The Colonies, 1492-1750

by Reuben Gold Thwaites

• Dorchester, Mass., fortified, [131];
  • emigration from, to Connecticut, [140], [141].

• Drake, Sir Francis, explorations, [37], [52];
  • relieves Raleigh's colony, [39];
  • resists the Armada, [40].

• Dudley, Joseph, president of Andros's council, [175], [176].

• —, Thomas, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, [127], [135], [175];
  • governor, [129].

• "Duke's laws," the, in New York, [203], [204].

• Dummer, Jeremiah, "Defence of the American Charters," 266, [267].

• Dunkards, in Pennsylvania, [230].

• Dutch, the, early claims in America, [44];
  • colonial policy, [50], [51];
  • as ocean carriers, [103], [104];
  • plant New Netherlands, [196]-198;
  • patroon system, [198]-200;
  • operations on the Connecticut, [136], [140], [141];
  • collisions with English traders and settlers, [47], [145], [155], [162]-164, [199], [200];
  • Swedish opposition, [51], [208], [209];
  • wars with England, [159], [163], [164], [168], [201]-203;
  • fall of New Netherlands, [168], [202], [203];
  • New Netherlands recaptured, but lost again, [205];
  • in the West Indies, [236]-238;
  • in New York, [203], [204], [220], [221], [223], [227], [229], [231], [232];
  • in New Jersey, [210], [211], [221];
  • in Pennsylvania and Delaware, [207]-210, [215], [217], [221], [222].

• — East India Company, sends out Hudson, [196].

• — Reformed Church, in middle colonies, [230].