Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)

Bartolomé de las Casas (1474-1566)

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584)

Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490-1558)

Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616)

Thomas Harriot (1560-1621)

John White (c. 1545-1593)

Samuel De Champlain (c. 1570-1635)

John Smith (1580-1631)

William Bradford (1590-1657)

Thomas Morton (c. 1579-1647)

John Winthrop (1588-1649)

Roger Williams (c. 1603-1683)

Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672)

Adriaen Van Der Donck (1620-1655),
Francis Daniel Pastorious (1651-c.-1720) and
Jacob Steendam (1616-Post 1671)

Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705)

Mary Rowlandson (c. 1636-1711)

Edward Taylor (c. 1642-1729)

Samuel Sewall (1652-1730)

Cotton Mather (1663-1728)

Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727)

William Byrd (1674-1744)

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

John Woolman (1720-1772)

James Grainger (c. 1721-1766)

Samson Occom (1723-1792)

Moses Bon Saam: (fl. 1735)

J. Hector St. Jean De Crèvecoeur (1735-1813)

John Adams (1735-1826) and Abigail Adams (1744-1818)

Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801)

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

The Federalist

Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797)

Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)

Philip Freneau (1752-1832)

Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784)

Royall Tyler (1757-1826)

Sarah Wentworth Morton (1759-1846)

Briton Hammon (fl. 1760)

Susanna Rowson (c. 1762-1824)

Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)