Spotswood, Col. Alexander: able, 18; on Burgesses salary, 27, 28; Lieutenant Governor, 159; career, 160; Orkney his patron, 160; explores west, 161; instructions, 161; act for ports, 162-165; jobs handed out, 163, 164; House angers, 165; to limit franchise, 166; Council balks, 166; vetoes bills, 167; denounces Burgesses, 168; court of oyer and terminer, 169-171; defends new court, 170, 171; foul play at elections, 172; defeated, 172; charges against, 173; seeks flattering addresses, 173; answers charges, 174; Board of Trade upholds, 174; to live in Virginia, 174; Tubal Cain, 175; reconciled to Council, 175; administration of, 176 Stamp Act: dismay at, 224; Barre denounces, 225; ready to resist, 227; Mercer distributor, 227, 228; stamps not landed, 228; Norfolk protests, 229; criticized in England, 230; English merchants protest, 230; repealed, 230 Statehouse: at Jamestown, 24; burned, 1698, 129 Stegg, Thomas: aids Kemp escape, 52; favors Parliament, 58; commissioner for Parliament, 64; lost on the _John_, 65 Stith, Rev. William: incites against pistole fee, 196 _Susan Constant_: sails for Virginia, 1 Susquehannocks: fort besieged, 85; torture victims, 85 Taxation: by first Assembly, 10; Burgesses control, 29-31, 115; perpetual revenue to King, 30, 110-112; call fees taxes, 115; protest pistole fee, 197; in colonial history, 225; role in self-government, 225; Jefferson on, 247 Tea: tax on, 236; resistance to tax, 237, 238; banned, 238; Carter refuses, 238 Thompson, Rev. William: missionary to Virginia, 60; driven out, 61 Thrale, John: defends Nicholson, 148 Tobacco: staple of Virginia, 15; Dutch buy, 59; cutting riots, 113; Spotswood's bill of ports, 162-165; prices rise, 163; George I vetoes bill of ports, 168; Gooch's bill of ports, 180-181, 191, 192; slaves cheapen, 184; Gooch argues for bill of ports, 191; _A Dialogue_, 191; poor standard of value, 211 Tobacco cutting riots: 113. Tories: few in Virginia, 242 Townshend Acts: anger America, 232; unconstitutional, 234 Treasurer: Burgesses name, 128, 129; usually also Speaker, 210; separation ordered, 210; illegal loans by, 221 Utie, John: opposes tobacco contract, 44; arrests Harvey, 46; King orders arrest, 48; sent to England, 49 Vestries: govern parishes, 32; Bacon's Laws, 92; Nicholson attacks power of, 136