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
Peter, Hugh, rebuked Cotton for defending Mrs. Hutchinson, 337;
browbeat Mrs. Hutchinson's witnesses, 338;
returned to England and favored toleration, 348, n. 7.
Petition to House of Lords, 345, m.
Pharisaism of the rigid Sabbath, 132.
Philosophical Transactions, 78, m.; 79, m.
Pilgrims brought Barrowism to New England, 148;
Scrooby and Austerfeld cradles of the, 149;
no tradition of, lingers at Scrooby, 150;
common country folk, 151;
flee to Amsterdam, 164;
theological agitations drive them to Leyden, 165;
danger of extinction, 166;
intermarriages with the Dutch, 167;
emigration to Virginia under consideration, 168, 182, n. 2;
questioned whether to be Dutch or English colonists, 169;
ask aid of Edwin Sandys, in securing religious liberty, 169;
receive two charters, a general order, and a liberal patent from
the Virginia Company, 172;
their Compact under the general order, 173;
departure from Leyden, 174;
forced to land, select Plymouth, 177;
suffered for their ignorance of colony-planting, 178;
honor due, 186, n. 8;
"stepping stones to others," 188;
slender success of, stimulated commercial settlements, 189;
the "large patent" granted to the, through influence of Sandys, 206;
influence on the Massachusetts colony, 212.
Piscataqua, settlement on the, 189.
Plaine Declaration of Barmudas, 65, n. 6.
Planting, the first, at Jamestown, 29.
Plants of every clime believed to grow in Virginia, 82.
Plays, performance of, on Sundays prohibited, 127.
Pledge signed at Cambridge by Winthrop's party, 209.
Plymouth, ceremony observed at, 103;
the landing at, 177;
horrors of Jamestown repeated at, 179;
the second step in the founding of a great nation, 181;
Roger Williams "prophesied" at, 272;
people styled "mungrell Dutch," 273;
disturbed by Williams, 274;
gives him a letter of dismissal to Salem, 275.
Pocahontas, 33, 35, 37;
converted and wedded to Rolfe, 49;
taken to England, 49, 68, n. 10;
captured by Argall, 50;
dies leaving an infant son, 52.
Pocahontas story, the, 63, n. 3.
Pomp and display at the court of Elizabeth, 98;
imitation of, objected to by the Puritans, 100, 134, n. 2.
Popham, Captain George, attempt of, to colonize in Maine, 178.
Port Royal, map showing strait near, 8, 21, n. 4.
Pory's Report, 70, n. 15; 77, m.
Pots and Phettiplace, narrative, 35, 61, n. 2.
Powhatan releases Captain Smith, 33, 34, 35.
Precinct in Virginia asked for by Calvert, 229.
Presbyterianism developed under Cartwright, 112, 136, n. 6;
swept out by Whitgift, 122;
hoped for in New England, 213.
Price of commodities, rise of, promoted voyages, 22, n. 5.
Private interest, even a slave's patch of, put life into Virginia, 48.
Proceedings Mass. Hist. Soc., Wheelwright's sermon in, 331, m.
Proceedings of Virginia Assembly, 80, m.
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