INDEX

Agawam (Springfield), 61, 62

Allerton, Isaac, 17

Ambrose, The, ship, 29

Amsterdam, Separatists gather at, 7

"Ancient and Honorable Artillery," 135

Andros, Sir Edmund, takes part in case against Massachusetts, 156; Governor of Massachusetts, 174 et seq.; strengthens fortifications, 179-80; New York and New Jersey added to his domain, 183-84; attention confined to Massachusetts, 184-85; recalled, 196

Anne, The, ship, 13

Aquidneck, Island of, 48, 55

Arabella, The, ship, 29

Aspinwall, 48

Augsburg, settlement of (1555), 4

Aulnay-Charnisé, Charles de Menou, Sieur d', 95-96

Bartlett, Robert, 84

Bay Colony, see Massachusetts Bay Colony

Blackstone, William, 23, 24

Blessing of the Bay, The, ship, 78

Boston, Puritans from England settle at, 29; half the colonists live in or near, 35; treatment of Quakers in, 79-80; importance of, 164; grows into a city, 198; see also Shawmut

Boswell. Sir William, quoted, 97

Bradford, William, in Scrooby, 7; quoted, 15-16; Governor of Plymouth, 17; History of Plimouth Plantation, 19; dead before 1660, 78

Bradstreet, Governor of Massachusetts, 191

Bradstreet, Simon, 103

Branford, (Conn.), 70

Brenton, Governor, quoted, 114

Brewster, William, father of William, elder of Plymouth, 6

Brewster, William, Elder of Plymouth, 6, 8

Browne, John, 41

Browne, Samuel, 41

Bulkeley, Peter, 156

Cambridge platform (1648), 79

Canonchet, Indian chief, 142, 143, 144

Carr, Sir Robert, 119, 122

Cartwright, George, Colonel, 119, 122

Carver, John, Governor of Plymouth, 13

Charity, The, ship, 13

Charlestown (Mass.), 29, 35

Charter Oak, 181

Child, Dr. Robert, 38, 116

Church, Benjamin, Captain, 142

Clarendon, Lord, Prime Minister of England, 113, 116, 117, 120-21, 126

Clark, John, of Newbury, 83

Clarke, Dr. John, 47, 48, 103, 106, 112, 113

Clayton, Richard, 6

Coddington, William, 43, 47, 48, 49, 54-55

Coggeshall, one of founders of Portsmouth, 48

Connecticut, leaders who influenced, 47; settled by Massachusetts people, 56; four claimants for, 57; migration from Massachusetts, 57-61; commission government, 60-61; government, 62-64; witchcraft in, 81; sends petition to England, 103-04; charter granted (1662), 108; extends authority of colony, 108-10; claims Long Island, 130; title under charter recognized by Massachusetts, 131; debates joining New York, 173; Andros endeavors to bring under control, 180; consents to join Massachusetts, 180-82; renews old forms, 192

Cooke, a leader of conservatives in Boston, 164

Cotton, John, 78

Council for Foreign Plantations, Committee of the, 34

Danforth, a leader of conservatives in Boston, 164

Davenport, John, of New Haven, 47, 67, 68, 78, 111, 112

Deerfield (Mass.), massacre of, 141

Delfthaven, Pilgrims embark at, 10

Denonville, Marquis de, Governor of Canada, 178

Denton, Richard, 70

Desborough, 78

Dongan, Colonel, Governor of New York, 178, 180, 183

Dorchester (Mass.), 35

Dover (N. H.), 65, 66

Downing, Emanuel, 35

Dudley, Joseph, 168, 169-70, 173-74

Dudley, Thomas, 28

Dyer, Mary, 80

Eaton, Samuel, 67

Eaton, Theophilus, 47, 67, 68, 69

Education in New England, 83-85

Eliot, John, 94

Endecott, John, in congregation of Rev. John White, 24; sent as governor to Salem, 25; disregards claims of Gorges, 26; defaces royal ensign at Salem, 32; banishes colonists for religious differences, 41; signs petition to England, 104

England, in early seventeenth century, 2 et seq.; awakes to importance of colonies, 101-102; new colonial policy, 102-103; affairs in seventeenth century, 126-27; attitude toward Massachusetts, 150; finances under Charles II., 151-152; future of New England decided in, 194

Exeter (N. H.), 65, 66

Fairfield (Conn.), 198

Feudal system in England, 2, 3

Fortune, The, ship, 13

Fuller, Dr. Samuel, 37, 83

Fundamental orders, 62-64

Gardiner, Sir Christopher, 31, 41

George, Captain of the Rose, 190

Gilds, 3-4

Goodyear, Stephen, 77

Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 22-23, 25, 26, 29-30, 30-34, 65

Gorges, Robert, 23, 25

Gorges, Thomas, 35

Gorton, Samuel, 49-51

Graham, Attorney-General of Massachusetts, 187, 191

"Great Fundamentals, The," 18

Greenwich (Conn.), 109, 133

Guilford (Conn.), 70, 109

Half-Way Covenant, 79, 93-94

Hampton (N. H.), 66

Handmaid, The, ship, 13

Hartford (Conn.), 61, 198

Harvard College, 84, 93

Hawkins, Jane, 83

Haynes, John, 35, 47, 58, 78

Higginson, Francis, 37

Hilton, Edward, 65

Holmes, O. W., quoted, 83

Holmes, William, 56

Hooke, 78

Hooker, Thomas, 47, 58, 60, 61, 62, 78

Hopkins, Edward, Governor, 84

House of Good Hope, 56

Humphrey, John, 28

Hutchinson, Anne, 41-42, 48, 98

Indians, trouble with, 133 et seq.; dealings with, 138-39; number in New England, 139

Jewel, The, ship, 29

Johnson, Lady Arabella, 35

Johnson, Isaac, 28

Jones, Christopher, captain of the Mayflower, 11-12

King Philip's War (1675-76), 136, 138, 139, 140-46

Kingfisher, The, ship, 174

Kirke, Percy, Colonel, 166-67

Lathrop, John, 67

La Tour, Charles de, 95-96

Laud, Archbishop, 32

Laud Commission, 34

Leete, Governor, 111

Leyden, Separatists move to, 7

London, as a center of Separatism, 6

Long Island, uncertainty as to jurisdiction, 129-30

Ludlow, Roger, 47, 58, 78, 98

Lynn, Henry, 41

Maine, settled, 65; under jurisdiction of Massachusetts, 66-67; status undecided, 132; military preparedness, 135; permanently annexed to Massachusetts, 197

Marblehead (Mass.), 198

Mason, John, Captain, 30-31, 34, 65, 136

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 21 et seq.; begins as fishing venture, 24; obtains patent for land, 25; founded, 29; Gorges attempts overthrow of, 30-34; growth (1630-40), 34-36; time of stress, 36; government, 37-40; religious intolerance, 41-43; commercial ventures, 78; leader among colonies, 100-01; sends petition to King, 103; restoration of Stuarts causes trouble for, 104-05; charter confirmed, 105; religious liberty defined by King, 105-06; inquiry into affairs by Clarendon, 116-18; commissioners sent to, 118 et seq.; franchise law modified, 121; defies commission, 123-126; recognizes Connecticut's title (1672), 131; asserts right to control Maine and New Hampshire, 132; military preparedness, 135; Randolph inquires into affairs, 147; new instructions to royal governors, 148-49; attitude of England toward, 148-52; inquiry by Randolph, 154-56; mission sent to England, 156-57; purchases title to Maine and estranges England further, 158-59; royal orders in regard to trade and religious liberty, 159-60; attitude toward England, 160-61; sends agents to England, 162; charter forfeited (1684), 163; grows more liberal, 164; territory enlarged, 166; a royal colony, 166 et seq.; preliminary royal government, 168-69; changes in life of people, 170-73; faults in royal government, 185-89; government of Andros overthrown, 190; resumes self-government, 191; sends Mather to England, 194-96; charter of 1691, 197

Massachusetts Bay Company, charter granted (1629), 26; control passes to Puritans, 27

Massachusetts Commission, personnel, 118-19; object, 120-121; failure, 123-26

Mather, Cotton, quoted, 79

Mather, Increase, 194-95, 196

Maverick, Samuel, 23, 38, 116 et seq.

Mayflower, The, ship, 10, 11

Mayflower Compact, 12-13

Merrymount, 22

Middletown (Conn.), 198

Milford (Conn.), 70

Mishawum (Charlestown), 24

Moody, Lady Deborah, 35

Morrell, 23

Morton, Thomas, 22, 31, 34, 41, 47

Mount Wollaston, 22

Mystic, taken into Connecticut, 109

Naumkeag (Salem), 25

New Amsterdam, seized by English, 110

New England, people of, 72-73; settled by radicals, 73-74; lack of toleration in, 74; town life, 75-76; local color in various settlements, 76-78; witchcraft, 80-81; superstitions of people, 81-82; medicine and surgery, 82-83; education, 83-85; travel, 85-86; homes, 86; money, 86-87; reckoning of time, 87; respect for grants and charters, 88; attitude toward England, 88-90; organization in, 89; rivalry with Dutch and French, 90-91; confederation of colonies, 91 et seq.; trouble with the French, 94-96; trouble with the Dutch, 96-98; period of readjustment, 129 et seq.; Indian troubles, 133 et seq.; boundary disputes, 133; population, 139; menace from French, 177-79; Dominion of, 182-83; brought closer to English control, 199

New England Canaan, Morton, 32

New England Confederation see United Colonies of New England

New England Council, 9, 12, 22, 26, 30, 32-33

New Hampshire, influential leaders in, 47; controversy over title, 65; under jurisdiction of Massachusetts, 66-67; separation from Massachusetts, 67, 71; status undecided, 132; military preparedness, 135

New Haven, influential leaders in, 47; settled, 67-68; government, 68-70; combines other plantations under her, 70-71; absorbed by Conn., 71; commercial ventures, 77-78; witchcraft in, 81; misfortunes of, 110-11; surrenders to Connecticut, 111-12; confederation dissolved, 112

New London (Conn.), 198

New Netherlands, conquest of, 122

New Somersetshire, 65

Newark, founded, 112

Newbury, 198

Newport (R. I.), 49, 198

Nicholson, Francis, 183

Nicolls, Richard, 118, 119, 122

Norfolk, a center of Separatism, 6

Norton, John, 103

Nowell, a leader of conservatives in Boston, 164

Oldham, John, 56

Palmer, Judge, 187, 191

Partridge, Captain, 54, 55

Pawcatuck, taken into Connecticut, 109

Pequot War (1637), 136-37

Peters, Hugh, 59, 78

Pierson, Abraham, 46, 47, 112

Pilgrims, leave for Holland (1607-08), 7; reasons for leaving Holland, 8; decide to go to America, 8-9; conditions under which expedition was undertaken, 10; journey of the Mayflower, 10-12; draw up covenant, 12; life in Plymouth Colony, 14-19; greatness lies in religious influence, 19-20

Plymouth Colony, founded, 12-20; secures right to establish fishing colony, 24; submits to authority of Massachusetts, 71; fishing and trading, 77; witchcraft in, 81; sends mission to England, 104; military preparedness, 135; renews old forms, 192; permanently annexed to Massachusetts, 197

Plymouth, town of, 18

Pocasset (Portsmouth), 48

Portsmouth (N. H.), 66, 198

Portsmouth (R. I.), 51-52; see also Pocasset

Protestantism, controlled by state, 4

Providence, settled, 47-48; court of arbitration at, 51; charter unites with other settlements, 53; government under patent, 53-54

Puritans, obtain control of Massachusetts Bay Company, 27; reach Salem (1630), 29; become Separatists, 37; characteristics of the frontier, 46-47

Pynchon, William, 60, 62, 77

Quakers, come to Boston (1656), 79; treatment, 79-80

Quinnipiac, 68

Randolph, Edward, 147, 152-156, 160, 161, 162, 163, 167, 168, 173, 174, 196

Ratcliffe, Philip, 31, 41

Ratcliffe, Robert, 168-69, 171, 173

Reformation, The, 3

Rhode Island, leaders in, 47; individualism in, 56; colony of separatism, 79; not included in Confederation of colonies, 92; applies for charter, 103; conflicting boundary claims, 113; charter granted, (1663), 113-14; rival claims to, 115; unsettled conditions, 131; surrenders charter, 173; sends council members to Boston, 180; renews old forms, 192

Rhode Island settlements, Providence, 47-48; Pocasset, 48-49; Newport, 49; Shawomet or Warwick, 49

Robinson, John, 6-7, 8

Rossiter, Bray, of Guilford, 83, 111

Rowlandson, Mrs., 143

Roxbury (Mass.), 35

Salem (Mass.), 25, 198; see also Naumkeag

Salem witchcraft, 81

Saltonstall, Sir Richard, 28, 35

Saybrook, 33, 40

Saye and Sele, Lord, 33, 106-07

Scott, John, Captain, 109, 130

Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, a center of Separatism, 6

Separatists, 5 et seq.

Setauket, 130

Shawmut (Boston), 23

Shawomet, 49

Sheffield, Lord, 24

Slavery forbidden in Rhode Island (1652), 54

Smith, John, 3, 11

Southold on Long Island, 70, 109

Speedwell, The, ship, 10

Springfield (Mass), becomes part of Mass., 62; center of fur trade, 77; see also Agawam

Stamford (Conn.), 70, 109, 133, 198

Standish, Miles, 3

Stiles party, 57

Stone, Samuel, 60

Stoughton, William, 156

Stuyvesant, Peter, 97, 109

Talbot, The, ship, 29

Uncas, Indian chief, 137

Underhill, 47

United Colonies of New England, 91

Vane, Henry, 33, 35, 40, 59

Vassall, William, 38

Virginia Company of London, 9

Virginia Company of Plymouth, 9

Walford, 24, 41

Warwick, Earl of, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32

Warwick, a Rhode Island settlement, 49

Watertown (Mass.), 35

Wessagusset (Quincy), 21, 22, 23

West, Secretary of Mass., 187, 191

Weston, Thomas, 10, 21

Wethersfield (Conn.), 61, 198

Weymouth (Mass.), 23

Wheelwright, John, 47, 65

White, Rev. John, 24, 27

Whitfield, 78

Whiting, 78

Williams, Roger, driven from Boston, 47; locates at Providence, 47-48; obtains charter, 52-53; quoted, 54; goes to England to confirm patent, 55; in 1660, 78

Windsor (Conn.), 61

Winnissimmet (Chelsea), 23-24

Winslow, Edward, 17, 38, 50, 52

Winslow, John, 190

Winslow, Josiah, General, 142

Winthrop, John, elected Governor of Mass. Bay Colony, 28; leader among the Puritans, 35; died before 1660, 78

Winthrop, John, son of the Governor, 40, 59, 83, 103-04, 106-07

Wise, John, 186

Witchcraft in New England, 80-81

Wollaston, Captain, 22

Wright, Richard, 41

Young, Alse, 81

Young, Captain, 130

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