The _sources_ for the period may be found in the contemporary pamphlets, speeches, and letters published at the time and since, among which may be mentioned, as of unusual individuality, Thomas Paine’s celebrated pamphlet entitled _Common Sense_, the writings of Joseph Galloway, some of which are reproduced in Stedman and Hutchinson’s _Library of American Literature_, and St. John de Crevecœur’s _Letters from an American Farmer_. Here again we rely, too, on the _Journals of Congress_ and the _Secret Journals of Congress_; the _Debates of Parliament_; Peter Force’s _American Archives_; Hezekiah Niles’s _Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America_; _The Annual Register_; Jared Sparks’s _Correspondence of the American Revolution_ and _Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution_; Francis Wharton’s _The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States_; Thomas Anburey’s _Travels through the Interior Parts of America (1776-1781)_; the Marquis de Chastellux’s _Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782_; and the _Memoirs_ and _Collections_ of the Historical Societies of the several original states. APPENDIX ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES Betweene the plantations vnder the Gouernment of the Massachusetts, the Plantacons vnder the Gouernment of New Plymouth, the Plantacons vnder the Gouernment of Connectacutt, and the Gouernment of New Haven with the Plantacons in combinacon therewith