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Mass., 143-147; higher, v, 143-147, 234, 240, 243, 246, 247, 255-265, 309- 316; grades, 233; investigating com- missions, 234; affected by science, 236; extracurricular activities, 246; junior colleges, 248; university ex- tension, 248; German system, 310; annual expenditure, 333, 335, 340. See also Books; Kindergartens; also names of institutions, subjects taught, etc.
Education, map of institutions, v, in- side cover.
Educational Commission of Boston, iv, 580.
Edward VI (Eng.), ii, 6-7.
Edwards, General Clarence Ransom,
v, 611, 615, 618; portrait, opp. v, 614
Edwards, Jonathan, i, 376; ii, 265, 291, 306-308, 310; iv, 369; son a rascal, ii, 318; portrait, opp. ii, 306. "Edwin Forrest" (clipper ship), iv, 460.
Egery, Daniel, iii, 31.
Eggleston, Azariah, iv, 356.
Egremont, founding, ii, 110. Elbows. See Palmer.
Eldridge, Asa, iv, 451, 463.
Elections, by proxy, i, 83, 109; com- pulsory voting, 83; v, 649; annual, i, 83, 96, 108; v, 651; magistrates, i, 108-109, 171 ; ballots, 109, 171; ii, 236; iv, 613; by delegates, i, 109; locally, 109, 237; of deputies, 171; primary, 171; v, 169, 35; local, i, 171; ii, 99, 100, 237; v, 83; of rep- resentatives, iii, 68 ; elections of State officials, 75; iv, 25, 32, 90; U. S. representatives, iii, 384, 559 ; mem- bers of General Court, 443; v, 18, 651 ; governor, iii, 444, 456; nomi- nating methods, 444; federal dis- tricts, 459 ; election of county officers, iv, 25 ; corrupt practices, 29; v, 171 ; mechanical devices, iv, 32, 610, 613 ; secret voting, 89, 90, 92; v, 169; hours, iv, 90; double voting, iv, 92;
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"Nigger Election," 310; handbill of 1860 (illus.), opp. 508; military guards, 577; Federal supervision, 576; registration of voters, 603, 607, 612, 613; State regulation, 607, 613; secret voting, 613; open ballot, v, 182; commissioners, 76, 77; records of candidates, 80; non- partisan, 83; absentee voting, 639; biennial, 651. See also Suffrage. Election, doctrine, i, 182.
Election Anniversary, ii, 271. Election day, iv, 7, 21, 25.
Electoral College, selected by the Gen- eral Court, iii, 427, 433, 457; selected by popular vote, 428; number from Mass., 433 ; apportionment, 464; ex- clusion of rebel States, iv, 567.
Electric appliances, lamp, v, 384 ; man- ufacture, v, 384.
Electric power, exhibition, ii, 235; lighting, iv, 187; v, 362; railways, iv, 187, 429; communication, 368; transformer, 368; State authorities, v, 29, 363 ; statistics, 364; motor, 372; drive, 372, 375, 392; dynamo, 384; supplying, 393. See also Pub- lic utilities.
Elephant, exhibited, ii, 235.
Elevators, passenger, iv, 246.
Eliot, Charles William, v, 295-328, 465, 528; Harvard College, iv, 187, 192; v, 106, 256, 565; public schools, iv, 189; educator, 187, 189, 191; in- fluence, v, 145, 186; writer, iv, 187; views, v, 502; portrait, v, frontis- piece.
Eliot, Jared, ii, 310. Eliot, Sir John, i, 162.
Eliot, Rev, John, i, 59, 177, 248, 274, 338, 369, 372, 376, 535-538, 543 ; V, 508; "Tears of Repentance" (fac simile), opp. i, 248.
Eliot, Joseph, iii, 303.
Eliot, Samuel Atkins (1798-1862), iv, 385; v, 296, 308, 521.
Eliot, Samuel Atkins (1862), v, 308, 465.
Eliot, Thomas Dawes, iv, 554, 565, 570, 580-581.
Eliot family, v, 296, 298, 307, 308. Elizabeth, queen of England, i, 2, 7. Elizabeth Islands, i, 364; ii, II. Elizabethton (Tenn.), strike, v, 225. Ellingwood, Ebenezer, iii, 49. Elliot, John Wheelock, v, 551. Elliott, Howard, v, 160, 408, 411. Ellis, Dwight, iv, 381. Ellsworth, Oliver, iii, 374, 388.
Emancipation Proclamation, iv, 534- 535, 561.
Embargo Act (1807), iii, 431, 532; iv, 63, 108; (1813), iii, 463, 497.
Emergency Fleet Corporation, v, 388. Emigration, within New England, i, 214, 496, 497; iii, 441; to Middle West, iv, 355; v, 133, 148.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, iv, 202, 252, 271, 274-278, 329 ; v, 148, 151, 211, 296; quoted, ii, 173; portrait, opp. iv, 202.
Emerson, Rev. William, ii, 573.
Emerson, William Patten Robie, v, 557.
Emmanuel College (Boston), v, 241.
Emmanuel College (Eng.). See Cam- bridge University.
Employer's liability, iv, 607, 611.
"Empress of China" (vessel), iii, 534. "Empress of the Seas" (clipper ship), iv, 460.
Endecott, Governor John, i, 309, 473, 485; ii, 292; governor of Salem, i, 19, 98, 99, 195, 261, 274, 386, 524; offices, 103, 113, 256, 500, 535; gov- ernor of Mass., 112, 173, 174, 483 ; cut cross from flag, 176, 207; char- acter, 277, 480, 481 ; views, i, 167, 309 ; portrait, opp. i, 484.
Endicott, Henry B., v, 602, 625, 626, 627.
Enforcement Act (1909), iii, 432, 542. Engineer troops, in World War, v, 616, 620.
Engineering, instruction, iv, 186, 190, 360.
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Engines, manufacture, iv, 362.
England, planting of colonies, i, 1-6, II-12, 16-17, 32-33; struggle with Spain, 2, 3, 7; religious controver- sies, 6-10, 605; Parliamentary gov- ernment, 9-11, 605; prerogative, 11 ; ii, 22, 127-151, 464, 517; iii, 342; social conditions, i, 49-52; centers of emigration, 56-57; colonial policy, 228, 440, 469-488, 507, 517, 557-566, 568, 573, 603-605; ii, 17, 19-20, 414, 464, 473, 475-478, 495, 515, 522, 530, 535; war with Netherlands, i, 242, 245; emigration, 387; iii, 510; iv, 143, 145, 146, 161, 162, 169; govern- ment, i, 605; European difficulties, i, 469; ii, 66; French relations, i, 493, 510; ii, 419; colonial assistance in war, i, 495, 501 ; wars with France, i, 509, 518 ; ii, 4, 419, 431 ; iii, 430; government, i, 605; public debt, ii, 476; colonial expense, 476; public opinion toward colonies, 515, 519, 522 ; Federalists pro-British, iii, 412; impressment of seamen, iii, 430-432, 436; interference with commerce, 430-432, 436; neutrality disregarded, 431, 436; military posts retained, 436; Indians aroused, 436; Oregon question, iv, 298; in Civil War in U. S., 533; submarines, v, 387; in World War, v, 606. Enon. See Wenham.
"Enterprise" (U. S. brig), iii, 484. Epileptics, State care, v, 56, 57, 556. Episcopal Church of America, iv, 257, 267, 356; v, 461; Trinity Church (Boston), ii, 125; missions, v, 139. See also King's Chapel.
Episcopal Theological School, v, 280, 461, 463.
Episcopalians, Trinity Church (illus.), opp. v, 462.
Erie Canal, iv, 74, 442. Erie, Lake, battle, iii, 484. Erskine Agreement (1809), iii, 435. Erskine Traffic Bureau, v, 64. Erving (Mass.), iv, 361.
"Essex" (U. S. frigate), iii, 60, 430, 471, 472, 482, 483, illus., opp. iii, 478.
Essex (Mass.), pastors, i, 593; spin- ning bee, iii, 319; fisheries, 545; canal, iv, 422; shipbuilding, v, 388 ; park, 576.
Essex County (Eng.), i, 56, 59, 60, 215. Essex Company, v, 383.
Essex County (Mass.), settlement, i, 122; ii, 106, 110, 112; convention (1774), 550; iii, 184; effect of Rev- olution, 252; wealth, 348; jail, v, 278.
Essex Institute, iv, 249; v, 287.
"Essex Junior" (U.S.S.), iii, 483.
Essex Junto, iii, 201, 412, 415, 428, 429, 431, 432, 433, 551.
"Essex Result," i, 592-594; iii, 184. Estaing, Charles Hector, Count d', iii, 49, 122-124, 332.
Ether, v, 549. "Étude," v, 500.
Eustis, General Henri Lawrence, iv, 526.
Eustis, Governor William, iii, 429, 467, 468, 473; iv, 77, 284.
"Evangelist," v, 491.
Evarts, William Maxwell, legal career, iv, 561-562.
Evelyn, John, i, 558-559.
"Evening Bulletin," iv, 80.
Everett, Arthur Greene, iv, 240.
Everett, Governor Edward, iv, 134; V, 520; governor, iv, 48, 86-88, 293; politics, 83, 283, 499, 501, 509; orator, 115, 212; diplomat, 123, 284, 298 ; Harvard College, 131, 284; in- terests, 179, 183, 299; v, 271; Sec- retary of State of U. S., iv, 283 ; U. S. Congress, 283, 288, 289, 482, 485, 504; abolitionist, 321 ; portrait, opp. iv, 86.
Everett (Mass.), water, v, 86.
Evans, Laurence B., v, 636, 646, 657. Ewall & Jackson, iv, 447.
Exchange Coffee House (Boston), ban- quets, iii, 435.
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Excommunication, i, 311, 397; ii, 53; iii, 327.
Exeter (N. H.), settlement, i, 206; in Mass., 206; in Revolution, iii, 107; visited by Washington, iii, 417. "Expectation" (pink), i, 455.
Exports, agricultural, i, 33; paucity, 34, 433 ; statistics, ii, 412. See also Commerce ; names of commodities. Expositions: Atlanta and Nashville (1896), iv, 244; Buffalo (1901), iv, 244; Chicago, iv, 227, 240, 244; V, 389; Omaha, iv, 244; Philadelphia, 242, 244 ; Paris, 244; St. Louis, 244; San Diego, 245; San Francisco, 245. Express service, development, iv, 429. Extradition of fugitives, i, 229, 256.
F AIRFIELD (Conn.), i, 222. Fairhaven, in Revolution, iii, 124; shipbuilding, v, 388. "Falcon" (H.M.S.), iii, 31.
Fall River, founding, i, 528; in Rev- olution, iii, 122; Americanization center, iv, 151; foreign-born resi- dents, 163; population, 281 ; indus- tries, 409, 414; v, 373, 374; water power, iv, 410; notables, iv, 554; v, 22, 122, 472; schools, 253 ; fire, 596.
"Falmouth Gazette," iii, 553.
Falltown. See Bernardstown.
Falmouth (Mass.), i, 528; iv, 10.
Falmouth (Maine). See Portland. Fame by comparison, v, 23.
Familists, i, 196.
Faneuil, Benjamin, i, 530.
Faneuil, Peter, ii, 225; portrait, opp. iii, 530.
Faneuil Hall, erection, ii, 225; town meetings, 237, 241, 251, 555; iii, 408; Tea Party, ii, 509; Committees of Correspondence convention, 546; banquets, iii, 417, 447, 481 ; public meetings, 437; iv, 118, 124, 321, 322, 328, 334, 476, 486; v, 124; court held, iii, 446; bazaar, iv, 330.
Farley, Mrs. Elizabeth (Choate), iii, 318, 329.
Farley, Robert, iii, 329.
Farm and Trades School (Thompson's Island), iv, 388.
Farmer, Fanny Merritt, v, 498.
Farmington (Conn.), i, 222.
Farmers, conditions, i, 273; iv, 397; secondary occupations, i, 273 ; hold- ings, 419.
Farms, abandoned, v, 429.
Farms. See Agriculture; State farm. Fast days, i, III, 254; ii, 285, 287, 521, 525; iii, 158, 475; v, 172. Faulkner, Harold U., "Political His- tory of Massachusetts (1829-1851)," iv, chap. iii, pp. 74-100.
Faunce, Walter H., v, 3.
"Fearless" (clipper ship), iv, 460.
Feathers, savage robes, i, 144; arrows, i, 153.
Federal Building (Boston), (illus.), opp. v, 356.
Federal party, failure, iii, 240, 427, 443 ; pro-British, 243, 435; strength, 408, 418, 423-424, 426, 430, 432, 444, 456, 459, 475, 498, 564, 577; iv, 45; personnel, iii, 411, 441, 442, 448, 457 ; policies, 414, 419, 422, 425, 427, 429, 432, 435, 437, 449, 452, 455- 459, 468, 472, 475, 559, 563; organ- ization, 445; trickery, 427, 456; de- cline, 467; iv, 77.
Federal Reserve System. See Banking. Federalists, federal constitutional con- vention, iii, 378, 380, 388-391.
Feeble-minded persons, v, 58, 59, 556. Feehan, Bishop Daniel B., v, 472, 533.
Fellows, General John, iii, 127; iv, 370.
Fenway Court, (illus.), opp. v, 220. Fenwick, Bishop Benedict Joseph, v, 516, 520, 521, 523.
Fenwick, George, i, 170, 217, 228.
Fernald, Charles Henry, iv, 394.
Fernald, Walter Elmore, v, 556.
Fertilizers, fish, i, 71, 147, 424; iv,
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406; inspection, 387; experimenta- tion, 394.
Feudalism, in America, i, 194, 557.
Ferries, Boston-Charleston, i, 104; rates, 104; Charlestown-Cambridge, 346; central control, 432; larger streams, ii, 415.
Fiduciaries, v, 45.
Finance, i, 410-440; ii, 192-219; iv, 288-291; v, 329-367, 402; crises, iv, 43I.
Finance Commission, Boston, v, 81. Fine arts, eighteenth century, ii, 391 ; schools, iv, 188; v, 155; nineteenth century, iv, 225-249; v, 154-157, 219; civic commissions, iv, 246; twentieth century, v, 219. See also branches of art.
Fines, punishment, i, 277, 437; towns, i, 437.
Finland, emigration, iv, 161, 165, 169.
Fichte, Immanuel Hermann von, iv, 269.
Field, Cyrus West, iv, 368.
Field, Kate, v, 218.
Fields, Mrs. Annie (Adams), v, 218.
Fields, James T., iv, 222; v, 486, 487, 490, 497.
Filene, Edward A., v, 474, 634.
Filene, Lincoln, v, 474.
Fillmore, President Millard, iv, 129.
Fire, Indian methods, i, 138; making,
154; borrowing, 264; colonial cus- toms, 263.
Fire engines, i, 263; ii, 248.
Fire prevention, i, 263; ii, 248; State authorities, v, 30; metropolitan, 73; Boston, 91.
Fire societies, ii, 248.
Firearms, sale to Indians, i, 85, 238, 498, 512, 524, 535, 543; manufac- ture, ii, 407; iii, 140; iv, 362, 364. See also Cannon.
Fireback (illus.), opp. i, 40. Firelocks, exercise, iii, 10.
Fires, setting, i, 299; Boston, ii, 248; iv, 245, 596; v, 356, 389; conflagra- tions, 379.
Firmin, Giles, i, 338; v, 540.
First National Bank of Boston, v, 344, 347-348.
Fish, export, i, 34, 45, 424; ii, 402; iii, 45, 445, 449, 460, 461, 530, 543 ; handling on Sunday, v, 46; aqua- rium, 88.
Fisher, Mary, i, 402, 482.
Fisheries, primal industry, i, 4, 17, 32, 34, 47, 87, 424, 442-445; ii, 159; honest trade, i, 14; natural re- sources, 27, 32, 363, 443 ; stations, 19, 76, 195, 204, 443 ; Maine waters, 200; Indian methods, 151; monop- oly, 193-194, 442, 445; French mo- nopolies, 200; regulation, i, 237, 445; weirs, i, 415; iv, 365; Indian rights, i, 421; Canadian waters, i, 455, 503, 514-515, 517; ii, 402; iii, 362, 489, 531; iv, 162; protection by war vessels, ii, 73, 80; French in- terference, ii, 77; development, ii, 401-405, 474; iii, 307, 529-532, 545; iv, 405; injured by war, iii, 44, 527 ; exemption from embargo, 45; for- eign trade important, 367; shell-fish, 551; iv, 407; Atlantic Islands, 163; menhaden, 406; State authorities, v, 29.
Fishing, diversion, ii, 280. Fisk, Harry G., v, 386. Fiske, John, iv, 190; v, 21I. Fitchburg, railroad, iv, 428; school, 617; industries, v, 384, 390.
Fitton, James, v, 522.
Fitz, Reginald Heber, v, 550.
Fitzgerald, John Francis, v, 78, 184. FitzGerald, Susan Walker, v, 228. Fitzpatrick, John Bernard, v, 523, 526. Flag, Dominion of New England, i, 583.
Flag, English, cross cut from, i, 173, 176, 207.
Flag, pine tree, iii, 33.
Flag, U. S., emblem of Republican party, (illus.), opp. iv, 508.
Flags, regimental, return to State
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House after war, iv, 540; v, 173, 583, 629.
Flax, raising, i, 39, 318, 422; ii, 408; seed, i, 422; ii, 408; preparation, i, 370.
Fleming, William, ii, 309. Flint, Thomas, iii, 48.
Florida, slavery in, iv, 325; suffrage, iv, 555; reconstruction, iv, 567.
"Flying Cloud" (clipper ship), iv, 436, 450-453, 468-471.
"Flying Fish" (clipper ship), iv, 454, 457, 468.
"Flying-Post," ii, 338.
Fogg Art Museum, iv, 247.
Foley, Margaret, v, 223. Folin, Otto, v, 567.
Follen, Charles Theodore Christian, iv, 165, 294, 329.
Food : articles of diet, i, 148-152, 422- 423, 294; ii, 390; iii, 285, 287; standards, i, 427; iv, 381; inspec- tion, i, 427; marketing, ii, 232; scarce during the Revolution, iii, 44, 82, 8:3, 84; British rations, 53; dieting, iv, 272; pure food laws, v, 169; sale on Sunday, 46, 47; supply of Mass., 261 ; conservation, 261, 606, 624, 629. See also Cookery.
Football, i, 157; ii, 280.
Forbes, Allyn Bailey, "Social Life in Town and Country (1689-1763)," ii, chap. ix, pp. 257-288. Forbes, General John, ii, 442.
Forbes, John Murray, iv, 506, 597; v, 158; portrait, opp. v, 158. Forbes, Robert Bennett, iv, 438.
Force Bill (1833), iv, 120; (1890), 577.
Ford, Daniel S., v, 489. Ford Hall, v, 460.
Ford, James, "Social Life (1630- 1689)," i, chap. x, pp. 260-289; "Social Conditions and Social Changes (1789-1820)," iii, chap. xvii, pp. 501-522.
Ford Motor Co., v, 400.
Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation, v, 397, 398.
Foreign powers, neutrality, iii, 43; correspondence, 168.
"Foresters; an American Tale," ii, 317. Forests, State officials, v, 30; public, v, 37.
Forks, not in use, i, 264; luxury, ii, 357; steel, iii, 287.
Forsyth Dental Infirmary, v, 558.
Fort Christina, i, 219.
Fort Constitution (N. H.), v, 581.
Fort Cumberland, ii, 430.
Fort Dummer, ii, 89.
Fort Duquesne. See Pittsburg.
Fort Edward, ii, 427, 438-439.
Fort Erie, iii, 486.
Fort Frontenac, ii, 428, 432, 442.
Fort George, ii, 442; iii, 485.
Fort Hill (Boston), i, 576, 601; iii, I20.
Fort Independence (Boston), ii, 222. Fort Lawrence (N. S.), ii, 430.
Fort Le Boeuf, ii, 424.
Fort Lyman, ii, 427.
Fort Niagara, ii, 426, 428, 432, 444.
Fort Ontario, ii, 435.
Fort Oswego, ii, 428, 436, 442.
Fort Pickering, iii, 491; v, 581.
Fort Porter, iii, 492.
Fort Rodman, v, 581.
Fort Sewall, iii, 491; v, 581.
Fort Stanwix, iii, 129.
Fort Strong, iii, 491.
Fort Sullivan, iii, 492.
Fort Sumter, iv, 504, 506, 516.
Fort Ticonderoga, French and Indian War, ii, 303, 436, 440, 444; Amer- ican Revolution, iii, 23, 129, 161. Fort Wagner, iv, 536.
Fort Warren, iv, 526, 527; v, 576, 581. Fort William Henry, ii, 427, 437-439. Fortifications, support by customs du- ties, i, 238, 450; neglect, i, 597. Fortress Monroe, iv, 507, 508, 510, 578.
Forts, garrison houses, ii, 74; Boston, 244.
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"Fortune" (vessel), i, 72, 75. Forums, v, 460, 532.
Foss, Governor Eugene Noble, v, 16, 180, 181-186, 187.
Foster, Anna, iii, 317.
Foster, Elizabeth, ii, 308.
Foster, Hannah, ii, 317.
Foster, Jedediah, iv, 35, 37.
Foster, John, i, 374.
Fourier, François Charles Marie, iv, 270.
Fourth of July, celebration, ii, 272. Fox, George, i, 385, 401.
Fox, hauling the, ii, 281.
Framingham, founding, ii, 103; nam- ing, 104; in Concord fight, ii, 579; school, iv, 180; reformatory, v, 52; industries, 383, 390; camp, 576, 579, 613.
France, colonial policy, i, 493; rela- tions with England, 493, 510, 517; ii, 419; wars with England, i, 509, 518; ii, 419-451, 431; American Revolution, iii, 40, 122, 160, 170, 233; relations with U. S. (1797), 242, 423, 424, 426, 447; revolution (1789), 412, 419, 426, 436, 447; naval war, 423, 426, 471 ; Napole- onic war, 430, 435; consuls at Bos- ton, 448; Civil War claims, iv, 594. See also French; Huguenots; New France; World War.
Franeker University, i, 347.
Francke, Kuno, iv, 166.
Frankfurter, Felix, v, 129, 474.
Frankland, Lady Agnes (Surriage), iii, 255, 308, 321.
Frankland, Sir Charles Henry, ii, 226; iii, 308.
Franklin, Benjamin, ii, 310, 311, 341, 379; plans for union, i, 256; ii, 423, 458, 466; iii, 93, 161, 167; offices, ii, 416, 423; in England, ii, 488, 521, 523; in Continental Congress, iii, 104, 163, 168, 169, 172, 234; in France, iii, 169, 170, 171, 238; fed- eral constitutional convention, iii, 374, 377, 381, 388; Freemason, iv,
257; scientist, v, 149; bequests, v, 87, 253; anecdotes, ii, 415, 342; views, ii, 210, 435, 465, 466, 500, 5II, 527, 536; iii, 94; writer, ii, 310, 312, 313, 318; portrait, opp. ii, 500.
Franklin, James, ii, 311.
Franklin County, settlement, ii, 103, III; separation, iv, 347.
"Franklin" (brigantine), iii, 32, 60. Franklin Fund, iii, 520; v, 87.
Franklin Park (Boston), v, 88.
Franklin Square House, v, 466.
Franklin Union, v, 88, 253.
Fraudulent conveyance law, v, 44.
Frederick the Great, iii, I.
"Free Man's Oath," i, 265.
"Free Press and Advocate," iv, 82. Free Public Library Commissioners, v, 29. Freedmen's Bureau, iv, 555, 556, 580. "Freedom" (sloop), iii, 35.
Freeman, Benjamin, iv, 446.
Freeman, Elizabeth (slave), iii, 508. Freeman's Farm battle, iii, 130. Freemasons, Grand Master of North America, ii, 172; opposition to, iv, 81, 84; strength, 357.
Freemen, church members, i, 77, 105, 169, 221, 389, 479, 569, 571 ; not church members, 77, 83, 206; oath, 83; Plymouth, 83; admission, 96, 104, 105, 108, 116, 169, 389; stock- holders, 95, 102, 479 ; elective power, 96, 105, 108-109, 169, 389; legisla- tive power, 96; Maine inhabitants, i, 201; New Hampshire freemen, 206; inter-charter, 594. See also Suffrage.
Free-soil party, rise, iv, 96-99, 297, 1337, 338; principles, 126; policies, 473, 475, 482, 552; strength, 473, 477, 481, 488, 490; coalition with Democrats, 19, 473-478, 481-484.
Freetown, founding, i, 529; suffrage, ii, 116. See also Fall River. French, Allen, "The Nineteenth of
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April, 1775," ii, chap. xix, pp. 562- 586.
French, Daniel Chester, iv, 243; V, 155.
French, Henry F., iv, 391.
French and Indian War (1754-1763), effects, ii, 141; financing, 214, 142; map of movements, opp. 434.
French immigrants, i, 62, 530; ii, 227; 260, 431 ; iv, 162; v, 138, 509; stat- istics, iv, 143, 147, 159.
Freneau, Philip, ii, 313.
Friends. See Quakers.
"Friendship" (schooner), iii, 48. "Frolic" (H.M.S.), iii, 483.
"Frolic" (U.S. sloop), iii, 487.
Frontenac, Comte de, i, 514-515; ii, 65-67.
Frontiersmen, i, 533; ii, 123; iv, 362; V, 1:37.
Frothingham, Louis A., 23; in Gen- eral Court.
Frothingham, Richard, opp. iv, 516. Frothingham, Thomas G., "Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston," iii, chap. i, pp. 1-26; "Massachusetts in the Civil War," iv, chap. xviii, pp. 516-542.
Fuel. See Coal; Gas.
Fuess, Claude M., "Massachusetts in the Union (1789-1812)," iii, chap. xiv, pp. 407-439; "Daniel Webster, Statesman," iv, chap. iv, pp. 103- 138.
Fruitlands, iv, 277.
Fugitive Slave Act, iv, 98, 127, 128, 329, 474-480, 482, 486, 492, 554, 561. Fuller, Governor Alvan T., v, 17, 24, 128, 194-196, 634.
Fuller, Mrs. Bridget, v, 540.
Fuller, Margaret, iv, 207, 275, 276; V, 21I.
Fuller, Samuel, i, 73, 81; v, 539. Fuller, Thomas, ii, 344. Fulling mills, i, 87.
Fulton, Robert, iv, 112.
Funding Bill (1790), iii, 415.
Funerals, i, 275; ii, 278, 285, 484; iii, 298.
Fur trade, primal industry, i, 17, 33, 72, 76, 87, 443, 444; exports, 45, 264, 449, 461; share of Massachu- setts Bay Co., 99, 413; stations, 19, 84, 85; intercolonial, 220, 235; Maine, i, 195, 200; ii, 72, 77; north- ern, i, 200, 204, 507-508, 597; Del- aware, 219-220; Connecticut, 238 ; cause of war, i, 502; Hudson val- ley, 511 ; public management, ii, 72, 77, 87, 91; Pacific coast, iii, 535; China, 535.
Furniture, colonial period, ii, 357; iii, 282; eighteenth century, iv, 231 ; manufacture, 361, 408.
Fryeburg Academy, iv, 106.
G AGE, GENERAL THOMAS, governor of Mass., ii, 305, 523-524, 539, 543; iii, 2; v, 173; in Boston, ii, 523-526, 548, 552, 553, 562; iii, 2-20, 254, 321; proc- lamations, ii, 543, 551; Concord fight, ii, 563, 566, 580, 585; Bunker Hill battle, iii, 8, 15; resolve against illus.), opp. iii, 68; views, ii, 516; iii, 5, 16; portrait, opp. ii, 524. Galatea Collection, v, 271.
Gallatin, Albert, iii, 432; iv, 291.
Gambling, i, 157; ii, 276; iii, 290, 292, 331, 3:32.
Game animals, State commission, v, 29.
"Game-Cock" (clipper ship), iv, 445, 446.
Games, i, 305; iii, 291.
Gannett, Mrs. Deborah (Sampson), ii, 317; iii, 306, 327.
Gardiner, Sir Christopher, i, 366, 392. Gardiner, Lyon, i, 217.
Gardner, Augustus P., v, 185, 186, 623.
Gardner, Henry, ii, 552; iii, 65, 157. Gardner, Governor Henry J., iv, 492, 494.
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Gardner, Mrs. Isabella (Stewart), iv,
249; v, 220; portrait, opp. v, 220.
Gardner, Thomas, ii, 551; iii, 6.
Gardner, poor relief, iii, 514; chair- making, iv, 408.
Gardner State Colony, v, 57, 59.
Garfield, Harry Augustus, v, 188, 628.
Garfield, President James Abram, iv, 566, 603.
Garland, Francis P., v, 639, 658.
Garrison, William Lloyd, iv, 206, 217, 294, 314-324, 327, 328, 331-338, 492, 509, 611; V, 147, 148 ; suffrage move- ment, v, 221; views, iv, 126; por- trait, iv, 314.
Gary, Elbert H., v, 392.
Gas and Electric Light Commission- ers, Board of, v, 29.
Gas Commissioners, Board of, iv, 614. Gas companies, State supervision, iv, 614; v, 29, 363; statistics, v, 363.
"Gaspee" (H.M.S.), ii, 506.
Gaston, Governor William, iv, 589, 599, 600, 602, 609.
Gates, General Horatio, iii, 130, 143, 144, 145, 146, 234.
Gay Head, i, 131.
Gedney, Mrs. Elizabeth, ii, 359.
"General Arnold" (vessel), iii, 58. General Amnesty Act, iv, 569.
General Court, creation, ii, 99, 125; composition, 96, 105, 108-110, 173; ii, 12, 125-126; iii, 6, 8; sessions, i, 96, 108, 109; iv, 601; v, 13, 18, 633, 651, 655; legislative function, i, 96, 103, 105, 107-108, 119-121, 168; v, 632; stockholders' meeting, i, 99, 193; in New England, i, 99; iii, 456; elective power, i, 105-106; iii, 456; government by, i, 108, 388-389, 480; v, 38, 41 ; quorum, i, 110; iii, 90; majority, i, 110; judicial function, III-112, 115, 185; ii, 12, 166; com- mittees, i, 116, 118, 119; V, 12, 652; dissolution, i, 118; ii, 11; outside Boston, i, 173; ii, 152, 526, 544, 551; iii, III, 164; inter-charter pe- riod, i, 574; ii, 4; lack under Dom-
inion, i, 584, 598, 604 ; meeting place, ii, 235; caliber, 237; message of reply to governor, 456; last Provin- cial meeting, iii, 65; organ of the Commonwealth, iii, 68-74, 93, 160, 163; first use of "State," 108; first use of "God Save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts," 117; oath of of- fice, 198; choosing presidential elec- tors, 427, 428, 433; opening day, 444; v, 2, 6; officers of Harvard College eligible, iv, 31 ; closing day, v, 2; ability of members, 22-25; longest session, 183; memorializing Congress, 36; records, 273; adjourn- ment, 652. See also Assembly; As- sistants; Council; House of Repre- sentatives ; Senate ; also specific topics. General Court of Plymouth Colony, i, 83.
General Electric Company, v, 264, 384. "General Pickering" (vessel), iii, 59.
"General Starks" (brigantine), iii, 56, 60.
General Theological Library, v, 289. Genet, Edmond Charles, iii, 419, 447. "Genius of Universal Emancipation," iv, 206, 314, 315.
Gentry, settlers, i, 49-54.
Geography, effect on man, i, 25; New England, 26-45; teaching, iv, 173, 175, 188; v, 257.
Geology, New England, i, 26-30; in- struction, iv, 359, 360.
George I (Eng.), ii, 135, 272, 309.
George III (Eng.), ii, 171, 313, 514, 519, 520, 522; iii, 161.
George, Lake, ii, 427.
George's Island, ii, 222.
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