The Pilgrim Chronicles

by Rod Gragg

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  Index

  A

  Abenaki, 251, 292

  Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Times, 20

  Act of Supremacy, 10–11

  Act of Uniformity, 10–11, 33

  ale, 92, 175, 268

  Allerton, Mary, 133, 245–46

  Altham, Emmanuel, 281

  America, 1, 39, 53–54, 99, 100–2, 104–7, 109–112, 115, 117, 119–20, 127–29, 132, 135–38, 144–47, 151, 155–56, 159–60, 165–68, 170–75, 177–78, 181–82, 184, 188–92, 195–95, 206, 217, 222, 245–47, 249, 259–60, 262, 264, 266, 269, 272. 276–77, 282, 286, 288, 291–92, 294, 294–96

  American Colonial Era, 252, 277

  American Indians, 113, 172–76, 195–98. 200–1, 204–5, 207, 210, 212–19, 222, 226, 233, 236–37, 241–42, 250–53, 260–64, 267, 268, 270–71, 281–82, 290, 292–93. See also Native Americans

  American wilderness, 100, 113, 145, 151, 165, 171, 174, 185, 231, 236, 275–76

  Ames, William, 15

  Amsterdam, 70, 77–78, 80, 83, 86, 107, 117, 316

  Anabaptists, 21, 26, 46, 77, 83

  Ancient Brethren, the, 76–77

  Anglican, Anglicanism, 11, 26, 28, 33, 45, 55–56, 58, 63, 66–67, 74, 84, 265, 289. See also Church of England, the

  Anne of Denmark (princess), 39

  archbishop of Canterbury, 25–26, 64

  archbishop of York, 25–26, 64–65

  arrest, 2, 4, 8, 26, 28–29, 34, 36, 55, 65, 68, 70, 112

  artillery, 128, 132, 157, 226, 235, 250–52, 271, 279, 281–83

  assassination, 27, 50–52

  Atlantic Ocean, the, 1, 2, 106, 112–13, 128, 131, 137–39, 146, 148, 150, 154–56, 158–60, 167, 171, 177–78, 181–82, 184, 231, 233

  Austerfield, 54, 73–74, 86–87, 148

  Authorized Version of the Bible, the, 43–44

  B

  Babworth, 54, 58, 74, 148

  Babylon, 53, 56, 115

  Bancroft, Richard, 43–45, 55, 65

  Bangs, Jeremy Dupertuis, 218

  baptism, 40–41, 77–78

  Baptists, 26, 77

  Basilikon Doron (“Royal Gift”), 44–45

  beer, 151–52, 175, 198, 237, 251, 254

  Bermuda, 166, 188

  Bible, the (English translation), 43–44

  Billington, Francis, 241

  Billington, John, 134, 166–67, 188, 191, 241, 261, 293

  Birmingham, 111

  biscuits, 51, 268

  Bishops’ Bible, the, 43

  “bloody flux,” 105, 113, 160–62, 164. See also dysentery

  Book of Canons, 55

  Book of Common Prayer, 11–12, 33, 42

  Boston (English port), 4–5

  Boston, Massachusetts, 290

  Bradford, Dorothy May, 117, 133, 166, 229–32, 245, 295

  Bradford, William, 35, 68, 71–75, 79, 85–89, 93, 106, 113–14, 117–18, 130–33, 138, 146, 155, 158–59, 166–68, 171, 174–75, 177–78, 183, 185, 188, 192, 196, 202, 204–5, 207, 223, 225–27, 229–32, 237, 241, 244–47, 252–53, 257, 260–61, 264, 266–67, 270–71, 274–78, 283, 291–93, 295–96

  Brereton, John, 219

  Brewster, Love, 132, 165, 291

  Brewster, William, 62–66, 68, 74, 80–82, 85, 87, 102, 104–5, 111–12, 116–19, 130–32, 165–67, 183, 247–48, 268, 272, 274, 291–92

  Brewster, Wrestling, 132, 165, 291

  Bromhead, Ann, 60, 62

  Bromhead, Hugh, 60, 62

  Browne, Robert, 28, 33, 35

  “Brownists,” 34–35, 65–67, 146

  Brown, Peter, 134, 242

  Bury St. Edmunds, 34–35

  Bush, George, 294

  Bush, George W., 294

  Butten, William, 164, 170

  “butter-mouths,” 87

  Buzzard’s Bay, 219

  C

  Cabot, John, 214–15, 217–18, 221

  Calvinists, 38, 42–44

  Calvin, John, 14–15, 27

  Cambridge University, 14, 16, 25, 28, 33–34, 54–55, 63–64, 86

  Canada, 215

  cannibalism, 100, 174

  Cape Cod, 149, 182–84, 186, 188–89, 191, 193, 199, 203, 205–6, 209, 215–16, 219, 222, 227, 230, 239, 251, 275

  Cape Cod Bay, 184, 186, 188, 197, 204, 208, 215, 217, 223–24, 226, 229–231, 233–34, 240, 262, 271–72, 295

  Cape Fear River, 101

  Cartier, Jacques, 215

  Cartwright, Thomas, 33

  Carver, John, 100–2, 108, 114, 130–32, 165, 167, 183, 192, 203, 205, 225, 233, 235, 240, 244, 246, 255, 260, 294

  Carver, Katherine, 132, 166, 246

  Catesby, Robert, 49–51

  Catholicism, Catholics

  in England, 9–12, 14, 21, 27–28, 38, 49–52, 65, 83

  in Holland, 83–84

  in New Spain, 265

  Reformation as challenge to, 8–9, 26–28, 83, 266

  in Spain, 49–50, 98, 253

  Champlain, Samuel, 215–16, 224

 
Chesapeake Bay, 147, 149

  Chief Massasoit (a.k.a. Ousmaquin), 251–53, 255–56, 260–61, 263, 267–68, 270, 293

  Chief Wingino, 176

  Christ. See Jesus Christ

  Christian Dictionarie, A, 266

  Christians, 3, 7, 8, 14, 16, 20, 26, 42, 46, 66–67, 87, 101, 117–19, 122, 147, 190–91, 200

  Church of England, the, 3, 5, 7–12, 15–16, 18, 25–29, 32–38, 42–45, 50–51, 54–58, 60–61, 64–65, 67–68, 77, 100, 104, 146. See also Anglican, Anglicanism

  Church tradition, 8, 14

  Clarke, John, 128

  Clark’s Island, 224

  Clement VII (pope), 9

  clergy, 25, 219

  Clyfton, Richard, 58, 64, 68, 74–75, 77

  Cold Harbor, 203

  colonies, 101, 130, 132, 135, 285, 289

  Columbus, Christopher, 214

  Connecticut, 289

  copper, 152, 219, 221, 256

  Coppin, John, 34–35, 43

  Coppin, Robert, 128, 182, 205

  corn, 195–96, 199–200, 204, 210, 215, 217, 226–27, 253, 257, 260–63, 268–70

  Corn Hill, 204, 210

  Council for New England, 275

  Court of High Commission, 26, 65

  “covenant theology,” 190

  Croatoan, 176

  Cromwell, Oliver, 291

  crops, 196, 250, 260–62, 268, 277, 280

  Cushman, Robert, 100–1, 106–8, 110, 112, 114, 129–31, 135–36, 138–39, 144, 166, 192, 272–76, 292

  D

  Dartmouth, 136–39, 148, 288

  Dart River, the, 136–38

  Dasamonguepeuk, 176

  death, 5, 9, 16–17, 23, 26, 29, 35, 41, 100, 105, 107, 113, 121, 139, 143, 145, 156, 160, 163–164, 167, 208, 216, 230, 239, 245, 247, 250, 260, 271, 288, 291–94

  Declaration of Independence, the, 189, 290

  Delftshaven, 114–15, 117–18, 120, 148

  Dermer, Thomas, 216, 251, 253

  Description of New England: Observations and Discoveries in the North of America, (by John Smith), A, 145–46

  Devonshire, 150

  dissenters, 3, 7, 20–21, 27, 50, 65, 68, 146

  Doctrine of Discovery, the, 217–18

  Drake, Francis, 144

  Dutch, the, 6, 14, 78–79, 83–85, 87–88, 283

  Dutch Reformed Church, 83–84, 88

  Dutch Revolt, the, 84

  Dutch women, 89

  Duxbury, 292

  dysentery, 105, 161, 163. See also “bloody flux”

  E

  East India Trading Company, 283

  East Midlands, the, 4, 53–54, 58–60, 65, 68–70, 235, 315

  Edward VI, 10

  Eighty Years’ War, 84

  Elder Brewster. See Brewster, William

  Elizabeth I, 10–12, 14, 20–21, 25, 27–28, 34–35, 38, 41, 50, 64

  Elizabethan Religious Settlement, 10, 12

  Elizabeth, Princess, 49

  emigration, 192

  England, 1–5, 7–16, 18, 20, 23, 25–29, 32–61, 64–65, 67–68, 70–71, 75, 7–78, 81, 83–85, 88, 92, 94, 100, 103–8, 110, 112–15, 118, 127, 129–31, 135, 138–40, 142, 144–46, 148, 155–57, 164–65, 167, 171, 175, 188, 191, 194–95, 202–3, 214–15, 217, 219, 221–22, 231, 233, 235–36, 246, 251, 259, 261–63, 266, 268, 270–76, 278, 281, 289, 291–95

  England’s Privy Council, 4

  English Civil War, 291

  English militia, 3–4, 6–7

  English Reformed, 83

  English women, 89–92

  epidemic, 216, 218, 224, 236, 253

  Ericson, Leif, 214

  Europeans, 195, 214, 217, 251, 263, 264

  excommunication, 9, 35, 57

  F

  faith, 5, 8–9, 11, 15, 19, 22, 24, 26, 30, 49, 59, 69, 71, 75–76, 79, 84, 86, 92–93, 97, 101, 113–15, 134, 167, 170, 178, 189–91, 246, 268, 272, 275, 277, 287–90, 292, 295

  family, 19, 21, 35, 46, 54–55, 58, 63–64, 68, 73, 83, 86, 93, 95, 111, 117, 130, 134–35, 166–67, 206, 231, 235, 238, 292

  Faunce, John, 225

  Fawkes, Guy, 49–51

  Feast of Harvest (a.k.a. Firstfruits), 265

  Feast of Tabernacles (a.k.a. Ingathering), 265

  “First Encounter,” 207, 217

  fish, fishing, 19, 104–7, 112, 135, 139, 143, 145, 150–53, 171, 174, 182, 194–95, 207, 209, 215, 219, 226–27, 236, 240–42, 251, 253–54, 257, 260–61, 263–64, 268, 270, 274, 278–79, 286, 292

  Fortune, the (ship), 271–73, 275–76, 292

  Founding Fathers, 291

  Fourth Voyage Made to Virginia in the Yere 1587, The, 175

  Foxe, John, 21, 23–24

  Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, 21–24

  Fox, George, 19

  France, 9, 14, 98, 128–29, 191, 215

  Francis I (king), 215

  Francis, the (ship), 3, 4, 68

  freedom, 1, 2, 5, 8, 27, 35, 50, 70–71, 84, 93, 100, 104, 108, 113, 115, 170, 178, 189, 275, 277, 287–89, 294

  Fuller, Samuel, 133, 170

  G

  Gainsborough, 4–5, 54, 58, 60–62, 65, 68–69, 71–72, 75–77, 148, 287

  General Court, 191

  Geneva Bible, 42, 43

  German Reformed, 83

  Germany, 8, 128

  Gideon, 138, 143

  Gilbert, Humphrey, 156–58

  God, 1, 9, 15–17, 19–20, 22, 24, 27, 30–31, 37, 39, 44, 45, 46–47, 55–59, 61, 65–67, 69–70, 75, 81–82, 84, 86, 94, 96, 102, 104–5, 110, 113–16, 119–23, 130, 132, 135, 137–39, 141–43, 149–50, 159, 161, 168–69, 171–72, 178–79, 181–85, 187, 189, 190–91, 193, 195, 197, 207, 212, 214, 230–32, 243–44, 249, 253, 257, 259–67, 269–70, 273, 287, 290

  Golden Hind, the (ship), 156–58

  Goodman, John, 134, 242, 244

  Good News from New England, 276

  Gosnold, Bartholomew, 215, 219–20

  Gospel, the, 9, 30, 32, 94, 99

  government, 3, 10, 19, 27–29, 33, 35, 42, 49, 55, 61–64, 78–79, 81, 84, 90, 100, 119, 123, 188–91, 218, 261, 283, 285, 287, 290–91

  grace, 8, 15, 69–70, 81, 86, 121, 141, 187, 252, 265, 272

  graveyard, 195, 204, 236, 247

  “Great Migration,” 289

  Greek, 43–45, 77

  Green, John Richard, 11

  Greenland, 128

  Grenville, Richard, 176

  Grey, Jane, 10

  Grimsby, 3, 5

  “gripes,” 161–63

  Gunpowder Plot, the, 51–52, 65, 68

  H

  Hague, The, 78, 83

  Hampton, 42–44, 64, 134, 139–42

  Hampton Court Conference, 42–44, 64

  Hanson, Alice, 73

  Hawkins, John, 144, 171

  Hebrew, 43, 77, 290

  Helwys, Thomas, 4, 58, 68

  Henry VII, 214, 217–18

  Henry VIII, 9, 63

  Herformde Kerk, 118

  hierarchy, 33, 35, 51, 57, 60, 67

  Hind, the (ship). See Golden Hind, the (ship)

  Holland, 3–5, 14, 35, 45, 49, 68, 70, 72, 75–79, 83–100, 103, 106–8, 111–14, 130, 136, 148, 164–66, 169, 174, 198, 266, 288

  Hopkins, Elizabeth, 133, 165–66, 294

  Hopkins, Oceanus, 133, 164–66, 294

  Hopkins, Stephen, 133, 165–66, 188, 191, 202, 205, 255, 294

  House of Lords, 49–50

  Howe, George, 175–76

  Howland, John, 132, 167, 169, 294

  Hudson River, 105–6, 182–83, 283

  Huguenots, 14, 83, 171

  Hull (port), 3, 5

  Hunt, Thomas, 215–16, 253

  I

  imprisonment, 4, 5, 7, 12–14, 36, 68

  Indian corn, 195, 200, 204, 260–63, 268, 270. See also corn

  Indians. See American Indians; Native Americans

  indulgences, 8

  Isle of Wight, the, 135, 137

  Itinerary, An, 88

  J

  jails, 4–5, 28, 34, 44, 7
0, 84, 287–88

  James I, 3, 38–45, 49–52, 64, 68, 79, 101, 104–5, 112, 130, 189, 191, 256–57

  James VI, the King of Scotland, 38. See also James I

  Jamestown, Virginia, 39, 100–1, 103, 145, 166, 252, 265

  Jerusalem, 115, 142

  Jesus Christ, 8, 15–17, 21–24, 30–32, 55–56, 61, 86, 121, 143, 157–58, 286–87, 292, 296

  Jews, the, 56, 115

  Jones, Christopher, 128–29, 159, 182–84, 194, 197, 203–4, 214, 233, 240, 259, 294

  Judeo-Christian tradition, the, 190

  K

  King James Bible, 43–44

  King Philip’s War, 290, 293

  L

  Lammas Day, 266

  Leiden, 78–80, 82–87, 92–93, 97, 99, 102, 104–9, 111–13, 115, 117–19, 127, 129–31, 135, 148, 165, 192, 266, 291, 295

  Leiden Separatists, 87, 99, 102, 104–5, 108, 111, 127, 129, 165

  Lincolnshire, 54, 58, 60

  Little James, the (ship), 281

  Lizard Point, 137

  Locke, John, 218

  London, 29–30, 33, 42, 50, 52–54, 70, 100–1, 105–7, 129–30, 136, 144, 147, 166, 188, 192, 253, 276, 292

  Long Island Sound, 101

  Lord’s Day, the, 88–89, 233

  Lutherans, 83

  Luther, Martin, 8–9

  M

  Mahican, the, 218

  Maine, 215, 251, 292–93

  marriage, 9, 19, 87

  Martin, Christopher, 108, 130–31, 133, 135, 137, 140–41, 165, 183, 188, 191–92, 240, 246

  Mary I (daughter of King Henry, a.k.a. “Bloody Mary”), 10–11, 21, 42

  Mary, Queen of Scots, 27, 38

  Mashpee, the, 218

  Massachuset, the, 218

  Massachusetts, 149, 182, 184, 186, 207, 215, 218–19, 289–90, 293

  Massasoit (a.k.a. Ousamaquin). See Chief Massasoit

  Mather, Cotton, 229–30

  Matthew, Tobias, 64–68, 70

  May, Dorothy, 86–87

  Mayflower, the, 1–2, 60–61, 66, 74, 127–29, 131, 134–38, 142, 144–46, 150–52, 154–56, 158–59, 164–67, 170, 178, 181–84, 186, 188–90, 192–93, 196–97, 203–6, 224, 226, 229–31, 233, 235, 245–47, 259, 274–75, 288–89, 291, 293–94

  Mayflower Compact, the, 189–90, 275, 294

  measles, 245

  Mennonites, 83

  Merchant Adventurers, the, 106–8, 112, 127, 129–31, 135, 165, 183, 188, 192, 271–74, 276, 292–93

  Metacomet, 293

  Middle Ages, the, 8

  Millenary Petition, 42

  Miller, Perry, 20

  More children, the, 167, 245–46, 294

  Morton, Nathaniel, 229

  Moryson, Fynes, 88–89

  Mourt’s Relation, 192, 195–96, 207, 226, 237, 253, 276, 291