The published sources related to British North America are quite voluminous. Below are some of the more popular and authoritative collections of printed materials related to Great Britain’s North American empire. This list is by no means exhaustive. It is arranged alphabetically by title. For more published sources on Britain’s American colonies, we suggest checking the bibliographies of the following books: Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution in the Caribbean (Philadelphia, 2000), Brendan Simms, Three Victories and a Defeat: The rise and Fall of the First British Empire (New York, 2009), and Jack M. Sosin, Whitehall and the Wilderness: The West in British Colonial Policy, 1760 - 1775 (Lincoln, 1961).

Acts of the Privy Council of England, Colonial Series, 1613 – 1783, eds. W. L. Grant and James Munro, 6 vols. (London, 1908-1912)

The Andros Papers, 1674 - 1677, eds. Peter Al Christoph and Florence Christoph, trans. Charles A. Ghering, 2 vols. (Syracuse, 1990)

Anglo-French Boundary Disputes in the West, 1749 - 1763, ed. T. C. Pease (Springfield, 1936)

Barrington-Bernard Correspondence, 1760 – 1770, eds. Edward Channing and A. C. Coolidge (Cambridge, 1912)

B. F. Stevens’s Facsimiles of Manuscripts in European Archives Relating to America, 1773-1783, 25 vols. (London: Malby & Sons, 1889-1895)

The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War, eds. David Brion Davis and Stephen Mintz (New York, 1998)

British Diplomatic Instructions, 1689 – 1789, ed. L. G. Wickham Legg, 4 vols. (London, 1927)

Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies, Preserved in the Public Record Office, eds. w. Noel Sainsbury, et al., 45 vols. (London, 1896-1969)

Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts…, ed. W. F. Palmer, 11 vols. (Richmond, 1875-1893)

The Classical Period of the First British Empire, 1689 - 1783: The Foundations of a Colonial System of Government, eds. Frederick Madden and David Fieldhouse (Westport, 1985)

The Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, eds. William L. Saunders, et. al., 30 vols. (Raleigh: P. M. Hale, 1886-1914)

“Communication of Original Papers Relating the Trial of Captain Thomas Preston and the Soldiers Concerned in the Riot of the Fifth of March, 1770,” ed. john Noble, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Publications 5 (1897-1898): 58-77

The Complete Works of Captain John Smith (1580-1631), ed. Philip L. Barbour, 3 vols. (Chapel Hill, 1986)

Correspondence between William Penn and James Logan…, ed. Edward Armstrong (Philadelphia, 1870)

The Correspondence of General Thomas Gage with the Secretaries of State, 1763 – 1775, ed. Clarence Edwin Carter, 2 vols. (New Haven, 1931)

The Correspondence of Lieut. Governor John Graves Simcoe, With Allied Documents Relating to His Administration of the Government of Upper Canada, ed. E. A. Cruikshank, 5 vols. (Toronto: Ontario Historical Society, 1923-1931)

The Correspondence of King George the Third from 1760 to December 1783, ed. J. W. Fortescue, 6 vols. (London, 1927-1928)

Correspondence of William Pitt, when Secretary of State, with Colonial Governors, and Military and Naval Commanders in America, ed. Gertrude S. Kimball, 2 vols. (New York, 1906)

Correspondence of William Shirley Governor of Massachusetts and Military Commander in America, 1731 – 1760, ed. Charles H. Lincoln, 2 vols. (New York, 1912)

The Critical Period, 1762-1765, eds. Clarence Walworth Alvord and Clarence E. Carter (Springfield: The Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library, 1915)

The Diary of Colonel Landon Carter of Sabine Hall, 1752-1778, ed. Jack P. Greene, 2 vols. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1965)

Documentary History of Dunmore’s War, 1774, eds. Reuben G. Thwaites and Louise P. Kellogg (Madison, 1904)

Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, eds. Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty, et. al., 3 vols. (Ottawa: S. E. Dawson, 1907-1935)

Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York…, ed. E. B. O’Callaghan, 15 vols. (Albany, 1853-1887)

Documents Illustrative of the Slave Trade to America, vol. IV: The Border Colonies and the Southern Colonies, ed. Elizabeth Donan (Washington, D.C., 1935)

Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws, 1670 - 1775, ed. Alden T. Vaughan, 20 vols. (Bethesda, 1979-1994)

Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites, 32 vols. (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1904-1907)

The Genesis of the United States, ed. Alexander Brown (Boston, 1890)

Great Britain: Foreign Policy and the Span of Empire, 1689 - 1971, eds. Joel H. Wiener and J. H. Plumb, 4 vols. (New York, 1972)

Historical Records Relating to the American Colonial Church, ed. William Stevens Perry, 5 vols. (Hartford, 1870-1878)

Journals of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations…, 14 vols. (London, 1920-1938)

Laws of the Colonial and State Governments Relating tot the Indians and Indian Affairs (Washington, 1832)

Letters from George III to Lord Bute, 1756 - 1766, ed. R. Sedgwick (London, 1939)

The Livingston Indian Records, 1666 – 1723, ed. Lawrence H. Leder (Gettysburg, 1956)

Louisbourg Journals, 1745, ed. L. E. de Forest (New York, 1932)

Manuscript Records of the French and Indian War in the Library of the Society, ed. Charles Henry Lincoln (Worchester: American Antiquarian Society, 1909)

Military Affairs in North America, 1748-1765: Selected Documents from the Cumberland Papers in Windsor Castle, ed. Stanley Pargellis (New York: Appleton-Century Company, 1936).

Mississippi Provincial Archives, 1763-1766: English Dominion, ed. Dunbar Rowland (Nashville: Brandon Print Co., 1911)

Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606 - 1625, ed. L. G. Tyler (New York, 1907)

Narratives of New Netherland, ed. J. Franklin Jameson (New York, 1909)

The New Régime, 1765-1767, eds. Clarence Walworth Alvord and Clarence Edwin Carter (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1916)

Of Plymouth Plantation, William Bradford, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York, 1952)

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, eds. Leonard W. Labaree, et. al., 43 vols. (New Haven, 1959- )

The Papers of George Washington: Colonial Series, ed. W. W. Abbot, 10 vols. (Charlottesville, 1983-1995)

The Papers of Henry Bouquet, eds. Sylvester K. Stevens and Donald H. Kent, 19 vols. (Harrisburg, 1940-1943)

The Papers of William Penn, eds. Mary Maples Dunn, et al., 5 vols. (Philadelphia, 1981-1986)

The Papers of Sir William Johnson, eds. Alexander C. Flick, et. al. 14 vols. (Albany, 1921-1965)

Pennsylvania Archives, ed. Samuel Hazard et al., 9 series (Harrisburg, 1832-1935)

Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments respecting North America, 1452 – 1727, ed. Leo Francis Stock, 5 vols. (Washington, 1924-1941)

Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff (Boston, 1853)

Royal Instructions to British Colonial Governors, 1670 – 1776, ed. Leonard Woods Labaree, 2 vols. (New York, 1965)

The Royal Navy and North America; The Warren Papers, 1736 - 1752, ed. J. Gwyn, Navy Records Society Publications, cxviii (London, 1973)

“Some Letters and Papers of General Thomas Gage,” ed. Charles Ambler, The John P. Branch Historical Papers of Randolph Macon Colliege, IV (1914): 86-111.

Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America, ed. Peter Force, 4 vols. (1836)

Trade and Politics, 1767-1769, eds. Clarence Walworth Alvord and Clarence Edwin Carter (Springfield: Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Society, 1921)

Travels in North America, Peter Kalm, ed. Adolph B. Benson, 2 vols. (New York, 1964)

The Walker Expedition to Quebec, ed. G. S. Graham, Navy Records Society Publications, xciv (London, 1953)

Writings of General John Forbes Relating to his Service in North America, ed. Alfred Procter James (Menasha, WI: The Collegiate Press, 1938)

The Writings of John Dickinson, vol. 1, Political Writings, 1764-1774, ed. Paul Leicester Ford (Philadelphia, 1895)