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Wessagusset and Weymouth

Chapter 8: INDEX.
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A set of historical addresses and papers recounts the town’s early settlement as a 17th-century coastal community, describing the arrival of an expedition organized by a London merchant, the reception and assistance of nearby colonists, early hardships, and contacts with Indigenous people; it then surveys municipal development across the first twenty years, including land distribution, governance, and economy, and offers a later retrospective on demographic, civic, and local changes thirty years hence, placing local events within broader early-modern Atlantic and English contexts.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Quakers, 101.
  • Queen Ann’s turnpike, 55.
  • war, 145.
  • Quincy (town), 142.
  • John, 84.
  • Point, 56.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Vane, Sir Harry, 141, 142.
  • Vinson, John, 62, 98.
  • Lieut., 82.
  • Virginia massacre, 21.
  • 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.