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Letters from America
Letters of America is a first-hand account by William Eddis who lived in Maryland and saw the life of servants and slaves. He talks about the common misconceptions that people have of indentured servants and their reasons for leaving. He contrasts…
The Accusation of Sarah Bishop
In this document, John Hale testifies in court that he witnessed Sarah Bishop having different “fits”. About midway through the document, it states that she had a vision of his children being dead. This is just one of the accusation that consisted of…
A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight; vpon, and from the Ilands of the Bermudas: his comming to Virginia, and the estate of that Colonie then, and after, vnder the gouernment of the Lord La Warrre, Iuly 15. 1610
A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight; vpon, and from the Ilands of the Bermudas: his comming to Virginia, and the estate of that Colonie then, and after, vnder the gouernment of the Lord La Warrre, Iuly 15. 1610…
Martha Carrier's Trial
In this document Joseph Houlton and John Walcot blames multiple wives of townsmen for “sundry acts of witchcraft.” Most importantly the accusation against Martha Carrier, because she was later tried and put to death for the accusation of being a…
A Trve Declaration of the estate of the Colonie in Virginia, With a confutation of such scandalous reports as haue tended to the disgrace of so worthy an enterprise
In the pamphlet, A Trve Declaration of the estate of the Colonie in Virginia, With a confutation of such scandalous reports as haue tended to the disgrace of so worthy an enterprise, the Virginia Company promoter, William Barret recounts a report…
Statutes at Large: A Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the first session of legislature, in the year 1619.
Collection of Laws of Virginia, beginning with the start of the Virginia Company in 1619
Observations gathered out of a Discourse of the Plantation of the Southerne Colonie in Virginia by the English, 1606.
Observations gathered out of a Discourse of the Plantation of the Southerne Colonie in Virginia by the English, 1606 is an exert from one of George Percy’s journals. It was re-printed in the anthology compiled by the Reverend Samuel Purchas,…
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
Fictional account by Daniel Defoe regarding the criminal entrepreneur Moll Flanders and her escapades in Colonial America
New World Woodcut Image
This is one of the first visual depictions of the New World with images of its natives. It is a German woodcut print by an unknown creator. The print is taken from the descriptions provided by early explorers of the New World and gives Europeans one…