Source Book in American History to 1787

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West, Willis M. (Willis Mason), 1857-1931

Title

A Source Book in American History to 1787

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English

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E151: History: America: United States

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United States -- History -- Sources

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45757

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May 25, 2014

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A SOURCE BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1787
2. 2.FOREWORD
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS — FOOTNOTES: — I. ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY — 1. Classes of Englishmen
4. 4.A. SOUTHERN COLONIES TO 1660 — II. MOTIVES FOR EARLY ENGLISH COLONIZATION — 2. From Sir George Peckham's "True Report" — 3. A Discourse on Western Planting by Richard Hakluyt, 1584 — 4. Drayton's Ode to the Virginian Voyage — 5. Goodspeed to Virginia, 1609 — 6. Nova Britannia, 1609 — 7. Statement of the Virginia Company, 1609 — 8. Marston's "Eastward Hoe" — 9. Crashaw's "Daily Prayer" — 10. Crashaw's Sermon, March 3/13, 1609/10 — 11. Sir Edwin Sandys, 1612 — 12. Governor Dale to the London Company, 1613 — 13. The London Company not Mercenary — 14. John Smith's Last Plea for Colonization, 1631 — FOOTNOTES: — III. ILLUSTRATIVE OF VIRGINIA HISTORY TO THE INTRODUCTION OF SELF-GOVERNMENT (1606-1619) — 15. The Gilbert and Raleigh Charters — 16. First Charter for Colonizing Virginia; April 10/20, [5] 1606 — 17. Instructions issued by King James — 18. Instructions by the Council in England to the Expedition to Virginia; December, 1606 — 19. Exploration and Sufferings — 20. Second Charter of Virginia; May 23/June 2, 1609 — 21. Third Charter for Virginia. March 12/22, 1611/1612 [9] — 22. Danger from Spanish Attack (1607-1614) — FOOTNOTES: — IV. THE LIBERAL LONDON COMPANY AND SELF-GOVERNMENT IN VIRGINIA (1619-1624) — 23. From the Rules of the Virginia Company in London — 24. An Order of the London Company as to Self-government February 2/12, 1619/20 — 25. The First Representative Assembly in America July 30/August 9, 1619 — 26. The London Company's "Declaration," June, 1620 — 27. The Ordinance of 1621 for Virginia — 28. Royal Attempts to Control the Company, 1620-1622 — FOOTNOTES: — V. A ROYAL PROVINCE — 29. The Royal Commission of 1624 for the First Royal Governor in Virginia — 30. Yeardley's Commission from Charles I, March 4/14, 1624/5 — 31. The Colony favors the Policy of the Company — 32. Royal Restoration of the Virginia Assembly, 1629 — 33. Legislation by the Virginia Assembly as to Morals and Taxes — FOOTNOTES: — VI. THE ASSEMBLY DURING THE COMMONWEALTH — 34. Virginia and the Parliamentary Commissioners, 1652 — 35. The Franchise Restricted and Restored, 1655, 1656 — FOOTNOTES: — VII. MARYLAND — 36. Lord Baltimore to King Charles, August 19/29, 1629 — 37. Charter of Maryland, June 20/30, 1632 — 38. Comment on the Avalon Charter of 1623 — 39. Excursus: Charters for New Albion and Maine — 40. The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 — FOOTNOTES:
5. 5.B. NEW ENGLAND TO 1660 — VIII. AN EARLY EXPLORATION IN MAINE — 41. Weymouth's Voyage, 1605 — IX. THE FIRST SOURCE OF LAND TITLES IN NEW ENGLAND — 42. Charter of the Plymouth Council — X. PLYMOUTH PLANTATION — 43. Delays in securing the Wincob Charter Robert Cushman to Pastor Robinson, May 8/18, 1619 — 44. Agreement between the Pilgrims in Holland and the Merchant Adventurers in London — 45. From the Farewell Letter of John Robinson — 46. The Mayflower Compact — 47. The Peirce Charter, June, 1621 — 48. Early Descriptions of Plymouth [30] — 49. Final Source of Plymouth Land Titles — 50. First Code of Laws in America — FOOTNOTES: — XI. THE FOUNDING OF MASSACHUSETTS — 51. The Gorges Claim to Massachusetts — 52. The Beginning of Salem Colony — 53. The First Charter for Massachusetts Bay — 54. Docket of the Massachusetts Charter, 1629 — 55. Excursus: For a Comparative Study of Charters — 56. The Massachusetts Company's Agreement with Mr. Higginson — 57. First Government in Massachusetts Bay under the Company in England; April, 1629 — FOOTNOTES: — XII. THE COLONY BECOMES A PURITAN ENTERPRISE — 58. Decision to Transfer the Charter to the Colony — 59. Decision of Puritan Gentlemen to Settle in the Colony [39] — 60. Early Attitude of the Puritan Colony to the Church of England — 61. Political Principles of the Puritans — 62. Early Hardships and Religious Matters, 1630-1631 — FOOTNOTES: — XIII. DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRACY, 1630-1644 — 63. The Oligarchic Usurpation — 64. The First "Popular" Movement—Watertown Protest, 1632 — 65. Legislation and Administration by the "Assistants," 1630-1633 — 66. The Beginning of Town Government in Massachusetts, 1633 — 67. Representative Central Government Established, 1634 — 68. Reaction: The Aristocratic Veto — 69. Right of Free Speech Denied — 70. Formal Adoption of the Ballot in Elections in the General Court — 71. Secret Ballot in a Local Election, because of Democratic and Aristocratic Jealousies — 72. Martial Law — 73. Life Council; Proxies; "Approved" Churches — 74. The Wheelwright Controversy (Political Aspects) — 75. Political and Social Conditions in New England before 1660 — 76. Some Relations with England, 1638 — 77. Democratic Discontent, 1639 — 78. The Body of Liberties, 1641 — 79. A Puritan View of Trade — 80. The Separation of the Legislature into Two Houses — 81. A Town Code of School Law — 82. Colonial School Laws — 83. Representative Town Records — FOOTNOTES: — XIV. MASSACHUSETTS AND PERSECUTION — 84. Puritan Arguments for and against Persecution — 85. Criticism by a Moderate Episcopalian and Monarchist — 86. A Presbyterian Demand for the Franchise, 1646 — 87. Punishment for not Attending "Approved" Churches, 1666 — 88. Quaker Persecutions — FOOTNOTES: — XV. RHODE ISLAND TO 1660 — 89. A Compact in Civil Things Only, 1336(?) — 90. Religious Freedom Consonant with Civil Order — 91. Patent of Providence Plantations, March 14/24, 1643/1644 — 92. Rhode Island and the Quakers, 1657 — FOOTNOTES: — XVI. CONNECTICUT BEFORE 1660 — 93. The Fundamental Orders of 1639 — XVII. THE NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERATION — 94. The Constitution — 95. Massachusetts Demands More Weight — 96. Nullification by Massachusetts — FOOTNOTES:
6. 6.C. COLONIAL AMERICA, 1660-1760 — XVIII. LIBERAL CHARTERS, 1662, 1663 [89] — 97. The Connecticut Charter — 98. The Rhode Island Charter — FOOTNOTES: — XIX. AN ENGLISH COLONIAL SYSTEM — 99. Instructions for the Councill oppointed for Forraigne Plantations (1660) by Charles II — 100. The Commercial Policy — 101. The Duke of York's Charter for New York, March 12/22, 1663/4 — 102. Penn's Grant of Pennsylvania, March 4/14, 1680/88 — 103. Penn's Grants to the Pennsylvanians — 104. Berkeley's Report on Virginia, 1671 — 105. The Franchise in Virginia again Restricted [108] — 106. "Bacon's Laws," in Virginia (Political Discontent) — 107. Bacon's Proclamation, July 30, 1676 — 108. Testimony of Political Discontent as a Cause of Bacon's Rebellion — 109. Abolition of Bacon's Reforms for Virginia — 110. Self-government in Massachusetts Decreased — 111. Attempts by England at Closer Control after 1700 — 112. Commission of a Royal Governor — 113. Free Speech Vindicated — 114. Franklin's "Albany Plan," July 10, 1754 [113] — FOOTNOTES: — XX. HARSH PHASES OF COLONIAL SOCIETY [117] — 115. Legal Punishment in Virginia, 1662-1748 — 116. White Servants in 1774 — 117. Runaway Servants and Apprentices — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.D. THE REVOLUTION — XXI. PRELIMINARY PERIOD—TO 1774 — 118. Sugar Act of 1764 — 119. Stamp Act — 120. Reception of the Stamp Act in America — 121. Origin of the Virginia Non-importation Agreement — 122. The Origin of Massachusetts Town-Committees of Correspondence, 1772 — 123. Creation of Standing Intercolonial Committees of Correspondence, 1773 — 124. Tea Riots — FOOTNOTES: — XXII. RISE OF REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENTS — 125. The Virginia Burgesses suggest an Annual Continental Congress — 126. Another "Call" for the Continental Congress — 127. A Virginia County Suggests a Continental Congress and a General Association — 128. The First Call for a Provincial Convention (Virginia) — 129. Typical Virginia County Instructions to Delegates to the First Provincial Convention — 130. The First Continental Congress — 131. Prince William County (Virginia) Committee, Approval of the Association — 132. Virginia County "Conventions" become De Facto Governments — 133. Virginia Provincial Conventions become Governments — FOOTNOTES: — XXIII. INDEPENDENCE — 134. Virginia County Instructions for Independence, April 23, 1776 — 135. Instructions for Independence in the Virginia Convention (and Resolutions for an Independent State Government), May 15, 1776 [130] — 136. The Virginia Bill of Rights, June 12, 1776 — 137. The First Declaration of Independence by a State — 138. Revolutionary State Governments — 139. Instructions by "State" Conventions against Independence (January-May, 1776) — 140. Motion in Congress for Independence — 141. The Continental Declaration of Independence — 142. Anti-Social Tendencies of the Pre-Revolutionary Measures — 143. An Oath of Allegiance to a New State, 1777 — 144. A Loyalist's Suggestion of the Danger to American Liberty in the French Alliance, 1779 — 145. How the Revolution set free Social Forces — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.E. CONFEDERATION AND CONSTITUTION — XXIV. THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION — 146. Debates in the Continental Congress on the Articles of Confederation — 147. Articles of Confederation. — FOOTNOTES: — XXV. THE NATIONAL DOMAIN — 148. Desire for Statehood; Self-confidence of the West — 149. Organization by Congress — FOOTNOTES: — XXVI. DRIFTING TOWARD ANARCHY — 150. Danger (or Hope) of a Military Dictator (1783) — 151. Shays' Rebellion — 152. A Shrewd Foreign Observer's View of the Social Conflict over the Adoption of a New Constitution — FOOTNOTES: — XXVII. MAKING THE CONSTITUTION — 153. Call issued by the Annapolis Convention — 154. Appointment of Delegates: Credentials (Georgia) — 155. George Mason on the Preliminaries at Philadelphia — 156. The Virginia Plan — 157. George Mason on the Convention and its Aristocratic Tendencies (June, 1787) — 158. The New Jersey Plan — 159. Hamilton's Plan — 160. Character Sketches of Delegates by William Pierce — 161. One Day in the Philadelphia Convention — FOOTNOTES: — XXVIII. RATIFYING THE CONSTITUTION [157] — 162. George Mason's Objections to the Constitution, 1787 — 163. Mason's Explanation of the Preparation of his "Objections" (and Accusation of "Railroading" through the Plan of the Majority) — 164. An Unfriendly Account of Hancock's Support of the Constitution in the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention of 1788 — 165. The Federal Constitution — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.INDEX OF SOURCES
10. 10.SUBJECT INDEX

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