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Pension Office, 439.
Pestilence, 35. Pests, 31.
Petition concerning Division of Lancaster, 278.
Petition concerning Meeting-House, 65.
Petition for Pay for Billeting Soldiers, 66.
Petition for Relief from Taxes, 77.
Petition to General Court for Road from Boston to Lancaster, 37.
Phi Beta Kappa Society, 425.
Physical Advantages of Clinton, 19.
Physical Geography of Clinton, 1-19, 27-32. See Burditt Hill, Nashua River, etc.
Physicians, 429-441. Pike's Arithmetic, 194.
Pilgrims, 450.
Pillions, 47.
Pitts House, 161, 218.
Pitts Mills, 158-161, 190, 217, 218, 219, 270, 331, 339.
Planing Mill, Belyea & Howe, 350, 352.
Planing Mill, Fuller's. See Fuller's Mill.
Planing Mill, Parker & Greene, 350, 365. Plant House, 152, 157, 249. See Parker House. Plants, Names of Clinton, 28-30.
Poignand & Plant's Mills, 139-158, 190.
Politics, 538-540. See names of political par- ties.
Pollard House, 130. Polls, Number of, in Clinton, 1850-1865, 286.
Poor Farm, 290, 293. Poor Farm, Lancaster, 126.
Population of Lancaster, 82.
Population of District No. 10 (1830), 190.
Population of District No. 11 (1830), 190. Population of Clinton, 1865, 408.
Post Office, 361, 384, 427, 429.
Post-Tertiary Period, 23. Potomac (ship), 655, 656.
Potomac Flotilla, 656. Pound, 290, 292. Pound, New England and Sterling, 101. Practical Jokes, 124. Presbyterian Church, Keokuk, Iowa, 460.
Prescott-Allen-Lowe Farm, 175. Prescott Club, 363.
Prescott Family, Memorial of, 33. Prescott Garrison, 44, 56, 66.
Prescott House, 44, 45, 106, 108. Prescott House, New, 71, 108, 399. Prescott, John Ist, Estate, 47-54. Gravestone, 60.
Last Deposition of, 59-60. Will, 50-53.
Prescott, John 3d, Inventory of Estate, 74, 86, Prescott, John 4th, Inventory of Personal Estate, 87. Division of Real Estate, 105-107.
Prescott's Mill Privilege, 118.
Prescott's Mills, 40-44, 47, 48, 51, 52, 61-63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 71, 73, 74, 81, 83, 85, 107, 109, 114, 140, 143. 145, 162, 164, 183. See Corn Mill, and Poignand & Plant's Mills. Prescott's Millstone, 41-42.
Primary School House No. 1, 293.
No. 3, 293.
.6 No. 4, 293.
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66 No. 5, 293.
Princeton (ship), 656.
Printing Press, The First in English Amer- ica, 36.
Prohibitory-Republican Party, 353.
"Proprietors of First Unitarian House in Clinton," 495.
Meeting-
Protective Union, Division 49, 408.
Protestant Churches, 482.
Provincial Congress, 95.
Prudential Agents, School Dist. No. 10, 260. Public Library of Boston, 236.
Puritan, 34, 36, 55, 76, 351, 452, 487.
Quabaugs, 56. Quadrupeds, 32. Quakers, 109, 169, 176, 403.
Quaker Church in Clinton, 109. Quartermaster's Department, U. S. Vol. Militia, 599, 659.
Quartz, 27.
Quartzite, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27.
Queen Anne's War, 63-64, 77-78, 79.
Quilt Mill, 210-212, 217, 219, 227, 228, 251, 257, 358, 400, 401, 481,
Quilt Mill Company. See Lancaster Quilt Company.
Quilts, 209-212.
Quota, Clinton's, for Civil War. See Re- cruiting.
Railroads, 373-374. See Index of Places. Rattlesnakes, 81, 117.
Rebel Prisons. See Mayo's Tobacco House, Richmond, Va., Salisbury, N. C., Belle Isle, Va., Andersonville, Ga., Florence, S. C., Libby Prison, Richmond. Macon, Ga., Charleston, S. C., Columbia, S. C., Lynchburg, Va.
Recruiting, 570-580, 608 610.
Red River Expedition, 607, 608, 631.
Regular Army, U. S., 626, 637, 639, 641, 651. 653, 559.
"Relations of Capital and Labor," E. B. Bigelow, 234, 237. Religious Society, 447.
"Remarks on Depressed Condition of Manu- factures," E. B. Bigelow, 237.
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
"Reminiscences," James Pitts, 123, 161, 177. "Reminiscences of School Days," G. W. Bigelow, 266.
Representatives. House of, 368, 567.
Republican Party, 239, 315, 364, 372, 436, 438, 474, 519, 520, 522, 539-540.
Reptiles, 31.
"Resipee Book," 431.
Resolutions in Regard to British Tyranny, 93-94.
Revere House, Boston, 422.
Revised Statutes, 368.
Revolution, Bounties in, 99, 100, 101.
Revolution, Casualties in, 97.
Revolution, Currency in, 101.
Revolution, Debts from, 103.
Revolution, Financial Troubles in, 101.
Revolution, Opening of, 92-94.
Revolution, Prices of, 101.
Revolution, Women in, 101.
Revolutionary War, 84, 92-102, 113, 123, 126, 128, 129, 159, 174, 176, 386, 422, 505, 546, 580. Revolutionary Soldiers, 126, 168.
Revolutionary Soldiers' Individual Record, 97-100.
Revolutionary Times, 431.
Rhetorical Society, 324, 325, 332, 394, 532.
Rhode Island Campaign. 96, 97, 129.
Rhode Island State Board of Charities and Corrections, 135.
Rice (Joseph) House, 116-117.
. Rice's Privilege and Saw Mill, 117-118, 150. Richmond Examiner, 553. Rickett's Battery, 626, 639, 641.
Rigby House, 63, 124.
Roads, 43, 62-63, 68, 70, 73, 177, 217, 269-271, 290-291. See Names of Roads and Streets.
Rocking Stone, 7, 25. Rocks, Geology of, 20-23.
Rodger's Mill, 13, 69, 354. Rollstone Bank, 372.
Rowlandson Place, 69.
Royal Arch Chapter, Free Masons, Clinton, 365.
Sabine (ship), 656, 657. Sagamore House, 377.
St. Charles College, 512, 513.
St. James Seminary, Worcester, 509.
Saint John's Church. See Catholic Church. Saint John's Church, Worcester. See Cath- olic Church, Worcester. Saint John's College, Fordham, N. Y., 521. St. John's Temperance Society, 517. St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, 512, 513. Saint Luke's Hospital, 158.
Salmon, 3. Sand, 27. Sand Formation, 8. II. Sanitary Commission, 573, 613.
Sargent House, 218. Saturday Courant. See Courant.
Savannah (ship), 657. Savings Bank, Clinton. See Banks. Saw Mills. See Names of Owners. Sawyer-Burdett House, 114, 117, 169, 175. Sawyer (Eli) House, 130. Sawyer's (Elias) Dam, 177.
Sawyer's (Elias) House, 158-159.
Sawyer's (Elias) Mill, 158-159. Sawyer (Moses) Estate, 113, 122, 175.
Sawyer (Thomas), Cottage, 399.
Sawyer's Mills, 3, 75, 82, 90, 93, 113, 204, 206, 248, 317, 326. Schiller Club. 335.
School Attendance, 301.
School Committee, 294-295, 297, 309-310.
School-house, First, in Dist. No. 10, 184-185. School Reports, 303.
School Squadrons of Lancaster, 83. Schooling, 18th Century, 87-88.
Schools (South Woods), 135-138.
Schools (Dist. No. 10), 183-191, 259-268.
Schools (Clinton), 294-305.
Scientific Notes, 20-32.
Scotch Settlers, 129, 256, 319, 326, 327, 331, 335. Scott Club, 358.
Scott's First Lessons, 189.
Second Adventists, 390, 504.
Second Army Corps, 558, 582-595, 616, 617, 618, 621, 622, 625.
Second Battalion Invalid Corps, 648, 657.
Second Evangelical Church, Lancaster. See Congregationalist Church, Clinton.
Second Evangelical Church, Manchester, N. H., 451.
Second Heavy Artillery, 609, 640, 642, 651, 652, 653. 655.
Second Light Battery, 607, 608, 639.
Second Regiment, 582, 583, 584, 587, 637.
Second Regiment, Connecticut, 658.
Second Regiment, New Hampshire, 657.
Second Regiment, New Jersey, 647.
Second Regiment N. Y. Cavalry, 637.
Second School, 266, 268, 296, 297-300, 347.
Second U. S. Regt. Heavy Artillery, 653.
Selectmen of Clinton, 285-286.
"Self-taught Stenographer," E. B. Bigelow, 195, 236.
Senate of Massachusetts, 154, 202, 278, 280, 282, 368, 424, 443, 541.
Seven Days' Fight, 642.
Seventeenth Century, 33-63.
Seventeenth Regiment, 597, 653.
Seventh Regiment, 559, 584, 589, 637.
Seventh Regiment, New Hampshire, 657, 658.
Severy House, 121-122.
"Schackahan" (ship), 656.
Shaker Community, Harvard, 147.
Shattuck Manuscripts, 49.
Shays' Insurrection, 103.
"Sherman's March to the Sea." 626.
Sidney Harris & Sons' Comb Shops, 342.
Sidney Harris & Sons' Manufacturing Com- pany, 343-344. Sieges. See Index of Places-Yorktown, Vicksburg, Knoxville, Petersburg.
Signal Corps, 641.
Silk Brocatel Boom, 234.
Silurian Age, 23. Singing School (Collester's), 377.
Six Nations, 129.
Sixteenth Corps, 598.
Sixteenth Regiment, U. S. A., 637.
Sixth Corps, 584, 592, 621, 622.
Sixth Regiment, 542.
Sixtieth Regiment, 610, 653.
Sixty-first Regiment, 610, 651. Skirt Company, Bay State, 356.
Slate, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27. Slavery, American, 451. Slavery in Lancaster, 74.
Smith's Engineering Corps, 621.
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Smith, George P., Block, 392-394, 398, 427, 437. Smith's Introduction, 264.
Soldiers' Aid Society, Clinton, 462, 544, 572- 574, 587, 612-614. Soldiers' Records, 79, 90-102.
"Solitude," 142. Soil, 27-28.
Soldiers. See Civil War, Revolution, etc. Soldiers' Monument. 658.
Sonoma (ship), 656.
Sons of Temperance, Clinton Division No. 67, 341, 531. South Church, Andover, 451. South Mills, 568.
South Woods' School, 127, 135, 136.
Southbridge Academy, 265, 347.
Southbridge M. E. Church, 488.
South Church, Andover, 451.
South Lancaster Academy, 382.
Spanish Moss, 597. Spanish War, 79.
Speaker of House, 567.
Speedwell (ship) , 403.
Sprague's Mills. See Prescott Mills.
Springfield Collegiate Institute, 300.
Springfield High School, 300.
Squatter Sovereignty, 539.
Stage Routes, 374-5.
Stamp Act, 92.
"Star Brigade" or Heckman's, 618, 621, 622. State Militia, 533.
"Statement of Facts in regard to Lancaster Mills," E. B. Bigelow, 237-38.
State Normal School at Framingham, 267. Station Agents, 374.
Statistics of 1771, 83.
Steam Engineers, 359.
Stearns Building, 405.
Stevens' Linen Bleachery, Dudley, 519.
Stocking Loom, Lee's, 224.
Stone House, 118-119.
Stone Masons, 367, 518.
Stores. See Commercial Development.
Straw Braiding, 149.
Strike at Lancaster Mills, 1854, 319.
Sumpter (ship), 657.
Superior Court, 523.
Sunday Riot, 149.
Sunday Schools. See Names of Churches.
Sunday School, Unitarian, 313, 354.
Sunday School Society, Unitarian, 497.
Superior Court of U. S., 308.
Sweden (ship), 656.
Swedenborgians, 307.
Tables and Lists :-
Elevations, 17. Plants, 28-30.
Teachers No. 11, 136-137.
Teachers No. 10, 187-188.
"Committee Men," School Dist. No.10, 187. Agents, School Dist. No. 10, 260. Teachers, School Dist. No. 10, 261.
Valuation, Amount of Tax, Tax Rate, No. of Polls, and Debt, 1850-1865, 286.
Permanent Investments of Clinton, 1850- 1865, 292-293. School Committee, 1850-1865, 294-295.
School Attendance, 1850-1865, 301. Taxation for Schools, 302. Teachers, 302-3.
Assessors' Valuation of Stock of Mer-
chants, 408. Statistics of Population, 408.
Original Members of Congregational Church, 449. Superintendents of Sunday School, Cong. Church, 1840-1865, 459.
Clerks of Cong. Church, 1844-1865, 460. Prominent Members of Cong. Church and Society, 460-61.
Officers of Cong. Benevolent Society, 1844- 1865, 463.
Original Members of Unitarian Society,493. Individual Record of Volunteers, 637-659. Tacony (ship), 656.
Tammany Regiment, 552.
Tannery (Bryant's), 13. (Chace's), 131-132, 133, 160.
Tariff, 236-237.
"Tariff Policy," E. B. Bigelow, 236.
"Tariff Question," E. B. Bigelow, 236.
"Tavern House," 148, 468. See Clintonville Hotel.
Taxation in Clinton, Table of amount of Rates, 1850-1865, 286.
Taxation after Revolution, 103.
Taxation for Schools, 1850-1865, 302.
Taxation, Custom Duties, 103.
Taxation, Direct, 103.
Taxation, Freedom from, 41, 43.
Taxation, Petition for Relief from, 77.
Taxation without Representation, 93.
Tea, Advertisement against a Seller of, 94.
Teachers, 239. See Schools and Tables.
Technical Institute, Chicago, 520.
Technology, Mass. Institute of, 379.
Temperance, 123.
Temperance Organizations, 529-32.
Temperance, Sons of, 341, 531.
Temperance Society, St. John's, 517.
Tenements of Lancaster Mills, 225.
Tenth Connecticut Regiment, 565.
Tenth Illinois Cavalry, 658.
Terraces, 11-12, 26.
Thatch, 44.
Thayer Estate, 444. Third Battalion of Riflemen, 544, 546, 652.
Third Cavalry, 607-608, 609, 615, 631-33, 654.
Third Corps, 559, 593.
Third Heavy Artillery, 609, 653.
Third School. See High School.
Thirteenth Corps, 598.
Thirteenth N. Y. Cavalry, 642.
Thirtieth Regiment, 596, 647.
Thirty-eighth Regiment, 605, 606.
Thirty-fifth Regiment, 601.
Thirty-first Regiment, 596, 647.
Thirty-fourth Regiment, 419, 574, 575, 582, 585, 591, 595, 609, 615, 629-33, 638, 644, 647- 49, 650, 652.
Thirty-ninth U. S. Colored Troops, 628, 647. Thirty-sixth Regiment, 324, 576-577, 582, 584- 585, 589, 590, 591, 596-601, 615, 616, 617, 621, 623, 625, 626, 628, 629, 633, 638, 643, 644,649, 650.
Thursday Evening Club, Boston, 239. Tories, 92.
Torrent Engine Company No. 1, 288, 289.
Torrent Engine No. 1, 292.
Tourmaline, 25-27.
Town Clerks, 285.
Town Hall, 312, 357. 439.
Town Hall, Lancaster, 271, 276-77, 378.
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Town Officers, Lancaster, 271.
Town Property, 292.
Town Records, 183.
Trade. See Commercial Development.
Trade, Board of, 363.
Trade in 18th Century, 84.
Trap, 25, 27. Travel in 18th Century, 89.
Treasurers of Clinton, 285.
Trees, 7, 8, 10, 12.
Tremont House, Boston, 422.
Triassic Period, 22.
Trinity Lodge Free Masons, 108, 111, 257, 354, 365. 388, 441, 524-28, 602.
Trinity Lodge, Old, 524-527.
Troy Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, 485.
Trucking House, George Hill, 36, 38.
Truckmen, 375.
Tucker-Chace Estate, 79, 129-131, 134.
Turnverein. 335.
Twelfth Corps, 584, 585.
Twentieth Regiment, 550, 551, 554, 558, 559, 560, 561, 584, 585, 589, 590, 626, 638, 639, 640, 641, 642, 643.
Twenty-eighth Regiment, 570, 584, 589, 647.
Twenty-fifth Regiment, 387, 419, 533, 563-570, 575, 615, 618-625, 627, 628, 645-647.
Twenty-fifth Regiment, North Carolina, 619, 620.
Twenty-first Battalion, 62S.
Twenty-first Regiment, 363-369, 539. 563. 565- 569, 570, 582-84, 587, 589, 590, 591, 596, 599- 601, 615, 616, 617, 618, 621, 622, 625, 627, 628, 643-44, 648, 652.
Twenty-fourth Regiment, 565, 567, 568, 569, 570, 644, 645, 648.
Twenty-fourth N. V. Cavalry, 658.
Twenty-second Regiment, 558, 559, 560, 584, 589, 644, 650. Twenty-second N. Y. Regiment, 645.
Twenty-seventh Regiment, 565, 567, 615, 621, 647.
Twenty-seventh Regiment, Michigan, 597.
Twenty-sixth Regiment, 596, 626, 647.
Twenty-third Regiment, 565, 567, 568, 569, 570, 644. Tyler House, 250, 360, 400, 451. Tyler's Block, 400.
Union Building, 289, 406. Union Church, Worcester, 451.
Union College, 484. Union House, 398. "Union Question Books," 446.
Union Store, 392, 405.
Unitarian Benevolent Society, 502-3.
Unitarian Church, 313, 329, 341, 415, 417. 439, 445, 492, 503. Unitarian Church Choir, 383. Unitarian Church, Danvers, 497. Unitarian Church, East Boston, 494.
Unitarian Church, Lancaster, 444-45, 446, 492, 502. See Brick Church.
Unitarian Society, 244, 253, 258, 314, 325, 326, 343, 354, 355, 363, 366, 373, 404, 445, 492-503, Unitarian Society, Milwaukee, Wis., 497. Unitarian Sunday School, 313. 334. Unitarians, 173, 179, 307, 327, 329, 400, 446, 458. United States Draft Commissioners, 609. United States Consul, 150.
United States Government, 232, 359, 554.
United States Sanitary Commission, 573. United States Volunteer Militia, 599.
Universalists, 307, 361, 503-4.
Universalist Church, Lancaster, 161, 503. University of Berlin, 267.
Valuation of Clinton, Table of, 286.
Vegetation, 27-30.
Vermont State University, 455.
Veteran Reserve Corps, 626, 641, 642, 643, 644, 648, 650, 657.
"Vicar of Wakefield," Oliver Goldsmith, 142. Views, 7, 8, 9, 12, 18, 19.
Volunteer Militia of Massachusetts, 541, 557. See numbers of regiments.
Volunteer Record, 570-580.
Wages in Revolution, 101.
Walcott's Block, 150.
Wallace's Store, 448.
Walpole Academy, 438.
Waltham Factory, 147.
Wampanoags, 55.
War Department, 643.
War of 1812, 146.
Warren Association, Baptist Church, 464.
Washacum, Grant of Lands at, 48.
Washington College, 422.
Washington Conference, Methodist Episco- pal Church, 481.
Washington County Post, 420.
Washingtonian Movement, 174, 529.
Water Privileges. See Names of Streams, and Mills.
Water-wheels, Manufacture of, 361.
Weaving Room, Lancaster Mills, 225.
Weldon Railroad, Va., 625, 629.
Wells' Grammar, 264.
Wells' Grammar School, 308.
Wesleyan University, 486, 488.
Western Gun-boat Flotilla, 641.
Wheeler's Garrison, 56.
Whig County Committee, Middlesex, 244.
Whig Party, 539.
Whigs, 92, 94, 244, 271, 315, 358.
Wilbraham Academy, 346, 484, 488.
Wild Cats, 81.
Wilder-Carville Estate, 125, 126, 127.
Wilder Farm, 80.
Wilder House, 136.
Williams College, 240.
Wilton and Brussels Carpeting. See Brus- sels Carpeting.
Wilton Carpet Loom, 233.
Winter Building, 395-396.
Wire Cloth Company, Clinton, 234, 242, 251. 344-348, 378.
Wire Cloth Company, Worcester, 345.
WVire Cloth Mill, 242, 256, 257, 345, 448.
Wire Drawing, 164.
Winthrop Grammar School, Boston, 308. Wolves, 81.
Women, 18th Century, 85.
Women in Revolution, 101.
Woodland, 29.
Wood's Farm, So.
Wool Manufacturers, National Association of, 235.
Woolen Mill Dam, 117.
Worcester Academy, 265, 347, 478. Worcester Agricultural Society, 254.
Worcester Congregationalist Association.,451
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Worcester County History, 428. Worcester County Manual Labor, High
School, 396. Worcester County Mechanics' Association, 254. Worcester Horticultural Society, 254. Worcester House, 457, 460.
Worcester Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Company, 251. Worcester Spy, 421, 547. World's Columbian Exposition, 523. Worsted Mill, 164, 202, 270, 379, 420.
Wrigley Cottage, 332, 399.
Wrigley Yard, 330.
Yale College, 158, 240. Yale Theological School, 298. Yankees, 148, 228, 318.
Yarn Company, 366. Yarn Mill, 145, 163.
Young Men's Benevolent Society of Boston, 312.
Young Men's Christian Association Rooms, 397.
Young Men's Democratic Club of Mass., 523. Young Men's Rhetorical Society, 324, 325, 532.
Zion's Herald, 484. Zoology, 31-32.
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