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Alexander, Archibald, 429, 490. Alexandria, Braddock quartered at, 472.
Algonquin tribes, 269. Amadas, Captain, 21.
Amsterdam, New, captured by Argall, 111.
Andros, Sir Edmund, governor, 347; charges against him, 356 ; remanded to England, 357.
Appomattox River discovered, 65, 268, 307.
Appomattox town, 107, 264.
Appomattox Indians, 40, 307.
Argall, Captain Samuel, captures Pocahontas, 107; his expedition against the French in Acadia, 111; reduces Dutch fort at Manhattan, 111 ; governor of Virginia, 124 ; his tyranny, 127 ; departure from Vir- ginia, 129; is knighted, 129.
Arlington, Earl of, 274. Armada, Spanish, 27.
Arnold, Benedict, invades Virginia, 710; returns to Portsmouth, 713; his position there, 717; joins Phil- lips in second invasion, 719; suc- ceeds Phillips, 722 ; La Fayette re- fuses to correspond with, 722; returns to New York, 727.
Assembly of Virginia first held, 139; petitions the king, 172 ; the holding of, disallowed by Charles the First, 179; Charles the First desires as-
sembly to be called, 181 ; declara- tion of, against restoration of Vir- ginia Company, 200; loyalty of, 213, 251; supreme power claimed by, 238; sends address to Charles the Second, 251 ; demonstrations of its loyalty, 253; proceedings of, during Bacon's Rebellion, 296-7; journals of, seized, 320; "Bacon's Laws" repealed by, 322 ; Culpepper calls one ; Beverley, clerk of, persecuted, 335 ; opposes governor's negative, and is prorogued, 339; Nicholson refuses to call, 345; held in college, 364; ceremony of opening, 364; acts of, 376 ; Spotswood dissolves, 395; Spotswood prorogues, 399; loyalty of, 417; passes relief acts, 507, 509; resolutions of, against stamp act, 540-41 ; thanks of, given to Washington, 504; remonstrates against proceedings of British go- vernment, 543 ; Botetourt dissolves 557; he calls together, 558; dis- approves of Episcopate, 561 ; pro- ceedings of, 570; Dunmore dis- solves, 573; votes thanks to Dun- more for his conduct of Indian war, 594; first under republican consti- tution, 672; proceedings of, 681.
BACON, NATHANIEL, JR., his servant and overseer slain by Indians, 286; leader of insurgents, 287; proclaimed a rebel and pursued by Berkley, 289 ; marches into wilder- ness and massacres tribe of Indians. 289 ; elected burgess, arrested, and released, 289 ; sues for pardon, 290 ; restored to council, 291; Berkley issues secret warrants for his arrest (753)
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and he escapes, 292 ; re-enters Jamestown and extorts a commis- sion, 293 ; countermarches against governor, 299; calls convention, 301; exterminates Indians, 307; marches upon Jamestown, 308; puts governor to flight and burns Jamestown, 310; dies, 311; pun- ishment of his adherents, 313, 317, 320, 321, 322.
Bacon, Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Bacon, Jr., 312, 329.
Bacon, Nathaniel, Sr., member of council, 292 ; member of court-mar- tial, 315 ; auditor, 327 ; president of council. 344
Bacon, Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Bacon, Sr., 344.
Bacon Quarter Branch, 421.
Baltimore, George, Lord, visits Vir- ginia ; procures grant of territory from Charles the First, 183.
Baltimore, Cecilius, Lord, patentee of Maryland, employs Leonard Cal- vert to settle a colony there, 189 ; character of Baltimore's grant, 191. Baltimore, Benedict, Lord, 377.
Banister, Colonel John, 725.
Baptists in Virginia, Blair's letter re- specting, 55.4.
Barges, battle of, 738.
Barlow, Captain, 29.
Barradall, Edward, 434.
Barron, Commodore James, 679.
Barron, Captain Richard, 679-80, 738.
Barron, Lieutenant William, 679.
Barron, Captain Samuel, 723, 738.
Batt, Captain Henry, his expedition across the mountains, 268.
Baylor, Colonel, 668, 691.
"Bear and Cub," extract from Acco- mac records, 261.
Behn, Mrs. Afra, 317.
Bennet, Richard, a non-conformist, removes to Maryland, 212, 215 ; par. liamentary commissioner, 216 ; with Clayborne reduces Maryland, 222 ; governor of Virginia, 223; agent at London, 233.
Berkley, seat on James River, 163.
Berkley, Sir William, governor, 200 ; issues proclamation against non- conformists, 203; captures Ope- chancanough, 204 ; visits England, 204; generosity to royalist refugees, 215; surrenders colony, 217; goes
into retirement, 222; generous treatment of, 225; elected gover- nor, 242 ; errors regarding his elec- tion, 243 ; Charles the Second sends new commission to, 248; emolu- ments of, 252-53; again visits Eng- land, 252 ; superintends Albemarle colony, 267; his statistics of Vir- ginia, 271 ; his imbecile conduct in regard to the Indians, 281 ; refuses to give Bacon a commission, 287; proclaims Bacon a rebel, 288; re- leases Bacon from arrest, 289; issues secret warrants to arrest Ba- con, 292; Bacon extorts commis- sion from, 295 ; summons Glouces- ter militia, 298 ; escapes to Acco- mac, 299; returns to Jamestown, 306; escapes from Jamestown, 310; his recall and death, 223.
Berkley, Lady Frances, 224.
Bermuda Island, Sea-Venture wreck- ed on coast of, 94.
Bermuda City, 125.
Bermuda Hundred, 107, 112, 117.
Beverley, Robert, clerk of assembly, persecution of, 335-6-8.
Beverley, Robert, author of History of Virginia, 359.
Birkenhead discloses plot, 263. Blackbeard, the pirate, 396.
Blair, Rev. James, Commissary, pro- cures college charter, 346; presi- dent of college, 347; his controversy with Andros, 356 ; his controversy with Nicholson, 368; his contro- versy with Spotswood, 400; his death and character, 434.
Blair, John, president, 553; his letter concerning the Baptists, 554.
Bland, Giles, 304, 320.
Bland, Theodorick, speaker, 244.
Bland, John, 264.
Bland, Colonel Theodorick, Jr., has charge of convention troops, 694. Bland genealogy, 670.
Bland, Richard, his "Letters to
Clergy," 509; a burgess, 535 ; his "Inquiry into Rights of Colonies," 549; member of committee of cor- respondence, 570 ; delegate to con-' gress, 630; member of committee of safety, 624; death of, 670.
Bolling, Colonel Robert, marries Jane Rolfe, 122.
Boone, Daniel, 595.
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Boston, 257; Culpepper visits, 329; | port bill, 574; affairs at, 666.
Botetourt, Lord, governor, 556, 558 ; his death, 559.
Boucher, Rev. Jonathan, his opinions on slavery, 526.
Braddock, Edward, General, his ex- pedition against Fort Du Quesne, 471; defeat, 475; death, 480.
Brandywine, battle of, 685.
Braxton, Carter, interposes to stop Henry's advance, 612 ; member of committee of safety, 624; his Ad- dress to the Convention, 646; signer of Declaration of Independence, 652 ; sketch of, 662.
Breckenridge, 432, 490.
Brent, Captain, 284.
Bridge, Great, battle of, 635.
Bryan, Butler, Miss, marries Gov. Spotswood, 408.
Bucke, Rev. Mr., 95, 98, 117.
Bullet, Thomas, 501, 594, 635.
Bullet, Cuthbert, 594.
Burden's grant, 428.
Burgoyne, General, surrenders at Sa- ratoga, 686.
Burnaby, Rev. Andrew, his account of Virginia, 502; his opinion on the disputes between assembly and ministers, 511.
Burras, Anne, first Christian married in Virginia, 65.
Burwell, Lewis, President, 450.
Butler's Account of Virginia, 169-70. Byrd, Captain William, 421.
Byrd, Colonel William, Sr., of West- over, purchases records of Virginia Company, 174; auditor, 341; his generosity to Huguenots, 370 ; runs dividing line, 414; his opinion of people of New England, 415 ; plans Richmond and Petersburg, 421; his death, 435; epitaph, 436.
Byrd, Colonel William, Jr., of West- over, commands a Virginia regi- ment, 500 ; member of council, 610. Byrd, Mrs. Maria, of Westover, her correspondence with Arnold, 712.
CABELL, COL. WILLIAM, member of convention of 1776, 624, 626 ; mem- ber of committee of safety, 624; sketch of, 626.
Calvert, Sir George, first Lord Balti- more, 183, 189.
Calvert, Leonard, commands expedi- tion for planting colony in Mary- land, 189.
Camden, Gates defeated at, 698.
Camm, Rev. John, opposes "Two- Penny Act," 509, 514.
Campbell, Colonel William, defeats Ferguson at King's Mountain, 699, 700; at the battle of Guilford, 718; joins La Fayette, 735.
Campbell, Lieutenant-Colonel, killed at Eutaw Springs, 745.
Campbell, Colonel Arthur, 690.
Carr, Dabney, 571.
Carrington, Paul, member of com- mittee of safety, 624; sketch of, 624-25.
Carrington, Edward, 625.
Carter, John, 238, 264.
Carter, Robert, President, 412.
Carter, Charles, of Shirley, member of first council under republican constitution, 651.
Carter, Colonel Landon, 509. Carthagena expedition, 417.
Cary, Colonel Archibald, 555, 646; member of committee of corres- pondence, 570; reports preamble and resolutions of independence, 646 ; chairman of committee to pre- pare declaration of rights and plan of government, 648.
Charles the First, his colonial policy, 175-79; disallows assemblies, 179; desires one to be called, 181; ap- points council of superintendence, 187; grants Clayborne a license, 188; reinstates Harvey, 195; his government, 197; his letter to as- sembly, 201; overthrown at Nase- by, 204; executed, 212.
Charles the Second, restoration of, 244; transmits new commission to Berkley, 247; grants territory of Virginia to Arlington and Culpep- per, 274.
Charleston, South Carolina, founded, 330.
Charta, Magna, recognized, 237.
Charter granted to London Com- pany, 35; new one, 76; dissolved, 174; Virginia obtains a meagre one, 326.
Chelsea, seat of Austin Moore, 387. Cherokees, party of, visit Williams- burg, 450; in Sandy Creek expedi-
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tion, 490; reduced to submission, 672 ; invaded by Shelby, 692.
Chesapeakes town discovered, 23.
Chesapeake Bay supposed to have been discovered by Spaniards, 19; Newport enters, 38; Smith explores, 55, 60; discovered by English, 188 ; explored by Pory, 188; naval action in, 743.
Chickahominy River, 45.
Chickahominies, 110.
Chicheley, Sir Henry, appointed to command expedition against In- dians, 280 ; governor, 328, 332.
Christanna, Fort, 384
Church at Jamestown, 52, 101; of England, conformity to, required, 151; condition of, in Virginia in 1661, 249; laws concerning, 255; in Virginia, Rev. Morgan Godwyn's account of, 277; statistics of, 331; condition of, 354; dissent from, 438; ministers of, oppose "Two- Penny Act," 509.
Clarke, General George Rogers, cap- tures St. Vincennes, 691-92, 713. Clayborne, Colonel William, secretary of Virginia, effects settlement on Kent Island, 188; his contest witlı Maryland, 189, 192; convicted of high crimes, escapes to Virginia, goes to England, 192; expels Cal- vert from Maryland and usurps go- vernment, 205; one of commis- sioners for reducing Virginia, 216; assists Bennet in reducing Mary- land, 222; authorized to make dis- coveries, 225; with Bennet seizes government of Maryland, 230 ; dis- placed from office of secretary, 254; burgess, 281; member of court- martial, 315; genealogy, 324.
Cohees, 424.
Coin, current, 350, 444.
Collectors, 351, 354.
College of William and Mary, 345-47, 361-64, 376, 437.
College, Hampden Sidney, founded, 677.
College, Washington, founded, 677.
Commencement at William and Mary, 361.
Commissary, his power, 374.
Committee of correspondence, 570. Committee of safety, 624.
Commonwealth of England, 212. Company, Virginia, 175.
Congress meets at Philadelphia, 579, 618.
Constitution of Virginia, 648.
Convention troops quartered near
Charlottesville, 694; removed, 708. Convention called by Bacon, 300.
Convention meets at Williamsburg, 575 ; second, meets at Richmond, 599, 624; meets at Williamsburg, 644; proceedings of, 644-48; in- structs delegates in congress to propose independence, 646. Convicts, 269.
Convocation, 368, 400.
Corbin, Colonel G., member of coun- cil, 610.
Corbin, G., Jr., member of council, 610.
Corbin, Henry, 264.
Corbin, Colonel Richard, deputy re- ceiver-general, 611.
Corbin, John Tayloe, 645.
Cornstalk, Indian chief, 585, 587, 589. Cornwallis, Lord, invades Virginia, 726; pursues La Fayette, 728; marches to Point of Fork, 729; commits devastations, 733; retires to lower country, 735 ; pursued by La Fayette, 735; fortifies York- town, is besieged and capitulates, 742-45.
Correspondence, committee of, 570. Council, 351.
Counties, 190.
Court of claims, 351; county courts, 352; general court, 352; courts closed, 620.
Cromwell, Oliver, dissol ves Long Par- liament, 225; declared Protector, 225; his tolerant views, 231; let- ters, 230-31; death, 240; Virginia during his protectorate, 242.
Cromwell, Richard, succeeds to pro- tectorate, 240; recognized by as- sembly, 241 ; resigns, 242.
Cropper, Colonel, 740.
Culloden prisoners, 340.
Culpepper, Thomas, Lord, governor- in-chief, 328, 331, 333, 336.
Cummings, Rev. Charles, 690. Curtis, Edmund, 220.
Custis, Martha, Washington marries, 504.
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DALE, SIR THOMAS, governor, his code | Drummond, William, 266, 294, 299, of martial law, 104; founds town 302-3, 307-8, 316, 321. of Henrico, 105; his expedition up Drummond, Sarah, 303. York River, 108; proposes to Drysdale, Hugh, governor, 411. marry a daughter of Powhatan, 113; takes Pocahontas to England, 116.
Dandridge, Captain Nathaniel West, 409, 418, 422.
Dandridge, John, 504.
Dandridge, Martha, marries, first, John Parke Custis; and secondly, George Washington, 504.
Dandridge, Bartholomew, 644, 651. Dare, Virginia, first Christian child born in Virginia, 26.
Davies, Rev. Samuel, settles in Han- over County, 446 ; his zeal and elo- quence, 447, 484; visits Great Bri- tain, 482 ; his allusion to Washing- ton, 483; patriotism and influence, 483, 498.
Dawson, Rev. Thomas, president of William and Mary, 505.
Deane, Silas, 702-3.
Declaration of Rights, 648.
Declaration of Independence, 652; Virginia signers of, 652.
Declaration, Mecklenburg, 615.
Delaware, Lord, first governor of Vir- ginia, 77, 96, 101, 103, 126.
Delaware River, name of, 126.
Delaware City, 126, 313.
Delaware, Lady, presents Pocahontas at court, 119.
Dennis, Captain, commissioner for reducing Virginia, 216; compels colony to surrender, 217.
Dictator, alleged scheme of appoint- ing, 676.
Digges, Edward, governor, 233; agent at London, 236.
Digges, Dudley, 233.
Disputes between colonies and mother country, 530.
Dinwiddie, Robert, governor, 452; dissensions between him and as- sembly, 454; his correspondence with Washington, 493, 496 ; letter to Fox, 494; succeeded by Blair, 494, 498.
Discovery, early voyages of, 17.
Dissenters, 202, 211, 371-73, 438, 446. Dividing line, 414. Drake, Sir Francis, 24.
Dunmore, Lord, governor, 569; dis- . solves assembly, 570, 573; his In- dian war, 582 ; indignation against, 588; his proclamation, 607; re- moves powder, 607; his proceed- ings, 608-10; offers "the olive branch," 618; retires aboard the Fowey, 619; correspondence with assembly, 619; his predatory war- fare, 632; driven from Gwynn's Island, 665; retires from Virginia, 665; subsequent career, 665.
Dunmore, Lady, arrives at Williams- burg, 572; retires aboard the Fo- wey, 612 ; returns to Williamsburg, 618 ; embarks for England, 623.
Dutch, the, England at war with, 264. Du Quesne, Fort, Braddock's expedi-
tion against, 471; captured by Forbes, and called Fort Pitt, 502.
EFFINGHAM, LORD HOWARD OF, GOV- ernor, 336; his corruption and ty- ranny, 342.
Elizabeth, Queen, names Virginia, 22. Elizabeth River, 59.
Episcopate, American, 560.
Eutaw Springs, battle of, 744.
FAIRFAX, WILLIAM, 435, 457. Fairfax, Thomas, Lord, 458.
Fairfax, Bryan, 574.
Farmingdale, 122.
Farrar's Island, 104.
Fauquier, Francis, governor, 508 ; his death, 553.
Ferguson, Colonel, killed at King's Mountain, 698, 700.
Ferrer, Nicholas, deputy treasurer of Virginia Company, 170, 174-76, 187.
Ferrer, John, 171, 187, 226.
Forbes, General, captures Fort Du Quesne, 502.
Fontaine, John, 387.
Fontaine, Rev. Peter, his opinion on slavery, 494.
Francisco, Peter, 733.
Franklin, Benjamin, 473, 652, 702.
Fredericksburg, Smith visits site of, 59; volunteers assembled at, 608. Free Trade established, 245.
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Free Church of Scotland, disruption | Hansford, one of Bacon's adherents, of, 367. executed, 314.
Fresh, great, 560.
Fry, Colonel, 463-65.
GAP, DUTCH, 105.
Gates, Sir Thomas, governor, 35, 77, 94-8, 102-4, 111.
Gazette, Williamsburg, 419.
Gates, Horatio, serves under Brad- dock, 472; Burgoyne surrenders to, 686 ; defeated at Camden, 698. Geography, physical, of Virginia, 426. Germans settle valley of Shenandoah, 431.
Germanna, residence of Governor Spotswood, 381, 404.
Germantown, battle of, 685.
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 19.
Gilbert, Bartholomew, 29.
Girty, Simon, 593.
Godwyn, Rev. Morgan, his account of church in Virginia, 277.
Gondomar, Count, 19, 169, 176.
Gooch, William, governor, 414 ; com- mands Virginia regiment in Car- thagena expedition, 417; his cha- racter, 449 ; his interview with dis- senters, 440 ; his measures against them, 441; resigns, 448.
Gookin, Daniel, 164.
Gosnold, Bartholomew, 35; his voy- age to New England, 28 ; his death, 43.
Governor, powers of, 350.
Gravesend, Pocahontas dies at, 120. Greene, Nathaniel, General, 715.
Greenspring, plundered by rebels, 308 ; assembly held at, 322.
Grenville, George, introduces stamp act, 538.
Griffin, Rev. C., 384.
Grymes, John, member of council, 446 ; taken prisoner, 665.
Guilford, battle of, 718.
Gwynn's Island, Dunmore driven from, 665.
HAKLUYT, RICHARD, 115.
Hall, Carpenter's, congress meets in, 579.
Hamor, Ralph, visits Powhatan, 112. Hampden Sydney College founded, 677.
Hanover presbytery, memorial of, 673.
Hariot, Thomas, 23-4.
Harrison, Benjamin, of Surry, 654.
Harrison, Benjamin, of Brandon, mem-
ber of first council under republican constitution, 651.
Harrison, Jr., Benjamin, of Berkley, member of committee of corres- pondence, 570; delegate to con- - gress, 681; signer of Declaration, 652 ; his family, 654-56.
Harrison, John, delegate in congress, 681.
Harvey, Sir John, governor, 182; visits Calvert, 191 ; gives away large tracts of Virginia territory, 193; his corruption and tyranny, 193; deposed and reinstated 195.
Hatcher, William, 228.
Hawley, Major Joseph, of Massachu- setts, 601.
Henrico, town of, 105.
Henry, Prince, 109.
Henry, Rev. Patrick, 521.
Henry, John, father of Patrick Henry the orator, 520; his map of Vir- ginia, 521.
Henry, Jr., Patrick, his speech in " Parsons' Cause," 515; early life and education, 519 ; his resolutions against stamp act, 538; Mason's opinion of, 573 ; member of conven- tion, 538-42 ; member of congress, 579; his resolutions for putting colony in state of defence, 599 ; his speech, 600; captain of Hanover vo- lunteers, 611 ; recovers compensa- tion for powder, 612; Dunmore's proclamation against, 613; his popularity, 614; colonel of Ist Vir- ginia regiment, 627; resigns, 641; indignation of troops, 641; mem- ber of convention of 1776, 644; elected first governor of independ- ent Virginia, 650 ; alleged scheme of making him dictator, 676.
Hill, Colonel Edward, (the elder,) speaker, 228; defeated by Ricahe- crians, 233 ; re-elected speaker, 239; disfranchised, 297; his death, 361. Hillsborough, Earl of, 558. Hobkirk's Hill, battle of, 727.
Holloway, John, speaker, 415. Hopkins, William, lawyer, 416. Horrocks, Rev. James, 562.
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Howard, Lord of Effingham, 337, 342. | Jefferson, Peter, 604.
Howe, Colonel, assumes command of
Virginia troops at Great Bridge, 636 ; occupies Norfolk, 638.
Howe, Sir William, evacuates Boston, 667.
Hudson River discovered, 60. Huguenots, 369.
Hunt, Rev. Robert, 38, 43, 51, 52.
Hunter, Robert, appointed governor, captured during voyage, 375.
INDIANS, seen at Cape Henry, 39 ; as- sault Jamestown, 42; Smith cap- tured by, 46 ; tribes of, discovered by Smith, 47; Smith erects fort as refuge from, 74; manners and cus- toms and character of, 85; exter- mination of, 50, 167; general act relating to, 255 ; number of, in Vir- ginia, 268-69 ; incursions of, 280, 486, 492; Piscataway besieged, 285; murders committed by, 286; tribe of, massacred by Bacon, 289; Bacon marches against South-side tribes, 307; Spotswood reduces tribes of, 380; Captain McDowell slain by, 431; treaty with Six Nations of, 433; treaty of Lancas- ter, with, 433 ; battle with, at Point Pleasant, 584; Logan's speech, 590; Boone's rencontres with, 595-98; Cherokee sue for peace, 672. Ingram succeeds Bacon, 313. Innes, Colonel, 469, 496, 632, 710.
JAMES THE FIRST, king, issues letters patent, 35; his cruel treatment of Raleigh, 134, 156 ; jealous of Vir- ginia Company, 169; death of, 175.
James the Second succeeds to throne, 339 ; his despotism, 341 ; abdicates, 342.
Jamestown, landing at, 41; assaulted by Indians, 42; destroyed by fire, 51; scarcity of provisions at, 75; abandoned by colonists, 98 ; they re- turn to it, 98; church at, 101 ; con- dition of, 124; Bacon enters, 293; situation of, 309; burnt by rebels, 310 ; seat of government removed from, 358.
Jarratt, Rev. Devereux, biographical sketch of, 563.
Jefferson, Jolın, 172.
Jefferson, Thomas, meets with Pat- rick Henry, 524; member of com- mittee of correspondence, 570; his "Summary View," 575; notice of, 603; marries Marthia Skelton, 606 ; author of preamble to Declaration of Rights, 650; author of Declara- tion of Independence, 652 ; member of committee of revisal, 676; gover- nor, 708-11; attempt of British to capture, 732.
Jeffreys, Colonel Herbert, governor, 323; his proceedings, 326-28 ; suc- ceeded by Chicheley, 328.
Jones, Rev. Hugo, 357, 382.
Jones, Joseph, delegate to congress, 681.
Jumonville, M. De, death of, 464.
KEMP, RICHARD, governor, 204. Kent Island, 196.
Kenton, Simon, 593.
King's Mountain, battle of, 699.
Kinloch, Francis, 732.
Kiquotan, (Hampton,) 66, 104, 139, 319.
LA FAYETTE, MARQUIS DE LA, 722, 735, 737, 743, 747, 748, 751.
Land, grants of, 350.
Lane, Ralph, governor of Raleigh's colony, 23.
Laneville, 611.
Lancaster, treaty of, 433,
Laud, Archbishop, 189, 199. Lawrence, Henry, 241.
Lawrence, Richard, 259, 294, 298-99, 302, 311, 316, 317.
Laydon, John, 65. Lee, Richard, 264.
Lee, Richard Henry, his opinions on the "Two-Penny Act," 512 ; a bur- gess, 537 ; proposes separation of offices of speaker and treasurer, 544; sketch of his early life, 577, moves resolution of separation from Great Britain, 652; biographical sketch of, 659; charges against, 681; he demands an inquiry, 682 ; his defence and honorable acquittal, 682-84.
Lee, Francis Lightfoot, signer of De- claration, 652; notice of, 662; tenders his resignation as delegate in congress, 682.
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Lee, Thomas Ludwell, member of committee of safety, 624.
Lee, Arthur, biographical sketch of, 701.
Lee, William, American commissioner at Vienna and Berlin, 704.
Lee, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry, bio- graphical sketch of, 745.
Lee, General Charles, 664, 668, 688. Leslie's invasion, 707.
Lewis, Jolin, pioneer of Augusta, 428. Lewis, Andrew, defeats Indians at Point Pleasant, 585-86 ; sketch of, 588; his brothers, 589; appointed- brigadier-general, 641 ; expels Dun- more from Gwynn's Island, 665.
Lewis, Colonel Charles, killed at Point Pleasant, 585.
Loan office scheme, 539.
Logan, speech of, 590; sketch of, 590-93; his death, 706.
Loudoun, Lord, appointed governor- in-chief of Virginia, 500.
Loudoun, Fort, in Virginia, 494.
Loudoun, Fort, in Tennessee, 492.
Ludwell, Thomas, 264; agent at Lon- don, 276 ; his death, 358.
Ludwell, Colonel Philip, member of council, 291 ; captures Giles Bland, 306; quarrels with Jeffreys, 327; sent to England to prefer com- plaints against Effingham, 342, 344. Lyons, James, attorney for plaintiff in " Parsons' Cause," 516.
MADISON, CAPTAIN, 166.
Madison, Jr., James, biographical no- tice of, 704. Makemie, Rev. Francis, 371.
Manhattan, 111, 151.
Manakintown, 370.
Manakin Indians, 289.
Marriage, the first in Virginia, 65.
Marshall, Colonel Thomas, 685.
Marshall, John, (chief justice,) 635, 713.
Mary's, St., in Maryland, settled, 190. Mary's, Mount, St., settled by Gookin, 164.
Mason, George, drauglits non-impor-
· tation agreement, 558 ; member of committee of safety, 624; author of declaration (or bill) of rights, 648 ; author of constitution of Vir- ginia, 648; member of committee of revisal, 676; genealogy, 648.
Massacre of colonists by Indians in 1622, 160.
Massacre of colonists by Indians in 1644, 203.
Massacre of tribe of Indians by Bacon, 289.
Massawomecks, tribe of, 58.
Matthews, Captain Samuel, 209, 212; governor, 234; agent, 234, 236, 238; his election as governor declared void, 238; re-elected, 238.
Matthews, Thomas, 284.
McRoberts, Archibald, 566.
Maury, Rev. James, plaintiff in " Par- sons' Cause," 515.
Maynard, Lieutenant, his engagement with Blackbeard, 396.
McDowell, Ephraim, 429.
Mc Dowell, Captain John, 431.
Meade, Colonel Richard Kidder, aid- de-camp to Washington, 689 ; the Meades of Virginia, 689.
Mechanics, condition of, 350.
Mecklenburg Declaration, 615.
Menendez, Pedro, 18.
Mercer, Colonel George, 487, 543.
Mercer, James, member of committee of safety, 624.
Mercer, General Hugh, mortally wounded near Princeton, 668; no- tice of, 668-69.
Merchants, 350.
Methodists appear in Virginia, 562. Middle Plantation, 188.
Minge, James, clerk of assembly, 281, 301.
Ministers, 249, 374, 696.
Monacan Indians, 63.
Monmouth, battle of, 688.
Monmouth's adherents sent to Vir- ginia, 339.
Monongahela, battle of, 474.
Moore, Austin, of Chelsea, 387.
Moore, Bernard, of Chelsea, marries daughter of Governor Spotswood, 408.
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