The Beginners of a Nation: A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the PeopleEggleston, Edward
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The Beginners of a Nation: A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People
Eggleston, Edward
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Holmes's History of Cambridge, 318, m.; 320, m.
Home, Virginia for the first time a, 58.
Home-makers sent to Virginia, 57, 58.
Homesteads at Newtown sold to newcomers, 325, 347, n. 3.
Hooft, Nederlandsche Historie, 312, n. 18.
Hooker, Thomas, one of the greatest luminaries of the Puritans, 269;
desire of his party to move to Connecticut, 285, 315;
set to dispute with Williams, 292;
early life of, 316;
driven from his pulpit by Laud, 317;
fled to Holland, 317;
a company of his people settled at Newtown, 317;
arrival at Newtown, 319;
rivalry with Cotton, 320;
somber theology of, 320;
difference between his teachings and those of Cotton, 321, 346, n. 1;
theories of civil government more liberal than Cotton's, 322;
limited the power of the magistrate, 322, 347, n. 2;
the real founder of Connecticut, 325.
Hornbeck on John Robinson, 158, n. 3.
Horses eaten, 38.
Houses burned for firewood, 40.
Hubbard's History of Massachusetts, 308, n. 8;
History of New England, 207, m.; 215, m.; 347, n. 3;
testimony of, unreliable, 311, n. 17.
Hudson, Henry, influenced by Captain John Smith, seeks the South Sea, 9.
Hudson River gold, 23, n. 7.
Huguenots of La Rochelle, England allied with, 239.
Humming birds exported, 18.
Hundreds or plantations, 54, 55.
Hunt, Robert, first minister in Virginia, 90.
Hunter, Rev. Joseph, on Shakespeare's Tempest, 65, n. 6.
Hunter's Founders of New Plymouth, 150, m.; 152, m.; 155, m.; 170, m.
Hutchinson, Mrs. Anne, an ardent disciple of Cotton in old Boston, 329;
character of, 329, 330;
"masterpiece of womens wit," 330;
meetings for women opened by, 330;
doctrines of, 331;
the very apostle of Cotton's doctrine, 333;
brought to trial by her opponents, 337;
adroit defense, 338;
condemned by the General Court, 338;
sentenced to banishment, 339;
recanted, but was excommunicated, 339, 348, n. 8;
her sons disfranchised, 339;
settled in Rhode Island with her party, 340;
accused of witchcraft by Winthrop, 340;
wild reports about, 340, 341;
massacred by Indians at New Netherland, 341.
Hutchinson on the Virginia Colony, 186, n. 8.
Hutchinson Papers, 215, m.; 299, m.; 307, m.; 329, n. 1.
Hutchinson party partisans of Vane, 332;
arrogance of the, 333;
Pastor Wilson condemned by, 333.
Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts Bay, 211, m.; 337, m.
Hutchinsonian controversy, the, 326, 327;
the debate waxed hot, 334.
Hypocrites better than profane persons, 299.
Idolatry, Puritanism a crusade against, 118.
Illusions of discoverers, 3, 75.
Inclosures, effects of, 135, n. 5;
for private not the publick good, 136, n. 5.
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