United States of America

I concentrate here on colonial and early republican statutes, as that is the period that most interests me. An excellent, larger, near comprehensive and far superior guide to colonial American law, covering both paper and digital volumes can be found at Bowling Green State University Libraries.

General Collections

Rutgers Constitutions Collection has constitutions and related documents, state by state, including some earlier material.

Connecticut

A list of the 15 volumes of the Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776 as hosted by the Internet Archive.

Delaware

Florida

Acts of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, 1823 – 1844, at Internet Archive.

Partial set of Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly, beginning 1845, listed at Online Books.

Georgia

Maryland

A variety of compilations of laws and codes can be found at the Archives of Maryland site.

Massachusetts

Internet Archive holds two editions of “The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts”; one based on the 1660 volume, and the other based on the 1672 version.

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New York

Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638-1674. (1868). Weed, Parsons, printers. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qOz33EqwG1UC
New York (State), Lincoln, C. Z. (Charles Z., Johnson, W. H., Northrup, A. J. (Ansel J., New York (State) Commissioners of statutory revision, New York (State) Charters, Albany (N. Y.). Charters, & New York (City) Charters. (1896). The colonial laws of New York from the year 1664 to the revolution, including the charters to the Duke of York, the commission and instructions to colonial governors, the Dukes laws, the laws of the Donagan and Leisler assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York and the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to 1775 inclusive .. (Vol. 2). Albany, J. B. Lyon, state printer. http://archive.org/details/coloniallawsnew06stagoog
New York (State), Lincoln, C. Z. (Charles Z., Johnson, W. H., Northrup, A. J. (Ansel J., New York (State) Commissioners of statutory revision, New York (State) Charters, Albany (N. Y.). Charters, & New York (City) Charters. (1896). The colonial laws of New York from the year 1664 to the revolution, including the charters to the Duke of York, the commission and instructions to colonial governors, the Dukes laws, the laws of the Donagan and Leisler assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York and the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to 1775 inclusive .. (Vol. 1). Albany, J. B. Lyon, state printer. http://archive.org/details/coloniallawsnew00stagoog
New York (State), Lincoln, C. Z. (Charles Z., Johnson, W. H., Northrup, A. J. (Ansel J., New York (State) Commissioners of statutory revision, New York (State) Charters, Albany (N. Y.). Charters, & New York (City) Charters. (1896). The colonial laws of New York from the year 1664 to the revolution, including the charters to the Duke of York, the commission and instructions to colonial governors, the Dukes laws, the laws of the Donagan and Leisler assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York and the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to 1775 inclusive .. (Vol. 3). Albany, J. B. Lyon, state printer. http://archive.org/details/coloniallawsnew02stagoog
New York (State), Lincoln, C. Z. (Charles Z., Johnson, W. H., Northrup, A. J. (Ansel J., New York (State) Commissioners of statutory revision, New York (State) Charters, Albany (N. Y.). Charters, & New York (City) Charters. (1896). The colonial laws of New York from the year 1664 to the revolution, including the charters to the Duke of York, the commission and instructions to colonial governors, the Dukes laws, the laws of the Donagan and Leisler assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York and the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to 1775 inclusive .. (Vol. 5). Albany, J. B. Lyon, state printer. http://archive.org/details/coloniallawsnew03stagoog
New York (State), Lincoln, C. Z. (Charles Z., Johnson, W. H., Northrup, A. J. (Ansel J., New York (State) Commissioners of statutory revision, New York (State) Charters, Albany (N. Y.). Charters, & New York (City) Charters. (1896). The colonial laws of New York from the year 1664 to the revolution, including the charters to the Duke of York, the commission and instructions to colonial governors, the Dukes laws, the laws of the Donagan and Leisler assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York and the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to 1775 inclusive .. (Vol. 4). Albany, J. B. Lyon, state printer. http://archive.org/details/coloniallawsnew01stagoog
Complete index to colonial laws and ordinances of New Netherlands and New York, 1638-1775 : six volumes indexed by subject and names of persons for ea. (1977). Knightstown, Ind. : Bookmark. http://archive.org/details/completeindextoc00unse

North Carolina

Pennsylvania

The Statutes At Large 1682 to 1809 in 18 volumes are online at the Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau, in PDF format taken from the series printed from 1896 to 1915. Digitized volumes of that series can be found in the Internet Archive.

Rhode Island

The Charter and the Acts and laws of His Majesties Colony of Rhode-Island, and Prividence-Plantations in America, 1719

Acts and laws, of His Majesty’s colony of Rhode-Island, and Providence-Plantations, in New-England, in America, 1745. In plain text, via the Evans Early American Imprint Collection.

South Carolina

A five volume set, from 1682 to 1814, edited by Thomas Cooper, can be found in the Internet Archive. The first volume consists of ‘constitutional documents’, rather than statutes as such. Continued by a further five volumes edited by David J. McCord, much of which is organised by theme not date.

See also Grimke’s collection of Statutes up to 1790.

Virginia

A transcribed version of Hening’s Statutes At Large, covering 1619 to 1792, can be found at Vagenweb.