Chapter 52
Diamond (John). ii. 202.
Doane. ii. 192.
Dudley (Joseph)--Appointed Governor of Ma.s.sachusetts by King James II.
i. 212.
Dunmore (Earl of)--Governor of Virginia, commits the same outrages upon the inhabitants of Virginia, and about the same time, as those committed by General Gage upon the inhabitants of Ma.s.sachusetts. i. 462.
a.s.sembles the House of Burgesses to deliberate and decide upon Lord North's so-called "conciliatory proposition" to the Colonies; the House rejects the proposition on a report prepared by Mr. Jefferson--a doc.u.ment eulogized in the strongest terms by the Earl of Shelburne. i. 464.
East India Company--Disastrous effect of its agreement with the British Government. i. 381.
East India Company's Tea--Causes of it being thrown into Boston Harbour, as stated on both sides. i. 377.
Elections in England hastened in the autumn of 1774; adverse to the Colonies. i. 419.
Emigrants to Ma.s.sachusetts Bay--Two cla.s.ses. i. 1.
Emigration to Ma.s.sachusetts Bay stopped by a change of Government in England. i. 85.
Endicot--Leader of the first company of emigrants to Ma.s.sachusetts Bay. i. 27.
His character. i. 27.
Becomes a Congregationalist. i. 29.
Abolishes the Church of England, and banishes its adherents. i. 29.
Cause of all the tyrannical proceedings against them. i. 42.
Finally condemned by the Company, but officially retained by them. i. 43-48.
England's best and only means of protecting the Colonies against French encroachments and invasion. i. 244.
Position in respect to other European Powers at the Peace of Paris in 1763. i. 273.
England--Its resources at the conclusion of the Revolutionary
The war party, and corrupt Administration, is defeated. ii. 48, 49.
Change of Administration and of policy, both for England and the Colonies. ii. 53.
Names of new Ministers, &c. ii. 53.
English Generals and soldiers refuse to fight against the Colonists. i. 446.
English Government employs seventeen thousand German mercenaries to bring the Colonists to absolute submission. i. 446-479.
Its change of policy, and effect of it in regard to the Colonies after the Peace of Paris, 1763. i. 277.
Its first acts which caused dissatisfaction and alienation in the American Colonies. i. 279.
Falmouth (now Portland) bombarded and burnt, by Captain Mowat, of the British Navy. i. 446.
Five-sixths of the male population disfranchised by Puritan bigotry and intolerance at Ma.s.sachusetts Bay. i. 63.
Fort de Quesne taken by the English and called Pittsburg. i. 263.
Fox (C.J.)--His amendment to Lord North's address to the King, 1775, rejected by a majority of 304 to 105. i. 430.
France and England at war; mutually restore, in 1748, places taken during the first war. i. 242.
Franklin (Dr.)--His evidence at the Bar of the House of Commons on the Stamp Act, etc. i. 308.
Dismissed from office the following day. i. 426.
His pet.i.tion to the House of Commons rejected. i. 426.
Proposes to include Canada in the United States. ii. 54.
Counter scheme to defeat the proposition of the English Commissioners. ii. 58.
Outwits the English Commissioners. ii. 63.
His Indian scalp fictions. ii. 119.
French--Attempt to take Quebec. i. 266.
Bitter feeling between French and American officers and soldiers, at Rhode Island, Boston, Charleston, and Savannah. ii. 20-25.
Encroachments on the British Colonies, from 1748 to 1756. i. 243.
Evasions and disclaimers, while encroaching on the British Colonies and making preparations for war against England. i. 245.
Successes in 1755, 1756, and 1757, in the war with England. i. 252.
French Fleet--Its complete failure under Count D'Estaing. ii. 17.
French Officers and Soldiers--Their kindness to the English after the defeat of Lord Cornwallis. ii. 129.
Gage (General)--His arrival in Boston; courteous reception, as successor to Governor Hutchinson; his character. i. 398.
Summons a meeting of the Legislature, which adjourns to meet at Salem, and which replies respectfully but firmly to Governor
Gage's speech; his bitter answer. i. 399.