 Archiving Early America  -Includes documents and historical events from 18th Century America. Includes The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, The Rights of Man, and others. Also find maps, portraits, and information about the daily lives of early Americans.Includes detailed information about New England, the colonies, the Boston Tea Party, Puritans, religious dissention, John Winthrop, the Mayflower, Increase Mather, John Cotton, Captain John Smith, William Bradford's On Plymouth Plantation, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, slave narratives, Indian captivity narratives, and more.
Sarah Kemble Knight -Excerpt from The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York in 1704.
Cotton Mather Home Page -Includes writings by early American Puritan author Cotton Mather, such as The Duties of Children to Their Parents, The Education of Children and more.
The Puritans: American Literature -Includes history, criticism, information about puritanism, the Mayflower Compact, Plymout, the colonies, colonialism, biographies and online works by Captain John Smith, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Cotton Mather, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, William Byrd, Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, and John Dickinson.
Jonathan Edwards.com -Personal information, sermon, and essays written by Puritan Jonathan Edwards, one of the leaders of The Great Awakening.
The Poems of Edward Taylor -Features the poems of Puritan colonist Edward Taylor.
Mary Rowlandson -Bibliography, journals, photos, and iformation about Mary Rowlandson, her captivity by Native Americans and her life.
Common Sense by Thomas Paine -Online text of Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
Jonathan Edwards -Biographical information about Puritan pastor and author Jonathan Edwards.
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -Online autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
William Bradford -Information about colonist William Bradford including biography, the Mayflower, and his works such as Of Plymouth Plantation.
Cotton Mather: 1663-1728 -Find historical background on Puritan pastor Cotton Mather, his role in the Salem Witch Trials, his writings, and more.
Early Colonial Literature -Information about Captain John Smith, the Virginia Colony, William Strachey, George Sandy's and more.
Mary Barrett Dyer -Biography of Mary Barrett Dyer, a 17th century Quaker leader who was hanged in Boston for her religious convictions.
American Literature from Earliest Times to 1865 -Bibliographies of the works of major authors from colonialism, puritanism, Revolutionary Times, and the Early 19th Century.
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