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Mulberries first planted in England, 76; law for promoting the raising of, in Virginia, 77; repealed, 79.
Muskrat skins valued for their odor, 19.
Names, fanciful, of the Newfoundland coast, 225, 229.
Names, Indian, of places changed, 244.
Nansemond, settlement at, 37; settlers driven from, 38.
Narragansett Bay recommended to Williams by Winthrop, 293; proposal to remove to, alarmed the magistrates, 294; colony on, founded on the true principle, 316.
Narragansett Club Publications, 135, n. 4; 268, m.; 307, n. 3, 4, 5; 311, n. 17.
Naval stores, Virginia expected to produce, 82; efforts to procure, in Elizabeth's time, 95, n. 4.
Neal's History of New England, 310, n. 14; History of the Puritans, 159, m.; 226, m.; 239, m.
Neill, E. D., on the social compact, 183, n. 4; Founders of Maryland, 262, n. 11; Virginia Company, 67, n. 9; 183, n. 2.
Netherlands, indirect interest of the, in the Virginia colony, 44.
New England, coast of, explored by Capt. John Smith, 37; shaped in Old England by Puritanism, 133; pioneers of, came from the Separatists, 141, 146; existence of, hung on a chain of accidents, 176; elements of, 177; early attempts to colonize, 178; early settlements in, 189; great migration to, 196, 203; capital laws of, condemned by Williams, 304.
New England charter of 1620, 173.
New England colonists deemed themselves a chosen people, 278; accounted other colonists the Egyptians of the New World, 278, 308, n. 7; held to an intolerant theocracy, 279; dispersions of the, 315; relief at disappearance of the last of the leaders, 342.
New England Firebrand Quenched, 301, m.
New England Historical Gen. Reg., 267, 307, n. 1.
New England Puritanism more ultra than Bownd, 132, 140, n. 3.
New England traits due to special causes, 178.
Newfoundland, failure of colony at, 223, 224; Capt. Whitbourne's pamphlet on, 224; fanciful names in, 225; not a paradise in winter, 229, 260, n. 7; value of the fisheries, 261, n. 7.
New France bubble ready to collapse, 346.
New Haven, Davenport and his company planted colony at, 343; colony united with Connecticut by royal charter at the Restoration, 343; stretching westward, 345.
New Life of Virginea, 63, n. 3.
New Plymouth, Sandys's plans for the foundation of, 88.
Newport, Vice-Admiral, reporter of Virginia affairs, 44; threatened with the gallows by Dale, 44; warned against Archer, 64.
Newtown, Hooker's company settled at, 317; intended for capital and palisaded, 318; superior to Boston in one regard, 318; discontent at, 318, 319, 320; questions regarding boundary, 319; cattle-raising at, 320; the church at, emigrated bodily to Connecticut, 325; court of elections held at, 335.
New World, mirages of the, 2; discovered because it lay between Europe and the East Indies, 3; grotesque and misleading glimpses of the, 20.
New York Colonial Doc.u.ments, 6, m., 43, m.
New York Hist. Soc. Coll., 23, n. 7; second series, 70, n. 15; 80, m.
Nichols's, Josias, Plea for the Innocent, 146, m.
Nonconformists, severe measures against, 122; in the Church, 142.
North Carolina, coast of, called Wingandacon, 21, n. 3.
Northey, Sir Edward, decision on the Maryland charter, 262, n. 11.
Northwest pa.s.sage, search for a, 4, 5, 9, 10.
Nova Albion, 259, n. 5.
Nova Brittania, 82, m.
Oath of allegiance, 241; emigration oath refused by Williams, 270; new oath for residents opposed by Williams, 289; magistrates unable to enforce, 289.
Ogle's Account of Maryland, 264, n. 19.
Oil to be distilled from walnuts, 83.
Oldham, John, an adventurous man of lawless temper expelled from Plymouth, 324; led a small company from Watertown, 324.
Opossum, the, described by Purchas, 18.
Opposition, Puritanism the party of, 110.
Original Records of Colony of Virginia, 78, m.
Overston, sermons preached in, by unlicensed men, 142.
Pacific Ocean, discovery of the, 3; belief in a pa.s.sage to the, 4, 6; nearness to Florida, 6; sought _via_ the James River, 8; in lat.i.tude 40, 9, 10; _via_ the Delaware, 10; proximity of, to Virginia, 10, 22, n. 6; to North Carolina, 11.
Pagitt's Heresiography, 143, m.; 144, m.; 157, n. 1.
Palfrey's History of New England, 211, m.; 218, n. 8.
Palisades burned for firewood, 40.
Paradox, the, of colonial religious organization, 280.
