INTRODUCTION.
By the Editor
THE FOUNDING OF ST. AUGUSTINE AND THE MASSACRE BY MENENDEZ (1562-1565):
I. The Account By John A. Doyle.
II. Mendoza's account
SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S VIRGINIA COLONIES (1584-1587):
I. The Account by John A. Doyle
II. The Return of the Colonists with Sir Francis Drake.
By Ralph Lane
III. The birth of Virginia Dare
By John White
BARTHOLOMEW GOSNOLD'S DISCOVERY OF CAPE COD (1602)
I. By Gabriel Archer, One of Gosnold's Companions
II. Gosnold's Own Account
THE FOUNDING OF JAMESTOWN (1607)
By Captain John Smith
THE FIRST AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY (1619)
By John Twine, its Secretary
THE ORIGIN OF NEGRO SLAVERY IN AMERICA:
I. In the West Indies (1518)
By Sir Arthur Helps
II. Its Beginnings in the United States (1620)
By John A. Doyle
NEW ENGLAND BEFORE THE PILGRIM FATHERS LANDED (1614)
By Captain John Smith
THE FIRST VOYAGE OF THE "MAYFLOWER" (1620)
By Governor William Bradford
THE FIRST NEW YORK SETTLEMENTS (1623-1628)
By Nicolas Jean de Wassenaer
THE SWEDES AND DUTCH IN NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE (1627)
By Israel Acrelius
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY (1627-1631).
By Governor Thomas Dudley
HOW THE BAY COLONY DIFFERED FROM PLYMOUTH.
By John G. Palfrey
LORD BALTIMORE IN MARYLAND (1633).
By Contemporary Writers.
ROGER WILLIAMS IN RHODE ISLAND (1636).
By Nathaniel Morton
THE FOUNDING OF CONNECTICUT (1633-1636).
By Alexander Johnston.
WITCHCRAFT IN NEW ENGLAND (1647-1696).
By John G. Palfrey
THE ENGLISH CONQUEST OF NEW YORK (1664)
By John R. Brodhead
BACON'S REBELLION IN VIRGINIA (1667).
By an Anonymous Writer
KING PHILIP'S WAR (1676).
By William Hubbard
THE FOUNDING OF PENNSYLVANIA:
I. Penn's Account of the Colony (1684).
II. Penn's Treaty with the Indians (1683).
His Own Account
III. The Reality of Penn's Treaty
By George E. Ellis
THE CHARTER OAK AFFAIR IN CONNECTICUT (1682).
By Alexander Johnston
THE COLONIZATION OF LOUISIANA (1699).
By Charles E. T. Gayerré.
OGLETHORPE IN GEORGIA (1733).
By Joel Chandler Harris.