INDEX
Abbeville, Nicolas Sanson d’, reckoning of longitude in his maps, 391
Abbot, Rev. Hull, 300
Abbott, Charles Stuart Aubrey, third Baron Tenterden, his services at the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration, 2, 3
——John Stevens Cabot, his statement regarding the origin of the name of the State of Maine, 369; regarding the first use of the name, 371; his History of Maine, cited, 369 n
——Susannah, original marriage licence for S. Charles and, exhibited, 133
Abigail, ship, 163
Acadia. See Nova Scotia
Accominticus. See Agamenticus
Act of Uniformity, 173
Actors, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on, 158
Adam,——, 97
Adams, Charles Francis (1807–1886), 3
——Charles Francis (H. C. 1856), 272 n; his Antinomianism, cited, 41 n
——Elizabeth (Checkley), first wife of Gov. Samuel, 275
——Hannah, 251 n
——Henry, 250, 251, 252; first town clerk of Medfield, 251 n; killed by Indians, 251 n
——John, President, his opinion of T. Hutchinson as a financier, 240; his reference to a Pope Day celebration, 292, 293; his Works, cited, 293 n
——John Quincy, President, 334 n; his Social Compact quoted regarding Algernon Sidney, 209, 210; cited, 210 n
——Samuel, Governor of Massachusetts, 238, 275; his opposition to T. Hutchinson, 281; his part in the Boston Massacre, 243
——Samuel, M.D. (H. C. 1794), degree of M.D. conferred upon, 316, 320; no copy of his dissertation and no memoir of him to be found, 316
Addison, Joseph, 271; student periodical modelled on his Spectator, 220
Agamenticus, now York, Me., 199, 202; Winthrop plans to land at, 197, 199; first settlement at, 199; certain features of, 200; a unique landmark, 201; name changed by Prince Charles to Boston, 201 n
Agamenticus River, land on, granted to Sir F. Gorges, 199
Agawam, name originally given to Ipswich, 57; Springfield first known by this name, 57; various spellings of the name, 57. See also Springfield, Mass.
Agonic line, curvature of, 386, 390, 394; position of, during the 16th and 17th centuries, 393, 394, 395, 398; during the 17th and 18th centuries, 395, 396; that across which Columbus passed, 386, 387, 389; that ascertained by S. Cabot, 386, 387; that for the year 1500, 387; for the year 1630, 387; discovery of changes in the position of, 396, 397
Alabama Claims, services of J. C. B. Davis on the Joint High Commission, 2, 3
Albee, John, his statement regarding present celebrations of Pope Day, 291
Alchemy, 154
Alderford family, arms of, 190
Alexander, Sir William, Earl of Stirling, 102, 193; gift of Charles I to, 106, 107
Allard, Carolus, prime meridian used in his Atlas Minor, 392
Allason, John, 130
Allen, Ann (Sadler) Harvard, wife of Rev. Thomas, 10, 42 n
——Benjamin, 251
——Bozoun, 178
——Esther (Wiswall), wife of Silence, 281
——James, Jr., 335 n
——Rev. James, 166; a trustee of the estate of Gov. Bellingham, 115; charges against, 115
——Rev. John. See Allin, Rev. John
——Rev. Joseph (H. C. 1811), letters written to, presented to this Society, 311
——Rev. Joseph Henry, son of Rev. Joseph (H. C. 1811), 311
——Katharine. See Willard
——Rev. Thomas, executor of J. Harvard’s estate, 10, 42
——Wilkes, his History of Chelmsford quoted, 234 n; cited, 235 n
——Rev. William, his American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, cited, 276 n
——family, letters written to Rev. J. Allen presented to this Society by, 311
Allibone, Samuel Austin, works ascribed to Rev. T. Shepard by, 162
Allin, Rev. John (1596–1671), joint author with Rev. T. Shepard of A Defence of the Answer made unto the Nine Questions, 140 n
Almanacs, early New England, their value to students of history, 271; those published by N. Ames, 271; rivalry between compilers of, 272; references to Gunpowder Plot in, 289; their way of stating longitude, 382; those calculating from the longitude of Boston, 382, 383; of Cambridge, 382; of London, 382, 383, 393. See also British Nautical Almanac
Alton, John, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98
Ambrose, ship, 102, 191, 194; rear-admiral of the Massachusetts Bay Company’s expedition, 101; meeting with Capt. Kirke on board, 193; becomes separated from the other ships, 197; arrives at Salem, 103, 201, 202 n. See also Lowe, Capt. John
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 321, 336, 338, 354, 355
American Antiquarian Society, 361, 399; Proceedings of, cited, 7 n, 30 n, 372 n
American Historical Record, cited, 369 n
American Philosophical Society, v, 321, 354
American Unitarian Association, hospitality of, to this Society, 183, 352
Ames, Fisher, his comparison between monarchy and democracy, 239
——James Barr, LL.D., death of, xix
——Nathaniel (1708–1764), his almanacs, 271; rivalry between N. Bowen and, 272; his references to the Gunpowder Plot, 289
——Nathaniel (1741–1822), son of Nathaniel (1708–1764), his Diary, quoted, 290
Amory, Rufus Greene, 335 n
Anabaptists, 49; Rev. T. Shepard’s views regarding, 160, 161
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, founded by R. Keayne, 116, 117, 118
Andros, Sir Edmund, 125, 174 n
Andrews, Sir Joseph, 106
——Sarah, daughter of Sir Joseph. See Kirke
Angell, Hon. James Burrill, LL.D., xviii; transferred from Corresponding Roll to Honorary Roll, 352; accepts Honorary Membership, 363
Ann, Cape, called Tragabigzanda by Capt. J. Smith, 200 n; islands near, called the Three Turks’ Heads, by Smith, 200 n; origin of the present name, 201 n; sighted by the Arbella, 201
Anne, Queen of England, 374 n; portrait of, in Old Town House, 126, 127, 127 n
Anne of Denmark, Queen Consort of James I of England, Cape Ann named for, 201 n
Anne, Infanta, daughter of Philip III of Spain and wife of Louis XIII of France, 373, 374 n
Anson, George, Baron Anson of Soberton, results of a false reckoning of longitude in his journey round the world, 198, 199
Antilles, the greater, relation of the agonic line for the year 1500 to, 387
Antinomians, 49; contrasted with legalists, 141 n; suppression of, 167
Appalachian Mountain Club, 361
Appleton, Elizabeth (Whittingham), wife of Samuel, 164 n
——Francis Randall, LLB.., xvii
——Hannah, daughter of Samuel. See Clarke; Willard
Aquamenticus. See Agamenticus
Arbella, ship, 11, 191, 194; admiral of the Massachusetts Bay Company’s expedition, 101; arrives at Salem, 103, 192, 201, 202 n; becomes separated from the Ambrose and Jewel, 197; possible reason for her coming within sight of the Maine coast, 202. See also Milborne, Capt. Peter
Archer, Gabriel, his use of the word “main,” 377
Arctic current, knowledge of 17th century navigators concerning, 197
Armistead,——, his ordinary, 89
Armor, worn by the colonial militia, 38, 38 n, 39, 39 n; Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks concerning, 152
Arnold, John, 177
——Lucretia, daughter of John. See Procter
——Mary (Fosdick), wife of John, 177
——Matthew, his doctrine of the “remnant,” 239
Arundel, Earl of. See Howard, Thomas
Ashley, Rev. Jonathan, of Deerfield, 278
Atkins, Dudley, 294
Atkinson, James, his Epitome of the Art of Navigation, quoted, regarding the reckoning of longitude, 389; his edition of A. Wakely’s Mariners Compass Rectified, mentioned, 391 n
Atterbury, Francis, Bishop of Rochester, 129
——Lewis, stamp on cover of sermons by, 129
Aulnay de Charnisay, Sieur d’. See D’ Aunay
Aurum potabile, 154
Austin, John, 180
Avalon, granted to Sir D. Kirke, 108, 109; previously granted to Lord Baltimore, 108, 109, 110, 111 n, 257; claimed by second Lord Baltimore, 110, 111, 111 n; restored to second Lord Baltimore, 112. See also Newfoundland
Ayeb, James Bourne, M.D., xvii, 335 n; appointed on Nominating Committee, 135; presents Report of this Committee, 187; reads note concerning Harvard College taken from records of the New England Company, 190; his knowledge of social libraries in Boston, 332
Azores, islands, 390, 398; position north of, sought by Winthrop’s navigators, 194; familiarity of 17th century navigators with, 194, 195; mentioned by F. Higginson, 195 n; longitude reckoned from, 384, 386 n, 395, 397, 398. See also Corvo; Flores; Pico, St. Mary’s; St. Michael’s
Babson, Robert Tillinghast, LL.B., xvi
Baby Milk, Rev. J. Oxenbridge’s catechism so called, 170, 173
Bachelor, Rev. Stephen, a nonconformist in England and in Massachusetts, 53; his influence in England, 53, 54
Backhouse, William, books presented to the Massachusetts Bay Company by, 120
Bacon, Eben, 342
——Ezra Henry, A.B., xvii
——Hollister, son of Ebenezer, apprenticed to Dr. B. Gott, 215; text of his indenture, 215–217; identity of, 217 n; his probable duties, 218
——William, 97
——William Spohn, his Medallic Portraits of Washington, quoted, 254; cited, 254 n
Balch, Anne Lothrop (Noyes), wife of Joseph, 339
——Ellen Maria (Noyes), wife of Francis Vergnies, 346
——Francis Noyes, son of Francis Vergnies, v
——Francis Vergnies, son of Joseph C. S. Rackemann’s Memoir of, communicated, 338; text of the Memoir, 339–349; his ancestors, 339; his early education, 339, 340; his health, 340, 341, 342, 347; his college career, 340, 347; his favorite pursuits, 341; his study and practice of law, 341, 342, 343, 345; his enlistment in and discharge from the army, 341, 342, 349; effect of military service on his health, 341, 342; his Southern journey, 342; his familiarity with English and Massachusetts law reports, 342; his clerkship in Washington, 342; becomes private secretary to Charles Sumner, 342; as Sumner’s executor, 343; his connection with civil service reform, 343; his publications, 343, 343 n; his return to Boston, 343; his business association with the Minots, 343, 344, 345; as an executor and trustee, 344, 345; his personal attention to this work, 344, 345; his association with H. Lee and the Union Building Trust, 345, 346; his action during the Boston fire, 346; his hospitality, 346; his association with A. G. Sedgwick, 346; his unselfishness, 347, 348, 349; his partnership with C. S. and F. Rackemann, 347, 347 n; tributes to, after his death, 347, 348, 349; his legal knowledge, 348
——John, one of the “Old Planters” of Beverly, 339
——Joseph, 339
——Joseph Williams, 342
——Thomas Willing, LL.B., xviii
Baldwin, Hon. Simeon Eben, LL.D., xviii; his paper on the Secession of Springfield from Connecticut, 55–82
Ball, Nathaniel, 235
Ballendine, John, 93
Baltimore, Lord. See Calvert
Bancroft, George, his characterization of the Mayflower Compact, 204; M. H. Morgan’s remarks regarding Prof. Eichhorn and, 363–366; his purpose to study for the ministry, 363, 364; M. A. DeW. Howe’s Life and Letters of, cited, 363 n, 364 n; his relations with Eichhorn, 364; Eichhorn’s letter to Pres. Kirkland regarding, 364–366; repeats Belknap’s error regarding the Laconia grant, 372; his History of the United States, cited, 372 n
Bankruptcy, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on, 157, 158
Barat, Humphrey. See Barrett
Barbados, Rev. J. Oxenbridge at, 173
Barkley, William, 102 n
Barker, James Madison, his tribute to F. V. Balch, 348
Barnard, Bartholomew, 120, 126
——John, son of Bartholomew, 126
——Rev. John, son of John, catalogue of Old Boston Public Library made by, 126
Barnes & Cunningham, 308
Barnstable, Mass., East Church, 276
Barre, Mass., first called Hutchinson, 245
Barrett, Humphrey, 235
——Samuel, 48
Barrington, Sir Francis, 52 n; his interest in Rev. E. Rogers, 51
——Lady Joan (Cromwell), wife of Sir Francis, 52 n
——Sir John, son of Sir Thomas, 52, 52 n
——Robert, 52 n
——Sir Thomas, son of Sir Francis, 52 n; one of the adventurers for the Providence Island Plantation, 51; his heavy losses, 52
Barrow, Sir John, his Life of Lord Anson, cited, 198 n, 199 n; meridian of London used as prime meridian in his Navigatio Britannica, 393
Barton Stacey, Hants, Eng., 54, 54 n
Bateman, Thomas, 235
Bates, Edward, his excommunication, 328
Bauer, Louis Agricola, his United States Magnetic Declination Tables and Isogonic Charts for 1902, cited, 198 n; quoted, 394, 395 n, 396
Baxter, James Phinney, Litt.D., xviii; his Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his Province of Maine, quoted, 374 n, 380; cited, 374 n, 380 n; his theory regarding the name Mariana, 380, 382
Baylies, Walter Cabot, A.B., xvi
Baylor, Col. John, 91
Beaulieu, John, 105 n
Beaver skins, law regulating the carrying of, to England, 18; those captured in Canada restored to France, 105; large quantities of, taken by the English, 107 n; profits in, dependent on monopoly, 65, 66
Beecher, Thomas, master of the Talbot, 101, 191
Beer, abundance of, in the Massachusetts Colony, 36, 36 n
Beggars, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on, 152, 153
Belcher, Elizabeth, sister of Gov. Jonathan. See Oliver
——Jonathan, Governor of Massachusetts, 282, 286
——Martha, sister of Gov. Jonathan. See Stoddard
Belknap, Rev. Jeremy, 277; his confusion between the grants to Gorges and Mason, 372; his History of New Hampshire, cited, 372 n
Bell, Alexander, 97
——Anne, 176
Bell & Mead, 95
Bellingham, Penelope (Pelham), second wife of Gov. Richard, 114
——Richard, Governor of Massachusetts, 43; remarks on his will, by G. F. Tucker, 113–116; his first election as Governor, 113; his second marriage, 114; Hubbard’s estimate of, 114; provisions of his will, 114, 115; trustees of his will, 115; contest over his will, 115, 116; his will declared invalid, 116; his tomb, 116
——Samuel, son of Gov. Richard bequest to, 114; contests his father’s will, 115
Bells, absence of, in colonial Massachusetts, 40, 40 n
Benjamin, James, 343
Bennet,——, 303
Berkshire County, secured for Massachusetts in boundary dispute, 244
Bermuda, establishment of Independency in, 166, 171, 173; the sort of Puritanism promulgated in, 167; ministry of Rev. J. Oxenbridge in, 170; assumption of power by the clergy in, 171, 172, 173, 174; Presbyterianism in, 173
——Governor and Council of, their complaint regarding Rev. S. Bond, 174
Bermuda Colonial Clergy in New England, paper on, by Rev. H. A. Parker, 166–174
Bermuda Company, 171; Rev. J. Oxenbridge a member and Governor of, 173
Bernard, Bartholomew. See Barnard, Bartholomew
——Sir Francis, Governor of Massachusetts, 242
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Eng., 173
Betton, Elizabeth Lane, v
Beverley, Eng., 173
Beverly, Mass., early settlers of the Bass River District of, 339
Bhurras, Thomas, 94
Billings, John Shaw, D.C.L., xviii
Birch, Rev. Thomas, his Court and Times of Charles the First, cited, 105 n; mentioned, 382
Bishop, John, 92
Black, George Nixon, xvi
Blackwell, Robert S., F. V. Balch’s edition of his Tax Titles, 343
Blaeu, William Janszoon, 393
Blair,——, 95
Blake, Francis, A.M., xvii
——George, 335 n
Blanchard, Rev. Ira Henry Thomas, 135
——Margaret Bromfield (Pearson) wife of Rev. Ira Henry Thomas, 135
Bleau. See Blaeu
Bleeding, a favorite colonial remedy, 154
Blin, Mrs.——, 305
Blinman (Blindman), Rev. Richard, 108 n
Blodgett, Hon. John Taggard, A.M., xviii; a guest at the annual dinner, 188; elected a Corresponding Member, 190, 355; accepts, 204; his paper on the Political Theory of the Mayflower Compact, 204–213
Blood, James, 235
Blundeville, Thomas, his Exercises quoted, regarding the variation of the compass, 387, 388; cited, 388; quoted regarding the use of various prime meridians, 390
Blunt, Edmund, and George William Blunt, their Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean, mentioned, 195 n
——Edmund March, his American Coast Pilot, cited, 195 n
Bodley, Sir Thomas, 121
Body of Liberties, adopted, 145
Bolingbroke, Lord. See St. John, Henry
Bolton, Charles Knowles, A.B., xvi, 75 n; particulars regarding Gov. Shirley’s family hitherto discovered by, 45, 45 n; further information on the subject given by, 46; his paper on Social Libraries in Boston, 332–338; his paper on Circulating Libraries in Boston, mentioned, 332; his Memoir of C. B. Tillinghast communicated, 358; text of the Memoir, 359–362
Bonavista, island. See Cape Verde Islands
Bond, Henry, his Genealogies and History of Watertown, quoted, 55; cited, 55 n, 252 n, 253 n
——Rev. Sampson, an assistant at the First Church, Boston, 166, 174; his arrival in Bermuda, 173; his previous career, 173, 174; trouble caused by, 173, 174
Bonner (or Boner), Rev. Edmund, Bishop of London, 161
Book of Sports, Rev. E. Rogers’s refusal to read, 51
Boone Island, 202; sighted by the Arbella, 199, 200
Borough, William, 387; his Discourse of the Variation of the Compass, 387 n
Boston, 113 n; opposition to Winthrop in, 19; population of (1637), 25; first meeting-house in, described as a mudwall meeting-house, 28; General Court removed from Cambridge to, 69; fire of 1653 in, 118; conduit and market-place desired by R. Keayne in, 118, 121; arrangements for holding Church of England services in, 124, 125; fire of 1711 in, 126, 127; Bermuda clergymen in, 166, 167, 173, 174; name Accominticus changed by Prince Charles to, 201 n; meagre records of, during the early and middle 18th century, 270; churches and newspapers in (1735), 275; fasts in (1735), 279, 280, 299, 300, 303; revival of religion in, 280, 280 n, 299, 300, 303; the weather in, during 1735, 284; celebrations in, in honor of the royal family, 286, 287, 304; anniversaries of Gunpowder Plot celebrated in, 288–291, 292, 295, 305; fatalities in connection with these celebrations, 288, 290, 291, 305; paper on Social Libraries in, by C. K. Bolton, 332–338; their importance in the intellectual life of, 332, 333; list of such libraries in, 333; project for theological library in, 336; bookstores in, 338; Association of Booksellers in, 338; real estate trusts in, 345, 346; almanacs calculated for the longitude of, 382, 383, 384 n; longitude of, stated to be 315°, 382, 383, 384; first almanac stating its longitude from London, 382; its longitude according to W. Brattle’s Almanack, 382; according to E. Holyoke, 383; according to D. Travis, 383; to T. Robie, 383; to N. Whittemore, 383; to N. Bowen, 383; to B. West, 383 n, 384 n; to J. Josselyn, 384; its longitude reckoned from St. Michael’s, 384, 385, 389; its longitude according to the Massachusetts Boundary Survey, 384 n
——Anthology Club, 334
——Art Club, 361
——Baldwin Place, Second Baptist Church opens new meeting-house in, 178 n
——Blue Anchor Tavern, 123
——Bull Wharf, 281
——Chauncy Place, 337
——Church Green, 273
——City Registrar, 270
——Columbian Social Library, 337 n
——Court House, Social Law Library established in, 336
——Court Street, 343
——Exchange Club, 309
——First Baptist Church, 177; J. Procter’s troubles with, 178; Records of, cited, 178 n
——First (Old Brick) Church, 8, 166; Records of, cited, 175 n; fast at, 279, 299; form of covenant used in receiving members in, 324; Roger Williams’s refusal to minister to, 326; persons excommunicated from, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331; Theological Library established in, 336, 337
——Fourth Social (Theological) Library, 333, 338; its beginnings, 336, 337; maintained by the Congregational ministers, 337; library of King’s Chapel deposited with, 337; catalogue of, 337, 337 n; deposited with the Boston Athenæum, 337; later with the General Theological Library, 337
——Friday Evening Club, 338
——General Theological Library, 361; Theological Library deposited with, 337; its organization, 337 n; its officers, 337 n; its homes, 337 n
——Globe Building, 123
——Granary Burial-Ground, 116
——Hutchinson Street, now Pearl Street, 245
——Joy’s Building, 337
——King’s Chapel, Records of, quoted, 124; stamp borne by books belonging to library of, 129, 131; books given by King William to, 130, 131; its library deposited with the Theological Library, 131, 337; its losses, 131; placed in the Boston Athenæum, 131; copy of Mede’s Works lost from, and recovered, 131, 132, 132 n
——La Grange Place, 339
——Massachusetts Scientific Library Association, organization of, 336; absorbed by the Boston Athenæum, 336
——Massacre, 289; T. Hutchinson’s part in, 243
——Medical Library (the first), 333; beginnings of, 334; Proprietors’ Records, cited, 333 n; catalogue of, 334, 334 n; regulations of, 334, 335; turned over to the Boston Athenæum, 335
——Medical Library (the second), 315; incorporation of, 335 n
——Memorial History of, cited, 135 n
——Middle Street, Sandemanian meeting-house in, 100
——Mount Vernon Street, 337
——New South Church, records of contain no records of death, 270; Rev. S. Checkley first minister of, 272, 273; some other pastors of, 273
——Old Colony Trust Company, 308
——Old Public Library (1656–1747) paper on, by M. J. Canavan, 116–132; founded by R. Keayne, 116, 117; his bequest to, 119, 120; conditions of the gift, 120; additional money subscribed for, 120, 121; bequest of Rev. J. Oxenbridge to, 121, 122; bequest of Sir T. Temple to, 122; a volume formerly belonging to, now in Boston Athenæum, 123; nature of the books in, 123; used for religious services by Rev. R. Ratcliffe, 124; Colony Records kept in, 125; property of, taken in charge by the selectmen, 125, 126; catalogue of, made, 126; its losses by fire, 127, 128; advertisements calling for return of books belonging to, 128; efforts to improve and increase, 129, 130; probably destroyed by fire, 130, 131; restores book belonging to King’s Chapel library, 132; unlike the public libraries of to-day, 132
——Old South Church, Church of England services held in, 125; T. Prince’s library at, 130; ball on steeple of, struck by lightning, 284, 299
——Old State House, 121
——Old Town House, erection of, 120, 121; uses of the building, 121; portrait of Queen Anne in, 126, 127, 127 n; destroyed by fire, 126, 127; rebuilt, 127; again destroyed and rebuilt, 130. See also above Old Public Library
——Orange Street, 281
——Pearl Street, formerly Hutchinson Street, 245
——Public Library, 335 n, 337 n; copy of Leybourne’s Cursus Mathematicus in its Bowditch Collection, 130; returns copy of Mede’s Works to King’s Chapel library, 132, 132 n; statue of Sir H. Vane in, 163; librarianship of, offered to C. B. Tillinghast, 362
——Record Commissioners’ Reports cited, 5 n, 8 n, 9 n, 17 n, 27 n, 28 n, 39 n, 40 n, 121 n, 124 n, 125 n, 126 n, 128 n, 130 n, 132 n, 164 n, 175 n, 176 n, 177 n, 181 n, 275 n, 298 n; quoted, 8, 117, 118, 119, 120
——Scientific Library, 333; Proprietors’ Records, cited, 333 n
——Scollay Square, early meetings of the Second Baptist Church held at J. Procter’s schoolhouse in, 178
——Second Baptist Church, organization of, 178; new meetinghouse of, 178 n; dispute over J. Procter’s accounts with, 178 n
——Second (North) Church, 273 n
——Selectmen, demands of, regarding town property, 125, 126; their concern over neglect to register births and deaths, 270
——Shakespearean Society (1794), 254
——Social Law Library, 333, 338; subscribers to, 335, 335 n, 336; its organization, 336; its home, 336; its catalogues, 336, 336 n; its incorporation, 336
——Social Library No. 1, catalogue of, 337 n
——Social Library, Second, catalogue of, 335 n
——Social Library, Third, 333; its organization, 336; its catalogue, 336
——Society for the Study of Natural Philosophy, founding of, 334; its apparatus and records turned over to the Boston Athenæum, 334, 334 n; Records of, cited, 334 n
——Tea Party, T. Hutchinson’s part in, 243; penalty for, 245
——Town Records, cited, 177 n, 181 n
——Union Building Trust, 345
——Union Safe Deposit Vaults, 345, 346
——Warren Avenue Baptist Church. See above Second Baptist Church
——Young Men’s Christian Union, 361
Boston Association of Booksellers, object of, 338
Boston Athenæum, 335, 336, 337; its gift to this Society, 1; the Billings Fund of, 1; book originally belonging to Old Boston Public Library owned by, 123, 123 n; King’s Chapel library placed in, 131; copy of Mede’s Works turned over to, 132; many societies absorbed by, 334; representative of the intellectual life of Boston, 334
Boston Journal, C. B. Tillinghast’s connection with, 359, 360
Boston News-Letter, quoted, 219
Boston Port Bill, 245
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 336
Bowee,——, 94
Bowen, Clarence Winthrop, Ph.D., xviii; his Boundary Disputes of Connecticut, cited, 60 n, 81 n
——Nathan, author of the New England Diary, 271; rivalry between N. Ames and, 272; his references to the Gunpower Plot, 289; longitude of Boston as given in his New England Diary (1735), 383; facsimile of titlepage of this almanac, mentioned, 383
——Rev. Penuel, 275
Bowers, John, document showing grants of land to, exhibited, 250; text of the document, 251, 252; killed by Indians, 251 n
Boyle, John, his imprinted Journal quoted, 100, 290; cited, 290 n
Boylston, Elizabeth. See Cunningham
Brackett, John Quincy Adams, Governor of Massachusetts, 360
Braddock, Gen. Edward, 93
Bradford, Rev. James, 50 n
——William, Governor of Plymouth Colony, his account of the Mayflower Compact, 205; his History of Plymouth Plantation, quoted, 205; cited, 205 n, 260 n
Bradstreet, Rev. Simon, 129
Brandon, Joseph, 164
Brattle, Oliver, 303
——Thomas, 124
——William, his Almanack for 1694 calculated from the meridian of Boston, 382
Breck, Edward, 214
——Elizabeth (Wainwright), wife of Rev. Robert (H. C. 1700), 214
——Rev. Robert (H. C. 1700), 214; his bequest to his son-in-law, 214, 215, 278
——Rev. Robert (H. C. 1730), son of Rev. Robert (H. C. 1700), 214, 278, 306
——Samuel, son of Rev. Robert (H. C. 1700), 215
——Sarah, daughter of Rev. Robert (H. C. 1700). See Gott
Breda, Treaty of, 122 n
Brereton, John, 377
Brewster, Frank, A.M., xvi
Bricks, early manufacture of, in Salem, 26
Bridge,——, 52 n
Briggs, Samuel, his Essays, Humor and Poems of Nathaniel Ames, quoted, 289; cited, 289 n
Brigham, Anna (Gott), wife of Dr. Samuel, the elder, 215
——Clarence Saunders, a guest at the annual dinner, 188, 358
——Dr. Samuel, the elder, 215
——Dr. Samuel, the younger, son of Dr. Samuel the elder, 215
Bristoe stones. See Bristol stones
Bristol, Eng., ship Lyon sails from, 202 n
Bristol, Earl of. See Digby
Bristol stones, 156
British Nautical Almanac, first published, 384, 384 n, 396
Britten, Frederick James, his Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers, cited, 199 n
Bronson, Henry, 61 n
Brooke, Lord. See Greville
Brookline, Mass., 309
Brooks, Edward, 336
——James Willson, A.M., xvii
——Thomas, 235
Brown, Richard, his History of the Island of Cape Breton, cited, 105 n, 109 n
——Thomas, 235
Browne, Rev. Robert, principles of Congregationalism formulated by, 322
——William, of Salem, silver given to Harvard College by, 400
Bruton, Capt.——, 107 n
Bryant, William Cullen, and Sydney Howard Gay, their History of the United States, cited, 369 n, 375 n; their statement regarding the first use of the name of Maine, 371; give the true origin of the name, 375
Buckingham, Duke of. See Villiers, George
Buckminster, Rev. Joseph Stevens, 334, 338; Memoirs of, cited, 334 n
Buffalo Historical Society, 361
Bulkeley, Peter, 234, 234 n, 236
Bumstead, Jeremiah, his Diary, quoted, 273
Bunnian, Joseph, 94
Burbeen,——, 306
Burch,——, 303 n
Burd,——, 303
Burden, Capt.——, 91
Burdon, Ann, her excommunication, 331
Burke, Edmund, 239
Burlamachi, Philip, 105 n
Burnett, Edward, 308
——Esther, daughter of Edward. See Cunningham
Burning-glass, 155
Burr, Jehu, on committee of representatives from Springfield to the General Court of Connecticut, 62, 63; removes to Southern Connecticut, 63; represents Fairfield in the General Court, 63 n; appointed collector for Agawam, 65
——John. See Burr, Jehu
Burrill, Sarah. See Taylor
Burroughs, Rev. Charles, 337 n
Burt, Henry Martin, his First Century of the History of Springfield, cited, 62 n, 77 n
Burton, Col. Ralph, 94
Busse, William, 235
Butler, Jane. See Oxenbridge
——Samuel, 271; his Hudibras, quoted, 87
——Sigourney, 308
Buttrick, William, 235
Byington, Rev. Ezra Hoyt, his Puritan in England and New England, quoted, 262; cited, 262 n
Byles, Rev. Mather, 275, 298, 299, 300, 301, 303, 304
Cabot, Lotus, A.B., xvi
——Sebastian, second point of no declination ascertained by, 386, 387
Caen, Emeric de, receives surrender of Quebec, 107
Cæsar, a negro, Scarlet family poisoned by, 285.
Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, quoted, 52 n; cited, 52 n, 105 n, 106 n, 109 n, 110 n, 111 n; mentioned, 371; Domestic, quoted, 50, 51, 54; cited, 51 n, 54 n, 169 n, 374 n, 381 n; mentioned, 382
Callender, Rev. Elisha, 176, 178
Calvert, Cecil, second Baron Baltimore, charter of Maryland granted to, 109; Avalon claimed by, 110, 111, 111 n; his petitions regarding this grant, 111 n; Avalon restored to, 112
——Sir George, first Baron Baltimore, 109, 380, 380 n; Avalon granted to, 108, 109, 111 n, 257; said to have been abandoned by, 109, 111, 111 n; name Crescentia designed for Maryland by, 381
——family, reasons for the religious freedom established by, in Maryland, 261
Calvin, Jean, 122
Cambridge, Mass., Synod of 1637 at, 6, 67; early route between Charlestown and, 7, 7 n; Massachusetts election court held at (1637), 13, 13 n, 15, 19; (1638) 159; failure of the effort to transfer seat of government to, 29; events leading to the establishment of Harvard College at, 43, 44, 138, 139; Hooker colony emigrates to Hartford from, 56, 137; Rev. T. Shepard settles in, 137; General Court removed to Boston from, 69; almanacs calculated for the longitude of, 382
——Kirkland Street, 7 n
Cambridge Historical Society, Publications of, cited, 400 n
Cambridge Modern History, cited, 101 n
Cambridge University, 48 n
——Emmanuel College, Rev. T. Shepard a graduate of, 41, 139
——Sydney College, 63
——Trinity College, 41
Campbell, Collin, 89
Camden, William, 393
Canary Islands, longitude reckoned from the meridian of, 389, 391, 392
Canavan, Michael Joseph, 132 n; paper by, on the Old Boston Public Library, 116–132; discussion of the paper, 132, 133
Candles, colonial use of, 31, 32
Canterbury Cathedral, tablet in memory of S. Willard in, 133
Capaock Island. See Martha’s Vineyard
Cape Cod, Gosnold’s landing on, 257
Cape Verde, meridian of, used as prime meridian, 392
Cape Verde Islands, 395; meridian of, used as prime meridian, 390, 392
Capet, Hugh, 370
Carew, Joyce (Clopton), Lady Carew, wife of George Carew, Baron Carew of Clopton and Earl of Totnes, 374 n
Carlisle, Earl of. See Hay
Carlyle, Maj. John, 97, 98, 99
Carolana, grant of, to Sir R. Heath, 381, 381 n
Carolina. See Carolana
Caroline, Queen of George II, her birthday celebrated in Boston (1732), 286
Carr, Walter Albert, 232
Carter, Franklin, LL.D., xviii; delegate to inauguration of President Lowell, 399
Carver, John, 260
Cary, Robert, his Chronologicall Account of Ancient Time, mentioned, 123
Caulking, Frances Manwaring, her History of New London, cited, 177 n
Cave, Rev. William, his Lives of the Fathers, mentioned, 123
Cavendish, Thomas, 257
Censure, The, or Muster-Roll, 223
Centurion, ship, 198
Chair lifters, 224
Chalfont, George, 255
Chalmers, George, his Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the American Colonies, quoted, 19 n; cited, 19 n
Chamberlain, Hon. Joshua Lawrence, LL.D., xviii; his error regarding the title given to Sir F. Gorges, 368 n; his Maine: her Place in History, cited, 368 n, 369 n, 371 n, 376 n; his statements regarding the first use of the name of Maine, 371 n; gives true origin of the name, 376
Chambers, Col.——, 93
Champlain, Samuel de, surrenders Quebec, 104, 105 n, 193; asks restoration of captured territory to France, 104
Chaney, Rev. George Leonard, 341
Channing, Francis Dana, 335 n
——Rev. William Ellery, 334, 337, 355
Chapman, Henry Leland, LL.D., xviii
Charatza Tragabigzanda, Cape Ann first named Tragabigzanda in honor of, 200 n, 201 n
Charles I, King of England, 163, 207; his effort to govern without a Parliament, 101; his marriage, 101; his commission to G. Kirke and others, 102, 104; D. Kirke’s petition to, 106; restores Quebec to France, 107; confers honors on the Kirkes, 108; asylum offered to, by Sir D. Kirke, 109; expedition to Quebec under commission from, 193; Cape Ann named by, 201 n; changed the name of Accominticus to Boston, 201 n; charter granted by, to Sir F. Gorges, 366, 367, 367 n, 368, 369; his marriage to Henrietta Maria, 372, 373, 374; negotiations for his marriage to a Spanish princess, 373, 374, 374 n, 380, 382; his journey to Madrid, 373; his meeting with Henrietta Maria, 374 n; proposes name Mariana for Maryland, 381; gives it the name Maryland, 381; Henrietta Maria called Mary by, 381
Charles II, King of England, 124; his treatment of Lady Kirke, 110; birth of, 112; sells Nova Scotia to France, 122; Algernon Sidney obnoxious to, 209
Charles IV, Comte du Maine, 370
Charles V, King of France, 370
Charles d’Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily, 370
Charles, Samuel, original marriage licence for Susannah Abbott and, exhibited, 133
Charles, Cape, 379
Charlestown, Mass., J. Harvard admitted a townsman of, 5, 6; early route between Cambridge and, 7, 7 n; committee appointed in, to consider a body of laws, 8, 11, 16, 18, 20; J. Harvard’s real estate holdings in, 9, 10; his dwelling house in, 10; T. Walford’s house in, 18, 24, 26; number of inhabitants in, at Winthrop’s arrival, 24; population of, in 1637, 25; E. Johnson’s description of, in his Wonder-working Providence, 40; first meeting-house in, 40, 41; ship Talbot arrives at, 103, 192, 201; settlement of, 113 n; Southampton ships arrive at, 202 n, 203; ship Gift arrives at, 203 n
——First Church, Records of, cited, 7 n, 8 n; Rev. J. Harvard and wife join, 7; Rev. J. Harvard settled over, 8, 9
Charlton, Robert, 102 n
Chase, Charles Augustus, A.M., xvi
Chaucer, Geoffrey, his description of the Prioress’s manner of feeding herself, 37 n
Chauncy, Rev. Charles, President of Harvard College, sons of, doctors as well as ministers, 42 n
——Rev. Charles (H. C. 1721), 228, 231, 275, 297, 298, 299, 300, 303, 306
Checkley, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1715). See Adams
——Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel (H. C. 1743). See Lathrop
——Elizabeth (Rolfe), wife of Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1715), 273
——Mary (Scottow), wife of Samuel (d. 1738), 272
——Samuel (d. 1738), public services of, 272
——Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1715), son of Samuel (d. 1738), his Diary communicated by H. W. Cunningham, 270; comments on some of his entries, 270–295; first pastor of New South Church, 272, 273; declines call to Haverhill, 272; his marriage, 273; Artillery Election sermon preached by, 273, 274, 275; confusion between his sermons and those of his son, 273 n; list of his published sermons, 274, 274 n; his many exchanges, 275–279; his record of burials, 281; text of the Diary, 295–306; H. W. Cunningham’s comments on the Diary of, referred to, 383
——Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1743), son of Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1715), confusion regarding sermons preached by father and son, 273 n; pastor of Second (North) Church, 273 n, 275; list of his printed sermons, 273–274 n
Chelmsford, Mass., settlement of, 234 n, 235 n
Chelsea, Mass., Gov. Bellingham’s estate in, 114, 115
Chester, Mary. See Russell
Cheverus, John, Bishop of Boston, silhouette of, exhibited, 135, 135 n
Chew, Joseph, his ordinary, 90, 97, 98
Chicago Historical Society, 361
Child, Francis James, 340
——Hamilton, his Gazetteer of Cheshire County, N. H., cited, 277 n
Children, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on the manners of, 157
Chiloe, island, 198
Chimneys, difficulty of constructing, in Massachusetts Colony, 26, 27; wooden, 27, 27 n
Chiswell, Richard, letter to I. Mather from, 123
Chizle,——, his ordinary, 89
Choate, Charles Francis, A.M., xvi
——Hon. Joseph Hodges, D.C.L., xviii
Chrétienne, Madame. See Christina
Christina, Princess, daughter of Henry IV of France, proposed marriage between Charles I of England and, 373, 374, 374 n
Church discipline and visiting committees, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on, 151
Church members, policy of confining suffrage to, vigorously opposed, 56
Churches, paper on Excommunication in Colonial, by Rev. C. E. Park, 321–332; nature and purpose of the church, 322; belief of, regarding the sacraments, 322, 324, 325; privileges of membership in, 322, 323; conditions of membership in, 323, 324; care exercised in reception of members by, 323, 324; form of covenant used in admitting to membership in, 324; attitude of, toward unworthy members, 324, 326; toward non-members, 324, 325; toward strangers from other churches, 325; leniency of, toward delinquents, 326, 327, 328, 330; offences punished by, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331; the use of censure by, 326, 327, 330; cases of excommunication in, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331; of admonition, 328, 329; three kinds of punishment imposed by, 329; restoration to membership in, 329, 330
Churchill, Charles, his poems quoted, 87
Civil service reform, F. V. Batch’s connection with, 343
Civil Service Reform Association, 343
Clap, Eleazar, error regarding medical degree conferred upon, 317; spelling of his name, 317 n
——Roger, his Memoirs, cited, 28 n
Clapboards, use of, in early colonial houses, 29, 30
Clarendon, Earl of. See Hyde, Edward
Clark, John (H. C. 1799), erroneous records regarding his degree of M.D., 320
Clarke, Christopher, 175
——Gedney, 166
——Hannah (Appleton), wife of William, 164 n. See also Willard
——Mary (or Mercy), daughter of Christopher. See Minot
——Rebecca, wife of Christopher, 175
——Rebecca, daughter of Christopher. See Taylor
——Richard, son of William, 163 n
——William, 163, 163 n; his Boston estate, 164 n
Class distinctions, in colonial Massachusetts, 41
Clay, walls of early colonial houses daubed with, 28, 28 n, 31, 31 n
Claybourn,——, 89
Claypole, John, 111 n
Clement, Edward Henry, a guest at the annual dinner, 188
Clergy, the social leaders in colonial Massachusetts, 42; their knowledge of medicine, 42 n, 214, 215; leaders in all public affairs, 56; policy of confining suffrage to church members favored by majority of, 56; part played by, in political affaire of Connecticut, 74; less powerful than the magistrates, 167, 168; system of church government forced on first colonists by, 168
Cleveland, Grover, death of, announced, 182, 183
Clifford, Charles Warren, A.M., xvi
Clink, prison, 161
Clinton, Bridget (Fiennes), Countess of Lincoln, T. Dudley’s letters to, cited, 27 n, 37 n, 112 n, 113 n
Clothing, regulations regarding, in the Massachusetts Colony, 39
Clough, Samuel, almanacs made by, 126; longitude of Boston as given in his Kalendarium Nov-Anglicanum, 383
Cod, Cape, Winthrop’s ships approach, 197
Coddington, William, not admitted to the Lord’s Supper at Salem (1630), 325
Codman, Ogden, xvii; elected a Resident Member, 190, 355; accepts, 204
Coffee, lack of, in the Massachusetts Colony, 36
——Joshua, his History of Newbury quoted, 293, 294; cited, 294 n
——Rev. Paul, 277
Coin, colonial substitutes for, 32
Coin scales, necessity of, in colonial days, 151
Cole,——, 306
——John, indenture of apprenticeship of J. Taylor to, 179, 180
Coleman,——, 95
Collection des Manuscrits relatifs à la Nouvelle-France, cited, 107 n
Colman, Rev. Benjamin, 126, 275, 283, 298, 301; letter of Rev. J. Edwards to, regarding the revival of religion in the Connecticut valley, 280 n
——Jane, daughter of Rev. Benjamin. See Turell
Colonial Society of Massachusetts, change suggested in hour of meetings of, 183; gift of A. McF. Davis to, 184, 188; sends vote of thanks to Allen family for gift of letters, 311; sends delegate to inauguration of A. L. Lowell, 353; members of, among delegates at inauguration of President Lowell, 399; address of salutation sent by this Society to President Lowell, 400, 401; this address written by H. Lefavour, 400 n
——Auditing Committee, appointment of, 135, 311; Report of, 187, 357
——Committee of Publication, ii
——Corresponding Members, xviii; death of, xix, 2, 182, 183, 189, 353 election of, 2, 3, 100, 183, 190; additions to, reported, 53, 135, 204, 355
——Corresponding Secretary, 401; election of, 187, 355, 358; reports new members, 1, 53, 100, 135, 204, 238, 363. See also Noble, John; Park, Rev. Charles Edwards
——Council, xv; J. E. Thayer elected a member of, 184; T. Minns elected a member of, 53, 184, 363; H. A. Parker elected a member of, 187; tribute of, to J. Noble, 350, 351; Annual Report of, 183, 184, 352–355; M. Dexter elected a member of, 358
——Editor of Publications, ii, 352; permanent fund needed for support of this office, 184, 352, 353. See also Matthews, Albert
——Honorary Members, xviii; death of, xix, 182, 183, 353; additions to, reported, 363; election of, 183, 352
——Nominating Committee, appointment of, 135, 311; Report of, 187, 357, 358
——President, 53, 100, 135, 182, 188, 189, 204, 256, 311, 352, 358, 363, 401; speaks regarding three deceased members of this Society, 182; election of, 187, 358; announces the death of W. Gibbs, 189. See also Lefavour, Henry
——Publications, cited, 45 n, 100 n, 127 n, 130 n, 135 n, 163 n, 164 n, 177 n, 178 n, 254 n, 255 n, 275 n, 282 n, 286 n, 291 n, 311 n, 332 n; funds needed for, 184, 352, 353; gift of A. McF. Davis added to funds for, 187
——Recording Secretary, election of, 187, 358. See also Cunningham, Henry Winchester
——Registrar, election of, 187, 358. See also Gay, Frederick Lewis
——Resident Members, xvi, xvii, 1; death of, xix, 182, 183, 353; election of, 2, 53, 183, 190, 352, 355; additions to, reported, 53, 100, 204, 238, 363
——Stated Meetings, 1, 53, 100, 135, 189, 238, 256, 311, 352, 363
——Treasurer, Annual Report of, 185, 186, 356, 357; election of, 187; 358. See also Edes, Henry Herbert
——Vice-Presidents, 1; election of, 187, 358. See also Goodwin, William Watson; Knowlton, Marcus Perrin
Colonization, early attempts at American, 256, 257; motives underlying these attempts, 257, 258; family life necessary to successful, 263
Colston,——, 96
Columbus, Christopher, agonic line crossed by, 386, 387, 389; Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of, to America, cited, 386 n
Commissioners of the United Colonies. See United Colonies
Company of New France, fleet sent to Quebec by, 104
Compass, variation of the, during the first voyage of Columbus to America, 386; T. Blundeville quoted regarding, 387, 388; reasons for, 395, 395 n; discovery of reasons for, 396, 397; the reckoning of longitude at sea and, 397
Conant, Roger, 339
Concord, Mass., paper exhibited showing money pledged by citizens of (1653), to Harvard College, 232, 234, 235; remarks of J. K. Hosmer on this paper, 235, 236; significance of these contributions, 236; early records of, destroyed, 232; descendants of original settlers active in, to-day, 236
Condy, Rev. Jeremiah, his funeral sermon on B. Landon, 176 n
Congregationalism, principles of, formulated by Robert Browne, 322
Connecticut, dispute with Massachusetts regarding jurisdiction over emigrants to, 59, 60, 61; correspondence between Massachusetts and, regarding defence against the Indians, 64; ceases to acknowledge political dependence on Massachusetts, 64; dispute with Massachusetts regarding jurisdiction over Springfield, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 80, 81; attempts at confederation between Massachusetts and, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 77, 79; dispute with Massachusetts regarding jurisdiction over plantation of J. Winthrop, Jr., at Pequot, 69, 70; objection of, to plan of union with Massachusetts, 72; part taken in government by ministers of, 74; plan of government adopted by, 74, 75; Warwick grant bought by, 79, 80, 81; surveys of boundary line between Massachusetts and, 80, 81, 81 n; boundary disputes between Massachusetts and, 244; influence of, on our democratic institutions, 266; constitution of, 266, 267; early form of the name, 366 n
——Colonial Records of, cited, 57 n, 58 n, 61 n, 63 n, 64 n, 65 n, 66 n, 74 n, 75 n, 77 n, 79 n, 80 n, 81 n, 82 n; gap in, 72
——General Court, first session of, 58; constitution of the earlier courts, 61; that of March 8, 1637–38, a Court of Elections, 61, 62; first committees to, from Springfield, 62; action taken by, regarding defence against the Indians, 64; restricts trade with Indians, 65; its demands upon W. Pynchon, 75, 76; grant made to E. Hopkins by, 79; grants duty on exports to Fenwick, 79, 80, 82; repeals tax on exports, 82
Connecticut Historical Society, Collections of, cited, 62 n, 66 n, 67 n, 72 n, 73 n
Connecticut River, called Fresh River by the Dutch, 366 n
Connecticut Valley, revival of religion in (1734), 279, 280 n
Consumptives, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on the capricious appetites of, 154
Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of Connecticut, cited, 56 n, 57 n
Cooking, colonial method of, 36
Coolidge, Archibald Cary, Ph.D., xvii
——Thomas Jefferson, Jr., A.B., xvii
Cooper, Robert, 54
——Susan Fenimore, her Rural Hours quoted, regarding the origin of the name of Maine, 369, 370; cited, 370 n
Copeland, Rev. Patrick, his activity in establishing Independency in the Bermudas, 171, 173
Corey, Deloraine Pendre, his History of Maiden, mentioned, 279
Corn trade, results of W. Pynchon’s monopoly in, 65
Corvo, island of the Azores, 103 n, 195, 398; sighted by Josselyn, 195 n; longitude reckoned from the prime meridian of, 385, 390, 391, 392, 393; magnetic declination of, in the 16th and 17th centuries, 395
Cotton, Rev. John (1585–1652), 20, 55, 119, 276; his sympathy with Anne Hutchinson, 13; J. Winthrop’s opposition to, 17, 19; probable attitude of J. Harvard toward, 41; his proposed code of laws for establishing a theocracy, 147; his attempts at verse, 271; his statements regarding the membership and constitution of the colonial church, 324, 325; his excommunication of Anne Hutchinson, 331
——Rev. John (H. C. 1710), son of Rev. Roland, third minister of Newton, 275, 276, 297, 303
——Rev. Roland, 276
——Seaborn, baptism of, 325
——Rev. Ward, son of Rev. Roland, 276, 300, 301
Cotton manufacture, introduction of, into Massachusetts, 48, 49
Coulthard, Mrs.——, 89
Country rate, relative importance of Massachusetts settlements shown by distribution of the, 24, 25
Cox,——, 95
Cradock, Matthew, proceedings against (1633), 12 n
Craik, Alexander, 97
Crane, Hon. Winthrop Murray, LL.D., xvii
Crawford, Valentine, 98
Crehore, George Clarendon, 308
——Mary Ann, daughter of George Clarendon. See Cunningham
Cresap, Col. Thomas, 94
Crescentia, name designed by Lord Baltimore for Maryland, 381
Crime, extraordinary penalties for, in Massachusetts Colony, 16, 18
Crocker, John, his case against T. Shaw, 26 n
Cromwell, Sir Henry, 52 n
——Lady Joan, daughter of Sir Henry. See Barrington
Crosby, Ebenezer, erroneous records regarding his degree of M.D., 320
Cummins, Sarah, 97
Cunningham, A. & C, 307
——Alan, son of Stanley (H. C. 1877), 309
——Alice, daughter of Stanley (H. C. 1877), 309
——Andrew (d. 1735), 281, 296, 307
——Andrew, son of James, 307
——Charles, son of Andrew, 307
——Elizabeth (Boylston), wife of James, 307
——Elizabeth (Wheeler), wife of William, 307
——Esther (Burnett) wife of Stanley (H. C. 1901), 308
——Francis, son of Stanley (H. C. 1877), 309
——Frederic (H. C. 1845), son of Charles, 307
——Frederic (H. C. 1874), son of Frederic (H. C. 1845), 307
——George Clarendon, son of Stanley (H. C. 1877), 309
——Henry Winchester, A.B., v, xv, xvi, 308, 350; elected Recording Secretary of this Society, 187, 358; communicates the Diary of the Rev. Samuel Checkley (1735), 270; his comments on this Diary, 270–295; these referred to, 383
——James, son of William, 307
——Julia, daughter of Frederic (H. C. 1845). See Lawrence
——Mary, daughter of Stanley (H. C. 1877), 309
——Mary Ann (Crehore), wife of Stanley (H. C. 1877), 308
——Mary (Lewis), wife of Andrew, 307
——Roxalina (Dabney), wife of Charles, 307
——Sarah (Gibson), wife of Andrew, 307
——Sarah Maria (Parker), wife of Frederic (H. C. 1845), 307
——Stanley, A.B. (H. C. 1877), son of Frederic (H. C. 1845), death of, reported, 183; Memoir of, by L. Swift, communicated, 306; text of the Memoir, 307–310; his ancestors, 307; his residence, 307, 308, 309; his education, 308; his business relations, 308; his death, 308; his marriage, 308; his children, 308, 309; elected a member of this Society, 309; clubs of which he was a member, 309; his personal characteristics, 309, 310
——Stanley (H. C. 1901), son of Stanley (H. C. 1877), 308
——William, son of Andrew, 307
Cunningham, Barnes &, 308
Curtis, Caleb, 342
Curtiss, Frederic Haines, xvii
Curwen, Samuel, his Journal and Letters, cited, 254 n
Cushing, Caleb (1800–1879), 277
——Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and wife of Rev. Jonathan, 277
——Rev. James, son of Rev. Caleb, 277, 302, 305
——James Stevenson, his Genealogy of the Cushing Family, cited, 277 n
——Thomas, 277
Cuttyhunk, Gosnold’s visit to, 257
Dabney, Charles William (H. C. 1844), 307
——Roxalina. See Cunningham
Dakeyn, Thomas, 235
Dalrymple, Col. William, 250, 250 n
Dalton, Capt. John, 93, 95, 97
——Tristram, 294
Danforth, Rev. Samuel, his Almanack for 1647, 382; facsimile of titlepage of, 382 n
Danzy, Capt.——, 95
Darling, Abigail (Reed), wife of George, 288, 288 n
——George, 288 n
——James, son of George, 288, 288 n
——John. See Darling, James
D’Aunay de Charnisay, Charles de Menou, Sieur, 108 n
Davenport, Abigail (Hutchinson), wife of John (H. C. 1721), 283
——Elizabeth, wife of Judge Addington, 283
——Rev. John (d. 1670), letter to J. Winthrop, Jr., from, quoted, 108 n
——John (H. C. 1721), son of Addington, 228, 229, 230, 231, 283, 284, 305
——Lucy, daughter of Judge Addington. See Turell
Davis, Andrew McFarland, A.M., v, xvi; his paper on John Harvard’s Life in America, or Social and Political Life in New England in 1637–1638, 3–45; this paper prepared for 300th anniversary of Harvard’s birth, 4 n; his paper on Hints of contemporary Life in the Writings of Thomas Shepard, 136–162; discussion of this paper, 163; gift of, to this Society, 184, 187; reads paper on Dr. Benjamin Gott for H. Davis, 213; presides at stated meeting, 238; his remarks on Gov. Hutchinson, 246; on Auditing Committee, 311, 357
——Charles, 335 n
——Charles Henry, A.B., xvi
——Daniel, 335 n
——Hon. Horace, LL.D., xviii; his paper on Dr. Benjamin Gott, 214–219; delegate to inauguration of President Lowell, 399
——John (1550–1605), 386, 387; his First Booke of the Seamans Secrets, quoted, regarding the prime meridian of St. Michael’s, 385, 396; Voyages and Works of, cited, 385 n
——John, carpenter, charges of Mrs. Hibbins against, 327, 328
——Judge John, 334
——John, Governor of Massachusetts, 2
——John Chandler Bancroft, his death announced, 2, 183; W. W. Goodwin’s tribute to, 2, 3; his political and diplomatic services, 2, 3; his published works, 3; degree conferred upon, by Columbia University, 3
——William Thomas, his Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, cited, 38 n
Dean, John Ward, 167; C. W. Tuttle’s Capt. John Mason edited by, 381
Deane, Charles, 241; points out Belknap’s error regarding the Laconia grant, 372 n; gives true origin of the name Maine, 376
——Rev. Samuel, his Journal, quoted, 292; cited, 292 n
Debt, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on imprisonment for, 157, 158
Dedham Historical Register, cited, 290 n
Deene, Thomas, 235
Delisle, Guillaume, prime meridian used in his Atlas, 392
Demented persons, early treatment of, 155
Deming, Mrs.——, 300
Democracy, F. Ames’s comparison of, with monarchy, 239
De Normandie, Rev. James, a guest at the annual dinner, 358
Derby, Capt. Richard, news of Battle of Lexington carried to England by, 249
Dermer, Capt. Thomas, 378
Devil, effigies of the Pope and, carried in Gunpowder Plot celebrations, 288, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294
Dewey, Francis Henshaw, a guest at the annual dinner, 358
Dexter, Aaron, signs petition in regard to conferring medical degrees at Harvard College, 318, 319; honorary degree of M.D. conferred upon, 321
——Franklin Bowditch, Litt.D., xviii, 231 n
——Rev. Morton, A.M., xvii; his paper on Some Differences between Plymouth and Jamestown, 256–270; elected a Member of the Council of this Society, 358; declines to serve on Council, 363
——Thomas, 16 n
Dialect Notes, cited, 291 n
Dick, Charles, 96
Dickinson, John Woodbridge, 360
Dictionary of National Biography, cited, 374 n
Digby, John, first Earl of Bristol, 373
Dish-milk, 155
Dixwell, John, 334
Doctor, word used synonymously with physician, 319
Dole, Rev. Charles Fletcher, his tribute to F. V. Balch, 349
Dominical letters, 272
Doncastle, John, 95
Dorby. See Darby
Dorchester, Mass., official employed to drive the cows in, 39, 40; church organization of, removed to Windsor, Ct., 56, 57 n, 58; new church formed in, 57; settlement of, 113 n. See also Windsor, Ct.
——First Church, Records of, cited, 57 n
Doubleday, Page & Co., v
Doyle, John, his silhouette of Bishop Cheverus, exhibited, 135
Drake, Sir Francis, 257
——Samuel Gardner, his History and Antiquities of Boston, quoted, 270; cited, 270 n, 275 n
Drums, use of, in the Massachusetts Colony, 39, 40, 40 n
Drunkenness, in the Massachusetts Colony, 37 n
Dryden, John, 271
Dudley, Joseph, Governor of Massachusetts, his commission as Governor, 124; letter of, to the Lords of Trade, quoted, 126 n, 127 n
——Paul, son of Gov. Joseph, 178
——Sir Robert, his Arcano del Mare, quoted, regarding the prime meridian, 390, 391, 397
——Thomas, Governor of Massachusetts, 12, 43; criticized for the extravagance of his house in Cambridge, 29; letters of, to the Countess of Lincoln, cited, 27 n, 37 n, 112 n, 113 n; system of church government forced upon, 168; not admitted to the Lord’s Supper at Salem (1630), 325
Dumas, Laurent, 355
Dummer, Jeremiah (1645–1718), 127
——Jeremiah, Massachusetts agent, son of Jeremiah (1645–1718), letter from S. Sewall to, 127, 129
Dunk, George Montagu, third Earl of Halifax, his disapproval of Shirley’s second marriage, 46
Dunois, Jean, takes possession of Le Mans, 370
Dunster, Rev. Henry, President of Harvard College, 168; motto inserted by, in sketch of a proposed seal for Harvard College, 22; his list of J. Harvard’s books, 33 n; an Antipœdobaptist, 160, 161
Dunton, John, Life and Errors of, quoted, 123; cited, 123 n
Duppa, Bryan, 169
Durrell, Capt. Thomas, 286, 286 n
Dutton, Warren, 335 n
Dwight, Rev. Timothy, President of Yale College, his Travels in New-England and New-York, cited, 62 n
Duval, Pierre, prime meridian used by, 391
Eames, Wilberforce, A.M., xviii
Early,——, 96
Eaton, Nathaniel, 10, 44; complaint of Harvard students against, 36, 36 n
Eclipse, solar, of May 31, 1630, 196
Edes, Henry Herbert, A.M., ii, v, xv, xvi, 231 n, 254, 350; his remarks on Gov. Shirley’s second wife, 46–48; exhibits original letter from Gouverneur Morris to Robert Morris, 88; his paper on the Places of Worship of the Sandemanians in Boston, mentioned, 100; reads paper by M. J. Canavan, 116; communicates copy of inscription on tablet in memory of S. Willard, 133; exhibits silhouette for D. R. Slade, 135; communicates marriage settlement between J. Willard and Mrs. Clarke, for D. R. Slade, 163; communicates indenture of apprenticeship of J. Taylor for F. H. Lee, 174; his remarks on this indenture, 175–179; elected Treasurer of this Society, 187, 358; communicates paper for J. T. Blodgett, 204; exhibits document showing pledges from citizens of Concord to Harvard College, 232; his remarks concerning C. Taylor, 255; communicates Memoir of S. Cunningham, by L. Swift, 306; reports gift from granddaughters of Rev. J. Allen, 311; communicates paper for M. H. Morgan, 312; communicates Memoir of F. V. Balch for C. S. Rackemann, 338; sent as delegate by this Society to inauguration of President Lowell, 353; makes oral report on the ceremonies attending this inauguration, 399, 400
Edmands, Joshua, 235
Edwards, David, 123
——Rev. Jonathan (1703–1758), revival of religion in Connecticut due to sermon of, 279, 280; his letter to Rev. B. Colman regarding this revival, 280 n; this letter published in three forms, 280 n
Eichhorn, Johann Gottfried, M. H. Morgan’s remarks on George Bancroft and, 363–366; his scholarship, 364; his relations with Bancroft, 364; with G. Ticknor, 364; his letter to Pres. Kirkland regarding Bancroft, 364–366
Eldridge, Capt. Oliver, 342
Electric Tool Company, 308
Eliot, Rev. Andrew (H. C. 1737), letter from Gov. Hutchinson to, 249, 250
——Charles William, honorary degree of M.D. conferred upon, 321 n
——Edward, Baron Eliot, 249
——Elizabeth (Robinson), wife of Rev. Jacob, 276
——Ephraim, 314
——Rev. Jacob, first pastor of the Goshen Church at Lebanon, Ct., 276, 300, 304
——Rev. John (H. C. 1772), 334, 338
Elizabeth, Queen of England, 366 n
——Princess, daughter of Henry IV of France and wife of Philip IV of Spain, 374 n
Elizabeth Islands, Gosnold’s visit to, 257
Ellis, Arthur Blake, his History of the First Church, cited, 337 n
——Rev. George Edward, 44 n, 244 n
——Sir Henry, his Original Letters cited, 373 n, 374 n; mentioned, 382
Elson, Alfred Walter, a guest at the annual dinner, 358
Emerson, George Barrell, 336
——Ralph Waldo, son of Rev. William, 239, 337
——Rev. William, 333, 334 n, 335 n, 338; Theological Library under his supervision, 337; his History of the First Church, cited, 337 n
Encyclopædia Britannica, quoted regarding the history of the French province of Maine, 370
Endicott, John, Governor of Massachusetts, 18, 113, 168; throws off his allegiance to the Church of England, 11, 12
——William, A.M., xvi
Enfield, Ct., dispute regarding jurisdiction over, 81, 82
England, conditions in, at time of Winthrop’s sailing, 101, 102; Quebec taken by, 102, 104, 193; restores goods and territory captured from France, 105, 107, 107 n; suppression of Roman Catholics in, 261. See also Great Britain
——Church of, J. Endicott throws off allegiance to, 11, 12; J. Winthrop appeals for support from members of, 11, 12; practical separation from, in Massachusetts Colony, 12, 12 n, Rev. E. Rogers’s opinion of, 49; arrangements for holding services of, in Boston, 124, 125; Rev. T. Shepard’s attitude toward, 160; reasons for abandonment of, by Pilgrims, 259; Puritan attitude toward, 326
Essex County, Probate Files, cited, 176 n
Essex County Club, 309
Essex Deeds, cited, 176 n
Essex Institute, v; Historical Collections, cited, 28 n
Estabrooks, Richard, 306
Ethelridge, Mrs.——, 303
Etheridge,——, 303
Eton College, 173
Evans, Lewis, his map mentioned, 96
Evelyn, John, his attitude toward the Massachusetts Colony, 124, 125; his Diary, cited, 124 n
Excommunication in Colonial Churches, paper by Rev. C. E. Park, 321–332; unjust criticism of the practice, 322, 331, 332; an act of self-defence, 326; offences punished by, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330; cases of, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331; penalties of, 329; restoration after, 329, 330
Fairfax, Col. George, 90, 91, 92, 98
——Thomas, sixth Baron Fairfax, 99
False Bank, now Flemish Cap, 196; origin of the name, 195
Familists, 160
Family, the, the unit of society, 262
Farnham, Daniel, 292
——Rev. Luther, 337 n
——Mary Frances, 376 n
Farwell, Henry, 235
——John Whittemore, xvii
Fasts, 299, 300, 303; in Boston (1735), 279, 280
Fawkes, Guy, 157, 288. See also Gunpowder Plot
Fayal, island of the Azores, 386; magnetic declination of, in the 16th and 17th centuries, 394, 395, 396; in the 18th century, 396
Fenn, Rev. William Wallace, D.D., xvii; accepts resident membership, 1; elected a Resident Member, 183; his service in connection with the inauguration of President Lowell, 399
Fenwick, George, 70, 77, 81; his participation in the union of the colonies, 79; grant of toll on exports to, 79, 80
Ferdinand III, Emperor of Germany, 374 n
Ferguson, James, 297
Ferro, island of the Canaries, meridian of, used as prime meridian, 385, 389, 391, 392
Field, Edward, A.B., xviii
Fiennes, Bridget, daughter of William. See Clinton
——William, first Viscount Saye and Sele, one of the grantees of the Warwick Patent, 55, 60, 69
Filmer, Sir Robert, his theory regarding the origin of government, 207–209; his Observations upon Aristotles Politiques, quoted, 208, 209; cited, 208 n, 209 n; his writings widely read, 209; his Patriarcha, 209, 209 n; pamphlets by, presented to Harvard College, 209 n; his writings refuted by A. Sidney, 210, 211; refuted by Locke, 211–213
Findlay, Alexander George, his Directory of the North Atlantic Ocean, mentioned, 195 n
Fingers, use of, in eating, 37 n
Finney,——, his ordinary, 89
Fire out, to, expression used by Shakespeare and Rev. T. Shepard, 161
Fires, frequency of, in the Massachusetts Colony, 26, 27, 28
Firmin, Giles, the Liturgical Considerator, attributed to Rev. T. Shepard, probably by, 162, 162 n
Firth, Charles Harding, 374 n
Fish, Frederick Perry, a guest at the annual dinner, 358
——Rev. Joseph, 275
Fisher, Rev. George Park, LL.D., death of, xix
Fisher’s Island, J. Winthrop, Jr.’s title to, 66, 66 n
Fiske, John, his Old Virginia and her Neighbours, quoted, 263, 264, 268; cited, 263 n, 268 n; his Beginnings of New England, quoted, 266; cited, 266 n, 267 n
——Rev. John, 234 n
Fitch, John, son of Thomas, 282, 283 n, 301
——Martha (Stoddard), wife of John, 282, 283 n
——Thomas, 282
Fitz, Thomas, 105
Fitz Gerald, James, 228, 230, 231
Fitzjoe, Margaret, 92
Flatters, William, 97
Fleet, John, 334; degree of M.B. conferred upon, 314; receives degree of M.D., 314, 315, 320; no copy of his dissertation in the Harvard College Library, 315; title-page of his dissertation, 315
——Thomas, 334 n; printer of the New-England Diary, 272
Flemish Cap, 195
Flemish Islands. See Azores
Fletcher, Robert, 235
Flit-milk, 155
Flores, island of the Azores, 103 n, 195; sighted by Josselyn, 195 n; longitude reckoned from the prime meridian of, 385, 392; relation of Cabot’s agonic line to, 386
Florida, early French colony in, 256
Flour, use of, by American colonists, 159
Folsom, George, his History of Saco and Biddeford, quoted, regarding the origin of the name of Maine, 368; cited, 368 n; his change of opinion, 368, 368 n, 369, 369 n, 375; his error regarding the title given to Gorges, 368 n; his statement regarding the first use of the name Maine, 370; repeats Belknap’s error regarding the Laconia grant, 372
Food, character and abundance of, in the Massachusetts Colony, 35, 36, 36 n
Football, Rev. T. Shepard’s reference to, 158
Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder, his Annals of King’s Chapel, quoted, 124; cited, 124 n
Ford, Worthington Chauncey, A.M. xvii, 363; extract from Washington’s Ledger printed in his Writings of George Washington, 88; further extracts from this Ledger, 88–99; transferred to roll of Resident Members, 204, 355
Forks, lack of, in colonial times, 37, 38; those first used in Europe, 38
Fortunate Isle, meridian of, used as prime meridian, 385, 388, 392
Fosdick, Mary. See Arnold
Foster, Francis Apthorp, xvii
——Joseph, his Alumni Oxonienses cited, 168 n
Fox, Col.——, 96
——Thomas, 234
Foxcroft, Rev. Thomas, 275, 296
France, relations between England and, (1630), 101, 102; asks England to restore captured territory, 102, 104, 105, 105 n; Quebec restored to, 107, 107 n; fear of attack by, in Massachusetts towns, 112, 113 n; Nova Scotia sold to, 122, 122 n
Franklin, Benjamin, 86, 87; Philadelphia Library founded by, 133
Frazier, Nathan, 334 n
Freedom, religious and civil, demanded by Plymouth colonists, 259, 260; religious freedom in the Maryland Colony, 261; colonial ideas of, 261, 262
Freeman, Frederick, his History of Cape Cod, cited, 276 n
Freemasons, facsimile copy of first American book relating to, presented to this Society, 1; title of the book, 1 n
French, the, nature of the place-names given by, 369
Fresh River, name given to Connecticut River by the Dutch, 366 n
Frobisher, Sir Martin, 257
Frothingham, Richard, his History of Charlestown, quoted, 8; cited, 8 n, 9 n
Fruit trees, training of, on walls, 151
Fulk, of Anjou, 370
Fuller, Hon. Melville Weston, LL.D., xviii
——Rev. Thomas, his Church History, mentioned, 381
Furness, Horace Howard, LL.D., xviii
Furniture, character of, in the Massachusetts Colony, 37, 37 n
Gage, Gen. Thomas, effigy of, carried in Gunpowder Plot celebrations, 289, 292
——Thomas, of Rowley, his History of Rowley, quoted, 49; mentioned, 50, 50 n
Gallop, Mary, Rev. S. Checkley, Jr.’s, sermon on the death of, 274 n
Gardening, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on, 151
Gardiner, Sir Christopher, his deportation, 18
——Rev. John Sylvester John, 334
——Robert Hallowell, A.B., xviii
——Samuel Rawson, his Prince Charles and the Spanish Marriage, cited, 374 n
Gaston, Duke of Orleans, 374 n
Gay, Eben, 335 n
——Frederick Lewis, A.B., xv, xvi, 350; publication of Harvard College Records made possible by, 184, 353; elected Registrar of this Society, 187, 358
Gee, Rev. Joshua, 275, 283, 297
——Sarah (Rogers), wife of Rev. Joshua, 283
Gellibrand, Henry, changes in magnetic declination first asserted by, 396; his Discourse Mathematicall on the Variation of the Magneticall Needle, mentioned, 396
Geneva, J. C. B. Davis and the Tribunal of Arbitration at, 2, 3
Gentleman’s Magazine, cited, 250 n
Geoffrey Plantagenet, 370
Geography, Rev. T. Shepard’s use of, in illustration, 156
George,——, 96
George I, King of England, Rev. S. Checkley’s sermon on the death of, 274
George II, King of England, 216; anniversary of his succession to the throne celebrated in Boston (1735), 286; celebration of the anniversary of his coronation, 287; celebration of his birthday, 287, 304
George III, King of England, Omiah presented to, 250 n
Gerrish, Samuel, 270
Gibbon, Edward, 249
Gibbs, George, 338 n
——Wolcott, LL.D., death of, xix, 189, 353; tributes to, 189, 354, 355
Gibraltar, Straits of, meridian of, used as prime meridian, 392
Gibson, Sarah. See Cunningham
Gifford, William Logan Rodman, A.B., xviii
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 257
——Jonathan, business relations between W. Pynchon and, 57
Gillam, Anne, her excommunication, 331
Gilman, Daniel Coit, LL.D., death of, xix, 182, 183
Gist, Christopher, 94
Godman, Elizabeth, daughter of John. See Shirley
——John, lord of Ote Hall, 46
——Maj. Gen. Richard Temple, recovers possession of Ote Hall, 46
——family, Some Account of the Family of Godman, maternal ancestry of Gov. Shirley given in, 46
Goelet, Francis, his description of a Gunpowder Plot celebration in Boston, 290
Golding, Rev. William, his activity in establishing Independency in the Bermudas, 166, 171, 172, 173; his death, 173
Good Templars, C. B. Tillinghast’s connection with, 359
Goodale, George Lincoln, LL.D., xvi
Goodell, Abner Cheney, A.M., xvi
Goodrich, William, 114
Goodwin, William Watson, D.C.L., xv, xvi; his tribute to J. C. B. Davis, 2; elected a Vice-President of this Society, 187, 358
Goold, Capt., 297
Gordon, Mrs.——, 91
Gordon riots, 245
Gore, Christopher, 335 n
Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, land on Agamenticus (York) River included in patent to, 199; charter granted by Charles I to, 366, 367, 367 n, 368, 369; calls his possessions New Somerset, 368 n; title of Lord Palatine not used by, 368 n; Province of Maine granted to Mason and, by Council for New England, 371, 373, 375, 376 n Province of Laconia granted to Masor. and, 372
Gosnold, Bartholomew, 377, 378; his attempts at American colonization, 257
Gott, Anna, daughter of Dr. Benjamin. See Brigham
——Dr. Benjamin, son of John, paper on, by H. Davis, 214–219; his apprenticeship to S. Wallis, 214, 217; settles in Marlboro, 214; his marriage, 214; his bequest from his father-in-law, 214, 215; H. Baker apprenticed to, 215–217; his second marriage, 219; his death, 219; inventory of his estate, 219; his books, 219; obituary notice of, 219
——Benjamin, son of Dr. Benjamin, 215
——John, 214
——Sarah (Breck), wife of Dr. Benjamin, 214; her death, 219
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp (H. C. 1844), anecdote of, 319, 320
——John Hood, 335 n
Goulding, Rev. William. See Golding
Government, theories of the basis of: Hobbes’s, 205–207; Sir R. Filmer’s, 207–209; A. Sidney’s, 210, 211; Locke’s, 211–213
Graeme, Rev. Alexander, 171, 171 n
Grafting, 15
Grain, English, successful cultivation of, in the Massachusetts Colony, 36
Grames, Rev. Alexander. See Graeme
Grand Bank of Newfoundland, 195, 196, 201
Gravity, Rev. T. Shepard’s explanation of the law of, 155
Gray, Asa, 341
——Edward, 335 n
——John Chipman (H. C. 1811), 336
——John Chipman (H. C. 1859), presents resolutions on death of F. V. Balch, 347
Great awakening, the, 279
Great Britain, her present relation with her colonies anticipated by Hutchinson, 243; Greenwich first considered prime meridian for, 384, 396. See also England
——Lords of Trade, letter from Gov. Dudley to, quoted, 126 n, 127 n
——Record Office, correspondence of R. Norwood in, 170
Green, Bartholomew, 382; printer of the New-England Diary, 271, 272
——Charles Montraville, M.D., xvi
——David, 90
——Rev. Joseph, pastor of East Church, at Barnstable, 276, 300
——Joseph (d. 1735), frozen to death, 284, 287, 304
——Mason Arnold, his Springfield 1636–1886, cited, 62 n, 76 n, 82 n
——Nathaniel, 130
——Samuel Swett, A.M., xvi
Greene, Jerome Davis, a guest at the annual dinner, 358
Greenhill, William, and Mather, Samuel, their comments on the writings of Rev. T. Shepard in their edition of his Subjection to Christ, 141
Greenlaw, William Prescott, 196 n, 234 n
Greenleaf,——, 299
Greenwich, Royal Observatory, longitude of Boston reckoned from, 383 n, 384 n; its beginning, 384; meridian of, first considered prime meridian throughout Great Britain, 384, 396
Greenwood, Rev. Francis William Pitt, his History of King’s Chapel, cited, 337 n
——Isaac, 228, 229; first Hollis Professor of Mathematics at Harvard College, 231
Greville, Robert, second Baron Brooke, 55, 69
Gridley, Rebecca. See Landon
Griffin, Appleton Prentiss Clark, xviii
Griffith, Charles, 92
Grimes, Rev. Alexander. See Graeme
Gulf Stream, Winthrop’s ships contend against, 197
Gunpowder Plot, anniversary of, celebrated in Boston (1735), 288, 305; general character of these celebrations, 288–295; fatalities in connection with these celebrations, 288, 290, 291, 305; rival processions in celebration of, 290, 291, 295; the day still celebrated in Portsmouth, N. H., 291, 292; celebrations of, in other New England towns, 292–295; legislation against certain features of these celebrations, 295; gradual decline of these celebrations, 295. See also Fawkes, Guy
Gunston, John, 92
Gunton, Lester, 329
Hackett, Hon. Frank Warren, A.M., xviii; his tribute to J. C. B. Davis, 3; elected a Corresponding Member, 100, 183; accepts, 135
Hadley, Arthur Twining, LL.D., xviii; delegate to inauguration of President Lowell, 399
Hadwin, Robert, drowning of his only son, 284, 300
Hale, Rev. Edward, A.B., xvii
——Rev. Edward Everett, LL.D., death of, xix, 353; tribute to, 354
——Enoch, 336
Halifax, Earl of. See Dunk
Halkerston, Dr.——, 89
Hall,——, 299
——, Mrs.——, 300
——Rev. Edward Henry, D.D., xvii
——George Holmes, degree of M.B. conferred upon, 314
Hamilton, Sergeant——, 93
Hancock, Rev. Ebenezer, son of Rev. John, 278
——Rev. John, known as Bishop Hancock, 278, 305
——John, a member of the Massachusetts boundary commission, 244
Handmaid, ship, 203 n
Harding, Abraham, 252
Hardwick, Christopher, 90
Harrington, Thomas Francis, his Harvard Medical School, cited, 217 n, 312 n, 314 n; errors in this History regarding medical degrees, 312, 316, 317
Harris, Richard, silver given to Harvard College by, 400
Harrison, John, 77, 192 n; marine timekeepers perfected by, 192, 397; award to, 192
Hart,——, 93
——Albert Bushnell, his History told by Contemporaries, cited, 39 n
——William Henry, 187
Hartford, Ct., 64; church organization in Newtown, Mass., becomes First Church of, 56, 58, 137; first General Court held at, 58; her quota of expense and of men in the Pequot war, 63, 64; adopts Connecticut plan of government, 74
Harvard, Ann (Sadler), wife of Rev. John, 7, 9, 34, 35, 42. See also Allen
——Rev. John, 49; paper by A. McF. Davis on his Life in America, 4–45; lack of contemporary allusions to, 4; mentioned by Winthrop, 4; by Cotton Mather, 4, 5; J. Wilson’s poem on, 5, 20, 21, 41, 42, 42 n, 43 n; sails for New England, 5, 6; admitted a townsman of Charlestown, 5, 6; term of his life in America, 6; his probable attendance at Synod of 1637, in Cambridge, 6, 7; admitted a freeman, 7; joins the Charlestown Church, 7, 8; becomes colleague of pastor of Charlestown Church, 8, 9; appointed on committee to consider a body of laws, 8, 11, 16, 18, 20, 42; his real estate holdings in Charlestown, 9, 10; his dwelling-house in Charlestown, 10, 30, 32, 33; his bequest to Harvard College, 10, 23, 23 n, 30; religious and political conditions in Massachusetts at the time of his coming, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16; probably ordained in the Anglican Church, 12 n; Rev. T. Shepard’s characterization of, 21, 139; as a preacher, 21, 22; his open-mindedness, 22, 42; his library, 22, 30, 33, 33 n, 34; his early friends in America, 41, 42; his probable attitude toward Cotton, 41; Winthrop supported by, 42; his will, 42, 44, 45 n; Wilson’s reference to his children, 42, 42 n, 43 n; date of his marriage, 43 n; Rev. T. Shepard’s probable association with his bequest to Harvard College, 44, 139, 140; H. C. Shelley’s tribute to, 44, 45; his burial-place unknown, 45
——Thomas, will of, 5
Harvard College, its early renown, 4, 5; its power to confer degrees, 4 n; the Site of the First College Building at Cambridge, cited, 7 n; Rev. J. Harvard’s bequest to, 10, 23, 23 n, 30, 44, 139, 140; motto inserted by Dunster in sketch of proposed seal for, 22; financial records of, regarding J. Harvard’s bequest, 23; first building erected for, 29; its method of construction and arrangement, 30, 31; its lighting and heating, 31, 32; commodities received by Treasurer of, in settlement of accounts, 32; complaint of students of, against N. Eaton, 36, 36 n; T. Shepard’s influence in selecting Cambridge as site of, 43, 44, 138, 139; Act establishing, 43, 138, 139; committee appointed to secure site for, 43, 43 n; resemblance between this committee and the first Board of Overseers, 43 n; E. Rogers’s bequest to, 49; general contribution to, recommended by the Commissioners of the United Colonies, 138, 139; publication of Records of, by this Society, 184, 353; J. B. Ayer reads notes concerning, taken from records of the New England Company, 190; pamphlets by Sir R. Filmer presented to, 209 n; manuscript numbers of the Telltale acquired by, 220; first Hollis Professor of Mathematics at, 231; paper exhibited showing pledges made by citizens of Concord to, 232, 234, 235; remarks of J. K. Hosmer on this paper, 235, 236; voluntary subscriptions for support of, recommended by the General Court, 232, 233, 236; this recommendation generally ignored, 233, 236; additional grant to, made by General Court, 233, 234; friendly relations of Gov. Hutchinson with, 246–250; Address of the Corporation of, to Gov. Hutchinson, 247; the Governor’s reply, 247; the Governor’s visit to, 248, 249; gifts sent by Hutchinson never received by, 249, 250; gives honorary degree to C. B. Tillinghast, 362; ancient silver belonging to, used at President Lowell’s inauguration, 400, 400 n
——Class of 1721, 231; called the learned class, 231 n
——Class of 1840, 2
——Class of 1877, some distinguished members of, 308
——College Books, quoted, 246–249, 314; cited, 249 n, 313 n, 314 n, 315 n, 316 n, 317 n, 321, 321 n
——College Records, cited, 318, 320 n
——Corporation, fee fixed by, for degree of M.D., 315; petition to, regarding change of practice in conferring degree of M.D., 318, 319; vote of, regarding this petition, 319
——Johnston Gate, 7
——Library, 120; number of volumes bequeathed by J. Harvard to, 33 n; Bibliographical Contributions, cited, 33 n; no copy of J. Fleet’s medical dissertation owned by, 315
——Medical School, paper on the First Harvard Doctors of Medicine, by M. H. Morgan, 312–321; popular error regarding medical degrees conferred by, before 1811, 312; six degrees of M.D. conferred before that date, 312; early provision for two degrees by, 313; regulations for the second degree, 313; first degrees of M.B. conferred by, 314; first degrees of M.D. conferred by, 314, 315, 316, 317; fee fixed for degree of M.D. by, 315; change in practice of, regarding degree of M.D., 318, 319, 320; honorary degrees of M.D. conferred by, 321, 321 n
——Mock Club, 225
——Overseers’ Records, cited, 313 n, 315 n, 316 n, 317, 318, 320 n, 321 n
——Papers, cited, 249 n, 317 n, 363 n
——Phi Beta Kappa, 350
——Quinquennial Catalogue, its errors regarding first medical degrees, 312, 313, 315, 316, 320
——Stadium, student celebration in at inauguration of President Lowell, 399
——Telltale or Spy Club, 225–231
Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, cited, 7 n
Harvard Memorial Society, 4 n
Hatch, Elizabeth, sister of Estes. See Luce
——Nathaniel, 48
Hatfield, Edwin Francis, his History of Elizabeth, N. J., cited, 279 n
Haven, Samuel Foster (H. C. 1826), his statement regarding the general error as to the Laconia grant, 372; his History of Grants, cited, 372 n
Hawkins, Sir John, 257; French colony found by, in Florida (1565), 256
Hawley, Joseph, a member of the Massachusetts boundary commission, 244
Hawthorn,——, 94
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, his opinion of Hutchinson’s History, 242
Hay, James, first Earl of Carlisle, 374
Haynes, John, Governor of Massachusetts and of Connecticut, 12, 64, 66, 76; his election as Governor of Connecticut, 68; member of commission to draw up articles of agreement between Connecticut and Massachusetts, 68, 69, 71, 72, 72 n, 77
Hazard, Ebenezer, his Historical Collections, cited, 59 n, 60 n, 70 n, 80 n, 81 n, 82 n, 105 n, 107 n
Heard, John, Jr., 335 n
Heath, Sir Robert, Carolana granted to, 381 n
Heating, colonial method of, 31
Heaward, George, 235
Hedge, Charlotte Augusta, silver bowl given to Harvard College by, 400
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, 259
Hemmenway, John, 288
Henchman, Thomas, 234, 234 n, 235 n
Henley, Henry, 237
——Susanna, daughter of Henry. See Holworthy
Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I of England, dowry promised to, 101, 102, 105 n, 106; theory that the Province of Maine was named in honor of, 367, 368, 368 n, 369, 369 n, 372; date of her marriage, 372, 373, 374; her meeting with Charles I, 374 n; Mariana might have been named for, 381; Maryland named for, 381; called Mary by writers of the day, 381; so called by the King, 381
Henry II, King of England, 370
Henry IV, King of France, 373, 381
Henry, Prince, son of James I, of England, negotiations for his marriage, 373
Henshaw, Samuel, 48
Herbalists, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on, 157
Hercules, Pillars of, meridian of, used as prime meridian, 392
Heylyn, Peter, his Cosmography quoted regarding the prime meridian, 391
Hibbins, Anne, her charges against J. Davis, 327; her excommunication, 327, 328; spelling of her name, 327 n
Higginson, Francis, 10, 31; his New-Englands Plantation, cited, 26 n; his Journal of his Voyage to New England, quoted, 195 n
——Henry Lee, LL.D., xvii, 346 n
——Rev. John, 168
Hill, Adams Sherman, LL.D., xvii
——Joseph, 305
——William, 111 n
Hillard, George Stillman, 341
Hilton, Gustavus Arthur, LL.B., xvi
Hinchman, Thomas. See Henchman
Hincksmen, Thomas. See Henchman
Hine, Orlo Daniel, his Early Lebanon, cited, 276 n
Hinsdale, Abigail (Williams), wife of Rev. Ebenezer, 278
——Rev. Ebenezer, 301; missionary to the Indians, 277, 278
Hinsdale, Mass., incorporation of, 277; named for Rev. E. Hinsdale, 278
Hobbes, Thomas, his theory regarding the basis of civil government, 205–207; his Leviathan, quoted, 206, 207; cited, 206 n, 207 n
Hodges, Rev. George, a guest at the annual dinner, 358
Holden, Edward Singleton, LL.D., xviii
Holland, Josiah Gilbert, his History of Western Massachusetts, cited, 59 n, 76 n
Holland, Earl of. See Rich
Holley, Rev. Horace, 338 n
Hollis, Thomas, 231; presents pamphlets by Sir R. Filmer to Harvard College, 209 n
Holmes, Rev. Abiel, his History of Cambridge, cited, 56 n; his American Annals, quoted, 367; cited, 367 n
——Ebenezer, 166
——Oliver Wendell, his Parson Turell’s Legacy, mentioned, 284
Holworthy, Frederic Matthew Richard, 237
——Sir Matthew, photograph of Lely’s portrait of, exhibited, 237
——Susanna (Henley), third wife of Sir Matthew, photograph of Lely’s portrait of, exhibited, 237
——family, manuscript pedigree of, exhibited, 237
Holyoke, Rev. Edward, President of Harvard College, longitude of Boston as given in his Ephemeris of the Ccelestial Motions, 383; silver bowl owned by, given to Harvard College, 400
——Edward Augustus, honorary degree of M.D. conferred upon, 321; first president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 321
Hondius, Jodocus, the prime meridian in his Map of the World, 388, 388 n
Hood, Isabella. See McLory
——John, 306
Hooker, Rev. Thomas, 41, 62, 65, 66, 67, 77; migration of his followers to Hartford, 34, 56, 137; letter of, to Gov. Winthrop, cited, 67 n; his correspondence with Gov. Winthrop regarding jurisdiction over Springfield, 72, 73, 74; his arraignment of W. Pynchon, 73, 74
Hopkins, Edward, Governor of Connecticut, 66, 75, 80, 81; elected Secretary of Connecticut, 72; grant to, at Westfield, 79
Horns, use of, in the Massachusetts Colony, 40
——James Kendall, LL.D., xviii; elected a Corresponding Member, 2, 183; accepts, 53; his remarks on H. Vane, 163; his remarks on the Concord subscriptions to Harvard College, 235, 236; speaks on the debt of Massachusetts to Thomas Hutchinson, 238–245; his Life of Thomas Hutchinson, cited, 244 n
Hotten, John Camden, his Original Lists, cited, 168 n, 170 n
Houghton, John, 180
House, Eleazer G., 335 n
Housework, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on, 150
Howard, John Clark (H. C. 1790), 334 n
——Gen. Oliver Otis, 354
——Thomas, fourteenth Earl of Arundel, 380
Howe, Archibald Murray, a guest at the annual dinner, 188
——Mark Antony DeWolfe, a guest at the annual dinner, 358; his Life and Letters of George Bancroft, cited, 363 n, 364 n
——Samuel Gridley, 344
Howe v. Morse, case of, cited, 346 n
Hubbard, Rev. William, his History of New England, cited, 25 n, 113 n, 114 n, 202 n; mentioned, 63; quoted, 114, 200 n, 201 n; his estimate of Gov. Bellingham, 114
Hudson, Charles, his History of Lexington, cited, 278 n
Hugh I, Comte du Maine, 370
Hull, John, mint-master, 127; his Diary, cited, 127 n
Humphry, John, proceedings against, (1633), 12 n
Hundred Associates. See Company of New France
Hunt, William, 235
——William, 96
Hunting, Nathaniel, 228, 229, 231
Huntington, Rev. William Reed LL.D., 340; death of, xix, 353; tribute to, 355
Hurd, Hon. Francis William, A.M., xvii
Hurlston, Nicholas, master of the Jewel, 101, 191
Hutchinson, Abigail, daughter of Thomas (d. 1739). See Davenport
——Anne (Marbury), 20; her banishment from Massachusetts, 13, 16, 19; Rev. T. Shepard’s attitude toward, 41, 41 n; political pressure of believers in, 137; Vane’s faith in, 159; her excommunication, 331
——Eliakim, property conveyed by Gov. Shirley to, 47, 48; appointed administrator of Shirley’s estate, 48; his property sold with that of conspirators and absentees, 48
——Francis, his excommunication, 331
——Lydia, wife of Edward, 273 n
——Thomas, Governor of Massachusetts, 283; his Collection of Original Papers, cited, 10 n; his History of Massachusetts, cited, 11 n, 15 n, 24 n, 127 n; quoted, 46, 47; burned in effigy, 83, 86, 87; satirical epitaph on, 85, 86; remarks on the debt of Massachusetts to, by J. K. Hosmer, 238–245; his opposition to S. Adams, 238; not a believer in democracy, 239; public offices held by, 239; his motives for public service, 239, 240; currency of Massachusetts restored to a hard money basis by, 240, 241; his judicial work, 241; his History of Massachusetts Bay compared with work of other historians, 241, 242; his work as an executive, 242, 243; his position regarding the relation between Great Britain and the colonies, 242, 243, 245; opposes separation, 242, 243; his disapproval of acts of the British government, 243, 244; his growing unpopularity, 243, 244; his work in settling the boundary line between Massachusetts and New York, 244, 245; his exile, 245; his misfortunes, 245; his death, 245; recognition due to, 245; his sound financial views emphasized, 246; field named for, in Milton, given to Trustees of Public Reservations, 246; his friendly relations with Harvard College, 246–250; address of the Corporation of the College to, 247; his reply, 247; his visit to the College, 248, 249; letter to Rev. A. Eliot from, 249, 250; gifts from, failed to reach Harvard College, 249, 250; effigy of, carried in Gunpowder Plot celebrations, 289, 292
Hutchinson, Mass., now Barre, 245
Hutchinson Letters, 244
Hyde, Edward, first Earl of Clarendon, 241
Imprisonment for debt. See Debt, imprisonment for
Indenture, text of mariner’s, 179, 180; text of medical, 215–217
Independence, Declaration of, 205, 213
Independency, establishment of, in the Bermudas, 166, 171, 173
Indian meal, dependence of early colonists upon, 159
Indians, correspondence between Connecticut and Massachusetts regarding common defence against, 64; monopoly of trade with, granted to W. Pynchon, 65; Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on, 152; books stolen from Watertown school by, 250, 252
Individual, the, not the unit of society, 262
Infant baptism, 159 n, 160 n; Rev. T. Shepard’s views regarding, 160, 161
Ingalls, William, degree of M.D. conferred upon, 315, 320; title of his dissertation, 315, 316
Ink, sympathetic or invisible, 156
Ipswich, Mass., first called Agawam, 57
Institute of France, 354
Iron mills, early effort to establish, in New England, 150
Isles of Shoals, 197
Jackson,——, 299
——Charles, 335 n
——Francis, his History of Newton cited, 276 n
——James (H. C. 1796), 320, 338; degree of M.D. conferred upon, 316; title of his dissertation, 316; one of the founders of the Society for the Study of Natural Philosophy, 334, 334 n; of the Boston Medical Library, 334
Jacobs,——, 92
Jamaica Plain, Mass., the home of F. V. Balch at, 339, 346
James, Rev. Thomas, 121
James I, King of England, 201 n, 266; Avalon granted to Lord Baltimore by, 110, 111 n, 257; his negotiations for the marriage of his sons, 373; patent of New England granted by, 379
James II, King of England, 124, 208, 209
Jameson, John Franklin, LL.D., xviii
Jamestown, Va., Rev. M. Dexters paper on Some Differences between Plymouth and Jamestown, 256–270; tercentenary of settlement of, 256; first permanent settlement in America, 256, 257; predominant motive underlying establishment of, 257, 260; long a colony of men only, 263; social character of the colonists, 263, 264; the first women settlers in, 264; slight influence of, on our democratic institutions, 265, 266, 269, 270; demand for more popular liberty in, 268; small interest of its early colonists in local government, 268; later development in, toward democracy, 269
Jefferson, Thomas, 269
Jefferys, Thomas, his American Atlas, cited, 195 n
Jenkins, Samuel, 90
Jepson, Mary, 301
Jesuit Relations, quoted, 107 n, 109 n
Jewel, ship, 102, 191, 194; captain of the Massachusetts Bay Company’s expedition, 101; becomes separated from the other ships, 197; arrives at Salem, 103, 201, 202 n
John, King of England, 370
John’s candle flies, an expression used by Rev. T. Shepard, 162
Johnson, Lady Arbella, 193, 193 n
——Edward, of Woburn, his Wonderworking Providence, quoted, 15; cited, 15 n, 21 n, 23 n, 24 n, 40 n, 56 n, 66 n, 200 n; estimate of the preaching of Rev. J. Harvard and Rev. T. Shepard given in his Wonderworking Providence, 21, 22; his statement regarding the amount of J. Harvard’s bequest, 23 n; his description of Charlestown, 40; not admitted to the Lord’s Supper at Salem (1630), 325
Johnston,——, 90
——Alexander, his History of Connecticut, cited, 82 n
——Samuel, 92
Joittimue, Richard, an Indian, 252
Jones, Charles, 97
——John, 235
Joy, Thomas, 120
Josselyn, John, Flores and Corvo sighted by, 195 n; his Two Voyages to New England, cited, 195 n, 384 n; quoted, 384; his statement regarding the longitude of Boston, 384, 385; regarding the method of reckoning longitude, 384
Journal of American Folk-Lore, cited, 291 n
Juan Fernandez, island, Commodore Anson’s attempt to reach, 198, 199
Justices of the peace, early powers of, in Massachusetts, 16
Keayne, Robert, public library founded by, 116, 117, 119, 120, 124; his residence, 116, 123; his characteristics, 116, 117; Honorable Artillery Company founded by, 116, 117, 118; his will, 117, 118, 119, 120; his legacy insufficient, 120; manuscripts given to library by, destroyed by fire, 127, 128
Kellen, William Vail, LL.D., xvii
Kelsoll (Kelsey) Rebecca, 176 n
Kendall, John, letter of Rev. E. Rogers to, quoted, 52 n
Kettell, Samuel, his translation of the Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America cited, 386 n
Killingly, Ct., 359
King Philip’s War, losses sustained by Massachusetts in, 125
Kirby, Francis, letter to J. Winthrop Jr., from, quoted, 107 n
Kirke, Sir David, son of Gervase, 106 n, 107 n; Quebec taken by, 102, 104, 105 n, 193; compelled to restore goods captured in Canada, 105; his marriage, 106; his petition regarding Quebec, 106; honors conferred upon, 108; La Tour seeks aid from, 107 n, 108 n; grants to, in Newfoundland, 108, 108 n, 111; a royalist and churchman, 109; offers asylum to the King, 109; invites Prince Rupert to Newfoundland, 109; difficulties with the English government over his Newfoundland possessions, 109, 110 n, 111, 111 n; his death, 110, 110 n; his taking of Quebec long considered an unimportant event, 113 n
——Gervase, 102 n; commission and letters of marque furnished by Charles I to, 102, 104, 193; his family, 104; his death, 106
——Henry, his First English Conquest of Canada, cited, 102 n, 104 n, 106 n, 108 n, 109 n, 110 n, 111 n; quoted, 110 n, 111 n
——James, son of Gervase, 104; not knighted, 109 n, 111 n
——Sir John, son of Gervase, 104, 109 n
——Sir Lewis, son of Gervase, 102, 107 n, 111 n, 193; left in command at Quebec, 104; honors conferred upon, 108, 109
——Mary, daughter of Sir John. See Radisson
——Col. Percy, talked of as Governor of Massachusetts, 124
——Sarah (Andrews), wife of Sir David, 106, 108 n; treatment of, by Charles II, 110
——Capt. Thomas, son of Gervase, 106 n, 107 n; Winthrop meets ships under command of, 102, 103, 106, 112, 113, 193, 194, 195; honors conferred upon, 108; death of, 109
Kirkland, Rev. John Thornton, 273, 337, 338, 363; as an intellectual leader, 333; a founder of the Society for the Study of Natural History, 334; extract from his letter introducing G. Bancroft to Prof. Eichhorn, 363, 364; letter from Eichhorn to, regarding Bancroft, 364–366
Kitchen physick, an expression used by Rev. T. Shepard, 161
Kitt,——, 92
Kittredge, George Lyman, LL.D., ii, xvi, 37 n, 162 n, 291 n; offers note on places of worship of the Sandemanians in Boston, 100
Knight, Dorothy, rebuked by the church, 329
Knives, early use of, in eating, 37, 37 n, 38; the kind of knife used, 37, 38
Knollys, Sir Francis, 48 n
Knowles, Sir Charles, 164 n
Knowlton, Hon. Marcus Perrin, LL.D., xv, xvii; elected a Vice-President of this Society, 187, 358
Laconia, Province of, granted to Sir F. Gorges and Capt. John Mason by Council for New England, 372; Belknap’s error regarding this grant, 372
Lallement, Father Charles, 107 n
Lamb, Charles, his method of roasting a pig anticipated, 159
Lambs, Col. Kirke’s, 124
Landon, Benjamin, son of David, 178; his will, 176; Rev. J. Condy’s funeral sermon on, 176 n
——David, 176
——Martha, wife of David, 176
——Rebecca (Gridley), wife of Benjamin, 176
Lane, Gardiner Martin, A.B., xvi; appointed on Auditing Committee, 135; signs Report of this Committee, 187
——George Martin, 339
——Jane, 339
——Martha Ann. See Tillinghast
——Ralph, early colony in North Carolina headed by, 257
——William Coolidge, A.B., xvi, 337; his remarks in communicating extracts from a book in handwriting of E. Turell, 220–231; presents extracts showing friendly relations of Gov. Hutchinson with Harvard College, 246–250; his service in connection with the inauguration of President Lowell, 400
Langdon, Mrs.——, 95
Langfear, Mrs.——, 93
Lanman, Charles Rockwell, a guest at the annual dinner, 188
Lathrop, Elizabeth (Checkley), wife of Rev. John (1739–1817), 275
——Rev. John (1739–1817), 275
——Hon. John, LL.D., xvi
Latitude, early method of obtaining, at sea, 191
La Tour, Charles de St. Etienne, Sieur de, seeks aid from D. Kirke, 107 n, 108 n
Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 109, 136; Rev. E. Rogers’s relations with, 51; his Works, cited, 168 n, 169 n
Lawrence, Amos, 336
——Rev. Arthur, D.D., death of, xix, 353; tribute to, 354
——Daniel, 97
——Julia (Cunningham), wife of Rev. William, 307
——Rev. William, Bishop of Massachusetts, 307
Laws, Scripture the source of, 146, 147
Lead, malleability of, 156
Leathersellers’ Company, 255
Lebanon, Ct., Goshen Church, first pastor of, 276
Lee, Col.——, 90
——Francis Henry, xvii; an original marriage licence exhibited for, 133; indenture of apprenticeship of J. Taylor communicated for, 174; ancestor of, 176 n
——Henry (H. C. 1836), 345, 346, 346 n
Lefavour, Henry, LL.D., ii, v, xv, xvii, 53, 100, 132, 135, 182, 189, 204, 256, 311, 352, 363, 401; elected President of this Society, 187, 358; delegate to inauguration of President Lowell, 399
Lefroy, Sir John Henry, Governor of Bermuda, his confusion between the two Rev. Nathaniel Wards, 167, 167 n; his Memorials of the Bermudas, quoted, 167 n, 170, 171, 172, 174; cited, 167 n, 170 n, 171 n, 172 n, 173 n, 174 n; his account of Rev. J. Oxenbridge, 170
Legal, possible technical use of the word, 141 n
Legalists, contrasted with Antinomians, 141 n
Legge, Commodore Edward, results of a false reckoning in longitude in his journey round the world, 198
Le Jeune, Father Paul, 107 n
Lely, Sir Peter, photographs of his portraits of Sir M. and Lady Holworthy exhibited, 237
Lennox, Duke of. See Stuart, Ludovick
Leonard, Rev. Nathaniel, 228, 229, 230, 231
Leverett, George Vasmer, A.M., xvii
——John, Governor of Massachusetts, 125
——Fielding, 96
——Mary. See Cunningham
——R., 97
Lexington, news of battle of, reaches England, 249
Ley, Henry, second Earl of Marlborough, 14
——James, third Earl of Marlborough son of Henry, second Earl of Marlborough, his attitude toward Gov. Winthrop, 14
Leybourn, William, his Cursus Mathematicus, copy of, owned by the Boston Public Library, 130; copy of, belonging to King’s Chapel library, 132
Leyden, John, 98
——Mrs. John, 98
Libraries, public, difference between early and present, 132, 133; relation of subscription libraries to, 133
——social. See Social Libraries in Boston
Liebig, Johann Justus, Freiherr von, 355
Lighting, colonial methods of, 31, 32
Limestone, difficulties caused by lack of, in Massachusetts Colony, 26, 27, 28, 30
Lincoln, Abraham, 238
——Francis Henry, A.M., xvi; appointed on Auditing Committee, 135; signs Report of this Committee, 187
——Waldo, A.B., xvi; appointed on Nominating Committee, 135; delegate to inauguration of President Lowell, 399
Lincoln, Countess of. See Clinton
Lippincott, Richard, his excommunication, 330
Liquors, use of, in the Massachusetts Colony, 37 n
Lisbon, Portugal, meridian of, used as prime meridian, 392
L’Isle, Guillaume de. See Delisle
Live stock, brought over by early immigrants, 37
Livingston, Robert R., 244
Lizard, longitude of the, 389; meridian of, used as prime meridian, 392
Locke, John, Fundamental Constitutions for the Carolinas framed by, 211; his Two Treatises of Government quoted in refutation of Sir R. Filmer, 211–213; this work cited, 212 n, 213 n
——Michael, prime meridian used by, 386 n
Lockwood, Wilton, v
Log houses, type used by early Massachusetts colonists, 26
Lok, Michael. See Locke
London, American almanacs calculated from the meridian of, 382, 383; relation of the agonic line for the year 1500 to, 387; meridian of, used as prime meridian, 389, 391, 392, 393, 396; magnetic declination of, in the 16th and 17th century, 396
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, his Courtship of Miles Standish quoted, 39; his use of the phrase Spanish Main, 377, 377 n
Longitude, impossibility of reckoning, at sea, in Winthrop’s day, 191, 192, 198; Winthrop’s method of expressing, 192; reckoned from the meridian of Boston, 382; from Cambridge, 382; from London, 382, 383, 389, 391, 392, 393, 396; from the Azores Islands, 384, 385, 386 n, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 395, 396, 397, 398; from the Canary Islands, 385, 389, 391, 392, 393; from the Fortunate Islands, 385, 388, 392; from the Madeira Islands, 392; method of reckoning, 384, 397; reckoned from various prime meridians, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 398
Loon, Johan van, prime meridian used on his map of the world, 391
Lord, Arthur, A.B., xvii
Loring,——, of Hull, 301
——Augustus Peabody, LL.B., xvii
Lothrop, Thornton Kirkland, A.M., xvii
Louis I, Duc d’Anjou, 370
Louis IX, King of France, 370
Louis XI, King of France, 370
Louis XIII, King of France, 101, 369, 373, 374 n, 381; dowry promised to Henrietta Maria by, 102; meridian of Ferro fixed as prime meridian by, 392
Louisbourg, Cape Breton, capture of, 240; cost of the expedition refunded by Great Britain, 240
Lovers, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on, 158
Lowe, John, captain of the Ambrose, 101, 103, 191, 193
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, LL.D., xvii, 308; elected a Resident Member, 352; delegate sent by this Society to inauguration of, 353; accepts Resident Membership, 363; report on ceremonies attending the inauguration of, by H. H. Edes, 399, 400; address of salutation sent by this Society to, 400, 401
——Anna Parker (Lowell), wife of Abbott Lawrence, 399
——Hon. Francis Cabot, A.B., xvi
——James Russell, son of Rev. Charles, 308, 337, 341
——Rev. John (H. C. 1721), 228, 229, 230, 231
——John (H. C. 1786), 334 n, 335 n, 336
——John Amory, 336
Loyd, Robin, 92
Luce, Elizabeth (Hatch), wife of Peter, 283, 305
——Peter, 283
Ludlow, Roger, 16 n, 62, 64, 66, 67, 74, 77; member of commission to order affairs of settlements made by Massachusetts emigrants to Connecticut, 55, 56, 61; precarious condition of the new settlements described by, 63, 64; Fundamental Orders probably drafted by, 66; authorizes commission for uniting Connecticut and Massachusetts, 68, 69, 71
Lyde,——, 96
Lyman, Arthur Theodore, A.M., xvii
Lymefool, Dr.——, Jr., 92
Lynn, Dr.——, 91
Lynn, Mass., Vital Records of, cited, 176 n
McCleave, John, 217
McCracken,——, 94
McCrea,——, 97
McGrath,——, his ordinary, 95, 96
McIntosh, Capt. Ebenezer, 290
McKenzie, Rev. Alexander, quoted, 280, 280 n
McLong,——, 298 n
McLorey,——, 298 n
McLorry,——, 298
McLory, Isabella (Hood), wife of Thomas, 298 n
——Thomas, 298 n
MacMonnies, Frederick William, his statue of Sir Henry Vane, 163
McRoberts, Samuel, 94
McWilliams,——, 96
Madeira Islands, 386 n; meridian of, used as prime meridian. 392
Madison, James, 269
Madrid, Treaty of, 101
Magazine of American History, cited, 249 n
Magistrates, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on taking power from, 151
Magnetic attraction, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on, 156
Main, two senses in which the word is used, 376; its use in the sense of mainland, 376, 376 n, 377, 378, 379, 380. See also Spanish Main
Maine, Popham’s attempt to establish a colony in, 257; paper on the Origin of the Name of, by A. Matthews, 366–382; Documentary History of, quoted, 366, 367, 371, 372, 376 n, 379, 380; cited, 367 n, 371 n, 372 n, 376 n, 379 n, 380 n; this name given by early English explorers, 375; statements regarding the first use of the name, 370; first used in grant to Gorges and Mason (1622) 375, 375 n, 376 n, 380; theory associating the name with Queen Henrietta Maria, 367, 368, 368 n, 369, 370; perplexities connected with early charters of, 371, 371 n; section to which the name was first applied, 372, 373; true origin of the name, 375
——province of, France, theory associating the name of the State of Maine with, 367, 368, 369, 369 n, 370, 373; historical account of, 370
Maine Historical Society, Collections of, cited, 368 n, 369 n, 372 n
Maine-et-Loire, department of France, 370
Mann, Elias, erroneous records regarding his degree of M.D., 320
Mans, Le, France, uprising in, against William the Conqueror, 370
Mansfield, Lord. See Murray, William
Marblehead, Mass., Pope Day still celebrated in, 292
Maria, Infanta, daughter of Philip III of Spain and wife of Emperor Ferdinand III, 374 n; negotiations for a marriage between Charles I and, 373, 380, 382; Mariana perhaps named in honor of, 380, 381
Mariana, note on the name of, by A. Matthews, 380–382; grant of, to Capt. J. Mason, 380, 381, 382; theory that it was named in honor of the Infanta Maria, 380, 381, 382; proposed by Charles I as name for Maryland, 381
Marine time-keepers, perfected by J. Harrison, 192, 397
Markham, Albert Hastings, his edition of the Voyages and Works of John Davis, mentioned, 385; cited, 385 n; his statement regarding two early prime meridians, 385
Marlborough, Earl of. See Ley, Henry; Ley, James
Marlborough, Mass., Vital Records of, cited, 217 n
Marshall, Samuel, 228, 229, 231
Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., 377; called Capaock Island, 378
Martin, Frank Williamson, 400 n
——George Henry, 360 n
Marvell, Andrew, 121
Mary and John, ship, 202 n, 203 n
Maryland, charter of, granted to second Lord Baltimore, 109; religious freedom in, 260, 261, 262; name Mariana proposed for, by Charles I, 381; name Crescentia designed for, by first Lord Baltimore, 381; named in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria, 381
Maryland Historical Society, Calvert Papers, 111 n
Mason, Charles, 97
——Charles Frank, A.B., xvi; original documents exhibited by, 250
——Capt. John, Cape Ann said to have been so named by, 201 n; the change made by Prince Charles, 201 n; grant to Gorges and, by Charles I, 367; grant of the Province of Maine to Gorges and, by Council for New England, 371, 373, 375, 376 n; grant of Province of Laconia to Gorges and, by Council for New England, 372; Mariana granted to, 380, 382; his return to England, 382
Massachusetts, remarks on the debt of Massachusetts to Thomas Hutchinson, by J. K. Hosmer, 238–245; currency of, restored to a hard money basis by Hutchinson, 240, 241, 246; indemnified by Great Britain for cost of Louisbourg expedition, 240; Hutchinson’s proposition regarding this indemnity, 240, 241; boundary disputes in, 244; settlement of boundary line between New York and, 244, 245; laws in, regarding social libraries, 332, 333; occurrence of the name in Capt. J. Smith’s Description of New England, 366 n; method of reckoning longitude in, in the 17th century, 398
——Archives, cited, 176 n
——Bay Company, books presented to, 120
——Colony, code of laws demanded in, 8, 11, 16, 17, 19 n, 20; religious and political conditions in, at time of Rev. J. Harvard’s coming, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16; election in (1637), 13, 14; great immigration to, 14, 24, 25; limitation of franchise in, 14; Act regarding harboring of strangers in, 14; Act regulating qualification for governorship in, 15; early manner of conducting the government in, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 19 n; punishment for offences in, 16, 18; exiles from, 20; relative importance of settlements of (1637), 24, 25; temporary shelters used by first settlers in, 25, 26; character of more permanent buildings in, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30; cause of frequent fires in, 26, 27, 28; legislation regarding tobacco in, 34, 35 n; food in, 35, 36; method of cooking in, 36; dependence of, upon England for many necessities, 37; table manners in, 37; drunkenness in, 37 n; training and armor of the militia in, 38, 38 n, 39, 39 n; regulations regarding clothing in, 39; use of drums and horns in, 39, 40, 40 n; condition of indentured servants in, 40; social distinctions in, 41, 42; introduction of cotton and woollen manufacture into, 48, 49; character of population of, in 1633, 55; emigration from, to banks of the Connecticut, 55; character of the emigration, 56, 57; dispute between Connecticut and, regarding jurisdiction over emigrants from, 59, 60, 61; correspondence between Connecticut and, regarding defence against the Indians, 64; Connecticut ceases to acknowledge political dependence on, 64; dispute with Connecticut regarding jurisdiction over Springfield, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 80, 81; attempts at confederation between Connecticut and, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 77, 79; dispute between Connecticut and, regarding jurisdiction over plantation of J. Winthrop, Jr., at Pequot, 69, 70; objection of Connecticut to plan of union with, 72; hesitates to accept jurisdiction over Springfield, 76, 77; surveys of boundary line between Connecticut and, 80, 81, 81 n; fears of attack by French in, 112, 113 n; causes tending to weaken, during reign of Charles II, 124, 125; government of, administered without code of laws before 1641, 145, 146; first complete code of laws of, 145; peaceful condition of, according to Rev. T. Shepard, 147, 148; motive underlying establishment of, 258, 259, 266; ideas of religious liberty in, 261, 262; the women of, 265; its advantage over the Plymouth Colony, 266; early independence of, 266, 267; influence of Mayflower compact on charter of, 267
——Colony Charter, 11, 15, 191, 266, 267; certain provisions of, 17; revocation of, 124
——Colony Records, cited, 6 n, 7 n, 11 n, 16 n, 17 n, 18 n, 25 n, 32 n, 35 n, 38 n, 39 n, 43 n, 55 n, 57 n, 61 n, 64 n, 66 n, 67 n, 68 n, 69 n, 78 n, 79 n, 82 n, 102 n, 120 n, 121 n, 147 n, 233 n, 234 n, 235 n; quoted, 16 n, 232, 233, 234
——Court of Assistants, arbitrary penalties fixed by, 16
——Election Court, held at Cambridge (1637), 13, 13 n, 15, 19; (1638), 159
——Free Public Library Commission, 360; Ninth Report of, 133; this Report cited, 133 n
——General Court, Act of, establishing Harvard College, 43, 138, 139; conditions of its consent to the emigration of 1635–36, 55, 66; commission named by, to order the affairs of the new settlements, 55, 59; vote of, regarding conquered Pequot lands, 67, 68; removal from Cambridge to Boston, 69; puts Springfield under the government of W. Pynchon, 78; complaints by, of grants made by General Court of Connecticut, 78, 79; action taken by, regarding duty on imports from other New England colonies, 82; first deputy from Springfield to, 82; offices conferred on W. Pynchon by, 82; sittings of, transferred to Cambridge, 137, 138, Rev. T. Shepard’s appointments by, 147 n; Records of, cited, 175 n; voluntary subscriptions toward support of Harvard College recommended by, 232, 233, 236; additional grant to the College made by, 233, 234; a petition of R. Norcross to, exhibited, 250; text of the petition, 252; Act of, for preventing bonfires, 295; Act of, permitting Military Library Societies, 336
——Province Charter, 175 n
——Province Laws, cited, 174 n, 175 n, 176 n, 235 n, 295 n
——State Board of Education, 354; relation between State Library and, 360, 360 n; C. B. Tillinghast’s connection with, 360
——State Library, C. B. Tillinghast’s connection with, 354, 360; relation between State Board of Education and, 360, 360 n
——Superior Court of Judicature Minute Book, cited, 164 n
——Supreme Judicial Court, resolutions regarding F. V. Balch ordered to be spread upon the records of, 348
——Town Boundary Survey, longitude of the State House according to, 384 n
——Trustees of Public Reservations “Governor Hutchinson’s Field” in Milton given to, 246; Reports of, cited, 246 n
Massachusetts Historical Society, v, 120 n, 321, 338, 363; Collections of, cited, 25 n, 32 n, 44 n, 56 n, 57 n, 58 n, 63 n, 68 n, 71 n, 76 n, 78 n, 107 n, 108 n, 123 n, 125 n, 126 n, 129 n; Manuscripts, cited, 75 n; Proceedings of, cited, 131 n, 176 n, 181 n, 241 n, 272 n, 314 n
Massachusetts Homœopathic Hospital, 362
Massachusetts Medical Society, 314; founding of, 321
Massachusetts Reports, cited, 346
Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society, 361
Masson, David, his Life of Milton, cited, 121 n
Masterson,——, 95
Mather, Rev. Cotton, son of Rev. Increase, his mention of John Harvard, 4, 5; his Magnalia, cited, 4 n, 5 n, 8 n, 21 n, 24 n, 28 n, 43 n, 55 n, 58 n, 119 n; quoted, 8, 8 n, 21, 42 n, 53, 58; mentioned, 129; his statement regarding the amount of J. Harvard’s bequest, 23; his statement regarding Rev. T. Shepard’s influence in determining the site of Harvard College, 43, 44, 138; his Life of Shepard, quoted, 138
——Rev. Increase, 123; his degree from Harvard College, 4, 4 n; letter from R. Chiswell to, 123
——Rev. Samuel, brother of Rev. Increase, copy of his Testimony from the Scripture against Idolatry & Superstition originally in Old Boston Public Library, 123; date of its publication, 123 n. See also Greenhill, William, and Mather, Rev. Samuel
——Rev. Samuel, son of Rev. Cotton, 275, 306
Mather Papers, cited, 121 n
Matthew, Tobie, Archbishop of York, Rev. E. Rogers’s relations with, 51
Matthews, Albert, A.B., ii, xv, xvi, 291 n, 350; his remarks in communicating satirical epitaphs on Wedderburn and Hutchinson, 82–87; exhibits an original licence for F. H. Lee, 133; exhibits photographs of portraits of Sir M. and Lady Holworthy, and manuscript pedigree of the Holworthy family, 237; reads extract regarding an early Washington medal, 253; his remarks regarding two celebrations of Washington’s birthday (1794), 254; his remarks on the Shakespearean Society (1794), 254; his remarks on the observances of Pope Day referred to, 291; communicates C. K. Bolton’s Memoir of C. B. Tillinghast, 358; his paper on the Origin of the Name of Maine, 366–382
Maverick, Samuel, 14
Mayflower Compact, Political Theory of, paper by J. T. Blodgett, 204–213; signing of, 204; significance of, according to Bancroft and Bradford, 204, 205; text of, 205; opposed to contemporary philosophy, 205; counterpart of, 213; its importance as an historic document, 259; its influence on our later political life, 266, 267
Mayo, one of the Cape Verde Islands. See Cape Verde Islands
Mead, John, 216
——Rev. Joseph, 105 n; history of a copy of his Works, 131, 132
Mead, Bell &, 95
Medfield, Mass., document showing grants of land given by, exhibited, 250; text of the document, 251, 252
Medford, Mass., settlement of, 113 n
Medical degrees, early practice in regard to conferring of, 313, 318, 319. See also Harvard College, Medical School
Medical practice, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on, 154, 155
Medicine, knowledge of, acquired by colonial ministers, 42 n, 214, 215; early method of acquiring knowledge of, 217; these methods compared with those of to-day, 218, 219
Mein, John, his circulating library in Boston, 130
Mémoires des Commissionaires, cited, 107 n
Memorial History of Boston, cited, 135 n
Mercator, Geraard, his Tabulae Geographicae, mentioned, 390
Merchant Adventurers’ Company, niggardliness of, 258
Mercy, works of, permissible on the Sabbath, 142, 143, 144
Meriam, Robert, 234
Mermaid, ship, 47 n
Merriam, George, 235
——Joseph, 235
Merrie, Capt.——, 88
Merrill, Thomas, 133
Merrimac River, 380
Merriman, Roger Bigelow, 161 n
Meyne, French province. See Maine, province of
Middlesex County, Mass., report of committee appointed to investigate expenditures of treasurer of, exhibited, 250; text of the report, 253
Milborne, Peter, captain of the Arbella, 101, 193, 197; his method of ascertaining longitude, 191
Miles, John, 234
——Rev. Samuel, 132
Military Library Societies, Act permitting, 336
Militia, training of the colonial, 38, 39; armor worn by, 38, 38 n, 39, 39 n
Milk, abundance of, in the Massachusetts Colony, 36
Milk Island, Mass., 201 n
Milton, Mass., Gov. Hutchinson’s Field given to the Trustees of Public Reservations, 246
Minns, Thomas, xv, xvi, 350; elected a Member of the Council, 53, 184, 363; appointed on Nominating Committee, 311; presents Report of this Committee, 358
Minor,——, 93
Minot, George Richards, trust-business and law work connected with real estate founded by, 343
——Mary (Clarke), wife of Stephen, 175 n
——Stephen, 175 n
——William (H. C. 1802), 343, 344
——William (H. C. 1836), 343
——William (H. C. 1868), 344; his tribute to F. V. Balch, 348
Mirick, Benjamin L., his History of Haverhill, cited, 273 n, 277 n
Mirriam, Joseph. See Merriam
Mitchell, Rev. Jonathan, 141
Mitchelson,——, 95
Mock Club, Harvard College, 225
Monarchy, F. Ames’s comparison of, with democracy, 239
Money, law regulating the carrying of, to England, 18
Monhegan, island, Me., 200 n
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, his Journal, quoted, 38; cited, 38 n
Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de, 213
Moore, Rev. Edward Caldwell, D.D., xvii; a guest at the annual dinner, 188, 358; elected a Resident Member, 401
More, Henry, 129
Morgan,——, 96
——Morris Hicky, LL.D., ii, xix; a guest at the annual dinner, 188; elected a Resident Member, 190, 355; accepts, 204; his paper on the First Harvard Doctors of Medicine, 312–321; his remarks on Eichhorn and George Bancroft, 363–366; his service in connection with the inauguration of President Lowell, 399
Morris, Anne Cary, her Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, cited, 88 n
——Gouverneur, original letter to Robert Morris from, exhibited, 88, 88 n
——Henry, his Early History of Springfield, cited, 63 n
——Robert, original letter from Gouverneur Morris to, exhibited, 88, 88 n
Morton, Hon. James Madison, LL.D. xvii
——Thomas, penalties imposed upon, 18
Moshassuck River, 213
Motley, John Lothrop, 241, 275
Mount Desert, sighted by the Arbella, 199
Mourt, George, his Relation, cited, 28 n, 31 n
Moxom, Rev. George, on committee of representatives from Springfield to the General Court of Connecticut, 62, 63; defends W. Pynchon, 65; his letter regarding the separation of Springfield from Connecticut, 78
Mud, walls of early colonial houses daubed with, 28, 28 n, 31, 31 n
Munhiggon. See Monhegan
Munroe, Israel, 335 n
Murdock, Harold, xvii; elected a Resident Member, 204, 355; accepts, 238
Murray, William, Earl of Mansfield, 239
Nantasket, Mass., ship Mary-John arrives at, 202 n
Napkins, abundance of, in colonial families, 38, 38 n.
Nash, Francis Philip, LL.D., xviii; elected a Corresponding Member, 183
National Academy of Sciences, 354, 355
National Civil Service Reform League, 343
Naumkeag River, 380
Nautical illustrations, used by Rev. T. Shepard, 148, 149
Neal, Rev. Daniel, his History of New England, cited, 11 n
Neavil, John, 96
Necessity, works of, permissible on the Sabbath, 142, 143, 144
Neile, Richard, Archbishop of York, his relations with Rev. E. Rogers, 50, 51
Nelson, John, Sir T. Temple’s bequest to, 122
Newburyport, Mass., celebration of Pope Day in, 293, 294
Newcomb, Simon, D.C.L., F.R.S., death of, xix, 353; tribute to, 354
New England, paper by A. McF. Davis on Social and Political Life in (1637–38), 4–45; early effort to establish iron mills in, 150; relations between clergy and magistrates in, 167, 168; descendants of original settlers active in, to-day, 235; influence of, on the political life of the United States, 267; importance of early almanacs of, 270, 271; celebrations of Pope Day in, 292; Northern Company of Adventurers petition for a charter of, 379
New England, Council for, land on Agamenticus (York) River included in patent of, to Sir F. Gorges, 199; grant of Province of Maine to Sir F. Gorges and Capt. John Mason by, 371, 373; grant of Province of Laconia to Gorges and Mason by, 372; grant of New England to, 379; Minutes of, quoted, 380; grant of Mariana to Mason by, 380, 381
New England Company, J. B. Ayer reads notes concerning Harvard College taken from records of, 190
New England Diary, the, an interleaved copy of, communicated by H. W. Cunningham, 270; character of comments made, 270, 271; the title of a series of almanacs by N. Bowen, 271; printers of, 271, 272; title-page of the issue of 1735, 272
New England Historic Genealogical Society, v; C. B. Tillinghast’s connection with, 361
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, cited, 57 n, 58 n, 59 n, 63 n, 76 n, 77 n, 160 n, 176 n, 177 n, 215 n, 272 n, 273 n, 275 n, 277 n, 278 n, 279 n, 281 n, 290 n, 373 n, 381 n
New England’s First Fruits, quoted, regarding the amount of J. Harvard’s bequest, 23 n; this work cited, 23 n; food resources described in, 35
Newfoundland, grants to D. Kirke in, 108, 108 n, 111 n; difficulties regarding these grants, 109, 110 n, 111, 111 n. See also Avalon
Newfoundland, Grand Bank of. See Grand Bank of Newfoundland
New Hampshire, boundary disputes between Massachusetts and, 244; perplexities connected with early charters of, 371, 371 n
New Hampshire Historical Society, Collections, cited, 27 n
New Haven Colony Historical Society, Papers of, cited, 61 n
Newport, R. I., celebration of Pope Day in, 292
New Sea Atlas, quoted, regarding the prime meridian, 392
New Somerset, name given by Gorges to his New England possessions, 368 n
Newton, Capt.——, 89
Newton, Mass., Rev. John Cotton’s pastorate in, 276
Newtown, Ct. See Hartford
Newtown, Mass. See Cambridge
New York, Province, boundary dispute between Massachusetts and, 244
New York City, Union League Club, 355
——University Club, 309
Nicholson,——, 297
Nobb, John Mack, suffocation of, 285, 302
Noble, John, LL.D., ii, 355; death of, xix, 353; elected Corresponding Secretary of this Society, 187; tribute of the Council to, 350, 351
——John, LL.B., xvii; appointed on Nominating Committee, 135
Nonconformists, restraints imposed upon, in England, 136, 137
Norcross, Grenville Howland, a guest at the annual dinner, 188
——Jeremiah, 252
——Richard, son of Jeremiah, his petition to the General Court, regarding theft of school-books by Indians, exhibited, 250; text of the petition, 252; probably first schoolmaster of Watertown, 252 n
Norman, Robert, 395 n; his New Attractive, 387 n
North, Frederick, Lord North, second Earl of Guilford, effigy of, burned in Gunpowder Plot celebration, 292
North Carolina, early attempts at colonization in, 257
Northampton, Mass., revival of religion in (1734), 280 n
Northern Company of Adventurers, their petition for a charter of New England, 379
Norwood, Richard, 167, 170; his complaints from Bermuda, 170 n, 172; reasons for his going to Bermuda, 171, 172; refuses to appear before Rev. J. Oxenbridge, 172; joins the Independents, 173
Nova Scotia, 201; English possessions in (1630), 102; sold to France, 122, 122 n; approach of Winthrop’s ships to, 198
Noyes, Anne Lothrop. See Balch
——Elizabeth (Porter), wife of Francis Vergnies, 346
——Ellen Maria, daughter of Francis Vergnies. See Balch
——Francis Vergnies, 346
——James Atkins, A.B., xvii; appointed on Nominating Committee, 311
——Nicholas, 339
Nunnumpe, John, an Indian, 252
Oath of obedience, obtained by Rev. J. Oxenbridge from his pupils, 168, 168 n, 169; not unknown among Puritans elsewhere, 169
Offences, punishment for, in the Massachusetts Colony, 16, 18
Ogle, John Joseph, his Free Library, cited, 132 n
Old Colony Historical Society, 361
Oliver, Andrew, Lt.-Gov. of Massachusetts, 248, 248 n
——Charles Edward, 76 n
——Daniel, 282
——Elizabeth (Belcher), wife of Daniel, 282, 282 n, 300
——Francis Johonnot, 336
——Joseph, 94
Olney, Hon. Richard, LL.D., xvi
Omiah, an Otahitee Indian, 250; attentions shown to, 250 n
Orne, Rebecca (Taylor), wife of Timothy, 176 n
——Timothy, 176 n
Ote Hall, Sussex, Eng., becomes property of the Shirleys, 46; recovered by the Godman family, 46
Otis, Cushing, erroneous records regarding his degree of M.D., 320
Outer Bank. See Flemish Cap
Oxenbridge, Jane (Butler), first wife of Rev. John, 168 n, 170, 173 n
——Rev. John, 121 n; his bequest to the Old Public Library in Boston, 121, 122; a person of importance in the Bermudas, 166; oath of obedience obtained by, from his pupils at Magdalen College, 168, 168 n, 169; date of his birth, 168 n; dismissed as a tutor, 169; his departure for Bermuda, 169, 170; his ministry in Bermuda, 170; his catechism called Baby Milk, 170, 173; his activity in establishing Independency in the Bermudas, 170, 171, 173; R. Norwood’s controversy with, 172; his career after leaving Bermuda, 173
Oxford, Eng., Bodleian Library, first catalogue of, 121
Oxford University, Lincoln College, 168
——Magdalen College, 168, 168 n
Page, John, 27
Page & Co., Doubleday, v
Pagett Tribe, Bermuda, 171
Paige, Rev. Lucius Robinson, his History of Cambridge, cited, 278 n
——Nicholas, 121
Paine, Charles, 335 n
——Nathaniel, A.M., xvi; appointed on Nominating Committee, 311
——Sir Robert, his difficulties ascribed to the influence of Rev. S. Bachelor, 54
——Robert Treat (H. C. 1792), 335 n
Painter, Stephen. See Paynter
Palfrey, Francis Winthrop, 341, 342, 343
——John Gorham, 236; his History of New England, cited, 11 n, 101 n, 126 n, 279 n, 290 n, 369 n, 372 n, 375 n, 376 n; quoted, 279: his statements regarding the origin and first use of the name of Maine, 369, 371, 375; repeats Belknap’s error regarding the Laconia grant, 372
——Peter, 339
Palisaded houses, 26
Palmer,——, 96
Palmer, Abigail (Hutchinson), wife of Judge Thomas, 283, 303
Paper money, T. Hutchinson’s plan for redemption of, in Massachusetts, 240, 241
Paris, France, meridian of, used as prime meridian, 393; magnetic declination of (1660), 396
Park, Rev. Charles Edwards, A.B., xv, xvii, 401; elected a Resident Member, 53, 183; accepts, 100; his paper on Excommunication in Colonial Churches, 321–332; elected Corresponding Secretary, 355, 358
Parker, Rev. Henry Ainsworth, A.M., xv, xvi, 350; his paper on the Reverend Ezekiel Rogers, 48–52; his remarks on Rev. Stephen Bachelor, 53, 54; his paper on Bermuda Colonial Clergy in New England, 166–174; elected a Member of the Council for three years, 187; gives account of the sixteen quarterings of the arms of the children of R. Russell, 190; presents Annual Report of Council, 352
——Rev. Samuel, Bishop of Massachusetts, 307
——Samuel Dunn, 335 n
——Sarah Maria, daughter of William. See Cunningham
——Rev. Stephen, 278
——Rev. Thomas, 119
——William, 307
Parkman, Rev. Francis, 337
——Francis (H. C. 1844), son of Rev. Francis, 241, 337; his Pioneers of New France, cited, 104 n, 106 n
Parsons, Theophilus (H. C. 1769), 335, 335 n
Patterson,——, 95
Payne, Mary (Taylor), wife of William, 178, 181 n
Paynter, Stephen, 172
Peabody, Rev. Oliver, 228, 229, 231
Pearson, Rev. Eliphalet, silhouette of Bishop Cheverus originally belonging to, exhibited, 135 n
——Enoch, 97
——Margaret Bromfield, daughter of Eliphalet. See Blanchard
Pelham, Penelope. See Bellingham
Pemberton, Rev. Ebenezer, 228, 231
Pennsylvania Grand Lodge, gives facsimile copy of first Masonic book printed in America, 1; title of the book, 1 n
Pequot, dispute regarding jurisdic ion over plantation of J. Winthrop, Jr., at, 69, 70
Pequot Indians, vote of Massachusetts General Court regarding lands of, 67, 68
Pequot River, 70
Pequot War, relative importance of Massachusetts settlements shown by draft of soldiers for, 24, 25
Perkins, Rev. John Carroll, D.D., xviii
Peter (Peters), Hugh, 60
Pevey,——, 91
Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard Chapter, 350
Philadelphia, first medical school on the continent at, 217
——Hospital, 217 n
——Library, founded by B. Franklin, 133
——Library Company, Ridgway branch, 83
——Medical School, early practice in, regarding medical degrees, 313
Philip II (Augustus), King of France, 370
Philip III, King of Spain, 373
Philip IV, King of Spain, 374 n
Philip VI, of Valois, King of France, 370
Philips (Phillips), Rev. George, his Reply to a Confutation of some Grounds for Infants Baptisme, with Preface by Rev. T. Shepard, 159 n
Phillips, John, 335 n
——Rev. Samuel, 49
——Samuel (d. 1720), publisher and bookseller, 382
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., first principal of, 135 n
Phips, David, Sheriff of Middlesex County, 248, 248 n
Physician, word used synonymously with doctor, 319
Physicians, Rev. E. Rogers’s opinion of, 49
Physics, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on, 155, 156
Pico, island of the Azores, 392; longitude reckoned from the meridian of, 390, 391, 395; magnetic declination of, in the 16th and 17th centuries, 394
Pilgrims, signing of Mayflower Compact by, 204; idea of religious liberty held by, 261, 262. See also Plymouth Colony
Piper, William Taggard, Ph.D., xvi, 246
Pitt, William, first Earl of Chatham, 239
Place names, nature of those given by the French, 369
Plancius, Petrus, his Vniuersal Mappe, mentioned, 390
Plimpton, George Arthur, A.B., xviii
Plymouth, Eng., ship Mary-John sails from, 202 n
Plymouth, Mass., ship Handmaid arrives at, 203 n
Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts exiles in, 19, 20; Records, mentioned, 26; quoted, 26 n; cited, 26 n; Rev. M. Dexter’s paper on Some Differences between Plymouth and Jamestown, 256–270; predominant motive underlying establishment of, 257, 258, 259, 260, 269; ideas of religious liberty in, 261, 262; a colony of families, 262, 265, 269; social character of members of, 263; the women of, 264, 265; influence of, on our democratic institutions, 266, 267, 269, 270; republican government established in, 266; the town-meeting in, 268
Plymouth Company, division of New England seacoasts made by Council of, before returning its charter, 368, 368 n
Pole, Matthew. See Poole
Pool, William, 95
Poole, Rev. Matthew, his Annotations, 128
Poor, John Alfred, his Vindication of the Claims of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, cited, 371 n
Pope, Alexander, 271
——Rev. Charles Henry, 54
Pope, the, effigies of the Devil and, carried in Gunpowder Plot celebrations in Boston, 288, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294
Pope Day. See Gunpowder Plot
Popham, Sir John, his attempt to establish a colony in Maine, 257
Popkin, John Snelling, 334 n
Pork Night, a corruption of Pope Night, 291. See also Gunpowder Plot
Porpoise, Cape, Me., 199
Porter, Elizabeth. See Noyes
Portland, Me., celebration of Pope Day in, 292
Portsmouth, N. H., anniversary of Gunpowder Plot still celebrated in, 291, 292, 295
Pory, John, 105 n
Posey,——, 95
Potter, Luke, 235
Powell, Joseph, 90
Pownall, Thomas, Governor of Massachusetts, 47, 242
Powning, Daniel, son of Henry, 282, 300
——Elizabeth, wife of Henry, 282
——Henry, 282
Presbyterianism, Independency and, in Bermuda, 173
Prescott, William, 336
——William Hickling, 241
Presley,——, 95
Preston, Capt. Thomas, 289
Prices, restricting of, in Massachusetts Colony, 16
Prime, Temple, his Some Account of the Temple Family, cited, 122 n
Prince, Rev. Thomas, his Annals of New England, cited, 25 n; his library at the Old South Church, 130; his scheme of a lending library disapproved by Judge Sewall, 132; J. Procter one of his subscribers, 177; list of ships sailing from Southampton (1630) given in his Annals of New England, 202 n; records made by, in his almanacs, 271
Pring, Capt. Martin, 378
Procter, John (1703–1757), son of Richard, 176; master of the North Writing School, 177, 178; his two wives, 177, 177 n; his troubles with the First Baptist Church, 177, 178; organizes the Second Baptist Church, 178; his death, 178; his Boston estate, 178; dispute over his accounts with the church, 178 n
——John, son of John (1703–1757), 177
——Lucretia (Arnold), second wife of John (1703–1757), 177; inscription on her gravestone, 177 n
——Lydia (Richards), first wife of John (1703–1757), 177
——Rachel, wife of Richard, 177
——Richard, 178; his Boston estate, 177, 177 n
Providence, R. I., Early Records of the Town of, quoted, 213; cited, 213 n
Providence Island, 167
Providence Island Plantation Company, Rev. E. Rogers offered a cure in settlement of, 51, 52
Providence Plantations, text of compact entered into by founders of, 213
Prowse; Daniel Woodley, his History of Newfoundland, cited, 109 n
Prynne, William, his second edition of A Fresh Discovery of some Prodigious New Wandering Biasing Stars and Firebrands styleing themselves New Lights, 170
Puckering, Sir Thomas, 105 n
Pulsford, Arthur, a guest at the annual dinner, 358
Purchas, Rev. Samuel, his Pilgrimes, cited, 377 n, 378 n, 379 n
Puritans, idea of religious liberty held by, 261, 262. See also Massachusetts, Colony
Putnam, Charles Pickering, a guest at the annual dinner, 188
——Herbert, LL.D., xviii
——William Lowell, LL.B., xvii; a guest at the annual dinner, 188; elected a Resident Member, 204, 355; accepts, 238; appointed on Auditing Committee, 311; signs Report of this Committee, 357
Pyncheon. See Pynchon
Pynchon, William (d. 1662), 56, 67, 68, 69, 193; commission granted to, in connection with the emigration from Massachusetts to the banks of the Connecticut, 55, 59; accompanied by a few families from Roxbury, 57; Agawam (now Springfield) selected as site of new town by, 57; wisdom of this selection, 57, 58; his trade with the Indians, 57; his business relations with J. Gilbert, 57, 58; buildings erected at Warehouse Point by, 58; an officer of the General Court at Hartford, 58, 62, 63; his shallop used in the Pequot War, 63; monopoly of corn trade with Indians granted to, 65; censured for violation of contract, 65, 70; given monopoly of beaver trade, 65; result of the censure against, 66, 70, 72; member of commission to draw up articles of agreement between Connecticut and Massachusetts, 68, 69, 72, 72 n; Rev. T. Hooker’s arraignment of, 73, 74; Connecticut demands settlement of debts from, 75; elected magistrate in Springfield, 75, 76; his answer to the demands of Connecticut, 76; Springfield put under the government of, 78; refuses to pay duty demanded by Connecticut, 79; important offices filled by, 82
——William (d. 1789), 292
Quakers, 262
Quebec, taken by the English (1629), under D. Kirke, 102, 104, 105 n, 193; fleet sent to, by Company of New France, 104; D. Kirke’s petition regarding, 106; restored to France, 107, 107 n; damage done to, by the English, 107 n; English recruits sent to, 107, 108; Kirke’s capture of, long considered an unimportant event, 113 n
Quincy, Josiah (H. C. 1790), 334 n, 335 n; his History of Harvard University, cited, 10 n; mentioned, 232; his History of the Boston Athenæum, cited, 336 n
Quonehtacut, early form of the name Connecticut, 366 n
Rackemann, Charles Sedgwick, A.M., xvi, 246, 345, 345 n; his Memoir of F. V. Balch communicated, 338; text of the Memoir, 339–349; his partnership with Mr. Balch, 347, 347 n
——Felix, 347 n
Radisson, Mary (Kirke), wife of Peter Esprit, 109 n
——Peter Esprit, his Voyages, cited, 109 n
Ralegh, Sir Walter, 366 n; his attempts at American colonization (1585–87), 257
Rammelsberg, Carl Friedrich, 355
Rand, Dr. Isaac (1718–1790), of Charlestown, his still-house burned, 284, 301
——Dr. Isaac, of Boston, son of Dr. Isaac (1718–1790) of Charlestown, 284
Randolph, Edward, arrives with J. Dudley’s commission as Governor, 124
Ratcliffe, Rev. Robert, Old Boston Public Library used for religious services by, 124
Ratclyfe, Philip, 16
Real estate trusts, 345
Reed, Abigail. See Darling
Regiments, Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, 341, 342
Regnault, Henri Victor, 355
Reid, William Bernard, a guest at the annual dinner, 358
Religion, revivals of. See Revivals of religion
Remedies, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on, 154
Revivals of religion in New England, 279, 280, 280 n, 299, 300, 303
Rhode Island, Massachusetts exiles in, 20; boundary disputes between Massachusetts and, 244
Ribaut, Jean, early French colony in Florida under, 256, 257
Rice, Richard, 234
——Simeon, 90
Rich, Henry, first Earl of Holland, 374
——Sir Robert, second Earl of Warwick, patent granted by. See Warwick Patent
Richards, John, of New London, Ct., 177
——Lydia, daughter of John. See Procter
Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal, Due de, 101, 104
Roberts, John, 90
Robie, Thomas, longitude of Boston as given in his almanacs, 383
Robinson, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John, of Duxbury. See Eliot
——Rev. John (1575–1625), 260
——Rev. John, of Duxbury, 276, 279
Rocket, Nicholas, 251
Rogers, Rev. Daniel, son of Rev. Richard, 48 n, 52 n
——Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Nathaniel. See Taylor
——Rev. Ezekiel, son of Rev. Richard, 48 n; paper on, by Rev. H. A. Parker, 48–52; Yorkshire clothiers under leadership of, establish Rowley, 48; his bequests to Harvard College and the church at Rowley, 49; his autobiography, 49; his will, 49; his vehemence, 50; leaves England for America, 50, 51, 52; his relations with Archbishops Neile and Matthew, 50, 51; his refusal to read the Book of Sports, 51; interest of the Barringtons in, 51; his later claims upon the Barrington estate, 52, 52 n; his letters in the Barrington Hall collection, 52, 52 n
——Rev. Nathaniel (H. C. 1687), of Portsmouth, 283
——Rev. Nathaniel (H. C. 1721), 228, 230, 231
——Rev. Richard, nonconformist, 48 n
——Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Nathaniel (H. C. 1687). See Gee
Rogers’s Plantation. See Rowley, Mass.
Rolfe, Rev. Benjamin, 273
——Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Benjamin. See Checkley
——William James, 377 n
Roman Catholics, suppression of, in England, 261
Roofs, thatched, trouble caused by, in the Massachusetts Colony, 27, 27 n
Root, Hon. Elihu, LL.D., xviii
Ropes, Rev. James Hardy, D.D., xvii
Rose, Heinrich, 355
Rosier, James, 378
Ross, Dr.——, 97
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 213
Rowe, John, his Letters and Diary, quoted, 291; cited, 291 n
——Joseph, 335 n
Rowley, East Riding of Yorkshire, Eng., rectorship of St. Peter’s in, offered to Rev. E. Rogers, 51
Rowley, Mass., establishment of, 48; Rev. E. Rogers’s bequest to the church at, 49
Roxbury, Mass., church organization of, not disturbed by emigration of members to Connecticut, 57; settlement of Springfield by emigrants from, 57; action of church of, on case of W. Pynchon, 76; settlement of, 113 n. See also Springfield, Mass.
Royal Society, London, 250 n
Rupert, Prince, 109
Ruskin, John, C. B. Tillinghast’s collection of editions of, 361
Russell, John, of Little Malvern, Worcestershire, Eng., arms of, 190, 190 n
——Kiniard, discussion regarding the sixteen quarterings of the arms of the children of, 190
——Mary, second wife of Richard, 190
——Richard, Treasurer of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, discussion regarding descent of, 190
——William, mayor of Hereford, Eng., 190
——William Eustis, Governor of Massachusetts, 308, 360
——family, of Hereford, Eng., 190; of Strensham, Eng., 190
Rymer, Thomas, his Fœdera, cited, 106 n
Sabbath, rules for the observance of, as laid down in Rev. T. Shepard’s Theses Sabbaticae, 142–144, 161; how these rules were broken, 144, 145; Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on the length of the day, 156
Sabin, Joseph, his treatment of A Defence of the Answer made unto the Nine Questions and the Treatise of Liturgies, 140 n; editions of Rev. T. Shepard’s works given by, 162, 162 n
Sable, Cape, 201, 202, 398; position of Winthrop’s ships in relation to, 194, 197, 198; sighted by F. Higginson, 195 n
Sacraments, Congregational belief regarding, 322, 324, 325
Sacramentum academicum. See Oath of obedience
St. Chrysostom, 129
St. Germain-en-Laye, Treaty of, 106, 106 n
St. John, Henry, first Viscount Bolingbroke, 127
St. John’s day, 162
St. Mary’s, island of the Azores, 388 n; meridian of, considered the prime meridian, 387, 388, 390
St. Michael, island of the Azores, 398; longitude reckoned from the meridian of, 384, 385, 387, 388, 389, 391, 393, 395, 396, 398; reason for this, 384, 388, 395, 398; magnetic declination of, in the 16th and 17th centuries, 394, 395, 395 n, 396
Sal, one of the Cape Verde Islands. See Cape Verde Islands
Salem, Mass., number of inhabitants in, at Winthrop’s arrival, 24; early manufacture of bricks in, 26; Winthrop’s ships arrive at, 103, 192, 201; Winthrop’s plan to land at, 199; Southampton ships arrive at, 202 n, 203; celebration of Pope Day in, 292, 293
Salt, Benjamin, a cooper, 288
Saltonstall, Sir Richard, proceedings against (1633), 12 n
——Col. Richard (H. C. 1751), 292
——Richard Middlecott, A.B., xvi
Sandemanians, notes on places of worship of, in Boston, 100
Sargeant, Nathaniel Peaslee, 292
Saugus River, early settlement upon, 113 n
Savage, Arthur (d. 1735), 281, 282, 299
——James, 199 n; his Addenda to Winthrop’s Journal, 4, 4 n, 23 n; his notes regarding the Kirkes, 106 n, 113 n; his Genealogical Dictionary of New England, cited, 166, 168 n, 170, 174, 175 n, 176 n, 235 n
Sawahquatock, 380
Saybrook, Ct., 64; plan to erect trading-post and fort at, 55
Saye and Sele, Lord. See Fiennes
Sayle, William, Governor of Bermuda, 172
Scales, John, his Historical Memoranda of Dover, N. H., cited, 277 n
——family, attempt to poison, 285, 302
Scharf, John Thomas, his History of Maryland, quoted, 381; cited, 381 n
Scharf, John Thomas, and Westcott, Thompson, their History of Philadelphia, cited, 217 n
Schott, Charles Anthony, 396; his calculations regarding the agonic line crossed by Columbus, 386; regarding that ascertained by S. Cabot, 386, 387; his Secular Variation in the Position of the Agonic Line of the North Atlantic and of America, 1500–1900, cited, 386 n; his Value of the Arcano del Mare, quoted, 397; cited, 397 n; his Secular Variation of the Magnetic Declination, cited, 397 n
Schouler, James, 340
Scilly Islands, passed by Winthrop’s ships, 192, 198
Sclopis de Salerano, Paolo Federigo, Conte, 3
Scotchford (Scocthford), John, 235
Scottow, Joshua, 272; his Narrative of the Planting of Massachusetts Colony, cited, 25 n, 28 n, 29 n
——Mary, daughter of Joshua. See Checkley
Search, Anna, her excommunication, 331
Seccombe, Rev. Joseph, 278
Sedgwick, Arthur George, 346 n; his business association with F. V. Balch, 346; his tribute to Mr. Balch, 347
Selfridge, Thomas Oliver, 335 n
Selden, John, 128
Senex, John, his New General Atlas, quoted, regarding the use of various prime meridians, 392, 393; meridian of London used as prime meridian in his Map of the World, 393
Separatists, Rev. T. Shepard’s classification of, 160
Sermons, character of colonial, 33, 34
Servants, indentured, condition of, in colonial Massachusetts, 40; anomalous position of, in colonial days, 153; Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks concerning, 153, 154
Seutter, Matthäus, prime meridian used in maps of, 392
Severn, ship, 198
Sewall, David, 292
——Rev. Joseph, son of Judge Samuel, 275, 277, 298, 299, 300
——Rufus King, his error regarding the first use of the name of Maine, 371; his Ancient Dominions of Maine, cited, 371 n
——Judge Samuel, 10; his Diary, cited, 10 n, 124 n, 125 n, 175, 175 n, 289 n; quoted, 124, 125, 282, 289; mentioned, 270; his Letter-Book, cited, 127 n, 132 n; proposed gift by, to Old Boston Public Library, 129; letter to J. Dummer from, 127; disapproves Rev. T. Prince’s scheme of a lending library, 132
Sewell, William, 97
Shakespeare, William, 161
Shakesperean Society, Boston, 254
Sharp, Thomas, 27
Shattuck, George Cheyne, 334
——Lemuel, his History of Concord, 234 n; quoted, 232; cited, 232 n
Shaw, Charles, his Description of Boston, cited, 338 n
——Thomas, J. Crocker’s case against, 26 n
——William Arthur, his Knights of England, cited, 108 n, 109 n
Sheldon, Henry Newton, a guest at the annual dinner, 188
Shelley, Henry Charles, his tribute to J. Harvard, 44, 45
Shepard, Anne (Tyng), wife of Rev. Thomas of Charlestown, 10
——Margaret (Touteville), wife of Rev. Thomas, 136, 137
——Rev. Thomas, his characterization of J. Harvard, 21; his influence as a preacher, 21, 22, 137, 138; his statement regarding the amount of J. Harvard’s bequest, 23 n; a graduate of Emmanuel College, 41, 139; his attitude toward Anne Hutchinson, 41, 41 n; his influence in determining the site of Harvard College, 43, 44, 138, 139; his Autobiography, quoted, 44, 138, 139, 161; cited, 21 n, 23 n, 44 n, 161 n, 162 n; his probable association with Harvard’s bequest, 44, 139, 140; takes Hooker’s place in First Church in Cambridge, 56; paper on Hints of Contemporary Life in the Writings of, by A. McF. Davis, 136–162; reasons for his winter voyage to America, 136; perils of the voyage, 136, 137; death of his son, 137; birth of his second son, 137; settles in Cambridge, 137; reason for publishing his Theses Sabbaticæ, 138; his tribute to J. Harvard, 139; character of his writings, 140, 140 n, 141; his complaint regarding lack of books, 140, 140 n; his Some Select Cases, cited, 22 n, 37 n, 140 n, 150 n, 151 n, 162 n; rules for observance of the Sabbath taken from his Theses Sabbaticae, 142–144; this work cited, 142 n, 144 n, 155 n, 156 n, 159 n, 162 n; his arraignment of Sabbath breakers, 144, 145; his Subjection to Christ, quoted, regarding lack of morals, 145; regarding resistance to town-officers, 146; regarding the source of law, 146, 147; cited, 145 n, 146 n, 147 n, 151 n, 152 n, 154 n, 159 n, 160 n, 161 n, 162 n; his sympathy with Cotton, 147; exposition of a legal proposition taken from his Church Membership of Children, 147, 161; this work cited, 147 n, 162 n; his Parable of the Ten Virgins, quoted, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158; cited, 147 n, 149 n, 150 n, 151 n, 152 n, 153 n, 154 n, 155 n, 156 n, 157 n, 158 n, 159 n, 161 n, 162 n; his appointments by the General Court, 147 n; his New England’s Lamentation for Old England’s Errors, quoted, regarding the peaceful condition of this country, 147, 148; cited, 148 n, 162 n; his Treatise of Liturgies, quoted, 148; cited, 148 n, 159 n, 162 n; his nautical illustrations, 148, 149; his remarks on sleeping in church, 149, 150; his Sincere Convert, quoted, 149; cited, 149 n, 154 n, 156 n, 162 n; his remarks on housework, 150; on table-manners, 150, 151; on coin scales, 151; on gardening, 151; on church discipline and visiting committees, 151, 152; his Sound Believer, cited, 151 n, 153 n, 155 n, 156 n, 157 n, 162 n; his remarks on armor, 152; on soldiers, 152; on Indians and beggars, 152, 153; on servants, 153, 154; his Saint’s Jewel, cited, 153 n, 154 n, 162 n; his remarks on sickness, remedies and medical practice, 154, 155; on physics, 155, 156; on geography, 156; on the length of the Sabbath-day, 156; on English history, 157; on herbalists, 157; on children’s manners, 157; on bankruptcy and imprisonment for debt, 157, 158; on actors and lovers, 158; on football, 158; his humor, 158, 159; on English flour, 159; his Election Sermon, 159, 160, 163; his Preface to A Reply to a Confutation of some Grounds for Infants Baptisme, by G. Philips, 159 n, 160 n; his views on Separatists and Anabaptists, 160, 161; his Wine for Gospel Wantons, cited, 160 n, 162 n; his archaic expressions, 161, 162; number and editions of his works, 162, 162 n
——Rev. Thomas (H. C. 1653), of Charlestown, 10
Shepherd. See Shepard
Sheppard, Andrew, 92
Sherman, Mrs. Elizabeth, 117
——William Tecumseh, 354
Shirley, Elizabeth (Godman), wife of William, father of Gov. William, 46
——Julie, second wife of Governor William, 47, 48
——Sir Thomas, son of Governor William, 46
——Capt. Washington, fifth Earl Ferrers, 47 n
——William, Governor of Massachusetts, 274; new facts concerning family of, discovered by C. K. Bolton, 45, 45 n; maternal ancestry of, 46; comes into possession of Ote Hall, 46; his second marriage, 46–48; Lord Halifax’s disapproval of this marriage, 46; his recall from America, 47, 47 n; obtains government of the Bahamas, 47; property conveyed to his son-in-law by, 47, 48
——William, son of Gov. William, 94
Short, Dudley, 180
Shurtleff, Benjamin, degree of M.D. conferred upon, 317, 317 n, 320; no printed copy of his dissertation known, 317; errors regarding date of his degree, 317
Sickness, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks upon, 154
Sidney, Algernon, 213; J. Q. Adams’s estimate of, 209, 210; his republican sympathies, 209; obnoxious to Charles II, 209, 210; a Latin line by, used as motto by founders of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 210; his Discourses on Government quoted, in refutation of Filmer, 210, 211; this work cited, 210 n, 211 n
Simons, Snelling &, printers, 337 n
Skelton, Rev. Samuel, 120, 168, 325
Slade, Daniel Denison, 135 n
——Denison Rogers, A.B., v, xviii; silhouette of Bishop Cheverus exhibited for, 135, 135 n; original marriage settlement between J. Willard and Mrs. Clarke communicated on behalf of, 163
Slafter, Rev. Edmund Farwell, his Sir William Alexander and American Colonization, cited, 107 n
Sleeping in church, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks upon, 149, 150
Smallpox, inoculation for, 227, 250 n
Smedley, Baptist, 235
——John, 235
Smiles, Samuel, his John Harrison, Inventor of the Marine Chronometer, mentioned, 192 n
Smith, Amos, Boston Medical Library kept by, 334
——Henry, member of commission to order affairs of settlements organized by Massachusetts emigrants to Connecticut, 59; confused with Rev. H. Smith, 59 n; sits as a magistrate in General Court of Connecticut, 62, 63
——Rev. Henry, 59 n
——Capt. John, 32 n, 269, 270; name given by, to Cape Ann, 200 n; to islands off Cape Ann, 200 n; his Works, cited, 200 n, 201 n; his Description of New England, mentioned, 366 n; quoted, 378; cited, 378 n; his Generall Historie of Virginia, mentioned, 376 n.
——Justin Harvey, A.M., xviii
——Rev. Samuel, 174
——Rev. Thomas, his Journal, cited, 292 n
Snelling & Simons, printers, 337 n
Snow, Caleb Hopkins, his History of Boston, cited, 290 n
Charles Armstrong, A.B., xvi
Social Libraries in Boston, paper on, by C. K. Bolton, 332–338; their importance in the intellectual life of the town, 332, 334; Massachusetts legislation regarding, 332, 333; difference in purpose between circulating libraries and, 333; list of, 333
Soldiers, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on, 152
Somerset, the name, as employed in Maine, 368 n
Sons of Liberty, 243
Southampton, Eng., vessels sailing from, for Massachusetts (1630), 101, 191, 203, 203 n; list of, 202 n
Southgate, William Scott, his statements regarding the origin and first use of the name of Maine, 369, 370; repeats Belknap’s error regarding the Laconia grant, 372
Spanish Main, 376, 377, 377 n. See also Main
Spearing,——, 98
Speed, John, 393
Spencer, William, his letter regarding jurisdiction over Springfield, quoted, 71
Spirits of gold, 154
Spoons, early use of, in eating, 38
Sprague, Rev. William Buell, his Annals of the American Pulpit, cited, 276 n, 277 n, 278 n
Springfield, Mass., nominating convention at (1907), 13; paper on the Secession of Springfield from Connecticut, by S. E. Baldwin, 55–82; Pynchon’s wisdom in selecting it as site of new town, 57, 58; first buildings erected at Warehouse Point in, 58; character of first settlers of, 58; represented in General Court at Hartford, 58; compact of local government in, 59; first committees to General Court from, 62; slow growth of, at first, 62, 62 n; her quota of expense in the Pequot War, 63; precarious condition of, 63, 64; military supplies required from, 65; dispute regarding jurisdiction over, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 80, 81; recognizes jurisdiction of Massachusetts, 75; Massachusetts hesitates to accept jurisdiction over, 76, 77; present name adopted by, 77; put under the government of W. Pynchon, 78; refuses to pay duty demanded by Connecticut, 79; first deputy from, to Massachusetts General Court, 82
Spurr, John, his excommunication, 330
Stackpole, William, Jr., 335 n
Stamp Act, 290; opposed by Hutchinson, 243
Standish, Miles, Longfellow’s description of his armor, 39; tradition regarding his religious belief, 262
Steele, John, Secretary of Connecticut, member of commission to draw up articles of agreement between Connecticut and Massachusetts, 68, 72, 72 n; loses the secretaryship, 72
Stephen, Col. Adam, 91
Stetson, William, See Stitson
Stiles, Rev. Ezra, President of Yale College, 231 n; his Literary Diary, quoted, 292; cited, 292 n
——Henry Reed, his History of Ancient Wethersfield, cited, 57 n, 59 n; his History of Ancient Windsor, cited, 58 n, 59 n
Stilson, William. See Stitson.
Stimpson, Rev. Joseph, 279, 303
Stitson, William, 250, 253, 253 n
Stoddard, Anthony (d. 1687), a trustee of the estate of Gov. Bellingham, 115
——Anthony (1678–1748), 282, 282 n, 283 n
——Rev. Anthony (1678–1760), 282 n, 283 n
——Lydia, sister of Simeon. See Turell
——Martha, daughter of Anthony (1678–1748). See Fitch
——Martha (Belcher), wife of Anthony (1678–1748), 282 n
——Simeon, 283 n
——Thomas, 273 n
Stokes, David, 173 n
Stone, Capt. John, 16 n
Stoughton, William, Lt.-Governor of Massachusetts, silver given to Harvard College by, 400
Straitsmouth Island, Mass., 201 n
Strangers, Act regarding harboring of, in Massachusetts Colony, 14
Strickland, Agnes, her Lives of the Queens of England, mentioned, 368 n; cited, 369 n, 381 n; quoted, 381
Strobel, Edward Henry, 308
Strong, Judge Simeon, 278
Stuart, Ludovick, second Duke of Lennox, 380
——House of, political creed of, 208
Sturgis, William, 336
Stuteville, Sir Martin, 105 n
Suffield, Ct., dispute regarding jurisdiction over, 81, 82
Suffolk Bar, its tribute to the memory of F. V. Balch, 347
Suffolk County, Mass., Court Files, cited, 164 n; work of J. Noble in arranging, 350
——Deeds, cited, 48 n, 164 n, 177 n, 178 n, 181 n
——Probate Files, cited, 48 n, 121 n, 122, 164 n, 175 n, 176 n, 177 n, 178 n, 281 n
Suffrage, policy of confining it to church members vigorously opposed, 56
Sullivan, George, 335 n
——James, Governor of Massachusetts, his theory regarding the origin of the name of Maine, 367, 369, 372; his statement regarding the first use of the name, 367, 370; Belknap’s error regarding the Laconia grant detected by, 372; his History of Maine, cited, 367 n, 372 n
——Richard, 335 n
Sumner, Charles, his confidence in F. V. Balch, 342, 343
——Judge Increase, 116
——William Hyslop, 335 n
Sumptuary legislation, institution of, in Massachusetts Colony, 16, 16 n
Surinam, Rev. J. Oxenbridge at, 173
Susa, Treaty of, 101, 104; terms of, 105, 106
Sussex Archæological Collections, cited, 168 n
Sutton, George Frederick, 255
Swanley, Robert, 111 n
Swearingen,——, 93
Sweet, Temperance, admonished by the church, 328
Swift, Lindsay, A.B., xvi; his Memoir of Stanley Cunningham communicated, 306; text of the Memoir, 307–310; his remarks on the distinction between earlier public libraries and those of to-day, 132, 133
——Capt. Samuel, 290
Switzerland, use of spoons in, 38
Symmes, Rev. Zachariah, 8, 9 n, 20, 41
Table manners, in the Massachusetts Colony, 37; Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on, 150, 151
Tailer, James, Commissioner of Impost and Excise, 175 n. See also Taylor
Talbot, ship, 191, 202 n; vice-admiral of the Massachusetts Bay Company’s expedition, 101; becomes separated from the other ships, 192; arrives at Charlestown, 103, 192, 201
Talier, William, 235
Tanner, William, Ote Hall sold to, 46
Taylor,——, his ordinary, 89
——Ann, daughter of James (d. 1716), 181 n
——Charles, natural son of Capt. Christopher, 176
——Christopher, of London, 179; his connection with the Leathersellers’ Company, 255
——Capt. Christopher, son of James (d. 1716), 175, 178, 179, 180; contests his father’s will, 176; his will, 176
——Elizabeth, first wife of James (d. 1716), 175, 181 n
——Elizabeth (d. 1674), daughter of James (d. 1716), 180
——Elizabeth (b. 1685), daughter of James (d. 1716), 181
——Elizabeth (Rogers), wife of Rev. John (H. C. 1721), 283, 299
——James (d. 1716), Treasurer of Massachusetts, son of Christopher, of London, 254; indenture of apprenticeship of, communicated, 174; public offices held by, 174, 174 n, 175 n; extracts from this indenture already printed, 175; his second wife, 175; maiden name of his first wife not known, 175, 178; his possible identity with J. Tailer, 175 n; his estate in Queen Street, 178; text of the indenture, 179, 180; his children, 180, 181, 181 n
——James (b. 1683), son of James (d. 1716), 181
——Rev. John (H. C. 1721), of Milton, 228, 229, 230, 231, 283, 299
——John Myers, his Roger Ludlow cited, 64 n
——Mary (1675–1701), daughter of James (d. 1716), 180. See also Payne
——Mary (b. 1702), daughter of James (d. 1716), 181 n
——Mercy, daughter of James (d. 1716), 181 n
——Rebecca, (b. 1681), daughter of James (d. 1716), 181
——Rebecca, daughter of William. See Orne
——Rebecca (Clarke), second wife of James (d. 1716), 175, 180, 181 n
——Samuel, son of James (d. 1716), 181
——Sarah, daughter of James (d. 1716), 181 n
——Sarah (Burrill); wife of William, 176 n
——William, son of James (d. 1716), 176, 176 n, 181 n
Tea, lack of, in the Massachusetts Colony, 36
Telescope, Rev. T. Shepard’s description of, 156
Telltale, the, early student periodical, Harvard College, 220; substance of, in quotation and abstract, 221–231
Telltale or Spy Club, Harvard College, 225, 226, 227; members of, 228, 231; contributions of members to, 228–231; subjects discussed by, 229, 230
Temple, John, his excommunications from and restorations to membership in the church, 330
——Sir Thomas, a leading citizen of Boston, 122; deprived of Nova Scotia, 122; his bequest to Boston, 122
Teneriffe, island of the Canaries, meridian of, used as prime meridian, 391, 392, 393
Tenterden, Lord. See Abbott, Charles Stuart Aubrey
Terceira, island of the Azores, 103, 103 n, 194, 194 n, 392; meridian of, used as prime meridian, 390, 392, 398
Thacher, James, his American Medical Biography, cited, 284 n
——Peter, 335 n
Thacher’s Island, Mass., 201 n
Thaxter, Robert, degree of M.D. conferred upon, 317, 320; no printed copy of his dissertation known, 317; errors regarding date of his degree, 317, 320
Thayer, Andrew E., 220
——Cornelius, 220
——Ezra Ripley, A.M., xvi
——John Eliot, A.B., xvi; elected a Member of the Council, 184
——Lydia (Turell), wife of Cornelius, 220
——William Roscoe, a guest at the annual dinner, 358
Theocracy, Rev. J. Cotton’s proposed code of laws for establishing a, 147
Thomas, Joshua, degree of M.B., conferred upon, 317
Thomson, James, 271
——Morris, 107 n
Thorndike, Israel, Jr., 336
——Samuel Lothrop, A.M., xvi
Thornton, Mrs.——, 98
Thou, Jacques Auguste de, Latin edition of his History, in Old Boston Public Library, 127, 128
Three Turks’ Heads, sighted by the Arbella, 199; identity of this elevation, 200; possible confusion between this elevation and the islands so named, 200 n; present names of the islands, 201 n
Thuanus. See Thou
Ticknor, George, 336; his statement regarding Prof. Eichhorn, 364
Tilden, William Smith, his History of Medfield, cited, 251 n
Tillinghast, Ardelia Martin (Wood), first wife of Caleb Benjamin, 359
——Caleb Benjamin, Litt.D., son of Pardon, death of, xix, 353, 362; tribute of the Council to, 353, 354; C. K. Bolton’s Memoir of, communicated, 358; text of the Memoir, 359–362; a familiar figure in Boston, 359; his early life and education, 359; his work on the Boston Journal, 359, 360; his connection with the State Library, 360; his personality, 360; his connection with the State Board of Education, 360; with the Free Public Library Commission, 360; his interest in education, 360, 361; his membership in many societies, 361; his connection with the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 361; with this Society, 361; his recreation, 361; his avocation, 361; offered librarianship of Boston Public Library, 362; honorary degrees given to, 362; new library methods distasteful to, 362
——Eunice (Tillinghast), wife of Pardon, 359
——Linwood Morton, son of Caleb Benjamin, 359, 362
——Martha Ann (Lane) Wonson, second wife of Caleb Benjamin, 362
——Pardon, 359
Tobacco, colonial laws regarding, 34, 35 n; Winthrop not opposed to its use, 34 n
Todd,——, his ordinary, 91, 95, 96
——Charles Burr, his Burr Family, mentioned, 63 n
Toledo, Spain, meridian of, used as prime meridian, 392, 393
Torke, John, suffocation of, 285, 302
Town-meeting, value of the, 268
Town-officers, Rev. T. Shepard on resistance to, 145, 146
Trade, statute regulating, 18
Tragabigzanda, name given to Cape Ann by Capt. J. Smith, 200 n
Tragabigzanda, Charatza. See Charatza Tragabigzanda
Travis, Daniel, his almanac for 1716 the latest calculated for the longitude of Boston, 382; longitude of Boston as given in his almanac for 1709, 383
Treadwell, Daniel, 336
Treworgie, John, 109
Tribe, use of the word in Bermuda, 171, 171 n
Truelove, ship, 170
Trumbull, Benjamin, his History of Connecticut, cited, 56 n, 60 n, 79 n
——James Hammond, his Historical Notes on the Constitutions of Connecticut, cited, 60 n
Tryon, William, Governor of New York, 244
Tucker, George Fox, Ph.D., xvi; his remarks on Gov. Bellingham’s will, 113–116
——Rev. William Jewett, LL.D., xviii
Tudor, William (H. C. 1796), 338
Tufts, Cotton, honorary degree of M.D. conferred upon, 321
Tufts College, gives honorary degree to C. B. Tillinghast, 362
Turell, Rev. Ebenezer, son of Samuel, 283 n; W. C. Lane exhibits manuscript numbers of the Telltale written by, 220; some account of, 220; description of the manuscript, 220, 221; substance of the work in quotation and abstract, 221–231; his account of the Telltale or Spy Club, 225, 226, 227–231; his contributions to the Club, 228, 229; his first marriage, 283; immortalized by Holmes, 284; his second marriage, 284
——Jane (Colman), first wife of Rev. Ebenezer, 283, 284, 298
——Lucy (Davenport), second wife of Rev. Ebenezer, 284
——Lydia, sister of Rev. Ebenezer. See Thayer
——Lydia (Stoddard), wife of Samuel, 283 n
——Samuel, 283 n
Turner, Frederick Jackson, LL.D., xviii; delegate to inauguration of President Lowell, 399
Tuttle, Charles Wesley, his statement regarding the section to which the name Maine was first applied, 372, 373; gives the true origin of the name, 375, 375 n; his Capt. John Mason, cited, 380 n, 382 n; his statement regarding the name Mariana, 381, 382; publication of his Capt. John Mason, 381
——Julius Herbert, xvi, 178 n, 231 n; elected a Resident Member, 2, 183; accepts, 53
Tyler, Moses Coit, his History of American Literature, quoted, 271; cited, 271 n
Tyng, Eunice. See Willard
Uncas, Indian chief, 70
Underhill, John, his Newes from America, quoted, 39 n
Underwood, William, 235, 235 n
Uniformity, Act of. See Act of Uniformity
United Colonies, disputes between Massachusetts and Connecticut discussed at congress of, 59, 60, 69, 70, 79, 80; articles of confederation between, ratified, 79; Commissioners of, recommend a general contribution to Harvard College, 138, 139
United States, influence of New England on political life of, 267
——Coast and Geodetic Survey, publications of, regarding magnetic declinations, 386 n, 393, 394, 395, 395 n, 396, 397
——Constitution, 259; principles underlying, 213
——Geological Survey, its Maine—New Hampshire—York Sheet, cited, 200
——Hydrographic office, chart of the North Atlantic Ocean issued by, 191
——Sanitary Commission, 355
Upsall, Nicholas, his excommunication, 331
Usher, James, Archbishop of Armagh, 128
Vanbraam, Jacob, 90
Vane, Sir Henry, Governor of Massachusetts, 12, 60; elected governor, 12, 13; fails of re-election over Winthrop, 13, 19, 20; elected a deputy, 14; returns to England, 15; popular demonstrations in honor of, 15; his opponents among the clergy, 41; his faith in Mrs. Hutchinson, 159; his political downfall, 159; his popularity, 163; his manner of life, 163; statue of, in the Boston Public Library, 163
Varney, George Jones, his Brief History of Maine quoted, regarding the origin of the name of that State, 369; cited, 369 n, 372 n; his statement regarding the first use of the name, 371; repeats Belknap’s error regarding the Laconia grant, 372
Vaughan, Benjamin, 338 n
Venice, Italy, 266
Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy, 373
Victoria History of the County of Essex, cited, 48 n
Vienna Exposition, W. Gibbs Commissioner from the United States to, 355
Villiers, George, first Duke of Buckingham, 374 n
Vinal, Rev. William, 275
Virginia, the course of vessels from western Europe bound for, 194; tract to which the name originally applied, 366 n
——House of Burgesses, establishment of, 268
Visiting committees, Rev. T. Shepard’s remarks on, 151, 152
Visscher, Nicholas, prime meridian used in his Atlas Minor, 391
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de, Washington medal struck by direction of, 253
Wace, Rev. Henry, Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, 133
Wade, Winthrop Howland, A.M., xvii
Wadsworth, Rev. Benjamin, President of Harvard College, his location of the lot granted by the town to Harvard College, 7, 7 n
——Joseph, 130
Wages, fixing of, in Massachusetts Colony, 16, 16 n
Wainwright, Elizabeth, daughter of Simon. See Breck
——Simon, 214
——family, 214
Wait, Hon. William Cushing, A.M., xvi
Wake, John, 89
Wakely, Andrew, prime meridian used in his Mariners Compass Rectified, 391, 391 n
Waldo, Jonathan, 178
——Samuel, son of Jonathan, his estate in Queen Street, 178
Waldron, Rev. William, Rev. S. Checkley’s sermon on the death of, 273
Walford, Thomas, penalties imposed upon, 18; first house built in Charlestown occupied by, 18, 24, 26
Walker, Walter Frederick, his The Azores, cited, 384 n, 386 n
——Rev. Williston, D.D., xviii
Walton, Brian, Bishop of Chester, copy of English Polyglot Bible edited by, in Old Boston Public Library, 127, 128; copy of, in King’s Chapel library, 132
Waranoco. See Westfield
Ward, Rev. Nathaniel, of Bermuda, confused with Rev. Nathaniel Ward, of Ipswich, 167, 167 n
——Rev. Nathaniel, of Ipswich, confused with Rev. Nathaniel Ward of Bermuda, 166, 167, 167 n
——Thomas Wren, 336
Ware, Rev. Henry (H. C. 1785), 317
——Horace Everett, A.B., v, xvii; his paper on An Incident in Winthrop’s Voyage to New England, 101–113, 193; his paper on Winthrop’s Course across the Atlantic, 191–203; this paper mentioned, 397 n, 398; his paper on A Forgotten Prime Meridian, 382–398
——Thornton Marshall, A.B., xvii
Warren, James Sullivan, 337 n
——John (H. C. 1771), signs petition in regard to conferring medical degrees at Harvard College, 318, 319; honorary degree of M.D. conferred upon, 321
——John Collins (H. C. 1797), 338; a member of the Society for the Study of Natural Philosophy, 334 n; Life of, cited, 334 n, 338 n; one of the founders of the Boston Medical Library, 334, 335
——John Collins (H. C. 1863), 334 n
——Dr. Joseph, 334
——Winslow, a guest at the annual dinner, 358
Warwick Patent, emigrants from Massachusetts to Connecticut subject to rights of grantees of (1631), 55, 59, 66; territory embraced by the patent, 60; grantees of, protest against claims to land-titles by emigrants, 60; bought by Connecticut, 79, 80
Washburn, Emory, Governor of Massachusetts, his praise of T. Hutchinson’s judicial work, 241; his Sketches of the Judicial History of Massachusetts, cited, 241 n
Washington, Charles, brother of George, 92
——George, 269, 333; extracts from Ledger of, communicated by W. C. Ford, 88–99; early medal issued in honor of, 253, 254; two celebrations of his birthday in 1794, 254
——John Augustine, brother of George, 90, 92, 94, 95
Waterhouse, Benjamin, honorary degree of M.D. conferred upon, 321
Waters, Rev. Thomas Franklin, A.M., xvii
Watertown, Mass., vote in, regarding foreigners, 55; large emigration from, to Wethersfield, Ct., 56; original church organization of, not transferred, 57; settlement of, 113 n; books stolen by Indians from school in, 250, 252; Records of, cited, 252 n
Watson, William, Ph.D., xvi
Waymouth, Capt. George, 257, 378
Wayte, Richard, his excommunications, 329; his restorations to membership in the church, 329, 330
Webber, Mrs.——, 299
——Rev. Samuel, President of Harvard College, 317
Wedderburn, Alexander, burned in effigy, 83, 86, 87; satirical epitaph on, 83, 84
Weeden, William Babcock, A.M., xviii
Weld, Charles Goddard, M.D., xvi
——Stephen Minot (H. C. 1826), 339
Welde, Rev. Thomas, report on Anne Hutchinson by Rev. T. Shepard and, 41 n
Well, attempt to open and clean an old, 285, 302
Welles, Thomas, Governor of Connecticut, 66, 76, 77; chosen a magistrate, 61, 61 n
Wells, Rev. Edward, prime meridian used in his New Sett of Maps, 392
Welsteed, Rev. William, 275, 279, 303
Wendell, Barrett, a guest at the annual dinner, 188
——Jacob (b. 1691), 164
Wenham, company at, 234 n
Wentworth, Hugh, 170
——John, Governor of New Hampshire, original marriage licence issued by, exhibited, 133
West, Benjamin, longitude of Boston as given in his New England Almanack, 383 n
Western Reserve Historical Society, 361
Westfield, Mass., grant to E. Hopkins at, 79; discussion regarding juris diction of Massachusetts over, 79, 80, 81
West Indies, course of vessels from western Europe to, 194
Weston, Robert Dickson, A.B., xvii
Westwood, William, 61
Wethersfield, Ct., 64; settled by emigrants from Watertown, Mass., 58; adopts Connecticut plan of government, 74
Wethersfield, Essex, Eng., 48 n
Weymouth, Capt. George. See Waymouth
Weymouth Historical Society, 361
Wharton, Richard, 115
Wheat, Moses, 235
Wheeler, Elizabeth. See Cunningham
——George, 235
——Joseph, 235
——Obadiah, 235
——Thomas, 235
——Timothy, 234
Wheelwright, Andrew Cunningham, death of, announced, 182, 183
——Edmund March, A.B., xvi
——Rev. John, 20; his banishment from Massachusetts, 13, 16, 19
Wherwell, Eng., Rev. S. Bachelor settled over the parish of, 54
White, Hon. Andrew Dickson, D.C.L., xviii; elected an Honorary Member, 183
——Nathaniel, his part in establishing Independency in the Bermudas, 170, 171, 173
White Mountains, thought to have been seen by the Arbella, 199 n
Whitefield, Rev. George, his visit to New England, 279
Whiting, Rev. Samuel, 168
——William, 75
Whitmore, William Henry, his Massachusetts Civil List, cited, 164 n, 174 n, 175 n
Whitney, David Rice, A.M., xvi
——James Lyman, A.M., xvi
Whittemore, Nathaniel, longitude of Boston, as given in his almanacs, 383
Whittier, John Greenleaf, his The Mayflowers, quoted, 213
Whittingham, Elizabeth. See Appleton
Wigglesworth, George, A.M., xvi
Willard, Eunice (Tyng), wife of Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1659), 163 n
——Hannah (Appleton) Clarke, second wife of Josiah, 163, 164 n; original marriage settlement of, communicated, 163; text of the document, 163–166
——Rev. Joseph, President of Harvard College, son of Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1723), 278, 305, 315
——Joseph (H. C. 1855), 235
——Josiah, son of Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1659), original marriage settlement between Mrs. Hannah Clarke and, communicated, 163; text of the document, 163–166; brief sketch of, 163 n, 164 n
——Katharine (Allen), first wife of Josiah, 164 n
——Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1659), son of Simon, 163 n
——Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1723), 278
——Simon, 164 n, 234; copy of inscription on tablet in memory of, communicated, 133; text of the inscription, 134; first town clerk of Concord, Mass., 232; one of the founders of Concord, 235, 236
——Susanna, v
——Sylvester David, 134
——Theodora, v
Willard Memoir, cited, 164 n
William I, King of England, 370
William III, King of England, books given to King’s Chapel by, 130, 131
William and Francis, ship, 202 n, 203 n
Williams, Jonathan, 301
——Moses, A.B., xvi
——Richard, frozen to death, 287 n
——Roger, 20, 262; his refusal to minister to the Boston Church, 325, 326
——Thomas, of Roxbury, 335 n
——Timothy, 334 n
——Rev. William, of Hatfield, letter of Rev. J. Edwards printed in Appendix to his Duty and Interest of a People, 280 n; this work printed under another title in London, 280 n; Boston reprint of the London edition, 280 n
Williamson, William Durkee, his History of the State of Maine, cited, 199 n, 368 n, 372 n, 376 n; quoted, regarding the origin of the name Maine, 368, 374, 375 n; his statement regarding the first use of the name, 370; repeats Belknap’s error regarding the Laconia grant, 372; gives the true origin of the name, 375
Willis, William, his erroneous statement regarding the origin of the name of Maine, 369 n; regarding the first use of the name, 371
Willson, Robert Wheeler, data furnished by, regarding the total eclipse of the sun (May 31, 1630), 196
Wilson,——, 90
——Rev. John, 20, 36 n, 119, 119 n, 121; his poem on John Harvard, 5, 8, 41, 42 n, 43 n; quoted, 20, 21, 42; his election as teacher by the Massachusetts colonists, 12; houses of, destroyed by fire, 28; his opposition to Anne Hutchinson, 41
——Sir Thomas, 374 n
Windsor, Ct., 64; church organization from Dorchester, Mass., removed to, 56, 57, 57 n, 58; doubts regarding jurisdiction over, 66; adopts Connecticut plan of government, 74; W. Pynchon disciplined by church of, 76
Windsor Coal-house, 161
Winnissimet. See Chelsea
Winship, George Parker, A.M., xviii
Winslow, Edward, his Good News from New England, cited, 25 n
Winsor, Justin, his Carrier to Frontenac, cited, 104 n, 106 n, 107 n; his Christopher Columbus, cited, 198 n; his Narrative and Critical History of America, cited, 376 n, 386 n
Winthrop, John, Governor of Massachusetts, 18, 36 n, 43, 65, 66, 70, 70 n, 107 n; his allusion to John Harvard, 4; his Journal, cited, 4 n, 6 n, 12 n, 13 n, 14 n, 15 n, 17 n, 20 n, 23 n, 24 n, 25 n, 27 n, 28 n, 29 n, 30 n, 33 n, 35 n, 36 n, 37 n, 38 n, 39 n, 40 n, 56 n, 57 n, 60 n, 64 n, 66 n, 67 n, 71 n, 72 n, 74 n, 77 n, 82 n, 199 n, 366 n; quoted, 12, 12 n, 17, 19 n, 20 n, 64; his Great House becomes a meeting-house, 9, 39; his open letter to members of the Church of England, 11, 12; elected governor, 12; dissatisfaction with his rule, 12; defeats Vane, 13, 16, 19; his waning power, 14, 15, 15 n, 19; his objection to a code of laws, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20; basis of his objection, 17, 19, 19 n, 20 n; apparent intolerance of, 19, 20; opponents of, considered liberal, 19, 20; his memorandum regarding the amount of J. Harvard’s bequest, 23 n; his arrival in Salem, 24; moves his house from Cambridge to Boston, 29; his use of tobacco, 34 n, 35 n; his comment on the food of the colony, 35; drinking of healths restrained by, 37 n; review of the militia by (1639), 39; supported by J. Harvard, 42; his report of Rev. E. Rogers’s Election sermon and of his speech at the Cambridge Synod (1647), 50; letter of Rev. T. Hooker to, cited, 67 n; his correspondence regarding jurisdiction over Springfield, 71, 72, 73, 74; Life and Letters of, cited, 74 n, 203 n; letter to, regarding the separation of Springfield from Connecticut, 78; paper on An Incident in Winthrop’s Voyage to New England, by H. E. Ware, 101–113; ships of his fleet, 101, 191; conditions in England at time of his departure, 101, 102; his meeting with Capt. Kirke, 102, 103, 106, 112, 113, 193, 195; his History of New England, quoted, 102, 103, 107 n, 108 n, 112, 112 n; cited, 103 n, 106 n, 112 n, 113 n; Vane’s power undermined by, 159; causes Court of Election to be held at Cambridge (1638), 159; system of church government forced upon, 168; paper on Winthrop’s Course across the Atlantic, by H. E. Ware, 191–203; data in his Journal concerning his course, 191; basis of this sketch, 191; his method of expressing his position east or west, 192; Scilly Islands passed by, 192; position north of the Azores sought by his navigators, 194, 398; solar eclipse looked for by, 196, 197; his approach to Cape Sable, 197, 198; to the Maine coast, 199, 200; his voyage typical of 17th century voyages between England and Massachusetts, 201; his statement regarding number of passengers sailing from Yarmouth and Southampton, 203 n; not admitted to the Lord’s Supper in Salem (1630), 325; meridian of the Azores perhaps considered as prime meridian by, 398
——John, Jr., Governor of Connecticut, son of Gov. John of Massachusetts, 64; grantees under the Warwick patent represented by, 59, 60; Fisher’s Island acquired by, 66, 66 n; dispute regarding jurisdiction over his plantation at Pequot, 69, 70; letter from F. Kirby to, quoted, 107 n; letter from Rev. J. Davenport to, quoted, 108 n
——Margaret (Tyndale), wife of Gov. John, 36 n
——William, his annotated Triennial Catalogue of Harvard College, 231
Wiswall, Enoch, 281
——Esther, daughter of Enoch. See Allen
Wolcott, Oliver (1726–1797), 355
——Oliver (1760–1833), son of Oliver (1726–1797), 355
——Roger (1679–1767), his Memoir cited, 66 n
Women, part of, in successful colonization, 263; those sent out to the colony at Jamestown, 264; those accompanying the Pilgrims, 264, 265; those of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 265
Wonson, Martha Ann (Lane). See Tillinghast
Wood, Ardelia Martin. See Tillinghast
——Michael, 235
——Rev. Nathan Eusebius, his History of the First Baptist Church of Boston, cited, 178 n
——William, his New England’s Prospect, cited, 32 n
Woodberry, John, 339
Woods, Elisabeth, 216
——Henry, 235
——Henry Ernest, A.M., xv, xvi, 350; discusses the descent of R. Russell, 190; office of Corresponding Secretary temporarily filled by, 355
——William, 235
Woodstock, Ct., dispute regarding jurisdiction over, 81, 82
Woodward,——, 98
Woollen manufacture, introduction of, into Massachusetts, 48, 49
Worcester Society of Antiquity, 361
Wright, Nathaniel, 102 n
Wyllys, George, 66
Wyman, Thomas Bellows, his Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, cited, 253 n, 284 n, 288 n
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Winthrop’s ships sail from, 101, 191, 202 n, 203 n
Yates,——, 96
Yaw, a negro, Scarlet family poisoned by, 285, 302
Young, Rev. Alexander, 273; his Chronicles of Massachusetts, cited, 24 n, 26 n, 32 n, 36 n, 37 n, 38 n, 63 n, 195 n, 201 n, 203 n
1 The title of this book is as follows:
The | Constitutions | of the | Free-Masons, | Containing the | History, Charges, Regulations, &c. | of that most Ancient and Right | Worshipful Fraternity. | For the Use of the Lodges. | London Printed; Anno 5723. | Re-printed in Philadelphia by special Order, for the Use | of the Brethren in North-America. | In the Year of Masonry 5734, Anno Domini 1734. | Reproduced in Facsimile by the R. W. Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. | In the Year of Masonry 5906; Anno Domini 1906.
2 This paper was originally prepared to be read as a part of the memorial exercises at Cambridge which were held under the auspices of the Harvard Memorial Society, in honor of the three hundredth anniversary of Harvard’s birth. The material then collated relative to the construction of houses, etc., when worked into shape proved to be far in excess of the demands for the occasion, so that the paper had to be much abridged in reading; but in submitting it to the Colonial Society with a view to publication, the rejected matter has been restored.
3 Winthrop’s Journal, ii. 88, note by Savage.
4 Ibid. ii. 342.
5 Magnalia (1853), ii. 10.
6 Cotton Mather gives his father’s argument in full, as to the power of the College to confer degrees, in Magnalia, ii. 19, 20, and the degree itself, ii. 26.
7 Magnalia, ii. 10, 30.
8 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, vol. iii. p. iv.
9 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 196.
10 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 237.
11 In “The Site of the First College Building at Cambridge,” in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for October, 1888, the “Way to Charlestown” is identified with Kirkland Street, and the inference is drawn that the town grant was north of Kirkland Street, as it is now laid out. There can be but little doubt that Kirkland Street represents the “Way to Charlestown,” but whether the way was not from time to time removed from place to place is another question. President Wadsworth’s location of the town grant within the Yard shows his opinion, and my own later views are expressed in “The College in Early Days,” in the Harvard Graduates’ Magazine for April, 1893.
12 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 206.
13 Records of the First Church in Charlestown, Boston, 1880, p. 9.
14 “The 26 of the ii. Month” (Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, vol. iii. p. iv.).
15 Records of the First Church in Charlestown, p. 165.
16 Frothingham’s History of Charlestown, p. 74.
17 In Pientissimum, Reverendissimumque virum, Johannem Harvardum, è suggestio Sacro Caroloensi ad cœlos evectum (Magnalia, ii. 33).
18 Frothingham’s History of Charlestown, p. 55.
19 Frothingham further says that in another division his lot was nearly a third larger than that of Mr. Symmes, and adds that on November 27, 1637, he had a grant of three and a half feet of ground for a portal (History of Charlestown, p. 74).
20 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, vol. iii. p. iv.
21 Diary, i. 446, 447.
22 Quincy’s History of Harvard University, i. 48, facsimile of the record.
23 Hutchinson’s Collection of Original Papers, p. 49.
24 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 408; Palfrey’s History of New England, i. 298; Neal’s History of New England, i. 129, 130.
25 Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts (1795), i. 431.
26 Journal, i. 33.
27 Winthrop, writing in 1633 of the proceedings against Saltonstall, Humphry, and Cradock, says that “the defendants were dismissed with a favorable order for their encouragement, being assured by some of the Council, that his Majesty did not intend to impose the ceremonies of the Church of England upon us; for that it was considered that it was the freedom from such things that made people come over to us” (Journal, i. 103).
28 His description in his mother’s will as “clarke” and in his marriage licence as “clìcum,” carries with it the probability that he was ordained in the Anglican Church.
29 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 219, 220.
30 Ibid. i. 220. The proceedings this day were replete with interest. Winthrop baffled Vane’s attempt at delay and finally compelled him against his will to proceed with the election by threatening to assume charge of the meeting himself, if Vane would not yield to the desires of the majority.
31 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 220.
32 Ibid. i. 220.
33 Ibid. i. 232.
34 Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts, i. 64. Winthrop’s account is: “None of them met him & the Sergeants who had escorted the former Governor refused to perform that service for him alleging that such service had been performed on account of the man not the place” (Journal, i. 234).
35 Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts, i. 65.
36 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 235.
37 Wonder-working Providence (1867), p. 72.
38 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 74.
39 Ibid. i. 74, 76, 77, 79, 91, 109, 160 (wages); 126, 183 (sumptuary laws).
40 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 88. Thomas Dexter was in March, 1632–33, set in the bilboes, disfranchised and fined 40 s. for reproachful and seditious words against the Government here established, and for finding fault to divers with the Acts of the Court, and for saying “this captious 
t will bring all to naught, adding that the best of them was but an atturney” (ibid. i. 103).
Capt. John Stone, in September, 1633, for “confronting aucthority, abuseing Mr Ludlowe both in words and behaviur, assalting him & calling him a iust as,” was fined £100 and prohibited “comeing into this pattent, wthout leaue of the 
, vnder the penalty of death” (ibid. i. 108).
41 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 211, 212.
42 Journal, i. 322, 323.
43 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, ii. (second edition) 1.
44 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 86.
45 Ibid. i. 75.
46 Ibid. i. 83.
47 Ibid. i. 111.
48 Ibid. i. 93.
49 The situation was sized up by Chalmers in the following words:
The colonists became at length dissatisfied with adjudications various and contrary, since every magistrate decided according to the equity of his own mind, without established laws to inform his judgment, or former precedents to direct his practice. Dissatisfaction soon swelled into clamor, and continued complaint produced ultimate reformation (Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the American Colonies, Boston, 1845, i. 50).
50 Winthrop himself contended that he was not in favor of a rigorous execution of the orders against those who were merely residents. He stated “that it was his judgment, that, in the infancy of the plantations, justice should be administered with more lenity than in a settled state;” and after some discussion he acknowledged “that he was convinced, that he had failed in over much lenity and remissness and would endeavor (by God’s assistance), to take a more strict course hereafter” (Journal, i. 178).
51 Magnalia, ii. 33.
52 Autobiography, p. 64.
53 Wonder-working Providence, p. 103.
54 Certain Select Cases Resolved, p. 49.
55 The memorandum made by Winthrop and published by Savage in the Addenda reads: “Mr. Harvard gave to the College about £800” (Winthrop’s Journal, ii. 342). The author of New England’s First Fruits, p. 12, says “one halfe of his estate, (being in all £1700) towards the erecting of a college, and all his Library.” Thomas Shepard says, “The Lord put it into the heart of one Mr. Harvard, who dyed worth £1600 to give halfe his estate to the erecting of the Schoole” (Autobiography, p. 64). Johnson in his Wonder-working Providence fixes the amount of the bequest at “near a thousand pounds” (p. 133).
56 Young’s Chronicles of Massachusetts, p. 374.
57 Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts, i. 91; Johnson’s Wonder-working Providence, p. 31.
58 Magnalia, i. 80.
59 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 268.
60 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 192.
61 Ibid. i. 201.
62 Winthrop calls them wigwams (Journal, i. 36, 38); Prince, booths and tents (Annals, p. 309); Scottow, huts and smoky cottages (Narrative of the Planting of Massachusetts Colony, 1694, p. 16); Hubbard, small cottages (History of New England, p. 134); Winslow, booths and huts (Good News from New England, 1648, 4 Massachusetts Historical Collections, i. 201)
63 Early Records of Charlestown, in Young’s Chronicles of Massachusetts, p. 374.
64 March 2, 1646–47, John Crocker vs. Thomas Shawe, “for coming into his house by pulling aside some loose pallisadoes, on ye Lords day, about ye middle of ye day” (Plymouth Colony Records, i. 111).
65 New Englands Plantation, in Young’s Chronicles of Massachusetts, p. 244.
66 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 48.
67 For references to wooden chimneys and thatched roofs, see Dudley’s letter to the Countess of Lincoln, March, 1631 (Collections New Hampshire Historical Society, iv. 248)
68 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, ii. 70.
69 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 54.
70 Magnalia, i. 311.
71 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 63.
72 Mourt’s Relation (1865), p. 9.
73 Scottow’s Narrative of the planting of the Colony, p. 40.
74 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, ii. 40.
75 Ibid. iv. 63. See also two charges in 1637 for daubing the meeting-house (Essex Institute Historical Collections, iv; Second series, i). Roger Clap describes the Castle as built with “Mud walls which stood for divers years” (Memoirs, Boston, 1731, p. 15).
76 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 82.
77 Ibid. i. 73.
78 Scottow’s Narrative of the Planting of Massachusetts Colony, p. 41.
79 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 87.
80 The Early College Buildings at Cambridge, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for April, 1890.
81 It may seem unnecessary to devote so much time to the discussion of daubed walls in connection with the career of one whose mother was from Stratford and a contemporary of the poet who wrote the familiar lines—
Imperious Cæsar dead and turned to clay
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
82 “Bring paper and linseed oil for your windows” (Winslow in Mourt’s Relation, p. 142).
83 Young’s Chronicles of Massachusetts, p. 254. Capt. Smith says, “traine oyle with the splinters of the roots of pine trees for candles” (3 Massachusetts Historical Collections, iii. 38); Wood, New England’s Prospect (1898), p. 18.
84 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 92 (corn), 97 (bullets), 140 (beaver), 208 (wampum).
85 Dunster’s list of these books comprehends 260 titles. Several of these titles indicated works published in several volumes. See A few Notes concerning the Records of Harvard College, Bibliographical Contributions, Library of Harvard University, No. 27. Quite recently a praiseworthy effort has been put forth to place upon the shelves of the Harvard Library a copy of each work named in the catalogue—a contemporaneous publication by preference. The study of the subject has revealed the fact that the library bequeathed by Harvard must have contained 373 volumes.
86 The effort to duplicate these volumes has disclosed the fact that many of them were octavos and some even smaller.
87 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 304.
88 Winthrop was not, apparently, opposed to its use. March 18, 1627, he wrote “We want a little tobacco. I had very good, for seven shillings a pound at a grocer’s by Holborn Bridge” (Journal, i. 350). The statutes referred to will be found in the Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 101 (use prohibited), 109 (constables to take note of persons), 136 (sale prohibited), 204, 206 (former laws repealed), 241–242 (new law against use).
89 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 377.
90 Ibid. i. 379.
91 Wood writes in 1634: “Four eggs may be had for a penny and a quart of milk at the same rate and when butter is six pence a pound and Cheshire cheese at five penc” (Young’s Chronicles of Massachusetts, p. 414).
92 When the Governor’s wife arrived in 1631 people sent him “fat hogs, kids, venison, poultry, geese, partridges, &c.” (Journal, i. 57). By 1633, the gardens had become productive, so that notwithstanding a scarcity of corn people lived well with fish and the fruit of their gardens (ibid. i. 108).
93 “For bread and beer, that it was denied to them betwixt meals, truly, I do not remember, that ever I did deny it unto them; and John Wilson will affirme, that, generally, bread and beer was free for the boarders to go unto” (Winthrop’s Journal, i. 310 note).
94 Thomas Dudley writes in 1631 to the Countess of Lincoln saying “having yet no table, nor other room to write in than by the fireside upon my knee” (Young’s Chronicles of Massachusetts, p. 305).
95 My attention has been called to the omission in the text of reference to the use of intoxicating liquors. Of course drunkenness was one of the troubles of that time. Numerous convictions are recorded for the offence, but at the period which I cover, all liquors were imported except strong beer. In 1630, Winthrop restrained the drinking of healths at his table, and so it grew little by little to disuse (Journal, i. 37). In 1635, he speaks of drunkenness occasioned by people running to the ships (ibid. i. 161).
96 I am indebted to Professor Kittredge for calling my attention to two things: first, the proverb “fingers were made before forks,” evidence in itself that the knife was not used by well bred persons for conveying food to the mouth; and secondly, to Chaucer’s description of the dainty manner in which the Prioress fed herself, obviously with her fingers, given in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Thomas Shepard in one of his sermons calls attention to the danger accompanying the use of the knife in cutting one’s meat: “Its from the excellency of a knife to cut well, but to cut my finger with it when I should be cutting of my meat with it, ariseth not from the end of the knife, nor from the intention of him who made it” (Certain Select Cases Resolved, p. 7).
97 Montaigne’s Journal, iv. 210.
98 William T. Davis in his Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth (p. vii.) makes substantially the same observations as to the preponderance of napkins.
99 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 210.
100 Young’s Chronicles of Massachusetts, p. 54.
101 “We could not follow them in our Armor” (Winthrop’ Journal, i. 199).
102 Massachusetts Colony Records, i, 125.
103 “Our men being completely armed with Corslets, muskets, bandoliers, rests and Swords.” Head pieces are also mentioned in this account. (Capt. John Underbill’s Newes from America, in Hart’s American History told by Contemporaries, p. 439.) Besides the expression, showing that the men were in armor—quoted in the note above—Winthrop, in another description in the same year, 1636, speaks of their being armed with corselets (Journal, i. 194).
104 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 126, 183.
105 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, ii. 8, iv. 3.
106 Boston Record Commissioners Reports, iv. 22.
107 “He demands of the next man he met, what the signall of the drum ment, the reply was made they have as yet no Bell to call men to meeting” (Johnson’s Wonder-working Providence, p. 103).
108 Winthrop’ Journal, ii. 220.
109 Wonder-working Providence, p. 41.
110 See C. F. Adams’ Antinomianism (Prince Society), p. 251. Shepard did not take a very active part in the discussion relative to the heresy of Mrs. Hutchinson, and he evidently considered that he occupied a neutral opinion in the controversy, for he says that Newtown was “kept spotless from the contagion of opinion.” He was, however, one of a committee which examined Mrs. Hutchinson, and although he was not violent in his opposition to her, yet he joined in a report with Thomas Welde which was referred to several times in the discussion. It seems to me therefore that he must be considered as practically taking sides in the matter.
111 Cotton Mather is authority for the statement that the Clergy had “eminent skill in physick.” He says, “it is well known that until two hundred years ago, physick in England was no profession distinct from divinity.” Most of Charles Chauncy’s sons, six in all, were, he says, practicers of physic as well as clergymen (Magnalia, i. 475).
112 Magnalia, ii. 33.
113 It is known that Mrs. Harvard bore children by her second husband. It is probable that Wilson was thinking of these children when he composed his elegy. The form of the elegy, an address by Harvard to an assembly of graduates, involves the idea of the lapse of many years after Harvard’s death before such a gathering could have taken place. Wilson died in 1667 at the age of seventy-nine, and if we allow an interval of at least twenty-five years to have elapsed after Harvard’s death before the elegy was composed, it would make him seventy-five years of age when it was written. This may perhaps account for this expression in the elegy, as confusion of memory on his part. That this must have been so, becomes apparent when we take into consideration the date of Harvard’s marriage, April 19, 1636.
114 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 183.
115 Ibid. i. 208.
116 Ibid. i. 217.
117 The close resemblance of this committee to the body to whom was entrusted the care and regulation of the affairs of the College in 1642, has led encyclopædists to record that members of the committee were at that time appointed Overseers of Harvard College.
118 Magnalia, i. 386.
119 Autobiography, p. 64.
120 5 Massachusetts Historical Collections, v. 447, note. George E. Ellis was one of the committee in charge of the publication of this volume and doubtless is responsible for this witty and appropriate quotation.
121 The assumption that Harvard’s will was nuncupative may be correct, but it does not rest upon direct evidence.
122 Publications, viii. 243, 244.
123 The Boston News-Letter of Thursday, 30 September, 1756, stated that “On Saturday last His Excellency embarked on board His Majesty’s Ship Mermaid, Washington Shirley, Esq; Commander” (p. 1/2).
124 Suffolk Deeds, ci. 164.
125 Suffolk Probate Files, no. 15,041.
126 Suffolk Deeds, cxxxv. 196. See also clxx. 48, 96, clxxvi. 13, 15.
127 Born in 1590 at Wethersfield, Essex, where his father the Rev. Richard Rogers held a lectureship from about 1577 to 1618, being repeatedly “suspended for Nonconformity though supported by the Puritan Lord Knolys.” Ezekiel Rogers’s elder brother, Daniel, succeeded his father, after an interval, in the Wethersfield lectureship. All three were of the University of Cambridge. See Victoria History of the County of Essex, ii. 52.
128 The History of Rowley, by Thomas Gage, with an Address by the Rev. James Bradford, 1840. Most of the information about Mr. Rogers is contained in the Address and in Appendix A to the Address.
129 This reminds one of the inability of the younger Weller to see his father in court.
130 Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1638–1639, pp. 430, 431.
131 Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, 1574–1660, pp. 263, 264.
132 Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Report vii. App. p. 538.
133 There is a letter dated November 6, 1621, from Mr. Rogers to Lady Joan Barrington, the wife of Sir Francis, who was a daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell and so an aunt of the Protector (ibid. p. 543). Another letter dated September 28, 1626, tells of Mr. Rogers’s sickness and recovery (ibid. p. 543). In 1644 Sir Thomas Barrington died and was succeeded by his son Sir John, and Mr. Rogers wrote to Mr. John Kendall at Sir John Barrington’s on December 8 of that year—
A long letter about what the late Sir Thomas Barrington had promised him in the way of preferment. He alludes to his diligent attendance on and comfort to Sir Thomas “on his sad and deep distemper of melancholy; not only in the day but in the night watchings and midnight rising he (Rogers) did much to impare his health.” (On the back is the copy of an answer by Kendall dated 1 May, 1645, in which he says that Sir Thomas had left his son burdened with 10000 l) (ibid. p. 570).
Mr. Rogers wrote again November 9, 1645, and once more December 9, 1646: “He mentions that old Lady B. promised him 100 l, and that Mr. Bridge said that he himself paid it to Robert Barrington, to be sent to New England for Rogers.” On April 25, 1646, “John Barrington to Ezekiel Rogers in England.—Copy of a letter on the subject of Rogers’s claims.” Was he then in England? See also a letter of the Rev. Daniel Rogers, a brother of Ezekiel, of July 7, 1647 (ibid. p. 570).
134 Ibid. pp. 543, 570.
135 Barton Stacey, a tithing and parish in Hants. The parish includes also the townships of Bransbury, Drayton, and Newton Stacey.
136 Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1635, pp. 520, 521.
137 Magnalia (1820), i. 74.
138 Bond, Genealogies and History of Watertown, p. 995.
139 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 170.
140 Trumbull, History of Connecticut, i. 11.
141 Johnson, Wonder-working Providence, pp. 75, 77; Holmes, History of Cambridge, 1 Massachusetts Historical Collections, vii. 15, 16; Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of Connecticut, p. 86 note.
142 Winthrop’s Journal (1853), i. 214 note.
143 1 Massachusetts Historical Collections, ix. 154; Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of Connecticut, p. 512; Stiles, History of Ancient Wethersfield, i. 24. But see Records of the First Church of Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1636–1734, p. vii. The records of the Windsor Church, now extant, do not embrace anything pertaining to its life at Dorchester, Massachusetts.
144 Colonial Records of Connecticut, i. 2.
145 Journal, i. 203.
146 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxxv. 21
147 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 26, 103, 123.
148 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, iv. 230.
149 4 Massachusetts Historical Collections, vi. 580.
150 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xlviii. 263.
151 Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor, i. 429.
152 Magnalia, i. 74.
153 Colonial Records of Connecticut, i. 7.
154 Holland, History of Western Massachusetts, i. 24.
155 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxxv. 21. Dr. H. R. Stiles, in his History of Ancient Windsor, i. 54, and of Ancient Wethersfield, i. 39, seems to confuse him with the Rev. Henry Smith, who later came over from England and became the minister in Wethersfield. See his Ancient Wethersfield, i. 154.
156 Hazard, Historical Collections, ii. 113.
157 Hazard, Historical Collections, ii. 118.
158 Trumbull says that this reads “inconvenient” in the manuscript Journals of the Congress (Historical Notes on the Constitutions of Connecticut, p. 5).
159 Hazard, Historical Collections, ii. 119.
160 Trumbull, History of Connecticut, i. 525.
161 Bowen, Boundary Disputes of Connecticut, 15.
162 Trumbull, History of Connecticut, i. 544.
163 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 477.
164 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 160.
165 Dr. Henry Bronson states, I think mistakenly, that Mr. Welles was for a short time a magistrate under the Massachusetts commission. New Haven Colony Historical Society Papers, iii. 296.
166 Colonial Records of Connecticut, i. 12.
167 Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, i. 13.
168 Burt, First Century of the History of Springfield, i. 152.
169 As late as 1639 there were probably not over fifteen men there. Green, Springfield, 1636–1886, p. 45.
170 Dwight’s Travels in New-England and New-York, i. 319.
171 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, v. 472.
172 2 Massachusetts Historical Collections, vi. 308.
173 Young’s Chronicles of Massachusetts, ii. 283.
174 Morris, Early History of Springfield, p. 11; Todd (The Burr Family) puts the date of his removal as 1644. He represented Fairfield in the Connecticut General Court in 1645, his name being enrolled as “Jehu Burre” (Colonial Records of Connecticut, i. 130).
175 Colonial Records of Connecticut, i. 10, 13.
176 Letter quoted in Taylor, Roger Ludlow, p. 70.
177 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 192.
178 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 259.
179 Ibid. i. 260.
180 Colonial Records of Connecticut, i. 10.
181 Colonial Records of Connecticut, i. 11.
182 Ibid. i. 13.
183 Ibid. i. 19.
184 Johnson, Wonder-working Providence, p. 199.
185 Roger Wolcott’s Memoir, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, ii. 326.
186 Journal, i. 216.
187 This was on October 7, 1640 (Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 304). Connecticut assented in 1641 (Colonial Records of Connecticut, i. 64).
188 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 281.
189 Ibid. i. 284.
190 Letter of Thomas Hooker to Gov. Winthrop. Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, i. 9; Winthrop’s Journal, i. 237, 285, 286.
191 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 216.
192 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 320, 321.
193 5 Massachusetts Historical Collections, i. 260.
194 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 321.
195 Ibid. i. 229, 230, 232.
196 Hazard, Historical Collections, ii. 72.
197 Ibid. ii. 111.
198 Ibid. ii. 112.
199 Ibid. ii. 137.
200 John Winthrop, Senior.
201 Hazard, Historical Collections, ii. 139.
202 Journal, i. 319. Cf. i. 335.
203 5 Massachusetts Historical Collections, i. 264.
204 Ibid. “You” in this letter evidently refers generally to those who represented Massachusetts at the conference.
205 Winthrop’s Journal indicates that this conference occurred not in June but July, 1638. He speaks, under date of December 13, 1638, of these three men as having brought their Connecticut amendments to the attention of the General Court at Newtown (i.e. Cambridge) on “the of the 5th” (Journal, i. 342). This probably indicates simply a lapse of memory.
206 Winthrop’s Journal, ii. 428; Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, i. 2.
207 Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, i. 14.
208 Life and Letters of John Winthrop, ii. 422.
209 Journal, i. 344.
210 Colonial Records of Connecticut, i. 25, 26.
211 Colonial Records of Connecticut, i. 20, 24.
212 Ibid. i. 18.
213 Massachusetts Historical Society Manuscripts, 81. D. p. 4. I am indebted for this reference to the courtesy of Mr. Charles K. Bolton, the librarian of the Boston Athenæum.
214 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xiii. 291; Holland, History of Western Massachusetts, i. 33; 5 Massachusetts Historical Collections, i. 487.
215 Green, Springfield, 1636–1886, pp. 29–36; quoted from the original manuscript now owned by Charles E. Oliver of Boston. The only date of the letter is the 18th day of the second month, but it was addressed on the back “To his lov. friend, Mr Pinchon, at his house in Aguam, lett these bee deld,” and on the first page is a marginal note, apparently in his handwriting, of its receipt on “the 20 April, 1639.”
216 Green, Springfield, 1636–1886, pp. 55, 60.
217 5 Massachusetts Historical Collections, i. 119.
218 Winthrop’s Journal, i. 360.
219 Colonial Records of Connecticut, i. 30, 31.
220 Burt, First Century of the History of Springfield, i. 144.
221 5 Massachusetts Historical Collections, i. 296.
222 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 320–322.
223 Colonial Records of Connecticut, i. 57.
224 Trumbull, History of Connecticut, i. 115.
225 Massachusetts Colony Records, ii. 31, 35, 36; Colonial Records of Connecticut, i. 82.
226 Colonial Records of Connecticut, i. 90 note.
227 Colonial Records of Connecticut, i. 119, 185.
228 Hazard, Historical Collections, ii. 123.
229 Colonial Records of Connecticut, i. 139.
230 Hazard, Historical Collections, ii. 136.
231 A copy of this survey is given in Bowen’s Boundary Disputes of Connecticut, opposite p. 19. It runs the line below Enfield Falls. See further Bowen’s description of the territory included, in chapters iii and iv of his work.
232 Colonial Records of Connecticut, v. 390–399.
233 Colonial Records of Connecticut, ix. 431.
234 Johnston, History of Connecticut, p. 209.
235 Hazard, Historical Collections, ii. 142.
236 Massachusetts Colony Records, ii. 109.
237 Winthrop’s Journal, ii. 457.
238 Green, Springfield, 1630–1886, p. 63.
239 This letter, dated 15 March, 1793, is printed in Anne Cary Morri’s Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris (1888), ii. 38. The opening words—“I have receiv’d yours of the third of February and reply shortly that I may reply immediately. My Reason for which is that”—are omitted in the Diary and Letters, as are also the words printed in italics in the following sentence: “In the first Place I must have leave to resign from the President but further you will consider that the very Circumstance,” etc.
240 Publications of this Society, vi. 109–130.
241 For Boyle, see ibid. vi. 321 note 4, ix. index.
242 Palfrey, History of New England, i. 313.
243 Cambridge Modern History, iv. 275.
244 Ibid. iv. 266–275.
245 In the Massachusetts Colony Records (i. 36), under date of March 17, 1628–29, is the following entry:
A warrant was made ffor payment of 120t to Mr Nathaniell Wright, for so much pd by him to Mr Jarvis Kerke, Mr Wm Barkley, & Mr Roᵬrt Charlton, ffor the shippe.
The Jarvis Kerke here referred to is the Gervase Kirke named in the text, both forms of the name being found in the Calendars of State Papers. Thia entry was made a few days after the date of the Charter, March 4–14,1628–29, but before organization thereunder.
246 Henry Kirke, First English Conquest of Canada (1871), p. 69.
247 History of New England (1853), i. 15, 16.
248 Ibid. i. 17. Terceira is one of the large islands of the central group of the Azores. It is in slightly above 27° west longitude. Under date of May 9, Winthrop says that the fleet was a little west of Corvos. Corvo and Flores are the two islands comprising the northwestern group of the Azores and are in slightly above 31° west longitude. Upon the two estimates the fleet made about four degrees of longitude in ten days.
249 History of New England, i. 17, 18, 21.
250 See Parkman, Pioneers of France (1896), p. 444; Winsor, Cartier to Frontenac, p. 136; Kirke, First English Conquest of Canada, pp. 69–74. In saying that “Champlain surrendered Quebec to the English on the 9th of August, 1629,” Henry Kirke is slightly inaccurate. The surrender of Quebec took place on July 20; the articles, drawn up July 19, were ratified on August 9 by David Kirke at Tadousac. See Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, 1574–1660, pp. 98, 99. The matter is correctly stated by R. Brown in his History of the Island of Cape Breton (1869), p. 73. The articles are printed in Hazard’s Historical Collections, i. 285–287.
251 Birch’s Court and Times of Charles the First contains letters bearing on the subject from the Rev. Joseph Mead to Sir Martin Stuteville dated September 26, 1629 (ii. 28), from Mr. Beaulieu to Sir Thomas Puckering dated January 20, 1629–30 (ii. 52), from John Pory to Puckering dated January 13, 1630–31 (ii. 89, 90), from Beaulieu to Puckering dated May 25, 1631 (ii. 122), from Pory to Puckering dated June 16, 1631 (ii. 123), and from Pory to Puckering dated February 23, 1631–32 (ii. 171, 172). In his letter to Puckering of January 13, 1630–31, Pory, with pleasing naïveté, writes:
That Philip Burlamachi hath gotten a brave employment into France, to fetch home the latter half of the Queen’s portion, being £120,000, and satisfaction also for three great rich English ships, treacherously taken by the French after the peace proclaimed. “Do you think that the French, being so exhausted by their wars, would part with such heaps of treasure for nothing? No: you may be sure they would not. The bait, therefore, to allure them thereunto, is the fort of Kebeck, in Canada, to get it out of Capt. Kirk’s clutches; the trade of beavers and otters, which they want to enjoy by the possession whereof, having been worth unto them, communibus annis, £30,000 by year.” That the said fort sticketh in their hearts, as Calais did in Queen Mary’s.
252 Kirke, First English Conquest of Canada, pp. 82–86; Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, 1574–1660, pp. 117, 118.
253 In a note to Winthrop’s History of New England (i. 15), Savage says that “Capt. Kirk” was “probably a brother of Sir David Kirk.”
254 Kirke, First English Conquest of Canada, p. 93.
255 Mosquitoes.
256 Kirke, First English Conquest of Canada, p. 87.
257 Parkman, Pioneers of France, p. 444. In Rymer’s Foedera (xix. 303) is a promise of Charles I to return Quebec to the French King dated June 29, 1631.
258 Winsor, Cartier to Frontenac, p. 137. The Treaty of St. Germain has been printed several times in French, but not in English. See Rymer’s Fœdera, xix. 361–365; Memoires des Commissaires (1755), ii. 7–13; Collection de Manuscrits relatifs a la Nouvelle-France (1883), i. 86–97; Hazard, Historical Collections, i. 319, 320.
259 See E. F. Slafter, Sir William Alexander, and American Colonization (Prince Society), pp. 62–72.
260 Winsor, Carrier to Frontenac, p. 138.
261 Ibid. p. 138. In a letter to John Winthrop, Jr., dated London, December 26, 1631, Francis Kirby wrote:
Captain Bruton who was imployed by my cozen Moris Thomson and company for the trade of bever in the river of Canada is now arrived heer . . . he hath brought in heer about 3000lb weight of bever, and they are now hasteninge to set forth a small ship only for that river hopinge to be there before Captain Kerke whom (I hear) Is to fetch his men from Quibeck and yield up the Castle againe to the French this next somer (3 Massachusetts Historical Collections, ix. 238).
It would appear from these statements that the English were making the most of their control of the River St. Lawrence while it lasted.
As contemporary glimpses of the Kirkes are somewhat rare, it may not be without interest to bring together a few. In a relation written at Quebec August 28, 1632, Father Le Jeune said:
At length, on the 5th of July, which was Monday,—two months and 18 days since the 18th of April, when we sailed,—we reached the much desired port. We cast anchor in front of the fort which the English held; we saw at the foot of this fort the poor settlement of Kebec all in ashes. The English, who came to this country to plunder and not to build up, not only burned a greater part of the detached buildings which Father Charles Lallement had had erected, but also all of that poor settlement of which nothing now is to be seen but the ruins of its stone walls. This greatly inconveniences the French, who do not know where to lodge. The next day Captain Thomas Ker was summoned, a man of French Nationality, born at Dieppe, who had gone over to England, and who, with David and Louys Ker, his brothers, and one Jacques Michel, also born at Dieppe, all huguenots, had thrown themselves upon this poor country, where they have done great damage and have prevented the doing of much good. . . . The English Clergyman, who was not of the same Faith as his people,—for he was a Protestant or Lutheran, and the Kers are Calvinists or of some other more libertine Religion (they held this poor Minister a prisoner in their house for six months),—told me that the Moutagnards wanted to negotiate a peace with the Hiroquois (Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, v. 39, 41, 49).
Under date of July 25, 1645, Governor Winthrop wrote:
Monsieur La Tour having stayed here all winter and thus far of the summer, and having petitioned the court for aid against Monsieur D’Aulnay, and finding no hope to obtain help that way, took shipping in one of our vessels which went on fishing to Newfoundland, hoping by means of Sir David Kirk, governour there, and some friends he might procure in England to obtain aid from thence, intending for that end to go from thence to England. Sir David entertained him courteously, and promised to do much for him; but no means of help appearing to answer his ends, he returned hither before winter, Sir David giving him passage in a vessel of his which came hither (History of New England, ii. 303).
In a letter to John Winthrop, Jr., dated New Haven, September 26, 1659, the Rev. John Davenport said:
I desire . . . to let you know that I have received a large letter fr: Mr Blinman dated Aug. 22. whereby I understand that God hath brought him and his to Newfoundland, in safety and health, . . . After these passages and his notifying to me the Lady Kircks respectful and loving mention of me whom she saith, she hath heard in London, he addeth to what I had heard fr: England that a fine of 5£ is put upon any that shall name the last protector (3 Massachusetts Historical Collections, x. 25, 26).
No doubt this was the widow of Sir David Kirke.
262 W. A. Shaw, Knights of England, ii. 201.
263 Kirke, First English Conquest of Canada, p. 161 and note.
264 Kirke, First English Conquest of Canada, p. 167.
265 Shaw, Knights of England, ii. 215. In his History of Newfoundland (pp. 155, 162, 164), Judge Prowse speaks of “Sir James Kirke.” This is apparently a mistake, for in the documents from the Calendars of State Papers referred to by Prowse James Kirke is not spoken of as a knight, nor is his name found in Shaw’s work. On the other hand, John Kirke, though his name too is not in Shaw’s work, was knighted, though exactly when does not appear. On May 14, 1683, there is mention of a “Petition of Sir John Kirk, Knight, to the King” (Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, 1685–1689, p. 643), and on January 26, 1684, of “Sir John Kirk” as the father-in-law of Radisson (ibid. p. 648). The second wife of Radisson is sometimes erroneously said (Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, v. 277) to have been the daughter of Sir David Kirke. Radisson himself said that he was “marry’d at London unto an Honble familly,” and spoke of “my father-in-Law, Sir John Kirk” (Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson, Prince Society, pp. 250, 254).
266 R. Brown, History of the Island of Cape Breton, p. 112 note; Kirke, First English Conquest of Canada, p. 173.
267 That from the autumn of 1651 to June 11, 1652, Sir David was in London, as stated by Henry Kirke, is shown by the Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, 1574–1660, pp. 363, 371, 372, 373, 381. Henry Kirke writes:
At the same time [i.e., June 11, 1652], permission was granted to Sir David to return to Newfoundland, on condition that he returned to England with the Commissioners, and in the meanwhile gave security that he would answer whatever was objected against him, and to pay such sums as shall appear to be due from him to the Commonwealth. Upon such hard terms as these, Sir David Kirke returned to his estates at Ferryland, in the summer of 1652. He could not have remained there long, for in the spring of 1653, we find him again in England, . . . he was allowed to return to Newfoundland, upon entering into a bond of double the value of his estate, to answer any charges that might be brought against him. With such terms, which were the best he could procure, Kirke was bound to be satisfied; so he set sail for Newfoundland and arrived there in the autumn of 1653. . . . But all hopes and expectations were blighted by his death, which took place in the winter of 1655–6, but the exact date is not known. (First English Conquest of Canada, pp. T77–184.)
Henry Kirke offers no proof that Sir David returned to Newfoundland in the summer of 1652 and again in the autumn of 1653, and, while the statement may be correct, there is nothing in the Calendar of State Papers to support it. As to the date of Sir David’s death, Henry Kirke is clearly wrong. On June 11, 1653, a petition of Sir David was referred to the Committee of the Admiralty, and on December 1, 1653, an order of the Council of State referred the petition to the Committee for Irish and Scotch Affairs. On April 24, 1654, Sir David was spoken of as dead. (Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, 1574–1660, pp. 404, 412, 415.)
268 “In the full conviction,” writes Henry Kirke, “that the Baltimores had abandoned Newfoundland, Sir David Kirke obtained a grant of that place from the King, . . . This was in 1637, and no complaint was made by Lord Baltimore till 1660” (First English Conquest of Canada, pp. 188, 189). As early as February, 1637, Lord Baltimore presented a memorial “touching his right to part of Newfoundland” (Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, 1574–1660, pp. 246, 247). On June 11, 1652, the Committee for Foreign Affairs considered “the interests of the Commonwealth in Newfoundland, and the encouragement of the fisheries there;” and “Sir David Kirke and Lord Baltimore, who pretend private interest, agree that the proceeding therein will be no inconvenience to them” (ibid. p. 381). The Maryland Historical Society owns several documents relating to the subject dated 1652 or 1653, among them “the Lord Baltimore’s case concerning Avalon” (Calvert Papers, part i. p. 113). Under date of June, 1660, is a—
Petition of Cecil, Lord Baltimore to the King. Recites King James’s patent of Newfoundland to his father; where he began a plantation, built a fair house in which he resided, and expended above 30,000 l. After his decease, the petitioner deputed Capt. William Hill, Governor. In 1638 . . . Sir David Kirke surreptitiously obtained a patent, went over the following year, and dispossessed the petitioner of all his rights there. In 1655 Kirke made over part of his patent to John Claypole (son-in-law to Cromwell), . . . and others, and Sir Lewis Kirke and others are endeavouring to get a confirmation of that patent. Prays that no grant may be passed to his prejudice, and that he may be restored to his rights according to his patent (Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, 1574–1660, p. 481).
It has been stated that the Kirke who in 1655 “over part of his patent to John Claypole” was Sir David; but if the date is correct, Sir David was then dead; hence probably it was James Kirke, or else there was a mistake in, the date. A little later than the above petition, we find, presumably dated in 1661, another—
Petition of Cecil Lord Baltemore to the King. Recites his former petition and the proceedings thereon . . . ; with his Majesty’s order (of 20th March 1660/1) to restore petitioner to his possession and rights in Newfoundland, but that he hath yet no satisfaction for such damage done him by Sir David Kirke and others in dispossessing petitioner of his house, goods, and rights in the province of Avalon, and keeping him out of possession many years, to his prejudice of above 20,000 l. sterling, for which damages petitioner sued said Sir David Kirke at his first return thence into England about ten years since, and laid him in prison, where he died before making any satisfaction to petitioner. That nevertheless Sir Lewis Kirke claims satisfaction for the charges wrongfully bestowed by his brother upon said province to petitioner’s prejudice (ibid., Colonial, 1061–1668, p. 21).
Lord Baltimore appointed Captain Robert Swanley to be his lieutenant in Avalon, and on May 9, 1663, the King’s officers and subjects were “to be assisting to Capt. Swanley or his deputy in the Government of said province” (ibid. p. 132).
269 History of New England, i. 24. The following is the entry for May 30:
The wind N. by E. a handsome gale, but close, misty weather, and very cold; so our ship made good way in a smooth sea, and our three ships kept close together. By our account we were in the same meridian with Isle Sable, and forty-two and a half (ibid. i. 24).
270 That the colonists felt that they were in grave danger of hostilities by the French is shown by a statement in Thomas Dudley’s letter to the Countess of Lincoln, dated March 12, 1630–31, wherein Dudley, referring to the efforts of the colonists in July and August, 1630, to find a place for their sitting down, says:
And to that purpose, some were sent to the Bay, to search up the rivers for a convenient place; who, upon their return, reported to have found a good place upon Mistick; but some other of us, seconding these, to approve or dislike of their judgment, we found a place (that) liked us better, three leagues up Charles river; and thereupon unshipped our goods into other vessels, and with much cost and labor brought them in July to Charlestown. But there receiving advertisements, by some of the late arrived ships from London and Amsterdam, of some French preparations against us, (many of our people brought with us being sick of fevers and the scurvy, and we thereby unable to carry up our ordnance and baggage so far,) we were forced to change counsel, and for our present shelter to plant dispersedly, some at Charlestown, which standeth on the north side of the mouth of Charles river; some on the south side thereof, which place we named Boston, (as we intended to have done the place we first resolved on;) some of us upon Mistick, which we named Medford; some of us westwards on Charles river, four miles from Charlestown, which place we named Watertown; others of us two miles from Boston, in a place we named Rocksbury; others upon the river of Saugus, between Salem and Charlestown; and the western men four miles south from Boston, at a place we named Dorchester. (Young’s Chronicles of Massachusetts, pp. 312, 313.)
It thus appears that the danger of attacks by the French may have affected the locations of towns and town boundaries in the neighborhood of Boston.
271 Savage, referring to the capture of Quebec by the Kirkes, says (Winthrop’s History of New England, i. 13 note) that it was an event then and long after thought of so little consequence as not to be noticed in Hume’s History of England.
272 History of New England, chap. xiv.
273 History of New England, chap. lxxi.
274 This estate was at the southerly comer of what are now known as Washington and State Streets.
275 Mather, Magnalia (1702), book iii. chap. xxv. p. 144.
276 The Rev. John Wilson.
277 The Rev. John Norton.
278 See Massachusetts Colony Records (second edition), i. 37 f, 37 g, 37 h.
279 Original agreement in possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
280 Massachusetts Colony Records, iv. (part i.) 327.
281 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, ii. (second edition) 158.
282 For Oxenbridge in England, see index of Masson’s Life of Milton.
283 Mather Papers, in Catalogue of Prince Library, ii. 15; Suffolk Probate Files, no. 716.
284 Acadia was ceded to France by the Treaty of Breda, 1667, but was not actually turned over until 1670.
285 Both wills are given in Prime’s Some Account of the Temple Family, Appendix (1899), pp. 94–99.
286 The title-page has neither imprint nor date. It is generally assigned to the year 1670. In the address “To the Reader,” the Rev. Increase Mather, a brother of Samuel Mather, speaks of it as a posthumous work; and as Samuel Mather died October 29, 1671, the pamphlet obviously could not not have been printed before the end of 1671.
287 See John Dunton, Life and Errors (1818), p. 204.
288 John Usher (1648–1726).
289 4 Massachusetts Historical Collections, viii. 576.
290 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, vii. 162.
291 Diary, i. 141.
292 Foote, Annals of King’s Chapel, i. 45, 46.
293 Diary, June 27, 1671; August 3, 1671.
294 3 Massachusetts Historical Collections, vii. 162.
295 Diary, i. 159, 160, 162.
296 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, vii. 220.
297 See Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, xi. 13, 14.
298 Ibid. xi. 26.
299 3 Massachusetts Historical Collections, v. 178.
300 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, xi. 37.
301 See Palfrey’s History of New England, iv. 295 note, quoting a letter from Governor Dudley to the Lords of Trade, March 10, 1705: “I have received her Majesty’s picture and coat of arms. The same were the next day fixed in the Council Chamber of this Province.”
302 See John Hull’s Diary, p. 150 note.
303 See Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts (1767), ii. 187.
304 Sewall’s Letter Book, i. 422.
305 See Publications of this Society, viii. 19–21.
306 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, xi. 185.
307 5 Massachusetts Historical Collections, vii. 163.
308 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, xiii. 249.
309 See Publications of this Society, xi. 196–207.
310 Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, xviii. 422.
311 [The return of Mede’s book to the King’s Chapel Library came from a suggestion by Mr. Canavan.—Editor.]
312 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, xi. 240.
313 Sewall’s Letter Book, ii. 208.
314 See J. J. Ogle’s The Free Library (London, 1897), p. 11.
315 Report for 1899, p. 43.
316 The inscription has been kindly verified by Dean Wace of Canterbury Cathedral, who writes that the tablet is of white marble. It need scarcely be pointed out that the terms “British Colony of New England,” “British Forces,” and “American Commonwealth” would not have been employed by an American.
317 This silhouette of Bishop Cheverus belonged originally to the Rev. Dr. Eliphalet Pearson (H. C. 1773), a Fellow of the Corporation of Harvard College, and the first Principal of Phillips Academy, Andover. It was inherited by his daughter Margaret Bromfield Pearson, who married the Rev. 1. H. T. Blanchard (H. C. 1817), the Unitarian minister of Harvard, Massachusetts, and always adorned the wall of her chamber. At her death it passed to her kinsman our late associate Dr. Daniel Denison Slade, and is now the property of his son, Mr. Denison R. Slade. See Publications of this Society, v. 198 note, 205 note, viii. 290.
318 Jean Louis Anne Madeleine Lefebvre de Cheverus (1768–1836) signed himself, when Bishop of Boston, John Cheverus (Memorial History of Boston, iii. 518).
319 Some Select Cases Resolved (Boston, 1747), p. 44.
Again, the authors of A Defence of the Answer made unto the Nine Questions (London, 1648) say: “We had neither time nor Bookes ready at hand to Consider some of the quotations” (p. 29). Thomas Shepard and John Allen figure as the joint authors of this volume. Sabin treats it as identical with the Treatise of Liturgies, which is placed among the works of Shepard.
320 Legal may have a technical meaning here. Legalists are contrasted with Antinomians in contemporary literature. They were those who adhered to a rigorous administration of the word.
321 Theses Sabbaticæ, or The Doctrine of the Sabbath: etc., etc. By Thomas Shepard, Pastor of the Church of Christ at Cambridge in New England. London, 1649. The Sanctification of the Sabbath . . . The fourth Part, p. 36 et seq.
322 Theses Sabbaticæ, or The Doctrine of the Sabbath: etc., etc. By Thomas Shepard, Pastor of the Church of Christ at Cambridge in New England. London, 1649. The Sanctification of the Sabbath . . . The fourth Part, p. 45.
323 Subjection to Christ (London, 1652), p. 25.
324 Subjection to Christ (London, 1652), Quest. 3, p. 120.
325 Ibid. Answ. 2, p. 122.
326 Subjection to Christ (London, 1652), p. 124.
327 May 25, 1636, “Mr Shepeard” was one of a committee appointed by the General Court to prepare “a draught of lawes agreeable to the word of God, wch may be the Fundamentals of this com̄onwealth” (Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 174). March 12, 1637–38, “Mr Sheopard”—one of several who were described as “elders of severall churches”—was also on a committee appointed by the same body for a similar purpose (ibid. i. 222). This Shepeard or Sheopard was probably our Shepard.
328 The Church Membership of Children, p. 26.
329 The Parable of the Ten Virgins (London, 1660), p. 106.
330 Ibid. p. 166.
331 New England’s Lamentation for Old England’s Errours (1644), p. 5.
332 A Treatise of Liturgies . . . in answer to Mr. . . . Ball, p. 8.
333 The Sincere Convert (London, 1659), p. 69.
334 The Parable of the Ten Virgins (London, 1660), p. 226.
335 The Parable of the Ten Virgins (London, 1660), part ii. p. 5.
336 Ibid. p. 6.
337 Some Select Cases Resolved (Boston, 1747), p. 49.
338 The Parable, p. 103.
339 Ibid. p. 106.
340 Certain Select Cases Resolved, p. 7.
341 The Parable, p. 223.
342 Ibid. p. 127.
343 The Sound Believer (Boston, 1742), p. 206.
344 Subjection to Christ, p. 116.
345 The Parable, part ii. p. 61.
346 Ibid. p. 41.
347 Subjection to Christ, pp. 119–120.
348 Ibid. p. 121.
349 The Parable, p. 89.
350 Subjection to Christ, p. 192.
351 The Saints Jewel, p. 184. This is printed in connection with The Sincere Convert, with continuous pagination.
352 The Parable, part ii. p. 55.
353 The Sound Believer, p. 216.
354 Subjection to Christ, p. 132.
355 The Parable, pp. 107, 166.
356 The Sincere Convert, p. 164.
357 The Saints Jewel (London, 1659), p. 197. Printed with the Sincere Convert and having continuous pagination.
358 The Parable, p. 110.
359 The Sound Believer, p. 62.
360 The Parable, part ii. p. 97.
361 The Sound Believer, pp. 111, 112.
362 Theses Sabbaticse, The Sanctification of the Sabbath, p. 43.
363 The Parable, p. 57.
364 Ibid. p. 211.
365 The Parable, p. 227.
366 The Parable, part ii. p. 23.
367 The Sincere Convert, p. 114.
368 The Sound Believer, p. 238.
369 The Sincere Convert, p. 52.
370 The Sound Believer, p. 142.
371 Theses Sabbaticæ, The Beginning of the Sabbath, p. 3.
372 The Sound Believer, p. 33.
373 The Parable, p. 41.
374 Ibid. p. 215.
375 The Parable, part ii. p. 7.
376 The Parable, part i. p. 80; The Sincere Convert, p. 163.
377 The Parable, part i. p. 191.
378 Theses Sabbaticæ, The Sanctification of the Sabbath, p. 88.
379 Ibid. p. 175.
380 Ibid. p. 49.
381 Theses Sabbaticæ, The Morality of the Sabbath, p. 28.
382 Theses Sabbaticæ, The Morality of the Sabbath, p. 88.
383 A Treatise of Liturgies, p. 42.
384 Subjection to Christ, p. 92.
385 Ibid. p. 106.
386 Preface by Thomas Shepard—without pagination—to A Reply to a Confutation of some Grounds for Infants Baptisme, by George Philips (London, 1645). See sixth page.
387 The Parable, part ii. p. 103.
388 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxiv. 363.
389 Subjection to Christ, p. 100.
390 Ibid. p. 100.
391 Wine for Gospel Wantons: or Cautions against Spiritual Drunkenness (Cambridge, 1668), p. 9.
392 This is to be found on the third page of a preface by Shepard, which has no pagination, to A Reply to a Confutation of Some Grounds for Infant Baptisme, by George Philips (London, 1645).
393 Luke, vi. 2.
394 Exodus, xxxi. 15.
395 The Parable, p. 18.
396 Autobiography, p. 34.
397 Subjection to Christ, p. 97. For the explanation of this I am indebted to Professor Roger B. Merriman.
398 Subjection to Christ, p. 11
399 Ibid. p. 27.
400 The Sound Believer, p. 101. For the meaning of this, Professor Kittredge, who has helped me in solving some of these questions, says: See Jonah, ii. 5.
401 Certain Select Cases Resolved, p. 49.
402 (1) Autobiography. (2) The Church Membership of Children. (3) New England’s Lamentation for Old England’s Errours. (4) The Parable of the Ten Virgins. (5) The Saints Jewel, with The Sincere Convert. (6) The Sincere Convert. (7) Some [or Certain in some editions] Select Cases Resolved. (8) The Sound Believer. (9) Subjection to Christ. (10) Theses Sabbaticae. (11) Treatise of Liturgies. (12) Wine for Wanton Gospellers. The Saints Jewel, which is separately cited, is only to be found in connection with The Sincere Convert. The Day-breaking if not the Sun-rising, etc., is the title of another pamphlet included by Sabin among Shepard’s works, but not considered by me as entitled to this attribution.
403 The Clear Sun Shine of the Gospel breaking forth upon the Indians, etc., separately published; First principles of the Oracles of God, to be found in Three Valuable Pieces; and Meditation and Spiritual Experiences, also to be found in Three Valuable Pieces, but which was subsequently published by itself. The Sincere Convert in the form of a translation into the Indian tongue is also to be seen in some of our libraries.
404 The Liturgical Considerator Considered in Reply to Dr. Gaudon, London, 1661.
405 See p. 160, above.
406 William Clarke was the father of Richard Clarke, one of the consignees of the tea in 1773. See Publications of this Society, viii. 78 note.
407 The Hon. Josiah Willard, son of Samuel and Eunice (Tyng) Willard and grandson of Major Simon Willard, was born in Boston 21 June, 1681; graduated in 1698 at Harvard College, which he served later as a tutor and librarian; studied divinity and preached, but retired from his profession because of unconquerable diffidence; travelled in Europe and the West Indies, and at one time commanded a ship in the London trade. On 17 June, 1717, he was commissioned Secretary of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay and held the office till his death. From 1728 till 1745 he was Judge of Probate in Suffolk; and from 1734 till 1755 he sat in the Executive Council. He was universally honored and esteemed and was affectionately called “the good Secretary.” At the time of the Knowles riot in Boston, in 1747, Commodore Knowles dined with him. During the dinner the Commodore used some profane language, for which he was gently admonished by his host, but not until the next day. (See the correspondence in Publications of this Society, iii. 239, 240.)
Secretary Willard married (1) Katharine Allen, 24 October, 1715, by whom he had several children; and (2) Mrs. Hannah Clarke, 7 April, 1726, who also brought him two sons and a daughter. Mrs. Clarke was born in Lynn, 1 November, 1684, the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Whittingham) Appleton of Ipswich. She married William Clarke of Boston, at Ipswich, 11 October, 1705, by whom she had several children; and after his death, as already stated, she became the second wife of Secretary Willard. Her first husband, William Clarke, had inherited from his uncle of the same name valuable real estate in Boston, including a parcel at the southeasterly corner of Tremont and School Streets, opposite King’s Chapel, now covered by the newer part of the Parker House. The lot measured 68 feet, 10 inches, on School Street and 94 feet, 5 inches, on Tremont Street, its southerly line bounding on the present site of Tremont Temple. On the northerly portion of this lot stood his mansion house, which faced School Street. Here his widow continued to reside after her marriage to Secretary Willard; and here is where Commodore Knowles dined on the occasion already referred to. Mr. Willard died 7 December, 1756. His widow survived him nearly ten years and died 28 July, 1766. See Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, ix. 156, xxviii. 61, 135, xxx. 302; Willard Memoir (1858), pp. 368, 369, 400–403; Whitmore, Massachusetts Civil List, pp. 44, 55–59, 80; Publications of this Society, viii. 78 note, 79 note, xii. 134; Suffolk Probate Files, nos. 3273, 4439, 11,380, 13,898; Suffolk Deeds, lxviii. 136, lxxvii. 191; Minute Book no. 26 of the Superior Court of Judicature, third leaf from end, Docket no. 227, Suffolk term beginning 13 February, 1738–39, of which no Record is known to exist; Suffolk Court Files, dccvi. 15, case no. 108,493; Boston Evening Post, 13 December, 1756, p. 2/2, 4 August, 1766, p. 2/3.
408 Lefroy, Memorials of the Bermudas or Somers Islands, i. 710. Governor Lefroy considers Nathaniel Ward of Ipswich, New England, and him of Bermuda the same; but on p. 545 he says, whether they are the same individual or not “the Editor has not ascertained. N. Ward can be traced in Bermuda from 1627 to October 1631.” At vol. ii. p. xv of the same work the title-page of Nathaniel Ward’s sermon preached before the House of Commons on June 30, 1647, is given, with a parenthesis for explanation, thus: “By Nathaniel Ward, minister of God’s word (long a minister in Bermuda).” The words in parenthesis are not a part of the title, and the assertion is clearly a mistake.
409 Ibid. i. 583.
410 Savage says born in 1606. Foster (Alumni Oxonienses) says born 30 Jan., 1608; matric. 20 June, 1623, aged 18; M. A. 17 April, 1627. The editor of Laud’s Works (v. 98) says that he took the degree of M. A. at Magdalen College June 18, 1631. Hotten’s Original Lists (p. 87) gives his age in June, 1635, as 24 years. There is a very good account of Mr. Oxenbridge and his family, which I had not seen until after this article was in type, in the Sussex Archseological Collections (xii. 203–220); where may be found his will, printed at length, and the epitaph of his first wife, whose influence over him was very great. I think the writer has somewhat misunderstood the matter of the sacramentum academicum and Laud’s connection with it. See also p. 121 notes 3 and 4, above, and p. 173 note 4, below.
411 Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1633–1634, p. 563.
412 Ibid. p. 571.
413 History of Laud’s Chancellorship of Oxford, Laud’s Works, v. 98.
414 Hotten, Original Lists, pp. 85, 87.
415 Lefroy, Memorials of the Bermudas, i. 706.
416 He was the other or another schoolmaster who was, it would seem, a real Church of England man and whose imprisonment and other sufferings make him write more violently if not more strongly than Norwood.
417 Memorials of the Bermudas, i. 706, 707.
418 Tribe in Bermuda is equivalent to township elsewhere.
419 Memorials of the Bermudas, i. 585.
420 Otherwise Graeme, or Grames, the Rev. Alexander. Ibid. i. 663,704.
421 For an instance somewhat earlier (1616), see ibid. i. 107.
422 Memorials of the Bermudas, i. 569.
423 Ibid. i. 570.
424 Ibid. i. 571.
425 Ibid. i. 573, 574.
426 Ibid. i. 581.
427 Memorials of the Bermudas, i. 583.
428 Ibid. i. 584.
429 David Stokes, who had been removed by the Puritans, being restored.
430 Mr. Oxenbridge’s first wife, Jane Butler, was with him in Bermuda. She was a masterful woman, and in England is reported to have had much to do with her husband’s ecclesiastical activities. She died April 25, 1658. See also p. 168 note, above.
431 Memorials of the Bermudas, i. 692.
432 Ibid. i. 694.
433 Whitmore, Massachusetts Civil List, p. 45. See Massachusetts Province Laws, vii. 24, 54. This was not his first public service. After the overthrow of Andros, Taylor was chosen one of the Representatives from Boston to join in a convention with the Council of Safety at Boston on the ninth of May, 1689, for consultation in regard to the adoption of a form of government (General Court Records, vi. 15, 25). After the arrival of the Province Charter, he again represented Boston in the lower House at the session which began 31 May, 1693 (Massachusetts Province Laws, vii. 20). He may have been identical with the James Tailer, as the name was frequently spelled, who was Commissioner of Impost and Excise from 17 June, 1696, till 18 June, 1697 (Whitmore, Massachusetts Civil List, p. 125). Taylor died in Lynn 29 July, 1716, and was buried in Boston on the second of August (Sewall’s Diary, iii. 94, 95).
434 Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of New England, i. 392.
435 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, ix. 59, 63. She was buried in Boston 23 July, 1718, æ. 60 (Sewall’s Diary, iii. 190).
436 Records of the First Church in Boston.
437 Suffolk Probate Files, no. 2005. The estate was administered by Stephen. Minot, who had married Capt. Clarke’s youngest daughter Mary (or Mercy).
438 Essex Probate Files, no. 27,301. See also Rebecca Taylor’s estate, ibid. no. 27,315; Rebecca Kelsoll’s (sometimes Kelsey’s) will, ibid. no. 15,297; Essex Deeds, xliv. 152; Sewall’s Diary, iii. 94, 95.
439 Massachusetts Province Laws, vi. 108, 119, 123, and side notes. See also ibid. ii. 195 note.
440 William Taylor died 23 January, 1769, æ. 72 (Lynn Vital Records, ii. 602). See Essex Probate Files, no. 27,320. He married Sarah Burrill of Lynn, their intentions having been recorded 29 May, 1726, by whom he had two daughters one of whom, Rebecca, born 5 June, 1727, married her second cousin Timothy Orne of Salem, 20 June, 1747, and became the ancestor of our associate Mr. Francis H. Lee (Lynn Vital Records, i. 395, ii. 285, 368, 369).
441 Both declined service and William Taylor, the testator’s half-brother, administered the estate (Suffolk Probate Files, no. 6603). See Massachusetts Archives, li. 283; 1 Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, xiii. 410, 414,416.
442 Suffolk Probate Files, no. 8656.
443 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, ix. 207.
444 Rev. Jeremiah Condy’s Funeral Sermon, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, ix. 175. This sermon was called to my attention by Mr. William P. Greenlaw. See ibid, xxxii. 423.
445 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, xxviii. 83.
446 Rev. Jeremiah Condy’s Funeral Sermon on her husband.
447 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xi. 27, 28; Suffolk Probate Files, no. 11,430. This family appears to have spelled its name Procter and not Proctor.
448 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, xxiv. 23.
449 Boston Town Records,—Old Sexton’s bill.
450 Suffolk Probate Files, no. 4273; Suffolk Deeds, xxxviii. 224. This house stood on a part of the site of the Adams Building, between the Ames Building and Franklin Avenue. In 1714 Richard Procter dwelt in Cornhill (now Washington Street), on the westerly side, between Queen (now Court) Street and the present thoroughfare known as Cornhill. This estate ran through to the passageway now called Franklin Avenue (ibid. xxix. 252, xxx. 199).
451 Caulkins, History of New London (1852), p. 318, 367; Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, xxiv. 177. See Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, xxx. 20, 422.
452 Mrs. Procter’s gravestone at New London is inscribed: “In memory of Mrs Lucretia widow of Mr John Procter M.A. who died Sept. 10th 1770 in ye 64th year of her age” (New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xi. 27, 28). If Procter ever received an academic degree, the name of the college or university conferring it has not been discovered. See Caulkins, History of New London, p. 318.
453 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, xii. 21. See Publications of this Society, x. 257 note.
454 Records of the First Baptist Church, passim; Nathan B. Wood, History of the First Baptist Church of Boston, pp. 201, 204, 208, 209, 234.
455 In March, 1746, the Society met in their new meeting-house in Baldwin Place. It is now known as the Warren Avenue Baptist Church (ibid. p. 241). Concerning the schoolhouse, see Publications of this Society, x. 257 note.
456 I am indebted to our associate Mr. Julius H. Tuttle for this important item.
457 After Procter’s death, a dispute arose between his widow and executrix and the Baptist Church officials over his accounts with them. A commission appointed to adjust the dispute awarded in favor of the Church officials, 12 October, 1758 (Suffolk Probate Files, no. 11,430).
458 Suffolk Deeds, xlix. 141.
459 Ibid. xxii. 451.
460 Ibid, xxxiii. 235 (two instruments); xxxvii. 79, 80; xlii. 181.
461 As the parchment has, between the given name and surname of the signature, three slits for the insertion of a ribbon, a seal was probably pendant.
462 This entry and the next entry are on the face of the parchment.
463 The Boston Town Records preserve the dates of birth of the following named children of James Taylor which do not appear on the parchment: by wife Elizabeth, Elizabeth, 24 October, 1674; and by wife Rebecca, Abigail, 2 August, 1690; Ann, 13 November, 1692; Sarah, 19 May, 1695; William, 19 June, 1696; Mercy, 13 November, 1700, and Mary, 15 July, 1702 (Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, ix. 134, 191, 202, 224, 228, xxiv. 5, 17). The daughter Mary, born of James Taylor’s first wife, Elizabeth, 25 January, 1675, had married William Payne, 11 October, 1694 (ibid. ix. 218) and died in childbed, 6 January, 1700–01, before the birth of Taylor’s youngest daughter of the same name by his second wife, Rebecca, 15 July, 1702 (1 Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, xiii. 410). Cf. Suffolk Deeds, xxxvii. 79, 80.
464 Argent; a chevron between three cross-crossleta sable within a bordure engrailed gules bezantée; impaling argent on a saltire azure a dragon’s (?) head, erased or.
465 Hartford, 1790; Boston, 1825–1826; Boston, 1853; New York, 1908 (Hosmer’s edition).
466 Journal (Hosmer’s edition), i. 32.
467 Smiles, John Harrison, Inventor of the Marine Chronometer, in Men of Invention, London, 1884.
468 Lady Arbella Johnson.
469 See pp. 101–113, above.
470 Terceira is one of the central group of the Azores, and is in about 27° 10′ west longitude.
471 In his journal of his voyage to New England, Francis Higginson says under date of June 1, 1629, “For coming now to the height of the Western Islands, some of our men fell sick of the scurvy, and others of the small pox,” etc. (Young’s Chronicles of Massachusetts, 1846, p. 226). Higginson sighted Cape Sable June 24 (ibid. p. 231). On his second voyage, Josselyn sighted Flores and Corvo June 25, 1663, but passed them without landing. (Two Voyages to New England, 1865, p. 32.)
472 See Edmund M. Blunt, American Coast Pilot, 1827, p. 564; E. & G. W. Blunt, Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean, New York, 1832; A Chart of the Banks of Newfoundland, 1775, in Jefferys’s American Atlas, 1778, No. 13; Alexander G. Findlay, Directory of the North Atlantic Ocean, London, 1895.
473 Winsor, Christopher Columbus, pp. 201–203; L. A. Bauer, United States Magnetic Declination Tables and Isogonic Charts for 1902, pp. 22–24, 24 note. Under date of May 25 Winthrop writes: “We went on with a handsome gale, and at noon were in forty three and a half; and the variation of the compass was a point and one-sixth.”
474 Barrow, Life of Lord Anson, 1839, p. 84.
475 Ibid. pp. 46–47; F. J. Britten, Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers, 1899, pp. 235, 236.
476 Williamson, History of Maine, 1832, i. 231 and note.
477 Savage believes this to have been the White Mountains (Winthrop’s Journal, 1853, i. 28).
478 It will be remembered that the promontory now known as Cape Ann was originally named Tragabigzanda by Captain John Smith, and that Smith also named three of the islands off that Cape the “three Turks heads” (Works, 1884, p. 204). I suggest the probability that Mt. Agamenticus temporarily acquired the name of the Three Turks’ Heads through some confusion in the description of, or reference to, the said three islands off Cape Ann.
Hubbard gives his version as to how the cape and three islands referred to ceased to be called by the above names respectively in characteristic language as follows:
As some merchants from the west of England had for a long time frequented the parts about Munhiggon, for the taking of fish, &c, so did others, especially those of Dorchester, make the like attempt upon the northern promontory of the Massachusetts Bay, in probability first discovered by Capt. Smith, before or in the year 1614, and by him named Tragabizanda, for the sake of a lady from whom he received much favor while he was a prisoner among the Turks; by whom also the three small islands at the head of the Cape were called the Three Turks’ Heads. But neither of them glorying in these Mahometan titles, the promontory willingly exchanged its name for that of Cape Anne, imposed, as is said, by Captain Mason, and which it retaineth to this day, in honor of our famous Queen Anne, then surviving, the royal consort of King James; and the three other islands are now known by other names (History of New England 1878, p. 105).
The story of “this Noble Gentlewoman,” as Smith called Charatza Tragabigzanda, and of the three Turks whom he overcame in single combat, is told by the redoubtable Captain in his True Travels, Adventures, and Observations, published in 1630 (Works, pp. 838–840, 853, 866). But Hubbard was mistaken in thinking that Capt. John Mason imposed the name of Ann upon the cape, as the change was made by Prince Charles (ibid. p. 232). It is worth noting that the same royal personage altered the name of Accominticus to Boston. But while the former change was accepted, the latter was rejected. Young gives the present names of the three islands as Straitsmouth Island, Thacher’s Island, and Milk Island (Chronicles of Massachusetts, p. 22 note).
479 On the sketch a line across the Atlantic on the parallel of 43° 15′ is laid in illustration.
480 See Johnson, Wonder-working Providence, pp. 31, 34; Hubbard, History of New England, pp. 199, 200.
481 In his Annals of New England, published in 1755, Prince gives (p. 10) this “List of Ships which arriv’d in New-England this Year,” 1630:
|
No |
Names |
whence set sail England |
whence set sail 1630 |
when arriv’d 1630 |
where arriv’d New-Engl. |
|
1 |
Lyon |
Bristol |
Feb. |
Maye. |
Salem |
|
2 |
Mary-John |
Plymouth |
March 20 |
May 30 |
Nantasket |
|
3 |
Arbella |
|
April 8 |
June 12 |
|
|
4 |
Jewell |
Ditto |
June 13 |
||
|
5 |
Ambrose |
Ditto |
June 18 |
||
|
6 |
Talbot |
Ditto |
July 2 |
||
|
7 |
May Flowr |
S. Hampton |
May |
|
Charleston |
|
8 |
Whale |
ditto |
Ditto |
||
|
9 |
Hopewell |
ditto |
Ditto |
|
[Salem] |
|
10 |
Wm & Fran. |
ditto |
Ditto |
||
|
11 |
Tryal |
ditto |
Ditto |
|
|
|
12 |
Charles |
ditto |
Ditto |
||
|
13 |
Success |
ditto |
Ditto |
July 6 |
[Salem] |
|
14 |
Gift |
Maye. |
Aug. 20 |
Charlestown |
|
|
15 |
Another |
June |
|||
|
16 |
Handmaid |
Aug. 6 |
Oct. 29 |
Plymouth |
|
|
17 |
Another set out by a private Merchant |
The Mayflower, Whale, Hopewell, William and Francis, Trial, Charles, and Success, are the ships which in the text are stated to have sailed in May.
482 In a letter to his wife written on board the Arbella at Cowes on March 28, 1630, Winthrop, referring to the four vessels which sailed from Yarmouth and the seven which sailed from Southampton, says: “We are, in all our eleven ships, about seven hundred persons, passengers.” He also states that the Mary and John carried about one hundred and forty persons, and the Lion about eighty (Life and Letters, 1864, p. 388). Young says that the Handmaid brought about sixty passengers (Chronicles of Massachusetts, p. 310 note).
483 History of Plymouth Plantation (1908), pp. 106, 107.
484 Leviathan (1651), pt. i. ch. xiii. p. 63.
485 Ibid. pt. ii. ch. xviii. pp. 89, 90.
486 Leviathan, pt. ii. ch. xx. p. 102.
487 Ibid. pt. ii. ch. xxix. p. 169.
488 Observations upon Aristotles Politiques, touching Forms of Government (1652), Preface.
489 Ibid.
490 Observations, etc., Preface.
491 On November 29, 1769, Harvard College received from Thomas Hollis a volume containing six of Filmer’s pamphlets printed in 1680. On a fly-leaf Hollis has written the following:
As the Patriarcha gave occasion to two of the noblest works which were ever executed by men, the “Discourses of Government” by Algernon Sydney, and “Two Treatises of Government,” by John Locke; I have been willing to send all the Publications of Sir R. Filmer, to Harvard College, that so the whole of those Works by the curious may be compared.
- Aug. 12. 69. T. H.
- Floreat Libertas!
492 The Social Compact (1842), p. 28.
493 Discourses on Government (1805), i. 453, 454.
494 Discourses on Government, ii. 20, 21.
495 Ibid. ii. 381.
496 Two Treatises, § 22, Works (1823), v. 351.
497 Ibid. § 90, v. 389, 390.
498 Ibid. § 95, v. 394.
499 Two Treatises, § 99, v. 396.
500 Early Records of the Town of Providence, i. 1.
501 Whittier, The Mayflowers.
502 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, lvi. 341–344.
503 The words “so long as his Master lives of said Term” are interlined.
504 Presumably he was the “[C?] ollister Baker” who was baptized on March 1, 1720 (Vital Records of Marlborough, p. 15).
505 The Philadelphia Hospital, the first in this country, was established in 1751. See Harrington, Harvard Medical School, i. 30, 31; Scharf and Westcott, History of Philadelphia, ii. 1584, 1588.
506 This was the class which President Stiles of Yale University called “the learned class.” Our associate, Mr. Franklin B. Dexter of the Yale University Library, in a letter to Mr. Henry H. Edes, writes that this phrase is pencilled in President Stiles’s copy of the Harvard Triennial of 1776, now preserved in the Yale Library, and that certain members of the class are marked as “docti” and “doctissimi.”
507 I am indebted to our associate Mr. Julius H. Tuttle, of the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for suggesting this identification.
508 It is written on a small folio sheet of four pages, 15¾ by 6 inches. Pages 2 and 3 are blank.
509 History of Concord (1835), p. 45.
510 Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. iv. part i. 100, 101.
511 Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. iv. part i. 205. See also ibid. vol. iv. part i. 179, 186; Publications of this Society, iii. 417–425.
512 Substituted for “and.”
513 I am indebted to Mr. William Prescott Greenlaw, a descendant of the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, for deciphering this very obscure signature. Although not mentioned by Shattuck in his History of the town, Maj. Thomas Henchman, Hinchman, or Hincksmen, was among the early inhabitants of Concord who removed to Chelmsford, which was settled soon after the date of the Agreement in the text. He is also said to have been one of the “Wenham company” who under the leadership of the Rev. John Fiske, and as members of his church in Wenham, transplanted themselves to Chelmsford, where Allen says he “was for many years a leading character, and became a large land holder.” Savage says that Maj. Henchman died 18 July, 1703. See Colony Records, vol. iv. part i. 251, 261, 431, 432,441,460, vol. iv. partii. passim, and vol. v. passim; Province Laws, i. 93, 406; Wilkes Men, History of Chelmsford (1820), pp. 8, 16, 21, 27, 106, 122, 148, 149, 152, 154, 156–158, 162, 163, 166–170; Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of New England, ii. 403.
514 William Underwood also removed to Chelmsford, of which he was one of the first settlers, and a selectman in 1679. Other signers of this Agreement cast in their lot with the founders of Chelmsford.
515 Sketches of the Judicial History of Massachusetts, p. 304.
516 1 Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, iii. 147.
517 Life of Thomas Hutchinson, chap. xii.
518 See G. E. Ellis, in Atlantic Monthly, liii. 662.
519 See Eighth Annual Report, pp. 14–15; Tenth Annual Report, pp. 19–20. A photograph of the field accompanies both Reports.
520 Andrew Oliver.
521 Stephen Greenleaf.
522 David Phips.
523 Of the Class of 1770.
524 College Book, vii. 216–220.
525 Of the Class of 1737.
526 The original is in Harvard College Papers, ii. no. 73.
527 This letter is printed in the Magazine of American History (1883), ix. 375.
528 Col. William Dalrymple.
529 On July 17, 1774, Omiah was presented to George III, who recommended his being inoculated; and on August 25, having recovered from the small-pox, he dined with the Royal Society. He was still in England in 1775. See the Gentleman’s Magazine, xliv. 330, 388, 441, xlv. 167, 169.
530 John Bowers came to Medfield with the Braintree and Weymouth people about 1652. His house lot was near the Great Bridge. His house was burned and he was killed by the Indians in their attack on Medfield February 21, 1676–76. See Tilden, History of Medfield, p. 320.
531 Henry Adams, son of Henry Adams of Braintree, came to Medfield, of which he was the first town clerk, with the Braintree and Weymouth people about 1652. He was killed by the Indians on February 21, 1675–76. Hannah Adams, the well-known writer, was descended in the fifth generation from Henry Adams of Medfield. For a sketch of him, see Tilden’s History of Medfield, p. 281.
532 Probably John Biscoe (1622–1690). See Bond’s Genealogies and History of Watertown, i. 43.
533 The words “might be caused to” are substituted for “would.”
534 Richard Norcross, a son of Jeremiah Norcross of Watertown, was born in England about 1621, was admitted a freeman in 1652 or 1653, and died in 1709. He is supposed to have been the first schoolmaster of Watertown, to which office he was chosen on January 6, 1650–51. See Bond’s Genealogies and History of Watertown, i. 376–377; Watertown Records, i. 21.
535 This document is in the hand of Thomas Danforth.
536 Thomas Danforth (1623–1699), Deputy-Governor of Massachusetts.
537 Capt. Hugh Mason of Watertown. He died October 10, 1678. See Bond’s Genealogies and History of Watertown, i. 356.
538 Deacon William Stitson, Stetson, or Stilson, of Charlestown. He died April 11, 1691. See Wyman’s Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, i. 902.
539 Medallic Portraits of Washington, No. 78, pp. 49, 52. See also, under date of April 20, 1778, S. Curwen’s Journal and Letters (1864), p. 204.
540 Publications, x. 258, xi. 195 note.
541 See Columbian Centinel, February 22, 1794, p. 3/2; February 26, p. 4/1; March 1, p. 3/2.
542 See pp. 174–181, above.
543 Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation (1908), pp. 68–70.
544 Byington, Puritan in England and New England, p. 170.
545 Old Virginia and her Neighbours, ii. 29, 30.
546 Beginnings of New England, p. 127 note.
547 Ibid. p. 105.
548 Beginnings of New England, pp. 93–94.
549 Fiske, Old Virginia and her Neighbours, i. 177
550 Ibid. i. 186.
551 Drake’s History and Antiquities of Boston, p. 599.
552 History of American Literature, ii. 120, 121, 123.
553 See remarks of Mr. Charles Francis Adams in 3 Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, ii. 154–170.
554 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, ii. 351.
555 Mirick, History of Haverhill, p. 139.
556 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, ii. 353.
557 Ibid. ii. 351 note.
558 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xv. 204.
559 The reason for giving these titles at such length is that no complete list of Mr. Checkley’s printed sermons has been made and that hitherto the writings of Mr. Checkley and those of his son, the Rev. Samuel Checkley, Jr., have been confused. Thus three sermons have been attributed to our Mr. Checkley which were really preached by his son, pastor of the Second (or North) Church, as is proved by the following title-pages:
The Character and Hope of the Righteous Consider’d, in a Sermon Preach’d the Lord’s-Day after the Funeral of Madam Lydia Hutchinson, the Virtuous Consort Of The Honourable Edward Hutchinson, Esq; Who departed this Life, July 10. 1748. Aged 61. By Samuel Checkley, A.M. Pastor of the second Church of Christ in Boston. Boston, 1748.
The Duty of God’s People when engaged in War. A Sermon Preached at the North-Church of Christ in Boston, Sept. 21. To Captain Thomas Stoddard, and his Company; On Occasion of their going against the Enemy. By Samuel Checkley, A.M. Pastor of said Church. Boston, 1755.
The Christian triumphing over Death through Christ. A Sermon Preached November 10. 1765. At the second Church of Christ, in Boston; Upon a mournful Occasion. Published with some Enlargements. By Samuel Checkley, jun’r. Pastor of said Church. Boston, 1765. The “mournful Occasion” was the death of “Mrs. Mary Gallop, Widow, aged 37 Years.”
560 The words in the text are those of the half-title, missing in some copies. There were three sermons, each separately paged, but with a continuous register. The titles are as follows:
Murder a great and crying Sin. A Sermon Preach’d on the Lord’s-Day March 4th. 1732–3. To a poor Prisoner Under Sentence of Death for that Crime.
Mercy with God for the chief of Sinners. A Sermon Preach’d on the Lord’s Day March 4th To a Prisoner Under Sentence of Death for Murder.
Sinners minded of a future Judgment. A Sermon Preached to, and at the Desire of, A Condemned Prisoner, March 18th. 1732–3. Being the Lord’s-Day before his Execution.
561 Pages 49–52.
562 Pages 33–36.
563 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, i. 134, ii. 353; Drake, History and Antiquities of Boston, p. 820; Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, vol. xxii. p. iv.
564 Publications of this Society, ix. 9.
565 History of Newton, p. 252.
566 Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit, i. 322 note; Hine, Early Lebanon, p. 153.
567 Allen, American Biographical and Historical Dictionary; Freeman, History of Cape Cod, i. 362, 566.
568 Mirick, History of Haverhill, p. 138.
569 J. S. Cushing, Cushing Genealogy, p. 34; J. Scales, Historical Memoranda of Dover, N. H.
570 Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit, i. 280 note.
571 H. Child, Gazetteer of Cheshire County, New Hampshire; New England Historical and Genealogical Register, ii. 208.
572 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, ix. 340, 341.
573 See p. 214, above.
574 Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit, i. 385.
575 Paige, History of Cambridge, p. 572; Hudson, History of Lexington, pp. 53, 71, 84.
576 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xliv. 251.
577 F. Hatfield, History of Elizabeth, N. J., pp. 338, 367, 568, 572, 629.
578 History of New England, v. 7.
579 Memorial History of Boston, ii. 231. Dr. McKenzie’s account, it must be confessed, is somewhat confusing. He says:
The new life began to appear in 1734, under the powerful preaching of Jonathan Edwards, at Northampton. It spread to the surrounding towns. It aroused the interest of the Boston churches. Dr. Colman wrote to Dr. Edwards for an account of the work, which was given in a letter long afterward published in London. The Boston ministers kept their people interested, and circulated among them Dr. Edwards’s letter and several sermons which had been influential in the movement. The remarkable interest in the valley of the Connecticut was not of long continuance; partly, it would seem, because so many had quickly felt the new life, and had come under its control, or turned away from it. But Boston was yet to feel its power.
Edwards’s letter to Colman was dated November 6, 1736, and was printed in abstract in the Appendix to the Rev. William Williams’s Duty and Interest of a People, among whom Religion has been planted, to Continue Stedfast and Sincere in the Profession and Practice of it, published at Boston in 1736. The letter was printed in full in London in 1737 under the title of A Faithful Narrative of the Surprizing Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton, and the Neighbouring Towns and Villages of New-Hampshire in New-England. This was reprinted in Boston in 1738. The London editors speak of “the Neighbouring Towns and Villages of New-Hampshire in New-England.” This natural error was corrected by the Boston editors to “the Neighbouring Towns and Villages of the County of Hampshire, in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.”
At the time when Edwards started his movement, Whitefield was an undergraduate at Oxford. He first came to Georgia in 1738 and to Boston in 1740.
580 Suffolk Probate Files, no. 6672.
581 Ibid. no. 6677.
582 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, lv. 305, lxi. 303.
583 Ibid. xl. 59.
584 Publications, vi. 47.
585 This Anthony Stoddard—he married Martha Belcher, a sister of the Madam Oliver whose burial is recorded by Mr. Checkley—who was born in 1678, who graduated at Harvard College in 1697, and who died in 1748, should not be confused with his first cousin, the Rev. Anthony Stoddard, who was also born in 1678, who also graduated at Harvard in 1697, but who died in 1760. The grandfather of Mrs. Fitch was Simeon Stoddard, whose sister Lydia married Samuel Turell and became the mother of the Rev. Ebenezer Turell mentioned in the text. Hence Turell, who graduated at Harvard only six years before Fitch, and Anthony Stoddard, the father of Fitch’s wife, were first cousins.
586 See also p. 220, above.
587 Wyman, Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, ii. 785–786; Thacher, American Medical Biography, ii. 13–16.
588 New England Weekly Journal of August 4.
589 Capt. Thomas Durrell. See Publications of this Society, viii. 244.
590 In these days such a death seems extraordinary. The following extract is taken from the Boston Evening Post of Monday, January 24, 1737:
Friday last one Richard Williams, a Chimney-Sweeper at the South End of the Town, was found in his Bed froze to Death, where in all probability he had lain since Tuesday Night, having never been seen by the Neighbours since that Time.
591 In the Weekly Journal of November 25, the name given is James Darling. This is correct. He was the son of George and Abigail (Reed) Darling. See Wyman, Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, i. 276.
592 Diary, i. 102, 235, 368, 462.
593 S. Briggs, Essays, Humor and Poems of Nathaniel Ames, pp. 139, 440.
594 Dedham Historical Register, ii. 27.
595 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxiv. 61.
596 Palfrey, History of New England, v. 339; Snow, History of Boston (1825), p. 263.
597 John Boyle’s Journal, p. 87. For these extracts from this imprinted Journal, owned by a member of the Palfrey family, I am indebted to Professor George L. Kittredge.
598 Letters and Diary, p. 67.
599 I am indebted to Mr. Matthews for aid in the preparation of this paper.
600 Publications of this Society, viii. 90, 91, 92, 104.
601 Dialect Notes, i. 18, 217.
602 Journal of American Folk-Lore, v. 335.
603 Portsmouth Republican News, Monday, November 7, 1892.
604 Portsmouth Daily Evening Times, November 7, 1892.
605 Journals of the Rev. Thomas Smith and the Rev. Samuel Deane, pp. 329, 331.
606 Literary Diary, i. 182, 470.
607 Works, ii. 201.
608 History of Newbury, pp. 249–251.
609 Massachusetts Province Laws, iii. 647, 997, iv. 78, 617; v, 87, 459, 1122.
610 On the first page is written in ink:
Rev. Mr. Checkley of Boston appears to have been the author of the notices entered in this Almanac. M.A.S.
May 4, 1837.
The top of the volume has been trimmed, thereby cutting off a few entries. Where these are undecipherable, square brackets are used.
There are no entries on the following days: January 15, February 18, 19, March 6, 19, July 8, October 8, November 8, 24, 26, December 17, 18.
The word “fair,” and that only, is entered on the following days: February 26, March 25, May 7, June 10, 16, 21, July 3, 21, August 6, October 7.
The words “fair pleasant,” and those only, are entered on the following days: February 6, 7, 10, 27, March 22, 26, April 17, 18, May 5, 6, 14, 16, 26, 27, 28, June 25, 26, 27, July 19, 22, 24, 30, August 11, 15, 16, 18, 25, September 6, 12, 13, 15, 20, October 2, 10, 18, 22, November 5, 10, 22, 25.
The following days are labelled “hot,” “cold,” “cool,” “dry,” “moderate,” “seasonable,” “cloudy,” or in some such indefinite way: January 6, 7, 10, 24, 25, March 8, 10, 11, 12, April 9, 11, 21, 30, May 1, 9, 10, 21, 31, June 5, 7, 13, July 17, August 21, 23, 30, September 4, 18, 23, 29, 30, October 17, November 3, 4, 11, 29, December 6, 11, 13, 23.
611 See p. 272, above.
612 See p. 281, above.
613 See p. 281, above.
614 See p. 281, above.
615 See p. 281, above.
616 See p. 275, above.
617 What follows is written on the other side of the leaf.
618 This name is uncertain. It might be “McLong” or “McLorey.” On May 2, 1734, Mr. Checkley married “Thomas McLory & Isabella Hood” (Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, xxviii. 186).
619 See p. 283, above.
620 See p. 281, above.
621 See p. 283, above.
622 See p. 281, above.
623 See p. 279, above.
624 See p. 282, above.
625 See p. 276, above.
626 See p. 276, above.
627 See p. 282, above.
628 See p. 276, above.
629 See p. 282, above.
630 What follows is written on the other side of the leaf.
631 See p. 276, above.
632 What follows is written on the other side of the leaf.
633 See p. 276, above.
634 See p. 277, above.
635 See p. 284, above.
636 See p. 282, above.
637 See p. 277, above.
638 What follows is written on another leaf in the middle of the book.
639 See p. 285, above.
640 See p. 277, above.
641 What follows is written on the other side of the leaf.
642 Perhaps this name is “Burch’s.”
643 See p. 283, above.
644 See p. 279, above
645 see p. 279, above.
646 See pp. 284, 287, above.
647 This entry is on the other side of the leaf, and of course was not made until about a fortnight later.
648 See pp. 288–295, above.
649 See p. 278, above.
650 See p. 283, above.
651 See p. 277, above.
652 This refers to the entry under date of November 5. See p. 288, above.
653 See p. 278, above.
654 This entry is somewhat uncertain.
655 See p. 283, above.
656 See p. 278, above.
657 See Publications of this Society, vi. 288.
658 History of the Harvard Medical School, i. 111.
659 College Book, viii. 185 ff.
660 Overseers’ Records, iii. 300 ff.
661 College Book, viii. 264.
662 1 Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vii. 177 ff.
663 History of the Harvard Medical School, i. 112 ff.
664 College Book, viii. 387.
665 Overseers’ Records, iv. 192.
666 College Book, viii. 480.
667 July 15, 1801, College Book, viii. 484; Overseers’ Records, iv. 335.
668 August 25, 1802, College Book, viii. 500; Overseers’ Records, iv. 361.
669 August 30, 1809, College Book, ix. 152
670 August 29, 1810, College Book, ix. 179.
671 So spelled here and in all Triennials until that of 1830, when the spelling “Clapp” appears thirteen years after the man’s death.
672 Harvard College Papers, vi. 61.
673 That is, Benjamin Shurtleff.
674 College Records, x. 48. The Overseers’ Records (v. 360) give no lists.
675 Prophesying is dangerous. While these pages were going through the press, Charles W. Eliot received from Harvard the honorary degree of M. D.!
676 College Book, viii. ISO; Overseers’ Records, iii. 300.
677 This is the spelling of the name in the records of the First Church, but the more usual form is Hibbins or Hibbens.
678 February, 1907, Publications, xi. 196–207.
679 So called in the Proprietors’ Records, Boston Athenæum, March 18, 1826.
680 So called in the Proprietors’ Records, Boston Athenæum, January 1, 1827.
681 Memoirs of Rev. Joseph Buckminster (1849), pp. 188, 207.
682 William Emerson, Nathan Frazier, James Jackson, John S. Popkin, Josiah Quincy, Timothy Williams, John Quincy Adams, John Lowell, and later John C. Warren, John C. Howard. (Life of J. C. Warren, i. 72; MS Records of the Society, p. 11.) The records of this society were presented to the Boston Athenæum in 1909 by the present Dr. John Collins Warren.
683 Catalogue / of / Books / in the / Boston Medical / Library, / and the / Rules and Regulations / concerning the same. / Also, / a Statement of the Trustees / to the Proprietors. / Boston. / Printed by Thomas Fleet, No. 5, Cornhill, 1808. Title, 1 leaf; Catalogue, pp. 3–10; Rules and Statement of the Trustees, pp. 11–16.
684 See E. J. Forster’s article in Professional and Industrial History of Suffolk County, iii. 220. The present Boston Medical Library was incorporated in 1877, after several meetings dating from 1875.
A copy of the catalogue of a so-called Second Social Library has been preserved, and it shows that this library was in 1808 wholly general in character. This copy, owned by Dr. Ayer, has many titles added in manuscript, suggesting that the library had a considerable call for books. The title-page reads:
A / Catalogue of Books, / in the / Second Social Library / in the / Town of Boston. / Instituted January, 1805. / Incorporated 1806. / Boston: / Printed at the Emerald Printing office, / No. 5, Court Street. / 1808. / E. G. House, Printer, /pp. 12.
This copy belonged to the Rev. William Emerson and bears his autograph signature on the title-page.
The Boston Public Library has a second edition, which was John H. Gould’s copy with a supplement covering twelve additional pages, entitled:
Supplementary Catalogue of Books, added to the Second Social Library, from January, 1809, to May, 1811. pp. 12.
685 The names read: Theoph: Parsons, Chas Jackson, Charles Paine, Rd Sullivan, Warren Button, Wm Stackpole, Jr., James Allen, Jr., Israel Munroe, Wm. H. Sumner, Thomas Williams of Roxbury, Peter Thacher, Cha Davis, John Heard, Jur., Samuel D. Parker, Ira: D. Channing, Edward Gray, Joseph Hall, Jno Lowell, Geo: Blake, Danl Davis, Eben Gay, John Phillips, R. G. Amory, Josiah Quincy, Robert T. Paine, Jr., Jos. Rowe, Thos. O. Selfridge, C. Gore, Geo. Sullivan.
686 Preface to Catalogue of 1849.
687 Preface to Catalogue of 1865.
688 Quincy, History of the Boston Athenseum, p. 94.
689 View in Ellis’s History of the First Church in Boston, facing p. 172.
690 Ibid. View facing p. 237.
691 W. Emerson, History of the First Church, p. 168.
692 The catalogue bears the title:
Catalogue of Books, / in the / Theological Library, / in the / Town of Boston. / March 1, 1808. / Snelling and Simons, Printers, / Devonshire-Street. . . . Boston. /1808. Title, 1 leaf; Rules and Regulations, Subscribers, and Government for 1807–8, pp. 3–6; Catalogue of Books in the Theological Library, including those Deposited by the Corporation of “King’s Chapel,” in Boston, pp. 7–33.
693 Greenwood, History of King’s Chapel, p. 162.
694 The General Theological Library was organized April 20, 1860, with the Rev. Charles Burroughs as president and J. Sullivan Warren as secretary. In 1862, with the Rev. Luther Farnham as secretary, the Library began its work, having quarters at different times on Tremont, West, Somerset, and now on Mount Vernon Streets. It is open to members, clergymen, and visiting strangers.
695 The Boston Public Library has a catalogue of books in “the Columbian Social Library, instituted January, 1813,” and of “Social Library No. 1, March, 1823.” The title-page of the latter reads:
Catalogue of Books / in / Social Library, / No 1. / March, 1823. / Boston: / Printed for the Proprietors. / pp. 36. 4 books at once. $10 a share.
696 Shaw’s Description of Boston, p. 278.
697 See Life of John C. Warren, i. 79. Members were Col. George Gibbs, President Holley, Dr. James Jackson, the Rev. Joseph S. Buckminster, Benjamin Vaughan, and Francis C. Gray.
698 Including some on International Law.
699 The writer.
700 See Howe v. Morse, 174 Massachusetts Reports, 491 (1899).
701 These included our associate, Major Henry L. Higginson, nephew of Colonel Lee, who narrated the incident to me.
702 A.B. Harvard, 1864; A.M. Harvard, 1870; LL.B. 1886.
703 The firm of Balch & Rackemann was formed in October, 1886, and consisted of Mr. Balch, the writer, and Felix Rackemann.
704 In his Memorial to Mr. Tillinghast, Mr. George H. Martin says:
In 1849, in order to give the Board and its Secretary an office, an act of the legislature made the Secretary of the Board of Education State Librarian with the power to appoint an assistant librarian and clerk, and the business of the Board was installed in one of the rooms of the Library.
This relation between the Board and the Library continued under sanction of law until 1893, when provision was made by statute for the appointment of the Librarian by the Governor.
705 Harvard College Papers, viii. 89.
706 Life and Letters of George Bancroft, i. 33.
707 Life and Letters of George Bancroft, i. 42.
708 Life and Letters (1909), i. 79.
709 The name Virginia, as is of course well known, was, when given by Queen Elizabeth at the time she knighted Ralegh (January 6, 1584–85), applied to an indefinite tract of territory north of Florida. The name Massachusetts occurs in Capt. John Smith’s Description of New England, published in 1616. The name Connecticut (under the form Quonehtacut) is found in Winthrop’s Journal under date of April 4, 1631. The Connecticut River was named the Fresh River by the Dutch, and continued to be so called by them long after the adoption by the English of the name Connecticut.
710 Documentary History of the State of Maine, vii. 223, 224. In the Century Cyclopedia of Names is this: “Maine. [In the charter granted by Charles I. in 1639 named ‘The Province or Countie of Mayne,’ because regarded as a part of ‘the Mayne Lande of New England.’]” This reason, it is perhaps unnecessary to point out, is not found in the charter itself.
711 History of Maine, p. 122.
712 Ibid. p. 307.
713 American Annals, i. 311 note.
714 History of Saco and Biddeford, p. 53.
715 History of the State of Maine, i. 277. Early in 1635 the Council of the Plymouth Company decided to return its charter into the hands of the King; but before doing so, an agreement was made on February 3, 1634–35, for the several divisions of the seacoasts of New England. In this division no name is given to that portion which became Gorges’s, but he soon (in 1636) called it New Somerset or New Somersetshire. For the history of the name of Somerset as employed in Maine, see Publications of this Society, vi. 61–70.
716 Folsom is not the only one who has fallen into error in calling Gorges “Lord Palatine.” Gov. Chamberlain did the same (Maine: her Place in History, p. 54), and also a writer in London Notes and Queries, Ninth Series, xii. 23. Such a title, however, was not used by Gorges himself. See Publications of this Society, viii. 206–207.
717 Collections of the Maine Historical Society, ii. 58. Folsom adds: “The biography of this queen recently published by Miss Strickland, is a work of intense interest and apparently drawn from original and authentic sources.” This allusion would seem to indicate that Folsom, who in 1830 (as quoted in the text) had held that Henrietta Maria was “connected by title or estate with the province of Meyne in France,” changed his opinion as a result of something said by Miss Strickland; but in her sketch of Henrietta Maria (Lives of the Queens of England, 1845, viii. 1–266) she apparently does not mention the French province of Maine.
718 Collections of the Maine Historical Society, iii. 31 note.
719 History of New England, i. 525 note.
720 History of the United States, i. 337 note.
721 Maine: her Place in History (1877), p. 54 note.
722 Collections of the Maine Historical Society, vol. v. p. xxi.
723 American Historical Record, i. 211.
724 History of Maine, p. 107.
725 Brief History of Maine (second edition), p. 42.
726 Rural Hours, pp. 479, 483.
727 See p. 367, above.
728 See p. 368, above.
729 Ancient Dominions of Maine, p. 124.
730 Gov. Chamberlain makes a curious slip. In one place he speaks of the grant of August 10, 1622, “which the indenture itself states ‘they intend to call the Province of Maine,’” yet a little later declares that in the charter of April 3, 1639, the territory “was now for the first time, and by charter, named the Province of Maine” (Maine: her Place in History, pp. 44, 54).
731 Documentary History of the State of Maine, vii. 66, 67, 68.
732 The word “charter” as here used includes charters, grants, and patents, as it is impossible to distinguish between the terms.
733 In J. A. Poor’s Vindication of the Claims of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, pp. 121–123.
734 Documentary History of the State of Maine, vii. 102.
735 History of New Hampshire, i. 8.
736 S. F. Haven, History of Grants under the Great Council for New England, in Early History of Massachusetts (1867), p. 150. Charles Deane called attention to Belknap’s mistake in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for April 24, 1867, p. 56 note, and ibid, for October 21, 1868, p. 34.
737 History of Maine, pp. 267–269. Yet Sullivan himself seems to have been hopelessly confused. Cf. pp. 111, 119, 304.
738 History of the State of Maine, i. 225.
739 Collections of the Maine Historical Society, ii. 52.
740 Ibid. in. 30.
741 History of New England, i. 205.
742 History of the United States (1876), i. 257; ibid. (1883), i. 217.
743 Brief History of Maine, p. 34.
744 Boston Transcript, June 8, 1872, p. 6/4. When this letter was reprinted in. the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for July, 1875, xxix. 243–244, it was preceded by an editorial note stating: “We learn that Mr. Tuttle is preparing a full account of the origin of the name of Maine.” So far as I am aware, that account was never written.
745 H. Ellis’s Original Letters, Second Series (1827), iii. 226–228.
746 Mr. Baxter says that “Charles, accompanied by the dissolute Buckingham, had seen and wooed the princess Maria, but, returning through France incognito, had stopped in Paris, and at a ball there had seen the French princess Henrietta” (Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his Province of Maine, Prince Society, i. 133). It was, however, on their journey to Madrid that the two travelled incognito. Charles left the Escorial September 2, 1623, sailed from Santander September 18, and landed at Portsmouth October 5. (Gardiner, Prince Charles and the Spanish Marriage, ii. 409, 413, 421.) In a letter dated Paris, February 22, 1622–23, Charles himself gave this description:
Since the closing of our last we have beene at Court againe, (and that we might not houd you in paine, we assure you that we have not been knowen,) where we saw the young Queene, littell Monsieur, and Madame, at the practising of a Maske that is intended by the Queene to be presented to the Kinge, and in it ther danced the Queene and Madame with as manie as made up nineteen faire dancing Ladies, amongst which the Queene is the handsomest, which hath wrought in me a greater desier to see her sister. (In H. Ellis’s Original Letters, 1824, iii. 121–122.)
The wife of Louis XIII was Anne, sister of the Infanta Maria; “littell Monsieur” was Gaston, Duke of Orleans; “Madame” was the Princess Henrietta Maria. Henrietta Maria’s sister Elizabeth married Philip IV of Spain. After the breaking off of the English marriage, the Infanta Maria married the Emperor Ferdinand III.
747 In an account of an interview with Lady Carew, dated September 19, 1618, Sir Thomas Wilson said, referring to Queen Anne of England, that “Her Majesty said she would rather have the match with Mdme. Chretienne than the Spanish lady with all her gold” (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1611–1618, p. 573).
748 See the notices (by S. R. Gardiner) of Charles, Digby, Hay, and Henrietta Maria, and that of Rich (by C. H. Firth) in the Dictionary of National Biography; Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1611–1618, 1619–1623, 1623–1625.
749 In his text (see p. 368, above) Williamson spoke of “the provincial name of Maine, though one by which this section of the country was at that time frequently called,” etc. This statement is somewhat misleading. The word “main” was applied to the mainland along the coast, but it was not applied to the territory as such. Previous to the charter of April 1, 1639, the country was once and once only called “Maine”—namely, in the grant of August 10, 1622. Thus before 1639 a man at Boston or Plymouth would never have said that he was going “to Maine,” meaning the present State of Maine. He might have said that he was “going to the main;” but that would have left the exact locality in doubt. See also note 3, below.
750 History of New England, i. 525 note.
751 In speaking of Maine’s “own unique geographical features,” Tuttle was using exaggerated language. Maine is not the only State in the Union that has islands along its coast, though it has more than any other. The word “main” was applied in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the mainland along the entire Atlantic coast, from the Carolinas to Greenland. See also note 1, above.
752 Boston Transcript, June 8, 1872, p. 6/4; New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxix. 244.
753 History of the United States, i. 337 note.
754 Maine: her Place in History, p. 54 note.
755 Narrative and Critical History of America, iii. 363 note.
756 The lack of certainty on the part of historians is doubtless due to the fact that this point has never received adequate treatment. Writers have asserted that the word “main” was frequently used for mainland, but have failed to furnish proof. “The name of ‘Province of Maine,’” says Miss Mary F. Farnham, “is first used in the grant to Gorges and Mason, 1622; its origin is not difficult to trace in the frequent use of maine as applied to ‘maine land,’ and ‘along the main’” (Documentary History of the State of Maine, vol. vii. p. xxi). And again, referring to the charter of April 3, 1639, she says: “The name ‘Province of Maine’ is repeated from the grant of 1622. By reference to the early charters it is easy to arrive at a correct idea of the origin of the name, which has survived all the changes of colonial rule, and is perpetuated in the phrase ‘state of Maine’” (ibid. vii. 222). It is obvious that nothing later than August 10, 1622, is of value. Now the word “main,” in the sense of mainland, occurs only three times previous to that date in the documents printed by Miss Farnham,—namely, on March 3, 1619–20, November 3, 1620, and July 24, 1622. These extracts are quoted in the text, p. 379, below. Hence it is necessary to go to other documents than those given by Miss Farnham. Williamson (History of the State of Maine, i. 277 note), quotes three extracts, one from Smith’s Generall Historie of Virginia, published in 1624, one from a document dated 1635, and one from a work written about 1680. These are of course too late. Palfrey (History of New England, i. 525 note) repeats two of Williamson’s citations. In the present paper, for the first time so far as I am aware, full evidence on this point is given.
757 “The poet found out, one day,” writes W. J. Rolfe in the Nation of October 22, 1908, “that the Spanish Main was the mainland bordering on what he—like nine people out of ten—had supposed to be the sea called by that name” (lxxxvii. 383). Dr. Rolfe, however, does not indicate when the discovery was made. The reading is “Had sailed the Spanish Main” in Longfellow’s Poems, 1842, ii. 43, and in his Poems, 1866, i. 95. In the Poetical Works, 1872, p. 40, the reading is “Had sailed to the Spanish Main.” Hence the change was made in 1872 or between 1866 and 1872.
758 Purchas his Pilgrimes (1906), xviii. 306, 307, 309.
759 Purchas his Pilgrimes (1906), xviii. 315.
760 Ibid, xviii. 323, 324.
761 Ibid, xviii. 338.
762 Description of New England, Works (1884), p. 190.
763 Purchas his Pilgrimes, xix. 132, 133.
764 Documentary History of the State of Maine, vii. 17.
765 Ibid. vii. 33.
766 Sir George Calvert, later first Baron Baltimore.
767 Documentary History of the State of Maine, vii. 61–62. In a letter written to Mason on March 18, 1631, Gorges said:
As for the ꝑtie yon write of that hath lived wth the Dutch soe longe time I wishe you would not omitt to keepe him on reasonable condic̄ns untill my comeing vpp [to London], in the meane while that you will informe your selfe of the strength they haue where they Hue, how fortified, & ꝑuided for, how farr vpp, into the Maine they bee, What other Commodity they finde besides their Trade of furrs, what Cattle, what Horses, and what carriages they make vse of wth what people they hold Coraspondancy wthall, and what Enemyes they haue, and in what parts of the Country ther Enemyes, or freinds are (Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his Province of Maine, Prince Society, iii. 254).
In the index to that volume “the Maine,” which of course means mainland, is entered under “Maine,” as if it referred to the Province of Maine.
768 Capt. John Mason (Prince Society), p. 174.
769 Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his Province of Maine (Prince Society), i. 124 ote.
770 Boston Transcript, June 8, 1872, p. 6/4; New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxix. 244.
771 This is an allusion to the grant to Sir Robert Heath on October 30, 1629, of Carolana (or Carolina). No settlements were made under it.
772 Juan de Mariana (1536–1623).
773 Scharf gives as his authorities manuscripts in the British Museum.
774 History of Maryland, i. 51–52.
775 Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1623–1625, p. 387; ibid. 1625–1626, p. 16.
776 Lives of the Queens of England, viii. 33.
777 Capt. John Mason (Prince Society), p. 14.
778 A facsimile of the title-page of this almanac is given in the Church Catalogue, iii. 1113.
779 See pp. 270–306, above.
780 Between 1725 and 1776 inclusive there are in addition to the specimens in the text almanacs for the several years named giving longitudes as follows: 1725, 4 h. 44 min.; 1726, 4 h. 44 min.; 1728, 70° or 4 h. 44 min.; 1729, 72°, in another 289°; 1730, also 1731, 4 h. 44 min.; 1732, 289°; 1733, 4 h. 25 min.; 1737, about 71°; 1738, 71°; 1740, 69°; 1743, 69° 27′; 1744, 69° 15′; 1750, about 4 h. 40 min.; 1751, 4 h. 45 min.; 1753, 69°.
In the New England Almanack, or Lady’s and Gentlemen’s Diary for 1769, by Benjamin West, the meridian is 4 h. 40 min. west from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. This language tends to indicate that the maker had knowledge of the British Nautical Almanac first published in 1766, as stated in the text. From 1725 to 1776 the almanacs stating the longitude to be that of Boston without addition appear to be in a large majority.
781 Account of Two Voyages to New England made during the Years 1638, 1663, Boston (1865), p. 124.
782 Ibid. p. 157.
783 The Massachusetts Town Boundary Survey makes the State House to be in longitude 71° 03′ 51.040″ (Atlas, Boston and Brookline, 1902).
784 I take the longitude of St. Michael’s from the map of that island in Walter Frederick Walker’s The Azores, London, 1886, opposite p. 46.
785 Voyages and Works of John Davis, the Navigator, Hakluyt Society, London, p. 284.
786 Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America, translated by Samuel Kettell, Boston (1827), pp. 18–19.
787 Schott, Secular Variation in the Position of the Agonic Line of the North Atlantic and of America between the Epochs 1500 and 1900 A. D., in Bulletin No. 6, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, June 7, 1888, p. 29 (being the first page of Bulletin) and footnotes.
788 Frontispiece to The Azores.
789 Schott, Bulletin No. 6, ubi supra, p. 29. See also Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America, iii. 41. On p. 40 of the last named volume a facsimile is given of Michael Locke’s or Lok’s map of 1582, whereon the meridian of 350° passes through the Azores, and the meridian of 360° passes between the Azores and the Madeiras.
790 A Discourse of the Variation of the Compass by William Borough was published as an addition to Robert Norman’s The New Attractive in 1581.
791 St. Mary’s, a smaller island than St. Michael’s, lies about forty miles south from it, in the eastern group of the Azores.
792 Facsimile, New York, 1907.
793 By Andrew Wakely, Corrected and Enlarged by James Atkinson, London, 1716.
794 The first edition was published in 1652.
795 In this connection I quote from Bauer’s United States Magnetic Tables, etc., pp. 27, 28. The author, after stating that the purpose of Table I on p. 28 represents an attempt to collect the values of the magnetic declination up to the year 1600, inclusive, etc., goes on to say:
The values obtained with sea compasses require careful scrutiny, as these compasses were frequently shifted to allow for the supposed variation or “error” of the needle. Thus, Robert Norman, instrument maker, in 1581, says: “Of the common Sayling Compasses, I find heere (in Europa) five sundry sortes or sets”—according to the amount of correction allowed for by different makers. Thus, “by the Isle of Saint Michaell in the Acorres,” he found “that the North poynt of the common compass, showeth the Pole very neere in that Meridian, but the bare Needle sheweth about 4 Degrees 50 Minutes to the Eastwards of the Pole.”
It was not until the close of the sixteenth century that the “variation from the true north” came to be generally accepted as an and not one to be accredited to the imperfection of the construction of the compass.
796 Schott, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Bulletin No. 5, The Value of the Arcano del Mare with reference to our knowledge of the Magnetic Declination in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, June 7, 1888, p. 26. Schott, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Appendix No. 7, Report for 1888, Secular Variation of the Magnetic Declination in the United States and at some foreign stations, seventh edition, June, 1889, p. 182.
797 Vol. i. chaps, viii, x.
798 See my paper on Winthrop’s Course across the Atlantic, p. 192, above.
799 See p. 198 and note 1, above.
800 See pp. 194–195, above.
801 The great salt and the loving-cups are described and portrayed in the Curio for 1887 (New York, 1888), i. 20–22, and the loving-cups in the Catalogue of American Silver exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in 1906 (Boston, 1906), nos. 37, 64, pp. 45, 51, plates I, II, IV, V, VII. See also Publications of the Cambridge Historical Society, iii. 15.
802 This address was written by President Lefavour and was engrossed on parchment, measuring 17 by 22 inches, by Mr. Frank Williamson Martin. It is illuminated in red and gold. The seal of the Society is pendant on a scarlet grosgrain ribbon.