Martha's Vineyard discovered, 1602. set-
tled by T. Mayhew, i. 265. natives of,
christianized, 292, 344. Indians in, 524.
Martinico, abortive expedition against, i.
447. taken by the English, ii. 110.
Maryland, patent of, i. 213. first colony
in, 221, 243. laws of, 250. house of as-
sembly in, 256. Indian war in, 267. re-
bellion in, 279. constitution of, settled,
293. divided into counties, ib. govern-
ment of, taken from lord Baltimore, 297.
insurrection in, 311. burgesses assume all
the power of, 312. dispute of, with New
Netherlands, 313. prosperity of, 315.
government of, reverts to lord Baltimore,
325. population of, 341. act for importa-
tion of slaves into, 358. population of,
386. occurrences in, 401. quo warranto
against, 421. William and Mary proclaim-
ed in. 429. church affairs in, 443. act of,
relating to the Indian titles, 468. capital
of, 473. church act of, 476. act of, against
popery, 489. population of, in 1733, ii. 5.
trade of, 8. population of, in 1755, 68, in
1763, 117. treatment of the stamp act;
the stamp master resigns, 138. provincial
congress, resolutions of, 194. cannon
found at the fort first built in, 508.
Mason, John, grant to, i. 175, 180. patent
of New Hampshire to, 199.

—, commands in the Pequot
war, i. 238. death of, 363.
Mass performed, for the first time, in Bos-
ton, ii. 370.

Massachusetts, bay of, explored, i. 171.
colony of, founded, 193. government of,
195. encouragement to settlers in, 196.
government of, transferred to the colony,
197. governor Winthrop and a colony ar-
rive, 202. church founded, and court of
assistants in, 203. first general court in,
205. fortified town begun in, 209. quali-
fications of freemen, 210. alarm from the
French in, 217. laws in behalf of the In-
dians of, ib. extent of, and first represen-
tatives in, 221. interference of the Dutch
with, 223. danger to, from the govern-
ment abroad, ib. Note XXVIII, 576.
opinion of the ministers of, about a gen-
eral governor of New England, 226. fun-
damental laws of, ib. quo warranto against,
227. various occurrences in, 234. patent
of, demanded, 246. body of laws for, 260.
exigencies of, 261. mission to England
from, ib. cold winter in, 262. progress of,
266. union of, with other New England
colonies, 269. division of, into counties,
270. attempt to establish presbyterian
government in, 271. general court of, di-
vided into two houses, 274. military state
of, 275. treaty between, and the French,
ib. impost on wines &c. in, 278. design

to introduce presbyterian government in,
suppressed, 281. act against Jesuits in,
285. laws of, printed, 287. execution for
witchcraft in, ib. union of Maine with,
296. north line of, run, 298. spinning in,
304. quakers banished from, 307. Crom-
well's proposal to, 307. order about
preaching in, 310. quakers executed in,
312. complaints to the king against, 318.
Charles II. proclaimed in, ib. pena! iaws
of, against quakers suspended, 319. agents
sent over from, to England, 320. letter
from the king to the government of, 321;
how received and answered by, 322. li-
censers of the press in, 324. synod of the
ministers of, ib. line between, and
Plymouth settled, 335. disagreement of
royal commissioners with the general
court of, 338. militia and shipping of, 340.
king's order to the general court of, dis-
obeyed, 343. resumes the government of
Maine, 348. reformation of manners at-
tempted in, 349. treaty of, with Narra-
gansets, 370. is engaged in Philip's war,
369 et seq. controversy of, with Maine
decided, 388. state of, in 1678, 392. re-
forming synod in, 393. king's requisitions
evaded by, ib. agents of, dismissed and
province of Maine demanded of, 394.
New Hampshire separated from, 395.
complaint of the king against, 406, and
agents sent from, to England, 407. pub-
lic fast in, ib. quo warranto threatened,
and refusal of, to submit, 407, 408. rise
of parties in, ib. quo warranto issued
against, 410. deprived of its charter, 412.
government of, assumed by Sir E. Andros,
419. Indian churches in, 422. opposition
in, to Sir E. Andros, and agent sent to
England, 425. revolution in, and Andros
imprisoned, 427. charter of, resumed, 428.
William and Mary proclaimed in, ib. ap-
plies to the other colonies for assistance
against the Indians, 431. bills of credit
issued by, 432. new charter of, and con-
stitution of the government under it, 436.
trials for witchcraft in, 437. act respect-
ing the French, 441. act respecting
taverns in, 452. French encroachments
on, 470. number of Indians in, 471.
act of, against vagabonds, 473. act of,
against Jesuits, 476. dispute of the gen-
eral assembly with the royal governor of,
483. duty on imported negroes in, 487.
boundary of, 511. trade of, 518. lotteries
suppressed in, 522. act against idleness
in, 524. population of, in 1722, 529. ex-
planatory charter of, 538. controversy
of, with governor Burnet, 542. commer-
cial state of, 551.-Population of, in
1735, vol. ii. 6. township granted to the
Indians by, 9. boundary of, and N. Hamp-

shire settled, 16. ship building in, in 1741,
17. population of, in 1742, 20. military
establishment of, 21. defensive prepara-
tions of, for the French war in 1744, 23.
part taken by, in the taking of Louisburg,
27. law of, against theatricals, 42. excise
act in, 58. jealousy of the general court
ol, and controversy with lord Loudoun,
75. stamp act in, 98. dispute in, about
writs of assistance, 104. forces raised by,
in 1762, 112. population of, 117. opposi-
tion of the assembly of, to the acts of
trade, and to executive encroachments,
119. insolvent law in, 120. instructions
to its provincial agent at London, 125,
132. passes resolutions against the stamp
act, and proposes a general congress, 134.
house of representatives makes its debates
public, and provides a gallery, 148. justi-
fies its conduct toward the Indians; ob-
servations of John Adams upon it, 150,
151, N. assembly vote to petition to the
king; purport of the petition; addresses
a circular letter to the other colonies,
which gives umbrage in England, but
which it refuses to rescind; is dissolved
by the governor; petitions for the removal
of governor Bernard, 151–155. complains
to the governor of an armament by sea
and land investing Boston, and of a mili-
tary guard at the state house, and ex-
presses an expectation of his removal of
them; declines to do business while sur-
rounded by an armed force; and is ad-
journed by the governor to Cambridge;
passes resolves expressive of complaints,
and is prorogued by the governor; gover-
nor Bernard is recalled, leaving his gov-
ernment to the administration of lieut.
governor Hutchinson, 161, 162. assem-
bly is postponed by the lieut. governor,
and to meet at Cambridge; message
and reply, 168. controversy about the re-
moval of the general court, 170. popula-
tion of, 176, 354. resolutions of, express-
ing dissatisfaction with the new regulation
by which the governor is to have his
support from the crown, which they de-
clare an infraction of their charter, 177.
towns in, approve the proceedings of
Boston, 178. line between, and New York
settled by commissioners, 183. annual
election, general court meets at Salem,
advises a general congress, and chooses
delegates; the measure is adopted by the
colonies, 188. affairs of, inauspicious;
Suffolk resolves; members chosen for
the legislature form a provincial assembly,
and take measures for the defence of the
province, 191, 192. act of British govern-
ment for regulating the government of
the province, 197. See New England.

provincial congress, resolutions of, and
military preparations, 203. despatch to
Great Britain an account of the battle of
Lexington, to prove that the British troops
were the aggressors, 206. renounce general
Gage, 208. general court vote to fit out
armed vessels; pass an act for the defence
of the sea coast; provincial congress pass
a law to encourage a naval armament, 224-
226. constitution of, framed and adopted,
318. court of sessions erected, 342. in-
surrection in; governor's proclamation,
358. act for a mint, 360. insurrection con-
tinues in; general Shepard fires on the
insurgents; they take post at Pelham;
general Lincoln marches against them,
surprises and disperses them; commis-
sioners appointed, and the insurrection
terminated, 361–363. dispute with New
York about lands, settled, 365. appropri-
ates land in Maine for a seminary of learn-
ing, 369. law for grammar schools, 376.
act for regulating hackney coaches, 406.
Indians in, ib. charter and general laws
of the colony and province of, published,
471. boundary line established, 517.
Massachusetts, fort, taken, ii. 32.
Massacre, in Virginia, i. 175. 276. in North
Carolina, 507. at fort William Henry, ii.

75.

Masassoit visits Plymouth, i. 167. is visit-
ed by colonists, 169. conspiracy disclosed
by, 180.

Massawomeks, Indian mission to, i. 361.
Matapan, or Dorchester, i. 202.

Mathematical and physical essays, ii. 424.
Mather, Cotton, death of, i. 544.

Increase, agent of the colonies in
England, i. 425. death of, 532.

Nathaniel, death of, i. 416.

Richard, death of, i. 353.

Samuel, death of, ii. 357.

Maverick, John, death of, i. 237.

Maxcey (Rev. Dr.) first president of South
Carolina college, ii. 423.

May, Henry, wreck of, on the Bermudas,
1593.

river, discovered, 1562.
Mayhew, Experience, death of, ii. 87.

Meigs, Josiah, first president of the Uni-
versity of Georgia, ii. 420.
Melendes, commander of a Spanish fleet,
sent against fort Caroline, 1565. his cruel
massacre at that place, ib. his fate, Note
XV, i. 568.

Mendana discovers the Solomon islands,
1567.

Mendocino Cabo discovered, 1542.
Mendon incorporated, i. 347. Indian hos-
tilities at, 371.

Mendoza's expedition to la Plata, 1535.
to explore the coast, 1540.

Mercantile library in Philadelphia, ii. 499.
Mercenaries, foreign, employed to aid in
the subjugation of the colonies, ii. 237.
Mercer, general, killed in the battle of
Princeton, ii. 261.

fort, at Red Bank, evacuated, ii.

268.
Merrimack, sachem of, submits, i. 280.
river, bridge over, ii. 401.
Meteor, extraordinary, seen in Connecti-
cut; makes several explosions, and throws
out heavy masses of stone, ii. 435.
Methodists, in the United States, ii. 395.
church in Boston, 405.

Methuen incorporated, i. 536.

Mexico discovered, 1518. invasion of, by
Cortes, 1519, &c. et seq. retreat from,
1520. siege of, 1521. last assault; cap-
ture of, ib. city of, rebuilt, 1523. bap-
tism in, 1524. university founded in, 1551.
inundations of, 1553. printing in, 1569.
origin of, Note IX, i. 563.

Miantonomoh, sachem of the Narragan-
sets, i. 236. suspicions against; his war
with Uncas, and death, 272.

Michigan, American government of, ii.
457. population of Wastenaw county, 518.
Middletown settled, i. 295. made a city,
ii. 353.

Midway, in Georgia, burnt and plundered,
ii. 289. See Note VIII, 527.
Mifflin, fort, attacked by the British, and
evacuated, ii. 268.

Milan decree, French, ii. 436. revoked,
448.

Military rank, regulations concerning, ii.
69.

Militia in Massachusetts, i. 275; in 1665,
340; in 1722, 529; in 1730, 548. in Prov-
idence, ii. 279. of South Carolina, 390.
of the United States, 415. acts of con-
gress respecting, 448. demand for, to be
placed under United States officers, not
consented to, 449. organized for service,
463.

Milton incorporated, i. 325. new grant of,

413.

Minas, N. England troops sent against the
French at, are taken, ii. 32.

Ministers in New England, influence of,
i. 226. mission of, to Virginia, 264. in-
vited to the Westminster assembly, ib.
in Virginia, law for the conformity of,
271. of Massachusetts, synod of, 324.
number of, in New England, 480. in
England restrained from going beyond
sea, 234.

Minot, George R. death of, ii. 424.
Mint, first in N. England, i. 297; in Mary-
land, 325. act for establishing one, and
regulating the coins of the United States,
ii. 392.

Mishawum, settlement at, i. 194. Charles-
town founded at, 198.

Missilimakinac, furs carried from, to
Montreal, i. 448.

Mission school, foreign, at Cornwall, ii.
504.

Missions. See Societies.

Mississippi, discoveries on, i. 303, 365,
399. taken possession of by the French,
472, 477. exports from, 516. colony at,
517, 520. navigation of, as settled by the
treaty of 1763, ii. 114. settlements at,
rapidly increase, 183. navigation of, to be
free and open, 349. ascended to its source
by lieut. Pike, 432.

Territory erected into a distinct
government, ii. 416. state, admitted into
the Union, 483. legislature of, pass an act
to establish a literary fund for support of
education, 499.
Missouri Indians, i. 534.

river, expedition of Lewis and
Clarke for exploring, ii. 432.

State of, admitted into the U-

nion, ii. 496.
Mistic, fort of the Pequots, destroyed, i.

239.

Milford settled, i. 253.

Mitchel, Jonathan, death of, i. 350.
Mobile, district of, established, and a port
of entry, ii. 428.

Mohawk Indians, i. 285, 344. See In-
'dians.

river, bridge over, ii. 401.
Moheagan lands granted to Connecticut,
i. 312.

Molang, the French partizan, ii. 85.
Monamet, trade at, i. 191.
Monckton, general, wounded at Quebec,
ii. 94. commands against Martinico, 110.
Monitor, a periodical paper relative to the
disputes between Great Britain and Amer-
ica, published in Virginia, ii. 159.

-'s letters, by Arthur Lee, on colo-
nial rights, ii. 165.
Monk's Corner, American cavalry sur-
prised at, ii. 307.

Monmouth court house, battle at, ii. 284.
Monroe, James, elected president; speech

at his inauguration, ii. 482. re-elected;
speech; progress of the United States,

495.

Montcalm, M. takes fort Oswego and fort
George, ii. 70. takes fort William Henry,
74. is killed on the plains of Abraham, 94.
Montezuma, king of Mexico, sends ambas-
sadors to Cortes, 1519. commands him to
depart; meets Cortes; is taken prisoner,
and submits to the Spaniards; his death,

1520.

Montgomery, expedition of, against the
Cherokees, ii. 101.

general Richard, expedi-
tion of, to Canada; takes Chamblee, St.
John's, and Montreal; joins colonel Ar-
nold in an assault on Quebec, and is
killed, ii. 220-224.

Fort, taken by Sir Henry

Clinton, ii. 276.
Montmorency, general Wolfe repulsed at,
ii. 90.

Montreal, 1535. i. 268, 298. descent of
Indians on, 430. population of, ii. 78. in-
vested and taken, 100.

Monts, sieur de, patent to, 1603. voyage
of, 1604. Note XIX, i. 571.
Montserrat settled, i. 216.
Moody, Joshua, death of, i. 467.
Moore, governor of Carolina, abortive ex-
pedition of, against St. Augustine, i. 483;
against the Apalachians, 485.

Mooshausick, Providence founded at, i.

233.

Morales discovers the Pearl Islands, 1515.
Moravians in Pennsylvania, ii. 17. in
North Carolina, 44. settle at Labrador,
174. on the Muskingum, 179. Indians
baptized by, ib. N.

Morehead, John, death of, ii. 184.
Morgan, Henry, the bucanier, i. 345.
John, death of, ii. 486.

Morris, Robert, death of, ii. 434.
Morse, Jedidiah, death of, ii. 534.
Morton, Charles, death of, i. 472.

Thomas, i. 188. disorders of, at
mount Wollaston, 189. seized and sent to
England, 194.

Mosely, captain, in Philip's war, i. 370,

374.

Motte, fort, taken by the Americans, ii.
325.

Moultrie, William, death of, ii. 432.

fort, on Sullivan's island, ii. 244.
surrenders to the British, 308.
Moultrieville settled, ii. 390.
Mount Hope granted to Plymouth, i. 400.
Muhlenburg, Henry M. death of, ii. 367.
Murray, general, at the taking of Quebec,
ii. 91. commands the garrison of, 94, 99;
and defends the city against the French,
99.

William Vans, minister at the

Hague, envoy to France, ii. 413.
Muskets made at the armory at Spring-
field, ii. 412.
Muskingum, ii. 370.

N

Namasket burnt, i. 370, 380.
Nansamand, settlement at, i. 134.
Nantasket incorporated as Hull, i. 275.
Nantucket settled, i. 313. Indian church
at, 344. whale fishery of, 433.
Narraganset Indians, war threatened by,
i. 176. treaty with, 236. war threatened
with, 277. lands bought of, 312. See
Indians.

Narvaez defeated by Cortes, 1520. lost
on an expedition to Florida, 1528.
Nash, general, killed at the battle of Ger-
mantown, ii. 267.

Natchez Indians discovered, i. 481. French
massacred by, 545. extirpated, 549.

--, townships and settlements at,
and the vicinity, ii. 183.
Natchitoches, i. 517.

Natick, Indian government at, i. 294. first
Indian church at, 317.

Natural History, professorship of, found-
ed at Cambridge, ii. 430.

Naval stores, act of parliament to en-
courage their importation, i. 489. engage-
ment, ii. 329. armament, act of congress
for, 398.

Navigation act passed, i. 294. confirmed,
314.

of Edisto and Ashley rivers,
act for improving, ii. 366. internal, of
New York, 445.

Navy Yard of the United States at Phila-
delphia, ii. 421.

Naumkeak discovered, i. 188. Salem
founded at, 193.

Necessity, fort, built by Washington, ii. 54.
Negroes, importation of, into Hispaniola,
1508. trade of English in, 1562. first in-
troduced into Virginia, i. 165. justice of
Massachusetts government with regard
to, 278. introduced into Carolina, 357.
laws to prevent insurrections of, in Vir-
ginia, 397. company for transporting, 481.
attempt of Boston to suppress the slavery
of, ib. duty on, in Massachusetts, 487.
in South Carolina, 547. number imported
in 1731, 550. insurrection of, in S. Caro-
lina, ii. 10. treaty with, in Jamaica, 11.
Nelson, fort, taken, i. 452.
Neutrality, proclamation of, ii. 394.
Neutral rights violated, ii, 438.
Neutrals, French, expelled from Nova
Scotia, ii. 60.

Neuville, M. de, arrives, minister pleni-
potentiary from Louis XVIII, ii. 480.

Newark, Upper Canada, burnt by general
M'Clure, ii. 459.

Bermudas, in Virginia, i. 140.
Newbury settled, i. 227.

Newburyport, first newspaper printed at,
ii. 184. fire in, 444.

Newcastle incorporated, i. 362. popula-
tion of, 543.

Newce, W. marshal of Virginia, i. 173.
New England, voyage of Smith to, i. 147.
his attempts to colonize it, 150. trade to,
151, 154. restraint on trade of, 179. R.
Gorges governor general of, 183. alarm
from the French in, 217. dangers to,
from the government abroad, 223, and
from Indians, 224. great storm in, 229.
proclamation of the king concerning, 241.
confederation in, proposed, 243. progress
of, 266. proposition for confederation in,
268. union of the colonies of, established,
269. resolve in favour of, by the house of
commons, 273. extraordinary meeting of
the commissioners of, 277. war of, threat-
ened with the Narragansets, ib. removals
from, to England, [282. trade of, with
West Indies, 285. commission for settling
the affairs of, 333. expedition of the In-
dians of, against the Mohawks, 352. jeal-
ousy of, in England, 358. union of, re-
newed, 361. number of churches and
towns in, 362. population and state of,
in 1673, 364. war of king Philip with,
369 et seq. effects of this war upon, 384.
complaints in England against, 384. first
collector of customs in, 394. president of,
appointed, 415. government of, given to
Sir E. Andros, 419. New York and the
Jerseys added to the jurisdiction of, 420.
revolution in, 427. design of, against
Canada, 432. progress of, in 1696, 459.
Indian churches in, ib. cold winter and
scarcity in, 463. threatened invasion of,
ib. expedition from, against Port Royal,
496. descent of French and Indians on,
498. great snow in, 518. synods abolish-
ed in, 536. furnaces and forges in, 551.
throat distemper in, ii. 6. shipping of, 21.
Louisburg taken by the combined forces
of, 27. defeat of the troops of, sent against
the French at Minas, 32. population of,
in 1750, 43; in 1760, 103. bill for re-
straining the trade and commerce of, to
Great Britain &c. passed in parliament,

200.

Newfoundland discovered, 1497. visited
by Cortereal, 1500. fishery of, 1504, 1517.
state of, 1522. voyage from England to,
1536. fishery of the English at, 1548.
See Fishery. fishing voyage to, 1579.

Gilbert's voyage to, 1583. colony sent
to, i. 139. notices of, 143, 146, 150,
474, 480, 493, 516, 534. population and
fishery of, in 1732, 554. expulsion of
the French from, ii. 112. population of,

176.

New Gottenburgh destroyed, i. 304.

Hampshire, patent of, i. 199. separat-
ed from Massachusetts, 395. first assem-
bly of, ib. Mason arrives at, 401. state of,
in 1682, 408. printing in, ii. 73. bounda-
ries of, settled, 16. population of, 20. ec-
clesiastical convention of, 35. treatment
of the stamp act, 136. See Proclamation.
grants united with Vermont, 336. consti-
tution of, 352. insurrection in, 359.

Haven built, i. 245. lands purchased
and settled by the colony of, 260. union
of, with the other New England colonies,
269. complaints of, against the Dutch
and Swedes, 273. number of towns in,
279. college projected at, 302. laws of,
printed, 304. refuses to be united with
Connecticut, 321. is united with it, 338.
Yale College removed to, 516. plundered
by the British, ii. 299. made a city, 353.
trade of, 354.

Inverness, in Georgia, ii. 11.

Jersey, grant of, i. 333; early settle-
ments in, 335. Carteret governor of, 339.
insurrection in, 361. division of, into East
and West, 386. re-union of, 484. episcopal
church in, 517. population of, ii. 11, 28.
laws of, printed, 48. troops revolt, 334.

London founded, i. 288. expedition
of general Arnold against; burnt, ii. 335.
made a city, 353. menaced by a British
fleet, 458.

Newman, Samuel, death of, i. 333.
New Mexico discovered, 1580.

Netherlands, i. 146, 184, 187, 191,
231, 246, 250, 263, 266, 267, 273, 283,
292, 295, 300, 304, 313, 327, 334, 364,
366.

North and South Wales discovered,
i. 142.

Orleans founded, i. 517. state of,
527. trade of, ii. 24. independence pro-
claimed at, 303. decree concerning, 422.
battle of; saved, 466, 467.
Newport, Christopher, expedition of, to
the West Indies, 1592. carries out the
first permanent colony to Virginia, i. 126.
R. Island, congregational church
at, i. 459, 524, 543. shipping of, ü. 13.
state of, 109. taken possession of by the
British, 252. French fleet arrives at; plan
concerted to attack it; general Sullivan
passes over with his army to the island,
and besieges the town; French fleet
sails for Boston; battle on Rhode Island;
Americans retreat from the island; num-