Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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The Declaration, of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Countrey Adjacent: April 18, 1689 (Boston: Printed by S. Green, and sold by B. Harris, 1689) (HTML at Evans TCP)- The History and Antiquities of Boston (Boston: Luther Stevens, 1856), by Samuel G. Drake
- St. Botolph's Town: An Account of Old Boston in Colonial Days (Boston: L. C. Page and Company, 1908), by Mary Caroline Crawford (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
- The Scarlet Letter (Ticknor and Fields edition, 1850), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (HTML at Bartleby)
- The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (illustrated edition; New York: G. H. Doran Co., n.d.), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, illust. by Hugh Thomson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1894), by Anna Green Winslow, ed. by Alice Morse Earle (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771 (third edition; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1895), by Anna Green Winslow, ed. by Alice Morse Earle (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and zipped page images)
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Filed under: Boston (Mass.) -- History- Some Events of Boston and Its Neighbors (1917), by State Street Trust Company (Boston) (HTML at kellscraft.com)
- A History of East Boston, With Biographical Sketches of its Early Proprietors, and an Appendix (Boston: J. E. Tilton and Co., 1858), by William H. Sumner
- Rambles Around Old Boston (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1921), by Edwin M. Bacon, illust. by Lester G. Hornby (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- 1872: Letters Written by a Gentleman in Boston to His Friends in Paris, Describing the Great Fire (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1909), by Harold Murdock (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Treason Case in Boston: Speech for the Defence by Mr. Sennott, the Defender of John Brown in Virginia; A Caustic Denunciation of Puritan Smelling Committees, Yankee Sneaks, and Abolition Thugs (ca. 1862), contrib. by George Sennott (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Little Girl in Old Boston, by Amanda M. Douglas (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Nix's Mate: An Historical Romance of America (2 volumes; New York: S. Colman, 1839), by Rufus Dawes
- The Linwoods, or "Sixty Years Since" in America (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1835), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
- My Lady Laughter: A Romance of Boston Town in the Days of the Great Siege (Boston: C. M. Clark, c1904), by Dwight Tilton, illust. by Charles H. Stephens (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Boston News-Letter, and City Record (partial serial archives)
- Oration Delivered Before the City Government and Citizens of Boston, by Richard Frothingham (page images at MOA)
- Traits of the Tea Party: Being a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes, One of the Last of Its Survivors; With a History of That Transaction, Reminiscences of the Massacre, and the Siege, and Other Stories of Old Times (New York: Harper and Bros., 1835), by B. B. Thatcher (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Recollections of the Private Centennial Celebration of the Overthrow of the Tea, at Griffin's Wharf, in Boston Harbor, December 16, 1773, in Honor of Samuel Howard, One of the Actors, at Cambridge, Mass., December, 1873 (Cambridge, MA: Press of J. Wilson and Son, 1874), ed. by Caroline Howard Gilman, contrib. by M. C. D. Silsbee, Eliza W. Lippitt, Annie M. Bowen, Francis J. Lippitt, and Samuel Longfellow (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, With a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes, A Survivor of the Little Band of Patriots Who Drowned the Tea in Boston harbour in 1773 (copyrighted by Hawkes; New York: S. S. Bliss, 1834), by James Hawkes (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Few Remarks Upon Some of the Votes and Resolutions of the Continental Congress Held at Philadelphia in September, and the Provincial Congress, Held at Cambridge in November 1774 (Boston: Printed for the purchasers, 1775), by Harrison Gray
- Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents Relating to the Shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company (Boston: A. O. Crane, 1884), ed. by Francis S. Drake (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Traits of the Tea Party: Being a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes, One of the Last of Its Survivors; With a History of That Transaction, Reminiscences of the Massacre, and the Siege, and Other Stories of Old Times (New York: Harper and Bros., 1835), by B. B. Thatcher (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Boston Tea Party, December 1773 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1882), by Josephine Pollard, illust. by H. W. McVickar and Hugh McVickar
- The Boston Tea Party, December 1773 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1882), by Josephine Pollard, illust. by H. W. McVickar and Hugh McVickar
- Oration Delivered Before the City Government and Citizens of Boston, by Richard Frothingham (page images at MOA)
- Oration Delivered Before the City Government and Citizens of Boston, by Richard Frothingham (page images at MOA)
- Oration Delivered Before the City Government and Citizens of Boston, by Richard Frothingham (page images at MOA)
- Extracts From Letters Written at the Time of the Occupation of Boston by the British, 1775-6 (From the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, vol. XIII, July, 1876), ed. by William P. Upham
- Anthony Burns: A History (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1856), by Charles Emery Stevens (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Trial of Theodore Parker, for the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall Against Kidnapping, by Theodore Parker (page images at MOA)
- Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns (Boston: Fetridge and Co., 1854) (page images at MOA)
- Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, by Boston Female Anti-slavery Society (partial serial archives)
- Some Merchants and Sea Captains of Old Boston: Being a Collection of Sketches of Notable Men and Mercantile Houses Prominent During the Early Half of the Nineteenth Century in the Commerce and Shipping of Boston (c1918), by State Street Trust Company (Boston) (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- Souvenir of the 50th Anniversary of the Dedication of Bunker Hill Monument, 1843-1893 (Charlestown, MA: Bunker Hill Times, 1893) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Loyolas and the Cabots, by Catherine Goddard Clarke (HTML with commentary at catholicism.org)
- Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts (4 volumes; New York: Lewis historical Pub. Co., 1908), ed. by William Richard Cutter (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Anti-Imperialist League (as published in Philippine Social Review, 1930-1933), by Maria Lanzar-Carpio (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- A Century of Town Life: A History of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1775-1887 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1888), by James Frothingham Hunnewell
- Souvenir of the 50th Anniversary of the Dedication of Bunker Hill Monument, 1843-1893 (Charlestown, MA: Bunker Hill Times, 1893) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The "Mary and John": A Story of the Founding of Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1630 (Rutland, VT: Tuttle Pub. Co., 1943), by Maude Pinney Kuhns (page images at HathiTrust)
- A History of East Boston, With Biographical Sketches of its Early Proprietors, and an Appendix (Boston: J. E. Tilton and Co., 1858), by William H. Sumner
- Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain, by Harriet Manning Whitcomb (Gutenberg text)
- The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692 (revised electronic ediiton, 2018), ed. by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum (HTML with commentary at Virginia)
- Gods Promise to His Plantation (1630), by John Cotton, ed. by Reiner Smolinski (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
- A Narrative of the Planting of the Massachusets Colony Anno 1628 (1694), by Joshua Scottow (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
- The Planters Plea: or, The Grounds of Plantations Examined, and Usuall Objections Answered, Together With a Manifestation of the Causes Moving Such as Have Lately Undertaken a Plantation in New England, For the Satisfaction of Those That Question the Lawfulnesse of the Action (facsimile reprint of the 1630 edition; New York: Da Capo Press and Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd, 1968), by John White (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Emancipation of Massachusetts: The Dream and the Reality, by Brooks Adams (Gutenberg text)
- Hypocricie Unmasked (London: Printed by R. Cotes and J. Bellamy, 1646), by Edward Winslow
- New English Canaan or New Canaan: Containing an Abstract of New England, Composed in Three Bookes (London: Printed for C. Greene, ca. 1637), by Thomas Morton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- New English Canaan or New Canaan: Containing an Abstract of New England, Composed in Three Bookes (Amsterdam: Printed by J. F. Stam, 1637), by Thomas Morton
- A Grandfather for Benjamin Franklin: The True Story of a Nantucket Pioneer and His Mates (Boston: Meador Pub. Co., c1940), by Florence Bennett Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
- John Endecott: A Biography (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936), by Lawrence Shaw Mayo (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Appeal to the World: or, A Vindication of the Town of Boston, From Many False and Malicious Aspersions, Contained in Certain Letters and Memorials, Written by Governor Bernard, General Gage, Commodore Hood, the Commissioners of the American Board of Customs, and Others, and By The Respectively Transmitted to the British Ministry (Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill, 1770)
- Memoranda, Historical, Chronological, &c. Prepared With the Hope to Aid Those Whose Interest in Pilgrim Memorials, and History, is Freshened by This Jubilee Year, and Who May Not Have a Large Historical Library at Hand (1870), by Henry Martyn Dexter
- Salem Witchcraft: Comprising More Wonders of the Invisible World, Collected by Robert Calef; and Wonders of the Invisible World, by Cotton Mather, Together with Notes and Explanations (Salem, MA: Ives and Smith, 1861), ed. by Samuel P. Fowler, contrib. by Robert Calef and Cotton Mather
- Salem Witchcraft: Comprising More Wonders of the Invisible World, Collected by Robert Calef; and Wonders of the Invisible World, by Cotton Mather, Together with Notes and Explanations (Boston: W. Veazie, 1865), ed. by Samuel P. Fowler, contrib. by Robert Calef and Cotton Mather (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Women Who Came in the Mayflower, by Annie Russell Marble (Gutenberg text)
- Wood's New England's Prospect (Boston: Printed for the Prince Society, 1865), by William Wood (page images at Google)
- Bradford's History "Of Plimoth Plantation", From the Original Manuscript, With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Masachusetts (Boston: Wright and Potter, 1898), by William Bradford
- Life and Letters of John Winthrop (first editions, 2 volumes; Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864-1867), by Robert C. Winthrop, contrib. by John Winthrop
- Life and Letters of John Winthrop (second edition, 2 volumes; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1869), by Robert C. Winthrop, contrib. by John Winthrop
- The New English Canaan of Thomas Morton, With Introductory Matter and Notes (Boston: Prince Society, 1883), by Thomas Morton, ed. by Charles Francis Adams
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