Early Native American and Colonial History of New England

Early Native American and Colonial History of New England: Bibliography and Reference Sources

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By Jules Gordon on Friday, August 06, 1999 - 06:39 pm:

Flintlock and Tomahawk, New England in King Philip's War. By Douglas Edward Leach. Parnassus Imprints, Inc. 1958

Complete history of King Philip's War told in simple, understandable prose. Still in Print.

By Jules Gordon on Saturday, August 07, 1999 - 06:54 pm:

Diary of King Philip's War, 1675-1676 By Colonel Benjamin Church.

Benjamin Church Fought in that war. He wrote the diary with his son Thomas. The first edition was published in 1717. Several editions were published through the 18th century.

The copy I have is a Tercentenary Edition edited in 1975 by Alan and Mary Simpson. They give background information and clean up the "old" english style. Very readable.

All editions are out of print. Look in biliofind.com for copies.

By Jules Gordon on Friday, August 13, 1999 - 04:55 pm:

Penhallow's Indian Wars Notes, Index and Introduction By Edward Wheelock. Published by Corner House Publishers 1973.

This is a Facsimile Reprint of Samuel Penhallow's "The History of the War of New England, With the Eastern Indians" first published in Boston in 1726.

The book is copied in the old English format with "s" looking like lower case "f". Contemporary account.

By Jules Gordon on Friday, August 13, 1999 - 04:59 pm:

A Few Acres Of Snow, The saga of the French and Indian Wars By Robert Leckie. Published in 1999 by John Wiley and Sons. This is History, not a novel.

By Jules Gordon on Sunday, August 15, 1999 - 01:31 pm:

New France and New England By John Fiske.

Heritage Books Inc. Copywrite date is 1902. This is a Facsimile reprinted in 1997.

History of the region from the exploration by Cartier to the end of the French and Indian War.

By Jules Gordon on Monday, August 16, 1999 - 06:27 pm:

The Name Of War by Jill Lepore. Published by Alfred A. Knopf 1998.

A unique perspective on the King Philip war. Jill Lepore looks at how the Indians and English Colonists viewed each other and themselves. She examines how they justified their conduct during the war, and the postwar effects on both cultures.

By Jules Gordon on Monday, August 16, 1999 - 06:42 pm:

New England Outpost, War and Society in Colonial Deerfield by Richard I. Melvoin. Published by W.W. Norton&Company 1989

A study of Colonial history by focussing on Deerfield from it's founding in 1665 to 1715, during which Deerfield was a western frontier town on the Conneticut River.

By Jules Gordon on Wednesday, August 18, 1999 - 06:58 pm:

Dawnland Encounters, Indians and Europeans in Norther New England. Edited by Colin G. Calloway. Published by University press of New England

The editor compiled a large amount of research data on the Western Abenakis and Europeans. He has published this data as a series of incidents and stories that portrays the relationship between Indians and Europeans from the contact period through to the end of the eighteenth century. Note: Dawnland is the Abenaki name for Maine.

By Jules Gordon on Wednesday, August 18, 1999 - 07:01 pm:

European and Native American warfare 1675-1815 by Armstrong Starkey. University of Oklahoma Press. !998

The title speaks for itself.

By Jules on Saturday, August 21, 1999 - 10:08 am:

Indian New England Before the Mayflower by Howard S. Russell. Published by the University Press Of New England.

The book portrays the real character and environment of the Native Americans in New England around the Contact period.

By Jules Gordon on Saturday, August 21, 1999 - 10:15 am:

The Massachusetts Bay Colony (Volumes I-IV) by Leo Bonfanti. Published by Pride Publications.

Leo Bonfanti has published a several series and individual books under the New England Historical Series.

By Jules Gordon on Saturday, August 21, 1999 - 10:22 am:

The Bend In The River by John Pendergast. Published by Merrimack River Press.

Dr. Pendergast has directed archaeological digs along the Merrimack river in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. This book is a compilation of his collective knowledge covering 17,000 years of time.

By Jules Gordon on Saturday, August 21, 1999 - 10:26 am:

The Skulking Way of War by Patric M. Malone. Technology and tactics among the New England Natives. Published by Madison Books.

A study of how technology, both pre and post contact, effected the Indian way of War.

By Jules Gordon on Sunday, August 22, 1999 - 06:02 pm:

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rawlandson.

A contemporary account of the capture of Mary Rawlinson of Lancaster, Massachusetts by the Indians of King Philips uprising in Februrary 1675. This was America's first best seller.

This is best downloaded from the WEB. If you have trouble e-mail me at julesgordon2@netscape.net and I will help.

By Jules Gordon on Monday, August 23, 1999 - 06:18 pm:

The Life and Times of Major John Mason, 1600-1672 by Louis B. Mason.Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons 1935

A biased history of the man who led the military action against the Pequot fort in Mystic, Conneticut. There are first hand references from Major Mason's book, "History of the Pequot War"

By Jules Gordon on Wednesday, August 25, 1999 - 07:25 pm:

King Philip and The War with the Colonists by Robert Cwiklik. Published by the Silver Burton Press

A childrens version with bibliography.

By Jules Gordon on Sunday, August 29, 1999 - 07:50 am:

The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin. Random House, 1983.

By Jules Gordon on Monday, August 30, 1999 - 07:58 pm:

Arms for Empire: A Military History of the British Colonies in North America, 1607-1763 by Douglas Edward Leach. Published by Macmillan, 1972

By Jules Gordon on Wednesday, September 01, 1999 - 06:32 pm:

France and England in North America by Francis Parkman. Published by Little Brown. 12 Volumes published between 1887 through 1894.

This a major scholarly work.

By Jules Gordon on Thursday, September 02, 1999 - 06:33 pm:

The Indian in America by Wilcombe Washburn. Published by Harper & Row, 1975

By Jules Gordon on Friday, September 03, 1999 - 07:06 pm:

History and General Description of New France by Rev. P.F.X. de Charlevois, S.J.

Contemporary account of the settlement of Canada. New England Colonial History is intertwined with that of Canada.

By Jules Gordon on Monday, September 06, 1999 - 08:54 am:

Northeastern Indian Lives, 1632-1816 edited by Robert S. Grumet. University of Massachusetts Press, 1996

By Jules Gordon on Sunday, September 12, 1999 - 06:15 pm:

The Complete works of Captain John Smith, 3 Vols. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

This is the man who invented and promoted the term "New England"

By Jules Gordon on Sunday, September 12, 1999 - 06:19 pm:

The Eastern Frontier: The settlement of Northern New England, 1610-1763 by Charles E. Clark Published by Knopf, 1970

By Jules Gordon on Monday, September 13, 1999 - 06:35 pm:

Jamestown 1544-1699 by Carl Bridenbough. Oxford University Press, 1980

By Jules Gordon on Wednesday, September 15, 1999 - 07:00 pm:

The Ordeal of the Longhouse; Peoples of the the Iroquois League in the era of European Colonization by D. Richter. Published by Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992

By Jules Gordon on Saturday, September 18, 1999 - 06:34 pm:

The Invasion of America:Indians, Colonialism, and the cant of Conquest by F. Jennings. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975)

By Jules Gordon on Sunday, September 19, 1999 - 11:05 am:

Beyond 1492: encounters in colonial North America by J. Axtell. Oxford University Press, 1992

By Jules Gordon on Monday, September 20, 1999 - 11:56 am:

The Red King's Rebellion: racial politics in New England, 1675-1678 by R. Bourne. Atheneum, 1990

By Jules on Wednesday, October 13, 1999 - 07:03 pm:

After King Philip's War by Colin G. Calloway,editor. Dartmouth College University Press of new England, Hanover and London.

A collection of studies that basically demonstrates that the Northeastern Native American culture was not destroyed as a result of the colonial wars. In fact they have hung on to their identity down through to the present.

By Julesa on Wednesday, October 13, 1999 - 07:06 pm:

Handbook of North American Indians by Thomas S. Abler and Elizabeth Tooker. Smithsonian Instition Press 1978

By Jules Gordon on Wednesday, November 17, 1999 - 07:05 pm:

Early American Probate Inventories edited by Peter Benes.Published by Boston University

A compilation of papers presented to the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife at their annual meeting in 1987.

The theme of the book is to paint a picture of early colonial life.

By Jules Gordon on Monday, November 22, 1999 - 07:10 pm:

King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict By Eric B. Shultz, Mikael J. Tougias.

This is a new book (November, 1999)

By Jules Gordon on Sunday, January 23, 2000 - 03:55 pm:

Anglo-American Methods of Indian Warfare, 1676-1794; by John Mahon. Published in the Missippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XLV June, 1959

By jules gordon on Saturday, February 05, 2000 - 12:05 pm:

My Family Tells This Story by Snow Flower. Publisher Heritatge Books, Inc.

Research into a Native American family's history.

By jules gordon on Friday, May 19, 2000 - 05:11 pm:

Indian Trade Guns; Pioneer Press.

A compendium of papers about archaeological research into guns, manufactured locally and imported, for trade with the indian nations.

By Jules Gordon on Friday, May 19, 2000 - 05:17 pm:

Dutch Muskets and Pistols by J.B. Kist, W.P. Puype and R.B.F. Van Der Sloot. Published by George Shumway.

An archaeological study of Dutch manufactured weapons.

Lots of beautiful photographs and explainations in Dutch and English.

By Jules Gordon on Tuesday, May 30, 2000 - 07:50 pm:

History of the District of Maine by James Sullivan (Boston 1795, Reprinted Augusta, 1975)

Maine was for a long time a district of massachusetts.

By jules gordon on Thursday, June 01, 2000 - 07:13 pm:

Robert Rogers of the Rangers by John R. Cuneo, New York: Ft. Ticonderoga Museum, 1988

By jules gordon on Thursday, June 01, 2000 - 07:15 pm:

Red Coats Along the Hudson by Noel T. St.John Williams. London: Brassey's, 1997

By jules gordon on Thursday, June 01, 2000 - 07:18 pm:

The Mohicans of Stockbridge by Patrick Frazier. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994

By Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs on Monday, September 30, 2002 - 05:18 pm:

Readers of this bibliography may find the following book interesting, - due out in November 2002:

Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, Indian Deeds: Land Transactions in Plymouth Colony, 1620-1691
(Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002).
The introduction (225 pp.) discusses the issue of transition from Native to colonial ownership throughout the colony, including King Philip s War. The second section publishes for the first time the complete texts of ca. 400 deeds (about 40% never before published). These record the sales and donations from Indian owners to the court, as well as the initial distribution of such land by the court. Deeds establishing perpetual reservations are included; they are discussed in detail in the introduction. Maps give Native place names and the names of Native land owners. Among several indices, that of Native personal names in the deeds is arranged with considerable genealogical information in entries referring to people about whom such information is available. The book is ca. 600 pp.

By Tuwecej on Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 12:37 pm: