Indian War of 1644, [160];
struggle with the Commonwealth, [160];
government under the Commonwealth, [160], [162];
growth, [162];
House of Burgesses, [120],
agricultural development, [120]-[121];
immigration, [121]-[122]; massacre of 1622, [122];
crown regulation of tobacco industry, [122]-[123];
a royal colony, [123];
population, [123];
plantations, [123]-[125];
attitude of Charles I, [124];
under Governor Harvey, [124]-[125]:
royal tobacco monopoly, [125];
trouble with Maryland, [127]-[128];
economic distress, [183];
population in 1680, [183];
Dutch attacks, [184];
abuses in the second administration of Governor Berkeley, [184];
proprietary grants, [185];
Indian War, [185]-[186];
Bacon's rebellion, [185]-[186];
Jeffreys in control, [187];
Culpeper, [187];
Howard, [187]-[188];
population, [227];
settled areas, [227];
plantation system, [228];
commerce, [228]-[229];
labor system, [229];
religion, [229];
education, [229];
German migration to, [320];
Scotch-Irish migration to, [326];
social and economic conditions in the eighteenth century, [333]-[334];
under William III, [345];
protests against Grenville's policy, [433];
resolutions, [435]-[436];
opposition to Townshend Acts, [442];
trouble with the governor, [444];
rebellion in 1775, [462]-[463];
struggle with Lord Dunmore, [471];
navy, [518];
Yorktown campaign, [530]-[532].
Vizigoths, kingdom of, in Spain, overthrown by Mohammedan Berbers, [13].
Vizcaíno, Sebastián, California expeditions, [71].
Wager, Charles, English Commodore, [268].
Walker, Sir Hovenden, expedition against Quebec, [272].
Wall Street, [172].
Wallen, pioneer in Kentucky, [413].
Walpole, Robert, [353], [360].
Walpole, Thomas, interest in Vandalia, [413].
Wampanoags, [138]-[139].
War department, of United States, organized, [554]-[555].
War between England and Spain, 1654-1655, [153].
Wars between the English and Dutch, 1652-1654, [153];
1667, 1672-1673, [184].
War of the Palatinate, [261].
War of the Austrian Succession, [364], [366];
French attack on Acadia, [364];
capture of Louisbourg, [364]-[365];
border warfare, Acadia to New York, [365];
naval activity, and battles off Cape Finisterre, [365]-[366];
Knowles's attack on the Spaniards in West Indies, [366];
peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, [366].
War of the English Succession (King William's War) in the colonies,
map, [260];
four years of war in the Caribbean Sea, [261]-[262];
the war on the Canadian frontiers, [262]-[266];
the Maine frontier, [262];
French attack on New England frontier and the English defense, [263]; English expedition
against Montreal, [263]-[264];
capture of Port Royal, Acadia, [264];
English expedition against Quebec, [264];
Schuyler's expedition, [265];
attacks of Abenakis and of the French, [265];
the New English frontier, [266];
massacre at Durham, [266];
activities on Hudson Bay, [266]-[267];
operations of Iberville, [266];
peace of Ryswick, [260]-[267].
War of Jenkins' Ear, [361]-[364];
in the West Indies, [361], [363];
on the Georgia frontier, [361]-[263], [363]-[364];
attack on St. Augustine, [362], [364].
War of the Polish Succession, [360]-[361].
War of the Spanish Succession, French expansion during the peace of
Ryswick, [267];
the Spanish succession, [267];
Second Treaty of Partition, [267];
English decision for war, [267]-[268];
war areas (in America), [268];
West Indies, indecisive struggle, [268]-[269];
on the Florida border, [269]-[271];
on the Canadian border, [271]-[272];
in the Hudson Bay country. [273];
Peace of Utrecht, [273].
Ward, Artemus, [464].
Warren, Joseph, distributes arms, [460].
Warwick, Lord. See Rich, Robert.
Warwick, Rhode Island, settled, [159].
Washington, George, bearer of Dinwiddie's message to the French in
Ohio, [369];
organizes plan of defense, [373]-[374];
member of Western Land Company, [411];
in northeastern Kentucky, [416];
member of the First Continental Congress, [452];
commander of the continental army, [464];
siege of Boston, [471];
New York operations, [482]-[487], [488]-[489];
New Jersey campaign, [489]-[493];
struggle for Philadelphia, [499]-[502];
Valley Forge, [503];
Conway Cabal, [503]-[504];
reception of Lafayette, [508];
Monmouth, [509]-[510];
draws cordon about New York, [511];
equips a fleet, [517];
on control of the sea, [530];
communicates with De Grasse, [531];
plan to trap Cornwallis, [531];
assembly of forces, [531]-[532];
Yorktown, [532].
Washington County, North Carolina, organized, 1416.
Watauga settlement, [412];
Association, [415]-[416];
attacked by Cherokees, [512], [513];
attempt at statehood, [549].
Watertown, settled, [142].
Watling's Island, [10].
Waxhaws, [525].
Wayne, Gen. Anthony, [500], [511].
Webb, Colonel Daniel, [376].
Weiser, Conrad, interpreter to Indians, [365].
Welles, Maine, claimed by Massachusetts, [157].
Welsh, settlers in North Carolina, [415].
Wessagusset, [140].
West, Joseph, governor of the Carolinas, [208];
trouble with Yeamans, [210];
political difficulties, [210].
West Indies, discovery of, [9]-[10];
Spanish colonies founded, [16]-[19];
rule of Columbus in, [16]-[17];
gold discovered, [17];
Santo Domingo founded, [17];
spread of Spanish settlement, [17]-[19], [251];
map, [18];
Spanish administration, [19]-[23];
the towns, [20];
immigration, [21];
agriculture, [21];
Indian policy, [22];
depopulation, [19], [22], [67];
French, Dutch, and English intrusions, [65]-[66], [80];
Spanish decline, [67];
French colonies, [93]-[96];
Company of St. Christopher's, [93];
French West India Company, [94];
Elizabethan Sea-dogs in, [107]-[108];
English colonies in the Lesser Antilles, [132]-[133];
Providence Island Company, [133];
English expansion in, [152];
Jamaica conquered by England, [153], [253];
Dutch settlements in, [166]-[167];
Dutch West Indian Company, [166];
English expansion and reorganization, [206]-[207];
unrest in Barbados, [207];
Spanish conflict with rivals in [17]th century, [251]-[253];
privateers, [252];
Spanish retaliation, [252];
Danes and Brandenburgers, [253];
during War of English Succession, [261]-[263];
during War of Spanish Succession, [268]-[269];
society in English colonies in the [18]th century, [339]-[341];
the planters, [339];
Barbados and Leeward Islands, [340];
Jamaica, [340]-[341];
emigration from, [341];
smuggling, [341];
piracy, [349]-[350];
the Molasses Act, [356];
the West Indies during the War of Jenkins' Ear, [361]-[363], [365];
during War of Austrian Succession, [366];
during French and Indian War, [379], [382];
Spanish reorganization, [387]-[388];
trade with Louisiana, [398];
English province of Grenada organized, [404];
relation of trade to American Revolution, [430]-[431], [454];
war activities during American Revolution, [510]-[516], [517]-[520], [530], [532];
in the Treaty of 1783, [537].
Western Sea, efforts to find route to, [287]-[288].
Western (Lazarus) Islands, [67].
West New Jersey, population, [224];
settled area, [224]-[225];
social conditions, [224]-[225];
religion, [226];
education, [226]-[227].
See New Jersey.
Westsylvania, [418].
Weston, Thomas, gives financial aid to the Pilgrims, [317];
his settlement at Wessagusset, [139];
aid from Plymouth, [139].
West Point, [511]-[512].
Westward movement, English, characteristics, [309]-[312];
into the Piedmont, frontier defense, [312]-[313];
reorganization of the Carolinas, [313]-[315];
founding of Georgia, [315]-[316];
German and Swiss migration, [316]-[322];
Scotch-Irish migration, [322]-[326];
significance of the settlement of the Piedmont, [326]-[328];
into the Trans-Alleghany West, [403]-[419].
Wethersfield founded, [149].
Weymouth, George, voyage to New-England, [116].
Weymouth settlement, [140].
Whigs, [458], [459], [463]. See Revolution.
White, Governor John, of Roanoke, [110].
White, Reverend John, forms association, [141].
Whitefield, George, [338].
White Plains, [485], [487].
Wichita, Kansas, Oñate at, [73].
Wichita Indians, [45]. See Quivira.
Wiehawken, New Jersey, [198].
Wilderness Road, opened by Boone, [417].
William and Mary College, [229], [338]-[339].
Williams, Roger, at Boston, [146];
at Salem, [146];
at Plymouth, [146];
preaching at Salem, [146]-[147];
his trial, [147];
founding of Providence, [147];
separation of church and state, [147];
government, [147];
keeps Narragansetts out of Pequot War, [150];
obtains revocation of Coddington patent, [159].
William III, first reorganization of the colonial system, [343]-[346];
second reorganization, [346]-[350].
See War of the English Succession.
William of Orange (the Silent), [52].
Windward Islands, [252].
Williamson, Col. Andrew, [513].
Williamsburg, made capital of Virginia, [345].
Willing, James, raids in the Southwest during the Revolution, [513]-[514].
Willoughby, Sir Hugh, expedition to Russia, [106].
Wilmington, made base by Cornwallis, [529].
Wilson, James, attitude toward Declaration of Independence, [478].
Windsor, founded, [149].
Windward Islands, organized into a province, [206].
Winslow, John, [375].
Winter, English freebooter, [66].
Winthrop, Fitz-John, [263].
Winthrop, John, governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, [142];
arrives at Salem, [142];
moves to Charlestown, [142];
religious controversies, [147]-[148].
Winthrop, John Jr., erects Fort Saybrook, [149].
Witchcraft in New England, [220].
Wolfe, Major-General, capture of Quebec, [379]-[380].
Woolen Act of 1698, [349].
Wrenn, Ralph, English commodore, [262].
Wright, Commodore, English commander in the Caribbean Sea, [262].
Writs of assistance, [428]-[429].
Wyoming Valley massacre, [514].
Yale College, [339].
Yamassee Indians, revolt against Spaniards, [255];
War in South Carolina, [314].
Yaqui Indians, missions among, [239].
Yaqui River Valley, Sonora, [45], [56];
Jesuit missions in, [239].
Yazoo, judicial department of Louisiana, [279];
immigration to, [408].
Ybarbo, Antonio Gil, leader in eastern Texas, [400].
Yeamans, Sir John, expeditions to Carolina, [208];
claims the governorship, [210];
governor, [210].
Yeardley, Sir George, governor of Virginia, [120].
York (Maine), claimed by Massachusetts, [157].
Yorktown campaign, [530]-[532].
Yucatán, exploration of, [25];
inhabitants of, [27];
conquest of, [38]-[39].
Yuma, mission pueblos at, [393];
massacre of Spaniards at, [393]-[394];
punishment for, [394].
Zacatecas, mines of, [55], [56];
development of, [59];
population, [75].
Zacatula, Mexico, ship-building port, [37], [42].
Zaguaripa, Mexico, Ibarra at, [56].
Zaldívar, Vincente, pioneer in New Mexico, [73].
Zárate Salmerón, Gerónimo de, Franciscan missionary in New Mexico, [243].
Zavala, Martin de, conquistador of Nuevo León, [247].
Zenger case, [356]-[357].
Zultepec, Mexico, [75].
Zumárraga, Bishop of Mexico, [48].
Zuñi, New Mexico, pueblos, [44], [45], [46]. [72].
Zuñiga, Governor of Florida, [269].
Zuñiga, Spanish ambassador to England, [118]-[119].