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Civil organization of Middlesex, 1774, i. 106.
Clap, Captain Roger, account of Charlestown, i. 40; Rev. Supply, first minister in Burlington, i. 298.
Clarke, Rev. Jonas, minister at Lexington, ii. 14.
Clinton, General, arrives from England in Cerberus, i. 132 ; plan of, at Bunker Hill, overruled, i. 144.
Clock given to church at Newton, ii. 234.
Cloth, quick making of, at Natick, ii. 193.
Cobble Hill, fortified by Putnam and Heath, i. 161.
Coburn, Captain Peter, letter of, after Bunker Hill, i. 414.
Coddington, William, character of, i. 27; founder of Rhode Isl- and, i. 27; abandons colony, i. 68. Coggeshall abandons colony, i. 68.
College, buildings for, first at Cambridge, i. 317; Tufts, founded in Medford, ii. 173; Harvard, committee to establish, i. 68; list of presidents of, i. 356: buildings of, i. 357; temporary removal of, i. 391; rules of, offensive clauses in, i. 349; pro- gress and growth of, i. 350.
Collegians and graduates of Framingham, i. 449; of Reading, ii. 283 ; in Wayland, ii. 473; in Weston, ii. 503; in Chelmsford, i. 380.
Colonial officers, questionable election of, i. 44; alliance consum- mated, i. 72.
Commission, military, names of members. i. 60.
Commissioners, royal, visit the colonv. i. 79.
Committee, Recruiting, list of, in Middlesex, i. 112; of Corre- spondence formed, i. 105; Subscribing, for meeting-house in Brighton, i. 280.
Common, Boston, partly claimed by Randolph, i. 93; soldiers
camped upon, i. 103; laid out at Newton, ii. 234; laid out at Sudbury, ni. 361.
Commons, two, laid out in Lowell, ii. 79.
Company, Dwight Print, stoppage of, i. 234.
Conant, Colonel, arranges signals with Revere, i. 113; Roger, no- tice of, i. 18.
Concord, history of town of, i. 380; battle-ground at, described, i. 121; notes of progress in, i. 403; incidents of fight at, i. 388; share of, in Shays's Rebellion, i. 391; reason for Indians not burning, ii. 351.
Confidence, ship, list of passengers in, ii. 359.
Congress, Second Provincial, meets at Cambridge, i. 111; Conti- nental, action of, toward Massachusetts, i. 134.
Constable, office of, sold at auction in Ashby, i. 225.
Constitution adopted in Acton, i. 199.
Controversy, Antinomian, prevalence of, i. 68.
Convent, Ursuline, destroyed, i. 174; account of. ii. 335; citizens enraged against, ii. 336 ; burned by mob, ii. 337.
Conventions, delegate, held in Middlesex and Suffolk, i. 107.
Converse, Captain James, Jr., bravery of, ii. 531.
Cooke, Rev. Samuel, first minister in Arlington, i. 209.
Cooperage, chief business of Townsend, ii. 390.
Cnpp's Hill, fortified by British, i. 132.
Copper, ore-bed of, in Winchester, ii. 514.
Corlett, Elijah, grammar master at Cambridge, i. 70.
Corporation and charter transferred to New England, i. 20. Cotting, Hon. Uriah, native of Waltham, i. 433.
Cotton (name), Hooker, and Stone escape from colony, i. 31; Rev. Mr., arrives at Boston, i. 55; to frame code of laws, i. 71.
Cotton (product) first manufacture of, i. 183.
Council of Safety provisionally formed, i. 93; order of, incorpor- ating Newton, ii. 216. Counties, peculiar origin of some, i. 17. County, general statistics of, i. 182.
Court, "Great and General," first so called, i. 19; General, last held in England, i. 21; third session of, i. 48; powers of, de- fined, i. 58; manner of sessions fixed, i. 73; divided into two bodies, i. 74; adjourned to Salem, i. 106; at Salem, becomes a Congress, i. 109; removed to Cambridge, i. 105.
Court suppressed. at Concord by insurgents, i. 393; house burned at Concord, i. 399; police, established in Somerville, ii. 324. Courts removed from Concord, i. 401.
Covenant, first, of church at Charlestown, i. 37; Solemn League and, agreed to, i. 106.
Coytemore, Thomas, mill of, at Malden, ii. 115- 134.
Cradock and Goff, choice of, i. 18; Governor, proposition of, i. 20; Matthew, character of, i. 22; influence of, i. 48; founder of Medford, ii. 159.
Craigie, Andrew, enterprise of, in Cambridge, i. 352.
Cranberries, history of trade in, in Wilmington, ii. 509.
Cresap, Colonel. joins American camp, i. 159.
Crispe, Benjamin, affidavit of, ii. 162.
Crockett, David, visits Lowell, ii. 70.
Cromwell, John, settler at Tyngsborough, ii. 391.
Crown, Hon. William, grant to, at Ashland, i. 227.
Cudworth, Captain, with Sudbury men at Concord, i. 125.
Cummings, Rev. Henry, character of, i. 267.
Curtis, Captain Ephraim, sketch of, ii. 474.
Danforth, Thomas, appointed recorder, i. 73; made president of Maine, i 89.
Danvers, militia from, killed at Menotomy, i. 126.
Dark day of 1780, account of, ii. 176; noticed in Reading, ii. 279.
Davies, Rev. Nathan, minister in Draent, i. 413.
Davis, Captain, killed at Concord, i. 123.
Dawes, William, rides from Boston for alarm, i. 114.
Daye, Samuel, first printer at Cambridge, i. 70; Stephen, first
printer at Cambridge, i. 318; Matthew, second printer in Cam- bridge, i. 319.
Debates of Cambridge ministers with Whitefield, i. 331.
Dedham, settlement of, begun, i. 63.
Deeds, Indian, of Sudbury lands, ii. 358; of lands now in Way- land, ii. 460.
Delegates to Congress appointed, i. 106.
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Desert, singular, found in Tewksbury, ii. 374.
Dickens, Charles, visits Lowell, ii. 78.
Dike, Captain John H., wounded at Baltimore, i. 180; ji. 348. Distinguished people dwelling at Concord, i. 404.
District of Carlisle reannexed to Concord, i. 360.
Disturbance at Concord by insurgents, i. 392. Disturbances, political, in beginning of peace, i. 170. Ditson, Thomas, outrage on, by British, i. 264. Dogs, vote respecting, in Reading, ii. 272.
Dorchester Company, i. 18; Mattapan first called, i. 46; reason for settlement of, i. 41; Lord, influence of, for colony, i. 19. Dorchester Heights, plan for Americans to occupy, i. 130; Gage tries to occupy, i. 136; attempt of Gage toward, i. 155; Americans decline to occupy, i. 159; fortified by Washing- ton, i. 165.
Dorrell, Oldham and, claim important lands, i. 39.
Dowse, Thomas, bequest of, to Sherborn, ii. 295.
Dracut, history of town of, i. 406; town of, incorporated, i. 407.
Drake, Samuel A., resident of Melrose, ii. 181.
Dudley, Joseph, made president of colony, i. 90; becomes gov- ernor, i. 97; Governor, his account of Cambridge, i. 306.
Dudley, Thomas, character of, i. 25; signs first covenant, i. 37;
letter of, to Countess of Lincoln, i. 38; his account of first settlement, i. 43; quarrels with Winthrop, i. 50.
Dunstable, history of town of, i. 416; town of, incorporated, i. 417; made a town, i. 79; annals of, for sundry years, i. 426.
Dunster, Henry, president Harvard College, i. 69; difficulty with, at Cambridge, i. 323.
Dunton, John, visits New England, i. 96; visits Medford, ii. 160; his account of Natick, ii. 189.
Dwight, Joseph, goes against Louisburg, i. 101.
Eames, Thomas, attacked by Indians at Framingham, i. 81; fam- ily ravaged by Indians, i. 439.
Earthquake felt at Reading, ii. 275.
Eaton, Theophilus, character of, i. 26; a founder of New Haven, i. 26; Nathaniel, first master, Harvard College, i. 69; misde- meanors of, i. 69.
Ecclesiastical matters in Lowell, ii. 106.
Edes, Rev. Richard S., anecdotes of, ii. 502.
Editors and authors noticed in Reading, ii. 285.
Edmands, Hon. J. Wiley, founds institution in Newton, ii. 250. Edson, Rev. Theodore, minister at Lowell, ii. 102.
Education, history of, in Acton, i. 203; in Framingham, i. 447; in Lexington, ii. 27; in Pepperell, ii. 267; in Shirley, ii. 301; in Westford, ii. 481.
Eldridge, Mrs. E. T., gives bells to Newton, ii. 244.
Eliot, Rev. John, arrives from England, i. 54; mission of, to In- dians, begun, i. 75, 321; early improvement by, at Natick, ii. 185; makes Indian grammar, ii. 187; movements of, among Indians, ii. 219; begins to preach in Watertown, ii. 443.
Eliot, Rev. John, Jr., first pastor at Newton, ii. 221.
Eliot, Hon. Samuel, donation of, to asylum, ii. 330.
Elm, old, of Pittsfield, saved by a Weston man, ii. 500.
Emerson, Rev. Joseph, first pastor at Pepperell. ii. 262. 1.merson, Rev. William, in Concord fight, i. 122; journal of same, i. 387; account of Cambridge camp, i. 346.
Emigration, great, history of, i. 42; early, religious character of, i. 32; numbers of the, 1629-30 (note), i. 22.
Eminent men of Framingham, i. 450; of Groton, i. 467; of Hop- kinton, i. 495; of Holliston, i. 481; of Melrose, il. 183; of Newton, ii. 254; of North Reading, ii. 260; of Reading, ii. 284; of Watertown, ii. 459.
Eminent persons at Concord after Revolution, i. 395.
Endicott, John, sails for New England, i. 18; character of, i. 25; reprimanded as to church, i. 36; warned as to religion, i. 28; arraigned for defacing flag, i. 59; reprimanded for same, i. 60; sent against Indians, i. 64. England, interference with colony feared, i. 59.
Evacuation of Boston decided on, i. 166.
Everett, history of town of, i. 428 ; final incorporation of, i. 431 ; rapid growth of, i. 433.
Exchange of prisoners effected with British, i. 134. Exhibition, agricultural, set up in Brighton, i. 286.
Factories, mills and, in Lowell, ii. 55.
Factory, first complete, at Waltham, ii. 431.
Families, prominent, formerly of Cambridge, i. 338; in Melrose, historically noticed, ii. 177.
Fast Day first appointed by Endicott, i. 35; public, early kept, i. 46.
Ferrit, Cæsar, soldier from Natick, ii. 194.
Ferry, first, from Boston to Charlestown, i. 53; at Charlestown, granted to Harvard College, i. 69.
"Ferry, Penny, " in Malden, skirmish at, ii. 127.
Fight, Indian, of Agawams and Tarratines, i. 56; Wadsworth's, description of, ii. 361.
"Fight, Swamp," particulars of, i. 81.
Fire, disastrous, in town of Ayer, 1. 240; destructive, in Water- town, ii. 448.
Firing at Lexington, by whom first done (note), i. 120.
First charter, names of grantees, i. 19; when annulled, i. 19. Fish, early abundance of, in Concord River, 1. 373. Fisheries, early, in Merrimack River, ii. 56.
Fish-weir, early, built at Watertown, ii. 454.
Fiske, Rev. John, first pastor at Chelmsford, i. 76, 369; Dr. Na- than W , sketch of, ii. 504.
Fitch, John, petition of, as to Indians, i. 219.
Flag, new, adopted by colony, i. 60; American, first raised at Prospect Hill, i. 163, raised at Cambridge, i. 347.
Flagg, Captain John, tavern of, in Weston, ii. 495.
Fleet and army against Quebec leave Boston, i. 98.
Fletcher, and Forbush, survivors of 1812, i. 206; Hon. John, Jr., letter of, from Acton, i. 207; Deacon Samuel, instructed as representative, ii. 477; Solomon, L., notice of, ii. 524.
Fly, destruction by, in Sudbury, ii 362.
Food, scarcity of, in early settlements, i. 49.
Ford, Captain John, bravery of, i. 127, 375; has encounter with Indian, ii. 55.
Forges at Westford, early built, 1i. 485.
Fort, early, on Town Hill, Charlestown, i. 40.
Forts in Somerville, in siege of Boston, ii. 313.
Fortifications ordered built, i. 59 ; around Boston, plan for, i. 130 ; of Cambridge, described by Drake, i. 346.
Foster, Rev. John, first pastor at Brighton, i. 283; Rev. Mr., cen- tury sermon of, ii. 49.
Fox, Captain Gustavus V., notice of, ii. 93 ; Rev. Jabez, minister at Woburn, ii. 528; John, first teacher at Woburn, ii. 534. Framingham, history of town of, i. 435; physicians in, i. 451. Frankland, Sir Charles Henry, at Hopkinton, i. 488.
Franklin, Benjamin, dispatches sent to, i. 129; his electrical ex- periments, i. 103.
Freemasonry founded in America by Henry Price, ii. 389.
French threaten to invade colonies, i. 44.
French, Daniel C., artist of monument, i. 402. Freshet, great, at Lowell, ii. 84.
Frost, Benjamin D., engineer of Hoosac Tunnel, ii. 52.
Fuller, Dr. Samuel, early physician, i. 35; John, remarkable family of, ii. 206; Judge, owns last slave in Newton, ii. 223.
Gage, General, becomes governor, i. 105; sets patrols on Concord Road, i. 113; outlawed by Provincial Congress, i. 133 ; de- clares martial law, i. 134; moves against Dorchester Heights, i. 136 ; superseded at Boston by Howe, i. 160.
Gardner, Colonel Thomas, notice of, i. 285; covers retreat at Bunker Hill, i. 152.
Gardner, John, gift of, for library, ii. 136; Rev. John, ordained at Stow, ii. 352; Hon. Henry, native of Stow, ii. 356.
Gas Companies in Somerville, ii. 319. Gas-lighting, first success of, at Newton, ii. 247.
" Gates House," at Marlborough, noticed, ii. 152.
" Gazette, Boston," first published, i. 103.
General Court sits at Cambridge, i. 333.
Gerrish. Colonel, retires at Bunker Hill, i. 150.
Gerry, Orne and Lee escape British, i. 119; Thomas, his terrible fight with wolves, ii. 340.
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Gibbon, Edward, letter of, to Holdroyd, i. 112.
Goffe, William, regicide, at Boston. i. 79; and Whalley, regi- cides, at Cambridge, i. 324.
Gookin, Major Daniel, assistant of Eliot, i. 75; pastor at Sher- born, ii. 291.
Gorges, Robert, patent granted to, i. 38; patent bought by Mas- sacbusetts, i. 89.
Gould, Jacob, killed at Stoneham, ii. 346.
Government, colonial, first established, i. 20; new choice of, i. 21; of 1686, resumed, i. 93; of Massachusetts, reorganized, i. 169. Graduates of Groton Academy, i. 466; and collegians of Acton, i. 204; of Townsend, ii. 388.
Grammar, Indian, made by Eliot, ii. 187.
" Grant, Turkey Hill," history of, ii. 532.
Grape Island, skirmish at, i. 133.
Graves, Thomas, early engineer, i. 19 ; sent to found Charlestown, i. 40.
Green, Samuel, printer at Cambridge, i. 70, 319; Rev. Henry, first pastor at Reading, ii. 271.
Greene, John, early resident of Stow, ii. 356; General, remarks on military situation, i. 162.
Greenough, Rev. William, ordained at Newton, ii. 226; Horatio, designer of monument, i. 176.
Gridley, Richard, provincial military engineer, i. 129; engineer at Dorchester Heights, i. 165; Captain, disobedience at Bun- ker Hill, i. 147.
Griffin, ship, arrives with ministers, i. 55.
Groton, history of town of, i. 454; grant and settlement of, i. 79; desolating attack on, i. 82; attacked by Indians, i. 96; fur- ther attacked by Indians, i. 457; changes in boundaries of, · i. 463 ; part of, annexed to Littleton, ii. 47.
Guild, Charles H., history supervised by (note), ii. 338. "Gulf," in Dunstable, history of, i. 418.
Habeas Corpus, denied by Andros, i. 93.
Hadley, Antbony, his strange arrival in Stoneham, ii. 341.
Hall, Flint Memorial, in North Reading, ii. 260.
Hall, Memorial, in Lexington, ii. 27.
Hall, Rev. Willard, first pastor, in Westford, ii. 478.
Hallowell, Hon. Benjamin, pursued in Cambridge, i. 342.
Hammond, Samuel, in " Boston Tea Party," ii. 226.
Hancock, John, first American governor, i. 169; president first Provincial Congress, i. 109; warned at Lexington by Revere,
i. 118; and Adams flee from Lexington, i. 302: statne of, at Lexington, ii. 31.
Hancock family, account of, ii. 13.
Hardy's Hill, Concord, fighting at, i. 125.
Harnden, William F., notice of, ii. 281.
Harrington, Timothy, first teacher in Waltham, ji. 411.
Harris, Captain, commands British rear at Menotomy, i. 126 ; Brit- ish captain killed at Bunker Hill, i. 152.
Harrison, Miss, escapes from Ursuline Convent, ii. 336.
Harvard, Rev. Jobn, college named for, i. 68; monument of, at Charlestown, i. 177.
Harvard College, first founding of, i. 68; first commencement at, i. 69; first buildings for, i. 70; strict former method of,
i. 323; founding of, i. 316; Whitefield's preaching in, i. 330. Harvard Hall at Cambridge burned, i. 333. Hastings, Jonathan, headquarters at house of, i. 129.
Hatfield surprised by Indians, i. 93. Hathorne, Hon. William, grant, ii. 382.
Hay, Patrick, early at Stoneham, ii. 340; or Peter, dies very old, ii. 343.
Haynes, John, chosen governor, i. 60; garrison of, attacked by Indians, ii. 366.
Health, Board of, formed in Somerville, ii. 326.
Heath, General, serves at Menotomy, i. 126.
Heather, Scotch, found at Tewksbury, ii. 374.
Hemenway, Rev. Phineas, minister at Townsend, ii. 385.
Heywood, James, dies at Lexington, ii. 25.
Higginson, -, statement as to praver-book, i. 34; Rev. Francis, application to, i. 19.
Highlands, Newton, village of, begun, ii. 244.
Highway called " Connecticut Path," i. 228.
Highways, old, in Brighton, i. 290; early, in Ashby, i. 224; in Arlington, i. 209 ; in Dracut, i. 410; in Acton, i. 197; in Som- erville, ii. 310; in Wayland, ii. 461; and roads in Tewks- bury, ii. 374; in Watertown, notice of, ii. 435; different, in Boxborough, i. 273.
Hill, Copp's, fortified by British, i. 132; Beacon, fortified by British, i. 132; noted, in Lexington, called Hancock Height, ii. 12.
Hill, Governor Isaac, native of Belmont, i. 253.
Hills in Charlestown, situation described, i. 141; and streams in Ashby, noticed, i. 218.
Hills, Joseph, early settler at Malden, ii. 115.
History of Reading, by Hon. Lilley Eaton, ii. 404.
Holden, Richard, early, in Stoneham, ii. 339.
Holliston, history of town of, i. 470; early customs in, i. 475; local notes in, i. 480.
Home, Orphan Girls', history of, ii. 253.
Hooker, Cotton, and Stone, escape of, i. 31; Rev. Mr., arrives at Boston, i. 55; removal of, to Connecticut, i. 53, 59, 313.
Hopkinton, history of town of, i. 483; sends men against Cartba- gena, i. 487.
Hops, cultivation of, in Wilmington, ii. 509.
Horse railroads in county, i. 195.
Hosmer, Abner, killed at Concord, i. 123.
Hostilities with France begun, i. 94.
Hotels in Littleton noticed, ii. 52.
House, old brick, in Medford, ii. 162; Royall, in Medford, ii. 165. Houses for ministers ordered built, i. 45; old, in Brighton, no- ticed, i. 293 ; in Somerville, account of, ii. 311.
Howe, General, arrives from England, i. 132; ordered to attack Bunker Hill, i. 144; his plan for attack, i. 146; supersedes Gage, i. 160; Rev. Mr., remarkable sermon of, i. 493; Dr. Zadock, notice of, i. 268.
Hubbard, remarks of, on Puritans, i. 35; Ebenezer, bequest of, i. 402.
Hudson, bistory of town of, i. 496; settlement with Bolton, i. 501 ; local statistics of, i. 502; topography of, i. 504 ; scenery and advantages of, i. 505; Hon. Charles, gift of, i. 500.
Hull, General William, notice of, ii. 253.
Humphrey, John, character of. i. 26.
TIunting, Captain Samuel, with Indian allies, i. 83.
Hurricane, damage by, in Burlington, i. 298.
Hutchinson, Governor, succeeds Bernard, i. 105; Mrs. Anne, re- ligious movements of, i. 68 ; dealt with by synod, i. 315. Hyde, Jonathan, large family of, ii. 207.
Ice harvest, historical sketch of, i. 188.
Improvements, municipal, in Cambridge, i. 355; later, in Con- cord, i. 394; scarcely encouraged in Waltham, ii. 426.
Incorporation of Acton, i. 197; of Arlington as West Cambridge,
i. 211; of Aver, i. 238; of Bedford, i. 242; of Boxborough, i. 272; of Brighton, i. 287; of Burlington, i. 296 ; of Framing- ham, i. 440 ; of Holliston, i. 470; of Hopkinton, i. 485; of Hudson, i. 500; of Lexington, ii. 15: of Lincoln, ii. 34; of Lowell (city), ii. 73 ; of Melrose, ii. 175, of Nashobalı, ii. 45; of Natick (parish), ii. 191; of Natick (town), ii. 194 ; of New- ton (city), ii. 254; of North Reading, il. 259 ; of Pepperell (parish), ii. 261 ; of Sherborn, ii. 289; of Shirley, ii. 298; of Somerville (town), ii. 315; of Somerville (city), ii. 324: 0 South Reading, ii. 400; of Stoneham, ii. 315; of Stow, ii. 351; of Sudbury, ii. 357; of Townsend. ii. 383; of Tyngsborough, ii. 398; of Waltham, ii. 410; of Westford, ii. 475; of Weston, 491 ; of Wilmington, ii. 507; of Winchester, ii. 513; of Wo- burn, ii. 527.
Independence, effect of Declaration of, i. 169.
Indian invasion feared, i. 56 ; plantation at Hudson, i. 497 ; dis- turbances at Chelmsford, i. 371; affairs in Hopkinton. i. 484; minister, first ordained at Natick, ii. 190; burying-ground at Natick, ii. 202; skeletons found at Newton, ii. 243; deeds of Sudbury. ii. 358.
Indians, at Block Island, colonists invade, i. 64 ; praying, alliance proposed with, i. 83: disturbed by settlers, i. 83 ; employed against Philip, i. 83; murder by, in Burlington, i. 301; troubles by, in Groton, i. 456; early dwelling in Framing-
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ham, i. 436; attack Eames family, i. 439; formerly at Chelmsford, i. 368; attacks of, upon Billerica, i. 260; garri- sons against, at Hudson, i. 498; depredations of, at Dunstable, i. 418; attack garrison at Dunstable, i. 419; last raid of, upon Billerica, i. 261; noted fighters of, in Billerica, i. 262; dwelling at Marlborough, ii. 138; in Medford, history of, ii. 160; Nonantum, extinction of, ii. 220; boat-fight with, ii. 443; formerly owners of Wayland, ii. 463; attack of, on Wayland, ii. 467 ; early troubles with, in Wilmington, ii. 507; praying, movements of, at Natick, ii. 186 ; removed to Deer Island, ii. 188; villages of, described, ii. 189. Industrial affairs of Billerica, i. 266.
Industries, various, in Holliston, i. 482; found in Everett, i. 435; in Cambridge, noticed, i. 356 ; in Chelmsford, i. 377; encour- aged in Chelmsford, i. 370; rise and progress of, in Framing- ham, i. 446; in Hudson, notes of, i. 503; in Marlborough, noticed, ii. 151 ; great increase of, at Upper Falls, ii. 236; slow growth of, at Lower Falls, ii. 237; in Pepperell, noticed, ii. 268; in Reading, mentioned, ii. 283; progress of, in Shir- ley, ii. 299; early, in Somerville, ii. 310; in Tewksbury, . noted, ji. 373; in Townsend, notice of, ii. 390; in Wakefield, statistics of, ii. 406; in Waltham, noticed, ii. 432.
Inhabitants, early, at Watertown, list of, ii. 440.
" Inn, Wayside," in Sudbury, noticed, ii. 372. Innholders licensed in Waltham, ii. 423.
Inns formerly kept in Watertown, ii. 457.
Inscription on monument at Lexington, ii. 33.
Installation first beld in Watertown, ii. 451.
Institute, Rumford, formed in Walthani, ii. 428.
Insurgents, convention of, at Concord, i. 392.
Insurrection under Shays and others, i. 171; broken up in Mid- dlesex, i. 393.
Invasion, French, threatened, i. 44.
Ipswich, Cradock's trading-post at, i. 22; settlement commenced, i. 63.
Ironworks first established in county, i. 186.
Jack Straw, Indian, formerly in England, i. 56.
Jackson, President, visits Lowell, ii. 69; Patrick T., death of, ii. 83; Deacon John, settler at Newton, ii. 205; Captain Michael,
bravery at Lexington, ii. 227; Hon. William, sketch of, ii. 256.
Jacobs, Lieutenant Richard, surprises Indians, i. 82.
James, Rev. Thomas, settled at Charlestown, i. 54.
Jenkins, Nathaniel, teacher at Malden, ii. 120.
Jewel, ship, sails for New England, i. 21.
Jewett, Captain Aquila, goes to Lexington, ii. 48.
Joe English, Indian, killed at Tyngsborough, ii. 393.
Johnson, Isaac, character of, i. 25; signs first covenant, i. 37; founder of church at Charlestown, i. 25 ; Marmaduke, printer at Cambridge, i. 320.
Jones, Rev. John, pastor at Concord. i. 63; Margaret, executed for witch, i. 76; Ephraim, guns destroyed at bouse of, i. 123. Judson, Rev. Adoniram, pastor at Malden, ii. 131.
Jury, Grand, first created, i. 63.
Kendall, Hon. Amos, born at Dunstable, i. 427; Mrs., executed for witch, ii. 443.
Kettle, John, early settler at Stow, ii. 350.
King Philip, origin of his war, i. 80; death of, at Mount Hope, i. 84.
Knowlton, men under, build breastwork, i. 147.
Knox, Colonel, brings guns from Ticonderoga, i. 161.
Kossuth, Louis, visits Concord, 1852, i. 398.
Kyanizing process begun at Lowell, ii. 84.
Lafayette, General, lays corner-stone, i. 176; visits Concord, i. 397.
Lakes and streams in Watertown, ii. 434.
Lambert, Plato, soldier from Natick, ii. 194.
Lancaster destroyed by Indians, i. 82; again attacked by Indians, i. 96; ravaged a third time, i. 98.
Land, questions about, at Newtown, i. 59; colonial titles to, de- clared invalid, i. 93; near Spy Pond, claimed by Randolph, i. 93; now of Lowell, granted to Cambridge, ii. 53; for two towns, grant of, forms Townsend, ii. 382.
Landmarks in Cambridge, notice of, i. 337.
Lands, first allotment of, i. 20; in Hopkinton, leases of, i. 485; in Framingham, early grants of, i. 436; carly granted in Bille- rica, i. 255 ; granted to Crown at Ashland, i. 227; first allotted in Cambridge, i. 310; in Dracut, town action laying out, i 409; early grants of, in Malden, ii. 114; granted to Malden in Worcester County, ii. 119; early grants of, at Maynard, ii 154; first purchase of, for Lowell factories, ii. 59; of Read- ing, first granted to Lynn, ii. 270; in Sudbury, carly de- scribed, ii. 357; and ways, how disposed in Wayland, ii. 462. Langdon, President, chaplain to Provincial army, i. 129.
Laurie, Captain, breaks up Concord Bridge, i. 123.
Lawrence, Abbott, remarks on Western Railroad, i. 193; Rev. William, first pastor in Lincoln, i. 37; Hon. Luther, death of, i. 75.
Laws, Ward's Code of, adopted, i. 71; Body of, ordered made, i. 63.
Lead pencils, early made in Concord, i. 396.
Leaders of first colonial enterprise, i. 22.
League, Patriotic, in Dunstable, i. 424.
Learnard, Henry H., honors shown to, i. 288.
Lechford, author of " Plain Dealing," i. 71.
Lechmere's Point fortified by Americans, i. 162.
Lee, Orne, and Gerry escape British, i. 119 ; General, commands American left wing, i. 56; Ann, preaches in Harvard and Shirley, ii. 307.
Leighton, Mrs. Hannah, deposition of, i. 205.
Leland family, gathering of, in Sherborn, ii. 294.
Letter of Winthrop's Company to Church of England, i. 36.
Leverett, John, president Harvard College, i. 327.
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