| Michael Drayton.
1563–1631. |
Epigram: To the Virginian Voyage |
| Captain John Smith.
1580–1631. |
An Adventure on the Chickahominy |
| The Sea Mark |
| On the Advantages of New England; with Historical Reflections |
| The Romance of Pocahontas |
| John Rolfe.
1585–1622. |
Why He Married Pocahontas |
| Richard Rich.
fl. 1610. |
A Ballad of Virginia |
| William Strachey.
1572?–1621. |
A Storm off the Bermudas |
| A Portrait of King Powhatan |
| The Aboriginal Devil |
| George Percy.
1580–1632. |
The Experiences of a Virginia Colony |
| Alexander Whitaker.
1585–1616. |
An Infant Colony |
| John Pory.
1572–1636. |
A Philosophical Adventurer |
| How the Colonists Went into Indian Society |
| Anonymous |
How the English Settled in Maryland |
| Colonel Henry Norwood.
c. 1614–1689. |
A Dolorous Journey to the New World |
| A Fight for Life |
| The Rescue |
| George Herbert.
1593–1633. |
Religion Westward Bent |
| William Bradford.
1590–1657. |
Divers Recollections of Puritan Strictness |
| Sundry Reasons for the Removal from Leyden |
| How the Colony Was Troubled with a Hypocrite |
| The Pestilent Morton and his Merry Mount |
| The Life and Death of Elder Brewster |
| Providence and the Pilgrim |
| Edward Winslow and William Bradford |
“Bradford’s and Winslow’s Journal”: An Excursion up Cape Cod |
| The Story of the First Encounter |
| The Landing of the Pilgrims and Their Settlement at Plymouth |
| Edward Winslow.
1595–1655. |
How the Pilgrims Sailed from Delft Haven |
| Massasoit’s Illness, and How Winslow Cured Him |
| William Morrell.
fl. 1625. |
A Recommendation of New-England |
| Francis Higginson.
1587–1630. |
On a Voyage to the Massachusetts |
| The Commodities of New-England |
| A Setting-forth of Discommodities |
| Thomas Morton.
1575–1646. |
On the Punctilio of the Savage |
| Of a Vision and a Battle |
| The Revels at Merry Mount |
| The Valiant Expedition of Captain Shrimp, Otherwise Miles Standish |
| How the Separatists Paid Debts to Them That Were without |
| William Wood.
fl. 1629–1635. |
Aboriginal Cookery |
| Woodland Adventures |
| Anecdotes of the Natives |
| The Meek Wives of the New World |
| Anthony Thacher.
d. 1668. |
The Woful Shipwreck of Master Anthony Thacher |
| Richard Mather.
1596–1669. |
A Good Man’s Promises to God |
| A Chronicle of Wind and Wave |
| Captain John Underhill.
1597–1672. |
Of the Advice of Mistress Underhill |
| The End of a Majestical Embassy |
| Major John Mason.
1600–1672. |
The Taking of the Fort at Mystic |
| The Bloody Harvest of Pawcatuck |
| A Remembrance of Special Providences |
| Thomas Hooker.
1586–1647. |
The Weak Minister and the Impenitent Hearer |
| The Sinner at the King’s Court |
| On Groundless Hopes of Heaven |
| The Fearful Soul |
| God’s Dealings with His Servants |
| William Hooke.
1601–1678. |
On Horrible War |
| Christian Liberty |
| The Death of the Protector |
| The Bay Psalm Book |
Songs of the Puritans |
| Thomas Shepard.
1605–1649. |
The Spiritual Experiences of a Puritan |
| A Character of Mistress Joanna Shepard |
| The Way to Heaven |
| On the Glory of God |
| The Last Judgment |
| Thomas Weld.
1590?–1662. |
The Heresies of Anne Hutchinson and her Followers |
| How the Heresies Came to an End |
| Peter Bulkley.
1583–1659. |
New England and her Covenant |
| Roger Williams.
1604?–1683. |
The Bloody Tenent of Persecution |
| A Warning to Endicott |
| Of the Heavenly Bodies |
| In the Valley of the Shadow of Death |
| John Cotton.
1585–1652. |
An Epitaph for Sara and Roland Cotton |
| Psalm-Singing a Godly Exercise |
| On the Composing and Singing of Psalms with a Lively Voice |
| Concerning the Singers: Whether Women, Pagans, and Profane and Carnal Persons |
| An Exposition of Hypocrites |
| In Praise of Master Stone |
| Samuel Stone.
1602–1663. |
Why Socrates Is Not Plato, nor Plato Socrates |
| James Noyes.
1608–1656. |
The Power of Magistrates in the Church |
| Nathaniel Ward.
1578–1652. |
On the Frivolities of Fashion |
| The Gift of Poetry |
| A Lesson on Practical Religion |
| A Word to England |
| A Word of Ireland |
| Six Hobnails |
| In Praise of Mistress Bradstreet |
| The Cambridge Platform |
Of the Nature of the Catholic Church in General |
| Of Ruling Elders |
| Of Excommunication and Other Censures |
| Anonymous |
The New England Preachers |
| Thomas Dudley.
1576–1653. |
A New England Gentleman’s Epitaph |
| John Winthrop.
1588–1649. |
A Night in the Forest |
| The Reconciliation of Winthrop and Dudley |
| How the Fathers Disciplined Governor Vane |
| A Puritan School-Master |
| The Penitence of Captain Underhill |
| A Puritan Opinion of Literary Women |
| A Punishment of Parental Love |
| The Manner of Master Eliot’s Teaching |
| Of Liberty and Authority |
| A Model of Christian Charity |
| A Preparation for Parting |
| A Farewell from the “Arbella” |
| Margaret Tyndal Winthrop.
1591–1647. |
A Puritan Wife to Her Husband |
| The Trust of a Godly Woman |
| Anne Bradstreet.
c. 1612–1672. |
Of the Four Ages of Man |
| A Love-Letter to Her Husband |
| Meditations Divine and Moral |
| Contemplations |
| Captain Edward Johnson.
1599?–1672. |
A Leave-Taking at Southampton |
| The Courage of the Mothers in Israel |
| The Escape of Shepard and Norton |
| How Nimble Captain Davenport Saved a Soldier |
| An Answer to Prayer |
| Of John Winthrop. Esq. |
| Of the Reverend Mr. Higginson |
| The First Promotion of Learning in New England |
| The Wages of Discontent |
| A Cry unto the Lord to Stay His Hand |
| John Eliot.
1604–1690. |
On Admonishing the Indians |
| Pills for the Sachems |
| A Scandal in the Indian Israel |
| Character of a True Christian |
| John Hammond.
d. 1707. |
The Virtuous Virginians |
| A Story of Colonial Ingratitude |
| Edward Holyoke.
d. 1660. |
How Tirzana Beguiled the King |
| Benjamin Woodbridge.
d. 1710. |
A New England Saint |
| John Norton.
1606–1663. |
The Life of Master Cotton |
| God’s Relation to Man |
| John Davenport.
1597–1670. |
Of Miracles |
| The Sinful Keeping of Christmas |
| James Cudworth.
1612?–1682. |
An Opponent of Persecution |
| Letters of the Quakers |
To the Bloody Town of Boston |
| The Cry of the Persecuted |
| The Farewell of a Victim |
| The Quaker Petition |
A Recital of Grievous Outrages |
| George Alsop.
b. 1638. |
The Lofty Virtues of the Marylanders |
| Divers Aboriginal Customs and Absurdities |
| Upon a Purple Cap |
| Thomas Walley.
1616–1678. |
The Languishing Commonwealth |
| Nathaniel Morton.
1613–1685. |
The Separation of Roger Williams |
| Samuel Gorton, the Subtle Deceiver |
| In Remembrance of Winthrop |
| A Boston Divine |
| Daniel Denton.
fl. 1656–1696. |
New York in the Seventeenth Century |
| John Josselyn.
fl. 1630–1675. |
An Indian Beauty |
| A Report of Wonders |
| The Ways of the Men of Maine |
| Daniel Gookin.
1612–1687. |
Conjectures of the Savage, His Original |
| Diplomacy in Boston |
| Concerning Learned Indian Youth |
| The Praying Savages of Natick |
| Wannalancet’s Canoe |
| Heresy in Martha’s Vineyard |
| Sir William Berkeley.
1605–1677. |
His Declaration against the Proceedings of Nathaniel Bacon |
| Nathaniel Bacon.
1647–1676. |
His Declaration in the Name of the People of Virginia. July 30th, 1676 |
| Anonymous |
Causes of the Strife between Governor Berkeley and Nathaniel Bacon, Gentleman |
| The Lion’s Strength Aided by the Fox’s Brains |
| Bacon’s Death, Eulogy, and Execration |
| The Self-made General Ingram |
| His Decline and Fall |
| T. M. |
The Virginia Rebellion in the Seventeenth Century |
| Peter Folger.
1617?–1690. |
A Homely Plea for Toleration |
| Captain Thomas Wheeler.
c. 1620–1686. |
The Siege of Brookfield |
| Roger Clap.
1609–1691. |
How the Puritans Suffered and Loved One Another |
| The Building of Boston Castle |
| Thorns in the Flesh of the Fathers |
| On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America |
| Michael Wigglesworth.
1631–1705. |
The Day of Doom |
| Vanity of Vanities |
| Jonathan Mitchell.
1624–1668. |
On Looking up Steadfastly into Heaven |
| Joshua Scottow.
1618–1698. |
The Nursing Fathers of the New World |
| William Hubbard.
1621/2–1704. |
Captain Miles Standish His Temper |
| Taking of the Narraganset Fort |
| Subtlety and Courage of the Friendly Indians |
| How an Indian Bore Himself under Torture |
| Benjamin Tompson.
1642–1714. |
On the Women Fortifying Boston Neck |
| The Alarming Progress of Luxury in New England |
| In Praise of the Renowned Cotton Mather |
| Urian Oakes.
1631–1681. |
Elegy on the Death of Thomas Shepard |
| A Contrite Spirit Better Than Outward Seeming |
| John Rogers.
1630–1684. |
Upon Mrs. Anne Bradstreet Her Poems |
| John Norton.
c. 1651–1716. |
Dirge for the Tenth Muse |
| Charles Wolley.
fl. 1700. |
Fellow-Passengers to England |
| Knickerbocker Customs in the Pleasant Olden Time |
| New York and the Prodigious Voyage Thither |
| Mary Rowlandson.
c. 1635–1711. |
Story of Her Captivity, Sufferings and Restoration |
| Benjamin Church.
1639–1718. |
A Death-Grapple |
| The Death of King Philip |
| Capture and Fate of the Great Annawon |
| Nathaniel Byfield.
1653–1733. |
The Revolt against Sir Edmund Andros |
| Samuel Willard.
1640–1707. |
Authority Must Take Pattern from on High |
| Increase Mather.
1639–1723. |
The Sign of the Blazing Star |
| Concerning Remarkable Judgments |
| The Dæmon at William Morse His House |
| That There be Dæmons and Possessed Persons |
| Of the Workings of Satan |
| Of the Discovery of Witches |
| Deodat Lawson.
fl. 1680–1698. |
Witchcraft in Salem |
| Cotton Mather.
1663–1728. |
Of Beelzebub and His Plot |
| The Trial of George Burroughs |
| How Martha Carrier Was Tried |
| The Invisibilizing of Witches |
| The Story of Margaret Rule |
| A City Helped of the Lord |
| Master Theophilus Eaton His Great Soul |
| How Captain Phips Became a Knight of the Golden Fleece |
| The Life and Death of Master Thomas Hooker |
| The Exquisite Charity of Master John Eliot |
| The Voice of God in the Thunder |
| Of Abigail, His Wife |
| The Last Days of Increase Mather |
| Robert Calef.
1648–1719. |
A Warning to the Ministers |
| Touching the Supposed Witchcraft in New England |
| Samuel Sewall.
1652–1730. |
The Judge’s Confession |
| An Early Anti-Slavery Tract |
| How Judge Sewall Courted Madam Winthrop |
| Nicholas Noyes.
1647–1717. |
Damon and Pythias at Newbury |
| A Consolatory Poem |
| John Miller.
1666–1724. |
Evils and Inconveniences in New York |
| Gabriel Thomas.
17th Century. |
Pennsylvania and the City of Brotherly Love |
| George Keith’s New Religion |
| Jonathan Dickinson.
1663–1722. |
The Capture of the Castaways |
| The Painful Journey to St. Augustine |
| William Penn.
1644–1718. |
A Letter to the Indians |
| On His Departure from America |
| John Wise.
1652–1725. |
The Anglo-Saxon Hatred of Arbitrary Power |
| Thomas Bridge.
1657–1715. |
The Choice of Civil Officers |
| The Saybrook Platform |
Cause and Manner of Its Adoption |
| The Heads of Agreement |
| Benjamin Wadsworth.
1670–1737. |
The Character of William III |
| John Williams.
1664–1729. |
The Desolations of Deerfield |
| Favors in the Midst of Afflictions |
| Among the French and Indians |
| Sarah Kemble Knight.
1666–1727. |
From Boston to New York in 1704 |
| Robert Beverly.
1673–1716. |
A Royalist Governor in Virginia |
| The Pastimes of Colonial Virginia |
| Ebenezer Cook.
c. 1667–c. 1732. |
Of Meeting a Godly Knave in Maryland |
| John Lawson.
1674?–1712. |
Revels of the Carolina Indians |
| “Husquenawing” |
| Francis Yonge |
An Early Rebellion in South Carolina |
| Hugh Jones.
1691–1760. |
Virginia in 1722 |
| Samuel Penhallow.
1665–1726. |
The Strange End of a Great Expedition |
| Thomas Symmes.
1678–1725. |
The Engagement at Pigwacket |
| Anonymous |
Lovewell’s Fight |
| Benjamin Coleman.
1673–1747. |
A Quarrel with Fortune |
| The Ascent of the Saint |
| A Tale of Piracy |
| The Citizen’s Obligations |
| William Byrd.
1674–1744. |
The First Survey in the Dismal Swamp |
| A Profitable Day |
| A Visit to Colonel Spotswood |
| John Thompson.
1720–1772. |
An Argument for Marrying a Clergyman |
| Thomas Chalkley.
1675–1741. |
The Doctor’s Dream |
| John Gyles.
1680?–1755. |
The Adventures of a Captive |
| Superstitions of the Woods |
| Roger Wolcott.
1679–1767. |
The Lesson of Life |
| A Storm at Sea |
| In the Fields |
| George Berkeley.
1685–1753. |
A Glimpse of His Country House near Newport |
| The View from Honeyman’s Hill |
| The Ideal Philosophy in Brief |
| Greatness of Plato and the Ancient Schools |
| Thomas Prince.
1687–1758. |
The Great Earthquake in Jamaica |
| Cadwallader Colden.
1688–1776. |
The Story of Piskaret |
| Anonymous |
On a Lady, Singing |
| William Stith.
1707–1755. |
The Un-Solomonized James I. |
| Richard Granville’s Last Fight |
| The History of Captain John Smith |
| Sir John Randolph.
c. 1693–1737. |
Two Colonial Lawyers |
| Aquila Rose.
1695–1723. |
To His Companion at Sea |
| The Much-Loved Child |
| Samuel Mather.
1706–1785. |
The Home Life of Cotton Mather |
| John Seccomb.
1708–1792. |
Father Abbey’s Will |
| Ebenezer and Jane Turell |
A Fair Puritan and Her Poetry |
| John Osborn.
1713–1753. |
A Whaling Song |
| John Adams.
1704–1740. |
The Contented Man |
| Of Love and Beauty |
| As Glides the Pictured Dream |
| David Brainerd.
1718–1747. |
How Brainerd Found the Excellent Way of Salvation |
| A Savage Reformer |
| Jonathan Edwards.
1703–1758. |
His Early and Rapturous Sense of Divine Things |
| That Material Existence Is Merely Ideal |
| A Self-Trained Berkeleian |
| Laplace Anticipated |
| A Young Christian’s Directory |
| Of Sarah Pierrepont, Who afterward Became His Wife |
| A Child of the Covenant |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
| The Eternity of Hell Torments |
| Why Saints in Glory Will Rejoice to See the Torments of the Damned |
| That the Devil Can Cite Scripture for His Purpose |
| Character of David Brainerd |
| Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of Moral Agency |
| Whether Any Event, or Volition, Can Come to Pass without a Cause |
| The Secondary and Inferior Kind of Beauty |
| John Callender.
1706–1748. |
Liberty of Conscience in Rhode Island |
| William Stephens.
1671–1753. |
Politics and Racing in Colonial Georgia |
| The Old Governor’s Sorrow |
| Charles Chauncy.
1705–1787. |
Some Oddities of Belief |
| Clerical Epithets in the Eighteenth Century |
| James Ralph.
d. 1762. |
The Prince’s Vision |
| The Griefs of Authors |
| Nathaniel Ames.
1708–1764. |
The Waking of the Sun |
| An Essay upon the Microscope |
| A Prophecy for North America |
| Mather Byles.
1707–1788. |
The Teaching of the Grave |
| The Delights of the Next World |
| The Last Tempest |
| To the Great Mr. Pope |
| Hymn Written During a Voyage |
| Joseph Green.
1706–1780. |
The Parson’s Psalm |
| Of Dr. Byles’s Cat |
| A Lamentation for Old Tenor Currency |
| John Winthrop.
1714–1779. |
The Effects of the Earthquake |
| Joseph Bellamy.
1719–1790. |
The Sum of All Virtue |
| A Picture of the Millennium |
| Eliza Lucas Pinckney.
1723–1793. |
A Love-Letter of the Last Century |
| An Essay in Criticism |
| Samuel Davies.
1723–1761. |
A Parson’s Call to Arms |
| William Livingston.
1723–1790. |
The Wife |
| The Career of a Colonial Dictator |
| The Story of Braddock’s Defeat |
| Nicholas Scull.
1686?–1761? |
A War of Kings |
| Samuel Niles.
1674–1762. |
The French on Block Island |
| The Fall of Quebec |
| Verse of the French and Indian War |
Song of Braddock’s Men |
| An Epitaph for Braddock |
| The Death of Wolfe |
| William Smith.
1728–1793. |
The Rule of Jacob Leisler; and His Fate |
| Manners and Customs of Colonial New York |
| An Anti-Semitic Excitement in New York |
| Anthony Benezet.
1713–1784. |
An Early Protest against the Slave-Trade |
| Thomas Godfrey.
1736–1763. |
The Patriot |
| A Dithyrambic on Wine |
| The Wish |
| Amyntor |
| The Deaths of Evanthe and Arsaces |
| Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson.
1737–1801. |
The Country Parson |
| Nathaniel Evans.
1742–1767. |
To May |
