1. Magna Carta
2. Columbus, Letter to the King and Queen of Spain, 1494
3. Richard Hakluyt, Discourse of western planting, 1584
4. From: Samuel de Champlain, Voyages , 1604
5. Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606
6. Mayflower Compact, 1620
7. The Third Virginia Charter, 1612
8. An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virgina Company in England for a
Council of State and General Assembly, 24 July 1621
9. Charter Of Massachusetts Bay, 1629
10. The Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
11. Robert Beverley On Bacon's Rebellion, 1704
12. Gottlieb Mittelberger, On the Misfortune indentured Servants
13. Benjamin Franklin, How I became a printer in Philadelphia
from his autobiography
14. Petition of Right, 1628
15. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
16. Memoir for the Marquis de Seignelay Regarding the Dangers That Threaten
Canada and the Means to Remedy Them, January 1687
17. Penn's Plan for a Union, 1697
18. King William of England Addresses Parliament on the French Question, 31
December 1701
19. French Memoir on the English Aggression, October 1750 (translated)
20. Marquis de la Galissoniere, Memoir on the French Colonies in North
America, December 1750
21. Albany Plan for a Union, 1754
22. Governor Glen, The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France,
Spain, and England, 1761
23. Daniel Dulany, Considerations, October 1765
24. Soame Jenyns, The Objections to the taxation consider'd, 1765
25. The Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, October 19, 1765
26. William Pitt's speech on the Stamp Act, January 14 1766
27. John Dickenson's Letters 2 and 4, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768
28. The Charlotte Town Resolves, 1775
29. Daniel Leonard's letter of January 9, 1775
30. John Adams, Novanglus, February 6, 1775
31. Edmund Burke speech on conciliation with America, March 22, 1775
32. Second Continental Congrees, Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of
Taking up Arms, July 6 1775
33. Thomas Paine, Common Sense 1776
34. Letter of George Washington to John Hancock, September 24, 1776
35. The Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776
36. Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence
37. The Final Text of the Declaration of Independence, July 4 1776
38. Jefferson's notes on Slavery
39. Adam Smith, From The Wealth of Nations, 1776
Of Colonies
The Cost of Empire
40. Albigence Waldo - From the diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777
41. The Articles of Confederation, 1781
42. From the diary of Ebenezer Denny, 1781 describing the surrender of
Cornwallis at Yorktown
43. The Annapolis Convention, 1786
44. The Federalist Papers
45. The USA Constitution
46. The letter presenting the Constitution
47. Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution
48. Proclamation of Neutrality, 1793
49. The Greenville Treaty with a number of Indian Tribes, 1795
50. Washington's Farewell address, 1796
51. John Adams inaugural address, 1797
52. The Northwest Ordinance
53. Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address
54. From : Frederick Law Olmsted: A journey in the Seaboard Slave States, 1856
55. The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831
56. selections come from Benjamin Drew (ed.), The Refugee: Narratives of
Fugitive Slaves in Canada Related by Themselves
57. From the Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895
58. Lincoln's first Inaugural address
59. The Gettysburg Address
60. John Hay to Andrew D. White, FIRST OPEN DOOR NOTE , September 6 1899
And there is more coming.
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http://www.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/revolution.html
The second link in the text points to "original sources": follow that one.
We would also appreciate it very much if you could provide your view on what
we have been doing until now. (there is a facility to leave your remarks
there)
Thank you,
on behalf of 22 very enthousiastic students
and myself
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