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Contents

PART I
PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION
FOR TEACHERS, PUPILS, STUDENTS, AND LIBRARIES

CHAPTER I — THE SOURCES AND HOW TO FIND THEM	PAGE
1. What are Sources?	1
2. Educative Value of Sources	3
3. Classification of Sources on the Colonies and the Revolution	4
4. Libraries of Sources in American History	10
5. Reprints of Collected Sources on the Colonies and the Revolution	11
6. Select Library of Sources on Colonization	14
CHAPTER II — USE OF SOURCES
7. How to find Sources on the Colonies and the Revolution	22
8. Use of Sources by Teachers	24
9. Use of Sources by Pupils	25
10. Use of Sources by Students and Investigators	27
11. Use of Sources by Readers	28
12. Use of Sources by Libraries	29
13. Caution in using Sources	30
14. Use of Secondary Works	32
15. Select List of Secondary Works on the Eighteenth Century and the Revolution	32
PART II THE SEPARATE COLONIES
CHAPTER III — NEW ENGLAND
16. Reverend Deodat Lawson: Salem Witches, 1692	35
17. Clerk Ezekiel Cheever: Witches' Testimony, 1692	40
18. Chief Justice Samuel Sewall: Guilt Contracted by the Witch Judges, 1697	48

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