A map of the Middle Colonies of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, with portions of New York, Maryland and Delaware, showing the early European settlements in the area from 1609 to 1702. The map shows the boundary between West New...

A map of the New Jersey Colony between the establishment of the Dutch settlement at Bergen (1620) and the unification of East and West Jersey in 1702. The map shows the 'North River’ (Hudson River) and 'South River’ (Delaware River), the...

A map of the eastern portion of North America showing the British, Spanish, and Indian territories after the French and Indian War (1754-1763), with the proclamation line as established by the Treaty of Paris (1763). "The newly acquired...

A map of the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution. The map shows the territorial claims west of the Allegheny Mountains, and includes inset maps detailing the vicinity of Philadelphia, the vicinity of Boston, and the vicinity...

A map of eastern North America showing the land claims of the thirteen original states in 1783, from the Atlantic coast west to the Mississippi River. The map notes that New York claimed all the lands west of the Alleghany mountains....

A map of the New Jersey Colony between the establishment of the Dutch settlement at Bergen (1617), the acquisition, between the lower Hudson and Delaware Rivers, subdivided by the Duke of York to form East Jersey and West Jersey, and the...

"A Model of Christian Charity" is a 1630 sermon by Puritan layman and leader John Winthrop, who delivered on board the ship Arbella while en route to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It is also known as City upon a Hill and denotes the...

Three seventeenth-century homes in Pennsylvania and New York and three accounts from those English colonies of the factors leading to prosperity and permanence.

A series of maps showing the development and colonial claims of the northern Atlantic Coast between 1650 and 1695. The maps are color-coded to show charter colonies, proprietary colonies, and the royal colonies. The map from 1650 shows...

A map of the British Colonies showing the colonies participating in the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 held in Federal Hall, New York City. The map shows the number of delegates from each colony, and the colonies that refused to call...

Stuyvesant was governor of New Netherlands. After the colony was ceded to the English in 1664, the colony was renamed New York.

Peter Stuyvesant (originally Pieter or Petrus; Peter is never mentioned in historical records) (c. 1612 - August 1672) served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally...

Benning Wentworth (1696-October 14, 1770) was the colonial governor of New Hampshire from 1741 to 1766. Wentworth enriched himself by a clever scheme of selling land now in the state of Vermont to developers, in spite of jurisdictional...

A map of Massachusetts Bay and Cape Cod showing the area of early Norse exploration in America. "In 986 A.D. a Norseman named Herjulfson, who was voyaging from Iceland to Greenland, was driven by a gale far out of his reckoning to the W....

A map of the Appalachian Mountain region showing the three primary routes of the early 1700's through the natural barrier from the English colonies to the Mississippi Valley. "The Appalachian ranges separated the French and the English,...

Maud Slye (1879-1954) was a pathologist and noted cancer researcher at the University of Chicago. A descendant of John Alden of the Plymouth Colony, Slye had attended the University of Chicago in 1896 with little money but, as her New...

(1739-1818) Lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia and of St. John's Island. Born in the colony of New York, he was driven from his home during the American Revolution and was commissioned by British General William Howe. He raised a...