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"Battle Hymn of the Republic," iv, 541.
Battles, decisive, iii, 3, 25; iv, 534. Bauer, Frederic Gilbert, "The Massa- chusetts Militia (1889-1930)," v, chap. xix, pp. 570-597.
Baxter, Richard, i, 179; ii, 32, 36.
"Bay Psalm Book," i, 265, 338, 377; title page, (fac simile) opp. i, 374. "Bay State Democrat," iv, 87. Bay State Mills, iv, 418.
Beacon Hill (Boston), ii, 391; iii, 88. Bears, baiting, iii, 300.
"Beaver" (vessel), iii, 532.
Beaver skins, currency, i, 33, 433; trade, 33; value, 103. See also Fur trade.
Beaufort (S. C.), school, iv, 579.
Beaven, Bishop Thomas D., v, 472, 532.
Becket (Mass.), industries, iv, 361, 362.
Bede, Venerable, v, 539.
Bedford (Mass.), founded, ii, 106; in the Revolution, ii, 575.
Bedfordshire (Eng.), i, 61. Beecher, Henry Ward, iv, 367.
Beecher, Lyman, v, 141.
Beer, military ration, ii, 449, 450; manufacture and sale, v, 191.
Belcher, Governor Jonathan, ii, 129, 137-140, 203, 209, 314.
Belchertown (Mass.), ii, 110; iv, 362; State school, v, 59.
Belden, Charles F. D., "Libraries Pub- lic and Private (1800-1928)," v, chap. ix, pp. 267-293. Belfast (Maine), iii, 492.
Belgium, emigration, iv, 162. Belknap, Jeremy, ii, 314, 318, 534. Bell, Alexander Graham, v, 239.
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Bellingham, Governor Richard, i, 279, 344, 482, 485, 488; ii, 157.
Bellingham (Mass.), name, ii, 104; founded, ii, 106; parson, iii, 190. Belmont (Mass.), water supply, v, 86. Bellomont, Richard Coote, Earl of, ii,
16, 18-19, 21, 76, 78, 331; portrait, opp. ii, 76.
Bemis Heights (N. Y.) battle, iii, 130. "Ben De Ford" (steamship), iv, 526.
Benevolent Fraternity of Churches, iv, 274.
Bennett, Joseph, ii, 268, 389.
Bennington (Vt.) battle, iii, 129, 183.
Berardelli, Alexander, v, 126.
Berkley, founded, ii, 105.
Berkshire (Eng.), i, 57, 61.
Berkshire Agricultural Society, iv, 358, 363.
Berkshire County (Mass.), separation, ii, 105; iv, 347; settlement, ii, 105, 110, 112; courts vacant during Rev- olution, iii, 74; opposition to re- sumed charter, iii, 74; agitation for constitution, iii, 183; jealousy of the East, iii, 206; cotton industry, iv, 281; map, iii, inside cover.
"Berkshire County Eagle" (newspaper), iv, 370.
Berkshire Medical Institution, iv, 360; v, 544.
Bermuda, slave trade, i, 183; neutral- ity, iii, 47.
Bermuda Company, i, 94.
Bernard, Governor Sir Francis, ii, 146- 150, 435, 444, 469, 475, 478-482, 490, 498; iii, 93.
Bernardstown, founded, ii, III.
Bernon, Gabriel, i, 62.
"Bertram" (clipper ship), iv, 447.
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, v, 397. Beverages. See Drinking; Intoxicants. Beverly (Mass.), founded, i, 58, 529; industries, ii, 411; iii, 360, 511; iv, 305; v, 372; in the Revolution, iii, 32, 33, 44, 48; notables, v, 134, 296, 632; privateering, iii, 38, 42,
57; Mass. taxes, 349; population, 408.
Beverly Farms, monument, v, 220. Bex & Co., i, 62.
Bible, Geneva, i, 80; government by, 120, 176, 221, 243-244, 390, 487, 604 ; ii, 16, 162, 169-170; guide for all, i, 177, 384-385; ii, 44; interpretation by clergy, i, 179, 396; influence, 329- 330, 576; ii, 16, 32, 33; text book, i, 353; iii, 291, 313; popularity, i, 337-338; iii, 287; Indian transla- tion, i, 338, 372, 537; Quakers, 401 ; oath, 591, 595; witchcraft, ii, 31 ; distribution, v, 138.
Biddeford (Me.), founded, i, 196; Mass. constitution, iii, 194.
Bigelow, George Hoyt, v, 554, 561.
Bigelow, Chief Justice George Tyler, iv, 70; v, 654.
Bigelow, Henry Jacob, v, 550, 558, 565 ; portrait, opp. v, 550.
Bigelow, Jacob, v, 565.
Bigelow, Timothy, iii, 465; iv, 38.
Bilbao (Spain), neutral port, iii, 43.
Bill of rights, Massachusetts, i, 118; ii, 15; iii, 190, 195-202, 209; United States, ii, 312, 401, 421 ; uncommon, iii, 209.
Bill to alter the government of Mass., ii, 545.
Billerica (Mass.), founded, i, 531; school, ii, 375; Concord fight, ii, 579.
Billings, Charles W., iv, 374.
Bills of credit, ii, 69, 80; iii, 342, 540. Bills of exchange, i, 34, 45; fac simile, opp. iii, 352.
Bills of lading, legislation, v, 44.
Bingham, Caleb, iii, 312, 313.
Bingham, John Arende, iv, 559, 568; portrait, opp. iv, 558.
Bird, Charles Sumner, v, 184, 185, 633, 634, 651.
Bird, Francis W., iv, 573, 597.
"Birmingham" (U. S. S.), v, 397.
Birney, James G., iv, 94, 327, 335, 338; v, 147.
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Bishop, Mrs. Bridget (Oliver), i, 298;
ii, 39-40; warrant (fac simile), opp. ii, 40.
Bishop, Phanuel, iii, 424, 427.
Bishop, Elias Bullard, v, 24.
Bishop, Robert R., iv, 604.
Birthdays of royal family, ii, 273.
Black Ball Line, iv, 440, 465.
Blackmail cases, v, 124.
Blackstone, Rev. William, i, 18, 403.
Blackstone, Sir William, ii, 174.
Blackstone Canal, iv, 422, 427.
Blackstone River, sewerage, v, 331.
Blackwell, Alice Stone, v, 206.
Blaine, James Gillespie, iv, 600, 606; v, 170.
Blake, General John, iii, 150, 492. Blakely, Johnston, iii, 487.
Blandford, ii, 105; iv, 354.
Blasphemy, i, 276, 277-278, 313.
"Blessing of the Bay" (vessel), i, 38, 184, 264, 447.
Blind persons, care of, iii, 518; edu- cation, iv, 174; v, 210, 239; State commission, v, 30.
Bliss, Alvan E., v, 22.
Bliss, George, iv, 70, 364, 368.
Bloomer, Mrs. Amelia (Jenks), v, 203.
"Blue Jacket" (clipper ship), iv, 465. Blynman, Richard, i, 58, 60, 523. Board of Bar Examiners, v, 104.
Board of Conciliation and Arbitra-
tion, iv, 606, 611, 614; v, 29, 441. Board of Free Public Library Commis- sioners, iv, 154.
Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity, iv, 148; v, 56.
Board of Parole, v, 41, 55.
Board of Railroad Commissioners, iv, 613.
Board of Registration in Medicine, v, 29.
Board of State Charities, v, 29, 49, 51, 52, 56; institutions, 50, 59.
Board of Trade (Eng.), ii, 13, 17. Board of War (Mass.), iii, 36, 121.
Board of War and Ordnance (1775), iii, 141, 146.
Boards. See State boards.
Bodfish, John D. W., v, 653, 654.
Body of Liberties, i, 117-118, 123, 182, 269, 368, 481; ii, 159-160; cited, i, 118, 269, 280.
Bogan, Fred B., v, 579.
Boiler rules, State board of, v, 30, 450.
Bolan, William, ii, 436.
Bolton, founded, ii, 105.
Bombs, sent to officials, v, 128.
Borden, Lizzie, v, 122.
"Bon Homme Richard" (vessel), iii, 59.
Bonds. See Public debt.
"Bonita" (clipper ship), iv, 459.
Bonus Bill, iv, 292.
Bookbinding, ii, 410.
Books, private collections, i, 284, 312, 347, 372; ii, 342; publication, i, 284-285, 338; ii, 410; v, 494, 496, 500; censorship, i, 372; ii, 52; in Indian tongue, i, 372; Prince's New England Library, 365; school books, 372; iii, 291, 313; iv, 196; v, 499; burned, i, 402; ii, 52; law books, 159; iv, 47, 49, 51 ; foreign classics, iii, 287; scarce in homes, 287; pro- hibited imports, 351 ; free textbooks, iv, 607, 617; v, 169, 245; temper- ance text books, 610; reference books in public schools, 617. See also Bible; Libraries; also individual titles, and authors.
Booksellers, i, 285, 440; v, 494; women, ii, 373.
Boot and Shoe Workers Union, v, 434. Boston (Mass.), ii, 222-255; v, 68-96; before 1630, i, 17, 137; founded, 59, 100, 387, 525; early residents, 62; harbor fortifications, 102; cap- ital, 166, 415; histories, 375; pros- perity, 465, 480, 488; burying grounds, 404; description, 414-415; ii, 222, 389, 390; population, i, 416; ii, 223; iii, 20, 355, 408; iv, 76; V, 72, 74; industries, i, 428; iii, 360, 361 ; streets, i, 432; ii, 223, 226; iii, 26, 108; iv, 267, 614; v, 79, 88,
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494, 498; Mass. tax, i, 435; ii, 215; iii, 348; town house, i, 579, 583, 590, 601 ; ii, 175, 223, 235, 248; mob riots, 148, 471, 479, 503; iv, 323, 537; V, 521, 593; bridewell, ii, 223; coded ordinances, ii, 236; con- flagrations, 248; iv, 245, 596; dur- ing Revolution, ii, 254; iii, 4-26, 120, 252-259 ; political focus, ii, 490- 493; destruction suggested, 516; in- tertown rivalries, 520; supplied from outside (1774), 521, 525; Neck fortified by Gage, 526, 548, 552; blockade, iii, 82; independence cele- bration, 107-III ; royalist signs burned, III; fortified in Revolution, 120, 124; social change in Revolu- tion, 252; celebration of French Re- public, 447; House of Industry, 515; financial center, 578; city charters, iv, 5, 270; v, 69, 70, 72, 74, 78, 79, 82; shipping, iv, 305; "Hub," 449; v, 479; city bonds, iv, 596; wharves, v, 169, 420; growth, 70; government, 71-72, 74-83; bequests to, 87; iii, 520; City Planning Board, 89; planning, 89; zoning, 80, 89; street watering, 92; Health Department, 92, 557; port, 30, 420; illustrations, i, 464; ii, 390; iv, 450; maps, i, 464; ii, 226; iii, 8; v, 96. See also specific topics.
"Boston" (frigate), iii, 59.
"Boston" (U. S. frigate), iii, 471. Boston-Albany stage route, iv, 365.
Boston & Albany R. R., iv, 366, 425; V, 414, 417, 425; lease, v, 175, 401, 405, 411, 415.
Boston & Fitchburg R. R., iv, 75, 329, 428, 615; v, 418, 425; lease, v, 175, 401, 402, 420.
Boston & Lowell R. R., iv, 425; v, 417; roads absorbed, v, 402; control by Boston & Maine R. R., v, 402, 420; first train (illus.), opp. iv, 426. Boston & Maine R. R., v, 401, 405, 406, 413, 414, 416, 417, 418, 425; roads absorbed, 175, 402, 416;
control by N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., 178, 407, 410, 411, 416; bonds held by Mass., 329; territory served, 403; regional group, 415; electrifi- cation, 418 ; docks, 420.
Boston & Providence R. R., iv, 425; v, 403, 418, 425.
Boston & Worcester R. R., iv, 75, 367; V, 401.
"Boston American," v, 482. Boston Art Club, v, 220.
Boston Association of Ministers, ii, 233; iv, 266.
Boston Athenaeum, iii, 238; iv, 239, 270; v, 284, 514, 552; building, iv, 233 ; librarians, v, 154, 285, 291.
Boston Board of Trade, iv, 306. Boston Browning Society, v, 271. "Boston Centinel," iv, 322.
Boston College, iv, 186; v, 241, 265, 473, 524, 531; library, 283; build- ings, 472; (illus.), opp. 270, 530.
Boston College of Physicians and Sur- geons, v, 544.
Boston Common, British troops en- camped, ii, 442; Parkman Fund, v, 88.
"Boston Daily Advertiser," iv, 270, 423, 571; v, 152, 482.
Boston, Directors of the Port of, v, 30. Boston Dispensary, iii, 520.
"Boston Evening Transcript," iv, 322, 581 ; v, 481, 485, 661.
Boston Fatherless and Widows' So- ciety, iii, 520.
Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, iv, 323.
Boston Female Asylum, iii, 520.
"Boston Gazette," ii, 151, 311, 478 ; iii, II0; fac simile, opp. ii, 276.
"Boston Globe," v, 482.
Boston, Hartford & Erie Railroad, iv, 595, 615; v, 403.
"Boston Herald," v, 483.
Boston Herald-Traveler, building (il- lus.), opp. v, 482.
Boston Holding Co., v, 407, 416.
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Boston Independent Company of Ca- dets, ii, 551.
Boston Independents, iii, 122.
Boston Lancers, iv, 527. Boston Library, iv, 270.
"Boston Light" (clipper ship), iv, 459. Boston Light Infantry, iv, 358.
Boston Massacre, ii, 180, 184, 241, 502; orations, 251, 253, 554.
"Boston Medical & Surgical Journal," v, 543, 547.
Boston Medical Library, v, 290, 551. Boston men, iii, 537; iv, 299.
Boston News Bureau, v, 366.
"Boston News-Letter," ii, 311 ; fac simile, opp. ii, 262.
Boston Normal Art School, iv, 188.
"Boston Pilot," v, 493, 517, 521.
Boston Port Act, ii, 518-523, 525, 538, 545, 549, 564.
Boston Port Authority, v, 80.
"Boston Post," v, 482; fac simile, opp. iv, 516.
Boston Public Library, iv, 221 ; v, 154, 267-271, 278, 551, 552; building, iv, 239; v, 269; librarians, 271, 279, 291; affiliation with George Baker Library, 281; (illus.), opp. 270.
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn R. R., v, 401, 418, 425.
Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Com- pany, v, 342.
Boston, Siege of, ii, 586; iii, 1-26, 322 ; iii, 32-34, 159.
Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, iv, 147.
Boston Society of Natural History, v, 290.
Boston State Hospital, v, 57, 59.
Boston Stock Exchange, v, 364.
Boston Tea Party, ii, 241, 305, 509, 519, 535-536, 557. Boston Theater, iv, 233.
"Boston Traveller," v, 483.
Boston University, iv, 191 ; v, 207, 255, 257, 265, 458; presidents, iv, 194; v, 235, 458; law school, 108, 214; buildings, 108 ; curriculum, 260, 263 ;
libraries, 283; School of Medicine, 544.
Boston Volunteers, iv, 526.
Boston Water Board, iv, 614.
"Boston Whig," iv, 96. "Boston Yankee," iii, 576. Bostonian Society, v, 288.
Botany, iv, 359, 360.
Boundbrook (N. J.) battle, iii, 132.
Boundaries, Federal authority over States, iii, 176, 178.
Boundaries of Mass., early patents, i, 19, 78, 86, 96, 192, 211 ; (map) opp. p. 222; v, 132; Plymouth absorbed, i, 89; uninhabited land, 128; Maine, i, 199, 201, 241 ; northern boundary, i, 192, 200-201, 511; iii, 176; New Hampshire, i, 206, 241 ; Connecticut, i, 239-240, 250-251; iii, 176; Rhode Island, i, 250-251; iv, 113; Charter of 1691, ii, II ; western line, iii, 175, 179; Charter of 1780, 407.
Boundaries of U. S. See names of adjacent countries. Bourne, Richard, i, 536.
Boutwell, Governor George Sewall, iv, 19, 98, 386, 475, 478, 481, 483, 594; Mass. Constitution, iv, 59; in Congress, iv, 556-559, 562, 565, 570, 575, 594, 599 ; portrait, opp. iv, 558. Bowditch, Henry Ingersoll, iv, 324, 329, 337; v, 551, 553, 556.
Bowditch, Henry Pickering, v, 557, 566.
Bowditch, Nathaniel, ii, 318; v, 270. Bowdoin, Governor James, politics, ii, 237; iii, 78, 441, 442; in General Court, ii, 237; papers, ii, 315; in Provincial Congress, iii, 113, 182; Constitutional Convention, iii, 116; Continental Congress, ii, 545; iii, 108, 154, 159, 227; Mass. Constitu- tional Convention, iii, 189, 192, 208, 236; house used by British, iii, 321 ; governor of Mass., iii, 351, 368, 369; ratification of Constitution of U. S., iii, 398 ; host to Washington, iii, 417 ; portrait, opp. iii, 192.
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Bowdoin College, founding, iii, 504, 568, 578, 579; iv, 232.
Bowler, James, iii, 320.
Bowles, Samuel, iv, 221, 370, 570, 574 ; v, 153, 480.
Bowls, wooden, i, 155.
Bowman vs. Middleton, ii, 471.
Bowman, Thaddeus, ii, 567, 568. "Boxer" (H.M.S.), iii, 484.
Boxford (Mass.), founded, i, 58, 531 ; camp ground, v, 576, 613.
Boyden, Albert G., iv, 180.
Boyden, Arthur C., iv, 180.
Boyleston Reservoir, v, 76, 86.
Boylston, Thomas, ii, 228; iii, 307.
Boylston, Zabdiel, ii, 228, 346; v, 541.
Brackett, Governor John Quincy Adams, iv, 608; v, 23, 169, 635, 648
Bradbury, Theophilus, iv, 41, 59.
Braddock, General Edward, ii, 426.
Bradford, Edward Hickling, v, 559. Bradford, Governor William, (Plym- outh), i, 13, 60, 71, 72, 77, 88, 156; views, 315, 411; "History of Plymouth," 365; v, 174. Bradford (Mass.), schools, v, 248.
Bradstreet, Mrs. Anne (Dudley), i, 265, 304, 307, 319-322, 361, 370, 373 ; "The Tenth Muse," (illus.) opp. i, 320.
Bradstreet, Charles, iii, 313. Bradstreet, Dudley, i, 572.
Bradstreet, General John, ii, 434, 436, 442.
Bradstreet, Governor Simon, i, 103, I12, 201, 228, 243, 246, 256, 265, 339, 421, 455, 478, 484, 500, 514, 572, 574, 600, 601; ii, 3-4, 55; iii, 90; house, (illus.) opp. i, 320. Brainerd, David, ii, 310.
Braintree (Mass.), industries, i, 40, 43, 62 ; ii, 407, 410; founded, i, 59, 215, 524; school, 341 ; town government, ii, 113-115; Province loan, 200; poor relief, 368; vote against slav- ery, iii, 295; in Revolution, 344, 358. Braley, Abner L., "Sister New England
Settlements (1620-1660)," i, chap. viii, pp. 191-225; Provisional Gov- ernment of Massachusetts (1774- 1779), iii, chap. iii, pp. 64-85. Bram, Thomas, v, 122.
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, v, 119, 473. Branding, i, 277, 314; ii, 181.
Brandywine River battle, iii, 131. Branford (Conn.), i, 222.
Brattle, William, ii, 54-55.
Brattle, General William, ii, 187, 480; portrait, iii, 258.
Brewster, William, i, 12, 13, 60, 72, 80, 88, 284, 386.
Bricks, importation, i, 42, 263; manu- facture, 265; iv, 231 ; export, iii, 361. Bridgman, Frank E., "The General Court of Massachusetts," v, chap. i, PP. 1-27.
Bridgeport (Conn.), iv, 521.
Bridges, i, 432; ii, 415; iv, 364; toll rates, i, 432; iv, 365; Medford, i, 432; Lynn, 432; Boston, iv, 78; v, 89; competition, iv, 113.
Bridgewater, founded, i, 59, 528; In- dian troubles, i, 550; iron works, ii, 407; iii, 40; Acadians, ii, 431 ; Mass. constitution, iii, 204; Mass. taxes, iii, 349; population, iii, 408 ; schools, iv, 179, 180. See also names of State institutions.
Brigantine, iii, 40.
Briggs, Governor George Nixon, iv, 93, 94-99, 337, 368, 369, 389; por- trait, opp. iv, 96.
Briggs, General Henry Shaw, iv, 526.
Briggs, LeBaron Russell, v, 307. Briggs, Lloyd Vernon, v, 54. Briggs Brothers, iv, 455, 459.
Brigham, Mrs. Anna Sophia (Park- man), iii, 309, 311, 314. Brigham, Elijah, iii, 311. Brighton, part of Boston, v, 70. Brimfield, ii, 105. Brimstone Corner, v, 456.
Briscoe, Nathaniel, i, 349. Brissot de Warville, Jean Pierre, iii, 303, 502, 533.
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Bristol (Eng.), i, 1, 62; iii, 273.
Bristol (Mass.), schools, iii, 312.
Bristol (R. I.), founded, iv, 351.
Bristol County (Mass.), settlement, i, 78; ii, 103, 110, 112; cotton mills, iv, 281.
Bristol County Society, iv, 382.
British Charitable Society, iii, 520.
British Coffee House, ii, 313; iii, 284. "British Manual Exercise of the Foot," iii, 10.
Broad arrow, on trees, i, 37; ii, 466. Brock, General Isaac, iii, 479.
Brockton, racial elements, iv, 167; in- dustries, v, 376, 379; labor move- ment, 435.
Bromfield, Edward, ii, 245, 274.
Brook Farm, iv, 207, 215, 270, 276; illus., opp. iv, 262.
Brookfield, founded, i, 531; ii, 105; Indian troubles, i, 548; reincorpo- rated, ii, 105; population, iii, 408. Brookline, founded, ii, 103, 104 ; monu- ment, v, 220. See also Muddy River.
Brooklyn (N. Y.), fortified in Revolu- tion, iii, 126, 127.
Brooks, Governor John, iii, 128, 130, 147, 148, 149, 150, 466, 467; iv, 77; proclamation (illus.), opp. iv, 8.
Brooks, Bishop Phillips, iv, 243; v, 461, 470.
Brooks, Preston, iv, 493, 494.
Brooks, William A., v, 627.
Broughton, Nicholas, iii, 22, 32.
Brown, Abbie Farwell, v, 218.
Brown, Buckminster, v, 558.
Brown, Charles Brockden, ii, 292, 318. Brown, E. Gerry, v, 649, 662. Brown, Elisha, ii, 409.
Brown, General Jacob, iii, 485, 489.
Brown, George W., v, 387.
Brown, John, abolitionist, iv, 493, 496, 502; v, 148.
Brown, John, of Plymouth, i, 89, 241. Brown, John Ball, v, 558.
Brown, Moses, iii, 58.
Brown, Reuben, ii, 571, 574.
Browne, Sir Thomas, ii, 31. Brownell, George, ii, 359. Brownists, i, 12, 49.
Brownson, Orestes Augustus, iv, 207, 534.
Bruce, Kathleen, "Massachusetts Wom- en of the Revolution," iii, chap. xi, pp. 306-337.
Brunswick (Maine), convention, iii, 566, 570; schools, v, 544. See also Bowdoin College.
Bryan, William Jennings, v, 173, 180. Bryant, William Cullen, iv, 207, 220, 358, 369.
Bryce, James, Viscount, v, 94. Bubble Act, ii, 140, 209.
"Buccanier" (vessel), iii, 55. Buckinghamshire (Eng.), i, 57, 61.
Buckman, John, ii, 568.
Budget. See Public expenditure.
Budget Bureau, v, 33.
Buffalo (N. Y.), exposition, iv, 244. Buffinton, Arthur H., "External Rela- tions," i, chap. xviii, pp. 492-519; ii, chap. iii, pp. 63-91.
Building associations, v, 353.
Buildings. See Architecture; Houses. Bulfinch, Charles, ii, 244; iv, 229; v, 156, 513.
Bulkley, Peter, i, 308, 563.
Bull Moose. See Progressive party.
Bullock, Governor Alexander Hamil- ton, iv, 593.
Bullock, Governor (Ga.) Rufus Brown, iv, 568.
Bunch of Grapes tavern, ii, 249; v, I37. Bundling, i, 281; iii, 288.
Bunker Hill battle, iii, 7-17, 25, 161, 223, 321 ; powder supply, ii, 530; fiftieth anniversary, iv, 114; chart, opp. iii, 12.
Bunker Hill fortifications (English), ii, 585; iii, 18.
Bunker Hill Monument, i, 43; iv, 124, 211, 424.
Bunker Hill Soldiers' Relief Society, iv, 521.
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Bunnell, George W., v, 616.
Bunyan, John, i, 285; iii, 287.
Bureau of Education (U. S.), v, 237.
Burdett, George, i, 205, 206.
Burgess, Daniel, ii, 231.
Burgess, Elisha, ii, 129.
Burgoyne, General John, iii, 130, 321.
Burhans, Daniel, iv, 357.
Burial, duelist, ii, 277; town lot, iv, 351.
Burke, Edmund, ii, 515, 517, 522, 531. Burlingame, Anson, iv, 284, 494.
Burnet, Governor William, ii, 89, 135- 137, 279.
Burnham Antique Book Stores, v, 495. Burning a criminal, ii, 263.
Burns, Anthony, iv, 340, 486, 489; portrait, opp. iv, 486.
Burns, William Adams, v, 24.
Burrage, Walter L., "Medicine in Massachusetts," v, chap. xviii, pp. 539-569.
Burr, Aaron, iii, 128, 244, 427, 429, 456.
Burroughs, Edward, i, 483.
Burroughs, George, ii, 38, 40, 329.
Burrows, William, iii, 484.
Busfield, Theodore E., "Plymouth Plantation (1617-1660)," i, chap. iv, pp. 66-92.
Business administration, instruction, v, 260.
Business and Professional Women's Republican Club of Massachusetts, v, 225, 228.
Business depressions, i, 596.
Business Historical Society, v, 288.
Bussey Institute, founding, iv, 389. Bute, Earl of, ii, 479.
Butler, Andrew Pickens, iv, 493.
Butler, Governor Benjamin Franklin, iv, 59, 68, 69, 499, 500, 502, 556, 595, 599, 603-605 ; in Civil War, iv, 508, 509, 517, 519, 553, 578 ; in Con- gress, iv, 557-563, 565, 568-569, 604 ; governor, iv, 589, 604-605, 612; por- trait, opp. iv, 604.
Butler, Nicholas Murray, v, 644.
Butler, William M., v, 24, 193, 194. Butter. See Dairy.
Buttrick, John, ii, 572, 575-578.
Buzzards Bay, i, 19, 27, 137.
Byfield, notables, ii, 179; iv, 42; woolen factory, iii, 360.
Byles, Mather, ii, 224, 309, 321.
C ABINET, PRESIDENT'S, elec- tion, iii, 387; lists, iv, 621. Cabinet, personnel, v, 690.
Cable, under sea, iv, 368.
Cabot, Andrew, iii, 55.
Cabot, Edward C., iv, 233, 234, 239.
Cabot, George, iii, 189, 200, 209, 412, 418, 426, 429, 465, 529.
Cabot, John, i, I.
Cabot, Richard Clarke, v, 562.
Cabot family, iii, 85.
Calef, Robert, ii, 40, 47, 50-52, 56.
Calhoun, Vice President John Cald- well, iv, 80, 81, 91, 94, 109, 120, 127, 290, 292, 326.
Calhoun, William B., iv, 295.
California (Spanish period), com- merce, iii, 536; name, iv, 345.
California (State), free State, iv, 127; gold rush, 444; enlistments in Mass. regiment, 536.
Calumet and Hecla Mining Co., v, 163. Calvinism, i, 79; ii, 306, 339; iv, 202. Cambridge (Eng.), i, 99, 163.
Cambridge (Mass.), founded, i, 58, 215, 345, 525; ii, 106; emigration (1635), i, 84, 215; county court, 115; capital, 173; clergy, i, 215; v, 465, 467; printing press, i, 265, 343 ; house lots, 286; schools, 341, 352; name, 344, 346; description, 415; Colony tax, 436; shipbuilding, 448; bound- aries, 531 ; town government, ii, 113 ; General Court in, i, 173; ii, 152; execution, 263, 367; cannon seized, 547; mandamus councillors, ii, 547; Provincial Congress, 552; iii, 65; in Revolution, 5, 19, 24, 131, 161; Mass. Constitutional Convention, 189; visited by Washington, 416; old
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houses, 419; iv, 229; foreign-born element, 154; population, 281; anti- slavery agitation, 329; railroad, 428 ; in Civil War, 525; mayor, 607; in- dustries, v, 381, 383, 386, 389; rail- way, 355, 426; map (1759), opp. ii, 116. See also names of colleges and other institutions.
Cambridge Anti-Slavery Society, iv, 319.
Cambridge Platform of 1651, i, 88, 123, 473, 482.
Cambridge (Mass.) Synod, i, 182.
Cambridge University (Eng.), i, 325, 330-337, 342; graduates, i, 88, 215,
328, 338-339, 345, 349, 388, 397, 399. Cameron, Simon, iv, 524.
Camp Alger (Va.), v, 579.
Camp Devens, v, 596, 612, 629; train- ing exercise (illus.), opp. v, 594.
Camp Dewey (Framingham), v, 579.
Camp Green (N. C.), v, 619.
Camp Meade (Va.), v, 582.
Camp Thomas (Ga.), v, 580.
Canada (Dominion), in American Rev- olution, iii, 125, 129; boundaries, iii, 420; iv, 298-303; emigrants, 146, 156, 158; v, 73; competition in in- dustry, iv, 381; in World War, v, 387; map, opp. ii, 66. See also New France.
Canada Townships, ii, 107.
Canadian National Railway System, v, 401, 414, 415.
Canals, iv, 75, 292, 359, 365, 421-423 ; v, 418, 419; lock gate (illus.), opp. iv, 426.
"Canceaux" (H.M.S. sloop), iii, 125. Cancer, v, 59, 560.
Candles, spermaceti, i, 36; ii, 403; iv, 404; tallow, i, 263; making, i, 266; ii, 370; iii, 361.
Cannon, Annie Jump, v, 215.
Cannon, Ida M., v, 562.
Cannon, Joseph Gurney, v, 181.
Cannon, Walter Bradford, v, 566.
Cannon, manufacture, ii, 407; iii, 40; 141 ; confiscated by British, ii, 547,
553; concealment, 574; carronade, iii, 40; on vessels, 40; furnished by France, 40; antiquated coast defense, v, 581. See also Artillery.
Canoes, i, 153.
Canonicus (Indian), i, 208.
Canterbury, archbishop of, v, 462. See also Laud.
Canton (China), prize port, iii, 495.
Canton (Mass.), Massachusetts Hos- pital School, v, 50, 59.
Canvas, i, 39; ii, 408; iv, 364.
Cape Ann, early settlements, i, 15, 18- 19, 524; authority of Plymouth, 18- 19; name, 363; lions, 367.
Cape Breton Island, i, 514; ii, 85.
Cape Cod, geology, i, 27; name, 31, 363; Pilgrims, 69; Nauset Indians, 130; discovery, 137; settlement, 414; canal, iv, 420; v, 420.
Cape Elizabeth, i, 197. Cape Porpoise, i, 201.
Capital city, national, temporary, iii, 410, 418; site, 415; iv, 325.
Capital punishment, in Plymouth Col- ony, i, 83-84; in England, 84; of- fenses, i, 179, 276, 298, 308; ii, 16, 366; iii, 266, 455; women, i, 372, 298, 403 ; witches, 276; ii, 29-30, 59; religious offenders, i, 276, 403, 563 ; ii, 16, 77; right to inflict, 14; press- ing, 40; burning at the stake, 30, 50, 59, 263, 367; public spectacle, 278, 361 ; iii, 294; hanging, ii, 367; hanging in chains, 367; for murder, iv, 89, 92; opposition to, iv, 604; v, 646.
"Capitall Lawes of New-England," (fac simile) opp. i, 118.
Carlisle, in Concord fight, ii, 575.
Carlyle, Thomas, iv, 253, 269, 271.
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