The Colonies, 1492-1750

by Reuben Gold Thwaites

• —, Nova Scotia. See Port Royal.

• Antigua, Leeward Islands, [237].

• Antinomian theory, held by Anne Hutchinson, [133], [134].

• Appalachian mountains, extent of, [3],4, [6], [7];
  • early explorations, [4], [269];
  • characteristics, [5], [6], [97], [179], [219];
  • aborigines, [11];
  • early Scotch settlements in, [269].

• Argall, Samuel, governor of Virginia, [73];
  • destroys French settlements in Acadia, [242].

• Arizona, aborigines of, [8];
  • early Spanish explorations, [28]-30;
  • Spanish missions, [31].

• Armada, the Spanish, interrupts American colonization, [40];
  • defeat of, [48], [52].

• Asia, possible emigration from, to America, [2], [3];
  • distance from America, [5];
  • relation to American exploration, [25]-27;
  • early European commerce in, [23], [24].

• Assemblies, hampered by commercial companies and royal and proprietary interference, [58];
  • hold the purse-strings, [59];
  • origin of bicameral system, [61];
  • representative system, [62], [63];
  • in the South generally, [97], [109], [110];
  • in Virginia, [73], [75], [77], [78];
  • in the Carolinas, [90], [92];
  • in Maryland, [82]-86;
  • in Pennsylvania, [215], [216];
  • in New Jersey, [211], [212], [214];
  • in New Netherlands, [200], [201];
  • in New York, [200], [201], [204]-206;
  • in Connecticut, [142], [143];
  • in Rhode Island, [147], [148];
  • in Massachusetts, [123], [126], [128];
  • quarrels with the royal governors (1700-1750), [271]-279.

• Association for the defence of the Protestant religion in Maryland, [87].