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In colonial times; the adventures of Ann, the bound girl of Samuel Wales, of Braintree, in the province of Massachusetts Bay (Lothrop publishing company, 1899), by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
An essay on the constitutional power of Great Britain over the colonies in America; with the resolves of the Committee for the Province of Pennsylvania, and their instructions to their representatives in assembly. (Printed at Philadelphia, 1774), by John Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
The American colonies in the seventeenth century (The Macmillan Company;, 1904), by Herbert L. Osgood and Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. (Massachusetts Historical Society, 1717), by Massachusetts House of Representatives, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Rogers Memorial Collection, and Massachusetts Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
The suffrage franchise in the thirteen English colonies in America (For the University;, 1905), by Albert E. McKinley (page images at HathiTrust)
The financial administration of the colony of Virginia (Johns Hopkins press, 1915), by Percy Scott Flippin (page images at HathiTrust)
Legislative journals of the Council of colonial Virginia ... ([The Colonial Press, Everett Waddey Co.], 1918), by Virginia Council, H. R. McIlwaine, and Virginia State Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Les chartes coloniales et les constitutions des États-Unis de l'Amérique du Nord (Imprimerie nationale, 1885), by Alphonse Gourd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
New England and New France; contrasts and parallels in colonial history (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1913), by James Douglas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Thomas Hazard, son of Robt call'd College Tom. A study of life in Narragansett in the XVIIIth century (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893), by Caroline Hazard (page images at HathiTrust)
Social life of Virginia in the seventeenth century : an inquiry into the origin of the higher planting class, together with an account of the habits, customs, and diversions of the people (Printed for the author by Whittet & Shepperson, 1907), by Philip Alexander Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
North Carolina, a royal province 1729-1775 (University press, 1901), by Charles Lee Raper (page images at HathiTrust)
American magazine (Published for the Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1741), by John Webbe and Andrew Sowles Bradford (page images at HathiTrust)
Town and county government in the English colonies of North America. (N. Murray, publication agent, Johns Hopkins University, 1884), by Edward Channing (page images at HathiTrust)
Maryland under the Commonwealth : a chronicle of the years 1649-1658 (Johns Hopkins Press, 1911), by Bernard Christian Steiner (page images at HathiTrust)
The republic of New Haven : a history of municipal evolution (N. Murray, publication agent, Johns Hopkins University, 1886), by Charles H. Levermore (page images at HathiTrust)
Industrial experiments in the British Colonies of North America. (Johns Hopkins Press, 1898), by Eleanor Louisa Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
The historical relation of New England to the English commonwealth. (Press of A. Mudge], 1874), by John Wingate Thornton (page images at HathiTrust)
Colonial homesteads and their stories (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1912), by Marion Harland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
New England and the Bavarian Illuminati (The Columbia university press; [etc. etc.], 1918), by Vernon Stauffer (page images at HathiTrust)
The not-quite Puritans; some genial follies and peculiar frailties of our revered New England ancestors (Little, Brown and Co., 1928), by Henry Wells Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
Two west New Jersey tracts : with appendix. (Reprinted by Collins Printing House, 1880), by Samuel Jennings and George Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
The executive in proprietary Georgia, 1732-1752 (Atlanta, 1914), by James Ross McCain (page images at HathiTrust)
The colonial cavalier; or, Southern life before the revolution (Little, Brown & co., 1897), by Maud Wilder Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
The provincial governor in the English colonies of North America [microform] (Longmans, Green, 1898), by Evarts Boutell Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
Epistola, Rev. P. Gabrielis Dreuillettes, Societatis Jesu Presbyteri ad Dominum Illustrissimum, Dominum Joannem Wintrop, Scutarium. (Typis cramoisianis Joannis-Marae Shea, 1869), by Gabriel Dreuillette (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal and votes of the House of Representatives of the province of Nova Cesarea or New Jersey in their first session of assembly began at Perth Amboy, the 10th day of November, 1703. (J. H. Lyon, 1872), by New Jersey General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, civil, political and military from its earliest settlement to the present time, including historical descriptions of each county in the state, their towns, and industrial resources. (E. M. Gardner, 1883), by William Henry Egle and Albert Bernhardt Faust (page images at HathiTrust)
The Puritan republic of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (Bowen-Merrill, 1899), by Daniel Wait Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland : from the dissolution of the last Parliament of Charles II, until the sea-battle of La Hogue (Printed by David Hay, 1773), by John Dalrymple (page images at HathiTrust)
A short view of the history of the New England colonies, with respect to their charters and constitution. (Printed for J. Wilkie, 1776), by Israel Mauduit and Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
Two addresses to "The Associated Members of the Bar of Philadelphia." Pronounced by William Rawle,Esquire, Chancellor of the Association. (Philadelphia., 1824), by William Rawle, Pennsylvania, and Associated Members of the Bar of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
The compact with the charter and laws of the colony of New Plymouth : together with the charter of the Council at Plymouth, and an appendix, containing the Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England, and other valuable documents (Dutton and Wentworth, Printers to the State, 1836), by Massachusetts, William Brigham, United Colonies of New England, and Council for New England (page images at HathiTrust)
The famous old charter of Rhode Island, granted by King Charles II., in 1663 : also, the Rhode-Island Bill of rights, and the Declaration of religious freedom. (I.H. Cady, 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of the Commons house of assembly of South Carolina for the session beginning September 20, 1692, and ending October 15, 1692. (Printed by the State company, 1907), by South Carolina. Assembly, A. S. Salley, and Historical Commission of South Carolina (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of the Commons house of assembly of South Carolina, for the session beginning January 30, 1696, and ending March 17, 1696. (Printed for the Historical commission by the State company, 1908), by South Carolina. Assembly, A. S. Salley, and Historical Commission of South Carolina (page images at HathiTrust)
Social life of Virginia in the seventeenth century; an inquiry into the origin of the higher planter class, together with a description of the habits, customs, and diversions of the people. (Bell, 1927), by Philip Alexander Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
The works of Francis Parkman. (Little, Brown, and company, 1897), by Francis Parkman and John Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
Knickerbocker's New-York. (G.P. Putnam, 1848), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of New York : from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty (Putnam, 1868), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
De la puissance américaine : origine, -institutions, -esprit politique, ressources militaires, agricoles, commerciales et industrielles des Etats-Unis (W. Coquebert, 1845), by Guillaume Tell Poussin (page images at HathiTrust)
Francis Parkman's works (Little, Brown and company, 1899), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
Home life in colonial days (Macmillan Co.;, 1919), by Alice Morse Earle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Journals of the Commons house of assembly of South Carolina for the two sessions of 1697. (Printed by the State company, 1913), by South Carolina. Assembly, A. S. Salley, and Historical Commission of South Carolina (page images at HathiTrust)
Journals of the Commons house of assembly of South Carolina for the two sessions of 1698. (Printed for the Historical commission by the State company, 1914), by South Carolina. Assembly, A. S. Salley, and Historical Commission of South Carolina (page images at HathiTrust)
History of proprietary government in Pennsylvania (Columbia University, 1896), by William R. Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust)
The olden time in New York : (G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1872), by William Ingraham Kip (page images at HathiTrust)
German religious life in colonial times (J.B. Lippincott, 1906), by Lucy Forney Bittinger (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of an American lady, with sketches of manners and scenes in America as they existed previous to the Revolution. With unpublished letters and a memoir of Mrs. Grant by James Grant Wilson. (Dodd, Mead, 1909), by Anne MacVicar Grant and James Grant Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The early homes of the Puritans, and some old Ipswich houses; with the proceedings at the annual meeting, Dec. 6, 1897, and a list of contributors to the cabinet. (Salem Press Co., 1898), by Thomas Franklin Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
The Bay colony; a civil, religious and social history of the Massachusetts colony and its settlements from the landing at Cape Ann in 1624 to the death of Governor Winthrop in 1650 (Estes and Lauriat, 1896), by William Dummer Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
The conquest of New France : a chronicle of the colonial wars (Yale University Press ;, 1920), by George McKinnon Wrong (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Men, women and manners in colonial times. (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1897), by Sydney George Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
Government of the Colony of South Carolina (The Johns Hopkins press, 1895), by Edson Leone Whitney (page images at HathiTrust)
Colonial dames and good wives (Houghton, Mifflin & company, 1896), by Alice Morse Earle (page images at HathiTrust)
Las colonias de Inglaterra en América : discurso pronunciado en el Ateneo científico-literario de Madrid en el curso de política y sistemas coloniales (Imp. de J. Noguera a cargo de M. Martínez, 1874), by Rafael M. de Labra (page images at HathiTrust)
The wars on the seaboard: the struggle in Acadia and Cape Breton. (Boston New York, 1884), by Charles Card Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
The province of New Jersey, 1664-1738. (New York, Columbia University, Longmans, Green & Co, agents, 1908), by Edwin P. Tanner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Three commonwealths, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island : their early development (Press of C. Hamilton, 1903), by William B. Weeden (page images at HathiTrust)
Colonial children (Macmillan, 1917), by Albert Bushnell Hart and Blanche Evans Hazard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The national flag; Magna charta; Declaration of rights of American colonies, 1765 and 1774; Declaration of independence; Articles of confederation; Constitution of the United States; treaty with Mexico; General Riley's proclamations, 1849; act admitting California into the Union; constitution of California, 1849; constitution of California, 1879; proposed amendments to the constitution to be voted upon in November, 1910. (W. W. Shannon, supt. of state printing, 1909), by California. Secretary of State, Mexico. 1848 February 2, and California (page images at HathiTrust)
The American flag; declaration of rights; Declaration of independence; Articles of confederation; treaty with Mexico; Constitution of the United States; act of Congress admitting California into the Union; constitution of California, 1849 (with citations); constitution of California, 1879 (with citations); proposed amendments to the constitution to be voted upon in November, 1908; Magna charter (in Latin and English). Comp. by C.F.Curry, secretary of state. (W.W. Shannon, supt. state printing, 1907), by California. Secretary of State, United States. 1845-1849 Polk, United States, California, and Mexico. (1848 February 2) (page images at HathiTrust)
Knickerbocker history of New York. (John W. Lovell ;, 1884), by Washington Irving and William Louis Eulalie de Bonniville (page images at HathiTrust)
New France and New England (Riverside Press, 1904), by John Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
Francis Parkman's works. (Little, Brown, and Co., 1905), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
The works of Francis Parkman. (Little, Brown, 1897), by Francis Parkman and John Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
New France and New England. (Riverside press, 1902), by John Fiske (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The colonial cavalier; or Southern life before the revolution (Lovell, Coryell, 1894), by Maud Wilder Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
Jared Ingersoll; a study of American loyalism in relation to British colonial government (Yale University Press; [etc., etc.], 1920), by Lawrence Henry Gipson (page images at HathiTrust)
The great awakening : a history of the revival of religion in the time of Edwards and Whitefield (Charles Tappan, 1845), by Joseph Tracy (page images at HathiTrust)
The historical relation of New England to the English Commonwealth (A. Mudge & Son, 1874), by John Wingate Thornton (page images at HathiTrust)
The political history of the province of New York (J.F. Pearson, 1885), by Herbert Livingston Satterlee (page images at HathiTrust)
Colonial folkways : a chronicle of American life in the reign of Georges (Yale University Press, 1920), by Charles McLean Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
The conquest of New France : a chronicle of the colonial wars (Yale University Press, 1920), by George McKinnon Wrong (page images at HathiTrust)
Dr. Mayhew's election sermon, May 29th 1754 (Printed by Samuel Kneeland, printer to the Honourable House of Representatives, 1754), by Jonathan Mayhew and Massachusetts General Court (page images at HathiTrust)
A half-century of conflict (Little, Brown, 1902), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
Road to Revolution; Virginia's rebels from Bacon to Jefferson, 1676-1776. (Garrett and Massie, 1961), by Charles Willard Hoskins Warner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Journal of an embassy from Canada to the United Colonies of New England, in 1650. (1857), by John Gilmary Shea, Gabriel Dreuillette, United Colonies of New England, 1648-1651 New France. Gouvérneur, and New France. Conseil supérieur de Quebec (page images at HathiTrust)
Proceedings of the first assembly of Virginia, 1619. (1857), by Virginia General Assembly and George Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
Correspondence between the colonies of New Netherlands and New-Plymouth, A. D. 1627. From the letterbook of William Bradford, governor of New-Plymouth, &c. (1841), by Massachusetts. Governor (1621-1657 : Bradford), Isaack de Rasieres, William Bradford, and New York (State). Governor (1624-1631 : Minuit) (page images at HathiTrust)
The case of the Roxbury flats with a note on the early government and legislation of the Massachusetts Colony and the title in the sea shore of Massachusetts. (Cambridge : Riverside Press, [1858?], 1858), by Horace Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
A speech said to have been delivered some time before the close of the last session, by a member dissenting from the church. ([Boston, 1938), by Archibald Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A true and faithful narrative of the proceedings of the House of burgesses of North-Carolina, met in assembly for the said province at Newbern, Feburary [!] 5th, 1739, on the articles of complaint exhibited before them against the Honourable William Smith, esq; chief justice of the said province, for high crimes and misdemeanors done and committed by the said William Smith in the execution of his office. Published for the justification of the gentlemen members of that house, who voted the said articles sufficiently proved for the said chief justice to be charged therewith. Addressed to the freeholders of North-Carolina ... ([Boston, 1936), by North Carolina. General Assembly. House of Burgesses (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Plain truth: or, Serious considerations on the present state of the city of Philadelphia, and province of Pennsylvania. ([Boston, 1937), by Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Studies in American colonial life (Flood and Vincent, The Chautaugua century press, 1895), by Edward Everett Hale and Harriet E. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
Colonial children (Macmillan, 1923), by Albert Bushnell Hart and Blanche Evans Hazard (page images at HathiTrust)
Some seasonable considerations for the good people of Connecticut. [New York, Printed by William Bradford, 1694] ([Boston, 1941), by Gershom Bulkeley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The American colonies previous to the Declaration of Independence (Rivingtons, 1869), by John Andrew Doyle (page images at HathiTrust)
Summary, historical and political ... of the British settlements in North-America ... (Printed for R. And J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall, 1760), by William Douglass, Jacob Morton, Thomas Kitchin, New York Society Library, and R. and J. Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)
Present state of North America (Printed for, and sold by R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-mall, 1755), by John Huske and Ellis Huske (page images at HathiTrust)
Serious considerations on the present state of the affairs of the northern colonies. (Reprinted for R. Griffiths, 1754), by Archibald Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
Historical collections relating to the American Colonial Church. ([Church Press Co.] Printed for the Subscribers, 1870), by William Stevens Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
Colonial days in old New York (C. Scribner's Sons, 1901), by Alice Morse Earle (page images at HathiTrust)
The struggle for a continent : edited from the writings of Francis Parkman (Little, Brown & Co., 1902), by Francis Parkman and Pelham Edgar (page images at HathiTrust)
General laws of Massachusetts (Jordan & More, 1923), by Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
Naturalization in the American colonies : with more particular reference to Massachusetts (Printed by John Wilson and son, 22 School Street, 1859), by Joseph Willard (page images at HathiTrust)
A half century of conflict (Little, Brown, 1899), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
Virginians at home; family life in the eighteenth century. (Dominion Books, a division of the University Press of Virginia, 1963), by Edmund Sears Morgan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The genesis of a New England state (Connecticut). (Johns Hopkins University, 1883), by Alexander Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
Representation and suffrage in Massachusetts, 1620-1691 (The Johns Hopkins Press, 1894), by George H. Haynes (page images at HathiTrust)
Executive journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia. (Davis Bottom, 1925), by Virginia Council, H. R. McIlwaine, and Virginia State Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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