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
Wingfield deposed from leadership, 31;
recognizes Smith's services, 36;
plot against the life of, 61, n. 2;
warned Newport against Archer, 64, n. 3.
Wingfield's Discourse, 64, n. 3.
Winslow, of Plymouth, warns Williams from Seekonk River, 296.
Winslow's Briefe Narration, 172, m.; 175, m.; 185, n. 6.
Winsor's, Justin, Elder Brewster, 155, m.; 169, m.
Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America, 21, n. 1.
Winthrop, John, principal figure in the Puritan migration, 202;
character and influence of, 204;
made a justice of the peace, 204, 217, n. 5;
elected governor, 210, 217, n. 6;
objected to a government directed from England, 208;
superseded by Dudley, 287;
recommended Narragansett Bay to Williams, 293, 294;
lenity toward Williams rebuked, 301;
moved house, begun at Newtown, to Boston, 318;
antipathy to Mrs. Hutchinson, 330;
ministers rally around, 332;
again made governor, 336;
chief inquisitor at the trial of Mrs. Hutchinson, 338;
evidence to prove Mrs. Hutchinson a witch, 340, 341;
wallows in superstition, 341.
Winthrop's Journal (Savage's), 252, m.; 272, m.; 290, m.; 291, m.;
294, m.; 301, m.; 307, n. 3; 309, n. 12; 310, n. 17; 318, m.; 323, m.;
329, m.; 336, m.; 339, m.; 340, m.; 341, m.; 344, m.; 348, n. 8;
349, n. 9.
Winthrop's Life and Letters, 198, m.; 217, n. 4, 5, 6; 218, n. 8.
Winthrop's Reasons for New England, 198, 204, 217, n. 4.
Wives for the Virginia colonists, 57, 71, n. 18;
supplied to Louisiana and Canada, 72, n. 18.
Women, proposal to send, to Virginia, 71, n. 18;
in Gates's party, 71, n. 18;
first two in the colony, 71, n. 18.
Wood, beauty of the, of certain American trees, 65, n. 7.
Woodnoth's Short Collection, 70, n. 16; 87, m.;
account of, 97, n. 10.
Wood's New England's Prospect, 18, m.; 318, m.; 319, m.
Words had the force of blows, 110.
Wright's Elizabeth and her Times, 142, m.
Wyatt, Sir Francis, name appended to The Tragicall Relation, 66, n. 9;
opinion of, on a divided government, 207.
Wyckoff, on Silk Manufacture, 95, n. 3.
Yeardley, Sir George, arrival in Virginia, 71, n. 17;
knighted, 134, n. 1;
instructed to administer oath of supremacy, 232.
Yong, Thomas, in the Delaware, 10;
seeks a Mediterranean in America, 11.
Young's Chronicles of Massachusetts, 217, n. 4; 317, m.
Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims, 158, n. 3; 167, m.; 184, n. 4.
Yucatan, meaning of, 21, n. 3.
Yucca, clothing made from the fiber of the, 79, 80;
a "commoditie of speciall hope and much use," 80.
Zeal, passionate, often stupefies reason, 171.
Zurich and Strasburg cities of refuge for conservatives, 104;
differences between exiles at, and those of Geneva, 106, 107.
Zurich Letters, 135, n. 3.
Zwisck, Peter John, The Liberty of Religion, 312, n. 19.
CHARLES ALEXANDER NELSON.
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