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Primaries. See Elections.
Primogeniture, i, 283.
Prince, Thomas, ii, 310, 335, 342; New England Library, i, 365; v, 270.
Prince School of Store Service, v, 208. Princeton battle, iii, 129.
Princeton College, presidents, ii, 308. Pring, Martin, i, 6, 16, 364.
Printing, development, ii, 410; iii, 360; by women, ii, 373; linotype, iv, 187; State printing, v, 33, 34.
Printing presses, i, 265, 284, 343, 372, 378; v, 497.
Prison ships, iii, 52.
Prisoners of war, slaves, i, 269; in British custody, iii, 33, 52; Amer- ican treatment, 33, 53; transport from Nova Scotia, 48; exchange, 52; release by privateers, 39, 53; deser- tion by, 54.
Prisons, v, 51-55 ; iii, 455; workhouses, i, 284; ii, 267; bridewell (Boston), 223; houses of correction, 267; State authorities, iv, 595, 603, 614 ; v, 29, 30, 32; for women, iv, 600; v, 213; Advisory Board of Women as Overseers of, iv, 614; libraries, v, 277; expense, 333, 335.
Privateers, French, i, 72, 509, 459; ii, 63, 69, 73, 85; iii, 426, 448; com- merce injured, 72, 79-80; colonial, i, 235; ii, 78; Dutch, i, 511; def- inition, iii, 30; Massachusetts, 34, 37, 49-52, 54-60, 362, 489, 526, 538, 539; treatment of prisoners, 33, 39; terms of contract, 34; compensation, 38; United Colonies, 38-45 ; marines, 40; crews, 50; plundering, 51 ; neu- trality disregarded, 448; War of 1812, 489, 494, 543.
Privy Council, appeal to, ii, 14.
Privy Council (Eng.), disallowance of laws, ii, 167-168; court of last re- sort, 168.
Prize agents, iii, 38.
Prize money, iii, 42.
Prizes, British ships, iii, 22, 32-60; sale abroad, iii, 43.
Probation system, iv, 55; v, 169.
Proclamations, reading publicly, iii, II2.
Profanity, i, 277; ii, 275.
Profile Mountain (N. H.), iv, 130.
Progressive party, v, 183-187, 194, 225, 633.
Prohibition party, iv, 595, 600-602. See also Intoxicants.
Procter, John, ii, 38, 40, 56.
Property rights, legal protection, i,
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II8; iv, 60; women, i, 302; State payment of damages, iv, 604; v, 645; fraudulent conveyance, 44 ; eminent domain, 647; restriction of use, 648, 649.
"Protector" (frigate), iii, 35, 60.
Protestant Episcopal Church, founding, iii, 505.
Protestantism opposed to tyranny, i, 605.
Protestants. See Reformation ; also names of sects.
Providence (R. I.), i, 208, 211, 393; Washington St., ii, 223; commercial conditions, 475 ; "Gaspee," 506; canal, iv, 422; railroads, 425, 427. "Providence" (vessel), iii, 37.
Providence & Worcester Railroad, iv, 422.
Providence Plantations, i, 208-212 ; pat- ent, i, 192, 211.
Provident Institution for Savings, v, 342.
Province House (Boston), i, 262; ii, 223; iii, 342.
Provincetown, Mass., landing of Pil- grims, i, 15, 69; founding, ii, 105, 109; fisheries, iii, 531; iv, 406; War of 1812, iii, 544.
Provincial Congress, iii, 65-68, 157, 163; proposed, ii, 546, 549, 551 ; as- sembled, 551 ; protests to Gage, 552; preparations for revolution, 552, 558 ; iii, 157; acts, ii, 109; officers, iii, 17; resolves (illus.), opp. 68; acts legal- ized, 73; appeal for support, iii, 230. See also specific topics.
Psalms, versified, i, 338, 361; in In- dian tongue, 372; text book, iii, 313. Psychiatry applied to lawbreakers, v, 37, 54.
Psychopathy, v, 57, 556.
Public conveyances, exclusion from, iv, 584-585.
Public debt (Mass.), bills of credit, ii, 69, 80, 205; Province, ii, 80, 204- 205, 476; payment by England, ii, 422; military expenses, ii, 84, 145,
2II, 433; iii, 81, 342; Revolutionary War, iii, 81, 342, 366, 415; loan notes, iii, 342, 352; after Revolu- tion, iii, 351 ; amount, iii, 351-353; v, 34, 329, 336; federal assumption, iii, 353, 415; consent of voters, iv, 92; Civil War, iv, 590; v, 173; payment in coin, iv, 594; v, 367; redemption of bonds, iv, 600; credit standing, v, 367.
Public debt, municipal: Boston, ii, 243; taxes anticipated, 243; statis- tics, v, 338, 340; limitation, 339; exceeding limit, 339; payment from earnings, 340.
Public debt (U. S.), Revolutionary War, iii, 317, 415; iv, 290; fund- ing, iii, 415; investors, 415; v, 351 ; payment with treasury notes, iv, 610; Liberty Loans, v, 349, 612; sale of bonds through banks, 350.
Public expenditures, warrant by gover- nor, ii, 12, 20; v, 336; by governor independently, ii, 16, 23, 147, 148; by General Court, ii, 22, 131, 138- 139; v, 336; for relief outside Mass., iv, 608; budget, v, 18, 40, 81, 84, 168, 336, 651 ; sectarian purpose, iv, 20, 25; v, 186, 637, 645; appropria- tion bills, 18, 336, 338, 645; State officials, 33; pay-as-you-go policy, 33, 83; broad projects, 331-333; amount, 333, 335 ; annual appropria- tion, v, 337; loans to private par- ties, v, 650. See also specific pur- poses.
Public expenditures, municipal: loan- ing money, ii, 243 ; statistics, v, 338, 340; budget, 339; accounting, 339. Public funds, house of representatives to raise, ii, 22, 131; bills of credit issued, ii, 69, 80; iii, 342; Parlia- mentary grants, ii, 212, 214; raised by Provincial Congress, ii, 553, 558, 562; iii, 65, 81; investments, iii, 353; sale of land, iii, 353; lottery, iii, 446; right to borrow, v, 650.
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See also Public debt; Taxation; also other specific topics.
Public funds, municipal: Federal sur- plus funds, iv, 291 ; statistics, v, 340. See also Taxes.
Public funds, national: surplus, dis- tribution to States, iv, 290; distri- bution to towns, iv, 291.
Public Information League, v, 80.
Public meetings, exclusion from, iv, 584.
"Public Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick," i, 265; ii, 311.
Public Opinion Law, v, 35, 38.
Public records, State official, v, 29.
Public trading, v, 640.
Public utilities, regulation, v, 169, 362- 364.
Pudester, Ann, ii, 40. Puerperal fever, v, 548.
Pulitzer prize, v, 219. Pullman, James, v, 4.67. Pumham (Indian), i, 209.
Pumps, v, 381.
Punishment, legal, i, 276-277; suspen- sion, iv, 55; indeterminate, v, 55. See also Capital punishment.
Puppet show, ii, 284.
Purchase, Aquila, iii, 214.
Puritans, rise, i, 8-11, 49-50, 162-163 ; influence in Parliament, i, II; col- onists, 12, 21, 52, 56, 61 ; leaders, 52; asceticism, i, 160, 162, 274, 361 ; obloquy, i, 162; religion, i, 176, 179; self-centered, i, 233, 360-361, 378, 567; Parliamentarians, i, 235; vir- tues, i, 289; iii, 302; literature, i, 360-362, 376-377; comparison with Roman Catholics, i, 378; belief in witches, ii, 44; diluted by immi- grants, v, 168.
"Purple Cow," v, 501.
Putnam, Ann, ii, 37-39, 45, 49, 54. Putnam, Frederick, v, 264.
Putnam, General Israel, ii, 440; iii,
5, 12, 19, 20, 127; portrait, opp. 126. Putnam, James, ii, 177, 179; iii, 219. Putnam, Joseph, ii, 56.
Putnam, Perley, iii, 492.
Putnam, Rufus, iii, 147; v, 135, 138. Putnam, Thomas, ii, 37, 54.
Pym, John, iii, 214.
Pynchon, John, i, 531; ii, 75.
Pynchon, William, i, 60, 103, 112, 238, 338, 372, 531, 584; ii, 106; iii, 88; portrait, opp. i, 420.
Q UAFCACANQUEN. See New- bury.
Quakers, i, 249-250, 313-314, 400-401, 477, 482-484; ii, 337; v, 476; in Plymouth, i, 81; tolerant, 178; capital punishment, 276, 402, 483; branding, 277; marriage, 279; whipping, 314, 403 ; legislation, 403, 482; witches, ii, 34; in Boston, 224; support of Congregational church, 270; opposition to war, 476; attitude toward the Revolution, 525; attacks on British opposed, iii, 31; anti- slavery views, 560; iv, 314, 319, 320; settlements, 354.
Quartering Act (1765), ii, 495. Quarterly Charity Lecture, iii, 519.
Quebec (city), founding, i, 5; expedi- tions against, i, 255; ii, 4, 68-69, 83, 193, 432, 440, 442; iii, 125, 161.
Quebec (province), boundaries, ii, 518; iii, 175.
Queen Anne's War (1702-1713), ii, 20- 21, 78-85, 199.
"Queen of Clippers" (clipper ship), iv, 460.
Quelch, John, ii, 278, 361.
"Quero" (vessel), iii, 6.
Quincy (Mass.), quarries, i, 43; iv, 424; founding, i, 524; iii, 215; shoe industry, iii, 360; schools, iv, 193, 198; railway for granite, 424; li- brary, v, 271 ; shipbuilding, v, 387; old house, (illus.) opp.' iii, 234.
Quincy, Mrs. Dorothy (Flynt), iii, 221.
Quincy, Edmund (1681-1738), ii, 114; iv, 353.
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Quincy, Edmund (1808-1877), iv, 294, 327, 334.
Quincy, Mrs. Eliza Susan (Morton), iii, 317.
Quincy, Josiah (1744-1775), legal career, ii, 180, 237, 250, 470; iii, 330.
Quincy, Josiah (1772-1864), General Court, iii, 462, 475, 521 ; U. S. Con- gress, 462, 472; mayor, iii, 521 ; v, 77; interests, iv, 179, 182, 183, 367; politics, 357, 358; views, iii, 462, 542; Harvard College, v, 147, 297. Quincy, Josiah (1859-1919), v, 77, 172, 175, 667; Mass. Constitution, v, 188, 645, 662, 667.
Quincy, Samuel, ii, 175, 321, 330.
Quincy, General Samuel Miller, ii, 470; iv, 526.
Quincy family, iii, 329, 331.
Quinnipiac River, i, 221.
"Quo warranto," proceedings, i, 102, 564-565, 571; iii, 89.
R ACIAL discrimination prohib- ited, iv, 575, 584. See also Negroes.
Radcliff, Philip, i, 184.
Radcliffe College, iv, 191, 617; v, 207, 256, 316; presidents, 208; question- naire, 229.
Radicals. See Revolution.
Radio, v, 532.
Railroad carriages, device for hauling without rails, tracks, iv, 424; primi- tive, 424; exchange of freight cars, 429.
Railroad men, war service, v, 612, 620. Railroads, transcontinental, iv, 187; horse power, 366, 423, 426; State management, 366, 602, 615; develop- ment, 89, 366-367, 423-429, 615; v, 157-162, 399-426; steam power, iv, 367 ; first in Mass., 424; grade cross- ings, 428; v, 61, 330, 362; electric power, iv, 428; v, 418; freight han- dling, iv, 429; State supervision, 610, 615; v, 362; freight rates, iv,
615; passes, v, 15, 171 ; special rates, 16; automobile competition, 61, 422 ; unification, 400, 412; nationalization, 412, 612; regional plan, 400, 410. Railroads' War Board, v, 412.
Railways, first tramway, iv, 424; combination, 607; v, 410; elevated, iv, 608; v, 426; State supervision, iv, 615; v, 362; competition, 61 ; underground, 76, 89, 264, 426; Cam- bridge tunnel, 335, 426; develop- ment, 424, 425; labor problem, 443. "Rainbow" (clipper ship), iv, 444. Rainbow Division, v, 616.
Ralé, Sebastien, ii, 87-90, 303.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, i, 2, 3, 66.
"Rambler" (privateer), iii, 495.
"Rambler" (vessel), iii, 42.
Randolph, Governor (Va.) Edmund, iii, 374, 383, 397.
Randolph, Edward, i, 38, 269, 439, 448, 450, 453-458, 461, 462, 464, 465, 488, 512, 517, 561-566, 569, 572, 575, 577-580, 594, 600, 601, 603, 604 ; ii, 5, 12, 13, 534; iii, 89.
Randolph, Peyton, iii, 160, 231.
"Ranger" (vessel), iii, 532, 539. Rangers, ii, 439-440.
Rantoul, Robert, iv, 92, 94, 99, 478. Ratcliffe, Robert, i, 405, 578-579, 590. Ratshesky, Abraham C., v, 473, 602, 626.
Rattlesnake symbol, "Join or die," ii, 525.
"Raven" (clipper ship), iv, 454.
Rawson, Edward, i, 574; portrait, opp. i, 576.
Ray treatment, v, 555, 561.
Rayon, v, 374.
Raynham, i, 531; ii, 105, 407; iii, 197. Read, George, iii, 382, 337.
Read, John (1680-1749), ii, 171.
Read, Mrs. Olive (Pool), iii, 306, 310. Reading (Mass.), i, 58, 526, 530; in
Revolution, ii, 579; shoe industry, iii, 360.
Reading rooms, iv, 617.
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Real estate, values, i, 271; statistics, v, 34.0.
Real estate. See Loyalists.
"Rebecca" (vessel), i, 265. Rebel status, iii, 33.
Rebellion. See Civil War; Revolu- tionary War.
Rebels, amnesty, iv, 564, 569.
Receiver-general (Mass.), ii, 552; iii,
65, 69, 81, 157; appointing, iii, 73. Reciprocity with Canada, iv, 306.
Reconstruction Bills, iv, 557, 564, 566- 567, 573.
Recruiting, officers' pay, ii, 429, 434; duties, 429, 445; volunteering, 445; accounts, 445 ; bounties, iv, 536, 539 ; aliens, 539.
"Red Jacket" (clipper ship), iv, 445, 463, 467, 468, 469.
Redcoats. See English soldiers.
Red Cross Society, v, 213, 612, 613, 626.
Redpath, James, iv, 580.
Red Star Line, iv, 440, 460.
Reed, James, iii, 12.
Reed, James A., v, 124.
Reed, John (1781-1860), iv, 93, 97.
Reed, Joseph, iii, 22.
Reed, Thomas Brackett, iv, 578; v, 173, 188.
Referendum, in Plymouth Colony, i, 83; in Massachusetts, ii, 462; iv, 30; v, 28, 34-38, 169, 188, 632, 633, 634, 635, 636, 641, 647, 656; ballot boxes, iv, 610.
Reformation, in England, i, 2, 6-7; in Europe, 2. See also names of sects.
Reformatory for Women (Framing- ham), iv, 600; v, 213.
Reforms, iv, 270-274.
Regicides, i, 550.
Regis College, v, 241.
Registrar of Motor Vehicles, v, 4; at- torney, v, 43.
Rehoboth, founding, i, 86, 88, 208, 528; name, ii, 102; school, ii, 376; population, iii, 468.
Regulating Act (1774), ii, 517, 549; (1777), iii, 324.
"Reindeer" (H.M.S.), iii, 488.
Release of right of claim, v, 125.
Religion, fear of error, i, 177, 237; standard, 179, 376; observances, 273 ; children, 307; iii, 281; revivals, ii, 307-308 ; worldliness encroaching, 324; sects, iv, 268; v, 455-473; in- fluence, 455, 474 ; mysticism, 476. See also Church; Liberty of conscience ; also names of sects.
Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, iv, 360.
"Reporter" (clipper ship), iv, 459, 470. Representative government, i, 83, 107, 109, 112; V, 133; districts, ii, 109; proportioned to money contributions, 458.
"Republic" (sloop), iii, 35, 46, 60. Republic, preferable, iii, 185.
Republican party (Jeffersonian), poli- cies, iii, 243, 448, 452, 565, 571; personnel, 413, 441 ; strength, 419, 427, 428, 456, 458, 461, 463, 564 ; weakened by Embargo Act (1808), 433 ; gerrymander, 458; decline, iv, 77. See also National Republican party; Native American party.
Republican party (modern), rise, iv, 494, 496, 500, 553; strength, 501, 588, 592-595, 600-608 ; v, 170-194; ticket (1860), opp. iv, 508; policies, 561, 574, 576, 589, 591-594, 597, 606 ; v, 53, 169, 182, 185; defections, iv, 592, 597; corruption, 596; Liberal Republicans, 597; women, v, 225. Residence. See Settlement.
Resolve, legislation by, iii, 88, 90; v, 20.
"Resource" (vessel), iii, 60.
"Retaliation" (vessel), iii, 44. Revels, Hiram R., iv, 583.
"Revenge" (vessel), iii, 42. Revenue. See Taxation.
Revere (Mass.), water supply, v, 86.
Revere Beach, v, 45.
Revere, General Joseph W., v, 535.
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Revere, Paul, craftsman, ii, 497, 503 ; iii, 40, 140, 359; iv, 231; courier, ii, 521, 550, 564, 567, 568; in Rev- olution, iii, 36, 121; Freemason, iv, 357 ; health officer, v, 542.
"Revolution" (vessel), iii, 55.
Revolution, American, declaration by Boston, ii, 253; proclamation by England, 306; remote causes, 467; early suggestions, 472; sedition in legislatures, 497-499; trial in Eng- land of inciters, 498; literature and argument, 499-501 ; English opinion, 514-531 ; preparations by colonies, 523, 562; public opinion, 543, 557; iii, 64; first offensive, ii, 576; gen- eral revolt, iii, 7; skirmishes over supplies, 7; declaration of the ces- sation of arms, 55; treaty of peace, 55, 420; conditions in 1779, 194; in Mass., 354; relics, iv, 505.
Revolution of 1689, i, 600-605; ii, 5- 6, 15, 328.
"Revolution Justified," i, 589.
Revolution, social. See Sacco; Van- zetti.
Reynor, John, i, 80-81.
Rhoade, John, i, 511.
Rhode Island (province), Indians, i,
130-131; charter, 192, 211-214, 509, 569; ii, 18; iii, 182; early period, i, 207-211, 213, 226; territory, 211- 214, 250; name, 212; religious tol- erance, 249-250, 483 ; New England Confederation, 227, 256; war with New Netherland, 472; free trade, 477; Philip's War, 550-552; Ather- ton Company, 571, 587; in Dominion of New England, 583; militia, ii, 18, 20; King William's War, 66, 71, 421 ; ally in war, 80, 82; appeals to Privy Council, 168; bills of credit, 105, 214; iii, 343; Albany Congress, ii, 423; French and Indian War, 427 ; Stamp Act Congress, 481 ; com- mercial nonintercourse, 504; cooper- ation against England, 521, 525, 537, 544; in Revolution, iii, 5-6, 12, 122,
127, 158; map (1675), opp. i, 528. See also New England Confedera- tion.
Rhode Island (State) agrarian move- ment, iii, 368; not in the Union, 370, 416; Constitution of U. S. rati- fied, 440; Dorr Rebellion, iv, 91, 94 ; boundaries, iv, 113.
"Rhode Island" (U.S.S.), v, 397.
Rhode Island Congregational Associa- tion, iv, 319.
Rhodes, i, 137.
Rice, Governor Alexander Hamilton, iv, 554, 600-602; v, 573.
Rice, Edmund, v, 580.
Rice, Luther, iv, 356.
Rice, William E., v, 392.
Richards, Ellen, v, 264.
Richards, John, i, 565; ii, 170.
Richards, Theodore, v, 264.
Richardson, Henry Hobson, iv, 234, 235, 239 ; v, 156.
Richardson, Josiah, iv, 449.
Richardson, Maurice Howe, v, 566.
Richardson, Samuel, iii, 315, 317.
Richmond (Mass.), iv, 349, 361.
Richmond (Va.), siege, iv, 533, 538.
Richmond's Island, i, 197.
Rifles, types, v, 579.
Rigby, Alexander, i, 196, 198-199.
Rigby, Edward, i, 199.
Rights, natural, iii, 185.
"Ringleader" (clipper ship), iv, 460. Rioting, Stamp Act, ii, 148, 479 ; polit- ical danger, 181; impressment, 471 ; boycott of English goods, 497, 510; seizure of the "Liberty," 472, 502; Jay Treaty, iii, 448; proslavery, iv, 322, 332; closing of liquor shops, 610; police on strike, v, 593.
Ripley, General Eleazar Wheelock, iii, 485
Ripley, George, iv, 207, 276.
"Rising Empire" (brigantine), iii, 35. "Rivadavia" (battleship), v, 397.
Rivers, traffic, ii, 415; iii, 549; im- provement by U. S., iv, 291. Riverside Press, v, 497.
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"Rivington's Gazette," iii, 274. Roads, i, 431-432; ii, 390, 415 ; iv, 364, 419; voting on, i, 122; to Connecti- cut, 236; central control, 432; im- provement, 432; iv, 359, 420; v, 60, 62; local administration, i, 432; in- jury from defective, ii, 100; prop- erty of town, 554; national funds, iv, 291-293; turnpikes, 364; bene- fits from highways, 397; State funds, v, 61, 63, 330, 332, 334, 422; State highways, 61; expense, 335, 340. Roadside enterprises, v, 61.
Roadtown. See Colerain.
Roanoke (Va.), lost colony, i, 66. Roberts Bros., v, 498.
Robertson, William, i, 483.
Robin, Claude C., iii, 332.
Robinson, Edward, iv, 238.
Robinson, Governor George Dexter, iv, 605, 606, 608, 612.
Robinson, John, i, 12, 13, 68, 412.
Robinson, Joseph, iii, 60.
Roblin, Stephen H., v, 467.
Roche, Monsignor Ambrose Francis, v, 638.
Roche, James Jeffrey, v, 493. Rochester (Mass.), ii, 106.
Rockefeller Foundation, iv, 248.
Rockingham Memorial, iv, 108, 119. Rockland (Maine), ships, iv, 463, 469. Rockwell, Julius, iv, 369.
Rodney, George Brydges, Baron, iii, 51, 54.
Rogers, Bruce, v, 497.
Rogers, Mrs. Edith Nourse, v, 226.
Rogers, Ezekiel, i, 58, 526.
Rogers, John, iv, 242.
Rogers, John, v, 506.
Rogers, John Jacob, v, 226.
Rogers, Robert, ii, 439.
Rogers, Thomas, i, 327.
Rogers, William, iv, 532.
Rogers, William Barton, iv, 236; v, 258.
"Romance of the Seas" (clipper ship), iv, 468, 470.
Romney Marsh, i, 166, 530.
"Romney" (H.M.S.), ii, 472, 502.
Roosevelt, President Theodore, iv, 601, 606; v, 177, 179, 183, 184, 194; comparison to John Smith, i, 363; presidency, iv, 585; v, 176, 633; in U. S. Navy Department, iv, 604; appeal for pardon, v, 124.
Rope walks, i, 40.
Ropes, David, iii, 496.
Ropes, Joseph, iii, 496. Ropes, Nathaniel, ii, 187.
"Rose" (H.M.S.), i, 575, 585, 601 ; iii, 89. Rose, Sir George Henry, iii, 540.
Ross, Denman, iv, 247.
Ross, Samuel, v, 22.
Rotch, Thomas Morgan, v, 557.
Roux, François, iv, 464.
Roxbury Charitable Fire Society, iii, 520. Rowe, John, ii, 284, 510, 536.
Rowlandson, Mrs. Mary, i, 144, 374, 549; ii, 377.
Rowley (Eng.), i, 57, 58, 526.
Rowley (Mass.), founding, i, 58, 526; woolen industry, 265, 318 ; marriage, 279; town government, ii, 113; foot- ball, 280; revision of Mass. charter, iii, 71.
Roxbury (Mass.), founding, i, 59, 100, 261, 525; ii, 106-107; emigration, i, 218; schools, 341 ; description, 414; Mass. tax, i, 435; industries, ii, 411 ; rioting, 548; in the Revolution, iii, 19, 24; Mass. Constitution, 198; part of Boston, v, 70; hospitals, 546; militia, 574.
Roxbury Canada. See Warwick.
Royal Academy (Eng.), iv, 230.
Royal Fencible Americans, iii, 255.
Royal Literary Fund, ii, 315.
Royal Society, ii, 345; members, ii, 323, 335.
Royall, Isaac, iv, 49; v, 106.
Royce, Josiah, iv, 190; v, 264. Rubber, Industry, v, 385, 430. Ruddock, John, ii, 252.
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Ruggles, General Timothy, ii, 176, 481, 543; iii, 66, 253, 254.
Rule, Margaret, ii, 50.
Rum, export, i, 45; ii, 413; manufac- ture, i, 275; iv, 417; beverage, i,
275; ii, 390; military ration, 428,
437, 447, 448; iii, 37; excise, 550. Rumney Marsh, i, 415, 423; ii, 233, 244.
Running the gauntlet, ii, 164.
Rush, Benjamin, iii, 402.
Russell, General David Allan, iv, 526.
Russell, James, i, 588.
Russell, John, i, 400.
Russell, John E., v, 172.
Russell, Jonathan, ii, 378.
Russell, Governor William Eustis, iv, 607, 608 ; v, 170, 173 ; governor, v, 15, 61, 169-172.
Russell Club, v, 91.
Russia, emigrants, iv, 154, 156, 160, 169; v, 73, 102; treaty with U. S., iv, 298.
Rutland, i, 532; ii, 103, 104; iv, 352. Rutland Railroad, v, 411, 415.
Rutland State Sanitarium, v, 59, 555.
Rutledge, John, iii, 374.
Rye (N. H.), ii, 529.
S ABBATH DAY, observance, i, 273, 592; ii, 273-275, 279, 302 ; iii, 298, 446, 502; v, 45-47; penalties, i, 277; 280; ii, 242, 275; on military service, 436, 437; iii, 121. Sacco, Nicola, v, 126, 194.
Sachs, Paul, iv, 247; v, 474.
Sack, John, iii, 345.
Saco (Me.), founding, i, 196, 198, 199, 201; fort, ii, 79; railroad, iv, 428. Saco River, exploration, i, 193. Saconnet Indians, i, 130. Sacrément, Lac, ii, 427.
Safety, traffic regulation, v, 63, 120; industrial, 450.
Sagadahoc Colony (Me.), i, 5, 6, 15, 16, 66, 191, 199, 563 ; Lygonia, 196. Sagadahoc River. See Kennebec River.
St. Castin, Baron de, i, 516-517, 585; sons, ii, 88, 90.
St. Clair, Alanson, iv, 335.
St. Clair, General Arthur, iii, 129.
St. Croix River, boundary, i, 511, 513, 516; ii, 64; iii, 420.
St. Eustasius (W. I.), iii, 47, 51. Saint Gaudens, Augustus, iv, 242.
"St. George" (vessel), iv, 442.
St. Johns (N. B.), i, 235.
St. Johns (Newfoundland), i, 2.
St. John's Ecclesiastical Seminary, v, 527.
St. John's River, iv, 303.
St. Kitts Island, i, 510.
St. Lawrence River, boundary, i, II ; expeditions against French, ii, 68, 85.
St. Louis (Mo.), exposition, iv, 244, 245.
"St. Lucie" (vessel), iii, 44.
St. Patrick's Day, iii, 93.
St. Pierre Island, ii, 445.
St. Vincent de Paul Society, v, 531.
Salem (Mass.), founding, i, 19, 58, 98, 99, 261, 413, 523-524; under En- decott, 19, 58, 81, 98, 195; patent of 1628, 19, 98; early residents, 62, 207, 447; church, 81, 178, 207; court, 115; cross cut from flag, 176, 207; shipbuilding, 265, 447, 464; brickmaking, 265; hemp, 39; glass works, 265; schools, 341; iii, 312, 313; college site, i, 343 ; commerce, 425, 445, 446, 464; iii, 55, 56, 362; iv, 74, 305, 437; description, i, 416; allotment of land, 418; ii, 397; Mass. tax, i, 436; ii, 215; iii, 348; lawful port, i, 464, 518; protest against Acadian expedition, 504; name, i, 524; ii, 102; witchcraft, 36- 49; General Court, 136, 544; loyal- ists, 182; old houses, ii, 370; iv, 229 ; common land, ii, 397 ; industries, 411 ; iii, 305; iv, 408, 419; capital city, ii, 525, 544; in Revolution, 553, 584 ; iii, 127; Provincial Congress, ii, 551; iii, 65; privateering, 56, 494, 538,
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543; iv, 446; admiralty court, iii, 39; revision of State constitution, 71 ; antislavery movement, 295, 296; Stamp Act, 318; population, 355; visited by Washington, 417; in- jured by embargo, 432, 545; War of 1812, 491, 494, 496; commerce, 534- 539, 545 ; fisheries, 545; stage route, iv, 420; railroad, 428; fire, v, 588. "Salem" (U.S.S.), v, 397.
Salem Creek (N. J.), i, 219.
Salem Village. See Danvers.
Sales' people, primitive, iv, 364 ; train- ing salespeople, v, 208.
Salisbury, Stephen, v, 382.
Salisbury (Mass.), founding, i, 57; privateering, iii, 57.
Salt, on table, i, 264; import, iii, 47, 361.
Salt works, early, i, 34, 204, 428, 570; Massachusetts Bay Company's inter- est, 100; in Revolution, iii, 47, 361. Salter, John, ii, 228.
Saltpetre, iii, 81, 140.
Saltonstall, Dudley, iii, 37.
Saltonstall, Nathaniel, ii, 41, 75.
Saltonstall, Sir Richard, i, 103, 104, 183, 277, 338, 389; ii, 106.
Saltonstall, Richard, Jr., i, 471, 477.
Salvation Army, v, 470.
Samoset, i, 15, 73, 533.
Samplers, i, 319; iii, 313.
Sampson, A. & G. T., iv, 460.
Sampson, Deborah, ii, 317; iii, 306, 327.
Sampson & Tappan, iv, 449, 454, 457. Samuels, Samuel, iv, 460, 462.
Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin, iv, 573; v, 49, 148.
San Diego (Calif.), exposition, iv, 245. Sandisfield, founding, ii, III; v, 353; industries, iv, 362.
San Domingo Republic, treaty, iv, 598. Sandwich (Mass.), founding, i, 59, 83, 530; pinnace, i, 264; glass, ii, 410; iv, 231.
Sandys, Sir Edwin, i, 11, 14, 18.
San Francisco (Calif.), iv, 445, 447; V, 228; exposition, iv, 245.
Sanitary Commission, iv, 521-523.
San Juan Hill (Cuba) battle, v, 579. Saratoga (N. Y.) battle, iii, 3, 130.
Sargent, Charles, v, 264.
Sargent, Henry Jackson, Jr., iv, 457.
Sargent, John Singer, iv, 249.
Sargent, Nathaniel Peaslee, iv, 35, 37. Sassacus, i, 534.
Sassafras, i, 42.
Sassamon, i, 546.
Saturday night, part of Sabbath, i, 592 ; ii, 243; profanation, 273-275; in Lowell, iv, 418.
Saugus (Mass.), iron works, i, 40, 62; founding, 58, 525, 530; description, 415; Colony tax, 436; cigars, iv, 417.
Saugus River, bridge, i, 432.
Saugust. See Lynn.
Saunders, Admiral Charles, ii, 442, 443.
Saunderson, Henry Hallam, v, 466.
Savage, Hubijah, ii, 242.
Savage, James, i, 164.
Savannah (Ga.), in Revolution, iii, I33.
"Savannah" (vessel), i, 39.
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