Author:Cadwallader Colden

Cadwallader Colden
(1688–1776)

Cadwallader Colden

Works

• The history of the Five Indian nations of Canada, which are dependent on the Province of New York, and are a Barrier between the English and French in that Part of the World (1755) (external scan)
• An explication of the first causes of action in matter: and of the cause of Gravitation (1745)
• "The Report of a Committee of the Council held at New York, November the 6th, 1724," in Papers relating to an Act of the Assembly of the province of New-York (pp. 7−14) (1724) (external scan)

Correspondence

• Selections from the scientific correspondence of Cadwallader Colden with Gronovius, Linnaeus, Collinson, and other naturalists, ed. Asa Gray (1843) (external scan)
• The Colden Letter Books, published by The New York Historical Society (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)

• The letters and papers of Cadwallader Colden, published by The New York Historical Society
  • Volume 1 (1711–1729) (external scan)
  • Volume 2 (1730–1742) (external scan)
  • Volume 2 (1743–1747) (external scan)
  • Volume 4 (1748–1754) (external scan)
  • Volume 5 (1755–1760) (external scan)
  • Volume 6 (1761–1764) (external scan)
  • Volume 7 (1765–1776) (external scan)
  • Volume 8 (Additional Papers: 1715–1748) (external scan)
  • Volume 9 (Additional Papers: 1749–1775) (external scan)

Works about Colden

• An examination of Cadwallader D. Colden's book, entitled A life of Robert Fulton, anonymous (1818) (external scan)
• A review of the letter addressed by William Alexander Duer, to Cadwallader Colden, anonymous (1818) (external scan)
• "Cadwallader Colden," in American philosophy, the early schools, by Issac Woodbridge Riley (1907) (external scan)
• Cadwallader Colden; A Representative Eighteenth Century Official, by Alice Mapelsden Keys (1909) (external scan)

Works about Colden

• "Colden, Cadwallader," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.