INDEX
Absentees, loyalist, provisions regarding estates of, in definitive treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States (1783), 390, 395.
Accara, Africa. See Accra.
Accra, Africa, 230.
Adams, Abigail (Smith), wife of President John, 30; her Letters, cited, 30 n.
—Charles Francis (H. C. 1856), 40 n; his Antinomianism in Massachusetts, cited, 300 n, 301 n.
—President John, 27, 42, 351, 352; his Works, cited, 6 n, 36 n, 42 n, 43 n; his visit to Mrs. Wells’s wax-works, 30 n; his Letters to his Wife, quoted, 30 n, 36 n; his family physician, 35, 36, 36 n; letters between T. Young and, 40, 40 n; his letter to S. Perley, regarding the Pennsylvania Constitution, quoted, 42; his letter to B. Rush regarding his own part in forming a government in three branches, quoted, 42, 43.
—Oscar Fay, his Dictionary of American Authors, 76.
—Richard, 391.
—Samuel (1722–1803), 27, 28, 29, 36, 37, 38, 39; his defence of T. Young, 17, 17 n, 21–23; Committee of Correspondence proposed by, 31; member of this committee, 31; his part in the Boston tea-party, 33; Committee of Correspondence defended by, 34; letters between T. Young and, mentioned, 36, 36 n.
Adamson, Capt. John, 216.
Adventure a ship, 231.
Agawam. See Springfield, Mass.
Albany, N. Y., Committee of Correspondence, 41.
Albany Congress (1754), 420, 421; small interest taken in, by colonies, 409, 410, 410 n; call for, 410, 410 n, 412 n; delayed in meeting, 410, 410 n, 411 n; purpose of, 410 n, 411, 411 n, 412 n, 413; delegates to, from Pennsylvania, 412 n; results of, 414, 415 n.
Alexander, James, 412 n.
All Hallows, Barking, Eng., 382.
Allen, Abigail (Beebe), wife of Heman, 16 n. See also Wadhams.
—Charles, his Reports, cited, 262 n.
—Edwin West, his statement regarding wheat rust, 95.
—Ethan, 53; his friendship with T. Young, 15, 16, 35, 44; H. Hall’s Life of, quoted, 15; his theological views, 16, 17; his part in the Oracles of Reason, 17.
—Ira, his Natural and Political History of the State of Vermont, cited, 47 n, 54 n; quoted, 54.
—Rev. James, 340.
—Rev. John, pseudonym of Junius, Junior, used by, 294 n.
—Samuel (1636–1705), Governor of New Hampshire controversy regarding land claimed by, 384.
—Thomas, son of Gov. Samuel, his land claims, 384, 384 n, 386, 398.
—family, extracts from Z. Thompson’s unpublished lecture on, 15.
Allibone, Samuel Austin, his Critical Dictionary of English Literature, 76.
Almanach de Gotha, important character of, 74; only complete file of, 74.
Almanacs, definition of, in Encyclopaedia Britannica; in the Century Dictionary, 73; by the Company of Stationers, 75, 76; various sorts of information given by, 73, 74; political data in those published by New York papers, 74; prognostications of, 74, 75; those published by the Cambridge press, 74 n; sale of, a government monopoly in England, 75; the monopoly overthrown, 76; authors of, 76, 77; some absurdities of, 77. See also Gadbury’s Almanack.
Almira. See Elmira.
Amenia, N. Y., 50 n; N. Reed’s Early History of, cited, 14 n, 15 n; quoted, 15; T. Young’s residence in, 14, 15.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Memoirs of, cited, 325 n.
American Antiquarian Society, v, 438, 452; copy of second edition of Burgis-Price view of Boston owned by, 250; reproduction of this copy, 251; copy of second impression of W. Burgis’s South Prospect of New York owned by, 251.
American Colonies, provisions regarding estates of absentees in definitive treaty of peace between Great Britain and (1783), 390; plan of union of, 411, 411 n; Franklin’s plan, 411 n, 412 n; newspaper items regarding the plan, before and during the Albany Congress, 411, 412, 412 n, 413 n; remarks by Gov. Shirley concerning, 413; by Gov. Belcher, 413; message of Massachusetts Legislature concerning, 414.
American Jezebel, the, name given to Anne Hutchinson, 300, 300 n.
American Philosophical Society, presents to this Society medal struck in commemoration of its celebration of the bicentenary of Franklin, 330; copy of Constitutional Courant owned by, 453.
American Unitarian Association, its hospitality to this Society, 330.
Ames, James Barr, LL.D., xiv.
—John, 242 n.
—Priscilla (Kimball), wife of John, 242 n.
—Stephen, son of John, 242, 242 n.
Amherst, N. H., 383.
Amsterdam, island. See New Amsterdam.
Anacreon, 61.
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 302.
Andover Theological Seminary, manuscripts received by trustees of, from estate of E. C. Smyth, 2.
André, John, 352.
Andrew, John Albion, Governor of Massachusetts, 360.
Andrews, Ebenezer, 203. See also Thomas & Andrews.
—John, 36 n; a letter of, quoted, 36.
—William, takes over the Boston Book Store, 203. See also Andrews & Cummings; Andrews & Goodwin.
—William Loring, 262 n; his copy of the second impression of W. Burgis’s Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge, 252; reproduction of this view in his Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge, 252; his copy of W. Burgis’s View of the New Dutch Church, 252; this view reproduced in his Bradford Map, 252; View of Castle William, probably W. Burgis’s, 253; this view reproduced in his Bradford Map, 253.
Andrews & Cummings, 203.
Andrews & Goodwin, 203.
Andros, Sir Edmund, 293.
Angell, Hon. James Burrill, LL.D., xvi.
Anglesey, Earl of. See Annesley, Arthur.
Anjengo, British India, 227, 227 n.
Ann, a brig, 226.
—a ship, prosecution against, 243.
Annals of Agriculture testimony of farmers published in, regarding influence of barberry bushes on grain, 95, 96; cited, 96 n.
Annamaboo. See Anamabo.
Annapolis, Md., conference of Sons of Liberty at (1766), 26 n.
Annesley, Arthur, first Earl of Anglesey, 285, 285 n.
Antelope, English guard ship, 210.
Antinomians, persecution of, 300, 301, 302, 303, 309.
Apollos, J. Harvard likened to, 380.
Appleton, Francis Randall, LL.B., xv.
Arden, Mary. See Shakspere.
Armstrong, Jane (Parks) Young, wife of Thomas, 10, 10 n.
—Margery, daughter of Thomas, 11.
—William, son of Thomas, 10, 11.
Arnold, Benedict (d. 1801), 372.
—Samuel Greene, his History of Rhode Island, cited, 38 n.
Ascension Island, 237.
Asia, a ship, 232, 232 n, 233, 233 n.
Aspinwall, William, 306, 314; his Notarial Records, cited, 317 n.
Astley, Sir Jacob, 368.
Atkinson, Frances (Wentworth), wife of Theodore, 344 n. See also Wentworth.
—Theodore (d. 1769), 344, 344 n.
Atkinson, N. H., represented in the Legislature by N. Peabody, 241 n.
Attachment, cost of writ of, 199 n.
Avon, the river, Eng., 372.
Axon, Ernest, letter from, relating to President Dunster, 97, 97 n.
Axtel, Daniel, the regicide, 290 n.
Ayer, James Bourne, M.D., xv; photographs of the Consistoire Church of St. Pierre Geneva, exhibited by, 54; photograph of portion of Burgis Price view of Boston secured by, 250; copy of the second edition of this view owned by, 251; reproduction of this copy, 251; exhibits photographs of meeting houses in this view, 262.
—Mary Farwell, daughter of James Bourne, her South Meeting-House, Boston, cited, 250; her Boston Common in Colonial and Provincial Days, cited, 250 n; mentioned, 251.
Aylmer, John, Bishop of London, 266 n.
Babson, Robert Tillinghast, LL.B., xiv.
Badger, Joseph, Sr., 400, 401.
—Joseph, Jr., son of Joseph, Sr., 400, 400 n.
Bagaduce (now Castine), Me., 223.
Baker, Thomas, 256.
—Thomas, 28.
—Thomas, 251.
Balasore Roads, India, 236, 236 n.
Balch, Thomas Willing, LL.B., xvi; elected a Corresponding Member, 72, 331; accepts, 102.
Baldwin, Hon. Simeon Eben, LL.D., xvi.
Ballintine, John. See Ballantyne.
Bancroft, George, his History of the United States, quoted, 33, 411 n; cited, 33 n, 210 n, 211 n, 217 n, 225 n; attributes a letter in A. Kennedy’s pamphlet to Franklin, 411 n; withdraws the attribution, 411 n.
Bangs, Edward, 324.
Bangs & Wells, 324.
Banks, Sir Joseph, his Short account of the Cause of the Disease in Corn, called by Farmers the Blight, the Mildew, the Rust, quoted, 96, 97; cited, 97 n.
Barber, Capt. Nathaniel, 37.
Barberry bushes, P. Sprague’s method of exterminating, 79; opinion of T. Dwight as to their blasting effect on grain, 79, 80, 81; of J. Harriott, 81; Massachusetts legislation regarding extirpation of, 81, 82, 88, 90, 91, 93; text of Act regarding, 82–84; Connecticut legislation regarding, 82 n, 89, 90, 91, 93; obligations of owners and occupants of land regarding, 82, 83, 84; provisions regarding, in case of neglect by occupants and owners, 82, 83; penalties for neglect of, 82, 83, 84, 89, 92; action regarding, in cases of common land, 83, 85; in highways, 83, 84, 92, 93; in division walls, 84, 85; time allowed for extirpation of, 85; opinion of modern botanists regarding evil effects of, 85, 86, 87, 88; general absence of, on Western plains, 87; Rhode Island legislation regarding, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93; provision regarding, when used as fences, 90; chronology of legislation regarding, 93; knowledge by botanists of legislation regarding, 94; statement of E. W. Allen regarding, 95; inquiries of A. Young regarding, 96; opinions regarding, published in Annals of Agriculture, 96; statement of Sir J. Banks regarding, 96, 97; of J. Timbs, 97.
Barberry Bushes and Wheat — a Supplement to a chapter in “The old Farmer and his Almanack,” paper by A. McF. Davis, 73–94; discussion of the paper, 95–97.
Barker, Rev. Matthew, 338, 341.
—Nathaniel, 33.
Barrett, Sir Edward, Lord Barrett of Newburgh, 268 n.
—Sarah (Gerrish), wife of John, 34 n.
Barrington, Edmund, 97 n.
Barry, Commodore John, 234 n.
Bartlett, James, 210.
Barton, Edmund Miller, 8 n, 438 n.
Bartram, William, 112, 112 n, 157.
Bary, Heinrich Anton de, his investigations regarding rust on wheat, 86.
Baston, Thomas, his Ships of the Royal Navy, mentioned, 254.
Batavia, Java, 235 n; Capt. J. Chapman’s voyage to, 235.
Batchelder, David, 396.
Battelle, Ebenezer, his Boston Book Store bought by B. Guild, 201, 201 n.
Baxter, Hon. James Phinney, Litt.D., xvi.
Baylies, Walter Cabot, A.B., xiv.
Baynes (Bayne), Paul, 271 n.
Beaumont, —. See Wentworth, — (Beaumont), wife of John.
Beebe, Abigail. See Allen; Wadhams.
Belcher, Jonathan, Governor of Massachusetts and New Jersey, 254, 255; his remarks on the union of the colonies, 413.
Belknap, Rev. Jeremy, his History of New Hampshire cited, 384 n.
Bell, Charles Henry, his Bench and Bar of New Hampshire mentioned, 383 n; cited, 242 n, 243 n.
Bellingham, Ann, sister of Gov. Richard. See Hibbins.
—Penelope (Pelham), second wife of Gov. Richard, 316 n.
—Richard, Governor of Massachusetts, 298, 305, 314, 316 n, 340; morose character of, 316; blamed for not securing acquittal of Ann Hibbins, 316, 317.
Bennett, Bart, 310.
Bernard, Sir Francis, Governor of Massachusetts, 293, 293 n; redress of grievances sought from, 27; T. Hutchinson’s letters to, regarding the conduct of T. Young and others, 28; his attempt to prevent the Manufactory House meeting, 28 n; his report regarding the leaders of the tea-party, 33; Harvard Hall planned by, 55; attacks upon, just before his return to England, 446.
Berwick, Me., 79.
Besse, Joseph, his Sufferings of the Quakers, cited, 309 n, 319 n, 320 n.
Bessey, Charles Edwin, his statement regarding rust and its propagation, 87, 88.
Bethlehem, Pa., 44 n.
Bigelow, John, a letter in A. Kennedy’s pamphlet included in his edition of Franklin’s Works, 411 n.
—Melville Madison, a guest at the annual dinner, 347.
Bill, James, 255.
—Mehitable, wife of James, 255.
—Mehitable, daughter of James. See Burgis; Selby.
Billings, John Shaw, D.C.L., xvi.
Bishop & Lincoln, Lothrop, firm of, 356.
Bisset, Elizabeth (or Alice), married into the Wentworth family, 64, 69.
Black, George Nixon, xiv.
Blackett, Sir Thomas, 63.
Blackstone, William, of Boston, acquaints Gov. Winthrop of an excellent spring, and invites him to settle in Boston, 295, 298, 327; location of this spring, 297, 298, 299, 303, 304, 305, 308, 312, 327; his house on Beacon Hill, 297, 304; his dislike of Puritans, 297.
—Sir William, cited, 75 n.
Blagrove, Henry B., 204 n.
—Sarah (Pelham), 204.
—William, son of Sarah, takes charge of W. Pelham’s circulating library, Boston, 204; leaves Boston, 204.
Blaine, James Gillespie, 357.
Blake, Francis, A.M., xv.
—Joseph, 226.
—Lemuel, son of William, 202, 202 n.
—Rachel (Glover), wife of William, 202 n.
—William, 202 n.
—William P., & Co., 202 n.
—William Pinson, son of William, takes over the Boston Book Store, 202; catalogue of his books, 200, 202 n; books published by, 202; sells his circulating library, 202, 203; brief sketch of, 202 n.
Blight in grain. See Rust.
Bliss, Philip, his edition of Wood’s Fasti Oxonienses, cited, 291 n.
Blodget, —, 217.
Blood, Francis, 400.
Blunden, Humfrey, 283 n.
Bodge, Rev. George Madison, copy of his Soldiers in King Philip’s War presented to this Society, 72.
Boggess, —, 128.
Bollan, Frances (Shirley), wife of William, 344; memorials to, 344 n.
—Frances Shirley, daughter of William. See Western.
—William, 344; letter of F. Dana regarding the settlement of his estate, 345, 346; claim of his estate for services as agent, 346 n.
Bolton, Charles Knowles, A.B., xv, 8 n; his paper on Circulating Libraries in Boston (1765–1865), 196–207; discussion of the paper, 208.
—Thomas, his Oration delivered March 15, 1775, quoted, 29; cited, 29 n.
Bombay, an English frigate, 233.
—India, 228.
Bonner, Edmund, Bishop of London, 319.
—John, 259. See also Bonner-Price map of Boston.
Bonner-Price map of Boston, mentioned, 252, 259.
Bordley, John Beale, his Summary View of the Courses of Crops, etc., 139, 139 n, 144, 147.
Boston, Eng., 376.
Boston, Mass., St. Patrick’s Day dinner in (1767), 4 n; Memorial History of, cited, 4 n, 306 n, 309 n; mentioned, 251, 252; provisions collected in Windsor, Conn., for the poor of, 5 n; town meeting of November 20, 1772, in, 24, 24 n; some events leading to the tea-party in, 32, 33; town meetings in (1774), 34; vote of, regarding J. Mein, 199, 200; importation of books suspended in, 199; paper on Circulating Libraries in (1765–1865), by C. K. Bolton, 196–207; discussion of the paper, 208; Burgis-Price View of, paper on, by J. H. Edmonds, 245, 262; earliest known view of, 245; subscriptions asked for view of, 246, 247; the view made, 247, 248; its harbor, 248; its wharves, 248; its houses, 248; its shipping, 248; copy of Burgis-Price View of, presented to the city, 249; probably unique impression of the original plate now existing, 249, 250; photographs of, 250; five known copies of the second edition of, 250, 251; Bonner-Price map of, 252, 259; W. Burgis’s Boston N. Eng. Planted A.D. MDCXXX, owners of copies of, 252; reproductions of this view, 252; first settlement of, 295, 296, 304, 305, 306, 326, 327; springs of, 297, 298, 299, 304, 305, 307, 308, 309, 312, 315, 321, 324, 325, 326, 327; difficulties about drainage in (1638), 299, 300; Antinomian heresy in, 300, 301, 302, 303, 309; early cove and dock in, 304, 305, 311, 315, 327; change in configuration of, 305; dispersal of early settlers of, 308; first water-works in, 310, 311, 312, 313, 315; over-supply of water in, 311, 312, 315; fire of 1679 in, 311, 311 n; second and third conduit built in, 312, 313; provision for fire protection in, 313, 314, 321; great fire of 1653 in, 314; project for another water-supply in, 314, 315; land given by, in return for maintenance of highway, 315; fire of 1711 in, 322, 323; signs of old water-courses in, 324.
—Albion Building, 326.
—American Coffee House. See below, British Coffee House.
—Ann Street, 30.
—Blackstone Street, 305.
—Blue Anchor Tavern, 301.
—Bowen’s Columbian Museum, 205.
—Boylston Library, 206.
—Brazer Building, 307.
—Breck Agricultural Warehouse, 313.
—British Coffee House, 7; location of, 5 n; 196, 196 n, 197 n.
—Bromfield’s Lane, 196 n.
—Butler’s Wharf, 254.
—Cambridge Street, 206, 237 n.
—Carney Building, 326.
—Carter Building. See below, Winthrop Building.
—Castle Tavern. See below, George Tavern.
—Castle William, view of, probably by W. Burgis, 253.
—Christ Church, 255, 256, 257, 258.
—Circulating Library, 200.
—City Hall, cave-in at, 324, 325.
—City Surveyor’s Report, 252.
—Columbian Library, 206 n.
—Commercial Street, 32 n.
—Committee of Correspondence, 45; formation of, 31; motion for censuring and annihilating, defeated, 34.
—Concert Hall, 30.
—Congregational Building, 325.
—Corn Court, 5 n.
—Cornhill 201, 202, 203, 204, 206, 206 n, 207; new London Book Store opened in, 6 n; tax levied for repairs of town pump in, 259.
—Cotton Hill, 370; spring on, 297, 298, 308, 327.
—Court Avenue, 260.
—Court Street, 206.
—Crown Coffee House, 246, 251, 254, 255, 256, 257.
—Devonshire Building, 307.
—Dispensary, 356.
—Dock Square, originally occupied by a cove or creek and landing place, 304, 305, 311, 315.
—Easton Building, 307.
—Episcopal Charitable Society, 261.
—Exchange Building, 299, 306, 307.
—Exchange Coffee House, 249.
—Eye and Ear Infirmary, 356.
—Faneuil Hall, 250; tea meeting in, 33.
—Faneuil Hall Square, 5 n.
—First Church, statue of Rev. J. Cotton placed in, 54; discussion in regard to removing (1639), 299; site of original edifice of, 307, 308.
—Fitch’s Alley. See above, ’Change Alley.
—Flagg’s Alley. See above, ’Change Alley.
—Franklin Library, 206, 206 n.
—Franklin Street, 206.
—George Tavern, 31 n, 311 n, 312.
—Globe Building, 301, 301 n, 302.
—Governor’s Green, 299, 303, 311; made over to S. Winthrop, 315, 316; sold by him and his widow, 318.
—Governor’s Spring, 298, 299, 315; land about, probably unoccupied before 1634, 303; order for fencing, 319; recent schemes regarding, 326, 327.
—Half-way Rock, Boston Harbor, 236, 236 n.
—Hamilton Place, 28 n.
—Hancock Tavern, 5 n.
—Heart and Crown, Cornhill, 411 n.
—India Building, 307.
—Kimball Building, 326.
—King Street, 33; British Coffee House in, 5 n, 6 n; J. Mein’s bookstore and circulating library in, 196, 197 n. See also State Street.
—King Street Pier. See below, Long Wharf.
—King’s Arms Tavern, 31, 31 n, 314, 315.
—King’s Chapel, 255, 256, 356; Foote’s Annals of, cited, 5 n, 40 n, 202 n, 204 n, 262 n, 344 n; Registers of, cited, 40 n, 344 n; litigation between Trinity Church and, 202 n; organ of, 257; W. Price’s association with, 258; his bequest to, 261, 262.
—King’s Head and Looking Glass, W. Price’s shop, 260.
—Ladies Circulating Library, 203, 206 n.
—Liberty Tree, 32.
—Light, W. Burgis’s View of, 253; reproductions of this view, 253.
—London Book Store, 5 n, 6 n; J. Mein’s occupancy of, 196, 196 n, 197 n.
—Louisburg Square originally part of one of the three peaks of Trimountain, 297.
—Main Street, 200. See also Newbury Street; Washington Street.
—Manufactory House, T. Young’s. Oration at, 28, 28 n, 29.
—Marlboro’ Street, 196 n.
—Mason’s Hall, 196 n.
—Massachusetts Bank, 4 n, 5 n.
—Massachusetts Building, 5 n.
—Massacre, T. Young’s oration on the first anniversary of, 28, 28 n, 29.
—Merchants’ Row, 5 n.
—Middle Street. See above, Hanover Street.
—Middlecot Street, 237, 237 n.
—Milk Street, 205.
—New Algonquin Club, 330.
—Newbury Street, 6 n, 203, 205.
—New North Church, Records of, cited, 34 n.
—New South Church, Registers of, cited, 6 n, 202 n.
—Old Brick Meeting House, earliest view of, 253; no known copy of this view, 253.
—Old City Hall, copy of Burgis Price View of Boston in, 249.
—Old South Building, 325.
—Old South Church, 356; tea meeting in, 33; Burnham’s bookshop in basement of, 207; land bought for, 316, 318.
—Old South Corporation, 356.
—Overseers of the Poor, 4 n; Manual for the Use of, cited, 5 n.
—Paddy’s Alley, 30.
—Parker House, 207.
—Pavilion Building, 326.
—Pierce’s Alley. See above, ’Change Alley.
—Port Bill, town meeting in regard to, 34.
—Post Office, spring encountered in building, 321, 324.
—Post Office Square, 320.
—Provident Association, 356.
—Public Library, 202 n, 310 n, 356; its copy of the second edition of the Burgis-Price View of Boston, 251; Prince Collection in, 407; copy of Rev. I. Wiswall’s poem owned by, 407.
—Quaker Lane, 199 n.
—Quincy House, 305.
—Record Commissioners’ Reports, cited, 3 n, 6 n, 18 n, 24 n, 27 n, 29 n, 30 n, 31 n, 32 n, 34 n, 200 n, 201 n, 202 n, 262 n, 297 n, 300 n, 301 n, 302 n, 303 n, 304 n, 305 n, 306 n, 308 n, 309 n, 310 n, 311 n, 312 n, 313 n, 314 n, 315 n, 316 n, 319 n, 321 n, 322 n, 323 n, 324 n, 451 n; quoted, 299, 300.
—Records of Deaths, cited, 40 n.
—Revere House, 237 n.
—Rogers Building, 302.
—Russell’s Wharf, 233 n.
—Salutation Tavern, in Salutation Alley, 32, 32 n.
—Scollay Square, well of old school house in, 298.
—Scott Alley, 309.
—Scottow’s Alley, 309.
—Sears Building, 302.
—Selby’s Coffee House. See above, Crown Coffee House.
—Seven Star Lane, 200.
—Shakspeare Library, 206.
—Siege, extract from T. Bolton’s Oration delivered before the, 29.
—Sign of the Two Palaverers. See above, Salutation Tavern.
—Spring Lane, order for paving, 322; drains laid in, 323; repairs on well and drains in, 323, 324; pump in, 323, 324, 326. See also above, Governor’s Spring.
—State House, well dug for, 325.
—State Street, originally the Broad street leading from the market-place to the sea, 306, 308, 328; springs of, 307, 308.
—States Arms. See above, King’s Arms Tavern.
—Suffolk Bank, 5 n.
—Suffolk Savings Bank, 356.
—Summer Street, 200 n.
—Symphony Hall, memorial service for R. Wolcott at, 362.
—Town House, provided for in R. Keayne’s will, 308; library in, 313.
—Town pump, 307, 308. See also Cornhill; Spring Lane.
—Tremont Building, 326.
—Trinity Church, 6 n; Registers of, cited, 40 n; litigation between King’s Chapel and, 202 n; William Price Fund, 202 n, 261, 262, 262 n; W. Price’s part in erection of, 258; his burial in, 261; funeral of R. Wolcott from, 361, 362.
—Union Circulating Library, 204, 206 n.
—Washington Street, 206, 206 n, 207; extension of, 31.
—West Boston Library, 206.
—White Horse Tavern, 6 n.
—Williams’s Court, 6 n, 261, 301.
—Wing’s Lane, 30, 31, 52, 312.
—Winthrop Building, quicksand encountered in building, 324, 325.
—Worthington Building, 307.
—Young’s Hotel, 260.
Boston and Albany Railroad, 356.
Boston Athenæum, v; Washington Collection in, 125 n, 139 n; copy of W. Lilly’s Declaration of the several Treasons owned by, 284 n; two copies of Junius Junior’s Spirit of Liberty owned by, 294 n; copy of Constitutional Courant owned by, 422 n, 434, 434 n, 452.
Boston Book Store, sold by E. Battelle to B. Guild, 201; taken over by W. P. Blake, 202; bought by W. Andrews, 203.
Boston Chronicle, 6 n; started by J. Mein, 198, 198 n; description of the pope published in, 198 n.
Boston Evening Post, 417; items printed in, regarding the Albany Congress, 413, 414; only newspaper mentioning the Constitutional Courant, 435, 435 n; snake device used in, 435, 435 n; facsimile of the device, facing 416.
Boston Gazette, items printed in, regarding the Albany Congress, 413, 415; snake device used by, 417, 440 n, 452; facsimile of, facing 416; reproduction of this device as that of the Constitutional Courant, 440.
Boston News-Letter, snake device used by, 417; facsimile of, facing 416.
Boston Post-Boy, 417, 427 n; account of the Albany Congress in, 414.
Bostonian Society, 252; presents copy of Vol. III of its Publications to this Society, 72.
Boutineau, Anne, daughter of James. See Robinson.
—James, 6 n.
—Stephen, 323.
Bowditch, Charles Pickering, A.M., xiv.
Bowdoin, James, 255.
—James, Governor of Massachusetts, 37; his attempt to prevent interference with court proceedings, 387.
Bowdoin College Library, manuscript order to Sir W. Phips owned by, 342.
Bowen, Clarence Winthrop, Ph.D., xvi.
Brackett, Richard, 299, 303; his estate in Boston, 302.
Bradford, Alden, 406.
—Capt. John, 37.
—Moses, 313.
—Samuel, 234.
—Thomas. See Bradford, William and Thomas.
—William and Thomas, publishers of the Pennsylvania Journal, 448; device used by, 421, 447, 448; this device reproduced as Franklin’s snake device, 421, 421 n; as the Constitutional Courant’s device, 440; last use of the snake device by, 451.
Bradlee, David, T. Young’s estate sold to, 31 n.
Branson, —, 190.
Brattle, Thomas, 312; property of W. Tyng comes into possession of, 311.
Brattleboro, Vt., early postal service of, 35 n.
Brazil, method of carrying on the slave-trade to, 229, 230.
Brenton, Jahleel, son of Gov. William, 342 n; his complaint against Sir W. Phips, 342.
—William, Governor of Rhode Island, 342 n.
Brewer, Elizabeth, 31 n.
Brewster, Frank, A.M., xiv.
Bridge, Benjamin, 255.
—Matthew, 226.
Bridgeman, Sir Orlando, 288, 288 n.
Bridges, Francis, 272.
Bridgham, Henry (d. 1671), 320.
—Henry (d. 1720), son of Joseph (d. 1709), 323.
—Joseph (d. 1709), son of Henry (d. 1671), use of water from the Governor’s Spring allowed to, 321.
Brief Discourse, A, of the Troubles begun at Frankfurt in the year 1554, about the Book of Common Prayer and Ceremonies, copy of, exhibited, 54, 54 n.
Brinsmead, Rev. William, 408.
Bristol County, R. I., Deeds, cited, 346 n.
British Museum, copy of Burgis-Price View of Boston in, 249; description of this copy, 250; photographs of, 250; copy of second impression of W. Burgis’s South Prospect of New York in, 251; copy of the Constitutional Courant in, 433 n, 434 n.
Britton, Mrs. —, 256.
Brooking, John, 32 n.
Brooks, Capt.—, 226.
—James Willson, A.M., xv.
Broom & Livingstone, 225.
Brown, Capt. —, 229.
—John, tenant of the Mansion House, Boston (1771), 28 n.
—Sarah. See Young.
Browne, Robert, 368.
—William, Governor of Bermuda, 212, 212 n.
—Corwin &, 309.
Brut, the, of Geoffrey of Monmouth, 102.
Bryan, George, his opposition to J. Adams’s plan favoring government in three branches, 42; his part in framing the Pennsylvania Constitution, 43.
Buckingham, Duke of. See Villiers.
—Joseph Tinker, 293; his Specimens of Newspaper Literature cited, 6 n, 293 n, 438 n, 440 n; his account of the Constitutional Courant, 438; his incorrect reproduction of the Courant’s device, 440.
Buckminster, Rev. Joseph, 390, 390 n.
Bunker Hill, battle of, 209.
Bunt, nautical word, 211, 211 n.
Burbeck, Thomas, 217.
Burgis, Mehitable (Bill) Selby, wife of William, 251, 257.
—William, his plan for taking a View of Boston, 246, 251; the plan carried out, 247, 248, 249; second edition of the View, 250; first mention of, 251; his South Prospect of New York, 251, 253, 259; his Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge, 252; his Boston N. Eng. Planted A.D. MDCXXX, 252; his View of the New Dutch Church, 252; of Boston Light, 253.
Burlington, N. J., the Constitutional Courant may have been printed at, 434 n, 437, 438; two works issued from J. Parker’s press at, 443, 444, 444 n.
Burnet, William, Governor of Massachusetts, W. Burgis’s Boston N. Eng., dedicated to, 252.
Burnham, Thomas, his circulating library, Boston, 206.
—Thomas Oliver Hazard Perry, son of Thomas, his library and bookshop, Boston, 207.
Burt, Jotham, 346.
Burton, Robert, pseudonym Democritus Junior used by, 293, 293 n.
Bury, Eng., Grammar School, 97.
—Parish Register of, 97 n.
Butler, Benjamin Franklin, Governor of Massachusetts, 356.
—James, one of Washington’s overseers, 132, 133, 134, 136, 137, 139, 140, 141, 145, 148, 155, 165, 166, 172, 179, 182, 182 n.
—Kezia, her circulating library, Boston, 205, 206.
—Peter, land leased to T. Selby by, 254, 255.
—Pierce (1744–1822), 140, 140 n.
—Thaddeus, 399.
Byng family, barony of Raby passes to, 65.
Cabot, John (d. 1742), letter to T. Savage from, 98–101.
—Louis, A.B., xiv.
Cahart, Capt. —, 115.
Calamy, Edmund (1671–1732), his Nonconformist’s Memorial, 341 n.
Calcutta, India, 228, 231, 236.
Callender, Charles, 206.
Calomel, T. Young’s use of, 39, 40.
Calverts, the, a London firm, 229.
Cam, the river, Eng., 61.
Cambridge, Maud, Countess of, wife of Richard, Earl of, 67, 68. See also Nevil.
—Richard, Earl of, son of Edmund, Duke of York, 67.
Cambridge, Eng., University of, profits derived by, from sale of almanacs, 75, 75 n; strong Puritan element at, 271 n.
—Christ’s College, 377.
—Emmanuel College, J. Harvard at, 376; some of J. Harvard’s contemporaries at, 377; its Puritan reputation, 377; many early New England leaders from, 378.
Cambridge, Mass., W. Burgis’s Prospect of the Colledges in, 252; only known copy of first impression of, 252; reproductions of this impression, 252; Gov. Winthrop’s house first set up in, 295, 296, 306.
Cambridge Historical Society, presents to this Society a medal struck in commemoration of one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Longfellow, 330.
Cambridge Press, almanacs published by, 74 n.
Camden Society, Publications of, cited, 282 n.
Campbell, William James, v.
Canavan, Michael Joseph, his paper on Mr. Blackstone’s “Excellent Spring,” 295–328.
Caner, Rev. Henry, 261.
Cannon, James, 41, 52; his part in framing the Pennsylvania Constitution, 42, 43; his opposition to J. Adams’s plan favoring three legislative branches, 42.
Canterbury, Archbishop of, legislation regarding sale of almanacs approved by, 75, 76.
Cape Verde Islands, 232, 232 n.
Capel, Arthur, first Baron Capel of Hadham, 289, 289 n.
Carleton, Sir Dudley, Viscount Dorchester, 268 n.
Carlyle, Thomas, his Cromwell, cited, 281; mentioned, 294 n.
Carnan, Thomas, suit of Company of Stationers against, 75.
Carnegie Institution, Washington, D. C., continuation of its Bibliography of Writings on American History guaranteed, 72.
Carter, Franklin, LL.D., xvi.
Carter, Henry Harrington, his circulating library, Boston, 207.
Cartwright, Thomas, 271 n.
Cassard, Jacques, Paramaribo put to ransom by, 98, 98 n, 99, 100.
Castine, Me. See Bagaduce; Penobscot.
Castle, Catharine (Young), wife of Daniel, 50, 51.
—James, son of Daniel, 51.
Cathcart, Capt. John, 224, 225.
Caucus, North End, Boston, 32, 34.
Cedar, Washington’s cultivation of, 108, 109, 113, 126, 149, 157, 158.
Chadwick, Josh., drawing of Harvard College by, 382.
Chamberlain, Hon. Joshua Lawrence, LL.D., xvi.
Channing, Edward Tyrrel, 208.
—Rev. William Ellery, son of William, 37 n.
Chapman, Abigail (Devens), first wife of Capt. Jonathan (1756–1832), 226, 226 n, 227, 238 n.
—Ann (Kettell), wife of Thomas, 208 n.
—Dummer Rogers, son of Capt. Jonathan (1756–1832), 208 n, 238.
—HENRY LELAND, LL.D., xvi; elected a Corresponding Member, 280, 331; accepts, 330; copy of an order to Sir W. Phips communicated by, 341.
—James, 216.
—Jemima (Miller) Stone, wife of Jonathan (d. 1765), 208 n, 209, 209 n, 215.
—Jonathan (d. 1765), son of Thomas, 208, 208 n.
—Capt. Jonathan (1756–1832), son of Jonathan (d. 1765), Autobiography of, communicated by J. Noble, Jr., 208; text of the autobiography, 208, 239; the original manuscript, 208 n; his parents, 208, 208 n; his first two voyages to Haiti, 209; captured by British man-of-war, 209, 210; transferred to British ship, 210; takes part in events at Chester, Pa., 210, 211; breaks his leg, 211, 212, 215, 216; taken to Navy Hospital, Long Island, 211, 212; escapes from the hospital in disguise, 212; embarks on the Tartar for new Providence, 212, 213; the vessel wrecked, 213, 214; his experiences as a prisoner of war in Virginia, 214, 215; his release, 215; finds friends in Portsmouth, 215; embarks on the Willing Maid for Santa Cruz, 215, 216; returns to Virginia, 216; his hard journey to Boston, 216; learns navigation, 216; ships on a privateer, 216; his cruise to Portland and the Banks, 217; ships for Cape Francis, 217; the vessel stranded on the return voyage, 217; makes two voyages to Martinique, 218; made prize master of the captured schooner Hope, 218; sails as first officer of this schooner, 218; the ship and its prize captured, 218; sent to Cadiz and returns to Boston, 218; his unprofitable sale of salt, 218; makes a profitable voyage to Havana and Cadiz, 218; captured on a second voyage to Havana, 218, 219; confined on a prison ship, 219; his plan of escape, 219; results of this plan, 219, 220, 221, 224; captures three small vessels, 221, 222; releases two of these vessels, 222; starts for home in the third prize, 222; accident to his boat, 222; sails across Bay of Fundy in open boat, 223; reaches Boston, 224; sails for Cape François, 224, 225; attack on the ship, 225; returns to Alexandria, 225, 226; a voyage to France and England, 226; sails as master of the brig Ann, 226; his marriage, 226; birth and death of his son, 226; death of his wife and daughter, 227; continues in West India trade, 227; sails for India as first officer of the Hercules, 227, 228; put in command of the brig Generous Friends, 228; his voyage up the African coast, 229, 230; his voyage home through the West Indies, 230, 231; his success in the India trade, 231, 232, 233, 234, 236, 237; his second voyage to India, 231; his third voyage to India in the ship Asia, 232, 233; made a captain in the navy, 234; commands the Pickering in search of French privateers, 234; carries cannon to fortify Fort Johnson, 234; declines further service in the navy, 235; his voyage to Java, 235, 236; makes another voyage to India, 236, 237; gives up the sea, 237; builds a house in Boston, 237; his second marriage, 237; his children, 237, 238; chosen a selectman, 238; his wharf and distillery in Charlestown, 238, 238 n, 239; his house and store in Charlestown, 238; elected to the General Court, 238; sells out his shipping interests, 238.
—Jonathan, Mayor of Boston, son of Capt. Jonathan (1756–832), 209 n, 238.
—Margaret, daughter of Capt. Jonathan (1756–1832), 237.
— Margaret (Rogers), second wife of Capt. Jonathan (1756–1832), 237, 238.
— Richard, son of Jonathan (d. 1765), 215; his death, 226.
—family, 209 n.
Charles I, King of England, 376; impropriations in the reign of, 267; captured by G. Joyce, 281; Lord Montagu’s account of the capture, 281, 282; execution of, 282, 283; identity of his executioners, 282, 283, 285, 286, 287, 290, 291, 291 n, 294 n; his warfare against Puritanism, 368; his defeat, 368.
Charles II, of England, 319, 370; Massachusetts General Court sends letter of congratulation to, 307; G. Downing deserts Cromwell for, 372.
Charleston, S. C., 213, 213 n.
Charlestown, Mass., Wyman’s Genealogies and Estates of, cited, 5 n; Capt. J. Chapman’s property in, 238, 238 n, 239; arrival of Puritans at, from Salem, 295; great sickness there among them, 295, 296, 304, 327.
—Indian Chief Tavern. See above, Eagle Tavern.
—Library, 206 n.
—Records, quoted, 295, 304; inaccuracies of, 295, 296.
—Town Hill, Puritan camp on the slope of, 295, 327.
Charnock, John, his Biographia Navalis, quoted, 99 n; cited, 342 n.
Chase, Charles Augustus, A. M., xiv.
Chatham, a British ship, 219.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 380.
Chauncy, Rev. Charles, President of Harvard College, 336, 339, 340.
—Rev. Charles (H. C. 1721), 37.
Chebucto Head, Nova Scotia, 219 n.
Cheever, Elizabeth. See Henley.
—Ezekiel, 33.
Cherry, Samuel, 402, 402 n, 403.
Chester, Joseph Lemuel, his genealogy of the Wentworth family, 62, 63, 64, 65, 68.
Chester, Eng., Probate Register, 97 n.
Chester, N. H., paper money convention in (1786), 385, 386, 387.
Chester, Pa., British and American manœuvres at, 210, 211.
Chesterfield County, Va., 215.
Chickering, Elmer, v.
Chilton, Mary. See Winslow.
Choate, Charles Francis, A.M., xiv.
—Hon. Joseph Hodges, D.C.L., xvi.
Christian Endeavor Convention, R. Wolcott’s speech at, 360.
Church, Benjamin (H. C. 1754), 8, 27, 36 n, 37; his part in the Boston tea-party, 32, 33; his poem attacking Gov. Bernard, 446.
Cincinnati, Society of the, 352, 356.
Circulating Libraries in Boston (1765–1865), paper on, by C. K. Bolton, 196–207; J. Mein’s library, 196–200; W. Martin’s, 200, 201; B. Guild’s, 201; W. P. Blake’s, 202; W. Andrews’s, 203; W. Pelham’s, 203, 204; W. Blagrove’s, 204; S. H. Parker’s, 204; J. Thomas’s, 205; M. Sprague’s, 205; K. Butler’s, 205, 206; the West Boston Library, 206; the Shakspeare Library, 206; the Franklin Library, 206; the Boylston Library, 206; bookplates of, 206 n; Burnham’s library, 206, 207; T. O. Walker’s, 207; A. K. Loring’s, 207; Mayhew & Baker’s, 207; Carter’s, 207; W. B. Clarke’s, 207; discussion on the paper, 208.
Clarendon, Earl of. See Hyde, Edward.
Clark, Charles Edward, library bookplates owned by, 206 n.
—David, 349.
—Elizabeth, daughter of David. See Drake.
—Jonas, 323.
—Lewis H. See Ruttenber, Edward Manning and Clark, Lewis H.
—Mary (Newbury), 349.
—Nicholas, son of Merrit, 51.
—Richard, and Sons, 33.
—Sarah (Young), wife of Merrit, 50, 51 n.
Clarke, Samuel Curtis, Records of Some of the Descendants of William Curtis, 204 n.
—Sir William, his Clarke Papers, edited by C. H. Firth, cited, 282 n.
—William Butler, his circulating library, Boston, 207.
Clavian, magazine of the Bury Grammar School, 97, 97 n.
Clay, John William, Yorkshire visitations edited by, 62, 62 n; Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire published by, 66, 67, 67 n; his genealogical studies regarding the Wentworth family, 68.
Clemens, Elizabeth Andrews (Mitchell), wife of Thomas, seeks refuge in Albany, 40, 40 n.
—Thomas, 40 n.
Clement, Gregory, the regicide, 288, 288 n.
—Thomas. See Clemens.
Clerk, Merrit. See Clarke.
Cleveland, Hon. Grover, LL.D., 357; deceased, xvii.
Clifford, Dr.—, 212.
—Charles Warren, A.M., xiv.
—Matilda, daughter of Thomas, Lord de Clifford. See Cambridge, Maud, wife of Richard, Duke of.
—Maud, daughter of Thomas, Lord de Clifford. See Cambridge, Maud, Countess of, wife of Richard, Earl of.
—Thomas, Lord de Clifford, 67.
Clinton, Lady Arbella, daughter of Theophilus. See Johnson.
—Charles, son of James, 10, 11 n; Irish immigrants under leadership of, 9, 10; extract from his Journal, 9; original of this Journal, 9 n; settles in New Windsor, 11; his interest in T. Young, 13.
—Christiana, daughter of James, 10, 11.
—DeWitt (1762–1828), Governor of New York, 11 n; D. Hosack’s Memoir of, cited, 9 n.
—George (1739–1812), Governor of New York, son of Charles, 11 n.
—James, 10.
—Gen. James (1736–1812), son of Charles, 11 n.
—Margaret, sister of James. See Parks.
—Mary, daughter of James, 10, 11.
—Lady Susan, daughter of Theophilus. See Humfrey.
—Theophilus, fourth Earl of Lincoln, 376.
—family, J. Young’s account of, 9 n.
Clover, Washington’s cultivation of, 105, 117, 127, 139, 151, 166, 168, 178.
Coates, Capt. —, 218.
Cochran, Capt. James, 391, 396.
—Maj. James, 391, 393, 394, 395.
Cocker, Edward, his Arithmetic, mentioned, 12, 13.
Coddington, William, Governor of Rhode Island, 316; first brick house in Boston owned by, 305, 306, 309; goes to Rhode Island, 309; his religious tenets, 309.
Coggeshall, John, 303.
Cogswell, Thomas, 400.
Cokayne, Rev. George, 338, 341.
—George Edward, his Complete Peerage, quoted, 65 n.
Coke, Sir Edward, 268 n, 276 n.
Colden, Cadwallader, 412 n, 440; letters of, referring to the Constitutional Courant, 436, 443, 445.
Colden Papers, cited, 436 n.
Cole, Samuel, 299; his estate in Boston, 301, 303; a follower of Anne Hutchinson, 301, 302; his change of heart, 302.
Coleman, William, letters from W. Plumer to, 383, 384; New York Evening Post established by, 383 n.
Coley, Henry, almanacs published by, under the title Merlinus Anglicus Junior, 293.
College of Arms, 62 n; inaccurate work of some of the heralds of, 68, 68 n.
Collier, Sir George, 217, 217 n.
Collins, Capt. Isaac, 217.
—Rev. John, 338, 341; his letter to Gov. Leverett, regarding L. Hoar, quoted, 337.
Colonial Society of Massachusetts, passes vote of thanks to R. H. Gardiner, 1; gifts of H. E. Ware to, 72, 245; of the Bostonian Society to, 72; gift of two medals to, 330; pressing needs of, 331; addition to funds of, 334 n; records its appreciation of the services of G. L. Kittredge, 334–336; presidents of, 335, 336; character of its work, 364, 365.
—Annual Meeting, 330–347.
—Auditing Committee, appointment of, 280; Report of, 333.
—Committee of Publication, 334.
—Corresponding Members, election of, 331.
—Corresponding Secretary, reports new members, 1, 72, 102, 330, 366; reports gifts, 245. See also Noble, John; Woods, Henry Ernest.
—Council, its vote regarding the Carnegie Institution’s Bibliography of Writings on American History, 72; its expression of appreciation regarding the services of President Kittredge, 328; Annual Report of, 330, 331.
—Editor, 331; calls attention to an error in Vol. IX of the Society’s Publications, 336. See also Matthews, Albert.
—Nominating Committee, appointment of, 280; Report of, 334.
—President, 1, 72, 102, 245, 280, 328, 330, 364, 366; address of, 364, 365. See also Kittredge, George Lyman; Lefavour, Henry.
—Publications, rearrangement of volumes to be included in first decade of, v, vi; cited, 6 n, 7 n, 8 n, 28 n, 195 n, 196 n, 198 n, 201 n, 204 n, 208 n, 216 n, 224 n, 239 n, 260 n, 280 n, 292 n, 298 n, 299 n, 301 n, 312 n, 314 n, 317 n, 319 n, 336 n, 340 n, 345 n, 346 n, 357 n, 408 n, 423 n, 441 n; progress of, 331.
—Resident Members, death of, xvii, 331, 366; election of, 1, 331.
—Stated Meetings, 1, 72, 102, 280, 330, 331, 364.
—Treasurer, reports gift from R. H. Gardiner, 1; Annual Report of, 331–333. See also Edes, Henry Herbert.
Colvil, Thomas, 177, 177 n, 178.
Comets, that of 1769, 4, 7, 7 n, 8; prevailing idea concerning, 403; early American poem on, 404–406.
Commissioners of the Customs, difficulties with, anticipated by H. Laurens, 243.
Comorin, Cape, British India, 227, 227 n.
Company of Stationers, monopoly of right to sell almanacs granted to, 75, 75 n; the monopoly overthrown, 75, 75 n, 76; its suit against T. Carnan, 75, 76; against Seymour, 75, 76; its definition of an almanac, 75, 76.
Comrie, Capt. —, 230.
Concord, Mass., interference with court proceedings at (1786), 387.
Conden, Michael, 235.
Congregationalism. See Independents.
Congress, Continental, Journals of, quoted, 44, 46–48; cited, 44 n, 47 n, 48 n; action of, regarding proposed independence of the New-Hampshire Grants, 46–48.
Congress, Library of. See Library of Congress.
Connecticut, Constitution of, 45; legislation in, regarding extirpation of barberry bushes, 82 n, 93; text of the Acts regarding, 89, 90, 91; System of representation in, 93; authority of, not recognized by Agawam, 352, 353; represented in Albany Congress, 409.
—Colonial Records, quoted, 89, 90; cited, 90 n.
—State Records, cited, 91 n.
Connely, Capt. —, 217.
Conolly family, barony of Raby passes to, 65.
Conscience, liberty of, proclaimed by the English Commonwealth, 369.
Constitution, frigate, 235.
Constitution Hill, North America, appears in imprint of Constitutional Courant, 432, 433, 434, 434 n, 435, 437, 438.
Constitutional Courant (1765), paper on the Snake Devices and the, by A. Matthews, 408–452; photographs of, exhibited, 408 n; J. A. Stevens’s error regarding, 420; a political skit, 421; reprint of the first number of, 422–433; collation of forms A and B, 422–427; device used in heading of, 422, 433, 434, 435; only portion of, hitherto reprinted, 422 n, 423 n; facsimiles of title of, facing 422; sections of: Address to the Public, 422; article signed Philoleutherus, 423–427; article signed Philo Patriæ, 428–432; item concerning change in the British ministry, 432; imprint of, 432; three forms of, 433, 434, 435; copies of, 433, 433 n, 434, 434 n; but one mention of, in contemporary Newspapers, 435, 435 n; said to have been republished in Philadelphia, 435 n; C. Colden’s accounts of, 436; I. Thomas’s, 436–438, 438 n; J. T. Buckingham’s, 438; Mrs. Lamb’s, 438; Lossing’s, 439, J. A. Stevens’s, 439, 440; method of distributing, 436, 437, 438, 440; incorrect reproductions of the snake device of, by Buckingham, 440; publisher of, 440, 441, 442; its place of publication, 442–445; alleged reprints of, 445; collation of forms A and C, 452, 453.
Conway, Henry Seymour, 432; letter from C. Colden to, regarding the Constitutional Courant, 436, 445.
—Moncure Daniel, his George Washington and Mount Vernon, quoted, 176 n.
Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson, Jr., A. B., xv.
Cooper, James Fenimore his History of the United States Navy, cited, 210 n, 217 n, 234 n, 235 n.
—Rev. Samuel, 37.
Copley, John Singleton, 203; photographs of four portraits by, presented to this Society, 54; his Death of Chatham, 203; his portrait of Lady Wentworth, 344 n.
—Mary (Singleton). See Pelham.
Corwin & Browne, 309.
Cothren, William, his History of Ancient Woodbury, Ct., cited, 16 n.
Cotton, Benjamin, his opinion regarding influence of barberry bushes on grain, 96.
—Rev. John, 298, 305, 308, 312; recumbent statue of, 54; his influence on English Independents, 370, 376.
—Rossiter, 217.
Cottington, Francis, Baron Cottington, 276 n.
Covenanters, Scotch, 368; differences between the Independents and, 369.
Coventry, Thomas, first Baron Coventry, 276 n.
Cowper, —, 159.
Craft, Susannah. See Davis.
Craik, Dr. James, 105, 111, 113, 164.
Cranch, Mary (Smith), wife of Judge Richard, 30 n.
Crane, Joshua Eddy, 346 n.
—Hon. Winthrop Murray, LL.D., xv, 361.
Crawford, Alexander, son of John, 10.
—Barbara (Parks), wife of John, 10.
—James, Sr., 10 n.
—James, Jr., son of James, Sr., 10.
—John, son of James, Sr., 10, 10 n.
—Joseph, son of John, 10.
—Mary, daughter of John. See Young.
—Matthew, son of John, 10.
Creese, Margaret, daughter of Thomas, 261.
—Sarah, daughter of Thomas, estate of, 261, 262.
—Thomas, 258; his real estate dealings with W. Price, 259, 260.
Crewe, Sir Thomas, 272, 272 n, 274.
Cromack, Irwin Chandler, 262 n.
Cromwell, Henry, son of Oliver, 316.
—Oliver, 284, 287, 289, 290, 307, 316, 318, 319; heads the English Commonwealth, 369; plans a Protectorate, 369; death of, 370; J. Cotton’s influence on, 370; G. Downing’s services for, 371, 372; Downing’s treachery to, 372; his friendship with J. Sadler, 378, 379; Jewish disabilities removed by, 379.
—Capt. Thomas, bells presented to the town of Boston by, 310; his privateering adventures, 317, 318.
Crow, Owen, one of G. Washington’s overseers, 146, 146 n.
Crowne, John, son of William, 318.
—William, 318.
Crowninshield, Capt. Benjamin, 235.
Crukshank, James, 445 n.
Cudworth, Ralph, 377.
Cummings, —, 203.
Cunningham, Henry Winchester, A.B., xiii, xiv, 208, 328; elected Recording Secretary, 334.
—Stanley, A.B., deceased, xvii; death of, announced, 366; L. Swift appointed to write Memoir of, 366.
Curtis, Charles Pelham (H. C. 1811), 204 n.
—Helen or Helena (Pelham), wife of Thomas, 204 n.
—James Freeman, 204 n.
—Thomas, 204 n.
—William, S. C. Clarke’s Records of some of the Descendants of, cited, 204 n.
Curtiss, Frederick Haines, xv.
—Chief-Justice William, 113, 124.
—William, his Initials and Pseudonyms, cited, 441 n.
Cutler, Rev. Timothy, 256.
Cutting, John Brown, 44 n; letter to Dr. John Warren from, quoted, 44.
Cutts, Rev. Edward Lewes, his Dictionary of the Church of England, cited, 266 n.
Dalton, Samuel, Adjutant General of Massachusetts, 360.
Dam, Rip Van, 252.
Dana, Francis, his letter to Mrs. Western regarding her father’s estate, communicated by H. H. Edes, 344; text of the letter, 345–347; other letters of, to Mrs. Western, 347 n.
Danbury, Ct., attack of British upon, 350.
Danforth, Rev. Samuel, 340.
—Judge Samuel, resigns his office, 36.
—Thomas, 340.
Darby, John, printer, 403, 404.
Dartmouth, Earl of. See Legge, William.
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 220, 220 n, 224.
Davenport, Rev. Addington, 258.
—Rev. John, 264, 268, 271, 273 n, 275 n, 276; his plan for the purchase of impropriations, 263.
—Joseph, 131, 145, 145 n, 146, 150, 157, 161.
—Julia, daughter of Rev. Addington, 258.
Davies, Richard, 272.
—Robert, Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire edited by, 62 n.
Davis, —, 100.
—Aaron (1709–1777), 18 n.
—Aaron (1735–1773), son of Aaron (1709–1777), his attack on the character of T. Young, 17, 18–21; answer of S. Adams to this attack, 21–23; answer of T. Young, 24–25.
—Andrew McFarland, A. M., xiv; his paper on Barberry Bushes and Wheat, 73–94; discussion of the paper, 95–97; presides at Stated Meeting, 280; offers appreciation of services rendered by G. L. Kittredge, 334.
—Charles Henry, A. B., xiv.
—Hon. Horace, LL.D., xvi.
—Horatio, 18 n.
—Judge John (H. C. 1781), presents copy of Burgis-Price View of Boston to the city, 249; his edition of N. Morton’s New England’s Memorial, cited, 407 n.
—Hon. John Chandler Bancroft, LL.D., deceased, xvii.
—Mary (Perrin), wife of Aaron (1709–1777), 18 n.
—Capt. Samuel, 217.
—Susannah (Craft), wife of Aaron (1735–1773), 18 n.
—Thomas, in the employ of Washington, 104, 110, 110 n, 118, 129, 138, 147, 154, 158, 159, 161, 171, 175, 178, 180.
—William, 306.
Daye, Richard, son of William, his petition in regard to buying up impropriations, 268 n.
—William, Bishop of Winchester, 268 n.
Deane, Samuel, his History of Scituate, mentioned, 406.
De Berdt, Dennys, 27.
Deblois, Stephen Grant, his William Price Fund, Trinity Church, 262 n.
Deerfield, Mass., early postal service of, 35 n.
Delancey, James, Governor of New York, 410, 410 n.
Delano, William, 235.
Democritus Junior, pseudonym used by R. Burton, 293, 293 n.
Demosthenes, 61.
Dennie, William, 33.
Denning, William, 37.
Denniston, Alexander, 11.
De Normandie, Rev. James, a guest at the annual dinner, 347.
Derby, Elias Hasket (1739–1799), 232.
Despencer, Margaret, daughter of Sir Philip, 64. See also Ros; Wentworth.
Devens, Abigail, daughter of Richard. See Chapman.
—Judge Charles, 207.
—Mary (Townsend), wife of Richard, 226 n.
—family, 209 n.
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, Litt. D., xvi, 37, 427 n, 434 n; his Yale Biographies and Annals, cited, 3 n, 16 n, 51 n; his communication regarding an early celebration of Washington’s birthday, 195, 195 n.
—Rev. Morton, A. M., xv.
Dickens, Charles, 380.
Dickerman, —, 217.
Dickinson, Col.—, 42.
Dictionary of National Biography, lives of the Puritans in, 272 n.
Dighton, R. I., W. Bollan’s property in, 346, 346 n.
Dinwiddie, Robert, Governor of Virginia, 410 n, 418, 418 n; his description of Indian outrages, 416 n; delay of colonies in responding to his appeals for aid, 418 n.
Dinwiddie Papers, cited, 415 n, 416 n.
Dixwell, Epes Sargent, 354.
—John, the regicide, 291.
Dodd, Mead & Co., 202 n.
Dogget, Silas, 236.
Dole, Mary. See Plumer.
Dorchester, Lord. See Carleton, Sir Dudley.
Dorchester, Mass., First Church, Records of, cited, 202 n.
Dorset, Earl of. See Sackville.
Doty, David, administrator of T. Young’s real estate, 31 n, 52.
—Elizabeth. See Winegar.
—Ethan Allen, his Doty-Doten Family in America, cited, 52 n.
—Thomas, 52 n.
—family, 52 n.
Doumergue, Emile, copy of his Jean Calvin, les Hommes et les Choses de son Temps, exhibited, 54, 54 n.
Dow, Joseph, his History of Hampton, cited, 388 n.
Downing, Sir George, his distinguished career under Cromwell, 371, 372; his treachery to Cromwell, 372.
—Lucy (Winthrop), mother of Sir George, 371.
Drake, Elizabeth (Clark), 349.
—Francis Samuel, his Town of Roxbury, cited, 18 n; his Tea Leaves, cited, 33 n; his Dictionary of American Biography, 76.
—Samuel Gardner, his History and Antiquities of Boston, cited, 302 n.
—Sarah. See Wolcott.
Dronsfield, Agnes. See Wentworth.
Dryden, John, 318.
Duane, William, his Extracts from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, cited, 40 n, 42 n.
Dubs, M., 278.
Ducasse, Jean Baptiste, 98 n.
Dudley, James, 242 n.
—John, son of James, 242, 242 n.
—Joseph, Governor of Massachusetts, 293.
—Mercy (Folsom), wife of James, 242 n.
—Thomas, Governor of Massachusetts, 377; his quarrel with Gov. Winthrop, 296, 306.
Dugdale, Sir William, 270 n; his study of the Wentworth family, 62, 62 n, 63 n; publication of his Visitation of Yorkshire, 66, 67 n.
Dulwich, man of war, 99, 99 n.
Dummer, William, Lt.-Governor of Massachusetts, 248; first impression of W. Burgis’s Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge dedicated to, 252.
Duncan, John, 391 n.
Dunkirk, a ship, 99 n.
Dunlap, William, his History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States, quoted, 30 n.
—Henry, President of Harvard College, son of Henry, letter of E. Axon regarding, 97, 97 n.
Dunton, John, his account of G. Monk, 301; his Letters from New England, cited, 301 n.
Dunwich, a ship, 99 n.
Dutchess County, N. Y., J. H. Smith’s History of, cited, 14 n; religious infidels in, 16.
Duty, William, 399.
Duxbury, Mass., Rev. I. Wiswall’s pastorate in, 407.
Dwight, Elizabeth Bradford. See Smyth.
—Mary Woolsey, 2.
—Rev. Timothy, President of Yale College, his opinion regarding barberry bushes, 79, 80, 81, 82, 88; his Travels in New England and New York, cited, 80 n.
Dyer, Barret, 255.
Eames, Wilberforce, A. M., xvi, 8 n, 26 n.
Early American Poem, An, paper on, by A. B. Page, 403; title of the poem, 403 n, 404; text of the poem, 404, 406. See also Wiswall, Ichabod.
East Windsor, Ct., Ellsworth family of, 2; ministers of, 2, 3; company from (1776), 3.
Eaton, —, 396.
Ebrard, Friedrich Clemens, copy of his Die Französisch-reformierte Gemeinde in Frankfurt am Main, exhibited, 54, 54 n.
Economy, G. Washington’s theory regarding, 106, 130.
Eddy, G., 278.
Edes, Benjamin (d. 1803). See Edes & Gill.
—Henry Herbert, A.M., ii, iv, xiii, xiv, 202 n, 315 n; his Memoir of Dr. Thomas Young, 2–54; reads extracts from letter of E. Axon relating to President Dunster, 97; communicates letters of G. Washington for W. C. Ford, 102; makes statement for F. B. Dexter, 195; communicates letter of H. Laurens, 243; communicates paper by J. H. Edmonds, 245; communicates three letters of Robert Morris, 277; reads paper by M. J. Canavan, 295; offers minute to the Council, regarding the services of President Kittredge, 328; elected Treasurer, 334; his communication regarding the date of E. Trowbridge’s birth, 344; communicates letters of W. Plumer for W. C. Ford, 382.
Edes & Gill, printers, 37.
Edgerton, Stephen, 271 n.
Edgeworthstown, Longford County, Ireland, 10.
Edmonds, John Henry, his paper on the Burgis-Price View of Boston, 245, 262.
Edmondson, Joseph, his Baronagium Genealogicum, cited, 71 n.
Edward I, King of England, his policy toward the Jews, 379.
Edward IV, King of England, 102.
Edward VI, King of England, parish funds confiscated by, 266.
Edwards, Ann, daughter of Rev. Timothy. See Ellsworth.
—Rev. Jonathan, son of Rev. Timothy, 2, 16.
Edwards-Dwight collection of family papers, 2.
Eggleston, Edward, 411 n.
Ehler, John Christian, Washington’s gardener, 193, 193 n, 194.
Eliot, Charles William, 366, 367.
—Sir John, quoted, 379.
—Rev. John, 340.
Elizabeth, Queen of England, 309; parish property confiscated and sold by, 266, 267.
Elizabeth and Sarah, a brigantine, 343.
—Katherine (Rogers) Harvard, wife of John, 376; photograph of record of her marriage, 381. See also Harvard; Yearwood.
Elliott, Rev. John. See Eliot.
—Rev. George Edward, son of David, 238 n.
—Sir Henry, his Original Letters, cited, 291 n.
—Rev. Rufus, son of David, 238 n.
Ellsworth, Ann (Edwards), wife of John, 2.
—Elizabeth (Potwine), wife of Job, 3.
—Job, 3.
—Oliver, 350.
—family, of East Windsor, Ct., 2; manuscripts belonging to, 2.
Ellwood, Capt. —, 148, 165, 195.
Emerald, British man-of-war, 210.
Emerson, Abigail. See Thompson.
—Ralph Waldo, 207.
Emmons, Jacob, 30.
Endicott, John, Governor of Massachusetts, 314.
—William, A.M., xiv; communicates paper by A. B. Page, 403; communicates paper by A. Matthews, 408.
England, development of local machinery of the early Church in, 264, 265; support of the clergy in, 265; appointment of parish priests in, 265; origin of impropriations in, 265–267; half-way measures in, after the Reformation, 367; Puritanism in, 368, 369; attempt at government by the people in, 369; constitution proposed for, 369, 370; the Restoration in, 370; political programme of Independents practically adopted in, 370.
—Long Parliament, 368.
—Privy Council, Sir W. Phips ordered to appear before, 341; text of the order, 342, 343. See also Great Britain.
England, Church of, dealings between bishops of, and Queen Elizabeth, regarding impropriations, 266, 267; lack of harmony in, after the Reformation, 368.
English, Capt. John, 218, 219.
Enstone, Edward, 257.
Epping, N. H., represented in the General Court by W. Plumer, 383; election in (1787), 403.
Ernst, Carl Wilhelm, 257; his researches concerning the postal sendee, 35 n; letter from, quoted, 35 n.
Essex Institute, Historical Collections of, cited, 98 n; copy of Paul Revere’s engraving of Harvard College owned by, 382 n.
Etheridge, Samuel, printer, 203 n.
Everett, Edward, 207.
Everill, James, his interest in early water-works of Boston, 310, 313.
Evans, Charles, his American Bibliography, cited, 441 n, 445 n.
Exeter, N. H., 390.
Eyre, Ralph. See Eyrs, Robert.
Fairbanks, Richard, 310, 303; first postmaster of Boston, 302.
Fairfax Parish, Va., 178; Washington’s land in, 170.
Falconer, William, his Universal Dictionary of the Marine, quoted, 212 n.
Fallows, A. Young’s theory regarding the support of stock by, 145.
Faneuil, Benjamin, 260.
—Peter, second edition of Burgis-Price view of Boston dedicated to, 250; town of Boston orders portrait of, 258; his real estate dealings with W. Price, 260.
Farlow, William Gilson, 94.
Farmer’s Almanac. See Thomas, Robert Bailey.
—Joseph, 53.
Federalist party, overthrow of, 351.
Fellowes, William Dorset, his Historical Sketches of Charles the First, etc., cited, 291 n.
Felt, Joseph Barlow, his Annals of Salem, cited, 98 n; his Ecclesiastical History of New England, cited, 296 n.
Fenn, Rev. William Wallace, D.D., xv; elected a Resident Member, 366.
Field, Edward, A.B., xvi.
Fielde, William, Governor of the Gold Coast, 230 n.
First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, 360.
Firth, Charles Harding, Sir William Clarke’s Clarke Papers edited by, 282 n; his article on G. Joyce, cited, 290 n; his Life of Thomas Harrison, cited, 316 n.
Fisher, Rev. George Park, LL.D., xvi.
—Turner, 217.
—William, 216.
—William, letter of H. Laurens to, communicated by H. H. Edes, 243, 244.
Fiske, John, 76; his Dutch and Quaker Colonies, cited, 251; erroneous description and reproduction of Franklin’s snake device in his American Revolution, 409, 421; this work cited, 409, 421.
Fitzroy, Augustus Henry, third Duke of Grafton, 432.
FitzWilliam, Isabel. See Wentworth.
—family, 62.
Flatfoot, Sarah, 156.
Fleeming, John, 199; his partnership with J. Mein, 6 n.
—family, 62.
Fleet, John. See Fleet, Thomas and John.
—Thomas, printer, 411 n.
—Thomas and John, the Constitutional Courant may have been printed by, 435.
Fletcher, Capt. Patrick, 227.
Florio, John, 293 n.
Flower, William, his Visitation of Yorkshire, 62 n, 66, 67, 69; inaccuracies of the work, 68; cited 71 n.
Fogo, island. See Cape Verde Islands.
Folsom, David, 388.
—Mercy. See Dudley.
Fooks, Paul, 42.
Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder, his Annals of King’s Chapel, cited, 5 n, 40 n, 202 n, 204 n, 262 n, 344 n.
Force, Peter, his American Archives, cited, 41 n.
Ford, Paul Leicester, reproduction of Franklin’s snake device in his Many-sided Franklin, 420.
—Worthington Chauncey, A.M., xvi; communicates letters of G. Washington, 102; his Writings of Washington, cited, 103 n; communicates letters of W. Plumer, 382.
Fort Johnson, S. C., 234.
Foster, Abiel, 401.
—John, printer, his map of Boston, 245.
—Joseph, Yorkshire visitations, edited by, 62, 62 n, 66, 67, 71 n; his Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, mentioned, 66, 67; cited, 71 n; his genealogical studies regarding the Wentworth family, 68; his Alumni Oxonienses, quoted, 271 n, 272 n.
—William Eaton, his description of the snake device, 420; his Stephen Hopkins, cited, 420 n.
Frankfort, Germany, interest in residence of English exiles at, 54, 55.
Franklin, Benjamin, 45, 412; President of Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 42; his opposition to J. Adams’s plan favoring three legislative branches, 42; medal struck by American Philosophical Society in commemoration of two hundredth anniversary of his birth, 330; snake device and motto used by, in Pennsylvania Gazette, 409, 409 n, 410, 419, 419 n, 420, 421, 440; a letter in A. Kennedy’s pamphlet included in Bigelow’s edition of his Works, 411 n; his plan of union of the colonies, 411 n, 412 n; delegate to Albany Congress, 412 n, 419; Smyth’s edition of his Writings, cited, 412 n; letter from C. Colden to, regarding the Constitutional Courant, 436.
—William, 309; his project for a water-supply, 314, 315.
Frazier, Lane, Son &, 227.
Freeman, Capt. Constant, 4, 5 n.
—Rev. James, son of Capt. Constant, 5 n, 438.
French, Joseph, 391; his statement regarding his part in paper money troubles (1786), 394, 395.
French, the, union of American colonies designed to defeat schemes of, 413, 414, 416; E. Ward surrenders fort to, 415, 419; atrocities committed by Indians and, 416, 416 n; Fort Necessity surrendered to, 418, 418 n.
French Canadians, attempt of Great Britain to enlist, against the colonies, 38.
Frothingham, Cornelia. See Wolcott.
—Richard (1812–1880), his Life and Times of Joseph Warren, cited, 6 n, 32 n, 33 n, 52 n, 54 n; his History of the Siege of Boston, cited, 32 n; his Rise of the Republic of the United States, cited, 32 n, 33 n, 411 n; quoted, 435 n; his History of Charlestown, cited, 209 n, 295 n, 296 n.
Fuller, Hon. Melville Weston, LL.D., xvi.
—Rev. Thomas, 263 n, 272 n, 377; his statements regarding impropriated benefices, 267 n, 268, 269, 270; his Church History, quoted, 209 n, 270 n, 273 n.
Furness, Horace Howard, LL.D., xvi.
Furze, French, G. Washington’s attempt to cultivate, 148.
Gabon, river, Africa, 229.
Gage, Thomas, Governor of Massachusetts, 451.
Galloway, Joseph, 442.
Gardiner, Robert Hallowell, A.B., xvi; his gift to this Society, 1.
—Samuel Rawson, 267; his account of the Society of the Feoffees, 269, 270; his History of England, quoted, 271 n; his remarks on the sentence passed upon the Society, 277.
Garner, James Wilford, and Lodge, Henry Cabot, snake device reproduced in their History of the United States, 421; this work cited, 440 n.
—William, one of Washington’s overseers, 128, 143, 143 n, 160, 186.
Garret, Jane (Selby), wife of Thomas, 255, 257. See also Melvil.
—Thomas, 255.
Gascoigne, Richard, his study of the Wentworth family, 62.
—family, 64.
Gaspee, frigate, 38 n.
Gay, Frederick Lewis, A.B., vi, xiii, xiv, 8 n, 262 n, 328, 407 n; site of Gov. Winthrop’s house discovered by, 299; elected Registrar, 334; copy of Paul Revere’s engraving of Harvard College owned by, 382 n.
Gearing, John, 272.
Generous Friends, a brig, 230 n; voyage of, to India, 227, 228; Capt. J. Chapman put in command of, 228; her voyage up the African Coast, 229, 230.
Geneva, Switzerland, interest in residence of English exiles at, 54, 55.
—Church of St. Pierre, photographs of, exhibited, 54.
Geoffrey of Monmouth, manuscript containing a version of his Brut, exhibited, 102.
George III, King of England, 423, 426, 431; equestrian statue of, in Bowling Green, New York City, 350; bullets made from the statue, 350; alluded to as “our best Protector and common Father,” 423 n.
George and Ann, a ship, 9.
George Barclay, a ship, 235, 236.
George’s Island Fort, Nova Scotia, 219, 219 n, 220, 221, 224.
Gerrish, Sarah. See Barrett.
Gibbins, John, 256.
Gibbs, Wolcott, LL.D., xvi.
Gifford, Samuel, 257.
—William Logan Rodman, A. B., xvi.
Gill, John. See Edes & Gill.
—John Henry, 205 n.
—Mary Honoria (Wall), wife of John Henry, 205 n.
Gilman, Daniel Coit, LL.D., xvi; his oration at the Norwich Centennial, quoted, 352.
—John Taylor, 399.
—Nicholas, son of Daniel, 242, 242 n, 393.
Globur chart, patentees of, 254.
Glover, Habbakkuk, 305.
—Rachel. See Blake.
—Robert, his Visitation of Yorkshire, 62 n, 66, 67, 69; cited, 71 n.
Goddard, Edward Mumford, 53 n.
—William, son of Sarah, pseudonym of Andrew Marvel supposed to have been used by, 423 n, 434 n, 437, 438; reasons for identifying him with Andrew Marvel, 441, 441 n, 442; his connection with the Providence Gazette, 441; associated with J. Holt in publishing Parker’s Gazette and Post-Boy, 441, 442; his association with the Pennsylvania Chronicle, 442; his Partnership, cited, 442 n. See also Marvel, Andrew.
Goffe, Mary. See Trowbridge.
—William, the regicide, 291.
Goldsmith, Oliver, advertisement regarding his Deserted Village, 205.
Goodale, George Lincoln, LL.D., xiv.
Goodell, Abner Cheney, A.M., xiv, 85.
Goodridge, Abigail, 239.
Goodspeed, Charles Eliot, 252.
Goodwin, Capt. Nathaniel, 218, 219, 224.
—William Watson, D.C.L., xiii, xiv, 208; elected a Vice-President, 334.
Goodwin, Newell &, 239.
Gooÿer, Johan de, Governor of Surinam, 98 n.
Gookin, Daniel, 340.
Gordon, Mrs. —, 199 n.
—family, barony of Wentworth passes to, 64.
Goss, Elbridge Henry, his Life of Colonel Paul Revere, cited, 32 n, 34 n.
Gotha, Almanach de. See Almanach de Gotha.
Gouge, Rev. William, 271, 271 n, 277.
Gough, Rev. William. See Gouge.
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, LL.D., F.R.S., debt of this Society to, 335.
Grafton, Capt. Joshua, 237.
Grafton, Duke of. See Fitzroy, Augustus Henry.
Graham & Mobary, 228.
Grain, opinion of T. Dwight as to effect of barberry bushes on, 79, 80, 81, 82; of J. Harriott, 81; legislation for protection of, in Massachusetts, 81, 82–84, 88, 90, 91, 93; in Connecticut, 82 n, 89, 90, 91, 93; in Rhode Island, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93; G. Washington’s directions regarding the sowing and harvesting of, 104, 109, 114, 116, 120, 124, 128, 129, 130, 131, 134, 135, 138, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, 150, 151, 152, 154, 157, 183, 185, 186, 188, 189, 194. See also Barberry bushes; Rust.
Grand Monarch, a ship, 218.
Grasse-Tilly, François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, 225.
Graves, Capt. Thomas, name of his ship, 99, 99 n.
—Thomas, Lord Graves, son of Capt. Thomas, 99 n.
—Thomas, of Charlestown, Mass., 256.
Gray, Asa, his statement regarding production of rust on wheat, 85, 86, 88, 93.
—William, sailor, escapes from Long Island Navy Hospital, 212.
—William, weaver on Washington’s estate, 182, 190.
Great Britain, attempt of, to enlist French Canadians and Six Nations against the colonies, 38; action by New Hampshire House on bill to carry into effect the definitive treaty of peace with (1783), 389; provisions of this treaty regarding estates of absentees, 390.
—Calendar of State Papers, cited, 267 n, 268 n, 270 n, 276 n, 290 n, 317 n, 318 n.
—Exchequer Chamber, trial of the Society of the Feoffees before, 271, 271 n, 275 n.
—House of Commons, Journals of, cited, 285 n.
—House of Lords, Journals of, cited, 282 n.
—Lords of Trade, call for Albany Congress recommended by, 410, 410 n, 412 n.
—Parliament, duties of the American colonies toward, 425, 426, 431; property qualification for members of, 430.
—Privy Council, Acts of, cited, 267 n.
—Public Record Office, copy of the Constitutional Courant in, 433, 433 n.
—Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, 4th Report, cited, 27 n.; 14th Report, cited, 198 n.
—Statutes of the Realm, cited, 267 n. See also England.
Grebner, Paul, 283 n.
Green, Bartholomew, 259.
—Charles Montraville, M.D., xiv.
—Elizabeth Brooking, wife of William, 32 n.
—John Richard, 370.
—Jonas, 209.
—Samuel Swett, A.M., xiv.
—Thomas, 106, 115, 116, 118, 140, 144, 148, 158, 163, 166, 167, 170, 173, 185, 190, 195.
—William, of Maiden, 32 n.
Greenhalge, Frederic Thomas, Governor of Massachusetts, 358; his tribute to R. Wolcott, 363.
Greenhill, Rev. William, 341.
Greenlaw, Lucy Hall, wife of William. Prescott, 239.
—William Prescott, 8 n.
Greenleaf, Joseph, 37.
—Samuel, his land at the head of Spring Lane, 321, 322.
—Stephen, Sheriff of Suffolk, his attempt to break up the Manufactory House meeting, 28 n.
Greenough, Charles Pelham, 198 n, 199 n, 204.
—David, 31 n.
Grenville, George, 292, 292 n.
Grey, William. See Gray.
Gridley, Benjamin, son of Isaac, 6 n.
—Isaac, 6 n.
—Pollard, son of Isaac, 6 n.
—Sarah (Porter), wife of Isaac, 6 n.
Griffin, Appleton Prentiss Clark, xvi.
Griffith, Rev. George, 338, 341, 341 n.
Grommet hole, nautical term, 211, 211 n.
Groton, Mass., 357.
Guadaloupe, 225 n.
Guild, Benjamin, his circulating library, Boston, 201, 201 n; his death, 201.
—John, 202.
Gunner, a servant of Washington, 104, 129.
Gunnison, Hugh, 314.
Hacker, Francis, the regicide, 288, 288 n, 290 n, 291, 291 n.
Hackett, Hon. Frank Warren, A.M., xvi.
Hadlet, Arthur Twining, LL.D., xvi.
Hale, Rev. Edward, A.B., xv.
—Rev. Edward Everett, LL.D., xv, 362; accepts Resident Membership, 1; elected a Resident Member, 331.
—John, letters from W. Plumer to, 386–402.
Hall, —, 223.
—Benjamin Homer, his history of Eastern Vermont, cited, 49 n.
—David, Franklin’s partner in the publication of the Pennsylvania Gazette, 409 n, 442, 443, 444 n. See also Hall & Sellars.
—Rev. Edward Henry, D.D., xv; appointed on Nominating Committee, 280.
—Henry, his life of Ethan Allen, quoted, 15.
—Hiland, his History of Vermont, cited, 26 n, 48 n.
Hall & Sellers, proprietors of the Pennsylvania Gazette, 39.
Halley, Edmund, his New and Correct Chart, mentioned, 253.
Halsey, Richard Townley Haines, 252.
Hamilton, Alexander, 350.
—James, Governor of Pennsylvania, 412.
Hammond, Mary. See Young.
Hampden, John, 379.
Hampshire County, Mass., interference with court proceedings in (1786), 387.
Hancock, Dorothy (Quincy), wife of John, 41.
—John, 27, 29, 37, 39; letter from E. Quincy to, quoted, 41; photograph of Copley’s portrait of, presented to this Society, 54; his gift toward a library for Harvard College, 58, 58 n; letter from T. Longman to, quoted, 198 n; empowered to attach J. Mein’s books, 199; declines J. Murray’s proposal for withdrawing the attachment, 199; blamed by T. Longman for this action, 199, 199 n.
—Lydia (Henchman), wife of Thomas, photograph of Copley’s portrait of, presented to this Society, 54.
—Thomas, photograph of Copley’s portrait of, presented to this Society, 54; his intended gift toward a library for Harvard College, 58, 58 n.
—Washington, sale of Copley portraits owned by, 54.
Harding, Capt. Jesse, 209, 210.
—Robert, 299, 303; his estate in Boston, 302; a follower of Anne Hutchinson, 302; leaves the country, 302, 302 n.
Harleian Society, Publications of, mentioned, 62 n, 71 n.
Harper’s Encyclopædia of United States History, cited, 421, 439 n.
Harpers’ Cyclopædia of United States History, cited, 421 n, 439 n.
Harriott, John, his opinion regarding the difficulty of growing wheat on New England seacoast, 80, 81; his Struggle through Life, cited, 81 n.
Harris, Rev. Henry, 257.
—John, engraver, 248, 249, 250, 251; some of his works, 253, 254; patent on globur chart granted to, 254.
—Rev. Thaddeus Mason, son of William, 209, 209 n.
—William, 209 n.
Harrison, Maj. —, 135, 142, 156, 161, 176, 176 n.
—Benjamin (d. 1791), 47.
—Thomas, the regicide, 288, 288 n, 316, 318; C. H. Firth’s Life of, cited, 316 n.
Hart, William Henry, 333.
Hartshorn, —, 133, 135, 139, 164.
—Eliphalet Porter, 206.
Harvard, Anne (Sadler), wife of John, 379, 381.
—John, son of Robert, J. K. Hosmer’s address on John Harvard in England, 366–382; researches of H. F. Waters concerning, 367; England in the time of, 367; his bequest to Harvard College, 371; his ancestors, 373–375; his birth, 375; his environment, 375, 376, 377; his possible associations with Shakspere, 375, 379; his education, 376; his associates at Cambridge, 377; his possible contact with Milton, 377, 378, 379; goes to New England, 378, 379; his friendship with J. Sadler, 378, 379; his marriage, 379; conveys property to J. Man, 379, 381; his library, 379; his shadowy personality, 379; his possible contact with Vane, 380; his proprietorship of the Queen’s Head Inn, 380; likened to Apollos, 380; photographic facsimiles of documents relating to, exhibited by W. C. Lane, 381; named an executor of his brother’s will, 381; photograph of record of marriage of, 381; facsimile of lease to, 382.
—Katherine (Rogers), wife of Robert, 373, 374, 375; record of marriage of, 381. See also Elletson; Yearwood.
—Robert, his marriage to Katherine Rogers, 373, 375; his first acquaintance with her, 374; his death, 376; record of marriage of, 381.
—Thomas, son of Robert, 376; his will, 381; facsimile of lease to, 382.
Harvard College, 356; Records of, to form Vol. II of this Society’s Publications, v, vi; remarks on destruction of, by fire, by A. Matthews, 55; philosophical apparatus of (1766), 59, 59 n; memorial as to ministers of the Church of England being overseers of, 256; R. Saltonstall’s candidate for presidency of, 336, 337; L. Hoar elected President of, 337; discouraging conditions at, in 1671, 337, 339; letter from ministers and magistrates of Massachusetts regarding, 338–341; the second Harvard College, 339, 339 n; its unique distinction, 370; early graduates of, in England, 368, 371; established by vote of the General Court, 370; J. Harvard’s bequest to, 370; view of, during the Revolution, exhibited, 382; Rev. T. Prince’s account of the earliest rebellion at, 408.
—Harvard Hall, poem commemorating completion of, read by A. Matthews, 55–61.
—Library, v; gifts toward, 58, 58 n; copy of second impression of W. Burgis’s Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge owned by, 252; copy of Lilly’s Declaration of the Several Treasons owned by, 284 n; documents relating to John Harvard acquired by, 381; copies of Constitutional Courant in, 433 n, 434, 434 n, 435, 438, 440, 440 n.
Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, cited, 382 n.
Harvard Memorial Society, Cambridge, Mass., 366.
Harvardinum Restauratum, poem in commemoration of the completion ofthe present Harvard Hall (1766), 55–61.
Harvey, Sir Daniel, 286.
Harwood, George, 272.
Hasenclever, Peter, 437, 437 n, 440.
Hassam, John Tyler, 31 n.
Haswell, George D., 97 n.
Hawkins, Benjamin, 153, 153 n.
—Capt. Thomas, 317.
Hayward, Mary. See Jones.
Hazell’s Annual, 74.
Head, Charles, 306.
Heath, William, 33.
Hedges, Silas, 240 n, 242, 399; his offers to S. Tarbell, 239, 240, 241; charges against, 239 n, 240 n, 241.
Heitman, Francis Barnard, his Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army, cited, 9 n.
Hemenway, Abby Maria, her Vermont Historical Gazetteer, cited, 16 n.
Henchman, Daniel, 259.
—Lydia. See Hancock.
Henley, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel. See Russell.
—Elizabeth (Cheever), wife of Samuel, 219 n.
—James, son of Samuel, 219, 219 n.
—Samuel, 219.
Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I, 376.
Henry VIII, King of England, 283; peerages created by, 64; parish funds appropriated by, 266.
Heraldic Journal, cited, 204 n, 208 n, 262 n.
Hercules, a ship, 227; details of her voyage, 227–228; the ship and cargo sold, 228.
Heroine, an English frigate, 233.
Hertell, Barbara Amelia, 9 n.
Hervey, Jacob, 217.
Hessian fly, 129.
Hewiet, William. See Hulet.
Heylyn, Peter, his attack on the Society of the Feoffees, 268.
Hibbins, Ann (Bellingham), wife of William, 316 n, 318; tried and executed as a witch, 316, 317; allowed to sell her property, 317.
Higginson, Rev. Francis, his New Englands Plantation, cited, 308 n.
—Henry Lee, LL.D., xv.
—Thomas Wentworth, his allusions to the snake device, 420; his Larger History of the United States, cited, 420 n; and MacDonald, William, their History of the United States, cited, 420 n.
Hildeburn, Charles Riché, his Issues of the Press in Philadelphia, cited,441 n, 445 n.
Hildersham, Arthur, 271 n.
Hill, Adams Sherman, LL.D., xv.
—Hamilton Andrews, his History of the Old South Church, quoted, 299; cited, 299 n.
Hilton, Gustavtjs Arthur, LL.B., xiv.
Hinckley, Thomas, Governor of Plymouth Colony, 407.
Hispaniola, Island. See Haiti.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, copy of Constitutional Courant in, 433, 433 n.
History, perennial interest in the study of, 364, 365.
Hoar, Bridget (Lisle), wife of Rev. Leonard, 291, 291 n. See also Usher.
—George Frisbie, his tribute to R. Wolcott, 363.
—Rev. Leonard, President of Harvard College, 291 n, 341; Rev. J. Collins’s recommendation of, to Gov. Leverett, 337; elected president of Harvard College, 337.
Hobby, William, 256.
Hobson’s choice, origin of the phrase, 377, 378.
Holden, Edward Singleton, LL.D., xvi.
Holland, Earl of. See Rich, Sir Henry.
Hollingsworth, Zachary Taylor, copy of Paul Revere’s engraving of Harvard College owned by, 382 n.
Hollis, Thomas, (1720–1774), his gifts to Harvard College, 59, 59 n.
Hollis, N. H., represented in the Legislature by S. Ames, 242 n.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (H. C. 1829), 207; his poem “King’s Chapel,” mentioned, 344 n.
Holt, John, publisher of the New York Gazette and of the New York Journal, 197 n, 427 n, 433 n, 437, 442, 449; associated with W. Goddard, in publishing Parker’s Gazette and Post-Boy, 441, 442; discards the Royal Arms for snake devices in the New York Journal, 446, 447; lines on this change in Rivington’s New York Gazetteer, 450, 451; difference between this device and that used in the Pennsylvania Journal, 448; last use of the snake device by, 451.
—Katherine. See Mather.
Holy Cross College, R. Wolcott’s speeches at, 359, 360.
Holyoke, Elizur, 353.
Homer, 61.
Honey locust, G. Washington’s cultivation of, 126, 127, 130, 148, 149, 152, 165, 168.
Hooe, Robert T., 142, 142 n, 195.
Hooke, Rev. William, 338, 341.
Hooker, James, 5 n.
Hooper, —, 319.
Hope, a schooner, 218.
Hopkins, Capt. —, 33.
—Roswell, 53.
Hoppner, John, portrait-painter, 30 n.
—Phœbe (Wright), wife of John, 30 n.
Horace, 61.
Hosack, David, his Memoir of De Witt Clinton, cited, 9 n.
Hosmer James Kendall, LL.D., xvi; his address on John Harvard in England, 366–382.
Hough, Atherton, 303.
Hounslow Heath, Eng., 253.
Howell, Thomas Bayly, his State Trials, cited, 291 n.
Howland, Capt. Consider, 224, 224 n; capture of his ship, 225.
Hoyley, —, 273.
Hubbard, Rev. William, 297, 317, 318.
Hudson, William, 314 n.
Hulet, William, 289, 289 n, 290.
Hull, Edward, 245.
—John, 310.
Humfrey, Lady Susan (Clinton), 377.
Hunnewell, James Frothingham, his Century of Town Life (Charlestown), cited, 209 n.
Hunt, Capt. —, 244.
—William, 278.
Hunter, —, 130.
—Rev. Joseph, his genealogical studies regarding the Wentworth family, 62, 64, 67, 68, 69; his South Yorkshire, quoted, 63; cited, 63 n, 68 n, 69 n, 71 n.
—Robert, Governor of New York, 99 n; W. Burgis’s South Prospect of New York dedicated to, 251.
Huntington, Andrew, son of Jabez, 352.
—Ebenezer, son of Jabez, his military and public services, 352, 357.
—Elizabeth, daughter of Joshua. See Wolcott.
—Jabez, his sacrifices in the cause of independence, 351; his military service, 352.
—Jedediah, son of Jabez, his military services, 352.
—Joshua, son of Jabez, his military services, 352.
—Samuel, Governor of Connecticut, 358.
—Rev. William Reed, LL.D., xvi.
—Zachariah, son of Jabez, 352.
Huntoon, Daniel Thomas Vose, his History of Canton, Mass., cited, 52 n.
Huud, Hon. Francis William, A.M., xv.
Hutchinson, Aaron, 402.
—Anne (Marbury), wife of William, her heresies, 300; called the American Jezebel, 300, 300 n; her excommunication and banishment, 300, 301 n; followers of, 302, 303.
—Edward (1613–1675), 299, 310, 315; his house in Boston, 300, 301, 302, 322.
—Thomas, Governor of Massachusetts, his comments on the conduct of T. Young and others, 28; his History of Massachusetts, quoted, 55; cited, 55 n, 296 n; copy of a letter from several dissenting ministers in and about London to the magistrates and ministers in the Massachusetts-Bay, printed by, 337, 338; his Collection of Original Papers, cited, 337 n, 338 n; a delegate to the Albany Congress, 414.
Hyde, Edward, first Earl of Clarendon, 68.
Hyler, Jacob, 217.
Impropriations, the Feoffees of, paper on, by Rev. H. A. Parker, 263–277; C. Mather’s Magnalia quoted regarding, 263; Rev. J. Davenport’s design regarding purchase of, 263; Laud’s opposition to this design, 263; accounts of the movement, 264; origin of, 264, 265; first held by ecclesiastics, 265, 266; confiscated to the crown, 266; Queen Elizabeth’s dealings with the bishops regarding, 266, 266 n, 267; extent of, 267.
Independents, 367; differences between Scotch Covenanters and, 369; political programme of, 369; this programme practically adopted, 370; influence of J. Cotton on, 370.
Indians, attempt of Great Britain to enlist Six Nations of, against the colonies, 38; delay of, in attending the Albany Congress, 410, 410 n, 411 n; purpose of the Congress, 410 n, 411, 411 n, 412 n, 413; attendance of, at the Congress, 414; overtures of, to colonists, 415, 416.
Indus, a ship, Capt. J. Chapman becomes part owner of, 235, 237; his voyage to Java in, 235, 236; his voyage to India in, 236, 237; her later voyages, 237, 238; her condemnation, 238.
Industry, a schooner, 226.
Ingram, North, 255.
Ireland, immigrants led by C. Clinton from, 9; lay impropriations in, 267 n.
Irish-American, R. Wolcott’s dislike of the phrase, 360.
Isis, the river, Eng., 61.
Isle of France. See Mauritius.
Ives, —, 214.
—William, his request regarding the town pump, 307, 308.
Jamaica, W. I., French and Spanish plan to capture, 225.
James I, King of England, 283, 292, 375; rights to sell almanacs and prognostications granted by, 75.
Jameson, John Franklin, LL.D., xvi.
Jarvis, Col. —, 214.
Jeffreys, George, first Baron Jeffreys of Wem, 293.
Jeffries. See Jeffreys.
Jenkins, Howard Malcolm, reproduction of Franklin’s snake device in his Pennsylvania: Colonial and Federal, 420.
Jews, Cromwell removes disabilities of, 379.
John, a sloop, 209.
Johns, Jehial, 15.
Johnson, Abigail (Oliver), wife of James, 315.
—Lady Arbella (Clinton), wife of Isaac, 377.
—Arnold Burges, his Modern Lighthouse Service, cited, 253.
—Isaac, 295, 298, 326; his part in the settlement of Boston, 296.
—James, receives land in return for maintaining a highway, 315; mortgages made by, 319, 320; feeling of Quakers toward, 319, 320, 322; his tannery and slaughter-house, 320; sells land to P. Oliver, 320, 321, 324; sells house to J. Meeres, 321.
Johnston, Andrew, Patent, 11 n.
Johonnot, Gabriel, 33.
Jolliffe, John, 320.
Jon, Adriaen du, 294 n.
—François du (1545–1602), 294 n.
—François du (1589–1677), son of François (1545–1602), 294 n.
Jones, —, one of Washington’s overseers, 123, 128, 137.
—Ephraim, Sr., 240 n.
—Ephraim (1730–1787), son of Ephraim, Sr., 240, 240 n, 241.
—Mary (Hayward), wife of Ephraim, Sr., 240 n.
—Reuben, 48.
Jordan, John Woolf, 8 n.
Josselyn, John, his Two Voyages to New England, cited, 317 n.
Joy, Thomas, 310.
Joyce, George, Charles I captured by, 281; Lord Montagu’s account of the capture, 281, 282; his True Impartiall Narration, 282 n; taken into custody, 285; accused of being King Charles’s executioner, 286, 287, 289, 290, 291, 291 n, 294 n; offices held by, 290; flees to Holland, 290.
Joyce Junior, paper on, by A. Matthews, 280–294; former paper on this subject, 280, 281, 294 n; his treatment of Tory sympathizers, 280, 281; his connection with the capturer of Charles I, 281, 282, 294 n; an alias for Jack Ketch, 294 n.
Junior, use of the word in framing a suggestive pseudonym, 293, 294.
Junius. See Jon.
Junius, Letters of, 294 n.
Junius, Junior, the Spirit of Liberty so signed, 294, 294 n; the pseudonym of Rev. J. Allen, 294 n.
Jury, trial by, rights of, violated in the American colonies, 430.
Juxon, William, Bishop of Hereford, 276 n.
Kaye, Arthur, 66 n.
—Beatrix (Wentworth), wife of Arthur, 66 n.
—Grace. See Saltonstall.
Keating, Rev. —, 140.
Keayne, Robert, 303; his bequest for a town house and library, 302, 308, 313; failure of his conduit, 308.
Keeling, Samuel, 257.
Keep, Austin Baxter, 197 n.
Kelby, Robert Hendre, 8 n, 262 n.
Kellen, Willum Vail, LL.D., xv.
Kelly, Joseph, 399.
Kennedy, Archibald, 412 n; a letter in his Importance of Gaining and Preserving the Friendship of the Indians to the British Interests, included in Bigelow’s edition of Franklin’s Works, 411 n; his Serious Considerations on the Present State of the Affairs of the Northern Colonies, date of its publication, 411 n; extract from, 411 n.
Kennet (Kennett), White, Bishop of Peterborough, his History of Impropriations, mentioned, 264; cited, 267 n; quoted, 269; his Historical Register and Chronicle of English Affairs, quoted, 286; cited, 286 n.
Kent, Benjamin, 27; Committee of Correspondence defended by, 34.
—Joseph, letter of, quoted, 291 n.
Kerf, the word, 158; its meaning, 158 n
Ketch, Jack, 294 n.
Kettell, Ann. See Chapman.
Kidder, Mary. See Miller.
Kimball, Priscilla. See Ames.
Kimber, Isaac, his Life of Oliver Cromwell, quoted, 289; cited, 289 n.
King, Col. —, 286.
—family, barony of Wentworth passes to, 64.
King-Killers, History of, quoted, 289; cited, 289 n.
Kings, counsellors of, 425.
Kirf. See Kerf.
Kirkman, Francis, his plan for a circulating library, 196.
Kitterrnan, John, T. Young’s apprenticeship with, 14.
Kittredge, George Lyman, LL.D., ii, xiv, 1, 72, 102, 245, 328, 330, 347; supplement to a chapter in his Old Farmer and his Almanack, by A. McF. Davis, 73–94; his work in the Old Farmer and his Almanack, 77, 78, 79, 94 n; his remarks on Mr. Davis’s paper, 95–97; vote of the Council in appreciation of his services, 328; vote of the Society, 334–336.
Knibloe, Rev. Ebenezer, his Church Records, quoted, 50, 51; his patriotism suspected, 51 n.
Knies, John, son of Michael, 50, 51.
—Michael, 50.
—Susannah (Young), wife of Michael 50, 51.
—Thomas Y., son of Michael, 50, 50 n.
—family, 50 n.
Knowles, Rev. John, 338, 341; R. Saltonstall’s candidate for the presidency of Harvard College, 336, 337; his letter to the overseers of Harvard College, 337, 341; reply to this letter, 337; text of this reply, 338–341.
—John, employed on Washington’s estate, 104.
Knowlton, Hon. Marcus Perrin, LL.D., xiii, xv; elected a Vice-President of this Society, 334.
—Rev. John, 55.
La Have, Nova Scotia, 222, 222 n.
Lamb, George, photograph of Burgis-Price View of Boston secured by, 250.
—Martha Joanna Ready, her account of the Constitutional Courant, 438; her History of the City of New York, cited, 438 n.
Lambert, —, his Letter on the Construction and Use of the improved Foot Plough, 125, 125 n.
Lamberton, John Porter, his letters regarding Joyce Junior, 281, 282, 294 n, 295 n.
Lancashire Parish Register Society, 97 n.
Lane, Gardiner Martin, A.B., xiv.
—William Coolidge, A.B., xiv, 379; his exhibition of prints and charts, 375; photographic facsimiles of documents relating to J. Harvard, exhibited by, 381; exhibits view of Harvard College during the Revolution, 382.
Lane, Son & Frazier, 227.
Lang, Benjamin Johnson, 362.
Langdon, John, Speaker of the House, N. H., 385.
—Woodbury, 403; his vacillating political sympathies, 401, 402.
Lathrop, Rev. John, 325.
Latimer, Lord. See Nevil.
Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 268 n, 270 n, 272 n, 276 n, 348, 368, 378; his opposition to the purchase of impropriations, 263, 264, 268 n, 271, 271 n, 277; Declaration of Sports attributed by Puritans to, 292.
Laughton, Henry, 346.
Laurens, Henry, letter of, to W. Fisher, communicated by H. H. Edes, 243, 244.
Lawrence, A. and A., & Co., 353.
—Rev. Arthur, D.D., xiv; communicates Memoir of R. Wolcott, 347; text of the Memoir, 348–363.
—Jason Valentine O’Brien, 40, 40 n.
—Sir Thomas, 30 n.
—Rev. William, Bishop of Massachusetts, 354.
Leake, Isaac Quintard, his Memoir of the Life and Times of Gen. John Lamb, cited, 26 n, 35 n.
Lear, Tobias, 191.
Lechford, Thomas, his Note-Book, cited, 301 n, 302 n, 303 n.
Lee, —, 29.
—Gen. Charles, 352.
—Francis Henry, xv; communicates letter from J. Cabot, 98; text of the letter, 98–101.
—Henry (1756–1818), letter of R. Morris to, 278.
—Nathaniel, 233.
—Rev. Samuel, 341.
Leete, William, 353.
Lefavour, Henry, LL.D., ii, xiii, xv; elected President of the Society, 334; his address as President, 364, 365.
Legge, William, second Earl of Dartmouth, 198.
Leman, William, 272.
Lenox Library, v, 336, 452, 452 n; rare pamphlet by T. Young owned by, 26 n; Copley’s portrait of Lady Wentworth in, 344 n; copy of Constitutional Courant in, 433.
Leonard, —, 223.
Leverett, George Vasmer, A.M., xv; appointed on Nominating Committee, 280.
—John, Governor of Massachusetts, 302, 309, 340; letter of J. Collins to, quoted, 337.
—Thomas, 306.
Lewis, Robert, 133, 139, 142, 176, 176 n.
Libbie, Frederick James, library bookplates owned by, 206 n.
Library Company of Philadelphia (Ridgway Branch), copies of Constitutional Courant owned by, 433, 433 n, 435; identifies Andrew Marvel with W. Goddard, 441, 441 n.
Library of Congress, 9 n, 452 n; copy of second impression of W. Burgis’s Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge owned by, 252; copy of W. Burgis’s Boston N. Eng. owned by, 252; original of W. Plumer’s letters owned by, 382.
Lilly, William, his Monarchy or no Monarchy in England, quoted, 282, 283; cited, 285; title and collation of this pamphlet, 283 n, 284 n; statement in this pamphlet regarding the executioner of Charles I, 283, 285, 286; pamphlet attacking him, 284, 284 n, 285; his examination before a committee of the House of Commons, 285, 286, 287, 289; his History of his Life and Times, quoted, 286–288; cited, 288 n; editions of this work, 288, 288 n; his True History of King James the First and King Charles the First, 288 n; connection between this book and his Monarchy or no Monarchy, 288 n; date assigned to, in the History of King-Killers, 289; his Merlinus Anglicus Junior, 293; his almanacs published under the title Merlinus Anglicus, 293.
Lincoln, Earl of. See Clinton, Theophilus.
—Abraham, 369.
—Francis Henry, A.M., xiv.
—Waldo, A.B., xiv; appointed on Auditing Committee, 280; signs report of the Committee, 333.
Lincoln, Lothrop, Bishop &, 356.
Lisle, Bridget, daughter of John. See Hoar; Usher.
—Francis, 306.
—John, the regicide, 291, 291 n.
Liston, Sir Robert, 234 n; loans cannon to the American government, 234.
Litchfield, Ct., 350.
Litchfield County, Ct., religious infidelity in, 16.
Little Britain, N. Y., 11; character of early settlers of, 11 n.
Lively, a ship, 218.
Livermore, Chief-Justice Samuel, 397, 397 n, 402, 403.
Liverpool, Nova Scotia, 221, 221 n.
Livingston, Robert R. (1746–1813), 235 n.
Livingstone, Broom &, 225.
Loather. See Loder.
Locke, John Lymburner, his Sketches of the History of the Town of Camden, Maine, cited, 224 n.
Lockyer, Rev. Nicholas, 341.
Loder, Rev. John, 338, 341, 341 n.
Lodge, Henry Cabot, his tribute to R. Wolcott, 361, 362. See also Garner, James Wilford, and Lodge, Henry Cabot.
London, Eng., Church of St. Anthony, lectureships established by Society of the Feoffees in, 270, 270 n, 271; a centre of Puritanism, 271, 272 n.
—Church of St. Mary, in the Strand, 253.
—London Bridge, 375.
—Queen’s Head Inn, J. Harvard’s inheritance of, 380.
—Tabard Inn, 380.
—Tower, 306.
—White Hart Inn, 380.
London, Bishop of, legislation regarding sale of almanacs approved by, 75.
Londonderry, N. H., convention at Emery’s Tavern in (1786), 385; election in (1787), 403.
Long Island, N. Y., Naval Hospital, 211.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 207, 208; medal struck by Cambridge Historical Society in commemoration of one hundredth anniversary of his birth, 330.
Longford County, Ireland, 9, 10.
Longman, Thomas, J. Mein’s indebtedness to, 198, 199, 199 n, 200; letter to John Hancock from, quoted, 198 n; his correspondence with J. Hancock regarding Mein, 199, 199 n.
Longinus, his treatise on the Sublime, mentioned, 60, 60 n.
Longstaffe, William Hylton Dyer, Yorkshire visitations edited by, 62, 62 n.
Lord, Arthur, A.B., xv; accepts Resident Membership, 1; appointed on Auditing Committee, 20; signs report of the Committee, 333; elected a Resident Member, 331.
Loring, Aaron Kimball, his circulating library, Boston, 207; his opinion regarding profitable circulating libraries, 207.
—Augustus Peabody, LL.B., xv.
—James Spear, his Hundred Boston Orators, cited, 6 n, 29 n, 32 n, 36 n.
Loring & Sampson, 231.
Lorphelin, Peter, 311 n.
Lossing, Benson John, his Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution, cited, 49 n, 421, 439 n, 440 n; his errors regarding the snake device, 421, 421 n, 439; his accounts of the Constitutional Courant, 439; his incorrect reproduction of the Courant’s snake device, 440; his History of New York City, cited, 439 n.
Lothrop, Thornton Kirkland, A.M., xv.
Lothrop, Bishop & Lincoln, 356.
Louisburg, Cape Breton, capture of (1745), 249.
Lovelace family, barony of Wentworth passes to, 64.
Lovell, —, sister of Patience. See Wells.
—Patience. See Wright.
Low, John, 256.
Lowell, Hon. Francis Cabot, A.B., xiv.
Lutwich, Edward, 251.
Lydius, John Henry, his land troubles, 26, 26 n.
Lyman, Arthur Theodore, A.M., xv.
Lynde, Simon, his estate and spring, 297, 327.
McCLARY, John, 400.
—Michael, son of John, 400, 400 n.
McCleary, Samuel Foster (H. C. 1841), 249.
McCreary, George Washington, 417 n.
Macdonald, George, his Gold Coast Past and Present, cited, 230 n.
MacDonald, William. See Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, and MacDonald, William.
Macgee, Thomas, 445 n.
McIntire, Charles John, a guest at the annual dinner, 347.
McKean, Col. —, 42.
—John, 391, 393, 394, 396, 403.
McKinley, William, 361.
McMaster, Capt. —, 235.
—John Bach, his Benjamin Franklin, quoted, 409 n; cited, 419 n.
McMullen, William, 214, 215, 216.
McMurphy, Archibald, 390, 390 n, 397.
—James, 396.
McNeil, Capt. —, 218.
Mæonides. See Homer.
Maine Historical Society, Collections of, cited, 407 n.
Makepeace, Dr., —, 217.
Malagash, Nova Scotia, 222, 222 n.
Man, Capt. John, 379; J. Harvard conveys property to, 379, 381.
Manapa, Madras. See Manappadu.
Manappadu, Madras, 227, 227 n.
Manchester, Earl of. See Montagu.
Maro. See Virgil.
Marsh, Arthur Richmond, A.B., xv.
Marshall, Christopher, his Diary, quoted 40, 41, 42, 51, 52.
Martin, Elizabeth, 201.
—Michael, 201.
—William, his book-shop, 200; establishes the Boston Circulating Library, 200; his irritation over delinquent patrons, 200, 201; sells out his books, 201; his personal history, 201.
Marvel, Andrew, 293; supposed to be pseudonym of William Goddard, 423 n, 432, 433, 434, 434 n, 435, 437, 438, 441; his Address to the public in the Constitutional Courant, 422, 441; reprint of this Address, 422 n; reasons for identifying him with W. Goddard, 441, 441 n, 442.
Mary I, Queen of England, 309; restores parish funds confiscated to the Crown, 266.
Mary and John, a ship, 348.
Maryland, represented in Albany Congress, 409, 412; appropriation in, toward Albany Congress, 413.
Maryland Gazette, 417.
Maryland Historical Society, 417 n.
Mason, Capt. —, 243.
—Charles Frank, A.B., xiv.
—George, 119.
—Capt. John, 384 n.
—Thaddeus, 209 n.
—Thomas, 176 n.
—Thomson, 195.
Massachusetts, early postal service in, 35 n; Hollis Hall, Harvard College, built by, 57 n; legislation in, regarding extirpation of barberry bushes, 81, 82, 88, 90, 91, 93; text of the Act regarding, 82–84; early mustering of troops in, for Spanish-American War, 360; influence of traditions of, 365; interference with court proceedings in (1786), 387, 394; Rev. I. Mather agent of, 407; represented in Albany Congress, 409.
—Acts and Resolves, cited, 346 n.
—Colony Records, cited, 307 n, 310 n.
—General Court, sends letter of congratulation to Charles II, 307; incorporates the first water-works in Boston, 310; its action in the Agawam controversy, 353; war emergency fund granted by, 360, 361; votes to establish Harvard College, 371.
—Province Laws, cited, 4 n, 55 n, 84 n, 86 n, 201 n.
Massachusetts General Hospital, 356.
Massachusetts Historical Society, v, 290 n, 452; Proceedings of, cited, 27 n, 28 n, 33 n, 36 n, 41 n, 201 n, 249 n, 250 n, 252, 296 n; Collections of, cited, 35 n, 245 n, 296, 296 n, 297 n, 302 n, 312 n, 313 n, 314 n, 316 n, 317 n, 318 n, 319 n, 337 n, 406 n, 407 n; Catalogue of Mein’s Circulating Library owned by, 197 n; of Mayhew and Baker’s Juvenile Circulating Library, 207 n; copy of second edition of Burgis-Price View of Boston owned by, 250; copies of first and second impressions of W. Burgis’s Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge owned by, 252; copy of Rev. I. Wiswall’s poem owned by, 407; copy of Constitutional Courant owned by, 434.
Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, 356.
Massachusetts Reports, cited, 262 n.
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, cited, 217 n, 224 n.
Massachusetts Spy, snake and dragon device used in, 447, 448; facsimile of title of, facing 448; reply to lines on the snake device in, 449; called Thomas’s chronicle of sedition, 451; snake device used for the last time in, 451.
Masson, David, his Milton, cited, 307 n.
Matchet, John, 33.
Mather, Rev. Cotton, son of Rev. Increase, 267, 268, 269, 276, 312; his Magnalia, quoted, 74 n, 263; cited, 263 n, 297 n; his remarks regarding the purchase of impropriations, 263.
—Rev. Increase, son of Rev. Richard, 97 n, 340; agent of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 407.
—Katherine (Holt), wife of Rev. Richard, 97 n.
—Oliver, 5 n.
—Rev. Richard, marriage of, 97 n.
Matinicus Island, Me., 223, 223 n.
Matlack, Timothy, his part in framing the Pennsylvania Constitution, 42, 43; his opposition to J. Adams’s plan favoring government in three branches, 42.
Matthews, Albert, A.B., ii, v, xiii, xiv, 8 n, 89, 196 n, 197 n, 223 n; his remarks on the destruction of the second Harvard College, 55; on the laying of foundations of present Harvard Hall, 55; reads poem commemorating completion of this building, 55; communicates letter from J. Cabot for F. H. Lee, 98; his paper on early celebrations of Washington’s birthday, mentioned, 195 n; exhibits photographic copies of the Constitutional Courant, and of snake devices used in early American newspapers, 263; his paper on Joyce Junior Once More, 280–294; communicates letter from ministers and magistrates of Massachusetts relating to Harvard College, 336–338; text of the letter, 338–341; his paper on the Snake Devices, 1754–1776, and the Constitutional Courant, 1765, 408–453.
Maude, Daniel, 298.
Mauritius, island of, 228, 228 n.
Mayhew & Baker’s Juvenile Circulating Library, Boston, catalogue of, 207, 207 n; some authors represented in, 207.
Mayo, Rev. John, 340.
Mazarin, Jules, Cardinal, 371.
Mead, Rev. Matthew, 341.
Meader, Lewis Hamilton, his paper on the Council of Censors, quoted, 43.
Mecom, Benjamin, printer, 26 n.
Meeres, James, his cook-shop, 321.
—Robert, 298.
Mein, John, popular indignation against, 6; his shop in King Street, 6 n, 7; his partnership with J. Fleeming, 6 n; his partnership with R. Sandeman made and dissolved, 196, 196 n; opens bookstore and circulating library, 196, 196 n; his catalogue of books, 197, 197 n, 198; starts the Boston Chronicle, 198, 198 n; mobbed for defending British government, 198, 198 n; flees to England, 198, 198 n; his financial embarrassment, 198, 199; writ of attachment against, 199; J. Murray’s proposal for withdrawing the attachment, 199; the proposal declined, 199; returns to Boston, 199; order of court against, 199; vote of town of Boston regarding, 199, 200; finding of Superior Court of Judicature against, 200; his debt to Wright and Gill, 200; his return to England, 200; his imprisonment, 200, 200 n.
Melvil, David, 257.
—Jane (Selby) Garret, wife of David, 257.
Merlinus Anglicus, title of W. Lilly’s almanacs, 293.
Merlinus Anglicus, Junior, almanacs published by H. Coley under this title, 293.
Merriman, Roger Bigelow, a guest at the annual dinner, 347.
Metcalfe, Walter Charles, Yorkshire visitations edited by, 62.
Michaud, Louis Gabriel, his Biographie Universelle, cited, 98 n.
Middlesex County, Mass., interference with court proceedings in (1786), 387.
Middletown, R. I., text of an Act for destroying barberry bushes in, 91; effect of the Act, 91, 92.
Milbanke family, barony of Wentworth passes to, 64.
Mildew. See Rust.
Miller, Jemima. See Chapman; Stone.
—John, name assumed by Capt, J. Chapman, 212, 213.
—Mary (Kidder), wife of Richard, 208 n.
—family, 209 n.
Miller, Rivington &, 196 n, 197 n.
Milton, John, mentioned, 61; quoted, 369, 371; his possible associations with John Harvard, 377, 378, 379.
Milton, Mass., early celebration of Washington’s birthday at, 195, 195 n.
Minns, Thomas, xiii, xiv; presents four photographs of Copley portraits to this Society, 54; his statement regarding the statue of Rev. J. Cotton, 54; makes communication for H. E. Woods, 239; his remarks on value of W. Price’s estate, 262; appointed on Nominating Committee, 280.
Mitchell, Elizabeth Andrews. See Clemens.
Mobary, Graham &, 228.
Mole St. Nicolas, Haiti, 209, 209 n.
Molineux, William, 28, 29, 33; defends committee of correspondence, 34.
Monasteries, suppression of, by Henry VIII, 64, 200; origin of impropriations in, 265, 266.
Monck (Monk), George, first Duke of Albemarle, 319.
Monk, George, 256; Blue Anchor Tavern kept by, 301.
Monmouth, Duke of. See Scott, James.
Monmouth, Geoffrey of. See Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Montagu, Edward, second Earl of Manchester, 281, 306.
—Edward, second Baron Montagu of Boughton, his letter to the Earl of Manchester describing the capture of Charles I, 281, 282.
Montgomery, Capt. —, 196 n.
Moore, Alexander, 228, 229; his death 230; his estate, 230 n.
—Ruth, wife of Alexander, 230 n. See also Scott.
More, Paul Elmer, his description of the snake device, 420; his Benjamin Franklin, cited, 420 n.
Morgan, —, 278.
—Shanap, alias John Robinson, 5.
Morris, Robert, letters of, communicated by H. H. Edes, 277; text of the letters, referring to his financial difficulties, 277–279.
—Samuel, 393, 396, 396 n, 397.
Morton, Hon. James Madison, LL.D., xv.
—Nathaniel, his New England’s Memorial, cited, 407 n.
—Rev. Nicholas, 376; named an executor of T. Harvard’s will, 381.
—Thomas (1564–1659), Bishop of Chester, his advice regarding the Book of Sports, 292.
Moseley, Edward Hacker, 215, 215 n.
Motley, John Lothrop, quoted, 363.
Moulton, Jacob, 388 n.
—Jonathan, son of Jacob, 387, 388 n; his alleged business irregularities, 388, 389; an advocate of paper money, 389; his part in the outbreak of 1786, 395.
—Sarah, wife of Jacob, 388 n.
Mud, use of, as fertilizer, 103, 145.
Mud Island Fort, surrender of, 211.
Murray, James, popular indignation against, 6, 6 n; his Letters, cited, 6 n, 7 n, 199 n; his proposal for withdrawing attachment on J. Mein’s books, 199; relations between Mein and, 199 n.
Myles, Ann, wife of Samuel, 258.
—John, 258.
—Sarah, niece of Rev. Samuel. See Price.
Myrick, Capt. David, 237.
Nansemond County, Va., 214, 214 n.
Narrative and Critical History of America, cited, 27 n, 411 n.
Nase family. See Knies family.
Naseby, William, 102.
Nash, Francis Philip, LL.D., xvi; elected a Corresponding Member, 347; accepts, 366.
—Nathaniel Cushing, A.M., xiv.
Nathaniel, a ship, voyage of, to India, 227, 228.
Neal, Daniel, 267, 272 n; his account of the Society of Feoffees, in his History of the Puritans, 269.
Nedham, Marchmont, alleged pseudonym of J. Quincy, Jr., 293.
Nedham’s Remembrancer, articles so called, printed in the Boston Gazette, 293.
Neile, Richard, Bishop of Winchester and Archbishop of York, 260 n, 268 n, 276 n.
Nelson, William, 433 n, 434 n; his statement regarding J. Parker’s Burlington publications, 443; his Checklist of the Issues of the Press in New Jersey, cited, 443 n, 444 n; his list of J. Parker’s Woodbridge publications, 444.
Neuclus. See Nuclus.
Nevil (Nevill), John, Lord Latimer, 67.
—Maud, Lady Latimer, wife of John, 67. See also Cambridge, Maud, Countess of.
—family, barony of Raby held by, 65.
New Albion, 56.
New American Magazine, 444 n.
New Amsterdam, island, 227, 227 n.
Newburgh, Lord. See Barrett, Sir Edward.
Newbury, Mary, daughter of Thomas. See Clark.
—Thomas, 349.
Newburyport, Mass., Marine Society, 4 n.
Newcastle, Pa., British fleet at, 211.
Newcomb, Simon, D.C.L., F.R.S., xvi.
Newell, John, 30.
Newell & Goodwin, 239.
New England, shipping in (1723), 248; climate of, 248; resources of, 248, 249; Cambridge, Eng., men among early leaders in, 378.
New England Historic Genealogical Society, Knox Manuscripts, cited, 9 n; J. H. Dexter’s Manuscript Memoranda, cited, 202 n, 204 n.
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, cited, 15 n, 31 n, 34 n, 66, 202 n, 204 n, 208 n, 241 n, 250, 262 n, 305 n, 311 n.
New England Trust Company, 356.
New Hampshire, gift of, toward a library for Harvard College, 58, 58 n; outbreak in, 382; courts of, 384; conventions demand paper money in, 384, 385, 386, 389, 390, 391, 395; character of delegates to these conventions, 385, 386, 391, 397; action of citizens of, in outbreak resulting from one of these conventions, 392, 393, 394; represented in Albany Congress, 409.
—Constitution, extract from, 401, 401 n.
—Legislature, letter to, regarding imprisonment of S. Tarbell, Jr., 239–242; action of, on this letter, 242; passes Act for the recovery of small debts in an expeditious way and manner, 383, 383 n; this Act declared unconstitutional, 383; action in, on bill to carry into effect the definitive treaty of peace with Great Britain, 389, 389 n; request of Rockingham Convention to, 390, 391; action of, on this request, 391; outbreak resulting from this action, 391, 392, 393; further action of, toward prisoners taken during this outbreak, 394, 395, 396; action of, regarding N. Peabody, 398.
—Provincial Papers, cited, 384 n.
—State Papers, cited, 240 n, 243 n, 385 n, 389 n, 398 n, 399 n, 402 n; letter of S. Tarbell, Jr., among, 239 n.
—Superior Court, action of, toward prisoners taken in outbreak of 1786, 396, 402.
New Hampshire Grants, T. Young’s attempt to secure the independence of, 44–46; this action opposed by New York Council of Safety, 46; action of Congress in the matter, 46–48; Declaration and Petition of the Inhabitants of, etc., 47 n.
New Hampshire Historical Society, Collections of, cited, 241 n.
New Harmony, Indiana, 204.
New Jersey, only northern colony sending no delegates to the Albany Congress, 413.
Newport, R. I., T. Young takes refuge in, 37, 37 n.
Newton, —, 159.
—Sir Isaac, 60.
New Windsor, N. Y., 10 n, 11; E. M. Ruttenber’s historical sketch of, 9 n.
New York, State, source of some place-names in, 15; epidemic of yellow fever in (1791), 40; represented in Albany Congress, 409.
—Colonial Documents, quoted, 99 n; cited, 410 n, 411 n.
—Council of Safety, opposes independence of Vermont, 46; action of Congress in the matter, 46–48.
—Documentary History of the State of, cited, 46 n, 49 n.
—State Library, 9 n.
New York, City, W. Burgis’s South Prospect of ye Flourishing City of, 251; only known copy of this view, 251; facsimile reproduction of, 251; copies of second impression of, 251; reproductions of the second impression, 251.
—Bowling Green, statue of George III, in, 350.
—Department of Health, Records of, cited, 202 n.
—Manual of the Corporation of, cited, 251.
New York Evening Post, established by W. Coleman, 383 n.
New York Gazette, quoted, 197 n; snake device used in, 417.
New York Historical Society, 15; Collections of, cited, 15 n, 49 n; only known copy of first impression of W. Burgis’s South Prospect of . . . New-York, owned by, 251; copy of second impression also owned by, 251.
New York Journal, facsimile of title of, facing 426; Royal Arms discarded for snake devices in, 446, 447; lines on this change in Rivington’s New York Gazetteer, 450, 451; difference between this device and that used by the Pennsylvania Journal, 448; lines referring to the snake device printed in, 449, 450; the device used for the last time in, 451, 452; interval in publication of, 452 n.
New-York Mercury, snake device used by, 417.
New York Society Library, 197 n.
Nicene Council, 76.
Nichols, Capt. William, 4, 4 n.
Nicholson, John, letter of R. Morris to, 277, 278, 279.
Nicola Mole, Cape. See Môle St. Nicolas, Haiti.
Noble, John, LL.D., ii, xiii, xiv, 340 n; his paper on Some Massachusetts Tories, mentioned, 239; his paper on William Leddra, mentioned, 319 n; his communication regarding R. Saltonstall’s candidate for the presidency of Harvard College, mentioned, 336; elected Corresponding Secretary, 334; vote of sympathy in his illness passed by this Society, 336.
—John, Jr., LL.B., xv; communicates Autobiography of Captain Jonathan Chapman (1756–1832), 208; text of the autobiography, 208–239.
Noddle’s Island, views of Boston from, 245, 246.
Noel, Garrat, his circulating library, New York, 197 n.
—family, barony of Wentworth passes to, 64.
Nonesuch, a frigate, 342, 343.
Noorthouck, John, his History of London, quoted, 270 n.
Norcliffe, Charles Best, 62 n.
Norfolk, James, 287, 287 n, 288.
Norris, Isaac, delegate to Albany Congress, 412 n.
North American Land Company, 279.
Norton, Francis, 307.
—Rev. John, 317; part of Governor’s Green sold to, 318, 320; regicides received by, 318; his attitude toward the Quakers, 320.
Norwich, Ct., centennial celebration at, 352.
Notes and Queries, cited, 290 n, 291 n.
Nowell, George, 310, 311, 312.
Noy, William, 267, 268 n, 271, 273, 276 n.
Noyes, James Atkins, a.B., xv.
Nuclus, a servant of Washington, 118, 181, 190.
Nye, Rev. Philip, 338, 341, 370.
Oakes, Rev. Urian, his part in the Almanac of 1656, 74 n.
Oborn, —, 322.
Œrsted, Anders Sandoe, his investigations regarding rust on wheat, 86.
Offspring. See Ofspring.
Ofspring, Rev. Charles (d. 1659), son of Thomas, 271, 271 n.
—Charles, son of Rev. Charles (d. 1659), 272 n.
—Giles. See Rev. Charles.
—Martha, wife of Rev. Charles (d. 1659), 272 n.
—Martha, daughter of Rev. Charles (d. 1659), 272 n.
—Mary, daughter of Rev. Charles (d. 1659), 272 n.
—Samuel, son of Rev. Charles (d. 1659), 272 n.
—Thomas, 271 n.
Oliver, Abigail. See Prescott.
—Abigail, daughter of Thomas. See Johnson.
—Peter, 320; land sold by J. Johnson to, 320, 321, 324,
Olney, Hon. Richard, LL.D., xiv.
Onslow, Sir Richard, 286.
Orange County, N. Y., Ruttenber and Clark’s History of, mentioned, 9 n; quoted, 11 n; cited, 14 n.
Orpheus Junior, pseudonym used by Sir William Vaughan, 293, 293 n.
Otis, Harrison Gray, Mayor of Boston, 249.
—Herbert Foster, copy of the second edition of the Burgis-Price View of Boston owned by, 251.
—James (1725–1783), 27; J. Robinson’s assault on, 5, 5 n, 6, 6 n, 7; Tudor’s Life of, cited, 5 n, 6 n, 7 n; chairman of Committee of Correspondence, 31.
Owen, Rev. John, 338, 341, 370.
Oxenbridge, Rev. John, 340.
Oxford, University of, profits derived by, from sale of almanacs, 75, 75 n.
Oxford Dictionary, quoted, 211 n.
Oyster shells, use of, by G. Washington, 104, 110, 111, 163, 167, 170, 175, 178, 180, 190.
Page, Alfred Baylies, his paper on An Early American Poem, communicated, 403; title of the poem, 403 n, 404; text of the poem, 404–406.
—Christopher, 35 n.
Paige, Rev. Lucius Robinson, his History of Cambridge, cited, 36 n.
—Nicholas, 308.
Paine, Nathaniel, A.M., xiv.
—Thomas, his part in framing the Pennsylvania Constitution, 42, 43; his opposition to J. Adams’s plan favoring three legislative branches, 42, 43.
Palmer, Rev. Anthony, 338, 338 n, 341.
—Samuel, his edition of Calamy’s Nonconformist’s Memorial, 341 n.
Pandora, British man-of-war, 218.
Paper money, object lesson regarding the evils of a redundant and irredeemable, 88; demand for, in New Hampshire, 384, 385, 386, 389, 390, 391, 395; depreciation of, in Rhode Island, 387.
Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, put to ransom by Cassard, 98, 98 n.
Parishes, coincident with townships in England, 264, 265.
Park, Rev. Charles Edwards, A.B., xv; a guest at the annual dinner, xv.
Parker, Rev. Henry Ainsworth, A.M., xiv; his paper on the English Went worth family, 61–71; his paper on the Feoffees of Impropriations, 263–277; his paper on the Rev. Josse Glover and the Book of Sports, quoted, 292.
—Hon. Herbert, A.B., xv.
—James, Constitutional Courant may have been printed by, 434 n, 436, 437; his Gazette and Post-Boy, 441, 442; his press probably used by W. Goddard, 442; copies of the Courant distributed by, 443; location of his press, 443; issues from his press at Burlington, 443, 444, 444 n; at Woodbridge, 444, 444 n.
—Richard, property conveyed to, by S. Winthrop, 316, 320.
—Samuel Hale, his circulating library, Boston, 204, 204 n.
—William, 299; his estate in Boston, 302.
Parks, Arthur, grandson of John, Jr., 10.
—Barbara, daughter of John, Sr., See Crawford.
—Jane, daughter of John, Sr. See Armstrong; Young.
—John, Sr., 10.
—John, Jr., son of John, Sr., 10.
—Margaret (Clinton), wife of John, Sr., 10.
Parton, James, his Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, quoted, 419; eked, 419 n.
Payne, James, his opinion regarding influence of barberry bushes on grain, 96.
—Timothy. See Paine.
Peabody, Jacob, 241 n.
—Nathaniel, son of Jacob, 241, 241 n, 242, 395, 397, 397 n; W. Plumer’s estimate of, 398–401; his political offices, 398, 399; action of New Hampshire Legislature regarding, 398; his irreligion, 398; his vanity, 399; his claim regarding his property, 399; his corrupt associates, 399; his lack of honor, 399, 400; his political appointments, 400, 401.
—Susanna (Rogers), wife of Jacob, 241 n.
Pearl, British man-of-war, 210.
—Joseph, 385.
Pelham, Helen (or Helena). See Curtis.
—Herbert, family of, 208, 208 n.
—Mary (Singleton) Copley, wife of Peter, 204.
—Penelope. See Bellingham.
—Penelope (Pelham), wife of William, 204, 208.
—Peter, 204; family of, 208 n.
—Sarah. See Blagrove.
—William, grandson of Peter, 262 n; his bookstore and circulating library, Boston, 203; rates of subscription to his library, 203; some of his books, 203; title-page of his second catalogue, 203 n; removes his shop, 204; litigation over estate occupied by, 262.
—family, booksellers and artists, 208.
Peixotto, —, 101.
Penn, John, delegate to Albany Congress, 412.
—Thomas, 412 n.
—William, 253.
Pennington, Richard, son of William, 286, 287.
Pennsylvania, Constitution of, recommended as a model for Vermont, 45; represented in Albany Congress, 409, 412, 412 n.
—Constitutional Convention, 1776, 42; chief influences in, 42, 43.
—Council of Safety, 43.
—Supreme Executive Council, Minutes of, cited, 41 n, 43 n.
—Historical Society of. See Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Chronicle, W. Goddard’s association with, and his account of, 442.
Pennsylvania Gazette, 442; supports the Albany Congress, 409; notices in, regarding the Congress, 410, 410 n, 411, 411 n, 412; these notices mostly copied from New York papers, 413; device and motto used in, 409, 410, 417, 419, 420, 421, 440; facsimile of, facing 416; descriptions and reproductions of this device, 419, 420, 421; B. Franklin and D. Hall editors of, 409 n; no allusion in, to plan of union of the colonies, 413; its appeal for concerted action on the part of the colonies, 415, 416; this appeal copied by other papers, 417.
Pennsylvania Journal, 417; device used by W. and T. Bradford in, 421, 447, 448, 452; this device reproduced as Franklin’s snake device, 421, 421 n; as the Constitutional Courant’s device, 440; difference between device of, and that of the New York Journal, 448; facsimile of title of, facing 448; reply to lines on the snake device in, 448, 449; snake device used for the last time in, 451.
Penobscot (now Castine), Me., 217 n; American army retreats from, 217.
Pepperell, Mass., 357.
Pepperrell, Sir William, 349, 357.
Pepys, Elizabeth, wife of Samuel, 308.
—Samuel, his Diary, cited, 307 n.
Percy family, 62.
Perkins, Rev. John Carroll, D.D., xvi.
—William, 271 n.
Perks, Thomas, 255.
Perley, Samuel, letter of J. Adams to, quoted, 42.
Perrin, Mary. See Davis.
Peter (Peters), Hugh, the regicide, 285, 287, 288, 288 n, 290, 291 n, 370.
Peters, —, 125.
—Rev. Richard, Secretary of Pennsylvania, delegate to the Albany Congress, 412 n
Petition of Right, 379.
Phelps, Charles, his interest in New York land patents (1770–77), 34.
Philadelphia, Pa., epidemic of putrid bilious fever in, 39; resolves of the town meeting in (May 20, 1776), 41 n; British advance upon, 210, 211; two pamphlets caused by the proposal to build a market in, 441 n.
—Bettering House, 43.
—Continental Hospital, 43.
—General Hospital, establishment of, 39.
—Rifle Battalion, 41.
—Vidal’s Alley, 41 n.
Phileleutheros, article signed, 427 n.
Phileleutherus, article signed, 427 n.
Phillips, Thomas, 255, 256, 257.
—Wendell, 207.
Philoleutherus, article signed, 427.
Philolutherus, article signed, 427 n.
Phips, Spencer, Lt.-Governor of Massachusetts, 252.
—Sir William, Governor of Massachusetts, the Salutation conveyed to, 32 n; ordered to appear before the Privy Council, 341; text of the order, 342, 343.
Phœnix, an English frigate, 228.
Pickering, John, W. Plumer’s estimate, of, 389, 390.
Pickering, a brig, 234 n; Capt. J. Chapman searches for French privateers in, 234; Capt. E. Preble takes command of, 235.
Pickering Papers, cited, 35 n.
Pierce, Capt. William, 308; arrival of his ship, 297, 304, 306.
Pierson, Rev. John, his Discourse on the Nature and Benefits of Christ’s Intercession, 444.
Pindar, 60.
Piper, William Taggard, Ph.D., xiv.
Pitkin, Martha. See Wolcott.
Pitts, John, 33.
Plaster of Paris, Washington’s use of, on his estate, 127, 130.
Piatt,— (Wright), 30 n.
Plimpton, George Arthur, A. B., xvi.
Plough, Lambert’s form of, 125, 126.
Plowright, Charles Bagge, his article on Wheat Mildew, 94.
Plumer, Mary (Dole), wife of Samuel, Sr., 383 n.
—Samuel, Jr., son of Samuel, Sr., letters from W. Plumer to, 384–386.
—William, Governor of New Hampshire, son of Samuel, Sr., letters of, communicated by W. C. Ford, 382; text of the letters, 383–403; letter to W.Coleman from, 383, 384; tries farming, 383; elected to the General Court, 383; studies law, 383; letters to S. Plumer, Jr., from, 384–386; letters to John Hale from, 386–402; his part in the outbreak of 1786, 392, 393; letter to J. Sullivan from, 402, 403.
Plymouth, Mass., Capt. T. Cromwell’s adventures in, 317.
Plymouth Colony, Rev. I. Wiswall agent of, 407, 408.
Point, nautical word, 211, 211 n.
Pollington, Isabel. See Wentworth-Woodhouse.
Pope day, celebrations of, 198 n, 280.
—Rev. Edward Griffin, A.M., his Rambles in Old Boston, cited, 32 n.
—Sarah. See Gridley.
Potomac Company, 164.
Potts, Dr. Jonathan, 43.
Potwine, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Thomas. See Ellsworth.
—Rev. Thomas, 3.
Pound Thomas, his New Map of New England, mentioned, 253.
Powell, John, 257.
—Joseph, Jr., 206.
Pratt, Bela Lyon, his statue of Rev. J. Cotton, 54.
Preble, Commodore Edward, 235, 235 n.
Prentice, John, Attorney-General of New Hampshire, 383, 383 n, 396, 396 n, 403, 403 n.
Prescott, Abigail (Oliver), wife of Benjamin, 240 n, 241 n.
—Edith, daughter of William Gardiner. See Wolcott.
—James, son of Benjamin, 241, 241 n.
—Oliver, son of Benjamin, 240, 240 n.
—William, of Groton, his military services, 357.
—Judge William, son of William, of Groton, 357.
—William (1788–1875), his Prescott Memorial, cited, 240 n, 241 n.
—William Gardiner, son of William Hiekling, 357.
—William Hiekling, son of Judge William, 356, 357.
—family, 357.
Preston, Capt. Thomas, troubles growing out of the trial of, 29, 30.
Price, —, 272.
—Sarah (Myles), wife of William, 258.
—William, print and map seller, 256; litigation over estate of, 202 n, 262; Burgis-Price View of Boston published by, 246, 247, 250, 254, 259; W. Burgis’s Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge sold by, 252, 259, 261; view of the Old Brick meeting-house sold by, 253; sets up organ in King’s Chapel, 257; becomes associated with Christ Church, 257, 258; his marriage, 258; his subscription to Trinity Church, 258; his connection with Trinity Church, 258; with King’s Chapel, 258; his business in Boston, 258, 259, 260, 261; his connection with the Bonner map of Boston, 259; publishes a Draught of the Meeting House of the Old Church in Boston with the New Spire and Gallery, 259; work done by, for the General Court, 259; taxed for repairs on town pump, 259; his real estate dealings, 259, 260; his death, 261; buried under Trinity Church, 261; his bequests, 261; increased value of his estate, 262.
Prince, Rev. Thomas, W. Price a subscriber to his Chronology, 258; his statements regarding the settlement of Boston in his Annals of New England, 296; entry of Rev. I. Wiswall’s poem in his Manuscript Catalogue, 407; his account of the earliest rebellion at Harvard College, 408.
Prospect, Nova Scotia, 221, 221 n, 222.
Providence Island, emigration to, 306.
Providence Gazette, 441.
Prynne, William, 285, 285 n, 286, 287.
Puccinia, a genus of parasitic fungi, 86, 87.
Puritanism, English, prerequisites to knowledge of, 54, 55.
Puritans, attempt to aid, by purchase of impropriations, 263, 268, 269, 271; this attempt frustrated, 263; political triumph of, 264; their arrival at Charlestown, 295; great sickness among, 295, 296, 304; their removal to Boston, 295, 296, 297; rise of, 368; emigration of, 368, 376.
Pursue, Cape, 223.
Putnam, Herbert, LL.D., xvi, 8 n.
Pym, John, 379.
Pynchon, William, his part in the Agawam controversy, 352, 353.
Quakers, persecution of, 309; their feeling toward J. Johnson, 319, 320; toward Rev. J. Norton, 320.
Quebec, Canada, T. Young’s poem on the Conquest of, 14, 15.
Queen of Bohemia, frigate, 317.
Quincy, Dorothy, daughter of Edmund (1703–1788). See Hancock.
—Edmund (1703–1788), letter of, to J. Hancock, quoted, 41.
—Josiah, Jr. (H. C. 1763), 29, 37; member of Committee of Correspondence, 31; Committee of Correspondence defended by, 34; articles signed Marchmont Nedham attributed to, 293.
—Josiah (H. C. 1790), his History of Harvard University, cited, 55, 337 n.
—Josiah (H. C. 1821), mayor of Boston, 251.
Quint, Alonzo Hall, his Historical Memoranda, cited, 389 n.
Rabelais, Francois, 77.
Raby, barony of, 65.
Rackemann, Charles Sedgwick, A.M., xiv.
Rainborow, Thomas, 316 n.
Rainton, Nicholas, 272.
Randall, —, 252.
—William, 257.
Randolph, Edward, 293.
Read, Col. —, 318.
—Elizabeth. See Winthrop.
—John, 260.
—Newton, his Early History of Amenia, cited, 14 n, 15 n, 50 n; quoted, 15.
Regiments:
—First Corps of Cadets, 362.
—First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, 360.
—First Suffolk Regiment, 18 n.
—National Lancers, Troop A, 362.
—Philadelphia Rifle Battalion, 41.
—Second Corps of Cadets, 362.
—Wolcott’s State Regiment (1776), 3.
Regulators, of North Carolina, 28.
Renown, a privateer, Capt. J. Chapman ships on, 216; the crew of, 216, 217; returns to Marblehead without a prize, 217.
Republican Club of Massachusetts, 358.
Revere, Paul, engraved view of Harvard College by, exhibited, 382.
Rhode Island, Constitution of, 45; legislation in, regarding barberry bushes, 89, 90; text of the Acts, 91, 92, 93; effect of the first Act, 91, 92; depreciation of paper money in, 387; represented in Albany Congress, 409.
—Colonial Records, 89, 91; cited, 91 n, 92 n.
—Laws, cited, 93 n.
Rich, Sir Henry, first Earl of Holland, 268 n.
—Sir Robert, second Earl of Warwick, 317.
Richardson, Amos, 318, 319, 320, 321.
Ridgway, —, 217.
Ripley, Capt. —, 217.
Rittenhouse, David, 45.
Rivington, James, 451, 451 n; his New-York Gazetteer, lines on the snake device in, 448; answer to these lines, 448, 449; lines in, on change of device in Holt’s New-York Journal, 450, 451; vote regarding Boston Committee of Correspondence reprinted in, 451.
Rivington & Miller, 196 n, 197 n.
Roberts, John, Governor of the Gold Coast, 230, 230 n.
Robinson, Anne (Boutineau), wife of John, 6 n.
—Asa, 391.
—Ephraim, 391 n.
—John, Commissioner of Customs, his assault on J. Otis, 5, 5 n, 6, 6 n, 7, 7 n; his marriage, 6 n.
Rochester, N. H., paper money convention at (1786), 387, 389.
Rockingham, N. H., paper money convention at (1786), 390; request from, to the legislature, 390, 391; action of members of, on the answer of the Legislature, 391, 392, 393; members of, taken prisoners, 393, 394; treatment of these prisoners by the Legislature, 394–396; advice of J. Moulton to, 395; action of Superior Court toward, 402.
Rodgers, Rev. John, 51.
Rodney, George Brydges, first Baron Rodney, 225.
Roebuck, British man-of-war, 210.
Römer, Col. William Wolfgang, 253.
Rogers, Alice, wife of Thomas, 373, 374.
—Charles, son of Thomas, 374, 375.
—Edward, son of Thomas, 374.
—Edward, his Life and Opinions of a Fifth Monarchy Man, cited, 307 n.
—Katherine, daughter of Thomas. See Elletson; Harvard; Yearwood.
—Margaret. See Chapman.
—Richard, son of Thomas, 374.
—Susanna. See Peabody.
Rollesby, Norfolk Co., Eng., name of Mildew Rollesby given to, 96, 97.
Rollins, Mary Harris, 98 n.
Romney, a ship, Gov. Bernard requested to remove, from Boston harbor, 27.
Ropes, Rev. James Hardy, D.D., xv.
—Rev. William Ladd, 2.
Ros, John de, Lord Ros, 69.
—Margaret, widow of John de, Lord Ros. See Wentworth.
Rotherfield, Dionisia, 69, 71 n.
Round, John Horace, his Studies in Peerage and Family History, mentioned, 68 n.
Rowe, Rev. John (1626–1677), 338.
—John, (1715–1787) of Boston, 4 n, 29; his Letters and Diary, cited, 4 n, 5 n, 6 n, 7 n, 27 n, 33 n, 34 n, 200 n; quoted, 28, 34.
Roxbury, Mass., 24; represented by A. Davis in the three Provincial Congresses, 18 n; Town and Church Records, 18 n.
Royal Arms, discarded for snake devices, in New York Journal, 446, 447.
Ruggles, Henry Stoddard, his Right to Bear Arms, mentioned, 68 n.
Runnels, Col. Daniel, 390, 390 n, 397, 398.
—Daniel, son of Col. Daniel, 397.
Rush, Benjamin, 39; his Medical Inquiries and Observations, quoted, 39, 40; cited, 40 n; letter of J. Adams to, quoted, 42, 43.
Rushworth, John, 287, 287 n; his Historical Collections, mentioned, 264; cited, 264 n, 282 n; quoted, regarding the trial of the Society of the Feoffees, 271–276.
Russell, Chambers, son of Daniel, 344, 345, 345 n.
—Daniel, 345 n.
—Elias Harlow, xv.
—Elizabeth (Henley) first wife of Thomas, (1740–1796), 219 n.
—Elizabeth (Watson), third wife of Thomas (1740–1796). See Temple.
—James, son of Daniel, 344, 345, 345 n, 346.
—Joseph, 230.
—Richard, 340.
—Thomas (1740–1796), son of James, 218, 219, 219 n, 226, 227, 344.
—William Eustis, Governor of Massachusetts, 358.
Rust, function of barberry bushes in production of, on wheat, 85, 86, 87, 88; not dependent on the barberry bush, 87, 88; letter from E. W. Allen regarding, 95; investigations of A. Young regarding, 95, 96; statement of Sir J. Banks regarding, 96, 97; of J. Timbs regarding, 97.
Rutherford, Rev. Samuel, his Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist, cited, 300 n.
Ruttenber, Edward Manning, 50 n; his Historical Sketch of New Windsor, N. Y., mentioned, 9 n; his copy of J. Young’s account of the Young and Clinton families, 9 n; and L. H. Clark, their History of Orange County, N. Y., quoted, 11 n; cited, 14 n.
Rye. See Grain.
Rye, Walter, his Records and Record Searching, quoted, 62 n, 68 n.
Sabin, Joseph, his Dictionary of Books Relating to America, cited, 441 n.
Sabine, Lorenzo, his Biographical Sketches of Loyalists in the American Revolution, cited, 6 n, 7 n, 200 n, 201 n, 212 n.
Sackville, Sir Edward, fourth Earl of Dorset, 268 n.
Sadler, Anne, sister of John. See Harvard.
—John, his friendship with J. Harvard, 378, 379; Cromwell’s liking for, 378, 379.
St. Estatia. See St. Eustatius.
St. Eustatius, island, 231.
St. George, Richard, Yorkshire Visitation by, 62 n; cited, 71 n.
St. Jacob, a ship, 343.
St. Mary’s, packet-ship, 224; attack on, 225.
St. Paul de Loanda, 229, 229 n.
Salem, Mass., Committee of Correspondence, 35 n.
Salisbury, Ct., 50 n.
Sally, a schooner, 226.
Saltonstall, Grace (Kaye), mother of Sir Richard, 66 n.
—Hon. Leverett, A.M., his Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall, mentioned, 66 n.
—Sir Richard, 66 n, 340 n, 377.
—Richard, son of Sir Richard, 340; his candidate for presidency of Harvard College, 336, 337; date of his return to England, 340 n.
—Richard Middlecott, A.B., xiv.
Sambrero, island. See Sombrero.
Sambro Head, Nova Scotia, 221, 221 n.
Sampson, Loring &, 231.
Samuel Smith, a ship, 235.
Sancroft, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 377.
Sandeman, Rev. Robert, 196, 196 n.
—Robert, nephew of Rev. Robert, his partnership with J. Mein, 196, 196 n.
Sanderson, Sir William, his Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles, quoted, 282; cited, 282 n.
Sanford, Hon. John Eliot, LL.D., deceased, xvii; notice of, 331.
Saunders, James, 399.
Savage, Henry Wilson, 297.
—James, his Genealogical Dictionary of New England, cited, 298, 303 n, 309 n, 315 n, 340 n.
—Thomas (1688–1720), letter from J. Cabot to, 98–101.
Savanna-la-Mar, Jamaica, 226, 226 n.
Sawyer, Timothy Thompson, his Old Charlestown, cited, 209 n, 238 n.
Scantic, Ct. See East Windsor, Ct.
Scherpenhayzon, —, van, 98 n.
Schlosser, George, 51.
Schoepf, Johann David, his knowledge of legislation against barberry bushes, 94; his Reise durch einige der mittlern und südlichen vereinigten nordamerikanischen Staaten, cited, 94 n.
Schuyler, Philip, 350.
Scott, James, Duke of Monmouth, 64.
—John, 230 n.
—Ruth Moore, wife of John, 230 n.
—(or Scot), Thomas, the regicide, 288, 288 n.
Scottow, Joshua, son of Thomasine, 303; his rights in Mill Creek, 309; his interest in early water-works of Boston, 310, 313.
—Thomas, son of Thomasine, 303, 305.
—Thomasine, 303.
Scrope (or Scroope), Adrian, the regicide, 288, 288 n.
Seaver, Capt. James, 234.
Sedgwick, Charles Frederick, his General History of the Town of Sharon, Conn., cited, 52 n.
—Maj. Robert, 302.
Seguin, Island, Me., 209, 209 n.
Selby, Elizabeth, first wife of Thomas, 254.
—Jane, daughter of Thomas. See Garret; Melvil.
—Mehitable (Bill), second wife of Thomas, 251, 255, 257. See also Burgis.
—Thomas, (d. 1727), Burgis’s map of Boston sold by, 246, 247, 251; first mention of, in Boston records, 254; admitted an inhabitant, 254; his interest in church affairs, 254, 255, 256; becomes proprietor of the Crown Coffee House, 254, 255, 256, 257; his land transactions, 254, 255; becomes town scavenger, 255; his death, 257; inventory of his estate, 257.
—Thomas, son of Thomas (d. 1727), 257.
Sellick, David, 314.
Senex, John, his America, mentioned, 254; patent on globur chart granted to, 254.
Separatists. See Independents.
Sewall, Chief-Justice Samuel, 245, 257, 313, 314; his Diary, quoted, 254; cited, 321; his statement regarding the settlement of Boston, 296.
Seymour, —, suit of Company of Stationers against, 75, 76.
Shakspere, Edmund, son of John, 374.
—John, 374.
—Mary (Arden), wife of John, 374.
—Richard, son of John, 374.
—William, son of John, 372, 373, 374; the Duke of Cambridge in his Henry V, 67; his possible associations with John Harvard, 375, 379.
Shannon, Richard Cutts, 383, 383 n.
Shark, a cruiser, 228.
Sharon, Ct., 50 n; Probate Records, cited, 52 n.
Sharp, Capt. —, 100.
Shaving-mill, meaning of the term, 223 n, 224 n.
Shays’s rebellion, 382.
Sheath, —, 314.
Shelley, Henry Charles, 375, 378, 380.
Shepard, Rev. Thomas, 340.
Sherland, Christopher, 273, 274.
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 355.
Shippee, John, 255.
Shirley, Frances, daughter of Gov. William. See Bollan.
—Frances (Barker), first wife of Gov. William, memorials to, 344 n.
—Harriet, daughter of Gov. William. See Temple.
—William, Governor of Massachusetts, 344, 344 n; his remark on the union of the colonies, 413; message of the Legislature to, 414.
Short, Capt. Richard, 342 n; his complaint against Sir W. Phips, 342, 343.
Shrimpton, Henry, 314.
Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet, his Topographical and Historical Description of Boston, mentioned, 252; cited, 297 n, 308 n, 324 n; disadvantages under which this was written, 313.
Shute, Samuel, Governor of Massachusetts, Burgis-Price View of Boston dedicated to, 247, 248.
Sibbes, Rev. Richard, 271, 271 n, 275 n.
Sibley, John Langdon, his Harvard Graduates, cited, 318 n.
Sims, a servant of Washington, 118.
Skinner, Richard, 255.
Slade Denison Rogers, A.B., xvi.
Slave-trade, to Brazil, method of carrying on, 229, 230.
Smith, Capt. —, 219, 220, 224.
—Col. —, 42.
—Capt. Isaac, 218.
—James Hadden, his History of Dutchess County, N. Y., cited, 14 n.
—Samuel, the printing of his History of New Jersey, 443, 444, 445; collation of, 443 n; opinion of the University Press as to time required for printing this book, 445.
—Sidney Lawton, engraver, 252.
—Thomas, 320.
Smyth, Albert Henry, his edition of Franklin’s Writings, cited, 412 n.
—Rev. Egbert Coffin, manuscripts given to Andover Theological Seminary from estate of, 2.
—Elizabeth Bradford (Dwight), wife of Rev. Egbert Coffin, 2.
Snake devices, photographic copies of, exhibited by A. Matthews, 263, 408 n; paper on, by A. Matthews, 408–453; existence of, due to Franklin, 409; the three periods at which they appeared, 409; their influence and popularity, 409; inaccurate statements regarding, 409; as used by Pennsylvania Gazette, 409, 410, 417, 419, 420; the device copied, with variations, by other papers, 417, 418; descriptions of, 419, 420, 421, 439; reproductions of, 420, 421; used in Pennsylvania Journal, 421, 447, 448; difference between Franklin’s device and that used in Constitutional Courant, 433; that used in different forms of the Constitutional Courant, 433, 434, 435; incorrect reproductions of this device: by Buckingham, 440; by Lossing, 440; device used on verso of title of poem attacking Gov. Bernard, 446; J. Holt discards Royal Arms for snake devices in the New York Journal, 446, 447, 448; used by Thomas in the Massachusetts Spy, 447, 448; lines on, in Rivington’s New-York Gazetteer, 448; replies to these lines, 448, 449; lines referring to, in the New York Journal, 449, 450; last uses of, 451, 452; list of facsimile reproductions of, 452.
Snow, —, 215.
—Caleb Hopkins, his History of Boston, cited, 28 n, 296, 296 n, 317 n, 326 n.
—Charles Armstrong, A.B., ii, xiv.
Snow, a two-masted vessel, 212, 212 n.
Social Science Association, 356.
Société Botanique de France, Bulletin de, cited, 86.
Society of Colonial Wars, 356.
Society of the Feoffees, organization of, 267; their plan for buying impropriations, 267, 268, 269; Heylyn’s attack upon, 268; success of the scheme, 270; lectureships established at St. Antholin’s by, 270, 270 n, 271; charged with misuse of funds, 270 n; trial of, 271–276; decision of the court regarding, 274–276, 277; integrity of, 274 n, 275 n; criminal proceedings against, suggested, 276 n.
Sohier, William Davies, 360.
Solebay, English man-of-war, 209, 210, 211, 215.
Solms, Count de, J. Wright’s portrait of Washington painted for, 30 n.
Sons of Liberty, Albany, 26 n.
—Boston, 37 n; address to John Wilkes from, 27; send committee to tea-consignees, 32, 33.
—New York, 37 n; statue of George III overthrown by, 350.
Sophia, a ship, 228, 229, 230.
Soulsby, Basil Harrington, 250.
South Carolina, union of the colonies advocated by, 414.
South Carolina Gazette, description of snake device in, 418.
South Carolina Historical Society, 418 n.
South Mailing, Eng., photograph from parish register of, 381.
Southerton, Rev. Valentine, 276 n.
Southwark, London, Eng., home of Robert Harvard, 374, 375; photograph from parish register of, 381.
—Globe Theatre, 375.
—St. Saviour’s Church, 375, 376.
Spanish-American War, early mustering of Massachusetts troops for service in, 360.
Sparks, Jared, quoted, 409 n; his Writings of Washington, cited, 103 n; 118 n; his description of the snake device, 419; his Works of Franklin, cited, 419 n.
Spirit, the, of Liberty, by Junius Junio, 293, 294; description of the work, 294 n.
Spitfire, a lugger, 218.
Sprague, Mary, her circulating library, Boston, 205.
—P., his opinion of the barberry bush, 79, 81.
—Rev. William Buell, his Annals of the American Pulpit, cited, 3 n.
Sprigg, Richard, Jr., 277.
Springfield, Mass., founding of, 352; controversy regarding, 353.
Squires, Daniel, 212.
Stadium, 60.
Stamp Act (1765), 20, 26, 421; snake devices used at time of, 409, 439; Constitutional Courant’s protest against, 423–432; passed without debate in Parliament, 431; editions of, 444.
Stansbury, Thomas, 312.
Stark Mills, 356.
Statesman’s Year Book, 74.
Stationers’ Company. See Company of Stationers.
Stedman, —, 252.
—John Gabriel, his Narrative, quoted, 98.
Steele, Sir Richard, 377.
Steuart, Andrew, Philadelphia edition of the Constitutional Courant attributed to, 445 n; removes to Wilmington, N. C., 445 n.
Stevens, Capt. —, 216.
—Benjamin Franklin, 433 n, 434 n.
—John Austin, description and reproduction of Franklin’s snake device in his Memorial History of New-York, 420, 421; this work, cited, 420 n, 421, 440 n; his account of the Constitutional Courant, 439, 440.
Stiles, Rev. Ezra, his Literary Diary, cited, 36 n, 37, 37 n, 38, 39 n; quoted, 37, 38, 195 n.
—Capt. George, 235.
—Henry Reed, his History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, cited, 2 n, 3 n, 5 n, 16 n; quoted, 3.
—Jeremiah, 391 n.
Stirling, James, 256.
Stock, Rev. Richard, 273, 273 n.
Stock, support of, by fallows, 145.
Stoddard, Anthony, 310, 321, 323.
—Simeon, son of Anthony, 322, 323.
—Jacob, 208 n.
—Jemima (Miller), wife of Jacob, 208 n. See also Chapman.
Stoughton, William, Lt.-Governor of Massachusetts, 340, 343.
Stoughton, Mass., Doty Tavern, 52 n.
Stout, Capt. Jacob, 228.
Strafford, Earls of, second creation, extinction of, 63.
Strafford, Eng., wapentake of, 62.
Strafford, N. H., paper money convention at, 395.
Stratford-on-Avon, Eng., Shakspere associated with, 372, 373; the Rogers house in High Street, 373, 380; the Rogers family of, 373, 374; the Shakspere family of, 374; expected records from parish registers of, 381.
—Holy Trinity Church, Robert Harvard and Katherine Rogers married at, 375.
—Lydia, daughter of Josiah, 51.
—Mary (Young), wife of Josiah, 50, 50 n, 51.
—Rev. Thomas Campbell, 252.
Stuart, —, 149.
—Gilbert, 30 n.
Stubbs, William, Bishop of Oxford, his Constitutional History of England, quoted, 264, 265; cited, 265 n.
Suffolk Congress, convened at Stoughton, Mass. (1774), 52 n.
Suffolk County, Mass., Court Files, cited, 199 n.
—Deeds, cited, 5 n, 30 n, 31 n, 32 n, 237 n, 262 n, 300 n, 301 n, 302 n, 305 n, 306 n, 307 n, 309 n, 310 n, 312 n, 314 n, 316 n, 317 n, 318 n, 319 n, 321 n, 323 n; mentioned, 311, 313.
—Inferior Court of Common Pleas, 199.
—Probate Files, cited, 6 n, 32 n, 34 n, 201 n, 202 n, 230 n, 238 n, 262 n.
—Superior Court of Judicature, 200; Records of, cited, 200 n.
Suffolk Resolves, drafted by Joseph Warren, 52 n.
Sullivan, James, Governor of Massachusetts, 402.
—John, President of New Hampshire, 385; his statement regarding action of Rockingham Convention, 391; his later treatment of the members of the Convention, 392, 393; orders a court-martial for them, 401; W. Plumer’s estimate of, 402; letter from W. Plumer to, regarding his re-election, 402, 403.
Sumner, William Graham, his Financier of the American Revolution, cited, 277 n.
Surtees Society, Publications of, mentioned, 62 n; cited, 64 n, 68 n.
Swan, a ship, 343.
Sweeney, Lawrence. See Sweeney, Samuel.
Swift, Rev. Jonathan, 77.
—Lindsay, A.B., xiv; exhibits a manuscript containing a version of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Brut, 102; appointed to write memoir of S. Cunningham, 366.
Symonds, Capt. Thomas, 209, 209 n, 210.
Tansley, Alice, wife of John, 67.
—Cecilia, daughter of John. See Wentworth.
Tant, William, 216.
Tarbell, Samuel (1746–1796), 239; anonymous letter of, presented to New Hampshire House of Representatives, 239–242; bond signed by, 239, 240; the bond defaulted, 239; his confinement in jail, 239, 240, 241, 242; conditions of release offered to, 239, 240, 241; action of the House of Representatives on his letter, 242.
Tartar, a snow, 212, 213; wreck of, 213, 214; experiences of her officers and crew, 213, 214; her crew made prisoners of war, 214, 215; their release, 215.
—Rev. Jeremy, 377.
Tea, T. Young’s communication regarding, 33, 34.
Tellecherry. See Tellicheri.
Tellicheri, British India, 228, 228 n.
Temple, Elizabeth (Watson) Russell, wife of Sir Grenville, 344.
—Sir Grenville, son of Sir John, 344.
—Harriet (Shirley), wife of Robert, 344.
—Sir John, 344.
—Robert, 344.
—Sir Thomas, 318.
—Sir William, 290; his Works, cited, 290 n.
Tenny,—, 255.
Terrible, a brig, 217.
Testamenta Eboracensia, cited, 68 n.
Thacher, James, his American Medical Biography, cited, 40 n.
—Rev. Thomas, 340.
Thayer, Adele Granger, original portrait of Rev. J. Cotton owned by, 54.
—Ezra Ripley, A.M., xv.
—John Eliot, A.B., xv; elected Member of the Council, 334.
—Rev. Henry Otis, his Ministry on the Kennebec, cited, 407 n.
—William Roscoe, a guest at the annual dinner, 347.
Theodore, Archbishop, traditional creator of the parochial system, 264.
Thomas, Isaiah, 37; his History of Printing in America, cited, 6 n, 200 n, 419 n, 422 n, 437 n, 441 n, 442 n, 443 n, 445 n, 447 n; his description of the snake device, 419; part of Constitutional Courant reprinted by, 422 n; his account of the Constitutional Courant, 436–438, 438 n; his statement regarding the identity of Andrew Marvel, 441; his account of the Providence Gazette, 441; his statements regarding the place of publication of the Constitutional Courant, 443; snake and dragon device used by, in Massachusetts Spy, 447; this paper called Thomas’s chronicle of sedition, 451; last use of snake device by, 451.
—Joshua, his circulating library, Boston, 205.
—Robert Bailey, his Farmer’s Almanac, 76, 77, 78.
—William, 216.
Thompson, Abigail (Emerson), 242 n.
—Capt. Daniel, 218.
—Ebenezer, son of Robert, 242, 242 n, 243 n, 385.
—Robert, 242 n.
—Rev. Zadock, extracts from his unpublished lecture on the Allen family, 15; his History of Vermont, cited, 49 n.
Thornbury, George Walter, and Edward Walford, their Old and New London, quoted, 270 n.
Thorndike, Samuel Lothrop, A.M., xiv.
Thorn trees, Washington’s attempt to cultivate, 148, 152, 195.
Thorne, William, his school-room in Philadelphia, 41, 41 n.
Thurloe, John, 285, 285 n; his State Papers, cited, 307 n.
Ticknor, George, 207.
Tillinghast, Caleb Benjamin, Litt.D., xv; elected a Resident Member, 1, 331; accepts, 72.
Timbs, John, his Knowledge for the People, quoted, 97; cited, 97 n.
Tithes, made a legal obligation, 265.
Tobacco, Washington’s directions on raising, 103, 160, 191, 192.
Tompkins, Abel, 251.
Toner, Joseph Meredith, his Notes on early American Physicians, 9 n.
Tonge, Thomas, Wentworth pedigrees recorded by, 62, 62 n, 63 n, 66.
Tories, rumored provisions, concerning estates of, in definitive treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States, 390, 395.
Torrey, Rev. Samuel, 408.
—William, extract from the Preface of his Brief Discourse concerning Futurities, 408.
Townsend, Mary. See Devens.
Townshend, Charles, 292, 292 n.
Townships, coincident with parishes in England, 264, 265.
Trankabar. See Tranquebar.
Trenchard, Sir John, 343.
Trenkabar. See Tranquebar.
Trent, William, 415, 415 n, 419.
Trimountain, name changed to Boston, 296.
Trincomali Bay, Ceylon, 233, 233 n.
Trowbridge, Edmund, 345 n; the date of his birth, 344, 346; his death, 346 n.
—Mary (Goffe), wife of Edmund, 344.
Trumbull, Jonathan (1710–1785), Governor of Connecticut, 350; letter of W. Williams to, quoted, 49.
Tucker, George Fox, Ph.D., xiv.
—Hon. William Jewett, LL.D., xvi.
Tudor, William, his Life of James Otis, cited, 5 n, 6 n, 7 n.
Tulasne, Louis René, his investigations regarding rust on wheat, 86.
Turner, Charles, 170.
—Frederick Jackson, Ph.D., xvi.
—Robert, 299, 303; his Boston houselot, 301, 302.
Tuttle, Julius Herbert, xv, 8 n, 290 n; a guest at the annual dinner, 347.
Tyas, Joan (or Jane). See Wentworth.
Tyler, Daniel, letter to John Warren from, quoted, 36.
—Capt. Edward, 218.
Tyng, Edward, 340; his estate and wharf in Boston, 307.
—William, 315; his spring, 309, 327; T. Brattle falls heir to certain property of, 310, 311.
United States Lighthouse Board, 253.
Underhill, Capt. John, 305.
University, value of a, 366, 367.
University Press, Cambridge, opinion of, as to length of time required for printing S. Smith’s History of New Jersey, 445.
Usher, Bridget (Lisle) Hoar, wife of Hezekiah, 291, 291 n.
—Hezekiah, 291 n.
Utrecht, Peace of, 99, 99 n, 100.
Van Alstyne, Lawrence, his Burying Grounds of Sharon, Ct., etc., quoted, 51; cited, 51 n.
Van Cortlandt, Pierre, first Lieut.-Governor of New York, 46.
Van Peyma, Charlotte, 9 n.
Vane, Sir Henry (1589–1655), barony of Raby taken from, 65, 65 n.
—Sir Henry (1612–1662), son of Sir Henry (1589–1655), 298, 319, 380; his suggestion of an English constitution, 369, 370; J. Cotton’s influence on, 370.
Vaughan, Sir William, pseudonym Orpheus Junior used by, 293, 293 n; his Golden Fleece, quoted, 293 n.
Vavasour family, 62.
Venner, Thomas, his troubles in Boston and in London, 306, 307; his wharf and house in Boston, 307, 308.
Venning, Rev. Ralph, 341.
Vermont, word coined by T. Young, 15, 44, 53; T. Young’s address regarding its formation into an independent state, 44–46; this action opposed by New York Council of Safety, 46; action of Congress in the matter, 46–48; petition to General Assembly of, in behalf of T. Young’s family, 53, 53 n.
—Records of the Governor and Council of, cited, 35 n, 46 n, 49 n.
—State Papers, cited, 46 n, 49 n, 53 n.
Villiers, George, first Duke of Buckingham, 376.
Vindex, pseudonym used by S. Adams, 17, 23.
Virgil, quoted, 61 n.
Virginia, not represented in Albany Congress, 410 n.
Virginia Gazette, allusion to snake device in, 418.
W., j., early American poem by, 403; early New England writers bearing these initials, 406. See also Wiswall, Rev. Ichabod.
Wade, Winthrop Howland, A.M., xv; moves an expression of sympathy for J. Noble, 336.
Wadhams, Abigail (Beebe) Allen, wife of Solomon, 16, 16 n.
—Solomon, 16 n.
Wadsworth, Mrs. Alexander, original manuscript of Capt. J. Chapman’s autobiography owned by, 208 n.
Wait, Hon. William Cushing, A.M., xiv.
Wakeman, Rev. Samuel, 408.
Walcott family, 354, 355. See also Wolcott.
Waldenses, 371.
Waldron, John, 391 n.
Walker, Rev. George, his sermon on the Duty and Character of a National Soldier, quoted, 290; cited, 290 n.
—Rev. James, President of Harvard College, 238, 238 n.
—Thomas Oliver, his circulating library, Boston, 207.
—Rev. Williston, D.D., xvi.
Wall, Mary Honoria. See Gill.
Wallace, Capt. James, his attempt to capture T. Young, 38, 38 n.
Walter, Rev. Nathaniel, 261.
Wandsworth, Eng., photograph from parish register of, 381.
—Henry, Secretary of Rhode Island, 38.
Ware, Horace Everett, A.B., xv; presents copy of G. M. Bodge’s Soldiers in King Philip’s War to this Society, 72; letter from E. W. Allen to, on wheat-rust, 95, 96; presents set of old Farmer’s Almanack to this Society, 245.
—Thornton Marshall, A.B., xv.
Warham, Rev. John, 348.
Warner, Col. Seth, 48.
Warren, Edward, his Life of John Warren, M. D., cited, 36 n, 44 n.
—John (H. C. 1771), letter from D. Tyler to, quoted, 36; letter from J. B. Cutting to, quoted, 44.
—John Collins (H. C. 1863), 252.
—Joseph, 7, 27, 29, 38; Frothingham’s Life and Times of, cited, 6 n; his friendship for Dr. T. Young, 8; his house in Hanover Street, 30; member of Committee of Correspondence, 31; regulations of North End Caucus drawn up by, 32; his part in the Boston tea-party, 32, 33; Committee of Correspondence defended by, 34; family physician to J. Adams, 36; letter from D. Tyler to, quoted, 36; Judge Danforth’s resignation witnessed by, 36; Suffolk Resolves drafted by, 52 n.
—family, 62.
Warwick, Earl of. See Rich.
Washington, Augustine, half-brother of George, 110 n.
—Frances (Bassett), wife of George Augustine, 105, 105 n, 106, 112, 113, 161, 163, 166, 169, 171, 177, 179, 182, 185.
—George, 350, 363, 399, 415; J. Wright’s portrait of, 30 n; his directions to G. A. Washington and A. Whiting regarding his estate, communicated by W. C. Ford, 103–195; regarding the treatment of exhausted land, 103; tobacco, 103, 160, 191, 192; raising and care of grain, 104, 109, 114, 116, 120, 124, 128, 129, 130, 131, 134, 135, 138, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, 150, 151, 152, 154, 157, 183, 185, 186, 188, 189, 194; digging of ditches, 104, 110; use of oyster shells, 104, 110, 111, 163, 167, 170, 175, 178, 180, 190; his botanical garden, 105, 153; economies, 106, 130, 149, 167, 173; planting of trees, 107, 108; hedges, 108, 112, 120, 127, 134, 141, 143, 144, 148, 149; grass, 109, 113, 117, 144, 145, 152, 153, 154, 162; raising of hogs, 109, 117, 122; carpentering and painting, 110, 129, 138, 146, 147, 148, 171, 180; care of sick negroes, 111, 114, 133; care of tools, 111; building of fences, 113; potatoes, 116, 120, 182, 194; his fishery, 118, 119, 141, 182; loss of sheep, 118, 122, 131, 146, 160, 174; water-supply, 124, 125, 133, 145, 150; vistas, 125, 133, 145, 150, 163, 166; dogs, 132; his house in Alexandria, 133; sewing and spinning, 135, 142, 152; horses, 136, 192; keeping of accounts, 137; conduct of overseers, 137; use of sand, 152; gate-latches, 155; preparation of mortar, 159, 170, 171, 178, 185; making of bricks, 163; payment of taxes, 167, 170, 177, 178; care and sheering of sheep, 169, 174, 181, 182, 191; his land in Fairfax Parish, 170; allowance of meal, etc., to his negroes, 172, 173, 179, 186, 187; cattle, 175, 181, 182; answering letters, 183, 184; early celebration of his birthday at Milton, 195, 195 n; his association with J. Huntington, 352; capitulates at Fort Necessity, 418, 418 n.
—George Augustine, nephew of George, 112, 112 n, 115, 146, 148, 156, 157, 159, 161, 172, 178, 190, 191; directions from G. Washington to, regarding his estate, communicated, 102; text of the letters, 103–106; illness of, 129, 140, 141.
—George Steptoe, son of Samuel, 105, 105 n, 115.
—Harriott, daughter of Samuel, 105, 105 n.
—Lawrence, son of Samuel, 105, 105 n, 115.
—Martha (Dandridge) Custis, wife of George, 105, 111, 113, 135, 153, 172, 179, 185.
—Samuel, brother of George, 105 n.
—William Augustine, son of Augustine, 110, 110 n, 159, 159 n, 163, 175, 190.
Waters, Henry FitzGilbert, his researches concerning John Harvard, 367, 373, 374, 378, 381.
—Rev. Thomas Franklin, A.B., xv; elected a Resident Member, 1, 331; accepts, 72.
Wath, parish of, Yorkshire, Eng., 62.
Watkinson Library, v.
Watson, —, 160.
—Elizabeth. See Russell; Temple.
—Leonard, 285.
—William, Ph.D., xiv.
Weare, Meshech, 400.
Webb, Henry, 307.
Webber, Mabel Louise, 418 n.
Weeden, William Babcock, A.M., xvi.
Weld, Charles Goddard, M.D., xiv.
Welles, Thomas, 353.
Welling, John, 11 n.
Wells, Mrs. — (Lovell), her wax-works, 30, 30 n.
—William Vincent, his Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams, cited, 17 n, 28 n, 31 n, 33 n, 36 n.
Wells, Bangs &, 324.
Wendell, Oliver, member of Committee of Correspondence, 31.
Wentworth, — (Beaumont), wife of John, 69.
—Agnes (Dronsfield), wife of John, of Elmsall, 66, 68, 69.
—Beatrix, daughter of Matthew, of Bretton (d. 1505). See Kaye.
—Sir Butler Cavendish, 63.
—Cecilia (Tansley), wife of Richard, of Bretton (d. 1449?), 66, 67.
—Sir Charles Mary, 63.
—Elizabeth (Woodruffe), wife of Matthew, of Bretton (d. 1505), 66.
—Frances (Wentworth), wife of Sir John, Copley’s portrait of, 344 n. See also Atkinson.
—Frederick Thomas, third Earl of Strafford, 63.
—Godfrey, 63.
—Baroness Henriette Maria, 64.
—Hugh, 63.
—Isabel (FitzWilliam), wife of Richard, of Bretton (d. 1488), 66.
—Joan (Tyas), wife of John, son of William, of Wentworth-Woodhouse, 69.
—Sir John (d. 1631), 63.
—John, of Elmsall, 66, 68, 69.
—John, son of John of Elmsall, 69.
—John, son of William, of Wentworth-Woodhouse, 69.
—Sir John, Governor of New Hampshire, 344 n; arms assigned to, 63.
—John, of Chicago, his Wentworth Genealogy, 64, 65, 69; cited, 64 n, 67 n, 68 n, 71 n, 344 n; quoted, 67, 68.
—Margaret (Despencer) Ros, wife of Roger, of Nettlestead, 69.
—Matthew (d. 1505), of Bretton, son of Richard (d. 1488), 66, 66 n, 67.
—Peregrine, 63.
—Richard (d. 1449), of Bretton, son of John, of Elmsall, 66; his marriage, 66, 67.
—Richard (d. 1488), of Bretton, son of Richard (d. 1449), 66, 67.
—Roger, of Nettlestead, his marriage, 69.
—Sir Thomas, of Bretton, son of Matthew (d. 1505), 66.
—Sir Thomas, of Nettlestead, created a baron, 64.
—Thomas, first Earl of Cleveland, 63, 64.
—Thomas, first Earl of Strafford, 62, 64, 368, 378; peerages conferred upon, 65; results of his assuming the title of Baron of Raby, 65, 65 n.
—William, son of Richard, of Bretton (d. 1449), 67.
—William, second Earl of Strafford, 63; receives all his father’s peerage honors, 65.
—William, of Exeter, N. H., 64.
—family, the English, paper on, by Rev. H. A. Parker, 61–71; American branch of, settled in New Hampshire, 62; pedigrees of, by Tonge, 62, 62 n, 63 n, 66; by Gascoigne, 62; by Dugdale, 62, 62 n, 63 n, 66, 67 n; by Rev. J. Hunter, 62, 63, 64, 67, 68, 69; by Col. Chester, 62, 63, 64, 65, 68; by Flower, 66, 67, 68, 69; by Glover, 66, 67, 69; by J. Wentworth, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69; settlement of, in Yorkshire, 62; rank of, 62; disappearance of, 62, 63, 64; descent of American branch of, 63, 63 n, 64; loyal to the king in the Civil War, 64; first peerage in, 64; parallel pedigrees of, 70, 71.
—family, of Bretton, extinction of, 63.
—family, of Elmsall, extinction of, 63; coat of arms of, 63 n; American Wentworths descended from, 63 n; founding of, 64.
—family, of Gosfield, extinction of, 63.
—family, of Nettlestead, extinction of, 63; founding of, 64.
—family, of South Elmsall, extinction of, 63.
—family, of Wooley and Hickelton, extinction of, 63.
Wentworth-Woodhouse, Isabel (Pollington), wife of William, 69.
—Sir Thomas, peerage honors conferred upon, 65.
—William, created a baronet, 64.
—family, extinction of, 63; arms of, 63, 63 n; peerages conferred upon, 64, 65.
West, Benjamin, 30 n.
—Thomas, 237.
—family, of Boston, 208.
Western, Charles, 345.
—Charles Callis, Baron Western of Rivenhall, son of Charles, 345.
—Frances Shirley (Bollan), wife of Charles, early life of, 344, 344 n; letter of F. Dana to, 345–347.
Weston, Sir Richard, 286, 286 n, 287.
—Robert Dickson, A.B., xv.
Weyman, William, his New-York Gazette, quoted, 197 n.
Whalley, Edward, the regicide, 291.
Wharton, Thomas, 442.
Wheat. See Grain.
Wheatland, Capt. Richard, 237.
Wheeler, Sir Francis. See Wheler.
Wheelwright, Andrew Cunningham, A.M., deceased, xvii.
—Edmund March, A.B., xiv.
—Edward, A.M., debt of this Society to, 335.
Wheildon, William Willder, his Sentry, or Beacon Hill, cited, 297 n, 325 n.
Wheler, Sir Francis, 343, 343 n.
White, Andrew Dickson, D.C.L., xvi; elected an Honorary Member, 347; accepts, 366.
—Daniel, 284 n.
—John (1590–1645), 264, 272, 272 n.
—John, of Boston, T. Young’s estate mortgaged to, 31, 31 n; the mortgage assigned to D. Bradlee by, 31 n.
Whitefield, Edwin, 251.
—Rev. George, 30.
Whitelocke, Sir Bulstrode, his Memorials of the English Affairs, quoted, 282; cited, 282 n.
Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, 267.
Whiting, Anthony, letters from Washington to, communicated, 102; text of the letters, 106–195; Washington’s anxiety regarding his health, 192, 193; death of, 192 n.
Whitmore, William Henry, his Massachusetts Civil List, cited, 345 n.
Whitney, David Rice, A.M., xiv.
—James Lyman, A.M., xv.
Whittaker’s Almanac, 74.
Wigglesworth, George, A.M., xiv.
Wilde, Silent, local express between Boston and Deerfield (1761–1775), 34, 34 n, 35 n.
Wilder, the postman. See Wilde, Silent.
Wilkes, John, address of Sons of Liberty of Boston to, 27.
William, Prince of Orange, 363.
William, a brig, crew of, captured, 209, 210; ordered on board English frigate, 210.
Williams, Benjamin, 226.
—Moses (1790–1882), 5 n.
—Moses, A.B., xiv.
—Rev. Samuel, his Natural and Civil History of Vermont, cited, 49 n.
—William, letter to J. Trumbull, from, quoted, 49.
Williams College, 359.
Willing Maid, a pilot boat, 215, 216.
Willmans, Henry, 193 n.
Wilmington, N. C., A. Steuart removes his press to, 445 n.
Wilson, Henry, patent on globur chart granted to, 254.
—James Grant, 76.
—John, teacher of mathematics, 12, 13.
—Rev. John, 295, 306, 308, 314; his excommunication of Anne Hutchinson, 300, 301.
Winchelsea, English frigate, 210.
Windebank, Sir Francis, 276 n.
Windsor, Ct., 348; Stiles’s History and Genealogies of Ancient, cited, 2 n, 3 n, 5 n; quoted, 3; donations for the poor in Boston collected in, 5 n.
Windsor, Eng., 283.
Winegar, Elizabeth (Doty), wife of John, 52.
—John, son of Garret, 52.
—Mary, daughter of Garret. See Young.
Winship, George Parker, A.M., xvi.
Winslow, Abigail (Atkinson), wife of John (d. 1695), 323.
—Edward, Governor of Plymouth Colony, 317.
—John (d. 1674), brother of Gov. Edward, 317, 320.
—Josiah, Governor of Plymouth Colony, son of Gov. Edward, 408.
—Mary (Chilton), wife of John (d. 1674), 317.
Winsor, Justin, 249, 433 n; his History of Duxbury, mentioned, 407; his article on Intercolonial Congresses and Plans of Union, cited, 411 n.
Winthrop, Elizabeth (Read), wife of John, Jr., 318.
—Fitz-John, son of John, Jr., 245, 318, 319, 406.
—John, Governor of Massachusetts, 298, 304, 308, 317, 318, 326, 371, 377; his first house, 295, 296, 306; his quarrel with Dudley, 296, 306; his History of New England, cited, 296 n, 303 n, 309 n, 316 n, 317 n; site of his first house in Boston, 298, 299, 306; his second house in Boston, 298, 299, 315; his land called Governor’s Green, 299, 303, 315; his Journal, 306; makes over Governor’s Green to his son, 315, 316.
—John, Jr., Governor of Connecticut, son of Gov. John, of Massachusetts, 314, 316, 318.
—Prof. John (H. C. 1732), 7, 7 n.
—Judith, wife of Stephen, 318.
—Lucy, sister of Gov. John, of Massachusetts. See Downing.
—Stephen, son of Gov. John, of Massachusetts, Governor’s Green made over to, 315, 316; joins an English regiment, 316, 318; conveys property to R. Parker, 316, 320; inherits his father’s land, 318; his freedom of thought, 318; sells some of his land, 318; his death, 318.
—Wait Still, son of John, Jr., 245, 319.
Wise, Rev. John, 406.
Wiswall, Rev. Ichabod, poem by, on the comet of 1680, communicated, 403; title of the poem, 403 n, 404; London imprint of the poem, 403, 404; text of the poem, 404–406; early mentions of the poem, 406, 407; his authorship of the poem now first noted in print, 407; his only literary production, 407; brief sketch of, 407; his failure to graduate at Harvard, 407, 408; contemporary estimates of, 408.
Wolcott, Cornelia (Frothingham), wife of Joshua Huntington, 354.
—Edith (Prescott) wife of Roger (1847–1900), v, 357.
—Elizabeth (Huntington), wife of Frederick, 351, 352, 353.
—Erastus, his State Regiment, 3.
—Frederick, son of Oliver (1726–1797), his public services, 351, 352, 353.
—Henry, his emigration to America, 348.
—Huntington, son of Joshua Huntington, 354; his services in the Civil War, 354; his death, 354.
—Joshua Huntington, son of Frederick, 353; his characteristics, 353.
—Martha (Pitkin), wife of Simon, 349.
—Oliver (1726–1797), Governor of Connecticut, son of Roger (1679–1767), 358; his public services, 350.
—Oliver, Jr., son of Oliver (1726–1797), his public services, 350, 351.
—Roger (1679–1767), Governor of Connecticut, son of Simon, his public services, 349, 357; his character, 349.
—Hon. Roger, LL.D., son of Joshua Huntington, Memoir of, communicated by Rev. A. Lawrence, 347; text of the Memoir, 348–363; his birth, 348; his ancestors, 348–353; his education, 354, 355; his foreign travel, 354, 355, 361; his Americanism, 354, 355; influence of his brother upon, 354, 355; his college career, 355; his law studies, 356; his political activities, 356, 357, 358, 361; his business interests, 356; his philanthropic interests, 356; his public interests, 356; his position in the national election of 1884, 357; first mentioned for Governor, 357; elected Lt.-Governor, 358; becomes Governor, 358; his conduct of this office, 359; receives degree of LL.D. from Williams College, 359; his popularity as a speaker, 359, 360; his action at outbreak of Spanish-American War, 360; war emergency fund granted to, 360, 361; his care for the soldiers in this war, 361; tribute of H. C. Lodge to, 361, 362; public offices declined by, 361; his death and burial, 361, 362; memorial service for, 362; his personality, 362; his character, 362, 363; tribute of G. F. Hoar to, 363; of F. T. Greenhalge, 363; his statue, 363.
—Sarah (Drake), wife of Roger (1679–1767), 349.
—Simon, son of Henry, 349.
Wolfe, James, 15.
Wood, Anthony à, his Fasti Oxonienses, quoted, 291 n.
—John, 235.
Woodbridge, Rev. John, of Andover, 406.
—Rev. John, of Wethersfield, son of Rev. John, of Andover, 406.
Woodbridge, N. J., Constitutional Courant may have been printed at, 434 n, 436, 438, 443; issues from J. Parker’s press at, 444, 444 n.
Woodruffe, Elizabeth. See Wentworth.
Woods, Henry Ernest, A.M., xiii, xiv; communicates letter of S. Tarbell, Jr., 239; elected Member of the Council, 334; Corresponding Secretary, pro tempore, 366.
Worcester, Eng., All Saint’s Church, advowson of, 275 n, 276 n.
Worcester County, Mass., 80; interference with court proceedings in (1786), 387.
Worthington, Dr. —, 235.
Wright,—, daughter of Joseph, Sr. See Piatt.
—Joseph, Sr., 30 n.
—Joseph, Jr., son of Joseph, Sr., his portrait of Washington, 30 n.
—Patience (Lovell), wife of Joseph, Sr., her wax works, 30, 30 n.
—Phœbe, daughter of Joseph, Sr. See Hoppner.
Wright & Gill, their claims against J. Mein, 199, 200.
Wroe, Joshua, 255.
Wyer, John, 31 n.
Wyman, Thomas Bellows, his Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, cited, 5 n, 209 n, 345 n.
Wythe, George, 42.
Yale College, Library, copy of Constitutional Courant in, 434, 434 n.
Yard, Mrs. —, 43.
Yearwood, Katherine (Rogers), Harvard Elletson, 376; her will, 381; photograph of record of marriage of, 381. See also Elletson; Harvard.
Yellow fever, epidemic of, in New York (1791), 40.
York, Edmund, Duke of, 67.
Yorkshire, Eng., Wentworth family of, 61; Wentworth pedigrees in visitations of, 62; printed visitations of, 62 n; inaccurate transcriptions of these visitations, 62 n; settlement of the Wentworths in, 62.
Young, Arthur, 94 n, 153, 191; his inquiries concerning wheat rust, 95, 96; his theory regarding the support of stock by fallows, 145.
—Barbara, daughter of John (d. 1784), 12.
—Catharine, daughter of Thomas (1731–1777). See Castle.
—Charles, 278.
—Rev. Edward, his Conjectures on Original Composition, mentioned, 60, 60 n.
—Isaac, son of John (d. 1784), 12.
—Jane, daughter of John (d. 1784), 12.
—Jane (Parks), wife of John, Sr., 10, 12. See also Armstrong.
—John, Sr., 10.
—John (d. 1784), son of John, Sr., 10, 11 n, 12, 13; settles in New Windsor, N. Y., 11; removes to Albany, 11 n; his marriage, 11.
—John, son of John (d. 1784), 12.
—John (d. 1805), son of Thomas (1731–1777), 50.
—Joseph, son of John (d. 1784), 9, 9 n; his Genealogical and Biographical Sketch, mentioned, 9 n; extracts from this Sketch, 10–14, 26, 27, 38, 39, 49, 50; his marriage, 50, 50 n.
—Mary, daughter of John, Sr., 10.
—Mary, daughter of John (d. 1784), 12.
—Mary, daughter of John (d. 1805), 50.
—Mary, daughter of Thomas (1731–1777). See Strong.
—Mary (Crawford), wife of John (d. 1784), 10, 11.
—Mary (Hammond), wife of John (d. 1805), 50.
—Mary (Winegar), wife of Thomas (1731–1777), 31.
—Rosmond, son of Thomas (1731–1777), 50.
—Sarah, daughter of Thomas (1731–1777). See Clark.
—Sarah, daughter of John (d. 1805), 50.
—Sarah (Brown), wife of Joseph, 50.
—Susannah, daughter of Thomas (1731–1777). See Knies.
—Dr. Thomas (1731–1777), son of John (d. 1784), Memoir of, by H. H. Edes, 2–54; letter from, 2; this letter written either to Rev. T. Potwine or Rev. J. Perry, 3; text of the letter, 4–8; his political activity in early years of the Revolution, 8, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 41, 42; his birth, 11 n, 12; his early education, 12, 13, 14; his habits of study, 13, 14; his apprenticeship to J. Kitterman, 14; his epic poem, the Conquest of Quebec, 14, 15; his residence in Amenia, 14, 15; certain place-names due to, 15, 44, 53; his friendship with Ethan Allen, 15, 16, 34, 44; his theological views, 16, 17; his part in the Oracles of Reason, 17; A. Davis’s attack on his character, 17, 18–20; S. Adams’s defence of, 17, 17 n, 21–23; his answer to Davis’s attack, 24, 25; his removal to Albany, 26; his opposition to the Stamp Act, 26; his removal to Boston, 26; his anonymous pamphlet, Some Reflections on the Disputes between New-York, New-Hampshire and Col. John Henry Lydius, 26 n; one of the Sons of Liberty, 26 n; attacked by British officers, 27; his visit to the South, 28; his oration on the anniversary of the Boston Massacre, 28, 28 n, 29; political attacks upon, 29; his estate in Wing’s Lane, 30, 31, 52; mortgages this estate, 31, 31 n; final disposition of this estate, 31 n; member of Committee of Correspondence, 31; first president of the North End Caucus, 32; his part in the tea-party, 32, 33; his communication regarding tea, 33, 34; his part in Boston political affairs, 34; defends the Committee of Correspondence, 34, 35 n; appointed financial agent of C. Phelps, 34; his personal and press correspondence, 35, 35 n; his professional work, 35, 36 n, 43; a letter to S. Adams from, describing Judge Danforth’s resignation, mentioned, 36; takes refuge in Newport, 37, 37 n, 38; attempt of the British to capture, 38; his escape from Newport, 39; his life in Philadelphia, 39, 39 n, 40, 41; his use of calomel, 39, 40; letters between John Adams and, 40, 40 n; E. Quincy’s allusions to, 41; member of Albany Committee of Correspondence, 41; his part in framing the Pennsylvania Constitution, 42, 43; his opposition to J. Adams’s plan favoring three legislative branches, 42; receives rank and pay of senior surgeon in the Continental Hospital, 43; memorial to Congress from, mentioned, 44; his attempt to secure the independence of the New Hampshire Grants, 44–46, 48, 52; this action opposed by the New York Council of Safety, 46; action of Congress in the matter, 46–48; his sudden death, 46, 49; his library, 49; his family, 50, 51, 52; petition to Vermont Assembly in behalf of his family, 53, 53 n; I. Allen’s tribute to, 54; Memoir of, mentioned, 315 n.
—Thomas, son of John (d. 1805), 50.
—William, son of John (d. 1805), 50.
—family, J. Young’s account of, 9 n.