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Leyden, service of congregation at, i. 33.
Lexington, history of town of, ii. 9; topographical notes of, ii. 12; loss of, in first battle, ii. 23; action of, in different wars, ii. 26; local notes of, ii. 30; movements of Malden men at, ii. 126; battle-ground at, described, i. 120; first firing at, (note ), i. 120 ; and Concord, list of losses at, i. 127; and Bun- ker Hill, Chelmsford men at, i. 375; battle of, incidents within Somerville, ii. 312.
"Liberties, Body of," framed by Ward, i. 71.
Libraries, public, founded in Newton, ii. 249 ; in Wakefield, no- ticed, ii. 403.
Library formed in Arlington, 1. 217; town, established in Bel- mont, i. 253; social, first formed in Brighton, i. 292; public, formed in Burlington, i. 296; town, established in Bedford, i. 249; building for, given to Concord, i. 401; instituted in Ev- erett, i. 434; Framingham town, established, i. 448; public, cs- tablished in Hudson, i. 500; public, founded in Malden, ii. 136; Ladies' Social, formed in Natick, ii. 196; Citizens', in Natick, ii. 197; law case respecting, decided, ii. 198; public, estab- lished in Sberborn, ii. 234; formed in Somerville, ii. 325; in Westford, ii. 487; in Winchester, account of, ii. 519; town, formed in Wayland, ii. 472; in Woburn, history of, ii. 535; formed in Reading, ii. 282; free public, in Watertown, ii. 458; Goodnow, notice of, ii. 371.
Lincoln, history of town of, ii. 34; response of, to Revolutionary call, ii. 42.
Lincoln, President, grief at death of, i. 182.
Lion, ship, found at Cape Ann, i. 42; sent home for supplies, i. 46; returns with provisions, i. 49, arrival of, with Mrs. Winthrop, i. 54; return to England with chief settlers, i. 54. List of losses at Cambridge by Lexington fight, i. 344.
Litchfield, Rev. Paul, first pastor in Carlisle, i. 365.
Littleton, history of town nf, ii. 44; name of, given to Nashobah, ii. 46.
Livermore, Captain Samuel, useful at Waltham, ji. 412.
Looms, power, first building of, ii. 57. Loring, Rev. Israel, anecdote of, ii. 371. Losses at Bunker Hill, account of, i. 153.
Louisburg, expedition against, i. 101. Lovewell, Captain John, fight with Indians, 1. 99.
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" Lovewell's fight," Dunstable men in, i. 420; Bedford men in, i. 243; Chelmsford men in, i. 373.
Lowell, history of town of, ii. 53; manufactures begun at, ii. 54; cotton business brought to, ii. 58; town receives name of, ii. 64; first town-meeting in, ii. 64; various annals of, ii. 66-68- 85 ; described by Basil Hall, i. 185; foundation of, for cot- ton manufacture, i. 184.
Lowell, Francis C., sketch of, ii. 56. Lower Falls, Newton, first improvement at, ii. 237. Lunenburg and Leominster, petition from, as to Indians, i. 220. Lyceum organized in Littleton, ii. 50.
Lyford, Rev. John, notice of, i. 18; and Oldham, disturbance by, i. 34.
Magus, Pomp, colored veteran of Malden, ii. 128.
Malden, history of town of, ii. 113 ; settlement at, made a town, i. 76.
Manly, Captain, takes British ship Nancy, i. 161.
Mann, Hon. Horace, resident of Newton, ii. 257.
Manners, early, in Billerica, i. 262; and discipline in Harvard College, i. 328.
Manufactures, notice of, in county, i. 183; at Lowell, progress of, ii. 63; in Woburn, growth of, ii. 546.
Map, Danforth's, of Nashobalı Plantation, ii. 45.
Marblehead, Cradock's trading-post at, i. 22.
" Maria del Occidente," or Mrs. Brooks, ii. 168. Market, cattle, established in Brighton, i. 286.
Markets, dispute of Boston and Watertown about, ii. 445.
Marlborough, history of town of, ii. 137; Indian attack upon, ii. 141 ; raid upon by savages, i. 82.
Marrett, Rev. John, notes of as to Lexington fight, i. 202. Mary and John, ship, expedition brought by, i. 41. Masconomo, sachem, boards Arbella, i. 42.
Massachusetts Company, history of, i. 17; formed, i. 18; char- tered, i. 19; line north of Merrimac fixed, i. 89; northern boundary rectified, i. 101.
"Massacre, Boston," occurrence of, i. 105; letter respecting, i. 472.
Mather, Rev. Richard, arrival of, i. 64; Rev. Increase, president Harvard College, i. 326.
Matthews, Rev. Marmaduke, at Malden, ii. 116.
Maverick, settler at Noddle's Island, i. 41.
Maxwell, Thompson, in " Boston Tea Party," i. 244; his account of Bunker Hill, i. 245.
Mayflower, ship, and consorts, i. 22.
Mayhew, Rev. Jonathan, against Episcopalians, i. 336.
Maynard, history of town of, ii. 153.
Meadow, remarkable, in Belmont, i. 252.
Medfield ravaged by King Philip, i. 82.
Medford, history of town of, ii. 158; origin of name of, ii. 158; settlement begun at, i. 48; Cradock's trading-post at, i. 22; ship built at, in 1632, i. 49.
Meeting-house, first built in Arlington, i. 209; in Ashby, 221 ; raising of, in Bedford, i. 249; first built in Billerica, 1. 256 ; in Brighton, i. 279; in Burlington, i. 297; built at Cambridge, 1757, i. 332; strife about, in Carlisle, i. 360; in Carlisle, described, i. 364; first located in Dracut, i. 408; conten- tion about, in Dunstable, i. 422; first, in Framingham, i. 441 ; old, in Lincoln, ii. 38; first raised in Natick, ii. 181; in Newton, ii. 217; in North Reading, ii. 259; in Pepperell, ii. 261; in Reading, ii. 270; built in Reading, ii. 276; very early vote for stove in, ii. 280 ; in Sherborn, enlarged, il. 292; first built in Sbirley, ii. 305; in Stow, ii. 354; in Tewksbury, ii. 378; in Townsend, ii. 384; in Tyngsborough, il. 391, 394 ; in Waltliam, ii. 407; in Watertown, ii. 448; in Watertown, place disputed, ii. 451; first built in Wayland, ii. 463; in Weston, ii. 490; in Weston, matters concerning, ii. 493; first built in Wilmington, ii. 507.
Meeting-houses, trouble about, in Malden, ii. 123.
Melrose, history of town of, ii. 175.
Melvin, David and Eleazer, service of, 1. 384.
Mendon joined to Middlesex, i. 81.
Menotomy, severe fighting at, i. 126.
Merriam's Corner, hard fighting at, i. 125.
Miantinomah, sachem, at Narragansett, i. 56; treaty made with, i. 64.
Middlesex County, erection of, i. 72; minute-men on Punkatas- set, i. 123.
Military Commission, members of, i. 60; stores taken in ship Nancy, i. 161; situation of camp at Cambridge, i. 131; offi- cers, list of, i. 107; situation before Bunker Hill, i. 139; of Boston, after Lexington, i. 129; affairs, early, in Dracut, i. 4II; history of, in Acton, i. 204; stores deposited in Con- cord, i. 386; matters in Hopkinton, i. 491; movements at Lowell, ii. 87; history of Marlborough, ii. 146; characters of Newton, ii. 255; company formed at Reading, ii. 271; move- ments in Stow, in Revolution, ii. 355; condition of Wal- tham, ii. 414; history of Townsend, ii. 383; early, in Wayland, ii. 464.
Militia, general organization of, i. 73.
Milk, large product of, in Lexington, ii. 9.
Milk Row, Percy's retreat by way of, i. 127; Somerville, houses located on, ii. 311.
Mill, old, on Assabet River, i. 499; first built in Natick, ii. 190; grist, first at Newton, ii. 235; at Shirley, ii. 299; first built in Reading, ii. 270; in Stoneham, ii. 345; in Sudbury, 361; in Townsend, ii. 383; in Watertown by How, ii. 454; in Waltham, ii. 431; in Wayland, ii. 461.
Miller, James, only Somerville man killed by British, ii. 312.
Millmore, Martin, sculptor Woburn monument, ii. 546.
Miner, Rev. A. A., president Tufts College, ii. 174.
Minerals found in Lexington, ii. 10.
Mines, attention given to, in Billerica, i. 265.
Minister, first in Burlington, i. 299; in Bedford, shut out of church, i. 246; first settled in Holliston, i. 471 ; first resident in Ayer, i. 237; first, at Reading, ii. 271; difficulty of set- tling in Stow, ii. 352; first in Wayland, ii. 468; first in Wo- burn, ii. 527.
Ministers, earliest, in Acton, i. 200; early, in Brighton, i. 282; of different churches in Concord, i. 405; Orthodox, in North Reading, ii. 259; earliest, in Lincoln, ii. 37; in Marlborough, ii. 144; in Pepperell, ii. 265; in Watertown, ii. 449; succes- sive, in Watertown, ii. 450; in Townsend, ii. 386; in Wake- field, ii. 402; in Wayland, ii. 471; in Westford, ii. 479; in Weston, ii. 493; in Winchester, ii. 520; in Woburn, ii. 537; of Waltham, list of, ii. 429.
Mint established for colonial coinage, i. 76.
Minute-man, statue of, at Lexington, ii. 28.
Minute-men march from Reading to Concord, ii. 277.
Missionaries and translators, eminent, ii. 241.
Mitchell, Rev. Jonathan, arrival of, i. 64; settled at Cambridge, i. 322.
Moncrief, Major, exchange officer for British, i. 134.
Money, paper, first issue of, i. 94; issue of, by Provincial Con- gress, i. 133; Continental, depression of, ii. 377.
Monohaquaham, sachem, at Charlestown, i. 55.
Monument, Bunker Hill, finished, i. 175; Battle, on Lexington Green, ii. 32; Eliot's, at Natick, ii. 201; Settlers', erected at Newton, ii. 222; for Rev. Mr. Grafton, ii. 234; Wadsworth's, erected in Sudbury, ii. 365; in Groton, for Longley Family, i. 458; for old church in Groton, i. 464; for Colonel William Prescott, i. 467; to Revolutionary men of Arlington, i. 213; at North Bridge, Concord, i. 402; to John Fitch and otbers, in Ashby, i. 225; to Captain Davis, of Acton, i. 205.
Monument, soldiers', erected in Acton, i. 207; in Billerica, i. 266; in Cambridge, i. 355; in Concord, i. 400; in Holliston, i. 479; in Medford, ii. 169; in Natick, ii. 200; in Newton, ii. 254; in Somerville, ii. 322; in Stoneham, ii. 348; in Woburn, ii. 546.
Moody, Paul, assists cotton manufacture, ii. 57.
Morgan, Colonel, joins American camp, i. 159.
Morse, Samuel F. B., inventor of telegraph, i. 174; Miss Mary A., founds library, ii. 197; Captain Joseph, serves at Lexington, ii. 193.
Morton, Thomas, noticed by General Court, i. 45; sent prisoner to England, i. 46.
Moxas, Indian, attacks white garrison, ii. 531.
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Munroe, William, gives building to Concord, i. 401; Sergeant Willian, serves at Lexington, ii. 20. Music, church, encouraged at Stoneliam, ii. 345.
Nahant, claimed by Randolph, i. 93.
Nails first made at Malden, ii. 134.
Name of town of Ayer, why given, i. 238.
Nanapashemet, sachem at Mystic, ii. 113.
Nancy, ship, taken by Captain Manly, i. 161.
Nautasket first settled by Conant, i. 34; emigrants landed at, i. 41; troops sent from, to Quebec, i. 94; British fleet waits at, i. 167.
Narragansetts declared enemies, i. 81.
Nashobalı, Indian name of Littleton, ii. 44.
Natick, history of town of, ii. 184; made an Indian town, i. 75. Naumkeag settled, 1626, i. 18.
Navy-yard, placed at Charlestown, i. 173; dry dock built at, i. 173.
Neal, opinions of, as to rise of colony, i. 29; in "History of Puri- tans," i. 32.
Needham, Hon. Daniel, resident in Groton, i. 469.
Negroes, good service of, in army, ii. 194; formerly held in Read- ing, ii. 279; seats of, in meeting-house, allotted, ii. 343.
Nelson, Captain John, takes Andros prisoner, i. 93.
Nesutan, Job, Eliot's Indian teacher, ii. 218.
New England, men of, serve Cromwell, i. 74.
"New England's Prospect," published by Wood, i. 56.
New Hampshire, boundary adjusted with, i. 412.
" New Light " Society formed in Newton, ii. 225.
Newman, Robert, signals to Paul Revere (note), i. 117.
Newspaper, "Boston Gazette," first issued, i. 98, 103; earliest. published in Ayer, i. 237.
Newspapers established in Natick, ii. 199; in Wakefield, notice of, ii. 403; local, in Woburn, ii. 544; in Woburn, notice of, ii. 547.
Newton, history of town of, ii. 203; set off as a parish, ii. 214; effort for incorporation of, ii. 214; (or Newtown) incorporated, i. 97; present name, how obtained, ii. 216; early relations of, with Cambridge, ii. 217; Upper Falls in, first improved, ii. 235; movement to divide town of, ii. 240; Nortb Village in, how begun, ii. 246.
Newtonville, village, how begun, ii. 238.
"New Town," Hooker emigrates from, to Connecticut, i. 53.
Nichols, Thomas, sells slaves in Melrose, ii. 181.
Nipmucks join Narragansetts, and burn Mendon, i. 81.
Nixon, General John, sketch of, ii. 368; Captain, recruits in Wayland, ii. 470.
Noddle's Island, skirmish at, i. 133. Nook's Hill fortified by Americans, i. 166.
Noon-houses, several, at Newton, ii. 224; formerly in Tewks- hury, ii. 380.
Norfolk County formerly north of Merrimac, i. 72.
North Reading, history of town of, ii. 259; statistics of town of, ii. 260.
Norton, Rev. John, agent to England, i. 79.
Norton and Davison claim part of Medford, ii. 161.
Noted men of Lincoln, ii. 43. Nowell, Increase, character of, i. 27.
Noyes, Thomas and Peter, mill of, at Sudbury, ii. 361; John, . Esq., instructed by town, ii. 368.
Nurseries, business of, in Brighton, i. 278.
Nutting, Dame, teacher in Shirley, ii. 301.
Oak, ancient, formerly in Brighton, i. 293; old, cut at Natick, ii. 201; Eliot's, sonnet to, by Longfellow, ii. 201. Oakes, Hon. Urian, president Harvard College, i. 325. Odiorne Brothers make nails at Malden, ii. 134. " Offering, Lowell," publication of, ii. 77.
'Officers, civil, compelled to resign, i. 109; of plantation, first chosen, i. 20.
Oldham and Lyford, disturbance made by, i. 34; and Dorrell, claim important lands, i. 39. Oldham, John, killed by Indians, i. 64; ii. 443. Old house of Adams family taken down, i. 213.
Old honses remaining in Ayer, i. 236.
Oliver, Lieutenant-Governor, and others, overawed at Cambridge, i. 341.
Ordination of Rev. Mr. Wilson, i. 46.
Orne, Lee, and Gerry escape British, i. 119.
Osgood, Rev. James, first pastor in Stoneham, ii. 342.
Palisade ordered built around Cambridge, i. 307.
Palmer, Walter, early at Charlestown, i. 40.
Paper, notes of manufacture of, in Shirley, ii. 300.
Paper money, first issue of, i. 94; Provincial Congress issues, i. 133.
Parish, new, in Brighton, petition for, i. 281; movement for new, at Newton, ii. 213; second, in Sherborn, organized, ii. 293. Parishes formerly in Reading, ii. 399.
Park, public, laid out in Somerville, ii. 326.
Parker, Captain John, commands at Lexington, i. 118; Rev. Thomas, first minister in Dracut, i. 408; epitaph of, i. 413; Jonas, patriotic death of, ii. 22.
Parris, Rev. Samuel, resident at Stow, ii. 351.
Parry, John, land of, taken for cemetery, ii. 142.
Parsonage, built at Cambridge, i. 324; burned at Malden, ii. 118.
Parsons, Captain, with British at Concord, i. 122.
Patrick, Captain Daniel, sent against Pequots, i. 67; services at Watertown, ii. 439.
" Peck's Fully," anecdote of, ji. 241.
Peirce, Captain William, boards Arbella, i. 42.
Pensioners, Revolutionary, in Framingham, i. 445.
Pepperell, history of town of, ii. 261.
Pepperell, Sir William, town named for, ii. 262; sent against Louisburg, i. 101.
Pequots, messengers from, ask alliance, i. 60; Masan marches against, i. 67 : slaughter of, at Mystic, i. 67.
Percy, Lord, supports British, i. 126.
Perry, Major Abner, instructed by town, i. 474.
Phips, Sir William, made Governor, i. 95; discharges witchcraft
prisoners, i. 96; takes Port Royal, i. 94; fails at Quebec, i. 94.
Pidge, slave woman called, sold in Melrose, ii. 181.
Pigeon, John, gives cannon to Newton, ii. 227.
Pigot, General, forms British line at Bunker Hill, i. 149.
Pirates, tradition at Maynard abont, ii. 156.
Pitcairn, Major John, with British at Lexington, i. 114; killed at Bunker Hill, i. 150; pistols of, given tu Lexington, ii. 25.
" Planter's Plea," issued by Rev. John White, i. 28.
Plough, vessel, arrival of, i. 54.
Pole, Captain, with British at Concord, i. 122.
Polk, President, visits Lowell, ii. 80.
Pollard, Asa, killed at Bunker Hill, i. 264.
Pomeroy, General, volunteers at Bunker Hill, i. 148.
Pomeroy, Rebecca B., teacher at. Newton, ii. 232.
Pond, Spot, visited by Winthrop, ii. 160; water-supply secured from, ii. 181.
Ponds in Melrose, account of, ii. 175.
Poole, John, builds first mill in Reading, ii. 270.
Population of Medford, reckoning of, ii. 171.
Port Royal, taken by Sir William Phips, i. 94.
Post-office first established in Brighton, i. 288; in Newton, ii. 248; in Reading, ii. 280.
Powder in the Somerville wind-mill seized by Gage, i. 109.
Powder-house, old, in Somerville, described, ii. 329.
Pownal, Thomas, made Governor, i. 104.
Pratt, Ephraim, centenarian, sketch of, ii. 155.
Preble, General, declines supreme command, i. 128.
Prentice, Captain Thomas, at Wadsworth's fight, ii. 209.
Prescott, Samuel, rides with Revere, i. 118; Colonel William, ser- vices of, ii. 263.
Press, started in Cambridge by Rev. James Glover, i. 317; Cam- bridge, list of works issued from, i. 318.
Price, Henry, resident in Townsend, ii. 389. Printing office set up at Cambridge, i. 70.
Prisoners, exchange of, effected with British, i. 134; British,
quartered in Reading, ii. 278; drowned in Tyngsborough, ii. 397.
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Prospect Hill, American bivouac upon, i. 153; American flag first raised on, i. 163.
Psalm-Book, Bay, first book printed in North America (note), i. 70.
Psalm, Hundredth, sung in Indian at Natick, ii. 200. Psalms, Indian version of, ii. 201.
Pulling, Captain John, signals to Paul Revere (note), i. 117. Punkatasset Hill, provincials posted on, i. 122.
Putnam, General Israel, arrives at Concord, i. 128; reconnoitres Charlestown, i. 133; fortifies Prospect Hill, i. 154 ; commands American centre, i. 156; enters into command of Boston, i. 167.
Putnam, Rufus, engineer at Dorchester Heights, i. 165. Pynchon, William, character of, i. 26.
Quakers, persecution of, at Boston, i. 76; continued oppression of, i. 80. Quonapowitt, Lake, why so named, ii. 274.
Railroad, Western, remarks of Abbott Lawrence on, i. 193; Fitch- burg, beginnings uf, i. 193; Boston and . Maine, account of, i. 194; opened in Reading, ii. 281; Boston and Albany, stage-ride over route, i. 192; beginning and progress of, i. 191; Lowell, first projection of, i. 190; general description of, i. 191; begun, ii. 67; Sangus Branch, opened in Everett, i. 430; station, in Boxborough, i. 273; first, in Holliston, i. 478 ; location of, in South Reading, i. 400.
Railroad, Horse, Middlesex, noticed, i. 430; begun at Lowell, ii. 92; in Somerville, ii. 319.
Railroads, opening of, in Cambridge, i. 355; beginning of, in Concord, i. 398 ; first built through Somerville, ii. 314; con- nection of, with Westford, ii. 487.
Rale, Jesuit, killed at Norridgewock, i. 99.
Randolph, Edward, arrives from England, i. 89; sent back for trial, i. 94.
Reading, history of town of, ii. 270; original grant of, i. 71; ac- tion of, daring siege of Buston, ii. 278; various annals of, ii. 230; action of, in Rebellion, ii. 282; South, incorporated as a town, ii. 400.
Rebellion, Shays's, effect of, upon' Ashby, i. 224; action of Con- cord in, i. 391 ; action of Bedford upon, i. 246; Shirley men engaged in, ii. 302; Townsend men in, ii. 384; War of, action of Bedford concerning, i. 250.
Records of First Church in Newton, burned, ii. 225; oldest, of Malden, lost, ii. 116; early, of Watertown, lost, ii. 443 ; pov- erty of early, ii. 270.
Redoubt at Bunker Hill, described, i. 143.
Reed, Captain James, his story of Lexington fight, i. 302.
Reed, Rebecca T., at Ursuline Convent, ii. 335; writes "Six Months in a Convent," ii. 336
Reforms made in Germany by Count Rumford, ii. 553.
Refugees, American, leave Boston, i. 131.
Regiment, Sixth Massachusetts, attacked in Baltimore, i. 89. Rejoicings, made on arrival of Mrs Winthrop, i. 54.
Religious history of Holliston, notes of, i. 447; Hopkinton, notes of, i. 485; Carlisle, sketch of, i. 366; Chelmsford, sketch of, i. 378; Littleton, notes of, ii. 50; Lowell. further, ii. 105; Malden, pursued, ii. 133: Melrose, notes of, ii. 178; churches at Upper Falls, Newton, ii. 236; Pepperell, continued, ii. 266; Waltham, sketch of, ii. 428.
Representatives, House of, first constituted, i. 58; names of, in General Court, 1634, i. 58.
Reservoir, situation of, at Chestnut Hill, ii. 251.
Residents, notable and eminent, of Brighton. i. 295. Resulves adopted by Middlesex Convention, i. 107.
Revere, Paul, sent to Lexington by Warren, i. 113; rides at night to Concord, i. 114; and others, British officers take, i. 118. " Revere's Alarm." story of, ii. 19.
Revolution, men of Ashhy in, i. 223: action concerning, in Acton, i. 199; movement toward, in Billerica, i. 263; events in Cam- bridge preceding, i. 339: action before, in Chelmsford, i. 374; relation of Concord to opening of, i. 385; preparation for, in Watertown, ii. 445.
Richardson, Rev. Joseph, notice of, i 268.
Ripley, Rev. Samuel, dissatisfaction with, ii. 426.
River, Assabet, mills upon, ii. 156; chief stream in Stow, ii. 351; Sudbury and other streams described, ii. 372; Squamcook and others, in Townsend, ii. 381.
Rivers, Connecticut and Merrimac, hinder commerce, i. 188. Roads, early, in Melrose, ii. 178.
Robinson, Rev. John, pastor Leyden congregation, i. 33.
Robinson, -, commands right flank on Bunker Hill, i. 149.
Rockbottom, manufactures at, ii. 356.
" Rogers' Rangers," Lexington men with, ii. 15.
Rogers, Rev. Mr., forced to declaration, ii. 49.
Rosewell, Sir Henry, and his patentees, i. 18.
Rowson, Mrs. Susanna, at Medford, ii. 168; at Newton, ii. 231.
Roxbury, first settlement of, i. 46 ; ordered fortified, i. 50; alarm at, i. 54.
Royalists, allowed to leave Boston, i. 166 ; how affected by Revo- lution, i. 351.
"Rumford, Count," native of Woburn, ii. 549.
Rumford Institute, in Waltham, ii. 428.
Rutter, General Micah M., notice of, ii. 474.
Salaries of ministers first fixed, i. 45.
Salem, Peter, colored soldier at Bunker Hill, i. 444.
Salem, General Court at, becomes Congress, i. 109; Naumkeag, first so called, i. 20; witchcraft breaks out at, i. 95.
Saltonstall, Sir Richard, at Watertown, ii. 437; character of, i. 25 ; settles Watertown, i. 44.
Saltpetre, ordered made at Hopkinton, i. 490.
Sanborn, Frank B., attempt to kidnap, i. 399.
Sargeant, William, early at Malden, ii. 115.
Sargent, Paul Dudley, with provincial troops, i. 129.
Sausamon, Indian, warns whites, ii. 187.
Sawin, Mrs. Martha, bequest to Sherborn, ii. 196, 296. Sawyer, Phineas, founds church in Marlborough, ii. 145.
Scarborough, ship, disabled by Americans, i. 162.
School, High, established in Reading, ii. 282; in Stow, ii. 355.
School, Indian, set up at Cambridge, i. 70.
School-house, first, in Arlington, i. 216; in Ayer, i. 236; in Brigh- toin, i. 290; in Shirley, ii. 301.
School, Pine Farm, notice of, ii. 252; first opened in Dracut, i. 411; in Groton, i. 464.
School affairs, history of, in Boxborough, i. 275; old-time, in Bedford, i. 248.
Schools in Ashland, notes as to, i. 231; in Chelmsford, statistics of, i. 379; in Cambridge, statistics of, i. 358; in Carlisle, ac- count of, i. 367; in Dunstable, early care of, i. 425 ; in Everett, statistics of, i. 432; in Holliston, first established, i. 476 ; in Hopkinton, first established, i. 487; in Lincoln, history of, ii. 39 ; in Littleton, first established. ii. 51 ; in Lowell, first es- tablished, il. 65; in Lowell, history of, ii. 99; in Lowell, vari- ous, described, ii. 100; in Lowell, teachers in, ii. 101; in Malden, earliest, ii. 119; in Marlboroughi, history of, ii. 149; in Melrose, history of, ii. 179; in Natick, first kept, ii. 192; in Newton, history of, ii. 228-229; in North Reading, statistics of, ii. 260; in Sherborn, established, ii. 295; in Stow, rise and progress of, ii. 354; in Tewksbury, history of, ii. 378; in Wakefield, progress of, ii. 403; in Waltham, questions as to, ii. 409; in Waltham, establishment of, il. 412; in Wal- tham, progress of, ii. 424-427 ; in Watertown, history of, ii. 453; in Wayland. first established, ii. 467; in Winche-ter, history of, ii. 518; in Woburn, history of, ii. 533; in Som- erville, first condition, ii. 315.
Scoresby, Rev. William, visits Lowell, ii. 77.
Scouts, American, captured near Concord,ii. 18. Seal of Brighton, i. 278; of Somerville, described, ii. 324.
Sears. Rev. Edmund H., minister in Weston, ii. 494. Seats in meeting-house, how allotted, i. 281.
Seccomb, the Brothers, of Medford, ii. 167. Sedgwick, Captain Robert, character of (note), i. 72.
Seminary, Lasell Female, origin of, ii. 232.
Settlement of 1630, where begun, i. 17; at Charlestown, history of, i. 38; early, at Cambridge, i. 308.
Settlements on Saugus and Mystic rivers, i. 45; in New Eng- land, effect at home, i. 47.
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Settlers, early hardships of, at Concord, i. 381; first, at Dunstable, i. 417; original, in Framingham, i. 436; in Newton, early' names of, ii. 203; first, at Newton, list of, ii. 204 ; early, at Newton, noticed, ii. 208-212 · earliest in Reading, names of, ii. 270; early, in Sherborn, ii. 289.
Sewall, Rev. Samuel, notice of, i. 299.
Sewerage of Somerville described, ii. 323.
Shadrach, colored, arrested for fugitive slave, i. 399.
Shakers, society of, in Shirley, ii. 300; planted by Ann Lee, ii. 307; outraged by mob, ii. 308.
Shattuck, Rev. Benjamin, pastor in Littleton, ii. 46.
Shattuck, Job, leader in Shays's Rebellion, i. 392; desperation and capture of, i. 394.
Shays's Rebellion, relation of Hopkinton to, i. 492.
Shays, forces of, dispersed at Petersham. ii. 304.
Shed, Samuel, British soldier killed in house of, ii. 312.
Shedd, Rev. Marshall, settled in Acton, i. 201.
Shepherd, Rev. Thomas, assists Eliot, i. 75; Rev. Mr., pastor at Newtown, i. 64; his company made First Church, i. 314; Samuel, master at Harvard College, i. 69; General, checks rebels near Springfield, i. 172.
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