Table of Contents

1. Captain John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles - the third booke; 2. Governor William Bradford, The History of Plimmoth Plantation; 3. Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Together with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson; 4. Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England from its first planting in the year 1620 until the year of our Lord 1698; 5. Sarah Kemble Knight, The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York, in the year 1704; 6. William Byrd II, History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina Run in the Year of our Lord 1728; 7. Jonathan Edwards, Personal Narrative; 8. Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Part One; 9. Patrick Tailfer, Hugh Anderson and David Douglas, A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia in America, Dedication, preface and selections; 10. Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence.

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Comprises texts from the American colonial period, which bear witness to the extraordinary diversity of writing at this time.