A.

Abenaquis Indians, a Jesuit mission estab-
lished among them, IV. 31; join in Phil-
ip's attack on the Plymouth settle-
ments, ib.; engaged by Fontenac
against the English at Schenectady,
44; ask for a treaty of peace, 92; but
change their minds and make an at-
tack on Wells, Me., ib.; attack Wells,
94.
Abercrombie, Gen. James, expected to com-
mand the forces in North America,
V. 145; succeeds Loudoun in command
of English troops, 156; defeated by
Montcalm at Fort Ticonderoga, 160,
161; superseded in his command by
Amherst, 162.

Abhorrers, first name of the Tory party,
III. 256.

Aborigines, of New England, descriptions

of, by the early voyagers, I. 19, 20; iden-
tity of appearance and habits among
the different tribes, ib.; belong to the
family of the Algonquins, 23; number
of, at the time of the first English im-
migration, 24; number of, in Connec-
ticut and Rhode Island, ib.; in Maine,
ib.; physical characteristics, 25; dress,
houses, and food, 26; horticulture and
fishing, 27; cookery and manufac
tures, 28; tools, arins, ornaments, and
furniture, 29; domestic relations, 31;
burials, ib.; trade and money, 32; in-
dolence and vicious habits, ib. ; inven-
tions, 33; music, eloquence, &c., 31;
science and power of calculation, 35;
civil state and government, 36; sa-
chems and sagamores, 38; languages,
40; religion, 43; stoicism, 49; inferior
capacity for civilization, 50; carried to
Europe and sold as slaves, 64; one
kidnapped from Martha's Vineyard,
and exhibited in London, 85.
Abraham, Mount, I. 6.

Acadia, I. 77; granted to the Sieur de
Monts, ib.; his designs abandoned,
234; the French in, II. 144; con-
quered by the English and called Nora
Scotia, 286; the French pretensions to,

IV. 169; an attempt to define the ter-
ritory in, ceded to Great Britain, V.
116.

Acadians. See French Neutrals.
Acts of Navigation considered oppressive
by the General Court, IV. 199.
Adams, Abigail, Mrs., her mental accom-
plishments, &c., V. 221, n.

Adams, John, his thoughts of indepen-
dence for the colonies, V. 214, n.;
diary of, cited, 219, n.; extract from
a letter on Writs of Assistance, 236, n. ;
at the hearing on Writs of Assistance,
239, 240, n.; quoted concerning the re-
ligious controversy between Massa-
chusetts and England, 254; counsel for
seamen indicted for murder in resisting
an impressment, 399; a graduate of
Harvard College, 405, n. ; extract from
his "Trials of British Soldiers," 409, n.;
mentioned, 415, n.; counsel for the
prisoners in the Boston massacre, 418,
420; retires from Court and removes
his residence to Braintree, 445; repre-
sented Massachusetts in the first Con.
gress, 538; works of, cited, 542, n.
Adams, Samuel (the elder), resigns com-
mission as military officer, IV. 552, n.
Adams, Samuel, his first thought of in-
dependence, V. 214, n.; biographical
sketch of, 273; drafts "Instructions
to the General Court on the adoption
of the Sugar Act, 274; a Representa-
tive to General Court, 328; men-
tioned, 357, 413, 415, n., 493, 495; on
committee of correspondence, 376, 378,
381, 447 a graduate of Harvard Col-
lege, 405, n.; supposed to be the au-
thor of the pamphlet Vindication of
Boston," &c., 414, n.; demands the re-
moval of the troops from Boston after
the massacre, 419; member of a com-
mittee protesting against holding court
at Cambridge, 444, 446; returned to
the House of Representatives, 450, n.;
motion of, for a committee of corre-
spondence in Massachusetts, 461; mem-
ber of committee to "consider the
state of the Province." 477; Hutchin-
son's estimation of, 490; on committee

"

to consider the Boston Port Bill, 530;
represented Massachusetts in the first
Congress, 538.

Addington, Isaac, appointed secretary,

IV. 86; interested in the establishment
of Yale College, 372.

Addison, Joseph, secretary of state, IV.
460, n.

Addison, Joseph, author, IV. 384, n.; his
"Cato" reprinted in Boston, V. 218, n.
Admiralty Court constituted for New
England, III. 484.

Adolphus, John, his "History of Eng-
land," cited, V. 354, n.
Adventurers, London.

venturers.

See Merchant Ad-

Agamenticus. See York.
Agawam (Ipswich), settlement at, forbid

den, I. 319; plantation begun at, 369.
Agents in England, the governor will not
allow paid agents in England, other
than the Province agent, V. 448, 477.
Agreement at Cambridge, 1629, I. 302.
Agriculture in New England, I. 13; II. 52.
Ainsworth's Version of the Psalter, II.
41, n.

Albania, New Jersey so called, II. 592.
Albany, Fort, the name given to Fort
Orange, II. 592.

Albemarle, his "Memoirs of Marquis of
Rockingham," cited, V. 354, n.
Alden, John, I. 162.

Alderman, a friendly Indian, shoots King
Philip, III. 205.

Alexander (Wamsutta), sachem of the
Pokanokets, III. 143; his death, ib.
Alexander, Sir William, his account of
Popham's colonists on the Kennebec,
I. 84, n.; created Earl of Stirling, and
obtains a patent for Nova Scotia, 234.
Alexandria, meeting of colonial gover-
nors at, for purpose of defence against
the French, V. 130.

Algerine Captive, The," by Royal Ty-
ler, published in New England, V. 219.
Algonquins, a family of Indians, I. 23;
territory occupied by the, ib.
Alien Law, in Massachusetts, I. 482.
Allegiance, Oath of, not administered in
Massachusetts, I. 499; imposed upon
Roger Williams, 500.

Allen, Ethan, resists the claim of Lord
Dunmore to certain land grants in Ben-
nington, Vermont, V. 499; his action
in maintaining the rights of settlers in
New Hampshire grants, 501.
Allen, James, his dissatisfaction with the
charter of Harvard College, IV. 194, n.
Allen, John, concerning his claims to
New Hampshire lands, V. 186.
Allen, Samuel, a London merchant, buys
land in New Hampshire, IV. 207; ap-
pointed governor of New Hampshire,
208; comes to New Hampshire and
assumes government, 215; his pro-
posals to Lord Bellomont to join him

in his claims in New Hampshire, 217;
his unsuccessful litigation, 218, 347,
349; his claim to lands in New Hamp-
shire prosecuted by his son, 346; death
of, 348, n.

Allen, Thomas, son of Samuel, prosecutes
the land claim of his father, IV. 348;
death of, 349.

Allerton, Isaac, assistant governor of the
Plymouth Colony, I. 180; his voyage
to England, 227; his second voyage to
England, 230; falls under the displeas-
ure of his Plymouth associates, 334;
his residence at Marblehead, and at
New Haven, 335.

Allin, Rev. James, mentioned, V. 5, n.
Allyn, John, treats with New Haven on
the matter of union with Connecticut,
II. 549; some account of, ib., n.; his
great influence in Connecticut, III. 238;
secretary of Connecticut, suspected of
witchcraft, IV. 110; death of, men-
tioned, 228, n.

Almanacs, early New England, III. 519, n.
Almy, Christopher, declines chief magis-

tracy of Rhode Island, IV. 235; sent
to England with an address from
Rhode Island, 239.

American Independence, the war of, be-
gun, V. 564.

Amesbury, Mass., IV. 30; in line of In-
dian attack, 266.

Amherst, Jeffrey, supersedes Abercrom-
bie in the command of English forces
in America, V. 162; effects the siege
of Louisburg, 163; brings his trans-
ports to Boston, 164, n.; in expedition
against Quebec, 165; his victories on
Lake Champlain, 166; is knighted by
William Pitt, 171; joins Johnson and
Murray with troops at Montreal, 171;
removed from the government of Vir-
ginia, 396.

Ammunition, the General Court pass a
bill for supplying the militia with, V.
466, n., 477, n.
Amsterdam, the Scrooby church at, I. 139;
the London congregation at, 140.
Amusements in New England, II. 67.
Anabaptists. See Baptists.
Anabaptists, the, at Newport, IV. 591, n.
"An Appeal to the World," &c., a pamph-
let vindicating Boston from the memo-
rials of Governor Bernard, V. 413.
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com-
pany, formation of, I. 556.
Andover, Mass., IV. 30.

Andrew, president Yale College, IV. 372.
Andrews, John, fined and imprisoned by
Andros, III. 528.

Andrews, William, sentenced by the Gen-
eral Court of Massachusetts to servi-
tude, I. 553.

Andrews, William, an instructor of youth
at Hartford, II. 48.
Andros, Sir Edmund, made governor of

New York, III. 34; takes possession of
New York, 127; some account of, ib.,
n.; lays claim to territory of Connec-
ticut, 128, 129; his proceedings at
Saybrook, 130; returns to New York,
131; his conduct during the Indian
war, 208; sends a force to Pemaquid,
213; his complaints of Massachusetts,
ib.; his testimony in regard to the
colony, 313, n.; lays claim to Fisher's
Island, for the Duke of York, 440, n. ;
governor of New England, 511; prin-
ciples of his government, 512; extent
of his jurisdiction, his powers, &c.,
515; his assumption of the govern
ment, 517; demands the Rhode Island
charter, 518; rates, duties, and im-
posts, 520; his institution of Anglican
worship, 521; his report to the Lords
of the Committee, 522; juries cor-
ruptly constituted and the laws not
printed under the rule of, 523; his
imposition of taxes resisted in Massa-
chusetts, 524; suppression of the re-
sistance, 526; general submission to
his mode of taxation, 529; demand
of quit-rents, ib.; seizure of common
lands, 530; extortion of excessive
fees, degradation of the Council, &c.,
531; his commission embraces Maine,
532; his despotic government over
Maine, 534; his proceedings in Ply-
mouth, ib.; his government extended
over Rhode Island, 535, 586; pre-
tensions to the government of Con-
necticut, 537; sends commissioners to
Connecticut, 539; visits Connecticut,
542; his reception, ib.; succeeds in
his design of annexing Connecticut to
his government, 543; his proceedings
in Connecticut after its annexation,
546; returns to Boston, ib.; builds a
fort on Fort Hill, 549; deficiencies in
revenues, ib.; Writs of Intrusion, 551;
narrative of Joseph Lynde, ib.; ap-
points a day of thanksgiving for the
queen's pregnancy, 555, n.; expedi-
tion of, to the eastern country, and
capture of a French post, 558; treats
with the Maine Indians, 559; regulates
affairs in Cornwall, 560; governor of
the English possessions in America,
as far south as Delaware Bay, 561;
visits his southern provinces, 562;
proclaims a thanksgiving day for the
birth of the Prince of Wales, ib.;
visits the Iroquois Indians, 563; rea-
sons for the consolidation of the Eng-
lish colonies in the North under, ib., n.;
arrests the military expedition against
the Eastern Indians, 567; attempts
fruitlessly to treat with the Eastern
tribes, ib.; his unsuccessful expedi-
tion into Maine, 568; suspicions en-
tertained of his designs, 569; his
return to Boston, 570; charges of

treachery against, and his imprudent
treatment of them, 572; receives
news of the landing of the Prince of
Orange in England, 574; takes refuge
in the fort, 577; rising in Boston, ib.;
seeks a conference with the insur-
gents, 580; summons to, ib.; attempts
to reach the "Rose" frigate, but is pre-
vented and surrenders, 581; fails in
his attempt to escape from imprison-
ment, 583; confined in the castle, ib.,
n.; impeachment of, 593; order to
Massachusetts for his return to Eng-
land, IV. 26; escapes to Rhode Is-
land, 63; arrival of in England, 67;
the agents decline to prefer complaint
against him, ib.; himself and fellow-
culprits set at liberty, 67; made
governor of Virginia, ib.; reason for
the abandonment of the complaint
against, 68; action of, to prevent
the restoration of the charter to Mas-
sachusetts, ib.; friendly to Rhode Is
land, 235; mentioned, 474, n.

Andros, Lady, death and burial of, III.
549, n.

Androscoggin River, source of, I. 7; navi-
gable for small vessels, 9.
Anglesey, Lord, chides the Colonists for
their bearing towards the home gov-
ernment, III. 231.

"Ann," arrival of the, at Plymouth, I.
211, 218

Annapolis, reinforced, anticipating an at-
tack from the French, V. 59, n.; en-
counter of French and English at, 87.
Annawon, made prisoner, III. 203; be-
headed at Plymouth, 221.
Anne, Princess, her marriage, III. 267;
joins the Prince of Orange, 475.
Anne, Queen, her hostility to dissenters,
IV. 244; declares war against France,
219; disallows the penalties imposed
upon Vetch and others, 326; orders a
councillor to preside in place of a gov
ernor deceased, 339, n.; letter of, con-
cerning the salary of Governor Dudley,
315, n.; allows a trial of the Allen
land claim, 349; death of, 376; how
her death affected colonial freedom,
379, 380.

Anson, Admiral, puts to rout the French
fleet sent to Nova Scotia, V. 86.
Antigua, island of, IV. 17, n.
Antinomianism, in New England, I. 474;
interference of the ministers in the
controversy, 475; a fast appointed,
477; censure of Mr. Wheelwright, ib.;
political necessity for the proceedings
against, 489; mixed motives of the
party opposed to, 505; their modera-
tion, 506; punishment of the Antino-
mians, ib.; inadequate defence of the
government party, 508; beneficial re-
sults of their course, 509; dispersion
of the Antinomians, 510; for a time

triumphant at Cochecho, 520; sev-
eral of them return to Massachusetts,
606.
"Antinomians and Familists condemned,"
&c., cited, I. 491, 492, 495, n., 501, 507,
n., II. 173, n.

Anville, Duke d', commands a French
fleet to Nova Scotia, &c., V. 86; death
of, ib.

Apian, Peter, his map of the world,
drawn in 1520, I. 95.

"

Apologetical Narrative," published by
the Independents, in the Westminster
Assembly, II. 88.

Apollonius, William, defends Presby-
terianism against Independency, II.
91.

Appalachian range of mountains, I. 1, 6.
Appleton, John, meeting at his house at
Ipswich to resist the arbitrary impo-
sition of taxes, III. 525; left off the
Board of Councillors, IV. 254.
Appleton, John, Jr., fined and imprisoned
under Andros, III. 525, 526, 528.
Appleton, Rev. Nathaniel, D.D., III. vi. ;
election into Harvard College corpora-
tion, IV. 416.

Appleton, Major Samuel, his patriotic
conduct in the Indian war, III. 165;
succeeds Pynchon, as commander-in-
chief on the Connecticut, 171; Con-
necticut officers complain of his
inaction, 173; joins Governor Win-
slow at Pettyquamscott, 175.
Apthorp, East, his treatise on the "Propa-
gation of the Gospel," &c., V. 254.
Aquetnet, settlement on the Island of, by
the Antinomians, I. 511; purchased
from Canonicus and Miantonomoh,
512; is called the Isle of Rhodes,"
ib.; dissensions at, ib.; new organiza-
tion formed at, 514; proceedings of
the planters at, 607; not admitted
into the Colonial confederacy, 639;
proceedings of the Federal commis-
sioners with reference to, II. 152; re-
marks upon the settlements on, and
the neighborhood, 343.

Arbella," the, sails from Yarmouth, I.
311; her voyage, 312; arrival at
Salem, 313.

Archer, Gabriel, his relation of Gosnold's
voyage quoted, I. 20, 71, n., 72, n.; his
description of Martha's Vineyard, 72;
and of Cuttyhunk, ib.

Architecture of New England, II. 58.
Area of New England, I. 1, 2.
Argal, Captain, breaks up the French
settlements at Mount Desert and Port
Royal, I. 85, 234.

Argyll, Marquis of, some account of the,
II. 439; his trial and death, 440.
Arlington, Henry Bennett, Earl of, one of
the Cabal Ministry, III. 10; some ac-
count of, 11; the Eliab" of Dryden,
ib.; disappears from public life, 21.

Arminius, professor at Leyden, I. 145.
Armstrong, John (Robert), sent to New
England as surveyor of woods, IV.
412; his unfriendly reception in New
Hampshire, 462; friendliness of Gov-
ernor Wentworth for him, 463, n.; the
charges against him, ib.

Arnold, History, cited, V. 206, n.
Arnold, Benedict, probably the builder
of the Old Round Tower at New-
port, I. 57; interpreter of the Shawo-
met sachems at Boston, II. 123; suc-
ceeds Williams as governor of the
Providence colony, 366; his letter to
Massachusetts, upon the Quakers, 472;
the first governor under the charter
of Rhode Island and Providence Plan-
tations, 569, 571.

Arnold, William, his letter about Gorton,
II. 117.

Arrowsick, capture of the fort at, by the
Indians, III. 208; meeting of Governor
Shute with the Eastern Indians at,
IV. 419.

Articles, The Thirty-nine, submitted to
Parliament, I. 120.

Articuli Cleri, opposed by the jurists, I.

250.

Arundel of Wardour, Lord, assists Way-
mouth in his second voyage of discov-
ery, I. 75.

Ashford, Conn., IV. 474, n.
Ashley, Edward, establishes a trading-
house on the Penobscot, I. 337.
Ashurst, Sir Henry, treasurer of the So-
ciety for the Propagation of the Gospel
among the Indians, II. 446; supposed
author of the "Memorial of the Pres-
ent Deplorable State of New England,"
quoted, III. 526; agent in England for
Massachusetts, IV. 67; mentioned, 85,
202, 335, 366, n., 450, n.; opposes Dud-
ley for governor, 164; quoted con-
cerning a salary for Lord Bellomont,
177; death of, 279; takes umbrage
at Dudley's rejection of Sargent for
councillor, 291, n.; extract from a
letter to Dudley, 310, n.; argues
charges made against Connecticut, be-
fore the Privy Council, 368; defends
the New England charters, 487.
Ashurst, Sir William, mentioned, IV.
335; declines to succeed Sir Henry as
agent for Massachusetts, 279; friendly
to Dudley as governor, 338; death of,
428, n.

Askew, Ann, suffers at the stake, I.
111.

Aspinwall, William, an adherent of Mrs.

Hutchinson, disfranchised and ex-
pelled from the colony, I. 485; pro-
ceedings against at Aquetnet, 513;
again elected to office, 514; returns
to Boston, and is reconciled to the
church there, 606; publishes Cot-
ton's Abstract of Laws, II. 296; a

leader among the Fifth-monarchy men,
510.

Assembly of Divines at Westminster.
See Westminster Assembly.
Assembly (Ecclesiastical), in Connecticut,
III. 117.

Assistant, permanency of the office of, I.
349. See Courts of Assistants.
Assistants, chosen by the Massachusetts
Company, I. 302.

Astley, Lord, taken prisoner by Colonel
Morgan, II. 100.

Astwood, M., sent from New Haven to
England to solicit aid against the
Dutch, II. 371.

Atherton, Humphrey, one of the com-
missioners sent to Gorton's company
at Shawomet, II. 132; commands part
of an expedition against the Narragan
setts, 231; appointed "ruler over the
praying Indians" of Massachusetts,
333; some account of, 339, n.
Atherton Company, question of jurisdic-
tion over the lands of the, II. 561;
names of the partners of, ib., n.;
fa-
vored by the king, 564; place their
lands under the jurisdiction of Con-
necticut, 571; lands of, to be relin-
quished to the Indians, 603; receive
permission from Connecticut to settle
plantations, III. 429; advertise for
settlers upon their lands, 430; claims
of, to lands in the Narragansett coun-
try, condemned by Andros, 537.
Atkinson, Theodore, mentioned,
569, n., V. 490, n.
Atterbury, Francis, Bishop, banished to
France, IV. 381.

IV.

Atterbury, Lewis, author, IV. 384, n.
Attorney-General, dispute in General Court
concerning the appointment of, IV. 523,
523, n., V. 115.

Atturks, Crispus, killed in the Boston
Massacre, V. 418.

Atwood, William, New York, IV. 199.
Auchmuty, Judge Robert, counsel in a
hearing on Writs of Assistance, V.
240, 241; certain offensive letters writ-
ten by, 462; investigates the burning
of the King's schooner, Gaspee,"
513.

66

Augh, Quant, Johnson (Cato), Indian,
IV. 365, n.
Aulney-Charnisé, Charles de Menou, Sieur
d'. See Menou.

Aurora borealis, observed in New England,
IV. 404, n.

Austerfield, the birthplace of William
Bradford, I. 132, n., 133; description
of, 131, n.

Austin, Anne, a Quaker, arrives in Bos-
ton, II. 463.

Autonomy, connected with Separatism, the
the form of government adopted by
New Haven, &c., I. 535.

VOL. V.

B.

Bacon, Francis, Viscount St. Albans, im-
peachment of, I. 257; mentioned, IV.
384, n.

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, supports Noncon-
formity, I. 119.

Bahamas, island of, IV. 17, n.

bailey, Rev. John, emigrates from Lim-
erick to New England, III. 497.
Baker, Christina, a letter addressed to,
IV. 498, n.

Ballot, Elections by, I. 429.
Bancroft, Richard, Bishop of London,
conduct of, at Hampton Court, I. 129;
his accession to the Primacy and his
severity to the Reformers, 132; the
result of his severities, 240; his death,
and the character of his administration,
254.

Banks, private or public, the question of,
IV. 391, n.

Baptism of infants in New England, II.

42; questions respecting, in the Con-
gregational Church, 487.

Baptists, the, in England, I. 414; their
church at Newport, II. 346; law
against, in Massachusetts, 347; in
Plymouth, 349; enmity of, against
Coddington, 350; proceedings against,
in Massachusetts, 485, 486; renewed
controversy with, III. 88; numbers
of, disfranchised and imprisoned, 89;
public debate in Boston with Orthodox
divines, 90; discontinuance of pro-
ceedings against, 91, 353; law passed
relieving them from parish taxes, IV.
528; released from taxes for support
of the ministry in Connecticut, 580;
gain many members after the religious
excitement caused by Whitefield, &c.,
V. 31.

37

Barbadoes, island of, IV. 17, n.

Barebones Parliament, II. 289; dissolves
itself, 290.

Barefoote, Walter, deputy-collector in
New Hampshire, fined for insolent
conduct, III. 405; appointed deputy-
governor of New Hampshire, 412;
corresponds with the Privy Council,
413, n.; made a justice for New Hamp
shire, 495.

Barkhamstead, Conn., settled, IV. 576, n.
Barlow, Dean of Chester, his account of
the Hampton Court Conference, 1.
130, n.

Barneveldt, his incorruptible spirit and
his violent death, I. 144: the cautionary
towns surrendered to, 253.
Barré, Isaac, with Amherst at the siege
of Louisburg, V. 163; argues the
Stamp Act in Parliament, 287; men-
tioned, 399; in debate in House of
Commons, 424, 428; extract from
speech in Parliament against Lord
North's Bills. 555.