28, 29; names of the seasons, 30;
of the months and their festivals
and ceremonies, 31; ruled by wom-
en, 31; college for children of, 110;
expeditions against directed by law,
150; they attack the colony, 124,
186, 241; treaties with, 98, 187; bat-
tles with, 208, 243; not to hold of-
fice, 310; mission at Christanna,
313, 314; outrages by, on frontier,
355, 356; defeated finally at Point
Pleasant, 423, 424.
Ingram, General, succeeds Bacon,
292; surrenders, 294.
Insurrections, servile, the, 485; origin
of unknown, 486.
JACKSON, ANDREW, tradition of his
birthplace, 325.
Jackson, Gen. Thomas J., feeling of
the country at intelligence of his
death, 504.
James I. grants the three Virginia
charters, 14, 56, 113; his obstinacy,
16; hostility to Sandys, 118; sends
felons to Virginia, 119; his counter-
blast to tobacco, 145; his struggle
with the Company, 129-132; his
death, 133.
James II., accession of, 300; hostil-
ity to the Virginians, 300; sends
Monmouth's followers to Virginia,
300; excitement occasioned by his
attacks on the Church, 301.
James City, one of the original bor-
oughs, 115; another name for
Jamestown, 152.
James River, the new name for the
Powhatan, 19; the Great Virginia
highway, 149.
Jamestown, landing of the English at,
19; present appearance of, 19; at-
tack upon, 21; "in combustion,"
37; destroyed by fire, 41; confusion
and famine at, 45, 48; in 1609, 76,
77; horrors of the starving time at,
79, 80; abandoned, 82; scene at,
on the arrival of Delaware, 83;
scenes at, during the Great Rebel-
lion, 245-262, 277-282; burned by
Bacon, 282.
Japazaws betrays Pocahontas, 93.
Jefferson, Thomas, his descent and
early life, 407; his opinion of Henry,
406; character and political views
of, 408; laughs at his own family,
408; his "Summary View," 409;
author of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, 440; attacks the Church
Establishment and entails, 442-446;
his aims as stated by himself, 446;
elected Governor, 455; leaves Rich-
mond charges against, 457; es-
capes from Tarleton, 460; the
"Apostle of Democracy,"
President of United States, 483.
Jeffries, Herbert, Governor, 299.
Johnson, Professor, of William and
Mary College, proceeded against for
marrying, 307.
Jumonville, De, killed near Great
Meadows, 344.
KASKASKIA, surprised by General
Clarke, 451.
Kendall, George, prosecutes Smith,
22; conspires to escape, 24, 25; is
shot, 25.
Kent, Isle of, settlement upon by
Clayborne, 179; seized by Calvert,
179.
Kentucky Resolutions, the, of 1798,
480.
Kiquotan, or Hampton, one of the
original boroughs, 115.
Kiwassa, the One alone called, 28, 29,
30.
Knights of the Horseshoe, order of,
instituted by Spotswood, 315.
LAFAYETTE, THE MARQUIS DE, sent to
command in Virginia, 458; his an-
tecedents, 458; attacks Petersburg,
459; retreats before Cornwallis,
459; offers battle, 460; attacks at
Jamestown, 461; hems in Lord
Cornwallis, and commands
right at Yorktown, 464, 467.
Landholders, the small, similar to the
English yeomen, 368; their cordial
relations with the planter class, 368;
independence and personal pride
of, 369.
Laramore, Captain, 275; betrays
Bland, 276.
Lawne's Plantation, one of the origi-
nal boroughs, 115.
Lawrence, said to be the real author
of Bacon's Rebellion, 240, 250, 254;
his portrait, 255; escapes, 294.
Lee, Richard, sent by Berkeley dur-
ing the Commonwealth, to confer
with Charles II., 218.
Lee, Richard Henry, his antecedents,
originates the Committee of Corre-
spondence, 410; member of first
Congress, 420; his oratory and
personal appearance, 410; author
of the Address to the People of the
Colonies, 421; moves the Declara-
tion, 440.
Lee, General Robert E., feeling of the
country at intelligence of his death,
504.
Lee, Thomas Ludwell, member of
Committee of Safety, 435.
Lee, William, Sheriff of London, 218.
Leigh, Benjamin Watkins, Virginia
Commissioner to South Carolina,
Lewis, General Andrew, his antece-
dents, character, and personal ap-
pearance, 422; commands at the
battle of Point Pleasant, 423, 424;
his quarrel with Dunmore, 425, 426;
drives Dunmore from Virginia, 437.
Lewis, John, settles the upper Valley,
325.
Lief, supposed to have landed in New
England, 3.
Literature of Virginia, the, in the
Plantation period, 133-140;
its
character, 140; in the Colonial pe-
riod, 358-364; its character, 359,
360; in the nineteenth century,
490-498; general character of, 497,
498.
Logan, murder of family of, the cause
of the Indian uprising, 422.
Loudoun, Fort, at Winchester, 356.
Ludwell, Colonel Philip, captures
Bland, 276; marries Lady Berke-
ley, 276 denounces the rebels, 298.
Lunsford, Sir Thomas, takes refuge
in Virginia, 191.
Lutherans of Valley of Virginia, 323.
Lynn, Friar of, said to have reached
the North Pole, 3.
MADISON, JAMES, his descent, 229; the
leader of the party in favor of the
Federal Constitution, 476.
Madoc, Prince of Wales, his supposed
discovery of America, 3.
Magellan circumnavigates the world,
Maids, the, sent to Virginia, 119; their
husbands to purchase them, 120;
regulations in regard to, 121; the
result of the scheme, 122.
Mails in Virginia, in 1738, 317.
Makemie, Francis, first licensed Pres-
byterian Minister in Virginia, 338.
Malgro, said to have visited America,
circ. A. D. 600, 3.
Mannakintown, the Huguenot settle-
ment, 309.
Map of Virginia, Smith's, 47.
Marquette, Padre, takes possession of
the Mississippi valley in the name
of France, 340.
Marriage, the first English in Amer-
ica, 45; forbidden professors at
William and Mary College, 307.
Marshall, John, at Great Bridge, 436;
urges the adoption of the Federal
Constitution, 476; presides at the
trial of Burr, 483, 484; his fairness,
Martin, John, member of original
council, 21, 78; his character, 63.
Martin, Luther, counsel for Burr to be
"muzzled," 483.
Martin-Brandon, one of the original
boroughs, 115.
Martin's Hundred, one of the original
boroughs, 115.
Mary, William and, proclaimed "Lord
and Lady of Virginia," 301; grant
the charter of William and Mary
College, 305.
Maryland, origin of the name, 178;
objections of Virginia to the settle-
ment of, 178; oath of the governor
of, 181; civil war in, 180, 181, 209–
Mason, his descent and character,
229; personal appearance, and wit,
411; love of country, 412, 420;
member of Committee of Safety,
435; author of the Declaration of
Rights, 412; of the Virginia Consti-
tution, 439; opposes the adoption
of the Federal Constitution, 475.
Massachusetts recommends a general
Congress, 389; destruction of the
tea in, 416; outbreak of the Revo-
lution in, 429.
Massacre, the Indian, 124-129.
Matachanna, sister of Pocahontas,
103.
Matoax, or Matoaca, the real name of
Pocahontas, 103.
Matthews, Samuel, Governor, his por-
trait, 205; persecutes the Puritans,
205, 206 is deposed, 206; rein-
stated, 207; dies, 218.
Maynard, Lieutenant, slays Black-
beard, 316.
McDowell, James, 325.
Meade, Bishop William, his ordina-
tion, as Bishop, 395; his character.
396; revives the Episcopal Church,
396; his "Old Churches of Vir-
ginia," 493.
Mennonists in the Valley, 323.
Mercer, James, member of Committee
of Safety, 435.
Methodism, the rise of, 334; a mission-
ary movement in the Church,
Whitefield's definition of, 335; in
Virginia, 337.
Middle-Plantation, scene there dur-
ing the Great Rebellion, 267-272;
oath taken at, 271; capital removed
to, 304.
Military Institute, Virginia, founded,
Millwood, settlers around, 327.
Minute-Men, the Virginia, 327, 428;
motto of the Culpeper, 436.
Monacan Country, Newport's Expedi-
tion to, 47.
Monmouth, followers of, sent to Vir-
ginia as indented servants, 300.
Monroe, James, his descent, 229.
Morquez, Don Pedro de, enters the
Chesapeake, 4.
Mount Desert, settlement at, de-
stroyed by Argall, 108.
Mount Vernon, origin of the name,
329.
NANSEMOND, supposed settlement of
Puritans in, 173.
Nantaquaus, brother of Pocahontas,
95, 103.
Navigation Laws, 204, 230-232.
Neale, Thomas, authorized to estab-
lish a postal system in America,
317.
Necessity, Fort, Washington's surren-
der at, 344; Braddock's death and
burial at, 354.
Necotowance, "King of the Indians,"
treaty with, 187.
Negroes, the first brought to America,
123; not to hold office, 310.
Nelson, Captain Francis, of the Pho-
nix, 42, 43.
Nelson, Secretary, at Yorktown, 468.
Nelson, General Thomas, his personal
appearance, 406; his decision, 438;
Governor and commander of Vir-
ginia troops, 464; fires on the Nel-
son House, 468.
Nelson, William, Lieutenant-Gover-
nor, 403.
New England, settled, 189; pastors
from, in Virginia, 172; sympathy
with English Commonwealth, 194;
attitude of, toward the Revolution,
375.
New Lights, The, 331; their hostility
to the Establishment, 336; pcrse-
cution of, 336; effect of preaching
of, 337.
Newport, Christopher, 18, 40; his
character, 41; crowns Powhatan,
47; expeditions of, 41, 47; Vice-
Admiral, 56.
Nicholas, Robert Carter, 406.
Nicholson, Francis, Governor, 301;
his outrages, 302; passion for Miss
Burwell, and absurd proceedings,
303; charges brought against, 303;
removes the capital to Williams-
burg, 304; plans the union of all
the colonies under himself, 304;
fulsome address on the accession
of Anne, 310; his after life and
character, 308.
Nonsuch, settlement of, 66, 142.
Norfolk, burned by Dunmore, 437.
North, Frederick, Lord, his wit, 402;
offers the "Olive Branch," 432;
retires, 472.
North Carolina, Indian name of, 1;
attempt to establish a Jesuit mis-
sion in, 4.
Northern Neck, grant of, 232; inher-
ited by Fairfax, 327.
Norwood, Colonel, takes refuge in Vir-
ginia, 190; sent to Charles II., by
Berkeley, 191; his description of
the Cavalier exiles, 192.
OKEE, 28; sucks the blood of children,
Old Capitol, the, 397.
Old Chapel, the, 329.
Old Dominion, the, supposed origin
of the name of, 218.
Old Magazine, the, 397; removal of
powder from, 430; explosion at,
433.
"Olive Branch," the, 432, 433.
Oliverian Plot, the, character and re-
sult of, 220, 221.
Opechancanough captures Smith, 34;
is captured by him, 52; petitions
the Assembly, 117; tradition relat-
ing to, 125; plans and executes the
massacre of 1622, 125, 126; again
attacks the colony, and is taken
prisoner, 186; his message to Berke-
ley and death, 187.
Opequon Church, one of the oldest in
the valley, 323.
Opitchapan succeeds Powhatan, 104;
Wyat's battle with, 163, 164; de-
posed, 125.
Orange, divided into Frederick and
Augusta, 326.
Orapax, place of Powhatan's burial,
105.
Ordinance and Constitution of 1621;
its provisions, 118.
Orkney, Lord, Governor, 310.
PAGE, JOHN, of Rosewell, author of
"A Deed of Gift," 360.
Page, John, Governor, his opposition
to Dunmore, 430; member of Com-
mittee of Safety, 435; defends the
Church Establishment, 443.
Pamunkey, Queen of, her appearance
before the Burgesses, 252-254.
Parsons' Cause, the, 381, 382.
Patroons, The New York, their splen-
dor of living, 369.
Pendleton, Edmund, descent, political
views, personal appearance and ora-
tory of, 229, 413, 414; the conserva-
tive revolutionist, 415; member of
first Congress, 420; President of
Convention, 427; of Committee of
Safety, 435; author of the resolu-
tions for independence, 438; de-
fends the Church and entails, 443-
446; President of Convention to
consider Federal Constitution, 475;
President of Court of Appeals, and
death, 394.
Percy, George, 17; his description of
the fever of 1607, 23; offers to cut
the throats of Smith's enemies, 55;
chosen President, 67; his ill health
and want of energy, 77, 79, 88.
Phillips, General, invades Virginia,
and captures Petersburg, 458; Jef-
ferson's characterization of, 459;
death and place of burial, 459.
Phillips, the Marauder, hung for trea-
son, 455.
Pillories to be erected, 222.
Pitt, William, his views on America,
388; opinion of the first Congress,
421.
Planters, characteristics of the class,
369-372; their attitude toward the
Revolution, 377, 378.
Pleasant, Point, battle at, 423, 424.
Pocahontas, preserves the life of
Sinith, 35; his description of, 36;
succors the colony, 38; her masquer-
ade, 46; warns the English of an
attack to be made on them, 51; the
question of the rescue, 71-73; saves
an English boy, 78; is taken prison-
er, 93; her conversion and baptisin,
97; goes with Dale to the York,
94; her affair with Rolfe, 95, 96;
his letter describing her, 97; their
marriage, 97; at Varina, 92, 98; sails
for England, 100; her reception,
101; interview with Smith, 102; the
question of their relations, 102, 103;
details relating to her family, 103;
her death, 103.
Point Comfort, origin of name, 19;
duty of the commandant at, 170.
Ponce de Leon, lands in Florida, 4.
Population of Virginia in 1616, 110;
in 1622, 124; in 1648, 188; in 1670,
226; increase in, how to be account-
ed for, 226; probable, in 1700, 309;
in 1756, 367; in 1870 and 1880, 510.
Port Bill, Boston, 416; proceedings in
Virginia with reference to, 418.
Porter, John, expelled from Assem-
bly for "being loving to the Qua-
kers," 221.
Pory, John, Speaker of first Assembly,
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; outwits Newport,
41; crowned under-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 im-
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, 6.
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;
reappearance in colony, 62; his | Sandys, George, translates Ovid at
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,
444.
Republicans and Federalists, 480.
Resolutions of 1798, 1799, 480, 481.
Ricahecrians, 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, 488.
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, John, 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 London, 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. Tammany 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.
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.,
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,"
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; Washington 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
plantations, 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, John, 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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