Patriot Echoes – Teaching 250 years of patriot sacrifice.
- March 6, 1809, 217 years ago — Death of Thomas Heyward Jr..
- March 6, 1724, 302 years ago — Birth of Henry Laurens, President of the Continental Congress.
- March 7, 1707, 319 years ago — Birth of Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- March 7, 1699, 327 years ago — Birth of Susanna Boylston Adams, mother of John Adams.
Patriot Archives
From declarations and constitutions to private letters and public treatises, the founding documents of the American republic reveal more than legal frameworks—they illuminate the convictions, doubts, and moral clarity of those who shaped liberty from parchment and principle.
Here you’ll find the voices of both Fathers and Mothers—statesmen, scholars, and citizens—whose writings echo across centuries. Their correspondence is not merely historical record; it is a civic inheritance. Each document invites us to read not just what they wrote, but why they believed it mattered.
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- Answer to Mr. Solicitor’s Objections
- Anti-Federalist Papers
- Appleton’s Cyclopædia of American Biography
B
- Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography (Excerpts)
- Bill of Rights
- Biographies & Autobiographies
- Brutus No. 1
C
- Cambridge Agreement
- Cambridge Platform
- Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions to Patroons
- Charter of Maryland
- Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh
- Common Sense
- Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania
- Connecticut Constitution
D
- Declaration of Dependence (1776 Loyalist Petition)
- Declaration of Independence
- Declaration of Liberties and Privileges
- Delaware Constitution
- Diaries of George Washington
F
- Federalist Papers
- First Charter of Massachusetts Bay
- First Charter of Virginia
- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
G
- George Mason's Objections to the Constitution
- Georgia Constitution
- Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery
- Give Me Liberty Speech
H
- Hamiltonism vs. Jeffersonianism
- Hardy Murfree Ray — Oration on the Constitution
- History of the American Revolution
- History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
- Horatio Gates's Saratoga Dispatch
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- Maryland Constitution
- Maryland Toleration Act
- Massachusetts Constitution
- Massachusetts School Law
- Massachusetts School Law
- Mayflower Compact
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- Nathanael Greene's Letter to Thomas Jefferson
- Navigation Act
- Navigation Act
- New England Confederation
- New Hampshire Constitution
- New Jersey Constitution
- New York Constitution
- Newburgh Address
- North Carolina Constitution
- Northwest Ordinance
- Notes on the State of Virginia
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- Patriot Spy Stories
- Patriotic Nuggets
- Pennsylvania Constitution
- Plan of Union
- Plantation Agreement at Providence
- Poor Richard's Almanack
- Privileges and Prerogatives Granted to Columbus
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- Second Charter of Virginia
- Sentiments of an American Woman
- Silence Dogood Letters
- South Carolina Constitution
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- The Adams Correspondence (John & Abigail)
- The Age of Reason
- The Alien and Sedition Acts
- The American Crisis
- The Articles of Confederation
- The Centennial Book of American Biography
- The Complete Culper Code Book: Numerical Codes and Their Meanings from the Mount Vernon Source
- The Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence
- The Monroe Doctrine
- The Virginia Plan – Series Index
- Third Charter of Virginia
- Thomas Paine's Letter to George Washington
- Treaty of Alliance
- Treaty of Amity and Commerce
- Treaty of Paris
- Treaty of Tordesillas