A Source Book in American History to 1787

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I have tried also to add to the teaching value of the book by a free
use of introductions to the various extracts, and by footnotes and
addenda, with occasional "Hints for Study."

                                                     WILLIS MASON WEST.

  WINDAGO FARM,
    November, 1913.




TABLE OF CONTENTS


  NUMBER                                                            PAGE


  I. England in the Century of Colonization

  1. Classes of Englishmen; by William Harrison; from Holinshed's
  _Chronicles_ (1577)                                                  1


                     A. SOUTHERN COLONIES TO 1660


  II. Motives for Early Colonization

  2. Sir George Peckham's "True Report" (1582) of Gilbert's expedition;
  from Richard Hakluyt's _Voyages and Discoveries
  of the English Nation_                                               4

  3. Richard Hakluyt's _Discourse on Western Planting_ (1584);
  from the _Maine Historical Society Collections_                      4

  4. Michael Drayton's _Ode_ to the Virginian Voyage (1606)            7

  5. "Goodspeed to Virginia" (1609); by Robert Gray; from
  Brown's _Genesis of the United States_                               7

  6. "Nova Britannia" (1609); anonymous; from Peter Force's
  _Historical Tracts_                                                 10

  7. The "True and Sincere Declaration" by the London Company
  (1609), with a "Table of such [colonists] as are required";
  from Brown's _Genesis of the United States_                         12

  8. Marston's _Eastward Hoe!_ (1605)                                 15

  9. Crashaw's "Daily Prayer" for use in Virginia (1609); from
  Force's _Historical Tracts_                                         15

  10. Crashaw's "Sermon" before Lord Delaware's Expedition
  (1610); from Brown's _Genesis of the United States_                 16

  11. A letter by Sir Edwin Sandys (1612) to stockholders of the
  London Company; from Neill's _Virginia and Virginiola_              17

  12. The glories of Virginia; from a letter from Sir Thomas Dale
  (governor in Virginia) to Sir Thomas Smith (head of the
  London Company), in 1613; from the _Records of the Virginia
  Company of London_, edited by Susan Kingsbury                       17

  13. A defense of the London Company (declared not mercenary)
  by Captain John Smith (1616); from Smith's _Generall
  Historie of Virginia_                                               18

  14. A plea for colonization on patriotic and religious grounds
  (1631), by Captain John Smith; _Works_                              18


  III. Virginia (1606-1619), to the Introduction of Self-government

  15. The charter of Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1578); from Hakluyt's
  _Voyages and Discoveries_                                           20

  16. The Virginia charter of 1606; from the Appendix to Stith's
  _History of Virginia_                                               23
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