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• William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts, 1741-1756, a history, volume I (New York, 1920), by George Arthur Wood and William Shirley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English colonization of America during the seventeenth century (Strahan & Co., 1871), by Edward D. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• To have and to hold (Grosset & Dunlap, 1900), by Mary Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Good order established in Pennsylvania and New-Jersey, in America, being a true account of the country; with its produce and commodities there made in the year 1685. (W. Gowans, 1865), by Thomas Budd and Edward Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cassique of Kiawah; a colonial romance. (Redfield, 1859), by William Gilmore Simms (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Quakers in the American colonies (Macmillan and Co., limited, 1911), by Rufus M. Jones, Amelia M. Gummere, and Isaac Sharpless (page images at HathiTrust)
• Continuation of the history of New-York. (Printed for the Society by J. Seymour, 1826), by William Smith and Jared Sparks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original land titles in Delaware commonly known as the Duke of York record, being an authorized transcript from the official archives of the state of Delaware, and comprising the letters patent, permits commissions, surveys, plats and confirmations by the Duke of York and other high officials, from 1646 to 1679. (Sunday star print, 1903), by Delaware (page images at HathiTrust)
• In colonial days (L.C. Page and company, 1906), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonial history of Hartford : gathered from the original records (Published by the author, 1914), by William DeLoss Love (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Portland, from 1632 to 1864: with a notice of previous settlements, colonial grants, and changes of government in Maine. (Bailey & Noyes, 1865), by William Willis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary and letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson : Captain-general and Governor-in-chief of His late Majesty's province of Massachusetts Bay in North America ... compiled from the original documents still remaining in the possession of his descendants (Houghton, Mifflin, 1884), by Thomas Hutchinson and Peter Orlando Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Puritans and their principles. (Charles Schribner, 1851), by Edwin Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The beginnings of New England; or, The Puritan theocracy in its relations to civil and religious liberty (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1889), by John Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of a French Protestant refugee, in Boston, 1687: (J. Munsell, printer], 1868), by Edward Thornton Fisher and Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land system of the New England colonies (Evening Post Print, 1880), by Melville Egleston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The historyand antiquities of Boston : from its settlement in 1630, to the year 1770 ; also, an introductory history of the discovery and settlement of New England ; with notes, critical and illustrative (Luther Stevens, 1856), by Samuel G. Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• The settlement of Pennsylvania (Franklin, 1922), by Walter Lefferts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Puritan age and rule in the colony of the Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1685 (Houghton, Mifflin, 1888), by George Edward Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Penn as founder of two commonwealths (D. Appleton and company, 1904), by Augustus C. Buell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Governors : [publications]. ([s.n.], 1916), by Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Governors (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings and acts, Jan. 1637- . (Maryland Historical Society, 1883), by Maryland. General Assembly, Maryland Historical Society, and Maryland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• York deeds (Brown Thurston & Co., 1888), by E. C. Bowler, Leonard Bond Chapman, William M. Sargent, Maine Genealogical Society (1884- ), Maine Historical Society, and York County (Me.). Register of Deeds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laws and ordinances of New Netherland, 1638-1674 (Weed, Parsons and company, 1868), by New York (State) and E. B. O'Callaghan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military operations in eastern Maine and Nova Scotia during the revolution (J. Munsell, 1867), by Frederic Kidder and George Hayward Allan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial volume of the Popham celebration, August 29, 1862: commemorative of the planting of the Popham colony on the peninsula of Sabino, August 19, o.s., 1607, establishing the title of England to the continent. (Bailey & Noyes, 1863), by Edward Ballard and Maine Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• De geschiedschrijver en rechtsgeleerde Dr. Arend van Slichtenhorst en zijn vader Brant van Slichtenhorst, Stichter van Albany, hoofdstad van den staat New-York (S. Gouda Quint, 1916), by G. Beernink (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The new English Canaan of Thomas Morton. (Prince Society, 1883), by Thomas Morton and Charles Francis Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellaneous documents relating to the city of New York and Long island, 1642-1696. (1914), by New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The publications of the Prince Society. (Burt Franklin, 1967), by Mass.) Prince Society (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of North Carolina: with maps and illustrations. (E.J. Hale & Son, 1858), by Francis L. Hawks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of Roger Williams, 1632-1682. (Printed for the Narragansett Club, 1874), by Roger Williams and John Russell Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The genesis of South Carolina, 1562-1670 (Priv. print. by the State Company, 1907), by William A. Courtnay, Robert Sandford, and William Noel Sainsbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indians and pioneers; a history for young people (Silver, Burdett & company, 1913), by Blanche Evans Hazard and Samuel Train Dutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A little colonial dame; a story of Old Manhattan Island (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1898), by Agnes Carolyn Sage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peter Stuyvesant : the last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam (Dodd & Mead, 1873), by John S.C. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of New York, from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty, containing, among many suprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William, the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter, the Headstrong - the three Dutch governors of New Amsterdam; being the only authentic history of the times that ever hath been, or ever will be published (Belford, Clarke, 1885), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index to volumes one, two and three of translations of Dutch manuscripts, in the office of the secretary of state of the state of New York (Weed, Parsons & co., printers, 1870), by E. B. O'Callaghan and New York (State). Secretary's Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Betty Alden: the first-born daughter of the Pilgrims (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1891), by Jane G. Austin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The scarlet letter : a romance (Ticknor and Fields, 1864), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pocahontas; a story of Virginia (Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1892), by John R. Musick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of New York from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1864), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plymouth and the Pilgrims, or, Incidents of adventure in the history of the first settlers. (D. Lothrop, 1886), by Joseph Banvard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records of the governor and company of the Massachusetts bay in New England : Printed by order of the legislature (W. White, printer to the commonwealth, 1853), by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and Massachusetts General Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records of the colony or jurisdiction of New Haven, from May, 1653, to the union . (Printed by Case, Lockwood and company, 1858), by New Haven (Conn.) and Charles J. Hoadly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dutch at the North pole and the Dutch in Maine. A paper read before the New York historical society, 3d March, 1857. (Printed for the Society, 1857), by J. Watts De Peyster (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief and true narrative of the hostile conduct of the barbarous natives towards the Dutch nation (J. Munsell, 1863), by E. B. O'Callaghan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of the old South; a chronicle of English colonial beginnings (Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1920), by Mary Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Original lists of persons of quality, emigrants, religious exiles, political rebels, serving men sold for a term of years, apprentices, children stolen, maidens pressed, and others who went from Great Britain to the American plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages, the localities where they formerly lived in the mother country, the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars, from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England (Chatto and Windus, 1874), by John Camden Hotten and Great Britain Public Record Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Register of members and ancestors, 1901. ([St. Paul, Minn., 1901), by General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.). Minnesota (page images at HathiTrust)
• Further queries upon the present state of the New-English affairs. (Reprinted for J. Sabin, 1865), by S. E. (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Quaker colonies : a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware (Yale University Press, 1920), by Sydney George Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Responsibilities of the founders of republics : an address on the peninsula of Sabino, on the two-hundred and fifty-eighth anniversary of the planting of the Popham colony, Aug. 29, 1865 (J.K. Wiggin, 1865), by James W. Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curiosities of history: Boston, September seventeenth, 1630-1880. (Lee and Shepard;, 1880), by William W. Wheildon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The making of Pennsylvania; an analysis of the elements of the population and the formative influences that created one of the greatest of the American states (J.B. Lippincott Company, 1908), by Sydney George Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index to The early records of the town of Providence, v. I-XXI, containing also a summary of the volumes and an appendix of documented research data to date on Providence and other early seventeenth century Rhode Island families (Rhode Island historical society, 1949), by Richard LeBaron Bowen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• J. Michaëlius, the first minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in the United States : facsimile of his letter, the only extant, written during the first years of the settlement of New York (Frederik Muller, 1883), by Jonas Michaëlius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The direct ancestry of the late Jacob Wendell, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire : with a prefatory sketch of the early Dutch settlement of the Providence of New Netherland, 1614-1664 (David Clapp & Son, 1882), by James Rindge Stanwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in American history (University of California Press, 1914), by Anne E. Hughes, Donald E. Smith, and Eugene Irving McCormac (page images at HathiTrust)
• The second part of the tragedy of Amboyna (Reprinted, 1915), by Henry Farr De Puy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Dutch in America. A historical argument (Priv. print., 1890), by William Henry Arnoux (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emancipation of Massachusetts (Houghton, Mifflin, and company, 1887), by Brooks Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonies, 1492-1750. (Longmans, Green and Co., 1906), by Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of New York. (R.F. Fenno & Co., 1900), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Knickerbocker's History of New York (Educational Pub., 1900), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old streets of New York under the Dutch. A paper read before the New York historical society, June 2, 1874. (F. B. Patterson, 1875), by James W. Gerard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Broad advice to the United Netherland provinces ... made and arranged, from diveers true and trusty memoirs (1857), by Cornelis Melyn and Henry Cruse Murphy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extract from Wagenaar's "Beschryving van Amsterdam", relating to the colony of New Amstel, on the Delaware. (1857), by Jan Wagenaar and John Romeyn Brodhead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence between Lieutenant Governor Cadwallader Colden, and William Smith, jun., the historian, respecting certain alleged errors and misstatements, contained in the History of New York (1848), by Cadwallader Colden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The representation of New Netherland, concerning its location, productiveness and poor condition. (1849), by Adriaen van der Donck and Henry Cruse Murphy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir on the early colonization of New Netherland. (1849), by John Romeyn Brodhead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from de Laet and Aitzema, relating to New Netherland. (1849), by Joannes de Laet and Lieuwe van Aitzema (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Theophilus Eaton, the first governor of the colony of New Haven. (1849), by Jacob Bailey Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Description of the New Netherlands. (1841), by Adriaen van der Donck and Jeremiah Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian tradition of the first arrival of the Dutch, at Manhattan island, now New-York. (1841), by John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the New Netherlands (1841), by N. C. Lambrechtsen and Francois Adrian Van der Kemp (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of the members of the Dutch church, with the names of the streets in the city of New-York, A. D. 1686. (1841), by Henricus Selyns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the voyages of David Pieterszen de Vries, master of artillery in the service of the United Provinces, &c. (1841), by David Pietersz. de Vries and Gerard Troost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Expedition of Captain Samuel Argall, afterwards governor of Virginia, knight, &c. to the French settlements in Acadia and to Manhattan island, A.D. 1613. (1841), by George Folsom (page images at HathiTrust)
• The charter of liberties granted to patroons and colonists, A. D. 1629, and miscellaneous extracts (1841), by West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minutes of the Supreme court of judicature, April 4, 1693 to April 1, 1701. (1913), by New York (State). Sumpreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the General court of assizes held in the city of New York, October 6, 1680, to October 6, 1682. (1913), by New York (Colony). Court of Assizes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nicholas Cresswell's experiences in Colonial America, an address [before] the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. ([Philadelphia, 1928), by William Innes Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)

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