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Source: "Condition of New York in 1679", by Jaspar Dankers and Peter Sluyter (Translated by Henry C. Murphy, 1867) in Journal of a Voyage to New York in 1679-80, in Long Island Historical Society, Memoirs (Brooklyn, 1867), I, 109-274. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45493/page/n605/mode/2up?

A Story of Indian Captivity (1677-1678), by Quintin Stockwell, in Increase Mather, An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences (Boston, 1684), 39-57. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45493/page/n521/mode/2up

Source: Bacon's Rebellion (1676), Anonymous, Strange News from Virginia, etc. (London, 1677), 2-8. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45493/page/n261/mode/2up

Source: "The Causes and Results of King Philip's War" (1675), by Edward Randolph in Thomas Hutchinson, A Collection of Original Papers Relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusets-Bay (Boston, 1769), 490-494. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45493/page/n477/mode/2up

Source: "Discovery of the Mississippi" (1673) by James Marquette, Translated by J. D. B. De Bow, Marquette and Joliet’s Account of the Voyage to Discover the Mississippi River, in B. F. French, Historical Collections of Louisiana (Philadelphia, 1850), Part II, 279-296. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45493/page/n155/mode/2up

Source: Roger Williams, Letter to Major John Mason, in Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections (Boston, 1792), I, 275-283. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45493/page/n421/mode/2up

"A Declaration in Defense of an Order of Court Made in May, 1637", by John Winthrop

"Certain Proposals made by Lord Say, Lord Brooke, and other Persons of quality, as conditions of their removing to New-England, with the answers thereto", by John Cotton

Excerpts from Charter of Freedom and Exemptions, The Dutch West India Company, 1629.

Excerpt from "The Description and First Settlement of New Netherlands", in Nicolas Wassenaer’s Historie van Europa.