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• Rhode Island -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

• Measures of defence in old Newport; a paper read before the Society at the annual meeting May 22, 1918, ([Newport, R.I., 1918]), by Maud Lyman Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

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• A Reminiscence of Newport Before and During the Revolutionary War (Newport, RI: Milne Printery, 1906), by E. B. Lyman
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• Re-union of the sons and daughters of Newport, R. I., August 23, 1859. (Newport, R.I., F. A. Pratt & co., city printers, 1859), by George Champlin Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• The scope and purpose of an historical society in Newport, (Newport, R.I., 1916), by William Paine Sheffield (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Rhode Island. (New York, J. S. Taylor, 1853), by Edward Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pastor Henry N. Jeter's Twenty-Five Years Experience with the Shiloh Baptist Church and Her History (Providence, RI: Remington Printing Co, 1901), by Henry N. Jeter (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Errands into the Metropolis: New England Dissidents in Revolutionary London (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, c2009), by Jonathan Beecher Field (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• Early Rhode Island: A Social History of the People (New York: The Grafton Press, c1910), by William B. Weeden
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• Hypocricie Unmasked, by Edward Winslow (HTML at delanoye.org)
• Sachems of the Narragansetts (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1931), by Howard M. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spirit of Rhode Island history. A discourse, delivered before the Rhode-Island historical society on the evening of Monday January 17, 1853. (Providence, G. H. Whitney, 1853), by Samuel Greene Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse delivered at Providence, August 5, 1836, in commemoration of the first settlement of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. (Providence, B. Cranston & co., 1836), by John Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harris papers, with an introduction by Irving B. Richman and a calendar and notes by Clarence S. Brigham. ([Providence, Printed for the Society, 1902]), by Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and times of Samuel Gorton; (Philadelphia [G. S. Ferguson co., printers], 1907), by Adelos Gorton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Roger Williams, founder of the state of Rhode Island. By William Gammell. (Boston, Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1846), by William Gammell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode-Island, by James D. Knowles (Gutenberg ebook)
• Samuell Gorton: A Forgotten Founder of our Liberties; First Settler of Warwick, R. I., by Lewis G. Janes (Gutenberg ebook)
• The danger of tolerating levellers in a civil state, or, An historicall narration of the dangerous pernicious practices and opinions wherewith Samuel Gorton and his levelling accomplices so much disturbed and molested the severall plantations in New-England parallel to the positions and proceedings of the present levellers in Old-England : wherein their severall errors dangerous and very destructive to the peace both of church and state ... together with the course that was there taken for suppressing them are fully set forth, with a satisfactory answer to their complaints made to the Parliament / by Edw. Winslow of Plymouth in New-England. (London : Printed by Rich. Cotes for John Bellamy ..., 1649), by Edward Winslow (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Advertisement For as much as by His Majesty's gracious care, his immediate government is now settled, and such regulations like to be speedily made in the Narraganset Countrey or Kings-Province ... and the proprietors being desireous speedily to encourage the regular settlement of a town ... Richard Wharton, Elisha Hutchinson, John Saffin, at Boston. Dated in Boston, June 9th. 1686. ([Boston : Printed by Richard Pierce?, 1686]), by Richard Wharton, Elisha Hutchinson, and John Saffin (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An advertisement. Whereas the lands of Narrhaganset, and Niantick Countryes, and parts adjacent, are places very pleasant and fertile ... These are therefore to certifie & inform all Christian people, that are willing or may be desirous to settle themselves in a regular way of townships on the said lands, that they may please to apply themselves to the subscribers hereof in Boston ... ([Boston? : Printed by John Foster?, 1678]), by Simon Bradstreet, John Saffin, and Elisha Hutchinson (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An historical discourse on the civil and religious affairs of the Colony of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations in New-England in America. From the first settlement in 1638, to the end of the first century. / By John Callender, A.M. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts] (Boston: : Printed and sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green in Queen-Street., MDCCXXXIX. [1739]), by John Callender and William Coddington (HTML at Evans TCP)
• By His Majesties Commissioners, for Examining and Enquiring into the Claims and Titles to the Kings Province or Narraganset Countrey. ([Cambridge, Mass.? : Printed by Samuel Green?, 1683]), by for Examining and Enquiring into the Claims and Titles to the Kings Province or Narraganset Countrey England and Wales. Commissioners (HTML at Evans TCP)
• By the President and Council of His Majesties Territory and Dominion of New England in America. In pursuance of His Majestie's commands for the regulation and settlement of government in the Narraganset Countrey, or Kings-Province, Wednesday, the twenty third of this instant moneth of June, is appointed for the meeting and opening of a court ... Given at the Council-house at Boston, this 8th day of June, anno Domini 1686. ... (Boston. : Printed by Richard Pierce, printer to the Honourable His Majesty's President & Council in this his Territory and Dominion of New-England., [1686]), by Territory and Dominion of New-England. President (1686 : Dudley), Joseph Dudley, and Territory and Dominion of New England. Council (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Simplicities defence against seven-headed policy. Or, innocency vindicated, being unjustly accused, and sorely censured by that seven-headed church-government united in New-England: or, that servant so imperious in his masters absence revived, and now thus re-acting in Nevv-England. Or, the combate of the united colonies, not onely against some of the natives and subjects but against the authority also of the kingdom of England, ... Wherein is declared an act of a great people and country of the Indians in those parts, ... in their voluntary submission and subjection unto the protection and government of Old England ... Imprimatur, Aug. 3d. 1646. Diligently perused, approved, and licensed to the presse, according to order by publike authority. (London, : Printed by John Macock, and are to be sold by Luke Favvne, at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Parrot., 1646), by Samuel Gorton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Letters of Roger Williams, 1632-1682, Now First Collected (Providence: Printed for the Narragansett Club, 1874), by Roger Williams, ed. by John Russell Bartlett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letters of Roger Williams. 1632-1682. Now first collected. Edited by John Russell Bartlett. (Providence, Printed for the Narragansett club, 1874), by Roger Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• A patriotic celebration of the one hundred and thirty-third anniversary of the declaration of independence enacted by the General assembly of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, May 4th, 1776. ([Providence?, 1909]), by Providence Rhode Island citizens historical association (page images at HathiTrust)
• ... annual program for patriotic exercises in schools... / (Providence, R.I. : The Commissioner, 1909-[19--]), by Rhode Island. Commissioner of Public Schools (page images at HathiTrust)

• The properties of Providence, and their controversies with the freeholders. (Providence, R.I., 1897), by Henry Crawford Dorr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early records of the town of Providence, V. I-XXI ... Printed under authority of the City council ... by ... [the] Record commissioners ... (Providence, Snow & Farnham, city printers, 1892-1915), by Providence. Record commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Little colonial dame (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, c1898), by Agnes Carr Sage, illust. by Mabel Humphrey (page images at Florida)

• The pathfinder (London et al.: George Routledge and Sons, n.d.), by James Fenimore Cooper (page images at Florida)

• Hammond versus Heamans, or, An answer to an audacious pamphlet, published by an impudent and ridiculous fellow, named Roger Heamans, calling himself Commander of the Ship Golden Lion wherein he endeavours by lies and holy expressions, to colour over his murthers and treacheries committed in the Province of Maryland, to the utter ruine of that florishing plantation : having a great sum sold himself to proceed in those cruelties, it being altogether answered out of the abstract of credible oaths taken here in England :in which is published His Highnesses absolute (though neglected) command to Richard Bennet Esq., late governour of Virginia and all others, not to disturbe the Lord Baltamores plantation in Maryland / by John Hammond ... (Printed at London : for the use of the Author, and are to be sold at the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, [1655]), by John Hammond (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A History of Colonial Bath (Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton Co., 1955), by Herbert R. Paschal (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)

• The History and Antiquities of Boston (Boston: Luther Stevens, 1856), by Samuel G. Drake
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• 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 story of the old Boston town house, 1658-1711, (Boston, Priv. print. [The Merrymount press], 1908), by Josiah H. Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A volume relating to the early history of Boston, containing the Aspinwall notarial records from 1644 to 1651. (Boston, Municipal printing office, 1903), by William Aspinwall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of a French Protestant refugee, in Boston, 1687: translated from the French by E. T. Fisher. (Brooklyn, N.Y. [Albany, J. Munsell, printer], 1868) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address to the citizens of Boston on the XVIIth of September MDCCCXXX, the close of the second century from the first settlement of the city. by Josiah Quincy. (Boston, J. H. Eastburn, 1830), by Josiah Quincy (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Blackstone, Boston's first inhabitant. ([Boston, Rockwell & Churchill, printers, 1877]), by Thomas Coffin Amory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifth report of the record commissioners, 1880. (Boston, Mass. : Rockwell and Churchill, 1884), by Boston (Mass.). Record Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston containing the Boston town records, 1742-1757. (Boston : Rockwell and Churchill, 1885), by Boston (Mass.). Record Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• A report of the Record Commissioners of the city of Boston, containing Charlestown land records, 1638-1802. (Boston, Mass. : Rockwell and Churchill, 1883), by Boston (Mass.). Record Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston containing the Boston town records, 1758-1769. (Boston : Rockwell and Churchill, 1886), by Boston (Mass.). Record Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curiosities of History: Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880, by William W. Wheildon (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Narrative of the proceedings of Sir Edmond Androsse and his complices, who acted by an illegal and arbitrary commission from the late K. James, during his government in New England by several gentlemen who were of his council. ([Boston: s.n.], 1691), by William Stoughton and Increase Mather (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Boston, December 1, 1773. At a meeting of the people of Boston, and the neighbouring towns, at Faneuil-Hall, in said Boston, on Monday the 29th of November 1773 ... and continued by adjournment to the next day; for the purpose of consulting, advising and determining upon the most proper and effectual method to prevent the unloading, receiving or vending the detestable tea sent out by the East-India Company ... ([Boston] : Printed by Edes and Gill,, 1773) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A Dialogue between a Boston man and a country man. ([Boston] : Printed for a publick good., 1714 [i.e., 1715?]) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The declaration, of the gentlemen, merchants, and inhabitants of Boston, and the countrey adjacent. April 18th. 1689. (Boston : Printed by Samuel Green, and sold by Benjamin Harris at the London Coffee-House., 1689), by Cotton Mather and Increase Mather (HTML at Evans TCP)

• A Complete History of Connecticut, Civil and Ecclesiastical, From the Emigration of its First Planters, From England, in the Year 1630, to the Year 1764; and to the Close of the Indian Wars; With an Appendix, Containing the Original Patent of New-England (2 volumes; New Haven: Maltby, Goldsmith and Co., and S. Wadsworth, 1818), by Benjamin Trumbull
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  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
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• A Complete History of Connecticut, Civil and Ecclesiastical, From the Emigration of its First Planters, From England, in the Year 1630, to the Year 1764; and to the Close of the Indian Wars; With an Appendix, Containing the Original Patent of New England (New London: H. D. Utley, 1898), by Benjamin Trumbull
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• History of the Colony of New Haven to Its Absorption into Connecticut (New Haven: Printed for the author, 1881), by Edward E. Atwater
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• Wadsworth, or, The Charter Oak (Hartford: W. H. Gocher, 1904), by William Henry Gocher
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• Roll and Journal of Connecticut Service in Queen Anne's War, 1710-1711 (New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Press, 1916), by Thomas Buckingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitution and by-laws; ([New Haven, The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor press, 1907]), by Order of the founders and patriots of America. Connecticut society (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sermon delivered March 29, 1839, (New Haven, Printed by B. L. Hamlen, 1839), by Thomas F. Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical address, delivered in the First Congregational Church in Stamford, Ct. : at the celebration of the second centennial anniversary of the first settlement of the town / by J.W. Alvord. (New York : S. Davenport, 1842), by John Watson Alvord (page images at HathiTrust)
• The genesis of a New England state (Connecticut). (Baltimore, John Hopkins university, 1883), by Alexander Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The public records of the colony of Connecticut 1636-1776 ... (Hartford, Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard company [etc.], 1850-90), by Connecticut (Colony) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial Connecticut, ([Cincinnati, The Ebbert & Richardson co., c1917]), by Julia Elizabeth Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boundary disputes of Connecticut, (Boston, J. R. Osgood and company, 1882), by Clarence Winthrop Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
• A general history of Connecticut, from its first settlement under George Fenwick, to its latest period of amity with Great Britain prior to the revolution; including a description of the country, and many curious and interesting anecdotes. With an appendix, pointing out the causes of the rebellion in America; together with the particular part taken by the people of Connecticut in its promotion. By a gentlemen of the province. London, 1781. To which is (New-Haven, Republished by Clark and co., Baldwin and Threadway, printers, 1829), by Samuel Peters (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the settlement of New Haven, April 25th, 1888, (New Haven, 1888), by William Lathrop Kingsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Charter Oak" / by Albert C. Bates. ([Hartford, Conn.? : Case, Lockwood & Brainard], 1907), by Albert Carlos Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• General History of Connecticut, from Its First Settlement Under George Fenwick to its Latest Period of Amity with Great Britain, by Samuel Peters, contrib. by Samuel Jarvis McCormick (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697), by John M. Taylor (Gutenberg ebook)
• New-Haven's settling in New-England and some lawes for government / published for the use of that colony : though some of the orders intended for present convenience, may probably be hereafter altered, and as need requireth other lawes added. (London : Printed by M.S. for Livewell Chapman, at the Crowne in Popes-head-Alley, 1656), by New-Haven Colony (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Liberty and property vindicated, and the st--pm-n burnt. A discourse occasionally made, on burning the effigy of the st--pm-n, in New-London, in the colony of Connecticut. / By a friend to the liberty of his county. ; Published by desire of some of the hearers, in the year 1765. ([New London, Conn. : Printed by Timothy Green, 1765]), by Benjamin Church (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Reasons why the British colonies, in America, should not be charged with internal taxes, by authority of Parliament; humbly offered, for consideration, in behalf of the colony of Connecticut. (New-Haven: : Printed by B. Mecom., M,DCC,LXIV. [1764]), by Thomas Fitch (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Some reasons that influenced the governor to take, and the councillors to administer the oath, required by the act of Parliament; commonly called the Stamp-act. Humbly submitted to the consideration of the publick. (Hartford: : Printed and sold by Thomas Green., [1766]), by Thomas Fitch (HTML at Evans TCP)

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