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Iyanough described, 28; entertains settlers, 29; death, 32; remains found in East Barnstable, 32.
Jenkins, Chas. W., 342. Justices of common pleas, 367; 368. Judges of probate, 369.
Kenrick, Capt. John, discoverer of the Columbia River, 228.
King Philip's War commences, 108; character of Philip, 107; soldiers
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furnished by towns, 107; Narra- gansetts aid Philip, 109; Narra- gansetts lose 1000 men, 110; two Cape men wounded, 111; battle near Seekonk, 113; desertion and death of Philip, 114; attitude of Cape Indians, 116; war policy of government, 117; debt contracted by war, 118.
King George's War, 149.
Land division, 40; 50. Land committee appointed, 45. Latitude, 1; 13.
Laws of England ignored by the colonists, 38. Law Library association, 382. Laws printed, 89.
Leverich, Mr., arraignment and removal, 81. Lewis, Maj. George, died, 270. Lewis, Sam'1, 272.
Libraries, gift: Yarmonth, 292; Provincetown, 291; Orleans, 382; Harwich, 382; East Dennis, 382; Chatham, 383; Bourne, 383.
License for an ordinary, 59; to draw wine, 60.
Life saving service, 292.
Lighthouses; sites granted at Monomoy, Nobsque Point, Sandy Neck and Long Point, 270.
Liquor imported, 66.
Local court, 56.
Lothrop, John, arrived in Barn- stable, 48; character and educa- tion, 49.
Louisburg, siege of, 150; whaleboat fleet, 150; what it taught the colonists, 164.
Loyalists, 173.
Macadamized road, 310. Mail service, 286.
Manomet trading station, 35; 38.
Maritime business depression, 282; interests of New England, 237. Marston, Geo., 297; 348.
Marston, Nymphas, 280.
Mason and Slidell brought to Provincetown, 276.
Mashpee asks for larger liberties, 159; Indian plantation made a district, 270; land set apart for Indians, 325; made a town, 325. Mattacheesett, attempted settle- ment of, 43; grants, 59.
Matthews, Marmaduke, first min- ister of Yarmouth, 46.
Matthews, Nathan, 292.
Mayflower in Provincetown har- bor, 19; compact in cabin, 21.
Mayo, John, first minister of Eastham, 55; died, 120.
Medical organizations, 381.
Methodism, 157; growth and spread, 217.
Military discipline, liberty granted for, 60.
Military musters, 89.
Militia re-organized, 213.
Miller, Rev. John, 47; 82. Mirage, 10.
Monnamoit [see Chatham].
Money appropriated to teach children, 160.
Murder of Edith Freeman, 305.
Myrick, Rev. Osborn, 346.
Narragansetts, expedition against, 58.
Nauset [see Eastham.]
Newspapers, Nautical Intelligen- cer, 353; Barnstable Co. Gazette, 353; Barnstable Journal, 354; Cape Cod Journal, 354; Barn- stable Patriot, 354; Yarmouth Register, 354; Sandwich Observ- er, 355; Cape Cod News, 356; Provincetown Banner, 356; At- lantic Messenger, 356; Cape Cod Republican, 356; Provincetown Advocate, 356; Provincetown News, 357; Chatham Monitor, 357; Cape Cod Bee, 357; Sandwich Gazette, Falmouth Chronicle, 357; Harwich Independent, 358; Cape Cod Item, 358; Mayflower, 358; Sandwich Observer, 359; Falmouth Local, 359; Cape Cod Independent, 359; The Indepen- dent, 359; Barnstable County Journal, 360; Cape Cod News, 360; Wellfleet News and Sand- wich Review, 360; Provincetown Beacon, 360; Falmouth Enter- prise, 360.
Nickerson, Wm., has controversy as to land titles, 84.
Northmen visit the Cape, 8.
Orleans refuses to give tribute, 248; "Battle of Orleans," 249; church buys bass viol, 234; Os- born, Dr. John, 339.
Otis, Amos, 294; 312.
Otis, Col. James, president of
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Council, 182; character and death, 191. Otis, James, Jr., 155; 210. Otis, Gen. Jos., 233.
Packets, 285. Paine, Josiah, 342. Paine, Joshua H., 342.
Pamet [see Truro].
Parliament reimburses Colonists, 152.
Payne, John Howard, 352.
Perry, Mrs. Caroline T., 350.
Perry, Edward, 339. Pestilence among natives, 17.
Phinney, Sylvanus B., 349.
Phipps, Sir William, arrives in Boston, 134.
Pilgrims send out exploring party, 24; buying corn, 25; send explor- ing party to region near East- ham, 26; attacked by Indians, 26; coast along to Plymonth, 27.
Piracy suppressed, 145.
Pirate fleet shipwrecked, 146 ..
Population, 7.
Plymouth Colony, end of political existence, 131; divided, 123.
Pratt, Enoch, 342.
Prence, Thos., elected governor, 78; character, 87.
Prince, Rev. Thos., 339. Pring, Martin, 14.
Privateering, 250.
Province lands, 155; 161; 302.
Provincetown, diking harbor, 289; memorial tablet, 303; relations between people and English offi- cers, 205; at mercy of British, 188; in War of 1812-15, 241; ship containing "sundry Tories" cast ashore, 211; appropriations for harbor, 270; 162; 232; town hall and school house burned, 305.
Provincial Congress, 172.
Provincial legislation, 133.
Public debt, 154. Public highway laid out, 76. Public Schools, 313.
Public whipping given to Robert Harper, 89.
Quakers first appear, 90; laws against, 91; fines, 95; 98; punish- ments, 99; protests against per- secution, 101; doctrine and habits, 104; friendly feeling of Cape ministers, 105.
Queen Anne's War a detriment to
people and industries, 139; whale boat fleet, 139.
Railroads, 285; 293; 281. . Rates of payment, 60.
Rebellion, the: The Cape calls for troops, 274; incursions of rebel privateer Tacony, 275.
Reed, John, 269. Religious belief tolerated, 64. Religious indifference, 80.
Religious societies: Conference of Congregational churches, 379; Barnstable Baptist association, 379; Barnstable conference of Universalists, 380; Cape Cod conference of Unitarians, 380. Representatives in congress, 363. Representative government, 55.
Resistance, first overt act of, against Great Britain, 175. Revival of industries, 253.
Revolutionary War: Enlistment of Cape soldiers, 186; men draft- ed, 188; protection of coast, 197; call for men and supplies, 188; requisition for re-enforcement of army, 201; poverty of people, 203; Cape men taken prisoners, 209; Cape men who figured in events connected with the War, 207; mothers and daughters aid preparations, 183; death of actors in War, 223.
Richards, Mrs. A. M., 348.
Road built from Barnstable to Plymouth, 233. Ryder, Rev. Wm. H., 350.
Salt manufacture, 219.
Samoset appears before settlers, 27.
Sandwich: Reasons for remissness in furnishing troops for King Philip's War, 112; academy in- corporated, 225; people have liberty to seek refuge in garri- son, 120; two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, 300; glass factory established, 257; presented for not training, 61; grant of land to Matthias Ellis, 161; town buys land at Herring River, 100; small pox, 212; reward offered for kill- ing wolves, 233; attempt to divide town, 233; leave to erect cotton mill, 234; Rev. Mr. Burr dismissed from church, 252; appropriates money for meeting-house, 160.
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Sandy beach sold, 89. Sendder, Henry A., 348.
Sears, Ebenezer, guard over Major Andre, 265; first navigator east of Cape of Good Hope, 265. Sears, Philip H., 348. Sears, Richard and David, join English army, 162.
Senators, 365.
Settlement first made on the Cape, 39.
Shaw, Lemuel, 278. Smith, Capt. John, 16.
Smith, Rev. John, secedes from Barnstable church, 89; leaves Sandwich church, 132.
Soil, 2.
Somerset wrecked, 194.
Sparrowhawk stranded, 33; pas- sengers come to Plymouth, 34; hull exhumed, 34.
Squauto, 18; 29. Stage coaches, 285.
Stamp act, 166; repealed, 167.
Standish, Miles; makes expedi- tion, 31; deals with Indians, 32; settles land questions, 45; land granted, 61.
State board of agriculture, dele- gates to, 375, 376.
Stock raising, 64. Stone, Dr. Thos. N., 314. Sturgis, Wm., 279. Succanessett [see Falmouth].
Sunday observance, 73. Superior court at Barnstable, 155. Swift, Chas. F., 344. Swift, Frances E., 344.
Taylor, Samuel, 271. Taxing colonies, 166.
Tea controversy; Cape towns' attitude, 171. Telegraph and cables, 288.
Thacher, Anthony, grantee of Yarmouth, 44; shipwrecked, 36. Thacher, George, 262.
Thanksgiving first held, 50. Thoreau, 352.
Thornton, Thomas, 83; 330. Tragedy on high seas, 180.
Treat, Rev. Samuel, died, 161; 330. Tripp, Prof. Alonzo, 345.
Truro: Company raised for de- fence of the town, 212; attitude in tea controversy, 170; 171; feel- ing against whigs, 173; woods burned, 305.
Tupper, Elisha, Indian missionary, 233.
Tupper, Thos., 328.
Underwood, Rev. Nathan, 266.
Union of Massachusetts and Ply- mouth colonies, 129.
Unwelcome residents excluded, 39; 41.
Verrazzano, 10. Vessel cast away near Manomet bay, 59.
Vessels hauled up during Revolu- tionary War, 188. Vessel seized, 88.
War of Rebellion, expense of county, 276.
War of 1812-15: Sentiment of county, 236; 239.
War preparations, 57. Warren, Mercy, 340.
Weeks, Capt. Zenas, 348.
Wellfleet: Methodist society or- ganized, 233: railroad, 305.
West, Dr. Samuel, 226; 340. Whale captured, 271.
Whales, 20; drift controversy, 77.
Whaling, 318; towns engaged, 319; pursued at various places, 319; decline, 320; disposition of drift whales, 159.
Whigs, feeling against, 173. White, Peregrine, born, 27. Wild beasts, 6.
Winslow, Josias, succeeds Gov. Prence, 87; character, etc., 122.
Wittawamet plots against Stand- ish, 31; head as a trophy, 32. Wolves, bounty on, 88: 132.
Women's education, 72.
Woods, 2.
Wrecks: Gen. Arnold, 194; Jason, 302; Salem ships, 224; Friend- ship, 211; Wilkes, 212; America, 212; Commerce, 271; Cambria, 271; Eagle, 271; Ajax, 272; Granite, 272; Fortuna, 309; Jonathan Bourne, 309; Giovanni, 305; Nel- son Harvey, 308.
Yarmouth settled, 43; readjust- ment of boundary, 57; common lands, 142; troops in siege of Louisburg, 150; in Revolutionary War, 179; at Dorchester Heights, 183; sentiment regarding War of 1812-15, 238; two hundred and fif-
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tieth anniversary, 300; wharf destroyed, 272; Mashantampaine complained of, 88; controversy with Sachem Yanno, 88; town records burned, 120; men com- plained of as scoffers and jeerers at religion, 60; eastern part set off, 161; Rev. Greenleaf dismissed from church, 161; Ebenezer Tay-
lor imprisoned in a well, 161; Ichabod Paddock goes to Nan- theket to teach them how to kill whales, 132; small pox, 212; New Church society dedicate church, 301; society for prevention of intemperance, 270; Congrega- tional meeting-house and Public Library dedicated, 305.
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