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INDEX
Accomack, 145
Adams, John, 146; his letter
to Thomas Pickering, 190192
Adams, John Quincy, 193
Adams, Professor Herbert A.,
201
Abolitionists, the, 237
Albemarle Academy, the, 206;
act passed uniting it with
Central College, 208-209
Alençon, Duke of, 45
Alexandria, 156
Alva, Duke of, 31
Appomattox, 246; Grant and
Lee at, 255, 317
Aragon, Catherine of, 17
Archer, Captain George, 88,
115; wounding of, 107
Argall, Captain George, 125
Argall, Captain Samuel, 62,
117; succeeds Dale as
Governor of Virginia, 126;
his laws, 365-366
Austin, Arthur W., 233 and note
Babington, plot of, 45
Bacon, Lord, 83
Bacon, Nathaniel, 132; Rebellion
of, 143
Bagby, George W., 294 and
note
Balboa, Nunez de, 12
Bartholomew, Saint, 27; massacre
of, 39
Beaver Dam, 348; destruction
of rations at, 350; skirmish
at, 351
Bernadotte, 334
Berkeley, Sir William, 132; removed
from the Colony,
143-145, 161
Bickertons, Captain John, 149
Bimini, Isle of, 12
Black Belt, the, 282-284, 324
Blair, Parson, 162
Blatterman, Professor, 221
Boleyn, Anne, 65
Bonnycastle, Charles, 221
"Boston," 297
Braddock, General, 171
Braddock's Road, 286
Brazil, Island of, 10
Brotherhood, the White, 268
Breckenridge, General James
214 and note
Brewster, William, 101
Broddus, Rev. Dr. John, 218
Bucke, Mr., 97
Burgesses, House of, 178
Burrough, Sir John, 74
Bull Run, 287
Byrd, Colonel William, 138,
149, 292
Cabell, Joseph C., 201, 208,
209; Jefferson's letter to,
219
Cabot, John, 33; charter
granted to, 10; sailing of,
11
Cabot, Sebastian, 10; expedition
of, 11; takes service
with Spain, 11; recall of,
18
Cadiz, 23, 67
Cambridge, 172
Carew, Peter, 38
Caroline, Fort, 22; capture of,
by Menendez, 25
"Carpet-bagger," the, 318
Cartagena, town of, 52
Carter's Creek, 368
Cartier, Jacques, 33
Cary, Mr., reading of the resolutions,
183-185
Cathay, 7
Cavendish, Captain Thomas,
73
Cecil, Sir William, 34
Challeux, 35
Challons, Mr. Henry, capture
of, 83
Chancellorsville, 289
Chanco, 130
Chapman, George, 79
Charles I, 132
Charles II, 142-143
Charles V, 16
Charleston, 156
Church, the Roman, 4, 17
Chesapeake, Bay of, 14, 58
Chickahominy, the, 109
Cipango, 7
Civil Law, 4
Claibourne, William, 131, 142
Clay, Henry, 334
Clinton, Lord Admiral, 34
Cocke, John H., 214 and note
Cocke, General, 371 and note
Cold Harbor, 334
Coligny, Admiral, his attempt
to found a Protestant State,
21; failure of plot to assassinate
him, 39
Columbus, Christopher, 10; his
gift to Spain, 4; his first
appearance, 5; not first to
discover New World, 6;
sails from Palos, 10
Columbus Diego, Governor of
the Indies, 11; sends Velasquez
to conquer Cuba, 12
Comfort, Point, 89
Comfort, Cape, 89
Committees of Correspondence,
the, 167, 168; the definition
of, according to Mr.
Marshall, 169
Committee of Public Safety,
the, 167
Common Law, 4
Confederate Government, expenditures
of, 241
Constant, the Sarah, 60, 84, 100
Cooper, Dr. Thomas Cooper,
214
Corotomon, 368
Cortez, Hernando, conquests of,
and rebuke to Philip II,
13, 16
Corunna, harbor of, 52
Croatan, Island of, 52, 61
Dale, Sir Thomas, 62, 120; his
method of dealing with
conspirators, 124; his services
to the Colony of Virginia,
125, 126
Daneville, 287
Dare, Eleanor, 54
Dare, Virginia, 71, 69
Darien, capture of, by Ojeda
and Nicuesa, 12
Davis, Jefferson, 253, 254
Davis, John, 48
D'Ayllon, Lucas Vasquez, his
attempts at colonization,
14-15
De Beaurepaire, Quesney, 204
De Gourges, Dominique, 28
Dee, Dr. John, 48
Delaware, Lord, 116; arrival
of, at Virginia, 118-119,
365
De Medicis, Catherine, 27
De Soto, Ferdinand, death of,
16
Devils, Isle of, 117
De Villegagnon, Nicholas, attempts
to found a settlement,
21
Diaz, Bartholomew, expedition
of, 5
Diaz, Bernal, 16
Discovery, the, 60, 84
Drake, Sir Francis, at the battle
of Vera Cruz, 37; circumnavigates
the globe,
43-45; knighted by Elizabeth,
44; sack of Santiago,
St. Augustine and
Cartagena, 52; battle with
the Armada, 56; his services
to the New World, 68
Dominica, 86
Downs, the, 84
Drayton, Michael, 82
Dudley, Lord Roberts, 34
Dudley, Rev. Thomas U., 218
Dunglison, Robley, 221
Dunmore, Lord, 136, 161, 172
Dupont, Mrs., 356
"Dutch-Man-of-War, A", 127
Dwight, Dr. Timothy, 211
Eastern empire, captured by
the Turks, 5
Eastward Hoe, Play of, 79-82
Eaton, Thomas, 145
Ecclesiastical system, 4
Eden, Richard, publishes
"Decades and the New
Worlde," 19
Effingham, Lord Howard of, 56
Egerton, Sir Thomas, Lord
Chancellor, 77
El Dorado, 19, 73
Elizabeth, city of, 145
Elizabeth, river, the, 5
Elizabeth, Queen, succession to
English Crown, 20; her
fight against Popery, 2021;
deposed by order of the
Catholic Church, 39; letter
to the "Muscovy Company,"
40; her policy, 3233;
crushes Catholic rebellion,
38-39; restrains
the ministers, 41; grants
letters patent to Sir Humphrey
Gilbert, 42; treaty
with United Netherlands,
42; her reply to the Spanish
Ambassador Mendoza,
44-45; plot to assassinate,
45; death of, 75
Emmet, John P., 221
England, claim of new land,
33, 38; her supremacy at
end of 16th century, 69;
her position before the
Revolution, 156-157
English Channel, 56
Eolus, the, 297
Eric the Red, settlement of, 6
Esmond, Henry, 304
Falcon, the, 43
Fauquier, 28
Ferdinando, Simon, 53; his
disobedience of orders, 54
Fiske, John, 363
Flanders, Province of, 45
Flash, Sir Pitral, 79
Flavio, Gioja, compass invented
by, 4
Florida, discovery of, 12
Fountain of Youth, the, 12
France, claim of, 33; negotiating
for England's aid,
45
Francis I, his power crippled
by Charles V, 16
Franklin, Benjamin, 167
Fredericksburg, town of, 290292
Freedmen's Bureau, the, 257;
influence of, and effect
on the negroes, 259-260
Frobisher, Sir Martin, 66; three
voyages of, 41
Gaines' Mill, 334
Gap, Thoroughfare, 353
Gates, Sir Thomas, 77, 116,
117, 126; arrival of, at
Virginia, 118; 365
George III, 163, 166
Gilbert, Adrian, 37, 48
Gilbert, Capt. Bartholomew, 75
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 35, 40,
43; his plans against Spanish
ships, 42; sells estates
to raise money for cruise,
47; landing in Newfoundland,
and death, 47-48
Gilbert, John, 37
Gilbert, Raleigh, 77
Gilmer, Mr. F. W., 214 and
note
Giovanni da Verraza, captures
the treasure intended for
Charles V, 16
Gomez, Estevan, voyage of, 15
Good Speed, the, 60, 84, 100
Gordon, Armistead C., 230
Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 76
Gosnold, Captain Bartholomew,
75, 84; grave of, 95; death
of, 105
Gourges, his landing and attack
on St. Augustine, 2829;
slaughter of the garrison
at St. Augustine, 29
Grant, General, his report to
the President, 250
Great Bridge, the battle of, 178
Great Meadows, 170
Green, the historian, 166
Grenville, Sir Richard, 38-40;
at Roanoke, and explorations
along the coast, 5052;
leaves men at Roanoke,
53; battle with the
Spanish Armada, 56
Greynville, Richmond, 73
Grijaloa, superseded in command,
12-13
Guinea, coast of, 28, 34
Gunston Hall, 288
Hakluit, Richard, 77
Hall, Aaron, 343
Hampton Roads, 58, 314
Hampton Road, conference,
the, 314
Hancock, John, 187
Hanham, Captain Thomas, 83
Harrison, Benjamin, 148, 187
Harvey, Sir John, 131, 161;
driven out by the colonists,
142
Hatorask, 52, 54
Hawkins, William, 34
Hawkins, Sir John, 23; first
voyage of, 34; destruction
of his ships by Spaniards,
36; third voyage, 35-37
Hebrides, 57
Henrico, 124; destruction of,
130
Henricus, College of, 145
Henry VII, death of, 16
Henry VIII, his succession and
rule, 16-17; death of, 17
Henry, Prince, the Navigator, 5
Henry, Patrick, 171, 178, 182,
193, 196, 283, 334
Herndon, Lewis, 291
Hispaniola, 11, 14
Hoar, Senator, 275
Holy Office, the, 31
Honeyman's Bridge, 346
Hore, Robert, 17
"Horse-Shoe Ford," 347
Horton, William, 145
Hudson, Henry, fate of, 11
Hunt, "Worthy Master," 85,
87, 95, 97, 105; loss of his
library, 114, 364
Independence, declaration of,
146; debate concerning,
181-182, 185
Inquisition, the, results to
Spain of, 37
Invisible Empire, the, 269
Investigation, committee of,
report of, 270
Isabella, interview with Columbus,
8; pledges her
jewels, 8
Jackson, Stonewall, 289, 353,
354; an incident of, 354355
James I, 65
James VI, succeeds to the English
throne, 75; his hatred
of Sir Walter Raleigh, 75
James, the, 58, 84, 88
Jamestown, what settlement
of, signifies, 3; the first
English settlement, 59; expeditions
from, against the
French, 62; growth of, 6263,
64; founding of, 84, 85;
attack on, by the Indians,
99-100; burning of, 114;
first elective assembly at,
128; attacked by the Indians,
130
Jamestown, Island of, 90
Jane, Queen, 18
Jefferson, Thomas, 146, 164;
appointed on Committee
to frame the Virginia Constitution,
187; mentioned
in Adams' letter to Pickering,
190-192, 193, 196;
his "monumental," 194195;
founding of the University
of Virginia, 198218;
the pioneer of coeducation,
201; his plans
for the college, 202; founding
of Albemarle Academy,
206; member of first
Board of Visitors, Virginia
University, 209; consulted
by Governor Nicholas, 210;
first President of the Board,
University of Virginia, 212;
his plans for building the
university, 214-217 and
note; opposition to, 220;
his address to the students,
227; his prophecy, 234
John and Francis, the, 106
Johnson, Andrew, 255; his attitude
toward the South,
255-256
Johnson, Colonel Richard Malcolm,
343
Jones, Paul, 290
Jones, Rev. Hugh, 173
Jonson, Ben, 79
Judith, the, 36
Kenawha, the great, 170
Kendall, George, 88; shot for
conspiracy, 106
Key, Thomas Hewitt, 221, 225
Kilpatrick, General, 349
King's River, 90
Knights of the White Camellia,
the, 268
Ku Klux acts, the, 269
Ku Klux Committee, the, 269
Ku Klux Klan, the, 267
La Cosa, exploration of Darien
by, 12
Lane, Ralph, 57; kills King
Penisapau, 52; his return
home, 52-53
Laudonnière, Réné de, 21; settlement
at Fort Caroline,
22-23; fate of, 23; escape
of, from Fort Caroline, 25;
publishes an account of
the country, 35
Lee, Henry, 193
Lee, Richard Henry, 179-180;
his letter to Patrick Henry,
187, 188; mentioned in
letter of John Adams, 190192
Lee, Robert E., his example,
249; surrender of, 317-318
Lemoine, 35
Lewis, Andrew, 170
Lewis, Brigadier-General, 186
Leyden, 129
Lief, exploration of, 6
Lincoln, President, assassination
of, 254
Lindsay, Rev. Dr. John A., 218
Little River, 332, 346
Livingston, Robert R., 188
Long, Professor George, 221,
225
Louisiana, cost to, during
"Carpet-bag rule" 265266
and note
Mabie, Hamilton W., 228, 231
Mace, Samuel, 75
Madison, James, 209, 283, 305
Magellan, Ferdinand, attempt
of, to circumnavigate the
globe, 13-14
Mandeville, Sir John, 12
Marco Polo, compass brought
by, 4; visit of, 5
Mar-del-Sud plate, carrack of,
44
Marshall, John, 193, 283, 305
Martin, Captain John, 88, 107,
115
Mary, Queen, succeeds Edward
VI, 18; her marriage
to Philip II and
grant of charter to merchant
adventurers, 18-19;
death of, 19-20
Marye's Heights, 288
Mason, George, 187, 196
Matanzas, Inlet of, 26
Maury, Matthew F., 291
Mayflower, the, 61
Meade, Bishop, 369; his character,
370-371
Mechanicsville, 334
Mendoza, his letter to King of
Spain, 45
Menendez, assault on Fort
Caroline, 25; expeditions
against Laudonnière, 2327;
his account of the destruction
of the French at
Matanzas, 26-27; his inscription
over the Frenchmen
slain by him, 27-28;
refounds settlement of St.
Augustine, 29; effect of
his treachery on England,
68
Minion, the, 36
Minor, Professor, 206-207 and
note
Mississippi, the, 13, 16
Mississippi, State of, the State
levy 266 and note
Monroe, James, 209, 210, 283,
305
Montreal, city of, 16
More, Sir Thomas, 17
Mount Desert, Island of, 125,
154
Mount Vernon, 288
Mountain Top, 212
Murray, Sir James, 80
Muscovy Company, the, 40
"The Mysterie and Company
of Discoverie of Regions,
Domains, Islands, and
Places Unknown," association
and founding of, 18
Navarez, Panfilo de, 16
Navarre, Henry of, 45
Nelson, Captain Francis, 99,
110, 115
Nelson, Colonel, 373-374, 378
Nelson, Thomas, Jr., 182, 186,
193, 334
New Found River, 332
New Foundland, 17
New Foundland, banks of, 15
Newport, 156
Newport, Captain Christopher,
66, 116; voyage of,
73-74; capture of the
Madre de Dios, 74; commander
of English fleet,
discovery of Virginia, 84;
his services to the Virginia
colony, 95; exploring expedition
of, 99-100; takes
first report of the colony to
the King, 100-101
Newport News, 326-327
New York, 156
Nicholas, George, 178
Nicholas, Governor, 210
Nicholas, Robert Carter, 182
Nicholson, Governor, 145
Nicuesa, takes possession of
Darien, 12
Nina, the, 297
Norfolk, 156; burning of, by
Dunmore, 179
North, Lord, 163
Northanna, the, 331
Northwest passage, the, 11
Oakland, 348, 374
Ocracoke Inlet, 51
Ojeda, 12
Old Point Comfort, 326-327
Orange, Prince of, 32; assassination
of, 45
Oriel College, 37
Page, John, 205, 306
Party, the court, 127
Party, the patriot, 127
Paspaha, the Werrowance of,
98
Paspiheigh, the river of, 90
Pamunkey, the, 332
Peckham, Sir George, 40
Pedrarias, Governor of Darien,
12
Pembroke, Earl of, 34
Pendleton, Edmund, 181, 196
Pendletons, General, memoir
of, 315
Penisapau, King, plot of, 52;
death of, 52
Percy, George, 88, 96, 99; his
account of the "Starving
time," 104-105; Governor
of the colony of Virginia,
240
Peru, conquest of, 14
Petersburg, 316
Philadelphia, 156
Philip II, Menendez' expedition,
23; his message to
Menendez, 27
Phœnix, the, 106, 110
Pickering, Thomas, mentioned
in letter, 190
Piedmont, the, 282
Pineda, Alvarez de, 13
Pitt, William, his recognition of
America, 165-166
Pizarro, the conquest of Peru
by, 14
Planet, the, 297
Plasiby, Henry, 145
Pocahontas, 97, 106; saves
Captain Smith's life, 109;
her service to the English,
111-112
Ponce de Leon, Juan, search for
the fountain of youth, 12
Popham, Chief Justice, 83, 99
Port Royal, colony of, 20; destruction
of colony at, 22
Porter, Fitz John, 353
Portsmouth, 156
Portugal, papal decree concerning,
9
Potts, letter of, 111-112
Powhatan, King, 106, 109
Powhatan, the river, 58
Pimlico, Sound of, 51
Prest, Agnes, 38
Priestly, Dr. Joseph, (206 and
note)
Princeton College, 368
Prinne, Martin, 83
"Quicksilver," see "Eastward
Hoe," 79
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 37; his
hatred of Spain, 42, 67;
commander of the Falcon,
43; his service in Ireland,
43; character of, and favor
with the Queen, 45-46;
his letter to Sir Humphrey
Gilbert, 47; granted letters
patent by the queen,
48-49; plans for colonization
of New World, 49; explorations
along the coast
of Virginia and knighting
of, by queen, 50; grants
charter for founding of
colony in Virginia, 53; battle
with the Armada, 56;
ordered to give up his command,
expeditions to Guiana
coast, 75-76; imprisonment
of, 111
Randolph, Peyton, 172, 187,
193
Rapidan, the, 246
Ratcliffe, Captain, 84, 88, 115;
succeeds Wingfield as
president of the colony of
Virginia, 106
Reconstruction period, the, its
length, 242
Reformation, coming of, 4; torture
secures foothold in
Spain, 31
Revenge, the, 38
Ribault, Jean, 21; arrival with
supplies at Fort Caroline,
24; expedition against Menendez,
24-25; wreck of
his fleet, 25
Richard, the Bonhomme, 83,
290
Richmond, town of, 291-292
Rights, declaration of, 185
Rio de Janeiro, 21
Rio de la Hacha, town of, 36
Roanoke, Island of, 5, 79;
colonization of, 51; disappearance
of its colonists, 61
Rolph, John, 112; his marriage
with Pocahontas, 124;
probable death of, 130
Rutledge, Edward, 189
Salisbury, Earl of, 101
Sandys, Sir Edwin, 115, 125;
the arrest of, 131
Sanford, Samuel, 145
San Juan d'Ulna, harbor of, 38
San Miguel, town of, 15
Santiago, town of, 52
"Scape-thrift," see "Eastward
Hoe," 79
"Sea-Gull," see "Eastward
Hoe," 79
Sea Venture, the, 97, 118
Serapi, the, 290
Seward, Mr., 278
Sharpl, Edward, 131
Sherwood, Mrs., books by, 375
S'dney, Sir Philip, 67
Spyco, the hostage, 52
Small, Dr., 2-5
Smith, Dr. Augustin, 211
Smith, Captain John, 88, 96;
discharged from prison,
99; discussion about, 102;
author's opinion of, 103104;
rescue of, by Pocahontas,
106; his character,
107-109; his account of his
rescue by Pocahontas, 109;
tribute to, by one of his
soldiers, 113-114
Smith, ex Governor, 355
Smith, Meriwether, 182
Somers, Sir George, 77, 116;
hipwrecked, 117
South Carolina, taxable values
of, 266, note
Southanna, 332
Spain, freed from Moslem rule,
4; rights of, 9; claims
Brazil, 9; attempt to colonize
Darien, 16; gains
Peru, 14; mistakes in colonial
policy, 29-30; Spanish
character, 30-31; crippled
by executions, 31;
ambition of, to rule the
world, 33; sends the Armada
against England,
55-57; extent of territory
during the middle of 16th
century, 64-65
"Spendall," see "Eastward
Hoe," 79
Spert, Capt. Thomas, 17
Spottswood, Governor, 289
Spottsylvania, 289
Squirrel, the, sinking of, 48
Stamp Act, the, 167-168
Stanton, Secretary, 255
St. Augustine, founding of, 24,
52
St. John's River, 22
St. Juan d'Ulna, Spanish
treachery at, 68
St. Lawrence, Gulf of, 16
St. Lawrence, the river, 33
St. Mary's, 156
Stoneman, General, 349
Stuart, Arabella, 75, 111
Stuart, Mary, 32; execution of,
45
Stuart, J. E. B., death of, 350
Stukeley, Thomas, 35
Swiss College, the, 206
Tampico, 13
Taylor, Gen. Robert B., 214,
note
Tidewater, the, 282
Treasurer, the, 127
Trinity House, founding of, 17
Thorpe, Mr., 130
Utopia, publication of, 17
Valadolid, 76
Valasquez, 12, 13
Vespuci, 12
Vinland, discovered by Lief, 6;
story of, lost, 6
Virginia, first settlement of, 15,
98; the first months of, 98100;
character of the early
accounts, 146-152; division
of, 280-285; character of
the people, 299-304; conditions
after the war, 319321;
emigration from,
after the war, 324-325;
mineral sources of, 329;
climate of, 330-331; capes
of, 86
Virginia, the, Central Railway,
348
Virginia Company, the, 129
Virginia, Northern Co. of, 83
Virginia, Southern Co. of, 83
Virginia Convention, the, the
meeting of, in 1776, 180
Virginia Gazette, the, 149, 151,
185-186
Virginia, the, 118
Virginia, University of, its
situation, 212-213, 230;
influence over graduates,
231-232
Waller's Grove, 186
Walsingham, Secretary, 47
Warde, Richard, charter granted
to, 10
Washington, Fanny, 297
Washington, George, 170, 193,
196; takes command of the
Continental Army, 172,
248, 288
Watts, John, 70
Werowocomoco, 109
West, Sir Thomas, 119
Westmoreland County, 145
"Westover," 291
Weymouth, Captain George,
arrest of, 76
White, John, Governor Colony
of Virginia, 53; landing at
Roanoke, 54; his return to
England, 54-55; his attempt
to return to the
colony, 55; leaves colonists
at Roanoke, 69-70; departure
from England delayed,
70; search for lost
colony, 71-72
Whittaker, Mr., 97
Wickham, General, 240
The Wilkes' case, 165
William, the, 178
William and Mary, College of,
145, 162, 202, 205; attempt
to move college to
Richmond, 217
Williamsburg, 149, 171, 185
Win-gan-da-coa, 50
Wingfield, Edward Maria, 77,
96, 115; elected President
Virginia Colony, 87-88;
deposed from the
presidency of the colony,
106
Wirt, William, 232
Wowinchapuncha, the Warrawance
of, 90
Wyat, Sir Francis, 129
Wythe, George, 196
Yardley, Sir George, 119; reinstated
as Governor, his
laws, 128-129
Yellow Tavern, the, 350
York, 156
York River, 114, 139
Zuñiga, his attempts to injure
England's colonial policy,
121-123
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