1629 - Massachusetts Bay Charter    Text

1630 - John Winthrop - City upon a Hill    Text

1637 - Anne Hutchinson - Transcript of Trial   Text

1639 - Fundamental Orders of Connecticut  Text

1644 - John Winthrop - Government described   Text

1647 - Jerome Lalemant - The Ordeal of Isaac Jogues   Text

1656 - Sir Henry Vane - A Healing Question   Text

1660 - Anne Bradstreet - Sixteen Poems   Text

1662 - Connecticut colony charter   Text

1676- Nathaniel Bacon - Declaration in the Name of the People  Text

1676 - William Berkeley - Declaration regarding Bacon's Rebellion  Text

1676 - First Thanksgiving proclamation   Text

1680 - Don Antonio de Otermin - Letter describing the Pueblo revolt  Text

1682 - Mary Rowlandson - Narrative of the Captivity,   Text

1682 - William Penn - Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims  Text

1690 - John Locke's Second Treatise on Government Text

1697 - William Penn's Plan of Union Text

1700 - Samuel Sewell - The Selling of Joseph   Text