{"id":489,"date":"2017-09-29T12:24:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/?page_id=489"},"modified":"2025-12-13T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T16:35:06","slug":"united-states-of-america","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/collections\/international\/united-states-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"United States of America"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>. (Wayback Machine mirror<\/a> as page is currently down.)<\/p>\n

General Collections<\/h3>\n

Rutgers Constitutions Collection<\/a> has constitutions and related documents, state by state, including some earlier material.<\/p>\n

The Thirteen Colonies<\/h3>\n

Connecticut<\/h3>\n

A list of the 15 volumes of the Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776<\/a>\u00a0as hosted by the Internet Archive.<\/p>\n

Delaware<\/h3>\n

Laws of Delaware<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Georgia<\/h3>\n

Internet ARchive has the 2 volumes of The Earliest Printed Laws of the Province of Georgia, 1755-1770<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maryland<\/h3>\n

A variety of compilations of laws and codes can be found at the Archives of Maryland<\/a> site.<\/p>\n

Massachusetts<\/h3>\n

A full run of the Acts and Resolves<\/a> from 1692 to 1959 is listed by Mass.gov, directing to copies on the Internet Archive. The Internet Archive holds two editions of “The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts”; one based on the 1660 volume<\/a>, and the other based on the 1672 version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New Hampshire<\/h3>\n

Acts and Laws of New Hampshire, 1700-175<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New Jersey<\/h3>\n

A list of compilations of New Jersey law, with links to Google, Hathi and Internet Archive where applicable, can be found at New Jersey State Libraries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New York<\/h3>\n
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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 ..<\/i> (Vol. 1). Albany, J. B. Lyon, state printer. http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/coloniallawsnew00stagoog<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t
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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 ..<\/i> (Vol. 2). Albany, J. B. Lyon, state printer. http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/coloniallawsnew06stagoog<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t
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Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638-1674<\/i>. (1868). Weed, Parsons, printers. https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=qOz33EqwG1UC<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

North Carolina<\/h3>\n

The Colonial and State Records of North Carolina archive<\/a> has a variety of legislation<\/a>, fully and accurately transcribed, created by and relating to that state.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania<\/h3>\n

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

Rhode Island<\/h3>\n

The Charter and the Acts and laws of His Majesties Colony of Rhode-Island, and Prividence-Plantations in America,<\/a> 1719<\/p>\n

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

South Carolina<\/h3>\n

A five volume set, from 1682 to 1814, edited by Thomas Cooper<\/a>, 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<\/a>, much of which is organised by theme not date.<\/p>\n

See also Grimke’s collection of Statutes<\/a> up to 1790.<\/p>\n

Virginia<\/h3>\n

A transcribed version of Hening’s Statutes At Large, covering 1619 to 1792, can be found at Vagenweb<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other States<\/h3>\n

Florida<\/h3>\n

Acts of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, 1823 – 1844, at Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Partial set of Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly, beginning 1845, listed at Online Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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