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Contents
PART I
PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION
FOR TEACHers, pupils, STUDENTS, AND LIBRARIES
CHAPTER I-THE SOURCES AND HOW TO FIND THEM PAGE
1. What are Sources?
2. Educative Value of Sources
3. Classification of Sources on the Colonies and the Revolution
4. Libraries of Sources in American History
5. Reprints of Collected Sources on the Colonies and the Revolution
6. Select Library of Sources on Colonization.
CHAPTER II-USE OF SOURCES
7. How to find Sources on the Colonies and the Revolution
15. Select List of Secondary Works on the Eighteenth Century and the Revo-
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24. John Adams:
"Overweening Prejudice in Favor of New England," 1775
25. Gabriel Thomas:
CHAPTER IV-MIDDLE COLONIES
Pennsylvania, the Poor Man's Paradise, 1698
26. Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations:
Proposal to Unite the two Jerseys, 1701
27. Secretary James Logan:
The Separation of Delaware, 1703
28. "Richard Castelman, Gent.":
Philadelphia, "a Noble, Large, and Populous City," 1710
29. John Conrad Wyser and other Palatines:
The Settlement of the Palatine Germans in New York, 1709-1720
30. His Majesty's Council in New Jersey:
"Concerning the Riots & Insurrections in New Jersey," 1744-1748
31. Robert Proud:
Politics in Pennsylvania, 1740-1754
32. Reverend Andrew Burnaby :
33. Robert Beverly:
CHAPTER V-SOUTHERN COLONIES
Andros's and Nicholson's Administrations, 1690-1705
34. Edward Randolph :
Report of an Investigating Agent in Carolina, 1699
35. Eliza Lucas:
A South Carolina Settlement, 1742
36. Governor Horatio Sharpe:
Routine in Maryland, 1754
37. Reverend James Maury:
The Parson's Opinion of "the Parson's Cause," 1763
38. Commissioners of Maryland and Pennsylvania:
The Running of Mason and Dixon's Line, 1763-1767 .
CHAPTER VI-GEORGIA
39. General James Edward Oglethorpe :
"Designs of the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia," 1733 ·
40. Reverend Johann Martin Bolzius:
The Coming of the Salzburg Germans, 1734
41. Reverend Samuel Quincy:
A New England Man in Georgia, 1735.
42. Freeholders and the Georgia Trustees:
The Question of Slavery in Georgia, 1738–1739
43. Secretary Colonel William Stephens:
Mr. Whitefield's Orphan-House, 1740
44. Edmund Burke:
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"The Law in all our Provinces," 1757
"Defence of the New-England Charters,” 1721
49. Governor Sir William Keith:
"A Short Discourse on the Present State of the Colonies," 1728
50. Doctor William Douglass :
Various Kinds of Colonial Government, 1747
51. Monsieur Charles de Secondat de Montesquieu :
52. Edmund Burke:
53. Late Governor Thomas Pownall:
A French Publicist's View of the British Constitution, 1748.
56. Secretary George Clarke, Jr.:
One Thousand Pounds for a Governorship, 1740
57. Governor George Clinton:
A Governor's Perquisites, 1743-1746
58. Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations :
Recommendation for the Removal of a Governor, 1762 .
59. Late Governor Thomas Pownall:
62. General Assembly of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations:
Proceedings of a Colonial Legislature, 1723
63. Governor Gabriel Johnston:
The Dissolution of an Assembly, 1737
64. Secretary Charles Read:
Minutes of a Colonial Council, 1752
65. Governor Lewis Morris:
A Determined Veto Message, 1742.
66. Late Governor Thomas Pownall:
How to Avoid a Governor's Veto, 1764
67. Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations:
Disallowance of a Colonial Bill, 1770
68. Agent Benjamin Franklin:
Dispute over the Agency, 1771
76. Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Common Council of Albany:
Records of a City Government, 1700
77. Vestry of St. Paul's Parish, Chowan Precinct :
Record of a Vestry Meeting, 1702 .
78. Clerk Captain Richard Waterman:
Proceedings of a Town-Meeting, 1721
79. John Adams:
The Dignity of a Selectman, 1763–1766.