An asterisk prefixed to a number indicates the Rev. John Davenport’s Election Sermon of 1669, bound between pages 6 and 7.

ABBOT, John, water-color views of Harvard College by, 324, 325.

Aberdeen, Earl of. See Gordon, George.

Abrahams, Aleck, quoted, 228 n.

Académie Française. See Institut de France, Académie Française.

Accomack County, Va. See Northampton County.

Achley, Frances (Doughty), 261 n.

—Spencer, son of Frances (Doughty), 261 n.

Acre, English equivalent of the Dutch, 269 n.

Actions, early English uses of the word, 296 n, 300.

Actions intéressées, 282.

—rentiéres, 281.

—simples, 281.

Adams, Rev. Amos (H. C. 1752), 49.

—Benjamin, 394.

—Brooks, character of his historical writings, 105, 106.

—Charles Francis (H. C. 1856), 392, 403; his theory regarding the proper editing of old manuscripts and books, 7, 8; his Introduction to the Prince Society edition of T. Morton’s New English Canaan, quoted, 7; a mistaken correction in Morton’s text made by, 11, 12; character of his historical writings, 105, 106; services of R. C. Winthrop, Jr., to the Massachusetts Historical Society described by, 396, 397; his College Fetich, mentioned, 403 n.

—Charles Francis (H. C. 1888), 187.

—Frances Pickering, daughter of Benjamin. See Winthrop.

—Herbert Baxter, LL.D, xx.

—John, autograph letter of, exhibited, 180; sobriquet “Duke of Quincy” applied to, 180; his Works, cited, 180 n.

—John Quincy, son of John, 392.

—Samuel, Governor of Massachusetts, 55, 229.

—Samuel (H. C. 1770), son of Gov. Samuel, 55.

Æpinus, his Tentamen Theoriæ Electricitatis et Magnetismi, 235, 235 n.

African Company, 291, 304.

Albeville, Marquis of. See White, Sir Ignatius.

Alden, Capt. John (d. 1702), 20; accused of witchcraft, 25.

Alessio Piedmontese, 206.

Alexis, authorship of, sometimes ascribed to G. Ruscelli, 206; English translation of, 206, 206 n; much of the Treatise on Dyeing and Coloring, by B. Franklin (1650–1727), taken from, 206.

Alger, Andrew, killed by Indians, 375 n.

—Arthur, killed by Indians, 375 n.

All Tories Together, a political skit (1813), 139, 140.

Allen, John, printer, 310 n.

—Rev. Joseph Henry, D.D., xviii.

Alpha Delta Phi, Harvard chapter, 65.

Amber, recipe for clearing, 209.

America, North, W. Wood’s patent to make pennies for, 205.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 63, 78, 389; photograph of original certificate of Franklin’s membership in, exhibited, 243; letters from J. Bowdoin and J. Willard relating to B. Franklin’s election to, 413–415; diploma testifying to B. Franklin’s election to fellowship in, 413 n; reproduction of, between pp. 242 and 243; organization of the Society, 413; incorporation of, 414; catalogue of its officers, 414, 414 n, 415, 416; Act of incorporation transmitted to European learned societies, 414, 415.

American Antiquarian Society, 141, 389; Proceedings, cited, 84 n, 280 n; its edition of I. Thomas’s History of Printing in America, 312 n, 320.

American Association for the Advancement of Science, 29.

American Bar Association, 63.

American Colonies, commission for the regulation of the government of, issued by Charles I., 164, 164 n, 165 n.

American Museum of Natural History, 63.

American Philosophical Society, 63, 389, 413, 414, 414 n; Harvard diploma conferring degree of A.M. on Franklin owned by, 231, 239; original certificate of Franklin’s membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences owned by, 243; its celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Franklin, 277; report by H. H. Edes on its Franklin celebration, 329, 330; address of salutation sent by this Society to, 330, 331.

American Unitarian Association, indebtedness of this Society to, 408.

Ames, Hon. Frederick Lothrop, A.B., xviii.

— James Barr, LL.D., xviii.

Amory, Jonathan, 130.

Amsterdam, Bank of, method of using bank credits in, 85.

Anabaptists, 301.

Anatomy of Exchange Alley, quoted, 289, 290 n.

Ancient Accepted Scottish Rites, 30.

Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 370, 383; O. A. Roberts’s History of, cited, 370 n.

Anderson, Adam, his Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce, quoted, 259; cited, 259 n, 284 n, 285 n, 286 n, 288 n, 292 n, 300 n, 301 n, 308 n.

Andover, Mass., 153 n.

— Phillips Academy, 391; bequest of R. C. Winthrop, Jr., to, 406.

André, Maj. John, portrait of Franklin taken from Philadelphia by, 330.

Andrew, Daniel, 13.

— Hon. John Forrester, LL.B., xviii.

Andrews, William Loring, his Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge, mentioned, 325.

Andros, Sir Edmund, 154, 165, 318, 371, 372; assumes authority in matters of probate, 158, 159.

Angell, Hon. James Burrill, LL.D., xx; a delegate to the Franklin celebration in Philadelphia, 330.

Angliæ Tutamen, quoted, 292, 293; Macaulay’s use of, 292 n.

Anne, Queen of England, death of, 354, 355, 355 n.

Annie’s Hoeck, Long Island, N. Y., Anne Hutchinson at, 269.

Annis, Ann, daughter of William. See Davenport.

— John, Sr., 227 n.

— John, Jr., son of John, Sr., 227 n.

— Patience, wife of William, 227 n.

— Sally (Cleverley), wife of John, Sr., 227 n.

— William, 227 n.

— William, son of John, Sr., 227 n.

— family, 227 n.

Antiquarian Society, London, See Society of Antiquaries, London.

Anville. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’, 414, 414 n.

Appleton, Francis Randall, LL.B., xix; presents portrait of J. McKean to Porcellian Club, 247, 248; elected a Resident Member, 386, 409.

— Louisa Ann, daughter of Moses. See Wells.

— Moses, 27.

— Rev. Nathaniel (H. C. 1712), 39, 49, 231.

— Nathaniel (H. C. 1749), son of Rev. Nathaniel (H. C. 1712), 32.

— Samuel (1586–1670), I. A. Jewett’s Memorial of, cited, 357 n.

— Samuel (1624–1696), 378, 378 n.

— family, of Ipswich, Mass., 27.

Aquavitæ, recipe for making, 209.

Aquedneck, Island of, 268, 268 n.

Aquedney, Island of. See Aquedneck, Island of.

Arber, Edward, his Term Catalogues, 3.

Armada, fishing for wrecks of the, 284 n.

Arnall, William. See Arnold.

Arnold, Benedict, 103.

— Howard Payson, his Historic Side-Lights, cited, 412 n.

— John, 20.

— William, of Reading, deposition of, 15.

Arnold, Woolaston and, Colt v., 285 n.

Asgill, John, his Several Assertions proved in order to create another species of Money than Gold and Silver, quoted, 292.

Ashton, — , Crashaw’s epitaph upon, 195, 195 n.

Ashurst, Sir Henry, 382, 382 n; letters to W. Winthrop from, 380, 381, 382; letter from W. Winthrop to, 381.

Atherton, Abigail, daughter of Joshua. See Kent.

— Charles Humphrey, son of Joshua, 249.

— Joshua, 249.

Atwood, William, appointed Judge Advocate, 382; appointed Chief Justice of New York, 382 n; letter from W. Winthrop to, 383; his successors as Admiralty Judges, 383.

Auchmuty, Kobert (d. 1750), 383.

Auchmuty, Rev. Samuel, 231 n.

Augustine, Aurelius Augustinus, Saint, his Concerning Heresies, C. Weeks’s notes from, 33.

Austin, Hon. James Walker, A.M., xviii.

Austria, hostility of Louis XIV. to, 202 n.

Ayer, James Bourne, M.D., xix; a guest at the annual dinner, 150; elected a Resident Member, 180, 409; accepts, 190; Franklin medal exhibited by, 246; exhibits preliminary color sketch for study of penal and charitable buildings in Boston (1722), 335.

— Mary Farwell, daughter of James Bourne, Check-List of Boston Newspapers (1704–1780) compiled by, 140, 141; the list presented to this Society, 141; thanks of this Society to 141.

BABSON, Robert Tillinghast, LL.B., xix.

Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 241 n.

Bacon, Rev. Leonard, 6.

— William, of Thavies Inn, London, Eng., made an executor of Rev. H. Caner’s will, 70, 71.

Baddeley, St. Clair, a guest at the annual dinner, 150.

Baker, William Spohn, his Itinerary of General Washington, cited, 72 n; his Engraved Portraits of Washington, cited, 259 n; his American Engravers and their Works, cited, 260 n; his Medallic Portraits of Washington, cited, 260 n.

Balch, Francis Vergnies, LL.B., xviii.

— Thomas Willing, LL.B., xx.

Baldwin, Hon. Simeon Eben, LL.D., xx.

Baltimore, Lord. See Calvert, Cecil.

Bancroft, George, 240.

— John Chandler, 390 n, 392.

Bangs, Edward, 28.

Bangs & Wells, 28.

Bank of England, 280; purpose of, 283.

Bank of Scotland, 280.

Bank credit, 85, 86, 88, 88 n. See also Fund, The, at Boston in New England; Land Bank.

Bant, William, letters of, 102, 103.

Baptism, Rev. F. Doughty’s views on, 265, 266, 267 n; views attributed to him regarding. 266, 266 n, 267 n.

Bar, Duchy of, 202 n.

Bar Association of the City of Boston, resolutions adopted by, on death of S. Butler, 187.

Bar Association, New York City, 63.

Bar-le-Duc, France, 202, 202 n.

Barber, — , daughter of Jonathan. See Dunkin.

— Jonathan, 78; brief account of, 78 n.

Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques, his translation of Franklin’s Philosophical Papers, 238 n.

Barbour. See Barber.

Barclay, Peter, a copy of his Persuasive to the People of Scotland, exhibited, 180.

Baring Brothers & Co., 78.

Barker, Abigail, wife of Ebenezer, accused of witchcraft, 23.

— Ebenezer, 23.

— Hon. James Madison, LL.D., xviii; death of, 146.

— Mary, accused of witchcraft, 25.

— William, Jr., accused of witchcraft, 25.

Barnard, Sir John, his Act to prevent the infamous practice of Stock-Jobbing, 299 n.

Barnstable, Mass., paper on the name of the town of, read by G. F. Tucker, 115.

Baronet, title established by James I. (1611), 259.

Barrington, R. I., 246.

Bass, Ann Lovett (Harmon), wife of Dr. Seth, 79 n.

— Eunice, niece of Dr. Seth. See Faxon.

— Mary (Jones), wife of Seth, Sr., 79 n.

— Seth, Sr., 79 n.

— Seth, M.D. (1780–1867), son of Seth, Sr., 79, 81 n; brief account of, 79 n.

Bates, Joshua, gives copy of Leslie’s portrait of Franklin to Harvard College, 237 n.

— Samuel Austin, his Records of the Town of Braintree, cited, 79 n.

Batt, Ann, wife of Christopher, 243, 244.

— Christopher, his tannery in Washington Street, Boston, 243, 215 n; his death, 243.

— Elizabeth (Mighell), widow of Paul, Jr., 245 n. See also Hitchcock.

— Paul, Sr., son of Christopher, 213; his share of his father’s estate, 244; known as the “Village Glazier,” 244; his death, 244, 245, 245 n.

— Paul, Jr., son of Paul, Sr., 245 n.

— Sarah, daughter of Paul, Sr. See Torrey.

— Sarah (Wilson), wife of Paul, Sr., 243. See also Torrey.

Baxter, Hon. James Phinney, Litt. D., xx, 109 n, 371 n.

— Robert, 204.

Bay Psalm Book, 2.

Baylies, Francis, his Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth, cited, 382 n.

— Walter Cabot, A.B., xviii; appointed on Auditing Committee, 329; Report of the Committee, 411.

Bayonne, France, 192, 192 n.

Bears, early examples of the word as used in the stock-market, 290 n, 291.

Beck, Charles, 78, 78 n.

Bedford, Nathan, 375 n.

Beech, patent for extracting oil from, 286 n.

Beecher, Rev. Lyman, site of his church in Hanover Street, Boston, 70 n.

Belcher, Jonathan, Governor of Massachusetts, his attempts to restrict the emission of paper money, 89, 90, 95; his attitude toward New Hampshire bills, 94.

Bell, Charles Henry, his Bench and Bar of New Hampshire, cited, 40 n, 250 n, 386 n.

Bellingham, Richard, Governor of Massachusetts, 4, 141.

Bellomont, Richard Coote, first Earl of, Governor of Massachusetts, 382.

Bennett, Anna, wife of Samuel, 21.

— George, 302.

— Samuel, 21.

Bennington, Vt., celebration of Washington’s birthday at (1785), 255, 256; battle of, 256.

Bering Sea Tribunal, 62.

Berkeley, Sir William, Governor of Virginia. 274, 275.

Bernard, Sir Francis, Governor of Massachusetts, 49, 55.

— Thomas, son of Sir Francis, 54, 54 n, 55.

Berwick, Me., 322, 322 n, 323.

Bethune, Jane, daughter of George. See Hunt.

— George, 390 n.

— Mary (Faneuil), wife of George, 390 n.

— family, History of, compiled by Jane Lee Weisse, mentioned, 390 n; Records, Genealogical Charts and Traditions of the Families of Bethune and Faneuil, compiled by Jane Lee Weisse, mentioned, 390 n.

Bèze, Théodore de, *14.

Bible, Indian, 2.

Bidding prayer. English canon providing for, 262, 263.

Bigelow, John, his edition of Franklin’s Works, cited, 233.

Bill of Rights, Body of Liberties framed in spirit of, 170.

Billings, Ebenezer, 226 n.

— Elizabeth (Cleverley), wife of Ebenezer, 226 n.

— John, 226.

— John Shaw, D.C.L., xx.

— Robert Charles, son of Ebenezer, 226 n.

— Sarah, daughter of John. See Davenport.

— Sarah (Endicott), wife of John, 226.

Bills, Continental, refusal of certain citizens to accept (1779), 126, 127; recommendation of Congress regarding, 134.

— of credit, first emission of. by the Massachusetts Colony, 87; form of, 87, 87 n, 88; subsequent changes in form of, 88, 94; form of those issued by the New London Society, 88, 89, 89 n; proposed issue by the Massachusetts Province (1734), 92; issue of, in Portsmouth, N. H., 93; law against passage of these bills in Massachusetts, 93; form of the Portsmouth bill, 93 n; relation between those of Old tenor and New tenor, in Massachusetts, 91, 95; form of those issued by the Land Bank of 1740, 95, 90, 96 n; use of the term “lawful money” in these bills, 96, 97; opposition to them, 97; those issued by the Silver Bank, 98, 98 n; by the Ipswich Laud Bank, 99, 99 n; last two forms of Provincial bills, 100, 100 n, 101 n; these modelled on the Colony bill, 101; a proposed bill of 1744, 101. See also Merchants’ Notes of 1733.

Bingham, Hiram, Jr., 33.

Bird, John, transit instrument made for Harvard College by, 236.

Bishop, George, his New England Judged, 343.

— John, 266.

Black, George Nixon, xix.

Black Point, Scarborough, Me., 371, 372, 374, 374 n; Indian attacks on, 375, 375 n, 376, 376 n, 377 n.

Blackden family, 386 n.

Blackdon, James, 385, 386.

Blackman. See Blakeman.

Blackstone, Sir William, his Commentaries, quoted, 156 n, 157 n.

Blackwell, John, his proposal for erecting a Bank of Credit, 86, 86 n; its brief existence, 87; later schemes embodying the theory of, 88.

Blake, Francis, A.M., xix.

— Samuel Parkman, 392.

Blakeman, Rev. Benjamin, 370, 370 n.

— Rebecca (Scottow), wife of Rev. Benjamin, 370.

Blanchard, Eliza Cabot, daughter of Francis. See Winthrop.

— Francis, 389.

— Margaret Bromfield (Pearson), 74, 75, 77.

— Mary Ann (Cabot) Lee, wife of Francis, 389, 390.

Blathwayt, William, 382.

Blomfield, Charles James, Bishop of London, 391.

Bloomfield, Joseph, 361.

Blue Point, Scarborough, Me., 375 n.

Bodge, Rev. George Madison, his Soldiers in King Philip’s War, cited, 181 n.

Body of Liberties, Massachusetts, 165; provisions in, for supervision of church proceedings by civil courts, 168, 169, 170, 171, 174, 176; spirit of, not that of the Mosaic law, 170, 171.

Bolingbroke, Viscount. See Saint-John.

Bolton, Chables Knowles, A.B, xix, 108; letter from Franklin communicated by, 225.

— Robert, his History of the County of Westchester, N. Y., cited, 201 n.

Bona Fide. See Louis XIV., King of France.

Bond, Henry, his Genealogies and History of Watertown, cited. 390 n.

Bones, recipe for coloring, green, 209; red, 209, 210; yellow, 210; black, 210; for gilding, 210.

Bonner, John, of Boston, 335.

Book of Harvard. See Weeks, Clement.

Books, recipe for gilding, 210, 211.

Booth, Edwin, 184.

— Humphrey, his petition for the removal of Rev. F. Doughty, 274, 275.

Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, Bishop of Meaux, 202 n.

Boston, Mass., Synod of 1662 at, 3; Memorial History of, cited, 21 n, 76 n, 162 n, 245, 311 n, 353 n; Sketches of Boston, Past and Present, cited. 81 n; action against engrossing and forestalling in, 121, 125; recommendations to citizens of, regarding use of meat, 125; scale of prices adopted in, 127; resolutions in, against purchases made out of the town, 128, 130; resolutions of the Concord Convention adopted in, 129, 131; elects delegates to second session of the Convention, 130; difficulty of enforcing the recommendations of the Convention in, 131; Andros orders all public documents to be kept and registered in, 158, 159; commerce of, ruined by Port Bill, 183; streets and lanes in, 195; named by the selectmen, 195 n; record of the names, 196–198, 199; broadside bearing these names (1708), 196 n; meeting-houses and churches in (1724), 198; early celebrations of Washington’s birthday in, 255, 256, 257, 258; participation of school children on these occasions, 257; color sketch, for study of penal and charitable buildings of (1722), exhibited by J. B. Ayer, 335; two documents protesting against incorporation of (1714), communicated by W. C. Ford, 345; text of the documents, 345–352; discovery of them, 345 n; cost of incorporating, 345; predicted results of incorporating, on shop-keepers, 346, 347, 349; on cost of food, 346, 347; on town-meeting rights, 346, 347, 352; on the character and powers of city officials, 347; framers of charter for, 346, 348, 352; good results of town government in, 349, 350; remarks by A. Matthews on other attempts to incorporate, 352–356; first mention of, by its present name, 352; charter of, drawn up in 1650, 353, 353 n; granting of first charter to, 354; attempts to make it a county, 354 n; attempted incorporation of, in 1714, hitherto unknown, 354, 354 n, 355, 355 n; approximate date of documents relating to this attempt, 354–356.

— Arlington Street Church, 28, 30.

— Art Club, 30.

— Athenæum, 81 n, 141, 355 n; Spurzheim’s effects removed to, 79; Catafogue of, cited, 78 n; Quincy’s History of, cited, 78 n, 79 n; its building in Pearl Street, 79 n; Spurzheim’s lectures in, 80 n; manuscript Check-List of Boston Newspapers in, 140; two documents relating to the proposed incorporation of Boston (1714), discovered in, 345 n; original MS of Records of County Court, Boston (1671–1680), owned by, 377 n.

— Atkinson (now Congress) Street, 81 n.

— Bar Association, resolutions adopted by, on death of S. Butler, 187.

— Batterymarch Street, 70 n.

— Beacon Society, 30.

— Beacon Street, Bromfield-Phillips mansion in, 76 n.

— Bostonian Society, 29, 141, 396; bequest of R. C. Winthrop, Jr., to, 406.

— Bromfield Building Trust, 28.

— Castle Island, chaplaincy of, 320; Rev. J. Foster recommended for the position, 322, 322 n, 323; Rev. T. C. Thacher and J. Emerson successively appointed to, 322 n.

— Castle William, 111.

— Charter, committee for amendment of, 28; proposed, 353, 354; granted, 354.

— Chestnut Street, Mastodon Room in, 81 n.

— Church in Brattle Square, 226, 227 n, 324 n, 368; Records of, cited, 226 n, 227 n.

— Citizens’ Association, 28.

— City Records, cited, 56 n, 78 n, 81 n, 183 n.

— Club of Odd Volumes, 312.

— Congress Street, 81 n.

— Cornhill, 370.

— Cotton Hill, 257 n.

— County Court, 153 n; original MS of Records of (1671–1680), 377 n; Records of, quoted, 377 n, 378 n; cited, 378 n.

— Court Street, 370; school in, 257, 257 n.

— Crown and Razor, sign of the, shop of S. Franklin (1721–1775), 205 n.

— Episcopal Charitable Societv, bequest of R. C. Winthrop, Jr., to, 406.

— Exchange Club, 30.

— Exchange Coffee House, 366 n.

— Faneuil Hall, meeting for regulating of prices held in, 1779, 127.

— Federal Street Church, Records, cited, 81 n.

— First Church, 3, 243, 370; Rev. J. Davenport becomes pastor of, 4, 102; mural tablets dedicated in, 26; Records of, cited, 370 n.

— Franklin Association, celebrations of Franklin’s birthday by, 228.

— Fund. See Fund, The, at Boston.

— Hanover Street, 70 n.

— John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, 28.

— King’s Chapel, 68, 68 n; Foote’s Annals of, cited, 67, 71 n; Registers of, recovered, 70 n.

— Lying-in Hospital, 29.

— Mercantile Fire and Marine Insurance Company, 28.

— Milk Street, residence of Josiah Franklin in, 245.

— Municipal Real Estate Trust, 28.

— Old Masonic Temple (Tremont Street and Temple Place), 80 n.

— Old South Church, 3, 4, 102, 246, 370, 374, 374 n; H. A. Hill’s History of, mentioned, 4, 102; cited, 4 n, 370 n; Spurzheim’s funeral at, 79; Historical Catalogue of, cited, 112 n, 370 n; Record Book of, showing entry of Franklin’s baptism, exhibited, 229.

— Orange Street, 196 n.

— Ordway Place, 244.

— Papyrus Club, 30.

— Pearl Street, Mrs. Le Kain’s boarding-house in, 77, 77 n, 78, 78 n; Athenæum building in, 79, 79 n, 81 n; account of the street and its residents (1800–1850), by T. Minus, 82.

— Phrenological Society, 78 n.

— Province House, 243, 244 n.

— Public Latin School, 391; Catalogue of, cited, 182 n.

— Public Library, 102, 141; Davenport’s Election Sermon purchased by, 1, 2; Monthly Bulletin of, cited, 102 n; broadside containing names of Boston streets (1708) owned by, 196 n; broadside of 1697 owned by, 310 n; Chamberlain Collection in, 342.

— Real Estate Trust, 28.

— Record Commissioners’ Reports, quoted, 10, 353 n, 354 n; cited, 10 n, 70 n, 77 n, 112 n, 121 n, 122 n, 125 n, 126 n, 131 n, 181 n, 182 n, 195 n, 205 n, 226 n, 227 n, 245 n, 257 n, 353 n, 354 n, 355 n, 358 n, 370 n, 372 n, 398 n.

— Registry Department, Records of County Court at Boston (1671–1680) to be printed by, 377 n.

— Revere Lodge, 30.

— St. Bernard’s Commandery, 30.

— St. Botolph Club, 30.

— St. Paul’s Church, funeral services of Sigourney Butler at, 186.

— Scollay Square, old school house in, 257, 257 n.

— Siege of, 133.

— Society of Natural History, 29.

— Somerset Club, 396.

— Spring Lane, 243.

— State Street, early celebrations of Washington’s birthday by school children in, 257; site of Governor Winthrop’s home in, 405.

— State Street Exchange, 28.

— Storage Warehouse Company, 28.

— Street Department, Surveying Division, plan showing site of old school house and well in Scollay Square, in office of, 257 n.

— Sudbury Street, 370.

— Summer Street, advertisement of a House of Correction for sale in, 335.

— Swingbridge Lane, 196 n.

— Tariff Reform League, 28.

— Third (Old South) Church. See above, Old South Church.

— Town Records, cited, 181 n, 182 n; photograph of page of, containing entry of Franklin’s birth, exhibited, 229; attempt to incorporate Boston (1714) not referred to in, 354 n; mentioned. 358 n.

— Tremont Street, Rev. H. Caner’s estate in, 71 n.

— Trinity Church, 368.

— Turn Again Alley, 196 n.

— Union Club, 30.

— Union Street, removal of the Franklin family to, 245.

— Unitarian Club, 30.

— University Club, 143, 407.

— Walnut Street, house of R. C. Winthrop, Jr., in, 395, 405.

— Washington Building Trust, 28.

— Washington Street, paper on Josiah Franklin’s estate in, by T. Minns, 243–245; Christopher Batt’s tannery in, 243; former and later owners of the estate, 244.

— Wednesday Evening Club, 396.

— West Church, 38.

— White Bread Alley, 196 n.

— Winthrop Building Trust, 28.

— Winthrop Place, 368, 368 n.

— Women’s Educational and Industrial Union, 29.

— Young Men’s Christian Union, 29.

— Young Men’s Democratic Club, 185.

Boston and Maine Railroad, 184, 185.

Boston Consolidated Gas Company, 134.

Boston Gazette, first issues of, 193, 193 n.

Boston Magazine, Dialogue between a Married Man and a Mariner published in, 200, 200 n.

Boston News-Letter, earliest regular American newspaper, 310, 315.

Boston Port Bill, 182, 183.

Boughton, Richard, Secretary of Maryland, Rev. F. Doughty’s deed of gift to, 275, 276.

Boutineau, James, 98 n.

Bowditch, Charles Pickering, A.M., xviii.

— Henry Ingersoll, son of Nathaniel, letter from N. I. Bowditch to, 77–81.

— Mary. See Butler.

— Nathaniel, 78, 78 n, 80; anecdote regarding his meeting with John Gummere, 82.

— Nathaniel Ingersoll, son of Nathaniel, his letter to H. I. Bowditch, relating to the death of Spurzheim, communicated by H. H. Edes, 77–81; Spurzheim’s private papers arranged by, 79.

Bowdoin, Elizabeth, daughter of James. See Temple.

— Elizabeth (Erving), wife of James, 414.

— James, Governor of Massachusetts, 91 n, 98 n, 234, 236, 239; letters to Franklin from, 235 n, 239 n, 413, 414.

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., bequest of R. C. Winthrop, Jr., to, 406.

Bowdoin Papers, mentioned, 397.

Bowux, Clarence Winthrop, Ph.D., xx; elected a Corresponding Member, 82, 145; accepts, 83.

— Rev. Penuel (H. C. 1762), 49.

Bowes, Paul, 304 n.

Bradford, William, Governor of Plymouth Colony, 141, 336, 397; his History of the Plimouth Plantation, quoted, 11, 12; cited, 12 n.

— William, printer, 312 n, 313 n.

Bradley, Richard, his edition of J. Houghton’s Husbandry and Trade Improved, 295 n.

Bradstreet, Anne (Dudley), wife of Gov. Simon, tablet in memory of, 26.

— Simon, Governor of Massachusetts, 4, 318, 319; tablet in memory of, 26.

Brainerd, Frank, 186.

Brampton family, of Letton, England. 356.

Brathwaite, Richard, reference to Pocahontas by, 304 n.

Brattle, Katharine, daughter of Thomas. See Eyre; Winthrop.

— Thomas, 378, 378 n, 398 n.

Breck, Rev. Robert, difficulties regarding his settlement at Springfield, Mass., 166, 168.

— Samuel, his Recollections, quoted, 328; cited, 328 n.

Breintnall, Reginald Heber, 361, 362 n, 364 n.

Brend, William, 335.

Brewster, Frank, A.M., xviii.

Brick, George, 365.

Bridges, John, 24.

— Mary, wife of John, accused of witchcraft, 24.

— Mary, daughter of John, accused of witchcraft, 25.

— Sarah, accused of witchcraft, 24.

Bridgewater, Mass., Town Records, mentioned, 40 n.

Brief, the word, meaning rife, 9, 10, 10 n, 12.

Brigden, Zechariah, 325.

Briggs, Lloyd Vernon, his Genealogies of the different Families bearing the Name of Kent in the United States, cited, 250 n.

— Rebecca. See Hallowell.

— Zephaniah, 54, 54 n, 57.

Brimmer, Hon. Martin, A.B., xviii.

Bristles, recipes for dyeing, 211.

Bristol, R. I., 246.

Bristol County, Mass., 83.

Brittaine, or Britton, James, 268 n.

Britten, James, editor of part of Rev. W. Turner’s Herbal, 221 n.

Broadsheet, meaning of the term, 313 n, 317.

Broadside (1697), partaking somewhat of the character of a newspaper, 310 n; bibliographical meaning of the term, 313 n; various definitions of, 316, 317.

Brodhead, John Romeyn, 268; his History of the State of New York, quoted, 266; cited, 266 n.

Brome, Richard, his reference to projectors in his Court Beggar and in his Antipodes, 305.

Bromfield, Abigail, daughter of Henry (1727–1820). See Rogers.

— Edward (1695–1756), father of Henry (1727–1820), 76, 91 n.

— Edward, brother of Henry (1727–1820), 75, 76.

— Elizabeth, daughter of Henry (1727–1820). See Rogers.

— Hannah (Clarke), second wife of Henry (1727–1820), 72, 242, 243, 243 n.

— Henry (1727–1820), 77, 240 n, 243, 243 n; letters to and from, communicated by D. R. Slade, 71; text of the letters, 72, 73; letter from G. Washington to, exhibited, 73 n; this letter printed, 73 n; references to portrait of, 75, 75 n, 76.

— Henry (1751–1837), son of Henry (1727–1820), 77, 242, 242 n; letter to Mrs. Pearson from, 75, 76; letter from Mrs. Pearson to, 76.

— Margaret (Fayerweather), first wife of Henry (1727–1820), paper on Copley’s portrait of, by D. R. Slade, 74–76; brief account of, 76, 77.

— Sarah, daughter of Henry (1727–1820). See Pearson.

Brooks, Charles Butler, 109, 369.

— James Willson, A.M., xix; a guest at the annual dinner, 150; elected a Resident Member, 180, 409; accepts, 190.

Brouncker, William, patent granted to. 308 n.

Brown, Alexander, his Genesis of the United States, cited, 303 n.

— Jobn, 99 n.

Browne, Causten, 187.

— Rev. Edmund, his letter to Sir S. D’Ewes, mentioned, 145, 405.

Buchanan, Henry Clay, 360 n.

Buckingham, Joseph Tinker, 252.

— Duke of. See Villiers, George.

Buckley, Mary, daughter of William. See Whittredge.

— Sarah, wife of William, 13; accused of witchcraft, 23.

— William, 13, 23.

Buckminster, Rev. Joseph Stevens, 226 n.

Bugbee, James McKellar, 354 n; his Boston under the Mayors, cited, 353 n; his City Government of Boston, cited, 353 n.

Bulfinch, Thomas (H. C. 1746), 230 n.

Bulkley, John, grandson of Rev. Peter, 55.

— Rev. Peter, 55.

Bumpus, Everett Chauncey, 187.

Bunker, Mary Powell, her Long Island Genealogies, 276 n.

Bunker Hill Monument Association, 29.

Burial, without religious ceremonies, in colonial Massachusetts, 162.

Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, his History of His Own Times, cited, 296 n, 300 n.

Burroughs, George, 18 n.

Butler, Abigail (Eustice), first wife of James (1688–1715), 181.

— Elizabeth (Davie), first wife of James, goldsmith, 182, 182 n.

— Grace (Newcomb), wife of James (b. 1665), 181.

— Isabel Josephine, daughter of Peter (1820–1894), 183.

— James, second Duke of Ormonde, 192, 192 n, 203.

— James (b. 1665), son of Stephen, 181.

— James (1688–1715), son of James (b. 1665), 181.

— James, goldsmith, son of James (1688–1715), 182.

— James (b. 1740), son of James, goldsmith, 182, 182 n.

— James (d. 1827), son of James (b. 1740), 182, 183, 183 n.

— Rev. James Davie, his Butleriana Genealogica et Biographica, cited, 182 n, 183 n, 184 n.

— Jane, first wife of Stephen, 181.

— Lucia Cleaveland, daughter of Peter (1820–1894), 183.

— Lucia (Proctor), wife of Peter (1820–1894), 183, 183 n; death of, 187.

— Mary. See Ward.

— Mary (Bowditch), second wife of James (1688–1715), 182, 182 n.

— Mary (Sigourney), wife of James (d. 1827), 182, 182 n, 183 n.

— Mary Sigourney, daughter of Peter (1820–1894). See Olney.

— Mehitabel (Corbin), first wife of Peter (1774–1856), 183, 183 n.

— Peter (1774–1856), son of James (d. 1827), 183, 183 n.

— Peter (1820–1894), son of Peter (1774–1856), 183, 183 n, 184.

— Sarah (Wakefield), second wife of James, goldsmith, 182.

— Sigourney, LL.B., son of Peter (1820–1894), xviii; Memoir of, by L. Swift, communicated, 180; text of Memoir, 181–189; his ancestry, 181–184; his education, 184; his appointment as Second Comptroller of the Treasury, 184; his law practice, 184, 185, 186, 187; his political activities, 185; his devotion to Harvard College, 185; his patriotism, 185, 186; his interest in military matters, 186; his death and funeral, 186; tributes to, 187; declines post of private secretary to President Cleveland, 187; his devotion to his family, 187; his personal charm, 188, 189.

— Stephen, son of Mary, 181.

Buxton, Charles, portrait of Washington designed and drawn by, 259.

Byfield, Nathaniel, son of Rev. Richard, 379; first Judge of Vice-Admiralty Court, 380, 381, 382; loses the office, 382; his attempts to regain it, 382; E. Washburn’s characterization of, 382 n; fails of appointment as Lt.-Governor, 382 n; his reappointments as Admiralty Judge, 383; other offices held by, 383, 384; his suspension from civil offices, 381; his enmity toward Gov. J. Dudley, 381; resumes his offices, 384; his death, 384.

— Rev. Richard, 384.

— Sarah (Juxon), wife of Rev. Richard, 384.

— Sarah (Leverett), second wife of Nathaniel, 384.

Byles, Rev. Mather (H. C. 1725), 230 n.

Byng, Admiral Sir George, first Viscount Torrington, 191, 191 n.

CABOT, Ann (Clarke), wife of Francis, 389.

— Francis, 389.

— George, 57; brief account of, 54, 54 n, 55 n.

— Louis, A.B., xix.

— Mary Ann, daughter of Francis. See Blanchard; Lee.

Cairo, Egypt, the plague at, 194.

Calhoun, John Caldwell, 107, 368.

Calls, puts and, 286, 287.

Calvert, Cecil, second Baron Baltimore, 273 n.

Cambridge, Eng., King’s College, 194, 194 n.

Cambridge, Mass., Church Street, 391.

— Mount Auburn Cemetery, Records of, cited, 78 n; Spurzheitn buried in, 81, 81 n.

— St. John’s Memorial Chapel, funeral of R. C. Winthrop, Jr., at, 405. See also Newtowne.

Cammock Patent, 371, 371 n.

Campbell, John, publisher of the Boston News-Letter, 314.

— Maria (Hull), and James Freeman Clarke, their Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of General William Hull, mentioned, 366 n, 367 n.

Candles, recipe for making, 211.

Candy, a negro, accused of witchcraft, 23.

Canec. See Caner, Rev. Henry.

Caner, Rev. Henry, contemporary obituary notices of, 67–69, 69 n; certificate of burial of, 68, 69; will of, 68, 69–71; the pronunciation of his name, 71.

— Sarah, daughter of Rev. Henry. See Gore.

Canterbury, Eng., Prerogative Court of, 68, 71, 71 n.

Cape Cod harbor, account by B. Franklin (1650–1727) of a strange creature in, 192.

Capen, Nahum, his Reminiscences of Dr. Spurzheim and George Combe, cited, 77 n, 78 n, 80 n, 81 n.

Carleton, Sir Guy, first Baron Dorchester, 33.

Carter. Bethiah, 13.

— Franklin, LL. D., xx; transferred to roll of Corresponding Members, 386, 409.

— James, 325.

— Hon. James Coolidge, LL.D., xx; death of, announced, 60, 145; tribute of J. Noble to, 60–67; his fame as a lawyer, 60, 61; some famous cases in which he appeared, 61; his fitness for his profession, 61; his services on public commissions, 61, 62; opposes civil code drawn by D. D. Field, 62; some of his published works on this subject, 62; counsel for the United States before the Bering Sea Tribunal, 62; tribute of president of tribunal to, 62, 63; his varied activities, 63; member of the Committee of Fifteen, 63; J. H. Choate’s estimate of, 64; public utterances after his death, 64; his independence, 65; his college days, 65, 66; his bequest to Harvard College, 65; his speech at Commencement (1900), 66, 67, 67 n.

Casco, Me., 372.

Casnoe, Margaret, deposition of, 18, 19.

Casting, Charles, 215.

Catharine, of Aragon, Queen of Henry VIII., 194, 194 n.

Catlett, John, his petition for the removal of Rev. F. Doughty, 274, 275.

Cecil, William, Baron Burghley, 304 n.

Cemeteries, superintendence of, in colonial Massachusetts, 162.

Century Dictionary, its incorrect definition of a broadside, 315, 316, 317.

Chadwick, James Read, M.D., xix, 248; elected a Resident Member, 59, 145; accepts, 60; death of, 146.

Chalmers, Anna Maria Campbell (Hickman), wife of David, her account of Lafayette’s visit to Gen. Hull, 369; Biographical Sketch of, cited, 369 n. See also Mead; Otis.

— David, 369 n.

Chamberlain, Hon. Joshua Lawrence, LL.D., xx.

Chamberlen, Hugh, 295 n.

Chamberlin, Mason, his portrait of Franklin, 237 n.

Change-bills, nature.of, 85, 87.

Channing, Edward, a guest at the annual dinner, 150.

Chapman, George, his part in the authorship of Eastward Ho!, 304 n.

— Henry Leland, D.D., xx.

Charavay, Étienne, his Le Général La Fayette, cited, 327 n.

Charles I., King of England, 5, *15, 202 n; commission for the regulation of the government of the Colonies issued by, 164, 164 n, 165 n; Rev. F. Doughty’s designation of, 262, 263.

Charles II, King of England. 152; Massachusetts sends two Addresses to, 110, 111; speculative mania in reign of, 287, 288.

Charles XII., King of Sweden, 203, 203 n.

Charles Lewis, Elector Palatine, 202 n.

Charlestowu, Mass., 153 n.

Chase, Charles Augustus A.M., xviii.

— George Bigelow, 392.

— Theodore, 392.

Chauncy, Rev. Charles, 230 n, 235, 235 n.

Checkley, Anthony, 370.

— Lydia (Scottow), wife of Anthony, 370. See also Colman; Gibbs.

— Mary (Scottow), wife of Samuel, 370.

— Samuel, 370, 371 n.

Chinese rope dancers, Shadwell’s use of a project concerning, in his Volunteers, 294, 295, 304.

Chittenden, Thomas, Governor of Vermont, 256.

Choate, Charles Francis, A.M., xviii.

— Hon. Joseph Hodges, D.C.L., xx, 64 n; his estimate of J. C. Carter, 64; memorial window to J. Harvard erected by, in St. Saviour’s Church, Southwark, London, 200 n; Earl Grey restores Franklin portrait through, 329, 330; makes an address at Franklin celebration in Philadelphia, 330.

— Robert, 99 n.

— Rufus, 368 n.

Christmas, no observance of, in colonial Massachusetts, 162.

Chrysostomus Nov-Anglorum, C. Mather’s name for J. Davenport, 1.

Church, Benjamin, 9.

— Thomas, son of Benjamin, treatment of the word brief in various editions of his Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip’s War, 9, 9 n.

Church, Synod of 1662 considers questions regarding admission to the, 3; J. Davenport’s warnings regarding attitude of civil rulers toward the, *12–*14; compulsory attendance at, in colonial Massachusetts, 165.

— holidays, no observance of, in colonial Massachusetts, 162.

— members, suffrage limited to, in colonial Massachusetts, 164, 105.

Churchill, John, first Duke of Marlborough, 202 n.

Civil government, an ordinance of God, *4, *5, *6.

Clarendon, Earl of. See Hyde.

Clark, Edward Lyon, his Record of the Inscriptions on the Tablets and Grave-Stones in the Burial-Grounds of Christ Church, Philadelphia, cited, 226 n, 227 n.

— Elisha, 362 n.

Clarke, Ann. See Cabot.

— Hannah, daughter of Richard. See Bromfield.

— Rev. James Freeman, 366 n, 367.

— Richard, 90 n.

— Samuel Curtis, his Records of some of the Descendants of Richard Hull, cited, 247 n, 366 n, 368 n, 369 n; his Records of some of the Descendants of John Fuller, cited, 247 n, 366 n.

Clarkson, Rev. Joseph, 363.

Clement XI., Pope, 203, 203 n.

Clergy, status of, in colonial Massachusetts, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 169, 171, 176; no definite creed or doctrine adopted by, 176, 177.

Cleveland, Hon. Grover, LL.D., xx, 60, 184, 187.

Cleverley, Elizabeth. See Billings.

— Sally. See Annis.

— Thomas, 213.

Clifford, Charles Warren, A.M., xviii.

Clinton Historical Society, Proceedings at the Dedication of the Holder Memorial Building of, cited, 343 n.

Clothworkers Company, of London, 388.

Cobb, Charles Kane, 186, 187.

— David, 368.

Cobham, Viscount. See Temple.

Cochichawick, Mass. See Andover, Mass.

Cocker, Edward, 208 n; his recipe for black ink, 208.

Coffin, Joshua, his History of Newbury, cited, 227 n.

— Thomas Aston, 33.

— family, Boston Loyalists, 33.

Cohannet. See Taunton.

Cohasset, Mass., 266, 266 n.

Cold storage systems, 281 n.

Cole, Elizabeth (Doughty), wife of William, 261 n; made executrix of her father’s will, 262, 264; her claims against her brother, 264, 204 n, 265, 265 n, 270, 271; suits decided against, 265; assistance given to, 271 n, 272 n.

— John, of Boston, 257 n.

— John, of Lynn, 25.

— Sarah, wife of John of Lynn, accused of witchcraft, 16, 25.

— William, 264, 265, 270.

Collamer, Jacob, presents report of Joint Committee on the Library of Congress, regarding publication of Madison papers, 136, 137.

College of New Jersey. See Princeton College.

College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York, Catalogue of the Alumni, etc., cited, 81 n.

Collinson, Peter, 239.

Colraan, Rev. Benjamin, son of William, 193, 193 n, 230 n, 370.

— John, son of William, 370.

— Lydia (Scottow), wife of William, 370. See also Checkley; Gibbs.

— William, 370.

Colonial Society of Massachusetts, D. C. Gilman’s gifts to, 26, 83; draft of 1779 presented to, by Rev. E. H. Hall, 32; need of permanent quarters for, 83, 115, 143, 144; returns thanks to Mary F. Ayer for Check-List of Boston Newspapers, 141; bequest of R. C. Winthrop, Jr., to, 145, 405, 406; vote of, regarding this bequest, 149; observance of Franklin bicentennial by, 190–245, 407, 412; sends H. H. Edes as delegate to Franklin celebration of American Philosophical Society, 277, 331; report of the delegate to, 329, 330; address of salutation sent to the American Philosophical Society by, 330, 331; indebtedness of this Society to the American Unitarian Association, 408.

— Annual Meetings, 143–150, 407–418.

— Auditing Committee, appointment of, 115, 329; Report of, 148, 411.

— By-Laws, change in, 1, 144.

— Committee of Publication, i, 411; authorized to print Check-List of Boston Newspapers, 141; funds needed by, 143, 144, 146.

— Corresponding Members, xvii, 59, 60, 82, 83, 145, 276, 277, 328, 329, 409.

— Corresponding Secretary, xvii; reports gifts, 26, 83, 329; reports new members, 60, 83, 115, 190, 247, 277; nomination and election of, 149, 412. See also Noble, John.

— Council, xvii, 1; question of permanent quarters referred to, 83, 143, 144; commits this question to the Finance Committee, 115; authorizes printing of Check-List of Boston Newspapers, 141; Annual Report of, 143–146, 407–409; A. Matthews elected Editor by, 144; J. Lathrop elected member of, for three years, 149; memorial of the Massachusetts Historical Society regarding the frigate Constitution referred to, 277; H. Lefavour elected member of, for three, years, 412.

— Editor of Publications, i, xvii, 1, 408; election of, 1, 144. See also Matthews, Albert.

— Finance Committee, question of permanent quarters referred to, 115.

— Funds, 147, 148, 149, 411; need of larger publication fund, 143, 144, 408.

— Honorary Members, xx; loss of, by death, 60, 145, 277, 409.

— Nominating Committee, appointment of, 115, 329; Report of, 149, 411, 412.

— President, xvii, 1, 32, 60, 83, 115, 143, 151, 190, 247, 277, 329, 407; nomination and election of, 149, 411. See also Kittredge, George Lyman.

— Publications, 144, 408; cited, 1 n, 9 n, 26, 38 n, 73 n, 76 n, 77 n, 83 n, 89 n, 95 n, 101 n, 108 n, 130 n, 139 n, 162 n, 225 n, 240 n, 216 n, 247 n, 252 n, 253 n, 259 n, 297 n, 341 n, 355 n, 356 n, 358 n, 370 n, 372 n, 374 n, 379 n, 382 n, 405 n, 408 n, 409 n; contributions of R. C. Winthrop, Jr., to, 145, 405; proposed contents of Vols. II, IV., and IX., 408.

— Recording Secretary, xvii; nomination and election of, 149, 412. See also Cunningham, Henry Winchester.

— Registrar, xvii; nomination and election of, 149, 412. See also Gay, Frederick Lewis.

— Resident Members, xviii, xix, 59, 60, 83, 145, 180, 190, 246, 247, 328, 329, 409; loss of, by death, 146, 277, 408.

— Robert Charles Winthrop, Junior, Fund, 149, 405. See also above, Funds.

— Stated Meetings. 1, 32, 60, 83, 115, 151, 190, 247, 277, 329.

— Treasurer, xvii; Annual Report of, 146–148, 409–411; nomination and election of. 149, 412. See also Edes, Henry Herbert.

— Vice-Presidents, xvii; nomination and election of, 149, 411. See also Goodwin, William Watson; Knowlton, Marcus Perrin.

Coloring, Dveing and, Treatise on, by B. Franklin (1650–1727), 206–225.

Colors, names of, 221, 222; a definition of, 224, 225.

Colson, Elizabeth, accusation of witchcraft against, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 25.

— Mary, accusation of witchcraft against, 16, 17.

Colt v. Woolaston and Arnold, 285, 285 n, 286 n.

Columbia College, Medical Department. See College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Commissioners of the United Colonies, 272; probate recommendations presented to the General Courts by, 154, 155.

Committee of Correspondence, Boston, Concord Convention called by, 128.

Commons, to put out of, 35 n.

Company of the West, capital and securities of, 281, 281 n, 282; redemption of the public debt proposed by, 282, 283; Recueil d’Arrests et autres pièces pour l’établissement de la Compagnie d’Occident, cited, 282 n.

Concord, Mass., 153 n; State Conven tion at (1779), to consider currency questions, 55 n; action in Hingham on certain Resolves of the Convention, documents communicated by F. H. Lincoln, 115; text of the documents, 116–119; call for the Convention, 128; scale of prices adopted by the Convention, 129, 132; second session of the Convention, 130, 131; influence of the Convention in behalf of loans to the government, 131; action in, regarding recommendations of the Convention, 131.

Conder, E. Lauriston, his Church of the Holy Trinity, Long Melford, Suffolk, Eng., cited, 357 n.

Coner. See Caner, Rev. Henry.

Congregationalism, limited application of the principles of, in churches of the Massachusetts Colony, 174, 175.

Congress, Continental, 256; propositions for the regulation of the currencies of the States to be submitted to, 120; regulation of prices recommended by, 124, 133; recommends repeal of laws regulating prices, 125; lays temporary embargo on provisions, 125; address of, regarding depreciation of the currency, 126, 127; emission of currency limited by, 132; Continental bills discredited by, 134; proposes new bills guaranteed by the United States, 134.

Congress, United States, Journals of, cited, 73 n; buys manuscripts from Mrs. Madison, 135, 136; orders their publication, 136; memorial from the Massachusetts Historical Society to, regarding the frigate Constitution, 277.

Connecticut, executions for witchcraft in, 21; Land Bank organized in, 88; royal instructions regarding emission of paper currency not enforced in, 90; proposed conference of committees from New England States to meet in, 1776, 121; slight military demand upon, for food, 133; action in, regarding recommendations of the Commissioners of the United Colonies, 155.

— Colonial Records, cited, 9 n, 155 n.

Conohasset. See Cohasset.

Conor. See Caner, Rev. Henry.

Constitution, frigate, memorial to Congress from the Massachusetts Historical Society regarding, 277.

Cook, Elisha. See Cooke.

Cooke, Elisha (H. C. 1657), 373, 380.

— Elisha (H. C. 1697), son of Elisha (H. C. 1657), 343, 344.

— Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1735), 49.

Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson, Jr., A.B., xix; elected a Resident Member, 180, 409; accepts, 190: appointed on Auditing Committee, 329; Report of the Committee, 411.

Cooper, Anthony Ashley, first Earl of Shaftesbury, 291.

— Rev. Samuel, 49, 235, 235 n, 324, 324 n, 415; letter from Franklin to, quoted, 238.

Copinger, Walter Arthur, his Suffolk Records & MSS., cited, 357 n.

Copley, John Singleton, paper on his portrait of Mrs. Bromfield, by D. R. Slade, 74–77; photographs of portraits and miniatures by, exhibited, 74; probable influence of Pelham and Smibert on, 74; certain characteristics of his work, 75; his portrait of Mrs. Rogers, 77; photograph of his portrait of Mrs. Rogers, exhibited by D. R. Slade, 240.

— Mary (Singleton), widow of Richard. See Pelham.

Corbin, Mehitabel. See Butler.

Coruña, La, Spain, 191, 191 n, 192.

Corwin, George, 18.

Cotton, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John (H. C. 1710). See Hastings.

— Rev. John (1585–1652), *15; his Covenant of God’s free Grace, 5.

— Rev. John (H. C. 1710), 55 n.

— Sir Robert, 259.

Coudert, Frederic René, 62.

Coulson. See Colson.

Councils, Church, Rev. J. Davenport’s warning regarding, *13, *14. See also Nicene Council.

Courcel, Alphonse, Baron de, 62; his tribute to J. C. Carter, 62, 63.

Courts, civil, jurisdiction of, over probate matters, in the Massachusetts Colony, 151, 152, 153, 156, 157, 158, 159, 162; over questions of marriage, divorce, etc., 162, 163; over churches and clergy. 166, 107, 168, 169, 170, 171, 174, 175, 176, 177.

Courts, ecclesiastical, probate jurisdiction of, in England. 151, 156, 156 n, 157, 157 n, 162, 163, 173.

Consens, Thomas, 376 n; J. Scottow’s suit against, 377 n.

Cowper, John, letter from G. Washington to, 260.

Coxe, Thomas, 291.

Crane, Hon. Winthrop Murray, LL.D., xix.

Cranfield. Edward, 113.

Crashaw, Richard, his epitaph upon Ashton, 195, 195 n.

Credit, based upon land security, the underlying idea of the Fund at Boston in New England, 85, 86; of Blackwell’s Bank, 86. See also Bills of credit.

Creese, Thomas, 244, 244 n.

Crèvecœur, Michel Guillaume Jean de, calling himself Hector St. John or St. Jean de, account of Lafayette’s visit to America in his Letters of an American Farmer, 325; French edition of this work (Lettres d’un Cultivateur Américain), cited, 327 n.

Cromwell, Oliver, 6, 296 n; instructions from, 1654, to aid R. Sedgwick, communicated by F. L. Gay, 141.

Crosby, Sylvester Sage, his Early Coins of America, cited, 205 n.

Cuming, John, 231.

Cummings, Joseph, 43 n.

Cunningham, Henry Winchester, A.B., xvii, xviii, 32; reads tribute of J. Noble to J. C. Carter, 60; nominated and elected Recording Secretary, 149, 411, 412; exhibits a copy of Peter Barclay’s A Persuasive to the People of Scotland, 180.

— Stanley, A.B., xviii, 186.

Currency, convention at Concord, Mass. (1779), to consider questions of, 55 n; efforts to stop depreciation of, 116, 117; regulation of, considered by Providence Convention, 120, 122; recommendation of this Convention regarding, 122, 123; expediency of calling in, considered by Springfield Convention, 122, 123; address of the Continental Congress regarding depreciation of, 126, 127; reasons given in Boston for depreciation of, 127; Concord Convention called to consider, 128, 129, 131; emission of, limited by Congress, 132.

Curtis, Hall, 392.

Curtiss, Frederic Haines, xix.

Cushing, Charles, 118.

— Thomas (H. C. 1744), 416; delegate to Hartford Convention (1779), 131, 132.

— Thomas, and Charles Sheppard, their History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland, New Jersey, cited, 365.

DAGGETT, Naphtali, 231.

Dale, Sir Thomas, 303.

Danforth, Henry Gold, 186.

— Samuel (H. C. 1715), 49.

— Samuel (H. C. 1758), 235, 235 n.

— Thomas (1623–1699), 23, 24, 25, 372; Thanksgiving Proclamation (1682) issued by, 108; this Proclamation unknown to historical students, 108, 114; text of the Proclamation, 109; his part in framing instructions for the Massachusetts agents, 110, 111; E. Randolph’s enmity toward, 112, 113, 114; letter of, to Randolph, 113 n.

— Thomas (H. C. 1762), 40, 40 n, 42; only Loyalist member of Harvard College Faculty, 38, 39.

Daniels, George Fisher, his History of the Town of Oxford, Mass., cited, 182 n, 183 n.

Darcis, J. Louis, portrait of Franklin engraved by, exhibited, 240.

Darlington, William, his Memorials of John Bartram and of Humphry Marshall cited, 228 n.

Dartmouth College, General Catalogue, cited, 79 n.

Dastin, Lydia, 15; accusation of witchcraft against, 16, 25.

— Sarah, accusation of witchcraft against, 16, 25.

Dauyes. See Davies.

Davenport, Ann (Annis), second wife of Josiah, 227, 227 n, 359.

— Deborah, daughter of Josiah, 227.

— Enoch, son of Josiah, 227.

— Francis, of Salem and Burlington Counties, N. J., 359 n.

— Franklin, son of Josiah, 227, 227 n; Sketch of, by H. H. Edes, 358–365; place and date of his birth unknown, 360, 360 n; his professional life, 365; his military service, 361, 361 n, 362 n, 364, 365; appointed Surrogate of Gloucester County, N.J., 362, 362 n, 365; political and public offices held by, 362, 363, 365; his marriage, 363; his death, 364, 364 n.

— James, 226.

— Rev. John, communication regarding his Election Sermon of 1669, by L. Swift, 1–6; purchase of this sermon by the Boston Public Library, 1, 2; possible reason for its rarity, 2, 3; its probable place of publication, 3; his Gods Call to His People, mentioned, 3; becomes pastor of First Church in Boston, 4, 102; his references to the dangers of synods, 3, 4; opposition to his installation in Boston, 4; his share in founding the Massachusetts Colony, 5, *15; his Profession of Faith, 5; declines to preach Election Sermon at Hartford, 6; his letter regarding the regicides, 6; facsimile of his Massachusetts Election Sermon, *1–*16; this sermon mentioned, 101; suppression of certain facts regarding, 102.

— Josiah, son of James, 225, 358, 359; brief sketch of, 226, 227; forms, of his name, 227 n; public offices held by, 358 n, 359 n.

— Sarah, daughter of Josiah, 227.

— Sarah Barton (Zantzinger), wife of Franklin, 303.

— Sarah (Billings), first wife of Josiah, 225, 226, 226 n, 227 n.

— Sarah (Franklin), wife of James, 226.

— family, of Gloucester County, N. J., 359 n.

David, the Psalmist, *3, *4.

Davie. Elizabeth. See Butler.

Davies (Dauyes), John, 261 n.

— Margaret (Doughty), 261 n.

— Nathan, 417.

Davis, Andrew McFarland, A.M., xviii, 12, 108; calls attention to use of phrase “The Rhode Island Land Bank,” 26; his paper on Curious Features of some of the Early Notes or Bills used as a Circulating Medium in Massachusetts, 84–101; his Tracts relating to the Currency of the Massachusetts Bay, cited, 84 n, 86 n, 88 n; his Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, cited, 86 n, 91 n, 93 n, 94 n, 96 n, 98 n, 99 n; quoted, 89 n; his paper on the Limitation of Prices in Massachusetts, 1776–1779, 119–134; calls attention to a suggestion regarding titles of honor, 258, 259; his paper on A Search for the Beginnings of Stock Speculation, 278–310; a delegate to the Franklin celebration in Philadelphia, 330; papers relating to the Land Bank prepared by, to be published in Vol. IV. of the Publications of this Society, 408.

— Charles Henry, A.B., xix.

— Hon. Horace, LL.D., xx.

— James, 385, 386, 386 n.

— John, Deputy-President of the Province of Maine, 108.

— Hon. John Chandler Bancroft, LL.D., xx.

— William, 72.

Davis & Harvey, 2.

Dawks, Ichabod, printer, 310 n.

— J. See Dawks, Ichabod.

Dawn of British Trade in the East Indies, cited, 302 n.

Deane, Charles, 8, 397.

De Camp, Joseph, his portrait of Rev. J. McKean, 247.

Declaration of Independence, 179, 180.

Decore, the noun, 199, 199 n.

Deering, Rev. Lucius Henry, 68, 69.

Defoe, Daniel, 299, 300, 304, 309; his Essays upon several Projects, quoted, 290, 291; cited, 290 n; his Consolidator, quoted, 291.

De Lancey, Alice, daughter of Peter. See Izard.

— Peter, 241 n.

Delaware, not represented in New Haven Convention, 1778, 124.

Delaware River, disputes regarding Dutch settlements on the, 273 n.

Dellingan. See Dillingham.

Democratic party, stampede of, from the gold standard, 185.

De Normandie, Rev. James, a guest at the annual dinner, 150, 418.

Dent, Francis, 302.

Denton, W., photographs of portraits by, exhibited by D. R. Slade, 74.

— Rev. Richard, 270, 270 n.

Derby, Earl of. See Stanley.

Detroit, Mich., loss of (1812), 365.

Devenport family, of Morris County, N. J., 359 n.

D’Ewes, Sir Simonds, letters of Gov. Winthrop and E. Browne to, mentioned, 145, 405; list of monopolies or grants in his collection of the Journals of all the Parliaments during the reign of Elizabeth, 304 n.

Dewey, Thomas Henry, his Treatise on Contracts for Future Delivery and Commercial Wagers, 299 n.

Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, Litt. D., xx, 2, 6; his Yale Biographies and Annals, cited, 306 n.

— Rev. Henry Martyn, 8; his Congregationalism as seen in its Literature, quoted, 4; cited, 4 n; his edition of T. Church’s Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip’s War, 9, 10, 12.

— Rev. Morton, A.M., xix.

Dialogue between a Boston Man and a Country Man, 345–348; probable date of, 354.

Dialogue between a Married Man and a Mariner, 200.

Diatoms, contributions of S. Wells to the study of, 29.

Dickinson, Samuel Dayton, 360 n.

Dillingham, Edward, 357 n.

— John, 357 n.

Dilworth, Thomas, photograph of title-page of eighth edition of his New Guide to the English Tongue, published by Franklin, exhibited, 190.

Divorce, civil authority over, in Massachusetts, 162.

Dix, John, 15.

Dodd, Mead & Company, 2.

Dodge, Israel, 138.

— Lucia (Pickering), wife of Israel, 138.

— Mary Jenks, daughter of Pickering. See Jenks.

— Pickering, son of Israel, 138.

— Rebecca (Jenks), wife of Pickering, 138.

Donck, Adriaen van der, Remonstrance of New Netherland supposed to have been written by, 269 n; O’Callaghan’s account of, 270 n; animosity of the West India Company against, 272; his death, 273.

— Mary (Doughty) van der, wife of Adriaen, 201, 261 n, 269 n, 272; her knowledge of the Indian language, 272 n. See also O’Neal.

Dorchester, Mass., 153 n.

Doughty, Anne (Graves) Eaton, second wife of Rev. Francis, 274, 275.

— Bridget, first wife of Rev. Francis, 261, 265.

— Elias, son of Rev. Francis, 261, 261 n, 276 n.

— Elizabeth, daughter of Alderman Francis. See Cole.

— Frances, daughter of Alderman Francis. See Achley.

— Francis, alderman of Bristol, Eng., 261.

— Rev. Francis, son of Alderman Francis, paper on, by Rev. H. A. Parker, 261–276; his family, 261, 261 n; bequest to, 262; his indiscretions at Wapping Chapel, 262, 263; before the Court of High Commission, 262, 263; his submission, 263: his probable trial for nonconformity, 264; one of the ancient purchasers at Cohanuet, 264; claims of his sister against, 264, 264 n, 265, 265 n, 270, 271; suits decided in his favor, 265; his views on baptism, 265, 266, 266 n, 267 n; ejected from church meeting at Taunton, 266; erroneous accounts of this incident, 266, 266 n, 267 n; his later treatment at Taunton, 267; fine imposed upon, 267; complaint of J. Gilbert, Jr., against, 267 n; goes to Newport, 268, 268 n; to Long Island, 268 n, 269; grant to, at Newtown, 269, 269 n, 270, 270 n; his experiences related in the Remonstrance of New Netherland, 269 n, 270 n, 272; flees to New Amsterdam, 270; his troubles on returning to Newtown, 270; removes to Flushing, 270; his experiences there, 272; goes to Maryland, 273, 273 n; to New York and back to Virginia, 274; his second marriage, 274; his troubles in Virginia, 274; petition for his removal, 274, 275; his deed of gift to Richard Boughton, 275; sues for salary due him at Flushing, 276, 276 n; the suit won by his heirs, 276, 276 n.

— Francis, son of Rev. Francis, 261, 261 n, 276 n.

— Rev. Henry, before the Court of High Commission, 264 n.

— Jacob, son of Alderman Francis, 261 n.

— John, 261 n.

— Margaret, daughter of Alderman Francis. See Davies.

— Margaret, wife of Robert, 261 n.

— Mary, daughter of Rev. Francis. See Donck; O’Neal.

— Robert, brother of Alderman Francis, 261 n.

—family, not a Gloucestershire family, 261 n; that of Hanworth, Norfolk, 261 n.

Douglass, William, his Summary, quoted, 379; cited, 379 n, 380, 383.

Dover, N. H., Historical Society, Collections, cited, 386 n.

Dow, George Francis, 55 n, 138 n.

Downing, Emanuel, 357, 357 n.

Drake, Samuel Gardner, his edition of T. Church’s Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip’s War, 9, 12; his History and Antiquities of Boston, cited, 191 n, 353 n.

Drapier’s Letters. See Swift, Jonathan.

Dress, Parisian manner of (1782), 242.

Drinking, Amos Kent’s advice regarding, 251.

Dublin, Ireland, 192.

Dudley, Anne, daughter of Gov. Thomas. See Bradstreet.

— Joseph, President of New England, and Governor of Massachusetts, 86, 114, 158, 371 n, 372 n; appointed anagent to England, 110, 111; E. Randolph’s characterization of, 111, 112; seeks governorship of Massachusetts, 382, 382 n; his false accusations against W. Winthrop, 382 n; N. Byfield’s enmity toward, 384.

— William, 94 n.

Du Hautchamp, — , his Histoire du Système, quoted, 281 n; cited, 282 n.

Dummer, Jeremiah (H. C. 1699), 230 n.

Dunbar, Asa, son of Samuel, his part in the Rebellion of 1766 at Harvard College, 40, 40 n, 43, 44, 45, 46, 51, 52, 54, 54 n, 57.

— Charles Franklin, 295 n, 300 n.

— Cynthia, daughter of Asa. See Thoreau.

— Melatiah (Hayward), wife of Samuel, 40 n.

— Samuel, 40 n.

Duniway, Clyde Augustus, 311, 317; his Development of Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts, cited, 311 n, 320 n.

Dunkin, — (Barber), wife of Christopher, 78 n.

— Christopher, 78 n.

Dunkirk, France, fortifications of, demolished, 202, 202 n.

Dunstan, Scarborough, Me., 375 n.

Durandus, Gulielmus, his De origine juris, quoted, *5.

Dutch Commissioners, from New Netherland to Maryland, 273.

Dyeing and Coloring, Treatise on, by B. Franklin (1650–1727), 206–225.

EAMES, Wilberforce, A.M., xx.

East India Company, 291, 295 n, 303, 304; speculation in shares of, 299, 300, 300 n, 301, 303; its relations to the Adventurers, 301.

Eaton, Anne (Graves), widow of Rev. Nathaniel. See Doughty.

— Rev. Nathaniel, 274.

Edes, — , 356.

— Henry Herbert, A.M., ii, xvii, xviii, 55 n, 71, 102, 257 n; communicates documents relating to Rev. H. Caner, 67; communicates letter of N. I. Bowditch, 77; exhibits photographic copy of Maine Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1682, 108; text of the Proclamation, 109; remarks upon it, 110–114; his remarks concerning a silhouette of T. Pickering, 138; nominated and elected Treasurer, 149, 411, 412; communicates Memoir of S. Butler for L. Swift, 180; communicates a Commonplace-Book of B. Franklin (1650–1727), for A. P. C. Griffin, 190; communicates a Treatise on Dyeing and Coloring by B. Franklin (1650–1727), for A. P. C. Griffin, 206; his communication regarding Josiah and Sarah (Billings) Davenport, 225–227; exhibits letter from B. Franklin (1706–1790) to H. Marshall, 227; exhibits photograph of page of Boston Town Records showing entry of Franklin’s birth, 229; letter from I. M. Hays to, quoted, 239; exhibits portrait of Franklin, 240; exhibits photograph of the original certificate of Franklin’s membership in the Academy of Arts and Sciences, 243; exhibits portrait of Amos Kent, 247; his remarks on Amos and Moody Kent, 248–250; communicates letter from A. Kent to his brother, 250; text of the letter, 250–252; communicates letter of G. Washington to J. Cowper, 260; appointed delegate to the Franklin celebration of the American Philosophical Society, 277, 331; communicates two letters from J. Willard to J. Hancock, and one from Hancock to Willard, 320; text of the letters, 320–324; makes oral report as delegate to the American Philosophical Society’s Franklin celebration, 329, 330; his remarks concerning the marriage of J. de Valnais, 358; his Sketch of Gen. Franklin Davenport, 358–365; his remarks on Gen. Hull and Lafayette, 365–369; communicates a Petition of Joshua Scottow and the Oath subscribed by W. Winthrop as Vice-Admiralty Judge, 369; his sketch of Scottow, 370–374; his remarks on the Massachusetts Court of Vice-Admiralty, 379–384; communicates Memoir of R. C. Winthrop, Jr., 387; exhibits photograph of page of Christ Church (Philadelphia) Registers, containing record of Franklin’s birth, 412; his remarks concerning the Harvard College degrees conferred on W. Johnson and on Franklin, 412; communicates letter from J. Bowdoin and from J. Willard to B. Franklin, 413.

Editing of old manuscripts, etc., proper method of, remarks on, by A. Matthews, 7–12.

Edmonds, Anna, accusation of witchcraft against, 21.

Education, early provision for, in Massachusetts, 176, 177, 177 n.

Edwin, David, portrait of Washington engraved by, 259.

Eells, Rev. James, elected a Resident Member, 59, 145; accepts, 60; transferred to Corresponding Membership, 149.

Elatson, Jonathan, 16.

Elbe River, Germany, 11.

Electricity, 235.

Eliot, Rev. Andrew (H. C. 1737), 39, 49, 231, 235, 235 n, 236.

— Andrew (H. C. 1762), son of Rev. Andrew (H. C. 1737), 39, 40, 40 n.

— Charles William, 67; one of the orators at the Franklin bicentennial celebration in Philadelphia, 330.

— Rev. John, border copied from the title-page of his Indian Bible, 313.

Elizabeth, Queen of England, patents and monopolies granted by, 304.

Elizabeth Charlotte, daughter of Charles Lewis, Elector Palatine, and second wife of Philip, Duke of Orleans, 202 n.

Ellicott, John, gift of telescope to Harvard College from, 236.

Ellis, Rev. George Edward, 403; his Address on the Life and Character of Chief Justice Sewall, 399, 401, 402.

— Joseph, 362 n.

— Payson Perrin, 391.

Embargo, on provisions, in Massachusetts (1776–1777), 120, 121, 128, 132; on shipping, 120, 128; Springfield Convention asked to consider, 122; laid by Continental Congress, 125; difficulties caused by, 133.

Emerson, Jacob, 322 n.

Emery, Rev. Samuel Hopkins, his Ministry of Taunton, cited, 264 n.

Endicott. John, Governor of Massachusetts, 5, *15, 341, 342, 344; tablet in memory of, 26.

— Sarah. See Billings.

— William, A.M., xviii; appointed on Nominating Committee, 329; presents Report of the Committee, 411.

— Hon. William Crownlnshield, LL.D., xviii.

England, ecclesiastical authority over probate matters in, 151, 156, 156 n, 157 n, 162, 163, 173; Court of Probate established in, 157, 163; importation of skein silk into. 223; eighteenth century financial schemes in, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287; South Sea Company’s plan for redeeming the public debt of, 283; previous knowledge of speculative methods in, 287, 288, 299, 300; various dates assigned for beginnings of stock speculation in, by Bolingbroke, 289, 309; by Francis, 289; by Defoe, 290, 291, 299, 300; by Asgill, 292; by the author of Angliæ Tutamen, 292, 293; by Shadwell, 293–295; by J. Houghton, 296, 297; by Macaulay, 297, 298, 309; by R. Brome, 305; by S. Marmion, 305, 306; by B. Jonson, 306, 307, 308, 309.

— Bank of, stock-jobbing said to be coincident with the charter of, 289, 293.

— Court of High Commission, Rev. F. Doughty before, 262, 263; Rev. H. Doughty before, 264 n.

— Courts Baron, 156, 156 n.

— Probate Act of 1857, 157.

English, Mary, daughter of Philip, 19.

— Mary (Hollingsworth), wife of Philip. 18; accusation of witchcraft, against, 17, 18, 19; imprisonment of, 19, 20.

— Philip, accusation of witchcraft against, 17, 18, 19; his petition for reparation, 18; his escape and later imprisonment, 18, 19; his return to Salem, 20.

— Susannah, daughter of Philip. See Towzell.

English Company of Adventurers. See Merchant Adventurers of England.

English Dialect Society, 221 n.

Engrossing, legislation against, 121, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129.

Enon. See Wenham.

Erving, Elizabeth, daughter of John. See Bowdoin.

— Langdon, 392.

Essex County, Mass., 83, 99; towns belonging to County Court of, 153 n.

Essex County Club, 396.

Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., 141; Historical Collections, cited, 55 n, 78 n, 138 n.

Eustice, Abigail. See Butler.

Evans, Charles, 312; quoted, 312 n, 313 n; his American Bibliography, cited, 312 n.

— Robley Dunglison, 186.

Eveleth, James, 99 n.

Evelyn, John, 295 n; his Memoirs, quoted, 301; cited, 301 n.

Everett, Rev. Charles Carroll, D.D., xviii.

— Edward, 391.

— William, 8.

Excellency, His, title of, applied to Washington, 258.

Eyre, John, 398 n.

— Katharine (Brattle), wife of John, 398 n. See also Winthrop.

FAIR PLAY, brigantine, loss of, 229, 229 n.

Falmouth, Me., 373.

Faneuil, Mary. See Bethune.

— family, Records, Genealogical Charts, and Traditions of the Families of Bethune and Faneuil, compiled by Jane Lee Weisse, mentioned, 390 n.

Farnsworth, William, 186.

Farrar, Thomas, Sr., 13.

Fast-days, appointed by civil authority, 162.

Fasting, lines on, 204.

Faxon, Eunice (Bass), wife of Nathaniel, 81 n.

— Eunice Maria, daughter of Nathaniel. See Grigg.

— George Luther, his History of the Faxon Family, cited, 79 n, 81 n.

— Mary Josephine, daughter of William Grigg. See Forbush.

— Nathaniel, 81 n.

Fayerweather, Hannah, daughter of Thomas. See Winthrop.

— Jerusha (Groce), wife of John, 76.

— John, 76.

— Margaret, daughter of John. See Bromfield.

— Thomas, 76 n, 235 n.

Feathers, recipes for dyeing, 211, 212.

Federalists, Peace Convention held by (1812), 363.

Felt, Rev. Joseph Barlow, 353 n.

— Nancy. See Proctor.

Fendall, Philip Ricard, his work on the Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, 136, 137.

Fenn, Rev. William Wallace, a guest at the annual dinner, 418.

Fens of England, draining of, a favorite project, 307.

Field, David Dudley, 62.

— Edward, A.B., xx.

First Corps of Cadets. Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 186.

First Worshipful Masters’ Association, 30.

Fish pool, for bringing in fresh fish to London, proposition for, 284, 284 n.

Fisher, Alvan, reference to his portrait of Spurzheim, 77 n.

— Edward, his engraving of Chamberlin’s portrait of Franklin, 237 n.

— Rev. George Park, LL.D., xx.

Flesh. See Meat.

Flint, Martha Bockée, her Early Long Island, cited, 267 n.

Flour, provision for transportation of, from New York, 132.

Flushing, Long Island, Rev. G. H. Mandeville’s Flushing, Past and Present, quoted, 266 n, 267 n; Rev. F. Doughty first minister at, 266 n, 270; his experiences at, 272.

Flynt, Henry, 231.

Follen, Rev. Charles, 78, 78 n; his Funeral Oration on Spurzheim, cited, 77 n.

Food, predicted effect upon cost of, from incorporation of Boston. 346, 347.

Food-supplies, exhausted by demands of army, 133.

Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder, his Annals of King’s Chapel, cited, 67, 71 n; quoted, 68.

Forbush, Edward William, 81 n.

— Mary Josephine (Faxon), wife of Edward William, 81 n.

Force, Peter, his American Archives, cited, 73 n, 227 n.

Ford, Paul Leicester, his True George Washington, 104.

— Worthtngton Chauncey, xx, 253; transferred to roll of Corresponding Members, 145; his List of the Benjamin Franklin Papers in the Library of Congress, cited, 241 n; communicates a Bibliography of the Laws of the Massachusetts Bay (1641–1776), 345; this Bibliography to be published in Vol. IV. of the Publications of this Society, 345 n; communicates two documents relating to the proposed incorporation of Boston (1714), 345; text of these documents, 345–352; discovery of them, 345 n; two bibliographies prepared by, to be included in Vol. IV. of the Publications of this Society, 408.

Forestalling, legislation against, 121, 123, 124, 125, 120, 127, 129.

Forster, Edward Jacob, his Pedigree and Descendants of Jacob Forster, Senior, of Charlestown, cited, 322 n.

Fort Loyal, Falmouth, Me., 373.

Foster, Francis Apthorp, ii, xix.

— Hepzibah (Prentiss), wife of Rev. Jacob, 322 n.

— Rev. Jacob (H. C. 1754), recommended by Rev. J. Willard as Chaplain of Castle Island, 322, 323; brief notice of, 322 n.

— Joseph, his Alumni Oxonienses, cited, 268 n.

Fox Hunting Club, Gloucester County, N. J., 365.

Foye, Dorothy, wife of Capt. John, 112 n.

— Capt. John, 112, 112 n.

— William, son of Capt. John, 91 n, 112 n.

France, beginnings of stock speculation in, 279, 280, 281, 282; redemption of its public debt proposed by, 282, 283; speculation in, limited to issues of Law’s Company, 283, 287, 299; presentation of Franklin gold medal to, 329.

— Banque Générale, organization of, 280.

— Royal Bank, paper issues of, 280.

Francis, John, 293; his Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange, quoted, 289.

— Thomas, his recipe for black ink, 208.

Franklin, — , 381.

— Benjamin (1650–1727), uncle of Benjamin (1706–1790), 191 n; Commonplace-Book of, communicated by A. P. C. Griffin, 190; text of the book, 191–205; lines to his daughter, 199, 200; his lines On Tobacco, 201; his marriage, 205; his treatise on Dyeing and Coloring, communicated by A. P. C. Griffin, 206; text of the treatise, 206–225.

— Benjamin (1706–1790), 103, 191, 191 n, 193 n, 205 n, 241 n, 358, 407; eighth edition of T. Dilworth’s New Guide to the English Tongue published by, 190; his Autobiography, cited, 191 n; Letters to, from his Family and Friends, cited, 191 n; Sparks’s edition of his Works, cited, 191 n, 195 n, 205 n; Parton’s Life and Times of, cited, 191 n; identification of his Davenport “cousins,” 225–227; letter to H. Marshall from, exhibited by H. H. Edes, 227, 228 n; an early printed allusion to, 228, 228 n; three early celebrations of his birthday by the Boston Franklin Association, 228; his London house and press, 228 n; letter to S. Adams and others from, communicated by Rev. E. H. Hall, 228; text of the letter, 229; paper on Harvard College and, communicated by W. C. Lane, 229–239, 412; his services and gifts to the College, 229, 230, 232, 233, 234, 236, 237 n; vote conferring degree of A.M. upon, 230, 230 n, 412, 412 n, 413 n; original diploma of, owned by American Philosophical Society, 231, 239; text of the diploma, 231; his letter to T. Hancock suggesting subscriptions to the College Library, 232; form of subscription paper drawn up by, 232, 233; order for his own subscription, 233; Smyth’s edition of his Works, cited, 232 n, 233, 234; Bigelow’s edition of his Works, cited, 233, 234, 236; his correspondence with Prof. J. Winthrop, 234, 236; text of his earliest known letter to Winthrop, 235; gives copies of his Experiments and Observations on Electricity, etc., to Harvard, 236, 236 n, 239; votes of thanks from the College to, 236, 237, 238, 239; description of diploma conferring degree of A.M. upon, 239; portraits of, exhibited, 240; his description of himself, 240, 240 n; his relations with the Americans in Paris (1782), 240, 241; photograph of original certificate of his membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences exhibited, 243; reproduction of this diploma, between pp. 242 and 243; his father’s shop in Washington Street, Boston, at the sign of the Blue Ball, 245; American Philosophical Society’s bicentennial celebration of his birth, 277; H. H. Edes’s report of this celebration, 329, 330; Earl Grey’s restoration of portrait of, 329; degree conferred by Yale College upon, 412 n; letters from J. Bowdoin and J. Willard relating to election of, to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 413–415.

— Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin (1650–1727), lines to, 199, 200.

— Eunice (Greenleaf), wife of Samuel (1721–1775), 205 n.

— Hannah, sister of Benjamin (1650–1727). See Morris.

— Hannah (Kellineck), wife of Samuel (b. 1684), 205 n.

— Hannah (Wells), wife of Benjamin (1650–1727), 205.

— James, son of Josiah, early numbers of the Boston Gazette printed by, 193 n.

— Jane, daughter of Josiah. See Mecom.

— John, son of Josiah, 232, 233.

— Josiah, father of Benjamin (1706–1790), 191 n, 203, 203 n; paper on his Estate in Boston, by T. Minns, 243–246; his sign of the Blue Ball, 245.

— Samuel (b. 1684), son of Benjamin (1650–1727), 191 n, 203, 203 n, 205, 205 n.

— Samuel (1721–1775), son of Samuel (b. 1684), 192, 192 n, 206 n; an advertisement of, 205 n.

— Sarah, daughter of Josiah. See Davenport.

— William, Governor of New Jersey, son of Benjamin (1706–1790), 227 n, 359 n.

Franklin Pensioner, 228, 228 n.

Freeholders, predicted effect of proposed incorporation of Boston on, 346, 347, 352.

Freemasonry, interest of S. Wells in, 30.

Freemasons, demonstration of, at Boston (1800), 260 n.

French Academy. See Institut de France, Académie Française.

Frick, William, Jr., 392.

Prie, Eunice, wife of John, accused of witchcraft, 25.

— John, 25.

Frothingham, Rev. Paul Revere, 30.

— Richard, his Life and Times of Joseph Warren, cited, 56 n.

Fuller, James, accusation of witchcraft against, 22.

— Hon. Melville Weston, LL.D., xx.

— Sarah, daughter of Abraham. See Hull.

Fund, The, at Boston in New England, an association of Boston merchants, 84, 84 n, 187, 280; Rev. J. Woodbridge’s pamphlet explaining, 84, 85; underlying idea of, 85, 86; pass-bills and change-bills used by, 85; evidences of its success, 86.

Furness, Annis Pulling (Jenks), wife of Rev. William Henry, 138.

— Horace Howard, LL.D., xx, 392; presents a silhouette of T. Pickering, 138; a delegate to the Franklin bicentennial celebration in Philadelphia, 330.

— Rev. William Henry, 138.

Futures, J. Law’s dealings in, 286, 287.

GAGE, John, his History and Antiquities of Suffolk, Thingoe Hundred, cited, 357 n.

— Thomas, Governor of Massachusetts, some addressers of, 70 n, 139 n.

Gallagher, Charles Theodore, 187.

Gannett, Caleb, 416.

— Rev. Ezra Stiles, 28.

— Kate Boott, daughter of Rev. Ezra Stiles. See Wells.

Gardiner, Hannah, daughter of Sylvester. See Hallowell.

— Robert Hallowell, A.B., xx; elected a Corresponding Member, 328, 409; accepts, 329.

— Sylvester, 70 n.

Gardiner, Me., Christ Church, 70 n.

Gardner, Henry, 416.

— Samuel Pickering, 390.

Garrison, William Lloyd (1805–1879), 107.

Gates, Horatio, 231 n; letter to H. Bromfield from, communicated by D. R. Slade, 71; text of the letter, 72.

Gay, Frederick Lewis, A.B., xvii, xviii; communicates four documents relating to R. Sedgwick, 141, 142; nominated and elected Registrar, 149, 411, 412; his discovery regarding the site of Gov. Winthrop’s home, 405.

George L, King of England, 203, 204 n, 346, 347; accession of, 354, 355, 355 n.

George III., King of England, 254.

German ball, recipe for making, 213.

Gerry, Elbridge (H. C. 1762), 229; delegate to Philadelphia Convention, 133.

Gibbs, Benjamin, 370.

— Lydia (Scottow), wife of Benjamin, 370. See also Checkly; Colman.

— Wolcott, LL.D., xx.

Gifford, William Logan Rodman, A.B., xx; elected a Corresponding Member, 276, 409; accepts, 277.

Gilbert, John, patents granted to, by James I., 307.

— John, Jr., his complaint against Rev. F. Doughty, 267 n.

— Thomas, 267 n.

Gilding, recipes for, 210, 212, 215, 216.

Gilman, Arthur, his Story of Boston, cited, 353 n.

— Daniel Coit, LL.D., xx; gifts of, to this Society, 26, 83; a delegate to the Franklin celebration in Philadelphia, 330.

Glass, recipe for gilding, 212.

Globe-permits, 285.

Gloucester, Mass., 227 n.

Gloucester County (N. J.) Bible Society, 365.

Glover, Goody, executed for witchcraft, 21.

— Jacob, 362 n.

Gloves, recipe for softening, 213; for cleaning and dyeing, 214, 215; for glazing and perfuming, 215.

Goddard, Delano Alexander, 311, 317.

Gold, effect of quicksilver upon, 221.

Gold-silver, recipe for clearing, 213.

Goldsmiths, temporary investments sought by, 300.

Goldthwait, Ezekiel, 19.

Goodale, George Lincoln, LL.D., xviii.

Goodell, Abner Cheney, A.M., xviii; value of his notes to the Massachusetts Province Laws, 134 n; his paper on the Seals of the Colonial and Provincial Courts of Justice in Massachusetts, mentioned, 160 n.

Goodwin, William Watson, D.C.L., xvii, xviii, 138 n; nominated and elected a Vice-President, 149, 411; a delegate to the Franklin celebration in Philadelphia, 330.

Gordon, George Hamilton, fourth Earl of Aberdeen, 391.

— Thomas, his Essay on the Practice of Stock-Jobbing, 299 n; and John Trenchard, their Collection of Tracts, cited, 287 n, 299 n.

— William, 249.

Gore, Christopher, son of Capt. John (d. 1796), 139, 139 n.

— Capt. John (d. 1796), 139, 139 n.

— John, 71.

— Sarah (Caner), wife of John, 71, 71 n.

Gorham, James, delegate to Hartford Convention (1779), 131, 132.

Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, LL.D., F.R.S., xviii; memorial meeting in honor of, 29.

— Charles Henry, 78 n.

— Daniel, his Brief Narration of the Sufferings of the People called Quakers, 343.

Government, forms of, *4; folly of changing form of, 349. See also Civil government.

Gram, Gregers, 62.

Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, 30.

Gravensande. See Gravesend.

Graves, Anne, daughter of Thomas. See Eaton; Doughty.

— Thomas, 274.

Gravesend, Long Island, 269, 269 n.

Gray, Harrison, 49.

— Lydia. See Ward.

— Morris, 186, 187.

Grease, recipe for removing, 216.

Great Britain, efforts to involve United States in war with, 138, 139; prophecy concerning, 203, 204; necessity for incorporation of towns in, 350, 351.

— Colonial State Paper Office, 314.

— Parliament, two bills against stock-jobbing introduced into, 298, 299; one of these passed, 299; Journal of the House of Commons, cited, 299 n.

— Statute of Monopolies, 304, 306.

Green, Bartholomew (d. 1732), printer, son of Samuel (d. 1702), 196 n, 310 n.

— Charles Montraville, M.D., xviii; communicates Memoir of S. Wells, 26; text of the Memoir, 27–31; appointed on Nominating Committee, 115.

— David. See Greene, David.

— Mason Arnold, his History of Springfield, cited, 166 n.

— Samuel (d. 1702), 3.

— Samuel, Jr. (d. 1690), son of Samuel (d. 1702), printer of the Present State of the New-English Affairs (1689), 310, 311, 312, 313 n, 314, 315, 319.

— Samuel Abbott, 8, 311, 313, 315, 317; his Ten Fac-simile Reproductions Relating to New England, cited, 196 n; his Ten Fac-simile Reproductions Relating to Old Boston and Neighborhood, cited, 311 n, 318 n; his Ten Fac-simile Reproductions Relating to Various Subjects, cited, 311 n, 313 n.

— Samuel Swett, A.M., xviii.

Greene, David, 54, 54 n, 57.

— George Washington, his Life of Nathanael Greene, cited, 73 n.

— Nathanael, letter to H. Bromfield from, communicated by D. R. Slade, 71; text of the letter, 73; G. W. Greene’s Life of, cited, 73 n.

Greenleaf, Eunice. See Franklin.

Greenough, Charles Pelham, 187.

— James Bradstreet, A.B., xix.

Gregorius Nazianzenus, Saint, *14.

Grent, Thomas, patent granted to, 308 n.

Grew, Nehemiah, letter from Rev. S. Lee to, communicated by G. L. Kittredge, 32.

Grey, Albert Henry George, fourth Earl Grey, restoration of Franklin portrait by, 329.

Griffin, Appleton Prentiss Clark, xx; his communication regarding the editor of the Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, 135–137; transferred to roll of Corresponding Members, 142, 145; communicates a Commonplace-Book of B. Franklin (1650–1727), 190; text of the book, 191–205; communicates a Treatise on Dyeing and Coloring by B. Franklin (1650–1727), 206; text of the treatise, 206–225.

Grigg, Eunice Maria (Faxon), wife of William, 80 n, 81 n.

— John, 80 n.

— Maria (Pell), wife of John, 80 n.

— Mary Pell, daughter of William. See Faxon, Mary Josephine.

— William, son of John, 80; brief account of, 80 n, 81 n.

Groce, Jerusha. See Fayerweather.

Grubb, Thomas, 243, 244 n, 245 n.

Guild, Benjamin, 413, 413 n.

Guillon, Guillaume. See Lethière.

Gummere, Francis Barton, grandson of John, 82.

— John, President of Haverford College, story of his meeting with N. Bowditch, 82.

Gurdon, Brampton, 356; will of, 356; letter to Gov. Winthrop from, 357, 358.

— Edmund, son of Brampton, communication by H. E. Woods regarding, 356–358; misspellings of his family name, 356; not mentioned in his father’s will, 356; letter to Gov. Winthrop regarding, 357, 358; probable date of his birth and death, 358.

— Muriel, daughter of Brampton. See Saltonstall.

— Muriel (Sedley), wife of Brampton, 356.

— family, of Letton, England, 356.

Guthrie, Mrs. — , 391.

Gwyn, Sir Rowland, 299.

HADLEY, Arthur Twining, LL.D., xx; a delegate to the Franklin celebration in Philadelphia, 330.

Hair, recipes for dyeing, 212; for destroying, 212; for making, grow, 213.

Hale, Rev. Edward, A.B., xix.

— Rev. Edward Everett, D.D., xix; a guest at the annual dinner, 149; elected a Resident Member, 407; and Edward Everett Hale, Jr., their Franklin in France, cited, 240 n.

— Edward Everett, Jr., 240 n.

— George Silsbee, A.M., xviii.

— Jonathan, 99 n.

— Mary, accusation of witchcraft against, 22.

Half-way Covenant, Rev. J. Davenport’s opposition to, 3.

Hall, Albert Francis, 330 n, 410.

— Rev. Edward Henry, D.D., xix, 108; presents draft (1779) to the Society, 32; communicates letter from Franklin, 228; text of the letter, 229; presents Annual Report of the Council, 407.

— Hugh, 91 n.

Hallam, Henry, 391.

Halley, Edmund, 295 n.

Hallowell, Benjamin, Sr., 70 n.

— Benjamin, Jr., son of Benjamin, Sr., his house attacked, 70 n.

— Hannah (Gardiner), wife of Robert, 70 n.

— Rebecca (Briggs), wife of Benjamin, Sr., 70 n.

— Robert, son of Benjamin, Sr., made an executor of Rev. H. Caner’s will, 70, 71; brief account of, 70 n.

Hallowell, Me., early celebration of Washington’s birthday in, 258 n.

Hamlin, Charles Sumner, 187.

Hammatt Papers, cited, 357 n.

Hammond, Laurence, 381.

Hampsteed, Gloucestershire, Eng., Francis Doughty’s farm at, 261, 261 n.

Hancock, Belcher, 37, 37 n, 38 n, 39, 40, 40 n.

— John, 102, 103, 232 n, 416; letters from Rev. J. Willard to, communicated by H. H. Edes, 320; text of the letters, 320–323; letter to Rev. J. Willard from, 323, 324; his place at the dinner to Lafayette, 320, 321; his offer to build a fence around the Harvard College Yard, 320, 323, 324; his appointment of a chaplain at Castle Island, 322 n.

— Thomas, uncle of John, 39; letter from Franklin to, regarding subscriptions to the Harvard College Library, 232, 232 n.

Hannah, — , 199.

Hannen, Right Hon. Sir James, 62.

Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor. See Yorke.

Harlan, John Marshall, 62.

Harleian Society, Publications of, cited, 384 n.

Harmon, Ann Lovett. See Bass.

Harradine, Andrew, 194.

Harris, Benjamin, 310, 314, 317.

— George, his Life of the Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, cited, 205 n.

Harrison, Benjamin (d. 1901), 62.

Hart, Charles Henry, his Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington, cited, 259 n.

— Elizabeth, wife of Isaac, 13.

— Isaac, 13.

— William Henry, 147, 148, 410.

Hartford, Ct., disturbed relations between New Haven and, 6; Rev. J. Davenport’s refusal to preach Election Sermon at, 6.

Hartford Convention, 1779, report of Massachusetts delegates to, 131, 133; instigated by Massachusetts Assembly, 132; resolutions adopted by, 132.

Harvard, John, memorial window to, in St. Saviour’s Church, Southwark, London, 200 n.

Harvard, Book of. See Weeks, Clement.

Harvard, Mass., 75, 76.

Harvard College, Rebellion of 1766 at, 33–59; manuscript account of, communicated by W. C. Lane, 33; causes of the outbreak, 33, 34, 35 n, 50–54; early regulations regarding commons at, 34, 35; text of certain Articles respecting the Diet at, 3537; duties of the waiters at, 35, 36; of the tutors, 35, 36, 39; of the steward, 36, 37; of the butler, 36, 37; early custom of “placing” at, 41, 41 n, 55 n; division of buildings of, into districts, 42 n; law relating to combinations at, 45, 45 n; punishment for absence from prayers at, 50, 51, 51 n; law regarding complaints at, 52, 52 n; confession of certain students involved in the Rebellion, 56, 57; this confession not accepted, 57; form of Confession finally accepted by students and government, 57, 58; warning to students of, against Fifth of November demonstrations, 58, 59; J. C. Carter’s bequest to, 66; his speech at Commencement, 1900, 66, 67, 67 n; paper on Harvard College and Franklin, by W. C. Lane, 229–239, 412; Franklin’s services in securing mathematical and philosophical instruments for, 229, 230, 233, 234, 236, 237; vote of, conferring degree of A.M. upon him, 230, 412, 412 n, 413 n; list of those upon whom honorary degrees were conferred by, before 1780, 230 n, 231 n; text of Franklin’s diploma from, 231; description and present owner of the diploma, 239; dinner given to Lafayette at, 320, 321, 321 n, 325; J. Hancock’s offer to build a fence around the College Yard, 320, 323, 324; damage done to buildings of, by Provincial troops, 324; Hancock’s offer probably not accepted, 324, 325; the fence built by the College, 324, 325; degree of LL.D. conferred on Lafayette by, 325; text of the diploma, 326, 327; J. M. Peirce’s services at, 332, 333; honorary degree conferred on J. de Valnais by, 358; degree conferred on W. Johnson by, 412; valedictory oration at (1762), 417, 418.

— Alpha Delta Phi, 65.

—Alumni Association, 63.

— Board of Overseers, position of, in Rebellion of 1766, 34, 43; insistence of, upon student attendance at commons, 34, 35; text of certain Articles respecting the Diet at the College, proposed by, 35–37; action of Faculty and Corporation regarding the Rebellion approved by, 49, 50; action of, upon the Confession of certain students, 56, 57; Records of, cited, 412 n.

— Boylstou Hall, 46 n.

— College Book, No. 3, list of diplomas preserved in, 230, 231 n, 326; No. 7, cited, 37 n, 42 n, 49 n, 230 n; No. 8, cited, 325 n.

— Commons, to put out of, 35 n.

— Corporation, position of, in Rebellion of 1766, 34; members of, 39; action of, on Representation of the Faculty regarding the Rebellion, 48, 49; votes of thanks given to Franklin by, 236, 237, 238, 239; Records of, cited, 325, 412 n; New Style adopted by (1753), 413.

— Faculty, position of, in Rebellion of 1766, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43; Representation of, to the Corporation, regarding the Rebellion, 34, 45–48; official action of, regarding, 44–48; Records of, quoted, 44, 45, 47, 48, 51 n, 57, 58, 59; cited, 44, 45 n, 48 n, 51 n, 55 n, 57; acknowledgment drawn by, for students to sign, 47; refusal of students to sign, 48, 53.

— Harvard Hall, commons room in, 34, 35 n, 44, 321 n; Chapel in, 41 n, 42 n; dinner to Lafayette in, 320, 321.

— Hasty Pudding Club, 65, 391, 392, 393.

— Holden Chapel, abandoned as a Chapel, 41 n, 42 n, 45.

— Hollis Hall, commons room in, 34, 35 n.

— Holworthy Hall, 394.

— Institute of 1770, 65, 392 n.

— Jacobite Club, formed by members of the class of 1857, 30.

— Law School Association, 63.

— Library, 141, 206 n; letters of W. Weeks, and manuscript of the Book of Harvard acquired by, 33, 43 n; Franklin’s gifts of books to, 230, 236, 237, 237 n, 238, 238 n, 239, 239 n; his projects for subscriptions to, 232, 233; order for his own subscription, 233; letter from Franklin to T. Hubbard owned by, 233; earliest known letter from Franklin to Prof. J. Winthrop owned by, 234; text of this letter, 235; destruction of, by fire, 1764, 235, 235 n; Franklin portraits in, 237, 237 n.

— M. O. F. Club, 392 n.

— Medical School, Spurzheirn’s skull in Warren Museum at, 81 n.

— Memorial Hall, copy of Leslie’s portrait of Franklin in, 237 n.

— Phi Beta Kappa, 27, 403 n.

— Porcellian Club, 391, 392; portrait of Kev. J. McKean presented to, by F. R. Appleton, 248; origin of, 248, 248 n, 250–252.

— Quinquennial Catalogue, 328, 328 n.

— Treasurer’s Journal, cited, 325.

— Triennial Catalogue, 371 n.

— Unity Hall, 43 n.

— Wadsworth House, 42, 42 n.

— Walter Hastings Hall, 56 n.

Harvard College Papers, cited, 234 n, 236 n, 324 n.

Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, cited, 67 n, 200 n, 325, 358 n.

Harvard Magazine, cited, 248 n.

Harvey, Davis &, 2.

Haseltine, William Stanley, 392.

Hastings, Elizabeth (Cotton), wife of Jonathan (H. C. 1730), 55 n.

— Jonathan, father of Jonathan (H. C. 1730), 55 n.

— Jonathan (H. C. 1730), steward of Harvard College, disorders caused by his serving bad butter, 33, 44, 45, 46, 53, 55; brief sketch of, 55 n.

— Jonathan (H. C. 1768), son of Jonathan (H. C. 1730), 55, 55 n, 56.

— Sarah (Phipps), wife of Jonathan, 55 n.

— Walter (H. C. 1771), son of Jonathan (H. C. 1730), at the battle of Bunker Hill, 55 n; gift to Harvard College in memory of, 56 n.

— Walter (H. C. 1799), son of Walter (H. C. 1771), gift to Harvard College in memorv of, 56 n.

— Walter (1814–1879), son of Walter (H. C. 1799), gift of, to Harvard College, 56 n.

Hathorne, William, 337.

Haven, Samuel Foster, his Catalogue of ante-Revoluntionary Publications, 312 n.

Hawkes, Mary, of Andover. See Hawkes, Sarah.

— Mary, of Salem, 23.

— Sarah, accused of witchcraft, 24.

Hay, Hon. John, LL.D., xx; his death, 146.

Hays, Isaac Minis, 241 n, 413; his description of the diploma conferring Harvard degree of A.M. on Franklin, 239.

Hayward, Melatiah. See Dunbar.

Hazard, Ebenezer, his Historical Collections, cited, 164 n.

Heitman, Francis Barnard, his Historical Register of the United States Army, cited, 369 n.

Helvetius, pseudonym for James Madison, 137.

Hemenway, Augustus, A.B., xviii.

Hemp, early New Hampshire bills of credit payable in, 94.

Henkels, Stanislaus Vincent, 2.

Henrietta Anne, daughter of Charles I. of England, and first wife of Philip, Duke of Orleans (1640–1701), 202, 202 n.

Hermesdorf, Marie Thérèse (Spurzheim), widow of Nicholas, 79 n.

— Nicholas, 79 n.

Hewson, Mary, letter of Franklin to, quoted, 240 n.

Hibbins, Anne, her trial for witchcraft, 20; her execution, 21.

Hickman, Ann Binney (Hull), wife of Harris Hampden, 369 n.

— Anna Maria Campbell, daughter of Harris Hampden. See Chalmers; Otis; Mead.

— Harris Hampden, 369 n.

Hicks, John, 276.

Higginson, Henry Lee, LL.D., xix.

— Thomas Wentworth, a guest at the annual dinner, 150.

Hildreth, Richard, character of his History of the United States, 105.

Hill, Aaron, his patent for extracting oil out of beech, 285 n, 286 n.

— Adams Sherman, LL.D., xix, 108; gives some reminiscences of J. M. Peirce, 331–335.

— Hamilton Andrews, his opinion regarding Rev. J. Davenport’s Election Sermon, 4; his History of the Old South Church, quoted, 4; cited, 4 n, 370 n; mentioned, 102.

— Hannah. See Quincy.

Hilliard, Timothy, 385, 386, 386 n.

Hilton, Gustavus Arthur, LL.B., xviii.

Hingham, Mass., 153 n; Report of the Committee of the Town of (1779), on Resolves of the Concord Convention fixing price of commodities, communicated by F. H. Lincoln, 115; resolutions of the Convention adopted in, 115, 129, 134; text of the Report, 116–118; extracts from Town Records of, 118, 119; early celebration of Washington’s birthday in, 258 n.

History, the Truth in, paper by L. Swift, 101–107; difficulty of defining the word, 104; inductive and deductive methods in, 105; not a mere assemblage of facts, 106; recognition of dramatic element in, 106; various attitudes in chronicling facts of, 106, 107; influence of time on our conceptions of, 107.

Hitchcock, David, 244 n.

— Elizabeth (Mighell) Batt, wife of David, 244 n, 245 n.

Hoar, Bridget (Lisle). See Usher.

Hobson, Richmond Pearson, 186.

Hoch, Franz Maria Ulrich Theodor. See Æpinus.

Hodgson, Thomas, his part in the Rebellion of 1766 at Harvard College, 42, 42 n, 43, 46, 47, 57.

Holden, Edward Singleton, LL.D., xx.

Holder, Christopher, 343 n; original of his letter to the Governor and Magistrates of the Massachusetts Bay, 341, 342; his petition to the same, for a release from prison, 342.

Holidays, church, no observance of, in colonial Massachusetts, 162.

Holland, speculative mania over tulip bulbs in, 288.

Hollard, George 19 n, 20 n; Philip English befriended by, 19.

Hollingsworth, Mary, daughter of Richard. See English.

— Richard, 18.

Hollis, Thomas (1659–1731), 39.

— Thomas (1720–1774), his gift of astronomical instruments to Harvard College, 236.

Hollowell. See Hallowell.

Holmes, Rev. Abiel, 182 n.

Holten, Samuel, 229, 229 n.

Holyoke, Rev. Edward, President of Harvard College, 37, 40, 40 n, 41, 41 n, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 53, 57, 58, 231, 235; two letters to J. Trumbull, Jr., from, exhibited by W. C. Lane, 416; text of the letters, relating to the delivery of the valedictory oration at Harvard (1762), 417, 418.

Homœopathy, practice of, introduced into Montreal by Dr. J. Barber, 78 n.

Honybourn, — , 199.

Hoogeven, Hendrik, Franklin’s gift of his Doctrina particularum linguae Graecae to Harvard College, 237 n.

Hook, Rev. Walter Farquhar, his Church Dictionary, cited, 262 n.

Hooke, Jane (Whalley), wife of Rev. William, 6.

— Rev. William, 6, 265, 266.

Hooper, Edward William, LL.D., xix.

Hopkins, Edward, Governor of Connecticut, 141.

Hopkinson, Francis, 32.

— John Prentiss, 184.

Horn, recipe for shaping, 213.

Horton, Rev. Edward Augustus, 30.

Hotten, John Camden, his Original Lists, cited, 356 n.

Hottinguer & Co., Paris, France, 81.

Houghton, John, set of forms for stock transactions published in a series edited by, 295; papers published under the title of Husbandry and Trade Improved, 295 n; his account and discussion of stock-jobbing in these papers, 296, 297, 298, 303, 304, 310; cited, 297 n.

How, J., 325.

Howard, Rev. Simeon, 38, 39, 40, 40 n, 44.

Howland, John, 11.

Hubbard, Thomas (H. C. 1721), 49, 231; letter from Franklin to, 233, 234; letter from J. Mico to, 234.

— Rev. William, his General History of New England, quoted, 8; cited, 164 n.

Hudson, Frederic, his Journalism in the United States, cited, 318 n.

— John Elbridge, LL.B., xix.

Hudson’s Bay Company, 291, 304.

Hugg. Samuel, 361.

Hull, Ann Binney, daughter of William. See Hickman.

— Eliza, daughter of William. See McLellan.

— Maria, daughter of William. See Campbell.

— Sarah (Fuller), wife of William, 308.

— Gen. William, 247 n, 409; remarks on Lafayette and, by H. H. Edes, 369; failure of the Government to support, 365; his court-martial and sentence, 366; his difficulty in obtaining official documents, 366, 306 n, 367; his vindication, 366, 366 n; his Memoirs of the Campaign of 1812, 366, 366 n, 368; dinner to, in Boston, 366, 366 n; his death, 366; Report of the Trial of, mentioned, 366 n; Defence of, mentioned, 366 n; M. Campbell and J. F. Clarke’s Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of, mentioned, 366 n, 367 n; letter to Lafayette from, 367, 368; letter from Lafayette to, mentioned, 367 n; Lafayette’s visit to, 368, 369, 369 n.

Hull, Mass., name changed from Nantasket to, 11; paper on the Naming of, mentioned, 12 n.

Hull, to lie at, meaning of the phrase, 11; confused with Hull, Mass., 11.

Hume, David, 304; his History of England, cited, 304 n.

Hunnewell, James Frothingham, a guest at the annual dinner, 150.

Hunt, Jane (Bethune), wife of William, 390 n.

— Jane Lee, daughter of William. See Weisse.

— Wellington La Garonne, his Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt, cited, 390 n.

— William, 390 n.

— family, Records and Traditions of the Families of Hunt and Weisse, compiled by Jane Lee Weisse, mentioned, 390 n; W. L. G. Hunt’s Genealogv of the Name and Family of Hunt, cited, 390 n.

Huntington, Ebenezer, 368.

— Rev. William Reed, D.D., xx.

Hurd, Hon. Francis William, A.M., xix.

Hutchinson, Anne (Marbury), wife of William, tablet in memory of, 26; at Annie’s Hoeck, Long Island, N. Y., 269.

— Edward (1613–1675), 353 n.

— Judge Edward (1678–1752), son of Elisha (1041–1717), 91 n.

— Elisha (1641–1717), 373.

— Thomas, Governor of Massachusetts, 49, 55; his History of Massachusetts, cited, 21 n, 355 n; quoted, 354 n, 355 n; his house sacked, 70 n; his Collection of Original Papers, cited, 111 n, 112 n, 113 n; addressers of, 139 n.

— William, son of Gov. Thomas, 55.

Hyde, Henry, second Earl of Clarendon, letter of E. Randolph to, 112, 113.

IMPERIAL Dictionary, its definition of a broadside, 316, 317.

Inches, John Chester, xviii.

Income Tax case, 61.

Indians, trouble with, in the Province of Maine, 372, 373; Scarborough attacked by, 375 n.

Ingersoll, Nathaniel, 17.

Ink, recipe for making black, 206, 207, 208; red, 207, 208; green, 207, 208, 209; golden, 207, 209; golden without gold, 207; blue, 208; for removing spots of, 217.

Innocent IV., Pope, 156 n.

Institut de France, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres, 414.

— Académie des Sciences, 414.

— Académie Française, 414.

Interstate commerce, prohibition of (1776–1777). See Embargo.

Interval (Intervale), an early form of the word, 8, 9, 12.

Ipswich, Mass., Land Bank founded in, 99; its resemblance to Land Bank scheme of 1740, 98; form of bill issued by, 99 n; County Court at, 152, 153 n.

Ireland, W. Wood’s patent to make pennies for, 204, 204 n, 205, 205 n.

Iron, recipe for preventing rust in, 213.

Ivory, recipe for whitening, 213; for dyeing, 213.

Izard, Alice (De Lancey), wife of Ralph, 241, 241 n.

— Ralph, 241, 241 n.

JACKSON, Judge Charles, 389.

— Francis, his History of Newton, cited, 56 n, 366 n.

— James (H. C. 1796), 80 n.

Jacobite Club, Harvard College, 30.

Jacobs, George, Jr., 13, 23.

— Margaret, accused of witchcraft, 23.

— Rebecca, wife of George, Jr., accused of witchcraft, 13, 23.

Jaffrey, George, 93 n.

Jamaica, West Indies, letters from, relating to Sedgwick’s expedition against, 1655–1656, communicated by F. L. Gay, 142.

James L, King of England, title of Baronet established by (1611), 259; patents and monopolies granted by, 304, 307, 308.

James II., King of England, 158; adherents of, 385, 386.

Jameson, John Franklin, LL.D., xx.

Jay, John, 241.

— Sarah Van Brugh (Livingston), wife of John, 241.

Jefferson, Thomas, line from a political satire on, 140 n.

Jeffries, Benjamin Joy, 392.

— John, 94 n.

Jenkins, Sir Lionel, letter of E. Randolph to, 113.

Jenks, Annis (Pulling), wife of John, 138.

— Annis Pulling, daughter of John. See Furness.

— Daniel, 138.

— George Washington, son of John, 138.

— John, 138.

— Mary Jenks (Dodge), wife of George Washington, 138.

— Mary (Masury), wife of Daniel, 138.

— Rebecca, daughter of Daniel. See Dodge.

Jewett, Isaac Appleton, his Memorial of Samuel Appleton, cited, 357 n.

Jocelyn, Henry, 371.

Johns Hopkins University Studies, cited, 353 n.

Johnson, Andrew, 106.

— Daniel, his part in the Rebellion of 1766, at Harvard College, 42, 42 n, 43, 46, 47, 48.

— Edward, 245; his Wonder-working Providence, cited, 245 n.

— Elisabeth, accused of witchcraft and discharged, 23.

— Elisabeth, Jr., convicted of witchcraft, 24.

— Marmaduke, 3.

— Samuel, A.M., xviii.

— William, 15.

— William, degree conferred by Harvard College on (1753), 412.

Joint Traffic Transportation case, 61.

Jones, Margaret, executed for witchcraft, 20, 21.

— Mary. See Bass.

— Thomas, his History of New York during the Revolutionary War, cited, 73 n.

Jonson, Ben, his reference to Pocahontas in the Staple of News, 303 n, 304 n; his part in the authorship of Eastward Ho!, 304 n; his definition of a projector in The Devil is an Ass, 306; some projects mentioned in this play, 307, 308, 309.

Jordan, Robert, 371.

Joyce Junior, 130 n.

Jumel, Stephen, litigation growing out of the will of, 61.

Juxon, Sarah. See Byfield.

— William, Bishop of London, 263, 384.

KEAYNE, Robert, 353 n.

Kellen, William Vail, LL.D., xix; elected a Resident Member, 180, 409; accepts, 190.

Kellineck, Hannah. See Franklin.

Kendal, Duchess of. See Schulenburg.

Kennebec River, Me., 183.

Kent, Abigail (Atherton), wife of Amos, 249.

— Amos, son of Joseph, portrait of, exhibited by H. H. Edes, 247; brief notice of, 249; his letter describing the origin of the Porcellian Club, 250–252.

— James, brother of Richard, Jr., 249.

— Jane (Moody), wife of Joseph, 249.

— Joseph, 249, 250, 251 n.

— Moody, son of Joseph, 249; letter to, regarding the Porcellian Club, 250–252.

— Richard, Jr., brother of James, 249.

Kent’s Island, Mass., 249.

Kettell, Samuel, his Specimens of American Poetry, cited, 252 n.

Keyn, Robert. See Keayne.

Kieft, William, his relations with Rev. F. Doughty, 269, 269 n, 270, 272.

King’s College, Cambridge, Eng., 194, 194 n.

Kitchenhatch, the word, 36, 36 n.

Kittredge, George Lyman, LL.D., xvii, xviii, 1, 12, 83, 107, 115, 143, 150, 151, 180, 190, 247, 252, 277, 329, 331, 407, 418; communicates letter of Rev. S. Lee, 32; letter of S. Sewall discovered by, 32 n; announces death of J. C. Carter, 60; relates anecdote of N. Bowditch and J. Gurnmere, 82; nominated and elected President, 149, 411; his service in preparing notes for the Treatise on Dyeing and Coloring, by B. Franklin (1650–1727), 206 n; pays tribute to memory of Gen. J. Wheeler, 247; of S. P. Langley and J. M. Peirce, 277; address of salutation from this Society to the American Philosophical Society written by, 330 n.

Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo, his Library of American History, cited, 9 n.

Knight, Thomas, 71.

Knightly, John, epitaph on, in St. Saviour’s Church, Southwark, London, 200, 201.

Knowlton, Hon. Marcus Perrin, LL.D., xvii, xviii; nominated and elected a Vice-President, 149, 411.

Knowlton, Quebec, Canada, 78 n.

LABOR, price of, regulated by Monopoly Act, 123; regulation of, recommended by Continental Congress, 124.

Labor legislation, modern, 134.

Lacey, Mary, Jr., accused of witchcraft, 24.

Lafayette, Marie Adrienne Françoise, Marquise de, 368.

— Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Dumotier, Marquis de, dinner given to, at Harvard College, 320, 321, 321 n, 325; degree of LL.D. conferred upon, 325; text of the diploma, 326, 327; lack of contemporary allusions to his visit to Cambridge, 327; accounts of his American tour, 327; epigram on, 327; Baron von Steuben’s opinion of his degree, 328; degrees conferred by other colleges upon, 328 n; remarks on Gen. Hull and, by H. H. Edes, 365–369; letter from Gen. Hull to, 367, 368; letter to Gen. Hull from, mentioned, 367 n; his visit to Gen. Hull, 368, 369, 369 n.

Lake, — , wife of Henry, executed for witchcraft, 21.

— Henry, 21.

Lamb, Martha Joanna Reade, 266, 267 n; her History of the City of New York, cited, 266 n.

Land, credit on security in, the underlying idea of early colonial banks, 85, 85 n, 86.

Land Bank, proposed (1714), in Massachusetts, 88, 88 n.

— Connecticut, organization of, 88.

— Ipswich, founding of, 99; resemblance between Land Bank Scheme of 1740 and, 99; form of bill issued by, 99 n.

— of 1740, petitions for charter of, 95; difference between notes proposed and notes issued by, 95, 96; forms of these notes, 96 n; use of term “lawful money” in, 96, 97; security for, 97; opposition to, 97, 98; closing of, 99.

Land Bank and Manufactory Scheme. See Land Bank of 1740.

Land Embargo, 120, 121. See also Embargo.

Land Security and Oil Patent, 286.

Landau, Bavaria, 202, 202 n.

Lake, Gardner Martin, A.B., xviii.

— George Martin, LL.D., xviii.

— William Coolidge, A.B., xix, 321 n; communicates The Book of Harvard, 33; his remarks on the history and contents of the book, 33–39; his communication on Harvard College and Franklin, 229–239, 412; exhibits water-color views of the College buildings, 324; his remarks on the College fence, 324, 325; on Lafayette’s visit to the College and the degree conferred upon him, 325–327; exhibits two letters from E. Holyoke to J. Trumbull, Jr., 416; text of the letters, 417, 418.

Langdon, Rev. Samuel, President of Harvard College, 231 n, 239 n, 416.

Langley, Samuel Pierpont, D.C.L., F. R. S., xx, 409; death of, announced, 277.

Lansdowne, Marquis of. See Petty-Fitzmaurice.

La Place, Pierre Simon, Marquis de, N. Bowditch’s translation of his Mécanique Céleste, mentioned, 78.

Lathrop, Hon. John, LL.D., xvii, xviii; elected a member of the Council for three years, 149.

La Tour, Charles de St. Etienne, Sieur de, 370.

Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 5, *15, 263.

Laurens, Henry, 415, 415 n.

Law, John, rise of the System of, 279, 280; character of the man, 280; his influence on the Regent of France, 280, 283; three classes of securities put on the market by, 281, 282; element of time contracts introduced by, 282; collapse of his Scheme, 281, 283; “puts” and “calls” introduced by, 286, 286 n, 287.

Lawful money, use of the term in bills issued by Land Bank of 1740, 96, 97.

Lawrence, Rev. Arthur, D.D., xix.

— Elizabeth, wife of William, Rev. F. Doughty’s contract for salarv burned by, 276 n.

— William (d. 1680), of Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., 276, 276 n.

Lawyers, attitude of Massachusetts colonists toward, 171, 172.

Lea, James Henry, 68, 68 n.

Leather, recipes for dyeing, 214.

Le Cain, Sarah. See Le Kain.

Lechford, Thomas, his Note-Book, cited, 261 n, 262 n, 264 n, 265 n; his support of the claims of Elizabeth (Doughty) Cole against her brother, 264; his account of the organization of the first church in Taunton, 265, 266, 267; his Plain Dealing, cited, 162 n, 266 n, 268 n; News from New England attributed to, 266 n.

Lechmere, Thomas, case of J. Winthrop against, 389.

Leddra, William, communication regarding, by J. Noble, 335–345; the last Quaker executed in Massachusetts, 335; arrested in Salem, 335; imprisoned in Plymouth Colony, 335, 336; refuses to leave the Colony, 336; agrees to depart, 337; warrant for his arrest in Salem, 337; imprisoned and executed in Boston, 337; his letter to the rulers and people of New England, 337–341; copy of the record of his trial, 343, 344.

Lederay. See Leddra, William.

Lee, Francis Henry, xix; elected a Resident Member, 145; accepts, 83; exhibits medallion portrait of Franklin, 240; exhibits portraits and relics of Washington, 259, 260.

— Mary Ann (Cabot), wife of Nathaniel Cabot, 389. See also Blanchard.

— Nathaniel Cabot, 389, 390.

— Rev. Samuel, letter to N. Grew from, communicated by G. L. Kittredge, 32.

Leeds, Herbert Corey, 186.

Lefavour, Henry, LL.D., xvii, xix; elected a Resident Member, 328, 409; accepts, 329; elected a member of the Council for three years, 412.

Le Kain, Sarah, 77, 77 n, 78 n.

Lenox Library, New York City, 141.

Lenthall, Rev. Robert, 268 n.

Leopold Joseph, Duke of Lorraine, 202 n, 203, 203 n.

Leslie, George Dunlop, his portrait of Franklin, 237 n.

Lethière, Guillaume, his portrait of Franklin, 240.

Letters, recipes for making silver, gold, and white, 215.

Leverett, George Vasmer, A.M., xix; presents Annual Report of Council, 143.

— John, Governor of Massachusetts, 384; tablet in memory of, 26.

— Sarah, daughter of John. See Byfield.

Lewes, John, 271 n.

Lewis, John, 260.

— Winslow, 80, 80 n.

Leynthall, Rev. Robert. See Lenthall.

Libraries, care of colonial newspapers in, 140.

Library of Congress, 141; information regarding publication of Madison’s correspondence in Record of Joint Committee of, 135; the Records quoted, 136, 137; W. C. Ford’s List of the Benjamin Franklin Papers in, cited, 241 n.

Light, — , 222.

Lincoln, Abraham, 103, 104.

— Benjamin, 253.

— Francis Henry, A.M., xviii, 108, 119; Report of a Committee of the Town of Hingham, and extracts from the Town Records communicated by, 115; text of the documents, 116–119.

— Solomon (H. C. 1857), 187.

— Waldo, A.B., xviii.

Linen, recipes for whitening and dyeing, 214.

Lisle, Bridget. See Usher.

Littlefield, George Emery, his Early Schools and School-books of New England, cited, 190 n.

Livingston, Sarah Van Brugh, daughter of Gov. William. See Jay.

— William, Governor of New Jersey, 362, 365.

Lloyd, William, Bishop of Worcester, 203, 203 n.

Locke, Rev. Samuel, President of Harvard College, 41 n.

Lodge, Henry Cabot, his Life and Letters of George Cabot, cited, 55 n.

London, Eng., wide-spread spirit of gambling in, 289; coffee-houses in, 297 n.

— British Museum, 32 n; Burney Collection of newspapers in, 316.

— ’Change Alley, centre of early stock speculations, 283, 284, 285, 287, 297, 304; these activities transferred from the Royal Exchange to, 288; Anatomy of Exchange Alley, quoted, 290, 290 n.

— Court of Hustings, 156, 157.

— Covent Garden Church-yard, 195.

— Garraway’s Coffee-House, 290, 297, 304.

— Great Queen Street, house occupied by Franklin in, 228 n.

— Jonathan’s Coffee-House, 297, 304.

— Lombard Street, 85 n.

— Royal Exchange, stock speculation transferred to ‘Change Alley from, 288.

— Royal Society, 32, 388, 389, 415.

— Royal Society of Surgeons, 78 n.

— Society of Antiquaries, 389, 415.

— Thavies Inn, 70, 70 n.

— Westminster Abbey, 201.

— Whitehall, 6.

London, Bishop of. See Juxon, William; Laud, William; Talbot, Thomas.

London and Bristol Adventurers for Colonizing Newfoundland, 261 n.

Long Ashton, Somersetshire, Eng., death of Rev. H. Caner at, 68.

— All Saints Church, Burial Register of, mentioned, 68; copy of entry in, 69.

Long Island, N. Y., B. F. Thompson’s History of, cited, 73 n.

Long Melford, Suffolk, Eng., rectory, 357, 357 n.

Lord, Arthur, A.B., xix; elected a Resident Member, 407; a guest at the annual dinner, 418.

Loring, Augustus Peabody, A.B., xix; appointed member of Auditing Committee, 115; Report of the Committee, 148.

— Charles Greely, A.M., xix.

Lorraine, Duke of. See Leopold Joseph.

Lothrop, Thornton Kirkland, A.M., xvii, xix.

Lott, Abraham, 73, 73 n.

Louis XIV., King of France, 282; called Bona Fide, 201; Epitaph on, 201–203; his marriage to the Infanta Maria Theresa, 202 n; fortifications of Dunkirk demolished by, 202 n; Turks favored by, 202 n; his marriage to Madame de Maintenon, 203 n.

Louis XVI., King of France, 242, 256.

Louis Napoleon, Prince, 391.

Louis Philippe, King of France, 391.

Louisburg, Cape Breton, Plan of the City and Fortress of, by P. Pelham and J. Smibert, mentioned, 74.

Love, Rev. William De Loss, Jr., his Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England, cited, 114 n.

Lovell, James, 229.

Lowell, Augustus, A.M., xix.

— Charles Russell, 392.

— Hon. Francis Cabot, A.B., xviii.

— John (H. C. 1760), 416.

— Hon. John, LL.D., xviii.

Lumber, exportation of, prohibited in Massachusetts, 1776, 120.

Luther, Martin, *14.

Lyman, Arthur Theodore, A.M., xix.

— Theodore, 391.

Lynde, Benjamin, Jr., 20.

Lynn, Mass., Rev. F. Doughty said to have preached at, 266 n.

MACAULAY, Thomas Babington, Baron, list of Companies in his History of England, 292 n, 295 n, 297, 298, 300; his History of England, cited, 292 n, 298 n; his indebtedness to Shadwell, 293; his quotations of East India stock, 300, 300 n; date assigned by, to origin of stock-jobbing, 309.

McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 78 n.

McIntire, Charles John, a guest at the annual dinner, 418.

McKean, Rev. Joseph, miniature of, exhibited by H. H. Edes, 247, 247 n; his portrait, painted from this miniature, presented to the Porcellian Club, 247, 248; his attempt to break up the Club, 249.

McLellan, Eliza (Hull), wife of Isaac, 368 n.

— Henry Blake, son of Isaac, his visit to Lafayette, 369.

— Isaac, 368, 368 n, 369.

— Sarah Ann Fuller, daughter of Isaac. See Read.

Madison, Dorothy (Payne), wife of James, manuscripts purchased by Congress from, 135.

— James, memoranda disclosing the name of the editor of his Letters and other Writings, 135–137; two collections of his papers published, 135; publication of his correspondence ordered by Congress, 136, 137; writes under the pseudonym of Helvetius, 137; execution of sentence of Gen. Hull remitted by, 366.

Maîcenas, 107.

Magnetism, 235.

Maine, photographic copy of Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1682 exhibited by H. H. Edes, 108; original copy of Proclamation of 1681 previously exhibited by H. H. Edes, 108; the latter previously unknown to historical scholars, 108, 114; text of the former, 109; Massachusetts offers to resign title-deeds of, 114; lists of judges and registers of probate in, 371 n.

— Council of Safety, 372.

— Council Records, cited, 371 n.

— Standing Council, 372.

Maine Historical Society, Collections of, cited, 70 n, 71 n, 371 n, 374 n, 375 n.

Maintenon, Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de, 203, 203 n.

Manchester, Vt., constitutional convention at (1786), 256 n.

Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., 395.

Mandeville, Rev. Giles Henry, his Flushing, Past and Present, quoted, 266 n, 267 n.

Manhattan, instructions from Cromwell to aid R. Sedgwick in an intended attack on the Dutch at, communicated by F. L. Gay, 141.

Manly, Capt. John, 72, 73 n.

Mansfield, Ct., 246.

Manufactures, certain bills of credit payable in, 96, 97, 99.

Marbie, recipe for gilding, 215.

Marbury, Anne. See Hutchinson.

Mardyk, France, 202, 202 n.

Maria. Theresa, Infanta of Spain, 202, 202 n.

Marignac, G. L. de, 241 n.

Mariner, Dialogue between a Married Man and a, 200.

Marion, Joseph, 96 n.

Marlborough, first Duke of. See Churchill.

Marmion, Shackerley, references to projectors in his Hollands League, 305, 306.

Marriage, a civil contract in the Massachusetts Colony, 162.

Marsh, Arthur Richmond, A.B., xix.

— Thomas, 39.

Marshall, Humphry, letter from Franklin to, exhibited by H. H. Edes, 227, 228 n; copy of his Arbustum Americanum exhibited by A. Matthews, 228, 228 n.

Marston, John, his part in the authorship of Eastward Ho!, 304 n.

— John, Jr., 23.

— Mary, wife of John, Jr., accused of witchcraft, 23.

Martin, Edward Sandford, 186.

Mary, Queen of Scots, 194, 194 n.

Mary II., Queen of England, 164, 289, 309, 386.

Maryland, a set of the Archives of, presented to this Society, 26; clergy of (1659), 273.

Maryland Historical Society, Fund Publications of, presented to this Society, 26.

Maseres, Francis, Franklin’s gift of two mathematical treatises by, to Harvard College, 237, 237 n.

Mason, Charles Frank, A.B., xix.

— Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Means. See Winthrop.

— Jeremiah, 395.

— Robert Means, 395; Memoir of, by R. C. Winthrop, Jr., 397; St. John’s Memorial Chapel, Cambridge, Mass., built by, 405.

Maspeth. See Newtown.

Massachusetts, questions of currency considered by, at Concord Convention (1779), 55 n; paper on Limitation of Prices in, 1776–1779, by A. McF. Davis, 119–134; methods used to regulate prices in, 120, 121, 134; instructions to delegates from, to Providence Convention, 120, 121; scale of prices adopted by Providence Convention accepted in, 121; instructions to delegates from, to Springfield Convention, 122; to New Haven Convention, 124; recommendation of Congress regarding limitation of prices not acted on in, 133; food-supply of, exhausted by demands of army, 133; calls in her share of Continental bills, 134.

— Archives, portions of, used in final volume of Records of Court of Assistants, 83; documents regarding Blackwell’s Bank in, 86, 87; attempt to incorporate Boston (1714) not referred to in, 354 n; cited, 86 n, 101 n, 311, 314, 319 n, 337 n, 353 n.

— Assistants, Court of, 271; Records of, typographical characters cast for, 8; no case of witchcraft found in (1630–1673, 1683–1692), 20, 23; witchcraft cases found in (1673–1633), 21, 22; extracts from advance sheets of last volume of, read by J. Noble, 83; character of contents of this volume, 83, 84; cited, 21 n, 22 n, 152 n, 265 n, 379 n; probate jurisdiction of, 152, 154 n; arbitrary powers of, 173, 174; decision of, in case of J. Scottow v. S. Wheelwright, 378 n, 379 n; matters relating to William Leddra in third volume of, 335; record of Leddra’s trial taken from, 343, 344.

— Colony, Rev. J. Davenport’s share in founding, 5, *15; paper on Curious Features of Some of the Early Notes or Bills used as a Circulating Medium in, by A. McF. Davis, 84–101; first emission of bills by, 87; form of these bills, 87, 87 n, 88; subsequent changes in the form, 88, 94; Land Bank proposed in, 88; efforts to reduce emission of paper currency in, 89, 90; later bills modelled on those first issued by, 101; attitude of E. Randolph toward the Colony and her agents, 111, 111 n, 112, 113, 114; offers to resign title-deeds of Maine, 114; paper by H. E. Ware, Was the Government of the Massachusetts Colony a Theocracy?, 151–180; civil authority in, over matters of probate, 151, 152, 153, 156, 157, 158, 159, 162; over questions of marriage, divorce, etc., 162, 163; over churches and clergy, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 174, 175, 176, 177; self-government in, 152; presses used in, for preservation of public documents, 153 n, 154 n; action in, regarding recommendations of the Commissioners of the United Colonies, 155; status of the clergy in, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 169; limitation of suffrage in, 164, 165, 171; arguments in support of the theocratic theory, 163, 164, 171; fear of ecclesiastical domination over probate matters in, 164, 165; compulsory church attendance in, 165; legal advisers of, 172; problems confronting, 173, 174; limited application of Congregational principles in churches of, 174, 175; no definite creed adopted by churches of, 176, 177; provision for education by, 176, 177, 177 n; wisdom of the scheme of church administration in, 178; comprehensive system of government built up in, 179; some memorial to the founders of, recommended, 179.

— Colony Charter, 171, 172, 174, 312; Quo Warranto proceedings against, 114; authority of the General Court under, 152; vacating of, 158, 318; Increase Mather’s effort to procure a new charter, 312, 319.

— Colony Records, typographical characters cast for, 8; case of Goody Glover does not appear in, 21; quoted, 110, 113, 114, 352, 353 n, 375 n; cited, 110 n, 114 n, 152 n, 153 n, 154 n, 155 n, 167 n, 168 n, 181 n, 265 n, 271 n, 343 n, 352 n, 353 n, 357 n, 370 n, 374 n, 375 n, 378 n.

— Constitution of 1780, provision in, regarding matters of probate, 161; regarding public religious requirements, 177, 178.

— Council, its treatment of Rev. J. Woodbridge’s bank theory, 86; of J. Blackwell’s scheme, 86; government of the Colony assumed by, 158; attempt to incorporate Boston (1714), not referred to in Records of, 354 n; Records of, quoted, 384; cited, 384 n.

— County Courts, development and probate jurisdiction of, 152, 152 n, 153 n, 155; function of, regarding the clergy, 167.

— Court Records, Act of Emission of first Colony bills quoted from, 87 n; attempt to incorporate Boston (1714) not referred to in, 354 n.

— Election Sermons, 1.

— Executive Council Records, mentioned, 322 n.

— General Court, Resolves of, cited, 120 n, 121 n, 122 n; Act to prevent Monopoly and Oppression passed by (1777), 121; this Act amended, 121; difficulty of enforcing the Act, 122; the Act repealed, 122, 124; this Act further considered by Springfield Convention, 122; refuses to accept scale of prices reported by New Haven Conference, 124, 125; Act against Monopoly and Forestalling passed by (1779), 126, 127: lays embargo on exportation of provisions, 128, 132; Hartford Convention (1779) instigated by, 132; authority of, under Colony Charter, 152; associates of County Courts chosen by, 153 n; authority of, in theological matters, 167, 176; arbitrary powers of, 173, 174; Manual of, cited, 266 n; action of, in suit brought by Elizabeth Cole, 271; petition of J. Scottow to, 374–377; answer of the Court, 377, 378, 378 n.

— House of Representatives, 166; Journals of, cited, 166 n.

— Province, Some Documentary Fragments touching the Witchcraft Episode of 1692 in, communicated by J. Noble, 12–14; text of the documents, 15–26; land bank proposed in (1714), 88, 88 n; proposed issue of bills of credit (1734), 92; form of bill proposed, 92 n; law against passage of New Hampshire bills in, 93, 94; relation between old tenor and new tenor bills of, 94, 95; form of the new tenor bill, 94 n; last two forms of bills issued by, 100, 100 n; these modelled on the Colony bill, 101; proposed bill of 1744, 101, 101 n; judges of probate in, 159, 160, 161; authority of civil courts over theological matters in, 167, 171, 174; statute of, relating to education and religion, 176; change from Colony to, 349, 355.

— Province Charter, 171; provision for matters of probate in, 159; liberty of conscience allowed by, 164 n.

— Province Laws, cited, 18 n, 70 n, 93 n, 100 n, 101 n, 118 n, 119 n, 120 n, 121 n, 122 n, 123 n, 124 n, 125 n, 126 n, 128 n, 132 n, 133 n, 134 n, n, 383 n, 413 n; value of A. C. Goodell’s notes to, 134 n; provision in, regarding decisions on theological matters, 167, 171.

— Special Court of Oyer and Terminer, 20.

— State Library, 141, 313 n.

— Superiour Court of Judicature, 343; Records of, cited, 16 n, 19 n; cases of witchcraft in, 23–26.

— Vice Admiralty, Court of, constitution of, 379; creation of, 379, 380; jurisdiction of, 379, 381 n; first Judge of, 380, 381, 382; W. Winthrop’s commission as Judge of, 381, 381 n; his removal from the office, 382, 383; his successors in the office, 383; text of the Oath subscribed by Winthrop, 384–386.

Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society 29.

Massachusetts Historical Society, 3, 141, 163 n, 389; estate formerly occupied by, 71 n; memorial of, to Congress, regarding the frigate Constitution, 277; services of R. C. Winthrop, Jr., to, 396, 397; his bequest to, 406; Collections of, cited, 4 n, 6 n, 113 n, 182 n, 235 n, 239 n, 265 n, 356 n, 357 n, 358 n, 374 n, 380, 380 n, 381, 382, 382 n, 383, 384 n; quoted, 380, 381, 382, 383; Proceedings of, cited, 7 n, 70 n, 71 n, 74 n, 81 n, 86 n, 89 n, 160 n, 182 n, 362 n, 386 n, 397 n, 402 n, 413 n.

Massachusetts Medical Society, Catalogue of its Officers, etc., cited, 81 n.

Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, cited, 322 n.

Masury, Mary. See Jenks.

Materialism, J. C. Carter’s protest against, 66, 67.

Mather, Rev. Cotton, son of Rev. Increase, 5, 230 n, 318; his Johannes in Eremo, quoted, 1; cited, 2 n; his name for J. Davenport, 1; his use of Davenport’s Election Sermon, 2; his Magnalia, cited, 2 n, 6 n, 274 n; quoted, 6; his statement regarding Rev. N. Eaton, 274.

— Rev. Increase, son of Rev. Richard, 318; letters of J. Richards to, 113; his efforts to procure a new charter for the Massachusetts Colony, 312, 319.

—Rev. Richard, 265.

— Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1723), 230 n.

Matthews, Albert, A.B., ii, xvii, xix, 47 n, 68, 227 n, 240, 412 n; appointed Editor of Publications, 1, 144; his remarks on the Proper Editing of old Documents and Books, 7–12; reads passage from writings of, and All Tories Together, a skit on, T. Pickering, 138–140; exhibits autograph letter of J. Adams, 180; reads paper on the term Pilgrim Fathers, 180; exhibits copy of H. Marshall’s Arbustum Americanum, 228; calls attention to early printed allusion to Franklin, 228; exhibits photograph of diploma conferring degree of A.M. on Franklin, 239; remarks by, on Washington’s Harvard diploma, 252; on A New Song, 252; on an article attributed to Martha Washington, 252, 253; his paper on the Celebrations of Washington’s Birthday, 253–258; exhibits facsimile of The Present State of the New-English Affairs, 310; his remarks on this alleged Boston Newspaper of 1689, 310–320; his remarks on Lafayette’s visit to America, 327, 328; makes communications on behalf of W. C. Ford, 345; his remarks on attempts to incorporate Boston, 352–356.

— Nathan (H. C. 1875), 185.

Mauduit, Jasper, letter to Rev. A. Eliot from, 236.

Maule, James, fourth Earl of Panmure, 193, 193 n.

Mayflower, the ship, 11.

Mayhew, Rev. Jonathan, 230 n.

Mead, Anna Maria Campbell (Hickman), wife of Rev. Zachariah, 369 n. See also Chalmers; Otis.

— Rev. Zachariah, 369 n.

Meade, Rev. William, Bishop of Virginia, 274.

Meat, to keep flies away from, 221.

Mecom, Jane (Franklin), 191 n, 206 n.

Medford, Mass., 153 n.

Mellick, Andrew D, Jr., his Story of an Old Farm, cited, 73 n.

Mendon, Mass., 246.

Menzeis, John, 383.

Merchandise lumber, 85; meaning of the term, 85 n.

Merchant Adventurers of England, restraint imposed upon members of, 278, 302; relations of, with the East India Company, 301; power of, to levy assessments, 301, 302; transfers of interest in, 302; common seal adopted by, 302.

Merchants’ Notes of 1733, 89 n; cause of their emission, 89, 90; plan to restore specie payment by means of, 90, 91; form of the notes, 90 n; their silver value, 91; provision for payment and renewal of, 91, 91 n; their disappearance from the market, 91; their effect on the value of silver, 92; their failure to accomplish expected results, 92.

Meriden, Warwickshire, Eng., 264 n.

Mespachtes, Indian name for Newtown. See Newtown.

Mespat settlement. See Newtown, Long Island.

Metals, recipe for gilding, 216; transmutation of, 284 n.

Metcalfe, Walter Charles, his Visitations of Suffolk, cited, 356.

Michelet, Jules, 104.

Mico, Joseph, letter to T. Hubbard from, 234.

Middlesex County, Mass., towns belonging to Court of, 153 n.

— Probate Files, cited, 79 n.

Mighell, Bethulia, wife of Thomas, 245 n.

— Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas. See Batt; Hitchcock.

— Thomas, 245 n.

Mignet, François Auguste Marie, 391.

Miller, Rev. Ebenezer, 230 n.

Milman, Rev. Henry Hart, 391.

Milton, John, 105.

Milton Hill, Mass., early celebrations of Washington’s birthday at, 253, 254, 255, 257.

Ministers. See Clergy.

Minns, Thomas, xix, 78 n; gives an account of Pearl Street and its residents (1800–1850), 82; appointed member of Auditing Committee, 115; makes communication in behalf of A. P. C. Griffin, 135; signs report of Auditing Committee, 148; his paper on Josiah Franklin’s estate in Boston, 243–246; Franklin medal exhibited by, 246.

Minority, acquiescence of, in American colonies, 175.

Mississippi Bubble. See Law, John.

Missouri Transportation case, 61.

Mollineux, William, 130.

Moinpesson, Roger, 383.

Monopolies, granted by Elizabeth and James I., 304, 304 n.

Monopoly Act, passed in Massachusetts, (1777), 121; amended, 121; difficulty in enforcing, 122; repeal of, 122, 124; further considered by the Springfield Convention, 122; recommendation of the Convention regarding, 123; second Act, passed (1779), 126, 127.

Montgomery, — , son of Dorcas, 241, 241 n.

— Dorcas, 241, 241 n.

Montreal, Canada, introduction of practice of homoeopathy into, 78 n.

Moody, Lady Deborah, 269.

— Jane. See Kent.

Moore, Abel, 250; his tavern in Cambridge, 250 n.

— Rev. George Foot, a guest at the annual dinner, 150.

Morea. Duke of. See Morosini, Francesco.

Morgan, Edwin Denison, 186.

— John Tyler, 62.

Morosini, Francesco, surnamed Il Peloponnesiaco, 203, 203 n.

Morris, Hannah (Franklin), wife of John, 195, 195 n.

— John, 195, 195 n.

— John Emery, his Felt Genealogy, cited, 183 n.

Morse, — , 139.

— Elizabeth, accusation of witch-craft against, 21; reprieve of, 21, 22.

— Samuel Finley Breese, photographs of portraits by, exhibited by D. R. Slade, 74.

Morton, Hon. JamesMadison, LL.D., xix.

— Thomas, C. F. Adams’s Introduction to Prince Society’s edition of his New English Canaan, quoted, 7; cited, 7 n; Morton’s text quoted, 10, 11; cited, 11 n.

Moryson, Fynes, his Itinerary, quoted, 11; cited, 11 n.

Mugg, Indian chief, 376 n.

Munsell, Joel, 312, 315 n, 320.

Murdock, Harold, exhibition of autograph letter of J. Adams owned by, 180.

Murray, James Augustus Henry, 8, 10, 10 n, 317.

— John, his Handbook for Travellers in Northamptonshire and Rutland, cited, 194 n.

— Patience, 70, 70 n.

Murrey. See Murray.

Musgrave, Philip, 193.

Muskett, Joseph James, his Suffolk Manorial Families, cited, 356; quoted, 357.

Mystery of the new fashioned Goldsmiths or Bankers discovered, mentioned, 300.

NAHANT, Mass., ownership and title of, set forth in last volume of Records of Court of Assistants, 84.

Nantasket, Mass., name formerly applied to Hull, 11.

Napoleon, Louis, Prince. See Louis Napoleon.

Nash, Nathaniel Cushing, A.M., xix.

National Municipal League, 63.

Neal, Capt. — , 274.

Neale, Hugh, 273 n.

— family, 273 n. See also O’Neal family.

Nebraska Rate case, 61.

Neill, Rev. Edward Duffiefd, his Virginia Carolorum, cited, 274 n.

Nele. See Neal.

Nelson, William, 311, 317, 358 n, 359 n, 360.

Nelson (formerly Packersfield), N. H., 322 n, 323.

Nepperhaem. See Yonkers, N. Y.

Neuilly, France, 391.

New Amsterdam. See New York City.

Newbury, Mass., 22, 153 n; Annis family of, 227 n; Coffin’s History of, cited, 227 n.

Newcomb, Capt. Andrew, 181.

— Grace, daughter of Capt. Andrew. See Butler.

— John Bearse, his Genealogical Memoir of the Newcomb Family, cited, 181 n.

— Silas, 361, 362 n.

— Simon, D.C.L., F.R.S., xx; a delegate to the Franklin celebration in Philadelphia, 33.

Newell, Eunice. See Quincy.

New England, Rev. W. Hubbard’s General History of, quoted, 8; executions for witchcraft in, 21; sensitiveness in, regarding some parts of its history, 102; struggle in, against rise in prices, 119; committees from States of, confer at Providence, 120, 121; Monopoly Act confined to, 122; Gov. Stuyvesant’s alleged purpose to use the Indians against, 272.

New England Historic Genealogical Society, 29, 141; manuscript of the Book of Harvard given to, 43 n; manuscript record of Davenport family in library of, 226 n; services of R. C. Winthrop, Jr., to, 396; his bequest to, 406.

New England Historical and Genealogical Register, cited, 12 n, 181 n, 182 n, 195 n, 226 n, 227 n, 240 n, 353 n, 357 n, 366 n, 374 n, 386 n; Consolidated Index of, 396.

New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, M. Kent’s bequest to, 249.

New Hampshire Historical Society, Collections of, cited, 312, 312 n, 315.

New Haven, Ct., Rev. J. Davenport goes to Boston from, 4; States represented in Convention at (1778), 124; scale of prices adopted by the Convention, 124.

— First Church, Rev. J. Davenport’s pastorate at, 5, 102.

New Haven Colony, disturbed relations between Hartford and, 6; action in, regarding recommendations of the Commissioners of the United Colonies, 154.

New Haven Colony Historical Society, Papers of, cited, 6 n.

New Jersey, Proceedings and Address of the Convention of Delegates to the People of, cited, 363 n.

— Archives, cited, 227 n, 311 n, 362 n.

— Book of Commissions, cited, 359 n.

— Chancery Office, General Index of Masters and Examiners in Chancery, cited, 363 n.

— Council and General Assembly, Minutes and Proceedings of, cited, 359 n, 360 n, 362 n, 363 n.

— General Assembly, Minutes of, cited, 362 n.

— Probate Records, cited, 73 n.

— Provincial Congress, Journal of, quoted, 227 n; Minutes of, quoted, 359 n.

— State Library, 360 n.

New Jersey Company, 278, 298, 303.

New London, Ct., Land Bank organized by merchants of, 88.

New London Society United for Trade and Commerce, 88; form of bills issued by, 88, 89, 89 n; brief career of, 89.

New Netherland. See New York.

Newport, R. I., certain results of military activities at, 133; Rev. P. Doughty at, 268, 268 n.

News-letters, 314.

New Song, A, authorship of, 252.

Newspapers, Check-List of Boston, 1704–1780, communicated by A. Matthews, 140; this list originally compiled by Mary F. Ayer, 140, 141; ground covered by, 140, 141; printing of, authorized, 141, 141 n; to be published as Vol. IX. of the Publications of this Society, 408; essential characteristics of, 316, 317; in the Burney Collection of the British Museum, 316; order against printing of (1689), 319.

New Style, adopted by Corporation of Harvard College (1753), 413.

Newton, Mass., Vital Records, cited, 56 n; Jackson’s History of, cited, 56 n, 366 n.

Newtown, Long Island, N. Y., formerly Mespat, 260 n, 267 n; grant to Rev. F. Doughty at, 269, 269 n, 270, 270 n; Indian attack on, 269; Doughty’s daughter fails to recover property in, 273, 273 n.

Newtowne, Mass., County Court, 153 n. See also Cambridge.

New York, represented in Springfield Convention (1777), 122; provision for transportation of flour from, 132; not represented at Philadelphia Convention, 133; Remonstrance of New Netherland (1049), 269 n, 270 n; Documents relative to the Colonial History of the State of, cited, 270 n, 272 n, 273 n, 382 n.

— Commission appointed to draft a constitutional provision for the administration of municipal governments in the State of New York, 61, 62.

— Constitutional commission for framing a judicial system, 62.

— State Historian, Annual Report of, cited, 276 n.

New York City, early celebrations of Washington’s birthday in, 254, 255; song written for one of these occasions, 254, 255; Rev. F. Doughty said to have founded first Presbyterian church in, 270; Records of New Amsterdam, cited, 272 n.

— Bar Association, 63.

— Century Association, 63.

— Chamber of Commerce, Committee of Fifteen appointed by, 63.

— Down Town Club, 63.

— Harvard Club, 63.

— National Academy of Design, 63.

— New England Society in the City of New York, 63.

— Union League Club, 63.

— University Club, 30, 63.

New York Historical Society, 141 n.

Nicene Council, first, *14.

Nichols, Robert, killed by Indians, 375 n.

Nicholson, Jane, wife of Joseph, 343.

— Joseph, 343.

Nini, Jean Baptiste, his medallion portrait of Franklin, exhibited, 240.

Nipperha. See Yonkers, N. Y.

Noble, John, LL.D., ii, vi, xvii, xviii, 26, 331, 379; Some Documentary Fragments touching the Witchcraft Episode of 1692, communicated by, 12–14; his tribute to J. C. Carter, 60–67; reads extracts from final volume of Records of Court of Assistants, 83; nominated and elected Corresponding Secretary, 149, 411, 412; his communication regarding William Leddra, 335–345.

— John, Jr., A.B., xix.

Norfolk County, Mass., 83; Court of, 153 n, 154 n.

North, Frederick, Lord North, second Earl of Guilford, 254.

Northampton, Mass., 21.

Northampton County, Va., 273 n, 274.

Northern Securities Company, 134.

Northumberland, Earl of. See Percy.

Northwest Passage, assessment laid for the voyage of discovery to, 302.

Notes and Queries, cited, 290 n.

Noyes, James Atkins, A. B., xix, 78 n.

O’CALLAGHAN, Edmund Bailey, 270, 270 n; his History of New Netherland, cited, 273 n.

O’Conor, Charles, 61.

O’Donoghue, Henry O’B., 68.

Oedenburg, Hungary, 79 n.

Oil, recipe for removing spots made by, 216; patent for extracting it from poppies, 284, 284 n; from radishes, 285, 285 n, 286 n; from beech, 286 n.

Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire, Eng., 263 n.

Oldsbury, Gloucestershire, Eng., 261, 261 n.

Oliver, Andrew (d. 1774), 55, 98 n.

— Peter (H. C. 1730), 55 n.

— Peter (H. C. 1769), son of Andrew (d. 1774), 55.

Olney, Mary Sigourney (Butler), wife of Peter Butler, 183.

— Peter Butler, 183.

— Hon. Richard, LL.D., xviii, 183, 185.

Onderdonk, Henry, Jr., his Queens County in Olden Times, cited, 272 n; quoted, 276 n.

O’Neal, Hugh, 273.

— James, 273 n.

— Mary (Doughty) van der Donck, wife of Hugh, recovers property in Yonkers, 273, 373 n.

— family, 273 n. See also Neale family.

Ordinary, chief functionary in matters of probate, 156, 156 n, 157 n.

Orleans, Philippe, Due d’, Regent of France, 280.

Ormond, Duke of. See Butler, James.

Orne, Azor, 129.

Osgood, John, 24.

— Mary, wife of John, accused of witchcraft, 24.

— Samuel, delegate to Philadelphia Convention (1780), 133.

Otis, Anna Maria Campbell (Hickman), wife of George Alexander, Jr., 369 n. See also Chalmers; Mead.

— George Alexander, Jr., 369 n.

— James, 139 n.

— Samuel Allyne, 418.

Oxford, Mass., 183; Daniels’s History of, cited, 182 n, 183 n.

— Vital Records of, cited, 182 n, 183 n.

Oxford Dictionary, 10, 199; cited, 290 n; its definition of a broadside, 317.

Oxnard, Edward, 57.

PACKERSFIELD (now Nelson), N. H., 322 n, 323.

Paige, Rev. Lucius Robinson, his History of Cambridge, cited, 21 n, 46 n, 55 n, 56 n, 250 n, 322 n, 398 n.

Paine, Nathaniel, A.M., xviii.

— Robert Treat (H. C. 1749), 416.

Palfrey, Rev. John Gorham, his History of New England, quoted, 110, 111, 158, 159, 337; cited, 110 n, 111 n, 113 n, 159 n, 162 n, 163 n, 337 n.

Palgrave, — , his epitaph in Westminster Abbey, 201.

Palmer, Arthur, 71.

Pamphlet, bibliographical meaning of the term, 313 n.

Panmure, Earl of. See Maule.

Paper money, Law’s Scheme and, 280, 281, 283. See also Bills of credit; Currency.

Parchment, recipe for gilding, 216.

Parham, William, patent granted to, 308 n.

Paris, France, Bering Sea Tribunal meets in, 62; some members of the American colony in (1782), 241; first stock-market in, 279.

— Rue Quincampoix, centre of speculation (1719–1720), 280.

Park, Rev. Charles Edwards, a guest at the annual dinner, 418.

Parker, Rev. Henry Ainsworth, A.M., xix, 180, 356; his paper on the Rev. Francis Doughty, 261–276; appointed on Nominating Committee, 329.

— Hon. Herbert, A.B., xix; elected a Resident Member, 386, 409.

— Joel, 394.

— John, 15.

— William, 266.

Parkman, Francis, LL.D., F.S.A., xviii, 8.

Parsons, Charles Chauncy, 251, 252.

— Hugh, 21.

— Mary, wife of Hugh, executed for witchcraft, 21.

— Mary, of Northampton, accused and acquitted of witchcraft, 21.

— Chief-Justice Theophilus (H. C. 1769), his statement regarding the creation of probate courts, 160.

— Theophilus (H. C. 1815), son of Chief-Justice Theophilus, 394.

Parton, James, his Life and Times of Franklin, cited, 191 n.

Pass-bills, nature of, 85.

Pastree, Margaret, 19, 19 n, 20 n.

Patents, granted by Elizabeth, James I. and Charles I., 304, 304 n, 307, 308, 308 n.

Patuxent, Md., 273.

Payne, Dorothy, daughter of John. See Madison.

— Capt. Edward, 356.

Payson, Rev. Phillips, 416.

Peabody, Rev. Andrew Preston, 66.

— Stephen, 54, 54 n.

Peace Convention, Trenton, N. J. (1812), 363; Proceedings and Address of the Convention of Delegates to the People of New Jersey, cited, 363 n.

Peale. Charles Wilson, 259 n.

— Rembrandt, his portrait of Washington engraved by D. Edwin, 259.

Pearson, Rev. Eliphalet, 77, 240 n.

— Margaret Bromfield, daughter of Rev. Eliphalet. See Blanchard.

— Sarah (Bromfield), wife of Rev. Eliphalet, 77, 240, 240 n; letter from H. Bromfield to, 75, 76; letter to H. Bromfield from, 76.

Peel, Sir Robert, 391.

Peirce, Benjamin (H. C. 1801), his History of Harvard University, cited, 35 n, 49, 57.

— Benjamin (H. C. 1829), son of Benjamin (H. C. 1801), 334.

— James Mills, A.M., son of Benjamin (H. C. 1829), xviii, 408; death of, announced, 277; reminiscences of, by A. S. Hill, 331–335; his early interest in mathematics, 331, 332; his appearance in college theatricals, 332; his course in the Divinity School, 332, 333; his services to Harvard College, 332, 333; to the Graduate School, 332, 333; his progressive efforts in educational matters, 333; his parents, 334; his diversions, 334; his reserve, 334; his characteristics, 334, 335.

— Joshua, 93 n.

— Sarah Hunt, wife of Benjamin (H. C. 1829), 334.

Peirsou, Peter, imprisoned in Plymouth Colony, 335, 336; refuses to leave the Colouy, 336; agrees to depart, 337.

Pelham, Mary (Singleton) Copley, third wife of Peter, Jr., 76.

— Peter (d. 1751), Copley probably instructed by, 74; his associations with Smibert, 74.

Pell, Maria. See Grigg.

Peloponnesiaco, II. See Morosini, Francesco.

Pemberton, Rev. Ebenezer, 49, 181, 231 n.

— Thomas, 4.

Pendleton, William, 77 n.

Penobscot, Me., papers relating to the capture of, by R. Sedgwick, communicated by F. L. Gay, 141.

Penn, William, 291.

Pennsylvania, Whiskey Insurrection in, 365.

— Historical Society of, 141 n.

— University of, degree conferred upon Lafayette by, 328 n.

Pennsylvania Company, 278, 298, 304.

Pepperrell, Sir William, his copy of P. Barclay’s Persuasive to the People of Scotland, exhibited, 180.

Pepys, Samuel, 295 n.

Percy, Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland, 263, 264.

Perkins, Jacob, medallic portrait of Washington by, 260 n.

— John, 156 n.

— Rev. John Carroll, D.D., xx; elected a Corresponding Member, 59, 145; accepts, 60.

Permits, subscription. See Globe permits; Sail-cloth permits.

Peter the Great, 193, 193 n.

Peterborough Cathedral, 194, 194 n.

Peteks, Hon. John Andrew, LL.D., xx.

— Richard, 328.

Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry, third Marquis of Lansdowne, 391.

Phelps, Hon. Edward John, LL.D., xx, 62.

— Nicholas, 335.

Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard Chapter, 27, 63, 403 n.

Philadelphia, Pa., scale of prices adopted in (1779), 127; celebration of Washington’s birthday in (1789), 257, 258.

— Christ Church, burial-grounds of, 226, 226 n; Registers of, quoted, 227; cited, 227 n; records of Davenport family in Registers of, 359 n.

— Convention, 1780, recommended by Hartford Convention (1779), 132; committee to prepare plan for limiting prices proposed by, 133; adjournment of, 133.

Philip, Duke of Orleans (1640–1701), 202 n.

Philip V., King of Spain, 203, 203 n.

Philips, John, pirate, 194.

Phillips, Timothy, 16.

Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. See under Andover.

Philmore, John, 194.

Phinny, Edmund, 322 n.

Phipps, Sarah. See Hastings.

Phips, Sir William, Governor of Massachusetts, 379; expedition against Canada under, 318.

Pickering, John, 78, 79.

— Lucia, sister of Timothy. See Dodge.

— Timothy (H. C. 1763), silhouette of, presented by H. H. Furness, 138; remarks on, by H. H. Edes, 138; passage from his writings and skit on, read by A. Matthews, 138–140.

Pickering Genealogy, cited, 138 n.

Pictures, recipe for refreshing, 216.

Pierce, Richard, 310, 314, 317.

Piper, William Taggard, Ph.D., xix, 180.

Pirates, 194, 194 n.

Pitch, recipe for removing, 216.

Pitt, William, first Earl of Chatham, Franklin presents bust of, to Harvard College, 236, 236 n.

Pitts, James, 49.

Placing, custom of, at Harvard College, 41, 41 n, 55 n.

Plimpton, George Arthur, A.B., xx; a guest at the annual dinner, 150; unique copy of T. Dilworth’s New Guide to the English Tongue, published by Franklin, owned by, 190.

Plumer, William, Governor of New Hampshire, autograph letter of J. Adams to, exhibited, 180.

Plymouth, Mass., 193.

Plymouth Colony, probate jurisdiction in, 153, 154; action in, regarding recommendations of the Commissioners of the United Colonies, 155; towns included in Patent of, 265, 267; fines for support of the officers of, 267, 268.

— Colony Records, typographical characters cast for, 8; cited, 155 n, 267 n, 268 n, 272 n, 336 n.

— General Court, Rev. F. Doughty fined by, 267.

Pocahontas, references to, by B. Jonson and R. Brathwaite, 303 n, 304 n.

Poole, William Frederick, 21.

Pope, Rev. Charles Henry, his Pioneers of Massachusetts, cited, 356 n.

Poppies, oil from, 284, 284 n.

Port Mahon, Minorca, 191, 191 n.

Port Royal, Nova Scotia, papers relating to the capture of, by R. Sedgwick, communicated by F. L. Gay, 141.

Porter, Rev. Edward Griffin, A.M., xviii.

Portsmouth, N. H., company to issue bills of credit formed in, 93; law against passage of these bills in Massachusetts, 93; form of note issued by, 93 n; difference between note proposed and note issued by, 96; King George I. proclaimed at, 355 n.

— Athenaeum, 74 n.

Portsmouth, R. I., 268 n.

Post, Hannah, accused of witchcraft, 24.

— Mary, convicted of witchcraft, 24.

— Susannah, accused of witchcraft, 25.

Potter, William, his Key to Wealth, mentioned, 84.

Povey, Thomas, Lt.-Governor of Massachusetts, 382 n.

Pownall, Thomas, Governor of Massachusetts, 160.

Prentiss, Hepzibah. See Foster.

Prescott, Charles Waldo, 228 n.

Present State of the New-English Affairs (1689), facsimile of, exhibited by A. Matthews, 310; his remarks on this alleged Boston Newspaper, 310–320; heading of, 311; arguments for considering it as a broadside, 311, 313 n, 317, 320, 320 n; for calling it a newspaper. 311, 312, 314, 315; reprints of, 311, 311 n, 312, 313; contents of, 318, 319.

Presses, for preservation of public documents, 153 n, 154 n.

Pretender, the Old. See Stuart, James Francis Edward.

Price, Mrs. — , 241.

— Richard, 256, 256 n, 415, 415 n.

Prices, regulation of, in Hingham (1779), 116–119, 134; paper on Limitation of, in Massachusetts (1776–1779), by A. McF. Davis, 119–134; causes of rise in, 119; methods used to regulate, 119, 120; scale of, fixed by Providence Convention, 121; repeal of laws regulating, recommended by Springfield Convention, 123; Continental Congress recommends regulation of, 124, 133; New Haven Convention reports scale of, 124; repeal of laws regulating, recommended by Continental Congress, 125; attempt to regulate, in Philadelphia, 127; in Boston, 127; action of Concord Convention regarding, 129, 131; limitation of, recommended by Hartford Convention, 132; committee to prepare plan for limitation of, proposed at Philadelphia Convention, 133.

Priestley, Rev. Joseph, copy of his History and Present State of Discoveries relating to Vision, Light, and Colours, given to Harvard College by Franklin, 238, 238 n.

Prince, Rev. Thomas, 2, 193, 193 n.

Prince Society, its edition of Morton’s New English Canaan, 7, 10; Publications of, cited, 111 n.

Princeton College, degree conferred upon Lafayette by, 328 n.

Print, recipes for refreshing, 216, 220.

Probate, authority over matters of, in England, 151, 156, 156 n, 157 n, 162, 163, 173; in the Massachusetts Colony, 151–162; jurisdiction of Court of Assistants over, 152, 154 n; of County Courts, 152, 152 n, 153 n, 154 n; recommendations of Commissioners of the United Colonies regarding, 154, 155; similarity between colonial and present methods regarding, 155, 156; transfer of jurisdiction over, in England, 156 n, 157, 157 n, 163; Andros assumes authority over, 158, 159; administration of, under the Province, 159, 160, 161; records of, 160, 160 n; seal adopted by courts of, 160; provision regarding, in Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, 161; in Acts of 1783, 161; present methods of administering, 161, 162; fear of ecclesiastical authority over, in colonial Massachusetts, 164, 165.

Proctor, John Cleaveland, 183 n.

— Lucia, daughter of John Cleaveland. See Butler.

— Martha. See Ward.

— Nancy (Felt), wife of John Cleaveland, 183 n.

Produce, certain bills of credit payable in, 96, 97, 99.

Projects and projectors, Defoe’s Essays upon several Projects, quoted, 290, 291; cited, 290 n; references to, by R. Brome, 305; by S. Marmion, 305, 306; by B. Jonson, 306, 307, 308, 309.

Propagandism, spirit of, in historical writing, 105.

Proper Editing of old Documents and Books, remarks on, by A. Matthews, 7–12.

Proud, Robert, catalogue of the library of, 2.

Prout, Ebenezer, 319.

— Lydia (Savage), wife of Timothy, 371 n.

— Timothy, 371 n.

Prout’s Neck, Me., 372 n.

Providence, R. I., early celebration of Washington’s birthday in, 258 n.

— Convention (1776), instructions to Massachusetts delegates to, 120, 121; regulation of currency considered by, 120, 122; scale of prices fixed by, 121; recommendations of, regarding the currency, 122, 123.

Public schools, conditions leading to development of, 175.

Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick (1690), opinions as to its being a genuine newspaper, 310, 312, 315, 317; only known copy of, 314; coutents of, 318; reprints of, 318 n.

Pulling, Annis. See Jenks.

Puritan Commissioners, Maryland, 273 n.

Puritans, aptitude of their church organization, 178.

Putnam, Rev. Alfred Porter, 390 n.

— George, 392.

— Herbert, LL.D., xx; a delegate to the Franklin celebration in Philadelphia, 330.

— Perley, 368.

Puts and calls, 286, 287; and refusals, early knowledge of these elements of stock speculation, 286, 293, 297.

QUAKERS, only record of proceedings in the Court of Assistants against, 345. See also Holder, Christopher; Leddra, William.

Quicksilver, effect of, upon minerals, 221; a scheme for transmuting it into a malleable and fine metal, 284.

Quincy, Dorothy, daughter of Edmund (1681–1738), 358.

— Eunice, daughter of Henry. See Valnais.

— Eunice (Newell), wife of Henry, 358.

— Hannah (Hill), first wife of Samuel (H. C. 1754), 241, 241 n.

— Henry, son of Edmund (H. C. 1722), 358.

— Henry Parker, M.D., xviii.

— Josiah (H. C. 1790), President of Harvard College, 51 n, 78; his History of Harvard University, cited, 35 n; his History of the Boston Athenaeum, cited, 78 n, 79 n; his Municipal History of the Town and City of Boston, cited, 353 n, 354 n; quoted, 353 n, 354 n.

— Josiah (H. C. 1880), 185.

— Samuel (H. C. 1754), 241 n.

— Samuel Miller, his Massachusetts Reports, cited, 160 n.

Quincy, Duke of, sobriquet applied to John Adams, 180.

Quincy, Mass., 184.

Quinnipiac. See New Haven, Ct.

Quonahassit. See Cohasset.

RACKEMANN, Charles Sedgwick, A.M., xviii.

Radishes, patent for extractng oil from, 285.

Radium, and the transmutation of metals, 284 n.

Radnor, Earl of. See Robartes.

Ramsey, David, patents granted to, 308, 308 n.

Randolph, Edward, 318; brings letter to Massachusetts from Charles II., 110; his statements concerning Massachusetts and her agents, 111, 111 n, 112, 113, 114; his characterization of J. Dudley, 111, 112; of J. Richards, 112; letter of, to the Earl of Clarendon, 112, 113; his enmity toward T. Danforth, 112, 113, 114; asks recompense for his money losses, 113; letter of, to Sir L. Jenkins, 113; T. Danforth’s letter to, 113 n; registration fees demanded by, 159.

— Thomas, his Muses’ Looking Glass, quoted, 307.

Rapin-Thoyras, Paul de, his History of England, C. Weeks’s unfinished notes from, 33.

Rappahannock, Va., 274.

Rawson, Edward, 337 n, 378, 378 n.

Read, Charles French, son of William, 368 n.

— Sarah Ann Fuller (McLellan), wife of William, 368.

— William, 368.

Reading, Mass., 15.

Records, value of fragments of old, 12.

Recueil d’Arrests et autres pièces pour l’établissement de la Compagnie d’Occident, cited, 282 n.

Refusals, puts and, 286, 293, 297.

Regicides, letter of Rev. J. Davenport regarding, 6.

Regiments: First Corps of Cadets, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 186.

Regulated companies, 301, 301 n.

Renshaw, Robert Henry, 392.

Revolution, economic disturbances caused by, 119.

Revolutionary War, 177, 178.

Rhode Island, nature of certain early banks of, 26, 90; royal instructions regarding emission of paper currency unheeded in, 90; plan to boycott currency of, in Massachusetts, 90; failure of this plan, 92; food-supply of, exhausted by demands of army, 133.

Richards, John, 23, 24, 25, 114; appointed an agent to England, 110, 111; E. Randolph’s characterization of, 112; some of his letters to I. Mather preserved, 113.

Ricketson, John Howland, A.M., xx.

Riker, James, Jr., his Annals of Newtown, cited, 266 n, 269 n, 413.

— William, Jr., 360 n.

Rishworth, Edward, difficulties between J. Scottow and, 369, 371 n, 372 n, 374, 375 n, 377 n, 378 n.

Rives, William Cabell, his Life of Madison, quoted, 135, 136; appointed to edit Madison papers, 136, 137.

Robartes, Charles Bodville, second Earl of Radnor, 202 n.

— John, first Earl of Radnor, 202, 202 n.

Roberts, Charles, 244.

— Rev. Oliver Ayer, his History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, cited, 370 n, 383 n.

Robinson, — , his tavern on Milton Hill, 253.

— Christopher, 62.

— John, Commissioner of the Customs, 139, 139 n.

Roe, Sir Thomas, 263.

Rogers, Abigail (Bromfield), first wife of Daniel Denison, Copley’s portrait of, 77; letter to her sisters, communicated by D. R. Slade, 240; text of the letter, 240–243; photograph of Coplev’s portrait of, exhibited by D. R. Slade, 240.

— Daniel Denison, 240 n, 242; photograph of miniature of, exhibited by D.R. Slade, 240.

— Elizabeth (Bromfield), second wife of Daniel Denison, 75, 76, 240, 240 n.

— Henry Bromfield, 75, 76.

— Henry Munroe, 187.

— Samuel, 391.

Ropes, Rev. James Hardy, D.D., xix.; Record Book of Old South Church, containing entry of Franklin’s baptism, exhibited by, 229.

Roses, recipe for keeping, fresh, 217.

Roxbury, Mass., 153 n; votes to cooperate in Concord Convention, 128.

— First Religious Society, Baptismal Register of, cited, 390 n.

— Hawthorne Street, 390 n.

— Town Records of Births, cited, 390 n.

Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Letters, Paris. See Institut de France, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris. See Institut de France, Académie des Sciences.

Royal Society, London, 32, 388, 389, 415.

Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, 389.

Royal Society of Surgeons, 78 n.

Royall, Brig.-Gen. Isaac, 49.

Rozier, Rev. John, 274.

Rulers, choice of, *3, *4, *5, *10; qualifications of, *3, *6–*10; powers of, in a commonwealth, derived from the people, *5, *6; duties of, *12; warnings to, regarding their attitude toward the Church, *12–*14.

Rushworth, Edward. See Rishworth.

Russell, Sir Charles, first Baron Russell of Killowen, 62.

— Charles (H. C. 1757), 231 n.

— Elias Harlow, xix; elected a Resident Member, 114, 145; accepts, 115.

— James (1640–1709), 113, 378, 378 n.

— Hon. William Eustis, LL.D., Governor of Massachusetts, xviii, 185, 186.

Ruscelli, Girolamo, 206.

Rutherfurd, John, 362.

Ruyven, Cornelis van, 273 n.

Rymer, Thomas, his Fœdera, cited, 308 n.

Ryswick, Peace of (1697), 201, 201 n.

SABIN, Joseph, his Dictionary of Books relating to America, cited, 373 n.

Sabine, Lorenzo, his Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, cited, 70 n, 71 n, 139 n, 182 n.

Sacheverell, Rev. Henry, 346.

Saco, Me., 372.

Sail-cloth permits, 285.

St. Cyr, France, school founded by Madame de Maintenon at, 203, 203 n.

St. Denis, France, 202 n.

Saint-John, Henry, first Viscount Bolingbroke, 203, 203 n, 309; his Works, quoted, 289; cited, 289 n.

Saint Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, Due de, 202 n.

Salee (Sallee), Morocco, 192, 192 n.

Salem, Mass., 5, *15; favorable conditions for the epidemic of witchcraft in, 13; early celebration of Washington’s birthday in, 258 n.

— County Court, 152, 153 n.

— Town and City Records, cited, 138 n.

— Town Records, mentioned, 55 n.

Sail, generic name for a negress, 140, 140 n.

Sallee, Morocco. See Salee.

Saltonstall, Leverett (H. C. 1802), medallic portrait of Washington given to, 260.

— Hon. Levekett, A.M., xviii, 184, 394.

— Muriel, daughter of Richard (1610–1694), 356.

— Muriel (Gurdon), wife of Richard (1610–1694), 356, 357.

— Nathaniel (H. C. 1659), 378, 378 n.

— Richard (1610–1694), 356, 357, 357 n.

— Richard Middlecott, A.B., xix.

Sambo, generic name for a negro, 140 n.

Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin, his Henry D. Thoreau, cited, 40 n.

Sanford, Hon. John Eliot, LL.D., xix.

Sargeant, Peter, 373; mansion of, afterward the Province House, 243, 245.

Sargent, George Henry, his comment on the Present State of the New-English Affairs, 314, 315, 316, 319, 320.

Saugus, Mass., 153 n.

Savage, Elizabeth (Scottow), wife of Thomas (1640–1705), 370.

— James (H. C. 1803), his Genealogical Dictionary of New England, cited, 356 n, 357 n, 370 n, 375 n, 382 n, 386 n.

— James (H. C. 1854), 392.

— Lydia, daughter of Thomas. See Prout.

— Thomas (1640–1705), 370, 371 n.

Sawdust, burlesque advertisement relating to, 286, 286 n.

Scammon, James, 322 n.

Scarborough, Me., 371, 372, 373; W. S. Southgate’s History of, cited, 371 n; Indian attack on, 375 n. See also Black Point; Blue Point; Dunstan.

Scarlett, Robert, sexton of Peterborough Cathedral, 194 n; lines on, 194.

Schmidt, Alexander, 10 n.

Schulenburg, Countess Ehrengard Melusiua von der, Duchess of Kendal, 204 n.

Schuyler, George Washington, his Colonial New York, cited, 267 n.

Scottow, Elizabeth, daughter of Joshua. See Savage.

— Joshua, his petition to the General Court for redress from persecution, communicated by H. H. Edes, 369; sketch of, 370–374; his estate in Boston, 370; offices held by, 370, 371, 371 n, 372, 373; his land purchases and residence in Maine, 371; his dealings with the Indians, 372, 373; his return to Boston, 373; his death, 373; his Old Mens Tears for their own Declensions, mentioned, 373 n; his Narrative of the Planting of the Massachusetts Colony, mentioned, 373 n; his gravestone, 374, 374 n; text of his Petition, 374–377; charges against, 374, 375, 375 n; his acquittal on previous charges, 375 n; answer of the General Court to his petition, 377, 378, 378 n; his proceedings against T. Cousens, 377 n; decision of County Court at Boston against, 377 n, 378 n; decision of Court of Assistants against, 378 n, 379 n.

— Lydia, daughter of Joshua. See Checkley; Colman; Gibbs.

— Mary, daughter of Joshua. See Checkley.

— Rebecca, daughter of Joshua. See Blakeman.

— Thomas, brother of Joshua, 370.

— Thomas (H. C. 1677), son of Joshua, 371, 371 n.

— Thomasine, mother of Joshua, 370.

Scott, Sir Walter, his use of the speculative mania of the seventeenth century in Peveril of the Peak, 287, 288, 289, 305, 307, 310; indebtedness of, to Shadwell, 293.

Sea water, fresh water from, 284, 284 n.

Searce, the verb, 208, 208 n.

Sears, David, memoir of, by R. C. Winthrop, Jr., 397.

— Joshua Montgomery, A.B., xviii; his death, 146.

—Philip Howes, A.M., xviii.

Sedgwick, Henry Dwight, A.B., xix.

— Maj. Robert, documents relating to, communicated by F. L. Gay, 141, 142.

Sedley, Muriel. See Gurdon.

Sentiments of an American Woman, article attributed to Martha Washington, 252, 253.

Sergeant, Peter. See Sargeant.

Seton, George, fifth Earl of Winton, 193, 193 n.

Severn, battle of the, 273 n.

Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell, author of A New Song, 252; his Miscellaneous Poems, cited, 252 n.

— Rev. Joseph (H. C. 1707), son of Samuel, 230 n, 231.

— Rebecca (Wigglesworth), wife of Stephen, 38.

— Chief-Justice Samuel, 2, 23, 24, 25, 373; discovery of a letter of, 32 n; Katharine Winthrop’s refusal to marry, 399; his Diary, cited, 112 n, 194 n, 354 n, 373 n, 381, 386 n, 398 n; quoted, 373, 381; his Letter-Book, cited, 386 n.

— Rev. Samuel, his History of Woburn, cited, 10 n.

— Stephen (H. C. 1761), 38, 39, 40, 40 n, 416, 416 n.

Seward, William, his Journal of a Voyage, quoted, 228 n.

Sewel, William, his History of the Quakers, 343.

Shadwell, Thomas, his Volunteers or the Stock-jobbers, 293 n; character of the play, 293; quotations from, showing English familiarity with stock-jobbing, 294, 295, 304, 304 n.

Shaftesbury, Earl of. See Cooper, Anthony Ashley.

Shakspere, William, his King John, quoted, 10 n; inscription on the stone above his grave, 195, 195 n; reference in his Merchant of Venice, 303 n; in his Tempest, 303 n.

Shapleigh, Nicholas, difficulties between J. Scottow and, 369, 374, 377 n.

Shattuck, George Otis, LL.B., xix.

— Lemuel, his History of Concord, cited, 131 n.

Shaw, Robert Gould (H. C. 1860), 186.

Sheppard, Charles. See Cushing, Thomas, and Charles Sheppard.

Sherburne, Henry, 93 n.

Sherwood, Arthur Murray, 186.

Shillaber, William Green, facsimile reproduction of the Present State of the New-English Affairs made for, 312, 312 n, 313; his remarks upon this sheet, 314, 316, 317.

Shop-keepers, predicted effect upon, of proposed incorporation of Boston (1714), 346, 347, 349.

Short, James, telescope made for Harvard College by, 236.

Shorthouse, Joseph Henry, his John Inglesant, mentioned, 188.

Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet, 244; his Topographical and Historical Description of Boston, mentioned, 245; cited, 245 n.

Sibley, John Langdon, 43 n; his Harvard Graduates, cited, 370 n, 371 n.

Sigourney, Anthony, 182 n.

— Henry Howell Williams, his Genealogy of the Sigourney Family, cited, 182 n.

— Mary, daughter of Anthony. See Butler.

— Mary (Waters), wife of Anthony, 182 n.

Silk, importation of, in skein, to England, 223; various grades and sources of, 223; effect of dyeing upon, 223; method of boiling and dyeing, 223, 224.

Silver, value of early bills of credit fixed in, 88, 89, 91, 91 n; normal quotation for, in terms of early New England currency, 91; effect of volume of currency on value of, 92; ratio between new tenor bills, Massachusetts, and, 95; ratio between bills issued by Land Bank of 1740 and, 97; ratio between notes of the Silver Bank and, 98; ratio between notes of Ipswich Land Bank and, 99; ratio between last two Provincial bills and, 100, 100 n.

Silver Bank, reason for organization of, 98; plan of, 98; form of bill issued by, 98 n; closing of, 99.

Silver Scheme. See Silver Bank.

Singleton, Mary. See Copley; Pelham.

Sittingbourne parish, Rappahannock, Va., 274, 275.

Skye, Island of, Scotland, 192.

Slade Daniel Denison, M.D., xviii, 74.

— Denison Rogers, A.B., xx; communicates letters to and from H. Bromfield, 71; text of the letters, 72, 73; his paper on Copley’s portrait of Mrs. Bromfield, 74–77; communicates letter from Mrs. Abigail Rogers to her sisters, 240; text of the letter, 240–243; exhibits photographs of Copley’s portrait of Mrs. Rogers and of miniature of D. D. Rogers, 240; appointed on Nominating Committee, 329; transferred to Roll of Corresponding Members, 407.

Sloane, Sir Hans, 295 n.

Smibert, John, his associations with P. Pelham, 74; certain characteristics of, 75.

Smit, Michael, 22.

Smith, Charles Card, his Boston and the Colony, quoted, 353 n; cited, 353 n.

— Euphemia Vale, her History of Newburyport, cited, 260 n.

— Isaac, 54, 54 n, 57.

— Hon. Jeremiah, LL.D., xix.

— Capt. John (1579–1631), his Generall Historie of Virginia, mentioned, 304 n; his True Travels, Adventures and Observations, mentioned, 304 n.

— Richard, of Boston, 244.

— Richard, of Newtown, Long Island, 269.

— Gen. Samuel, 364.

Smithsonian Institution, 409.

Smyth, Albert Henry, his edition of Franklin’s Works, cited, 232 n, 233.

Snow, Caleb Hopkins, his History of Boston, cited, 70 n.

— Charles Armstrong, A.B., ii, xix.

Soap, recipe for making sweet, 220.

Society of Antiquaries, London, 389, 415.

Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 415.

Society of Arts and Commerce, London. See Society Instituted at Loudon for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.

Sodbury, Gloucestershire, Eng., 263. See also Old Sodbury.

Somers Tracts, cited, 201 n.

South Sea Bubble, 280.

South Sea Company, 295; purpose of, 283; its plan for redeeming the public debt, 283; warning against, 287; incorporation of, 288.

Southgate, William Scott, his History of Scarborough, cited, 371 n, 375 n.

Southwark, London, Eng., 222.

— St. Saviours Church, epitaph on J. Knightly in, 200, 201; memorial window to J. Harvard in, 200 n.

Southworth, Thomas, 336.

Spanish dollar, recognition of, 95; value of, 97.

Spanish green, recipe for making, 217.

Spanish Succession, War of the, 201, 201 n.

Spanish-American War, 186.

Sparks, Jared, his edition of Franklin’s Works, cited, 191 n, 195 n, 205 n.

Specie payment, Merchants’ Notes of 1733 a step toward return to, 90, 91; other efforts in this direction, 92; failure of these attempts, 92, 93.

Spirits, distillation of, prohibited, 124.

Spooner, Walter, 131.

Spots, recipes for removing, 216, 217, 218–220, 221.

Sprague, Henry Harrison, his City Government in Boston, cited, 353 n.

— Rev. William Buell, his Annals of the American Pulpit, cited, 249 n.

Springfield, Mass., M. A. Green’s History of, cited, 166 n.

— Convention (1777), purpose of, 122; recommendations of, regarding the currency, 123; repeal of all legislation regulating prices recommended by, 123.

— First Church and Parish, 166.

Spurzheim, Carl Theodor Heinrich, brother of Johann Caspar, 79 n.

— Gaspard. See Spurzheim, Johann Caspar.

— Johann Caspar, letter from N. I. Bowditch regarding the death and funeral of, communicated by H. H. Edes, 77–81; references to notices of, 77 n; public funeral arranged for, 78, 79, 81 n; his effects and private papers collected, 79; administration of his estate, 79, 79 n, 80; his popularity in Boston, 80; his last days, 80, 81; buried at Mt. Auburn, 81, 81 n; his monument, 81, 81 n; preservation of his brain and skull, 81 n.

— Marie Thérèse, sister of Johann Caspar. See Hermesdorf.

— Willibrod, brother of Johann Caspar, 79 n.

Stains. See Spots.

Stalebrass, — , 195.

Standard Oil Company, 134.

Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith, fourteenth Earl of Derby, 391.

Stearns, R. H., & Co., 80 n.

Steel, recipe for hardening and softening, 217.

Sterling, James, 361.

Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand, Baron von, his opinion of Lafayette’s degree of LL.D., 328.

Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, L.H.D., F.S.A., xx.

— Eben, 99 n.

— John Austin, his paper on the Visit of Lafayette to the United States, 1784, 327.

Stevenson, Jonathan Greely, 80 n.

Stiles, Rev. Ezra, 231 n, 235, 235 n; his edition of T. Church’s Entertaining Passages relating to Philip’s War, 9, 10, 12.

Stock-jobbing. See Stock-speculation.

Stock speculation, A Search for the Beginnings of, paper by A. McF. Davis on, 278–310; impossibility of, under early trading companies, 278; necessary conditions for, 278, 281; origin of the phrase stock-jobbing, 279; beginnings of, in France, 279, 280, 281, 282; resemblances between early and modern methods of, 281, 282, 280, 287, 292, 293, 297, 298; limitations of, in France, 283, 299; eighteenth century opportunities for, in England, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287; earlier knowledge of, in England, 287, 288; various dates assigned for beginnings of, in England, by Bolingbroke, 289, 309; by Francis, 289; by Defoe, 290, 291, 299, 300; by Asgill, 292; by the author of Angliæ Tutamen, 292, 293; by Shadwell, 293–295; by J. Houghton, 296, 297; by Macaulay. 297, 298, 309; by R. Brome, 305; by S. Marmion, 305, 306; by B. Jonson, 306, 307, 308, 309; two bills against, introduced into Parliament, 298, 299; one of these passed, 299, 309.

Stocks, development of the idea of transferable certificates of, 278, 281, 298, 300; J. Law’s issues and manipulation of, 281, 282, 286, 287.

Stoddard, William, 96 n.

Stone, William, Governor of Maryland, 273 n.

Storer, Ebenezer, Treasurer of Harvard College, 324, 416.

Stoughton, William, Lt.-Governor of Massachusetts, 23, 24, 25; declines appointment as an agent to England, 110; asks for appointment of a Judge of Vice-Admiralty, 380.

Stow, Mass., Town Records of, cited, 79 n.

Streate, Rev. Nicholas. See Street.

Street, Rev. Nicholas, 265, 266.

Strobel, Edward Henry, 187.

Stuart, Frederick D., 137.

— Gilbert, photographs of portraits by, exhibited by D. R. Slade, 74; portrait of Washington copied from that of, 259.

— James Francis Edward, the Old Pretender, 191, 191 n, 202 n, 203, 346.

Sturgis, William, Spurzheim’s tomb erected by, 81 n.

Stuyvesant, Peter, Governor of New York, 273 n, 276 n; his relations with Rev. F. Doughty, 269 n, 272.

Suffolk, Nansemond County, Virginia, 260, 260 n.

Suffolk County, Mass., 83; towns belonging to Court of, 153 n.

— Court Files, cited, 15 n, 16 n, 18 n, 20 n, 376 n, 379 n; petition of C. Holder in, 342; papers relating to the case of J. Scottow v. S. Wheelwright in, 379 n.

— Deeds, cited, 70 n, 71 n, 87 n, 244 n, 245 n, 372 n.

— Early Court Files, paper touching witchcraft in, 21.

— Probate Files, cited, 70 n, 71 n, 79 n, 181 n, 205 n, 245 n, 371 n.

Suffrage, limitation of, in colonial Massachusetts, 164, 165, 171.

Sullivan, William (H. C. 1792), 306 n.

Sumner, William Graham, his Coin Shilling of Massachusetts Bay, quoted, 95, 97; cited, 95 n.

Susan & Ellen, the ship, 356, 358.

Sutton, Chew-Magna, Somersetshire, Eng., 264.

Swift, Rev. Jonathan, cause of his Drapier’s Letters, 204 n.

— Lindsay, A.B., xix, 12, 71, 310 n; his communication on John Davenport’s Election Sermon, 1–6; his paper on the Truth in History, 101–107; his Memoir of S. Butler communicated, 180; text of the Memoir, 181–189.

— William Nye, 186.

Symes, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Henry, Lord Mayor of Bristol, Eng., 68.

Synod of 1662, questions considered by, 3.

TAFT, Henry Walbridge, A.M., xix.

Tailer, William, Lt.-Governor of Massachusetts, 384.

Talbot, Thomas, Bishop of London, 111.

Talcott, Joseph, Governor of Connecticut, 89.

Tar, recipe for removing, 216.

Taunton, Mass., organized as Cohannet, 264, 265; first church organization at, 265, 266, 267 n; levy upon, for support of officers of the Plymouth Patent, 267, 268.

Taylor, Mary, wife of Sebread, accused of witchcraft, 25.

— Sebread, 25.

Temple, Elizabeth (Bowdoin), wife of Sir John, 414.

— Sir Richard, Viscount Cobham, 193, 193 n.

— Sir Thomas, Rev. J. Davenport’s letter to, mentioned, 6.

Temple Papers, mentioned, 397.

Thacher, Rev. Thomas Cushing, 322 n.

Thames, a ship, 205 n.

Thanksgiving, day of, ordered in Massachusetts (1682), 113, 114; days for, appointed by civil authority, 162.

—Proclamations, Maine, photographic copy of that of 1682, exhibited by H. H. Edes, 108; original of that of 1681 previously exhibited by H. H. Edes, 108; the latter previously unknown to historical scholars, 108, 114; text of the former, 109.

Thavies Inn, London, Eng., 70, 70 n.

Thaxter, Thomas, 118.

Thayer, Ezra Ripley, A.M., xix.

— James Bradley, LL.D., xviii.

— John Eliot, A.B., xix.

Theodosius, Roman Emperor, *14.

Thiers, Louis Adolphe, 391.

Thirlwall, Rev. Connop, 391.

Thomas, Isaiah, his History of Printing in America, cited, 312 n, 319 n; American Antiquarian Society’s edition of, 312 n, 320; his statement regarding the first American newspaper, 314, 315, 319.

Thompson, Benjamin Franklin, his History of Long Island, cited, 73 n; quoted, 266 n.

— Sir John, 62.

— Samuel, his Diary quoted, 10.

Thoreau, Cynthia (Dunbar), wife of John, 40 n.

— Henry David, son of John, 40 n; F. B. Sanborn’s Henry D. Thoreau, cited, 40 n.

— John, 40 n.

Thorndike, Charles, 391.

— Samuel Lothrop, A.M., xviii; appointed on Nominating Committee, 115.

— William, 392.

Throgniorton, John, 269.

— Sir William, 303.

Tiebout, Cornelius, portrait of Washington engraved by, 259.

Tienhoven, Cornelis van, his answer to the attack made in the Remonstrance of New Netherland, 269 n, 270 n.

Tilden, Samuel Jones, 61.

Tiley, Sir Joseph, 299.

Tillinghast, Caleb Benjamin, Litt.D., xix.

— William Hopkins, 413.

Time contracts, early introduction of, into stock speculations, 282, 298.

Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., 246.

Titles of honor, A. Anderson’s suggestion of, for the American colonies, 259.

Tobacco, lines of B. Franklin (16501727) on, 201.

Tolman, Hannah (Fayerweather). See Winthrop.

Tookey, Job, accused of witchcraft, 23.

Toothaker, Mary, accused of witchcraft, 25.

Toppan, Robert Noxon, A.M., xviii; his paper on the Failure to Establish an Hereditary Political Aristocracy in the Colonies, mentioned, 259 n.

Tories, All, Together, a political skit (1813), 139, 140.

Tories, opposition of, to Marlborough, 202, 202 n.

Torrey, Josiah, son of William, 245, 246.

— Rev. Josiah, son of Josiah, first minister of Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., 246.

— Micajah, Jr., of Weymouth, 244, 245 n.

— Sarah (Batt), wife of Micajah, Jr., bequest to, 244, 245 n.

— Sarah (Wilson) Batt, wife of Josiah, 245.

— William, 245, 378, 378 n.

— family, 246.

Torrington, Viscount. See Byng.

Tory, term of reproach in the United States, 139.

Touzel, Susannah. See Towzell.

Town government, arguments against abolition of, in Boston, 346, 347, 350, 351, 352; necessity for abolition of, in Great Britain, 350, 351.

Town meeting, conditions leading to development of, 175.

Towzell, Susannah (English), deposition of, 19, 20.

Tract, bibliographical meaning of the term, 313 n.

Tracy, James Joseph, 371 n.

Tradesmen. See Shop-keepers.

Trading companies, limitations imposed upon members of, 278, 300, 301, 303.

Trenchard, John, his Comparison between the Proposals of the Bank and the South Sea Company, cited, 287 n; and Thomas Gordon, their Collection of Tracts, cited, 287 n, 299 n.

Trenton, N. J., Peace Convention at (1812), 363.

Triraountain, early name of Boston, 352.

Trumble. See Trumbull.

Trumbull, James Hammond, 312 n, 313 n; his First Essays at Banking in New England, cited, 84 n; his edition of Lechford’s Plain Dealing, quoted, 268, 268 n; cited, 268 n.

— John (H. C. 1773), son of Jonathan (H. C. 1727), 417.

— Jonathan (H. C. 1727), 416, 417.

— Jonathan (H. C. 1759), son of Jonathan (H. C. 1727), two letters from E. Holyoke to, exhibited by W. C. Lane, 416; text of the letters, 417, 418; his public services, 416; candidate for Master’s degree, 417, 418; invited to deliver valedictory oration at Harvard, 417; accepts and later declines the invitation, 417; delivers the valedictory oration, 418.

— Joseph (H. C. 1756), son of Jonathan (H. C. 1727), 417.

Trusty, Samuel, 96 n.

Truth, J. C. Carter’s appeal regarding, 67; in history, paper on, by L. Swift, 101–107; deliberate suppressions of, 102, 103, 104; unconscious suppressions of, 102, 104; justifiable ignoring of, 107.

Tucker, George Fox, Ph.D., xix; reads paper on the name of the Town of Barnstable, 115.

— Rev. William Jewett, LL.D., xx.

Tuckennan, Bayard, his Peter Stuyvesant, cited, 267 n.

Tulip bulbs, speculation in Holland over, 288.

Turks, favored by Louis xiv., 202 n.

Turner, Frederick Jackson, Ph.D., xx.

— William, of Boston, 244.

— Rev. William, Dean of Wells, his Herbal, quoted, 221; this book said to have marked the start of the science of botany in England, 221 n.

Tattle, Julius Herbert, 3.

Tweed Ring, New York City, litigation over frauds of the, 61.

Tyler, Hannah, accused of witchcraft, 23.

— Hopestill, 23.

— John Ford, 186.

— Mary, wife of Hopestill, accused of witchcraft, 23.

— Moses Coit, LL.D., xx.

Tyndal, Margaret. See Winthrop.

UNCONSTITUTIONAL, early appearance in this country of the word, 47 n.

Underhill, John, 270; Rev.F. Doughty’s suit against, 276, 276 n.

United States, litigation over interpretation of Navigation Laws of, 61; efforts to involve, in war with Great Britain, 138, 139; provision in Constitution of, as to recognition of judicial proceedings of one State by the other States, 155.

— House of Representatives, Journals, 302 n.

— Senate, Journals, 362 n.

Upham, Rev. Charles Wentworth, reference to case of Elizabeth Colson in his Salem Witchcraft, 13, 14; this work cited, 14 n, 17 n, 18 n; the case of Philip and Mary English treated by, 17, 18; his Records of Massachusetts under its First Charter, cited, 163 n.

— William Phineas, 345 n.

Usher, Bridget (Lisle) Hoar, 196 n.

— John, 3.

Utie, Nathaniel, 273.

Utrecht, Peace of (1713), 201, 201 n, 202 n.

VALNAIS, Eunice (Quincy) de, wife of Joseph, 358.

— Joseph de, honorary degree conferred upon, by Harvard College, 231 n, 358; record of his marriage intentions, 358.

Van de Weyer, Victor, Leslie’s portrait of Franklin owned by, 237 n.

Vane, Sir Henry, the younger, tablet in memory of, 26.

Vattel, Emmerich de, copy of his Le Droit des Gens given to Harvard College by Franklin, 238, 238 n, 239 n.

Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre de, 202 n.

Vaughan, William, 385, 386, 386 n.

Venn, John, and Susanna Carnegie Venn, their Admissions to Gonville and Caius College in the University of Cambridge, cited, 357 n.

Vermont, constitutional convention of (1786), 256, 256 n; admission of, to the Union, 256.

— Records of the Governor and Council of the State of, cited, 256 n.

Vigo, Spain, capture of, 193, 193 n.

Villars, Claude Louis Hector, Due de, 203, 203 n.

Villiers, George, second Duke of Buckingham, 287, 288.

Viner, Charles, his Abridgment, cited, 285 n.

Virgil, Baskerville edition of, given by Franklin to Harvard College, 234, 234 n.

Virginia, not represented at Philadelphia Convention (1780), 133; early celebration of Washington’s birthday in, 258 n; Puritan emigration from Maryland to, 273 n; references to, in Eastward Ho!, 304 n.

Virginia Company, 278; a joint-stock company, 303; dividends of, 303.

Virginia Magazine, cited, 274 n, 275 n.

Visconti Venosta, Emilio, Marquis, 62.

WADE, Winthrop Howland, A.M., xix.

Wadsworth, Rev. Benjamin, President of Harvard College, 55.

— Benjamin (H. C. 1769), grandson of Rev. Benjamin, 55.

Waggit, — , 222.

Wainwright, John (H. C. 1709), 94 n.

Wait, Hon. William Cushing, A.M., xix; appointed on Nominating Committee, 115; presents Report of the Committee, 148, 149.

Wakefield, Sarah. See Butler.

Waldenses, 105.

Waldron, Richard, 372 n.

Wales v. Willard, 160 n.

Wales, subscriptions to lead mines in, 296.

Walker, Hon. Francis Amasa, LL.D., xviii.

— Rev. James, President of Harvard College, 66, 400, 401.

— Rev. Williston, D.D., xx.

Waller, Richard, 295 n.

Walley, John (d. 1712), 373.

Wapping, Eng., Rev. F. Doughty’s difficulty at, 262, 263.

War and Washington, a poem, 252 n.

Ward, Benjamin, 181.

— Lydia (Gray), wife of Thomas Wren, 78 n.

— Martha (Proctor), wife of William, 78 n.

— Mary Butler, wife of Benjamin, 181; her petition to the General Court, 181 n.

— Thomas Wren, son of William, 78; brief account of, 78 n; administrator of Spurzheim’s estate, 79, 79 n, 80.

— William, 78 n.

Warde (or Ward), William, his translation of The Secretes of . . . Maister Alexis, 206, 206 n.

Wardwell, Mercy, accused of witchcraft, 24.

— Sarah, convicted of witchcraft, 24.

Ware, Hon. Darwin Erastus, A.M., xviii.

— Rev. Henry (H. C. 1785), 66.

— Rev. Henry (H. C. 1812), son of Rev. Henry (H. C. 1785), 66.

— Horace Everett, A.B., xix, 180; elected a Resident Member, 26, 145; accepts, 83; his paper, Was the Government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony a Theocracy?, 151–180.

— John (H. C. 1813), 80 n.

— Thornton Marshall, A.B., xix.

Wareyn, Rev. Robert. See Warren.

Warner, Seth, 256, 256 n.

Warraneage, Indian word meaning a black cat, use of, in charges of witchcraft, 23.

Warren, Edward, his Life of John Collins Warren, cited, 81 n.

— James (H. C. 1745), 416.

— John Collins (H. C. 1797), 81 n.

— John Collins (H. C. 1863), 81 n.

— Joseph, 55 m, 418; Frothingham’s Life and Times of, cited, 56 n.

— Rev. Robert, 357, 357 n.

— Winslow, a guest at the annual dinner, 418.

Warwick, Eng., epitaph at, 201.

Washburn, Emory, Governor of Massachusetts, his Sketches of the Judicial History of Massachusetts, mentioned, 20; cited, 158 n, 166 n, 379 n, 380, 382 n; quoted, 379.

Washington, George, 72 n, 365, 416; letter relating to the sale of captured ordnance stores, from H. Bromfield to, communicated by D. R. Slade, 71; text of the letter, 72, 73; letter from, calling forth the above, exhibited, 73 n; this letter printed, 73 n; P. L. Ford’s characterization of, in his True George Washington, 104; his appointment to the command of the army, 180; Harvard gives degree of LL.D. to, 231 n; English texts of the diploma, 252; paper on Celebrations of Washington’s Birthday, by A. Matthews, 253–258; early celebrations on 11 February, at Milton Hill, 253, 254, 255, 257; in New York City, 254, 255; in Boston, 255, 256, 257, 258; in Bennington, Vt., 255, 256; in Philadelphia, 257, 258; in Providence, Hallowell, Salem, Ilingham, and Virginia, 258 n; date of celebration changed, 258; title of His Excellency applied to, 258; portraits and relics of, exhibited by F. H. Lee, 259, 260; letter of, to J. Cowper, communicated by H. H. Edes, 260.

— Martha (Dandridge) Custis, wife of George, 72; article entitled The Sentiments of an American Woman attributed to, 252, 253.

Waters, Henry FitzGilbert, his Genealogical Gleanings in England, cited, 261 n, 356 n, 384 n.

— Mary. See Sigourney.

— Rev. Thomas Franklin, A.B., xix.

Watertown, Mass., 153 n.

Watkins, Walter Kendall, 153 n.

Watson, William, Ph.D., xviii, 108.

Watt, Capt. Alexander, 205 n, 236.

Watts, Samuel, 96 n.

Wayte, John (d. 1693), 378, 378 n.

Webb, Henry, 261 n.

Webster, Daniel, 389, 391.

— Mary, accusation of witchcraft against, 22.

— Sir Richard, 62.

Weeden, Hon. William Babcock, A.M., xx.

Weeks, Clement, his note-book containing the Book of Harvard, communicated by W. C. Lane, 33; history and other contents of the note-book, 33; text of the Book of Harvard, 40–43; variations between this copy and that owned by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 43 n; text of the Arguments in Defence of the Proceedings of the Scholars, 50–54.

— William, brother of Clement, his letters edited under the title Five Straws gathered from Revolutionary Fields, 33, 33 n.

Weisse, Jane Lee (Hunt), wife of John Adam, her genealogical compilations, 390 n.

— John Adam, his school in Roxbury, 390, 390 n.

— Nicholas, Sr., brother of John Adam, 390 n.

— family, Records and Traditions of the Families of Hunt and Weisse compiled by Jane Lee Weisse, mentioned, 390 n.

Weld, Charles Goddard, M.D., xix.

— William Gordon, xviii.

Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington, 391.

Wells, Dorothy, wife of Rev. Samuel, 205.

—Hannah, daughter of Rev. Samuel. See Franklin.

— Kate Boott (Gannett), wife of Samuel (1836–1903), 28.

— Louisa Ann (Appleton), wife of Samuel (1801–1868), 27.

— Louisa Appleton, daughter of Samuel (1836–1903), 28.

— Samuel (1801–1868), Governor of Maine, 27.

— Samuel, A.B. (1836–1903), son of Samuel (1801–1868), xviii; Memoir of, communicated by C. M. Green, 26; text of the Memoir, 27–31; his sudden death, 27; his ancestry and education, 27; his family, 28; his legal and business career, 28; his interest in public affairs, 28; his interests outside his profession, 29; his interest in this Society, 29; presides at meeting in memory of Dr. Gould, 29; his interest in philanthropy, 29; his club life, 30; his interest in freemasonry, 30; his funeral 30; his characteristics, 30, 31.

— Samuel, Jr., son of Samuel (1836–1903), 28.

— Rev. Samuel (d. 1678), 205, 205 n.

— Stiles Gannett, son of Samuel (1836–1903), 28.

Wells, Bangs &, 28.

Wells, Me., 371 n.

Wendell, Cornelius, appointed to publish Letters and other Writings of James Madison, 136, 137.

Wenham, Mass., 153 n.

Wentworth, Hunking, 93 n.

West, John, 159.

West India Company, Dutch, Answer of, to the Remonstrance of New Netherland, 270 n; animosity of, against A. van der Donck, 272.

Westchester County, N. Y., R. Bolton’s History of, cited, 261 n.

Weston, Robert Dickson, A.B. xix; elected a Resident Member, 246, 409; accepts, 247.

Wetmore, George Peabody, 135.

Weymouth, Mass., 153 n, 244; Rev. R. Lenthall at, 268 n.

Whalley, Jane. See Hooke.

Whately, Richard, Archbishop of Dublin, 391.

Wheeler, Gen. Joseph, LL.D., U. S. A., xx; death of, announced, 247; G. L. Kittredge pays tribute to memory of, 247, 247 n; materials collected by, for vindication of Gen. Hull, 366 n, 409.

Wheelwright, Andrew Cunningham, A.M., xix.

— Edmund March, A.B., xix.

— Edward, A.M., xviii.

— Rev. John, 374 n; his settlement at Exeter, N. H., 270.

— John Tyler, resolutions presented to Bar Association by, on death of S. Butler, 187.

— Samuel, son of Rev. John, 374 n, 376 n; difficulties between J. Scottow and, 369, 372 n, 374, 376, 377 n, 378 n.

Whigs, early celebrations of Washington’s birthday by, 254.

Whiskey Insurrection, 365.

Whiston, Edward Andem, Commonplace-Book of B. Franklin (1650–1727) owned by, 191 n; manuscript Treatise on Dyeing and Coloring by B. Franklin (1650–1727) owned by, 206 n; letter from Dr. Franklin to S. Adams and others owned by, 229 n.

White, Sir Ignatius, Marquis of Albeville, his speculations in East India Company stocks, 300.

Whitmore, William Henry, 74, 311, 312, 317; his Massachusetts Civil List, cited, 112 n, 382 n, 383 n, 384 n; his Andros Tracts, cited, 311 n.

Whitney, David Rice, A.M., xix.

— James Lyman, A.M., xix.

Whittredge, Mary (Buckley), 13.

Wigglesworth, Rev. Edward (H. C. 1710), 38, 230 n, 231.

— Rev. Edward (H.C. 1749), son of Rev. Edward (H.C. 1710), 38, 39, 40, 40 n, 42, 44, 45, 46, 46 n, 324, 416.

— Edward (H.C. 1822), 79, 79 n.

— Edward, M.D., xviii.

— George, A.M., xviii.

— Rebecca, daughter of Edward (H. 1710). See Sewall.

Wilberforce, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford and of Winchester, 391.

Wildgosse, Thomas, patents granted to, by James I., 308.

Wilkins, John, 365.

Willard, Rev. Joseph, President of Harvard College, 39, 40, 40 n, 44, 325, 416; two letters to J. Hancock from, communicated by H. H. Edes, 320; text of the letters, 320–323; his explanation of Hancock’s place at the dinner to Lafayette, 320, 321; recommends Rev. J. Foster as chaplain of Castle Island, 322, 323; letter from J. Hancock to, 323, 324; letter to Franklin from, regarding Franklin’s election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 414, 415.

— Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1659), 373 n.

— Sidney, son of Rev. Joseph, his Memories of Youth and Manhood, quoted, 37 n, 38 n; cited, 38 n.

Willard, Wales v., 160 n.

William III, King of England, 318, 347, 381 n, 384; provision in Provincial Charter granted by, 164; stock-jobbing said to have arisen with, 289, 309; anxiety regarding his attitude toward New England, 319; conspiracy against, 385, 386.

Williams, Hon. George Frederick, A.B., xviii.

— Henry, A.B., xviii.

— Molly, 130.

— Moses, A.B., xviii.

— Peere, his Reports, cited, 285 n.

— Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1761), 416.

Williamson, Hon. Joseph, Litt.D., xx.

— William Cross, A.M., xviii.

— William Durkee, his History of the State of Maine, cited, 114 n, 370 n, 371 n, 372 n, 373 n, 374 n, 375 n; quoted, 114, 373.

Willinton, — , 222.

Willis, William, his History of the Law, the Courts and the Lawyers of Maine, cited, 371 n.

Wilson, Jeremy, 9.

— Rev. John (1588–1667), first minister of the First Church in Boston, 243, 265.

— Rev. John, of Medfield, son of Rev.

John (1588–1667), 243.

— Sarah, daughter of Rev. John of Medfield. See Batt; Torrey.

Wincoll, John, 372 n.

Wincoln. See Wincoll.

Windham, Ct., County Court of, 166.

Windship, George Barker, 392.

Wingate, Paine (H. C. 1759), 418.

Winship, George Parker, A.M., xx.

Winslow, Isaac (b. 1709), 98, 98 n.

Winthrop, Adam, of Lavenham, Eng., 388.

— Adam (1498–1562), son of Adam of Lavenham, Eng., 388.

— Adam (1548–1623), son of Adam (1498–1562), 388.

— Judge Adam (1676–1743), son of Adam (d. 1700), family record of, 405.

— Adam (H. C. 1767), son of Prof. John, 55.

— Clara Bowdoin, daughter of Robert Charles, Jr. (1834–1905), 406.

— Eliza Cabot (Blanchard), wife of Robert Charles (1809–1894), 388, 389, 390.

— Elizabeth (Mason), second wife of Robert Charles, Jr. (1834–1905), 395, 406.

— Frances Pickering (Adams), first wife of Robert Charles, Jr. (1834–1905), 394; her death, 395.

— Hannah (Fayerweather) Tolman, second wife of Prof. John, 235, 235 n.

— James (H. C. 1769), son of Prof. John, 55, 55 n, 416.

— John, Governor of Massachusetts, son of Adam (1548–1623), 5, *15, 261 n, 265 n, 356, 388, 406; his History of New England, cited, 20 n, 162 n; his letters to Sir S. D’Ewes, mentioned, 145, 405; letter from B. Gurdon to, 357, 358; autograph of, 397; discovery of site of his early Boston home, 405.

— John, Jr., Governor of Connecticut, son of Gov. John of Massachusetts, 6, 388.

— John (H. C. 1700), son of Wait Still, 403; case of, v. Lechmere (Thomas), 389.

— Prof. John (H. C. 1732), son of Judge Adam, 38, 39, 40, 40 n, 55, 231 n, 235 n, 237, 238, 391, 405; an electric battery sent by Franklin to, 234; his correspondence with Franklin, 234; text of earliest known letter of Franklin to, 235.

— John Still, son of John (H. C. 1700), 389.

— Katharine (Brattle) Eyre, wife of Wait Still, 398 n; Defence of, by R. C. Winthrop, Jr., 393, 398–403.

— Margaret (Tyndal), third wife of Gov. John of Massachusetts, 356, 406.

— Margaret Tyndal, daughter of Robert Charles, Jr. (1834–1905), 406.

— Robert Charles (1809–1894), son of Thomas Lindall, 389, 394, 396, 401; his first visit to Europe with his son, 390, 391; his Reminiscences of Foreign Travel, cited, 391 n; his son’s Memoir of, cited, 391 n; characteristics of this Memoir, 397, 398.

— Robert Charles, Jr. (1834–1905), son of Robert Charles (1809–1894), his bequest to this Society, 145, 149, 405; his contributions to the Publications of this Society, 145, 405; Memoir of, communicated by H. H. Edes, 387; text of the Memoir, 388–406; his ancestry, 388–390; his early life and education, 390, 391; his European travel, 390, 391, 395; his college life, 391–394; some of his college friends, 392; a reader rather than a student, 392, 393; made class orator, 392, 393, 394; his ability as a presiding officer, 392, 393; his troubles with the College Faculty, 393, 394, 400; his Defence of Katharine Winthrop, 393, 398–400; his degree withheld for a year, 394; his admission to the Suffolk Bar, 394; his first marriage, 394; his knowledge of modern European languages and history, 395; his second marriage, 395; his literary and historical studies, 396, 398, 403; clubs and societies in which he was interested, 396, 397; his services to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 396; to the Massachusetts Historical Society, 396, 397; his Memoir of his father, 397, 398; his death and burial, 405; his family, 406; his public bequests, 406.

— Robert Mason, son of Robert Charles, Jr. (1834–1905), 406.

— Stephen, son of Gov. John of Massachusetts, 153 n.

— Thomas Lindall, son of John Still, 389.

— Wait Still, son of Gov. John of Connecticut, 23, 24, 373, 380 n, 389, 398 n; his Oath, subscribed as Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court, communicated by H. H. Edes, 369; not the first Judge of that Court, 380; letters from Sir H. Ashurst to, 380, 381, 382; his commission as Judge, 381, 381 n; letter to Sir H. Ashurst from, 381; removed from office, 382, 383; J. Dudley’s hostility to, 382 n; letter to W. Atwood from, 383; his successors as Admiralty Judges, 383; text of his Oath, 384–386.

— William (H. C. 1770), son of Prof. John, 55.

Winthrop Papers, cited, 380 n; mentioned, 396.

Winton, Earl of. See Seton.

Wisconsin, State Historical Society of, 141.

Witchcraft, Some Documentary Fragments touching the Witchcraft Episode of 1692, communicated by J. Noble, 15–26; favorable conditions for the epidemic of, 13; hardships endured in prison by persons arrested for, 14; attitude of officials toward, 14; reparation to some victims of, 18, 18 n; executions in New England for, 21; cases of, in Records of Court of Assistants, 21, 22; in Records of Superiour Court of Judicature, 23–26.

Witheridge, Mary, accused of witchcraft, 23.

Woburn, Mass., S. Sewall’s History of, cited, 10 n.

Wolcott, Hon. Roger, LL.D., xviii.

Wood, William, his patent for making pennies, 204, 204 n, 205, 205 n.

Wood, recipes for dyeing, 220.

Woodbridge, Rev. John, substitute for coin attempted by, in Massachusetts, 84; his Severals relating to the Fund, 84, 85; his scheme not approved by the Council, 86.

Woodbury, N. J., 360, 360 n; imperfect town and church records of, 363.

— Academy, 365.

— Library Company, 365.

— Paul’s Hotel, 365.

Woods, Henry Ernest, A.M., xviii, 69 n, 115; his communication regarding Edmund Gurdon, 356–358.

Woodward, William. See Wood.

Wookey, George, 71.

Woolaston and Arnold, Colt v., 285, 285 n.

Worthington, Roland, 390 n.

Wrecks, fishing for, on the Irish coast, 284, 284 n.

Wright, Joseph, his English Dialect Dictionary, cited, 10.

Writing, recipes for refreshing, 216, 220.

Wyman, Thomas Bellows, his Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, cited, 38 n, 56 n, 112 n.

Wynne, Sir William, 71.

YALE college, confers degree of A.M. on Franklin, 412 n.

Yonkers, N. Y., property recovered by Mrs. O’Neal in, 273, 273 n.

York County, Me., 371, 373.

— County Court, 372.

— Court Records, Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1681, not mentioned in, 108, 108 n; cited, 371 n, 372 n, 373 n, 375 n, 377 n, 378 n.

— Deeds, cited, 372 n.

Yorke, Philip, first Earl Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, G. Harris’s Life of, cited, 205 n.

Young, Edward (1683–1765), his Conjectures on original Composition, 33.

— Rev. Edward James (H. C. 1848), 402.

ZANTZINGER, Paul, 363.

— Sarah Barton, daughter of Paul. See Davenport.