United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Saybrook, founded, 249, 259;
sold to Connecticut, 260.
Scarboro, grant of site, 274;
submits to Massachusetts, 281.
Scrivener, Matthew, in Virginia, 54, 57;
death, 57.
Separatism, rise, 154;
refuge in Holland, 154-156.
_See also_ Congregationalism, Pilgrims.
Servants, in Virginia, 100, 115;
in Maryland, 128.
Sheriff, in Maryland, 129.
Ship-building, New England, 322.
Slave-trade, English, 8-10.
Slavery, introduction, 81;
social influence, 116, 147.
Smith, John, Virginia settler, 43;
career, 43;
rescued by Pocahontas, 46-48;
arrested, 49;
in council, 49;
cape merchant, 51;
supplies from Indians, 52;
captured, 52;
condemned by Ratcliffe, 52;
restored, 53;
president, 54;
answer to company's complaints, 57;
maps, 57, 150;
sole ruler, 57, 63;
avoids famine, 58;
deposed, 64:
leaves, 64;
on coast of New England, 150;
attempted settlement, 150;
captured by French, 151;
service to New England, 152.
Smith, Sir Thomas, buys trade right, 31;
in London Company, 76, 78, 81.
Social conditions, slavery, 81, 116, 147;
servants, 100, 115, 128;
Virginia (1634), 101-103; (1648), 110;
houses, 114;
hospitality, 115;
absence of towns, 115, 129;
Virginia education, 116, 117;
Maryland (1652), 147;
New England criminal codes, 180, 203, 326;
influence of Calvinism, 321;
New England towns, 322, 323;
education, 323-325;
marriage, 326;
sumptuary laws, 326;
general characteristics, 326;
literature, 327;
bibliography, 338.
Somers, Sir George, at Bermudas, 62;
death, 68.
Sources, on period 1574-1652, 329-331;
on Virginia, 331, 332;
on Maryland, 333;
on Plymouth and Massachusetts, 334;
on Rhode Island, 335;
on Connecticut and New Haven, 335;
on New Hampshire and Maine, 336;
on New Netherland, 336, 337;
on French colonies, 337.
Southampton, earl of, in London Company, 34, 35, 77, 82.
Southampton, joins Connecticut, 259;
settled, 296.
Southold, union with New Haven, 265;
settled, 296.
Spain, decay, 3;
influence of colonial empire, 4;
religious influences, 4;
English rivalry, 5;
and Drake's attacks, 13;
attacks Gilbert's expedition, 16;
English war, 28-30, 35;
Armada, 30;
power destroyed, 30;
and English colonies, 36, 60, 74, 283, 284.
_See also_ colonies.
Springfield, settled, 247;
and river-tolls, 305.
Standish, Miles, Separatist, in Leyden, 158;
exploration, 161;
suppresses Merry Mount, 175.
Stone, William, governor of Maryland, 143, 144;
removed and restored, 147.
Stuyvesant, Peter, and New England Confederation, 312;
treaty, 313, 314.
Suffrage, Virginia, 116;
Plymouth, 180;
Massachusetts, 202, 210, 211, 243, 319;
Connecticut, 258;
New Haven, 262-264;
New Hampshire, 271.
Taxation and representation in Virginia, 90, 96, 113.
Theocracy in New England, 200-202, 258, 262-264.
Thompson, David, settlements, 175, 267.
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