colonial period. Connecticut has printed The Colonial Records of
Connecticut (15 vols., Hartford, 1850-1890), and the Records of
the Colony of New Haven, 1638-1665 (2 vols., Hartford, 1857-1858).
The Records of the Colony of Rhode Island fill 10 vols. (Providence,
1856-1865). New York has published the Laws and Ordinances
of New Netherland (1 vol.), the Colonial Laws of New York from
1664 to the Revolution (5 vols., Albany, 1894), The Journal of the
Legislative Council, 1691-1775 (2 vols., 1861), the Journal of the
Votes and Proceedings of the General Assembly, 1691-1765 (2 vols.,
1764-1766), the Documents relating to the Colonial History of
New York (15 vols., 1853-1883), Minutes of the Albany Commissioners
for Detecting Conspiracies (3 vols., 1909-1910) and the Documentary
History of the State of New York (4 vols., 1849-1851). New Jersey has
published the Grants and Concessions (1 vol.), edited by Leaming and
Spier, and 28 vols. of The Archives of the State of New Jersey (Newark,
1880 sqq.). Pennsylvania has published 16 vols. of Colonial
Records, 1683-1790 (Philadelphia, 1852) and four series of Pennsylvania
Archives (1852-1856, 1874-1893, 1894-1895, &c.), the latter containing
miscellaneous records relating to the colonies and the War
of Independence. Under the title of Statutes at Large (11 vols.) its
laws to the close of the War of Independence have been published.
The Archives of Maryland (27 vols., Baltimore) contain the proceedings
of the council, the assembly and the provincial court, with the
laws, for a part of the colonial period. The Records of the Virginia
Company of London (2 vols., Washington, 1906) have been
printed; also Henning's Statutes at Large (13 vols., 1819-1823),
and the Journal of the House of Burgesses for the later provincial
period. Under the titles of Colonial Records (1886-) and State
Records, North Carolina has published the sources of her early history
very fully, except the land papers and laws. Thomas Cooper's
Statutes of South Carolina (4 vols., to 1782) contain practically all
of its sources which that state has published. Georgia has published
12 vols. of Colonial Records, containing minutes of the trustees
and of the governor and council. The Calendar of State Papers,
Colonial Series, 1574-1660 (London, 1860), and for 1661-1700 (13
vols., London, 1880-1910), the Acts of the Privy Council Colonial,
1613-1720 (2 vols., London, 1908-1910), and the Calendars of Treasury
Papers (for the 18th century) cover relations between the British
government and the colonies. Additional matter may also be found
in many of the reports of the British Historical MSS. Commission.
Hazard's Historical Collections (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1792-1794)
is still valuable. B. Perley Poore's Federal and State Constitutions
(2 vols., Washington, 1877) contains the texts of the colonial charters
and state constitutions; and a similar collection was edited by F. N.
Thorpe (7 vols., ibid., 1909). The records of many New England
towns have been printed, as also those of New York City, Philadelphia
and Albany. The Original Narratives of Early American
History (1906-1910), edited by J. F. Jameson, contain reprints of
much source material.
Cobbett's Parliamentary History, Almon's Remembrancer (17 vols., London, 1775-1784), and the writings of the British statesmen of the period, contain much material which is indispensable to the history of the War of Independence on its British side. Of official matters relating to the period of the War of Independence, special reference should be made to the Public Journals of the Continental Congress (13 vols.), and the Secret Journals (4 vols.). A new and improved edition (1908 sqq.) has been edited by W. C. Ford and G. Hunt. Indispensable to the student is Peter Force's American Archives (9 vols., Washington, 1837-1853), covering the years 1774 to 1776 inclusive. Francis Wharton's Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States (6 vols., Washington, 1889), and the earlier and less complete edition of the same by Jared Sparks (12 vols., Boston, 1829-1830), are also of great value. Alden Bradford's Massachusetts State Papers is valuable for that province. The journals of committees of safety, provincial congresses, conventions and early state legislatures are also for the most part in print. The colonial and revolutionary newspapers contain material of great variety. Semi-official also are the writings of the statesmen of the War of Independence—John and Samuel Adams, Jefferson, Dickinson, Franklin, Washington, Jay, all of which exist in very satisfactory editions. Henri Doniol's Histoire de la participation de la France à l'établissement des États-Unis d'Amérique (5 vols., Paris, 1886-1900) is a diplomatic history of the War of Independence and the peace, dealing chiefly with France.
The states all have historical societies, and there are many private and local societies in addition. Of these the most prominent are the societies of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. In addition, mention should be made of the Prince Society of Boston, the American Antiquarian Society of Worcester, Mass., the Essex Institute of Salem, Mass., the Narragansett Club of Providence, R.I., and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. The American Historical Association (Washington, D.C.) publishes valuable monographs; the second volume of the Report of the Association for 1905 is a detailed Bibliography of American Historical Societies (Washington, 1907).
Standard Histories: Of these the histories of the states first demand attention. Jeremy Belknap's History of New Hampshire (3 vols., 1784-1792; enlarged, 3 vols., Boston, 1813); Thomas Hutchinson's History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (3 vols., Boston, 1767, and vol. iii., London, 1828); Samuel Greene Arnold's History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1636-1790 (2 vols., New York, 1859-1860); Benjamin Trumbull's Complete History of Connecticut, Civil and Ecclesiastical, to 1764 (New Haven, 1818; revised, 2 vols., New London, 1898); John Romeyn Brodhead's History of the State of New York (2 vols., New York, 1853-1871); William Smith's History of the Late Province of New York, from its Discovery to 1762 (2 vols., New York, 1829-1830); Samuel Smith's History of the Colony of Nova Cæsaria, or New Jersey, to 1721 (Burlington, N.J., 1765; 2nd ed., Trenton, 1877); Robert Proud's History of Pennsylvania from 1681 till after the year 1742 (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1797-1798); John Leeds Bozman's History of Maryland, 1633-1660 (2 vols., Baltimore, 1837); John V. L. McMahon's A Historical View of the Government of Maryland from its Colonization to the Present Day (Baltimore, 1833); William Stith's History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia (Williamsburg, 1747); John Daly Burk's History of Virginia (3 vols., Petersburg, 1804-1805); François Xavier Martin's History of North Carolina (2 vols., New Orleans, 1829); William James Rivers's Sketch of the History of South Carolina to the Close of the Proprietary Government by the Revolution of 1719 (Charleston, 1856); Edward McCrady's South Carolina (4 vols., New York, 1897-1902)—covering the period from 1670 to 1783—and Charles Colcock Jones's (jun.) History of Georgia (2 vols., Boston, 1883) are especially noteworthy. William Bradford's History of Plimouth Plantation (latest edition, Boston, 1898), and John Winthrop's History of New England, 1630-1649 (2 vols., Boston, 1825-1826), are essentially original sources, as are the Writings of Captain John Smith (Arber's ed.) for early Virginia. So are Alexander Brown's Genesis of the United States (2 vols., Boston, 1890), and the First Republic in America (Boston, 1898). Philip Alexander Bruce's Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (2 vols., New York, 1896) and W. B. Weeden's Economic and Social History of New England (2 vols., Boston, 1890) are of great value. Edmund B. O'Callaghan's History of New Netherland (2 vols., New York, 1846-1848), John Gorham Palfrey's History of New England (5 vols., Boston, 1858-1890) and I. B. Richman's Rhode Island, its Making and its Meaning (New York, 1902), are valuable for colonial New York, New England and Rhode Island respectively. George Bancroft's History of the United States (6 vols., 1884-1885) still has a great reputation, though it is altogether inadequate for the colonial period. Richard Hildreth's History of the United States (6 vols., New York, 1849-1852) is dry but accurate. John Andrew Doyle's English in America (5 vols., New York, 1882-1907) is valuable for the 17th century. Herbert L. Osgood's American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (3 vols., New York, 1904-1907) discusses the institutional history of the period. John Fiske has popularized the history of the times in a number of excellent works, some of them of decided originality. Francis Parkman's France and England in North America (12 vols., latest ed., Boston, 1898) is a classic on the history of Canada and its relations with the British colonies. William Kingsford's History of Canada (10 vols., Toronto, 1887-1898), and François Xavier Garneau's Histoire du Canada (4 vols., Quebec, 1845-1852), may be cited as holding places of special authority. Justin Winsor's Christopher Columbus (Boston, 1891), Cartier to Frontenac (ibid., 1894), and later volumes, are especially valuable for the history of exploration, discovery and cartography. The American Notion (22 vols., New York, 1903-1907), a co-operative history, edited by A. B. Hart, outlines the political history of the country as a whole. Edward Channing's History of the United States (8 vols., New York, 1905 sqq.), and Elroy McKendree Avery's History of the United States and Its People (15 vols., Cleveland, Ohio, 1905 sqq.) devote much space to the colonies and War of Independence. Sir George Otto Trevelyan's American Revolution (3 vols., London, 1899-1904) is a brilliant literary performance. Of special value is Lecky's study of the same subject in his History of England in the Eighteenth Century (8 vols., London, 1878-1890). George Louis Beer's Origins of the British Colonial System (New York, 1908) and his British Colonial Policy, 1754-1765 (New York, 1907), Justin Harvey Smith's Our Struggle for the Fourteenth Colony (2 vols., New York, 1907) and S. G. Fisher's Struggle for American Independence (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1908) are valuable monographs. For biography see the “American Statesmen Series” (16 vols., Boston) and Samuel V. Wells's Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams (3 vols., Boston, 1865); James Kendall Hosmer's Life of Thomas Hutchinson (Boston, 1896); William Garrott Brown's Life of Oliver Ellsworth (New York, 1905); B. J. Lossing's Life and Times of Philip Schuyler (2 vols., New York, 1860-1873) and Bayard Tuckerman's Philip Schuyler, Major-General in the American Revolution (New York, 1903); George Washington Greene's Life of Nathanael Greene (3 vols., Boston, 1867-1871) and William Johnson's Sketches of the Life and Correspondence of Nathanael Greene (Charleston, 1822); William Thompson Reed's Life and Correspondence of George Reed (Philadelphia, 1870); Charles Janeway Stillé's Life and Times of John Dickinson (Philadelphia, 1891); William Wirt Henry's Patrick Henry (3 vols., New York, 1891);, John Marshall's Life of George Washington (5 vols., Philadelphia, 1804-1807); C. Tower's The Marquis de La Fayette in the American Revolution (2 vols., ibid., 1895); F. Kapp's Life of Frederick William von Steuben (New York, 1859), and his Life of John Kalb (New York, 1884). Moses Coit Tyler's Literary History of the American Revolution (2 vols., New York,
