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
Jamestown emigrants instructed to explore rivers to the northwest, 9.
Jesuits flock to England, 226;
set free, 239;
interested in migration to Maryland, 240;
the provincial of the Society of Jesus favored toleration, 242;
religious observances of, at sea, 243;
conversion of non-Catholics in Maryland by, 246;
fled to Virginia, 257.
Jesus, the humane pity of, unknown to the laws and sermons of the
time, 301, 313, n. 22.
Johnson, Bradley T., Foundation of Maryland, 263, n. 15.
Johnson, Edward, the bloodthirsty Massachusetts Puritan, 164;
his Wonder-working Providence, 318, m.; 320, m.; 330, m.
Johnson, Francis, voyage of, to America, 167;
pastor at Amsterdam, 168.
Johnston, Isaac, of Winthrop's company, death of, 212.
Jones, captain of The Mayflower, conduct of, 177;
identified with Jones of The Discovery, 186, n. 7.
Jones's, Rev. Hugh, Present State of Virginia, 183, n. 3.
Josselyn's Rarities, 344, m.
Judgment, present, not a binding law, 185, n. 6.
Judgments, divine, fear of, 198.
Kent Island, Claiborne's claim to, 254.
Knowles's Life of Williams, 274, m.; 308, n. 9;
the best of the older biographies, 311, n. 17.
Knox, John, followers of, dispute with the Coxans at Frankfort, 105;
not more a sabbatarian than Calvin, 124.
Labor, common-stock system of, at Jamestown, 26;
abolished by distribution of land, 56;
failure of, at Plymouth, 179;
evils of, 186, n. 9.
Labor, private, more productive than common-stock system, 49;
prohibited on Sundays, 127.
Laborers, twelve so-called, in the Virginia colony, 27.
Land, division of, in Virginia, 48, 49, 56, 68, n. 12.
Land grants, various, in Virginia, based on the Grand Charter,
56, 70, n. 15.
Lane, Ralph, governor of Ralegh's first colony, 7, 21, n. 3;
seeks gold and the South Sea, 8;
account in Hakluyt, iii, 8, m.;
hopes for his Roanoke colony, 74;
to Sydney and Walsingham, 74, m.
Latitude of 40°, belief of a westward passage in, 9, 10.
Laud, Archbishop, obliterated by Puritanism, 133;
one great service of, to the world, 193;
character of, 193;
fearless in peril, 195;
dubbed "the father of New England," 196;
Letter to Selden, 196;
Abbott's account of Laud's rise, 216, n. 2;
fails to crush the Massachusetts Company, 211;
suppressing Puritanism, 239;
fall of, 240;
non-conforming Puritans hunted from lectureships and chaplaincies
by, 270;
drove John Cotton to New England, 279;
moving to vacate the Massachusetts charter, 282;
made head of a commission to govern the colonies, 284;
drove Hooker from his pulpit at Chelmsford, 317;
preparations to control Massachusetts made by, 343;
asked to stop emigration to New England, 344;
tries to compel Scots to use prayer book, 344.
Laws, divine, moral, and martial, under which Dale oppressed
Virginia, 45, 70, n. 16; 132.
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