Internet Sites with Primary Sources for U.S. History: 18th Century

9 volumes of rare pamphlets, correspondence, and proceedings relating to the settlement of the colonies from 1774-1776

Papers of a free African American family from Camden, SC

There's a guide to using this collection at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/america-west-indies-calendar-state-papers-colonial-1573-1739/

"When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America."

Forfeitures of property belonging to Loyalists in Westchester County, NY

Also includes a description of the capture of John Andre

Documents written by founders of the U.S. that are in the process of being published by the Rotunda Press. When they are published they will disappear from this site.

Correspondence and writings of six major shapers of the United States

Papers of the Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures, a Quaker organization

A database of ads from 18th & 19th century Virginia newspapers for runaway and captured enslaved people

Slave manumissions for Hunterdon County, New Jersey, 1877-1836

"...Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, is an historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII)."

A searchable database of enslaved people who lived on the Monticello plantation

Court documents about witchcraft and other crimes.

Almost 1,000 letters and documents relating to the period surrounding the American Revolution.

"The Virginia Museum of History & Culture launched Unknown No Longer in 2011 to make accessible biographical details of enslaved Virginians from unpublished historical records in its collections. At the beginning of 2019, the unique content of Unknown No Longer was moved to be hosted on the Virginia Untold portal operated by the Library of Virginia, providing users with access to an expanded collection of resources for researching African American history in Virginia."

"The Library of Virginia's African American Narrative project aims to provide great accessibility to pre-1865 African American history and genealogy found in the rich primary sources in its holdings."

Agent of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in London.

Papers of a Massachusetts officer in the Revolutionary War