CHAPTER VI. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. I. BIBLIOGRAPHIES. Fiske, J. The Critical Period of American History. Boston. 1898. Tyler, M. C. The Literary History of the American Revolution. 1763-83. New York. 1897. Much of the bibliography consists of pamphlet literature ; most of that relating to constitutional history will be found below, under Contemporary Authorities. II. ARCHIVES. Government records of the several colonies and States, in large part imprinted, and without title except on the back of bound volumes, such as "Court Records" of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Records of this kind have been or are being printed in many of the States, but much will still be left in manuscript. Town records, of which the same may be said, are sometimes important. HI. CONTEMPORARY AUTHORITIES.
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