European Exploration and Settlement: The Coming of the First White Man -- Report to Ferdinand and Isabella / Christopher Columbus -- Spanish abuses of Natives -- Fray Alonso de Benavides Reports New Mexico Indians Eager for Conversation ; They Came From the East / Alonso de Benavides -- The Founding of Saint Augustine -- Jolliet and Marquette Travel the Mississippi ; These are our Fathers / Jacques Marquette -- A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia / Thomas Harriot -- The "lost colony" -- The Founding of Jamestown (from "The Generall Historie of Virginia") / John Smith -- The Pocahontas Legend -- The Pilgrims' Landing and First Winter (from "Of Plymouth Plantation") / William Bradford -- The Mayflower Compact -- The First Thanksgiving -- The Propriety of Pennsylvania / William Penn -- Impressions of New Jersey and New York / Per(Peter) Kalm -- "men of eighteen different languages" -- Social Issues: A Relacion of the Indyan Warre / John Easton -- "land is everlasting" -- A Letter From Elizabeth Bacon / Elizabeth Bacon -- A Narrative of Bacon's Rebellion / William Sherwood -- Mather-Cheever account of the Salem Witch Trials / Cotton Mather and Ezekiel Cheever -- Diary entries by Samuel Sewall / Samuel Sewell -- A Brand Pluck'd out of the Burning -- A Brief Narrative of the Case and Tryal of John Peter Zenger -- Servants and Slaves in Virginia(from "The History and Present State of Virginia") / Robert Beverley -- I have nothing to Comfort me -- Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes / John Woolman -- They ran off with us -- The Maypole of Merry-Mount(from "New English Canaan") / Thomas Morton -- Excerpt From the "Trial of Anne Hutchinson" -- Personal Narratives: John Winthrop's Christian Experience / John Winthrop -- The Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson / Mary Rowlandson -- Poems by Anne Dudley Bradstreet / Anne Dudley Bradstreet -- The Pleasures of a Country Life -- The Journal of Madame Knight / Sarah Kemble Knight -- Margaret Brent, Independent Woman -- Early American Literature -- Some Account of the Early Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge...Written by Herself / Elizabeth Ashbridge -- Benjamin Franklin:A Biography in His Own Words / Benjamin Franklin -- The Diary and Autobiography of John Adams / John Adams -- "...I said, this is certainly a tavern".