This fourth edition first published 2011
2011 Richard Middleton and Anne Lombard
Edition history: Blackwell Publishing (1e, 1992; 2e, 2001; 3e, 2002)
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Middleton, Richard, 1941
Colonial America: a history to 1763 / Richard Middleton and Anne Lombard. 4th ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-9004-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. United StatesHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775. I. Lombard, Anne S. II. Title.
E188.M52 2012
973.2dc22
2010047220
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
This book is published in the following electronic formats: ePDFs [ISBN 9781444396270]; ePub [ISBN 9781444396287]
Figures
Cahokia mounds, circa 1150
The Indian town of Secotan, by John White
Indian hunter, by John White
Indians fishing, by John White
Indian man and woman preparing a meal, by John White
The Algonquian Indian village of Pomeiock
Roanoke and its vicinity, 1585, by John White
English colonists landing on the Potomac River in Virginia, 1634
An artist's impression of Jamestown, Virginia, 1607
Pocahontas in London
Portrait of John Winthrop
Underhill's Diagram of the Pequot Fight
First Maryland State House, 16341694
The Stadthuys of New York in 1679
William Penn's Treaty with the Indians
Portrait of King James II
The Salem witch trial (artist's reconstruction)
West Indian slaves processing indigo
Typical eighteenth-century kitchen hearth
Thomas Hancock House, Boston
Portrait of Mrs James Smith (Elizabeth Murray), 1769, by J. S. Copley
A Westerly View of the Colledges... (Harvard College)
College of New Jersey (later Princeton University)
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin at the age of 54
Plan of slave ship The Brookes
Advertisement for a sale of slaves, 1769
View of Mulberry, House and Street, 1805
Advertisement for the return of a runaway slave, 1765
Portrait of Pedro Menndez de Avils
Portrait of Sagayenkwaraton
A draught of the Creek nation, 1757
View of Savannah, March 29, 1734
A Northeast View of Boston
Southeast Prospect of the City of Philadelphia
Portrait of Major General Robert Hunter
French map of North America, 1756
A view of Qubec
The Death of General Wolfe, by Benjamin West
Maps
Eastern Woodlands coastal peoples, circa 15301608
The age of exploration
The Powhatan Confederacy in 1607
Seventeenth-century New England and New York
Major Indian peoples and European settlements in eastern North America, circa 1640
The English West Indies, 1660
The early Carolinas
Mid-seventeenth-century Maryland and Virginia
The middle colonies in the later seventeenth century
Eastern North America, 17151760
The provincial economy, 17001760
Africa as known to Europeans in the mid eighteenth century
Major British North American slaveholding regions
Stono Rebellion, South Carolina
Missions in Spanish Florida, circa 16741675
Spanish, French, and Indian settlements in the Gulf of Mexico in the mid eighteenth century
French claims in North America, circa 1700
The lower Mississippi Valley in the 1730s
Locations of major Indian peoples in eastern North America, circa 1750
Major Native American powers of the northern frontier, circa 1725
Major Native American powers of the southern frontier, circa 1725
Immigration and expansion, 17001760
The manors of New York
French-claimed, British-claimed, and disputed territory, 1755
The British offensive to secure the backcountry, 1755
The struggle for Canada, 17561760
Documents
The upbringing of children, Father Gabriel Sagard, 1632
The Indian method of warfare, Thomas Harriot, 1588
A first meeting with Europeans
License granted by Henry VII to John Cabot
John Rolfe's request for permission from Governor Sir Thomas Dale to marry Pocahontas, 1614
Formal constitution for a council and assembly in Virginia, July 24, 1621
The Mayflower Compact, November 1620
The examination of Mrs Hutchinson, November 1637
A call for Indian unity by Chief Miantonomo, 1642
An Act Concerning Religion
The Duke's Laws, April 2, 1664
Declaration of Nathaniel Bacon in the name of the people of Virginia, July 30, 1676
The Bill of Rights, 1689
Recantation of the women of Andover and Confession of Sarah Carrier, aged seven, 1692
Benjamin Franklin on the Protestant ethic: the advice of Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, &c. (1751, published 1755)
An Act to Enable Femes Coverts to Convey Their Estates, Georgia, 1760
Benjamin Franklin on George Whitefield
On training to be a lawyer: the early career of John Adams, 1758
A slave market, circa 1755
Afro-Floridians to the Spanish King, 1738
A suspected African rising prevented, 1680
The Iroquois reject English missionaries, circa 1710
The Micmacs ridicule the French, 1677
An attempt to cheat Indians of their lands, New Jersey, 1716
Gottlieb Mittelberger on the perils of crossing the Atlantic, 1750
Lord Cornbury instructed to obtain a permanent salary, 1703
The Albany plan of union, 1754
Preface to the Fourth Edition
This book tells the story of the British North American colonies, from the initial encounters between Europeans and the Native Americans who lived here in the sixteenth century to the end of the Seven Years War in 1763, when Great Britain won political control over most of the territory in North America east of the Mississippi and north of the Gulf of Mexico.