Declaration of Independence. _See_ Independence. Declaratory Act, 224, 225. Defense, system of, 145, 152, 155; colonial troops raised for, 159; apathy of assemblies in matter of, 164; French wars and, 204, 205; Grenville's policy of, 209, 213; Board of Trade's scheme for, 212; conquest of Canada removes need for, 214, 215. _See_ Colonial control. De Grasse, Count, 269, 270. De la War, Lord, 60. Demarcation Line, 26, 28. Democracy. _See_ Frontier; Colonial rights. Deputies. _See_ Government. De Soto, 33. Detroit, 153, 265, 266. Diaz, Bartholomew, 22. Diaz, Denis, 21. Dickinson, John, 219, 220, 227, 228, 242. Dinwiddie, Robert, 157. _Discourse of a North West Passage_, 30. _Discourse on Western Plantinge_, 46. Discovery of America, 25 _ff._ Distilling, 168, 216. Dongan, Thomas, 132, 144, 154. Dorchester, 95, 104. Doria, Tedisio, 18. Drake, Sir Francis, 42-14. "Drowned lands" of the Wabash, 266. Ducats, first appearance of, 13. Dudley, Thomas, 93, 120. "Duke's Laws," 131. Dulaney, Daniel, 217, 220, 223. Duquesne, Fort, 157, 159. Durham Palatinate, 64. Durham, Town of, 175. Dutch, the, 36; India companies of, 44, 45; threaten Connecticut, 106; driven from New Netherland, 130, 131; English rivalry with, 136. Dyre, William, 144. Eannes, Gil, 21. East India Company, English, 45, 53; influence in Parliament, 149; exports tea to America, 231-33; Parliament demands compensation for, 234. East Indies, English interest in the, 136. Eaton, Theophilus, 105. _Ecclesiastical Polity_,61. Economic changes, thirteenth to sixteenth century, 48. Eden, Richard, 45. Edict of Restitution, 86. Edwards, Jonathan, 85, 123, 187. Effingham, Sir Thomas Howard of, 44. Elizabeth, 39, 90. Ellsworth, Oliver, 194. Emanuel, King of Portugal, 26. Endicott, John, 91. English Government, attitude toward the colonies, 127, 134 _ff._,148 _ff._, 163, 169; frontier policy of, 178; new colonial policy, 203, 204; new measures for defense, 209; effect of tea episode on, 233-34; offers conciliation, 250; effect of the French alliance on, 260 _ff._ _See_ Colonial control. Engrossers of land, 176, 179 Entail, abolished in Virginia, 241. Enumerated commodities, 139, 140. Eratosthenes, 17. Escheator in Virginia, office of, 77. Escobar, 21. "External" taxes, 227. "Fall Line," 176. _Farmer's Letters_, 227. Fenwick, John, 133. Ferguson, General, 268. Feudal regime, 3. Fisher, Mary, 108. Fisheries, 39, 122, 137, 168, 216, 271. Five Nations. _See_ Indians, Iroquois. Flags of truce, used by illicit traders, 205. Flint, Rev. Mr., 120. Florida, 32, 33. Florin, first appearance of, 13. Forestallers of land, 176, 179. Fort Chartres, 153. Fort Duquesne, 157, 159. Fort Frontenac, 142. Fort Moore, 152, 153. Fort Necessity, 157. Fort St. Louis, 143. Fort Stanwix, Treaty of, 211. Fort Washington, 255. Fox, Charles James, 237. Foxe's _Book of Martyrs_, 88.