Alden Bradford, Speeches of the Governors of Massachusetts from 1765 to 1775; and the Answers of the House of Representatives to the same. Boston, 1818. These documents describe many of the controversies leading up to the Revolution.

Congress of the United States, Journals of Congress. Containing the Proceedings [1774-1788] (contemporaneous edition). 13 vols. Philadelphia, 1777-1788. Also a reprint in 13 vols. (Philadelphia, 1800-1801), and another in 4 vols., under the title Journals of the American Congress: From 1774 to 1788 (Washington, 1823).

Congress of the United States, Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress. 4 vols. Boston, 1821.- Extracts omitted in making up the public journals, especially on the history of the Confederation and on foreign affairs.

Evert Augustus Duyckinck and George Long, Cyclopædia of American Literature; embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from their Writings. From the Earliest Period to the Present Day. 2 vols. New York, 1856.

Peter Force, compiler, American Archives: Fourth Series. Containing a Documentary History of the English Colonies in North America [17741776]. 6 vols. Washington, 1837-1846. — Fifth Series. Containing a Documentary History of the United States [1776-1783]. 3 vols. Washington, 1848-1853.

Albert Bushnell Hart and Edward Channing, editors, American History Leaflets. 30 numbers (to be had separately). New York, 1892-1896. — Includes many colonial documents.

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George P. Humphrey, American Colonial Tracts. Rochester, May, 1897-. Published monthly; to be had separately.

Thomas Hutchinson, A Collection of Original Papers relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay [1628-1750]. Boston, 1769. — A useful set.

Edwin Doak Mead, editor, Old South Leaflets. 75 numbers (to be had separately or bound in 3 vols.). Boston, 1883-1896. — Many historical pieces; texts not carefully collated. Valuable for schools.

Frank Moore, Diary of the American Revolution. From Newspapers and Original Documents. 2 vols. New York, etc., 1859-1860. A well-chosen series of extracts arranged chronologically, covering the years 1775-1781. Frank Moore, editor, Songs and Ballads of the American Revolution. New York, 1856.

Hezekiah Niles, Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America.

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more, 1822; also a reprint, New York, 1876. — This is a very useful volume, though many of the selections are very dull. It covers the period 1765

Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan and Berthold Fernow, editors, Documents relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York. 15 vols. Albany, 1856-1887. Much matter not relating exclusively to New York; includes a useful index volume. Vols. IV-VIII, X, XI on the period after 1689. William Stevens Perry, editor, Historical Collections relating to the American Colonial Church. 5 vols. Hartford, 1870-1878. — A very small edition, and therefore rare.

Ben. Perley Poore, compiler, The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and other Organic Laws of the United States. 2 parts. Washington, 1877. A much-needed reprint is in preparation (1897).

Winthrop Sargent, editor, The Loyalist Poetry of the Revolution. Philadelphia, 1857.

William L. Saunders, editor, The Colonial Records of North Carolina (10 vols.), and Walter Clark, editor, The State Records of North Carolina (4 vols.). 14 vols. Raleigh and Winston, 1886-1896. Very inconveniently arranged, without contents or index, but abounding in general material. Covers the period 1662-1780; still in progress.

Jared Sparks, editor, Correspondence of the American Revolution. 4 vols. Boston, 1853. Interesting and valuable letters, addressed chiefly to Washington. May be picked up at second hand for a small sum.

Jared Sparks, editor, The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution. 12 vols. Boston, 1829-1830.— Arranged rather clumsily; much of the same matter appears in better form in Wharton's edition.

Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, editors, A Library of American Literature, from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. II vols. New York, 1888-1890. - Part of Vol. II and Vol. III on the period 1689-1783; very well chosen, though not with immediate reference to the historical value of the pieces. An excellent set for a school library, and often found at second hand.

Anthony Stokes, A View of the Constitution of the British Colonies, in NorthAmerica and the West Indies, at the time the Civil War broke out on the Continent of America. London, 1783. — Contains many writs and forms from colonial procedure.

John Wingate Thornton, The Pulpit of the American Revolution: or, the Political Sermons of the Period of 1776. With a Historical Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations. Boston, 1860.

Francis Wharton, editor, The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States. 6 vols. Washington, 1889. - Official edition, arranged chronologically, with a valuable introduction.

William A. Whitehead, Frederick W. Ricord, and William Nelson, editors, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. 19 vols. Newark, 1880-1897. One of the most valuable collections of colonial sources; it includes several volumes of reprints from rare newspapers; still in progress.

6. Select Library of Sources on Colonization

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HIS volume contains examples of many colonial writers, but only a short extract from most of them, and many important writers do not appear here at all. For careful study of colonial history, and for extensive topical work, the student or pupil needs a greater range of material; hence every library and high school ought to have at least a few of the sources in complete editions.

The purchase of such books, many of them long out of print, is a work of time. Any library or school may on application receive the catalogues of second-hand dealers, or put a list of desiderata in the hands of a book-seller. The Publishers' Weekly inserts (gratis) lists of books sought for by dealers. Often people will give old books of value to a permanent collection, if requested.

First in importance are the general printed collections mentioned in the preceding section (No. 5), or so many of them as the library can afford. Next may come selections from the records of one colony and state out of each of the three groups of southern, New England, and middle colonies. Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York or Pennsylvania were the most important in each group, and have the completest literature. Next to them in general historical interest come the Carolinas, Maryland, and Connecticut. Rhode Island and New Hampshire also have important records.

Below will be found a list of some of the most useful sources. Most of the volumes may be readily purchased new or at second hand, though the large sets are expensive. To these should be added such other colonial records, laws, collections, and histories containing documents as the most available library may be willing to buy (see lists in Channing and Hart, Guide, §§ 23, 29, 95-130), especially those of that colony which has the closest relation with the state or the place in which the library is situated. The local records (if printed) should of course be included; and a few of the typical town records, as those of Boston, Worcester, Lancaster, Watertown, Providence, East Hampton (L.I.).

CONTEMPORARY HISTORIANS

Throughout the colonial period, and especially from 1740 to the end of the Revolution, there were writers who set out to make formal histories of one colony or of a group of colonies; and though—with some

exceptions, as Hutchinson - they had the use only of limited material, they relate the result of many of their own observations, and reflect the impressions made on the public mind at the time. In some cases they used and have reprinted rare accounts. The principal titles are the following:

Amos Adams, A Concise, Historical View of the Perils, Hardships, Difficulties, and Discouragements which have attended the Planting and Progressive Improvement of New England. Boston, 1769. —A clear and valuable work.

Isaac Backus, A History of New England, with particular Reference to the Denomination of Christians called Baptists. 3 vols. Boston, 1777-1796. - Volume II extends from 1690 to 1784. Backus was an historian of the modern type, who searched far and wide for manuscript material.

Jeremy Belknap, The History of New Hampshire. 3 vols. Boston, 1742. [Robert Beverly], The History of Virginia, in Four Parts [1584-1720]. London, 1705 (and later editions).

John (Daly) Burk, The History of Virginia, from its First Settlement to the Present Day. 3 vols. Petersburg, Va., 1804-1805. With appendices of

documents.

George Chalmers, An Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the American Colonies. 2 vols. Boston, 1845. Also Vol. I, London, 1782. John Drayton, Memoirs of the American Revolution, from its Commencement, to the Year 1776 inclusive. 2 vols. Charleston, 1821. Really the work of William Henry Drayton (No. 157), written between 1776 and 1779. William Gordon, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America. 4 vols. London, 1788 (or 3 vols. New York, 1789). — See below, No. 219.

Alexander Hewatt, An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia. 2 vols. London, 1779.

Stephen Hopkins, An Historical Account of the Planting and Growth of Providence. (In Rhode Island Historical Society, Collections, VII, 13-65.) - One of the earliest attempts at local history.

Thomas Hutchinson, The History of the Colony of Massachusets Bay [Vol. I, 1764]. The History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. . . until the Year 1750 [Vol. II, 1767]. The History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, from the Year 1750, until June, 1774 [Vol. III, 1828]. - Volume III of this work is an account of the causes of the Revolution. Hutchinson was the most careful and scientific writer of his time, though prejudiced by his own position as governor of a contumelious colony.

Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana: or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England. London, 1702. (Three reprints, 2 vols., Hartford, 1820, 1853, 1855.) — Hardly historical in spirit. See Contemporaries, I,

No. 148.

Daniel Neal, The History of New-England containing an Impartial Account of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Affairs of the Country to the Year of our Lord, 1700. To which is added The Present State of New-England. 2 vols. London, 1720. — Also a later edition. See below, No. 20. Samuel Penhallow, History of the Wars of New-England with the Eastern Indians [1703-1725]. Boston, 1726. Reprinted, 1859.

Robert Proud, The History of Pennsylvania, in North America [1681-1742]. 2 vols. Philadelphia, 1797-1798.- Proud was a Quaker who came to Pennsylvania in 1759. The book was written from 1778 to 1780. — See below, No. 31.

David Ramsay, The History of the American Revolution. 2 vols. Philadelphia, 1789. — Ramsay was a member of Congress in 1782, 1783, 1785– 1786, and used the documentary material of that body. His work has many merits. See below, No. 220.

David Ramsay, The History of South-Carolina, from its First Settlement in 1670, to the Year 1808. 2 vols. Charleston, 1809.

Samuel Smith, The History of the Colony of Nova-Cæsaria, or New-Jersey. Burlington, N. J., 1765.

William Smith, The History of the late Province of New-York, from its Discovery, to... 1762. 2 vols. (New York Historical Society, Collections, IV-V.) New York, 1829-1830.- With documents. Smith lived in New York from his birth in 1728 to his departure as a loyalist exile in 1783. Volume II (1736-1762) is therefore contemporary.

C. Stedman, The History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War. 2 vols. London, 1794. - Really by William Thomson. A British view.

Mercy Warren, History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution. Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Reflections. 3 vols. Boston, 1805. - Mrs. Warren was the sister of James Otis. Her work shows spirit and intelligence, though it is expressed in a pedantic fashion.

PUBLIC RECORDS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Upon the varieties and uses of public records a discussion appears above (No. 3). Here is a brief list of some of the most important collections. Most of them may be had, either from the state or society publishing them, or at second hand. Single volumes or partial sets are often available. A long list of such works may be found in Channing and Hart, Guide, § 29. In many cases, parts of records are printed in the collections or proceedings of state historical societies (see No. 5 above).