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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.
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*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