HIST 211: The Early Modern Atlantic World (Fall 2022)

Book written by John Smith, printed 1608

Advertisements and Notices
Date: Wednesday, Jan. 31, 1759
Publication: Public Advertiser (London, England)
Volume: 6 , Issue: 7561

Title:
A Map of the improved part of Pensilvania [Pennsylvania] in America
Description: Shows the city of Philadelphia divided into streets and lots.
Date: 1687
Artist:Holme, Thomas

"Sloane 1622, f.88.(Whole folio) Engraving of a bird's eye view of the village, with huts of light pole and mat construction. At the top of the path which runs through the village, two figures are tending a fire, while further down others are preparing food, and others dance round a circle of posts. Outside the village, figures are hunting with bows and arrows, and there are fields of corn, plots of tobacco, sunflowers, and borders of pumpkins. From Theodor de Bry's 'America', Vol. I, 1590, after a drawing of John White."

New-York Weekly Journal Vol. 933, no. 96 (September 8, 1735) by Zenger, John Peter (1697-1746)

"In a letter written in Boston four years after its founding, John Winthrop (1606-1676) explains the difficulties of establishing a self-sustaining, self-governing settlement and describes the colonists' mounting conflict with the Indians. "

Handwritten journal detailing Robert Livingston's "Voyage Comeing Over" from Grenock, Scotland to Charlestown in New England in America. .

By the King and Queen, a proclamation requiring all seamen and mariners to render themselves to their Majesties service. All officials are to support this and they are to give over the names of those seamen and mariners who continue to shirk service. Printed in London by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb.