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Carnegie, Andrew, v, 254, 279. Carnegie Foundation, iv, 248.
Carnes, Jonathan, iii, 537.
Carney Hospital, v, 536, 546, 637.
"Caroline" (vessel), iii, 539.
"Caroline" (steamboat), iv, 123. Carpetbaggers, iv, 581-583.
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Carpenter, Benajah, iii, 127. Carpets, manufacture, v, 390.
Carriages, tax, ii, 216; numbers, 217, 389; iii, 331; of loyalists, 265; booby hutch, ii, 305; manufacture, iv, 362, 365.
Carrier, Mrs. Martha, ii, 39.
Carroll, Archbishop John, v, 511.
Carter, John G., iv, 179.
Cartwright, Thomas, i, 179.
Carver, Governor (Plymouth) John, i, 14, 71.
Carver, Jonathan, ii, 315.
Carver (Mass.), incorporation, ii, 110. Casco (Maine). See Portland.
Cass, Thomas, iv, 526.
Cassidy, Monsignor, v, 472.
Castine (Maine) trading post, i, 85, 89; in the Revolution, iii, 36; War of 1812, iii, 492, 568. See also Penob- scot.
Castle Island, i, 173, 438, 439, 464, 597, 601; ii, 222, 472; iii, 88, 120; British garrison, ii, 152, 313; com- mander's pay, 23 ; stamped papers, 482 ; unauthorized garrison, 482; ref- uge of British officials, 502.
Catechisms, i, 337, 340.
Cathcart, John, iii, 60.
Catholic Church, lands seized, i, 50; colleges, iv, 186; parochial schools, v, 186, 472, 528, 638 ; growth, 471, 504-538 ; dioceses, 526. See also Ref- ormation ; also names of places and institutions.
Catholics, in England, i, 7-8, 406; v, 506; compared to Puritans, i, 378, 385; disabilities, i, 390; iii, 198, v, 507, 510; in Massachusetts, i, 406; ii, 36, 270; iv, 357, 488; v, 504, 508 ; in colonies, i, 407 ; hostility, 513, 518, 580; iv, 489; v, 505, 524; ex- clusion, ii, 77, 269, 337; v, 507; im- migrants, ii, 260; in Quebec, 518; legal standing, iii, 505; v, 526; schools, 241. See also Irish; Know- Nothings.
Catskill (U.S.S.), v, 582.
Cattle, export, i, 88; prices, 271 ; poor relief, 287; Indian depredations, 540; imports, 423; health control, iv, 382, 395; v, 566; State commis- sion, iv, 395, 396, 614; v, 29; over- land transportation, iv, 403. See also Livestock.
Caucus, iii, 445.
Caucus Club (Boston), ii, 252, 490, 492, 509.
Caulkins Hugh, i, 60.
Cavalry troops, in Civil War, iv, 527, 536, 581.
Cayuga Indians, ii, 432.
Censuses (Mass.), (1764-1765), ii, III, 262; (1845-1875), iv, 379.
Centenarian, ii, 373.
Centennial Exposition (1876), iv, 242, 244.
Central Pacific R. R., v, 157.
Central Vermont R. R., v, 401, 414, 415.
Chadwick, James Read, v, 551.
"Challenger" (clipper ship), iv, 459. Chamberlain, Governor (N. C.) Dan- iel H., iv, 581.
Chamberlain, George C., v, 22, 235.
Champlain, Samuel, i, 4, 5, 127, 14I, 142, 144, 147, 152, 154.
"Champion of the Seas" (clipper ship), iv, 465.
Champlain, Lake, battle, iii, 487.
Chancellorsville (Va.), battle, iv, 537.
Chandler, Francis, iv, 234, 247.
Chandler, General John, iii, 550, 561, 576.
Chandler, Peleg W., iv, 55.
Channing, William Ellery, iii, 505, 520; iv, 205, 254, 261-266, 328, 330, 333, 334; portrait, opp. iv, 262. Chanteys, iv, 452.
Chapin, Chester Williams, iv, 75.
Chapin, Samuel, iv, 242.
Chaplains, on privateer, iii, 50; for legislative bodies, v, 5.
Chapman, Mrs. Maria (Weston), iv, 320, 323, 328, 331 ; portrait, opp. iv, 320.
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Chapman, Chief Justice Reuben A., iv, 58.
Charcoal, manufacture, iv, 361.
Charitable Irish Society, iii, 519; iv, 156; v, 183.
"Charity" (vessel), i, 76.
Charity. See Poor.
Charlemont, road to Adams, iv, 364; pastor, iv, 369.
Charles I (England), i, 98, 102, 226, 363, 364, 493, 494, 550; iv, 345.
Charles II (England), i, 250-251, 400, 460, 472-473, 483-484, 487, 580, 591 ; ii, 475.
Charles River, boundary of Mass., i, 19, 96, 98, 192 ; name, 363 ; sewerage, v, 331 ; improvement, 332.
Charles River Bridge Co., iv, 79, 113. Charleston (S. C.), boycott on tea, ii, 5II; in Revolution, iii, 133; pro- slavery agitation, iv, 95, 295, 322. Charlestown (Mass.), founded, i, 17, 58, 62, 100, 102, 104, 261, 524, 525; fortifying, 173; schools, 341 ; pas- tors, i, 348; prosperity, i, 464; de- scription, 415; Colony tax, 436; witchcraft, ii, 33 ; town government, II3; battles, 306, 585; iii, 7-17; criminal gibbeted, ii, 367; in Revolu- tion, ii, 564; iii, 18; burned, 16, 161 ; poor, iii, 519; bridge, iv, 79; in Civil War, 521 ; State prison, v, 52, 53; part of Boston, 70; docks, 420; convent burned, 518; hospitals, 546. See also specific topics.
Charlton, ii, 110.
Charlottesville (Va.), iii, 131.
Charter of Massachusetts Bay Com- pany (1629), grant, i, 96, 98, 163, 191, 386, 413, 478; provisions, 96, 101, 168, 192, 386, 416, 442, 443, 536; ii, 10, 158; removal to New England, i, 99-101, 163, 387; ii, 158; iii, 89; exceeded, i, 101, 478-479; iii, 87; fac simile, opp. i, 102; can- cellation, 102, 174, 406, 479, 486, 488, 563-566; not made public, i, 107, 390; iii, 88; resistance to sur-
render, i, 174, 374, 470, 563-565, 571- 572; iii, 88; restoration, ii, 4-7; original, v, 273.
Charter of Massachusetts Bay Prov- ince (1691), ii, 1-26; (illus.), opp. ii, 8; provisions, i, 192; ii, 99, 123, 158; revocation, 19; iii, 89; un- workable, ii, 124; explanatory char- ter (1728), 131; v, 273; modifica- tion by Regulating Act, ii, 517; iii, 68; basis for State constitution, 67; resumed, 68; revision, 71; v, 135; original, v, 273.
Chase, George, iv, 247.
Chase, Chief Justice Salmon Portland, iv, 559, 579.
Chase, Samuel, iii, 173, 176, 233; iv, 559.
Chatham (Mass.), founded, i, 530; ii, 103, 108; fishing fleet, iii, 526.
Chattanooga (Tenn.), iv, 538.
Chauncy, Charles (1592-1672), i, 80-
81, 338, 350, 372, '390, 399 ; v, 540. Chauncy, Charles (1705-1787), ii, 224, 540; iii, 309.
Chauncey, Commodore Isaac, iii, 485, 486.
Chebacco. See Essex (Mass.).
Cheever, David Williams, v, 566.
Chelmsford, founded, i, 531; Indian troubles, 539 ; militia, ii, 575; v, 574. Chelsea, founded, i, 261, 530; ii, 106; notables, i, 403; iv, 446; description, i, 415; prosperity, 423; in Revolu- tion, iii, 345 ; poor relief, 514 ; indus- tries, iv, 238; v, 386; population, iv, 281; shipbuilding, 446; water sup- ply, v, 86; fire, 587. See also Rom- ney Marsh.
"Cherub" (H.M.S.), iii, 483.
Cherry Valley (N. Y.), iii, 132.
"Chesapeake" (U. S. frigate), iii, 431, 434, 473, 484.
Cheshire, founded, iv, 354; industries, 36I.
Chesterfield, ii, 110.
Cheverus, Bishop Jean Lefebvre de, v, 512, 513.
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Chew, Benjamin, iii, 131.
Chicago (Ill.), school, iv, 189; ex- position, iv, 244, 245; architecture, 247; v, 157; libraries, 154; fine arts, 155; railroads, 157; great fire, 356.
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R., v, 157, 158, 159, 160.
Chickamauga Park (Ga.), v, 580.
Chickering, Jonas, v, 383, 386.
Chicopee, industries, iv, 231, 361, 362. Chicopee Falls (Mass.), industries, iv,
414; v, 386, 390; railroads, iv, 428. Chicopee River, i, 421.
Child, Katharine, iv, 242.
Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria, iv, 294, 328 ; V, 21I.
Child, Robert, i, 122-123, 170, 175, 484.
Child-training, iv, 207.
Children, i, 281-284, 304-309; iii, 285; at table, i, 264, 282-283; iii, 286; labor, i, 266, 284, 318; ii, 266, 408 ; iii, 511; iv, 419; v, 36, 44, 45, 449 ; apprentices, i, 266, 285, 288; ii, 266; bound out, i, 284, 285, 288, 306; ii, 228, 267, 370; in church, i, 273; girls' tasks, iii, 284, 308 ; sponsoring, i, 285; stubborn, 288; in England, 305; protection, i, 307; land, 411 ; defective, 306; v, 556; in families, ii, 372; v, 50; ships' crews, iii, 50; treated as adults, 281 ; at funerals, 298; guardian, 334; paupers, 515, 521; v, 50, 523 ; State responsibility, iii, 521 ; v, 51 ; inhabitancy, iii, 517, 518; home school for boys, iv, 175; custody, v, 112; delinquent, 51, 52 ; library facilities, 278 ; saving money, 352 ; medical care, 557.
Children's Museum, v, 250.
Childs, Henry Halsey, iv, 12, 360; v, 544.
Chillingworth, William, i, 385. Chilmark, ii, 103.
China, commerce, iii, 535; iv, 440; treaty (1843), iv, 125; coolie trade, iv, 457; emigrants, iv, 610.
Chippawa (Ont.) battle, iii, 485.
Chisholm v. Georgia, iii, 420, 421. Choate, Charles F., v, 188, 641, 642, 648, 662, 666.
Choate, Rufus, Mass. Constitutional Convention, iv, 60, 483; U. S. Con- gress, 95, 124, 283, 284; politics, iv, 103, 129, 130; lawyer, iv, 113, 134, 135; orator, iv, 115,' 137; interests, iv, 184, 284; views, iv, 55; portrait, opp. iv, 60.
"Christian at Work," v, 491.
"Christian Leader," v, 467.
"Christian Register Examiner," v, 493. Christian Science, v, 212, 467.
Christian Science, First Church (il- lus.), opp. v, 462.
"Christian Science Journal," v, 493.
"Christian Science Monitor," v, 212, 468, 484.
"Christian Science Sentinel," v, 468, 493.
Christmas, observance, i, 592; ii, 234, 285, 303 ; seals, v, 217.
Chubb, Pascoe, ii, 76.
Church, Benjamin (d. 1718), i, 376, 547, 550-552, 554 ; ii, 71, 74, 76, 81, 310.
Church, Dr. Benjamin, ii, 237, 250, 540, 554; iii, 67, 68.
Church, Samuel, iv, 361.
Church and state, i, 376. See also Theocracy.
Church Green (Boston), ii, 233.
Church members, requirements, i, 79, 122-123; freemen, 105-106, 121-122, 170-171, 479; rule of, 122-123, 170- 171; office-holding, i, 228; iii, 198; iv, 116; women, i, 309.
Church of All Nations, v, 460.
Church of England, i, 6-8, 79, 398, 400, 561; identity with state, 9-10, 566; Hampton Court conference, 10; in America, 79, 194, 396, 403-406, 578-579, 590-591 ; ii, 284, 298, 327; iv, 351; ministers, i, 392; secession from, 403; members disfranchised, 482; members as settlers, 568, 571; support of Congregational church,
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ii, 270; American episcopate, 500, 505. See also Laud; Puritans. Church of Scotland, ii, 297.
Churches, in secular buildings, i, 74, 80; forms of service, 80, 273; theoc- racy, 106; defiance of General Court, 178; founded by civil au- thority, 181 ; approval by ministers, 182; interior arrangements, 313; iii, 299; statistics, i, 339; independence, 404; discipline by magistrates, 482; compulsory attendance, 578, 590; iii, 195; iv, 13; each town, ii, 107; iii, 195; iv, 351; town meeting in, ii, 115-116; support, 270; iii, 195; services, ii, 233, 234; iii, 297; proc- lamations read in, 109; heat in, 299 ; social function, iii, 297, 332; atti- tude toward slavery, iv, 312, 330, 333; union congregations, 356; v, 475; in West, 138-143; twentieth century, 474. See also Pilgrims; also names of places, religious bod- ies, etc.
Churchill, George B., v, 641, 642, 651, 656, 666.
"Cicero" (vessel), iii, 55.
Cider, i, 275.
Cincinnati (Ohio), Lane Theological Seminary, v, 141; public library, 154; architecture, 157.
Circular letters, intercolonial, ii, 496- 497; on confederation, iii, 167.
Cities, creation, ii, 240; iv, 5, 604; planning, 232; v, 88; zoning, iv, 246; v, 80, 89, 649; democratic, 95; government, 95; statistics, 95, 338; at water powers, 429. See also Towns.
Citizens, naturalized, residence re- quired, iii, 425, 452; eligibility for office, 466; iv, 31; prevention of fraud, 613.
Citizenship, English, ii, 14, 158.
City Planning Board (Boston), v, 89. Civil Damages Law, iv, 609.
Civil Rights Bills, iv, 569-570.
Civil service, Massachusetts, iv, 605,
612; v, 47; United States, v, 47; State authorities, v, 29, 32, 33, 614; preference to veterans, 37, 48; cities and towns, 47.
Civil War (U. S.), iv, 516-542; policy of postponement, iv, 129; won by Unionists, 129; effects, 226, 241 ; memorials, 242; first warning, 503; State defense measures, 504-507, 516- 518 ; first shot, 506, 516; calls for troops, 506, 512, 516, 520, 523-524, 527, 531, 532, 536, 539; won by siege and blockade, 529, 538 ; Mass. support in Congress, 553; cost, 590; opposition in North, 504, 591; re- paration claims, 594; Harvard Uni- versity, v, 298.
Claflin, Governor William, iv, 595, 609, 641 ; v, 554.
Clagget, William, ii, 235.
Clap, Thomas, i, 216.
Clapboard Islands, i, 201.
Clapp, Jason, iv, 365.
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Ist earl of, i, 475, 485, 488, 557.
Clark, Abraham, iii, 167.
Clark, Arthur Hamilton, iv, 462.
Clark, Embury P., v, 579.
Clark, Ezra W., v, 22.
Clarke, Major Francis N., iv, 537.
Clarke, James Freeman, iv, 207, 275; V, 221.
Clarke, Jeremy, i, 53.
Clarke, John, i, 212, 398, 481.
Clarke, Jonas, ii, 565, 571.
Clark, Jonas Gilman, v, 257.
Clark, William Smith, iv, 392.
Clark University, v, 257; library, v, 283.
Claus, Henry T., v, 481.
Clay, Cassius M., iv, 335.
Clay, Henry, iv, 94, 121, 122, 124, 289, 292, 420; U. S. Congress, iv, 108, 116, 127, 128, 290.
Clearing house. See Banks.
Cleeves, George, i, 198-199, 201.
Clergy, ordination, i, 14; settlers, i,
53, 176; educational standards, 53,
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180, 273; ii, 343; influence, i, 114, 119, 176, 180-181, 276, 479-480, 494, 560, 569; ii, 13; iv, 205; v, 140; Cambridge platform, i, 123; advisers of civil authorities, 119, 174, 181, 242, 480, 482, 486, 500; ii, 157; pro- ceedings against, i, 177; criticism of, 177-178, 312; maintenance, 181, 590; ii, 75, 233, 244, 270; iii, 195, 300; iv, 10, 351; installation, i, 182; as- sociations feared, 182; synods, 182; ii, 287; land, i, 204, 418, 431 ; preach- ing to criminals, 371; election, 387; each town, 425; ii, 107-108; extra professions, i, 425; salaries, 431 ; ii, 109; iii, 300, 310; donations, i, 431, 282; imprisoned, 594; suspended, 594; killed in wars, ii, 90; waning power, 2; benefit of, 181, 366; minis- terial authority, 233 ; visiting schools, 246; in the Revolution, iii, 67; loyal- ists, 262 ; families, 300, 310; in poli- tics, 412, 448; inhabitancy, 517; chosen profession, iv, 192; attitude toward slavery, 333, 338.
Cleveland, President Grover, iv, 606- 607; v, 171, 172.
Cleveland, Stephen, iii, 39.
Cleveland (Ohio), university, v, 146; fine arts, 155; architecture, 157.
"Climax" (clipper ship), iv, 456.
Clinton, Governor (N. Y.) De Witt, iv, 178.
Clinton, George, iii, 401, 429, 433.
Clinton, Sir Henry, iii, 131.
Clinton (Mass.), reservoir, v, 76, 86; industries, 390.
Clocks, iii, 286.
Clothing, prices, i, 271 ; fashions, 271- 272, 294-296, 429; ii, 310, 358; iii, 282, 309; v, 210; children, i, 305; iii, 283, 286 ; made in home, 311, 323, 324; for soldiers in war time, 324.
Coal, transportation, iv, 415; v, 421 ; conservation, 627, 629.
Coast defenses, iv, 291, 293.
Coast Guard in Revolution, iii, 121. Coast survey, iv, 291.
Coat Roll Resolution, iii, 324. Cobb, David, iii, 150, 552. Cobb, Henry Ives, iv, 244. Cobbett, Thomas, i, 399. Cobbs, John, i, 275. Cocheco. See Thompson's Island. Cochituate, Lake, v, 85.
Cod, industry, i, 32, 35; ii, 402, 404 ; iii, 362, 529, 545; iv, 405; symbol, i, 35, 363 ; v, 2; exports, ii, 412.
Coddington, William, i, 103, 208-209, 212.
Codman, Ernest Amory, v, 562. Codman, John, ii, 263, 367.
Coffee, drinking, iii, 286, 320.
Coffin, Mrs. Lucy (Folger), iii, 336.
Coggeshall, George, iii, 494.
Cogswell, William, i, 306.
Cogswell, General William, iv, 526.
Coke, Sir Edward, i, 18; ii, 159, 470. Cole, General Charles H., v, 616; portrait, opp. v, 614.
Cole, Eunice, ii, 34.
Coleman, George W., v, 460, 638, 641, 643, 662.
Coleman, George W., "Labor and the Labor Movement (1860-1930)," v, chap. xiv, pp. 429-454.
Coleman, Henry, iv, 385, 389.
Colerain, founding, ii, III; iv, 354; industries, iv, 361.
Coligny, Admiral Gaspard de, i, 2, 6. College of Physicians of London, ii, 471.
Collins, Patrick Andrew, iv, 157; V, 77, 172, 535; portrait, opp. v, 76. Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hos- pital, v, 561, 564.
Colman, Benjamin, ii, 295, 335, 377. Colman, John, ii, 208-209. Colorado, in the Union, iv, 574.
"Columbia" (vessel), iii, 535-538; iv, 299, 455.
Columbia River, iv, 298.
"Columbian Centinel," ii, 112; iii, 448. Columbus, Christopher, i, 1, 15.
Columbus, rejected name for a State, iii, 574.
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Coma Berenices, v, 215. .
"Comet" (clipper ship), iv, 456, 468. Commerce, i, 442-466 ; ii, 386-416; iii, 341-364, 525-545; trading companies, i, 4, 93-96, 102, 220; basis of colo- nization, 4, 32, 413, 444, 476 ; iii, 92 ; southern, i, 33, 46, 461, 536; West Indies, 33-34, 45, 218, 446, 449, 454, 462, 477; ii, 411, 474; iii, 47, 351, 362, 472, 497, 529 ; iv, 304 ; develop- ment, i, 34, 45-47, 264, 449, 454, 460- 466, 488, 557-558; ii, 411-414; iii, 307; iv, 305, 429, 437; paucity of exports, i, 34, 449, 495; Mediterra- nean, 34, 45, 454, 461; ii, 411, 414; iii, 46, 55, 362; triangular voyage, i, 34, 45, 445, 446, 449 ; ii, 402, 413; iv, 304; exchange of goods, i, 34; ii, 194; iii, 356; coastwise, i, 46; iii, 542 ; iv, 304; v, 421 ; Plymouth Col- ony, i, 86, 77; monopolies, 193-194, 220; intercolonial, 219, 235, 237; with New Netherland, 245; winter occupation, 273; with Spain, 446, 447; with Azores, 449; with Canary Islands, 449; with northern Europe, 449; iii, 362; with England, i, 449, 451 ; ii, 411, 413, 414, 524; iii, 92, 349-350; illegal, i, 449, 450-460; call at English port, 452; undersell- ing English merchants, 454; with French colonies, 455, 503, 514, 517; ii, 70, 78; Mercantile Theory, i, 470, 474; independence, 474-475, 577; in English ships, 475; iv, 304; bond of empire, i, 495; rivalries dangerous, 496; ii, 520; ethics, i, 542; English regulation, 596; ii, 414, 465, 493; iii, 351, 529 ; protection by war ves- sels, ii, 73, 80; affected by war, 77; credit accounts, 107, 413; coin re- quired, 195; iii, 364; local regula- tion, ii, 232; inland, 415; iv, 364; with enemy, ii, 474, 475; iii, 476, 497, 544; reforms suggested, ii, 493; during the Revolution, iii, 45-48, 80; official State trade, 46; Nova Scotia, 48; revival after the Revolution, 55,
349, 362, 510, 533 ; treaties, 49, 170, 172, 533; prohibited commodities, 351 ; country store, 356; oriental, 362, 534-537, 545; regulation by U. S., 367, 392-394, 528; relation to poli- tics, 408, 540; neutrality disregarded, 430; broken voyage, 430, 472; em- bargo (1807), 431, 457, 540; em- bargo (1811), 435; iv, 63; Napo- leonic Wars, iii, 456, 459, 533, 543; license to carry grain, 542; overland, 544; Canada, iv, 304; Newfound- land, 504; in American ships, 304; with the West, 430; injured by War of 1812, iii, 460, 467; limiting em- bargo, 466 ; interdicting foreign, 466 ; Russia, 538 ; control of interstate, iv, 112; uniform laws, v, 44; trade commissioners, 226; twentieth cen- tury, v, 419, 598. See also Bills; Merchants; Navigation Acts; Reci- procity.
"Commercial Bulletin," v, 366. Commission of 1664, i, 484-488.
Commission on Administration and
Finance, v, 32, 337 ; Division of Per- sonnel and Standardization, 40.
Commission on Economy and Efficiency, v, 30, 31, 337.
Commission on Uniform State Laws, v, 44.
Commissioner of Insolvency, iv, 30.
Commissioner of Public Welfare, iii, 521.
Committee for Trade and Plantations, i, 197, 199, 211, 387, 477, 558, 561;
ii, 5, 8. See also Lords of Trade. Committee of notification, v, 2.
Committee of Safety, iii, 5, 7, 66, 182. See also specific topics.
Committee on Education, iii, 512.
Committee on Extension of Territorial Limits, iii, 462.
Committee on Public Safety, v, 601, 605, 617, 625, 626, 627, 629.
Committees of correspondence, estab- lished, ii, 153, 473, 496, 505, 540-541 ; activities, 496, 509, 520, 531, 537,
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540-542, 544, 546; iii, 66; conserva- tors of loyalists, 264.
Commonwealth, essential form, iii, 87; use of term, 87.
Commonwealth Bank, iv, 87.
Commonwealth Defense Act, v, 606. Communism, Plymouth, i, 67, 411-412 ; ideal settlements, iv, 276.
Competition in trade, i, 429.
Comptroller's Bureau, v, 33, 40. Conant, Roger, i, 97-98, 524, 529. Conants Island, i, 166.
Concord (Mass.), Winthrop estate, i, 166; public cows, 287; founding, 526; surrounded by Indians, i, 526, 532; industries, ii, 411 ; county con- vention (1774), ii, 550; Provincial Congress, 551; iii, 65; Mass. consti- tution, 183; monument, iv, 243; re- formatory, v, 52; Home for Aged Women, 458.
Concord battle, ii, 306, 562-586; iii, 2, 6; effect, iii, 4; map, opp. ii, 574; at North Bridge (illus.), opp. ii, 578. Confectionery, industry, iv, 362, 399; machinery, v, 372, 389.
Confederate States of America, iv, 503- 506, 516, 529-539. See also Rebels. Confiscation of property, witchcraft, ii,
53; desertion of estate, 75; loyalists,
iii, 264; insurrectionary use, iv, 553. Conformity Acts, i, 79, 561.
Confucius, i, 188.
Congregational Church, dominant, i, 21, 479 ; iii, 196; development, i, 79, 176, 228; iv, 255; v, 456; Scrooby, i, 79; Plymouth, i, 79-82, 392; iv, 298; maintenance, i, 590; iii, 195; iv, 10; synods, i, 182; ii, 135; mem- bers, iii, 196; attitude toward slav- ery, iv, 333 ; missions, v, 138.
Congregational churches (Boston), Brattle Street, ii, 207, 337; Christ (Old North), 224, 564 ; (illus.) opp. iii, 298; First Baptist, i, 400; ii, 224; First Church, i, 82, 181, 395, 559; New South, ii, 233 ; Old South, i, 559, 578, 591-592 ; ii, 241, 251, 509, 510,
555; iii, 299; iv, 358; v, 495; Sec- ond (North), ii, 5, 224, 564; ii, 5, 324, 326.
Congregational Library, v, 289.
Congregational School of Theology, v, 146.
"Congregationalist," v, 493.
Congresses, etc .: Albany, (1684) ii, 518, (1754) ii, 423, 456; Alexandria (Va.), ii, 426; Annapolis (Md.), iii, 370; Boston, (1768) ii, 498; (1788) iii, 398; (1820) iv, 4; Fal- mouth (Maine), iii, 554, 556; New York, (1690) ii, 68, (1755) 432, (1763) 481 ; Stamp Act, ii, 148, 480; Suffolk convention, 188. See also Continental Congress; Constitution ; House of Representatives; Provin- cial Congress ; Senate ; and other spe- cific topics.
Congressional Library, v, 154.
Connecticut (colony), Indians, i, 131; charter, i, 192, 212, 509, 569; ii, 18; iii, 182; territory, i, 213, 216, 218, 234; early period, i, 214, 222, 226; jurisdiction, i, 220-221, 222, 233-234, 239, 247; Pequod War, 217-218; corn for Harvard College, 236; river tolls, 238-240, 241 ; Mass. duties, 239-240, 438 ; militia, 229, 252, 253 ; ii, 18, 20, 421 ; boundaries, i, 239- 240, 250; iii, 176; war with New Netherlands, i, 242, 472, 500; war with Niantics, 243; New Haven ab- sorbed, 222, 251 ; free trade, 477; Canadian expedition, 509-510; Phil- ip's War, 549-552; in Dominion of New England, 583; Quebec expedi- tion, ii, 4, 68, 83; ally in war, 66, 71-72, 80, 82; bills of credit, 214; iii, 343; Albany Congress, ii, 423; French and Indian War, 427, 444; Stamp Act Congress, 481 ; coopera- tion against England, 521, 525, 544; Battle of Lexington, iii, 5-6, 12; militia in Revolution, 122, 127; agrarian movement, 368 ; federal con- stitution, 374, 379; slavery prohib-
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ited, iii, 508; emigration, iv, 354; v, 136, 138 ; populous near seaboard, 419; World War, 615. See also New England Confederation.
Connecticut River, tolls, i, 238; route, 238 ; settlements on, 532; description, iv, 347; water power, 360; naviga- tion, 365; canal, 421.
Connecticut River Railroad, iv, 607; V, 402, 403.
Conservatives. See Federalists ; Loyal- ists ; Tories.
Conspiracy, iv, 53.
Constables, i, 104; ii, 100, 114, 196, 243; v, 60, 593.
"Constitution" (U. S. frigate), iii, 60, 471, 479, 488; (illus.), opp. iii, 478. Constitution of Mass. (1780), iii, 182- 210; incorporating earlier provisions, ii, 158, 162, 185; draft by General Court, iii, 115; conventions (1779- 1780), 116; v, 635; (1820), iv, 4, 116; v, 635; (1853), iv, 20, 50, 59, 482 ; v, 635; (1917-1919), v, 9, 16, 188, 273, 633; Convention Commit- tee, (1918), (illus.), opp. v. 636; ratification, iii, 116; revision, 207; iv, 3, 8, 20, 76; v, 633; model for others, iii, 209, 401 ; remains funda- mental law, iv, 33; amendment, v, 20, 633, 641; original, 273; rear- rangement, 657; page of rearranged constitution, (illus.), opp. v, 660.
Constitution of Mass .: Frame of Gov- ernment; Chapter III, ii, 186; iii, 205; Chapter V, iii, 207; Chapter VI, iii, 207.
Constitution of Mass., Declaration of Rights, iii, 184, 190; v, 645; Article I, v, 147; Article II, iv, 8; Article III, ii, 181; iii, 193, 195, 208; iv, 8-13; Article VII, iv, 8; Article XVI, iii, 199; Article XIX, v, 35; Article XXIX, ii, 181, 186, 199, 205 ; Article XXX, iii, 202; v, 28.
Constitution of Mass., Amendments, iv, 1-34 ; First-Eighth, iv, 5-7; Ninth, 7; Tenth, 7; Eleventh, 13; Twelfth,
16; Thirteenth, 17; Fourteenth, 24; Fifteenth, 24; Sixteenth, 22; Seven- teenth, 25; Eighteenth, 25; v, 637; Nineteenth, iv, 25; Twentieth, 25; Twenty-first, 23; Twenty-second, 23 ; Twenty-third, 31; Twenty-fourth, 27; Twenty-fifth, 27; Twenty-sixth, 31; Twenty-seventh, 31; Twenty- eighth, 29; Twenty-ninth, 31; Thirtieth, 32; Thirty-first, 30; Thir- ty-second, 30; Thirty-third, iv, 28; v, 15; Thirty-fourth, iv, 27; Thirty- fifth, 28; Thirty-sixth, 30; Thirty- seventh, 30; Thirty-eighth, 32; Thirty-ninth, 32; Fortieth, 29; For- ty-first, 32; Forty-second, 30, 34; Forty-third, 1; Forty-fourth, 44; Forty-fifth, v, 639; Forty-sixth, 188, 637; Forty-seventh, 640; Forty- eighth, 19-21, 28, 38, 188, 656; Forty-ninth, 647; Fiftieth, 648; Fifty-first, 648; Fifty-second, 652; Fifty-third, 651 ; Fifty-fourth, 651 ; Fifty-fifth, 651 ; Fifty-sixth, 39, 651 ; Fifty-seventh, 650; Fifty-eighth, 650; Fifty-ninth, 650; Sixtieth, 649; Sixty-first, 649; Sixty-second, 40, 338, 650; Sixty-third, 18, 40, 650; Sixty-fourth, 652; Sixty-fifth, 652; Sixty-sixth, 31, 650; Sixty-seventh, 21; Sixty-eighth Amendment, 10.
Constitution of the U. S., liberty of conscience, i, 408 ; Albany Plan pre- liminary, ii, 458 ; modeled on Mass. Constitution, iii, 209, 237, 401; bill of rights, 237, 397, 401, 421 ; move- ment for, 369; Annapolis Conven- tion (1786), 370, 388 ; Philadelphia Convention (1787), 370-382, 388, 391, 395; compromises, iii, 388-394 ; drafts, iii, 391, 395; ratification, iii, 396, 398-401, 407, 558 ; iv, 43; sign- ers, iii, 397; opposition in Massachu- setts, 400; theory of compact, 506; iv, 119, 120; abolitionist criticism, 337 ; burned in public, 492; referen- dum of amendments, v, 36; Article I, iv, 112; Article IV, 112.
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