17th Century

1601-1649

• First Virginia Charter (1606)

• Second Virginia Charter (1609)

• Third Virginia Charter (1612)

• Mayflower Compact (1620)

• Charter of Massachusetts Bay (1629)

• Charter of New Plymouth (1629)

• City on a Hill, John Winthrop (1630)

• Rev. John Cotton's The Divine Right to Occupy The Land (1630)

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)

• First Massachusetts School Law (1642, 1647)

1650-1700

• Connecticut Colony Charter (1662)

• First Thanksgiving Proclamation (1676)
• Charter of Liberties and Frame of Government of Pennsylvania (1682)