Books in Colonial Leaders series

A biography of the eighteenth-century African American who taught himself mathematics and astronomy and helped survey what would become Washington, D.C.

Roger Williams moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the New World but was disappointed in the amount of freedom he found there, so he created a new colony, Rhode Island, where different people and beliefs were accepted.

A biography of William Bradford, from his childhood and religious persecution in England to his years as the first governor of the Plymouth Colony.

Offers a biography of the Delaware planter and politician who is best known for his eighty-mile ride to Philadelphia in order to participate in the crucial vote on the Declaration of Independence.

A biography of the Catholic baron who became the founder of the state of Maryland.

Presents a biography of the courageous leader who arrived in America on the Mayflower and led the defense of Plymouth Colony.

Offers a biography of English seaman who sailed for queen Elizabeth I and sponsored the first English settlement in North America.

A biography of the hot-tempered leader who, though intolerant and unpopular, brought major reforms to the colony of New Netherlands before its surrender to the British in 1664.

Presents a biography of the courageous leader who arrived in America on the Mayflower and led the defense of Plymouth Colony.

A biography of the Puritan woman who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for disagreeing with the prevailing religious practices.

A biography of the Puritan woman who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for disagreeing with the prevailing religious practices.

Offers a biography of the colonial New York printer whose trial for offending the governor helped to establish the principle of freedom of the press.