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| Selectman, election of John Adams, 220-222; duties, 223. — See also Towns. |
| Serapis, captured, 587-590. |
| Servants, runaway, advertisements for, 298-302; white, wretched condition of, 308-310; plan to import Palatines as, 310-311; — See also Slavery. |
| Seventy-Six Society, Papers relating to Massachusetts, 417. |
| Sewall, Samuel, Diary, 21, 48; Guilt Contracted by the Witch Judges,48; The Selling of Joseph, 293-297; The Selling of Joseph, 297. — See also Vol. I. |
| Sharpe, Horatio, Routine in Maryland 100-102; Correspondence, 102. |
| Sharpe [William], The State of the National Debt, 598-600. |
| Simancas (Spain), archives at, 10. |
| Simcoe, John Graves, animosity against the patriots, 30; A Loyalist Corps,511-513; Journal, 513. |
| Sioux. — See Indians. |
| Slavery, introduction into Georgia, 118-121; Quakers' first vote, 291-293; Sewall's arguments, 293-297; New Jersey act disallowed, 297-298; advertisements for runaways, 300-301; Quaker arguments, 302-308; conditions of, 307; captures by the Spanish, 341; fugitives to Florida, 342; insurrection, 343; in Jefferson's draft, 539; discussion in Congress, 539-541. |
| Sloane, William M., The French War and the Revolution, 34. |
| Smallwood, William, relations with Gates, 610-611. |
| Smith, Richard, The Activities of the Continental Congress, 525-530; Diary, 530. |
| Smith, Samuel, History of the Colony of Nova-Cœsaria, or New-Jersey, 16, 72. |
| Smith, William, History of New-York, 16. |
| Smuggling, in New York, 249-250; practice in the colonies, 396-397. — See also Lords
Commissioners. |
| Soldiers, French, 337,365; Spanish, 340; colonial, 344, 346, 360; Braddock's, 365; at Quebec, 369 ; life of, 461-463 ; aid for, 467-469; recruiting, 481; spies, 484, 515; negroes, 488 ; militia, 490; punishments, 493; Hessians, 500-507; prisons, 508; loyalists, 511; circumstances, 572. — See also Army, Camp Life, War. |
| Sources, what are they, 1 ; reminiscence, 1,7-8, 18; educative value, 3; classification, 4-9 ; journals, 7-8, 18; libraries containing, 10; reprints, 11-13; select library, 14-21; contemporary historians, 14-16; public records, 16 ; collections, 16, 19,20; memoirs, 18 ; biographies, 19; how to find, 22; use by teachers, 24; use by pupils, 25; use by students, 27; use by investigators, 28; use by readers, 28; relations with secondary works, 28, 32; use by libraries, 29 ; caution in using, 30. |
| South, colonies, 90-109; trade in, 94; a lady in, 99, 238; government in, 100; "Parson's Cause," 103; Mason and Dixon's Line, 107; Georgia, 110-126; Germans, 114; a New England man, 116; slavery, 118; orphan-house, 122; juries, 189; precinct court, 191; vestry meeting, 212; society, 235; danger from Louisiana, 316; border fights with Spanish, 340; Kentucky settlement, 383,387; regulators, 426; "Association,"439; Drayton on tyranny, 449; Revolutionary convention, 519; land quarrels, 591; southern campaigns, 606, 609 ; Yorktown campaign, 615. — See also Carolinas, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Virginia, and Vol. I. |
| South Carolina, Historical Collections, 17; description in 1699, 94-98 ; fear of French
settlements, 95-96; pitch and tar, 96-97; description in 1742, 99-100; fear of Spaniards, 100; invaded, 341-342 ; slave insurrection, 343; campaigns in, 606-608. — See also Carolinas, Slavery, South, and Vol. I. |
| South Sea, claims to, 542. |
| Southwell, Edward, An Appeal Case in the Privy Council, 200-202. |
| Spaniards, feared by South Carolina, 100; depredations on the English, 340-344; privateer in the Delaware, 349-351. — See also War and Vol. I. |
| Sparks, Jared, Correspondence of the American Revolution, 13, 21; Diplomatic Correspondence, 13, 605; Writings of George |
