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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,…

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This is a first hand account by Gottlieb Mittelberger, who was a German schoolmaster and organist who traveled to Pennsylvania in 1750. He goes over the experiences he and others endured during travel to colonial America. The ships were extremely…

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This primary document is a first-hand account of indentured servants in the market and describes how some people’s hands were forced by threat of incarceration. Some people took desperate measures to avoid indentured contracts, such as selling their…

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In this source, Governor Dinwiddie seeks to gain Native American allies against the French, part of a British effort to acquire native allies. This highlights the alliances that formed prior to the war.

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This image is an illustration created by Howard Pyle of a court/church room where a trial is taking place. Two women are being accused by another woman of being a witch.

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This is an exert from John Eliot’s diary while he was a Puritan missionary to American Indians.
It describes his many relationships with several different chieftains and various other Native American
groups. As well as their relationships with…

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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…

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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…

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This letter is from Luis de Quirós to Juan Baptista de Segura of the Spanish Catholic Jesuit
Society. It details Luis de Quirós’s experiences with the Native Americans in which he asks for
seeds to trade with Native Americans, and gives a good…

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Part of Governor Shape’s correspondence, this details the buildup of French fortifications in the Ohio valley. The French construction discouraged English colonists and proved to be a point of great tension for Sharpe. Highlighting a key factor of…
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