I'm looking for sources regarding settlement, communities, law, and culture throughout 17th century colonial America. I'm already reading The Barbarous Years but I'm looking for additional sources.
I took a graduate course on Colonial North America so can offer some suggestions by region, although the course did not cover much outside the English colonies so I cannot comment on that.
Virginia:
Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (first half covers 17th century law, society and settlement from racial and gender perspectives)
Wesley Frank Craven, The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1689
Frederic W. Gleach, Powhatan’s World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures
Rebecca Anne Goetz, The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race (covers religious law and society)
April Lee Hatfield, Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century
James P. Horn, Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
John Kugler, English and Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century
Gloria L. Main, Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720 Anthony Parent, Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740
Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman, The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society New England:
Virginia DeJohn Anderson, New England’s Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century
Richard Archer, Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, The Jamestown Project
Ann Marie Plane, Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Colonial New England
Mid-Atlantic:
Joyce Goodfriend, Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730
Jaap Jacobs, The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America
Ned C. Landsman, Crossroads of Empire: The Middle Colonies in the British Atlantic
Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society
Law:
Virginia Statutes on Slaves and Indentured Servants: http://www.houseofrussell.com/legalhistory/alh/docs/virginiaslaverystatutes.html
Slave Law of New York: https://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/869