Chapter 57
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.
Their Charter and settlement in 1629. i. 23.
Their intolerance. i. 24.
Their wealth and trade. i. 25.
Their enterprise under two aspects. i. 26.
Professed members of the Church of England when they left England. i. 26.
Puritan treatment of the Indians. i. 298.
Puritan legal opinions in England on the constant violation of the first Charter by the Ma.s.sachusetts Bay Rulers. i. 233.
Quebec taken by General Wolfe. i. 263.
Queenston Heights--Battle of. ii. 365-8.
Quo Warranto--Notice of sent to the Rulers of Ma.s.sachusetts Bay in July, 1683, to answer to thirteen complaints against them for violating the Royal Charter; received in October, 1683; judgment given July, 1685, nearly two years afterwards.
Remonstrances of the Rev. Drs. Owen, T. Goodwin, and other Nonconformist ministers in England against the persecutions by the Ma.s.sachusetts Bay Puritans. i. 185.
Retrospect of the transactions between Charles I. and II. and the Ma.s.sachusetts Bay Rulers from 1630 to 1666, with extracts of correspondence. i. 171.
Revolution--Princ.i.p.al characteristics of it, and the feeling which should now be cultivated by both of the former contending parties; by J.M. Ludlow. ii. 145.
Richardson (Rev. James)--Letter by. ii. 208.
Robinson (Beverley). ii. 196.
Robinson (Christopher). ii. 198.
Robinson (Sir J.B.). ii. 199.
Robinson (Sir C.K.P.). ii. 199.
Robinson (Morris). ii. 199.
Robinson (John). ii. 200.
Rockingham (Marquis of)--His death and its consequences. ii. 53.
Royal Charter (second) by William and Mary; nine princ.i.p.al provisions of it, establis.h.i.+ng for the first time civil and religious liberty in Ma.s.sachusetts. i. 229-233.
Royal Charter to Ma.s.sachusetts Bay Puritans. i. 28.
Its provisions. i. 30.
Violated by the Ma.s.sachusetts Bay Puritans. i. 33.
Transferred from England to Ma.s.sachusetts Bay, and the fact concealed for four years. i. 69.
Royal Commission issued to examine into the complaints made against the Ma.s.sachusetts Bay Rulers--conduct of parties. i. 72.
Royal Commissioners' Report on the Colony of Ma.s.sachusetts Bay; twenty anomalies in its laws inconsistent with the Royal Charter; evades the conditions of the promised continuance of the Charter; denies the King's jurisdiction. i. 149.
Royal Patriotic Society of Upper Canada and its doings. ii. 464.
Royal Speech on meeting Parliament, October 26th, 1775, and discussions upon it. i. 474.
Ryerse (Rev. George)--Letter by. ii. 226.
Ryerse (Colonel Samuel). ii. 229.
Ryerson (Colonel Joseph). ii. 257.
Salaries of officials paid independent of the Colonies--cause of dissatisfaction. i. 366.
Saltonstall (Sir Richard) remonstrates against the persecutions by the Ma.s.sachusetts Bay Rulers. i. 116.
Scadding (Rev. Dr.)--Sketch by. ii. 259.
Second Charter--Its happy influence upon toleration, loyalty, peace, and unity of society in Ma.s.sachusetts. i. 237.
Seven years of war and bloodshed prevented, had Congress in 1776 adhered to its previous professions. ii. 56.
Shelburne (Earl of)--Correspondence with Dr. Franklin on negotiations for peace. ii. 54.
Simcoe (General Graves)--First Governor of Upper Canada. ii. 308.