INDEX.
Abbot, one of Parkman’s guides, 325.
Abel, William, alderman of London, 161 n.
Abraham, Heights of, 341.
Acadia, 356; French claimants to, 124; aggressive campaign in, 296.
Acomenticus, York, Me., incorporated as, 189. See also Agamenticus.
Acton, part of old Concord, Mass. 57.
Adam, John Saffin’s slave, 85; instrument of emancipation, 88; refuses further obedience, 89; bound over for turbulent conduct, 89, 90; trial at Bristol, 90; verdict, 91; recommitted to custody of Saffin, 92; prefers petition for enfranchisement, 93; sues Saffin, 93; writ abated, 94; appeal not allowed, 94; later decree, 95; case ordered to be heard again, 97; second trial, conviction and appeal, 98; verdict in his favor, 100; recognized as free by town authorities, 102; offers to be bound for Madam Leblond, 102; pamphlet containing documents of controversy, 103–112; reports concerning treatment of, by Saffin, 103; let to Thomas Shepard, 104; promised freedom, 104; charged with insolence, 104; sent to Boston, 105; charged with being contentious, 105; refuses to go to Bristol, but leaves Saffin’s house, 105; appears before Superior Court of Boston and of Bristol, 106; instrument pledging his emancipation, 107; testimony against, 107–109; returns temporarily to Saffin’s service, 110, 111; accused of assault upon Captain Clark at Castle Island, 111; attempt to transport, 111; sent to gaol, 112; tried at Quarter Sessions, 112.
Adam’s fall, 134.
Adams, Alexander, 305.
Adams, Charles Francis, 271 n.; his edition of Antinomianism in Massachusetts Bay cited, 121 n.; comments on results of John Wheelwright’s work, 282; his edition of Morton’s New English Canaan mentioned, 66.
Adams, Eliza (afterwards Parkman), 305, 306.
Adams, John, 254 n., 378; attitude towards Boston Massacre, 168; justified Boston Tea Party, 172; inconsistent approval of Tea Party, 174; held that all men in Revolution were not heroes, 427; called a highly respectable character, 429.
Adams, John Quincy, one of Parkman’s pall-bearers, 348.
Adams, Mary, 305.
Adams, Samuel, justified Boston Tea Party, 172.
Adams, Rev. William, severities in his Election sermon for 1685, 406; Sewall’s mention of sermon, 406.
Adams, Rev. Zabdiel, first of Election preachers to quote Shakespeare, 428.
Addington, Isaac, 112 n., 411; disapproves of conduct of Saffin towards his slave Adam, 89; advises against Adam’s transportation, 92, 111; Secretary of Council, 97; present at interview between Saffin and Captain Sewall, 105.
Admiralty, Court of, 409 n.
Adventurers, precedents in grants to, 185–188; monopoly granted to free company of, in 1643–44, 196; grant to another company in 1645, 197.
Agamenticus, Me., 278, 284. See also Acomenticus.
Agawam, former name of Ipswich, 120, 133.
Aikin, John, arrested for refusing to assess for support of Orthodox ministry, 141.
Ainsworth, Rev. Henry, psalmodist of Pilgrims, 228; his Book of Psalmes, 236; comparison of his metre with Ravenscroft’s, 237; French influence in, 237.
Albany, N. Y., 325.
Alborough, John, brief sketch of, 161 n., 162 n.; appointed to run boundary line between Rhode Island and Connecticut, 368.
Albro, John. See Alborough, John.
Alden, Rev. Timothy, of committee to prepare lists of Election and other sermons for Massachusetts Historical Society, 447.
Aldersey, Alicia (afterwards Moulston), 353.
Aldersey de Spurstow, Johis, 353.
Alexander, Sir William, Nova Scotia granted to, 187 and note; confers title of baronet, 188; full power of coinage granted to, in 1621, 225; Sir William Alexander and American Colonization cited, 225 n.
Alford, England 271 n.
Alfred, Me., derives name from Alford, England, 271 n.
Alger, Rev. William Rounseville, on the Civil War, 435.
Algonquin Club, Annual Meetings of Society held at, 146, 371.
“All men are born free and equal,” inserted in Declaration of Rights by John Lowell, 423.
Allen, Bozoun, 200 n.
Allen, Rev. James, good typography of his Election sermon for 1679, 404.
Allen, Rev. Joseph Henry, D.D., xix; elected Resident member, 157; Remarks upon relations of Mayhew family to Indians of Martha’s Vineyard cited, 419 n.
Allen, Rev. Thomas, optimistic views in his Election sermon for 1808, 430.
Allen, Rev. William, 448; his list of New Hampshire Election sermons referred to, 447 n.
Allston Street, formerly Somerset Place, Boston, 310.
Allyn, Rev. John, mildly opposes slavery, 440.
Alt, Robert, petition of, on behalf of spectacle-makers, 159 n.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 349; April meetings of American Antiquarian Society in hall of, 35; Colonial Society meets in hall of, 17, 115, 150, 157, 182, 216, 265, 351, 386; thanks for use of hall, 153; incorporated 1780, 212 n., 213.
American Antiquarian Society, 46, 69, 306, 349; Proceedings cited, 21 n., 158 n., 160; incorporated to collect antiquities and curiosities, 22; organization and incorporation, 33; purposes quoted, 34; library and museum placed in Worcester to escape possible ravages of a foreign enemy, 34; building erected, 35; national character, 35; membership, 35; meetings, 35; bibliography of publications, 35, 36; publications in “Archæologia Americana,” mentioned, 36; publications in Proceedings mentioned, 37; library and museum, 37, 38; made depositary of records of Worcester County Historical Society, 38 n.; Andros Council records in possession of, 224 n., 225 n.; error noted in Index of Proceedings, 268; owns imperfect copy of Election sermon of 1696, 408 and note, 447.
American Apollo, a publication promoted by Historical Society, 25; cuts adrift from that Society, 26.
American Army, officers of, constitute themselves into Society of the Cincinnati, 239, 245; date of adoption of Articles of Association by, 250.
American Cause, first mentioned in Election sermons in 1774, 425.
American Civil War, 53 n.; collection of works on, in Massachusetts Historical Society, 32; questions relating to, investigated by Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, 48; illustrated by Collections of Military Order of the Loyal Legion, 48 n.; comments on, in Massachusetts Election sermons, 435, 436.
American Colonies, 239; history of music in, not cheerful, 238.
American Congregational Association, Boston, 268; incorporation, etc., 65, 66.
American Congregational Historical Society, Chelsea, 66 n.
American Folk-Lore Society, 350.
American Historical Association, annual report of, for 1890, 36, 38; its list of Historical Societies of the United States cited, 45 n., 46 n., 51 n., 52 n., 53 n., 56 n., 60 n., 64 n., 67 n.; emendations of this list, 266–268.
American History, one object of Massachusetts Historical Society to multiply copies of rare books on, 30; study of, promoted by Old South Historical Society, 62.
American House, Boston, John Saffin’s property on site of, 87 n.
American Indians. See Indians.
American Journal of Numismatics, mentioned, 67.
American Museum, cited, 449.
American Numismatic and Archæological Societies, Bulletin of, 67.
American Quarterly Register, quoted, 407.
American Revolution, 278, 320, 424; American Antiquarian Society rich in manuscripts of period, 38; preservation of documents and relics of, an object of Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the Revolution, 49 n., 158; memory of, perpetuated by Bunker Hill Monument Association, 65; markers provided for graves of soldiers of, 157; violence attending, not in accord with best sentiments of period, 167; a rising of the people against unconstitutional legislation, 169, 170; importance of popular outbursts which preceded, not to be underestimated, 171; unfavorable opinion expressed by A. C. Goodell, Jr., as to accompanying turbulence, 175, 176; jealousy shown during, 253; spirit of, fostered by Daughters of the Revolution, 266; friendly services in England at outbreak of, 386; not much to foreshadow, in Election sermons, 418, 421; all men not heroes in, 427; liberalizing tendencies seen in Election sermons, 427; corruption of morals during, 427, 431.
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 52, 349.
American Statistical Association, 267; enumeration of publications, 38, 39.
Americana, collection of, in the Massachusetts Historical Society, 32.
Ames, Elise Alger (West), 264.
Ames, Hon. Frederick Lothrop, A.B., xi, xii, xv, 257, 373; elected Resident member, 75, 264; death of, xx, 146; Leverett Saltonstall designated to prepare memoir of, 147; brief tribute to, by A. McF. Davis, 150; memoir by Leverett Saltonstall, 258–264; his family, 258; portrait of, opposite 258; business career, connection with Union Pacific Railway, his official relations with railroad companies, 260; taste for horticulture, 261; love for art, 262; contemplated gifts to Harvard College, 263; character, family, 264.
Ames, Helen Angier (Mrs. Robert C. Hooper), 264.
Ames, James Barr, A.M., xviii; elected Resident member, 20.
Ames, Capt. John, of Bridgewater, 258.
Ames, John Stanley, 264.
Ames, Lothrop, 264.
Ames, Mary Shreve, 264.
Ames, Oakes, 258.
Ames, Oliver, founder of North Easton Shovel Works, 258.
Ames, Oliver, his son, 258.
Ames, Oliver, 2d, son of F. L. Ames, 264.
Ames, Oliver, and Sons, house of, 258.
Ames, Rebecca Caroline (Blair), 264.
Ames, Sarah (Lothrop), 258, 262.
Ames buildings, Boston, 263.
Amherst College, 450; three Election preachers graduates of, 449.
Amsterdam, 236.
Anabaptists, of Münster, 138; exempted from taxes for maintenance of ministers, 142, 143; further acts of exemption, 143, 144; upholders of rights of conscience, 145.
Anchor Club Association, Lynn, incorporation of, 68 n.
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 127, 413. See also Artillery Election sermons.
Anderby, Lincolnshire, 273.
Anderson, Adam, his Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce cited, 189 n.
Anderson, Rev. Thomas Davis, not in sympathy with anti-slavery sentiment, 441.
Andover, Mass., 433; Phillips Academy, 212 n., 213.
Andover Theological Seminary. See Theological Seminary at Andover.
Andrew, John Albion, 438.
Andrew, John A., & Son Co., 153.
Andrew, Hon. John Forrester, LL.B., xviii; deceased, xx; elected Resident member, 13; moves to abolish custom of Election sermon, 438.
Andrews, Capt. Elisha, asks for relief at Wells, Me., 289.
Andrews, John, witness to Thomas Shepard’s testimony regarding John Saffin’s slave, 91, 108.
Andrews, William, commander of the “Elizabeth,” in 1634, 133.
Andros, Sir Edmund, xv, 442; account of stock belonging to Harvard College delivered to, 206; fac-simile of this account, opposite 206; demands right to supervision of finances of Harvard College, 210 and note; remarks of A. C. Goodell, Jr., on this assumption, 214; efforts under his administration to reopen mint in Boston, 224; sermon by Cotton Mather at deposition of, 407; probably no Election sermons preached during Andros’s government, 407; censured by Cotton Mather, 408; zealous in interests of English hierarchy, 422; comparison of his times with those of Hutchinson, 424.
Andros Council, 162 n.; Records cited, 224 n.
Andros Tracts, mentioned, 66.
Anger, Mr. See Angier, Samuel.
Angier, John, boarding-school kept by, 311, 312.
Angier, Rev. Samuel, 413.
Ann Radcliffe, Lady Mowlson, article by A. McF. Davis in New England Magazine, cited, 352.
Ann Street, Boston, 200 n.
Anne, Queen of England, 92 n., 93, 141.
Anthony, Joseph, refuses to assess for support of ministry, 141.
Antigua, 367 n.
Antinomian, definition of, 121, 139.
Antinomian Controversy, 272 n., 275; leniency of criticism toward, 69; chief points of, 121; works relating to, 121 n.; origin in Germany, 122; action against Antinomianism in New England, 122; remarks by A. C. Goodell, Jr. on, 133–140; perplexing character of, 134; harmlessness of doctrine, 138; false conception as to meaning of the name Antinomian, 139; intolerance displayed over, 139, 140.
Antinomianism in Massachusetts Bay, edited by C. F. Adams, cited, 121 n.
Antinomians, faith of, continued by Quakers, 137; no reason for depriving them of right to bear arms, 138; persecution of, a blot, 139; more in sympathy with the Church of England than with Puritanism, 284.
Antipedobaptists, 144; Baptists first called, in Act of Massachusetts Legislature for 1770, 143.
Antiquarian and Historical Society, Newburyport, 52 n.
Antiquarian and Historical Society of Old Newbury, original name of the Historical Society of Old Newbury, 51.
Antiquarian Hall, Worcester, 35; disappearance of records from, 38 n.
Antiquarian societies, definition of, 22.
Anti-slavery. See Slavery.
Antwerp, 232.
Apennines, 327.
Apollo, The. See American Apollo.
Appian Way, Cambridge, 319.
Appleton, Rev. Nathaniel, views of, on bad condition of currency referred to, 417; pleads for charter rights, 418.
Archæologia Americana, titles of publications in, mentioned, 36.
Archæological Institute of America, 349; organization, etc., of, 52; headquarters moved to New York, 52; Massachusetts branch, 267.
Archer’s and Brereton’s Account of Gosnold’s Voyage, mentioned, 31.
Aristotle, 136.
Arminian teachings of Methodists, 137.
Armitage, Joseph, 200 n.
Armstrong, Samuel Turell, Acting Governor and Mayor of Boston at the same time, 432.
Army, American. See American Army.
Arnold, Benedict, his expedition to Canada, 302 n.
Arrow Street, Cambridge, 120.
Art, discouraging effect of Puritanism upon, 238.
Art of Authorship, quoted, 315.
Artillery Election dinner, Bishop Carroll returns thanks at, 449.
Artillery Election sermons, 446; memorandum in Prince Library relating to, 396 n.; choice of preacher in 1710, 413; list of, prepared for Massachusetts Historical Society, 447.
Arts and Sciences, a society of, proposed in 1778, 427.
Asamacomock, alias Virginia, 186.
Ashurst, Thomas, licensed a discoverer, 186.
Asia, 349.
Aspinwall Papers, mentioned, 31.
Assistants, Court of. See Massachusetts.
Athens, Panorama of, at Harvard College, 270 and note; American School of Classical Studies at, 52, 349.
Atlantic Monthly, cited, 124 n., 269 n.
Attucks, Crispus, not fighting for enfranchisement of his race, 173; his name and alias, 174; his attack on soldiery cowardly, 175.
Augustine, Saint, 135.
Aulnay de Charnisay, Charles de Menou, Sieur d’. See D’Aunay.
Austen, Jane, 346.
Austin, James Trecothick, his Life of Elbridge Gerry cited, 254 n.
Austin, Hon. James Walker, A.M., xviii; deceased, xx; elected Resident member, 115.
Austin, John Osborne, his Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island cited, 370.
Awbrey, William, 199 n.
Ayer, Mrs. Mary, 319.
Ayrault, Daniel, accounts of Peter Baynton with, 368.
Ayross, Peter, 368.
Babson, Robert Tillinghast, LL.B., xix; elected Resident member, 182.
Backus, Rev. Isaac, his History of New England mentioned, 42; his History of the Baptists quoted, 141.
Backus Historical Society, object of, 42.
Bacon, Edwin Munroe, A.M., xviii; elected Resident member, 13.
Bacon Free Library building, South Natick, 46.
Bainton, George, quotation from his Art of Authorship, 315.
Balch, Francis Vergnies, LL.B., xviii; elected Resident member, 13.
Balch, Rev. William, reference to bad currency in his Election sermon for 1749, 418.
Baldwin, Christopher Columbus, entry in diary as to Worcester County Historical Society, 37 n., 38 n.
Ballantine, Col. John, 368; estate of, Boston, 200 n.
Ballantine, William, estate of, Boston, 200 n.
Ballard, Harlan Hoge, his History, Methods and Purposes of the Berkshire Athenæum, 51; secretary of Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society, 51 n.
Baltimore, Cecil Calvert, Lord, and heirs, grants to, in 1632, 188 n.; granted rights of Bishop of Durham, 225; coining money among these rights, 226; has coins struck in London, 226.
Bancroft, Rev. Aaron, praises honesty of voting among early settlers, 429.
Bancroft, George, his History of the United States quoted, 386.
Bandelier, Adolphe François Alphonse, works on American archæology mentioned, 52; investigations among Indians, 349.
Banks of issue, propositions for, 378.
Bant, Capt. Gilbert, agrees to transport Adam, John Saffin’s slave, 111.
Baptist Churches of New England, object of Backus Historical Society to collect material illustrative of, 42.
Baptists. See Anabaptists.
Barbadoes, 78.
Barker, Hon. John Madison, LL.D., xix; his Early settlements in Cheshire mentioned, 50; elected Resident member, 115.
Barnard, Rev. John, of Marblehead, d. 1770, views on bad condition of currency referred to, 417.
Barnardiston, Arthur, Lady Mowlson’s will witnessed by, 160.
Barnes, Rev. Albert, on Election sermons, 390 and note; quoted, 446.
Barnstable, Devonshire, 360.
Barnstable County, historical matter relating to, collected and published by the Cape Cod Historical Society, 54.
Barras, Count de, Society of the Cincinnati presents medal to, 248.
Barre Library Association, functions of, 23.
Barret, Col. James, 387.
Barrett family, 367 n.
Barry, Rev. John Stetson, his History of Massachusetts quoted, 392, 394.
Bartholomew, Henry, 405.
Bartlett, John, A.M., xix; elected Resident member, 216.
Barton, William, 254 n.
Bascom, John, his Prof. Albert Hopkins mentioned, 50.
Bass River, settlement, 77; inhabitants form a church, 78; discovery of original of petition to General Court, 79; facsimile, facing page 79; copies of facsimile distributed to members, 76; text, 79–81; further application to Salem for separation, 82; becomes incorporated as Beverly, 83.
Batcombe, part of Wells, Me., 283 n.
Bath, Me., 431.
Batter, Edmund, makes return for Salem, to order of General Court, 83.
Baxter, James Phinney, 67.
Baxter, Rev. Joseph, Journal of, cited, 301 n.; rebukes unnecessary journeyings on Sunday, 416; on excessive number of taverns, 443.
Bay Psalm Boole, 236; supersedes Sternhold and Hopkins in New England, 234, 235; phrase in Admonition of, 237.
Bayard, Chevalier, Francis Parkman’s choice of figure for memorial window, 333.
Baylies, Francis, gift to Society of manuscript of his address on General David Cobb, 14.
Baylies, Walter Cabot, A.B., xviii; elected Resident member, 115.
Bayly, Henry, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Baynes, Paul, his Commentary on the First Chapter of the Ephesians, 1618, mentioned, 85 n.
Baynton, Annika (Kyn), 114 n.
Baynton, Benjamin, son of Peter Baynton, of Philadelphia, 114 n.
Baynton, Elizabeth (Chevalier), 114 n.
Baynton, John, son of Peter Baynton, of Philadelphia, 114 n.
Baynton, Mary (Budd), 114 n., 369 n.
Baynton, Peter, emigrates to Pennsylvania from Bedminster, 114 n.
Baynton, Peter, of Philadelphia, son of Benjamin Baynton, marriage, removal to Burlington, death, 114 n.; relations with Peter Faneuil, 366, 368; indenture of property in Sutton, 369 n.
Baynton, Peter, son of John Baynton, adjutant-general of militia of Pennsylvania, 114 n.
Bavnton, Rebecca (afterwards Weston), 114 n.
Beacon Hill, Boston, 310.
Beacon monument, to be rebuilt by Bunker Hill Monument Association, 65.
Beans, as ballots, 429.
Beck, Charles, professor of Latin in Harvard College, 320.
Becket Athenæum, incorporation and purpose of, 67 n.
Becks, John, & Company, 197 n.
Bedford, part of old Concord, 57.
Bedford Free Public Library, 63 n.
Bedford Historical Society, organization, etc., 63 n.; correct name of, 267.
Bedford Street, Boston, 263.
Bedminster, England, 114 n.
Beebe, Levi, his Air Currents, and his Sketch of the Samuel Phillips family mentioned, 51.
Beecher, Rev. Lyman, 441.
Beggary, rarity of, in New England, 443.
Belcher, Jonathan, Governor of Massachusetts, speeches quoted, showing religious toleration, 143.
Belcher, Rev. Joseph, 411 and note, 448; his Election sermon for 1701, 442.
Belcher, Rev. Samuel, 409, 411 n.
Belknap, Rev. Jeremy, drafts plan of Massachusetts Historical Society, 24; his History of New Hampshire cited, 271 n., 298 n.
Belknap, Joseph, application to Legislature for freedom of negroes, 85 n., 200 n.
Belknap Papers, 31.
Bell, Charles Henry, Governor of New Hampshire, xiii, 370; letter of, concerning authenticity of Wheelwright deed, 370; his History of Exeter, N. H., mentioned, 271 n.; cited, 276 n.; his John Wheelwright mentioned, 66, 271 n.
Belleau, Lincolnshire, 281 n.
Bellingham, Richard, Governor of Massachusetts, petitioned to exercise his authority at Wells, 286.
Bellomont, Richard Coote, Earl of, Governor of Massachusetts, 90 n.; disapproves of Harvard College charter of 1699, 207; asked to improve his interest in behalf of College, 207, 208.
Bennit, Ebenezer, 369 n.
Bentley, Rev. William, statement of, in regard to Joshua Moody, 403.
Berkeley, Mass., 176.
Berkshire Athenæum, Pittsfield, Mass., 50; incorporation, etc., 67.
Berkshire County Convention, 1774, 165.
Berkshire County Historical and Scientific Society, 51 n.
Berkshire County Historical Society, 51 n.
Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society, 267, 268; organization, etc., 50.
Bermuda Company given right to coin in 1615, 218; charter forfeited, 219.
Bernard, Sir Francis, Governor of Massachusetts, given qualified praise in Eliot’s Election sermon for 1765, 421; seemingly referred to in Bridge’s Election sermon for 1767, 421.
Berry, William, his Hampshire Genealogies cited, 277 n.; his Kent Genealogies cited, 278 n.; his Pedigrees of Hertfordshire Families cited, 354 n.
Bethel College, 450.
Beverly, Mass., 76 n.; formerly part of Bass River settlement, 78; steps in organization of First Church in, 78; basis of ordinance incorporating town, 81; early records of, regarding effort to become a separate town, 82; final incorporation of, 83; church petitions Salem church to be set off as a separate body, 84; consent of latter given, 84.
Beverly Historical Society, incorporation, etc., 60.
Beza, Théodore de. See Marot and Beza.
Bible, gift of folio published by Isaiah Thomas, 1791, 14; metrical psalmody added by stationers at end of, 233; with Sternhold and Hopkins as appendix, 233 n.; usefulness of Henry Ainsworth’s scholarship in revision of, 236; quoted, 391 n.
Bicester, Oxfordshire, 85 n.
Bigelow, Rev. Andrew, his list of Election preachers, 1836, 414, 432, 449.
Bigelow, Hon. Timothy, reply of, to Francis Brinley, mentioned, 54 n.
Bill of Rights, urged in Stillman’s Election sermon for 1779, 427.
Bilsby, living of, presented to Rev. John Wheelwright, 271.
Biographers make heroes of their subjects, 70.
Bishop, Edward, signature of, in petition to General Court, 79, 81.
Bishope, George, the Quaker, his New England Judged quoted, 140.
Bishops of Durham, rights of, 225, 226, 227.
Bishops Stortford, market-town in England, 116.
Black, George Nixon, xix; elected Resident member, 182.
Black Hills, 337.
Blackpoint, Me., 277; burned, 289.
Blackstone, Sir William, 252.
Blackstone Street, Boston, 87 n., 200 n.
Blackwell’s Island, N. Y., 435.
Bladensburg, Md., 431.
Blagden, Rev. George Washington, 436.
Blair, James, of St. Louis, 264.
Blair, Rebecca Caroline, married F. L Ames, 264.
Blake, James, his Annals of the Town of Dorchester mentioned, 43.
Block Island, 366; tradition of Palatine Light seen off, 32; shipwreck at, 114 a quarter part of, granted to Daniel Denison, 126; Palatine emigrants on 149.
Blunt, Rev. John Henry, his Ritual Introduction to the Prayer Book quoted, 233.
Boade, Henry, of Saco, Me., 276, 278; will of, 278 n.; joins Wells Community, 279; signs petition to Cromwell for government under the Colony, 283; avows loyalty to Church of England, 284.
Bode, Henry, 278 n.
Bode pedigree, 278 n.
Bodleian Library, 236.
Bodmer, Charles, 338.
Body of Liberties, 29; drawn up by Nathaniel Ward, 392; recognizes evil of slavery, 439 and note.
Bollan, William, 423.
Bolles, Rev. Edwin Cortland, circumstances attending delivery of his Election sermon for 1875, 437; this sermon never printed, 437, 451; spelling of his middle name, 450.
Bolles, John, will of, 278 n.
Bolles, Joseph, armiger of Nottinghamshire, 278; joins Wells Community, 279; appointed by Gorges one of a council to govern the Province, 284; children of, 297 n.
Bolles pedigree, 278 n.
Bombastes Furioso, 313.
Bonner’s Plan of 1722, cited, 409 n.
Bonython, John, indicted for contempt of Massachusetts authority, 287.
Book of Common Prayer, 397.
Book of Prayer and Praise for Congregational Worship, 348.
Book of the General Laws and Liberties, 199.
Book of Wills and Instruments, cited, 107.
Boston, England, 305.
Boston, Mass., 35, 40 n., 42 n., 53, 60, 62 n., 63 n., 65, 79, 86 n., 89, 92–95, 98–102, 105–107, 111, 130 n., 134, 162 n., 163, 222, 228, 264, 273, 279, 284, 288, 289, 300–302, 304, 305, 307–309, 312, 313, 318, 322, 323, 329, 330, 337, 342, 344, 358, 363–367, 367 n., 368, 369 n., 370, 378–380, 420, 424, 450; manuscript of United States Census of, in 1790, 39; ornamentation, etc., of, the purpose of Boston Memorial Association, 67 n.; committee in, to propose law imposing taxes on importers of negroes, 85 n.; sends John Saffin as deputy to General Court, 86 n.; Winthrop removes from Newtown to, 119; principal people of, in sympathy with Anne Hutchinson, 122; interests of, involved in early contest for Acadia and Cape Breton, 124; treaty with Indians at, in 1676, 129; all congregations in, independent of the town, 142; efforts of Episcopalians in, to evade laws for support of Congregationalist ministry, 142; instructions of, to representatives to Provincial Congress called for October, 1774, at Concord, 165; purpose of, in inaugurating Fifth of March orations, 173; support and relief offered to, by Bristol Convention of 1774, 180; foundation of, to be found in Cradock’s instructions, 17 April, 1629, 192; name changed from Trimountaine in 1630, 192; efforts to secure incorporation, 194; first specially incorporated in 1820, 195; guilds established in, in 1648, 197; monopoly granted to vintners in, 198; corporation in, for furnishing water to the residents of Conduit Street, 199 and note, 200 n.; powers granted in 1681 to undertakers of “the outworke or wall before the towne,” 202 n.; early atmosphere of, in regard to psalmody, 237, 238; residents of, founders of Exeter, N. H., 275 and note; arrival of Lincolnshire families in, in 1637, 275; excited condition of, over Captain Keayne’s “sow business,” 392, 393; lost alley in, identified, 409 n.; no Election sermons in, for 1752 and 1764, owing to small-pox in, 419 and note; small number of polls in, in early days, 445.
— Allston Street, formerly Somerset Place, 310.
— American House, 87 n.
— Ames buildings, 263.
— Ann Street, 200 n.
— Beacon Hill, 310.
— Bedford Street, 263.
— Blackstone Street, 87 n., 200 n.
— Bonner’s Plan of 1722, cited, 409 n.
— Bowdoin Square, 313.
— Bowdoin Street, 310.
— Brazer’s Building on site of first meeting-house, 445.
— Bread Riot in 1713, 414.
— Bromfield Street, 53.
— Castle Island, 92, 96, 101, 111, 112.
— Chardon Street, 313.
— Charter drafted for town in 1650, 202.
Boston, Mass., Chauncy Hall School, 315, 317.
— Chauncy Place, 314.
— Church of St. Stephen, 308.
— Clark Street, 308.
— Columbus Avenue Universalist Church, last Election sermon was delivered in, 438, 445.
— Common, Mary Dyer hanged on, 136; riot at Mason’s storehouse in 1713, 414.
— Conduit Street and the Conduit, 199 n., 200 n.
— Cooper’s Guild in, 197.
— Copp’s Hill, 363; Burying Ground, 305, 363.
— Court Street, 263.
— Diocesan House, Joy Street, 42 n.
— Eustis Street Burying Ground, 266.
— Evacuation of, 302.
— Exchange Tavern, 416.
— Faneuil Hall, 49 n.
— Fire of 1692, 364; fire of 1711, 445; fire of 1872, 332.
— First Baptist Church, 427.
— Fort Hill, 324.
— Foster’s press in, 403.
— Granary Burying Ground, 358.
— Green Dragon Tavern, 412, 413.
— Halsey’s Wharf, 364 and note.
— Hanover Street, 87 n., 308, 409 n.
— High schools, graduates of, compete for prizes offered by Directors of the Old South studies in history, 62.
— Hollis Street Church, 445.
— Jamaica Plain, 312, 314, 344, 347.
— Jamaica Pond, 344.
— Joy Street, 42 n.
— King Street, 167.
— King’s Chapel, 302 n., 347, 438, 445.
— King’s Chapel Burying Ground, 302.
— King’s Head Tavern, 364 n.
— Kingston Street, 263.
— Land’s Court, 364.
— Link Alley, 409 n.
— Long Wharf, 324; Long Wharf Company, 212, 213.
— Lyndhurst, apartment house, 311.
— Marine Society, 211.
— Massacre, opinion of A. C. Goodell, Jr., on, 167; attitude of John Adams towards, 168; regarded as inevitable, 171; further opinion on, by A. C. Goodell, Jr., 172; Attucks’s share in, 173, 174.
— Merchant’s Row, 200 n.
— Milk Street, 63 n.
— Mint, its abolition demanded in 1665, 220; Randolph reports unfavorably to, 222, 223; not re-established after vacation of charter in 1684, 224; R. N. Toppan exhibits specimens of work of, 227.
— Museum of Fine Arts, 262.
— North Federal Court, 409 n.
— Oak Hall estate, 200 n.
— Old Brick meeting-house on site of Rogers Building, 426 and note, 445.
— Old South Church, and Meeting House, 62 n., 86 n., 423, 445.
— Old State House, 445.
— Overseers of the Poor, incorporated 1772, 194, 212 and note.
— Pemberton Square, 54.
— Pier Proprietors of Boston Pier or Long Wharf, incorporated 1772, 212.
— Port Bill, the Tea Party led to, 172; condemned by Bristol Convention of 1774, 178.
— Prospect Hill, Charlestown, 324.
— Public Library, 394 n.; memorandum in Prince Collection relating to Election sermons, 396; its collection of Election sermons due largely to Sewall and the Mathers, 405; owns perfect copy of Cotton Mather’s Election sermon for 1696, 408 and note, 447; has second best set of Election sermons, 448; contains George Brinley’s set, 448.
— Record Commissioners, reports of, cited, 39 n., 102 n., 173 n., 200 n., 201 n., 361 n.
— Rogers Building, site of, 426 and note, 445.
— St. Botolph’s Club, 350.
— School Street, 330.
— Selectmen’s Records, 199 n.; quoted, 102; cited, 200 n.
— Shoemakers’ Guild and Coopers’ Guild incorporated in, 197.
— Somerset Place, 310.
— Somerset Street, 310.
— Star Tavern, 409 n.
— State Street, 445.
Boston, Mass., Stone House, identical with Star Tavern, 409 n.
— Street Laying Out Department for 1894, annual report cited, 409 n.
— Superior Court, 106.
— Swan Tavern, 364.
— Tea Party, John Adams’s opinion of its significance, 168; responsibility for, never placed, 172; lawlessness of, not approved, 174, 175.
— Third National Bank, place of deposit of funds of Colonial Society, 154.
— Town Dock. See above, Dock.
— Town Records, cited, 200 n., 361.
— Tremont Temple, 42.
— Union Street, 87 n., 200 n., 409 n.
— United States Court House, 314.
— Walnut Street, 344.
— Washington Street, 63 n., 263, 445.
— Whipping-post, two pamphlets ordered to be burned near, 412. See also Suffolk County.
Boston Antiquarian Club, original name of the Bostonian Society, 54.
Boston Athenaeum Library, Bibles in, 233 n.
Boston Church. See above, under Boston, First Church.
Boston Daily Advertiser, cited, 318.
Boston Evening Transcript, cited, 341, 363.
Boston Memorial Association, 268; incorporation, etc., 67 n.
Boston Memorial Society, 67 n.
Boston Neck, on Narragansett Bay, 162 n.
Boston Newsletter, cited, 367 n.
Boston Numismatic Society, incorporation, etc. of, 67.
Boston Society of Natural History, portion of specimens of Massachusetts Historical Society deposited with, 27.
Bostonian Society, 350; incorporation of, 53; rooms, collections, etc., 54.
Bouillon, Godfrey de, arms of, 278.
Boundfield, R. I., John Saffin’s farm at, 104, 107, 363.
Bound-house, near Hampton, N. H., 275.
Bourinot, John George, his Historical and Descriptive Account of Cape Breton cited, 124 n., 269 n.
Bourne, Edward Emerson, his History of Wells and Kennebunk mentioned, 271 n.
Bouthillier, Claude le, 357.
Boutineau family, 367 n.
Bow Street, Cambridge, Mass., 120.
Bowditch, Charles Pickering, A.M., xiii, xviii, 355; elected Resident member, 115.
Bowdoin College, 450; two Election preachers among graduates, 449.
Bowdoin Square, Boston, 313.
Bowdoin Street, Boston, 310.
Boxford, Mass., 412.
Boylston family, 367 n.
Brackenbury, Richard, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Bradford, Dorothy May, death of, to be commemorated by the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association, 64 n.
Bradford, Gov. William, 185; his History of Plymouth Plantation mentioned, 29.
Bradish, Eleanor, 15 n.
Bradstreet, Simon, Governor of Massachusetts, 120, 197; appointed to prepare letter to Cromwell, 126; concerned in building Salt works in Charlestown, 201 n.; referred to by Cotton Mather, 408.
Braintree, Mass., Quincy Historical Society admits to membership residents of old town of, 182.
Braman, Rev. Milton Palmer, cheerful flavor of his Election sermon for 1845, 433.
Brattle, Thomas, appointed to manage expenditure for fortifying Castle Island, 92.
Brattle, William, appointed in 1686 tutor at Harvard College, 205.
Brattleborough, Vt., 337.
Brazer’s Building, Boston, on site of first meeting-house, 445.
Bread Riot in Boston in 1713, 414.
Breck, Hannah (afterwards Parkman), 305.
Breck, Rev. Robert, curious word in his Election sermon for 1728, 416.
Breda, Siege of, 117.
Brewster, Frank, A.M., xviii; elected Resident member, 115.
Bridge, Rev. Ebenezer, refers to Sir Francis Bernard, 421.
Bridgewater, Mass., 258.
Bridgham, Joseph, gives surety for Jane Kind, 366.
Bright, Elizabeth (afterwards Radcliffe), 354.
Bright, Henry, 354.
Brimmer, Hon. Martin, A.B., xviii; deceased, xx; elected Resident member, 13; one of Francis Parkman’s pall-bearers, 348.
Brimsmead, Rev. William, nothing known of his Election sermon for 1681, 404, 451; a non-graduate of Harvard, 449.
Brinley, George, possessor of John Saffin’s pamphlet, 87 n.; possessor of Cotton Mather’s Election sermon for 1696, 408 n.; his set of Election sermons in Boston Public Library, 448.
Bristol, England, 114 n., 367 n.
Bristol, R. I., 86 n., 88–90, 92–94, 98, 101, 105–110, 358, 363, 370; represented by John Saffin in General Court of Plymouth, 86 n.
Bristol County, Mass., 93, 94, 108, 109, 110; Inferior Court of Common Pleas, 86 n.; Superior Court, 90; slave Adam appears before, 106; Court of Sessions, loss of records of, 92; John Saffin’s property in, 87 n.; Court of Assize and General Gaol Delivery, verdict of, in case of Saffin v. Adam, 110, 112; dissenters of towns in, 141.
Bristol County Convention, held September, 1774, original minutes of, presented by G. A. Hilton, 162; remarks on, by A. C. Goodell, Jr., 163–171; throws light on formation of First Provincial Congress, 163; chooses Representatives to General Court at Salem, 166; law-abiding sentiments expressed by, 166; text of minutes, 176–181.
Bristol County Convention of Delegates, held January, 1775, text of original minutes, presented by G. A. Hilton, 254–256; remarks on, by A. C. Goodell, Jr., 256, 257.
British Constitution, praised in Eliot’s Election sermon for 1765, 421; generally apostrophized in sermons before the Revolution, 423; allegiance, to, expressed by Samuel Cooke in 1770, 424.
British Museum, 236; editions of Sternhold and Hopkins in, 234.
British Public Record Office, 374.
British State Papers, 352.
Broadstreet ward, London, 159 n.
Bromfield family, 367 n.
Bromfield Street, Boston, 53.
Brook, Benjamin, his Lives of the Puritans cited, 272.
Brookline, Mass., 348.
Brooks, Abigail (Brown), 305.
Brooks, Rev. Charles, his History of Medford cited, 310 n., 311 n., 312 n.
Brooks, Rev. Edward, of Medford, 305; pastor of church in North Yarmouth, Me., 310; dismissed for too liberal views, 310; appointed chaplain of frigate Hancock, 310; taken prisoner to Halifax, 310; death, 310.
Brooks, Joanna Cotton (afterwards Hall), 305.
Brooks, Peter Chardon, 310.
Brooks, Right-Rev. Phillips, xi; elected a Resident member just before his death, 13 n.; reference to his death, 19; death of, since election as Resident member, 146.
Brown, Abigail (afterwards Brooks), 305.
Brown, Abram English, and organization of Bedford Historical Society, 63 n.
Brown, Dorothy, 360 n.
Brown, Rev. Howard Nicholson, 348.
Brown, Joanna (Cotton), 305.
Brown, John, justice for Bristol County, 108, 109.
Brown, Hon. John, of Swanzey, 359, 360 and note.
Brown, Rev. John, of Haverhill, Mass., 305.
Brown, Mary (afterwards Willett), 359.
Brown, Rachel, witness to John Saffin’s instrument emancipating his slave, 88, 107.
Brown, Robert, Pilgrims followers of, 235; his variable career, 235, 236.
Brown, Major William, 412.
Brown University, two Election preachers among graduates of, 449.
Brownist Church in London, 236.
Bryant, William Cullen, 316.
Bubble Act of 1720, 378; its effect in America, 213.
Buckley Abbey, Suffolk, 278 n.
Budd, John, of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 114 n., 369 n.
Budd, Mary (afterwards Baynton), 114 n., 369 n.
Budd, Rebecca (Smith), 114 n., 369 n.
Bulkeley, Major Peter, admits that money is coined in Massachusetts Colony, 221; instructed to sue for pardon for this offence, 222; returns home, 223.
Bulkley, Rev. Edward, nothing known of his Election sermon for 1680, 404, 451.
Bulkley, Rev. John, grants Fellows Orchard to Harvard College, 204.
Bull, John, 234.
Bullets as legal tender, 219.
Bunker, Elizabeth, married Edward Burt, 201 n.
Bunker, George, 201 n.
Bunker Hill, 87 n.; Battle of, 68, 164, 174.
Bunker Hill Monument Association, Charlestown, incorporation, purpose, 65; authorized to rebuild Beacon monument, 65; publications, 65.
Bureau, Anne (afterwards Faneuil), 368.
Bureaucracy criticised in Hale’s Election sermon for 1859, 435.
Burke, Ædanus, his Considerations on the Society of the Cincinnati cited, 249.
Burley, Edward, bequeaths Burley Mansion to Beverly Historical Society, 60.
Burlington, N. J., 114 n.
Burlington, Vt., 325.
Burroughs, Rev. George, petitions for soldiers and supplies at Wells, 290; executed on charge of witchcraft, 292.
Burt, Edward, town clerk of Charlestown, granted monopoly in 1652, for manufacture of salt, 201 n.
Burt, Elizabeth (Bunker), 201 n.
Business associations of which Frederick L. Ames was director, 260.
Butler, Benjamin Franklin, Governor of Massachusetts, commended in Miner’s Election sermon for 1884, 438.
Butler, Sigourney, LL.B., xviii; elected Resident member, 115.
Buttles, Leonard, 199 n., 200 n.
Byron, Lord, 316; quoted, 167, 291.
Cabot family, 367 n.
Cabot, John, grant to, in 1496, 186.
Cacique, title conferred by the patentees of Carolina grant, 188 n., 189.
Cæsarism, 389.
Calendar of State Papers cited, 161 n.
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, cited, 159 n., 161.
Calendar of the Committee for Compoundings, quoted, 161.
Calvin, John, 145, 229; New England theology founded on doctrines of, 134; on calling and election, 134; on sanctification, 135; averse to use of harmony in psalmody, 232, 237.
Calvinism, 135.
Calvinist Psalter, editions of, 231, 232; influence of, on English metrical psalmody, 237.
Cambridge, Mass., 150, 203, 205, 206, 209, 256, 257, 300, 327, 348, 424, 450; probable site of Denison house in, 120; mortgage on real estate in, held by Society, 154; nature of grant of town to Harvard College, 203, 204; requirement that president of Harvard College should reside in, 208; Mather endeavors to retain presidency without residence in, 209 n.; Old Court House at, 270 n.; town records, 379; investments of this Society in, 383; Cooke’s Election sermon for 1770 delivered in, 423.
— Appian Way, 319.
— Arrow Street, 120.
— Bow Street, 120.
— Charles River National Bank, 270 n.
— Divinity Hall, 329.
— Episcopal Theological School, 42 n.
— First Church, 59; Records of, 379.
— Fresh Pond, 340.
— Garden Street, 319.
— Harvard Square, 270.
— Marsh Lane, 119.
— Mount Auburn Street, 120.
— Sanders Theatre, 330, 343, 348.
— Water Street, 119.
— See also Harvard College, Newtown.
Cambridge, the tune, 235.
Cambridge University, 116, 117, 118, 271, 272 n.; Sydney-Sussex College, 271; eight Election preachers among graduates of, 449.
Camock, Capt. Thomas, 277.
Can, Mr., Fifth Monarchy man. See Canne.
Canada, 294, 296, 297, 302 n., 324, 328, 337, 342, 344; conquest of, 420.
Canadian Relief Society, objects of, 68.
Canne, John, 281.
Canning, Edward Weeks Boldero, his Indian Mission in Stockbridge, and his Col. John Brown mentioned, 51.
Canso, Nova Scotia, 367 n.
Canterbury, the tune, 235.
Canticles, Latin names for, in Sternhold and Hopkins, 238.
Canton Historical Society, 268; foundation, etc., of, 46.
Cape Ann Historical Society, Gloucester, incorporation, etc., of, 61.
Cape Breton, French claimants to, 124; two books on, cited, 269 n.
Cape Cod Historical Society, Yarmouth, 268; incorporation, etc., of, 54.
Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association, Provincetown, incorporation, purpose of, 64 n.
Carew, Thomas, 316.
Carlisle, Mass., part of old Concord, 57.
Carlyle, Thomas, 402.
Carolina, titles of cacique and landgrave granted in, 188 n., 189; fundamental constitutions of, 227.
Carolinas, 173.
Carr, Sir Robert, 285 n.
Carroll, John, archbishop of Baltimore, returned thanks at Artillery Election dinner, 449.
Carter, Franklin, LL.D., xix; elected Resident member, 115.
Cartwright, George, 285 n.
Cary, George Blankern, 320, 321.
Cary, John, recorder of wills and instruments, 88, 107.
Cary Library, Lexington, 56.
Casco Fort taken by French and Indians, 289.
Casgrain, Abbé, 342.
Castle Island, 92, 96, 101; slave Adam sent to, 111; his conduct there, 112.
Catechism, The, 135.
Catlin, George, 338.
Cawkerell, Lincolnshire, 272 n.
Cedar trees, monopoly granted in 1671 for manufacture of pitch, etc., from, 201 n.; grants of, 202 n.
Central University, Pella, Iowa, 450.
Chadbourn, Benjamin, 387.
Chalmers, George, his Political Annals of the United Colonies cited, 217.
Chamberlain, Hon. Mellen, his opinion regarding unlawful proceedings at outset of American Revolution, 175; opinions as to English hierarchy before Revolution, 422 n.
Champernowne, Elizabeth (Popham), 277 n.
Champernowne, Francis, early colonist of Kittery, 277; appointed on council to govern the Province of Maine, 284; appointed one of twelve magistrates to govern Province, 285.
Champernowne, Richard, 277 n.
Champernowne pedigree, mentioned, 277 n.
Champlain, Lake, 325.
Chandler, Seth Carlo, LL.D., xviii; elected Resident member, 13.
Channing, Edward Tyrrel, 315, 319.
Channing, Walter, MD., elected Resident member, 115.
Channing, Rev. William Ellery, 282; his Election sermon for 1830 on Spiritual Freedom, 431.
Chapel of Ease, Mt. Wollaston, 284.
Chardon family, 367 n.
Chardon Street, Boston, 313.
Charlemont, Mass., headquarters of the Oak Tree Association, 67.
Charles I., his grant of Nova Scotia, 187 and note; his charter of Maryland, 188 and note; his grants of Province of New Albion, of Province of Maine, 189; grant of Council of New England to Massachusetts Company confirmed by, 219; his grant to Province of Maine in 1622 gives to Gorges rights of Bishop of Durham, 226, 227; his prayer-book shown by S. L. Thorndike, 233 n.; Mayhew’s sermon on death of, referred to, 422.
Charles II., 287, 374; report of General Court to, on Mason’s claims, 129, 130; supports Gorges claim, 285; appoints Samuel Wheelwright one of Provincial Council of Maine, 292; his appointment of Commissioners in interests of English hierarchy, 422.
Charles River National Bank, Cambridge, 270 n.
Charleston, S. C., 114 n., 309.
Charlestown, Mass., 65, 104, 134, 176, 209 n., 391, 395; foundation of, to be found in Cradock’s instructions, 192; vintners of, granted a monopoly in 1648, 198; Edward Burt, Town Clerk of, 1658–62, 201 n.; Salt works in, 201 n.; Prospect Hill, 324; investments of this Society in, 383.
Charlestown Land Records, cited, 201 n.
Charter of New England, 374.
Charters of Massachusetts. See Massachusetts, Charters.
Charters of Virginia and of Massachusetts, 184, 185.
Chase, Charles Augustus, A.M., xviii; elected Resident member, 75.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 333.
Chauncy, Rev. Charles, President of Harvard College, requested to preach Election sermon for 1656, 395; this sermon never printed, 451.
Chauncy, Rev. Charles (d. 1787), 422; reference to his prayer for drowned boy, 404; refers to bad condition of currency, 417, 418; defends religious rights of Congregationalism, 418; his Election sermon for 1747 well printed, 418, 419; preaches at a meeting in Boston on Election day, 1770, 424; full title of sermon, 424 n.
Chauncy, Charles (d. 1809), of Kittery, Me., 387.
Chauncy, name first given to Westborough, Mass., 307.
Chauncy Hall School, 315, 317.
Chauncy Place, Boston, 314.
Checkley, Anthony, marries a daughter of Rev. John Wheelwright, 284.
Checkley, Rev. Samuel, preaches Election sermon in 1755, 420.
Cheever, Rev. Samuel, 448; selected as Election preacher for 1712, 413; refers to great fire of 1711 in Boston, 445 n.
Chelsea, 66 n.
Chelsea Veteran Firemen’s Association, incorporation and purpose of, 68 n.
Cheney, Rev. William Franklin, his Dedham, England, mentioned, 44.
Chesshire, tune, 235.
Chestnut Street, Boston, 344, 345.
Chevalier, Elizabeth, afterwards Baynton, 114 n.
Chevy Chase, same rhythm as common metre tune, 230.
Child, Thomas, 369 n.
Child’s Portion, The, Willard’s Election sermon for 1682 printed in, 404.
Chit Chat Club, Harvard College, 321.
Choate, Charles Francis, A.M., xviii; elected a Resident member, 75; of committee on nominations, 351; offers resolutions on retirement of James B. Thayer, 385.
Choate, Hon. Joseph Hodges, LL.D., Honorary member, xix.
Christ Church, Philadelphia, 114 n.; Inscriptions, cited, 114 n.
Christian Spectator, cited, 390 n.
Church, Major Benjamin, tries to obtain assistance for destitute at Wells, 290.
Church-going, laxity as to, 442.
Church of England, 236, 284, 302 n.; members of, ostracized by Massachusetts Colonists, 69; rise of Puritanism in, 228; introduction of metrical psalmody into, 231, 233; psalmody of Puritans had atmosphere of, 235.
Church of St. Stephen, Boston, 308.
Church Wardens of Episcopal Churches in Massachusetts incorporated in 1755 to hold eleemosynary funds, 211.
Churches, Colonial, precarious condition of records of, 379.
Cincinnati, Ohio, 254.
Cincinnati, Society of the. See Society of the Cincinnati.
Cincinnatus, Lucius Quintius, 254; Society of the Cincinnati named for, 240, 245; design of his figure on medal of Society, 244, 247.
Cities in Massachusetts incorporated, 195.
Civil War in United States. See American Civil War.
Clap, Roger, Memoirs of, mentioned, 43.
Clark, Rev. Benjamin Franklin, 436.
Clark, Rev. John, M.D., his Ill Newes from New England mentioned, 31.
Clark, Rev. Jonas, preaches patriotic Election sermon for 1781, 428.
Clark, Thomas, of Boston, pewterer, 366.
Clark Street, Boston, 308.
Clarke, Eliot Channing, A.B., xix; elected Resident member, 216.
Clarke, Rev. James Freeman, on reforms, in Election sermon for 1868, 436.
Clarke, James Gordon, 321.
Clarke, John, granted, in 1652, exclusive use of invention for saving firewood, 201 n., 202 n.
Clarke, Capt. Timothy, appointed to manage expenditures for fortifying Castle Island, 92 n.; trouble with slave Adam, 92, 101; reported assault upon, by Adam, 111; delivers Adam for transportation, 111; further testimony of, concerning Adam, 112.
Cleaves, George, of Casco Bay, cited, 277 n.
Clergy, legislation in Massachusetts affecting taxation for support of, 140–145; of Massachusetts, outmatched by Anne Hutchinson, 138; vestments of, hateful to John Hooper, 229; conservatism of, 391; in New England, jealous of all their privileges, 422; old custom of addressing, at close of Election sermon, 424; lukewarmness of, in New England towards slavery, 439.
Cleveland, Grover, President of the United States, xiii, 258; elected Honorary member, 157; letter of acceptance, 265.
Clifford, Hon. Charles Warren, A.M., xviii; elected Resident member, 20; of committee on nominations, 351; offers resolutions on Robert C. Winthrop, 372; speaks at Annual dinner of Society, 385.
Cobb, Abby (Crocker), 15 n.
Cobb, Gen. David, viii*, 14 and note, 15 n., 238, 239; gift of his original commission as Judge of Court of Common Pleas of Bristol, 14; letter from Robert Treat Paine to, 14; two documents found among papers of, given to Society by G. A. Hilton, 162; signs minutes of Bristol Convention as Clerk, 181; conjectures as to his possession of manuscript draught of Articles of Association of Society of the Cincinnati, 251 and note.
Cobb, David George Washington, 14 n.; record in his family Bible, 15 n.
Cobb, Eleanor (Bradish), 15 n.
Cobb, Elizabeth Baylies, 15 n.
Cobb, George Thomas, 15 n.
Cobb, Sally Crocker, 15 n.
Cobb, Hon. Samuel Crocker, 15 n., 48 n., 239 n., 251; documents once owned by, given to Society by G. A. Hilton, 162; manuscript from collection of, 238, 239, 249.
Cobb family record, 15 n.
Cobbett, Rev. Thomas, requested to print his Election sermon of 1649, 395; Election sermon for 1666 probably not printed, 398; preached two Election sermons, 448; neither printed, 451; a non-graduate of Oxford, 449.
Coddington, William, Governor of Rhode Island, 275; cited, 274.
Codman, Charles Russell, 1.
Codman, Rev. John, against party feeling in his Election sermon for 1840, 432.
Coffin, Charles, conveyance to, 200 n.
Coffin family, 367 n.
Cohasset, Mass., 301.
Coining, local councils of Virginia and Plymouth given power of, 187; paper on, under Colonial charters, by R. N. Toppan, 216–227; rights conveyed by Virginia charters, 216, 217; Act of 1645 passed by colony of Virginia, 217; right of, given to Bermuda Company in 1615, 218; no rights of, given to Massachusetts Company, 219; Massachusetts issues coins in 1652, 220; power of, granted to Sir William Alexander, 225; grant to John Mason not allowed, 225; coinage of Lord Baltimore, 225, 226; grant to Gorges, 226; no grants in charters of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania, 227; power granted in charter of North Carolina, but no coins struck, 227.
Coins, copper, struck by Bermuda Company, 218, 219; various coins issued by Massachusetts Colony, 220.
Coke, Sir Edward, on Sutton’s Hospital case, cited, 191; Reports cited, 191 n.
Cole, Nicholas, supports Colony in its controversy with Province of Maine, 283.
Cole, William, opposed religion of Bay Colony, 284.
Coleman Street, London, meeting-place of opponents of Cromwell, 281.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 316.
Collections of various historical societies. See names of those societies.
College Hill, Somerville, Mass., 268.
Collier, William, 360.
Colman, Rev. Benjamin, collects contributions for shipwrecked Palatines, 32; mention of Palatines, 32, 114, 149; refers to finances of Province, 415; notice of Thomas Hollis, 415; preaches two Election sermons, 448.
Colman family, 367 n.
Colonial Dames of America, Massachusetts Society of, 63 n.
Colonial Laws of Massachusetts, reprinted from edition of 1660, cited, 126 n.
Colonial Policy of Great Britain, in accord with results achieved by American Revolution, 170.
Colonial Society of Massachusetts, returns thanks to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for use of its hall, 153.
— Amendments, by-law regulating, 6, 7.
— Appropriations, by-law relating to, 9.
— Articles of Association mentioned, 4.
— Auditing Committee, by-law concerning, 9; reports of, 154, 384.
— Auditor, appointed by Council, 382.
— By-laws, committee appointed to draft code of, 2; draft amended and approved, 3; text, 4–10; cited, 304.
— Certificate of Incorporation, 3, 4 n.; filed 27 Dec., 1892, 11; text, 12; text quoted, 21, 22.
— Change of name. See Name.
— Charter passes seals, 11; text of, 12.
— Collections defined, vi; first volume of (Vol. II. of Publications) to consist of Commissions and Instructions of the Royal Governors, viii; method of publication, 148.
— Committee appointed to consider form and title of Publications, extracts from report of, v, vi.
— Committees to be appointed by presiding officer, 8.
— Corporate seal, vignette of, iii; Committee to prepare design for, 3; described, 4; Recording Secretary to have custody of, 4; meaning of, 21, 22; cost of engraving, 153.
— Correspondence to be conducted by Corresponding Secretary, 8.
— Corresponding Secretary, by-law concerning, 8; offers amendment to change name of Society, 20; letters to Massachusetts Historical Society, 73, 74, 75; announces gift from Quincy A. Shaw, 116; receives letter of acceptance from Chief-Justice Fuller, 145; reads letters — from Edward J. Phelps, 182; from President Cleveland, 265; reads Annual Report of Council, 147, 373. See also Davis, Andrew McFarland.
— Council, nominations to be made by report of, 5; by-laws concerning, 7, 10; relations to Treasurer, 9; recommends petition for authority to change name of Society, 13; instructed to call meeting to consider change of name, 14; orders gift of Quincy A. Shaw to be set apart as foundation of a permanent fund, 116; Annual Reports of, 147, 373; services of John C. Inches on, recognized, 156.
— Death of members, by-law respecting, 10.
— Diplomas to members, by-law respecting, 6.
— Documents given, should be retained until Society has a safe depository, 181.
— Dues, by-law respecting, 5, 6.
— Election. See below, Members.
— Expulsion of members, by-law respecting, 6.
— Finances, 376.
— General Fund, 382.
— Gifts, to Society, 14, — by G. A. Hilton, of original minutes of Bristol Conventions of September, 1774, and January, 1775, 162, 163; of manuscript draught in handwriting of Washington, of Articles of Association of Society of the Cincinnati, 238: by A. C. Goodell, Jr., of a full set of copies of the Commissions and Instructions of the Royal Governors, etc., 76: by Quincy A. Shaw, of one hundred dollars, 116: by F. L. Gay, of original commission of Charles de la Tour, 356.
— Honorary Members, list of, xix; by-law concerning, 5; Melville Weston Fuller elected, 75, — accepts election, 145; Grover Cleveland and Edward John Phelps elected, 157, — they accept election, 182, 265.
— Incorporation, as The Massachusetts Society, 12, 63; cost of, 153. See also Corporate Seal.
— Index, instructions given as to construction of, vii.
— Manuscripts, first gift of, 14.
— Massachusetts Society, The. See below, Name.
— Meetings: Adjourned Conference meeting held 17 December, 1892, 3; Annual meeting to be 21 November, 6, — officers to be chosen at, 7; adjourned Special meeting to change name, 16; first Annual meeting, 146, — commemorates signing of Compact in Mayflower, 156; importance of attending, 151; members urged to maintain interest in, 152; second Annual meeting, 371, — speech by Dr. Gould at, 371. See also below: Special meetings, Stated meetings.
— Members: deceased, xx; by-law respecting, 5, 6; importance of deliberation in selection of, 20; development of spirit of fellowship among, 70; duty of, to submit original papers, 70; choice of new, 70; urged to maintain the interest of meetings, 152; local representatives from all parts of the Commonwealth desirable, 152; report of Council on, 373. See above, Honorary members; see below, Resident members.
— Memoirs of members deceased, by-law respecting, 10.
— Motions to be submitted in writing, by-law requiring, 6.
— Name, as first adopted. The Massachusetts Society, 3, 4, 12; Council recommends change to Society of Plymouth and the Bay, 13; not satisfactory, 14; special meeting to consider change to The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 16; final unanimous vote so to change, 20; certificate of change of, 71; letters to Massachusetts Historical Society regarding this change, 73–75.
— Nominating Committee, by-law respecting, 7; reports, 155, 385.
— Nominations for membership, bylaw respecting, 5, 10; list of, open for confidential inspection, 146.
— Objects defined, 22.
— Officers, list of, xvii; by-law concerning, 7; first election of, 11; election of, 155, 385.
— Organization, meeting for, 1892, 4.
— Permanent Fund, gift of Quincy A. Shaw made nucleus of, 116, 148.
— Preliminary Conference, 1; signers of call for, 1.
— President, Special Meetings to be called at request of, 6; by-laws respecting, 7, 8; his remarks on the Society’s change of name, 72. See also Gould, Benjamin Apthorp.
— Publication Committee, names of, ii; Introductory note by, v; communication to, from A. C. Goodell, Jr., viii; requests publication of Mr. Goodell’s note on the Quakers, 140.
— Publication Fund, condition and needs of, 376, 380.
— Publications, note on, v; to include consecutively numbered volumes both of Transactions and Collections, vi, — Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, to be general title, 148; remarks of Council on, 373.
— Purposes quoted, 21.
— Quorum, by-law concerning, 6, 7.
— Recording Secretary to have custody of Corporate seal, 4; nomination book to be kept by, 5; by-law concerning, 8; a Stated meeting called to order by, 115. See also Cunningham, Henry Winchester.
— Registrar, by-law concerning, 10; appointed to meet the Commissioner of Corporations, 16. See also Woods, Henry Ernest.
— Resident members, list of, in order of enrolment, xviii, xix; bylaw concerning, 5; names of those elected, 13, 20, 75, 115, 157, 182, 216, 265, 351; at first Annual meeting, seventy-nine enrolled, 146; condition of roll of, at end of first year, 150, 152; report of Council on, 373.
— Resolutions, to be submitted in writing, by-law requiring, 6; on the death of Robert Charles Winthrop, 372.
— Seal. See Corporate Seal.
— Special Meetings, by-law concerning, 6; one called to consider change of Society’s name, 14; held 20 January, 1893, 16.
— Stated Meetings, by-law concerning, 6; held in Hall of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 17, 72, 115, 150, 157, 182, 216, 265, 351, 386.
— Transactions, to be the sub-title of Proceedings, v, vi; size of volume decided upon, vii, viii; issue of first serial of, 147; method of publication to be pursued, v, 148; cited, 351, 352.
— Treasurer, by-law concerning, 9; accounts, 9; files certificate respecting change in Society’s name, 71; Annual Reports, 153, 383, 384. See also Edes, Henry Herbert.
— Vacancies, by-law respecting, 7.
— Vice-Presidents, by-law concerning, 8.
Colonies, British, in America. See American Colonies.
Colonies, early, of Maine, 277.
Columbia College, one Election preacher a graduate of, 449.
Columbus, Christopher, 333.
Columbus, Ohio, 450.
Columbus Avenue Universalist Church, Boston, last Election sermon was preached in, 438, 445.
Commercial and Board of Trade Bulletin, Worcester, cited, 47.
Commissioners appointed by Charles II. in interest of English hierarchy, 422.
Commissioners for French goods, 159 n.
Commissioners of the United Colonies of New England, 126; respecting Dutch and Indians, 125; Acts of, cited, 125 n., 126 n., 127; recommend, in 1673, defence against Dutch, 127; Daniel Denison’s services with, 130; their persecution of Quakers, 139.
Commissioners on the Publication of the Acts and Resolves of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, 212 n.; reappointment of, 76. See also Province Laws.
Commissioners under Boston Port Bill and other Acts, persons who accept, condemned by Bristol Convention of 1774, 179.
Commissions, Royal. See Royal Commissions.
Committee for Compoundings, Calendar of, quoted, 161.
Committee for Trade and Plantations, Randolph’s report to, in 1676, 221; instructs Massachusetts agents to sue for pardon, 222.
Committees of Correspondence, 171; approved of Boston Tea Party, 172.
Committees of Inspection recommended by Continental Congress, 256.
Committees of Safety and of Correspondence, 171, 176.
Common law, flexibility of, 88.
Common metre, single, for Psalms, 234; double common metre usual, 235.
Common Prayer, Book of, 397.
Commonwealth, newspaper, cited, 21 n.
Communism, reaction against, in Election sermons for 1835, 1836, 432.
Compact, Signing of, to be commemorated by Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association, 64 n.; commemorated by Annual meeting of this Society, 156.
Companies, private, to which charters were granted under Massachusetts Colony, 195–202.
Compton, John, 275.
Conant, Ernest Lee, A.M., elected Resident member, 265.
Conant, Exercise. See Connant.
Conant, Roger, 281 n.; signs petition to General Court, 79, 81.
Conant’s colony, probably built near centre of Salem, 77.
Concord, Mass., 258; Provincial Congress in October, 1774, at, 164; recommendations of county conventions regarding, 165; Fight at, 168; Bridge, 355; Fund raised in England for relief of sufferers from fight at, 387; First session of General Court held at, in 1752, 419 n.
Concord Antiquarian Society, 268; incorporation, etc., of, 57.
Concord Lyceum, incorporation, etc., of, 57 n.
Conduit, The, Boston, note on its location by H. H. Edes, 199 n., 200 n.
Conduit Street, Boston, company for furnishing water to, formed 1652, 199; note on Conduit and street and estates adjoining, 199 n., 200 n.
Congregational Library Association, Boston, incorporation and purpose of, 65, 66; name changed to American Congregational Association, 65.
Congregational Quarterly, partly owned by American Congregational Association, 66; cited, 272 n., 447 n.
Congregationalism, general interests of, promoted by American Congregational Association, 66; aristocratic tendency of, 391; in America on its guard against English hierarchy, 418.
Congregationalists, 449.
Congress, 243; power of, to grant charters outside District of Columbia questioned, 35.
Connant, Exercise, 405.
Connecticut, 114 n., 161 n., 325, 367 n., 308, 390; appeal of Quakers in, to Privy Council, 141; Charter of 1662, silent as to right of coining, 227; churches of, contribute to assist refugees at Wells, Me., 290; Election sermons in, 446; lists of these sermons, 447 and note.
Connecticut River, 324, 325 n., 326.
Connecticut Valley Historical Society, incorporation, purpose, and publications of, 49.
Conscience, freedom of, results looking toward, secured by Quakers, 144, 145.
Constitution, British, praised in Eliot’s Election sermon for 1765, 421; generally apostrophized in sermons before Revolution, 423; allegiance to, expressed by Samuel Cooke in 1770, 424.
Constitution of Massachusetts, cited, 195 n.
Continental Army, 302 n.
Continental Congress at Philadelphia, 163, 256; confidence expressed in, by Bristol Convention of 1774, 180.
Convention of Delegates of Bristol County. See Bristol County Convention.
Convention sermons, took their rise in Election Day, 446; list of, prepared for Massachusetts Historical Society, 447.
Converse, Major James, Speaker of Massachusetts House, 97; in command of reinforcements sent to Wells, 1691, 290, 301.
Cooke, Judge Elisha (d. 1715), 411.
Cooke, Elisha (d. 1737), clerk of Superior Court of Judicature, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111.
Cooke, Rev. Samuel, delivers at Cambridge a patriotic Election sermon in 1770, 423; opposes importation of slaves, 440.
Cooper, James Fenimore, 322.
Cooper, Rev. Samuel, 448; preaches Election sermon for 1756, 427; preaches again in 1780 on inauguration of government under new Constitution, 427; sermon for 1780 translated into Dutch, 428.
Cooper, Rev. William, opposes levelism in his Election sermon for 1740, 418.
Coopers’ Guild, incorporated in Boston, 197.
Copper pieces, coinage of, authorized by Virginia Company in 1645, 217; struck by Bermuda Company, 218, 219; design of, as tokens for North Carolina in 1694, 227.
Copp’s Hill, Boston, 363.
Copp’s Hill Burying-ground, 305, 363.
Corneille, Pierre, 316.
Corning, Samuel, signs a petition for separation of Beverly from Salem, 81.
Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille, 262.
Corporations: President and Fellows of Harvard College only Corporation in Province, 184 n.; creation of, by charter a prerogative of the King, 185; one created by Raleigh, 186; Corporations in the Days of the Colony, paper by A. McF. Davis, 183–214; Law of, in 1630, 191, 192; essence of, 191 n.; Quasi-municipal, in the Massachusetts Colony, 192–194; in Province of Massachusetts Bay, 210–214; of which F. L. Ames was a director, 260.
Corresponding Secretary of Colonial Society. See Colonial Society.
Corwin, Jonathan, 412.
Cotouch box, 256.
Cotton, Elizabeth (Saltonstall), 305.
Cotton, Joanna, afterwards Brown, 305.
Cotton, Joanna (Rossiter), 305.
Cotton, Rev. John, of Boston (d. 1652), 122, 273, 275, 304, 305, 309; urges re-election of Winthrop in his Election sermon for 1634, 389; — Cotton Mather quoted as to this sermon, 390; effect of sermon on Colony, 390; not printed, 451; another sermon in same year, 390; — rebuked for interference in politics, 439.
Cotton, Rev. John, of Plymouth (d. 1699), 304, 305; preaches to Indians, 309; revises second and last edition of Indian Bible, 309.
Cotton, Rev. John, of Newton (d. 1757), voices cry of oppression in his Election sermon for 1753, 419.
Cotton, Josiah, manuscript diary of, referred to, 414, 415.
Cotton, Key. Rowland, 304, 305; pastor in Sandwich, Mass., for more than thirty years, 309; preacher to Indians, 310; his Election sermon for 1717 probably not printed, 414, 415, 451.
Cotton, Sarah (Hankredge), 305.
Council of New England. See New England, Council of.
Council of State, summons Lord Baltimore in regard to his coinage of silver, 226.
Council Records (Massachusetts), 364.
Councils for the Government of the Colonies of Virginia and Plymouth established in England, 187; power of Council under second charter of Virginia, 187.
County conventions held in Massachusetts in 1774, 165.
Court of Admiralty. See Massachusetts.
Court of Assistants. See Massachusetts.
Court Street, Boston, 263.
Courts. See under Boston; Bristol; Massachusetts; Norfolk; Suffolk.
Covenant of Faith, 122.
Covenant of Grace, 273.
Covenant of Works, 122, 273, 275.
Coverdale, Miles, 228.
Cox, Esther, 364.
Cox, Robert, 364.
Cradock, Matthew, advice to Endicott, 190; instructions to same, 192.
Cranfield, Edward, 374.
Cranfield, Henry, 374.
Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, letter of, to Henry VIII. quoted, 231.
Cranston, Samuel, Governor of Rhode Island, 368.
Cranston, Judith, 368.
Crawford Notch, White Mountains, 323, 326.
Crayon, The, art journal, 339.
Creditors urged to exercise lenity during interruption of judicial proceedings in 1774, 179.
Crispe, Sarah (Wheelwright), 282.
Crocker, Abby, 15 n.
Crofft, England, 282.
Cromwell, Oliver, 126, 209, 283, 285, 352; his plan to keep Ireland in subjection by introducing New England settlers, 124; his terms of removal, 125; on Rev. John Wheelwright’s skill in football, 271; has interview with Wheelwright, 280; probably insincere in courtesy to same, 281.
Crosby, Sylvester S., his Early Coins of America cited, 217 n., 218 n., 219 n., 220 n., 224 n., 226 n.
Cross on Gore Hall, Harvard College, 269 and note.
Crosthwayt, Charles, 370.
Crowley, Robert, publishes a version of the Psalms with tunes, 231.
Culpepper, Lord Thomas, Governor of Virginia, annuls Act of Virginia Assembly regulating value of foreign coins, 218.
Cumberland County Convention, 1774, 165.
Cunningham, Henry Winchester, A.B., xvii, xviii, 1, 13; signer of Articles of association, 4; a founder of this Society, 12; chosen temporary clerk, 11; elected Recording Secretary, 11, 155, 385. See also Colonial Society: Recording Secretary.
Cunningham, Stanley, A.B., xviii; elected Resident member, 115.
Currency, bad condition of, referred to in various Election sermons from 1738 to 1750, 417, 418.
Cushing, Caleb, the elder, 387.
Cushing, Thomas, Lieut.-Gov. of Massachusetts, justified Boston Tea Party, 172.
Cushing, Thomas (H. C. 1834), 314, 329.
Cushing family, 367 n.
Cutler, Rev. Manasseh, 26.
Cutler, Rev. Timothy, and other Episcopal clergymen, petition, in 1727, for repeal of laws for support of ministers, 142.
Dakota Indians, Parkman’s experience with band of, 336, 337.
Dalton, Rev. Timothy, executor of Henry Boade, 278 n.; minister at Hampton, 280.
Damon, Rev. David, opposed to antislavery spirit, 440.
Damon, William, his musical setting to Sternhold and Hopkins, 234.
Dana, Rev. Daniel, speaks against slavery in his Election sermon for 1837, 440.
Dana, James Dwight, his Berkshire Geology mentioned, 50.
Dane, John, quoted, on Indian path to Ipswich, 121; his Narrative cited, 121 n.
Dane Law School, Harvard College, 329.
Danforth, Rev. John, of Dorchester, preaches Election sermon for 1697, 409; this sermon never printed, 451.
Danforth, Rev. Samuel (d. 1674), curious sentence from his Election sermon for 1670 quoted, 400; reprinting of this sermon suggested by Thomas Prince, 417.
Danforth, Rev. Samuel (d. 1727), 410.
Danforth, Thomas, Deputy-Governor of Massachusetts, appointed President of Province of Maine, 287 n.
Dankers, Joseph, and Sluyter, Peter, their Journal of a Voyage to New York cited, 411 n.
Danson, George, 370.
Dante, 333.
Danvers, Mass., 77.
Danvers Historical Society, incorporation, etc., of, 61; celebrates bi-centennial anniversary of Salem witchcraft, 62.
Dartmouth, Mass., 176; Selectmen in, refuse to assess for support of Orthodox ministry, 141; inhabitants raise indemnity fund for assessors, 141, 142.
Dartmouth College, 450; nine Election preachers among graduates of, 449.
Daubigny, Charles François, 262.
Daughters of the Revolution, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, purposes of, 266.
D’Aunay (de Charnisay), Charles de Menou, Sieur, 124.
Davenport, Judge Addington, 94, 112 n.
Davenport, Rev. John, possibility that his Election sermon for 1669 was published, 399; probably not, 451.
Davis, Andrew McFarland, A.M., x, xi, xii, xiii, xvii, xviii, 1, 74, 75, 145, 153, 214, 265, 270, 355; chairman of Committee of publication, ii, viii; present at Preliminary conference, 2; of Committee on Corporate Seal, 3; present at meeting for organization, 4; elected Corresponding Secretary, 11; a founder of this Society, 12; his efforts towards re-establishment of Lady Mowlson Scholarship, 21; reads paper on Historical Work in Massachusetts, 21–71; his remarks on printing of historical documents referred to, 113; his conclusion as to destination of the Palatines corroborated, 114; Reports of Council presented by, 147, 372; facts developed by his remarks on the Palatines, 149; elected Corresponding Secretary, 155, 385; correction of his Historical Work in Massachusetts, 157; brief remarks on Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 157, 158; his First Scholarship at Harvard College cited, 158 and note; his Exhibitions of Harvard College prior to 1800 cited, 159; his Lady Mowlson Scholarship at Cambridge cited, 160; reads paper on Corporations in the Days of the Colony, 183–214; reads paper on The Pedigree of Ann Radcliffe, Lady Mowlson, 351–354; his Ann Radcliffe, Lady Mowlson, in New England Magazine, cited, 158 n., 352. See also Colonial Society: Corresponding Secretary.
Davis, Charles Henry, A.B., xix; elected Resident member, 216.
Davis, Daniel, of Boston, 204 n.
Davis, Hon. Horace, his The Likelihood of an Admixture of Japanese Blood on Our North West Coast mentioned, 37.
Davis, Capt. John, appointed one of Council of Province of Maine, 287 n.
Davis, Hon. John (d. 1847), 37 n.
Davy, Humphry, 406.
Day, John, his edition of Sternhold and Hopkins, 234.
Day, Mr., Fifth Monarchy man, 281.
Deacons of Protestant Churches in Massachusetts, incorporated in 1755, 211.
Dean, John Ward, 66, 352, 353; his discoveries in regard to Mowlson family, 159; his discovery of manuscript of Shepard’s Election sermon for 1638, 391; opinions as to date of its delivery, 392; explanation of failure of Wigglesworth’s Election sermon for 1686 to appear, 406; his Memoir of Wigglesworth quoted, 406, 407 n.; his Brief Memoir of Firm in cited, 443.
Dean, Rev. Paul, change of date of Election Day when his Election sermon was preached in 1832, 431.
Deane, Charles, his praise of Hubbard’s History of New England, 29 n.; his edition of Wingfield’s Discourse of Virginia mentioned, 36; works of, in Proceedings of American Antiquarian Society, mentioned, 37; preface to Wood’s New England’s Prospect mentioned, 66.
Deane, Rev. Samuel, D.D., of Portland, list of preachers in his Election sermon for 1794, 449.
Debtors urged to pay just debts during suspension of judicial proceedings in 1774, 179.
Decalogue, 135.
Declaration of Independence, 212 n.; destroyed friendly feeling in England toward Colonies, 386.
Declaration of Rights of 1780, phrase inserted by John Lowell in, 423. See also Massachusetts.
Dedham, Mass., 44; Records of Town, Church, and Parish kept in vaults of Dedham Historical Society, 44.
Dedham Historical Register, objects of, 44.
Dedham Historical Society, objects of, 43; summary of publications, etc., of, 44.
Dedham Pulpit, Adams’s Election sermon for 1685, reprinted in, 406.
Deerfield, Mass., headquarters of Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 45.
DeForest, Rev. Heman Packard, his History of Westborough cited, 305 n, 306 n., 307 n.
Degeneracy of the age, tendency of Election preachers to dwell on, rebuked, 417.
De la Mott, Philip, 271.
De Lancey family, 367 n.
Delaware River, 114 n.
Democracy, early manifestations of, in New England, 391; as shown in “sow-business,” 1692, 392, 393.
Denison, Major-Gen Daniel, paper on, by Daniel Denison Slade, 116–132; ancestry and early life, 116, 117; in Roxbury, 118; removes to Newtown, 118; house in, 120; marriage, 120; in Ipswich, 120, 121; bearing toward Antinomians and Quakers, 121, 127, 133; elected Sergeant-Major, then Major-General, 123; on embassy to treat with D’Aunay, 124; on committee to settle difficulties with Dutch, 125; chosen Assistant, 125; appointed to revise Colony laws, 126; services as one of Commissioners of the United Colonies, 126, 127; elected Commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 127; instructions to, in King Philip’s War, 128; his conduct of war to eastward, 129; his official honors, 130; death, 131; Randolph’s estimate of, 131; his Irenicon, or a Salve for New England’s Sore, quoted, 130 and note; Hubbard’s funeral sermon on, quoted, 131, 132; burialplace in Ipswich, 132; his persecution of Quakers, 139.
Denison, Edward, uncle of Daniel Denison, 116.
Denison, Edward, brother of Daniel Denison, 117; one of the feoffees of Roxbury Latin School, 118 n.
Denison, George, uncle of Daniel Denison, 116.
Denison, Capt. George, brother of Daniel Denison, 117; one of supporters of Anne Hutchinson, 121.
Denison, John, of Bishops Stortford, grandfather of Daniel Denison, 116.
Denison, Rev. John, brother of Daniel Denison, 117, 118.
Denison, Rev. John, grandson of Daniel Denison, 305.
Denison, Margaret (Monck), 116; death of, 117.
Denison, Patience (Dudley), wife of Daniel Denison, 120, 121.
Denison, William, father of Daniel Denison, 116; removed to New England in 1631, 117; his services to Roxbury, 118; supporter of Anne Hutchinson, 121.
Denison, name of, 133.
Denisons, the, 119.
Dennis, Rev. Josiah, 300.
Deputies and Magistrates, misunderstandings between, 392, 394.
Derby, Elias Hasket, his History of Paper Money in Massachusetts before the Revolution mentioned, 38.
Deturs, testimonials of scholarship at Harvard College, 318.
Devens, Commissary Richard, of Charlestown, Mass., 387.
Devonshire, England, 277, 360.
Dexter, Aaron, 26.
Dexter, Rev. Henry Martyn, many editions of Ainsworth’s Book of Psalms, in library of, 236; note by, on Ainsworth quoted, 236.
Diaz de la Peña, Narcisse Yirgilis, 262.
Dick, a free negro, accepted as surety for slave Adam, 90, 106.
Dickinson, John, opposed to disorderly proceedings, 173.
Digby, Sir Kenelme, special commission issued to, 188 n.
Dighton, Mass., 176.
Dillaway, Charles Knapp, his History of the Grammar School … Roxburie cited, 118 n.
Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Church, has collection of materials relating to that church in Massachusetts, 42 n.
Diocesan House, Joy St., Boston, materials kept in, 42 n.
Direct tax of 1798, manuscript of, 39.
Dissenters, Massachusetts laws for support of ministers a burden to, 140; in Bristol Co., Mass., 141.
District of Columbia, power of Congress to grant a charter outside of, doubted, 35.
Divinity Hall, Cambridge, 329.
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 433.
Dix, Jonas, 387.
Dixsey, Willyam, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Dixville Notch, N. H., 324, 325.
Dock, Town, Boston, 87 n; 199 n.
Dorchester, Rev. Daniel, of the New-England Methodist Historical Society, 53 n.
Dorchester, Mass., 304, 305, 324, 409; History of the Town of, mentioned, 43.
Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society, 267; objects of, etc., 43.
Dorchester Historical Society, incorporation and purpose of, 60.
Dorothy Brown Rebekah Degree Lodge, 122 I. O. O. E., 360 n.
Douen, Emmanuel Orentin, his Clément Marot et le Psautier Huguenot cited, 228.
Douglass, William, his Summary of the First Planting of the British Settlements in America cited, 374.
Dowse Library of Massachusetts Historical Society, 32.
Drake, F[rancis?], his couplet on Jonathan Mitchel quoted, 396.
Drake, Samuel Gardner, his Witchcraft Delusion in New England cited, 410 n.
Drinking, troubles with England attributed largely to, in Eliot’s Election sermon for 1765, 421.
Drinking-houses, multitude of, mentioned by Cotton Mather, 442.
Drunkenness. See Intemperance.
Drydens, 275 n.
Dudley, Joseph, Governor of Massachusetts, 75, 76, 100, 368; negatives John Saffin’s election to Council, 86 n.; does not reappoint Saffin to Superior Court, 92; makes appointments to Harvard College, 205; mortgage recorded to, 206; suggestions by, in 1705, to secure Charter of incorporation for Harvard College, 208, 209; value of his effort to save College charter of 1650, 209 n.; his attitude in this matter, 214, 215; chosen Massachusetts Agent, 1681–82, 223; instructions to, 223; apparent faith in Indians, 294; tries to disallow election of Speaker by House, 412.
Dudley, Patience, 121; marries Daniel Denison, 120.
Dudley, Thomas, Governor of Massachusetts, 374; settles in Newtown, 119; his house there, 119; his character, 119 n., 120 n.; daughter of, married to Daniel Denison, 120; sent to treat with D’Aunay, 124; chosen to succeed Winthrop as governor, 389.
Dummer, Judge Jeremiah, 94.
Dummer, William, Lieut.-Governor of Massachusetts, advises John Wheelwright regarding protection of Wells against Indians, 299.
Dunster, Rev. Henry, President of Harvard College, petitions in 1650 for charter for Harvard College, 198; title of grant of Fellows Orchard conveyed to, 204.
Dunton, John, his Journal mentioned, 31; his Letters from New England mentioned, 66.
Durham, Bishop of, rights of, granted to Lord Baltimore, 225; had rights of coining money till 1836, 226; rights of, granted to Gorges, 226, 227; also to Lords Proprietors of North Carolina, 227.
Durham, County Palatine of, question as to liberty of coining by, 226.
Durrell, Philip, family of, attacked by Indians at Kennebunk, 300.
Duston Monument Association, incorporation of, 65 n.
Dutch, The, 196; Commissioners of United Colonies to treat with, 125; means of defence against in 1673, 127.
Dwight, Theodore Frelinghuysen, xviii; elected Resident member, 20.
Dyer, Mary, hanged as a Quaker, 136.
Eames, Wilberforce, Librarian of Lenox Library, 87 n.
Eastern plantations, conduct of King Philip’s War in, 129.
Eastern Railroad, 323.
Eaton, Nathaniel, John Harvard’s estate paid over to, 203; title of part of college estate in Eaton’s name, 204.
Eaton, Theophilus, one of Commissioners of United Colonies, 125.
Edes, Henry Herbert, x, xii, xiii, xiv, xvii, xviii, 3, 391; his services as chairman of Committee on printing commended, vii; signs call for Preliminary conference regarding this Society, 1; Secretary of Preliminary conference, 2; motion of, as to expediency of organizing a Society to commemorate founders of Massachusetts, 2; motion of, as to Corporate Seal, 3; present at meeting for organization, 4; elected Treasurer, 11, 155, 385; a founder of this Society, 12; moves that name of Society be The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 16; communication on the Palatines mentioned, 32 n., 149, 150; identifies locations of John Saffin’s property in Boston, 87 n.; remarks on importance of printing historical documents in full, 113; on shipwreck of the Palatines, 114 and notes; Annual Reports as Treasurer, 153, 154, 382–384; speaks at first Annual dinner, 156; note on John Alborough, 161 n.; note on Petaquamscott, 162 n.; suggestion as to original papers communicated to Society, 181; note on the Conduit and Conduit Street in Boston, 199 n., 200 n.; furnishes information regarding Edward Burt of Charlestown, 201 n.; biographical notes on Samuel Nowell, 209 n., 210 n.; remarks on power in early charters to coin money, 215; gives facts respecting last will of Gen. Henry Jackson and papers of the Cincinnati in his custody, 251 n.; Francis Parkman’s letter to, 335; paper on Andrew and Peter Faneuil, and Peter Baynton and his Sutton lands, 366–370; communicates paper on Massachusetts Election sermons by Lindsay Swift, 388; his List of Election sermons and preachers referred to, 390, 436, 449, 450; a blank left in this list probably filled, 395; gives text of Russell’s Election sermon for 1665, 398 n.; his conjecture as to Rev. John Danforth’s name confirmed, 409; note on Star Tavern in Boston, 409 n. See also Colonial Society; Treasurer.
Edinburgh, Scotland, 450.
Education, of settlers at Wells, Me., 297; solicitude of Election preachers for, 444. See also Free schools; Schools.
Edward VI., King of England, rise of Puritanism in reign of, 228, 230, 231; Prayer Book of, 229; subsidence of Protestantism at death of, 231.
Election, doctrine of, according to Calvin, 134.
Election-day, 420; change of date of, 431, 445 and note; no Roman Catholic clergyman took part in ceremonies of, 449.
Election Preachers, misunderstanding between Magistrates and Deputies as to choice of, 392; chosen alternately by each body, beginning with 1646, 394; fond of principles of liberty, 422; opposed to divine theory of government, 433; lists of — in Osgood’s and Bigelow’s sermons for 1809 and 1836, 432; in Pierce’s sermon for 1849, 433; in Quint’s sermon for 1866, 436; in Grinnell’s sermon for 1871 (by H. H. Edes), 390, 436, 449, 450; list of, who preached on more than one occasion, 448; those graduated for a long or short time, 448, 449; names of colleges where graduated, 449; non-graduates, 449; lists of preachers enumerated, 449; names of preachers from 1872 to 1884, with statistics, 450; years in which there were no preachers, 451; preachers whose sermons are not known to have been printed, 451.
Election Sermons, Massachusetts, paper on, by Lindsay Swift, 388–451; extinction of, 388; origin of custom, 389, 390; early troubles connected with, 392, 394; gaps in series, 395; summary between 1634 and 1660, 397; first sermon preached which was printed, by Norton in 1661, 397; Higginson’s for 1663 first actually printed, 397; accounts of sermons from 1661 to 1700, 397–410; Sewall’s interest in, 405; curious words and phrases in, 416; finances of Province considered in, 417, 418; jealousy for charter rights shown in, 418; hints of Revolutionary spirit in, 419–425; during Revolution, 425–428; anti-Gallic sentiments in, 429; great freedom of speech in, by Federalists, 430; Rev. John Pierce’s zeal for collecting, 433; number of copies of editions, 434; during Civil War, 435, 436; lack of interest shown in, 437; probable cause of abolition of custom, 438, 439; attitude towards slavery, 439–441; treatment of intemperance in, 441–444; places of delivery, 445; occasional substitutes for, 448; the custom in other New England States, 446, 447; sets of, in various libraries, 447, 448; lists of, 449; tabulation of, from 1872 to 1884, 450; years in which none were preached, 451; list of sermons preached but not printed, 451.
Elections, frequent, encouraged in Webster’s Election sermon for 1777, 427; purity of early, 429.
Eleemosynary funds, incorporation of deacons and church wardens to hold, 211.
Elijah’s Mantle, abridgment of Stoughton’s Election sermon for 1668 in, 399.
Eliot, Rev. Andrew, affirms his attachment to the mother-country in Election sermon for 1765, 421; his letter to Hollis referred to, 421 n.
Eliot, Charles William, President of Harvard College, address at commemorative service in honor of Francis Parkman quoted, 330; same mentioned, 348.
Eliot, Hugh, licensed as discoverer, 186.
Eliot, Rev. John, Apostle to the Indians (d. 1690), 118; his Indian Grammar Begun mentioned, 31; revision of second edition of Indian Bible, 309; nothing known of his Election sermon of 1659, 396; this sermon never printed, 451; remonstrates against selling Indians into slavery, 439.
Eliot, Rev. John (d. 1813), of committee to prepare lists of Election and other sermons for Massachusetts Historical Society, 447.
Eliot, Samuel, 175.
Elizabeth, Queen of England, 233; her grants to Gilbert and Raleigh, 186; revival of Puritanism under, 229, 230; Protestants flock back on accession of, 232.
Elizabeth, vessel, 1634, 133.
Ellet, William, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Ellis, Rev. George Edward, his tribute to Henry Wheatland quoted, 42 n.; his Life of Anne Hutchinson cited, 121 n.
Emancipation, Samuel Sewall makes first public plea for, 439; favored in Stillman’s Election sermon for 1779, 440.
Embargo of 1807, 430.
Emery, Rev. Samuel, Council orders payment of fifteen pounds to, 293; death of, 300.
Emmons, Rev. Nathaniel, a reprint of his Election sermon for 1798, made in the New England Telegraph, 429.
Endicott, John, Governor of Massachusetts, arrival of, in Salem, 77; Cradock’s advice to, regarding policy of Massachusetts Company, 190; further instructions to, 192; his copy of Ravenscroft’s Sternhold and Hopkins, 235.
Endicott, William, Jr., A.M., xviii; a founder of this Society, 12; of Committee to audit accounts of Treasurer, 115; report as member of Auditing committee, 154.
Endicott, Hon. William Crowninshield, LL.D., xix, 1; elected Resident member, 20.
Engines, for cutting of grass, exclusive right granted in 1655, 201 n.; of mills to go by water, patent for, granted in 1646, 201 n.
England, 93, 96, 114 n., 116, 117, 126, 133, 158, 188, 189, 196, 209, 231, 232, 272 n., 279–283, 287, 302, 304, 305, 327, 431; Laws of, 110; Laws of Massachusetts Bay Company not to be repugnant to those of, 184, 189, 190; meetings of Company not required in, 185; foreign Protestants ordered from, during reign of Bloody Mary, 229; Protestantism subsides in, at death of Edward VI., 231; emigrants from, to New Somersetshire, 278; war declared against, in 1702, by France, 293; friendly feeling in, towards American colonists at outbreak of Revolution, 386, 387.
— Church of. See Church of England.
English Reformation, little sympathy of Lutherans with, 229.
English Reformed Church, breach in, over Prayer Book of Edward VI., 229.
Episcopal Church in Massachusetts, Diocesan Convention has materials relating to, 42 n.
Episcopal churches in Massachusetts Province, Wardens of, incorporated to hold eleemosynary funds, 211.
Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, historical materials formerly kept in, 42 n.
Episcopalians in Boston, efforts of, to evade laws for support of Congregationalist ministry, 142; wholly exempted from ministerial rates, 143.
Epps, Capt. Daniel, 405.
Equality, natural, upheld in Williams’s Election sermon for 1762, 421; often proclaimed by preachers before Revolution, 423; maintained in Hitchcock’s Election sermon for 1774, 425; also in Stillman’s Election sermon for 1779, 427; doubted in Kendal’s Election sermon for 1804, 429.
Essex County, Mass., 123, 129; Essex Historical Society founded to collect materials relating to civil history of, 41; men from, sent to Wells, 290.
Essex County Convention, 1774, 165, 166.
Essex County Natural History Society, 40, 41.
Essex Historical Society, incorporated in 1821, 40, 41.
Essex Institute, 42 n., 164; formed in 1848, 40; object of, publications, 41; Historical Collections cited, 41 n., 121 n.; relics in historical department, 42; Library, set of Election sermons in, 448.
Essex regiment, Daniel Denison, Major of, 127.
Essex Resolves, 179.
Essex Street, Salem, first cottages of Old Planters on, 77.
Established Church. See Church of England.
Estabrook, Rev. Joseph, 412; Election sermon for 1705 quoted, 412; Sewall’s Diary quoted as to this sermon, 412.
Estaing, Charles Hector, Comte d’, medal of Society of the Cincinnati voted to, 248.
Este, Thomas, his harmonized edition of Sternhold and Hopkins, 234 n., 235.
Esto Perpetua, motto on reverse of medal of Society of the Cincinnati, 244, 247, 254.
Eustis-Street Burying-Ground, Roxbury, preservation of, 266.
Everell, James, shoemaker in Boston, 197.
Everett, Rev. Charles Carroll, LL. D., xix; elected Resident member, 115; asks blessing at Annual dinner, 385.
Exchange Tavern, Boston, Samuel Sewall dines at, 416.
Exeter, England, 360.
Exeter, N. H., 284, 298 n.; names of founders in 1638, 275; comes under rule of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 276.
Exeter Associates, at Wells, 277, 279; most of, do not support Bay party, 283; character of descendants of, 297; their descendants leaders at Wells until after Revolution, 303.
Exeter Colony, members of, accompany Wheelwright to Hampton, 280.
Exeter Combination, 276.
Exeter Company, 284; departure of most of its members from Wells, 279.
Facsimiles of — Lady Mowlson’s deed of gift, 1643, frontispiece; Petition for incorporation of Beverly, opposite 79; Sewall’s The Selling of Joseph, opposite 85; titlepage of John Saffin’s pamphlet in reply to Sewall, opposite 102; three pages of account-books kept by John Richards, Treasurer of Harvard College in 1686, 1687, opposite 205, 206; draught in handwriting of Washington of Articles of Association of Society of the Cincinnati, opposite 244, 245.
Fairfield, Conn., 114 n.
Falmouth, Me., destroyed by French and Indians, 289.
Faneuil, Andrew, his death, 367; probable partnership with his nephew Peter, 367; leaves him a great fortune, 367.
Faneuil, Benjamin, father of Peter, association of, with Huguenots at Narragansett, 368.
Faneuil, Marie, sister of Peter, afterwards Phillips, 367.
Faneuil, Peter, extract from letter to Peter Baynton, 114; reference to this extract, 366; partnership with his uncle Andrew, 367; his arrival in Boston, 367; his birth in New Rochelle, N. Y., 367 n.; commercial relations with Peter Baynton, 368.
Faneuil Hall, Boston, 49 n.
Farley, Michael, 387.
Farmers’ Almanack, 317.
Farnandus, Francis, 186.
Federalists, their strong sentiments against French Revolution shown in Election sermons, 429, 430.
Fellows Orchard, grant of, to Harvard College, 204.
Felt, Rev. Joseph Barlow, Massachusetts Archives arranged by, 377; his Memoirs of American Discoveries, Colonization, Commerce, and Fishery mentioned, 38; statistical papers by, mentioned, 39; assumption by, regarding ordinance incorporating Beverly, 81; his History of Ipswich cited, 117 n.
Fetter Lane, London, 375.
Fifth-Day Lectures. See Thursday Lectures.
Fifth Monarchy men, 281.
Fifth of March observed until close of Revolution, 171.
Fifth of March Orations, remarks on, by Abner C. Goodell, Jr., 172–176.
Finances of the Province, referred to, in Election sermons, 415, 417, 418.
Finney, Joshua, testimony of, regarding conduct of slave Adam, 108.
Firewood, invention by John Clarke in 1652 for saving, 201 n.; character of invention unknown, 202 n.
Firmin, Rev. Giles, 441; assertion quoted as to virtuous condition of New England, 443; authenticity of assertion doubted, 443 n.
First Church of Beverly, of Boston, of Cambridge, of Salem. See names of these places.
Fish, Gabriel, 275 n.; arrested for speaking against his Majesty, 276.
Fisher, Deacon Jabez, of Wrentham, 387.
Fiske, John, 344 n., 348 n.; address at memorial service in honor of Francis Parkman quoted, 343; same mentioned, 348.
Fiske, Rev. Samuel, curious spelling in his Election sermon for 1731, 416.
Fitchburg Historical Society, 267; organization, etc., of, 61.
Fletcher, Lieut. Pemberton, Pembleton, or Pendleton, 288.
Flint, Mr. See Flynt, Rev. Henry.
Flint, Rev. James, reference to capture of Washington in his Election sermon for 1815, 431.
Florida, 344.
Flynt, Rev. Henry, of Braintree, Election sermon for 1657 wrongly ascribed to, 396 n.
Folger family, 367 n.
Foljambe, Rev. Samuel Wesley, biographical items relating to, 450.
Folsom, George, his Saco and Biddeford mentioned, 271 n.
Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder, his Annals of King’s Chapel cited, 419 n.
Ford, John, of Buckley Abbey, Suffolk, 278 n.
Ford, Mariam, marriage with John Winthrop, 278 n.
Foreign coin, made legal tender by Virginia Assembly, 218; by Massachusetts Colony at certain valuations, 220; additional charter needed to make it current in Massachusetts Colony, 222; Andros regulates value of, 224.
Foreigners, importation of, objected to, by Mayhew in 1754, 419.
Fort Halifax, 301.
Fort Hill, Boston, 324.
Fort Mary, Saco River, 301.
Fort William Henry, 325 n.
Foster, Rev. Edmund, in favor of War of 1812, 431.
Foster, Jedediah, 387.
Foster, John, printer, Hubbard’s Election sermon for 1676, printed by, 403.
Foster, Capt. and Hon. John, of Boston (d. 1710–11), 94, 366, 409.
Founders of New England, Preliminary conference called to form Society to commemorate, 2.
Fowler, William Chauncey, his Memorial of the Chaunceys cited, 418 n.
Fox, George, the Quaker, 136.
Foxcroft, Rev. Thomas, his Thursday Lecture for 23 Nov., 1727, attended as an Election sermon, 416.
Framingham, Mass., 416.
Framingham Historical and Natural History Society, incorporation, etc., of, 59.
France, 93, 301, 327, 356; medal of Society of the Cincinnati designed to commemorate friendship between officers of America and, 247, 248; declares war against England in 1702, 293; hatred of, shown by Federalist Election preachers, 429, 430.
Francis I., of France, 230.
Franconia, N. H., 324.
Frankfort-on-the-Main, troubles at, due to differences over Edward VI.’s Prayer-book, 229.
Franklin, Benjamin, antipathy towards Society of the Cincinnati, 252; committee appointed to receive from, fund for relief of sufferers by battle of Lexington, 387.
Free-Library Commission of Massachusetts, first report of, 23.
Free Schools, Shepard’s Election sermon of 1672 pleads for, 401.
Free Speech, over-indulgence in, by Election preachers, 430.
Freetown, Mass., 176.
French, Stephen, surety on Jane Kind’s bond, 366.
French, The, 419.
French and Indian War, 418; anxiety shown concerning, in Election sermons, 420.
French Archives, mention of engraving of Louisburg in, 270.
French Calvinist Psalter, 231, 234.
French claimants to Acadia and Cape Breton, 124.
French Revolution, horror of preachers in New England over, 429, 430.
French ships and goods, Commissioners for French goods appointed to arrest all, 1627, 159 n.
French tunes, in English psalmody, 232, 237.
Fresh Pond, Cambridge, 440.
Friends, Quakers so called in 1803, for first time in legislation of Massachusetts, 144; Society of. See Quakers.
Frink, Rev. Thomas, peculiarities of his Election sermon for 1758, 420.
Frontier Family, A., paper by E. M. Wheelwright on the Wheelwright family, 271–303.
Frost, Major Charles, appointed one of Council of the Province of Maine, 287 n.; commander of colonial forces in Maine, 1689, 288; despatch from, quoted, 289; killed by Indians, 291.
Frothingham, Rev. Nathaniel Langdon, his The Shade of the Past cited, 446 n.
Fugitive slave law, disobedience to, declared to be a duty in Wolcott’s Election sermon for 1853, 441.
Fuller, Hon. Melville Weston, LL.D., Chief Justice of the United States, xi, xix; elected an Honorary member, 75; his letter of acceptance, 145.
Funerals, excessive attending of, rebuked in Joseph Sewall’s Election sermon for 1724, 416.
Furber, Rev. Daniel Little, his Election sermon for 1881 passes through two editions, 438; mentioned, 450.
Gace, John, marries widow of John Denison, 116.
Gage, Gen. Thomas, copy of his commission to the Governorship of Massachusetts presented to this Society, 76; revokes writs for convening Assembly at Salem in October, 1774, 163; Gad Hitchcock preaches Election sermon in 1774 before, 425; censures Langdon’s sermon at Watertown, 1775, 426.
Gallatin, Albert, his Synopsis of the Indian Tribes of North America mentioned, 36.
Gallop, Samuel, 88; Sheriff of Bristol County, 94 n.; witness to John Saffin’s instrument emancipating his slave Adam, 107.
Gally, John, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Gaming in high life inveighed against in 1773, 425.
Garden Street, Cambridge, 319.
Gardner, Henry, of Stowe, Treasurer of Massachusetts Bay, resolution of Bristol Convention of 1775, to pay money to, 255, 256.
Gardner, Henry Joseph, Governor of Massachusetts, 435.
Garrett, John, 360.
Gay, Frederick Lewis, xiii, xviii; elected a Resident member, 75; presents original commission of Charles de la Tour as Lieutenant-General of Acadia, 356; thanked by Society, 357.
General Commandery of the Naval Legion, First Triennial Congress of, 49 n.
General Courts of the New England Confederacy, 127.
Geneva, Switzerland, 229; completion of French Calvinist Psalter in, 231; editions of Sternhold and Hopkins in, 232.
Genevan Psalter, editions cited, 232, 234.
George I., King of England, 369 n.
George III., King of England, allegiance to, yielded by Bristol Convention of 1774, 178; character of, extolled in Stevens’s Election sermon for 1761, 420; loyalty to, expressed in Parsons’s Election sermon for 1772, 424.
George, Lydia, wife of John George, and daughter of Rev. Samuel Lee, sister-in-law of John Saffin, 105.
George, Lake, 325.
Georgetown College, Ky., 450.
Georgia, 249.
Gérard de Rayneval, Conrad Alexandre, medal of Society of the Cincinnati to be given to, 248.
Gerard, Dorothy (Radcliffe), 160 n., 354.
Gerard, Frances, afterwards Radcliffe, 354.
Gerard, Sir Gilbert, 160 n., 352, 354.
Gerard, William, of Gray’s Inn, 354.
Gerard, William, of Harrow-on-the-Hill, 354.
Germany, origin of Antinomianism in, 122; Lutherans in, have little sympathy with English Reformation, 220.
Gerrard. See Gerard.
Gerrish, Joseph, 387.
Gerrish, Samuel, his book-shop, 405.
Gibson, James, his Journal of the late Siege at Cape Breton cited, 269 n.
Giffard, John, 196.
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 277; Elizabeth’s grant to, 186.
Gilbert, Capt. Raleigh, 277.
Glass Works, monopoly granted to undertakers of, 195.
Glassenbury tune, 235.
Gloucester, England, See of, John Hooper nominated to, 229.
Gloucester, Mass., 302 n.; headquarters of Cape Ann Historical Society, 61.
Godfrey, Edward, of Agamenticus, 278, 285; Governor of Province of Maine, 282; presses Gorges claim, 284.
Goff Memorial building, Rehoboth, Mass., 56.
Goffe, Col. William, the regicide, 398.
Goldsmith, Oliver, 316.
Goodale, George Lincoln, LL.D., xix; elected Resident member, 157.
Goodell, Abner Cheney, Jr., A.M., x, xi, xii, xiii, xviii, 171, 172, 374, 375; elected Resident member, 13; support afforded to, as editor of Province Laws, by Massachusetts Historical Society, 28; delivers address at celebration of Bi-centennial anniversary of the Salem Witchcraft, at Danvers, 62; presented to this Society by President, 75; one of Commissioners on the publication of the Acts and Resolves of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, 75 n.; gives full set of copies of Commissions and Instructions of Royal Governors of Massachusetts Bay and of Commissions of the Lieutenant-Governors and Secretaries of the Province, 76; this gift and permission to use illustrations mentioned, 148, 149; facts obtained by, in England concerning these documents, 374, 375; gives photo-lithographic copies of Petition from inhabitants of Bass River, 76; paper on Beverly and settlement at Bass River, with map, 77; gives particulars of controversy between Samuel Sewall and Judge John Saffin, 84; paper on John Saffin and his slave Adam, 85–112; same cited, 439 n.; objects to offering of thanks to members for papers and addresses, 113; of Nominating committee, 115; his Biographical Sketch of Thomas Maule, cited, 121 n.; his remarks on Antinomian controversy, 132–140; the same mentioned, 121 n., and cited, 273 n.; note by, on the Quakers as propagandists of religious liberty in Massachusetts, 140–145; remarks on original minutes of Bristol Convention, September, 1774, 163–171; his opinion of violent proceedings attending and preceding Revolution, especially of “Boston Massacre,” 167–171; rejoinder to E. G. Porter as to the true purpose of Fifth of March Orations, 172–174; character and person of Crispus Attucks, 174; condemns lawless spirit of Boston Tea Party and other outbreaks, 174, 175; value of new material furnished by, regarding early government of Harvard College, 209 n.; calls attention to legal recognition by Crown of the College as a corporation, 210 n.; on treatment of Province Laws passed during Revolutionary period, 212 n.; remarks upon A. McF. Davis’s paper on Colonial corporations, 214, 215; identifies Washington’s handwriting in draught of plan for establishing Society of the Cincinnati, 238; concludes that draught was written by Samuel Shaw, viii, viii*; critical remarks upon document, 249–251, and on spirit of opposition to that Institution, 252–254; remarks on original minutes of Bristol Convention, 4, 5 January, 1775, 256, 257; opinion on supposed portrait of John Higginson, 281; communications regarding burial-place of John Saffin and family of John Kind, 358–366; speaks at Annual dinner, 385.
Goodell, Robert, early settler in Salem on Ipswich River in what is now Peabody, 133.
Goodwin, William Watson, D.C.L., xi, xiii, xvii, xviii, 159 n., 352; elected Resident member, 13; president of Boston Branch of Archeological Institute of America, 52; moves thanks of Society to Mr. Goodell, 113; occupies chair in absence of President, 115, 351; elected Vice-President, 155, 385; speaks at first Annual dinner, 156; remarks on Lady Mowlson Scholarship, 158–162.
Gookin, —, 325.
Gookin, Gen. Daniel, his Historical Collections of the Indians mentioned, 29; his Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians of New England mentioned, 36.
Gordon, Rev. William, his History of the Revolution quoted, 422; preaches sermon before House of Representatives, 19 July, 1775, 425; holds that Colonists might have separated peacefully, 426; this sermon printed at Watertown, 426 n.; preaches before General Court, 14 July, 1777, 426; opposed to slavery, 440.
Gore, Samuel, house painter, of Boston, 311.
Gore Hall, Harvard College, Louisburg cross on, 269 and note, 270.
Gorgeana, York, incorporated as, 189; joins a Combination against government by Bay Colony, 282.
Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 277; his Briefe Narrative mentioned, 31; grants to, 188; given all privileges of Bishop of Durham, 226; Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his Province of Maine cited, 227 n.; death of, 282; his rights confirmed, 287; grant from, to John Wheelwright and his associates, 284; claim of, confirmed by a committee of Parliament, 284; appoints council of twelve to govern Province, 284; claim of, supported by Charles II., 285; certain members of his party petition General Court to be taken under its government, 286.
Gorges, Ferdinando, grandson of Sir Ferdinando, sells his rights in Province of Maine to Bay Colony, 287.
Gorges, Robert, son of Sir Ferdinando, 277.
Gorges, Thomas, nephew of Sir Ferdinando, 276, 277.
Gorges, William, nephew of Sir Ferdinando, 277.
Gorges family, colonists sent over by the, 278; contest with Bay Colony for jurisdiction in Maine, 283.
Gorges Pedigree, mentioned, 277 n.
Gorges Society Publications, cited, 277 n.
Gosnold, Bartholomew, his Letter mentioned, 31.
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, LL.D., x, xi, xii, xiv, xvii, xviii, 3, 350; signs call for Preliminary conference to form this Society, 1; present at conference, 2; of Committee on Corporate Seal, 3; called to chair at meeting for organization, 4; elected President, 11, 155, 385; a founder of this Society, 12; presides at meetings of Society, 13, 16, 17, 72, 146, 157, 182, 216, 265, 371, 386; address at inaugural meeting, 17; absent from stated meeting, 115, 351; address of welcome at first Annual meeting of Society, 146; presides at Annual dinner, 156, 385; states Society’s needs of a fire-proof building, cabinet and library accommodations, 184; remarks on Panorama of Athens at Harvard College, 270 and note; friendship with Francis Parkman, 318; dinner given to, on his return from South America, 318; attainments in mathematics, 318; end of his “chumship” with Parkman, 319. See also Colonial Society: President.
Government, civil, not determined by the Word of God, in opinion of Samuel Willard, 405; divine theory of, defended by A. H. Vinton, 433; human origin of, declared in Neale’s Election sermon for 1852, 434.
Governors, Provincial, Royal Commissions to. See Royal Commissions.
Graduates of colleges who have preached Election sermons, 449.
Gragg family, 40 n.
Granary Burying-Ground, Boston, 358.
Grandville College, Ohio, 450.
Grants, to adventurers, precedents in, 185–188; contemporaneous, 188, 189; review of powers delegated in, 189.
Grass, exclusive right granted in 1655 to make engine for more speedy cutting of, 201 n.
Grasse-Tilly, François Joseph Paul, Comte de, medal of Society of the Cincinnati to be given to, 248.
Gray, Harrison, Treasurer of Province of Massachusetts, resolve of Bristol Convention of 1775 not to pay money to, 255, 256.
Gray, Horace, on incorporation of towns in Massachusetts colony, 193, 194; cited, 192 n., 193 n., 195 n.
Great Barrington, Mass., 51.
Great Britain, 239, 244, 369 n.; Colonial policy of, in accord with results achieved by American Revolution, 170; minutes of Bristol Convention of 1774 deprecate breach between Colonies and, 177; charters to business corporations in, 213; stock-jobbing in, restrained by Act of Parliament, 213. See also Council of State; Public Record Office; Statutes at Large; Parliament; Privy Council.
Great Falls, N. H., grant given to build saw-mill at, 292.
Green, Charles Montraville, M.D., xviii; elected Resident member, 20.
Green, Samuel, imprint of, 130 n.
Green, Samuel Abbott, 271 n.; his Account of the Collections of the American Statistical Association mentioned, 39; owns rare Election sermon for 1699, 447; his List of Early American Imprints referred to, 450 and note.
Green, Samuel Swett, A.M., xviii; his History of Worcester County mentioned, 38; elected Resident member, 115.
Green Dragon Tavern, Boston, 412, 413.
Green Street, Boston, 311, 313.
Greene, Rev. Richard Gleason, defends the Election sermon as reverent public act, 444; biographical item relating to, 450.
Greenfield, Mass., 328.
Greenleaf, Benjamin, 387.
Greenough, Capt. William, of Boston (d. 1693), 403.
Gregg family, 40 n.
Gregg Genealogy Company, 40 n.
Greig family, 40 n.
Griffin, Appleton Prentiss Clark, a Resident member, xix.
Griffin, John, testimony regarding the conduct of Saffin’s slave Adam, at Castle Island, 112.
Grinnell, Rev. Charles Edward, H. H. Edes’s List of Preachers in Election sermon by, for 1871, 390, 436, 449, 450.
Grocers’ Company in London, Court of Assistants of, in 1614, 159.
Groton Historical Society, organization of, 266, 267 n.
Grouer, John, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Grove, Sir George, his Encyclopædia of Music cited, 228.
Guernsey, 367 n.
Guinea, importation of negroes from, 85 n., 86 n.
Gunsalus, John, licensed as discoverer, 186.
HACKETT, Frank W., his memoir of Samuel Maverick mentioned, 67.
Hadley, Mass., regicides at Rev. John Russell’s house in, 398.
Haines, Richards, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Hale, Rev. Edward Everett, uses tradition of Palatine Light for story, 32; his edition of Original documents … illustrating Raleigh’s First American Colony mentioned, 36; bureaucracy censured by, 435.
Hale, Hon. George Silsbee, A.M., xviii, 321, 326; elected Resident member, 13; his Address on Francis Parkman cited, 326 n.; one of Parkman’s pall-bearers, 348; speaks at Annual dinner, 385.
Hale, Rev. John, becomes a teacher at Bass River settlement, 78; supposed to have made preliminary entry in Beverly church records, 78; installed at Beverly, 84; asked by General Court to prepare for press copy of his Election sermon for 1684, 405, 451; no copy known, 405, 406, 451.
Hales, John Groves, Maps of the Street Lines of Boston cited, 409 n.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 302, 310.
Hall, Capt. Burgess, of Stratfield, Conn., son of Isaac Hall, Jr., 114.
Hall, Caroline, afterwards Parkman, 304, 305.
Hall, Francis, of New Haven, Fairfield and Stratford, son of Gilbert Hall, 114 n.
Hall, Gilbert, emigrant from Kent, England, 114 n.
Hall, Isaac, Jr., of Redding, Conn., 114 n.
Hall, Joanna Cotton (Brooks), 305.
Hall, Nathaniel, of Medford, 305, 311.
Halles, possibly another spelling of the name of Rev. John Hale, 78.
Hallowell family, 367 n.
Halsey’s wharf, Boston, 364 and note.
Hamilton, Rev. Benjamin Franklin, 450.
Hammond, Capt. Johnson, presents to Massachusetts Council results of his Indian expedition, 299 n.; his bounty, 299 n.
Hammond, Jonathan, 289; urges Council to assist Wells, 290.
Hammond, Laurence, of Charlestown, 364 n.
Hammond, Thomas, 161 n.
Hampden, John, 352.
Hampden County Convention, 1774, 165.
Hampshire Gentry, 277.
Hampton, N. H., 275, 298 n.; settlement at, planted by men of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 276; families of Exeter Colony settle at, 280.
Hancock, John, 14, 427; chosen Chairman of Provincial Congress at Salem, and President at Concord, in 1774, 164; early account-books of Harvard College found in his stable loft, 206.
Hancock, frigate, 310.
Hankredge, Sarah, afterwards Cotton, 305.
Hanover, N. J., 369 n.
Hanover Street, Boston, 87 n., 308, 409 n.
Hanserd Knollys Society, 272 n.
Hargrave Stubbs, Cheshire, England, 353.
Harleian Society’s Visitations of Essex cited, 277 n., 287 n.; Visitations of Devonshire cited, 277 n.; Visitations of Somersetshire cited, 277 n.; Visitations of Nottinghamshire cited, 278 n.
Harper’s Magazine, articles by Francis Parkman in, 325, 327.
Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, England, 160 n.
Hart, Albert Bushnell, 59.
Hartford, Conn., 200 n.
Harvard, Rev. John, estate of, 203.
Harvard, Mass., organization of Historical Society in, 44 n.
Harvard College, 84, 258, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 315, 318, 341, 354, 379, 431, 433, 450; Corporation re-establishes Lady Mowlson Scholarship, 20, 21; its relations to First Church in Cambridge, 60; Historical Society at, 68; services of F. L. Ames as member of corporation of, 150; fac-simile of Lady Mowlson’s deed of gift, frontispiece; paper by W. W. Goodwin on Lady Mowlson Scholarship, 158–162; Sewall scholarship, 161; study of constitutional law at, 169; Corporation of, 184 n.; charter petitioned for, 198; defined, 198, 199; Overseers not incorporated according to Act of 1642, 199; Corporation, 203–210; language of Act of establishment in 1636, 203; probable site of first college building, 203, 204; early management of bequests, 204; college charter thought to have been vacated in 1684, 205; citation from college account-books in 1686, 1687, 205, 206, — fac-similes of two pages of same, opposite 205, 206; recovery of account-books found in Hancock’s stable, 206 n.; attempts to secure charter, 1692–1707, 207–209; Andros demands right of supervision of finances of, 210 and note, — remarks of A. C. Goodell, Jr., on importance of this assumption, 214; charter of, not repealed by vacation of colony charter, 214; existed during Colonial and Provincial period unchanged, 215; interest felt by F. L. Ames in, 261, 263; gift of Samuel Parkman to, for support of Theological professor, 308; gift of Rev. Francis Parkman for same purpose, 308; division of classes on entering (1840), 318; custom of Class Secretary of 1844, 327; Parkman’s bequest to, 331; gift of class of 1844 to, 332; steward’s account-books, 379; much in minds of early preachers, 411, 415; Stoddard’s comment on students in Election sermon for 1703, 411; Thomas Hollis’s gifts to, 1723, 415; complimentary allusion to, in 1732, 416; poverty of, alluded to in 1754, 419, 420; General Court prorogued to meet at, in November, 1752, 419 n.; Election preachers among graduates, 449. See also Lady Mowlson Scholarship.
— Chit Chat Club, 321.
— Dane Law School, 329.
— Deturs, 318.
— Divinity Hall, 329.
— Fellows Orchard, 204.
Harvard College (continued), First Gymnasium, 326.
— Gore Hall: the Library, 236; Bibliographical Contributions cited, 32, 33 n., 48 n., 50 n., 53 n., 56 n., 66 n., 67 n.; Bulletin cited, 121 n., 269 n.; gift of books from Sir Kenelme Digby to, 188 n.; draught of original constitution of Society of the Cincinnati in, 244 n.; gifts to, contemplated by F. L. Ames, 263; Louisburg Cross on, 269 and note, 270.
— Hasty Pudding Club, 321.
— Holworthy Hall, 318, 332, 334, 335.
— Institute of 1770, 320, 321.
— Lemonade Club, 321.
— Massachusetts Hall, 319.
— Memorial Hall, 332.
— P. T. Δ., 321.
See also Cambridge.
Harvard Law Review quoted, 191 n.
Harvard Natural History Society, 321.
Harvard Square, Cambridge, 270.
Harvey, Elizabeth (Radcliffe), 160 n.
Harvey, James, 354.
Haskins, David Greene, Jr., 67.
Hassam, John Tyler, 352.
Hassanamisco, now Sutton, Mass., 369.
Hasty Pudding Club, 321.
Hatfield, Mass., 415.
Hathorne, Judge John, 100.
Hathorne, Capt. William, one of embassy sent to treat with D’Aunay, 124.
Haven, Mrs. Abner, her coffee-shop, 330.
Haven, Rev. Jason, his Election sermon for 1769, 421.
Haven, Samuel Foster, LL.D., his Historical Sketch of Efforts … to delineate and decipher the Inscriptions on Dighton Rock mentioned, 37; his Prehistoric American Occupation and Civilization mentioned, 37.
Haven, Samuel Foster, M.D., his List in Thomas’s History of Printing in America quoted, 403.
Haverhill, Mass., 305.
Hawkins, Benjamin, 254 n.
Hawley, Major Joseph, 387.
Hawthorne. See Hathorne.
Hazard, Thomas, of Boston Neck, R. I., 162 n.
Hazard, Ebenezer, his State Papers cited, 185 n., 186 n., 187 n., 188 n., 189 n.
Head, Henry, expelled from General Court, 140 n.; fined for seditious riot, 141.
Hearne, Joseph, appointed counsel for slave Adam, 93; joins Thomas Newton in petitioning the Court to protect Adam, 95.
Heath, Gen. William, viii*, 249.
Heath Papers mentioned, 31.
Heights of Abraham, Quebec, 341.
Hell, fears expressed in 1732, that it is not eternal, 416; a more frequent preaching up of, advised in 1737, 417.
Helme, Christopher, of Exeter, N. H., 275 n.
Hemenway, Augustus, A.B., xviii; elected Resident member, 13; of committee on Treasurer’s accounts, 351.
Hemenway, Mrs. Mary, bears expense of work done by Old South Historical Society, 62.
Hemmenway, Rev. Moses, Resolves of General Court respecting possibility of his declining to preach Election sermon for 1784, 428 and note; denounces slavery, 440.
Henley, Rev. John (Orator Henley), 86 n.
Hennepin, Louis, his Account of the discovery of the River Mississippi mentioned, 36.
Henry VII., King of England, grant to Cabot in 1496, 186.
Henry VII., King of England, 230; letter to, from Cranmer quoted, 231.
Heraldic Journal, cited, 132 n., 275 n.; mentioned, 133.
Heralds College, 275 n., 302 n., 352.
Herreck, Zackery, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Herrick, Henry, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Hertfordshire, England, 116, 117, 277.
Hertfordshire Families, Pedigrees of, cited, 354.
Hessians in fight at Oriskany, 70.
Heylin, Rev. Peter, quoted, 233.
Hibbins, William, 158.
Hierarchy, English, advance upon Congregationalism in America, 418; jealousy in New England against, 422.
Higginson, Rev. Francis, 42 n.
Higginson, Rev. John, 281 n., 410, 413; his Election sermon of 1663, first actually printed, 393, 397; quoted, 398; copies presented by Sewall, 409; reprinting of, suggested by Thomas Prince, 417; Cotton Mather’s sermon on, quoted, 393, 397.
Higginson, Col. Thomas Wentworth, uses tradition of Palatine Light subject for poem, 32.
Higher Law, 441.
Hill, Hamilton Andrews, his Boston’s Trade and Commerce for forty years, 1844–84, mentioned, 38.
Hill, Rev. James Langdon, 437, 449, 450.
Hill, John, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Hill, Valentine, 196, 197, 199 n.
Hill, Zabulon, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Hill v. Boston, cited, 192 n., 193 n., 195 n.
Hills, Joseph, on commission, in 1654, to revise Massachusetts Colony laws, 126 n.
Hilton, Gustavus Arthur, LL.B., ix, xi, xii, xviii, 1, 3, 163, 165, 249; attended Preliminary conference, 2; meeting of signers of Articles of association of this Society at his office, 4; a founder of this Society, 12; first stated meeting at his office, 13; makes first gift to this Society, 14; thanked by Society, 15; special meeting at his office, 16; gives original minutes of Bristol Conventions of September, 1774, and January, 1775, from papers of General Cobb, 162, 163; thanked for this gift, 181; text of these documents, 176–181, 255, 256; gives draught, in handwriting of Washington, of Articles of association of Society of the Cincinnati, 238; searches for missing portion of this draught, 251; thanked for this gift, 254.
Hinckley Papers, mentioned, 31.
Historical documents, importance of printing in full, 113.
Historical Hall, Taunton, 43.
Historical Magazine, cited, 393 n., 447 n.
Historical manuscripts, large collection in possession of Massachusetts Historical Society, 32.
Historical, Natural History, and Library Society of South Natick, 267, 268; incorporation, etc., 46.
Historical Societies, definition of, 22; general scope of these organizations in Massachusetts, 23, 24; full information desired concerning, 149; emendations of list of, published by American Historical Association in 1894, 266–268.
Historical Societies and organizations having alleged purposes of a similar nature in Massachusetts; namely:
— American Antiquarian Society, 33.
— American Congregational Association, 65.
— American Statistical Association, 38.
— Anchor Club, Lynn, 68 n.
— Archaeological Institute of America, Massachusetts Branch, Boston, 52.
— Backus Historical Society, 42.
— Bedford Historical Society, 63 n.
— Berkshire Athenæum, 67.
— Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society, Pittsfield, 50.
— Beverly Historical Society, 60.
— Boston Numismatic Society, 67.
— Bostonian Society, 53.
— Bunker Hill Monument Association, Charlestown, 65.
— Canton Historical Society, 45.
— Cape Ann Historical Society, Gloucester, 61.
— Cape Cod Historical Society, Yarmouth, 54.
— Chelsea Veteran Firemen’s Association, 68 n.
— Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 63.
— Concord Antiquarian Society, 57.
— Congregational Library Association, 65, 66.
— Connecticut Valley Historical Society, 49.
— Danvers Historical Society, 61.
— Daughters of the Revolution, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 266.
— Dedham Historical Society, 43.
— Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society, 43.
— Dorchester Historical Society, 60.
— Essex Institute, Salem, 40.
— Fitchburg Historical Society, 61.
— Framingham Historical and Natural History Society, 59.
— Groton Historical Society, 266.
— Historical, Natural History, and Library Society of South Natick, 46.
— Historical Society, Boston. See Massachusetts Historical Society.
— Historical Society of Old Newbury, 51.
— Historical Society of the New England Conference, 53 n.
— Historical Society of Watertown, 58.
— Hyde Park Historical Society, 58.
Historical Societies and organizations (continued): —
— Lexington Historical Society, 56.
— Lynn Natural History Society, 68.
— Malden Historical Society, 57.
— Manchester Historical Society, 57.
— Massachusetts Historical Society, 24.
— Massachusetts Society. See Colonial Society.
— Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames of America, 63 n.
— Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati, 48 n.
— Medfield Historical Society, 60.
— Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, 47.
— Naval Legion of the United States, 49 n., 68.
— New England Historic Genearlogical Society, 39.
— New England Methodist Historical Society, 53.
— Oak Tree Association, Charlemont, 67.
— Old Colony Historical Society, Taunton, 43.
— Old Residents’ Historical Society of Lowell, 44.
— Old South Historical Society, 62.
— Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, 45.
— Prince Society, 66.
— Quincy Historical Society, 182, 183.
— Rehoboth Antiquarian Society, 56.
— Roxbury Military Historical Society, 48 n.
— Rumford Historical Association, Woburn, 51.
— Shepard Historical Society, Cambridge, 59.
— Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 63 n.
— Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 49 n.
— Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 157, 158 n.
— Society of the War of 1812 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 386.
— Universalist Historical Society, Tufts College, 49.
— Wakefield Historical Society, 63 n.
— Webster Historical Society, 55 n.
— Westborough Historical Society, 59.
— Weymouth Historical Society, 52.
— Winchester Historical and Genealogical Society, 55.
— Worcester County Historical Society, 37 n.
— Worcester Society of Antiquity, 46.
Historical Society, Boston, first name of the Massachusetts Historical Society, which see.
Historical Society, Rehoboth, 56 n.
Historical Society, South Natick, 46 n.
Historical Society of Old Newbury, its name, collections, and publications, 51; meetings, 52.
Historical Society of the New England Conference, organization and discontinuance of, 53 n.
Historical Society of Watertown, incorporation, etc., 58.
Historical Work in Massachusetts, paper on, by A. McF. Davis, 21–71; remarks on, by H. E. Woods, 157.
History, American, one object of Massachusetts Historical Society to multiply copies of rare books on, 30; spirit in which it should be written, 69, 70, 71.
Hitchcock, Abby Little (afterwards Tyler), 425.
Hitchcock, Rev. Edward, 434.
Hitchcock, Rev. Gad, in 1774 preaches for the last time Election sermon before His Majesty’s Council, 425; reprint of this sermon in 1885, 425.
Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood, address by, before Concord Lyceum, 57 n.
Hoar, Rev. Leonard, President of Harvard College, 202.
Hoare, William, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Hobart, Rev. Jeremiah, son of Rev. Peter Hobart, of Hingham, becomes teacher at Bass Rock settlement, 78.
Hobart, Rev. Joshua, son of Rev. Peter Hobart, of Hingham, 78.
Hobart, Rev. Peter, of Hingham, 78.
Holland, 117, 236, 237; tunes brought by Pilgrims from, 228.
Hollis, Thomas, 415.
Hollis-Street Church, several Election sermons preached in, 445.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 349.
Holten, Dr. Samuel, of Danvers, 387.
Holworthy Hall, Harvard College, 318, 332, 334, 335.
Holy Spirit, inward movement of, 136; immanence of, 137.
Holyoke, Rev. Edward, President of Harvard College, does not approve tone of Election sermons, 417.
Homans, John, 2d, M.D., elected Resident member, 265.
Homer, 315.
Hood, George, his History of Music in New England, 228.
Hooke, Francis, appointed one of Council of Province of Maine, 287 n.
Hooker, Rev. Thomas, 390.
Hooper, Edward William, LL.B., xix; elected Resident member, 157; of committee on Treasurer’s accounts, 351.
Hooper, Helen Angier (Ames), 264.
Hooper, John, Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester, the first Puritan, 229; a victim of Bloody Mary, 229.
Hooper, Rev. Joseph, his Protestant Episcopal Church in Berkshire mentioned, 50.
Hooper, Robert Chamblet, 264.
Hooper family, 367 n.
Hopkins, Albert, 50.
Hopkins, Edward, Governor of Connecticut, 318.
Hopkins, John, his supplement to Sternhold’s Psalms, 231. See also Sternhold and Hopkins.
Horse-trading, inveighed against, in 1741, 418.
Horticulture, fondness for, shown by Frederick L. Ames, 261.
Hoskall, Roger, signs petition to General Court, 81.
House Journals (Massachusetts), their loss mentioned, 364.
Howard, Rev. Simeon, speaks against corrupt morals in 1780, 427.
Howe, Archibald Murray, A.M., xiii, xix; elected Resident member, 157; presents emendations to list of Historical Societies by American Historical Association, 266.
Hubbard, Rev. William, his History of New England mentioned, 29, 30; sneers of Savage at, 29 n.; praised by Charles Deane, 29 n.; his History of the Indian Wars in New England quoted, 129; publishes treatise by Daniel Denison in Funeral sermon on him, 130 and note; same sermon quoted, 131; quoted on Anne Hutchinson, 137 and note; bibliographical interest connected with his Election sermon for 1676, 403.
Hudson, John Elbridge, LL.B., a Resident member, xix.
Hudson, William, 199 n.
Hughes, John, Archbishop, toast to, 435.
Huguenot Memorial Society, Oxford, incorporation and aim of, 54 n.
Huguenots, 368.
Hull, John, his Diaries mentioned, 36; estate on Mill Creek conveyed to, by John Saffin, 87 n.; memorandum taken from his Character Book, 395 n., 396 n.
Hull Street, Boston, 358, 363.
Humberston, Lincolnshire, 272 n.
Hunt, William Morris, 320, 327, 342.
Huntington, Rt. Rev. Frederick Dan, his Election sermon for 1858 quoted, 444.
Hutchinson, Mrs. Anne (Marbury), the Antinomian, wife of William, 273, 275 and note, 279, 281; condemned in 1637, 121; summary of her character, charges against, and sentence upon, 122; her offence in minds of contemporaries defined, 133; present meaninglessness of charge of heresy against, 134; teachings of, similar to those of Tauler, 136; her sudden perception of Divine voice, 136; her heresy now accepted, 137; her sweetness of character, 137 and note; more than a match for clergy, 138; injustice of fathers of New England toward, 140.
Hutchinson, Eliakim, chosen representative for Wells, Maine, 1742, 301.
Hutchinson, Mary, second wife of Rev. John Wheelwright, 273, 275 n., 280.
Hutchinson, Samuel, 275 and note; probable removal to Dover, N. H., 279.
Hutchinson, Mrs. Susanna, mother-in-law of Rev. John Wheelwright, 273.
Hutchinson, Susanna (Junior), wife of Augustine Storre, 275 n.
Hutchinson, Thomas, Governor of Massachusetts, 423; his History of Massachusetts Bay cited, 122 n., 280 n.; quoted, 390 and note, 407, 441, 442; his Collection of Original Papers cited, 131 n., 221 n.; yields to demand for removal of regular forces, 173; on Cromwell’s courtesy towards John Wheelwright, 281; on Cotton’s Election sermon for 1634, 390; letter of Ezra Stiles to, quoted, 392.
Hutchinson, William, 275 n.
Hutchinson family, 367 n.; not admitted in Heralds College as an arms-bearing family, 275 n.
Hutchinson Papers mentioned, 66; cited, 86 n.
Hyde Park Historical Society, incorporation, etc., 58.
Ill Newes from New England. See Clark, John.
Inches, John Chester, xi, xviii; signs call for Preliminary conference, 1; present at Preliminary conference, 2; moves appointment of committee to prepare draught of by-laws, 2; present at meeting for Organization, 4; elected Councillor, 11; a founder of this Society, 12; vote of thanks to, for his services as member of Council, 156.
Incorporation, laws regarding certificate of, in Massachusetts, 380. See also Corporations.
Independents, 236.
Indian Bible, 309. See also Eliot, John.
Indians of America, 125; stories of those in fight at Oriskany, 70; compact made with chief of, about Newtown, 119; path of, from Roxbury to Ipswich, 121; rumors in 1643 of conspiracy among, 123; monopoly of trade with, granted to company of adventurers in 1643–44, 196; traffic with, in Exeter, N. H., 276; attack on Saco, 1689, 288; methods of attack, 296; as enlisted men in Massachusetts Bay Colony, 299 n.; inroads of, upon Huguenot settlements in 1696, 368; grants by, of Sutton lands, 369, 370; account of, in Noyes’s Election sermon for 1698, 410; little concerning, in earlier Election sermons, 414; unfeeling reference to, in Shepard’s Election sermon for 1715, 414; wish for conversion of, in Mayhew’s Election sermon for 1754, 419; sins among, 442; drunkenness of, 443. See also Dakotah, Nipmug, Sagamore Snake Indians.
Inquisition, 69.
Intemperance, as treated in Election sermons, 441–444.
Inventions, patents granted for, in Colony, 201 n., 202 n.
Iowa College, an Election preacher a graduate of, 449, 450.
Ipswich, England, 133.
Ipswich, Mass., 79, 129, 236, 273, 279, 412; sends messengers to installation at Beverly, 84; Wood’s description of, quoted, 120; becomes home of Daniel Denison, 121; services of Denison to, 121; sums subscribed in, to pay Denison for military services, 123; County Court at, 124; Grammar School, 124; feoffees of Grammar School incorporated, 1756, 211, — again incorporated, 1772, 212; burning of Denison’s house in, 127; Denison’s grave in, 132; Burying Ground in, 133; Town Hill, 133.
Ipswich Historical Society, 268; has neither charter nor constitution, 60 n.
Ireland, 93, 450; Cromwell’s scheme for colonizing, with New England settlers, 124, 125.
Irenicon, or a Salve for New England’s Sore, by Daniel Denison, quoted, 130 and note.
Irish, plan to exclude, from settling in New England, except such as are liked, 125; proposed colony of, in New England, 409.
Iron works, monopoly granted to undertakers of, in 1643–44, 196; suit of, 196 and note, 197 n.; conveyance to, 199 n.; estate of, 200 n.
Italy, 327.
Jackson, Edmond, shoemaker in Boston, 197.
Jackson, Gen. Henry, friendship for Gen. David Cobb and Madame Swan, 251; last will, 251 n.
Jackson, Rev. Joseph, declines to preach Election sermon for 1769, 421.
Jackson, Richard, decision as to power of granting patents of incorporation under Provincial charter, 212 n.
Jackson, Rev. Samuel Cram, narrowly escapes losing vote of thanks for his Election sermon for 1843, 432; Dr. Park quoted on excitement caused by this sermon, 432.
Jackson family, 367 n.
Jamaica Plain, Mass., 312, 314, 344, 347.
Jamaica Pond, 344.
James I., King of England, his first charter of Virginia, 186; his second and third charter of Virginia, 187; his Nova Scotia grant, 187; grants charter to Bermuda Company, 218.
James II., King of England, 374, 422.
Jamestown Colony, Va., 277.
Jarvis, John, of Boston, 305.
Jarvis, Rebecca (Parkman), 305.
Jefferds, Rev. Samuel, accepts call to Wells, 300; marries daughter of Col. John Wheelwright, 300.
Jefferds, Simon, serves under Wolfe in his Canadian campaign, 301.
Jefferson, Thomas, 254 n.; suggests amendment to Articles of association of Society of the Cincinnati, 253.
Jencks, or Jenkes, Joseph, Sr., grantee in 1646 exclusive use of new inventions, 201 n.; granted in 1655, exclusive right to make engine for cutting of grass, 201 n.
Jenkes. See Jencks.
Jenkins, Richard, witness to Thomas Shepherd’s charges against the slave Adam, 91, 108.
Jenks, Rev. William, delivers eloquent Election sermon for 1820, 431.
Jermyn de Norff, Johis, 353.
Jermyn de Norff, Maria (Moulston), 353.
Jersey, 367 n.
Jerusalem, 131.
Jocelyn, Henry, early colonist of Blackpoint, Maine, 277; appointed one of a council to govern Province, 284: appointed one of twelve magistrates to govern Province of Maine, 285.
Johnson, Capt. Edward, his Wonder-Working Providence (Poole’s edition) mentioned, 31; cited, 119 n., 123 n.; quoted, 119 n., 123, 391, 395.
Johnson, Hon. Edward Francis LL.B., xix; elected Resident member, 157.
Johnson, Rev. Francis, of London and Holland, 236, 237.
Johnson, Rev. Lorenzo Dow, 269 n.
Johnson, Michael, name of Crispus Attucks an alias for, 174.
Johnson, Samuel, xviii; elected Resident member, 13.
Johonnot family, 367 n.
Josselyn, John, his New England’s Rarities discovered, mentioned, 36 his Two Voyages to New England mentioned, 31; quoted, 277 n.
Josselyn pedigree mentioned, 277 n.
Joy Street, Boston, 42 n.
Judiciary, curb of, upon dangers of unconstitutional legislation, 169, 170.
Justification, Calvin’s doctrine of, 135.
Kay, T. Belcher, Superintendent of first gymnasium at Harvard College, 326.
Keane, Capt. Robert. See Keayne, Capt. Robert.
Keayne, Capt. Robert, 445; deputy for undertakers of Iron works, 196; his will cited, 200 n.; his share in “sow-business” in 1642, 392, 393.
Keene, N. H., 326.
Keith, Herbert Fisher, his Early Roads and Settlements of Berkshire mentioned, 50.
Kempis, Thomas à. See Thomas à Kempis.
Kendal, Rev. Samuel, doubts doctrine of equality in his Election sermon for 1804, 429.
Kendrick, Annia (Moulston), 353.
Kendrick, Hugo, 353.
Kennebunk, Me., 300.
Kent, Joseph, foreman of jury in case of John Saffin v. Adam, 111.
Kent, England, 114 n., 278 and note.
Kentish tune, 235.
Kind, Arthur, 363.
Kind, Jane, widow of Arthur Kind, 363, 365, 366; Private act granted on her petition, vesting real estate in her, 364.
Kind, John, 358, 364, 365; family of, 358; his gravestone, 363.
Kind, Rachel, wife of John Kind, 363 n., 365.
King Philip’s War, 209 n., 288; instructions to Commander-in-Chief Denison on conduct of, quoted, 128; operations toward eastward earned on by Denison, 129.
King Street, Boston, massacre in, 167. See also Boston Massacre.
King’s Bridge Cottage, play, 313.
King’s Chapel, Boston, 347; later Election sermons delivered in, 438, 445; Burying-Ground, 302.
King’s-Head Tavern, Boston, 364 n.
King’s Province (the Narragansett Country), title of lands in, 161 n.
Kingston, Mass., 450.
Kingston, R. I., 162 n.
Kingston Street, Boston, 263.
Kingstown (Narragansett), R. I., 368.
Kirk, Col. Piercy, 374.
Kittery, Me., 277; petitions for remission of taxes, 301.
Kittredge, George Lyman, A.B., xviii; of Committee of publication, ii, viii; elected Resident member, 20.
Knickerbocker Magazine, cited, 323 n.; mentioned, 338.
Knight, Robert, defendant in suit of Iron works in 1655, 197 n.
Knollys, Rev. Hanserd, 272; summary of his career, 272 n.
Know-Nothing Party, 433, 434; violent Election sermon by John Pike in 1857 favoring, 435.
Knox, Gen. Henry, viii*, 249, 251, 254 n.; failure of, to establish large landed proprietorship in Maine, 278 n.; variants between his draught of the Articles of association of Society of the Cincinnati and that of Washington, 239–244, 250; regarded as founder of the Cincinnati, 250.
Knox Papers, 39, 239 n.; cited, viii*.
Kossuth, Louis, 434.
La Broquerie, Pierre Boucher, de, death of, 291.
Lac, Le, des Deux Montagnes, 294.
Laceby, Lincolnshire, 273.
Lady Mowlson Scholarship, fac-simile of deed of gift, 1643, frontispiece; reestablishment of, by Corporation of Harvard College, 20; mystery surrounding, cleared by A. McF. Davis, 21; remarks on, by W. W. Goodwin, 158–162; for first time open to undergraduates, 158; investigations in England regarding family of donor, 159–161; further facts concerning, 351, 352. See also Mowlson.
Lafayette, Marie Paul Joseph Roch Ives Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de, 254 n.; a guest at Tracy mansion, Newburyport, 51.
Laffin, misprint for Saffin in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 102 n.
Lake Champlain, 325.
Lake George, 325.
Lake Memphremagog, 325 n., 326.
Lake Umbagog, 324.
La Luzerne. See Luzerne.
Lancaster, Mass., historical work in, 23.
Land titles vested in corporate bodies, recognized in Province Charter, 210.
Landgrave, a title conferred by patentees of Carolina grant, 188 n., 189.
Land’s Court, Boston, 364.
Lane, Gardiner Martin, A.B., xviii; elected Resident member, 20.
Lane, George Martin, LL.D., xviii; elected Resident member, 20.
Langdon, Rev. Samuel, President of Harvard College, his sermon in 1775, before Congress at Watertown to be considered as regular Election sermon, 425, 426; — two reprints made, 425 n.; Gage’s censure of sermon, 426; — not popular, 426.
Langworthy, Rev. Isaac Pendleton, his Historical Sketch of the American Congregational Association mentioned, 65; of opinion that Election sermons for 1713 and 1717 were not printed, 414.
Lathrop, Hon. John, A.M., xix; elected Resident member, 115; speaks at first Annual dinner, 156.
Lathrop, Rev. Joseph, declines to preach Election sermon for 1793, 429.
Lathrop. See also Lothrop.
La Tour, Charles St. Étienne, Sieur de La Tour, Baronet of Nova Scotia, 124; original commission to, as Lieutenant-General of Acadia, given by F. L. Gay, 356; text of commission, 356.
Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 178, 400.
Lawrence, Rev. Arthur, D.D., xix; elected Resident member, 216.
Lawrence, Rt. Rev. William, D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts, xviii, 1; elected Resident member, 20; invokes Divine blessing at Annual dinner, 156.
Lawson, Christopher, of Exeter, N. H., 275 n.
Leavitt, Thomas, of Exeter, N. H., 275 n.
Lebanon Springs, N. Y., 50.
Leblond, Madame, slave Adam offers to be bound for, 102.
Lechford, Thomas, his Note-book mentioned, 36; his Plain Dealing cited, 392 n., 445.
Lee, Rev. Chauncey, his list of Connecticut Election sermons mentioned, 447.
Lee, Rebecca, afterwards Saffin, marriage, 86 n.
Lee, Rev. Samuel, of Bristol, R. I., 86 n.
Lee, William, laborer at Castle Island, testifies regarding conduct of slave Adam, 112 n.
Leech, John, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Leech, Larrenc, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Leeds, England, 450.
Lefroy, Major-Gen. John Henry, his Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands cited, 218 n.
Leland, Rev. John, 51.
Lemonade Club, Harvard College, 321.
Lenox Library, New York, present possessor of John Saffin’s pamphlet, in reply to Sewall, 87 n.
Lenthall, Sir John, 161 n.
Leonard, Zephaniah, chairman of Bristol Convention of 1774, 176.
Lettsom, John, 27.
Leverett, John, Governor of Massachusetts, land in Boston originally allotted to, 87 n.; appointed one of Massachusetts Bay Commissioners, 285 n.; called a rogue by John Bonython, 287.
Leverett, John, President of Harvard College, 100; appointed tutor of Harvard College, 205.
Levett, Christopher, his Voyage to New England in 1623 mentioned, 31.
Lewis, Rev. Daniel, rebukes intemperance, 444.
Lexington, Mass., 310, 428; battle of, 164, 168, 176; fund raised in England for relief of sufferers from battle of, 387; Samuel Cooke delivers sermon on the battle-field at, 423; Samuel Langdon asserts that blood was shed while inhabitants of, were dispersing, 426.
— Green, 355.
Lexington Historical Society, 267; incorporation of, etc., 56.
Libertines, punishment of, advised by Cradock, 190.
Libraries as places of deposit for historical material, 23.
Library of Parliament, Ottawa, 342.
Lidget, Elizabeth, afterwards Saffin, marriage and death of, 86 n.
Lidget, Peter, 86 n.
Lincoln, Abraham, referred to in Stearns’s Election sermon for 1864, 435, 436.
Lincoln, Gen. Benjamin, viii*, 387; chosen clerk of Provincial Congress in Salem and secretary at Concord in 1774, 164.
Lincoln, Francis Henry, A.M., xviii; elected Resident member, 115.
Lincoln, Waldo, A.B., xviii; elected Resident member, 13.
Lincoln, William, his History of Worcester mentioned, 37 n.; makes report in 1838 on county conventions preceding Provincial Congress of 1774, 165, 166; completion of work begun by, called for, 171.
Lincoln, England, 302 n.; Episcopal Registry of, 271.
Lincoln, Mass., 356; part of old Concord, 57.
Lincolnshire, 272 n., 273, 281 n., 282; men of, founders of Exeter, N. H., 275 and note.
Link Alley, Boston, 409 n.
Lion’s Whelp, vessel, 190.
Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 349.
Little Compton, R. I. representatives from, expelled from General Court, 140.
Little Magalloway River, Maine and N. H., 324, 325.
Littlefield, Edmund, 275, 276, 279; and Francis, avow loyalty to Church of England, 284.
Littlefield, Lieut. John, ordered to exercise his authority in putting down disturbances, 287; appointed to command armed men of Wells during King Philip’s War, 288; takes command of garrison house at Wells, 290; licensed inn-holder at Wells, 291.
Littlefield, Lieut. Josiah, seeks to be redeemed from his Indian captivity, 295; captured, 296.
Littlefields, The, 275 n., 286.
Littleton, N. H., 325.
Livings, sale of, as an act of simony in case of Rev. John Wheelwright, 272 and note.
Lloyd family, 367 n.
Local history, Massachusetts Historical Society rich in, 32.
Locke, John, provisions in his Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina as to rights of coinage, 227; influence of his Essay on Civil Government in sermons preceding and at period of Revolution, 423, 433.
Lollards, The, 228.
London, 76, 86 n., 186, 206, 210 n., 270 n., 272 n., 280, 302, 353, 354, 367 n., 368, 421; Lord Mayor reports on persons come to lodge in, in 1633, 159 n.
— Bishops of, 116.
— Coleman Street, 281.
— Court of Aldermen, 159 n.
— Fetter Lane, 375.
— Grocers’ Company, 159.
London Society of Antiquaries, 349. See Society of Antiquaries, London.
Londonderry, Ireland, colonists from, 298.
Londonderry, N. H., selected by Scotch-Irish colonists for settlement, 298.
Long Island Historical Society, Memoirs cited, 411 n.
Long Wharf, Boston, 324; Proprietors of, incorporated 1772, 212, 213.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, verse of his compared with passage in Stoughton’s Election sermon for 1668, 399.
Lord, Rev. Nathan, delivers last New Hampshire Election sermon, 447.
Lords of Trade, 212 n.; Randolph’s Report to, in 1676, quoted, 131.
Lorimer, Rev. George Claude, 450.
Loring, Rev. Israel, bewails degeneracies in his Election sermon for 1737, 417; suggests indemnity to descend ants of persecuted witches, 417; on regulation of liquor selling, 443, 444.
Lothrop, George Van Ness, United States Minister to Russia, 258.
Lothrop, Howard, of Easton, Mass. 258.
Lothrop, Rev. Samuel Kirkland, conservative character of his Election sermon for 1855, 434.
Lothrop, Thomas, signs petition for separation of Beverly from Salem, 81.
Lothrop. See also Lathrop.
Louis XIII., of France, 356.
Louisburg, Cape Breton, 337, 367 n.; engraving of, mentioned, 270; expedition against, 300.
Louisburg Cross on Gore Hall, 269, 270.
Lovering, Joseph, 334.
Lovering, Rev. Joseph Foster, his Election sermon for 1882, 438; biographical items respecting, 450.
Lovet, John, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Lovewell, Capt. John, his victory, 300.
Lowell, Francis Cabot, A.B., xvii. xviii, 1; elected Resident member. 13; of committee to nominate officers, 115; presents report of Nominating committee, 155; in behalf of Leverett Salstonstall communicates Memoir of F. L. Ames, 257; elected member of Council, 385.
Lowell, Rev. John (d. 1767), 300.
Lowell, Judge John (d. 1802), inserts “All men are born free and equal” in Declaration of Rights, 423.
Lowell, Hon. John, LL.D. (H. C. 1843), xvii, xviii, 115; elected Vice-President of this Society, 11, 155, 385; a founder of this Society, 12; a pall-bearer at Parkman’s funeral, 348.
Lowthroppe. See Lathrop and Lothrop.
Lutheran Choral, only one traced in early Puritan psalmody, 229, 234.
Lutherans, little sympathy of, with English Reformation, 229.
Luzerne, Anne César, Chevalier de La, French Minister to America, medal of Society of the Cincinnati to be given to, 248.
Lyde, Edward, marries daughter of Rev. John Wheelwright, 284.
Lyman, Rev. Joseph, assails sins of the day in his Election sermon for 1787, 428; reviews Shays’s Rebellion, 429.
Lyman, Hon. Theodore, (d. 1849), his gift of Panorama of Athens, in 1819, to Harvard College, 270 n.
Lyman family, 367 n.
Lynde, Joseph, 412.
Lyndhurst, The, apartment house on Allston Street, Boston, 311.
Lynn, Mass., 450; headquarters of Anchor Club Association, 68 n.
Lynn Natural History Society, purpose of, 68.
Lyon, ship, 118.
Lysons, Rev. Daniel, his Environs of London cited, 86 n.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, cited, 388.
McClintock, Rev. Samuel, 447.
McGill University, Montreal, 342.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, his History of Florence mentioned, 319.
McKean, Prof. Joseph, 447.
McKenzie, Rev. Alexander, 59, 437, 450; on origin of Convention sermons, 446.
Mackerel Cove, inhabitants released from keeping watch in Salem, 79.
Madder. See Mather.
Madison, James, 254 n.
Madockanando, Indian, 290.
Madrid, Spain, 322.
Magalloway River, Maine and N. H., 324, 325.
Magazine of American History, cited, 46 n., 51 n., 64 n., 66 n., 356; mentioned, 58, 67.
Magistrates and Deputies, early misunderstandings between, 392, 394.
Magnalia. See Mather, Cotton.
Magny, F., 357.
— Province of, 303; powers of grant of, to Gorges, 189; privileges of grant of, same as those of Bishop of Durham, 226, 227; some of founders of Exeter, N. H., move to, 276; early colonies sent to, 277 n.; early people in, characterized, 277 n.; aristocratic basis of its early society, 278; chooses Edward Godfrey as Governor, 282; suffers under rule of Gorges, 283; people of, dislike tyranny of the Baymen, 283; defection from Bay party in, on account of religious tyranny, 284; partially submits to Colony, 284; seized by Bay Colony, 286; slavery in, 293.
— Provincial Council of, 292; meets at Wells, 287; takes measures for protection of Wells, 288.
See also Casco Fort, Saco, Wells, York.
Majesty, reviling his, made capital offence in Exeter Combination, 276.
Malden Historical Society, 267; incorporation, etc. of, 57.
Manchester Cricket, 57.
Manchester Historical Society, organization, etc. of, 57.
Mandamus councillors appointed for Massachusetts Bay in 1774, 163.
Mansfield, Mass., 176.
Mapes, William, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Marblehead, Mass., Marine Society at, 212.
Marbury, Rev. Francis, father of Anne Hutchinson, 122, 275 n.
Marburys, The, 275 n.
March, Major John, of Newbury, 291.
Marine Society at Marblehead, incorporated 1773, 212.
Marine Society at Salem, incorporated 1772, 212.
Marine Society of Boston, incorporated 1754, 211 n.
Marks, Essex, England, 160 n.
Maro, slave, belonging to Ebenezer Parkman, 306.
Marot, Clément, compared with Sternhold, 230; Marot and Beza’s French Calvinist Psalter, 231, 232; element of his Psalter in English psalmodists, 237.
Marsh Lane, Cambridge, 119.
Marshall, George William, 352, 353, 354.
Marshall, John, of Boston, 369 n.
Marshall, Sir William, 353.
Marshfield, Mass., 55 n.
Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., 309.
Martinique, 367 n.
Martyrs, 229.
Mary I., Queen of England, victims of, 229.
Maryland, charter of 1632, powers of, 188 and note, — grants Lord Baltimore rights of Bishop of Durham, 225; right to coin in, questioned, 220; act relative to establishing mint in, passed in 1662, 226.
Maryland Archives cited, 226 n.
Masathusets, spelling on coins issued in 1652, 220.
Mason, Arthur, riot at his storehouse, 414.
Mason, Charles Frank, A. B., a Resident member, xix.
Mason, Capt. John, claim to villages south of Merrimack, 129, 130; jurisdiction granted to, in 1629 from Council of New England not allowed, 225; Capt. John Mason the founder of New Hampshire mentioned, 66; cited, 225 n.
Mason Patent, 298 n.
Massachusetts, 94, 272 n., 275, 283, 301 and note, 307, 337, 367 n., 378; only citizens of, to be elected Resident members of this Society, 5; paper, by A. McF. Davis, on Historical work in, 21–71; importance of papers of Massachusetts Historical Society to history of, 28; materials relating to Episcopal church in, 42 n.; collection of books on history of, in Berkshire Athenaeum, 67; Quakers as propagandists of religious liberty in, 137, 140–145; early inventions in, 201 n., 202 n.; emended list of historical societies in, 266–268; laws of, regarding certificate of incorporation, 380; early liberty of speech in, 392; bad spirit politically displayed in, during and before War of 1812, 430.
— Bay Company, Records of, to embarkation of Winthrop and his associates for New England, mentioned, 36; arrival of one thousand colonists under auspices of, 119; charters of, contrasted with those of Virginia, 184–187; powers of, 185; meetings of, not required in England, 185; policy of, 190; right of, to coin not directly mentioned in charter, 219.
— Bay Colony, 12, 21, 22, 192, 231, 279, 304, 372; Preliminary Conference to form Society composed in part of descendants of residents of, 1, 2; arms of, in corporate seal of Colonial Society, 4; influence and character of founders of, 18; Salem first permanent settlement in, 42 n.; Daniel Denison conspicuous in early history of, 116; interests of, involved in contest for Acadia and Cape Breton 124; revision of Laws of, 126 n.; division in, as to Antinomian controversy, 134; mandamus councillors for regulating government of, 163; corporations in, 183–214; organization of Massachusetts Bay Company, becomes the, 185; quasi-municipal corporations in, 192–194; action of in regard to coinage and currency, 219, 220; opposition to privilege of minting and coining in, 220–234; S. L. Thorndike’s paper on The Psalmodies of Plymouth and massachusetts Bay, 228–238; Bay Psalm Book supersedes Sternhold and Hopkins in, 234, 235; psalmody of, had English flavor, 235; Exeter, N. H., comes under rule of, 276; character of colonists, 278; applauded Cromwell, 281; jurisdiction of, over Wells asked for, 281; claims jurisdiction over Province of Maine, 282; appoints Commissioners to regulate affairs of Province of Maine, 283 defections from, due to religious tyranny, 284; appoints its own magistrates in Province of Maine 285; assumes control over Province of Maine, 286; purchases rights from Gorges, 287; churches of, assist refugees at Wells, Me., 290.
— Massachusetts Colony Records, cited, 118 n., 120 n., 122 n., 123 n., 124 n., 125 n., 126 n., 127 n., 129 n., 190 n., 194 n., 196 n., 197 n., 198 n., 199 n., 201 n., 202 n., 204 n., 219 n., 220 n., 222 n., 223 n., 389 n., 393 n., 394 n., 395 n., 399 n., 402 n., 405 n., 406 n.
— Province of the Massachusetts Bay, 88, 95, 96, 98, 100, 107, 306, 368, 369 n.; Royal Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, and Secretaries of, copies of their commissions offered to this Society, 76; act for better regulating government of, condemned by Bristol Convention of 1774, 178; Province corporations, 210–214; financial condition of, referred to by Election preachers, 415, 417, 418.
— Archives cited, 128 n., 161, 224 n., 288 n., 299 n., 365 n.; necessity for an index to, 377, 378; quoted, 95–97, 101, 387.
— Assembly, Gage revokes writs for convening at Salem, Oct. 1774, 163; eight instances during Provincial period of a second, in one year, 446 n.
— Charters, under Colony, 195–202; Colonial Charter: revocation of, caused charter of Harvard College to be vacated, 205, — statutes and rights annulled by revocation of, 205 n., — abrogation of, upsets affairs of Harvard College, 209, — Randolph urges repeal of, 222. — Provincial Charter: 140, 179, 194, 206, 363, — Mandamus councillors appointed against provisions of, 163, — invasion of privileges of, as shown by minutes of Bristol Convention, 1774, 177,— practical annulment of, 178, — offices held under, should be supported, 179, — Overseers of Poor of Boston incorporated under, 194, — provisions in, for lands held by grant or title, 210, — contains recognition of power of Legislature to erect incorporations, 210, 211, 213, — Increase Mather’s services for, 404; inviolability of Charter rights a frequent theme with Election preachers, 418; called not an act of grace but a compact, 423. Charters and General Laws of the Colony and Province Laws of Massachusetts (ed. of 1814), cited, 184 n., 185 n., 210 n.
— Commissioner of Corporations, 11, 13, 16.
— Commissioners on the Publication of the Acts and Resolves of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, 76, 212 n. See also Province Laws.
— Constitution, 195; gradual secularization of, 144; Convention for revision of, in 1820, 204 n., — Journal of Debates and Proceedings cited, 204 n., 205 n.
— Council, 427; advises as to government of Harvard College, 207; invested in 1701 with charge of College, 208; gradually filled by men unfavorable to Governor before Revolution, 421, 422; local right of choice of, advocated in 1774, 425.
— Council for the Province of Maine, 293.
— Court of Admiralty, 409 n.
— Court of Assistants, aid in laying out of Newtown, 119; change Agawam to Ipswich, 120.
— Declaration of Rights, 44, 423.
— Election sermons in, 388–451; probable origin of, 389, 390.
— Free Library Commission, first report of, 23.
— General Court, 35, 81–83, 85 n., 86 n., 121, 142, 255, 256, 284, 364, 365, 370, 422; petitions to, from inhabitants of Bass River, 76, 79–81, 83; receives petition from John Saffin, 95, 96; orders hearing, 97; receives another petition from Saffin, 100; orders another hearing, 102; sentence of, upon Anne Hutchinson, 122; appoints Committee respecting Dutch and Indians, 125; orders Daniel Denison to revise Colony laws, 125, 126; orders troops in readiness in 1673 against Dutch, 127; on Mason’s claim to territory in 1681, 129, 130; action of first, under Province charter, against representatives from Little Compton, 140; changes name of Trimountaine to Boston in 1630, 192; proceedings of, in efforts of Boston to secure incorporation, 194; grants to private companies under Colony, 195–202; petitioned in regard to inventions, 201 n., 202 n.; language of its act establishing Harvard College in 1636, 203; given opportunity to incorporate Harvard College at time of granting Province charter, 206; asks the King in 1678 to select design for Massachusetts coinage, 222; instructions of, to Massachusetts agents in 1681–2, as to reasons which compelled Colony to coin, 223; passes act making Spanish and Mexican money current, 223; further reasons given by, for coining, 223, 224; finding of, against John Wheelwright, 274; passes vote on letter of John Wheelwright, 280; does not require freemen in Maine to be church-members, 283; gives grants to build saw-mills at Great Falls, 292; petitioned for assistance in rebuilding church at Wells, 293; orders abatement of tax levy at Wells, 295; grant of, in 1704, 369 n.; order of, relative to committee to receive funds from Dr. Franklin, 387; abolition of annual Election sermon by, 388; first Election sermon preached before, in 1634, 389; early censorship of press by, 393; misunderstandings between Magistrates and Deputies, 392, 394; requests of, to Election preachers to furnish copies of sermons for the press, 394 n., 395, 399, 402, 405, 406, 451; choice of Election preacher in 1719, 415; irregularities of sessions of, during 1752, owing to small-pox, 419 n.; refuses to ask Elijah Parish for copy of his Election sermon for 1810, 430; delay incidental to assembling of, 437; William Gordon dismissed from chaplaincy of, 440; not accustomed to invite preachers of radical sentiments to preach before it, 441; Acts and Resolves: Resolves of 1699–1700, 293 n.; of 1703–4, 370 n.; of 1875 cited, 437; of 1884 cited, 388 n.; of 1784 quoted, 428 n.; Public Document, 1891, No. 44, cited, 23 n.
— Governor, and Assistants issue instructions in 1673 as to defence against Dutch, 127; and Magistrates, instructions of, to Denison in conduct of King Philip’s war, 128; declines in 1772 to grant certain charters, 212 n.; without support of Council before Revolution, 421, 422; powers conferred on, by Charter of 1691, 422; custom of Election preachers of addressing, at close of sermon, 424.
— Historical Societies in. See Historical Societies … in Massachusetts.
— House of Deputies, in 1653, averse to war with Dutch, 125.
— House of Representatives, Colonial, has for its last Speaker John Saffin, 86 n.; action of, 1699, 1700, in regard to government of Harvard College, 207; loss of House Journals, 364.
— Legislature. See Massachusetts General Court.
— Secretary of the Commonwealth, 377; certifies to incorporation of Colonial Society (Massachusetts Society), 11, 12; certifies that The Massachusetts Society becomes legally The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 71.
— State House, 281.
— Superior Court of Judicature, seal of, 43; John Saffin’s promotion to, 90; Saffin not commissioned to, by Dudley, 92; petitioned by Thomas Newton to protect slave Adam, 94; decree of, upon this petition, 95; Records cited, 93 n., 95 n.; Records quoted, 100; grants slave Adam his liberty, 100, 101, 102; John Saffin appears before, 107.
— Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth, 98 n.; first sitting of, in Worcester County, 37 n.
— Treasurer of the Province, resolution of Bristol Convention of 1775 as to payments to, 255, 256.
Massachusetts Charitable Society, incorporated, 1779, 212 and note.
Massachusetts Gazette, quoted, 423.
Massachusetts Hall, Harvard College, 319.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 42 n., 69, 235, 271 n., 317, 326 n., 338, 349; confusion between name of, and that of Colonial Society avoided, 21; incorporated to collect and preserve historical material, 22; Jeremy Belknap’s draft of plan which led to formation of, 24; constitution of its precursor the Historical Society quoted, 24; meetings provided for, 25; publication of Collections suspended, 26; incorporated, 26; circular letter to men of science, 26, 27; James Sullivan quoted on scope of, 27; support of, to editor of Province Laws, 28; distinguished character of members, 28; character of Collections, 29, 30; enumeration of some titles in Collections, 31; importance of its Archives, 31, 32; richness in local history, 32; funds of, membership and meetings, 33; Letters to and from Colonial Society, 73–75; owns Sewall’s The Selling of Joseph, 85 n.; collection of Election sermons in, due largely to Sewall and the Mathers, 405; lacks Cotton Mather’s Election sermon for 1696, 408; receives Dr. Pierce’s collection of Election sermons, 433; owns best set of Election sermons, 447; fulness of the collection due to John Pierce, 447, 448; its List of Early American Imprints referred to, 450 and note; Collections of, cited, 85 n., 86 n., 124 n., 125 n., 210 n., 278 n., 307, 392 n., 403 n., 421 n., 439 n.; Proceedings of, cited, 85 n., 205 n., 206 n., 364 n., 421 n., 447 n., 448 n., 450 n.; errors noted in Proceedings, 268; Tributes of, cited, 319 n.
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 341, 341 n., 350.
Massachusetts Reports, cited, 192 n., 193 n., 195 n.
Massachusetts Society, name first proposed for Colonial Society, 3; charter granted under this name, 12, 63; authorized to change its name, 71. See Colonial Society.
Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, 261, 263.
Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames of America, incorporation, etc. of, 63 n.
Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati, 239, 251 n.; incorporation, etc. of, 48 n.; Memorials cited, 15 n., 239 n., 244 n., 254 n.
Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, publications of, mentioned, 157; purposes, 158 n.
Massachusetts, Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of. See Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Masters, Nathanniel, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Mastic, monopoly granted in 1671 for manufacture of, 201 n.
Mather, Rev. Cotton, 412, 413; resolves to publish sheet addressed to owners of slaves, 85 n.; letter of, to John Saffin cited, 86 n.; on Wheelwright’s prowess in athletics, 271; favorable opinion of same cited, 272, 273, 282; describes defence of Wells, 291; on Indian deed to Wheelwright, 298 n.; on Cotton’s Election sermon for 1634 quoted, 390; his appellation of Rev. Samuel Stone, 391; his sermon on John Higginson quoted, 393, 398; on influence of Election sermons on choice of governor, 393; his opinion of Rogers’s Election sermon for 1643, 393; on Jonathan Mitchel, 396; commends Danforth’s Election sermon of 1670, 400; his high opinion of Oakes’s Latinity, 401; preached four Election sermons, 407, 448; his sermon at deposition of Andros, 407; sermon for 1690, 408; rarity of sermon for 1696, 408 and note; naïveté of sermon for 1700, 408, 409; his Way to Prosperity quoted, 407, 408; editions of, 408 n.; humane in his opposition to slavery, 439; his zeal for temperance, 442; his Magnalia quoted, 390 and note, 391 n., 395, 396, 399, 400, 401.
Mather, Rev. Increase, 210 n., 398; appointed Rector of Harvard College, 205; money belonging to college paid over to, 206; his Brief Account concerning Several of the Agents of New England, quoted, 206; asks for particular charter for Harvard College, 206; Harvard College charter of 1696 opposed by, 207; fails to comply with condition that President of Harvard College should reside at Cambridge, 208, 209 n.; reference to Moody’s Election sermon for 1675, 402; his A Call from Heaven quoted, 402; preaches four Election sermons, 403, 448; historical interest of his sermon of 1693, 404; copy of his Election sermon for 1699 owned by S. A. Green, 447.
Mather, Rev. Richard, Journal, Life, and Death of, mentioned, 43; invited to preach and print Election sermon for 1644, 393, — this sermon probably not printed, 394; allusion to his Election sermon for 1660 by Mitchel, 396; his Election sermon for 1664 not printed, 398, 451; preaches three Election sermons, 448; a non-graduate of Oxford, 449.
Mather Papers mentioned, 31.
Mathers, The, 410; interest of, in Election sermons, 405.
Matthews, Albert, A.B., a Resident member, xix.
Mattoonuck, R. I., 162 n.
Maverick, Samuel, Memoir of, by F. W. Hackett mentioned, 67; friendly relations of, with Vane, 284; sympathizes with the Gorgeses, 284; one of the King’s commissioners in 1665, 285 n.
Maverick family, 367 n.
Mawthorpe, Lincolnshire, 282.
Maximilian Alexander Phillip, Prinz zu Wied Neuwied, Travels of, mentioned, 338.
May, Rev. Samuel, of Wrentham, declines to preach Election sermon for 1710, 413.
Mayflower, memorial commemorating arrival of, to be erected by Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association, 64 n.; Compact of, see Compact.
Mayhew, Rev. Experience, 416; preacher to Indians at Martha’s Vineyard, 309.
Mayhew, Rev. Jonathan, 449; his sermon on death of Charles I. referred to, 422; boldness of his Election sermon for 1754, 419, — this sermon quoted, 419, 420.
Meadville, Pa., 450.
Medal of Society of the Cincinnati, 244, 247; to commemorate friendship between French and American officers in Revolution, 248.
Medfield, Mass., 301 n.
Medfield Historical Society, 267; incorporation, etc. of, 60.
Medford, Mass., 305, 310, 311, 312, 324.
Meeting-House Hill, Ipswich, 127.
Mellen, Rev. John, displays antipathy to French Revolution, 429.
Memorial Biographies of the New-England Historic Genealogical Society mentioned, 40.
Memorial Hall, Harvard College, first alumni dinner in, 332; stained glass window in, of Class of 1844, 332.
Memphremagog, Lake, Vt., 325 n., 326.
Merchants’ Notes in 1733, 378.
Merchants’ Row, Boston, 200 n.
Meredith, Rev. Robert Rhoden, delivers practical Election sermon for 1883, 438; biographical items, 450.
Merrimack River, Mass., 130.
Methodist Episcopal Church, interests of, promoted by New England Methodist Historical Society, 53.
Methodist Historical Society, 53 n.
Methodists, teachings of, anticipated by Quakers, 137.
Metres of Ainsworth and Ravenscroft compared, 237.
Mexican pieces, made current by General Court in 1682, 223; value of, regulated by Andros, 224.
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 449.
Middlebury College, Vt., 449.
Middlesex County, Mass., 109; County convention, 1774, 165, 176.
Middlesex Court Files cited, 85 n., 86 n.
Middlesex Deeds cited, 201 n.
Mildmay, Cary, 160 n.
Miles, Rev. Samuel, and other Episcopal clergymen, petition in 1727 for repeal of laws for support of ministers, 142.
Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, 267; incorporation, etc. of, 47, 48.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Massachusetts, incorporation, etc. of, 48 n.
Militia of Bristol County, Mass., resolutions concerning, in 1775, 256.
Milk Street, Boston, 63 n.
Mill Creek, Boston, 87 n., 199 n.
Millais, Sir John Everett, Bart., 262.
Miner, Rev. Alonzo Ames, in 1884 preaches last Election sermon, 438; causes of its discontinuance, 438, 439; urges prohibition, 444; degrees received by, 450.
Minge, England, 282.
Ministry. See Clergy.
Minot, Francis, 313.
Minot family, 367 n.
Mint, in Massachusetts Colony, coins issued by, 220; difficulties over, 220–224: in Boston, Randolph reports unfavorably to, 222, 223; not re-established, 224; effort to open under Andros, 224; R. N. Toppan exhibits specimens of work of, 227: in New England, opinion of mint authorities in England in regard to, 224; in Maryland, establishment of, discussed by Assembly, 226; in Durham, Bishop of Durham’s right to coin money at, 226. See also Coining.
Minute-men, 256.
Mitchel, Rev. Jonathan, 395, 397; nothing known of his Election sermon for 1658, 396, 451; his Election sermon of 1667 quoted, 396, — not printed till 1671, 398, — curious title of, 398 n., — prototype of subsequent Election sermons, 411, — reprinting of, suggested by Thomas Prince, 417; preaches two Election sermons, 448.
Mitchell, Henry, bill to this Society for engraving its seal, 153.
Mobs discountenanced by Bristol Convention of 1774, 179.
Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, 316.
Monck, Margaret, becomes wife of William Denison, 116.
Monopolies, warning against, in Webster’s Election sermon for 1777, 427.
Monopoly, granted to undertakers of glass works, 195; granted to company of adventurers in 1643–44, 196; granted to iron works, 196; granted for certain early inventions in Colony, 201 n., 202 n.
Montcalm de Saint Véran, Louis Joseph, Marquis de, 336.
Montrose, James Graham, Marquis of, 316.
Moody, Rev. Joshua, possibility that his Election sermon for 1675 was printed, 402; said to have advised evasion of witchcraft trials, 403; preached two Election sermons, 448, — neither known to have been printed, 451.
Moody, Rev. Samuel, of York, 269 n., 415.
Moore, George Henry, his Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts cited, 85 — same omits appendix to Saffin’s pamphlet, 87, — same quoted, 439 n., 440 n.; note by, cited, 393 n.; his opinion on significance of request to print by General Court, 394; thinks that Nathaniel Rogers preached Election sermon for 1647, 395; on rare instances of second Assembly of General Court in single year, 446 n.
Moore, John Weeks, his Encyclopædia of Music, 228.
Morgan, Robte, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Morgan, Samuell, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Moriel [Montreal], 295.
Morse, John Torrey, Jr., his John Adams cited, 429 n.
Morton, Nathaniel, his New England’s Memorial quoted, 120 n.; cited, 360 n.
Morton, Perez, 387.
Morton, Thomas, his New English Canaan (Adams’s edition) mentioned, 66.
Moses, 139.
Moulsham. See Mowlson.
Moulson. See Mowlson.
Moulston. See Mowlson.
Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, 120.
Mount Hope, Bristol, R. I., 86 n.
Mount Hope Neck, R. I., 369 n.; Saffin’s farm at, 104.
Mount Washington, N. H., 324, 326.
Mount Wollaston, Mass., 273, 275, 284.
Mourt, George, his Relation mentioned, 30.
Mowing-machine, early inventions anticipating, 202 n.
Mowlson, Ann (Radcliffe), Lady, scholarship founded by, in 1643, re-established at Harvard College, 20, 21; identified as widow of Sir Thomas Mowlson, 160; maiden name of, shown to be Radcliffe, 160; name for Radcliffe College suggested by maiden name of, 162; pedigree of, 351–354. See also Lady Mowlson Scholarship.
Mowlson, Anna, wife of Johanes Mowlson de Hargrave, 353.
Mowlson, Annia, afterwards Kendrick, 353.
Mowlson, Catharina, afterwards Richford, 353.
Mowlson, Maria, afterwards Jermyn de Norff, 353.
Mowlson, Rebecca, afterwards Ranton, 353, 354.
Mowlson, Sir Thomas, Lord Mayor of London in 1634, facts concerning, 159 and note, 160 n., 161 n.; his widow, 160; son of Thomas Mowlson de Hargrave, 353; his will quoted, 354.
Mowlson de Hargrave, Johanes, 353.
Mowlson de Hargrave, Thomas, father of Sir Thomas Mowlson, 353.
Mowlson pedigree, 353.
Moxus, Indian, attacks Wells, 290.
Munster, Anabaptists of, 138.
Mugg, Indian sachem, 129.
Mumby, England, 282.
Municipal corporations, 192; quasi municipal corporations in Massachusetts Colony, 192–194.
Municipalities, existence of, without incorporation, 191.
Murray, Rev. William Henry Harrison, declines to preach Election sermon in 1872, 436.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, works exhibited by F. L. Ames at, 262.
Music, of the Elizabethan era, 234; discouraging effect of Puritanism on, 238. See also Psalmody.
Musters, exemption of Quakers from, 145.
Mytton, John, and Co., London, 368.
Nahumkeeke, Salem referred to as, 192.
Napoleon I., assailed in Parish’s Election sermon for 1810, 430.
Narragansett, R. I., 368, 369.
Narragansett Bay, R. I., 162 n.
Narragansett Country, gift by Sewall of land in, to Harvard College, 161.
Nash, Gilbert, his Original Journal of Gen. Solomon Lovell, and his Historical Sketch of the Town of Weymouth, mentioned, 52.
Nash, Nathaniel Cushing, A.B., xix; elected Resident member, 351.
Nathaniel, Captain, an Indian, 297.
National Academy of Science, Washington, 115, 351.
National Historical and Library Society, South Natick (erroneous title), 46 n.
National Theatre, Boston, 313.
Natural History and Library Society, South Natick (erroneous title), 46 n.
Naumkeag (Salem), 77.
Nautilus, The, vessel, 327.
Naval Legion of the United States, institution, etc. of, 49 n.; originally organized as Sons of Naval Veterans, 68.
Neal, Rev. Daniel, his History of New-England quoted, 374.
Neale, Rev. Rollin Heber, 441; on human origin of government, 434.
Needham, Nicholas, one of founders of Exeter, N. H., 275; moves to Maine, 276; probable removal to Boston, 279.
Negroes, law proposed imposing taxes on importers of, 85 n.; act for regulating of free, 102. See also Slavery.
Nehemiah, a character often considered in Election sermons, 411, 419.
Nehemiah on the Wall. See Mitchel, J. Nero, 425.
New Albion, province of, granted to Sir Edmund Plowden, 189.
New England, 31, 84, 88, 95, 96, 100, 107, 117, 118, 119, 131, 136, 137, 254, 264, 278 and note, 280–282, 294, 298, 302, 310, 359, 360, 366, 367, 414, 440, 443; Conference to form Society to commemorate founders of, 2; population in 1775 largely descended from early settlers, 17, 18; importance of New England Historical and Genealogical Register to history of, 40; material for history of Baptist churches in, 42; object of Dedham Historical Society to illustrate history of, 43; life in, illustrated by the museum of Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 45; religious history of, perpetuated by collections of Congregational Library Association, 65; history of, as written by New England men, 69, 70; Royal Governors of Territory and Dominion of, copies of their commissions offered to Colonial Society, 76; Antinomianism in, 122; Cromwell’s scheme for colonizing settlers from, in Ireland, 124, 125; early distinguished men of, 132; Calvin’s doctrine the foundation of theology of, 134; injustice of fathers of, toward Anne Hutchinson, 140; use of Ainsworth’s Book of Psalmes in, 236; discouraging effect of Puritanism upon art in, 238; drinking among early New-Englanders, 291; slavery in, 293; social aspirations of families in, 302 n.; a plantation of religion, not of trade, 398; sins of, rehearsed by Stoughton in 1668, 399; gloomy view of sins of, expressed by Torrey in 1674, 402; Cotton Mather’s predilection for, 408, 409; degeneracy of, mentioned by Noyes in 1698, 410; jealous of encroachments of English hierarchy, 422; ministers of, fond of principles of liberty, 422; horror of preachers in, over French Revolution, 429; lukewarmness of clergy of, toward evil of slavery, 439; custom of Election sermon peculiar to, 446.
— Charter, 374.
— Commissioners of the United Colonies of. See Commissioners of the United Colonies of New England.
— Council of, 226; right of coinage continued to, 219.
— Money of, largely exported in 1682, 223; value of, regulated by Andros, 224; still considered legal currency when mint was suppressed, 224.
New England Conference, Historical Society of. See Historical Society of the New England Conference.
New England Historic Genealogical Society, 349; manuscripts and library of, 39; publications, 39, 40; Rolls of Membership mentioned, 40; has keeping of collections of Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society, 43; possessor of part of one of Faneuil’s Letter-Books, 114 n., 366; Knox papers in Cabinet of, 239 n.; Knox papers cited, viii*.
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, relations of, to above Society, 39; value of articles in, 40; cited, 14 n., 21 n., 85 n., 86 n., 102 n., 117 n., 121 n., 159, 160, 164, 174 n., 194 n., 202 n., 275 n., 278 n., 299 n., 301 n., 352, 447 n.; quoted, 391 n., 392 n., 398 n.
New England Magazine cited, 158 n., 351.
New-England Methodist Historical Society, Boston, incorporation, etc. of, 53.
New-England Methodist Historical Society, Malden, wrongly included in American Historical Association’s list, 53 n.
New England Telegraph and Eclectic Review quoted, 429.
New England’s First Fruits mentioned, 30.
New England’s Jonah Cast Up mentioned, 31.
New-England’s Prospect. See Wood, W.
New England’s Salamander mentioned, 31.
New France, 294.
New Hampshire, 298, 301, 324; grant of, in 1629, to Captain John Mason, 225; plantations, acknowledged in 1643 sway of Massachusetts, 276; first settlers of, not Puritans, 278; Election sermons in, 447 and note.
New Haven, Conn., 114 n.
New North Church, Boston, 305, 308.
New Scotland, Baronetcy of, conferred by Sir William Alexander, 188. See also Nova Scotia.
New Somersetshire, 277, 303; lax government, etc. of, 278, 279.
New York, 290; Dudley’s career as Chief Justice in, 92.
New York, N. Y., 127, 367 n.; headquarters of the Archaeological Institute of America moved to, 52.
New York State Library, set of Massachusetts Election sermons in, 448.
Newburgh Addresses, 249.
Newburyport, Mass., 52 n.; Public Library of, home of Historical Society of Old Newbury, 51; branch of Wheelwright family in, 297.
Newport, R. I., 368, 369 n., 370.
Newton, Thomas, Attorney General of Massachusetts, appointed counsel for slave Adam, 93; petitions Superior Court to protect Adam, 94; appears before Council in behalf of Adam, 97; plea for Adam, 98; appeals from Court’s decision, 99.
Newton Theological Institution, books and papers of Backus Historical Society in, 42.
Newtown, afterwards Cambridge, Massachusetts, 118 and note; chosen as site for fortified city, 119; withdrawal of Winthrop from, to Boston, 119; laying out of, 119; Daniel Denison’s services in, 120; Harvard College ordered to be at, 203. See also Cambridge.
Nichols, Col. Richard, one of King’s Commissioners, 285 n.
Nipmug country, now Oxford, Mass., 368.
Nipmug Indians, 369 n.
Noble, John, LL.B., xiv, xviii; of Committee of publication, ii, viii; elected Resident member, 75; announces incorporation of Society of the War of 1812 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 386.
Nomenclature of Streets in Boston cited, 409 n.
Non-exportation and non-importation agreement favored by Bristol Convention of 1774, 180.
Non-toleration, Higginson’s Election sermon for 1663 in favor of, 398.
Norfolk County, Mass., 123.
Norridgewock, Me., Indian village, attacked by English, 299.
Norris, Rev. Edward, of Salem, preaches Election sermon for 1646, 394; sermon never printed, 451.
North, Stephen, inn-keeper of Star Tavern, 409 n.
North America, Colonies of, 239, 244.
North American Review, cited, 342.
North Carolina, 187; Lords Proprietors of, given full power of Bishops of Durham, 227.
North Easton, Mass., 258, 259, 261, 262, 263; Public Library, 262.
North Federal Court, Boston, 409 n.
North River, Salem, 77.
North Street, Boston, 364; formerly known as Conduit Street, and later as Ann Street, 95, 200 n.
North Yarmouth, Me., 310.
Northall Woods, near Hatfield, Herts, 161 n.
Northwest, promoted by Society of the Cincinnati, 254.
Norton, Rev. John (d. 1663), of Ipswich, 353, 410; permission given to print his Artillery Election sermon for 1644, 393; preaches Election sermon for 1645, 394; preaches Election sermons for 1657 and 1661, 395; his Election sermon for 1661, first delivered that was printed, 397; eccentric phrases cited, 397; preaches three Election sermons, 448, — two never printed, 451.
Norton, Rev. John (d. 1716), of Hingham, 442; preaches Election sermon for 1708, 412.
Norton, Mass., 176.
Notes on Special Collections in American Libraries (Bibliographical Contributions of Library of Harvard University), cited, 32, 33 n.
Nottinghamshire, England, 278.
Nourse, Henry Stedman, efforts of, in historical work in Lancaster, Mass., 23.
Nova Scotia, granted to Sir William Alexander, 187; charter of, grants power of coinage to Sir William Alexander, 225.
Nowell, Elder Increase, of Charlestown, 209 n.
Nowell, Samuel, 405; resigns as Treasurer of Harvard College, 205; resigned in order that Richards might take College securities, 209, 210; biographical notes on, by H. H. Edes, 209 n.
Noyes, Rev. Nicholas, couplet by, on John Higginson, quoted, 398; his character, 409, 410; his Election sermon of 1698 quoted, 410; inhumanity of, to a witch, 410.
Numismatic Science, promotion of, by Boston Numismatic Society, 67.
Oak Hall estate, Boston, 200 n.
Oak Tree Association, Charlemont, Mass., annual meetings of, 67; objects of, 68.
Oakes, Urian, 410; signs imprimatur to Shepard’s Election sermon for 1672, 393; manuscript memorandum by, 395 n.; intolerance of, 401; full title of his Election sermon for 1673, 401 n., — reprint of sermon suggested by Thomas Prince, 417, — quoted, 445, 446.
Oaths of adjuration and supremacy, Quakers allowed to make declaration in lieu of, 144, 145.
Officers, civil, holding offices under certain Acts of Parliament deserving of no obedience, 179.
Officers of American Army, constitute themselves into the Society of the Cincinnati, 239.
Ogunquit River, Me., 277.
Ohio River, 254.
Old Brick meeting-house, Boston, 426.
Old Colony, 43. See also Plymouth Colony.
Old Colony Historical Society, Taunton, objects of, 43.
Old Hundred, tune adapted from secular song, 232; of French origin, 235.
Old Kingston, R. I., 162 n.
Old Newbury, Historical Society of. See Historical Society of Old Newbury.
Old Planters of Salem, 76; exchange house-lots in Salem for farms at Bass River, 77.
Old Residents’ Historical Association, Lowell, 267; organization, etc. of, 44, 45.
Old Residents’ Historical Society, Lowell, 45 n.
Old South Association, Boston, 62; incorporation, etc., 62 n.
Old South Church, 86 n.; meeting-house bought by Old South Association, 62 n.; frequent place of delivery of Election sermons, 423, 445; Library, see Prince Library.
Old South Historical Society, organization, etc., 62.
Old South Leaflets, 62.
Old South Lectures for young people, 62.
Old South Museum Association, incorporation, 62 n.
Old South prize essayists, 62.
Old South Studies in History, directors of, 62.
Olin, William Milo, 12, 71. See also Massachusetts, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Oliver, Andrew, Lieut.-Gov. of Massachusetts, 420.
Oliver Ames and Sons, establishment of, at North Easton, 258, 259.
Olney, Hon. Richard, LL.D., xviii; elected Resident member, 115.
Omnia reliquit servare Rempublicam, motto on medal of Society of the Cincinnati, 244, 247.
Orcutt, Samuel, his History of Stratford and Bridgeport, Conn., cited, 114 n.
Original Documents … illustrating the History of Sir Walter Raleigh’s First American Colony, mentioned, 36.
Oriskany, fight at, difference in accounts of, 70.
Ormerod, George, his History of Cheshire cited, 353.
Osgood, Rev. David, irritating nature of his Election sermon for 1809, 430; his list of Election preachers in 1809, 432, 449.
Ossipee Pond, N. H., 299.
Otis, James, 387; John Adams’s opinion of his argument on writs of assistance, 168.
Otis, William Sigourney, A.B., xi; death of, before receiving notice of election as Resident member, 115, 146.
Ottawa, Canada, 342.
Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Boston, incorporated, 194, 212 and note.
Oxenbridge, Rev. John, 400; nongraduate of Oxford, 449.
Oxford, Mass., 368; Huguenot Memorial Society of, 54 n.
Oxford, the tune, 235.
Oxford University, five election preachers among graduates of, 449.
Oxfordshire, England, 85 n.
Pach, John, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Pach, Nicholas, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Paige, Rev. Lucius Robinson, his History of Cambridge cited, 203 n.
Paine, Nathaniel, Justice of the Peace for Bristol County, 91, 108, 109.
Paine, Nathaniel, xviii; his Account of the American Antiquarian Society mentioned, 35; bibliographies of same society compiled by, 35, 36; his The Early Paper Currency of Massachusetts mentioned, 37; his report on missing records of Worcester County Historical Society, 37 n., 38 n.; elected Resident member, 75.
Paine, Robert Treat (d. 1814), autograph letter of, mentioned, 14.
Palatine emigrants on Block Island, 149, 150.
Palatine Light, tradition of, 32; A. McF. Davis’s conclusion regarding, 113.
Palatines, vessel, 366; date of shipwreck and destination of, 114.
Palfrey, Rev. John Gorham, his History of New England quoted, 124, 125; cited, 124 n., 140, 374.
Palfrey family, 367 n.
Palmer, Joseph, 387.
Paper Bills, of Colony subject to be rent or lost, 224; bad condition of, referred to in various Election sermons, 417, 418.
Paris, Miss, afterwards Baynton, 114 n.
Parish, Rev. Elijah, 432; assails national government in his Election sermon for 1810, 430, — Legislature does not ask copy for press, 430, — two editions, 430.
Park, Rev. Edwards Amasa, his Memorial of S. C. Jackson quoted, 432; evades question of slavery, 433; Discourses on some Theological Doctrines cited, 433.
Parker, Rev. Henry Ainsworth, A.M., xix; elected Resident member, 351.
Parker, Matthew, Archbishop of Canterbury, his Psalter, 234.
Parker, Rt.-Rev. Samuel, appropriates without acknowledgment one of Saurin’s sermons as his Election sermon for 1793, 429.
Parker, Rev. Theodore, 327, 441.
Parkman, Abigail, afterwards Trask, 305.
Parkman, Breck, 307.
Parkman, Bridget, 304.
Parkman, Caroline (Hall), 304, 305.
Parkman, Rev. Ebenezer, 305; ordained minister at Westborough, 306; his character, 306; his diary, 306; his sermons, 306; styled “first Bishop of the Church in Westborough,” 307; wrote An Account of Westborough, 307.
Parkman, Elias, of Dorchester, 304, 305; family of, 305.
Parkman, Elias, son of Elias of Dorchester, 304, 305.
Parkman, Eliza (Adams), 305, 306.
Parkman, Rev. Francis, D.D., 304, 305; pastor of the New North Church, 308; gift to Harvard University, 308; his Offering of Sympathy mentioned, 309.
Parkman, Francis, LL.D., xi, xv, xviii, xx; elected Resident member, 13; his Feudal Chiefs of Acadia cited, 124 and note; death of, 146; Edward Wheelwright to prepare memoir of, 147; brief tribute to, by A. McF. Davis, 151; manuscript from estate of, cited, 244 n.; his article in Atlantic Monthly, March, 1891, cited, 269 n.; Memoir of, by Edward Wheelwright, 304–350, — mentioned, 373; ancestry, 304–310; birth, 310; removal to Green Street, 311; to Medford, 311; out-of-door life, 311, 312; return to Boston, 313; theatrical performances, 313, 317; removal to Bowdoin Square, 313; pupil of Gideon Thayer, 314; literary work in school, 315, 317; admiration for Byron, 316; experiments in chemistry, 317; enters Harvard College, 318; friendship with B. A. Gould, 318; receives a detur, 318; work in English composition in Sophomore year (1842), 319; in list of First Eight, 319; end of his “chumship” with Gould, 319; his popularity, 319; keen insight into character, 320; interest in college affairs, 320; member of the Institute of 1770, 320; Vice-President and President of the Hasty Pudding Club, 321; connection with other college societies, 321; physical preparation for his studies of Indian life, 322; his walks with Daniel D. Slade, 322, 323, 324; excursion to the Magalloway, 325; journal of excursions, 326; visits Keene, N. H., 326; overwork in gymnasium, 327; departure for Europe by sailing-vessel, 327; few days in retreat at a convent in Rome, 327; return from Europe, 327; searching out trails of French and Indians, 328; his rank at graduation, 328; a member of Φ B K, 328; enters the Law School, 328; injury to health by study, 329; receives degree of Bachelor of Laws, 329; lessons in horsemanship, 329; made Overseer of Harvard College, 330; appointed Professor of Horticulture, 330, 341; again chosen Overseer, 330; chosen a Fellow of Corporation, 330; received degree of LL.D., 331; his bequest to Harvard, 331; his feeling for and relations to his class, 332; choice of subjects for class window, 333; duties as Fellow, 334; letters to Class Secretary in 1891 and 1892, 334, 335; a sufferer from arthritis, 335; an advocate of early marriages and large families, 335; suffers from pleurisy, 335; appointed speaker for semi-centennial anniversary of Class in 1894, 335; plan frustrated by his death, 336; beginning of his famous journey to Rocky Mountains, 336; excursion to Black Hills, 337; physical breakdown after return, 337; retirement to water-cure, 337; The Oregon Trail goes through its ninth edition, 338; pleased with Remington’s illustrations, 338; difficulties under which History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac was written, 338; his marriage, 339; death of child and wife, 339; Vassail Morton to some extent a self-revelation, 339, 340; benefit to health from horticulture, 340; election to presidency of Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 341; publication of France and England in North America, 341; contributions to magazines, 341; verdict of critics on the Historical narratives, 342; degree of LL.D. from McGill University, 342; other honors in Canada, 342; John Fiske’s estimate of his work. 343; social life and character, 344–347; home at Jamaica Plain, 344, — in Boston, 344; his courage and patience, 345; hospitality, 346; wide interests, 346; sense of humor, 346; literary taste, 346; love of simplicity, 347; many illnesses of 1892–93, 347; his death, 347; funeral, 347; gift of his class, 348; pall-bearers, 348; commemorative service in Sanders Theatre, 348; societies of which he was member, 349, 350; a founder of Archæological Institute of America, 349; first President of St. Botolph Club, 350; membership in Colonial Society, 350; works of, mentioned throughout Memoir, 304–350.
Parkman, George Francis, 318 n., 319 n.
Parkman, Hannah (Breck), 305.
Parkman, John, son of Elias Parkman, 305.
Parkman, Rebecca, married John Jarvis of Boston, 305.
Parkman, Samuel, son of Elias, goes to Virginia, 305.
Parkman, Samuel (d. 1824), son of Rev. Ebenezer, 307; gift to Harvard, 308; deacon of New North Church, 308; house on Bowdoin Square, 313.
Parkman, Sarah (Rogers), 305.
Parkman, Sarah (Trask), 304, 305.
Parkman, Thomas, 304.
Parkman, William, son of Ebenezer, 307.
Parkman, William, son of Elias, 305, 306, 308.
Parkman family, 367 n.
Parkman Professorship of Theology, Harvard University, 308, 309.
Parliament, 96, 191, 213, 378; first authoritative revolt against acts of, made at Salem, Oct., 1774, 164; Revolution an uprising against unconstitutional legislation of, 169; charter privileges invaded by, as shown by minutes of Bristol Convention, 1774, 177–179.
Parsons, Anne, captured at York, 294.
Parsons, Catherine, captured at York, 294.
Parsons, Rev. Joseph, 420, 421.
Parsons, Rev. Moses, expresses loyalty to George III. in 1772, 424.
Parsons, William, loses three children in Indian attack on Wells, 294.
Party spirit, efforts of Election preachers against, 431, 432, 436; defended, 436.
Passionist Fathers, Convent of, Rome, 327.
Patents granted for inventions in Massachusetts Colony, 201 n., 202 n.
Pater Noster, direction in Bay Psalm-Book, to sing a metre as the, 237, 238.
Patriot Preachers of the American Revolution cited, 425.
Paul, St., 135.
Paxton family, 367 n.
Payson, Rev. Samuel Phillips, on petty criticism of public affairs, 427.
Peabody, Rev. Andrew Preston, 450; indignation of, at approval of lawlessness during struggle for independence, 175; a critical tone in his Election sermon for 1872, 436, 437.
Peabody, Rev. Endicott, LL.M., xviii; elected Resident member, 115.
Peabody, George, Proceedings of Massachusetts Historical Society paid for by income from gift of, 33.
Peabody, Rev. William Bourn Oliver, on party spirit, 431.
Peabody Institute of Archæology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Mass., relics belonging to Massachusetts Historical Society deposited with, 27.
Peck, Prof. William Dandridge, 27.
Peirce, Benjamin, 318.
Peirce, James Mills, A.M., xviii; elected Resident member, 13.
Pelby, William, 313.
Pelham, England, 117.
Pella, Iowa, 450.
Pemaquid, Me., 301.
Pemberton, Rev. Ebenezer (d. 1717), 405; with John Saffin when he died, 86 n.; incident connected with his Election sermon for 1710, 413, — this sermon quoted, 442.
Pemberton, Rev. Ebenezer (d. 1777), expresses fear of French and Indian war, 420.
Pemberton Square, Boston, 54.
Pendleton, Major Brian, appointed to Council of Province of Maine, 287 n.
Penn, William, grant of 1681 to, silent as regards right of coining, 227.
Pennsylvania, 114 n., 249, 367 n., 369 n.; Charter of 1681 silent as to right of coining, 227.
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography cited, 114 n.
Pepperell, Sir William, 269; an example of early aristocratic tendency of Province of Maine, 278.
Pepperell Expedition in 1745, remarks on cross taken by, 269.
Pepys, Samuel, 405.
Pequot war, Boston followers of John Wheelwright refuse to serve in 274.
Percy, Hugh, Earl, afterwards Duke of Northumberland, 355.
Percy Reliques, 316.
Perry, Arthur Latham, his Berkshire at Bennington mentioned, 51.
Perry, Horatio Justus, 320, 321, 334.
Petaquamscott, R. I., gift of land at, to Harvard College by Sewall, 162 and note.
Petaquamscott River, R. I., 162 n.
Peters, Rev. Hugh, 42 n., 158.
Petershall, Robert, 199 n.
Petitcler, Emma Laura (wife of Felix Francis), her Recollections of Elder Leland mentioned, 51.
Phelps, Rev. Austin, reference to, 435.
Phelps, Hon. Edward John, LL.D., xii, xix; elected Honorary member, 157; letter of acceptance, 182; speaks at Annual dinner, 385.
Φ B K, 328.
Philadelphia, Pa., 180, 366, 368, 369 n.; the Palatines bound for, when wrecked, 114.
Philip, Sachem. See King Philip’s war.
Phillips, Gillam, 367.
Phillips, Henry, 367.
Phillips, John Lemuel Thomas, 50; his Sketches of the Early Ministers of Windsor mentioned, 50.
Phillips, Rev. Samuel, of Rowley (d. 1696), no trace of his Election sermon for 1678, 404, 451; imprisoned for free speech, 404.
Phillips, Rev. Samuel, of Andover (d. 1771), rebukes extravagance, 419.
Phillips, Wendell, 404.
Phillips Academy, Andover, Trustees of, incorporated, 212 n., 213 and note.
Phillips (Exeter) Academy, 258.
Phillips family, 367 n.
Phips, Capt. Samuel, 416.
Pickering, Timothy, 430.
Pickman family, 367 n.
Pickton, Thomas, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Pieces of Eight, 223; value of, regulated by Andros, 224.
Pierce, John, Paymaster-General of the United States, 248.
Pierce, Rev. John, 444, 449; his interest in Election sermons, 389, 405, 433, — list of them in his sermon for 1849, 433, 449, — his own collection, 433, 447, 448; opposed to slavery 441; longest graduated of Election preachers at time of sermon, 448.
Pike, Rev. John, attacks Roman Catholicism, 435.
Pike, Capt. Richard, appointed a Massachusetts Bay Commissioner, 285 n.
Piles Grove Precinct, N. J., 370.
Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, 42 n.
Pilgrim Society, Plymouth, incorporation of, 64.
Pilgrims of Plymouth, influence and character of, 18; memorials of, preserved by Pilgrim Society, 64; landing of, at Provincetown, to be commemorated by Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association, 64 n.; tunes brought by, from Holland, 228; followers of Brown, 235, 236; Ainsworth the psalmodist of, 236; musical element in psalmody of, 237.
Pindar, 253.
Pine-trees, monopoly granted for manufacture of pitch, etc. from, 201 n.; grants of, 202 n.
Piper, William Taggard, Ph.D., xix; elected Resident member, 182.
Piracy, trial of Quelch for, at Star Tavern, 409 n.
Piscataqua, Maine, joins combination against government by Colony, 282.
Piscataqua River, Maine, 275, 277; aristocratic basis of early society near, 278.
Pistoles, Spanish, 224.
Pitch, monopoly granted for manufacture of, 201 n.
Pittsfield, Mass., 50; headquarters of Berkshire Athenæum, 67.
Plain Dealing in Newes from New England mentioned, 31.
Plaisted, Elisha, 301; marries daughter of John Wheelwright, 296; captured by Indians, 297; ransomed, 297.
Plaisted, Hannah (Wheelwright), 296, 301.
Plaisted, John, captured by Indians, 297 n.
Plaisted, Mary (Rishworth), captured by Indians, 295.
Plan of Dedham Village mentioned, 44.
Plato, 136.
Plough Patent, 282.
Plowden, Sir Edmund, grant to, 188, 189.
Plymouth, England, company holding patent of Plymouth Colony limited to, 185.
Plymouth, Mass., 42 n., 86 n., 304, 305, 309, 359, 360; memorials relating to, collected by Pilgrim Society, 64; S. L. Thorndike’s paper on Psalmodies of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay, 228–238; asked to assist refugees at Wells, Me., 290.
— Pilgrim Hall, 42 n.
— Pilgrim Society, 64.
See also Pilgrims.
Plymouth Colony, 12, 21, 22, 304; Preliminary conference to form Society composed in part of descendants of residents of, 1, 2; lineal descent from residents of, furnishes eligibility to membership in this Society, 5; influence and character of founders of, 18; not rigorous against heretics, 140; company holding patent of, limited to Plymouth, England, 185; neighborhoods and wards in, not well defined, 192; lax methods of formally establishing towns in, 193; attitude of, toward psalmody, 235, 237, 238; use of Ainsworth’s Book of Psalmes in, 236; character of colonists, 278; Election sermons delivered in, 446; General Court of, 86 n.
Plymouth Colony Records, cited, 86 n., 125 n., 126 n., 127 n.; quoted, 193 n.
Plymouth Company, two colonies sent out by, in 1607, 277; grants Plough Patent to Alexander Rigby, 282.
Plymouth County Convention, 1774, 165.
Plymouth Fathers Hall Association, incorporation of, 64 n.
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 268; incorporation, etc. of, 45.
Poole, William Frederick, his edition of Johnson’s Wonder-working Providence cited, 119 n., 123 n., — mentioned, 31, — quoted, 119 n., 120 n., 123 n.
Poore, Benjamin Perley, his Federal and State Constitutions cited, 216 n., 217 n., 219 n., 225 n., 227 n.
Pope, Alexander, 316.
Pope, Franklin Leonard, his Western Boundary of Massachusetts mentioned, 50.
Pope, John, Brigadier-General U. S. A., papers on campaign of, to be published, 48.
Popery, alleged attempt in 1775 to reestablish, in Canada, 426.
Popham, Chief Justice Sir John, 277 n.
Popham, Elizabeth, wife of Richard Champemowne, 277 n.
Popham Colony, 277; wretched material of, 278.
Pormortt, Philemon, 275 and note, 276; avows loyalty to Church of England, 284.
Port Bill. See Boston, Port Bill.
Porter, Rev. Edward Griffin, A.M., xi, xiii, xix, 174, 355; of Committee of publication, ii, viii; elected Resident member, 75; thinks Boston Massacre could hardly have been avoided, 171; justifies Tea Party, 172.
Portraits: of Judge Samuel Sewall, opposite 89; of F. L. Ames, opposite 258; of F. Parkman, opposite 304.
Portsmouth, N. H., 296, 297, 301, 302, 323, 336, 345, 347; forces at, during King Philip’s war, 129.
Portsmouth, R. I., 161 n.
Powers, Rev. Peter, preached first Vermont Election sermon, 447.
Prayer-book of Edward VI., 229.
Prerogatives of the King, granting of a charter which created a corporation to be counted among, 185; reluctance of General Court of Massachusetts to tread upon, 209; right of regulating value of foreign coins among, 218; coining held to be one of, 220; General Court asks pardon for trespassing upon, 223.
Prescott, James, 387.
Press, censorship of, in Massachusetts Colony, 393.
Prince, Rev. Thomas, his copy of Ainsworth’s Book of Psalmes, 236; his Election sermon for 1730 contains selections from Stoughton’s for 1668, 399; interest of, in Election sermons, 405; suggests reprint of some early Election sermons, 416, 417; on absence of profanity in New England, 443.
Prince Library, 236, 448; memorandum in, relating to Election sermons, 396 n.
Prince Society, 131, 370; incorporation, etc. of, 66; publications cited, 121 n., 221 n., 225 n., 227 n.; mentioned, 271 n.
Private companies to which charters were granted under Massachusetts Colony, 195–202.
Privy Council, 366; appeal of Quakers of Dartmouth, Mass., to, 141; petition to, of Episcopalians in Boston, 142; allows an act of Massachusetts Legislature for further exemption of Quakers from taxation, 143; right of Massachusetts Province to create corporations admitted by, 195; dissatisfaction of, with charters of Harvard College of 1692 and 1697, etc., 207, 208; orders examination of charge by Randolph relating to coinage, 221.
Procter, John, condemned witch, inhumanity of Nicholas Noyes to, 410.
Profanity, in maritime places, condemned in Turner’s Election sermon for 1773, 425; absence of, according to Thomas Prince, 443.
Prohibition, favored in some Election sermons, 444.
Prospect Hill, Charlestown, Mass., 324.
Protectorate, freedom of Massachusetts Company during, 190.
Protestant Churches, Deacons of, in Massachusetts Province, incorporated to hold eleemosynary funds, 211.
Protestants, foreign, ordered from England during reign of Bloody Mary, 229; subsidence of, in England, at death of Edward VI., 231.
Providence Plantations, refugees from religious intolerance find sanctuary in, 140 n.
Province Bills, protest against, 415.
Province Charter. See Massachusetts, Charters.
Province Laws of Massachusetts, support of editor of, by Massachusetts Historical Society, 28; value of material therein relating to Harvard College, 209 n.; mentioned, 87 n.; cited, 194 n., 207 n., 208 n., 211 n., 212 n., 213 n., 292 n., 293 n., 370 n., 409 n.; quoted, 419 n.; (Resolves) cited, 92 n., 94 n.; (Private Acts) cited, 93 n. See also Commissioners on the Publication of the Acts and Resolves of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay.
Province Notes, 377.
Provincetown, Mass., headquarters of Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association, 64 n.
Provincial Congress, Concord, 1774, 176; motives which induced formation of, 163; first to show authoritative revolt, held in Salem in Oct., 1774, 164; recommendations of county conventions regarding formation of congress at Concord, 165; Journals of, 170; Resolves of Bristol Convention as appearing in, 176 n.; orders taxes to be paid to Henry Gardner, 256; delegates not to exceed deputies to General Court, 257.
Provincial Council of Maine. See Maine.
Provincial Governors, Royal Commissions to. See Royal Commissions.
Psalmodies of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay, paper by S. L. Thorndike, 228–238.
Psalmody, metrical, an offence to many in Church of England, 233.
Psalm-singing, deficiency of American works on, 228.
Psalms, Sternhold publishes metrical version of nineteen, 230; in common metre, 234, 235.
Psalter, article on, in Grove’s Encyclopædia referred to, 228.
Public Advertiser (London), 387.
Public Bills, forgeries on, 442.
Public Record Office, London, 76, 271, 374.
Public Schools. See Education, Free Schools, Schools.
Puffer, Rev. Reuben, predicts in 1803 the downfall of the Republic, 429.
Puritanism, 284; origin of, 228, 229; crushed out during reign of Mary, 229; revived under Elizabeth, 229; psalmody one of earliest fruits of, 230; spread of, in Church of England shown by use of metrical psalmody, 233; discouraging effect on art, 238; of the Bay, its subtle hostility to royal power, 279.
Puritans, 278, 280, 282; influence and character of, 18; history of, illustrated by library of American Congregational Association, 66; of England, 170; advantage taken by, of wording of Massachusetts charter, 185; tunes brought by, to Salem and Boston, 228; John Hooper, the first, 229; Sternhold and Hopkins the classic of psalmody of, 230, 231; earliest melodies used by, suggested mostly by French tunes, 232; later psalmody of, had English flavor, 235; descendants of, 303.
Putnam, Rev. George, outspoken against slavery, 440.
Quakers, 133; exiled by Massachusetts colonists, 69; Daniel Denison’s attitude toward, 127; teachings of, similar to those of Tauler, 136; laid foundations in New England for Methodist revival, 137; Massachusetts indebted to, for religious freedom, 137; persecution of, a blot, 139; note on, as Propagandists of Religious Liberty in Massachusetts, by A. C. Goodell, Jr., 140–145; dislike expressed for, in Shepard’s Election sermon of 1672, 400; called enemies by Cotton Mather, 408.
Quarter Sessions, Boston. See Boston.
Quasi Municipal Corporations in Massachusetts Colony, 192.
Quebec, Canada, 294, 301, 306, 342.
Quebec County, 342.
Queen Anne’s war, 298.
Quelch, Capt. John, tried for piracy at Star Tavern, Boston, 409 n.
Quincy, Henry Parker, M.D., xvii, xviii; elected Resident member, 13; elected member of Council for three years, 155; occupies chair in absence of President, 216.
Quincy, Josiah, Jr. (d. 1775), justified Boston Tea Party, 172.
Quincy, Josiah (d. 1864), President of Harvard College, 320; opinion on certain charters of Harvard College, 204 n.; his History of Harvard University cited, 162, 202 n., 204 n., 205 n., 207 n., 209 n., 215 n., 270 n., 308,— quoted, 184 n., 205, 308, — important omissions from, 379.
Quincy, Gen. Samuel Miller, meeting in memory of, held by Bostonian Society, 54.
Quincy family, 367 n.
Quincy Historical Society, 267; incorporation of, 182; purposes, 183.
Quint, Rev. Alonzo Hall, preaches eloquent Election sermon for 1866, 436, — list of preachers in this sermon, 449.
Quo warranto, brought against Massachusetts in 1683, Attorney-General Sawyer on, 223.
Rackemann, Charles Sedgwick, xviii, 1, 4; a founder of this Society, 12.
Radcliffe, Ann, Lady Mowlson. See Mowlson, Ann (Radcliffe), Lady.
Radcliffe, Anthony, alderman of London, father of Lady Mowlson, 354.
Radcliffe, Anthony, brother of Lady Mowlson, will of, 160 n., 354.
Radcliffe, Anthony, nephew of Lady Mowlson, 160, 161, 352.
Radcliffe, Dorothy, afterwards Gerrard, 160 n., 354.
Radcliffe, Edward, brother of Lady Mowlson, 160, 352, 354.
Radcliffe, Elizabeth, afterwards Harvey, 160 n., 354.
Radcliffe College, 351, 355; proposed incorporation of, 162.
Raey, Daniell, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Railroad corporations of which F. L. Ames was director, 260.
Raimont, William, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Rale, Sebastian, French priest, 299.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 277; Elizabeth’s grants to, 186; corporation made by, 186.
Raleigh, City of, intended to be erected in Virginia, 186.
Randolph, Edward, his opinion of Daniel Denison, 131; on government of Harvard College in 1676, 199; sent in 1676 to report on Massachusetts Colony, 220; Report on coins in Colony, 221; in 1679, reports that money is still coined, 222; asks that a quo warranto be brought, and charter annulled, 222; presents in 1683 Articles against Massachusetts Bay, 223; called a wicked man, 404.
Ranton, Rebecca (Mowlson), 353, 354.
Ratcliffe. See Radcliffe.
Ravenscroft, Thomas, 234, 237; his editions of Sternhold and Hopkins, 232, 235; his metres of Psalms compared with those of Ainsworth, 237.
Rawson, Edward, secretary of committee presenting petition to General Court, 81.
Rawson, Rev. Grindall, 410; reference to his Election sermon for 1709, 412; quoted as to drunkenness, 442.
Raymond, Rev. Miner, favors prohibition in his Election sermon for 1854, 444.
Raynham, Mass., 176.
Record Commissioners. See Boston.
Records of the Company of the Massachusetts Bay mentioned, 36.
Redding, Conn., 114 n.
Reed, Gen. Joseph, viii*.
Reformation, English, little sympathy of Lutherans with, 229.
Regicides, in John Russell’s house in Hadley, 398.
Rehoboth, Mass., 176; Goff Memorial building, 56; Trustees of the First and Second Parish of, incorporated, 211.
Rehoboth Antiquarian Society, 267; incorporation, etc. of, 56.
Rehoboth Public Library, 56.
Religious liberty, in Massachusetts, indebted to Quakers, 137; Quakers as Propagandists of, in Massachusetts, note by A. C. Goodell, Jr., 140–145.
Religious tyranny of Bay Colony, 284.
Rembrandt, two portraits by, owned by F. L. Ames, 262.
Remington, Frederic, 338.
Revivalists, 137.
Revolution, American. See American Revolution.
Revolutionary soldiers, markers for graves of, 157.
P T Δ, Harvard College Society, 321.
Rhode Island, 126, 249, 275, 358, 367 n., 368; cruelty against Quakers who found safety in, 139; claimed jurisdiction of territory east of Seaconnet River, 140; refugees from religious intolerance found sanctuary in, 140; boundary line between, and Connecticut, 161 n.; Charter of 1663 silent as to right of coining, 227; asked to assist refugees at Wells, Me., 290; General Assembly, 369 n. See also Bristol, Newport, Providence.
Rhode Island Colonial Records cited, 161 n., 368 n., 369 n.
Rice, Benjamin, of Sudbury, testimony regarding conduct of slave Adam, 109.
Rich, Thomas, first Earl of Warwick, 278.
Richards, John, treasurer of Harvard College, 379; reappointed, 1686, 205; his College account-books: entries from, 205, 206, — recovery of, 206 n., — two fac-similes of pages of, opposite 205, 206; takes securities of College in his own name, 210; position of Treasurer held open for him, 210 n.; chosen Massachusetts agent, 223; instructions to, 223.
Richardson, Henry Hobson, architectural work done by, for Ames family, 262, 263.
Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal, Due de, 356.
Richford de Salop, Catharina (Mowlson), 353.
Richford de Salop, William, 353.
Richmond’s Island, Me., 297; burned, 289.
Rigby, Alexander, purchases Plough Patent, 282.
Rights of Conscience, Baptists as upholders of, 145.
Riots discountenanced by Bristol Convention of 1774, 179.
Rishworth, Edward, 275 and note, 276; removal to York, Me., 279; signs petition to Cromwell for government under Bay Colony, 283; marries daughter of Rev. John Wheelwright, 284; appointed one of Council to govern Province of Maine, 284, 287 n.; appointed one of twelve magistrates to govern Province, 285; influence in Province, 286.
Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de, medal of Society of the Cincinnati to be given to, 248.
Römer, Col. Wolfgang William, engineer in charge of fortifying Castle Island, 92 n.
Rogers, ranger, route of, 325 n.
Rogers, Rev. Ezekiel, democratic nature of his Election sermon for 1643, 392, — sermon never printed, 451; speaks against re-election of Winthrop, 392, 393.
Rogers, John, the martyr, 229.
Rogers, Rev. John, of Boxford (d. 1745), pamphlet by, ordered to be burnt by common hangman, 412.
Rogers, Rev. Nathaniel, probability that Election sermon for 1647 was preached by, 394, 395.
Rogers, Sarah, afterwards Parkman, 305.
Rogers Building, Boston, site of, 426 n., 445.
Rolfe, Benjamin, 369 n.
Roman Catholic Church, its control over Indians noticed in Mayhew’s Election sermon for 1754, 419; violent attack on, in Pike’s Election sermon for 1857, 435; absence of clergymen of, in ceremonies of Election day, 449.
Rootes, Josiah, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Rosier, James, his True Relation of Waymouth’s Voyage mentioned, 31.
Rosin, monopoly granted for manufacture of, 201 n.
Rossiter, Joanna, afterwards Cotton, 305.
Rotterdam, Holland, 367 n.
Rousseau, Pierre Étienne Théodore, 262.
Roxbury, Mass., 270, 295, 324, 450; William Denison settles at, in 1631, 117; his services to town, 118; Indian path from, to Ipswich, 121.
— Eustis-Street Burying-Ground, 266.
Roxbury Latin School, Donors of, 118 and note.
Roxbury Military Historical Society, 267; objects of, 48 n.; steps of, towards preservation of Eustis-Street Burying-Ground, 266.
Royal Governors of the Territory and Dominion of New England and of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, Commissions and Instructions of, 148, 149, 373; to appear in vol. ii. of Publications of this Society, viii; copies of, offered to Society by A. C. Goodell, Jr., 76.
Royal Historical Society of London, 349.
Royal Society of Canada, 349.
Royalists, 283.
Royall family, 367 n.
Royals, quarter and half, value of, regulated by Andros, 224.
Ruggles, Mrs. Martha (Woodbridge), (widow of Samuel Ruggles), Sewall presents her with Election sermons, 415.
Rum, 442.
Rumford Historical Association, Woburn, incorporation, etc. of, 51.
Rump Parliament, Massachusetts authorities compared to, 220.
Runawit, Sagamore Indian, 298 n.
Russell, Rev. John, his Election sermon for 1665 probably not printed, 398, 451.
Russell, Rev. Jonathan, his Election sermon for 1704 quoted, 412.
Russell, William, 315.
Russell, Hon. William Eustis, LL.D., six, 1; elected Resident member, 115; speaks at first Annual dinner, 156.
Russell, William Goodwin, 1.
Ryal Side, Salem, Mass., 76 n.
Rymer, Thomas, his Fœdera cited, 186 n., 188 n.
Sabbath. See Sunday.
Sacheverell, Henry, 178.
Saco, Maine, 270 n., 278, 280, 285 n.; attacked by Indians, 288; set on fire, 289.
Saco River, Me., 301.
Saffin, Adam. See Adam.
Saffin, Benjamin, 361, 361 n., 362.
Saffin, Elizabeth (Lidget), marriage and death of, 86 n.; probable settlement of property upon, by husband, 87 n.
Saffin, Grace, wife of Simon Saffin, 360.
Saffin, Judge John, 358, 360; controversy with Samuel Sewall, 84; birth, ancestry, appearance in Scituate, removal to Virginia, 85 n.; marriages, removal to Boston, public offices, death, 86 n.; property, 87 n.; instrument from which grew contention with Adam, 88; summoned before Sewall, 89; refuses to give up Adam, 89; promoted to Superior Court of Judicature, 90; sits at Adam’s trial, 90; accusations against his conduct of case, 91; given custody of Adam, further trouble, 92; not reappointed, 92; suit brought against, by Adam, 93; threatens transportation, 94; appeal of, to Legislature, 95–97; Legislature decrees that the matter be heard before next Court of General Sessions for Suffolk, 97; Court again grants him possession of Adam, 98; Court reverses its judgment, 99; Saffin again appeals to Legislature, 99, 100; finds no further satisfaction, 102; fac-simile of title-page of his pamphlet, opposite 103; reports concerning his treatment of Adam, 103; lets farm, stock, and slave to Thomas Shepard, promises freedom to Adam, charges him with insolence, 104; takes him to Boston, summoned before Sewall and Addington, 105, 106; defence, 106; his instrument promising Adam’s emancipation, 107; comments on testimony of Shepard, complains that judgment of Court is not entered, promises not to send Adam out of country, 110; given temporary authority over Adam, 111; sends Adam to Castle Island, and, later, attempts his transportation, 111; his Pamphlet, appendix to, 103–112; contention with John Alborough, 161 n.; granted monopoly for manufacture of pitch, etc., 201 n., 202 n.; Tomb and Family of, by A. C. Goodell, Jr., 358–363.
Saffin, John, eldest son of Judge John, 358, 361, 362.
Saffin, John, second son of Judge John, 361, 362.
Saffin, Joseph, sixth son of Judge John, 361, 362.
Saffin, Joseph, eighth son of Judge John, 361.
Saffin, Josiah, fifth son of Judge John, 361.
Saffin, Martha (Willett), marriage and death of, 86 n.; tomb, 358; record of marriage with John Saffin, 360; confinements of, 361; death, 362.
Saffin, Simon, father of Judge John, 360.
Saffin, Simon, son of Judge John, 361, 362.
Saffin, Thomas, 361; death and epitaph of, 86 n.
Saffin v. Green, 86 n.
Sagadahoc, Me., 277.
Sagamore Indians, 275; land purchased from, 298 n.
Sainsbury, William Noel, 375.
St. Botolph Club, Boston, 350; preliminary conference of society at, 1; adjourned meeting at, 3.
St. Castin, Baron de, 289.
St. Christopher le Stocks, London, Registers of, 353, 354.
St. Dunstan’s, Stepney, Middlesex, Eng., 86 n.
St. Étienne, Charles, title of Baronet of New Scotland conferred upon, 188.
St. Michael’s Church, Bishops Stortford, Herts, England, 117.
St. Sulpice, Seigniory of, at Le Lac des Deux Montagnes, Canada, 294.
Salem, County of, N. J., 370.
Salem, Mass., 79, 80, 81, 120, 121 n., 133, 228, 236, 304, 305, 450; services of Dr. Henry Wheatland to institutions of, 42 n.; farms of Old Planters of, 76; and the planters of Conant’s Colony, 77; imperfections in town records of, 78; action of, in petition of Bass River, 81, 82; reply to order served by General Court, 83; grants petition of Beverly Church, 84; Assembly of 1774 held at, 163; failure of new Assembly to meet there, 163, 164; Provincial Congress thereupon formed at, 164; first authoritative revolt against Acts of Parliament there made, 164; General Assembly at, Oct., 1774, called upon to form Provincial Congress at, 180; referred to as Nahumkeeke, 192.
— Essex Street, 77.
— First Church, early church on site of present, 77; inhabitants of Bass River, separate from, 78.
— Marine Society at, incorporated, 212.
— North River, 77.
— South River, 77.
Salem Village, now Danvers, Mass., 62.
Salem Witchcraft, Bi-centennial anniversary of, 62; treatment of, by Massachusetts historians, 69; Joshua Moody said to have advised evasion of trial for, 403; indemnity suggested in Loring’s Election sermon for 1737 for victims of, 417.
Salisbury, Stephen (Jr.), President of American Antiquarian Society, 46.
Salisbury, Me., 292.
Salisbury, Mass., 282.
Salisbury Hall, in building of Worcester Society of Antiquity, 46.
Salt, early methods of manufacture of, 201 n.
Salter family, 367 n.
Saltonstall, Elizabeth, afterwards Cotton, 305.
Saltonstall, Hon. Leverett, A.M., xi, xii, xviii, xx, 1, 115, 257; deceased, xx; elected Vice-President, 11; a founder of this Society, 12; designated to prepare memoir of F. L. Ames, 147; unable to serve longer as member of Council, 147; vote of regret at his declination to be renominated for Vice-President, 155; his Memoir of F. L. Ames, 258–264; chosen as substitute for speaker at fiftieth anniversary of class of 1844, H. C., 335.
Saltonstall, Madam Mary (wife of Gov. Gurdon), 405.
Saltonstall, Nathaniel (d. 1707), 310.
Saltonstall, Sir Richard, 310.
Saltonstall, Richard, son of Sir Richard, 197, 394.
Saltonstall, Richard Middlecott, A.B., a Resident member, xix.
Salt works, Charlestown, Mass., 201 n.
Salvation Army, 139; barracks, 314.
Salvation through election, according to Calvin, 134.
Sanctification, doctrine of, 135.
Sandelands, Annika (Kyn), afterwards Baynton, 114 n.
Sandelands, James, 114 n.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard College, 330, 343, 348.
Sanford, Hon. John Eliot, A.M., xix; elected Resident member, 265.
Sanford, Captain Peleg, 369 n.
Sapper, Thomas, disguise for Saffin, 86 n.
Sargent, Charles Sprague, 348.
Sargent, Lucius Manlius, 367; his Dealings with the Dead cited, 114 n., 367 n., 368 n.
Satan, Francis Parkman’s rifle, 325.
Saunders, Laurence, the martyr, 229.
Saurin, Jacques, sermon by, appropriated without acknowledgment by Samuel Parker as his Election sermon for 1793, 429.
Savage, James, 162 n.; on character of population in New England in 1775, 17, 18; his low opinion of Hubbard’s History of New England, 29 n.; his opinion of Daniel Denison quoted, 131; on annulment of Colony charter, 205 n.; his Genealogical Dictionary of New England cited, 279 n., 360 n.,— quoted, 86 n.
Savage, Major Thomas, placed in command of Massachusetts forces in King Philip’s War, 129; conveyance to, 200 n.; estate of, 200 n.
Savage family, 367 n.
Sawyer, Attorney-General Sir Robert, on quo warranto brought against Massachusetts in 1683, 223.
Sayer, William, 287.
Schminck, Peter, 317.
School laws, efforts of towns to evade, 412.
Schools, need of, presented in Election sermons, 401, 415, 444. See also Education; Free Schools.
Schutte, Mrs. Mary, 319.
Scituate, Mass., 85 n.
Scollay family, 367 n.
Scotch-Irish colonists settle in Londonderry, N. H., 298.
Scotch Psalters, 234.
Scots Charitable Society, Boston, 200 n.
Scottish Army in the North, money lent to, by Lady Mowlson, 161 and note.
Scottow, Capt. Joshua, appointed one of Council of Province of Maine, 287 n.
Scull, Gideon Delaplaine, editor of Voyage of Peter Esprit Radisson, 66.
Seaconnet River, R. I., 140.
Sears, Joshua Montgomery, A.B., xviii; elected Resident member, 13; of Auditing committee, 115, — signs report of this committee, 154.
Sears, Philip Howes, A.M., xviii; elected Resident member, 20.
Sea-water, invention for making salt from, in 1670, 201 n.
Sedgwick, Henry Dwight, A.B., xix; elected Resident member, 182.
Sedgwick, Capt. Robert, 196, 197.
Seeley, Rev. Raymond Hoyt, curious proposition by, to obviate spoils-hunting, 434.
Seigniory of St. Sulpice at Le Lac des Deux Montagnes, Canada, 294.
Seventh Commandment, breaches of, 442.
Sewall, Hannah (wife of Judge Samuel), gift of land to Harvard College, 162.
Sewall, Rev. Joseph (son of Judge Samuel), taken ill during Cheever’s Election sermon for 1712, 413; strict views of, on Sunday-keeping, 415, 416.
Sewall, Chief-Justice Samuel, 100, 412; controversy with John Saffin, 84; his Selling of Joseph, 85; motive of, in writing it, 85 n.; Saffin’s reply, 86; reference by, to Saffin’s death, 86 n.; conies into possession of estate on Mill Creek, and builds a malthouse, 87 n.; summons Saffin to appear before him, 89; animadverts upon his conduct towards slave Adam, 89; his portrait, newly engraved for A. C. Goodell, Jr., opposite 89; charges against Saffin’s action during Adam’s trial, 91; summons Saffin for refusal to free Adam, 105; founds Sewall Scholarship, 161, 162; comment by, on memorandum of names of Artillery and Election preachers, 395 n., 396 n.; solicitude of, for collecting Election sermons, 405; makes presents of Election sermons, 415, 416; his Selling of Joseph first public plea for emancipation, 439; his Diary cited, 85 n., 86 n., 87 n., 93 n., — quoted, 97 n., 162 n., 403, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 411, 412, 413, 414, 415, 416; his Letter-Book mentioned, 31, — cited, 87 n.
Sewall family, 367 n.
Sewall Papers mentioned, 31.
Sewall Scholarship at Harvard College, 161.
Sexton of the Old School (L. M. Sargent), 367.
Shakespeare, William, 230, 238, 316; first quoted by Election preachers in 1782, 428.
Sharp, Rev. Daniel, two editions printed of his Election sermon for 1824, 431.
Shattuck, George Otis, LL.B., xix; elected Resident member, 157.
Shaw, Quincy Adams, xi; gift from, forms nucleus of permanent Publication Fund, 116, 148, 153, 154, 382; accompanies Francis Parkman to Rocky Mountains, 336.
Shaw, Major Samuel, draught of Articles of Association of Society of the Cincinnati in handwriting of, viii*, 244 n., 250; his Journals cited, 250 n.
Shays’s Rebellion, reviewed in Lyman’s Election sermon for 1787, 429.
Sheepscot, Me., 301.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 316.
Shepard, Hannah, testimony of, regarding conduct of slave Adam, 109.
Shepard, Rev. Jeremiah, makes unfeeling reference to Indians, 414.
Shepard, Sarah, testimony regarding conduct of slave Adam, 109.
Shepard, Thomas, of Bristol, 101; receives into his service slave Adam, 88; charges against Adam, 90; conduct of Adam towards, 103; rents farm, stock, and slave from Saffin, 104; asks that latter be sent away for insolence, 105; testimony in regard to Adam’s conduct, 107–110.
Shepard, Rev. Thomas, of Cambridge (d. 1649), 410; effect of his Election sermon for 1637 on the John Wheelwright trouble, 391; power of his preaching, 391; discovery of manuscript of his Election sermon for 1638, 391, — Ezra Stiles had manuscript copy of this sermon, 392; preached two Election sermons, 448, — never printed, 451.
Shepard, Rev. Thomas, of Charlestown (d. 1677), imprimatur in his Election sermon for 1672, 393: his Eye-salve, Election sermon of 1672, an American classic, 400, 410, — quoted, 400, 401, — hatred of toleration in, 401, — reprinting of, suggested by Thomas Prince, 417.
Shepard Congregational Society, Cambridge, 59.
Shepard Historical Society, Cambridge, 267; organization, etc. of, 59.
Shepherd. See Shepard.
Sherman, Elizabeth (wife of Richard), claimant against Captain Keayne, 393.
Sherman, Rev. John, signs imprimatur to Shepard’s Election sermon for 1672, 393.
Shine, John, testimony regarding conduct of slave Adam, at Castle Island, 112 n.
Shoemakers’ Guild, incorporated in Boston, 197; powers granted to, 197, 198.
Shorter Catechism, 134.
Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet, his Topographical and Historical Description of Boston cited, 200 n., 409 n.
Shute, Rev. Daniel, preaches conciliatory Election sermon in 1768, 421.
Shuttleworth, Miss Hannah, bequest of, to Dedham Historical Society, 44.
Sibley, Rev. John Langdon, 206 n., 379; his Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University cited, 210 n., 304 n., 310 n., 396 n., 398, 401, 402, 405, 407, 408 n., 411, 414, — quoted, 409, 412, 414, 415.
Sicily, 327.
Sidmouth, Devon, England, 304.
Silver, minting and stamping of, in Massachusetts Colony, 224; coined by Lord Baltimore, 226.
Silver Bank of 1740, 378.
Silver-plate for payment of debts, 220.
Simony, Rev. John Wheelwright guilty of, 271, 272.
Simpkins, Capt. Nicholas, 199 n.
Simple Cobbler of Agawam. See Ward, Rev. Nathaniel.
Sinai, 137.
Sins, arraignment of, in Adams’s Election sermon for 1685, 406.
Sioux Indians. See Dakota Indians.
Sisson, John, refuses to assess for support of Orthodox ministry, 141.
Skinner, Rev. Warren, preached last regular Vermont Election sermon, 447.
Slade, Daniel Denison, M.D., xi, xiii, xvii, xviii, 1, 132, 133; deceased, xx; elected Councillor of this Society, 11; a founder of this Society, 12; reads paper on Daniel Denison, 116–132, — comments of A. C. Goodell, Jr., on paper, 132–140; remarks by, on Louisburg Cross on Gore Hall, 269, 270; called The Chieftain, 322; his college diary, 323; his walks with Francis Parkman, 323–325; visits classmates Hale and Perry at Keene, N. H., 326; visited by Parkman, 328; one of Parkman’s pall-bearers, 348.
Slafter, Rev. Carlos, his Epitaphs in the old Burial-Place, Dedham, Mass., mentioned, 44.
Slafter, Rev. Edmund Farwell, 66; makes annual reports to the Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Church in Massachusetts, 42 n.; his editions of Sir William Alexander and American Colonization, of Voyages of the Northmen to America, and of Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, mentioned, 66; his Memoir of Sir William Alexander cited, 356.
Slavery, strength of, in Massachusetts, at time of Boston Massacre, 173; vitality of, in Province of Maine, 293; lukewarmness of preachers of Election sermons toward evil of, 417, 439–441; discussion of, evaded in Park’s Election sermon for 1851, 433, 434; growing boldness of pulpit after 1850 against, 434. See also Negroes.
Slave-trading, in Boston vessel in 1645, 439 n.
Sloughter, Henry, Governor of New York, 290.
Small-pox in Boston, prevents Election sermons for 1752 and 1764, 419 and note; erroneous impression that there was no sermon in 1721 on account of, 447.
Smith, Andrew Murray, his Medicine in Berkshire mentioned, 50.
Smith, Charles Card, his chapter on Acadia, in Narrative and Critical History of America, and his chapter on Boston and the Neighboring Jurisdictions, in Memorial History of Boston, cited, 124 n.
Smith, James, serves on jury in case against slave Adam, 91.
Smith, James, possibly a son of John Smith, surveyor, 370.
Smith, Capt. John, his Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters, and his Description of New England, mentioned, 31.
Smith, John, surveyor of Newport, R. I., 369 n.; appointed in 1679, to survey boundary between Rhode Island and Conn., 161 n., 368; his interest in Sutton lands, 369, 370.
Smith, John, son of John Smith, surveyor, 370.
Smith, Margaret, daughter of John Smith, surveyor, 370.
Smith, Mary, daughter of John Smith, surveyor, 370.
Smith, Mary, wife of Thomas Smith, 370.
Smith, Rebecca (afterwards Budd), 114 n., 369 n., 370.
Smith, Richard, witness to emancipation of slave Adam, 88, 107.
Smith, Lieut.-Col. Samuel, deposition of, in Saffin v. Green, 86 n.
Smith, Susanna, wife of John Smith, surveyor, 370.
Smith, Thomas, son of John Smith, surveyor, 370.
Smith, Rev. Thomas, of Portland, declines to preach Election sermon for 1755, 420; his Journal quoted, 420.
Smyth, Ralph Dunning, his list of Connecticut Election sermons referred to, 447 n.
Snake Indians, 337.
Snapper, Thomas, disguise for Saffin, 86 n.
Snow, Charles Armstrong, A.B., a Resident member, xix.
Snow, Charles Henry Boylston, 321.
Society for Constitutional Information raises fund for relief of Americans after Battle of Lexington and Concord, 386, 387.
Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge among the Indians of North America, its act of incorporation (1762) negatived by Crown, 212.
Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, 162, 351.
Society of Antiquaries, London, 349.
Society of Arts and Sciences, proposed in Payson’s Election sermon for 1778, 427.
Society of Colonial Wars in Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, incorporation, etc. of, 63 n.
Society of Friends. See Quakers.
Society of Plymouth and The Bay, name proposed for this Society, 13; not satisfactory, 14.
Society of the Cincinnati, medal of, 244, 247; remarks of A. C. Goodell, jr., on, 249–254; unreasonable prejudice against, 252; services of, to the nation, 254; authorities cited showing popular prejudice against, 254 n.; Articles of Association: draught once believed by Mr. Goodell to be in Washington’s handwriting, 239–244, — Mr. Goodell concludes that the draught was written by Major Shaw, viii, viii*, — facsimile of, opposite 244, — as finally adopted, 244–249, — hostility to clause relating to hereditary membership, 249, — Washington’s a copy of Knox’s original draught, 250; final draught by Major Shaw, 250, — surmises as to missing portion of Washington’s draught, 251, — Washington’s consent to change in, 253. See also Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati.
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, organization of, 157.
Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, incorporation, etc. of, 49 n.; publications of, mentioned, 157; purposes, 158 n.
Society of the War of 1812 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, incorporation of, 386; purposes of, 386 n.
Solomon, Song of, 136.
Somers, Sir George, Bermudas, Somers, or Sommer’s Islands called after, 218.
Somerset Place, now Allston Street, Boston, 310.
Somerset Street, Boston, 310; house of New-England Historic Genealogical Society on, 39.
Somersetshire, England, 85 n.
Somers Islands, called after Sir George Somers, 218.
Song of Solomon, 136.
Sons of Naval Veterans, afterwards Naval Legion of the United States, 68.
South America, 318.
South Carolina, 433.
South Kingston, R. I., 162 n.
South Natick, Mass., Historical, Natural History and Library Society of, 267, 268; incorporation, etc. of, 46.
South River, Salem, Mass., 77.
South Sea speculation, efforts to suppress, 213.
Southwell, the tune, 235.
Sow business, excited condition of Boston in 1642 over, 392, 393.
Spanish pieces, made current by General Court in 1682, 223; melted down and stamped by Colony, 224.
Sparks, Jared, his Library of American Biography mentioned, 121 n.; his edition of Correspondence of Washington cited, 254 n.
Spectacle-makers, petition in 1628 in behalf of, 159 n.
Spectator, The, cited, 86 n.
Spener, Charles, 254 n.
Spenser, Edmund, 230, 316; his Faerie Queene mentioned, 388.
Spoils-hunting, plan to obviate, 434.
Spot Pond, Stoneham, Mass., 324.
Sprague, Rev. William Buell, 449; his Annals of the American Pulpit quoted, 405, 406.
Springfield, Mass., 450.
Spurwink, Me., burned, 289.
Squamscot River, N. H., 275.
Stackhouse, Richard, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Staines, Richard, 200 n.
Stamp Act, 378.
Standish Monument Association, incorporation of, 65 n.
Stanstead, Canada, 325.
Stanyan, Anthony, 276.
Star Tavern, Boston, note on, by H. H. Edes, 409 n.
Star Theatre company, 317.
State House, Boston, 376.
State Papers in the (British) Public Record Office, 352; Colonial, Bundles, cited, 221 n., 222 n., 223 n.; Colonial, Entry Books, cited, 221 n., 222 n.
State Street, Boston, 445.
Statutes at Large (British) cited, 213 n.
Stearns, Rev. William Augustus, on character of Lincoln, 435, 436; incident during delivery of Election sermon, 436.
Sternhold, Thomas, publishes in 1549 metrical version of nineteen Psalms, 230; compared with Marot, 230; literary merit of, 230.
Sternhold and Hopkins’s version of the Psalms, 228; the classic Puritan psalmody, 230; editions mentioned, 231, 234; receives first musical setting, 232; comes into use by Church of England, 233; as appendixes to Bibles, 233 n.; musical settings of, 234, 235; Ravenscroft’s edition of, 235; probably not used in Plymouth colony, 237; use of Latin names in, 238.
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand, Baron von, 249, 250.
Stevens, Rev. Benjamin, on the conquest of Canada, 420; extols the character of George III., 420.
Stiles, Ezra, President of Yale College, his manuscript copy of Shepard’s Election sermon for 1638, 392.
Stillman, Rev. Samuel, favors emancipation, 440; democratic doctrine of Election sermon for 1779, 427; reference to inattention of Election audience, 446.
Stock jobbing, Parliamentary Acts in restraint of, 213.
Stoddard, Rev. Solomon, comment by, on habits of students in Harvard College, in Election sermon for 1703, 411.
Stone, Rev. Andrew Leete, inveighs against party spirit, 436.
Stone, John, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Stone, Jonas, of Lexington, 387.
Stone, Nathaniel, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Stone, Rev. Samuel, quoted on Congregationalism, 391.
Stone House, shown to be Star Tavern, by H. H. Edes, 409 n.
Stoneham, Mass., 311.
Storah. See Storre and Storer.
Storee, Marie, afterwards Wheelwright, sister of Augustine Storre, 275 n.
Storer, Col. John, leads party to join expedition against Louisburg, 300.
Storer, Joseph, 288, 289; supposed kinsman of Augustine Storre, 279; takes command of garrison house at Wells, 290; licensed inn-holder, 291; indicted for “keeping keeles and bowles,” 291.
Storer, William. See Storre, William.
Storey. See Storre and Storer.
Storey, Moorfield, 1.
Storr. See Storre and Storer.
Storre, Augustine, 273, 275 and note, 276; possible return to England, 279.
Storre, Susanna (Hutchinson), 275 n.
Storre, Rev. Thomas, 271.
Storre, William, settles in Dover, N. H., 279; spelt his name Storer and Story, 279 n.
Stort River, England, 116, 118.
Stortford, England, 116, 117, 118.
Story, William. See Storre, William.
Story, William, first husband of Sarah (Hankredge), John Cotton’s second wife, 305.
Stoughton, Israel, 274.
Stoughton, William, 90 n., 223, 436, 442; Election sermon of 1668 quoted, 19; as Deputy-President of the Council acts in regard to Harvard College, 205; as Lieut.-Governor in 1696 appoints President and others to manage College, 207; admits that money is coined in Massachusetts Colony, 221; instructed to sue for pardon for this offence, 222; returns home, 223; his Election sermon for 1668, 399, — extract from, reprinted in Prince’s Election sermon, 416, 417, — two editions, 399, — famous sentence in, 400; hatred of toleration, 401; decries intemperance, 441.
Strachey, William, his History of Travaile into Virginia mentioned, 31.
Strasburg, Germany, 136, 229, 232.
Stratfield, Conn., 114 n.
Stratford, Conn., 114 n.
Strong, Caleb, 430.
Stuart, Rev. Moses, his Election sermon for 1827 democratic in tone, 431.
Sturgis family, 367 n.
Suckling, Sir John, 316.
Sudbury, Mass., 109.
Suffolk, England, 278 n.
Suffolk County, Mass., 93, 369 n.; Court of Assize and General Gaol delivery, 98, 99, 100; Court of Sessions, 98, 99, 100, 112 n., — Records of, quoted, 98; Inferior Court of Common Pleas, 93, 95, — John Saffin’s promotion from, 90; Probate Court, 366; Registry of Heeds, 366, 368; Superior Court for Civil Business, records in office of clerk of, quoted, 94.
Suffolk County Convention, 1774, 165, 166, 176; Bristol Convention agrees with, 180, 181.
Suffolk Court Files, cited, 88 n., 91 n., 95 n., 97 n.; quoted, 94, 99, 112 n.
Suffolk Deeds, cited, 87 n., 201 n., 281 n., 364 n., 366 n., 369 n., 370 n.; quoted, 199 n., 200 n.
Suffolk Probate Files cited, 87 n., 200 n., 251 n., 366 n., 367 n.
Suffolk Probate Records cited, 85 n.
Suffolk, tune, 235.
Sullivan, James, his History of Land Titles in Massachusetts quoted, 27 and note.
Sunday, strict views by Joseph Sewall on observance of, 415, 416; unnecessary journeyings on, rebuked in Baxter’s Election sermon for 1727, 416.
Superior Court, Boston. See Boston.
Surrey, Earl of, translates Psalms, 231.
Sutton, Mass., 368, 369, 369 n., 370.
Sutton’s Hospital, case of, 191.
Swamp Fight, 1675, 209 n.
Swan, Madam Hepzibah (wife of James), her friendship for General Henry Jackson, 251.
Swan Tavern, Boston, 364.
Swanzey, Mass., 89, 90, 104, 105, 107, 176, 360, 360 n.
Swedes, The, 196.
Swift, Rev. John, curious expressions in his Election sermon for 1732, 416.
Swift, Lindsay, A. B., 450 n.; instructions given to, regarding Index for vol. I. of Transactions, vii; a Resident member, xix; paper on Massachusetts Election, sermons, 388–451.
Switzerland, 327.
Sydney-Sussex College, Cambridge, 271.
Symmes, Rev. Zechariah, preacher of Election sermon for 1648, 395; sermon never printed, 451.
Symonds, Harlakenden, 287 n.
Symonds, Samuel, 197; appointed to prepare letters to Cromwell, etc., 126; on commission to revise Massachusetts Colony laws, 126 n.
Symonds, Samuel, Deputy-Governor of Massachusetts, 287 n.
Symonds, William, 287 and note, 288.
Tabor, Philip, refuses to assess for support of Orthodox ministry, 141.
Taconnet, Maine, 301.
Taft, Henry Walbridge, A.M., xix; his Judicial History of Berkshire mentioned, 50; elected Resident member, 216.
Tanguay, Cyprien, abbé, his À travers les Registres cited, 294.
Tate and Brady’s version of the Psalms, 234.
Tauler, John, teachings of, similar to those of Anne Hutchinson, 136.
Taunton, Mass., 176, 254, 255; headquarters of Old Colony Historical Society, 43; Cobb mansion at, 162; Bristol County Convention of 1774 held at, 163; Committee of, empowered to call meeting of Bristol Convention, 181.
Taylor, Rowland, 229.
Tea Party. See Boston: Tea Party.
Temperance, Election sermons largely silent on, 433.
Temple, Sir Thomas, 224.
Thacher, Moses, editor of New England Telegraph, 429.
Thacher, Rev. Peter (d. 1739), quoted on intemperance, 442.
Thatcher, Rear-Admiral Henry Knox, 239 n.
Thayer, Rev. Ebenezer, on degeneracy of the age, 416.
Thayer, Gideon, 314.
Thayer, James Bradley, LL.D., x, xiv, xviii, 1; elected Councillor, 11; a founder of this Society, 12; announces re-establishment of Lady Mowlson Scholarship, 20, 21; speaks at first Annual dinner, 156; calls attention to opinion of Chief-Justice Gray, 195 n.; thanked for services as member of Council, 385.
Thayer, William Roscoe, A.M., xviii; elected Resident member, 115.
Theological Seminary at Andover, 450; Library, 236; its set of Election sermons, 448.
Theology, of New England, Calvin’s doctrines foundation of, 134.
Thierry, Jacques Nicolas Augustin, his Norman Conquest, 339.
Third National Bank of Boston, funds of Society deposited with, 154.
Thomas, Isaiah, gift of folio Bible published by, in 1791, 14; his wish that American Antiquarian Society be in Worcester, 34; builds edifice for Society, 35; his books given to Society, 38; his History of Printing in America (Haven’s edition) mentioned, 36, — quoted, 403.
Thomas, Robert Bailey, 317.
Thomas à Kempis, printing of his De imitatione inhibited by General Court, 393.
Thomas v. Sorrell, 192 n.
Thomas’s Cellar, Wells, Me., 283 n.
Thompson, Benjamin, Count Rumford, 51.
Thompson, Rev. William, preaches for six weeks at Wells, 300.
Thorndike, Herbert, his Just Weights and Measures quoted, 233.
Thorndike, John, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Thorndike, Samuel Lothrop, A.M., xii, xviii; elected a Resident member, 75; reads paper on The Psalmodies of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay, 228–238; exhibits: a Charles I. prayer-book, 233 n., — editions of Sternhold and Hopkins, 234 n., — edition of Ainsworth’s Psalms, 237 n.
Thornton, Lady, niece of Lady Mowlson, 160.
Thornton, John Wingate, his familiarity with Massachusetts Election sermons, 389; his high opinion of Shepard’s Election sermon for 1672, 400; his Pulpit of the American Revolution cited, 422, 425 n.; quoted, 389, 422, 423, 424, 425.
Thursday Lectures (Boston), occasionally considered as extra Election sermons, 446 and note.
Tillinghast, Caleb Benjamin, 23.
Titus, negro servant of Col. Samuel Wheelwright, 293.
Tiverton, Mass., Quaker Selectmen in, refuse to assess for support of Orthodox ministry, 141.
Tokens, copper pieces made for North Carolina, intended for, 227.
Toleration, persistence of Baptists in avowing principle of, 145; hatred for: in Shepard’s Election sermon for 1672, 400, — also in Oakes’s and Torrey’s Election sermons, 401, — also in Increase Mather’s sermons, 404.
Tooke, John Horne, 387.
Toppan, Robert Noxon, A.M., xii, xiii, xiv, xviii, 67, 370; his forthcoming memoir of Edward Randolph mentioned, 67; elected a Resident member, 75; contributes item relating to Lady Mowlson, 161; makes remarks on power to coin granted in early charters, 215; paper on The Right to Coin under the Colonial Charters, 216–227; exhibits specimen of first coinage of mint in Boston, 227; remarks on friendly services in England to American colonists at outbreak of Revolution, 386, 387.
Torrey, Rev. Samuel, 406, 412, 436; mentions Mitchel’s Election sermon for 1667, 398; his hatred of toleration, 401; his gloomy view of New England, 402; preaches three Election sermons, 402, 448, — reprinting of them suggested by Thomas Prince, 417; a non-graduate of Oxford, 449.
Torrey, William, clerk of Committee presenting petition to General Court, 81.
Touches, Chevalier de, medal of Society of the Cincinnati to be given to, 248.
Town Dock, Boston, 87 n., 199 n.
Town Hill, Ipswich, 133.
Town House, Boston, Election sermons for a time preached in, 445.
Town’s End, Wells, Me., 288, 294.
Towns, lax methods of formally establishing, in Colonies of Plymouth and the Bay, 192, 193; Chief-Justice Gray on this matter, 193; declared to be corporate under State Constitution, 195; incorporation of, during Provincial period, 211.
Townsend, Lt-Col. Penn, 94; binds over slave Adam, 89, 106.
Tracy mansion, Newburyport, now the Public Library, 51.
Training-day, intemperance on, 442.
Transcendentalism, pleasantry concerning, 433.
Trask, Abigail (Parkman), 305.
Trask, John, of Salem, 305.
Trask, Sarah, afterwards Parkman, 304, 305.
Trask, Capt. William, of Salem, 305.
Traske, Osmond, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Treadwell, James Parker, 321.
Treat, Rev. Samuel, his Election sermon for 1713 not printed, 413, 451, — copy asked for, 451, — few extracts from, in Sewall’s Diary, 414.
Tremont Temple, Boston, 42.
Trimountaine, name of Boston till 1630, 192.
Trinitarians, 449.
Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., one Election preacher a graduate of, 449; Quinquennial Catalogue mentioned, 450.
Troyon, Constant, 262.
Trumbull, James Hammond, his Origin and Early Progress of Indian Missions in New England mentioned, 37; his opinion as to manuscript copy of Shepard’s Election sermon for 1638, 392.
Trumbull, Jonathan, Jr., 254 n.
Trumbull Papers mentioned, 31.
Tuck, Thomas, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Tucker, Serg’t, Indian captive, 297.
Tucker, George Fox, LL.B., xix; elected Resident member, 157.
Tucker, Rev. John, preaches Election sermon for 1771, 424.
Tuckerman, Frederick, his William Cooper, town clerk of Boston, mentioned, 54 n.
Tufts College, College Hill, Mass., 268, 450; headquarters of Universalist Historical Society, 49.
Tufts Library building, Weymouth, 52.
Tunes, naming of, 235; French origin of, in English psalmody, 237.
Tunstall, Cuthbert, last Bishop of Durham who exercised right to coin, 226.
Turner, —, of Charlestown, effect of Shepard’s preaching upon, 391.
Turner, Rev. Charles, inveighs against gaming in 1773, 425.
Turner, Robert, shoemaker in Boston, 197.
Turpentine, monopoly granted in 1671 for manufacture of, 201 n.
Tuttle, Charles Wesley, his Historical Papers cited, 276 n.
Tuttle, Julius Herbert, on condition of Dedham Historical Society, 44.
Tyler, Mrs. Abby Little (Hitchcock), reprints Hitchcock’s Election sermon, 425.
Tyndale, William, 228.
Tyng, Edward, appointed a Massachusetts Bay Commissioner, 285 n.
Umbagog Lake, N. H., 324.
Union College, one Election preacher a graduate of, 449.
Union Pacific Railway, connection of Ames family with, 259.
Union Street, Boston, 87 n., 200 n., 409 n.
Unitarian Festival, 1891, 334.
Unitarians, 449.
United Colonies of New England, Commissioners of. See Commissioners of the United Colonies of New England.
United States Census of Boston in 1790, manuscript of, 39.
United States Court House, Boston, 314.
United States Navy, commission of the first ship in, 49 n.
Universalist Historical Society, Tufts College, 268; incorporation, etc., 49.
University of New York, one Election preacher a graduate of, 449.
University of Pennsylvania, two Election preachers graduates of, 449.
University Press, Cambridge, bill to this Society for printing, 153.
Upham, Charles Wentworth, his Life of Henry Vane cited, 121 n.
Upham, William Phineas, result of his study regarding Conant’s Colony, 77.
Valley Forge, Pa., 253.
Vane, Sir Henry, Governor of Massachusetts, 273, 274, 275, 392; his friendship with John Wheelwright, 281; friendly relations of, with Samuel Maverick, 284; reference to, in Shepard’s Election sermon for 1638, 391.
Vaughan, George, 271 n., 273 n.
Vaughan, Sir John, Chief Justice, cited, 191, 192 n.
Vermont Election sermons, 447; accounts of, referred to, 447 n.
Vermont Record, cited, 447.
Verplanck family, 367 n.
Verzameling van stukken tot de dertien Vereenigde Staeten van Noord-America betrekkelijk, Cooper’s Election sermon for 1780 printed in, 428.
Vestments, episcopal, John Hooper re fuses to wear, 229.
Vicar of Bray, 434.
Vincent, Augustine (Windsor Herald), his manuscript pedigrees of London, now in Herald’s College, 353.
Vintners of Boston and Charlestown, monopoly granted to, 198.
Vintners’ Company, England, 161 n.
Vinton, Rev. Alexander Hamilton, insists on divine origin of Government, 433.
Virgil, 315.
Virginia, 85 n., 173, 277, 305, 367 n.; papers on campaign of General Pope in, to be published by Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, 48; other names of, 186; provisions of charters of, 184; charters contrasted with those of Massachusetts Bay Company regarding powers to create corporations, 184–187; first charter of, 186; second, third charter of, 187; proclamation of Charles I. that government of, should depend on himself, 188 n.; charter of 1606 authorized coinage, 216; charter of Virginia Company of 1609 confirms right to coin, 217; third charter silent as to issuing coin, 217; Assembly authorizes coining of copper pieces in 1645, 217; foreign coins made legal tender by act of, 218, — this act annulled, 218.
Virtutis Præmium, motto on medal of Society of the Cincinnati, 244, 247.
Visitor’s Guide to Salem cited, 41 n.
Voting, honestly performed by early settlers, 429.
Wadsworth Monument Association, incorporation of, 65 n.
Wainwright, Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, on inequality of wealth, 431, 432.
Waite, Richard, 369 n.
Wakefield Historical Society, 267; incorporation, etc. of, 63 n.
Walcott, Charles Hosmer, address by, before the Concord Lyceum, 57 n.
Walcott, Henry Pickering, 341 n.
Waldo family, 367 n.
Waldron, Rev. Daniel Wingate, 437, 450.
Waldron, Capt. Richard, appointed a Massachusetts Bay Commissioner, 285 n.
Walker, Hon. Francis Amasa, LL.D., xviii; elected Resident member, 13.
Walker, Rev. James, 334, 435; delivers two Election sermons, 431, 448.
Walnut Street, Boston, 344.
Walter, Rev. Nehemiah, 413.
Wampum, as lawful currency, 220.
Wampus, John, 369 n.
Wapping, London, England, 305.
War of 1812, bad spirit of Massachusetts over, 430. See also Society of the War of 1812 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
War of the American Revolution. See American Revolution.
War of the Rebellion. See American Civil War.
Ward, Rev. Nathaniel, cited in opposition to liberty of conscience, 273; his Election sermon for 1641, 392, — never printed, 451; Election sermon for 1660 wrongly ascribed to, 396 n.
Ward, Richard, grant to, annulled, 186.
Wardell (or Wardwell), William, denounces religion of Bay Colony, 284.
Wardwells, of Exeter, N. H., 275 n.
Ware, Hon. Darwin Erastus, A.M., xviii; elected Resident member, 75.
Warming, invention in 1652 for saving expense in, 201 n.
Warren, Rev. Henry White, favors prohibition, 444.
Warren, James, 387.
Warren, Gen. Joseph, monument to, 65 n.; residence at time of death, 87 n.; justified Boston Tea Party, 172; disclaimed idea of separation from England, 173.
Warren, Winslow, 1.
Warren Papers mentioned, 31.
Warwick, first Earl of. See Rich, Thomas.
Washburn, Emory, on annulment of Harvard College charter, 205 n.
Washington, George, 14, 251, 252, 254, 435; celebration of his birth furthered by Society of the Sons of the Revolution, 49 n.; draught of Articles of Association of Society of the Cincinnati once thought by Mr. Goodell to have been written by, 238, 239 n., — Mr. Goodell concludes that it was written by Major Shaw, viii, viii*; approves hereditary membership, 249; probable date of writing draught, 250; willingness of, to amend objectionable features in Articles, 253.
Washington, D. C., 115, 351; capture of, 431.
Washington, Mt., N. H., 324, 326.
Washington Street, Boston, 63 n., 263, 445.
Water engines, patent granted in 1646 for, 201 n.
Water-power, early improvements in, 202 n.
Water Street, Cambridge, 119.
Waters, Henry Fitz Gilbert, 352; reports results regarding Conant’s Colony, 77; discoveries as to Mowlson family, 160, — as to will of Anthony Radcliffe, 160 n.; his Gleanings in England cited, 278 n.
Waters, Thomas Franklin, 60 n.
Watertown, Mass., 119; Historical Society of, 58; sermon preached by Langdon at, in 1775, a regular Election sermon, 425; Watertown “Enterprise,” 58.
Watkins, Walter Kendall, 114 n., 368 n.
Watson, William, Ph.D., xviii, 1, 3, 4; a founder of this Society, 12; of Committee on nominations, 351.
Webb, Rev. John, on currency in 1738, 417; pleads for Charter rights, 418; Thursday Lecture by him attended as an Election sermon, 446.
Webb, Richard, shoemaker in Boston, 197.
Webster, Daniel, matter illustrating his services, collected by Webster Historical Society, 55 n.; on Harvard College charter, 204 n.
Webster, Rev. Samuel, preaches Election sermon for 1777, 426; opposes monopolies, and wants frequent elections, 427.
Webster Historical Society, 55 n.
Welby, Robert, 271.
Weld, William Gordon, xviii; deceased, xx; elected Resident member, 13.
Welde, Rev. Thomas, given £100 for a scholarship by Lady Mowlson, 158; cited against Anne Hutchinson, 273 n.; interview with Lady Mowlson, 354.
Wells, Samuel, A. B., xviii; elected Resident member, 13.
Wells, Deacon Thomas, goes to Boston and Cambridge, to get preacher for Wells, 300.
Wells, William Vincent, his Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams cited, 254 n.
Wells, England, 283 n.
Wells, Maine, 276, 277, 280, 428; Exeter Associates become controlling force at, 279; hardship of life at, 279; Cromwell asked to confirm jurisdiction of Massachusetts over, 281; joins Combination against government, 282; refuses to acknowledge authority of Bay colony, 283; church founded by John Wheelwright dissolved, 284; refuses to send representatives to General Court, 284, 286; becomes capital of Province, 287; attacked during King Philip’s war, 288; three garrison houses built, 288; Town’s End, 288, 294; reinforced, harbors refugees, 289; lack of discipline among inhabitants of, 289; militia empowered to seize cattle, 290; attacked by Moxus, 290; repels attack from La Broquerie, 291; goes actively into lumbering, 292; selling of slaves at, 293; surprised by Indians, loses some of its inhabitants, 294; pitiable condition of, after raid of 1703, 295; further Indian attacks, 296; respite from savage raids, 297; character of inhabitants, 297; social lines, 298; prosperity of, 298; Indian attacks resumed, 299; sends men against Louisburg, 300; sends levy to Wolfe for his Canadian campaign, 301; ceases to be a frontier town, 301; importance of, to-day, 303.
Welsteed, Rev. William, on bad currency in 1751, 418.
Wendell family, 367 n.
Wenham, Mass., sends messengers to installation at Beverly, 84.
Wentworth, William, 275 and n., 276; removal to Dover, 279.
Wentworth family, 275 n.
Wentworth house, Portsmouth, N. H., 344.
Wesleyan University, 450; one Election preacher a graduate of, 449.
West, Elise Alger, married Oliver Ames 2d, 264.
West, Rev. Samuel, holds that popular judgment is right, 426.
West New Jersey, Province of, 370.
West Point, N. Y., 239 n.
Westborough, Mass., 305, 306, 307.
Westborough Historical Society, 267; incorporation, etc. of, 59.
Westbrooke, Major Thomas, and others, Letters of, cited, 299 n.
Westminster, England, 159.
Westminster Assembly of Divines, 134, 138.
Weston, Rebecca (Baynton), 114 n.
Weston, Thomas, 114 n.
Weston, Mass., 418.
Weymouth Historical Society, incorporation, etc. of, 52.
Whalley, Col. Edward, the regicide, 398.
Wharton, Richard, petitions in 1670 relative to manufacture of salt, 201 n.; and others, granted monopoly to produce pitch, rosin, and turpentine, 201 n.
Wheatland, Henry, tribute to, by G. E. Ellis, quoted, 42 n.
Wheeler, Alexander Strong, 75 n.
Wheelwright, Aaron, grandson of Joseph Wheelwright, member of Committee of correspondence in 1779, 302 n.
Wheelwright, Abraham, son of Jeremiah Wheelwright of Gloucester, officer in Continental army, 302 n.
Wheelwright, Andrew Cunningham, A.M., a Resident member, xix.
Wheelwright, Rev. Charles Apthorp, grandson of Nathaniel Wheelwright and prebendary of Lincoln, 302 n.
Wheelwright, Rev. Charles Apthorp, grandson of the prebendary of Lincoln, 302 n.
Wheelwright, Capt. Daniel, son of Samuel, goes to Fort Halifax, 301; dies in service, 1778, 302 n.
Wheelwright, Edmund March, A.B., xiii, xix, 370; elected Resident member, 182; reads paper on A Frontier Family (the Wheelwrights), 271–303.
Wheelwright, Edward, A.M., xiii, xviii, 301, 303, 304, 334, 335, 348; elected Resident member, 13; designated to prepare a Memoir of Francis Parkman, 147; communicates it, 304–350.
Wheelwright, Esther, wife of Col. Samuel Wheelwright, 293; unable to write, 297 n.
Wheelwright, Esther, daughter of Col. John Wheelwright, captured by Indians, 294; reported to have become Superior of an Ursuline Convent, 294.
Wheelwright, Esther, of Roxbury, 295.
Wheelwright, Rev. George, son of Rev. Charles Apthorp Wheelwright, Sr., 302 n.
Wheelwright, Hannah, daughter of Col. John, afterwards Plaisted, 296, 297.
Wheelwright, Jeremiah, of Portsmouth, 297, 302; a lieutenant in Louisburg expedition, 301; said to have been with Wolfe at Quebec, 301.
Wheelwright, Jeremiah, of Gloucester, son of Jeremiah of Portsmouth, commissary in Arnold’s expedition to Canada, 302 n.
Wheelwright, Job, son of Samuel Wheelwright, settles in Boston, 302; protestor against Whigs in 1774, 302; from him descends Boston branch, 302.
Wheelwright, Rev. John, 122, 292 n., 301, 370; Memoir of, by Charles H. Bell, mentioned, 66; joins Wells community, 279; writes to Winthrop regarding his religious convictions, 279, 280; second letter ignored by General Court, 280; accepts call to be assistant minister at Hampton, 280; makes voyage to England, 280; has an interview with Cromwell, 280; friendship of, with Vane, 281; relations of, with Cromwell, of service to Colony, 281; his supposed portrait in State House, 281; return to Massachusetts, 281; pastor at Salisbury, 282; his death and bequests, 282; grant from Gorges on leaving Exeter, 284; Indian deed of land given to, 298 n.; his descendants leaders at Wells until after Revolution, 303; effect of Election sermon by Shepard in 1637, on case of, 391.
Wheelwright, Col. John, son of Col. Samuel, and grandson of Rev. John, 277 n., 288, 289; receives contributions for refugees at Wells, 290; a licensed innholder, indicted for keeping keeles and bowles, 291; receives grant to build saw-mill at Great Falls, 292; his garrison house tom down, 293; petitions for assistance to rebuild church at Wells, 293; distrust of Indians, 294; asks for armed assistance at Wells, 294; attempts to ransom his daughter from Indians, 294; builds new garrison house on site of his grandfather’s house, at Town’s End, Wells, 295; heads petition to General Court asking remission of taxes for Wells, 295; marriage of his daughter Hannah, 296; shows Indian title for land now called Londonderry, N. H., 298; reports Indian attack on Durrell family, 300; seeks preacher for Wells, 300; dies, 301; his public offices, 301; his will, 301; prosperous in his enterprises, 302.
Wheelwright, Hon. John, son of Capt. Samuel Wheelwright, Councillor of the Province, 302 n.
Wheelwright, John, of Cohasset, Mass. (probably not descended from Rev. John), in Louisburg campaign, 301 n.
Wheelwright, John, son of Col. John Wheelwright, merchant in Boston, 302; death and burial, 302.
Wheelwright, Rev. John Bourne, letter of, quoted, 277 n.
Wheelwright, Joseph, brother of Col. John Wheelwright, 277 n., 302; descendants were Whigs in Revolution, 302.
Wheelwright, Joseph, son of Col. John Wheelwright, goes to Halifax, 302.
Wheelwright, Marie (Storee), first wife of Rev. John and sister of Augustine Storre, 275 n.
Wheelwright, Mary (Hutchinson), second wife of Rev. John Wheelwright, 273, 275 n., 280.
Wheelwright, Nathaniel, son of Col. John Wheelwright, merchant in London, England, 302.
Wheelwright, Col. Samuel, son of Rev. John Wheelwright, 277 n., 280, 282; returns to Wells, 283; chosen selectman of Wells, 287; appointed one of twelve magistrates to govern Province, 285; appointed one of Council of Province, 287 n.; one of committee to secure protection for Wells during King Philip’s war, 288; takes command of garrison house, 290; petitions that minister be sent to Wells, etc., 292; receives grant to build sawmill at Great Falls, 292; death, 292; official positions held by, 292; will, 293; descendants of, 302.
Wheelwright, Capt. Samuel, son of Col. John Wheelwright, leads attack upon Indians near Ossipee Pond, 299; failure of expedition, 300.
Wheelwright, Sarah, afterwards Crispe, 282.
Wheelwright, Sarah, afterwards Jefferds, 300.
Wheelwright, Thomas, son of Rev. John Wheelwright, settles at Wells, 283; supports Colony, 283; appointed magistrate at Wells, 283; signs petition to Cromwell for government under Colony, 283; writes to Gov. Bellingham regarding condition of Wells, 286.
Wheelwright, Thomas, son of Joseph Wheelwright, joins expedition against Louisburg, 300.
Wheelwright family, Maine branch, 302; coat of arms as shown in King’s Chapel carving, 302 n.; English branch of, 302 n.
Whetcomb, John, 387.
Whig party (English), friendly at outbreak of Revolution, 386.
Whigs, 302.
Whipple, Rev. Alden Bradford, his Early Botany of Berkshire mentioned, 50.
White, Benjamin, 387.
White, Francis, indictment against, 285 n.
White, Henry Orne, 325.
White, Peregrine, birth of, to be commemorated by Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association, 64 n.
White, Pliny Holton, his accounts of Vermont Election sermons referred to, 447 n.
White Mountains, N. H., 323, 326.
Whitman, Zachariah Gardner, his History of the Ancient and Honorable Company cited, 127 n.
Whitmore, William Henry, 133; issues circular calling first meeting of Bostonian Society, 54; mention of several works edited by, 66; his Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts Colony cited, 126 n.; Copp’s-Hill Epitaphs cited, 363 n.
Whitney, David Rice, A.M., xix; elected Resident member, 216.
Whittier, John Greenleaf, used tradition of Palatine light in poem, 32.
Whittingham, William, dean of Durham, goes to Frankfort, 229; his supplement to Sternhold’s Psalms, 231.
Wiclif, John, sows seed of Puritanism, 228.
Wiggin, James, punished for disrespect to Bay magistrates, 285.
Wigglesworth, Edward, M.D., xviii; deceased, xx; elected Resident member, 75.
Wigglesworth, George, A. M., xviii, 1, 2; elected Resident member, 13; of committee to nominate officers, 115.
Wigglesworth, Rev. Michael, 410; asked to prepare his Election sermon, 1686, for press, 406, 451, — reasons for its failure to be printed, 406, 407; state of public affairs at time of its delivery, 407.
Wigglesworth, Rev. Samuel, his Election sermon for 1733 quoted, 417.
Wilbraham, Mass., peaceful resolutions passed at town-meeting, July, 1774, 167.
Wilcok, Daniel, expelled from General Court, 140; fled to Rhode Island, 141.
Wild, Gen. Edward Augustus, 334.
Wilkins, John, of Bristol, hires slave Adam, 91, 108; testimony in Adam’s favor, 91.
Willard, Daniel, prison keeper, 101.
Willard, Rev. John Barstow, lectures at Harvard, Mass., 44 n.
Willard, Secretary Josiah, death of, 420.
Willard, Rev. Samuel, 413, 442; invited as Vice-president to take charge of Harvard College in 1701, 208; his Election sermon for 1682 printed in the Child’s Portion, 404; preached Election sermon for 1694, 404; quoted, 405; political ideas of, in advance of his day, 405; preached two Election sermons, 448.
Willett, Andrew, 359.
Willett, David, 359.
Willett, Esther, 359.
Willett, Francis, 359.
Willett, Hezekiah, 359.
Willett, James, 359.
Willett, John, 359.
Willett, Martha, afterwards Saffin, 359, 360; marriage and death of, 86 n.
Willett, Mary, daughter of Mary and Thomas Willett, 359.
Willett, Mary, wife of Capt. Thomas Willett, 359, 360.
Willett, Rebeckah, 359.
Willett, Samuel, 360.
Willett, Sarah, 359.
Willett, Capt. Thomas, first mayor of New York, 86 n., 358; entries relating to his family, 359, 360.
Willett, Thomas, son of Capt. Thomas Willett, 359.
Willey House, N. H., 323.
William III., King of England, 292, 375; the subject of Frink’s Election sermon for 1758, 420. Charter of William and Mary, see Massachusetts, Charters.
William IV., King of England, 92 n.
Williams, Rev. Abraham, defends natural equality, 421.
Williams, Hon. George Frederick, A.B., xviii; elected Resident member, 115.
Williams, Henry, A.B., ii, viii, viii*, xii, xviii, 270; elected Resident member, 20; has valuable family papers destined for Society’s Cabinet, 181; communicates fact of incorporation of Quincy Historical Society, 182, 183.
Williams, Moses, A.B., xviii; elected Resident member, 13.
Williams, Roger, 42 n, 353; his Key into the Language of America mentioned, 30.
Williams, Rev. William, of Hatfield, chosen to preach Election sermon for 1719, 415; on drinking habits, 442, 443.
Williams, Rev. William, of Weston, pleads for charter rights, 418; inveighs against horse trading, 418.
Williams College, 51; Historical Society at, 68; four Election preachers among graduates of, 449.
Williamson, William Cross, A.M., xviii; a Commissioner on publication of Acts and Resolves of Province of Massachusetts Bay, 75 n.; elected Resident member, 115.
Williamstown, Mass., 50.
Williston, Samuel, A.M., xviii; elected Resident member, 115; his History of the Law of Business Corporations before 1800 quoted, 191 n.
Wilmington, Kent, Church of, 278.
Winchester Historical and Genealogical Society, organization, etc. of, 55; collections to become part of Town Library, 55.
Wincoll, Capt. John, appointed one of Council of Province of Maine, 287 n.
Windsor, Ct., 305.
Wing, Capt. John, 403.
Wingandocoia, alias Virginia, 186.
Wingfield, Edward Maria, his A Discourse of Virginia mentioned, 36.
Winnisimmet (Chelsea), Mass., 412.
Winslow, Gov. Edward, his Good News from New England mentioned, 30.
Winslow, Josiah, deputy for undertakers of iron works, 196.
Winslow family, 367 n.
Winsor, Justin, 348; his Memorial History of Boston cited, 121 n., 124 n., 194 n., 200 n., 269 n., 445 n., 446 n.; his Narrative and Critical History of America cited, 29 n., 124 n., 189 n., 217 n., 270.
Winter Harbor, Me., 278; attacked by Indians, 296.
Winthrop, Governor John, 42 n., 134, 185, 190, 191, 274, 372, 390; wife and son of, on ship Lyon, 118; removes from Newtown to Boston, 119; differences between Dudley and, respecting Newtown, 120; granted exclusive privilege of making salt after his new way, 201 n.; executor of Henry Boade, 278 n.; marriage of Mariam Ford to, 278 n.; two letters from John Wheelwright to, 279, 280; first Massachusetts Election sermon urges re-election of, 389; Ezekiel Rogers dissuades against re-election of, in 1643, 392; re-elected, 393; his History of New England (i. e. Journal) mentioned, 29 n., 389, 443, — same, cited, 117, 119 n., 120 n., 121, 122 n., 124 n., 131 n., 390 n., 392 n., 394 n., — quoted, 391, 394 n.
Winthrop, John, Jr., Governor of Connecticut, 120.
Winthrop, Professor John (d. 1779) 387.
Winthrop, Mariam (Ford), 278 n.
Winthrop, Robert Charles, presents Sewall’s The Selling of Joseph to Massachusetts Historical Society, 85 n.; Resolutions passed by Colonial Society on death of, 372.
Winthrop, Gen. Wait Still, 414.
Winthrop estate in Newtown, 120.
Winthrop Papers mentioned, 31.
Wise, Rev. John, declines to preach Election sermon for 1719, 415.
Witchcraft. See Salem Witchcraft.
Witches, 414; inhumanity of Nicholas Noyes to condemned witch, 410.
Withington, Rev. Leonard, on morals of the Revolution, 431.
Woalfe, Anthony, 369 n.
Woburn, Mass., headquarters of Rumford Historical Association, 51.
Wolcott, Hon. Roger, LL.B., xix; elected Resident member, 115; speaks at Annual dinner of Society, 385.
Wolcott, Rev. Samuel, anti-slavery sentiment by, 441.
Wolfe, Gen. James, 306, 336; campaign of, 301.
Wolferston (Somersetshire), England, 85 n.
Wolf-Heriston. See Wolferston.
Women’s rights, first defended in Election sermons in 1868, 436.
Wood, Solomon, tything man, 307.
Wood, William, his New England’s Prospect mentioned, 66, — cited, 119 n., 120 n., — quoted, 120.
Woodberry, Hugh, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Woodberry, Humphfry, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Woodberry, Nicholas, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Woodberry, William, signs petition to General Court, 81.
Woodbridge, Abigail, of Hartford, Conn., 200 n.
Woodbridge, Benjamin, 367.
Woodbury, John, 40 n.
Woodbury, William, 40 n.
Woodbury Genealogical Society, Salem, 40 n.
Woods, Henry Ernest, xi, xiii, xvii, xviii, 1, 360; present at Preliminary conference, 2; at adjourned meeting of conference, 3; elected Registrar, 11, 155, 385; a founder of this Society, 12; remarks on Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 157; calls attention to Groton Historical Society and Daughters of the Revolution, 266.
Woodward, Richard, merchant, 161 n.
Wool, Gen. John Ellis, 14 n.
Woolman, John, 439.
Woolverston. See Wolferston.
Worcester, Mass., 14, 450; reason for location of American Antiquarian Society in, 34, — Annual meetings of that Society held in, 35.
Worcester County, Mass., History of, mentioned, 37; centennial celebration of incorporation of, 37 n.; materials relating to, collected by Fitchburg Historical Society, 61; Convention, 1774, 165.
Worcester County Historical Society, incorporation of, in 1831, 37 n.; records not to be found, 38 n.
Worcester Historical Society, 37 n.
Worcester Society of Antiquity, 267, 268; incorporation, etc. of, 46; publications, etc., 47.
Wordsworth, William, 316.
Wrentham, Mass., 413.
Wroe, Joshua, 369 n.
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, translates Psalms, 231.
Wyman, Thomas Bellows, his Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown cited, 201 n., 210 n.
Xenophon, 392.
Yale College, 50, 450; eleven Election preachers among graduates of, 449; Library, 236.
Yarmouth, Mass., 268; headquarters of Cape Cod Historical Society, 54.
Yeomans, Rev. John William, 449.
York, Me., 279, 288, 292, 294, 295; twice incorporated, 189; joins Combination against Colony, 282; Massachusetts Bay Commissioners meet King’s Commissioners, 285; militia of, empowered to seize cattle, 290; selling of slaves in, 293.
York County, Me., 271 n.
Zurich, 229.
1 The names of all the signers appear in the Certificate of Incorporation, printed on page 12.
2 See Amendment, adopted 15 February, 1893, printed on page 20.
3 The Rt.-Rev. Phillips Brooks, D.D., was also elected at this meeting, but died on Monday, 23 January, 1893, before he received the official notification of his election; not, however, before his interest in the new Society and its purposes had been cordially expressed.
4 General Cobb’s commission and Mr. Paine’s letter have been printed in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for July, 1891, xlv. 241–242. Mr. Baylies’s address appeared in the same journal in January, 1864, xviii. 5–17, and in a separate form with the imprint “Albany: J. Munsell, 78 State Street, 1864.” On the titlepage of the original is the following note by Mr. Baylies: —
“This Manuscript is presented to Mr. D. G. W. Cobb with liberty to correct and publish if he thinks proper. I was requested to furnish the printers in this Town, but fearing it might be considered too extravagant I thought it best to keep it awhile. I have looked it over and believe it will do. I wish Mr. Cobb to have one fair copy made and forwarded by mail to Gen. Wool at Washington.”
5 This volume has since been received. It belonged to David George Washington Cobb, and contains his family record. The following is a copy of it; —
“David G. W. Cobb and Abby Crocker were married May 16, 1822.
“Samuel Crocker Cobb, born July 4, 1823, at half-past 6 o’clock, morning.
“George Thomas Cobb, born September 5, 1824 (Sunday).
“Samuel Crocker Cobb, died November 30, 1824; buried Deer. 2d, Thanksgiving Day, in the morning.
“Samuel Crocker Cobb, born May 22nd, 1826 (Monday).
“Elizabeth Baylies Cobb, born February 17, 1828 (Sunday).
“Sally Crocker Cobb, born October 29th, 1831, at 2 o’clock in the morning (Saturday).”
David George Washington Cobb, youngest son of General David and Eleanor (Bradish) Cobb, was born 14 January, 1790. His wife was a daughter of the Hon. Samuel Crocker, of Taunton. Their third son was the late Hon. Samuel Crocker Cobb, Mayor of Boston, 1874–1876, and President of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati from 1880 till his death, 18 February, 1891. See Memorials of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati, Boston, 1890, pp. 136–144.
6 See Mr. Davis’s communications to the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for October, 1887, and October, 1892, New Series, v. 129–139; viii. 274–280; and the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, for July, 1892, xlvi. 234–235; and January, 1893, xlvii. 113–115.
7 Large extracts from Mr. Davis’s paper were printed in successive issues of “The Commonwealth,” newspaper, between 25 February and 13 May, 1893.
8 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Public Document No. 44.
9 See Report of Committee, printed in the Society’s Proceedings, vol. i. The historical sketch of the early days of the Society will repay careful examination.
10 The History of Land Titles in Massachusetts. By James Sullivan, LL.D. Boston. 1801.
11 Nearly every time that Savage refers to Hubbard in the notes to his edition of Winthrop’s History of New England, he does so with a sneer; but Charles Deane, in his chapter on “New England” (Narrative and Critical History of America, vol. iii. p. 362), very justly says, “This was by far the most important history which had then been written.” The publication of the works of Winthrop and Bradford materially lessened its value.
12 See Mr. Edes’s communication to the March Meeting of this Society, pages 113–114. This corroborates my conjecture as to the date.
13 See Bibliographical Contributions, Library of Harvard University, No. 45, p. 8.
14 the worcester county historical society.
The Worcester County Historical Society was incorporated 19 February, 1831, “for the purpose of collecting and preserving materials for civil and natural history.” A circular was issued without date, a copy of which is preserved in the American Antiquarian Society, in which the title of the Society was given as The Worcester Historical Society, and the purpose of the organization is there stated to be “collecting and preserving materials for a complete and accurate history of the County of Worcester.” The same title is given in Lincoln’s History of Worcester, published in 1836, and the statement is therein made that the Society requires as evidence of qualification for membership the publication of some work or some practical exertion in aid of these objects. At that date, Hon. John Davis had been President from the date of the organization of the Society.
On the fourth of October, 1831, the Society celebrated the centennial anniversary of the incorporation of Worcester County, selecting as an event suitable for such a memorial service the first sitting of the Supreme Judicial Court in Worcester County. The date which was adopted was Dot precisely coincident, but was selected because it was the first day of the session of that tribunal in the year 1831. An address was then delivered by the President, which, with a particular account of the ceremonies, was deposited in the American Antiquarian Society’s Collections.
Mr. Nathaniel Paine of Worcester has made search for the records of this Society without avail. He writes me that Mr. C. C. Baldwin, a former librarian of the Antiquarian Society, under date of 4 October, 1831, says in his diary that the Historical Society was greatly honored at the centennial celebration. Under date of 5 October, 1831, he says that he went to a meeting of the Society, and was chosen to make a report of all the proceedings at the celebration, which report, with a bottle of wine and other appropriate articles, he was to enclose in a tight and safe box, made for the purpose, and commit to the care of the Antiquarian Society. These were to remain in the hands of that Society unopened until the end of one hundred years, when it was intended that they should be brought forth and examined. Mr. Paine reports that the bottle, and presumably its contents, are still at the Antiquarian Hall, but the box has disappeared, together with the account of the proceedings at the celebration. To those of us who do not expect to be on hand when the cork is drawn in 1931, this is necessarily a source of regret, in which it is not improbable that those who shall be present at the ceremonial of opening the bottle will participate.
The Society is not known to have been in existence later than 1836 or 1837, and has not left any other traces of its existence than those I have mentioned.
15 The Census of 1790, and the Direct Tax of 1798, so far as it relates to Boston, have been printed in the Twenty-second Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston.
16 The Gregg Genealogy Company was incorporated 18 May, 1893, “to carry on a search for historical and genealogical facts connected with persons in America by names of Gregg, Gragg, Greig, and lines collateral thereto, and to print and publish the results of such search.” Its headquarters are in Boston.
The Woodbury Genealogical Society was incorporated 23 June, 1893. Its headquarters are in Salem. Its purposes are “to collect and publish historical and genealogical information concerning the old planters, John and William Woodbury, their ancestors and descendants, and to perpetuate their memory by monuments or otherwise.”
17 A full history of the Institute will be found in the “Visitor’s Guide to Salem,” Salem, 1892, pp. 59–71; and Essex Institute Historical Collections (1868–69) ix. Part 2, 3–40; and (1871–72) xi. 1–18.
18 The collection of memorials is thus alluded to by Dr. George E. Ellis in announcing to the Massachusetts Historical Society the death of Dr. Henry Wheatland: —
“He identified the principal work and interests of his long life mainly with institutions in Salem devoted to the preservation and illustration of the historical relics of that, the first of the permanent settlements in the Bay Colony. Those relics in objects and documents are rich and copious, covering, indeed, in a wellnigh complete and exhaustive collection long under his charge as the head of the Essex Institute, the antiquities and memorials accumulating for nearly three centuries.
“They begin with the reconstructed rafters and timbers of the first meeting-house of the settlement, in which Higginson, Hugh Peters, and Roger Williams preached, and Governor Winthrop exhorted and ‘prophesied.’ In no other ancient town in our country, not even in the Pilgrim Hall, at Plymouth, is there gathered so full and continuous a collection of articles identified with the life of the succeeding generations of the people. The household, domestic, culinary, mechanical, and agricultural implements of the elders are all represented.
“Their apparels and furniture, as well as their effigies, journals, letters, and books, present themselves in order.”
19 The Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Church has a collection of materials relating principally to that church in Massachusetts. It was formerly kept at the Theological School in Cambridge, but is now at the Diocesan House, Joy Street, Boston. Rev. Edmund F. Slafter is Registrar, has charge of the collection, and makes an annual report to the Convention.
20 In the winter of 1863–64, Mr. John B. Willard delivered two lectures on historical subjects at Harvard. Through his exertions an historical society was organized. It has not, however, accomplished any work, and the fact that it ever existed is known to but few of the citizens of the town of Harvard.
21 The title, “The Old Residents’ Historical Society, Lowell,” is improperly included in the list of Historical Societies of the United States issued by the American Historical Association.
22 This Society was incorporated 29 May, 1893. Its purposes, as described in the Certificate of Incorporation, are “to collect and preserve everything relating to the history, topography, and family genealogy of the town of Canton, Mass.”
23 The National Historical and Library Society, South Natick, is the title of a Society given in the Magazine of American History, July, 1890, page 424. The Historical Society, South Natick, is the title of a Society, and the Natural History and Library Society, South Natick, is the title of another Society, included in the list of Historical Societies issued by the American Historical Association. I have not been able to learn anything about these organizations.
24 The Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati was incorporated in 1806. The publications of the Society have been: 1872,— List of Members of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati, etc., with brief biographies, etc., by Francis S. Drake; 1873, — Memorials of the Society of Cincinnati of Massachusetts, by Francis S. Drake; 1883, — The Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati: An Historical Address delivered on the occasion of the Centennial Celebration, by Samuel C. Cobb; 1890,— Memorials of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati, 1890. This Society is in its nature a relief society, but its biographical publications are historical in character.
The Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States was incorporated 15 March, 1887, “to establish and maintain a library, reading-room, and museum, especially for the collection of books, pictures, and such other articles as may in any way illustrate the war for the suppression of the Rebellion against the United States, 1861–1865.” The commanderies of this Order in the several States where it is organized have published several volumes of war papers. The Massachusetts Commandery holds monthly meetings, at which papers are read treating of events or topics connected with the war. The library contains about two thousand volumes and five hundred pamphlets, beside scrap-books, maps, and photographs. See No. 45, Bibliographical Contributions, Library of Harvard University.
The Roxbury Military Historical Society has issued in pamphlet form a Constitution and List of Members. The objects for which the Society shall be maintained are stated in the Constitution to be: First, to perpetuate the history of Roxbury and of its military citizens and organizations, past or present; Second, to encourage the volunteer militia; Third, to advocate measures and principles that will tend to strengthen the patriotism of the community; Fourth, to foster social and fraternal intercourse between its members. The date of organization is not given in this pamphlet. The Constitution provides for an annual dinner, of which the Society has had two.
The Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was incorporated 9 October, 1891, for the purpose “of perpetuating the memory of the men who achieved American Independence, and furthering the proper celebration of the anniversaries of the birthday of Washington, and of prominent events connected with the War of the Revolution, collecting and securing for preservation the rolls and other documents relating to that period, inspiring the members of the Society with the patriotic spirit of their forefathers, and promoting the feeling of friendship among them.” The Society has issued a Register of Members (1893) which is full of interesting historical matter. It seeks to preserve a knowledge of historical sites by the erection of suitable tablets.
An organization to be known as the Naval Legion of the United States was recently instituted by naval officers and veterans, at the First Triennial Congress of the General Commandery of the Naval Legion, held in Faneuil Hall. “The purpose of the Association shall be to perpetuate the names, memories, and victories of naval veterans, to encourage research in the realm of naval art and science, and to establish a library, in which to preserve documents, rolls, books, portraits, and relics pertaining to naval heroes.” The eligible list for membership includes those in actual service in the navy and marine corps and other branches of that service, and honorably retired members. A new Constitution was adopted, and officers chosen to serve until the fifth of October, which date is identical with the anniversary of the commission of the first ship in the United States Navy.
25 See No. 45 Bibliographical Contributions, Library of Harvard University.
The Buchanan Anthropological Society was incorporated 27 January, 1890. Its purposes are “to spread the Science of Systematic Anthropology as discovered by Prof. Joseph Rodes Buchanan in 1841, and as promulgated by him since that time, by the publication and circulation of such books as may be prepared by Dr. Buchanan in explanation of his philosophy and its bearing on the life of man.” The title of this organization suggests the probability of an historical society. Its alleged purposes limit its work to the publication of Dr. Buchanan’s books.
26 In a list of Historical Societies in the Magazine of American History, July, 1889, p. 115, the following title is given, “The Berkshire County Historical and Scientific Society;” again, “The Berkshire County Historical Society” is given in a list, October, 1884, p. 380, and August, 1885, p. 217. The latter title is also included in the list of Historical Societies of the United States published by the American Historical Association. Mr. H. H. Ballard, Secretary of the Society described in the text, writes me that he knows of no other similar society in the County.
27 The Antiquarian and Historical Society, Newburyport, is the title of a Society improperly included in the list of Historical Societies of the United States issued by the American Historical Association. The attempt was probably made to define by its original title the Society described in the text.
28 See No. 45, Bibliographical Contributions, Library of Harvard University.
Three numbers of Transactions were issued (1859–61) by a Society called the New England Methodist Historical Society: No. 1. Introduction of Methodism into Boston, 1859; No. 2. History of North Russell Street Methodist Episcopal Church, 1861; No. 3. Half-Century of the Methodist Church, 1861. It appears from the first Annual Report of the present Society, issued 17 January, 1881, that “a Methodist Historical Society was instituted in Boston in 1859, which existed a few years. During the exciting scenes of the late Rebellion it fell into decay.… Nine years ago the coming spring (1872) the Historical Society of the New England Conference was organized. Annual sessions were held during the Conference week, of much interest and profit to the cause. Monthly meetings were also held for some years. At the last session of the Conference it was discontinued to make room for this organization, designed to unite the Methodists of the New England States for this common purpose.” The purposes of the new organization were set forth in detail by Dr. Dorchester, and are to be found in this Report.
The New England Methodist Historical Society, Malden, is included in the list of Historical Societies of the United States published by the American Historical Association. There is at present but one Society in Massachusetts of the above title, and its office is at 36 Bromfield Street, Boston.
29 The following papers read at meetings have been published: 1880, Reply to Francis Brinley on the claims of John P. Bigelow as Founder of the Boston Public Library, read 11 May, 1880, by Timothy Bigelow; 1885, William Cooper, Town Clerk of Boston, read 12 April, 1881, by Frederick Tuckerman.
30 The Huguenot Memorial Society of Oxford was incorporated 4 October, 1881, “to perpetuate by all appropriate means the memory of the early Huguenot settlement of Oxford.” The chief aim of this Society was the purchase of the old fort and the erection of a monument on that site. The object having been accomplished, the Society is no longer active, although the organization is maintained.
31 The Webster Historical Society was incorporated 7 March, 1884. Its purposes were to collect and publish original and other interesting matter illustrating the high character and services of Daniel Webster and other distinguished statesmen; to keep before the public, through libraries, publications, meetings, or otherwise, such matter as may serve as proper texts for political reform and improvement; to educate young men in the importance of a patriotic service to the true interests of their country; to purchase and mark with suitable monuments places of interest associated with Mr. Webster’s life. The Proceedings at Marshfield, 12 October, 1882, were published by the Society in 1883. The books, pictures, and collections of the Society were sold at auction a few years since, and the proceeds applied to pay debts.
32 The Historical Society, Rehoboth, is the title of a Society included in the list published by the American Historical Association. I cannot find that there ever was a society bearing this title.
33 See No. 45, Bibliographical Contributions, Library of Harvard University.
34 The Concord Lyceum was incorporated 9 February, 1881, for “the general diffusion of knowledge in historical, literary, and scientific subjects,” and other objects. The Publications of the Lyceum are: Address pronounced on the Anniversary of the Concord Lyceum, 4 November, 1829; and Semi-centennial,— Proceedings on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Organization of the Lyceum, 7 January, 1879, Introductory Address by E. R. Hoar, Address by C. H. Walcott. Its work has apparently been rather in the field of lectures than historical papers.
35 The Ipswich Historical Society is included in the list of Historical Societies of the United States published by the American Historical Association. Mr. T. Frank Waters, the President of this organization, thinks the name “historical society” rather presumptuous to apply to the little circle of lovers of antiquarian research who have been in the habit of holding meetings since 1891, at which papers have been read covering points of local history, but who have neither Charter nor Constitution, library nor house. Monthly meetings have practically been held this winter (1892–93). It would be strange if the enthusiasm which has maintained this interest in the objects of the Society should not ripen into a permanent organization.
36 The Old South Museum Association was incorporated 21 February, 1877, “to form a collection of historic memorials and in other ways to encourage a public interest in American History.” This Association never proceeded beyond incorporation.
The Old South Association in Boston was incorporated 11 May, 1877, “for the purpose of acquiring and holding the Old South Meeting House in Boston and the land under the same upon the corner of Milk Street and Washington Street in said city, for public, historical, memorial, educational, charitable, and religious uses.” The main purpose of this incorporation seems to be to hold the property.
37 The following named Societies have been organized or chartered since this paper was read:
The Bedford Historical Society was organized 29 March, 1893, for the purpose of collecting and preserving objects and facts of local historical interest. Monthly meetings are provided for, at which papers are expected to be read. A valuable collection of historical material and relics, which has already grown up in connection with the Free Public Library, has fostered an interest in historical matters, and has led to the organization of the Society under the inspiration of Mr. Abram English Brown, the historian of Bedford.
“The Wakefield Historical Society was incorporated 5 May, 1893. Its purposes are the collection and preservation of all historical, genealogical, and antiquarian facts, records, and mementoes concerning the town of Wakefield and vicinity, and relating to the natural history of the region, with lectures, discussions, reports, and essays on the topics within the scope of the purposes set forth.”
The Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames of America was incorporated 13 April, 1893. Its headquarters are in Boston. The purposes of the Society are “the collection of historical and genealogical information relating to the Colonial period of Massachusetts and the encouragement of interest in American history.”
The Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was incorporated 29 April, 1893. Its headquarters are in Boston. Its purposes are “patriotic, antiquarian, and historical.”
38 Pilgrim Fathers Hall Association. A number of associates were by special act authorized in 1889 to incorporate under the general laws of the Commonwealth with the above corporate title. No certificate has been issued by the Secretary of the Commonwealth bearing this title. The name suggests a memorial association, but it probably is fraternal in its character. The curious character of the Act of Incorporation conveys the idea of an attempt at a joke.
The Plymouth Society, Plymouth, is the title of an Historical Society given in the Magazine of American History, July, 1890, p. 424. This title was also given in the list published by the American Historical Association in 1891, but does not appear in the 1892 list.
The Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association, of Provincetown, was incorporated 29 February, 1892, for “the purpose of erecting at Provincetown a monument or other suitable memorial or memorials to commemorate the arrival of the ‘Mayflower’ and the landing of the Pilgrims at Provincetown on the twenty-first day of November, in the year sixteen hundred and twenty, and to perpetuate, by enduring memorials, the memory of the signing of the Compact, the birth of Peregrine White, the death of Dorothy May Bradford, and the other interesting historical incidents connected with the ‘Mayflower’ while at anchor in Cape Cod harbor, and for the purpose of acquiring and holding land upon which to erect such memorials, and of constructing a building or buildings to accommodate the meetings and to contain the cabinets, collections, and libraries of said Society.”
39 The Wadsworth Monument Association was incorporated 1825. The Duston Monument Association was incorporated 1856. The Standish Monument Association was incorporated 1872. A number of persons were made a corporation in 1874 to erect a monument to General Joseph Warren. All of these Associations partake somewhat of the character of the Bunker Hill Monument Association.
40 See No. 45, Bibliographical Contributions, Library of Harvard University.
41 “The American Congregational Historical Society, Chelsea,” is the title of a Society given in the Magazine of American History, July, 1890, p. 424. I have not been able to discover that there ever was such an organization in Chelsea.
42 The Boston Memorial Association was incorporated 2 April, 1880. Its purposes are “the ornamentation of the city of Boston, the care of its memorials, the preservation and improvement of its public grounds, and the erection of works of art within the limits of the city.” This Association is included in the list of Historical Societies in the United States issued by the American Historical Association. A society called the Boston Memorial Society is also included in the same list. This is obviously an error.
43 An interesting description of the historical features of the library is contained in No. 45, Bibliographical Contributions, Library of Harvard University.
The Becket Athenæum was incorporated 8 March, 1888, to establish and maintain, among other things, a library, and an antiquarian and art museum.
44 The Chelsea Veteran Firemen’s Association was incorporated 4 January, 1893, and one of its purposes is said to be “the preservation of historical matter relating to firemen.”
The Anchor Club Association was incorporated 19 May, 1893. It has its headquarters at Lynn. Its purposes are “to encourage and promote an interest in antiquarian and historical subjects.”
45 That clause, expressing, in part, the purposes of this Society, is in these words: “To inspire among our members a spirit of fellowship based upon a proper appreciation of our common ancestry.”
46 “The collection and preservation of materials for a … natural history of the United States.”— Massachusetts Special Laws, i. 487, 488.
47 The Commissioners are Alexander Strong Wheeler, A.B., William Cross Williamson, A.M., and Abner Cheney Goodell, Jr., A.M.
48 These documents are now in press, and will appear as Volume II. of the Publications of this Society.
49 The name still commonly applied to the channel between Beverly proper and “Ryal Side.” At its head, where it receives the brook which forms the upper part of Bass River, the farms of the “Old Planters” of Salem were laid out. This channel appears as “Beverly Creek” on the Coast Survey chart from which the map accompanying this paper is copied.
50 I regret to say I have not had opportunity to form an opinion as to how many of the signatures to this interesting document are autographic. Roger Conant, who heads the list, and Edward Bishop, the last subscriber, appear unquestionably to have written their own names.
51 These official memoranda are in the margin of the original, as shown in the plate.
52 These official memoranda are in the margin of the original, as shown in the plate.
53 See Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society for October, 1863, vii. 161–165; and its Collections, Fifth Series, vi. 16–20. Also, Moore’s Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts, Appendix, pp. 251–256.
54 A copy was presented to the Massachusetts Historical Society in October, 1863, by the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop.
55 Sewall’s statement of the motive which led him to write his “Apology” for the negroes, provokes the surmise that Adam and his wife may have been the anonymous persons for whom Mr. Belknap informed him he intended to apply to the Legislature. It is given in his Diary (ii. 16) under date of 19 June, 1700, as follows: —
“Having been long much dissatisfied with the Trade of fetching Negros from Guinea; at last I had a strong Inclination to Write something about it; but it wore off. At last reading Bayne, Ephes. [Paul Baynes, “Commentary on the First Chapter of the Ephesians,” 1618. — Eds.] about servants, who mentions Blackamoors; I began to be uneasy that I had so long neglected doing any thing. When I was thus thinking, in came Bror Belknap to shew me a Petition he intended to present to the Genl Court for the freeing a Negro and his wife, who were unjustly held in Bondage. And there is a Motion by a Boston Com̃ittee to get a Law that all Importers of Negros shall pay 40s p̃ head, to discourage the bringing of them. And Mr. C. Mather resolves to publish a sheet to exhort Masters to labour their Conversion. Which makes me hope that I was call’d of God to Write this Apology for them; Let his Blessing accompany the same.”
56 Of Sewall so much is generally known that a biographical sketch of him here would be superfluous. But as Saffin is not so celebrated, it may be proper to say that he was born about 1634 (depositions, Suffolk Probate Records, vi. 356) of an old English arms-bearing family of Wolf-Heriston (Woolverston) in the County of Somerset, and that at one time he owned lands in Bicester in Oxfordshire (New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1891, xlv. 42). He appeared in Scituate about 1645–1647 (Middlesex Court Files and N. E. H. G. Reg., 1877, xxxi. 115), and removed thence to Virginia in 1654, where he remained a few years (deposition of Lieut.-Col. Samuel Smith and others in Saffin v. Green, Middlesex County Court Files, 29 Dec., 1657), and returning married Martha, daughter of Capt. Thomas Willett, at Plymouth, 2 Dec., 1658 (Plymouth Colony Records, viii. 22). After this marriage he removed to Boston, where he appears to have been a successful merchant, and engaged for a time, with other Boston merchants, in the clandestine importation of negroes from Guinea (N. E. H. G. Reg., 1877, xxxi. 75, 76). His wife, with two of her children, died of the smallpox in 1678; and in 1680 he married Elizabeth, widow of Peter Lidget. She died 1 Nov., 1687, and he married for his third wife Rebecca, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Lee and sister of Cotton Mather’s third wife. This last union proved an unhappy one, and ended in a separation shortly before his death, which induced Mather to volunteer as peacemaker in a remarkable letter to Saffin printed in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., i. 137–139. He was chosen a deputy to the General Court, from Boston, and was the last speaker of the Colonial House of Representatives. Some time between 1687 and 1689 he removed to Bristol, where he had previously held land (he being one of the company of purchasers of Mount Hope) and had been engaged in business. He represented Bristol in the General Court of Plymouth in the latter year, and served on important committees. Upon the union of the colonies in 1692, he was appointed the first justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Bristol County, and from 1693 to 1699 inclusive he was also annually elected councillor. He was again elected to the Council in 1703, but negatived by Dudley. He seems to have been a man of extraordinary force and ability. His reply to Sewall contains all the most cogent arguments that have been since put forth in defence of slavery, and shows the writer to have been a skilful polemic and not unfamiliar with literature.
He had the misfortune to survive his eight sons, the last of whom, according to Sewall (Diary, i. 192), was buried 15 Oct., 1687, about the time that tidings arrived from London of the death of another son, Thomas. The latter, “much favored of his prince,” died of the small-pox at the age of twenty-three, and was buried in the churchyard of Saint Dunstan’s, Stepney. His curious epitaph is given by Henley in No. 518 of the “Spectator,”— his name being disguised as “Thomas Snapper” or “Sapper.” Lysons, in his “Environs of London,” gives what appears to be a more exact version of the lines on his tomb which, he says (Second Edition, ii. 686*), was restored by “his countrymen” in 1750.
Saffin died in Boston, 28 July, 1710. This is contrary to the opinion generally entertained upon the authority of the editor of the Hutchinson Papers (in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., i. 139), who says that he died at Bristol Savage fails to remove the doubt by stating that he died “at B.”— which may mean either Bristol or Boston. The circumstance that Sewall records his death the next morning and makes the further entry that Mr. Pemberton of the Old South in Boston was at the bedside of the dying man, leaves little doubt as to the fact, which is fully established by the declaration of his executors in their probate account (Suffolk Probate Files, Case No. 3264).
Besides his homestead and farm lands in Bristol County and another estate on Mill Creek in Boston, in the triangle now formed by Union, Blackstone, and Hanover Streets, and a wharf and land at the Town Dock, he had a mansion-house, outbuildings, and an enclosed pasture on the site of the present American House, and here undoubtedly he died. That his inventory, filed by his executors, shows no real estate is probably owing to the fact that upon his marriage with Elizabeth Lidget he settled upon her by way of jointure for her life after his decease, his mansion-house, yard, garden, and pasture-field adjoining, etc., and also his land and wharf upon the town dock with a new warehouse thereon then building; and charged his feoffees upon the decease of himself and his wife to convey the same to his heirs-at-law (Suffolk Deeds, xii. 159). The estate on the Mill Creek he had conveyed to John Hull, 28 April, 1680 (Ibid. xii. 175). This afterwards came into the possession of Samuel Sewall, who married Hull’s only daughter. In 1708 Sewall built a malthouse there. (Cf. Letter to Saffin 27 Sept. 1708, in Sewall’s Letter Book, i. 373. and his Diary, ii. 242.)
For the identification of the localities above described I am indebted to my friend, Mr. Henry H. Edes. The mansion-house estate he has traced back probably to the original allotment to Governor Leverett which certainly included the estate adjoining on the east. It was here, possibly in the same house, that Dr. Joseph Warren resided at the time of his death at Bunker Hill.
57 This title will be given in full, further on in this essay.
58 When used by Dr. Moore, Saffin’s pamphlet was in the possession of the late George Brinley, at the sale of whose library it was catalogued as No. 853 of Part I. I am under great obligation to Wilberforce Eames, Esq., Librarian of the Lenox Library, for procuring for me the privilege of copying both the pamphlet and the appendix.
59 These extracts were made to be used in preparing a note explanatory of the resolve of the General Court which appears later on in this article, and which constitutes Chapter 8, of the resolves for the year 1703–4 in the forthcoming eighth volume of the Province Laws.
60 Suffolk Court Files.
61 He was nominated by a bare majority of the Council. This was after the deaths of Bellomont and Stoughton, when the Council was exercising the full executive function.
62 Suffolk Court Files.
63 Clarke, in conjunction with Thomas Brattle, was appointed by the Legislature to manage the expenditures for fortifying Castle Island under the direction of her majesty’s engineer, Col. Wolfgang William Römer. See Province Laws, vii. (Resolves) 1702–3, chapter 4, and note, et passim.
64 After the verdict against Adam, and before this term of the Court, Queen Anne succeeded King William.
65 Diary, ii. 64.
66 Both were among the first attorneys sworn in before the Superior Court of Judicature, 24 June, 1701. See note to No. 20 of Private Acts: Province Laws, vol. vi., now in press.
67 Records of the Superior Court of Judicature, 1700–1714, fol. 84.
68 Suffolk Court Files.
69 Ibid.
70 Records in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court for civil business, in the County of Suffolk.
71 It was not judicially determined until a year later that appeals lay from judgments on pleas in bar or abatement. The decision was subsequently confirmed by statute. See notes to Resolves, 1703–4, chapters 47 and 89, Province Laws, vol. viii.
72 Suffolk Court Files.
73 Records of the Superior Court of Judicature, 1700–1714, fol. 100.
74 Massachusetts Archives, ix. 152.
75 To be held on the first Tuesday of July following.
76 Sewall, whose sympathies continued strong for the negro, indignantly minuted in his Diary (ii. 79), under date of 8 June, 1703, the following: —
“Adam is again imprison’d to be Tryed at Suffolk Sessions. Trial order’d by the Genl Assembly.
Superanuated Squier, wigg’d and powder’d with pretence,
Much beguiles the just Assembly by his lying Impudence.
None being by, his bold/sworn Attorneys push it on with might and main
By which means poor simple Adam sinks to slavery again.”
From which verse it appears that, in the honest judge’s eyes, Saffin’s offence had been greatly aggravated by his wearing a periwig— the good judge’s particular abomination.
77 Suffolk Court Files.
78 Records of the Court of Sessions, in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth.
79 Suffolk Court Files.
80 Records of the Superior Court of Judicature, 1700–1714, fol. 114.
81 Massachusetts Archives, ix. 153.
82 Boston Record Commissioners’ Report, No. 11, Selectmen’s Records, 1701–1715, p. 137.
83 See New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxxi. 115, where the name is misprinted Laffin.
84 The Narrative begins near the bottom of the fifth page of the pamphlet.
85 The deposition referred to appears to be entire except the introductory recital of the names of the deponents, etc. It was sworn to by Griffin, 13 Oct. 1701, before Isaac Addington as justice of the peace, and by Shine and Lee on the 27th, before Addington Davenport, Clerk of the Court of Sessions for Suffolk County, and is here printed from a copy attested by Davenport, and preserved in Suffolk Court Files, No. 5173; namely, —
“[*****]d William Lee al[l of f*]ull age being Imployed as Labourers in the Works on Castle Island Testifie and say that on Tuesday the Seventh of October 1701 Capṭ Timothy Clarke one of the Overseers of sḍ Works, Speaking to Adam a Labourer and negro at the Castle to Direct him about his Work, the sḍ negro Shewed himself very Surley and gave Saucy Answers to sḍ Capṭ Clark refuseing to observe his Directions; Whereupon the Capṭ with a Small Stick which lie then held in his hand struck his Tobacco-pipe out of his mouth, gave him a Shove with his hand & Struck him a blow over the Shoulders with the sḍ Stick; the sḍ negro in great Fury & rage Shoved the Capṭ again wrested the Stick out of his hand and broke it, & lifted up the Shovel wherewith he was at work and with the Iron upward offered a Stroke to the sḍ Capṭ which he fended off with his Arm; otherwise might in all probability have been grieviously mischiefed thereto; butt the Depontṣ with some others ran into the rescue of the Capṭ but the sḍ negro was so furious & outragious and putt forth so great Strength that it was as much as Six or Seven of us could do to hold and restrain him —
* Manuscript mutilated.
Boston October 13tḥ 1701 —
Signed
John X Shine —
John Griffin —
Sign’d
Willṃ 
Lee — ”
86 Dealings with the Dead, ii. 519.
87 See Mr. Davis’s query respecting the destination of the Palatines, in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography for 1887, xi. 243, 244.
88 Peter Baynton, a wealthy merchant of Philadelphia, born 27 December, 1695, was a son of Benjamin and a grand-nephew of Peter Baynton, an early emigrant to Pennsylvania, who came about 1686 from Bedminster, near Bristol, England. Peter, the emigrant, married Annika (Kyn) Sandelands, widow of James, and the wealthiest woman in the Province. As their only child was a daughter, Rebecca, who in 1713 married Thomas Weston, the name became extinct in that line at his decease.
Peter Baynton, to whom Faneuil’s letter was addressed, was a Vestryman and Warden of Christ Church, Philadelphia. He married first, in Charleston, S. C., a Miss Paris, and second, in 1723, his cousin Mary, daughter of John and Rebecca (Smith) Budd, of New Jersey. He resided at Burlington, N. J., near which place he was drowned in the Delaware, 22 February, 1743–4. His son Benjamin, bred to the law, died at the age of twenty-one. Another son, John, of the Philadelphia firm of Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan, born 17 December, 1726, married Elizabeth Chevalier, 17 December, 1747, and was father of Peter Baynton, third of the name, born in 1754, who in 1799 was Adjutant-General of the militia of Pennsylvania. The Baytons are among the most ancient families of England. Cf. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, i. 351, 352, 466; ii. 443–448; vi. 17, 18; Christ Church “Inscriptions,” p. 50; and p. 369, post.
89 Burgess Hall, in 1733 or 1734, was a householder in Stratfield, a parish of Stratford, Connecticut, where he was baptized in November, 1701, a son of Isaac Hall, Jr., of Redding, Connecticut. This family descended from Francis Hall of New Haven, Fairfield, and Stratford, who was son of Gilbert Hall who emigrated from Kent, England. See Orcutt’s History of Stratford and Bridgeport, Conn., i. 502; ii. 1210.
For the identification of Captain Hall and Peter Baynton, I am indebted to Mr. Walter Kendall Watkins, the courteous Assistant-Librarian of the New-England Historic Genealogical Society, in the Cabinet of which a part of one of Faneuil’s Letter-Books is preserved.
90 Mr. William Sigourney Otis was also elected at this meeting, but died on Thursday, 20 April, 1893, before receiving official notice of his election.
91 This valuable document, dated 26 December, 1672, was printed at length, its quaint orthography being preserved, in the April 1892 number of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xlvi. 127–133. Cf. Ibid. xxiii. 312–335; Winthrop’s History of New England (edition of 1853), ii. 318; and Felt’s History of Ipswich, pp. 164–167.
92 On the “last of August, 1645,” sixty-four of the inhabitants of Roxbury subscribed an agreement, still extant, to build and maintain a free school to be managed by seven feoffees, and to allow to the schoolmaster £20 per annum, to be raised annually among themselves in sums ranging from two shillings to £1 4s. In the Agreement and in the records of the feoffees the subscribers are termed “Donors.” William Denison agreed to give eight shillings annually. His son, Edward Denison, was chosen one of the feoffees 15 February, 1662–3. See “A History of the Grammar School or ‘The Free Schoole of 1645 in Roxburie,’” by C. K. Dillaway, Roxbury, 1860, pp. 1–13; 28.
93 “1638, 2 May. It is ordered that Newtown shall henceforward be called Cambridge.” Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 228.
94 Johnson’s “Wonder-Working Providence” (Poole’s edition), p. 66.
95 See Winthrop’s History of New England (edition of 1853), i. 98.
96 New England’s Prospect (Prince Society’s edition), p. 43.
97 Dudley is characterized as “a man of sound judgment in matters of religion, and well-read, bestowing much labor that way” (Johnson’s “Wonder-Working Providence,” Poole’s edition, p. 52); as “a lover of justice, order, the people, Christian religion,— the supreme virtues of a good magistrate” (Morton’s “New England’s Memorial,” Judge Davis’s edition, p. 255). He was a principal founder and pillar of the Massachusetts Colony, of which he was several times Governor or Deputy Governor.
98 Winthrop’s History of New England (edition of 1853), i. 164. See also Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 123.
99 New England’s Prospect (Prince Society’s edition), pp. 48, 49.
100 John Dane. See his Narrative in New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1854) viii. 154.
101 Concerning the Antinomian Controversy, cf. Dr. George E. Ellis’s “Life of Anne Hutchinson,” and Charles W. Upham’s “Life of Sir Henry Vane,” both in Sparks’s American Biography; Mr. Goodell’s “A Biographical Sketch of Thomas Maule, of Salem,” etc., in Essex Institute Historical Collections (1861), iii. 238–253; Mr. Goodell’s Remarks on pages 132–145 post; Winthrop’s History of New England, passim; Memorial History of Boston, i. 171–177, and notes; Harvard College Library Bulletin, No. 11, p. 287; and the forthcoming volume of the Publications of the Prince Society, “Antinomianism in Massachusetts Bay, 1636–38,” edited by Charles Francis Adams.
102 Cf. Winthrop’s History of New England (edition of 1853), i. 239, 294, 309, 313, et passim; ii. 164; and Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts Bay, ii. appendix.
103 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 207.
104 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 211, 212.
105 “Wonder-Working Providence” (Poole’s edition), pp. 192, 193.
106 Printed in the Atlantic Monthly for January and February, 1893, lxxi. 25–31, 201–213. A good account of this contest is also given by John George Bourinot, D.C.L., President of the Royal Society of Canada, in his recently published work, entitled Historical and Descriptive Account of the Island of Cape Breton, and of its Memorials of the French Regime, with Bibliographical, Historical, and Critical Notes, Montreal, 1892. See, also, Winthrop’s History of New England, passim; 3 Massachusetts Historical Collections, vii. 90–121; Ibid. Fourth Series, iv. 462; Charles C. Smith’s chapter on “Boston and the Neighboring Jurisdictions,” in Memorial History of Boston, i. 282, et seq, and the same writer’s chapter on “Acadia” in Narrative and Critical History of America, iv. 135, et seq.
107 Cf. Massachusetts Colony Records, ii. 157–159, iii. 74, 75; and Winthrop’s History of New England (edition of 1853), ii. 334, 373, 377.
108 History of New England, ii. 389.
109 Printed in 4 Massachusetts Historical Collections, ii. 115–118.
110 Massachusetts Colony Records, iv. Part 1, 141.
111 See Acts of the Commissioners of the United Colonies, printed in Plymouth Colony Records, x. 54, 57.
112 Massachusetts Colony Records, iv. Part 1, 337, 350.
113 Denison had been associated with Samuel Symonds and Joseph Hills in a similar commission as early as 3 May, 1654. (Massachusetts Colony Records, iv. Part 1, 182.) For an admirable account of the legislation concerning the revision of the laws during the Colonial period, see Mr. William H. Whitmore’s Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts Colony prefixed to “The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts, reprinted from the Edition of 1660.… Published by order of the City Council of Boston.” Second edition, Boston, 1890.
114 19 October, 1658. Massachusetts Colony Records, iv. Part 1, 356.
115 Cf. Acts of the Commissioners of the United Colonies, printed in Plymouth Colony Records, x. 102, 110–111, 114, 329; Massachusetts Colony Records, iv. Part 1, 196–197.
116 Plymouth Colony Records, x. 180–181.
117 Cf. Acts of the Commissioners of the United Colonies, printed in Plymouth Colony Records, x. 387; Massachusetts Colony Records, iv. Part 2, 572, 573; and Massachusetts Archives, lxvii. 173.
118 Whitman’s History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (Second edition), p. 170.
119 Preserved in Massachusetts Archives, lxvii. 208.
120 The History of the Indian Wars in New England (Drake’s edition), ii. 129.
121 Ibid. ii. 176, 189 et seq.
122 Massachusetts Colony Records, v. 311–313. Cf. Ibid. v. 303, 398.
123 That is, four sessions: May and October, 1649, October, 1651, and May, 1652.
124 This essay was printed in the same volume with Hubbard’s Funeral Sermon on General Denison, and is included between pages 175–218. The imprint is, “Printed at Boston by Samuel Green, 1684.” The above extracts may be found on pp. 179, 218.
125 Report to the Lords of Trade, 12 October, 1676, printed in Hutchinson’s Collection of Original Papers (Prince Society’s edition), ii. 236.
126 Edition of 1853, ii. 318.
127 The extracts here printed may be found on pp 151, 157–159.
128 See The Heraldic Journal, i. 91; ii. 141.
129 See note on page 140 et seq., post.
130 “This gentlewoman was of a nimble wit, voluble tongue, eminent knowledge in the Scriptures, of great charity, and notable helpfulness, especially in such occasions where those of that sex stand in need of the mutual help of each other.”— 2 Massachusetts Historical Collections, v. 283.
131 Backus’s History of the Baptists (Backus Historical Society’s Edition), i. 500.
132 Among the purposes of the “Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution” are “the encouragement of historical research in relation to the Revolution, and the publication of its results, the preservation of documents and relics, and of the records of the services of Revolutionary soldiers and patriots.”
133 The text of this document has been printed in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for October, 1887, N. S. v. 132–133; and in the New England Magazine for February, 1894, ix. 779.
134 Since Professor Goodwin made the above communication to the Society the following additional references to Alderman Mowlson have been gleaned from the Calendar of State Papers: —
December, 1626. Thomas Moulson, appointed one of the Commissioners for French Goods, to the Mayor of Plymouth. (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1625–1626, p. 511.)
27 January, 1627. A letter dated at Westminster was addressed to the Commissioners, the name of Thomas Moulson being included. “By commission, dated December 8 last past, the persons now addressed were appointed Commissioners to arrest all French ships and goods in England, and authority was given to the Lord Admiral to direct the king’s ships to stay French ships which they found at sea. The king directs that ships stayed at sea are not to be dealt with by the Commissioners, but to remain in the custody of the Lord Admiral.” (Ibid. 1627–1628, p. 32.)
22 July, 1628. The petition exhibited to the king by Robert Alt, on behalf of the poor spectacle-makers, was read to the Court of Aldermen, and Alderman Moulson was appointed one of a Committee, the other members being the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, and the Sheriffs, to whom the petition was referred with instructions to consider the conveniency or inconveniency thereof. (Ibid. 1628–1629, p. 226.)
8 October, 1633. The Lord Mayor, in obedience to an order of the Council of 29 May last, reported that he had made inquiry of all such persons as since the last certificate had come to lodge (termers excepted) in London. The certificates as to the several wards accompanied this report. Among them was the following from Alderman Thomas Mowlson: No lodgers in Broad Street Ward. 20 June, 1633. (Ibid. 1633–1634, p. 237.)
135 Mr. Henry F. Waters has forwarded to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, an abstract of the will of Anthony Radcliffe, a brother of Lady Mowlson. This abstract will appear in the Waters Gleanings in the April, 1894, number of the Register. The will was proved 25 June, 1628. Alderman Moulson, his well beloved brother-in-law, was appointed his sole and only executor.
From this document it appears that the testator had three sisters,— Dorothy, who was married to a Gerrard, and who was probably the mother of Sir Gilbert Gerrard, of Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, Baronet, a legatee under Lady Mowlson’s will; Elizabeth, who was married to a Harvey, and who may perhaps be connected with Lady Mowlson’s will through one of the legatees, Mr. Cary Mildmay, otherwise Harvey, of Marks, in Essex; and Anne Moulson, who, as we have seen, herself signs her name Ann Mowlson.
In this will the testator expresses the desire that his body should be buried in the parish church of Harrow, “Where the Bodyes of my Father and Mother and divers of my Friends lye buried.”
136 The gift of £100 to Harvard College and the subscription of £600 to the loan raised to pay the Scottish army, are perhaps evidence enough that Lady Mowlson was a woman of means; but the following item taken from the Calendar of State Papers shows not only that she had large sums to lend, but that she was not disposed tamely to acquiesce in the illegal detention of her funds by others: —
(5 May, 1652. Council of State. Days Proceedings.)
“Order on the report of the examination of Wm. Abel, late alderman of London, concerning dangerous words against the public peace lately spoken by him in Northall Woods, near Hatfield Co., Herts. That it appears that Abel has been prisoner to Sir John Lenthall since 12 March last, at the suits of Ann, relict of Sir Thos. Moulson, for 1,500l., borrowed for the use of the Vintners’ Company. Also of the executors of Thos. Hammond for 1000l, and of Richard Woodward, merchant, for 600l. for the same business.”
137 This reference, undoubtedly, is to John Alborough, or Albro, with whom Judge John Saffin had a contention in 1679 concerning the title of lands in King’s Province, then claimed both by Massachusetts and Rhode Island. (Rhode Island Colonial Records, iii. 75.) Alborough was very prominent in Rhode Island affairs. He rose to the rank of Major in the militia; was a Commissioner for Portsmouth, where he resided, in 1660 (Ibid. i. 437); was appointed, 10 November, 1679, with John Smith, to survey and ascertain the boundary line between Rhode Island and Connecticut (Ibid. iii. 73); served frequently as a Deputy to the General Assembly; and later was an Assistant of the Colony. In 1686 he was appointed to a seat in Andros’s Council, and attended its first meeting, in Boston, 20 December of that year (Ibid. iii. 219–220). Savage says he died 14 December, 1712, aged 95 years.
138 Petaquamscott was within the limits of Old Kingston, R. I., and probably in that part of the town set off in 1723 and now known as South Kingston. There is a neck of land on the shore of Narragansett Bay, and within the limits of this town, still known as “Boston Neck,” and as it is bounded on the west by Petaquamscott River, it is possible that it is identical with Sewall’s tract. On 19 September, 1699, Sewall writes: “Goe with Tho. Hazard to Mattoonuck, view the bounds and add to the heaps of Stones at 3 Corners. Go back and lodge on Boston Neck at Tho. Hazard’s” (Diary, i. 501). As Mattoonuck is immediately south of Kingston, this entry may refer to the land given, in 1696, to the College.
139 14 Geo. III. Chap. 19.
140 Ibid. chap. 39.
141 Ibid. chap. 45.
142 See page 176 et seq.
143 Life and Works of John Adams, x. 247.
144 Ibid. viii. 384.
145 Ibid. ii. 323.
146 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports (Town Records), xviii. 48.
147 See “The Boston Massacre,” by A. C. Goodell, Jr., 1887, p. 3, reprinted from the Boston Daily Advertiser.
148 Printed in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xiiv. 282–283.
149 These Minutes and those of the Bristol Convention of 4 and 5 January, 1775 (printed on pp. 255, 256, post), are written on seven pages of cap paper. The manuscript consists of two separate sheets: page 1 contains the Preamble and Resolve 1; page 2, Resolves 2 to 7; page 3, Resolves 8 to 11; page 4 (reversed), the paragraph which, as here printed, immediately precedes the Preamble, the rest of the page being blank; and page 5, the two Resolutions printed between Resolves 7 and 8, the three Resolutions printed between Resolves 10 and 11, and— at the bottom— the first two paragraphs above printed. These manuscript pages are indicated in the printed text by broadfaced figures enclosed in brackets. The Minutes of the Convention of 1775 fill pages 6 and 7 (reversed) of the second sheet, the eighth, and last, page of which is blank.
The words in the margin are from the Resolves of the Bristol Convention in the Appendix to the printed Journals of the Provincial Congress, and the marks of reference indicate where these words occur in the paragraph. The Resolutions are not numbered in the printed Journals, but the order in which they are printed therein is indicated in the margin by numerals enclosed in parentheses. Differences of spelling and punctuation are not noted.
150 Quincy, in his History of Harvard College (i. 274), says: “The President and Fellows of Harvard College being the only Corporation in the Province, and so continuing during the whole of the seventeenth century, they early assumed, and had by common usage conceded to them, the name of The Corporation, by which they designate themselves in all the early records.” At the period of which Quincy was then treating there was no other corporation in the Province, but it is an error to say that they designate themselves as “The Corporation” in all early records. Prior to 1650, generally, and for some time thereafter, occasionally, the College is designated in the records as “The Society.” In the fac-simile of the records (Quincy, i., facing 48), the term used is “the Governours of the College.”
151 The Charters and General Laws of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay, Boston, 1814, pp. 8, 9.
152 The Charters and General Laws of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay, Boston, 1814, p. 14.
153 Hazard’s State Papers, i. 103.
154 Rymer’s Fœdera, xii. 595. The O. S. year 1495 is given in Hazard’s State Papers, i. 9.
155 Rymer’s Fœdera, xiii. 37.
156 Hazard’s State Papers, i. 24.
157 Ibid. i. 33.
158 Ibid. i. 43, 45.
159 Hazard’s State Papers, i. 50.
160 Ibid. i. 54.
161 Ibid. i. 67.
162 Ibid. i. 72.
163 Ibid. i. 134, 206.
164 Ibid. 143: “Damus et concedimus dicto domino Willielmo Alexandro, suisque prædictis, liberam potestatem stabiliendi et cudere causandi monetam pro commercio liberiori inhabitantium diotæ provincæ, cujusvis metalli, quo modo et qua forma voluerint et eisdem præscribent.” See also Ibid. pp. 209, 214.
165 Ibid. i. 137: “Nos pro nobis nostrisque successoribus et hæredibus, cum avisamento et consensu prædictis, virtute præsentis cartæ nostræ damus et concedimus liberam et plenariam potestatem præfato domino Willielmo Alexandra suisque prædictis, conferendi favores, privilegia, munia, et honores in demerentes, etc.”
166 In 1625 Charles I. issued a proclamation, in which he ordained that the government of the Colony of Virginia should immediately depend on himself, and not be committed to any company or corporation. (Rymer’s Fœdera, xviii. 72.)
In 1627 a special commission was issued to “Sir Kenelme Digby, Knight, one of the gentlemen of our Privy Chamber,” as a discoverer, in which “our loving subjects,” “whose company, assistance, or service the said Sir Kenelme Digby” should use, were commanded “to yield all duty, obedience, and respect unto him.” (Ibid. xviii. 947, 948.) This is the same Sir Kenelme Digby who gave books to Harvard College Library.
167 Porro ne Viris honestè natis et se ad præsentem Expeditionem accincturis, ac bene de nobis et Regnis nostris Pace et Bello mereri cupientibus in tam remota longèque dissita Regione omnis ad Honores et Dignitates Via præclusa et penitus obsepta esse videatur propterea Nos pro Nobis Hæredibus et Successoribus nostris præfato modò Baroni de Baltimore et Hæredibus et Assignatis suis liberam et plenariam Potestatem damus Favores Gratias et Honores in benemeritos Cives infra Provinciam prædictam inhabitantes conferendi Eosque quibuscunque Titulis et Dignitatibus (modo tales non fuerint quæ in Anglia nunc sunt in Usu) pro Arbitrio suo decorandi Villas item in Burgos et Burgos in Civitates ad Inliabitantium Merita et Locorum Opportunitates cum Privilegiis et Immunitatibus congruis erigendi et incorporandi. (Hazard’s State Papers, i. 333.)
It would seem as if the use of titles the value of which was understood in England would have stimulated emigration better than to have compelled the use of new dignities. Such titles as “landgrave” and “cacique,” granted in Carolina, could not have been as well appreciated as if power had been given to grant titles without the limitations in the patent. See foot-note to Sir William Alexander’s grant, ante, p. 187.
168 Hazard’s State Papers, i. 160.
169 Ibid. i. 442, 448, 470, 480.
170 An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce, etc. [Adam Anderson], London, 1720, ii. 128; Narrative and Critical History of America, v. 291.
171 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 393.
172 I quote what follows from an exhaustive article entitled “History of the Law of Business Corporations before 1800,” by our associate, Samuel Williston: “The following things were said to be of the essence of a corporation: First, Lawful authority of incorporation, and that may be by four means; viz., by the common law, as the king himself, etc.; by authority of Parliament; by the king’s charter; and by prescription. The second, which is of the essence of the incorporation, are persons to be incorporated, and that in two manners; viz., persons natural, or bodies incorporate and political. Third, A name by which they are incorporated. Fourth, Of a place, for without a place no incorporation can be made. Fifth, By words sufficient in law, but not restrained to any certain, legal, and prescript form of words.” (Harvard Law Review, ii., No. 3.)
173 Sutton’s Hospital Case. (Coke’s Reports, Part 10, 30 a.) The reporter digests a portion of the opinion in these words: “The words incorporo, fundo, erigo, etc., not necessary to create a corporation.”
Ibid. 30 b. “To the creation of an incorporation the law had not restrained itself to any prescript and incompatible words.”
174 Thomas v. Sorrell (Vaugh. 330, 340), quoted by Chief-Justice Gray, in Hill v. Boston, 122 Mass. 349.
175 The important part of the form in this connection is as follows: —
Whereas our soṽaigne lord the king pleased to betrust us, T. P., W. B., E. W., &c., Wth the goṽment of so many of his subjects as doe or shalbe pmitted to live Wth in this goṽment of New Plym̃, and that it seemeth good unto us to begin, set up & establish a neighborhood or plantac̄on, at a place called, being bounded, and lying miles westward from s̃d towne of New Plym̃; and whereas, by reason of the distance of the place and our many weighty occaations, we can not so well see to the receiving in of such psons as may be fitt to live together there in the feare of God, and obeydyence to our said soṽaigne lord the king, in peace and loves, as becometh Christian people, all Wch we earnestly desire— that our care therefore may apeare in the faythfull discharge of our duties towards God, the Kings Matie, and the people oṽr whom we are, wee have thought good to betrust our wel beloved T. B., A. C., G. D., &c. then follow powers to receive peaceable and faitful people and to allot lands to them according to their rank and that they follow instructions from the Government. (Plymouth Colony Records, i. 113.)
176 Hill v. Boston, 122 Mass. 349.
177 Massachusetts Colony Records, iii. 207; iv. Part i. 9; New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xi. 206–210.
178 Massachusetts Colony Records, iv. Part i. 368.
179 Ibid. iv. Part ii. 26.
180 Ibid. iv. Part ii. 56.
181 Ibid. iv. Part ii. 99.
182 Memorial History of Boston, i. 219.
183 Province Laws, v. 177, 187.
184 Constitution of Massachusetts, Part the Second, chap. 1, sect. 2, art. 2.
185 Ibid. Sect. 3, art. 2.
186 Chief-Justice Gray, in Hill v. Boston, 122 Mass. 349. I am indebted to our associate, Professor James B. Thayer, for calling my attention to the marvellous resources of this remarkable opinion.
187 Massachusetts Colony Records, ii. 137; iii. 48.
188 Ibid. ii. 60.
189 Ibid. ii. 61.
190 Ibid. ii. 81.
191 Ibid. ii. 104; iii. 58.
192 Ibid. iii. 371. Another suit, in May, 1655, was thus entered in the records:
“In the case between Capt. Robt. Keane, plaintiff, and commissioner for the undertakers of the iron works, and Mr. Robt. Knight, defendant.” (Massachusetts Colony Records, iii. 381. See also iii. 369–372, 379.)
In a suit, in 1654, a question of personal liability was raised. The defendant was entered of record as John Becks & Company, of the iron works. (Ibid. iii. 351.)
193 Ibid. ii. 138; iii. 53.
194 Ibid. ii. 249, 250.
195 Massachusetts Colony Records, ii. 253.
196 Ibid. under date of June, 1650, iii. 207.
197 Ibid. iv. Part i. 12.
198 Massachusetts Colony Records, iv. Part i. 99.
199 Our associate, Mr. Henry H. Edes, has furnished the following interesting items, which show the existence of the Company at a later day. The Conduit itself was apparently in working order in 1737, and is incidentally referred to in the Selectmen’s Records as late as 1763: —
There were thirteen corporators named in the Act (Massachusetts Colony Records, iv. Part i. 99), who appear to have had an equal interest in the undertaking. An intimation that the Conduit had been built before the Charter was granted (1 June, 1652) is found in the Act itself, which provides that the corporators “shall take order for the due pajment of theire annuall rent to Mr. Willjam Ting, according to theire couenant and agreement wth him.” The fact that it had been built and was in use, certainly as early as 24 (11) 1651, is fully established by a deed of that date whereby Valentine Hill, one of the corporators, conveyed to William Awbrey, “for the vse of the Vndertakers of the Iron workes in New England,” land and a wharf “on the Southerly side of the streete or highway neere the bridge over the mill Creeke … together with all water Courses,” etc., and “it is further explajned that by water courses is vnderstood the priviledge of the Conduite in the streete for two shares as well as any other priviledges of water courses.” (Suffolk Deeds, i. 178–180.) The street, apparently, had not as yet become known as “Conduit Street,” but a year later it is so designated in a deed given by William Hudson, another corporator, to Robert Petershall, 27 March, 1652 (Ibid. i. 219). The annual expense of the Conduit privileges is shown by a deed dated 22 October, 1652, by which Leonard Buttles, a third corporator, conveys to Capt. Nicholas Simpkins an estate near the Dock with “right & priviledge to fetch water at the Conduite for his owne house only paying therefor yearely two shillings & Sixe pence to the wardens of the Company for the time being” (Ibid. iii. 302). Three years later, on 20 February, 1655, Buttles conveys to Richard Staines an estate which “fronteth the Conduit Street” and “a fifteenth part of the water Conduit” (Ibid. ii. 258). This would indicate that two other “proprietors of lands, wthin the sajd streete or elsewhere,” had “come into the sajd body,” as permitted by the Charter; but the surmise that a clerical error occurred in recording Butties’s deed is warranted by reference to an instrument dated 13 July, 1656, by which Joseph Armitage conveys to Capt. Thomas Savage “two thirteenth shares in ye Condit … wch two said shares” had been taken on execution from the estate of the “Vndertakrs of ye Iron workes” (Ibid. iii. 3).
Conduit Street was known later as Ann Street, and is now North Street. In the title of the estate now and for many years known as “Oak Hall,” and of the estate adjoining it on the Southwest, are references to the Conduit. These estates are on the Northerly side of North Street, between Union and Blackstone Streets, and nearly opposite the end of Merchants’ Row. The Southwesterly part of the Oak Hall estate belonged to Major Thomas Savage, who conveyed it in 1659, describing it as “on the North side of the Conduit Street” (Ibid. iii. 488). In the Inventory of the estate of William Ballantine, a founder of the Scots Charitable Society, this estate is mentioned with wharf and Conduit privileges (Suffolk Probate, No. 516). William Ballantine’s heirs, for £275, conveyed the estate to Col. John Ballantine (the eldest son), 28 July, 1680, together with “one share in the Conduit in the Conduit Street,” and wharf privileges (Suffolk Deeds, xii. 95). By deed dated 3 January, 1692, Bozoun Allen granted to Ballantine and others the right of laying pipes for the use of the Conduit in Conduit Street (Ibid. xx. 29). Colonel Ballantine bought several contiguous parcels, and died 27 April, 1734. His administrator conveyed the enlarged estate to Charles Coffin by deed dated 25 May, 1737, together with wharf and other privileges, “and the use and privilege of the well and water from the Conduit, as the same Premises were heretofore held, used, occupied, and enjoyed” by Ballantine (Ibid. liv. 139). The Ballantine lot had a frontage of about 22 feet on Conduit Street. The lot, about 17½ feet front, adjoining it on the Northeast is now included in the Oak Hall estate.
Conduit Street is also referred to in a deed from Abigail Woodbridge, of Hartford, Conn., to Joseph Belknap, 15 March, 1753, conveying the estate adjoining the Ballantine lot on the Southwest. (Ibid. lxxxii. 48.)
See also Shurtleff’s Topographical and Historical Description of Boston, pp. 398–404, 640, 645, 683; Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, ii., vii., viii. (Town Records, 1634–1728), passim, x. 1–54 (Capt. Robert Keayne’s Will, 1653), 86, and xi., xiii., xix. (Selectmen’s Records, 1701–1763), passim; and Memorial History of Boston, i. 233, 234, 546.
200 Patents.— In May, 1646 Joseph Jenkes, who was reputed to be a man of ability “in raising the manufacture of engines of mills to go by water,” “for the speedy despatch of much work with few hands,” was granted the exclusive use of “such new inventions” for fourteen years. (Massachusetts Colony Records, ii. 149.)
In May, 1652 Edward Burt, who was supposed to have discovered a new way to make salt, was granted the monopoly for ten years of the manufacture of salt by the new method. (Ibid. iii. 275.) Our associate Mr. Henry H. Edes is authority for the statement that Burt was of Charlestown, where he was Town Clerk 1658–1662, and married Elizabeth, daughter of George Bunker. Governor Bradstreet was concerned with him in building there the Saltworks, in 1652 (Suffolk Deeds, ii. 256, 257). Cf. Wyman’s Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, i. 115, 150, 160; Suffolk Deeds, i. 99, 238, ii. 112, 156, 163, 167, 169, 170, 171, iii. 66, 324; Middlesex Deeds, i. 142, 143; Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, iii. (Charlestown Land Records) passim; and Massachusetts Colony Records, iii. 421, iv. Part. i. 91, 272, 283, 334.
In October, 1652 John Clarke was granted the exclusive use for three years of his invention “for saving firewood and warming of rooms with little cost and charge, by which means great benefit is like to be to the country.” (Massachusetts Colony Records, iv. Part i. 104.) This grant was extended in May, 1656 for the term of Clarke’s life. (Ibid. iv. Part i. 260.)
In May, 1655 Joseph Jencks, Sr., and his assigns were granted the exclusive right for seven years to make and use an engine that said Jencks had proposed to the Court for the more speedy cutting of grass. (Ibid. iv. Part i. 233.) In May, 1656 John Winthrop was granted an exclusive privilege for twenty-one years of making salt after his new way, within this jurisdiction. (Ibid. iii. 400.) In October, 1670 Richard Wharton petitioned the Court (Ibid. iv. Part ii. 467) relative to the manufacture of salt. A committee was appointed to treat with him. It may be gathered from the report of this committee in June, 1671, that he had information of the “making of salt by improving the advantage of the sea-water by the sun,” as practised elsewhere, and that he wished to secure a charter for a company. (Ibid. iv. Part ii. 505.) The committee recommended the grant of “a charter for empowering a company of adventurers thereunto,” and the Court approved the proposition, but recommitted it for future report, after settlement of details.
In June, 1671 the Court passed an order to the effect that no person, except Richard Wharton, John Saffin and Company, could make or produce (any other way than hath been practised in former times in this country) any pitch, rosin, turpentine, oil of turpentine, or mastic of the pine or cedar trees in this jurisdiction. This monopoly of the manufacture of these articles by any other methods than those previously in practice had one exception. Any person could manufacture for his own use by new methods. The order was to remain in force for ten years, and was accompanied by grants of pine and cedar trees. (Massachusetts Colony Records, iv. Part ii. 499.)
In May, 1681 the “undertakers of the outworke or wall before the toune of Boston, to the seaward,” were granted power to hear and determine controversies among themselves, and impose fines among themselves. (Ibid. v. 310.) Although this is not a corporation, yet considering the scope of our review, it ought not to be passed by without notice. It is not mentioned here, because the grant is considered as qualifying the statement in the text.
The attempt to improve the mechanical application of water-power is what might have been expected in Massachusetts; but that the mowing-machine should have been anticipated, seems, on the whole, strange. It was also natural that attention should be turned toward improvements in the manufacture of salt. What was known in this direction can probably be ascertained; but it would be interesting to learn what was the proposed economy of John Clarke in the use of firewood.
201 Ibid. iv. Part ii. 535; Quincy’s History of Harvard University, i. 592.
202 New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, xi. 206–210.
203 Paige’s History of Cambridge, p. 42, note.
204 Quincy’s History of Harvard University, i. 587. In the Convention for the revision of the Massachusetts Constitution in 1820, the act of 1642 was spoken of by Quincy as the Charter of the College, and he even went so far as to describe the Act of Incorporation in 1650 as the “Supplemental Charter.” (Journal of Debates and Proceedings, Boston, 1821, p. 44.) Daniel Davis of Boston took substantially the same ground. (Ibid. p. 46.) Daniel Webster, at a later stage of proceedings, made a report in which he gave a history of the Charter, and showed the points of difference between the act of 1642 and the Charter of 1650. (Ibid. pp. 236, 237.)
205 Quincy’s History of Harvard University, i. 58, 276. The effect of the annulment of the Colony Charter was discussed by Hon. Emory Washburn in 1875. He said: “There is no doubt, however, that opinions have at times prevailed in the community that the Colonial Statutes were annulled by abrogating the Charter.” (Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xiii. 454.) James Savage, discussing the same question in the Massachusetts Convention for the revision of the Constitution in 1820, said: “The rights of all sorts dependent on that Charter were annulled. Not, sir, that my ancestors, or yours, were, or could be, deprived of the actual possession of their highest rights; they held them by something better than paper.” (Journal of Debates and Proceedings, etc. Boston, 1821, p. 48.)
206 The account books from which these entries are transcribed mouldered and rotted, and were riddled by insects for many years in a loft in John Hancock’s stable. Mr. Sibley published an account of their recovery by the College, and gave a detailed description of their contents. (Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, 1862–1863, vi. 337.) The historical value of the books is greatly increased by these entries, the first being illustrative of the chaotic condition, at that time, of affairs in this country, and the second indicating that the representative of the Crown considered the organization at Cambridge as having its origin from the Colonial government, and therefore as being under his control.
207 Brief Account concerning Several of the Agents of New England, their Negotiation at the Court of England, with some Remarks, etc. [Increase Mather.] London, 1691, p. 21.
208 Province Laws, i. 38, and note at the end of the chapter; vii. 452, 608; Quincy’s History of Harvard University, i. 77, 594.
209 Quincy’s History of Harvard University, i. 85; Province Laws, vii. 608.
210 Quincy’s History of Harvard University, i. 82.
211 Province Laws, i. 288; vii. 608, 609; Quincy’s History of Harvard University, i. 86.
212 Province Laws, vii. 228.
213 Quincy’s History of Harvard University, i. 100, 607.
214 Province Laws, vii. 230.
215 Ibid. vii. 245.
216 Province Laws, vii. 252, 253.
217 Ibid. vii. 257, 643.
218 Ibid. vii. 260.
219 Ibid. vii. 635, 643.
220 Ibid. vii. 265.
221 Ibid. vii. 272, 644.
222 Ibid. vii. 698.
223 Ibid. vii. 308.
224 Ibid. vii. 312.
225 Ibid. vii. 703.
226 Quincy’s History of Harvard University, i. 153.
227 It will be observed that the details relating to the foregoing analysis of the legislation with reference to the government of Harvard College during this ad interim organization are mainly derived from the copious notes furnished by Abner C. Goodell, Jr., in the seventh volume of the Province Laws. Quincy covered this ground with great detail, but the patient industry of Mr. Goodell has added new material, and has made plain much that was left obscure by Quincy. For a just appreciation of the value of Joseph Dudley’s intervention, through which the charter of 1650 was saved to the College, and for the proper understanding of these proceedings, which were rendered complex through the ambition of Mather to retain the presidency without complying with the order of the Court that he should reside in Cambridge, it is desirable to read the explanations and comments of the learned annotator, in connection with Quincy’s elaborate account.
228 Samuel Nowell was a Charlestown man. We therefore look to our associate Mr. Henry H. Edes for information concerning him. He contributes the following facts: —
Samuel Nowell was a graduate of the College in 1653. He was a son of Elder Increase Nowell of Charlestown, where he was born 12 (9) 1634. Two years after graduation, in 1655, he was elected a Fellow of the College. He was also a Chaplain in the army during Philip’s War, and was in the great Swamp Fight, 19 December, 1675. Nowell also served the Colony as an Assistant and a Commissioner of the United Colonies, and in 1687 accompanied Increase Mather to London on a mission to the English Court.
Nowell’s appointment as Treasurer of the College in January, 1682/3, was pro tempore, the Corporation “still reserving Liberty for the worshipfull Captn, Richards to reassume the place at his return” from England. Nowell’s instructions for the management of the College finances are printed in 4 Massachusetts Historical Collections, viii. 694. He died in London in August or September, 1688. (Cf. Wyman’s Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, ii. 710–711; Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, i. 322, 335–342, 553, 592)
229 I am indebted to our associate, Abner C. Goodell, Jr., for calling my attention some months since, when I showed him copies of these entries, to the technical legal point, of the recognition of the College as a corporation, by the representative of the Crown, which was involved in the order issued by Andros to the College to submit their accounts to his inspection.
230 The Charters and General Laws of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay. Boston, 1814, pp. 26, 27.
231 Province Laws, iii. 708, 744.
232 Ibid, iii. 778, 818.
233 Ibid, iii. 891, 951.
234 Ibid, iv 463, 542.
235 Ibid, iv. 518, 560.
236 Province Laws, iv. 520, 560.
237 Ibid. iv. 806.
238 Ibid. v. 177, 187.
239 Ibid. v. 179, 188. et seq. The passage of this act and of the act incorporating the Overseers of the Poor in the Town of Boston led to the discussion of a curious technical point. Both these corporations were originally created under acts which, following the analogy of king and Parliament, authorized the Governor to grant the Charters. This he declined to do; but when the acts were passed in the form of direct incorporations, he submitted them to the Lords of Trade. The question whether the power of granting Patents of Incorporation was or was not vested in the General Court was submitted to an attorney, Richard Jackson, who decided that under the Province Charter it was so vested. (Province Laws, v. 191.) Jackson’s opinion was given 13 April, 1774.
240 Ibid. v. 200, 262.
241 Ibid. v. 295, 354.
242 Province Laws, v. 1129, 1270 et seq. In making up this list of Province Corporations, my first impulse was to draw the line at the Declaration of Independence. This excluded from my list the Massachusetts Charitable Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Trustees of Phillips Academy, Andover. Mr. Goodell called my attention to the method of the Commissioners for the Publication of the Province Laws in the treatment of Laws passed during this transition period, when the future classification depended somewhat upon the result of the pending struggle. If that result had been adverse to the hopes of the Americans, there would have been no State under which to classify these corporations. They are therefore properly to be included among the Province Corporations.
243 Province Laws, v. 1194, 1369, 1370.
244 Ibid. v. 1418, 1456 et seq.
245 Statutes at Large, vi., 14 George II., chap. 37, pp. 164–168
246 Quincy’s History of Harvard University, i.160.
247 The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and other Organic Laws of the United States, Ben: Perley Poore, ii. 1890.
248 The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and other Organic Laws of the United States, Ben: Perley Poore, ii. 1908.
249 Narrative and Critical History of America, iii. 146; Political Annals of the United Colonies, George Chalmers, i. 62.
250 Early Coins of America, Sylvester S. Crosby, p. 21.
251 Early Coins of America, Sylvester S. Crosby, p. 23.
252 Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands, Major-General John Henry Lefroy, i. 59.
253 Ibid. i. 98.
254 Early Coins of America, Sylvester S. Crosby, p. 17.
255 The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and other Organic Laws of the United States, Ben: Perley Poore, i. 931.
256 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 16.
257 The phrase “not contrary to the laws of England,” was construed by the colonists to mean, not contrary to the spirit of those laws, so that any modification that took place gradually, or was due to a change of circumstances, was not looked upon as in violation of their chartered rights and obligations.
258 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 19.
259 Early Coins of America, Sylvester S. Crosby, pp. 45–54.
260 Massachusetts Colony Records, iv. Part ii. 213.
261 Hutchinson’s Collection of Original Papers (Prince Society’s Edition), ii. 213.
262 State Papers, in the Public Record Office, London. I refer to these papers under two headings: State Papers, Colonial; and State Papers, Colonial Entry Book. The papers of the first series are in what are called bundles. The present reference is, State Papers, Colonial, Bundle 52, 112.
263 State Papers, Colonial, Entry Book, cv. 60.
264 Ibid. cv. 89.
265 State Papers, Colonial, Entry Book, cv. 95.
266 Ibid. cv. 99.
267 8 Massachusetts Colony Records, v. 203.
268 State Papers, Colonial, Bundle 53, 212.
269 Ibid. Bundle 53, 216.
270 Massachusetts Colony Records, v. 347.
271 Ibid. v. 351.
272 State Papers, Colonial, Bundle 54, 105.
273 Ibid. Bundle 54, 188.
274 Massachusetts Archives, cvi. 334.
275 Early Coins of America, Sylvester S. Crosby, p. 89.
276 Andros Council Records, p. 56. These records are the original minutes of the early Council meetings. They are in manuscript, and in possession of the American Antiquarian Society. They differ somewhat from the copies at the State House, which were procured from England.
277 Sir William Alexander and American Colonization (Prince Society’s Publications), p. 143.
278 Ibid. p. 229.
279 Captain John Mason, the Founder of New Hampshire (Prince Society’s Publications), p. 191.
280 The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and other Organic Laws of the United States, Ben: Perley Poore, i. 812.
281 The County of Durham, Joseph Richard Boyle, pp. 68, 74.
282 Early Coins of America, Sylvester S. Crosby, p. 130
283 Maryland Archives, i. 400.
284 Ibid. i. 429.
285 Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his Province of Maine (Prince Society’s Publications), ii. 127.
286 The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and other Organic Laws of the United States, Ben: Perley Poore, ii. 1383.
287 Ibid. ii. 1397.
288 Mr. Thorndike here exhibited a Charles I. prayer-book with Sternhold and Hopkins bound in at the end, and stated that there were in the Athenæum and other large libraries many Bibles with the same appendix.
289 Mr. Thorndike here exhibited a copy of the edition of 1565, and various others earlier than 1620, including two copies of Este’s harmonized edition.
290 Mr. Thorndike here exhibited a copy of the 1618 edition of Ainsworth.
291 The Committee of Publication would call attention to Mr. Goodell’s letter on page viii., ante, in which he states that he has changed his opinion as to the handwriting of this manuscript. The statement made on page 249, that Washington wrote this document, should of course be changed to correspond with the views expressed in this letter.
292 The Hon. Samuel Crocker Cobb succeeded to the Presidency of the Society in 1880, on the death of Rear-Admiral Henry Knox Thatcher. See pp. 14 and 15, ante.
293 The manuscript pages are indicated in the printed text by broad-faced figures enclosed in brackets. The words in the text in full-faced letters were substituted by Washington for the words of Knox, which are given in the margin. Editorial comments in the margin are put in brackets, and when given in connection with Knox’s words, the latter are put between quotation marks. The words in italics in the text were underlined by Washington in his manuscript. The punctuation is Washington’s.
Knox’s draught is dated “West point, 15 Apl. 1783,” and headed, on the left, “Cincinnati.” It is among the Knox Papers (xii. 92–93) in the cabinet of the New-England Historic Genealogical Society. A fac simile is in Memorials of the Society of the Cincinnati of Massachusetts (edition of 1873) between pp. 6 and 7.
294 Catchword.
295 Catchword.
296 Catchword.
297 Catchword.
298 A draught of these Articles, apparently a copy by Colonel Shaw, endorsed, in another hand, “Original Constitution of the Society of Cincinnati,” is in the Library of Harvard College, received from the estate of our associate, the late Francis Parkman. On comparison it is found to agree substantially with the copy printed in the Memorials of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati (edition of 1890, pp. 7–13), from which the present impression was made.
299 The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw, etc., p. 111.
300 The above conjectures have been since rendered more certain by our associate, Mr. Henry H. Edes, who has found that in his last will, proved 23 January, 1809 (Suffolk Probate, No. 23,283), Jackson directed his executor to separate all moneys, notes, or certificates of any kind in his hands as Treasurer of the Cincinnati, and to pay over the same to his successor. General Cobb was one of the subscribing witnesses to this will, and in the performance of this particular duty very likely assisted the executors, neither of whom was a member of the Cincinnati. The draught of association, being not a document belonging to the Treasurer’s custody, might have been retained by General Cobb, who became Vice-president of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati in 1810, before the final settlement of Jackson’s estate.
301 Concerning the unreasonable popular prejudice against the Cincinnati, and the attitude of Washington, Knox, Lafayette, John Adams, and others towards it, much can be learned from the correspondence of Washington and John Adams. Cf. letters of Knox, Lafayette, and Benjamin Hawkins to Washington, in Sparks’s Correspondence of Washington, iv. 58–60, 71; Washington’s letters to Knox, Jefferson, Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., Madison, and William Barton, in Sparks’s Writings of Washington, ix. 26, 29, 35, 216–218; xii. 298–299; also Appendix No. 1, in ix. 495 et seq.; Lafayette’s letter to John Adams, and Adams’s letter to Charles Spener, in Life and Works of John Adams, viii. 187; ix. 523–524. See also Austin’s Life of Elbridge Gerry, i. 416 et seq.; Wells’s Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams, iii. 201 et seq.; and Memorials of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati (Boston, 1873), pp. 3–41, 534; (Boston, 1890) pp. 3–52, 531.
302 See footnote on page 176, ante.
303 An erased word that is illegible in the manuscript follows the word “money.”
304 The title adopted by the Society is the “Daughters of the Revolution, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.”
305 The Quincy Historical Society, Quincy (ante, pp. 182, 183), and the Groton Historical Society, Groton (ante, p. 266), have been organized since the list of the American Historical Association was published.
306 If Church Historical Societies are properly to be included, there should be added to this list of omissions: Shepard Historical Society, Cambridge.
307 See what Parkman says about Rev. Samuel Moody, Minister of York, in the Atlantic Monthly for March, 1891, lxvii. 321. There is a cut of this Cross in the frontispiece of Vol. ii. of the Memorial History of Boston.
308 Historical and Descriptive Account of the Island of Cape Breton, etc. Montreal, 1892.
309 A Journal of the late Siege by the troops of North America against the French at Cape Breton, etc., by James Gibson, Gentleman Volunteer, at the above Siege. London, 1745. This edition is prefaced with a large folded sketch of Louisburg.
In 1847, this Journal was re-published, under the editorship of Lorenzo D. Johnson, with some additional matter, but without the sketch of Louisburg, under the title, “A Boston Merchant of 1745, or incidents of the life of James Gibson,” etc. Boston, 1847.
310 Memorial History of Boston. Vol. ii.
311 Harvard University, Library Bulletin, No. 8, 1 June, 1878: Notes.
312 This structure was of wood, and in the rear of where the Charles River National Bank now is, having been approached through the alley-way by the side of the old Court House.
The beautiful and truthful panorama was purchased at London, in 1819, by the late Theodore Lyman, jr., and presented by him to Harvard College. Efforts to obtain the means for constructing a suitable building for its exhibition having proved unsuccessful, the plan was deferred until the accumulated interest upon the amount already secured for the purpose should suffice. (See Quincy’s History of Harvard University, ii. 401, 592.)
The building, which was nearly or quite circular, was erected in 1842, and free access to it given students of the College. But it only endured for about three years; for the building, with the panorama, was consumed on the night of the sixth of June, 1845, the flames having reached it from a carpenter’s shop, set on fire by an incendiary.— G.
313 The writer especially acknowledges his obligations for material used in this paper to Bell’s “John Wheelwright” (Prince Society Publications), Bell’s History of Exeter, N. H., Bourne’s History of Wells and Kennebunk, and Folsom’s “Saco and Biddeford.”
314 Letter to George Vaughan, in Belknap’s History of New Hampshire, Appendix.
315 Bilsby is a hamlet adjoining the market town of Alford. The shire town of York County, Maine, takes its corrupted name, Alfred, from that of Alford, England.
316 The use of this material previous to its publication by the Massachusetts Historical Society has been allowed through the courtesy of Charles F. Adams, Esq., the owner of the copies of these records, and of Dr. Samuel A. Green, Librarian of the Society.
317 Permission is not given to cite the legal authority referred to. The opinion is as follows: “I should say that the probability is that the incumbent simoniacally agreed to resign, probably with the patron, and so the turn went to the King. I am not sure that a simoniacal contract to present as patron would vacate the benefice, but the other piece of misbehaviour seems to me natural enough and to fit the facts.”
318 Rev. Hanserd Knollys, born about 1598, at Cawkerell, Lincolnshire; graduated at Cambridge; inducted to the living of Humberston, Lincolnshire, 23 August, 1631, which he held until 8 January, 1633; came to Massachusetts 1638, where, being suspected of “Antinomianism,” he was refused residence. He was pastor at Dover, N. H., for nearly four years, when he returned to England. There he taught school, and was chaplain in the Parliamentary army. He was the author of several religious works, and an incomplete autobiography. A Baptist publication society in London is called the Hanserd Knollys Society. See Congregational Quarterly, vol. xiii.; Second Series, vol. iii.
319 Cotton Mather’s letter to George Vaughan.
320 See the Remarks of Mr. Abner C. Goodell, Jr., on the Antinomian Controversy at the April, 1893, Meeting, ante, p. 132 et seq.
321 The Lincolnshire men in the Exeter Colony were Wentworth, Storre, Helme, Lawson, Leavitt, Rishworth, Hutchinson, Pormortt, Fish, the Wardwells, and the Littlefields. There was a family connection between several of these colonists, of which Anne Hutchinson was the central figure; her father, Rev. Francis Marbury, was the uncle of Wentworth and the great-uncle of Helme and Lawson; Augustine Storre married her husband’s sister Susanna, another sister married a Leavitt, another a Rishworth; Samuel Hutchinson was her husband’s brother. John Wheelwright married first, Augustine Storre’s sister, and as his second wife, Mary Hutchinson, Anne’s sister-in-law. Anne Hutchinson’s mother was a cousin of John Dryden, the poet. The Marburys, Drydens, and Wentworths were arms-bearing families; the Hutchinsons laid claim to like distinction, but their pedigree, filed during the last century in the Heralds’ College, was endorsed “respited for proof.” See New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xx. 355; Heraldic Journal, ii. 83, 171, 183.
322 Bell’s History of Exeter, appendix.
323 Tuttle’s Historical Papers, appendix.
324 “When a boy on the Wheelwright farm I ate fruit from trees planted by Samuel and his sons Joseph and John. We have held the homestead two hundred and fifty years, but last year (1893) it was sold, as no one wished to live on it, no member of the family I mean.”— Letter of Rev. John Bourne Wheelwright, of Minneapolis, Minn.
325 “The people in the province of Maine may be divided into Magistrates, Husbandmen, or Planters and Fishmen; of the Magistrates some be Royalists, the rest Perverse Spirits; the like are planters and fishers both, others mere fishers. Handicraftsmen there are but few; shopkeepers there are none, being supplied by the Massachusetts Merchants with all things they stand in need of.” John Josselyn’s Two Voyages to New England.
326 Gorges pedigree, Harleian Society’s “Visitations of Somersetshire.”
327 Champernowne pedigree, Harleian Society’s “Visitations of Devonshire.” See Berry’s “Hampshire Genealogies” for marriage of a Richard Champernowne and Elizabeth, daughter of Chief Justice Popham.
328 Josselyn pedigree, Harleian Society’s “Visitations of Essex,” pp. 65, 230.
329 See “George Cleaves of Casco Bay” (Gorges Society Publications), p. 37, footnote.
330 Henry Boade in his will makes his “loving cousins, Mr. John Winthrop, Esq. and Rev. Timothy Dalton,” his executors. The pedigree of Bode in Berry’s “Kent Genealogies,” gives a Henry Bode, and the marriage with John Winthrop of a distantly removed step-cousin of this Henry Bode, Mariam Ford, daughter and heir of John Ford of Buckley Abbey, Suffolk.
331 Bolles pedigree, Harleian Society’s “Visitations of Nottinghamshire.” For will of John Bolles, Esq., in which he mentioned his “brother Joseph in New England,” see Waters’s “Gleanings in England.” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xlvi. 34.
332 See Maine Historical Collections, ix. 297–384.
333 General Knox attempted a large landed proprietorship in Maine, but this enterprise met with dismal failure.
334 The name was variously spelled, “Storr, Storre, Storer, Story, Storey, Storah.” William, the son of Augustine, spelt his name Storer and Story. Cf. Savage’s Genealogical Dictionary of New England, iv. 211.
335 Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts (ed. of 1765), i. 193, note.
336 Wheelwright, in the conveyance of land to Richard Crispe, his son-in-law, dated 22 October, 1677, described himself as “late of Belleau, in the County of Lincoln.” (Suffolk Deeds, x. 215.) At Belleau was Vane’s country-seat.
337 Mr. Abner C. Goodell, Jr., found that this portrait was not that of John Higginson, as it had been labelled; close examination disclosing, painted in a slightly darker shade of the background color, an inscription giving an age and date that proved the portrait to be either John Wheelwright or Roger Conant, presumably the former. See “First Church, Quincy,” Appendix.
338 Thomas Wheelwright is supposed to have lived in a part of Wells called Batcombe, which took its name from a hamlet similarly related to Wells, England. He is said to have been the only man of Wells of the first three generations, other than those who met untimely ends, who was a life-long bachelor. What is left of the house he began for his intended bride is known as “Thomas’s Cellar.”
339 Col. Richard Nichols, Sir Robert Carr, George Cartwright, and Samuel Maverick.
340 At a court held at Saco, 1666, an indictment was found against one “Francis White for saying that Samuel Wheelwright was a lying justice.”
341 Maj.-Gen. John Leverett, Edward Tyng, Capt. Richard Waldron, Capt. Richard Pike.
342 William and Harlakenden Symonds were settlers at Wells. They were sons of Deputy Governor Samuel Symonds of Massachusetts. For Symonds and Harlakenden pedigrees, see Harleian Society’s “Visitations of Essex.”
343 The Bay Colony appointed as its government: President, Thomas Danforth; Council, Capt. John Davis, Major Brian Pendleton, Capt. Joshua Scottow, Capt. John Wincoll, Edward Rishworth, Francis Hooke, Samuel Wheelwright, Capt. Charles Frost.
344 Massachusetts Archives, lxviii. 88.
345 Confident of victory, Mather relates, “they fell dividing persons and plunder, and agreeing that such an English Captain should be a slave to such a one, and such a gentleman in the town should serve such a one, and his wife be maid of honor to such or such a squaw proposed, and Mr. Wheelwright (instead of being a worthy Counsellor of the Province, which he now is), was to be the servant of such a Netop.” A French officer, “habited like a gentleman,” stepped to the front. He exhorted the band in English to attack fearlessly, assured them that victory was easy, that it would be a great prize to any of them to capture John Wheelwright as he was the life and strength of the town.
346 Burroughs was at one time Rev. John Wheelwright’s assistant at Salisbury.
347 Province Laws, vii. 129, 521.
348 Province Laws, vii. 618.
349 See also Chap. 18 of the Resolves of 1699–1700, Province Laws, vii. 222, 618.
350 Abbé Tanguay’s “A Travers les Registres.”
351 John Plaisted, their son, when a lad, was captured by Indians and taken to Canada.
352 It would so appear from petitions and letters, but on the other hand, Col. Samuel Wheelwright’s wife and some of Joseph Bolles’s children could not write.
353 The Indian deed of 1629 was a later forgery, of which, however, no suspicion rests on any member of the Wheelwright family. It was made to serve the defendant in one of the suits of the purchasers of the Mason Patent for the recovery of lands in 1708. There possibly was an earlier Indian deed than that of Exeter made to Rev. John Wheelwright and his company, for Wheelwright made affidavit at Hampton, 13 October, 1663, that there had been a purchase made, through an agent, from certain Sagamores “of which Runawit,” who was not party to the Exeter transaction “was one.” Some credence may also be given to Cotton Mather’s statement that “good men … knew of such an instrument, but concluded it lost and gone beyond recovery.” The tradition of the existence of an early deed probably suggested the forgery. Wheelwright’s affidavit and Cotton Mather’s letter are given in Belknap’s History of New Hampshire, appendix.
354 Capt. Johnson Hammond, the leader of this expedition, laid before the Massachusetts Council twenty-five Indian scalps and the scalp of Ralle. He received a bounty of four hundred and five pounds for the Indian scalps, and one hundred pounds for that of the priest, to be divided among his officers and men. See Letters of Major Thomas Westbrooke and Others, in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xlviii. 187–188.
355 In Massachusetts Archives, lii. 232, is a letter of 26 July, 1725, from Capt. Samuel Wheelwright, reporting the capture at Wells of ten Indian deserters, showing the employment of Indians as enlisted men. Letters of Major Westbrooke and Others, in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xlvii. 319. In the same collection are other references to Col. John and Capt. Samuel Wheelwright.
356 The John Wheelwright who served in the Louisburg campaign is not known to have been a descendant of Rev. John Wheelwright. He came to Cohasset, Massachusetts, about 1720, and was the ancestor of our associate Mr. Edward Wheelwright.
357 See Journal of Rev. Joseph Baxter of Medfield, Missionary to the Eastern Indians, in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxiv. 52.
358 The English branch of the family uses the same coat-of-arms with a difference in one of the colors indicated in the King’s Chapel carving; the motto “Spectemur Agendo,” used with the coat of the English family, is an assumption not unwarranted by the story of the family, but there is no evidence authorizing the coat-of-arms. It may be that an enterprising English stone-cutter or Boston carriage painter, who profited through the social aspirations of many New England families of that day, acted in stead of the Heralds’ College.
359 The Rev. Charles Apthorp Wheelwright, the grandson of Nathaniel, was Prebendary of Lincoln. His son Rev. George and his grandson Rev. Charles Apthorp Wheelwright were clergymen of the Church of England.
360 Hon. John Wheelwright, formerly a Councillor of the Province, son of Samuel, was chosen in 1779 to prosecute all who were inimical to the patriot cause. Aaron, grandson of Joseph, was one of the Committee of Correspondence at the same time. Capt. Daniel, brother of John above-mentioned, died in service, 1778. Jeremiah of Gloucester, son of Lieut. Jeremiah of Portsmouth, was Commissary in Arnold’s Expedition to Canada; he died in 1778, from the effects of exposure in this campaign; his son, Abraham, served in the Continental army from December, 1775, to July, 1777; from that time until or near the close of the war he was first officer on several privateers.
361 See By-Laws, chap. ii. art. 1.
362 Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, i. 496 et seq.; iii. 323 et seq.
363 DeForest’s History of Westborough, p. 65.
364 DeForest’s History of Westborough, p. 187.
365 Ibid. p. 87.
366 Ibid. p. 191, note
367 Montcalm and Wolfe was published in 1884.
368 DeForest’s History of Westborough, p. 189.
369 Ibid. pp. 18, 479.
370 Montcalm and Wolfe, ii. 163.
371 DeForest’s History of Westborough, p. 136.
372 Ibid. p. 163. At page 181 it is said that in December, 1776, “at least two of his (the minister’s) sons were in the army.”
373 Quincy’s History of Harvard University, ii. 416.
374 Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, i. 496–507.
375 It is possible that Francis Parkman may have partly inherited from these Puritan ancestors the strong interest he felt in the Indians. It does not appear, however, that he ever learned their language, and it may be regarded as certain that he never preached to them.
376 Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, iii. 323–326.
377 History of Medford, by Charles Brooks, revised and enlarged by J. M. Usher, 1886.
378 Brooks’s History of Medford (1886), p. 300.
379 Brooks’s History of Medford (1886), p. 509.
380 The Art of Authorship, personally contributed by leading authors of the day. Compiled and edited by George Bainton. London, James Clark & Co., 1890.
381 Boston Daily Advertiser, 7 May, 1885.
382 George Francis Parkman.
383 He was always Parkman 2d, his cousin, George Francis Parkman, being Parkman 1st.
384 Tributes of the Massachusetts Historical Society, p. 6.
385 In the Knickerbocker Magazine for April, 1845, was published a “Sketch,” entitled the “Scalp-Hunter,” in which the final scene takes place in the identical locality of Parkman’s adventure. Though it is unsigned, there is strong internal evidence that Parkman was the author.
386 It was on this journey that Parkman saw the remains of Fort William Henry, as he describes them in “Montcalm and Wolfe,” i. 492, and as mentioned on page 493, note 2. It was perhaps also this journey that he refers to in a note on page 258 of volume ii. of “Montcalm and Wolfe,” where he says: “I once, when a college student, followed on foot the route of Rogers from Lake Memphremagog to the Connecticut.”
387 A Half Century of Conflict, ii. 230. See also Mr. George S. Hale’s address at the meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 21 November, 1893.
388 In a note to the above, Mr. Cushing adds: “No doubt Parkman had in mind his Indian Expedition, which occurred soon after.”
389 The Oregon Trail, p. 204.
390 A Half Century of Conflict, i. 333; ii. 38–41.
391 Vassall Morton, p. 37.
392 “The Book of Roses,” published in 1866. See a paper read before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society by Dr. Henry P. Walcott, in the Boston Transcript, 16 December, 1893.
393 Ibid.
394 See The Jesuits, p. 448.
395 The Old Régime in Canada, p. 314.
396 Mr. Fiske has kindly furnished a copy of this paragraph.
397 A Half Century of Conflict, ii. 92.
398 The closing paragraph of Mr. John Fiske’s address has been already quoted on page 310.
399 Pedigrees of Hertfordshire Families. Collected by William Berry. Lithographed (not printed). London (no date), pp. 109–110. This volume also gives twelve generations of the pedigree of Alderman Anthony Radcliffe.
400 Sir William Alexander and American Colonization (Publications of the Prince Society), p. 73.
401 The words “Confirmaõn de 1631,” are written in the upper left hand comer of the Commission.
402 This seal, unfortunately, is missing from the Commission.
403 Savage (i. 270) records the death of Dorothy, widow of the Hon. John Brown, at Swanzey, 27 January, 1674, at the age of 90. As this statement, taken in connection with that of Judge Saffin, at once challenged attention, inquiry was made at Swanzey upon the points at issue. The courteous and obliging town clerk, Mr. Henry O. Wood, has kindly furnished the following verbatim extract from the ancient records in his official custody: —
“Mrs. Dorothy Brown wife of John Brown Senṛ deceased the twenty seaventh day of January 1673 being the ninety and eighth year of her age or thereabouts and was buryed uppon the 29th of January 1673.” (Book A. Page 143.)
Mr. Wood communicates the interesting fact that the name and memory of this Colonial dame is perpetuated in Swanzey by the “Dorothy Brown Rebekah Degree Lodge 122 I. O. O. F.”
See Judge Davis’s edition of Morton’s Memorial, pp. 295–297.
404 The Boston Town Records as printed in the Record Commissioners’ Reports (ix. 124) state that Benjamin, son of John and Martha Saffin, was born 15 June, 1672.
405 See Whitmore’s Copp’s-Hill Epitaphs, p. 34.
406 By the inscription on the gravestone of Rachel, wife of John, it appears that she died 6 July, 1690, twenty-three days before her husband.
407 This fire occurred on the fifth of July, 1692, according to Laurence Hammond, who adds that it “began in ye King’s-Head Tavern in Boston, by Halsy’s Wharf, betw 11 & 12 at night,” and that it “destroyed about 20 Dwelling Houses & Warehouses.”— Diary: 2 Massachusetts Historical Society’s Proceedings, vii. 162.
408 Suffolk Deeds, xiii. 438–440.
409 Ibid. xxii. 425.
410 Massachusetts Archives, xvi. 476.
411 Ibid. xvi. 475.
412 Suffolk Probate Files, No. 1739.
413 Suffolk Deeds, xxii. 424, 425.
414 Ibid. xvi. 408–410.
415 Ibid. xxii. 425–428.
416 The first letter is dated 13 June, 1737, the last 5 May, 1740.
417 Dealings with the Dead, ii. 515.
418 Boston Newsletter, No. 1769.
419 Suffolk Probate Files, No. 7107.
420 Dealings with the Dead, ii. 509, 550–551.
421 An examination of the Ledger discloses transactions with correspondents in Antigua, Bristol, Eng., Canso, Connecticut, Guernsey, Jersey, London, Louisburg, Martinique, New York, Pennsylvania, Rotterdam, Rhode Island and Virginia, besides Boston and many of the smaller towns in Massachusetts. It is interesting also to note the names of the following families which appear in this ponderous tome: Barrett, Boylston, Boutineau, Bromfield, Cabot, Chardon, Coffin, Colman, Cushing, DeLancey, Folger, Hallowell, Hooper, Hutchinson, Jackson, Johonnot, Lloyd, Lyman, Maverick, Minot, Palfrey, Parkman, Paxton, Phillips, Pickman, Quincy, Royall, Salter, Savage, Scollay, Sewall, Sturgis, Verplanck, Waldo, Wendell, and Winslow.
422 Peter Faneuil was born 20 June, 1700, at New Rochelle, N. Y.
423 The earliest entry is dated 9 April, 1725, and the latest 21 October, 1730. The Invoices are consecutively numbered, and cover consignments to Andrew and Peter Faneuil, which are entered indiscriminately.
424 This is probably an abreviation of “Merchandise Account.”
425 Dealings with the Dead, ii. 507.
426 By Mr. Walter Kendall Watkins.
427 Rhode Island Colonial Records, iii. 73.
428 The text of the essential parts of this Indenture is as follows: —
This Indenture made the fifteenth day of June Anno Dom. 1726, & in the twelfth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King George over Great Britain &c. Between Peter Baynton of the City of Philadelphia in the province of Pensilvania mercht. & Mary his wife only Child of John Budd late of Philadelphia aforesaid but now of Hanover in the province of New Jersey Esqṛ & Rebecckah his wife decēd which said Rebekah was only Daughter & heir of John Smith late of Newport in the Colony of Rhode Island &c. Surveyor decēd on the one part & Thomas Child, Joshua Wroe & John Marshall all of Boston [etc. on the other part, Witnesseth the conveyance, for £400, of] One full Thirty-third Part of the Township of Sutton in the County of Suffolk & province of the Massachusetts bay aforesaid which they the said Peter Baynton & Mary his wife do now hold and Enjoy in right of their said Grandfather John Smith, who was one of the original Grantees or proprietors of the said Township in the same manner as other the original Proprietors of the sd Township do now hold & enjoy their rights therein, etc.
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Suffolk Deeds, xliii. 304. See also Ibid. xliv. 2.
429 The History of Sutton (pp. 1–2) states, that the township was bought of John Wampus and other Nipmug Indians; that it was a tract eight miles square, embracing in its limits an Indian reservation of four miles square called Hassanimisco; that the deed from Wampus was lost; that the Proprietors met on 22 February, 1731–2 and ordered “a new book” for records to be provided wherein the Wampus deed and the grant of the General Court of 1704 were to “be first placed;” and that the book was procured, but that while the grant of 1704 was recorded in it the Wampus deed was not. Probably it had already disappeared.
430 With Captain Peleg Sanford (Rhode Island Colonial Records iii. 26). The next year Smith was appointed by the General Assembly to survey Mount Hope Neck. (Ibid. iii. 55.)
431 Recorded with Suffolk Deeds, xvi. 89–90.
432 Resolves of 1703–4 Chap. 101, Province Laws, viii. 46.
433 Recorded with Suffolk Deeds xxxv. 260.
434 This Society was chartered 10 September, 1894. Its object is “to perpetuate the memories of the men who completed the work of the Revolution, in upholding the principles of the Nation against Great Britain in the conflict known as the war of 1812; to collect and secure for preservation rolls, records, books, and documents relating to that period, and to encourage research, and publication of the same; to foster true patriotism, and to cherish, maintain, and extend the institutions of American freedom.”
435 Acts and Resolves, 1884, chap. 60.
436 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 73.
437 Thornton’s Pulpit of the American Revolution, p. xxiii.
438 Magnalia (edition of 1702), Book iii. p. 21. Mather may refer here to the sermon which Cotton preached on 24 August.
439 History of Massachusetts-Bay (edition of 1764), i. 45.
440 Winthrop’s Journal (edition of 1853), i. 168.
441 See “Election Sermons,” a disappointing article, by Barnes in the “Christian Spectator,” vol. x. It is merely a review of some Connecticut and New Hampshire sermons, in which the reverend reviewer finds “an occasion for offering some considerations on the influence of religion and law.”
442 Johnson’s Wonder-working Providence (Poole’s edition, 1867), p. 77.
443 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 256.
444 Ibid. i. 264.
445 Ibid. ii. 73
446 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxiv. 361–366.
447 Judges, ix. 14, 15.
448 Magnalia, Book iii. p. 118
449 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxvi. 162.
450 Winthrop’s Journal, ii. 42; quoted also in Lechford’s Plain Dealing (Trumbull’s edition), p. 68.
451 Printed in 3 Massachusetts Historical Collections, viii. 191.
452 History of Massachusetts, i. 329–332.
453 Winthrop’s Journal, ii. 141.
454 Magnalia, Book ii. p. 10.
455 Ibid. Book iii. p. 102.
456 Massachusetts Colony Records, ii. 62.
457 Ibid. ii. 71.
458 See note by Dr. George H. Moore in Historical Magazine, February, 1867, p. 116.
459 Massachusetts Colony Records, iv. Part ii. p. 424.
460 Manuscript note now in Boston Public Library.
461 History of Massachusetts, i. 331.
462 Winthrop’s Journal, ii. 268.
463 Ibid. ii. 316.
464 Itt being the time & turne of ye Deputs for to choose & appointe ye minister to preach the sermon at ye next Courte of Elecc̄on, they chose & desired Mr Nathaniell Rogers, of Ipswich, to preach ye next elecc̄on sermon. (Massachusetts Colony Records, iii. 80.)
465 Johnson’s Wonder-working Providence, p. 178.
466 Magnalia, Book ii. p. 131.
467 Massachusetts Colony Records, iii. 148.
468 Ibid. iv. Part i. 254.
469 In a copy of Oakes’s sermon for 1673, which belonged to Samuel Sewall, is a manuscript memorandum, which, Sewall says, was “taken out of Grandfather Hull’s Character Book of several that did preach the Artillery and Election sermons,” in which Mr. Flint is set down as preacher in 1657, and Mr. Ward as preacher in 1660. Neither of these names seems to be correct, yet this memorandum as a whole, no doubt, has been important in determining some of the preachers. It is in the Prince collection, now in the Boston Public Library.
470 Magnalia, Book iv. 184.
471 Ibid. Book iv. 182.
472 I have been unable to identify this “F. Drake,” and only offer the bracketed name as a suggestion.
473 Magnalia, Book iv. 185.
474 Mitchel’s “Nehemiah on the Wall,” p. 23.
475 Norton’s “Sion the Out-cast,” p. 1.
476 Ibid. p. 2.
477 Ibid. p. 6.
478 Higginson’s “The Cause of God …”, p. 11.
479 New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, vii. 239.
480 Edes says from Psalm cxxii. 6.
481 Sibley’s “Graduates,” i. 117.
482 The title is curious enough to give entire: “Nehetmiah on the Wall in Troublesom Times; or, a Serious and Seasonable Improvement of that great Example of Magistratical Piety and Prudence, Self-denial and Tenderness, Fearlessness and Fidelity, unto Instruction and Encouragement of present and succeeding Rulers in our Israel.”
483 Massachusetts Colony Records, iv. Part ii. 376.
484 Stoughton’s “New-England’s True Interest,” p. 3.
485 Ibid. p. 20.
486 Magnalia, Book iv. p.56
487 Magnalia, Book iv. p. 154, § 5.
488 Danforth’s Election Sermon for 1670, p. 15.
489 Magnalia, Book iv. p. 191, § 5.
490 Shepard’s “Eye-Salve,” p. 14.
491 Ibid. p. 12.
492 Ibid. p. 13.
493 Ibid. p. 13.
494 Shepard’s “Eye-Salve,” p. 13.
495 Ibid. p. 44.
496 Oakes’s “New-England Pleaded with,” p. 19.
497 Ibid. p. 36.
498 “New-England Pleaded with, And pressed to consider the things which concern her Peace, at least in this her Day: Or, A Seasonable and Serious Word of faithful Advice to the Churches and People of God (primarily those) in the Massachusets Colony; musingly to Ponder, and bethink themselves, what is the Tendency, and will certainly be the sad Issue, of sundry unchristian and crooked wayes, which too too many have been turning aside unto, if persisted and gone on in.”
499 Sibley’s “Graduates,” i. p. 328.
500 Torrey’s Election Sermon for 1674, p. 8.
501 Massachusetts Colony Records, v. 34.
502 Sibley’s “Graduates,” i. 379.
503 Mather’s “A Call from Heaven,” 1677, p. 59; second impression, 1685, p. 81.
504 Sewall’s Diary, i. 360.
505 1 Massachusetts Historical Collections, x. 65.
506 Hubbard’s “Happiness of a People,” 1676, p. 39.
507 Ibid. p. 26.
508 Allen’s Election Sermon for 1679, p. 8.
509 Willard’s Election Sermon for 1694, p. 20.
510 Sewall’s Diary, iii. 7.
511 Massachusetts Colony Records, v. 441.
512 Sibley’s “Graduates,” i. 519.
513 Sprague’s Annals, i. 170.
514 Adams’s Election Sermon for 1685, p. 11.
515 Ibid. p. 17.
516 Sewall’s Diary, i. 92.
517 Massachusetts Colony Records, v. 514.
518 Sewall’s Diary, i. 136.
519 Memoir of Wigglesworth, p. 93.
520 Sibley’s “Graduates,” i. 285.
521 American Quarterly Register, xi. 193.
522 Sewall’s Diary, i. 136.
523 History of Massachusetts-Bay, i. 354, note.
524 “Not till after the deposition of Gov. Andros, I presume, was another Election Sermon preached at Boston.” (Dean’s Memoir of Wigglesworth, p. 92.)
525 Mather’s “Way to Prosperity,” p. 23.
526 The imprint of some copies of this sermon, “The Way to Prosperity,” is: Boston, Printed by Richard Pierce, for Benjamin Harris. Anno Domini, 1690; of other copies it is: Printed by R. Pierce, for Joseph Brunning, Obadiah Gill, and James Woode. (See Sibley’s “Graduates,” iii. 50.) This sermon may also be found in Cotton Mather’s “Wonderful Works of God commemorated.”
527 Mather’s Election Sermon for 1690, p. 34.
528 Ibid. p. 58.
529 The title is: “Things fora Distress’d People to think upon.” There was an imperfect copy in George Brinley’s library, which lacked three pages of the Postscript. The Worcester copy includes only pp. 5–74. The only known perfect copy is in the Boston Public Library. These three are the only copies of which I have heard.
530 Sewall’s Diary, i. 426.
531 Mather’s Election Sermon for 1700, p. 11.
532 Ibid. p. 31.
533 Sibley’s “Graduates,” ii. 514.
534 Sewall’s Diary, i. 453. This was the Star Tavern. It stood on the north-easterly corner of Hanover and Union streets, running back to and abutting upon Link Alley (later known as North Federal Court), which was discontinued, closed, and built upon in 1857–1860. It was here that the Court of Admiralty sat, in 1704, for the trial of Capt. John Quelch and his company for piracy, when Stephen North was the inn-keeper. Cf. Sewall’s Diary, ii. 108; Province Laws, viii. 395, note; Shurtleff’s Topographical and Historical Description of Boston, pp. 405, 607, 630, 656; Nomenclature of Streets (Boston City Document No. 119 of 1879), pp. 21, 26, 35, 89, 95; John Bonner’s Plan of 1722; John Groves Hales’s Maps of the Street Lines of Boston in 1819 and 1820, p. 185; and Annual Report of the Boston Street Laying Out Department for 1894 (City Document No. 35 of 1895), pp. 196, 228.
I am indebted to Mr. Henry H. Edes for this valuable note, which identifies not only the “Stone House,” but a lost alley.
535 Sewall’s Diary, ii. 178.
536 Noyes’s Election Sermon for 1698, p. 58.
537 Ibid. pp. 69 et seq.
538 Samuel G. Drake’s “The Witchcraft Delusion in New England,” iii. 40.
539 This was Joseph Belcher; Samuel Belcher preached in 1707.
540 Sewall’s Diary, ii. 34.
541 Journal by Dankers and Sluyter (Memoirs, Long Island Historical Society, i.), p. 385.
542 Stoddard’s Election Sermon for 1703, p. 13.
543 Sibley’s “Graduates,” ii. 114.
544 Sewall’s Diary, ii. 301.
545 Russell’s Election Sermon for 1704, p. 14.
546 Estabrook’s Election Sermon for 1705, p. 16.
547 Sewall’s Diary, ii. 132.
548 Ibid. ii. 132.
549 Sibley’s “Graduates,” iii. 273.
550 Sewall’s Diary, ii. 224.
551 Ibid. ii. p. 256.
552 Sewall’s Diary, ii. 278.
553 Ibid. ii. 278.
554 Ibid. ii. 282.
555 Pemberton’s Election Sermon for 1710, p.4.
556 Sewall’s Dairy, ii. 333.
557 Ibid. ii. 278.
558 Sibley’s “Graduates,” ii. 308.
559 Ibid. ii. 309.
560 Sewall’s Diary, ii.385.
561 Shepard’s Election Sermon for 1715, p. 20.
562 Sibley’s “Graduates,” iii. 325.
563 Colman’s Election Sermon for 1718, p. 40.
564 Sewall’s Diary, iii.214.
565 Ibid. iii. 291.
566 Ibid. iii. 291.
567 Sewall’s Election Sermon for 1724, p. 65.
568 Ibid. p. 66.
569 Baxter’s Election Sermon for 1724, p. 32.
570 Sewall’s Diary, iii. 356.
571 Ibid. iii. 348.
572 Breck’s Election Sermon for 1728, p. 22.
573 Fiske’s Election Sermon for 1731, p. 10.
574 Swift’s Election Sermon for 1732, p. 23.
575 Ibid. p. 25.
576 Prince’s Election Sermon for 1731, p. 37.
577 Holyoke’s Election Sermon for 1736, p. 6.
578 Loring’s Election Sermon for 1737, p. 1.
579 Ibid. p. 12.
580 Ibid. p. 51.
581 Ibid. p. 60.
582 See the Memorial of the Chaunceys, by William Chauncey Fowler, on the attitude of the General Court in this matter.
583 Chauncy’s Election Sermon for 1747, p. 36.
584 Cooper’s Election Sermon for 1740, p. 6.
585 Ibid. p. 9.
586 Williams’s Election Sermon for 1741, p. 49.
587 Phillips’s Election Sermon for 1750, p. 42.
588 “There were but three sessions of the General Court this year [1752]. The first session was held in Concord, on account of the small-pox which then prevailed in Boston. On the fifth of June the Assembly was prorogued to September 27th (16th, Old Style), but was again prorogued, by proclamation, August 28th, to meet at Harvard College on the twenty-second of November following.”— Province Laws, iii. 662, note.
589 Cotton’s Election Sermon for 1753, p. 16.
590 Mayhew’s Election Sermon for 1754, p. 5.
591 Ibid. p. 20.
592 See Dr. Joseph H. Allen’s Remarks upon the relations of the Mayhew family to the Indians of Martha’s Vineyard, at the February, 1895, meeting, iii. 45, post. See also Foote’s Annals of King’s Chapel, ii. 252, 253.
593 Mayhew’s Election Sermon for 1754, p. 28.
594 Thomas Smith’s Journal (Willis’s edition, 1849), p. 159.
595 Steven’s Election Sermon for 1761, p. 6.
596 Ibid. p. 57.
597 Frink’s Election Sermon for 1758, p. 1.
598 Ibid. p. 85.
599 Williams’s Election Sermon for 1762, p. 19.
600 Eliot’s Election Sermon for 1765, p. 52.
601 Ibid. p. 53.
602 This is the Andrew Elliot whose Letters to Thomas Hollis (3 Massachusetts Historical Collections, iv. 398–461) are so well known for their value among pre-revolutionary documents. See other similar letters of his in Massachusetts Historical Society’s Proceeding, xvi. 281 et seq.
603 Haven’s Election Sermon for 1769, p. 48.
604 Thornton’s Pulpit of the American Revolution, p. 175.
No one has probed more cautiously or more accurately to discover the attitude of the hierarchy previous to the Revolution, than has the Hon. Mellen Chamberlain in several of his publications, but particularly in his Address on “John Adams.”
605 History of the Revolution, i. 418, 419.
606 Pulpit of the American Revolution, p. xxxviii.
607 At the “Meeting-House.… After Divine Service the Procession returned to Harvard-Hall, where an Entertainment was provided.”— Massachusetts Gazette 4 June, 1770.
608 Cooke’s Election Sermon for 1770, p. 16.
609 Ibid. p. 20.
610 Ibid. p. 33.
611 Pulpit of the American Revolution, p. 177.
612 Cooke’s Election Sermon for 1770, p. 45.
613 Trust in God, the Duty of a People in a Day of Trouble. A sermon preached, May 30th, 1770. At the request of a great number of Gentlemen, friends to the Liberties of North America, who were desirous, notwithstanding the removal of the Massachusetts General-Court (unconstitutionally as they judged) to Cambridge, that God might be acknowledged in that house of worship at BOSTON, in which our tribes, from the days of our fathers, have annually sought to him for direction, previous to the choice of his Majesty’s Council. By Charles Chauncy, D.D. Boston: printed by Daniel Kneeland, for Thomas Leverett, in Corn-Hill. 1770.
614 Tucker’s Election Sermon for 1771, p. 19.
615 Ibid. p. 45.
616 Ibid. p. 26.
617 Parsons’s Election Sermon for 1772, p. 23.
618 Parsons’s Election Sermon for 1772, p. 17.
619 Turner’s Election Sermon for 1773, p. 41.
620 Hitchcock’s Election Sermon for 1774, p. 45.
621 Ibid. p. 20.
622 Ibid. p. 13.
623 Ibid. p. 42.
624 There haven been two reprints of Langdon’s sermon,— one in Thornton’s Pulpit of the American Revolution, and the other in “The Patriot Preachers of the American Revolution,” 1860.
625 Quoted by Thornton, p. 255, note.
626 Patriot Preachers, p.50.
627 Langdon’s Election Sermon for 1775, p. 8.
628 Ibid. pp. 28, 29.
629 This sermon bears the imprint, “Watertown: printed and sold by Benjamin Edes. 1775.”
630 Gordon’s Sermon of 19 July, 1775, p. 27.
631 West’s Election Sermon for 1776, p. 27.
632 This site is now (1894) occupied by the Rogers Building.
633 Webster’s Election Sermon for 1777, p. 30.
634 Payson’s Election Sermon for 1778, p. 14.
635 Ibid. p. 37, note.
636 Stillman’s Election Sermon for 1779, p. 8.
637 Howard’s Election Sermon for 1780, p. 47.
638 Adams’s Election Sermon for 1782, p. 49.
639 Ibid. p. 58.
640 Resolve requesting the Governor and Council to appoint a gentleman to preach the election sermon, in case that Mr. Hemmenway declines. 25 March, 1784.
Whereas the great distance of the Rev. Moses Hemmenway, chosen by the House to preach upon the next annual election, has prevented his giving his answer,… Resolved: etc. (Resolves of the General Court, March, 1784, No. ccii., p. 151.)
641 Mellen’s Election Sermon for 1797, p. 32.
642 Morse’s “John Adams,” p. 248.
643 Allen’s Election Sermon for 1808, p. 13.
644 Parish’s Election Sermon for 1810, p. 21.
645 Flint’s Election Sermon for 1815, p. 18.
646 Withington’s Election Sermon for 1831, p. 21.
647 Memorial of Samuel C. Jackson, by Edwards A. Park, Andover, 1871, p. 18.
648 Braman’s Election Sermon for 1845, p. 34.
649 Ibid. p. 40.
650 Reprinted in Dr. Park’s “Discourses on some Theological Doctrines as related to the Religious Character.” (1885.)
651 Neale’s Election Sermon for 1852, p. 27, note.
652 Samuel Kirkland Lothrop’s Election Sermon for 1855, p. 14.
653 Seeley’s Election Sermon for 1856, p. 23.
654 Pike’s Election Sermon for 1857, p. 31.
655 Hale’s Election Sermon for 1859, p. 23.
656 Phelps’s Election Sermon for 1861, p. 56.
657 Ibid. p. 48.
658 Alger’s Election Sermon for 1862, p. 40.
659 Stearns’s Election Sermon for 1864, p. 38.
660 Stone’s Election Sermon for 1865, p. 16.
661 Ibid. p. 30.
662 Grinnell’s Election Sermon for 1871, p. 26.
663 Peabody’s Election Sermon for 1872, p. 19.
664 Resolves of 1875, chap. 62.
665 Waldron’s Election Sermon for 1880, p. 20.
666 Miner’s Election Sermon for 1884, p. 46.
667 See Article 91, “Body of Liberties,” in 3 Massachusetts Historical Collections, vii. 231. I do not forget that Dr. Moore, speaking of a case of slave-trading on a Boston vessel in 1645, says: “In all the proceedings of the General Court on this occasion, there is not a trace of anti-slavery opinion or sentiment.”— Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts, p. 30.
668 See Mr. Goodell’s communication on John Saffin and his slave Adam at the March, 1893, meeting of this Society, ante, p. 85 et seq.
669 Cooke’s Election Sermon for 1770, p. 41.
670 George H. Moore’s Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts, p. 194.
671 Stillman’s Election Sermon for 1779, p. 35.
672 Hemmenway’s Election Sermon for 1784, p. 37.
673 Allyn’s Election Sermon for 1805, p. 25.
674 Pierce’s Election Sermon for 1849, p. 48.
675 Anderson’s Election Sermon for 1860, p. 26.
676 History of Massachusetts, i. 443. I think that Hutchinson is here trying to quote Giles Firmin, whose very words are given later.
677 Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts, i. 445.
678 Mather’s Election Sermon for 1689, p. 26.
679 Mather’s Election Sermon for 1690, p. 31.
680 Norton’s Election Sermon for 1708, p. 15.
681 Pemberton’s Election Sermon for 1710, p. 99.
682 Ibid. p. 101.
683 Rawson’s Election Sermon for 1709, p. 35.
684 Ibid. p. 35.
685 Thacher’s Election Sermon for 1711, p. 29.
686 Williams’s Election Sermon for 1719, p. 25.
687 Baxter’s Election Sermon for 1727, p. 32.
688 Prince’s Election Sermon for 1730, p. 35.
689 Ibid. p. 29.
690 John Ward Dean, in his Brief Memoir of Firmin (p. 11) quotes this a little differently, and seems inclined to doubt if the utterance was that of Firmin.
691 Loring’s Election Sermon for 1737, p. 27.
692 Ibid. p. 51.
693 Lewis’s Election Sermon for 1748, p. 17.
694 Prince’s Election Sermon for 1730, p. 34.
695 Huntington’s Election Sermon for 1858, p. 8.
696 Richard Gleason Greene’s Election Sermon for 1874, p. 24.
697 By the charter of 1691 the last Wednesday of May was established “Election-day,” and a little later the Artillery election-day was established.— Memorial History of Boston, ii. 247.
698 Memorial History of Boston, i. 119, note.
699 Lechford’s “Plain Dealing” (Trumbull’s edition), p. 64.
700 “And that desolating fire in our Metropolis, laying so much of our Glory in Ashes, destroying so many goodly Edifices, turning us out of doors, where these Solemnities have been so many years formerly Celebrated.”— Cheever’s Election Sermon, 1712, p. 41.
701 Oakes’s Election Sermon for 1673, p. 24.
702 Stillman’s Election Sermon for 1779, p. 20, note.
703 See Nathaniel L. Frothingham’s “The Shade of the Past,” Boston, 1833.
704 In connection with these extra sermons, Dr. George H. Moore has called attention to the fact that there were generally two or more sessions, but not more than eight instances during the whole Provincial period of a second Assembly in one political year.
705 Memorial History of Boston, ii. 223.
706 A complete list, compiled by Ralph D. Smyth, is in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for April, 1892, xlvi. 123.
707 A complete list of the New-Hampshire Election Sermons is in the Congregational Quarterly for July, 1868, x. 240; and an earlier list is in William Allen’s Sermon for 1818.
708 An account of the Vermont discourses is in the Historical Magazine for March, 1868 (New Series, iii. 175). An earlier account, in the Congregational Quarterly for April, 1867 (ix. 187), was reprinted from the Vermont Record. Both articles are signed P. H. W., the initials, doubtless, of Pliny H. White.
709 Massachusetts Historical Society’s Proceedings, for May, 1809, i. 213.
710 Massachusetts Historical Society’s Proceedings, ii. 293, 294.
711 American Museum, June, 1791, ix. App. iii. p. 43.
712 This List appeared while Mr. Swift’s paper was passing through the press. See 2 Massachusetts Historical Society’s Proceedings for February, 1895, ix. 410 et seq.