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Hopkins, Matthew, witch-finder general, IIO: his methods of torture, 111 ; his death, 112.
House, Wm. Blackstone's, the first built in Boston, 39.
Houses demolished for fuel, 258.
Howe, General, at Bunker Hill, 244; evacuates Boston, 262.
Howe, Mrs. Julia Ward, 414.
Howells, W. D., 409, 410. Hunnewell's Gardens, 349.
Husking Frolic, an old-time, 433.
Hutchinson, Anne, banished, 87.
ICELAND settled by Northmen, 360. Ikanho, or Ykanho, ancient name of Bos- ton, 16, 32.
Increase of the early settlements, 66. Independence declared, 293. Indian a faithful, 72.
Indians friendly to the settlements on the Charles River, 43; kidnapped, 75; many noted, brought to Boston for ex- ecution, 128.
Ingolf and Leif in Iceland, 360.
Irving, Washington, friend of Allston's, 305.
JAMAICA PLAIN, 350.
Jethro, story of old, the Indian mission ary, 128.
John of Tynemouth, Rector of St. Bu- tolph, extracts from chronicles of, 20. Johnson, Isaac, a gentleman of wealth, 48; selects his abode in Boston, 50; death, 52 ; his grave the first in King's Chapel Burying-ground, 52.
Johnson, Lady Arbella, the story of, 47 ; guest of John Endicott, 50 ; her deatlı, 51 ; a stone church erected on her grave, 52.
Jones, Margaret, the first victim of witch- craft in New England, 112.
Jubilee, musical, of 1869, 327 ; 1872, 398.
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KIALARNESS - Keel Cape - Cape Cod, 362.
King George's War, 139.
King, Starr, 283.
King's Chapel, 50; the royal governors worshipped in, 177.
King's Chapel Burying-ground, 52, 57.
LABRADOR, the old Hella-land, 361.
Lafayette visits Boston, 293 ; lays the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monu- ment, 294.
Lancaster, a family at, murdered by In- dians, 131.
Lantern in St. Botolph's Church went out forever when Cotton left the town, 35. Latimer, George, arrested without a war- rant as a fugitive slave, 313.
Latin School building, the new, 385.
Laud, Archbishop, imposed the ritual, 32 ; his iron rule, 47.
Lee, General Fitz Hugh, in Boston Music Hall, 336.
Leif, story of, 356.
Leif's Booths, 361.
Leonard, Marm, the schoolma'am, 371.
Leverett, Frederic P., master of the Latin School, 379.
Leverett, Governor John, 137.
Lewis, minister, hung for witchcraft, 112. Lexington, battle of, 220.
Liberty, spirit of, aroused, 214.
Lincoln Cathedral, 15.
Lincolnshire County, England, 15.
Lisbon, earthquake at, 198.
Longfellow, Henry W., 399 ; visited Eu- rope, 401 ; his study, 402; in retire- ment, 422.
Longfellow's poems, origin of some of, 402 ; characteristics of, 405.
Lovell, John, master of the Latin School, 377. Lowell, James Russell, 409; Elmwood, the home of, 407, 471. Lynn, 353.
" MAGNALIA," stories of gross supersti- tion in Cotton Mather's, 115.
Maine given to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, 142 ; purchased by Massachusetts, 142. Malden, the hills of, 349.
" Manoah, Field of," poem, 472. Marblehead, 355, 435.
Massachusetts Bay Colony, the leaders of came from Lincolnshire, England, 15. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 385.
Massachusetts Sixth Regiment attacked in Baltimore, 317.
Mastodon giganteus, skeleton of in the Warren Museum, 342; discovery of the skeleton, 344.
Mather, Cotton, and the witchcraft delu- sion, 116.
Mather, Cotton, Increase, and Samuel, willow at tomb of, cut from tree at Napoleon's grave, 239.
Mattakees, fishing huts of the, 76. Mayflower, the, one of Winthrop's fleet, 49 ; arrives in Charlton harbor, 61.
May-pole set up by Thomas Morton and cut down by Endicott, 67.
Mechanics' Charitable Association, 393.
Medford, first settlers at, 62.
Merrimack, the, Whittier's "River of Song," 432.
" Merry Monarch," Charles II. called the, 145.
Merry-Mount, the revellers at, 67.
Mickle, Samuel, the cynic, 181.
Milton Lower Mills, 350.
Monument grounds at Bunker Hill, 302. Moore's, Tom, waste-paper basket in Longfellow's study, 402.
Morton, Thomas, the rioter, 66.
Mount Auburn Cemetery, 353, 455; eu- trance, 457 ; the chapel at, 461, 463 ; the sphinx, 463 ; the tower, 470.
Muddy River lands granted for school purposes, 376.
Mural inscriptions, 393.
Museum of Fine Arts, 338.
NAHANT, 355,
Napoleon at Rest, poem by Pierpont, 284. Newburgh, skeleton of mastodon found at, 344.
Newbury and Newburyport in Whittier's verse, 435.
Newfoundland probably discovered by Leif, 361.
New Old South Church, 393.
New York Seventh Regiment at Centen- nial of Bunker Hill, 335.
Nix's Mate, story of, 151.
Nonconformity could not be overlooked, 32.
Non-representation in parliament an ar- gument of the magistrates, 142.
Nook's Hill fortified, 265.
Normandy subjected by the Northmen, 359.
Northmen, expeditions of the, 359.
North Meeting-house, signal lanterns in steeple, 219.
Nova Scotia discovered by Leif, 361.
" O COUNTRY FAIR," poem, 347.
Old Brick Church, the, 393.
Old Goody Glover, story of, 116.
Old Manse, the, 442, 443.
Old North Church, see Christ Church.
Old South Church stands in Winthrop's garden, 58; the church of the people, 189, 240.
" Old South stands, The," poem, 331.
Oliver, General H. K., on the early schools of Boston, 369.
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Ossoli, Countess, see Margaret Fuller. Otis's, Harrison Gray, anecdote of Mas- ter Lovell, 378. Otis, James, 205,
PALFREY, PETER, one of the first settlers of Salem, 50.
Palmer's, Rev. Ray, memories of Bunker Hill, 296.
Parker, Theodore, 314, 317.
Peace declared, 293.
" Peace Jubilee " of 1869, 327.
People independent under the charter, 141.
Phillips, Samuel, the duelist, 160.
Phips, Sir William, governor, 146: the story of Sir William and his great good fortune, 170.
Pierpont, John, 283 ; poem at laying cor- ner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument, 291 ; pastor and poet. 391 ; original hymn at dedication of Mount Auburn, 455 ; monument of, 469.
"Pilgrims, The," motto from Longfellow, 55.
Pitcairn, Major, interred in Christ Church, 236.
Pormort (Portmorte), Philemon, the first "schulemaster " of Boston, 376, 380. Prayer, Thomas Prince's, 190.
Prescott, General, leads the farmer soldiers to Charlestown, 243.
President's call on Governor Andrew for militia, 317. Primer, the New England, 372.
Prospect Hill fortified, 257.
" Protest, A," poem by James T. Fields, 417.
Province House, the, 174.
Provincial Congress organized, 216.
Provincials, the, rally at Concord, 221.
Provisional government for the colony, I46.
" Psalm of Life," anecdote of the poem, 403.
Puritans, Macaulay on the, 45. Putnam, General, at Bunker Hill, 247.
QUAKER books burned, 95. Quaker graves near the Old Elm, 104. Quakers, opposition to, 95 ; whipped, 99 ; law for capital punishment of, repealed, IOO.
Quincy's, Dorothy, wedding, the story of, 225 ; reception of the French officers, 230. Quincy, President, quotation from, 37.
RAIN brought by the bones of St. Bo- tolph, 19.
Randolph, Edward, " the evil genius of New England," 142. Rawson's Lane, now Bromfield Street, 155.
Rawson, Rebecca, story of, 155 ; lost at Port Royal, Jamaica, 159.
Red-coats in Boston, 216. Relic, a gigantic, 341.
" Resignation," motto from Longfellow's poem on, 453.
Revere's, Paul, ride, 219. Roxbury, first settlers at, 62.
STS. ADULPH AND BOTOLPH, educated in Belgic France, 20.
St. Adulph, governs church of Maestricht in Belgium, 20; his body moved, 24.
St. Botolph's Church, 31 ; the tower a lighthouse, 32.
St. Botolph, the good abbot, 16; founder of Old Boston, 19; his bones influence the rain, 19; incidents in life of, 20: puts demons to flight, 23 ; death, 23 ; miracles performed at his tomb, 24.
St. Edmond's Monastery, Bury, Eng- land, 19.
St. Ethelwold transfers the bodies of saints, 24.
Salaries paid the governors, 174.
Salem, first settlers in, 50 ; 355.
Salem Street, ancient and modern, 234.
Saltonstall, Sir Richard, 49.
"School Committee," the, 373.
Schoolhouse, the first, 380; called the Centre, and afterwards the Latin, 383. School Punishments, 370.
Schools, the old Boston, 369; influence of Boston, 385.
Second Church, 393. Shawmut, old name of Boston, 40.
Shenhan, John, a poem, 161.
Sickness among settlers at Salem and Charlestown, 40.
Slaves and slave-pens, 309.
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, 319; dedication of, 337 ; description, 337. South Carolina regiment at Bunker Hill centennial. 335, 336.
Southern regiments, reception of at the Bunker Hill centennial, 335.
Sparks, Jared, grave of, 471. Sphinx, the, at Mount Auburn, 463. Sprague, Charles, the poet-banker, 392.
Spring Lane, why so named, 58.
Springs of pure water, 39; led to the set- tlement of Boston, 40.
Spurzheim, Gaspard, his brain, heart, and skull in the Warren Museum, 342, 459. Stamp Act, passed in 1765, 205 ; effect of, 209 ; repealed, 209.
Standish, Miles, sent to arrest Thomas Morton at Merry-Mount, 67.
Steamers, excursion, 354.
Stories, fireside, 151.
Story Statue, the, at Mount Auburn, 462. Stranger's Burying-ground, 472.
Sturge, Joseph, the reformer, 431.
Suburbs of Boston, 349 ; gray and vener- able, 354.
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Sumner, Charles, on the Fugitive Slave | Warren Museum, 341.
law, 314; grave of, 464 ; his sarcopha- gus, 465.
Surriage, Agnes, the tavern maid of Mar- blehead, 197.
" TALES OF THE WAYSIDE INN," how sug- gested. 405.
Tea, tax imposed on, 213 ; destruction of, 2 16.
" T'en Hills," Winthrop's farm, 72.
Thanksgiving, first day of, 61.
Thompson, Pishey, his " History and An- tiquities of Boston" (England), 20.
Thoreau, Henry D., 444 ; friendship with animals and birds, 444 ; a cynic, 445 : his death, 445 ; his poems, 447.
Thorean's hut, 444.
Thorwald, story of, 359, 362.
Tileston's, Madame, school, 371.
"Tom of Lincoln," the old bell, 15.
Tories, effigies of hanged, 132.
Treasures sunken in the Spanish main, 173.
Tremont Street, follows the windings of William Blackstone's cow, 43.
Trimountain, early name of Boston, 40. Trinity Church, 338.
Troops, British, stationed on the Com- mon, 214 ; start for Concord, 220 ; re- treat to Boston, 222.
Trowbridge, J. T., 409, 410.
"Two Brothers," stones marking bounds of Winthrop's and Dudley's lands, 66.
VANE, HENRY, arrives in Boston, 85 ; a leader in England. 87 ; jealous of Crom- well, 87 ; executed, 88.
Vassal family, tomb and tablet, 304 ; family mansion, Longfellow's residence, 400. Virginia regiment at Bunker Hill centen- nial, 335.
WALDEN, LAKE, 439.
Waltham, river excursions from, 349.
Wampanoags, favorite resort of, 79. War, the civil, begun, 317.
Ware, Henry, Jr., 393 ; his " Ursa Ma- jor," 394 ; his antislavery ideas, 398 : his last poem, 399.
Warren, Dr. John Collins, 341.
Warren, General Joseph, 206 : sends out Paul Revere, 219 ; death of, 248 ; statue of, 303 ; now buried at Forest Hills.303.
Washington, George, first monument and bust of, 236 ; appointed commander-in- chief, 253 ; arrival at Cambridge, 253 ; took command of the army, 257 ; head- quarters, 257 ; elected president, 293 ; visits Boston, 293.
Washington Street, follows the windings of William Blackstone's cow, 43.
Water supply of Boston, 327. Watertown, first settlers at. 62.
"We are One," poem by Washington Allston, 29.
Webster, Daniel, oration of at Bunker Hill, 295, 300.
Wellesley College, 349.
Whitefield, George, in Boston, 193; tomb of at Newburyport, 435.
Whittier, John G., 421 ; his love of liber- ty, 422 ; the poet of old Essex County, 423 ; energy of character, 424 ; his boy- hood, 428; antislavery odes, 429; his home, 430.
Whittier's poetry, associations of, 42 1.
Williams, Roger, comes to Boston, 88; banished for his opinions, 92.
Wilson, John, pastor of the First Church, 65. Wineland, 362.
Winslow, Edward, searches for a lost boy, 76.
Winter Hill fortified, 257.
Winthrop, Henry, drowned at Salein, 61. Winthrop, John, decides to leave Eng- land, 47 ; carries the king's charter, 49 ; some incidents of his life, 57; extracts from his journal. 61 ; fording a stream, 67 ; visits Plymouth, 68; lost for one night, 72 : death of, 92.
Winthrop statue in Scollay Square, 61. Witchcraft, account of the Salem, 109.
Witches, belief in, in England and Scot- land, 109 ; methods of discovering, 110; in the Hebrew nations, 124.
Wollaston, Captain, settles a company at Mount Wollaston, now Braintree, 66.
Woodbridge, Benjamin, killed in a duel, 160.
" Wreck of the Hesperns," origin of the poem, 404.
Wright's Tavern, 451.
YKANHO, St. Botolph's monastery at, de- stroyed, 23,
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