An informal listing of web sites on the topic of:

UNITED STATES HISTORY:  COLONIAL ERA

(Last updated Fall 2002)

 

www.dohistory.org/home.html Site provides images and transcribed text of diaries, letters, maps, court records, town records, and account books from America's colonial history.  Also included is the fully searchable text of the 27-year diary of Martha Ballard, which was the basis of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning book by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, _A Midwife's Tale_.

http://www.sail1620.org Web site of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  Provides information on the 102 English colonists who landed in Massachusetts in 1620.  Includes text of the Mayflower Compact and biographies of famous Mayflower descendants.