The Colonies, 1492-1750

• Tarratine Indians, uprising in Maine, 188.

• Tennessee, character of early settlers, 269, 283.

• Texas, early Spanish exploration of, 28.

• Tinicum, island of, seat of Swedish government in America, 208, 215.

• Tobago, Windward Islands, 237.

• Town, the, in England, 55;
  • in New England, 57, 62, 139, 140, 192, 193;
  • in the middle colonies, 57, 204, 216.

• Trenton, N. J., characteristics, 228.

• Trinidad, Windward Islands, 237.

• Tuscarora Indians, join the Five Nations, 11.

• Underhill, John, in Pequod War, 137.

• Union, schemes for colonial, New England Confederation, 155-158;
  • first colonial congress, 80, 206, 270;
  • governmental plans, 267, 270;
  • second congress, 270, 271.

• Usselinx, Willem, founds South Company of Sweden, 208.

• Utah, aborigines of, 12.

• Utrecht, treaty of, 241-243, 255, 256.

• Vaca, Cabeza de, in Narvaez's expedition, 28, 29.

• Vane, Sir Henry, governor of Massachusetts, 129, 134, 135.

• Van Rensselaer family, 199, 223.

• Vermont, soil, 179;
  • becomes a State, 268.

• Verrazano, John, on the American coast, 32, 41.

• Virginia, named by Raleigh, 38;
  • Raleigh's land grants, 40;
  • causes of early failures in colonizing, 41-44;
  • geography, 96;
  • settlement, 69-75;
  • character of colonists, 97, 114;
  • landed estates, 58;
  • judiciary, 60;
  • suffrage, 61, 62;
  • first assembly, 62;
  • first charter, 66-69, 70, 113;
  • second charter, 72;
  • development, 75-81;
  • becomes a royal province, 74;
  • Bacon's rebellion, 78, 79, 90;
  • occupations, 102;
  • commerce, 103, 104;
  • education, 107, 108;
  • religion, 108;
  • witch-ducking, 192;
  • conflicts with Dutch, 197, 200;
  • Walloons rejected, 198;
  • piracy, 273;
  • Spotswood's term, 269;
  • Nicholson's term, 273;
  • includes Bermudas, 238;
  • Virginia ideas versus New England ideas, 280;
  • reaching out to the West, 67, 283;
  • population (1688), 97; (1763), 266.

• "Virginia," the early New England pinnace, 185.

• Virgin Islands, Leeward group, 237, 238.

• Walford, Thomas, settles at Charlestown, 122.

• Walloons, settle in New Netherlands, 198, 201;
  • in Delaware, 207, 208.

• Warwick, Earl of, interest in American colonization, 37;
  • president of Council for New England, 141, 158.

• —, R. I., founded, 148;
  • Gorton case, 160.

• Washington, George, education of, 108;
  • opinion of Bermudas, 239.

• Watertown, Mass., founded, 127;
  • protest against taxation without representation, 62, 128;
  • emigration to Connecticut, 140.

• Welsh, American discoveries by, 21;
  • in New England, 180;
  • in Pennsylvania and Delaware, 217, 221.

• Wesley, Charles, in Georgia, 262.

• —, John, in Georgia, 262.

• West Indies, aborigines of, 8;
  • Spanish conquest of, 43, 47;
  • Spanish commerce, 39;
  • piracy, 34;
  • Portuguese in, 48;
  • Dutch in, 50;
  • trade with Southern colonies, 102, 104;
  • trade with New England, 185;
  • trade with middle colonies, 226;
  • intercolonial relations, 234, 235.

• West Jersey, 212-214, 216, 221.

• Westminster, treaty of, 205.

• Wethersfield, Conn., founded, 141;
  • sacked by Indians, 137.

• Weymouth, George, explores New England coast, 41, 65.

• Whitefield, George, revival work, 190, 262.

• William III., king of England, 206, 253.

• — and Mary, sovereigns of England, proclaimed in the colonies, 87, 176.

• William and Mary college, chartered, 80, 81, 103.

• Williams, Roger, character, 132;
  • at Salem, 132, 133;
  • founds Providence, 133, 146, 147, 149, 160;
  • services in Pequod War, 136;
  • attitude towards Quakers, 165.

• Williamsburg, capital of Virginia, 81, 98.

• Wilmington, Del., founded, 201, 208.

• —, N. C., early French visit to, 32.

• Windsor, Conn., founded, 136, 137, 140, 141.

• Windward Islands, English colonies, 236, 237.

• Wingfield, Edward Maria, member of London Company, 66;
  • president of Jamestown, 70.

• Winslow, Edward, London agent of Massachusetts, 131, 132;
  • in the Gorton case, 160;
  • expression of colonial independence, 161.

• Winthrop, John, governor of Massachusetts, 127, 129, 135, 138, 156;
  • expression of colonial independence, 161.

• —, John, Jr., founds Saybrook, 136, 141;
  • governor of Connecticut, 143;
  • London agent of Connecticut, 168.

• Wisconsin, canoe portages in, 4;
  • aborigines of, 12;
  • discovered by Nicolet, 26;
  • early French explorations in, 247, 248.

• Witchcraft delusion, at Salem, 190-192, 275;
  • elsewhere, 190, 192.

• Wocoken, island of, English colony on, 38, 88.

• Yale College, founded, 80, 188.

• Yeamans, Sir John, leads colony to Carolina, 89, 237;
  • governor of South Carolina, 93.

• York, Duke of, proprietor of New York, 203, 210-212;
  • becomes James II., 205, 206, 213;
  • grants Delaware to Pennsylvania, 216.

• Zuñi Indians, visited by Spaniards, 29, 30.

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