washington, DC, 1906–1935),vol. 3, pp. 241–244.
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4.3 “Letter from Charles I to Governor and Council of Virginia,” 1637 Colonial Office series 1/9, ff. 121–23, The National Archives of Great Britain Charles I to [Governor and Council of Virginia], 22 April 1637, endorsed “tobacco.” Reprinted courtesy of The National Archives of the UK, CO 1/9, ff 121–123.
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4.4 Summary of pleadings in The Virginia Company v Sir John Harvey, Governor (1635), Ms. Bankes 8/3, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
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4.5 “The Declaration of the People,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (1893), vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 59–61.
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4.6 William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large: Being A Collection of all the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature in the Year 1619, excerpts from vols. 2 and 3 (Richmond, VA: Samuel Pleasants,1809–1823).
http://www.virtualjamestown.org/laws1.html
5.1 John Winthrop, “A Modell of Christian Charity (1630),” Massachusetts Historical Society Collections (Boston, 1838), 3rd ser., vol 7, pp. 33–48.
http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/charity.html
5.2 Nathaniel Ward, “The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America (1647),” in Peter Force, ed., Tracts and Other Papers Relating to the Origin, Settlement and Progress of the Colonies in North America from the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776 (Washington, DC: W.Q. Force, 1836–1846), vol. 3, pp. 6–9. Accessed at Le Projet Albion, http://puritanism. online.fr/puritanism/ward/ward.html. Accessible Archives® Inc., 697 Sugartown Rd., Malvern, PA 19355, www.accessible.com.
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5.3 Israel Stoughton to John Winthrop, July 1637, Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings 51 (1918), pp. 285–286.
http://www.archive.org/stream/proceedingsmass22socigoog/proceedingsmass22socigoog_djvu.txt
5.4 Lion Gardiner, “Relation of the Pequot Warres (1660),” in W.N. Chattin Carlton, ed., Relation of the Pequot Warres (Hartford, CT: Acorn Club, 1901), pp. 25–26. Accessed at http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas/38/.
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5.5 Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Removes, of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682, Boston, MA: Massachusetts SabbathSchool Society, 1856), pp. 101–107.
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5.6 Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (Boston, MA: W. White, 1853–1864),vol. 5, pp. 59–64.
http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924026109797#page/n7/mode/2up
5.7 Daniel Gookin, “An Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England, in the Years 1675, 1676, 1677,” in Archaeologia Americana: Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society 2 (Cambridge, 1836), pp. 475–478.
http://newlifefinearts.org/docs/Gookin%20Letter.pdf
6.1 Great Newes from the Barbados, or, A True and Faithful Account of the Grand Conspiracy of the Negroes against the English (London, 1676). Accessed viaEarly English Books Online. Henry E. Huntington Library and ArtGallery, G1733.
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6.2 Enclosures with the June 1730 report of Rear Admiral Sir Charles Stewart, commanding the Royal Naval squadron in Jamaica, directed to Joseph Burchett, Secretary of the Admiralty Board. The National Archives, London, ADM 1/231, ff. 85v–87v.
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6.3 State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Archives File 1776, Nov. 28, Savanna, Georgia, Lachlan McIntosh to John Mackintosh, Jr., Dalva Estate, Jamaica.
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6.4 Sir Basil Keith to Lord Dunmore, 20 April 1776, Virginia Historical Society Mss2 K2692 a 1.
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7.1 “The Third Voyage of Master Henrie Hudson,” in Samuel Purchase, Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others (Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1906), vol. 13.
http://www.halfmoon.mus.ny.us/Juets-journal.pdf
7.2 “First Settlement of New-York by the Dutch,” in E.B. O’Callaghan, ed., Documentary History of the State of New York (Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849–1851), vol. III, pp. 31–32.
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7.3 Lawrence H. Leder, ed., The Livingston Indian Records, 1666–1723 (Gettysburg, PA: Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1956), pp. 42–55.
http://www.archive.org/stream/livingstonindian010859mbp#page/n3/mode/2up
7.4 William Penn, “A Briefe and Plaine Scheam,” in “William Penn’s Plans for a Union of the Colonies, 8 February, 1696–97,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1887), vol. XI, no. 4, pp. 495–496.
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=969
8.1 “Letter from John Urmston to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel,” 7 July 1711. Documenting the American South. Used with permission of Information and Communications Specialist, Digital Publishing Group, Carolina Digital Library & Archives.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/index.html/document/csr01-0411
8.2 Allen D. Candler, ed., The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia (Athens, GA: Chas. P. Byrd, 1913), vol. 22, part 2, pp. 232–236.
http://www.archive.org/stream/colonialrecordso222cand#page/n467/mode/1up
8.3 “The Journal of Josiah Quincy, Junior, 1773,” in Alan Gallay, ed., Voices of the Old South: Eyewitness Accounts, 1528–1861 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1994). Published with permission from theUniversity of Georgia Press.
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9.1 Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World (London, 1700). Accessed via Early English Books Online. Library of Congress, C288.
http://infomotions.com/etexts/archive/ia360931.us.archive.org/3/items/wondersofinvisib00cale/wondersofinvisib00cale.pdf
9.2a W. Elliot Woodward, ed., Records of Salem Witchcraft Copied from the Original Documents (Roxbury, MA, 1864), vol. 1, pp. 44–48.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=208
9.2b Samuel G. Drake, ed., The Witchcraft Delusion in New England (Roxbury, MA, 1866), vol. 3, pp. 187–195.
http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/texts/tei/BoySal3R?div_id=BoySal3-n3.54&print=yes
9.3 From “Matters of Fact,” in Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World (London, 1700).
http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/texts/tei/BoySal1R?div_id=n6&print=yes
9.4a Cotton Mather to John Richards, 31 May 1692, in Kenneth Silverman, ed., Selected Letters of Cotton Mather (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University, 1971), pp. 35–40.
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9.4b “Autograph Letter of Cotton Mather,” Historical Magazine, Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America (September, 1869), 2nd ser., vol. VI, no. 8, pp. 167–168.
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10.1 Thomas Shepard, The Clear Sunshine of the Gospel Breaking Forth upon the Indians in New-England (London, 1648), Massachusetts Historical Society Collections (Boston, MA, 1834), 3rd ser., vol. 4. Sabin edition accessed at archive.com: www.archive.org/details/clearsunshineofg00sheprich.
http://ia600506.us.archive.org/12/items/clearsunshineofg00sheprich/clearsunshineofg00sheprich.pdf
10.2 Paul Le Jeune, “What One Must Suffer in Wintering with the Savages,” in Reuben Gold Thwaites, ed., Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, 73 vols. (Cleveland, OH, 1896–1901), vol. 7, pp. 53–65.
http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/relations_07.html
11.1 Alexander Falconbridge, An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa (London, 1788), pp. 19–32.
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11.2 John Josselyn, An Account of Two Voyages to New England (Boston, MA: William Veazie, 1865), vol. 26. Accessed at www.americanjourneys.org/aj-107/. Accessed August 22, 2010.
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11.3 Runaway Slave Advertisements from Virginia, 1761–66. Accessed via University of Virginia College, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/costabrowse?id=r61010145.
http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/BrowseVG.cfm
Transcription of the 1740 Slave Codes for South Carolina.
12.1 William Bradford, “Of Plimoth Plantation,” From the Original Manuscript (Boston, MA: Commonwealth of Massachusetts by Wright and Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 1898), p. 507–509.
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12.2 Robert Roule, Deposition, MS 252, Edward E. Ayer Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, reprinted in James Axtell, “The Vengeful Women of Marblehead: Robert Roule’s Deposition of 1677,” William and Mary Quarterly (1974), 3rd ser., vol. 31, Oct., pp. 650–652. Accessed at http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5835. Reprinted courtesy of Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5835
12.3 “Prophetess and Championess,” 23 November 1732, The Pennsylvania Gazette. Accessed via Accessible Archives database (2007), www.accessible.com/accessible/index.jsp.
http://www.accessible.com/accessible/index.jsp for Women/ Gender/family chapter
12.4 “The humble Petition of a poor negro woman, commonly called by the name of Esther Smith,” 19 July 1760, MS 1123/2, item 177. Reprinted courtesy of The Trustees of Lambeth Palace Library.
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12.5 “Letter from Brigadier General James Oglethorpe to the Trustees … Rec’d 24 April 1743,” in Allen Daniel Candler and Lucian Lamar Knight, Colonial Records of the State of Georgia (Atlanta, GA: Chas P. Byrd, 1914), vol. 23, pp. 485–490.
http://www.archive.org/stream/colonialrecordso23cand#page/n3/mode/2up
12.6 James E. Seaver, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison. Accessed at www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6960/pg6960.html.
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_nlmj00.htm
12.7 Poor Richard improved, Early American Imprints, Series 1, no. 16988; “God Considered as a Father,” “The Blessings of Life, by a Lady,” “The Prudent Wife,” The Virginia almanack for the year of our Lord 1774, Evans 12981, Drake, M. Almanacs, 13782, Early American Imprints, Series 1, no. 12981; “The Requisites Necessary to Render the Married State Happy,” Virginia Almanack (1772), Early American Imprints, Series 1, no. 42385; “Women’s Tongues,” Poor Richard (1736), Evans 3903, Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 532, Early American Imprints, Series 1, no. 3903.
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13.1 John Lederer, The Discoveries of John Lederer, in Three Several Marches from Virginia, to the West of Carolina (London, 1672), pp. 3–5. Accessed at http://rla.unc.edu/Archives/accounts/Lederer/Lederer.html.
http://rla.unc.edu/Archives/accounts/Lederer/Lederer.html
13.2 “Moravian Diaries of Travel Through Virginia,” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (October, 1903), vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 122–125,p. 130.
http://incolor.inetnebr.com/gwbrownx/Moravian.shtml
13.3 William M. Darlington, ed., Christopher Gist’s Journals (Pittsburgh, PA: J.R. Weldin, 1893), pp. 47–48.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/_Topics/history/_Texts/SUMASV/Gist*.html
13.4 Andrew Burnaby, Travels Through the Middle Settlements in North America in the Years 1759 and 1760 (Dublin, 1775), pp. 69–72.
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13.5 Benjamin Franklin, A Narrative of the Late Massacres (Philadelphia, PA, 1764), pp. 12–13, pp. 26–27. From Early American Imprints Database, ser. 1, no. 9667. Reprinted with permission from the American Antiquarian Society.
http://franklinpapers.org/franklin/agree
13.6 A declaration and remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding frontier inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania, presented by them to the Honourable governor and Assembly of the province, shewing the causes of their late discontent and uneasiness and the grievances under which they have labored, and which they humbly pray to have redress’d (Philadelphia, PA, 1764), pp. 3–9. FromEarly American Imprints Database, ser. 1, no. 9630. Reprinted withpermission from the American Antiquarian Society.
http://franklinpapers.org/franklin/agree
13.7 The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774–1777 (New York: The Dial Press, 1924), pp. 48–51.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbtn:@field(DOCID+@lit(lhbtn30436)
14.1 Johann Arndt, Wahres Christentum (True Christianity), English trans., chaps. 13–16, selections from 1606 (London, 1714).
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14.2 George Whitefield, The Nature and Necessity of the New Birth, excerpts (London, 1739).
http://christianbookshelf.org/whitefield/selected_sermons_of_george_whitefield/on_regeneration.htm
14.3 John Marrant, A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black (London, 1785).
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14.4 Arthur C. Parker, “The Code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca Prophet,” (1913). Accessed at www.sacred-texts.com/nam/iro/parker/index.htm.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/iro/parker/index.htm
14.5 Joanna Southcott, A Dispute between the Woman and the Powers of Darkness (London, 1802).
http://www.btinternet.com/~joannasouthcott/BOOK11.htm
14.6 Pierre Cholenec, La Vie de Catherine Tegakoüita (Catherine Tekakwitha: Her Life), excerpts, trans. and pub. by William Lonc, S.J. (2002). Reprinted with permission from William Lonc, S.J., and Steve Catlin.
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14.7 Luis Lasso de la Vega, Huei Tlamahuitzoltica (1649), excerpt, English trans. Accessed at www.sancta.org/nican.html.
http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/LITR/4332/research/pritexts/guadalupestory.htm
15.1 Carol F. Karlsen and Laurie Crumpacker, eds., The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754–1757 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,1984), pp. 67–63, pp. 182–183, p. 257.
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15.2 William B. Cairns, ed., Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1905), pp. 13–16, pp. 68–69, pp. 87–90.
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Fra2Aut.html
15.3 Notes on the State of Virginia Written by Thomas Jefferson (London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1787).
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccernew2
16.1 Reuben Gold Thwaites, ed., The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610–1791 (Cleveland, OH: Burrows Bros. Co., 1896–1901), excerpts fromvol. 10.
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16.2 “Adventures of Nicolas Perrot, by La Potherie, 1665–1670,” chap. VIII, from Louise Phelps Kellogg, Early Narratives of the Northwest, 1634–1699, Original Narratives of Early American History (New York: C. Scribners’s Sons, 1917), pp. 73–79.
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/cgibin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.5056:2.lincoln
16.3 “The Pageant of 1671,” from Louise Phelps Kellogg, ed., Early Narratives of the Northwest, 1634–1699, Original Narratives of Early AmericanHistory (New York: C. Scribners’s Sons, 1917), pp. 217–220.
http://www.americanjourneys.org/pdf/AJ-050.pdf
16.4 Edmund B. O’Callaghan, ed., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, 15 vols. (Albany, NY, 1853), vol. 9, pp.708–711, pp. 715–716, pp. 717–720.
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17.1 W.W. Abbot et al., eds., The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1983–), vol. 1.
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17.2 John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745–1799, 39 vols. (Washington, DC:Government Printing Office, 1931–1944), vol. 1.
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17.3 Leonard W. Labaree, Papers of Benjamin Franklin, 38 vols. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1959–), vol. 5, pp. 387–392.
http://www.constitution.org/bcp/albany.htm
17.4 Edward P. Hamilton, ed. and trans., Adventures in the Wilderness: The American Journals of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, 1756–1760 (Norman,OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954), pp. 59–61, pp. 231–236.Reprinted courtesy of Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
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17.5 E.B. O’Callaghan, ed., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York (Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons, and Co., 1856), vol.VII, pp. 572–581.
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