John Smith : from A description of New England
William Bradford : from The history of Plymouth plantation
John Winthrop : from The journal
Roger Williams : from The bloudy tenent yet more bloudy ; Letter to the town of Providence
Thomas Hooker : A true sight of sin
Urian Oakes : from The Sovraign efficacy of divine providence
Samuel Sewall : from The diary
Mary Rowlandson : from The captivity.
Cotton Mather : from The magnalia christi americana; The christian philosopher
Anonymous : "Anagram on Thomas Dudley"
Samuel Danforth : from An almanack for the year of our lord 1647
Anne Bradstreet : "Contemplations," "The flesh and the spirit," "To my dear and loving husband," "Before the birth of one of her children"
Michael Wigglesworth : The day of doom
John Fiske : "Upon the decease of the reverend Mr Tho : Hooker & c."
Cotton Mather : "Epitaph on Shubael Dummer"
Edward Taylor : "Huswifery," "Meditation six," "Meditation eight," "Meditation fifty six, second series," "Preface" to Gods determinations, "Upon the sweeping flood"
Urian Oakes : "An elegy on the death of the reverend Mr. Thomas Shepard"
John Wise : from A vindication of the government of New-England churches.
Jonathan Edwards : Personal narrative ; Sinners in the hands of an angry god ; from Images or shadows of divine things ; from The nature of true virtue
Two views of Nathaniel Bacon : Sir John Berry, Col. Herbert Jeffreys, and Francis Moryson : from A true narrative of the late rebellion in Virginia
Anonymous : from the Burwell papers
William Byrd : from The history of the dividing line ; from The secret diary.
Robert Beverly : from The history and present state of Virginia
William Penn : Letter from William Penn to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders
John Woolman : from The journal
Ebenezer Cook : "The sotweed factor"
William Dawson : "Hymn to the morning," "Song"
Mather Byler : "Written in Milton's Paradise lost," "To Pictorio"
Benjamin Church : "The choice"
Conrad Weiser : Journal to the Ohio
John Filson : The adventures of Col. Daniel Boon.