translated, compiled and edited from the original records in the office of the Secretary of State, at Albany, and other sources, under direction of the Honble Joseph B. Carr, secretary of state, by B. Fernow
by the "Fathers of American history" ; containing, without abridgment, Belknap's Biographies of the early discoverers, Grahame's History of North America, Dr. Robertson's History of South America, and Ramsay's History of the United States ; and an appendix by H. L. Williams, bringing the history of North and South America down to the present day ; to which are added Hubbard's History of the Indian Wars in New England, and "A general summary of the development of the United States ..." ; with an introduction by P. C. Headley. Also a full chronology ... from the year 458 to the present time ... [by L. M. Stephenson]