prevented, had Congress in 1776
adhered to its previous professions. ii. 56.

Shelburne (Earl of)--Correspondence with Dr. Franklin on negotiations
for peace. ii. 54.

Simcoe (General Graves)--First Governor of Upper Canada. ii. 308.

Soldiers--The humiliating position of soldiers in Boston. i. 360.

Insulted, abused, and collisions with the inhabitants. i. 365.

Spain joins France against England in 1779. ii. 28.

Spohn (Mrs. E.B.)--Paper by. ii. 264.

Stamp Act and its effects in America. i. 283.

Virginia leads the opposition against it. i. 287.

Riots in Boston against it. i. 288.

Petitions in England against it. i. 291.

Its repeal and rejoicings at it. i. 323.

Extracts from speeches respecting it by Charles Townsend and Colonel
Barre, and remarks upon them. i. 296.

Extracts from the speeches of Lords Chatham and Camden on the passing
and repeal of the Stamp Act. i. 302.

Summary of events from its repeal, March, 1766, to the end of the
year. i. 323-336.

Statements of the historians Hutchinson and Neal on the persecutions by
the Massachusetts Bay Puritans. i. 185.

Story (Judge) on the happy influence of the second Charter, and
improved legislation and progress of the Colony under it. i. 235.

Tea Duty Act virtually defeated in America. i. 370.

Opposition to it represented in England as "rebellion," and the
advocates of Colonial rights as "rebels" and "traitors." i. 388.

Tea--Duty of threepence per pound, to be paid in America into the
British Treasury, continued. i. 363.

Three Acts of Parliament passed to remove all grounds of complaint
on the part of the Colonists. ii. 6.

Ticonderago taken by the English. i. 263.

Treaty of Peace between Great Britain and the United States; rights
and interests of the Loyalists sacrificed by it; omissions in it;
protests against it in Parliament. ii. 164, 165.

Vane (Sir Henry) remonstrates against the persecutions by the
Massachusetts Bay Rulers. i. 116.

Vice-Admiralty Courts and the Navy employed as custom-house offices
in the Colonies. i. 331.

Virginia House of Burgess's admirable answer to the Massachusetts
Circular, 1668, and similar replies from other Colonies. i. 342, 343.

Rejects Lord North's so-called "conciliatory proposition" to the
Colonies. i. 464.

Its traditional loyalty of Virginians, and their aversion to revolutions;
but resolved to defend their rights