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Index. 



Burniston, succeeds Bridger, 95; 

 salary of, 100, note i. 



Byfield, Thomas, see " Pennsyl- 

 vania Company." 



Byfield, Judge, 120. 



c 



Carolina, pitch, tar and timber of, 

 5, 105, 138, 138 note i; trade of 

 the Pennsylvania Company, 30; 

 character of, 61, 83; hemp cul- 

 ture in, 85. 



Cast, overseer of the Palatines, 

 46-48. 



Charter, New England (1620), i. 

 Massachusetts (1691), 2, 88, 95. 

 108, 111-113; drawn up for the 

 Dudley Company, 15-30; the 

 Pennsylvania Company, 30, 

 36; suggested by the Board of 

 Trade, 20; Wharton's draft 

 for the Dudley Company, 

 25-27. 



Child, Josiah, pamphlet on New 

 England, loi; discusses New 

 England shipping, 103. 



Contracts to supply stores, under 

 William and Mary, 5, 6; discus- 

 sion of by the Lords of Trade, 

 7; Colonel Hunter's, 45. 



Contract system applied to the 

 manufacture of stores, 51. 



Cooke, Elisha, the champion of 

 the Massachusetts Assembly 

 against the King's prerogative, 

 113-116. 



Coram, Thomas, interests himself 

 in emigration schemes, 51 ; 

 opinion on hemp, 84; charges 

 Bridger with bribery, 93. 



Cummings, Archibald, on the im- 

 portance of the surveyorship, 



93- 



Currency question in connection 

 with the rise of manufactures in 

 New England. 125, 126. 134-136. 



Customs, Commissioners of, re- 

 port on the Byfield petition. 34; 

 on premiums, 68; required to 

 examine stores, 75; report on 

 importation of hemp, 85. 



D 



Downing, Emanuel, observations 

 on the trade in naval stores, 2. 



Dudley, Governor, report on the 

 raising of stores in America, 

 67; proclamation, 91; hesitation 

 over the township question, 

 III; report on the woolen in- 

 dustry. 131-132. 



Dudley, Sir Matthew, petition for 

 a charter to import naval stores, 

 etc., 6-7; action of the govern- 

 ment, 15-30; analysis of the 

 case, 36-41. 



Dummer, Jeremiah, 52, 95-96. 



Dunbar, David, made governor 

 of Sagadahock, 52 ; settles 

 towns near Fort Frederick, 53; 

 quarrel with Governor Belcher, 

 54; his plan to manufacture 

 stores a failure, 55; succeeds 

 Burniston as surveyor, 98; dis- 

 placed by Wentworth, 99; de- 

 scribes the difficulty of obtain- 

 ing justice against the loggers. 

 119. 



Dunbar, Jeremiah, sent to New 

 England in his brother's place, 

 99; reports the opposition of 

 the loggers, 118. 



Dutch, fear lest they appropriate 

 the trade in naval stores, 2; 

 colonial policy, 130. 



Duties, removal of, on stores sug- 

 gested by John Taylor, 7; on 

 Swedish iron, 75; on timber, 

 suggested by Gee, yy; effect of 

 removal, 103, 117. 



E 



East Country, spruce trees of, 3; 



cheapness of stores in, 8, 42, 



71; methods of making tar tried 



in America, 11. 

 East India Company, 40. 

 Emigrant labor, applied to the 



manufacture of stores, 42-55. 

 Exeter, riot at, 122-123. 



F 



Falmouth (Portland) becomes 



chief port for export of masts, 



103. 

 Finland, tar from, 58; falls into 



the hands of Russia, 75; prices 



of tar from, 80. 



