Documents of Discovery & Settlem

Documents of Discovery &
Settlement

1490s to September 3, 1774

Year	Date	Document Title
1490s	1490s	Columbus’ Letter to the King & Queen of Spain
1492	April 30, 1492	Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus
	August 3, 1492	Columbus’ Journal {extract}
1493	February 15, 1493	Columbus’ Letter to Luis De Sant’ Angel: Announcing His Discovery
	May 4, 1493	Bull Inter cætera {excerpt} Latin & English
	May 4, 1493	Bull Inter cætera
1494	June 7, 1494	Treaty of Tordesillas
1496 & 1498	March 5, 1496 & February 3, 1498	King Henry VII’s Letters Patents Granting unto John Cabot and his Three Son, Lewis, Sebastian and Sancius for the Discovery of New and Unknown Lands
1584	March 25, 1584	Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh
1606	April 10, 1606	The First Charter of Virginia
1607	1607	The Settlement Of Jamestown {excerpt}
1609	May 23, 1609	The Second Charter of Virginia
1611	March 12, 1611	The Third Charter of Virginia
1618	1618	Leyden Agreement
1620	November 11, 1620	Mayflower Compact
1621	July 24-August 3, 1621	Ordinances for Virginia
1629	March 4, 1629	The Charter of Massachusetts Bay
	August 26, 1629	Cambridge Platform
1632	June 20, 1632	The Charter of Maryland
1639	January 19, 1639	Fundamental Orders of 1639
1640	August 27 - September 6, 1640	Plantation Agreement at Providence
1642	1642	Massachusetts Education Law (Old Deluder Satan Act) {extract}
1643	May 19, 1643	The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England
1644	1644	Winthrop’s “Arbitrary government described and the Government of the Massachusetts vindicated from that aspersion”
1647	1647	Massachusetts School Law of 1647 (Old Deluder Satan Act)
1649	April 21, 1649	The Maryland Toleration Act
1660	September 13, 1660	The Navigation Act {excerpt}
1661	June 10, 1661	Declaration of Liberties
1664	February 10, 1664	Concession & Agreement
	June 24, 1664	Patent for John Lord Berkeley & Sir George Carteret
1678	October 7, 1678	Answer to Mr. Solicitor’s Objections as to What is Defective in the Laws of the Colony {excerpt}
1681	July 11, 1681	Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania
1688	February 18, 1688	Resolutions
1696	April l0/20, 1696	Navigation Act of 1696 {excerpt}
1697	1697	Penn’s Plan of Union
1701	October 28, 1701	Charter of Privileges Granted by William Penn, esq. to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania and Territories
1705	October 1705	Act Defining Slaves as Real Estate
1724	March, 1724	The Black Code of Louisiana
1733	May 17/28, 1733	Molasses Act {excerpt}
1754	1754	Albany Plan of Union
1761	February 24, 1761	Otis’ “Against the Writs of Assistance”
1764	October 18, 1764	New York’s Petition to the House of Commons
1763	October 7, 1763	Royal Proclamation
1765	March 24, 1765	The Quartering Act
	March 27, 1765	The Stamp Act
	May 30, 1765	Virginia Stamp Act resolutions
	October 2, 1765	Declarations
	October 10, 1765	Instructions of the Town of Braintree on the Stamp Act {excerpt}
1766	January 14, 1766	Pitt’s Speech on the Right to Tax America
	January 17, 1766	Petition of London Merchants Against the Stamp Act {excerpt}
	February 3, 1766	Murray’s Speech on the Right to Tax America
	February 11, 1766	Northampton County Resolutions on the Stamp Act
	March 18, 1766	The Declaratory Act
1767	June 29, 1767	The Townshend Act
1768	January 15, 1768	Letter to the Earl of Shelburne
	January 22, 1768	Letter to the Marquis Of Rockingham
	January 29, 1768	Letter to Lord Camden
	February 11, 1768	Circular Letter
	August 1, 1768	Boston Non-Importation Agreement
1769	October 9, 1769	Anson County Petition
1773	1773	The Tea Act
	November 29, 1773	Resolutions on Tea {excerpt}
1774	March 31, 1774	The Boston Port Act
	May 20, 1774	The Administration of Justice Act
	May 20, 1774	The Massachusetts Government Act
	May 25, 1774	Slave Petition to the Governor, Council, and House of Representatives of the Province of Massachusetts
	June 20, 1774	Resolutions on the Boston Port Act {excerpt}
	June 22, 1774	The Quebec Act
	July 6, 1774	Resolutions on the Boston Port Act {excerpt}
	July 26, 1774	Resolutions

Last updated February 28, 2007