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U.S. 18th 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. 18th Century: Primary Sources
- Adams Family Resources (Massachusetts Historical Society)
- Adams Papers Digital Edition
- African American Odyssey
- African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts
- Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820
- Alexander Hamilton Papers (Library of Congress)
- Alexander Hamilton Plan of a Constitution for America 1787
- America and the Utopian Dream
- America in Caricature: 1765-1865
- American Antiquarian Society Collection (maps)
- American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution, 1774-1776
- American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American exploration and settlement
- American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920
- American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
- American Revolutionary War 1775-1783 (New York State Library)
- American Revolutionary War Era Maps
- American Rhetoric
- Anthony Wayne Letters Collection
- Antislavery Pamphlet Collection, 1725-1911
- Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Colonies: An Annotated Digital Catalogue
- Archival Research Catalog (National Archives)
- Archive of Early American Images
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
- Barbary Wars at the Clements
- Benjamin Franklin (Pennsylvania State Archives)
- Benjamin Franklin...In His Own Words
- Birth of the Nation: The First Federal Congress 1789-1791
- Bonds Conway Papers 1763-1907
- Boston Massacre Trials (1770)
- Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery & Justice
- Bush River Declaration March 22, 1775
- Cabell Family Papers (Virginia)
- Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, America & West Indies
- Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925
- Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1875
- Charles F. Heartman Manuscripts of Slavery Collection
- Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
- Colonial and Revolutionary Boston
- 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)
- Colonial Will Books, 1754-1779 (Georgia)
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Colonial Wills, 1733-1778 (Georgia)
- Coming of the American Revolution 1764-1776
- Commissioners of Forfeiture Proceedings 1784-1786
- Constitutional Convention Records (Fold3)
- Continental Congress - Papers (Fold3)
- Continental Congress - Misc. (Fold3)
- Cornell University Collection of Political Americana
- Decisive Day Is Come' -- The Battle of Bunker Hill
- Defining Her Life: Advice Books for Women
- Diary, Correspondence, and Papers of Robert "King" Carter of Virginia, 1701-1732
- Diary of Col. Dearborn from Oct. 28, 1779 to Dec. 10, 1781; movements of the army about New York; siege of Yorktown
- Diary of Samuel Sewell 1674-1729
- Digital Library on American Slavery
- Digital Quaker Collection
- DocsTeach: Primary Source Documents
- Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
- Do History: Martha Ballard's Diary
- Drums Along the Mohawk
- English Crime and Execution Broadsides (Harvard Law School Library)
- Early Americas Digital Archive
- Early California Population Project
- Legislative Petitions Digital Collection (Virginia)
- Elizabeth Murray Project: A Resource Site for Early American History
- Excerpts from Slave Narratives
- Federalist Papers (Library of Congress)
- First-Person Narratives of the American South
- Founders' Constitution
- Founders Early Access
- Founders Online
- Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware
- Free at Last? Slavery in Pittsburgh in the 18th and 19th Centuries
- French Colonial, Spanish Colonial, & 19th century Louisiana Documents (1655-1924)
- Friendly Association Papers
- Friends Historical Library
- Geography of Slavery in Virginia
- Geometry of War: Fortification Plans from 18th-Century America
- George Washington Notebook as a Virginia Colonel 1757
- George Washington Papers (New York Public Library)
- George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress 1741-1799
- Gloucester County (NJ) Slavery Records
- Governors Papers, Historical (North Carolina)
- A Guide to the American Revolution, 1763-1783
- History Matters: Many Pasts
- Hunterdon County - Slave Manumissions
- Immigrant Servants Database (1607-1820)
- Indenture of John Henry Coats, 1750
- Indenture of Letitia Beard, 1794
- Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties (Kappler's)
- Indian Converts Collection
- Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
- Invasion of America: How the United States Took Over an Eighth of the World
- James Glen Papers, 1738-1777
- James Madison Papers (Library of Congress)
- James Madison Papers (New York Public Library)
- Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 1610 to 1791
- John Peter Zenger Trial 1735
- Jonathan Edwards Collection
- Journal of John Woolman
- Lee Family Digital Archive
- Letters of delegates to Congress, 1774-1789
- Liberty Threatened: Maine in 1775
- Log Book of Slave Traders Between New London and Africa, 1757-1758
- Manumissions, Indentures, and Other
- Mapping Early American Elections (1787-1825)
- Maps of the French and Indian War
- Martha Washington: A Life
- Medford Slave Trade Letters - 1759-1765
- Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920: A Digital Library
- Missing Chapter: Untold Stories of the African American Presence in the Mid-Hudson Valley
- Monticello Plantation Database
- Mystic Seaport Museum: Digital Items
- New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787-1825
- Northwest Territory Collection, 1721-1825
- On the Water: Living in the Atlantic World (Smithsonian)
- Papers of Benjamin Franklin
- Papers of John Jay
- Papers of the War Department 1784-1800
- Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier
- Perspectives on the Boston Massacre
- Petition to George III, King of Great Britain (1775)
- Philip Schuyler Papers
- Primary Sources (Providence College): diaries, journals, etc. from the American Revolution
- Printed Ephemera: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
- Probing the Past: Virginia and Maryland Probate Inventories, 1740-1810
- Quakers and Slavery
- Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704
- Records of the French Superior Council [Louisiana], 1714-1769
- Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
- Samuel Adams Papers
- Samuel Wyllys Papers 1663-1728
- Selection of George Croghan's letters and journals relating to tours into the western country--November 16, 1750-November, 1765
- Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
- Siege of Boston: Eyewitness Accounts from the Massachusetts Historical Society
- Slave Deeds (Buncombe Co., NC) 1776-1865
- Slave Movement During the 18th and 19th Centuries
- Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library
- Slavery and Indentured Servitude Collection 1752-1864
- Slavery and the Law
- Slavery Images
- Slaves and Free African Americans, Reports and opinions from the newspapers of Hagerstown, Washington County, and Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, 1790 to 1864
- Slaves and the Courts: 1740 to 1860
- South Carolina Estate Inventories and Bills of Sale1732-1872
- Southeastern Native American Documents 1730-1842
- Southern Historical Collection
- Spy Letters of the American Revolution
- Temple of Liberty: Building the Capitol for a New Nation
- Tennessee Documentary History 1796-1850
- Thomas Addis Emmet Collection
- Thomas Jefferson Online Collection (University of Virginia)
- Thomas Jefferson Papers
- Thomas Johnson Letters (1764-1834; 1st elected governor of Maryland)
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (Voyages)
- Trial Pamphlets Collection
- Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names
- Virginia Runaways 1736-1777
- Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative
- Voyage of the Slave Ship Sally 1764-1765
- Whaling Ship Logs 1791-1858
- William Bollan Papers (1749-1757)
- William Bond Papers
- Witness To the Early American Experience
- Women's Education Evolves 1790-1890
- Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799
