Project Gutenberg 2025-04-29 Public domain in the USA. 310 Gordon, William 1728 1807 Gordon, W. (William) The history of the rise, progress, and establishment of the independence of the United States of America, Vol. 1 (of 3) : $b Including an account of the late war, and of the thirteen colonies, from their origin to that period $aNew York :$bJohn Woods, $c1801. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Rise,_Progress,_and_Termination_of_the_American_Revolution Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The history of the rise, progress, and establishment of the independence of the United States of America" by William Gordon is a historical account written in the late 18th or early 19th century. The work sets out to trace the development of the thirteen American colonies, their social and political evolution, and the events that led to the American Revolution and independence from Britain. The book is thorough in scope, aiming not only to document the military conflict but also to include the origins and internal dynamics of each colony. The opening of this account begins with a prefatory essay on the value and purpose of historical writing, emphasizing a commitment to truth and impartiality in recounting events. This is followed by a detailed table of contents outlining the structure of the book as a series of letters. The first substantive letter commences with a discussion of the religious and political foundations of the earliest settlements, particularly focusing on the Puritans, Brownists, and other dissenters who fled religious persecution in England. It traces the migration of these groups to Holland and subsequently to New England, notably the establishment of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies. The narrative underscores the colonists’ pursuit of religious liberty, the early emergence of self-government, and evolving attitudes toward authority, while also introducing the complex interplay between religious belief, civil liberty, and colonial politics that would shape later events. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/historyofriseprog01gord 20211218160707gordon 1801 US Reading ease score: 51.1 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 E201 Text Category: History - American Category: History - British Category: History - Religious 1293167 2025-06-30T05:55:26.711763 text/html 1263617 2025-04-29T08:00:11 text/html 715486 2025-06-30T05:55:39.441736 application/epub+zip 729070 2025-06-30T05:55:29.112796 application/epub+zip 616324 2025-06-30T05:55:27.860794 application/epub+zip 1157404 2025-06-30T05:55:47.560688 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1071477 2025-06-30T05:55:38.266731 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1196881 2025-06-30T05:55:25.101805 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1176512 2025-04-29T08:00:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16472 2025-06-30T05:55:47.707665 application/rdf+xml 13155 2025-06-30T05:55:28.172756 image/jpeg 2013 2025-06-30T05:55:28.016765 image/jpeg 926280 2025-06-30T05:55:26.807807 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog