INDEX

    INDEX

    Places are in Massachusetts unless otherwise stated

    Names of vessels are grouped under the heading Ships

    Names of Indians are grouped under the heading Indians

    Abbot, Rev. Abiel (d 1828), 279, 279 n

    Adams, Brooks, 88 n; quoted, on New England theocracy, 40; on R. Child’s religious connections, 61

    —— Charles Francis (d 1915), 88 n; cited, on right of appeal to Parliament, in Massachusetts, 81

    —— John, President, quoted, on Boston politics, 418, 419; opinion of, on annual elections, 427; writer of Braintree’s instructions to deputy, concerning the Stamp Act, 437; cited, on importance of town mandates, 439; assists North Carolina in framing constitution of 1776, 442; quoted, on power of New England towns, 445

    —— Lydia K., active in establishing Sunday school in the West Church, Boston, 277, 278

    —— Gov. Samuel, 138; member of Caucus Club, 419; quoted, on system of instructions to deputies, 436; Boston instructions written by, 436, 437; assists Pennsylvania in making constitution of 1776, 442

    —— Rev. William (H. C. 1671), quoted, on L. Hoar, 364 n, 365

    Addison, Joseph, quoted, on F. M. Pinto, 234

    Agrippa, Henry Cornelius, 102 n, 125

    Alabaster, Rev. William, 220

    Alchemy, modern prejudice against, 123; popularity of, in seventeenth century, 124

    Alleine, Rev. Joseph (d 1668), 264 n

    Allen, Bozon, 38 n, 55 n

    —— John, of Barbados, agreement in behalf of, with J. Jackson, 254–256

    Alligator, description of, 239

    Allin, Rev. John (d 1671), 74 n; Overseer of Harvard College, 167 n; his careful church records in Dedham, 259

    Amber, Irish superstition concerning, 122 n

    American, An, quoted, on Loyalists, 439 n

    American Antiquarian Society, owns book by Comenius, given to R. Mather, 1661, 181, 181 n; water-color view of Harvard College, about 1807, belonging to, exhibited, 257

    Ammoncongin River, Me., 308, 308 n

    Anabaptibts, 23, 27, 90; harshness against, in Massachusetts, believed detrimental to the colony, 29 n; H. Dunster’s connection with, 146, 148 n

    Anchoranus, Joannes, edits book by Comenius, 180, 195

    Anderson, John, Jr., 287

    Andover, represented by non-resident deputy, 432 n

    Andrew, Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1681), 184

    —— Samuel (Y. C. 1711), son of Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1681), 184

    —— Samuel (Y. C. 1739), son of Samuel (Y. C. 1711), 184

    —— James (d 1714), 332 n, 350, 350 n; land grant to, 1688, 332

    Andros, Gov. Sir Edmund, 71, 416, 426; M. Hooke’s petition to, 57, 57 n; land warrants issued under, 1687–1688, communicated by J. H. Tuttle, 292–363; commissioned Governor of New England, 292; prohibits town-meetings, 430, 440

    Anti-Federalists, 444

    Antimony, interest of alchemists and physicians in, 128 n

    Apollonius, Willem (d 1657), 74 n

    Appeal to Parliament, question of right of, in colonies, 32, 48, 49, 64, 76, 77, 79, 81, 82, 86

    Arnold, ——, 61 n

    —— Benedict, Governor of Rhode Island, interpreter, in dealings with Indians, 44 n

    Arriscott. See Harriseket

    Asbury, Bishop Francis (d 1816), 262 n

    Ashland, land grant in, 1688, 355, 355 n

    —— Magunco (Magaguncock) Hill 355, 355 n

    Ashmole, Elias (d 1692), interested in alchemy, 100; meets R. Child and R. Fludd, 100; W. Cooper’s letter to, 132

    Ashurst, Henry (d 1680), 366 n; benefactor of Harvard College, 366

    —— Sir Henry, son of Henry (d 1680), 170 n

    Aspinwall, William, 16 n; commands trading expedition to the Delaware, 15 n

    Atkins, ——, 353

    Atwater, John, 346, 346 n

    Avery, Jonathan, son of William (d 1687), alchemical studies of, 124

    —— William (d 1687), alchemical studies of, 123, 124

    Awbrey, William, connected with iron works in Massachusetts, 13 n

    Bachstrom, Johann Friedrich, sketch of, 145 n

    Bacon, Sir Francis, Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, cited, regarding small-pox, 110, 110 n; his design for a universal college, 165

    Bacstrom, ——, unidentified writer, cited on Philalethes, 145. See also Bachstrom

    Baillie, Rev. Robert (d 1662), 2; attitude of, toward aberrant sects, especially Independents, 72, 87–91

    Baker, Thomas, land grants to, 1688, 326, 349

    Ball, Rev. John (d 1640), 74 n

    —— Hannah (d 1792), 264 n

    Ballatt, Samuel (d 1708), 297 n; land grant to, 1687, 297

    Bancroft, George, his treatment of the Remonstrance of 1646, 17 n, 85 n; his doubt of I. Thomas’s story of English Bible printed in Boston about 1752, 286, 286 n

    Banks, Dr. Charles Edward, 89 n; quoted, on treatment of Remonstrants of 1646, 74 n

    —— John (d 1685), 161 n

    Baptism, of children of non-church-members, 22, 22 n; by immersion, 153

    Barclay, Alderman. See Berkeley, William

    Barefoot, Walter, Deputy Governor of New Hampshire, 307 n; land grant to, 1687, 307

    Barlow, Capt. ——, 53, 53 n

    Barnacles, legend that geese develop out of, 115, 116

    Barnard, Henry (d 1900), probable author of statement about Comenius, 147 n

    —— Rev. John (H. C. 1700), 186; gives books by Comenius to Harvard College, 184, 185; autograph of, 185

    Barney, Jacob, connection of, with second trial of the Remonstrants of 1646, 55, 55 n, 56

    Barry, Rev. John Stetson, 89 n

    Bartholomew, Henry, 38 n

    —— William, connection of, with second trial of the Remonstrants of 1646, 55, 55 n

    Bartlet, ——, 137

    Bartlett, Rev. John (d 1849), establishes charity schools in Boston, 277, 278

    Bartol, Rev. Cyrus Augustus, his account of establishment of a Sunday school in the West Parish, Boston, 278

    Baskett, John (d 1742), printer of Bibles, 290 n

    —— Mark, printer of Bibles, 1761–1769; I. Thomas’s statement of use of his name on Bible printed in Boston about 1752, 285; Bibles of, in various libraries, 287, 288 n; period of his printing, 290; Thomas’s use of his name probable error for Thomas Baskett, 291

    —— Thomas (d 1763), son of John, printer of Bibles, 1742–1761, 291; title-page of his Bible of 1752, 291 n

    Baylie. See Baillie

    Beaver trade, monopoly for, granted by Massachusetts General Court, 15

    Beex (Becx), John, interested in. iron works in Massachusetts, 13, 13 n, 14, 65 n; buys interest m Saco patent, 65; one of thirteen petitioners to the Council for Foreign Plantations, 1661, 67

    Belcher, Andrew (d 1717), 356 n; land grant to, 1688, 356

    —— Gov. Jonathan, son of Andrew (d 1717), 430

    Belfast, Me., votes mandate to congressional representative, 444

    Bell, Shubael, assists in establishing a Sunday school in Christ Church, Boston, 273, 275 n; revises the Youth’s Manual for its use, 274

    —— Thomas, one of thirteen petitioners to the Council for Foreign Plantations, 1661, 67

    —— William, jumps bail, 1641, 29 n

    Bellingham, Gov. Richard, 8, 38, 39, 152, 175 n, 257; on committee to answer the Remonstrance of 1646, 30; complains of S. Maverick to Sir W. Morice, 1665, 68

    —— Dr. Samuel, son of Gov. Richard, 137 n

    Bendall, Edward, 27

    Bennett, Edward, land grant to, 1688, 327

    Berigard, Claude, his alleged transmutation of mercury into gold, 133, 144

    Berkeley, William (d 1653), suit of Mme. la Tour against, 29 n

    Berlin, Me., votes mandate to congressional representative, 444

    Bermuda, government and church conditions in, 1647, 36, 36 n

    Berry, Margaret (Rogers), wife of Thomas (H. C. 1685). See Leverett

    —— Thomas (H. C. 1685), 183, 183 n

    —— Thomas (H. C. 1712), son of Thomas (H. C: 1685), 183

    Beverly, earliest Sunday school in Massachusetts claimed for, 265, 265 n, 271, 276, 277

    Bible, English, I. Thomas’s statement of first printing of, in America, about 1752, 285; this doubted by G. Bancroft and others, 286; paper on the question by C. L. Nichols, 286–292

    Bickford, Thomas, land grant to, 1688, 326

    Bigelow, Frank Barna, 189 n

    Black Point, Me., 293. See also Scarborough, Me.

    Blakeslee, George Hubbard, 409

    Blanchard, Joshua, Boston bookseller, 384 n

    Blodgett, James Harvey, 151

    Blue Hills, survey of lands near, ordered, 1688, 328; grant of lands near, 358

    Blue Point, Me., 293, 332. See also Scarborough, Me.

    Blyth (Blydon), Stephen Cleveland, sketch of, 265 n

    Boate, Dr. Arnold, 114, 117 n, 118 n, 123 n; cited, on caviare, 63; his annotations on R. Child’s Large Letter, 108, 109, 109 n, 116; spelling of his name, 109, 109 n; practises in Dublin and later settles in Paris, 117; dies when returning to England, 119, 119 n

    —— Dr. Gerard, brother of Dr. Arnold, 109 n, 116; sketch of, 116, 117 n; his Naturall History of Ireland, 118, 119, 122; appointment as State Physician for Ireland, 118; death of, 118

    Body of Liberties, adoption of, 424

    Bolton, ——, 112 n

    Bond, Nicholas, 10 n

    Bonighton, Richard, buys interest in Saco patent, 63

    Boot. See Boate

    Borden, Nathaniel, 449 n

    Boston, makes land grants for iron works, 12; Maurist Fathers in, acknowledgment to, 143 n; map of, in 1648, by S. C. Clough, exhibited, 251; Early Sunday Schools in, paper by A. Matthews, 259–285; condition of education in, 1818, 267 n; land grants in, 1687, 301, 303; 1688, 319, 351, 352, 354, 356; records of early mandates to representatives of, 415–416, 427; committees appointed to prepare mandates, 417; leadership of, 438, 445; change in, from town to city government, 1822, 446

    —— Baptist churches, establishment of Sunday schools in, 1816, 271, 272 n, 276, 452 n

    —— Brattle Street Church, 1773, architect of, 418

    —— Caucus Club, 418, 419

    —— Christ Church, Sunday school, 270 n; history of, 273–275; first called Salem Street Sunday School Society, 275

    —— City Missionary Society, establishment of, 268 n

    —— Faneuil Hall and the town-meeting, 447–448

    —— First African Baptist Church, Sunday school established in, 1816, 272, 272 n

    —— Hell-Fire Club, 433

    —— Latin School, probably used textbooks by Comenius, 179, 185

    —— Merchants’ Club, 419

    —— Noddle’s Island, deeded by S. Maverick to his son, 57; later to G. Briggs, 57 n; granted to S. Shrimpton, 1688, 352

    —— Old South Church, invites L. Hoar to its ministry, but releases him to accept presidency of Harvard College, 363; early parsonage of, 418; its Sunday school, 452 n

    —— Park Street Church, Sunday school, claimed to be first in Boston, 266; history of, 266–271, 270 n, 271 n, 452 n

    —— St. John’s Ecclesiastical Seminary, Brighton, acknowledgment to staff of, 143 n

    —— Salem Street Academy, 274, 275, 275 n

    —— Salem Street Sunday School Society, 275, 275 n

    —— Ship Tavern, 431

    —— South, Sunday school established in, 1817, 269, 269 n

    —— Town Dock, 252

    —— West Boston Charity School, 277, 278, 279

    —— West Church, Sunday school, history of, 277–279, 277 n; claimed to be first in Boston, 279; Gleaning Circle, 278; Sewing School, 279

    Boston Athenaeum, books by Comenius in, 182

    Boston Neck, R. I., 300 n; land grant in, 1687, 300

    Boston Recorder, quoted, on establishment of Sunday schools, 1816, 266 n; quoted, on care of schools, 270 n

    Boston Sabbath School Union, formation of, 270 n

    Boston Society for the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Poor, 266 n; takes charge of all Sunday schools in Boston about 1817, 267–269, 270 n; its first report quoted, 268; succeeded by the City Missionary Society, 1841, 268 n; establishes Sunday school in West Boston, 1822, 277 n

    Boswell, Sir William, 10 n, 161 n, 173 n; letter of, to Sir H. De Vic, in behalf of J. Winthrop, Jr., 164; quoted, on J. Winthrop, Jr., 174

    Bourne, Maj. Nehemiah, 39 n, 93 n

    Bouvé, Ada, daughter of Thomas Tracy, 410

    —— Emily Gilbert (Lincoln), wife of Thomas Tracy, gives to Harvard College a photograph of water-color view of the College by H. d’Orgemont, 410

    Bowdoin, Peter (d 1716), 309, 309 n, 310 n, 342; land grant to, 1687, 310

    Bowles, Joseph, buys land in Maine, 63 n

    Bowman, George Ernest, 264 n

    Boyle, Richard, first Earl of Cork, with Lord Chancellor Loftus destroys St. Patrick’s Purgatory, 1632, 115, 116

    —— Robert (d 1691), son of Richard, first Earl of Cork, 98, 107, 115, 118 n, 119, 120 n, 122, 161 n, 166 n, 366, 369; friend of R. Child, 98 n; of G. Stirk, 101, 101 n, 176; urged to assist in continuing G. Boate’s Naturall History of Ireland, 119; Irish interests of, 120; one of founders of Royal Society, 124; correspondent of J. Winthrop, Jr., 178, 186; Governor of Corporation for Propagating the Gospel in New England, 187 n

    —— Roger, first Earl of Orrery, son of Richard, first Earl of Cork, 234 n

    Bradford, William, Governor of Plymouth Colony, quoted, on E. Winslow’s conduct of case for the Massachusetts Bay Colony against the Remonstrants of 1646, 65; visited by Gov. Winthrop, 431

    Bradstreet, Gov. Simon, 16 n, 38

    Brahe, Tycho (d 1601), letters of, in Winthrop papers, 179 n

    Braintree, iron works at, 11, 14, 60, 61; land grants in, 1688, 335, 336, 337

    Bramhall, George (d 1690), 342 n; land grant to, 1688, 342

    Breedon, Capt. Thomas, one of thirteen petitioners to the Council for Foreign Plantations, 1661, 67, 67 n

    Brereton, Sir William (d 1661), quoted, on A. Hill’s plantation in Ireland, 122

    —— William (d 1680), third Baron Brereton of Leighlin, 161 n, 171; letter of, to J. Winthrop, Jr., quoted, 160 n

    Bret, ——, 112 n

    Brewster, Jonathan, son of William (d 1643), 23; alchemical studies of, 123, 124, 124 n

    —— William (d 1643), 124

    Bridges, Capt. Robert, 13, 43

    Briggs, Capt. George, Noddle’s Island deeded to, 57 n

    Brigham, Clarence Saunders, A.M., 181 n, 182 n

    Brinley, Francis (d 1719), 300 n; land grant to, 1687, 300

    —— George (d 1875), 286

    Brooke, Lord. See Greville, Robert

    Brookfield, survey of, ordered, 1688, 335

    Brookline, Muddy River early name of, 298, 298 n

    Brown, Rev. Howard Nicholson, D.D., elected Resident Member, 231, 404

    —— John Carter, 286

    —— Marianna Catherine, quoted, on early Sunday schools, 264 n

    —— William Garrott, 387 n, 388 n; his Calendar of Harvard College manuscripts, 392 n

    Browne, John, 339; land grant to, 1688, 321

    —— Joseph (H. C. 1666), 391, 393; Fellow of Harvard College, 368, 369, 369 n, 370, 396, 396 n, 402

    —— William, assignment of charter party to, by C. Clarke, 257

    Brownists, 87; 90

    Bruen, Obadiah, connection of, with second trial of the Remonstrants of 1646, 55, 55 n

    Brydges, Sir Egerton, 107 n

    Bulfinch, Charles, 419 n

    —— John, 95 n; informs against Maj. J. Child, 96; asks hearing, 97

    Bull, Alfred, identifies two books owned by J. Harvard, 230 n

    Bullard, Rev. Asa, quoted, on first mention of Sunday schools in the United States, 266 n

    Bumstead, Josiah (d 1859), Sunday school in house of, 270 n

    Bunny, Francis, 225

    Burnet, Gov. William, complains of Boston’s action in conflict concerning Governor’s salary, 430; death of, 430; in 1729 declares Massachusetts aims at independence, 440

    Burrage, William, land grant to, 1688, 319

    Burton, Margaret (Otis), wife of Thomas, 24, 26 n

    —— Sarah, daughter of Thomas, baptism of, 26

    —— Thomas, 59, 67; a signer of the Remonstrance of 1646, 17, 24, 24 n, 25, 26, 28, 29; tried and sentenced, 37; with other Remonstrants tried a second time for conspiracy against the government and sentenced, 1647, 50–56

    Bury St. Edmund’s, Eng., Free Grammar School, J. Winthrop, Jr., and F. Winthrop students at, 156 n

    Buryada, Gaetano, 5 n

    Bushnel, ——, 54, 54 n

    Byfield, Nathaniel (d 1733), 299 n

    Čada, František, 149 n

    Cæsalpinus, Andreas, R. Child’s reference to his De Metallicis, 113 n

    Caillet, Albert L., 145, 145 n

    Calamorie, description of, 246

    Cambridge, land grant in, 1688, 356; resolution of, describing Massachusetts political system, 427

    Čapek, Thomas, 151 n; quoted, on Comenius, 150 n

    Capisick River, Me., 306, 306 n, 308, 308 n

    Cardilucius, Johann Hiskias, quoted, on association of G. Stirk and S. Hartlib, 176, 176 n

    Carleton, Edward, connection of, with trials of the Remonstrants of 1646, 38 n, 55, 55 n, 56

    —— Osgood, his survey of Boston, 1795, 252

    Carnobie, name of an alchemist perhaps identical with Eirenseus Philalethes (G. Stirk), 144, 145

    Carter, Franklin, LL.D., death of, xv, 410

    Casco Bay, Me., 293; land grants at, 1687, 296, 306, 308, 309, 310, 311; 1688, 328, 330, 333, 337, 359. See also Falmouth; North Yarmouth

    Cavendish, Sir Charles (d 1654), 166 n

    Caviare, discussed by R. Child, 63

    Chalmers, George, quoted, on the Remonstrance of 1646, 85 n

    Chambers, Edmund Kerchever, cited, on identity of Philalethes, 141

    Champlin, William (d 1713), 295 n; land grant to, 1687, 295

    Chandler, John (d 1703), 359 n; land grant to, 1688, 359

    Channing, Edward, Ph. D., appointed delegate to annual Conference of Historical Societies, Cleveland, 410

    Chapman, Ralph, land grant to, 1687, 301

    Charles I, King of England, 21 n, 83, 165, 449

    Charles II, King of England, 71, 143, 450; colonial attitude toward, 50; appoints royal commissioners to regulate affairs in New England, 1664, 68, 71; interest of, in alchemy, 143 n; correspondent of J. Winthrop, Jr., 178

    Charlestown, land grants in, 1687, 296, 297, 298; 1688, 355, 356, 357, 361

    —— Female Society for the Promotion of Sabbath Schools, 272

    —— First Baptist Church, Sunday school, 275

    —— First Parish Church, history of Sunday school work in, 272, 276

    —— Stinted Pasture, 355

    Charter Oak incident, 426

    Chase, Samuel (d 1811), upholds right to instruct representatives, 443

    Chauncy, Rev. Charles, President of Harvard College, 149, 172 n, 368; inauguration of, 1654, 147, 154, 163; preceding negotiations, 153; death of, 363, 364, 364 n, 369; his salary as President of Harvard College, 365 n

    Checkery. See Chickering

    Chelmsford, 352 n; land grant in, 1688, 351

    Chelsea, 319 n; land grants in, 1688, 319, 360

    Chichester, Sir Edward, Baron Chichester of Belfast and Viscount Chichester of Carrickfergus, 122

    Chickering, Henry, 259, 259 n

    —— Lydia (Fisher), second wife of Nathaniel, her service to the regicides, Goffe and Whalley, 449–451

    —— Nathaniel, nephew of Henry, 450

    Child, John, 4, 4 n

    —— Maj. John, son of John, 4, 4 n, 17 n, 47, 61, 64, 72, 94 n; quoted, on the Remonstrance of 1646, 17; on controversy regarding baptism, 24 n; his book, New-Englands Jonas, 35, 45, 45 n, 46, 46 n; quoted, on status of Presbyterians in Massachusetts, 71; his importance in the Presbyterian party, 84; quoted, on Independents, 87; on toleration, 91; home of, 93, 95 n; commands an insurrection in Kent, 1648, 93–96; later life of, 97

    —— Mary, wife of Maj. John, petitions for husband’s release, 97

    —— Peter de la, 4 n

    —— Dr. Robert, son of John, 63 n, 67; paper on, by G. L. Kittredge, 1–146; general statement of Child’s work and his clash with the government of Massachusetts, 1–3; sketch of, 4–8, 4 n–8 n; his religious connection, 8–9; his interest in chemistry, alchemy, vine-growing, etc., 9, 9 n; takes part in establishment of iron works in Massachusetts, 8–15; H. Peter’s letter concerning, 16; purchases rights under Saco patent, 1645, 16, 16 n, 65 n; with others, presents to the General Court, in 1646, a “Remonstrance and humble petition,” demanding rights of freemen for “all truely English,” with extension of church privileges and English law, 17–18, 74; his associates in the Remonstrance, 20–27; their real purpose the establishment of the Presbyterian Church in Massachusetts, 28–30, 85, 86, 96; summoned by the General Court and given opportunity to retract, which is refused, 31–32; tried by General Court, 1646, and sentenced to pay fines, 37–39; fines not paid and Child arrested on eve of departure for England, and revolutionary papers seized, 39–41; bound over to next Court of Assistants, 41; at Court of Assistants, 1647, case referred to next General Court;, and Child imprisoned, 42; two cases against him, 43; his hopes dashed by letter from the English commissioners to the Governor and Company, 48–50; tried, with others, a second time, for conspiracy against the government and sentenced, 1647, 50–56; payment of his fine, 60, 61 n; accused of being a Jesuit, 61–63, 61 n; his departure from New England, 63; sale of his Saco lands, 63, 65, 65 n his discussion of caviare, 63; end of his fight over the Remonstrance, 64, 65; his quarrel with F. Willoughby, 64; his reverses of fortune, 65; his purpose to procure abrogation of Massachusetts charter, 69, 70, 86; wrong views of Child’s case, 74–76; not punished for petitioning, 76; connection of Child’s Remonstrance and the Gorton petition, 80; conspiracy against the government, 82; the Remonstrance intended for English eyes, 82–85, 87; Child violently anti-Independent, 87; no champion of religious liberty, 83 n, 89 n, 91; but so regarded by some, 88 n; his friendship with J. Winthrop, Jr., unbroken, 91, 92, 98, 99; from England, writes of lead mining projects, 92, 99, 114; of political disturbances, 93; interest of, in alchemy, agriculture, etc., 93, 93 n, 98, 100; J. French’s book dedicated to, 102, 102 n; his Large Letter concerning English Husbandry included in Samuel Hartlib his Legacy, 103–108; his answer to A. Boate’s annotations, 109; his observations on New England products, 110–112, 115; goes to Ireland and is desired by Hartlib to continue G. Boate’s Naturall History of Ireland, 99, 108, 119–122; death of, 122; never married, 123; his alchemical pursuits, 123–126, 128–131; rumor that he discovered secret of transmutation, 133; belief that he wrote the Philalethes tracts, 133, 135–137, 140, 141, 144; confusion of, with G. Stirk and T. Vaughan, 143–146; multifarious interest of his fife, 146; acquaintance of, with New England men, 175, 175 n

    —— Thomas, 4 n

    Church, Benjamin (d 1718), joins in purchase of lands at Pocasset, R. I., 299 n

    Cider, R. Child quoted on making of, 5 n

    Clap, Roger (d 1691), 302 n; request for land grant considered, 1687, 302

    Clarendon, Earl of. See Hyde

    Clark, Katherine, wife of William (d 1647), 52, 52 n

    —— Thomas, assists in establishing a Sunday school in Christ Church, Boston, 275 n

    —— William (d 1647), of Salem, an associate of the Remonstrants of 1646, 42; affairs of, at Salem, 51, 51 n; active regarding petition to commissioners, 51; death of, 51

    Clarke, Christopher, assignment of charter party to, by J. Jackson, 256, 257; assigns it to W. Browne, 257

    —— Nathaniel (d 1718), 333 n; Clark’s Island, Plymouth, granted to, 1688, 333

    —— Thaddeus (d 1690), 306, 308

    —— Thomas, member of fur trading company, 15 n

    Clay, Henry, 444

    Cleeves, George, 310, 310 n

    Clement (Clements), Richard, 306 n; warrants to, for survey of land grants, 306, 307–312, 332

    Clements, Robert (d 1658), connection of, with second trial of the Remonstrants of 1646, 55, 55 n, 56

    Cleverly, John, requests land grant, 1688, 337

    Clod (Clodius, Claudius), ——, London physician, 119 n

    Clogie, Rev. Alexander, quoted, on A. Boate, 117 n

    Cloice (Clayce, Cloyes, Cloyse), Thomas (d 1690), 322 n, 344, 348; land grant to, 1688, 322

    Clotworthy, Sir John, first Viscount Massereene, J. Winthrop, Jr., at house of, 159; letter of, quoted, 159 n; interested in S. Hartlib, 159 n

    Clough, Samuel Chester, 120 n; cited, on location of house of keeper of Boston prison, 1647, 43 n; on Committee on Memorials, 231; exhibits his map of Boston in 1648, and speaks on labor involved in such work, 251–254; cited, on location of T. Dawes’s house, Boston, 419 n

    Cobbet, Rev. Thomas, Overseer of Harvard College, 167 n

    Coddington, William, Governor of Rhode Island, 29 n, 100 n; writes of R. Child, 100

    Coe, Elizabeth (Wakely), wife of Matthew, 348 n

    —— Matthew, 348, 348 n

    Cogswell, Joseph Green (d 1871), 286

    Colegrove, Kenneth, his paper, New England Town Mandates, 411–449

    College, the, a term often applied to Harvard College, 170 n

    Collier, Rev. William (d 1843), Sunday school work of, 276, 276 n, 277 n

    Collings, Abraham, land grant to, 1688, 340

    Collins, Edward (d 1689), 356, 356 n

    —— Rev. John (H. C. 1649), recommends L. Hoar for presidency of Harvard College, 369 n

    Colman, Rev. Benjamin (H. C. 1692), 380, 418

    Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Annual Meeting, 403

    —— Auditing Committee, appointed, 231; report of, 408

    —— Corresponding Member, death of, 410

    —— Corresponding Secretary, reports new members, 1, 231; election of, 408; reports death of member, 410. See also Park, Charles Edwards

    —— Council, Annual Report of, 403–406; member of, elected, 408

    —— Memorials, Committee on, appointed, 231

    —— Nominating Committee, appointed, 231; report of, 408

    —— President, 231, 403, 410; election of, 408. See also Robinson, Fred Norris

    —— Publications, report of progress on, 404

    —— Recording Secretary, election of, 408. See also Cunningham, Henry Winchester

    —— Registrar, election of, 408. See also Johnson, Alfred

    —— Resident Members, election of, 1, 231, 404

    —— Stated Meetings, 1, 231, 410

    —— Treasurer, Annual Report of, 406–407; election of, 408. See also Edes, Henry Herbert

    —— Vice-Presidents, election of, 408. See also Davis, Andrew McFarland; Rugg, Arthur Prentice

    Colonies, middle and southern political conditions in, 422, 442

    Comenius, John Amos, 154 n, 155 n, 160 n; and Harvard College, paper by A. Matthews, 146–190; C. Mather’s statement that he was offered the presidency of Harvard College but was diverted to Sweden, 146, 155; this not mentioned in histories of the College, 147; various versions of the story, 147–150; possible sources, 150 n; Mather apparently only authority, 148 n, 150, 150 n; truth of statement doubted by W. S. Monroe and P. H. Hanus, 151; formal offer not possible, 154, 160, 163, 167; travels of Comenius and possibility of meetings with J. Winthrop, Jr., who may have mentioned Harvard presidency as future possibility, 155, 157, 157 n, 159, 161 n, 163, 165–170, 166 n; losses of, in sack of Lissa, 1656, 160, 160 n; date of his birth, 163 n; his possible personal knowledge of or correspondence with New England contemporaries, 170, 171, 177, 178; books of, early owned and used in New England, with present whereabouts and former owners of, 179–186, 181 n, 182 n, 189

    Concord, instruction of, to deputy, 1787, 428 n; represented by nonresident deputy, 431

    Conference of Historical Societies, delegates to, appointed, 410

    Congin River, Me., 308 n

    Congregationalism in New England, as described in the Remonstrance of 1646, 91 n

    Conti, Natale, works of, 215

    Continental Congress, support of, voted by Massachusetts towns, 1776, 425

    Conybeare, Frederick Cornwall’s, 409

    Cooke, Elisha (H. C. 1657), son of Richard, 184, 184 n, 185, 185 n

    —— Elisha (H. C. 1697), son of Elisha (H. C. 1657), 184, 184 n, 185 n; active in politics, 430

    —— Elkanah, son of Richard, 185

    —— Middlecott (H. C. 1723), son of Elisha (H. C. 1697), 185 n; gives books by Comenius to Harvard College, 184, 184 n

    —— Richard, 184

    —— family, 184 n

    Cooper, Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1743), his pamphlet, The Crisis, 435 n

    —— William, English bookseller, quoted, 132

    —— William (d 1809), brother of Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1743), 419

    Copland, Rev. Patrick, 101; quoted, on voyage of the Supply to England, 34 n

    Cork, Earl of. See Boyle, Richard

    Corporation for Propagating the Gospel in New England, 187 n ; work of, for Indians, 187, 188

    Corwin, John (d 1683), 334 n

    —— Margaret (Winthrop), wife of John (d 1683), 334 n; land grant to, 1688, 334

    Cotting, John Ruggles, teacher in Salem Street Academy and Salem Street Sunday school, 274, 275 n

    Cotton, Rev. John (d 1652), 8, 175 n; quoted, on intolerance in New England, 30 n; warning of, to persons carrying complaints to Parliament, 34, 35; quoted, on Jesuit feeling toward New England, 62; invited to England to advance cause of the Independents, 73; controversial writings of, 74 n, 91

    —— Rev. John (H. C. 1657), son of Rev. John (d 1652), 263 n; quoted, on catechizing of children in the First Church, Plymouth, 262 n, 263 n

    County, shire, or parish, basis of representation in middle and southern colonies, 421

    Coxe, Dr. Daniel (d 1730), land grant to, 1687, 304, 304 n

    Cramp-fish, description of, 246

    Cranberries, R. Child quoted on, 107; gift of, from J. Winthrop, Jr., to S. Hartlib, 171

    Creiling, Johann Conrad, quoted, on Philalethes and his identity, 143

    Crisis, The, pamphlet on the Excise Bill, 1754, 435 n

    Cromwell, Oliver, 178

    Crossthwaite, Charles, land grant to, 1687, 304

    Cummings, Rev. Preston, quoted, on establishment of Sunday schools, 262 n, 263 n

    Cunningham, Henry Winchester, A.B., elected Recording Secretary, 408

    Curtis, Jonathan, land grant to, 1688, 361

    —— Thomas, land grant to, 1688, 361

    Cushing, Seth, 385 n

    —— Lt.-Gov. Thomas, 419

    Cutler, Dr. Elbridge Gerry, 409

    —— John, Jr. (d 1708), 297 n; land grant to, 1687, 297

    Damant, John, 259

    Damatt (Damant), surname in Dedham, seventeenth century, 259

    Dand, John, 43, 89 n; a signer of the Remonstrance of 1646, 17, 21, 22, 28, 29, 67; tried and sentenced, 37; revolutionary papers found in possession of, 39–41, 53 n, 54 n, 69, 85; arrested, 41, 42; with other Remonstrants, tried a second time for conspiracy against the government and sentenced, 1647, 50–56; imprisonment and release of, with remission of fine, 56, 59; one of thirteen petitioners to the Council for Foreign Plantations, 1661, 67

    Danforth, Rev. John (d 1730), son of Rev. Samuel (d 1674), 138

    —— Rev. Samuel (d 1674), 395; Fellow and Tutor of Harvard College, 368, 370, 370 n, 393, 396, 396 n, 401, 402; ordained pastor at Roxbury, 368

    —— Judge Samuel (d 1777), son of Rev. John (d 1730), 137, 138 n, 140 n; sketch of, 138; a student of alchemy, 123, 126 n, 138; his library, 139

    —— Dr. Samuel (d 1827), son of Judge Samuel (d 1777), 139 n, 140 n; sketch of, 139; believed Philalethes to be R. Child, 140

    —— Thomas (d 1699), brother of Rev, Samuel (d 1674), 189, 367 n; quoted, on L. Hoar’s election to presidency of Harvard College and his inauguration, 366, 367; named as treasurer in Harvard College charter of 1650, 396

    —— Dr. Thomas, son of Dr. Samuel (d 1827), 139 n

    Dangerfield. See Truro

    Danson, George, 303, 303 n; land grant to, 1687, 303

    Davenport, Rev. John (d 1670), 21 n, 26, 74 n, 158 n, 172 n; invited to England to advance cause of the Independents, 73; anxious to have a college founded at New Haven, 170; letters of, to J. Winthrop, Jr., quoted, 171, 172, 173; friend of J. Durie and Sir W. Boswell, 173 n; S. Mather quoted on letter of, to Durie, 173 n; book by Comenius sent to, by S. Hartlib, 180

    —— John (H. C. 1721), at Harvard College, 186

    Davis, Andrew McFarland, A.M., 195, 207; prints from original record, list of books given to Harvard College by J. Harvard, 191; his estimate of their number, 191; quoted, on Harvard College charter of 1672, 374, 378; his statements answered, 382, 393; elected Vice-President, 408

    —— Benjamin (d 1704), 301 n; land grant to, 1687, 301

    —— Edward, land grant to, 1688, 324

    —— Isaac, 340

    —— John, 1659, 256

    —— John (H. C. 1781), 367, 371 n; quoted, on L. Hoar’s election to presidency of Harvard College and his inauguration, 364; on committee (1812) to defend rights of Harvard College before the General Court, 371

    —— Lawrence, 343

    —— Silvanus (d 1703), 306 n, 317, 321, 322, 325, 329, 340, 342, 350; land grant to, 1687, 306; his sawmill, 308, 348

    Dawes, Thomas (d 1809), sketch of, 418, 418 n, 419 n

    —— William (d 1703), manager of iron works in Massachusetts, 13 n

    Deane, Silas, 438

    Dedham, early surnames in, 259; land grant to, at Pocumtuck, 450

    Dedham Historical Society, secures scrap-book, originally an account book of C. Townsend, containing extract from diary of J. Townsend, relating to Lydia Chickering, 449

    Denis, Robert, 358

    De Normandie, Rev. James, claims First Church, Roxbury, had first Sunday school in the new world, 261

    Deptford, R. I., 295 n; sometimes wrongly called Bedford, 295 n

    Derby, John Barton, 451

    —— Mary (Townsend), wife of John B., scrap-book made by, 451

    Devereux, Col. Nicholas, 97

    De Vic, Sir Henry, 164

    Dexter, Rev. Henry Martyn, quoted, on the Remonstrants of 1646, 30 n

    Digby, Sir Kenelm (d 1665), 7, 7 n, 128, 175 n, 178; extraordinary stories told by, 115; his alchemical pursuits, 124; friend of J. Winthrop, Jr., 175

    Dircks, Henry, 107 n

    Dixwell, John, regicide, comes to New England, 451

    Dolphin, description of, 239

    Dorchester, land grant in, 1687, 302; 1688, 356

    Douglass, Dr. William, quoted, on J. Winthrop, Jr., 128 n

    Dover, N. H., instructs its deputy, 1658, 416

    Downame (Downham), Rev. John, his Christian Warfare, owned by J. Harvard, now extant, 192, 204, 206

    Downing, Emanuel, 175; his connection with the attempt at iron manufacture in Massachusetts, 10 n, 11, 11 n, 12 n, 14; signs petition for alteration of laws against Anabaptists, 1645, 23 n; agent in England for promoting lead-mining schemes of J. Winthrop, Jr., 114; letter of, to J. Winthrop, Jr., quoted, 158 n

    —— Lucy (Winthrop), wife of Emanuel, 157 n; letter of, to J. Winthrop, Jr., quoted, 160 n

    Downshire, Marquesses of, descendants of Col. Arthur Hill, 121

    Dowse, William Bradford Home, 409

    Draper, John (d 1762), 433

    Duane, Rev. Charles Williams, quoted, on Christ Church Sunday school, 275 n

    Du Bartas, Guillaume de Saluste, 233

    Duck Manufactory, gentlemen proprietors of, request approbation of the selectmen of Boston for a Sunday school, 280

    Dudley, Gov. Joseph, son of Gov. Thomas, 292, 293, 295 n, 304 n, 432; land grants to, 1687, 298, 304; 1688, 313, 314

    —— Mary (Winthrop), first wife of Rev. Samuel, son of Gov. Thomas, letter of, quoted, 158 n

    —— Gov. Thomas, 8, 175 n, 393; member of committee to answer the Remonstrance of 1646, 30

    Dummer, Richard (d 1678), 16 n; connection of, with second trial of the Remonstrants of 1646, 55, 55 n, 56, 331 n

    —— Rev. Shubael (H. C. 1656), son of Richard (d 1678), 331 n; land grant to, 1688, 331

    —— Lt.-Gov. William, 380

    Duncan, Nathaniel, on committee to answer the Remonstrance of 1646, 30

    Dunster, Rev. Henry, President of Harvard College, 149, 154 n, 167, 190, 395; his connection with the Anabaptists, 146, 148 n; his resignation, 1654, 146, 147, 148, 151, 152, 153, 154, 168; manner of his election, 367; of his resignation, 368; whips students, 377 n

    Dunton, John (d 1733) Again, paper by C. N. Greenough, 232–251; his visit to New England, and accounts of it, in his Life and Errors, and Letters from New England, 232; suspicious character of his descriptions of sea animals alleged to have been seen on his voyage, 232–234; much of his matter borrowed from older books, by T. Roe, J. Swan, and D. Pell, 234, 235; borrowings shown by arrangement of parallel columns, 236–249; summary of his indebtedness, 249; method of finding his sources, 250; his extraordinary methods, 251

    —— Lake, brother of John, 232

    Durant, Moses, land grant to, 1688, 326

    Durie (Dury), Rev. John, son of Rev. Robert, friend of S. Hartlib, 161 n, 180; in correspondence with New England clergy, 172, 172 n, 173 n; sketch of, 173 n

    —— Rev. Robert, 173 n

    Dutch West India Company, letter of, to P. Stuyvesant, 1662, cited, 162 n

    Dymock, Cressy, 107 n

    Eaton, Ann Yale, second wife of Theophilus, tried by New Haven church, 1644, 27

    —— Rev. Asa, 273 n; establishes a Sunday school in Christ Church, Boston, 273, 275 n; publishes the Youth’s Manual for its use, 274

    —— Nathaniel, brother of Theophilus, 5 n

    —— Samuel, son of Theophilus, 170 n, 396

    —— Theophilus, Governor of New Haven, 27, 158 n, 161 n, 170 n; arrives in Connecticut, 26

    Eclipse, The, pamphlet on the Excise Bill, 1754, 435 n

    Edes, Henry Herbert, A.M., 1; elected Treasurer, 408; reads two papers regarding early record books of Middlesex County, 452

    Edgar, Eliaz., 103 n, 104 n

    Edmonds, John Henry, 409

    Edmunds, Robert, 332

    Election law of 1716, in Maryland, 422 n

    Eleuthera, one of the Bahama Islands, people from, settled at North Yarmouth, Me., 339, 339 n

    Elias (Helias) Artista, mythical adept in alchemy, traditions concerning, 129, 131, 132, 133; title bestowed on Eirenaeus Philalethes (G. Stirk), 132

    Eliot, Charles William, President of Harvard College, son of Samuel Atkins (d 1862), quoted, as to S. A. Eliot’s authorship of statement about Comenius, 147 n

    —— Rev. John (d 1690), charges the petitioners of 1646 with being Jesuited agents, 62; quoted, on E. Winslow’s conduct of the case, 65; on religious instruction of youth on Sunday, 260, 261

    —— Rev. John (d 1813), quoted, on S. Danforth, 138

    —— Samuel Atkins (d 1862), possible author of statement about Comenius, 147 n

    Elizabeth, Queen of England, 359 n; book approved by, for schools, 193

    Ellicott, Vines, Hog Island, Me., granted to, 1688, 326

    Elliot, Robert (d 1720), 330 n; land grant to, 1688, 330

    Embargo Law, petitions against, 1808, 445, 445 n

    England, use of mandates to representatives in, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 422

    —— Commissioners for Plantations, letters of, to the Governor and Company of Massachusetts, concerning appeals to Parliament in matters under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts government, 48–50, 64

    —— Long Parliament, 71

    —— Parliament, electoral reform of 1832, 440

    English, James, land grant to, 1687, 306

    —— William, connection of, with second trial of the Remonstrants of 1646, 55, 55 n

    Euer, ——, 130

    Evanson, Capt. ——, 94

    Evelyn, John, quoted, on A. Boate, 117 n

    Everett, Joanna (Prince), wife of Ebenezer, active in organizing a Sunday school in Beverly, 1810, 265 n

    Eyers, ——, 302

    Eyre, Charles, printer of Bibles, 290, 290 n

    —— John (d 1700), 351 n; land grant to, 1688, 351

    Fabre, Dr. Pierre Jean, 9, 9 n

    Fairbanks, George, 314

    Fairfield, William, 419

    Fairfield, Ct., recalls deputies, 1687, 426

    Falmouth (Portland), Me., establishment of, 1658, 293; land grants in, 1687, 306, 308, 309; 1688, 316, 317, 319–325, 329, 330, 332, 337–350

    —— Fort Loyal, 306, 306 n, 308, 338

    Fanshawe, Ann, Lady, quoted, on Sir K. Digby’s story-telling habits, 115

    Farwell, George, land grant to, 1688, 361

    —— John Whittemore, Litt.B., exhibits charter party (dated 1659), between J. Jackson, master of the Ketch Rebecca, and M. Munnings, merchant, in behalf of J. Allen, 254–257

    Fast Days, appointed by General Court, 1646, 36

    Fearing, Daniel Butler, his collection of books on angling, in Harvard College Library, 250, 250 n

    Felt, George (d 1676), 350, 351; marriage of, 350 n

    —— George, son of George (d 1676), 350 n; land grant to, 1688, 350

    —— Jonathan, son of George (d 1676), 350 n; land grant to, 1688, 350

    —— Rev. Joseph Barlow, quoted, on fear of Jesuits in New England, 62 n

    —— Samuel, son of George (d 1676), 350 n; land grant to, 1688, 350

    Ferdinand III, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, his alleged use of alchemic gold, 129, 130

    Ferguson, John, 145, 145 n

    Ferrar, Virginia, experiments with silkworms, 104, 105 n

    Feversham, R. I., land grants in, 1687, 295; sometimes wrongly called Haversham, 295 n

    Field, Darby, 15

    Fiennes, William, first Viscount Saye and Sele, with Lord Brooke commissions J. Winthrop, Jr., to found and govern a colony in Connecticut, 159, 164; correspondent of Winthrop, 178

    Figuier, Guillaume Louis, his account of Philalethes, 145, 145 n

    Fines, as punishment, at Harvard College, 374, 376–377

    Firmin, Giles, quoted, on H. Peter, 30 n

    Fish, as fertilizer, 106

    Fisher, Daniel (d 1683), 449, 452

    —— Daniel, son of Daniel (d 1683), 450

    —— Lydia, daughter of Daniel (d 1683). See Chickering

    Fiske, William, connection of, with second trial of the Remonstrants of 1646, 55, 55 n

    Flajšhans, Václav, cited, on Comenius, 150 n

    Fleet, Thomas (d 1758), 433

    Fludd, Dr. Robert (d 1637), a Rosicrucian, 100, 129

    Flying fish, description of, 236

    Flynt, Henry (H. C. 1693), 381, 381 n, 383

    Foley, Thomas, 13 n

    Foot, Joshua, 13

    Fowle, Thomas, 25, 36, 37, 37 n, 39 n, 50; a signer of the Remonstrance of 1646, 17, 23, 28, 29, 29 n, 67; ship of, attached by Alderman Barclay, of London, 29 n; summoned to Court in matter of the Remonstrance, 31–32, 32 n, 33; sails for England, 33, 35; work of, there, for the Remonstrance, 47; ill fortune of, 64

    Foxcroft, John (d 1802), 453

    Foy, Capt. ——, 53, 53 n, 54

    —— Dorothy, wife of Capt. John (d 1715), 53 n

    —— Capt. John (d 1715), 53 n

    —— Capt. John (d 1730), son of Capt. John (d 1715), 53 n

    Franchise, in New England colonies, 441

    Franklin, Benjamin, 433; scorns alchemy, 126 n

    —— James, brother of Benjamin, his course as publisher of New England Courant, 433

    Frederick III (d 1659), Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, 129; correspondent of J. Winthrop, Jr., 131, 131 n

    Freeholders, in New England colonies, proportion of, 441, 441 n

    Freeman’s oath, 51, 54 n, 82

    Freeport, Me., Indian name of, 339 n

    French, Dr. John (d 1657), dedicates book to R. Child, 102, 102 n

    Fresh River, Dutch name for the Connecticut, 163, 163 n

    Fuchs, Georg Friedrich Christian, 137

    Gage, Gen. Thomas, summons House of Representatives to meet at Salem, 437; interdicts town-meetings, 440

    Gale, Edmund, 316; land grant to, 1688, 333

    Galilei, Galileo, 178

    Gannett, Rev. Ezra Stiles, letter of Rev. C. Lowell to, 277

    Garbet, Dr. ——, 93, 98

    Gardener, Henry, quoted, on treatment of Church of England men, in Massachusetts, 31

    Gardiner, Robert Hallowell, A.B., on Committee on Memorials, 231

    —— Samuel Rawson, 235 n

    Gary, Nathaniel, 298, 298 n

    Gaston, William Alexander, 418 n

    Gavius of Consa, 81

    Gay, Frederick Lewis, his knowledge of R. Child’s work, 108

    Gedney, Bartholomew (d 1698), 328 n; land grant to, 1688, 328

    Geer, Laurence de, son of Ludwig de, 160

    —— Ludwig de, 160; agent of Swedish government in negotiation with Comenius, 150, 150 n, 166

    Geese, legend that barnacles develop into, 115, 116

    Gendall, Walter (d 1688), 296, 311 n, 332, 338 n, 339, 340, 347; land grant to, 1687, 311; 1688, 329, 338

    George II, King of England, 290 n

    George III, King of England, 445

    Gessman, Gustav W., his account of Philalethes, 145

    Gibbons, Edward, connection of, with second trial of the Remonstrants of 1646, 55, 55 n

    Gifford, John, 65 n; manager of iron works, 12, 13, 13 n, 14; one of thirteen petitioners to the Council for Foreign Plantations, 1661, 67, 67 n; various projects of, 67 n

    Gilbert, William, land grant to, 1688, 347

    Gillam, Benjamin, 16 n

    Gilman, Arthur, quoted, on book by Comenius in Gilman family, 182 n

    —— Joseph (d 1823), 182 n

    —— Rev. Nicholas (d 1748), 182 n

    Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 178

    Gloucester, recalls representative, 1644, 425; this action not sustained by General Court, 425

    Godfrey, Edward, Governor of Maine, one of thirteen petitioners to the Council for Foreign Plantations, 1661, 67, 67 n

    Goffe, William, regicide, service of Fisher family to, 449–451

    Gold, transmutation of other metals into. See Transmutation of metals

    Golding, Rev. William, 33, 34 n

    Goodenow, John, of Needham, 452

    Goodwin, Rev. John (d 1665), a leader of Independency, 21, 21 n

    —— William Watson, 333 n

    Gookin, Daniel (d 1687), his account of J. Jacoomis and C. Cheeshahteaumuck, 187–189

    Goose livers, R. Child’s opinion of, as a delicacy, 6

    Gordon, Rev. William, quoted, on town-meetings, 417

    Gore, John (d 1705), 303 n; warrants to, for survey of land grants, 303–305

    Gorton, Samuel, references to his quarrel with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 19, 25, 30, 44, 44 n, 45, 46 n, 47, 48, 49, 64, 65, 66; Maj. J. Child’s opinion of, 46; appeals to Commissioners for Plantations, 79, 80

    Goshen, in 1811, instructs representatives, 446

    Governor’s Ring, mountain, East Haddam, Ct., 127, 128, 169 n

    Grahame, James, quoted, on transfer of R. Vines’s interest in Saco patent to R. Child, 16 n, 65 n; on intolerance in colonial times, 85 n

    Gray, Morris, LL.B., 404; elected Resident Member, 1; accepts, 231

    Greason, Robert, 348, 348 n

    Great Britain. See England

    Green, Samuel Swett, A.M., tribute to, 404

    —— Timothy (d 1763), partnership of, with S. Kneeland, 290 n

    Greene, John, associate of S. Gorton, 44

    —— Nathaniel, 356

    Greenough, Chester Notes, Ph. D., on Nominating Committee, 231, 408; his paper, John Dunton Again, 232–251

    Greenwich, R. I., name changed to Deptford, 1686, 295 n

    Greville, Robert, second Baron Brooke, with Lord Saye and Sele commissions J. Winthrop, Jr., to found and govern a colony in Connecticut, 159, 164; correspondent of Winthrop, 178

    Gross, Pastor, alleged transmutation of tin and mercury into gold, in presence of, 134, 134 n, 144

    Gruterus, Janus, 193

    Guise, Charles de Lorraine, Duke of, 176 n

    Hadley, refuge of regicides, 450

    Hale, Rev. Edward Everett (H. C. 1839), 156 n

    Hales, John Groves, his survey of Boston, 1814, 252

    Hammersmith, iron works at, 12, 14

    Hammond, Franklin Tweed, 409

    Hampton, N. H., instructs representative, 1655, 416

    Hancock, Belcher (d 1771), son of Nathaniel (d 1755), 383 n, 384 n, 385 n; elected tutor at Harvard College, 383

    —— Gov. John, 285 n, 419; Bible said to have been possessed by, printed in Boston, 1752, not discoverable, 285, 286; Harvard College record books carried off by, 392 n; restored about 1862, 392 n

    —— Lydia (Henchman), wife of Thomas, uncle of Gov. John, 285 n

    —— Thomas, uncle of Gov. John, 285 n

    Hanover, Va., Sunday school established in, 1785, 262 n

    Hanson, Alexander Contee, opposes right to instruct representatives, 443

    —— Rev. Harold Libby, 276 n; quoted, on Sunday school of the First Baptist Church in Charlestown, 275

    Hanus, Paul Henry, 182 n; quoted, on Comenius, 148; doubts offer of presidency of Harvard College to him, 151; quoted, on use of his text-books in America, 179; on Harvard College customs, about 1731, 186

    Harding, Capt. Thomas, 33, 33 n; sent against Narragansett Indians, 1645, 44 n

    Harris, John, land grant to, 1688, 342

    Harriseket, Indian name of Freeport, Me., 339 n

    Harte, Rev. Walter, 107 n; commends R. Child’s Large Letter concerning English Husbandry, 105

    Hartlib, Samuel, 98 n, 115, 116, 120 n, 172, 172 n, 176; friend of R. Child, 1, 98, 175 n; his Legacie: or Discourse of Husbandry, including R. Child’s Large Letter, 5, 6 n, 103, 103 n, 107, 107 n, 108, 108 n, 109; letter of, to Child, urging his consideration of Irish natural history and husbandry, 108, 115; quoted, on death of A. Boate, 119; desires Child and R. Boyle to continue G. Boate’s Naturall History of Ireland, 119, 122, 122 n, 166 n, 175; Sir J. Clotworthy’s interest in, 159 n; letter of, to J. Winthrop, Jr., cited, 160 n; letter of, to J. Pell, quoted, 161 n; association of, with Comenius, 165, 166, 171; friend of J. Winthrop, Jr., 171, 172, 174, 177, 178; of J. Davenport, 172, 174; of Sir K. Digby, 175 n; quoted, on Comenius, 176; sends book by Comenius to J. Davenport, 180; issues English translation of book by Comenius, 184

    Harvard, Rev. John, owned book by Comenius, 179; catalogue of his library, by A. C. Potter, 190–227; only one or two books now extant, 192, 204, 206; character of his books, 192; list of authors, editors, etc., mentioned in catalogue, 228–230; relatives of Harvard victims of the plague 1625, 212; a play among his books, acted while he was a student at Cambridge, 220

    Harvard College, C. Mather’s statement that presidency of, was offered to J. A. Comenius, 146; this not mentioned in the college histories, 147; President Dunster’s resignation, 1654, 146, 152, 153, 154; C. Chauncy inaugurated, 1654, 147, 154; New Haven Colony contributes to support of, 170 n; often referred to as “the college,” 170 n; first LL.D. granted by, 1773, 177 n; text-books by Comenius perhaps used in, 179; original record of books given by J. Harvard, 190; water-color view of, about 1807, exhibited by W. Lincoln, 257; print of this view in the College Library, 257; record book destroyed in fire of 1764, 365 n; low condition of, in 1672, 369; London ministers interested in, and recommend L. Hoar for President, 369 n; punishments used at and power of punishment, 376; water-color view of, by H. d’Orgemont, 1795, exhibited by W. C. Lane, 410

    —— Board of Overseers, 152; elects C. Chauncy President, 1654, 147, 153, 154; accepts President Dunster’s resignation, 153, 154; composition of first board and its reorganization, 167; powers given to, by General Court, 168; action of, on President’s salary, 1672, 365 n; question of election of L. Hoar as President by, 367–370; act of General Court, 1810, reorganizing the board, repealed, 1812, 371–372; powers of, 376, 384, 386, 387

    —— Catalogues, notes on, 366 n, 373 n

    —— Charters: some provisions of the charter of 1650, 167, 367; A. Matthews’s paper, The Harvard College Charter of 1672, 363‒402; this charter first mentioned in College publications in 1812, 370–371; statements of the Corporation regarding the charters, 371–372; quotations from Peirce, Quincy, and others declaring that the charter of 1672 was not recorded by the College, was without validity, etc., 373‒375; summary of points asserted, 375; these points answered, 375–388; ten copies of the charter of 1672 described, 388–391; error of historians regarding it, 391; purpose of this charter, 393; draught of charter of 1672 reproduced, 394; text of charters of 1650 and 1672, 395‒402

    —— Corporation, 168; provisions of charter of 1650 concerning, 167, 367; members of, 1672, 368; question of election of L. Hoar as President by, 367‒370; statement of, 1812, concerning charters of the college, 371; appoints committee to defend rights of the College before the General Court, 1812, 371; publishes pamphlet, The Constitution of the University, 1812, 372, 372 n; powers of, under various charters, 375‒377, 386, 387; official name of, not clearly fixed in early times, 378, 378 n; number of members of, 379; vote of, regarding preservation of college documents, 392 n; right of, to elect presidents, 393; members of, 1692‒1700, appointed by General Court, 393

    —— Fellows, care of the college committed to, in interim of presidencies, 1654, 153, 154; early position of, 168; names of, 1672, 368; grading of, 370 n

    —— Harvard Hall, T. Dawes’s receipts for work on, 419 n

    —— Laws, extract from earliest code of, 376

    —— Library, books by Comenius in, 179, 184‒186; J. Harvard’s books bequeathed to, remarks on, and catalogue of, by A. C. Potter, 190‒227; catalogue of library published, 1723, 191; destruction by fire, 1764, 192, 206; the Fearing Collection on angling, 250

    —— President, salary of, 1672, 365, 365 n, 374

    —— Widener Memorial Building, book given by J. Harvard the first carried into, 206

    Hastings, Jonathan (H. C. 1730), 258 n Hathorne, William (d 1681), 65 n; promoter of fur trading company, 1645, 16 n

    Havers, George, translator of the Viaggi of Pietro della Valle, 234, 234 n

    Haversham, a name sometimes wrongly given to Feversham, R. I., 259 n

    Hawkins, Capt. Thomas (d 1648), 34 n

    Haynes, George Henry, Ph. D., 115

    Hayward, William, 256‒257

    Helbig, Johann Otto von, 136 n; cited, on the Philalethes tracts, 136; passage quoted, in Dr. S. Bellingham’s translation, 136 n

    Helmont, Jan Baptista van, 119, 128 n; alchemist, 129, 144; correspondent of J. Winthrop, Jr., 178, 179

    Helvetius, Johann Friedrich, 143; his alchemical work, and tract, The Golden Calf, 132

    Henchman, Daniel (d 1761), 285, 285 n

    —— Lydia, daughter of Daniel (d 1761). See Hancock

    Henshaw, Samuel, A.M., 250 n

    Hertodt, Johann Ferdinand. See Todtenfeld, Johann Ferdinand Hertodt von

    Hewes, Joshua, 15 n

    Heydon, John, practices astromancy and geomancy, 125, 125 n

    Higginson, Henry Lee, LL.D., death of, xv, 405

    Hill, Col. Arthur, son of Sir Moyses, Irish landowner and friend of R. Child, 121–123

    —— Hamilton Andrews, quoted, on the Boston Society for the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Poor, 268

    —— Hannah, active in organizing a Sunday school in Beverly, 1810, 265 n

    —— Sir Moyses, 121

    —— Richard writes to J. Winthrop, Jr., on black lead in New England, 114

    —— Valentine (d 1662), 15 n

    Hillsborough, Viscounts and Earls of, descendants of Col. Arthur Hill, 121 n

    Hinckes, John, 305 n; land grant to, 1687, 305

    Hingham, troubles incident to a military election at, 17 n, and petition sent to England, 1645, 25, 26

    Hoar, Rev. Leonard, President of Harvard College, 363 n, 378 n, 391, 396, 401, 402; questions connected with his administration, 363; sketch of, 363; invited to ministry of Old South Church, but released to accept presidency of Harvard College, 363, 365; his election and inauguration, 364, 366, 366 n, 367, 374; his salary, 365; quoted, on accepting the position, 366, 369; question of the manner of his election, 364, 367‒370; difficulties confronting him and his probable desire for, and work upon, a new charter, 1672, 374, 393; handwriting of, 391 n

    Hobart. See also Hubbard

    —— Joshua, brother of Rev. Peter (d 1679), 38 n, 55 n

    —— Rev. Peter (d 1679), practice of, concerning baptism, 24, 24 n; takes part in quarrel about a military election in Hingham and joins in petition to England, 1645, 25, 26, 35; refuses to observe fast day appointed in December, 1646, 36

    —— Peter (d 1879), 271 n; cited, on early history of Park Street Church and Sunday school, 270 n

    Hogg, Daniel, land grant to, 1688, 326

    Hogg Island, Mass., land grants on, 1688, 360

    Hog Island, Me., grant of, to V. Ellicott, 1688, 326

    Holden, Randall, associate of S. Gorton, 44, 79, 80; manifesto of, quoted, 80 n

    Hollman, John, land grant to, 1688, 343

    Holyoke, Rev. Edward, President of Harvard College, 379; statement of, concerning storage of N. Prince’s goods, 383 n

    Hook, Rev. William (d 1677), 172, 172 n

    Hooke, Francis (d 1694), marriage of, 57 n

    —— Mary (Maverick) Palsgrave, wife of Francis (d 1694), petition of, to Andros, 57, 57 n

    Hooker, Rev. Thomas (d 1647), 74 n, invited to England to advance cause of the Independents, 73

    Hopkins, Ann, wife of Gov. Edward, 27 n

    —— Edward, Governor of Connecticut, 27 n, 41, 169 n

    Horace, quoted, 182 n

    Horr, Rev. George Edwin, quoted, on Sunday school of the First Baptist Church of Charlestown, 276

    Housing, Peter (d c 1673), 338, 338 n

    —— Peter, son of Peter (d c 1673), land grant to, 1688, 337

    Howard, Robert, 256

    —— William. See Hayward, William

    Howchin, Jeremy (d 1670), 13

    Howell, John, land grant to, 1688, 318

    Howes, Edward, 15, 15 n; friend of J. Winthrop, Jr., and student of alchemy, 126, 129, 174

    Hubbard. See also Hobart

    —— William, member of fur trading company, 1645, 16 n

    —— Rev. William (d 1704), son of William, 17 n

    Hull, John, quoted, on L. Hoar’s invitation to Old South Church, Boston, and his appointment as President of Harvard College, 365; represents several towns while resident of Boston, 431

    Humfrey, John (d 1651), 8, 167 n, 175 n; letter of, to J. Winthrop, Jr., quoted, 166 n

    Hungerford, Sir Edward, 236 n

    —— Lady Margaret, wife of Sir Edward, 236 n

    Hunnewell, Richard, 318 n; land grant to, 1688, 318

    Huntington, Rev. Joshua, 268 n; president of the Boston Society for the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Poor, 268

    Husbands, Maj. Azariah, 94 n; puts down insurrection in Kent, Eng., 1648, 94

    Hutchinson, Anne, 40

    —— Edward (d 1752), 381, 381 n

    —— Gov. Thomas, 17 n, 41 n, 370; quoted, on R. Child’s medical studies, 5; on L. Hoar, 367; on Harvard College, 379, 379 n; on J. Dudley, 432

    Hyde, Edward, first Earl of Clarendon, 178; cited, on S. Maverick, 68

    Independents, struggle of, with Presbyterians, for control of England, 3, 72–74; Maj. J. Child and R. Baillie quoted on, 87. See also Presbyterians

    Indian corn, J. Winthrop, Jr., sends gift of, to S. Hartlib, 171

    Indians: at Harvard College, 186–189; order of General Court for religious instruction of, 1644, 259; Sunday school for, on Martha’s Vineyard, perhaps first in the new world, 260, 261

    —— Chackamuck. See Kewegue

    —— Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb (H. C. 1665), 186 n; sketch of, 187–189

    —— Hiacooms. See Jacoms

    —— Jacoms (Hiacooms, Iacomoes), 187, 187 n; teaches Sunday school for Indians at Martha’s Vineyard, 1660, 260; C. Mather quoted on, 260 n

    —— Jacoomis (Jacoms), Joel, son of Jacoms, 186 n, 260 n; autograph of, 186; student at Harvard College, 187; D. Gookin’s account of, 187–189

    —— Kewegue, land bought of, 300 n

    —— Mamanewatt, land bought of, 299 n

    —— Mohawks (Maquaes), 158 n

    —— Mohicans, 158 n

    —— Narragansett tribe, trouble with, 1645, 44 n

    —— Tacomus, gives land to J. Winthrop, 334 n

    —— Wompatuck, Josias, 302

    Ingersoll, George, 317 n, 321 n, 343 n, 344 n, 347 n; land grant to, 1688, 343

    —— George (d c 1730), son of George, 321 n, 325; land grant to, 1688, 321

    —— John (d 1716), brother of George, 322, 344 n; land grant to, 1688, 344

    —— Joseph (d 1700), son of George, 322, 343 n, 347 n, 348 n; land grant to, 1688, 347

    —— Samuel, son of George, 317 n; land grant to, 1688, 317

    Ingraham, Joseph Wentworth, his account of Christ Church Sunday school, 273–275, 275 n

    Initiative, in politics, use of, in colonial New England, 411, 423

    Ipswich, instructs deputies never to resign liberties, 429

    Ireland, land of promise for English investors and speculators, in seventeenth century, 120

    Irish forfeited lands, money made and lost in, in seventeenth century, 117, 117 n

    Iron works in Massachusetts, J. Winthrop, Jr., and R. Child interested in, 7, 9, 10, 10 n, 11, 12 n, 15; foundries at Braintree and Lynn, 11, 12, 14; disappointing results, 13–14, 66 n

    Jackson, Andrew, President, 444

    —— John, seaman, 257; and M. Munnings, agreement between, concerning use of a ship, 1659, 254–256; assigns right to C. Clarke, 256, 257

    Jakubec, Jan, 149 n; quoted, on Comenius, 149 n

    James II, King of England, 71, 292

    Jaquith, Harry J., quoted, on Park Street Church and Sunday school, 270 n

    Jeffarel, John. See Gifford, John

    Jefferson, Thomas, President, 445

    Jeffries, ——, manager of iron works in Massachusetts, 12 n

    Jenney, Hon. Charles Francis, LL.B., 409

    Jesuits, in New England, 61, 61 n, 62; their feeling toward New England, 62

    Jocelyn, Abraham, 310, 310 n

    —— Henry, brother of Abraham, 310 n

    Jogand-Pagès, Gabriel Antoine (d 1907), extraordinary hoax of, concerning T. Vaughan, 142, 142 n, 143, 143 n

    Johnson, Alfred, Litt. D., elected Registrar, 408

    —— Capt. Edward (d 1672), 17 n, 85 n; quoted, on iron works at Braintree, 14; on signers of the Remonstrance of 1646, 20

    —— Humphrey, land grant to, 1687, 313

    —— Nathaniel, land grant to, 1688, 359

    Jones, Isaac (d c 1690), 339, 345 n; land grant to, 1688, 345

    —— John (d c 1690), 345 n; land grant to, 1688, 345

    Jordan, Dominicus (d 1703), son of Rev. Robert, 315 n; land grant to, 1688, 315

    —— Rev. Robert (d 1679), 305 n, 315, 315 n

    —— Sarah (Winter), wife of Rev. Robert, 305 n; land grant to, 1687, 305

    Josselyn, John, brother of Abraham Jocelyn, 310 n

    Judkins, Eliza M., 258, 258 n

    Keatinge, Maurice Walter, quoted, on movements of Comenius, 166 n

    Keayne, Anna, daughter of Benjamin. See Paige

    —— Benjamin, son of Robert, 319 n

    —— Robert (d 1656), 13 n, 14, 319, 319 n

    Keayne, Sherman vs., 415

    Keffler, Abraham, friend of J. Winthrop, Jr., 174, 175 n

    —— Dr. John Sibert, friend of J. Winthrop, Jr., 172 n, 174, 175 n, 178

    Kent, Eng., insurrection in, 1648, 93–96, 96 n

    Kepler, Johann, 178, 179

    Kerker, Henry, 157 n

    Kiesewetter, Joannes Augustinus, his account of Philalethes, 145

    Kilkenny, Ireland, project for new academy at, 99

    King’s Province, location of, 293; survey of, ordered, 1687, 294; land grant in, 1687, 295. See also Nanagansett Country

    Kingsbury, Frederick John, quoted, on C. Mather, 169 n

    Kingston, R. I., name changed to Rochester, 1686, 295 n

    Kinsley, Steven, connection of, with second trial of the Remonstrants of 1646, 55, 55 n

    Kirby, Francis, letter of, to J. Winthrop, Jr., quoted, 164 n

    Kircher, Rev. Athanasius, his fantastic theory of barnacles and geese, 116

    Kirkland, Rev. John Thornton, President of Harvard College, 258 n, 371; with T. Parsons, prepares pamphlet, The Constitution of the University, 372 n

    Kittery, Me., land grant in, 1687, 307

    Kittredge, George Lyman, LL.D., 174, 175 n, 176 n, 178 n; his paper, Dr. Robert Child the Remonstrant, 1–146; quoted, on inscription by I. Mather, 182 n

    Kneeland, Samuel (d 1769), partnership of, with T. Green, 290 n

    Kneeland & Green, alleged printing of Bible by, at Boston, about 1752, 285, 286 n, 289, 291, 292

    Knowles, Rev. John, reference to letter of, 1671, to Overseers of Harvard College, 369 n; recommended for presidency, 369 n

    Kopp, Hermann, quoted, on Philalethes, 141

    Lake, Rev. Kirsopp, 409

    —— Thomas, 171

    Lake discovery, 15, 16

    Lamb, George, his map of Boston, 251

    Lambarde, William (d 1601), his Justice, 213

    Lambert, William G., superintends Sunday school in West Boston, 278 n

    Lamp-lighters, majority in a Boston town-meeting, 447

    Lancaster, iron mine at, 15

    Land warrants, issued by Gov. Andros, 1687–1685, 292–361; list of grantees and locations, 362

    Landholders, proportion of, in New England colonies, 441, 441 n

    Lane, James, 281

    —— John, land grant to, 1688, 323

    —— Mary (Wellington), wife of James, 281, 281 n

    —— Oliver Wellington, son of James, 283 n; his Sunday school, at Boston, 1791, 280; sketch of, 281, 281 n; obituary notice of, 282

    —— Susanna (Newman), wife of Oliver Wellington, 281

    —— William Coolidge, A.B., 5 n; describes print in Harvard College Library, from water-color view of the college, about 1807, 257; exhibits water-color view of Harvard College, made by H. d’Orgemont, 1795, 410

    Lange, Johann, 134

    Lanman, Charles Rockwell, LL.D., 404

    La Tour, Mme., suit of, against Alderman Barclay, of London, 29 n

    Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 8, 142

    Launce, Mary. See Sherman

    Lawrence, Robert (d 1690), 308 n; land grant to, 1687, 308

    Layes, Martha, 358

    Lead mines in Massachusetts, 92, 92 n, 99, 112–115; R. Child quoted on, 113

    Leader, Richard, comes to Massachusetts as manager of iron works, 11, 12, 12 n, 13 n; R. Child confined in house of, 1646, 41, 71; represents Child in financial matters, 60, 61, 61 n, 92, 92 n; interest of, in Ireland: 120; residences of, in Massachusetts, 120 n

    Leane, Henry, land grant to, 1688, 345

    —— Job, land pant to, 1688, 345

    —— John, land grant to, 1688, 345

    —— Samuel, land grant to, 1688, 345

    Leatherby, Thomas, land grant to, 1688, 326

    Lee, Arthur (d 1792), 436

    —— Henry, cited, on legend of geese and barnacles, 116

    —— Rev. Samuel (d 1691), 180

    Lenglet-Dufresnoy, Nicolas, 143; quoted, on Philalethes, 141, 141 n

    Lenox, James, 286

    Leonard, John, son of Solomon, land grant to, 1679, 299 n

    —— Samuel, son of Solomon, land grant to, 1679, 299 n

    —— Solomon, 299 n

    Leverett, Gov. John, 33, 67, 67 n, 369 n

    —— John, President of Harvard College, 378, 381 n, 389, 393, 399; marriage of, 183 n; quoted, on controversy concerning claims of N. Sever and W. Welsteed to seats in Harvard College Corporation, 380; on the College charter of 1672, 388; his Diary, 388, 392; identification of, 389 n

    —— Margaret (Rogers) Berry, wife of President John, 183, 183 n

    Lewis, Isaac, 319

    Libbey, Daniel, 326 n; land grant to, 1688, 326

    —— David, brother of Daniel, 326 n; land grant to, 1688, 326

    —— Henry, brother of Daniel, 326 n; land grant to, 1688, 326

    —— John, brother of Daniel, 326 n; land grant to, 1688, 326

    —— Matthew, brother of Daniel, 326 n; land grant to, 1688, 326

    Liberty of conscience, not sympathized with by colonial Congregationalists, or by Presbyterians or Episcopalians of the time, 23, 88, 80 n

    Lidgett, Charles (d 1698), 296 n, 361; land grants to, 1687, 296, 298

    Lime, making of, in New England, 105

    Lincoln, Nathan, 411

    —— Waldo, A.B., exhibits water-color view of Harvard College, about 1807, 257

    Lindsey, Theophilus (d 1808), 264 n

    Liquor, various materials used for, as observed by R. Child, in his travels, 110

    Lissa, Poland, sack of, 1656, 160, 161 n

    Little Chebeag, island, Me., 306, 306 n

    Little Compton, R. I., incorporation of, 299 n; land grant in, 1687, 299

    Livermore, George, on printing of Bibles in America before the Revolution, 286, 286 n

    Loftus, Adam, first Viscount Loftus of Ely, with the Earl of Cork, destroys St. Patrick’s Purgatory, 115, 116

    Longmeadow, vote of, 1808, concerning Embargo Law, 445 n

    Lord’s Supper, quarrels over right to partake of, 22, 22 n; time of celebrating, 153

    Loring, Charles Greely (d 1867), 380 n

    Losers, proverb concerning, 66, 66 n

    Lothrop, Thomas, connection of, with second trial of the Remonstrants of 1646, 55, 55 n, 56, 56 n

    Louis XIV, King of France, 423

    Lowell, Rev. Charles (d 1861), 278, 278 n; letter of, to E. S. Gannett, on Sunday school of West Church, Boston, 277

    —— John (H. C. 1786), brother of Rev. Charles (d 1861), 371 n; on committee to defend rights of Harvard College before the General Court, 1812, 371

    —— John, A.B., elected Resident Member, 231, 404

    Lower Clapboard Island, Me., 351

    Loyalists, Boston’s feeling toward, 439; An American quoted on, 439 n

    Lucerne, a forage plant, 109, 109 n

    Lützow, Frantešek, Count, 149 n, 150 n; quoted, on Comenius, 149, 150

    Lynde, Joseph (d 1727), 355 n; land grant to, 1688, 355

    —— Simon (d 1687), 294 n; land grant to, 1687, 294

    Lynn, iron works at, 12, 60, 61

    Maccamboy, 115

    McKee, Thomas Jefferson, owned Bible claimed to be the Mark Baskett Bible of 1752, described by I. Thomas, 286, 287–289

    Mader, Wilhelmus, 74 n

    Madiver, Joel (d 1703), 331, 349 n; land grant to, 1688, 349

    Magunco (Magaguncock) Hill. See Ashland

    Maine, John, 338 n

    Msine’s Point, Me., 338, 338 n

    Mallet, John, 101 n

    Manchaog Farm, grant of, to J. Dudley, 1688, 314

    Mandates. See New England Town Mandates

    Manget, Johann Jakob, 134 n, 136

    Marblehead, founding of, 412

    Marsh, Thomas (H. C. 1731), 383 n, 354 n, 385 n

    Marshall, Chief-Justice John, opinion of, on Remonstrance of 1646, 76 n

    —— William, English engraver, 235 n

    Martha’s Vineyard, Christian Indians on, 187; Sunday school for them, 1660, 260, 261

    Marvin, William Theophilus Rogers, 46 n, 88 n; his treatment of the Remonstrance of 1646, 17 n; quoted, on R. Child, 39 n

    Maryland, election law of 1716, 422 n; Senate, refuses to obey mandate of constituencies, 1786, 443

    Mason, Jonathan, 281

    —— Thaddeus (d 1802), 452, 453

    Massachusetts, first use of referendum in, 1641, 424; later we, 425; annual elections in, 426; Excise Bill, 1754, 433–436

    —— Colony, contest of, with the Remonstrants, 1646, 2

    —— Colony Charter, vacated, 1684, 292, 429, 430; provisions of, for sessions of General Court, and its powers, 411

    —— Constitution of 1780, 425; Provides for instructing representatives, 427, 442, 443

    —— General Court, grants monopoly for iron works to J. Winthrop, Jr., and others, 12; issues call for subscriptions, 13; declares works not likely to continue and grants other privileges, 14, 15; grants monopoly for beaver trade, 15; recommends a synod of the New England churches, 19, 22 n; appoints committee to arrange the laws, 20; other measures which may have been influenced by the Remonstrance of 1646, 20; appoints a fast day, 1616, as a reproof of the Remonstrants, 36; tries the Remonstrants, 37–39; tries them a second time for conspiracy against the government, 50–56; order of, on resignation of H. Dunster as President of Harvard College, 152, 168; takes important part in early management of the College, 167; Overseers of, appointed by, 1654, 167 n; order of, for religious instruction of Indians, 1644, 259; 1672, concerning salary of President of Harvard College, 365; fills vacancies in Harvard Corporation, 370; orders to be laid before it the charter of the college, with all laws, regulations, etc., 371; repeals, 1812, act of 1810, reorganizing Board of Overseers, 371–372; grants powers to Overseers, 1642, 376; to Corporation, 1650, 1656, 1657, 1672, 377; laws of, relating to Harvard College, 387; general powers of, as granted by Colony charter, 411; in 1641 asks towns to instruct deputies, 414; establishment of two houses in, 1642, 415; does not sustain recall of representative by town of Gloucester, 425; passes Excise Bill, 1754, 433–435; orders referendum on ratification of Articles of Confederation, 438

    —— House Journal, publication of, 432

    —— Province Charter, franchise provision of, 441

    —— Provincial Congress, 437

    Massachusetts Historical Society, owns Bible containing memoranda by I. Mather, 181 n

    Massachusetts Sabbath School Union, report of, 1830, quoted, 270 n

    Massereene, Viscount. See Clotworthy, Sir John

    Mather, Cotton, son of Rev. Increase, 106, 112, 147 n, 150 n, 151, 154 n, 168, 169, 169 n, 170 n, 171 n, 173 n, 179, 183 n, 367 n; his tribute to the alchemical knowledge of J. Winthrop, Jr., 127; states that presidency of Harvard College was offered by J. Winthrop, Jr., to J. A. Comenius, 146, 154, 155; sole authority for this tradition, 148 n, 150, 150 n; possible explanation of it, 154–168; errors in his Magnalia perhaps due to printer, 154 n, 364 n.; imitates title of work by Comenius, 155, 155 n, 190; his intimacy with Winthrop family, 168, 168 n; quoted, on J. Norton’s letter to J. Durie, about 1661, 172 n; quoted, on Hiacoms, 260 n; on use of intermission between Sunday services, 262 n; quoted, on L. Hoar’s election to presidency of Harvard College, and inauguration, 364, 366, 367

    —— Rev. Increase, son of Rev. Richard, 168, 190 n; sends to his father, 1661, book by Comenius, 180; facsimile of inscriptions in the book, 181; handwriting of, 181 n; cites Comenius, 189; addresses Boston town-meeting, 1684, on surrender of the colony charter, 429

    —— Rev. Richard, 147, 168; appointed by Overseers of Harvard College to confer with C. Chauncy concerning the presidency, 153, 154; book by Comenius presented to, 1661, 180; cites Comenius, 189

    —— Rev. Samuel (d 1671), son of Rev. Richard, 395

    —— Rev. Samuel, son of Rev. Cotton, 183 n; quoted, on letters of J. Norton and J. Davenport to J. Durie, 173 n; cites Comenius, 190

    Matthews, Albert, A.B., 411, 451 n; his paper, Comenius and Harvard College, 146–190; his paper, Early Sunday Schools in Boston, 259–285, 451; his paper, The Harvard College Charter of 1672, 363–402

    Maverick, Mary, daughter of Samuel. See Hooke

    —— Nathaniel, son of Samuel, Noddle’s Island deeded to, 57, 57 n

    —— Samuel, 8, 32, 51, 54 n, 78 n; a signer of the Remonstrance of 1646, 17, 22, 28; not always law—— abiding, 28 n; charged with being an informant against his country, 29 n; tried, with other Remonstrants, and sentenced, 37, 38; charged with breach of his freeman’s oath, 42; tried a second time, with other Remonstrants, for conspiracy against the government, and sentenced, 50–56, 82 n; transfer of Noddle’s Island in effort to avoid payment of fine, and final payment, 57; petitions General Court for review of his trial, 57–59, 57 n, 58 n; quoted, on exaction of fines from himself and other Remonstrants, 59; paper of, concerning the Remonstrance of 1646, 66; one of thirteen petitioners to the Council for Foreign Plantations, 1661, 67, 67 n; petitions the King, 1663, 68; appointed one of commissioners for regulation of New England flairs, 1664, 68

    Maxson, Rev. John (d 1720), 205 n; land grant to, 1687, 295

    Mayanesit River, 313 n

    Mayhew, Joseph (d 1782), 384 n, 385 n; elected Fellow of Harvard College, 383

    Medal, struck by command of Emperor Ferdinand 111, from alchemic gold, 130

    Medfield, land grant in, 1688, 314

    Medway, instruction of, to deputy, 438

    Mendon, demands repeal of Impost Act, 1784, 438

    Merrill, John Douglass, 409

    Mersenne, Marin, 166, 166 n

    Michelet, Jules, 151

    Middlesex Registry of Deeds, housing of records of, 1776, 452

    Mildmay, Sir Henry, of Wanstead, Essex, Eng., patron of L. Hoar, 363 n

    —— William (H. C. 1647), son of Sir Henry of Wanstead, 363 n

    Milton, John, book of, burned, 21 n; correspondent of J. Winthrop, Jr., 178

    Milton, land grants in, 1688, 356

    Mines in New England, legislation concerning, 1641, 113 n

    Mitchell, Rev. Jonathan (H. C. 1647), Fellow of Harvard College, 396

    Mobby, a liquor, 110

    Mobby-faces, 111

    Moges, islands, Me., 346 n

    Monroe, Will Seymour, 156 n; doubts that presidency of Harvard College was offered to Comenius, 149 n, 151, 167; quoted, on Comenius and the Winthrops, 160 n, 176 n

    Monster of Monsters, The, pamphlet on the Excise Bill, 1754, 1754, 435

    Moore, Rev. George Foot, LL.D., 139 n

    —— Jacob Bailey, error of, concerning date of arrival of E. Winslow in England, 45 n

    Moravians, settlement of, in America, 150, 150 n

    Morgan, Maj. ——, 122 n

    Morgenbesser, Michael, alleged transmutation of lead into silver, in presence of, 133, 134 n, 144

    Morice, Sir William (d 1676), 68

    Morrell, Robert, land grant to, 1688, 350

    Morrice. See Morice

    Morris, Lewis, 422 n

    Morse, Andrem, 451

    —— Dr. Frederic D., 451

    Mortimer, Dr. Cromwell, 179; quoted, on J. Winthrop (H. C. 1700), 131 n; his dedication of Philosophical Transactions, vol. xl, to J. Winthop (d 1747) quoted, 177

    Morton, Thomas, 40

    Mosey, Benjamin, 319

    Mosier, Hugh (d c 1666), 346 n

    —— James, son of Hugh, 346 n

    —— John, son of Hugh, 346 n

    Mosiers Islands, Freeport, Me., 346, 346 n

    Muddy River, early name of Brookline, 298, 298 n

    Munford (Mountfort, Mumford), Benjamin (d 1714), 353, 353 n

    Munings (Mallins), George (d 1658), R. Child confined in house of, 42, 43

    —— Hannah, wife of Mahalaleel, 254, 254 n

    —— Mahalaleel (d 1660), 257; and J. Jackson, agreement between, concerning use of a ship, 1659, 254–256; sketch of, 254 n

    Munroe, James Phinney, quoted, on Comenius, 149

    Munson, Dr. Æneas, interest of, in alchemy, 123

    Muster, Sebastian, 233

    Muret, Marc Antoine, 193

    Mumay, Rev. John (d 1815), 282

    Muscuius, description of, 245

    Muskrat, 106

    Mystic, Ct., iron found at, 15

    Nahant Neck, survey of, ordered, 1688, 354

    Nantucket, shipwreck and murder at, 1665, 188, 188 n

    Narragansett Bay, survey of, ordered, 1688, 315

    Narragansett Country, location of, 293; survey of, ordered, 1687, 294; land grant in, 1687, 295. See also King’s Province

    Nashawake (Lancaster), iron mine at, 15, 15 n

    Natick, 450

    Natimnah (Nasinnah), Little Compton, R. I., 299, 299 n, 300 n

    Native Bostonian, cited, on power of the town-meeting, 447

    Neal, Rev. Daniel, quoted, on J. Goodwin, 21 n

    Needham, establishment of, and first minister, 450

    Negroes, Sunday school for, Boston, 1816, 272, 272 n

    New England Company, 187 n

    New England Town Mandates, paper by K. Colegrove, 411–449; practice of voting mandates to deputies a characteristic of town-meeting system and concurrent with establishment of representative government, 411–414; earliest evidence of town instructions, 414–416; procedure for voting instructions, 417; a typical 18th century Boston election, 418–421; corporate capacity of New England toms as giving authority to instructions, and comparison with conditions in middle and southern colonies and in England, 421–423; initiative and referendum, 423–425; recall, 425–427; specific examples of mandates, 427–431; publicity given to proceedings of General Court a means of ensuring fidelity to mandates, 431–433; infidelity to instructions charged in case of Excise Bill of 1754, 433–436; importance of the mandate system during the American Revolution, 436–440; the town-meeting a school of politics, 440; extent of the franchise in colonial New England, 441; right to instruct representatives declared in many state constitutions, 442–444; decline and disappearance of the town mandate, 444–449; late instance of use of, 449 n

    New-England’s Jonas, naming of, 35

    Newgate, Nathaniel, 360 n; land grant to, 1688, 360

    New Hampshire Gazette, 290

    New Haven, Ct., a college projected at, 1648–1660, 169, 169 n, 170 n

    New Haven Colony, contributes to support of Harvard College, 170 n

    New London, Ct., Fishers Island, 173

    Newman, Susanna. See Lane

    New Roxbury, Ct., land grants in, 1688, 359; name changed to Woodstock, 359 n

    Newspapers in colonial Massachusetts, 432

    Newton, Sir Isaac, 178

    —— Thomas, land grant to, 1688, 358

    Newton, in 1689, instructs its deputy to demand more liberal franchise, 416

    New York Society Library, owns books by Comenius, 189, 189 n

    Nichols, Charles Lemuel, M.D., Litt. D., his paper, Is there a Mark Baskett Bible of 1752? 285–292

    —— John, 339, 341

    Nicholson, John, 348, 348 n

    —— Robert, brother of John, 348 n; land grant to, 1688, 348

    Niell (Nielld, Niles), Samuel, 336 n; land grant to, 1688, 336

    Nipmug (Nipmuck) Country, location of, 293; land grants in, 1687, 304; 1688, 313, 314, 334, 361

    Nonsuch Farm, Scarborough, Me., granted to S. Jordan and J. Hinckes, 305

    Nonsuch marshes, Me., 346

    Nope, island. See Martha’s Vineyard

    North Carolina, Declaration of Rights, 1776, 442

    North Yarmouth, Me., land grants in, 1687, 296, 311; 1688, 338, 339, 343, 345, 347; refugees from Eleuthera in, 339 n

    Norton, Francis, member of fur trading company, 1644, 15 n

    —— Rev. John (d 1663), 74 n, 183 n; appointed by Overseers of Harvard College to confer with C. Chauncy concerning the presidency, 147, 153, 154; Overseer of Harvard College, 167 n; letter of, for New England clergy, to J. Durie, 172 n, 173 n

    —— Rev. John (H. C. 1671), nephew of Rev. John (d 1663), 183 n

    —— John, unidentified, autograph of, 183

    Norwich, Ct., First Church, catechizing of children in, 261

    Novák, J., quoted, on Comenius, 150 n

    Nowell, Alexander (d 1672), brother of Samuel (d 1688), 370; Fellow of Harvard College, 368, 369, 369 n; his funeral oration on C. Chauncy, 370; death of, 370

    —— Samuel (d 1688), 353

    Noyes, James Atkins, A.B., on Nominating Committee, 231

    Oakes, Rev. Urian, President of Harvard College, his funeral sermon on C. Chauncy, 369; named as a Fellow of Harvard College in charter of 1672, 396, 396 n, 401

    Ockman, John, 339

    Ocland, Christopher, his Anglorum Prælia appointed by Queen Elizabeth to be used in schools, 193

    O’Connor, Rev. Daniel, 116

    Oldenburg, Henry (d 1677), 173 n, 178

    Orgemont, Houdin d’, his water-color view of Harvard College, 1795, exhibited, 410; sketch of, 410

    Orrery, Earl of. See Boyle, Roger

    Otis, James (d 1783), 24, 419

    —— John, 24; will of, 26 n

    —— Margaret, daughter of John. See Burton

    Omen, Thomas, 28 n

    Oxenstiern, Count Axel, 149; invites Comenius to Sweden, 147, 155, 166

    Oxford, represented by non-resident deputy, 432 n

    Padua. Italy, University of. Confers degree on R. Child, 5, 5 n

    Paget, Rev. John, 74 n

    Paige, Anna (Keayne), wife of Nicholas (d 1717), 319, 360 n

    —— Nicholas (d 1717), 319 n, 360; land grant to, 1688, 319

    Paine, John, 257

    Painter, Stephen, 101 n

    Palfrey, Rev. John Gorham (d 1881), 2; his treatment of the Remonstrance of 1646, 17 n; quoted, on L. Hoar, and the Harvard College charter of 1672, 374

    Palmer, John, 174, 174 n

    Palsgrave, John, marriage of, 57 n

    —— Mary (Maverick), wife of John. See Hooke

    Papists, fear of, in New England, 62

    Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus, 119, 132

    Pareus, David, 230 n

    Parish, ——, 62

    Park, Rev. Charles Edwards, D.D., Annual Report of Council, presented on behalf of, 403; elected Corresponding Secretary, 408

    Parker, ——, 54

    —— Rev. Henry Ainsworth A.M., tribute to, 405

    —— John, of Gravesend, Eng., 97

    —— Samuel, of Needham, 1737, 452

    Parmenter, Hon. James Parker, LL.B., 404

    Parsons, ——, 302

    —— Chief Justice Theophilus, with Pres. Kirkland, prepares pamphlet, The Constitution of the University at Cambridge, 372 n

    Patershall, Robert, 120 n

    Paucatuck Neck, Westerly, R. I., land grant at, 1687, 294, 294 n

    Paul, Rev. Thomas, quoted, on Sunday school for colored children, 272 n

    Paulling, Matthew, 340 n; land grant to, 1688, 340

    Pawtucket, R. I., earliest Sunday school in New England claimed for, 265, 275 n, 276 n

    Payne, Henry, instigates charges against Maj. J. Child, 97

    —— Robert, connection of, with second trial of the Remonstrants of 1646, 55, 55 n, 56

    —— William, 16 n, 120 n

    —— William Harold, quoted, on offer of presidency of Harvard College to Comenius, 148

    Payson, Giles 298, 298 n

    Peirce, Benjamin (d 1831), quoted, on Harvard College charter of 1672, 373; his statements answered, 378, 382

    Pelham, Herbert, 33; petition of, to General Court, 1646, 33 n; quoted, on progress of colonial matters, in London, 45 n; on E. Window’s conduct of the case of the Massachusetts Bay Colony against the petitioners of 1646, 66

    —— William, connection of, with second trail of the Remonstrants of 1646, 55, 55 n, 56

    Pelham, instructs representative, 1821, 446

    Pell, Daniel, 250; his Improvement of the Sea borrowed from by J. Dunton, 235, 235 n, 236 n, 237–240, 243, 244, 247–249; his identity uncertain, 236 n

    —— Rev. John, 166 n; quoted, on losses of Comenius in sack of Lissa, Poland, 160 n: friend of J. Winthrop, Jr., 161 n, 178

    —— John, son of Rev. John. 161 n

    —— Thomas, brother of Rev. John, sketch of, 161 n

    Pemberton, Thomas (d 1807), 280; appeal of, for establishment of Sunday schools in Boston, 279

    Pendleton, Brian, connection of, with second trial of the Remonstrants of 1646, 55, 55 n, 56

    Penly, Sampson, 331

    Pennsylvania, Constitution and Declaration of Rights, 1776, 442

    Pentograph, invention of Sir W. Petty, 98, 98 n

    Pepper, Jacob, 298

    Percival, James Gates, 183

    Perkins, Rev. William (d 1602), 262 n

    Perry, R. Child quoted on making of, 5 n

    Persius, works of, 218

    Peters (Peter), Rev. Hugh, Overseer of Harvard College, 8, 10 n, 61 n, 175 n; quoted, on R. Child, 16; on persecution in the Massachusetts colony, 29 n, 30 n; G. Firmin’s opinion of, 30 n; quoted, on right of appeal, 45 n

    —— Rev. Thomas, brother of Rev. Hugh, 93 n; fears to sail for England in company of those carrying complaints to Parliament, 34, 34 n

    Petræus, Benedictus Nicolaus, 143 n; quoted, on Eirenæus Philalethes, 143

    Petty, Sir William, 122 n, 166 n; invents pentograph, 98, 98 n; requested to make inquiries in Ireland for the Royal Society, 116 n; government position of, in Ireland, 120; friend of R. Child, 120, 120 n

    Philadelphia, Pa., earliest Sunday school of modern type in America in, 264, 264 n, 274 n

    —— Society for the Institution and Support of First-Day or Sunday Schools in Philadelphia, 264 n, 274 n

    Philalethes, Eirenæus, name under which many alchemical tracts were issued, really by George Stirk, 124, 132, 134, 134 n, 135, 136, 137 n; but attributed also to R. Child, 133, 135, 136, 137, 140, 141, 144, 145, 146; to Bartlet, 137; to T. Vaughan, 141, 141 n, 142, 143, 144, 145. See also Stirk, George

    Philalethes, Eugenius, pseudonym of T. Vaughan, 125 n, 141

    Philes, George Philip, 287

    Phillips, James Duncan, 409

    —— John (H. C. 1735), note of, quoted, 186

    —— Samuel, 353

    —— William, buys Saco patent, 1659, 65 n

    Philosopher’s stone, references to belief in, 126 n, 127, 130, 132, 134, 139, 140 n, 144

    Phippen, David (d 1703), son of Joseph, 309 n; land grant to, 1687, 309

    —— Joseph, 310, 310 n

    Pickering, Henry Goddard LL.B., 404; on Auditing Committee, 231, 408; on Committee on Memorials, 231

    Pier, Arthur Stanwood, 409

    Pike, Samuel, 350

    Pinto, Ferdinand Mendez, J. Addison quoted on, 234

    Piscator, Johann, works of, 216

    Pittsfield, resolution of, concerning activity of Boston, 1812, 445

    Plymouth, 439

    —— Clark’s Island, granted to N. Clarke, 1688, 333; summer home of W. W. Goodwin, 333 n

    —— First Church, catechizing of children in, 261, 262 n; earliest Sunday school claimed for, by Rev. T. Robbins, 262 n; J. C. Power quoted on the Plymouth school, 263 n; proposed publication of church records of, 404

    Plymouth Colony, passes law providing for instructions to deputies, 1640, 414

    Pocasset, R. I., sale of lands in and near, to B. Church and others, 1680, 299 n; land grant in, 1687, 300; incorporated as Tiverton, 300 n. See also Tiverton

    Pocumtuck, land grant to Dedham at, 450

    Pond Cove, Me., 323, 323 n

    Portland, Me. See Falmouth, Me.

    Portmouth, R. I., land grant in, 1688, 358

    Potter, Alfred Claghorn, A.B., identifies book by Comenius, in Harvard College Library, 179; his Catalogue of John Harvard’s Library, 190–230

    Power, John Carroll, quoted, on early Sunday schools in America, 263 n

    Powsland, Richard, 320 n, 344; land grant to, 1688, 320

    Prentice, Henry, 383, 383 n

    Presbyterians, contest of, with Independents for control of England, 3, 90; Remonstrance of 1646, in Massachusetts, made in interest of, 18, 28, 39, 40, 69, 86, 87; standing of, in New England, 22 n, 46, 71, 72, 73; attitude of, toward toleration and liberty of conscience, 23, 59 n; attitude of, toward Independents in England, 72; Presbyterianism established in England, 1646, 72, 72 n

    Press, censorship and freedom of, 432, 433

    Presumpscot River, Me., 308 n

    Prince, Joanna. See Everett

    —— Rev. Nathan, brother of Rev. Thomas (d 1758), 370, 383 n, 387 n, 388 n, 390, 390 n; quoted, on Harvard College charter of 1672, 378; is removed from his tutorship and fellowship at Harvard College, 382, 384 n; writes The Constitution and Government of Harvard College, 383, 383 n, 385 n.; quoted, on powers of the Overseers and the Corporation, and on the charters, 384–387; his temporary derangement of mind, 385 n; later life, 385 n, 386 n

    —— Rev. Thomas (H. C. 1707), note of, on N. Prince, 385 n

    Proxy voting, origin of, 413 n

    Puncatest Neck, Little Compton, R. I., 301, 301 n

    Punkapog, Dorchester. See Dorchester

    Purchas, Rev, Samuel, borrowed from, by J. Dunton, 236, 249, 250 n

    Purpooduck Point, Me., 323, 323 n

    Pynchon, William (d 1662), quoted, on R. Child and his associates, 41, 41 n

    —— William (d 1789), 417

    Quansigamond. See Worcester

    Quincy, Josiah (d 1775), 419

    —— Josiah, President of Harvard College, son of Josiah (d 1775), 367, 389; cited, on size of J. Haward’s library, 191; on L. Hoar’s inauguration, 364, 366 n; quoted, on Harvard College charter of 1672, 373; his statements answered, 375–382; quoted, on last town-meetings of Boston, 446

    Quobeague, survey of, ordered, 1688, 335. See also Brookfield

    Rackemann, Charles Sedgwick, A.M., on Committee on Memorials, 231

    Raikes, Robert (d 1811), 262 n, 265 n; purpose of his Sunday schools, 264, 267; date of his first school, 264 n

    Randolph, Sec. Edward, land grant to, 1688, 353; requests grant of Nahant Neck, 354

    Rankin, George W., 449 n

    Rathbone, William, 74 n

    Rattle-snake-weed. See Snakeweed

    Raumer, Karl von, 147 n.

    Ravenscroft, Capt. Samuel, land grant to, 1688, 358

    Rawson, Sec. Edward, quoted, on educated Indian youths, 188 n; attest of, 377, 388, 300, 398, 399, 401; copy of Harvard College charter of 1672, in Court Records, and passages in other copies, in handwriting of, 380, 395, 402

    Raynsford, Edward, 353

    Reade, Col. Thomas, 159 n

    Recall, in politics, use of, in colonial England, 411, 425–427

    Reed, John (d 1805), of Bedford, Middlesex county record books kept at house of, 1776, 452, 453

    Referendum, use of, in colonial New England, 411, 424

    Rehoboth, dismisses J. Wheeler, delegate to Provincial Congress, 1778, 426; proposes state law authorizing recall of representatives, 1778, 426, 426 n

    Reid, William Bernard, 409

    Relapse, The, pamphlet on the Excise Bill. 1754. 435 n

    Remonstrance of 1646, a part of the general struggle between Presbyterians and Independents, 2–3; submitted by R. Child and others, 17; rights of freemen demanded for “all truely English,” with extension of church privileges, and English law, 18; effect on the magistrates, 18–20; attempt to satisfy the Remonstrants, 21; sketches of the signers, 21–27; their diversity of views and real purpose, 28; committee appointed by the General Court to make answer to the Remonstrance, and E. Winslow selected to go to England as agent of the colony, 30; Remonstrants summoned and given opportunity to retract, 30–33; copy of the Remonstrance carried to England, 33–36; its authors tried by the General Court, 37–39, 91 n; second trial of the Remonstrants for conspiracy against the government, 1647, 50–56, 92 n; review of principles involved, 69–87

    Rener, William, quoted, on church and government conditions in Bermuda, 1647, 36 n

    Review, The, pamphlet on the Excise Bill, 1754, 435 n

    Rhode Island, referendum in, 1647–1663, 424

    Rice, Rev. Edwin Wilbur, 264 n

    —— Franklin Pierce, tribute to, 405

    —— Samuel, land grant to, 1688, 361

    Richards, Ann (Winthrop), second wife of John, 334 n; land grant to, 1688, 334

    —— John, Treasurer of Harvard College, 334 n, 368, 370, 393, 396, 402

    Richardson, Rev. John (H. C. 1666), 391, 393; Fellow of Harvard College, 368, 369, 369 n, 370, 396, 396 n, 402

    Richmond, George H., 287

    Richthausen, Johann Conrad von, transmutes silver to gold, 130

    Rives, William Cabell (d 1868), 444

    Roads in New England colonies, 431

    Robbins, Rev. Chandler (d 1799), son of Rev. Philemon, 262 n

    —— Rev. Philemon, 262 n

    —— Rev. Thomas (d 1856), quoted, on first Sabbath school in the United States, 262 n

    Robinson, ——, 10

    —— Fred Norris, Ph. D., 231, 403, 410; elected President, 408

    —— Rev. John (d 1625), 263 n

    —— Rev. John (H. C. 1695), 263 n

    Rochester, R. I., 295 n

    Rodman, John, letter of, cited, 295 n

    Roe, Sir Thomas, the Relation of his Voyage into the East-Indies, borrowed from by J. Dunton in his letters from New England, 234, 234 n, 237, 240, 245, 249; note on, 234 n

    Rogers, Rev. Ezekiel (d 1661), 173 n; quoted, on the Remonstrants of 1646, 52 n

    —— Rev. John (d 1636), 225

    —— John, President of Harvard College, 183

    —— Rev. John (H. C. 1684), son of President John, 183, 183 n

    —— Rev. John (H. C. 1711), son of Rev. John (H. C. 1684), 183

    —— Margaret, daughter of President John. See Leverett

    Rogers & Fowle, booksellers, 384 n

    Rosenbach, Abraham S. Wolf, 287

    Rosenbach Company, 287

    Rosicrucians, 125 n, 126 n, 129, 142, 145

    Ross, James, 309, 316 n

    —— John, son of James, 316 n, 333; land grant to, 316

    Row, Anthony, land grant to, 1688, 326

    Rome, John, 419

    Roxbury, land grants in, 1687, 298

    —— First Church, claims first Sunday school in the new world, 260, 261

    —— Greyhound Inn, 298

    Ruddock, John, 419

    Rugg, Hon. Arthur Prentice LL.D., elected Vice President, 408

    Ruggles, Samuel, land grant to, 1688, 361

    Rumney Marsh, 319 n; land grants in, 1688, 310, 360

    Rupert, Prince, of Bavaria, 178

    Russell, James (d 1709), 357 n; land grant to, 1688, 357

    —— Rev. John (H. C. 1645), first minister of Hadley, 450

    —— Richard (d 1676), 29 n, 38 n, 55 n

    Rutherford, Rev. Samuel, 74 n, 91

    Saco, Me., land grant in, 312

    Saco patent, R. Child’s purchase and sale of, 16, 16 n, 63, 65, 65 n

    Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. See Lord’s Supper

    Sadler, Richard, 33; destroys copy of the Remonstrance of 1646, 35

    Sainfoin, a forage plant, 109, 109 n

    St. Patrick’s Purgatory, Ireland, 115; destruction of, 1632, 116

    Sakonnet, R. I. See Little Compton

    Salem, advertisement of projected Sunday school in, 1807, 265 n; asserts right to recall deputies, 1686, 426; instructions of, to deputies, 428

    Salisbury, represented by non-resident deputy, 431

    Salter, Rev. Richard (H. C. 1739), 183

    Saltonstall, Sir Richard, 172 n

    —— Richard (d, 1694), son of Sir Richard, 16 n, 38; petition of, to General Court, 1646, 33 n; recommends J. Knowles for presidency of Harvard College, 369 n

    Sanford. See Staniford

    Sargent, Lucius Manlius (d 1867), 281; pupil of O. W. Lane, 282

    Sarsaparilla, R. Child quoted on, 115

    Sassafras, R. Child’s observations on, 111

    Savage, Thomas, 303

    Saye and Scle, Lord. See Fiennes, William

    Sayles, William, Governor of Bermuda, 33, 34 n

    Scarborough, Me., establishment of, 293; land grants in, 1687, 305, 305 n, 309, 310, 311; 1688, 315, 318, 319, 323, 326, 327, 328, 333, 359

    Schipano, Mario, 234

    Schmieder, Karl, 145 n; his History of Alchemy, and belief concerning Philalethes, 144–145

    Schroeder, Wilhelm, Freiherr von (d 1688), 137

    Schweinitz, Edmund de, Bishop of the Unitas Fratrum, quoted, on offer of presidency of Harvard College to Comenius, 148

    Scituate, land grant in, 1687, 313; instructs deputy to move General Court for law regarding payment of debts, 1665, 427

    Sconce, use of the word in Harvard College charter of 1672, 374, 376, 377

    Scottom, Joshua (d 1698), 310 n, 318; land grant to, 1687, 310

    Sea-calf, description of, 248

    Seacomb (Seecomb), Richard (d 1694), 309 n, 316; land grant to, 1687, 309; 1688, 324

    Sea-hog, description of, 237

    Seahorse, description of, 247

    Seamen, meetings held for, in Boston, about 1821, 278 n

    Seccombe, Thomas, error of, concerning date of E. Winslow’s arrival in England, 45 n

    Sedwick, Robert (d 1656), 15 n; charged with being an informant against his country, 29 n

    Selectmen, 414

    Sendivogius, Michael, 125

    Sever, Rev. Nicholas (H. C. 1701), 382 n, 389 n; controversy on claim of, to seat in Corporation of Harvard College, 380, 388, 392; quoted, on the College charters, 381

    Sewall, Rev. Joseph, son of Judge Samuel, 430; possessed book by Comenius when student at Harvard College, 183, 184

    —— Judge Samuel, 293, 369 n; book by Comenius probably given by, to his son J. Sewall, 183, 184; re-names New Roxbury, Ct., 359 n; Hogg Island granted to, 1688, 360; cited, on town-meetings, 417, 418

    Shark, description of, 238

    Sharp, Rev. Daniel, quoted, on establishment of Sunday schools in Boston, 452 n

    Shaw, Chief Justice Lemuel, 380 n

    —— Robert Gould, A.M., 404; accepts Resident Membership, 1; on Auditing Committee, 231, 408

    Shawomett (Somerset), R. I., land grant in, 1687, 301

    Shays’s Rebellion, 428

    Shepard, Rev. Thomas (d 1649), 74 n; his proposition for maintenance of poor scholars at Harvard College, 170 n

    —— Rev. Thomas (d 1677), son of Rev. Thomas (d 1649), Fellow of Harvard College, 368 n, 396, 396 n, 402

    Sheppard, Thomas, land grant to, 1687, 312

    Sherborn, land grant in, 1688, 314

    Sherman, Rev. John (d 1685), 311, 311 n

    —— Mary (Launce), second wife of Rev. John (d 1685), 311 n; land grant to, 1687, 311

    Sherman vs. Keayne, 415

    Shippen, Edward (d 1712), 302, 303 n; land grants to, 1687, 303, 332

    Ships: Abigail, 159; Ann Cleve, 10; Arent, 163, 163 n; Hope, 163; Klock, 163 n; Lyon, 157 n; Rebecca, 254, 256; Supply, 18 n, 25, 31, 32 n, 33, 34, 35, 47, 54 n; Trowe (Trou), 162, 163, 163 n

    Shirley, Gov. William, 434

    Shovelboard, law against playing, in public houses, 51 n

    Shrimpton, Samuel (d 1698), 352 n; Noddles Island granted to, 1688, 352; property in Boston granted to, 1688, 352

    Sibley, Rev. John Langdon, 376 n; note of, on L. Hoar’s inauguration as President of Harvard College, 364; quoted, on letter of L. Hoar to R. Boyle, 366 n; on Harvard College charter of 1672, 374

    Silkworms, 104 n; culture of, in England, recommended by R. Child, 104; V. Ferrar’s experiment with. 104, 105 n

    Simpson, Savill (d 1725), 354 n; land grants to, 1688, 354, 355

    Skilling, John, 348; land grants to, 1688, 329, 346

    Slater, Samuel, his Sunday school in Pawtucket, R. I., 275 n

    Slaughter, John, land grant to, 1688, 326

    Small-pox, R. Child quoted on, 110

    Smith, Rev. Arthur Warren, quoted, on Sunday school of First Baptist Church in Charlestown, 276 n

    —— John, of Providence, R. I., 43, 59; a signer of the Remonstrance of 1646, 17, 23, 28, 29; summoned to Court, 31–32, 32 n; tried and sentenced, 37; arrested later, 39, 41, 42; tried and sentenced, 50–56; his disrespect to authority, 54, 54 n

    —— John, Deputy Surveyor, appointment of, 295 n; warrants to, for survey of land grants, 295, 296, 299, 300, 301, 315

    —— John, of Falmouth, Me., 309, 309 n, 339; land grant to, 1688, 317

    —— Jonathan, of Needham, 452

    —— Samuel, of Needham, 452

    Snakeweed, R. Child quoted on, 112

    Snyder, H. W., his work as an engraver, 258

    Soland geese, 116

    Solemn League and Covenant, Scotland, 1643, efforts to make it effective in Massachusetts, 28, 40, 85

    Soley, Edward (H. C. 1828), 184 n

    Somerset (Shawomett), R. I., land grant in, 1687, 301

    Southwell, Sir Robert (d 1702), 116

    Sparks, Rev. Jared, President of Harvard College, note of, on preservation of Harvard College manuscripts, 392 n

    Spencer, Charles Worthen, acknowledgment to, 422 n

    —— John, land grant to, 1688, 320

    Springfield, represented by non-resident deputy, 432 n

    Spurwink, Me., 293. See also Falmouth, Me.

    Spy Pond, survey of land near, ordered, 353

    Squamacack Neck, Westerly, R. I., land grant at, 1687, 294, 294 n

    Stagg, Capt. ——, seizes prize in Boston Harbor, 79

    Stamp Act, action of Massachusetts towns concerning, 437, 437 n

    Staniford (Sanford), Robert, land grant to, 1688, 316; various forms of the name, 316 n

    —— Thomas, land grant to, 1688, 316

    Starkey, George. See Stirk

    Starr, Rev. Comfort (H. C. 1647), Fellow of Harvard College, 396

    State constitutions, provisions of, concerning right to instruct representatives, 442–443

    State Rights party, 444

    Stetson, Eliot Dawes, 409

    Stevens, Rev. Timothy (H. C. 1687), 184

    —— William, dismissed as representative of Gloucester, 1644, 425

    Stiles, Rev. Ezra, President of Yale College, interest of, in alchemy, 123, 126; disclaims alchemical knowledge, 126 n; quoted, on S. Danforth, 138, 139 n

    Stirk, Rev. George (d 1637), 100

    —— George (d 1666), son of Rev. George (d 1637), 5 n, 101 n; friend of R. Child, 1, 100, 125, 176; of R. Boyle, 101, 101 n, 102 n, 176; student of alchemy, 100, 101, 123; practices medicine in Boston, 101; goes to England, 1650, 101 n; his authorship of the tracts on alchemy issued under name Eirenæus Philalethes, 124, 132, 134–136, 134 n, 143; as Philalethes, receives title Elias the Artist, 132; work of, confused with that of R. Child and T. Vaughan, 143–146; sketch of, 176; friend of S. Hartlib, 176; of J. Winthrop, Jr., 178

    Stone, Rev. Samuel (d 1663), 163 n

    Story, William, 419

    Stoughton, Israel (d 1644), will of, 26 n

    —— Rebecca, daughter of Israel (d 1644). See Taylor

    —— Lt.- Gov. William, son of Israel (d 1644), 293, 304 n; land grant to, 1687, 304; 1688, 313, 314; 1688, 356

    Stoughton, instruction of, to deputy, 438

    Strafford, Earls of. See Wentworth, Sir Thomas; Wentworth, William

    Strahan, William (d 1785), 290 n

    Stubbe, Dr. Henry, quoted, on drink called mobby, 110

    Sturgis, Richard Clipston, A.B., on Committee on Memorials, 232

    Stuyvesant, Peter, Governor of New Netherland, 161, 162 n; letter of, to J. Winthrop, Jr., 162, 162 n; salute to, 163

    Suchten, Alexander von, 128, 128 n, 129

    Sugar, price of, in Barbados, 1659, 255

    Sugars, Mary. See Townsend

    Sully, James, quoted, on early impressions, 271 n

    Sumner, Charles, election of, as Senator, 1851, 449 n

    —— William Hyslop, 89 n, 281

    Sunday Schools, in Boston, Early, paper by A. Matthews, 259–285; seventeenth century forerunners of the modern Sunday school, 259–263; religious instruction of the Indians, 259; instruction of children in First Church of Roxbury, 260, 261; in Norwich, Ct., 261; in Plymouth, 261; modern Sunday school movement begun in eighteenth century, by R. Raikes and others, 264, 264 n; original purpose to give secular instruction to the poor, 264, 264 n; change to religious, instruction, 1791–1819, 264 n; schools claimed to be earliest in the United States, in New England, in Massachusetts, 264–266, 265 n; schools in Boston before 1819, 266–284; in Park Street Church, 266–271, 270 n, 452 n; in North Bennet Street and in Hawkins Street, 269; in Baptist churches, 271, 272 n, 452 n; in First Parish, Charlestown, 272; in Christ Church, 273–275; in First Baptist, Church, Charlestown, 275, 275 n; in West Church, 277–279, 277 n; in Old South Church, 452 n; O. W. Lane’s school, 280; earliest, known allusion to Sunday schools in a Boston newspaper, 283; chronological list of, before 1819, 284

    Sutton, land grant in, 1688, 314 n; instruction of, to representative, 1787, 428 n

    Swan, John, 250; his Speculum Mundi borrowed from by J. Dunton, 235, 235 n, 242, 245, 246, 249; his identity uncertain, perhaps of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 235 n

    —— John, of Queens College, Cambridge, 235 n

    —— John, of Trinity College, Cambridge, 235 n

    —— Rev. Josiah (H. C. 1733), 186

    Swarton, John, 296 n; land grant to, 1687, 296

    Swift, Rev. John (H. C. 1697), 1815; autograph of, 185

    Sword-fish, description of, 242

    Symonds, Samuel (d 1678), 16 n

    Tailer, Lt.-Gov. William, 357 n

    Tantousq (Sturbridge), black lead mine at, 10, 113–115

    Taxation without representation, protest against, in Watertown, 413

    Taxil, Léo. See Jogand-Pagès Gabriel Antoine

    Taylor, Rebecca (Stoughton), wife of William (d 1652), 357 n; real estate belonging to, 357

    —— William (d 1682), 357 n

    Templr, Sir Thomas (d 1674), 171

    Teney, John, land grant to, 1688, 337

    Thayer, Rev. Christopher Toppan (d 1880), 379, 279 n

    —— John Eliot, A.M., on Committee on Memorials, 232

    —— Nathan, 410

    —— Richard, request for land grant considered, 1687, 302

    —— William Roscoe, LL.D., appointed delegate to annual Conference of Historical Societies, 410

    Thomas, George Clifford, 287

    —— Isaiah, his statement that an English Bible mas published in Boston about 1752, 285; this doubted by G. Bancroft and others, 286; discussion of the question, 286–292

    Thomason, George, 45 n, 46, 46 n, 236 n

    Thompson, Maj. Robert, 304 n; land grant to, 1687, 304

    Thor, George, 132

    Thresher, a fish, description of, 242

    Through, as a verb, 55 n

    Thurston, William, 268 n; first superintendent of Park Street Church Sunday school, 267; vice-president of Boston Society for the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Poor, 268

    Tinge. See Tyng

    Tiverton, R. I., incorporation of, 300 n

    Tobacco, R. Child quoted on, 112

    Tobias, Rabbi, of Poland, 126 n

    Todtenfeld, Johann Ferdinand Hertodt von, 136 n, 143; cited, on authorship of Philalethes tracts, 135–137

    Toleration, not sympathized with by colonial Congregationalists, or by Presbyterians or Episcopalians of the time, 3, 23, 88; W. Vassall’s efforts for, 47, 47 n

    Tompson, Benjamin (d 1714), extract from his Funeral Tribute to J. Winthrop, Jr., 127

    Torpedo (crampfish), description of, 246

    Torrey, William (d c 1691), 58 n

    Tortoise (sea-turtle), description of, 249

    Town, in New England, basis of representation, 421, 421 n; districts rearranged, 1857, 422 n

    Town Mandates, New England, paper by K. Colegrove, 411–449

    Town-meeting system of New England, 411, 413, 417–420, 430, 436–441, 446–449

    Towns of Massachusetts, action of, on the Stamp Act, 437, 437 n

    Townsend, Gregory (d 1798), son of Rev. Jonathan (d 1762), sketch of, 451; account-book of, recovered, 451

    —— Horatio, 451

    —— Rev. Jonathan (d 1762), 451; extract from diary of, relating to Lydia Fisher’s service to the regicides Goffe and Whalley, 449; same in facsimile, 453; first minister of Needham, 450; quoted, on catechizing children, 452

    —— Mary, daughter of Horatio. See Derby

    —— Mary (Sugars), wife of Rev. Jonathan (d 1762), 451

    Transmutation of metals, alleged cases of, 129, 129 n, 130, 133, 144

    Treaty of Paris, 1783, 439

    Trerice, Nicholas, 29 n

    Trumbull, Jonathan (d 1785), Governor of Connecticut, 127 n; quoted, on relation of colonies to Parliament, 78

    Truro, ordinance passed in, regarding removal of shells which might be useful for lime, 105

    Tucker, John, 332

    Turfrey, George (d 1714), 359 n; land grant to, 1688, 359

    Turner, Frederick Jackson, LL.D., 411 n; appointed delegate to annual Conference of Historical Societies, 410

    —— Ralph, 308

    Tuttle, Julius Herbert, speaks on early surnames in the Bay Colony, citing two from Dedham church records, 258; communicates Land Warrants under Andros, 1687–1688, 292–363; exhibits scrapbook containing extracts from a diary of Rev. J. Townsend, 449–452

    Twisleton, Col. John, 97

    Tydye, Robert, land grant to, 1688, 326

    Tyler, Harry Walter, 409

    —— John, President, 444

    Tyng, Edward (d c 1701), nephew of William (d 1653), 308 n, 311, 311 n, 338, 344, 348; land grant to, 1687, 308

    —— Jonathan (d 1724), brother of Edward (d c 1701), 351 n.; land grant to, 1688, 351

    —— William (d 1653), 15 n, 180

    United States, Articles of Confederation, a referendum on ratifying, ordered by Massachusetts General Court, 1778, 438

    Urbiger, Baron, 143, 143 n

    Usher, Hezekiah (d 1697), 172, 172 n

    —— John (d 1726), brother of Hezekiah (d 1697), 295 n, 353

    Ussher, James, Archbishop of Armagh, 117, 117 n

    Vagan, Thomas de. See Vaughan, Thomas

    Valle, Pictro della, 234 n, 250; his Travels into East India, 234

    Vassall, William, 36, 39 n; efforts of, to get up petitions to Parliament, against New England government, 18, 18 n, 25, 34 n, 35, 54 n; connection of, with the Remonstrance of 1646, 33, 47; authorship of New-England’s Jonas ascribed to, by E. Winslow, 46 n, 47 n; petitions of, rejected, 48, 48 n; no copy known, 47 n

    Vaughan, Diana, alleged descendant of Thomas, really Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès. See Jogand-Pagès

    —— Henry (d 1695), brother of Thomas (d 1665), 141, 141 n

    —— Thomas (d 1665), his Anthropo-Sophia, 99, 125; death of, 125, 142; writing under pseudonym Eugenius Philalethes is confused with Eirenæus Philalethes, 141, 143, 144; extraordinary hoax concerning, by L. Taxil, 142, 142 n, 143; J. C. Creiling’s inferences concerning, 144, 145

    Veazie, William, requests land grant, 1688, 335

    Verres, Caius, cited, by C. F. Adams, 81; his treatment of Gavius of Consa, 81, 82

    Vines, Richard (d 1651), 326, 326 n; conveys interest in Saco patent to R. Child, 1645, 16, 16 n, 63, 63 n, 111

    Vose, Thomas, article by, on Sabbath schools cited, 266 n

    Wade, Jonathan (d 1689), 297, 297 n

    Wadsworth, Rev. Benjamin, President of Harvard College, 206, 366 n, 379, 38, 389, 389 n; college records compiled by, 365 n; quoted, on L. Hoar’s inauguration, as President of Harvard College, 366; on his resignation, 368 n

    Waite, Arthur Edward, exposes L. Taxil, 142 n; quoted, on T. Vaughan, 145; on mysterious alchemical adept, 145 n

    —— Thomas, 299 n; land grant to, 1687, 300

    Wakely, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas. See Coe

    —— Thomas, 348, 348 n

    Walker, Rev. James, President of Harvard College, 380 n

    Wall, Capt. John, 79

    Walley, John (d 1714), 299 n

    Wallis, John (d 1690), 330 n, 340 n, 349; land grant to, 1688, 330

    —— Nathaniel (d 1709), 341, 349; land grant to, 1688, 339

    Walpole, Sir Robert, first Earl of Orford, 423

    Ware, Horace Everett, A.B., death of and tribute to, 405

    Warner, John, cited, on S. Gorton, 44 n

    Warrants to survey lands, issued by Gov. Andros, 1687–1688, 292–363

    Watertown, land grant in, 1687, 311; 1688, 353; early protest of, against taxation without representation, 413

    Watts, Henry, 319

    Webb, Henry (d 1660), 13, 13 n, 14

    Webber, Joseph, son of Mary, 324 n; land grant to, 1688, 324

    —— Mary, 324 n; land grant to, 1688, 325

    —— Rev. Samuel, President of Harvard College, view of college dedicated to, 258, 258 n

    Webster, Arthur Gordon, 409

    Wedel, Georg Wolfgang, identifies Philalethes with T. Vaughan, 141, 141 n, 143

    Weld, Capt. John, suit brought against, by Alderman Barclay, of London, 29 n

    —— Samuel, 298

    —— Thomas, 298

    Wellington, Mary. See Lane

    Wells, Philip, warrants to, for survey of land grants, 294, 296–298, 301–303, 311, 313–361; sketch of, 294 n

    Wells, Me., censures member of Congress, 445

    Welsteed, Rev. William (H. C. 1716), controversy on claim of, to seat in Corporation of Harvard College, 380, 388, 392

    Wenham, represented by non-resident deputy, 431

    Wentworth, Sir Thomas, first Earl of Strafford, 8 n, 117, 117 n

    —— William, second Earl of Strafford, 115

    Wesley, Rev. John, 262 n

    West, Dep.-Sec. John (d 1691), signature of, to documents, 313, 314, 359

    —— Rev. Samuel (d 1807), 126 n

    Westerly, R. I., land grants in, 1687, 294, 294 n, 295; name changed to Feversham, 1686, 295 n

    Westfield, represented by non-resident deputy, 431

    Weston, Sir Richard, his Discours of Husbandrie, 103 n

    Weymouth, instruction of, to deputy, 438

    Weysemitt, 352 n; land grant in, 1688, 351

    Whale, description of, 243

    Whalley, Edward, regicide, service of Fisher family to, 449–451

    Wheeler, Capt. John, delegate to Provincial Congress, from Rehoboth, dismissed, 1774, 426

    Whipping, at Harvard College, 376, 376 n

    White, Nathaniel, 341; land grant to, 1688, 341

    —— Rev. William, Bishop of Pennsylvania, first president of Society for the Institution and Support of First-Day or Sunday Schools in Philadelphia, 264 n, 274 n

    —— William, miner, 1647, 63 n

    Whiting, Rev. Samuel (d 1679), Overseer of Harvard College, 167 n

    Whitmore, William Henry, cited, on maps of early Boston, 251, 252

    Whittemore, Samuel, 384 n

    Whittier, John Greenleaf, 88 n; quoted, on treatment of R. Child, 74 n

    Wigglesworth, Rev. Edward (d 1765), 384 n, 385 n

    —— George A.M., on Committee on Memorials, 232

    Wilcox, Daniel, 299 n; land grant to, 1687, 299

    Wild, John, 230 n

    Willard, Rev. Joseph, President of Harvard College, 258 n

    —— Sec. Josiah, son of Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1659), 399; attest of, 385, 389, 390

    —— Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1659), 183, 183 n

    Willett, Thomas (d 1674), 158 n, 162

    William and Mary College, 169 n

    Williams, Moses, A.B., death of, xv; tribute to, 405

    —— Rev. Roger, 74 n

    —— Samuel Gardner, quoted, on Comenius, 148

    Williston, Samuel, LL.D., 404; elected Resident Member, 1; accepts, 231; elected Member of Council, 408

    Willoughby, Dep.-Gov. Francis, quarrel of, with R. Child, 64

    Wilson, Rev. John (d 1667), 8, 158, 175 n

    Winchell, Rev. James Manning, 272, 452 n

    Wing, Edward. See Tyng

    Window, Edward, Governor of Plymouth Colony, 33, 34 n, 39 n, 44, 45 n, 47 n, 79; quoted, on R. Child, 5, 6, 7; quoted, on Remonstrance of 1646, 19, 21; on P. Hobart, 24 n; goes to England as agent of the Massachusetts colony in the Gorton business, 30, 36, 45, 45 n; quoted, on voyage of the Supply, 1646, 35; on fines of the Remonstrants, 38 n; issues Hypocrisie Unmasked, 45; New-Englands Salamander, 46; quoted, on New-Englands Jonas, 46 n; his conduct of case for the Colony against S. Gorton and R. Child, 47–50, 65–66, 76

    Winslow, Josiah (d 1674), brother of Gov. Edward, 13 n

    Winter, Irvah Lester, 409

    —— John, 305 n

    —— Sarah, daughter of John. See Jordan

    Winthrop, Adam, father of Gov. John (d 1649), 158 n

    —— Adam (d 1652), son of Gov. John (d 1649), 16 n; letter of, quoted, 158 n

    —— Adam (d 1700), son of Adam (d 1652), 177 n

    —— Adam (d 1743), son of Adam (d 1700), 177 n

    —— Ann, daughter of John, Jr. (d 1676). See Richards

    —— Forth, son of Gov. John (d 1649), 156 n; may have met R. Child, at Cambridge, Eng., 175 n

    —— Francis Bayard, gives Winthrop Library to New York Society Library, 189 n

    —— Gov. John (d 1649), 8, 26, 40, 43, 45 n, 58 n, 78, 93 n, 150 n, 159 n, 179, 220, 415; quotations from, 10 n, 29 n, 33 n, 34 n, 36 n, 39, 41 n, 77 n, 79; letters to, quoted, 16, 19, 66; on committee to answer the Remonstrance of 1646, 30; quoted, on the Answer, 31; on conduct of the case, 32, 38 n, 39, 41 n; on P. Hobart, 36; re-elected Governor, 1647, 43; quoted, on renewal of charter, 1641, 77 n; G. Stirk commended to care of, 101, 176; said to have met Comenius, 148, 155; not in Europe after 1630, 156; at Cambridge University, 156 n; on first Board of Overseers of Harvard College, 167; land given to, by Tacomus, 334, 334 n; quoted, on early government Massachusetts Bay Colony, 412; character of his rule, 412–413, 424; visits Gov. Bradford, at Plymouth, 1632, 431

    —— John, Jr. (d 1676), Governor of Connecticut, son of Gov. John (d 1649), 93, 98 n, 101, 148, 149, 150 n, 156, 156 n, 161 n, 169 n, 170, 174, 179, 179 n, 367; intimacy of, with R. Child, 7, 8–11, 91, 92, 98, 99; sails for Boston, 10; interest of, in iron mines in Massachusetts, 10–12, 10 n, 14, 15; mention of, and extracts from, letters to, 33 n, 34 n, 38 n, 39 n, 42, 44, 74 n, 93 n, 100, 114 n, 120, 120 n, 131 n, 141; connection of, with payment of R. Child’s fine, 60, 61 n; interest of, in lead mines in Massachusetts, 92, 112, 113, 114, 114 n; friend of Sir K. Dighy, 115; alchemical pursuits of, 123–120, 128 n; a founder of the Royal Society, 124, 178; his library, 128, 128 n, 129; believed by Bacstrom to have been Eirenæus Philalethes, 145; C. Mather’s statement that he invited Comenius to become President of Harvard College, 146, 155; confusion of, in this matter, with other Winthrops, 150, 150 n, 155; education of, 156, 156 n; travels of, and possibility of meetings with Comenius and mention of Harvard presidency as future possibility, 156–164, 157 n, 158 n–160 n, 162 n, 163 n, 166–168, 166 n, 171, 171 n, 177; his commission to found and govern colony in Connecticut, 159, 164; duration of his governorship, 170, 170 n; friend of S. Hartlib, 171, 172, 172 n, 174, 180; of H. Oldenburg, 173 n; of many men of note, 175–179, 175 n, 176 n; extensive correspondence of, with distinguished men, 175; letter of, to R. Boyle, about Indian students at Harvard College, 1663, 186; books by Comenius owned by, 189, 189 n; daughters of, 334 n; gift of, to Harvard College, 369

    —— John (d 1707), Governor of Connecticut, son of John, Jr. (d 1676), 179; friend of C. Mather, 168; deeds land to sisters, 334 n

    —— John (d 1747), son of Wait (d 1717), 128, 131 n, 177 n, 179, 179 n; friend of C. Mather, 168, 168 n; Fellow of the Royal Society, 177, 178

    —— John (d 1779), son of Adam (d 1743), 177 n

    —— Margaret, daughter of John, Jr. (d 1676). See Corwin

    —— Richard Charles, erroneously named by Count Lützow as Governor of Massachusetts, 150, 150 n

    —— Robert Charles (d 1894), 150 n; quoted, on C. Mather’s knowledge of the Winthrop family, 168, 169 n

    —— Stephen, son of Gov. John (d 1649), 14; suit brought against, by Alderman Barclay of London, 29 n; quoted, on severity toward Anabaptists, 29 n; quoted, on establishment of Presbyterian government in England, 74 n; agent in England for promoting Lead-mining schemes of his brother, John, Jr., 114, 114 n

    —— Wait (d 1717), son of John, Jr. (d 1676), 156, 177, 177 n, 179; friend of C. Mather, 168; deeds land to sisters, 334 n

    —— family, C. Mather’s epitaph on, 127; his special interest in, 168, 168 n; several Winthrops members of Royal Society, 177; genealogical table of, 177 n; papers of, 179

    Winthrop Library, 189 n

    Wiswall, Enoch, 346, 346 n

    —— John, 254

    —— Hannah, daughter of John. See Munnings

    —— Witchcraft, alchemy unjustly associated with, 123

    Wollnough, Joshua, one of thirteen petitioners to the Council for Foreign Plantations, 1661, 67

    Wood, Anthony à, cited, on Eirenæus and Eugenius Philalethes, 141 n

    —— Rev. Nathan Eusebius, quoted, on early Sunday schools in Boston and vicinity, particularly in the Baptist churches, 271

    Woodbury, John, A.B., on Committee on Memorials, 232

    Woods, Henry, Ernest, A.M., death of, xv, 405; on Nominating Committee, 231

    Woodstock, Ct., land grants in, 359; naming of, 359 n

    Worcester, land grants in, 1687, 303, 304, 305; instructions of, to deputies, 428, 428 n

    Worsley, Benjamin, 118 n, 122 n; friend of R. Child, 98 n, 120, 120 n; government position of, in Ireland, 120, 120 n

    Worthington, Rev. John (d 1671), quoted, on Soland geese, 116

    Wren, Sir Christopher, 178

    Wright, Thomas Goddard (d 1919), 180 n, 182 n, 189 n

    Wylbour, ——, sent against Narragansett Indians, 1645, 44 n

    Yale, Ann, wife of David. See Eaton

    —— David (d 1690), a signer of Remonstrance of 1646, 17, 26, 27 n, 29, 29 n, 67; tried and sentenced, 37; not concerned in second case against the Remonstrants, 50

    —— Elihu (d 1721), son of David (d 1690), 26, 27

    —— Ursula, wife of David (d 1690), 26

    Yale College, founding of, 169 n

    —— Library, owns books by Comenius, 181 n, 182 n

    Yardly, John, requests land grant, 1688, 336

    York, Me., land grant in, 1688, 331

    Young, Dr. Thomas, (d 1777), 138

    Young People’s Religious Union, 261

    Youth’s Manual, published by A. Eaton and revised by S. Bell, for Sunday school use, 274; copy in Boston Athenæum, 274 n

    Zacharias, Chryatopolitanus, works of. 202

    Zcheil, 143, 144, 145. See Child, Dr. Robert