The references are to the numbers of selections, not to pages.

Adams, John, account of debates in Continental Congress, 130 a;
impressions of First Continental Congress, 130 b;
on resolution of Congress of May 15, 1776, for State governments 138 b;
on first independent government in South Carolina, ib.;
on anti-social tendencies of pre-Revolutionary measures (the horse-jockey client), 142.
Aggawamm, the Simple Cobbler of, see Ward.
Albany Plan, the, for union of colonies, 114 a and b.
Albion, Charter of the Province of (1634), representative feature, 39.
Annapolis Convention, the, regarded as part of an aristocratic plot, 152;
its call for the Federal Convention, 153.
Avalon, Baltimore's colony of, 36;
charter the first royal grant recognizing popular government, 38, 39.
Bacon, Nathaniel, Rebellion, 106-109;
"Bacon's laws," 106;
Bacon's Proclamation, 107;
causes of rebellion, 108;
reforms of, abolished, 109.
Ballot, used by London Company in England, 23, 28 (2), 28 (3);
used in Massachusetts first, 67 a, note;
adopted legally for general elections in Massachusetts General Court, 70;
used for secrecy in a Boston town election, 71;
develops from "proxies,", 73.
Baltimore, First Lord, the, letter from Avalon to Charles I, 36.
Berkeley, Sir William, Commission of 1641 authorizing the Assembly, 32 a;
report of 1671 on conditions in Virginia, 104.
See Bacon.
Bill of Rights, the first, in Virginia (June, 1776), 136.
"Body of Liberties," the (of Massachusetts), 77, 78.
Boston Port Bill, effect in Virginia, 125.
Boston town meeting, and colonial politics, 111 c; 122.
Bradford, William, charter from New England Council, 49;
surrender of charter to colonists, 50.
Cambridge Agreement, the, 58 b.
Charter colonies, recommendation of Board of Trade to abolish, 111 a.
Charters,
Royal to Proprietors;
Gilbert's, of 1578 (and Raleigh's of 1584), 15;
Baltimore's for Maryland, 37;
for Avalon, 38;
for New Albion and Maine, 39;
Duke of York's for New York, 101;
Penn's for Pennsylvania, 102.
Royal to proprietary corporations in England:
First Virginia Charter (to London and Plymouth branches of a colonizing company), 16;
Second Charter, 20;
Third Charter, 21;
to New England Council (1620), 42;
to Massachusetts Bay Company, 53;
to Company of Westminster for Providence Isle, 55.
Royal to "corporations upon the place":
parliamentary to Williams in 1648, 91;
Connecticut Charter of 1662, 97;
Rhode Island (1663), 98;
Massachusetts (1691), 110.
From proprietary corporations or proprietors to settlers:
Virginia Company of London to Virginians, 25, 27;
to intending Pilgrim settlers (Wincob charter), 43, 45;
New England Council to Pierce for Plymouth, 47;
to Bradford, 49;
to Robert Gorges as proprietor in Massachusetts, 51;
Penn's grants to Pennsylvanians—Laws agreed upon in England, 103 a;
Charter of 1701, 103 b.
Child, Robert, demand for the franchise in Massachusetts for Presbyterians, 86.
Christison, Wenlock, trial as a Quaker, 88 b.
Colonial Department (English), established, 99.
Colonization, hardships, of Baltimore in Avalon, 36;
at Jamestown, 19;
in Massachusetts Bay, 62 a, b, c.
Committees of Correspondence (Revolutionary), towns in Massachusetts, 122;
intercolonial—Jefferson's account of creation, 123;
resolution of Virginia, Burgesses for, 123 b;
correspondence of, 123 c;
and regarding call for Continental Congress, 125 f.
Confederation, New England, 94, 95, 96;
Franklin's "Albany Plan," 114;
Continental Congress, 125 ff.;
debates in Congress regarding character of, 146;
the Articles, 147;
anarchy under, 150, 151.
Connecticut, Fundamental Orders, 93;
charter, 97;
refusal to accept a royal commander of militia, 111 d.
Connecticut Compromise, in the Federal Convention, 161.
Constitution, the Federal, Annapolis Convention, 152;
call for Philadelphia Convention, 153;
credentials of delegates, 154;
George Mason on preliminaries and on aristocratic forces in, 155, 157;
Virginia Plan,
156;
New Jersey Plan, 158;
Hamilton's Plan, 159;
the critical day's debate on the Connecticut Compromise, 161;
ratification, 162 ff.;
document and amendments, 165.
Continental Congress, the First, proposed by Virginia ex-Burgesses, 125 e;
Rhode Island appoints delegates, 125 f;
"called" by Massachusetts, 126;
suggested also by Virginia county, 127;
method of voting decided, 130 a;
Adams' impressions of, 130 b;
Declaration of Rights, 130 c;
and the Association, 130 d.
Cotton, Rev. John, denounces democracy, 67 a, 71, 75 (addendum);
letter to English lords on Massachusetts conditions, 75;
on rules of fair trade, 79;
against toleration, 84 c.
Crashaw, "Daily Prayer," for use in Virginia, 9;
sermon before Delaware's expedition (on players), 10.
Cushman, Robert, to Pastor Robinson, 43.
Dale, Sir Thomas, to London Company, on glories of Virginia, 12.
Dates, New Style and Old, 21.
Democracy, decried by Puritan leaders: Calvin, 61;
Cotton and Winthrop, 67 a, 71, 75 (addendum), 77, 80;
and sumptuary legislation in Massachusetts, 75 b;
denounced by Hamilton in Federal Convention, 159;
establishes government by town meeting, 66.
Dorchester, school code, 81.
Drayton, Ode to the Virginian Voyage, 4.
Ducking stool, the, 115.
Dudley, Thomas, to Countess of Lincoln on first winter in Massachusetts, 62 c.
"Eastward Hoe!", 8.
Exeter, "Combination of Settlers" at, 46 (addendum).
Fairfax County (Virginia), resolutions for First Continental Congress, 129 b;
for Revolutionary militia, 132.
Fauquier, Francis (Governor of Virginia), to Lords of Trade, on resignation of Mercer, Stamp Distributor, 120 c.
Fletcher (Governor of New York), and Connecticut militia, 111 d.
Franchise, in Virginia, 35, 105, 107, 109;
in Massachusetts, denied to Presbyterians, 86.
Frankland, State of, 148.
Franklin, Benjamin, Albany plan of, 114 a and b;
characterized in Federal Convention by Pierce, 160.
Free speech, denied in Massachusetts in 1635, 69, 77;
vindicated in New York in Zenger trial, 113.
French Alliance, the Conservatives' fear of, 144.
"Gentlemen," in 16th century England, 1;
in early Virginia, 19 b;
in colonial Massachusetts, 75 a and b.
Georgia, credentials of delegates to Federal Convention, 154.
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, charter, 15.
"Goodspeed to Virginia," on motives for colonization, 5.
Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, and grant of Massachusetts, 39 b;
and reorganization of Plymouth Council, 42;
"Briefe Narration" of, 51 a, 53 note.
Gorges, Robert, grant from Plymouth Council (representative features), 51 a, 53 note.
Hakluyt, Rev. Richard, on motives for colonization, 3.
Hamilton, Alexander, plan for the Constitution (denunciation of democracy), 159;
character sketch of, in Federal Convention, 160.
Hamilton, James, and the Zenger trial, 113.
Hancock, John, and inducement to favor the Constitution, 164.
Harvey, Sir John, "Propositions for Virginia," suggesting restoration of the Assembly, 32 a.
Henry, Patrick, Stamp Act Resolutions, 120 a;
creation of Committees of Correspondence, 123 a;
and call for First Continental Congress, 125 b;
in debates in Congress ("I am not a Virginian"), 130 a.
Higginson, Rev. Francis, Agreement with Massachusetts Company, 56;
Relation, 59 d.
Higginson, Stephen, on John Hancock and ratification of Constitution, 164.
Hutchinson, Thomas, and Boston town meeting, 122.
Indentured servants, see White servants.
Independence, Virginia county instructions for, 134;
Virginia Convention, instructions for, 135;
Virginia Declaration of, 137;
Congressional resolutions for independent State governments, 138 a and b;
State instructions against, 139;
Lee's motion for in Congress, 140;
the Declaration, 140;
sets free social forces, 145.
Industry in common, in early Virginia, 17, 18;
in Plymouth, 44.
James I, instructions to Jamestown expedition, 17;
attempts to control elections in London Company, 28.
Jefferson, Thomas, proposition for the franchise in first Virginia constitution, 136 (addendum);
and Virginia declaration of independence, 137;
and Declaration of July 4, 141;
and Ordinance of 1784, 148 a.
Keayne, Captain Robert, and exorbitant trading profits, 79;
and
the "sow business" in Massachusetts, 80.
Laborers, in England, 1;
in Massachusetts and wage legislation, 65;
condition of White servants in 1774, 116, 117.
Laws, of Virginia in 1619, 25;
Plymouth code of 1636, 50;
of early Massachusetts, 65;
sumptuary discrimination against classes below the gentry, 75;
the "Body of Liberties," 78;
later Virginian, 105, 106;
late colonial, regarding White servants, 117.
Lee, Richard Henry, and county resolutions against Stamp Act, 120 b;
and creation of Committees of Correspondence, 123 a;
and call for First Continental Congress, 125 b;
and Westmoreland County resolutions, 129 a;
and motion for independence, 140.
Local Government, see Town meeting.
London Company, see Virginia Company.
Loyalists (in Revolution), parody "to sign or not to sign," 142 b;
correspondence with a committee of safety, 143;
pretended diary to show danger in French alliance, 144.
See Mob violence.
Maine, grant of to Gorges (representative government), 39 b.
Maryland, early, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40;
Second Provincial Convention of, a government, 132 (introduction);
instructions against independence, 139.
Mason, George, and Virginia non-importation agreement of 1769, 121 b, note;
declares the Third Virginia Convention a government, 133 c;
and Virginia Bill of Rights, 136 (addendum);
on democratic and aristocratic forces in the Federal Convention, 155, 157;
objections to signing the Constitution, 162, 163.
Massachusetts, to 1660, 41 ff.;
early beginnings at Salem, 52;
charter of 1629, 53;
docket of charter, 54;
question of transfer of charter to America, 55 (and addendum);
decision to transfer the charter, 58;
decision of Puritan gentlemen to remove to Massachusetts, 59;
early hardships and religious matters, 62;
oligarchic usurpations, 63;
Watertown protest and some democratic gains, 64;
aristocratic legislation, 65;
beginning of town government, 66;
establishment of representative government, 67;
religious controversies, 74;
social conditions, 75;
danger of English interference, 76;
demand for written laws, 77;
social conditions as shown in town legislation, 83;
and religious persecution, 84, 85, 86, 88;
English relations after 1660, 100;
charter of 1691, 110 b;
in the Revolution, 122 ff.
(See Table of Contents.)
Mayflower Compact, the, 46.
Mercer, Colonel, induced to resign as Stamp Distributor, 120 c.
Ministers in Virginia, not to "give themselves to excesse of drinking," 33.
Mob violence, pre-Revolutionary, 120 c, d, 124;
after Declaration of Independence, 142 a, b, c.
Morris, Gouverneur, on the hope for a military dictator, 150;
character sketch in Federal Convention, 160.
Navigation Acts, 100 a, b, c; 118.
New England Confederation, constitution, 94;
Massachusetts demands more weight in, 95;
nullification by Massachusetts, 96.
New England Council, 42. See Plymouth Council.
New Hampshire, commission of royal governor of, 112.
New Jersey, advertisements for runaway (White) servants, 117.
New Jersey Plan, in Federal Convention, 158.
"New Style," in dates, 21, note.
New York, charter to Duke of York, 101.
North Sea passage, to be sought for by first Virginia expedition, 18.
Northwest Ordinance, the, 149 b.
Nullification, in New England Confederation, 96.
"Old Style," dates, 21, note.
Ordinance of 1621, for Virginia, 27.
Ordinance of 1784, for organizing the National Domain, 149 a.
Ordinance of 1789, for the Northwest, 149 b.
Otto, Louis Guillaume, to Vergennes, on Annapolis Convention as a plot of the aristocratic classes, 152.
Parody, a Tory's, on Hamlet's soliloquy, 142 b.
Peirce, John, charter for Plymouth, 47.
Penn, William, grant of Pennsylvania, 102;
grants to the settlers, 103 a and b.
Percy, Master George, "Discourse," on first weeks in Jamestown, 19 a.
Pierce, William, character sketches by, of men of the Federal Convention, 160.
Pillory, the, 115.
Plymouth Council, a branch of the first Virginia Company, 16 (section v);
reorganized by charter of 1620, 42;
grants, to the Pilgrims, 47, 49;
to Gorges, for Massachusetts, 51.
Plymouth Plantation, delay in securing Wincob charter, 43;
articles
of partnership with London merchants, 44;
a "body politic" before sailing, 45;
Mayflower Compact, 46;
the Peirce charter, 47;
early history, 48 a and b;
the Bradford charter, 49;
surrender of the same to the colony, 50;
first code of laws, 50.
Presbyterians, excluded from the franchise in early Massachusetts, 86.
Providence Isle, charter to Company of Westminster for plantation of, 55.
Puritans (Massachusetts), political principles of, 61;
not Separatists, 52, 60, 62.
Quakers, persecution in Massachusetts, 88;
and Rhode Island, 92.
Randolph, Edmund, Report of 1676 on Massachusetts, 110.
Religious freedom, toleration in Maryland, 40;
persecution in Massachusetts, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88;
freedom in Rhode Island, 89, 90, 91, 92;
in Pennsylvania, 103.
Representative government, first representative assembly (Virginia), 25;
preserved in Virginia against James and Charles, 29, 30, 31, 32;
first royal authorization of (Maryland charter), 37;
also in charters for Avalon and Maine, 38, 39;
in Gorges grant of 1623, 51;
established in Massachusetts, 61-67.
Revolution, the, pre-Revolutionary agitation, 114-124;
rise of Revolutionary governments, 125-133;
Independence, 134-144;
social forces set free by, 145.
Rhode Island, religious freedom, 89-92.
Robinson, Pastor John, on the terms of partnership between Pilgrims and London merchants, 44, note;
farewell letter, 45.
Rogers, Rev. Ezekiel, champion of democracy in Early Massachusetts, 77 (addendum).
Sabbath in Virginia, no traveling on, 33 (4).
Salem, White's Relation of the beginning of, 52.
Saltonstall, Richard, signer of Cambridge Agreement, 58 b;
letter urging religious freedom, 84 c.
Sandys, Sir Edwin, letter to stockholders of London Company, 11;
and the Company's Declaration of 1620, 26;
and interference of King James against reËlection, 28 (1);
and Plymouth Colony, 43.
Schools,
in Massachusetts:
Dorchester regulations, 81;
compulsory education, 82 a;
State system, 82 b.
In Virginia (Berkeley's Report), 104.
Selectmen, first established at Dorchester, 66.
"Servants," see White servants.
Shays' Rebellion, Hampshire County Grievances, 151 a;
and Washington's alarm, 151 b.
Smith, Captain John, on the London Company (not mercenary), 13;
last plea for colonization (for Massachusetts), 14;
on "gentlemen" in Virginia, 19 b;
on Plymouth in 1624, 48 b;
Massachusetts Puritans not Separatists, 60 b.
Spain, and English colonization, 3 (ch. v.), 5, 6;
danger of Spanish attack on Jamestown, 22.
Stamp Act, the, 119;
reception in America: Henry's resolutions, 120 a;
Virginia county resolutions against, 120 b;
Virginia Stamp Distributor induced to resign, 120 c;
mob violence, 120 d.
Stoughton, Israel, disfranchised for criticizing Massachusetts government, 69.
Sugar Act, of 1733, 100 c;
of 1764, 118.
Sydney, Sir Philip, on American colonization, 3, note.
Tea riots, 124.
Town meeting, establishment at Dorchester, 66, and at Watertown, 83;
use of ballot in, 73 b;
recognized in "Body of Liberties," 78;
typical records of from Watertown (illustrating New England society), 83;
at Boston, political activity in affairs of the province, 111 c, and pre-Revolutionary (town committees of correspondence), 122.
Two-House legislature, evolution of in Massachusetts, 68, 69, 80.
Virginia, motives for colonization, patriotic and religious, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14;
ridiculed (Eastward Hoe), 8;
praised by Dale, 12;
classes of colonists, 7;
"gentlemen" in, 19 b;
under King and Company, 16-19;
Charter of 1609 (under the Company), 20;
Charter of 1612, 21;
danger from Spain, 22;
under the liberal London Company (which see), 23-28;
first Representative Assembly, 25;
a royal province, 29-33;
royal commissions ignoring Assembly, 29, 30;
Assembly's declaration, "No taxation without representation," 31 a;
protests in favor of Assembly, 31 b;
restoration of Assembly, 32;
legislation, moral and financial, 33;
under the Commonwealth, 34-35;
franchise, 35, 105, 106, 109;
under the second Stuarts—Bacon's Rebellion and suppression of reforms, 105-109;
in pre-Revolutionary agitation, 121 ff.;
non-importation agreement, 121 a and b;
originates intercolonial Committees, 123 a and b;
suggests Continental Congress, 125 a, b, c, d, e, f, g;
calls provincial convention, 128 a and b;
county meetings—instructions to delegates to provincial convention, 128 c, 129 a, b, c, d, e;
county approval of Continental Congress' Associations, 131;
county conventions become governments (Fairfax County), 132, 133 a;
Second Provincial Convention a government de facto, 133 b;
Third Convention (July, 1775), a government in form also, 133 c;
Charlotte County instructions for independence, 134;
Convention instructs delegates in Continental Congress to move for independence, 135;
resolves upon an independent State constitution, ib.;
Bill of Rights, 136;
State declaration of independence, 137.
Virginia Company, the, pamphlets in favor of, 5, 6;
"True and Sincere Declaration" of, 7;
Smith's vindication of, 13;
charter of 1606, 15;
instructions from King James, 17;
instructions from the Council in England, 18;
charter of 1609, 20;
charter of 1612, 21;
rules adopted by the liberal management in 1619, 23;
"Order" recognizing right of settlers to share in government, 24;
first charter to settlers (noticed in records of Assembly), 25;
"Declaration" of 1620, 26;
Ordinance of 1621, 27;
struggle with the King for right of free election, 28.
Virginia Plan, the, in Federal Convention, 156.
Ward, Rev. Nathaniel, argument against religious toleration, 84.
Washington, George, and Virginia's non-importation association of 1769, 121 b, note;
and Fairfax County resolutions of 1774, 129 b;
and Fairfax County organization of Revolutionary militia, 132;
and Shays' Rebellion, 151 b.
Watertown Protest, the, 64.
Watertown Records, extracts from, illustrating social conditions, 83.
Western territory, debates on in Continental Congress, 146;
desire for Statehood, 148;
Ordinance of 1784, 149 a;
Northwest Ordinance, 149 b.
Weymouth, Captain George, record of voyage to Maine, 41.
Wheelwright, Rev. John, and petition for free speech, 74.
White, Rev. John, account of beginnings of Massachusetts, 52.
White "servants," corporal punishment, 65;
classified (in 1774), 116;
advertisements for runaways (1769, 1774), 117.
Williams, Roger, on religious freedom, 90.
Winslow, Edward, letter to friend in England on the beginnings of Plymouth, 48 a.
Winthrop, John, signer of Cambridge Agreement, 58 b;
argument for making Massachusetts a Puritan settlement, 59;
reasons for coming to America, 59 b;
farewell letter to the Church of England, 60 a;
on early hardships in the colony, 62 a and b;
decries democracy, 64, 67, 71, 73, 77;
denies free speech, 69;
denies right of petition, 77.
Winthrop, John, Jr., decision to come to Massachusetts, 59 c.
Wise, Rev. John, on Englishmen's dislike for arbitrary government, 111 b.
Written laws, demand for in Massachusetts, 77.
Yeardley, Sir George, and Virginia Representative Assembly, 25.
Yeomen, English, in 16th century, 1.
Zenger, John Peter, and free speech, 113.