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agreement with the British Government. i. 381. East India Company's Tea--Causes of it being thrown into Boston Harbour, as stated on both sides. i. 377. Elections in England hastened in the autumn of 1774; adverse to the Colonies. i. 419. Emigrants to Massachusetts Bay--Two classes. i. 1. Emigration to Massachusetts Bay stopped by a change of Government in England. i. 85. Endicot--Leader of the first company of emigrants to Massachusetts Bay. i. 27. His character. i. 27. Becomes a Congregationalist. i. 29. Abolishes the Church of England, and banishes its adherents. i. 29. Cause of all the tyrannical proceedings against them. i. 42. Finally condemned by the Company, but officially retained by them. i. 43-48. England's best and only means of protecting the Colonies against French encroachments and invasion. i. 244. Position in respect to other European Powers at the Peace of Paris in 1763. i. 273. England--Its resources at the conclusion of the Revolutionary war. ii. 48, 49. The war party, and corrupt Administration, is defeated. ii. 48, 49. Change of Administration and of policy, both for England and the Colonies. ii. 53. Names of new Ministers, &c. ii. 53. English Generals and soldiers refuse to fight against the Colonists. i. 446. English Government employs seventeen thousand German mercenaries to bring the Colonists to absolute submission. i. 446-479. Its change of policy, and effect of it in regard to the Colonies after the Peace of Paris, 1763. i. 277. Its first acts which caused dissatisfaction and alienation in the American Colonies. i. 279. Falmouth (now Portland) bombarded and burnt, by Captain Mowat, of the British Navy. i. 446. Five-sixths of the male population disfranchised by Puritan bigotry and intolerance at Massachusetts Bay. i. 63. Fort de Quesne taken by the English and called Pittsburg. i. 263. Fox (C.J.)--His amendment to Lord North's address to the King, 1775, rejected by a majority of 304 to 105. i. 430. France and England at war; mutually restore, in 1748, places taken during the first war. i. 242. Franklin (Dr.)--His evidence at the Bar of the House of Commons on the Stamp Act, etc. i. 308. Dismissed from office the following day. i. 426. His petition to the House of Commons rejected. i. 426. Proposes to include Canada in the United States. ii. 54. Counter scheme
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