Charters and Legal Texts

Mayflower Compact (1620)

The first governing document of Plymouth Colony.

Fundamental Articles of New Haven (1639)

Ordinances for Virginia, 1621

Agreement of the Massachusetts Bay Company at Cambridge, England (August 26, 1629)

The Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629

New England Confederation of 1643

First Charter of Virginia (1606)

Pilgrim Code of Law (1636)

Charter of Connecticut (April 23, 1662)

Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641)

Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (July 15, 1663)

Charles Davenant, An Essay on the East India Trade (1697)

Charter of Privileges Granted by William Penn to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania and Territories (Oct 28, 1701)

Dudley North, Discourses Upon Trade (1691)

Grant of New England to the Duke of York (1676)

Isaac Gervaise, The System or Theory of the Trade of the World (1720)

John Law, Money and Trade Considered (1705)

John Locke, Short Observations on a Printed Paper (1695)

The Germantown Protest (1688)

The Treaty of Westphalia (1648)

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