Papist Devils: Catholics in British America, 1574-1783

Index

299 INDEX Acadians: and American Revolution, 251–52; dispersal among colonies and France, 213–16; history, 209–11; Louisiana as new l’Acadie, 216; population, 210; removal from Nova Scotia, 211–13; replacement in Nova Scotia, 247; resistance to removals, 215–16; security threat in Nova Scotia, xv, 209 Act of Uniformity, 2, 72 Adams, John, 229, 255, 260, 264 Adventurers’Act, 78 Adventures of Alonso, 260 Africans: on Montserrat, 90; in New York, 121 Akenson, Donald H., xii, 90, 101 Albany, 121, 125, 140, 248 Alexandria, 263 Algonquian tribes, 51 Allen, William, 2 Alsop, George, 103–5 Altham, John, 48–49 American Catholic community: and American Revolution, 257–69; contribution of French religious émigrés, 281; ecclesial republicanism, 276–77; effect of colonial experience on post-Revolution development , xv; electing a bishop, 278–79; emergence of congregational financial support for ministry, 277; growth of trustee system, 277–78; origin of first seminary, 280; petition for a superior, 277; unchurched, 281–82 American Revolution: alliance with France, 272–74; attempts to broaden the movement , xv, 246–51; Catholic responses to, 243–45; and change in legal status of Catholics, 268–69; Germans or“Hessians ,” 271; impact on American Catholic community, 275 Anacostian tribe, 50 Andros, Edmund, 123–24, 129 Anglo-Spanish War, 79 Annapolis: and Acadians, 213–14; architectural boom, 174, 194, 230; Catholic chapel in, 177; and formation of nonimportation association, 239; as royal capital, 114, 143–44; salute to Pretender in, 164; school in, 185; surpassed by Baltimore, 192 Annapolis Royal, 210–13 Anne, Queen, 146, 148, 161 Anne of Denmark, 4 Anne Arundel County: Catholic chapels in, 177; Catholic gentry in, 158, 206; Catholics in government, 259; Quakers in, 105 Anti-Catholicism: and American Revolution , 268; decline of, 228–29; and Glorious Revolution, 128–32; in Leisler administration, 139–40; in Maryland, 160–61, 204–8, 219–22; mid-eighteenth century resurgence, xv, 201–2; in New England, 202–4, 241; in New York, 121–22, 124, 141–42, 202–3, 218–19; 300 Index Anti-Catholicism (cont.) in Pennsylvania, 217–18; and Quebec, 247; revival in Stuart restoration, 115–16; in Seven Years’War, 216–22; and Thomas Paine, 242 Antietam Creek, 195 Antigua, 80, 89, 137 “Antilon,” 235–38 Antrim County, 17, 79 Antwerp, 64 Aquia Creek, 104 Archangel, 19 Archbishop of Canterbury, 52 Ark, 33, 74, 80 Arnold, Benedict, 250, 272–73 Articles of Confederation, 246 Arundell, Henry, 126–27 Arundell, Thomas of Wardour, Sir, 18– 20, 31 Arundell Towne. See Annapolis Attwood, Peter, 168–70, 236, 258, 277 Avalon, province of, 24, 31, 43 Avalon Charter, 24, 29 Bacon’s Rebellion, 118 Badin, Stephen, 283 Baldridge, Thomas, 62 Baltimore: and Acadians, 214; and Carroll of Annapolis, 191–92; Catholic parish growth in, 228, 277; as first Catholic see, 279; origins of, 191–92; and Seven Years’ War, 220 Baltimore Company, 191–92, 231, 236 Baltimore County, 153, 155, 234 Bank of London, 269 Baptists, 276 Barbadian Council, 86 Barbados: 80; and American Revolution, 251; anti-Catholicism, 86; Catholic population , 75–76, 83, 88, 97; decline of servant labor, 85; demographics, 83–84; and English Civil War, 82–83; established religion, 97; and Glorious Revolution, 136–37; growth of slave labor, 82; immigration , 89; Irish immigration, 84–87; and Maryland adventurers, 34, 74–75; migration and emigration, 87–88, 94; origin of English settlement, 81; Portuguese Africans, 83; practice of Catholicism , 99; production of tobacco, 81–82; servant and slave resistance, 85–86, 91; socioeconomic mobility, 87–88; sugar as core of economy, 82–83; treatment of servants and slaves, 84–85 “Barbados Distemper.” See Yellow fever Barber, Daniel, 268 Bardstown, 283 Barney, Joshua, 244 Barry, Catherine, 271 Barry, John, 244, 267 Barry, Thomas, 229 Battle of Brandywine, 272 Battle of Long Island, 263 Battle of Mommouth, 263 Battle of Princeton, 263 Battle of Saratoga, 272 Battle of Savannah, 272 Battle of the Severn, 71 Battle of Yorktown, 248 Baxter, Gervais, 124 Bayard, Nicholas, 122 Beadnall, James, 224 Beale, Ninian, 133 Beaver trade, 58 Beckles, Hilary, xii Benedictines, 186–87 Benezet, Anthony, 214–15 Bennett, Henrietta Maria Neale. See Lloyd, Henrietta Bennett, Richard, 68–71, 154–55 Bennett, Richard II, 108 Bennett, Richard III: biography, 154–55; career, 192–94; as elite merchant-planter, xiv, 188, 190; opposition to penal legislation , 149 Bennetts, 155, 177 Bergen County, 123 Berkeley, William, 68, 70 Index 301 Berks County, 217 Bermuda, 246, 252 Besswicks, Nathan...