Colonization of America

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Now you can study the Colonization of America from first-hand perspective. This essential eBook includes 63 primary source accounts from 1562 to 1733. No source is better than the original. It is untainted and tells the history as it happened.

The content in this eBook is included in our colossal "First-hand History of America" collection with over 1,200 primary source accounts.

*Includes 63 Accounts:

  • The Founding of St. Augustine and the Massacre by Menendez – John A. Doyle
  • The Founding of St. Augustine – Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajalas
  • The Huguenots in Florida – Francis Parkman
  • Dominique de Gourgues – Francis Parkman
  • Drake in California – Drake's Nephew
  • A Description of Drake – Don Francisco de Zarate
  • Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia Colonies – John A. Doyle
  • The First Voyage to Roanoke – Captains Amadas and Barlowe
  • The Colony at Roanoke – Ralph Lane
  • The Birth of Virginia Dare – John White
  • Gosnald's Discovery of Cape Cod – Bartholemew Gosnold
  • Gosnold's Settlement at Cuttyhunk – Gabriel Archer
  • First Charter of Virginia – King James I
  • The Settlement of Jamestown – Captain John Smith
  • The Founding of Quebec – Samuel de Champlain
  • Champlain's Battle with the Iroquois on Lake Champlain – Samuel Champlain
  • The Discovery of the Hudson River – Robert Juet
  • Hudson's Third Voyage – John De Laet
  • The First Representative Assembly – John Twine
  • Origin of Slavery in America – John A. Doyle
  • The Voyage of the Mayflower – William Bradford
  • How the Pilgrim Fathers Lived – Edward Winslow
  • Founding of New Amsterdam – Nicholas Jean de Wassenaer
  • The Beginnings of the Massachusetts Bay Colony – Governor Thomas Dudley
  • The Settlement of Massachusetts – Edward Johnson
  • The Founding of Connecticut – Alexander Johnston
  • Lord Baltimore's Plantation in Maryland – George and Leonard Calvert
  • The Pequot Massacre at Fort Mystic – John Mason
  • Roger Williams in Rhode Island – Nathaniel Morton
  • How the Bay Colony Differed from Plymouth – John G. Palfrey
  • The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut – Unknown
  • The Body of Liberties – Nathaniel Ward
  • The Founding of Harvard College – Unknown
  • The Founding of New Sweden – Israel Acrelius
  • Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from that Aspersion – John Winthrop
  • Witchcraft in New England – John G. Palfrey
  • The Instrument of Government – Cromwell and His Council of Officers
  • A Healing Question – Sir Henry Vane
  • The Persecution of the Quakers – James Cudworth
  • The Penalty for Not Going to Church – The County Court of Middlesex
  • John Locke and the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina – H. R. Fox Bourne
  • The English Conquest of New York – John R. Brodhead
  • Eliot's Brief Narrative – John Eliot
  • Marquette's Discovery of the Mississippi – James Marquette
  • The Outbreak of King Philip's War – William Hubbard
  • The Death of King Philip – Benjamin Church
  • Bacon's Rebellion – Unknown
  • The Death of Marquette – Claude Dablon
  • Discovery of Niagara Falls – Louis Hennepin
  • La Salle's Voyage to the Mouth of the Mississippi – Francis Parkman
  • Letter from Eliot to Hon. Robert Boyle – John Eliot
  • The Famous Charter Oak Affair – Alexander Johnston
  • Description of Pennsylvania – William Penn
  • Penn's Treaty with the Indians – William Penn
  • M. Robert Cavelier De La Salle – Father Louis Hennepin
  • Leisler's Rebellion – "A Gentleman of the City of New York"
  • Witchcraft in New England – Robert Calef
  • The Founding of William and Mary College – Unknown
  • The Settlement of Louisiana – Benard de la Harpe
  • The Colonization of Louisiana – Charles E. T. Gayarre
  • Phipps, The First of Our Self-Made Men – The Reverend Cotton Mather
  • Establishing the Colony of Georgia – General James Edward Oglethorpe
  • Oglethorpe in Georgia – Joel Chandler Harris

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