Emigrants to Ma.s.sachusetts Bay--Two cla.s.ses. i. 1.
Emigration to Ma.s.sachusetts Bay stopped by a change of Government in England. i. 85.
Endicot--Leader of the first company of emigrants to Ma.s.sachusetts Bay. i. 27.
His character. i. 27.
Becomes a Congregationalist. i. 29.
Abolishes the Church of England, and banishes its adherents. i. 29.
Cause of all the tyrannical proceedings against them. i. 42.
Finally condemned by the Company, but officially retained by them. i. 43-48.
England"s best and only means of protecting the Colonies against French encroachments and invasion. i. 244.
Position in respect to other European Powers at the Peace of Paris in 1763. i. 273.
England--Its resources at the conclusion of the Revolutionary war. ii. 48, 49.
The war party, and corrupt Administration, is defeated. ii. 48, 49.
Change of Administration and of policy, both for England and the Colonies. ii. 53.
Names of new Ministers, &c. ii. 53.
English Generals and soldiers refuse to fight against the Colonists. i. 446.
English Government employs seventeen thousand German mercenaries to bring the Colonists to absolute submission. i. 446-479.
Its change of policy, and effect of it in regard to the Colonies after the Peace of Paris, 1763. i. 277.
Its first acts which caused dissatisfaction and alienation in the American Colonies. i. 279.
Falmouth (now Portland) bombarded and burnt, by Captain Mowat, of the British Navy. i. 446.
Five-sixths of the male population disfranchised by Puritan bigotry and intolerance at Ma.s.sachusetts Bay. i. 63.
Fort de Quesne taken by the English and called Pittsburg. i. 263.
Fox (C.J.)--His amendment to Lord North"s address to the King, 1775, rejected by a majority of 304 to 105. i. 430.
France and England at war; mutually restore, in 1748, places taken during the first war. i. 242.
Franklin (Dr.)--His evidence at the Bar of the House of Commons on the Stamp Act, etc. i. 308.
Dismissed from office the following day. i. 426.
His pet.i.tion to the House of Commons rejected. i. 426.
Proposes to include Canada in the United States. ii. 54.
Counter scheme to defeat the proposition of the English Commissioners. ii. 58.
Outwits the English Commissioners. ii. 63.
His Indian scalp fictions. ii. 119.
French--Attempt to take Quebec. i. 266.
Bitter feeling between French and American officers and soldiers, at Rhode Island, Boston, Charleston, and Savannah. ii. 20-25.
Encroachments on the British Colonies, from 1748 to 1756. i. 243.
Evasions and disclaimers, while encroaching on the British Colonies and making preparations for war against England. i. 245.
Successes in 1755, 1756, and 1757, in the war with England. i. 252.
French Fleet--Its complete failure under Count D"Estaing. ii. 17.
French Officers and Soldiers--Their kindness to the English after the defeat of Lord Cornwallis. ii. 129.
Gage (General)--His arrival in Boston; courteous reception, as successor to Governor Hutchinson; his character. i. 398.
Summons a meeting of the Legislature, which adjourns to meet at Salem, and which replies respectfully but firmly to Governor
Gage"s speech; his bitter answer. i. 399.
His curious dissolution of the last Legislature held in Ma.s.sachusetts Bay according to its first charter, which had proceeded with closed doors, and adopted by a majority of 92 to 12, declaring the necessity of a meeting of all the Colonies to meet and consult together on their present state. i. 401.
Governor of Ma.s.sachusetts, and Commander-in-chief of the British in America, commences the first attack upon the Colonists. i. 460.
Governments of the British Provinces. ii. 271-276.
(1) Nova Scotia. ii. 274-277.
(2) New Brunswick. ii. 277-280.
(3) Prince Edward Island. ii. 280.
(4) Lower Canada. ii. 281-306. (See table of contents, chapter xlv.) (5) Upper Canada, ii. 307-316. (See table of contents, chapter xlvi.)
Governor of Ma.s.sachusetts Bay Puritans and a majority of the a.s.sistants or magistrates vote in favour of submitting to the decision of the King on the conditions of perpetuating the Charter; but Congregational Ministers advise, and the majority of the deputies vote against it. i. 208, 209.
Governors of South and North Carolina (Campbell and Martin), like Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, betake themselves to ships--the Colonists in each case being treated with like severity. i. 473.
Haight (Canniff). ii. 219.
Happiness and prosperity of Ma.s.sachusetts during seventy years under the second Charter. i. 240.