Early American Writings

by Mulford, Carla; Vietto, Angela; Winans, Amy E.

• ISBN13: 9780195118407
• ISBN10: 0195118405
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Early American Writings brings together a wide range of writings from the era of colonization of the Americas through the period of confederation in North America and the formation of the new United States of America. The anthology includes materials representing cultures indigenous to the Americas as well as writings by British, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Swedish, German, African, and African American peoples in America during the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. With more than 170 writers included, the collection represents the works known and admired in the writers' own day, illustrates the diversity of interests and peoples depicted in those writings, and demonstrates the range of cross-cultural references early American readers experienced. The breadth of the collection provides readers with a fuller understanding of the backdrop for what is known as "American" culture today, in all its diversity. Early American Writings includes several original translations and features more poetry than any other anthology in the field. Each section covers a different period of colonization and is introduced by extensive commentary. All selections have been carefully annotated to help students place the writings in their cultural and regional contexts. Ideal for courses in early/colonial American literature and culture, colonial American studies, American studies, and American history, Early American Writings gives students an unprecedented look into the diverse and fascinating culture of early America.

Table of Contents

Preface	xvii
Acknowledgments	xxi
1. THE STORIES OF THE PEOPLE: CREATION, EMERGENCE, TRANSFORMATION	1	(22)
Penobscot	2	(2)
Corn Mother	2	(2)
Algonquian	4	(2)
A Story about Great Rabbit	4	(2)
Iroquois	6	(5)
The Creation of the World	7	(2)
Iroquois, or the Confederacy of the Five Nations	9	(2)
Seneca	11	(2)
The Origin of Stories	11	(2)
Creek	13	(3)
Origins of the People	13	(3)
Salish	16	(1)
The Beginning	16	(1)
Gros Ventres	17	(1)
The Creation of the World	17	(1)
Acoma	18	(5)
Emergence into the Upper World	18	(5)
2. EUROPEANS' NEW WORLD: THE FIRST CENTURY	23	(117)
Southern Experiences
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)	28	(15)
from the Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493	29	(11)
Letter of Columbus, Describing the Results of His First Voyage	40	(3)
Amerigo Vespucci (1452?-1512)	43	(9)
Letter to Piero Soderini, Gonfaloniere of the Republic of Florence, 1504	44	(8)
Bartolome de Las Casas (1474-1566)	52	(8)
from A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies	53	(7)
Prologue	53	(1)
Preface	54	(2)
from New Spain	56	(4)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (1490?-1577?)	60	(8)
from The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca	61	(7)
from Chapter 7: The Character of the Country	61	(1)
from Chapter 8: We Go from Aute	62	(1)
from Chapter 10: The Assault from the Indians	63	(1)
from Chapter 11: Of What Befel Lope de Oviedo with the Indians	64	(1)
from Chapter 21: Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted	64	(1)
from Chapter 24: Customs of the Indians of That Country	65
from Chapter 27: We Moved Away and Were Well Received	63	(3)
from Chapter 32: The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer	66	(1)
from Chapter 33: We See Traces of Christians	67	(1)
from Chapter 34: Of Sending for the Christians	67	(1)
Pedro de Castaneda (1510-1570?)	68	(6)
from Castaneda's Narrative	69	(5)
from Part I
from Preface	69	(1)
Chapter 2	70	(1)
Chapter 3	71	(1)
from Chapter 9	72	(1)
from Part II Chapter 3	73	(1)
Jean de Lery (1534-1613)	74	(12)
from History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America	75	(11)
from Preface	75	(3)
Chapter 16	78	(8)
Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere (1529-1574)	86	(7)
from A Notable Historie Containing Foure Voyages Made by Certaine French Captaines unto Florida	87	(6)
from Preface	87	(1)
from The Historie of the First Voyage	88	(5)
Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca (1539-1616)	93	(17)
from The Florida of the Inca	94	(9)
Book I
Chapter 3	94	(1)
Chapter 4	95	(2)
Book II
Chapter 1	97	(2)
Chapter 2	99	(1)
Chapter 3	100	(2)
Chapter 4	102	(1)
from Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part I	103	(7)
Book I
Chapter 6	103	(2)
Chapter 15	105	(1)
Chapter 16	106	(1)
Chapter 17	107	(1)
Chapter 18	108	(1)
from Chapter 19	109	(1)
Northern Experiences
Jacques Cartier (1491-1557)	110	(4)
from The First Relation	110	(4)
Samuel de Champlain (1570?-1635)	114	(9)
from Voyages and Discoveries in New France	114	(9)
To the King	114	(1)
Preface	115	(1)
Of the Hurons	115	(8)
Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636-1710?)	123	(17)
from The Relation of my Voyage, being in Bondage in the Lands of the Irokoits, which was the next yeare aft my coming into Canada, in the yeare 1651, the 24th day of May	124	(16)
3. THE STORIES OF THE PEOPLE: STRANGERS IN THE LAND	140	(19)
Yucatec Maya	141	(3)
The First Seating of the Land Owners	142	(2)
Aztec/Mexican	144	(6)
History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531	145	(5)
Hopi	150	(2)
The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt	150	(2)
Joseph Jeremy, Micmac	152	(1)
The Floating Island	153	(1)
Yuchi	153	(1)
Creation of the Whites	153	(1)
Handsome Lake, Seneca	154	(1)
How America Was Discovered	154	(1)
Lenape and Mahican	155	(2)
Arrival of the Dutch	156	(1)
Flathead	157	(2)
Creation of the Red and White Races	158	(1)
4. BRITAIN'S FIRST CENTURY IN AMERICA	159	(199)
Southern Experiences
Arthur Barlowe (flourished 1584-1585)	165	(4)
from The First Voyage Made to the Coasts of America	165	(4)
John Smith (1580-1631)	169	(19)
from Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia [Powhatan's Speech to Captain Smith]	171	(1)
from A Description of New England	171	(6)
from the Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles	177	(11)
from The Third Booke
from Chapter 1	177	(2)
from Chapter 2	179	(5)
from Chapter 3	184	(2)
from Chapter 4	186	(2)
Edward Maria Wingfield (1560?-1613?)	188	(6)
A Discourse of Virginia	188	(6)
Letters from Virginia	194	(10)
Letter to Sir Thomas Dale (1614)	195	(2)
John Rolfe
Letters to His Parents (1623)	197	(2)
Richard Frethorne
Letter to Dr. Ralph Smith (1686)	199	(1)
William Fitzhugh
Letter to the Royal Society of London (1688)	200	(4)
John Clayton
Richard Ligon (1634-1703)	204	(12)
from A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados	205	(11)
Conflict in the Caribbean and in Virginia	216	(6)
Great News from the Barbadoes (1676)	217	(2)
Anonymous
Manifesto Concerning the Present Troubles in Virginia (1676)	219	(1)
Nathaniel Bacon
John Cotton of Queen's Creek Bacon's Epitaph and Upon the Death of G: Bacon	220	(2)
Northern Experiences
William Bradford (1590-1657)	222	(15)
from Of Plymouth Plantation
The First Book
from Chapter 1: Why the Separatists Left England	223	(3)
from Chapter 2: Of Their Departure into Holland	226	(1)
from Chapter 5: Showing What Means They Used for Preparation to this Weighty Voyage	226	(1)
from Chapter 9: Of Their Voyage	227	(2)
from Chapter 10: Showing How They Sought out a Place of Habitation	229	(2)
The Second Book
from Chapter 28: Anno Dom: 1637 The Pequot War	231	(2)
from Chapter 32: Anno Dom: 1642 Wickedness Breaks Forth	233	(2)
from Chapter 33: Anno Dom: 1643 The Life and Death of Elder Brewster	235	(2)
John Winthrop (1588-1649)	237	(13)
A Model of Christian Charity	238	(7)
from The Journal of John Winthrop	245	(5)
Thomas Morton (1579?-1647)	250	(7)
from New English Canaan	251	(6)
from the Second Book
from Chapter 1: The General Survey of the Country	251	(1)
from The Third Book [The Incident at Merry Mount]
from Chapter 14: of the Revels of New Canaan	252	(2)
from Chapter 15: of a Great Monster Supposed to be at Ma-re Mount; and the Preparation Made to Destroy it	254	(2)
from Chapter 16: How the Nine Worthies Put Mine Host of Ma-re Mount into the Enchanted Castle at Plymouth and Terrified Him with the Monster Briareus	256	(1)
Roger Williams (1603-1683)	257	(8)
from A Key into the Language of America	258	(6)
from Chapter 21: of Religion, the Soul, etc.	261	(3)
from The Bloody Tenet of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience, in a Conference between Truth and Peace	264	(1)
A Letter to the Town of Providence	265	(1)
John Eliot (1604-1690)	265	(11)
from Indian Dialogues, for Their Instruction in that great Service of Christ	267	(8)
Dialogue I: [A Dialogue between Pium bukhou and His Unconverted Relatives]	267	(8)
Letter to the Honorable Council Sitting at Boston (1675)	275	(1)
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)	276	(9)
from The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America	277	(3)
from The Four Ages of Man	277	(3)
from Several Poems	280	(4)
Contemplations	280	(3)
Before the Birth of One of Her Children	283	(1)
In Memory of My Dear Grand-child Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and Half Old	284	(1)
Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666. Copied out of a Loose Paper	284	(1)
Letters from New England	285	(7)
Letter to Sir Edward Altham (1623)	286	(5)
Emmanuel Altham
Letter to His Parents (1630)	291	(1)
John Pond
Edward Taylor (1642?-1729)	292	(13)
from Christographia	294	(7)
Meditation 44	294	(1)
from Sermon III	294	(7)
from Gods Determinations	301	(1)
The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended	301	(1)
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly	301	(1)
Upon a Wasp Child with Cold	302	(1)
Huswifery	302	(1)
Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children	303	(1)
The Ebb and Flow	303	(1)
A Funerall Poem upon the Death of My Ever Endeared, and Tender Wife Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, Who Fell Asleep in Christ the 7th Day of July at Night about Two Hours after Sun Setting 1689 and in the 39 Yeare of Her Life	304	(1)
Mary White Rowlandson (1637?-1711)	305	(23)
Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson	307	(21)
John Williams (1664-1729)	328	(21)
from The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion	329	(20)
A Collection of Poems from New England	349	(9)
from The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre
Psalme 1	351	(1)
Psalme 19	351	(1)
Psalme 23	352	(1)
Psalme 137	352	(1)
from The New England Primer (1683)	352	(2)
Alphabet	353	(1)
The Dutiful Child's Promises	353	(1)
Verses	353	(1)
The Death of John Rogers	354	(1)
John Cotton (1584-1652)	354	(1)
A Thankful Acknowledgment of God's Providence	354	(1)
Nathaniel Ward (1578-1652)	355	(1)
[Mercury shew'd Apollo, Bartas Book]	355	(1)
Benjamin Woodbridge (1622-1684)	355	(1)
Upon the Author; by a known Friend	355	(1)
Upon the TOMB of the most Reverend Mr. John Cotton, Late Teacher of the Church of Boston in New-England	355	(1)
John Josselyn (1608?-1700?)	356	(2)
Verses Made Sometime since upon the Picture of a Young and Handsome Gypsie, Not Improperly Transferred upon the Indian Squa	357	(1)
5. NEW SPAIN IN NORTH AMERICA	358	(68)
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648?-1695)	361	(11)
from Response to the Most Illustrious Poetess Sor Filotea de la Cruz	362	(7)
from Romances	369	(3)
[Prologue to the Reader]	369	(1)
[In Reply to a Gentleman from Peru, Who Sent Her Clay Vessels While Suggesting She Would Better Be a Man]	370	(1)
[While by Grace I Am Inspired]	371	(1)
Gaspar Perez de Villagra (1555?-1620)	372	(12)
from The History of New Mexico	373	(11)
Canto 1	373	(3)
from Canto 29	376	(2)
from Canto 30	378	(2)
from Canto 31	380	(2)
from Canto 32	382	(2)
Pueblo Conflict in New Spain (1680-1692)	384	(10)
Letter on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680	385	(5)
Antonio de Otermin
from Letter on the Reconquest of New Mexico (1692)	390	(4)
Diego de Vargas
Fray Carlos, Jose Delgado (1677-post-1750)	394	(4)
Report Made by Rev. Father Fray Carlos Delgado to Our Rev. Father Ximeno .... the Year 1750	395	(3)
Eusebio Francisco Kino (1644-1711)	398	(7)
from The Celestial Favors of Jesus	400	(5)
Book I
My Arrival at These Missions of Sonora, and My First Entry into this Pimeria, with the Father Visitor, Manuel Gonzales	403	(1)
Expedition to San Ygnacio de Caborica, San Joseph de Los Himiris, and Nuestra Senora de Los Remedios	404	(1)
First Opposition Experienced in This New Conversion	404	(1)
Second Opposition and Discord Sown in Pimeria	405	(1)
Francisco Palou (1723-1789)	405	(7)
from Life of Junipero Serra	406	(6)
from Chapter 22: The Expeditions Arrive at the Port of Monterey--The Mission and Presidio of San Carlos Are Founded	406	(2)
from Chapter 58: The Exemplary Death of the Venerable Father Junipero	408	(4)
Jose Longinos Martinez (?-1803)	412	(14)
from The Journal of Jose Longinos Martinez	413	(13)
from Part Two: Journey through Old California, Cape San Lucas to Mission San Miguel	413	(5)
from Part Three: Journey through New California, San Diego to Monterey	418	(8)
6. NEW FRANCE IN NORTH AMERICA	426	(53)
Jean de Brebeuf (1593-1649)	429	(11)
from Relation of What Occurred in the Country of the Hurons in the Year 1636	430	(10)
[Dedicatory Letter to Paul Le Jeune]	430	(1)
from Part 1
Chapter 1	431	(4)
Chapter 3	435	(5)
Marie Guyart Martin, ``Marie de l'Incarnation'' (1599-1672)	440	(12)
Letters to Her Son	441	(11)
[The Deaths of Daniel, Brebeuf, and Gabriel Lalemant]	441	(2)
[A New Language to Learn]	443	(1)
[The End of the Huron Mission]	444	(3)
[The Coming of Bishop Laval]	447	(2)
[New France a Crown Colony]	449	(1)
[An Answer to Criticism]	450	(2)
Marie Madeleine Hachard, ``Sister Saint Stanislaus'' (1704-1760)	452	(11)
Letters Written at New Orleans to Her Father	453	(10)
October 27, 1727	453	(4)
January 1, 1728	457	(1)
April 24, 1728	457	(6)
Louis Vivier (1714-1756)	463	(7)
Letters Written among the Illinois	464	(6)
June 8, 1750	464	(1)
November 17, 1750	465	(5)
Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz (1695?-1775?)	470	(9)
from The History of Louisiana	471	(8)
from Book	4	(467)
Chapter 1: The Origin of the Americans	471	(3)
from Chapter 2, Section 1: [Of the Natives of Louisiana]	474	(1)
from Chapter 3, Section 2: [Of Their Language, Government, Religion, Ceremonies, and Feasts]	475	(4)
7. THE BRITISH COLONIES OF NORTH AMERICA, THE EARLIER COLONIAL YEARS	479	(219)
The Staple Colonies
Edward ``Ned'' Ward (1667-1731)	481	(9)
A Trip to Jamaica	482	(8)
John Lawson (1670?-1711?)	490	(8)
from A New Voyage to Carolina
from A Description to North-Carolina	490	(4)
An Account of the Indians of North-Carolina	494	(4)
Charles Woodmason (1720?-post-1776)	498	(3)
To Benjamin Franklin, Esq., of Philadelphia, on his Experiments and Discoveries in Electricity	499	(1)
Indico	500	(1)
James Grainger (1721?-1766)	501	(12)
from The Sugar-Cane. A Poem. In Four Books. With Notes	502	(11)
Book IV: The Genius of Africa	503	(10)
Robert Beverley (1673-1722)	513	(9)
from History and Present State of Virginia (1705)	514	(8)
from Book 1
Containing an Account of the first Settlement of Chesapeak Bay	514	(5)
from Book 3: Of the Indians, Their Religion, Laws, and Customs, in War and Peace from Chapter 1: Of the Persons of the Indians, and their Dress	519	(1)
Of the Travelling, Reception, and Entertainment of the Indians	519	(2)
Of the Learning, and Languages of the Indians	521	(1)
William Byrd II (1674-1744)	522	(14)
from The History of the Dividing Line Run in the Year 1728	523	(8)
Letters to Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery	531	(3)
Letter to John Boyle, Baron Boyle of Broghill	534	(1)
Letter to John Perceval, Earl of Egmont	535	(1)
Patrick Tailfer, Hugh Anderson, David Douglas (flourished 1741)	536	(10)
from A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia in America	538	(8)
Henry Timberlake (1730?-1765)	546	(7)
from The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake	547	(6)
Britain's Middle Atlantic: Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York
George Alsop (1636-post-1673)	553	(10)
from A Character of the Province of Mary-Land	554	(9)
The Preface to the Reader	555	(1)
Chapter 1 [Of the Situation and Plenty of the Province of Mary-Land]	555	(3)
Chapter 3 [The Necessariness of Servitude Proved, with the Common Usage of Servants in Mary-Land, Together with Their Priviledges]	558	(3)
Chapter 4 [Upon Trafique, and What Merchandizing Commodities this Province Affords]	561	(2)
Ebenezer Cook (1667-1733)	563	(9)
The Sot-Weed Factor; or, a Voyage to Maryland, &c.	563	(9)
Richard Lewis (1700-1734)	572	(7)
A Journey from Patapsko to Annapolis, April 4, 1730	573	(4)
Food for Criticks	577	(2)
Dr. Alexander Hamilton (1712-1756)	579	(11)
from Itinerarium	580	(10)
William Penn (1644-1718)	590	(9)
Letter from William Penn to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders	592	(7)
George Keith (1639-1716)	599	(3)
An Exhortation and Caution to Friends concerning Buying or Keeping of Negroes	600	(2)
Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755)	602	(13)
Some Account of the Early Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge	603	(12)
John Woolman (1720-1772)	615	(13)
from Some Considerations on the Keepings of Negroes	616	(4)
from the Journal of John Woolman	620	(8)
Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776)	628	(5)
from The History of the Five Indian Nations	629	(4)
New England
Cotton Mather (1663-1728)	633	(12)
from Magnalia Christi Americana	634	(4)
Galeacius Secundus: The Life of William Bradford, Esq., Governor of Plymoth Colony	634	(4)
The Negro Christianized	638	(7)
Samuel Sewall (1652-1730)	645	(7)
from The Diary of Samuel Sewall	646	(3)
The Selling of Joseph. A Memorial	649	(2)
My Verses upon the New Century	651	(1)
John Saffin (1632-1710)	652	(3)
A Brief and Candid Answer	652	(3)
Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727)	655	(13)
The Journal of Sarah Kemble Knight	656	(12)
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)	668	(19)
Personal Narrative	669	(7)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God	676	(8)
from The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit	684	(3)
Charles Chauncy (1705-1787)	687	(11)
from Enthusiasm Described and Caution'd Against	688	(6)
from Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion	694	(4)
8. DUTCH, SWEDES, AND GERMANS IN NORTH AMERICA	698	(60)
Johannes Megapolensis, Jr. (1603?-1669)	701	(7)
A Short Account of the Mohawk Indians	702	(6)
Adriaen Van Der Donck (1620-1655)	708	(8)
from A Description of the New Netherlands	709	(3)
from Of the Manners and Peculiar Customs of the Natives of the New Netherlands	712	(4)
Henricus Selyns (1636-1701)	716	(3)
Bridal Torch for Rev. AEgidius Luyck	717	(2)
To My Friend Captain Gerard Douw	719	(1)
Epitaph for Peter Stuyvesant	719	(1)
Maria Van Cortlandt Van Rennselaer (1645-1689)	719	(6)
Letters to Rygart van Rensselaer	721	(4)
December 1675?	721	(1)
September? 1680	721	(1)
November 12, 1684	722	(3)
Francis Daniel Pastorius (1651-1720)	725	(10)
Petition of the Germantown Quakers, ``Reasons Why We Are Against the Traffic of Menbody''	727	(1)
from Positive Information from America, Concerning the Country of Pennsylvania	728	(5)
from the Beehive	733	(2)
[When I Solidly Do Ponder	733	(1)
If any be pleased to walk into my poor Garden, I heartily bid him or her welcome, thus	734	(1)
[When One or Other Rambles	734	(1)
As Often as Some where before My Feet	735	(1)
Extract the Quint-essence	735	(1)
Delight in Books from Evening	735	(1)
Christoph Saur (1695-1758)	735	(9)
from A Dialogue between a Newcomer and a Settler in Pennsylvania	737	(7)
Gottlieb Mittelberger (1715-1779?)	744	(14)
from Journey to Pennsylvania	746	(12)
Preface	746	(1)
from Part I: The Crossing to Pennsylvania	746	(6)
from Part II: Description of the Province of Pennsylvania	752	(6)
9. CULTURAL CONSOLIDATIONS IN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA	758	(184)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)	761	(52)
Silence Dogood, No. 1	763	(1)
Silence Dogood, No. 2	764	(1)
The Speech of Miss Polly Baker	765	(1)
An Edict by the King of Prussia	766	(3)
Speech in the Convention at the Conclusion of Its Deliberations	769	(1)
Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim on the Slave Trade	770	(1)
from Autobiography Part One	771	(42)
Part Two	803	(10)
A Collection of Poems	813	(16)
William Dawson (1704-1752)	814	(1)
To Silvia, on Approach of Winter	814	(1)
Anacreonitic	815	(1)
Jane Colman Turell (1708-1735)	815	(2)
An Invitation into the Country, in Imitation of Horace, Left Only in a Rough Copy	815	(1)
Lines on Childbirth	816	(1)
Lines on the Death of Mother	816	(1)
Martha Wadsworth Brewster (1710-post-1759)	817	(2)
[Prefatory Poem to the Reader]	817	(1)
An Essay on the Four Ages of Man, Resembling the Four Seasons of the Year	817	(2)
Bridget Richardson Fletcher (1726-1770)	819	(1)
Hymn XXXVI. The Greatest Dignity of a Woman, Christ Being Born of One	819	(1)
Hymn LXX. The Duty of Man and Wife	819	(1)
John Leacock (1729-1802)	820	(2)
Song, The First of May, to St. Tammany	821	(1)
Lucy Terry (1730-1821)	822	(1)
Bars Fight (c. 1746)	822	(1)
Thomas Godfrey (1736-1763)	823	(2)
A Dithyrambic on Wine	823	(1)
A Night-Piece	824	(1)
Milcah Martha Hill Moore (1740-1829)	825	(1)
The Female Patriots. Addressed to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768	826	(1)
Nathaniel Evans (1742-1767)	826	(3)
Hymn to May	826	(1)
An Ode, Attempted in the Manner of Horace, to My Ingenious Friend, Mr. Thomas Godfrey	827	(1)
Elegy, to the Memory of My Beloved Friend, Mr. Thomas Godfrey, Who died near Wilmington, North-Carolina, August 3d, 1763.	828	(1)
To Benjamin Franklin, Esq.; L.L.D, Occasioned by Hearing Him Play on the Harmonica	829	(1)
Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801)	829	(7)
To the Visitant, from a Circle of Ladies	830	(1)
By a Lady in America to Her Husband in England	831	(1)
A Sudden Production of Mrs. Stockton's in One of Those Many Anxious Nights in Which She Watched with Mr. Stockton in His Last Illness	831	(1)
A Poetical Epistle, Addressed by a Lady of New Jersey to Her Niece, upon Her Marriage, in This City	832	(1)
Addressed to General Washington, in the Year 1777, after the Battles of Trenton and Princeton	833	(1)
To the President of the United States	834	(1)
The Vision, an Ode to Washington	835	(1)
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)	836	(12)
from Common Sense	837	(7)
The Crisis	844	(4)
William Bartram (1739-1823)	848	(6)
from Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida	849	(5)
Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806?)	854	(9)
An Evening Thought. Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries	854	(1)
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess	855	(2)
A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death	857	(1)
An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York	858	(5)
Briton Hammon (flourished 1760)	863	(4)
Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon	864	(3)
Samson Occom (1723-1792)	867	(16)
A Short Narrative of My Life	868	(4)
A Sermon Preached by Samson Occom	872	(11)
Joseph Johnson (1751-1776)	883	(5)
Letter from J--h J--n, one of the Mohegan Tribe of Indians, to his Countryman, Moses Paul, under Sentence of Death in New-Haven Goal	884	(3)
Dedication to a Life of the Spirit	887	(1)
Phillis Wheatley (1754?-1784)	888	(13)
from Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral	889	(5)
To Maecenas	889	(1)
To the University of Cambridge, in New-England	890	(1)
On Being Brought from Africa to America	890	(1)
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield	891	(1)
Thoughts on the Works of Providence	891	(2)
On Recollection	893	(1)
To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America & c.	893	(1)
To S. M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	894	(1)
To His Excellency General Washington	894	(1)
Letters to Obour Tanner	895	(2)
May 19, 1772	895	(1)
July 19, 1772	896	(1)
October 30, 1773	896	(1)
Letter to Samson Occom	897	(1)
February 11, 1774	897	(1)
Letters to Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntington	897	(1)
October 25, 1770	897	(1)
June 27, 1773	898	(1)
Letter to William Legge, Second Earl of Dartmouth	898	(1)
October 10, 1772	898	(1)
Letter to David Wooster	899	(1)
October 18, 1773	899	(1)
Letter to Samuel Hopkins	900	(1)
February 9, 1774	900	(1)
Letter to John Thornton	900	(1)
October 30, 1774	900	(1)
Prince Hall (1735?-1807)	901	(11)
Petition to the Honorable Council and House of Representatives, for the State of Massachusetts-Bay, in General Court Assembled January 13, 1777	903	(1)
A Charge, Delivered to the Brethern of the African Lodge on the 25th of June, 1792	904	(3)
A Charge, Delivered to the African Lodge, June 24, 1797, at Menotomy	907	(5)
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)	912	(16)
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself	913	(15)
Chapter 1	913	(8)
Chapter 2	921	(7)
John Marrant (1755-1791)	928	(14)
A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black	929	(13)
10. CONFEDERATION AND THE FORMATION OF A BRITISH AMERICAN REPUBLIC	942	(167)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)	945	(20)
from Notes on the State of Virginia	947	(16)
from Query 6: A Notice of the Mines, and Other Subterraneous Riches	947	(7)
from Query 11: A Description the Indians Established in That State	954	(2)
from Query 14: Laws	956	(4)
Query 17: The Different Religions Received into That State	960	(2)
Query 18: The Particular Customs and Manners That May Ha to Be Received in That State	962	(1)
Letter to Francois Jean, Marquis de Chastellux	963	(1)
September 2, 1785	963	(1)
Letter to Jean Marie Antoine Nicholas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet	964	(1)
August 30, 1791	964	(1)
The Declaration of Independence	965	(2)
The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America, Adopted in Congress, July 4, 1776	966	(1)
British Loyalists in British North America	967	(8)
William Franklin (1730-1813)	968	(2)
Speech before the New Jersey Assembly, January 13, 1775	969	(1)
Hannah Griffitts (1727-1817)	970	(1)
On Reading a Few Paragraphs in ``The Crisis,'' April 1777	970	(1)
Jacob Bailey (1731-1808)	971	(1)
The Factious Demagogue, a Portrait	971	(1)
Joseph Stansbury (1740-1809)	972	(1)
To Cordelia	972	(1)
Jonathan Odell (1737-1818)	972	(3)
from The American Times	973	(2)
J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)	975	(23)
On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American Farmer	976	(3)
History of Andrew the Hebridean	979	(6)
A Singular Punishment	985	(1)
from Letters from an American Farmer	986	(12)
from Letter 12: Distresses of a Frontier Man	986	(12)
Three Federalist Papers	998	(10)
The Federalist No. 6 (Hamilton)	999	(3)
The Federalist No. 10 (Madison)	1002	(4)
The Federalist No. 51 (Madison)	1006	(2)
Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814)	1008	(14)
Letter to the Independent Chronicle, on Chesterfield	1010	(2)
Observations on the New Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions	1012	(9)
from Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous To a Young Lady	1021	(1)
To Mrs. Montague, Author of ``Observations on the Genius and Writings of Shakespeare''.	1021	(1)
John Adams (1735-1826)	1022	(7)
A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law, No. 4	1023	(3)
Letter to Mercy Otis Warren April 16, 1776	1026	(1)
Letter to Thomas Jefferson July 29, 1791	1027	(2)
Abigail Adams (1744-1818)	1029	(8)
from The Travel Diaries of Abigail Adams [Boston to Deal]	1029	(5)
[London to Plymouth]	1033	(1)
Letter to John Adams	1034	(1)
Letter to Mercy Otis Warren	1035	(2)
Timothy Dwight (1752-1817)	1037	(2)
from Greenfield Hill
Part II: The Flourishing Village	1037	(2)
Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)	1039	(12)
On the Equality of the Sexes	1040	(5)
Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms	1045	(2)
Observations on Female Abilities Part III	1047	(4)
Part IV	1049	(2)
Joel Barlow (1754-1812)	1051	(23)
from The Vision of Columbus	1053	(21)
[Dedication to King Louis XVI of France]	1053	(1)
Introduction	1053	(6)
Book I	1059	(6)
Book II	1065	(9)
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)	1074	(10)
Account of the Island of Santa Cruz, Containing an original Poem on the Beauties of that Island	1075	(4)
The Prophecy of King Tammany	1079	(1)
Lines Written at the Pallisades, near Port-Royal, in the Island of Jamaica--September, 1784	1080	(1)
The Island Field Negro	1081	(1)
Speech of the Indian Head of the Ship Delaware	1082	(1)
On Deborah Gannet	1083	(1)
William Hill Brown (1765-1793)	1084	(4)
Harriot, Or, the Domestick Reconciliation, Sketched from the Life	1085	(2)
Seduction	1087	(1)
Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840)	1088	(3)
Picture of a Libertine	1090	(1)
Susannah Haswell Rowson (1762-1824)	1091	(3)
The Happy Pair	1092	(1)
The Ingrate	1092	(1)
Maternal Sorrow	1093	(1)
Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)	1094	(6)
The Man at Home, No. XI	1095	(2)
A Lesson on Sensibility	1097	(3)
Noah Webster (1758-1843)	1100	(4)
from Effects of Slavery, on Morals and Industry	1101	(3)
Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)	1104	(5)
Copy of a Letter from Benjamin Banneker to the Secretary of State, with His Answer	1105	(4)
11. THE NATIVE PEOPLES OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA AND THE SETTLERS WHO REMAINED	1109	(16)
The Mahicans	1109	(2)
Speech of the Mahicans to Gov. William Burnet of New York, 1722	1110	(1)
Stung Serpent	1111	(1)
Speech to Antoine Le Page du Pratz, 1723	1111	(1)
Canastego	1112	(3)
Speech at the Treaty of Lancaster, 1744	1113	(2)
Gachradodow	1115	(1)
Speech at the Treaty of Lancaster, 1744	1116	(1)
The Chickasaws	1116	(2)
Speech of the Chickasaws to the Governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, 1771	1117	(1)
John Killibuck	1118	(1)
Speech to the Govenors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, 1771	1119	(1)
Cornplanter	1119	(6)
Speech in the Council at Philadephia, 1790	1121	(4)
Index	1125