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INDEX
The abbreviated form “Mass.,” refers to the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay—the “Bay Colony.”
- Acadia, restored to France by treaty of St. Germain, [180];
- Massachusetts and the contest between Frenchmen for control of, [232], [233];
- raid on, by Mass., [438].
- And see [Port Royal].
- Acton, Lord, quoted, [66].
- Adventurers, motive of, in Plymouth venture, [93], [94];
- “Adventurers for New England in America, Company of,” [126 n.]
- African Company, [45], [46].
- African slave-trade, [280].
- Agents, colonial, [297], [298].
- Agriculture, in England, [123].
- Alden, John, [179].
- Alexander, son of Massasoit, [346].
- Alexander, Sir W., [180].
- Algonquin Indian stock, [24].
- Allerton, Isaac, [115], [116], [180].
- Allyn, John, [416].
- Alva, Duke of, [122].
- American strain, first appears in second generation of settlers, [316], [317].
- Ames, Azel, [97 n.]
- Amsterdam, Scrooby fugitives at, [88], [89];
- Andrews, C. M., quoted, [297].
- Andros, Sir Edmund, appointed governor of New England, [411], [412];
- his original jurisdiction, [412],
- difficulties of his administration, insuperable, [413], [414], [426];
- broad powers of, [414], [415], [416];
- relations with Puritan clergy, [421], [422];
- Puritan complaints against, [422], [423];
- and the question of taxation, [424], [425] and n.;
- his powers further extended, [426];
- his dealings with the Indians, [426], [427];
- rumors impugning his loyalty, [427], [429];
- his position when William of Orange landed in England, [428];
- rising against in Boston, [428], [429];
- takes refuge in fort, [429];
- made prisoner, [430];
- sent to England, [432], [433];
- [407], [409], [418], [420], [421], [433], [434], [435], [444].
- Anne, the (vessel), [106].
- Antigua, [120], [367].
- Antinomian controversy, [166] and [n.], [167-171];
- Antinomians, Boston, [168], [169].
- Appalachian barrier, the, [2], [3], [4], [10], [175].
- Appeals, to England denied, [151], [152], [170], [214], [305], [322];
- Appleton, Samuel, [356].
- Aquidneck, [227], [228].
- Argall, Samuel, breaks up French settlements at St. Sauveur, etc., [55], [56];
- [53].
- Armada, the, [30], [32].
- Arnold, Richard, [416].
- Articles of Confederation. See [United Colonies].
- Artillery Company of Middlesex, [322].
- Arundell, Thomas, [37].
- Ashley, Edward, [180].
- Ashurst, Sir Henry, [321], [432].
- Assembly, [409], [411], [414], [424], [432], [447].
- Assistants (Mass.), functions of, [141], [142];
- Atherton Company, secures mortgage title to Narragansett country, [249], [250];
- Augusta, Maine, [178], [179].
- Aulnay, Charles de Menou, Sieur d', [181], [232], [233], [234].
- Austen, Ann, Quaker, [264].
- Avenant, C. d', etc., quoted, [287].
- Awashunks, squaw-sachem, [342], [343], [358].
- Bacon, Lord, [59].
- Bacon's rebellion, [390].
- Balfour, A. J., quoted, [374].
- Ballot, secret, first use of in Mass., [161].
- Bancroft, Richard, Archbishop of Canterbury, deprivations of Puritan clergy under, [71];
- and the Puritans, [74].
- Baptists, punishment of, [259], [260], [261], [262].
- Barbadoes, [8], [119], [120] and [n.], [121], [134], [175], [223 n.], [302], [303], [307], [362 n.], [367], [388] and [n.]
- Barbuda, [119], [120].
- Barrington, Sir Thomas, [196].
- Barrington, Lady Joan, [125].
- Bay Colony. See [Massachusetts Bay, Governor and Company of].
- Bay Path, [20] and [n.]
- Beers, Richard, [354].
- Bell, Philip, [133], [134].
- Bellingham, Richard, Governor of Mass., and Quaker women, [264];
- Beothuks (Indians), [24].
- Berkshire Hills, [4].
- Bermuda, laws against Sabbath-breaking in, [112];
- Bermuda Assembly, [154].
- Bermuda Company, [46], [133].
- Berwick, England, [300], [301].
- Best, Thomas, [56].
- Biard, Father, [55 n.], [56].
- Bible, the, God's will revealed to Puritans by, [79];
- Bible-Commonwealth, Puritans plan to found, in Mass., [142], [143].
- Biencourt, Sieur de, [54].
- Biggar, H. P., quoted, [29 n.]
- Bishop George, [264], [269], [373].
- Blackstone, William, [144], [151], [184].
- Blathwayt, William and Cranfield, [402], [403], [417].
- Block Island, [199], [200].
- Bloody Brook, massacre at, [356].
- Body of Liberties, [211].
- Bombay, [280].
- Boston, meeting at, to divide town land, [161];
- Antinomian attitude of church at, [168], [169];
- elections removed from, [169];
- reëlects Vane and others after invalidation of first election, [169];
- confederation of colonies discussed at, [224];
- merchants of, and the Acadian Expedition, [232], [233];
- import duties on goods entering port of, [243];
- church at, refuses to join Synod, [255];
- Royal Commission at, [331], [333], [334];
- dispute over Church of England services at, [420], [421];
- observance of Christmas and Sunday in, [422];
- merchants of, said to have supplied Indians with ammunition, [427];
- revolt against Andros government in, [428-430], [431], [433];
- [140], [159], [352], [353], [373], [396 n.], [423], [437].
- Boston Bay, [5].
- Boswell, Sir W., quoted, [234].
- “Bound House,” [182], [324 n.]
- Boundaries, natural, influence of, [3];
- Bourne, Richard, [345].
- Boyle, Robert, [297 n.], [332], [371], [453].
- Bradford, William, at Scrooby, [86];
- his early history, [86], [87];
- chosen Governor of Plymouth, [100];
- his History of Plymouth Plantation, quoted or referred to, [61 n.], [89], [90], [92 n.], [99], [101 n.], [102], [103], [106], [110], [111], [114], [115], [131], [150], [180], [181], [190], [191], [225];
- [116], [164], [179], [198], [276], [370], [371], [416].
- Bradstreet, Simon, Governor of Mass., replies to King's letter, [389], [390];
- Braintree, [247].
- Brattle, Thomas, [455].
- Breedon, Thomas, [314].
- Brend, William, Quaker, cruel punishment of, [269].
- Brereton, Sir W., [127 n.]
- Brewster, William, his early history and character, [86];
- Bristol, England, [27], [28].
- British Empire, not in existence at accession James I, [279];
- extent of, at Restoration, [279], [280];
- character of, [280], [281] and #n.:, [282];
- most complete embodiment of Mercantile Theory ideal, [285], [286];
- why English colonies should remain within, [289];
- Sir E. Morris on, [291];
- source of its success, [301];
- views of England, and of the colonies, with regard to, [308], [309].
- Brockholls, Anthony, [428].
- Brooke, Lord, [125], [167], [179], [181], [191], [195], [196], [197].
- Brookfield, destroyed by Indians, [354].
- Brown, John, settles at New Harbor (Pemaquid), [109].
- Browne, John, [128], [132], [133].
- Browne, Samuel, [132], [133].
- Browne, Sir Thomas, [371].
- Brownists, [68].
- Brunhes, Jean, quoted, [11].
- Brunswick, Maine, Gardiner at, [150], [151].
- Bryce, James, Viscount, quoted, [14].
- Buckle, Henry T., quoted, [96 n.]
- Buet, Hugh, [171].
- Bulkley, Peter and Stoughton, agents of Mass. in England, [380] ff.;
- Bunyan, John, [371].
- Burrage, C., [131 n.]
- Burrough, Edward, [273].
- Burroughs, Rev. George, [455].
- Butler, Samuel, [371].
- Buzzard's Bay, [5], [6].
- Cabot, John, voyages of, [27], [28], [42];
- Cabot, Sebastian, [27], [32].
- Calais, lost to England, [44];
- represented in Parliament, [388].
- Calef, Robert, [455], [456].
- Calvin, John, quoted, [77];
- [84].
- Calvinism, and the Puritans, [77].
- Cambridge Platform, adopted by synod (1648), [256];
- opposed in General Court, but finally passed (1651), [257].
- Campbell, Douglass, [89 n.]
- Canada, abortive expedition against, [439-441];
- Canonchet, Narragansett sachem, forced to sign humiliating treaty, [358];
- capture and death of, [360].
- Canonicus, Narragansett sachem, [199], [353].
- Cape Ann, fishing settlement on, [108], [109], [125];
- [5].
- Cape Cod, [5], [37], [97], [339].
- Cape of Good Hope, [280].
- Cape Porpus, [245].
- Carlisle, Earl of, [134].
- Carolinas, settlement of, [312].
- Carr, Sir Robert, member of Royal Commission, [330], [331], [334], [335].
- Carrying trade, restrictions on, by England and France, [288];
- Holland, England's most serious rival in, [312].
- Cartwright, George, member of Royal Commission, [330], [331], [334], [335].
- Carver, John, first Governor of Plymouth, death of, [100];
- [91].
- Casco, [439].
- Casco Bay, [178], [245].
- Castle Island, fortifications on, [159], [322], [331];
- Catholics, in England, under Elizabeth, [69] and [n.];
- Cecil, Sir R., [51].
- Challons, Henry, sails for New England, [49];
- Chamberlain, Richard, Secretary of New Hampshire, [400], [401].
- Champlain, Samuel de, settles on St. Croix Island, [38], [39];
- Champlain, Lake, [4], [312], [440].
- Charity, the (vessel), [104], [105].
- Charles I, results of his incompetent government, [118];
- Charles II, orders suspension of proceedings against Quakers, [273], [274] and [n.];
- his letter confirming Charter of Mass., etc., how complied with, [323], [324];
- on claim of Mass. to independence, [336];
- orders agents sent to England, [336];
- his letter, sent by Randolph, [377], [378],
- other letters of, and their effect, [389], [390], [391];
- his death, [407];
- [279], [298], [299], [314], [315], [317], [318], [321], [322], [331], [332], [366], [399], [400].
- Charlestown, proposed settlement at, [127];
- Chartered companies, [45] ff.
- Charters, early commercial, [34], [35].
- Charters of American colonies. See [Colonial charters].
- Chatham, Mass., [39].
- Chauncey, Rev. Charles, and Quakers, 270.
- Chelmsford, Mass., [345].
- Chief, Indian, office of, [17].
- Child, Robert, case of, [213], [214] and [n.], [253], [298], [305], [315], [425].
- Chillingworth, William, [146].
- Christ, in Puritan theology, [80], [82].
- Christianity, unity of, broken up by development of state churches, [282].
- Christison, Wenlock, Quaker, [272], [273].
- Church, Benjamin, [348], [361].
- Church, the, and the average man, [66], [67];
- Church of England, relation of Puritans to, [64] ff.;
- Church-covenant idea, [143].
- Church members, number of, in New England, [132];
- Church-membership test for franchise in Mass., dissatisfaction with, [253], [254];
- growth of more liberal attitude respecting, [262], [263].
- And see [Franchise].
- Churches, new, organization of, restricted, [162].
- Clan, the, the Indian's little world, [18].
- Clarendon, Earl of, his colonial policy, [311], [312], [313];
- Clark, Mary, Quaker, [268].
- Clarke, John, Baptist, his Ill Newes from New England, [259], [260];
- Cleeve, George, [244].
- Clergy, number of, deprived under canons of 1604 and under Puritan domination, [71];
- starvation pay of, [75];
- reactionary views of, [194];
- in Rhode Island and Connecticut, [195];
- attitude of, in Mass., [211];
- and the Gorton case, [219], [220];
- and Miantanomo, [240], [241];
- seek compromise in matter of church-membership, [262], [263],
- but strive to enforce conformity in matters of doctrine, [263] ff.;
- failure of, as leaders, explained, [395], [396];
- important legal questions referred to, [417];
- relations with Andros, [421], [422];
- decrease in power of, in Mass., [450], [451];
- and the witchcraft delusion, [451], [455].
- Climate, of New England, [10] and [n.]
- Clive, Lord, [54].
- Cloth industry, in England, decline in, [123].
- Coast-line, value of, [6].
- Cobham, Lord, [36].
- Coddington, William, commission of, as Governor of Rhode Island, withdrawn, [249], [250];
- Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, and the Mercantile Theory, [285], [288], [289];
- Colleton, John, [297 n.]
- Colonial charters, terms of, [34], [294];
- Colonial trade, English laws regarding, [287].
- Colonies, American, successive grouping of, [2];
- beginnings of, their real characters, [33];
- terms of charters of, [34];
- questions as to status of settlers in, [35], [36];
- importance of distance of, from mother-country, [36];
- by-products of English commercial activity, [35];
- value of, [47];
- relation of area to barrier in, [175];
- in 1660, [280];
- Dutch shut out from carrying trade of, [291];
- interests of, neglected or misunderstood in England, [295];
- and the administrative confusion in England (1643-1660), [295], [296];
- scheme for organization of, following the Restoration, [296], [297];
- and the acts for control of trade and shipping, [298];
- restriction on shipment of European goods to, [300], [301];
- offer no assistance in solution of problem of their relation to England, [307], [308];
- modified view of contest between England and, [364];
- problem of, calls for new treatment, [366];
- demand of, for assemblies and self-taxation, [367], [368];
- why post of royal governor in, was not attractive, [405], [406];
- convoys for shipping of, furnished by England, [437], [438].
- Colonists, early influence of geographic environment on, [13];
- misconceive political system of Indians, [17];
- dealings of, with Indians, [14], [24], [25], [34], ff.;
- status of, with respect to England, [292];
- failure of imperial theory to take account of human nature in, [301], [302];
- non-representation in Parliament not the essential grievance of, [302];
- their spirit of resistance to interference considered, [302], [303];
- numbers of, in New England, in 1675, [338] and [n.];
- missionary efforts of, among Indians, [345], [346];
- their land-hunger, [340], [341];
- why unprepared for hostilities in 1675, [348], [349];
- ignorant of Indian warfare, [350];
- and the new form of government (1685), [408], [409];
- legal position of, [410].
- Colonization, first English attempts at, [33];
- Columbus, Christopher, [26], [44], [398].
- Comantine, Fort, [280].
- Commerce, supersedes religion as prime influence in politics, etc., [366].
- And see [Trade].
- Common lands, [153], [418].
- Common-school education, in New England and Virginia, [369], [370].
- Common schools, [396], [397], [456].
- Common-stock theory, in founding of Plymouth, [93] f.;
- Commons. See [Common lands].
- Conant, Roger, settles at Salem, [125];
- Confederation. See [United Colonies].
- Congregational Church, under new charter of Mass., [451].
- Congregationalism in New England, [130], [131], [411].
- Connecticut, geographical advantage of, [6];
- early settlers in, [120], [189], [190], [191];
- franchise in, [172];
- opposed to policies of Mass., [183], [184], [186];
- Mass. sends expedition to, [187];
- constitution of, [192];
- “Fundamental Orders” of, [192], [193];
- influence of, and of Mass., on development of American thought, contrasted, [193], [194];
- character of emigrants to, [195], [207];
- settlements in, after destruction of Pequots, [206] ff.;
- absorbs New Haven, [208], [318-320];
- growth of population of, [224];
- objects to proposed terms of confederation, [225];
- and the Dutch, [236], [237];
- controversy over taxation, [242], [243];
- disputed boundary line between Mass. and, [243];
- treatment of Quakers in, [268], [275];
- relation of, to England, [306];
- flouts Navigation Acts, [313];
- Winthrop obtains liberal charter for, [318];
- boundary between Rhode Island and, [320], [321];
- population (1675), [338];
- and the Pequots, [343];
- raising troops in, [351], [355 n.];
- and friendly Indians, [356];
- war expenses of, [363];
- schools in, [369];
- treatment of Indians by, [387] and [n.];
- steps to cancel charter of, [412], [413];
- added to jurisdiction of Andros, [413];
- validates land-titles, [418], [420];
- Indian attacks in, [427];
- resumes former government (1689), [433], [434];
- [209], [215], [226], [227], [317], [325], [332], [336], [339], [341], [353], [386], [439].
- Connecticut River, [6], [186], [187], [190], [339], [340], [345], [360], [361].
- Conservative and liberal groupings in New England, [373], [374].
- Cooper, Sir Anthony A., [297 n.]
- Cooper, J. Fenimore, [14].
- Corbitant (Indian), [101].
- Cotton, Rev. John, a follower of Ann Hutchinson, [167];
- Cotton, John, and Philip's son, [362].
- Council Established at Plymouth, etc., granted a charter, [62], [63].
- Council for New England, [106], [126], [157].
- Council for Plantations, [296], [297], [329].
- Council for the Safety of the People, etc., [433].
- Country, and town, conflict of economic interests, etc., between, [373], [374].
- Covenants of Grace and of Works, [166].
- Cradock, Matthew, [128], [138], [151], [157].
- Crandall, John, Baptist, [259], [260].
- Cranfield, Edward, appointed royal governor of New England, [402];
- Cromwell, Oliver, forces war on Holland, [236], [237] and [n.];
- Crown, the, and the colonies, [293] ff.
- Cushman, Robert, [91], [94], [95], [97], [102].
- Cutt, John, first President of New Hampshire under royal control, [400].
- Cuttyhunk, [37].
- Damaris Cove, [104], [115].
- Dand, John, [214].
- Danforth, Thomas, [389], [394], [429].
- Daniel, Thomas, [400].
- Darley, Henry, [197].
- Davenport, Rev. John, founder of New Haven, [206], [207].
- Davison, William, [86].
- Dawson, S. E., quoted, [27] and [n.]
- Deer Island, [357].
- Deerfield, attacked by Indians, [354], [355], [356].
- Delaware River, settlements on, [234], [235], [236].
- Democracy, not aimed at in Mayflower Compact, [98];
- Deputies in General Court, [154].
- And see [Assistants].
- Dermer, Thomas, [60], [61] and [n.]
- Devil, the, the saving grace of Puritan doctrine, [82].
- Dexter, Henry M., [96 n.], [165 n.]
- Dexter, Thomas, [151].
- Digges, Edward, [297 n.]
- Discovery, right of, basis of title to new lands, [41] and [n.], [42];
- questions connected with, [42].
- Dissent, growth of, [364], [372].
- Distance, from England, influence of, [292], [294], [295], [301], [302].
- Divine right of kings, theory of, a protest against divine right of popes, [365].
- Dongan, Thomas, Governor of New York, [412], [413].
- Dorchester, church at, [143];
- Dorchester (England) fishing company in Mass., [108], [125].
- Dorrell, John, [127 n.]
- Dover, N. H., founded, [108];
- Dowdney, Richard, Quaker, [268].
- Downing, Emanuel, [138], [141], [217 n.]
- Downing, Sir George, quoted, [173].
- Doyle, J. A., quoted, [187 n.]
- Drake, Sir Francis, [30], [32], [95 n.]
- Draxe, Sir James, [297 n.]
- Dryden, John, [371].
- Dudley, Joseph, appointed agent of Mass., [392];
- Dudley, Joseph, and John Richards, agents of Mass. in England (1682), [392], [393].
- Dudley, Thomas, Deputy Governor of Mass., [169];
- Dunster, Henry, [206].
- Dupleix, Marquis, [54].
- Dutch, helpfulness of, in trade with Indians, [115];
- and the Pilgrims, [187];
- at Hartford, [188] and [n.];
- territorial claims of, [234];
- outnumbered and crowded out by English, [234], [235], [236];
- treaty with, not ratified by England, [236];
- shut out from carrying trade of English colonies, [291];
- instructions of Royal Commission concerning, [330], [331];
- reduction of, [336].
- Dutch West India Co., [313 n.]
- Dyer, Mary, Quaker, fiendish treatment of, [271];