Acadians: ejected, 204
Allerton, Isaac:
bribed with seat in Council, 20, 119;
refuses oath of allegiance, 126
Amherst, General Jeffrey: replaces Loudoun, 210
Andros, Sir Edmund:
Governor, 127;
despotic in New England, 127;
mild in Virginia, 129;
quarrels with Blair, 131;
suspends Blair from Council, 131;
resigns, 132
Appomatox Indians: hostile, 86
Argall, Samuel:
Governor, 6;
cruelty of, 7
Aristocracy:
effect of slavery on, 152, 153;
libraries, 153;
mansions, 153;
intermarriages, 153;
dominate General Court, 153, 154
Armistead, Col. John:
Councillor, 119;
refuses oath of allegiance, 126
Association:
to boycott British goods, 239;
successful, 240, 241
Attainder: bill of in 1677, 29
Auditor:
duties of, 33;
William Byrd, 34;
Philip Ludwell, 34
Bacon, Nathaniel:
early life of, 84;
quarrels with Berkeley, 84;
knew Lawrence and Drummond, 84;
his overseer murdered, 86;
frontiersmen make leader, 87;
denounces Berkeley, 87;
defeats Occaneechees, 87;
elected Burgess, 88;
captured, 88;
submits, 88, 89;
reappointed Councillor, 89;
blames Assembly, 90;
escapes, 90;
takes Jamestown, 90;
made general, 90;
pleads with Burgesses, 91;
master of Virginia, 92;
conversation with Goode, 92, 93;
at Middle Plantation, 92;
plans of, 93;
captures Jamestown, 93, 94;
burns Jamestown, 94;
secret burial of, 94;
people mourn, 94
Bacon, Nathaniel, Sr.: ousted from Council, 71
Bacon's Laws:
aimed at Berkeley, 91;
credit due Bacon, 91;
a victory for democracy, 91, 92

Ballard, Thomas: expelled from Council, 20
Baltimore, Lord:
visits Virginia, 38;
refuses oath, 38;
Harvey aids, 43;
settles Maryland, 43;
recognizes Commonwealth, 69
BarrÉ, Col. Isaac: denounces Stamp Act, 225, 226
Bennett, Richard:
favors Parliament, 58;
sent to get Puritan ministers, 60;
commissioner for Parliament, 64;
Governor, 67;
Cromwell continues, 70
Berkeley, Lady Frances:
marriage, 76;
insults Jeffreys, 100, 101;
heads faction, 101, 102
Berkeley, Lord John: brother of Sir William, 80
Berkeley, Sir William:
limits franchise, 27;
appointed Governor, 54;
early life, 54;
arrives, 55;
popular, 55, 56;
favors jury trial, 56;
gift of houses to, 57;
salary, 57;
fights for King, 57;
defeats Indians, 58;
expels Puritan preachers, 61;
prosecutes Puritans, 62;
proclaims Charles II, 62;
defies Parliament, 63;
to resist Parliamentary forces, 65, 66;
surrenders, 66;
under Commonwealth, 68;
elected Governor, 73;
reappointed by Charles II, 75;
dictatorial, 76;
greed, 76;
marriage, 75;
distrusts self-government, 76;
use of patronage, 77;
corrupts Assembly, 77;
the Long Assembly, 77, 78;
accused by Charles City, 77, 78;
grants of land, 78, 79;
people hate, 78;
favorites of, 79;
asks free trade, 80;
denounces Navigation Acts, 80, 81;
makes Bacon Councillor, 84;
despotism of, 84;
sends force against Indians, 86;
Indian policy, 86;
people in arms, 87;
calls an election, 88;
captures Bacon, 88;
forces Bacon's submission, 88, 89;
overawes Burgesses, 89;
submits to Bacon, 90, 91;
starts civil war, 92;
flees to Eastern Shore, 92;
executes patriots, 95, 96, 99;
illegal seizures, 98;
quarrels with Jeffreys, 98, 99;
ordered to England, 99;
picks Burgesses, 99, 100;
sails, 101;
death, 101
Berry, Sir John: committee on Bacon's Rebellion, 92
Beverley, Peter: court of oyer and terminer, 170
Beverley, Robert:
Green Spring faction, 101, 102;
Assembly minutes seized from, 103;
testifies against Nicholson, 148
Bill of Ports:
Burgesses reject, 128;
Spotswood secures, 162-165;
patronage from, 163, 164;
Gooch secures, 191, 192
Blair, Archibald: hates Spotswood, 172, 173
Blair, Rev. James:
defends Harrison, 22;
founds college, 31;
Commissary, 130;
church reform plans, 130, 131;
Quarrel with Andros, 131;
Andros ousts from Council, 131;
restored, 131;
ousts Andros, 132;
for Nicholson, 133;
Nicholson angers, 136;
accuses Nicholson, 147, 148;
called King maker, 149;
called hypocrite, 171;
visits England, 175;
to be "Prime Minister," 175, 176
Blair, John:
meets Dinwiddie, 194;
calls Assembly, 209;
prepares expedition, 209, 210
Bland, Gyles: executed, 99
Bland, Col. Richard:
defends Two-penny Act, 214;
for self-government, 216;
to submit to Stamp Act, 226;
General Committee of Safety, 249;
convention of 1776, 255
Botetourt, Lord:
Governor General, 232;
welcomed, 232;
popular, 232;
warns British government, 233;
promises repeal of Townshend Acts, 234, 235;
death, 235
Braddock, General: defeat of, 203
Braxton, Carter: predicts independence, 255
Buck, Rev.: Minister at Jamestown, 5
Buckner, John: sets up press, 117
Burgesses, House of:
bribed by Governors, 19, 20;
represent people, 25;
privileges, 26;
franchise, 26;
wages, 27, 28;
county pays, 28;
Speaker, 28;
committees, 29;
guards elections, 29;
as a court, 29;
control of taxation, 29-31;
act of 1680, 30;
rule under Commonwealth, 67, 68;
elect Governor, 70;
Berkeley corrupts, 77;
end of Long Assembly, 87, 88;
Bacon's victory in, 88;
Bacon's Laws, 91, 92;
pro-Berkeley in 1677, 99;
protest appeals to England, 114;
James II scorns petition, 114;
protest fees, 115;
sole right to tax, 115;
dispute King's authority, 115, 116;
reject royal bills, 127;
rile Edward Randolph, 128;
refuse aid to New York, 128;
£500 for New York, 128, 129;
name Treasurer, 128, 129;
Nicholson wheedles, 138;
Spotswood bribes, 163, 164;
new election, 164;
oppose Spotswood, 165;
Spotswood rebuffs, 165, 166;
judges elections, 166;
strike at Governors' power, 167;
Spotswood denounces, 168;
deride Spotswood, 171;
charges against Spotswood, 173;
praise Drysdale, 177, 178;
contempt of punished, 179;
praise Gooch, 180;
growth of, 182;
salaries, 183;
power of grows, 184;
aristocrats in, 184;
praise Gooch, 193;
protest pistole fee, 197;
fee called arbitrary taxation, 197;
appeal to King, 198;
audacity of, 204;
eject Acadian exiles, 204;
vote £60,000, 205;
emit treasury notes, 5;
under constitution of 1621, 21;
patronage of, 21;
powers of, 23-25;
as cabinet, 23;
as Upper House, 23, 24;
as supreme court, 24;
prestige of, 24, 25;
Virginia House of Lords, 25;
conflict with Harvey, 41-47;
arrest Harvey, 46;
Burgesses oust, 71;
power of from England, 72;
dissolve Assembly, 1659, 72;
lose fat jobs, 134;
Nicholson abuses, 140, 141;
six accuse Nicholson, 147-150;
represent aristocracy, 151, 152;
titles of, 152;
respect for, 152;
Nott defers to, 154, 155;
appeal for peace, 155;
Burgesses back, 155;
a threat to Liberty, 159;

land holdings of, 162;
preserve judicial power, 169-171;
for large land grants, 178;
negative role in Revolution, 242
County courts:
undemocratic, 21;
Governor's power over, 22;
duties of, 31;
Governor appoints, 78;
taxation by, 78;
Bacon's Laws, 92
Coventry, Attorney General: issues quo warranto against Company, 12
Cromwell, Oliver:
neglects Virginia, 70;
death, 72
Cromwell, Richard:
Lord Protector, 72;
resigns, 72
Culpeper, Lord Thomas:
despotism under, 18;
limits franchise, 27;
grant to, 82;
Governor, 102;
Cavalier, 109;
delays sailing, 109;
brings peace, 110;
forces act for "perpetual revenue," 110-112;
returns to England, 112;
robs soldiers, 113;
hangs rioters, 113;
Effingham succeeds, 113
Curtis, Edmund:
commissioner to Virginia, 64;
negotiates surrender, 65
Dale, Sir Thomas:
Governor, 6;
brings harsh laws, 6;
cruelty of, 7
Dawson, Commissary William:
meets Dinwiddie, 194;
denounces Two-penny Act, 212
Day of Prayer: June 1, 1774, 238, 239
Debts:
due merchants, 189;
appeals to Privy Council, 189, 190
De la Warr, Lord:
Governor, 5, 6;
ill, 6;
leaves Virginia, 6;
humane, 7;
sails with Magna Carta, 8;
death, 8
Democracy:
New World favorable for, 3;
yeomen build up, 3;
Quary warns of, 35;
gains under Commonwealth, 75;
Glorious Revolution, 122;
small slave holders for, 185
Dennis, Captain Robert:
heads commission to Virginia, 64;
lost on the John, 64
Digges, Cole:
election thrown out, 166, 167;
named to new court, 170;
Indian Company, 171
Digges, Edward: Governor, 71
Dinwiddie, Robert:
Lieutenant Governor, 194;
career, 195;
backs Assembly, 195;
pistole fee, 196-200;
calls Virginians republicans, 198, 199;
cautioned by King, 199, 200;
horrors of Indian war, 201;
warns British, 201;
sends Washington to the Ohio, 201;
asks funds, 201;
vetoes bill with rider, 202;
wants Parliament to tax, 202, 204;
expends funds, 206;
resigns, 206;
sounds alarm bell, 207;
suggests union of colonies, 208
Drummond, Sarah: property confiscated, 104
Drummond, William:
hates Berkeley, 80;
influences Bacon, 84;
Bacon consults, 88;
burns own house, 94;
Berkeley's brutality to, 95
Drysdale, Hugh:
popular, 18;
Lieutenant Governor, 175, 176;
arrives, 1722, 177;
character, 177;
opposes huge land grants, 178;
upholds House, 178, 179;
death, 179
Dunbar, Colonel: retreat of, 203
Dunmore, Earl of:
Governor, 236;
conduct in New York, 236;
treaty with Indians, 243;
seizes powder, 244;
threatened, 245;
suggests "compromise," 246, 247;
on the Fowey, 248;
escapes capture, 249;
asks troops, 249;
controls water, 250;
in Elizabeth River, 250;
seizes press, 250;
seizes Norfolk, 250, 251;
evacuates Norfolk, 251;
threatens bombardment, 251, 252;
at Gwynn's Island, 252;
leaves Virginia, 253;
says Virginia wants independence, 253
Dunmore, Lady:
ball in honor of, 239;
flees Williamsburg, 245, 247
Duquesne, Fort:
Forbes to attack, 209;
French evacuate, 210
Durand, William: persecuted for dissent, 62
Dutch:
trade to Virginia, 68, 69;
trade protected, 69;
wars with, 81
Effingham, Lord Howard:
despotism of, 18, 118;
Governor, 113;
character, 113;
ends appeals to Assembly, 114;
uses patronage for political ends, 118;
favors Roman Catholics, 119;
leaves Virginia, 120
Elections:
Nicholson interferes in, 138;
foul play at, 172
Embargo:
opposed in England, 59;
enforced in 1650, 63
English, William:
denounces Harvey, 44, 45;
arrested, 45;
released, 47
Fauquier, Francis:
Lieutenant Governor, 209;
erudite, 209;
tact, 210;
reprimanded, 211, 213;
upholds Two-penny Act, 212;
London criticises, 213;
denounces Camm, 214;
thinks Henry extreme, 227;
protects Mercer, 228;
death, 231
Fees:
Bacon's Laws fix, 92;
bill to limit vetoed, 167;
pistole controversy, 196-200
First Stuart Despotism: influence on colonies, 3
Fithian, Philip: sees drilling in Valley, 244
Forbes, General:
to attack Fort Duquesne, 209;
takes fort, 210
Fouace, Rev. Stephen:
Nicholson jealous of, 143;
flees Virginia, 144;
testifies against Nicholson, 148
Fowey: powder taken to, 244
Franchise:
changes in, 26;
under Commonwealth, 70;
all freemen have in June, 1676, 88;
Bacon's Laws widen, 91;
Spotswood tries to restrict, 166;
act to limit, 181
French and Indian War:
horrors of, 201;
Washington warns French, 201;
Braddock's defeat, 203;
raids in Valley, 205;
influence on Revolution, 207, 208
Gates, Sir Thomas:
Governor, 6;
brings cruel laws, 6
General Assembly:
Magna Carta authorizes, 8;
under Constitution of 1621, 9;
meets, 1619, 9, 10;
acts of in 1619, 10;
right to tax, 10;
Charles I ignores, 13;
meets unofficially, 14;
Charles I summons, 15;
oppose reviving Company, 17;
powers of grow, 34, 35;
accuses Harvey, 47;
reapportions taxes, 56;
gift to Berkeley, 57;
permits free trade, 59;
recognizes Charles II, 62;
surrenders to Parliament, 66;
ousts Governor and Council, 71;
elects Berkeley Governor, 73;
powers of, 74;
proclaim Charles II, 1660, 74;
Berkeley corrupts, 77;
Long Assembly, 77, 78;
protest grant, 82;
ask charter, 85;
Bacon demands election, 87, 88;
in 1677 picked by Berkeley, 99, 100;
bill of attainder, 100;
protest seizure of records, 103;
Charles II assails, 108, 109;
King to initiate bills, 108;
no appeals to, 109, 113, 114;
"perpetual revenue" to King, 110-112;
attempt to repeal revenue act of 1680, 156;
Quary on, 156, 157;
Queen Anne vetoes revenue act, 157;
Jenings dissolves, 159;
bill of ports, 162-165;
Queen's death dissolves, 164;
Spotswood angers, 164;
bills to limit Governor's power, 167;
use of rider by, 167, 168;
thwart Spotswood, 172;
protest debt ruling, 189;
gift to Dinwiddie, 195, 196;
war an opportunity for, 201;
vote £10,000, 201;
expenditure of funds, 201, 202;
vote £20,000 with rider, 202;
support war, 203;
ask paper money issue, 203, 204;
aid to Royal American Regiment, 205;
Governor spends funds, 206;
right of to govern, 216;
last sessions, 248
General Committee of Safety: ablest men on, 249
General Court:
court of appeals, 113, 114;
Nicholson's violence in, 139;
Nicholson packs juries, 139, 140;
on Burgesses' salary, 166
Glorious Revolution: 3, 253;
forced by British, 253, conflict with Parliament, 3;
charter to Virginia Company, 4;
assails London Company, 11;
offers compromise, 12
James II:
scorns Burgesses' petition, 114;
repeals act of Assembly, 115, 116;
revives a law, 116;
favors Catholics, 119;
deposed, 120
Jamestown:
founded, 2;
first Assembly at, 9;
capitol at, 25, 26;
Lord Baltimore at, 38;
Charles II proclaimed at, 74;
Bacon's Assembly, 88;
Berkeley occupies, 93;
Bacon captures, 93;
burnt, 94;
William and Mary proclaimed, 121;
statehouse burns, 1698, 146
James, Thomas:
missionary to Virginia, 60;
driven out, 61
Jefferson, Thomas:
friend of Fauquier, 209;
committee of correspondence, 237;
answers British "compromise," 247;
prefers independence to slavery, 254;
on independence, 254
Jeffreys, Col. Herbert:
ousts Councillor, 20;
Lieutenant Governor, 97;
insulted, 100, 101;
promises reforms, 101;
ill, 102;
ousts Beverley, 104;
indicts Philip Ludwell, 104, 105;
dies, 105;
wife imprisoned, 105
Jeffries, Jeffrey: agent for charter, 123, 124
Jenings, Edmund:
Councillor, 126;
acting Governor, 157, 158;
career of, 158;
dissolves Assembly, 159;
suspended from Council, 179
The John:
sails to Virginia, 64;
sinks, 65
Johnson, Edward: on God's revenge on Virginia, 61
Johnson, Samuel: denounces Americans, 223
Kemp, Matthew: insulted in House, 179
Kemp, Richard:
advises Harvey to leave, 46;
carries off Mathews' property, 50;
prosecutes Panton, 50, 51;
Secretary, 51;
escapes to England, 52;
acting Governor, 57
Kendall, George:
member of Council, 4;
expelled, 4;
executed, 5
Knowles, Rev. John:
missionary to Virginia, 60;
driven out, 61
Laissez faire: 177;
passing of, 224
Land:
Berkeley's grants, 78, 79;
rent roll, 135;
must cultivate to hold, 162;
law defied, 162;
Drysdale opposes large grants, 178;
much unpatented, 198
Lawrence, Thomas:
cheated by Berkeley, 79, 80;
influence on Bacon, 84;
Bacon consults, 88;
burns own house, 94;
fate unknown, 95
Laws, Military:
severe, 6, 7;
cruelly enforced, 7
Lee, Arthur: repulsed in England, 254

Lee, Henry: convention of 1776, 255
Lee, Philip Ludwell: protests paper money, 219
Lee, Richard Henry: 219;
protests Stamp Act, 224;
committee of correspondence, 237;
Continental Congress, 240;
convention of 1776, 255
Lewis, Gen. Andrew:
at Point Pleasant, 243;
bombards Gwynn's Island, 252
Liberty:
taxation and, 2;
threatened in England, 2;
Glorious Revolution aids, 122;
new charter to guarantee, 124;
Nicholson assails, 146, 147;
Council threatens, 159;
victory for, 181;
Virginians called republican, 198;
Bland argues for, 216;
Burke on, 240;
won, 257
Lightfoot, John:
Nicholson upbraids, 141;
charges against Nicholson, 147, 148
Littlepage, Richard:
refuses to certify grievances, 165;
House asks arrest of, 165
London, Bishop of: calls Two-penny act treason, 213
Loudoun, Earl of:
praises Burgesses, 205;
embargo defied, 205, 206;
Governor, 207
Ludwell, Philip:
auditor, 34;
marries Lady Berkeley, 76;
insults Jeffreys, 100;
Green Spring faction, 101;
indicted, 104, 105
Ludwell, Philip, Jr.:
accuses Nicholson, 138;
Nicholson challenges, 145;
auditor, 168;
Spotswood ousts, 169;
leaves new court, 170;
Spotswood denounces, 171
Ludwell, Thomas:
seeks charter for Virginia, 1;
fears rebellion, 80;
reports disasters, 81;
agent for Virginia, 82;
presides over Council, 104
Madison, James: convention of 1776, 255
Magna Carta of Virginia:
drawn up, 8;
De la Warr sails with, 8;
Yeardley takes to Virginia, 8;
Assembly authorized, 8, 9
Mandeville, Lord Henry:
heads commission on Virginia, 13;
reappoints Yeardley, 13
Martin, John: member of Council, 4
Martin, Nicholas:
denounces Harvey, 44, 45;
arrested, 45

Maryland:
Baltimore founds, 43;
surrenders to Parliament, 67;
Virginia seeks to annex, 69
Mason, George:
general committee of safety, 249;
convention of 1776, 255
Mathew, Thomas: says Berkeley cheated Lawrence, 79
Mathews, Samuel:
resists Harvey, 42, 43;
opposes founding of Maryland, 43;
opposes tobacco contract, 44;
compares Harvey with Richard III, 45;
arrests Harvey, 46;
King orders arrest of, 48;
sent to England, 49;
his property seized, 50;
favors Parliament, 56;
Governor, 71;
recalled, 71;
re-elected, 72;
dies, 73
Maury, Rev. James:
sues for salary, 214;
Patrick Henry attorney against, 215
Menefie, George:
Harvey questions, 45;
accused of treason, 46;
withholds Harvey's commission, 47
Mercer, Col. George:
stamp distributor, 227, 228;
crowd threatens, 228;
will not distribute, 228
Merchants, British:
oppose free trade, 68, 69;
conflict with planters, 185;
Royal African Company, 186;
oppose duty on slaves, 186;
taxed, 186;
Virginians angered at, 188;
Virginians in debt to, 188, 189;
petition Parliament, 189, 190;
protest paper money, 217;
renew complaints, 219;
for legal tender, 220
Meriwether, Nicholas: Spotswood removes, 164
Milner, Col. Thomas: Nicholson praises, 126
Molasses Act: resented in Virginia, 188
Moryson, Francis:
seeks charter for Virginia, 1;
agent for Virginia, 81;
committee on Bacon's Rebellion, 97
Navigation Acts:
Berkeley protests against, 80;
impoverish Virginia, 81
Nelson, Thomas: protests paper money, 219
Nelson, William: protests paper money, 219
New Granada:
expedition against, 192;
failure, 192
New Kent: Bacon invades, 87

Newport, Capt. Christopher: member of Council, 4
Nicholas, Robert Carter:
defends Two-penny Act, 216;
Treasurer, 222;
burns notes, 222;
to submit to Stamp Act, 226;
day of prayer, 238;
prevents storming of Palace, 245;
constitution of 1776, 255
Nicholson, Sir Francis:
on ideal Governor, 18;
use of patronage, 20, 21;
power over courts, 22;
calls Virginians republicans, 35;
Lieutenant Governor, 124;
character, 124, 125;
abuses clergymen, 124, 125;
in New York, 125;
cautious, 125;
defends prerogative, 126, 127;
aids college, 127;
Governor General, 133;
program of, 133, 134;
violent temper, 134;
offends Councillors, 134;
rent roll, 135;
offends vestries, 136;
tries to control Church, 136;
threatens Burgesses, 137;
gives aid to New York, 137;
wheedles Burgesses, 138;
browbeats voters, 138;
abuses Burgesses, 138;
threatens Speaker, 139;
violent in General Court, 139;
packs juries, 139;
heckles Council, 140;
abuses Wallace, 142, 143;
loves Lucy Burwell, 142-145;
threatens Fouace, 143, 144;
derided in England, 144;
challenges Philip Ludwell, Jr., 145;
founds Williamsburg, 146;
despotism resented, 146, 147;
charges against, 147-150;
denies charges, 148, 149;
Quary defends, 82;
Berkeley fears, 83;
outbreaks in 1674, 83, 84;
Virginia ready for, 85;
led by Bacon, 87-96;
influence of Bacon's rebellion, 95, 96;
causes of, 96;
threatened in 1677, 100;
in 1689, 120, 121
Richmond, Duke of: supports colonists, 241
Rights, Declaration of: committee to prepare, 256
Robinson, John:
Speaker and Treasurer, 28;
Fauquier wins support, 210;
death, 221;

illegal loans of, 221
Rolfe, John: cures tobacco, 15
Sandys, Sir Edwin:
Puritan, 8;
Treasurer of London Company, 8;
gets new charters, 8;
Virginia Magna Carta, 8;
sent to Tower, 11;
fights to save charter, 12;
advises restoring Company, 13;
champions English liberty, 15
Sandys, George: asks revival of Company, 17
Second Stuart Despotism: influence on colonies, 3, 106-121
Secretary of State: duties of, 33
Sheriffs:
political use of by Berkeley, 78;
Bacon's Laws, 91;
Effingham uses, 118;
Nicholson uses, 137, 138
Slavery:
effect on aristocracy, 152;
cheapens tobacco, 184;
small planters buy, 184, 185;
slave plots, 186;
duty on slaves vetoed, 186, 187;
Virginia resents vetoes, 187;
Dunmore recruits slaves, 250
Smith, Capt. John:
imprisoned, 4;
hanging threatened, 5;
sole Councillor, 5
Smith, Col. Joseph:
accused by court, 178;
Burgesses reprimand, 178;
Drysdale removes, 179
Smith, Col. Lawrence: sued for quit rents, 135
Sons of Liberty: 229
Speaker:
prestige, 28;
Nicholson threatens, 139;
made Treasurer, 210;
Fauquier ordered to separate, 210
Spencer, Nicholas: fears mutiny in 1677, 100
Spotswood, Col. Alexander:
able, 18;
on Burgesses salary, 27, 28;
Lieutenant Governor, 159;
career, 160;
Orkney his patron, 160;
explores west, 161;
instructions, 161;
act for ports, 162-165;
jobs handed out, 163, 164;
House angers, 165;
to limit franchise, 166;
Council balks, 166;
vetoes bills, 167;
denounces Burgesses, 168;
court of oyer and terminer, 169-171;
defends new court, 170, 171;
foul play at elections, 172;
defeated, 172;
charges against, 173;
seeks flattering addresses, 173;
answers charges, 174;
Board of Trade upholds, 174;
to live in Virginia, 174;
Tubal Cain, 175;
reconciled to Council, 175;
administration of, 176
Stamp Act:
dismay at, 224;
BarrÉ denounces, 225;
ready to resist, 227;
Mercer distributor, 227, 228;
stamps not landed, 228;
Norfolk protests, 229;
criticized in England, 230;
English merchants protest, 230;
repealed, 230
Statehouse:
at Jamestown, 24;
burned, 1698, 129
Stegg, Thomas:
aids Kemp escape, 52;
favors Parliament, 58;
commissioner for Parliament, 64;
lost on the John, 65
Stith, Rev. William: incites against pistole fee, 196
Susan Constant: sails for Virginia, 1
Susquehannocks:
fort besieged, 85;
torture victims, 85
Taxation:
by first Assembly, 10;
Burgesses control, 29-31, 115;
perpetual revenue to King, 30, 110-112;
call fees taxes, 115;
protest pistole fee, 197;
in colonial history, 225;
role in self-government, 225;
Jefferson on, 247
Tea:
tax on, 236;
resistance to tax, 237, 238;
banned, 238;
Carter refuses, 238
Thompson, Rev. William:
missionary to Virginia, 60;
driven out, 61
Thrale, John: defends Nicholson, 148
Tobacco:
staple of Virginia, 15;
Dutch buy, 59;
cutting riots, 113;
Spotswood's bill of ports, 162-165;
prices rise, 163;
George I vetoes bill of ports, 168;
Gooch's bill of ports, 180-181, 191, 192;
slaves cheapen, 184;
Gooch argues for bill of ports, 191;
A Dialogue, 191;
poor standard of value, 211
Tobacco cutting riots: 113.
Tories: few in Virginia, 242

Townshend Acts:
anger America, 232;
unconstitutional, 234
Treasurer:
Burgesses name, 128, 129;
usually also Speaker, 210;
separation ordered, 210;
illegal loans by, 221
Utie, John:
opposes tobacco contract, 44;
arrests Harvey, 46;
King orders arrest, 48;
sent to England, 49
Vestries:
govern parishes, 32;
Bacon's Laws, 92;
Nicholson attacks power of, 136
Virginia Company of London:
charter of 1606, 1, 4;
set up despotism, 5;
members consider going to Virginia, 7;
James I attacks, 11;
A True Answer, 11;
blamed by commission, 11;
rejects King's offer, 12;
appeals to Parliament, 12;
charter revoked, 12;
reasons for, 13;
restoring of opposed, 17
Wallace, Rev. James:
sermon enrages Nicholson, 141, 142;
testifies against Nicholson, 148
Washington, George:
warns French on Ohio, 201;
expedition to Ohio, 202;
commands in Valley, 205;
Continental Congress, 240;
wears uniform to Congress, 245;
commander-in-chief, 245;
predicts independence, 254, 255
West:
expansion into, 182;
aids democracy, 184
West, Capt. Francis: Governor, 37
West, John:
acting Governor, 47;
sent to England, 49
William III: joint monarch, 121, 122
Williamsburg:
capitol at, 146;
Nicholson founds, 146;
celebrates Stamp Act repeal, 230;
day of prayer, 239;
powder seized, 244;
an armed camp, 248;
celebrates independence, 256, 257
Wingfield, Edward:
member of Council, 4;
ousted, 5;
accuses other Councillors, 5
Wormeley, Ralph: supports Dunmore, 242
Wyatt, Sir Francis:
receives constitution, 9;
Governor, 51
Wythe, George: 219;
protests Stamp Act, 224
Yeardley, Capt. George:
Governor, 6;
brings Magna Carta, 9;
calls first Assembly, 10;
reappointed, 13;
pleads for Assembly, 14;
death, 36

Following is a list of significant typographical errors that have been corrected.

• Page 7, missing close quote added according to original source text by Brown (of the Court.").
• Page 23, missing close quote added based on transcriber assumption because original source text was not found for confirmation (King in Council.").
• Page 47, "Harvery" changed to "Harvey" (forced Harvey to deliver).
• Page 90, "hubub" changed to "hubbub" (hearing the hubbub).
• Page 123, "aproved" changed to "approved" (he approved of it).
• Page 126, missing open quote added based on transcriber assumption because original source text was not found for confirmation ("but he hath not estate).
• Page 128, close quote removed based on transcriber assumption because open quote is missing and original source text was not found for confirmation (he dissolved them.).
• Page 128, missing close quote added based on transcriber assumption because original source text was not found for confirmation (the King's "goodness").
• Page 143, missing close quote added based on transcriber assumption because original source text was not found for confirmation (to live here.").
• Page 148, "perscution" changed to "persecution" (persecution and injustice).
• Page 170, missing open quote added based on transcriber assumption because original source text was not found for confirmation ("extraordinary emergency").
• Page 171, missing close quote added based on transcriber assumption because original source text was not found for confirmation (the people of Virginia?").
• Page 187, missing close quote added according to original source text by Lipscomb (of a whole country.").
• Page 189, missing close quote added based on transcriber assumption because original source text was not found for confirmation (reports of merchants").
• Page 192, "againt" changed to "against" (expedition against New Granada).
• Page 235, "disappointmnt" changed to "disappointment" (because of their disappointment).
• Page 237, "spirt" changed to "spirit" (the spirit of resistance).
• Page 246, "mazagine" changed to "magazine" (entered the magazine).
• Page 255, "distingiushed" changed to "distinguished" (each distinguished member).
• Page 284, "beseiged" changed to "besieged" (fort besieged, 85;).
• Page 286, "democacy" changed to "democracy" (aids democracy, 184).