Michael Drayton.
1563–1631. |
Epigram: To the Virginian Voyage |
Captain John Smith.
1580–1631. |
An Adventure on the Chickahominy |
The Sea Mark |
On the Advantages of New England; with Historical Reflections |
The Romance of Pocahontas |
John Rolfe.
1585–1622. |
Why He Married Pocahontas |
Richard Rich.
fl. 1610. |
A Ballad of Virginia |
William Strachey.
1572?–1621. |
A Storm off the Bermudas |
A Portrait of King Powhatan |
The Aboriginal Devil |
George Percy.
1580–1632. |
The Experiences of a Virginia Colony |
Alexander Whitaker.
1585–1616. |
An Infant Colony |
John Pory.
1572–1636. |
A Philosophical Adventurer |
How the Colonists Went into Indian Society |
Anonymous |
How the English Settled in Maryland |
Colonel Henry Norwood.
c. 1614–1689. |
A Dolorous Journey to the New World |
A Fight for Life |
The Rescue |
George Herbert.
1593–1633. |
Religion Westward Bent |
William Bradford.
1590–1657. |
Divers Recollections of Puritan Strictness |
Sundry Reasons for the Removal from Leyden |
How the Colony Was Troubled with a Hypocrite |
The Pestilent Morton and his Merry Mount |
The Life and Death of Elder Brewster |
Providence and the Pilgrim |
Edward Winslow and William Bradford |
“Bradford’s and Winslow’s Journal”: An Excursion up Cape Cod |
The Story of the First Encounter |
The Landing of the Pilgrims and Their Settlement at Plymouth |
Edward Winslow.
1595–1655. |
How the Pilgrims Sailed from Delft Haven |
Massasoit’s Illness, and How Winslow Cured Him |
William Morrell.
fl. 1625. |
A Recommendation of New-England |
Francis Higginson.
1587–1630. |
On a Voyage to the Massachusetts |
The Commodities of New-England |
A Setting-forth of Discommodities |
Thomas Morton.
1575–1646. |
On the Punctilio of the Savage |
Of a Vision and a Battle |
The Revels at Merry Mount |
The Valiant Expedition of Captain Shrimp, Otherwise Miles Standish |
How the Separatists Paid Debts to Them That Were without |
William Wood.
fl. 1629–1635. |
Aboriginal Cookery |
Woodland Adventures |
Anecdotes of the Natives |
The Meek Wives of the New World |
Anthony Thacher.
d. 1668. |
The Woful Shipwreck of Master Anthony Thacher |
Richard Mather.
1596–1669. |
A Good Man’s Promises to God |
A Chronicle of Wind and Wave |
Captain John Underhill.
1597–1672. |
Of the Advice of Mistress Underhill |
The End of a Majestical Embassy |
Major John Mason.
1600–1672. |
The Taking of the Fort at Mystic |
The Bloody Harvest of Pawcatuck |
A Remembrance of Special Providences |
Thomas Hooker.
1586–1647. |
The Weak Minister and the Impenitent Hearer |
The Sinner at the King’s Court |
On Groundless Hopes of Heaven |
The Fearful Soul |
God’s Dealings with His Servants |
William Hooke.
1601–1678. |
On Horrible War |
Christian Liberty |
The Death of the Protector |
The Bay Psalm Book |
Songs of the Puritans |
Thomas Shepard.
1605–1649. |
The Spiritual Experiences of a Puritan |
A Character of Mistress Joanna Shepard |
The Way to Heaven |
On the Glory of God |
The Last Judgment |
Thomas Weld.
1590?–1662. |
The Heresies of Anne Hutchinson and her Followers |
How the Heresies Came to an End |
Peter Bulkley.
1583–1659. |
New England and her Covenant |
Roger Williams.
1604?–1683. |
The Bloody Tenent of Persecution |
A Warning to Endicott |
Of the Heavenly Bodies |
In the Valley of the Shadow of Death |
John Cotton.
1585–1652. |
An Epitaph for Sara and Roland Cotton |
Psalm-Singing a Godly Exercise |
On the Composing and Singing of Psalms with a Lively Voice |
Concerning the Singers: Whether Women, Pagans, and Profane and Carnal Persons |
An Exposition of Hypocrites |
In Praise of Master Stone |
Samuel Stone.
1602–1663. |
Why Socrates Is Not Plato, nor Plato Socrates |
James Noyes.
1608–1656. |
The Power of Magistrates in the Church |
Nathaniel Ward.
1578–1652. |
On the Frivolities of Fashion |
The Gift of Poetry |
A Lesson on Practical Religion |
A Word to England |
A Word of Ireland |
Six Hobnails |
In Praise of Mistress Bradstreet |
The Cambridge Platform |
Of the Nature of the Catholic Church in General |
Of Ruling Elders |
Of Excommunication and Other Censures |
Anonymous |
The New England Preachers |
Thomas Dudley.
1576–1653. |
A New England Gentleman’s Epitaph |
John Winthrop.
1588–1649. |
A Night in the Forest |
The Reconciliation of Winthrop and Dudley |
How the Fathers Disciplined Governor Vane |
A Puritan School-Master |
The Penitence of Captain Underhill |
A Puritan Opinion of Literary Women |
A Punishment of Parental Love |
The Manner of Master Eliot’s Teaching |
Of Liberty and Authority |
A Model of Christian Charity |
A Preparation for Parting |
A Farewell from the “Arbella” |
Margaret Tyndal Winthrop.
1591–1647. |
A Puritan Wife to Her Husband |
The Trust of a Godly Woman |
Anne Bradstreet.
c. 1612–1672. |
Of the Four Ages of Man |
A Love-Letter to Her Husband |
Meditations Divine and Moral |
Contemplations |
Captain Edward Johnson.
1599?–1672. |
A Leave-Taking at Southampton |
The Courage of the Mothers in Israel |
The Escape of Shepard and Norton |
How Nimble Captain Davenport Saved a Soldier |
An Answer to Prayer |
Of John Winthrop. Esq. |
Of the Reverend Mr. Higginson |
The First Promotion of Learning in New England |
The Wages of Discontent |
A Cry unto the Lord to Stay His Hand |
John Eliot.
1604–1690. |
On Admonishing the Indians |
Pills for the Sachems |
A Scandal in the Indian Israel |
Character of a True Christian |
John Hammond.
d. 1707. |
The Virtuous Virginians |
A Story of Colonial Ingratitude |
Edward Holyoke.
d. 1660. |
How Tirzana Beguiled the King |
Benjamin Woodbridge.
d. 1710. |
A New England Saint |
John Norton.
1606–1663. |
The Life of Master Cotton |
God’s Relation to Man |
John Davenport.
1597–1670. |
Of Miracles |
The Sinful Keeping of Christmas |
James Cudworth.
1612?–1682. |
An Opponent of Persecution |
Letters of the Quakers |
To the Bloody Town of Boston |
The Cry of the Persecuted |
The Farewell of a Victim |
The Quaker Petition |
A Recital of Grievous Outrages |
George Alsop.
b. 1638. |
The Lofty Virtues of the Marylanders |
Divers Aboriginal Customs and Absurdities |
Upon a Purple Cap |
Thomas Walley.
1616–1678. |
The Languishing Commonwealth |
Nathaniel Morton.
1613–1685. |
The Separation of Roger Williams |
Samuel Gorton, the Subtle Deceiver |
In Remembrance of Winthrop |
A Boston Divine |
Daniel Denton.
fl. 1656–1696. |
New York in the Seventeenth Century |
John Josselyn.
fl. 1630–1675. |
An Indian Beauty |
A Report of Wonders |
The Ways of the Men of Maine |
Daniel Gookin.
1612–1687. |
Conjectures of the Savage, His Original |
Diplomacy in Boston |
Concerning Learned Indian Youth |
The Praying Savages of Natick |
Wannalancet’s Canoe |
Heresy in Martha’s Vineyard |
Sir William Berkeley.
1605–1677. |
His Declaration against the Proceedings of Nathaniel Bacon |
Nathaniel Bacon.
1647–1676. |
His Declaration in the Name of the People of Virginia. July 30th, 1676 |
Anonymous |
Causes of the Strife between Governor Berkeley and Nathaniel Bacon, Gentleman |
The Lion’s Strength Aided by the Fox’s Brains |
Bacon’s Death, Eulogy, and Execration |
The Self-made General Ingram |
His Decline and Fall |
T. M. |
The Virginia Rebellion in the Seventeenth Century |
Peter Folger.
1617?–1690. |
A Homely Plea for Toleration |
Captain Thomas Wheeler.
c. 1620–1686. |
The Siege of Brookfield |
Roger Clap.
1609–1691. |
How the Puritans Suffered and Loved One Another |
The Building of Boston Castle |
Thorns in the Flesh of the Fathers |
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America |
Michael Wigglesworth.
1631–1705. |
The Day of Doom |
Vanity of Vanities |
Jonathan Mitchell.
1624–1668. |
On Looking up Steadfastly into Heaven |
Joshua Scottow.
1618–1698. |
The Nursing Fathers of the New World |
William Hubbard.
1621/2–1704. |
Captain Miles Standish His Temper |
Taking of the Narraganset Fort |
Subtlety and Courage of the Friendly Indians |
How an Indian Bore Himself under Torture |
Benjamin Tompson.
1642–1714. |
On the Women Fortifying Boston Neck |
The Alarming Progress of Luxury in New England |
In Praise of the Renowned Cotton Mather |
Urian Oakes.
1631–1681. |
Elegy on the Death of Thomas Shepard |
A Contrite Spirit Better Than Outward Seeming |
John Rogers.
1630–1684. |
Upon Mrs. Anne Bradstreet Her Poems |
John Norton.
c. 1651–1716. |
Dirge for the Tenth Muse |
Charles Wolley.
fl. 1700. |
Fellow-Passengers to England |
Knickerbocker Customs in the Pleasant Olden Time |
New York and the Prodigious Voyage Thither |
Mary Rowlandson.
c. 1635–1711. |
Story of Her Captivity, Sufferings and Restoration |
Benjamin Church.
1639–1718. |
A Death-Grapple |
The Death of King Philip |
Capture and Fate of the Great Annawon |
Nathaniel Byfield.
1653–1733. |
The Revolt against Sir Edmund Andros |
Samuel Willard.
1640–1707. |
Authority Must Take Pattern from on High |
Increase Mather.
1639–1723. |
The Sign of the Blazing Star |
Concerning Remarkable Judgments |
The Dæmon at William Morse His House |
That There be Dæmons and Possessed Persons |
Of the Workings of Satan |
Of the Discovery of Witches |
Deodat Lawson.
fl. 1680–1698. |
Witchcraft in Salem |
Cotton Mather.
1663–1728. |
Of Beelzebub and His Plot |
The Trial of George Burroughs |
How Martha Carrier Was Tried |
The Invisibilizing of Witches |
The Story of Margaret Rule |
A City Helped of the Lord |
Master Theophilus Eaton His Great Soul |
How Captain Phips Became a Knight of the Golden Fleece |
The Life and Death of Master Thomas Hooker |
The Exquisite Charity of Master John Eliot |
The Voice of God in the Thunder |
Of Abigail, His Wife |
The Last Days of Increase Mather |
Robert Calef.
1648–1719. |
A Warning to the Ministers |
Touching the Supposed Witchcraft in New England |
Samuel Sewall.
1652–1730. |
The Judge’s Confession |
An Early Anti-Slavery Tract |
How Judge Sewall Courted Madam Winthrop |
Nicholas Noyes.
1647–1717. |
Damon and Pythias at Newbury |
A Consolatory Poem |
John Miller.
1666–1724. |
Evils and Inconveniences in New York |
Gabriel Thomas.
17th Century. |
Pennsylvania and the City of Brotherly Love |
George Keith’s New Religion |
Jonathan Dickinson.
1663–1722. |
The Capture of the Castaways |
The Painful Journey to St. Augustine |
William Penn.
1644–1718. |
A Letter to the Indians |
On His Departure from America |
John Wise.
1652–1725. |
The Anglo-Saxon Hatred of Arbitrary Power |
Thomas Bridge.
1657–1715. |
The Choice of Civil Officers |
The Saybrook Platform |
Cause and Manner of Its Adoption |
The Heads of Agreement |
Benjamin Wadsworth.
1670–1737. |
The Character of William III |
John Williams.
1664–1729. |
The Desolations of Deerfield |
Favors in the Midst of Afflictions |
Among the French and Indians |
Sarah Kemble Knight.
1666–1727. |
From Boston to New York in 1704 |
Robert Beverly.
1673–1716. |
A Royalist Governor in Virginia |
The Pastimes of Colonial Virginia |
Ebenezer Cook.
c. 1667–c. 1732. |
Of Meeting a Godly Knave in Maryland |
John Lawson.
1674?–1712. |
Revels of the Carolina Indians |
“Husquenawing” |
Francis Yonge |
An Early Rebellion in South Carolina |
Hugh Jones.
1691–1760. |
Virginia in 1722 |
Samuel Penhallow.
1665–1726. |
The Strange End of a Great Expedition |
Thomas Symmes.
1678–1725. |
The Engagement at Pigwacket |
Anonymous |
Lovewell’s Fight |
Benjamin Coleman.
1673–1747. |
A Quarrel with Fortune |
The Ascent of the Saint |
A Tale of Piracy |
The Citizen’s Obligations |
William Byrd.
1674–1744. |
The First Survey in the Dismal Swamp |
A Profitable Day |
A Visit to Colonel Spotswood |
John Thompson.
1720–1772. |
An Argument for Marrying a Clergyman |
Thomas Chalkley.
1675–1741. |
The Doctor’s Dream |
John Gyles.
1680?–1755. |
The Adventures of a Captive |
Superstitions of the Woods |
Roger Wolcott.
1679–1767. |
The Lesson of Life |
A Storm at Sea |
In the Fields |
George Berkeley.
1685–1753. |
A Glimpse of His Country House near Newport |
The View from Honeyman’s Hill |
The Ideal Philosophy in Brief |
Greatness of Plato and the Ancient Schools |
Thomas Prince.
1687–1758. |
The Great Earthquake in Jamaica |
Cadwallader Colden.
1688–1776. |
The Story of Piskaret |
Anonymous |
On a Lady, Singing |
William Stith.
1707–1755. |
The Un-Solomonized James I. |
Richard Granville’s Last Fight |
The History of Captain John Smith |
Sir John Randolph.
c. 1693–1737. |
Two Colonial Lawyers |
Aquila Rose.
1695–1723. |
To His Companion at Sea |
The Much-Loved Child |
Samuel Mather.
1706–1785. |
The Home Life of Cotton Mather |
John Seccomb.
1708–1792. |
Father Abbey’s Will |
Ebenezer and Jane Turell |
A Fair Puritan and Her Poetry |
John Osborn.
1713–1753. |
A Whaling Song |
John Adams.
1704–1740. |
The Contented Man |
Of Love and Beauty |
As Glides the Pictured Dream |
David Brainerd.
1718–1747. |
How Brainerd Found the Excellent Way of Salvation |
A Savage Reformer |
Jonathan Edwards.
1703–1758. |
His Early and Rapturous Sense of Divine Things |
That Material Existence Is Merely Ideal |
A Self-Trained Berkeleian |
Laplace Anticipated |
A Young Christian’s Directory |
Of Sarah Pierrepont, Who afterward Became His Wife |
A Child of the Covenant |
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
The Eternity of Hell Torments |
Why Saints in Glory Will Rejoice to See the Torments of the Damned |
That the Devil Can Cite Scripture for His Purpose |
Character of David Brainerd |
Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of Moral Agency |
Whether Any Event, or Volition, Can Come to Pass without a Cause |
The Secondary and Inferior Kind of Beauty |
John Callender.
1706–1748. |
Liberty of Conscience in Rhode Island |
William Stephens.
1671–1753. |
Politics and Racing in Colonial Georgia |
The Old Governor’s Sorrow |
Charles Chauncy.
1705–1787. |
Some Oddities of Belief |
Clerical Epithets in the Eighteenth Century |
James Ralph.
d. 1762. |
The Prince’s Vision |
The Griefs of Authors |
Nathaniel Ames.
1708–1764. |
The Waking of the Sun |
An Essay upon the Microscope |
A Prophecy for North America |
Mather Byles.
1707–1788. |
The Teaching of the Grave |
The Delights of the Next World |
The Last Tempest |
To the Great Mr. Pope |
Hymn Written During a Voyage |
Joseph Green.
1706–1780. |
The Parson’s Psalm |
Of Dr. Byles’s Cat |
A Lamentation for Old Tenor Currency |
John Winthrop.
1714–1779. |
The Effects of the Earthquake |
Joseph Bellamy.
1719–1790. |
The Sum of All Virtue |
A Picture of the Millennium |
Eliza Lucas Pinckney.
1723–1793. |
A Love-Letter of the Last Century |
An Essay in Criticism |
Samuel Davies.
1723–1761. |
A Parson’s Call to Arms |
William Livingston.
1723–1790. |
The Wife |
The Career of a Colonial Dictator |
The Story of Braddock’s Defeat |
Nicholas Scull.
1686?–1761? |
A War of Kings |
Samuel Niles.
1674–1762. |
The French on Block Island |
The Fall of Quebec |
Verse of the French and Indian War |
Song of Braddock’s Men |
An Epitaph for Braddock |
The Death of Wolfe |
William Smith.
1728–1793. |
The Rule of Jacob Leisler; and His Fate |
Manners and Customs of Colonial New York |
An Anti-Semitic Excitement in New York |
Anthony Benezet.
1713–1784. |
An Early Protest against the Slave-Trade |
Thomas Godfrey.
1736–1763. |
The Patriot |
A Dithyrambic on Wine |
The Wish |
Amyntor |
The Deaths of Evanthe and Arsaces |
Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson.
1737–1801. |
The Country Parson |
Nathaniel Evans.
1742–1767. |
To May |