The Colonies, 1492-1750

by Reuben Gold Thwaites

• Normans, American discoveries by, [21], [180];
  • early at Newfoundland, [26], [49], [241].

• North Carolina, aborigines of, [11];
  • Raleigh's colonies, [38], [40];
  • named in London Company's charter, [66];
  • origin of, [88], [90];
  • first settlements, [92], [93];
  • Culpeper rebellion, [92];
  • character of colonists, [97];
  • their turbulent spirit, [273], [280], [281];
  • occupations, [102];
  • agriculture, [103];
  • religion, [108], [109];
  • mountains of, [179];
  • becomes a royal province, [267];
  • boundary established, [268];
  • Indian affairs, [277];
  • Oglethorpe's expedition, [278];
  • influence of Virginian ideas, [280];
  • population (1763), [266].

• North Virgina Company. See Plymouth Company.

• Norwegians, in Iceland, [21].

• Nova Scotia, early French settlement, [35], [36];
  • Claiborne's trade with, [77];
  • intercolonial relations, [234], [235];
  • French-English struggles, [252];
  • in King William's War, [253], [254];
  • in Queen Anne's War, [255];
  • removal of the Acadians, [243];
  • general history, [242]-244.

• Ocrakoke inlet, English colony on, [38].

• Oglethorpe, James, character, [259];
  • founds Georgia, [259], [260];
  • campaign against Florida Spaniards, [262], [269], [278].

• Ohio Company, its colonization efforts, [283].

• Oneida Indians, [10], [11].

• Onondaga Indians, [10], [11].