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WARD CONFRONTED WASHINGTON WITH ONE OF THE ABOVE LETTERS?
"Following are the two chief forms of the story (unauthenticated-and, as it applies to Ward, entirely uncharacteristic-but nevertheless persistently handed down by tradition) that Ward confronted Washington with a letter in which the Virginian had aspersed him; perhaps one of the two quoted above ; perhaps a third which I have not come upon.
"It is well known that Washington spoke of the resignation of General Ward, after the evacution of Boston, in a manner approaching contempt.
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His observations, then confidentially made, about some of the other generals, were not calculated to flatter their amour propre or that of their descendants. It is said that General Ward, learning long afterwards of the remark that had applied to him, accompanied by a friend, waited on his old chief at New York, and asked him if it was true that he had used such language. The President replied that he did not know, but that he kept copies of his letters, and would take an early opportunity of examining them. Accordingly, at the next session of Congress (of which General Ward was a member), he again called with his friend, and was informed by the President that he had really written as alleged. Ward then said, 'Sir, you are no gentleman,' and turning on his heel quitted the room."-S. A. Drake, Historic Fields and Mansions of Middlesex.
"Of his (Ward's) bravery there is no question, although Washington accused him of cowardice in leaving the service before Boston. Benjamin Stone, the first preceptor of Leicester Academy, gave me the following account of Ward's misunderstanding with Washington. Soon after the establishment of the Government at Philadelphia, Ward, then a member of Congress, came into possession of a letter written by Washington, in which the offensive charge was made. He immediately proceeded to the President's house, placed the paper before him, and asked him if he was the author of it. Washington looked at the letter and made no reply. Ward said, 'I should think that the man who was base enough to write that, would be base enough to deny it,' and abruptly took his leave." Reminiscences of the Rev. George Allen of Worcester.
A LEGEND OF WASHINGTON'S DESIRE TO MAKE AMENDS.
The Massachusetts Historical Society possesses a letter from C. Gore to General Ward's son, Judge Artemas Ward, dated January 22, 1819. It gives a conversation with Samuel Dexter as authority for the statement that Wash- ington, on his retirement from public life, wrote to Ward denying that he had written "a letter published in the early part of the Revolutionary War, which contained Remarks injurious to the Reputation of General Ward," and expressing "in unequivocal Terms, the Regard for the Character and Conduct of General Ward, in all the Departments of public Duty in which he had acted."-Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings.
Emory Washburn, Governor of Massachusetts, 1800-1878-Emory Washburn, native of Leicester, Governor of Massachusetts, eminent lawyer, and twenty years Bussey professor of law at Harvard University, fitted for college at Leicester Academy, and entered Dartmouth College at the age of thirteen. In 1815, when a distinguished Dartmouth professor became presi-
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dent of Williams College, he took young Washburn with him, and there he took his degree in 1817 in a class of seven. He immediately began the study of law, was admitted to the bar in 1821, and began the practice of law in his native town. He represented Leicester in the State Legislature 1826 and 1827, and there made a report suggesting a railroad connecting Boston and Albany, several years before his State had a mile of steam railroad.
Following the death of his widowed mother, he moved to Worcester in 1828. He was a member of the House of Representatives in 1838, and of the State Senate in 1841-42, and from 1844 to 1848 was a justice of the Court of Com- mon Pleas. He was in Europe in 1853, when, without his knowledge, he was elected Governor of Massachusetts on the Whig ticket, and was unaware of his election until his steamer touched at Halifax on the return voyage. In 1856 he entered upon his score of years of service as a professor at Harvard. Both Harvard and Williams conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. He was a member of the American Antiquarian Society for half a century, a director of the American Science Association, and a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, serving on the standing committee for many years, and as vice-president from 1874 until his death. He was the author of more than fifty books and pamphlets and contributed greatly to the historical knowledge of New England and of the United States.
Ichabod Washburn, Founder of the American Wire Industry. Inven- tor of the Wire Block which Revolutionized Wire Drawing. Founder of Worcester Memorial Hospital, 1798-1868-Ichabod Washburn was born in Kingston, Massachusetts, twin son of Captain Ichabod Washburn. His mother, Sylvia Bradford, was a descendant of Governor William Brad- ford of the Plymouth Colony. His father died when the second Ichabod was still an infant, leaving the mother to support her children and herself at the loom and spinning wheel. A consequence was that when the boy was only nine years old he went to live with a harness maker in Duxbury, doing chores, stitching harness, and attending the winter terms of school. Five years of this life were followed by a year in a cotton factory.
He was sixteen years old when he began an apprenticeship in the black- smith's trade at Leicester, and had his initial experience with iron and steel. Two years later he was working at his trade for $50 a year, his board and clothing and twelve weeks of schooling. He stayed with his employer until he was twenty, when he went to Millbury, still working as a blacksmith, first as an employee, and then manufacturing plows on his own account.
Daniel Waldo of Worcester recognized the worth of this young man, and loaned him the money, without security, to set himself up in his own shop.
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In 1819 he was making ramrods, first in Millbury, then in Worcester, and the following year began the manufacture of machinery and lead pipe. In his shop were built the first condenser and long-roll spinning jack in America.
Soon afterward, the firm, Washburn & Goddard, started the manufacture of wire and wood screws in a mill at Northville, the two branches of business being kept separate, Washburn & Goddard producing the wire, their asso- ciates the screws. The screw business was sold out in 1836 and was removed to Providence and finally became a part of the American Screw Company.
In 1835 the firm was dissolved and Mr. Washburn continued the manufac- ture of wire in a three-story building on the site of the present North Works of the American Steel & Wire Company on Grove Street. His twin brother Charles, who had been practicing law in Harrison, Maine, joined him, and they were partners for a number of years.
In the meantime Mr. Washburn had invented the wire block, a device which revolutionized the drawing of wire. A rolling mill was erected at Quinsigamond, the beginning of the present-day South Works, and upon the dissolution of the partnership this went to Charles as his share. Philip L. Moen, Ichabod Washburn's son-in-law, entered the business, Mr. Washburn spent much of his time experimenting in the tempering of wire, and at the suggestion of Chickering, the piano manufacturer, produced samples of piano wire. His piano wire proved equal to the imported article and from that time the manufacture of steel wires for musical instruments of all kinds was car- ried on in Worcester. In July, 1859, the Washburn works employed one hundred and twenty men and produced three tons of wire a day. In 1863 Mr. Washburn and his partner built a cotton mill, which they operated for about ten years, producing yarn sufficient to cover four tons of crinoline wire daily. Finally, in 1888, we find the name of the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing established, and its plants employing three thousand men. They grew to be the greatest in the world for the manufacture of wire specialties, as distinguished from tonnage products, such as telegraph and telephone wire and barb wire. The company was merged into the American Steel & Wire Company, under whose management the works have maintained the high standards established by their founder.
When Ichabod Washburn was young, a cask of English wire supplied this country for a year. The first coarse wire machine that he ever saw "was one of self-acting pincers, drawing out about a foot, then passing back and draw- ing out another foot. So crude and ill-adapted for the work was the machine that no man could draw on it more than fifty pounds a day. We improved on this machine so as to draw out about fifteen feet at each pass, increasing
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the product at least tenfold. We soon, however," writes Mr. Washburn in his autobiography in 1866, "substituted the drawing block, which has never been since improved. With this a man can conveniently get off twenty-five hundred pounds a day. Other important improvements have since been made, aside from the drawing block, which I do not claim, both in coarse and fine wire-drawing, as also in the annealing process."
Mr. Washburn was active in the anti-slavery movement, and in 1859 was treasurer of the Church Anti-Slavery Society. In 1860 he was State Senator.
He was a strong believer in total abstinence. His mansion on Summer Street was the first in New England to be erected without the use of ardent spirits, and it is related that it was only with the greatest difficulty that he was able to get artisans who were willing to substitute lemonade, crackers and cheese for the accustomed rum. Only by offering higher than usual wages was he able to accomplish his purpose.
To the end of his life he gave systematically and generously according to his income, to charity, church and public enterprises. He made the building of Worcester Mechanics Hall possible by contributing $25,000 and was one of the promoters of the old Bay State House in order to have an adequate hotel in the city. In memory of two daughters, he founded Memorial Hos- pital. He gave to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute the Washburn Shops and must be counted among the founders of that institution. He founded the Mission Chapel and the Free Dispensary, and was the founder and chief donor of the Home for Aged Women in Worcester.
Eli Whitney, Inventor of the Cotton Gin, Which Revolutionized American Industry and Stimulated Negro Slavery Which Was To Become National Menace. 1765-1825-Eli Whitney was born in West- boro in 1765 and was graduated from Yale College in 1792. Going to Georgia in that year, he became a member of the household of General Nathanael Greene's widow. This lady quickly recognized Eli Whitney's mechanical and inventive genius. Through her he met several large Southern planters whose discussions, regarding the desirability of a machine able to separate the short staple cotton from its seed, aroused his interest in this important problem. In a short space of time and using only the primitive plantation tools available to him, he constructed such a machine. Though it has been improved since then, its fundamental principles are still used in modern cotton gins. This invention revolutionized the cotton industry and had a far reaching effect on the economic industrial and social life and development of the South and, indeed, the whole country. Even the first crude gin built by Mr. Whitney is reported to have done in one day the work
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that previously required the handwork of 1,000 women. It was the Whitney Cotton Gin that raised cotton to its powerful position as an economic factor and thus, at least indirectly, it had a tremendous influence in reviving the then dying institution of slavery and in creating the conditions that eventually led to the Civil War.
The first model apparently was stolen, but another was soon built, and on it a patent was granted to Eli Whitney on March 14, 1794. He formed a partnership with Phineas Miller, one of his college friends and later the second husband of General Greene's widow, for the manufacture of gins. Their first factory, built at New Haven, Connecticut, was burned in March, 1795. Other difficulties, too, beset the young inventor. The demand for gins became so large that it could not be filled, and many machines were built by a country blacksmith, infringing on the Whitney patent. Mr. Whitney spent much time, effort and money in fighting these and other infringements, and the validity of his patent was not finally settled until 1807. His financial returns from his invention fell far below his just expectations, and even some of the Southern states, who had made contracts with him through their Legislatures, failed to keep them or at least long delayed their fulfillment. When, in 1812, Mr. Whitney petitioned Congress to extend his patent, this petition was denied, largely as the result of the opposition on the part of the members from the cotton-growing states.
In the meantime Mr. Whitney had turned his inventive genius to other problems and established himself in the manufacture of fire-arms in New Haven, where he filled important government contracts during the War of 1812. In this new field he again gave many evidences of the versatility of his inventive genius. He died at New Haven on January 8, 1825.
Whitney's fame today is undisputed. Even in his own times his talents found many admirers. Robert Fulton said of him: "Arkwright, Watt, and Whitney were the three men that did most for mankind of any of their con- temporaries," while Macaulay wrote: "What Peter the Great did to make Russia dominant, Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton-gin has more than equalled in its relation to the power and progress of the United States."
INDEX
INDEX
Abbott, Jacob, Rev., 757. Abbott, John Stevens Cabot, 757. Abbott's tavern, 399. Abenaki War, 127. Abercrombie, James, Gen., 185.
Abolitionists, see Anti-Slavery Socicty : see Civil War, Dark Days before the; see Slavery, Negro. Acadia, 129, 175, 185-89.
Acadians, Exile of, 185-89, 478.
Act of Indemnity, 274. Acton, Mass., 494, 529, 539.
Adams, Abigail, 674.
Adams, Benjamin, 575, 603.
Adams, Charles Francis, 693.
Adams, Herbert, 758.
Adams, John, 143, 190, 197, 208, 294, 295, 296, 396, 568, 687. Adams, John Quincy, 425.
Adams, John Quincy, Mrs., 382.
Adams, Samuel, 204, 207, 758.
"Adams' Army," 309.
Africa, 163, 164, 165, 166.
Agate, Mr., 349.
Agricultural Associates of Shrewsbury, 424. Agricultural Associates of Worcester, 424.
Agricultural Bureau of Worcester Cham- ber of Commerce, 427, 428.
Agriculture, 422-28. Aiken, Alfred L., Mrs., 737.
Aiken, David, 565. Air Line Railroad, 536.
Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of, 18I. Alard Family, III. Albany, N. Y., 89, 94, 493, 496, 497, 498, 505, 533, 534, 654.
Albany & West Stockbridge Railroad, 534. Aldcrsy, Mr., 560. Aldrich, Charles Francis, 571, 576. Aldrich, P. Emory, 576. Aldrich, author, 475. Alfalfa Club, Worcester County, 427, 428. Allen, Charles, 429, 430, 431, 565, 577, 603, 740, 758. Allen, George, Rev., 332, 432. Allen, Joseph, 258, 602. Allen Hill, II. Altitudes of towns, 10-13.
American Antiquarian Society, 174, 324, 334, 345, 354, 380, 500, 520, 579, 662.
American Expeditionary Forces, 727, 729, 743.
American Political Society, 208-10.
American Temperance House, 402, 435.
Amherst, Jeffrey, Sir, 185.
Amherst, Mass., 493, 494.
Amidon, Colonel, 300, 301.
Amusements, old-time, 358.
Andover, Mass., 497.
Andrew, John Albion, Gov., 447, 448, 451, 454. Andrews, Samuel, 196.
Andros, Edmund, Sir, 474, 486, 558.
Androscoggin River, 127, 128.
Angell, Charles A., 638.
Animals, wild, 9, 10, 13-16, 32, 41, 360, 385, 386, 543, 546, 547, 552, 555.
Annapolis, Md., 449, 450.
Anne, Queen, 166; also see Queen Anne's War.
Anson, Admiral, 176.
Anti-Monopoly Acts of 1779, 304.
Antiquarian Hall, 338, 339.
Anti-Slavery Society, 440.
Appalachian Mountain Club, 545.
Appleton, Joseph, Rev., 462.
Appleton, Thomas, Rev., 462.
Appleton, Wisconsin, 640.
Appomattox Courthouse, 445.
April fool jokes, 398. Area of towns, 10-13. Area of Worcester County, 3.
Arkwright, Richard, 637.
Armine, Mary, Lady, 51, 52.
Armstrong, David W., 738.
Armstrong, John R., Rev., 469. Articles of Confederation, 287.
Asbury, Francis, Rev., 472. Ashburnham, Mass., 137, 140, 150, 155, 400, 430, 454, 493, 495, 496, 497, 512, 529, 546, 547, 548, 648. Ashburnham, altitudes and area, II. Ashburnham, incorporation and naming, 152.
Ashburnham, population, 18, 454, 648, 754.
Ashby, Mass., 140, 155, 497, 546, 659. Ashfield, Mass., 354-68. Ashland, Mass., 165. Asnebumskit Mountain, 4, 12.
Assabet Hill, 12.
Assabet River, 6.
Assawomset Pond, 62.
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Associated Committee of Wild Life Con- servation, 546. Associated Press, 589. Asylum, State Lunatic, 149.
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad, 5II. Athenaeum, Boston, 142. Atherton, Joshua, 572, 573.
Athol, Mass., 132, 137, 140, 150, 158, 182, 260, 426, 452, 454, 493, 495, 495, 497, 506, 529, 540, 548, 555, 586, 591, 601, 605, 638, 648, 653.
Athol, altitudes and area, II.
Athol, incorporation and naming, 152.
Athol, population, 18, 454, 648, 754.
Attorneys, see Lawyers.
Atwood, Wallace A., 703.
Aubrey, Lieut., 135, 236.
Auburn, Mass., 117, 171, 454, 535, 566, 648, 653.
Auburn, altitudes and area, II.
Auburn, incorporation and naming, 152.
Auburn, population, 18, 454, 648, 754.
Audubon Society, 545, 547.
Austin, Jane (Goodwin), Mrs., 677, 759.
Austin, Loring H., 759.
Austin, Rev., 313.
Automobiles, 408, 482, 507, 511, 540, 541.
Ayer, Mass., 428.
Ayres, John, 117.
Babcock, Jason, 132.
Babcock & Co., 416.
Babies, crying, cure for, 40I.
Bacon, Henry, 576.
Bacon, Peter Child, 433, 575, 576.
Bacon's Rebellion, 335.
Badger and Porter's Stage Register, 496.
Bad Luck Pond, 525.
Bagley, Frederick P., Mrs., 674, 682.
Bailey, Frederick W., Rev., 475.
Baker, Charles, Mrs., 737.
Baker, Emerson W., 576.
Baker, Samuel, 171, 216, 225, 292, 294, 574.
Baker, Thomas M., 292.
Baker, City Marshal, 435.
Balch, Capt., 31I.
Baldwin, Charles C., 582.
Baldwin, Christopher Columbus, diary 01, 324-43, 500, 501, 531.
Baldwin, Eden Augustin, 340.
Baldwin, Jeduthan, 216, 225.
Baldwin, John D., 582.
Baldwin, John S., 582.
Baldwin, Jonathan, 225.
Baldwin, Samuel, 225.
Baldwinsville, Mass., 13, 324, 540, 604.
Ball, Michar R., 495. Ball, Dr., 202. Ball Hill, 12. Ballard Hill, 12.
Ball's Bluff, battle at, 450.
Baltimore, Md., 449, 450, 586.
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 530.
Bancroft, Aaron, Rev. Dr., 310, 326, 332, 333, 336, 339, 470, 602, 690, 764. Bancroft, George, 26, 28, 29, 30, 48, 50, 53, 128, 130, 143, 166, 186, 190, 207, 213, 230, 764. Bancroft, Lucretia, 339.
Bancroft, Sarah, 339.
Bancroft Hill, 13.
Bangs, Anson, Rev., 468.
Bangs, Edward, 575.
Bangs, Edward D., 424.
Banks, 321, 322, 593-605.
Baptist School, 340.
Baquag River, 92.
Barber Hill, II.
Barbers Crossing, 425, 426.
Bar Harbor, Maine, 537.
Barnes, Esquire, 247, 248.
Barnstable County, 134.
Barrack in Rutland, 234.
Barre, Isaac, Sir, 152, 184.
Barre, Mass., 137, 150, 163, 165, 169, 170, 324, 325, 327, 414, 426, 452, 454, 493, 5II, 513, 536, 537, 540, 548, 586, 591, 600, 601, 604, 648, 652, 691.
Barre, altitudes and area, II.
Barre, incorporation and naming, 152.
Barre, population, 18, 192, 325, 454, 648, 754. Barre & Worcester Railroad chartered, 536.
Barrett, James, 228.
Barrett, Mrs., 284.
Barter, 408, 409, 517.
Bartholomew, S. D., 583. Bartlett, Abijah, 119.
Bartlett, Halleck, 739.
Bartlett, Miss, 326.
Bartlett Hill, 12.
Barton, Charles A., 739.
Barton, William E., 439.
Barton, Clara, 448, 449, 651, 676, 678, 682, 738, 756, 760.
Barton, Ira M., 474, 575.
Barton, Stephen, 760.
Bashoba Apple Packing Association, 428.
Batchelder, Frank Roe, 742.
Batcheller Hill, 12.
Batchelor, Breed, 201.
Bates, A. J., 638.
Bates, Joseph N., Dr., 452.
Bath, England, 483.
Bath, John, 619.
Beaman, Capt., 201, 202.
Bean Porridge Hill, 13.
Beaven, Thomas D., Rt .- Rev., 480, 481 698. Bee Hill, 12.
Beech Hill, 13. Beecher, William, 635.
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Beers, Capt., 79, 89. Belknap, Jeremy, 292. Bell, the Old Plantation, 445. Bellingham, Mass., 117, 536, 666. Bellomont, Earl of (Richard Coote), III, 128. Bellows Falls, Vt., 540.
Bellows' tavern, 147.
Bemis, Edmund, Lieut., 180.
Bennett, George, 80. Bennett, English traveler, 486. Bennington, Vt., 496.
Benson, Benoni, 216.
Bent, Silas, 285. Bentley, Dr., 322. Bentley, William, Rev., 470. Benwell, Harry A., 744.
Berkshire County, Mass., 134, 258, 272. 517, 565, 665. Berkshire Hills, 552, 610. Berlin, Mass., 140, 171, 452, 454, 495, 566, 643, 648. Berlin, altitudes and area, II.
Berlin, incorporation and naming, 153.
Berlin, population, 18, 454, 648, 754.
Bernard, Francis, Gov., 137, 161.
Bernon, Gabriel, 108, 109.
Beza and Marot, hymns of, IIO.
Bible, Indian, 50, 53, 65.
Bickford Hill, II. Bigelow, Abbie A., Mrs., 474. Bigelow, Daniel, 572, 581. Bigelow, David, 292, 688. Bigelow, Erastus Brigham, 611, 620, 634, 766. Bigelow, George Tyler, 565.
Bigelow, Helen, 326.
Bigelow, Horatio N. and sons, 634, 766.
Bigelow, J. H., 611.
Bigelow, Jabez, 61I.
Bigelow, John, 116. Bigelow, Joshua, 209, 210, 216, 225.
Bigelow, Lewis, 326. Bigelow, Samuel, 628. Bigelow, Timothy, 168, 195, 196, 209, 219, 224, 225, 227, 232, 238, 242, 450, 569, 580, 767. Bigelow, William, 225. Bill collecting, 420. Billerica, Mass., 460. Billings, Edith, 739.
Biographies of Great Men and Women of Worcester County : Abbott, John Stevens Cabot, 757. Adams, Herbert, 758 Allen, Charles, 758 Austin, Jane (Goodwin), 759
Bancroft, George, 764 Barton, Clara, 760 Bigelow, Erastus Brigham, 766
Bigelow, Timothy, 767 Boynton, John, 771
Bullock, Alexander Hamilton, 771 Burbank, Luther, 772 Burritt, Elihu, 776 Clark, Jonas Gilman, 779 Crompton, George, 780
Davis, John, 781 Devens, Charles, 770 Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 782
Earle, Alice Morse, 785 Earle, Ralph, 785
Edwards, Victor E., 815 Fitton, James, Rev., 788
Forbush, Edward Howe, 789
Foster, Dwight, 790 Gookin, Daniel, 790
Gough, John B., 795 Green, Andrew Haswell, 796
Hale, Edward Everett, 797
Hawes, Russell L., 797
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 798
Hoar, George Frisbie, 800
Howe, Elias, Jr., 808 Lincoln, Enoch, 813
Lincoln, Levi, Sr., 809
Lincoln, Levi, Jr., 812
Lincoln, William, 813
Miles, Nelson A., 813
Morgan, Charles H., 815
Morton, William Thompson Green, 819
Norton, Charles H., 820
O'Connor, Andrew, 824
Perkins, Frances, 824
Rugg, Arthur Prentice, 825
Salisbury, Stephen, Ist, 2d, and 3d, 826
Slater, Samuel, 822
Stone, Lucy, 826
Thayer, Eli, 829 Thomas, Isaiah, 830
Walsh, David I., 834
Ward, Artemas, 834
Washburn, Emory, 850
Washburn, Ichabod, 851 Whitney, Eli, 853. Bird, William H., 618.
Birds, 335, 543, 544, 545, 546, 547, 555, 556. Also see animals. Biscay, Bay of, 112.
Bisco Hill, II.
Bishop, Henry Walker, 565.
Black, Archibald, 328.
Black, John, 292.
Black Lead Hills, 346, 347.
Black Rock, Conn., 501. Blacksmiths boycott Tories, 224, 225.
Blackstone, William, Rev., 153.
Blackstone, Mass., 157, 454, 523, 535, 566, 576, 585, 586, 599, 648, 654.
Blackstone, altitudes and area, II. Blackstone, incorporation and naming, 153. Blackstone, population, 18, 454, 648, 754.
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Blackstone Canal, 19, 325, 351, 457, 499, 522-29, 607.
Blackstone River, 6, 22, 64, 499, 525, 535, 644. Blackstone & Southbridge Railroad, 535. Blackwell, Lucy Stone, 677, 681.
Blake, Elias, 469.
Blake, Francis, 416, 575, 582, 594.
Blake, George C., 452.
Blake, of Westboro, 336.
Blake Hill, 13.
Blanchard, Thomas, 620.
Bliss, Daniel, 572, 573.
Bliss, Jesse, 603.
Blodgett, B. F., 627, 630.
Blondet, Rev., 462.
Blood, Oliver H., Dr., 319, 336.
Bloody Brook, 79.
Bloss, Harry H., 592.
Board of Bar Examiners, 571.
"Body of Liberties," 167.
Boice, James, 228.
Bolton, Mass., 140, 150, 153, 425, 452, 454, 495, 537, 566, 643, 648.
Bolton, altitudes and area, II.
Bolton, incorporation and naming, 154.
Bolton, population, 18, 192, 454, 648, 754.
Bond, Henry, 225.
Bond, Moses, 319.
Bondet, Rev., 108.
Bonney, Carl, 739.
Books, advertisement of, 417, 418.
Booth. George F., Mrs., 737.
Booth, George Francis, 579, 584, 587, 588.
Booth, Junius Brutus, 330.
Bootleggers, 200, 201.
Boots, high-top, 398.
Boots with pointed toes, 329.
Boston, Mass., 79, 81, 85, 101, 108, 12I,
137. 145, 166, 179, 184, 186, 194, 195, 197. 206, 208, 223, 282, 291, 330, 332, 341, 349, 353, 376, 377, 380, 386, 389, 395, 414, 415, 433, 436, 439, 442, 447, 451, 458, 482, 484, 486-97, 502, 508, 510, 5II, 512, 517, 523, 524, 528, 530, 531, 532, 533, 535, 536, 537, 538, 540, 541, 546, 552, 558, 561, 562, 570, 579, 580, 582, 585, 586, 589, 593, 595, 597, 598, 599, 600, '06, 607, 609, 628, 647, 651, 656, 662, 663, 665, 668, 688, 696, 704. Boston Hill, 13.
Boston Massacre of 1770, 203, 206.
"Boston Pamphlet," 204. Boston Port Bill, 207.
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