Jamestown and Early Virginia
- Robert Brenner, Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London’s Overseas Traders, 1550-1653 (1993)
- Lyon Gardiner Tyler, The Cradle of the Republic: Jamestown and James River (1906)
- James Horn, 1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy (2018)
- Joseph Kelly, Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin (2018)
- Wesley Frank Craven, The Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624 (1957)
- Robert Beverley, The History of Virginia in Four Parts (1722)
- Charles E. Hatch, The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 (1957)
- Various, Colonial Record of Virginia (1964)
- William Fletcher Boogher, Gleanings of Virginia History (1908)
- Neil Marion Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1800 (1934)
- Thomas J. Wertenbaker, The Planters of Colonial Virginia (1959)
- W.G. Stanard, Some Emigrants to Virginia (1911)
- Marshall W. Fishwick, Jamestown, The First English Colony (1965)
Bacon’s Rebellion: America’s First Revolution
- Thomas J. Wertenbaker, Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676 (1957)
- Marshall W. Fishwick, Jamestown (2014) (chap. 6, “Mutiny and Rebellion”)
- Mary Newton Stanard, The Story of Bacon’s Rebellion (1907) (including Appendix of contemporaneous writings)
- Wilcomb E. Washburn, The Governor and the Rebel (1957)
- Wesley Frank Craven, The Colonies in Transition
- James Rice, Tales From A Revolution: Bacon’s Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America
- Robert Beverley, The History of Virginia, in Four Parts (1722, reprinted 1855) (Book I, chapter IV)
- Harry Finestone, Bacon’s Rebellion: The Contemporary News Sheets (1956)
- John Frederick Dorman’s three-volume work Adventurers of Purse and Person in Virginia traces the lines of many early Virginia settlers through six generations.
Evidence of Jamestown Island Residence can be found in:
- Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1666
- Cavaliers and Pioneers Volume II 1666- 1695 by Nell M. Nugent
- Documentary History of Jamestowne Island Vol. III: Biographies of Owners and Residents by Martha W. McCartney
- Service for Jamestowne Colony is found in The General Assembly of Virginia 1619-1978 by Cynthia Leonard, and Colonial Virginia Register by William and Mary Stanard.
- A list of Stockholders in the Virginia Company of London Is found in The Records of the Virginia Company of London, vol. III, by Susan Kinsbury.
- Signers of the Charters are found in The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London by Samuel Bemiss.
- A list of Anglican Ministers is found in Empire, Religion and Revolution in Early Virginia, 1607-1786 by James Bell and The Colonial Clergy of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina by Frederick Lewis Weis.
- The Lists of the Livinge and Dead in Virginia 1623 is found in The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others, who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600- 1700 by John Camden Hotten.
Additional lists of Jamestown settlers can be found in:
- Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607-1635, by Martha W. McCartney.
- Jamestowne People to 1800, by Martha W. McCartney. 1607-1635
- The Complete Book of Emigrants 1607-1660
- Virginia Quit Rent Rolls 1704 (archive.org)
Early New England
Modern Books
- Jeremy Bangs, Strangers and Pilgrims, Travelers and Sojourners: Leiden and the Foundations of Plymouth Plantation (2009)
- Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log (2015)
- Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War (2006)
- Rebecca Fraser, The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America (2017)
- Carla Gardina Pestana, The World of Plymouth Plantation (2020)
- Stephen Tomkins, The Journey to the Mayflower: God’s Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom (2020)
- John Demos, A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony (1970)
- Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691 (1986)
- Robert Charles Anderson, The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633 (2004)
- Robert Charles Anderson, The Mayflower Migration (2020)
- Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Newsletter (25 volumes, 1990-2016)
- Jeremy Bangs, Pilgrim Edwrd Winslow: New England’s First International Diplomat (2004)
- James Deetz, The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love and Death in Plymouth Colony (2001)
- Charles Edward Banks, The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers Who Came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620, the Fortune in 1621, and the Anne and the Little James in 1623 (1962)
New Netherland
Modern Writings
- Russell Shorto, The Island at The Center of the New World (2004)
- Jaap Jacobs, The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America (2009)
- Martha Dickenson Shattuck, editor, Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland (2009, published by the New Netherland Institute)
- Wim Klooster, The Dutch Moment: War, Trade and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
- Roger Panetta, editor, Dutch New York: The Roots of the Hudson Valley Culture (2013)
- Edward R. Purple, History of Ancient Families of New Amsterdam and New York (1881, republished by the New England Historic Genealogical Society (2013)
- James Kent, New Netherlands: Dutch Colonial New York (2015)
- Charles River Editors, New Amsterdam: The History of the Dutch Settlement Before It Became New York City (2015)
- J. Franklin Jameson, editor, Narratives of New Netherland, 1604-1664 (1909)
- William Elliot Griffic, The Story of New Netherland (1909)
- Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498 – 1909 (six volumes, published 1915 – 1928)
Contemporary Writings
- Adriaen van der Donck, A Description of the New World (1655)
- Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, A Journey Into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634 – 1635 (translated and edited by Charles T. Gehring and William A Starna (2013)
- Various Correspondence, 1654 – 1658 (translated and edited by Charles T. Gehring)
Genealogical Research Resources Concerning Potential
New Netherland and Early New York Ancestors
- See generally “New York Family History Resources, 2019 Catalog” (published by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society [NYGB])
- New York County Guide Series (NYGB)
- The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (156 volumes)
- NYGB Webinars (ongoing)
- New York Land Records Indexing Project (see FamilySearch.org, click indexing, and “Find a Project”)
- New York State Archives
- New York State Library
- New York City Municipal Archives
- New York Public Library Digital Collections
- New York Genealogy (newyorkgenealogy.org)
- The New York Researcher [and predecessor NYGB Newsletter] (30 volumes: NYGB)
- New York Birth, Marriage & Death Records (via NYGB)
- Baptisms in the Reformed Dutch Church (via NYGB)
- Geographical Birth Index for New York City (Internet Archive, archive.org)
- A. P. G. Jos van der Lynde, translator and editor, New York Historical Transcripts: Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn New York: First Book of Records 1600 – 1752 (2015)
- Cor Snabel and Elizabeth Johnson, Sketches of Seventeenth-Century Hollanders: Seventeenth-Century Persons Who Lived in Holland and North America (extracts of various 17th Century Dutch records)
- E. B. O’Callaghan, Lists of Inhabitants of Colonial New York: The Documentary History of the State of New York (1849 – 51; republished 2007)
- Teunis G. Bergen, A List of Early Immigrants to New Netherland
- Wilhelmina Pieterse, Inventory of the Archives of the Holland Land Company 1789 – 1869 (Amsterdam: Municipal Printing Office, 1976)
- Paul Evans, The Holland Land Company (1924, reprinted 1979)
- New York Heritage Digital Collections (cdm16694.content.ocic.org)
American West
- Frederic Paxson, History of the American Frontier 1763-1893 (1924)
- Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History (1921)
- David McCullough, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West (2019)
- Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996)
- Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (2008)
- Harlow Giles Unger, The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness (2009)
- Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier (2021)
- Mark Lee Gardner, The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation (2022)
- Nathaniel Philbrick, The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn (2010)
- Peter Cozzens, The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West (2016)
- Peter Stark, Astoria: Astor and Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire (2015)
- S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah and the Rise and Fall of the Commanches (2010)
- H.W. Brands, Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West (2019)
- Robert Morgan, Boone: A Biography (2007)
- Tom Clavin, The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of The Dalton Gang (2023)