Cotton Mather, Ezekiel Cheever, and Samuel Sewell (Mather-Cheever account of the Salem witch trials; Diary entries by Samuel Sewall; A brand pluck'd out of the burning) -- A brief narrative of the case and tryal (trial) of John Peter Zenger -- Robert Beverley (Servants and slaves in Virginia (from "The History and Present State of Virginia"); I have nothing to comfort me) -- John Woolman (Some considerations on the keeping of Negroes; They ran off with us) -- Thomas Morton (The Maypole of Merry-Mount (from "New English Canaan") -- Excerpt from the trial of Anne Hutchinson.
European exploration and settlement -- The coming of the first white man -- Christopher Columbus (Report to Ferdinand and Isabella ; Spanish abuses of natives) -- Alonso de Benavides (Fray Alonso de Benavides reports New Mexico Indians eager for conversation; They came from the East; The founding of Saint Augustine) -- Jacques Marquette (Jolliet and Marquette travel the Mississippi; These are our fathers) -- Thomas Harriot (A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia; The lost colony) -- John Smith (The founding of Jamestown (from "the Generall Historie of Virginia); The Pocahontas legend).
John Adams (The diary and autobiography of John Adams; I said, this is certainly a tavern).
Personal narratives -- John Winthrop (John Winthrop's Christian experience) -- Mary Rowlandson (The narrative of the captivity and restauration (restoration) of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson) -- Anne Dudley Bradstreet (Poems by Anne Dudley Bradstreet; The pleasures of a country life) -- Sarah Kemble Knight (The journal of Madame Knight; Margaret Brent, independent woman; Early American literature) -- Elizabeth Ashbridge (Some account of the early part of the life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, written by herself) -- Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin : a biography in his own words).
William Bradford (The pilgrims' landing and first winter (from "Of Plymouth Plantation"; The Mayflower Compact; The first Thanksgiving, 1621) -- William Penn (The propriety of Pennsylvania) -- Per (Peter) Kalm (Impressions of New Jersey and New York; Men of eighteen different languages) -- Social issues -- John Easton (A relacion (relation) of the Indyan (Indian) Warre (War); Land is everlasting) -- Elizabeth Bacon and William Sherwood (A letter from Elizabeth Bacon; A narrative of Bacon's Rebellion by William Sherwood).
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Presents the historical events and social issues of colonial America through twenty-four primary documents, including diary entries, poems, and personal narratives.
History-- Sources.
United States, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Sources, Juvenile literature.
United States, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Sources.
United States, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Sources.
États-Unis, Histoire, ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale), Sources, Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
États-Unis, Histoire, ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale), Sources.
United States, History, 1600-1775, Colonial period, Sources.