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
Independency, tendency toward, 112, 136, n. 6;
foreshadowed at Frankfort, 137, n. 6;
dated back to reign of Mary, 146;
favored by Flemish Protestants, 158, n. 2;
Robinsonian, the established religion in New England, 215.
Independents in early years of Elizabeth's reign, 158, n. 2.
Indian children, rewards to colonists for educating, 91.
Indian conjurers laid spell on the coast, 178.
Indian exhumed and eaten at Jamestown, 39.
Indians plot destruction of the colonists, 8;
curiosity regarding the, 15;
desire to convert, 16, 90;
kidnapped and exhibited, 17;
attack those first landing in Virginia, 28;
constant fear of attack from, 30;
supply food to Jamestown, 31,
Smith trades with, 34, 36;
devilish ingenuity in torturing, 38;
outrage the dead, 38, 64, n. 4;
slay gold hunters, 43;
no danger from, while Dale was in charge, 47;
taken to England by Dale, 49, 68, n. 10;
unnecessary cruelty to, 64, n. 4;
reverence for their sacred house, 64, n. 4;
endowed school established for, 83, 91;
schemes for educating obliterated, 92;
treachery of, emulated by the settlers, 92;
destruction of, in Maryland and in Massachusetts divinely ordered, 247;
right of the king to give away lands of, questioned, 274, 282, 283;
land secured from, by purchase, 283.
Industrial disturbance aids the Puritan movement, 111.
Infallibility of "godly" elders, 301.
Ingram, Davy, crosses the continent, 14;
statement, 14, 23, n. 8.
Injunctions by King Edward VI, 138, n. 9.
Interludes sometimes played in churches, 129.
Intolerance sanctioned by logic, 299.
Iron works established at Falling Creek, 83;
failure of, 96, n. 6.
Isthmus in latitude 40°, belief in an, 10.
James I framed code of laws and orders for the Virginia colony, 26;
Covnter-Blaste to Tobacco, 84;
obstinacy of, 87;
his accession raised the hopes of the Puritans, 159;
paradoxical qualities of, 160;
dialectic skill at Hampton Court conference, 160;
refutes the hapless Puritans, 161;
boasts that he had peppered the Puritans, 162, 182, n. 1;
results of his folly, 162;
would wink at but not publicly tolerate the Pilgrims, 170;
refused guarantee of toleration, 173;
friendship with George Calvert, 223;
revenue from fines of lay Catholics, 238;
Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance, 238.
James, Puritan minister in Maryland, 253.
James River discovered by the accident of a storm, 27;
settlement near the falls of the, 37.
James River experiments, the, 25;
their story the overture to the history of life in the United
States, 58.
Jamestown, causes of suffering at, 13;
founded, 29;
at first a peninsula, 29;
abandoned, 41;
population in 1616, 49;
in 1889, 59, n. 1;
some drawings of, 60, n. 1.
Jamestown Company, the. See VIRGINIA COMPANY, THE.
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