gets new charters, 8;
Virginia Magna Carta, 8;
sent to Tower, 11;
fights to save charter, 12;
advises restoring Company, 13;
champions English liberty, 15

Sandys, George: asks revival of Company, 17

Second Stuart Despotism: influence on colonies, 3, 106-121

Secretary of State: duties of, 33

Sheriffs:
political use of by Berkeley, 78;
Bacon's Laws, 91;
Effingham uses, 118;
Nicholson uses, 137, 138

Slavery:
effect on aristocracy, 152;
cheapens tobacco, 184;
small planters buy, 184, 185;
slave plots, 186;
duty on slaves vetoed, 186, 187;
Virginia resents vetoes, 187;
Dunmore recruits slaves, 250

Smith, Capt. John:
imprisoned, 4;
hanging threatened, 5;
sole Councillor, 5

Smith, Col. Joseph:
accused by court, 178;
Burgesses reprimand, 178;
Drysdale removes, 179

Smith, Col. Lawrence: sued for quit rents, 135

Sons of Liberty: 229

Speaker:
prestige, 28;
Nicholson threatens, 139;
made Treasurer, 210;
Fauquier ordered to separate, 210

Spencer, Nicholas: fears mutiny in 1677, 100

Spotswood, Col. Alexander:
able, 18;
on Burgesses salary, 27, 28;
Lieutenant Governor, 159;
career, 160;
Orkney his patron, 160;
explores west, 161;
instructions, 161;
act for ports, 162-165;
jobs handed out, 163, 164;
House angers, 165;
to limit franchise, 166;
Council balks, 166;
vetoes bills, 167;
denounces Burgesses, 168;
court of oyer and terminer, 169-171;
defends new court, 170, 171;
foul play at elections, 172;
defeated, 172;
charges against, 173;
seeks flattering addresses, 173;
answers charges, 174;
Board of Trade upholds, 174;
to live in Virginia, 174;
Tubal Cain, 175;
reconciled to Council, 175;
administration of, 176

Stamp Act:
dismay at, 224;
Barré denounces, 225;
ready to resist, 227;
Mercer distributor, 227, 228;
stamps not landed, 228;
Norfolk protests, 229;
criticized in England, 230;
English merchants protest, 230;
repealed, 230

Statehouse:
at Jamestown, 24;
burned, 1698, 129

Stegg, Thomas:
aids Kemp escape, 52;
favors Parliament, 58;
commissioner for Parliament, 64;
lost on the John, 65

Stith, Rev. William: incites against pistole fee, 196

Susan Constant: sails for Virginia, 1

Susquehannocks:
fort besieged, 85;
torture victims, 85


Taxation:
by first Assembly, 10;
Burgesses control, 29-31, 115;
perpetual revenue to King, 30, 110-112;
call fees taxes, 115;
protest pistole fee, 197;
in colonial history, 225;
role in self-government, 225;
Jefferson on, 247

Tea:
tax on, 236;
resistance to tax, 237, 238;
banned, 238;
Carter refuses, 238

Thompson, Rev. William:
missionary to Virginia, 60;
driven out, 61

Thrale, John: defends Nicholson, 148

Tobacco:
staple of Virginia, 15;
Dutch buy, 59;
cutting riots, 113;
Spotswood's bill of ports, 162-165;
prices rise, 163;
George I vetoes bill of ports, 168;
Gooch's bill of ports, 180-181, 191, 192;
slaves cheapen, 184;
Gooch argues for bill of ports, 191;
A Dialogue, 191;
poor standard of value, 211

Tobacco cutting riots: 113.

Tories: few in Virginia, 242

Townshend Acts:
anger America, 232;
unconstitutional, 234

Treasurer:
Burgesses name, 128, 129;
usually also Speaker, 210;
separation ordered, 210;
illegal loans by, 221


Utie, John:
opposes tobacco contract, 44;
arrests Harvey, 46;
King orders arrest, 48;
sent to England, 49


Vestries:
govern parishes, 32;
Bacon's Laws, 92;
Nicholson attacks power of, 136

Virginia Company of London:
charter of 1606, 1, 4;
set up despotism, 5;
members consider going to Virginia, 7;
James I attacks, 11;
A True Answer, 11;
blamed by commission, 11;
rejects King's offer, 12;
appeals to Parliament, 12;
charter revoked, 12;
reasons for, 13;
restoring of opposed, 17


Wallace, Rev. James:
sermon enrages Nicholson, 141, 142;
testifies against Nicholson, 148

Washington, George:
warns French on Ohio, 201;
expedition to Ohio, 202;
commands in Valley, 205;
Continental Congress, 240;
wears uniform to Congress, 245;
commander-in-chief, 245;
predicts independence, 254, 255

West:
expansion into, 182;
aids democracy, 184

West, Capt. Francis: Governor, 37

West, John:
acting Governor, 47;
sent to England, 49

William III: joint monarch, 121, 122

Williamsburg:
capitol at, 146;
Nicholson founds, 146;
celebrates Stamp Act repeal, 230;
day of prayer, 239;
powder seized, 244;
an armed camp, 248;
celebrates independence, 256, 257

Wingfield, Edward:
member of Council, 4;
ousted, 5;
accuses other Councillors, 5

Wormeley, Ralph: supports Dunmore, 242

Wyatt, Sir Francis:
receives constitution, 9;
Governor, 51

Wythe, George: 219;
protests Stamp Act, 224


Yeardley, Capt. George:
Governor, 6;
brings Magna Carta, 9;
calls first Assembly, 10;
reappointed, 13;
pleads for Assembly, 14;
death, 36