Chapter 111
The melancholy end of their government. i. 22.
The loyalty and enterprise of their descendants. i. 23.
Ancestors of English Peers. i. 23.
New York--First Act of Parliament against. i. 329.
New York Legislature, which had not endorsed the first continental Congress, in 1774, now pet.i.tions Parliament on the subject of Colonial grievances; but its pet.i.tion, presented by Mr. Burke, defended by Mr. Fox and others, is refused to be received, on motion of Lord North, by a majority of 186 to 67, and the Lords reject the same pet.i.tion. i. 434-440.
Niagara (Newark) taken from the French by the English. i. 263.
Nineteen years' evasion by the Ma.s.sachusetts Bay Rulers of the conditions on which King Charles II. promised to perpetuate their Charter. i. 193.
North (Lord)--His Bill to repeal the Colonial Revenue Acts, except the duty on tea. i. 368.
His agreement with the East India Company rouses and intensifies opposition in America. i. 371.
Combined opposition to it by English merchants and the Colonists. i. 372.
Explains his American policy. i. 394.
His resolution for address to the King, 1775, endorsing the coercive policy, and denouncing Colonial complaints as "rebellion;" debates on it. i. 426-429.
Second great debate in the Commons on his warlike resolution. i. 430.
His address made the joint address of both Houses of Parliament; the King's reply. i. 431.
Lord North's proposed resignation and preparations for it. ii. 8.
Defeat of his Administration. ii. 51.
Opinions of Lords Macaulay and Mahon on the success of a Commission recommended by the Earl of Chatham. ii. 8.
Origin of non-importation agreement in New York; sanctioned by persons in the highest stations. i. 360.
Origin of republicanism
Paine (Tom)--His appeal to the Colonists, called _Common Sense_, the first publication in America against monarchy. i. 450.
Author of republicanism and hatred of monarchy in America; his character and writings, and their effects. ii. 66-72.
Palfrey's and other New England historians' unfair statements and unjust imputations against the British Government of that time. i. 190, 211.
Parliament--Its authority over the Colonies. i. 317.
Three Bills pa.s.sed by, to raise a revenue in the Colonies. i. 331.
Parliament pa.s.ses an Act (1775) to punish the Colonies for countenancing Ma.s.sachusetts. i. 433.
Parliament pa.s.ses oppressive Acts in 1775 and 1776, with measures for employing foreign soldiers, Indians, and slaves against the complaining Colonists. i. 459.
Parliament pa.s.ses no Act to authorize peace with America for three months after the accession of the new Ministry. ii. 54.
Parliament votes 115,000 sterling to compensate the Colonies for expenses incurred by them. i. 252.
Parties--Origin of political parties at Ma.s.sachusetts Bay. i. 209.
Pet.i.tions and representations to the King from Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists, etc., in Ma.s.sachusetts Bay, on their persecutions and disfranchis.e.m.e.nt by the local Government. i. 137.
Pet.i.tions from various towns in England, Scotland, and Ireland against Lord North's coercive American policy. i. 425.
Pilgrim Fathers--who. i. 2.
Their settlement, and residence of 12 years in Holland. i. 3.
Long to be under the English Government. i. 3.
Cross the Atlantic in the _Mayflower_. i. 3.
Where intended to settle in America, i. 4
What known of Cape Cod before the Pilgrims landed. i. 4.
Their agreement and const.i.tution of government before landing. i. 5.
Remarks upon it by Messrs. Bancroft and Young. i. 6.
Inflated American accounts of their voyage. i. 7.
Their first "Harvest-home." i. 9.
Pitt (afterwards Earl of Chatham) changes the whole fortune of the war with the French in America in favour of England. i. 260.
Policy of the British Ministry in employing foreign soldiers and Indians, deprecated by all cla.s.ses in Europe and America. ii. 72-74.
Pownall (Governor)--His speech and amendment in the House of Commons to repeal the duty on tea; rejected by a majority 242 to 204. i. 361.
Preface--The reason and objects of writing the history of the Loyalists of America. i. 3-5.
Protests and Loyal Pet.i.tions of the Colonists against English Parliamentary Acts to raise a revenue in the Colonies. i. 337.
Puritan authorities alone adduced in this historical discussion. i. 59.
Puritan letters suppressed by the biographer of Governor Winthrop. i. 59.
Puritans of Ma.s.sachusetts Bay Company. i. 24.