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 (1819).  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 (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 H. Brodhead

Bacon’s rebellion in Virginia (1676).  By an Anonymous Writer

King Philip’s war (1676).  By William Hubbarrd

The founding of Pennsylvania: 

    I. Penn’s Account of the Colony (1684)

   II.  Penn’s Treaty with the Indians (1683).  His Own Account