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Abbott, Wilbur Cortez, "Western World Movement" (1500-1600), i, chap. i, pp. 1-22.
Abbot, Willis J., v, "Press and Publi- cations" (1889-1929), v, chap. xvi, PP. 479-503.
Abercrombie, General James, ii, 435, 438, 441-442.
Abington, i, 528; ii, 103, 104, 106; antislavery agitation, iv, 322.
Abnaki Indians, i, 130, 153; ii, 74, 77; v, 512; French influence, i, 81, 513; ii, 70, 72, 78, 85, 91, 428; conflict with, i, 518; ii, 63, 69, 71, 72, 74, 77, 78, 85-91 ; influence of Mass., ii, 72, 85; French influence, i, 81, 513 ; ii, 70, 72, 78, 85, 91, 428; canoe, i, 153; treaty, ii, 85; in Revolution, iii, 125.
Abolitionists. See Antislavery move- ment.
Aborn, George P., v, 381.
Acadia, relations with Mass., i, 235, 471, 492, 502-505, 507-511, 514-517 ; ii, 69-70, 428 ; fishing grounds, i, 455, 496, 497; expeditions against, ii, 4, 67-68, 79-83, 425, 428; French sup- ply ship, 76; English territory, 85, 421, 428.
Acadians, deported, ii, 260, 430; v, 509. Accessory to a crime, conviction, iv, 53.
Accidents, authorities, v, 30. See also Safety; Suits at law ; also other spe- cific entries.
Accounts, in terms of English money, ii, 201.
Achin, Henry, v, 22.
Act of Settlement (1701), ii, 171.
Act of Supremacy, i, 7.
Act of Trade (1696), ii, 17-18.
Act of Uniformity, i, 8, 476.
Acts of Trade. See Molasses Act; Navigation acts; Sugar Act; Town- shend Acts.
"Active" (brig), iii, 35, 37, 60.
Acton, founded, ii, 106; in Revolution, ii, 575-577; iii, 100; Mass. constitu- tion, iii, 183.
Adams, Mrs. Abigail (Smith), iii, 220, 248, 306, 310, 312, 315, 320, 328, 335, 358; in Europe, iii, 239, 306; let- ters, ii, 314, 315, 316; iii, 222, 315, (fac simile) opp. 220; portrait, opp. 310.
Adams, Abijah, iii, 425, 453.
Adams, Brooks, v, 640, 647, 648, 650. Adams, Charles Francis (1807-1886), politics, iv, 96, 97, 283, 297, 475, 476, 483, 596, 597, 601 ; U. S. Congress, 284, 504, 505 ; diplomat, 284, 597.
Adams, Charles Francis (b. 1866), v, 188, 662.
Adams, Charles Francis (1835-1915), iv, 614; v, 29, 362. Adams, Edward Dean, iii, 214.
Adams, Henry, v, 315.
Adams, Rev. John, ii, 530.
Adams, President John, iii, 212-249,
310; lawyer, ii, 173-174, 175, 178, 180, 186, 189, 483, 503; iii, 170, 225; influence of others, ii, 177, 178; iii, 319; public career, ii, 178, 250, 557; iii, 67, 93, 155 ; rebel, ii, 528; in Con- tinental Congress, ii, 545, 547, 550; iii, 22, 78, 83, 104, 141, 144, 154, 159,
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160, 162-164, 168, 169, 174; military interest, iii, 140-145, 159, 234; in France, iii, 170, 235, 310, 328; in Holland, iii, 171; Mass. Constitu- tion, iii, 116, 189, 198, 200, 201, 206, 209, 236; iv, 4, 33; v, 188; offices, iii, 230, 410; presidency, iii, 422-428, 455; library, v, 271 ; state papers, iii, 104; writings, ii, 313, 314, 315, 316; iii, 237, 238, 247, 402, 447; views, ii, 510, 535 ; iii, 65, 71, 79, 156, 160, 168, 169, 173, 230, 313, 328, 331, 475; characteristics, ii, 180, 503 ; iii, 371, 422, 423 ; eulogy by Webster, iv, 115, 211 ; anecdotes, iii, 172, 320, 417; v, 513 ; birthplace, (illus. opp.) iii, 234; portrait, ii, frontispiece.
Adams, President John Quincy, iii, 224, 314, 332; iv, 70; diplomatic service, iii, 235, 328, 435; Secretary of State, iii, 246, 435; politics, iii, 246, 414, 434, 456, 465; iv, 77, 82- 85; in U. S. Congress, iii, 434, 457, 540; iv, 88, 284, 287, 288, 295, 332, 339; lawyer, iv, 70; presidency, iv, 283, 292, 304, 305; abolitionist, iv, 294, 295, 311, 325; writings, ii, 316; iii, 447; iv, 210; characteristics, iii, 434; views, iii, 475; iv, 81 ; portrait, opp. iv, 294.
Adams, John Quincy (1833-1894), iv, 593, 595.
Adams, Samuel, Sr., ii, 140, 245; iii, 226.
Adams, Governor Samuel, ii, 491; iii, 226; politics, ii, 145, 149, 151, 251- 253, 313, 472, 490, 557; iii, 67, 93, 226, 400, 409, 416, 437, 442, 448 ; efforts for independence, ii, 153, 505, 507, 510, 527-528, 540; iii, 213 ; op- pression opposed, ii, 241, 249, 498, 500, 509 ; offices, ii, 244, 250,, 491 ; proscribed, ii, 313; iii, 227; Conti- nental Congress, ii, 544, 545, 565; iii, 94, 154, 160, 164, 165, 167, 174, 177, 227, 233; Secretary of the Common- wealth, iii, 69, 93, 112; Mass. consti- tution, iii, 116, 189, 190, 192, 201,
236; military interest, iii, 142, 146, 148; Constitution of U. S., iii, 398, 400; governor, iii, 420, 449-451 ; political writings, ii, 250, 311, 312, 316, 555; iii, 92; views, ii, 234; iii, 503 ; popularity, ii, 126; iii, 78 ; char- acteristics, ii, 145; iii, 225 ; ancedotes, ii, 253, 555, 565, 568; Great Incen- diary, ii, 522, 528 ; portrait, ii, 540. Adams family, iii, 213, 252.
Adams (Mass.), name, iv, 349; road to Charlemont, iv, 364.
"Adams" (U. S. frigate), iii, 492.
Adjutant-general (Mass.), v, 29, 592. "Admiral Duff" (H.M.S.), iii, 35.
Admiralty districts, ii, 186; iii, 39; Maine, iii, 548.
Advertisements, ii, 228, 230, 260, 262, 359, 360; iii, 284, 288, 296; along public ways, v, 648; fac similes, opp. ii, 262, 276.
Advocate General of the Crown, ii, 421.
African Company, i, 94.
Agamenticus (Me.), i, 197, 198, 201, 227.
Agassin, Louis, portrait, opp. v, 324. Agassiz, Alexander, v, 163, 264, 298. Agassiz, Louis, iv, 185; v, 150, por- trait, opp. v, 324.
Agawam. See Ipswich; Springfield ; Wareham,
Age, extreme, ii, 373; average length of life, iii, 281.
Agents, fiduciary, v, 45.
Agents in England, of Mass., i, 563, 599 ; ii, 4, 34, 84, 129, 132, 137, 147, 436, 473; of Plymouth, i, 78.
Agents in Europe of United Colonies, iii, 169, 170, 235.
Agrarian movement, iii, 368, 416.
Agriculture, causes of decline, i, 25; industry, 33-34, 264, 265, 421; ii, 391-394; iii, 356, 503; iv, 75, 174, 372-399; V, 431; poor basis for trade, i, 34, 45; primitive, 71, 146- 147, 533 ; fish fertilizer, 71, 147, 424 ; regulation, 87; iv, 351; Indian, i,
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146-148, 249; crops, i, 148-149, 422; ii, 391; iii, 357; iv, 379 ; implements, i, 423; iii, 357; iv, 373-375; fertile regions, i, 496; statistics, ii, 394; iv, 379; societies, iii, 358; iv, 382, 385; improvement, 358; v, 261; fairs, iv, 382, 384; centrally directed, 383; State authorities, 386; v, 32; State investigations, iv, 385; convention, 386 ; instruction, 388-395 ; experimen- tation, 393 ; Sunday privileges, v, 47. See also Massachusetts Agricultural College.
Air service, v, 422.
Aircraft, Sunday privileges, v, 46, woman pilot, v, 218; embargo, v, 226; development, v, 264.
"Alabama" (Confederate vessel), iv, 457; claims, iv, 597.
Alabama (State), iv, 555, 567, 574. Albany (N. Y.), Indian troubles, ii, 66-68, 78, 80, 89; quarrel with Leis- ler, ii, 68; French and Indian War, ii, 427, 442; capitol, iv, 241 ; rail- roads, iv, 425, 427, 428.
Albany Bank, iv, 359.
Albany Congress (1754), ii, 422, 456. Alcott, Amos Bronson, iv, 190, 207, 276; v, 148, 221.
Alcott, Louisa May, v, 207, 218, 498.
Alden, Ichabod, iii, 132.
Alden, John, Sr., i, 73, 86.
Alden, Captain John, Jr., ii, 70.
Aldermanic government, iii, 502.
Aldrich, Nelson Wilmarth, v, 181.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, v, 486, 487. "Alert" (English sloop), iii, 482.
Alexander (Indian), i, 540.
Alexander, Sir William, i, 202, 505, 508.
Alexandria (Va.), conference (1755), ii, 426.
Alfred (Maine), iii, 162, 561.
Algerines, iv, 91.
Algonquian Indians, i, 129, 519.
Alien Act (1798), iii, 241, 425, 451- 452.
Aliens, plaintiffs in federal courts, iii,
419; deportation, iii, 452, 509; li- belling an official, iii, 452.
Allen, Alexander V. G., v, 461.
Allen, Charles, iv, 70, 133, 303.
Allen, Ethan, iii, 161, 313.
Allen, Fanny, v, 535.
Allen, Frederick M., v, 560.
Allen, Governor Frank G., v, 16, 24. Allen, Gardner W., "Massachusetts in
the War of 1812," iii, chap. xvi, pp. 471-499.
Allen, John, iii, 125, 126.
Allen, John Weston, v, 124, 193.
Allen, Jolley, iii, 257-259.
Allen, Thomas, iii, 74, 183; iv, 369.
Allen, William Henry, iii, 484.
Allerton, Isaac, i, 78, 80, 85.
"Alliance" (vessel), iii, 59.
Alliances, in Revolution, iii, 160, 168; danger of European wars, 170. Almshouses. See Poor.
Allston, railroad, v, 417.
Allston, Washington, iv, 230.
Allyn, John, iii, 513.
Alton (Ill.), iv, 295, 327.
Amber, medicinal, iii, 285.
Ambergris, ii, 403.
"America" (vessel), iii, 59, 60.
"America" (privateer), iii, 494, 496, 543.
"America" (U. S. S.), v, 608.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, iii, 504; iv, 270; v, 286. American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, iv, 336.
American Antiquarian Society, iv, 249 ; v, 286.
American Anti-Slavery Society, iv, 294, 337.
American Archaelogical Society, iv, 237.
American Baptist Missionary Union, iv, 356.
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, iv, 356; v, 456.
"American Boy," v, 490. American College of Surgeons, v, 563.
American Colonization Society, iv, 315.
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American College of Surgeons, v, 217.
"American Cyclopedia," iv, 208.
American Electric Co., v, 384.
American Federation of Labor, v, 434 ; policemen, 190.
American Express Co., v, 407.
American Institute of Architects, iv, 247.
"American Jurist," iv, 47.
American Medical Association, v, 563. American party, iv, 76, 488-496; v, 524.
American Protective Association, v, 528.
American Railway Association, v, 412.
American Red Cross, v, 213, 220.
American System. See Roads; Tariff. American Union for the Relief and
Improvement of the Colored Race, iv, 318.
American Unitarian Association, iv, 254, 265.
American Woolen Co., v, 438. .
Americanization of immigrants, iv, 151, 541; V, 21I.
Ames, Adelaide, v, 215.
Ames, General Adelbert, iv, 582.
Ames, Fisher, iii, 398, 413, 414, 415, 429, 438, 448; U. S. Congress, 409, 418, 437; anecdote, iv, 41 ; portrait, opp. iii, 412.
Ames, Butler, v, 580, 593, 605.
Ames, Nathanael, ii, 283, 292, 293, 303-306.
Ames, James Barr, v, 106, 107.
Ames, Oakes, iv, 565; v, 160, 161.
Ames, Governor Oliver, iv, 607, 610; v, 160, 161.
Ames, William, i, 347.
Amesbury, Mass., founded, i, 57; in- dustries, iv, 383, 401.
Amherst, Sir Jeffery, ii, 304, 440, 442, 444.
Amherst (Mass.), founding, ii, 110; turnpike, iv, 364; colleges, iv, 190, 391.
Amherst College, iv, 190, 232, 368, 369, 389; library, v, 284.
Ammunition, sale to Indians, i, 238; ii, 164; preparation for Revolution, ii, 523, 571, 573; iii, 23; cannon balls, ii, 407; iii, 81.
Amphibious regiment, iii, 21.
"Amphitrite" (clipper), iv, 459.
Amusements, ii, 234, 254, 271-284, 360; iii, 290, 300; exclusion from, iv, 584; on Sunday, v, 45.
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- pany, ii, 233, 272; officers, ii, 301.
Anderson, Frederick Lincoln, v, 637, 662, 664.
Anderson, George Weston, v, 634, 640, 662, 664.
Anderson, Major Robert, iv, 504.
Andover (Mass.), founded, i, 57, 526; witchcraft, ii, 56; industries, iii, 41, 140; Mass. taxes, iii, 349; visited by Washington, iii, 417; schools, iii, 388, 504; iv, 177.
Andover Theological Seminary, iv, 333; v, 140, 281, 457.
Andrew, Governor John Albion, iv, 390, 495-497, 501, 554, 592, 611, 616; politics, 500-502, 558, 565, 566, 574, 593; in Civil War, 502-513, 516, 518, 520, 521, 524-528, 531-537, 540; abolitionist, v, 148; portrait, opp. iv, 532.
Andrew, John Forrester, iv, 607; v, 170.
"Andrew Jackson" (clipper), iv, 467, 468.
Andrews, Mrs. Fanny Fern (Phillips), v, 229.
Andrews, General George L., iv, 526. Andrews, Robert D., iv, 239.
Andros, Lady, i, 591 ; ii, 286.
Andros, Governor Edmund, i, 254, 404, 459, 512, 513, 516, 517, 582- 603 ; ii, 6, 64-65, 97-98, 327, 534; iii, 89; portrait, opp. i, 582.
Anesthesia, first public demonstration, (illus.), opp. v, 550.
Anemia, v, 563.
Anesthesia, v, 548, first public demon- stration (illus.), opp. v, 550.
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"Angel Gabriel," v, 525.
"Anglo-Saxon" (vessel), iv, 443.
Animals, cruelty to, i, 118; exhibi- tions, ii, 283. See also Game; Live- stock ; also different kinds of animals. Annapolis (Md.), convention (1786), iii, 370, 388.
Annapolis (N. S.), ii, 85, 421.
Anne, queen of England, ii, 274. "Anne" (vessel), i, 76, 264.
"Ann McKim" (clipper), iv, 439. Annuities, v, 357.
"Antelope" (brig), iv, 440. Anthony, Susan B., v, 203, 223.
Antifederalists, iii, 413. Antimasonry, iv, 76, 81-86, 121.
Antimonopoly party, iv, 605.
Antinomianism, i, 174, 177-180, 310, 396.
Antin, Mary, v, 474. Antioch College, v, 144.
Antiquities, preservation, v, 648.
Antislavery movement, early, i, 374; ii, 264; after Revolution, iii, 295, 297; iv, 312; development, 81, 90, 205-206, 309-341, 485-497, 552; v, 142, 147; party alignment, iv, 93, 97, 501 ; Southern violence, 322, 327; Boston vigilance committee, 476, 479; legislation, 492; in Kansas, 484-487, 493; disunionists, 503; Civil War period, 504. See also Fugitive Slave Act; Personal Liberty Bill.
Anti-Slavery Depository, iv, 320.
"Anti-Slavery Reporter," iv, 336.
Anti-Tuberculosis Association of Cam- bridge, v, 217. Antrim (N. H.), i, 63.
Appalachian Mts., boundary, ii, 424; iii, 175.
Appeal, right of, to England, i, 479, 484, 486, 563, 575; ii, 14, 19, 163, 168; to General Court, ii, 166; to superior courts, ii, 166, 247; iv, 66; to governor and council, ii, 185. Appendicitis, v, 550.
Appleton, Nathan, iv, 94, 287, 288, 358.
Appomattox (Va.), iv, 539.
Apprentices, Indians, i, 248; minors, 266, 284, 307-308; ii, 101, 266; bond, (fac simile) opp. i, 284; mar- riage, 303; paupers, ii, 266; inhabit- ants, 243.
Aquidneck (R. I.), i, 208, 209, 210, 2II, 212.
Arbitration, private disputes, iv, 65; labor disputes, iv, 606; v, 653; State board, iv, 606, 611, 614; v, 29.
"Archer" (clipper), iv, 460.
"Architectural Review," iv, 245. Architecture, iv, 225-237, 243-248; v, 156, 472; high buildings, 80.
Archives (Mass.), v, 268, 273.
"Arena," v, 491.
"Argentine Republic," battleship, v, 387.
"Argus" (U. S. brig), iii, 484. Arianism, iv, 260.
"Ariel" (vessel), iii, 59.
"Ariel" (clipper), iv, 440, 444, 468.
Aristocrats, in 16th century, i, 51 ; church members, 106; opposed de- mocracy, 109 ; clergy, 114 ; plutocrats, ii, 123, 493; iii, 408; loyalists, ii, 493; Federalists, iii, 369, 412; edu- cated persons, iv, 173.
Arithmetic, instruction, v, 306.
Arkansas (State), admission, iv, 567. Armed defence, right claimed, i, 102, 174; iii, 88; advocated, ii, 472, 556; iii, 88.
Armenians, iv, 160, 167, 169.
Arminianism, ii, 307; iv, 260. Armistice Day, v, 37, 629.
Armory Commissioners, iv, 614.
Arms, disarmament penalty, i, 311 ; iii, 263. See also Firearms; Militia. Armstrong, John, iii, 148, 489.
Army, colonial, King Philip's War, i, 253, 548-549; King William's War, ii, 74-75; scouts, 74, 79; substitut- ing, 74; Port Royal expedition, 83; Louisburg expedition, 421 ; pay, 429, 434, 441, 446; French and Indian War, 425-427, 429, 432-434, 437-438,
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441, 443, 444; commander-in-chief, 432, 435; officers' rank, 435, 440; commanders, 433, 435; equipment, 429, 434, 447-449 ; organization, 433 ; rangers, 439-440; rations, 447, 448, 449.
Army, Continental, enlistment period, ii, 254; iii, 142; method of warfare, iii, 3, 8; early organization, 4, 5, 17, 19; precise shooting, 9; incom- petence in, 17; commander-in-chief, 18, 160, 161; desertions, 21; ill- equipped, 20; armed vessels com- missioned, 21 ; Mass. troops, 129-138, bounties, 133-137, 142, 344 ;
re- cruiting, 133-136; substitutes, 136; relative rank, 139; officers, 139, 142, 146; nucleus, 159; pay supplemented by towns, 344.
Army (English), in Boston, i, 583; ii, 150, 152, 250, 313, 498, 502, 523, 524, 548 ; iii, 20, 25; quartering, ii, 144, 517, 518; support, ii, 250; "Sam Adams's regiments," 313; ignorance of America, 432; commander-in- chief in America, 435; intimidation of civilians, 505, 515; use illegal during peace, 517; desertions, 523, 526; boycott, 527; Prussian meth- ods, iii, 1-4, 9; firing exercise, 10; gallantry in action, 15; losses in battle, 16; captured troops, 129, 130. See also Military science ; also names of engagements, and other specific topics.
Army of the Potomac, iv, 513, 530, 532, 538.
Army of the United Providences of North America, iii, 32.
Army of the United States, com- mander-in-chief, iii, 149; early or- ganization, 149; proper peace establishment, 366; v, 226; war with France, iii, 426; War of 1812, 474- 477, 489; Civil War, iv, 512-513, 523-532, 535-540; v, 614; health, iv, 522, 528; draft, 532, 536; v, 610, 624; recruits from Mass., iv, 527,
538, 539, 540; v, 582, 611, 614, 619, 622, 630; veterans' influence, iv, 540; orders of the President, 557; at elections, 572, 577; withdrawn from the South, 572, 577; Spanish War, v, 175, 578, 614; World War, 175, 610, 614; bonuses from Mass., 334; U. S. Volunteers, 579; present organization, 594.
Army of the United States, infantry regiments: First, iv, 525; Second, 513, 526; Third, 578; Seventh, 526; Ninth, iii, 485; iv, 526; Tenth, 526; Eleventh, 526; Twelfth, 523-524, 527; Nineteenth, v, 580; Twenty- first, iii, 486; Twenty-second, iv, 528; Twenty-fourth, 513; Thirty- third, iii, 486; Thirty-fourth, 486; Fortieth, 489; Forty-fifth, 489; Fifty- fourth, iv, 535-536; One-hundred- and-first, v, 615, 616, 618; One- hundred-and-fourth, 615, 616, 617. Pioneer Regiments, v, 619; Tele- graph Battalion, 620; Ist Division, 623; 2d Division, 623; 26th Divi- sion, 615, 622, 629; (illus.) opp. v, 628; 42d Division, 616; 76th Divi- sion, 618, 621; 82d Division, 622. Sce also Militia; National Guard; also branches of service.
"Army Register," names of battles in, iv, 569.
Arnold, Benedict (d. 1678), i, 210, 366.
Arnold, General Benedict, iii, 125, 129, 130, 161.
Arnold Arboretum, v, 90, 264.
Arrowsic (Maine), ii, 88. Art. See Fine arts.
Art Commission for the Common- wealth, v, 30.
Arthur, President Chester Alan, iv, I37, 603.
Articles of Association (1774), iii, 156.
Articles of Confederation (1778), prec-
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edent of New England Confedera- tion, i, 256; drafts, ii, 458; iii, 167; ratification, iii, 167, 178; amend- ment, 370, 375, 378, 386; Article IX, iii, 173, 177; Article VIII, 177; Article XVII, 172, 174; Article XVIII, 175.
Articles of War, iii, 142.
Artillery, at Bunker Hill, iii, 13, 16; in siege of Boston, 20, 23-24; Ticon- deroga, 23; floating batteries, 24. See also Cannon; Ordnance.
Artillery troops (Mass.), in Revolu- tion, iii, 121, 126; in American Army, 149; in Civil War, iv, 527; in World War, v, 616, 617, 619, 620.
Artists. See branch of art affected. Arundel of Wardour, Lord, i, 193. "Aryan" (ship), iv, 467.
Ashburnham, founded, ii, 260; chair- making, iv, 408.
Ashburton, Lord, iv, 123, 298, 300, 302.
Ashby, vote on independence, iii, 102; roads, v, 62.
Ashfield, Mass. Constitution, iii, 197; poor relief, iii, 514.
Ashuelot Railroad, iv, 607.
Assembly, created by Provincial Con- gress, iii, 68, 182; speakership, iii, 80.
Assistants, Court of, number, i, 96, 103, 113-114 ; quorum, 96, 103; gov- ernment by, 103-104; records, 103, 105; legislative function, 103, 105, 106, 110, 173, 174; judicial function, 104, III-112, 114-116, 119-120, 173; ii, 164; elective power, i, 105, 169; choosing, 105, 106, 109; fined, 108; negative voice, 110-112, 113, 170, 174 ; separate body, 112; administra- tive power, 116, 119, 181; choosing military officers, 185.
Association of Delegates from the Benevolent Societies of Boston, iii, 520.
Association of Teachers of Mathemat- ics, v, 251.
Associations, suability, v, 37; wom- en's, v, 211.
Assos (Asia Minor), iv, 237.
Assumption College, v, 241.
Astor Library (N. Y.), v, 154.
Astronomy, v, 215.
"Astrea" (vessel), iii, 55, 538.
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R.R., v, 158, 160, 161.
Athearn, Walter S., v, 458.
Atheists, i, 407.
Atherton Land Company, i, 212, 213, 577, 587.
Athol, ii, II0; V, 381.
Antietam (Md.) battle, iv, 534.
Atkinson, Edward, iv, 245.
Atlanta (Ga.), exposition, iv, 144.
Atlantic City (N. J.), convention, v, 222.
"Atlantic Monthly," iv, 157, 213, 221, 557; v, 129, 486.
Atlantic National Bank, v, 347.
"Atlas" (newspaper), iv, 89.
Attleborough, founded, i, 529; name, ii, 104; agriculture, iv, 383; indus- tries, v, 390.
Attorney-general, appointing, iii, 73;
popular election, iv, 25; v, 40; of- fice, 29, 32, 40.
Atwood, Charles, iv, 239, 244.
Auditor of the Commonwealth, v, 32- 33, 40, 336.
Auger, invention, iv, 362.
Augusta (Maine), i, 78, 85, 195; ii, 86; capitol, iv, 229.
Aulnay, Charles de Menou d', i, 85, 235, 471, 502-505.
Austin, Ann, i, 402, 482.
Australia, packet ships, iv, 465. Austrians, iv, 161.
Automobiles. See Motor vehicles.
Avery, John, iii, 93, 109, 112, 115. Avery, Mrs. Mary, ii, 372. "Avon" (H.M.S.), iii, 488.
Ayer, camp, v, 612.
Azores Ids., emigration, iv, 162.
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B ACHELORS, i, 301.
Backus, Isaac, iii, 193, 197. Bacon, Daniel C., iv, 445, 457.
Bacon, Francis, i, 347; ii, 32.
Bacon, Gaspar G., "The State Consti- tution (1777-1780)," iii, chap. vii, pp. 182-210; iv, 445; v, 42.
Bacon, Henry, iv, 238, 247.
Bacon, John, iii, 425, 427, 453; iv, 368.
Bacon, William, ii, 436.
Badger, Joseph, v, 142.
Bagley, Mrs. Frederick P., "The Woman Movement in Massachusetts 1830-1930)," v, chap. vii, pp. 199- 232.
Bainbridge, William, iii, 481.
Bailey, Henry Turner, v, 156.
Baker, Newton Diehl, v, 604.
Baldwin, John Denison, iv, 565, 576. Baldwin, Loammi, iii, 129; iv, 366,
423; canal survey (map), opp. iv, 422.
Baldwin, Maria, iv, 585.
Ballard, Harlan H., "Western Massa- chusetts (1789-1861)," iv, chap. xii, pp. 345-370.
Ballot box, self-registering, iv, 613.
Ballots, early use, i, 109, 171 ; provin- cial period, ii, 236; secret, iv, 613; short, v, 633, 650.
Baltimore, Lord, i, 407.
Baltimore (Md.), battle (1814), iii, 487; clipper ships, iv, 439; Sixth Mass. infantry, iv, 508; v, 580; freight differential, v, 419.
Baltimore & Ohio R. R., v, 414.
Bancroft, Aaron, iv, 258.
Bancroft, George, iv, 92, 94, 288, 295, 555; v, 296, 310; offices, iv, 85, 87, 95, 283, 297; historian, iv, 208; v, 151.
Bancroft, General William A., v, 582. Bangor (Maine), captured in War of 1812, iii, 493; boom, iii, 578.
Bangor & Aroostook R. R., v, 414, 415. Banishment, heretics, i, 179, 184, 277, 3II, 396-397, 481; for resistance of
authority, i, 179, 277; thieves, ii, 228; Indians and Negroes, ii, 228; loyalists, iii, 266.
Bank of North America, iii, 363.
Bank of the United States (first), iii, 415, 416; iv, 288; (second), iii, 539; iv, 87, 109, 112, 121, 288.
Banking, early schemes, i, 577; ii, 129, 199; public loan bank, 208; private land bank, 140, 208-210, 217; merchants, 208, 210; iii, 307, 362; chartered banks, 363; control by Suffolk System, 578; incorpora- tion, iv, 20; redemption of notes, 20; capital requirements, 87 ; liability, 90; v, 346, 352, 353; depositaries of U. S. funds, iv, 288; State banks, 288; loans in war time, 518; savings banks, 602; v, 27, 342, 343, 4 345, 351, 355, 359 ; State supervision, 29, 30, 32, 341, 346, 352, 354, 355; payment of interest, 37; "immigrant banks," 27; nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 341-355; examination, 341, 352; statistics, 341, 343, 353- 355; national banks, 341, 343-348, 356; trust companies, 342, 343-348, 352, 355, 357; stocks and dividends, 344 ; failures, 341, 343, 346, 352; consolidation, 343, 347; Fed- eral Reserve System, 345, 349, 351, 607; clearing house, 350; gold re- serve, 351; cooperative, 353, 355; incorporation outside Mass., 354; private, 354, 355; investment serv- ice, 364.
Bankruptcy, State jurisdiction, iv, 113. Banks, Governor Nathaniel Prentiss, iv, 99, 475, 483, 495; in Congress, iv, 493, 565, 570; Civil War, iv, 532.
Baptism, i, 282, 307; iii, 285; denial to infants, i, 311, 394, 398, 399.
Baptists, i, 81, 178, 311, 394, 398; iii, 369; iv, 267, 356; v, 460; legisla- tion, i, 398; support of Congrega- tional church, ii, 270; toleration for, 337; legal standing, iii, 197, 505;
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iv, 11; settlement, iv, 354; missions, iv, 356; v, 139; school of theology, 461.
Bar. See Lawyers.
Bar Association of the City of Bos- ton, v, 110; officers, 124.
"Bar Bulletin," v, III.
Barbados, commerce, i, 218; slave trade, i, 270; Quakers, i, 402.
Barbers, racial discrimination, iv, 584.
Barker, John, ii, 524, 576.
Barlow, Joel, ii, 281, 317.
Barnard College, v, 316.
Barnes, Viola F., "The Revolution of 1680," i, chap. xxi, pp. 582-605; "Massachusetts in Ferment (1766- 1773)," ii, chap. xvi, pp. 488-511. Barnstable, founded, i, 59, 82-83, 88, 528 ; fisheries, iii, 531 ; camp, v, 585. Barnstable County (Mass.), settle- ment, i, 78; ii, 103, 110, 112.
Barré, Isaac, ii, 250, 477, 515, 517.
Barrels of stones to repulse British attack, iii, 25.
Barrett, James, ii, 551, 572-576.
Barrington (Mass.), iv, 349.
Barrington (N. S.), iii, 48.
Barron, Clarence W., v, 366; portrait, opp. v, 366.
Bartas, Guillaume du, i, 321.
Bartlett, Ruhl J., "Commerce and In- dustry (1789-1820)," iii, chap. xviii, pp. 526-545. Bartlett, Sydney, iv, 70; v, 99. Bartlett, William, iii, 38, 39.
Barton, Clara, v, 213.
Barton, Margaret, ii, 373.
Barton St. David (Eng.), iii, 213. Bartram, John, ii, 316.
Baruch, Bernard Mannes, v, 609. Bass, Bishop Edward, iv, 267.
Batchelder, Mrs. Frank Roe, v, 228. Bates, Governor John Lewis, v, 9, 23, 175; Mass. Constitution, v, 10, 188, 635, 660, 662; governor, v, 24, 175, 178.
Bates, Joshua, iv, 300.
Bates, Katherine Lee, v, 219.
Bath (Maine), "Sultan," iii, 562; shipbuilding, iv, 467.
Bathing facilities, v, 77, 78, 90. Batteries. See Artillery.
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