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
Narragansett Club Publications, 135, n. 4; 268, m.; 307, n. 3, 4, 5;
311, n. 17.
Naval stores, Virginia expected to produce, 82;
efforts to procure, in Elizabeth's time, 95, n. 4.
Neal's History of New England, 310, n. 14;
History of the Puritans, 159, m.; 226, m.; 239, m.
Neill, E. D., on the social compact, 183, n. 4;
Founders of Maryland, 262, n. 11;
Virginia Company, 67, n. 9; 183, n. 2.
Netherlands, indirect interest of the, in the Virginia colony, 44.
New England, coast of, explored by Capt. John Smith, 37;
shaped in Old England by Puritanism, 133;
pioneers of, came from the Separatists, 141, 146;
existence of, hung on a chain of accidents, 176;
elements of, 177;
early attempts to colonize, 178;
early settlements in, 189;
great migration to, 196, 203;
capital laws of, condemned by Williams, 304.
New England charter of 1620, 173.
New England colonists deemed themselves a chosen people, 278;
accounted other colonists the Egyptians of the New World,
278, 308, n. 7;
held to an intolerant theocracy, 279;
dispersions of the, 315;
relief at disappearance of the last of the leaders, 342.
New England Firebrand Quenched, 301, m.
New England Historical Gen. Reg., 267, 307, n. 1.
New England Puritanism more ultra than Bownd, 132, 140, n. 3.
New England traits due to special causes, 178.
Newfoundland, failure of colony at, 223, 224;
Capt. Whitbourne's pamphlet on, 224;
fanciful names in, 225;
not a paradise in winter, 229, 260, n. 7;
value of the fisheries, 261, n. 7.
New France bubble ready to collapse, 346.
New Haven, Davenport and his company planted colony at, 343;
colony united with Connecticut by royal charter at the
Restoration, 343;
stretching westward, 345.
New Life of Virginea, 63, n. 3.
New Plymouth, Sandys's plans for the foundation of, 88.
Newport, Vice-Admiral, reporter of Virginia affairs, 44;
threatened with the gallows by Dale, 44;
warned against Archer, 64.
Newtown, Hooker's company settled at, 317;
intended for capital and palisaded, 318;
superior to Boston in one regard, 318;
discontent at, 318, 319, 320;
questions regarding boundary, 319;
cattle-raising at, 320;
the church at, emigrated bodily to Connecticut, 325;
court of elections held at, 335.
New World, mirages of the, 2;
discovered because it lay between Europe and the East Indies, 3;
grotesque and misleading glimpses of the, 20.
New York Colonial Documents, 6, m., 43, m.
New York Hist. Soc. Coll., 23, n. 7;
second series, 70, n. 15; 80, m.
Nichols's, Josias, Plea for the Innocent, 146, m.
Nonconformists, severe measures against, 122;
in the Church, 142.
North Carolina, coast of, called Wingandacon, 21, n. 3.
Northey, Sir Edward, decision on the Maryland charter, 262, n. 11.
Northwest passage, search for a, 4, 5, 9, 10.
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