INDEX.
A, letter to be worn for crime of adultery, 55.
Abington, Mass., 23, 24; Historical Sketch of, by Aaron Hobart, quoted, 20 n., cited, 23 n.
Absentees, committee to sell estates of, 392, 394. See Gay, Capt. Martin.
Académie Impériale des Sciences (St. Petersburg), 488.
Academy of Sciences (Institut de France), 488.
Acadia (Nova Scotia), 73, 113 n., 161–163.
Account of Indigenous Vegetables Botanically Arranged, by Manasseh Cutler, cited, 183 n.
Account of the Rise, Progress, and Consequences of the two late Schemes commonly call’d the Land Bank or Manufactory Scheme and the Silver Scheme, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay. Wherein the Conduct of the late and present G—r during their Ad—ns is occasionally consider’d and compar’d. In a letter from a gentleman in Boston to his Friend in London, cited, 2 n., 31 n.
Acworth, N. H., 125.
Adam, 316.
Adams, Charles, Jr., Corresponding Secretary and Librarian of the North Brookfield Historical Society, 471.
—— Charles Francis, LL.D. (H. C. 1856), guest at Annual Dinner of Society, 153.
—— Herbert Baxter, LL.D., xxiii.
—— Rev. Hugh (H. C. 1697), of Dover, N. H., 119.
—— John (1735–1826), President of the United States, 39.
—— John Quincy (1767–1848), President of the United States, 479.
—— Samuel (1689–1748), father of Gov. Samuel, 39 and note, 40; resigns his office as Justice of the Peace, 19; removed and dismissed from said office, 20; a Director of the Manufactory Company, 33 n., 46, 48.
—— Samuel (1722–1803), Governor of Massachusetts, 38 and note, 40, 387; his first entrance into politics, 39 n.
Addington, Isaac (1045–1715), Secretary of the Province, 75; offers to resign commission of Chief Justice, 76 n.
Addressers of Gage, 380 n.
—— of Hutchinson, List of, cited, 387 n.
Addresses: by Martin Brimmer, at Wellesley College, 23 October, 1889, 341, 342; at Bowdoin College, 7 June, 1894, quoted, 342; by Rev. George L. Walker, at Fort Dummer, 13 August, 1896, cited, 220 n.; by Parke Godwin, on Gov. Andrew, 351, 354 n.
Admiralty, Silver Oar of the, 72; Capt. Thomas Larramore and others tried for piracy by Court of, 77.
Adultery, letter to be worn for crime of, 55; trials for, 58–63, 65.
Æneid, the, 435.
Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel Rudolph, 309.
—— Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807–1873), 291, 481.
Agassiz Museum, Cambridge, 203.
Agelet, Joseph Lepaute, d’ (1751–c. 1785), 482.
Agnese, Baptista (Battista), 111.
Agramonte, Juan de, 110.
Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801–1892), the Astronomer Royal, 479.
Akademie, Kaiserliche, der Wissenschaften, Vienna, Austria, 488.
—— Königliche, der Wissenschaften, Berlin, Germany, 488.
Alabaster Island. See Cyguatea.
Albany, N. H., 125.
—— Dudley Observatory, 481, 488.
Albion College. Albion, Michigan, 433.
Alburg, Vt., 137.
Aldermen, Boston Board of, orders Early Court Files in Suffolk County to be arranged for use, 319.
Alexander, Giles, 211.
—— James Waddel, a professor at Princeton College, 435 n.; his Forty Years’ Familiar Letters, cited, 435 n.
—— Sir William (c. 1507–1640), Earl of Stirling, Royal Scotch Charter to, 1621, granting Lordship and Barony of Nova Scotia, 411; Sir William Alexander and American Colonization, cited, 412 n.
Alexander, the (a plant), 191.
Alexandria, N. H., 125.
Alfort, School of, France, 202.
Algerine Pirate, 330.
Algonquin Club, Boston, John F. Andrew, President of, 374.
Allen (Aaron Hall), Eastern Railroad Company v., 173 n.
—— Charles, Reports cited, 266.
—— Col. Ethan (1737–1789), 134–136, 139; Ethan Allen Papers, mentioned, 136.
—— Ira (1751–1814), 124, 134, 135, 138.
—— Rev. James (1632–1710), of Boston, an Overseer of Harvard College, 461.
—— John (B. Green and J. Allen), printer, 130.
—— Rev. Joseph Henry, D.H., vi, xxii, 139; deceased, xxiv; summary of his remarks upon the religious situation in the American Colonies before the Revolution, 41–46; his remarks upon Rev. E. G. Porter’s paper on Lexington Green and Concord Bridge, 139; to write a Memoir of William G. Weld, 274; communicates it, 328; the Memoir, 329–336; invokes Divine blessing at Annual dinner, 152.
—— Robert, sentenced for adultery, 62.
—— Samuel (d. 1705), Governor of New Hampshire, 118; suit of, v. Waldron (Richard), 118.
—— Thomas, of Jamaica, 236.
Allenstown, N. H., 125.
Alstead, N. H., 125.
Alton, N. H., 125.
Altona, Germany, 480.
America, 22, 23, 27, 28, 38 n., 99, 100, 110, 111, 114, 171, 212, 222, 224, 251, 258, 269, 290, 291, 296, 299, 306, 314, 325, 332, 344, 363, 383, 407, 412, 420 n., 434, 454, 472, 476, 477, 480–482, 487, 488.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 304, 486; Colonial Society meets in Hall of, 1, 41, 67, 78, 154, 180, 196, 213, 241, 282, 313, 375, 406, 438; acknowledgments to, for use of Hall, 140, 273, 274; Dr. Gould a Fellow of, 488.
American Antiquarian Society, 486; Proceedings, cited, 4 n., 6 n., 426 n., mentioned, 281; New Haven Laws (printed) owned by, 110 n.; paper read before, by A. McF. Davis in April, 1890, 426.
American Bishopric, attempt to establish, in Virginia in 1672, 43.
American Colonies, 236; religious situation in, before the Revolution, paper by Dr. Joseph H. Allen, 41–46; Convention of, at New York, 1705, 133 n.; failure to establish an Hereditary Political Aristocracy in, 407.
American Congress. See Congress.
American Dermatological Association, Annual Address before, delivered by Dr. Edward Wigglesworth, 349.
American Historical Association, Annual Report of, 1894, cited, 247 n.
American History, additions to printed documentary literature upon, 95.
American Metrological Society, Dr. Gould President of, 486.
American Philosophical Society, 488.
American Revolution, 38 n., 41, 85, 121, 122, 127, 128, 133 n., 247, 209, and note, 318, 380 n., 386, 388; lectures on, an object of the Harvard Memorial Society, 243; Brookline in the Revolution, published by the Brookline Historical Publication Society, 245; papers relating to, in Suffolk Court Files, 323; feeling that a portion of the governing body was an aristocracy not extinct until the, 410; preservation of historical facts of, an object of the Bunker Hill Historical Society, 472.
American Social Science Association, 350.
American War. See American Revolution.
Ames, Hon. Frederick Lothrop, A.B., xxii; steel plate portrait of, in Vol. I., lent to Society, 145.
—— James Barr, LL.D., xxii.
—— Oliver (1831–1895), Governor of Massachusetts, 357.
—— Judge Seth (1805–1881), 265, 266 n.; memorandum by, on a decision omitted from the printed series of Massachusetts Reports, 264.
Ames Building, Boston, site of Henry Dunster’s house, 416.
Amherst, Jeffrey Amherst (1717–1797), Baron, 96.
Amherst, N. H., 125.
Amherst College, Gen. Walker a graduate of, 313, 315; receives highest honors at, 314, 316; Opening of Walker Hall, at, by W. A. Stearns, cited, 436 n.; Student Life at, by G. R. Cutting, cited, 436 n.
Anabaptists, petition to repeal laws against, 161; papers relating to prosecutions of, in Suffolk Court Files, 323.
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 384 n.; Valentine Hill a member of, 88; Robert Sedgwick aids in forming, 159; Martin Gay’s commission as Captain of, 379, 384; officers of, invited to dine with Governor and Council, 379, 385; Henry Ounster a member of, 416.
Ancient Grants, N. H., 123.
Anderson, James, 380 and note.
—— Samuel, 380 and note.
Andover, Mass., Phillips Academy, 78, 406, 433.
—— N. H., 125.
Andrew, Cornelia Thayer, 368 n.
—— Eliza Jones (Hersey), 351.
—— Elizabeth, 368 n.
—— Harriet (Thayer), 368 n.
—— John, father of Gov. Andrew, 351.
—— John Albion (1818–1867), Governor of Massachusetts, 141, 151, 352; Memorial address on, by Parke Godwin, cited, 354 n.
—— Hon. John Forrester, LL.B., vi, xxii; of committee to examine Treasurer’s accounts, 85; death of, 85, 141, 374; autograph and photograph of, for Society’s Album, 141; remarks on death of, by A. M. Howe, 151–152; graduate of Harvard College and Law School, 151, 351, 352; member of both branches of the Legislature, 151, 352; a delegate to the National Republican Convention, 151, 353; refuses to support James G. Blaine and severs his connection with the Republican Party, 151, 353; elected in 1884 to the State Senate by independents and Democrats, 151, 354; elected to Congress in 1888 and 1890 by Democrats, 152; his support of Civil Service Reform, 152, 361, 366, 367, 373; chairman of the Civil Service Reform Committee, 152; his services as Park Commissioner of Boston, 152, 358, 359, 371; Memoir of, communicated, 328; Memoir of, 351–374; his birth, 351; his portrait, 351; his ancestry, 351 and note; his intimacy with Moorfield Storey, 352; associate of Albert Boyd Otis, 352; his services as member of the Legislature, 352, 355; his attitude on the Independent movement, 353; interview with on same quoted, 353; President of the Young Men’s Republican and Independent Club of Boston, 354 and note; his speech in the Meionaon in 1884 quoted, 351; member of the Municipal Reform Association, 355; nominated for Governor by the Democrats, in 1886, 355; his letter of acceptance quoted, 356; declines a second nomination, 357; his election to Congress in 1888, 357; his speech in Tremout Temple in 1888 quoted, 358; a leader of the Honest Money Democrats, 359, 364, 367, 373; an interview with, on the currency question in 1891, quoted, 360; speech of 1890 against the McKinley Bill quoted, 360, 301, 302; his speech on the Ship Subsidies Bill in 1891 quoted, 363; opposes admission to the Union of the “mining-camp States,” 364; ratification of the Brussels Treaty for suppressing the slave trade on the African coast partly due to, 364; his second election to Congress, 364; opposes the Chinese Exclusion Act, 364; opposes nomination of Speaker Crisp, 305; is appointed to chairmanships of important committees by Crisp, 365; Theodore Roosevelt’s article in Scribner’s Magazine praising work of, on Civil Service Committee, quoted, 365; interview with Scott Wike on efforts of, for Civil Service, quoted, 366; votes against the Dependent and the Mexican Pension Bills. 367; the only member of Congress who made converts to Honest Money, 367; illness of, 368; death of wife, 308; his defeat for Congress in 1892, 369; his reappointment as Park Commissioner in 1894, 371; advocates placing Commonwealth Avenue under the control of the Park Commission, 371; opposes placing the Park Police under the Police Commissioners, 371; opposes invasion of local self-government, 372; introduces bill to increase the power and responsibility of mayors, 372; votes against laws prohibiting sale of intoxicating liquors, 372; opposed to labor legislation, 373; buried from First Church in Boston, 374; his affection for the town of Hingham, 374; societies, organizations, institutions, and clubs of which he was a member or an officer, 374.
—— Jonathan, 351.
—— Nancy Green (Pierce), 351.
—— Robert, 351.
Andrews, Esther, sentenced for murder, 64.
—— John, sentenced for murder, 61.
—— John, D.D., 179 and note.
—— Susanna, sentenced for murder, 64.
Andros, Sir Edmund (1637–1714), Governor of New England, 105, 115 n., 118, 132 n., 133 n.; takes forcible possession of Old South Meeting-House for celebration of Episcopal service, 1686, 43; his assumption of authority over the finances of Harvard College, 429.
Andross. See Andros.
Angell, Hon. James Burrill, LL.D., xxiii.
Annals of King’s Chapel, by H. W. Foote, cited 45 n., 388 n., 396 n.
Annapolis, Maryland, 130 n.
—— Nova Scotia, 225, 234; Castle at, Admiral Knowdes not saluted by, 234.
Anne, Queen of England, 73, 74.
—— a negress, indicted for murder and sentenced, 59.
Antigua, 225.
Antinomianism, 143.
Antinomians, information regarding, desirable, 430.
Antrim, N. H., 125.
Apollo, 346.
Apleton. See Appleton.
Appian Way, Cambridge, 203.
Appleton, Ann (1760–1796), daughter of Capt. Samuel (1726–1769), 177 n. See Storrow.
—— Major John (1622–1699), of Ipswich, Mass., 420 n.
—— Mary (Wentworth), wife of Capt. Samuel (1726–1769), 177 n. See Wentworth.
—— Priscilla (Glover), wife of Major John, 420 n., 425 n.
—— Samuel (1624–1696), of Ipswich, Mass., 469.
—— Thomas Gold (H. C. 1831), 344.
Apthorp, Charles (1698–1758), a Boston merchant, 45; signs agreement concerning Land Bank Scheme, 18; power of attorney to, to prosecute suits for libel, 219; copy of power of attorney to, in Suffolk Court Files, 236, 238; original of same, 238.
—— Rev. East (1733–1816), D.D., son of Charles, defends Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 45; first Rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, 45.
Arago, Dominique François, 479, 480.
Aramatu, Joseph, branded in the hand, 63.
Arbella, the, 322; Court of Assistants meets on board of, 1629–30, 99.
Archer, Gabriel, one of Gosnold’s people, his account of the Massachusetts coast and plants, quoted, 184, 191.
Archives (printed): of Canada, 96; of France, 95; of Great Britain, 98; of Maryland, 97; of New England, 95, 98–104, of New Jersey, 97; of New York, 97; of North Carolina, 97, 98; of Pennsylvania, 97; of Spanish America, 95. See also Archives, under Massachusetts.
Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August (1799–1875), 290, 310, 482.
Argentine Republic, 304, 483; Dr. Gould a member for, on International Committee of Weights and Measures, 486; Dr. Gould Special Representative of Free Masonry to, 487; Dr. Gould Honorary Professor of University of, 488.
Argo, 309.
Arias, Gomez, 111.
Aristocracy, The Failure to Establish an Hereditary Political Aristocracy, in the Colonies, paper by Robert N. Toppan, 407–415; political development in Virginia ceases upon the annulling of the charter in 1624 and the Proprietors lose the governing power, 408; grant of the Council for New England to the Massachusetts Company prevents growth of an hereditary governing body, 408; determination of the colonists to thwart any attempt to introduce legally privileged classes into the body politic, 409; offer of Lord Saye and Lord Brooke to settle in Massachusetts provided their rank should be recognized, 409; proposition declined, 409; Rev. John Cotton’s answer to them, 409; the establishment, in 1630, by the General Court of a Standing Council for life the result of Lord Saye’s proposal, 409; attempt of ministers in 1610 to obtain legal privileges for the clergy as a separate class defeated, 410; fear of an hereditary nobility not extinct until the Revolution, 410; students of Harvard College catalogued according to social rank till 1773, and the title “Sir” given to those preparing for degree of Master of Arts, 411; governing power of Maine conferred on Sir Ferdinando Gorges by the charter of 1639 with authority to erect manors and establish Church of England as a State Church, and to possess rights of the Bishopric of Durham, 411; causes which prevented feudal form of government in New England, 411; power of conferring honors, dignities, etc., given to Sir William Alexander by the Royal Scotch Charter of Nova Scotia in 1621 and the charter of 1625, 411; war between England and France prevents scheme of permanent settlement, 412; governing power of New Hampshire remained in the crown, 412; grantees in Patent for Providence Plantations and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations all commoners, 412; grantees in the Royal Charter to Connecticut all commoners, 412; government of New York committed to Duke of York in 1664, 412; after accession of James II., Grimstead, Livingston, Morrisania, Van Cortlandt, and St. George’s Manors erected, 412; not enough owners of manors to form a political body, 412; proprietors of New East Jersey held the governing power, 413; New West Jersey governed by representatives chosen by the inhabitants, 413; both surrender to the Crown in 1702, 413; Pennsylvania committed to William Penn in 1681, he and his heirs proprietaries with the privilege of erecting manors, 413; grant of Maryland to Lord Baltimore by charter of 1632, creates a feudal state, and rights of Bishopric of Durham conferred, 413; power to create manors, 413; causes which defeated the design of founding a territorial aristocracy, 413, 414; Lords Proprietors of Carolina by grant of 1663 possess rights of Bishopric of Durham and authority to erect manors, 414; by charter of 1665 power to create baronies given, 414; Fundamental Constitutions of 1669, 414; Trustees of Georgia appointed by charter of 1732 all commoners except Viscount Perceval, 414; surrender their rights in 1752, 414; no political organized body to act as a barrier between the people and the Crown during the events which led up to the Revolution, 415.
Aristotle, 292.
Arizona, 433.
Arnold, Dr. Jonathan (1741–1793), 137.
Arnold Arboretum, Boston Park System, additional land for the extension of, acquired by agreement with Harvard College, 371.
Art, 340; addresses upon, by Martin Brimmer, quoted, 341, 342.
Art Museum, Boston. See Museum of Fine Arts.
Articles of Confederation, 1778, N. H., 122.
Artillery Garden, London, 157.
Arundell, Ann (c. 1617–1649), wife of Lord Baltimore. 332.
—— Clare. See Weld.
—— Thomas (1560–1639), Baron Arundell of Wardour, 332.
—— family, 331.
—— Manor of, Maryland, 413 n.
Askelon (Ascalon), Syria, 165.
Ash Street, Cambridge, 459.
Assassination Plot. See William III.
Assembly. See General Court, under Massachusetts.
Assistants, Court of. See Massachusetts.
Associated Factory Mutual Insurance Companies, the, of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, efforts of, 69; standard plans of, submitted to Society, 69.
Association Test, N. H., names of signers, 122.
Astronomical Journal, The, established, 1849, by Dr. Gould. 481, 485.
Astronomical Observatory, Argentine Republic, Dr. Gould director of, 488.
Astronomische Gesellschaft, Leipsic, Germany, 488.
Atheists, papers relating to prosecutions of, in Suffolk Court Files, 323. Athelstan, 331.
Athenaeum. See Boston Athenæum.
Atherton, Major-Gen. Humphrey (d. 1661), 105.
Atkins, Dudley (1731–1767), 175.
—— Francis Higginson, his Joseph Atkins, The History of a Family, cited, 175 n.
—— Gibbs, 390.
—— Ruth. See Gay.
—— Sarah, wife of Thomas, 390, 393.
—— Sarah (Kent), wife of Dudley, 174, 175, 179 and note.
—— Thomas, father of Mrs. Ruth (Atkins) Gay, 390, 393; death of, 382.
—— Timothy, 382, 390, 393–395, 397 and note.
Atkinson, Edward, President of the Boston Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 69.
—— Col. Theodore, Secretary of the Province of New Hampshire, 119, 121, 125, 128, 259.
Atkinson, N. H., 125.
—— North, Map of, 110.
Attorney-General of Massachusetts (John Overing), 34.
Attorney- and Solicitor-General of the King. See Willes, Sir John.
Atwater, Joshua, 89.
Auchmuty, Robert, 48, 230, 260 n., 261 n.; a Director of the Manufactory Company, 33 n., 46.
—— Samuel, D.D., 48.
Austin. Hon. James Walker, A.M., v, xxii, 339; death of, 141; autograph of, for Society’s Album, 141; tribute to memory of, by H. H. Edes, 150; practises law in the Hawaiian Islands, 150; his places of trust there, 150; appointed guardian of Prince Lunalillo, 150; Memoir of, to be written by H. H. Edes, 274.
Avery, John, Secretary of the Commonwealth, 212.
Avezac-Macava, Marie Armand Pascal d’ (1799–1875), 110, 111.
Aviles, Pedro Menendez de, 111.
Awassamoag, John, 115.
—— Thomas, 115.
Aylesbury, William, Secretary to Major-General Robert Sedgwick, 170, 171.
Ayllou, Lucas Vasquez de, 111.
B, burglars branded with letter, 57, 65.
Bauson, Robert Tillinohast, LL.B., xxiii.
Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 268.
—— Richard, 268.
—— Sally (Franklin), 268, 270.
Back Bay Fens, Boston Park System, 358, 359.
Back Street, Boston, 398 n.
Backus, Rev. Isaac, his History the Baptists in New England, cited, 425 n.
Bacon, Edwin Munroe, 447; his Supplement to the Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, mentioned, 211; a copy presented to Society by A. C. Goodell, Jr., 243.
—— Francis, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans (1561–1626), his Essay, Of Nobility, quoted, 81.
Badger, Joseph, 131.
Badges of ignominy, 57.
Bagg, Lyman Hotchkiss, his Four Years at Yale, mentioned, 433.
Bahama Island. See Cyguatea.
Baker, Ephraim, 18 n.
Balch, Francis Vergnies, LL.B., xxii; deceased, xxiv.
Baldwin, Col. Nahum, 127.
—— Richard, 105.
—— Hon. Simeon Eben, LL.D., xxiii.
Ball, Joshua Dorsey. See Brooks, Ball, and Storey.
—— Capt. Robert (d. 1774), a Boston pilot, and keeper of the Light on Beacon Island, 231, 233 and note.
Ballard, Joseph, deposition of, 232, 236.
Balines, Hackney or Hoxton, Middlesex, England, 332.
Baltimore, Cecil or Cecilius Calvert (1606–1675), Baron Baltimore of, 332; grant of Maryland to him and his heirs in 1632, 413; granted rights of Bishopric of Durham, 413; a territorial aristocracy defeated by disputes between the King and, 413.
Baltimore, Lady, Manor of, tracts of land mentioned in the Maryland Archives, 413 n.
Bancroft, George (1800–1891), LL.D., 309; his History of the United States quoted, 199; cited, 213 n.
—— John Milton. See Barlow Surveys.
Bancs, Edward Appleton, A.B., xxiii; elected Resident Member, 405.
Bank of Credit, establishment of, in opposition to Bank of Issue recommended by committee of General Court, in 1700, 5.
Bank of Issue, organization of one attempted in 1680, 4; abandoned in 1688, 4; same causes for, considered in 1700, 5; another proposed in 1739 by John Head, 9.
Baptist Church, First, Boston, 425.
Baptists, the, neutral in 1774, 42; increasing influence of, dreaded by the Colonists, 417; History of, in New England by Rev. Isaac Backus, cited, 425 n.; information regarding, desirable, 430.
Bar Association, Suffolk, George O. Shattuck President of, 406.
Barbara, Benjamin Franklin’s handmaid, 270 and note.
Barclay Street, New York, 436.
Barker,——, Mr., 1742, 155.
—— Hon. James Madison, LL.D., xxii. Barlow (Samuel Latham Mitchell) Copy of early records of Court of Assistants in Boston Public Library, 56, 114; quoted, 58, 61; account of, in W. II. Whitmore’s Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts Colony, etc., 56 n.; opinion of W. P. Upham that it is a copy from Records of Increase Nowell, Secretary of the Colony, 101.
Barlow Surveys (published by Nelson Barlow, Charles Alpheus Barlow, and John Milton Bancroft, New York, N. Y.), specimens of insurance surveys known as the, submitted to Society by A. McF. Davis, 69.
Barnard, James, Jr., deposition of, 231, 232, 230.
Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 332.
—— Vt., 135.
Barnstable, Mass., 116; Gorham papers found in, 243; now in Library of Harvard College, 430; Jonathan Russell minister at, 454.
Barnstead, N. H., 125.
Baronies, in Carolina, 414.
Barratt. See Barrett.
Barrell, Walter, his List of inhabitants of Boston who, on the evacuation by the British in March, 1776, removed to Halifax with the army, cited, 388 and note.
Barrett, Samuel, of committee to sell Estates of Conspirators and Absentees, 394, 395.
—— William, 452.
Barrington, N. H., 125.
Barron, Capt. William, 125.
Bartlett, John, A.M., xxiii.
—— John Russell, Secretary of the State of Rhode Island, 132.
—— Robert, Tutor at Harvard College, 1839–1843, 78.
Bartlett, N. H., 125.
Barton, Gen. William, 138.
Basto, a negro slave, sentenced for rape, 61.
Batchellor, Albert Stillman, 129.
Bates, Samuel, information given by, concerning Land Rank, 23, 24.
Batterymarch Street, Boston, 140, 272.
Baxter, Hon. James Phinney, A.M., xxiii; Trelawny Papers edited by, 112; his Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his Province of Maine (in Prince Society’s Publications), cited, 411 n.
—— John, 469.
Baxter Papers, mentioned, 99; edited by James P. Baxter, 113.
Bay Psalm Book, The, an improved edition of, brought out by Henry Dunster in 1650, 417, 430.
Bayard (William, Jr.) and Wife (née Elizabeth Cornell) v. Singleton (Spyers), 247 n.
Baylies, Walter Cabot. A.B., xxii. Beacon Street. Boston, 344, 400.
Beal, Lieut. Benjamin, extracts from journal of, read by F. H. Lincoln, 85, 86.
Beamis, Ephraim, sentenced for trepanning, etc., 59.
Beard, Alanson Wilder, 357.
Beatty, Charles Clinton, his article in J. F. Hageman’s History of Princeton and its Institutions, cited, 434 n.
Beck Hall, Cambridge. 451.
Bedel, Col. Timothy, 127, 128.
Bedford, N. H., 125.
—— Street, Boston, 478 n.
Bedfordshire, England, 156, 160 n.
Beers, Henry Augustin, his Ways of Yale, cited, 433 and note.
Behaim, Martin, 110.
Belcher, Elizabeth, of Cambridge, 456 n.
—— Jonathan (1682–1757), Governor of Massachusetts, 10, 12, 21, 31, 119–121, 120, 128, 241, 260, 201 n.; issues proclamations concerning Land Bank and Silver Scheme, 15, 17, 19; recommends that inquiry be made into, during recess of General Court, 17; acknowledges zeal of Council in efforts to suppress, and condemns the House of Representatives for countenancing it, 22; warned that resistance will be made to attempt to suppress, 23; appoints committee to investigate rumors of a confederacy in several towns concerning, 24; disapproves of Samuel Watts for Speaker of the House and approves of William Fairfield, 25; disapproves of John Choate for Speaker, 25; attitude of, in the suit of Frost v. Leighton, 252, 253, 255–259.
Belcher Papers, quoted and cited, 253 n.
Belkuap, Jeremy (1744–1798), D.D., 124, 135.
Belknap Papers, 129 n.
Bell, Daniel, 155.
—— Samuel Dana, LL.D., 117.
Bellevue Hill, West Roxbury, 371.
Bellomout, Richard Coote (1636–1701), Earl of, Governor of Massachusetts, 118, 133 n.; scandalous words against, by Francis Dormer, 65.
Bellows, Benjamin, 131.
Bemis. See Beamis.
Benefit of Clergy, prayed for, 63, 64.
—— of the Statute of Jacobi in favor of women committing small felonies, praved for, 64.
Bennington, N. H., 127.
—— Vt., 135; Catamount Tavern, 135.
Bent, Peter, fined, 62.
Benton, X. H., 125.
Berkeley, Sir John (1607–1678), Baron Berkeley of Stratton, New Jersey ceded to, 413.
Berlin, Germany, 480, 481, 488.
Bernard, Sir Francis (c. 1712–1779), Governor of Massachusetts, 121, 126.
Berwick, Me., 250.
—— the Caroline Farm, 250.
Bestiality, trials for, 58, 61.
Bethlehem, N. H., 125.
—— Witch Wood, 344.
Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts Colony, by W. H. Whitmore, cited, 56 n., mentioned, 100, 103.
Bibliography of the Historical Publications of the New England States with an Introduction, paper by A. P. C. Griffin, 95–139; mentioned, 144.
Bigelow, John, his Autobiography and Complete Works of Franklin, mentioned, 268 and note.
Bill of Rights, New Hampshire, 123.
Billerica Historical Society, The, incorporation, etc., its purposes, 473.
Bills of Public Credit, 40; issued by the Colony in 1690, 5; first emission by the Province, 1702, 5; methods of redemption, 5; each bill a certificate, 6; loans made by the Province, 7; premium allowed by the Province on bills when received for taxes, 7; old tenor, new tenor, middle tenor, 8 and note, 9 and note; first and second new tenor, 9 n.; neighboring colonies restrained from circulating, by Act of 1738, 9; bills of Connecticut, 100; of New Hampshire, 128; of Rhode Island, 133 n.; of Vermont, 136.
Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, by Lorenzo Sabine, mentioned, 209.
Biot, Jean Baptiste (1774–1862), 479.
Birch, Thomas (1705–1760), F.R.S., his edition of John Thurloe’s State Papers, quoted, 161, 165–172; cited, 163 n., 164 n., 424 n.
Bird, James, 469.
Bishop of London (Edmund Gibson), 44.
Black, George Nixon, xxiii.
Black Point (Scarborough), Me., 113 n.
Black Prince, the, 250 n.
Blackledge, Nathaniel, fined, 65.
Blackmailing letter to Gov. Shirley, submitted by A. McF. Davis, with remarks thereon, 207–210.
Blackwell, John, his letter in Massachusetts Archives, 1688, cited, 4 n.
Blaine, James Gillespie, John F. Andrew refuses to support him for the presidency, 151, 353, and quotes from speech of, 361; Darwin E. Ware refuses to support, 444.
Blanchard, Jonathan, 131.
—— Joseph, dismissed from office of Justice of the Peace, 1740, 20.
—— Col. Joseph, 121.
Bland (Richard Parks) Act, or Silver Bill, 355, 370.
Blasphemy, trials for, 60, 63.
Blatchford (John Samuel), Phillips (Capt. William Henry) v., 38 n.
Blathwayt, William, 115.
Bloody Point (Newington), N. H., 117, 119.
Blue Laws of Connecticut, 157.
Blue Point (Scarborough), Me., 113 n.
Board of Trade. See Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations.
Board of War, Vt., Records of, 135.
Bodies of Laws, Massachusetts, 95.
Body of Liberties, Massachusetts, 53, 54; long list of capital crimes in, 55; the twelve capital laws of the Connecticut Colony taken from, 157.
Bollan, William (d. 1770), attorney for Leighton in Frost v. Leighton, 254–256, 259, 260, 262, 263.
Bolton’, Charles Ksowles, A.B., xxiii; Treasurer of the Brookline Historical Publication Society, 244; his What a Small Town may do for Itself, cited, 245.
Bonn, Germany, 311.
Bonython, Richard, 113 n.
Borrajo, Edward Marto, of the Guild Hall Library, London, 250 n.; his courtesy to A. McF. Davis acknowledged, 93 n., 249 n.
Boston, Mass., 2 n., 4 n., 6 and note, 9, 10 n., 11, 13 n., 14 n., 30, 32, 38 n., 45, 46, 48, 50, 55, 56 n., 60, 63, 65, 66, 68, 71, 73, 75, 76, 83, 100, 114–116 and note, 117, 128 n., 129, 140, 148–151, 154–156 and note, 157, 160, 163, 174, 176, 179, 197–201, 205, 212, 213, 217, 218, 220–225, 227–229, 232 and note, 233, 235, 230, 239, 250, 260 n., 264, 269 and note, 271–273, 276, 277, 284, 280, 299, 315, 323, 325, 326, 330–333, 336–338, 310, 343–345, 347, 348 and note, 349, 351, 352, 358, 368 n., 374, 379, 380 and note, 382, 385–390, 393 n., 391 and note, 395, 397, 398 and note, 400, 402, 405, 406, 415 and note, 419 n., 424 n., 458 n., 459 and note, 404, 409, 470, 471, 476, 487; town meeting in, in 1715, to decide whether it will favor a public or a private bank. 7; merchants in, form the Silver Scheme. 14; they subscribe the articles of, 15; they petition the General Court against Land Bank, 16; good results of the petition, 22; five thousand men to arrive in. to demand information regarding Land Bank money, 23; rumors of storage of corn in, 24; merchants of, payees in the Land flank mortgages, 33; Episcopacy in, identified mostly with Loyalists, 42; first Episcopal church founded in, in 1686, 43; Episcopal missionaries settle in, 44; courts to be kept at, 52; Bromley Maps of, 70; trial of Quelch and others in, 71; they are marched in chains to, 77; Leverett Saltonstall collector of the Port of, 79, 82; Gov. Winthrop’s house in, located, 86, 87, 88, 144; Richard Hutchinson’s large interests in, 89; John F. Andrew Park Commissioner of, 152, 371; Commissioners in, determine to annex Acadia, 162; petition of inhabitants to selectmen of, 215; exercise of impressment questioned by, 216; Admiral Knowles’s offer to send coal to, 219; Washington’s visit to, 210; letters concerning Siege of, 243; investments of Society in mortgages on real estate in, 270; charter of, revised, 356; Board of Aldermen, orders arrangement of Suffolk Court Files, 319; names of taverns, streets and lanes in, in Suffolk Court Files, 323.
—— Algonquin Club, 374.
—— American Academy of Arts and Sciences. See above.
—— Ames Building, 410.
—— Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. See above.
—— Arnold Arboretum, 371.
—— Associated Board of Trade, 305.
—— Associated Charities of, 444.
—— Athenæum, Martin Brimmer a trustee of, 339.
—— Back Street, 398 n.
—— Bar Association. 406.
—— Batterymarch Street, 140, 272.
—— Bay, 371.
—— Beacon Island and Light. See Ball, Robert.
—— Bedford Street, 478 n.
—— Bellevue Hill, or Mt. Bellevue, West Roxbury, 371.
—— Brattle Square Church. 176 n.
—— Bunch of Grapes (tavern), 89.
—— Bussey Hill, 371.
—— Castle Island, 159, 234, 359.
—— Castle William, 159, 214, 215, 217, 220, 232–231.
—— Central Wharf, 330.
—— Chamber of Commerce, 370.
—— Chauncy Hall School, 348, 478.
—— Chauncy Place, 348 n.
—— Children’s Mission to the Children of the Destitute, 336.
—— Christ Church, 44.
—— City Hospital, 197, 205, 349.
—— Collateral Loan Company, 335.
—— Columbian Centinel, The, 386 n., 470 n.
—— Committee of Correspondence, 393 n.
—— Common, duel attempted on, 1742, 154, 155.
—— Commonwealth Avenue, 329, 336, 371, 374.
—— Concert Hall, 385.
—— Congregational Building (new), Beacon Street, 400.
—— Conveyaucers Title Insurance Company, 148, 276.
—— Coöperative Building Association, Martin Brimmer president of, 339.
—— Copp’s Hill, 71.
—— County Prison, 338.
—— Court House, Old, King Street, 206.
—— Court House, Old, Court Square, 319, 327.
—— Court House (new), Pemberton Square, 49, 207.
—— Court Street, 416.
—— Devonshire Street, 471.
—— Directory of 1796, 398 n.
—— Edwards’s Wharf, Back Street, 398 n.
—— Emigrant Aid Society, 339.
—— Evening Post, The, cited, 213 n.; mentioned, 218, 219, 233 n.
—— Evening Transcript, quoted, 336.
—— Exchange Building, 90, 144.
—— Exchange Tavern, 11.
—— Faneuil Hall, 440.
—— Farm School, Thompson’s Island Boston Harbor, 339.
—— Fire: threats, in 1749, to burn Gov. Shirley’s country-house, 207, 208, 210; to burn property of one of Governor’s Council, 208, 209; to burn the Province House, 210; in 1783, to burn Long Wharf, 211.
—— Fire of 1711, 206.
—— Fire of 1872, 333.
—— First Baptist Church, 425.
—— First Church, 348 n., 374; land for a new Meeting-house offered to, in 1639, 87.
—— Fort Independence, 159.
—— Franklin Medal, 478.
—— Franklin Place, 348.
—— Friend Street, 391 n.
—— Gallows Bay (later, Roxbury Bay or Harbor and South Bay), 233.
—— Gazette or Weekly Journal, cited, 213 n.
—— Granary Burial Ground, 400.
—— Green Dragon Tavern, 222, 229, 387.
—— Hanover Street, 391 n.
—— Harbor Islands, 371; buildings on, burned in 1775, 382.
—— Harvard Bridge, 285.
—— Herald, quotes President Eliot’s speech in 1885, 299; interview with Scott Wike, quoted in, 366 n.
—— Hereford Street, 374.
—— History and Antiquities of, by Samuel G. Drake, cited, 222 n.
—— Home for Aged Colored Women, 336, 374.
—— Home Market Club, 362.
—— Huguenot Congregation, 200.
—— Independent Chronicle, The, 470 n.
—— Jamaica Pond, 359.
—— John A. Andrew Post, G. A. R., 367, 374.
—— Kindergarten for the Blind, 336.
—— King Road, Boston Harbor (now President Roads), 232.
—— King’s Chapel, 43, 44, 174, 240, 387.
—— Kingston Street, 478 n.
—— Knowles Riot, the, 213, 214.
—— Latin School, 298, 299, 303, 348, 477, 478 and note.
—— Latin School Association, 299, 479.
—— Leverett Street, 329.
—— Light House, Boston Harbor, burned, 1775, 382.
—— Lynde Street, 385.
—— Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 69.
—— Marine Park, 359.
—— Marshall Street, 391 n.
—— Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 314, 315, 316, 340.
—— Medical and Surgical Journal, 319.
—— Medical Library Association, 205, 349.
—— Meeting-house, first, 471.
—— Meionaon, The, Tremont Temple, 354.
—— Memorial History of, mentioned, 71, 198; quoted, 87; cited, 157, 213 n., 222 n.
—— Merchants’ Association, 362.
—— Metropolitan Park Commission, 371.
—— Metropolitan Parks, 371.
—— Military Companies in, 1676, 63.
—— Municipal Reform Association, 355.
—— Museum of Fine Arts, 310, 345.
—— Nantasket Roads, Boston Harbor, 214, 231, 232, 234.
—— New, 385.
—— New England Courant, 222.
—— New England Historic Genealogical Society, 227, 281, 302, 330, 374.
—— New England Tariff Reform League, 374.
—— New South Meeting-house, 266.
—— North End, 232.
—— Old Corner Book-store, 156 n.
—— Old South Church parsonage, 87.
—— Old South Meeting-house, 43, 265, 318.
—— Old South Society, 264.
—— Park Commissioners, 152.
—— Pawners’ Bank, 335.
—— Perkins Institution for the Blind, 339.
—— Peter’s Hill, West Roxbury, 371.
—— Phillips Grammar School, 351.
—— Phillips School Association, 374.
—— Pickering, Henry White, his School, 478.
—— Pitts Street Chapel, 334.
—— Post, Darwin E. Ware one of the leading writers on the, 447.
—— Prescott Insurance Company, 333.
—— President Roads. See above, King Road.
—— Prince Society. See below.
—— Provident Association, 339.
—— Province House, 210.
—— Public Library, 56, 67, 100, 103; West End Branch of, 386 n.
—— Quarter Sessions, 52.
—— Queen Street, 218 n.
—— Record Commissioners, Reports of, cited, 7 n., 156 n., 233 n.; mentioned, 386.
—— Roxbury Latin School, 479, 488.
—— Royal Chapel, 43.
—— St. Andrew, Lodge of, 307.
—— St. Botolph Club, 303, 374.
—— Saturday Evening Gazette, 399 n.
—— Scarlet’s Wharf, 72.
—— School Street, 87, 156 n., 200, 337.
—— Second National Bank, 336.
—— Sears Building, 209 n.
—— Ship Tavern, 160.
—— Sign of the Lamb, 18 n.
—— Social Law Library, 174.
—— Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 374.
—— Somerset Club, 374.
—— Spring Lane, 87.
—— Star Tavern, 77 and note.
—— State House, 49.
—— State Street, 87, 88, 89, 144, 471.
—— Stony Brook Reservation, 371.
—— Suffolk Bar Association, 406.
—— Summer Street, 200.
—— Tariff Reform Association, 356.
—— Tariff Reform League, 444.
—— the ship, 237.
—— Third National Bank, 148, 277.
—— Thursday Evening Club, 289.
—— Topographical and Historical Description of, by N. B. Shurtleff, cited, 222 n.
—— Town Records, mentioned, 210, 386.
—— Trinity Church, 232 n., 316; old, 200, 266.
—— Union Club, 374.
—— Union Street, 384, 386 n., 391 and note, 392, 394 and note, 395–399.
—— Unitarian Club, 486.
—— University, 433.
—— Washington Street, 87, 156 n., 416.
—— Weekly News-Letter, quoted, 5 n., 18 n., 19 n., 25, 74, 217; cited, 23 n., 26 n., 213 n.; mentioned. 72, 218.
—— Weekly Post Boy, cited, 213 n.; mentioned, 217, 219.
—— West Church, 45, 385, 380 and note, 388, 390, 394.
—— Whipping Post, 65.
—— Whitney, Susan, her School, 348.
—— Winter Street, 394 n.
—— Winthrop Place, 286, 470, 478.
—— Young Men’s Democratic Club, 374.
—— Young Men’s Republican and Independent Club, 354 and note.
—— See Bunker Hill, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, South Boston.
Boswell, Sir William (d. 1649), 104
Boucher, Joseph. See Niverville.
Boucher family, 378.
Boueherville, Canada, 378.
Boucherville, Mr. See Grosbois; La Broquerie.
Boundary: Connecticut, 106; Connecticut and Massachusetts, 105; Mew Hampshire, 122, 123 n., 125 n., 129; New Hampshire and Massachusetts, 119 and noie, 120 and note, 121, 126, 128, 129; New Hampshire and Maine, 121; New Hampshire and Vermont, 121, 138; New York and New Hampshire, 121, 125; New York and Vermont, 138; Pennsylvania and Maryland, 97; Rhode Island, 105.
Bouquet, Gen. Henry, 96.
Bourinot, Sir John George, D.C.L., Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society of Canada, vi, 377; correspondence between H. H. Edes and, 378.
Boutineau, James, 33 n.
Bouton, Nathaniel, D.D., edits New Hampshire Records, 98, 117.
—— Street, Cambridge, 454.
Bowditch, Charles Pickering, A.M., xxii; helps defray cost of repairing Dunster’s tomb, 416 n.
Bowdoin, James, 33 n.
—— family, 200.
Bowdoin College, Manin Brimmer delivers an address at, 341, 342; his addresses at, mentioned, 345; John A. Andrew a graduate of, 351.
Bowers, Benanuel, named an Overseer in Dunster’s will, 425.
Boxford, Suffolk, England, 351.
—— Mass., 351.
Boylston, Rebecca, letter from, published by the Brookline Historical Publication Society, 245.
Boylston Hall, Harvard College, 454.
Brackett, Joshua, 131.
Braddock, Gen. Edward (1695–1755), 210.
Bradford, Alden (1765–1843), LL.D., his Massachusetts State Papers, cited, 38 n.
—— Hannah (Rogers), 390 and note, 391.
—— William (1589–1657), Governor of Plymouth Colony, 115 n.; gift to Society of fac-simile of his History of Plymouth Plantation, 282.
Bradford, N. H., 125.
Bradley, Stephen Row, 135.
Bradstreet, Simon (1603–1697), Governor of Massachusetts, 448, 469; correspondence of, in Suffolk Court Files, 323; an Overseer of Harvard College, 461; called The Nestor of New England, 470.
Braintree, Mass., 45, 459; Episcopal missionaries settle in, 44.
Brandywine, Battle of, 128.
Branford, Conn. See Totoket.
Brattle, Rev. William (1662–1716), F.R.S., Resident Fellow of Harvard College, 449.
Brattle Square Church. Boston, records of, cited, 176 n.
—— Street, Cambridge, 459.
Brattleborough, Vt., 177 n.
Bray, Rev Thomas (1656–1730), inspects Episcopal churches in Maryland, in 1700, 44; Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts the outcome of his mission, 44.
Brenton, William. Governor of Rhode Island, 89.
Brentwood, N. H., 125.
Brereton, John, on the Elizabeth Islands, in his account of Gosnold’s voyage in 1602, quoted, 184, 187.
Brett, Maurice, sentenced for adultery, 59; fined, whipped, etc., for contempt of sentence, 60.
Brewer, Col. Jonathan, papers concerning his Rangers in Suffolk Court Files, 323.
Brewster, Frank, A.M., xxii; of the nominating committee, 438.
Brick, Eleazar, sentenced for piracy, 62.
Bridewell, Cambridge, 456 n.
Bridger, John, Survevor-General, 118, 119.
Bridges, Capt. Robert, records of first meeting of Deputies to General Court kept by, 101.
Bridgewater, Mass., 24, 116, 245.
—— Historical Society, The Old, organization of, its purpose, 245.
—— N. H., 125.
Bridgewater, Manor of, mentioned in Maryland Archives, 413 n.
Bridport, Dorsetshire, England, 330.
Brigham, Jonathan, 469.
Brighton Street, Cambridge, 451.
Brimmer, George Watson, designs the First Parish Church in Plymouth, 199; designs Old Trinity Church, Summer Street, Boston, 200.
—— Harriet (Wadsworth), 337.
—— Hermann, 337.
—— Martin, of Osten, Germany, son of Hermann, 337, 347.
Brimmer, Martin, of Roxbury, a German Protestant from Hanover, second son of Martin of Osten, 198, 337, 317; his business interests in Plymouth and Freetown, 199; a member of the Huguenot Congregation in Boston, 200; described as a Walloon, 200; immigrated in 1723, 200; petitions for naturalization, 1730, 241, 242.
—— Martin, of Boston (H. C. 1814), son of Martin of Roxbury, 337; merchant of Boston, 338; mayor of Boston in 1843 and 1844, 338; his Address to the City Council in both years, quoted, 338, 339.
—— Hon. Martin, A.B., of Boston (H.C. 1849), son of Martin the Mayor, v, vi, xxii, 150; death of, 180, 190, 317; remarks on death of, by G. S. Hale, 198; by W. W. Goodwin, 198, 199; by A. C. Goodell, Jr., 200; by Henry E. Woods, 201 and note; his ancestry, 198, 199, 201, 337; family extinct by death of, 200; eligible to membership of this Society through the Sigourney family, 201; Memoir of, to be written by G. S. Hale, 274; communicated, 328; Memoir of, 337–347; his birth, 337; his portrait, 337; his intimacy with his tutor, Francis E. Parker, 339; attends lectures at the Sorbonne, 339; a Trustee of the Boston Athenæum, 339; visits Kansas with a Director of the Emigrant Aid Society, 339; Trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital, 339; Director of the Farm School, 339; Trustee of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, 339; Director of the Provident Association, 339; President of the Boston Cöoperative Building Association, 339; member of both branches of the Legislature, 339; Presidential Elector for Rutherford B. Hayes, 339; the leading founder and a Trustee of the Art Museum, 340; an Overseer and Fellow of Harvard College, 310, 341; his Address at Wellesley College, at the opening of the Farnsworth Art School, quoted, 341, 342; his Address at Bowdoin College, at the opening of the Walker Art School, quoted, 342; his sketch of the History of the Religion and Art of Ancient Egypt quoted, 313; his appreciation of music. 314; his influence in Boston, 345; his belief in Civil Service Reform, 345; meets with an accident, 346; funeral at Trinity Church, 346.
—— Susannah (Sigourney), 337.
—— family, distinguished in Boston for four generations, 200.
Briscoe, Wastel, Secretary of the Island of Jamaica, 236.
Bristol, England, 110.
—— County, Mass., 48, 254, 390 and note.
Bristol County Convention, 1774, publication of records of, shows motives which led to the Provincial Congress, 144.
British, Governor Winthrop’s house in Boston, torn down by the, 87.
British Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Gould’s admiration for meetings and proceedings of, 288, 479; a disquisition on, assigned to Dr. Gould, 300.
—— Dependencies in America, conditions of, 222.
—— North America, 225.
—— Ordnance Maps, 90.
Brittaine, James, sentenced for adultery, 61.
Broad Street, London, 93.
Brockton, Mass., 68.
Bromfield, Edward, 409. See Brumfield.
Bromley (George Washington and Walter Scott) Maps of Boston, submitted to Society for inspection by H. H. Edes, 70.
Brooke, Robert Greville (1608–1643), Baron, offer made by, to settle in Massachusetts provided there should be two distinct ranks created, 409.
Brookfield, Mass., part of Quaboag District, 472.
Brookline, Mass., 70, 202, 336.
—— Country Club, 374.
—— Historical Publication Society, organization and objects of, 244, 245; Brookline in the Revolution, published by, 245.
—— Public Library, 244.
—— N. H., 125.
Brooks, Rt.-Rev. Phillips, D.D., 346.
Brooks (Benjamin Franklin), Ball (Joshua Dorsey), and Storey (Moorfield), office of, 352.
Brooinfield. See Bromfield.
Broquerie. See La Broquerie.
Broughton, Thomas, 89.
Brown, Alexander, his Genesis of the United States, mentioned, 95.
Brown, Francis Henry, M.D., helps to defray cost of repairing the Dunstertomb, 416 n.
—— John Carter, Collection, The, 132 n., 133 n.
—— Jonathan, 392.
—— Samuel, deposition of, 239.
Browne, William Hand, edits Maryland State Papers, 97.
Brumfield, William, sentenced for stealing, etc., 57. See Bromfield.
Brussels Treaty, first made public, 364.
Bryan, Darby, sentenced, 59.
Bryent, Walter, journal of, 121, 129.
Brymner, Douglas, archivist of Canada, 96.
Bubble Act of 1720, House of Commons, in 1741, passes bill to extend it to America, 22; purpose of, 26; Land Bank not within scope of, 28; application of to America absurd, 29; its effect in America, 39 n.
Buckingham, Joseph Tinker, his Letter in The Saturday Evening Gazette of 21 May, 1859, referred to, 399 n.
Bucknam, Sarah, sentenced for adultery, 59.
Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, 484.
Bulkeley, Gershom, his Will and Doom or the Miseries of Connecticut mentioned, 105 n.
Bull Run, Va., the defeat at, mentioned, 345.
Bunch of Grapes Tavern, Boston, 89.
Bunker Hill, Battle of, 121, 127; Seen by Martin Gay, 379, 389; to preserve mementos and facts of, an object of the Bunker Hill Historical Society 472. See Charlestown Heights.
Bunker Hill Historical Society, The, organization of, its objects, 472.
Bunker Hill Monument Association, 297; Dr. Gould Vice-President of, 302, 486; oldest member of, 303.
Bunker Hill National Bank, Charlestown, 156.
Bureau des Longitudes, Paris, 488.
—— of Marine and Colonies, Paris, 113 n.
—— of Statistics in the Treasury Department, Gen. Walker Chief of, 314, 315.
Burglary, branding for crime of, 57, 65; trial for, 57.
Burleigh, John, removed from office of Justice of the Peace, 20.
Burley, Andrew, 21.
Burlington, N. J., 268.
—— Vt., 138.
Burnet, William (1688–1729), Governor of Massachusetts, 119.
Burning, sentence of, imposed, 1681, 61.
Burton, Lieut. Jonathan, diaries of, 127.
Bussey Hill, Arnold Arboretum, 371.
Butler, Edward, 164.
—— Ezra, Governor of Vermont, 138.
—— Sigourney, LL.B., xxii; deceased, xxiv.
Butler Asylum for the Insane, Providence, R. I., endowed by W. G. Weld, 336.
Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., 184.
Byfield, Nathaniel (c. 1653–1733), Judge of the Admiralty, appointed on Commission of Inquiry, 1704, 76.
Byfield (Newbury), Mass., 176.
Cabot, Arthur Tracey, M.D., 407.
—— Louis, A.B., xxiii; elected a Resident Member, 475.
—— Sebastian (c. 1474–c. 1557), 110, 111.
—— Susan (Shattuck), 407.
Cæsar, a negro, attempts to fight a duel with Tom, a negro, 155.
Caguay or Port Royal Point, Jamaica, fortification at, 172.
Caldwell, Rev. Jacob, master of Framingham Academy, 478.
Calendar of Land Bank papers in Massachusetts Archives and Suffolk Court Files, 2 n.
Calendars of English State Papers, mentioned, 95.
—— of New York Historical Manuscripts, mentioned, 97.
Calfe, John, 131.
Cambridge, England, John Harvard and Henry Dunster, graduates of University of, 416.
—— Emmanuel College, 416.
—— Magdalen College, 416.
—— St. Peter’s College, 423.
Cambridge, Mass., 45, 68, 78, 79, 84, 112, 160, 175–177, 246 n., 284–286, 296, 300 n., 370, 383, 389, 399, 402, 405, 415, 417, 418, 420, 421 n., 425, 436, 441, 442, 449, 451, 453–455, 456 n., 157 n., 459, 460, 464–466, 409, 470, 480, 481, 483, 480; Episcopal missionaries settle in. 44; included in the Bromley Maps, 70; investments of this Society in, 118, 270; History of, by Lucius R. Paige, cited, 416 n., 418 n., 419 n., 451 n., 452 n., 453 n., 459 n., 460 n.; The Proprietors’ Records of, cited, 454 n.
—— Appian Way, 203.
—— Ash Street, 459.
—— How Street, 454.
—— Brattle Street, 459.
—— Bridewell, 456 n.
—— Brighton Street, 451.
—— Cemetery, Henry Dunster buried in, 416 and note.
—— Christ Church, 45.
—— Clover Hen, Pollen Street, 284.
—— Dunster Street, 454.
—— First Church and Parish of, 416 n., 451, 486; records of, cited, 176 n.
—— Follen Street, 284.
—— Garden Street, 459.
—— Goffe Homestead, 451.
—— Gookin (Daniel) Homestead, 454 and note.
—— Harvard Bridge, 285.
—— Holyoke Place, 420 n.
—— Holyoke Street, 420 n., 454.
—— Massachusetts Avenue, 454.
—— Mt. Auburn Street, 451.
—— Shepard (Major Samuel) Homestead, 454.
—— Shepard (Rev. Thomas) Homestead, 454.
—— Smith Street, 454.
—— South Street, 454.
—— Sparks Street, 459.
—— The Marshal’s Orchard, 454.
—— University Press, 148, 276.
—— Village (Newton), 418 n., 459. See Newton.
—— Winthrop Street, 451.
—— See also Harvard College; Newtown.
Cambridge Platform, Congregational Order denned by, in 1648, and it becomes the ecclesiastical constitution of Massachusetts, 43.
Cambridgeshire, England, 156.
Cammock, Thomas, 112.
Campton, N. H., 125.
Campus, term used at American Colleges, paper on, by Albert Matthews, vi, 431–487; used in America for a century and a quarter, 431; full meaning of, realized only at Princeton, 431; used there in 1774, 431; used in almost every state and territory in the Union, 433.
Campos Martins of the Romans, 431.
Canada, 125, 133 n., 225, 378, 380 n., 433; department of Archives instituted in, 1883, 96; expeditions against: in 1711, 106 n., 118; in 1716–47, 120 n.; in 1776, 127; French expeditions to, 1534–1543, 111; reduction of, 120; suppression of counterfeiting in, 137; students from, attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 314; papers concerning, in Surfolk Court Files, 323.
—— House of Common, 378.
—— River, 224.
—— Royal Society of, Sir John G. Bourinot Honorary Secretary of, 377, 378.
Canadian Press, issues of, touching United States history, 96.
Canadian Species of Plants, but one described until latter half of sixteenth century, 182.
Canal, ship, from Lake Champlain to St. Lawrence River, 136, 137.
Canals, surveys for, in Vermont, 138.
Can er, Rev. Dr. Henry, 388; Rector of King’s Chapel in 1776, 387
—— the ship, 231–233, 236, 237.
Canute, King of England, 331.
Cape Ann, Mass., two of Quelch’s company at, 76.
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, voyage of Hore and others to, in 1536, 111; expedition to, 1745, 120, 133 n., 194; scarcity of fuel in Boston caused by taking coasters for expedition to, 216; Admiral Knowles Governor of, 219, 223.
Cape Cod, Mass., 186.
Cape Elizabeth, Maine, 113 n.
Cape Porpoise, Maine, 113 n.
Capen, Charles James, 479.
Carleton, Osgood, surveyor, 391 n.
Carlisle, John Griffin, Secretary of the Treasury, 370.
Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881), 313; his Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches, quoted, 172.
Carolina, Province of, 98, 111, 225; Lords Proprietors of, in the first grant of 1663, given full power of Bishops of Durham, 414; charter of 1665 enlarges first grant and gives power to create Baronies, 414; Fundamental Constitutions of, 414; Signories, Baronies and Manors erected in, 414; titles of palatine, landgrave and cazique granted in, 414. See Chicora; North Carolina; South Carolina.
Caroline Farm, the, Berwick, Me., 250.
Carr, Lucien, 190.
Cartas de Indias, 95.
Carter, Esther. See Cary.
—— Franklin, LL.D., xxiii.
—— Hannah (Gookin,) 174.
—— James Coolidge, LL.D., xxiii.
—— Nathaniel, 174.
—— Vincent, 174.
Carteret, Sir George (d. 1680), New Jersey ceded to, 413.
Cartier, Jacques (1491–1557), 111, 190, 192.
Cary, Esther (Carter), 174.
—— Rev. Samuel, 175; letter of, communicated by H. H. Edes, 174; assistant minister of King’s Chapel, 174; attracts attention of scholars, 175; delivers oration at inauguration of President Webber of Harvard, 176; an account of his ministry in Annals of King’s Chapel, 176 n.; letter, 177–179.
—— Rev. Thomas, minister of the Third Parish in Newbury, 174, 179 n.
Casco Ray. Maine, 113 n.
Cases on Constitutional Law, by James B. Thayer, mentioned, 240 n., 247 n.
Casgrain, Henri Raymond, l’Abbé, F.R.S.C., reprints of the De Lévis Papers by, mentioned, 96.
Casno. See Cazneau.
Castle, the, Boston. See Castle William.
Castle Island, 159, 234; addition of, to the Boston Park System. 359.
Castle William, fort on Castle Island (now Port independence), 159, 234; Governor Shirley’s flight to, 214, 220; committee of the town of Boston wait upon him at, 215; the Governor writes two letters from, 217; Governor driven to, by a mob, 232, 233.
Catamount Tavern, Bennington, Vt., 135.
Cathcart, Capt. John, master of the ship Mercury, 234; deposition of, 235, 236.
Catholics. See Roman Catholics.
Caulkers, complain of receiving wages by notes on shops for money or goods, 5 n.
Cazique, a title conferred by patentees of Carolina grant, 414.
Cazneau, ——, Mr., 1742, 155.
Cedar Street, Worcester, 67.
Census of the United States, Gen. Walker Superintendent of the ninth and tenth, 314, 315.
—— of New Hampshire, 121–124, 126, 127.
Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 1876, Leverett Saltonstall one of the Commissioners from Massachusetts to, 80.
Central America, exaggerated accounts of the wonder-working powers of roots, etc., from, 183.
Central Wharf, Boston, 330.
Centre Harbor, N. H., 125.
Century Dictionary, word Campus first appears in, 431.
Chalmers, George (1742–1825), his Opinions, quoted, 248 n., 249 n., 261 n.
Chamberlain, Hon. Joshua Lawrence, LL.D., xxiii.
—— Phillips, 155.
—— Richard, Secretary of the Province of New Hampshire, 128.
Champlain, Samuel de (c. 1567–1635), voyage of, mentioned, 194.
Chancellorsville, Va., Gen. Walker wounded at, 315.
Chancery, Court of, in 1681, declares Colonial Charter void, 43.
Chandler, Col. John, 20.
—— Peleg Whitman, G. O. Shattuck an associate of, 406, 407; Darwin E. Ware an associate of, 441.
—— Seth Carlo, LL.D., xxii, 310; of committee to prepare resolutions on death of Dr. Gould, 282 n.; his remarks on death of, 290, 291; his sketch of life of, in the Harvard Graduates’ Magazine for March, 1897, mentioned, 487.
Charming, Edward Tyrrel (1790–1856), Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard College, 301, 478.
Chaplin, Heman White, helps defray cost of repairing Dunster’s tomb, 416 n.
—— Jeremiah, D.D., his Life of Henry Dunster, cited, 416 n.
Chapman, Livewell, 110 n.
Chapman (Edward and Frederic) and Hall (William), publishers, 172.
Chardon, Peter (c. 1703–1775), 46; a Director of the Manufactory Company, 33 n., 48.
—— family, 200.
Charities, Associated, of Boston, 444.
Charity in England, report of the commissioners of, cited, 91 n.
Charles I., King of England, 250 n., 331; Nonconformists perish in prisons of. 43.
Charles II., King of England, 132 n., 134.
Charles, the brigantine, Capt. Quelch commander of, 72; fitted out as a privateer, 73; arrives at Marblehead, 74; newly commissioned as a privateer, 75 and note.
Charles River, Mass., 181, 381; execution of Quelch and others on, 71, 72; named by Capt. John Smith, 194.
Charlestown, Mass., 68, 82, 100, 325, 410, 421, 455 n.; Robert Sedgwick admitted an inhabitant of, in 1636, 156; Market Place near Bunker Hill National Bank, site of his house, 156; land in, granted to Robert Sedgwick, 157; History of, by Richard Frothingham, quoted, 159 n., 160 n.; Tide Mills at Middlesex Landing in, 100, 174; Robert Sedgwick prevented by death from returning to, 173; burned, in 1775, 381; Dunster’s retirement to, 416, 425; Judge Gorham the most distinguished man who ever lived in, 471. See Bunker Hill.
—— Church, Thomas Shepard, Jr., settled over, 422 n.
—— Five Cents Savings Bank, deposits of this Society in, 148, 149, 276, 277.
—— Heights, 381.
—— Market Place, 156.
—— Mystic or Mystick Side, 237.
—— Village, set off under the name of Woburn in 1642, 100; so called for Robert Sedgwick, a native of Woburn, England, 160 n.
—— N. H., 125, 135; convention at, 1781, 124, 136. See Township Number Four.
Charter of Gilbert in 1578, 110.
—— of 1584 to Ralegh, 408.
—— of Virginia, 1606, 408; second, 1609, 408; annulled in 1624 and colony became a royal province, 408.
—— of New England, 1620. Council to consist of forty members, 408.
—— Royal Scotch, grant of Nova Scotia to Sir William Alexander in 1621 by, 411; this grant confirmed by charter of 1625, 411.
—— of 1632, grant of Maryland to Lord Baltimore and his heirs by, 413.
—— of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, grantees in, all commoners, 412; charters of Rhode Island Colony, 1636–1647 and 1647–1663, 132.
—— confirmatory, of 1639, grants Province of Maine to Gorges and governing power conferred upon him and his heirs, 411.
—— Royal, of Connecticut, 1662, 104, 105; grantees all commoners, 412.
—— of Carolina, 1063, 414; of 1665 enlarges the first grant, 414.
—— of 1732, of Georgia, trustees of, all commoner s xcept Viscount Percival, 414; becomes a royal province in 1752, 414.
Charters, early, to royal favorites and merchant adventurers, theory in, prevailed that affairs of distant settlements were to be administered by a home Company, 247.
—— of Massachusetts. See Charters, under Massachusetts.
Chase, Charles Augustus, A.M., xxii.
—— Ellen, of publication committee of the Brookline Historical Publication Society, 244.
Château Breteuil, near Paris, 311.
Chatham, N. H., 125.
Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1340–1400), 81.
Chauncy, Rev. Charles (1592–1672), President of Harvard College, 425, 426.
Chauncy Hall School, Boston, 348, 478.
Chauncy Place, Boston, 348 n.
Chaves, Alonzo de, 111.
Checkley, Anthony, files answers to reasons of appeal in Gove v. Gibson, 457 n.; witnesses deed of Amos Richardson, 459 n.
Cheever, Thomas, a Director of the Manufactory Company, 33 n., 46, 48.
Cheffaleer Jack, a negro, sentenced for arson, 62.
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, 112.
Cheny, William, sentenced for rape, 62.
Cheshire, England, 93, 332; History of, by George Ormerod, cited, 90 n. See Helsby.
—— County, N. H., 125, 126, 135.
Chester, John, fined for forgery, 65
Chester, Cheshire, England, 90.
Chesterfield, N. H., 124, 125.
Chestnut Hill, Newton, Mass., 83, 203.
Chicago, Ill., 129 n., 342; John F. Andrew a delegate to the National Republican Convention at, 353.
Chichester, Sussex, England, 250 n.
Chicora (Carolina), 111.
Chideock Manor, Bridport, Dorsetshire, England, 330, 331.
Chidiock. See De Chidiocks.
Child, Francis James, LL.D., Professor at Harvard College, 284; suggests change in mode of election of Overseers of Harvard College, 442.
—— Martha. See Weld.
Children’s Mission to the Children of the Destitute, Boston, endowed by W. G. Weld, 336.
Chile, Dr. Gould a Fellow of the University of, 488.
China, 303.
Chinese Exclusion Act, opposed by J. F. Andrew, 364.
Chinese junk, 332.
Chipman, Daniel, 134.
Chippewa Plain, Battle of, Ontario, 138.
Chittenden, Martin, Governor of Vermont, 138.
—— Thomas, Governor of Vermont, 134, 136, 137.
Choate, Charles Francis, A.M., xxii, 150, 339; of the committee to consider the endowment of this Society, 379.
—— John, petitions the Legislature in 1740 in favor of the Land Bank Scheme, 16; resigns his office as Justice of the Peace, 19; removed and dismissed from office, 20; elected Speaker of House of Representatives but rejected by the Governor, 25; a Director of the Manufactory Company, 33 n., 46, 48.
—— Hon. Joseph Hodges, LL.D., xxiii, 440; elected an Honorary Member, 1; letter of acceptance, 41.
—— Judge William Gardner, 440.
Christ Church, Boston, 44.
—— Cambridge, East Apthorp, first Rector of, 45.
Church of England, apprehension in New England that conformity with, was a means, in the government policy, of strengthening the tie between the colonies and England, 43; Gov. Shirley receives Sacrament according to usage of, 194, 195; authority to establish it as a State Church given to Gorges in his grant of Maine in 1639, 411.
Church Street, New York, 436.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, quoted, 218 n. 227.
Cigoteo Island. See Cyguatea.
Cilley, Joseph, 131.
Cincinnati, Massachusetts Society of the, 297; handwriting of sketch of organization of, identified by A. C. Goodell, Jr., as that of Samuel Shaw, 144; Dr. Gould’s attachment to, 297, 486; Dr. Gould Vice-President of, 302, 486.
—— New Hampshire Society of the, records of, 131.
Citizens of London, Some Account of the, and their Rulers from 1660 to 1867, by B. B. Orridge, cited, 92 n.
City Hospital, Boston, special department in Dermatology established at, 197, 205; Dr. Wigglesworth head of department for diseases of the skin at, 205, 349.
Civil Code of the Hawaiian Islands, 150.
Civil Service Commission (Massachusetts), bill establishing, introduced by J. F. Andrew, 352.
Civil Service Reform, 82, 353, 355; Leverett Saltonstall’s fidelity to cause of, 81; his assistance in promoting, 85; supported by J. F. Andrew, 152, 364, 366; State Convention to take an antagonistic position in regard to, 357; J. F. Andrew member of Congressional committee on, 364; chairman of committee on, 152, 365, 373; T. Roosevelt’s article on, in Scribner’s Magazine for August, 1895, quoted, 365; Scott Wike’s article on, in Boston Herald of 1 June, 1895, quoted, 366.
Civil War, American, 197; lectures on, an object of the Harvard Memorial Society, 243; publication of the Astronomical Journal interrupted by, 481.
Claremont, N.H., 125.
Clark, Samuel, 107.
Clarke, Eliot Channing, A.B., xxiii; of auditing committee, 438.
—— James Freeman, D.D., 84.
—— William, juryman, 1685, 409.
—— William, Boston merchant, 1704, one of the owners of the brigantine Charles, 72, 75.
Cleave (sometimes Cleeve), George, 113 n.; suit v. Robert Jordan, 113 n.
Clements, Uriah, sentenced for burglary, 57, 60.
Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk. See Noble, John.
Cleveland, Grover, LL.D., President of the United States, xxiii, 82, 351, 356, 364, 370; discontent with administration of, 357; the De Forest Report approved by, in 1896, 367; Democrats discontented with acts of, which commend him to Independents, 372; Darwin E. Ware a supporter of, 444.
Clifford, Hon. Charles Warren, A.M., xxii; speaks at Annual dinner, 279.
Clinton Historical Society, The, organization and object of, 2.
Cloth workers’ Company, London, Sir Thomas Mowlson erroneously said to have been a member of, 92.
Clover Den, Folien Street, Cambridge, 284.
Coast Survey, Dr. Gould’s work upon, 482, 483.
Cocheco, N. H., 117.
Cockburn, William, 261 n.
Codman, Charles Russell, 339.
Coggan, John, 174.
Cognawaga Indians of St. Régis, Quebec, 138.
Cohannet (Taunton), Mass., 116.
Cohasset, Mass., 271.
Coins of America, papers on, by Sylvester S. Crosby, 472.
Coke, Sir Edward (1552–1634), 179.
—— Sir John (1562–1644), 125.
Cole, Peter, sentenced for adultery, 59.
Colebrook, N. H., 125.
Colección de documentos inéditos relativos al descubrimiento, conquista y colonización de las posesiones españolas en América, mentioned, 95.
Coles, Robert, sentenced for drunkenness, etc., 57.
Collateral Loan Company, Boston, 335.
Collection de manuscrits contenant lettres, mémoires, et autres documents historiques relatifs à la Nouvelle-France, mantioned, 96.
Collector of the Port of Boston and Charlestown. See Saltonstall, Leverett.
College of New Jersey, History of the, by John Maclean, quoted, 432, 435;
—— Nassau Hall, 431, 433. See Princeton College.
College Place, New York, 436.
Collins, Deacon Edward (c. 1603–1689), of Cambridge, Mass., 454.
—— Patrick Andrew, M.C., chairman of the Democratic State Committee, 1888, 357 n.
Colman, John (b. 1670), Boston merchant, brother of Rev. Benjamin, presents petition to General Court, in 1739, for emitting bills of credit secured by real estate, 10; interested in the Private Bank project, in 1714, 10; his pamphlet, The Distressed state of The Town of Boston, etc., cited, 10 n., 12; a projector of the Land Bank, 13, 14, 17; an owner of the brigantine Charles, 72, 75.
Colonial Laws of Massachusetts, reprinted from edition of 1660, quoted, 52, 159 n., 462 n.; mentioned, 95.
—— Newspapers, 97.
Colonial New York, by G. W. Schuyler, cited, 412 n.
Colonial Society of Massachusetts, The, returns thanks to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for use of its Hall, 140, 273, 274.
—— Abode, need of place of, 146, 275.
—— Album of, 141.
—— Auditing Committee, reports of, 149, 277.
—— By-laws, quoted, 273; President elected by Council under, 375.
—— Collections, first volume of (Vol. II. of Publications) to comprise Commissions and Instructions of the Royal Governors of the Massachusetts Bay, 145.
—— Corresponding Members, list of, xxiii.
—— Corresponding Secretary reads letters — from Joseph H. Choate, 41; from Charles H. Davis, 67; from H. H. Edes, 311; occupies chair in absence of President, 78; announces death of Leverett Saltonstall, 78; reads Annual Report of Council, 140; reports that he has received letters from Librarians and officers of Historical Societies wishing to subscribe for Society’s Publications, 154; announces gift from Albert Matthews, 282; communicates Memoirs of Edward Wigglesworth and John F. Andrew, 328; reports election of Edward Wheelwright as President and Philip H. Sears as a member of the Council, 375. See also Davis, Andrew McFarland.
—— Council, Annual Reports of, 140, 273; special meeting of, to take action upon the death of Dr. Gould, 280; upon the death of Judge Lowell, 489.
—— Election. See below, Members.
—— General Fund, 147.
—— Gifts of two researches by persons not members, 142; by Albert Matthews, of a fac-simile reproduction of Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation. 282.
—— Honorary Members, list of, xxiii; Joseph Hodges Choate elected, 1; accepts election, 41.
—— Meetings. See Stated Meetings.
—— Members, list of deceased, xxiv; present members urged to comply with request for their photographs for Society’s Album, 141. See above. Corresponding Members, Honorary Members; See below, Resident Members.
—— Memoirs of members deceased: of William G. Weld, 329–336; of Martin Brimmer, 337–347; of Edward Wigglesworth, 348–350; of John F. Andrew, 351–374; of Benjamin A. Gould, 476–488.
—— Memorial meeting for Dr. Gould, 282.
—— Nominating Committee, reports, 150, 278.
—— Officers, list of, xxi; election of, 150, 278.
—— Permanent Funds, 147; committee to consider increase of, 278; committee enlarged, 379; more than five thousand dollars subscribed, 474.
—— President, death of, 280; election of, 375. See also Gould, B. A., and Wheelwright, Edward.
—— Publication Committee of, names of, ii, 274.
—— Publication Fund, need of, 146.
—— Publications, cited, 77 n., 94 n., 473, 474; cause of delay in issuing First volume of, 142; each member to be furnished with a bound copy, 140; distribution list reduced practically to members, 146; letters from Librarians and Historical Societies wishing to subscribe for, 154.
—— Recording Secretary. See Cunningham, Henry Winchester.
—— Registrar. See Woods, Henry Ernest.
—— Resident Members, list of, xxii, xxiii; names of those elected, 66, 179, 240, 271, 282.
—— Resolutions, on death of Dr. Gould, 282–312; on death of Judge Lowell, 489, 490.
—— Stated Meetings, held in Hall of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1, 41, 67, 78, 154, 180, 196, 213, 241, 282, 313, 375, 406, 438.
—— Stated Meetings (Annual), Third, 140; Fourth, 272; speech by Dr. Gould at, 272.
—— Transactions, two researches given by persons not members, worthy a place in, 142.
—— Treasurer, Annual Reports, 147, 275–277. See also Edes, Henry Herbert.
—— Vice-President, death of Judge Lowell, 489, 490.
Colonies, English, in America. See American Colonies.
Colony or Old Charter Bills. See Bills of Credit.
Colt, Judge James Denison, 265.
Columbia, N. H., 125.
Columbia College, 436 and note: Gen. Walker receives highest honors at, 314, 316; Dr. Gould receives degree of LL.D., from, 488.
Columbian Centinel, The, records death and announces funeral of Martin Gay, 1809, 386 n.; contains list of members of General Court, 1787, 470 n.
Columbus, Christopher (c. 1435–1506), 110, 111, 182; four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by, brings out valuable documents, 96.
Conimack. See Cammock.
Commission appointed by General Court in 1743 to take charge of the Land Bank Company, 35; papers of, destroyed by fire in 1747, 35; new powers given to, in 1749, 36; reorganized in 1759, 36; a third appointed in 1767, 37; powers delegated to by General Court, arbitrary, 38; bills in suit of Griggs v. Weld surrendered to be burned and Commissioners’ receipt therefor, 50.
—— Royal, to President Joseph Dudley, 1686, 103.
—— of Inquiry as to destruction of the schooner Gaspee in Narragansett Bay, R. I., 133 n.
—— for revising the Civil Code and the Criminal Code of the Hawaiian Islands, Judge Austin appointed a member of, 150.
—— for the revision and codification of the United States shipping, customs, and revenue laws, Darwin E. Ware’s work on, 446.
—— to settle civil government at Wells and Cape Porpoise, Me., 1653, 113 n.
Commissioners in charge of an expedition against the Dutch in 1654, Gen. Sedgwick and Capt. John Leverett appointed, 161; they determine to annex Acadia upon news of the Dutch treaty, 162.
—— of Charity, England, Report of, cited, 91, n.
—— of the hand Bank, John Jeffries, Samuel Danforth, 50, 51.
—— of Vermont on boundary lines, 1781, 124.
—— on Centennial celebration at Philadelphia, 1876, Leverett Salton-stall one of, 80.
—— on Colonies, Report of, 1665, 113 n.
—— to Annapolis Convention, 1786, 130 n.
—— to establish boundary between Pennsylvania and Connecticut, 108.
—— to establish Rhode Island Boundary, 1670, 105.
—— to Hartford Convention, 1779, 109 n.
—— to New Haven Convention, 1778, 108 n.
—— to Philadelphia Convention, 1780, 109 n.; in 1787, 130 n.
—— to Providence Convention, 1776, 108 n.
—— to Springfield Convention, 1777, 108 n.
Commissions of Vice-Admiral issued to Royal Governors of New England, copies of, given by A. C. Goodell, v.
Committee and Council of Safety, Vt., 134, 139.
Committee for Trade and Plantations. See Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations.
Committee of Safety, N. H., 122–124.
Committees of Correspondence, 40.
Common, the, Boston, 154, 155.
Common Pleas, New Brunswick, Samuel Gay a Justice of Court of, 390.
Commons, House of, Canada, 378.
Commons, House of, England, bill to extend Bubble Act of 1720 to plantations in America, passes, 22, 27; Papers of, 1878, cited, 92; Sir Thomas Mowlson a member of, 93; Sir Edward Turnoor, Speaker of, 93; Address of, on value of gold and silver and Bills of Credit, 119; after 1644, Massachusetts House of Deputies conformed to pattern of, 206.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. See Massachusetts; Puritan.
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, 329, 336, 374; under control of Park Commission, 371.
Compact, signing of, in the cabin of the Mayflower, commemoration of, by Annual Meeting of this Society, 292.
Companies, Associated Factory Mutual Insurance, nearly all in Massachusetts or Rhode Island, 69.
Company, Sanborn-Perris Map, of New York, N. Y., catalogue of insurance Maps published by, 68.
Company of Partners, in Land Bank Scheme, 35, 37.
Concert Hall, Boston, Governor and Council dine at, in 1773, 385.
Concord, Mass., Land Bank Company meets at, in 1741, 32, 325.
—— Bridge. See Lexington Green.
—— N. H., 117, 122, 123, 125–127, 129–131.
—— Conventions, 1778, 1783, 1788, 1791–2, 123.
Conger, Omar Dwight, his Silver Bill passes the National House, 359.
Congregational Body, established as part of the political system of the Massachusetts Colony, 42; Hobart Controversy in 1747 the result of hostility to Episcopacy of the, 44.
—— Building (new), Beacon Street, Boston, 400.
—— Church, use of word Dissenter in will establishing the Mary Saltonstall Scholarship at Harvard means a member of the, 46.
—— Church membership in Massachusetts essential to political franchise in 1631, 12.
—— Order, defined in 1648, by the Cambridge Platform, which became the ecclesiastical constitution of Massachusetts, 43.
Congregationalists, nearly all the leaders of the American Revolution in New England were, 42.
Congress, American, 135.
—— Continental, 121, 124, 134–136, 139.
—— Cumberland County, Vt., 134.
—— General, at New York, 1765, 121.
—— Old, the, 471 n. See above, Continental Congress.
—— Provincial, of Massachusetts Bay, 144; Judge Gorham sits in, 471 n.
—— Provincial, of New Hampshire, first, 121; second, 122; third, 122; fourth, 122; fifth, 122.
—— United States, John F. Andrew elected to, in 1888 and 1890, 152; cannot add to powers of the Supreme Court, 219; Martin Brimmer a candidate for, in 1878, 339; John F. Andrew’s defeat for, in 1892, 369.
Congress Street, Boston, 87, 89.
Connecticut, 110, 113 116, 132 n., 218 n., 459 n.; Hobart Controversy in, in 1747, 44; first state in New England to print its records, 98; Public Records of the Colony of, 104–108; charter of 1662, 104, 105; fac-similes of autographs of members of first Court of Election under the Constitution of 1639, 104 n.; Archives of, 105, 110 n.; militia of, 106; Governor and Company of, 107; Public Records of the State of, 108, 109; Patent of, 109 n.; Blue Laws of, 157; the twelve capital laws of, established in 1642, taken from the Massachusetts Body of Liberties established in 1641, 157; commissioners from, meet other commissioners on expedition against the Dutch in 1654, 161; no provision in charter of, for appeals to Privy Council, 247; grantees in Royal Charter to, all commoners, 412.
—— River, 120, 123, 124, 135, 136, 138, 139.
Connolly, Elizabeth Harriet, makes Index of this volume, vii.
Conqueror, The (William I.), 331.
Conspirators and Absentees, papers relating to, in Suffolk Court Files, 323; acts of General Court for disposal of estates of, 392; committee to sell estates of, 394.
Constitution, British, Hutchinson considers the House of Lords the bulwark of, 411 n.
—— of Massachusetts, 207, 210.
—— of the United States, 130 n., 133 n., 130–138, 240, 219; convention which framed, meets at Philadelphia, 14 May. 1787, 470 n.; Washington chosen president of convention, 470 n.
Constitutional Law, 246 n.
Continent Colonies, 228.
Continent of Europe, potency of the great banks slowly realized on the, 3.
—— Congress. See Congress.
—— Regiment, first New Hampshire, 127.
Continentals, the, 1776, 388.
Conveyancers Title Insurance Company, Boston, investments of this Society in securities of. 148, 270.
Conway, N. H., 125.
Cooke, Judge Elisha (1637–1715), 82, 469.
—— Elisha, son of Judge Elisha (1678–1737), 82.
—— Sir John. See Coke.
—— Joseph, 428; Commissioner, Selectman and Town Clerk of Cambridge, 420 and note.
Coolidge, Horace Hopkins, 442.
Cooper, Jacob, 392.
Copeland, Emily Morris. See Shattuck.
Copley, John Singleton (1737–1815), 82, 199.
Copper Money, coinage of, 136.
Copp’s Hill, Boston, 71.
Cordoba, Argentine Republic, 481, 483, 485; Dr. Gould’s achievements at, 311; his account of what has been accomplished at, 484; his Cordoba Photographs completed, 487.
Cornell, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel, a Loyalist, of Newbern, N. C. See Bayard.
Cornish, N. H., 122, 124, 125, 135.
Cornut, Jacques Philippe (1606–1651). 182.
Corporation Act (English), 43.
Corte-Real, Gaspar, 110.
—— Miguel, 110.
Cosa, Juan de la, 110.
Cotton, Rev. John (1585–1652), of Boston, maintains that the Scriptures approve of a monarchic-aristocratic government, but not of an hereditary governing aristocracy, 409.
Council for Life, 409.
Council Chamber, merchants of Boston present petition at, against the Land Bank in 1710, 16; mob throws missiles into, during Knowles’s Riot, 214.
Councillors chosen, and rejected by the Governor for their interest in Land Bank Scheme, 25.
Counterfeit money, punishment for passing, 60.
Counterfeiting in Canada, suppression of, 137
Country Club, Brookline, Mass., 374.
County Prison, in 1843 Martin Brimmer calls attention to situation and construction of, 338.
Courant, The New England, Dr. William Douglass supposed to be a writer for, 222.
Court House (new), Pemberton Square, Boston, 49, 207.
—— (old), King Street, Boston, 206.
—— (old), Court Square, Boston, 319, 327.
—— Street, Boston, 416.
—— of Admiralty. See Admiralty.
—— of Assistants. See Massachusetts.
—— of Inquiry on Gen. John Sullivan, proceedings of, 128.
Coward, William, sentenced for piracy and murder, 62.
Coytemore, Thomas, one of the original proprietors of the Charlestown Tide Mills, 174.
Cradock, George, 195.
—— Matthew, letters of, 100, 114.
Crafts, Samuel Chandler, Governor of Vermont, 138.
Craig, Sir James Henry (1718–1812), Governor of Canada, 137.
Craig (Sir James Henry)–Henry (John) Correspondence, 137.
Cram, Capt. John, 126.
Cranch, Richard, of committee to sell estates of Conspirators and Absentees, 394, 395.
—— William, LL.D., 246 n.
Cranfield, Edward, Governor of New Hampshire, 118, 128, 129.
Cranston, Samuel, Governor of Rhode Island, one of Quelch’s men seized by order of, 76.
Craven Street, Strand, London, 268.
Cressy, France, Sir Ralph Gulston knighted on the field of, 250 n.
Crimes, Notes on the trial and punishment of, paper on, by John Noble, 51–66; tried in the Court of Assistants in Colonial times and in the Superiour Court of Judicature in the early Provincial times, 51.
Criminal Code, of Massachusetts, 53, 54, 55.
—— of the Hawaiian Islands, 150.
Crisp, Charles Frederick, 367; his nomination for Speaker of the National House opposed by John F. Andrew, 365.
Crocker, Robert. 398 and note.
—— (Uriel) v. Old South Society, decision on, omitted from the printed series of Massachusetts Reports, 265; text of decision, 265–267.
Crockett, Elizabeth, sentenced for adultery, 59.
Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658), 113 n., 161, 103–166, 168, 169, 171–173; secret orders from, that Nova Scotia be conquered, 162; sends a commission as Major-General to Robert Sedgwick, 170; Letters and Speeches of, by Thomas Carlyle, cited, 172 n.; sends ships and troops for the reduction of New York, in 1654, 424 n.
Crosby, Sylvester Sage, series of papers by, on early coins of America, 472.
Crown, King William’s title to, questioned by William Vesey, 65; colonists dispute rights of aggrieved parties to appeal to, from decisions of local courts, 247; trees reserved to, for use of Royal Navy, 249, 250, 252; rights of, to trees, reserved in the Charter, 251; governor the direct appointee of, 256; Council not appointees of, 257; Samuel Anderson holds offices under, 380 n.; with appointment of Executive by, control of the press passed to Governor, 404; Massachusetts dependent upon, after annulling of Charter in 1684, 409; House of Lords a curb to, 411 n.; governing power of the grant of New Hampshire to Capt. John Mason remains in, 412; New East Jersey and New West Jersey surrendered to, in 1702, 413; troubles between Penn and, make rights of Proprietary unstable, 413; trustees of Georgia surrender their rights before a change of government could be made by, 414; no political organized body to act between the people and, during the troubles which led to the Revolution, 415.
Crown Point Expedition, 120, 121, 129, 133 n., 139; papers relating to, in Suffolk Court Files, 323.
Croydon, N. H., 125.
Crusade, third, 219.
Cuba, extracts from Col. Joseph Gorham’s notes on a military expedition to, in 1762, 430.
Cullick, Elizabeth (Fenwick), wife of Capt. John, 104.
—— Capt. John, of Hartford, Conn., 104.
Cumberland, Nova Scotia, 380, 389.
—— County, Vt., 134, 139; Congress for, 134.
Cunningham, Henry Winchester, A.R., xxi, xxii; elected Recording Secretary 150, 278; of committee of finance, 274; present at special meetings of Council, 280, 489.
—— Stanley, A.B., xxii.
Currency: Historical Account of Massachusetts Currency by J. B. Felt, cited, 4 n.; Connecticut, 106, 108 n., 109 n.; Massachusetts, 108 n., 109 n., 120; New Hampshire, 108 n., 109 n., 125, 130 n.; New York, 108 n., 109 n.; Rhode Island, 108 n., 109 n., 133 n.
Curtis, Abel. 138.
Curtiss, Frederic Haines, xxiii.
Cashing, Capt. Charles, 86.
Cashing, Ernest Watson, M.D., in conjunction with Dr. Wigglesworth publishes a paper on Buccal Ulcerations of Constitutional Origin, 349.
—— Judge John (1695–1778), 229.
—— family, 351 n.
Custom House Returns, N. H., 118.
Cutler, Rev. Manasseh (1742–1823), LL.D., 183; his Account of Indigenous Vegetables Botanically Arranged, cited, 183 n.
—— Timothy (1683–1765), D.D., pastor of Christ Church, Boston, 44; president of Yale College, 45.
Cutts, John, President of the Province of New Hampshire, 1679, 117, 129.
Cutting, George Rigg, his Student Life at Amherst College, cited, 436 n.
Cyclopædia of American Biography, name of John Foxcroft, Deputy Postmaster-General, not in, 269.
Cyguatea (Alabaster, Bahama, Cigoteo, Cyguotea, Eleuthera, Eleutheria, Ethera, or Segotea) Island of, one of the Bahamas, 421 and note.
D, letter to be worn for vice of drunkenness, 57.
D’Agelet. See Agelet.
Dalton. N. H., 125.
Dana, Daniel, D.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Newburyport, and President of Dartmouth College, 178 and note.
—— Lucretia. See Goddard.
—— Richard (1699–1772), H. C. 1718, jurist, 230.
—— Richard Henry, Jr. (1815–1882), H. C. 1837, 440.
Danbury, N. H., 125.
Dane, Hon. Nathan (1752–1835), letter from, to Judge Gorham, communicated by H. H. Edes, 470, 471.
Danforth, Mary, wife of Thomas Danforth, 450, 460.
—— Judge Samuel (1696–1777), H. C. 1715, Commissioner of the Land Bank, 50, 51.
—— Thomas (1622–1699), Deputy-Governor of Massachusetts, 113 n., 450, 452, 453, 455, 460, 461, 464, 466, 469.
Danvers, Mass., 124, 138, 471 n.
Danville, N. H., 125.
Darland, Philip, sentenced for adultery, 59.
Dartmouth, Mass, 23 n.
Dartmouth College, 121; Dr. Daniel Dana, president of, 178 n. See Dresden; Hanover.
Daughters of the Revolution, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, incorporation of, 1 n.
D’Aunay de Charnisay, Charles de Menou, Sieur (d. 1650), claim of, to Acadia, 162.
D’Avezac. See Avezac.
Davie, Humphrey (d. 1688), of Boston, 469.
Davies, John, sentenced for lewdness, 58.
—— William, 88.
Davis, Andrew McFarland, A.M., vi, xxii, 84, 324, 326, 327, 377, 405; member of the committee of publication, ii, 274; reads paper on Provincial Land and Silver Banks, 2–40; his Calendar of Land Bank papers in Massachusetts Archives and Suffolk Court Files, mentioned, 2 n.; his remarks on W. G. Weld’s papers on Land Bank, 49; his remarks on Insurance Maps, 68–70; communication from, concerning Sir Thomas Mowlson, 90–94; Report of Council presented by, 140; elected Corresponding Secretary, 150, 278; communicates copy of an indictment of two negroes for an attempt to fight a duel on Boston Common, 154, 155; his remarks on Dr. Goodale’s paper on Early New England Plants, 194; communicates a certificate of Gov. Shirley’s Protestantism, 194, 195; reads paper on threat to burn Gov. Shirley’s house, 207–210; his remarks on libel suit of Knowles v. Douglass, 240; reads paper on the suit of Frost v. Leighton, 246–264; present at special meetings of Council, 280, 489; his remarks on John Noble’s paper on Early Court Files of Suffolk County, 328; reads paper on Harvard Commencement Programme of 1723, 400–404; his remarks on the Dunster Letter, 426–429; reads communication from A. C. Goodell, Jr., on the Dunster Letter, 429–430; communication from, on Historical Societies in Massachusetts, 471–474. See also Corresponding Secretary, under Colonial Society.
—— Charles Henry, A.B., xxiii, 71; letter from, concerning the importance of preserving Insurance Maps, 67, 68.
—— Hon. Horace, LL.D., xxiii, 339.
—— James, 397 and note, 398, 399 and note.
—— James, Jr., 399.
—— John, 394 n.
—— Hon. John Chandler Bancroft, LL.D., xxiii.
—— Thomas, sentenced for adultery, 59; for stealing, 63.
Day, Judge Joseph Muenscher, finds Gorham and other papers at Barnstable, and presents them to Harvard College, 430.
Day of Doom, by Michael Wigglesworth, mentioned, 197.
Dayton, Abram Child, his Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York, cited, 430 n.
Dean, John Ward, A.M., elected Resident Member, 240.
Deane, Charles (1813–1889), LL.D., 111, 112, 130; his chapter on New England in the Narrative and Critical History of America, mentioned, 157.
—— Rev. Samuel (B. U. 1805), his History of Scituate, cited, 425 n.
Decatur, Commodore Stephen (1779–1820), U. S. N., 330.
De Chidiocks, the, 331.
Declaration of American Independence, 122.
—— of Rights and Plan of Government for the State of New Hampshire, 122, 123, 125.
—— of Rights, Vt., 134.
—— of War with the States General, 1672, 105.
Dedham, Mass., 325, 329, 384 n.
Deerfield, Mass., The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association of, 220 n.
—— N. H., 125.
Deering, N. H., 125.
De Forest, Robert Elliott, his Report on reorganization of fourth-class Postmasterships, 367 and note.
Delaware, 109 n., 135, 192; no archives published by State of, 96; Historical Society of, publishes Minutes of the Council of the Delaware State from 1776 to 1792, 96.
—— River, 96.
De Lévis Papers (Maréchal François Gaston, Duc de Lévis, b. 1720, d. 1787) reprinted by the Abbé Casgrain, mentioned, 96.
Demerara, 176.
Democracy, New, 369.
Den d. Bayard (William, Jr.) and Wife (née Elizabeth Cornell) v. Singleton (Spyers), 247 n.
Denison, Major-Gen. Daniel (1612–1682), 197.
—— Elizabeth, daughter of Gen. Daniel. See Rogers.
—— Patience, wife of Gen. Daniel, daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley, 197.
Dent, Yorkshire, England, 156.
Denys, Charlotte. See La Broquerie.
Deputies, House of. See under Massachusetts.
Dermatology, Dr. Wigglesworth, an authority on, 197; his efforts in aid of, 348, 349; a founder of the Archives of, 349.
Despar, Lambert, sentenced for adultery, 65.
Devens, Judge Charles, LL.D., 265, 313; extols Mr. Goodell’s work on the Province Laws, 458 n.
Devens (Charles) and Hoar (George Frisbie), office of (Worcester), Gen. Walker a law student in, 313.
Devonshire kersey, 455.
—— Street, Boston, 471.
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, A.M., xxiii.
—— family, 175.
Diaries: of Benjamin Lynde, cited, 14 n., 23 n., 26 n.; of Samuel Sewall, cited, 43; of Gov. John Winthrop, quoted, 87, 410, cited, 409 n., 410 n., 420 n., 427 n., mentioned, 428; of Walter Bryent, 121, 129; of Lieut. Jonathan Burton, mentioned, 127; of Lieut. Abraham Fitts, mentioned, 127; of Richard Hazzen, 129; of Rev. Dr. John Pierce, quoted, 175, 176; of Daniel Fisher, quoted, 270, 271.
Dickey, Adelaide Frances. See Ware.
Dieppe, France, 111.
Dillaway, Charles Knapp, master of the Boston Latin School, 1836, 478.
Dioscorides, Pedanius or Pedacius, Commentaries of, mentioned, 183.
Dismembering or Mutilation, 60.
Dissent, laws of (English), 43.
Dissenters, name applied in Massachusetts to members of Colonial Churches other than Episcopal, 44; word Dissenter in will establishing the Mary Saltonstall Scholarship at Harvard means a member of the Congregational Church, 46.
Distressed state of The Town of Boston once more considered, And methods for Redress humbly proposed. With remarks on the pretended Countryman’s Answer to the Book, entitled The Distressed State of the town of Boston, &c. With a Schœme for a Bank Laid down; And methods for bringing in silver money, proposed, by John Colman, cited, 10 n.
Dix, William Giles, 78.
Dixwell, Epes Sargent, Master of the Boston Latin School, 478.
Documentary History of New York, edited by Edmund B. O’Callaghan, mentioned, 97.
Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York, edited by Edmund B. O’Callaghan, mentioned, 97, 117; cited, 412 n.
Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, 80.
Doniol, Henri, his Histoire de la participation de la France à l’établissement des États-Unis d’Américpre, mentioned, 95.
Dorchester, Mass., remarks on Celebration of, in 1855, by Darwin E. Ware, 153.
—— N. H., 125.
Dormer, Francis, sentenced for scandalous words against Gov. Bellomont, 65.
Dornelos, Juan, 110.
Dorrance (John), Van Horne’s (Thomas) Lessee v., 247 n.
Dorset, Vt., Convention, July, 1775, 134; September, 1775, 139.
Dorsetshire, England, 330.
Douglass, George, factor of the Marquis of Tweeddale, 221.
—— William (1691–1752), M.D., his Summary Historical and Political of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of the British Settlements in North America, cited, 9 n., 213 n., 218 n.; mentioned, 219, 223, 226, 228; a copy of the 1749 edition in the libraries of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society, 227; a copy of the edition of 1750 with autograph of Benjamin Lynde in Massachusetts Historical Society’s library, 227; libel suit of Knowles v. Douglass, paper by John Noble, 213–239, 405; a practising physician in Boston, 1718, 221; medicine in Boston owes reform of its Materia Merdica largely to, 222; a writer for the New England Courant, 222; town of Douglas, Worcester County, Mass., named for, 222; old Green Dragon Tavern Estate his residence, 222; this estate attached, 229; gains his case with Knowles, 230. See also Knowles v. Douglass.
Dover, N. H., 117–119, 125, 120, 128. See Oyster River.
—— Combination, 1640, 125, 128.
—— Neck, N. H., 117.
—— Patent, 117.
Downe, Capt. William, master of the brig Nathaniel, 383.
Downs, Elizabeth. See Franklin.
D’Oyley, Col. Edward, 165, 168, 170.
Draco, his penal Code mentioned, 157.
Drake, Samuel Gardner (1798–1875), his History and Antiquities of Boston, cited, 222 n.
Dresden, Germany, 480.
—— (the College district of Hanover), N. H., 124, 138; Convention at, 1780, 135. See Dartmouth College; Hanover.
Driver, Robert, sentenced for murder, 61.
Drunkenness, letter to be worn for vice of, 57; trials for, 56, 57.
Drury Lane, London, 332.
Dryden, John (1631–1700), 316.
Dublin, Ireland, 28; University of, bestows honors on Gen. Walker, 315, 316.
—— N. H., 125.
Duchezeau, Adam, petitions for naturalization, 1730, 242.
Duckerman, Andrew. See Duchezeau, Adam.
Dudley, Judge John (1725–1805), of Exeter and Raymond, N. H., 131.
—— Joseph (1647–1720), Governor of Massachusetts, son of Gov. Thomas, 74, 75, 118; gives commission to Capt. Daniel Plowman to command the privateer Charles, 73; issues proclamation for arrest of pirates, 76; issues Commission of Inquiry into disposal of treasure of pirates, 76; presides at Court of Admiralty for trial of pirates. 77; Royal Commission to, as President of New England, 1686, 103; an Overseer of Harvard College, 461.
—— Patience. See Denison.
—— Paul (1675–1751), F.R.S., Attorney-General and Chief-Justice of the Province, son of Gov. Joseph, 75, 229; appointed on Commission of Inquiry into disposal of treasure of pirates. 76.
—— Thomas (1570–1653), Governor of Massachusetts, 197, 454; Suffolk Court Files contain documents in handwriting of, 323; made a member of the standing Council for Life by the General Court, 1636, 409.
Dudley Observatory, Albany, N. Y., Dr. Gould appointed Director of, 481, 488.
Duel between two negroes, attempted on Boston Common, 1742, 154, 155.
Dummer, William (1677–1761), Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, 402 and note.
Dunbar, Charles Franklin, LL.D., 406.
—— Col. David, Surveyor-General of Woods in America, 251.
Dunbarton, N. H., 125.
Duniway, Clyde Augustus, 404.
Dunn William, sentenced for piracy and murder, 62.
Dunster, Elizabeth. See Willard.
—— Elizabeth (Glover), wife of Henry, 419 n.
—— Rev. Henry (c. 1612–1658), first President of Harvard College, vi, 100, 427–429; letter of, to a committee of the General Court, concerning Harvard College, communicated by Henry H. Edes, and his remarks thereon, 415–426; letter owned by Theodora Willard, 415; fac-simile of it, 419; a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 416; a graduate of Magdalen College, Cambridge, 410; opening of grave and repair of the tomb of, 410 n.; manages the press during his presidency, 417; publishes an improved edition of the Lay Psalm Book, 417; assists Mayhew and Eliot in converting the Indians, 417; declares his opinions on infant baptism, 417; removes to Scituate, 425; remarks on letter of, by A. McF. Davis, 426–429; communication from A. C. Goodell, Jr., on, 429–430.
—— Mary. See Willard.
—— family, members of, inhabitants or landowners of Charlestown, 425.
Dunster Street, Cambridge, 454.
Duquesne de Menneville, Marquis, Governor of New France, 96.
Durham, Bishopric of, rights of, granted to Gorges, 411; to Lord Baltimore and heirs, 413; to Lords Proprietors of Carolina, 414.
Durham, N. H., 119, 125, 129. See Oyster River.
Dutch, the, 104, 105, 163; claims of, 109; expedition against, 1654, 161; treaty of, 162; considered by the English intruders in America, 412; John Leverett prominent in troubles with, 424 n.
—— prize, captured by Gen. Sedgwick, released, 161.
Duxbury, Mass., 116.
Dwight, Theodore Frelinghuysen, xxii.
—— family, 175.
Dyer, John, sentenced for manslaughter, 62. See Dyre.
Dyre, William, Surveyor-General of Customs, 115.
Eagle, the United States sloop, 138.
Eames, Wilberforce, A.M., xxiii.
Early Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, omissions in, published in Supplement by Edwin M. Bacon, 243.
Early College Buildings at Cambridge, paper on, read before the American Antiquarian Society by A. McF. Davis, mentioned, 426.
Early Court Files of Suffolk County, paper by John Noble, 317–326; consist mainly of the Files of the various courts of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay, 317; miscellaneous papers in, 317, 322; moved about from place to place, 318; stored in Old South Meeting House during Revolution and chests broken open by the British, 318; efforts for preservation of, 318; Chief Justice Gray’s interest in, 318; Board of Aldermen authorizes arrangement of and makes an appropriation for, 319; Supreme Judicial Court provides suitable quarters for arrangement of, 319; William P. Upham selected to arrange, 319; papers belonging to, returned by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 320; entire collection about twelve hundred folio volumes, 321; papers belonging to, returned by the Commonwealth, 321; papers found in collection belonging to the Commonwealth returned to it, 321; about half a million papers in the collection, 321; remarks of A. C. Goodell, Jr., on, 320; Mayor O’Brien’s interest in, 320; Mr. Goodell’s opinion that the history of Massachusetts needs revision, through the information contained in, 327;
Early Court Files of Suffolk (c’d), remarks of A. McF. Davis, 328. See Suffolk Court Files.
Early New England Plants, paper on, by Dr. George L. Goodale, 180–194; no available treatise in the English tongue referring to, until about the time of the founding of Harvard College, 182; no attempt to give an account of, until 1672, 184; tobacco as food, 191; food found in, 191.
East, the, 330.
East Boston, 277; Louisiana Place, 277.
East Hampton, Long Island, N. Y., 104.
East Indies, 303.
East Kingston, N. H., 125.
Eastern Continent, 191.
—— District of Vermont, collisions in, 1781, 135, 136.
—— Unions of Vermont, 135, 136.
—— Railroad Company, 173; suit v. Allen (Aaron Hall), 173 n.
Eastham, Mass. See Nauset.
Eastward, the, 471.
Eaton, Nathaniel (c. 1609–1674), 427.
—— Samuel (H. C. 1649), 422 n.
—— Theophilus (c. 1590–1657), Governor of New Haven Colony, 109, 422 n.
Eaton, N. H., 125.
Eccles, Richard, of Cambridge, Mass., 450, 459.
Edes, Henry Herbert, vi, xxi, xxii, 426, 430; a descendant of the Mayhew family, 45 n.; on the Bromley real estate maps, 70, 71; his remarks on the death of Leverett Saltonstall, 81–83; communicates Mr. Griffin’s Bibliography of the Historical Publications of the New England States, 94; Annual Reports as Treasurer, 147, 275; elected Treasurer, 150, 278; his remarks on the death of Judge Austin, 150; communicates a letter of Rev. Samuel Cary, 174; communicates correspondence between Secretary Willard and Commodore Knowles, 239; communicates facts respecting King’s Chapel, Boston, 240; of committee of finance, 274; of committee on printing, 274; to write a Memoir of Judge Austin, 274; present at special meetings of the Council. 280, 489; letter on the death of Dr. Gould, 311, 312; suggests an endowment of this Society as a Memorial of Dr. Gould. 312; on the annual commemoration at Mount Vernon of Washington’s death, 328; Vice-President of the Young Men’s Republican and Independent Club of Boston, 1884, 354 n.; on the name and antecedents of Pierre Boucher de la Broquerie, 377, 378; motion of, to increase the number of the committee to consider the endowment of this Society, 379; appointed a member of the committee, 379 n.; communicates a letter of Henry Dunster to a committee of the General Court, concerning Harvard College, 415; communicates a letter of Nathan Dane to Judge Gorham, 470; on the tablet on the site of the first Meeting-house in Boston, 471. See also Treasurer, under Colonial Society.
Edgartown, Mass., 457 n.
Edinburgh, Scotland, 28, 221; University of, bestows honors on Gen. Walker, 315, 316.
Edmund Ironside, 331.
Edric, “the Grasping,” 331.
—— “the Wild,” 332; the name Weld said to have descended from, 331 and note.
Edwards’s Wharf, Back Street, Boston, 398 n.
Effingham, N. H., 125.
Eggington, John, sentenced for stealing, 63.
Egle, William Henry, M.D, his History of Pennsylvania cited, 413 n.
Egypt, Ancient, sketch of the history of the Religion and Art of, by Martin Brimmer, quoted, 342, 343.
Election Day, 1773, Martin Gay invited to dine with Governor and Council on. 379, 385.
Election Sermon, 144; custom of preaching it, abolished by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1884, 352.
Eleuthera Island. See Cyguatea.
Eleutheria Island. See Cyguatea.
Eliot, Benjamin, 13 n.
—— Charles William, LL.D., President of Harvard College, his speech at the dinner to Dr. Gould in 1885, quoted, 299; mentioned, 485.
—— Rev. John (1604–1690), of Roxbury. Mass., Apostle to the Indians, 82, 417, 419, 422; an Overseer of Harvard College, 461; petitions the General Court respecting students at Harvard College, 463.
—— Samuel Atkins, his Sketch of the History of Harvard College, cited, 416 n., 417 n., 449 n., 451 n., 464 n.
Eliot family, 175.
Elizabeth, Queen of England, 112, 331, 407.
Elizabeth Islands, Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., 184, 187, 457 n.
Elizabethtown, N. J., 436.
Elwyn, John Langdou, 130 n.
Elyot. See Eliot.
Embargo in Vermont, 1808–1812, 137.
Emerson, Elizabeth, sentenced for murder, 62, 64.
Emery, Noah, counsel for John Frost in suit of Frost v. Leighton, 259, 262; biographical sketch of, 260 n., 261 n.
Emigrant Aid Society, Martin Brimmer an officer of, 339.
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, John Harvard a graduate of, 416.
Encke, Johann Franz (1791–1865), 480.
Endecott. See Endicott.
Endicott, John (c. 1588–1665), Governor of Massachusetts, 189; letter from Governor Craddock to, 100; letter to, 1629, 114; Suffolk Court Files contain documents in handwriting of, 323; made a member of the standing Council for Life by the General Court, 1637, 410.
—— William, Jr., A.M., xxii; appointed a member of the committee to consider the endowment of this Society, 379; declines, 379 n.
—— Hon. William Crowminsiheld, LL.D., xxii, 265.
Enfield, N. H., 124, 125, 137.
England, 3, 19, 22, 73, 74, 84, 99, 100, 112, 131 and note, 156, 160 n., 161, 162, 167, 169, 171, 172, 174, 183–185, 187–190, 324, 331, 332, 348, 351, 363, 389, 407, 408 n., 411, 412 and note, 413, 414, 417, 419 n., 420 and note, 423, 479, 480, 483; laws of conformity as against Dissent made cruel in, 43; laws of Massachusetts not to be repugnant to those of, 53, 247, 248 n.; Parliament paramount in, 246. See Commons, House of; Great Britain; Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations; Lords, House of; Royal Navy.
—— Church of. See Church of England.
English, the, 163, 165, 185; the Dutch in America considered intruders by, 412.
—— Archives in London, 128 n., 131 n.
—— Courts, precedents of interpretation mainly derived from, 246; power of the, limited to the interpretation and enforcement of the laws, 247.
—— Plantations, prisoners sentenced to be sold to any of the, 63.
Episcopacy, established in Virginia in 1607, 42; in Maryland in 1692, 44.
Episcopal Body, contends with the Congregational Body for public support and official authority in Massachusetts, 42.
Episcopal Church, 45; first one founded in Boston in 1686, and called the Royal chapel, 43; the word Dissenter as indicating dissent from the opinions of, 46.
Episcopalians, smaller in numbers than the Congregationalists, 42; government of the Restoration in 1662 required abolition of laws against, 43.
Epping, N. H., 125.
Epsom, N. H., 125.
Errol, N. H., 125.
Essex County, Mass., 48, 157, 325; a local bank organized in, and a petition presented therefor to the General Court, in 1741, 25; Court Files of, arranged by W. P. Upham, 319.
Ethera Island. See Cyguatea.
Europe, 84, 96, 182, 188, 200, 204, 242, 282, 296, 302, 303, 305, 339, 345, 348, 352, 357 n., 477, 479, 481, 484, 487, 488; students from, attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 314; Dr. Gould’s work on the Coast Survey brings the American system into relation with that of, 483.
—— Southern, 183.
Evans, Rev. Thomas Jones, rector of St. Peter’s Church, Hargrave, England, 90 and note, 91.
Evarts, William Maxwell, LL.D., his address at Centennial celebration at Philadelphia, in 1876, mentioned, 80.
Eveleth, James, 25.
Everett, Rev. Charles Carroll, LL.D., xxii; to write a Memoir of Gov. Russell. 274; elected a member of the Council, 278; present at special meeting of Council, 280.
—— Edward (1794–1865), LL.D., 287, 309.
Evolution of Horticulture in New England, The, by Daniel D. Slade, mentioned, 202.
Examiner Club, Boston, Darwin E. Ware, Vice-President of, 439, 444.
Exchange Building, State Street, Boston, site of Governor Winthrop’s first house, 90, 144.
—— Club, Boston, Annual meetings of Society held at, 140, 272.
—— Tavern, King Street, Boston, committee to receive subscriptions for Land Bank Scheme meets at, 11.
Exeter, N.H., 117, 118, 125, 126, 433.
—— Combination, 1639, 117.
—— Conventions, 1775, 122.
—— The Phillips Academy, 433.
Faevor, Nicholas, sentenced for murder, 61.
Fairfax, George, sentenced for burglary, etc., 57.
Fairfield, William, elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, 25.
Fairlee, Vt., 135.
Fall River, Mass., 68.
Falmouth, Me., 113 n.
Falstaff, Sir John, 487.
Familiar Letters, Domestic & Forren, by James Howell, cited 93 n.
Faneuil, Peter (1700–1743), signs agreement about Land Bank Scheme, 18.
—— family, 200.
Faneuil Hall, Boston, 440.
Farlong, Goodman, 453.
Farm School, Thompson’s Island, Boston Harbor. Martin Brimmer a Director of, 339.
Farmington, Conn., 105.
Farnsworth Art School, Wellesley College, Martin Brimmer delivers address at opening of, 1889, 341.
Fast proclamation, 1681, 118.
Favor. See Faevor.
Fay, Jonas, 135.
Fayal, Island of, Azores, 424 n.
Faye, Hervé Auguste Étienne Albans, 480; comet bearing his name, 480.
Fayerweather, John, 459 n.
Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and other Organic Laws of the United States, by Ben: Perley Poore, cited. 408 n.
Federation of Labor, District of Columbia, measure to make merit the test of employment, endorsed by, 366
Felt, Rev. Joseph Barlow (1789–1869). LL.D., his Historical Account of Massachusetts Currency, cited, 4 n.; his Ecclesiastical History of New England, cited, 410 n.
Felton, Cornelius Conway (1807–1862), LL.D., President of Harvard College, 78, 436.
Fens, the. Sec Back Bay Fens.
Fenwick, Elizabeth, sister of Col. George. See Cullick.
—— Col. George (d. 1657), of Saybrook, Conn., 104.
Fiall See Fayal.
Field, Edward, A.M., xxiii.
Fifty Years with the Revere Copper Company, by Samuel T. Snow, cited, 398 n.; quoted. 399.
Finch, John, his Travels in the United States and Canada, cited, 435 n.
Fires in Boston. See under Boston.
First Church or Parish of Boston, of Cambridge, of Newburyport, of Plymouth. See names of these places.
First Presbyterian Church, Newburyport, 178 n.
Fisher, Daniel, his Diary, quoted, 270, 271.
—— Rev. George Park, LL.D., xxiii.
—— John, removed from office of Justice of the Peace, 20.
—— Samuel Ware, his Semi-Centennial Celebration of Hamilton College, cited, 435 n.
Fitch, Rev. James, 105.
Fitchburg, Mass., 473.
—— Historical Society, its purposes, 473.
Fitts, Lieut. Abraham, diary of, 127.
Fitzmaurice. See Petty-Fitzmaurice.
Fitzwilliam, N. H., 125.
Flag. See Flagg.
Flagg, Gershom, 232; deposition of, 233, 236.
—— Grizzel Apthorp. See Gould.
Fletcher, Col. Benjamin, 106.
—— Rev. Seth, 113 n.
Florence, Italy, 480.
Flynt, John, sentenced for manslaughter, 62.
Follen Street, Cambridge, 284.
Folsom, Charles, 416 n.
Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder, his Annals of King’s Chapel, cited, 45 n., 176 n., 388 n., 396 n.
Forbes, John Malcom, 365.
Forbes (Robert Bennett, Jr.) v. The Old Colony Railroad Company, 78.
Ford, Paul Leicester, his Who was the Mother of Franklin’s Son, mentioned, 270.
—— Worthington Chauncey, xxiii.
Fornication, trials for, 56, 58, 63.
Fort at Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Admiral Knowles not saluted by, 234.
Fort Dummer, N. H., 120, 121, 129; Address at meeting of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association at, by ltev. George L. Walker, cited, 220 n.
Fort Edward, N. Y., 86.
Fort Erie, Ontario, battle and capture of, 138.
Fort Independence, Boston Harbor, 159. See Castle William.
Fort Massachusetts Historical Society, incorporation of, its objects, 473.
Fort Port Louis, Hispaniola, 228.
Fort William and Mary, Newcastle, N. H., 120, 121.
Fort William Henry, Pemaquid, Me., 133 n.; Suffolk Court Files contain papers relating to, 323.
Fortescue, Major-Gen. Richard (d. 1655), 164; death of, 165; affairs in Jamaica in charge of, 170.
Forty Years’ Familiar Letters, by J. W. Alexander, cited, 435 n.
Foster, Abiel, 131.
Four. See Township Number Four.
Fowle, Daniel. See Rogers and Fowle.
Fowler, Richard, sentenced for piracy, 61.
Fownell, John, 174.
Foxcroft, John, relations between Benjamin Franklin and, paper by A. P. C. Griffin, 267–271; joint Postmaster-General of America with Franklin, 269; Deputy Postmaster-General of North America, 269; agent for the British packets at New York, 269; death of, 269.
—— Mary (Osgood). 268, 269, 270.
Framingham Academy, Framingham, Mass., 478.
France, 47, 95, 162, 190, 202, 223, 229, 241, 337, 344, 363, 412, 480, 488; restoration of Acadia to, not agreeable to republicans in England or New England, 161.
Francis, Tappan Eustis, M.D., 202.
Franconia, N. H., 125.
Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790), LL.D., paper on his daughter, Mrs. John Foxcroft, by A. P. C. Griffin, vi, 267–271.
—— Deborah (Read), wife of Benjamin Franklin, 270, 271.
—— Elizabeth (Downs), wife of Governor William Franklin, 268.
—— James, Postmaster of Boston (1754–1756), 269 n.
—— Sally. See Bache.
—— William (1729–1813), Governor of New Jersey, 268, 270 n.
Franklin Medal, won by Dr. Gould in 1840, 478.
Franklin Place, Boston, 348.
Free School at Portsmouth, N. H., 1708, 118.
Free Soilers, 410; Darwin E. Ware allied with, 444.
Freeholders, attempt in 1634 to create two distinct ranks in Massachusetts, one to consist of, 409.
Freeman, Edward Augustus, his History of the Norman Conquest, cited, 331 n.
—— James (1759–1835), D.D., 175, 176.
—— John Ripley, Chief of the Inspection Department of the Factory Mutuals, 69.
—— Jonathan, 131.
—— Sir Ralph, Lord Mayor of London, 92.
Freemasonry, 296; Dr. Gould’s devotion to, 297, 307, 308, 487.
Freemen in several Connecticut towns, 105.
Fremont, N. H., 125.
French, the, 111, 161, 163, 220, 253, 377, 389.
—— and Indian Wars, 107, 120, 121 n., 126 n., 127.
—— Academy, address before, by Dr. Gould, 297.
—— Legion of Honor, Gen. Walker an officer of, 315.
—— Papers, edited by the Abbé Casgrain, 96.
—— Protestant Refugees, 242.
—— Protestants, their petition for citizenship, 241, 242.
—— Settlements in America, 218 n., 223 n.
—— War (1744–1748), 133 n.
—— War, Old (1753–1763), 125, 133 n.; Jotham Gay an officer of the Provincial forces in the, 389.
Friend Street, Boston, 391 n.
Frost v. Leighton, paper on the suit of, by A. McF. Davis, 246–264; Ralph Gulston licensed by King to cut wood in the Province of Maine for masts for the Royal Navy, 1730, 219; Gulston appoints Samuel Waldo of Boston his agent, 250; Waldo employs William Leighton to superintend the cutting and loading, 250; land on which trees were cut owned by John Frost, 250; title to it alleged to have been in the Crown at granting of charter of William and Mary, 250; Frost brings suit in the lnferiour Court of Common Pleas, in 1733–34, 250; William Shirley, Leighton’s attorney, 251; trees cut viewed and allowed by the surveyor-general, 251; Frost gets judgment against Leighton, 251; Leighton appeals to the Superiour Court of Judicature, 252; loses his case, 252; amount of judgment collected from, 252; moves for an appeal to the Privy Council, 252; refused by the Court, 252; petitions Privy Council, 253; petitions for reversal of judgments in the Province Courts, 253; appeal referred to the Lords of the Committee of Council for hearing appeals from the Plantations, 253; they recommend reversal of judgments, 253; they obtain a Royal Order for this purpose, 254; Leighton employs William Bollan in place of Shirley, 254; Bollan moves that the Superiour Court of Judicature should issue execution against Frost to compel him to restore the amount of the judgment collected from Leighton, 254; Court decides that it has no authority to give such execution, 255; Bollan petitions the Governor to cause the Royal Order to be complied with, 255; Governor lays the petition before the Council, which decides against it with his approval, 256; Leighton petitions the Privy Council to have the Royal Order enforced, 257; petition referred to committee of Council and another Order sent, with the command that the former Order be enforced, 258; Bollan announces his intention of appearing before the Superiour Court to move for an execution, 250; he petitions the Governor to support the Royal authority, 259; petition referred to Council, who vote to recommend the Court to proceed, 259; he presents memorial and petition based on the Royal Order for an execution against Frost, to compel him to restore Leighton’s money, 260; Noah Emery, attorney for Frost, files a written answer, 260; Court decides that it has no authority to order such an execution, 262.
Frost, John, of Berwick, Me. See Frost v. Leighton.
—— Nicholas, sentenced for stealing, 56.
Frothingham, Richard, Jr. (1812–1880), his History of Charlestown, cited, 159 n., 160 n.
—— Sarah Willard. See Wigglesworth.
Fryeburg, Me., 351.
Fuller, James, sentenced for calling upon the Devil, 63.
—— Hon. Melville Weston, LL.D., xxiii.
—— Thomas, 469.
Fullerton, John, 469.
Gage, General Thomas (1721–1787), Governor of Massachusetts, 96, 380 n.
Gaines, Josiah, deposition of, 234, 235, 237.
Gains. See Gaines.
Gallaudet College, Washington, D. C., 434.
Gallop, Benjamin, one of the owners of the brigantine Charles, 72.
Gallows Bay (later, Roxbury Bay or Harbor, or South Bay), Boston, 233.
Galusha, Jonas, Governor of Vermont, 138.
Gannet. See Gannett.
Gannett, Rev. Caleb, Steward of Harvard College, 383 n.
—— Katherine (Wendell), 383 n.
Gantlop (Gautelop), Walter Gendall to run the, 1676, 63.
Garden Street, Cambridge, 459.
Gardiner, Sir Christopher, 125.
—— Dr. Silvester (1707–1786), 195.
Gardner, William, 131.
Garlick, “Goody” Elizabeth, wife of Joshua, accused of witchcraft, 1657, 104.
—— Joshua (d. 1700), of East Hampton, Long Island, N. Y., 104.
Gaspee, the schooner, 133 n.
Gastaldi, Jacomo (Jacopo) di, 111.
Gatchell, Joseph, sentenced for blasphemy, 60. See Getchell.
Gath, 165.
Gatliff. See Gatliffe.
Gatliffe, Jonathan, 459 and note.
—— Jonathan, Jr., 450, 459 and note, 467.
—— Mary, 459 n.
—— Thomas, 459 and note.
Gatline. See Gatliffe.
Gauss, Karl Friedrich (1777–1855), 291, 481; Dr. Gould a pupil of, 480.
Gay, Rev. Ebenezer (H. C. 1714), D.D., of Hingham, Mass., 384, 390 n., 391, 400.
—— Ebenezer (H. C. 1789), son of Capt. Martin, 384, 395, 397, 399.
—— Frances, daughter of Capt. Martin, 382, 390.
—— Frederick Lewis, xxi, xxii, 324; gives photogravure of Admiral Knowles, vi; thanked, vii; paper by, on the site of Governor Winthrop’s first house in Boston, 86–90; his John Gay of Dedham, Mass., and Some of his Descendants, cited, 384 n., 390; of nominating committee, 438.
—— Jerusha (Bradford), wife of Rev. Ebenezer, 390 n., 391.
—— Jerusha, daughter of Rev. Ebenezer. See Howard.
—— John, the emigrant, of Dedham, Mass., 384 n.
—— Col Jotham, brother of Capt. Martin, 380, 389.
—— Capt. Martin (1726–1809), son of Rev. Ebenezer, of Hingham, an American Loyalist, his portrait, vii, xix, 379; plans of his estate in Union Street, Boston, vii, xix, 391; paper on, by President Wheelwright, 379–400; his commission as captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 379, 384; invited to dine with the Governor and Council on Election Day, 1773, 379, 385; an eyewitness of the battle of Bunker Hill, 379, 381, 389; letters from 380, 382; elected Deacon of the West Church, Boston, 385; carries the communion plate and linen to Nova Scotia, 385; returns them after the Revolution and is thanked by the Church, 386; Assay-master of Boston from 1758–1774, 386; chosen a Fireward, 386; chosen a Warden, 387; deeds to, 390 and note, 391; death of, 397; portrait of, 400; buried in the Granary Burial Ground, 400.
—— Martin (1760–1778), son of Capt. Martin, 380, 388–390.
—— Mary (Pinckney), first wife of Capt. Martin, 384, 395 and note.
—— Mary, daughter of Capt. Martin. See Black.
—— Mary Allyne (Otis), wife of Ebenezer (H. C. 1789), 397.
—— Pinckney, son of Capt. Martin, 384.
—— Ruth (Atkins), second wife of Capt. Martin, 383, 390, 392, 393 and note, 394–396, 397 and note, 399; letter from, 382; death of, 384.
—— Samuel (H. C. 1775), son of Capt. Martin, 381, 388–390.
—— Winckworth Allan, son of Ebenezer (H. C. 1789), 395; letters of Capt. Martin Gay and his wife Ruth in possession of, 379; original commission of Martin Gay as Captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in possession of, 384; portrait of Martin Gay in possession of, 400.
Gay to Gay (Ebenezer and Jerusha; Martin), deeds, 391.
Gebson. See Gibson.
Gendall, Walter, sentenced for trying to betray the inhabitants into the hands of the Indians, 63.
Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, by T. B. Wyman, cited, 157 n., 160 n., 425 n.
General Congress. See Congress.
—— Court. See Massachusetts.
Geneseo, New York, 337.
Genesis of the United States, by Alexander Brown, mentioned, 95.
Gentleman’s Magazine, The, quoted, 249 n., 269.
George I., King of England, 26–28, 38 n.
George II., King of England, 27, 38 n., 47, 154, 223, 229, 407.
George III., King of England, 121.
Georgetown, Maine, 119.
Georgia, 111; no archives published by State of, 96; Trustees appointed by charter of 1732 all commoners except Viscount Perceval, 414; became a royal Province in 1752, 414; Historical Collections of, by George White, cited, 414 n.
Gerard, John (1545–1612), 188; his Herbal edited by Thomas Johnson, mentioned, 182; cited, 183 n.
Germany, 290, 291, 337, 363, 480, 481.
Gerrish, Benjamin, petitions the Legislature in 1740 to suppress the Land Bank scheme, 15, 16.
Gesellschaft, Astronomische, Leipsic, Germany, 488.
—— Königliche, der Wissenschaften, Göttingen, Germany, 488.
Getchell, Bethiah, to answer for lying, 63. See Gatchell.
Gibbes, Lewis Reeve, his article in La Borde’s History of the South Carolina College, cited, 435 n.
Gibbons, John, 195.
Gibbs, Mary, sentenced for immorality, 59. See Gibbes.
—— Oliver Wolcott, LL.D., xxiii.
Gibson, John (c. 1601–1694), of Cambridge, Mass., 451, 456 n., 459, 464.
—— Samuel (1644–1709), son of John, prosecuted in 1685 for frequenting Harvard College contrary to law, paper on, by John Noble, 448–470; examined, in 1678, for breaking open Elizabeth Belcher’s house, 456 n.; appeals to the Court of Assistants, 456 n.; his petition to County Court, 456 n.; attorney to Nathaniel Oliver in Oliver v. Ray, 457 n., 458 n.; case of Gove P. Gibson, 457 n., 458 n.; his reasons of appeal from the County Court to the Court of Assistants, 464–460; answer to the reasons of appeal, 466–468; verdict, 469.
—— Sarah, wife of Samuel, 453.
Gifford, Haddington, near Edinburgh, Scotland, 221.
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (c. 1539–1583), 110.
Gilman, Daniel Coit, LL.D., xxiii.
—— Col. David, 127.
—— Edmund, 126.
—— Joseph, 131.
—— Nicholas, 131.
Gilmanton, N.H., 126.
Gilsum, N. H., 126.
Gloucester County, Vt., 134.
Glover, ——, Mr., 1742, 155.
—— Elizabeth (Harris), widow of Rev. Josse. See Dunster.
—— John, 425 n.
—— Rev. Jose or Josse (? Joshua), 419 n., 420 n.
—— Priscilla. See Appleton.
Glover Memorials, cited, 419 n.
—— property, 425 n.
Goad, Benjamin, sentenced for bestiality. 61.
Goble, Daniel, sentenced for murder, 61.
—— Stephen, sentenced for murder, 61.
Goddard, Caroline Langdon. See Weld.
—— John, 477.
—— Lucretia (Dana), 476.
—— Lucretia Dana, 476.
—— Nathaniel, 476.
Godfrey to Gay (James and Mary Godfrey; Martin Gay), deed, 391.
Godwin, Parke, 368; his Memorial Address on Governor Andrew, referred to, 351; cited, 354 n.
Goff. See Goffe.
Goffe, Edward, 451.
—— Samuel, Jr., prosecuted, in 1685, for frequenting Harvard College contrary to law, 449–451, 456 n., 460, 465. See Gibson, Samuel.
Goffe Homestead, Cambridge, 451.
Goffstown, N. H., 126.
Goldsmid, Edmund, F.R.H.S., his edition of Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, quoted, 190.
Gomez, Estevan, 111.
Goodale, George Lincoln, LL.D., vi, xxii; reads paper on early New England Plants, 180–194; his remarks on death of Dr. Gould, 304–307; his remarks on death of Gen. Walker, 315.
Goodell, Abner Cheney, Jr., A.M., xxii, 201, 324, 328; gives copies of the Commissions of Vice-Admiral issued to the Royal Governors of New England, v; suggests reason for suppressing facts concerning Land Bank, 39 n.; reads paper on Capt. John Quelch, the pirate, 71–77; his edition of the Province Laws mentioned, 95; his identification of handwriting of Samuel Shaw, 144; his gift of portrait of Samuel Sewall, 145; his remarks on death of Martin Brimmer, 200; reads paper on Massachusetts House Journals, 1644–1657, 205–207; his remarks when presenting a copy of a proclamation by Governor Hancock, 210, 211; presents a copy of Edwin M. Bacon’s Supplement to the Early Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, 243; his remarks on A. McF. Davis’s paper on the suit of Frost v. Leighton, 264; unable to write a Memoir of Judge Austin, 274; speaks at Annual dinner, 279; his remarks on John Noble’s paper on Early Court Files, 326, 327; communication from, on the Dunster Letter, 429, 430; his work on the Province Laws extolled by Justice Devens, 458 n.
Goodsonn, Vice-Admiral William (fl. 1634–1662), 164, 168, 170; extract from letter of, 172.
Goodwin, George. See Hudson and Goodwin.
—— William Watson, D.C.L., xxi, xxii, 406; his remarks on the use of the word Dissenter in will establishing the Mary Saltonstall Scholarship, 46; elected Vice-President, 150, 278; occupies chair at Annual dinner, 156; his remarks on death of Martin Brimmer, 198; his remarks on A. McF. Davis’s paper on the suit of Frost v. Leighton, 264; absent in Europe, 282.
Goodyeare, Stephen, Deputy-Governor of Connecticut, 109.
Gookin, Major-Gen. Daniel (c. 1612–1687), 420 n., 452, 453, 469; of committee to examine the state of Harvard College in 1654, 418; one of the Commissioners for the College, 424; homestead of, in Cambridge, 454 and note; an Overseer of Harvard College, 461.
Gooking. See Gookin.
Gordon, Rev. William, his History of the War of Independence, mentioned, 329.
Gore, Christopher (1758–1827), Governor of Massachusetts, 395, 396 and note, 397 and note.
—— Frances (Pinkney), 395.
—— family Genealogy cited, 396 n.
Gorges, Sir Ferdinando (c. 1566–1647), 112, 113 n., 117, 124, 128; grant of Province of Maine to, and heirs, 411; authority given to, to introduce the Church of England as the established State Church, 411; given all privileges of Bishopric of Durham, 411; death of, 411; Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his Province of Maine, cited, 411 n.
Gorham, Col. Joseph, extracts from his notes on a military expedition to Cuba, read by G. L. Kittredge, 430
—— Judge Nathaniel (1738–1796), letter from Nathan Dane to, communicated by H. H. Edes, 470, 471; biographical sketch of, 471 n.
Goshen, N. H., 126.
Gosnold, Capt. Bartholomew, 184, 191.
Gotha, Germany, Observatory at, 480.
Göttingen, Germany, 480; chair of Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory at, offered to Dr. Gould, 291, 481; Dr. Gould a Doctor of Philosophy of, 296; Dr. Gould a Corresponding Member of the Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften of, 488.
Gould, Alice Bache, daughter of Dr. Gould, 488.
—— Capt. Benjamin, grandfather of Dr. Gould, 477.
—— Benjamin Apthorp (H. C. 1814), father of Dr. Gould, 477.
—— Benjamin Apthorp, LL.D., v, vi, xxii, 85 n., 201, 204, 210, 315, 329, 474, 489, 490; his portrait, frontispiece; presides at meetings of Society, 1, 41, 67, 140, 154, 180, 196, 213, 241, 272; elected President, 150, 278; presides at Annual dinner, 152, 279; speaks at Annual dinner, 153; his remarks on Dr. Goodale’s paper on Early New England Plants, 194; his remarks on death of Dr. Wigglesworth and Dr. Slade, 196–198; his address to the Society at Annual meeting, 272, 273; death of, xxiv, 280, 487; genealogy of the Gould family prepared by, 281, 303, 476; Vice-President of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 281, 302; member of the American Antiquarian Society, 281, 480; his social qualities and friendships, 281, 285, 307, 487; Memorial meeting in honor of, 282–312; suffers from calumny and injustice, 283; his Stars of the Southern Hemisphere (unfinished), mentioned, 284; dedication of, 294, 482; his life at “Clover Den,” Cambridge, 284; dinner given to, on his return from South America in 1885, 284, 290, 484, 485; his love for the classics, 286, 297, 479; his retentive memory, 286, 297, 479; admiration for the members and proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science the cause of his change of studies, 288, 479; writes on this subject at the beginning of his senior year, 288, 300, 479; college roommate of Francis Parkman, 288; effect of Dr. Walker’s preaching on, 289, 486; called the Argelander of America, 290; chair of Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory at Göttingen offered to, 291, 481; said to have translated an ode of Horace at five years of age, 296; Principal of the Roxbury Latin School, 296, 479; a teacher of modern languages in Cambridge, 296, 480; a Doctor of Philosophy of Gottingen, 296; delivers an address before the French Academy, 297; his fondness for old matters, 297; his attachment to Freemasonry. 297; disquisition on The Infinite in Mathematics at Commencement, 300; his Autobiography in the Class History, quoted, 300, 301; his lack of declamatory ability, 301, 478; a member of ΦBK, 301, 478; Vice-President of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati; 302, 303, 486; Vice-President of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, 302, 303, 486; member of the Bostonian Society, 303; member of the St. Botolph Club, 303; his business ability, 303, 481; his efforts to put American astronomy on equal footing with that of Europe, 303, 480; a University his conception of the highest type of a scientific organization, 304; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 304; Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, 304; his views relative to higher education in his Address to the ΦBK Fraternity at Hartford, quoted, 304, 305, 306; member of the Lodge of St. Andrew in Boston, 307; Deputy-Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, 308, 487; receives complimentary Degree known as the Thirty-third, 308; his standing in the Harvard Peerage, 309; receives decoration from Prussia of Knight of the Order for Merit, 309; represents United States government in the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, 311; labors for the establishment of the Metric System in the United States, 311; letter from H. H. Edes proposing that the Memorial to, take the form of an endowment fund, 311, 312; Edward Wheelwright to succeed him as president, 375; his wish for an endowment fund, 376; committee selected by, to consider the endowment fund, 377, 379; Prof. Thayer pall-bearer at funeral of, 438; Memoir of, communicated by S. Lothrop Thorndike, 475; Memoir of, 476–488; his birth, 476; his ancestry, 476, 477; receives a Franklin Medal, 478; of the class of 1841, Harvard College, 478; his bachelor household in Cambridge, 480; establishes the Astronomical Journal, 481; appointed on the United States Coast Survey, in 1855, 481; appointed Director of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, in 1855, 481; his marriage to Miss Quincy, 482; appointed to compute the astronomical observations of the Washington Observatory, 462; first memoir pubished by the National Academy of Sciences prepared by, 482; Actuary of the United States Sanitary Commission, 482; second memoir presented to the National Academy by, 483; builds a small Observatory in Cambridge, 483; his project for a three years’ expedition to Cordoba, 483; death of children and wife, 484; public welcome to, in 1874, 484; dinner to, by classmates and friends, in 1883, 484; poem to, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 485; resumes the publication of the Astronomical Journal, 485; President of the American Metrological Society, 486; his interest in botany, 486; special representative to the Argentine Republic, of the highest Masonic body in the Northern United States, 487; meets with accident in Boston in 1895, 487; principal academic degrees and honors received by, 488. See also President, under Colonial Society.
—— Benjamin Apthorp (H. C. 1891), son of Dr. Gould, 488.
—— Grind Apthorp (Flagg), wife of Capt. Benjamin, 477.
—— Hannah Flagg, the poetess, daughter of Capt. Benjamin, 296, 477.
—— Lucretia Goddard, daughter of Dr. Gould, 488.
—— Mary Apthorp (Quincy), wife of Dr. Gould, Dr. Gould’s Zone Catalogue of Southern Stars dedicated to, 294, 482.
—— Mary Quincy. See Thorndike.
—— Susan Morton Quincy, daughter of Dr. Gould, 488.
—— Rev. Thomas, minister of the First Baptist Church, Boston, 425.
—— Zaccheus, the emigrant, 476.
Gourgues, Dominique de, 111.
Gove, Edward, 128.
—— John, 450, 452, 455, 457 n.
Gove (John) v. Gibson (Samuel), 457 and note.
Governor’s Pew in King’s Chapel, reserved for the King’s representative and royal favorites, 44.
Grace, a negress, sentenced for murder, 64.
Graces, Little Baddow, Essex, England, 417 n.
Grafton family, 351 n.
Grafton, N. H., 126.
—— County, N. H., 126.
Grahame, James (1790–1842), LL.D., his History of the United States, cited, 213 n.
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, 400.
Grand Army of the Republic, John A. Andrew Post of the, John F. Andrew’s interest in, 367; an Honorary Member of, 374.
—— Jury, finds Bill of Indictment against William Vesey for high misdemeanor, 65.
—— Lodge of Massachusetts, Dr. Gould Deputy Grand Master of, 308, 487.
Grant, Peter, sentenced for piracy, 61.
Grantham, N. H., 126.
Gray, Asa (1810–1888), D.C.L., his article on plants in the Memorial History of Boston, mentioned, 193.
—— Chief-Justice Horace, LL.D., 265; his interest in the Early Court Files of Suffolk, 318, 326.
Great Awakening of 1735, reaction from, leads to wider liberalism and ecclesiastical formalism, 44.
Great Bridge, Hartford, Conn., 134.
Great Britain, 13, 31, 47, 90 n., 136, 154, 166, 223, 225, 226, 229, 230, 239, 242, 249 n., 381, 383, 400, 402; treaty of amity and alliance between France and, mentioned, 74 n.; archives of, 98. See also Calendars; England; Historical Manuscripts Commission; Lords, House of; Parliament; Privy Council; Public Record Office; State Papers.
Great island, N. H., 118.
Great St. Helen’s, London, England, 250 n.
Greaton, Col. John, 86.
Greece, 292.
Green, Ashbel, President of Princeton College, 432; his Discourses, quoted, 432.
—— Bartholomew, printer, 402; B. Green and J. Allen, 130.
—— Charles Montraville, M.D., xxii; his remarks on death of Dr. Wigglesworth, 204; helps to defray cost of repairing the Dunster tomb, 416 n.
—— Joseph, 155.
—— Samuel, 456.
—— Samuel Abbott, LL.D., 406.
—— Samuel Swett, A.M., xxii.
—— Timothy, printer, 108.
Green (Timothy 3d) & Spooner (Judah Paddock), printers, 108.
Green, The, Boston, 88; offered to First Church in 1639 as site for Meeting-house, 87.
Green Dragon Tavern Estate, Boston; residence of Dr. William Douglass, 222; attached, 229; made a hospital during the Revolution, 387.
Green Mountains, Vt., 136.
Greene, Gen. Nathaniel (1742–1786), 133 n.
Greenfield (Mass.) Gazette and Courier, cited, 220 n.
Greenfield, N. H., 126.
Greenland, 110.
—— N. H., 126.
Greenough, James Bradstreet, A.B., xxiii.
Greenwich, Kent, England, 481.
Greenwood, Francis William Pitt, D.D., 477.
Gretian, Elizabeth. See Pinkney.
Gridley, Jeremiah, power of attorney to, to prosecute suits for libel, 219; copy of power of attorney to, in Suffolk Court Files, 236, 238; original of same, 238.
Griffin, Appleton Prentiss Clark, vi, xxiii; Bibliography of the Historical Publications of the New England States, prepared and given to Society by, 94, 95–139; thanked by Society for, 95; elected Resident Member, 179; reads paper on Franklin’s daughter, Mrs. John Foxcroft, 267–271; accepts membership, 274.
—— Richard, sentenced for piracy and murder, 62.
Griggs, Jacob, 50.
Grimstead, Manor of, erected, in 1664, in New York, 412.
Grocers’ Company, the, London, Sir Thomas Mowlson a member of, 92; list of Lord Mayors who have been members of, 92; A Short Account of the Company of Grocers, from their Original, together with their Case and Condition (in their present circumstances) Truly Stated, cited. 92 n.; Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the City of London, by John Benjamin Heath, cited, 92 n.
Grosbois, Pierre Boucher de. Governor of Three Rivers, Canada. 378.
Groton (Mass.) Historical Society, The, incorporation of, 2.
Groton, N. H., 126.
Growler, the United States sloop, 138.
Guild. See Guile.
Guildhall Library, London, 91, 92, 93 n., 249 n.; owns manuscript notes collected by J. J. Stocken, 93.
Guile, Samuel, sentenced for rape, 61.
Guilford, Conn., 105.
Guilford Plantation, Conn., 109 n.
Gulston, Joseph, Dean of Chichester and Chaplain and Almoner of Charles I., 250 n.
—— Sir Ralph, knighted on the field of Cressy by the Black Prince, 1346, 250 n.
—— Ralph, of London, licensed by the King to cut trees in the Province of Maine and colonies of New England where the woods were reserved to the Crown, for masts for the Royal Navy, 249, 250, 251, appoints Samuel Waldo of Boston his agent, 250, 251; a Turkey Merchant, 249 n.; death of, 249 n.; member of a distinguished family, 250 n.; appeals to Duke of Newcastle about his contract for masts, 252, 253 n.
—— William, 250 n.
Gunnison, Hugh, 113 n.
Hackett, Frank Warren, 129 n.
Hackluyt. See Hakluyt.
Haddam, Conn., 105.
Haddington County, Scotland, 221.
Hadley, Authur Twining, LL.D., xxiii.
Hageman, John Frelinghuysen, his History of Princeton and its Institutions, cited, 434 n., 435 n.
Hakluyt, Richard (c. 1552–1616), his Discourse on Western Planting, mentioned, 99, 111, 112; his Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, edited by Edmund Goldsmid, quoted, 190 n.
Haldimand. Gen. Frederick, 136.
Haldimand Papers, The, 96, 136.
Hale, Hon. George Silsbee, A.M., vi, xxii; deceased, xxiv, 286; his remarks on death of Leverett Salton-stall. 80, 81; offers resolution on death of, 85; his remarks on death of Martin Brimmer, 198; on death of Dr. Slade, 198; communicates copy of petition of Martin Brimmer and others for citizenship, 241; to write a Memoir of Martin Brimmer, 274; chairman of committee to prepare resolutions on death of Dr. Gould, 282 n.; reads resolutions, 283; his remarks on death of Dr. Gould, 308; on death of Gen. Walker, 315; communicates Memoir of Martin Brimmer, 328; Memoir, 337–347; his remarks on death of George O. Shattuck, 406, 407; Darwin E. Ware a partner of, 441.
—— Sir Matthew (1609–1676), his attempt in 1668 to investigate death of Nonconformists thwarted, 43.
—— Robert, resigns his office as Justice of the Peace, 19; removed and dismissed from said office, 20; a Director of the Manufactory Company, 20, 26, 33 n., 46, 48; chosen Collector of Excise, 26.
Hales, Sara, sentenced for misbehavior, 58.
Half Way Rock, Massachusetts Bay, 62.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 177 n., 382, 388, 390, 394, 400.
Hall, Benjamin Homer, his College Words and Customs, mentioned, 431.
—— Rev. Edward Henry, his address at funeral of D. E. Ware, quoted, 440.
—— Hiland, 135.
—— Hugh, 33 n.; signs agreement concerning Land Bank Scheme, 18.
—— William. See Chapman and Hall.
Hallowell, Benjamin, 231; deposition of, 235, 237.
Hamilton, Walter, 48.
Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., Semi-Centennial Celebration of, cited, 435 n.
Hammond, Isaac Ware, edits New Hampshire Town Papers, 125.
—— Joseph, deposition of, 239.
Hampshire County Mass., 325.
Hampstead, N. H., 126.
Hampton, N. H., 117, 118, 126, 128.
Hampton Falls, N. H., 118, 126.
Hancock, John (1737–1793), Governor of Massachusetts, 297, 387; copy of proclamation by, presented by A. C. Goodell, Jr., 210–212.
—— Deacon Nathaniel (1638–1719), of Cambridge, Mass., 456 n., 459, 464.
—— Thomas (1702–1764), merchant of Boston, uncle of Gov. John, power of attorney to, to prosecute suits for libel, 219; copy of power of attorney to. in Suffolk Court Files, 236, 238; original of same, 238.
—— Major Gen. Winfield Scott (1824–1886), called “the Superb,” 314; Gen. Walker writes upon, 316.
Hancock, N. H., 126.
Hanover, Germany, 200, 242, 337, 347.
—— N. H., 124, 126, 127, 137. See Dartmouth College; Dresden.
Hanover Street, Boston, 391 n.
Harbor and Land Commission, Massachusetts, D. E. Ware’s work on, 442, 446.
Harbor Commissioners, Massachusetts Board of, D.E. Ware a member of, 441.
—— Islands, Boston, John F. Andrew favors re-foresting the, 371.
Harding, Capt. Robert, 88, 89.
Hargrave, Cheshire, England, 90, 93.
—— St. Peter’s Church, 90.
Hargrave Farm, Cheshire, England, 90.
Ilargravehall Farm, Cheshire, England, 90.
Hargrave-Green, Cheshire, England, 90.
Hargrave Old Hall, Cheshire, England, 90.
Hargrave-Stubbs, Cheshire, England, 90.
Hariot (Harriot), Thomas (1560–1621), notices of New England plants by, 194.
Harris, Elizabeth. See Glover.
—— Giles, 392.
—— William, 105.
Harrison, Benjamin, President of the United States, 359.
Hartford Colony, Conn., 422 and note.
Hartford (town), Conn., 104–110, 116 n., 134–136, 304.
—— Great Bridge, 134.
—— Theological Seminary, Conn., 44 n.
Harvard, Rev. John (1607–1638), 160, a graduate of Emmanuel College, 416.
Harvard Bridge, Boston and Cambridge, 285.
Harvard College or University, vi, 78, 117, 150, 151, 175, 176, 178, 179, 197, 201, 202, 204, 305, 336, 339, 345, 348, 351, 395, 404, 406, 430, 439, 455, 465, 466, 467, 477, 482; term-bills paid in produce, live-stock, meat, etc., 4; Mary Saltonstall Scholarship at, provision that it shall be given to a Dissenter, — meaning a member of the Congregational Church, 46; Class of 1844, Leverett Saltonstall a member of, 79; College class feeling dying out, 79; fiftieth anniversary of the Class of 1844, celebrated at the Alumni dinner, 1894, 80, 81, 84; Dr. Slade a member of it, 198, 203; Dr. Gould a member of it, 298, 478; “The Class of 1844 Harvard College, Fifty Years after Graduation,” cited, 300 n., mentioned, 477 and note; establishment of the Lady Mowlson Scholarship at, the only reason for interest in Sir Thomas Mowlson, 94; new information concerning first scholarship at, 143; creation of the Corporation of, thought to be an infringement of the Royal prerogative, 143; in 1642, Robert Sedgwick gives forty pounds to, and in 1646 conveys two shops in Boston to, 160; Quincy’s History of, cited, 160 n., 396 n., 402 n., 418 n., 419 n., 421 n., 422 n., 451 n.; quoted, 426; Rev. Samuel Gary a graduate of, 175; Dr. Webber, Hollis Professor at, 176; Stephen Higginson steward of, 177 n.; study of plants mentioned as one of the studies in the earliest account of, 182; medicine instead of botany taught in early days of, 183; Michael Wigglesworth a Fellow of, in 1652, 197; two of the Wigglesworth family Hollis Professors of Divinity at, 197; Dr. Slade Professor of Zoology and Lecturer on Osteology at, 198; questions to candidates for the Board of Overseers of, 300; Dr. Gould’s estimate of qualifications for degrees from, 300; Harvard Peerage, mentioned, 309; Gen. Walker a lecturer at, 314, 316; receives highest honors at, 314, 316; papers concerning, in Suffolk Court Files, 323; Martin Brimmer an Overseer and Fellow of, 340, 341; additional land for the extension of the Arnold Arboretum acquired by agreement with, 371; Reverend Caleb Gannett Steward of, 1779–1818, 383 n.; American troops quartered in buildings of, in 1775, 389; no public commencement in 1775, 389; Eleazar James a tutor at, 1781–1789, 399; Harvard commencement programme of 1723, paper on, by Andrew McF. Davis, 400–404; Lieut.-Gov. head of Overseers of, in absence of Governor, 402, 403; dedication of the theses of, in 1723, 403; George O. Shattuck an Overseer of, 406; students of, placed in Catalogue according to social rank till 1773, 411; title “Sir” applied to those preparing for the degree of Master of Arts, 411; Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, cited, 411 n., 419 n., 421 n., 422 n., 425 n., 449 n., 451 n., 452 n., 453 n., 454 n., 461 n.; letter of President Dunster concerning, 415, 419–424; Robert Willard a graduate of, 415; erection of first college building, 415, 426, 429; students assemble in Commons for first time in September, 1642, 415, 420, 428; Dunster the first President of, 416; his fitness for the office, 416; Eliot’s Sketch of History of, cited, 416 n., 417 n., 449 n., 451 n., 464 n.; order of General Court appointing committee to inquire into state of, 417, 418, 419; committee’s report not found, 424; General Court’s approval of report, 424, 425; Dunster resigns presidency of, 417, 418; Edward Jackson a benefactor of, 418 n.; gift to, from Cyguatea, 421 and note; Quinquennial Catalogue of, mentioned, 421 n., 450; Samuel Eaton one of the five original Fellows named in charter of 1650, 422 n.; Dr. Chauncy succeeds Dunster as President of, 425; The Early College Buildings at Cambridge, paper on, by A. McF. Davis, 426; Peirce’s History of, mentioned, 426; quoted 461 n.; records of Overseers of, 426; quoted, 460; records of the Corporation, quoted, 463; Government of College dined in first unfinished building at Commencement, 1642, 427, 428; Synod sat in Commons and dined there in 1643, 427; labors of Mr. Davis in tracing first scholarship and first college building, 429; in clearing up mystery of families of Mowlson and Radcliffe, 429; his papers upon the legal establishment of the Corporation of, when Andros assumed authority over finances of, 429; existence of Corporation of, not interrupted by the “Usurpation,” 429; Gorham Papers in Library of, 430; College Words and Customs by B. H. Hall, mentioned, 431; “Yard” used instead of “Campus” at, 433; portion of the College Yard, the site of Thomas Danforth’s estate, 460; law passed to intrust the choice of Overseers of, to the College Alumni, instead of the Legislature, through efforts of Darwin E. Ware, 441, 412, 446; Darwin F. Ware an Overseer of, 444, 446; Paper on the illegal frequenting of the College, 1685, by John Noble, 448–470; Indian College and new Harvard Hall the only College buildings, in 1685, 448; Thomas Danforth Treasurer of, 460; The Delta the site of his estate, 460; the College an object of peculiar solicitude from its foundation, 462; petition of John Eliot and others to the Magistrates to prevent students from wearing long hair, 463; Commencers having “plumb-cake” dishonorable to, 463; difference between early and present days of, 463, 464; Harvard Graduates’ Magazine for March, 1897, mentioned, 487; Dr. Gould’s degrees from, 488.
—— Agassiz Museum, 203.
—— Beck Hall. 451.
—— Boylston Hall, 454.
—— Hasty Pudding Club, 454.
—— Holmes Field, 460.
—— Jarvis Field, 460.
—— Law School, graduates of: Judge Austin, 150; John F. Andrew, 151, 352; George O. Shattuck, 406; Darwin E. Ware, 441.
—— Medical School, Edward Wigglesworth a graduate of, 204, 348; an instructor in Dermatology at, 205, 349; presents his models to, 348; Charles G. Weld a graduate of, 336.
—— Memorial Hall, suggestion that Darwin E. Ware’s portrait be hung in, 447.
—— Memorial Society, The, organized, 243; its objects, 243, 244. See also Cambridge.
Hassam, John Tyler, his Confiscated Estates of Boston Loyalists, cited, 393 n.
Hasty Pudding Club-house, Cambridge, Mass., occupies site of Gen. Gookin’s homestead, 454.
Hatch, Crowell, 330.
Hatchet, William, sentenced for bestiality, 61.
Hathaway, Francis Peck and Clara Sanborn, bill for mounting Photographs and Autographs of members for the Society’s Album, 148, 276.
—— John, sentenced for adultery, 62.
Hathorne, John, 469.
Havana, Cuba, 228.
Haven. Franklin (H. C. 1857), helps to defray cost of repairing the Dunster tomb, 416 n.
Haverhill, Mass., 68.
Hawaiian Islands, Judge Austin begins practice at, 150; Darwin E. Ware declines offer of a seat on the Supreme Bench of the, 411.
—— Civil and Criminal Codes of, 150.
Hawkins (Hawkyns), Sir John (1533–1595), 111.
—— Thomas, sentenced for piracy, 62.
—— William, sentenced for stealing, 63.
Hayden, Edward Daniel, M.C., 355.
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard (1822–1893), President of the United States, 339.
Haynes, Henry Williamson, 406.
Hazard, Samuel, edits Pennsylvania State Papers, 97; his Annals of Pennsylvania, cited, 413 n.
Hazeltine, Harold Dexter, his paper on appeals from Colonial Courts, mentioned, 247 n.
Hazzen, Richard, journal of, 129.
Heath, John Benjamin, 94; his Account of the Grocers’ Company of London, cited, 92 n.; omission in this Account of Sir Thomas Mowlson’s name as a member of the Grocers’ Company, 92, 94.
—— Peleg, sentenced for piracy and murder, 62; for stealing, 63.
Hecks. See Hicks.
Helsby, Thomas, his edition of the History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, cited, 90 n. See also Cheshire, England.
Hemenway, Augustus, A.B., xxii.
Henniker, N. H., 126.
Henry IV., King of France, 162.
Henry, John, 137.
Henshaw, Samuel, of committee to sell estates of Conspirators and Absentees, 394, 395.
Herbal, by John Gerard, mentioned, 182; cited, 183 n.
Hercules, 346.
Hereford Street, Boston, 374.
Hereward, by Rev. Charles Kingsley, mentioned, 331 n.
Hersey, Charles, 351.
—— Eliza (Jones), 351.
—— Eliza Jones. See Andrew.
Hertfordshire, England, 332.
Hewson, Mary, 268 and note.
—— William, F.R.S., 268 and note.
Hickbourne, Davy, sentenced for misbehavior, 58.
Hicks, Zechariah, 451.
—— Zechariah, Jr., 449–451, 460, 465.
Higgeson. See Higginson, Rev. Francis.
Higginson, Rev. Francis (1586–1630), his Mew England’s Plantation, quoted, 189, 190.
—— Louisa (Storrow), 177 n.
—— Stephen, Steward of Harvard College, 177 n.
High Church Party, overrules attempt in 1608 to investigate death of Nonconformists, 43.
High Sheriff, 454.
Hildreth, Richard (1807–1865), his History of the United States, quoted, 39 n.
Hilgard, Julius Erasmus, 311.
Hill, Deacon Valentine, member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 88.
Hill, N. H., 126.
Hills, Thomas, on Martin Brimmer, 340 and note.
Hills Family Genealogical and Historical Association, The, Boston, incorporation, etc., of, purposes of, 1 n.
Hillsborough, N. H., 126.
Hilton, Edward, 126.
—— Gustavus Arthur, LL.B., xxii; of committee on Dominations, 211.
Hilton’s Point Patent. See Squamscott Patent.
Hinckley, Thomas (c. 1618–1706), Governor of Plymouth Colony, 115 n.
Hindersam, Margaret, sentenced for light behavior, 58.
Hingham, Mass., 24, 85, 176, 351, 381, 384, 390 n., 397, 399; History of, cited, 170 n., 383 n.; quoted, 381; mentioned, 381 n., 389; home of John F. Andrew at, 374.
—— West, 379.
Hinsdale, N. H., 126.
Hirst, Elizabeth, 451.
Hispaniola, Island of (now Haiti), 165; Gen. Venables repulsed at, 103; reduction of fort of Port Louis at, 228.
Histoire de la participation de la France à l’établissement des États-Unis d’Amérique, by Henri Doniol, mentioned, 95.
Histoire des Canadiens-Français, by Benjamin Suite, mentioned, 378.
Historical Manuscripts, Fac-similes of, by B. F. Stevens, mentioned, 95.
Historical Manuscripts Commission (English), Reports of, quoted, (Shelburne Papers), 30 n.; mentioned, 95.
Historical Societies, and Organizations professing purposes of a similar nature, in Massachusetts, namely: —
—— American Antiquarian Society. See above.
—— Bostonian Society, 303.
—— Brookline Historical Publication Society, 244.
—— Banker Hill Monument Association. See above.
—— Daughters of the Revolution, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1 n.
—— Fitchburg Historical Society, 473.
—— Fort Massachusetts Historical Society, 473.
—— Historical Society of Old Newbury, 404.
—— Littleton Historical Society, 474.
—— Massachusetts Historical Society. See below.
—— Mendon Historical Society, 245.
—— Methuen Historical Society, 472.
—— Naval Order of the United States, Commandery of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, 1 n.
—— New England Historic Genealogical Society. See below.
—— South Boston Historical Society, 215.
—— The Billerica Historical Society, 473.
—— The Bunker Hill Historical Society, 472.
—— The Clinton Historical Society, 2.
—— The Colonial Society of Massachusetts. See above. Colonial Society.
—— The Groton Historical Society, 2.
—— The Harvard Memorial Society, 243.
—— The Hills Family Genealogical and Historical Association, Boston, 1 n.
—— The Lawrence Society of Natural History and Archaeology, 245 n.
—— The Manchester Historical Society, 474.
—— The Medford Historical Society, 473.
—— The Monson Historical Society, 472.
—— The Nantucket Historical Association, 2.
—— The New England Numismatic and Archæological Society, 472.
—— The North Brookfield Historical Society, 471.
—— The Old Bridgewater Historical Society, 215.
—— The Peabody Historical Society, 474.
—— The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 220 n.
—— The Quaboag Historical Society, 66, 472.
—— The Society of Mayflower Descendants, 473 n.
—— The Topsfield Historical Society, 85.
—— The Townsend Historical Society, 171.
Historical Society of Delaware, publishes Archives of State of Delaware, 96.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 130.
History of the United States, by James Grahame, cited, 213 n.
Hoadly, Charles Jeremy, edits New Haven Colony Records, 98, 105, 108–110.
Hoar, George Frisbie, United States Senator, 313.
—— Leonard (c. 1630–1675), President of Harvard College, 449.
—— Sherman, M.C., 367.
Hoare, Daniel, sentenced for murder, 61.
Hobart, Aaron, his Historical Sketch of Abington, quoted, 20 n.; cited, 23 n.
—— Rev. Noah, Hobart Controversy, 44, 45 n.; ordination sermon by, 44; his Serious Address, quoted, 45.
Hobby, Sir Charles, one of the owners of the brigantine Charles, 72, 119.
Hobson, John, chosen Speaker of the House of Representatives, 26.
Hodges, Richard Manning, M.D., 202.
Hogkins, John, Sachem of Pennacook
Indians, 118.
Holdek, Edward Singleton, LL.D., xxiii.
Holderness, N. H., 126.
Holdwell, a Manor near Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 332.
Holland, John, 88.
Holland, 161.
Hollis, N. H., 126.
Holmes, (John) and Ketcham (Solomon) v. Walton (Elisha), 247 n.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894), D.C.L., 448; his poems mentioned, 281; reads a poem at dinner to Dr. Gould. 485; poem quoted, 485.
Holmes Field, Cambridge, 460.
Holten, Dr. Samuel, Jr., 471 and note.
Holyoke Place, Cambridge, 420 n.
—— Street, Cambridge, 420 n., 454.
Home for Aged Colored Women, Boston, 336; John F. Andrew President of, 374.
Home Market Club, Boston, 362.
Homem, Diego, 111.
Hooksett, N. H., 126.
Hooper, Edward William, LL.D., xxiii.
Hooper, Lewis and Company (John Sewall Hooper, Charles Holden Hooper and John Lewis), Boston, stationers, 148.
Hopkins, Edward (1600–1657), Governor of Connecticut, 104.
—— Richard, sentenced for selling firearms to Indians, 56.
—— Stephen, his Rights of the Colonies Examined, mentioned, 133 n.
Hopkinton, N. H., 126.
Hore, “Master” Robert, 111, 191. See Hoar; Hoare.
House Journals (Massachusetts), partially burned in fires of 1711 and 1747, 206; cited and quoted, 401, 402; cited, 419 n.
House of Deputies. See under Massachusetts.
House of Representatives (National), 152.
Howard, Jerusha (Gay), 385.
—— Rev. Simeon, Pastor of the West Church in Boston, 1773, 385.
Howe, Archibald Murray, A.M., his remarks on the death of John F. Andrew, 151.
—— Elizabeth. See Sedgwick.
—— Gen. Sir William (1729–1814), 380.
Howell (Howel), James (c. 1594–1666), Clerk of the Privy Council, his Familiar Letters, cited, 93 and note.
Howes, George, 78.
Hoyt, Albert Harrison, his article on the Pepperell Papers, cited, 221 n.
Hubbard, Rev. William (1621–1704), his General History of New England quoted, 188 n.
Hubbart, Tuthill, Postmaster of Boston (1756–1776), 269 and note.
Hudson (Barzillai) & Goodwin (George), printers, 135, 136.
Hudson. John Elbridge, LL.B., xxiii, 441; elected Resident Member, 66.
Hudson, N. H., 126.
—— River, N. H., expedition against the Dutch on, 161.
Hudson’s Bay Company’s Lodges, 218 n.
Huguenot Congregation, in Boston, Martin Brimmer of Roxbury a member of, 200.
Huguenots, the, 200.
Hulins, Richard, sentenced for stealing, 63.
Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander (1769–1859), Baron von, 480.
Humiliation, setting apart days of, questioned by William Vesey, 65. See Thanksgiving.
Humphrey, Col. John, 165.
Hunt, William Morris, 309, 344.
Hunting, Samuel, sentenced for murder, 62.
Huntington, Rev. William Reed, D.D., xxiii.
Hurd, Duane Hamilton, his History of Middlesex County, cited, 160 n.
Huson. See Hewson.
Hutchinson, Mrs. Anne (Marbury), the Antinomian, wife of William, 89.
—— Judge Edward (1678–1752), Treasurer of Harvard College, 23, 33 n., 215; with other Boston merchants, subscribes the articles of the Silver Scheme of 1740–41, 15.
—— Col. Elisha (1641–1717), 89, 469.
—— Elisha (1743–1824), son of Gov. Thomas, 199.
—— Mary (Watson), wife of Elisha (1743–1821), 199.
—— Richard, of London (1597–1670), brother of William the emigrant, 88, 89.
—— Thomas (1711–1780), Governor of Massachusetts, 9, 10, 38 and note, 199, 380 n., 387, 410; his History of Massachusetts Bay, quoted, 7, 38 n., 42, 402; cited, 45, 387 n., 402 n., 403 n., 409 n., 411 n., 424 n.; opposed to Land Bank Scheme, 39 n.; Martin Gay’s commission signed by, 379, 384; list of Addressers of, cited, 387 n.
Hyde, Edmund Morris, his Lehigh University: A Historical Sketch, cited, 436 n.
—— Joseph, sentenced for murder, 64.
Hyde Park, Mass., Stony Brook Reservation, 371.
I, letter to be worn for crime of incestuous marriages or practices, 55.
Icazbalceta, Joaquin Garcia, his Nueva Colección de documentos para la historia de México, mentioned, 95.
Iceland, 110.
Idleness, trial for, 57.
Illinois, 363.
Impressment. See Knowles v. Douglass.
Inches, John Chester, xxii; of committee on nominations, 241, 311.
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 80.
Independent Chronicle, The, Boston, 470 n.
Independent Movement, the, 1884, 353.
Index of this volume made by E. H. Connolly, vii.
Indian Plot of 1669, 105.
Indian Land Records, Book of, Plymouth, Mass., 117.
Indian War. See King Philip’s War.
Indiana University: Illustrated Announcement, cited, 437 n.
Indians, 143, 163, 169, 185, 186, 190, 253, 325, 377; Richard Hopkins sentenced for selling ammunition to, 56; several indicted for murder of persons at Nashaway, now Lancaster, and Little John hanged, 61; several persons sentenced to be hanged for murder of three Indian women and three Indian children, 61; fine for killing an Indian, 62; fine for trading powder to, 63; Jacob, Zechariah, and Joseph Hyde, all Indians, sentenced for murder, 64; wars with, 118; treaty with, at Pemaquid, 1693, 118; massacre at Oyster River, 1694, 118; Eastern Indians, submission of, in 1698, 118; in 1725, 119; Articles of Pacification with, 119; treaty with, at Georgetown, Maine, 1717, 119; treaty with, at Casco, 119; troubles at Stevenstown, N. H., 120; French and Indian Wars, 120, 121 n., 126 n., 133 n.; attack of, on Township Number Four in 1717, 220; education of, 121 n.; struggles with, N. H., 123 n.; in Canada, alliance with, 125; war rolls of French and Indians. 127; burn Providence, R. I., in 1676, 132 n.; Northwestern, 137; claim of the Cognawaga, to lands in Vermont, 138; matters concerning, in Suffolk Court Files, 323; Henry Dunster interested in conversion of, 417.
Indies, the, 167.
Inferiour Court of Common Pleas. See Suffolk County.
Inoculation, Dr. William Douglass, the leader of the opponents of, in 1721; but practised by him in 1752, 221.
Inquiry, Commission of, concerning the destruction of the schooner Gaspee in Narragansett Bay, R. I., 133 n.
—— Court of, on conduct of Gen. John Sullivan, proceedings of, 128.
Institut de France, 488.
Institute of Technology. See Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Insurance Companies. See Associated Factory Mutual; Boston Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance; New England Bureau of United Inspections; Sanborn-Perris.
Insurance Maps. See Maps.
International Bureau of Weights and Measures, United States government represented at Paris by Dr. Gould, 311.
International Committee of Weights and Measures, Dr. Gould an attendant at the annual meetings in Paris of, 486.
Investigations in the Military and Anthropological Statistics of American Soldiers, by Dr. Gould, mentioned, 482.
Ipswich, Mass., 48, 451, 454; citizens of, present petition to Legislature in favor of Land Bank Scheme, 16; Ipswich Land Bank, 1741, 25; Episcopal missionaries settle in, 44; Court to be held quarterly at, 52.
Ireland, 47, 223, 229, 327, 411, 483.
Iron Works on the Town Brook, Plymouth, 199.
Isle of Bacchus (now the Island of Orleans), near Quebec, Canada, 192.
—— of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, 156.
Isles of Shoals, N. H., 71, 77.
Italy, 480.
Jack, Cheffaleer, a negro, sentenced for arson, 62.
Jackson, Edward (c. 1602–1681), of Cambridge Village, Mass., 424; of committee to examine the state of Harvard College in 1654, 418 and note: one of the Commissioners for the College, 424.
—— Francis, his History of Newton, cited, 418 n., 459 n.
Jackson, N. H., 126.
Jacob, an Indian, sentenced for murder, 64.
Jacson. See Jackson.
Jaffrey, N. H., 126.
Jamaica, Island of. W. I. 163, 164, 170, 172, 173, 219, 229, 261 n.; History of, by Edward Long, quoted, 172, 173; Admiral Knowles assumes command of the fleet at, 220; appointed governor of, in 1752, 221; commander-in-chief of the ships at, 223, 225; copies of his commission as such, in Suffolk Court Files, 231, 238; copy of deposition as to this commission, 236; deposition that he was recognized as such in, 237.
—— Caguay or Port Royal Point, fortification at, 172.
—— Plain, Mass., 68, 329, 441.
—— Pond, Mass., 359.
James I., King of England, 331; his North America grant, 162.
James II., King of England, by the accession of, New York becomes a Royal Province, 412.
James, Eleazar (H. C. 1778), son of Philip, 383 and note, 399.
—— Philip, of Hingham, Mass., 399.
Jameson, John Franklin, LL.D., xxiii.
Japan, students from, attend Institute of Technology, Boston, 314.
Jarvis, James, a projector of the Land Bank, meeting at house of, and officers of, chosen, 17.
Jarvis Field, Cambridge, 460.
Jefferson, N. H., 126.
Jeffries, John, Commissioner of the Land Bank, 50.
Jenness, John Scribner, 128.
Jesuit Relations, mentioned, 194.
Jnoson. See Johnson, Capt. Edward.
John of Koluo. See Scolnus.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Gen. Walker a lecturer at, 316.
Johnson, Abigail, sentenced for misdemeanor, 59.
—— Capt. Edward (1598–1672), his Wonder-Working Providence (Poole’s edition), quoted, 157, 160, cited, 419 n., 424 n., 427 and note: of committee to examine the state of Harvard College in 1654, 418; one of the Commissioners for the College, 424.
—— Hon. Edward Francis, LL.B., xxii.
—— Elizabeth, Jr., sentenced for witchcraft, 64.
—— Humphrey, 116.
—— Samuel, A.M., xxii, deceased, xxiv; his remarks on Dr. Goodale’s paper on Early New England Plants, 194; of committee on Treasurer’s Accounts, 241, 277; communicates a Decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth omitted from the printed series of Massachusetts Reports, 264–267; of committee to escort President Wheelwright to the chair, 375; of the committee to consider the endowment of this Society, 379.
—— Thomas, 188; his edition of Gerard’s Herbal mentioned, 182; cited, 183.
Johnston, Thomas, sentenced for piracy, 62.
Johonnot, Daniel, petitions for naturalization, 1730, 242.
—— family, 200.
Jones, Deacon Daniel, 385.
—— Eliza. See Hersey.
—— John, deposition of, 237.
Jordan, Robert, 112; George Cleeve v., 113 n.
Josselyn, John, 193; his New England Rarities Discovered, mentioned, 184.
Journals. See Diaries.
Judson, Randolph, sentenced for piracy, 61.
Justices of the Peace, resignation of, on account of interest in Land Bank, 19; removal of others, 20.
Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, Austria, 488.
Kamehamehas, the, 150.
Kansas, 339.
Kant, Immanuel, his Theory of Ethics or Practical Philosophy, quoted, 292.
Kekamoochock, Kekamowadchang, or Kechermochang, an Indian plantation in Dudley, Mass., near Oxford, 64. See Kycomoeho. Cf. Province Laws, i. 175, 211; and vol. ix (unpublished).
Kensington, N. H., 126.
Kent, Hannah (Gookin), 174.
—— Col. Richard, 174.
—— Sarah. See Atkins.
Kentucky, 137.
Kersey, Devonshire, 455.
Ketcham (Solomon). Holmes (John) and, v. Walton (Elisha), 247 n.
Key into the Language of America, etc., by Roger Williams, quoted, 192; mentioned, 194.
Killingworth, Conn., 105.
Kimball, David Pulsifer, helps defray cost of repairing the Dunster tomb, 416 n.
Kindergarten for the Blind, endowed by William G. Weld, 336.
King, Rev. Daniel, his Vale Royal, 90 n.
—— Francis, one of Quelch’s crew, granted a reprieve, 72.
—— Rufus, 176.
—— William, sentenced for blasphemy, 63.
King Philip’s War, 61, 63, 115 n., 132 n., 325.
King Road (now President Roads), Boston Harbor, 232.
—— Street, Boston, 11, 206, 214.
—— Street, St. James’s, London, 269.
King’s Chapel, Boston, Governor’s Pew in, 44; Rev. Samuel Cary, assistant minister of, 174; Annals of, by Henry W. Foote, cited, 176 n., 388 n., 396 n.; ownership of pews in, at the time of the evacuation of Boston, 240; Rev. Dr. Henry Caner, Rector of, 1776, 387. See Royal Chapel.
—— College, N. Y., 139.
—— Province, The, R. I. See Narragansett Country.
Kingsley, Rev. Charles, his “Hereward,” mentioned, 331 n.
Kingsland. See Washington, Vt.
—— Street, Boston, 478 n.
Kirk, Sir Lewis, 113 n.
Kittery, Me., 113 n., 250, 260 n.
Kittredge, George Lyman, A.B., xxii; of the committee of publication ii, 274; gives an account of Gorham papers found in a barrel in Barnstable, 243; speaks at Annual dinner, 279; reads extracts from Col. Joseph Gorham’s notes on a military expedition to Cuba in 1762, 430.
Knight, Christopher, sentenced for piracy and murder, 62.
Knight of the Order for Merit, Prussia, Dr. Gould created a, 488.
Knights, Man’, sentenced for adultery, 59.
Knights of Labor of the District of Columbia, endorse the bill to exclude political influence in the employment of laborers, 366.
Knowles. Rear-Admiral Sir Charles (d. 1777), portrait of, vi, 213. See Knowles v. Douglass.
Knowles v. Douglass, libel suit of, paper by John Noble, 213–240, 405; Commodore Charles Knowles arrives in Boston in command of a part of the Louisburg fleet, 214; his impressment of sailors causes a riot, 214; Gov. Shirley’s letter to, asking the release of the men, 214; threatens to bombard Boston, 214, 224, 231; Council orders release of all his officers, 215; copy of the libellous publications of William Douglass sent to, by Gov. Shirley, 219; proceeds to prosecute Douglass, 219; Rear-Admiral of the White Squadron, 219, 223, 225; Governor of Cape Breton, 219, 223; offers to supply Boston with coal in 1747, 219; sends a sword to Capt. Phinehas Stevens, 220 Township Number Four, in New Hampshire, named Charlestown in honor of, 220; sails for Jamaica to take command of the fleet, 220; appointed Governor of Jamaica in 1752, 221; enters the service of Russia, 221; death of, 221; made a Baronet in 1765, 221; Commander-in-Chief of the ships of war, etc., at Jamaica, 223, 225; case in the Inferiour Court of Common Pleas, 223–226; appeals to the Superiour Court of Judicature and gets judgment of the Inferiour Court reversed, 226; reduces the Fort of Port Louis of Hispaniola, 228; Douglass brings suit against, 229; copy of his commission as Rear-Admiral and as Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty’s Ships of War at Jamaica, in Suffolk Court Files, 231, 237, 238; not saluted by the Fort or Castle upon his arrival at Annapolis, N. S., 234; copy and original of power of attorney from, to prosecute suits for libel in Suffolk Court Files, 236, 238; correspondence between Secretary Willard and, 239, 240. See also Douglass, William; Knowles, Charles.
Knowles Riot, the, papers relating to, in Suffolk Court Files, 213; caused by impressing seamen, 214. See also Knowles v Douglass.
Knox, Gen. Henry (1750–1806), comparison of his draught of Articles of Association of the Society of the Cincinnati with that of Major Samuel Shaw, 144.
Kohl, Dr. Johann Georg (1808–1878), his History of the Discovery of Maine, mentioned, 99, 110.
Kolno, Russia (Poland), John of (John Scolnus), 110.
Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, Germany, 488.
Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Göttingen, Germany, 488.
Kycomocho, Suffolk County, later, Worcester County, Mass., 64. See Kekamoochock.
La borde, Maximilian, his History of the South Carolina College, cited, 435 n.
La Brognerie. See La Broquerie.
La Broquerie, Charlotte (Denys de la Trinité), 378.
—— Joseph (d. 1762), 378.
—— pierre Boucher de (1653–1740), vi; full name and antecedents of, 377, 378.
La Cadie. See Acadia.
Laconia, Province of, N. H., 124, 128.
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Dumotier, Marquis de (1757–1831), visit of, to Vermont, 138.
La Guira, New Spain (La Guayra, Venezuela), 224, 225.
Lake Champlain, Vt., 136, 137.
—— Ontario, Canada, 378.
—— Winnipiseogee, N. H., 203.
Lambe, John, 61.
Lancashire, England, 419 n.
Lancaster, Mass., 330, 477. See Nashaway.
—— N. H., 126.
Land Bank or Manufactory Scheme, Calendar of documents in Massachusetts Archives and Suffolk Court Files relating to, 2 n.; paper on, by A. McF. Davis, 2–40; submitted to General Court, 1741, 10; Manufactory Notes, hills so called in the broadside, 11; Land Bank of 1714 converted into the, 13; opposition to, and formation of the Silver Scheme, 14; comparison of the amounts of issue, 15; opposition of Governor and Council to, 15; House favors, 15; Boston merchants petition the General Court against, 16; Ipswich citizens petition General Court in favor of, 16; Boston merchants again petition against, 16; Governor recommends inquiry into, by a committee in the recess of the General Court, 17; New England merchants and traders in London petition King for redress, 19; Governor threatens, in a proclamation, to remove from office all who countenance, 19 voluntary resignation of justices of the peace, 19; removal of others, 20; resignation of military officers, 20; vote of Council in 1741 depriving attorneys of all probate practice before them, who encourage the, 22; suppressed by act of Parliament, 22; rumor of resistance to the attempt of the Governor and Council to suppress, 23; schemes in different parts of the Province to organize local banks, 24, 25; Governor rejects Speaker of the House and Councillors on the ground that they were abettors of, 25; nature of act extending the Bubble Act to the Colonies, 26–28; Attorney-General sees “no objection” to “erecting a sort of a Bank at Boston,” 30; resentment against act of Parliament, 30, 31; General Court appoints a commission in 1743 to take charge of the affairs of the Company, 35; papers of, destroyed by fire in 1747, 35; lottery authorized in 1700 in aid of the subscribers to, 36; additional Agreement, 37; copies of mortgage and receipt of, communicated by William G. Weld, 46–48; remarks on same by A. McF. Davis, 49–50. See Company of Partners.
Land Bank Company. See Land Bank or Manufactory Scheme.
Landaff, N. H., 124, 126, 137.
Lander, Daniel, sentenced for piracy and murder, 62.
Landgrave, a title conferred by patentees of Carolina grant, 414.
Lane, Edward, 89.
—— Gardiner Martin, A.B., xxii; appointed to fill vacancy on committee to examine Treasurer’s accounts caused by death of John F. Andrew, 85 n.; signs report of committee, 149.
—— George Martin, LL.D., xxii; deceased, xxiv, 284, 480; of committee to prepare resolutions on death of Dr. Gould, 282 n.
—— William Coolidge, A.B., xxiii; Librarian of Harvard College, elected Resident Member, 405.
Lane to Gay (Peter, George, Sybil, and Sarah Lane; Martin Gay), deeds, 391.
Langdell, Christopher Columbus, LL.D., 406.
—— Woodbury, 131.
Langdon, N. H., 126.
Langley, Samuel Pierpont, D.C.L., xxiii.
Lark, the ship, 237.
Larramore, Capt. Thomas, a noted privateer, 76; arrested, 77.
Larramore Galley, the (vessel), 76.
Latham, Mary, sentenced for adultery, 61.
Lathrop, Hon. John, A.M., xxii; of nominating committee, 438.
Latin School, Boston, 298, 299, 348, 478 and note; Dr. Gould’s father Principal of, 303, 477.
Latin School Association, Boston, Dr. Gould speaks at Annual dinner of, 1886, 299, 479.
Latin School, Roxbury, 479; Dr. Gould Master of, 488.
La Tour, Charles de St. Étienne (d. c. 1666), Sieur de, Baronet of Nova Scotia, commission to, as Lieutenant-General of Acadia, mentioned, 144.
La Trinité, Charlotte Denys de. See La Broquerie.
Laud, William (1573–1645), Archbishop of Canterbury, his attempt to crush the religious independence of Massachusetts foiled, 43; Rev. Thomas Welde, first minister of Roxbury, persecuted by, in 1632, 332.
Laudonnière, René Goulaine de, 111.
Law, Jonathan, Governor of Connecticut, 107.
Lawrence, Amory Appleton, helps defray cost of repairing Dunster’s tomb, 416 n.
—— Rev. Arthur, D.D., xxiii.
—— Rt.-Rev. William, D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts, invokes Divine blessing at Annual dinner, 279.
Lawrence, Mass., 245 n.
—— Society of Natural History and Archaeology, The, incorporated, its purpose, 245 n.
Laws of 1660 (Mass.), referred to, 52; mentioned. 95; cited, 159 n.; quoted, 462; of 1672, mentioned, 95.
Laws of 1672–3 (Conn.), mentioned, 105.
Laws of New Hampshire, 1692–1702, 118; 1699, 130.
Leaming (Aaron), and Spicer (Jacob), Grants and Concessions of New Jersey, cited, 413 n.
Lebanon, N. H., 124, 126, 127, 137; Convention at, 135.
Le Borgne, Emmanuel, 162.
Lechford, Thomas, his Plain Dealing (Trumbull’s edition), cited. 417 n.
Lechmere, Thomas, 106; suit of Winthrop (John) v., 247.
Lee, Henry, of Worcester, Mass., removed from office of Justice of the Peace, 21.
Lee, N. H., 126.
Leeds, Francis, Vice-President of the Young Men’s Republican and Independent Club of Boston, 354 n.
Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa.: A Historical sketch, by E. M. Hyde, quoted, 436.
Leighton, William, of Kittery, Me. See Frost v. Leighton.
Leipsic, Germany, 488.
Le Mercier, Rev. Andrew, petitions for naturalization, 1730, 200, 242.
Lempster, N. H., 126.
Leonard, Elkanah, removed from office of Justice of the Peace, 20 and note.
—— George, dismissed from office of Justice of the Peace and of the Inferiour Court of Common Pleas, 20; a Director of the Manufactory Company, 33 n., 46, 48.
Leueret. See Leverett.
Leverett, Major-Gen. John (1616–1678), of Boston, Governor of Massachusetts, son of Elder Thomas, 82; charged by Cromwell, in 1654, with an expedition against the Dutch on “Hudson’s River and at the Manhatoes,” 161; writes to Cromwell, 163, 424 n.; of committee to examine the state of Harvard College in 1654, 418; an Overseer of Harvard College, 461.
—— Judge John (1662–1724), F.R.S., grandson of Gov. John, correspondence of, in Suffolk Court Files, 323; President of Harvard College, 449.
—— Elder Thomas (d. 1650), of Boston, the emigrant, 89.
Leverett Street, Boston, 329.
Lévis. See De Lévis.
Lewdness, trial for, 58.
Lewis, John. See Hooper, Lewis and Company.
—— Thomas, 113 n.
Lexington, Mass., 479; battle of, 329, 385; The Scar of Lexington, poem by Hannah F. Gould, mentioned, 477.
—— Green and Concord Bridge, paper on occurrences between, 18 and 19 April, 1775, by Rev. Edward G. Porter, 139; remarks thereon by Rev. Joseph H. Allen, 139.
Leycester, Sir Peter, his Cheshire Antiquities, cited, 90 n.
Leyden, Holland, 221.
Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., Gen. Walker confined in, 315.
Libel. See Knowles v. Douglass.
Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865), President of the United States, 344; his second inaugural address, quoted, 166.
—— Benjamin (1699–1771), father of Gen. Benjamin, 24.
—— Major-Gen. Benjamin (1732–1810), 176, 383 and note.
—— Benjamin (H. C. 1777), son of Gen. Benjamin, 176.
—— Benjamin (H. C. 1806), MD., grandson of Gen. Benjamin, 176, 179.
—— Francis Henry, A.M., xxii; communicates list of additional Historical Societies in Massachusetts, 1 and note; reads extracts from journal of Lieut. Benjamin Beal, 85, 86.
—— Frederick Walker (Senior), 399.
—— James Otis (H. C. 1807), grandson of Gen. Benjamin, 176.
—— Mary (Otis), wife of Benjamin (H. C. 1777), 176 and note, 177, 179 and note.
—— Mr., death of, 383.
—— Waldo, A.B., xxii.
—— family, 383 n.
Lincoln, N. H., 126.
Lincoln’s Inn, London, 90 n.
Lincolnshire, England, 331.
Lisbon, N. H., 126.
Lisbon, Portugal, treaty between Great Britain and Portugal signed at, 74 n.
Litchfield, N. H., 126.
Little John, an Indian, sentenced for murdering the English, 61.
Littlebury. John, 113 n.
Littleton (Mass.) Historical Society, incorporation of, object of, 474.
—— N. H., 126.
Livermore, Matthew, 260 n.
—— Samuel, 131.
—— Col. Thomas Leonard, 358.
Livingston, Manor of, erected in 1686, in New York, 412.
Lloyd’s Hills, N. H., 126.
Loans. See Bills of Public Credit and Land Bank or Manufactory Scheme.
Locke, John, Fundamental Constitutions of 1609 attributed to, 414.
Lok, Michael, 111.
London, Martin Gay’s servant, 388.
London, England, 2 n., 6 and note, 26 n., 88, 89, 90 n., 91 and note, 92 and note, 93 and note, 94, 100, 110 n., 113 n., 119, 128, 131 and note, 157, 161 n., 172 n., 174, 191, 192 n., 204, 248 n., 249 and note, 268, 330, 332, 348, 382, 399, 400, 402, 405, 488; New England merchants and traders in, petition the King against the Land Bank Scheme, in 1740, 19; Massachusetts asserted to be within the episcopal charge of the Bishop of, in 1725, 44; Lord Mayors of, 92, 94.
—— Artillery Garden, 157.
—— Balmes, Hackney or Hoxton, Middlesex, 332.
—— Broad Street, 93.
—— Cloth Workers’ Company, 92.
—— Craven Street, 268.
—— Drury Lane, 332.
—— Great St. Helen’s, 250 n.
—— Grocers’ Company, 92 and note.
—— Guildhall Library, 91, 92, 93 and note, 249 n.
—— King Street, 269.
—— Lincoln’s Inn, 90 n.
—— Princess Street, 92.
—— Privy Council Office, 258 n., 405.
—— Public Record Office, 30 n., 95 n., 112, 113 n., 131.
—— Royal Astronomical Society, 488.
—— Royal Meteorological Society, 488.
—— Royal Society, 488.
—— St. Christopher le Stocks, 91, 93, 94.
—— St. James’s, 269.
—— Strand, the, 268.
—— Weld House, 332.
—— Weld (or Wild) Streets, Great and Little, 332.
—— Whitehall, 405.
Londonderry, N. H., 118, 126. See Nutfield.
Long, Edward, his History of Jamaica, cited, 173 n.
—— Col. Pierse, 127.
Long Island, N. Y., 76.
—— Wharf, Boston, threat to burn, 1783, 211, 212.
Lord, Judge Otis Phillips, 265.
Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, 19, 23, 29, 30, 32, 106, 107, 121, 128, 129, 249 n., 261 n.; letter to, about Land Bank, 22.
Lords, House of, 23, 81; regarded by Hutchinson as the bulwark of the British Constitution, 411 n.
Lorphelin, Peter, sentenced for insulting speeches, 60.
Lothrop, Thornton Kirkland, 339.
Lottery, authorized, in 1760, in aid of subscribers to Land Bank Scheme, 36.
Loudon, N. H., 126.
Loudon, Earl of. See Loudoun.
Loudoun, John Campbell (1705–1782), Earl of, 121.
Louis XIII., King of France, 412 n.
Louisburg, Cape Breton, N. S., 119, 120 and note, 129, 133 n., 195; Commodore Knowles commands part of the Louisburg fleet, 214, 224; accused of cleaning the streets and disciplining the tippling houses of, 225; papers concerning the expedition against, in Suffolk Court Files, 323.
Louisiana Place, East Boston, 277.
Lovering, Henry Bacon, M. C., 357.
Lowell, Augustus, A.M., xxiii.
—— Charles (1782–1861), D.D., 400; his Occasional Sermons, cited, 400 n.
—— Hon. Francis Cabot, A.B., xxii; speaks at Annual dinner of Society, 153; Assistant Secretary of the Young Men’s Republican and Independent Club of Boston, 351 n.
—— John (1739–1793), cousin-german of Judge John, a Boston merchant and Deputy-Secretary of the Council, 297, 392, 393 n., 394 and note.
—— Judge John (1743–1802), H. C. 1760, LL.D., 393 n.; his Memoir of Dudley Atkins Tyng, quoted, 175.
—— Hon. John (H. C. 1843), LL.D., v, xxii; deceased, xxiv; to prepare a Memoir of Leverett Saltonstall, 140; elected Vice-President, 150, 278; his remarks on death of Dr. Slade, 203; present at special meeting of Council, 280; prevented from attending Memorial in honor of Dr. Gould, 282; presides at meetings of Society, 313, 375; his remarks on death of Gen. Walker, 313–315; special meeting of Council to take action upon death of, 489, 490.
Lowell, Mass., 68.
Loyalists, 122; Episcopacy identified with, 42; Sabine’s Biographical Sketches of, cited, 269; paper on Letters of an American Loyalist and his Wife, by President Wheelwright, 379–400.
Lulworth Castle, Wareham, Dorsetshire, England, 331, 332.
Lunalillo, Prince, of the Hawaiian Islands, Judge Austin guardian of, 150.
Lundy’s Lane, Ontario, 138.
Luxford, James, sentenced for forgery and lying, 60; Gov. Winthrop’s bailiff, 88.
Lying, trials for, 57, 60, 63.
Lyman, Arthur Theodore, A.M., xxiii.
Lyman, N. H., 126.
Lynde, Chief-Justice Benjamin (1666–1745), H. C. 1686, 450; his Diary cited, 14 n., 23 n., 26 n.
—— Chief-Justice Benjamin, Jr. (1700–1781), H. C. 1718, 14 n., 227, 229.
—— Judge Joseph (1636–1726), of Charlestown, Mass., 457 n.
Lynde Street, Boston, 385.
Lyndeborough, N. H., 126.
—— Furnace and Iron Works at, 160.
—— Tavern (Lewis’s), 75.
Lyon, Richard, assists Henry Dunster in bringing out an improved edition of the Bay Psalm Book, in 1650, 417; tutor to the son of Sir Henry Mildmay, 417.
Lysons, Rev. Daniel and Samuel, their Magna Britannia, cited, 90 n.
Mccall, Samuel Walker, M. C., 370.
McCulloch, Hugh, Secretary of the Treasury, 441.
McKinley, William, President of the United States, 360, 301, 365.
Maclean, John, his History of the College of New Jersey, quoted. 432, 435.
Madeira, Island of, 234.
Madison, James (1751–1836), President of the United States, 136; his Writings, quoted, 432; suit of Marbury (William) v., 246, 249.
Madras, British India, 331.
Magdalen College, Cambridge, England, Henry Dunster a graduate of, 416.
Magistrates, functions of government exercised by, as Court of Assistants, 51; first records of, as a council, 1650, 53; to determine all causes according to established laws, 1636, 54; “inclined to raise up laws by practice and custom,” 54; occupy separate room from Deputies in 1644, 101; journal and record book to be kept by, 102.
Magna Britannia; being a concise Topographical Account of the several Counties of Great Britain, by Rev. Daniel Lysons, A.M., and Samuel Lysons, Esq., F.R.S., cited, 90 n.
Magna Charta, press warrants breaches of, 217.
Magnalia. See Mather, Cotton.
Mahon, Lord. See Stanhope.
Maine, 99, 110, 113 n., 188, 202, 260 n., 261 n., 351, 363, 444, 454; Baxter Papers, 99, 113 and note; Discourse on Western Planting, by Richard Hakluyt, 99; Documentary History of the State of, 99, 110–113; History of the Discovery of, by Dr. J. G. Kohl, 99; Maine Wills, 99; Trelawny Papers, 99, 112, 113 n.; York Deeds, 99; Gulf and Coast of, 110; boundary line between New Hampshire and, 121; Province of, 218 n.; license granted to Ralph Gulston in 1730, to cut trees in, for the Royal Navy, 250, 251; people of, opposed to cutting trees for Royal Navy, 256; rights under the Charter to cut masts for Royal Navy in, not to be yielded, 257; powers of grant of the Province of, to Gorges, 411; privileges of this grant the same as those of Bishopric of Durham, 411; District of, 460.
Maine Historical Society, State documents published by, 99, 110–113.
Maldonado, Diego, 111.
Manchester, Mass., 474.
—— Historical Society, The, its purposes, 474.
Mandamus Councillor, Col. George Watson accepts the office of, 199.
Manhatoes, the (Manhattan, now New York), expedition against the Dutch at, 161.
Manning, Edward, assistant judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Jamaica, 236.
Manors, establishment of, in New York, 412; in Pennsylvania and Maryland, 413 and note; in Carolina, 414.
Manslaughter, trials for, 57, 62.
Manufactory Bills, 20, 21, 33, 37, 46–48, 50.
—— Notes. See Land Bank or Manufactory Scheme.
—— Scheme laid before the Council, 19. See Land Bank.
Maps, British Ordnance, 90.
—— and Plans of towns in New Hampshire, 131.
—— issued to Insurance Companies of Massachusetts: communication from C. H. Davis concerning, 67; description of, 67; no Historical or Antiquarian Society interested in collecting, 67; remarks on, by A. McF. Davis, 68–70; published by the Sanborn-Perris Map Company, 68; specimens of the Barlow Surveys submitted, 69; specimen copy of the Inspections and Plans of the New England Bureau of United Inspections exhibited, 69; Bromley maps of Boston submitted by H. H. Edes, 70.
Marblehead, Mass., 73–76, 440, 441; Episcopal missionaries settle in, 44.
Marbury, Anne. See Hutchinson.
Marbury (William) v. Madison (James), 246, 249.
March, Col. John, 451.
Marine Park, Boston, plans for connecting it with the city, 359.
Marion, Joseph, Boston merchant, 1740, 12.
Marja (Maria), a negress, sentenced for arson, 61, 62.
Market Place, Boston, prisoners sentenced to stand in, 58, 59, 65.
Market Place, Charlestown, 156.
Marlborough, N. H., 126.
—— Vt., 137.
Marlow, N. H., 126.
Marquez, Pedro, 111.
Marshal-General of the Colony (Edward Mitchelson), 60, 62, 454.
Marshal’s Orchard, The, Cambridge, Mass., 454.
Marshall, George William, LL.D., 94.
—— Chief-Justice John (1755–1835), LL.D., 247.
Marshall Street, Boston, 391 n.
Marshfield, Mass., 116.
Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., 45.
Mary I, Queen of England, 216.
Mary II., Queen of England, charter of William and, 22, 250.
Mary of Guilford, the ship, 111.
Maryland, 109 n., 121, 135; Episcopacy established in, 1692, 44; boundary dispute between Pennsylvania and, 97; charter of 1632 grants Lord Baltimore rights of Bishopric of Durham, 413; territorial aristocracy in, defeated, 413; Archives, cited, 413 n.
Maryland Historical Society, edits Archives of Maryland, 97.
Mason, Ann, 113 n.
—— Arthur, 459 n.
—— Charles Frank, A.B., xxiii; elected Resident Member, 179; accepts membership. 274.
—— Capt. John (1586–1685), 117, 120, 124, 128; grant of New Hampshire to, conferred only title to the soil, 412.
Mason, Col. John Tufton (1713–1787), great-grandson of Robert, 120.
—— Robert (1635–1688), grandson of Capt. John, 118, 128.
Mason, N. H., 126.
Masonian Controversy, 130
—— Proprietors, 120.
Massachusettensis. See Novanglus.
Massachusetts, 2, 3, 51, 56, 80, 108 n., 109 n., 113 n., 115 and note, 117, 127, 128, 129, 131, 135, 136, 144, 145, 156, 196, 212, 243, 260 n., 272, 306, 313, 322, 337, 340, 348 n., 351, 356, 357, 359, 364, 368, 369, 379, 383, 384, 390 n., 394, 395, 396, 433, 465, 466, 470, 471 n., 477; very little coin brought by first settlers of, 4; restrained by royal instructions from emitting bills of credit, 7; issues two classes of Province bills in 1730, 8; Land Bank influences people of, to resist interference in their affairs, 38; act extending Bubble Act to colonies denounced in, 39 n.; Cambridge Platform the ecclesiastical constitution of, 43; Increase Mather secures civil liberties for, 43; asserted to be within the episcopal charge of the Bishop of London, in 1725, 44; insurance maps covering the different cities of, 67, 68; eight hundred of the Barlow Surveys made in, 69; claims of, to Pequot Country, 104; boundary line between Connecticut and, 105; between New Hampshire and, 119 and note, 121, 128, 129; Quakers as propagandists of religious liberty in, 143; papers belonging to Suffolk Court Files received from, 321; need of revision of history of, 327; iron industry of, almost extinct owing to tariff laws, 363; first step in, towards municipal reform, 372; control of the press in, 404; offer made by Lord Save, Lord Brooke and others, in 1634, to settle in, 409; purchase of Maine by, prevents the establishment of a feudal form of government in New England, 411; constitutions of Rhode Island and Connecticut similar to, 412.
—— Archives, cited, 2 n., 4 n., 9 n., 33 n., 174 n.; mentioned, 37, 49, 71, 109 n., 113 n., 263, 458 n.; quoted, 239 n., 241 n.; portions of, restored to Commonwealth, 321; Calendar of Land Bank and Silver Bank papers in, mentioned, 2 n.
—— Assembly. See below, General Court.
—— Avenue, Cambridge, 454.
—— Bay, piracy in, 62; papers relating to piracies in, in Suffolk Court Files, 323.
—— Bay Company, 142, 469; Records of, mentioned, 99, 100, 114, 115, 206; grant of Council for New England to, 408.
—— Bay Colony, 51, 59, 82, 87, 116 n., 125, 273, 323, 332, 376, 422; Congregationalism established as part of the political system at the founding of, 42; Congregational church membership in, made essential to the political franchise in 1631, 42; attempt of Archbishop Laud to crush religious independence in, foiled, 43; John Winthrop the foremost man in, 87; organization of Massachusetts Bay Company becomes the, 142; growth and formation of municipal government in the, 143; religious controversies in, 143; Antinomianism in, 143; establishment of a mint in, 143; Robert Sedgwick chosen Major-General of, in 1652, 159; papers of the various courts of, in Suffolk Court Files, 317.
—— Colony Records, quoted, 54, 57–61, 102; mentioned, 100–103, 114, 115; cited, 206, 410 n., 411 n., 418 n., 419 n., 420 n., 424 n., 425 n., 454 n.; early records of Court of Assistants to be found in, 56; paper on third (printed) volume of, by A. C. Goodell, Jr., 205–207; fragment in Edward Rawson’s handwriting in connection with, 207.
—— Province of the Massachusetts Bay, 2 n., 30, 48, 142, 143, 144, 229, 241, 248, 249, 254, 258; large emissions of paper money by, in 1733, 8; passes an act in 1735 restraining the circulation of the New Hampshire Merchants’ Notes, 29; papers of the various courts of, in Suffolk Court Files, 317.
—— Colony Charter, 51, 100, 114; vacated by a decree in Chancery, 1684, 43, 408, 448; limitation in, that no laws shall be repugnant to the laws of England, 53, 247 and note; importance attached to possession of, 142; struggles for retention of, 143; papers in Suffolk Court Files important in determining effect of judicial revocation of, upon ordinances of the Colonial legislature, 327; first Governor under, a commoner, 408; magistrates under, styled, at different times, Mr., Gentleman, and Esquire, 411 n.
—— Province Charter, 5, 21, 26, 133 n., 230, 248; provides that Governor and Council may probate wills and grant administration of estates, 22; act extending Hubble Act to colonies denounced in Massachusetts as an interference with, 39 n.; press warrants breaches of, 217; rights of the Crown reserved in, to trees upon unoccupied lands, 219, 250, 251, 256; clause in, allowing appeals to Privy Council, 252, 255, 256, 262; duties imposed by a Royal Order upon the Superiour Court of Judicature beyond their powers, under the, 257, 261; claims of House of Representatives to self-government not in conformity with the theory of, 401; licensing of the press a power that belonged to the Governor under the, 404.
—— Council, sanctions the organization of a bank of issue in 1686, 4, 5; opposes Land Hank but favors Silver Scheme, 15, 16, 17; Manufactory Scheme laid before, 19; blank form of summons prepared by, for persons passing Land Hank Notes, 20; tyrannical methods of, 21; power of, under the charter to remove from office disputed by contemporaneous writers, 21; order issued by, in 1741, that no attorney who favors Land Bank Bills shall appear before, 22; Governor, in his address, acknowledges efforts of, to suppress Land Bank, 22; letter prepared by, to Lords Commissioners for Trade, 22; attempt of, to suppress Land Bank Company causes resistance, 23; issues warrant for arrest of persons concerned in a design to force the circulation of Land Bank Bills, 24; choice of Councillors, 25; considers an offer to file Articles of Association of the Land Bank in the Secretary’s office a great indignity, 26; attorney-general, by instructions from, prosecutes members of Land Bank Company, 34; to consider filling Addington’s place as chief justice, 76 n.; government by, in time between Colony and Province, 143; Governor Belcher lays petition about cutting trees for Royal Navy before, 256; petition refused by, 256, 258; John Lowell Deputy Secretary of, 1776, 393 n.
—— Council Records, mentioned, 458 n.
—— Council for Life, 409.
—— Court of Admiralty, 72, 77.
—— Court of Assistants, trial and punishment of crimes in, paper by John Noble, 51–06, 143; first court held 23 August, 1630, 51; as old as the colony, 51; becomes a purely judicial body, 53; recognizes no other source of law than can be found in the Scriptures, 53; only the second volume of its records (1673–1692) extant, 55, 100, 101 n.; portions (1630–1613) of the earlier records of, in Massachusetts Colony Records and the Barlow copy in Boston Public Library, 56; all the records of this court, 1643–1673, that can be recovered to be printed in one volume, 56; cases tried by, 56–63; seal and record book to be bought, 65; records of, before transfer of government to New England, 99; meeting of, on the Arbella, 1629–30, 99; meeting of, at Charlestown, 1630, 100; records of, interspersed with records of General Court, 100; Increase Nowell, Secretary of, 101; Assistants and Deputies one body down to 1643, 101; exercised all the functions of government early in the Colonial period, 317.
—— Court of Assistants, Records of, quoted, 57, 59, 61; portions of, found, 322; mentioned, 449, 456 n.; cited, 469 n.
—— Court of Common Pleas, abolished in 1855 and succeeded by Superior Court, 318.
—— Court of Elections, representation by Deputies introduced at, 101.
—— Forty-fifth Regiment, 197.
—— General Court, appoints committee in 1700, to remedy scarcity of money, 5; attempt made in 1714 to secure authority from, to organize a private bank, 6; approves of public bank, 7; passes an order in 1742, that one pound new tenor bills shall be received for four pounds old tenor. 9; proposition to, by John Read in 1739 for a bank of issue upon a twenty per cent, fund of silver, 9; scheme presented to, by John Colman in 1739, for emitting bills secured by real estate, 10; Edward Hutchinson and other Boston merchants apply to, for approval of Silver Scheme, 15; appoints committee in 1740 to “investigate the several projections for emitting notes,” 15; petition to, from Benjamin Gerrish and other Boston merchants in 1740, to suppress the Land Bank, 15, 16; petition to, from John Choate and others of Ipswich in favor of the Land Bank, 16; Governor recommends appointment of committee of, to inquire into Land Hank and Silver Schemes, 17; chooses civil officers under general powers in charter, 26; passes an Act in 1735 restraining the circulation of the New Hampshire Merchants’ Notes, 29; appoints committee to consider methods of procedure against partners in the Land Bank Scheme, 35; petition to, by subscribers of Land Bank for relief, 35; passes Act appointing a commission to take charge of the affairs of the Land Bank Company, 35; disapproves of the assessment levied by the commission, 36; final settlement with a committee of, in 1751, on Land Bank matter, 37; powers delegated to the Land Bank commissioners by, arbitrary, 38; shields the honest subscribers to Land Bank at expense of Act of Parliament, 39; action of, in early days insignificant, 51; first sitting of, 19 October, 1630, 51; history of records of, 53, 143, 205; trials by, in early days of the Colony, 54, 57, 59, 65; cases tried by, 62; minutes of court held 1641, 100; method of keeping records of, prescribed in 1648, 102; two contemporaneous records of, preserved, 103; twelve capital laws of Connecticut Colony taken from the Body of Liberties established by, in 1641, 157; appoints a day of Thanksgiving for the reduction of Acadia, 163; division of, in 1614, into two branches, 205; journal of, kept with diurnal entries, 114, 206; message to, by Governor on a blackmailing letter, 209, 210; Governor Hancock issues a proclamation in the recess of, 211; appoints a committee to inquire into the Knowles Riot, 214; letter of the Duke of Newcastle concerning masts for Royal Navy, laid before, 253 n.; records of, restored to Commonwealth, 321; order of, concerning Harvard College, 418; Henry Dunster’s letter to a committee of, 419; records of, mentioned, 458 n. See below, House of Deputies; House of Representatives.
—— General Laws, cited, 321 n.
—— Historical Societies in. See above, Historical Societies.
—— House of Deputies, records of, kept by clerk from 1644–1657, 101; Deputies and Assistants one body down to 1643, 101; Deputies ordered in 1648 to keep a journal and a record book, 102; journals ordered by act of 1648, not known to be extant, 103; records of, mentioned, 114; more like House of Commons after 1644, 205; records of, 1644–1657, saved, 206. See above, General Court; below, House of Representatives.
—— House of Representatives votes, in 1740, on Land Bank and Silver Scheme, 15; action of, friendly to Land Bank, 16; resolves that persons concerned in Land Bank shall not be forbidden to issue bills, 16; contest between House and Council attracts public attention, 17; six of the leading members of, directors in, and many members of, subscribers to the Land Bank, 17; Samuel Watts, a director of the Land Bank, elected Speaker of, but rejected by Governor, 25, 26; William Fairfield elected Speaker of, and approved by Governor, 25; John Choate elected Speaker of, and rejected by Governor, 25; John Hobson elected Speaker of, 26; attitude of, on Land Bank question, 30, 31; answer of, to speech of Governor Hutchinson, cited, 38 n.; John F. Andrew elected to, 151, 352; petition to, against granting press warrants, 216; Martin Brimmer a member of, 339. See above, General Court; House of Deputies. See also, House Journals.
—— Inferiour Court of Common Pleas, 50, 219, 222, 229, 238, 246, 250–252, 259, 260 n., 262–264.
—— Inferiour Court of Common Pleas, Records of, quoted, 223–226.
—— Legislature. See above, General Court.
—— Provincial Congress. See Congress.
—— Reports, cited, 38 n., 173 n., 174; quoted, 264–267; mentioned, 325; Province Laws cited in three hundred cases in, 458 n.
—— Resolves, quoted, 396.
—— Secretary of the Commonwealth, records of the Colony kept by, 100; the only recording officer prior to the assembling of the Deputies as a separate body, 101; required to keep a journal and record book, 102, 103.
—— Special Courts, established in 1639, to be held quarterly, 52; some cases tried by, 63, 64.
—— Standing Council for Life, 409.
—— State House, 49.
—— Strangers’ Court, 52.
—— Superior Court, successor of Court of Common Pleas abolished in 1855, 318.
—— Superiour Court of Judicature, 50; trial and punishment of crimes in, 51–66; established 1692, as successor to the Court of Assistants, 55; act establishing, disallowed and Court reestablished in 1699, 55; records of, in perfect preservation, 55; Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts the successor to, 55; records of, quoted, 64, 65, 194, 226, 229, 230, 252, 255, 457 n.; mentioned, 195; some cases tried by, 64, 65; Samuel Sewall acting Chief Justice of, 76; libel suit of Knowles v. Douglass in, 213–239; twice refuses to obey the Order of the King in Council, 246, 248, 258; finds no authority to enforce the Order, 249; Privy Council imposes duties upon, beyond their powers under the Charter, 256, 257; described by Noah Emery, 260 n.; has no power to issue an execution upon the judgment of another court, 261; files of, now in Suffolk Court Files, 317, but before 1883 partly in custody of Court of Common Pleas and its successor the present Superior Court, 318; papers belonging to, returned by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 320.
—— Supreme Judicial Court, 51, 173; successor to the Superiour Court of Judicature, 55; decision of, affecting the Old South Society in Boston omitted from the Massachusetts Reports, 264–267; files of, 317, 318; order of, to remove files and papers to a convenient room for examination, 319.
—— Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk, 317; John Noble clerk of, official custodian of the Suffolk Court Files, 56 n., 100; authorized to arrange the early files of Suffolk County, 319.
—— Western, 202.
Massachusetts Bay, History of, by Gov. Thomas Hutchinson, quoted, 7, 38 n., 42, 402, 411; cited, 45, 387 n., 402 n., 403 n., 409 n., 411 n., 424 n.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Martin Brimmer a Trustee of, 339.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 130, 153, 200; Collections of, 132 quoted, 175, 182, 184–190, 253, cited, 396 n., 427 n.; Proceedings of, quoted, 241, 388, cited, 88 n., 320 n., 387 n., 393 n., 396 n.; a copy of the 1749 edition of Douglass’s Summary, in library of, 227; returns files of the Superiour Court of Judicature, in its possession, to Clerk of Supreme Judicial Court, 320; George O. Shattuck a member of, 406 n.
Massachusetts Infant Asylum, John F. Andrew President of, 374.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, 315, 340; Gen. Walker President of, 314, 316.
Massachusetts Medical Society, Dr. Wigglesworth reads paper before in 1871, on Alopecia, 349.
Massachusetts Reform Club. 297, 374.
Massachusetts School for the Feeble Minded, J.F.Andrew a Trustee of, 374.
Massachusetts Society of the Daughters of the Revolution. See Daughters of the Revolution.
Masts. See Royal Navy.
Mather, Cotton (1663–1728), D.D., ministers to Quelch and others condemned for piracy, 71, 72; his Magnalia, quoted, 403, 422 n., 448, 449, 461, cited, 426 n.
—— Increase (1639–1723). D.D., escapes to England and secures civil liberties for Massachusetts, 43, 44; the first native-born President of Harvard College, 449.
Mathieu, Claude Louis (1783–1875), 479.
Matthews, Albert, A.B., vi, xxiii; of the committee of publication, ii; elected Resident Member, 271; accepts membership, 274; gift from, of a fac-simile reproduction of Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation, 282; thanked, 282; reads paper on the use at American Colleges of the word Campus, 430–437.
—— Nathan, Jr., Mayor of Boston, 371.
Maury, Matthew Fontaine (1806–1873), L.L.D., U. S. N., 482.
Mayflower, the, 82. See Compact.
—— Descendants, The Society of, incorporation of, 473 n.
Mayhew Controversy, outbreak of, in 1763, 45; account of, in Annals of King’s Chapel, 45 n.
—— family, Henry H. Edes a lineal descendant of, 45 n.
—— Jonathan (1720–1766), D.D., settled over West Church, Boston, in 1747, 45; story of his ancestry in Annals of King’s Chapel, 45 n.
—— Judge (and Major) Matthew (c. 1648–1710), 457 n.
—— Governor Thomas (1593–1681), 417; settled in Martha’s Vineyard, 45.
Mecom, Benjamin, printer, 107 n.
—— Historical Society, The, incorporation of, its purposes, 473.
Medical Library Association, Boston, 349.
Mediterranean, the, 183.
Meeting-house, first in Boston built in 1632, tablet commemorating, placed on site of, 471.
Meionaon, The, Tremont Temple, Boston, 354.
Melancholy State of the Province considered in a Letter from a Gentleman in Boston to his friend in the Country, cited, 8 n.
Melfort, John Drummond (1649–1714), Earl of, 413.
Memorial History of Boston. See above, under Boston.
Mendon, Mass., 245.
—— Historical Society, organization of, its object, 245.
Menendez. See Aviles.
Mereator, Gerard, his map mentioned, 111.
Merchant Adventurers, Company of, Sir Thomas Mowlson, Governor of, in 1632, 92, 93 and note, 94.
Merchants’ Association, Boston, 362.
Merchants’ Notes of Massachusetts, issued by Boston Merchants, 1733, 7–10, 14; Rhode Island loans the cause of, 7; form of, 12; at a premium over province bills, 12; description of, 14 and note.
—— of New Hampshire, 8, 13; circulation of, restrained by Act of the Massachusetts Assembly, in 1735, 29.
Mercia, Edric, Lord of, 331.
Mercia, Western, 331.
Mercury, the ship, 234, 236, 237
Meredith, N. H., 126.
Merrick, Pliny, LL.D., 477.
Merrimac River, Mass., 120.
Merrimack, N. H., 126.
Methodists, 42.
Methuen Historical Society, incorporation of, its objects, 472.
Metric System, Dr. Gould labors for establishment of, in the United States, 311; Dr. Wigglesworth’s efforts in behalf of, 349.
Metropolitan Park Commission, Boston, 371.
Metropolitan Parks, Boston, 371.
Mexican Pension Bills, 367.
Middleborough. Mass., 20 n., 198.
Middlecott, Richard (d. 1704), 82.
Middlesex County, Mass., 181, 457 n., 486; rumor of a local bank, similar to Land Bank, to be formed in, in 1740, 25; History of, by D. H. Hurd, cited, 160 n.; Thomas Danforth, Treasurer of, 460.
—— Court Files, quoted, 452, 455 n., 456 n.
—— Court Records, cited, 417 n., 425 n.; quoted, 453, 455 n.
Middlesex Landing, Charlestown, Tide Mill at, 160.
Middleton, Mass., votes to receive Land Bank Bills for town rates in 1740–41, 23 n.
—— N. H., 126.
Mildmay, Sir Henry (d. 1639), of Graces, Little Baddow, Essex, England, 417.
—— William (H. C. 1617), 417 and note.
Milford, Conn., 105; Plantation, 109 n.
—— N. H., 126.
Military Companies in Boston, 63.
—— Officers tender their resignations on account of interest in Land Bank, 20.
Militia, in New Hampshire, 120.
Milk Street, Boston, 87, 140, 272.
Miller, Mary Jane. See Quincy.
—— Samuel, 155.
Milton, Mass., Land Bank Company meets at, in 1740, 32.
Ministerial Rates. See Town and Ministerial Rates.
Minns, Thomas, xxiii; elected Resident Member, 282.
Minot, Judge George Richards (1758–1802), 330.
—— Jonas Clark, 330.
—— Robert Sedgwick (H. C. 1877), 173.
—— William (H. C. l.1868), 173.
Mint, establishment of, in the Colony, an infringement of the Royal prerogative, 143.
Misdemeanor, High, William Vesey indicted for, fined and sentenced to the pillory, 65.
Missouri Question, 1819 and 1820, Vermont on the, 138.
Mitchel. See Mitchell.
Mitchell, Rev. Jonathan (c. 1624–1668), 425; reputed grave of Dunster said to be that of, 416 n.; writes elegy on Dunster, 416 n.
Mitchelson, Edward, of Cambridge, Mass., appointed by the General Court Marshal-General of the Colony, in 1637, 454.
Mob. See Knowles Riot.
Model for Erecting a Bank of Credit with a Discourse in Explanation thereof Adapted to the Use of any Trading Countrey, where there is a Scarcity of Moneys: More Especially for his Majesty’s Plantations in America, cited, 6 n.
Monnett Hall, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, 436.
Monroe, James (1758–1831), President of the United States, tour of, in Vermont, in 1817, 139.
Monson, Mass., 472.
—— Historical Society, The, organization of, its purposes, 472.
—— N. H., 126.
Montcalm de Saint Véran, Louis Joseph, Marquis de (1712–1759), Journal and Letters of, mentioned, 96.
Montpelier, Vt., 134–138.
Moody, Rev. Samuel (1675–1747), H. C. 1697, of York, Me., 72.
Moore, George Henry, LL.D., 130.
—— Col. Samuel, 120.
Morgan, James, sentenced for murder, 62.
Morrisania, Manor of, New York, erected 1697, 412.
Morse, John Torrey, Jr., 441.
—— Leopold, M.C., 356.
Mortimore, Capt. Peter, of Boston, 232 and note.
Morton, Chief-Justice Marcus (1819–1891), B. U. 1838, LL.D., 78, 265, 319.
—— Nathaniel, (c. 1613–1685), Secretary of the Plymouth Colony, 115 n.
—— Thomas (d. c. 1646), 125, 186; his New English Canaan, cited, 186 n.
Moses, 324.
Moulson. See Mowlson.
Moulsone. See Mowlson.
Moultonborough, N. H., 126.
Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, 451.
Mount Hope, Bristol, R. I., 132 n.
Mount Vernon, Virginia, anniversary of Washington’s death observed at, 328.
Mourt, George, his Relation quoted, 185.
Mowlson, Ann (Radcliffe), d. 1661, Lady, 90; establishment of scholarship at Harvard College by, mentioned, 94, 143, 429.
—— Thomas, father of Sir Thomas Mowlson, 93.
—— Sir Thomas (d. 1638), Lord Mayor of London in 1634, additional facts concerning, by A. McF. Davis, 90–94; sculptured coat-of-arms of, and inscription on tablet on Chapel at Hargrave, Cheshire, England, 91; an inhabitant of the Parish of St. Christopher le Stocks, 91; Governor of the Company of Merchant Adventurers in 1632, 92, 93 and note, 94; appears in Orridge’s list of Lord Mayors under date of 1633, 92; member of the Grocers’ Company, London, 92; Member of Parliament, 1627–1628, 93, 94.
—— family, 429.
Mugwump, disinclination of politicians to encourage this influence in Massachusetts, 369.
Mulattoes, 165.
Municipal Reform Association, Boston, John F. Andrew a member of, 355.
Monroe, William Adams, 406.
Murder, trials for, 57, 59–64.
Murdoch, Beamish, his History of Nova Scotia, quoted, 161: cited, 162 n.
Murray Street, New York, N. Y., 436.
Muses, the, 177.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 345; Martin Brimmer a founder and Trustee of, 340.
Muskeg, Land of the, by H. C. S. A. Somerset, cited, 192 n.
Musset, Louis Charles Alfred de. 344.
Mutilation or Dismembering, sentences of, imposed, 60.
Mystic, or Mystick Side, Charlestown, Mass., 237.
Nantasket Roads, Boston Harbor, 214, 231, 232, 234.
Nantes, revocation of the Edict of, 200.
Nantucket Historical Association, The, incorporation, etc., of, purposes of, 2.
Naples, Italy, 480.
Napoleon III., Emperor of France, Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (1808–1873), takes oath of fidelity to the Republic, 1848, 480.
Narragansett Bay, R. I., 133 n.
—— Country, R. I. (sometimes known as the King’s Province), 132 n.
—— Lands, R. I., 105.
Narragansetts, the, Indians, 104.
Narrative and Critical History of America, cited, 157, 213 n.
Nash, Nathaniel Cushing, A.B., xxiii; of committee to examine Treasurer’s accounts, 85; signs report of committee, 149; appointed a member of the committee to consider the endowment of this Society, 379.
Nashaway (Lancaster), Mass., Indians indicted for murder of persons at, and one hanged, 61.
Nassau Hall, Princeton, N. J., 431, 433. See New Jersey, College of.
Nassau Literary Magazine, 437.
Nathaniel, the brig, 383.
Nation, The (newspaper), 203, 437.
National Academy of Sciences, 304, 486; Dr. Gould active in promoting the establishment of, 482: presents results of his experiments to, 483; a member of, 488.
—— Observatory, at Cordoba, Argentine Republic, 483; constructed and organized by Dr. Gould, 484.
—— Republican Convention, 1884, John F. Andrew elected a delegate to, 151.
Nauset (Eastham), Mass., 116.
Naval Order of the United States. Commandery of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, incorporation and purposes of, 1 n.
Navy. See Royal Navy.
Navy Yards, United States, merit the test of employment in, 366.
Nawsett. See Nauset.
Neal Daniel (1678–1743). Rev., 402, 403
Nelson, William, edits New Jersey State Documents, 97.
Nelson, N. H., 126.
Nemasit. See Neponet.
Neponet, alias Nemasit, John (Indian), sentenced for murder, 64.
Neptune, discovery of the planet, 480.
New Bedford, Mass., 68.
New Boston, N. H., 126.
New Braintree, Mass., 472.
New Brunswick, 389.
New Durham, N. H., 126.
New England, 2, 6 n., 48, 98, 99, 112, 113 n., 114–116, 118, 128, 130, 132 and note, 137, 228, 337, 360, 361, 363, 416, 459 n., 469, 476; Palfrey’s History of, quoted, 39 n., cited, 210 n. 213 n., 221 n., 222 n., 416 n., 425 n.; rivalry between Congregationalists and Episcopalians in, 42; exempted from jurisdiction of the attempted establishment of an American Bishopric, in 1672, 43; more Episcopal missionaries in, than in all the colonies south of New York together, 44; Winthrop’s History of, quoted, 87, 410, cited, 409 n., 410 n., 420 n., 427 n., mentioned, 428; Bibliographical Account of collections of printed archives in the several States of, 95–138, 144; Charles Deane’s chapter on, in Narrative and Critical History of America, quoted, 157; restoration of Acadia to France in 1632 not agreeable to republicans in, 101; paper on early plants of, by Dr. G. L. Goodale, 180–194; Hubbard’s History of, quoted, 188; The Evolution of Horticulture in, by Dr. Slade, mentioned, 202; woods in colonies of, reserved to Crown, 250; Neal’s History of, mentioned, 402; Massachusetts merged into The Territory and Dominion of, in 1684, 408; Felt’s Ecclesiastical History of, cited, 410 n.; causes that prevented a feudal form of government in, 411; Henry Dunster’s arrival in, 415; Gov. Brad-street called The Nestor of, 470; purpose of Fort Massachusetts Historical Society to collect and preserve books, documents and manuscripts relating to early history of, 473.
—— Charter of, 1620, council empowered to choose their successors by, 408.
—— Council for, grant to Massachusetts Company by, 408; grant confirmed and enlarged, 408; grant of New Hampshire to Capt. John Mason by, 412.
New England Bureau of United Inspections, specimen copy of Inspections and Plans of, submitted to Society, 69.
New England Courant, Boston, Dr. William Douglass supposed to be a writer for, 222.
New England, Description of, by Capt. John Smith, quoted, 180, 189.
New England Historic Genealogical Society, 281; a copy of the 1749 edition of Douglass’s Summary in library of, 227; Dr. Gould Vice-President of, 302, 303; Weld Genealogy (manuscript) deposited in Library of, 330; John F. Andrew a Director of, 374.
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, cited, 33 n., 150 n., 174 n., 213 n., 221 n., 222 n., 381 n., 390 n., 419 n.
New England Magazine, mentioned. 245.
New England Numismatic and Archæological Society, The, extinct, 472.
New England Tariff Reform League, 374.
New England’s First Fruits, quoted, 182; cited, 427 and note.
New England’s Plantation, by F. Higginson, quoted, 189, 190.
New England’s Prospect, by William Wood, quoted, 185, 186.
New English Canaan, The, by Thomas Morton, cited, 186 n.
New France (French America, Canada), 111, 412 n.
New Hampshire, 108 n., 109 n., 113 n., 117, 118, 120 and note, 121–129, 130 and note. 131 and note, 135–139, 177 n., 202, 433; restrained by royal instructions from emitting bills of credit, 7; merchants of, organize a company, in 1734, and issue their own notes, 8, 13; restrained from circulating them by an Act passed by Massachusetts in 1735, 29; first printed Records of, issued in 1867, 98, 117–131; New Hampshire Grants, 99, 134, 136–139; Vermont Records consist principally of papers on the controversy relating to the “Grants,” 99, 123, 121, 127, 131–136; boundary lines between Massachusetts and, 119 and note, 121, 126, 128, 129; between Maine and, 121; between New York and, 121, 125; convention at Cornish, 1778, on New Hampshire Grants, 122; Archives, 126, 128; Grant of, by Council for New England to Capt. John Mason confers only title to soil, 412.
—— Militia, 120.
—— Provincial Congress. See Congress.
—— Superiour Court of Judicature, trial before, of Allen v. Waldron, 118.
New Hampshire Historical Society, 131; issues State Papers as part of its Collections, 99.
New Hampton, N. H., 126.
New Haven Colony, or Plantation, 104, 109, 116, 161; Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven from 1638 to 1649, mentioned, 98, 109, 110 n.; Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven from May, 1653, to the Union with Connecticut, mentioned, 98, 109 and note, 110 and note.
—— Code of 1656, 110.
—— Laws, 110 n.
New Haven’s Settling in New England. And some Lawes for Government. Published for the use of that Colony, 1656, referred to, 110 n.
New Haven (town), Conn., 105, 107, 108 n., 109 n., 422 n.
New Ipswich, N. H., 126.
New Jersey, 108 n., 135, 192; ceded to Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, 413; Learning and Spicer’s Grants and Concessions of New Jersey, cited, 413 n.; Documents relating to the Colonial History of, 97.
—— College of, 430; Account of the College of New-Jersey, quoted, 431, 432. See Nassau Hall; Princeton.
New Jersey Historical Society, edits State Documents, 97.
New East Jersey, 413.
New West Jersey, 413.
New London and Lyme (Conn.) Riot, 1670, 105.
New London Societies United for Trade and Commerce, fac-simile of Three Shilling bill issued by, 1732, 106.
New London, N. H., 126.
New Orleans, La., 481.
New Oxford, Mass., 337.
New Plymouth. See Plymouth.
New South Meeting-House, Boston, 266.
New Spain (Spanish America), 74, 120, 224.
New York, 44, 86, 96, 99, 108 n., 109 n., 117, 124, 129, 134–139, 337, 358, 354; publications by: Documents relating to the Colonial History of, 97, mentioned, 117, cited, 412 n.; Calendars, of New York Historical Manuscripts, 97; Documentary History of, 97; boundary lines between New Hampshire and, 121, 124, 125; controversy between New Hampshire and, relating to New Hampshire Grants, 123; list of Tories’ lodgings in, 127; by grant of 1664, a Royal Duke becomes proprietor of the province of, 412; manors erected in, 412; Crom well sends an expedition, in 1654, for the reduction of, 424 n. See Manhatoes.
New York, N. Y., 41, 121, 130, 133 n., 152, 209, 380 n., 470, 471 and note.
—— Barclay Street, 436.
—— Barlow Surveys, 69.
—— Chamber of Commerce, 370.
—— Church Street, 436.
—— College, 139.
—— College Place, 436.
—— Columbia College, 314, 316, 436 and note, 488.
—— General Congress at, 1765, 121.
—— Harbor, 332.
—— King’s College, 139.
—— Murray Street, 436.
—— Reform Club, 374.
—— Sanborn-Perris Map Company, 68.
New York Hospital Gazette, 349.
Newark, N. J., 436.
Newbury, Mass., 75, 176, 179, 405; Episcopal missionaries settle in, 44; Third Parish in, 174, 179 n. See Newburyport; West Newbury.
—— Byfield, 176.
—— Old, Mass., Historical Society of, incorporation of, its object, 404, 405; its organization, in 1877, mentioned in Vol. I. of these Publications, 405.
—— N. H., 126.
—— Vt., 135.
Newburyport, Mass., 178, 405, 477; First Parish of, 179 n.; First Presbyterian Church in, 178 n.; Second Presbyterian Church in, 178 n. See Newbury.
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holies (1693–1768), Duke of, 252; letter from Gov. Belcher to, 253 n.
Newcastle, N. H., 119, 121, 126; charter of, 118.
—— Fort William and Mary, 120, 121.
Newcomb, Simon, LL.D., xxiii.
Newell, Hannah, sentenced for adultery, 65.
—— Isaac, 469.
Newfoundland, Island of, 73, 110–112, 191.
—— Banks, 110.
Newington, N. H., 126. See Bloody Point.
Newmarket, N. H., 126.
Newport, N. H., 126.
—— R. I., 18, 89, 98, 132, 336.
Newton, Sir Isaac (1642–1727), 288.
Newton, Mass., 70, 179, 240; formerly Cambridge Village, 418 n.; History of, by F. Jackson, cited, 418 n., 459 n.
—— N. H., 126.
Newtown (afterwards Cambridge), Mass., County court to be held at, 52. See Cambridge.
Niverville, Ensign Joseph Boucher de (1715–1801), attack on Township Number Four, in 1747, by French and Indians under, 220.
Nobility, Bacon’s Essay (XIV.) of, quoted, 81.
Noble, John, LL.B., vi, vii, xxi, xxii, 207; of committee of publication, ii, 274; reads paper on the Trial and Punishment of Crimes in the courts in colonial and provincial times, 51–66; official custodian of the Suffolk Files, 56 n., 100, 101 and note; reads paper on the libel suit of Knowles v. Douglass, 213–240; A. McF. Davis acknowledges obligations to, 246 n.; communication from, on Knowles-Douglass libel suit, 405; reads paper on Early Court Files of Suffolk County, 316–326; his remarks on death of Darwin E. Ware, 415–448; reads paper entitled A Trial, in 1685, for Frequenting the College contrary to Law, 448–470.
Noddles Island, Boston Harbor, 235, 239.
Nonconformists, perish in prisons of Charles I., 43.
Norcross, Grenville Howland, helps defray cost of repairing the Dunster tomb, 416 n.
Norcross, Otis, helps defray cost of repairing the Dunster tomb, 416 n.
Norman Conquest, the, 331; Freeman’s Norman Conquest, cited, 331 n.
North America, 110, 111, 139, 182; grant of part of, by Henry IV., in 1603, 162; by James I., in 1605, 162; John Fox-croft deputy Postmaster-general of, 269.
North Brookfield, Mass., 472; Quaboag Historical Society formed at, 1894, 66. See Quaboag.
—— Historical Society, The, formed in 1864, 471.
North Carolina, 247 n.; Archives of, drawn mainly from archives of Great Britain. 97, 98; Colonial Records of North Carolina, cited, 414 n. See Carolina.
North-Eastern America, 110.
North End, Boston, 232.
North Hampton, N. H., 126.
North River stone, slab of, placed over Dunster’s tomb, 416 n.
Northey, Edward, 249 n., 261 n.
Northfield, N. H., 126.
Northumberland, N. H., 126.
Northwestern British America, story of Somerset’s adventures in, 192.
Northwood, N. H., 126.
Norton, Capt. Francis (d. 1667), 159.
—— Rev. John (1606–1663), of Ipswich and Boston, Mass., 87, 423 and note.
—— Madam Mary (1602–1677), wife of Rev. John. 266.
—— family, 175.
Norton, Mass., 48.
Nottingham, N. H., 126.
Nova Scotia, 110, 113 n., 218 n., 225, 385, 388–390, 451; Murdoch’s History of, quoted, 161; Cromwell orders conquest of, 162; named by the English. 163; Lordship and Barony of, granted by charter of 1621 to Sir William Alexander, 411.
Novanglus and Massachusettensis; or Political Essays published in the years 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy between Great Britain and her Colonies, cited, 39 n.
Nowel. See Nowell.
Nowell, Elder Increase (1590–1655). Secretary of the Colony, 101, 160, 418 n.; succeeded by Edward Rawson, 101; of committee to examine the state of Harvard College, in 1654, 418; one of the Commissioners for the College, 424.
—— Samuel (H. C. 1653), son of Elder increase, 469.
Nuisance Act (English), Public, 27, 28.
Number Four. See Township Number Four.
Nutfield (near Haverhill, Mass., later Londonderry), N. H., 118, 119. See Londonderry.
Oakes, Rev. Urian (c. 1631–1681), President of Harvard College, 421 and note, 422, 449, 454, 461.
—— Urian (c. 1657–1679), 452, 453, 454 and note.
Oakley, Lieut. Battison, 237.
O’Brien, Hugh, Mayor of Boston, interested in arrangement of Suffolk Court Files for public use, 326, 327.
Observatory: at Göttingen, 291, 480, 481; at Paris, 479; at Greenwich, 479, 483; at Altona, 480; at Gotha, 480; at Pulkowa, 480; Dudley, at Albany, 481, 488; at Cordoba, Argentine Republic, 483, 484, 488.
O’Callaghan, Edmund Bailey (1797–1880), LL.D., his Documentary History of New York, mentioned, 97.
Occasional Sermons by Rev. Charles Lowell, cited, 400 n.
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, catalogue of, quoted, 436, 437.
Oklahoma, Territory of, U. S., 433.
Oks. See Oakes.
Old Colony Railroad Company, Forbes (Robert Bennett, Jr.) v., 78.
Old Congress. See Congress.
Old Corner Book-Store, Washington Street, Boston, 156 n.
Old Ladies’ Home. See Home for Aged Women.
Old South Church, Boston, parsonage of, formerly Gov. Winthrop’s house, 87.
—— Meeting-House, Boston, 265; Sir Edmund Andros takes forcible possession of, for celebration of Episcopal service, 43; papers stored in, during Revolution, 318.
—— Society, Boston, decision of the Supreme Judicial Court affecting, not contained in the Massachusetts Reports. 264.
Old South Society v. Crocker (Uriel); Crocker v. Old South Society, 265–267.
Oliver. Andrew (1706–1774), H. C. 1724, Lieut.-Governor of Massachusetts, 33 n.
—— Eliza, daughter of Chief-Justice Peter, 198. See Watson.
—— Nathaniel (1652–1704), of Boston, son of Peter (c. 1618–1670), 456, 457 n.
—— Chief-Justice Peter (1713–1791), H. C. 1730, 198, 325.
—— Thomas (1733–1815). H. C. 1753, Lieut. Governor of Massachusetts, 387.
Oliver (Daniel) v. Ray (Caleb). 458 n.
Olney. Hon. Richard. LL.D., xxi, xxii.
O’Neil, Joseph Henry, M. C., 359.
Orange, N.H., 126.
Order for Merit, Prussia, Dr. Gould a Knight of the, 488.
Orderic (Edric the Wild), 332.
Orion, 485.
Orleans, Island of, near Quebec, Canada, 192.
Ormerod, George, LL.D., his History of Cheshire, England, cited, 90 n.; mentioned, 91.
Orridge, Benjamin Brogden, his Citizens of London, etc., cited, 92 n.; erroneous inclusion in, of Sir Thomas Mowlson’s name as a member of the Clothworkers’ Company, 92; omission in, of his name as member of the Grocers’ Company, 92, 94.
Osgood, Mary. See Foxcroft.
Ossipee, N. H., 126.
Osten, Germany, 337.
Otis, Albert Boyd, 352.
—— James (1725–1783), H. C. 1743, son of Judge James, 176; Tudor’s Life of, cited, 176 n.
—— Mary, daughter of James (H. C. 1743), 176. See Lincoln.
—— Mary Allyne. See Gay.
—— family, 351 n.
Ottawa, Canada, 378.
Overing, John (d. 1748), Attorney-General of Massachusetts, 34, 155, 225.
Oviedo y Valdes, Gonzalo Fernandez de, 111.
Owen, Thomas, sentenced for adultery, 58.
Oxford, England, 112.
Oxford Dictionary, mentioned, 431.
Oxnard, Thomas, 33 n.
Oyster River (that part of Dover now Durham), N. H., 117, 118.
Paddock, Major Adino, 387.
Paige, Lucius Robinson (1802–1896), D.D., 454 n.; his History of Cambridge, cited, 416 n., 418 n., 419 n., 420 n., 451 n., 452 n., 453 n., 454 n., 459 n., 460 n.
—— Col. Nicholas, one of the owners of the brigantine Charles, 72.
Paine, Nathaniel. A.M., xxii.
Palatine, a title conferred by patentees of Carolina grant, 414.
Palfrey, John Gorham (1796–1881), LL.D., 247 n.; his History of New England, quoted, 39 n., 248 n., 417 n., cited, 210 n., 213 n., 221 n., 222 n., 416 n., 424 n., 425 n.
Palmer, Walter, trial of, for homicide, 1630, by Court of Assistants, 52.
Palmer, William Adams, Governor of Vermont, 138.
Papers of the American Society of Church History for 1893, Williston Walker’s Article in, quoted, 43, 44.
Paris, France, 110, 111, 113 n., 197, 198, 203, 204, 221, 311, 348, 479, 480, 482, 484, 486, 488.
Park Commissioner of Boston (John F. Andrew), 152.
Park System, Boston, 359, 371.
Parker, Abner, 107.
—— Francis Edward (H. C. 1841), 339, 442.
—— Rev. Henry Ainsworth, A.M., xxiii.
Parkman, Francis (1823–1893), LL.D., xxii, 202, 288, 289, 309, 344, 377.
—— Nathaniel, deposition of, 232, 233, 237.
—— family, 175.
Parliament of England, 23, 29, 31, 32, 39, 40, 49, 121; appeal to, on Land Bank question, 19, 39 n.; deputation sent to, in 1644, to protest against an attempt by Presbyterians to compel a state religion under the forms of the Solemn League and Covenant, 43; Sir Thomas Mowlson a member of, 93 and note, 94; paramount in England, 246.
—— of Hawaiian Islands, Judge Austin a member of, 150.
Parliamentary Army, 420 n.
Partridge, Richard, Agent of the Province, 19.
—— William, Lieut.-Governor of New Hampshire, 118.
Patrick, Capt. Daniel, 159.
Patroons. See Van Rensselaer family.
Pawners’ Bank or Collateral Loan Company, Boston, 335.
Pawtuxet, R. I., 105.
Payne, Elisha, 130 n.
—— Elizabeth, sentenced for murder, 63.
—— family, Genealogy of, cited, 396 n.
Peabody, Rev. Endicott, LL.M., xxii.
Peabody Fund, Judge Lowell President of the Trustees of the, 490.
Peabody, Mass., 474.
—— Historical Society, The, incorporation, etc., of, its objects, 474.
Pearse, Vincent, deposition of, in Suffolk Court Files, 237, 238.
Pearson, Eliphalet, LL.D., 177, 178.
Peeter. See Peter.
Peirce, Benjamin (1778–1831), H. C. 1801, his History of Harvard University, mentioned, 426; quoted, 461.
—— Benjamin (1809–1880), H. C. 1829, LL.D., Professor at Harvard College, son of Benjamin (H. C. 1801), 287, 291, 479, 481.
—— Eleanor, sentenced for light behavior, 58.
—— James Mills, A.M., xxii; speaks at Annual dinner, 279.
Pelham, Edward (H. C. 1673), 452, 453.
—— Herbert, 455 n.; first Treasurer of Harvard College, 453.
—— family, 454.
Pelham, N. H., 126.
Pemaquid, Me., 118. See Fort William Henry.
Pemberton, Benjamin, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature, 50.
—— Thomas, 155.
Pembroke, N. H., 126.
Penacook (Concord), N. H., 120.
—— Indians, 118.
Penn, Sir William (1621–1670), Admiral and General-at-sea, 163, 164.
—— William (1644–1718), son of Admiral Penn, 134; grant of Pennsylvania, in 1681, to, 413.
—— family, 413.
Pennsylvania, 96, 109 n., 135, 413; Colonial Records of, mentioned, 97; boundary of Maryland and, 97; Connecticut Settlement of Western, 97; boundary of Connecticut and, 108; Circuit Court of District of, 247 n.; Annals of, cited, 413 n.; Egle’s History of, cited, 413 n.
—— Historical Society of, 130.
Pennsylvania Chronicle, quoted, 268.
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, quoted, 270.
—— River, Me., 186.
Pension Office, Washington, D. C., 128.
Pepperrell, Sir William (1696–1759), 214.
Pepperrell Papers, cited, 221 n.
Pequot Country, Connecticut, 98, 104, 105.
Perceval, Sir John (1683–1748), Baronet, Baron Perceval of Burton, Viscount Perceval of Kanturk, Earl of Egmont, first President of the Corporation of Georgia, 414.
Pericles, 287.
Perkins, William, sentenced for drunkenness, 57.
Perkins Institution for the Blind, South Boston, Martin Brimmer a Trustee of, 339.
Perris, William. See Sanborn-Perris Map Company.
Pert, Sir Thomas. See Spert.
Perth, James Drummond (1648–1716), Earl of, one of the Proprietors of New East Jersey, 413.
Pescataway. See Piscataqua.
Petel, John, petitions for naturalization, 1730, 242.
Peter (Peters), Rev. Hugh (1598–1660), 420 and note, 428.
Peterborough, N. H., 120.
Peter’s Hill, West Roxbury, Mass., 371.
Peters, Hon. John Andrew, LL.D., xxiii.
Petty-Fitzmaurice, Lord Edmond George (b. 1840), 30.
Phelps, Charles, 137.
—— Hon. Edward John, LL.D., xxiii.
ΦBK Fraternity, Dr. Gould a member of. 301, 478; address of Dr. Gould at Hartford, Conn., before, 304.
Philadelphia, Pa., 80, 268–270, 432, 470 n.
—— American Philosophical Society, 488.
—— Convention of 1780, 109 n.; of 1787, 130 n.
—— the frigate, 330.
—— Independence Hall, 80.
Philistines, the, 233.
Phillipps, Sir Thomas (1792–1872), of Broadway, Worcestershire, and Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, 112.
Phillips, Jonathan, juryman, 1685, 469.
Phillips (Capt. William Henry) v. Blatchford (John Samuel), 38 n.
Phillips Academy, Andover. 78, 406, 433.
—— Exeter Academy, The, 433.
—— Grammar School, Boston, 351.
—— School Association, John F. Andrew President of, 374.
Phips, Spencer (1685–1757), Lieut.-Governor of Massachusetts, 216.
—— Sir William (1651–1695), Governor of Massachusetts, 5.
Pickering, Henry White (H. C. 1831), his school, 478.
—— family, 351 n.
Pierce, Edward Lillie, 364.
Pierce, John (1773–1849), D.D., extract from Diary of, 175, 176.
—— Nancy Green. See Andrew.
Piermont, N. H., 126.
Pike, (John?), of Halifax, N. S., 382.
—— Joshua, sentenced for adultery, 59.
Pilgrim Fathers, 292.
Pillory, Boston prisoners sentenced to, 60, 65.
Pinckney. Elizabeth (Gretian), 384 n., 395 and note.
—— Frances. See Gore.
—— John, 384 n., 395 and note; his will, 396 n.
—— Mary. See Gay.
Piper, William Taggard, Ph.D., xxiii.
Piracy, sentence of death for, 61, 62; in Massachusetts Bay, 62; in Vineyard Sound. 62; paper on trial and execution of Quelch and others for, by A. C. Goodell, Jr., 71–77.
Pirates, 133 n.
—— Harbor (N. H.) troops, 127.
Pitts Street Chapel, Boston, 334.
Pittsfield, N. H., 126.
Plague in the Throat, the, an epidemic in 1735 and 1736, a practical History of, by Dr. William Douglass, 221.
Plain Dealing, by Thomas Lechford, quoted, 417.
Plainfield, N. H., 124, 126, 137.
Plaistow, N. H., 126.
Plantations in America, 28.
Plants, in New England. See Early New England Plants.
Plato, 292.
Plattsburg, N. Y., 138.
Play-house in Portsmouth, N. H., 121.
Pleiades, the, 483.
Plowman, Capt. Daniel, 74; receives commission to command privateer Charles, 73.
Plumer. William, Governor of New Hampshire, 130, 131.
Plymouth Colony, or New Plymouth, Mass., 113 n., 115 and note. 116 n., 117 n., 143, 163, 218 n., 376, 421 n., 425; General Laws of, cited, 157 n.
—— Colony Records, edited by Dr. N. B. Shurtleff, 104, 115–117; cited, 421 n., 424 n.
—— Plantation, gift to Society of facsimile of Bradford’s History of, 282.
—— County, Mass., 20 n.
Plymouth (town). Mass, 24, 116 and note, 186, 198, 199, 337.
—— Church of First Parish in, designed by George Watson Brimmer, 199.
—— Iron-works in, 199.
—— Meeting-House, 199.
—— Town Brook in, 199.
—— N. H., 126.
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, The, Deerfield, Mass., Address at meeting of, at Fort hummer, cited, 220 n.
Political Economy, 313.
Pomeroy, Leonard, sentenced for manslaughter, 57.
—— Thomas, 112.
Poole, William Frederick (1821–1894), his edition of Johnson’s Wonder-working Providence, quoted, 157, 160.
Poor, Col. Enoch, 127.
Poore, Benjamin Perley, his Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and other Organic Laws of the United States, cited, 408 n.
Popham Colony, the, Maine, 194.
Popple, William (1701–1764), Secretary of the Board of Trade, 30.
Port Louis, fort at Hispaniola (Haiti), reduction of, 228.
Port Royal, Nova Scotia, 111, 118; capture of fort of, by Gen. Sedgwick in 1654, 163; expedition against, under Col. March in 1707, 451.
Port Royal Point (Caguay), Jamaica, fortification at, 172.
Porter, Rev. Edward Griffin, A.M., xxii, of committee of publication, ii, 274; his remarks on death of Leverett Saltonstall, 79, 80; addresses Society on occurrences between Lexington Green and Concord Bridge, 18 and 19 April, 1775, 139; his Rambles in Old Boston, cited, 388 n.
Portland, Me., 110, 112, 113 and note, 351; History of, by William Willis, quoted, 260 n., 261 n.
Porto Cavallo, New Spain (Puerto Cabello, Venezuela), 224, 225.
Portsmouth, N. H., 98, 117–119, 121, 126, 128, 129 and note, 259; Episcopal missionaries settle in, 44. See Strawberry Bank.
—— Free School, 1708, 118.
—— Play-house in, 1762, 121.
—— R. I., 132.
Portuguese, the, 74.
Post, Mary, sentenced for witchcraft, 64.
Post-Office Department established in Vermont, 136.
Potomac, Sixth Corps of the Army of, Major-Gen. John Sedgwick the idol of, 173.
Poultney, the privateer, 231, 237.
—— River, Vt., 138.
Pound, Thomas, sentenced for piracy, 62.
Povey, Capt. Thomas, Lieut.-Governor of Massachusetts (1702–1705), 76; issues proclamation for arrest of Quelch and crew, 75.
Præmunire, Statute of Provision and, 28, 30.
Præsepe, 483.
Prague, Austria, 480.
Pratt, John, 114.
Prence, Thomas (c. 1601–1673), Governor of Plymouth Colony, 115 n.
Prerogatives of the King, 143, 404, 407.
Presbyterian Church. Newburyport, First and Second, Dr. Daniel Dana pastor of, 178 n.
Presbyterians, 42; protest in 1614 against attempt of, to establish a state religion under the forms of the Solemn League and Covenant, 43.
Prescott, William Hickling (1796–1859), LL.D., 477.
Prescott Insurance Company, Boston, 333.
President Roads (formerly King Road), Boston Harbor, 232.
Press, American Colonial, 97.
—— in Massachusetts, licensing of the, under the Second Charter, 404; control of the, 404.
Preston, Thomas, Record Clerk of the Privy Council, 258 n., 405.
Price, Rev. Roger (1696–1762), 195.
Prince, Rev. Thomas (1687–1758), 87.
Prince Society, publications of, quoted, 185, 186; cited, 186 n., 411 n., 412 n.
Princess Street, London, 92.
—— Battle of, 432.
—— College, 431, 435 n.; Princeton Sketches quoted, 431; The Princeton Book quoted, 432 n. See College of New Jersey; Nassau Hall.
Printing in America, History of, by Isaiah Thomas, cited 417 n., 425 n.
Printing Press of the proposed bank, 1688, 4; some bills printed on, 4.
Private Bank, Boston disapproves of proposed bank of 1714, 7, 13; John Colman interested in, 10.
Privy Council of England, 8 n., 19 n., 29, 55, 75, 107, 219, 230, 246, 217, 248 and note, 249; petition to, by William Leighton, 251–253; order of, 254–256, 262, 263; imposes upon Superiour Court of Judicature duties beyond its powers under the Charter, 256, 257; Leighton again petitions, 257; second order of, 258–260, 262; appeals to, from decisions of the Province courts allowable when the value of the matter exceeds £300, 261, 262
—— Lords of the Committee of the, for hearing Appeals from the Plantations, 253.
—— Office, Whitehall, London, 258 n., 405.
—— Records, 258 n.
Proclamation, by Gov. Hancock, for apprehending the author of a threat to burn Long Wharf, Boston, 211, 212.
Proprietors. See Aristocracy.
Protestant Succession, 118.
Protestantism, certificate of Gov. Shirley’s, 194, 195.
Protestants, petition of French, for naturalization, 200, 241, 212; of one Protestant, 200, 242, 337, 347; troubles between Catholics and, one of the causes of the failure to establish an aristocracy in Maryland, 413, 414.
Providence Plantations, R. I., grantees in the Patent for, all Commoners, 412.
Providence, R. I., 98, 133, 336; burned by the Indians, 1676, and early records probably destroyed, 132 and note.
—— Butler Asylum for the Insane, 336.
—— Convention, 108 n.
Provident Association, Boston, Martin Brimmer a Director of, 339.
Province Bills, first emission of, in 1702, 5; to be furnished to citizens on security of real estate, 6; General Court authorizes issue of, in 1714, 1716, 1721 and 1728, 7; two classes of, issued in 1736, 8; more than enough for trade, 10; Merchants’ Notes at a premium of 33% over, 12; loan of, by Province suggested, 13.
—— Charter. See Charters, under Massachusetts.
—— House, Boston, threat to burn, 210.
—— Laws of Massachusetts (standard edition), cited. 8 n., 29 n., 36 n., 75 n., 200 n., 209 n., 210 n., 242 n., 337 n., 392 n., 398 n., 457 n., 458 n.; mentioned, 37, 71, 95, 324; great value of the editorial notes to, 458 n.; cited in three hundred cases in Massachusetts Reports, 458 n.
—— Notes. See Merchants’ Notes; Province Bills.
Province Seal, N. H., 118, 128.
Provinces, the (British), 363, 400.
Provincial Banks: Land and Silver. See Land Bank.
—— Congress. See Congress.
Psalmodies of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay, by S. L. Thorndike, mentioned, 143.
Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemæus), 111.
Public Bank, 6; General Court approves of, 7; Boston favors, in 1715, 7.
Public Library, Boston, owns the Barlow copy of the Massachusetts Colony Records, 56, 100, 103; purchases maps of Boston, 67; West End Branch of, 386 n.
Public Library, Brookline, Mass., 244.
Public Nuisance Act (English), 27, 28.
Public Record Office, London, 30 n., 95 n., 112, 113 n., 131.
Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, 224, 225.
Pulkowa, Germany, 480.
Pulsifer, David, edits Plymouth Colony Records, 104, 116.
Purcell, Capt., 225.
Puritan Commonwealth, the, regarded the community rather than the individual, 461.
Puritanism, 168.
Puritans, the, 164.
Putnam, Henry Ware, Vice-President of the Young Men’s Republican and Independent Club of Boston, 354 n.
Quaboag District, 66; composed of towns of North Brookfield, Brookfield, Warren, and New Braintree, 472. See North Brookfield.
—— Historical Society, North Brookfield. The, organization of, 66; incorporation, etc., of, 66 n., 472; its objects, 60, 472.
Quakers. 42, 44, 117, 125; abolition of laws against, required at the Restoration, 43; value of, as propagandists of religious liberty, mentioned, 143; matters concerning in Suffolk Court Files, 323; information regarding, desirable, 430.
Quamscott Patent. See Squampscott.
Quarter Courts. See Quarter Sessions, under Boston.
—— Sessions. See under Boston.
—— Sessions, Rhode Island, 132 n.
Quebec, Canada, 122, 127, 133 n., 378, 380.
Queen Street, Boston, 218 n.
Quelch, Capt. John, paper on exploits, trial and execution of, by A. C. Goodell, Jr., 71–77; execution of, on Charles River, 71; called a judicial murder, 71; Cotton Mather’s ministrations to, 71, 72; commander of the brigantine Charles, 72; cruise of the Charles, 73, 74; acts of piracy against King of Portugal, 74, 75; pursuit of, 75; proclamation for arrest of, 75, 70; capture of, 77; carried in chains to Boston and tried at the Star Tavern, 77.
Quick, William, sentenced for light behavior, 58.
Quincy, Edmund (1703–1788), H. C. 1722, son of Judge Edmund, 33 n.
—— Henry Parker, M.D., vi, xxii; deceased, xxiv; of committee of finance, 274; to write a Memoir of Dr. Wigglesworth, 274; Memoir communicated, 328; Memoir, 318–350; of committee to escort President Wheelwright to the chair, 375.
—— Col. John (1689–1767), Speaker of the House, son of Daniel, to inquire into matter concerning Land Bank, 24.
—— Josiah (1772–1864), H. C. 1790, LL.D., President of Harvard College, 78, 427; his History of Harvard University, cited, 160 n., 396 n., 402 n., 418 n., 419 n., 421 n., 422 n., 451 n.; quoted, 426.
—— Josiah (1802–1882), H. C. 1821, son of President Josiah, 482.
—— Mary Apthorp. See Gould.
—— Mary Jane (Miller), wife of Josiah (H. C. 1821), 482.
—— family, 297.
Quincy, Mass., 484.
Raccolta di Documenti e Studi pubblicati dalla R. Commissione Columbiana pel Quarto Centenario dalla Scoperta dell’ America, mentioned, 96.
Rackemann, Charles Sedgwick, A.M., xxii; of committee on nominations, 85; proposes health of Dr. Gould at Annual dinner, 153; his remarks on Major-Gen. Robert Sedgwick, 173.
Radcliffe, Ann, Lady Mowlson. See Mowlson, Ann (Radcliffe), Lady.
Radcliffe family, 429. See Radcliffe.
Rale, Sébastien (1657–1721), French priest, 126.
Ralegh, Sir Walter (1552–1618), 112; Charter of 1584 to, 408.
Rallé. See Rale.
Rambles in Old Boston, by Rev. Edward G. Porter, cited, 388 n.
Randolph, Edward (1632–1703), Secretary of the Territory and Dominion of New England, 105, 115.
Ranney, Ambrose Arnold, M.C., 356.
Ratcliffe, Philip, 125; sentenced for scandalous speech against the government and the Church of Salem, 60.
See Radcliffe.
Rawley. See Ralegh.
Rawson, Edward (1615–1693), Secretary of the Colony, 115, 207, 409; succeeds Increase Nowell, 101; elected Clerk of the Deputies, 1645, 101.
—— William, 469.
Ray (Caleb), Oliver (Daniel) v., 458 n.
Rayhly. See Raleigh.
Raymond, N. H., 126.
Read, Deborah. See Franklin.
—— John (H. C. 1697), of Boston, Attorney-General of the Province, submits a proposition to the General Court for a bank of issue, in 1739, 9.
—— John, 396.
See Reed.
Reasons why the British Colonies, in America, should not be charged with Internal Taxes, by Authority of Parliament; Humbly offered, for Consideration, in Behalf of the Colony of Connecticut, 1764, mentioned, 107.
Record Commissioners. See under Boston.
Reed, Col. James, 127.
—— Ruth, sentenced for imposing illegitimate child on her husband, 59.
—— Thomas Brackett, Speaker of the National House of Representatives, 360.
See Read.
Reform Club, Massachusetts, 297, 374.
—— of New York, 374.
Rehoboth, Mass., 116.
Reinel, Pedro, 110.
Relhan. See Enfield.
Religion and Art of Ancient Egypt, Sketch of History of, by Martin Brimmer, quoted, 343.
Remington, Jonathan, 450.
Report of the Commissioners appointed in pursuance of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the 5th and 6th years of King William the 4th, c. 71, cited, 91 n.
Restoration, the, abolition of laws against Episcopalians and Quakers required by government of, in 1662, 43.
Revere, Joseph Warren, 399.
—— Col. Paul (1734–1818), a member of the Lodge of St. Andrew, Boston, 297, 307.
—— family, 200.
Revere Copper Company, 399; view of its office, 1840, vii; Samuel T. Snow Treasurer of, 398; his Fifty Years with the Revere Copper Company, cited, 398, 399.
Revolution, American. See American Revolution.
Rhode Island, 69, 76, 108 n., 113 n., 127, 133 n., 247 n., 336; not restrained by royal instructions from emitting Province bills, 7; first volume of Records of, published 1856, 98; edited by J. R. Bartlett, 132, 133; boundary, 105; archives, 132 n.; charters of, 1636–1647 and 1647–1663, 132.
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 98, 108 n., 109 n.; grantees in Charter to, all Commoners, 412.
Rhode Island Historical Society’s Collections, quoted, 192.
Rhodes, James Ford, LL.D., xxiii. See Roads.
Ribault, Jean, 111.
Ribero, Diego, 111.
Richard I., King of England, 219.
Richards, John, 469.
Richardson, Amos, 459 n.
—— William Lambert, M.D., helps to defray cost of repairing the Dunster tomb, 416 n.
Richmond, N. H., 120.
Richmond’s Island, Me., 113 n.
Ricketson, Hon. John Howland, A.M., xxiii.
Ridgeway, John, 112.
Rindge, N. H., 126.
Riot. See Knowles v. Douglass.
Roads, John, sentenced for piracy, 61.
Roads, Harbor. See under Boston; King; Nantasket; President.
Roberval, Jean François de La Roque de, “petty King of Vimeu,” 111.
Robinson, George Dexter (1831–1896), Governor of Massachusetts, 356.
—— N. Y., University of, Annual Catalogue of, quoted, 436 n.
Rockwell, Ebenezer, pilot of the Shirley, deposition of, 233, 237.
Rodrjego, Peter (Dutchman), sentenced for piracy, 61.
Rogers, Elizabeth (Denison), wife of President John, 197.
—— John, of Swanzey, 390.
—— Rev. John (1630–1684), President of Harvard College, 197, 448.
—— Richard Denison (H. C. 1844), 78.
—— Col. Robert, papers relating to his Rangers in Suffolk Court Files, 323.
—— William Barton, LL.D., President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 316.
Rogers (Gamaliel) and Fowle (Daniel), 218 n., 223; deposition of, 238.
Roman Catholics, opposed to the establishment of Episcopacy in Maryland, 44; troubles between Protestants and, one of the causes which defeated the founding of a territorial aristocracy in Maryland, 413, 414.
Rome, Italy, 96.
Roosevelt, Theodore (H. C. 1880), Governor of New York, 365.
Rowley, Mass., 351.
Roxbury, Mass., 17, 46–48, 50, 198, 329, 331, 332, 458.
—— Church Records relating to Brookline, published by the Brookline Historical Publication Society, 245.
—— Latin School, Dr. Gould master of, 479, 488.
—— West. Bellevue Hill, 371.
—— N. H., 126.
Royal Astronomical Society, London, 488.
—— Chapel, first Episcopal church founded in Boston, 1686, called the, 43. See King’s Chapel.
—— Columbian Commission, Rome, 96.
—— Governors of the Territory and Dominion of New England and of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, Commissions and Instructions of to appear in Vol. II., of Publications of this Society, 145; also copies of their Commissions of Vice-Admiral, v.
—— Meteorological Society, London, Dr. Gould an Associate Honorary Member of, 488.
—— Navy, right to cut trees for masts for, reserved to the Crown, 249, 250, 253 n., 257, 258; cutting of trees for, a burning question with the residents of Maine, 256. See Frost v. Leighton.
—— Prerogative. See Prerogatives of the King.
—— Society, London, Dr. Gould a Fellow of, 488.
—— Society of Canada, 378; Sir John G. Bourinot Honorary Secretary of, 377.
Royalton, Vt., 135.
Rumney, N. H., 126.
Running away from master, trial for, 57.
Ruscelli, Girolamo, 111.
Russell, Elizabeth (Watson), wife of Thomas (1740–1796), 199.
—— Ezekiel, printer, of Danvers, Mass., 124, 138.
—— Judge James (1640–1709), son of Richard, 469.
—— Rev. Jonathan (H. C. 1675), of Barnstable, Mass., 453, 454.
—— Richard (1611–1676), of Charlestown, Mass., Treasurer of the Colony, 453.
—— Thomas (1740–1796), a Boston merchant, son of Judge James (1715–1798), 199.
—— William Eustis, LL.D., Governor of Massachusetts, v, xxii, 368; deceased, xxiv; of committee on nominations, 85, 149; death of, 274; Memoir of, to be written by Dr. Charles Carroll Everett, 274; chosen Governor the first time, 364.
Russia, 221.
Rut, John, 111.
Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris, 482, 484.
—— County, Vt:, 136.
Ruysch, Jonann, 110.
Rye, N. H., 126.
Rymer, Thomas, his Fœdera, cited, 412 n.
S——, M——, printer, of London, 110 n.
Sabine, Lorenzo (1803–1877), his Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, cited, 269, 380 n.
Saco, Me., 113 n.
Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, certificate that Gov. Shirley had received the, 194, 195.
Sagadahoc, Me., 113 n., 218 n.
St. Andrew, Lodge of, Boston, 307.
—— Andrews University, Scotland, bestows honors on Gen. Walker, 315, 316.
—— Botolph Club, Boston, 303, 374.
—— Christopher le Stocks, Parish of, London, 91, 93, 94; The Register Book of, edited by Edwin Treshfield, quoted, 93.
—— Christopher’s (St. Kitts), Island of, 164.
—— George’s, Manor of, N. Y., 412.
—— Jago de Cuba, 168.
—— James’s, London, 269.
—— John, New Brunswick, 163, 380, 388; fort at, captured by Gen. Robert Sedgwick, 163.
—— John River, New Brunswick, 380.
—— John’s wort, an herb, 188.
—— Lawrence, Gulf of, 111.
—— Lawrence River, Canada, 136.
—— Malo, France, 192.
—— Martin, Island of, West Indies, 164.
—— Mary’s Church, Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, 156.
—— Peter’s Church, Hargrave, England, 90; view of gable of porch of, 91
—— Peter’s College, Cambridge, England, 423.
—— Petersburg, Russia, 488.
—— Stephen’s College, Annandale, N. Y., 434.
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin (1804–1869), 344.
Salem, Mass., 23 n., 68, 75–78, 351, 410, 439, 440; Episcopal missionaries settle in, 44; county court to be held at, 52; scandalous speeches against church at, 60.
—— N.H., 126.
Salisbury, N. H., 126.
Salter, ——, Mr., 1742, 155.
Saltonstall, Hon. Leverett, A.M., v, xxii; death of, 78; remarks of P. H. Sears on death of, 78, 79; of E. G. Porter, 79, 80; of G. S. Hale, 80, 81; of Henry H. Edes, 81–83; of Henry Williams, 84, 85; his high sense of honor, 78; graduate of class of 1844 Harvard College, 79; his administration of the office of Collector of the Port of Boston and Charlestown, 79, 80, 82; appointed Commissioner for Massachusetts at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 80; his fidelity to cause of Civil Service Reform, 81, 82, 83; his ancestry, 81, 82; invited to a public dinner by men of different parties, 82; invited to sit for portrait, 83; resolution on death of, 85; Judge Lowell to prepare Memoir of, 140; photograph of, for Society’s Album, 141; presides at dinner to Dr. Gould in 1885, 484.
—— Mary (widow of Gov. Gurdon), Scholarship at Harvard, founded by, 46.
—— Col. Nathaniel (1639–1707), H. C. 1659, 469.
—— Judge Richard (1703–1756), H. C. 1722, 229.
—— Sir Richard (1586–1658), 81, 408.
—— Richard Middlecott, A.B., xxiii; elected Resident Member, 240; accepts, 274; of auditing committee, 438.
Sam, a negro belonging to Mr. Barker, 155.
Sample (Sampel), William, 380.
Samson, the ship, 111.
San Domingo (town), Haiti, W. I., 164.
San Salvador, Island of, W. I., 485.
Sanborn (Daniel Alford) - Perris (William) Map Company, New York, N. Y., description and catalogue of its Insurance Maps, 68.
Sanbornton, N. H., 126.
Sanders, Edward, sentenced for rape, 58.
Sandown, N. H., 126.
Sandwich, Mass., 116.
—— N. H., 126.
Sanford, Daniel Sammis, of Publication Committee of the Brookline Historical Publication Society, 244.
—— Hon. John Eliot, LL.D., xxiii.
Saratoga, N. Y., 126.
Sarmiento, Don Domingo Faustino, Argentine minister at Washington, 483; President of the Argentine Republic, 483.
Saturday Evening Gazette, The, 399 n.
Saybrook, Conn., 105.
—— Bar, Chart of, by Abner Parker, 107.
Saye and Sele, William Fiennes (1582–1662), Viscount, offer made by, to settle in Massachusetts provided there should be two distinct ranks created, 409.
Scandalous speeches, trials for, 60, 65.
Scandinavia, 192.
Scarborough, Me., 113 n.
Scarlet’s Wharf, Boston, 72.
Scarlett, Robert, sentenced for theft, 56.
Schöner, Johann, his globe, 1520, 110.
School Street, Boston, 87, 156 n., 200, 337.
Schurz, Carl, LL.D., 354.
Schuyler, Capt. Philip (d. 1683), 412 n.
—— George Washington, his Colonial New York cited, 412 n.
Scituate, Mass., 24, 116, 416, 425; History of, by Samuel Deane, cited, 425 n.
Scolnus, John (John of Kolno), 110.
Scot, Thomas and wife, sentenced for fornication, 58.
Scotch, the, 433.
Scotch lovage, 191.
Scotch-Irish Settlement in New Hampshire, 118.
Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832), 288.
Scribner’s Magazine, 365.
Seabrook, n. H., 126.
Seal, new, for province of New Hampshire, 118, 128.
Seale, Margaret, sentenced for adultery, 62.
Sears, Joshua Montgomery, A.B., xxii.
—— Philip Howes, A.M., xxii, 80, 296, 297, 299, 309, 478, 486; deceased, xxiv; his remarks on death of Leverett Saltonstall, 78, 79; of committee on nominations, 85; his remarks on the libel suit of Knowles v. Douglass, 240; his remarks on death of Dr. Gould, 286; elected member of Council, 375; presides at special meeting of the Council, 489.
Sears Building, Boston, 269 n.
Seawall, Samuel. See Sewall.
Second National Bank, Boston, 336.
Second Presbyterian Church, Newburyport, Mass., 178 n.
Secretary of State, His Majesty’s, 1773, 108.
Sedgwick, Elizabeth (Howe), mother of Gen. Robert, 156.
—— Henry Dwight, A.B., vi, xxiii; reads paper on Robert Sedgwick, 155–173.
—— Johanna, wife of Gen. Robert, 156, 174.
—— John, brother of Gen. Robert, 174.
—— Gen. John (1742–1820), of the Revolutionary Army, 174.
—— Major-Gen. John (1813–1864), of the Sixth Corps of the Army of the Potomac, 173, 174.
—— Major-Gen. Robert (c. 1613–1656), vi, 158, 162, 165, 173; his ancestry, 156; his arrival in Massachusetts, 156; becomes a merchant in Charlestown, 156; freeman of the Colony, 156; captain for Charlestown, 156; deputy to General Court, 156; selectman, 156; removes to Boston, 156 n.; “first Sergeant-Major chosen to order the regiment of Essex,” 157; captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 159; Major-Gen. of the Colony, 159; gives forty pounds to Harvard College, 160; conveys two shops to Harvard College, 160; petitions General Court to repeal laws against Anabaptists, 161; appointed by Cromwell to command an expedition against the Dutch “on Hudson’s River and at the Manhatoes,” 161, 424 n.; captures forts of St. John and Port Royal, 163; his success at Penobscot completes the reduction of Acadia, 163; goes to Jamaica, 163; placed at the head of the government at Jamaica, 104; his belief in Cromwell, 100; his feeling of unfitness for his work at Jamaica, 168, 169, 171; commission to, as Commander-in-Chief, from Cromwell, 170; his death, 170, 172; title to lands of, in Charlestown in litigation, 173; no will left by, 174.
—— Judge Theodore (1746–1813), LL.D., 174.
—— William, father of Gen. Robert, 156.
Sedgwicke. See Sedgwick.
Segotea Island. See Cyguatea.
Sejourné. See Sigourney.
Serious Address, by Rev. Noah Hobart, quoted, 45.
Seven, The Sister, the constellation, 485.
Sewall. Joseph (1688–1769), D.D., son of Chief-Justice Samuel, 87.
—— Chief-Justice Samuel (1652–1730), H. C. 1671, 33 n., 409, 470; appointed on Commission of Inquiry concerning pirates, 76; acts as Chief-justice in place of Addington, retired, 76 n.; portrait of, in Vol. I. of Publications of this Society, mentioned, 145; his “MSS.” referred to, 261 n.; his Diary cited, 43 n., 75 n., quoted, 71, 72, 75, 451.
—— Major Stephen (1657–1725), brother of Chief-Justice Samuel, 71, 77.
—— Chief-Justice Stephen (1704–1700), H. C. 1721, son of Major Stephen, 229
Shakspere, William (1564–1616), 344.
Sharon, N. H., 126.
—— Vt., 135.
Sharpe, Horatio, Governor of Mary land, 97.
—— Mary. See Willard.
Sharp Family Papers, The, published by the Brookline Historical Publication Society, 245.
Shattuck, Emily Morris (Copeland), 407.
—— George Otis, LL.B., vi, xxiii; deceased, xxiv, 406; remarks on death of, by G. S. Hale, 406, 407; his birth, 406; graduate of Harvard College and Law School, 406; associate of Peleg W. Chandler, 406, 407; of W. A. Munroe, 406; member of Boston Common Council, 1862, 406; Overseer of Harvard College, 406; member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 400; President of the Suffolk Bar Association, 400; Prof. Thayer a pallbearer at funeral of, 439; Memoir of, begun by Darwin E. Ware, 439.
—— Susan. See Cabot.
Shaw, Lemuel (H. C. 1819), 339.
—— Major Samuel, draught of sketch of organization for the Society of the Cincinnati in handwriting of, 144.
Shay’s Rebellion, 136.
Shearman. See Sherman.
Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, Gen. Walker a Professor of political economy and History at, 314–316.
Shelburne, N.H., 126.
Shelburne Papers (English), quoted, 30 n.
Shepard, Major Samuel (d. c. 1673), half-brother of Rev. Thomas, of Cambridge, 420 and note, 427; homestead of, 454.
—— Rev. Thomas (1605–1619), of Cambridge, 420 n., 421 and note; homestead of, 454; writes an elegy on Henry Dunster, 416 n.
—— Rev. Thomas (1635–1677), H. C. 1653, of Charlestown, 422 n.
Shepheard. See Shepard.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816), 177.
Sherman, John, Secretary of the Treasury, Silver Purchase Act mentioned, 359, 370 and note.
—— Rev. John (1613–1685), of Water-town, Mass., an Overseer of Harvard College, 461.
Ship Tavern, Boston, 160.
Shirley, William (c. 1693–1771), Governor of Massachusetts, 31, 121, 129; his commission published 14 August, 1741, 32; issues proclamation concerning Land Bank loans, 34; paper on his Protestantism by A. Me F. Davis, 194, 195; blackmailing letter to, 207, 208, 210; message of, to General Court on a similar paper, 209, 210; his flight to the Castle during the Knowles Riot, 214, 220, 231, 232; leaves the Castle under an escort, 215, 216; letters of, written from Castle, 233, 235, published in the Post Boy, 217; sends the libellous publications of William Douglass to Admiral Knowles at Jamaica, 219; thought of, as governor of Jamaica, 221; news of death of his son brought to him by Washington, 240; attorney of Leighton in suit of Frost v. Leighton, 251; his pleadings considered defective by the Superiour Court of Judicature, 252; his plea accepted as good law by the Privy Council, 263; complaint of, to the justices of the Superiour Court of Judicature that Royal Orders had not been executed, 264; files a special plea in an action of trespass, 260 n. See also. Frost v. Leighton.
Shirley Papers, 120.
Shop Notes (currency), 5.
Shotwell, John, 57.
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, 331.
Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet (1810–1874), M.D., edits Massachusetts Colony Records, 99–103, 114, 115; edits, in part, Plymouth Colony Records, 104; his Topographical and Historical Description of Boston, cited, 222 n.
Shute, Col. Samuel (1662–1742), Governor of Massachusetts, 119; theses of Harvard College, 1723, dedicated to, and indignation of the House thereat, 402, 403.
Sibley, Rev. John Langdon (1804–1885), his Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, cited, 411 n., 419 n., 421 n., 422 n., 425 n., 451 n., 452 n., 453 n.; quoted, 449 n., 454 n., 461 n.
Sickterdam, John, sentenced for piracy and murder, 62.
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554–1586), 112.
Sign of the Lamb, Boston, 18 n.
Signories in Carolina, 414.
Sigourney, André, 337.
—— Andrew, 201, 337; petitions for naturalization, 1730, 242.
—— Susannah. See Brimmer.
Sill, Joseph, 452.
Silver Bank or Scheme, Rhode Island loan in 1733 causes Silver Scheme, 7; an association of Boston merchants formed in 1740 known as the Silver Scheme, 14 and note, 15; directors of, issue notes, 17; operations in connection with, suspended by act of parliament, 33. See Land Bank or Manufactory Scheme.
Sims. See Symmes.
Singapore, Straits Settlements, Sir Frederick A. Weld governor of, 331.
Singleton (Spyers), Bayard (William, Jr.) and Wife (née Elizabeth Cornell) v., 247 n.
Skinner, Richard, Governor of Vermont, 138.
Sladk, Daniel Denison, M.D., v, xxii; death of, 196; remarks of Dr. Gould on death of, 197, 198; of G. S. Hale, 198; of Edward Wheelwright, 201–203; of Judge Lowell, 203–204; his ancestry, 197; a graduate of class of 1844, Harvard College, 198; Professor of Zoölogy at Harvard College, 198; Lecturer on Osteology at Harvard College, 198; a founder of this Society, 201; assistant to Jared Sparks, 201; his college diary, 201; inherits valuable historical papers and memoranda, 201; his Evolution of Horticulture in New England, mentioned, 202; his friendship for, and walks with, Francis Parkman, 202; called The Good Count, 203; Memoir of, to be written by Edward Wheelwright, 274.
—— Denison Rogers, xxiii.
Slafter, Rev. Edmund Farwell, D.D., his Sir William Alexander and American Colonization, cited, 412 n.
Slavery, 143, 442; in New Hampshire, 123, 129; in Vermont, 138.
Slaves, none in Vermont in 1791, 137.
Smith, Jeremiah, LL.D., xxiii.
—— Capt. John (1579–1631), 186; his Description of New England, quoted, 186, 189; New England and Charles River named by, 194.
—— Chief-Justice Joseph (1653–1717), of Hampton, N. H., 118.
—— Sarah, sentenced for murder, 64.
—— William, 396.
Snelling, Col. Jonathan, 387, 388.
Snow, Caleb Hopkins (1796–1835), M.D., his History of Boston, cited, 213 n.
—— Charles Armstrong, A.B., xxiii; elected a Resident Member, 271; accepts membership, 274.
—— Charles Henry Boylston, verses by, quoted, 301.
—— Samuel Thomas, vii, 399; Treasurer of the Revere Copper Company, 398 and note; his Fifty Years with the Revere Copper Company, cited, 398; quoted, 399.
Social Law Library, Boston, 174.
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, John P. Andrew President of, 374.
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 45; chartered in 1701, 44; charged with being a propaganda of Episcopacy with a view to a political establishment, 44; charged with employing more missionaries in New England than in all the colonies south of New York together, 44.
Sohier (Edward Dexter) v. Trinity Church, 266.
Solemn League and Covenant, the, protest against attempt of Presbyterians to compel a State religion under forms of, 43.
Some Proposals to benefit the Province (1720), cited, 13 n.
Somerset, Henry Charles Somers Augustus, his Land of the Muskeg cited, 192 n.
Somerset Club, Boston, John F. Andrew a member of, 374.
Somerville, Mass., 70.
Sophocles, Evangelinus Apostolides, 78.
Sorbonne, the, Paris, 339.
Soto, Ferdinando de (c. 1500–1512), 111.
Soumien, Samuel, of Philadelphia, Pa., silversmith, 1755, 270, 271.
South America, 183, 284, 285, 295–297, 302, 304.
South Boston Historical Society, organization, etc., of, its objects, 245.
South Carolina, 111; act extending Bubble Act to colonies denounced in, as a violation of provincial rights, 39 n.; no Archives published by state of, 90; Archives of North Carolina cover South Carolina, 98. See Carolina.
South Carolina College, Columbia, S. C., History of, by M. La Borde, quoted, 435.
South Hampton, N. H., 126.
South Sea Company, mentioned, 26.
South Street, Cambridge, 454.
Southampton (Long Island, N. Y.) Combination, 98, 104.
Southold, Long Island, N. Y. See Yennycook.
Spain, 120, 128, 167, 190; Archives of, 95.
Spanish America, 95.
—— Main, the, 182.
—— Prizes, 119.
—— Settlements in America, 218 n., 223.
—— Squadron, 228.
—— War (1741), 133 n.
Sparks, Jared (1789–1866), LL.D., President of Harvard College, Dr. Slade an assistant to, 201.
Sparks Street, Cambridge, 459.
Spert, Sir Thomas (d. 1511), Yeoman of the Crown, temp. Hen. VIII., 111.
Spicer, Jacob. See Learning.
Spooner, Alden, Vermont State Printer 124, 134, 138.
—— Judah Paddock. See Green & Spooner.
Sprague, Anthony, 469.
—— Charles Franklin, M.C., 371.
Spring Lane, Boston, 87.
Springfield, Mass., 68.
—— Convention, 108 n.
—— Republican, The, Gen. Walker assistant editor of, 314.
—— N. H., 126.
Spurwink, Me., 113 n.
Squadron, Red, Commodore Knowles Rear Admiral of the, 237.
—— White, Commodore Knowles Rear Admiral of the, 231, 234, 238.
Squamscott (Quamscott or Swampscott) or Hilton’s Point Patent, New Hampshire, 117, 118, 125.
Stamford, Conn., 44, 105, 109 n.
Stamp Act, mentioned, 39, 107, 121, 133 n.; papers concerning, in Suffolk Court Files, 323.
Stanford Dictionary, mentioned, 431.
Stanhope, Philip Henry (1805–1875), Earl Stanhope, Viscount Mahon, 346.
Stanley, Timothy, 138.
Star Tavern, Boston, trial at, for piracy, of Quelch and his crew, 77; location of, 77 n.
Stark, Col. John, 127.
Stark, N. H., 120.
Stars of the Southern Hemisphere (unfinished), by Dr. Gould, mentioned, 284.
State Bank, Vt., 137.
State Church, assumed to be an essential part of the body politic, 42; the grant of Maine to Gorges gave authority to introduce Church of England as a, 411.
State House, Boston, 49.
—— House, New Hampshire, 129 n.
—— Library, Vt., 134.
—— Papers (Massachusetts) by Alden Bradford, cited, 38 n.
—— Papers in the (British) Public Record Office, mentioned, 131.
—— Prison, Vt., 137.
—— Street, Boston, 87–89, 144, 471.
Staten Island. N. Y., 128.
Stearns, William Augustus, D.D., his Opening of Walker Hall, Amherst College, quoted, 436; President of Amherst College, 436 n.
Stephanius, Sigardus, 110.
Stepney, Middlesex, England, 174.
Stetson. See Stilson.
Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, 30 n., 131 n.; his Fac-similes of Historical Manuscripts, mentioned, 95.
—— Capt. Phinehas (1707–1756), Admiral Knowles sends a sword to, 220.
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J., 434.
Stevenson, Margaret, 268 and note.
—— Mary, 268 n.
Stevenstown, N. H., 120.
Stewartstown, N. H., 126.
Stickey, John, sentenced for stealing, 63.
Stillwater, N. Y., 86.
Stilson, Deacon William (c. 1600–1601), of Charlestown, Mass., 159, 160 n., 174.
Stitson. See Stilson.
Stocken, John Jabez, 94; his Manuscript notes in Guildhall Library, London, 93 n.; quoted, 93.
Stoddard, William, resigns his office as Justice of the Peace, 19; removed and dismissed from said office, 20; a Director of the Manufactory Company, 33 n., 46, 48.
Stoddard, N. H., 126.
Stone, Hugh, sentenced for murder, 62.
Stonington, Conn., 105, 459 n.
Stony Brook Reservation, West Roxbury and Hyde Park, Mass., 371.
—— Thomas, sentenced for piracy and murder, 62.
See Story.
Storrow, Ann (Appleton), wife of Capt. Thomas, 177 n.
—— Ann Gillam, daughter of Capt. Thomas, 177 and note; familiarly addressed as “Aunt Nancy,” 177 n.
—— Louisa, daughter of Capt. Thomas. See Higginson.
—— Capt. Thomas (d. 1795), of the British Army. 177 n.
Story, Charles Secretary of the Province of New Hampshire, 118. See Storey.
Stoughton, Chief-Justice William (1631–1701), 76 n., 469.
Stoughton. Mass., 24.
Strachey, William (fl. 1609–1618), 194.
Strand, the. London. 268.
Strangers’ Court. See under Massachusetts.
Stratford. Conn., 105.
—— N. H., 126.
Strawberry Bank, N. H., 117, 128. See Portsmouth.
Stuyvesant. Peter (1602–1682), Governor of New York, 109.
Sudbury, Suffolk, England, 332.
—— Bar Association, George O. Shattuck, President of, 406.
—— County, Mass., 48, 50, 55, 64, 154, 155, 223, 229, 246 n., 265, 318, 325, 327, 394, 396.
—— Court Files, cited, 2 n., 23 n., 49 n., 50 n., 155 n., 213 n., 448 n., 458 n.; mentioned, 37, 49, 53, 56, 100, 155, 207, 219, 230, 231, 246 n.; quoted, 154, 155, 207, 208, 463; Calendar of Land Bank and Silver Bank papers in, mentioned, 2 n.; Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk the official custodian of, 56 n., 100, 317, 319; he is authorized to arrange, 319; list of papers in, relating to the case of Knowles v. Douglass, 236–239; paper on, by John Noble, 317–326. See Early Court Files of Suffolk County.
—— Court Records, mentioned, 155.
—— Deeds, quoted, 46–48, 87–89; cited, 390 n., 394 n., 397 n., 459 n.
—— Probate Court, 392.
—— Probate Files, cited, 232 n., 233 n., 384 n., 390 n., 393 n., 394 n., 396 n., 398 n., 400 n., 459 n.
Sugar, West India Islands, 228.
Sullivan, Maj.-Gen. John (1740–1795), 127, 128, 131, 133 n.
Sullivan, N. H., 126.
Suite, Benjamin, F.R.S.C., his Histoire des Canadiens-Français, mentioned, 378.
Summary Historical and Political of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of the British Settlements in North America, by William Douglass, M.D., cited, 9 n., 213 n., 218 n.; mentioned, 219, 223, 226–228, 238; written in the old Green Dragon Tavern, Boston, 222.
Summer Street, Boston, 200.
Sumner. Col. Benjamin, 125.
—— Charles (1811–1874), LL.D., 440.
Sunapee, N. H., 126.
Superiour Court of Judicature. See under Massachusetts and New Hampshire; See also York County.
Supplement to the Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, by Edwin M. Bacon, 211; copy of, presented to Society by A. C. Goodell, Jr., 243.
Supreme Court of Judicature of Jamaica, Edward Manning an Assistant Judge of, 236.
Supreme Court of the United States, decision of, in case of Marbury v. Madison, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void, 246, 249.
Supreme Judicial Court. See under Massachusetts.
Surry, N. H., 126.
Surveys: for canals in Vermont, 38; in New Hampshire, 122; of boundary line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 129. See also, Maps.
Susquehannah Case, the, 108.
Sutton, N. H., 126.
Swampscott Patent. See Squampscott.
Swanton, Vt., 138.
—— N. H., 126.
Swift, Lindsay, A.B., xxiii; his paper on Massachusetts Election Sermons, referred to, 77 n.; elected Resident Member, 179; accepts, 274; makes Index of Vol. I. of Publications of this Society, 377.
Symmes, Rev. Zechariah (1599–1670), of Charlestown, Mass., 160, 422 n.
Synod, Connecticut and Massachusetts, 105.
T, thieves branded on forehead with letter, 56, 63, 64; letter to be worn for crime of stealing, 58.
Tablet placed on the site of the first Meeting-House in Boston, 471.
Taft, Henry Walbridge, A.M., xxiii.
Talbie, Dorothy, wife of John, sentenced for causing unnatural death of daughter, 60.
—— John, 60.
Talbot, Manor of, Maryland, 413 n.
Tamworth, N. H., 126.
Tantalus, 177.
Tarbox, Jonathan, deposition of, 235, 237.
Tariff Reform Association, 356.
Tariff Reform League, Darwin E. Ware President of, 444.
Tash, Col. Thomas, 127.
Taunton, Mass., 116, 348 n. See Cohannet.
Taverns. See under Boston; Lynn.
Tawtanimo, Indian Chief, 105.
Taxation without representation, Rev. John Wise, of Ipswich, Mass., the first man in America to oppose, 454.
Taxation Laws of Massachusetts, Judge Lowell chairman of the Special Commission upon the Revision of the, 490.
Taxes, commodities received for, 7, 10.
Taylor, Bayard (1825–1878), poem by, at Centennial celebration at Philadelphia, 80.
Taylor, Gen. Zachary (1784–1850), President of the United States, 440.
Temple, Elizabeth (Watson), wife of Sir Grenville, 199. See Russell.
—— Sir Grenville, 199.
Temple, N. H., 126.
Texas, 361.
Thacher, Rev. Thomas (1620–1678), of Boston, an Overseer of Harvard College, 461.
Thales, 292.
Thanksgiving, ordered by the General Court to be kept for the discovery of the Assassination Plot, 65; setting apart days of Humiliation and, questioned by William Vesey, 1697, 65; in 1806, mentioned, 386; in 1896 mentioned, 285, 487.
Thatcher. See Thacher.
Thayer, Cornelia (Van Rensselaer), 368 n.
—— Harriet. See Andrew.
—— James Bradley, LL.D., xxi, xxii, 286, 288, 289, 295; of committee on nominations, 241; his Cases on Constitutional Law, mentioned, 246 n., 247 n.; presents list of candidates, 278; addresses Society at Annual dinner, 279; presides at same at Dr. Gould’s request, 279; his remarks on death of Dr. Gould, 284, 285; on death of Darwin E. Ware, 438–445; a pall-bearer at Dr. Gould’s funeral, 438; and at George O. Shattuck’s funeral, 439.
—— John Eliot, A.B., xxiii.
—— Nathaniel, 368 n.
Theft, trials for, 56–58, 63, 64.
Theophrastus, 188.
Theory of Ethics or Practical Philosophy, by Immanuel Kant, quoted, 292.
Theses at Harvard College Commencement, 1723, dedicated to the Governor, 402–404.
The vet, André, 111.
Third National Bank of Boston, funds of this Society deposited with, 148, 277.
Third Parish, Newbury, Mass., Rev. Thomas Cary, pastor of, 174, 179 n.; Rev. John Andrews his successor, 179 n.
Thomas, Isaiah (1749–1831), LL.D., his History of Printing in America, cited, 417 n., 425 n.
Thomlinson, Capt. John, Agent of the Province of New Hampshire, 119, 120 and note, 121, 128.
Thomlinson Papers, 120.
Thorndike, Albert, 488.
—— Mary Quincy (Gould), 285, 488.
Thorndike, Samuel Lothrop, A.M., vi, xxi, xxii, 298, 440; speaks at Annual dinner, 279; of committee to prepare resolutions on death of Dr. Gould, 282 n.; his remarks on death of Dr. Gould, 295–298; communicates a Memoir of him, 475; Memoir, 476–488.
Threat to burn Gov. Shirley’s house, 207; to burn shops on Long Wharf, 211.
Three Rivers, Canada, 378.
Threeneedles, Sarah, sentenced for murder, 64.
Thurloe, John (1616–1668), his Collection of State Papers (Birch’s edition), quoted, 161, 165–172; cited, 163 n., 161 n., 424 n.
Thursday Evening Club, Boston, 289.
Tichenor, Isaac, Governor of Vermont, 137.
Ticknor family, 175.
Ticonderoga, N. Y., 127, 133 n., 139.
Tide Mills at Middlesex Landing, Charlestown, 160, 174.
Tileston. See Tyleston.
Ting. See Tyng.
Todd, Anthony, 269.
Tom, an Indian, sentenced for rape, 61.
—— a negro, attempts to fight a duel with Cæsar, a negro, on Boston Common, 1742, 155.
Toppan, Robert Noxon, A.M., vi, xxi, xxii; of the committee to consider the endowment of this Society, 379; reports the incorporation of the Historical Society of Old Newbury, 404; reads paper entitled The Failure to Establish an Hereditary Political Aristocracy in the Colonies, 407–415. See Aristocracy.
Topsfield Historical Society. The, organization, etc., of, 85; object and purpose of, 85.
Tories in New York, list of their lodgings, 127.
Torlacius, Bishop Gudbrandus, his map of 1606, 110.
Toronto. University of, Canada, 433.
Totoket (Branford), Conn., 105, 109 n.
Tousey, Thomas, 107.
Town and Ministerial rates paid in Land Bank Notes, 40.
Town Brook, Plymouth, iron-works on, 199.
Town House, Boston, 206.
Townsend, Mass., 474.
Townsend Historical Society, The, incorporation, etc., of, its purposes, 474.
Township Number Four, N. H., attack on, by French and Indians in 1747, 220; incorporated under the name of Charlestown in honor of Admiral Charles Knowles, 220. See Charlestown, N. H.
Trade and Plantations, Board of. See Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations.
Trading Company, conversion of, into Massachusetts Bay Colony, 142.
Traité entre le Roi Louis XIII et Charles Roi d’Angleterre pour la Restitution de la Nouvelle France, la Cadie et Canada, 1632, cited, 412 n.
Transatlantic Cable, the, 483.
Travels in the United States and Canada, by John Finch, quoted, 435 n.
Trelawny, Edward (1699–1754), Governor of Jamaica, 221, 236.
—— Sir Jonathan (1650–1721), 112.
—— Robert (1598–c. 1644), 112, 113 n.
—— Pedigrees, 112.
Tremont Temple, Boston, 354, 358.
Treshtield, Edwin, The Register Book of St. Christopher le Stocks, in the City of London, edited by, quoted, 93.
Trevett (John) v. Weeden (John), 217 n.
Trinity Church, Boston, 232 n., 340; suit of Sohier (Edward Dexter) v., 266.
—— Old, Summer St., Boston, 200, 266.
Tripoli, Africa, 330.
Trumbull, James Hammond (1821–1897), LL.D., 4 n.; edits Connecticut Records, 104, 116 n.; his edition of Lechford’s Plain Dealing, quoted, 417 n.
—— John, of Norwich, Conn., printer, 124, 137.
Tucker, George Fox, Ph.D., xxiii; Reporter of Decisions of Massachusetts Supreme Court, 266 n.
—— Lewis Raymond, Vice-President of the Young Men’s Republican and Independent Club of Boston, 354 n.
—— Rev. William Jewett, LL.D., xxiii.
Tuckerman, Edward, 184.
Tudor, William (1779–1830), H. C. 1796, son of Col. William (H. C. 1769), his Life of James Otis cited, 176 n.
Tuftonborough, N. H., 126.
Tunis, North Africa, 330.
Turner, Frederick Jackson, Ph.D., xxiii.
Turnoor, Sir Edward (1617–1675), Speaker of the House of Commons, 96.
Tusculum, near Princeton, N. J., name of the country seat of Hr. Wither-spoon, 433.
Tweeddale, John Hay (1626–1697), Marquis of, 221.
Tyleston, James, deposition of, 237.
Tyley, Samuel, Clerk of the Superiour Court of Judicature, 260, 263.
Tyndall, Margaret. See Winthrop.
Tyng, Dudley Atkins (1760–1829), Memoir of, quoted, 175. See Atkins.
—— Edward (d. 1681), of Boston, the emigrant, 459 n.; an Overseer of Harvard College, 461.
—— Capt. Edward, Gov. of Annapolis, N. S., son of Edward the emigrant, 113 n.
—— Capt, William (d. 1652). Treasurer of the Colony, brother of Edward the emigrant, 88.
Uncas (d. c. 1682), Pequot Sachem, 105.
Underhill, Capt. John (d. c. 1672), 159.
Union, the, application of Vermont for admission into, 136; admitted, 137; opposition of John P. Andrew to the admission of the “Mining Camp” States into, 364.
—— Second, of New Hampshire towns with Vermont and with part of N. Y., 1781, 135.
—— Second Eastern, of New Hampshire and Vermont towns, 135, 139.
—— Club, Boston, 374.
—— College, Schenectady, N. Y., article on, in The College Book, by William Wells, quoted, 436 n.
—— Street, Boston, 384, 386 n., 391 and note, 392, 394 and note, 395–399.
Unitarian Club, Dr. Gould a constant attendant at meetings of the, 486.
United Colonies, 104 and note, 105 n.; Thomas Danforth, Commissioner of, 460.
United Provinces (the Netherlands), 161.
United States, 111, 135, 212, 246, 265, 359, 361, 366, 441, 484; issues of the Canadian press touching documentary history of, 96; Constitution of, 133 n., 136–138, 362, 470 n.; Bancroft’s History of, quoted, 199, cited, 218 n.; Grahame’s History of, cited, 213 n.; Dr. Gould a member of the International Committee of Weights and Measures for, 311, 486. See Congress.
—— Army, 138.
—— Coast Survey, Dr. Gould given charge of the longitude determinations of the, 481, 482.
—— Sanitary Commission, Dr. Edward Wigglesworth serves on, 197; Dr. Gould actuary of, 482.
Unity, N. H., 126.
University of Rochester. See Rochester.
University Press, Cambridge, bill to this Society for printing, 148, 276.
Upham, William Phineas, his opinion regarding the Barlow Copy of the Massachusetts Colony Records, 101; thinks that fragments of missing early journals of the House may exist in files of Supreme Judicial Court, 103; selected to arrange, etc., Suffolk Court Files, 240 n., 319, 327; A. Mc F. Davis acknowledges obligations to, 246 n.; Court Files in Essex County arranged by, 319.
Usher, John (1648–1720), Lieut.-Governor of New Hampshire, 118.
Usurpation, existence of the Corporation of Harvard College not interrupted by the, 429.
Utrecht, Treaty of, 118.
V, letter to be worn for crime of attempting illicit venery, 58.
Valencia, Ireland, 483.
Valentine, Samuel, of Freetown, Mass., 390; deed, Samuel and Abigail Valentine to Martin Gay, 391.
Vallard, Nicholas, 111.
Van Cortlandt, Manor of, New York, erected 1697, 412.
Van Dyke, Henry Jackson, Jr., his article in The Princeton Book, quoted, 436.
Van Horne’s (Thomas) Lessee v. Dorrance (John), 247 n.
Van Ness, Cornelius Peter, Governor of Vermont, 138.
Van Rensselaer, Cornelia. See Thayer.
—— family, privileges of, as Patroons, acknowledged by the English, 412.
Vane, Sir Henry (1613–1662), Governor of Massachusetts, 408 n.
Vaudreuil, Pierre de Rigaud (1698–c. 1764), Marquis de, Governor of Canada, 96.
Vaughan, William (d. 1719), Lieut.-Governor of New Hampshire, 118.
Veazey. See Vesey.
Veazie, Me., 444
Venables, Gen. Robert (c. 1612–1687), 163, 164, 168.
Vendôme, The, Boston, dinner to Dr. Gould at, 299, 484.
Venice, Italy, 480.
Vermont, 124, 135–139, 177 n.; first Constitution of, 134; Western District of, 135; Eastern District of, 135; dissolution of Western Union of, 136, of Eastern Union of, 136; no slaves in, in 1791, 137; introduction of railroads into, 138; visit of Lafayette to, 138.
—— Convention of 1791, 136.
—— Records of, consist principally of papers upon the controversy of the New Hampshire Grants, 99, 123, 124, 126; edited by E. P. Walton, 134–139.
Vermont Historical Society, printed Collections of, mentioned, 136.
Verrazano, Giovanni da, 111.
Vesey, William, fined and sentenced to the pillory for treasonable words, 65.
Vice-Admiral, commissions of, issued to Royal Governors of New England, copies of, given by A. C. Goodell, v.
Viegas, Gaspar, 111.
Vienna, Austria, 197, 204, 348, 480, 488.
Villegagnon, Nicolas Durand de (1510–1571), 111.
Vineyard Sound, Mass., piracy in, 62.
Virgil, 78, 286, 296, 478; his Æneid, mentioned, 435.
Virginia, 121, 137, 181, 188, 192, 193, 225; Episcopacy in, 42; attempt in 1672 to establish an American bishopric in, 43; charter of, to Ralegh, 408; first and second charters, 408; Council of, 408; becomes a Royal Province, in 1624, 408, 409.
Wadononamin, an Indian, 126.
Wadsworth, Alexander, 391 n.
—— Harriet. See Brimmer.
Wagner, Richard, 344.
Wainwright, Francis (H. C. 1686), 450.
Wait, Horatio Loomis, 129 n.
—— Lieut.-Col. Joseph, 129 and note.
—— William Cushing, A.M., xxiii; elected Resident Member, 475.
Wakefield, N. H., 126.
Waldo, Samuel, agent of Ralph Gulston, 250, 251. See Frost v. Leighton.
Waldron, Major Richard (1615–1689), of Dover, N. H., Governor of New Hampshire, 118, 119, 128, 129.
—— Judge Richard (1650–1730), son of Gov. Richard, suit of Allen (Samuel) v., 118.
Walker, Amasa (1799–1875), LL.D., his Science of Wealth, mentioned, 316.
—— Benjamin, 469.
—— Hon. Francis Amasa, LL.D., v, xxii; deceased, xxiv, 371, 438; announcement of death of, and remarks on, by Judge Lowell, 313–315; by Dr. G. L. Goodale, 315; by G. S. Hale, 315, 316; his History of the Second Army Corps mentioned, 314, 316; Assistant Editor of the Springfield Republican, 314; Professor at Yale, 314–316; Chief of the Bureau of Statistics in the Treasury Department, 314, 315; Superintendent of the ninth and tenth Census, 314, 315; lecturer at Harvard College, 314, 316; President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 314, 316; his academic honors, 314–316; in Libby Prison, 315; officer of the French Legion of Honor, 315; lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, 316; writes upon Gen. Hancock, and other subjects, 316.
—— George Leon, D.D., his Address at Fort Dummer, 1896, cited, 220 n.
—— James (1794–1874), LL.D., President of Harvard College, 289, 407, 442, 477, 486.
—— Rev. Timothy (1705–1782), H. C. 1725, of Concord, N. H., 121.
—— Chief-Justice Timothy (1737–1822), H. C. 1756, son of Rev. Timothy. 124, 138.
—— Williston, Ph.D., his Papers of the American Society of Church History for 1893, quoted, 43, 44.
Walker Art School, Bowdoin College, Martin Brimmer lectures at, 341.
Wallace, George Riddle, his Princeton Sketches quoted, 431.
Walley, Thomas, auctioneer, 382, 393.
Walloon, the first Martin Brimmer described as a, 200.
Walpole, N. H., 126; convention at, 124, 135.
Walsingham, Sir Francis, 112.
Walton, Eliakim Persons, edits Vermont Records, 134.
Walton (Elisha), Holmes (John) and Ketcham (Solomon) v., 247 n.
War of 1812, 330.
War of Independence, 477, 486; History of, by Rev. William Gordon, mentioned, 329.
War Governor. See Andrew, John Albion.
Warburton, William, D.D. (1698–1779), Bishop of Gloucester, 81, 82.
Wardour Castle, Wiltshire, England, 332.
Wardwell, Sarah, sentenced for witchcraft, 64.
Ware, Adelaide Frances (Dickey), wife of Darwin Erastus, 444.
—— Hon. Darwin Erastus, A.M., vi, xxii; deceased, xxiv; speaks at Annual dinner of Society, 153, 279; his remarks on death of Dr. Gould, 291; death of, announced, 438; remarks on death of, by J. B. Thayer, 438–445; by John Noble, 445–448; in First Eight at Harvard College, 440; his refusal to “swear” at initiation into a College society, 440; graduate of Harvard College, 1852, 440; teaches school at Jamaica Plain, 441; graduate of the Harvard Law School, 441; associated with John T. Morse, Jr., and with George S. Hale, 441; declines a place on the Supreme Judicial Bench of the Hawaiian Islands, 441; a member of both branches of the Massachusetts Legislature, 441, 446; a Commissioner to revise United States laws, 441, 446; of the Massachusetts Board of Harbor Commissioners, 441, 446; associate of Peleg W. Chandler and John E. Hudson, 441; an executor and trustee by Mr. Chandler’s will, 441; secures the passage of a bill for the election of Overseers of Harvard College by the College Alumni, 442, 446, 447; causes which prevented his rising to distinction at the Bar, 442, 443; allied with the Free Soilers, 441; joins the Independents, 1884, 444; an Overseer of Harvard College, 444, 446; Director and Treasurer of the Associated Charities of Boston, 444; President of the Tariff Reform League, 444; Vice-President of the Examiner Club, 444; his poetry, 445, 447; an advocate of Civil Service Reform and Tariff Reform, 446; suggestion that his portrait be hung in Memorial Hall, Cambridge, 447; his literary tastes, 447; a leading writer on The Boston Post, 447.
Ware, Henry (H. C. 1785), D.D., 176.
Warner, N. H., 126.
Warren, Major-Gen. James (1726–1808), 383 and note.
—— Major-Gen. Joseph (1741–1775), 389; member of the Lodge of St. Andrew, Boston, 307, 381.
—— Admiral Sir Peter (1703–1752), 226.
—— William, sentenced for piracy and murder, 62.
—— family, 297.
Warren, Mass., 472.
—— N. H., 126.
Warwick, Robert Rich (1587–1658), Earl of, 412.
—— the ship. 232.
Washington, George (1732–1799), President of the United States, 133 n., 136, 344, 346, 471 n.; comes to Boston to acquaint Gov. Shirley of the death of his son, 240; anniversary of his death observed at Mount Vernon, 328; chosen President of the Convention to frame the Constitution of the United States, 470 n.
Washington, D. C., 83, 128, 311, 305, 368, 370, 373, 376, 441, 442, 483.
—— Observatory, 482.
—— N. H., 126.
—— Vt., 139.
Washington Street, Boston, 87, 156 n., 416.
Waters, Henry Fitz-Gilbert, finds will of John Sedgwick, 174.
—— Thomas, sentenced for stealing, 63, 64.
Watertown, Mass., 179.
Watson, Ebenezer, of Hartford, Conn., printer, 108, 134, 136.
—— Eliza, wife of Col. George. See Oliver.
—— Elizabeth, daughter of Col. George. See Russell; Temple.
—— George, one of the first Plymouth settlers, 199.
—— Col. George (1718–1800), 198; a Loyalist and Mandamus Councillor, 199.
—— John, father of Col. George, 199.
—— Mary. See Hutchinson.
—— Sarah. See Brimmer.
—— William, Ph.D., xxii; his remarks on death of Dr. Gould, 310, 311.
Watts, Capt. ——, 1742, 155.
Watts, John, sentenced for attempting to betray the inhabitants into the hands of the Indians and trading powder to them, 1670, 63.
—— Samuel, sentenced for piracy and murder, 1689, 62.
—— Samuel, of Chelsea, Mass., removed and dismissed from office of Justice of the Peace, 20; a Director of the Manufactory Company, 25, 33 n., 40, 48; elected Speaker of the House of Representatives but rejected by the Governor, 1741, 25, 26; chosen Collector of Excise, 20.
Waymouth, George, record of his voyage in 1005, quoted, 188.
Wayne, Gen. Anthony (1745–1796), 137.
Weare, Meshech (H. C. 1735), President of New Hampshire, 131, 138.
Weare N. H., 126.
Webber, Samuel (1760–1810), D.D., President of Harvard College, 170, 177, 179.
Weeden (John), Trevett (John) v., 247 n.
Welch, Charles, of the Guildhall Library, London, 91, 93 and note.
Weld, name said to have descended from the Saxon Edric “the Wild,” 331.
—— Caroline Langdon (Goddard), 336.
—— Charles Goddard, M.D., xxiii, 330; elected Resident Member, 282.
—— Clare (Arundell), 332.
—— Edward, of Sudbury, England, 332.
—— Eleazer (1737–1800), 329, 332.
—— Sir Frederick Aloysius, Governor of Singapore and Madras, 330, 331.
—— Humphrey, of Lulworth Castle, 332.
—— John (1623–1691), 332.
—— Capt. Joseph (1595–1646), 332.
—— Joseph (1650–1712), 332.
—— Capt. Joseph (1683–1760), of Roxbury, 332; a partner in the Manufactory Company, 40; Land Bank mortgage executed by, in 1740, 40, 49, 145; special receipt attached to mortgage signed by, 47, 48; notice served upon, 50; suit brought against, by Jacob Griggs, 50.
—— Martha (Child), wife of Capt. Joseph (1683–1760), 46.
—— William F., & Co., 333.
—— William Fletcher (1800–1881), 330, 332, 333.
—— William Fletcher (H. C. 1876), 336
—— Capt. William Gordon (1775–1825), 330, 332.
—— William Gordon (1827–1890), v, vi, xxii, 47, 49, 332; copy of agreement concerning Land Bank in possession of, 37 n.; copy of same and of a special receipt attached, communicated to Society by, 46, 145; death of, 274; Memoir of, to be written by Dr. Joseph II. Allen, 274; communicated, 328; Memoir of, 329–336; his birth, 329; Weld Genealogy prepared by, 330; his ancestry, 382; one of the founders of the Pawners’ Bank, 335; a Trustee of the Old Ladies’ Home, 336; a Director of the Second National Bank of Boston, 336; a Director of the Butler Hospital for the Insane in Providence, R. I., 336.
—— crest with motto, 331 n.
—— family of America, 331, 332; of Lincolnshire, England, 331. See Welde.
Weld House, near Drury Lane, London, 332.
Weld (or Wild) Streets, Great and Little, London, 332.
Welde, Rev. Thomas (d. 1661), first minister of Roxbury, Mass., 332, 418 n. See Weld.
Welles, Judge Samuel (1689–1770), of Boston, 33 n., 208–210. See Wells.
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., 434; address of Martin Brimmer at Farnsworth Art School, quoted, 341, 342; College Hall, 434.
Wells, Samuel, A.B., xxii; presides at Memorial Meeting in honor of Dr. Gould, 282; his remarks, 307, 308.
—— William, his article on Union College, in The College Book, quoted, 436 n. See Welles.
Wells, Me., 113 n., 454; attack on, by French and Indians in 1693, 377.
—— Vt., 136.
Welsh, the, 331.
Wendell, Katherine. See Gannett.
Wentworth, Benning (1696–1770), Governor of New Hampshire, son of Lieut.-Gov. John, 120, 121 and note, 128, 129, 138, 177 n.
—— John (1671–1730), Lieut.-Governor of New Hampshire, son of Samuel, 118, 177 n.
—— Sir John (1736–1820), Governor of New Hampshire, son of Mark Hunking Wentworth, 121, 124, 177 n.
—— Mary (d. 1810), daughter of Judge John (H. C. 1723), 177 n. See Appleton.
—— Genealogy, cited, 177 n.
Wentworth, N. H., 126.
Wessaguscus (Weymouth), Mass., 186.
West, Benjamin (1746–1817), of Charlestown, N. H., 130 n.
West, the, 193.
West Church, Boston, 388, 390, 394; Rev. Jonathan Mayhew settled over, in 1717, 45; Records of, quoted, 385; Martin Gay a deacon of, 385; carries plate and linen to Nova Scotia, during the Revolution, 385; returns them, and is thanked by the Church, 386; now West End Branch of Public Library, 386 n.
West India Company, 412.
West India Island Colonies, 218 n.
West India Islands, Sugar, 228.
West Newbury, Mass., 405.
West Riding, Yorkshire, England, 156.
Western Plains, 334.
Western Union of Vermont, 136.
Westminster, Hugh Lupus Grosvenor (1825–1899), first Duke of, 91.
—— Richard Grosvenor (1795–1869), second Marquis of, 91.
Westminster, Middlesex, England, 28, 93 n.
—— Vt., Convention at, 134.
Westmoreland, N. H., 126.
—— County of, England, 156.
—— County, New Brunswick, 389.
Wethersfield, Conn., 105.
Wetmore, William, justice of the Peace, 1787, 394.
Weymouth, Mass., 23, 24. See Wessaguscus.
What a Small Town may do for Itself, published by C. K. Bolton, cited, 245 n.
What is Sauce for the Goose is also Sauce for the Gander, by Hugh Williamson, quoted, 269 n., 270 n.
Whately, Richard (1787–1863), D.D., Archbishop of Dublin, his Annotations upon Bacon’s Essay Of Nobility, quoted, 81.
Wheatland, Stephen Goodhue, 78.
Wheaton, Henry (1785–1848), LL.D., United States Minister to Berlin, 480.
Wheelock, Eleazar (1711–1779), D.D., President of Dartmouth College, 121.
Wheelwright, Andrew Cunningham, A.M., xxiii; elected Resident Member, 271; accepts membership, 274.
—— Edmund March, A.B., vi, xxiii, 328; to write Memoir of J. F. Andrew, 141; the Memoir, 351–374.
—— Edward, A.M., xxi, xxii, 415, 426, 478; gives photogravure of Martin Gay, and plans of his estate, vii; thanks to, vii; elected member of the Council, 150; his remarks on Death of Dr. Slade, 201–203; his remarks on libel suit of Knowles v. Douglass, 240; Report of Council presented by, 273; of committee on printing, 274; to write a Memoir of Dr. Slade, 274; present at special meeting of Council, 280; of committee to prepare resolutions on death of Dr. Gould, 282 n.; his remarks on death of Dr. Gould, 298–303; elected President, 375; his Inaugural Address, 375–377; exhibits original commission of Martin Gay, as captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 379; reads paper entitled Three Letters written by an American Loyalist and his Wife, 379–400; presides at meetings of Society, 406, 438; announces that $5,000 of the Permanent Fund has been subscribed, 474.
—— Rev. John (d. 1679), 117, 123.
—— John Tyler (H. C. 1876). Secretary of the Young Men’s Republican and Independent Club of Boston, 1884, 354 n.
Whigs, the, 410.
Whipping Post, Boston, 65.
Whitcomb, Charles Adams, 287.
White, George, his Historical Collections of Georgia, cited, 414 n.
—— Samuel, sentenced for robbery, 65.
—— family. Papers of, published by the Brookline Historical Publication Society, 245.
White City of Chicago, Illinois, the (the Exposition Buildings), 342.
White Mountains, N. H., 181.
Whitefield, Rev. George (1714–1770), buried under the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church, in Newburyport, Mass., 178 n.
Whitefield, N. H., 126.
Whitehall, London, 405.
Whitehead, William Adee, edits New Jersey State Documents, 97.
Whitmore, William Henry, 114; his Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts Colony, cited, 56 n., mentioned, 100, 103; his Transcript of the Barlow Copy of the Massachusetts Colony Records, quoted, 58; his edition of the Laws of 1660 and 1672, mentioned, 95, quoted, 52, Whitmore, William Henry 159; of 1672, mentioned, 95, quoted, 462.
Whitney, David Rice, A.M., xxiii, 312; of committee on Treasurer’s Accounts, 241, 277; moves that a committee be appointed to consider increasing the Permanent Funds, 278; appointed a member of the committee, 379.
—— James Lyman, A.M., xxiii.
—— Josiah Dwight, LL.D., 480.
—— Susan (c. 1800–1880), her School in Boston, 348 and note.
Wiggin, Capt. Thomas (d. 1667), 125.
Wigglesworth, Edward, came to Massachusetts in 1638, 197, 348.
—— Edward (H. C. 1710), 348 n.; Hollis Professor of Divinity, 197.
—— Edward (H. C. 1749), 348 n.; Hollis Professor of Divinity, 197.
—— Edward (H. C. 1822), 348 n.
—— Edward (H. C. 1861), M.D., vi, xxii; death of, 196, 348; remarks on death of, by Dr. Gould, 197; by Dr. C. M. Green, 204, 205; his ancestry, 197, 348 and note; graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School, 204, 348; Memoir of, to be written by Dr. H. P. Quincy, 274; communicated, 328; Memoir of, 348–350; his portrait, 348; a private soldier in the Forty fifth Massachusetts Regiment, 197, 348; a leading authority on Dermatology, 197, 205; Free Hospital established and maintained by, before its incorporation into the City Hospital, 197, 205, 349; head of the Department for Diseases of the Skin at the City Hospital, 205, 349; Instructor in Dermatology at the Harvard Medical School, 205, 349; presents his models to the Harvard Medical School, 205, 348; a contributor to medical literature, 205, 349; his efforts in behalf of the Boston Medical Library Association, 205, 349; his efforts to provide the present seat of the Harvard Medical School. 205, 349; his birth, 348; his paper on Alopecia before the Massachusetts Medical Society, mentioned, 349; his contributions to the Archives of Dermatology, of which he was a founder, 349; to the New York Hospital Gazette, 349; to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 349; delivers the Annual Address, in 1886, before the American Dermatological Association, 349; his efforts in behalf of the Metric System, 349; secures the registration of physicians, 350; member of the Health Department of the American Social Science Association, 350; his charities, 350.
—— Edward, son of Edward (H. C. 1861), 350.
—— George, A.M., xxii.
—— Henrietta Goddard, daughter of Edward (H. C. 1861), 350.
—— Rev. Michael (H. C. 1051), 348 n.; his Day of Doom mentioned, 197; Fellow of Harvard College in 1652, 197.
—— Sarah Willard (Frothingham), wife of Edward (H. C. 1861), 350.
—— Thomas (H. C. 1793), 348 n.
—— family, conspicuous among the scholars of New England, 197.
Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire, England, 332.
Wike, Scott, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1895, 366 n.
Wilcocks, Mary, 232 n.
Wild, Gen. Edward Augustus, M.D., 287.
Wild (or Weld) Streets, Great and Little, London, 332.
Wilder, Nathaniel, sentenced for murder, 61.
Wilks, Francis (c. 1695–1742), Agent of the Province, communication from, in 1741, concerning Bubble Act, 22, 23, 26, 27.
Will and Doom, or the Miseries of Connecticut, by Gershom Bulkeley, 105.
Willard, Elizabeth (Dunster), second wife of Major Simon, 415 n.
—— John (H. C. 1690), 415 n.
—— Rev. Joseph (H. C. 1765), LL.D., President of Harvard College, 415 n.
—— Joseph (H. C. 1810), 415 n.
—— Josiah (1681–1750), H. C. 1698, Secretary of the Province, his letter to Commodore Knowles, 239; letter from Knowles to, 240.
—— Mary (Dunster), third wife of Major Simon, 415 n.
—— Mary (Sharpe), first wife of Major Simon, 415 n.
—— Robert (H. C. 1860), M.D., 415 and note.
—— Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1659), Vice-President of Harvard College, 87, 415 n.
—— Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1723), 415 n.
—— Major Simon (d. 1676), 415 n.
—— Theodora, daughter of Dr. Robert, 415 n.; owner of the Dunster letter, 415; owner of the letter from Nathan Dane to Nathaniel Gorham, 470.
Willard Memoir, cited, 415 n., 425 n.
Willes, Sir John (1685–1761), the King’s Attorney-General, 29, 30 n.; communication from, to Lords of Trade, 1735, quoted, 30.
William III., King of England, 43; plot to assassinate, in 1696, and Thanksgiving appointed for discovery of it, 65; his title to the crown questioned by William Vesey, 65; Charter of William and Mary, See Charters, under Massachusetts.
William IV., King of England, 91 n.
William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., 433.
Williams, Charity, sentenced for stealing, 64.
—— Hon. George Frederick, A.B., xxii; speaks at Annual dinner of Society, 153.
—— Henry, A.B., xxii; of committee of publication, ii, 274; his remarks on death of Leverett Saltonstall, 84, 85; Secretary of the Harvard Class of 1837, 84; announces organization of The Topsfield Historical Society, 85; his remarks on Dr. Goodale’s paper on Early New England Plants, 194.
—— James, indicted for blackmail, 1749, 207.
—— Col. John, of White Creek (Salem), N. Y., 138.
—— Martin, sentenced for passing counterfeit money, 1691, 60.
—— Moses, A.B., xxii.
—— Nathaniel, juryman, 1685, 469.
—— Roger (c. 1604–1683), 132 n.; his Key into the Language of America, etc., quoted, 192, mentioned, 194; information concerning, desirable, 430.
Williamsburg, Va., 269.
Williamson, Hugh, his tract What is Sauce for the Goose is also Sauce for the Gander, quoted, 269.
—— Hun. Joseph, Litt. D., xxiii.
William Cross, A.M., xxii.
Willis, William, LL.D., edits Documentary History of the State of Maine, 110; his History of Portland, quoted, 260 n., 261 n.
Wills, “Esqr.” See Welles, Samuel.
—— Isaac, of Newton, Mass., 459.
—— Isaac, of Roxbury, Mass., 458.
—— William Lyne, Postmaster-General, 367 n.
—— Nathaniel, of Roxbury, Mass., 458.
—— Richard, sentenced for stealing, 1639, 58.
Wilton, N. H., 126.
Winchester, N. H., 126.
Windham, Me., 351.
—— N. H., 126.
—— County, Vt., 136.
Windsor, Mercy, branded for stealing, 64.
Windsor, Conn., 105.
—— N. H., 126.
—— Nova Scotia, 389.
—— Vt., 137; convention at, 134.
Windsor bean, 190.
Wingate, Col. Joshua, 127.
—— Judge Paine (H. C. 1759), 131.
Winship, George Parker, A.M., xxiii.
Window, Edward (1594–1655), Governor of Plymouth Colony, 82.
—— Isaac (b. 1709), Boston merchant, son of Sheriff Edward, notes of the Silver Scheme of 1740 payable to, 14.
—— Major-Gen. John, (1702–1774), son of Judge Isaac, 389.
—— Joshua (b. 1694), Boston merchant, son of Sheriff Edward, 33 n.
—— Josiah (c. 1629–1680), Governor of Plymouth Colony, son of Gov. Edward, 115 n.
Winsor, Justin (1831–1897), LL.D., 404; his Memorial History of Boston, mentioned, 71, 193, quoted, 87, cited, 157 n., 213 n., 222 n.; his Narrative and Critical History of America, mentioned, 157, 213 n.
Winter, John, of Richmond’s Island, Me., 112, 113 n.; his seal, 112; hens of, 113 n.
Winter Hill, Somerville, Mass., 127.
Winter Street, Boston, 394 n.
Winthrop, John (1587–1649), Governor of Massachusetts, 82, 193, 410; paper on location in Boston of first house of, by F. L. Gay, 86–90, 144; financial losses of, in 1639, through his bailiff, James Luxford, 88; conveys this house by deed dated 26 September, 1643, 88; present Exchange Building, on State Street, on the site of it, 90; his History of New England (i. e. Journal), quoted, 87, 410, cited, 409 n., 410 n., 420 n., 427 n., mentioned, 428; papers in handwriting of, in Suffolk Court Files, 323; made a member of a standing Council for Life by General Court in 1636, 109.
—— John, Jr. (1605–1670), Governor of Connecticut, son of Gov. John of Massachusetts, 82, 109, 160.
—— John (1681–1747), F.R.S., (H. C. 1700), son of Gen. Wait Still, case of, v. Lechmere (Thomas), 106, 247, 248 n.
—— Margaret (Tyndall), third wife of Gov. John of Massachusetts, 88.
—— Samuel (1716–1779), son of Judge Adam (H. C. 1694) and brother of Professor John (H. C. 1732), Clerk of the Superiour Court of Judicature, 233.
—— Col. Stephen (1618–1658), M. P., son of Gov. John of Massachusetts, 89; land in Boston called The Green conveyed to, in 1643, 87, 88.
—— Wait Still (1642–1717), Major-General and Chief-Justice of Massachusetts, son of Gov. John of Connecticut, 76 n.
Winthrop Place, Boston, 286, 476, 478.
—— Street, Cambridge, 451.
Winthropp. See Winthrop.
Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, 156.
Wise, Animi Ruhamah, removed from office of Justice of the Peace, 20.
—— Rev. John (H. C. 1673), of Ipswich, Mass., 452, 453; the first man in America ever known to oppose taxation without representation, 454.
Witchcraft, James Fuller sentenced for calling upon the Devil, 63; trials for, recorded in Records of Superiour Court of Judicature, 64; in Connecticut, case of Joshua Garbek and wife, 104; last trial in Connecticut for, 106 n.; in New Hampshire, 117; papers on, in Suffolk Court Files, 323.
Witch Wood, Beverly, Mass., 344.
Witherspoon, John (1722–1794), LL.D., President of the College of New Jersey, 433.
Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, 160 n.
—— St. Mary’s Church, 156.
Woburn, Mass., 160. See Charlestown Village.
Wolcott, Gen. Roger (1679–1767), Governor of Connecticut, 107.
—— Hon. Roger, LL.D., Governor of Massachusetts, xxii; speaks at Annual dinner of Society, 153; Vice-President of the Young Men’s Republican and Independent Club, of Boston, 1884, 354 n.
Wolfeborough, N. H., 121, 126.
Wonder-Working Providence of Sion’s Saviour in New England (Poole’s edition), quoted, 157, 160; cited, 419 n., 424 n., 427 and note.
Wood, William, his New England’s Prospect (Prince Society’s edition), quoted, 185, 186.
Woodley, Edward, sentenced for rape, etc. 58.
Woodman, Arthur Lee, Treasurer of the Young Men’s Republican and Independent Club of Boston, 1884, 354 n.
Woods, Henry Ernest, xxii, 200, 250 n.; calls attention to the formation of The Quaboag Historical Society, North Brookfield, 66; elected Registrar, 150, 278; his remarks on death of Martin Brimmer, 201; reports organization of Historical Societies in Massachusetts, 243; communicates John Noble’s additional paper on the libel suit of Knowles v. Douglass, 405; present at special meeting of Council, 489. See also Registrar, under Colonial Society.
—— Rev. Leonard (1807–1878), LL.D., President of Bowdoin College, 111, 112.
Woods, cutting of trees in, for masts for Royal Navy. See Frost v. Leighton.
Wooster, Major-Gen. David (Y. C. 1738), 138.
Worcester, Mass., 21, 67, 68, 313.
—— American Antiquarian Society. See above.
—— Cedar Street, 67.
Word of Comfort to a Melancholy Country or the Bank of Credit erected in the Massachusetts Bay, fairly defended by a discovery of the Great Benefit, accruing by it to the whole Province; with a remedy for recovering a Civil State when sinking under desperation by defeat on their Bank of Credit. By Amicus Patriœ. Boston, 1721, quoted, 4 n.
Worrin, Dr. See Warren, Gen. Joseph.
Wyer, David, of Boston, 232.
Wyman, Col. Isaac, 127.
—— Thomas Bellows (1817–1878), his Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, cited, 157 n., 160 n., 174 n., 425 n.
Yale college, 45, 433; President of, joins the Episcopalians, 1722, 44.
—— Sheffield Scientific School at, Gen. Walker a Professor of political economy and History in, 314–316.
Yarmouth, Mass., 116.
Yennycook (Southold), Long Island, N. Y., 109 n.
York, Duke of (afterward King James II.), 412, 413.
York, England, Cathedral at, 84.
—— County, Me. (in Massachusetts before 1820), 129, 246, 250, 251, 254, 255, 259, 260 n., 263, 264, 325.
—— Deeds, Me., mentioned, 99.
Young, Dr. Thomas (d 1777), of Boston, Newport, R. I., and Philadelphia, Pa., 134.
—— William, 155.
Young Men’s Democratic Club of Massachusetts, 374.
Young Men’s Republican and Independent Club of Boston, 354 and note.
Zachalenaco or Zechariah, an Indian, sentenced for murder, 64.
Zeni, the (Venetian brothers, Nicolò and Antonio), 110.
Zone Catalogue of Southern Stars, Dr. Gould’s Dedication of, to his wife, 294, 482.