INDEX.
- Abell, Robert, 93.
- Aberdeceest, 9.
- Abington, 47.
- Acadia, 120.
- Act to prevent monopoly, 80.
- Adams, Abigail, Mrs, 70, 84, 115, 116, 145.
- Charles F., Jr., 5, 89, 97, 114.
- Henry, 93.
- John, 84.
- John Q., 38, 57.
- Allen, John, 93.
- Ann, Cape, 9.
- Antinomian controversy, 139.
- Applegate, Thomas, 91.
- Arnold, 79.
- Matthew, 143, 144, 152.
- Back river, 62.
- Bacon, 6.
- Banbury, England, 108.
- Bare Cove, 91.
- Barnard, Elder Massachiel, (First non-conformist minister), 35-37, 97, 99, 112, 131.
- Barnstable, 100, 102.
- Church, 100, 101.
- Bass River, Beverly, 100.
- Bates, Elder Edward, 98, 104.
- Joshua, 85.
- Samuel, 98.
- Bayley, Nathaniel, 77.
- Beacon Hill, 135.
- Bent, Rev. Josiah, 103.
- Bernard, Gov., 72.
- Rev. Mr., 141.
- Beverly, 100.
- Bicknell, 36.
- Blackstone, William, 34, 35, 44, 68, 129, 131, 134, 135, 138, 142.
- Lands at Wessagusset, 129.
- One of the Gorges company, 131, 134.
- Blancher, Samuel, 80.
- Boston, 21, 31, 55, 104, 134, 142, 144.
- Bay, 9, 12, 24, 30, 33, 37, 121, 131, 133, 137.
- Church sends delegation to Weymouth, 139.
- Church troubles, 139.
- Evacuation of, 145.
- First occupied by a Weymouth settler, 35, 127, 131.
- Tea-party, 73.
- Bowdoin, James, 82.
- Bradford, Gov., 11, 13, 14, 16, 30.
- Braintree, 45, 75, 79, 142, 145, 152.
- Bridge in Wessaguscus, 91.
- Bridgewater, 75.
- Briggs, Clement, 93.
- Brighton, 135.
- Bristol, England, 29.
- Britten, 141.
- Britton, James, 106.
- Burslam, John, 130, 138.
- Burslem, 43, 44.
- Plantation, 35.
- Bursley, 36, 46, 93.
- Joanna (Hull), 100.
- John, 100, 111.
- Burslyn, John, 45.
- Butler’s “Hudibras,” 19-21.
- Calvin, 6.
- Cambridge, 135, 141.
- Castle Island, 91.
- Chamberlain, George W., 87.
- Chapman, Maria W., 55.
- Chard, William, 57.
- Charity, vessel, 11, 13, 133.
- Charles I, 128.
- Charles river, 135, 137.
- Charlestown, 104, 130, 135, 136, 145.
- Chelsea, 130.
- Chesapeake, frigate, 145.
- Chicatabot, 38.
- Churches in Massachusetts Bay in 1635, 112.
- Clark, Dr., 88.
- Concord, 74.
- Continental army, enlistments in, 77.
- currency, 80, 82.
- Copp, John, 57.
- Cotton, Rev. John, 104, 139, 140.
- Cromwell, Oliver, 6.
- Cruden’s Concordance, 68, 108.
- Cushing, Adam, 62.
- E., 80.
- Cushman, Robert, 11.
- Cuttyhunk, 125.
- Damariscove Islands, 8, 125.
- Delfthaven, Holland, 10.
- Distemper, throat, in Weymouth, 52.
- Dorchester, 36, 45, 108, 110.
- Council, 90, 98.
- Dover, 102.
- Downing, Sarah, 49.
- Dudley, Gov., 141.
- Duxbury, 23.
- East Boston, 136.
- Easton, 47.
- Edinburgh (Scotland) tumult, 141.
- Eliot, Rev. John, 104.
- Ellis, Rev. George E., 89.
- Episcopacy in New England, 30, 33, 34, 102, 110, 139, 142.
- Erasmus, 6.
- Ferry to Quincy Point, 56, 91.
- Fictitious execution described, 18, 19.
- Fire at Plymouth, 31.
- First settlement of Boston bay, 126, 127.
- Fitcher, Lieut., 38.
- Fore river, 13-15, 24, 29, 53, 64, 74, 76, 121-124, 133, 134, 137.
- Fortune, vessel, 10.
- French, 36.
- Stephen, 93, 98, 104.
- Fry, Elizabeth, 92.
- Mary, 92.
- William, 92.
- Furnival’s Inn, 11.
- Galileo, 6.
- Gardner, Henry, 74.
- Sir Christopher, an emissary of Gorges, 134.
- returns to England, 135.
- Gettysburg, 149.
- Gibbon, 60.
- Glover, John, 93.
- Goold, Capt., 75.
- Gorges, Ferdinando, 29, 30, 128, 130, 137, 141, 144.
- His plantation on the Kennebec, 125.
- John, 34, 35, 44.
- Robert, 29-31, 33, 34, 36-38, 94, 114, 130, 131, 137.
- Character of his colonists, 30, 134.
- Date of settlement at Wessagusset, 114, 126.
- His company, 30, 89, 91, 93, 94, 110, 134.
- His grant in New England, 29, 30.
- Returns to England, 31.
- Visits Wessagusset, 29, 94.
- Settlement, commercial, 131.
- Continuous, 131.
- Ecclesiastical and feudal, 127, 128.
- Its keynote, 135.
- Its original planters harried or exiled, 133.
- Regarded as a plague spot, 132-140.
- Self-perpetuating, 129.
- Gosnold, Bartholomew, 125.
- Gray, Haryson, 74.
- Great hill, 53, 85, 95, 139, 145.
- Pond, 62.
- Greene, Richard, 11, 14.
- Gustavus Adolphus, 6.
- Guy Fawkes’ Day, 31, 66.
- Hampden, John, 6.
- Hancock, John, 82.
- Harris, Walter, 93.
- Hart, Edmond, 93.
- Harvey, Ruth, 65, 154.
- Heber, Bp. Reginald, 32.
- Hingham, 75, 86, 91, 100, 102, 110.
- Hobart, Peter, 87.
- Hobbamock [Hobomok], 26, 120.
- Holbrook, Ichabod, 98.
- John, 98.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 122.
- Horsford, E. N., 123.
- Hubbard, 102.
- Rev. William, 140.
- Hull (town), 37.
- Agnes, 101.
- Benjamin, 100.
- Company, 91, 93, 99, 112.
- No record that it formed a church, 112, 113.
- Joanna, 100.
- Rev. Joseph, 36, 45, 67, 86, 88, 93, 95, 99-101, 103, 105, 106, 108, 110, 112, 113, 138, 139.
- Effect of his arrival at Weymouth, 110, 138.
- Claims a Weymouth pulpit, 110.
- Deputy to Gen’l Court from Hingham, 110.
- Farewell sermon, at Weymouth, 110.
- Perhaps an Episcopal clergyman, 139.
- Humphrey, James, 61, 63, 71, 72, 77, 98, 115, 116.
- Jonas, 98.
- Hunt’s hill, 62.
- Hutchinson, Mrs. Anne, 67, 105, 140-142.
- Indian depredations, 17.
- Influence of Weymouth settlement on Massachusetts, 132.
- Isle of Shoals, 43, 101.
- Jeffers, John, 44.
- Jeffery, 44.
- Jeffrey, Thomas, 43.
- Jeffries [Jeffreys], William, 34-37, 43, 44, 93, 138.
- Residence in Wessagusset, 35, 130, 138.
- Jenner, Rev. Thomas, 67, 68, 102-105, 110, 113.
- Invited to Weymouth, 110.
- Johnson, Edward, 18.
- Keayne, Robert, 103, 104.
- Kennebec, 125.
- Kepler, 6.
- King, 36.
- Philip’s War, 28, 49, 129, 145.
- Kingman, 36, 79.
- Henry, 91.
- King-Oak hill, 5, 53, 54, 85, 117, 121, 151.
- Lenthall, Rev. Robert, 67, 68, 90, 98, 103-105, 111, 113, 140, 143.
- Character of, 143.
- Levett, Christopher, 130.
- Lexington, 74.
- Leyden, Holland, 9, 27.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 6, 136.
- Mass., 147.
- Liquor nuisance at Mt. Wollaston, 39.
- London, England, 144.
- Long, Richard, 91.
- Island, 76.
- Longfellow, Henry W., quoted, 25, 119, 120.
- His dealing with history, 120-123.
- Lothrop, Rev. Mr., 100.
- Loud, John J., 47.
- Lovell, 36.
- Enoch, 61.
- James, 98.
- Robert, 98.
- Solomon, 74, 78, 80-82, 85.
- Loyalty of Weymouth settlers to Church of England, 110.
- Ludden, 93.
- Luther, Martin, 6.
- Lyford, Rev. John, 37.
- Lynn, 106.
- Macaulay, 154.
- Makepeace, Thomas, 106.
- Martin, Ambrose, 106.
- Massasoit, 21.
- Mather, 106.
- Cotton, 102, 135.
- Maverick, Samuel, 129-131, 134-136, 141.
- Character of, 136.
- Mayflower, 7, 10, 126.
- Maypole at Merrymount, 38, 44, 84, 116, 133.
- At Penobscot bay, 125.
- Merchant Adventurers, London, 9, 10.
- Merrymount settlement broken up Standish, 41-43.
- May-pole, 44, 116.
- Milton hill, 55.
- John, 6.
- Monatoquit, 41, 137.
- Monhegan island, 125.
- Montgomery, 79.
- Moon head, 76.
- Morell [Morrell], Rev. William, 30-34, 95, 96, 109, 112, 130, 131, 137, 142.
- A Clergyman of the Established Church, 96, 109, 137.
- Poem by, 32, 33.
- Returns to England, 96, 138.
- Morton, Thomas, of Merrymount, 12, 17, 21, 36, 38, 40-44, 53, 84, 94, 116, 130, 133-135.
- Character of his party, 38, 39, 133.
- His “New English Canaan,” 17-19, 21.
- Landing of, 11, 12.
- Not at first connected with Gorges, 133.
- Possibly one of Weston’s Colony, 12, 133.
- Visits Weymouth, 36, 37.
- Mount Wollaston, 45, 56, 84, 91, 94, 134.
- Becomes Merrymount, 38.
- Location of, 37, 38.
- Mystic river, 137.
- Nahawton, 95.
- Narragansett Fort, 50.
- Nash, Alexander, 55.
- Captain, 82.
- Gilbert, 87, 118, 126, 131, 132, 146, 147.
- Jacob, 98.
- James, 98.
- Nateaunt, 95.
- Neponset river, 130, 134, 135, 137.
- New Bedford, 125.
- New English Canaan, extracts from, 37, 40, 41, 53, 54.
- [See Morton.]
- Newman, Rev. Samuel, 47, 68, 69, 92, 104, 105, 107, 108, 111, 113.
- Newport, R. I., 106.
- Noddle’s Island, 136.
- North river, 22.
- Weymouth, 75, 95, 103.
- Northleigh, England, 101.
- Norton, Jacob, 51.
- Norumbega, 123.
- Old North (First) Church, 87, 88.
- South Church, Boston, 69, 73.
- Spain, 5, 6, 35, 56, 131, 139, 145.
- Oldham, John, 34, 35, 37, 44.
- expelled from Plymouth, 37.
- Opposition to the ecclesiastical system of Plymouth, 109.
- Oxford University, England, 101, 108.
- Oyster river, 101.
- Paine, Rev. Thomas, 69.
- Robert Treat, 70.
- Parker, James, 93.
- Pecksuot, 23, 25, 26, 28, 40, 119, 122, 124, 144, 145.
- Penobscot bay, 125.
- Expedition, 81.
- Peirce, John, 11.
- Pequod war, 46, 47.
- Penn’s hill, Braintree, 145.
- Phillips creek, 6, 13, 123.
- Pike, Rev. Mr., 102.
- Plymouth, 5, 16, 17, 21, 23, 29, 31, 39, 43, 44, 94, 95, 113, 116, 120-122, 153.
- Pool, 36.
- Poole, Joseph, 49.
- Popham plantation, 125.
- Porter, 36.
- Portsmouth, N. H., 135, 136.
- Pratt, Ebenezer, 61.
- John, 49.
- Phineas, 17, 22, 24, 121.
- Escapes to Plymouth, 22-24, 121, 122.
- Prayer-book used at Weymouth, 139.
- Prince, Rev. Thomas, 98, 99, 129, 131.
- Chronicles, 97, 131.
- Provincetown harbor, 126.
- Randall, John, 98.
- Robert, 98.
- Randolph, 75.
- Rassdall, Mr., 38.
- Rawlins, Thomas, 93.
- Reade, William, 111.
- Rehoboth, 47, 68, 92, 107, 108.
- Revere, Paul, 120.
- Richards, Thomas, 93.
- Richmond, Va., 148.
- Robinson, John, 27, 28.
- Roxbury, 102, 104.
- Neck, 55.
- Sable, Cape, 56.
- Saco, Me., 103, 105.
- Salem, 100.
- Salisbury, Surgeon, 11.
- Sanders, 14, 16, 17.
- Sandwich Bay, 14.
- Savage, James, 88, 101-103, 118.
- Scituate, 100.
- Seekonk, 107.
- Shakespeare, 6.
- Shannon, frigate, 145.
- Shaw, John, 98.
- Joseph, 98.
- Shawmut, 127, 129, 135, 144.
- Shoals, Isle of, 9.
- Shrimp, Capt. [Standish], 41, 42.
- Silvester, Richard, 106, 141.
- [See Sylvester.]
- Site of Weston’s Block-house, 123, 124.
- Sloan collection, 123.
- Smith, 141.
- Abigail, 70, 84, 115, 116.
- John, 106.
- Rev. William, 51-57, 70, 75, 86, 108, 115, 154.
- Smoking Flax Blood-Quenched, 121.
- South Shore Railroad, 150, 151.
- Southampton, 10.
- Sparrow (vessel), 8.
- Speedwell (vessel), 10.
- Squanto, 13, 14, 144.
- St. Bartholomew Act, 101.
- St. Buryan’s, Cornwall, 101.
- St. Mary’s Hall, Oxford (England), 101.
- Standish, Miles, 13, 23-28, 39, 41-43, 50, 118-124, 144, 145.
- His account of visit to Merrymount, 42, 43.
- Longfellow’s version of, 119, 120.
- Relieves Wessagusset, 24-26, 119-123.
- Sir Hugh, 119.
- Thurston de, 119.
- Stoughton, Israel, 103.
- Stow, 74.
- Swan (vessel), 11, 13, 14, 17, 23, 24, 27, 29, 31.
- Sylvester, Richard, 66, 93.
- [See Silvester.]
- Symmes, Rev. Zechariah, 104.
- Taunton River, 62.
- Thacher, Rev. Peter, 69, 113.
- Rev. Thomas, 69, 108, 151.
- Thompson, David, 130, 134, 135, 137.
- Character of, 135.
- Never at Wessagusset, 135.
- Thompson’s Island, 130.
- Three Episodes of Massachusetts History, 121, 126.
- Tirrel, John, 78.
- Torrey, John, 61.
- Jonathan, 98.
- Joseph, 61.
- Paul, verses by, 51.
- Rev. Samuel, 69, 98.
- William, 93, 98.
- Troubles from paper currency, 78-80.
- Trumbull, J. Hammond, 104, 106.
- Tufts, Cotton, 47, 52, 55, 64, 71, 74, 75, 78, 85.
- Walford, Thomas, 130, 134, 142.
- Character of, 136.
- Wampetuc, 95.
- Warren, Joseph, “Solemn League and Covenant,” 73.
- Waters, Henry, 123.
- Wattawamat. [See Wituwamat.]
- Weaver, Clement, 93.
- Webacowett, Jonas, 95.
- Webb, Christopher, 103.
- Weld, Rev. John, 104.
- Wessagusset [Wessaguscus] (early name of Weymouth), 12, 44, 86, 91, 94, 109.
- Described in Wood’s N. E. Prospect, 44.
- Distress in winter, 14-16.
- Double name of, 35.
- History indistinct from 1623 to 1628, 37.
- Importance of its early history, 118.
- Morton’s colony destroyed, 27.
- Name changed to Weymouth, 100, 111, 116.
- Original site of, 123.
- [See Weymouth.]
- Weston, Andrew, 133.
- Thomas, 8-11, 89, 124, 125, 130, 133, 144.
- Abandons Plymouth colony, 10.
- At Wessagusset, 29, 133.
- Character of, 10.
- Dies in Bristol, Eng., 29.
- Influence of, in settlements at Plymouth and Weymouth, 9.
- Plans for settlement, 8, 9, 125.
- Returns to England, 133.
- Trials of his colony, 14-17, 21.
- Weymouth, Action on Stamp Act, 71, 72.
- Action on tax on tea, 72, 73.
- Allowed a deputy to the Gen’l Court, 45, 111.
- Arrival of Weston’s party 8.
- their character, 11, 12.
- Attack on, anticipated in the Revolution, 74-76.
- Attitude at opening of the Revolution, 73-76.
- Birth record, 93.
- Bridge, 91.
- Centre of the Gorges movement, 132.
- Changes in, 88.
- Chooses three deputies, 45, 111.
- Church troubles, 102-111, 138.
- Comparative size of, 94.
- Clergymen, 66-70, 95-113.
- Council, 1637, 102, 103, 111.
- Council, 1639, 103, 104, 106.
- Date of settlement, 7, 90, 91, 114.
- Deaths in 1718, 98.
- Deserters from Continental army paid, 80.
- Distance from Boston, 55.
- Episodes in its early history, 118-123, 144.
- European contemporaries with its settlement, 6.
- Expenses, 58, 82-84.
- Extinguishes Indian title in 1642, 94.
- Families in 1644, 107.
- Facts as to early settlement, 94.
- Ferry, 56, 91.
- First twenty years, 87.
- Fisheries, 62.
- Grant for tanyard, 61.
- Great snow-storms in, 64.
- Holidays observed, 66.
- In the Civil War, 76, 147, 148.
- Intemperance in, 147, 153.
- Jealousy of, 95.
- Made a plantation, 45, 100.
- Meeting-house burned, 50, 51, 152.
- Morals of, 65, 152.
- Number of families in, before 1644, 93.
- Old North Church, organization of, 87, 88.
- Origin of name, 90.
- Originally called Wessagusset, 116.
- Pisciculture in, 62.
- Plague centre of prelatical poison, 142.
- Population of, 1635, 93.
- Post Office established, 150.
- Probable date of settlement, 114.
- Records, extracts from, etc., 48-50, 54, 57-66, 77, 78, 81, 82, 90, 92, 153, 154.
- Religion in, 153.
- Rival claimants to pastorate, 111, 112.
- Rules concerning fires, 58.
- Sad accident at, 66.
- Schools, 57, 82, 83, 153.
- School-master, 57.
- Settlement antedates Boston, 127.
- Sickness in, 52, 63.
- Sketch of, by Cotton Tufts, 47, 52, 55, 64.
- Soldiers and the Lord’s day, 66.
- Soldiers in Canada campaign, 78-79.
- Soldiers in Civil War, 79, 148-151.
- Soldiers in Continental service, 77-81.
- Snow-storm of 1717, 64.
- Theory of pastoral succession, 113.
- Town bounty to soldiers, 79-83.
- Town debt, 77, 83.
- Town meetings, 60, 61, 76.
- Treatment of the poor, 153, 154.
- Weston’s influence in, 9, 10.
- Weymouth, England, 36, 90, 91, 93, 97, 101, 131.
- Weymouth River, 13.
- Wheelwright, Rev. John, 140-142.
- White, Asa, 77.
- Dr., 62.
- James, 77, 78.
- Samuel, 49.
- Whitman, Capt., 77, 82.
- Whitman’s Pond, 85.
- Whitmarsh, Ezra, 61.
- Whittier, John G., 118.
- Wilson, Rev. John, 44, 103, 104.
- Winnisimmet, 130, 135.
- Winslow, Edward, 11, 17.
- Winthrop, Gov. John, 34, 36, 87, 91, 93, 102, 106, 109, 127, 128, 135-139, 141, 144.
- His map of Massachusetts, 123.
- Visits Wessagusset and Plymouth, 34, 44, 91, 94, 134.
- Winthrop settlement, contrasted with that of Gorges, 127, 128.
- Theological and democratic, 127.
- Wituwamat, 25-28, 119, 120, 122.
- Wollaston, Capt., 37, 38.
- Arrival of his company, 11, 12.
- Settlement at Mt. Wollaston, 38.
- Settlement broken up, 41-43.