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Moore, Lucy, married to Speaker Ro- binson, 548.
Moore's Creek Bridge in North Caro- lina, battle of, 640.
Morgan, General Daniel, notice of, 686 ; his victory at Cowpens, 715. Morris, Samuel, dissenter in Hanover County, 439.
Morrison, Francis, governor, 252; agent, 275.
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Morquez, Pedro Menendez, explores Bay of Santa Maria, (Chesapeake,) 18.
Mounds in Virginia, 85.
NANSEMOND, 59.
Navigation act, 218, 248.
Navy, Virginia, 678. Necessity, Fort, 465.
Neck, Northern, 248, 274.
Negroes introduced into Virginia, 144.
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Negroes, number of, in 1649, 206.
Negroes, number of, in 1670, 272.
Negroes, number of, in 1714, 383. Negroes, number of, in 1756, 494.
Negroes, duty on importation of, dis- allowed, 412.
Negroes, loss of, during British inva- sions, 733.
Nelson, President William, 654.
Nelson, Thomas, 653.
Nelson, Secretary Thomas, 651, 653, 747.
Nelson, Jr., General Thomas, his edu- cation, 653 ; member of convention, 653; member of congress, 653; his letter urging independence, 645; signer of Declaration, 652 ; sketch of, 653; his family, 653-54; com- mands militia during Arnold's in- vasion, 710; commands militia at siege of York, 747; notice of him and his family, 653.
Nelson, Judge Hugh, of Belvoir, 731. Newport, Captain, sails for Virginia, 38; lands at Jamestown and ex- plores the River Powhatan, 41; visits Powhatan, 50; returns to England, 53; arrives with second supply, 61; explores Monacan country, 63 ; embarks for England, 65.
Nicholas, Robert Carter, elected trea- surer, 547; member of committee of correspondence, 624; member of convention, 600, 602.
Nicholson, Colonel Francis, gover- nor, 344; succeeded by Andros, 347; again governor, 358; his ty- ranny, 358; his complaints against Virginia, 363; his speech to assem- bly, 365; his controversy with Blair, 368; is recalled, 369 ; notice of his career, 369.
Non-importation agreement, 558.
Norfolk incorporated, 420; burnt, 640. Northy, Attorney-General, 367.
Norwood, Colonel, his voyage to Vir- ginia, 213 ; despatched by Sir Wil- liam Berkley to Holland, 215. Nott, Edward, governor, 375.
OHIO COMPANY, 452.
Opechancanough, captures Smith, 46 ; seized by Smith, 71; visits James- town, 124; his hypocrisy, 161; heads a second massacre, 203; taken prisoner by Berkley, and dies, 204.
Opitchapan succeeds Powhatan, 130. Orders, general, 642, 652.
Ovid translated at Jamestown by George Sandys, 152.
PAGE, JOHN, member of council, 347, 503.
Page, Matthew, 347.
Page, Mann, Jr., 682.
Page, John, of Rosewell, member of council, 614; member of committee of safety, 624; member of first council under the republican con- stitution, 651; commands party of militia during Arnold's invasion, 712.
Pamunkey, or Pamaunkee, Indian name of York River, 47.
Pamunkey, residence of Opechanca- nough, 47.
Pamunkey Indians, 298.
Parishes, 371.
Parliament, Long, 199, 215.
" Parsons' Cause," 507.
Paspaheghs, 39, 103; chief of, Smith's rencontre with, 73.
Patriot, the, capture of, 738.
Pendleton, Edmund, his early life and education, 535; opposes Henry's resolutions, 541; member of com- mittee of correspondence, 570 ; de- legate to congress, 575 ; member of committee of safety, 624 ; president of convention, 644; member of committee of revisal, 676.
Percy, Captain George, governor, 63, 66, 70, 73, 75, 97, 102.
Petersburg incorporated, 438; skir- mish at, 720; General Phillips occu- pies, 720 ; his death at, 722; Arnold commands at, 722; Cornwallis ar- rives at, 726.
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Philadelphia, congress meets at, | Puritans, English, come over to Vir- 579.
Phillips, General, prisoner of war, 694; invades Virginia, 719; com- mits devastations, 720-21; his death, 722.
Pianketank, 59.
Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock, 144.
Pirates, act against, 360.
Pirate captured, 361.
Piscataway, siege of, 284.
Plague in London, 265.
Plantagenet Beauchamp, 210.
Plantation, Middle, 300, 358.
Plymouth, landing at, 144.
Pocahontas rescues Smith, 48 ; enter-
tains him with a dance, 62; dis- closes to him a plot, 67; made pri- soner by Argall, 107; John Rolfe marries, 109; baptized, 115 ; visits England, 116 ; recommended to the queen by Smith, 118; 'Smith's in- terview with, 118; presented at court, 119 ; her death, son, and de- scendants, 120, 122.
Point Pleasant, battle of, 582, 584.
Point Comfort, 59, 188.
Population of Colonies, 362, 383, 450. Population of Virginia, 272.
Porterfield, Colonel, mortally wound- ed at Camden, 698.
Pory, John, 139, 172, 188.
Post-office, 348.
Potomac River, 56.
Pott, Dr. John, governor, convicted of stealing cattle, 182-83.
Powder, Dunmore's removal of, 607. Powhatan, name of river and seat, 41, 42.
Powhatan Indians, confederacy of, 269.
Powhatan, Indian chief, visited by Newport and Smith, 41, 49; re- leases Smith, 48; coronation of, 63; Smith visits, at Werowocomoco, 65; "Powhatan's Chimney," built for him by English, 68; Werowo- comoco his residence, 68; consents to marriage of Pocahontas, 109; Hamor's interview with, 112 ; death of, and character, 129.
Presbyterianism, origin of, in Han- over, 439. Preston, 432, 491.
Pretender, 437.
Printing in Virginia, 273, 418, 419.
ginia, 144.
Puritan ministers from New England visit Virginia, 302.
QUAKERS, 244, 261, 396. Quiyoughcohanocks, chief of, 39.
RALEIGH, SIR WALTER, his efforts to colonize Virginia, 21; introduces tobacco at court, 25; anecdotes of his using tobacco, 25, 153; notice of his life and death, 132-36.
Raleigh, Lady, 133, 134, 135.
Raleigh, City of, in Virginia, char- tered, 26.
Raleigh, the, 573.
Randolph, Sir John, speaker, 420; his death, 424.
Randolph, William, 424.
Randolph, Peyton, king's attorney- general, 535 ; replied to by Davies, 447; opposes Henry's resolutions, 542 ; speaker of house of burgesses, 630; delegate to congress, 575; president of congress, 579 ; member of committee of correspondence, 624; his death, 629.
Randolph genealogy, 629.
Randolph, John, attorney-general, 630.
Randolph, Edmund, 630.
Randolph, Beverley, 630.
Randolph, John, of Roanoke, 630.
Randolph, the frigate, blown up, 688.
Rappahannock River, 57.
Ratcliffe, John, 39, 43, 45, 53, 65.
Read, Colonel Clement, member of convention of 1775-6, 625.
Reekes, Stephen, pilloried, 199. Revenue, 353.
Revolt threatened, 275.
Ricahecrians, Colonel Edward Hill defeated by, 199, 233.
Rice, Rev. Dr. John H., 82.
Richmond, town of, laid off, 421; in- corporated, 433; convention meets at, 599; seat of government re- moved to, 710; entered by Arnold, 710.
Roanoke Island, 22, 23, 26, 226. Roanoke River, 24.
Roanoke, or Rawrenoke, Indian shell- money, 56, 113.
Roanoke, John Randolph of, 631. Robinson, John, president, 449.
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Robinson, John, Jr., speaker, 535; his defalcation, 544, 546 ; his family, 548.
Rockbridge County, first settlers of, 423.
Rolfe, John, marries Pocahontas, 109; member of council, 139.
Rolfe, Thomas, son of Pocahontas, 122.
Rolfe, Henry, 122.
Rolfe, Jane, marries Colonel Robert Bolling, 122.
SAFETY, committee of, 624.
Sandy Creek expedition, 489.
Sandys, Sir Edwin, 144, 149, 151, 176. Sandys, George, treasurer in Virginia,
151; translates Ovid at Jamestown, 152.
Scarburgh, Edmund, excites disturb- ances in Eastern Shore, 226; his proceedings as surveyor-general in establishing boundary line, 259.
Scarburgh, Colonel John, 342.
School, East India, 158.
Scotch-Irish settlers of Western Vir- ginia, 423, 429.
Sea-Venture, the, 77, 94.
Secretary, office of, 352.
Shakespeare's Tempest, 99.
Shenandoah River, 389.
Shenandoah valley, 425, 431, 505. Sheriffs, 353.
Sherwood, Grace, tried for witchcraft, 382.
Shirley, 107, 126.
Silk in Virginia, 158.
Simcoe, Lieutenant-Colonel, 722, 729, 735.
Six Nations, treaty with, 433.
Slaves, baptism of, 267.
Slavery, negro, remarks on, 145, 528. Smith, Sir Thomas, treasurer of Vir- ginia Company, 37.
Smith, Robert, 264, 266.
Smith, Captain John, his early life and adventures, 30, 34; his life in jeopardy at Isle of Mevis, 38; one of council of Virginia, 39; excluded from council, 41; restored to coun- cil, 43; has charge of colony, 44; explores the country, 45; taken prisoner by Opechancanough, 46; rescued by Pocahontas, 48; ex- plores Chesapeake, 55; president, 60 ; his energetic administration,
64; visits Powhatan, 66; seizes Opechancanough, 71; encounters chief of Paspahegh, 73; builds fortlet on Ware Creek, 74; his efforts to quell disorders, 80; his return to England, 80; descendants still living in England, 83; his epi- taph, 83.
Somers, Sir George, 35, 77, 94, 97, 102. South Carolina solicits aid from Vir- ginia, 391.
Southampton, Earl of, treasurer of Virginia Company, 149, 175-77. Sovereignty, declaration of, 238.
Spencer, Nicholas, president, 336. Spilman, Henry, 141.
Spotswood, Alexander, governor, his lineage and early career, 378; dis- solves assembly, 379 ; assists North Carolina, 380; establishes Indian school, 384; visits Christanna, 385 ; his Tramontane expedition, 387; institutes Tramontane order, 390 ; his disputes with burgesses, 393-99; he dissolves assembly, 394; com- plaints against, 398; displaced, 404; review of his administration, 404; manufacturer of iron, 405 ; sub- sequent career, death, and family, 404-10.
Stamp act, 534, 538, 543; repeal of, 544.
Staunton incorporated, 438. .
St. John's Church, 599.
Starlins, Captain, 738.
"Starving Time" at Jamestown, 93.
State House, Philadelphia, congress meets in, 618.
Statistics, 206, 271, 331, 349, 382, 443, 471.
Steg, Thomas, 216.
"Stint" of tobacco, 265.
Stith, Rev. William, president of Col- lege of William and Mary, and author of History of Virginia, 437, 482.
Stobo, Captain, 467-68, 504.
Stone House, the old, on Ware Creek, 74.
Stone, deputy governor of Maryland, 228.
Strachey, William, 102, 106.
Stratford, 577.
Stuart, house of, 243.
Studley, birth-place of Patrick Henry, 519.
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Stukeley, Sir Lewis, 122.
Stuyvesant, Peter, Berkley's reply to, 246.
Suffolk burnt by the British, 697.
Summer Islands, 102, 109.
Surrender of Virginia to Common- wealth of England, 217.
Surrender of Burgoyne, 686.
Surrender of Cornwallis, 749.
Swift, Dean, desires to be bishop of Virginia, 377, 562.
Swift Run Gap, 388.
Syme, Colonel John, 519.
TABB, JOHN, member of committee of safety, 624.
Tarleton, Lieutenant-Colonel, 715, 729, 731, 734, 750.
Tayloe, John, member of first council under republican constitution, 651. Tea, duty on, 568.
Tempest, Shakespeare's, 99.
Temple, Colonel Benjamin, 713.
Thompson, Rev. John, 409.
Tobacco, or Uppowoc, how used by Indians. 24; Lane introduces into England, 25; anecdotes of Ra- leigh's smoking, 25, 153; culture of, commenced by colonists, 117; new mode of curing, 125; cultiva- tion of, discouraged by government, 151; James the First's aversion to, and his "Counterblast," 153-57; Charles the First affects monopoly of, 180; sole staple of Virginia, 181; "stint" of, 265 ; low price of, 281, 332 ; plant-cutting, 333 ; reve- nue from, 331; " Two-Penny Act," 507; destroyed by the British, 733. Toleration act, 373.
Tomocomo, 119.
"Two-Penny Act," 507.
Totopotomoi, 233. Trade, free, established, 245.
Tuckahoe-root, 75, 87.
Tuckahoe, a seat on James River, 604, 631.
Tuckahoes, a name given to inhabit- ants of Eastern Virginia, 424.
Tucker, St. George, 672.
Tyler, John, revolutionary patriot, 723.
Tyler, John, President, 724.
UTTOMATTOMAKKIN, 119.
VALLEY OF VIRGINIA, first settlers of, 423, 429, 488.
Valley Forge, Washington at, 687.
Van Braam, Jacob, 461, 466, 468, 504.
Varina, 104-5.
Vernon, Admiral, 417.
Vernon, Mount, 417, 505.
Vestries, 354.
Virginia, state and condition of, 349; opposes stamp act, 538; becomes independent, 648.
Virginia, name given by Queen Eliza- beth, 22.
Virginians, habits of, 495.
WADDELL, REV. JAMES, "the Blind Preacher," 521.
Walker, Dr., 731.
Walker, John, 731-32.
Wallace, Rev. Caleb, 674.
Washington, Colonel John, a burgess, 281; commands militia at siege of Piscataway Fort, 285.
Washington, Captain Lawrence, 417, 452 ; his views on religious freedom, 454; in Carthagena expedition, 417.
Washington, George, his lineage, 457 ; early life, 457; surveyor, 458-59; major, 460; despatched on mis- sion through wilderness, 461; lieutenant-colonel, 465; surprises French party, 464; surrenders at Fort Necessity, 466; resigns, 470 ; aide-de-camp to Braddock, 472; heroism at battle of Monongahela, 477; his account of the defeat, 479; commander-in-chief of Vir- ginia forces, 486; visits Boston, 487; Dinwiddie's correspondence with, 496; member of assembly, 503; marries, 503; receives thanks of assembly, 504; reports non-im- portation agreement, 558; attends meeting of burgesses, 571 ; member of congress, 575, 580 ; chosen com- mander-in-chief by congress, 621; his conduct of affairs during revo- lutionary war, 665-68, 686-87, 742, 746, 748, 751.
Washington, Colonel William, 716, 718-744.
Washington College founded, 677. Weedon, General George, 685.
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Werowocomoco, 48, 66, 71-2, 108, | Winston, Sarah, mother of Patrick 129-30.
West Point, 126, 313, 316, 320, 327.
West, Captain John, 195.
West, Francis, Governor, 180. West, Sir Thomas, Lord Delaware, 96. Whitaker, Rev. Alexander, 106, 109, 115, 117.
White, Captain John, Governor of City of Raleigh, in Virginia, 26.
Whitefield preaches at Williamsburg, 438, 445.
William and Mary proclaimed in Vir- ginia, 343.
William and Mary College, 345-47, 361-64, 376, 437.
William the Third, death of, 362; succeeded by Anne, 362.
Williamsburg, City of, seat of govern- ment removed to, 358; descriptions of, 444, 502 ; disturbances at, 607; Cornwallis quartered at, 735; La Fayette quartered at, 743.
Winchester first settled, 427, 493.
Wingfield, Edward Maria, first presi- dent of council, 41, 43.
Henry, 519.
Winston, William, 520.
Withe, artist, 23-4.
Wives for colonists, 146.
Woodford, Colonel William, appoint- ed to command second Virginia regiment, 627; sent against Dun- more, 633 ; refuses to acknowledge Colonel Henry's superiority in com- mand, 633 ; has command at battle of Great Bridge, 635.
Wormley, Captain Ralph, 214. Wormley, Ralph, 610, 645.
Wythe, George, a burgess, 537; bio- graphical sketch of, 656.
YEARDLEY, SIR GEORGE, Governor, 117, 180.
Yeardley, Lady Temperance, 180.
Yeardley, Captain Francis, his letter to Ferrar, 226; Roanoke Indians visit, 226; purchases territory in North Carolina, 227.
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