from office, 91; death of, 165; inscrip- tion over his grave, 166, n. Braintree, settlement of, I. 357. Branford, settled, II. 232; Branford, IV. Bristol, R. I., IV. 586. 371.
address at Grafton cited, III. 174, 200, n.
Brant, a Mohawk chief, V. 139. Brattle, Thomas, extract from a letter by, IV. 131, n.; member of the Corpora tion of Harvard College, 193, n., 317. Brattle, William, rejected as councillor by Bernard, V. 401.
Brattle Street Church, establishment of, IV. 189; its manifesto, 190; the mani- festo attacked by Rev. Increase Mather, 191, n.
Breda, peace of, II. 441, 630; Nova Sco- tia lost to England by, ib. Breedon, Capt. Thomas, his report con- cerning the regicides, II. 495; his me- morial in the state paper office, 497; fined for insolence and contempt, 530; testifies to the rebellious conduct of Massachusetts, III. 319, n. Brenton, Jahleel, collector of customs in Boston, IV. 148; quarrel with Gov- ernor Phips, 148; agent in England for Rhode Island, 243; mentioned, 473; makes a present to Yale College, 478. Brenton, William, elder at Aquetnet, I. 513; deputy-governor of Rhode Island, 569, 571, 606.
Brereton, John, his "Relation of Gos- nold's Voyage" quoted, I. 20, 70, n., 71, n.; lands on Cape Cod with Gos- nold, ib.
Brereton, Sir William, captures Chester, II. 98.
Brewster, William, a principal member of the Scrooby congregation, I. 134; his early life, 135; attends Mr. Davison to the Low Countries, ib.; retires to Scrooby, 136; imprisoned in Boston, 138; released and follows the Scrooby congregation to Amsterdam, 139; cho- sen elder, 140; Bradford's account of, 141; suspicions of, entertained by Sir Dudley Carleton and others, ib.; his occupation as a printer, ib.; the spir- itual guide of the Plymouth colonists, 231; his death and character, 598; his library, 599, n., II. 45; his style of dress, 65.
Bridge, Rev., assistant rector at King's Chapel, IV. 189. Bridger, John, sent to inspect the pro- ductions of New England, IV. 396; his accounts of the products of New England, 399; charges made against, 400; his removal from office, 401; quoted, 412.
Bridgman, Sir Orlando, made lord keeper, III. 6; projects a scheme for religious comprehension, 7; resigns the office of lord keeper, 14. Brigham, William, "Compact," &c.. cited, I. 546, II. vii, 8, 15, 22, 34; centennial
Bristol, taken by King Charles, I. 578.
British troops, attack of, at Concord, Lex- ington, &c., V. 563; reach Charles- town after the battles of Lexington and Concord, 564; surrounded in Bos- ton by provincial militia, ib. Bromfield, Edward, nominated as coun- cillor, IV. 254.
Bromley, William, succeeds Lord Dart- mouth as secretary of state, IV. 279, n., 460, n.
Brooke, Robert, Lord, proposes to remove to New England, I. 390, n.; one of the patentees of Connecticut, 450; Lord Clarendon's account of, 587. Brooker, William, established the "Bos- ton Gazette," IV. 409, n. Brookfield, its solitary situation, III. 158; attacked by the Indians, 160; and re- lieved by Major Willard, 161. Brooks, Captain, commands a boat at- tack upon Lewisburg, V. 72. Brown, John Carter, I. xi. Brown, Robert, opposes the discipline
and ceremonies of the Church, I. 123; his subsequent career, ib,; his writings, II. 82.
Browne, John, displeases Massachusetts by his conduct as commissioner from Plymouth, II. 312.
Browne, John and Samuel, expelled from Salem, I. 298, 500; relations of, to the Massachusetts Bay colony, 309; their expulsion compared with the banish- ment of Roger Williams, 413. Brownists, I. 123; their number in Eng- land, 125; their scheme of church ad- ministration, II. 82; how they differed from the Independents, 83. Brunswick (Pejepscot), annexation of, to Massachusetts, I. 593.
Brunswick, Indian invasions into, V. 112. Bryant, poet, V. 139, n. Buckingham, George Villiers, duke of. See Villiers.
Buckingham, Thomas, chaplain, men- tioned, IV. 362, n. Bulkeley, Gershom, one of the authors of Will and Doom," III. 544, n., IV. 366, n. Bulkely, Peter, agent to England from Massachusetts, III. 293.
Bull, Captain, commands the garrison
at Saybrook, III. 129: sent for the protection of Albany, IV. 46, n. Bull, Henry, Quaker, governor of Rhode Island, IV. 235.
Bull, Jeremiah, his house burned by the Indians, III. 175. Bullivant, counsellor, quoted, IV. 48, n. Bunker Hill, the battle of, fought, V. 563. Bunnan, John. his popularity in New
England, III. 487; his Pilgrim's
Progress reprinted in America, V. 218, n. Burdet, George, Laud's spy at Dover, I. 517; his letter to Laud, 518; his con- troversy with Massachusetts, ib.; with- draws to Agamenticus, 519; arrested by Gorges, and leaves the country, 527. Burgess, -, appointed governor of Massachusetts, IV. 340; declines the appointment of governor, 386; men- tioned, 458.
Burgesses, House of, in Virginia, I. 378. Burials of the Indians, I. 31. Burke, Edmund, his account of the ori- gin of the Massachusetts Bay Com- pany, I. 308; his opinion of the Coun- cil for Foreign Plantations, III. 33; quoted, IV. 17; letter discussing terms of peace with France, V. 223, 247, n.; favors the reception of the petition for the repeal of the Stamp Act, 331; sec- retary to Lord Rockingham, 353; as a member of the ministry, 263; quoted concerning Pitts's ministry, 364, n.; on "American Taxation" cited, 372, n., 527; quoted on the rights of Eng- lishmen, &c., 424, n.; quoted on the consistency of England to the colonies, 522; opposes the Boston Port Bill, 524; quoted on "punishing Boston," 547; debate in Parliament, 550, 553. Burke, William, favors the reception of the petition for the repeal of the Stamp Act, V. 331.
Burleigh, Lord, views of, towards the Nonconformists, I. 119; his discontent with Whitgift, 122.
Burnet, Gilbert, made bishop of Salis- bury, IV. 8, 497; his friendliness to Mather, 71.
Burnet, Gov. William, mentioned, IV. 350; 384, n., 498, n., 579; transferred from the administration of New York to Massachusetts, 497; a memorial to the king in behalf of his children, 497, n.; the question of his salary, 498; his qualities and characteristics, ib.; his instructions concerning the currency question, 498, ».; his speech to the General Court, 500; his royal instruction concerning a salary, 501; the Court make a grant to him, 502, 510; refuses the grants of money, 503, 511; continuance of the dispute with the Court in regard to a salary, 503-512; writes to the Duke of New- castle concerning his dispute with the House, 511; his device for exacting the salary, ib.; removes the Court from Boston to Salem, 512; presents the conduct of the Assembly to the Board of Trade, 513; his defence of the removal to the Court, 514; prorogation of the Court by, 518; his conduct sustained by the Board of Trade, 519; renewal of the dispute
in a new session, 520; embarrassed for his means of living, 520; dis- solves the Court, 522; withholds his approval from an issue of bills of credit, 524; communicates to the House the decision of the Privy Council, 525; adjourns the Court to Cambridge, 526; death of, 526; mes- sage to the Court, 527, n.; a grant made to his children by the General Court, 529; hearing of the Board of Trade on the charges of the Province against him, 533, n.
Burnet, Thomas, acts as counsel for Gov- ernor Burnet against the General Court of Massachusetts, IV. 519. Burrill, John, Lynn, member of the Council, IV. 408.
Burrough, Edward, procures a mandamus in favor of the Quakers in Massachu- setts, II. 519. Burroughs, Rev. George, accused of witch- craft, IV. 105; execution of, 108; al- lowance made by General Court to the family of, 117. Burslem, Mr., at Winnisimmet, I. 233. Burton, Rev. Henry, punished by the Star-Chamber Court, I. 564. Burton, Thomas, signs the "Remon- strance and Humble Petition," II. 168; mentioned, V. 165, n. Bute, Lord, opposition to Pitt, V. 247. Butler, James, Duke of Ormond, lord lieutenant of Ireland, II. 273; his character, III. 470; removed from office, ib. Butler's
"Hudibras" mentioned, IV.
384, n. Byfield, Nathaniel, speaker of the depu- ties to General Court, IV. 143, n.; left off the Board of Councillors, 254; appointed judge of admiralty, 255, n.; rejected as councillor by Dudley, 340; biographical note of, 340, n.; his action concerning a French prize, 354; his scheme for a private bank, 335, n.; rejected as councillor by Shute, 409; accused of machinations against the government, 409, n. Bygon, intendant-general of Canada, IV. 421.
Cabal, in Essex County, II. 157. Cabal ministry, the, II. 632, III. 10; dis- solution of, 21.
Cabal of Presbyterians in Massachusetts, II. 166.
Cabot, John, his first voyage of explora-
tion, I. 60; touches on the coast of Labrador, 61; has a glimpse of New England, 62; authorized to make a second voyage, ib.; his discovery the basis of the English claim to North American territory, 63, n., 77.
Cabot, Sebastian, I. 60; sails on a voyage of discovery, 61; supposed to have made a second voyage to America, 62; and possibly a third, 63. Caernarvon, Earl of, his speech upon the proceedings against Lord Danby, III. 250, n.
Calamy, Edmund, English divine, IV. 5. Caldwell, James, killed in the Boston massacre, V. 418.
Calef, Robert, his investigation of witch- craft, IV. 114, n.; author of protest against witchcraft, 131, n
Callender, John, Baptist minister in New- port, his "Historical Discourse," &c., IV. 591.
Callieres, M. de, governor of Canada, IV. 37; his plan for the capture of Albany and New York, ib. ; endeavors to make peace with the Five Nations, 42. Calvin, John, Presbyterian church polity of, II. 71, 72; revives the Augustinian doctrine, ib.
Cambridge (Newtown), settlement of, I. 324; ordered to be called Cam- bridge, 549; the British troops land at, on their way to Concord, V. 563.
Cambridge Platform, II. 183. Cambridge, University of, in England, its privileges invaded by James the Second. III. 460.
Camden, Lord (Chief-Justice Pratt), his opinion on the right of taxation, V. 353.
Camden, Lord Chancellor, mentioned, V. 377, 552, 553.
Campbell, Duncan, appointed a deputy- postmaster in Boston, IV. 329; quoted concerning his postal service, 330, n. Campbell, John, proprietor of the "News Letter," IV. 304, n.
Canaan, Conn., settled, IV. 576, n. Canada, derivation of the name, I. 1; government of, IV. 36; population and condition of, ib.; interest of Car- dinal Richelieu in the government of, 37; M. de Nonville succeeds to the government of, 40: plan of the ex- pedition against, 49, 50; population of, 423, n.; capitulation of, to the English, V. 171.
Canning, George, mentioned, IV. 246, n. Canonchet, sachem of the Narragansetts, breaks his treaty with the English, III. 172; defeats a company under Captain Pierce, 189; taken prisoner and put to death, 192. Canonicus, chief of the Narragansetts, his disposition towards the colonists, II. 112; cedes the Narragansett terri- tory to the king, 136; receives with indignity an embassy from Massachu- setts, 138; concludes a truce with the Federal commissioners, 139. Canons, Book of, 1604, I. 132.
Canseau, attacked by French and fort burned, V. 59.
Canterbury, Conn., IV. 474, n. Cap Blanc, I. 78. Cap Fortune, I. 78.
Cape Ann, Lord Sheffield's patent for, I. 222; settlement at, by the Dorchester Company, 285.
Cape Cod, influence of, on the climate of New England, I. 12; discovered by Bartholomew Gosnold, 71; visited by De Monts, 78; by De Poutrincourt, ib.; by Henry Hudson, 85; by Der- mer, 99; arrival of the Plymouth col onists at, 164; name equivocal, 99, n.; geographical description of, 164. Cape Diamond, IV. 54; fort at Quebec, 144.
Cape Porpoise (Kennebunk Port), at- tacked by Indians, IV. 260.
Cape Small Point, attempted settlement on, I. 83, n.
Capital crimes in Plymouth, II. 20; in England, 27, n. ; in Massachusetts, 29, 31; in Connecticut, 31, III. 59. Captain Tom, a praying Indian, hanged as a deserter, III. 220.
Carew, Thomas, his "Calum Britanni- cum," I. 382.
Care, Archibald, member of Virginia committee, V. 461.
Carleton, Sir Dudley, his suspicions of Brewster, I. 141; is made Lord Dor- chester, 392.
Carr, lieutenant-colonel of the regiment quartered in Boston, V. 417.
Carr, Caleb, governor of Rhode Island, IV. 236.
Carr, Dabney, member of Virginia com- mittee, V. 461.
Carr, Patrick, wounded in the Boston massacre, V. 418.
Carr, Sir Robert, one of the royal com- missioners in 1664, II. 578, 580; re- duces the Dutch posts on the Delaware river, 592; his letter to Eliot, 604; his conduct while in New Hampshire, 619; projects a new colony in New England, 623, n.; his death, ib.; char- acteristic adventure of, ib., n. Carr Mountain, location and height of, I. 6.
Carteret, Lord (Earl Granville), men- tioned, IV. 460, n.; secretary of state for the colonies, 487; advice to Dum- mer concerning the colonies' obedience to the king's commands, 509. Cartier, Jacques, sails up the St. Law- rence in 1535, I. 65; explorer in Am- erica, V. 171. Cartwright, Col. George, one of the royal commissioners to New England in 1664, II. 578, 580; captures Fort Or- ange, 592; his return to England, 624; his opinion of the Rhode Island people, III. 100.
Charles, Earl of Manchester, secretary of state, IV. 200, n.
Cartwright, Thomas, his tract against Chapeau Rouge, Bay of, Gabarus Bay, episcopacy and royal supremacy, I. 119; his relations to presbytery in Eng-" Charity," the, arrives at Plymouth, I. land, II. 74; is imprisoned in the Fleet, 76; his visit to Geneva, 78. Carver, John, sent to England by the Leyden congregation, I. 150; governor of the Plymouth colony, 167; re- elected governor, 179; his death, 180; remarks upon, 181.
Cary, Captain, sent to England to pro- cure arms, IV. 266, n.
Caryl, Joseph, mentioned, IV. 386. "Case of the Governor and Council of Massachusetts Bay," the printing of, investigated, IV. 339, n.
Casno, Isaac, Boston, allowed to run stage-coaches, IV. 585.
Castine, a French settler among the Pe- nobscots, dispossessed by Governor Andros, III. 558.
Castine, Baron de, mentioned, IV. 257; commands a surrender of Fort Fema- quid, 154.
Castle Island, fortifications on, I. 394, 395; the royal colors to be displayed at, 431, 440, 441; rebuilt and garri soned, II. 51; as described by Ran- dolph, III. 298; seized by the people of Boston, 581.
Castle William, fort at Boston, IV. 144; the stamped papers deposited at, V. 323, 338.
Catawba tribe of Indians, I. 23.
Catechism to be made for the religious in- struction of youth, II. 46.
Catholics accused of a conspiracy by Ti-
tus Oates, III. 242; banished by proc- lamation from London, 246; disarmed and imprisoned, 249; excluded from public employments, ib. Calkins, Miss, IV. 489.
Cautionary towns surrendered to the Dutch, I. 253.
Cavendish, Sir Harry, mentioned, V. 528, n.
Censors of the press appointed in Massa- chusetts, II. 530; the office assumed by Randolph, III. 519, n. "Centurion," man-of-war, IV. 245. Chalmers, George, "Political Annals " cited, I. 307, 633; III. 516, 570, n., 579, n.; quoted, IV. 373, n., 466, n. Chamberlain, Richard, secretary to the provincial government of New Hamp- shire, III. 406; his complaints to the lords of the committee, ib., n. Champante, John, agent for Massachu- setts, IV. 202, n.
Champernoon, Francis, a nephew of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, I. 79, n. Champlain, Samuel de, sails as pilot with De Monts, I. 77; French explorer in America, V. 171.
Champlain, Lake, valley of, I. 1; height of the surface of, above the ocean, 2.
Charles the First, his accession, I. 264; makes war upon France, 267; his ex- pedients for a revenue, 268; his per- plexities, 270; his disuse of Parliaments for eleven years, 273; commits to pris- on several members of Parliament, ib.; his address to Parliament, 274; his literary taste, 276; his plan of a gen- eral governor for New England, 401; his despotism, 560; declares the char- ter of London forfeit, ib.; exacts ship- money, 561; insurrection against him in Scotland, 565, 567; advances into Scotland with an army, 568; beaten by the Scots at Newburn, 571; con- vokes a council of peers, ib.;_the Long Parliament, ib.; goes to Scot- land, 573; attempts to arrest members of the House of Commons, 575; with- draws to Hampton Court, 576; sets up his standard at Nottingham, ib.; his forces defeated at Marston Moor, II. 70; surrender of York, and capture of Newcastle, ib.; successes of, in the South, ib. negotiates with the Parlia ment at Uxbridge, 93; is defeated at Naseby, 99; capture of his private let- ters, ib.; his retreat to Oxford, 100; flight to the Scottish army, 103; sur- rendered to Parliament, 104; carried to the army, 105; escapes to the Isle of Wight, 107; his treaty with the Scottish commissioners, ib.; negotia- tion with Parliament, 108; the army demands that he be brought to justice, 109; imprisoned in Hurst Castle, ib.; brought to Windsor, 110; tried, con- demned, and beheaded, 111. Charles the Second, proclaimed king by the Scots, II. 275; coronation of, at Scone, 278; makes an irruption into England, 279; is defeated at Worces- ter and escapes to the continent, ib.; issues the royal declaration, 422; his return to England, and entry into Lon- don, 423; makes war upon Holland, 441; receives favorably the address from Massachusetts, 494; proclaimed king in Massachusetts, 517; forbids persecution of the Quakers, 519; ac- knowledged king by Plymouth, 532; and proclaimed by New Haven, 535; by Connecticut, 536; by Rhode Island, 559; appoints commissioners to New England, 574; his letter to Massachu- setts, 582; effect of Clarendon's re- tirement upon, III. 4; quarrel with France, 5; remarks upon the character of, 9; enters into a treaty with Louis XIV., 12; his duplicity towards Par-
liament, 13; proclaims a declaration of indulgence, 14; withdraws the dec- laration of indulgence, 18; distrusted by his Parliament, 27; opposes the proceedings against the Duke of York's succession, 253; offers conces- sions to Parliament, 254; enters into a treaty with Louis XIV. for a subsidy, ib; peremptorily dissolves the Parlia ment, 258; prosecutes the leading re- formers, ib.; his death, 271; his rec- onciliation to the Church of Rome, ib.; letter from, to Massachusetts, 333; a second letter from, 341; peremptory letter from, 350; duplicity of his con- duct respecting the buccaneers, 425. Charles River, visited by the Plymouth colonists, I. 186.
Charleston, the reception of the cargo of tea in, V. 473.
Charlestown, preparations for a settlement
at, I. 289; Court of Assistants at, 817, 320; epidemic sickness at, 321; town government at, 381; description of, in "Wonder-working Providence," II.
Charlestown, N. H., Indian invasions at, V. 184.
Charlevoix, "Histoire de la Nouvelle France" cited, I. 77, II. 306, III. 563, n.; quoted, IV. 284, n.
Charlevoix, Father, his account of the at- tack on Norridgewock, IV. 439. Charter of Connecticut, II. 540; surren- dered, IV. 5.
Charter of the Governor and Company
of the Massachusetts Bay, I. 290; its powers, 291; its transfer to New Eng- land, 301; right of the Company to transfer the, 306; revocation of the, 391, 504; Winthrop's reply to the recall of the, 557; duplicate to be kept by the governor, III. 329, n.; quo warranto against the, 376; decrce vacating the, 390; vacated by power of English court, IV. 5; endeavors of Mather to secure, 60, 61; prospect for renewal of the, 64; obstacles to, created by Randolph, 64, 65; action of Andros and his party against the restoration of the, 68; memoirs of Randolph prejudicial to, 69; the agents implore the king's royal favor for, 70; Mather obtains the favor of the queen, 71; the Board of Trade order a draft for a new, 72; action of the malecontents, 72; the provisions of, unsatisfactory, 73; action of the agents concerning, 74; the king approves of it, 74; grant of the new, 75; Mather secures some amendments, 75; pro- visions of the, concerning State offi- cers, 76; concerning General Court, 77; tenure of judicial office, 77, n.; Navigation Laws, 79; religion, 78; franchise, 80; Legislature, 81; unsat-
isfactory portions of, 80; reluctant acceptance of it, 82; royal appoint- ments under it, 85; threatened by the Lords of Trade, 200; abrogated by Parliament, V. 535.
Charters, bill for the proposed restora- tion of, IV. 16; bill passed by House of Commons for the better regulation of, 369; attempts to vacate them, 486, 487.
Charter Oak, III. 542. Chatham, Lord, "Correspondence "cited, V. 354, n.; mentioned, 377; retired from the ministry, 396; assails the Grafton ministry, 423; returns to his seat in the House, 424; expresses his partiality to America, 424; quoted on hearing that the ministers have de- clared war against Boston, V. 438, n. ; speech in Parliament against station- ing the king's troops in America, V. 527; in a speech to Parliament urges conciliatory measures towards Massa- chusetts, 548; presents a bill for "set- tling the troubles of America," &c., 550.
Chaucer, the friend of Wickliffe, I. 106. Chaudière, River, source and direction of, I. 7, 9.
Chauncy, Rev. Charles, minister at Plymouth, I. 545; President of Har- vard College, II. 398; Boston, men- "Season- tioned, V. 4; quoted, 5, n.; able Thoughts," &c., cited, 19, n.; quoted, 32, n.; his opinion of the re- ligious revivals, 39; his " Wonderful Narrative," cited, 39, n.; extract from sermon preached on the surrender of Louisburg, 76.
Chauncy, Nathaniel, Durham, Conn., V.
Cheever, Ezekiel, first schoolmaster in New Haven Colony, II. 47. Chelmsford, attacked by the Indians, III. 187; mentioned, IV. 30. Cherokee, Tribe of Indians, I. 23. Chesebrough, William, settles at Stoning- ton, II. 383.
Chester, N. H., IV. 462; Indian depreda- tions at, 437.
Chicago, Historical Society, journal of Major Livingstone, in the possession of, IV. 278, n.
Chickasaw Indians, I. 23. Chickatabot, sachem of the Massachu- setts, visits Governor Winthrop, I. 328; fined by the Court of Assistants, 351.
Child, Sir Josiah, his "New Discourse of Trade," cited, III. 276, n., 278; ad- vocates the enforcement of the Navi- gation Laws upon New England, III. 277; his opinion of the respective founders of Massachusetts and Vir- ginia, 278
Child, Robert, signs a memorial against
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