The Colonial Era A Documentary Reader

by Clemens, Paul G. E.

• ISBN13: 9781405156622
• ISBN10: 1405156627
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-26
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Comprehensive and accessible, this title offers a clear and original framework for studying the important issues in colonial American history. Provides students with more than 60 essential documents on Colonial America Short headnotes introduce each selection Begins with a brief introduction by the editor and concludes with a bibliography designed to stimulate student research Can be used in conjunction with other books in a course or as a stand-alone text

Author Biography

Paul G. E. Clemens has taught colonial history at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, for more than thirty years. He is the author of The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland’s Eastern Shore (1980), awarded the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association for the best book on the history of the United States, Canada, or Latin America; and coauthor of Land Use in Early New Jersey (1995).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xiii
Series Editors' Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Beginnings	p. 19
English and African Background	p. 21
Gregory King's A Scheme of the Income and Expence of the several Families of England, calculated for the Year 1688	p. 21
William Harrison's Description of England, 1577	p. 23
Gomes Eanes de Zurara's Chronicle of the Initial Portuguese Voyages to Sub-Saharan Africa, 1453	p. 26
How those caravels arrived at the river of Nile, and of the Guineas that they took	p. 26
How the caravels set forth from the river, and of the voyage which they made	p. 27
Olaudah Equiano Recounts his Life in Africa before Being Captured by Slave Traders, 1789	p. 28
Images of the New World	p. 32
Amerigo Vespucci Discovers America, ca. 1570s	p. 32
Amerigo Vespucci Describes his First (Third) Voyage to "America," 1505/6	p. 34
A Native American Warrior, ca. 1590	p. 36
John Smith, Of the Naturall Inhabitants of Virginia, 1624	p. 37
Pocahontas in England	p. 39
John Smith on Pocahontas, 1624	p. 39
Illustration from John Lawson's A New Voyage to Carolina, 1709	p. 41
John Lawson's History of North Carolina, 1709	p. 41
Native American Lives	p. 45
The Beginning of the World - Costanoan California Native American Story	p. 45
A Dutch View of the Native Americans in the New Netherlands, from a Letter of Isaack de Rasieres to Samuel Blommaert, ca. 1628	p. 46
A French Jesuit Missionary Reports on Life Among the Illinois, 1675	p. 49
Joseph Francis Lafitau, Portrait of Iroquois and Huron Culture, 1724	p. 50
Borderlands	p. 54
Dutch-Native American Relations Deteriorate: Kieft's War, 1640-1645	p. 54
The Natural Wonders of California: Jose de Galvez's Expedition, 1769-1770, as Recorded by Father (Franciscan) Juan Crespi	p. 56
Pedro Fages Describes California Native Americans, 1775	p. 58
Natchez War in Louisiana, 1729-1730	p. 61
Founding Colonies	p. 63
John Winthrop's A Modell of Christian Charity, 1630	p. 63
Slave and Servant Codes in the Seventeenth-Century English West Indies: Barbados Laws for Servants (and Slaves), 1652	p. 66
A Jamaica Act "For the better Ordering of Slaves," 1684	p. 67
The Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the Province of West New Jersey, 1676/1677	p. 69
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William Penn Purchases Land from the Lenape (Delaware) Indians, 1682	p. 70
Northern Colonies	p. 75
Articles of Agreement Among the First Settlers of Springfield, Massachusetts, 1636	p. 75
John Winthrop Describes Congregational Minister John Eliot's Work as a Missionary to the Native Americans in Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1647	p. 78
The Raid on Deerfield, 1704	p. 80
"An account of y[superscript e] destruction at Deerfd febr 29, 1703/4," by Samuel Partridge	p. 82
"Account of the Captivity of the Rev. Doctor Stephen Williams, Written by Himself"	p. 83
"When I Was Carryed to Canada," attributed to Joseph Kellogg of Deerfield	p. 86
Southern Colonies	p. 88
Richard Frethorne's Letter from Jamestown to his Parents in England, 1623	p. 88
Witchcraft Trial of Jeane Gardiner, Bermuda, 1651	p. 91
Cases Before the Maryland Provincial Court in the 1650s	p. 93
A Case of Adultery/Fornication, 1652	p. 93
A Case of Murder, 1653	p. 95
An Agreement about Marriage, 1657	p. 97
Hans Sloane, Observations on Living in Jamaica, 1707	p. 98
The Eighteenth Century	p. 103
Politics	p. 105
Address of the House of Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay to the King. November 22, 1728	p. 105
A Virginia Election Dispute, 1740	p. 108
A Contested Election in Pennsylvania, 1742	p. 110
Economy	p. 113
Commerce at the Port of Bristol, Great Britain, July 2, 1731	p. 113
A New England Farmer's Expectations of Profit, 1742	p. 118
The Business of a South Carolina Commission Merchant, 1738 and 1740	p. 120
Empire	p. 124
A Memorial Concerning the Fur Trade of the Province of New York: Cadwallader Colden to William Barnet, Governor of New York, November 10, 1724	p. 124
Lieutenant Governor William Gooch of Virginia to the Board of Trade, on the Need for a Tobacco Inspection Act, June 29, 1729 and February 27, 1731	p. 127
James Oglethorpe Promotes a New Colony in Georgia, 1732	p. 130
James Ramsay on the Abolition of the British Slave Trade, 1784	p. 132
Slavery	p. 135
Lieutenant Governor William Gooch of Virginia to the Board of Trade, Comments about African American Slaves in Virginia. June 29, 1729	p. 135
New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741	p. 136
A Virginia Planter Instructs his Plantation Manager about Enslaved Workers, 1743/4 and 1754	p. 139
Runaway Servant and Slave Advertisements, as Published in Colonial Newspapers	p. 142
Pennsylvania Gazette, Runaway Servants	p. 142
Virginia Gazette, Runaway Slaves	p. 143
South Carolina Gazette, Runaway Indian Slave, and South Carolina and American General Gazette, Runaway Slave	p. 143
Everyday Life	p. 146
Examination of Daniel Tice, 1765	p. 146
Brinton Farmhouse, Birmingham Township, Chester (Delaware) County, Pennsylvania, 1704	p. 147
Everyday Life in the Colonies as Seen through Probate Inventories and Wills	p. 149
Inventory of Archibald Curry, laborer, Darby, Chester County, October 24, 1764	p. 150
Inventory and Will of Sarah McWilliams, East Nottingham, Chester County, March 15, 1765	p. 150
The Inventory of the Estate of Thomas Benedict late of Norwalk deceased taken this 28th day of June An. D. 1763	p. 152
Slaves in the Inventory of Thomas Beach, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, May 1776	p. 154
Household Consumer Goods of the Comfortable and Prosperous	p. 158
Colonial Taverns	p. 160
Sarah Kimble Knight's Account of a Night at a Tavern, 1704	p. 161
James Birket's Cursory Remarks about his Tavern Accommodations, 1750	p. 162
Family and Gender Relations	p. 165
Grand Jury Presentation of Martin Rierden, 1736	p. 165
From the Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1742	p. 166
Politics of Gender Relations in Pennsylvania, 1730s-1760s	p. 169
Scenes from the Life of a Great Tobacco Planter in Eighteenth-Century Virginia	p. 170
William Byrd to Charles, Earl of Orrey (Great Britain), Virginia, July 5, 1726	p. 171
William Byrd of Westover's Diary, 1710, 1712	p. 173
Religion	p. 177
The Anglican Clergy of Maryland Appeal to the Bishop of London about the State of the Church in Maryland, 1696	p. 177
Benjamin Franklin Offers his Opinion of the Great Revivalist, George Whitefield	p. 179
Dr. Alexander Hamilton Comments on the Revivalist James Davenport, 1743	p. 181
James Ireland's Battle with Satan, Virginia, ca. 1760s	p. 182
Culture	p. 186
Cadwallader Colden [Coldengham, New York] to Mr. Peter Collinson [London, England], on Botany in America, November 13, 1742	p. 186
Books and Reading in Eighteenth-Century America	p. 188
A Selection of Books from the Probate Inventory of Alured Popple, Governor of Bermuda, 1745	p. 188
A Bookseller's Catalog, Philadelphia, 1762	p. 191
The Practice of Reading in Early America, from the Journal of Esther Edwards Burr on the Reading of Richardson's Pamela, 1755	p. 193
Observing the Transit of Venus from Newport, Rhode Island, June 5, 1769	p. 195
Phillis Wheatley, On Virtue	p. 196
Musical Instruction	p. 197
William Charles Hulet, Advertisement for Music Lessons, 1770	p. 197
Young Ladies Conduct, Advice on Musical Instruction, 1722	p. 197
The Great War for Empire	p. 199
Seven Years War Begins: George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 1754	p. 199
Description of the Battle of Ticonderoga, July 1758	p. 200
Pontiac's Rebellion: Captain George Etherington to Major Henry Gladwin, Michilimackinac, June 12, 1763	p. 202
Frontier Life during Warfare: Captain Lewis Ourry (Fort Bedford) to Colonel Henry Bouquet (Fort Pitt), August 27, 1763	p. 204
Bibliography	p. 206
Index	p. 211
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