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Plymouth Colony Bibliography PLYMOUTH COLONY BIBLIOGRAPHY Primary Sources Awasuncks and Governor Thomas Prince 1671. “Articles of Agreement between the court of New Plymouth and Awasuncks, The Squaw of Saconnet” July 24, 1671, “A Letter from Awasuncks to Governor Prince” August 11, 1671, and “An Original Letter of Governor Prince” August 24, 1671. In Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston, MA: Samuel Hall 1798, pp. 193-197. Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation. New York: Knopf, 1976; NY: Random House, 1981. Benjamin Church 1676. Alan and Mary Simpson, editors, 1975. “Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip’s War… “Diary of King Philip’s War 1675-76. Chester, CT: Pequot Press, pp. 65-74. Daniel Gookin and Edward Oakes 1682. Neal Salisbury, editor. 1997. “A Memorandum of Indian Children Put Forth into Service to the English.” The Sovereignty and Goodness of God for Mary Rowlandson. Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, p. 141-144. John Brereton 1602. Charles H. Levermore, editor. 1912. “A Briefe and true Relation of the Discoverie of the North part of Virginia.” Forerunners and competitors of the Pilgrims and the Puritans. Brooklyn, NY: New England Society, pp. 31-41. Gookin, Daniel. Historical Collections of the Indians in New England. NY: Arno Press, 1972. Governor William Bradford 1622. Dwight B. Heath, editor. 1963. “A Journey to Pokanoket, the habitation of the great King Massasoit.” Mourt’s Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, pp. 60-68, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635 (6 volumes) Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. ibid. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (3 volumes) Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. *ibid. The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004. Heath, Dwight B., ed. A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth (Mourt’s Relation). NY: Corinth Books, 1973. James, Sydney V., ed. Three Visitors to Early Plymouth. Plymouth, MA: Plimoth Plantation, 1963. Maps of Pokanoket Territory from Various sources 1667-1842. Thomas W. Bicknell, editor. Sowans, With Ancient Records of Sowans and parts Adjacent-Illustrated. New Haven, CT: Associated Publishers of American Records 1908, pp. 135, 171, 173. Massachusetts Thanksgiving Proclamation June 20, 1676. Mayflower Compact 1620. On-line at: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/Plymouth/compact.html Metacom (King Philip) and Jon Easton 1675. “A Relacion of the Indyan Warre.” (Printed in Charles H. Lincoln, editor. Narratives of the Indian Wars, 1675-1699. New York 1913, pp. 8-12, Reprinted by Neal Salisbury, editor 1997. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson. Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, pp. 115-118. Heath, Dwight B., ed. Mourt’s Relation, (originally published 1622), NY: Corinth Books, 1963. Morton, Thomas. New England Canaan. NY: Burt Franklin, 1967. Peters, Romana. 2003. “Oral Tradition and the Wampanoag.” Investigating “The First Thanksgiving: An educator’s Guide to the 1621 Harvest Celebration. Plymouth, MA: Plimoth Plantation, pp. 70-71. Plymouth Colony Judicial Acts 1636-1692. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, editor. 1857. Records of the Colony of New England: Judicial Acts 1636-1692. Boston, MA: William White, pp. 171, 180, 191, 195, 222-223, 256-257 (Complaints regarding Indian deeds in and around Plymouth) John Robinson, 1620. Nathaniel Morton, editor 1669. “And first, of the beginning of the first Plantation in N.E. called New-Plimoth.” New England’s Memorial: Or, a Brief Relation of the most Memorable and Remarkable Passages of the Providence of God, manifested to the Planters of New England in America: With special Reference to the first Colony thereof, Called New-Plimoth. Cambridge, MA: John Usher 1669, pp. 1-9. Samuel de Chaplain 1609, Edward Winslow and Robert Cushman 1622. Dwight B. Heath, editor. 1963. “Map of Plymouth Harbor,” “A letter send from New England to a friend in these parts…” “Reasons and Considerations touching the lawfulness of removing out of England into the parts of America.” Mourt’s Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, pp. xvii, 81-87, and 88-96. Vaughn, Alden T. and Edward W. Clark, eds. Puritans Among the Indians. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1981. Wampanoag texts with English translation, various sources c. 1640-1670. Ives Goddard and Kathleen J. Bragdon, editors. 1988. Native Writings in Massachusetts. Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society. (Personal letters, wills, and legal testimony.) Wampanoag traditions, various 17th century sources. William S. Simmons, editor 1986. “Windows to the Past: Dreams and Shrines.” Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore 1620- 1984. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, pp. 251-256. Wampanoag traditions, various 17th century sources. William S. Simmons, editor. 1986. “The First Europeans.” Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore 1620-1984. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, pp. 65-72. Wood, William. New England’s Prospect (1634). Amherst University of Massachusetts Press, 1977. Governor John Winthrop 1631-1632. Richard S. Dunn, James Savage and Laetitia Yeandle, editors. 1996. The Journal of John Winthrop 1630-1649. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Belknap Press, pp. 48-67. Young, Alexander, ed. Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1974. Secondary Sources Arber, Edward. The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers. 1897. Reprint. New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1969. Attaquin, Helen; Akins, Cynthia; Bingham, Amelia; Jeffers, Rachel; Jeffers, Lorenzo; Moran, Virginia; Red Wing; Widdiss, Gladys, contributors. Wampanoag Cookery. Boston, MA: American Science and Engineering, 1974 (available at Boston Children’s Museum). Axtell, James, ed. The Indian Peoples of Eastern America. NY: Oxford University Press, 1981. Axtell, Hanes med, The Native American People of the East. West Haven, CT: Pendulum Press, 1973. *Baker, James. A Guide to Historic Plymouth. Charleston, SC.: The History Press, 2008. Baker, James. 1992. “Haunted by the Pilgrims.” The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology. Anne Yentsch and Mary C. Beaudry, editors. Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 343-352. Bangs, Jeremy D., ed. Indian Deeds; Land Transactions in Plymouth Colony, 1620-1691. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002. Bangs, Jeremy D. Strangers and Pilgrims, Travelers and Sojourners: Leiden and the Foundations of Plymouth Plantation. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2009. Banks, Charles. The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers. 1929. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980. Bradford, William. A Dialogue or Third Conference Between Some Young Men ... and Some Ancient Men .... Edited by Charles Deane. Boston: John Wilson, 1870. Ibid. “Governor Bradford's Letter Book.” Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Ser. I, Vol. 3. Boston: The Society,1794. Ibid. Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647. Edited by Samuel E. Morison. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. Bragdon, Kathleen J. Colonial Native New England: A Cultural Account. University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. Bragdon, Kathleen J. “Pre-colonial Settlement.,” Encyclopedia of New England Culture. Burt Feintuch and David H. Watters, editors. Yale University Press, 2005. Breen, Timothy and Stephen Foster. “The Puritans’ Greatest Achievement.” Journal of American History, 1973 (60:1), 5-22. Brown, Tom. The Tracker. Bruchac, Joseph. Keepers of the Earth. Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum, Inc., 1988. Bunker, Nick. Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and their World: A New History. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Cajete, Gregory, editor. A People’s Ecology. Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publications, 1999. Cajete, Gregory. Native Science. Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers, 2000. Calloway, Colin. After King Philip’s War. Dartmouth College: University Press of New England, 1997. Calloway, Colin and Neal Salisbury. Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience. University of Virginia Press, n.d. Carlson, Richard. Rooted Like the Ash Trees: New England Indians and the Land. Naugatuck: eagle Wing Press, 1987. Cave, Alfred. 1996. “Preconceptions and Misperceptions.” The Pequot War. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, pp. 13-48. Cheney, Glenn Alan. Thanksgiving. New London: New London Librarium, 2007 Churchill, Ward. 1997. “Genocide in the Americas.” A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present.. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, pp. 97-105. (Excerpt on the impact of English plagues on the Wampanoag population n the 17th century.) Cline, Duane A. Compiler/Editor. Centennial History General Society of Mayflower Society 1897- 1997. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999. Coombs, Linda. 2002. “Holistic History,” Plimoth Life, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2002, pp. 12-15. Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. NY: Hill and Wang, 1983. Crosby, Constance A. 1993. “The Algonkian Spiritual Landscape.” Algonkians of New England Past and Present. Peter Benes, editor, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife 1991. Boston, MA: Boston University, pp. 35-41. Culin, Stewart. Games of the North American Indians. NY: Dover Press, 1975. Cummings, Abbott Lowell. The Framed houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725. The Belknap Press of Harvard University
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