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
Thomas Aquinas, St., on the fourth commandment, 138, n. 8.
Thurloe, 263, n. 13.
Timber sought in Virginia, 82.
Tobacco, profitable cultivation of, in Virginia, 49, 84;
exported, 68, n. 10, n. 11; 96, n. 7;
more profitable than silk-raising, 78;
culture of, forbidden, 81;
King James's Covnter-Blaste to, 84;
John Rolfe planted the first, at Jamestown, 84;
heavy duties on, 85, 96, n. 8;
seven thousand shops in London, 97, n. 8;
inferiority of Indian, 97, n. 9;
large profits from, 231;
public use of, forbidden in Massachusetts, 285.
Toleration, the Baltimore policy, 242, 263, n. 15;
principle of, formulated, 254;
Act of, passed in 1649, 255, 256, 257;
intolerable to the rulers of "the Bay," 297;
limited and qualified at Amsterdam, 298;
decried as a great crime by all the world, 298;
a beneficent result of commerce, 298, 312, n. 18.
Tortures, legal, examples of, 46, 67, n. 9.
Town government, the principal feature of civil organization, 325.
Town system, the, 275.
Trade with the Indians by Captain John Smith, 34;
suspended after Smith's departure, 38;
renewed by Capt. Argall, 50.
Tragicall Relation, 40, m.; 56, m.; 66, n. 9; 68, n. 12.
Trainbands drilled, 284.
Travel, taste for books of, 2.
Treasure received by Spain from America influenced English colonial
projects, 73;
wrought mischief to England, 94, n. 1.
True Declaration of the Estate of the Colony of Virginia, 40, m.;
56, m.; 65, n. 5, n. 8.
Trumbull's Blue Laws, 347, n. 2.
Tucker, Daniel, builds boat at Jamestown, 39.
Underhill, Captain, sent after Williams, 295.
Unicorn, reported find of the, 19, 24, n. 10.
Uniformity not possible, 109.
Upper House, dissension concerning power of the, in Massachusetts, 286.
Utopia, the religious, attempted in New England, 342.
Van der Donck's New Netherland, 23, n. 7.
Van Meteren, Nederlandsche Historic, 312, n. 18.
Vane, Sir Henry, the younger, favored the Antinomians, 267;
an ardent Puritan, 332;
arrives in Boston and is elected governor, 332;
a disciple of Cotton, 333;
defeat of, 336;
leaves the colony, 337.
Vaughan's Golden Fleece, 261, n. 7.
Vessel, the first Virginia, built by Captain Argall, 50.
Vestments objected to, in reign of Edward VI, 103;
bitter debates about, 108;
ceased to be abhorrent, 123.
Virginia Assembly petitions the king, 56;
proceedings of the first, 70, n. 15.
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