4. The Colonial Era (1607-1775)
Andrews, William L., ed. Journeys in New Worlds: Early American Women’s Narratives. (Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography.) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. NRG, RGC: E 187.5 .J68 1990
Bartram, William. Travels of William Bartram. Ed. by Mark Van Doren. New York: Dover, 1955. (Bartram traveled in several southern colonies.) RGC: F 213 .B288 1955b
Beverley, Robert. The History and Present State of Virginia. Edited by Louis Wright. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1947. (Reproduction of the original edition of 1705.) RGC: F 229 .B593
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine, de, Comte. Adventure in the Wilderness: The American Journals of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1756-1760. Translated by Edward P. Hamilton. (American Exploration and Travel Series, Vol. 42.) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. CYP: E 199 .B72 1990
Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647. Edited by Samuel Eliot Morison. New York: Knopf, 1962. NRG, RGC: F 68 .B8073
Byrd, William. William Byrd’s Histories of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina. New York: Dover Publications, 1987. (Complete texts of author’s Secret History of the Line and History of the Dividing Line, both of which are reports of 1728 survey to establish the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina. Contents tell of wilderness exploration and of the customs, superstitions, and ways of life of the Indians and white settlers of the area.) RVS: F 229 .B968 1987
Carver, Jonathan. Jonathan Carver’s Travels through America, 1766-1768: An Eighteenth-Century Explorer’s Account of Uncharted America. Edited by Norman Gelb. New York: Wiley, 1993. CYP: F 597 .J6 1993
Drinker, Elizabeth. The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker. Edited by Elaine Forman Crane. 3 vols. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991. (Contents: Vol. 1, 1758-1795. Reveals something of the life of the Quakers in Philadelphia throughout the period covered and gives a picture of women’s role in the society of the times.) RGC: F 158.9 .F89 D75 1991
Copeland, David A., ed. Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers: Primary Documents on Events of the Period. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2000. CYP, PIN: E 187 .C78 2000
Edwards, Jonathan. The Nature of True Virtue. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1960. RGC: BJ 1520 .E3
Emerson, Everett, ed. Letters from New England: The Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1629-1638. (Commonwealth Series.) Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1976. RVS: F 67 .L663 1976.
Force, Peter, comp. Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America, from the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776. 3 vols. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1963. (Vol. 1 has documents relating to Georgia, Virginia, and New England. Vol. 2 has documents relating to New England, Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina, and Georgia. Vol. 3 has documents relating to Virginia, Maryland, and New England.) CYP, RGC: E 187 .F69 1963
Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Edited by Louis P. Masur. Boston: St. Martin’s Press, 1993. PIN: E 302.6 .F7 A3 1993. are at CYP, ERG, NRG, RGC, and RVS. Check the ACC Library Catalog for call numbers, names of editors, and other publication data.)
Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography and Other Writings. Edited by Kenneth Silverman. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. CYP, EVC, PIN, RGC, RVS: E 302.6 .F7 A2 1986. Another edition (1982), edited by Peter Shaw, is at CYP, PIN, RGC, and RVS: E 302.6 .F7 A2 1982.
Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography and Selections from His Other Writings. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1952. NRG: E 302.6 .F7 A2 1952b
Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac and Other Papers. [Reading, Pa.]: Spencer Press, 1936. RGC, RVS: E 302.6 .F7 A2 1936
Franklin, Benjamin. Benjamin Franklin: An Autobiographical Portrait. Edited by Alfred H. Tamarin. New York: Macmillan, 1969. (Includes excerpts from the Autobiography, letters, and other writings.) NRG, RGC: E 302.6 F7 A23 1969
Franklin, Benjamin. Benjamin Franklin: His Life as He Wrote It. Edited by Esmond Wright. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. (Selective, single-volume edition of Franklin’s writings. Is an attempt to “fill out” the Autobiography. Tells the Franklin story as a continuous chronological narrative, drawing on the varied primary source material as Wright deemed appropriate.) NRG, RGC: E 302.6 F8 B455 1990
Franklin, Benjamin. Franklin on Franklin. Edited by Paul M. Zall. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. CYP, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: E 302.6 .F7 A2 2001a
Franklin, Benjamin. Writings. Edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1987. (Contents: The Autobiography and Poor Richard’s Almanac.) RVS: E 302 .F82 1987
Gunn, Giles, ed. Early American Writing. (Penguin Classics.) New York: Penguin Books, 1994. (Includes primary sources about colonial America and literary materials about American Indians and Great Britain.) NRG: PS 531 .C65 1994
Hall, David D., ed. Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638-1692. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991. NRG, RGC, RVS: BF 1575 .W62 1991
Hill Frances, comp. The Salem Witch Trials Reader. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2000. (The primary source are on pp. 3-209.) CYP, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: BF 1576 .H55 2000
Heimert, Alan, ed. The Puritans in America, a Narrative Anthology. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. NRG, RGC BX: 9318 .P87 1985
Jefferson, Thomas. Writings. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1984. (Merrill D. Peterson wrote the notes and selected the texts.) RGC: E 302 .J442 1984
Kaminski, John P. and Jill Adair McCaughan, eds. A Great and Good Man: George Washington in the Eyes of His Contemporaries. Madison, Wis.: Madison House, 1989. PIN: E 312.62 .G63 1989
Kupperman, Karen Ordahl, ed. Major Problems in American Colonial History: Documents and Essays. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1993. RGC: E 185.5 .M274 1993
Martin, Wendy, ed. Colonial American Travel Narratives. New York: Penguin Books, 1994. (Contents: A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, The Journal of Madam Knight, The Secret History of the Line by William Byrd II, and The Itinararium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton.) CYP, NRG, PIN: E 162 .C69 1994
Miller, John Chester, ed. The Colonial Image: Origins of American Culture. New York: G. Braziller, 1962. RGC: E 187.07 M5
Millner, Clyde A., ed. Major Problems in American Colonial History: Documents and Essays. (Major Problems in American History Series.) Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1993. (Some of the items are primary sources, some secondary.) RGC: E 185.5 .M274 1993
Mylne, William. Travels in the Colonies in 1773-1775: Described in the Letters of William Mylne. Edited by Ted Ruddock. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1993. (Author, native of Edinburgh. Tells of travels to Charleston, S.C, Augusta, Ga., New Bern, N.C., Williamsburg, Va., Philadelphia, Pa., and New York City. Strong British loyalist perspective.) RVS: E 163 .M95 1993
Notson, Adelia White, ed. Stepping Stones: The Pilgrims’ Own Story. Portland, Ore.: Binford & Mort, 1987. RVS: F 68 .S9 1987
Peckham, Howard H., ed. Narratives of Colonial America, 1704-1765. Chicago: R. R. Donnelley, 1971. (Contents: Madam Knight’s Journal: A Woman Travels to New York, 1784; The Present State of Louisiana: French Life in New Orleans, 1743; Life and Travels of Col. James Smith: An Indian Captive in Ohio, 1743; Cleaveland’s Letters and Diary: A Chaplain at Ticonderoga, 1758; Major Rogers’ Journals: The Raid on St. Francis, 1759, 1759; Anne Grant’s Memoirs: The Children of Albany, 1762-68; Lieut. Jehu Hay’s Diary: Under Siege in Detroit, 1763; Journal of Lord Adam Gordon: How Our Cities Looked, 1765.) CYP: E 162 .P4 1971
Polishook, Irwin H. Roger Williams, John Cotton and Religious Freedom: A Controversy in New and Old England. (American Historical Sources Series: Research and Interpretation.) Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1967. (Introductory essay, followed by 33 primary source documents.) CYP: F 82 .W792 1967
St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector. Letters from an American Farmer. Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith, 1968. RGC: E 163 .C827
Sandoz, Ellis, ed. Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805. Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1991. RGC: BR 115 .P7 P53 1991
Smith, John. Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings. Edited by Karen Ordahl Kupperman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. PIN: F 229 .S592 1988
Soderland, Jean R., ed. William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania: A Documentary History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. NRG PIN: F 152.2 .W53 1983
Stiles, T. J., comp. In Their Own Words: The Colonizers: Early European Settlers and the Shaping of North America. Berkley Publishing Group, 1998. (Excerpts from writings by Samuel de Champlain, William Bradford, William Penn, Olaudah Equiano, John Smith, John Winthrop, Peter Stuyvesant, Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, and others.) RGC: E 162 .696 1998
Trask, Richard B., comp. Salem Village and the Witch Hysteria. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1975. (A portfolio containing reproductions of testimony, confessions, death warrants, and other relevant documents.) NRG: BF 1575 .S24 C.2
Washington, George. George Washington: A Collection. Compiled and edited by W. B. Allen. Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Classics, 1988. (The first eleven documents deal with the colonial era.) RVS: E 312.72 1988
Wigglesworth, Michael. The Diary of Michael Wigglesworth, 1653-1657: The Conscience of a Puritan. Edited by Edmund S. Morgan. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1970. CYP, RVS: BX 7260. .W 48 A3 1970
Williams, Daniel E., comp. Pillars of Salt: An Anthology of Early American Criminal Narratives. Madison, Wisc.: Madison House, 1993. (Materials originally published between 1699-1796. “Designed first to terrify readers with examples of divine retribution against lives gone wrong, and later to excite prurient imaginations.”) RGC: PS 648 .C7 P54 1993
Wood, Gordon S., ed. The Rising Glory of America, 1760-1820. Rev. ed. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990. NRG, RGC, RVS: E 164 .R57 1990