Contents ix
from Chapter I: Of the Persons of the Indians and Their Dress
from Chapter II: Of the Marriages Amongst the Indians, and Management
of Their Children
from Chapter III: Of the Towns, Buildings, and Fortifications of the
Indians
158 ROGER WILLIAMS
A Key into the Language of America, 1643
159 WILLIAM BYRD
History of the Dividing Line
[The Great Dismal Swamp]
162 THOMAS JEFFERSON
Notes on the State of Virginia
[On North American Indians]
165 EDWARD TAYLOR (ca. 1642-1729)
Preparatory Meditations
166 Meditation 8 (First Series): [I kening through Astronomy Divine]
167 Preface to God's Determinations
168 Huswifery
169 WILLIAM BYRD (1674-1744)
170 William Byrd: His Secret Diary for the Years 1709-1712
June, July, and August 1710, March, April, October, and November, 1711
175 JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758)
177 from Personal Narrative
181 from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
182 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (170*1790)
184 The Autobiography
223 Poor Richard Improved, 1758
[Father Abraham's Speech; or The to Wealth]
229 from Information to Those Who Would Remove to America
231 Native Americans and the Myth of the Noble Savage
232 Michel de Montaigne, from "Of Coaches"
232 William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation [On the burning of a Pequot village]
232 Samuel Sewall, from Letter to Sir William Ashurst (May 3, 1700)
232 General Jeffery Amherst, from Letter (1732)