HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH COLONY & THE PILGRIMS: PRIMARY SOURCES

(Sources with significant information on Indigenous people are starred*)

Bradford, William. A dialogue or third conference between some young men…and some ancient Men. Edited by Charles Deane. Boston: John Wilson, 1870.

Bradford, William. Governor William Bradford’s letter book. Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1906.

*Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation. Edited by Samuel Eliot Morison. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

*Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation. Edited by Caleb H. Johnson. Xlibris, 2006.

*Champlain, Samuel de. Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618. W.L. Grant, editor. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1967.

*Church, Thomas. The History of King Philip’s War. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Classic, 1989.

Geneva Bible: The annotated New Testament 1602 Edition. Edited by Gerald T. Sheppard. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1989.

*Gookin, Daniel. An historical account of the doings and sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England, in the years 1675, 1676, 1677. New York: Arno Press, 1972.

*Gookin, Daniel. Historical collections of the Indians in New England. New York: Arno Press, 1972.

Hakluyt, Richard. Voyages to the Virginia Colonies. London: Century, 1986.

*Heath, Dwight B., editor. Mourt’s Relation: a Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Cambridge, Mass.: Applewood Books, 1986.

*Josselyn, John. New-Englands Rarities Discovered. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1972.

*Lindholdt, Paul J., editor. John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler: A Critical Edition of Two Voyages to New England. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1988.

Morton, Nathaniel. New England’s memorial. 5th edition. Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1826.

*Morton, Thomas. The New English Canaan of Thomas Morton. Reprint edited by Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Boston: The Prince Society, 1883.

Plymouth Church records 1620-1859, Vols. 22 and 23 of Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Boston: The Society, 1902.

Pope, Charles Henry. Plymouth Scrap Book. Boston: C.I. Goodspeed & Co., 1918.

*Pory, John etc. Three Visitors to early Plymouth. Edited by Sydney W. James Jr. Bedford, Mass.: Applewood Books, 1997.

Prince, Thomas. Chronological history of New-England. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard and Co., 1826.

Records of the Colony of New Plymouth. Edited by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff. 12 vols. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1855.

*Williams, Roger. A Key into the Language of America. New York: Russell & Russell, 1973.

*Winslow, Edward. Good Newes from New England. Bedford, Mass.: Applewood Books, 1996. First publication in 1624.

*Wood, William. New England’s Prospect. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977.

*Young, Alexander. Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony of Plymouth. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1851. (Contains texts of Winslow’s Good Newes from New England, Winslow’s Hypocrisie Unmasked, Bradford’s First Dialogue, Bradford’s Letter Book.)

 

THE PILGRIMS & THE 17TH CENTURY: SECONDARY SOURCES

Abrams, Ann Uhry. The Pilgrims & Pocahontas: rival myths of American origin. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999.

Anderson, Douglas. William Bradford’s books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the written word. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Anderson, Robert Charles. The great migration begins: immigrants to New England 1620-1633. 3 volumes. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.

Anderson, Robert Charles. The Pilgrim migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony, 1620-1633. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.

Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. Creatures of empire: How domestic animals transformed early America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Armitage, David and Michael J. Braddick, editors. The British Atlantic world, 1500-1800. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002.

Bangs, Jeremy Dupertuis. Pilgrim Edward Winslow: England’s first international diplomat. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.

Bangs, Jeremy Dupertuis. Strangers and pilgrims, travellers and sojourners: Leiden and the foundations of Plymouth Plantation. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2009.

Bunker, Nick. Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

Chu, Jonathan M. Neighbors, friends, or madmen: the Puritan adjustment to Quakerism in seventeenth-century Massachusetts Bay. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985.

Coughlin, Michelle Marchetti. Penelope Winslow, Plymouth Colony First Lady: Re-Imagining a Life.  Plymouth, Mass.: Pilgrim Society, 2019.

Cressy, David. Birth, marriage & death: ritual, religion, and the life-cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Cressy, David. Coming over: migration and communication between England and New England in the seventeenth century. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Cullity, Brian. A cubberd, four joyne stools & other smalle thinges: the material culture of Plymouth Colony (exhibit catalog). Sandwich, MA: Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, 1994.

Deetz, James and Patricia Scott Deetz. The times of their lives: life, love, and death in Plymouth Colony. New York: W.H. Freeman & Co., 2000.

Dexter, Lincoln A., editor. Maps of early Massachusetts: pre-history through the seventeenth century. Rev. edition. Middleburg, Floria: The Author, 1984.

Fairbanks, Jonathan L. and Robert F. Trent. New England Begins: the seventeenth century (exhibit catalog). 3 volumes. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1982.

George, Timothy. John Robinson and the English Separatist tradition. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1982.

Johnson, Caleb. Here shall I die ashore: Stephen Hopkins: Bermuda castaway, Jamestown survivor, and Mayflower Pilgrim. XLibris Corporation, 2007.

Kardux, Joke and Eduard van de Bilt. Newcomers in an old city: the American Pilgrims in Leiden 1609-1620. 3d revised ed. Leiden: Uitgeverij Burgersdijk & Niermans, 2007.

Krusell, Cynthia Hagar. Plymouth County 1685. Plymouth, MA: Pilgrim Society, 1985.

McIntyre, Sheila & Len Travers, editors. The correspondence of John Cotton Junior. Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2009.

McManus, Edgar J. Law and liberty in early New England: criminal justice and due process, 1620-1692. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.

Mendelson, Sara and Patricia Crawford. Women in early modern England. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1998.

Moore, Susan Hardman. Pilgrims: New World settlers & the call of home. New Haven, Ct.: Yale University Press, 2007.

O’Neill, Stephen C. The Life of Peregrine White: The First Englishman Born in New England. Marshfield, Mass.: Marshfield Historical Society, 2020

Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower: A story of courage, community and war. New York: Viking Penguin, 2006.

Read, David. New World, known world: shaping knowledge in early Anglo-American writing. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2005.

St. George, Robert Blair. The wrought covenant: source material for the study of craftsmen and community in southeastern New England 1620-1700. Brockton, MA: Brockton Art Center-Fuller Memorial, 1979.

Seelye, John. Memory’s nation: the place of Plymouth Rock. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Sprunger, Keith L. Dutch Puritanism: a history of English and Scottish churches of The Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1982.

Sprunger, Keith L. Trumpets from the tower: English Puritan printing in the Netherlands, 1600-1640. Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1994.

Stout, Harry S. New England soul: preaching and religious culture in colonial New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Stratton, Eugene Aubrey. Plymouth Colony: its history & people 1620-1691. Salt lake City, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, 1986.

Weir, David A. Early New England: a covenanted society. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005.

 

HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF PLYMOUTH, FROM THE PILGRIMS TO BEYOND: SECONDARY SOURCES

Baker, James W. Plymouth Rock’s Own Story. Plymouth, Mass.: Pilgrim Society, 2020.  

Baker, James W. Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday. Durham, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009.

Baker, James W. Made in America – The Pilgrim Story and How It Grew. [ can you dop in publication info?]

Baker, James, editor. Plymouth illustrated 1893: a tour of Plymouth as it was long ago. Plymouth, MA: Old Colony Club, 1993.

Belcher, Marjorie Stephens. The economic evolution of a New England town: Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1940.

Briggs, Helen and Rose Briggs. Picture guide to historic Plymouth. Rev. by Hope A. Thurlby. Plymouth, MA: Pilgrim Society, 1990.

Briggs, Rose T. Plymouth Rock: history and significance. Plymouth, MA: Pilgrim Society, 1968.

Carlin, Wayne M. Loyalism in Plymouth during the American Revolution. Unpublished ms., 1976.

Cavallaro, Lenny, Lou Cook and Bob Jannoni. Solved: The mystery of the General Arnold. Two Capes Press, 2007.

Cummings, O.R. Trolleys in the land of the Pilgrims. Forty Fort, Penn.: Harold E. Cox, c1992.

Curtis, Michael G. In the vineyards of liberty: Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1763-1783. Unpublished ms., 1986.

Davis, William T. Ancient landmarks of Plymouth. 2d edition. Boston: Damrell & Upham, 1899.

Davis, William T. History of the Town of Plymouth. Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885.

Davis, William T. Plymouth memories of an octogenarian. Plymouth, MA: The Memorial Press, 1906.

Geller, L.D., editor. They knew they were Pilgrims: essays in Plymouth history. New York: Poseidon Books, 1971.

Gomes, Peter J. The Pilgrim Society 1820-1970: an informal commemorative essay. Plymouth, MA: Pilgrim Society, 1970.

Hurd, D. Hamilton, comp. History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1884.

Littlejohn, Stephen E. The emergency of community: the Italians of Plymouth, Mass., 1895-1915. Unpublished ms., 1975.

McPhee, John. “Our Far-Flung Correspondents (Plymouth Rock).” The New Yorker, Feb. 26, 1990.

O’Gorman, James F. Accomplished in all departments of art: Hammatt Billings of Boston, 1818-1874. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.

Philleo, Calvin W. “A Pilgrimage to Plymouth.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 8 (1853-1854): 36-54.

Pizer, Laurence R. Plymouth in the 1800s. Unpublished ms.: 1983.

Records of the Town of Plymouth. 3 vols. Plymouth, Mass.: Avery & Doten, 1889.

Russell, William S. Guide to Plymouth, and recollections of the Pilgrims. Boston: The Author, 1846.

Russell, William S. Pilgrim memorials, and guide for visitors to Plymouth Village. Boston: The Author, 1851.

Russell, William S. Pilgrim memorials, and guide to Plymouth. Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Company, 1855.

Russell, William S. Pilgrim memorials, and guide to Plymouth. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Company, 1860.

Russell, William S. Pilgrim memorials, and guide to Plymouth. Boston: s.n., 1886.

Thacher, James. History of the Town of Plymouth. Salem, MA: Higginson Book Co., 1991.

Thompson, Elroy S. History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable Counties, Massachusetts. 3 vols. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1928.

Zuckerman, Michael. Peaceable kingdoms: New England towns in the eighteenth century. New York: Vintage Books, 1970.

 

NATIVE AMERICANS: SECONDARY SOURCES:

Axtell, James. The Indian Peoples of eastern America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Axtell, James. The invasion within: the contest of cultures in colonial North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Bragdon, Kathleen J. Native People of southern New England, 1500-1600. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

Braun, Ester K., and Braun, David P. The First Peoples of the Northeast. Lincoln, MA: Lincoln Historical Society, 1994.

Brooks, Lisa. The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast. Indigenous Americas Series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Brooks, Lisa. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War. The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.

Campbell, Martha G. Colonists contacts with the Indians, 1620-1676. 2 vols. Unpublished ms., 1982.

Campisi, Jack. The Mashpee Indians: tribe on trial. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1991.

Cogley, Richard W. John Eliot’s mission to the Indians before King Philip’s War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Cronon, William. Changes in the land: Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England. New York: Hill & Wang, 1983.

Drake, James D. King Philip’s War: civil war in New England, 1675-1676. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999

Erichsen-Brown, Charlotte. Use of plants for the past 500 Years. Aurora, Ont.: Breezy Creek Press, 1979.

Fisher, Julie A. and David J. Silverman. Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2014.

Gibson, Susan G. Burr’s Hill: a 17th century Wampanoag burial ground in Warren, Rhode Island. Providence: Brown University, 1980.

Hutchins, Francis G. Mashpee: the Story of Cape Cod’s Indian town. West Franklin, NH: Amarat Press, 1979.

Jennings, Francis. The invasion of America. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina, 1975.

Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants.  Canada: Milkweed Editions, 2013.

Kupperman, Karin Ordahl. Settling with the Indians: the meeting of English and Indian cultures in America, 1580-1640. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1980.

Kupperman, Karin Ordahl. Indians & English: Facing off in early America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Leach, Douglas Edward. Flintlock and tomahawk: New England in King Philip’s War. East Orleans, MA: Parnassus Imprints, 1958.

Lepore, Jill. The name of war: King Philip’s War and the origins of American identity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

Lipman, Andrew. The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015.

Lipman, Andrew. Squanto: A Native Odyssey. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024.

Malone, Patrick M. The Skulking way of war: technology and tactics among the New England Indians. New York: Madison Books, 1991.

Martin, Calvin. Keepers of the game: Indian-animal relationships and the fur trade. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1978.

Nabokov, Peter. Native American architecture. New York: Oxford University, 1989.

Peters, Russell. The Wampanoags of Mashpee. S.l.: Indian Spiritual and Cultural Training Council, 1987.

Pulsipher, Jenny Hale. Subjects unto the same king: Indians, English and the contest for authority in colonial New England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Russell, Howard S. Indian New England before the Mayflower. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1980.

Salisbury, Neal. Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the making of New England, 1500-1743. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Salisbury, Neal. “Squanto: Last of the Patuxets.” In Struggle and survival in colonial America. Edited by David G. Sweet and Gary B. Nash. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1981.

Schultz, Eric B. and Michael J. Tougias. King Philips War: the history and legacy of America’s forgotten conflict. Woodstock, Vt.: The Countryman Press, 1999.

Silverman, David J. Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha’s Vineyard, 1600-1871. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005, reprint ed. 2007.

Simmons, William S. Spirit of the New England Tribes. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1986.

Slotkin, Richard and Folsom, James K., editors. So dreadful a judgement: Puritan responses to King Philip’s War, 1676-1677. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1978.

Snow, Dean R. The archaeology of New England. New York: Academic Press, 1980.

Trigger, Brice G., editor. Handbook of the North American Indians, Volume 15 (“Northeast”). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978.

Vaughan, Alden T. New England frontier: Puritans and Indians 1620-1675. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1965.

Vaughan, Alden T., and Clark, Edward W., editors. Puritans among the Indians: accounts of captivity and redemption 1676-1724. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 1981.

Weatherwax, Paul. Indian Corn in old America. New York: Macmillan Co., 1954.

Weinstein, Laurie, editor. Enduring traditions: the Native Peoples of New England. Westport, Conn.: Bergin & Garvey, 1994.

Weinstein, Laurie Lee. Indian vs. colonist: competition for land in 17th century Plymouth Colony. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI, 1983.

Weinstein-Farson, Laurie. The Wampanoag. New York: Chelsea House, 1989.

Wilbur, C. Keith. The New England Indians. Chester, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 1978.

Willoughby, Charles C. Antiquities of the New England Indians. Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, 1935.

 

LOCAL HISTORY/PUBLIC MEMORY SOURCES

*Blee, Lisa, and Jean M. O’Brien. Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 

*DeLucia, Christine M. Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast. Yale University Press, 2018.

Glassberg, David. Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991.

Carol Kammen. On Doing Local History. 2nd ed. AltaMira Press, 2003.

Kyvig, David E. and Myron A. Marty. Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You. 3rd ed. Plymouth, UK: AltaMira Press, 2010.

Meriweather, Jeffrey Lee and Laura Matoon D’Amore, eds. We Are What We Remember. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Rosenzweig, Roy and David Thelen. The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life. Columbia University Press, 1998.