Directory of Colonial Resources

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Information on the colonial period of Massachusetts history, which dates from the early 1600's to the time of the American Revolution in 1775.

Resources in This Category

• An Outline of American History: Massachusetts

  http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/outlines/history-1994/early-america/massachusetts.php
  Text describing the Puritans and the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

• The Avalon Project: The Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629

  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mass03.asp
  Text of the original document enacted by Charles I.

• The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay

  http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rwm3n/webdoc9.html
  Excerpt from the account of currency reform by Thomas Hutchinson, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1750.

• The Winthrop Fleet 0f 1630

  http://www.ourpast.org/genealogy/histories/winthrop.htm
  Passenger list of the eleven vessels which sailed in 1630 from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.

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