The Colonies, 1492-1750

by Reuben Gold Thwaites

• Newark, N. J., founded, [211].

• New Brunswick, De Monts' colony in, [36].

• Newcastle, Del., founded, [202], [215];
  • characteristics, [228].

• New England, geography of, [5], [6], [179], [180];
  • early mining, [6];
  • named by Smith, [72], [113], [114];
  • population, (1690) [253], (1700) 180, [181], (1700-1750) 265;
  • social distinctions, [58], [181], [182];
  • slavery, [182];
  • occupations, [182]-184;
  • manufactures, [184];
  • fisheries and shipbuilding, [185];
  • commerce, [77], [164], [185], [186], [234], [235];
  • towns, [186];
  • education, [188];
  • crime, [188];
  • religion, [189], [190], [194];
  • witchcraft delusion, [190]-192;
  • life and manners, [187];
  • political conditions, [192]-194, [282];
  • repression of Quakers, [165], [166];
  • formation of the confederation, [156];
  • decadence of the confederation, [169];
  • in the hands of the Lords of Trade, [173];
  • in Queen Anne's War, [255];
  • in King George's War, [255], [256];
  • ideas of versus Virginia ideas, [280], [281].

• New England, Council for, chartered, [60].

• Newfoundland, Spaniards at, [28];
  • early European fishermen at, [36], [37], [49], [52];
  • early French visits, [32], [33];
  • claimed by England, [44];
  • Baltimore's colony, [81];
  • intercolonial relations, [234], [235];
  • in King William's War, [254];
  • historical sketch, [241], [242], [244].

• New France, founded, [36];
  • Louis XIV.'s policy towards, [49], [50];
  • Champlain fights the Iroquois, [196];
  • early settlements of, [246], [247];
  • exploration of the Northwest, [247]-249;
  • ambition for territorial aggrandizement, [155];
  • contests with the English, [220], [234], [252]-254, [274], [275], [277], [278];
  • in Queen Anne's War, [254], [255];
  • in King George's War, [255], [256];
  • boundary disputes with English, [256];
  • line of frontier forts, [256];
  • struggle for the Ohio valley, [257];
  • social and political conditions of, [249]-252;
  • general characteristics, [249], [257], [258];
  • causes of decline, [49], [50].

• New Hampshire, Mason's grant, [150], [152], [173], [277];
  • early colonizing efforts, [152], [153];
  • soil, [179];
  • manufactures, [184];
  • agriculture, [186];
  • characteristics, [153];
  • population (1700), [180], (1754) 265;
  • annexed by Massachusetts, [61], [153], [173];
  • becomes a royal province, [61], [153], [174], [277];
  • reunited to Massachusetts, [153], [174];
  • rule of Andros, [175];
  • under William and Mary, [177];
  • in King William's War, [254];
  • Bellomont's term, [276];
  • boundary disputes, [268];
  • represented in second colonial congress, [270].

• New Haven, founded, [144]-146, [163];
  • false "Blue Laws," 146;
  • joins New England Confederation, [156];
  • in war with New Netherlands, [163];
  • treatment of Quakers, [166];
  • shelters the regicides, [167];
  • absorbed by Connecticut, [146], [168], [169];
  • condition in 1700, [186];
  • Yale College founded, [188];
  • Tory element in, [189].

• New Jersey, early mining, [6];
  • visited by Gomez, [28];
  • early settlements, [199], [210]-212;
  • covets Delaware, [210];
  • the two Jerseys, [212], [213];
  • reunited as a royal province, [207], [213], [214];
  • claimed by New York, [205];
  • general characteristics, [214];
  • election of county judges, [59], [60];
  • geography, [219];
  • social distinctions, [222]-224;
  • occupations, [224], [225];
  • trade and commerce, [225], [226];
  • life and manners, [227]-229;
  • education, [229];
  • religion, [230];
  • political conditions, [231], [282];
  • Bellomont's term, [276];
  • Indian affairs, [277], [282];
  • population(1700), [221], (1750), [265].