The database Colonial State Papers provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Colonial State papers has two components. First, the "CO1" collection Privy Council and related bodies: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers, contains scanned images of about 7,000 documents (over 50,000 pages) that were presented to the Privy Council and the Board of Trade between 1574-1757, and which relate to England's governance of, and activities in, the American, Canadian and West Indian colonies.
Second, the Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739, is a bibliographic database containing over 40,000 descriptive records. The Calendar provides summary records for CO1, as well as many other collections relating to the colonial past. Many of the bibliographic entries in the Calendar include full transcriptions, extracts or summary abstracts. The entire database is fully searchable.