colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

A poor, friendless English boy, shipped to America as an indentured servant in the early eighteenth century, runs away from a cruel master and dreams of building a house of his own.

Traces the events leading to the arrival of the first group of Jews in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1654 and describes how they adapted and eventually prospered under Dutch, and later British, rule.

Describes in simple text the early explorers and adventurers who first came to the shores of North America.

A brief biography of Peter Stuyvesant, who became the last Director-General of New Netherland between 1647 and 1664 when New Amsterdam was captured by the British.

Selections from original accounts of life in early settlements, linked by the editor's historical narrative, show the hardship and hope of servant, slave, and settler in early America.

Presents a history of the period during which the Eastern seaboard was a frontier between colonizing Europeans and Native Americans.

Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin, having agreed to handle the sale of her grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, Massachusetts, comes across an ancient key while going through the house which holds a piece of parchment with the name Deliverance Dane written on it, and in her efforts to discover more about the mysterious Deliverance, Connie soon finds herself having visions of the Salem witch trials and wondering about the extent of her family's connection to history.

In addition to having to cope with major changes in her family, twelve-year-old Susannah, who lives in seventeenth-century Maryland, struggles with her promise to keep the secret of a runaway indentured servant.

Eleven-year-old Sarah Turner recalls the difficult times for her family caused by the British presence in Boston in the 1770s and the events leading up to the act of rebellion known as the Boston Tea Party.

In 1773, seventeen-year-old apothecary Oliver Carter moves to Boston and begins helping the Sons of Liberty in their rebellion against British tyranny in the colonies as well as discovering that his boss, Dr. Benjamin Church, is a traitor to the cause.