INDEX.

Abell, Robert, 93.

Aberdeceest, 9.

Abington, 47.

Acadia, 120.

Act to prevent monopoly, 80.

Adams, Abigail, Mrs, 70, 84, 115, 116, 145.

Charles F., Jr., 5, 89, 97, 114.

Henry, 93.

John, 84.

John Q., 38, 57.

Allen, John, 93.

Ann, Cape, 9.

Antinomian controversy, 139.

Applegate, Thomas, 91.

Arnold, 79.

Matthew, 143, 144, 152.

Back river, 62.

Bacon, 6.

Banbury, England, 108.

Bare Cove, 91.

Barnard, Elder Massachiel, (First non-conformist minister), 35-37, 97, 99, 112, 131.

Barnstable, 100, 102.

Church, 100, 101.

Bass River, Beverly, 100.

Bates, Elder Edward, 98, 104.

Joshua, 85.

Samuel, 98.

Bayley, Nathaniel, 77.

Beacon Hill, 135.

Bent, Rev. Josiah, 103.

Bernard, Gov., 72.

Rev. Mr., 141.

Beverly, 100.

Bicknell, 36.

Blackstone, William, 34, 35, 44, 68, 129, 131, 134, 135, 138, 142.

Lands at Wessagusset, 129.

One of the Gorges company, 131, 134.

Blancher, Samuel, 80.

Boston, 21, 31, 55, 104, 134, 142, 144.

Bay, 9, 12, 24, 30, 33, 37, 121, 131, 133, 137.

Church sends delegation to Weymouth, 139.

Church troubles, 139.

Evacuation of, 145.

First occupied by a Weymouth settler, 35, 127, 131.

Tea-party, 73.

Bowdoin, James, 82.

Bradford, Gov., 11, 13, 14, 16, 30.

Braintree, 45, 75, 79, 142, 145, 152.

Bridge in Wessaguscus, 91.

Bridgewater, 75.

Briggs, Clement, 93.

Brighton, 135.

Bristol, England, 29.

Britten, 141.

Britton, James, 106.

Burslam, John, 130, 138.

Burslem, 43, 44.

Plantation, 35.

Bursley, 36, 46, 93.

Joanna (Hull), 100.

John, 100, 111.

Burslyn, John, 45.

Butler’s “Hudibras,” 19-21.

Calvin, 6.

Cambridge, 135, 141.

Castle Island, 91.

Chamberlain, George W., 87.

Chapman, Maria W., 55.

Chard, William, 57.

Charity, vessel, 11, 13, 133.

Charles I, 128.

Charles river, 135, 137.

Charlestown, 104, 130, 135, 136, 145.

Chelsea, 130.

Chesapeake, frigate, 145.

Chicatabot, 38.

Churches in Massachusetts Bay in 1635, 112.

Clark, Dr., 88.

Concord, 74.

Continental army, enlistments in, 77.

currency, 80, 82.

Copp, John, 57.

Cotton, Rev. John, 104, 139, 140.

Cromwell, Oliver, 6.

Cruden’s Concordance, 68, 108.

Cushing, Adam, 62.

E., 80.

Cushman, Robert, 11.

Cuttyhunk, 125.

Damariscove Islands, 8, 125.

Delfthaven, Holland, 10.

Distemper, throat, in Weymouth, 52.

Dorchester, 36, 45, 108, 110.

Council, 90, 98.

Dover, 102.

Downing, Sarah, 49.

Dudley, Gov., 141.

Duxbury, 23.

East Boston, 136.

Easton, 47.

Edinburgh (Scotland) tumult, 141.

Eliot, Rev. John, 104.

Ellis, Rev. George E., 89.

Episcopacy in New England, 30, 33, 34, 102, 110, 139, 142.

Erasmus, 6.

Ferry to Quincy Point, 56, 91.

Fictitious execution described, 18, 19.

Fire at Plymouth, 31.

First settlement of Boston bay, 126, 127.

Fitcher, Lieut., 38.

Fore river, 13-15, 24, 29, 53, 64, 74, 76, 121-124, 133, 134, 137.

Fortune, vessel, 10.

French, 36.

Stephen, 93, 98, 104.

Fry, Elizabeth, 92.

Mary, 92.

William, 92.

Furnival’s Inn, 11.

Galileo, 6.

Gardner, Henry, 74.

Sir Christopher, an emissary of Gorges, 134.

returns to England, 135.

Gettysburg, 149.

Gibbon, 60.

Glover, John, 93.

Goold, Capt., 75.

Gorges, Ferdinando, 29, 30, 128, 130, 137, 141, 144.

His plantation on the Kennebec, 125.

John, 34, 35, 44.

Robert, 29-31, 33, 34, 36-38, 94, 114, 130, 131, 137.

Character of his colonists, 30, 134.

Date of settlement at Wessagusset, 114, 126.

His company, 30, 89, 91, 93, 94, 110, 134.

His grant in New England, 29, 30.

Returns to England, 31.

Visits Wessagusset, 29, 94.

Settlement, commercial, 131.

Continuous, 131.

Ecclesiastical and feudal, 127, 128.

Its keynote, 135.

Its original planters harried or exiled, 133.

Regarded as a plague spot, 132-140.

Self-perpetuating, 129.

Gosnold, Bartholomew, 125.

Gray, Haryson, 74.

Great hill, 53, 85, 95, 139, 145.

Pond, 62.

Greene, Richard, 11, 14.

Gustavus Adolphus, 6.

Guy Fawkes’ Day, 31, 66.

Hampden, John, 6.

Hancock, John, 82.

Harris, Walter, 93.

Hart, Edmond, 93.

Harvey, Ruth, 65, 154.

Heber, Bp. Reginald, 32.

Hingham, 75, 86, 91, 100, 102, 110.

Hobart, Peter, 87.

Hobbamock [Hobomok], 26, 120.

Holbrook, Ichabod, 98.

John, 98.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 122.

Horsford, E. N., 123.

Hubbard, 102.

Rev. William, 140.

Hull (town), 37.

Agnes, 101.

Benjamin, 100.

Company, 91, 93, 99, 112.

No record that it formed a church, 112, 113.

Joanna, 100.

Rev. Joseph, 36, 45, 67, 86, 88, 93, 95, 99-101, 103, 105, 106, 108, 110, 112, 113, 138, 139.

Effect of his arrival at Weymouth, 110, 138.

Claims a Weymouth pulpit, 110.

Deputy to Gen’l Court from Hingham, 110.

Farewell sermon, at Weymouth, 110.

Perhaps an Episcopal clergyman, 139.

Humphrey, James, 61, 63, 71, 72, 77, 98, 115, 116.

Jonas, 98.

Hunt’s hill, 62.

Hutchinson, Mrs. Anne, 67, 105, 140-142.

Indian depredations, 17.

Influence of Weymouth settlement on Massachusetts, 132.

Isle of Shoals, 43, 101.

Jeffers, John, 44.

Jeffery, 44.

Jeffrey, Thomas, 43.

Jeffries [Jeffreys], William, 34-37, 43, 44, 93, 138.

Residence in Wessagusset, 35, 130, 138.

Jenner, Rev. Thomas, 67, 68, 102-105, 110, 113.

Invited to Weymouth, 110.

Johnson, Edward, 18.

Keayne, Robert, 103, 104.

Kennebec, 125.

Kepler, 6.

King, 36.

Philip’s War, 28, 49, 129, 145.

Kingman, 36, 79.

Henry, 91.

King-Oak hill, 5, 53, 54, 85, 117, 121, 151.

Lenthall, Rev. Robert, 67, 68, 90, 98, 103-105, 111, 113, 140, 143.

Character of, 143.

Levett, Christopher, 130.

Lexington, 74.

Leyden, Holland, 9, 27.

Lincoln, Abraham, 6, 136.

Mass., 147.

Liquor nuisance at Mt. Wollaston, 39.

London, England, 144.

Long, Richard, 91.

Island, 76.

Longfellow, Henry W., quoted, 25, 119, 120.

His dealing with history, 120-123.

Lothrop, Rev. Mr., 100.

Loud, John J., 47.

Lovell, 36.

Enoch, 61.

James, 98.

Robert, 98.

Solomon, 74, 78, 80-82, 85.

Loyalty of Weymouth settlers to Church of England, 110.

Ludden, 93.

Luther, Martin, 6.

Lyford, Rev. John, 37.

Lynn, 106.

Macaulay, 154.

Makepeace, Thomas, 106.

Martin, Ambrose, 106.

Massasoit, 21.

Mather, 106.

Cotton, 102, 135.

Maverick, Samuel, 129-131, 134-136, 141.

Character of, 136.

Mayflower, 7, 10, 126.

Maypole at Merrymount, 38, 44, 84, 116, 133.

At Penobscot bay, 125.

Merchant Adventurers, London, 9, 10.

Merrymount settlement broken up Standish, 41-43.

May-pole, 44, 116.

Milton hill, 55.

John, 6.

Monatoquit, 41, 137.

Monhegan island, 125.

Montgomery, 79.

Moon head, 76.

Morell [Morrell], Rev. William, 30-34, 95, 96, 109, 112, 130, 131, 137, 142.

A Clergyman of the Established Church, 96, 109, 137.

Poem by, 32, 33.

Returns to England, 96, 138.

Morton, Thomas, of Merrymount, 12, 17, 21, 36, 38, 40-44, 53, 84, 94, 116, 130, 133-135.

Character of his party, 38, 39, 133.

His “New English Canaan,” 17-19, 21.

Landing of, 11, 12.

Not at first connected with Gorges, 133.

Possibly one of Weston’s Colony, 12, 133.

Visits Weymouth, 36, 37.

Mount Wollaston, 45, 56, 84, 91, 94, 134.

Becomes Merrymount, 38.

Location of, 37, 38.

Mystic river, 137.

Nahawton, 95.

Narragansett Fort, 50.

Nash, Alexander, 55.

Captain, 82.

Gilbert, 87, 118, 126, 131, 132, 146, 147.

Jacob, 98.

James, 98.

Nateaunt, 95.

Neponset river, 130, 134, 135, 137.

New Bedford, 125.

New English Canaan, extracts from, 37, 40, 41, 53, 54.

[See Morton.]

Newman, Rev. Samuel, 47, 68, 69, 92, 104, 105, 107, 108, 111, 113.

Newport, R. I., 106.

Noddle’s Island, 136.

North river, 22.

Weymouth, 75, 95, 103.

Northleigh, England, 101.

Norton, Jacob, 51.

Norumbega, 123.

Old North (First) Church, 87, 88.

South Church, Boston, 69, 73.

Spain, 5, 6, 35, 56, 131, 139, 145.

Oldham, John, 34, 35, 37, 44.

expelled from Plymouth, 37.

Opposition to the ecclesiastical system of Plymouth, 109.

Oxford University, England, 101, 108.

Oyster river, 101.

Paine, Rev. Thomas, 69.

Robert Treat, 70.

Parker, James, 93.

Pecksuot, 23, 25, 26, 28, 40, 119, 122, 124, 144, 145.

Penobscot bay, 125.

Expedition, 81.

Peirce, John, 11.

Pequod war, 46, 47.

Penn’s hill, Braintree, 145.

Phillips creek, 6, 13, 123.

Pike, Rev. Mr., 102.

Plymouth, 5, 16, 17, 21, 23, 29, 31, 39, 43, 44, 94, 95, 113, 116, 120-122, 153.

Pool, 36.

Poole, Joseph, 49.

Popham plantation, 125.

Porter, 36.

Portsmouth, N. H., 135, 136.

Pratt, Ebenezer, 61.

John, 49.

Phineas, 17, 22, 24, 121.

Escapes to Plymouth, 22-24, 121, 122.

Prayer-book used at Weymouth, 139.

Prince, Rev. Thomas, 98, 99, 129, 131.

Chronicles, 97, 131.

Provincetown harbor, 126.

Quakers, 101.

Queen Ann’s turnpike, 55.

war, 145.

Quincy (town), 142.

John, 84.

Point, 56.

Randall, John, 98.

Robert, 98.

Randolph, 75.

Rassdall, Mr., 38.

Rawlins, Thomas, 93.

Reade, William, 111.

Rehoboth, 47, 68, 92, 107, 108.

Revere, Paul, 120.

Richards, Thomas, 93.

Richmond, Va., 148.

Robinson, John, 27, 28.

Roxbury, 102, 104.

Neck, 55.

Sable, Cape, 56.

Saco, Me., 103, 105.

Salem, 100.

Salisbury, Surgeon, 11.

Sanders, 14, 16, 17.

Sandwich Bay, 14.

Savage, James, 88, 101-103, 118.

Scituate, 100.

Seekonk, 107.

Shakespeare, 6.

Shannon, frigate, 145.

Shaw, John, 98.

Joseph, 98.

Shawmut, 127, 129, 135, 144.

Shoals, Isle of, 9.

Shrimp, Capt. [Standish], 41, 42.

Silvester, Richard, 106, 141.

[See Sylvester.]

Site of Weston’s Block-house, 123, 124.

Sloan collection, 123.

Smith, 141.

Abigail, 70, 84, 115, 116.

John, 106.

Rev. William, 51-57, 70, 75, 86, 108, 115, 154.

Smoking Flax Blood-Quenched, 121.

South Shore Railroad, 150, 151.

Southampton, 10.

Sparrow (vessel), 8.

Speedwell (vessel), 10.

Squanto, 13, 14, 144.

St. Bartholomew Act, 101.

St. Buryan’s, Cornwall, 101.

St. Mary’s Hall, Oxford (England), 101.

Standish, Miles, 13, 23-28, 39, 41-43, 50, 118-124, 144, 145.

His account of visit to Merrymount, 42, 43.

Longfellow’s version of, 119, 120.

Relieves Wessagusset, 24-26, 119-123.

Sir Hugh, 119.

Thurston de, 119.

Stoughton, Israel, 103.

Stow, 74.

Swan (vessel), 11, 13, 14, 17, 23, 24, 27, 29, 31.

Sylvester, Richard, 66, 93.

[See Silvester.]

Symmes, Rev. Zechariah, 104.

Taunton River, 62.

Thacher, Rev. Peter, 69, 113.

Rev. Thomas, 69, 108, 151.

Thompson, David, 130, 134, 135, 137.

Character of, 135.

Never at Wessagusset, 135.

Thompson’s Island, 130.

Three Episodes of Massachusetts History, 121, 126.

Tirrel, John, 78.

Torrey, John, 61.

Jonathan, 98.

Joseph, 61.

Paul, verses by, 51.

Rev. Samuel, 69, 98.

William, 93, 98.

Troubles from paper currency, 78-80.

Trumbull, J. Hammond, 104, 106.

Tufts, Cotton, 47, 52, 55, 64, 71, 74, 75, 78, 85.

Upham, 36.

John, 46, 111.

Vane, Sir Harry, 141, 142.

Vinson, John, 62, 98.

Lieut., 82.

Virginia massacre, 21.

Walford, Thomas, 130, 134, 142.

Character of, 136.

Wampetuc, 95.

Warren, Joseph, “Solemn League and Covenant,” 73.

Waters, Henry, 123.

Wattawamat. [See Wituwamat.]

Weaver, Clement, 93.

Webacowett, Jonas, 95.

Webb, Christopher, 103.

Weld, Rev. John, 104.

Wessagusset [Wessaguscus] (early name of Weymouth), 12, 44, 86, 91, 94, 109.

Described in Wood’s N. E. Prospect, 44.

Distress in winter, 14-16.

Double name of, 35.

History indistinct from 1623 to 1628, 37.

Importance of its early history, 118.

Morton’s colony destroyed, 27.

Name changed to Weymouth, 100, 111, 116.

Original site of, 123.

[See Weymouth.]

Weston, Andrew, 133.

Thomas, 8-11, 89, 124, 125, 130, 133, 144.

Abandons Plymouth colony, 10.

At Wessagusset, 29, 133.

Character of, 10.

Dies in Bristol, Eng., 29.

Influence of, in settlements at Plymouth and Weymouth, 9.

Plans for settlement, 8, 9, 125.

Returns to England, 133.

Trials of his colony, 14-17, 21.

Weymouth, Action on Stamp Act, 71, 72.

Action on tax on tea, 72, 73.

Allowed a deputy to the Gen’l Court, 45, 111.

Arrival of Weston’s party 8.

their character, 11, 12.

Attack on, anticipated in the Revolution, 74-76.

Attitude at opening of the Revolution, 73-76.

Birth record, 93.

Bridge, 91.

Centre of the Gorges movement, 132.

Changes in, 88.

Chooses three deputies, 45, 111.

Church troubles, 102-111, 138.

Comparative size of, 94.

Clergymen, 66-70, 95-113.

Council, 1637, 102, 103, 111.

Council, 1639, 103, 104, 106.

Date of settlement, 7, 90, 91, 114.

Deaths in 1718, 98.

Deserters from Continental army paid, 80.

Distance from Boston, 55.

Episodes in its early history, 118-123, 144.

European contemporaries with its settlement, 6.

Expenses, 58, 82-84.

Extinguishes Indian title in 1642, 94.

Families in 1644, 107.

Facts as to early settlement, 94.

Ferry, 56, 91.

First twenty years, 87.

Fisheries, 62.

Grant for tanyard, 61.

Great snow-storms in, 64.

Holidays observed, 66.

In the Civil War, 76, 147, 148.

Intemperance in, 147, 153.

Jealousy of, 95.

Made a plantation, 45, 100.

Meeting-house burned, 50, 51, 152.

Morals of, 65, 152.

Number of families in, before 1644, 93.

Old North Church, organization of, 87, 88.

Origin of name, 90.

Originally called Wessagusset, 116.

Pisciculture in, 62.

Plague centre of prelatical poison, 142.

Population of, 1635, 93.

Post Office established, 150.

Probable date of settlement, 114.

Records, extracts from, etc., 48-50, 54, 57-66, 77, 78, 81, 82, 90, 92, 153, 154.

Religion in, 153.

Rival claimants to pastorate, 111, 112.

Rules concerning fires, 58.

Sad accident at, 66.

Schools, 57, 82, 83, 153.

School-master, 57.

Settlement antedates Boston, 127.

Sickness in, 52, 63.

Sketch of, by Cotton Tufts, 47, 52, 55, 64.

Soldiers and the Lord’s day, 66.

Soldiers in Canada campaign, 78-79.

Soldiers in Civil War, 79, 148-151.

Soldiers in Continental service, 77-81.

Snow-storm of 1717, 64.

Theory of pastoral succession, 113.

Town bounty to soldiers, 79-83.

Town debt, 77, 83.

Town meetings, 60, 61, 76.

Treatment of the poor, 153, 154.

Weston’s influence in, 9, 10.

Weymouth, England, 36, 90, 91, 93, 97, 101, 131.

Weymouth River, 13.

Wheelwright, Rev. John, 140-142.

White, Asa, 77.

Dr., 62.

James, 77, 78.

Samuel, 49.

Whitman, Capt., 77, 82.

Whitman’s Pond, 85.

Whitmarsh, Ezra, 61.

Whittier, John G., 118.

Wilson, Rev. John, 44, 103, 104.

Winnisimmet, 130, 135.

Winslow, Edward, 11, 17.

Winthrop, Gov. John, 34, 36, 87, 91, 93, 102, 106, 109, 127, 128, 135-139, 141, 144.

His map of Massachusetts, 123.

Visits Wessagusset and Plymouth, 34, 44, 91, 94, 134.

Winthrop settlement, contrasted with that of Gorges, 127, 128.

Theological and democratic, 127.

Wituwamat, 25-28, 119, 120, 122.

Wollaston, Capt., 37, 38.

Arrival of his company, 11, 12.

Settlement at Mt. Wollaston, 38.

Settlement broken up, 41-43.

Yarmouth, 100, 101.

York, Maine, 101.