Guide to Colonial North American Literature and Manuscripts
L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library
Table of Contents
Connecticut 1600-1800………………………………………………………………...... ……….2
Delaware 1700-1800...…………………………………...... …………………………...... ……..3
European Publication on or from the American Colonies 1600-1699…………………..……...3-4
European Publications on or from the American colonies 1700-1800………………………….4-7
Massachusetts 1600-1800………………………………………………………………………....8
Boston, Massachusetts 1600-1769………………………………………………………..…...9-11
Boston, Massachusetts 1770-1800……………………………………………………….…..11-13
New Hampshire 1700-1800…………………………………………………………….…….… 13
NewJersey 1700-1800…………………………………………………………………….……..13
New York 1600-1800………………………………………………………………..…….…13-14
North America: No colony or Region specified 1600-1800……………………………….…….15
Pennsylvania 1600-1769…………………………………………………………………...…15-16
Pennsylvania 1770-1800……………………………………………………………………...16-19
Rhode Island 1600-1800………………………………………………………………….,…...... 19
South Carolina 1700……………………………………………………………………….…….20
Virginia 1700-1800………………………………………………………………………...…20-22
Connecticut 1600-1800
Manuscript Collection –Call Number: MSS SC 1042
Title: Rowley family wills and a land deed
Creator: Matthew and Moses Rowley
Created: Connecticut, 1693-1705
3 items
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 252.058 Ed96s 1780
Title: Sermons
Author: Edwards, Jonathan
Published: Hartford, Conn.; 1780
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: BT 77 .O7 1788
Title: A compendium of Christian theology
Author: Ostervald, Jean Frédéric
Published: Hartford, Conn.; 1788
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: BX 8915 .K58 1790
Title: The moral and religious miscellany
Author: Knox, Hugh
Published: Hartford, Conn.; 1790
Rare Book Collection – Call Number: 252.68 EL25 1791 no.1-14
Title: Virtuous rulers a national blessing
Author: Dwight, Timothy
Published: Hartford, Conn.; 1791
Americana Collection –Call Number: AN .C76c
Title: The Connecticut courant
Author: Unknown
Published Hartford, Conn.; 1791
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 289.1 St89d 1796
Title: The doctrine of eternal misery reconcilable with theinfinite benevolence of God
Author: Strong, Nathan
Published: Hartford, Conn.; 1796
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: RM 910 .P4 1797
Title: Evidences of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments
Author: Perkins, Elisha
Published: New-London, Conn.; 1797
Delaware 1700-1800
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 289.6 T413a 1783
Title: Three treatises, in which the fundamental principle doctrines, worship, ministry and discipline of the people called Quakers, are plainly declared
Author: Unknown
Published: Wilmington, Del.;1783
European Publications on or from the American Colonies 1600-1699
Vault Quarto Collection –Call Number: 910.4 P97h 1625
Title: Purchas his Pilgrimes
Author: Purchas, Samuel
Published: London, England; 1625
Rare Book Collection –Call number: BX 7230 .A66 1643
Title: Church-government and church-covenant discussed
Author Mather, Richard
Publisher: London, England; 1643
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: BX 7230 .A66 1643
Title: The way of the churches of Christ in New-England
Author: Cotton, John
Published: London, England; 1645
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: BX 7230 .A66 1643
Title: The keyes of the kingdom of / by teacher of the church at Boston in New-England
Author: Cotton, John
Publisher: London, England; 1644
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: BX 7230 .A66 1643
Title: Of the holinesse of church-members in New-England
Author: Cotton, John
Published:London, England; 1650
Rare Book Quarto Collection –Call Number: 220.7 N46l 1650
Title: A large and complete concordance to the Bible in English
Author: Newman, Samuel
Published:London, England; 1650
Rare Book Collection –Call Number:289.6 B94d 1660
Title: A declaration of the sad and great persecution and martyrdom of the people of God, called Quakers, in New-England
Author: Burrough, Edward
Publisher: London, England; 1660
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 922.86 P38 1670
Title: The peoples antient and just liberties asserted, in the tryal of William Penn and William Mead,1670
Author: Penn, William
Published: London, England; 1670
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 910 C556g 1671
Title: A geographical description of all the countries in the known world
Author: Clarke, Samuel
Published:London, England; 1671
Vault Collection –Call number: 973.24 M42b 1676
Title: A brief history of the war with theIndians in New-England
Author: Mather, Increase
Publisher: London, England; 1675
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 942.067 En36 1688 no. 1-13
Title: A Letter to a Member of the Convention
Author: Sherlock, William
Published: London, England; 1688
Rare Book Collection –Call number: 226.8 Sh47p 1695
Title: The parable of the ten virgins opened &applied
Author: Shepard, Thomas
Published: London, England; 1695
European Publications on or from the American colonies 1700-1800
Vault Quarto Collection –Call number: 277.4 M421m 1702
Title: Magnalia Christi Americana, or, The ecclesiastical history of New-England
Author: Mather, Cotton
Published: London, England; 1702
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: AC 901 .A1 no.1652
Title: Notes and memorandums of the six days
Author: Unknown
Published: London, England; 1715
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 133.4 B665c 1715
Title: A complete history of magick, sorcery, and Witchcraft
Author: Boulton, Richard
Published: London, England; 1715-1716
Vault Collection –Call Number: 230 W698e 1740
Title: An essay towards an instruction for the Indians, 1740
Author: Wilson, Thomas
Published: London, England; 1740
Vault Collection –Call Number: 917.6 C839d 1741
Title: A description of the English province of Carolana
Author: Coxe, Daniel
Published: London, England; 1741
Vault Quarto Collection –Call Number: 910.8 Oslc 1745
Title: A collection of voyages and travels
Author: Osborne, Thomas
Published: London, England; 1745
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 265.1 G41d 1749
Title: Divine right of infant baptism examined and disproved
Author: Gill, John
Published: London, England; 1749
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: E 99 .I7 C75 1755
Title: The history of the Five Indian Nations of Canada
Author: Colden, Cadwallader
Published: London, England; 1755
2 vol.
Vault Collection –Call Number: 289.6 R939L 1759
Title: The liberty of the spirit and of the flesh Distinguished
Author; Rutty, John
Published: Dublin, Ireland; 1759
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 974.4 H97
Title: The history of Massachusett’s-Bay
Author: Hutchinson, Thomas
Published: London, England; 1760
3 vol.
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 910.3 Am35g 1762
Title: The American gazetteer: containing a distinct accountof all the parts of the New world
Author:Unknown
Published: London, England; 1762
3 vol.
Americana Rare Book Collection –Call Number: F 372 .L55 1763
Title: The history of Louisiana
Author: Le Page du Pratz
Publisher: London, England; 1763
2vol.
Vault Collection –Call Number: 998 D784g 1768
Title: The Great probability of a North West Passage
Author: Drage, Theodorus Swaine
Published: London, England; 1768
Vault Collection –Call Number: 621.3 F854e 1769
Title: Experiments and observations on electricity
Author: Franklin, Benjamin
Published: London, England; 1769
Vault Collection –Call Number: 811 W56p 1773
Title: Poems on various subjects, religious and moral
Author: Wheatley, Phillis
Published: London, England; 1773
Vault Collection –Call Number:970.45 Ad11h 1775
Title: The history of the American Indians
Author: Adair, James
Publisher: London, England; 1775
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 252.008 Am35 Box 2 no.13
Title: The distinguishing marks of a work of the spirit of God
Author: Edwards, Jonathan
Published:London, England; 1775
Vault Collection –Call Number: 973.31 P93 1776
Title: Observations on the nature of civil liberty
Author: Price, Richard
Published: Edinburgh, Scotland; 1776
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 973 R54h 1777
Title: The history of America
Author: Robertson, William
Published: London, England; 1777
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: BX 7117 .E35 1785
Title: The life and character of the late reverend, learned, and pious Mr. Jonathan Edwards
Author: Hopkins, Samuel
Published: Glasgow, Scotland; 1785
Americana Rare Book Collection –Call number: E 207 .L4 L44
Title: Memoirs of the life of the late Charles Lee, second in command in the service of the United States of America during the revolution
Author: Lee, Charles
Published: Dublin, Ireland; 1792
Vault Collection –Call Number: 973.26 W67 1792
Title: French and Indian cruelty exemplified in the life and various vicissitudes of fortune
Author: Williamson, Peter
Published: Edinburgh, Scotland; 1792
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 917.5 B28
Title: Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee country
Author: Bartram, William
Published: Dublin, Ireland, 1793
Harrison Collection –Call Number: JC 178 .V2 C4 1793
Title: The life of Thomas Paine, the author of the seditiouswritings
Author: Chalmers, George
Published:London, England;1793
Harrison Collection –Call Number: KD 372 .W556 W5 1794
Title: The trial of Wm. Winterbotham, assistant preacher at How's Lane Meeting, Plymouth
Author: Winterbotham, William
Published: London, England; 1794
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 265.1 G41d 1749
Title: Divine right of infant baptism examined and disproved
Author: Gill, John
Published: London, England; 1749
Vault Collection –Call Number: 917.3 L327t 1799
Title: Travels through the United States of North America,The country of the Iroquois,
and upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797
Author: La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de
Published: London, England; 1799
Manuscript Collection –Call Number: MSS 2958
Title: Town and country almanack: or, Complete farmer's calendar,
Author:Unknown
Published: Worcester, England; 1804
Massachusetts 1600-1800
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: BX 7230 .A66 1643
Title: A platform of church-discipline in the synod at Cambridge in New-England
Author: Plater, Felix
Published: New England, Mass.;1643
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 283.01 As75t 1670 no.1-18
Title: Propositions concerning the subjectof baptism and consociation
Author: Boston Synod
Published: Cambridge, Mass.;1662
Bound with other titles
Vault Manuscript collection –Call number: MSS SC 1909
Title: Massachusetts land deed
Creator: Massachusetts. General Court
Created: Plymouth, Mass.; 1685
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: BX 8217 .W5 E9 1743
Title:An extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's journal from his embarking for Georgia to his return to London
Author: Wesley, John
Published: Bristol, Mass.; 1743
Vault Manuscript Collection –Call number: MSS SC 1909
Title: Massachusetts land deed
Creator: Massachusetts. General Court
Created: Plymouth, Mass.; 1685
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 252.68 St53u 1785
Title: The United States elevated to glory and honor
Author: Stiles, Ezra
Published: Worcester, Mass.; 1785
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 234.3 Ed97h 1792
Title: A history of the work of redemption
Author: Edwards, Jonathan
Published: Worcester, Mass.;1792
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: PS 745 .A2 1798b
Title: The works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin
Author: Franklin, Benjamin
Published: Charlestown, Mass.;1798
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: AC 901 .A1 no.3606
Title: A funeral discourse, delivered to the Benevolent Congregational Society in Providence
Author: Tappan, Davis
Published: Cambridge, Mass.; 1803
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: F 68 .M90 1826
Title: The New-England's memorial
Author: Morton, Nathaniel
Published: Plymouth, Mass.;1826
Boston,Massachusetts1600-1769
Vault Collection –Call number: 970.5 H862n 1677
Title: A narrative of the troubles with the Indians in New-England, from the first planting thereof in theyear 1607
Author: Hubbard, William
Published: Boston, Mass;1607
Vault Collection –Call Number: 970.5 H862n 1677
Title: The happiness of a people in the wisdom of their Rulers
Author: Hubbard, William
Published: Boston, Mass; 1676
Vault Collection –Call Number: 283.74 J637 1733
Title: A letter from some aged nonconforming ministers, to their Christian friends, touching the reasons of their practice
Author: Unknown
Published: Boston, Mass; 1701
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 285.8 M42p 1718
Title: Psalterium Americanum
Author: Mather, Cotton
Published: Boston, Mass; 1718
Vault Collection –Call number: 071 B65 1739
Title: The Boston gazette,
Published: Boston, Mass;1719
Vault Collection –Call Number: 071 N42
Title: The New-England courant
Author: unknown
Published: Boston, Mass; 1721
Vault Collection –Call Number: 283.74 J637 1733
Title: A defense of Presbyterian ordination
Author: Dickinson, Jonathan
Published: Boston, Mass; 1724
Vault Collection –Call Number: 922.573 M42 1724
Title: Parentator
Author: Mather, Cotton
Published: Boston, Mass; 1724
Vault Collection –Call Number: 973.2 P376h 1726
Title: The history of the wars of New-England
Author: Penhallow, Samuel
Published: Boston, Mass; 1726
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 223.2 B47b 1728
Title: An introduction to the singing of psalm-tunes, in a plain and easy method
Author: Tufts, John
Published: Boston, Mass; 1728
Vault Collection –Call Number: 283.74 J637 1733
Title: A defense of Presbyterian ordination
Author: Dickinson, Jonathan
Published: Boston, Mass; 1733
Vault Collection –Call Number: 283.74 J637 1733
Title: The scripture-bishop, or, The divine right of Presbyterian ordination
Author: Dickinson, Jonathan
Published: Boston, Mass; 1733
Vault Collection –Call Number: 283.74 J637 1733
Title: A sermon preached at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. Elisha Kent, at New-Town, in Connecticut
Author: Dickinson, Moses
Published: Boston, Mass; 1733
Vault Collection –Call Number: 283.74 J637 1733
Title: Some remarks upon a second letter from the Church of England minister, to his dissenting parishioners
Author: Graham, John
Published: Boston, Mass; 1733
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: BT 810 .C66 1740
Title: The doctrine of predestination unto life, explained and vindicated
Author: Cooper, William
Published: Boston, Mass; 1740
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 277.4 C395s 1743
Title: Seasonable thoughts on the state of religion in New-England
Author: Chauncy, Charles
Published: Boston, Mass; 1743
Rare Book Collection –Call Number:BX 7230 .E4 1746
Title: A treatise concerning religious affections, in three Parts
Author: Edwards, Jonathan
Published: Boston, Mass; 1746
Vault Collection –Call Number: 234.9 Ed96c 1754
Title: A careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will
Author: Edwards, Jonathan
Published: Boston, Mass; 1754
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: BV 4260 .M5 1761
Title: A sermon preached at Boston; before the great and General court or assembly of the province of Massachusetts Bay in New England
Author: Stevens, Benjamin
Published:Boston, Mass; 1761
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 265.3 G91 1766
Title: A Discourse Concerning the Nature and Design of the Lord’s- Supper
Author: Grove, Henry
Published: Boston, Mass; 1766
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: AC 901 .A1 no.1579
Title: A sermon preached before His Exc. Sir Francis Bernard, baronet,
Author: Haven, Jason
Published: Boston, Mass; 1769
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 252.008 Am35 no.64
Title: A discourse occasioned by the death of the Reverend Thomas Foxcroft
Author: Chauncy, Charles
Published: Boston, Mass; 1769
Boston Massachusetts 1770-1800
Manuscript Collection –Call Number: MSS SC 2903
Title: James Scamman business papers
Creator: Scamman, James
Created:Boston, Mass; 1771-1774
Vault Collection –Call Number: 973.311 H974 1773
Title: Copy of the Letters sent to Great Britain, by his excellency Thomas Hutchinson
Author: Thomas Hutchinson
Published: Boston, Mass; 1773
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 051 R812 1774
Title: The Royal American magazine, or, Universal repository of instruction and amusement
Author:Unknown
Published: Boston, Mass; 1774
2 vol.
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 286.174 B128h 1777
Title: A history of New-England, with particular reference to the denomination of Christians called Baptists
Author: Backus, Isaac
Published: Boston, Mass; 1777
3 vol.
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: PE 1119 .A1 N5 1777
Title: The New-England primer improved for the more easy attaining the true reading of English
Author: Unknown
Published: Boston, Mass; 1777
Vault Collection –Call Number:342.744 M382 1780
Title:Constitution
Author: Massachusetts.
Publisher: Boston, Mass; 1780
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 920.073 B412a 1794
Title: An historical account of thosepersons who have been distinguished in America
Author: Belknap, Jeremy
Published: Boston, Mass; 1794
2 vol.
Americana Rare Book Collection – Call Number: E 14 .M84 1797
Title: The American gazetteer
Author:Unknown
Published: Boston, Mass; 1797
Rare Books Collection –Call Number: 917.3 M83
Title: An abridgment of the American gazetteer
Author: Morse, Jedidiah
Published: Boston, Mass; 1798
Rare Book Collection –Call number: 923.7 St53 1798
Title: The life of Ezra Stiles: a fellow of theAmerican Philosophical Society
Author: Holmes, Abiel
Published: Boston, Mass; 1798
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: R 153 .T3 1828
Title: American medical biography, or, Memoirs, is prefixed a succinct history of medical science inthe United States, from the first settlement of thecountry
Author: Thatcher, James
Published: Boston, Mass; 1828
New Hampshire 1700-1800
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 252.4 D421L 1796
Title: The lay preacher, or, Short sermons, for idle readers
Author: Dennie, Joseph
Published:Walpole, N.H.; 1796
New Jersey 1700- 1800
Manuscript Collection –Call Number: MSS 3839
Title: John Campbell indenture with Thomas Boell,
Creator: Campbell, John
Created: New Jersey; 1716
1 folder
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: BS 647 .A2 N4 1787
Title: Dissertations on the prophecies, which have remarkablybeen fulfilled
Author: Newton, Thomas
Published: Elizabethtown, N.J.;1787
2 vol.
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: BX 7795 .G8 A3 1795
Title: Some account of the life and religious labours of Sarah Grubb
Author: Grubb, Sarah
Published: Trenton N.J.;1795
New York 1600-1800
Manuscript Collection –Call Number: MSS 5985
Title: Bronk family papers
Author: Bronk, Mitchell
Published: New York; 1639-1958
1 folder
Vault Collection –Call Number: 283.74 J637 1733
Title: A letter from a minister of the Church of England to his dissenting parishioners,
Author: Johnson, Samuel
Published: New York; 1733
Manuscript Collection –Call Number: MSS 4131
Title: James Rice family papers,
Creator: Rice, James & Rice, James Jr.
Created: Seneca County, NY: 1760-1868
1 folder
Rare Book Quarto Collection –Call Number: AC 901 .A1 no.438
Title: By permission of his honour the Lietenant Governor
Author: New Theatre in Chapel-Street
Published: New York; 1761
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: BX 9428 .D45 1763
Title: A system containing, the principles of the Christian religion, suitable to the Heidelberg catechism
Author: De Ronde, Lambertus
Published: New York; 1763
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 070.13 Z43b 1770
Title: Brief narrative of the case and trial of John Peter
Author: Zenger, John Peter
Published: New York; 1770
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: AC 901 .A1 no.4646
Title: Thoughts upon slavery
Author: Wesley, John
Published: New York; 1774
Vault Collection –Call Number: 917.6 B655 1778
Title: Famine extraordinaire, sur le vaisseau Américain
Author: Unknown
Published: New York; 1778
Americana Rare BookCollection –Call Number: E 211 .R2858
Title: Letter addressed to the Abbé Raynal, on the affairs in North-America
Author: Paine, Thomas
Published: Albany, NY;1792
North America: No specified Region or Colony
Manuscript Collection –Call Number: MSS 6015
Title: Col. Nicholas Gassaway Family of Maryland, Virginia…
Creator: Gassaway, T. A.
Created:North America; 1650-1800s
1 folder
Rare Book Collection –Call Number: 510 St97m 1699
Title: Mathesis juvenilis
Author: Sturm, Johann Christophorus
Published: Unknown;1699
2 vol. (Contains information on New England)
Manuscript Collection –Call Number: MSS 5871
Title: Isacke Sutton papers
Creator: Isacke Sutton papers
Created: North America; 1745-1769