Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod

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1 indicates selection or author new to this edition Preface Exploration and the Colonies The Original Inhabitants Virginia and the South New England Exploration Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485?-1528) Verrazzano's Voyage: 1524 Alvar NÚÑez Cabez de Vaca (C.1490-C.1557) The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca The Indians bring us food The departure of four Christians The Christians leave the island of Malhado The coming of Indians with Andres Dorantes, Castillo, and Estevanico Our separation by the Indians Of our escape Our cure of some of the afflicted The coming of other sick to us the next day. Samuel De Champlain (c ). Voyages of Samuel de Champlain: The Voyages of Continuation of the discoveries along the coast of the Almouchiquois, and what we observed in detail The Colonies John Smith ( ) THE General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles The Third Book The Proceedings and Accidents of the English Colony in Virginia Chapter II: What Happened till the First Supply The Fourth Book: The Proceedings of the English after the Alteration of the Government Of Virginia John Smith's Relation to Queen Anne of Pocahontas (1616) The Sixth Book The General History of New England The Description of New England William Bradford ( ) Of Plymouth Plantation Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod Showing How they Sought out a place of Habitation; and What Befell them Thereabout Of Plymouth Plantation [The Mayflower Compact (1620)] [Compact with the Indians (1621)] [First Thanksgiving (1621)] [Narragansett Challenge (1622)]

2 [Thomas Morton of Merrymount (1628)] Thomas Morton (C ) New English Canaan The First Book: Containing the Original of the Natives, Their Manners, and Customs, with their Tractable Nature and Love towards the English Of Their Houses and Habitations Of their Admirable Perfection in the Use of the Senses The Third Book Containing a Description of the People that are Planted There Of the Revels of New Canaan Of a Great Monster Supposed to be at Ma-re Mount John Winthrop ( ) A Model of Christian Charity Roger Williams (1603?-1683) The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Preface The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody Letter to the Town of Providence Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672) The Prologue The Four Ages of Man Childhood The Flesh and the Spirit Contemplations The Author to Her Book Before the Birth of One of Her Children To My Dear and Loving Husband A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment Another [Letter of Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment] In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 Meditations, Divine and Moral Michael Wigglesworth ( ) The Day of Doom Puritanism Mary Rowlandson (1636?-1711?) A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Samuel Sewall ( ) The Diary of Samuel Sewall [Customs, Courts, and Courtships] Edward Taylor (1642?-1729)

3 The Preface Meditation 1, First Series Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children The Experience Huswifery Meditation 8, First Series The Glory of and Grace in the Church set out Upon a Spider Catching a Fly The Reflexion The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly attended Meditation 42, First Series A Fig for thee Oh! Death Two Meditations on "The Song of Solomon," Canticle VI Meditation 142, Second Series Meditation 146, Second Series Cotton Mather ( ) The Wonders of the Invisible World Enchantments Encountered The Trial of Bridget Bishop A Third Curiosity Magnalia Christi Americana The Life of John Winthrop The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phips Bonifacius: Essays to Do Good Much Occasion for Doing Good The Excellence of Well-Doing The Reward of Well-Doing Opportunities to Do Good On Internal Piety and Self-Examination Sarah Kemble Knight ( ) The Journal of Madam Knight [New England Frontier] [Connecticut] [New York City] The South and the Middle Colonies Ebenezer Cook (1667?-1733?) The Sotweed Factor William Byrd ( ) The History of the Dividing Line [The Marooner] [Lubberland]

4 [Indian Neighbors] A Progress to the Mines [Reading a Play in the Backwoods] John Woolman ( ) The Journal of John Woolman [Early Years] [On Merchandise] [Evidence of Divine Truth] [Slavery] [Taxes and Wars] St. Jean De CrÈvecour ( ) Letters from an American Farmer What Is an American? Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on Slavery; On Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene Sketches of Eighteenth Century America Manners of the Americans William Bartram ( ) Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida [Alligators] [The Amazing Crystal Fountain] [Indian Corn, Green Meadows, and Strawberry Fields] Reason and Revolution The Englightenment and the Spirit of Rationalism From Neoclassical to Romantic Literature Jonathan Edwards ( ) Sarah Pierrepont A Divine and Supernatural Light Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Personal Narrative Benjamin Franklin ( ) The Autobiography Poor Richard's Almanack Preface to Poor Richard, 1733 The Way to Wealth: Preface to Poor Richard, 1758 An Edict by the King of Prussia The Sale of the Hessians The Ephemera To Madame Helvetius Information to Those Who Would Remove to America Letter to William Franklin [We Are Men, All Subject to Errors]

5 Letter to Ezra Stiles [Here Is My Creed] Speech in the [Constitutional] Convention Thomas Paine ( ) Common Sense Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs The American Crisis The Age of Reason [Profession of Faith] [Of Myth and Miracle] [Christian Revelation and Nature] [First Cause: God of Reason] [Recapitulation] John Adams ( ) Abigail Adams ( ) Letters Thomas Jefferson ( ) The Declaration of Independence First Inaugural Address Notes on the State of Virginia [A Southerner on Slavery] Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush [The Christian Deist] Letter to John Adams [The True Aristocracy] Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797?) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 7 Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) To the University of Cambridge, in New-England On Being Brought from Africa to America On the Death of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield An Hymn to the Evening To S.M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works To His Excellency General Washington The Federalist ( ) The Federalist No. 1 [Alexander Hamilton] The Federalist No. 10 [James Madison]

6 Philip Freneau ( ) To Sir Toby To the Memory of the Brave Americans On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man The Wild Ho Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.