INDEX.
A., J., 97 n.
Abbot, Rev. Ephraim (H. C. 1806), of Greenland, N. H., 206 n.
Aberdeen, Scotland, servant men arrived from, 226 n.
Abridgment, Bacon’s, cited, 404 n.; Brooke’s, cited, 405 n.
Academy of Arts, Boston. See American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Accomenticus. See Agamenticus.
Account of Insects in the Barks of Decaying Elms and Ashes, paper by Sir Matthew Dudley in Royal Society’s Transactions, cited, 81 n.
Account of the Trust administered by the Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins, by C. P. Bowditch, mentioned, 389 n.
Adams, Abigail (Smith), wife of President John, 287, 288.
——Charles Francis (1807–1886), LL.D., H. C. 1825, Minister to England, 365.
——Charles Francis (H. C. 1856), LL.D., son of Charles Francis (H. C. 1825), attends annual dinner of Colonial Society, 355; responds to toast to the Massachusetts Historical Society, 356.
——Henry (H. C. 1858), LL.D., 153.
——Herbert Baxter, LL.D., xviii; deceased, xix; elected Corresponding Member, 340, 347; accepts, 341.
——John (1735–1826), LL.D., President of the United States, 2, 12 n., 77, 266, 276; his Life and Works cited, 65 n., 66 n., 69 n., 70 n., 72 n., 75 n.; Brief of, at trial of soldiers, 1770, mentioned, 65 n.
——John Quincy (1767–1848), LL.D., President of the United States. J. H. Allen preaches a Discourse on death of, entitled The Statesman and the Man, 311 and note.
——Samuel (1722–1803), LL.D., Governor of Massachusetts, 57, 58, 62 n., 64, 71 n., 72 n., 266–268; Ezekiel Goldthwait, elected Register of Deeds over, 14 n.; letter of, cited, 210 n.
——Thomas Boylston (1772–1832), H. C. 1790, son of President John, 291.
Addington, Isaac (1644–1714), Secretary of the Province, and Chief-Justice of the Superiour Court of Judicature, 19 n., 153.
Addison, Rev. Daniel Dulaney, his Life and Times of Edward Bass, cited, 288; mentions the closing of King’s Chapel, 288.
Addressers of Gage, mentioned, 261 n., 269; of Hutchinson, mentioned, 15 n., 60 n., 260 n., 261 n., 269, 270.
Addresses: at the Re-dedication of the Old State House by W. H. Whitmore, cited, 20 n., 21 n., 24 n.; quoted, 20, 21, 23; Inaugural, of the Mayors of Boston, cited, 22 n.; of President at Annual Meeting of Colonial Society, mentioned, 40; Inaugural, by W. E. Russell, mentioned, 85; by W. E. Russell before the National Association of Democrats, upon the Work and Principles of Jefferson, mentioned, 91; Memorial, by Prof. Norton on Gov. Russell, quoted, 92; at the Old South Church, by A. C. Goodell, Jr., mentioned, 134.
Africa, 361.
African Chief, poem, mentioned, 290 n.
Agamenticus (Aggamenticus or Accomenticus), Me., 170, 175, 177 n., 179 n., 180 n. See York.
——Mount, 175 n.
Alabama Claims, the, 379.
Alcock, Capt. Job, of York, 1684, son of John, 183 n.
——John, of Kittery and York, 1652, 176 n., 180 n.
Alexander, Rev. Archibald (1772–1851), J. W. Alexander’s Life of, quoted, 239.
——Rev. James Waddel (1804–1859), son of Rev. Archibald, quoted, in Forty Years’ Familiar Letters, 227 n.; his Life of Archibald Alexander, quoted, 239.
Alfred, King of England, 394.
Alfred, Me., 168 n.
Algonquin Club, Boston, Colonial Society meets at, 1, 341.
Allen, Col. Ethan (1737–1789), 272 and note.
——Frances (Buchanan, b. 1760), second wife of Col. Ethan, 272 and note.
——John, of Boston, tailor, 1787, 209 n.
——Rev. Joseph (1790–1873), D.D., H. C. 1811, of Northborough, Mass., 310.
——Rev. Joseph Henry, D.D., vi, xvii, 348; of Committee of Publication, ii; invokes Divine Blessing at Annual dinner, 36; death of, announced, 310; tribute to, by A. M. Howe, 310–314; by H. H. Edes, 314, 315; ancestry, 310; graduated from Harvard and the Divinity School, 310; began ministry in Jamaica Plain, 310; pastor of the Unitarian church in Washington, 310, 311; preaches a Discourse on the death of J. Q. Adams, 311 and note; succeeded Dr. Hedge in the Unitarian Church in Bangor, Me., 311; left Bangor and began teaching, preaching, and editing The Christian Examiner and The Unitarian Review, 311; edited Allen and Greenough’s Latin text-books, 312; Lecturer on Ecclesiastical History at the Harvard Divinity School, 312; helps struggling churches, 312; a delegate of the American and British Unitarians to the Consistory of Unitarian Churches in Transylvania, 312; received honorary degree from Harvard, 312; character, 312; friendship with Dr. Martineau and F. W. Newman, 313; death, 313; his works, 313, 314.
——Lucy Clark (Ware), wife of Rev. Joseph, 310.
——Samuel, of Windsor, Ct., W. S. Allen’s Genealogy of, and Some of his Descendants, cited, 272 n.
——Thankful. See Hill.
——Walter, Society of Descendants of, 55 n.
——Willard Spencer, his Genealogy of Samuel Allen of Windsor, Connecticut, and Some of his Descendants, cited, 272 n.
——Rev. William (1784–1868), his American Biographical Dictionary, cited, 272 n.
Allen and Greenough’s Latin textbooks, mentioned, 312.
Allibone, Samuel Austin (1816–1889), LL.D., his Dictionary of Authors, cited, 290 n.
Almanac, Israel Chauncy’s, for 1663, exhibited, 339.
Almon, John (1737–1805), his Remembrancer, cited, 65 n.
Amacogan (Amancogan, Ammoncongan, Amoncongin, Amoncongon,—part of the Presumpscot) River, Me., 15.
Ambler, Edward, 222; Collector of York River, Va., 223.
——Mary (Cary), wife of Edward, 222, 223.
——family, 223.
America, 24, 49, 57, 61 n., 80 n., 98, 112, 114, 115, 201 n., 213 n., 217, 211, 263, 272, 290, 321, 349, 308, 378, 380; Winsor’s Narrative and Critical History of, cited, 65 n., 70 n., 72 n., 265 n., 272 n.; Sainsbury’s Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies, mentioned, 182 n.; J. Flint’s Letters from, cited, 225 n., quoted, 239; cited, 228 n.; A. Brown’s First Republic in, cited, 228 n.; R. Parkinson’s Tour in, quoted, 239; social conditions in, 243; C. A. Bristed’s The English Language in, quoted, 243; C. W. Janson’s Stranger in, quoted, 250; J. Bradbury’s Travels in the Interior of, quoted, 250; J. Bristed’s Resources of the United States of, quoted, 251; Miss Bird’s Englishwoman in, quoted, 252; C. Mackay’s Life and Liberty in, quoted, 253; T. C. Grattan’s Civilized America, quoted, 253; continent of, 255; cause of, 258, 259, 265, 275, 286, 293; General Magazine and Historical Chronicle for all the British Plantations in, published by Franklin, mentioned, 316; Elizabeth Montagu’s idea of life in, 322; Massachusetts the foremost community of, in education, intelligence, and character, 359; Salem society equal to that of any city in, 361; newspapers of, 362; carrying trade of, 371; building ships in, 372; establishment of merchant service in, 372; sea power, 373; desirous of doing its best at Philadelphia exhibition, 375; Thomas’s History of Printing in, cited, 390 n.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, 67 n.; 213 and note; acknowledgment to, for use of Hall, 32, 352; Colonial Society meets in Hall of, 40, 91, 187, 212, 299, 386; Dr. E. Pearson, Corresponding Secretary of, 206 n.; Hall of, 215, 339; Memoirs of the, quoted, 250.
American and English Cyclopædia of Law, quoted, 226.
American Antiquarian Society, Proceedings of, cited, 111 n.; owns copies of early Harvard College Theses, 335.
American Artillery, 52. See Regiments.
American Biographical Dictionary, by W. Allen, cited, 272 n.
American Colonies, 63, 230, 310; use of the word servant in, 229.
American Dragoons, 294. See Regiments.
American Farmer, Letters from an, by J. Hector St. John, quoted, 238.
American Historical Association, annual meeting of, 354, 355.
American Historical Review, cited, 29.
American House, Boston, 80 n.
American Literature, Duyckinck’s Cyclopædia of, cited, 290 n.
American Magazine and Monthly Chronicle for the British Colonies, quoted, 236.
American Medical Biography, by Dr. James Thacher, cited, 260 n.
American Poetry, Specimens of, by S. Kettell, cited, 290 n.
American Revolution, 25, 51, 54, 58, 60 n., 62 n., 63, 73, 75, 202, 206 n., 219 n., 220, 229, 230, 232, 244, 258, 284, 288, 297, 298, 310, 321, 334, 335, 350; approach of, 14 n.; Instructions issued to Royal Governors had bearing on, 30; William Willmott said to be last man wounded in, 54; Gordon’s History of, cited, 70 n., 265 n., the Beginnings of the, by Edward G. Porter, cited, 70 n.; disturbances of, 202; J. Boucher’s View of the Causes and Consequences of the, quoted, 227 n.; papers pertaining to, 257; Sabine’s Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the, cited, 260 n., 261 n., 262 n., 265 n., 269 n., 270 n., 272 n., 286; Thacher’s Military Journal during the American Revolutionary War, cited, 265 n.; Moore’s Diary of the, cited, 265 n.; Lossing’s Field Book of the, cited, 265 n.; documents connected with, mentioned, 349.
American War. See American Revolution.
Americanisms, not understood by an English traveller, 225; by Schele De Vere, quoted, 243 and note; Dictionary of, by J. R. Bartlett, quoted, 243 n., 244 n.
Americans, The, by F. J. Grund, quoted, 252.
Ames, Hon. Frederick Lothrop, A.B., xvi; his Memoir by L. Saltonstall, mentioned, 358.
——James Barr, LL.D., xvi; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; helps about dates of First and Second writs of Quo Warranto, 340 n.
Amherst College, E. Hitchcock’s Reminiscences of, quoted, 240.
Ammoncongan, Amoncongin, Amoncongon. See Amacogan.
Amory, Martha Babcock, Mrs., her Domestic and Artistic Life of John Singleton Copley, R. A., cited, 193 n., 198 n., 203 n., 206 n., 209 n., 210 n., 213 n.; quoted, 203 n.
——Thomas (1722–1784), H. C. 1741, loyalist, 260 n., 261.
Amsterdam, Holland, 232 n.
Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall of New England, by Leverett Saltonstall, mentioned, 384.
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, of Boston, 298. See Regiments.
Ancient and Present State of the County of Kerry, Ireland, by Charles Smith, mentioned, 204 n.
Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, by W. T. Davis, cited, 283 n.
Andover, Mass., 6, 7, 78, 202 n., 206 n., 342; Town Records of, cited, 206 n.
——Phillips Academy, 206 n., 207 n., 342.
——Theological Seminary, 206 n.; Library of, 207 n.; reason for existing, 310.
Andover Townsman (newspaper), cited, 207 n.
Andrew, Hon. John Forrester, LL.B., xvi, 345.
Andrews, John, of Boston, 201 n.; 269; his letters (1772–1776), quoted, 270.
Andros, Sir Edmund (1637–1714), Governor of New England, 29, 171 n., 172, 181 n., 216, 219 and note.
Angel. See Angell.
Angell, James, of Providence, R. I, son of Thomas, 237.
——Hon. James Burrill, LL.D., xviii.
——John (b. 1691), of Providence, R. I., son of James, 237.
——Thomas (d. 1694), of London, Salem, and Providence, went with Roger Williams from Salem to Providence, 237 and note.
——family, 237.
Ann, a vessel, 282.
Annals of the American Pulpit, by W. B. Sprague, cited, 207 n.
Annals of King’s Chapel, by H. W. Foote, cited, 53 n., 112, 215 n., 260 n., 288 n., 289 n., 290 n., mentioned, 287; completed under editorship of H. H. Edes, 113.
Anne, Queen of England, 78 and note, 79; notice of her death from London Gazette, 79 n.
Annisquam, Gloucester, Mass., 175 n., 176 n.
Antigua, 142.
Apostles, The, by E. Renan, mentioned, 313.
Appleton, Margaret. See Holyoke.
——Nathaniel (1731–1798). H. C. 1749, Boston merchant, 267.
Apthorp, Charles (1698–1758), Boston merchant, 290.
——James (1731–1799), son of Charles, 290 and note.
——Sarah, daughter of James. See Morton.
——Sarah (Wentworth), wife of James, 290 and note.
——family, 290 n.
Arbella, vessel, session of the Court of Assistants aboard the, 1629, 17, 26; L. Saltonstall’s ancestor a passenger on the, 359.
Arbitration, 378; court of, 379; treaty of, failed in Senate, 379.
Archer, Thomas, his Pictures and Royal Portraits Illustrative of English and Scottish History, cited, 215 n.
Archives. See under Massachusetts.
Articles of Confederation, 1643, mentioned, 118.
Articles of Peace, with the Indians, 1685, signed, 184.
Artillery. See Regiments.
——Company. See Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company.
Arundel (Cape Porpoise), Me. See Kennebunkport.
Asinego-men, 255.
Assembly. See under Massachusetts.
Assenego-men. See Asinego-men.
Astor Library, New York, 52.
Atlantic Monthly, cited, 50; mentioned, 52; quoted, 239, 240, 241.
Atlantic Ocean, 17, 29, 218; hue and cry on this side of, 405.
Atlas, newspaper, quoted, 292.
Atterbury, Francis (1662–1732), Bishop of Rochester, 79.
Attucks, Crispus, mortally wounded 5 March, 1770, 82.
Atwood’s Oyster House, Boston, 297.
Austin, Hon. James Walker, xvi.
——William (1778–1841), H. C., 1798, his Letters from London, quoted, 238, 239.
Autobiography, Reminiscences and Letters, J. Trumbull’s, cited, 198 n.
Autumn, by H. D. Thoreau, quoted, 253.
Avery, John (1739–1806), H. C. 1759, Justice of the Court of General Sessions and Secretary of Massachusetts, 280; audits accounts of Building Committee on Court House, 1769, 22 n.
BABSON, John James, his History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann, quoted, 176 n.; cited, 176 n.; his Notes and Additions thereto, cited, 226 n.; 247 n.
——Robert Tillinghast, LL.B., xvii; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Bacon, Matthew, his Abridgment, cited, 404 n.
——Thomas, his Laws of Maryland at Large, quoted, 234.
Bahamas, the Islands of the West Indies, 222 n.
Bailey, Capt. Jacob, 1758, 255. See Bayly.
Bainbridge, Christopher (c. 1464–1514), Archbishop of York and Cardinal, quoted, 245.
Baker, John, of Ipswich, Mass., 1638, 175 n.
——John, of Cape Porpoise, Me., 1653, 175 n.
Balch, Francis Vergnies, LL. B. (H. C., 1859), son of Joseph, vi, xvi, 348; death of, announced, 187, 188; remarks on death of, by C. S. Rackemann, 188, 189; by M. Williams, 189, 190; by John Noble, 190, 191; by H. H. Edes, 191, 192.
Baldwin, Hon. Simeon Eben, LL. D., xviii; elected a Corresponding Member, 298, 347; accepts, 299.
Balfour, Capt. Nisbet (1743–1823), 51.
Ballagh, James Curtis, Ph.D., 227; his White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia, quoted, 228, 240.
Ballard, John, juror, 1777, 261.
Ballister, Sarah Elizabeth. See Russell.
Bancroft, Cecil Franklin Patch, LL. D., his article on the Grave of Dr. Pearson, cited, 207 n.
——George (1800–1891), LL.D., 40, 365.
——Unitarian Church, 311.
Bangs, Edward Appleton, A. B., xvii; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Bankrupt Law, of 1867, 43.
Banks, Charles Edward, M. D., 181 n.
——Richard, selectman of York, 1679, 177 n.
Bar Association of Boston, Judge John Lowell President of, 48.
Barbadoes, 255; Acts and Statutes of the Island of, compiled by John Jennings, quoted, 255; R. Hall’s Acts, Passed in the Island of, quoted, 256.
Barcote, Faringdon, Berks, England, 253.
Barefoot, Sarah, sister of Deputy-Gov. Walter. See Wiggin.
——Walter (d. c. 1688), of Dover, Deputy-Governor of New Hampshire, 183 and note.
Barker, Benjamin, of Andover, 9; case of Haverhill against, 1740, 6–8.
——Caroline (Conyers), wife of Lt.-Col. John, 55.
——Lieut.- Gen. George Digby, C. B., Governor of Bermuda, grandson of Lieut.-Col. John, 349; remarks on, by E. G. Porter, 49–55; visits Boston and vicinity, 49, 50; Diary of his grandfather found, 50–52; authorship of Diary established, 53; explanation of ownership of Diary, 54; ancestry, 55.
——Hon. James Madison, LL.D., xvii.
——Admiral John (d. 1776), 53, 54, and note.
——Lieut.- Col. John, son of Admiral John, 49, 52–55; his Diary (1775, 1776), cited, 50; mentioned, 51–54 and note; 349.
——Jonathan, case of William Bodwell v., 8, 9.
——family, 53.
Barlow, Gen. Francis Channing (H. C. 1851), attends canvassing of the vote of Florida in disputed election of 1876, 377.
——Samuel Latham Mitchell, his copy of the Massachusetts Colony Records mentioned, 144, 145.
Barnard, Lidia, widow, 1726, 75.
Barons of the Potomack and the Rappahanuock, by M. D. Conway, cited, 223 n.
Barré, Col. Isaac (1726–1802), 70 n.
Barrett, Mary (Clarke), wife of Samuel, 214 n.
——Samuel (H. C. 1757), LL. D., 214 n.
——Sarah, daughter of Samuel. See Cabot.
Barrick, James, of jury which tried Capt. Thomas Preston, 1770, 82.
Bartholomew, Henry (c. 1601–1692), of Salem, Mass., 116, 117, 119, 131.
Bartlett, John, of Plymouth, 1737, 235.
——John, A.M., xvii.
——John Russell (1805–1886), his Dictionary of Americanisms, quoted, 243 n.; 244 n.
——Sidney (H. C. 1818), LL.D., 46.
Barton, Edmund Mills, Librarian of the American Antiquarian Society, indebtedness to, acknowledged, 335.
Bartram, John (1699–1777), 238 n.
Baskerville, John (1706–1775), printer, 199
Bass. Edward (1726–1803), H. C. 1744, Bishop of Massachusetts, Rev. D.D. Addison’s Life and Times of, cited, 288.
Basse, Samuel, of Braintree, Mass., 1649, 117, 122, 130, 131.
Bath, England, 222, 223; Writhlington Church near, 222 and note.
Batson’s Neck, Me., 177 n.
Baxter, Hon. James Phinney, A.M., vi, xviii, 169 n.; indebtedness to, vi; his manuscript copy of York Court Records consulted, 170 n.; his note in the Trelawney Papers, cited, 177 n.; 178 n.
——Rev. Richard (1615–1691), 391.
Baxter Manuscripts, in Collections of Maine Historical Society, cited, 179 n., 181 n., 182 n., 183 n.
Bay of Fundy, N. S., 264 n.
Baylies, Walter Cabot, A.B., xvi; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Bayly, Edna or Edney (Lambert), widow of Richard. See Northend.
——Joseph, son of Richard, 120.
——Richard (d. c. 1648), of Lynn, 120.
——See Bailey.
Beacon Hill, Boston, 213 n.; J. S. Copley’s estate on, 203.
——Street, Boston, 198.
Beale, John, of Hingham, Mass., 1649, 117, 131.
Beames, John, his edition of Glanville, quoted, 396 n.
Bear Island, Kenmare River, Ireland, 204 n.; martello tower on, 204 n.
Beginning of the Revolution, the, Rev. E. G. Porter’s chapter on, in the Memorial History of Boston, cited, 70 n.
Belcher, Jonathan (1682–1757), Governor of Massachusetts, 80 n., 112, 113, 114.
——Sarah. See Lyde.
Belfast, Me., 298.
Belknap, Jeremiah, juror, 1777, 261.
——Rev. Jeremy (1744–1798), D.D., 203 and note; his History of New Hampshire, cited, 173 n., 180 n., 184 n.
Bell, Daniel, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, 1776, 62 n.
Bellingham, Richard (c. 1592–1672), Governor of Massachusetts, 116, 123, 130, 141 n.; wrongfully charged by Thomas Warner, 411.
Belvoir, Va., 221–224.
Bendall, Edward (d. 1682), of Boston, 127.
Berkshire, England, 253.
——County. Mass., 319, 381; copy of Muster Rolls of troops raised in, 1778, 225; Court House, 321.
Bermond, quoted, 395.
Bernard, Sir Francis (c. 1712–1779), Governor of Massachusetts, 64, 70, 335; ordered Town House opened for shelter of troops, 1768, 25.
Bethune, George (d. 1785), H. C. 1740, loyalist, 260 n., 261.
Beverley, Robert (c. 1675–1716), his History of Virginia, quoted, 231.
Beverly, Mass., 175 n., 212 n.
——Town Records of, cited, 212 n.
Bible, quoted, 202 n., 242, 213, 215 and note, 246 and note; 314, 318, mentioned, 192, 359, 390 n., 405; cited, 80 n., 336 n., 387 n.; letter and account about printing Eliot’s Indian, 390–392.
Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts Colony, by W. H. Whitmore, cited, 136, 143 n., 145 n., 154, 155 n.
Bibliography of the Historical Publications of the New England States, by A. P. C. Griffin, cited, 136.
Bill, for meals and lodgings of a jury, 1770, exhibited by J. Noble, 58–60.
Billin, John, of Piscataqua, N. H., 1639, 176 n.
Billings, John Shaw, D.C.L., xviii.
Bills of credit, 97, 104, 105, 110; Old Tenor, 58, 100; Lawful Money, 58; New London Society emits, 99; New Tenor, 100; facsimile of, 100; of Connecticut Colony, 101, 102, 108, 111; tenor of public, 109.
Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, by F. B. Dexter, cited, 202 n.
Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, by Lorenzo Sabine, cited, 260 n., 261 n., 202 n., 265 n., 269 n., 270 n., 272 n.
Bird, Isabella Lucy. See Bishop.
Birmingham, England, 74, 201 n.
Bishop, Isabella Lucy (Bird), her Englishwoman in America, quoted, 252.
Bishop of London, Royal Commission to, 1726–27, v, 112–115.
Bissell, John, of Connecticut, 98, 105, 106.
Black, Daniel (d. c. 1717), of York, Me., 178 n.
——George Nixon, xvii; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——William, printer, of Wilmington, Del., 1804, 388 n.
Blackburn, Jonathan B., 319.
Blackman, Keziah. See Wentworth.
Blackstone, Sir William (1723–1780), his Commentaries on the Laws of England, quoted, 394, 395.
Blaine, James Gillespie (1830–1893), LL.D., his Twenty Years in Congress, mentioned, 89.
Blakeman, Rev. Benjamin (H. C. 1663), possibly concerned in Harvard Theses of 1663, 326.
Blanchard, Rev. Ira Henry Thomas (H. C. 1817), 198 n.
——Margaret Bromfield (Pearson) (1787–1876), wife of Ira Henry Thomas, 198; 199, 203 n.; birth, 198 n.; bequeaths family papers, 203.
Blowden, John, 235.
Board of Trade Papers, Bullivant’s Journal in, in Public Record Office, London, quoted, 181 n.
Boardman, William, juryman, 1770, 67 n.
Boatman, John, a negro, 239.
Bodwell, William, case of, v. Jonathan Barker, 1791, 8, 9.
Body of Liberties, Massachusetts, 1641, mentioned, 143, 158, 164.
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John (1678–1751), Viscount, 78, 79.
Bollan, William (d. 1770), son-in-law of Gov. Shirley, 7, 70 n.; agent of the Province in London, 21.
Bolles, Joseph, of Wells, Me., clerk of the writs, 409; made a freeman, 1653, 409 n.
Bolton, Charles Knowles, A. B., xvii; elected Resident Member, 412.
Bond, John James (1819–1883), his Handy-Book of Rules and Tables for Verifying Dates with the Christian Era, cited, 340 n.
Book of Copies (Massachusetts Colony Records), mentioned, 138, 145–147, 154; 160–164, 166.
Booth, Robert (c. 1602–1672), of Saco, Me., 178 n., 407, 408, 410; his certificate, 409; offices held by, 409 n.
Boothbay, Me., 193 n.
Boston, Mass., 1, 2, 10 n., 11 n., 13 and note, 15–17, 20, 23–25, 33, 35, 38, 39, 41, 42, 46, 49, 50, 53, 54, 57, 60–63, 65 and note, 66 and note, 69–71 n., 79 and note, 82, 84, 86, 92, 96, 98 n.; 100, 111 n., 117, 122, 125, 127, 129, 142, 143 n., 149, 150, 177 n., 178 n., 180 n., 181 n., 185, 193 and note, 194 and note, 196 n., 197 and note, 198, 199, 200 and note, 202 and note, 203, 205, 207, 208 and note, 209 and note, 210 and note, 212, 213 n., 214 n., 215 n., 216 n., 220, 251, 256 n., 261 n., 262 and note, 263 and note, 264, 265, 268, 269, 270, 271 and note, 272, 273, 274, 277, 281, 282, 283, 284, 287, 288 n., 290 and note, 291 n., 292 n., 298 n., 307, 313 n., 318, 321, 343 and note, 344, 340, 351, 353, 355, 302, 387 n., 390, 391, 405, 407, 409; needs of town of, 19; relief of, 19; selectmen of, 19–21, 62 n., 196 n.; special court held at, 262; instructions to representatives of, 266; attitude of towards the Province, 285; Dr. John Warren the first Fourth of July orator in, 287 n.; P. H. Sears a member of City Council, 342; first railroad train from, 1837, 361; protest sent by Sir R. Saltonstall to ruling ministers of, 370; L. Saltonstall appointed Collector of the Port of, 380; morning papers, quoted, 392.
——American Academy of Arts and Sciences. See above.
——American House, 80 n.
——Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 298.
——Associated Charities, 39.
——Athenæum, owns Harvard Theses of 1761, 335.
——Atlas, 292.
——Atwood’s Oyster House, 297.
——Bar Association, 48.
——Beacon Street, 198.
——Brattle Square, Church in, records of the, cited, 208 n.; 210 n.; Fourth of July oration delivered in, 287 n.
——Brazer’s Building, 18.
——Capen’s (Hopestill) store once a fashionable shopping-place in, 297, 298.
——Castle William, 54, 80 n., 127.
——Chamber of Commerce, 371, 372.
——Christ Church, 53 n.; 263 n.
——Civil Service Reform Association, 39.
——Columbian Centinel, 202 n., 271 n., 274 n., 283 n., 289 n., 294.
——Commercial Club, 378.
——Common, British regiment encamped on, 25.
——Commonwealth Avenue, 1, 341.
——Congress Street, 196 n.
——Copp’s Hill, 50, 298 and note; Burial Ground, 298 n.
——Courier, quoted, 219.
——Court House (Town House, 1658–1769), 13, 16, 17, 20–22, 165.
(Queen, now Court, Street, 1769–1810), 22 and note, 23 n., 63; new, 22 and note.
(School Street, 1810–1836), 23; new, 23.
(Court Street, 1836–1893), 23 and note; old, 23.
(Pemberton Square, 1893), 23; new, 23.
——Court Street, 22 and note, 23.
——Description of, by Charles Shaw, quoted, 23.
——Devonshire Street, 38.
——Evening Post, cited, 24 n., 198 n.; quoted, 196 n.
——Evening Transcript, cited, 201 n.; quoted, 290 n.
——Exchange Place, 196 and note.
——Exchange Street, 289.
——Faneuil Hall, 26, 49, 273; troops lodged in, 1768, 25.
——Fayette Court, 283 n.
——Fire of 1747, 7 n., 13, 14 n., 15, 16, 21, 22, 24, 25, 113.
——Fires, loss of records by, 25.
——First Church, 21; Gov. Winthrop’s son Joshua baptized at, 142; records of, quoted, 142; A. B. Ellis’s History of, quoted, 249.
——First Suffolk Regiment, 64.
——Gazette and Country Journal, quoted, 198 n., 209 n.
——Gazette or Weekly Journal, cited, 24 n.
——Granary Burying Ground, 287.
——Green Dragon Tavern, 291.
——Hanover Street, 80 n., 271 n.
——Haymarket Place, 284 n.
——Hayward Place, 283 and note.
——Head Place, 283 n.
——History of, by C. H. Snow, quoted, 23.
——Hundred Boston Orators, by J. S. Loring, cited, 265 n., 282 n., 286 n., 287 n., 288 n., 290 n., 291 n.
——Independent Chronicle, 283 n.
——Jacobin Club, 291.
——Jail (Gaol), 22 n., 61, 264, 265, 274.
——King Street, 56, 58, 80 n., 196 n.
——King’s Chapel, 53 n., 112, 202 n., 215 n., 260 n., 287, 288 and note, 289 and note, 290 and note.
——King’s Chapel Burial Ground, 202 n.
——Leverett’s Lane (now Congress Street), 196 n.
——Lindall Row (now Exchange Place), 196 and note.
——Long Wharf or Boston Pier, 190 n., 196 n., 289 n.
——Lowell Institute, 219.
——Marshall Street, 297.
——Massachusetts Gazette, cited, 68 n.
——Massacre, 58, 266; History of, by F. Kidder, cited, 65 n., 66 n., 70 n.; quoted, 66 n.; picture of, mentioned, 211 n.; celebration of, changed to celebration of Fourth of July, 286, 287.
——Meeting-House, first, built in 1632, 18; Courts held in, 20.
——Memorial History of, by J. Winsor, cited, 14 n., 15 n., 61 n., 65 n., 70 n.,75 n., 95, 104 n., 196 n., 203 n., 261 n., 262 n., 265 n., 269 n., 272 n.; quoted, 17, 64, 269 n., 273.
——Monks Building, 196 n.
——Morning Post, cited, 292 n.
——Mount Vernon Street, 343.
——Museum of Fine Arts, 198 n.
——New North Church, 214 n.
——Newbury (now Washington) Street, 283 n.
——News-Letter, cited, 24 n., 79 n., 114; quoted, 80 n.
——North Latin School, 271.
——Old Brick Meeting House (First Church), 284.
——Old South Church, 289 n.
——Old South Meeting House, 6, 49, 134 and note, 267, 289.
——Old State House, 6, 49, 62 n.
——Old Town House, 49.
——Pemberton Square, 23.
——Picture of, by A. Bowen, cited, 23.
——Pier or Long Wharf, 190 n., 196 n., 289 n.
——Port Bill (Town) Meeting, 267, 268.
——Prince Library, 356.
——Prince Society, 340 n.
——Public Library, 50, 65 n., 144, 342; Chamberlain Collection in, 65 and note.
——Quaker Lane (now Congress Street), 196 n.
——Quaker Meeting House, 196 n.
——Queen (now Court) Street, 22, 96 n.
——Record Commissioners’ Reports, quoted, 14 n., 19, 70 n., 71 n., 72 n., 142, 196 n., 258–262, 266–268, 271, 284–287 n.; cited, 14 n., 19 n., 61 n., 62 n., 65 n., 197 n., 213 n., 226 n., 269 n., 271 n., 285 n., 286 n., 298 n.
——Rogers Building, 18.
——St. Andrew’s Lodge, 288 n.
——Sandemanian Society, 270, 271 and note.
——Second Church, C. Robbins’s History of, quoted, 250.
——Selectmen’s Minutes, mentioned, 61.
——Siege of, 6, 7, 26, 51, 54; Frothingham’s History of the, cited, 265 n.
——Siege and Evacuation Memorial, 1876, cited, 203 n., 265 n., 272 n.; quoted, 273, 274.
——Somerset Club House, 198.
——State House, Old, 6, 49, 62 n.
——Tea Party, 56; letter about, from Franklin, 57, 58; mentioned, 350; committee draw up resolutions on Tea Act, 61 n.
——Theatre, 289 n.
——Third National Bank, 33, 353.
——Topographical and Historical Description of, by N. B. Shurtleff, cited, 196 n., 203 n., 269 n., 288 n.
——Town Books (Records), mentioned, 72 n., 267.
——Town House, 19–22, 26; old, 49.
——Town Meetings, 71 n., 72 n., 261, 286; warrant for, quoted, 258; 259; held at Old Brick meeting house, 284.
——Town Records, cited, 14 n., 53 n., 142 n., 193 n., 198 n., 200 n., 208 n., 210 n., 214 n., 267, 269 n., 298 n.; mentioned, 64 n., 71, 72 n., 258, 262, 266–270, 298; quoted, 284. See above, Town Books.
——Tremont Street, 22 n.
——Tremont Theatre, 284 n.
——Trinity Church, 194; Registers of, cited, 193 n., 194 n., 196 n., 290 n.; mentioned, 194; quoted, 209 n., 262 n., 274 n.
——Union Safety Deposit Vaults, 289.
——University, 83.
——Universit, Law School, 84.
——Washington Street, 18, 22 n., 283 n., 284 n.
——Weekly News-Letter. See News-Letter.
——White Horse Tavern, or Inn, 282 n., 283 and note, 284 n.
——Wing’s Lane (now Elm St.), 261 n.
——See Brighton, Bunker Hill, Charlestown, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury.
Boston and Maine Railroad, 344.
Boucher, Rev. Jonathan (1738–1804), his View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution, quoted, 227 n.
Boulter, Nathaniel, 120.
Bourinot, Sir John George (1837–1902), letter of regret from, 357.
Bourne, Edward Emerson (1797–1873), his History of Wells and Kennebunk, Maine, cited, 175 n.
Bowditch, Charles Pickering, A.M., xvi; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; remarks on Hopkins Foundations, 389; his Account of the Trust administered by the Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins, mentioned, 389 n.
——Nathaniel Ingersoll (1805–1861), H. C. 1822, his “Gleaner” articles, cited, 213 n.
Bowdoin, James (1727–1790), LL.D., H. C. 1745, Governor of Massachusetts, 270.
——James (1752–1811), H. C. 1771, son of Gov. James, 206 n.
——William, 284 n.
Bowen, Abel (1790–1850), of Boston, engraver, son of Abel of Greenbush, N. Y., his Picture of Boston, cited, 23.
Boy and the Squirrel, picture by John S. Copley, mentioned, 196.
Boyd, James, of New York, 1799, 201 n.
Boydell, Alderman John (1719–1804), 215 n.
Boylston, Ward Nicholas (1749–1828), name changed from Ward Hallowell, 196 n.
Boynton, Lieut. Joseph, 297 n.
——Sarah (Tarbell), wife of Lieut. Joseph, 297 n.
——family, 296.
Bracton, Bratton, or Bretton, Henry de (d. 1268), 398; cited, 393 n.; his De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, mentioned, 396; quoted, 397, 398; his Note Book, cited, 404 n.
Bradbury, John, his Travels in the Interior of America, quoted, 250.
Bradford, John, of Plymouth, 1692, 283.
——Joseph, Jr., juror, 1777, 202.
Bradford, Mass., 205 n.
Bradstreet, Lucy (Woodbridge), wife of Rev. Simon, 325.
——Samuel (1711 – c. 1755), son of Rev. Simon (H. C. 1693) of Charlestown, Mass., 261 n.
——Samuel (1743–1810), merchant of Boston and Charlestown, son of Samuel, 201 and note.
——Simon (1603–1697), Governor of Massachusetts, 116.
——Rev. Simon (H. C. 1660), of New London, son of Gov. Simon, 325.
——family, records of, mentioned, 201 n.
Braintree, Mass., 23, 62, 117, 122, 326.
Braintry. See Braintree.
Brandon, Edward John, City Clerk of Cambridge, supervises publication of Early Town Proceedings of Cambridge, 351.
Bratcher, Austin, inquiry into death of, 1630, 18.
Brattle Square, Church in, Boston, records of, cited, 208 n., 210 n.; Fourth of July oration delivered in, 287 n.
Bratton. See Bracton.
Brazer’s Building, Boston, site of first meeting-house, 18.
Breck, Samuel (1771–1862), of Boston, his Recollections, quoted, 232 n.
Brenton, Mrs. [? Martha, wife of Gov. William of Rhode Island], 228.
Breton, John le (d. 1275), Bishop of Hereford, cited, 394 n.; quoted, 398.
Bretton. See Bracton.
Brewster, Frank, A.M., xvi.
——Elder William (c. 1560–1644), 342.
Bridges, Capt. Robert (d. 1656), of Lynn, Clerk and Speaker of the House of Deputies, 116, 125, 149, 150, 158, 159.
Brief of John Adams, at trial of soldiers, 1770, cited, 65 n.
Brighton, Mass., 76 n.
Brimmer, Hon. Martin, A.B., xvi, 4.
Brissot de Warville, Jean Pierre (1754–1793), his New Travels in the United States, quoted, 238.
Bristed, Charles Astor, his English Language in America, in Cambridge Essays, quoted, 243.
——John, his Resources of the United States of America, or America and her Resources, quoted, 251.
Bristol, Mass., 326.
——County, Mass., Convention, 56.
Britannia, by William Camden, cited, 113.
British, the, 271; regiments in Boston, 25; soldiering, 26; officer, Diary of, mentioned, 50; War Office, 51, 53; service, 54; side, 202; flag, 203; government, 263 n.; cavalry used Old South Meeting-House as a riding-school, 289; deputation, 378.
——Army lists, 52.
——Museum, 54.
——Soldiers, John Noble exhibits bill for jury which tried, 1770, 59, 60; trial of, 64–70; mentioned, 349; report of trials of, mentioned, 65 n., 70 n.
Britton, Bishop of Hereford. See Breton.
Broadstreet. See Bradstreet.
Broadway, N. Y., 200 n.
Broke or Brooke, Sir Robert (d. 1558), his Abridgment, cited, 405 n.
Bromfield, Abigail, daughter of Col. Henry. See Rogers.
——Edward, father of Col. Henry, 202 n.
——Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Henry. See Rogers.
——Hannah (Clarke), second wife of Col. Henry, 210 n.
——Col. Henry (1727–1820), 67 n., 197, 198, 202–204, 210, and note; birth and death, 202 n.; sketch of, called a New England Country Gentleman, cited, 202 n.; Charles Pelham’s letters to, 209, 210.
——Margaret (Fayerweather) (1732–1701), first wife of Col. Henry, 211 n.; birth and marriage, 210; death, 211.
——Sally, daughter of Col. Henry. See Pearson.
——William, of Stoke Newington, 1564, 202 n.
——mansion, 202.
——name of, 203 n.
——School at Harvard, Mass., 203 n.
Bromfields, the, a pamphlet on, by D. D. Slade, in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, cited, 198 n.; American, 202 n.
Bronson, Henry, M.D., 111; his Historical Account of the Connecticut Currency, in Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, cited, 111 n.
Brooke. See Broke.
Brookline, Mass., 186, 412; Muddy River and Brookline Records, quoted, 237 and note, 250.
Broom, Herbert (1815–1882), Broom and Hadley’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, cited, 404 n.
Broune. See Browne.
Brown, Alexander, LL.D., his First Republic in America, cited, 228 n.
——John, 1741, 317.
——William Garrott (H. C. 1891), in charge of Harvard College Archives, 282 n.; remarks upon interpretation of letters in College Programmes, 334; his article in the Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, upon the University Archives, cited, 351.
Brown University, 241 n., 298.
Browne, Lieut. Leonard, R. A., 51.
——Richard, of Watertown, Mass., 1649, 117, 119, 130, 131.
——William (1736–1802), H. C. 1755, of Salem, Judge of the Superiour Court of Judicature, 73.
Bruce, Philip Alexander, his Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, cited, 228 n.; his letter quoted, 233 n.
Bruen, Obadiah, Deputy from Gloucester, Mass., 1649, 117, 127.
Brunner, Heinrich, his Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte, cited, 400 n.
Brunswick, Me., 412.
Brunswick, House of, 79.
Brush, Crean (d. 1778), 264; a striking figure, 272; emigrated to America, 272; commission issued to, quoted, 273; executes it, 273; departure and capture, 274; imprisonment in Boston jail, 274; death, 274; record of a case of John Rowe against, quoted, 275; John Hill recovers judgment in case against, 275.
Buchanan, Frances (b. 1760), stepdaughter of Crean Brush. See Allen.
Buck, James, of Boston, 96 n.
Buckingham, Joseph Tinker (1779–1861), editor of the Boston Courier, 219; his Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life, quoted, 219.
——Sarah (Hooker), wife of Rev. Stephen, 78.
——Rev. Stephen (H. C. 1693), of Norwalk, Conn., son of Rev. Thomas of Saybrook, 78, 81.
——Rev. Thomas (1646–1709), of Saybrook, Conn., 78.
Buckinghamshire, England, 55.
Buckminster, Joseph, 76 n.
Buffam, Deborah, daughter of Robert of Salem. See Wilson.
Bulfinch, Charles (1763–1844), H. C. 1781, 213 and note, 343.
Bullivant, Dr. Benjamin, his Journal, quoted, 181 n.
Bullock, Amiah. See Annah Bullock.
——Annah. See Morton.
——William, his Virginia Impartially Examined, quoted, 231.
Bunker Hill, Charlestown, Mass., 49, 349; monument on, 50; Trumbull’s battle-piece of, mentioned, 215; poem on, by Mrs. Morton, mentioned, 288.
Burbeck, Charlotte Augusta, daughter of Gen. Henry, 51 and note, 52.
——Edward, father of William, 53 n.
——Gen. Henry (1754–1848), son of William, 53 and note, 54; daughters of, 51; papers of, 52.
——Jerusha (Glover), wife of William, 53 n.
——Martha (Shute), wife of Edward, 53 n.
——Lt.-Col. William (1716–1785), father of Gen. Henry, 53 n., 54.
——family, 53.
Burdett, George, preacher, 1640, of Exeter and York, 180 n.
Burke, John (1787–1848), his Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies, cited, 81 n.
——Sir John Bernard (1815–1892), son of John, his Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies, cited, 81 n.; his Landed Gentry, cited, 204 n.
Burn, Richard (1709–1785), his Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer, quoted, 399.
Burnet, Gilbert (1643–1715), Bishop of Salisbury, quoted, 42.
Bush, John, constable of Wells, Me., 408; deposition of, 408, 409; made a freeman, 1653, 408 n.
Butler, Gen. Benjamin Franklin (Colby, 1838), LL. D., a member of Congress and Governor of Massachusetts, 374.
——Caleb (1776–1854), Dartmouth, 1800, his History of Groton, cited, 293 n., 297 n.
——Catherine, daughter of William. See Pelham.
——James (1739–1827), of Oxford, Mass., son of James, 344.
——Mary (Sigourney), wife of James, Jr., 344.
——Sigourney, LL.B., xvi, 348; death, 341, 344; birth, 344; ancestry, 344; education, 344; class-mate of W. E. Russell, 344; studied law and became counsel for Boston and Maine Railroad, 344; second comptroller of U. S. Treasury, 344; nominated for Overseer of Harvard College, 344; President of Young Men’s Democratic Club, 345; character, 345; Bishop Lawrence pays tribute to memory of, 356.
——Stephen, of Boston, 1635, 344.
——William, of Castle Crine, County Clare, Ireland, 204.
Buttre, John Chester (1821–1893), engraver, 95.
Byfield Parish, Newbury, Mass., 205 n.; Dummer Academy, 206 n.; Congregational Church Records, cited, 206 n.
Byles, Rev. Mather (1706–1788), H. C. 1725, 260 and note, 262.
Cabinet Councils of England, 78 and note, 79 n.
Cabot, George (1751–1823), 363.
——Louis, A. B., xvii; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Samuel, of Boston, 1781, 214 n.
——Sarah (Barrett), wife of Samuel, 214 and note.
Caldwell, James, mortally wounded 5 March, 1770, 82.
Calvert, George, bookseller of London, 387 n.
Cambridge, Mass., 3, 33, 40, 50, 74 n., 77, 83, 84, 90, 92 and note, 117, 172, 186, 206 and note, 210 n., 296 n., 298, 310, 311, 323, 326, 333, 340 n., 346, 353, 355, 412; City Government of, 84; W. E. Russell elected to Board of Aldermen in, 84; to Common Council, 84; street-car employés strike in 1886, 86; State Convention held in, 1779, 284; enjoys Gov. Hopkins’s bounty, 389 n.
——City Hall, 85.
——East, 74 n.
——First Parish, 76 n.
——High School, 85.
——Highland Street, 340 n.
——History of, by L. R. Paige, cited, 75 n., 76 n., 171 n., 340 n.
——Holmes Place, the, occupied by Dr. E. Pearson, 206 n., 210 n.
——Holyoke Place, 206 n.
——Holyoke Street, 206 n.
——Manual Training School, 85.
——Meeting-house (new) in (1753), 76.
——Probate Office, 296.
——Proprietors’ Records, 351.
——Public Library, 85.
——Riverside Press, 384.
——Town Records, cited, 74 n., 210 n.; Vital Statistics mentioned, 351; early town proceedings (1630–1703), 351.
——See also Harvard College.
Cambridge Essays, C. A. Bristed’s English Language in America, in, quoted, 243.
Cambridge University, England, 218 n., 339.
Camden, William (1551–1623), his Britannia, cited, 113.
——Miscellany, quoted, 245.
Canada, 61 n., 92, 202; Commissary General of Lower, 200 n.; Practical Notes made during a Tour in, and a Portion of the United States, by A. Fergusson, quoted, 252; difficulty of obtaining servants in, 252.
Canning, Elizabeth (1734–1773), trial of, quoted, 67 n.
Canterbury, Eng., 196 n. See Prerogative Court of.
——Tales, Chaucer’s, quoted, 314, 315.
Cape Ann, Mass., 175 and note, 176 n.; John Davis attended Deputy-Governor to, 176 n.
Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, 96; French settlements in, 320.
Cape Cod, Mass., 342.
Cape of Good Hope, 373.
Cape Horn, 373.
Cape Porpoise (Arundel), Me., 175 n., 177 n., 182, 408 n.
Cape Porpus. See Cape Porpoise.
Capen, Elizabeth (Hall), wife of John (father of Hopestill), 270.
——Hopestill (1730–1807), 260, 264; birth, 270; a Sandemanian, 270; arrested by order of the Council, 271; sends appeal to Sheriff Greenleaf, 271; drew up application to Court of Inquiry, 271; reinstated as a safe citizen, 271; death, 271; Rev. E. G. Porter’s remarks on, 297, 298; a great dry-goods dealer, 297; Samuel Parkman and Benjamin Thompson apprenticed to, 297; a member of the Artillery Company, 298; buried at Copp’s Hill, 298 and note; Massachusetts Spy started in attic of his building, 298.
——John, father of Hopestill, 270.
——John (d. 1770), son of Hopestill, 298 n.
——Patience (Stoddard, 1733–1791), wife of Hopestill, starts a petition in behalf of her husband, 271; birth, 298 n.; death, 298 n.
——Thomas, merchant, of Boston, 1807, 272 n.
Carleton, Lieut. Osgood (1742–1816), surveyor, son of Jeremiah, of Haverhill, Mass., 22 n.
Carlton, Oliver (1801–1882), master of the Salem Latin school, son of John, 364; L. Saltonstall’s Memoir of, mentioned, 364.
Carnes, Edward, juror, 1777, 261.
Carolina, 320; Independent Companies, 236.
Caroline, steamer, 378.
Carr, George (d. 1682), of Ipswich, 125.
——Patrick, mortally wounded 5 March, 1770, 82.
——Sir Robert (c. 1605–1667), of Etal, Northumberland, one of the King’s Commissioners to New England, 1665, 182.
Carter, Franklin, LL.D., xvi; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——James Coolidge, LL.D., xviii; elected Honorary Member, 82, 347; accepts, 94; letter of regret from, 357.
——John (d. 1669), of Virginia, his will, quoted, 227 n.
——Robert (1663–1732), son of John, 227 n.
Cary, Anne, daughter of Col. Wilson Miles. See Nicholas.
——Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Wilson Miles. See Fairfax.
——Mary, daughter of Col. Wilson Miles. See Ambler.
——Nathaniel, of Boston, 261; an Addresser of Hutchinson and Gage, and a Protester, 261 n.
——Sarah, daughter of Col. Wilson Miles. See Fairfax.
——Col. Wilson Miles, of Virginia, 222; refuses Washington his daughter’s hand, 223.
Casco (town), Me., 185.
Castle Crine, County Clare, Ireland, 204.
Castle Hill, Salem, Mass., 361.
Castle William, fort on Castle Island (now Fort Independence), Boston Harbor, 54, 80 n., 127.
Catholics. See Roman Catholics.
Caulkins, Frances Manwaring (1795–1869), 100, 103, 106 n., 107 n., 110; her History of New London, quoted, 99 n.; mentioned, 109, 111.
Ceelys, Va., 222.
Centennial, or Philadelphia, Exposition, 51; a new experiment, 375.
Century Dictionary, cited, 244 n.
Chadbourn, Benjamin, of the Executive Council, 1776, 13 n.
Chadwick, Rev. John White, quoted, 310.
Chaffey, Mathew, of Boston, 1649, 122.
Chamber of Commerce, Boston, 371; L. Saltonstall’s address to, quoted, 372.
Chamberlain, Hon. Joshua Lawrence, LL.D., xviii; elected Corresponding Member, 412.
——Judge Mellen (1821–1900), LL.D., his chapter in Narrative and Critical History of America, cited, 65 n.
——Collection, in Boston Public Library, plan of scene of Fifth of March riot in, 65 n.
Champernown, Capt. Francis (1614–1687), 176 n., 182, 183.
Chancy. See Chauncy.
Chandler, Peleg Whitman (1816–1889), LL.D., 38.
——Seth Carlo, LL.D., xvi; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Channel Islands, 214.
Channing, Rev. William Ellery (H. C. 1798), D.D., 365, 370; influence of, in the religion of Massachusetts, 361.
Charles I., King of England, 170, 204 n., 218 n.
——II., King of England, 217, 218 and note, 363, 402; petition of inhabitants of Maine to, 182.
Charles River, Mass., 76 n.
Charlestown, Mass., 12 n., 17, 117, 127, 177, 219, 260 n., 261 n., 296 n.
——First Church, First Record-Book of, in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, quoted, 249.
——Five Cents Savings Bank, deposits of this Society withdrawn from, 32, 352; deposits in, 33, 353.
——Genealogies and Estates of, by T. B. Wyman, cited, 177 n., 260 n., 261 n., 297 n.
——Great House, 17.
——Molton’s Point, 50.
——Neck, 50.
——See above, Bunker Hill.
Charlton. See Charlestown.
Charter, First, granted by Gorges to the city of Gorgeana, 1641, 179 n.
——of the Plymouth Company, 170.
——of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, 1639, 169, 171; acquired by Massachusetts Bay Colony, 171.
——of New London Society United for Trade and Commerce, 99.
——See Charters, under Connecticut; Massachusetts.
Charter Oak, Hartford, Conn., 350; leaves from, offered to the Society, by Henry Williams, 216; stood on the ground chosen for George Wyllys’s mansion, 217; venerated by the Indians, who used it as a guide to planting corn, 217; blown down, 1856, 219; Charter concealed in, 1687, 219 n.; sorrow among citizens of Hartford when Charter Oak fell, 220.
Chase, Charles Augustus, A.M., xvi; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Frederick, his History of Dartmouth College, quoted, 250.
Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1340–1400), his Legend of Good Women, quoted, 245; his Canterbury Tales, quoted, 314, 315.
Chauncy, Rev. Charles (1592–1672), President of Harvard College, 202, 267, 323, 326, 328, 331, 391.
——Israel (1644–1702), son of President Charles, his Almanac for 1663, mentioned, 339, 349.
Chaunceys, Memorials of the, by W. C. Fowler, cited, 202 n.
Chebacco (Essex), Mass., 174 n., 175 and note; 360. See Jubaque.
Chestnut Hill, Newton, Mass., 211, 384.
Chicago, Universitv of, 241 n.
Chignecto Bay, N. S., 264 n.
Child, Elizabeth, Mrs., 64 n.
——Ephraim, of Watertown, Mass., 1649, 117, 119, 131.
——Francis James (1825–1896), LL.D., 41; his English and Scottish Ballads, 1858, cited, 241 n.; his English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1890, cited, 241 n.
——Joseph, juror, 1777, 262.
——Town and Parish Records of family of, in Library of N. E. Historic Genealogical Society, cited, 64 n.
China, 362.
Choate, Charles Francis, A.M., xvi; of committee for increasing the permanent funds, 307, 346; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Hon. Joseph Hodges, LL.D., vi, xviii; his Memoir of Leverett Saltonstall, communicated by S. L. Thorndike, 355; letter of regret from, 357; the Memoir, 358–385.
——Robert, 1741, 317.
——Rufus (1799–1859), LL.D., 360.
Christ Church, Boston, 53 n.; Registers of, cited, 53 n., 263 n.
Christian Examiner, the, edited by J. H. Allen, 311.
Christian History, Fragments of, by J. H. Allen, mentioned, 313; in its Three Great Periods, by J. H. Allen, mentioned, 314.
Church, Dr. Benjamin, Jr. (d. 1776), H. C. 1754, 71 n., 264; character, 265; convicted of treason by court martial, 265; report on commemoration of Fifth of March quoted, 266; various committees on which he served, 266–268.
——(Charles) v. Crackbone (Joseph), 76 n.
Church of England, 115; Royal authority over, 114.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 288.
Cincinnati, Society of. See Maryland.
City Halls. See under names of cities.
Civil List. See Massachusetts Civil List.
——Service, 373.
——Service Reform, 380–383; D. B. Eaton the originator of the movement in America, 380; Law, 383.
——Service Reform Association, 382.
——War, American, carrying trade of America disappeared during, 371.
Civilized America, by T. C. Grattan, quoted, 253.
Clapp, David, his Old Morton and Taylor Estates in Dorchester, Mass., cited, 292 n.
Clapton, Northamptonshire, England, 80 n.
Clare, County, Ireland, Castle Crine in, 204.
——Castle, Suffolk, England, Clare Priory near, 55.
——Priory, near Clare Castle, Suffolk, England, 55.
Clark, Rev. Jonas (1730–1805), H. C. 1752; of Lexington, Mass., 310.
Clarke, Eliot Channing, A.B., xvii; of auditing committee, 34; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Elizabeth, wife of Richard, 197 n., 200 n.
——Hannah, daughter of Richard. See Bromfield.
——Isaac Winslow (1746–1822), son of Richard, 197, 200, 201 and note, 203; letter from Henry Pelham to, 199; birth and death, 200 n.
——Lucy (1752–1775), daughter of Richard, 199 and note; birth, 200 n.
——Margaret, daughter of Isaac Winslow. See Coffin.
——Mary, daughter of Richard. See Barrett.
——Richard (c. 1708–1795), H. C. 1729, 197 n., 198 and note, 200 n., 202, 203, 205 and note, 208 n., 210 n., 214 n.
——Sarah, daughter of Richard. See Startin.
——Susannah-Farnum, daughter of Richard. See Copley.
——Major Thomas (d. 1682–83), of Boston, Dorchester, and Pemaquid, 177 n.
——Thomas, Deputy-Secretary of the Province, 1758, 16.
——family, 212 n.; papers and correspondence of, 202.
Clay, Jonas, of Saco, 1655, 178 n.
——Mary, wife of Jonas, 178 n.
Cleaves, George (d. c. 1674), of Casco Bay, 176 n.
Cleoments, Robert, of Haverhill, Mass., 1649, 117, 119, 131.
Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk. See Noble, John.
Cleveland, Grover, LL.D., President of the United States, xviii, 88, 91, 344, 383; election of, 379; appoints L. Saltonstall collector of the Port of Boston, 380.
Clifford, Hon. Charles Warren, A.M., xvi; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Clinton, Conn. See Killingworth.
Cobbett, Rev. Thomas (1608–1685), of Lynn and Ipswich, 118.
Cockeril, Thomas, of London, 1688, 97 n.
Coddington, William (c. 1601–1678), Governor of Rhode Island, quoted, 246.
Code, Massachusetts, of 1649, 154–158.
Codman, Charles Russell (H. C. 1849), his Memoir of Leverett Saltonstall, mentioned, 367.
——Robert (H. C. 1844), subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Coffin, Joshua (1792–1864), his History of Newbury, cited, 205 n.
——Margaret (Clarke, d. 1899), 201 n.
Coggan, John (d. 1658), of Boston, 142 n.
——Martha (Rainsborough), wife of John, commits suicide, 1660, 142 n.
Coggswell, Joseph Green (H. C. 1806), LL.D., 40.
Cohasset, Mass., 3.
Coit, Daniel, of Connecticut, 101, 105, 106, 110.
Coke, Sir Edward (1552–1634), 395 and note, 398, 404; his Institutes, quoted, 393, 394; cited, 394 n.
Colden, Cadwallader (1688–1776), Lieut.-Governor of New York, in Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, cited, 235 n.
Cole, Elizabeth, widow, 1649, 121.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834), 205 n.
College of New Jersey, 206 n.
Collier, John Payne (1789–1883), his Memoirs of the Principal Actors in the Plays of Shakespeare, quoted, 242.
Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2, 27, 32, 34–37, 39, 41, 94, 96 and note, 98, 113, 134, 144, 187, 199, 220, 299, 307, 310, 315, 319, 344; Judge Lowell one of the founders of, 2; address to, by Edward Wheelwright, 1–4, 341–345; funds of, 33; annual dinner, 36, 37, 355–357; Henry Williams offers leaves from Charter Oak to, 216; By-Laws amended, 300–306; needs a permanent home, a library, and a cabinet, 308; President Wheelwright exhibits a manuscript sermon of Cotton Mather, 318; permanence of, assured, 347; value of any Memorial Fund, 347; Records of, mentioned, 348; its record of new Historical Associations, 55, 350; encourages printing of church records, 352, 356; list of officers, 1898, 354; invitation to American Historical Association, 355; invites representative members of Massachusetts Historical Society to attend annual dinner, 355; C. F. Adams points out a particular sphere of work for, 356; L. Saltonstall a founder of, 358.
——Annual meeting, 352; fifth, 1, 2, 27, 32, 303, 305, 306, 341; sixth, 341, 342; committee appointed to consider increase of funds at, 31, 346; time of holding, 302.
——Auditing Committee, 32; report of, 34; consists of persons not members of the Council, 305.
——By-Laws of, mentioned, 94, 304; 306, 345, 352; quoted, 95; amendments to, adopted, vi, 300; reprinted as amended, 300–306; changes in, 347.
——Collections, mentioned, 225 n., 307, 308, 350.
——Corporate Seal, description and cut of, 300.
——Corresponding Members, vi, 94, 95, 306, 341, 412; elected, 298, 340; number of, limited, 301; creation of Roll of, vi, 347; list of, xviii.
——Corresponding Secretary, 35, 36, 187, 304, 341; reads Annual Report of Council, 27–32; 345–352; A. McF. Davis declines re-election as, 34; J. Noble elected, 34, 354; J. Noble reads letter from James C. Carter, 94; reports acceptances of membership, 299, 341; S. Newcomb’s letter of acceptance to, 299; duties of, 304. See also Noble, John.
——Council, 27, 32, 35, 56, 94, 95, 301–306, 310, 341, 343, 345, 354; Report of, cited, 1, 27; meeting of, 2, 36; annual report of, 27–32, 345, 352; amendment proposed by, adopted, 300; has authority to change time for holding meetings, 302; duties of the, 306; adopts minute on the death of P. H. Sears, 343 n., 344 n.; first report of, mentioned, 346; reports of, mentioned, 351; expresses thanks to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for use of its hall, 352.
——Gould Memorial Fund (or Permanent Funds), v, 32, 33, 187, 343, 344 n., 353; committee appointed to increase, 31; report of committee, 32; amount to be raised for, 34; this name given to Permanent Fund, 37; 346; President Wheelwright presents report of the committee for increasing the, 307; ten thousand dollars subscribed to, 307, 346, 352; to be used for the publication of the Society’s Transactions and Collections, 307, 308; report of, accepted and committee discharged with thanks, 309; list of subscribers to, 309; completion of, 341, 346; increase of ten thousand dollars in, 346; committee appointed, in 1896, to consider the increasing of the Permanent Funds, 346; names of the committee, 346; importance of, 347.
——Honorary Members, 45, 82, 95, 306, 347, 357; list of, xviii; elected, 298; number of, limited, 301.
——Meetings. See Stated Meetings.
——Memoirs of deceased members: of Darwin E. Ware, 38, 39; of William E. Russell, 83–93; of Leverett Saltonstall, 358–385.
——Members, 341; members and dues, 95, 300–302. See above, Corresponding Members, Honorary Members; below, Resident Members.
——Officers, duties of, 303.
——Permanent Funds. See Gould Memorial Fund.
——President, election of 34, 354; duties of, 303. See also Wheelwright, Edward.
——Publication, Committee of, ii, 28, 82, 112, 162; reports referred to, 34, 354; A. McF. Davis retires from, 35.
——Publication Fund, 353; need of two funds of $25,000 each, 308.
——Publications, cited, 5 n., 20, 26 n., 56 n., 75 n., 96 n., 113 n., 116 n., 134 n., 136 n., 185 n., 310 n., 316 n.; mentioned, 28, 30–32, 56, 112, 162, 310, 358; quoted, 315, 317; Permanent Funds necessary to defray cost of, 346; issue of, unavoidably delayed, 350; voluntary contributions toward cost of, 352.
——Recording Secretary, 40, 95, 303; election of, 34, 354; to have custody of the seal, 300; duties of, 301, 304. See also Cunningham, Henry Winchester.
——Registrar, 303; election of, 35, 354; duties of, 306. See also Woods, Henry Ernest.
——Resident Members, 95, 186, 306, 341–343, 344 n., 348, 412; list of, xvi; elected, 298, 348; number of, limited, 300; duties and dues of, 300–302.
——Stated Meetings, 2–4, 27, 32, 35, 39, 40, 56, and note, 94, 95, 96 n., 112, 116, 136 n., 161, 187, 193, 207 n., 211, 212, 271 n., 299, 301–305, 307, 310, 322, 341, 343, 352, 386; time of holding, 302; large attendance at, a help to success, 348. See also Annual Meeting, above.
——Transactions, mentioned, 27, 28, 35, 36, 56, 82, 304, 307, 308, 310, 345, 350, 355; cited, 203 n.
——Treasurer, 27, 303, 306, 341, 344 n.; annual report of, 32, 33, 352, 353; report mentioned, 1, 307, 345; election of, 35, 354; committee appointed to examine accounts of, 299, 354; duties of, 305; accounts of, 305. See also Edes, Henry Herbert.
——Vice-President, 358; election of, 34, 354.
Colonial Wars, Society of, 134 and note.
Colonies, English, in America. See American Colonies.
Colt’s Armory Band, of Hartford, Conn., 220.
Columbian Centinel, cited, 202 n., 274 n., 289 n., quoted, 271 n., 283 n., 294.
Comedy of Errors, by Shakspere, quoted, 246.
Comic Oration, at the English Cambridge, by John Milton, mentioned, 339.
Commentaries, Blackstone’s, quoted, 394, 395; Kent’s, quoted, 395 n.; Broom and Hadley’s, cited, 404 n.; H. J. Stephen’s, cited, 404 n.
Commercial Club, Boston, 378.
Commissary, Bishop of London’s, Roger Price first, 112.
Commission, Electoral (1876), 378.
Commissioners, controversy between King’s, and authorities of the Massachusetts Bay, 1668, 178 n.; assumption of government by King’s, 182.
——Special, of Connecticut, 1757, 202.
Commissioners of Claims, Cooper’s claim to the, 1766, 16.
Commissions, Royal, granted by George I. to the Bishop of London, 112, 112 n., 113–115.
Commissions and Instructions of the Royal Governors of the Province of Mass. Bay, 29, 30, 112, 113 n., 114.
Committee of Correspondence, Safety, and Inspection, 284.
Committees of Correspondence and Safety, 62 n.
Common, the Boston, British regiment encamped on, 25.
Common Law, 393, 398; principles of, 72 n.; E. Trowbridge’s name identified with our system of, 74; various accounts of, 404; Massachusetts Bay colonists bring over the English, 405.
Common Sense, by Tom Paine, mentioned, 290 n.
Commons, House of, England, 134 n.; Journals of, mentioned, 163.
Commonwealth, period of the, in England, 218 n.
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, 1, 341.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. See Massachusetts.
Complaint of the Ploughman, in T. Wright’s Political Poems and Songs, quoted, 242.
Compton, Henry, suit of Pelham v., 1790, 195.
——John, suit of Pelham v., 1790, 195.
Comyns, Sir John (d. 1740), his digest, cited 404 n.
Concord, Mass., 49, 50, 51, 52, 117, 349; battle of, 201; march to, 1775, 220.
Congregational Church, membership in, essential to becoming a freeman, 231 n.
Congregationalist, the (newspaper), cited, 207 n.
Congress, Continental, 61 n., 268, 284.
——United States, 43, 87, 91, 371, 374; Library of, 316; refusal of, to buy back ships, 372; eager for war against Great Britain, 379.
Congress Street, Boston, 196 n.
Connecticut, 110, 216, 219, 325, 326, 389 and note, 412; Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, prominent in. 325 n.; First, Second, and Third Writs of Quo Warranto against Charter of, 340 and note.
——Assembly. See below, General Assembly.
——Charter, 216, 217, 219 and note, 220, 349, 350; Third Writ of Quo Warranto against, exhibited by H. H. Edes, 340; problem as to dates of First and Second Writs solved by Professor Ames, 340 n. See below, Patent. See also Charter Oak.
——Charter Oak. See above.
——Colonial Records of, cited, 98 n., 102, 103, 104, 105 n., 106 n., 107 n., 108 n., 109 n.; quoted, 100; mentioned, 99, 110.
——Colony of, 78, 98–102, 104, 107–111, 118, 201, 216–218, 218 n., 219 and note, 220; Governor and company of, 104 n., 107; Colonial government of, 110; petitions the King, 217; petition presented, 218.
——Council, 99.
——Courant, Hartford, cited, 219 n.
——Court of Chancery, 105.
——General Assembly, 97–103, 105–110, 201, 202; special session, 101, 104, 106; act of, 105. See below, General Court of Election; Special Court.
——Historical Society, Publications of, cited, 98, 110; mentioned, 99, 110; Collections of, cited, 100 n., 101 n., 272 n.; quoted, 103.
——General Court of Election, 389.
——Land Bank, A, Paper on, by A. McF. Davis, 96–111; refers to Land Bank of Massachusetts, 96–97; Land Banks influenced by a London pamphlet, 97; Assembly creates The New London Society United for Trade and Commerce, 98; organization of society, 99; the Society prints bills of credit, 100; facsimile of bills of credit, 100; the Society appears before General Assembly, 101, 103; Assembly repeals act creating the Society, 103; drawing in of Society bills, 104; petition to revive Society, 104–105; Society dissolved, 105; aid given to mortgagors, 106–107; opportunity to exchange Society bills for bills of credit of the Colon v, 108–109; other references to, 111.
——Legislature. See above, General Assembly.
——Patent of, 217 and note. See above, Charter.
——Special Court, 106; files of, 107.
Connecticut, History of, by G. H. Hollister, cited, 217 n.; by Benjamin Trumbull, cited, 217 n.; quoted, 217, 218.
Connolly, Elizabeth Harriet, 112, 353; indebtedness to, acknowledged, 66 n.
Conquest, the, 196 n., 393, 395 n., 399.
Constables, 155, 156; laws about, 154.
Constitutional Convention (Mass.), 1820, 292.
Continental Army, 241 n.
——Congress. See Congress.
Conventicle, The, or A Narrative of the Dissenters New Plot against the Present Constitution in Church and State, London, 1714, cited, 81.
Conway, Moncure Daniel, his Barons of the Potomack and the Rappahannock, cited, 223 n.
Conyers, Caroline. See Barker.
——Lady Henrietta (Fermor), wife of John, 55.
Cook, Peter, his trial mentioned, 67 n.
Cooke, Judge Elisha (1637–1715), H. C. 1657, physician, Judge of the Superiour Court of Judicature, 12 n.
——Elisha, Jr. (1678–1737), H. C. 1697, son of Judge Elisha, Clerk of the Superiour Court of Judicature, 11 n.
——Middlecott (1705–1771), H. C. 1723, son of Elisha, Jr., Clerk of the Court of General Sessions, 62 n.; account of, against Suffolk County, 14 n.; services of, 25.
——family, 359.
Cooper, Mehetable, widow of Thomas. See Sergant.
——Thomas, 16; purchased land at Casco Bay, 1692, 15.
——William (1721–1809), town clerk of Boston, son of Rev. William, 286.
Copley, Elizabeth Clarke, daughter of John Singleton. See Greene.
——John Singleton (1737–1815), 198 and note, 201–203, 204 n., 205, 207, 208 n., 209 and note, 210 and note, 211 and note, 212 n., 213 n., 349, 350, 385; half-brother of Henry Pelham, 193; Domestic and Artistic Life of, by Martha B. Amory, cited, 193 n., 198 n., 203 n., 206 n., 209 n., 210 n., 213 n.; quoted, 203 n.; beginning of his career as a painter, 196; birth and death, 196 n.; marriage, 197 and note; memoir of, by A. T. Perkins, quoted, 198; Sketch of the Life and a List of some of the Works of, cited, 208 n.; Rev. E. G. Porter’s remarks about Copley’s picture, the Death of Major Pierson, 214, 215.
——John Singleton, Jr., son of John Singleton. See Lyndhurst.
——Mary (Singleton), wife of Richard, 194 and note, 196 n. See Pelham.
——Mary (d. 1868), daughter of John Singleton, 208.
——Richard, father of John Singleton, 194 and note.
——Susannah-Farnum (Clarke, b. 1745), wife of John Singleton, 197 and note, 205 n., 208 n., 215 and note.
——Hill Burial Ground, 298 n.
Corbet, Moses, Lieut.-Gov. of Jersey, signed capitulation, 1781, 214.
——Samuel (H. C. 1663), possibly concerned in composition of Harvard Theses of 1663, 326.
Corey, Deloraine Pendre, his History of Malden, cited, 143 n.
Cotton, Rev. John (1585–1652), of Boston, 370.
Council. See under Massachusetts.
Countrey Justice, by M. Daiton, cited, 405 n.
Country Journal, Boston Gazette and, quoted, 198 n.
County Court (Suffolk), 14 n.
Court of Assistants. See under Massachusetts.
——of Chancery. See under Connecticut; London.
——Files, as chroniclers of historical events, 17; see also Suffolk Court Files.
——House. See under Boston.
——Records. See under Massachuetts, Inferiour Court Records, Superiour Court Records, etc.
——Street, Boston, 22 and note, 23.
Courts. See under Massachusetts.
Covenant servant. See Servant.
Covent Garden, London, 193.
Coxe, Tench (1755–1824), his View of the United States, quoted, 238.
Coytemore, Martha (Rainsborough), widow of Capt. Thomas, marries Gov. John Winthrop, 1647, 142 and note.
——Capt. Thomas (d. 1644), of Charlestown, Mass., 142.
Crackbone (Joseph), Church (Charles) v., 76 n.
Cranbrook, Gathorne Gathome-Hardy (b. 1814), D.C.L., Earl of, Secretary of State for War, 53.
Cranch, Judge William (1769–1855), LL.D., 311.
Crane, Stephen, quoted, 240.
Crévecœur, Michel Guillaume Jean de, calling himself J. Hector St. John or St. Jean de Crévecœur, his Letters from an American Farmer, quoted, 238.
Crew, J. J., engraver, 215 n.
Croke, Sir George (1560–1642), his Reports, cited, 405 n.
Crompton, Sir Charles John (1797–1865), his Reports, cited, 405 n.
Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658), 182, 218 n., 363.
Crown, the, 61 n., 71 and note, 74, 77–79, 101, 211, 228; salaries from, 60 n.; counsel for, 67.
Crowninshield family, 373.
Croydon, Surrey, England, Church of St. John the Baptist at, 196 n.
Cullick, Capt. John (d. 1663), of Hartford, Conn., and Boston, Secretary of the Colony of Connecticut, 389.
Cumberland County, Me., term of court at, 73.
——County, New York, Crean Brush, Clerk and Surrogate of, 272.
——County, Nova Scotia, 264 n.
Cunningham, Henry Winchester, A.B., xv, xvi; re-elected Recording Secretary, 34, 354; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Stanley, A.B., xvi.
Currency Discussion in Massachusetts in the Eighteenth Century, by A. McF. Davis, in Quarterly Journal of Economics, cited, 97 n.
Curtis, Anna Wroe (Scollay), wife of Charles Pelham, 210 n.
——Benjamin Bobbins (1809–1874), LL.D., Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 46.
——Charles Pelham (H. C. 1811), 210 n.
Curtiss, Frederick Haines, xvii.
——John, of Connecticut, 98, 105–108, 110.
Cushing, Chief-Justice Caleb (b. 1703), son of Rev. Caleb (H. C. 1692), Executive Councillor, 1776, 13 n.
——Brigadier-General Charles (1734–1810), H. C. 1755, of Pownalborough and Boston, son of Judge John (1695–1778), Clerk Supreme Judicial Court, 9; his certificate (1781) regarding the scattering of papers during siege of Boston, 7; appointed to office, 10 and note.
——John (1695–1778), of Scituate, Judge of the Superiour Court of Judicature, son of Judge John (1662–1737), 70; offices held by, 71; birth and death, 71.
——Thomas (1725–1788), H. C. 1744, Lieut.-Governor of Massachusetts, son of Thomas, Jr. (1693–1746), 13 n., 72 n., 266–268, 277, 281; letter to, about Tea Party from B. Franklin, 57–58.
——William (1732–1810), H. C. 1751, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, son of Judge John (1695–1778), 13 n., 73; appointed Chief-Justice of Massachusetts, 10 n.; arrangement of Justices, by the Executive Council, 12 n.
Custom House, Boston, 381, 385.
Daggett, Mary, 51 and note, 52.
Dalton, John Call (H. C. 1844), LL.D., 365.
——Michael (d.c. 1648), his Countrey Justice, cited, 405 n.
Damforth. See Danforth.
Damon, David, of Sudbury and Brookline, Mass., 1776, 237 n.
Dana, Elizabeth Ellery, daughter of Richard H., Jr., 51 n., 54; obtains information about the Diary of a British officer, 51; ascertains authorship of Diary, 51, 58; purchases it, 52.
——Francis (1743–1811), H. C. 1762, Chief-Justice of Massachusetts, 75.
——Lydia (Trowbridge), mother of Chief-Justice Francis, 75.
——Richard Henry, Jr. (1815–1882), LL.D., H. C. 1837, 42, 46; writes introduction to the Diary of a British Officer, 50.
Danforth, Samuel. M. D. (1740–1827), H. C. 1758, of Boston, President of the Massachusetts Medical Society, son of Judge Samuel, H. C. 1715, 260 and note.
——Sarah. See Pearson.
——Thomas (1623–1699), Deputy-Governor of Massachusetts, Treasurer of Harvard College, and Judge of the Superiour Court of Judicature, son of Nicholas, 168, 172 and note, 186; appointed President of the Province of Maine, 171 and note, 182, 183 n.; H. Usher’s letter to, about distributing Eliot’s Indian Bible, 390, 391.
Daniels, John Henry, his bill for steel plate printing, 353.
Darley, Arthur, ship-master, 1769, 227 n.
Dartmouth, William Legge (1731–1801), Earl of, 57.
Dartmouth College, 340, 341; F. Chase’s History of, quoted, 250.
Dashwood, Samuel, juror, 1777, 261.
Dauess. See Davis.
Davenport, Addington (1670–1736), H. C. 1689, Clerk and a Justice of the Superiour Court of Judicature, 11 n.
——Rev. John (1597–1669), 218; his letter to John Winthrop, Jr., cited, 142 n.
Daves. See Davis.
Davis, Alice, wife of John of Ipswich, 1655, 174 n.
——Andrew McFarland, A.M., xvi, 94, 114; declines re-election as Corresponding Secretary, 34; expression of appreciation of his services, 35 and note; toast to, proposed by H. H. Edes, 36; speaks at Annual dinner of Society, 37, 356; reports incorporation of Historical Societies in Massachusetts, 55; presents communication from A. C. Goodell, Jr., on doings of Boston Tea Party, 56–58; reads paper on A Connecticut Land Bank, 96–111; his paper on Provincial Banks, Land and Silver, cited, n.; quoted, 317; Currency Discussion in Massachusetts in the Eighteenth Century, article by, in Quarterly Journal of Economics, 97 n.; reads letter from A. C. Goodell, Jr., 112–114; offers vote covering the By-Laws, 300; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; presents memoranda concerning the Land Bank, 315, 316; his Calendar of Land Bank Papers, quoted, 315; mentioned, 350; presents memoranda concerning Essex County Land Bank, 317, 318; communicates intelligence concerning Haverhill Historical Society, 318; concerning Orange Historical and Antiquarian Society, 319; makes motion about American Historical Association, 354, 355; discusses H. A. Parker’s paper on Quakers, 389.
——Benjamin (1729–1805), Boston merchant, 260, 264; brief account of, 269, 270; a Sandemanian, 271.
——Benjamin, Jr. (b. 1756), son of Benjamin, merchant, of Boston, Mass., and Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 260 n., 261.
——Charles Henry. A.B., xvii.
——Elizabeth. See Mayo.
——goodwife, 174 n.
——Hon. Horace, LL.D., xviii; elected Corresponding Member, 340, 347; accepts, 341.
——Isaac, of Stroudwater (Falmouth, now Deering), Me., 1660, 176 n., 178 n.
——Major John (c. 1613–1691), of York, Deputy-President of the Province of Maine, and his Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1681, paper on, by H. H. Edes, v, 167–186; the Proclamation, 167, 168; J. Williamson’s statement concerning it, 168, 169; first printed broadside of a Thanksgiving Proclamation in Massachusetts, 1676, 169 n.; Proclamations for days of Fast and of Thanksgiving in Maine, 1681 and 1683, quoted, 169 n.; the founding and government of York, 170–172; date of his birth unknown, 173; his early history, 173 and note, 174 and note; accustomed to visit Ipswich, 173 n., 175 n.; other men of the same name, 174–181 and notes: resided in York, 174 n., 175, 180, 181 and note, 183 and note, 184, 185 and note: believed to have been identical with John Davis of Ipswich, 175 and note, 176 n., 179, 185 n.; marriage, 179; offices held by, 181–184; probable date of his death, 184; summary of his career, 184–186; the Proclamation mentioned, 349.
——John, of Ipswich, Mass., 1639, 173, 174 and note, 176 n., 179; attends the Deputy-Governor to Cape Ann, 1642, 175 and note.
——John, of Chebacco (Essex), Mass., 1647, 174 and note, 175 and note.
——John, the smith, of York, Me., 1652, 177, 179 n., 181; believed to have been identical with John Davis of Saco, 177 n.
——John (b. 1627), of Saco, Me., 179 n.; believed to have been a smith, and identical with John Davis, the smith, of York, 177 n.; of the jury of trials, and of grand jury, 178 n.; makes deposition, 178 n.; facts concerning his life, 178 n.
——John, perhaps son of John, the smith, of York, 178 n., 179 n.
——John, Sr., of Cape Porpoise, Me., blacksmith, 1675, 177 n.
——John, Jr., son of John, Sr., of Cape Porpoise, 1675, 177 n.
——John, the smith, of Portsmouth, N. H., 1699, 177 n., 178 n.
——Dr. John, of Portsmouth, N. H., probably identical with John Davis, the smith, of Portsmouth, 178 n.
——John (b. 1620), of Maine, 1654, 178 n., 179 n.
——John, of Gloucester, 1656, removed to Ipswich, 176 n.
——John (b. 1660), of Gloucester, Mass., son of Isaac of Stroudwater, Me., 176 n., 178 n.
——John, of Ipswich and Gloucester, 1715, 176 n.
——John, of Sandy Bay (Gloucester), Mass., 1748, 176 n.
——Judge John (1761–1847), H. C. 1781, LL.D., preface to his edition of Morton’s Memorial, quoted, 283.
——Hon. John Chandler Bancroft, LL.D., xviii.
——Katherine, wife of John, Sr., of Cape Porpoise, Me., 177 n.
——Mary (Puddington), wife of Major John of York, 179, 180 and note, 184.
——Mary, daughter of Major John of York. See Weare.
——Nicholas (c. 1595– c. 1669), of Charlestown, Mass., and York, Me., 177, 181, 183.
——Samuel, of Gloucester, son of Isaac of Stroudwater, 1733, 176 n.
——Sarah, daughter of Major John of York. See Penwill.
——William Thomas, his Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, cited, 283 n.
——family, 176 n.
Day. See Daye.
Daye, Stephen (c. 1594–1668), printer, bill of, for mending press, 391.
De Berdt, Dennys (Deberdt, Dennis), (d. 1770), 70 n.
Deblois, Gilbert, of jury which tried Capt. Thomas Preston, 1770, 82.
Declaration of Independence, 229, 230 n.; 276.
Dedham, Mass., 23, 38, 60, 117, 122, 319.
——Records of, quoted, 248.
Deering, Me., 176 n.
Delaware, 388 n.
De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliæ, Bracton’s, mentioned, 396; quoted, 397, 398.
Democratic Administration, A Year of, paper by W. E. Russell in the Forum, mentioned, 91.
Democratic Club. See Middlesex.
——Club, Young Men’s, of Mass., S. Butler, President of, 345.
——National Committee sends L. Saltonstall to Florida to attend canvassing of Presidential vote, 1876, 377.
——National Convention, W. E. Russell declines to be delegate to, 91.
——Party, 88, 374, 377, 381, 382, 383.
——State Convention, W. E. Russell nominated for Governor by, 87.
Democrats, National Association of, addressed by W. E. Russell, 91.
Denison, Major-Gen. Daniel (1612–1682), Speaker of the House of Deputies, 117, 131, 174, 185 n.
Dennis, Mass., 342.
Dennison. See Denison.
Deputies, House of. See under Massachusetts.
Derby family, 373.
Desmond, Catherine Fitzgerald, Countess of (d. 1604), 204; brief account of, 204 n.
Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte, by Heinrich Brunner, cited, 400 n.
De Vere, Maximilian Schele, quoted, 243 n.; his Americanisms, quoted, 243.
Devonshire, England, 179 n.
——Street, Boston, 38.
Devil is an Ass, B. Jonson’s, quoted, 243.
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, Litt. D., xviii; aids in giving the material features of the mortgages of the New London Society United for Trade and Commerce, 110; his Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, cited, 202 n.; elected Corresponding Member, 412.
——Rev. Henry Martyn (1821–1890), D. D., his As to Roger Williams, cited, 387 n.
——Rev. Morton, A.M., xvii.
Diaries: of Samuel Sewall, quoted, 10; cited, 20; of a British Officer in Boston in 1775, by John Barker, cited, 50, mentioned, 51–54 and note, 349; of Ezekiel Price, quoted, 62 n., 261 n., 265, 270, 274; of Benjamin Lynde, cited, 64 n., 65 n., 66 n., 70 n., quoted 68 n., of Benjamin Lynde, Jr., cited, 64 n., 65 n., 66 n., 70 n., quoted, 68 n.; of Samuel Quincy, cited, 77 n., mentioned, 297 n.; of Ezra Stiles, quoted, 237, 335; of Samuel Pepys, mentioned, 243 n.; of the American Revolution by Frank Moore, cited, 265 n.; of Laurence Hammond, cited, 297 n.; of James Iddings, quoted, 388 and note.
Dickey, Adelaide Frances. See Ware.
Dictionary of Authors, by S. A. Allibone, cited, 290 n.
——of National Biography, by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, cited, 218 n.
Digest, by J. Comyns, cited, 404 n.
Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America, by Dr. William Douglass, quoted, 111.
Dixwell, John (1608–1689), the Regicide, 218.
Documentary History of the State of New York, edited by Edmund B. O’Callaghan, cited, 235 n.
Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, edited by Edmund B. O’Callaghan, cited 112 n. 235 n.
Doe, Charles (1830–1896), LL.D., Chief-Justice of New Hampshire, refers to old law of hue and cry, 404.
Domestic and Artistic Life of John Singleton Copley, R. A., by Martha B. Amory, cited, 193 n., 198 n., 203 n., 206 n., 209 n., 210 n., 213 n.; quoted, 203 n.
Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Mrs. Trollope. quoted, 251.
Domestic Service, by Prof. Lucy M. Salmon, quoted, 228–230.
Don Quixote (T. Shelton’s translation), quoted, 246.
Don Quixote, On the Trail of, by A. F. Jaccaci, quoted, 240.
Donaldson, Alexander, of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1768, 199 n.
Dorchester, Mass., 62 n. 117, 270, 291 n., 292, 297, 325, 392.
——Heights, 50.
——The Old Morton and Taylor Estates in, by David Clapp, cited, 292 n.
——Town Records of, cited, 270 n.; mentioned, 292 n.
Dorsey, Capt. Richard, of Maryland, 54.
Dort, synod of, 238.
Douer. See Dover.
Dougal & Co., Messrs., of London, England, 194.
Douglass, William (1691–1752), M.D., his Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America, quoted, 111.
Douninge. See Downing.
Dover, N. H., 117; court of, 145.
Downing, Emanuel (1585 – c. 1660), father of Sir George, 118.
——Sir George (c. 1623–1684), H. C. 1642, son of Emanuel, 364; ambassador to the Netherlands, 363.
Downs,——, 262 n.
——Mary (Payne), 262 n.
Dragoons, American, 294. See Regiments.
Drake, Francis Samuel (1828–1885), his Town of Roxbury, cited, 61 n.; quoted, 64; his chapter on Roxbury in the Provincial Period, in Memorial History of Boston, cited, 61 n.
——Samuel Adams, 52.
Draper, Richard (1727–1774), printer, of Boston, son of John, 198 n.
Dublin, Ireland, 272.
Dudley, Joseph (1647–1720), Governor of Massachusetts, son of Gov. Thomas, 20; Instructions as Governor of Massachusetts, 29; attends celebration of obsequies of Queen Anne, 80 n.; administration of, 171 n., 172.
——Lady Mary (O’Brien), wife of Sir Matthew, 81 n.
——Sir Matthew (1661–1721), 80; brief sketch of, 80 n., 81 n.; contributes paper entitled Account of Insects in the Barks of Decaying Elms and Ashes to Royal Society’s Transactions, 81 n.
——Paul (1675–1751), F.R.S., Attorney-General and Chief-Justice of the Province, son of Gov. Joseph, 11 n., 12 n.,
——Thomas (1576–1653), Governor of Massachusetts, 78, 116, 325.
——Sir William, father of Sir Matthew, 80 n.
——family, 325.
Dumaresq. See Dumaresque.
Dumaresque, Lieut. Philip, of the Island of Jersey, gallant action of, 1781, 214 n., 215 n.
——Philip (b. 1738), of Boston, son of Capt. Philip, of jury which tried Capt. Thomas Preston, 1770, 82.
——family, 215 n.
Dumer. See Dummer.
Dummer, Richard (c. 1598–1679), of Newbury, Mass., 123.
——Rev. Shubael (H. C. 1656), of York, Me., son of Richard of Newbury, 168 n.; estate of, probated, 1691, 184 n.
——Academy, Byfield Parish, Newbury, Mass., 206 n.
Dunbar, Elijah (1740–1814), H. C. 1760, of Stoughton, Mass., Justice of the Court of General Sessions, son of Rev. Samuel, 69.
——Col. Thomas (d. 1767), 236.
Dunen. See Dunham.
Dunham, Jonathan (alias Singleterry), 1683, 387 and note.
Dunster, Rev. Henry (c. 1612–1658), first President of Harvard College, 322.
Dunsmoor, William, 1777, 279.
Dunton, John (1659–1733), 20.
Dutch servant, 236; carter, 388.
Duyckinck, Evert Augustus and George Long, their Cyclopædia of American Literature, cited, 290 n.
Dwight, John (d. 1660), of Dedham, 319.
——Brig.-Gen. Joseph (1703–1765), commission of, mentioned, 319, 349; birth, 319; history of commission unknown, 319; text of his commission as judge of the Court of Admiralty, 320.
——Pamela, daughter of Joseph. See Sedgwick.
——Theodore Frelinghuysen, xvi; escorted Lieut.-Gen. Barker to Lexington and Concord, 50.
Dyer, Capt. John, town clerk of Plymouth, Mass., 1737, 235.
Eames, Wilberforce, A.M., xviii; furnishes a copy of Franklin’s letter about the Tea Party, 56 and note; shows specimens of Colonial currency, 317; elected Corresponding Member, 340, 347; accepts, 341.
Early Court Files of Suffolk County, the, paper by John Noble, cited, 5 n.
Early Painters and Engravers of New England, the, paper by W. H. Whitmore in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, cited, 193 n.
East, Sir Edward Hyde (1764–1847), his Pleas of the Crown, quoted, 403, 404; cited, 404 n.
East Anglia, 241.
East Cambridge, Mass., 74 n.
East India Company. See India Company.
East India Marine Museum, Salem, Mass., 373.
East Providence Centre, R. I., Records of Newman Church in, cited, 283 n.
East Windsor, Conn., 78.
Eastern States, Letters on the, by W. Tudor, quoted, 239, 251.
Eastow, William (d. 1655), of Hampton, N. H., 117, 121, 123.
Eaton, Dorman Bridgman (1823–1899), LL.D., originator of civil service reform movement in America, 380.
Ecclesiastical History of New England, by J. B. Felt, cited, 176 n.
Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, by P. A. Bruce, cited, 228 n.
Edes, Anna (Tarbell), wife of Peter of Groton, 296 n.
——Henry Herbert, v, xv, xvi, 162, 338–340; of Committee of Publication, ii; Annual Report as Treasurer, 32, 33, 352, 353; re-elected Treasurer, 35, 354; proposes toast to Andrew McFarland Davis, 36, and to President Wheelwright, 356; chosen Recording Secretary pro tempore, 40; communicates a letter of Cotton Mather to Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, 77; his remarks thereon, 77–79; editor of Annals of King’s Chapel, 113, 288 n.; reads a paper on John Davis of York and his Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1681, 167–186; remarks on death of F. V. Balch, 191, 192, and of Dr. Joseph Henry Allen, 314, 315; his notes on Charles Startin, 200 n., 201 n., on Eliphalet Pearson, 205 n., 206 n., 207 n., on Perez Morton, 282 n., on Joseph Morton, 283 n., and on the White Horse Tavern, 283 n., 284 n.; communicates letter of Lord Lyndhurst, 212–214; owns the original Search Warrant issued by Connecticut for the arrest of the Regicides, and the original Third Writ of Quo Warranto against the Connecticut Charter, 220; exhibits them, 340; calls attention to an article by Mrs. Burton N. Harrison on Washington’s attachment for Sally Cary, 223; exhibits original letter of Martha Washington to General Knox and his reply, 224; communicates a copy of a part of Washington’s Military Record, 1778, 224, 225; identifies sites of the Sandemanian Meeting-houses in Boston, 271 n.; of committee to raise the Gould Memorial Fund, 307, 346; signs its report, 307; subscribes to the Fund, 309; exhibits original List of the Harvard College Theses of 1663, 322; his remarks thereon, 322–328; exhibits copy of Israel Chauncy’s Almanac for 1663, 339; letter to, about First and Second Writs of Quo Warranto against Connecticut Charter, 340 n.; communicates an original account (1650) of school stock given by Gov. Edward Hopkins to maintain a grammar school in Hartford, Conn., 389; communicates an original letter and account (1664) of H. Usher for printing and distributing Eliot’s Indian Bible and other Indian books, 390–392.
——Peter (1756–1840), of Boston, Augusta, and Bangor, Me., son of Benjamin, 296 n.; Fifth of March Orations, printed by, cited, 288 n.
——family, 296.
Edinburgh, Scotland, 199 n.
Edward I., King of England, 394, 398, 401, 404; first recognition of hue and cry in reign of, 393; statute of, quoted, 402.
——II., King of England, 395 n., 401.
——III., King of England, 242 n., 401.
——IV., King of England, 204 n.
——V., King of England, 204 n.
——VI., King of England, 204 n.
Edwards, Rev. Jonathan (1703–1758), 78, 192.
——Joshua, of New York, 1799, 201 n.
——Thomas, of Boston, 260, 264; arrested by order of the Council, 1776, 269.
——Rev. Timothy (1669–1758), H. C. 1691, father of Rev. Jonathan, 78, 81.
Eggleston, Edward (1837–1902). L.H.D., quoted, 244; calls attention to a passage in Massachusetts Colony Records, 248 n.
Elatson, Jonathan, Clerk of the Superiour Court of Judicature, 1692–1695, 11 n.
Eldred, Robert, 1639, 233.
Eliot, Rev. Andrew (1718–1778), D.D., H. C. 1737, of Boston, his letter quoted, 287.
——Charles William, LL.D., President of Harvard University, services of, 364; noble work of, 369.
——Rev. John (1604–1690), the “Apostle,” of Roxbury, Mass., H. Usher’s letter and account about printing Eliot’s Indian Bible and other Indian books, v, 390–392.
——Rev. John (1754–1813), H. C. 1772, of Boston, son of Rev. Andrew, of Boston, 214 n.
——Rev. William Greenleaf (1811–1887), D.D., Chancellor Washington University, 311.
Elizabeth, Queen of England, 196 n., 204 n., 245 n., 392; Statute of, cited, 394; hue and cry in the reign of, 401, 402.
Elizabeth, a brigantine, 274.
Elliatt. See Eliot.
Ellis, Arthur Blake (H. C. 1875), his History of the First Church, Boston, quoted, 249.
——Sir Henry (1777–1869), his Original Letters, Cardinal Bainbridge quoted in, 245.
Elsie Venner, by O. W. Holmes, quoted, 240.
Elson, A[lfred] W[alter], & Co., engrave the illustrations for this book, vi; bill to this Society for steel plate printing, 33.
Emancipation Proclamation, 375.
Emerson, George Barrell (1797–1881), LL.D., his Report on the Trees and Shrubs growing naturally in the Forests of Massachusetts, quoted, 216; cited, 220 n.
——Joseph, of Ipswich, Mass., 1638, 175 n.
——Rev. Joseph (d. 1679), pastor of First Church in Wells, Me., 175 n.
——Ralph Waldo (1803–1882), LL.D., 365.
Emerton, Ephraim, Ph.D., xvii.
Emlyn, Sollom (1697–1754), 67 n.
End of the Play, The, Thackeray’s poem, quoted, 189.
Endecott. See Endicott.
Endicott, John (c. 1588–1665), Governor of Massachusetts, 116, 140, 143, 145, 164, 175 n., 331, 337, 360; fragment in handwriting of, about plan to distribute the Winthrop grant in favor of John Winthrop, Jr., 132 and note; his plan not adopted, 141; original bill in handwriting of, in Mass. Archives, 139; two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of, at Salem, 359.
——William, A.M., xvi.
——Hon. William Crowninshield, LL.D., xvii; deceased, xix; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; orator at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration of the landing of Gov. Endicott, 359; life-long friend of L. Saltonstall, 380.
——family, 363.
England, 29, 68 n., 70 and note, 74, 75, 78, 79, 113, 114, 134 n., 182, 194, 198, 199, 200 and note, 201 and note, 202 and note, 218, 219, 221–223, 231, 241, 250, 256, 326, 342, 344, 350, 359, 390, 391, 404, 405, 411; Revolution of 1685, 54; the Great Revolution of 1688, 81 and note; Lord Chancellor of, 198; poets of, 205 n.; T. S. Hughes’s History of, cited, 215 n.; use of word servant in, 229; money of, 242; civil war in, 1642, 360; sale of merchant fleet to, 372; Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of, quoted, 394, 395; Tractatus de Legibus Angliæ, an ancient book upon the laws and customs of, quoted, 396; modern statutes of, 402; hue and cry in, 402; laws governing hue and cry in, 404; Stephens’s Commentaries on the Laws of, cited, 404 n.; Broom and Hadley’s Commentaries on the Laws of, 404 n.; laws of, 406. See Great Britain; Parliament; Westminster, Statute of; Winchester, Statute of; Winton, Statute of.
Engle, John, 1754, 236.
English Dialect Dictionary, 225 n.
English Language in America, by C. A. Bristed, quoted, 243.
English Law, Reeves’s History of, quoted, 395 n.; cited, 402 n.
English Statutes, mentioned, 43.
English and Scottish Ballads (1858), by F. J. Child, cited, 241 n.; Popular Ballads (1890), cited, 241 n.
Englishwoman in America, by I. L. Bird, quoted, 252.
Episcopal interference, 113; functions, 349.
Erasmus, 327.
Erving, John (H. C. 1747), 260 n., 261.
Essay For the Recording Of Illustrious Providences, by Increase Mather, cited, 387 n.
Essex (town), Mass., 174 n.; Felt’s History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton, cited, 173 and note, 175 n., 185 n. See Chebacco; Jubaque.
——Bar, 363.
——County, Mass., 7 n., 360, 374; Benjamin Lynde appointed Judge of Probate for, 1772, 71; term of court at, 73; courts of, 145; records of, mentioned, 317; current events of, 362.
——County Land Bank, memoranda concerning, presented by A. McF. Davis, 317, 318; facsimile of note of, 317. See Land Bank.
——Court Files, quoted, 7.
——Deeds, mentioned, 175 n.; Registry of, 173 n., 174 n.
——Institute, Salem, Mass., v, 95, 96, 211, 335; Historical Collections of, 207 n.; founding of, 362.
——Junto, 363.
——Probate Files, quoted, 174 n.
Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, by J. Jamieson, cited, 241 n.
Europe, 57, 80, 203, 209 n., 251, 272, 322, 362; species of oak in, 216; word servant comes from, 230.
Eveleth, James, 317; payee of note of Essex County Land Bank, 1741, 317.
Evelyns in America, by G. D. Scull, cited, 51 n.
Everett, Rev. Charles Carroll, LL.D., vi, xvii; deceased, xix; communicates Memoir of Gov. Russell, 82; Memoir, 83–93; mentioned, 350; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; appointed to write Memoir of J. H. Allen, 310; invokes Divine blessing at annual dinner, 1898, 355.
——Edward (1794–1865), LL.D., 40, 365.
——William, LL.D., indebtedness to, acknowledged, 332 n.
Exchange Place, Boston, 196 and note.
——Street, Boston, 289.
Exeter, N. H., 180 n., 210 n., 291.
Expenses of the Judges of Assize riding the Western and Oxford Circuits, 1596–1601, quoted, 245 n.
Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies, by John Burke and Sir John Bernard Burke, cited, 81 n.
FAIRFAX, Bryan (1737–1802), Lord Fairfax of Cameron, son of Col. William, 221, 222.
——Elizabeth (Cary), wife of Bryan, 222.
——George William (1724–1787), son of Col. William, 222–224; birth and death, 222 n.
——Hannah, daughter of Col. William. See Washington.
——John Contee, Lord Fairfax of Cameron, 222.
——Robert (1707–1793), Lord Fairfax of Cameron, brother of Thomas, 222.
——Sarah (Cary) (d. 1811), wife of George William, 221 n., 224; Washington’s letter to her, and Constance C. Harrison’s memorandum thereon, communicated by S. L. Thorndike, 221, 222; Washington’s attachment for her, 223; article on, called A True Colonial Dame, by Constance C. Harrison, cited, 223 n.
——Thomas (1692–1782), Lord Fair fax of Cameron, 221, 222.
——Col. William (d. 1757), of Belvoir, 222; President of the King’s Council in Virginia, 221.
——title of, 222.
Fairfaxes of England and America, by Rev. E. D. Neill, cited, 222 n.
Fairfield, Elizabeth, wife of Daniel of Salem, petition of, 1649, 122.
——John (1797–1847), U. S. Senator from Maine, 311.
Fallass, William, juror. 1777, 261.
Fandergoe, John, 1655, 410.
Faneuil Hall, Boston, 26, 49, 273; British troops lodged in, 1768, 25.
Faringdon, Berkshire, England, 253.
Farley, Michael (1719–1789), Executive Councillor, 1776, 13 n.
Farmington, Conn., 78.
Farnsworth, Isaac, of Groton, 296 and note.
——Lydia. See Tarbell.
Farwell, Henry, 277, 294, 296 n.
——Lydia (Tarbell), wife of Henry, 296 n.
Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England, by William De L. Love, mentioned, 168; cited, 169 n.
Fayerfeild. See Fairfield.
Fayerweather, Margaret (1732–1761), daughter of Thomas. See Bromfield.
——Thomas, of Boston, merchant, 210.
Fayette Court, Boston, 283 n.
Federal Courts, 48.
Felt, Rev. Joseph Barlow (1789–1869), LL.D., 175 n.; his History of Ipswich, Essex and Hamilton, cited, 173 and note, Hon., 185 n.; his Ecclesiastical History of New England, cited, 176 n.
Fergusson, Adam, his Practical Notes made during a Tour in Canada, and a Portion of the United States, quoted, 252.
Fermor, Lady Henrietta, daughter of the Earl of Pomfret. See Conyers.
——Lady Juliana, daughter of Earl of Pomfret. See Penn.
——Thomas. See Pomfret.
Fetter Lane, London, 29.
Ffisher. See Fisher.
Ffiske. See Fiske.
Field, Edward, A.B., xviii.
Field Book of the Revolution, by B. J. Lossing, cited, 265 n.
Fiennes, William. See Saye and Sele.
Fifth of March Orations, printed by Peter Edes, cited, 288 n.
Fifth of March Riot, 1770, 58, 64 and note, 65 n., 67 n., 350; trial of soldiers concerned in, 64–70; account of, in Narrative and Critical History of America, cited, 70 n.
Finlason, William Francis, his edition of Reeves’s History of English Law, cited, 402 n.
Fires in Boston. See under Boston.
Firman, Thomas, of Ipswich, 1642, 175.
First Church or Parish, of Boston, of Cambridge, of Newton, of Roxbury. See under names of these places.
First Essays at Banking, and the First Paper Money in New England, by J. H. Trumbull, mentioned, 111.
First Republic in America, by Alexander Brown, cited, 228 n.
First Suffolk Regiment, 64. See Regiments.
First Writ of Quo Warranto against the Connecticut Charter, 340 and note.
Fisher, Anthony (d. 1669), of Dedham, Mass., 1649, 117, 131.
——Rev. George Park, LL.D., xviii.
——Jabez, Executive Councillor, 1776, 13 n.
——Deacon Joshua (d. 1674), of Dedham and Medfield, Mass., petition of, 1649, 122.
Fiske, John (1842–1901), LL.D., his Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, cited, 228 n.
——William, of Wenham, Mass., 1649, 117.
Fitzgerald, Catherine, Countess of Desmond. See Desmond.
——Right-Hon. Maurice (1772–1849), Knight of Kerry, 204 n.
Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony (1470–1538), his Graunde Abridgement, cited, 405 n.
Fleming, John, printer, of Boston, 66 n.
Fleta, a Latin text-book of English law, cited, 394 n., 399 n., mentioned, 398.
Fletcher (William) v. Vassall (William), 1752, 14 n.
Flint, James, his Letters from America, cited, 225 n., quoted, 239.
Florida, 379; disputed election of 1876 in, 377.
——State Canvassing Board, 1876, 378.
Flynt, Rev. Henry (d. 1668), of Braintree, Mass., 326.
——Tutor Henry (1675–1760), H. C. 1693, son of Rev. Josiah, 325.
——Rev. Josiah (1645–1680), H. C. 1664, of Dorchester, son of Rev. Henry, 325; may have been author of Harvard Theses of 1663, 326; Dr. Hoar’s letter to him about his studies, quoted, 326, 327.
——Margery (Hoar), wife of Rev. Henry, 326.
——Thomas (d. 1653), of Concord, 116.
Folsom, George (1802–1869), H. C. 1822, 177 n.
Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder (1838–1889), H. C. 1853, his Annals of King’s Chapel, cited, 53 n., 112, 215 n., 260 n., 288 n., 289 n., 290 n.
Force, Col. Peter (1790–1868), his Tracts and Other Papers, cited, 228 n.
Ford, Worthington Chauncey, xvii.
Fort Cumberland, Md., 221, 264.
Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, 264 and note.
Fort Loyal, Me., 185.
Forty-Third Regiment, R. A., Light Company of, 51. See Regiments.
Forty Years’ Familiar Letters, quoted, 227 n.
Foster, Alfred Dwight (H. C. 1873), son of Judge Dwight, 319.
——Dwight (1828–1884), LL.D., Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 319.
——Edward, of Boston, 1773, a Sandemanian, 270.
——Francis Apthorp, xvii.
——Judge Jedidiah (1726–1779), H. C. 1744, 12 n., 13 n.
——Judge Richard, Jr. (1693–1774), of Charlestown, Mass., Sheriff of Middlesex, 261 n.
Forum, A Year of Democratic Administration, paper by W. E. Russell in the, cited, 91.
Four Georges, by W. M. Thackeray, quoted, 256.
Fourth, or King’s Own, Regiment, R.A., 49, 51, 53, 54; Light Company of, 50–52, 53. See Regiments.
Fourth of July, celebration of Fifth of March changed to celebration of, 286, 287; committee to provide orator for, 287; Dr. John Warren, the first orator in Boston, 287 n.
Fowler, William Chauncey (1793–1881), his Memorials of the Chaunceys, cited, 202 n.
Foxcroft, Judge Francis (c. 1650–1727), of Boston and Cambridge, 80 n.
Fragment of Journal of the Massachusetts House of Deputies. See Journal of the Massachusetts House of Deputies; and House of Deputies under Massachusetts.
Framingham, Mass., 263.
France, 320; England said to have been on the point of being delivered up to, 80; aid from, 286.
Francho, Solomon, a Jew, to be sent back to Holland, 1649, 120.
Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790), LL.D., v, 56 and note, 70 n.; Works, mentioned, 56, quoted, 235; letter (1774) about Boston Tea Party, v, 57–58; mentioned, 350; publishes General Magazine and Historical Chronicle for all the British Plantations in America, 1741, 316.
Franklyn. See Franklin.
Freathy, James, of York, Me., 1684, 183.
Freeman, Samuel (1743–1831), Speaker of the House, 12 n.
Freeman: Freemen, 162, 173, 177 n., 231, 240, 408 n., 409 n., 410 n.; taking oath of, 175; lists of, 175 n.; North Carolinian, 229 n.; white servant can become a, 231; requirements for holding office for a, 231 n.; position of a, 232; later only two classes, freemen and slaves, 232; hired freemen, 233 and note.
Freemasons, Lodge of, desire to disinter the remains of Gen. Warren, 1776, 288 n. See also Masonic fraternity.
Fremont, Major-Gen. John Charles (1813–1890), 374.
French, invasion of the, 214; submission of, 215 n.; philosophical ideas, 229.
French Wars, movements and expeditions during, 5; of 1753–1763, 61 n.
Friends: Society of Friends, 388 n.; H. A. Parker’s remarks on, 386–389; persecutions inflicted on, 386; impropriety of members of, 387, 388. See Quakers.
Frobisher, William, of jury which tried Capt. Thomas Preston, 1770, 82.
Frost, Major Charles (1632–1697), of Kittery, Me., son of Nicholas, 184.
——John (1709–1770), Clerk of the Courts and Register of Deeds of York County, Me., son of Hon. John, 15, 16.
Frothingham, Richard, Jr. (1812–1880), LL.D., his Life and Times of Joseph Warren, cited, 210 n., 265 n., 288 n.; his History of the Siege of Boston, cited, 265 n.
Fruites of Warre, by G. Gascoigne, quoted, 242,
Fuller, Hon. Melville Weston, LL.D., Chief-Justice of the United States, xviii.
Furness, Horace Howard, LL.D., xviii.
GAGE, General Thomas (1721–1787), Governor of Massachusetts, 268; his Council of War, 50; Addressers of, 261 n., 269; Crean Brush finds favor with, 272; commission of, to Crean Brush, 273.
Galloupe, Augustus Allen, 212 n.
Gamage, Nathaniel, 1740, 76 n.
Gardiner, Col. Asa Bird, 52, 53.
Gardner, Joseph (c. 1714–1806), H. C. 1732, of Boston, Judge of the Inferiour Court of Common Pleas, 281.
Gascoigne, George (c. 1525–1577), his Fruites of Warre, quoted, 242.
Gaston, William (1820–1894), LL.D., Governor of Massachusetts, appoints L. Saltonstall Chief Commissioner at Centennial Exhibition, 376.
Gay, Frederick Lewis, v, xv, xvi, 193, 211; communication about the portrait of Sir William Pepperrell, v, 95–96; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Gayner, Thomas, lawsuit of, 1649, 126.
Gedney, John (c. 1603–1688), of Salem, 117, 152.
Gelston, David, Surrogate of New York, N. Y., 1799, 201 n.
Genealogical Dictionary of New England, by James Savage, cited, 142 n., 176 n., 177 n., 325 n.; quoted, 237 n.
Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, by T. B. Wyman, cited, 177 n., 260 n., 261 n., 297 n.
General Court. See under Massachusetts.
General Magazine and Historical Chronicle for all the British Plantations in America, published by B. Franklin, 316; Lenox Library possess a file of, 316.
George I., King of England, 80, 81 and note, 112 n., 402; arrival of, in England, 1714, 79 and note; health drunk at Boston, 80 n.; commission to the Bishop of London granted by, 112.
See Hanover, Elector of.
——II., King of England, 320, 402; statue of, 214; statute of, cited, 394.
——IV., King of England, Statutes of, mentioned, 404.
George Street, London, 212 and note.
Georgia, 250.
Gerish. See Gerrish.
Germans, how speak of Mendelssohn, 45.
Gerrish, William (1617–1687), of Newbury, Mass., 124, 128.
Gerry, Elbridge (1744–1814), LL.D., H. C. 1762, Governor of Massachusetts, 291; his message, 1811, cited, 291 n.
Gibbons, Major-Gen. Edward (d. 1654), of Charlestown, Mass., 116, 125.
Gibbs, Jonathan, of Framingham, Mass., indicted for sedition, 1777, 263.
——Wolcott, LL.D., xviii.
Gibson, Edmund (1669–1748), Bishop of London, 112 and note, 113, 114, 349; editor of Camden’s Britannia, 113; translation of Royal Commission to, 114, 115.
Gibraltar, 53.
Gill, Arthur, of Boston, 1649, 122.
——Moses (d. 1800), Lieut.-Governor of Massachusetts, Executive Councillor, 1776, 13 n.
Gilman, Daniel Coit, LL.D., xviii.
Girl, for servant, 226 n.
Glanville, Ranulph de (d. 1190), cited, 393 n.; his Tractatus de Legibus Angliæ, quoted, 396; Beames’s edition of, quoted, 396.
Glasgow, ship, 68 n.
Gleaner articles. See N. I. Bowditch.
Glocester. See Gloucester.
Gloucester, Mass., 117, 175 n., 176 n.; History of the Town of, Cape Ann, by J. J. Babson, quoted, 176 n., cited, 176 n.; Notes and Additions to the History of, by John J. Babson, cited, 226 n., 247 n.
——Sandy Bay, 176 n.
Glover, Jerusha. See Burbeck.
——Capt. John (d. 1653), of Dorchester, Mass., 117, 130, 131.
Goddard, Caroline Langdon. See Weld.
Godfrey, Edward, Governor of the Province of Maine, and founder of York, petition of, 1654, cited, 170 n.
Goelet, Capt. Francis, 1750, 22.
Goffe, Col. Edmund (c. 1670–1740), H. C. 1690, of Cambridge, Sheriff of Middlesex, son of Samuel, 75, 77.
——Edmund, alias Edmund Trowbridge. See Trowbridge.
——Edward (d. 1658), of Cambridge, Treasurer of Middlesex, 74, 75.
——Edward (1658 – c. 1691), of Cambridge, son of Samuel, 75.
——Mary (b. 1687), daughter of Edward (1658 – c. 1691) of Cambridge. See Trowbridge.
——Major-Gen. William (c. 1605 – c. 1679), the regicide, 218, 340, 349.
Goldthwait, Ezekiel (1710–1782), of Boston, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, 62 n.; deposition of, 13–14; a loyalist, 14 n.; account of, 14 n.; various offices filled by, 14 n.; gift of, to Suffolk County, 14 n.; patron of Letters, 15 n.; deposition, 15; certificate of, 16; memorial of Middlecott Cooke and, quoted, 25.
Goodale, George Lincoln, LL.D., xvii; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Goodell, Abner Cheney, Jr., A.M., v, xvi, 28, 30, 144; speaks at annual dinner, 37; communication on doings of Boston Tea Party, by, 56–58; his complete list of the Attorneys-General and Solicitors-General of Massachusetts, cited, 74 n.; mentioned, 76 n.; letter from, communicating copy of Royal Commission to Bishop of London, 1726–27, 112–114; communication from, 132–135; his paper on the Massachusetts House Journals, cited, 136; his letter to Mr. Noble about the printed Vol. III. of Massachusetts Colony Records, 161–167; points out probable route of Endicott to Cape Ann, 1642, 175 n.; his remarks on the portraits of Pepperrell and Warren, 211; his Province Laws, mentioned, 258; his account of the Suffolk Court of Inquiry, mentioned, 258; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; regards Harvard Theses of 1663 as a burlesque, 339; his services on the history of Provincial Legislation, 356; his health proposed, 356.
Goodenow, Edmund (d. 1676), of Sudbury, Mass., 117, 127, 130, 131.
Goodhue, Benjamin (1748–1814), H. C. 1766, U. S. Senator from Massachusetts, 363.
Goodrich, Commander Caspar Frederick, U. S. N., 49.
——Samuel Griswold (1793–1860), his System of Universal Geography, quoted, 251.
Goodwin, William Watson, D.C.L., xv, xvi; re-elected Vice-President, 34, 354; remarks on death of G. M. Lane, 40, 41; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; speaks at annual dinner, 356; remarks on Hopkins Foundations, 389.
Gookin, Major-Gen. Daniel (c. 1612–1687), 117, 123, 130–132; bill of, for wool, 391.
Gookines. See Gookin.
Gooking. See Gookin.
Gordon, Alexander, 1736, 227 n.
——Rev. William (1728–1807), his History of the American Revolution, cited, 70 n., 265 n.
Gore, Capt. John (1718–1796), 274.
Gore Hall, Harvard College, 323.
Gorgeana, 170, 179 n., 180 n., 181. See York.
Gorges, Sir Ferdinando (c. 1566–1647), 170, 171, 179 n., 183 n.; first Charter of the city of Gorgeana granted by, 179 n.
——Thomas (1618–1670), Deputy-Governor of the Province of Maine, cousin of Sir Ferdinando, his creek at York, Me., mentioned, 177 n.
Gorges, Charter, 1639, 169, 171.
Gorton. See Groton.
Göttingen, University of, 40.
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, LL.D., F.R.S., xvi, 31, 343; members drink to memory of, 36; memorial meeting in honor of, mentioned, 27, 343, 344 n.; permanent fund of $10,000 subscribed, and named in honor of, v, 37, 307, 346; selects committee to increase Permanent Funds, 346; C. F. Adams pays tribute to, 356; famous for his contributions to science, 365.
Gould, Lieut. Edward Thoroton, 51 and note.
Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay. See under Massachusetts, Bay Colony.
Governors, Commissions and Instructions of, of different Colonies and Provinces, 29. See Governors, Royal, under Massachusetts.
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, 287.
Graunde Abridgement, by Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, cited, 405 n.
Grattan, Thomas Colley (1792–1864), his Civilized America, quoted, 253.
Gray, Horace (1828–1902), H. C. 1845, LL.D., Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 43.
——Samuel, mortally wounded Fifth of March, 1770, 82.
——family, 373.
Gray’s Inn, London, 395 n.
Gray’s Inn Gate, London, 395 n.
Great Awakening, the, of 1743, 283 n.
Great Britain, 63, 98, 114, 201 n., 216, 263, 267, 279, 320, 378; Legislature of, 134 n.; slavery cancelled in, 236; disconnection with, urged, 1776, 287; Treaty of Arbitration with, 378; Congress eager for war with, 379. See England.
Great Falls, Me. See Secarrabbig.
Great House, Charlestown, Mass., 17.
Great Quarter Courts, 18.
Green, Col. Benjamin (1713–1772), Secretary to Sir P. Warren and Sir W. Pepperrell, son of Rev. Joseph, 320.
——Charles Montraville, M.D., xvi; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Joseph (1703–1765), of Boston, son of Rev. Joseph (H. C. 1695), 80 n.
——Richard, of Boston, loyalist, 260 n., 261.
——Capt. Samuel (1615–1702), of Cambridge, printer, 392.
——Samuel Abbott, LL.D., 206 n., 293; his Groton Historical Series, cited, 280 n.; 293 n.; 294 n., quoted, 294; his Groton Church Records, cited, 293 n.; his Groton Epitaphs, cited, 293 n.; mistakes identity of Samuel Tarbell, Sr., 294.
——Samuel Swett, A.M., xvi; speaks at annual dinner, 356.
——Timothy (c. 1679–1757), of Boston and New London, printer, son of Capt. Samuel of Cambridge, 100, 103 and note, 109, 111 n.
Green Dragon Tavern, Boston, 291.
Greene, Elizabeth Clarke (Copley), wife of Gardiner, 206 and note; Mrs. Pelham’s letter to Mrs. Pearson about, 207, 208.
Greenland, N. H., 206 n., 207 n.
Greenleaf, Edmund (d. 1671), of Newbury, Mass., 128.
——Joseph (1720–1810), of Abington and Boston, son of William, 72 n.
——Mary. See Scollay.
——Stephen (1704–1795), H. C. 1723, Sheriff of Suffolk, son of Rev. Daniel of Newbury, 271.
Greenough, Charles Pelham (H. C. 1864), Pelham papers printed through courtesy of, 196 n.
——James Bradstreet, A.B., xvi; deceased, xix; elected Resident Member, 298, 348; his Latin text-books, mentioned, 312; accepts membership, 341; speaks at annual dinner, 356.
Greenway Court, near Winchester, Va., 221.
Greenwich, Kent, England, 79.
Grenadiers, 51. See Regiments.
Grenlefe. See Greenleaf.
Gridley, Benjamin (H. C. 1751), 62 n.
——Col. Richard (1711–1796), 54.
Gridley-Knox Regiment of Artillery, 54. See Regiments.
Griffin, Appleton Prentiss Clark, xvii; his Bibliography of the Historical Publications of the New England States, cited, 136; communicated a copy of part of Washington’s Military Record, 224, 225; his copy of Muster Rolls, mentioned, 350.
——Humphrey (d. 1665), of Ipswich, Mass., 174.
Grosse, Isaac (d. c. 1640), of Boston, 180 n.
Groton, Mass., 275, 276, 278, 279, 281, 283 n., 293, 294 and note, 295, 296 n., 297 n.; Samuel Tarbell’s land in, attached, 277.
——Church Records, by S. A. Green, cited, 293 n.
——Epitaphs, by S. A. Green, cited, 293 n.
——Historical Series, by S. A. Green, cited, 280 n., 293 n., 294 n.; quoted, 294.
——History of, by C. Butler, cited, 293 n., 297 n.
——List of Settlers before 1790, quoted, 294 n.
——Ranglin Swamp, 277.
Grund, Francis Joseph (1805–1863), his Americans, quoted, 252.
Guild, Joseph, of jury which tried Capt. Thomas Preston, 1770, 82.
Gullison or Gunnison, Hugh, of Boston and Kittery, Me., vintner, 1649, 118, 120, 130.
Gydney. See Gedney.
HADLEY, Arthur Twining, LL.D., President of Yale University, xviii.
——Edward Alfred, Broom and Hadley’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, cited, 404 n.
Hadley, Mass., enjoys Gov. Hopkins’s bounty, 389 n.
Hale, Rev. Edward, A.B., xvi; elected a Councillor, xv.
——Rev. Edward Everett, LL.D., 52; conducts centennial American history class, 51.
——Hon. George Silsbee, A.M., vi, xvi, 1, 31, 38, 42, 47, 343; remarks on death of, by Edward Wheelwright, 3, 4; visits Cohasset, 3; successful lawyer, 4; member of various associations, 4; resident member of Colonial Society, 4; his tributes to Leverett Saltonstall, Martin Brimmer and Dr. Slade, 4; writes memoir of Martin Brimmer, 4; memoir of, assigned to A. M. Howe, 4; remarks on death of, by P. H. Sears, 45–47; character and influence of his professional practice, 46; his associates in the legal profession, 46; his gratuitous services, 47; of Harvard Class of 1844, 47.
——Ellen (Sever), wife of George Silsbee, 3; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——John Parker (1806–1873), LL.D., 311.
——Jonathan, 1741, 317.
——Sir Mathew (1609–1676), 42; his Pleas of the Crown, quoted, 402, 403, cited, 399, 404 n.
Hales, John Groves (c. 1785–1832), of Boston, surveyor, 22 n.
Half-moon, Paul’s Church-yard, London, 387 n.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 53, 270.
Halket. See Halkett.
Halkett, Sir Peter (d. 1755), 236.
Hall, Rev. Edward Henry, D.D., xvii.
——Col. Elihu (1714–1784), Y. C. 1731, son of Hon. John of Wallingford, 197, 199, 201; letter and bill from Henry Pelham to, 200; brief account of, 201, 202.
——Elizabeth. See Capen.
——Fitzedward (1825–1901), D. C. L., 235 n.; his article in the Nation on “hired man,” quoted, 225; on the expression “hired man,” 241 and note; his explanation of the English use of the term, “helps” 254 n.
——John (d. 1730), of Wallingford, Conn., 201.
——Lois (Whittelsey), wife of Col. Elihu, 202.
——Mary (Lyman), wife of John of Wallingford, 201.
——Richard, his Acts, Passed in the Island of Barbados, quoted, 256.
Hallowell, Col. Richard Price, his Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts, cited, 386 n., 387 n.
——Ward (1749–1828). See Boylston, Ward Nicholas.
Halstead, William, probably of Concord, Mass., 1649, 119, 120.
Hamilton, Lieut. David, R. A., 50, 51, 53.
Hamilton, Mass., Felt’s History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton, cited, 173 and note, 175 n., 185 n.
Hamlin, Hannibal (1809–1891), LL.D., Vice-President of the United States, 311.
Hammatt, Abraham (c. 1780–1854), of Ipswich, 174 n.
——Papers, cited, 174 n.
Hammond. Capt. Laurence (d. 1699), of Charlestown, Mass., his Diary, cited 297 n.
Hampden, John (1594–1643), 288.
Hampshire County, Mass., 64 n.
Hampton, N. H., 117.
Hancock, Rev. John (1671–1752), H. C. 1689, of Lexington, Mass., 310.
——John (1737–1793), LL.D., Governor of Massachusetts, 62 n., 266–268, B. Franklin’s letter to, about the Boston Tea Party, 57, 58.
Handy-Book of Rules and Tables for Verifying Dates with the Christian Era, by J. J. Bond, cited, 340 n.
Hanover, Elector of (King George I. of England), 79.
——Square, London, 212 n.
——N. H., 291.
——Street, Boston, 80 n., 271 n.
Hardy, Right-Hon. Gathorne. See Cranbrook.
Hargrave, Francis (c. 1741–1821), his State Trials, cited, 67 n.
Harrington, James (1611–1677), 288.
Harris, Thomas, of Richmond, Va., 388 n., strange conduct of, 1792, probably due to insanity, 388, 389.
Harrison, Benjamin (1833–1901), LL.D., President of the United States, 384; calls for L. Saltonstall’s resignation, 383.
——Burton Norvell (Y. C. 1859), 223; extract from letter of, 224.
——Constance Cary, wife of Burton Norvell, 223 n., 224; memorandum about a letter of George Washington by, 221, 222; her A Little Centennial Lady, quoted, 223; her article, A True Colonial Dame, in the Ladies Home Journal, cited, 223 n.; opinion modified, 223.
Hart, Albert Bushnell (H. C. 1880), letter from, 354.
——Edmund, juror, 1777, 262.
——William Henry, public auditor, 353.
Hartford (Town), Conn., 101, 110, 216; visit of Andros to, to assume government of Connecticut, 219 n.; feeling of regret among citizens of, when the Charter Oak fell, 220; an original account of stock given by Gov. Edward Hopkins toward maintenance of a grammar school in, 389.
——Charter Oak. See above.
——Colt’s Armory Band, 220.
——Connecticut Courant, cited, 219 n.
——First Church, 78.
Hartford County, Conn., precept issued to Sheriff of, 101.
Hartigan, James, petition of, 1770, 66.
Harvard, Mass., 198, 202 and note, 203 and note, 204, 206 n., 210.
——First Unitarian Church in, 198 n.; Records of, cited, 204 n.
——History of, by H. S. Nourse, cited, 198 n., 202 n., 207 n.
——Town Records, cited, 202 n.
Harvard College or University, 2, 38–42, 50, 70, 74, 83, 198, 202, 206 n., 213, 241 n., 284, 291, 310, 322, 323, 331, 334, 342, 344, 351, 360, 363, 370, 384; Prof. Lane’s services at, 3; Class of 1844, 3, 47, 343, 365; of 1890, 39; of 1730, 74; of 1675, 77, 325 n.; of 1653, 78; of 1691, 78; of 1693, 78; of 1664, 325; of 1663, 325; of 1612, 363; Overseers of, elected by Alumni, 39, 344; Board of Overseers, 39, 342; graduates of, 46; corporation of, 48, 206 n.; Judge John Lowell, a member of the Board of Overseers, 48; Faculty records of, cited, 206 n., 282 n.; Triennial Catalogue, mentioned, 206 n.; Dr. Pearson fills Hancock Professorship, 206 n.; Dr. Pearson opposes Dr. Ware’s election to Hollis Professorship of Divinity, 206 n.; students placed according to social position, 243 n.; list of Freshmen mentioned, 282 n.; Hollis Professorship of Divinity, 310; confers honorary degree on J. H. Allen, 312; paper on Subjects for Master’s Degree in, cited, 323 n.; Commencement Programme, 328 n., 334; Commencement, 323, 324, 330 n., 335, 338, 339, 344, 368; Dedication of the Commencement programme of, mystic letters used in, before 1781, interpreted, 334; Report to the Overseers of, on the Study of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, by P. H. Sears, mentioned, 342; S. Butler nominated for Overseer of, 344; printing of early records of, recommended, 351; Harvard graduates resident in Salem, 361; opens its doors to all creeds, 361; generations of Saltonstalls at, 364; Leverett Saltonstall speaks on Commencement Day at, 364; still a college in the days of President Quincy, 365; enthusiasm for, 308; L. Saltonstall, a member of the Board of Overseers of, 368; L. Saltonstall presides at banquet of alumni at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of, 368, 369; enjoys bounty of Gov. Hopkins, 389 n.
——Divinity School, 310; J. H. Allen, Lecturer on Ecclesiastical History at the, 312.
——Gore Hall, 323. See below, Library.
——Hasty Pudding Club, 2.
——Law School, 38, 42, 344, 366.
——Library, 334; manuscript list of subscribers to new Cambridge meeting-house, 1753, in, mentioned, 76 n.; copies of Harvard College Theses in, 334. See above, Gore Hall.
——Phi Beta Kappa, 349; W. C. Lane exhibits original Charter of Harvard Chapter of, 37; P. H. Sears a member of, 342.
——Quinquennial Catalogue, quoted, 363.
——Sanders Theatre, money for building, bequeathed by Charles Sanders, 368.
——Theses of Bachelors or Commencers, 322–324, 327, 332 n., 334, 335, 339; list of Theses (broadsides) in several libraries, 334, 335.
——Theses of Masters, 323, 323 n., 324.
——Theses of 1663, paper on, by Henry H. Edes, v, 322–328; exhibits a document purporting to be a list of, 322; the original with difficulty deciphered, 323; only known copy of, 323; Cotton Mather’s description of Commencement, 323, 324; precise character of, undetermined, 324; use of a particular character in, 324; doubt as to whether it is the regular list or a burlesque, 324, 335; compared with other theses, 324, 325; neither handwriting nor authorship identified, 325; possible authors of document, 325; Rev. Josiah Flynt best qualified for authorship of, 326; shows ability, whatever the character of, 327, 328; Latin text of, 328–330; translation, 330–333; note on use of letters in Dedication of, 334; mysterious letters in Dedication now first explained, 334; J. Noble’s remarks on, 335–339; date of, an argument, 338; value of, 338; other opinions on, 339; mentioned, 349, 350.
——University or College Archives, mentioned, 282 n., 351.
Harvard Graduates, by J. L. Sibley, mentioned, 206 n., 323, 324, cited, 332 n.
Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, quoted, 92, 345, cited, 351; memorial address on Gov. Russell in, quoted, 92.
Haskell, Anna (Tarbell), wife of Moses, 296 n.
——Moses, 296 n.
——Thomas, of Falmouth, Me., 16 n.; Samuel Waldo’s suit v., 1758, 15.
Hasty Pudding Club, 2.
Hathorne: Hauthorn. See Hawthorne.
Havana, Cuba, 55.
Haverhill, Mass., 117, 153, 360, 370; case of, v. Barker, 1740, 6, 7.
——Historical Society, 318.
Haverill See Haverhill.
Hawkins, William (1673–1746), his Pleas of the Crown, cited, 404 n.
Hawks, Rev. Francis Lister (1798–1866), his History of North Carolina, quoted, 249.
Hawley, Maj. Joseph (1723–1788), 268.
Hawthorn. See Hawthorne.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804–1864), local Salem traditions illustrated by, 362.
——Capt. William (d. 1680), of Salem, 116–118, 123, 131, 132.
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard (1822–1893), LL.D., President of the United States, electoral vote of Florida awarded to, 377.
Hayley, William (1745–1820), 205 and note.
Haymarket Place, Boston, 284 n.
Haynes, Henry Williamson (H. C. 1851), invited to attend annual dinner, 355.
Hayward, Sarah (1703–1779), daughter of John of Bridge water. See Winslow.
——Place, Boston, 283 and note.
Hazard, Ebenezer (1744–1817), 203 n.; his State Papers, cited, 170 n., 179 n., 219 n.
Hazelton, Horace Lovejoy, 38.
Head Place, Boston, 283 n.
Heartbreak Hill, Ipswich, Mass., 174, 175 n.
Heath, James (1757–1834), engraver, 215.
——Major-Gen. William (1737–1814), 61 n., 63.
Hedge, Rev. Frederick Henry (1805–1890), LL.D., 311.
Help, 230 n., 243 n.; Hired Man and, paper on, by A. Matthews, 225–256; used at the North, 230; C. A. Bristed on the word, 243; use of the term, in New England, 243 n.; J. R. Lowell on the words servant and, 244; in vogue among New England clergy, 244; not found south of the belt of New England emigration, 244; examples of the term, 245–254, 256.
Hemenway, Augustus, A.B., xvi.
Henry II., King of England, 396.
——III., King of England, 396; cases decided during the reign of, 404 n.
——VII., King of England, 204 n.
——VIII., King of England, 204 n.
Henshaw, Andrew (1752–1782), H. C., 1768, Clerk Superiour Court of Judicature, son of Hon. Joshua, 10 n.; his certificate regarding scattered files during siege of Boston, 6; takes oath of office, 9 and note.
——Capt. Joshua, 1797, 213 and note.
Hensler, Mina Louise. See Slade.
Heraldic Journal, cited, 193 n., 215 n.
Hereford, Bishop of, 398.
Herrick, Elizabeth. See Lovett.
——Nathaniel Jones, of Alfred, Me., communicates extract from York Court Records, 168 n.
Hersey, Abigail. See Morton.
Hethe. See Hythe.
Hexapla, The English, cited, 246 n.
Hibbines, William (d. 1654), of Boston, 116.
Hichcock, Hichkox. See Hitchcock.
Higginson, Rev. Francis (1580–1630), 360.
——Henry Lee, LL.D., xvii.
——Stephen (1743–1828), Steward of Harvard College, 363.
Highland Street, Cambridge, 340 n.
Hill, Miss, prisoner in Boston Gaol, 1777, 264, 269.
——Alexander, of Boston, 1748, 269.
——Hamilton Andrews (1827–1895), LL.D., his History of the Old South Church, cited, 289 n.
——John, of Boston, political prisoner in Boston Gaol, 1777, 264, 269; recovers judgment in a case against Crean Brush, 275.
——John Boynton (d. 1886), H. C. 1821, his History of Mason, N. H., mentioned, 294, quoted, 294 n.
——Joseph. See Hills.
——Roger (c. 1635–1696), of Saco, Me., son of Peter, 178 n.
——Thankful (Allen), wife of Alexander of Boston, 269.
——William, of jury which tried Capt. Thomas Preston, 1770, 82.
Hills, Capt. Joseph (c. 1601–1687), of Malden and Newbury, Mass., 125, 130, 143 and note.
Hilton, Gustavus Arthur, LL.B., xvi; moves acceptance of report of the committee on the Gould Memorial Fund, 309; subscribes to the Fund, 309.
——William, Sr. (d. c. 1656), of York, 173. 176 n.
——William, Jr. (d. c. 1700), of York, son of William, Sr., 173.
Hingham, Mass., 117.
Hire, 241 n.; services performed for, 229.
——girl, 225, 230 n., 233, 253; on Sundays, 239; dress of, 239.
——man, 225, 230 n.; hired freeman or a, 232; term, descriptive, 232; American examples of the term, 233–241, 255; British examples of the term, 242, 243; term, occurs in the West Indies, 255, 256.
——Man and Help, paper on, by Albert Matthews, v, 225–256, mentioned, 350; English traveller remarks upon the use of the terms hired girl and hired man, 225; F. Hall on the term hired man, 225; four meanings of the word servant, 226; the word servant formerly implied no social stigma, 227, 228; term servant disliked at the present day, 229; Miss Salmon on the change in the use of the term servant, 229, 230; word servant applied to two distinct classes during the Colonial period, 230; difference between servants and slaves, 231; H. Jones on felons, 231; white servant can become a freeman, 231; distinction between hired servant and indented servant, 232; hired man a freeman who hires himself out, 232; the work of opening and settling this country done by four classes of persons, 232; at the outbreak of the Revolution white servitude began to disappear, leaving two classes, freemen and slaves, 232; American examples of the term hired man, 233–241, 255; term hired man possibly brought from England, 241; British examples of the term hired man, 242, 243; De Vere and C. A. Bristed on the term help, 243; J. R. Lowell on the term help, 244; term help came to be a euphemistic substitute for servant, 244; examples of the term, help, 245–254, 256; white servitude and slavery existed side by side, 254; later white servitude disappeared and slavery remained, 254; term hired man used in the West Indies, 255, 256.
——women, 225, 232; dress of, 239.
Hireman, 241 n.
Hirewoman, 241 n.
Historical Account of the Connecticut Currency, by Henry Brownson, M.D., in Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, cited, 111 n.
Historical Societies and Organizations professing purposes of a similar nature, in Massachusetts, namely:—
——Haverhill Historical Society, 318.
——Holbrook Historical Society, 55.
——Lynn Historical Society, 55.
——Massachusetts Historical Society. See below.
——Orange Historical and Antiquarian Society, 319.
Hitchcock, Edward (1793–1864), his Reminiscences of Amherst College, quoted, 240.
——Richard (c. 1608–1671), of Saco, Me., 178 n., 410; his complaint, 407, 408; active in town affairs, 408 n.; answer to the petition of, 410, 411.
Hitchcocke. See Hitchcock.
Hithcock. See Hitchcock.
Hoar, Judge Ebenezer Rockwood (1816–1895), LL.D., Attorney-General of the United States, 46, 365.
——Leonard (c. 1630–1675), M. D., President of Harvard College, 326; his letter to his nephew Josiah Flynt about his studies, quoted, 326, 327.
——Margery. See Flynt.
Hodgden, Tabitha. See Stoddard.
Holbrook Historical Society, its purposes, 55.
Holden, Edward Singleton, LL.D., xviii; elected Corresponding Member, 298, 347; accepts, 299.
Holland, George, deposition, 1692, 16.
Hollister, Gideon Hiram (1817–1881), his History of Connecticut, cited, 217 n.
Holmes, Rev. Abiel (1763–1837), D.D., 210 n.; his Life of Ezra Stiles, quoted, 238.
——Oliver Wendell (1809–1894), D.C.L., son of Dr. Abiel, 240 n., 365; his Elsie Venner, quoted, 240; his Life and Letters, quoted, 253; a famous saying of, mentioned, 358.
——Place, Cambridge, occupied by Dr. E. Pearson, 206 n., 210 n.
Holten, Samuel (1738–1816), Executive Councillor, 1770, 13 n.
Holy Scripture. See Bible.
Holyoke, Edward (1689–1769), President of Harvard College, 206 n.
——George, artist, 215.
——Margaret (Appleton), second wife of President Edward, 206 n.
——Priscilla, daughter of President Edward. See Pearson.
——Place, Cambridge, 206 n.
——Street, Cambridge, 206 n.
Home Government, 113; during Provincial period, 112.
Hooke, Capt. Francis (d. 1694), of Kittery and York, Deputy-President of Maine, 172 and note, 183, 184 and note.
Hooker, Rev. Samuel (1632–1697), H. C. 1653, of Farmington, Conn., son of Rev. Thomas, 78.
——Sarah, daughter of Rev. Samuel. See Buckingham.
——Rev. Thomas (1586–1647), of Cambridge and Hartford, 78.
Hooper, Edward William, LL.D., xvi; deceased, xix.
Hooper, Lewis and Company (John Sewall Hooper, Charles Holden Hooper and John Lewis), Boston, stationers, 353.
Hopestill family, 297.
Hopkins, Edward (1600–1657), Governor of Connecticut, an original account of school stock given by, to maintain a grammar school in Hartford, 389; bounty, 389 n.; C. P. Bowditch’s Account of the Trust administered by the Trustees of the Charity of, mentioned, 389 n., his will, mentioned, 390 n.
Hopkinson, John Prentiss (H. C. 1861), private school of, 344.
Horne or Horn, Andrew (d. 1328), 395 n.; his Mirrour of Justices, mentioned, 393, cited, 393 n., quoted, 395, 396; translated into English by William Hughes, 395 n.
House of Deputies. See under Massachusetts.
——of Hanover, 54.
House Journals, The Massachusetts, paper by A. C. Goodell, Jr., cited, 136.
——Journals. See under Massachusetts.
——of Burgesses, of Virginia, 224.
——of Representatives. See under Massachusetts.
Howe, Archibald Murray, A.M., appointed to write Memoir of Hon. George S. Hale, 4; his remarks on the death of Dr. Allen, 310–314.
——William (1729–1814), Viscount, 272, 273, 275; Proclamation of, 26, quoted, 273.
Howell, David (1747–1826), of Providence, R. I., 291.
Howells, William Dean, 52.
Howes, Thomas (d. 1665), an original proprietor of Yarmouth, Mass., 342.
Hubbard, Daniel, loyalist, 260 and note.
Hudson, John Elbridge, LL.B., xvii, 38, deceased, xix; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——William, of Boston, vintner, 1649, 118.
Hue and Cry, A, paper on, by John Noble, 392–412; an old custom sometimes revived, 392; a remedy of primitive times, 393; one of the earliest known processes for apprehension of offenders, 393; Coke on, 393, 394; Blackstone on, 394, 395; Home on, 395, 396; Glanville on, 396; Reeves on, 397, 398, 401, 402; Britton on, 398; Fleta on, 399; Pollock and Maitland on, 400. 401; Haleon, 402, 403; East on, 403, 404; Chief Justice Doe refers to old law of, 404; doctrine of, in regard to blowing up of the Maine, in Havana harbor, 404; an order for regulating the charges in cases of, 405, 406; case of, in Maine, 406; five papers relating to this case. 407–410; conclusion of the case, 411; old process of, obsolete, 411.
Hughes, Thomas (1823–1896). his Tom Brown at Oxford, quoted, 256.
——Rev. Thomas Smart (1786–1847), his History of England, cited, 215 n.
——William, translates Home’s Mirrour of Justices into English, 395 n.
Humble Romance, by Mary E. Wilkins, quoted, 253.
Hundred Boston Orators, by J. S. Loring, cited, 265 n., 282 n., 286 n., 287 n., 288 n., 290 n., 291 n.
Hungary, 312.
Hunt, William Morris (H. C. 1844), 365.
Huntingdon, County of, England, 81 n. Huntingdon, Daniel (b. 1816), President National Academy of Design, his portrait of L. Saltonstall, mentioned, 385.
——Rev. William Reed, D.D., xviii.
Huntly, Lydia. See Sigourney.
Hurd, Hon. Francis William, A.M. xvii.
Hutchinson, Capt. Edward, Jr. (1613–1675), of Boston, son of William, (1586–c. 1642), 185.
——Judge Edward (1678–1752), of Boston, Treasurer of Harvard College, and Judge of Probate in Suffolk, son of Col. Elisha (1641–1717), 260 n., 315.
——Edward (1729–1806), H. C. 1748, of Boston, loyalist, son of Judge Edward, 260; brief account of, 260 n., 261 n.
——Foster (1724–1799), H. C. 1743, of Boston, Judge of the Superiour Court of Judicature, son of Col. Thomas (1674–1739), 73 n.
——Thomas (1711–1780), D.C.L., Governor of Massachusetts (H. C. 1727), son of Col. Thomas (1674–1739), 60 n., 64, 67 n., 70, 73 and note, 97 n.; Addressers of, 15 n., 60 n., 260 n., 261 n., 269, 270; his History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, quoted, 26, cited, 64 n., 65 n., 70 n., 72 n.; his letter in the Remembrancer, 1775, cited, 65 n.
——family, tomb of, at Croyden, Surrey, England, 196 n.
Hythe, Kent, England, 242.
IDDINGS, Rev. Charles Augustus, of Montgomery County, Md., grandson of James, 388 n.
——James, Quaker preacher, his Diary (1792), quoted, 388 and note; keeper of Underground Railroad station, 388 n.
Illustrations of this book engraved for it, vi.
Imperial Bible-Dictionary, quoted, 246 n.
Inaugural Addresses, of the Mayors of Boston, cited, 22 n.; of Mayor Russell of Cambridge, mentioned, 85.
Inches, John Chester, xvi; deceased, xix.
Indented or indentured servant. See Servant.
Independence, problem of, 56.
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 376.
——Square, Philadelphia, 376.
Independent Chronicle, quoted, 283 n.
Index, preparation of, for Volume III., 28; for Vol. V., v.
India Company, 57.
Indians, 127, 173, 226, 230, 293: land purchased from, 16; Book of Indian Claims, cited, 16; Indian War, 172, 179; Articles of Peace between Provinces and, 184; hold Charter Oak in veneration, 217; Pequot, 246; Metark, an Indian, 248; letter and accounts about printing Eliot’s Indian Bible and other Indian books, v, 390–392.
Indies, 361.
Institutes, by Coke, quoted, 393, 394, cited, 394 n.
——by T. Wood, cited, 405 n.
International Dictionary, Webster’s, cited 244 n.
Ipswich, Mass., 117, 120, 123, 144, 173 and note, 174 and note, 175 and note, 176 n., 185 n., 317, 370; list of first settlers of, in Felt’s History of Ipswich, mentioned, 173.
——Commoners in, 174.
——Court, 145.
——Court Records, cited, 173 n., 174 n., 175 n.
——Heartbreak Hill, 174, 175 n.
——History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton, by J. B. Felt, cited, 173 and note, 175 n., 185 n.
——Town Records, cited, 174, 175, quoted, 175; mentioned, 179.
Ireland, 193, 194, 211, 320; Henry Pelham’s maps of, 210 n.; servants from, 227 n.
——Castle Crine in County Clare, 204.
Irish, the, 251; antiquities of, 204 n.; servants, 227 n.; hired man, 235; girls and laborer, 240; Roman Catholics, 252; service left to the, 253.
Irving, Washington (1783–1859), LL.D., 223.
Iselgrun, quoted, 395.
JACCACI, August Florian, his On the Trail of Don Quixote, quoted, 240.
Jackson, Rex v., case of, 404; cited, 404 n.
——Hill. See Jackson, William.
——Edward (c. 1602–1681), of Cambridge, 117, 127, 130, 131.
——William (d. 1810), loyalist, 261, 274.
Jacob, Nicholas (d. 1657), of Hingham, 117, 129, 131.
Jacobin Club, Boston, 291.
Jacobites, 79.
Jamaica, Island of, W. I., Acts of Assembly Passed in, quoted, 256.
——Plain, Mass., 38, 187, 310, 311.
James I., King of England, 204 n.
——II, King of England, 219.
——River, Virginia, 222; Lower James, 224.
Jameson, John Franklin, LL D., xviii; elected Corresponding Member, 298, 347; accepts, 299.
Jamestown Island, Va., 223.
Jamieson, Rev. John (1759–1838), his Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, cited, 241 n.
Janson, Charles William, his Stranger in America, quoted, 250.
Jay, John (1745–1829), LL.D., Chief-Justice of the United States, 321.
——Peter Augustus (1776–1842), son of Chief-Justice John, 322.
Jefferson, Thomas (1743–1826), LL.D., President of the United States, The Work and Principles of, an address by W. E. Russell, 91.
Jennings, John. Acts and Statutes Of the Island of Barbados, compiled by, quoted, 255.
Jennison, William, suit against, 1726, 75.
Jersey, Island of, 214; militia of, 214 n.; picture called the Battle of Jersey, mentioned, 215.
Joeselyn. See Joslyn.
John, a ship from Amsterdam, 232 n.
Johns Hopkins University, 340.
Johns Hopkins University Studies, quoted, 228.
Johnson, Capt. Edward (1598–1672), of Woburn, 117, 127, 130, 131; his Wonder-Working Providence (Poole’s edition), cited, 17 n.
——Edward, of York, 1647, 180 n.
——Hon. Edward Francis, LL.B., xvii; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——John, of Springfield, surveyor, Representative, 1649, 117, 122, 125, 130.
——Marmaduke (d. 1674), of Cambridge, printer of the Indian Bible, bill for board of, 391.
——Samuel, A.M., xvi; remarks on death of Judge Lowell, 49; of committee on nominations, 299, 354; of committee for raising the Gould Memorial Fund, 307, 346; subscribes to the Fund, 309; speaks at animal dinner, 356.
Jones, Rev. Hugh (1669–1760), his Present State of Virginia, quoted, 231.
——Thomas (c. 1592–1667), of Dorchester, 117, 130, 131.
Jonson, Ben or Benjamin (c. 1573–1637), his Devil is an Ass, quoted, 243.
Joslyn, Henry (d. 1683), of Scarborough, Me., Justice of the Peace, 16.
Josselyn, John, author of New England’s Rarities Discovered, brother of Henry Joslyn, 20.
Journal of the Massachusetts House of Deputies, a Fragment of the Original, for the May Session and a part of the October Session of 1649, presented for publication by John Noble, 115; published, 116–132; J. Noble’s remarks on, and the light thrown by it upon Vol. III. of printed Massachusetts Colony Records, 135–143; Fragment, mentioned, 148, 152, 153; Suffolk Court Files, a Fragment of, 145, mentioned, 154.
Journals of the Lords of Trade, cited, 112 n.
Jubaque (Chebacco, now Essex), Mass., 174.
Judges, Stiles’s History of the Three, cited, 218 n.
Julie. See Julius.
Julius II., Pope, 245.
Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer, by R. Burn, quoted, 399.
K——, Hezekiah, 251.
Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 311.
Kast, Dr. Thomas (1750–1820), H. C. 1769, 260 n.; 261.
Keayne, Capt. Robert (1595–1656), 116–119, 125, 126, 130–132, 152; bequest for public uses, 19; papers about his family, 19 n.
Keffer, Leonard, 1748, 235.
Kemble, Thomas (c. 1621–1688), of Charlestown and Boston, 409.
Kendal Green, Weston, Mass., 50.
Kenmare River, Ireland, 204 n., 211.
Kennebec River, Me., 170.
Kennebunk, Me., Bourne’s History of Wells and, cited, 175 n.
Kennebunkport, Me., 177 n.
Kenrick, Esther. See Mayo.
Kent, Chancellor James (1763–1847), LL.D., his Commentaries, quoted, 395 n.
Kerry, Knight of, Hon. Maurice Fitzgerald, 204 n.
Kerry County, Ireland, 204 n.; C. Smith’s Ancient and Present State of the, mentioned, 204 n.
Kettell, Samuel (1800–1855), quoted, 290; his Specimens of American Poetry, cited, 290 n.
Kidd, Capt. William (d. 1701), the pirate, 67 n.
Kidder, Frederic (1804–1885), his History of the Boston Massacre, cited, 65 n., 66 n., 70 n., quoted, 66 n.
Kilburn, John (c. 1704–1789), of Walpole, N. H., 240.
Kilburn, Samuel Smith, engraver, 95.
Kilby, Christopher (1705–1771), Agent of the Province, in London, 21.
Killingworth (Clinton), Conn., 325 and note.
Killroy, Matthew, petition of, 1770, 66; convicted of manslaughter, 70.
Kimble. See Kemble.
King, Edward (c. 1735–1807), F. R. S., F. S. A., 207 n.; his verses, quoted, 207, 208.
King Philip’s War, 293, 296 n.
King of Prussia, ship, arrives from Ireland, 1769, 227 n.
King Street, Boston, 56, 58, 80 n., 196 n.
King’s Chapel, Boston, 53 n., 288 and note, 290; Annals of, by H. W. Foote, cited, 53 n., 112, 215 n., 260 n., 288 n., 289 n., 290 n., mentioned, 287; registers of, cited, 53 n., mentioned, 290 n.; Roger Price rector of, 1729–1746, 112; services in, at the time of the disinterment of Gen. Warren’s body, 287; doctrine of the Trinity struck from the Liturgy of, 289; Perez Morton a proprietor and vestryman of, 289.
King’s Chapel Burial Ground, 202 n.
King’s Own, or Fourth Regiment, R. A., 49, 51, 53, 54; Light Company of, 50, 52, 53. See Regiments.
Kingsly, Stephen (d. 1673), of Dorchester, Braintree and Milton, 122.
Kittery, Me., 170 n., 181 n., 182, 184 and note.
Kittredge, George Lyman, LL.D., xv, xvi; of Committee of Publication, ii; indebtedness to, 241 n., 330 n.; extracts furnished by, 245 n., 256; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; his opinion of the Harvard Theses of 1663, 339.
Knapp, John Francis, of Salem, convicted of murder of Capt. Joseph White, 1830, 291.
——Joseph Jenkins, Jr., of Salem, brother of John Francis, convicted of murder of Capt. Joseph White, 291.
Kneeland, Samuel (1696–1769), printer, of Boston, 111 n.
Knight, Lieut. Joseph, R. A., 51.
——Richard, an appraiser, 1649, 128.
Knight of the Garter, Earl of Manchester made a, 218 n.
Knowlton, John, Sr. (d. 1653), of Ipswich, 173, 174.
——John, Jr. (d. 1684), son of John, Sr., 173 and note, 174 and note, 175 n.
——Hon. Marcus Perrin, LL.D., xvii.
——William, of Ipswich, brother of John, Sr., 173, 174.
——family, 176 n.
Knox, Gen. Henry (1750–1806), 54, 196 n., 349; H. H. Edes exhibits original letter of Martha Washington to, and his reply, 224.
Krayer, a vessel, 242.
LADIES Home Journal, cited, 221 n., 223 n.
Laighton. See Leighton.
Laiton. See Leighton.
Lake George, N. Y., 61 n.
Lambert, Edna or Edney. See Bayly.
——River, Mass., 277.
Land Bank, Massachusetts, 350.
——of 1686, 97.
——of 1740, 96, 97, 103, 315; Connecticut Land Bank resembles, 97, 100, 111. See under Connecticut and Essex County.
Land Bank, Calendar of Papers relating to, in Massachusetts Archives and Suffolk County Files, A. McF. Davis on, quoted, 315; mentioned, 350.
Land Bank, the Articles of the, and of the Silver Bank, memoranda concerning, presented by A. McF. Davis, 315, 316; calendar relating to Land Bank of 1740, quoted, 315; call for subscriptions to, 315; fragment of the Articles of Association of the Silver Bank, 316; articles of the Silver Scheme, 316; articles of the Land Bank, 316.
Landed Gentry, by Sir John B. Burke, cited, 204 n.
Lander, John, of Piscataqua, 1639, 176 n.
Lane, Gardiner Martin, A.B., xvi.
——George Martin, LL.D., v, xvi, 1, 31, 336; Professor at Harvard, 3; remarks on death of, by Edward Wheelwright, 3, and by W. W. Goodwin, 40–41; foreign preparation for work at Harvard, 40.
——William Coolidge, A.B., Librarian of Harvard College, xvii; speaks at annual dinner, 37; exhibits original Charter of Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 37; assists in finding date of P. Morton’s birth, 282 n.; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; raises question about an expression of Cotton Mather, 325 n.; quoted, 325 n.; indebtedness to, acknowledged, 335.
Langdell, Christopher Columbus, LL.D., helps explain the dates of First and Second writs of Quo Warranto against Connecticut, 340 n.
Langley, Samuel Pierpont, D.C.L., F.R.S., xviii.
Lansdowne, William Petty (1737–1803), Marquis of, 204 n., 211.
Lathrop, Hon. John, A.M., xvii; of nominating committee, 34; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Latin School, Boston, 196 n., 284.
Laurane, See John. Lawrence.
Law, American and English Cyclopædia of, quoted, 226.
Lawful Money. See Bills of credit.
Lawrence, Rev. Arthur, D.D., xvii.
——Amos, of Groton, his Petition to the General Court, 1781, for leave to buy shares of the Tarbell farm, quoted, 294.
——John, of Boston, 1655, 409.
——Mary (Phillips) (Munjoy), widow of Lieut. Robert (d. 1690) of Falmouth, Me., 15.
——Sir Thomas (1769–1830), 385.
——Rt. Rev. William, D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts, subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; speaks at annual dinner, 356.
Leach, Josiah Granville, his Morton Memoranda, cited, 283 n.; 290 n.
Lechford, Thomas, his Plain Dealing quoted, 18; handwriting of, identified in the Barlow copy of Massachusetts Colony Records, 144, 145.
Lee, Rebecca. See Saffin.
Leeds Castle, Kent, England, 222.
Legend of Good Women, Chaucer’s, quoted, 245.
Legge, William. See Dartmouth.
Leighton, Thomas, of Lynn, Representative 1649, 117, 131.
Lenox Library, New York, 56, 317, 340; possesses a complete file of one of Franklin’s publications, 316.
Lent Vacation, 404 n.
Letters Patent, from the Crown, 104; of Connecticut destroyed, 217, mentioned, 219.
Leverett, George Vasmer, A.M., xvii.
——Major-General John (1616–1678), Governor of Massachusetts, 178 n., 359.
Leverett’s Lane, Boston, 196 n.
Lexington, Mass., 49, 50, 52, 296 n., 310, 349; battle of, 201; march to, 220.
Life and Liberty in America, by C. Mackay, quoted, 253.
Lilburne, John, trial of, 67 n.
Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865), President of the United States, appoints John Lowell U. S. District Judge, 42; discernment of, 374; prophecy of, 375.
——Francis Henry, A.M., xvi.
——Levi (1749–1820), H. C. 1772, Attorney-General of the United States, 213 and note.
——Waldo, A.B., xvi; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Mass., pouch of bullets found in old church in, 220.
——County, Me., term of court at, 73; investigation concerning land titles in, 291 and note.
Lincoln’s Inn, London, 207 n.
Lindall Row (now Exchange Place), Boston, 196 n.; Peter Pelham’s house in, 196 and note.
Lindel’s Row. See Lindall Row.
Linn. See Lynn.
Little Centennial Lady, A., by C. C. Harrison, quoted, 223.
Liturgy of King’s Chapel, Boston, doctrine of the Trinity struck from, 289.
Lloyd, James (1728–1810), M.D., 200 and note.
Lobby. See Massachusetts Lobby.
Lockwood, John, of New London, Conn., 1659, 248.
London, England, 21, 28, 57, 70 n., 77 n., 81 n., 97, 112, 114, 193, 194, 196 n., 198 n., 202, 203, 205, 207, 212, 213 and note, 218 n., 237 n., 251 n., 256 n., 262 n., 265 n., 340 n., 395 n., 397 n., 404 n., 405 n.; loss of Charter of, 219; W. Austin’s Letters from, quoted, 238, 239.
——Bishop of, Royal Commission to, v, 112–115.
——British Museum, 54.
——Court of Chancery, Records of, mentioned, 194; quoted, 195; action of Pelham v. Compton in, 195.
——Covent Garden, 193.
——Daily Chronicle, quoted, 254.
——Daily News, quoted, 254.
——Daily Telegraph, quoted, 253.
——Evening Standard, quoted, 254.
——Fetter Lane, 29.
——Gazette, quoted, 79 n.
——George Street, 212 and note.
——Gray’s Inn, 395 n.
——Gray’s Inn Gate, 395 n.
——Half-moon, Paul’s Church-yard, 387 n.
——Hanover Square, 212 n.
——Lincoln’s Inn, 207 n.
——National Gallery, 215.
——Newgate, 404 n.
——Notes and Queries, mentioned, 204; quoted, 204 n.
——Paul’s Church-yard, 387 n.
——Portman Square, 321.
——Poultrey, Three Leggs in the, 97 n.
——Public Record Office, 28, 29, 181 n.
——Royal Academy, 204.
——Royal Society, 81 n., 218 n.
——Stocks-Market, 97 n.
——St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, 193.
——See of, 113.
——Strand, the, 194.
——Three Leggs in the Poultrey, 97 n.
——Times, quoted, 253.
Long, Robert (d. 1663), of Charles-town, 118.
——Wharf or Boston Pier, Boston, 196 n., 289 n.
Longley, Hannah. See Tarbell.
Lord, Arthur (H.C. 1872), of Plymouth, 283 n.
Lords of Trade, Journals of, cited, 112 n.
Loring, Charles Greely (1794–1867), LL.D., 46.
——Charles Greely (1828–1902), A.M., Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, xvii; deceased, xix.
——James Spear (1799–1884), 288; his Hundred Boston Orators, cited, 265 n., 282 n., 286 n., 287 n., 288 n., 290 n., 291 n.
——Joseph, juror, 1777, 262.
Lossing, Benson John (1813–1891), LL.D., his Field Book of the Revolution, cited, 265 n.
Louisburg, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 63, 211; siege of, 319; Joseph Dwight appointed judge of the Court of Admiralty for the port of, 320, 349.
Love, Rev. William De Loss, Jr., Ph.D., his Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England, mentioned, 168, cited, 169 n.
Lovell, John, prisoner in Boston Gaol, 1777, for theft, 264.
Loveridge, Rev. William (d. 1677), of Sandwich, Mass., Oyster Bay, and Huntington, L. I., purchase of house of, 389.
Lovett, Elizabeth (Herrick), wife of John, 212 n.
——John, 4th, of Beverly, 212 n.
——Capt. Jonathan Herrick (1772–1844), of Beverly, son of John, 4th, 212; birth, marriage, and death, 212 n.
——Nancy, wife of Capt. Jonathan Herrick, 212 n.
Lowdon, James, suit against, 1735, 76 n.
Lowell, Augustus, A. M., xvii, 187; deceased, xix; elected Resident Member, 186, 348.
——Ebenezer (b. 1701), of Boston, son of Ebenezer (1675–1711), 194 n.
——Hon. Francis Cabot, A.B., xvi; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——James Russell (1819–1891), D.C.L., 365; his Prose Works, quoted, 244; his Letters, quoted, 252.
——Judge John (1743–1802), LL.D., H. C., 1760, 2, 12 n., 13 n., 213 n.
——Hon. John, LL.D., vi, xvi, 1, 31, 46, 49; remarks on death of, by Edward Wheelwright, 2, 3; by S. L. Thorndike, 41–45; by John Noble, 47, 48; Judge of U. S. District Court of Mass, and of U. S. Circuit Court, 2; a leading American jurist, 2; printed report of dinner to, quoted, 2; one of the founders of the Society, 2; paid tributes to memory of D. D. Slade and Gen. Walker, 3; appointed to write Memoir of Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, 3; meeting of the Bar in memory of, 4; ancestry, 41; lawyer and author, 42; birth, 42; knowledge of maritime law, 42; U. S. District Judge, 42; career upon the Bench, 42; nautical sense, 43; interest in Bankrupt Law, 43–44; a lawyer of the old school, 45; public services of, 48; resumed practice of law, 48; on Board of Overseers of Harvard University, 48; his death prevents his writing memoir of L. Saltonstall, 358.
——Percival, settled in Newbury, 1639, progenitor of the Lowell family, 41.
——family, 363.
Lowell Institute, Boston, C. W. Upham’s Lecture before, quoted, 219.
Lowrey, Margaret. See Pelham.
Loyal and Friendly Society of the Blue and Orange, 54.
Loyalists, List of, mentioned, 15 n., 203, 262, 269, 270; remarks concerning the, by J. P. Quincy, cited, 297 n.; Sabine’s Biographical Sketches of, of the American Revolution, cited, 260 n., 261 n., 262 n., 265 n., 269 n., 270 n., 272 n.
Luby, Richard, prisoner in Boston Gaol, 1777, 264.
Lush, George, loyalist, 260.
Lyde, Byfield (1704–1776), H. C. 1723, son of Judge Edward, 197.
——Capt. Nathaniel Byfield (1735–1808), son of Byfield, 199.
——Sarah (Belcher), wife of Byfield, 197.
Lymant, Arthur Theodore, A.M., xvii; elected Resident Member, 412.
——Mary. See Hall.
Lynde, Chief-Justice Benjamin (1666–1745), H. C. 1686, 11 n.; his Diary cited, 64 n., 65 n., 66 n., 70 n., quoted, 68 n.
——Chief-Justice Benjamin, Jr. (1700–1781), H. C. 1718; 67 n., 74; his Diary cited, 64 n., 65 n., 66 n., 70 n., quoted, 68 n.; birth, 70; offices held by, 70, 71; death, 71.
——Mary, daughter of Benjamin, Jr. See. Oliver.
Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Jr. (1772–1863), Baron, Lord Chancellor of England, 204 n., 208, 209 n., 210 n., 214 n., 215; birth, 198, death, 198 n.; Martin’s Life of, cited, 198 n., 209 n.; letter of, cited, 207 n.; his letter to Daniel D. Rogers read, 212–214; death, 212 n.; visit to Boston, 213 n.
——Historical Society, its purposes, 55.
McILVAINE, William, of Boston, 1748, 194 n., 196 n.
Mclntire, Neal, of jury which tried Capt. Thomas Preston, 1770. 82.
Mackay, Charles (1814–1889), his Life and Liberty in America, quoted, 252, 253.
McClure’s Magazine, Stephen Crane in, quoted, 240.
Macmillan and Co., 216 n.
McNamee, John Hugh Henry, Mayor of Cambridge, bill for mounting photographs, for Society’s Album, 33.
Macy, Thomas (c. 1598–1672) of Newbury and Salisbury, 121.
Magistrates. See under Massachusetts.
Magna Charta, quoted, 393.
Maynalia, by Cotton Mather, quoted, 323, 324; mentioned, 324; cited, 340 n., 387 n.
Maid, used for servant, 226 n.
Maine, 39, 168 n., 176 n., 193 n., 412; Governor and Board of Colony Assistants of, 171; controversy over land titles in the District of, 291; J. H. Allen’s sermons did much to create Republican party in, 311; a case of hue and cry in, 406; five papers relating to this case, 407–410.
——Court of Admiralty, Special, 183.
——Court of Pleas, 109 n., 170 n., 184 and note.
——Court Records, mentioned, 170 n.
——Court of Sessions. See Court of Sessions of the Peace.
——Court of Sessions of the Peace, 169 n., 170 n., 180, 184.
——General Assembly: General Court, 168 n., 172, 178 n., 179 n.; petition addressed to, 406.
——Probate Court of York, 181 n.
——Province of, 13, 169 n., 171, 175 n., 178 and note, 179, 181, 182 and note, 183, 186, 349; Thanksgiving Proclamations of, quoted, 167, 168, 169 n.; Provincial Executive of, 168; Fast Proclamation, quoted, 169 n.; John Davis proposed for Deputy-President of, 181 n.
——Standing Council, 171, 172, 183.
——Supreme Court, 171.
——York Deeds. See below.
Maine, the (battle-ship), doctrines of hue and cry in regard to, 404.
Maine Historical Society, Index of Vol. I.–IX of the First Series of the Collections of. cited, 176 n.; Collections of, cited, 176 n., 178 n., 179 n., 180 n., 182 n.; Baxter Manuscripts in Collections of, cited, 179 n., 180 n.; 182 n.; 183 n.; quoted, 182.
Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, cited, 181 n.
Maine, History of the District of, by J. Sullivan, cited, 170 n., 180 n.
Maine, History of the State of, by W. D. Williamson, cited, 169 n., 172 n., 179 n., 180 n., 182 n., 185 n., 292 n.; quoted, 171.
Maine Wills, cited, 172 n., 177 n., 180 n., 183 n., quoted, 183.
Maitland, Frederick William, 400; Pollock and Maitland’s History of English Law, quoted, 400, 401; his edition of Bracton’s Note Book, cited, 404 n.
Malden, Mass., 153. See Mystic Side.
——History of, by D. P. Corey, cited, 143 n.
——Mystic Side, petition to General Court as to its name, 1649, 125, 153.
Manchester, Edward Montagu, Earl of (1602–1671), Lord Chamberlain to Charles II., 218; brief account of, 218 n.
Manchester, Mass., 175 n.
Manchester, N. H., Underhill v., 404 n.
Manley. See Manly.
Manly, Hannah (d. 1786), wife of Capt. John, 274 n.
——Capt. John (d. 1793), of Boston, 274; commission and death, 274 n.
——John Matthews, Ph. D., indebtedness to, acknowledged, 241 n.
Mann, Horace (1796–1859), LL.D., influence on education, 361, 362; appointed Secretary of State Board of Education, 362; magical effects of his labors in Salem, 362.
Manual Training School, Cambridge, 85.
Marblehead, Mass., 38, 119, 203, 270.
Marsh, Arthur Richmond, A.B., xvii.
Marshall Street, Boston, 297.
Martello tower on Bear Island, Kenmore River, Ireland, 204 n.
Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., 248.
Martin, Joseph. See Morton.
——Sir Theodore, his Life of Lord Lyndhurst, cited, 198 n., 209 n.
Martineau, James (1805–1900), D.D., D.C.L., acquaintance with J. H. Allen, 313; his Sermon on Great Principles and Small Duties, in Endeavors after the Christian Life, quoted, 313.
Mary I., Queen of England, 204 n.
——II., Queen of England, 69.
Maryland, 54 n., 256, 264 n., 388 n.; instruction of youth in, 227 n.
——Artillery, 54. See Regiments.
——General Assembly, Proceedings and Acts of, in Archives of Maryland, quoted, 233, 234.
——Prince George County, 222.
——Society of the Cincinnati, 54 n.
Maryland, Archives of, Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, quoted, 233, 234.
Maryland, Laws of, at Large, by T. Bacon, quoted, 234.
Mason, Charles Frank, A.B., xvii; subscribes to the Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Capt. John (1586–1635), patentee of New Hampshire, 170.
——Jonathan (1752–1831), of Boston, United States Senator from Massachusetts, 213 and note.
——Robert (1635–1688), alias Tufton, grandson of Capt. John, 183 n.
Mason, N. H., Hill’s History of, mentioned, 294, quoted, 294 n.
Masonic fraternity, in charge of the obsequies of Gen. Warren, 288 n.; P. Morton a member of, 288 n.
Massachusetts, 10 n., 16, 30, 38, 43, 44, 46, 89, 93, 95, 107, 110, 166, 170 n., 191, 219, 225, 269, 283, 300, 301, 319, 326, 349, 355, 362, 367, 370, 374, 376, 382, 386, 387, 389 n. courts of, 5, 26; D. E. Ware a member of the Board of Harbor Commissioners of, 39; report of incorporation of Historical Societies in, 55, 318; W. E. Russell elected Governor of, 87; Commissions of, 87; development of the Legislature of, 134 n.; suit of, against Samuel Tarbell, 275; papers relating to the suit, 276–282; committee report in favor of a State Convention, 1779, 284; P. Morton Attorney-General of, 291, 292; importance of printing old church records of, urged, 351; the foremost community in education, intelligence, and character, 359; L. Saltonstall, the elder, conspicuous in, 360; W. E. Channing’s influence on the religion of, 361; Horace Mann Secretary of Board of Education of, 362. See also Maine.
——Acts and Resolves of the Province of. See below, Province Laws.
——Archives, cited, 29, 67 n., 139 n., 145 n., 148 n., 155 n., 170 n., 178 n., 179 n., 265 n., 295 n., 315; mentioned, 136, 165, 315, 316, 350; quoted, 295.
——Assembly. See below, General Court.
——Bay Colony (1629–1692), 17, 29, 95, 135, 165, 168, 171, 175, 178 n., 179, 182, 218, 301, 331, 359, 362, 363, 370, 386, 392, 393; courts of, 5, 26; law of, 18; E. Rawson assumes function of Secretary of, 134; Thanksgiving Proclamation of, 1676, mentioned, 169 n.; Governor and Company of, purchase Gorges’s Patent of Maine, 1677, 171; proclamation made of action of the Governor and Assistants of, 171; commissioners of, summon inhabitants of York to submit themselves to government of, 1652, 181; banishment of Quaker families from, 185 n.; arms of, on Society’s seal, 300; colonists of, bring the Common Law of England with them, 405; government of, 408 n.
——Bay Colony (1775, 1776), 13 n., 23, 284, 288 n.
——Body of Liberties, 1641, mentioned, 143, 158, 164.
——Code of, 1649, cited, 154–158.
——Colonial Laws. See below, Colony Laws.
——Colony (or Colonial) Laws, or Ordinances, cited, 138 n., 155 n., 156 n., 157 n., 248 n.; mentioned, 164, 165; quoted, 234.
——Colony Records, quoted, 17, 18, 20, 140–142, 146, 147, 243 n., 246–249, 405, 407 n., 408 n., 409 n., 410, 411, cited, 17 n., 116–120, 120 n., 121–130, 132, 136, 145 n., 148 n., 149 n., 151 n., 154 n., 155 n., 156 n., 157 n., 158 n., 160 n., 161 n., 163 n., 166, 171 n., 174 n., 175 n., 181 n., 182 n., 247 n., 408 n., 410 n.; mentioned, 135, 144, 150, 152, 407; third (printed) volume of, John Noble’s remarks about the light thrown upon it by fragment of manuscript journal of House of Deputies, 1649, 135–143; mentioned, 350; W. P. Upham’s letter to John Noble with Notes on Vol. III. of the printed, 144–161; A. C. Goodell’s letter to John Noble about printed Vol. III., of the, 161–167. See above, Book of Copies; below, General Court, Records of.
——Constitutional Convention, 1820, 292.
——Council, 71, 73, 76 n., 77 n., 87, 148, 149, 166, 268, 279, 280, 288 n., in session, 12 n.; Richard Middlecot, a member of, 16; Edmund Trowbridge, a member of, 74; Gov. Dudley met by members of the, 80 n.; Land Bank project submitted to, 96; citizens arrested by order of, 262, 269, 271; P. Morton, Deputy Secretary of, 284; P. Morton’s appointment as Attorney-General confirmed by, 291 n.
——Council Chamber, 14, 26; judges meet in, 10, 11 n.; decorated at time of accession of George I., 80 n.
——Council Records, mentioned, 5, quoted, 11 n., 12 n., cited, 29, 73 n., 291 n.
——County Courts, 69 n.
——Court of Admiralty, 21.
——Court of Assistants, 128, 135, 148, 149, 162; on the Arbella, 17. See below, Great Quarter Courts; Quarter Court; Magistrates.
——Court of Assistants, Records of, cited, 18, 24, 148, quoted, 19 n., mentioned, 20 n. See below, Magistrates.
——Court of Assize and General Gaol Delivery, 10 n., 12 n., 13 n., 278.
——Court of Common Pleas, 9, 23, 62 n., 69 n., 261 n.; in Essex, 70; in Plymouth County, 71.
——Court of General Sessions of the Peace, 13, 14 n., 22 n., 25, 60, 68, 69 and note, 263, 264; crier of, 62 n.; report of decision of, 68 n.; how constituted, 69 n.
——Court of General Sessions of the Peace, Minute Books of, quoted, 14 n., 15 n., 62 n., 63, cited, 22 n., 62 n.
——Court of General Sessions of the Peace, Records of, cited, 25, 62, mentioned, 262; quoted, 263, 275.
——Court of Inquiry, 265, 271; account of, by A. C. Goodell, Jr., mentioned, 258.
——Court of Oyer and Terminer, 71.
——Courts of Probate, 135.
——Courts of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, 69 n.
——Court of Sessions. See above, Court of General Sessions.
——Court Records. See above, Council Records.
——General Assembly. See below, General Court.
——General Council. See above, Council Records.
——General Court, 7, 30, 38, 48, 57, 60 n., 61 n., 87, 118, 125, 134 n., 135, 137, 144, 149–152, 163–167, 170 n., 171, 177 n., 260, 266, 267, 291, 296 n., 406, 407 n., 410, 411; sitting of, 18; order of, 18, 20, 145, 162, 291; keeping records of, 18; resolutions of, 21; acts of, 62 n.; grants of, 72 n.; committee to prepare petition relative to meeting of, 72 n.; petition to, 129; Rawson elected secretary at the opening of, 134; relation of, to the community, 136; Resolve of, cited, 136; important vote of, 138 n.; action of, about the money given Joshua Winthrop, 142; assumes royal charter of the Province of Maine granted to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, 171; committee of Zoölogical and Botanical Survey of, publish Report on trees and shrubs, 220 n.; petition to, quoted, 259; persons removed from Boston unable to return without leave of, 259; P. Morton and J. Bradford represent Plymouth in the, 283; report presented to, 285; P. Morton petitions for authority to raise money to repair Boston Pier, 289 n.; order of both branches of, 291; petition of Amos Lawrence to, quoted, 294; petition presented to, in behalf of Essex County Bank, 317; its appropriation for Centennial Exhibition, 375; original draught of order of, for regulating and settling charges of persecution of hue and cry, 405, 406; R. Hitchcock’s petition to, 407, 408.
——General Court, Records of, mentioned, 18, 118, 136, 137, 143, 144, 152, 153, 164, 165, 406, quoted, 140. See above, Colony Records.
——General Court, Resolves of, cited, 291 n., 292 n.
——Governors, Provincial, 62 n.
——Governors, Royal, Commissions and Instructions of, 28–30, 113 n.; Supplemental Instructions of, 28.
——Great Quarter Courts, 18. See Quarter Court.
——Historical Societies in. See above, Historical Societies.
——House of Assembly. See above, General Court.
——House of Deputies, 117, 137–139, 141 n., 144, 145, 148–151, 154, 160–162, 164, 407, 408; fragment of original journal of, 1649, communicated for publication, by John Noble, v, 115–132; clerk of, 134, 161, 164; Journal or Records of, mentioned, 134, 136, 137, 146–148, 162, 163; quoted, 140, 149; mentioned, 159, 160; heading of list of, quoted, 152; pass order about hue and cry, 406. See above, General Court; below, House Journals; House of Representatives. See also Journal of the Massachusetts House of Deputies.
——House Journals, mentioned, v, 29, 137, 165, 166; quoted, 268, 288 n.; cited, 291 n. See above, House of Deputies.
——House of Representatives, 12 n., 28, 30, 72 n., 73, 271, 280, 288 n., 291 n.; Chamber of, 284; instructions reported to, 284; P. Morton, speaker of, 291; P. H. Sears a member of, 342. See above, General Court; House of Deputies.
——Inferiour Court of Common Pleas, 7, 8, 14 n., 15, 16, 21, 62 n., 69 n., 71, 277, 281; Ezekiel Goldthwait, clerk of, 15 n.
——Inferiour Court of Common Pleas, Records of, missing, 14 n.; quoted, 62 n., 282, cited, 275 n., mentioned, 276.
——Justices’ Courts, 69 n.
——Legislature. See above, General Court.
——Lobby, the corrupting influence of, 87.
——Magistrates, 137–139, 148, 150, 164, 406, 407; record of, mentioned, 137; grant request, 408. See above, Court of Assistants.
——Province of the Massachusetts Bay (1692–1775), 10 n., 11 n., 13, 15, 21, 28, 30, 57, 60 n., 69 n., 72 n., 73, 74, 77 n., 78, 80 n., 96, 97, 112, 113, 165, 197; military movements of, 5; courts of, 5, 26; attempts to establish the Episcopal system in, 112; acts of Provincial Legislature published. 165; Minerva, the last ship which sailed out of Massachusetts bay, under a British flag, 203; towns of, harassed by Indians, 293. Province Charter, 72 n., 113, 171 n.; rights conferred by, trespassed upon by Royal Instructions, 30.
——Province Laws, cited, 23 n., 24 n., 62 n., 69 n., 81 n., 178 n., 258 n., 264 n., 265 n., 275 n., 283 n., 284 n., 289 n.; quoted, 76 n., 112, 234, 235, 259, 268, 269, 411; mentioned, 258.
——Quarter Court, 125. See Great Quarter Courts.
——Records of the Governor and Company of. See above, Colony Records.
——Royal Governors, see Governors, Royal.
——Second Charter. See above, Province Charter.
——Senate, 39. See above, General Court.
——State House, 73 n., 154; old, 62 n.
——State Papers, 87.
——State Prison, warden of, 87.
——Summary of the Laws, 1658, 154, 155.
——Superiour Court of Judicature, 7, 8, 11 n., 12 n., 16, 21, 68, 69 n., 72 n., 278, 280; clerks of, 9; power of appointment of, 11; arrangement of justices, 12 n.; appointment of clerk of, 13 n.; quarters of, 22; sitting of, 23; next term of, after Fifth of March riot, 64; docket of, 65; petition of soldiers to, and text of petition, 65, 66; adjournment of, 73; archives of, quoted, 73 n.; care of Files of, 133; office of clerk of, 133; judges of, 266. See below, Superiour Court of Judicature (a paper by J. Noble).
——Superiour Court of Judicature, Minute Books of, cited, 23 n., 66 n., 82; quoted, 65 n., 67 n., 68, 69, 73 n.; mentioned, 65, 66 n., 73 n.
——Superiour Court of Judicature, Records of, cited, 7 n., 8 n., 24, 64, 73 n.; quoted, 9 n., 11 n., 12 n., 13 n., 68, 70, 75, 76 n.; mentioned, 10; Catalogue of Records and Files, cited, 73 n.; Files of, cited, 133; mentioned, 134. See Noble, John.
——Supplements to the Code of 1649, 154–156, 158.
——Supreme Judicial Court, 10 n.; certificates of clerks of, in regard to missing papers of, 6, 7; finding of certificates of, 8; certificates bear names of clerks of, 9; certificates of clerks of, in existence in 1781, 22; moving of, 23; trial of a case in, 40.
——Supreme Judicial Court, Records of, mentioned, 6; cited, 8 n., 9 n., 23 n., 26, quoted, 10 n.; catalogue of Records and Files of, cited, 73 n. See Noble, John.
Massachusetts Bay, History of, by Thomas Hutchinson, quoted, 26; cited, 64 n., 65 n., 70 n., 72 n.
Massachusetts Civil List, by W. H. Whitmore, mentioned, 14 n., 76 n.; cited, 62 n., 261 n.
Massachusetts Gazette, quoted, 68 n., 227 n.; cited, 198 n.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 62 n., 206 n., 269, 323; Proceedings of, quoted, 15 n., 62 n., 198, 203, 261 n., 265, 270, 274; cited, 74 n., 77 n., 181 n., 183 n., 193 n., 195 n., 201 n., 210 n., 211 n., 260 n., 261 n., 269 n., 289 n., 297 n., 323 n., 332 n.; Collections of, cited, 62 n., 77 n., 142 n., 173 n., 179 n., 218 n., 235 n.; quoted, 246, 248, 326, 327; Library of, 169 n., 273 n.; lecture by C. W. Upham, a member of, quoted, 219; Permanent Funds of, 308; George Peabody’s gift to, 308; has copies of early Harvard College Theses, 335; members of, invited to attend annual dinner of this Society, 355; toast to, 355; Memoir of Leverett Saltonstall written for, mentioned, 367.
Massachusetts Land Bank. See Land Bank.
Massachusetts Magazine, cited, 22, 263 n., 274 n., 283 n.: Mrs. Morton contributes to “Seat of the Muses” in, 290.
Massachusetts, the Quaker Invasion of, by R. P. Hallowell, cited, 386 n., 387 n.
Massachusetts Reports, by Josiah Quincy, cited, 67 n., 68 n.; quoted, 69.
Massachusetts, Sketches of the Judicial History of, by E. Washburn, quoted, 75.
Massachusetts Spy, started by Isaiah Thomas, in the attic of Capen’s building, in Boston, 298; removed to Worcester and known as Worcester Spy, 298.
Massachusetts Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1676, a printed broadside, mentioned, 169 n. See also Thanksgiving Proclamation.
Matchet, John, juror, 1777, 262.
Mather, Rev. Cotton (1663–1728), D.D., son of Rev. Increase, 77, 324, 349; his letter to Rev. T. Woodbridge on death of Queen Anne and accession of George I., 79–81; a manuscript sermon of, shown to the Society, by President Wheelwright, 318; his Magnalia, quoted, 323, 324, cited, 387 n., 340; meaning of his “particular character” in printed Harvard College Theses questioned, 325 n.
——Rev. Increase (1639–1723), D.D., son of Rev. Richard, 340; his Essay For the Recording Of Illustrious Providences, cited, 387 n.
——Rev. Samuel (1706–1785), D.D., son of Rev. Cotton, 267.
Mather Papers, cited, 218 n.
Mathewes. See Matthews, Marmaduke.
Matthew, Thomas, pseudonym for Rev. John Rogers, “the Martyr,” his version of the Bible, 1537, quoted, 245 and note, 246 n.
Matthews, Albert, A.B., v, xv, xvii; of Committee of Publication, ii; calls attention to an episode showing the violence of men of early days, 182 n.; reads a paper on Hired Man and Help, 225–256; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Rev. Marmaduke (c. 1605–c. 1683), of Malden, 120, 121, 124, 125.
Maulden. See Maiden.
Maverick, Moses (c. 1609–1685), of Marblehead Side, Salem, 119.
——Samuel (c. 1602 – c. 1670), of Noddle’s Island, Boston, 140, 153; to be heard by the General Court, 1649, 126; his fine abated, 129.
——Samuel (c. 1753–1770), of Boston, son of widow Mary, mortally wounded in the Fifth of March riot, 82.
Mavricke. See Maverick.
Mayhew, Thomas (1593–1681), Governor of Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., quoted, 248.
Mayo, Elizabeth (Davis), wife of Thomas, of Roxbury, 63.
——Esther (Kenrick, 1726–1775), wife of Capt. Joseph, of Roxbury, 64 n.
——John (d. 1688), the emigrant, of Roxbury, 63.
——Major Joseph (1720–1776), of Roxbury, son of Thomas, 60 n., 61 n., 64 and note; bill to, for meals and lodgings furnished British soldiers, 59, 60; brief account of, 63, 64; foreman of jury which tried British soldiers, 1770, 64.
——Joseph, of Warwick, Mass., administered on Major Joseph’s estate, 1776, 64 n.
——Thomas (1676–1750), of Roxbury, son of John, 63.
——Thomas (b. 1713), of Roxbury, son of Thomas, of jury which tried Capt. Thomas Preston, 1770, 82.
Meade, Bishop William (1789–1862), D.D., of Virginia, 223.
Medfield, Mass., 210 n.
Meeting-House. See under Boston.
Memorial Hall, Cambridge, Mass., 364; Class of 1844 place window in, 3.
Memorial History of Boston. See above, under Boston.
Memories of Youth and Manhood, by S. Willard, cited, 207 n.
Mendelsohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809–1847), 192; Germans speak of him as one of the ἐπίγονοι, 45.
Merchants, Society of, in Connecticut, 104, 105.
Merrimac River, N. H., 170.
Metark, an Indian, 248.
Mews. See Mewse.
Mewse, Thomas, loyalist, in Boston Gaol, 1777, 264; arrested by order of the Council, 269.
Mexican War, 311 and note.
——University of, 91.
Middle Street, Plymouth, 283 n.
Middleberough. See Middleborough.
Middleborough, Mass., 235.
Middlecot, Richard (d. 1704), of Boston, of the Executive Council, 16; his and Ezekiel Goldthwait’s memorial, 1749, quoted, 25.
Middlesex, County of, England, Stoke Newington in, 202 n.
——County of, Mass., 12 n., 76 n., 263, 276–279; term at, 73; Richard Foster, Jr., Sheriff of, 261 n.; committee of, empowered to sell confiscated estates, 295.
——Deeds, cited, 206 n.
——Probate Records, mentioned, 296.
Middlesex Democratic Club, Massachusetts, W. E. Russell President of, 86.
Military Journal during the American Revolutionary War, by Dr. James Thacher, cited, 265 n.
Miller, Major Ebenezer (1730–1811), of Braintree, Mass., Justice of the Court of General Sessions, son of Rev. Ebenezer, 60, 61 n.
——S[usan] E[mma], & Co., of Boston, bill for steel plate printing, 33.
Milles, Joseph, deed to him, 1639, 176 n.
Mills, Mrs.——1645, 247. See Milles.
Milton, John (1608–1674), his Poetical Works, mentioned, 199; his Paradise Lost, quoted, 248; his Comic Oration at Cambridge, Eng., mentioned, 339.
Milton, Mass., 319.
Minerva, ship, the last to sail out of Massachusetts Bay under the British flag, 1775, 203, 273.
Minns, Thomas, xvii; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Minute Book of the Superiour Court. See under Massachusetts.
Minute-Men, first company of, raised in America, 1775, 61 n.
Minutes of the Boston Selectmen, mentioned, 61.
Mirroir Des Justices vel Speculum Justiciariorum factum per Andream Home, quoted, 395 n.; cited, 395 n.
Mirrour of Justices, edited by Andrew Horne, mentioned, 393, cited, 393 n.; quoted, 395, 396; translated into English by William Hughes, 395 n.
Misticke Side. See Mystic Side.
Mitchell, Rev. Jonathan (c. 1624–1668), of Cambridge, 340 and note.
Model for Erecting a Bank of Credit: With a Discourse In Explanation thereof, cited, 97 n.
Mohawk region, New York, 61 n.
Molton’s Point, Charlestown, Mass., 50.
Monks Building, Boston, 196 n.
Montagu, Edward. See Manchester.
——Elizabeth (Robinson, 1720–1800), 321 n., 349; her Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakspear, mentioned, 321; her letter to Mercy Warren in appreciation of some verses, which she wrote about the Essay on Shakspear, 321, 322.
Montgomery, Hugh, a British soldier in the Fifth of March riot, 1770, convicted of manslaughter, 70.
——Gen. Richard (1736–1775), Trumbull’s picture of, called the Death of Montgomery, mentioned, 215 n.
Montgomery County, Md., 388.
Monticello, Va., 91.
Montreal, Canada, 201 n.
Moore, Frank, his Diary of the American Revolution, cited, 265 n.
——George Henry (1823–1892), LL.D., quoted, 22.
——Sir Henry (1713–1769), in Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, cited, 235 n.
Moors, Jonathan, 297 n.
——Sybil (Tarbell), wife of Jonathan, 297 n.
——family, 296.
Morris County, N. J., 235.
Morse, John Torrey, Jr., (H. C. 1860), 38, 75.
——Samuel Finley Breese (1791–1872), LL.D., 207 n.
Morton, Abigail (Hersey, d. 1791), second wife of Joseph, Jr., 283 n.
——Annah (Bullock, d. 1759), first wife of Joseph, Jr., marriage, 283 n.; death, 283 n.
——Anne, daughter of Joseph, Jr., 283 n.
——Rev. Charles (1626–1698), of Charlestown, 249.
——Diman, son of Joseph, Jr., 283 n.
——Ephraim (c. 1623–1693), of Plymouth, son of George, offices held by, 283.
——George (c. 1585–1624), of Plymouth, 282.
——Hannah, daughter of Joseph, Jr., 283 n.
——Hon. James Madison, LL.D., xvii.
——Joseph, Sr., grandfather of Perez, 283 n.
——Joseph, Jr. (1711–1793), of Plymouth and Boston, father of Perez, 282 n.; kept the White Horse Tavern, Boston, 283; birth, 283 n.; marriage, 283 n.; withdrew from the First Parish of Plymouth during the Great Awakening, 1743, 283 n.; second marriage, 283 n.; death, n.; White Horse Inn conveyed to, 1765, 284 n.
——Mary, wife of Joseph, Sr., 283 n.
——Nathaniel (c. 1613–1685), Secretary of Plymouth Colony, son of George, his New England’s Memorial, mentioned, 282; preface to Judge Davis’s edition of, quoted, 283.
——Perez (b. 1739), son of Joseph, Jr., died in infancy, 283 n.
——Perez (c 1750–1837), H. C. 1771, Attorney-General of Massachusetts, son of Joseph, Jr., 12 n., 283 n., 289; suit of Massachusetts against Samuel Tarbell brought by, 275; papers relating to the suit, 276–282; birth, 282 and note; resided in Boston, 282; death, 282 n.; pedigree of, 283 and note; baptized, 283 n.; education, 284; White Horse Inn conveyed to, 284 n.; various offices held by, 284, 285; public confidence in his ability, 286; chairman of committee which reported plan for changing the celebration of the Fifth of March to that of the Fourth of July, 286, 287; chairman of committee to provide Fourth of July orator, 287; delivers the oration at the time of the removal of Gen. Warren’s body to the old Granary Burying Ground, 287: member of the Masonic Fraternity, 288 n.; his Oration, quoted, 288; a proprietor and vestryman of King’s Chapel, 289; Attorney for Suffolk, 289; made a Barrister, 289; opened a law office after the Revolution, 289; petitions General Court to authorize Lottery for repairing Boston Pier, 289 n.; marriage, 290 and note: descendants, 290 n.; a Democrat, 291; Speaker of the House and Attorney General, 291 and note; appointed a Commissioner on Lincoln County land titles, 291; death, 292; houses occupied by, 292 n.
——Sarah (Apthorp, 1759–1846), sometimes called Sarah Wentworth Morton, wife of Perez, 288, 290 and note; called the American Sappho, 290; authoress of repute, and wrote under the signature of Philenia, 290; death, 290 and note; her Song for the Public Celebration of the National Peace, printed, 290 n.; her poem entitled The African Chief, mentioned, 290 n.
——The Old, and Taylor Estates in Dorchester, Mass., by David Clapp, cited, 292 n.
——Memoranda, by J. G. Leach, cited, 283 n., 290 n.
Moses, John, of Piscataqua River, N. H., deed to, 1646, 176 n.
Motley, John Lothrop (1814–1877), D. C. L., 365.
Moulton, Thomas (d. 1664), of Newbury and Hampton, petition for abatement of his fine, 1649, 121, 123.
——Thomas, of York, his land at the New Mill creek, 1699, mentioned, 178 n.
Mount Vernon Street, Boston, 343.
Mountjoy. See Munjoy.
Muddy River and Brookline Records, quoted, 237 and note, 250.
Munjoy, George, Sr. (d. 1681), of Boston and Casco, 15; land of, 16.
——George, Jr. (1656–1698), of Boston and Braintree, son of George of Casco, 15, 16.
——Mary (Phillips), widow of George, Sr. See Lawrence.
Murray, James Augustus Henry, LL.D., 225.
Muscovado (unrefined sugar), 256.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 198 n.
Muster Rolls, copy of, of troops raised in Massachusetts, 1778, 225; mentioned, 349, 350.
My Geoff, by J. S. Winter, quoted, 253.
Mystic River, Mass., 50.
Mystic Side (Maiden), Mass., petition to General Court as to its name, 125, 153.
Nantucket, Mass., 71.
Narragansett expedition, 1675, 173.
——Club, Publications of, quoted, 228.
Narrative and Critical History of America, cited, 65 n., 70 n., 72 n., 265 n., 272 n.
Nash, Nathaniel Cushing, A.B., xvii; of committee for raising the Gould Memorial Fund, 307, 346; subscribes to the Fund, 309.
Nation, The, quoted, 225, 240, 241.
National Association of Democrats, 91.
——Convention, Democratic, 1896, 92; W. E. Russell declines to be delegate to, but subsequently attends, 91.
——Gallery, London, Copley’s picture of the Death of Major Pierson in, 215.
Naval War College, at Newport, R. I., 49.
Neal, Rev. Daniel (1678–1743), his History of New England, quoted, 21.
Negroes, 226, 230, 231, 235, 238, 250; slaves in the South, 229; slaves, 229 n., 230 n.; called servant, 230; employed by Quakers, 238; Newport, a negro, 238; John Boatman, a negro, 239; prejudice against, 252; service left to, 253; in Jamaica, 256; blacks, 251; suppression of negro vote in the South, 377.
Neill, Rev. Edward Duffield, his Fairfaxes of England and America, cited, 222 n.; his Virginia Carolorum, cited, 228 n.
Neilson, Peter, his Recollections of a Six Years’ Residence in the United States of America, quoted, 251.
Nelson, Thomas (d. c. 1648), of Rowley, concerning his will, 123.
Netherlands, 363.
Nevill, Samuel, his Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New Jersey, quoted, 237.
New England, 13, 23, 29, 35, 42, 80 n., 83, 100, 134, 167, 172, 193, 197, 243 n., 252, 276, 278, 279, 281, 320, 331, 333, 351, 359, 384, 387 n., 389, 408 n.; writs of Quo Warranto and Scire Facias against colonies of, 219; farming life of, 240; hired man of, 240; seating the meeting-house in, 243; use of the term help in, 243 n.; the word help in vogue among the clergy of, 244; term help early confined, in its concrete sense, to, 244; type of character, 272; tyranny and persecution in, 370. See United Colonies.
New England, Early Painters and Engravers of, by W. H. Whitmore, cited, 193 n.
New England, Ecclesiastical History of, by J. B. Felt, cited, 176 n.
New England, Fast and Thanksgiving Days of, by W. DeL. Love, cited, 168, 169 n.
New England, First Essays at Banking and the First Paper Money in, by J. H. Trumbull, mentioned, 111.
New England, Genealogical Dictionary of, by James Savage, cited, 142 n., 176 n., 177 n.; quoted, 237 n.
New England, History of, by John Winthrop, cited, 18 n., 180 n., 235 n.; by Rev. Daniel Neal, quoted, 21; by J. G. Palfrey, cited, 170 n., 171 n., 217 n., 218 n., 219 n.; quoted, 386; (Ecclesiastical) by J. B. Felt, cited, 176 n.
New England Company, the, 1896, quoted, 248.
New England Country Gentleman, a sketch of Col. H. Bromfield, cited, 202 n.
New England Historic Genealogical Society, manuscript genealogy of the Child, Mayo and other families, deposited in library of, 64 n.
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, cited, 53 n., 71 n., 112 n., 142 n., 168 n., 171 n., 174 n., 176 n., 193 n., 198 n., 202 n., 210 n., 211 n., 215 n., 226 n., 228 n., 242 n., 247 n., 261 n., 265 n., 292 n., 340 n., quoted, 180 n., 237, 239, 246, 249.
New England Magazine, 1890, cited, 202 n., 210 n.
New England’s Memorial, by Nathaniel Morton, mentioned, 282.
New Hampshire, 278, 280, 291, 404.
——Council, 183.
New Hampshire, History of, by J. Belknap, cited, 173 n., 180 n., 184 n.
New Hampshire Provincial Papers, cited, 183 n., 184 n.; quoted, 255.
New Hampshire Reports, cited, 404 n.
New Haven (Town) Conn., 78, 110, 238, 298, 412; enjoys Gov. Hopkins’s bounty, 389 n.
——County Court, 201.
New Haven Colony Historical Society, 111; Historical Account of the Connecticut Currency, by Henry Bronson, M.D., in Papers of, cited, 111 n.
New Jersey, Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of, by S. Nevill, quoted, 237.
——Archives, quoted, 235, 236; cited, 226 n.
——College of, 206 n.
New London (Town), Conn., 51, 74 n., 100, 108, 111, 325; History of, by Frances M. Caulkins, quoted, 99 n.
New London County, Conn., precept addressed to Sheriff of, 101.
——Registry of Deeds, 110.
New London Society United for Trade and Commerce, 1732, 98; Connecticut Company obtains charter under the title of, 97; emits bills of credit, 99; fac-simile of bill of credit issued by, 100; the, summoned to appear before the General Assembly, 101; Assembly’s decisions against, 102; bills of credit of, cause confusion, 102; the Assembly determined that the, had forfeited the privileges granted them, 103; currency of, hailed with delight, 103; drawing in of bills of, 104; petition to revive, 104; Assembly attempts to protect possessors of bills of, 105; public bills lent to mortgagors in place of bills of, 106; property of, sold to furnish means for redemptions of its bills, 107; exact amount of the circulation of bills of, not known, 108; old bills of, burnt, 108; proclamation issued exchanging bills of, for bills of the Colony, 109; circulation of bills of, practically ceased, 109; material features of the mortgages of, 110; Colonial government of Connecticut wisely treated, 110; Dr. Douglass on, 111.
New Will Creek, York, Me., 178 n.
New North Church, Boston, 214 n.
New Romney, Kent, England, the Manuscripts of the Corporation of, in the Fifth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, quoted, 242.
New Tenor. See Bills of Credit.
New York (State), 272, 312; Documents Relative to the Colonial History of, cited, 112 n., 235 n.; Documentary History of the State of, cited, 235 n.; P. Van Schaack’s Laws of, quoted, 238.
——Assembly, Crean Brush, a member of, 272.
——Independent Companies, 236. See also Regiments.
New York (City), 82, 88, 200 n., 201 n., 212, 216 n., 222, 251, 270, 272, 274, 294, 319, 362.
——Astor Library, 52.
——Broadway, 200 n.
——Daily Advertiser, quoted, 201 n.
——Directory, cited, 200 n.
——Evening Post, quoted, 310, 381.
——Herald, quoted, 194.
——Lenox Library, 56, 316, 317, 340.
——Public Library, Bulletin of, cited, 56 n.
——Trinity Church, 201 n.
——Wall Street, 200 n.
Newbery. See Newbury.
Newburg, N. Y., 224.
Newbury, Mass., 41, 78, 117, 119, 121, 123, 127. See Byfield Parish.
——Dummer Academy, 206 n.
——Meeting-House, 387.
Newbury, History of, by J. Coffin, cited, 205 n.
——(now Washington) Street, Boston, 283 n.
Newcomb, Simon, D.C.L., F.R.S., xviii; elected Honorary Member, 298, 347; letter of acceptance, 299.
Newell, John, juror, 1777, 261.
Newgate, London, Eng., 404 n.
Newman, Francis William (1805–1897), his acquaintance with J. H. Allen, 313.
——Church, East Providence Centre, R. I., records of, cited, 283 n.
Newport, a negro, faithfulness of, 238.
Newton, Thomas (1704–1782), D.D., Bishop of Bristol, England, 199.
Newton, Mass., 74, 186, 193, 194.
——Town Records of, mentioned, 74 n.
——First Church, records of lost, 74 n.
Nicholas II., Czar of Russia, calls a peace conference, 379.
Nicholas, Anne (Cary), wife of Robert Carter, 222.
——Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Carter. See Randolph.
——Robert Carter, of Virginia, 222.
Nickolls, John, deposition, 1692, 16.
Niles, Samuel (1711–1804), H. C. 1731, Judge of the Inferiour Court of Common Pleas, son of Rev. Samuel of Braintree, 281.
Noax or Voax, Mary, in Boston Gaol, 1777, 264.
Noble, John, LL.D., vi, xv, xvi, 36, 94, 152; of Committee of Publication, ii; preparing paper on military movements of the Province during French Wars, 5; his Early Court Files of Suffolk County, cited, 5 n.; reads paper on Superiour and Supreme Court records, 5–26; elected Corresponding Secretary, 34, 354; offers Minute, on retirement of A. McF. Davis, 35; remarks on death of Judge Lowell, 47, 48; of F. V. Balch, 190, 191; exhibits bill for meals and lodgings of Jury which tried British Soldiers, 1770, 58–60; furnishes extract from record of Capt. Preston’s Trial, 82; finds memorandum about fire of 1747, 113, 114 and note; presents copy of Fragment of Journal of the Massachusetts House of Deputies, 1649, 115, 116; the Fragment, 116–132; communication from A. C. Goodell, Jr., expressing appreciation of the care and arrangement of the Suffolk Court Files and Records by, 132–135; remarks by, upon the light thrown upon the character of Vol. III. of the Mass. Colony Records by the Fragment, 135–143; W. P. Upham’s letter thereon to, 144–146; letter to, from A. C. Goodell, Jr., concerning the Fragment, 161–167; communicates a paper entitled, Some Massachusetts Tories, 257–297; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; remarks by, on Harvard Theses of 1663, 335–339; motion of, on death of P. H. Sears, 343 n., 344 n.; proposes health of A. C. Goodell, Jr., 356; paper on Hue and Cry Acts, 392–412.
Non-Importation Resolution, 1767, 63.
Norfolk Records, the old, cited, 175 n.
Norrel, James, of Oley, Pa., 1735, 235.
North, the, 230.
North America, 320.
North American Review, mentioned, 362.
North Carolina, 388 n.; freeman of, 229 n.; History of, by F. L. Hawks, quoted, 249.
North Eastern Boundary question, 378.
North Latin School, Boston, 271.
Northampton, Mass., 120.
Northamptonshire, England, 80 n.
Northborough, Mass., Rev. Joseph Allen pastor of First Parish in, 310.
Northend, Edna or Edney (Bayly), wife of Ezekiel, 1649, 118, 119, 152.
——Ezekiel (b. c. 1622), of Rowley, 119, 120.
Northirne. See Northend.
Norton, Charles Eliot, LL.D., his Memorial Address on Gov. Russell, quoted, 92.
——Capt. Francis (d. 1667), of Charlestown, 118.
——Henry (d. 1658), of York, Marshal of the Colony, 182.
Norwalk, Conn., 78.
Norwood, Ebenezer, loyalist, 260.
Note Book, Bracton’s, cited, 404 n.
Notes and Queries (English), cited, 53.
Nourse, Henry Stedman (H. C. 1853), his History of Harvard, cited, 198 n., 202 n., 207 n.
Nowell, Elder Increase (1590–1665), Secretary of the Colony, 116, 120 n., 130, 141 n.
Noyes, James Atkins, A.B., xvii.
Nunattconett (Nunateconett, Nunanicut), an Indian, deed from, 16.
O’brien, Lady Mary, daughter of the Earl of Thomond. See Dudley.
Official Letters, A. Spotswood’s, cited, 235 n.
Ohio, family establishment in, 251.
Old South Church, Boston, History of, by H. A. Hill, cited, 289 n.
Old South Meeting House, Boston, 6, 49, 134 and note; Dr. Church delivers oration in, 267; congregation of, occupy King’s Chapel, 289.
Old State House, Boston, 6, 62 n.
Old Tenor. See Bills of Credit.
Old Town House, Boston, 49.
Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, by John Fiske, cited, 228 n.
Oley, Penn., 235.
Oliver, Andrew (1731–1799), H. C. 1749, of Salem, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, son of Lieut.-Governor Andrew (H. C. 1724), 67 n.
——Capt. James (d. 1682), of Boston, 123.
——Mary (Lynde), wife of Judge Andrew, 67 n.
——Chief-Justice Peter (1713–1791), D.C.L., H. C. 1730, 67 n., 70, 71 n., 72, 197; offices held by, 71; impeachment of, 72 n.; birth, 73; death, 74; character of, 74.
——Peter (1822–1855), son of Dr. Daniel, his Puritan Commonwealth, quoted, 386.
Olney, Hon. Richard, LL.D., xvi; elected member of the Council, 35.
Orange, Prince of, 81 n.
Orange Historical and Antiquarian Society, 319.
Oregon Boundary question, 378.
Original Letters, Cardinal Bainbridge in H. Ellis’s, quoted, 245.
Otis, Harrison Gray (1765–1848), LL.D., H. C. 1783, 22, 61 n., 213 and note, 343.
——James (1725–1783), H. C. 1743, son of Judge James, 69 n., 72 n.
——Joseph (b. 1709), son of Capt. Stephen of Scituate, 59, 264 n.; keeper of the Suffolk County Jail, 61; offices held by, 61–63; his original report, giving names of persons in Suffolk Jail in February, 1777, 264.
——Joseph, Jr. (b. 1734), son of Joseph of Boston and Ellsworth, Me., 62 n.
——Mercy. See Warren.
Oyer and Terminer, Court of, 71.
Oxford, Robert Harley (1661–1724), Earl of, 78.
Oxford, England, Tom Brown at, by T. Hughes, quoted, 256.
Oxford English Dictionary, 225 n.; quoted, 256.
Oxford University, England, 74.
Paddock, Capt. Adino (d. 1804), 274.
Paige, Lucius Robinson, D.D. (1802–1896), his History of Cambridge, cited, 75 n., 76 n., 171 n., 340 n.
Paine. See Payne, Robert.
——Nathaniel, A.M., xvi; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Robert Treat (1731–1814), LL.D., H. C. 1749, Attorney-General of Massachusetts, 77, 275, 280.
——Robert Treat, Jr. (1773–1811), H. C. 1792, changed his name from Thomas Paine, 290 and note; calls Mrs. Morton the American Sappho, 290; poetical correspondence with her, 290.
——Thomas (1773–1811). See Robert Treat Paine (H. C. 1792).
——William (b. 1657), of Boston, son of Moses, 284 n.
Painting, name of a colored mezzotint, 199 n.
Palfrey, John Gorham (1796–1881), LL.D., his History of New England, cited, 170 n., 171 n., 217 n., 218 n., 219 n.; quoted, 386.
——John Gorham, LL.B. (H. C. 1896), xvii.
Palmer, Joseph (1718–1788), Executive Councillor, 1776, 13 n.
——Walter, trial of, 1630, 18.
Papists, 227 n.
Paradise Lost, Milton’s, quoted, 248.
Paris, France, 375.
Park, Rev. Edwards Amasa (1808–1900), LL.D., his Address on Dr. Pearson, cited, 207 n.
Parke, William (d. 1685), of Roxbury, 117, 131.
Parker, David, loyalist, 260 n., 261.
——Francis Edward (H. C. 1841), 46.
——Rev. Henry Ainsworth, A.M., xvii; communicates paper about Quakers or Society of Friends, 386–389.
——Jonathan, of jury which tried Capt. Thomas Preston, 1770, 82.
——Matthew (1504–1575), Archbishop of Canterbury, entertained Queen Elizabeth and her Court, 1573, at Croyden, 196 n.
——Lt. Col. Moses (d. 1775), 261 n.
Parkes. See Parke.
Parkinson, Richard (1748–1815), his Tour in America, quoted, 239.
Parkman, Eliza Willard Shaw, daughter of Rev. Francis (H. C. 1807), subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Francis (1823–1893), LL.D., son of Rev. Francis (H. C. 1807), xvi, 343; famous for his contributions to historical literature, 365.
——Samuel (1751–1824), Boston merchant, father of Francis (H. C. 1807), 297.
Parks. See Parke.
Parliament, of England, 57, 61 n., 81 n., 134 n., 162, 217, 222, 320; Act of, 110, 231 n.; Upper House of, 218 n.; address signed by members of, 378; mission of, 378.
Parris, Albion Keith (1788–1857), Governor of Maine, 311.
Parsons, Rev. Moses (H. C. 1736), of Byfield, Mass., 206 n.
——Theophilus (1750–1813), LL.D., Chief-Justice of Massachusetts, 363.
Pascataquack. See Piscataqua.
Patent, to the Bishop of London, 1726, 113 and note.
——under which Colony of Connecticut was planted, 217 and note.
Patent Roll 13 George I., cited, 112 n.
Patentees, dwelling in the Great House, Charlestown, 1630, 17.
Patrick, Capt. Daniel (d. 1643), of Watertown, 246.
Paul’s Church-yard, London, 387 n.
Paxton, Charles (1704–1788), 289.
Payne, Lawrence, of London, 262 n.
——Martha, wife of Lawrence, 262 n.
——Mary, daughter of Lawrence. See Downs; Reed; Wentworth.
——Robert (c. 1601–1684), of Ipswich, Treasurer of Essex County, 117, 123, 127, 131.
Peabody, George (1795–1869), LL.D., gives fund of $20,000 to Massachusetts Historical Society, 308.
——Joseph (1757–1844), of Topsfield and Salem, 360.
——Nathaniel, 1777, 279.
——Judge Oliver (1753–1831), H. C. 1773, of Andover and Newburyport, Mass., and Exeter, N. H., Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1778–1781, son of Lieut. Oliver, 10 n.
Peak, John (d. 1755), of Walpole, N. H, 240.
Pearson, David, Jr. (b. 1728), of Bradford, Mass., father of Rev. Eliphalet, 205 n.
——Rev. Eliphalet (1752–1826), LL.D., son of David, Jr., 205 and note; 208, 210 n.; 214 and note; birth, 205 n.; education, 206 n.; various positions held by, 206 n.; marriages, 206 n.; death, 206 n.; Prof. Park’s address on, in the Congregationalist, cited, 207 n.; Eliphalet Pearson at Andover, in the Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, cited, 207 n.; Dr. Bancroft’s article The Grave of Dr. Pearson, cited, 207 n.
——Margaret Bromfield. See Blanchard.
——Priscilla (Holyoke) (d. 1782), first wife of Rev. Eliphalet, 206 n.
——Sally (Bromfield) (1757–1831), second wife of Rev. Eliphalet, 199 and note, 204 and note, 205, 206 n., 214 and note; letters to, from Mary Pelham, 205, 207, 208.
——Sarah (Danforth), wife of David, Jr., 205 n.
——See Pierson.
Pegall, John Peters, petition for leave to marry, 1649, 124, 140.
Peggy. ship, 270.
Peirce, Benjamin (1809–1880), LL.D., 365.
——James Mills, A.M., xvi.
Pelham, Catherine (Butler, d. 1784), wife of Henry, 204; inscription on her tomb quoted, 205.
——Charles (b. 1722), son of Peter, Jr., 193 and note, 194, 195, 196 n., 209 n., 210 n.; his letter to Henry Bromfield, 209, 210.
——Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas of Rhode Island, 194, 195.
——Harriot, daughter of Charles, 209 n.
——Helena (d. 1782), daughter of Peter, Sr., 195 and note.
——Helena Maria, daughter of Peter, Jr., 194, 195.
——Henry (1748–1806), son of Peter, Jr., paper on, the Half-Brother of John Singleton Copley, by D. R. Slade, v, 193–211; paper mentioned, 350; ancestry, 193, 194; birth, 194; Records of London Court of Chancery furnish information about Pelham family, 195; early homes, 196; his portrait by Copley, mentioned, 196; education, 196 n.; his power of attorney to Henry Bromfield, 197; develops artistic tastes and becomes portrait painter, 197; his attire, 198; admirer of Mrs. Blanchard, 199; his letters to Isaac W. Clarke, 199, and to Col. Elihu Hall, 200; his bill for painting Col. Hall’s picture, 200; goes to Europe, 203; draws a plan of Boston, before going, 203; gives instruction in London, 203; marriage, 204; inscription on his wife’s tomb, quoted, 205; his letter about Elizabeth C. Copley, quoted, 207, 208; his mother dies, 209; death, 211.
——Margaret (Lowrey), second wife of Peter, Jr., 193.
——Maria, probably daughter of Peter, Jr., 194 n. See Pelham, Helena Maria.
——Martha, first wife of Peter, Jr., 193.
——Mary, daughter of Thomas of Rhode Island, 194, 195.
——Mary Singleton (Copley, d. 1789), third wife of Peter, Jr., 194, 196 n., 203, 204 and note; her letters to Sally Bromfield, 205, 207, 208; death, 209 and note.
——Mary (Tyler), wife of Charles, 193 n.
——Penelope (1735–1756), daughter of Peter, Jr., 193–195.
——Penelope, daughter of Thomas of Rhode Island, 194, 195.
——Peter, Sr. (d. 1756), of England, his will, descendants, and death, 195.
——Peter, Jr. (d. 1751), of Boston, the emigrant, son of Peter, Sr., 96 and note, 193 n., 194 and note, 195 and note, 196 n., 204 n., 209 n.; first and second marriages of, 193; third marriage, 194; death, 195, 196.
——Peter (bapt. 1721), son of Peter, Jr., 193–195.
——Peter (b. 1784), son of Henry, 204, 211.
——Thomas, of Newport, Rhode Island, and Boston, son of Peter, Jr., 193–195.
——Thomas, Jr., son of Thomas of Rhode Island, 194, 195.
——William (1729–1761), son of Peter, Jr., 193, 195.
——William, defendant in suit brought in England, about 1790, by the American Pelhams, 195.
——William (b. 1784), son of Henry, 204, 211.
Pemberton, Rev. Ebenezer (1671–1717), H. C. 1691, 249.
——Samuel (1723–1779), H. C. 1742, Justice of the Court of General Sessions, and of the Inferiour Court of Common Pleas, son of James, 281; audits accounts of Building Committee on new Court House, 1769, 22 n.
——Thomas (1728–1807), of Boston, son of Thomas, 22.
——Square, Boston, 23.
Pen. See Penn.
Pendleton, Major Bryan (c. 1599–1681), of Saco, Deputy-President of the Province of Maine, 172 and note, 178 n., 179 n.
Penewell. See Penwill.
Penn, James (d. 1671), of Boston, 117, 119, 120, 125, 127, 131, 246; to secure powder, 124.
——Juliana (Fermor), wife of Thomas, 55.
——Thomas (1702–1775), son of William, 55.
——William (1644–1718), one of the hereditary proprietors of Pennsylvania, 55.
Pennsylvania, 55, 236, 376; Representatives of the Province of, 228; free recruits in, 236.
——Colonial Records, quoted, 228, 231 n., 236.
——Gazette, quoted, 227 n., 235.
——University of, Trustees of Philadelphia Academy now, 227 n.
Penwill, John, of York, mariner, 1674, 180 n., 181.
——Joseph (d. c. 1704), of York, brother of John, 181 n.
——Sarah (Davis), wife of John, 181.
Pepperrell, William (d. 1734), father of Sir William, 183 n.
——Sir William (1698–1759), 193 and note, 236, 319, 349; communication about portrait of, by F. L. Gay, 95; inscription, 96; his portrait, mentioned, 211; commission granted by, to Joseph Dwight, 320.
Pepys, Samuel (1632–1703), quoted, 243 n.; his Diary, mentioned, 243 n.
Pequeuts Indians. See Pequot.
Pequot Indians, 246.
Pericles, by Shakspere, quoted, 245.
Perkins, Augustus Thorndike (H. C. 1851), 198 n.; his Memoir of Copley, quoted, 198; his Sketch of the Life and a List of some of the Works of John Singleton Copley, cited, 208 n.; his supplement to Sketch, mentioned, 209 n.
——James (d. 1803), loyalist, 261.
——Lydia. See Wardwell.
Perry, William, loyalist, 260 and note.
Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life, by Joseph T. Buckingham, quoted, 219.
Peru, 362.
Peters, Hon. John Andrew, LL.D., Chief-Justice of Maine, xviii; elected a Corresponding Member, 412.
Petty, William. See Lansdowne.
Phelps, Edward, 297 n.
——Hon. Edward John, LL.D., Minister to England, xviii; deceased, xix; letter of regret from, 357.
——Martha (Tarbell), wife of Edward, 297 n.
——family, 296.
Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity, W. C. Lane exhibits original Charter and one of the first silver medals of Harvard Chapter of, 37; original charter restored to, 349.
Philadelphia, Pa., 52, 53, 232 n.; evacuation of, 54.
——Academy. See University of Pennsylvania.
——Annals of, by J. F. Watson, quoted, 239.
——(or Centennial) Exhibition, 51, 375.
——Independence Hall, 376.
——Independence Square, 376.
——Minutes of the Common Council of the City of, quoted, 227 n.
Phillips, Augustine, 1605, his will, quoted, 242.
——Benjamin, loyalist, 260 and note.
——John (1719–1795), LL.D., H. C. 1735, founder of Phillips Academy, Exeter, son of Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1708), 15.
——Mary, daughter of John, of Boston. See Lawrence; Munjoy.
——Major William (d. 1683) of Charlestown and Saco, 118, 152, 178 n.
——William (1722–1804), of Boston, son of Rev. Samuel, 58, 72 n., 266, 267.
——William (1750–1827), Lieut.-Governor of Massachusetts, son of William (1722–1804), 196 n., 206 n.
——family, 359.
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 206 n., 207 n., 342.
Pickering, Edward Charles, LL.D., xvii.
——John (1777–1846), LL.D., H. C. 1796, quoted, 250.
Picture of Boston, by Abel Bowen, cited, 23.
Pictures and Royal Portraits Illustrative of English and Scottish History, by Thomas Archer, cited, 215 n.
Pierce, Deborah (Tarbell), wife of George, 297 n.
——George, 297 n.
Pierpont, Lieut. Robert, of Roxbury, 1774, 61 n.
Pierrepont, Edwards (1817–1892), D.C.L., Minister to England, 52.
Pierson, Major Francis (d. 1781), 207, 213; E. G. Porter’s remarks about Copley’s picture of, called the Death of Pierson, 214, 215; gallant achievements of, in the Island of Jersey, 214; death, 214; inscription where Pierson fell, 215; buried in Town Church, 215.
——See Pearson.
Pike, Major Robert (c. 1616–1706), of Newbury and Salisbury, 117.
Pinchon. See Pynchon.
Piper, William Taggard, Ph.D., xvii; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Piscataq River. See Piscataqua.
Piscataqua River, N. H., 170, 176 n., 185.
Pischatqr River. See Piscataqua.
Pitts, John (1738–1815), H. C. 1757, Speaker of the House, 268, 280.
Plain Dealing, by Thomas Lechford quoted, 18.
Plaisted, James, of York, Representative, 1701, 177 n.
Platt, Lieut. Harold Esmonde, aide-de-camp to Gen. Barker, 49.
——Thomas Collier, U. S. Senator from New York, 241.
Playfair, Lyon Playfair (1819–1898), Baron, visits this country, 378.
Pleas of the Crown, by E. H. East, quoted, 403, 404; cited, 404 n.; by Sir Mathew Hale, quoted, 402, 403; cited, 404 n.; by W. Hawkins, cited, 404 n.
Plum Island, off Newbury, Mass., 119, 120, 123.
Plymouth (Colony), Mass., 95, 282, 300, 301, 387.
——Colony Records, cited, 185 n., 387 n., 390 n.; quoted, 233; mentioned, 387.
——County, Mass., 71.
——Court Records. See above, Plymouth Colony Records.
Plymouth (Town), Mass., 235, 282 and note, 283 and note, 321 n., 322, 342.
——Town Records of, quoted, 235; cited, 283 n.
——Ancient Landmarks of, by W. T. Davis, cited, 283 n.
——First Parish, 283 n.
——Middle Street, 283 n.
——Third Parish, 283 n.; records of, quoted, 283 n.; meeting-house built in, 283 n.; Precinct Book, cited, 283 n.
Plymouth Company, England, 170; its Charter surrendered to Charles I., 170.
Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous, by Mercy Warren, cited, 321 n.
Political Poems and Songs relating to English History, edited by T. Wright, quoted, 242.
Pollock, Sir Frederick, LL.D., 400; Pollock and Maitland’s History of English Law, quoted, 400, 401.
Pomfret, Thomas Fermor (d. 1753), Earl of, 55.
Pond, Eliphalet (1704–1795), of Dedham, Justice of the Court of General Sessions, son of Jabez, 60 and note.
Porter, Rev. Edward Griffin, A.M., xvii, 207 n.; of Committee of Publication, ii; deceased, xix; speaks at annual dinner, 37; remarks on General Barker, by, 49–55; his chapter in the Memorial History of Boston, cited, 70 n.; reads communication from Mr. A. C. Goodell, Jr., 132–135; his remarks on Copley’s picture, the Death of Pierson, 214, 215; old pouch of bullets exhibited by, 220; his remarks on Hopestill Capen, 297, 298; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Portland, Me., Willis’s History of, cited, 16 n.
Portman Square, London, 321.
Portsmouth, N. H., 172, 177 n., 238, 290 n.
——Athenæum, 211.
Potomac River, Virginia, 221.
Powell, Thomas, of Boston, mariner, bought White Horse Inn, 1700, 284 n.
Pownall, Thomas (1720–1805), Governor of Massachusetts, 70 n.
Practical Notes made during a Tour in Canada, and a Portion of the United States, by A. Fergusson, quoted, 252.
Preble, Major Abraham (d. 1663), of Scituate and York, Treasurer of the County of York, 180 n.
——Lieut. Abraham (c. 1642–1714), of York, Treasurer of the County of York and Judge of the Inferiour Court of Common Pleas, son of Major Abraham, 183 n.
——Capt. Caleb (1689–1734), of York, son of Lieut. Abraham, 178 n.
Prence, Thomas (1600–1673), Governor of Plymouth Colony, 233, 342.
Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Eng., records of (St. John), cited, 179 n.
Prescott, Col. James (1721–1800), of Groton, son of Hon. Benjamin, 13 n., 278.
——Judge Oliver (1731–1804), M.D., H. C. 1750, son of Hon. Benjamin, 279.
——Col. William (1726–1795), of Groton, commander at Bunker Hill, son of Hon. Benjamin, 50.
——William Hickling (1796–1859), D.C.L., 365.
Present State of Virginia, by H. Jones, quoted, 231.
Presidential election of 1884, 86.
Preston, Capt. Thomas, 65; trial of, 1770, 66–70; extract from record of trial of, 82.
——Thomas, F.S.A., Clerk of the Privy Council, 1897, 78 n.
Presumpscot River, Me. See Amacogan.
Pretender, the Old. See Stuart.
Price, Ezekiel (1727–1802), of Boston, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, 60, 61 n., 261, 277, 281; sided with the Whigs, 14 n.; diary of, quoted, 62 n., 261 n., 265, 270, 274.
——Rev. Roger (1696–1762), Rector of King’s Chapel, Boston, 112, 114.
Prichard, Capt. Hugh, of Gloucester and Roxhury, 1649, 117, 130–132, 141 n.
Prince, Rev. Thomas (1687–1758), H. C. 1707, List of Subscribers to his Annals, mentioned, 15 n.
Prince George County, Md., 222.
Prince Library, Boston, 356.
Prince Society, Boston, Publications of, cited, 340 n.
Princeton University. See College of New Jersey.
Printing in America, Isaiah Thomas’s History of, cited, 390 n.
Privy Council, of England, 69 n., 78 n., 79 n., 113.
——Councillor, Earl of Manchester made a, 218 n.
Probate, Courts of, 135.
——Judge of, in Suffolk, 194 n.
Proclamation. See Thanksgiving Proclamation.
Procter,——, excused from service on jury which tried Capt. T. Preston, 1770, 67 n.
Prohibition, supporters of, in Cambridge, 85.
Protection, policy of, 89.
Protector, English (O. Cromwell), 218 n.
Providence, R. I., 216, 237 and note, 291; town meeting at, 255.
——Newman Church, East Providence Centre, records of, cited, 283 n.
Providence, R. I., Early Records of the Town of, quoted, 255.
Province Laws. See under Massachusetts.
Provincial Banks: Land and Silver, paper on, by A. McF. Davis, cited, 96 n.
——Congress. See Congress.
Public Library, Boston, 50, 65 n., 144, 342; Chamberlain Collection in, 65.
Public Library, New York, Bulletin of, cited, 56 n.
Public Library, Raynham, Mass., 55 n.
Public Record Office, London, 28, 29, 181 n.
Puddington, Anne, wife of Robert, Sr., 179 n.
——Elias, son of George, Jr., 180 n.
——Frances, daughter of George, Jr., 180 n.
——George, Sr., brother of Robert, Sr., 179 n., 180 n.
——George, Jr. (d. c. 1647), of York, son of Robert, Sr., 179, 180; various offices held by, 179 n.; his will mentioned, 180 n.
——John, son of George, Jr., executes a deed, 1674, 180 n.
——Mary, widow of George, Jr., 179; married to Major John Davis, 180; indicted, 1640, by the bench, 180 n. See Davis.
——Mary, daughter of George, Jr., 180 n.
——Rebecca, daughter of George, Jr., 180 n.
——Robert, Sr. (d. c. 1631), of Tiverton, Devonshire, Eng., 179 n.
——Robert, Jr., of York, Me., son of Robert, Sr., 180 n.
Pullen Point (now Winthrop), Mass., 142.
Puritans, 335, 336; Earl of Manchester inclined to the side of the, 218 n.
Puritan Commonwealth, the, by P. Oliver, quoted, 386.
Purrington. See Puddington.
Putnam’s Historical Magazine, 1899, cited, 180 n.
Pynchon, William (1590–1662), 116.
Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts, by R. P. Hallowell, cited, 386 n., 387 n.
——Lane (now Congress Street), Boston, 196 n.
——Meeting House, Boston, 196 n.
Quakers, doctrines of, 185 n.; tabernacles of, 238; H. A. Parker’s remarks on, 386–389; J. G. Palfrey on, 386; P. Oliver on, 386; immodesty of, 387, 388. See Friends.
Quarterly Journal of Economics, article by A. McF. Davis in, cited, 97 n.
Queen (now Court) Street, Boston, 22, 96 n.
Queen’s Rangers, 269. See Regiments.
Quelch, Capt. John, trial of, for piracy, 1704, 20.
Quincey. See Quincy.
Quincy, Judge Edmund (1681–1738), H. C. 1699, Judge of the Superiour Court of Judicature, 11 n.
——Edmund (1703–1788), H. C. 1722, Justice of the Court of General Sessions, son of Judge Edmund, 274; audits accounts of Building Committee, on New Court House, 1769, 22 n.
——Henry Parker, M.D., xvi; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Josiah, Jr. (1744–1775), H. C. 1763, son of Col. Josiah (H. C. 1728), 68, 72 n., 77, 266, 267; his Massachusetts Reports, cited, 67 n., 68 n., quoted, 69, counsel in trial of Capt. Preston, 1770, 69 n.
——Josiah (1772–1864), LL.D., H. C. 1790, President of Harvard College, son of Josiah, Jr. (H. C. 1763), 365.
——Josiah Phillips (H. C. 1850), son of Josiah (H. C. 1821), his remarks concerning the Loyalists, cited, 297 n.
——Samuel (1735–1789), H. C. 1754, son of Col. Josiah (H. C. 1728), Solicitor-General of the Province, 77; diary of, cited, 77 n.; mentioned, 297 n.
——Samuel Miller (1833–1887), H. C. 1852, son of Josiah (H. C. 1821), editor of Quincy’s Massachusetts Reports, 67 n.
Quincy, Mass., 290.
Quinquennial Catalogue. See under Harvard College.
Quo Warranto. See First Writ, Second Writ, Third Writ.
Rackemann, Charles Sedgwick, A M., xvi, 192; proposes health of President Wheelwright, 36, 356; remarks on the death of F. V. Balch, 188, 189; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; communicates commission to Joseph Dwight, 319, 320, and letter of Elizabeth Montagu to Mercy Warren, 321, 322.
Rainsborough, Martha (1617–1660), daughter of William of London. See Coggan; Coytemore; Winthrop.
Rand, Isaac, Jr., M.D. (1743–1822), H. C. 1761, of Boston, 260 and note; of an old Charlestown family, 260 n.
Randolph, Edmund (1753–1813), Attorney-General of the United States, 222.
——Edward (1632–1703), Surveyor-General of the Customs in America, 219, 340 n.
——Elizabeth (Nicholas), wife of Edmund, 222.
——Peyton (1721–1775), President of Congress, 268.
Rangers, Queen’s, 269. See Regiments.
Ranglin Swamp, Groton, Mass., 277.
Rappahannock River, Virginia, 224.
Raritan River, New Jersey, 236.
Rawson, Edward (1615–1693), 19 n., 115–117, 119, 127, 129, 130, 139, 142, 143, 150, 151, 157–159, 170 n., 350, 406–408; Clerk of Deputies, 134; Secretary of the Colony, 134; a diligent worker, 135; characteristic method of working, 136; kept what he called “day books,” 148; offices held by, 149; order appointing, Clerk of the Deputies, 154 n.; left part of Book of Records blank, 160, 161.
Raynes, Francis, of York, Me., his papers seized, 1668, 182.
Raynham, Mass., 55 n.
——Public Library, 55 n.
Reading, Ellen, or Elinor, wife of Thomas of Saco, 410 n.
——Thomas (d. c. 1673), of Saco and Casco Bay, Me., 411; suspicion about murder of son (not named), 407; tidings concerning son, 409; deposition of, 410; made a freeman, 1653, 410 n.
Reading, Mass., 117.
Real Property, law of, 191.
Recollections, by Samuel Breck, quoted, 232 n.
Recollections of a Six Years’ Residence in the United States of America, by P. Neilson, quoted, 251.
Record Commissioners. See under Boston.
Records. See under Massachusetts, Inferiour Court and Superiour Court.
Redding. See Reading.
Reding. See Reading.
Reed, Capt.——, 262 n.
——Mary (Payne), wife of Capt. Reed, 262; marriage to Edward Wentworth, 262; birth in London, 262 n.
——Mary (Tarbell), wife of Samuel, Jr., 297 n.
——family, 296.
Reeves, John (c. 1752–1829), 396, 401; his History of the English Law, quoted, 395 n., cited, 402 n.
Regicides, the, 218 and note; trial of, 218 n.; original Search Warrant for arrest of, in Connecticut, in possession of H. H. Edes, 220, who exhibits it, 340.
Regimental records of the “King’s Own,” 53.
Regiments, or Companies,
——American Dragoons, 294.
——Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 298.
——Carolina Independent Companies, 236.
——Dunbar’s, 236.
——First Suffolk, 64.
——Forty-third, 51.
——Grenadiers, 51.
——Gridley-Knox Artillery, 54.
——Halkett’s, 236.
——King’s Own, or Fourth, 49–54.
——Maryland Artillery, 54.
——New York Independent Companies, 236.
——Pepperrell’s, 236.
——Queen’s Rangers, 269.
——Shirley’s, 236.
——Tenth, 52–55.
——Twenty-seventh, 55.
Registers in Bankruptcy, 1867, 43.
Rehoboth, Mass., 283 n.; Town Records of, cited, 283 n.
Reid. See Reed.
Rembrandt van Ryn (c. 1606–1669), 385.
Remembrancer, the, Hutchinson’s Letter in, cited, 65 n.
Renan, Ernest (1823–1892), the Apostles by, revised and translated by J. H. Allen, 313.
Report on the Trees and Shrubs growing naturally in the Forests of Massachusetts, by G. B. Emerson, quoted, 216; cited, 220 n.
Reports (law), by Sir George Croke, cited, 405 n.; by Sir C. J. Crompton, cited, 405 n.
Republican Party, 374, 378; in Maine, 311.
Resolve of the Massachusetts Legislature, to print the Colony Records, 1853, cited, 136.
Resources of the United States of America, or America and her Resources, by J. Bristed, 251.
Restoration, the, 1662, 182, 217, 218 n.
Reveire. See Revere.
Revere, Col. Paul (1734–1818), 65 n., 211 n., 271.
Revolution, American. See American Revolution.
Revolution, English. See England.
Revolution, Impending, the, chapter by Judge Chamberlain in Narrative and Critical History of America, cited, 65 n.
Revolutionary Government, 1777, 263 n.
Reynor, Humphrey (d. 1660), of Rowley, 117.
Rex v. Jackson et al., cited 404 n.
Rhodes, James Ford, LL. D., xvii.
Richard III., King of England, 204 n., 242 n.
Richards, James (d. 1680), of Boston and Hartford, 389.
Richmond, Va., 387, 388 and note.
——Hall of the General Assembly of Virginia, 388 n.
Ricketson, Hon. John Howland, A.M., xviii; deceased, xix.
Rindge, Daniel, of Ipswich, 1647, 174 and note.
——Frederick Hastings (H. C. 1879), his munificent gifts to Cambridge, 85.
Riot. See Fifth of March.
Rishworth, Edward (d. c. 1690), Recorder of the County of York, 177 n., 178 n., 182, 183 n., 185.
Riverside Press, Cambridge, 384.
Robbins, Rev. Chandler, D.D. (1810–1882), H. C. 1829, his History of the Second Church in Boston, quoted, 250.
Rogers, Abigail (Bromfield, 1753–1791), first wife of Daniel Denison, 205 and note, 208; Copley’s miniature of, mentioned, 210 n.
——Daniel Denison (1751–1825), 212 n.; birth, marriages, and death, 210 n.; Lord Lyndhurst’s letter to, communicated by Mr. Edes, 212–214.
——Elizabeth (Bromfield, 1763–1833), second wife of Daniel Denison, 208, 210 n., 214.
——John (c. 1500–1555), “the Martyr.” See Matthew, Thomas.
Rogers Building, Boston, second site of meeting-house of First Church, 18.
Rolfe, Benjamin (b. 1696), Clerk of the Superiour Court of Judicature, son of Rev. Benjamin (H. C. 1684), oath of office, 10 and note; 11 n.
Roman Catholics, 254, 312; Irish, only kind of servants in Canada, 252.
Ropes, Rev. James Hardy, A.B., xvii.
Ross, Mrs.,——, 1817, 232 n.
Rosse, Mary, quakeress, 1683, 387.
Rouley. See Rowley.
Rowe, John (1715–1787), of Boston, record of his case against Crean Brush, 275.
Roxbury, Mass., 50, 60, 61, 63, 117; town meeting of, 60 n., 61 n., 80 n.; Town Records, cited, 61 n.; F. S. Drake’s chapter on Roxbury in the Provincial Period, in Memorial History of Boston, cited, 61 n.
——First Parish, 60 n.
Roxbury, The Town of, by F. S. Drake, cited, 61 n.; quoted, 64.
Royal Academy, London, Catalogue of, 204.
Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, the Manuscripts of the Corporation of New Romney, in the Fifth Report of, quoted, 242.
Royal Society, of London, Sir Matthew Dudley, Fellow of, 81 n.; Transactions of, mentioned, 81 n.; Earl of Manchester, Fellow of, 218 n.
Rumford, Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814), Count, 297.
Russel. See Russell.
Russell, Judge Chambers (1713–1766), H. C. 1731, of Charlestown, son of Daniel, death of, 74.
——Charles Theodore (H. C. 1837), 38, 46, 83.
——Charles Theodore, Jr. (H. C. 1873), son of Charles Theodore (H. C. 1837), 83.
——Margaret Manning (Swan), wife of William Eustis, 92.
——Richard (1611–1676), of Charlestown, Treasurer of the Colony, 116, 118.
——Sarah Elizabeth (Ballister), wife of Charles Theodore, Sr., 83.
——Thomas Hastings (H. C. 1843), 83.
——William Eustis (H. C. 1877), LL.D., Governor of Massachusetts, vi, xvi, 344, 345; Memoir of, communicated by Dr. C. C. Everett, 82; Memoir, 83–93; mentioned, 350; birth, 83; college career, 83; study and early practice of law, 83; Mayor of Cambridge, 84; through his influence, F. H. Rindge gives largely to Cambridge, 85; deals with a strike during his term as Mayor, 86; elected Governor of Massachusetts, 87; his Messages to the Legislature, mentioned, 87; endeavors to improve State Government, 87–88; popularity of, 88; methods as a politician, 88–89; management of his campaigns, 89; opposes protection, 89; frankness his policy, 90; personality, 90–91; delivered annual oration before Yale Law School, 91; addresses students of University of Michigan, 91; addresses the National Association of Democrats, 91; attends National Democratic Convention at Chicago in 1896, 91–92; goes to Canada for rest, 92; death, 92; married Margaret Manning Swan, 92; great loss occasioned by his death, 93.
——William Goodwin (H. C. 1840), LL.D., 43, 46.
Russia, Nicholas II., Czar of, calls for peace conference, 379.
Sabine, Lorenzo (1803–1877), 75 n., 262, 269; his Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, cited, 260 n.; 261 n.; 262 n.; 265 n.; 269 n.; 270 n.; 272 n.
Saccarappa Falls, Me. See Secarrabbig.
Saco, Me., 175 n., 177 n., 178 n., 179 n., 182, 407 and note, 408 and note, 409 n., 410 n. See Winter Harbor.
——Meeting-house, 178 n.
——Falls, Me., 178 n.
Sacoe. See Saco.
Saffin, John (c. 1634–1710), Speaker of the House and Judge of the Superiour Court of Judicature, 80 n.
——Rebecca (Lee), wife of Judge John, 80 n.
Sainsbury, William Noel (1825–1895), 112 and note; his Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies, mentioned, 182 n.
St. Andrew’s Lodge, Boston, 288 n.
St. Hélier, Island of Jersey, 214.
——Town Church, 215.
St. John. See Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
St. John, J. Hector. See Crèvecœur.
St. John the Baptist, Church of, at Croydon, Surrey, England, 196 n.
St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London, 193.
Salem, Mass., 38, 70, 71 n., 112, 117, 199, 200 n., 211, 212 n., 237, 291, 356, 358, 370, 371, 387; celebration in, of landing of Gov. Endicott, 359; L. Saltonstall, the elder, conspicuous in, 360; inhabitants of, of English breed and Puritan stock, 360; for two centuries the chief town of Essex County, 360; at one time a commercial centre, but no longer so, 361; society equal to that of any city in America, 361; Harvard graduates in, 361; Unitarian faith adopted in, 361; L. Saltonstall, the elder, elected Mayor of, 362; influence of Horace Mann in, 362; local traditions of, illustrated by Hawthorne, 362; witchcraft, 362; current events of, 362; social life of, 363; County Court in, 370; witches, 370; ships of, on every sea, 372.
——Castle Hill, 361.
——Court, 145.
——East India Marine Museum, 373.
——Essex Institute. See above.
——Essex Registry of Deeds, 173 n.; 174 n.
——Latin School, fitted boys almost exclusively for Harvard College, 363; considered the first public school established in Massachusetts, 363; inscription on walls of, 363; Oliver Carlton sole instructor in time of Saltonstall, the younger, 364.
Salisbury, Mass., 117, 121, 123, 125.
Salmon, Prof. Lucy Maynard, 251 n., 252 n., 253 n.; her Domestic Service, quoted, 228–230; her letter, quoted, 228 n., 230 n.
Saltonstall, Henry (H. C. 1642), M.D., of Watertown, Mass., returned to England, son of Sir Richard, 364, 369.
——Leverett (1783–1845), H. C. 1802, LL.D., son of Dr. Nathaniel (1746–1815), H. C. 1766, of Haverhill, conspicuous in Salem and the Commonwealth, 360; death, 360; came from Haverhill, 360; elected Mayor of Salem, 362; one of the foremost men at the Essex Bar, 363.
——Hon. Leverett, A.M. (H. C. 1844), son of Leverett (H. C. 1802), vi, xvi, 343; Memoir of, to have been written by John Lowell, 3; remarks on, by G. S. Hale, 4; J. H. Choate’s Memoir of, communicated, 355; Memoir of, 358–385; one of the founders of and first Vice-President of the Colonial Society, 358; wrote Memoir of F. L. Ames, 358; Dr. Holmes’s saying exemplified by, 358; birth, 358; pride of ancestry, 358; present at the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of Gov. Endicott at Salem, 359; descent from pioneer of Puritan immigration, 359; ancestry, 359; his father prominent in Salem and Massachusetts, 360; ambitious to serve his state and country, 360; graduated at Harvard, 360; his maternal ancestors among Salem’s leading merchants, 361; sees arrival of first railroad train from Boston, 361; prepared for college at Salem Latin School, 363; Oliver Carlton his sole instructor, 364; writes appreciative Memoir of Oliver Carlton, 364; enters Harvard, 364; speaks for his Class at Harvard Commencement, 1894, 364; college life, 365; standing in college, 365; social life in college, 366; admitted to Boston bar, 366; his professional career, 366, 367; his public life, 367; earnest public speaker, 368; his enthusiasm for Harvard College, 368; an Overseer, 368; presides at banquet of the Alumni at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, 368; his speeches quoted, 368, 369; presides at banquet in 1892, 369; speaks at celebrations in various towns, 370; President of the Unitarian Club, 370; address of welcome to clergy, quoted, 371; believes in a powerful mercantile marine, 371; his address to the Boston Chamber of Commerce, quoted, 372; his maternal ancestors great shipowners, 372; adapted to public service and discharged his duty faithfully, 373; disapproves Gen. Butler’s election as Governor, 374; attitude towards slavery, 374; on platform during reconstruction period, 375; appointed Chief Commissioner for Massachusetts at Centennial Exhibition, 376; success of the Massachusetts exhibition due to his influence, 376; makes address before opening of exhibition, 376; devotion shown in his first really public service, 376; sent to Florida to witness the local canvass in the disputed election of 1876, 377; his party accepts decision of Electoral Commission, 378; advocates a treaty of arbitration with Great Britain, 378; his address at banquet of Commercial Club, quoted, 378, 379; in advance of his time as regards arbitration, 379; watches development of his children, 379; Collector of the Port of Boston, 380; champion of Civil Service Reform, 380; declines the office of Chief Commissioner of Civil Service, 380; remarks of the N. Y. Evening Post on, quoted, 381; his high standard of conduct as Collector, 381–383; asked to resign his office of Collector, by President Harrison, 383, 384; retires from office, 384; declines a public dinner tendered by his fellow citizens, 384; spends remaining years at Chestnut Hill, 384; completes the Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall of New England, 384; attends Commencement Dinner, 384; death, 385; portrait of, in Boston Custom House, 385; his death a great public loss, 385.
——Col. Nathaniel (1639–1707), H. C. 1659, of Haverhill, Mass., son of Richard (1610–1694), 364.
——Sir Richard (1586–c. 1658), 359, 360, 364; sends protest to Boston ministers, 370; L. Saltonstall completes his book, the Ancestry and Descendants of, of New England, 384.
——Richard (1610–1694), of Ipswich, Mass., son of Sir Richard, 116, 123.
——Richard (1703–1756), H. C. 1722, of Haverhill, Judge of the Superiour Court of Judicature, son of Col. Richard (1672–1714) of Haverhill (H. C. 1695), 71.
——Richard Middlecott, A.B., son of Leverett (H. C. 1844), xvii; of auditing committee, 34; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Robert (d. 1650), of Watertown and Boston, son of Sir Richard, 130.
——Silence (d. 1698), wife of Richard of Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, Eng., portrait of, mentioned, 385.
——family, 363.
Sanborn, Alvan Francis, quoted, 241.
Sandemanian Society, Boston, 270, 271; sites of places of worship of, identified, 271 n.
Sanders, Charles (1783–1864), H. C. 1802, bequeaths funds for building Sanders Theatre, Harvard College, 368. See Saunders.
Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Mass., 368.
Sandy Bay, Gloucester, Mass., 176 n.
Sanford, Hon. John Eliot, LL.D., xvii; of committee on nomination, 299; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
San Francisco, Cal., 340.
Sargeant, Chief-Justice Nathaniel Peaslee (1731–1791), H. C. 1750, appointed Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, 10 n.
Sargent family, 176 n.
Saunders, Charles, 1649, probably an English sea-captain, 122. See Sanders.
——John, of Ipswich, Mass., 1635, 128, 175 n.
——Lieut. John (d. 1670), of Wells, Me., 175 n.
Savage, James (1784–1873), LL.D., H. C. 1803, 173; his Genealogical Dictionary of New England, cited, 142 n., 176 n., 177 n., 325 n., quoted, 237 n.
——Capt. Thomas (c. 1608–1681), of Boston, Speaker of the House, 406.
Saybrook, Conn., 78.
Saye and Sele, William Fiennes (1582–1662), Viscount, 217, 218 n.; made Lord Privy Seal, 218.
Sayward, Samuel, of York, executes deed, 1679, 173 and note.
Scarabig. See Secarrabbig.
School Street, Boston, 22 n., 23.
Schoolmasters, 226; extracts relating to, quoted, 227 n.
Scituate, Mass., 71.
Scollay, Anna Wroe. See Curtis.
——John (1712–1790), Chairman of Selectmen of Boston, son of James, 210 n.
——Mary (Greenleaf), wife of John, 210 n.
——Mercy (1741–1826), daughter of John, 209 n., 210; birth and death, 210 n.
——Col. William (1756–1809), of Boston, son of John, 213 and note.
Scotch servants, 226 n.
Scotland, 241 n.
Scott, Thomas (c. 1594–c. 1654), of Ipswich, 175.
Scribuer’s Monthly Magazine, quoted, 223.
Scull, Gideon Delaplaine, his Evelyns in America, cited, 51 n.
Search Warrant, original, for arrest of Regicides in possession of H. H. Edes, 220; exhibited, 340; mentioned, 349.
Sears, Joshua Montgomery, A.B., xvi.
——Philip Howes, A.M., xvi, 47, 344, 348; remarks on death of George S. Hale, 45–47; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309, 343; death, 341, 342, 343 n.; birth, 342; ancestry, 342; education, 342; practice of law, 342; various offices held by, 342; delivers public addresses, 342; writes a report to the Overseers of Harvard College on the Study of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, 342; a resident member of the Society in 1893, 343, 344 n.; member of the Harvard Class of 1844, 343; residence, 343; character, 343, 344 n.; a minute in honor of, adopted by the Council, 343 n., 344 n.
——Richard, the emigrant (d. 1676), of Yarmouth, Mass., 342.
Seating the meeting-house, in New England, mode of, 243 n.
Secarrabbig (Scarabig, or Great Falls, now Saccarappa Falls), Westbrook, Me., 15.
Second Writ of Quo Warranto against the Connecticut Charter, 340 and note.
Secretary of the Massachusetts Colony, 134; records of, 140, quoted, 141.
Sedgwick, Charles (1791–1856), of Lenox, Mass., Clerk of the Courts in Berkshire, son of Judge Theodore, 321.
——Henry Dwight, A.B., xvii, 319; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Pamela (Dwight), wife of Judge Theodore, 319.
——Major-Gen. Robert (c. 1612–1656), of Charlestown, 117, 118, 125, 131, 140; fined for absence, 129.
——Judge Theodore (1746–1813), LL.D., United States Senator from Massachusetts, 319, 321.
Sedjuke. See Sedgwick.
See of London, 113.
Sergant, Mehetable (Cooper), claims land left by her former husband, Thomas Cooper, of Boston, 15.
Sergeant, Lieut. John (b. c. 1632), of Saco, Me., 178 n.
Sermon on Great Principles and Small Duties, in Endeavors after the Christian Life, by J. Martineau, quoted, 313.
Servant, 229 and note, 231 n., 247, 250, 253, 255, 256; girl, 225; man, 225; four meanings of, explained, 226; domestic servants few in Colonial period, 226; implied no social stigma, 227, 228 and note; boys and girls, 227 n.; indented, 227 n.; importing and purchasing, in Pennsylvania, 228; wide latitude of meaning, 229; use of the word, in the South, 229, 230; applied to whites and negroes, 229 n.; use of word, in the North, 230; word slave used in the South for, 230 n.; applied to two distinct classes, 230; distinguished by names of slaves for life, servants for a time, 231; “freedom dues” of a, 231; difference between hired and indented, explained, 232; runaway, 233; penalty for trading with, 234; punishment of, 234; penalty for transporting, without written consent, 235; man, runs away, 235; difficulty of obtaining, 235 n.; white, enlisting, 236 n.; how a servant gains settlement in a place, 236–238; Quakers employ negroes as, 238; not menials, 239; Dr. Holmes’s distinction between hired man and servant, 240; term help for, 243; J. R. Lowell on the words servant and help, 244; dislike to the term, 244, 253; arrogance of, 250; relation of, to master, 251; in New York, 251; in Ohio, 251; attendants not called, 252; in Canada, 252; covenant servant, 256.
Setten, John, juror, 1777, 262.
Sever, Ellen, daughter of Col. John of Kingston, Mass. See Hale.
Sewall, David (1735–1825), H. C. 1755, LL.D., of York, Maine, Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, son of Samuel of York, 10 n.
——Jonathan (1728–1796), H. C. 1748, of Boston, Attorney-General of Massachusetts, son of Jonathan, 66 n.
——Chief-Justice Samuel (1652–1730), 11 n.; his Diary quoted, 10; cited, 20.
Shakspear. See Shakspere.
Shakspere, William (1564–1616), Will of Augustine Phillips, in J. P. Collier’s Memoirs of the Principal Actors in the Plays of, quoted, 242; his Pericles, quoted, 245; his Comedy of Errors, quoted, 246; Elizabeth Montagu’s Essay on the Writings and Genius of, mentioned, 321; Mercy Warren’s Verses on the Essay on, mentioned, 321.
Shapleigh, Major Nicholas, Treasurer of the Province of Maine, 1649, 176 n., 185.
Shattuck, George Otis, LL.B., xvii; 31, 46.
Shaw, Charles (1782–1828), his Description of Boston, quoted, 23.
——Lemuel (1781–1861) LL.D., Chief-Justice of Massachusetts, 365, 366.
Shearman. See Sherman.
Shelton, Thomas, his translation of Don Quixote, quoted, 246 n.
Shenandoah river, Virginia, 238.
Shenandore river. See Shenandoah.
Shenstone, William (1714–1763), his Works, mentioned, 199 n.
Sherman, Rev. John (1613–1685), of Watertown, 391.
Shirley, William (c. 1693–1771), Governor of Massachusetts, 7, 74; regiments, 236.
Short, Henry (d. 1673), of Ipswich and Newbury, 123.
Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot (1660–1718). Duke of, 79.
Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet (1810–1874), H. C. 1831, M.D., 136; his Topographical and Historical Description of Boston, cited, 196 n., 203 n., 269 n., 288 n.
Shute, Martha. See Burbeck.
Sibley, Rev. John Langdon (1804–1885), H. C. 1825, his Harvard Graduates, mentioned, 206 n., 323, 324; cited, 332 n.; regarded I. Chauncy’s Almanac for 1663 as unique, 339.
Siege and Evacuation Memorial, 1876, Boston, cited, 203 n., 265 n., 272 n.; quoted, 273, 274.
Sigourney, Anthony (1713–1761), son of Andrew (c. 1673–1748) of Boston, 344.
——Lydia (Huntly, 1791–1865), 216.
——Mary (1741–1823), daughter of Anthony. See Butler.
Silisbury. See Salisbury.
Silver Bank, the Articles of the Land Bank and of the. See Land Bank.
Simcox, Bathshuba, 1778, 201 n.
——John, 1778, 201 n.
Simonds. See Symonds.
Simpkins, Capt. Nicholas, of Boston and Yarmouth, Mass., his assignment of a servant’s time, 1639, 233.
Singleterry. See Dunham.
Singleton, Mary. See Copley; Pelham.
Six-hundredth Anniversary of the First Summoning of Citizens and Burgesses to the Parliament of England, an address in commemoration of, by A. C. Goodell, Jr., 134 n.
Skerrett, Lt. Clement, of Maryland, 54 n.
Sketch of the Life and a List of some of the Works of John Singleton Copley, by A. T. Perkins, cited, 208 n.
Sketches of the Judicial History of Massachusetts, by Emory Washburn, quoted, 75.
Skinner, Robert, peruke-maker, of Boston, 1748, 194 n.
Slade, Daniel Denison, M.D., xvi, 210 n., 211, 343; tribute to, by John Lowell, 3; by G. S. Hale, 4; his pamphlet on the Bromfields, cited, 198 n.; his New England Country Gentleman, cited, 202 n.; family papers bequeathed to, 203; Memoir of, cited, 203 n.
———Denison Rogers, son of Daniel Denison, v, xvii, 96 n., 187; elected Resident Member, 186, 318; reads a paper on Henry Pelham, the Half-Brother of John Singleton Copley, v, 193–211; H. H. Edes communicates letter of Lord Lyndhurst for, 212–214; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Margaret Bromfield, daughter of Daniel Denison, 211.
——Mina Louise (Hensler), wife of Daniel Denison, subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Slate Island (near Weymouth and Hingham), Mass., 154 n., 160 and note.
Slave, 226, 228, 230 n., 232, 238, 249, 252; negro, in the South, 229 and note; term servant applied to, 230; for life, 231; the term slave, explained, 232; later only two classes, freemen and slaves, 232; penalty for trading with, 234; purchase of, 235; servant considered synonymous with, 252; in Jamaica, 256.
Slavery, 236, 374; American, 252; system of, 254; J. H. Allen’s lectures against, mentioned, 311.
Smibert, John (1684–1751), portrait painter, v, 96 and note, 211, 349.
Smith, Abigail. See Adams.
——Charles (c. 1715–1762), his Ancient and Present State of the County of Kerry, Ireland, mentioned, 204 n.
——Charles Card, quoted, 17.
——Goldwin, LL.D., 216; his The United States: An Outline of Political History, 1492–1871, cited, 216 n.
——Rev. Isaac (d. 1829), H. C. 1767, Librarian of Harvard College, 287.
——Chief-Justice Jeremiah (1759–1842), LL.D., of Exeter, N. H., 291.
——Hon. Jeremiah, LL.D., son of Chief-Justice Jeremiah, xvii, 187; elected Resident Member, 186, 348; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——John, of Warwick, R. I., letter from, 1649, 123.
——John Chaloner (1827–1895), 96.
——Jonathan, Jr., Commissioner on Lincoln County Land troubles, 1811, 291.
Smyth, John Ferdinand D., his Tour in the United States of America, quoted, 229.
Snell, George (d. 1708), of Kittery, 184 n.
Snow, Caleb Hopkins (1796–1835), M.D., his History of Boston, quoted, 23.
——Charles Armstrong, A.B., xvii; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Society of Colonial Wars. See Colonial Wars.
Society of Descendants of Walter Allen, 55 n.
Society of Friends. See Friends.
Soldiers, trial of. See British Soldiers.
Solemn League and Covenant, Protesters against the, 260 n., 261 n., 269, 270.
Solomon, Abraham, of Boston, a yeoman, fined £ 10 for sedition, 1777, 263.
Some Massachusetts Tories, paper on, communicated by John Noble, 257–297; mentioned, 350; original memoranda show political and social conditions, 257; an original verdict against Edward Wentworth, 257; measures taken against persons inimical to the American States, 258, 259; list of such persons, 260, 261; jurors drawn for the trial of person represented as inimical to the States, 261; jurors drawn for the trial of suspected persons, 262; Edward Wentworth appears in list of Loyalists, 262; a remnant found containing trial of Abraham Solomon who uttered expressions in favor of Great Britain, 263; paper containing the trial of Jonathan Gibbs who uttered words contrary to the law of the State, 263; an original report of Joseph Otis, deputy-gaoler, containing names of persons inimical to the State, 264; accounts of some of the persons, Dr. Benjamin Church, 265–268; John Hill, 269; Thomas Edwards and Thomas Mewse, 269; Miss Hill and daughter, 269; John Dean Whitworth, 269; Benjamin Davis, 269, 270; Hopestill Capen, 270, 271; Crean Brush, 272–274; another paper containing the record of a case against Crean Brush, 275; group of papers which relate to the suit brought by the State against Samuel Tarbell of Groton, 275–282; an account of Perez Morton, 282–293; of Capt. Samuel Tarbell, 293–296; names of a few obscurer Loyalists, 297.
Somerset Club House, Boston, 198.
Somersetshire, England, 222.
South, the, 89, 229, 230 and note.
South America, 372.
South Carolina, N. Trott’s Laws of the Province of, quoted, 234.
Southey, Robert (1774–1843), 205 n.
Sowdon, Robert, of York, Me., 1673, 183 n.
Spain, responsibility of, for the destruction of the Maine, 404.
Sparks, Jared (1789–1866), LL.D., President of Harvard College, his edition of Franklin’s Works, mentioned, 56; his Life and Writings of Washington, cited, 222 n.
Speaker of the Lords, 1660, Earl of Manchester as, 218 n.
Spegall, John Peters. See Pegall.
Spiritualists’ Progressive Union Church, 55 n.
Spooner, Walter, Executive Councillor, 1776, 13 n.
Spotsvvood, Alexander (1676–1740), his Official Letters, cited, 235 n.
Sprague, Charles (1791–1875), quoted, 219.
——Josiah, of jury which tried Capt. Thomas Preston, 1770, 82.
——Judge Peleg (1793–1880), LL.D., 42.
——Rev. William Buell (1795–1876), LL.D., his Annals of the American Pulpit, cited, 207 n.
Squam. See Annisquam.
Stamp Act, 229; period of the, 254.
Standard Dictionary, cited, 244 n.
Stanley, Rev. Arthur Penrhyn (1815–1881), D.D., Dean of Westminster, 359.
Stannard, Henrietta Eliza Vaughan (Palmer), wife of Arthur, 253 n. See Winter.
Starlin. See Startin.
Startin, Charles (d. 1799), of Boston and New York, 200 and note, 208 n., 209 n.; death, 201 n.
——Sarah (Clarke, b. 1750), wife of Charles, 208 and note, 209 n.
——William, 1778, 201 n.
State House, Boston, 73 n., 154; old, 6, 49, 62 n.
——Papers (Massachusetts), of Gov. Russell, mentioned, 87.
——Trials, Hargrave’s, cited, 67 n.
Statesman and the Man, the, a Discourse by J. H. Allen, quoted, 311.
Statutes, English, mentioned, 43.
Stephen, Henry John (1787–1864), his Commentaries on the Laws of England, cited, 404 n.
——Sir Leslie, LL.D., 218 n.
Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, L.H.D., xviii; deceased, xix.
——Ebenezer, 1741, 317.
——Reuben, 1758, 255.
Steward, Robert, 1748, 235.
Stiles, Rev. Ezra (1727–1795), LL.D., 237 n.; his History of the Three Judges, cited, 218 n.; his Diary quoted, 237, 335; liberates his negro servant, 238; A. Holmes’s Life of, quoted, 238; once owned copies of early Harvard College Theses, 335.
Stoddard, Patience, daughter of Thomas. See Capen.
——Tabitha (Hodgden), wife of Thomas, 298 n.
——Thomas, of Boston, 298 n.
Stoke Newington, Middlesex, England, 202 n.
Stoke Park, Bucks, England, 55.
Story, Joseph (1779–1845), LL.D., Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 291 n., 365.
Stratford, Thomas Wentworth (1593–1641), Earl of, 290.
Strand, the, London, 194.
Stranger in America, the, by C. W. Janson, quoted, 250.
Stratford, Conn., 326.
Stroudwater, Me., 176 n., 178 n.
Stuart, Gilbert (1755–1828), his portrait of Mrs. Perez Morton, mentioned, 290.
——James Francis Edward (1688–1766), the Old Pretender, 79.
Study of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, a Report to the Overseers of Harvard College on the, by P. H. Sears, mentioned, 342.
Sudbury, Mass., 117, 120, 127, 150, 237 n.
Suffolk Bar, 46; John Lowell, admitted to, 42; W. E. Russell, admitted to, 83; Record Book of, mentioned, 289; S. Butler admitted to, 344.
——County, England, Clare Priory near Clare Castle in, 55.
——County, Mass., 10 n., 13 n., 15, 16, 22, 46, 62, 65 n., 66 n., 82, 149, 197, 258, 263, 276, 277, 281; Goldthwaite and Cooke Clerks of Court in, 14 n.; courts for, 21; courts of, 22, 408; terms of, 23; condition of papers in office of, 24; term of court at, 73; Probate Court in, 261 n.; jail of, 261; Perez Morton, Attorney for, 289; secures preservation of historical material in Suffolk Court Files, 351.
——County Court Room, 14 n.
——Court Files, and Early Court Files, cited, 8 n., 9 n., 14 n., 19 n., 22 n., 25 n., 76 n., 82 n., 116 n., 150 n., 153 n., 178 n., 183 n.; quoted, 14 n., 264, 276–281, 405–408; (Essex) 7; (York) 15, 16; mentioned, 8, 145, 148, 275, 315, 350, 405, 406.
——Deeds, cited, 80 n., 212 n., 284 n.
——Minute Book, No. 5, of the Court of General Sessions, cited, 62 n.
——Probate Files, cited, 19 n., 64 n., 194 n., 196 n., 209 n., 272 n., 283 n.; mentioned, 180 n.
Sullivan, James (1744–1808), LL.D., Governor of Massachusetts, 13 n., 288 n.; appointed a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, 10 n.; arrangement of Justices, 12 n.; his History of the District of Maine, cited, 170 n., 180 n.
Summary of the Laws, 1658 (Massachusetts), 154, 155.
Sumner, Charles (1811–1874), LL.D., 42, 311; F. V. Balch’s connection with, 188.
Superiour Court of Judicature, the Records and Files of, and of the Supreme Judicial Court,—their History and Places of Deposit, paper by John Noble, 5–26; parts of records missing, 5; document found which throws light upon records, 6; certificates about scattering of records, 6–7; certificates explained, 7–10; appointment of clerks of, 11–12; injury to records of, by fire, 13–16, 24; meeting of courts, 17–18; depository of records, 18; first Town House completed, 19; Town House destroyed and rebuilt, 20; a new Court House built, 23; dangers to papers, 25–26; mentioned, 349.
Surrey, England, 196 n.
Surrogate of New York, N. Y., office of, 201 n.
Swan, Rev. Joshua Augustus (H. C. 1846), 92.
——Margaret Manning, daughter of Rev. Joshua Augustus. See Russell.
Swayne, Richard (d. 1682), of Rowley, his petition, 120.
Swede, a hired man, 240.
Swift, Lindsay, A.B., xvii; to write memoir of Sigourney Butler, 345.
Swiss, a German, servant, 232 n.; a French, servant, 232 n.
Symmes, Susanna (Winslow). See Wentworth.
Symonds, Samuel (d. 1678), of Ipswich, Deputy-Governor of Massachusetts, 116, 123, 144, 145.
Sympkins. See Simpkins.
System of Universal Geography, by S. G. Goodrich, quoted, 251.
Taft, Henry Walbridge, A.M., xvii.
Tailer, William (d. 1731), Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, 80 n.
Talbot, Charles. See Shrewsbury.
Talcott, Joseph (1669–1741), Governor of Connecticut, 102, 103; issued a precept about the New London Society, 101.
Talcott Papers, cited, 110.
Tarbell, Anna, daughter of Capt. Samuel, Sr. See Edes; Haskell.
——Deborah, daughter of Capt. Samuel, Sr. See Pierce.
——Elizabeth (Woods), wife of Thomas, 3d, 296 n.
——Eunice, daughter of Capt. Samuel, Sr., 297 n.
——Hannah (Longley), wife of Thomas, Jr., 296 n.
——Lydia (Farnsworth), wife of Capt. Samuel, Sr., 296 and note.
——Lydia, daughter of Capt. Samuel, Sr. See Farwell.
——Martha, daughter of Capt. Samuel, Sr. See Phelps.
——Mary, daughter of Capt. Samuel, Sr. See Reed.
——Capt. Samuel, Sr. (1697–1776), of Groton, Mass., son of Thomas, 3rd, 277, 293, 295, 296 and note; hitherto assumed to be the obligor in a bond given by his son, 293; his farm divided, 294; Dr. S. A. Green mistakes identity of, 294; identity in doubt, 295, 296; Middlesex Probate Records settle the question, 296.
——Capt. Samuel, Jr. (1746–1796), of Groton, son of Capt. Samuel, Sr., 296; government and people of Massachusetts bring suit against, 275; papers relating to the suit, 276–282; birth, 293; the bond seemed to show his attachment to American cause, 293; death, 293; papers about death of, quoted, 294 and note; his part of estate taken for debt, 294; committee empowered to sell his part of estate, 295; his lands confiscated by government, 295; identity in doubt, 295, 296; Middlesex Probate Records prove his identity as the defendant, 296; his pedigree, 296 n., 297 n.
——Sarah, daughter of Capt. Samuel, Sr. See Boynton.
——Sybil, daughter of Capt. Samuel, Sr. See Moors.
——Thomas, Sr. (d. 1678), of Groton and Charlestown, 293, 296 n.
——Thomas, Jr. (d. 1678), of Charlestown, son of Thomas, Sr., 293, 296 n.
——Thomas, 3d (1667–1715), of Groton, son of Thomas, Jr., 293; death, 296.
——family, 297 n.
Taylor, Eldad, Executive Councillor, 1776, 13 n.
Taylor, The Old Morton and, Estates in Dorchester, Mass., by David Clapp, cited, 292 n.
Tea Act, 63; committee to draw up resolutions on, 1773, 61 n.
Ten Eick, Peter, 1754, 236.
Tennyson, Alfred (1809–1892), Baron Tennyson, quoted, 43.
Tenth Regiment, 52–55. See Regiments.
Terence, 327.
Territorial party, to prevent extension of slavery, 374.
Thacher, James (1754–1844), M.D., his American Medical Biography, cited, 260 n.; his Military Journal during the American Revolutionary War, cited, 265 n.
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811–1863), his poem The End of the Play, quoted, 189; his Four Georges, quoted, 256.
Thanksgiving, Fast and, Days of New England, by William De L. Love, mentioned, 168; cited, 169 n.
Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1681, John Davis of York and his, paper by H. H. Edes on, 167–186. See Davis, Major John, of York.
Thayer, Rev. Henry Otis (Bowdoin, 1862), of Portland, Me., 169 n.
——James Bradley, LL.D., vi, xv, xvi, 350; deceased, xix; elected Vice-President, 34, 354; communicates Memoir of D. E. Ware, 36; Memoir, 38–39; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; sends for inspection copy of Theses of 1810, 339.
——John Eliot, A.B., xvii, 187; elected Resident Member, 186, 348; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Nathaniel (1769–1840), D.D., H.C., 1789, of Lancaster, Mass., 202 n.
Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass., Dr. E. Pearson, Professor of Sacred Literature at, 206 n.; Library of, 207 n.
Theses of Bachelors and Masters. See Harvard College.
Third National Bank, Boston, funds of this Society deposited in, 33, 353.
Third Writ of Quo Warranto against the Connecticut charter, 349; original of, in possession of H. H. Edes, 220; exhibited, 340.
Thomas, Isaiah (1749–1831), LL.D., starts the Massachusetts Spy in Boston, 298; his History of Printing in America, cited, 390 n.
Thomond, Henry O’Brien (c. 1621–1691), Earl of, 81 n.
Thompson, Benjamin. See Rumford.
——Simon (c. 1610–1676), of Ipswich, 174.
——See Tomson.
Thoreau, Henry David (1817–1862), H. C. 1837. his Autumn, quoted, 253.
Thorndike, Samuel Lothrop, A.M., xv, xvi, 224, remarks on death of Judge Lowell, 41–45; communicates letter of George Washington to Mrs. Sarah Fairfax, 221, and memorandum from Constance C. Harrison concerning it, 221, 222; of committee on nomination, 299; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; communicates Memoir of Leverett Saltonstall, in behalf of J. H. Choate, 355.
Thorne, Lieut. Peregrine Francis, R.A., 50, 51, 53.
Ticknor, George (1791–1871), LL.D., 40.
Tilden, Samuel Jones (1814–1886), LL.D., Governor of New York, 377.
Tilley, William, of Boston, his petition, 1649, 120, 123.
Tillinghast, Caleb Benjamin, State Librarian of Massachusetts, 288 n.
Ting. See Tyng.
Tinker, John (d. 1662), of New London, Conn., quoted, 248.
Tiverton, Devonshire, England, 179 n.
Tom Brown at Oxford, by T. Hughes, quoted, 256.
Tomson, John, involved in lawsuits, 1650, 176 n.
Topographical and Historical Description of Boston, by N. B. Shurtleff, cited, 196 n., 203 n., 269 n., 288 n.
Toppan, Robert Noxon, A.M., xvi; deceased, xix; of committee for raising the Gould Memorial Fund, 307, 346; subscribes to the Fund, 309; comments on First and Second Writs of Quo Warranto, against the Connecticut Charter, 340 and note; elected a member of the Council, 354.
Topsfield, Mass., 360.
Torbay, England, 81 n.
Tories. See Some Massachusetts Tories.
Tories, court records supposed to have been carried off by, 1776, 14 n.
Torrey, Capt. William (d. c. 1691), of Weymouth, Clerk of the Deputies, 117, 122 n., 123 n., 132, 151, 154 n., 159–161, 407, 408; newly-chosen clerk, 134; a recompense allowed, 150, 151; his book of records mentioned, 166.
Tory. See Torrey.
Tour in the United States of America, by J. F. D. Smyth, quoted, 229.
Town House, Boston, 49; first one completed, 19; occupation of, 20; courts in old, 21; sometimes called Court House, 21; restored after fire of 1747 and courts held in, 22; British troops lodged in, 26.
Town and Parish Records of Child and other families, manuscript, in Library of N. E. Historic Genealogical Society, 64 n.
Tractatus de Legibus Angliæ, Granville’s, quoted, 396.
Tracts and Other Papers, by Peter Force, cited, 228 n.
Transylvania, Consistory of Unitarian Churches in, 312.
Travels in the Interior of America, by J. Bradbury, quoted, 250.
Trecothick, Barlow (d. 1775), of London, 70 n.
Trelawney Papers, cited, 177 n., 178 n.
Tremont Street, Boston, 22 n.
——Theatre, Boston, 284 n.
Trescot, Joseph, of jury which tried Capt. Thomas Preston, 1770, 82.
Trinity Church, Boston, 194; Registers of, cited, 193 n., 194 n., 196 n., 290 n.; mentioned, 194; quoted, 209 n., 262 n., 274 n.
Trinity Church, N. Y., 201 n.
Trollope, Frances (Milton, 1780–1863), her Domestic Manners of the Americans, quoted, 251.
Trott, Nicholas (1663–1740), his Laws of the Province of South Carolina, quoted, 234.
Trowbridge, Edmund (1709–1793), H. C. 1728, alias Edmund Goffe, of Cambridge, Attorney-General and Judge of the Superiour Court of Judicature, son of Thomas of Newton, 67 n., 70, 73 and note, 77 and note; birth, 74 and note; change of name, 75; offices held in Cambridge, 76; used both names, 76 and note; death, 77.
——Lydia or Lidia, daughter of Thomas of Newton. See Dana.
——Mary, daughter of Thomas, 75.
——Mary (Goffe), wife of Thomas, 74 and note.
——Thomas (1677–c. 1725), of Newton, Mass., and New London, Conn., son of Lieut. James, 74 and note.
——See Goffe.
True Colonial Dame, A, article by Constance C. Harrison in the Ladies Home Journal, cited, 223 n.
Trumbull, Benjamin (1735–1820), D.D., his History of Connecticut, cited, 217 n.; quoted, 217, 218.
——James Hammond (1821–1897), LL.D., his edition of Lechford’s Plain Dealing, quoted, 18; his First Essays at Banking and the First Paper Money in New England, mentioned, 111.
——Col. John (1756–1843), H. C. 1773, son of Gov. Jonathan, 198, 215 n.; his battle-piece, Bunker Hill, mentioned, 215; his Autobiography, Reminiscences and Letters, cited, 198 n.
Tucker, George Fox, Ph.D., xvii; speaks at annual dinner, 37; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Richard (d. 1679), of Casco Bay, 176 n.
——William Jewett, LL.D., President of Dartmouth College, xviii; elected Corresponding Member, 340, 347; accepts, 341.
Tudor, Col. William (1750–1819), H. C. 1769, Judge-Advocate General of the army, chosen to procure evidence of persons inimical to the United States, 1777, 259.
——William (1779–1830), H. C. 1796, son of Col. William, his Letters on the Eastern States, quoted, 239, 251.
Tufton. See Mason, Robert.
Tufts, John, loyalist, 260 and note.
Turner, Rev. David (d. 1757), H. C. 1718, 283 n.
——Frederick Jackson, Ph.D., xviii.
——Robert (d. 1664), of Boston, inn-holder, 118, 145.
Twenty Years in Congress, by J. G. Blaine, mentioned, 89.
Twenty-seventh Regiment, 55. See Regiments.
Twenty-ninth Regiment, 59, 68 n. See Regiments.
Twisden, John, selectman of York, 1679, 177 n.
Twiss, Sir Travers (1809–1897), his edition of Bracton’s De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, quoted, 397.
Tyler, Andrew (1692–1741), Boston merchant, son of Capt. Thomas of Boston, 193.
——John Ford (H. C. 1877), quoted, 345.
——Lyon Gardiner, LL.D., in William and Mary College Quarterly, cited, 228 n.
——Mary, daughter of Andrew. See Pelham.
——Moses Coit, LL.D., xviii; de ceased, xx.
Tyley, Samuel, Jr. (b. 1689), of Boston, Clerk of the Superiour Court of Judicature, 11 n.; oath of office, 10 and note.
Tyndal, Sir John (d. 1616), 142.
———Margaret, daughter of Sir John. See Winthrop.
Tyng, Capt. William (d. 1652), of Boston and Braintree, Treasurer of the Colony, 117, 118, 122, 125, 126, 130–132, 141 n.; absent from service in the House, 129.
Underground Railroad, James Iddings keeps station of, 388 n.
Underhill, Capt. John (d. c. 1672), of Boston, 246.
——Luther Melville v. Manchester (City of), 404 n.
Union Safety Deposit Vaults, Boston, 289.
Union Street, Boston, 270, 297.
Unitarian Churches in Transylvania, J. H. Allen a delegate of American and British Unitarians to the Consistory of, 312; faith adopted in Salem, 361.
——Review and Religious Magazine, cited, 207 n.; edited by J. H. Allen, 311.
United Colonies (New England), 331; letter and account from H. Usher to commissioners of, about printing Eliot’s Indian Bible, and other Indian books, 390–392.
United States, An Outline of Political History, by G. Smith, cited, 210 n.; New Travels in the, by J. P. Brissot, quoted, 238; Practical Notes made during a Tour in Canada, and a Portion of the, by A. Fergusson, quoted, 252; Recollections of a Six Years’ Residence in the, by P. Neilson, quoted, 251; Tour in the, by John F. D. Smyth, quoted, 229 n.; View of the, by Tench Coxe, quoted, 238.
United States of America, 201 n., 251, 252, 257, 259, 276, 322, 375, 404; help in, 253; persons inimical to, 258, 259; treasons and conspiracies against, 279; independence of, 286; printing of archives makes them accessible to persons in all parts of, 351; critical time in history of, 1876–77, 378. See Congress.
——Arsenal, 50.
——Constitution, mentioned, 374; breach of, 375.
——Court, 47. See Federal Courts.
——District Judge, 42.
——Navigation Law, 372.
——Senate, 379.
Universities of Chicago, Michigan, Pennsylvania. See under names of those places.
University City. See Cambridge.
University Press, Cambridge, bill for printing, 33, 353.
Upham, Rev. Charles Wentworth (H. C. 1821), his Lecture before the Lowell Institute, quoted, 219.
——William Phineas (H. C. 1856), son of Rev. Charles Wentworth, v, 131, 162, 163, 164; his letter to John Noble, with notes on Vol. III. of the printed Massachusetts Colony Records, 144–161; calls attention to illusive character of marginal notes in Colony Records, 148, 406 n.; his theory about Vol. III., 166; calls attention to documents concerning John Davis, 178 n., 183 n.; indebtedness to, acknowledged, 330 n.
Urmstone, John, quoted, 249.
Urquhart, James, his reputed map of Boston, drawn in 1775 by H. Pelham, 203 n.
Usher, Hezekiah (d. 1676), of Cambridge, 390 n.; his letter and account about printing Eliot’s Indian Bible and other Indian books, 390–392.
Usurpation, period of, 165.
Vallancey, Gen. Charles (1721–1812), 204 n.
Van Schaack, Peter (1747–1832), his Laws of New York, quoted, 238.
Vassall (William), Fletcher (William) v., 14 n.
Veazie, Me., 39.
Venezuela incident, 1895, 379.
Vermont, 274. See Hampshire Grants.
Vienna, Austria, 375.
View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution, by J. Boucher, quoted, 227 n.
Vines, Richard (c. 1585–1651), of Saco, steward to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, 179 n.
Virginia, 89, 194, 231, 256, 387, 388 n.; Peter Pelham of Boston emigrated to, 193; Col. William Fairfax, President of the King’s Council in, 221; House of Burgesses in, 224; white servant in, 227; white men indenture themselves in, 227 n.
——Hall of the General Assembly, 388 n.
Virginia, Ballagh’s White Servitude in the Colony of, quoted, 228, 240; Bruce’s Economic History of, in the Seventeenth Century, cited, 228 n.; Fiske’s Old, and Her Neighbours, cited, 228 n.; Carolorum, by E. D. Neill, cited, 228 n.; Beverley’s History of, quoted, 231; Impartially Examined, by W. Bullock, quoted, 231; Jones’s Present State of, quoted, 231; E. Williams’s Virgo Trivmphans: or, Virginia richly and truly valued, quoted, 247.
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, quoted, 227 n.
Virginia Statutes at Large, quoted, 233.
Virgo Trivmphans: or Virginia richly and truly valued, by E. Williams, quoted, 217.
Vital statistics, 351, 352; of Cambridge, 351.
Voax or Noax, Mary, prisoner in Boston Gaol, 1777, 264.
Wade, Jonathan (d. 1684), of Charlestown and Ipswich, Mass., his petition about Plum Island, 1649, 120, 121.
——Thomas, of Northampton, Eng., brother of Jonathan of Charlestown, 120.
Wadsworth, Rev. Benjamin (1669–1737), President of Harvard College, 249.
Wait, Hon. William Cushing, A.M., xvii; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Waite, Thomas, appraiser, 1748, 194 n.
Walderne, Richard, 1649, 119, 120 and note. See Walker, Richard.
Waldern. See Waldron.
Waldo, Brig.-Gen. Samuel (1696–1759), suit of, v. Haskell, 1758, 15, 16 n.
Waldron, Major Richard (1615–1689), of Dover, Governor of New Hampshire, 120 n.; petition of, 119, 120.
——Capt. William (b. 1642), of Dover, N. H., son of William the Recorder of Dover and of the Province of Maine, 182.
——Rev. William (1697–1727), H. C., 1717, of Boston, son of Richard, Jr., of Dover, N. H., 250.
Walford, Emma Mary, of London, 112.
Walker, Hon. Francis Amasa, LL.D., xvi, 3, 31.
——James (1794–1874), LL.D., President of Harvard College, 46.
——Capt. Richard (d. 1687), of Lynn and Reading, 116, 117, 120 n., 131. See Walderne, Richard.
Walkr. See Walker.
Wall, Patrick, loyalist, 260 and note.
Wall Street, N. Y., 200 n.
Wallis, William Wait, of jury which tried Capt. Thomas Preston, 1770, 82.
Walton, Rev. William (d. 1668), of Marblehead, 119.
War Department, Washington, D. C., 225.
War Office (British), 53.
Warabitta (Warrabitta), an Indian, deed from, 16.
Ward, George Atkinson (1793–1864), son of Joshua, 211.
——family, 359.
Wardwell, Clarissa Dillaway. See Ware.
——Lydia (Perkins), quakeress, wife of Eliakim, of Hampton, immodest conduct of, at Newbury, 1663, 387.
Ware, Adelaide Frances (Dickey), wife of Darwin Erastus, 39.
——Clarissa Dillaway (Wardwell), wife of Erastus, 38.
——Hon. Darwin Erastus, A.M., vi, xvi, 31, 46; memoir of, communicated by J. B. Thayer, 36; Memoir of, 38, 39, mentioned, 350; his ancestry, 38; birth, 38; education, 38; practises law in Boston, 38; member of Legislature, 38–39; member of Commission for revising U. S. customs laws, 39; member of Massachusetts Board of Harbor Commissioners, 39; member of Board of Overseers of Harvard College, 39; President of Boston Civil Service Reform Association, 39; Treasurer and Director of Associated Charities of Boston, 39; marriage, 39; character, 39; death, 39; C. F. Adams pays tribute to memory of, 356.
——Erastus, of Salem and Marblehead, father of Darwin Erastus, 38.
——Rev. Henry (1764–1845), D.D., H. C. 1785, 38; his appointment to the Hollis Professorship of Divinity opposed by Dr. Pearson, 206 n.; this appointment furnished reason for Andover Theological Semiuary’s existence, 310.
——Rev. Henry, Jr. (1794–1843), D.D., H. C. 1812, son of Rev. Henry (H. C. 1785), 38, 46.
——Lucy Clark, daughter of Rev. Henry, Sr. See Allen.
——Richard Darwin (H. C. 1890), son of Darwin Erastus, 39.
——Robert (d. 1699), the emigrant, of Dedham, 38.
Warner, Thomas, of Cape Porpoise, Me., 407, 410, 411; apprehended on suspicion of murder, 1655, 408; a freeman, 408 n.; wrongfully apprehended, 409; allowance for imprisonment, 411; wrongfully charged Gov. Bellingham, 411.
Warren, Ambrose William (d. 1856), engraver, 215 n.
——Cornelius, of Middle borough, Mass., 1737, 235.
——Major-Gen. James (1726–1808), H. C. 1745, 12 n., 321.
——John, M.D. (1753–1815), EL C. 1771, brother of Gen. Joseph, delivers first Fourth of July Oration in Boston, 1783, 287 n.
——John Collins, M.D. (1778–1856), H. C. 1797, son of Dr. John, his Genealogy of Warren, cited, 288 n.
——Major-Gen. Joseph (1741–1775), H. C. 1759, physician, 62 n., 64, 71 n., 266–268; betrothed to Mercy Scollay, 210 n.; R. Frothingham’s Life and Times of, cited, 210 n., 265 n., 288 n.; J. Trumbull’s picture of, called the Death of Warren, mentioned, 215 n.; his Fifth of March Oration, 268; removal of his body to the Old Granary Burying Ground, 287; Grand Master of the Masonic fraternity at time of his death, 288 n.; committee consider the erection of a monument to, 288 n.; St. Andrew’s Lodge given permission to raise the body of, 288 n.
——Mercy (Otis, 1728–1814), wife of Major-Gen. James, her verses, in Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous, cited, 321 n.; Elizabeth Montagu’s letter to, in appreciation of verses written by, about her Essay on Shakspear, 321, 322.
——Admiral Sir Peter (1703–1752), R. N., 211, 319; his commission to Joseph Dwight, 320.
——Genealogy of, by Dr. John C.
Warren, cited, 288 n.
Warriner. See Warner.
——County, England, Birmingham in, 201 n.
Washburn, Emory (1800–1877), LL.D., Governor of Massachusetts, his Sketches of the Judicial History of Massachusetts, quoted, 75.
Washington, Augustine (1694–1743), father of George, 222 n.
——George (1732–1799), LL.D., President of the United States, 2, 221 n., 222 n., 224, 274 n., 321, 349, 350; his letter to Sarah Fairfax, and memorandum concerning it, by Constance C. Harrison, communicated by S. L. Thorndike, 221, 222; Sparks’s Life and Writings of. cited, 222 n.; his attachment for Sally Gary, 223; copy of a part of his Military Record giving Muster Rolls of troops raised in Massachusetts counties, communicated by A. P. C. Griffin, 224, 225; tribute to, by Elizabeth Montagu, 322.
——Hannah (Fairfax), wife of Warner, 221, 222.
——John (d. 1746), son of Lawrence, 222 n.
——Lawrence (d. 1697), father of Augustine, 222 n.
——Martha (1732–1802), wife of President George, 349; H. H. Edes exhibits original letter of, to General Knox and his reply, 224.
——Warner (d. 1791), son of John, 222 and note.
Washington, D. C., 39, 42, 188, 224, 298, 299, 311.
——Unitarian Church, 310, 311 n.
Washington Street, Boston, 18, 22 n., 283 n., 284 n.
Waterman, Richard (d. 1673), of Salem and Providence, 237 n.
Watertoune. See Watertown.
Watertown, Mass., 117, 292, 293, 370.
Watson, John Fanning (1780–1860), his Annals of Philadelphia, quoted, 239.
———William, Ph.D., xvi; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; discusses H. A. Parker’s paper on Quakers, 389.
Watts, Rev. Isaac (1674–1748), D.D., 191.
——Nathaniel, 1758, 255.
Waymouth. See Weymouth.
Weare, Mary (Davis), wife of Peter, 180 and note, 181 n., 183.
——Peter, of Kittery and York, Treasurer of the County of York, 181, 183; offices held by, 181 n.; warrant to apprehend, 1668, 182.
Weavor, Edward, Deputy-Register of the Court of Admiralty, notification from, 1716, 21.
Webb, Joseph (1644–1698), Clerk of the Inferiour Court of Common Pleas and Register of Deeds, in Suffolk, 16.
Webber, Rev. Samuel (1760–1810), D.D., President of Harvard College, 206 n.
Webster, Daniel (1782–1852), LL.D., 291, 374, 375.
Webster’s International Dictionary, cited, 244 n.
Weimouth. See Weymouth.
Weld, Caroline Langdon (Goddard), wife of William Gordon, subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Charles Goddard, M.D., xvi; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Stephen Minot (H. C. 1826), 38.
——William Gordon (1827–1896), xvi, 310.
Wells, Samuel, A.B., xvi; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Wells, Me., 169 n., 170 n., 175 n., 182, 183, 185, 408 and note, 409 and note.
——First Church, 175 n.
Wells, Bourne’s History of, and Kennebunk, Maine, cited, 175 n.
Wendell, Judge Oliver (1733–1818), H. C. 1753, 268.
Wennam. See Wenham.
Wentworth, Edward, Sr. (1693–1767), son of John of York, 262.
——Edward, Jr. (1729–1794), of Stoughton, Mass., and Boston, son of Edward, Sr., 257, 260; birth, 262; marriages, 262 and note; on the List of Loyalists, 262; apprehension and trial of, 262; arrested by order of the Council, 262, 263 n.; death, 263.
——John (1671–1730), Lieut.-Governor of New Hampshire, 290 n.
——Keziah (Blackman), wife of Edward, Sr., 262.
——Mary (Payne, d. 1800), second wife of Edward, Jr., 262 and note.
——Samuel (1708–1766), H. C. 1728, son of Lieut.-Gov. John, 290 n.
——Sarah. See Apthorp.
——Susanna (Winslow, d. 1780), first wife of Edward, Jr., 262 and note.
——Thomas Hanford (1781–1849), son of Josiah Winslow, 262 n.
——Genealogy, The: English and American, cited, 262 n., 282 n., 283 n., 290 n., 292 n.; quoted, 263 n.
——Manor, 290.
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), R.A., J. Trumbull, pupil of, 215 n.
——Edie, wife of John of Saco, 410.
——John, of Ipswich, 1648, 175 n.
——John (d. 1663), of Saco, 175 n.; deposition of, 1655, 410; made a freeman, 410 n.
——William, of Barcote, Eng., 253.
West, the, 373.
West Indies, 11 n., 211, 236, 256; ships of, 127; Sainsbury’s Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and, mentioned, 182 n.
Westminster, Statute of, cited, 394; quoted, 402.
Westminster, Vt., 272 n.
Westmoreland, Va., 221.
Weston, Mass. See Kendal Green.
——Back River, Mass., 160 n.
Whalley, Major-Gen. Edward (c. 1615–c. 1675), the regicide, 218, 340, 349.
Wheatland, Henry (1812–1893), M.D., H. C. 1832, President of the Essex Institute, 96.
Wheeler, Joseph, representative, 1775, 268.
——Gen. Joseph, U. S. A., xviii.
Wheelwright, Mrs.——, of Boston, perhaps wife of Jeremiah, 213.
——Andrew Cunningham, A.M., xvii; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; discusses H. A. Parker’s paper on Quakers, 389.
——Edmund March, A.B., xvii; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Edward, A.M., xvi, 41, 45, 49, 133, 314, 319, 322, 346; deceased, xix; presides at meetings, 1, 40, 94, 187, 212, 299, 341, 386; address at fifth annual meeting, 1–4; at sixth, 341–345; remarks on death of John Lowell, 2–3; of G. M. Lane, 3; of G. S. Hale, 3, 4; of P. H. Sears, 342, 343; of S. Butler, 344, 345; appoints committee, 31; re-elected president, 34, 354; presides at annual dinner, 36, 355; his health proposed, 36, 356, 357; announces death of F. V. Balch, 187–188; appoints committees for Annual Meeting, 299; presents the report of the committee for raising the Permanent, or Gould Memorial, Fund, 307; his remarks about the proposed fund and its uses, 307, 308; subscribes to the Fund, 309; announces the death of Dr. Allen, 310; exhibits a manuscript sermon in the handwriting of Cotton Mather for the inspection of the Society, 318.
——Jeremiah, of Boston, 213 n.
——Col. Samuel (d. 1700) of Wells and York, son of Rev. John, 184.
Whetcomb, John, Executive Councillor, 1776, 13 n.
Whig party, 363.
Whitaker, Rev. Nathaniel (1732–1795), D.D. (Princeton, 1752), quoted, 250.
White, Benjamin, Executive Councillor, 1776, 13 n.
——Hugh, petition of, 1770, 66.
——Capt. Joseph (1748–1830), of Salem, son of Joseph, his murder mentioned, 291.
——Robert, witness to deposition, 1655, 410.
——Rt.-Rev. William (1748–1836), D.D., Bishop of Pennsylvania, 213 n.
White Horse Tavern, or Inn, Boston, 282 n., 283; location of, 283 n.; called White Horse Inn in 1700, 284 n.
White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia, by J. C. Ballagh, quoted, 228, 240.
White servitude. See Servant.
White Staff, 79.
Whitefield, Rev. George (1714–1770), 250; his Works, quoted, 235; his preaching disapproved of, 283 n.
Whiteworth, Charles (bapt. 1753), loyalist, son of Dr. Miles, Sr., 260 n., 261. See Whitworth.
Whitmore, William Henry (1836–1900), 20 n., 22, 25, 144, 155, 157, 164, 193 n.; his Mass. Civil List, mentioned, 14 n., 76 n., cited, 62 n., 261 n.; his Address at the Re-dedication of the Old State House, quoted, 20–23; 26, cited, 24 n.; his Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts Colony, cited, 136, 143 n., 145 n., 154; his edition of Massachusetts Colony Laws, cited, 138 n.; his paper on the Early Painters and Engravers of New England, cited, 193 n.; his letter describing Copley’s portrait of Peter Pelham, cited, 193 n.; his communications to the Heraldic Journal, cited, 193 n.
Whitney, David Rick, A.M., xvii; of committee for securing the Gould Memorial Fund, 307, 346; subscribes to the Fund, 309.
——James Lyman, A.M., xvii; elected Resident Member, 412.
Whittelsey, Lois, daughter of Rev. Samuel. See Hall.
——Rev. Samuel (Y. C. 1705), 202.
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807–1892), LL.D., quoted, 44, 192.
Whitworth, Lieut. John Dean (b. 1749), of Boston, Mass., and Kentishtown, St. Pancras, Middlesex, Eng., son of Dr. Miles, Sr., 261 n., 264; put in jail by order of the government of Massachusetts, 269; birth, 269.
——Dr. Miles, Sr. (c. 1715–1778), of Boston, 261, 269; Justices have evidence against, 261 n.; an Addresser of Hutchinson, 261 n.
——See Whiteworth.
Wiggin, Sarah (Barefoot), wife of Thomas, Jr., 183 n.
——Thomas, Jr. (b. c. 1641), of Exeter, son of Capt. Thomas of Dover, N. H., 183 n.
Wigglesworth, Edward, M.D., xvi.
——George, A.M., xvi; of committee on Treasurer’s Accounts, 299, 354.
Wilkins, Mary Eleanor, her Humble Romance, quoted, 253.
Willard, Rev. Joseph (1738–1804), LL.D., President of Harvard College, 206 n.
——Josiah (1681–1756), H. C. 1698, of Boston, Secretary of the Province, son of Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1659), 13, 21, 153.
——Sidney (1780–1856), H. C. 1798, Mayor of Cambridge, Mass., son of President Joseph, his Memories of Youth and Manhood, cited, 207 n.
——Major Simon (1605–1676), of Concord, 117, 119.
William the Conqueror, King of England, 216.
William III., King of England, 69.
William and Mary College Quarterly, cited, 228 n.
Williams, Abigail, wife of Joseph, Sr., 61 n.
——Edward, his Virgo Trivmphans: or, Virginia richly and truly valued, quoted, 247.
——Hon. George Frederick, A.B., xvi.
——Henry, A.B., xvi, 221; of Committee of Publication, ii; deceased, xix; presents leaves of Charter Oak, and his remarks upon the occasion, 216–220; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309; regards Harvard Theses of 1663 genuine, 339.
——Rt.-Rev. John, Bishop of Connecticut, gathers leaves from Charter Oak, 216.
——Joseph, Sr., of Roxbury, 61 n.
——Col. Joseph (1708–1798), Justice of the Court of General Sessions, son of Joseph, Sr., 60 and note, 61 n., 63.
——Moses, A.B., xvi; remarks on the death of F. V. Balch, 189, 190; of committee on Treasurer’s Accounts, 299, 354; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Roger (c. 1604–1683), 237 and note; his Letters, quoted, 228; H. M. Dexter’s As to, cited, 387 n.
Williamsburg, Va., 222, 224, 388, 389.
Williamson, Hon. Joseph, Litt. D., xviii; indebtedness to, vi; Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1681 submilted to, and his statement about it, 168–109; elected Corresponding Member, 298, 347; accepts, 299.
——William Cross, A. M. (H. C. 1852), xvi, interprets the mystic letters used in Dedication of Harvard Commencement programme before 1781, v, 334.
——William Durkee (1779–1846), Governor of Maine, 172; his History of the State of Maine, cited, 169 n., 172 n., 179 n., 180 n., 182 n., 185 n., 292 n.; quoted, 171.
Willis, William (1794–1870), H. C. 1813, LL.D., his History of Portland, cited, 16 n.
Willmott, Lieut. Robert, of Baltimore, Md., 52, 53, 54 and note.
——Capt. William (d. 1782), brother of Lieut. Robert, 54.
Willoughby, Francis (d. 1671), of Charlestown, Deputy-Governor of Massachusetts, 117, 123, 129.
Willowby. See Willoughby.
Wills Creek, Md. and Penn., 221.
Wilmington, Del., 388 n.
Wilson, Deborah (Buffam), wife of Robert, quakeress, immodest conduct of, at Salem, 1662, 387.
——Rev. John (1588–1667), of Boston, 202 n., 370.
——John, & Son, printers, 32.
Winchester, Statute of, cited, 394, 401; mentioned, 396, 398 and note, 401.
Wincoll, Capt. John (d. 1694), of Watertowu and Kittery, 184 n.
Window, Richard (d. 1665), of Gloucester, 176 n.
Wing’s Lane (now Elm St.), Boston, 261 n.
Winship, George Parker, A.M., xviii.
Winslow, Lieut. Josiah (b. 1697) of East Bridgewater, son of Capt. Josiah, 202.
——Sarah (Hayward), wife of Lieut. Josiah, 262.
——Susanna (d. 1780), daughter of Josiah. See Symmes; Wentworth.
Winsor, Justin (1831–1897), LL.D., 96; his Memorial History of Boston, cited, 14 n., 15 n., 61 n., 65 n., 70 n., 75 n., 95, 104 n., 196 n., 203 n., 261 n., 262 n., 265 n., 269 n., 272 n.; quoted, 17, 64, 269 n., 273; his Narrative and Critical History of America, cited, 65 n., 70 n., 72 n., 265 n., 272 n.
Winter, John Strange, pseudonym for Mrs. Arthur Stannard, her My Geoff, quoted, 253.
Winter Harbor (Saco), Me., 178 n.
Winthrop, Deane (1622–1703), son of Governor John, of Massachusetts, 122, 141, 143; death, 142.
——John (1587–1649), Governor of Massachusetts, 132 n., 142 and note, 143, 360; his History of New England, cited, 18 n., 180 n., 235 n.; Court provides for the disposition of money grant for youngest child of, 122, 132, 141; grant recorded, 140, 141; funeral of, 125; Life and Letters of, quoted, 142.
——John, Jr. (1605–1676), Governor of Connecticut, son of Governor John, of Massachusetts, 116, 132, 141; J. Davenport’s letter to him, cited, 142 n.; his filial devotion, 143; cited, 235 n.; his efforts secure Charter for Connecticut, 218.
——Prof. John (1714–1779), H. C. 1732, LL.D., son of Judge Adam (H. C. 1694), Executive Councillor, 1776, 13 n.
——Joshua (1648–1651), son of Governor John of Massachusetts, 143; concerning gift of money to him, 122; 140; disposal of gift in case of death of, 141; grant recorded, 141; death, 142; disposition of grant, 142.
——Margaret (Tyndal), third wife of Gov. John of Massachusetts, 142.
——Martha (Rainsborough), fourth wife of Gov. John of Mass., 141, 142.
——Robert Charles(1809–1894), LL.D., son of Lieut.-Gov. Thomas Lindall (H. C. 1780), 359, 365.
——Robert Charles, Jr. (H. C. 1854), son of Robert Charles, LL.D., invited to attend annual dinner, 355.
——Samuel (1627–c. 1677), son of Governor John of Massachusetts, 122, 141, 143; died in Antigua, where he was Deputy-Governor, 142.
——Samuel (1716–1779), son of Judge Adam (H. C. 1694), 12, 65 n., 69; Clerk of the Superiour Court of Judicature, 13 n.
Winthrop, Mass., 142.
Winton, Statute of, quoted, 402.
Withers, Jane, widow of Thomas, of Kittery, 184.
——Thomas, of Kittery, 184, claim against him arbitrated, 1650, 176 n.
Wolcott, Hon. Roger, LL.D., Governor of Massachusetts, xvi; deceased, xix; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
Wolfe, Gen. James (1726–1759), 288.
Wonder-Working Providence, by Capt. E. Johnson, cited, 17 n.
Wooburne. See Woburn.
Wood, Thomas (1681–1722), his Institutes, cited, 405 n.
Woodbridge, Rev. John (c. 1613–1694), of Newbury and Andover, 78.
——Rev. John (c. 1644–1691), H. C. 1664, of Killingworth and Wethersfield, Conn., son of Rev. John of Newbury, 325 and note.
——John (b. 1679), of York, joiner, son of Capt. Thomas, 178 n.
——Lucy, daughter of Rev. John of Newbury. See Bradstreet.
——Mehitabel (Wyllys), wife of Rev. Timothy, 78.
——Rev. Timothy (c. 1656–1732), H. C. 1675, of Hartford, son of Rev. John of Newbury, 77; opposes the moving of Yale College to New Haven, 78; Cotton Mather’s letter to, about death of Queen Anne and accession of George I., 79–81; prominent in Connecticut public affairs, 325 n.
——family, 325.
Woodbury, Levi (1789–1851), LL.D., Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 311.
Woode, widow [perhaps, of Capt. David], of Ipswich, 1647, 174.
Woods, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel. See Tarbell.
——Henry Ernest, xvi; re-elected Registrar, 35, 354; furnishes materials for the Tarbell pedigree, 297 n.; subscribes to Gould Memorial Fund, 309.
——Samuel (c. 1636–1712), of Cambridge and Groton, 296 n.
Woodward, Chief-Justice William Henry (1774–1818), of Hanover, N. H. (Dartmouth, 1792), 291.
Worcester, Mass., 298.
Worcester County, Mass., 319; term of court at, 73; copy of Muster Rolls of, 225.
Worcester Spy, originally called the Massachusetts Spy, started in Boston, 298.
Work and Principles of Jefferson, an address by W. E. Russell, cited, 91.
Wotton, Sir Henry (1568–1639), quoted, 188.
Wright, Joseph, D.C.L., 225; his English Dialect Dictionary, mentioned, 225 n.
——Thomas (1810–1877), his Political Poems and Songs relating to English History, quoted, 242.
Writhlington, Somersetshire, Eng., 222 n.
——Church, 222.
Wyclif, John (d. 1384), 241 n.
Wycliffite Versions of the Holy Bible, quoted, 242.
Wyllys, George (c. 1590–1645), Governor of Connecticut, 216; Deputy-Governor in 1641, and Governor in 1642, 216; Indians beg his agents to spare the Charter Oak, 216.
——Mehitabel, daughter of Samuel. See Woodbridge.
——Samuel (1632–1709), H. C. 1653, of Hartford, son of Gov. George, 78.
Wyman, Thomas Bellows (1817–1878), his Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Mass., cited, 177 n., 260 n., 261 n., 297 n.
Wyncester. See Winchester.
Yale, David, of Boston, his bond to be recorded, 1649, 118.
Yale College, or University, 201, 206 n.; controversy over location of, 78; students placed according to social position, 243 n.
——Law School, Annual Oration of, delivered by W. E. Russell, 91.
——Library, has copies of early Harvard College Theses, 335.
Yale College, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of, by F. B. Dexter, cited, 202 n.
Yankee, 252.
Yarmouth, Mass., 342; P. H. Sears delivers oration at, on its Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, 342.
Year of Democratic Administration, a, paper by W. E. Russell in the Forum, cited, 91.
York (County), Me., 13, 15 and note, 16 n., 176 n., 177 n., 181, 182, 225; term of Superiour Court of Judicature at, 73.
——Court, 178 n.
——Court Files, quoted, 15, 16 and note.
——Court Records, quoted, 168 n., 172 n., 179 n., 185; mentioned, 169 n., 184, 185; cited, 171 n., 172 n., 176 n., 178 n., 179 n., 181 n., 182 n., 183 n., 185 n.
——Deeds, quoted, 170 n., 177 n., 178 n., 180 n.; cited, 171 n., 172 n., 173 n., 176 n., 178 n., 180 n., 181 n., 183 n., 184 n.; mentioned, 177 n., 184; two volumes containing, destroyed in the Boston Fire of 1747, 13.
——Probate Court, 181 n.
——Probate Records, quoted, 181 n.
York (Town), Me., 15, 168 n., 170 n., 171, 172 and note, 173 and note, 174 n., 175 n., 176 n., 177 n., 178 n., 179 and note, 180 and note, 181 and note, 182, 183 and note, 184 and note, 185 and note, 186; first called Agamenticus, 170; later called Gorgeana, 170; selectmen of, 178 n.; Town and Church Records of, mentioned, 184. See Agamenticus; Gorgeana.
——New Mill Creek, 178 n.
——River, Va., 223.
Yorke. See York.
Yorkshire, England, 221; Fairfax property in, 222; family, 290.
Young, Rev. Edward James, D.D., his paper on Subjects for Master’s Degree in Harvard College from 1655 to 1791, cited, 323 n.
——Mary, prisoner in Boston Gaol, 1777, 264.