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• Proceedings and debates of the British parliaments respecting North America (Carnegie institution of Washington, 1924), by Great Britain Parliament, Leo Francis Stock, Ireland. Parliament, and Scotland. Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings and debates of the British parliaments respecting North America (Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1966), by Great Britain Parliament, Leo Francis Stock, Ireland. Parliament, and Scotland. Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treaty of peace, good correspondence & neutrality in America between the most serene and mighty Prince James II by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c : and the most serene and mighty Prince Lewis XIV, the most Christian King : concluded the 6/16 day of Novemb. 1686. (In the Savoy [London] : Printed by Thomas Newcomb ..., 1686), by England and Wales and etc. England and Wales France. Treaties (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Colonial Captivities, Marches and Journeys: Edited Under the Auspices of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (New York, The Macmillan Company, 1935), ed. by Isabel M. Calder and J. Franklin Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aspinwall Papers (2 volumes (Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society v9-10); 1871), ed. by Thomas Aspinwall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial Children, ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Blanche Evans Hazard (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• 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 (reprinted New York: Empire State Book Co., from a London edition of 1874), ed. by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, ed. by William Noel Sainsbury, J. W. Fortescue, Cecil Headlam, Arthur Percival Newton, and K. G. Davies, contrib. by Great Britain Public Record Office (full serial archives)
• Camps and Firesides of the Revolution, ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Mabel Hill (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Charlemagne Tower Collection of American Colonial Laws (Philadelphia: Privately printed for the Historical society of Pennsylvania, 1890), by Historical Society of Pennsylvania
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren (2 volumes (Collections v72-73); Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1917-1925), by John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
• The Genesis of the United States (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1891), by Alexander Brown
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• An historical digest of the provincial press. Being a collation of all items of personal and historic reference relating to American affairs printed in the newspapers of the provincial period beginning with the appearance of "The present state of the New-English affairs," 1689, "Publick occurrences," 1690, and the first issue of "The Boston news-letter," 1704, and ending with the close of the revolution, 1783. (The Society Americana, 1908), by Edwin M. Bacon and Lyman Horace Weeks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Colonial entry-books; a brief guide to the colonial records in the Public record office before 1696 (Society for promoting Christian knowledge;, 1921), by Charles Strachan Sanders Higham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An historical digest of the provincial press : being a collation of all items of personal and historic reference relating to American affairs printed in the newspapers of the provincial period beginning with the appearance of The present state of the New-English affairs, 1689, Publick occurrences, 1690, and the first issue of the Boston news-letter, 1704, and ending with the close of the revolution, 1783. (The Society for americana, inc., 1911), by Edwin M. Bacon and Lyman Horace Weeks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonial image: origins of American culture (G. Braziller, 1962), by John Chester Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence of William Shirley : governor of Massachusetts and military commander in America, 1731-1760 (The Macmillan Company, 1912), by William Shirley, Charles Henry Lincoln, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, and Massachusetts. Governor (1741-1757 : Shirley) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narratives of the insurrections, 1675-1690 (C. Scribner's Sons, 1915), by Charles McLean Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narratives of the insurrections, 1675-1690. (Barnes & Noble, 1952), by Charles McLean Andrews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The papers of Lord George Germain; a brief description of the Stopford-Sackville papers now in the William L. Clements library (The William L. Clements Library, 1928), by Randolph Greenfield Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The publications of the Prince Society. (The Society, 1865), by Mass.) Prince Society (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select charters and other documents illustrative of American history, 1606-1775. (The Macmillan company, 1899), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gowan's bibliotheca americana... (W. Gowans, 1845), by William Gowans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tracts and other papers relating principally to the origin, settlement, and progress of the colonies in North America, from the discovery of the country to the year 1776. (P. Smith, 1947), by Peter Force (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tracts and other papers relating principally to the origin, settlement, and progress of the colonies in North America, from the discovery of the country to the year 1776. (Printed by P. Force, 1836), by Peter Force (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the manuscript materials for the history of the United States to 1783, in the British museum, in minor London archives, and in the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge (The Carnegie institution of Washington, 1908), by Charles McLean Andrews and Frances G. Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the materials for American history : to 1783, in the Public record office of Great Britain (Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1912), by Charles McLean Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plymouth church records, 1620-1859 ... ([New England society in the city of New York], 1900), by Plymouth (Mass.) First church] and New England Society in the City of New York (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Proceedings and debates of the British parliaments respecting North America (Carnegie institution of Washington, 1924), by Great Britain Parliament, Leo Francis Stock, Ireland. Parliament, and Scotland. Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter book of John Watts, merchant and councillor of New York, January 1, 1762-December 22, 1765. (Printed for the Society, 1928), by John Watts and Dorothy C. Barck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The genesis of the United States; a narrative of the movement in England, 1605-1616, which resulted in the plantation of North America by Englishmen, disclosing the contest between England and Spain for the possession of the soil now occupied by the United States of America, set forth through a series of historical manuscripts now first printed together with a reissue of rare contemporaneous tracts, accompanied by bibliographical memoranda, notes, and brief biographies. (Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1891), by Alexander Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opportunities for investigation in colonial history. (William L. Clements Library], 1925), by William L. Clements Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonial image : origins of American culture (G. Braziller, 1962), by John Chester Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select charters and other documents illustrative of American history, 1606-1775 (The Macmillan company ;, 1910), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bristol and America, a record of the first settlers in the colonies of North America, 1654-1685 ... more than 10,000 servants to foreign plantations ... (R.S. Glover, 1929), by Bristol (England) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American historical and literary curiosities : consisting of fac-similes of original documents relating to the events of the revolution &c., &c. With a variety of reliques, antiquities, and modern autographs (Putnam, 1852), by J. Jay Smith and John F. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The genesis of the United States; a narrative of the movement in England, 1605-1616, which resulted in the plantation of North America by Englishmen, disclosing the contest between England and Spain for the possession of the soil now occupied by the United States of America; set forth through a series of historical manuscripts now first printed together with a reissue of rare contemporaneous tracts, accompanied by bibliographical memoranda, notes, and brief biographies (Houghton Mifflin, 1897), by Alexander Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select charters and other documents illustrative of American history, 1606-1775 (The Macmillan Company;, 1914), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Correspondence of William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts and military commander in America, 1731-1760. (AMS Press, 1973), by William Shirley, Charles Henry Lincoln, and National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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. (Genealogical Pub. Co., 1962), by John Camden Hotten and Great Britain Public Record Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oaths of allegiance in colonial New England (The Society, 1922), by Charles Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• America and West Indies (Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1660), by Great Britain Public Record Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Work and materials for American history. ([New York?, 1890), by George Henry Moore and Charles Lowell Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old world in the New. (Old South Meeting House, 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Camps and firesides of the revolution (The Macmillan company;, 1902), by Albert Bushnell Hart and Mabel Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of reports and representations of the Plantation councils, 1660-1674, the Lords of trade, 1675-1696, and the Board of trade, 1696-1782, in the public record office ([Govt. print. off.], 1915), by Charles McLean Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial children (Macmillan, 1901), by Albert Bushnell Hart and Blanche Evans Hazard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select charters and other documents illustrative of American history, 1606-1775. (The Macmillan co., 1899), by William MacDonald (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. (J. W. Bouton, 1874), by John Camden Hotten and Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select charters and other documents illustrative of American history, 1606-1775 (The Macmillan company, 1906), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Plymouth church records, 1620-1859. (The Society, 1920), by Plymouth (Mass.). First Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original narratives of early American history (C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), by J. Franklin Jameson and American Historical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• British royal proclamations relating to America, 1603-1783. (B. Franklin, 1968), by England and Wales. Sovereign, Clarence S. Brigham, and Great Britain. Sovereign (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Clarendon papers. (New York Historical Society, 1870), by Edward Hyde Clarendon (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. (G.A. Baker, 1931), by John Camden Hotten and Great Britain Public Record Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the materials for American history, to 1783, in the Public records office of Great Britain. (Carnegie institution of Washington, 1965), by Charles McLean Andrews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The British public record office and the materials in it for early American history ([s.n.], 1893), by William Noel Sainsbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jared Ingersoll papers ([s. n.], 1918), by Jared Ingersoll and Franklin Bowditch Dexter (page images at HathiTrust)
• British royal proclamations relating to America, 1603-1783. (B. Franklin, 1911), by Great Britain. Sovereigns and Clarence S. Brigham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Camps and firesides of the revolution (Macmillan, 1905), by Albert Bushnell Hart and Mabel Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial children (Macmillan, 1905), by Albert Bushnell Hart and Blanche Evans Hazard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Calendar of state papers, Colonial series ... (London, 1660), by Great Britain Public Record Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the materials for American history, to 1783, in the Public Record Office of Great Britain ... (Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1912), by Charles McLean Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the materials for American history, to 1783, in the Public record office of Great Britain... (Carnegie institution of Washingtoon, 1912), by Charles McLean Andrews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Key to the Colonial office papers (old references and new references) in the Public record office of Great Britain. Extract from Guide to the materials for American history, to 1783, in the Public record office of Great Britain, volume 1 (Carnegie institution of Washington, 1912), by Charles McLean Andrews and Great Britain Public Record Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Senate documents] 13th Congress, 3d session, September 19, 1814 to March 3, 1815. (R.C. Weightman, 1914), by United States Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le général Sir Frederick Haldimand à Québec, 1778-84 (Société royale du Canada?, 1888), by J. M. Le Moine and Société royale du Canada (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 locations 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)
• Select charters and other documents illustrative of American history, 1606-1775 (Macmillan Co., 1904), by William MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publications. (Burt Franklin, 1865), by Mass.) Prince Society (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial children (Macmillan, 1917), by Albert Bushnell Hart and Blanche Evans Hazard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Camps and firesides of the revolution (Macmillan, 1918), by Mabel Hill and Albert Bushnell Hart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Colonial tracts. (G.P. Humphrey, 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
• British royal proclamations relating to America, 1603-1783. (Burt Franklin, 1964), by Great Britain. Sovereign and Clarence S. Brigham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The publications of the Prince Society. (Burt Franklin, 1967), by Mass.) Prince Society (Boston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Calendar of the Emmet collection of manuscripts etc. (New York, 1959), by New York Public Library. Emmet Collection, John S. Kennedy, and Thomas Addis Emmet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Original narratives of early American history (Scribner, 1906), by J. Franklin Jameson and American Historical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Genesis of the United States : a narrative of the movement in England, 1605-1616, which resulted in the plantation of North America by Englishmen, disclosing the contest between England and Spain for the possession of the soil now occupied by the United States of America (Houghton, Mifflin, 1890), by Alexander Brown (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)
• The publications of the Prince Society. (Boston, 1865), by Mass.) Prince Society (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial tracts (Rochester [N.Y. G.P. Humphrey, 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia Committee on Colonial Records. : The British Public Record Office. (Virginia State Library, 1960), by Neville Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Plymouth church records, 1620-1859. (The Society, 1920), by Plymouth (Mass.). First Church and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emigrants from Scotland to America, 1774-1775. Copied from a loose bundle of Treasury papers in the Public Record Office, London, England. (Genealogical pub. co., 1959), by Viola Root Cameron and Great Britain Public Record Office (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Narratives of the insurrections, 1675-1690 (Barnes & Noble, 1959), by Charles McLean Andrews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Calendar of the Sir William Johnson manuscripts in the New York state library. (University of the state of New York, 1909), by New York State Library, Richard Edwin Day, and University of the State of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• British royal proclamations relating to America, 1603-1783. (The Society, 1911), by Great Britain. Sovereign and Clarence S. Brigham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Camps and firesides of the revolution (Macmillan & co., ltd., 1902), by Albert Bushnell Hart and Mabel Hill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bristol and America, a record of the first settlers in the colonies of North America, 1654-1685, including the names with places origin of more than 10,000 servants to foreign plantations who sailed from the port of Bristol to Virginia, Maryland, and other parts of the Atlantic coast, and also to the West Indies from 1654 to 1685. This list is compiled and published from their records by special permission of the Corporation of the city of Bristol, England. (R. S. Glover, 1929), by Bristol (England), R. Hargreaves-Mawdsley, William Dodgson Bowman, and N. Dermott Harding (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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. (J. W. Bouton, 1874), by John Camden Hotten and Great Britain Public Record Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial children. (Macmillan, 1926), by Albert Bushnell Hart and Blanche Evans Hazard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Calendar of the Emmet collection of manuscripts etc. relating to American history (New York Public Library, 1900), by New York Public Library. Emmett Collection, John Stewart Kennedy, and Thomas Addis Emmet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the manuscript materials for the history of the United States to 1783. (The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1908), by Charles McLean Andrews and Frances G. Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our early emigrant ancestors : 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 (J.W. Bouton, 1880), by John Camden Hotten and Great Britain Public Record Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Beginnings of America, 1607-1763, ed. by Richard B. Morris and James Leslie Woodress (Gutenberg ebook)
• Oaths of Allegiance in Colonial New England, by Charles Evans (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 3 [of 3], by Benjamin Franklin (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 2 [of 3], by Benjamin Franklin (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 1 [of 3], by Benjamin Franklin (Gutenberg ebook)
• British Royal Proclamations Relating to America, 1603-1783, by Great Britain. Sovereign, ed. by Clarence S. Brigham (Gutenberg ebook)
• Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents, ed. by J. Franklin Jameson (Gutenberg ebook)

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