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Sawmills, i, 265; v, 605.
Sawyer, Roland D., v, 22.
Say 'and Sele, William Fiennes, Vis- count, i, 52, 53, 203, 508, 566.
Saybrook (Conn.), founding, i, 217; fort, 238, 472.
Scalps, bounty, ii, 74, 90.
Scandinavians, immigrants, iv, 147, 161, 164, 169.
Scarborough (Maine), notables, iii, 372, 562.
Scarlet fever, v, 541.
Schaghticoke (N. Y.), ii, 77, 131.
Schenectady (N. Y.), massacre, ii, 67. Schiller, Johann von, ii, 315.
Schneider, Mrs. Anna Weinstock, v, 225.
Schofield, Mrs. Emma (Fall), v, 227. Schoodic River, iii, 421.
School elections, non-freemen, i, 122.
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School of Religious Education and So- cial Service, v, 458.
Schoolhouse Commission, Boston, v, 77. Schouler, William, iv, 516, 518, 531, 597.
Schurtz, Mrs. Marghareta (Meyer), iv, 166.
Schuyler, John, ii, 80, 89.
Schuyler, Peter, ii, 80-81.
Schuyler, General Philip, iii, 369.
Schuylkill River, i, 219.
Science, development, ii, 345; iii, 504;
v, 149; 236; instruction, 242, 250, 254, 257, 258, 263; research, 262.
Scientists, v, 264. See also names of individuals.
Scire facias proceedings, i, 479, 565; iii, 89.
Scituate (Mass.), founding, i, 60, 82, 88, 414, 528; burned by Indians, 550; vote for independence, iii, 162; raided by English, 490.
"Scorpion" (schooner), iii, 60.
Scot, Reginald, ii, 30.
Scotland, sawmill units, v, 606.
Scots, immigrants, i, 62; ii, 227, 258; iv, 143, 146, 169, 354; servants, i, 62, 268, 462; paupers transported, iv, 144.
Scots' Charitable Society, ii, 268; iii, 519.
Scott, Dred (slave), iv, 64, 496, 561. Scott, Margaret, ii, 40.
Scott, Roger, i, 277.
Scott, Sir Walter, iv, 131.
Scott, Sir William, iii, 472.
Scott, General Winfield, iii, 485; iv, 130, 482; presidency, iv, 130, 135. Scottow, Joshua, ii, 286.
Scribner's Monthly Magazine, iv, 157.
Scrooby (Eng.), i, 12, 79, 88.
Scudder, Samuel, v, 264.
Scudder, Vida Dutton, v, 218.
Sculptors, iv, 242, 249.
Sea Islands (S. C.), iv, 579.
"Sea Witch" (clipper ship), iv, 445, 454.
Seabury, Bishop Samuel, iv, 257, 267.
Seals, iii, 536.
Seamen, alien, i, 475; iii, 50; impress- ment, ii, 471 ; iii, 54, 60, 430, 434, 473, 543; iv, 123; in the Continental Army, iii, 91 ; letter-of-marque crews, 50; numbers in 1717, 91 ; profession, iv, 437; Negroes, 95; Sunday work, v, 46.
Seamanship, iv, 441, 447, 448, 452.
Search and seizure, illegal imports, i, 18; warrant required, ii, 312, 470. Sears, Willard T., v, 220. Sebring, Isaac, iv, 357.
Seccombe, Joseph, ii, 280.
Secession, possibility, iii, 393, 506; iv, 119; New England conspiracy, iii, 429, 432, 433, 541; iv, 109; Burr's conspiracy, iii, 429; abolitionist view, iv, 126, 337, 503, 504; south- ern sentiment, 128, 504; peace con- ference (1861), 504, 505.
Secretaries. See Cabinet.
Secretary of the Commonwealth office, i, II; V, 29, 32, 40; lists, ii, 591 ; proclamations read, iii, 112; popular election, iv, 25.
Secretary of the Navy, office estab- lished, iii, 426.
Sectarian Measure, v, 186, 188.
Securities. See Public debt.
Sedan chair, i, 235.
Sedgwick, J. Hunter, "Controversies with England," i, chap. xvii, pp. 469- 489.
Sedgwick, Robert, i, 501, 507.
Sedgwick, Chief Justice Theodore, personal affairs, iii, 398, 415; iv, 41, 368 ; in U. S. Congress, iii, 410, 418, 427, 428; iv, 369; portrait, opp. iii, 418.
Sedgwick, William, v, 264.
Sedition Act, iii, 241, 425, 452.
Seekers, i, 394. Seekonk. See Rehoboth.
Seelye, Julius H., iv, 190.
Seelye, Laurenus Clark, iv, 194.
Selectmen, non-freemen, i, 122, 171;
freemen in majority, i, 171 ; number,
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ii, 99; duties, i, 313; ii, 100; early provisions, ii, 113; Boston, 244. Selman, Captain, iii, 32, 33. Semmes, Raphael, iv, 457.
Senate (Mass.), powers, iii, 200; elec- tion districts, 203, 444; iv, 3, 21, 23, 116; v, 1; eligibility, iii, 204; iv, 18, 89; election, iii, 202; iv, 17; filling vacancies, 27; quorum, 28; v, 15; travelling expense, iv, 28; v, 15; chamber, I; joint conventions, 2; salaries, 15, 16; recesses, 16; re- election of members, 22; counsel, 42 ; fellows of Harvard Univ., 299.
Senate (U. S.), choosing candidates, iii, 384 ; electing members, iii, 384; State representation, iii, 389; appropriation bills, iii, 389; voting, iii, 389; ex- clusion for insurgent States, iv, 556, 564; members from Mass., iv, 623, v, 690.
Seneca Indians, ii, 432.
Sentries, leaving post, ii, 437.
Separatists, i, 12.
"Serapis" (H.M.S.), iii, 59.
Sergeant, John, ii, 265.
Sergeant-at-arms (Mass.), v, 2.
Sermons, i, 273, 362; ii, 233, 291 ; iii, 298; Thursday lecture, ii, 234; be- fore executions, i, 371; ii, 233; iii, 294; election sermon, ii, 272; v, 2, 505, 524.
Servants, disfranchised, i, 171, 183; immigrants, 183, 266, 268, 317; ii, 260; indentured, i, 266, 268, 284, 285, 439, 462; ii, 260, 367, 370; iv, 310; undutiful, i, 266-268, 318; agents, 266; Indians, 268, 317, 439; Ne- groes, 268, 439 ; wages, 270-271, 439 ; support, 285 ; ii, 260; debtors, i, 277 ; marriage, 303; land, 413; runaways, ii, 261 ; farm laborers, iii, 357. See also Slaves.
Servitude, penalty, i, 269, 277, 285. Settlement laws. See Inhabitants.
Sewall, David, iv, 35, 37, 44.
Sewall, Elizabeth, i, 278, 282; ii, 362. Sewall, Jane, ii, 367; iii, 330.
Sewall, Jonathan, iii, 218. Sewall, Joseph, ii, 224.
Sewall, Mrs. Mary (Gibbs), ii, 300, 363.
Sewall, Chief Justice Samuel (1652- 1730), i, 280, 599; ii, 170, 279, 298-303, 357, 360, 362-363 ; witch- craft, ii, 41, 49; offices, ii, 246, 301 ; moralist, ii, 276, 285, 286, 301 ; writer, i, 370; ii, 292, 298, 300; quoted, i, 270, 277, 282, 385, 404, 579, 591 ; ii, 167, 264, 273-275, 277, 278, 283, 285, 286, 357, 361, 362; iii, 298; portrait, opp. ii, 50.
Sewall, Major Samuel, ii, 238, 302. Sewall, Samuel, ii, 364.
Seward, William Henry, politics, iv, 500; Secretary of State, iv, 571.
Sewerage, metropolitan district, iv, 614, 617; V, 29, 30, 69, 73, 264, 331; Boston, v, 86, 331.
Sewing, teaching, iii, 314; iv, 188.
Seymour, Horatio, iv, 595.
Shadrach (slave), iv, 479.
Shaker settlements, iv, 354; sect, iv, 357.
Shakespeare, William, i, 326-327.
Shaler, Nathaniel S., iv, 187, 383; v, 61, 304.
"Shannon" (H.M.S.), iii, 484.
Sharon, ii, 112; sanatorium, v, 555. Sharp, Thomas, ii, 235.
Sharpshooters, iv, 527.
Shattuck, Samuel, i, 483.
Shaw, Anna Howard, v, 222.
Shaw, Henry, iv, 95.
Shaw, Chief Justice Lemuel, iii, 306; iv, 4, 48, 51, 54, 479 ; v, 362.
Shaw, Mrs. Pauline (Agassiz), v, 209.
Shaw, Quincy, iv, 239.
Shaw, Quincy A., v, 163.
Shaw, Mrs. Quincy Agassiz, iv, 194.
Shaw, Robert Gould, iv, 243, 535, 536. Shaw, Samuel, iii, 536.
Shaw and Randall, iii, 537.
Shawmut. See Boston.
Shawomet. See Warwick (R.I.)
Shawsheen Village, v, 374.
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Shays's Rebellion, iii, 150, 204, 306, 368, 441, 505.
Sheep, prices, i, 271 ; raising, 318, 423- 424; ii, 392, 407; iv, 358, 377; pro- tection, 387.
Sheepscott (Me.), i, 196.
Sheffield, Edmund, Baron, i, 18.
Sheffield, founding, ii, 105; in Revolu- tion, iii, 75.
Shelburne, William Petty, Earl of, ii, 517.
Shelburne Falls, industries, iv, 362. Sheldon, Edward Austin, iv, 189.
Shelton, George H., v, 615.
"Shenandoah" (ship), iv, 467. Shepard, Charles U., iv, 389.
Shepard, Samuel, i, 349.
Shepard, Thomas, i, 57, 59, 114, 116, 345, 362, 369, 370, 376, 396.
Shepheard, Colonel William, iii, 129. Shepley, Edward, iv, 236.
Shepley & Coolidge, iv, 236, 239.
Sherborn, i, 418; reformatory, v, 52.
Sherbrooke, General John Coape, iii, 492.
Sherburne (Nantucket), taxes, iii, 349. Sherburne, General John H., v, 24, 616; portrait, opp. v, 614.
Sherburne, John H., v, "Massachusetts in the World War," v, chap. xx, pp. 598-631.
Sheridan, General Philip, iv, 539.
Sheriff, i, 595; iii, 112, 353; v, 593. Sherlock, James, i, 595.
Sherman (Wyo.), Ames Monument, v, 16I.
Sherman, James S., v, 180. Sherman, John, iii, 300.
Sherman, Mrs., i, III.
Sherman, Roger, iii, 104, 163, 172, 234, 378, 388.
Sherman, General William Tecumseh, iv, 538, 539.
Ship of state, iv, 61.
Shipbuilding, primal industry, i, 37, 184, 264-265, 424, 443, 446-448, 465; ii, 398; laws concerning, i, 38; de- velopment, i, 38-39, 363 ; ii, 399, 406;
iii, 408; iv, 231, 407, 436-471 ; v, 387; schooner, ii, 401; Indians, i, 153-154 ; statistics, iii, 408, 528 ; Bos- ton, 471 ; foreign competition, 528; Salem, 538; effect on house carpen- try, iv, 227, 231; figureheads, 231 ; fine art, 434; freighters, 438-443 ; v, 607; clippers, iv, 439, 443-471 ; Brit- ish, 439, 467; French, 464; German, 454; yachts, v, 388.
Shipping, carriers, i, 449; iii, 367; de- cline, iv, 74; steam navigation in N. Y., 112; packet liens, 440, 442-443, 447; combination with railroads, v, 403, 410, 411 ; twentieth century, 419. Ships, whalers, i, 36; sale abroad, 38, 45, 448, 449 ; clippers, 38-39 ; iv, 231, 434-471; outfitting, i, 39; clearance, 136, 464; phantom, 219; statistics, 265, 476; ii, 400, 404, 412; iii, 91, 408, 528 ; ketches, i, 446; hired by La Tour, 503; seizure for illegal trad- ing, 453, 464, 494, 502, 510; seizure for unlicensed fishing, 515; ii, 77, 472; search, 18; fires aboard, 248; rental to government, iii, 32; French in American Revolution, 40; seizure by French Directory, 423; confisca- tion in war, 423, 430, 434, 436; v, 601, 608 ; submarine, iv, 187; v, 387 ; canal boats, iv, 421 ; steamships, 441 ; mutiny on, 455; figureheads, 457; taxes, 604; commandeered in World War, v, 398; destruction in World War, v, 601. See also Navy; Priva- teers; Seamen ; names of vessels. Shipwrecked persons, i, 118.
Shipwrights, from England, i, 37, 447. Shirley (Mass.), founding, ii, 110; Polish element, iv, 154; industrial school, v, 52.
Shirley, Governor William, ii, 141-143, 214, 421, 424-428, 430, 431, 432-436, 456, 463, 466, 469, 472; autograph, opp. ii, 444; portrait, opp. ii, 142. Shoemakers, lodge, iv, 610.
Shoemaking, development, i, 44; iii, 360; iv, 281, 362, 403, 415; v, 376-
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380, 430; panic (1837), iv, 289; nineteenth century, iv, 416, 431; machinery, iv, 416; v, 372, 376; tariff, 394, 395; labor, 434.
Sholan, i, 530.
Shops, Sunday opening, ii, 243; racial discrimination, iv, 584.
"A Short Introduction to the Latin Tongue (1773)," title page (fac simile), opp. iii, 282.
Shot. See Ammunition.
Shovelboard, i, 184.
Shrewsbury, ii, 104; turnpike, iv, 364. Shrouds, common, i, 121 ; style, iii, 298. Shrove Tuesday, ii, 285; iii, 291.
Shute, Governor Samuel, ii, 87-89, 129- 133, 203, 302; iii, 90.
Shutesbury, founding, ii, III.
Siboney (Cuba) battle, v, 579.
Signal Corps (U. S.), v, 582, 619, 620. Silk, v, 374.
Silsbee, Nathaniel, iv, 283, 289, 306.
Silver, utensils, i, 264; bullion im- ported, 462; value, ii, 202, 205, 206, 208, 211, 212; iv, 35; legal tender, ii, 212; shipments, 212; nonaccep- tance, iii, 84.
Silver Bank, iii, 210.
Silver Purchase Act (1890), iv, 578.
Simmons College, v, 208.
Sims, Thomas, iv, 480.
Sims, Admiral William Sowden, v, 607.
Simsbury (Conn.), Indian raid, ii, 84. Sioux Indians, iv, 209.
"Sir Launcelot" (clipper ship), iv, 468. "Siren" (frigate), ii, 430.
Sisters of Charity, v, 523. Skating rinks, exclusion from, iv, 584. Skinner, Ernest M., v, 387.
"Skylark" (clipper ship), iv, 460.
Slater, Samuel, iv, 412.
Slattery, Bishop Charles L., v, 463. Slattery, Charles Lewis, "Religious Forces," v, chap. xv, pp. 455-478.
Slaughter House Cases, iv, 571.
Slaughter houses, ii, 101, 373. Slave trade, rise, i, 45, 268-269; In-
dians, 73, 183, 268, 533, 547; Ne- groes, 183, 268, 462; ii, 413 ; iii, 295- 297 ; Boston, ii, 228; head tax, 263; opposition, ii, 263; iii, 296, 392, 559 ; Virginia against, 376; southern sup- port, 376; power of Congress, iii, 392-394; iv, 125; taxation, iii, 393; denunciations, iv, 125; in District of Columbia, 127, 339 ; suppression, 303, 554 ; instances, 315; Chinese, 457.
Slavery, legal provisions, i, 118, 269, 439; ii, 262; iii, 295, 297; among Indians, i, 132, 549; statistics, 269- 270; iii, 295, 296; prevalence, ii, 368 ; cessation in Mass., iii, 355, 508 ; iv, 38, 310; prohibition by States, iii, 506, 508; v, 147; political issue, iv, 94, 97, 99, 205, 293, 295, 311, 333, 337-341, 473-489, 492-497, 552; exclusion in western territories, 301, 3II, 484-485; v, 134; benefits of, iv, 312; approval by slaves, 326; eco- nomically unsound, 340; ground of war, 503-506; abolished in U. S., 534, 553-555; denunciations, 125; State right, 125; compromise (1850), 127-129, 484 ; problem unsettled, 202 ; morally wrong, 206; abolition in District of Columbia, 553. See also Abolitionists ; Antislavery movement. Slaves, captives, i, 118, 269; bond servants, 118; Negroes, 183, 268- 270; ii, 296; iii, 296, 355, 506; In- dians, i, 183, 268-269, 360, 535; fugi- tive, 229, 262; iv, 329, 332, 339, 474- 480, 486, 553; v, 134; return to na- tive land, i, 439; numbers, i, 440; ii, 262; iii, 296; children of slaves, ii, 262; iii, 295; manumission, ii, 264; emancipation, iv, 320, 534, 554 ; con- traband of war, 553, 598; acts to confiscate, 553, 554.
Sloane, Marion Parkhurst, v, 220.
Sly, John F., "Geographical Expansion and Town System," ii, chap. iv, 96- 119; "Massachusetts in the National Government (1764-1774)," iii, chap. vi, pp. 153-179; "Massachusetts in
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the National Government (1820- 1861)," iv, chap. x, pp. 281-306.
Small pox, rebuke to pride, i, 282; funerals, ii, 114; innoculation, 228, 298, 344; v, 541; poor patients, ii, 268; on prison ships, iii, 53.
Smith, Mrs. Abigail (Adams), iii, 306, 314.
Smith, Francis, ii, 565-567, 571, 572, 574, 578-581.
Smith, Gerrit, iv, 331, 335.
Smith, Jeremiah, iv, 107.
Smith, John, i, 5, 6, 12, 16, 32, 70, 128, 362-365, 373, 493, 533; iv, 345; map by, opp. i, 6; portrait, opp. i, 362. Smith, Oliver, iv, 389.
Smith, Payson, v, 235, 238.
Smith, Philip, ii, 35.
Smith, Ralph, i, 80.
Smith, Samuel Francis, iv, 220.
Smith, Theobald, v, 554, 566.
Smith, Walter, iv, 188.
Smith, William, ii, 576.
Smith & McCance, v, 495.
Smith Agricultural School (Northamp- ton), founding, iv, 389.
Smith College, iv, 191, 232, 617; V, 206, 207; admission, 244; curricu- lum, 255; presidents, iv, 194.
Smiths, i, 286.
Smollett, Tobias, iii, 287, 317.
Smuggling, customary, i, 477; ii, 7, 19, 218, 475; iii, 542; molasses, ii, 146; wines, 502; opium, iv, 440. Snake in church, i, 182.
Snow, Isaac, iii, 560-561. Snow removal, v, 61.
Snowplow, on tramway, iv, 424.
Snowshoes, soldiers', ii, 79, 448.
Social Law Library, v, 288.
Social life, i, 262-289; in 16th century, 50-54; in 17th century, 262-289; in 18th century, ii, 123, 257-288, 356- 383; iii, 280-303, 306-311; 501- 522; distinctly American, ii, 356; in 19th century, iv, 397.
Social service, training, v, 208 ; Good- will Industries, v, 459.
Social Service Library, v, 290. Socialists, riots, v, 128.
Society for Encouraging Industry and Employing the Poor, ii, 268, 408.
Society for the Prevention of Pauper- ism, iii, 520.
Sohier, Edward D., iv, 56. Soldiers. See Army; Pensions; Vet- erans.
Soldiers' Relief Societies, iv, 521.
Solemn League and Covenant, ii, 540. Smyth, Egbert, v, 457.
Somers, Sir John, ii, 162.
Somerset (Mass.), shipbuilding, iv, 446, 454, 460.
"Somerset" (H.M.S.), ii, 564.
Somersetshire (Eng.), i, 57-58, 59, 61, 526.
Somerville, entrenchments, iii, 19; wa- ter, v, 86; railroad, v, 417; militia, 574.
Somerville, Mary, v, 216.
Sons of Liberty, ii, 509; iii, 93, 314. South Adams, industries, iv, 361.
South America, commerce, iv, 440.
South Boston Citizens' Association, v, 183.
South Brimfield. See Wales.
South Carolina, settlement, i, 194; Fundamental Constitution, 582, 587; paper money, ii, 214; iii, 343; co- operation against England, ii, 525; iii, 161; western boundary, iii, 175; federal constitution, 374, 379, 380, 394; cooperation with New England, 394; tariff, iv, 118; nullification, 118, 120, 287; northern negroes in, 295, 339 ; proslavery, 322; suffrage, 555; reconstruction, 567, 574; mob vio- lence, 569; negroes, 580; northern governor, 581; carpetbaggers, 581- 582; industries, v, 375-376.
South Hadley (Mass.), ii, 110; indus- tries, iv, 361; canal, iv, 421. See also Mt. Holyoke College.
South Vernon (Vt.), railroad, iv, 428. Southborough, founding, ii, 105 ; school, v, 463.
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Southbridge, industries, iv, 413; v, 389. Southampton (Conn.), i, 222.
Southampton (Mass.), ii, 110.
Southern New England Railway, v, 4II.
Southern States, shipping, iii, 376; tax- ation of exports, 376; cheap labor, 376; aid not needed by North, 392- 393; need of union with East, 394. Southern, U. S., agrarian interest, iii, 416; manufacturing, v, 375.
Southold (Conn.), i, 222.
Southwick, Cassandra, i, 312.
"Sovereign of the Seas" (clipper ship), iv, 458, 463, 468-470.
Soykonate Indians, i, 547.
Spain, rivalry with England, i, 2, 3, 7, 493 ; colonies, 1; ii, 420; slaves, i, 73, 533, 547; at war, ii, 444; iii, 49; neutrality, 43; treaties with U. S., 533; iv, 298; war with U. S., v, 8, 174, 177, 578-583.
Sparks, Jared, iv, 208; v, 298.
Specie circular, iv, 87, 289.
Spectacle Island, ii, 268.
"Speedwell" (vessel), i, 68.
Speer, Samuel, ii, 369.
Spencer, Herbert, iv, 187.
Spencer, founding, ii, 110; Mass. Con- stitution, iii, 204.
Spinning, children, i, 284; iii, 511; domestic, i, 266, 318, 425; ii, 370, 407; iv, 363; parties, ii, 282; iii, 302, 319; contest opp., ii, 276; instruc- tion, 409; iii, 314; with both hands,
5II ; power machinery, iv, 412, 413. Spiritualism, ii, 57-58.
Spoils system, Gov. Belcher, ii. 138. Spoons, i, 264.
Sprague, Peleg, iv, 62, 321.
Springfield, early period, i, 60, 218, 238-240, 241, 338, 472, 531; ii, 105; assignment of land, i, 418; Mass. tax, 436; witchcraft, ii, 33; cannon made, iii, 40; industries, 40, 359; iv, 362, 363, 367; v, 372, 393, 394, 400; population, iii, 408; iv, 281 ; visited by Washington, iii, 416;
Americanization center, iv, 151; schools, 175; v, 248; monuments, iv, 243; v, 579; registry of deeds, iv, 347 ; bridge, 364; railroads, 367, 429; in Civil War, 526; conventions, v, 178; banks, 345; hospitals, 546; armory, 579; explosion, 596; Court Square, (illus.) opp. iv, 350.
"Springfield Republican" (newspaper), iv, 221, 369, 558, 566-567; v, 153, 479, 485.
Squakeag. See Northfield.
Squanto, i, 73, 533, 534.
Squantum, shipbuilding, v, 388.
Squatters, communities, i, 120; Maine, iii, 549, 551.
Squire family, iii, 214.
Stacy, Thomas, i, 286.
"Stag Hound" (clipper ship)," iv, 449, 463, 470.
Stage-route systems, iii, 301; iv, 365, 420.
Stage Fort (Gloucester), v, 581.
Stamford (Conn.), i, 222.
Stamp Act, ii, 148-149, 219, 250, 312, 466, 477; iii, 360; presaged, ii, 473; rioting, 479, 494; resistance, 478, 482-484, 488, 492, 534; iii, 225, 318; repeal, ii, 489; iii, 93 ; stamp (illus.), opp. ii, 480.
Stamp Act Congress, ii, 148, 426.
Stanbery, Henry, iv, 561.
Standard of living, ii, 231; iii, 503.
Standish, Miles, i, 16, 19, 72, 73-74, 85, 274, 524, 534.
Stanley, William, v, 385.
Stanley, William, iv, 368.
Stannard family in Michigan, v, 156.
Stanton, Edwin M., iv, 560, 557, 558.
Stanton, Mrs. Elizabeth (Cady), iii, 336.
Stanton, Henry B., iv, 335.
Starbuck, Mrs. Mary (Coffin), i, 316.
Stark, John, iii, 5, 12.
Starrett, L. S., v, 381.
State Agricultural Experiment Station, iv, 393.
State Ballot Law Commission, v, 179.
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State Board of Directors of Internal Improvements, iv, 366.
State Board of Education, v, 29, 175. State Board of Retirement, v, 30.
State farm, v, 52, 56, 59.
State Guard. See Militia.
State House (Mass.), building, iv, 229 ; Hall of Flags, iv, 540; v, 1, 173; Commissioners of State House Con- struction, iv, 614; additions, I; v, 330; (illus.), opp. iv, 236.
State Infirmary (Tewksbury), v, 59, 555.
State rights, territory, iii, 175, 178; representation, 379, 388, 389-391; federal veto, 382, 335; guard against tyranny, 300; sovereignty, 440, 453, 463; nullification of Federal law, 452; allegiance to the Union, 460; iv, 590; disapproval of war, iii, 475; as against human rights, iv, 576; political issue, 593 ; in war, v, 623.
State Street (Boston) named, iii, 108. Staten Island, in Revolution, iii, 126. States, friendliness the basis of union, iii, 366; not suable, 419-420, 421- 422; creation, 462, 466; suicide by secession, iv, 554, 564; reconstruc- tion after secession, 555, 556, 564- 578, 581-583, 593. See also specific topics.
Statesman, defined, iii, 461.
"Statesman" (newspaper), iv, 78, 85. Statistics, State bureau, v, 29.
Steam power, introduction, iv, 410; railroads, 426; compared to elec- tricity, v, 372.
Stearns, Asahel, iv, 49. Stearns, Frank W., v, 189.
Stearns, Mary, iii, 334. Stearns, John, iv, 234.
Stearns, William Augustus, iv, 190. Stebbins, Samuel, ii, 365.
Stedman, General Charles, iii, 15.
Steel, whalebone supplanted, i, 25; building construction, iv, 245; im- ports, iv, 416.
Steuben, Baron Friedrich von, iii, 138; v, 572.
Stevens, Thaddeus, iv, 178, 556-557, 564, 566, 568, 570, 577, 592; biog- raphy, v, 188; portrait, opp. iv, 558. Stevenson, Marmaduke, i, 483.
Stewart, Charles (1778-1869), iii, 488. Stiles, Ezra, ii, 570.
Stillson, Daniel, v, 380.
Stimson, Frederick J., "Massachusetts in Literature in the 17th Century," i, chap. xiii, pp. 360-378; "Massa- chusetts Literature in the Eighteenth Century," ii, chap. x, pp. 291-318. Stockbridge, Levi, iv, 392.
Stockbridge, Mohicans, i, 131; ii, 265; founding, ii, 105; in Revolution, iii, 75; notables, 265; iv, 368, 369, 370; industries, iii, 360, 362; pastors, iv, 369.
Stockings, manufacture, ii, 409.
Stocks, punishment, i, 276, 280, 297, 314; required, 437; location, iii, 300. See also Banks; Corporations.
Stoddard, John, ii, 89; iv, 369.
Stoddert, Benjamin, iii, 426.
Stone, Captain, i, 534.
Stone, Colonel, iii, 6.
Stone, Edward, iv, 234.
Stone, Lucy, v, 204, 207.
Stone, resources, i, 43; domestic trade, iv, 421.
Stoneham, founding, ii, 106.
Stonington (Conn.), War of 1812, iii, 491. Stony River, i, 414.
Storey, Moorfield, portrait, opp. v, 120. Storrow, James J., v, 84, 88, 414; be- quest, v, 88; World War, v, 601, 606, 627, 628.
Storrs, George, iv, 332.
Story, Mrs., iii, 323.
Story, Joseph, iv, 4, 45, 62, 112, 283; v, 520; Mass. Constitutional Conven- tion, iv, 4 ; common law code, iv, 48 ; Harvard professor, iv, 49; v, 106; writings, iv, 47, 49, 50; portrait, opp. iv, 46.
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Story, William, iii, 95.
Story, William Wetmore, iv, 220, 242. Stoughton, founding, ii, 106; Suffolk County congress, ii, 547; industries, iii, 140.
Stoughton, Israel, i, 344.
Stoughton, William, i, 530, 563, 572, 584, 594, 603 ; ii, 17, 19, 41-43, 54, 71, 78, 163, 170, 236, 331 ; portrait, opp. i, 562.
Stoughton Poor Fund, iii, 519.
Stover, Willis W., v, 619.
Stoves, iv, 397; v, 390, 391.
Stow, founding, i, 529; notables, ii, 552.
Stowe, Calvin E., v, 142.
Stowe, Mrs. Harriet (Beecher), ii, 308, 318; v, 142.
Strang, Richard, iii, 36.
Stratford (Conn.), i, 222.
Stratton, Samuel W., v, 128, 195.
Strong, Governor Caleb, iii, 200, 372, 375, 408, 415, 455, 458, 464, 466, 475; iv, 369; Mass. Constitutional Convention, iii, 189, 190; federal constitutional convention, iii, 370, 372- 373, 379, 390, 398, 403 ; U. S. Sena- tor, iii, 408, 427; politics, iv, 358; portrait, opp. iii, 454.
Strong, William P., v, 161.
Strong man, ii, 39.
Strout, Jacob, iii, 53.
Stuart, Charles, iv, 332.
Stuart, Gilbert, iv, 230. Stuart, James, iv, 234.
Sturbridge, founding, ii, 104.
"Sturdy Beggar" (vessel), iii, 60.
Sturgis, John Hubbard, iv, 234, 238.
Sturgis, Richard Clipton, iv, 247. Sturgis, William, iii, 539; iv, 300. Stuyvesant, Peter, i, 220, 241-242, 245; portrait, opp. i, 235.
Submarine boats, iv, 187; v, 387. "Success" (frigate), ii, 430.
Sudbury, founding, i, 530; iv, 354; In- dian troubles, i, 550; in eighteenth century, iii, 310; schools, iii, 313. Sudbury River, v, 85.
Suffolk (Eng.), i, 56, 59.
Suffolk County (Mass.), settlement, ii, 106, 112, 236; wealth, iii, 348.
Suffolk County Congress, ii, 547, 548- 550; iii, 155.
Suffolk Law School, v, 109, 263.
Suffolk Resolves, ii, 188, 548, 551, 553; iii, 155.
Suffolk system of banks, iii, 578. Suffolk Trust Company, v, 343.
Suffrage, Plymouth, i, 83; freeman, i, 96, 105, 109, 121, 169, 175, 185; ii, 239 ; church members, i, 83, 105, 121- 123, 170-171, 389, 479, 565, 605; del- agation, 109, 169; control by courts, 116; in towns, 121-122, 171; ii, 239; non-freemen, i, 122, 171, 175, 560, 564, 603; proportion disfranchised, 170, 481 ; property qualifications, 171, 484, 599, 603 ; ii, 8-9, 15, 100, 123, 239, 366; iii, 68, 205, 410, 575 ; iv, 89, 90; Maine, i, 201 ; New Hampshire, 206; Rhode Island, 208; character qual- ification, ii, 9; disfranchisement pen- alty, i, 277, 311, 396; iii, 263; wom- en, ii, 366; iii, 224, 334; iv, 605, 6II ; V, 10, 34, 172, 200-206, 221-225 ; loyalists, iii, 262 ; universal manhood, iv, 5, 29, 76, 94; literacy, 26; ineli- gibles, 5, 29; veterans of wars, 28; change of residence, 32; in southern States, 555, 564; negroes, 556, 571- 578, 593, 595. See also Poll tax. Suffragist party, iv, 601.
Sugar, export in war time, iii, 44.
Sugar Act (1764), ii, 146, 219, 414, 473-475 ; modified, 489.
Suits at law, seventeenth century, ii, 161-164; against Mass., iii, 420; against a State, 420; iv, 20; eigh- teenth-century practice, 39; arbitra- tion, 65; damage suits, v, 120.
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