New England, people of, 72-73; settled by radicals, 73-74; lack of toleration in, 74; town life, 75-76; local color in various settlements, 76-78; witchcraft, 80-81; superstitions of people, 81-82; medicine and surgery, 82-83; education, 83-85; travel, 85-86; homes, 86; money, 86-87; reckoning of time, 87; respect for grants and charters, 88; attitude toward England, 88-90; organization in, 89; rivalry with Dutch and French, 90-91; confederation of colonies, 91 _et seq._; trouble with the French, 94-96; trouble with the Dutch, 96-98; period of readjustment, 129 _et seq._; Indian troubles, 133 _et seq._; boundary disputes, 133; population, 139; menace from French, 177-79; Dominion of, 182-83; brought closer to English control, 199 _New England Canaan_, Morton, 32 New England Confederation _see_ United Colonies of New England New England Council, 9, 12, 22, 26, 30, 32-33 New Hampshire, influential leaders in, 47; controversy over title, 65; under jurisdiction of Massachusetts, 66-67; separation from Massachusetts, 67, 71; status undecided, 132; military preparedness, 135 New Haven, influential leaders in, 47; settled, 67-68; government, 68-70; combines other plantations under her, 70-71; absorbed by Conn., 71; commercial ventures, 77-78; witchcraft in, 81; misfortunes of, 110-11; surrenders to Connecticut, 111-12; confederation dissolved, 112 New London (Conn.), 198 New Netherlands, conquest of, 122 New Somersetshire, 65 Newark, founded, 112 Newbury, 198 Newport (R. I.), 49, 198 Nicholson, Francis, 183 Nicolls, Richard, 118, 119, 122 Norfolk, a center of Separatism, 6 Norton, John, 103 Nowell, a leader of conservatives in Boston, 164 Oldham, John, 56 Palmer, Judge, 187, 191 Partridge, Captain, 54, 55 Pawcatuck, taken into Connecticut, 109 Pequot War (1637), 136-37 Peters, Hugh, 59, 78 Pierson, Abraham, 46, 47, 112 Pilgrims, leave for Holland (1607-08), 7; reasons for leaving Holland, 8; decide to go to America, 8-9; conditions under which expedition was undertaken, 10; journey of the _Mayflower_, 10-12; draw up covenant, 12; life in Plymouth Colony, 14-19; greatness lies in religious influence, 19-20 Plymouth Colony, founded, 12-20; secures right to establish fishing colony, 24; submits to authority of Massachusetts, 71; fishing and trading, 77; witchcraft in, 81; sends mission to England, 104; military preparedness, 135; renews old forms, 192; permanently annexed to Massachusetts, 197 Plymouth, town of, 18 Pocasset (Portsmouth), 48 Portsmouth (N. H.), 66, 198 Portsmouth (R. I.), 51-52; _see also_ Pocasset Protestantism, controlled by state, 4