United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Massachusetts, trade with Virginia, 104;
minor settlements, 166, 168, 170, 175;
Dorchester adventurers, 170, 183;
Merry Mount, 174, 186, 192, 197;
religion not primary interest, 184;
patent, 184, 185;
boundaries, 184, 270;
conflicting grants, 185;
Salem reinforced, 186;
government for colonists, 189;
land allotment, 189;
and Oldham's claim, 187, 190;
charter, government, 188, 189;
Congregationalism established, 190, 192, 196, 201, 202, 210;
religious persecution, 191, 201, 211, 237, 319;
government transferred to America, 193;
great emigration, cause, 193-195;
sickness, 195, 196, 198, 199;
towns (1630), 198;
first general court, 199;
governors, 199;
and Indians, 200;
rise of theocracy, 200-202;
quality of clergy, 200, 205;
assistants usurp power, 201;
restricted suffrage, 202, 210, 211;
criminal law, 202;
representation established, 202, 203;
popular elections, 203;
origin of laws, 203;
code, 203;
opposition in England, 204-209;
temporarily sustained, 204;
and Laud, 205;
increased immigration, 205;
population (1634), 205; (1643), 209;
charter demanded, 205, 208;
prepares for resistance, 206;
and English flag, 206;
petition, 206;
judgment against, frustrated, 208;
annexes New Hampshire and Maine, 209, 271, 272, 279-281;
opposition to religious despotism, 211, 212;
Williams incident, 212-218;
religious regulations, 218;
Antinomian controversy, 219-228;
its effect, 228;
and Rhode Island, 230, 231, 235-238;
and Gorton, 232-235;
parliamentary grant, 235;
and settlement of Connecticut, 240-242;
emigration to Connecticut, 242-247;
opposition to restricted suffrage, 243, 271, 319;
and Pequot War, 251-253, 256;
and Davenport's colony, 261;
buys a Maine patent, 276;
arbitrates on Plough patent, 277;
influence of annexations, 281;
and La Tour, 291, 306-309;
boundary disputes, 298, 304;
and trade with Canada, 309;
and Parliament, 318;
Cambridge platform, 320;
"glacial period," 321;
mint, 325;
bibliography, 334.
_See also_ New England.
Maverick, Samuel, settlement, 175;
grant, 274;
fined, 319.
Mayhew, Thomas, Indian mission, 302-304.
Merry Mount, settlement, 174;
suppressed, 174, 186;
Morton's return, 192.
Miantonomoh, and Gorton, 233;
captured and slain, 233.
Minuit, Peter, governor of New Netherland, 293;
Swedish colony, 296.
Mohegans, Narragansett war, 233, 300-302.
Money in New England, 325.
Monts, Sieur de, grant, 286;
attempted settlement, 287.
Morton, Thomas, at Merry Mount, 174;
sent to England, 175, 197;
return, 192;
attorney against Massachusetts, 208.
Mount Desert Island, French settlement reduced, 72, 149, 289.
Mystic, settled, 198.
Nantasket, settled, 170.
Narragansetts, and Plymouth, 165;
Mohegan war, 233, 300;
and Pequot War, 251, 253;
and New England Confederation, 300-302.
Netherlands, Separatists in, 154-158;
voyages to America, 291.
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