A chronology of the British in the United States from the sixteenth century to the present accompanied by contemporary documents.

The first English contacts in America (1584) -- Early propaganda for America (1605) -- Colonization interest (1607) -- Jamestown settlement (1607) -- First Virginia settlement (1610) -- Advertisement for men (1610) -- Pilgrims go to America (1620) -- Mayflower compact (1620) -- House of Burgesses in Virginia (1621) -- Massachusetts Bay company charter (1629) -- Puritan land system (1630) -- Why they came to America (1630) -- Maryland charter (1632) -- Fundamental orders of Connecticut (1639) -- Some advice to indentured servants (1656) -- English emigrant appeals (1666) -- Encouraging emigration (1670) -- Pennsylvania needs you (1681) -- Recruiting indentured servants (1724) -- Causes of Scotch-Irish immigration (1728) -- Georgia : the dream of Ogelthorpe (1733) -- Runaway indentures (1736) -- Stimulating English emigration (1769) -- Mecklenburg resolves (1775) -- English settlement in Illinois (1817) -- Emigrant guide book (1820's) -- Failure of the British Passenger Acts (1835) -- Reports from American consuls (1836) -- British immigrants in the New England mills (1836) -- British pauperism in Massachusetts (1836) -- British protective society (1846) -- British Mormons (1851) -- Samuel Gompers comes to America (1863).