Index

Adams, Hannah  120–1
Adams, John  89, 92, 100, 114, 116, 121
Adams, Samuel  89
alehouses  18
Allen, John (magistrate)  79
Allen, John (preacher)  102
Allen, William  14
Allin, John  25
American Art Union  146
American landscapes  147, 149, 151
American national identity  ix, 125–9, 146–7, 151, 155, 182
Anabaptists  34
ancient constitution  120
Anderson, Karl  179
Andros, Edmund  79–80, 87, 139–43, 164
antiquarianism  114, 168, 186
Arlington, Henry Bennet, earl of  60
Atlantic, crossing  26
Bacon, Delia Salter  132–3
Bacon, Leonard  134, 160
Bacon, Leonard Woolsey  159
Bacon, Nathaniel  135–7, 164, 170
Bacon’s Rebellion  134–8, 144, 159, 162, 164, 170–1, 181
Banbury, siege of  10
Bancroft, George  138, 158, 162, 164
Barber, Elizabeth  145
Barber, John  145
Barker, J.N.  131–2, 138, 160–1, 164
Barkstead, John  25, 58–60
Baxter, Richard  54, 82
Berkeley, William  135–7, 171
Bible, The  14, 24, 69, 131, 185
Birmingham, Alabama  179–80
Bishop, James  209
Bisset, George  104
Blood, Thomas  69
blunderbusses  59
Bolton, Charles Knowles  158
Book of Common Prayer  63
Booth, John Wilkes  155, 179
Boston  22, 25–54, 61–6, 76–9, 90–109, 112–21, 139–40, 161–2, 170–6
Boston Evening Post  97
Boston Gazette  96
Boston Massacre  93, 140
Boucher, Jonathan  119
Brackett, Joshua  116
Bradly, Tim  107
Bradshaw, John  31, 166
Bradstreet, Simon  77, 95
Brainerd, Edwin A.  174
Breda, Declaration of  59
Bredon, Thomas  35–7, 50, 64, 94
Breman, John  208–9
Bridgwater, siege of  10
Bristol, siege of  10
Brooklyn Art School  148
Broughton, Andrew  25
Brownson, Orestes  130
Bulkeley, Gershom  105, 118
Bulkeley, Peter  76
Bull, Jonathan  78–9
Bull, Thomas  78–9
Burke, Aedanus  88–9, 122
Calvinism  8
Cambridge, Mass.  24–9, 52, 69, 76–7, 95, 117, 137, 162, 177
Campe, Nicholas  47
Carr, Robert  61–4, 121, 158
Cartwright, George  61–4, 121, 158
Caruthers, W.A.  135–9
Catholicism  7–8, 19, 27, 68, 87, 207–9
Cave, Judges  vii–ix, 47–9, 53, 64, 66, 70, 107–10, 121–2, 125, 133–5, 142, 145–51, 154, 158, 161, 163–4, 176, 184
Celeste, Celine  132
cellars  8, 107, 166, 168
Chapin, John  43
chaplains  5, 54, 68, 78
Chapman, F.A.  148–9, 164
Charles I, King
American colonies and  36, 41, 65, 136
Bishops’ Wars  8
death warrant of  16, 33, 66
Engagement with the Scots  15
enters Parliament with soldiers  6
execution of  3, 17, 95, 96
issues Commission of Array  10
‘Man of Blood’  13–16
policies leading to civil war  5–10
prisoner  11–12
trial  16, 20, 95
Charles II, King  
attitude towards executions  30, 33
‘Cabal’ ministry of  69
commission of 1664  61–4,120–3
libertine court of  68
relationship with American colonies  29, 35–43, 48–69, 81–3, 93, 95, 182
representations in literature  131, 141, 161–3
Restoration of  4, 21, 23–4
Charlestown, Mass.  26, 78
charters  36, 39, 41, 51, 62–3, 65, 94, 115, 143, 169
Chauncey, Charles  28–9, 162
cheese  112–13
children’s literature  145, 176, 180
Christmas  19
Church, Frederic Edwin  149
ciphers  57
‘city on a hill’  25
Civil Rights Movement  180
civil war, American  146, 151–6, 179–85
civil war(s), English  4, 7, 10–11, 15, 24, 32–3, 36, 54, 63, 98, 103, 110, 116–20, 135, 141, 146, 179, 184
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, earl of  33–5, 62, 64, 68, 161
climate  27, 184
Coade, George  87, 101–2
Cogswell, Frederick Hull  158, 162–3
Colburne, Colonel  79
Colchester, siege of  15
Colebrook, Conn.  174–5
Colonial Revival  155–6, 175–6, 181
Collins, Edward  69–70, 162
Columbus, Christopher  147
Connecticut  24–5, 27–8, 32, 42, 44, 50–3, 56, 63, 66, 74–5, 87, 116–17, 148, 159, 172–8
Cooke, John  78
Cooper, James Fenimore  132, 139
Cooper, Samuel  115
Corbauld, E.H.  149
Corbet, Miles  58–60
Cotton, John  25, 28, 98
Council of State  20–1, 51, 206
Council of Trade  51
County Durham  8
cows  65, 83
Cradock, Matthew  25
Crandell, Myra Clarke  180
Cromwell, Frances  10
Cromwell, Sir Henry  10
Cromwell, Oliver  4, 10, 17, 31, 83, 91, 98, 115, 127, 166, 177
Cromwell, Richard  20
Crowne, John  28–9
Crukshank, Joseph  97
Cushing, Thomas  89
Davenport, John  28, 39–67, 91, 95, 111, 163
Davis, Jefferson  179
Decimation Tax  18
Declaration of Independence  53, 88, 105, 135, 159
Deerfield, Mass.  74
demons  134
Dickinson, John  117
disease  27, 67, 136–7
divine right of kings  4, 7, 100, 181
Dixwell, Elizabeth  209
Dixwell, John
meets with Whalley and Goffe  66–7
signs Charles I’s death warrant  16, 206
time in New Haven  207
Dominion of New England  87, 139, 143
Dorr, Harbottle  220 n.18
Dorset, countess of  19
Downing, George  58–9
Dunbar, Battle of  17
Durrie, G.H.  125, 149–50
dysentery  137
Eaton, Theophilus  39
Edgehill, Battle of  10
Eliot, John  24
Elliott, Ebenezer  126
Endecott, John  27, 36–46, 90, 95, 98, 118, 158, 162, 177
Engels, Friedrich  145
engravings  148–9, 165
Episcopalians  97
Evelyn, John  19
Exclusion Crisis  207
executions
Charles I  3, 5, 13, 15, 17, 45, 95–8, 103, 126, 138
Protestants  7
Quakers  27
regicides  24, 30–4, 42, 59, 61, 160
Exeter, siege of  10
Fairfax, Thomas  116
Fawkes, Guy  8
Fenn, Benjamin  53, 57
Fleetwood, Charles  20
Foreign Plantations, Council for  37, 49–50, 68
Franklin, Benjamin  88, 115, 119, 184
France  25, 27, 29, 39, 88, 114
Frecheville, John  11
French and Indian War  88
French Revolution  viii, 106, 152
Frost, Edmund ‘Elder’  29, 162
Gabbard, Battle of the  24
Gage, Thomas  101
Gainsborough, Battle of  10
Garter, Order of the  3
general governor, fears of  41, 47, 52, 79
George I, King  88
George II, King  88
George III, King  92, 100–5, 115, 120, 141
Gettysburg Address  153
Gilbert, Matthew  45, 49–54, 95, 173, 177
gloves  70
Gocher, W.H.  114, 124, 164
Goffe, Frances  13, 57–8
Goffe, Stephen (father)  5
Goffe, Stephen (son)  5
Goffe, William
as ‘Angel of Hadley’  70–3, 78, 126–7, 131–3, 138, 140, 143, 148–9, 152, 155–8, 164, 178, 184
body lies undiscovered  171–5
career in English civil wars  5, 10
death of  80
diary of  23
High Court of Justice  16, 31, 206
major general  18, 25, 30, 110
signs Charles I’s death warrant  vii, 4, 16, 23, 25, 34
sits in Protectorate Parliaments  17
time in Cambridge and Boston  25–30, 35–8
time in Hadley  66–75
time in Hartford  78–80
time in New Haven  38–49, 64–6
‘Good Old Cause’  23, 25, 29, 31, 33, 57, 145–6
Goodwin, William  66–7, 70
Gookin, Daniel  24, 28, 38, 65, 76–7, 113
Gravesend  23–4, 65
Great Awakening  116
Greene, Nathanael  88
Gregg, Laicita Worden  178
Grimm, Edward  144, 160
Guilford, Conn.  43–5, 53, 109–10, 159
Gunpowder Plot  7, 207
Hadley, Angel of  70–3, 78, 126–7, 131–3, 138, 140, 143, 148–9, 152, 155–8, 164, 178, 184
Hadley, Mass.  23, 66–80, 87, 91, 95, 121, 126–7, 131–3, 138, 140–9, 152–8, 164–8, 171–8, 184–5
Hallowell, Benjamin  22
Hamilton, Alexander  88, 115
Hamlet  143
Hampden, John  91, 116
Hampton Court  11–15
Hanau  66, 207
Harney, George Julian  144–5
Harrington, James  34
Harrison, Thomas  31–2, 160, 206
Hartford, Conn.  38, 43, 52, 78–80, 87, 90–1, 109, 164, 172, 176
Harvard College  26, 28, 53, 58, 98
Haselrig, Arthur  91
Hathaway, Warren  155
Havard, Aline  176
Hawthorne, Nathaniel  139–3, 153
Hayden, Caroline  155
Hedges, Jonathan  101
Henrietta Maria, Queen  5
Henry, Patrick  116
Herbert, H.W.  141, 144
Hewson, John  25
High Commission, Ecclesiastical Court of  9
Hoadly, Benjamin  101
Holland  24–5, 27, 29, 36, 51, 58, 62, 65, 95
Holland, Cornelius  25
Hollister, G.H.  143–4
Holyoke, Edward  98
Hooke, Jane  57, 70
Hooke, William  39, 57
Hooker, Samuel  209
Hopkins, Edward  25
How, Bathsheba  207
Howe, Henry  158
Hull, John  18–19, 42
Hutchinson, Peter Orlando  220 n.12
Hutchinson, Thomas
destruction of house  22
possesses Goffe’s diary (briefly)  23
Indemnity and Oblivion, Act of  5, 28, 31, 35, 60, 62, 94
Inglis, Charles  103–4
Ireland, rebellion in  9
Ireton, Henry  14, 31, 166
James I, King  5, 7–8, 207
James II, King  
Dominion of New England  139–40, 169
Glorious Revolution  87, 105, 140, 208–9
Jefferson, Thomas  114
Johnson, Marmaduke  24
Jones, Isaac  125, 134
Jones, John  33
Jones, William  24, 39, 41, 44–5, 95, 110, 125
Judd, Sylvester  72
Kellond, Thomas  42–55, 58–9, 61, 64, 90, 94, 109–12, 120, 123, 132–3, 143–4, 151, 158, 163, 177, 185
Kennedy, John F.  180
Kennedy, Robert F.  189
Kentish Knock, Battle of  24
Keteltas, Abraham  102
Kicke, Abraham  58
King, Martin Luther  180
King Philip’s War  71–2, 78, 125–6, 138–9, 158, 181
Kirke, Thomas  42–55, 58–9, 61, 64, 90, 94, 109–12, 120, 123, 132–3, 143–4, 151, 158, 163, 177, 185
Knapp, S.L.  133
Knox, Henry  88
Knox, John  8
Lambert, John  20–1, 116
Laud, Archbishop William  5, 7–9, 100, 104
Lausanne  59
Leavitt, Jonathan  125, 173
Leete, John  152
Leete, William  43–6, 74, 79, 82, 91, 94–5, 107, 118, 133, 159, 163, 177
Legge, Captain  11
Lenthall, John  11
Leslie, Alexander  8
letters
from/to Charles I  12–13
from/to Charles II’s government  37, 40, 52, 63, 81
from/to colonial officials  42, 45, 50, 53–5, 79, 81, 91
from/to the regicides  34, 57–60, 69–70, 155, 176, 184
from/to the regicides’ protectors  67, 72, 80, 82
Levellers  13
Leverett, John  25, 71
Lewis and Clark Expedition  125
Lincoln, Abraham  153, 155, 179–81, 184
Ling, Benjamin  207
Ling, Joanna  207
Lisle, John  25, 59
Lobdell, Simon  38
local history  72, 129, 155, 165–6, 171, 174, 177, 184, 186
Locke, John  118–19
London
Charles I loses control of  6
city militia  5, 10
Great Fire of  68
London, John  78
Lord, Richard  52
Louis XIV, King  208
Louisiana Purchase  125
Madison, James  114
Magna Carta  92, 102, 104
Maidstone, Battle of  15
Mansell, Bussy  17
Marblehead, Mass.  101
Marston Moor, Battle of  10, 142
Marx, Karl  145
Mary I, Queen  7, 32
Mary II, Queen  131, 171
Mason, Augustus L.  156–7
Massachusetts Bay
attitude towards Whalley and Goffe  27–8, 35–41, 49–52, 76, 81
general court of  24–5, 36, 47, 50, 52, 63, 77
‘Godly republicanism’ of  26
relationship with New Haven  50–2
Massachusetts Historical Society  153, 203
Mather, Cotton  23
Mather, Increase  23, 56, 58, 72, 77–8
Mather, Richard  23
Mather, Samuel  23
Maverick, Samuel  35, 61, 63–4, 121, 158
Mayflower Pilgrims  147–8
Mayhew, Jonathan  99–102
McCall, John C.  128
McHenry, James  131–2, 138, 141, 144
McRae, J.C.  148–9
Meigs, John  45
Metacom  71
Middle Haddam, Conn.  173–4
Middleton, Edward  168–70
Mildmay, Henry  34
Milford  40, 43–4, 47, 53–7, 66, 121
Militia Ordinance  10
Mill, Lewis Sprague  178
millenarianism  13
Milton, John  117, 127
Modena, Mary of  209
Monck, George  21
Monmouth, James Scott, duke of  5, 208
Monson, Lord  34
Montgomery, Richard  88
morality  7, 18, 67, 128–30, 145–6
Morrice, William  52, 58
Morse, Jedidiah  122
Moss, Charles  97
Mount Vernon  114
mountain lions  48
Musick, J.R.  144, 159, 161–2
myths  70–4, 107–13, 118, 128–9, 165, 172, 184–5
Narragansetts  27, 71, 172
Naseby, Battle of  10
Native Americans  45, 51, 66, 70–1, 74, 88, 126–7, 132, 135–7, 139, 141, 148–9, 156
Navigation Act  36
New Amsterdam  40, 61
New Hampshire  87, 98
New Haven
burial ground  125, 164, 167, 172–3
dealings with Whalley and Goffe  38–66
vulnerability of  51
New Model Army  10, 13–15, 23
New Netherland  27, 42–3, 47, 61–2, 120–1, 123
New York Times  72, 174, 176
Newbury, Benjamin  74
Newcastle  8
Newman, Francis  43
Newman, Robert  54
Newton, Roger  53
Nicholas, Edward  40
Nichols, Richard  61, 64, 121, 158
Nipmucks  27, 71
Northampton, Mass.  74
Northumberland  8
Nowell, Samuel  78
Okey, John  58–60
Oliver, Peter  93, 138
oral history  92, 107–8, 171
Oswald, Lee Harvey  180
Otis, James  92, 116
Oxford, siege of  10
Oxford Parliament  208
Paine, Thomas  117, 120
paintings  22, 125, 146, 148–9, 178, 181, 183
Palfrey, John Gorham  153, 158
Parliament
American colonies and  115
‘Barebones’  17
Charles I enters with soldiers  6
fights Charles I in English civil war  4, 10–11
intransigence of  6–10
planned immolation of  8
presents grievances to Charles I  8–9
‘Pride’s Purge’  16–17, 21, 32, 206
‘Rump’  17, 20–1
Paulding, J.K.  141–2
Payne, Robert Treat  89
Peck, Henry S.  154
Peirce, James  98–9
Penruddock’s Rising  18
periwigs  69
Peters, Hugh  32, 160
Pierpont, James  209
Pinchon, John  52
plague  67
Plymouth  27, 44, 56, 161
poetry  88–90, 126, 145, 158–9, 183
Popish Plot  208
Powell, Thomas  79
Presbyterians  8, 34, 54, 59, 102, 155
Pride, Thomas  16
Protectorate  4, 17, 20, 24, 98, 120, 206
Proverbs, Book of  14
Providence  15, 55, 73, 127
Prudent Mary  24, 39
Psalms  69, 185
pseudonyms  24, 57, 78, 88, 116, 127, 168–70, 207, 209
Public Works for Art Program  178
Puritans  5, 8–9, 13–18, 23–8, 38, 58, 62–8, 92–3, 97–8, 116–19, 125, 130, 138–42, 148, 152–3, 162, 176, 180, 184
Putney Debates  3, 13–14, 93
Pym, John  9, 91
Quakers  27, 34
Rainsborough, Thomas  25
Randolph, Edward  76–8, 82, 126–7, 131, 139–44, 169, 182
repentance, alleged  53–5, 95
Reynolds, John  19
Rhode Island  27, 65, 87, 97, 171–2
Richards, James  79
riots  6, 22, 98, 101
Ripon, Treaty of  8
Robins, Robert Patterson  156, 168–72
Robins, Thomas  168–72
romanticism  128–30, 184
Rossiter, Thomas P.  146–8
‘Rule of the Major Generals’  18
Russell, John  23, 66, 70–4, 144, 148, 166
Rye House Plot  208
Salem  32, 130, 140–1, 153
Saltonstall, Richard  69
Sanford, Thomas  47
Satan  103, 130–1
Savage, Thomas  74
Savoy Conference  59
Say, William  25
Scot, Thomas  160
Scotland
reaction to Laudian Prayer Book  8
Charles I’s Engagement with  15
Scott, Walter  127, 164
second civil war  15
sermons
30 January  96–104
John Davenport’s  39
Seven Years’ War  88
Sewall, Samuel  98
Shakespeare, William  143, 160
Sheldon, George  72–3, 155
Sherborne Castle, siege of  10
Sherwood, Samuel  116
Sidney, Algernon  117
Sidney, Margaret  114, 163
Silva, Rebelo da  155
slavery  152, 154
Smith, Henry  155
Somerset County, Maryland  79, 168
Sons of Liberty  116
South Point, Sinepuxent  169–71
Southey, Robert  126–7, 164
Spanish Armada  207
Sperry, Richard  47, 95, 107–8, 146, 178
Stamp Act  22, 92, 115–16, 158
Star Chamber  9
Stiles, Ezra  71, 88–9, 97, 104–25, 165–73
Stone, J.A.  138
Stone, William Leete  133–4
Story, William  22
Street, Nicholas  209
Stuart, Prince Henry  7
Stuyvesant, Peter  43, 47
swords  112, 139, 141, 143, 149, 173
Talcott, John  73–4, 79
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de  viii
Tapping, James  47
Taylor, James Bayard  155
Taylor, James Brainerd  173
Teesdale, Eleanor Smith  174–5, 179
Temple, Thomas  52
tennis  12
theatre  28, 131–2, 138–9, 160–1, 181
Thoreau, Henry David  145
Tilton, Peter  70, 79–80, 166
tobacco  136–7, 184
Tomkins, Micha(el)  53
trade  27, 29, 36–7, 62, 70, 79, 81–3, 105, 109, 125
Treat, Robert  53–4, 74, 163, 177
trees  109, 173
trials
Charles I  4, 13, 15–17, 20, 34, 95, 180
regicides  24, 30–2, 94
Strafford, earl of  8
witches  130
Trumbull, Benjamin  117–18, 121
turnpike roads  122
tyranny, alleged  89, 106, 114–16, 123, 135–6, 139–45, 151, 159, 186
vampires  143
Versailles  114
Villiers, Barbara  68
Virginia  27, 46, 96, 116, 135–9, 164, 168–79
Waller, Hardress  25
Walpole, Robert  88
Wampanoags  27, 71
War of 1812  129
Ward, Lawrence  47
Warren, Israel Perkins  134, 156
warships  61
Washington, George  114, 117, 139–40, 148, 184
weather, bad  39, 48, 137, 184
Welles, Lemuel Aiken  174–7
Welles, Thomas  176
Wethersfield, Connecticut  66
Wetmore, Prosper  146
Whalley, Edward
bones found  166
career in English civil wars  5, 10–11
death of  70
guards Charles I at Hampton Court  11–13
High Court of Justice  16, 31, 206
major general  18, 110
signs Charles I’s death warrant  vii, 4, 16, 23, 25, 34
sits in Protectorate Parliaments  17
time in Cambridge and Boston  25–30, 35–8
time in Hadley  66–75
time in New Haven  38–49, 64–6
Whalley, Mary  58
Whitehall  3, 40, 59, 76–7, 81, 83
Whiting, John  78
Whitman, Walt  145–6
Whitmore, W.H.  170
Wigglesworth, Edward  168
Wildman, John  209–10
William III, King  131, 210
Windsor Prayer Meeting  14, 93
Winslow, Edward  25
Winthrop Jr, John  28, 38, 43, 46, 90, 144
Winthrop, Robert C.  153
Winthrop, Waite  98
witchcraft  128, 130–1
Worcester, Battle of  17
Worcester, siege of  11
Worcester County, Maryland  168–70
Worcester House Conference  59
Wright, Louis B.  179
Wright, Nymphas  174
Writs of Assistance  92
Yale College  88–9, 176
Yonge, Charlotte M.  164–5