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Cloyse, Mrs., arrested, 328
Connecticut refuses to surrender charter, 103
Coode's plot, 137
Coode in possession of the records of Maryland, 138
Culpepper, John, surveyor-general of North Carolinia, 147
Daston, Sarah, acquitted of witchcraft, 380
Delaware's independent legislature, 1703, 41
Deliverance Hobbs confesses to being a witch, 330
Dougan, Colonel, leaves New York, 217
Duke of Monmouth, 44
Duke of York, fears of, 6
Duke of York gives Penn a quitclaim deed to Delaware, 29
Duke of York releases the Jerseys, 142
Dustin, Mr., defending his children, 319
Dustin, Mrs., captured, 320
Dustin, Mrs., and fellow-captives slay ten Indians and escape, 322
Dustin, Hannah, monument of, 324
Easty, Mary, arrested for a witch, 328
East Jersey, Barclay appointed governor for, 142
Ennis, Episcopal preacher, misrepresents Leisler in interest of Nichols, 219
English Friends purchase New Jersey, 140
Escape of condemned witches, 302
Evidence against Rebecca Nurse, 265
Fenwick's first day in New Jersey, 140
Fits and witchcraft, 252
Fletcher succeeds Andros, 115
Fox, George, founder of Quakers, 25
Franklin, William, son of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, last royal governor of New Jersey, 144
Friends, the term applied to Quakers, 25
Frontenac fitting out expedition against Salmon Falls, 311
Good, Sarah, and little child arrested as witches, 253
Governor of New Jersey a tyrant, 144
Hale, Sir Mathew, on witchcraft, 235
Haverhill attacked by Indians, 317
Haverhill a second time attacked, 325
Heir of James II. to throne, 135
Holme, Thomas, the surveyor who aided Penn in laying out Philadelphia, 35
Hyde, Sir Edmund, governor of Jerseys, 144
Immigrants to South Carolinia, 150
Indented slaves, 46
Ingoldsby, Sloughter's captain, 229
Ingoldsby arrests Leisler and eight of his council, 230
James II. on the throne of England, 39
James II. sends agent to Rome to visit the Pope, 40
Jeffries, judge of the "Bloody Assizes,", 45
Jerseys, the, surrendered to the crown, 1702, 143
John, Mr. Parris' West Indian slave, 66
Jury acquits Rebecca Nurse, 272
Jury reconsiders verdict and convicts Rebecca Nurse, 273
Kidd, Captain Robert, the pirate, 377
Kidd, Captain, fate of, 378
King William's War, 308
Kirk hunting Monmouth's rebels, 44
Laws fashioned by William Penn, 36
Lawson, Rev. Deodat, at Salem, 276
Lawson, Rev. Deodat, and the bewitched, 278
Lawson interrupted in his sermon by the bewitched, 279
Legislatures in American colonies do not favor the malice of James II., 47
Leisler, Jacob, 216
Leisler seizes the garrison of New York, 218
Leisler sends an address to King William, 219
Leisler in charge of affairs at New York, 221
Leisler and Milborne arrested, 250
Leisler tried and condemned, 231
Leisler executed, 233
Leonardson, Samuel, escapes with Mrs. Dustin, 323
Locke and Cooper's scheme, 145
Markham, William, sent to take possession of Pennsylvania for William Penn, 28
Martin, Susanna, accused of being a witch, 246
Mary, eldest daughter of James II., marries Prince of Orange, 135
Maryland, how affected by the Revolution of 1688, 136
Maryland becomes a royal province, 138
Maryland, seat of government moved to Anne Arundel 139
Mather, Cotton, 249
Mather's, Cotton, Mexican argument, 184
Mather's, Cotton, triumph, 331
Mather's tendency to atheism, 381
Milborne, Jacob, son-in-law of Leisler, 219
Milborne, Jacob, captures Albany, 226
Milborne hung, 232
Monk, Duke of Albemarle, created viceroy over empire of North Carolinia, 145
Monmouth, Duke of, beheaded, 44
Morris commissioned governor of New Jersey, 144
Neff, Mrs., nurse to Mrs. Dustin, captured, 320
New Castle, arrival of Penn at, 30
New Englanders, character of, 5
New England settled by fugitives, 351
New Jersey divided into East and West Jersey, 141
Nicholson, lieutenant-governor of New York, 210
Nicholson misrepresents Leisler, 220
Nicholson made governor of Virginia, 221
Nicholson, governor of Maryland, sends Mrs. Dustin a silver tankard, 321
North Carolinia and the navigation act, 146
Noyes, Rev. Mr., and the eight firebrands of hell, 375
Nurse, Rebecca, arrested as a witch, 256
Nurse, Rebecca, trial of, 265
Nurse, Rebecca, acquitted, 272
Nurse, Rebecca, convicted and sentenced, 273
Nurse, Rebecca, excommunicated, 274
Nurse, Rebecca, hung, 275
Orange, Prince of, marries Princess Mary, 135
Parris, Samuel, minister at Salem, 65
Parris' circle, 251
Parris propagating the delusion of witchcraft, 258
Parris, fate of, unknown, 382
Penn, William, adopts the religion of a Quaker, 26
Penn's attention drawn to America—his charter, 27
Penn gets a quitclaim deed to Delaware from Duke of York, 29
Penn's treaty with the Indians, 31
Penn's new charter adopted, 36
Penn returns to England in summer of 1684, 37
Penn bidding colonists farewell—his departure, 38
Penn, restored to his rights, returns to America, 40
Penn, death of, 41
Pennsylvania, how named, 28
Pennsylvania divided into three counties, 37
Persecution of the Monmouth rebels, 47
Philadelphia, how named and laid out by Penn and Holme, 35
Phipps reduces Acadia, 314
Phipps in Massachusetts, 342
Pilgrims persecute Quakers, 24
Puritan superstition, 160
Quakers persecuted by Pilgrims, 24
Quaker, how the term came to be used, 25
Rhode Island charter surrendered, 114
Ryswick, treaty of, 325
Salem, 2
Salem witchcraft, 234
Salmon Falls attacked, 311
Schenectady attacked by French and Indians, 309
Sidney, Algernon, aids Penn in drawing up a code of laws for Pennsylvania, 29
Sloughter, Colonel Henry, commissioned governor of New York, 228
Sothel, Seth, governor of North Carolinia, 147
Sothel arrested, tried and convicted, 148
South Carolinia politics in 1672, 149
Stoll, Jost, the ensign who bore Leisler's letter to King William, 220
Stoughton, judge to try witches, 343
Superstition, the reign of, 328
Swedes and William Penn, 34
Tituba, Mr. Parris' slave, 66
Train-bands summoned, 107
Treat, Robert, governor of Connecticut, 115
Uplands (now Chester County), Penn meets assembly at, 34
Van Cortlandt's burnt offering, 135
Wadsworth and the Charter Oak, 110
Walcut, Mary, bitten by a witch, 277
Welcome, name of Penn's ship, 30
West Jersey, first popular assembly at Salem, 142
William and Mary deprive Penn of his rights as governor, 40
William and Mary's ascension to the throne of England hailed with joy throughout New England, 217
Williams, Abigail, niece of Mr. Parris, 68
Williams, Abigail, bewitched, 279
Winthrop's expedition fails, 314
Witchcraft, belief in general, 235
Witchcraft, evidence of, 266
Witchcraft, trials for, 331
Witchcraft, doctrine of, 380
Witch doctor, 236
Witches hung on Witches' Hill, 275
CHRONOLOGY.
PERIOD VII.—AGE OF SUPERSTITION.
A.D. 1680 TO A.D. 1700.
1680. CHARLESTON, S. C., founded by the removal of the Carteret Colony.
1681. PENNSYLVANIA granted to William Penn by Charles II.,—March 4.
1682. LA SALLE explored the Mississippi to its mouth; named Louisiana. DELAWARE (the three lower counties) granted to William Penn,—Aug. 24. PHILADELPHIA founded by William Penn.
1684. MASSACHUSETTS' CHARTER declared null and void by English Court,—June 18.
1685. ACCESSION OF JAMES II. to the throne of Great Britain,—Feb. 6.
1686. ARRIVAL OF SIR EDMUND ANDROS, Governor of all New England,—Dec. 20.
1687. CHARTER OF CONNECTICUT concealed in Charter Oak at Hartford,—Oct. 31.
1689. ACCESSION OF WILLIAM III. AND MARY II. to the throne of Great Britain,—Feb. 13. KING WILLIAM'S WAR, between Great Britain and France,—lasted eight years.
1690. BURNING OF SCHENECTADY, N. Y., by French and Indians,—Feb. 9. PORT ROYAL taken by the British under Phipps,—May.
1691. MASSACHUSETTS, Plymouth, Maine, and Nova Scotia united,—Gov. Phipps, Oct. 7. LEISLER AND MILBORNE hung,—May 16.
1692. PHIPPS' WITCHCRAFT COURT at Salem, Mass. (Twenty persons convicted of witchcraft and put to death.)
1694. DEATH OF MARY II., Queen of Great Britain,—Dec. 28.
1697. TREATY OF RYSWICK closed King William's War; no change in territory,—Oct. 30.
1699. CAPTAIN WILLIAM KIDD, the pirate, at Gardner's Bay, Long Island.
[Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent use of hyphens has been retained as in the original: Goodwife/Good-wife, firebrands/fire-brands, roadside/road-side, firelight/fire-light, fireplace/fire-place, hubbub/hub-bub, seafaring/sea-faring. Other punctuation and spelling has been standardized.]
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