Archives Research Guide: U.S. Up to 17th Century

The following lists of resources are modified from The Bowling Green State University Libraries: https://libguides.bgsu.edu/HistoryInternet and https://libguides.bgsu.edu/internetprimaryUS.

U.S. Up to 17th Century: Primary Sources

• 17th Century Colonial New England with a Special Emphasis on the Essex County Witch-Hunt of 1692
• African-American Migration Experience
• African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts
• America and the Utopian Dream
• American Rhetoric
• Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Colonies: An Annotated Digital Catalogue
• Archival Research Catalog (National Archives)
• Archive of Early American Images
• Beyond the Pilgrim Story (Pilgrim Hall Museum)
• Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, America & West Indies
• Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925
• Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
• Colonial Charters and Related Documents (Avalon Project)
• Colonial North America at Harvard Library
• Colonial Manuscript Collection (Hudson River Valley Heritage)
• Cotton Mather Home Page
• Diary of Samuel Sewell 1674-1729
• Digital Quaker Collection
• Excerpts from Slave Narratives
• French and Indian Wars Manuscript Collection (New England Historic Genealogical Society)
• French Colonial, Spanish Colonial, & 19th century Louisiana Documents (1655-1924)
• Friends Historical Library Selections
• Goody Parson's Witchcraft Case: A Journey to 17th Century Northampton
• A Guide to the Primary Sources of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
• History Matters: Many Pasts
• Immigrant Servants Database (1607-1820)
• Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 1610 to 1791
• Kansas City Hopewell Collection
• Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920: A Digital Library
• Native American Materials (NY State Library)
• New York Slavery Record Index
• On the Water: Living in the Atlantic World (Smithsonian)
• Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier
• Plymouth Colony Archive Project
• Printed Ephemera: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
• The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut transcribed and published, (in accordance with a resolution of the General assembly)
• Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets Collection
• Quakers and Slavery
• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
• Richard Hakluyt Online Books Page
• Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692
• Samuel Wyllys Papers 1663-1728
• Trial Pamphlets Collection
• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (Voyages)
• Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names
• Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative
• Virtual Jamestown
• Witness To the Early American Experience
• Written in Bone: Forensic Files of 17th Century Chesapeake