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Harvard college, gift to. 37, 88. Headley's history of the rebellion, 613. Hickman, Mrs., and the Fuller legacy, 721.
Higher education, 718; Mrs. Rowson's academy, 718; Fuller academy, 720; fe- male academy at Newton Centre, 722; Lasell seminary, 724; West Newton clas- sical school, 726
High school, 447; art treasures in, 448.
History, three great events in, 204.
Hobart, Rev. Nehemiah, parentage, 199; ordination, 200; death, 200; character, 201; publications, 201; epitapli, 202; re- ceipts, 203.
Home for boys, Pine farm, 749.
Home for missionaries' children, 751-2.
Home for orphan girls, 747, 748.
Homer, Rev. Jonathan, election, 408; sal- ary offered, 408; letter of acceptance, 409; ministry of, 410; events in his niin- istry, 410; orthodoxy of, 414; biography of, 415; character, 416; letter of, 419; of Mrs. Homer, 420; publications of, 421; his note on health statistics, 18; on ex- tent of Newton, 38.
Hooker, Thomas, his company, 26, 27; journey to Hartford, 34, 193.
Hopkins, Edward, bequest of, 237.
Hopkinton, town of, 237. Huckleberry tavern, 126.
Hull mansion, old, Newtonville, 820.
Hyde, J. F. C., speech of, 678; biography of, 832.
Hyde, Jonathan, notice of, 290; ordained, 200; warned out of Brookline, 291. Hydc's nursery, 822.
Indians, agreement with the, 25; called to worship by drum, 27; to be arrested, 49; at Medfield, 86; incidents of Indian war, 93; converts faithful, 94; John Druce slain by, 97; Noah Wiswall slain by, 99. See Nonantum Indians.
Indian decd of. Upper Falls, 201.
Indian wars, 93, 94, 187; relics, 693. Institution hill, 13, 540.
Intemperance, first petition against, 180.
Jackson, Michael, bravery of, 341; his sword, 342.
Jackson, William, ordained deacon, 423; biography of, 783.
Jackson, Timothy, biography of, 781. Jefferson, President, his reply, 401. Jones, G. H., speech of, 680.
Kenrick's bridge. 100.
Kenrick fund, 516. Killing birds, reward for, 54. Knowles, James D., biography of, 561.
Lafayette in Newton, 818.
Lands, common divided, 47; grants of, 15, 28, 31, 41, 46, 82, 84; set off to Roxbury, 38; to Waltham, 38.
Last town meeting, 729.
Lee estate, 717.
Leighton, Rev. S. S., biography of, 470. Lexington, 37.
Library association of Newton, 666; New- ton Centre, 682; West Parish library of 1798, 663; books in the, 664; Athenæum, 665; Newton book club, 666; free library, 666; land and subscriptions, 671, 672; or- ganized, 675; building dedicated, 675; transferred to the city, 676; Lower Falls library, 682; Nortlı village do., 682.
Lily pond grove, 20. Lincoln, President, election of, 602.
Litigation after the war, 388.
Little Cambridge, 38.
Lockup, the first, 56.
Longevity in Newton, 279
Louisburg, 317.
Lower Falls, 270; conveyances, 270; busi- ness by water power, 271, falls and brid- ges, 271; paper-mills, 271, 272; paper- making. 272; population, 272; cemetery, gift of, 279; St. Mary's church, 255, 477; origin, 478; statistics, 480; donations to, 480; Sabbath school, 480.
Lyceum hall, 487.
Mann, Horace, biography of, 786.
Mason D. H., speech of, 658; biography of, 787.
Massachusetts, first twelve towns in, 34; constitution of, 393.
Mather, Increase, visits England, 205. Maugus hill, 259.
Mayhew farm, 17, 114, 142.
Meeting-house, seating the, 208; location of, 220; the third, 222.
Meetings in a hall, 60.
Meriam, Jonas, chosen pastor, 226; his salary, 226; biography, 228; the slave, 228; character, 230; death, 230; events in his ministry, 231.
Merrimac river, 37. Messiah, church of the, 707.
Methodist church, Upper Falls, origin, 472; pastors, 473; Sabbatlı school, 473; church building, 474; Lower Falls, 481; pastors, 482; Newton Centre, 508; New- tonville, 713.
Middlesex deeds, extracts from, 108. Military titles, 317.
Mill pond in Boston, 22. Minerals of Newton, 14.
Ministerial tax, collected by distraint, 258; petition to be released from, 289, 291; petition granted, 290.
838
GENERAL INDEX.
Ministers not taxed, 315.
Minute-men, 338, 341.
Missionary concert, 256.
Missions, New England saved by, 200; origin of, 800; in Newton and Ceylon, 185.
Moffatt hill, 13.
Monument to first settlers, 206.
Morse field, 32.
Morse island, 578.
Mortality in Newton, 18.
Morus multicaulis, 822.
Mount Auburn, its name, 808.
Mount Ida, 13.
Mount Pleasant, 13.
Muddy river, 28, 29.
Murray, Rev. John, preacher at Glouces- ter, 300.
Musical societies, 756.
Myrtle Baptist church, 459.
Nahaton, Amos, deposition of, 263.
Nahaton, William, deed of, 261.
Names given to Newton, 37.
Names of soldiers of the revolution; 335-8, 344-6, 350-1, 377-82; of the war of 1861-5, 607-10, 623-5, 631-48.
Natick, given to the Indians, 183; found- ing of, 183; church formed, 184; monu- ment to Eliot, 185.
Natural history society, 758.
Neck in Boston, 22.
Now Cambridge records, extracts from, 50.
New Lights, 290, 756; church of, organized, 291.
New pews erected, 232.
Newspaper controversy on the Hollis professorship, 256.
Newton - general views of, 13; hills of, 13; plains of, 13; geological features, 14; briuges of, 14; villages of, 14; ponds and brooks, 15; county rock, 17; health sta- tistics, 18; bills of mortality, 18; popu- lation and deaths, 19; seenery of, 19; connected with the history of Boston, 21; a fortified place, 22; line of the pal- isades, 23; right of settlers to the land, 24; Indian titles purchased, 25; first ac- cession, 26; names of Mr. Hooker's com- pany, 26; complaint of restricted quar- ters, 27; boundary line, 28, 29. 30, 83; Watertown and Newton, 31-33; aspiring to be the metropolis, 33; Mr. Hooker's removal from, 34; its wealth in 1634, 34; State tax of, 35; houses in, 35; grant of Shawshine land, 35; a hard soil made useful, 37; name given to, 37; extent of, 38; land set off from, 38; settlers came singly, 39; ages of settlers, 39; John Jackson the first settler, 39, 40; settlers to 1700, 41; inventory of persons and property, 1645, 42; public worship in 1656, 42; on division from Cambridge, 43; extracts from records, 44, 144; inven- tory in 1645, 42; in 1647, 45; sued by min- isterial supplies, 49; its first military company, 49; chose John Ward first deputy, 51; first death in, 52; first mar- riage in, 52; second meeting-house, 53; the first stove in the meeting-house, 54; seating the parishioners discontinued, 54; later records of. 55; partial freedom from Cambridge, 57; offieers chosen from, 58; movements for an indepen- dent town, 58. petition to the town and answer, 59; ministerial tax abated, 60; petition to the Court, 60; meetings held
in a hall, 60; first meeting-house, 60; line between Cambridge and Cambridge village, 61; first churcli, 61; to elect town officers, 61; petition of 1678, 62; signers of, 63; freemen who did not sign, 63; protest of Cambridge, 64; first select- inen chosen, 72; articles of agreement, 75; date of separation from Cambridge, 77; seal of Newton. 77; name, 80; popu- lation, 80; limits of, 81; boundary lines, 83; dividing line from Cambridge, 83; biography of first settlers, 85; first house in, 88; common at Centre, 91; first grist-mill in, 103: grants of land, 104, 105; common at Newtonville, 113; third meeting-house, 113; division of estates, 115; boundaries of do., 130; roads and streets of, 160; work for the Nonantum Indians, 170; the First church, 193; first pastor, 196; his death. 197; second pas- tor, Mr. Hobart, ordination, 200; his deatlı, 200; publications, 201; events in his ministry, 201; epitaph, 202; seating the meeting-house, 208; warming the house, 211; noon-houses, 211; the stocks, 212; location of the meeting-house, 214; new meeting-house, 222; church records burned, 229; schools and school-houses, 238; John Staples, first teacher in, 239; John Brown, second teacher, 240; hon- ored at World's Expositions, 240; dis- sensions, 241; Samuel Miller's gift, 242; private sehools, 247, 248; woman's school, 248; school appropriations, 248; West Newton, 250; Upper Falls, 259; Lower Falls, 270: site of the mills, 270; works of Mr. Willard, 271; families in the Lower Falls, 272; cemeteries, 273; the oldest, given to the town, 273; persons buried in, 274; West Parish burying ground, 277; first tenant, 278; South burial ground, 278; Lower Falls come- tery, 279; the new cemetery, 585; deaths in Newton, 281-286; First Baptist church, 287; New Lights, 290; church polity, 293; meeting-house, 296; seces- sions, 300; Mr. Grafton's pastorate, 301, 302; enlargement, 303; the sittings, 305; pew tax, 307; freeholders in Newton in 1679 and 1798, 309; estates and valuation, 310; Newton in the revolution, 316-385; first State elections, 394; war of 1812, 397; remonstrance, 398; election of Dr. Homer, 408; letter of acceptance, 409; colleague pastor, 410; meeting-house of 1805, 411; sittings, 412; the church bell, 415; biography of Dr. Homer, 415; let- ters by Dr. and Mrs, Homer, 419, 420; ministry of Mr. Bates, 422; Rev. W. Bushnell, 425; new church edifice, 426; Rev. D. L. Furber, 427; new churches formed, 428; twenty-fifth anniversary, 430; thirtieth do., 431; statistics, 434; education in Newton, 436; wards and districts, 437; regulations, 439; appro- priations, 441; in the war of the rebel- lion, 597-662; Newton a city, 728; water works, 730; centennial, 739; town and city statistics, 762; economical statis- tics, 810.
Newton and the Indian wars, 187.
Newton Baptist church, 691; statistics, 693; the corner-stone, 693.
Newton cemetery, 585; commenced, 586; dedication, 586; additions, 587; gateway, 589; soldiers' monument in, 589.
Newton Centre, Methodist church, 508; Unitarian society, 509.
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GENERAL INDEX.
Newton female academy, 413.
Newton free library, Dr. D. K. Hitchcock's suggestion of, 667; speech of Dr. Hitch- cock, 669; land for, 671; contributors to, 672; gift of J. Wilcy Edmands, 673; conditions, 673; corner-stone, 674; dedi- cated, 675; organized, 675; managers, 675; cost, 676; transferred to the city, 676. Newton Highlands, 715; Congregational church, 428, 715; letter to, 429.
Newton in the Revolution, 316 -- 385. See Revolution, Newton in the.
Newton in the war of 1812, 397 -- 407. Sce War of 1812.
Newton in the war of the rebellion, 597- 662; votes and resolutions, 598-600; pledges of money in the war, 603; flag raising, 606; soldiers who perished, 607, 623; Gettysburg, 612, 625, 653, 654; the triple funeral, 619; the patriotic Sab- bath, 621; soldiers' names, 631-648; bat- tles in which Newton men shared, 651; reports of regiments, 650; sword given to Col. Edmands, 655; Lec's surrender, 653, 655; Lookout mountain, 656; return of the 44th regiment, 657; paper printed at Petersburg, 661.
Newton Lower Falls library, 682.
Newton Sunday school Union, 754.
Newton Upper Falls, proprietors and title, 259; first mill, 260; snuff-mills, 266; saw- mill, 267; grist and fulling mills, 267; cotton-mill, 268; screw factory 268; wire mill, 268; iron works, 268; Otis Pettee's works, 269; iron castings, 269.
Newtons of later growth, 702.
Newtonville, 709; Central Congregational church, 428, 709; Swedenborgian church, 711; Universalist society, 712; Methodist church, 713.
New town-book ordered. 74.
Nonantum hill, 13, 170; house, 814, 818, 828. Nonantum Indians, 170; the first meeting,
171; their questions, 173; Waban^s con- fession, 174; second mecting, 174; relig- ious interest, 176; civilization, 177; success of the gospel, 177; opposition, 178; act of the Court concerning, 178; action of Parliament. 179; contributions for, 180; guarded against intemperance, 180; fourth visit, 181; their theology, 181; fruits of the gospel, 182; settlement in Natick, 183; statistics, 186. Noon-houses, 211.
Normal school, West Newton, 726.
North village, beginnings, 576; paper making, 577; paper and snuff mills, 579; dye-woods, 579; cotton cloth, 579; other manufactures, 580; gas manufacture, 580; Tin Horn, 581; bridge, 582; California street, 582; North Evangelical church, 583; Sabbath school, 583; church organ- ized, 583; pastor ordained, 584; chapel dedicated, 584; free library, 682. Nowell's bridge, 28.
Oak hill, 13; second centre of Newton, 239; schools, 242. Old records, to be copied, 51. Our Lady Help of Christians, 700.
Pains' hill, 162. Pall, velvet, bought, 225; to be let, 225. Palmer's Brook, 16. Parker, John P., biography of, 790. Parker, Theodore, resolutions of, 808. Parsonage at Newton Centre, 822. Past and present, 745, 746.
Pattison, Rev. R. E., biography of, 566. Peabody, George, donation of, 796. Pegan hill, in Dover, 185. Pequod country, 92.
Pettee, Otis, biography of, 792. Pews, dignifying the, 208.
Pianos authorized for schools, 56.
Pigeon estate, 55, 118; patriotism of Mr.
Pigcon, 333; C. du M. Pigeon and Au- burndalc, 702.
Pine farm school, 750.
Political parties, 395, 396.
Pond brook, 16.
Ponica, or Great Meadows, 125.
Poor, provision for the, 510; first record, 511; workhouse. 511; first overseer, 511; regulations, 512; new code, 515; Ken- rick fund, 516.
Population of Newton and deaths, 19, 775, 809, 810.
Portrait of Joseph Ward, 742; of Mary Davis, 774; of J. F. C. Hyde, 809; of J. Wilcy Edmands, 800.
Post-offices, 816.
Pound lane, 55.
Pound, new, 225.
Powder house, 56.
Prayer at town meetings, 55.
Press, censors of the, 194.
Prince, Thomas, his history, 27.
Provincial Congress, first and second, 333. Public parks, 729.
Pulpit candidates, 215; supplies, 226, 233. Pulsifer, Royal M., biography of, 833.
Quinobequin, 259.
Railroad, Woonsocket division, 427; Wor- cester, 811.
Rate for ministerial salary, 46.
Rebellion, war of the. See Newton in the war of the Rebellion.
Records of First church burned, 196; new records started, 229.
Records of Newton, extracts from, 44, 55, 104.
Reminiscences of men and things, 801. Representatives, House of, origin of, 23. Representatives, 774, 808.
Revolution, Newton in the, 232, 316; the stamp act, 318; instructions to the rep- resentative, 319; resolutions of the Gen- eral Assembly 320; indignation of the people, 320; merchants' resolutions, 321; stamp act repealed, 321; statue of George III. raised, 321; the same melted into bullets, 321; navigation act, 322; in- dignity, 322; the mutiny act, 322; con- vention in Boston, 323; resolutions, 323; resolutions of the town, 323; instruc- tions to the representative, 324; circular from Boston and reply, 325; measures proposed, 328; resolves, 328; the Boston tea party, 329; restriction on luxuries, 330; minute-men called for, 333; Newton companies, 334; aged men, 334; soldiers in the battle of Lexington, 335, 336; eight months' soldiers, 344; Newton soldiers in Gardner's regiment at Bun- ker hill, 346; do. in the army, 346; rein- forcements, 346; death of Col. Gardner, 347; whole number of troops, 349; Dor- chester heights, 350; action against sus- pected persons, 351; providential fore- sight, 353; the question, 355; the deci- sive vote, 356; causes of the revolution, 357; the Declaration of Independence, 358; Boston evacuated, 359; the Canada
840
GENERAL INDEX.
expedition, 359; women's work, 359; pay of soldiers, 360, 361; patriotic spirit, 362; the results to Britain and the United States, 364; loans, 366, 369; constitution of Massachusetts, 368, 393; ways and means, 372; surrender of Cornwallis, 373, 374; catalogues of soldiers, 335-8, 344-6, 350, 351, 377-382; Newton men in the revolu- tion, 374; money raised, 375; roster of officers, 376; names represented, 376; Pomp Jackson, 376; quotas required, 379; bounties, 379; members of Bunker hill monument association. 383; do. of Mass. Cincinnati, 383; support pledged, 393.
Rice, Alcxander H .. speech of, at Newton's centennial, 741; biography of, 831.
Rice, Marshall S., biography of, 794.
Rice, Thomas, jr., address of, at dedica- tion soldiers' monument, 592; biography of, 795.
Richards' hotel, 124, 290.
Richardson, John, of the Nonantum
house, 826, 828.
Right of settlers to the land, 24; Indian titles purchased, 25.
Ripley, Prof. H. J., biography of, 558.
Roads described, 160; westward from Bos- ton, 81; from West Newton to Roxbury, 162; from Watertown to Dedham, 164; through Fuller farm, 169.
Rogers, John, donor of the church clock, 828.
Roman Catholic churches - St. Mary's, 475; Our Lady Help of Christians, 700; St. Bernard's, 708.
Royton farm, 108, 138.
Sabbath law, 50; observance, resolve con- cerning, 407; kept sacred, 804.
Sabbath school of First Parish, 433.
Safe, fire-proof, 55.
Savings, institution for, 523; do. bank, 759. Sawmill, Erosamon Drew's, 124.
Sawmill meadows, 125.
Scenery of Newton, 19.
School committee, first chosen, 235.
School-house, votes to build a, 53, 235; later action on, 241-9; to be used as a work-house, 244; an ancient, 247; bought by the town, 249. School-houses, land for, 56.
Schools. Sce Education.
Schools, private, 247. See Higher educa- tion.
Sealer of weights and measures, 72.
Sears, Barnas, biography of, 555, 795.
Second Baptist church, 466; members, 467; sketch of, 468; early preachers, 469; first pastor, 469; other pastors, 470; de- cline, 471; statistics, 472.
Second precinct started, 231.
Selectmen, first board chosen, 72, 772; list of, 762.
Separate, or New Light churches, 290, 291. Shays' rebellion, the, 386; instructions to representative, 386; circular to Newton during, 389; reply, 390.
Shawshinc, grant of, 35; character of, 36; extent of, 37; lands divided, 46.
Sherman, Roger, original letter of, 823. Sherman's march, 656.
Silver lake, 16; factories at, 16.
Singing festivals, 504; school, the first, 756.
Slave-holding in Massachussetts, 534; Eliot's petition against, 535; do. in New- ton, 538; the last slave, 538; slave-owners,
539; Mrs. Meriam's slave, 228; Pomp Jackson 376.
Smelt brook, 17.
Smith, Rev. S. F., notice of, 834.
Social library, West Parish, 663.
Societies in Newton, 747.
Soldiers in the revolution, 335-382; in the civil war, 607-648; students in, 569.
South burial ground, 278; proprietors, 278; sold to the town, 278; dimensions, 279.
South meadow brook, 15, 17.
Speare, Alden, speech of, 677; biography of, 833.
Squash end, 254.
St. Bernard's church, 708.
St. David's musical society, 756.
Stake meadow, 162.
Standing order, the, 290.
Staples, Dca. John, house of, 13, 17; teach- er, 238, 239; biography, 239; his will, 240; death, 284. State loans, 224; tax, the first, 23.
Steamboat on the Charles, 20.
Steam fire engincs, 532.
Stocks, the public, 212.
Style, old and new, 77.
Sudbury river conduit, 735.
Suffolk.decds, extracts from, 107.
Superintendent of schools, 56.
Swedenborgian church, 711.
Tate and Brady, in worship, 231. Taxation of the towns, 23.
Temperance, 180, 519; Eliot's petition against selling liquor to Indians, 180; circular on, 520; constitution, 520; liter- ary exercises, 523; Dr. Gilbert's remi- niscences, 524; town action, 524; town agent, 525; society, 665.
Thanksgiving collection, 53.
Theological institution, charter, 540; first trustees, 540; purchase of estate, 541; subscribers, 541; the mansion-house, 542, 825, 826; first professor, 543; second do., 544; first anniversary, 544; Farwell hall, 545; Colby hall, 546; Sturtevant hall, 548; carly patrons, 547; officers, 548; alumni, 549-554; biographical notices, 555; students in the war of 1861-5, 569.
Thompsonville, 14, 507.
Tithing men, to be dispensed with, 55.
Tobacco not to be taken publicly, 48.
Town-book procured, 72; first record, 72. Town clerks, 762.
Town, measuring the, 214.
Town seal, 56.
Train, Prof. A. S., biography of, 565.
Training fields, tlic, 71, 141, 316.
Transfiguration, painting of the, 682.
Tray, Sarah, deposition of, 264.
Treasure buried, 819.
Tree planting, 819.
Trecs, remarkable, 814.
Trumbull's description of Hooker's jour- ney, 34. Turtle island, 268.
Two precincts, petition for, 214, 215.
Underwood Col. A. B., 599, 615, 622, 656.
Unitarian society, West Newton, 458; Newton Centre, 509; Channing church, 688; Chestnut Hill, 717.
United States taxcs, 310, 811.
Universalist society of Upper Falls, 465; pastors, 466; Newton and Watertown, 700; Newtonville, 712.
841
GENERAL INDEX.
Upper Falls, 259; first mill, 260; deed of land, 261; depositions, 263 -- 266; Nathan- iel Parker's mill, 267; sold to Gen. Elliot, 267; works of Jonathan Bixby, 268; of Rufus Ellis, 268; of Otis Pettee, 269; population, 270; natural beauties, 270; Newton factories, 461; first dwelling- house, 461; hotel, 462; religious society, 464; Universalist. society, 465; Second Baptist church, 466; Methodist Episco- pal church, 472; St. Mary's (Catholic), 475.
Valentinc road, 14.
Valuation of estates, 310-315; of houses, 820. Velvet pall, 225.
Vestry, first parish, 486.
Waban, bargain with, 45; his name, 170; his confession, 174; last words, 174, 182. Waban hill, 13, 170.
Wages of labor, 225.
Waltham, meeting-house sold to, 223.
Wanderers, Home for little, first contri- bution for. 818.
Ward, Col. Joseph, 343; schoolmaster in Boston, 343; at Bunker hill, 343; Wash- ington's letter to, 343; his house, 828.
Ward, Rev. Nathan, ordained, 291; notice of, 291.
Wards, Newton divided into, 483.
War of the revolution. See Revolution, Newton in the.
War of 1812, 397, 827; embargo, 397; remon- strance, 398; Pres. Jefferson's letter, 401; appeal of General Court to Con- gress, 402; embargo removed, 403; anti- war party, 403; war declared, 403; Hull's surrender, 404; naval battles, 404; peace declared, 405.
War of the rebellion, resolutions, 598, 600; appropriations, 600, 601, 604; soldiers' monument, 601, 620; personal subscrip- tions, 602; volunteers, 603; soldiers in service, 604, 607; battles in which Now. ton men served, 605; students in the war, 569-574, 606; flag-raising, 606; sec- ond Mass. regiment, 610; battle of Gettysburg, 612, 625; money contri- buted, 617; the funeral at West Newton, 619; the ineffable Sabbath, 621; soldiers during the war, 631-48.
Washington, letters of, 343, 739; funeral for, 808.
Watertown, boundary between Newton and, 30; the fourth town in New Eng- land, 31; land of, on the south side of Charles river, 31-33; fishing interests of, 31; grant of lands to Newton, 82.
Water works of Newton, described, 730; legislation, 731; popular vote, 731; water commissioners, 732, estimate 732, cost. of, 733.
Waverly avenue, house on, 825.
Weather, cold, in June, 1816, 822, 823; September gale, 827.
Webster, Daniel, remark of, 37; portrait of, 682; anecdote of, 804.
Weedy hill, 98.
West Newton, 250; meeting-house in, 251; church formed, 252; first inembers, 252; principles of, 252; first pastor, 253; first deacons, 253; meeting-house enlarged, 253; opposition, 254; second meeting- house, 255; extent of parish, 255; tran- sition period, 255; monthly concert, 256, collecting taxes, 258; burying ground, 277; gift of, 277; first tenant, 278; boun- daries, 278; second church, 450; dedica- tion, 450; Mr. Gilbert, pastor, 451; biography of, 451; J. T. Drummond, 453; G. B. Little, 453; H. J. Patrick, 453; bequest to, 454; church repaired, 454; officers, 454; Sabbath school, 455; Bap- tist church, 456; church edifice com- menced, 457; transferred to West New- ton, 458; house dedicated, 458; pastors and deacons. 458; Unitarian society, 458; church edifice 459; Myrtle church, 459; St. Bernard's church, 708; lyccum, 753; first church bell, 820.
West Parish, limits of, 231.
Whitefield, his visits to Newton, 219, 290. Whittcmore's tavern, 118, 703.
Wier lands, 17, 31, 32.
Williams college, its founder, 192, 798; first trustces of, 795; its name, 799; two townships granted to, 799; connection of, witli missions, 800.
Williams, Col. Ephraim, biography of, 796. Williams tavern, 101.
Winchester, farm, 17; leaders of that name in First Baptist church, 294, 295.
Wiswall's pond, 15, 99; leased to breed black bass, 16.
Wiswall, Noah, in the revolution, 335.
Wiswall, William, farm of, 13. Woburn, a boundary town, 37.
Wollaston, Mount, 83, 193.
Women taxed, 315.
Woodcock, Jeremiah, deposition of, 265. Worcester railroad, 811, 812, 813.
Worcester turnpike built, 268, 462.
Workhouse voted, 54; schools to be used for, 245.
Worshippers from neighboring towns, 306.
Yarmouth, early settlement at, 37.
INDEX OF NAMES.
The names contained in extended catalogues in this volume, -as the names of soldiers in the rolls of the Revolutionary War and the war of 1861-5, - should not be sought for in this Index.
Abbott, Charles E , 509. Adams, Elijah, 700. Hannah, 256.
· Rev. J. Coleman, 713. Jeremy, 26.
Joseph, 130, 252, 312, 454. J. R., 685.
Rev. Nehemiah, 428. Roger, 310. Samuel, 395, 396. Seth, 821.
Addington, Isaac, 215. James, 189.
Aiken, Rev. S., 685.
Aleott, Dr. W. A., 727, 753.
Alden, George, 668, 669.
Aldrich, Rev. Jonathan, 503, 757. Alexander, John, 41. Allen, Bethuel, 413. Allen, George E., 727, 754, 757,758,764. James T., 727.
Jeremiah, 707. John, 539, 700. Dr. John, 168.
Joseph H., 459.
Kingsley, 465. Matthew, 26. Rev. N. G., 707.
N. T., 726, 749, 753, 757. R. W., 473. Walter, 728. Anderson, Rev. Galusha, 548, 568. M. B., 552. Rev. T. D., 551. Rev. T. D., jr., 551.
Andrew, John A., 592, 787. Andrews, Joseph, 712. Rev. E. B., 548, 569. Samuel, 75.
Andros, Sir Edmund, 74, 205.
Angier, Oakes, 103, 130.
Armington, A. W., 507.
Arnold, Rev. A. N., 552, 568.
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