New England, geography of, 5, 6, 179, 180; early mining, 6; named by Smith, 72, 113, 114; population,(1690) 253, (1700) 180, 181, (1700-1750) 265; social distinctions, 58, 181, 182; slavery, 182; occupations, 182-184; manufactures, 184; fisheries and shipbuilding, 185; commerce, 77, 164, 185, 186, 234, 235; towns, 186; education, 188; crime, 188; religion, 189, 190, 194; witchcraft delusion, 190-192; life and manners, 187; political conditions, 192-194, 282; repression of Quakers, 165, 166; formation of the confederation, 156; decadence of the confederation, 169; in the hands of the Lords of Trade, 173; in Queen Anne's War, 255; in King George's War, 255, 256; ideas of _versus_ Virginia ideas, 280, 281. New England, Council for, chartered, 60. Newfoundland, Spaniards at, 28; early European fishermen at, 36, 37, 49, 52; early French visits, 32, 33; claimed by England, 44; Baltimore's colony, 81; intercolonial relations, 234, 235; in King William's War, 254; historical sketch, 241, 242, 244. New France, founded, 36; Louis XIV.'s policy towards, 49, 50; Champlain fights the Iroquois, 196; early settlements of, 246, 247; exploration of the Northwest, 247-249; ambition for territorial aggrandizement, 155; contests with the English, 220, 234, 252-254, 274, 275, 277, 278; in Queen Anne's War, 254, 255; in King George's War, 255, 256; boundary disputes with English, 256; line of frontier forts, 256; struggle for the Ohio valley, 257; social and political conditions of, 249-252; general characteristics, 249, 257, 258; causes of decline, 49, 50. New Hampshire, Mason's grant, 150, 152, 173, 277; early colonizing efforts, 152, 153; soil, 179; manufactures, 184; agriculture, 186; characteristics, 153; population (1700), 180, (1754) 265; annexed by Massachusetts, 61, 153, 173; becomes a royal province, 61, 153, 174, 277; reunited to Massachusetts, 153, 174; rule of Andros, 175; under William and Mary, 177; in King William's War, 254; Bellomont's term, 276; boundary disputes, 268; represented in second colonial congress, 270. New Haven, founded, 144-146, 163; false "Blue Laws," 146; joins New England Confederation, 156; in war with New Netherlands, 163; treatment of Quakers, 166; shelters the regicides, 167; absorbed by Connecticut, 146, 168, 169; condition in 1700, 186; Yale College founded, 188; Tory element in, 189.