COPYRIGHT, 1908 AND 1916, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published August, 1908. Reprinted December, 1914. August, 1913; New and enlarged edition, with continuation to 1913, October, *3 19-1921 Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co. - Berwick & Smith Co. PREFACE THE present volume has been prepared in response to a request, frequently made by teachers who have used my "Select Charters," "Select Documents," and "Select Statutes," for a briefer collection of documents particularly designed for courses of instruction of an elementary or comprehensive character, or which cover. both the colonial and the constitutional periods of American history in a single year. In making the selection, accordingly, I have aimed to include such documents only as experience has shown to be most necessary or useful in comprehensive courses, bearing in mind the time available for the average student. The texts are the same as those in the three volumes named above, except the treaties, which here follow the better text in the United States Statutes at Large. Many of the documents, however, have been further condensed by the omission of formal, technical, or relatively unimportant provisions; a few errors in the earlier volumes have been corrected; and some changes have been made in the notes. I shall be glad if the volume serves to facilitate the study, especially in elementary courses, of the documentary sources of American history. PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, WILLIAM MACDONALD. Contents 4. Mayflower Compact. Nov. 11/21, 1620. 5. Ordinance for Virginia. July 24/Aug. 3, 1621 6. First Charter of Massachusetts. March 4/14, 1628/9 9. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. Jan. 14/24, 1638/9 10. Fundamental Articles of New Haven. June 4/14, 1639 11. Patent of Providence Plantations. March 14/24, 1643 12. New England Confederation. May 19/29, 1643 13. Government of New Haven. Oct. 27/Nov. 6, 1643 20. Grant to the Duke of York. March 12/22, 1663/4 23. Charter of Pennsylvania. March 4/14, 1680/81 24. Second Charter of Massachusetts. 25. Navigation Act. April 10/20, 1696 26. Treaty of Utrecht. March 31/April 11, 1713 27. Charter of Georgia. June 9/20, 1732 28. Molasses Act. May 17/28, 1733 37. Act suspending the New York Assembly. June 15, 1767 38. Townshend Revenue Act. June 29, 1767 44. The Association. Oct. 20, 1774 45. Lord North's Conciliatory Resolution. Feb. 27, 1775 46. New England Restraining Act. March 30, 1775 47. Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms. July 6, 48. Report on Lord North's Conciliatory Resolution. July 31, 1775 49. Proclamation of Rebellion. Aug. 23, 1775 50. Declaration of Independence. July 4, 1776 |