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Clarke, Gen. George Rogers; cbarac-
ter and personal appearance of, 450 ; surprises Kaskaskia and Vincennes, 451 ; his march through the drowned lands of the Wabash, 452; captures Vincennes, 453 ; importance of his services, 454.
Clayborne, William, "The Rebel," historical caricatures of, 178 ; true portrait of, 178 ; Secretary of State, 178 ; settles Kent Island, 179 ; driv- en from Maryland, 179 ; convicted of piracy, 180 ; expels Calvert, 180 ; is expelled in turn, 181 ; the leader of the Puritans, 181 ; commissioner of Parliament, 195 ; again Secretary of State, 201; rednces Maryland, 211, 212 ; his character and the ex- planation of his career, 215, 216.
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Cleopatre, sister of Pocahontas, 104, 103. Cockburn, Admiral, ravages the coast, 488 ; repulsed at Craney Island, 488. Cohees, supposed origin of the name, 328.
Comedians, the Virginia Company of, 372.
Commonwealth, the English, Virginia under, 199-207.
Commonwealth's-men, the modera- tiou of, 200, 201.
Commonwealth, Virginia declares her- self an independent, 439.
Company, the London or Virginia, 15; powers of, 15, 16 ; orders of, to New- port, 45 ; Smith's "Rude Answer " to, 47, 48 ; new charter of, 56, 113; general courts of, 114; excitement at meetings of, 114; records of seized, 130; fall of, 132; debt of America to, 132; attempt to rečs- tablish, 184.
Confederacy, Virginia becomes a mem- ber of the Southern, 502.
Confederation, the Articles of; in- sufficiency of recognized, 472.
Congress the, of 1765, at New York, 389.
Congress, a general, proposed by Vir- ginia, 419; names of delegates to, 420; meet in Philadelphia, 420; Adains's opinion of it, 421 ; its ac- tion and Chatham's estimate of it, 421.
Conolly, secret agent of Lord Dun- more, 426, 430.
Constitution of the United States, ratified by Virginia, 476 ; with what conditions, 476, 477.
Constitution, the Virginia, of 1776, 439, 440.
Contrecœur, De, commandant at Du- quesne, 350.
Convention, the first Virginia, 419, 420 ; successive meetings and pro- ceedings of, 427, 435, 438 ; to decide as to the Federal Constitution, 475 ; to revise the Constitution of Vir- ginia, 488, 489 ; to consider the ques- tion of secession, 500.
Cornstalk, at the battle of Point Pleas- ant, 423, 424.
Cornwallis, Lord, invades Virginia, 459 ; his opinion of Lafayette, 459; ravages the State and retires to the coast, 460 ; lays a trap for Lafay- ette, 461 ; fortifies at Yorktown and is attacked there, 462, 467 ; his de- spatch to Sir Henry Clinton, 470 ; his surrender, 471, 472.
Correspondence, the Committees of,
established, 404; importance of, 416.
Council, the Virginia, names of orig- inal members of, 20.
Counties, names of the original, 202. Craig, Lewis, persecuted as a Baptist, 391.
Craney Island, repulse of the British at, 488. Croatan, 7.
Cromwell, Oliver, intentions of, in ref- erence to Virginia, 204, 205 ; none of the governors appointed by, 205; contradictory orders of, in relation to Maryland, 212, 213; his death, 215.
Cromwell, Richard, his intention to settle Virginia affairs, 204; resigns his authority, 218.
Culpeper, Thomas, Lord, obtains a grant of all Virginia, 233; Gover- nor, 299 ; fixes the value of coin, 299.
Curles, estate of Bacon, 240.
DALE, SIR THOMAS, High Marshal, his character, 88; breaks criminals on the wheel, 89 ; his soldiership, 90; his opinion of Virginia, 90 ; his trib- ute to Prince Henry, 91 ; builds Hen- rico, 91; his expedition to York River, 94, 95 ; labors to convert Po- cahontas, 97, 107 ; his proposition to Powhatan, 98; contrasts in char- acter of, 107; his administration, 109 ; abolishes the common store system, and institutes a better, 109, 110.
Dale's Gift, one of the oldest planta- tions, 110.
Dare, Virginia, the first English child born in America, 6.
Davenant, Sir William, captured on his way to Virginia, 228.
Davies, Samuel, the founder of the Presbyterian Church in Virginia, 338 ; Patrick Henry's opinion of him, 338; secures the extension of the Act of Toleration to Virginia, 338 ; his opinion of the Church Ar- ticles, 339 ; establishes the First Vir- ginia Presbytery, 339; his death, 339.
Delaware, Sir Thomas West, Lord, Governor, 56; his arrival in Vir- ginia, 82; scene at his landing, 83 ; Virginia under, 84, 85 ; at church, 86 ; commands against the In- dians, 87 ; his death and popularity, 87.
Dictator, proposition to appoint a Vir- ginia, 447.
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Digges, Dudley, member of Commit- tee of Safety, 435.
Digges, Edward, Governor, 205.
Dinwiddie, Robert, Governor, sends Washington as his envoy to the French, 341.
Dippers, the, of the Valley, 323. Dissenters, bill for exempting, 444.
Drake, Sir Francis, succors the Roan- oke colonists, 6; circumnavigates the world, 11.
Drayton, Michael, his salute to the adventurers, 17; to George Sandys, 139.
Drummond, 250; an adviser of Ba- con, 263 ; suggests the deposition of Berkeley, 268; his interview with Berkeley, 294 ; is executed, 294.
Drummond, Sarah, her decision of character, 273 ; appeals to the king, 296.
Drysdale, Hugh, Governor, his rose- colored report of Virginia, 329. Ducking-stools to be erected, 222.
Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, Gov- ernor, his character, 403 ; his un- popularity, 417 ; dissolves the Bur- gesses, 418 ; elegance of Lady, 417 ; ball in honor of his family, 418 ; marches to the Ohio, 422 ; his quar- rel with Lewis, 425; incites the In- dians against the Virginians, 426 ; seizes the powder, 430 : proposes to arm the negroes, 431 ; abandons the capital, 434 ; ravages the coast, 435- 437; burns Norfolk and is driven from Virginia, 437.
Duquesne, Fort, Braddock's campaign against, 345-353 ; Grant's attack on, 357 ; blown up and captured, 357.
Dutch, intrusion of on the soil of Vir- ginia, 189.
EFFINGHAM, LORD HOWARD of, Gover- nor, 300 ; concludes a treaty with the Mohawks and returns to Eng- land, 301.
Elizabeth, Qucen, names Virginia, 2. Emory and Henry College established, 88.
Entails, attack of Jefferson on, 444 ; the real objection to the system of, 445 ; agrarianism of modern oppo- nents of, 445 ; abolition of, 446.
FAIRFAX, THOMAS, LORD, inherits the Northern Neck, 327 ; his early life, 342 ; at Greenway Court, 342.
Farlow, Captain, executed by Berke- ley, 293.
Fauquier, Francis, Governor, dissolves
the Burgesses, 388; his death and character, 400.
Federalists and Republicans, 480.
Felons, the first sent to Virginia, 119; Jefferson's statement of the number of up to 1787, 228, 229; insignifi- cance of the element in Virginia, 229.
Ferrar, Nicholas, Treasurer of the London Company, arrested by James I., 130; his monastic estab- lishment at Little Gidding, 130.
Flower of Hundreds, one of the orig- inal boroughs, 115, 151.
Forbes, General, captures Fort Du- quesne, 357.
Fordyce, Captain, his gallantry at Great Bridge, 436.
Fouace, Rev. Mr., assaulted by Gov- ernor Nicholson, 303.
Fowler, Attorney General, insulted by Governor Nicholson, 302.
France in the New World, 4, 107, 340; her claims, 340, 341.
Franchise, history of legislation in regard to the, in Virginia, 222-224. Franklin, Benjamin, writes a ballad on the fate of Theach the pirate, 317 ; appointed postmaster by Spots- wood, 317 ; his advice to Braddock, 346.
Friends, the persecution of and their friends, 221 ; settle in the Valley, 326 ; their marriages, 324 ; hostility to the Establishment, 392, 394.
GABRIEL'S INSURRECTION, 485.
Gage, General, his estimate of the ac- tion of Virginia, 389.
Gates, Sir Thomas, Lieutenant-Gov- ernor, 56; is wrecked on the Ber- mudas, 58; arrival in Virginia, 80; sails for England, but returns and receives Lord Delaware, 83.
Gazette, the Virginia, notice of col- lege proceedings in, 306; the first newspaper in Virginia, 330 ; charac- ter of its matter, 330.
Germanna, Spotswood's settlement of, 319 ; Colonel Byrd's description of, 319, 320.
Germans of Palatines, the, sent over by Queen Anne, 319 ; excellent char- acter of, 320.
German settlers, the, in the Valley, 323; their manners and customs, 324.
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, his voyage and death, 5.
Glebes of the Church, act directing the sale of the, 414.
Gloucester, scenes of the Great Re
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bellion in, 265, 266, 283-286; the place of Bacou's death, 286.
Gold Fever, the, at Jamestown, 42. Gooch, William, Governor, 329; com- mands Virginia troops at Cartha- gena, 329.
Gookin, Daniel, driven from Virginia, as a Puritan, becomes eminent in New England, 172.
Gosnold, Bartholomew, makes the first direct voyage across the At- lantic, 13; the originator of Virginia colonization, 13 ; his death, 24.
Grant, Major, cut to pieces near Fort Duquesne, 357.
Grasse, Count de, 462 ; arrives in the Chesapeake, 464 ; is visited by Washı- ington, 465; repulses Admiral Graves, 464, 465.
Graves, Admiral, repulsed by De Grasse, 464, 465.
Great Bridge, action at, 436.
Great Meadows, Washington's surren- der at, 341 ; Braddock's death aud burial at, 354.
Greenspring, the residence of Sir Wil- liam Berkeley, 183, 199; headquar- ters of Bacon, 279.
Greenway Court, the residence of Lord Fairfax, settlers around, 327 ; Braddock stops at, 347.
Grenville, Sir Richard, founds the Ro- anoke settlement, 6; dies fighting the Revenge, 7.
Gwynn's Islaud, Dunmore driven from, 437 ; the place a lazar-house, 437.
HAKLUYT, RICHARD, 11, 13.
Halket, Sir Peter, killed near Fort Duquesne, 352.
Hamilton, Alexander, commands the riglit assaulting party at Yorktown, 468, 469.
Hamilton, Governor of Canada, sur- renders Vincennes to General Clarke, 453 ; sends Simon Girty to attack Wheeling, 453.
Hammond, Colonel, takes refuge iu Virginia, 191.
Hammond, John, author of "Leah and Rachel," expelled from the Burgesses, 202.
Hamor, Raphe, his antecedents and "Discourse of Virginia," 138; the confidant of Rolfe, 95; his singular mission to Powhatan, 98 ; defends his house during the massacre, 127 ; his piety, 13S.
Hampden Sydney College founded, 488.
Hansford, Colonel, evacuates James-
town, 278; is captured and hung by Berkeley, 293.
Harrison, Benjamin, his personal ap- pearance, 406 ; member of first Con- gress, 420.
Harvey, Sir John, Governor, his char- acter, 165; grounds of hostility of Virginians to, 165; the "thrusting out" of, 166; is reinstated by Charles I., 166.
Hatcher, William, sentenced to beg pardon on his knees, 203.
Henrico, University of, lands for, 142. Henricus, Dale's City of, 91, 92, 143. Henrietta Maria, her intention of seek- ing refuge in Virginia, 228.
Heury, Bishop of London, first Chan- cellor of William and Mary College, 306.
Henry, Patrick, his descent, 228, 379 ; his early life, 380 : appears against the parsons, 382; his resolutions against the Stamp Act, 385, 386 ; de- scription of his oratory, 386; his great outburst in the Burgesses, 387 ; importance of his action, 388; his protest against the religious per- secutions, 391; member of first Congress, 420; his declaration of Americanism, 421 ; proposes to arm the militia, 427 ; his prophecy, 428 ; exaggerations in counection with, 387, 428 ; marches on Williamsburg, 432 ; appointed commander-in-chief of the Virginia forces, 435; chosen first republican Governor, 440 ; pro- posal to make him Dictator, 448; denounces the Federal constitution, 475 ; liis deatlı, 481 ; his piety, 482. Hill, Colonel Edward, denounced as "a devil," 203; defeated by the Ricahecrians, 208.
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Hite, Joist, settles the lower Valley, 323.
Honeywood, Sir Philip, takes refuge in Virginia, 191.
Huguenots, the, settle at St. Augus- tine, 4; at Mannakintown, 309; ex- cellent character of, 309.
Hunt, Rev. Robert, first minister in Virginia, 13, 20; his death, 60 ; his high character, 333.
INDEPENDENCE, resolutions instructing the Virginia delegates to propose, 438; the Declaration of, 441 ; of the United States, recognized by Great Britain, 472.
Indians, the Virginia ; their conver- sion a cherished object, 12; Smith's portrait of them, 26; their usages 27 ; religion and selection of priests,
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28, 29; names of the seasons, 30; of the months and their festivals and ceremonies, 31 ; ruled by wom- en, 31 ; college for children of, 110 ; expeditions against directed by law, 150 ; they attack the colony, 124, 186, 241 ; treaties with, 98, 187; bat- tles with, 208, 243; not to hold of- fice, 310; mission at Christauna, 313, 314; outrages by, ou frontier, 355, 356 ; defeated finally at Point Pleasant, 423, 424.
Ingram, General, succeeds Bacon, 292; surrenders, 294.
Insurrectious, servile, the, 485 ; origin of unknown, 486.
JACKSON, ANDREW, tradition of his birthplace, 325.
Jackson, Gen. Thomas J., feeling of the country at intelligence of his death, 504.
James I. grants the three Virginia charters, 14, 56, 113 ; his obstinacy, 16 ; hostility to Sandys, 118 ; sends felons to Virginia, 119; his counter- blast to tobacco, 145 ; his struggle with the Company, 129-132; his death, 133.
James II., accession of, 300; hostil- city to the Virginians, 300; sends Monmouth's followers to Virginia, 300; excitement occasioned by his attacks on the Church, 301.
James City, one of the original bor- oughs, 115; another name for Jamestown, 152.
James River, the new name for the Powhatan, 19; the Great Virginia highway, 149.
Jamestown, landing of the English at, 19 ; present appearance of, 19; at- tack upon, 21; "in combustion," 37 ; destroyed by fire, 41 ; confusion and famine at, 45, 48; in 1609, 76, 77 ; horrors of the starving time at, 79, 80 ; abandoned, 82 ; sceue at, on the arrival of Delaware, 83; scenes at, during the Great Rebel- lion, 245-262, 277-282; burned by Bacon, 282.
Japazaws betrays Pocahontas, 93.
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Jefferson, Thomas, his descent and early life, 407 ; his opinion of Henry, 406 ; character and political views of, 408 ; laughs at his own family, 408 ; his "Summary View," 409; author of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, 440 ; attacks the Church Establishment and entails, 442-446 ; his aims as stated by himself, 446; elected Governor, 455 ; leaves Rich-
mond : charges against, 457; es- capes from Tarleton, 460; the "Apostle of Democracy," 478; President of United States, 483. Jeffries, Herbert, Governor, 299.
Johnsou, Professor, of William and Mary College, proceeded against for marrying, 307.
Jumouville, De, , killed near Great Meadows, 344.
KASKASKIA, surprised by General Clarke, 451.
Kendall, George, prosecutes Smith, 22 ; conspires to escape, 24, 25; is shot, 25.
Keut, Isle of, settlement upon by Clayborne, 179; seized by Calvert, 179.
Kentucky Resolutions, the, of 1798, 480.
Kiquotau, or Hampton, one of the original boroughs, 115.
Kiwassa, the One aloue called, 28, 29, 30.
Knights of the Horseshoe, order of, instituted by Spotswood, 315.
LAFAYETTE, THE MARQUIS DE, sent to command in Virginia, 458 ; his an- tecedents, 458 ; attacks Petersburg, 459; retreats before Cornwallis, 450; offers battle, 460; attacks at Jamestown, 461 ; hems in Lord Cornwallis, and commands the right at Yorktown, 464, 467.
Landholders, the small, similar to the English yeomen, 368 ; their cordial relations with the planter class, 368 ; independence and personal pride of, 369.
Laramore, Captain, 275 ; betrays Bland, 276.
Lawne's Plantation, one of the origi- nal boroughs, 115.
Lawrence, said to be the real author of Bacon's Rebellion, 240, 250, 254 ; his portrait, 255 ; escapes, 294.
Lee, Richard, sent by Berkeley dur- ing the Commonwealth, to confer with Charles II., 218.
Lee, Richard Henry, his antecedents, originates the Committee of Corre- spondence, 410; member of first Cougress, 420 ; his oratory and personal appearance, 410; author of the Address to the People of the Colonies, 421 ; moves the Declara- tion, 440.
Lee, General Robert E., feeling of the country at intelligence of his death, 504.
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Lee, Thomas Ludwell, member of Committee of Safety, 435.
Lee, William, Sheriff of London, 218. Leigh, Benjamin Watkins, Virginia Commissioner to South Carolina, 489.
Lewis, General Andrew, his antece- dents, character, and personal ap- pearance, 422 ; commands at the battle of Point Pleasaut, 423, 424 ; his quarrel with Dunmore, 425, 426 ; drives Dunmore from Virginia, 437. Lewis, Jolin, settles the upper Valley, 325.
Lief, supposed to liave lauded in New England, 3.
Literature of Virginia, the, in the Plantation period, 133-140; its character, 140; iu the Colonial pe- riod, 358-364 ; its character, 359, 360; in the nineteenth century, 400-498 ; geueral character of, 497, 498.
Logan, murder of family of, the cause of the Indian uprising, 422.
Loudoim, Fort, at Winchester, 356.
Ludwell, Colonel Philip, captures Bland, 276; marries Lady Berke- ley, 276 ; denounces the rebels, 298. Lunsford, Sir Thomas, takes refuge in Virginia, 191.
Lutherans of Valley of Virginia, 323. Lynn, Friar of, said to have reached the North Pole, 3.
MADISON; JAMES, his descent, 229 ; the leader of the party in favor of the Federal Constitution, 476.
Madoc, Prince of Wales, his supposed discovery of America, 3.
Magellan circumnavigates the world, 11.
Maids, the, sent to Virginia, 119 ; their husbands to purchase them, 120; regulations in regard to, 121; the result of the scheme, 122.
Mails in Virginia, in 1738, 317.
Makemie, Francis, first licensed Pres- byterian Minister in Virginia, 338. Malgro, said to have visited America, circ. A. D. 600, 3.
Mannakintown, the Hugnenot settle- ment, 309.
Map of Virginia, Smith's, 47.
Marquette, Padre, takes possession of the Mississippi valley in the name of France, 340.
Marriage, the first English in Amer- ica, 45; forbidden professors at William and Mary College, 307.
Marshall, Jolin, at Great Bridge, 436; urges the adoption of the Federal
Constitution, 476 ; presides at the ,
trial of Burr, 483, 484 ; his fairness, 484.
Martin, John, member of original council, 21, 78 ; his character, 63. Martin, Luther, counsel for Burr to be "muzzled," 483.
Martin-Brandon, one of the original boroughs, 115.
Martin's Hundred, one of the original boroughs, 115.
Mary, William and, proclaimed " Lord and Lady of Virginia," 301; grant the charter of William aud Mary College, 305.
Maryland, origin of the name, 178; objections of Virginia to the settle- ment of, 178 ; oath of the governor of, 181; civil war in, 180, 181, 209- 215.
Mason, his descent and character, 229 ; personal appearance, and wit, 411; love of country, 412, 420; member of Committee of Safety, 435; author of the Declaration of Rights, 412; of the Virginia Consti- tution, 439 ; opposes the adoption of the Federal Constitution, 475.
Massachusetts recommends a general Congress, 389 ; destruction of the tea in, 416 ; outbreak of the Revo- lution in, 429.
Massacre, the Indian, 124-129.
Matachanna, sister of Pocahontas, 103.
Matoax, or Matoaca, the real name of Pocahontas, 103.
Matthews, Samuel, Governor, his por- trait, 205 ; persecutes the Puritans, 205, 206; is deposed, 200; rein- stated, 207; dies, 218.
Maynard, Lieutenant, slays Black- beard, 316.
McDowell, James, 325.
Meade, Bishop Williamn, his ordina- tion, as Bishop, 395 ; his character. 396; revives the Episcopal Church, 396 ; his "Old Churches of Vir- ginia," 493.
Mennonists in the Valley, 323.
Mercer, James, member of Committee of Safety, 435.
Methodism, the rise of, 334 ; a mission- ary movement in the Church, Whitefield's definition of, 335; in Virginia, 337.
Middle-Plantation, scene there dur- ing the Great Rebellion, 267-272 ; oath taken at, 271 ; capital removed to, 304.
Military Institute, Virginia, founded, 488.
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Millwood, settlers around, 327. Minute-Men, the Virginia, 327, 428; motto of the Culpeper, 436.
Monacan Country, Newport's Expedi- tion to, 47.
Monmouth, followers of, sent to Vir- ginia as indented servants, 300. Monroe, James, his descent, 229.
Morquez, Don Pedro de, enters the Chesapeake, 4.
Mount Desert, settlement at, de- stroyed by Argall, 108.
Mount Vernou, origiu of the name, 329.
NANSEMOND, supposed settlement of Puritaus in, 173.
Nantaquaus, brother of Pocahontas, 95, 103. Navigation Laws, 204, 230-232. Neale, Thomas, authorized to estab- lish a postal systemn in America, 317.
Necessity, Fort, Washington's surren- der at, 344 ; Braddock's death and burial at, 354.
Necotowanice, "King of the Indians," treaty with, 187.
Negroes, the first brought to America, 123 ; not to hold office, 310.
Nelson, Captain Francis, of the Pho- nix, 42, 43.
Nelson, Secretary, at Yorktown, 468. Nelson, General Thomas, his personal appearance, 406 ; his decision, 438 ; Governor and commander of Vir- ginia troops, 464; fires on the Nel- son House, 468.
Nelson, William, Lieutenant-Gover- nor, 403.
New England, settled, 189; pastors from, in Virginia, 172; sympathy with English Commonwealth, 194; attitude of, toward the Revolution, 375.
New Lights, The, 331 ; their hostility to the Establishinent, 336 ; porse- cution of, 336 ; effect of preaching of, 337.
Newport, Christopher, 18, 40; his character, 41; crowns Powhatan, 47; expeditions of, 41, 47; Vice- Admiral, 56.
Nicholas, Robert Carter, 406.
Nicholson, Francis, Governor, 301; his outrages, 302 ; passion for Miss Burwell, and absurd proceedings, 303; charges brought against, 303 ; removes the capital to Williams- burg, 304; plans the union of all the colonies under himself, 304; fulsome address on the accession
of Anne, 310; his after life and character, 308.
Nonsuch, settlement of, 66, 142.
Norfolk, burned by Dunmore, 437.
North, Frederick, Lord, Ins wit, 402; offers the "Olive Branch," 432 ; retires, 472.
North Carolina, Indian name of, 1; attempt to establish a Jesuit mis- sion in, 4.
Northeru Neck, grant of, 232; iuher- ited by Fairfax, 327.
Norwood, Colonel, takes refuge in Vir- ginia, 190 ; sent to Charles II., by Berkeley, 191; his description of the Cavalier exiles, 192.
OKEE, 28 ; sucks the blood of children, 29.
Old Capitol, the, 397.
Old Chapel, the, 329.
Old Dominion, the, supposed origin of the name of, 218.
Old Magazine, the, 397; removal of powder from, 430; explosion at, 433.
"Olive Branch," the, 432, 433.
Oliverian Plot, the, character and re- sult of, 220, 221.
Opechancanough captures Smith, 34; is captured by him, 52; petitions the Assembly, 117 ; tradition relat- ing to, 125 ; plans and executes the massacre of 1622, 125, 126; again attacks the colony, and is taken prisoner, 186 ; his message to Berke- ley and death, 187.
Opequon Church, one of the oldest in the valley, 323.
Opitchapan succeeds Powhatan, 104; Wyat's battle with, 163, 164 ; de- posed, 125.
Orange, divided into Frederick aud Augusta, 326.
Orapax, place of Powhatan's burial, 105.
Ordinance and Constitution of 1621; its provisions, 118.
Orkney, Lord, Governor, 310.
PAGE, JOHN, of Rosewell, author of " A Deed of Gift," 360.
Page, John, Governor, his opposition to Dunmore, 430 ; member of Com- mittee of Safety, 435; defends the Church Establisliment, 443.
Pamunkey, Queen of, her appearance before the Burgesses, 252-254.
Parsons' Cause, the, 381, 382.
Patroons, The New York, their splen- dor of living, 369. Pendleton, Edmund, descent, political
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views, personal appearance and ora- tory of, 229, 413, 414 ; the conserva- tive revolutionist, 415; member of first Congress, 420; President of Convention, 427 ; of Committee of Safety, 435; author of the resoln- tions for independence, 438; de- fends the Church and entails, 413- 416; President of Convention to consider Federal Constitution, 475 ; President of Court of Appeals, and death, 394.
Percy, George, 17; his description of the fever of 1607, 23 ; offers to cnt the throats of Smith's enemies, 55; chosen President, 67 ; his ill health and want of energy, 77, 79, 88.
Phillips, General, invades Virginia, and captures Petersburg, 458 ; Jef- ferson's characterization of, 459 ; death and place of burial, 459.
Phillips, the Marauder, hung for trea- son, 455.
Pillories to be erected, 222.
Pitt, William, his views on America, 388; opinion of the first Congress, 421.
Planters, characteristics of the class, 369-372 ; their attitude toward the Revolution, 377, 378.
Pleasant, Point, battle at, 423, 424.
Pocahontas, preserves the life of Sınith, 35; his description of, 36; succors the colony, 38 ; her masquer- ade, 46; warns the English of an attack to be made on them, 51 ; the question of the rescue, 71-73 ; saves an English boy, 78 ; is taken prison- er, 93 ; her conversion and baptism, 97; goes with Dale to the York, 94; her affair with Rolfe, 95, 96 ; his letter describing her, 97; their marriage, 97 ; at Varina, 92, 93 ; sails for England, 100 ; her reception, 101 ; interview with Smith, 102; the question of their relations, 102, 103; details relating to her family, 103 ; her death, 103.
Point Comfort, origin of name, 19; dnty of the commandant at, 170. Ponce de Leon, lands in Florida, 4. Population of Virginia in 1616, 110; in 1622, 124; in 1648, 188; in 1670, 226 ; increase in, how to be account- ed for, 226; probable, in 1700, 309 ; in 1756, 367; in 1870 and 1880, 510. Port Bill, Boston, 416 ; proceedings in Virginia with reference to, 418.
Porter, John, expelled from Assem- bly for "being loving to the Qua- kers," 221.
Pory, John, Speaker of first Assembly,
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