Directory of Documents Resources

A listing of web sites dealing with documents from the Colonial period of American history.

Resources in This Category

Account of the Boston Massacre

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1751-1775/captain-prestons-account-of-the-boston-massacre-march-5-1770.php
English Captain, Thomas Preston, describes to his king a situation of near anarchy in which he and his men were forced to exercise crowd control, with the use of some musketry, in the colonies.
An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virginia Company

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1600-1650/an-ordinance-and-constitution-of-the-virginia-company-in-england-24-july-1621.php
Establishment of a self-governing assembly in Virginia, 1621, complete text.
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

http://www.law.ou.edu/henry.html
Text of American patriot Patrick Henry's historic speech. From the University of Oklahoma Law Center.
The Charter of New England : 1620

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mass01.asp
Complete text of the British Charter for the settlement of New England.
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jfd3a/
Plymouth Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia, presents a collection of browsable and searchable texts and analysis papers on the Plymouth Colony, 1620-1691.

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