# A Source Book in American History to 1787

Author: West, Willis M. (Willis Mason), 1857-1931 [Editor]

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45757

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Source+Book+in+American+History+to+1787+West&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

152. A shrewd foreigner's view of the social conflict over the adoption of a new Constitution (Otto's letter to Vergennes, on the failure of the Annapolis Convention); from the Appendix to Bancroft's _History of the Constitution_ 502

## Chapters

- [m. Samuel Oakes Petition](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Act VII.--Be it enacted by this present Grand Assembly ... That the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V. _That this voyadge will be a greate bridle to the Indies of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Act XX. [Disabling Lt. Col. Edward Hill and Lieut. John Stith. from](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/16/index.md)
- [c. Resolution of the Burgesses appointing June 1, 1774,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Act VIII.--Noe debts made for wines or strong waters shall be pleadable](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I. _That this Westerne discoverie will be greately for](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Act VIII. [_To add representatives to the Board of County Justices_,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Act III. Whereas the usuall way of chuseing burgesses by the votes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Act VI.--It is further concluded and ordered that every master of a](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Act V. [Sheriffs.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Act XI.--Mynisters shall not give themselves to excesse in drinkinge,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/6/index.md)
- [c. Letters from other colonies received by the Virginia](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Act VI. [Vestries.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Act XXXV.--Be it also enacted and confirmed, for the better observation](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Act VII [Suffrage.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Act I. [An act for carrying on a warre against the barbarous Indians.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-source-book-in-american-history-to-1787-45757/chapters/11/index.md)