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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:
The Ground of Dispute over Salaries, 1764 .
60. Secretary the Earl of Dartmouth :
A Reprimand to a Colonial Governor, 1772.
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61. Charles Pettit:
CHAPTER IX-COLONIAL ASSEMBLIES
A Colonial Election, 1764
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
CHAPTER X-COLONIAL COURTS
69. "A Swiss Gentleman ":
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CHAPTER XI-COLONIAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT
75. Clerk Ephraim Herman:
The Business of a County Court, 1681 .
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
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CHAPTER XIV-INTELLECTUAL LIFE
90. Reverend President Thomas Clap:
"The History of Yale-College," 1698-1717
91. Reverend Mather Byles:
King George the First," 1727.
"A poetical Lamentation, occasioned by the Death of His late Majesty
92. Reverend Cotton Mather:
"Some Account of the Earthquake that shook New-England,” 1727
93. Reverend Doctor Increase Mather:
A Protest against a Wicked Newspaper, 1722
94. Benjamin Franklin:
The People's Favorite Literature, 1744.
95. Nathaniel Ames:
A Year of a College Student's Life, 1758
96. Francis Hopkinson:
A Skit on College Examinations, 1784 .
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PART V
INTERCOLONIAL, 1689-1764
CHAPTER XVII-THE FRENCH COLONIES
109. Bénard de la Harpe:
Foundation of Louisiana, 1700-1703
110. Lieutenant-Governor Alexander Spotswood:
Danger from the French Mississippi Settlements, 1718.
III. Surveyor-General Cadwallader Colden:
The French and the Fur Trade, 1724.
112. Professor Peter Kalm:
The Government of Canada, 1749
113. James Adair:
CHAPTER XVIII-THE INDIANS
The Life of an Indian Trader, 1735-1775 ·
114. Professor Peter Kalm:
Small Pox and Brandy among the Indians, 1749
115. Sir William Johnson:
A Flowery Speech to the Six Nations, 1753
116. Captain Jonathan Carver :
"A Concise Character of the Indians," 1767
CHAPTER XIX-INTERCOLONIAL WARS
117. Comptroller-General de Monseignat:
The Taking of Schenectady, 1690.
134. John Filson:
"The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon," 1769-1775
135. Governor the Earl of Dunmore:
Cold Water on an Ohio Colony, 1770
136. Reverend Joseph Doddridge:
The Settlement of the Western Country, 1772-1774
137. François Jean, Marquis de Chastellux :
How the Frontiers were Settled, 1780
CHAPTER XXIII-THE STAMP ACT CONTROVERSY
138. Martin Howard:
A Colonist's Defence of Taxation, 1765.
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