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115; commissioner to Virginia, char- acter and proceedings of, 131.
Postal System, established in Virginia, 317, 318.
Pott, John, Governor, convicted of cattle stealing, 164.
Powhatan, the Emperor, first visit of the English to, 21 ; his kingdom and favorite residences, 32 ; his au- thority, personal appearance, and surroundings, 35; ontwits Newport, 41; crowned nnder-king, 47 ; at- tempts to slay Smith, 51 ; executes the house-builders, 55; puts Rat- cliffe to death, 78; interview with Hamor and message to Dale, 99; abdicates, 104 ; dies, 105 ; his char- acter, 105, 106.
Powhatan, original name of James River, 19.
Powhatan, singular footprints at the estate of, 30.
Powhatan's Chimney, 34. Powhatans, the, 27.
Presbyterians form a Congregation in Hanover, 336; divide into Old and New Sides, 337, 338 ; memorial from Church in Hanover, 362 ; their hos- tility to the Establishment, 392-394. Providence, the Puritan name for An- napolis, 213.
Puritans in Virginia, the; early iin- migration of, 171 ; hostility to, 172 ; pastors sent from Boston, 172 ; Act of Assembly against, 172; supposed congregation in Nansemond, 173; conjecture as to number in Virginia, 173; persecutions of, 173, 184; in Maryland, 180-215.
Pyland, James, prosecuted for rebel- lion and blasphemy, 203.
QUAKERS. (See FRIENDS.)
RALEIGH, SIR WALTER, the author of American Colonization, G.
Raleigh Tavern, 398 ; meetings of Bur- gesses at, 404, 419.
Randolph, Edmund, his descent, 229; first Attorney General, 440.
Randolph, John, of Roanoke, fore- man of jury to try Aaron Burr, 484; denounces Jackson's Force proclamation, 484, 489; descended from Pocahontas, 104.
Randolph, Peyton, President, of first Congress, 228, 420.
Randolph Macon College founded, 488.
Ratcliffe, John, President of Colony, 24; attempts to escape and is ar- rested by Smith, 37 ; deposed, 45;
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reappearance in colony, 62; his death and epitaph, 78.
Rebellion, The Great, in Virginia, 237- 297; causes of, 230-234; presages of, 237.
Reconstruction, process of in Virginia, 506.
Reekes, Stephen, pilloried, 177.
Reformation, effects of the, 8, 9.
Religious Freedom, the Act of, 394, 414.
Republicans and Federalists, 480. Resolutions of 1798, 1799, 480, 481.
Ricalecrians, the, defeat the Vir- ginians, 208.
Richebourg, Claude Philip de, Hugue- not minister, 309.
Richmond, battle with Ricahecrians near, 208; fight of Bloody Run at, 243 ; established, 329 ; captured and burned by Arnold, 457; orgies of his troops at, 457.
Richmond College, 4SS.
Rights, Virginia Declaration of, 412, 413, 439.
Roan, Rev. John, persecuted for de- nouncing the Establishment, 337.
Roanoke, the Colony of, founded by Raleigh and Grenville, 6; myste- rious disappearance of the colonists, 6, 7.
Rochambeau, Count de, joins Wash- ington, 462, 463 ; commands the left at Yorktown, 467.
Rolfe, Jolin, wrecked in the Sea- Venture, 60; sent to Powhatan, 94 ; his character and singular let- ter, 96 ; marries Pocahontas, 97 ; his plantation at Varina, 98; first cultivates tobacco there, 110; takes Pocahontas to Londou, 100 ; offense of James at his marriage, 100; re- turns to Virginia, 104.
Rolfe, Thomas, son of Pocahontas, 104.
" Rude Answer," Smith's, to the Com- pany, 47.
ST. AUGUSTINE, settled by the French, and destroyed by the Spaniards, 4. St. John's Church at Richmond, 427. St. Mary's, the Maryland capital, 179. St. Pierre, Chevalier de, his reply to the English summons, 343.
St. Tainmany Celebration, the, at Norfolk, 373.
Safety, Committee of ; names of mem- bers of, 435 ; its powers, 435.
Sandys, Sir Edwin, treasurer of the . company ; denunciation of by James I., 118; sends the maids to Virginia, 119.
Sandys, George, translates Ovid at Jamestown; Drayton's salute to, 139 ; Dryden's opinion of, 139 ; other translations by, 140 ; introduces the first water mill, 140; his personal appearance, 140.
Santa Maria, the Bay of, Spanish name for the Chesapeake, 5.
Scarburgh, Colonel Edmund, prose- cuted for denouncing James II., 301.
Scotch Irish settlers in the Valley, 322 ; their festivities and character, 323-326, 328.
Scrivener, Matthew, member of Coun- cil, 49.
Seal ordained for Virginia, 301.
Sea-Venture, wreck of the, on the Bermudas, 57.
Servitude, Indented : the system of, 122 ; how regulated, 122, 123 ; num- ber of servants allotted to officials, 147.
Seymour, Attorney General, his recep- tion of Commissary Blair, 305.
Shakespeare, his influence as a teach- er, 10; probable acquaintance with Smith, 14 ; scene of his "Tempest," 58.
Sharpless, Edward, clerk of the Coun- cil, pilloried, 153.
Shelly, the site of Werowocomoco, 34. Shenandoah Valley, settlers in, 322-
326 ; traditions of, 324, 325; beauty of, 327 ; Waslington sent to defend, 355; Indian outrages in, and else- where on the frontier, 355, 356.
Sherwood, Grace, tried for witchcraft, 313.
Shires, Virginia divided into; names of, 167, 168.
Shirley Hundred, one of the oldest plautations, 110.
Slaves, African, the first brought to America, 123; number of in Vir- ginia, in 1619, 1649, 1670, 1714, 1756, 367 ; treatment of, 367 ; no more to be imported, 401, 445 ; insurrections of, 485, 486 ; emancipation of, 507.
Smith, Jolin, his early life, 13; re- turns to England, 14; probable ac- quaintance with Shakespeare, 14; arrest on the voyage to Virginia, 18 ; his energy, 24, 25; sails for the South Sea and is captured, 26, 34 ; preserved by Pocahontas, 35; re- turns to Jamestown, and arrests the mutineers, 36, 37; his "True Re- lation," 42, 71 ; explores the Ches- apeake, 43, 44; elected President, 45 ; his map of Virginia, 47 ; his ex- pedition to the York, 51, 52 ; threat-
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ens the idlers, 53; arrests Ratcliffe and founds Nonsuch, 65, 66; is wounded by an explosion, 66; at- tempt to murder, 67; sails for Eng- land, 67; visits New England, 68; is captured by the French, 69 ; made admiral ; his letter to Queen Anne, 101, 102; interview with Pocahon- tas, 102; questiou of their relations, 102, 103; of his rescue, 71, 72, 73 ; elevated tone of his writings, 73- 75; names and dates of, 135; their peculiar value, 137; his death and character, 69-76.
Smithfield Church, the oldest in Vir- ginia, 333.
Smythe's Hundred, one of the original boroughs, 115.
Somers, Admiral Sir George, 13, 56; wrecked on the Bermudas, 58; builds two ships, and reaches Vir- ginia, 60, 61, 80 ; sails for the Ber- mudas, dies tlere, and is buried in Dorsetshire, 61.
Soto, Fernando de, marches through the Gulf States, 4.
Spain in the New World, 4, 5.
Spotswood, Alexander, Governor, 310; brings the writ of Habeas Corpus, 311 ; the "Tubal Cain of Virginia," 312 ; visits Christanna, and marches to the Valley, 313-315; founds the Knights of the Horseshoe, 315: de- nounces the Burgesses, 315, 316; establishes a postal system, 317 ; liis home at Gerinanna, 319, 320 ; por- trait of him, 320, 321 ; death aud character, 321, 322.
Stamp Act, The, 384; repeal of, 389. Starving Time, horrors of the, 79, 80.
Stewart, Captain, at Duquesne, 352. Stith, William, the historian, 361. Stocks to be erected, 222.
Stone, William, Lieutenant-Governor of Maryland, 211 ; is defeated by the Puritans, 214.
Stone House, the, 54.
Stone Meeting House, the Old, or Au- gusta Church, 326.
Strachey, William, his peculiar place in literary history, 137.
Studley, Thomas, first Cape Merchant, death of, 24.
Stuyvesant, Governor of New Amster- damn, his letter to Berkeley, 189.
Suffrage, history of legislation in Vir- ginia in reference to, 222-224.
Swift, Dean, proposes to come as Bishop to Virginia, 309.
Sym, Benjamin, establishes the first free school in America, 168, 169.
TABB, JOHN, member of Committee of Safety, 435.
Tarleton, Colonel Bannastre, ravages Virginia, 460.
Taylor, Zachary, first Surveyor Gen- eral of Virginia, 305.
"Tempest," Shakespeare's, based on Strachey's "True Repertory," 59, 137.
Temple Farın, the residence of Spots- wood, 321.
Territory, Northwestern, the, title of Virginia to, 473 ; ceded to the Union, 474.
Theach, John, the pirate, death of, 317.
Theatre, Richmond, the burning of ; affecting scenes attending it, 487.
Theological Seminary, 488.
Thorpe, George, the philanthropist, murdered by the Indians, 127.
"T. M.," of Stafford, 245, 249, 251, 359.
Tobacco, when first cultivated in Vir- ginia, 110 ; manner of using, 145; denouuced by James I., 146; at- tempt of Charles I. to monopolize, 171 ; stinting, 232 ; the dependence of the plauters on, 231, 232 ; the Virginia curreucy, 222, 381.
Totopotomoi, 208, 253.
Tuckahoes, 328.
Turner's Insurrection, 485, 486.
Tuscarora Meeting House, one of the oldest churches in the Valley, 322.
UNIVERSITY of Virginia founded, 488. Uttamussac Temple, 28, 29.
VARINA, 90, 92.
Vincennes, captured by General Clarke, 453 ; importance of posses- sion of, at the end of the war, 454.
Vioménil, Baron de, commands the left in the assault at Yorktown, 468, 469.
Virginia, origin of the name, 2 ; orig- inal boundaries of, 2, 15; in 1616, 110; in 1622, 124 ; under James I., 141-157 ; in 1635, 168 ; a perfect de- scription of, in 1648, 188, 189 ; shires, 168; counties, 202; u 1670, 224- 226; joy in at the Restoration, 217 ; a seal ordained for, 301 ; the Golden Age of, 364-374 ; classes in, 368 ; at- titude of toward the Revolution, 377; importance of action of in 1765, 389 ; declares herself an in- dependent commonwealth, 439; troops from, in the Continental Arıny, 449; change in society, 478 ; character of the people, 479; peace
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policy of, in 1860 and 1861, 499, 500; since the war, 505-510.
Virginia, West, hecomes a separate state, 502.
WADDEL, the Blind Preacher, effects of his eloquence, 380.
Wading, Rev. Mr., is arrested by Ba- con, 285 ; sent for when he is dying, 287.
Waldo, Captain, member of Council, 49.
Waller, John, persecuted as a Baptist, 391.
Ward's Plantation, one of the original horoughs, 115.
Warrosqueake, the King of, warns Smith, 50.
Washington, George, his descent, 229 ; surveyor, 341 ; envoy to the French, 342 ; surrenders at Great Meadows, 344; accompanies Braddock, 346- 354; at Winchester, 356 ; plants the English flag on the ruins of Fort Du- quesne, 357 ; offers to march to Bos- ton, 420 ; member of first Congress, 420 ; appointed Commander in Chief, 434 : his gloomy letter to Laurens, 456 ; at Yorktown, 467-471 ; Presi- dent of the Federal Convention, 474 ; President of United States, 477 ; dies, 481.
Washington, Lawrence, serves at Car- thagena, 329.
Washington and Lee University, 488.
Watkins, Rev. Thomas, persecuted for denouncing the Establishment, 337. Waugh, Rev. Jolin, arouses the people against James II., 300.
Wayne, General Anthony, 460 ; at- tacks Cornwallis at Jamestown, 461. Werowocomoco, Powhatan's capital, 34, 106.
Wesley, Rev. John, founder of Meth- odism, 334.
West, Francis, 50, 78, 79 ; Governor, 164.
West, Sir Thomas. (See Delaware.) West's Hundred, one of the original horoughs, 115.
Whipping Posts to he erected, 222.
Whitaker, Rev. Alexander, his life at Varina, 91 ; his opinion of Dale, 92;
his "Good News from Virginia," 139; is drowned, 139.
White, John, Governor of Roanoke, returns to find the Colony has dis- appeared, 6.
Whitefield, Rev. George, founder of Methodism, 334; lis definition of Methodism, 335 ; in Boston and Vir- ginia, 336.
Wickham, Rev. Mr., one of the first Virginia ministers, 333.
Wilford, Captain, executed by Berke- ley, 293.
William and Mary proclaimed Lord and Lady of Virginia, 301; grant the charter of William and Mary College, 305.
William and Mary College, the char- ter of, 305, 306; history of, 306, 307 ; distinguished graduates of, 307.
Williamshurg, the capital removed to, 304; at the beginning of the Revolution, 396-399.
Winchester established, 324. .
Wingandacoa, the Good Land, 1.
Wingfield, Edward Maria, President, 13, 22 ; his character, 23 ; attempts to escape and is deposed, 24; re- turns to England 42.
Witchcraft, Grace Sherwood tried for, 313.
Wolf- Hunting, 146.
Woodford, Colonel William, repulses the British at Great Bridge, 436.
Wyat, Sir Francis, Governor, 118; hrings the Ordinance and Constitu- tion, 118 ; eccentric proclamation of, 149; defeats the Indians, 163, 164.
Wyman, Sir Ferdinand, Master of the Horse, 84.
Wynne, Captain, member of Council, 49.
YEARDLEY, SIR GEORGE, Governor, his administration and character, 110, 111; summons the first American legislature, 115; dies, 164.
Yorktown, the siege of, 466-472.
ZANE, ELIZABETH, saves the garrison at Fort Wheeling, 453, 454.
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