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1616
John Smith publishes
A Description of New England
, an account of his exploration of the region in 1614
1620
William Bradford begins a journal of the Pilgrims' experience in New England, subsequently published (in 1856) as
History of Plymouth Plantation
1650
The poems of Massachusetts author Anne Bradstreet are published in London under the title
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
1674
Samuel Sewall begins a diary of daily life in Boston, Massachusetts, that will span a period of more than fifty years
1700
Boston merchant Samuel Sewall publishes
The Selling of Joseph
, a very early anti-slavery tract
1722
16-year-old Benjamin Franklin contributes the 'Dogood Papers', essays on moral topics, to a Boston journal,
The New England Courant
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