John Easton . . . 119

Elizabeth Bacon and William Sherwood . . . 131

Cotton Mather, Ezekiel Cheever, and Samuel Sewall . . . 145

A Brief Narrative of the Case and Tryal of John Peter Zenger . . .159

Robert Beverley . . . 169

John Woolman . . . 181

Thomas Morton . . . 193

Excerpt From the Trial of Anne Hutchinson" . . . 207

Documents in this chapter trace significant social issues confronted by American colonists in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Conflict with Native Americans was an ongoing crisis as settlers tried to acquire more land, and tensions frequently escalated into full-scale war. A Relacion of the Indyan Warre is an account by Rhode Island colonist John Easton of the events leading up to King Philip's War, one of the most devastating confrontations of the colonial period. Problems with Native Americans also led to conflicts among the colonists themselves. For example, a letter written by Elizabeth Bacon, who defended the rebellion her husband Nathaniel led against the royal government of...