The Colonies, 1492-1750

by Reuben Gold Thwaites

• — West India Company, chartered, [197];
  • patroon system, [198]-200, [223];
  • plan of government, [203];
  • Delaware settlements, [207], [209];
  • pacific policy towards New England, [163].

• East India Company, [66].

• East Indies, Dutch in the, [50].

• East New Jersey, as a separate province, [212]-214;
  • population (1700), [221].

• Eaton, Theophilus, heads New Haven colony, [144], [145].

• Edward VI., king of England, [36].

• Edwards, Jonathan, character, [183];
  • revival work, [190].

• Eliot, John, the Indian missionary, [170], [189].

• Elizabeth, queen of England, interest in American colonization, [37], [38], [40], [52], [53], [67], [68];
  • English commerce under, [104];
  • Puritanism under, [114], [115].

• England, attitude towards papal bull of partition, [24], [25];
  • sends out Cabot, [25];
  • fishing colony at Newfoundland, [26];
  • early exploration and settlements in America, [36]-44;
  • becomes a great power, [48];
  • reasons for final colonization of America, [65], [66];
  • character of her colonists, [53]-55;
  • her colonial policy, [51]-53;
  • the institutions in which her colonists were trained, [53]-58;
  • Quaker repression, [165].