History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable counties, Massachusetts, Vol. III, Part 114

Author: Thompson, Elroy Sherman, 1874-
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 642


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Marshfield, 599-604; present view of the town, 599; something about early settlers, 600; first farms owned by non-residents, 602; contro-


versy over encouragement for ministers, 603 Marshfield honor roll, 671 and 688


"Mary and John" arrives in port, 924


Mashpee Indians, 813; 875


Massachusetts Bay colonists described, 974


Massachusetts Company, its formation, 929


Massachusetts Militia, reorganization of, 1054


Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Ag- riculture, organized, 787


Massachusetts State Board of Education, 1061


Massachusetts was free-born, 1023


Massasoit, a peaceful king, 94-95


Massasoit Memorial at Cole's Hill, 79


Matchlocks in Indian wars, 794


Mather, Rev. Cotton, various estimates of, 953 Mather's "Heaven's Alarm to the World," 207 Mattapoisett, 604-605


Mattapoisett honor roll, 671


"Mayflower" census and vital statistics, 32-35 "Mayflower" Compact, 693-697


"Mayflower" passengers, descent proved from fifty-four, 36


"Mayflower" said to have been in the slave trade, 1021


"Mayflower" was not filled with clocks, 167-175 Mayhew, Rev. Jonathan, 937


McCarthy, Dr., and the Wisconsin idea, 288- 291


McFingal, history amusingly related by, 189-195 McKay, Donald, greatest of clipper shipbuild- ers, 775


Medical educational work, benefits of, 139-143 Medical practice, Plymouth County progress, 134-136


Medical practitioners in Plymouth Colony of early days, 119, et seq.


Medical Society, Massachusetts, Plymouth County members of, 127


Medical Society, Plymouth District, 129-130 Medfield, forty-third town in the State to be


incorporated; witches and Indians, 1095; Dr. Saunders' Historical Sermon, 1096


Medfield honor list, 1161-1162


Medway, first white settler in, 923


Medway honor list, 1162


Medway, the sixty-ninth town in the Massachu- setts Colony; first mill in the town; church bell foundry, 1097


Megansett, origin of, 720


Meeting-house, In the beginning was the, 215-220


Middleboro honor roll, 671-673


Middleboro, 605-610; Middleboro prospers un- der a town manager, 609; Middleboro Memo- rial High School, 606; Agricultural Society, 607; Nemasket a place of fish, 607; Pond Thomas, and River Thomas, 609


Migrations of early settlers, 975


Military drills and weapons, 793


Militia company, oldest in the State at Hali- fax, 249


Militia engaged in watchful waiting, 1050


Millis honor list, 1162


Millis, where famous ginger-ale is, made; traces its ancestry to Dedham, 1098


Milton honor list, 1162-1167


Milton, incorporation of, 924


Milton, the weather-observatory town; parks, playgrounds, public institutions, 1099; has first paper mill built in New England, 1100; home of a royal governor, 1101


Minister also physician, 792


Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, 1011


Miontonimo, white people consented to his mur- der, 99-101


Missionary work among the Indians, reaction to, 87


Mitchell, Charlotte L., descendant of Massa- soit, 812


Mitchell, Charlotte, Indian princess, her out- spoken sentiment, 80-81


Moon, potent influence of the, 150-151


Morton, first appearance of, 928


Music in churches, Inharmony concerning, 939 Municipalities in Norfolk County, 987


Mystic, Fort, burning of Indians in, 101


Nantucket honor roll, 898


Nation, real strength of, 1054


Nautical items, distressing and unusual, 362


Nautical School founded, 776


Nautical training ship interests, 776-778


Needham, 1102-1104; formerly a part of Ded- ham; inland town with waterfront; indus- tries; educational matters, 1103


Needham, honor list, 1167-1168 Needham soldiers in foreign service, 1190


Negro slaves admitted to church membership, 313


Negroes in America before Pilgrims, 311; 1019 New England's Conscience rampant, 285-301


New England's adaptability, 299-300


New England's population in 1673, 102 New Jerusalem, Boston Society, established, 938 Newport Mill, 20-21


Newspapers of Norfolk County, 1065-1070 Norfolk, formerly a part of Wrentham; New


445


HISTORICAL INDEX


State prison there, 1104; State Cancer Hos- pital, 1105


Norfolk honor list, 1168


Norfolk incorporated, 973


Norfolk County in Puritan Colony, 901


Norfolk County, municipalities in, 987


Norfolk County Railroad opened, 1040


Norfolk County set off from Suffolk, 978


Norfolk County variation in county lines, 973 Norfolk County's increase in population, 971 Norfolk County's twenty-eight towns, 1071 Normal schools, need of, 1060


Norwell, 610-612; most recently acquired name in the county, 611; demand for ships too big for North River, hurt local industry, 611 Norwood, a growing town, 1105-1106; Henry O. Peabody fund, 1106; some comparative figures; Public Library educational work; site for a State Armory, 1107; permanent chief of fire department; Neponset Valley Improve- ment; some recent town facts, 1108; indus- tries of the town, 1109


Norwood honor list, 1169-1170


Old Colony Railroad opened, 1038


Oldest militia company in State at Halifax, 262 Old Fayerbankes House in Dedham, 989


"Old Ironsides" wins a hat for Captain Hull, 349-350


Old-time customs, 785


Old-time hospitality, 1045


Old Waban a famous character, 809


"Only citizens because saints," 933-948; min- isterial material unsatisfactory, 935; "Morn- ing gun of Revolution," 936; first student of Christian Science, 938; inharmony concern- ing music in churches, 939; typical early pas- tor's - long service, 941; end of sectarian domi- nation, 942; the Roman Catholic church, 944 Opechanganough and Metacomet, cruel plot- ters, 95-96


Ordinance for houses of worship, 935


"Ordeal by touch," 149-150


Ordination of a minister a gala day, 780-781 "Oregon" cruise of, 1898, 770


Orleans honor roll, 887


Orr, Hon. Hugh, industrialist, 563


Paine, Dr. A. Elliott, medical examiner nearly fifty years, 131-132


Painless surgery, discovery of, 970 Paper manufacture in Plymouth County, 7


Paper mill, first in New England, 1001


Paradise of lakes and streams, 819-833; saving the woods from the fire demon, 825; exit billboards and sandy roads, 818; seeing Cape Cod while standing on it, 831


Patriots, distinct types of, 1051


Peddlers, Yankee, 796-797


Pembroke, 612-616; defiance to the king, 612; purchase from Indians; garrison house erec- ted, 614 Pembroke honor roll, 673


Pequot War, the, 97, et seq. Pequots, last of the, 99


Piano frame manufacturing at Bridgewater, 7 Pierce family at Middleboro, 607


Pilgrim and Puritan atrocities, 910 Pilgrim and Puritan differences, 242-243 Pilgrim firearms, 794


Pilgrim Memorial Monument at Provincetown, 692


Pilgrim Society organized, 620


Pilgrims and Puritans welded by steam, 1041 Pilgrims' good will visit to Squantum, 915-931;


early mingling of the whites and the reds, 917; notable work of the Apostle to the In- dians, 919; Philip's land-sale on a shirt, 920; demands from the heirs of Chicataubut, 922; arrival of the "Mary and John," 924; war of extermination precipitated, 924; trouble caused by Weston and Morton, 928; Society for Puritan colonization, 929; Colonial gov- ernors, 931


Pilgrims' Landing Anniversary, 616-617


Pilgrims' land-trip up the coast, 915


Pilgrims, leaders of the, 29-30


Pilgrims more lenient in punishments, 902


Pilgrims more tolerant than the Puritans, 304- 305


Pioneers, Patriots and Practitioners, 107-151


Pirates' gold, search for, 639


Pirate treasures, 783


Piratical days, 779


Plainville honor list, 1170-1171


Plainville, youngest of the Norfolk County towns, 1109


Plow, The famed Daniel Webster, 186 Plows first imported, 986


Plymouth, 616-624; aside from historical glories, 616-618; some physical beauties, 619; first cele- bration of the Landing of the Pilgrims, 621; starting of Pilgrim Society, 622; Pilgrim Hall, 623; some old places of burial, 623


Plymouth Colony anticipated the initiative and referendum, 960


Plymouth Colony not touched with witchcraft, 952


Plymouth County Agricultural Society, 389


Plymouth County Farm Bureau, 330


Plymouth County honor roll, 653-688


Plymouth County officials, 157


Plymouth County shoe factories, 453


Plymouth County towns half destroyed in King Philip War, 82


Plymouth County towns, incorporation of, dates of, 156


Plymouth County towns' population in 1865, 319


Plymouth County Tuberculosis Hospital, 574 Plymouth honor roll, 674-677 and 688


Plymouth's part in Kansas colonization, 296-298 Plympton honor roll, 677-679


Plympton, 624-628; election held no contests, 625; two living George Washingtons, 626; some town statistics, 626; early settlers and industries, 627


Population in early times, 795


Population of New England in 1673, 102


Portuguese newcomers, 310


Post offices in Plymouth County, 158


Potential possibilities of this section, 300


Power loom first came to Waltham, 1000 Prevention of fire on the Cape, 826-827


446


PLYMOUTH, NORFOLK AND BARNSTABLE


Printing and its beginnings in the colonies, 1062 Priorities of Colonial times in this section, 36 Privateer fleet of Massachusetts, 769


Progress in transportation, 1033-1047; stage- coaches' "boldness" and "madness," 1035; railroads regarded as calamities, 1037; Ded- ham saw advantage of new railroad, 1039; Pilgrims and Puritans welded by steam, 1041; naming of locomotives an old custom, 1042; at the Sign of the Sun, 1043; about the old- time hospitality, 1045; description of a typical trip, 1045


Prophecy of President John Adams fulfilled, 1004


Providential indications, Some, 8-12


Provincetown honor roll, 887-889


Provincetown noted for its artists' colony, and its fishing interests, 876-877


Pulling teeth, bleeding and cupping, 969


Puritan clergymen silenced, 934


Puritan Colonization, Society for, 929


Puritan Colony was wealthy and powerful, 902


Puritan population in Boston, 937


Puritan reasons for coming to America, 902 Puritans attempted to merge church and State, 933


Puritans invade Pilgrim Colony, 184-186


Quakers now own remains of the "Mayflower," 143-144


Quakers, Punishment for, 41


Quakers, Services disturbed by, 226


Quakers severely dealt with by General Court, 226


Quincy, first settler in, 928


Quincy, home of presidents; settled in early Colonial times, 1110; great variety of manu- facturing establishments, 1111; safeguarding the public health, 1112; city departments and education, 1113; Adams mansion a national shrine, 1114; new highway development, 1115; New England's first aviation tragedy, 1116; the eventide home of Quincy, 1117


Quincy honor list, 1171-1179


Quincy men in foreign service, 1190-1191


Quincy of Quincy, and the Adams family, 982


Railroad building and incorporation, 258


Railroads, development of in Massachusetts, 1038


Railroad, first in America, 1007


Railroad reminiscences and incidents, 1009


. Railroads early in this section, ,318


Railroads, earliest agitation for, 1036


Railroads regarded as calamities, 1037


Randolph, formerly part of old Braintree, 1117; President Benjamin Ide Wheeler born here; institutions; industries, 1118; noted shoemak- ing center, 1119


Randolph honor list, 1179-1180


Reclamation Board, present, 341-342


Region of Romance and Fable, 3-14


Reminiscences of Hon. George Frisbie Hoar, 804


Republican Government, first in America, 960 Revere Copper Works at Canton, 1000 Revolutionary Indian, Monument to, 594


Revolutionary record of Deborah Sampson, 114-117


Revolution, morning gun of, 936


Rising of the doughboy, 1137-1192


Rochester, 628-629; town sold by King Philip, 628; first service on Minister's Rock, 629 Rockland honor roll, 688


Rockland, 629-633; separation from Abington, 631-632; pioneer probation advocates, 632 Roman Catholic church in Plymouth Colony and afterwards, 944


S-4 and its martyred crew, 865-869


Sacco-Vanzetti trial and execution, 962


Safety first a necessity for the Pilgrims, 305 Sagamore, World War soldiers from, 883-884


Samoset and Squanto, coming of, 36


Sampson, Deborah, her Revolutionary record, 114-117


Samuel Adams, "god-father" of his country, 293-295


Sassamon, murder of, 925


Savage, Captain Thomas, sympathized with Ann Hutchinson, 911


Scandinavian Vikings, 16-17


Scandinavian writings on Dighton Rock, 21 School attendance, first modern compulsory, 947 Schoolcraft concerning Massasoit, 94


School funds and laws in early days, 946-947 Schoolmasters' pay in early days, 52


Schools began in Marshfield, 50; Duxbury, Plymouth and other schools, 51-52 Schools, public, beginning of, 41


Schools, some early private, 1056


Schools, various claims to the first public, 982


Scituate honor roll, 679-681


Scituate, 633-636; miles of charming beaches, 634


Scrooby to Plymouth, From, 29-42


Sectarian domination, end of, 942 Separatist church first organized, 934


Sermons in stones, 1013


Sermons on styles, 791


Sharon honor list, 1183


Sharon, one of the healthiest towns in the coun- ty, its hills and lakes, 1120; the home of Deborah Sampson, Revolutionary patriot, 1121; education, peace, harmony, health camps, 1122


Shays' Rebellion, results of, 201-202


Shipbuilding and the fisheries in Plymouth County, 187


Shipbuilding in Kingston, 583


Shipbuilding on North River, 611


Shoe factories in Plymouth County, 453


Shoe industry, home of the, 449-484; first shoe- makers arrive, 452; Brockton Fair style show, 454; women in shoe industry, 434-456; early sewing machines for shoemaking, 456; the "Shoe City," Plymouth County's Own, 457; Shoemaking ride of Micah Faxon, 458; world's greatest shoemaker starts business, 460; im- portance of Newman's measuring stick, 461; in the days of "whipping the cat," 462; Labor Union and high wages, 464; psychology of shoemaking, 465-467; early organization of shoemakers, 467; on the trail of the "Ten-


447


HISTORICAL INDEX


footers," 468; Lincoln was a pioneer jobber, 469; important trade with the West Indies, 470; making of shoe tools and accessories, 471; learned the business, and then controlled it, 473; romance of the Old Guard, 473; heavy boots in vogue, 475-476; some eminent gradu- ates and rapid operatives, 477; backing from banks, 478; hard times showed need of ma- chinery, 479; Abington shod half the Union Army, 480; dollar shoe made Brockton famous, 481; world's greatest shoe center, 482-484 Shoemaking at Rockland, 631


Shoemaking industrialists in early days, 464


Shoe-manufacturing concerns as leaders in Plymouth County, 483


Slavery and public welfare, 1019-1032; "May- flower" said to have been in slave trade, 1021; colored man in notable events, 1022; Massa- chusetts was free-born, 1023; Adams family were abolitionists, 1023; Jack surely belonged to the church, 1024; purchase of Andrew's overcoats, 1025; liberated slaves and other indigent persons, 1027; sometimes people were warned out, 1028; care of insane one hundred years ago, 1029; document one hundred and fifty years old discovered, 1030; even alms- houses no longer needed, 1031


Slavery, Massachusetts' attitude toward, 60-64 Slaves, Indian and Negro, 154


Slaves liberated, and other indigent persons, 1027


Slaves red as well as black, 1021


Small chimney easily heated, 715-721; massacre caused consternation among Indians, 716; early census of praying Indians, 719


Smith, Captain John, reminiscences of, 919 Snorri or Peregrine?, 15-27


Snorri, first-born of European parentage on American soil, 19


Spanish fleet, Destruction of, 772


Sandwich, "handsomest town out of England," 877-878


Sandwich honor roll, 889


Society for apprehension of horse thieves in Dedham, 992


Soldiers' Monument, first in the State, at Hali- fax, 571


South Chatham honor roll, 885


Speed limit law, early, 960


Spinning wheel universal in early days, 249


Spirit of the Founders still exists, 984


Squanto, friend to the Pilgrims, 807; 915 Squanto, worthy successors of, 330-331 Stagecoach drivers and expressmen, 363 Stage drivers, old-time, 231-232


Stagecoach era, 798-799


Stagecoach was called a bold and mad innova- tion, 1035


Standish, Captain Myles, 558


State Fish and Game Commission encouraging shell fish culture, 830


State Normal School, oldest, 320-321


"Stern to inflict, stubborn to endure," 901-913; Norfolk County within Puritan jurisdiction, 901; Frothingham, Congressman, on Puritans and Pilgrims, 901; Puritans welcomed by


Pilgrims, 902; Pilgrims more lenient in pun- ishments, 902; untruthful statements of Ly- ford, 903; arrival of the "Lion," 903; Roger Williams' migrations, 904; Williams outlawed, 905; Henry M. Dexter concerning the Puri- tans, 905; martyrdom of early feminist, 906; intolerance rewarded by deliverance, 909; atrocities on both sides, 910


Stoughton has a satisfactory town manager system; boundary lines often changed, 1123; variety of industrial lines; pioneers in shoe- making industry, 1124; two hundredth an- niversary celebration, 1125; "Birthplace of American Liberty," 1126-1127; picture of the town today, 1127-1128


Stoughton honor list, 1180-1183


Stoughton men in foreign service, 1191-1192 Stoughton Musical Society, 991


Straw bonnets, century and more of them, 1003 Suburban life at its best, 507, et seq.


Suffolk Resolves, Adoption of, 978


Suicidal inclination discouraged, 183


Sunday school, first in America, at 218 Sunday schools, Beginning of, 217-219 "Surprise" launched in 1850, 774


Halifax,


Tavern and stage advertisements, 233-234 Taverns at Halifax, 567


Taverns, turnpikes and stagecoaches, 229-234


Terry, Eli, founder of the clock industry in New England, 173


Thatcher, Dr. James, a vegetarian, 121


Thayer Academy and its founding, 1058


The three learned professions, 949-957; delu- sion of witchcraft, 951; an intellectual aristoc- racy, 957; decisions without aid of lawyers, 959; Blue Laws purely imaginary, 961; Sacco- Vanzetti trial and execution, 962; vaccination interfered with God's plan, 966; diagnosis by popular vote, 968; pulling teeth, bleeding, and cupping, 969; discovery of painless sur- gery, 970; Norfolk District Medical Society formed, 970


Thoreau's observations of the Cape, 831-832 Tin peddlers and Yankee traders, 796-797


Tomson, John, and the famous John Tomson Gun, 107-112


Topography, geology and natural setting of Plymouth County, 3


Town meetings, town criers, and curfews, 221- 228


Town government, first organized, 935


Town meeting, first special in Dorchester, 977


Transcendentalism, 938


Treasure ships sunk, 784


Truro honor roll, 889


Truro, Revolutionary interests of, 879; sea-cliffs at, 821


Tuberculosis Hospital, Plymouth County, 574


Typesetting machines first installed in this coun- ty by Brockton "Daily Times," 421


Turnpikes and traveled highways in early days, 1034


Typical stagecoach trip, description of, 1045- 1047


448


PLYMOUTH, NORFOLK AND BARNSTABLE


Uncas leads against Sassacus, 97-98


Unitarians, Universalists, Transcendentalists, 237-238


Universalism in Plymouth County, 238 Universalism organized, 938


Vaccination interfered with God's plan, 967 Victory plant at Squantum, 1006 Vineland voyagers, 19-20


Wadsworth, Peleg, Revolutionary soldier, 588 Walpole honor list, 1183-1184


Walpole; incorporation; industries, was a part of Dedham; named for Sir Robert Walpole, 1129


War and slavery, Choice between, 199-203


War of 1812, Plymouth and Barnstable counties


in, 254-255; famous army of two saved the day, 256


Wareham coast guard, 264


Wareham honor roll, 681-682


Wareham, 636-645; town hearse sold as relic; veteran court crier; new industry making steel castings, 638; search for pirates' 'gold, 639; Agawam Purchase laid out as separate na- tion, 639; how the name of Tihonet origina- ted, 640; ale-wives saved for Plymouth, 641; rallied to defense of Marshfield, 642; British visit in 1814, 643; early ministers, schools and industries, 644; Wareham raised a company in 1861, 645; youth again ready for World War, 645


Warren, Joseph, wrote Suffolk Resolves, 979


Waste lands, reclamation of, 337-340


Waterways in Plymouth County, 5


Webster, Daniel, called the expounder of the Constitution, 958


Wellesley College, and its founding, 1057


Wellesley, educational center; home of Welles- ley College; Babson statistical organization, 1130


Wellfleet honor roll, 890 Wellfleet, important as a seaport, 879


West Bridgewater, 646-648; first settlement away from the coast, 647


West Bridgewater honor roll, 682-685


Weston and Morton, Trouble caused by, 926


Weston Colony, disappearance of, 927


Westwood honor list, 1184


Westwood, youngest child of Dedham, 1131


Weymouth Agricultural and Industrial Society, 992


Weymouth honor list, 1185-1189


Weymouth, noted for its ecclesiastical atmos- phere, 1132; has the largest fertilizer works in the country; more than three hundred years since the founding of the town; oldest Puritan settlement in Massachusetts, 1133


Weymouth, oldest town in Norfolk County, 927 Weymouth soldier in foreign service, 1192 "When the cruel war was over," 317-324 When Thoreau took his Cape Cod trip, 835-836 Whipping dogs out of the sanctuary, 225 Whitefield and the "Great Awakening," 239-240 White Island Pond, 47


White troops' atrocity in Pequot War, 98-99 White pines, historic, at Island Grove, 55 White, Peregrine, planted apple trees, 787 Whitman, 648-652; the town, and the man, 649; some beginnings and present facts, 650; birth of first child, and early industries, 651 Wild turkey and Thanksgiving, 327-328 Willards made famous timepieces, 169 Williams outlawed, 905


Williams, Roger, and other heretics, how they were dealt with, 39-40


Williams, Roger, his migrations, 904


Windmills exchanged for wheelbarrows, 848


Winslows, first settlers at Marshfield, 601 Winthrop, John, and the charter, 930


Witchcraft, delusion of, 951


Witchcraft in Plymouth County, 83


Women physicians in early days, 969 Women's apparel in Colonial times, 790 Wrentham honor list, 1189


Wrentham, set off from Dedham; generously supports educational institutions, 1134; Day's Academy; cotton and woolen mills; distin- guished persons, 1135


Yankee Doodle, The camp of, 6-8


Yankee peddlers, 796-797


Yankee traders early established, 180


Yarmouth; from fish to tourists; salt to agri- culture, 880-881


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