The Colonies, 1492-1750

by Reuben Gold Thwaites

• Fundamental constitutions, devised for Carolina, [90], [91], [93], [95].

• Fur-trade, early spread of, [17], [18];
  • by Norsemen, [22];
  • by other early European explorers, [26], [28], [35], [52], [53];
  • of New France, [35], [49], [50], [247]-251, [256]-258;
  • by Claiborne, [76], [77];
  • of Georgia, [259], [261];
  • of Carolina, [93], [104];
  • of Virginia, [104], [269];
  • of Maryland, [104];
  • of Pennsylvania, [225], [226];
  • of New Amsterdam, [118];
  • of New Sweden, [208], [209];
  • of New York, [198], [202], [221], [225], [226], [228];
  • in middle colonies generally, [232];
  • of Connecticut, [140], [141], [155];
  • of Plymouth, [122], [124];
  • of New Hampshire, [152];
  • of New England generally, [113];
  • by Hudson's Bay Company, [243], [244];
  • by American and Northwest companies, [244].

• Gama, Vasco da, reaches India, [25].

• George II., king of England, name-giver for Georgia, [259];
  • grants land to Ohio Company, [283].

• Georgia, settlement of, [258]-262;
  • fur-trade, [259], [261];
  • expedition against Florida Spaniards, [262], [278];
  • becomes a royal province, [263];
  • population (1750), [266];
  • political spirit, [281].

• Germans, in Georgia, [269], [261], [263];
  • in North Carolina, [97];
  • in Virginia, [269];
  • in Maryland, [266];
  • in Pennsylvania and Delaware, [217], [221], [222], [225], [229], [230], [274], [277];
  • in New York, [221].

• Germany, colonial policy of, [51];
  • Presbyterian movement in, [115].

• Gomez, Estevan, on the North American coast, [27], [28].

• Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, early interest in American colonization, [41], [66], [150];
  • member of Plymouth Company, [113], [114];
  • lord proprietor of Maine, [150]-152, [158];
  • allied with Mason in colonizing New Hampshire, [125], [152].

• —, Robert, governor-general of New England, [122], [132];
  • land-grants to, [125].