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 |
