The Colonial era : a documentary reader / edited by Paul G.E. Clemens.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-210) and index.

pt. I. Beginnings -- 1. English and African background -- A scheme of the income and expence of the several families of England, calculated for the year 1688 / Gregory King -- Description of England, 1577 / William Harrison -- Chronicle of the initial Portuguese voyages to Sub-Saharan Africa, 1453 / Gomes Eanes de Zurara -- (chapter LX : How those caravels arrived at the river of Nile, and of the guineas that they took -- chapter LXIII : How the caravels set forth from the river, and of the voyage which they made) -- Life in Africa before being captured by slave traders, 1789 / Olaudah Equiano -- 2. Images of the New World -- Amerigo Vespucci discovers America, ca. 1570s -- First (third) voyage to "America," 1505-6 / Amerigo Vespucci -- A Native American warrior, ca. 1590 -- Of the naturall inhabitants of Virginia, 1624 / John Smith -- Pocahontas in England -- Pocahontas, 1624 / John Smith -- Illustration from A new voyage to Carolina, 1709 / John Lawson -- History of North Carolina, 1709 / John Lawson -- 3. The Beginning of the World : Costanoan California Native American story -- A Dutch view of the Native Americans in the New Netherlands, from a letter to Samuel Blommaert, ca.1628 / Isaack de Rasieres -- A French Jesuit missionary reports on life among the Illinois, 1675 -- Portrait of Iroquois and Huron culture, 1724 / Joseph Francis Lafitau -- 4. Borderlands -- Dutch-Native American relations deteriorate : Kiefr's War, 1640-1645 -- The natural wonders of California : Jose de Gálvez's expedition, 1769-1770 / Father (Franciscan) Juan Crespi -- California Native Americans, 1775 / Pedro Fages -- Natchez War in Louisiana, 1729-1730 -- 5. Founding colonies -- A modell of Christian charity, 1630 / John Winthrop -- Slave and servant codes in the Seventeenth-Century English West Indies : Barbados laws for servants (and slaves), 1652 -- A Jamaica Ace "for the better ordering of slaves," 1684 -- The concessions and agreements of the proprietors, freeholders, and inhabitants of the Province of West New Jersey, 1676-1677 (chapters XVI, XVII, XXV) -- William Penn purchases land from the Lenape (Delaware) Indians, 1682 -- 6. Northern colonies -- Articles of agreement among the first settlers of Springfield, Massachusetts, 1636 -- Congregational minister John Eliot's work as a missionary to the Native Americans in Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1647 / John Winthrop -- The raid on Deerfield, 1704 -- "An account of y destruction at Deefd febr 29, 1703-04" / Samuel Partridge -- "Account of the captivity of the Rev. Doctor Stephen Williams" / Stephen Williams -- "When I was carryed to Canada" / Joseph Kellogg of Deerfield -- 7. Southern colonies -- Letter from Jamestown to parents in England, 1623 / Richard Frethorne -- Witchcraft trial of Jeane Gardfiner, Bermuda, 1651 -- Cases before the Maryland provincial court in the 1650s -- A case of adultery/fornication, 1652 -- A case of murder, 1653 -- An agreement about marriage, 1657 -- Observations on living in Jamaica, 1707 / Hans Sloane. pt. II. The Eighteenth Century -- 8. Politics -- Address of the House of Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay to the King, November 22, 1728 -- A Virginia election dispute, 1740 -- A contested election in Pennsylvania, 1742 -- 9. Economy -- Commerce at the Port of Bristo, Great Britain, July 2, 1731 -- A New England farmer's expectations of profit, 1742 -- The business of a South Carolina commission merchant, 1738 and 1740 -- 10. Empire -- A memorial concerning the fur trade of the province of New York : to William Barnet, governor of New York, November 10, 1724 / Cadwallader Colden -- Lieutenant Governor of Virginia of the Board of Trade, on the need for a Tobacco Inspection Act, June 29, 1729 and February 27, 1731 / William Gooch -- Promotes a new colony in Georgia, 1732 / James Oglethorpe -- On the abolition of the British slave trade, 1784 / James Ramsay -- 11. Slavery -- Lieutenant Governor of Virginia to the Board of Trade, comments about African American slaves in Virginia, June 29, 1729 / William Gooch -- New York Conspiracy Trials of 17401 -- A Virginia planter instructs his plantation manager about enslaved workers, 1743-4 and 1754 -- Runaway servant and slave advertisements, as published in Colonial newspapers -- Runaway servants / Pennsylvania Gazette -- Runaway slaves / Virginia Gazette -- Runaway Indian slave / South Carolina Gazette -- Runaway slave / South Carolina and American General Gazette -- 12. Everyday life -- Examination of Daniel Tice, 1765 -- Brinton Farmhouse, Birmingham Township, Chester (Delaware) County, Pennsylvania, 1704 -- Everyday life in the colonies as seen through probate inventories and wills -- Inventory of Archibald Curry, laborer, Darby, Chester County, October 24, 1764 -- Inventory and will of Sarah McWilliams, East Nottingham, Chester County, March 15, 1765 -- The inventory of the estate of Thomas Benedict late of Norwalk deceased taken this 28th day June An. D. 1763 -- Salves in the inventory of Thomas Beach, Clarnedon Parish, Jamaica, May 1776 -- Household consumer goods of the comfortable and prosperous -- Colonial taverns -- Account of a night at a tavern, 1704 / Sarah Kimble Knight -- Cursory remarks about his tavern accommodations, 1750 / James Birket. 13. Family and gender relations -- Grand Jury presentation / Martin Rierden, 1736 -- From the letterbook, 1742 / Eliza Luca Pinckney -- Politics of gender relations in Pennsylvania, 1730s-1760s -- Scenes from the life of a great tobacco planter in Eighteenth-century Virginia -- To Charles, Earl of Orrey (Great Britain), Virginia, July 5, 1726 / William Byrd -- William Byrd of Westover's diary, 1710, 1712 -- 14. Religion -- The Anglican clergy of Maryland appeal to the Bishop of London about the state of the Church in Maryland, 1696 -- Opinion of the great revivalist, George Whitefield / Benjamin Franklin -- On the revivalist James Davenport, 1743 / Alexander Hamilton -- James Ireland's battle with Satan, Virginia, ca. 1760s -- 15. Culture -- On botany in America, November 13, 1742 / Cadwallader Colden (Coldengham, New York) to Mr. Peter Collinson (London, England) -- Books and reading in Eighteenth-Century America -- A selection of books from the probate inventory of Alured Popple, Governor of Bermuda, 1745 -- A bookseller's catalog, Philadelphia, 1762 -- The practice of reading in early America, from the journal of Esther Edwards burr on the reading of Richardson's Pamela, 1755 -- Observing the transit of Venus from Newport, Rhode Island, June 5, 1769 -- On virtue / Phillis Wheatley -- Musical instruction -- Advertisement for music lessons 1770 / William Charles Hulet -- Young ladies conduct, advice on musical instruction, 1722 -- 16. The great war for empire -- Seven years war, to John Augustine Washington, 1754 / George Washington -- Description of the Battle of Ticonderoga, July 1758 -- Pontiac's rebellion : to Major Henry Gladwin, Michilimackinac, June 12, 1763 / Captain George Etherington -- Frontier life during warfare : to Colonel Henry bouquet (Fort Pitt), august 27, 1763 / Captain Lewis Ourry (fort Bedford).