The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your e-book. Please use the search function on your e-reading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.
Abenaki people
Adventurers see Merchant Adventurers
Ahaz, Charles (alias Paupmumit)
Alden, John
Alden, John (junior)
Alderman (Sakonnet Indian)
Alexander (alias Wamsutta, son of Massasoit)
Algonquian Bible
Algonquian language
Algonquian peoples
Allerton, Isaac
Allerton, Mary
Altham, Emmanuel
Ames, William
Andrewes, Thomas
Andros, Sir Edmund
Anglo-Dutch wars: First Dutch war (1652–54); Second Dutch War (1665–67)
Annawon (Wampanoag commander)
Anne (ship)
Anne of Denmark, wife of James I
Antinomians
Aquidneck, Rhode Island
Arbella (ship)
Arminians
Arnold, Freelove
Arnold, Samuel Green
Ashley, Edward
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Atherton, Humphrey
Atherton Company
Awashonks (Squaw Sachem of the Sakonnets)
Aylmer, Professor G. E.
Bacon, Francis
Baker, Mercy
Bancroft, George
Bangs, Jeremy
Barbados
Barnstable, Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts)
Barrow, Henry
Bartlett, Robert
Batchelor, John
Baxter, Richard
Beale, John
beaver, and the fur trade
Bellamy, John
Bellingham, Penelope (née Pelham)
Bellingham, Richard, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony: character; death; defiance of Charles II; patentee of the Massachusetts Bay charter; helps Goodricke nieces after the Restoration; marries Penelope Pelham; and religious tolerance
Bellingham, Samuel
Bermuda
Billington, John
Billington family
Bishop, Bridget
Bishops’ Wars (England and Scotland)
Block Island
Blossom, Thomas
Bodin, Jean, Six Books of the Republic
Bossevile, Godfrey
Bossevile, Margaret
Boston, Massachusetts: and Anne Hutchinson; becomes main port of New England; established by Massachusetts Bay colonists; General Court; King’s Chapel Burial Ground, Boston; prosperity of
Boston harbour
Bourne, Nicholas
Boyer, Paul
Bradford, Dorothy
Bradford, William: ‘as one small candle may light a thousand,’ 46; on the abolition of episcopacy in Church of England; approval of execution of an Indian boy’s murderers; on arrival of the Mayflower; autodidacticism of; death; death of his wife Dorothy; disappointment at dispersal of colonists; disapproval of Winslow’s return to England; on division of land; elected governor of the Plymouth Colony; against freedom of religion in Plymouth Colony; on John Billington; in Leiden; on Miantonomo; on misapprehension about women and Plymouth Colony government; on Narragansetts uprising; on New England winter; retrieves Lyford’s letters attacking the colonists; on smallpox epidemic (1633); on Squanto’s death; on the ‘sweetness’ of New England; on Thomas Morton; on William Brewster
Bradstreet, Anne
Bradstreet, Simon
Braithwaite, Richard, Description of a Good Wife (1618)
Brewer, Thomas
Brewster, Fear
Brewster, Jonathan: arrives in New England; founds Windsor, Connecticut; friendship with Uncas; in Leiden; marries Lucretia Oldham
Brewster, Lucretia (née Oldham)
Brewster, Patience
Brewster, William: book collection; and the Brewster Press; chest belonging to; children; death; decline in health; in hiding in England; lobbies for licence to emigrate; and the Mayflower Compact; position and status in England; publishes attack on new liturgy for the Church of Scotland; role as Elder in Plymouth Colony; and the Scrooby church; settles in Duxbury, Massachusetts; voyage on the Mayflower
Brewster Press
Bright, Henry
Brill, Netherlands
Bristol, Rhode Island
Brooke, Robert Greville, 2nd Baron
Brookfield, Massachusetts
Brooks, John
Brooks, Robert
Brown, Edward
Brown, James
Brown, John
Browne, Robert
‘Brownists,’
Bry, Theodore de
Buck family
Bull, Jerry
Burton, Elizabeth (née Winslow)
Burton, Stephen
Burton, Thomas
Butter, Nathaniel
Butter & Bourne (publishers)
Button, William
Buzzards Bay
Calvin, Jean
Calvinism
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cannadine, David
Canonchet (Narragansett chief)
Canonicus (Narragansett chief): blames English for smallpox epidemic; death and funeral; feud with Massasoit; friendship with Roger Williams; peaceful relations with the English; response to execution of Miantonomo; rivalry with the Pequot tribe; sends symbolic gift of arrows to Plymouth
Canons 1604 (Church of England law)
Cape Ann, Massachusetts
Cape Cod, Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts)
Careswell (Winslow home)
Cartwright, Thomas
Carver, John: death; elected first Governor of the Plymouth Colony; in Leiden; and the Mayflower Compact; parleys with Massasoit; prepares to emigrate to America; witnesses William Mullins’ will
Carver, Katherine
Cave, Alfred A., The Pequot War
Cayuga people
Charles I, King: execution of; hostility to the New England colonies; invades Scotland; kidnapped by the New Model Army; repression of Puritans; succeeds to throne; suspends Parliament during the Eleven Year Tyranny
Charles II, King: bans death penalty for Quakers; at the Battle of Worcester; grants Plymouth Colony the Mount Hope lands; restored to the throne; sends Royal Commissioners to the New England colonies; supports Narragansetts against Atherton Company
Charles River
Charlestown, Massachusetts
Chaudière River
Chickatabot (Indian chief)
Child, Robert
Chilton, James
Chilton, Mary see also Winslow, Mary Chilton
Chilton, Mrs
Chilton family
Chipuxet River
Church, Colonel Benjamin; belief that King Philip’s war could have been avoided; captures and tries to save life of Annawon; good relations with Indians; and killing of King Philip; objects to Indians being sold into slavery; persuades Sakonnet Indians to side with English; sends wife to safety in Rhode Island
Church of England
Clarke, John
Cleaver, Robert
Clinton, Lady Arbella see Johnson, Lady Arbella
Clusius, Carolus
Coddington, William
coins, made in Boston at John Hull’s illegal mint
Cole’s Hill, Plymouth
Columbus, Christopher
Commission for Regulating Plantations (1634)
Committee for Compounding
Commonwealth England
Conant, Roger
Congregationalism
Connecticut, New England
Connecticut River
conversion, of Indians to Christianity
Cooke, Francis
Cooke, Hester (née Mahieu)
Coppin, Robert
Corbitant (Pocasset chief)
Corey, Giles
Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy (1655)
Cotton, Joanna
Cotton, John
Cotton, John (junior)
Coventry, Thomas, 1st Baron Coventry
Coventry family
Cradock Matthew
Cressy, David
Croke, Captain Unton
Cromwell, Cedric (Chairman, Mashpee Wampanoag tribe)
Cromwell, Oliver
Cudworth, Captain James
Curtis, Ephraim
Curwen, Elizabeth (formerly Brooks, née Winslow): childhood; children by George Curwen; death; dispute with stepson over inheritance; in London with Edward Winslow; marriage to George Curwen; marriage to Robert Brooks; son, John Brooks; strong character
Curwen, George: death; friendship with Josiah Winslow; marries Elizabeth Brooks (née Winslow); portrait of; support for Penelope Bellingham; wealth and business success
Curwen, Jonathan
Curwen, Penelope
Curwen, Sheriff George
Curwen, Susanna
Cushman, Robert; death
Cushman, Thomas
Cushnoc trading post, Maine
Cutshamekin (Indian chief)
Cuttyhunk (island)
Dartmouth, Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts)
Davenport, Reverend John
Davison, William (Elizabethan diplomat and Secretary of State)
Deer Island, Boston Harbour
Deerfield, Massachusetts
Defoe, Daniel
Delannoy, Jean
Dermer, Thomas
Dickson, Richard
Digton, Thomas
Discovery (ship)
disease: introduced by Europeans see also smallpox
Dod, John
Dominion of New England
Donne, John
Dorchester, Massachusetts
Dorchester Company
Downing, Emmanuel
Downing, Lucy (née Winthrop) see Winthrop, Lucy
Downing, Sir George
Dowsing, William
Drake, Samuel
Droitwich, Worcestershire
Dudley, Thomas
Dugdale, Sir William
Durie, John
Durie, Robert
Dutch cheese, taken on the Mayflower
Dutch East India Company
Dutch traders and colonists
Duxbury, Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts)
Dyer, Mary
East India Company
Easton, John
Eaton, Theophilus
Eel River garrison
Eels, Captain
Eikon Basilike
Eleven Year Tyranny
Eliot, John
Elizabeth I, Queen
Elliott, J. H.
Endecott, John; and the Pequot War
English, Mary
English, Philip
English Civil War
English Committee on Foreign Plantations see Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Plantations
Familists
Fane, Mildmay see Westmorland, Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of
Fenwick, George
Ffloyd, Richard
First Church of Boston
First Encounter Beach
First Peirce Patent
fishing trade
Fletcher, Moses
Fortune (ship)
Fox, Summerset
Foxe, John, The Actes and Monuments (1563) known as Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
Free Grace
French Protestant (Walloon) community
Fuller, Edward
Fuller, Samuel
fur trade
Gardiner, Lion
Gedney, Bartholomew
Gerard, John
Gibbons, Edward
Glorious Revolution (England)
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Godsoe, Elizabeth
Goffe, General William (regicide)
Good, Dorcas
Good News from New England (1624)
Goodricke, Colonel William
Gookin, Daniel; The Sufferings of the Indians
Gorges, Sir Ferdinando
Gorton, Samuel
Gosnold, Bartholomew
Gower family
Gray, Elizabeth
Great Swamp Fight
Green Harbour
Green Harbour Canal
Greenwood, John
Groton, Massachusetts
Guazzo, Stefano, The Civil Conversation
Gunpowder Plot (1605)
Gurdon, Brampton
Gurdon, John
Hadley, Massachusetts
Hakluyt, Richard (the Younger)
Hale, Sir Matthew
Half-Way Covenant
Hals, Frans
Harlakenden, Roger
Harlakenden, William
Hartford, Connecticut
Harvard University
Hawkins, Jane
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Heale, Giles
Henrietta Maria, Queen
Henry VIII, King
Herbert, George
Hesilrige, Dorothy (née Greville)
Hesilrige, Sir Arthur
Hibbens, Anne
Hibbens, William
Higginson, Reverend Francis
Hilton, William
Hinckley, Thomas
Hingham, Massachusetts
Hispaniola
Hobbamock (Wampanoag brave)
Hocking, John
Hooker, Richard
Hooker, Thomas
Hope (Indian servant)
Hopkins, Ann
Hopkins, Edward
Hopkins, Elizabeth
Hopkins, Oceanus
Hopkins, Stephen
Howland, Arthur
Howland, Elizabeth (née Tilley)
Howland, John
Hubbard, Reverend William
Hudson, Henry
Hudson Bay
Hull, John
Hunt, Thomas
Hutchinson, Anne
Hutchinson, Captain Edward
Hutchinson, William
Indian culture, European fascination with
Indians, dehumanisation of
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Ingham, Mary
Ireton, Henry
Iroquois confederacy
Iyanough (chief of Mashpee Indians at Barnstable)
Jackson, Andrew, President
James I, King; Pocahontas received by
James II, King
Jamestown, Virginia
Johnson, Lady Arbella (née Clinton)
Johnson, Edward
Johnson, Isaac
Jones, Christopher (Captain of the Mayflower)
Jones, Inigo
Jones, Captain Thomas
Jonson, Ben
Josselin, Reverend Ralph
Josselyn, John
Katharine (ship)
Keayne, Robert
Keith, Reverend James
Kem, Jemima (née Pelham)
Kem, Reverend Samuel
Kennebec River
King’s Chapel Burial Ground, Boston
King’s School, Worcester
Kupperman, Karen Ordahl
Lancaster, Massachusetts
land speculation
Langdon Jr., George D.
Las Casas, Bartolomé de, A Brief Relation of the Destruction of the Indies (1552)
Latham, Mary
Latham, Robert
Latham, Susanna (née Winslow)
Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury
Leiden, Netherlands: cloth industry; and French Protestant community; Pilgrim Museum; printing industry; and separatist churches; siege of; university
Levellers
Leverett, John
Little Ice Age
Little James (ship)
Locke, John
London, after the Civil War
Long Parliament (1640)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Lost Tribes of Israel, theories about Indians
Lyford, Reverend John
Lyne, John
Lynn, Massachusetts
Mahieu, Hester see Cooke, Hester
Maine; in King Philip’s War
Mainford, John
Major’s Purchase (1662)
Malden, Massachusetts
Mann, Rachel
Manomet River
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Marshfield, Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts); early buildings in; founded by Edward Winslow; officially incorporated as a town (1640)
Martha’s Vineyard
Martin, Christopher
Marvell, Andrew
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary I, Queen (Mary Tudor)
Mashpee Indians
Mason, Captain John
Mason, Robert
Massachusetts Bay Colony: becomes dominant English power in New England; Charter revoked; creates official paper currency; established; and the Pequot War; relations with Plymouth Colony
Massachusetts Bay Company
Massachusetts Bay, Province of
Massasoit (Wampanoag chief): advises colonists to kill Wituwamat; ally of Plymouth colony; children of; death; life saved by Edward Winslow; listens to preachers in Pilgrims’ meeting house; rivalry with the Narragansett tribe; sells off land to the English
Massey, Sir Edward
Masterson, Richard
Mather, Cotton
Mather, Reverend Increase
Mather, Reverend Richard
Maverick, Samuel
Mayflower (ship): anchored in Provincetown harbour; anchors in Plymouth Harbour; birth of Peregrine White on; dogs taken on board; hired by the Pilgrims; returns to England; sets sail to America
Mayflower Compact
Mayhew, Reverend Thomas, the Younger
Medfield, Massachusetts
Mendon, Massachusetts
Merchant Adventurers; withdraw from investment in Colony
Metacom see Philip, King of the Wampanoags
Miantonomo (Narragansett chief); conflict with Uncas and the Mohegans; and the Pequot War
Middelburg, Netherlands
Middleborough, formerly Nemasket, Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts)
millenarianism
Miller, Arthur, The Crucible
Milton, John
Mohawk tribe
Mohegan tribe
Monhegan Island, Maine
Montaigne, Michel de, ‘Of Canibals,’
Montauk Indians
Moosehead Lake, Maine
More, Ellen
More, Jasper
More, Samuel
More, Sir Thomas, Utopia
Morison, Samuel Eliot
Morton, Nathaniel
Morton, Thomas; New English Canaan
Moseley, Samuel
Mount Hope, Rhode Island: in 21st century; Josiah Winslow claims for Plymouth; and King Philip’s War; purchase of lands by colonists; Wampanoag stronghold
Mourt’s Relation (First report from Plymouth Colony)
Moyer, Samuel
Mullins, Joseph
Mullins, Priscilla
Mullins, William
Mystic River, Connecticut
Mystic River, Massachusetts
Nantasket, Massachusetts
Narragansett tribe; in King Philip’s War; mourn death of Miantonomo; and the Pequot War; petition Charles II; relations cool with the English; relations with Dutch colonists; resentment of English oppression; rivalry with the Pequot tribe; sell land in Rhode Island; war with Uncas and the Mohegans
Naumkeag (later Salem)
Naunton, Sir Robert
Nauset tribe
Navigation Acts, English
Nemasket (now Middleborough, Massachusetts)
Netherlands: introduction of the tulip; in the Little Ice Age; and Protestantism; war with Spain see also Anglo-Dutch wars; Leiden, Netherlands
New England Confederation see United Colonies of New England
New England Corporation
New England Council
New England Way
New Haven, Connecticut
New Model Army
New Netherland
New York
Newbury, Massachusetts
Newcomen, John
Newfoundland Company
Niantic tribe, eastern
Niantic tribe, western
Ninigret (chief of the eastern Niantics)
Nipmuck tribe
Nissenbaum, Stephen
Norton, Reverend John
Nunuit, Peter
Old South Meeting House, Boston
Oldham, John
Oneida people
Onondaga people
Orles, Jan Jansz
Palfrey, John Gorham
Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Plantations
Pascal, Blaise
Passaconaway (sachem of the Pennacook tribe)
Passe, Simon de
Paulucci, Lorenzo (Venetian ambassador to London)
Pawtucket Falls
Peake, Sir William
Peirce, John
Pelham, Edward
Pelham, Elizabeth (formerly Harlakenden, née Bossevile)
Pelham, Herbert: arrives in New England; death; dispute with Penelope Winslow over inheritance; friendship with Edward Winslow; interests in New England; marries Elizabeth Harlakenden; returns to England; sends silver candlestick as christening gift
Pelham, Jemima (née Waldegrave)
Pelham, Nathaniel
Pelham, Waldegrave
Pelham, Waldegrave (junior)
Pelham, William
Pemaquid, Maine
Penn, Admiral William (father of the founder of Pennsylvania)
Pennacook tribe
Penruddock Uprising
Pepys, Samuel
Pequot tribe; and the Pequot War; rivalry with the Narragansett tribe
Pequot War
Pessicus (brother of Miantonomo)
Peter, Hugh
Philip, King (Metacom, son of Massasoit): becomes chief of Wampanoags on Alexander’s death; described by John Josselyn in An Account of Two Voyages to New England: Made during the years 1638–1663 (W. Veazie, 1865); humiliation by the colonists; killed and dismembered by the Sakonnets; kindness to Mary Rowlandson; loss of ancestral land; marriage to Pocasset princess; rebellion against the English (‘King Philip’s war’); renamed Philip
Phips, Sir William
Pickering, Edward
Pierce, Captain
Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Pilgrims, voyage on the Mayflower
Piscataqua colony
Plymouth Colony: 1621 peace treaty with Indians; 1623 division of land; 1627 division of cattle; acquisition of land; attitude towards witchcraft; becomes part of Massachusetts; buy out the Merchant Adventurers; and education; effects of King Philip’s war; and the fur trade; investment in; and the Mayflower Compact; and the Pequot War; and Quakers; relations with Indians; relations with Massachusetts Bay Colony; Vassall Bill for freedom of religion
Plymouth Harbour
Plymouth Rock
Pocahontas
Pocasset Swamp
Pocasset tribe
Pokanoket tribe
Popham Colony
Pory, John
Powhatan (father of Pocahontas, leader of Powhatan people)
Powhatan tribe (Algonquian people of area corresponding to eastern Virginia)
Praying Towns
Prence, Thomas, Governor of Plymouth Colony
Priest, Degory
Printer, James
Proctor, John
Provincetown, Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts)
Purchasers (investors in Plymouth Colony)
Puritan literature
Puritanism
Pym, John
Pynchon family
Quachatassett (sachem of Manomet)
Quadequina (brother of Massasoit)
Quakers
Quincy, Massachusetts
Quinnapin (Narragansett prince, husband of Weetamoo)
Rainborowe, Thomas
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Randolph, Edward
Reformation, English
Remonstrance (petition against the power of the New England churches)
Restoration, of the English monarchy, 1660
Rhode Island: Anne Hutchinson settles in; excluded from New England Confederation; freedom of religion in; and land purchase; refusal to take part in King Philip’s War; Samuel Gorton settles in; seen as ‘heretical,’; try to claim Indian territory; Wampanoag territory
Rich, Robert see Warwick, Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of
Richmond Palace, England
Robinson, Bridget
Robinson, Dame Anne
Robinson, Isaac
Robinson, John: bids farewell to the Pilgrims; continues to influence Pilgrims from Leiden; death; fails to attract funds to emigrate; lobbies for licence to emigrate; The People’s Plea for the Exercise of Prophesying; and the Scrooby community in Leiden
Robinson, Mercie
Rogers, Joseph
Rogers, Thomas
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Rowlandson, Mary
Roxbury, Massachusetts
Sakonnet tribe
Salem (formerly Naumkeag), Massachusetts; witchcraft trials
Salisbury, Neal; Manitou and Providence
Saltonstall, Nathaniel
Samoset (Wampanoag sachem from Pemaquid, Maine)
samplers
Sandwich, Massachusetts
Sandys, Sir Edwin
Sanford, Peleg
Sassacus (Pequot chief)
Sassamon, John
Saybrook fort
Saybrook plantation
Saye and Sele, William Fiennes, 1st Baron
Scituate, Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts)
Scrooby church; plans to emigrate to New World
scurvy
Sealed Knot (Royalist resistance movement)
Second Peirce Patent
Seekonk River, Rhode Island
Sempringham, Lincolnshire
Seneca people
separatist churches
Sepúlveda, Juan Ginés de
Sequasson (Connecticut sachem)
Sewall, Samuel
Shakespeare, William; The Tempest
Sheffield, Lord (Edmund, 1st Earl of Mulgrave)
Shepard, Thomas
Sherley, James
silverware
Skelton, Reverend Samuel
Skowhegan, Maine
Slaney, John (Treasurer of the Newfoundland Company)
slavery: African slaves; Desire (first slave ship in New England, 1638); Pequot Indians sold into; protests at slavery in King Philip’s War; slaves at Careswell in 18th century; Wampanoag Indians sold into, King Philip’s War
smallpox; epidemic (1633)
Smibert, John
Smith, John: belief in transmitting European culture to Indians; and the Indian language; and Jamestown; on Maine; maps of New England; named Cape Cod; and Pocahontas; promotion of colonisation; theories about Indians
Smith, Thomas
Soule, George
Sowams
Spanish Empire: and the attack on Hispaniola; colonisation of the Americas; and the Netherlands
Speedwell (boat)
Spenser, Edmund
Springfield, Massachusetts
Sprunger, Keith
Squanto (Patuxet Wampanoag, Massasoit’s ambassador to the Pilgrims): carried off by slave ship; catches eels for Pilgrims; dies; lives in London with John Slaney; returns to New England on Dermer expedition
Squibb, Arthur
St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
St Olave’s Church, London
Standish, Loara
Standish, Myles, Captain; background and military expertise; death; friendship with Hobbamock; kills Wituwamat and other Indian chiefs; military leader of the Pilgrims; rescues Squanto; settles in Duxbury, Massachusetts
Standish, Rose
Stannard, Anne (née Pelham)
Stannard, Samuel
Steele, William
Stone, John
Storey, Elias
Stoughton, Israel
Strachey, William
Sudbury, Massachusetts
Swanenburg, Isaac van
Swansea, Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts)
Tacitus
Takamunna (younger brother of Wamsutta)
Tatobem (Pequot chief)
Taunton, Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts)
Thacher, Margaret (mother-in-law of Jonathan Curwen)
Thanksgiving, first celebration
Third Church of Boston
Thirty Years War
Thompson, David
Thompson, Edward
Thoreau, Henry David
Thorowgood, Thomas, Jews in America
Thurloe, John
Tilley, Edward
Tilley, John
Tilly, John
Tispaquin (Black Sachem of Namassaket)
Tompson, Benjamin
Tradescant, John, the Elder and Younger (father & son)
Treaty of Hartford (1638)
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Trumbull, Reverend Benjamin
Uncas (Mohegan chief): agitates against Miantonomo; becomes English ally; captures and executes Miantonomo; friendship with Jonathan Brewster; and King Philip’s War; in the Pequot War; protected by United Colonies; war with the Narragansetts
Underhill, John; Newes from America (1638)
Undertakers (of the Colony’s debt)
United Colonies of New England (New England Confederation); and King Philip’s War
Valladolid Debate (1550)
Van Hout, Jan
Vane, Christopher
Vane, Sir Henry, the Younger
Vassall, Samuel (English Member of Parliament)
Vassall, William
Vaughan, Alden T.
Vaughan, Thomas
Venables, General Robert
Vere, Sir Horace
Vermeer, Johannes
Verrazzano, Giovanni da
Vietnam War
Virginia Company
Virginia massacre (1622)
Vitoria, Francisco de
Vowell, Peter
Wadsworth, Captain Samuel
Waiandance (Montauk chief)
Wake, Amie (née Cutler, wife of Captain William Wake)
Wake, Captain William (nephew of Edward Winslow, royalist soldier): ‘rebel uncle’ saves him from the gallows; Penruddock Uprising
Wake, Edward (nephew of Edward Winslow); investor in Josiah’s business
Wake, Magdalen (née Winslow)
Wake, Reverend William
Wake, William, Archbishop of Canterbury
Waldegrave, Thomas
Walker, John
Walley, Reverend Thomas
Wallis, Thomas
Wallmaker, John (Indian, also known as Stonewall John)
Walloons see French Protestant (Walloon) community
Wampanoag tribe: befriend the Plymouth colonists; on Cape Cod; and death of Alexander (Wamsutta); devastated by plague; relations break down with colonists; treatment by the English
Wampatuck, Josias (alias Chickatabut)
wampum, also known as peag, see death of Hezekiah Willet; and wampumpeag
Wamsutta see Alexander (alias Wamsutta, son of Massasoit)
Warren, Elizabeth
Warren, Mary
Warren, Richard
Warwick, Rhode Island (previously Shawomet)
Warwick, Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of
Watertown, Massachusetts
Webster, Senator Daniel
Weetamoo (queen of the Pocassets): death; in King Philip’s War; loss of ancestral land; marries Wamsutta (Alexander); Mary Rowlandson sold to; Peter Nunuit, husband; protected by the Narragansetts
Weld, Reverend Thomas
Wensley, John
Wessagusset (later Weymouth)
West Indies
Western Design (1655)
Westmorland, Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of
Weston, Thomas
Wethersfield, Connecticut
Weymouth, Massachesetts
Whalley, Edward (regicide)
Wheelwright, John
Whistler, Henry
Whitaker, Alexander
White, Reverend John; The Planter’s Plea
White, Judith (née Vassall)
White, Peregrine; born on the Mayflower (1620); death (1704)
White, Resolved
White, William
Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury
Wickford, Rhode Island
Wilde, John
Wilde, Sir Edward
Wilde family
Willett, Hezekiah
Willett, Sarah
Willett, Thomas
William III, King (William of Orange), Declaration of Reasons for Appearing in Arms in England
William the Silent
Williams, Mary (wife of Roger Williams)
Williams, Roger: affection for Indians; against the conversion of Indians and Praying Towns, 206, 235, see also Christenings Make Not Christians (1645); criticism of Massachusetts and royal charter for the Providence plantations (1644); death; decision to emigrate; declares Massachusetts charter invalid; home and plantation burned by the Narragansetts; on Indian warfare; and King Philip’s War; on land in New England; relations with the Narragansetts; on rivalry between Canonicus and Massasoit; on Samuel Gorton; A Key into the Language of America
Wilson, Reverend John
Wincoll, Isaac
Windsor, Connecticut
Winslow, Edward (1595–1655): assassination attempt on, by Kennebec Indians at Cushnoc (1642); background and education; on the Colony’s relations with Indians; civil commissioner on English expedition to attack Spanish West Indies; commissions coat of arms; death and burial at sea; debts; first Englishman to see the Connecticut River; against freedom of religion in New England, and Vassall; friendship with Massasoit, Wampanoag chief; friendship with Roger Williams; home in Marshfield, Massachusetts; home in Plymouth Colony; imprisoned in London (1634); influenced by John Winthrop; interest in Indian culture; leaves London for Leiden; London agent for the colonies; marries Elizabeth Barker; marries Susanna White; and the Massachusetts Bay Colonists; and the Mayflower Compact; Mourt’s Relation (1622); New England Corporation; portrait of; prepares to emigrate to America; Puritanism of; relations with Indians; resists English Parliament’s interference in the New England colonies; returns to England (1646); successful career in Commonwealth London; voyage on the Mayflower; Good News from New England (1624)
Winslow, Edward (1713–84, son of Isaac Winslow, Loyalist general in Revolutionary Wars)
Winslow, Edward (senior)
Winslow, Edward (1669–1753, silversmith)
Winslow, Elizabeth (née Barker): death; ill-health; in Leiden; marries Edward Winslow; voyage on the Mayflower
Winslow, Gilbert; buried Ludlow, Shropshire (1631)
Winslow, Isaac (son of Josiah and Penelope Winslow); builds existing Isaac Winslow house, Marshfield (c. 1699); marriage to Sarah Wensley
Winslow, Dr Isaac (1739–1819, son of General John Winslow, Loyalist doctor)
Winslow, John (1597–1674, brother of Edward Winslow), 3, 24, 30, 87, 138, 210, 224, 242, marries Mary Chilton 104
Winslow, General John (1703–74): general in British army against French; settles two Acadian refugees in Plymouth
Winslow, John (son of John and Mary Winslow, sailor and merchant): 210; brings news of the Glorious Revolution from Nevis (1689); imprisoned
Winslow, Josiah: agent for Herbert Pelham; and the Atherton Company; childhood; as Governor of Plymouth Colony; home and family; hostility to Indians; illness and death; King Philip’s hostility to; and King Philip’s War; marries Penelope Pelham; merchant trading also business with Edward Winslow and Robert Brooks in England and West Indies; petitions Charles II for Mount Hope lands; portrait of; on the Quakers; standing in Plymouth after Edward Winslow’s death; will
Winslow, Josiah (brother of Edward Winslow)
Winslow, Kenelm (1599–1672, brother of Edward Winslow)
Winslow, Kenelm junior (son of Kenelm Winslow, nephew of Edward, Gilbert and Josiah Winslow, member of Scituate church)
Winslow, Kenelm (probable grandfather of Edward senior, Worcestershire cloth merchant); will (1607)
Winslow, Nathaniel
Winslow, Penelope (née Pelham): arrives in New England; chooses to stay in Boston; deaths of sister and brother; home and children in Marshfield; marries Josiah Winslow; nervous crisis; portrait of; removes to Salem during King Philip’s War; and Waldegrave inheritance
Winslow, Sarah (née Wensley, wife of Isaac Winslow)
Winslow, Susanna (formerly White): death; gives birth on the Mayflower; in Leiden; in London after Edward Winslow’s death; marries Edward Winslow; in Marshfield after Edward Winslow’s death; in Plymouth colony
Winthrop, Adam
Winthrop, John, Governor: and Anne Hutchinson; buried in Boston; church membership; the ‘City upon a Hill,’; death; decision to emigrate; disapproval of social distinction in the colonies; and execution of Miantonomo; influence on Edward Winslow; and the Pequot War; relations with Indians; visits Plymouth Colony
Winthrop, John (junior)
Winthrop, Lucy
Winthrop, Martha (née Rainborowe)
Winthrop, Wait Still
Wintour, Robert
witchcraft trials
Witherell, Reverend William
Wituwamat (Massachusett Indian)
Wolcott, Josiah
Wolcott, Penelope (née Curwen)
Wollaston, Captain
Wolstenholme, Sir John
Wood, Anthony
Wood, William
Woodcock, Thomas (College of Arms)
Wootonekanuska (wife of King Philip)
Worcester, England; Battle of Worcester (1651)
Wyatt, Sir Francis, Governor of Virginia
Wyeth family
Wyncop, John
Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts)
Young, Henry