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  American literature timeline
     
1616
 
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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