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TRACTS AND OTHER PAPERS,TUE

RELATING PRINCIPALLY TO THE

ORIGIN, SETTLEMENT, AND PROGRESS

OF THE

COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA,

FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE COUNTRY TO THE YEAR 1776.

COLLECTED BY PETER FORCE.

VOL. I.

WASHINGTON:

PRINTED BY PETER FORCE.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836,

BY PETER FORCE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

The Compiler of the following Volume having been led by circumstances into an examination somewhat extensive, of the sources of our history, experienced much difficulty in procuring the Pamphlets and smaller Tracts that relate to the Origin, Settlement and Progress of the American Colonies. Of the vast number of publications of this description that were made during the two centuries and a half succeeding the discovery of America, a few only can be found in this country, and these are almost entirely confined to libraries connected with our public institutions: many of them are of great value as authentic historical records, and all are interesting to those who take pleasure in tracing step by step the progress of the Colonies, in population, wealth, and power, within the comparatively short period that intervened between the landing of the first white man upon the Continent, and the establishment of a free and independent Government by the People of the United States of America. These considerations suggested the plan of the Collection now commenced.

Of the thirteen Tracts contained in the present volume, Nos. 2 and 10 have not heretofore been printed, and Nos. 8 and 9 now appear for the first time in a connected form: the others, as will be seen by referring to the title pages which are copied at large, are republications.

WASHINGTON, January 7, 1836.

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