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Open Anthology of the American Revolution
Laura Lyons McLemore
Introduction
Questions to Guide Your Reading
1. Starving Time
John Smith
2. An Indentured Servant’s Letter Home
Richard Frethorne
3. Bacon’s Manifesto
Nathaniel Bacon
4. Early Education Laws
5. Limits of Toleration
Nathaniel Ward
6. Prologue to “The Tenth Muse”
Anne Bradstreet
7. Connecticut’s “Blue Laws”
8. Records of the Trial and Execution of Sarah Good
9. Two Letters of Gov. William Phips
William Phips
10. Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England
11. The Navigation Act of 1660
British Parliament
12. Commission of Sir Edmund Andros for the Dominion of New England
King James II
13. Boston Revolt of 1689
King William III and Simon Bradstreet
14. Bars Fight
Lucy Terry
15. Albany Plan of Union
Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Hutchinson
16. The Way to Wealth
Benjamin Franklin
17. Second Treatise of Government
John Locke
18. Chart of Battles, Leaders, and Congresses During the Revolutionary War
Records of Commissions of the Legislative Branch
19. Petition from the Massachusetts House of Representatives to the House of Commons (in response to the Sugar Act)
20. Patrick Henry’s Resolutions Against the Stamp Act
Patrick Henry
21. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, To the Inhabitants of the British Colonies
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
22. After the Boston Tea Party: Cartoons
Philip Dawe and Paul Revere
23. Continental Congress’s Declaration of Rights and Grievances against Great Britain
The First Continental Congress
24. Articles of Association
25. The Alternative of Williamsburg
Philip Dawe
26. Petition of the New York Assembly to George III
General Assembly of the Colony of New York
27. Address from Joseph Warren
Joseph Warren
28. The Charlotte Town Resolves
29. The Olive Branch Petition
The Second Continental Congress
30. His Excellency General Washington
Phyllis Wheatley
31. Oath of Allegiance to the King George III
32. Letter from George Washington to John Hancock
George Washington
33. Common Sense
Thomas Paine
34. Resolve of the Continental Congress Regarding State Governments
35. Richard Henry Lee Resolution for Independence
Richard Henry Lee
36. Appointment of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams to Draft the Declaration of Independence
37. Adoption of the Lee Resolution
38. The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
Thomas Jefferson and The Second Continental Congress
39. The American Crisis
40. Draft Notice
41. Treaty of Alliance with France
C.A. Gerard; Benjamin Franklin; Silas Deanne; and Arthur Lee
42. Address of the Congress to the Inhabitants of the United States of America
Henry Laurens
43. Establishment of the American Army
44. Marquis de Lafayette’s Oath of Allegiance
45. Letter of John Adams to the President of Congress
John Adams
46. Details from a Providence (RI) Town Meeting About Quartering of Troops
47. Letter from Elizabeth Burgin to Reverend James Calville
Elizabeth Burgin
48. Letter from General George Washington to Congress Announcing the Victory at Yorktown, Virginia
49. Benjamin Franklin’s Draft of Preliminary Articles of Peace
50. Treaty of Paris
51. Minutes of a Conference between George Washington and Guy Carleton
George Washington and Guy Carleton
52. Letter from Joseph Warren to Benjamin Franklin
53. Articles of Confederation
54. Northwest Ordinance
Confederation Congress of the United States
55. Thomas Walke’s Account of Capturing his Runaway Slaves in New York City
Thomas Walke
56. General Washington’s Instructions to Commissioners of Embarkation
57. Letter from Embarkation Commissioners to General Washington
Egbert Benson and Daniel Parker
58. An Address to the Negroes In the State of New-York
Jupiter Hammon
59. Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery
Ottobah Cugoano
60. Testimony of Deborah Sampson Gannett
Debora Gannett
Appendix 1: More Readings
February 16, 1775
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