ations under her, 70-71;
absorbed by Conn., 71;
commercial ventures, 77-78;
witchcraft in, 81;
misfortunes of, 110-11;
surrenders to Connecticut, 111-12;
confederation dissolved, 112

New London (Conn.), 198

New Netherlands, conquest of, 122

New Somersetshire, 65

Newark, founded, 112

Newbury, 198

Newport (R. I.), 49, 198

Nicholson, Francis, 183

Nicolls, Richard, 118, 119, 122

Norfolk, a center of Separatism, 6

Norton, John, 103

Nowell, a leader of conservatives in Boston, 164

Oldham, John, 56

Palmer, Judge, 187, 191

Partridge, Captain, 54, 55

Pawcatuck, taken into Connecticut, 109

Pequot War (1637), 136-37

Peters, Hugh, 59, 78

Pierson, Abraham, 46, 47, 112

Pilgrims, leave for Holland (1607-08), 7;
reasons for leaving Holland, 8;
decide to go to America, 8-9;
conditions under which expedition was undertaken, 10;
journey of the _Mayflower_, 10-12;
draw up covenant, 12;
life in Plymouth Colony, 14-19;
greatness lies in religious influence, 19-20

Plymouth Colony, founded, 12-20;
secures right to establish fishing colony, 24;
submits to authority of Massachusetts, 71;
fishing and trading, 77;
witchcraft in, 81;
sends mission to England, 104;
military preparedness, 135;
renews old forms, 192;
permanently annexed to Massachusetts, 197

Plymouth, town of, 18

Pocasset (Portsmouth), 48

Portsmouth (N. H.), 66, 198

Portsmouth (R. I.), 51-52; _see also_ Pocasset

Protestantism, controlled by state, 4

Providence, settled, 47-48;
court of arbitration at, 51;
charter unites with other settlements, 53;
government under patent, 53-54

Puritans, obtain control of Massachusetts Bay Company, 27;
reach Salem (1630), 29;
become Separatists, 37;
characteristics of the frontier, 46-47

Pynchon, William, 60, 62, 77

Quakers, come to Boston (1656), 79;
treatment, 79-80

Quinnipiac, 68

Randolph, Edward, 147, 152-156, 160, 161, 162, 163, 167, 168, 173, 174,
196

Ratcliffe, Philip, 31, 41

Ratcliffe, Robert, 168-69, 171, 173

Reformation, The, 3

Rhode Island, leaders in, 47;
individualism in, 56;
colony of separatism, 79;
not included in Confederation of colonies, 92;
applies for charter, 103;
conflicting boundary claims, 113;
charter granted,