Adventures in colonial America

Describes the 1633 voyage of the ship Treadwell carrying Puritans and colonists from England to the New World.

A young farm boy running away to sea in 1774 explores the Salem harbor while waiting for his ship to sail.

An aged Indian chief fears that white strangers who have visited his village will return to destroy the Indian way of life.

Two English children are told the story of their grandfather's experiences as one of the original Jamestown colonists of 1607.

Follows a young man as he uses different modes of transportation to make the long difficult trip from Massachusetts to Virginia in the spring of 1775.

Describes the lives and occupations of the inhabitants of an early eighteenth-century New Jersey farming village.

A night watchman who is also the town crier in colonial Philadelphia talks about the daily life in the city, its leading citizens, and important landmarks as he shows a visitor to Chestnut Street.

An aged Indian chief fears that white strangers who have visited his village will return to destroy the Indian way of life.