The Colonies, 1492-1750

by Reuben Gold Thwaites

• Somers, Sir George, member of London Company, [66], [69], [72];
  • at Bermudas, [238].

• Somers's Islands. See Bermudas.

• Sothel, Seth, governor of North Carolina, [92], [93];
  • of South Carolina, [94].

• South Carolina as Chicora, [27];
  • settlement of, [90];
  • landed estates in, [58];
  • occupations, [102];
  • religion, [102], [109];
  • trade, [102], [261];
  • social life, [107];
  • becomes a royal province, [267];
  • boundary established, [268];
  • Indian affairs, [277];
  • Oglethorpe's expedition, [278];
  • influence of Virginia ideas, [280];
  • political condition, [281];
  • population (1763), [266].

• Southern Indians, status of, [9], [11].

• Southold, L. I., founded, [145].

• Spaniards, conquest of Mexico and Peru, [8], [11];
  • treatment of Indians, [17];
  • early American discoveries, [23], [24];
  • the bull of partition, [24], [36];
  • fishermen at Newfoundland, [25], [37];
  • exploration of American interior, [27]-31;
  • their American colonies, [26], [31], [32], [88];
  • character of those colonies, [42], [43];
  • conflicts with France, [32], [34], [93], [94];
  • influence on English court, [36];
  • conflicts with English, [38], [39], [237], [239]-241, [244];
  • war with Holland, [196];
  • the Armada, [40];
  • their colonial policy, [47], [48];
  • over-population in Spain, [50];
  • causes of failure of North American colonies, [42]-44;
  • trade with New England, [185];
  • conflicts with Georgia, [259]-262, [278].

• St. Augustine, Fla., founded, [32], [34], [94];
  • in Oglethorpe's campaign, [259], [261].

• St. Christopher, Leeward Islands, [237], [238].

• St. John's, Newfoundland, early fisheries at, [37].