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Hopkins, Stephen, 37, 143, 145, 148-49, 183, 189, 190, 209, 218-19, 222, 225, 234-37, 240-41, 243, 259, 262, 270, 304, 306, 309, 310-II, 319, 333, 340, 351-56, 358, 378, 385, 398, 402, 417, 440, 744, 816, 1060-61, 1071, 1082, 1195. Hoppin family, 1053, 1055, 1064-65, 1093, 1095. Horse-cars, 806, 830-31, 840, 842, 846, 1178, 1187. Hospitals, 1030-31, 1034-35, 1108, 1198. Butler, 594, 716, 1034, 1045. Crawford Allen, 1049.
Homeopathic, 1035-36, 1043, 1130.
Lying-in, 1035, 1049.
Miriam, 1043.
Newport, 1035. Newport Naval, 1042.
Notre Dame, 1043.
Pawtucket Memorial, 1042.
Providence City, 1041.
Rhode Island, 1034-35, 1044.
St. Francis home for Consumptives, 1045.
St. Joseph's, 1035, 1045.
South County, 1043.
State for Mental Diseases, 724, 1034, 1045. State Sanatorium, 1041, 1188.
Twentieth Century, 1042.
Westerly, 1043. Woonsocket, 1035, 1044.
Howard, Henry, 643, 649, 717, 1093.
Howell, David, 349, 360-69, 370-71, 376, 393, 466, 744, 960, 1195-96. Howland, John, 265, 281-86, 297, 391, 418-19, 441, 529, 788, 856, 1060-61, 1071, 1196.
Howland, Richard S., 658, 1095-97, 1099, 1108-09. Hunger march, 42.
Hutchinson, Anne, 24-25, 49, 50-51, 117, 907, 1007, 1060, 1125-26, 1195. See Anne Marbury. Hutchinson, William, 73.
"Ill News from New England," 26, 1059. Immigration, 198, 534, 581-82, 595, 644, 653, 704, 756, 758, 761, 798, 1016, 1018, 1129, 1145, 1147-49, 1151-55, 1157-58, 1161-62, 1185, I 194-95. Impeachment of President Johnson, 643, 691.
Impressment of seamen, 237-39, 240, 273, 443-48, 561. Independence Day, 556, 946. Independent executive, 634, 663. India Point, 514, 1157. Indian trails, 821, 822.
Indians, 15, 33, 35, 44, 106, 198, 201, 351, 412, 648, 1059, 1097, 1125-27, 1147, 1167, 1176-77, 1183. Alexander. See Wamsutta.
Canonchet, 14, 39, 40-43. Canonicus, 14, 22, 33-36. King Tom, 44. Massasoit, 14, 22, 33-34.
Metacom, 13-14, 39. And see Philip. Mianthonomah, 14, 22, 33, 35-37. Mixan, 38.
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Mohicans, 33, 36, 41. Narragansetts, 33, 34, 40, 51, 1166, 1183.
Ninigret, 39, 40-41, 44.
Oneco, 43.
Pequots, 33-34, 36, 51, 1125.
Pessacus, 38-39, 40.
Philip, 13, 22, 39, 42-43, 1167. And see Metacom.
Pomham, 36, 41, 95.
Queen Esther, 45.
Samoset, 33. Sassacus, 33, 35. Soconoco, 36.
Squanto, 33. Uncas, 33-35, 37-39. Weetamoe, 1168.
Wamsutta, 14.
Initiative and referendum, 82, 88, 94, 99, 161, 201, 373-74, 382, 418, 465-66, 468, 474, 477, 479, 486, 499, 579, 594, 604, 612-13, 641, 646-47, 653. 655, 672, 680, 698, 731, 784, 844, 1132, 1146, 1183, 1187-89,
Industrial revolution, chapter XIX, 383, 408, 572, 826, 1128-29, 1130, II47, 1184-85.
Industry, chapter XXIX, 535, 673.
Cotton textile, 798, 861-66, 891, 1185. Southern competition, 764, 865.
Finishing textiles, 518, 865.
Iron and steel, 114, 188, 233, 245, 295, 399, 519, 535, 861, 869, 870-74, 891, 912, 984, 1109, 1184, 1186.
Jewelry and silversmithing, 535, 862, 874-75, 891-92, 910, 912, 985, 1057.
Miscellaneous textiles, 863, 868.
Printcloths, 518, 521, 798, 862.
Rayon and silk fabrics, 868-69.
Rubber shoes and other rubber goods, 879, 880. Shipbuilding, 112, 402, 513, 781, 1178.
Spermacetti, 399, 402, 513.
Textile machinery, 399, 516, 519, 861, 891, 984, 1184.
Textiles generally, 405, 408, 514-16, 798, 806, 985, 1109, 1148-49, 1184-85.
Tools and machinery, 114, 869, 870-74. Various unclassified manufactures, 880-84. Woolen and worstcds, 518, 528, 534, 861, 866-68, 1186. Inns and taverns, III.
Insurance, 526, 783, 785-86, 791-92, 816-19, 910.
Irish, 581-82, 755-56, 758, 761, 1016, 1147, 1149, 1150-54, 1157-59. Irish discoverers of Rhode Island, II.
Irrepealable laws, 675, 680.
Irrepressible conflict, 50.
Italians, 1019, 1122, 1150, 1154-55, 1157, 1159.
Jackson, Andrew, 430, 451, 453, 459, 563, 566-67, 573, 795-97, 995, 1084, 1086, 1092, 1150, 1164. Japan, 463-64.
Jay Treaty, 445-46, 465, 561-62.
Jefferson, Thomas, 116, 259, 370, 380-82, 447-48, 459, 461, 562-63, 792, 1051, 1062, 1164.
Jenckes family, 114, 188, 531, 1195.
Jenckes, Joseph, 180, 205, 209, 217, 225. Jenckes, Thomas, 692-94, 1195. Jitneys, 683, 851.
Johnnycake, and Johnnycake Trail, 889, 1060, 1065, II68.
Jones, William, 449, 451, 459, 564. Judiciary Act, 672.
Judiciary, independent and separate, 384, 393, 472, 478, 508, 549, 561, 576, 592, 641, 672, 741-42, 744-49, 753, 779, 1185, 1193. Jurors and jury, 75, 77, 85, 229, 235, 386, 472, 487, 680, 743, 779, 955, 959. Change of venue, 489, 490, 753. Directed verdict, 754. Women as jurors, 728, 1132. Jury Commissioner, 683, 726, 728-29.
Kansas and Nebraska, 581, 588-89, 590-91. Kentish Guards, 293.
Kentucky resolutions, 448, 561, 565.
"Key to Language of America," 22, 1059.
King Philip's War, 20, 34, 39, 129, 899, 1009, 1060, 1183. See Indians.
King, Samuel Ward, 436, 490-96, 499, 502, 509, 571, 657.
King's Providence, 60, 61, 101, 160, 907.
Kingsbury, John, 964, 996-97, 1075.
Knights, B. B. and R., 863, 1078, 1195.
Ladd, Herbert W., 660, 717-18, 968, 1055, 1186.
Lafayette, Marquis, 288, 292, 324, 326, 329, 330, 342, 568, 1122.
Lake Erie, battle of, 453-55, 1033, 1117, 1164, 1185. Land tenure, 22, 68-69, 77, 98, 594.
Language question, 1153, 1156, 1160, 1162, 1190. And see Americanization and Peck law.
Law and order, an issue, 119I.
Laws, printing of, 118, 167, 173-74, 177, 187, 213.
League of Women Voters, 1135.
Lee, Charles, 282-83, 289, 299, 300, 312-13, 317, 331. Lee's oath, 300.
Liberty loans, 1116.
"Liberty" sloop, 248, 273.
Liberty trees, 249, 250, 1083.
Libraries, 120, 539, 547, 552, 557, 600, 783, 933, 949, 954, 972, 986, 1069-79, 1196-97.
Athenaum, 1052, 1056, 1058, 1071-73, 1075, 1079. John Carter Brown, 17, 972.
Law Library, 421, 1079.
Medical Library, 1034.
Providence Library, 1071-72, 1083.
Providence Public, 1053, 1071, 1076-78.
Redwood, 124, 421, 1027, 1049, 1050-52, 1057, 1069, 1070, 1075, 1079, 1I47. State Library, 595, 1079. Traveling libraries, 1072, 1078, 1140.
License laws and prohibition, 72, 106, III, 577, 579, 643, 648-49, 650-52, 655, 694, 715, 783, 787, 928-29, 1091, 1101, 1186, 1191, 1198. Lighting of streets, 789, 915-16. Limitations, statute of, 206, 385, 394, 396, 472, 576. Lincoln, Abraham, 591, 596, 598-99, 600-01, 604, 606, 611, 613, 636, 639, 691-92, 975, 1164, 1185. Rhode Island ancestry of, 52. Lippitt, Christopher, 281, 284, 311-12.
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Lippitt, Henry, 642, 651, 693, 717, 863, 1053, 1093, 1195. Lippitt, Henry F., 706-07, 1190. Literature of Rhode Island, 1064. Dramas, 1068.
Essays, 1067. Historical, 1059. Juveniles, 1066. Law and jurisprudence, 1062. Novels, 1068.
Poems, 1066. Scientific works, 1063. Short stories, 1067.
Lithuanians, 1019, 1159. Little Platoon, 112I.
Lobbying, 677-78.
Long Wharf, 338, 400, 413, 421, 825, 1029, 1136, II.42.
Lotteries, 213-14, 219, 224, 264, 333, 340-41, 412- 415, 420-21, 423, 425, 432-35, 437, 440, 522, 781-82, 788, 822-23, 961-62, 992, 996, 1013, 1029, 1071. Louisburg, capture of, 140, 14I. Lunch carts, 930.
Luther v's. Borden, 489, 503-04.
MacSparran, James, 117, 120, 1012, 1028, 1049. Madison, James, 362, 382, 445, 449, 458-59, 561, 563, 565, 571, 749, 1051, 1080.
"Maidstone," 239, 273, 443.
Main Street, 915, 917.
Majority and plurality elections, 477, 500, 521, 564, 570, 575, 643, 651, 657, 663-64, 696-97, 1185- 1186.
Malbone, Edward, 125, 985, 1049, 1051-52, 1058. Malbone, Godfrey, 135, 136. Mann, Horace, 964.
Manning, James, 335, 371-72, 417, 421, 440, 959, 960-61, 974, 991, 993, 995, 1049, 1060.
Marauders, 843.
Marbury, Anne, 24, 1125, 1127. See Anne Hutch- inson.
Marine Corps of Artillery, 599, 601, 626, 715, IIII. Marine disasters-
"Ann and Hope," 405-07, 517.
"Larchmont," 847. "Lexington," 833. "Mackinack," 847. "Metis," 834. Two privateers, 136. Marshall, John, 382, 393, 746, 753.
Martin, Frederick R., 701. Maxcy, Jonathan, 962-63. May Deal, 652, 658, 1186.
McFarland, Francis, Rt. Rev., 1001, 1018, 1021, 1028.
McGuinness, Edwin D., 658, 666, 830.
McVickar, William, Rt. Rev., 1008, 1014, 1023, 1108.
Medicine and surgery, chapter XXXVI. Early doctors, 1027, 1029. Four horsemen, 1030, 1032, 1046. Medical Library, 1034. Medical School, 1032-33. Medical societies- Providence, 1034.
Rhode Island, 1028, 1033-36, 1038, 1077, 1079. Schools of medicine, 1035, 1038-39, 1040. State Board of Health, 1030.
Memorial Day, 638, 946. See Decoration Day. Mercantile theory, 157, 177, 185, 188, 514, 1183. Messer, Asa, 428, 569, 745, 962-64.
Metcalf, Jesse H., 710-11, 1044, 1096, 1191, 1195. Metropolitan Parks, 724-25, 735, 785, 1067, 1169, 1170, 1188. Mexican War, 459, 1185. Tabasco, 460-61.
Million dollar barage, 1119, 1120.
Militia, 72, 74, 105, 165, 174, 194, 199, 203-04, 214, 217, 251, 263, 265, 273, 293-95, 312, 316, 324, 339, 384, 446, 449, 450, 472, 493, 599, 604, 670, 713, 716, 740, 783-84, 1107.
Minority, government by, 473, 482.
Minutemen, 294-95, 323, 1116.
Missouri Compromise, 515, 565, 587-89, 591, 596.
Molasses Act, 245.
Monopolists and profiteers, 310-11, 319, 335, 340- 341, 900. Monroe, James, 286, 525, 563, 566, 825, 1051-52, 1092. Morrill Act, 612, 653, 974-78. Morrill, Justin, 967, 974, 979.
Narragansett Electric, 858.
Narragansett pacers, 886.
Narragansett patent, 79.
Narragansett Pier, 692, 1166, 1173.
Naturalization, 91, 444, 644, 1114, 1148, 1150, 1157.
"Nautilus," 443, 445.
Navy, Rhode Island, 268, 293, 295.
New England army, 319.
New England Southern Railway, 849, 1189.
"New Shoreham," steamer, 855-56.
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, 829, 837, 843, 847, 849, 850-51, 853, 1187.
Newport, 27, 73-74. Artillery, 140, 496, 599.
Historical Association, 1049, 1057, 1062, 1074, 1079. Massacre, 245, 273.
Occupation of by British, 286. Resistance to British, 133, 178, 238, 241.
Newspapers, chapter XXXVIII, 918-19, 930. "American and Gazette," 422-24, 994, 1086-87.
"Bulletin," 613, 700, 1089, 1091, 1093-94.
Daily, 1088, 1091. Democratic, 1089, 1090, IIOI.
Evening papers, 1089. "Gazette," Providence, 227, 241, 244, 248, 265, 350, 366, 368, 376, 562, 909, 960, 991, 1016, 1081-87. "Gazette," Rhode Island, 227, 1081, 1083.
"Journal," 436, 474, 483, 488, 495, 497, 499, 566- 569, 577, 582-84, 586, 613, 634, 654, 658-59, 687, 695, 701-02, 706-08, 729, 754, 763, 765, 798, 827-28, 832, 845, 858, 909, 964-65, 1000, 1068, 1087, 1089, 1090-95, 1097-99, 1100, 1108- 1109, IIIO, III6.
"Journal" Sunday School, 1093-94.
"Mercury," 227, 248-49, 393, 458, 960, 991, 1010, 1081-85. "News," 710, 1096, 1099.
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"News Democrat," 1096. "News-Tribune," 1097. Party newspapers, 1085. "Record," 1094.
Sunday papers, 1098, 1100. "Telegram," 1091, 1094-95, 1097, II00-OI.
"Times," Pawtucket, IIOI. "Tribune," 701, 1095-97, 1100. "Visitor," 1021, 1091, 1100.
Nine Men's Misery, 42.
Nominating convention, 566.
Norse discoverers of Rhode Island, II, 12. Nurses, 1040, 1047, 1142.
Oath of Loyalty, 76, 189, 466, 942. Oaths, opposition to, 167, 192. Oil, 839, 849, 902, 927. Oil, whale, trust, 402, 900.
Old brick schoolhouse, 946, 961.
"Old Grimes," 1053, 1064.
Old Slater Mill, 405.
Old Stone Mill, 12, 117I.
Olney, Jeremiah, 273, 286, 292, 315.
Olney, Steven, 273, 283, 286, 289, 292, 1050.
Omnipotent General Assembly, 105, 181, 393, 465, 481, 713, 745, 1192. Outline of government of Rhode Island, 730, 778. Owen, Daniel, 372, 378-79, 389, 398.
Ownership and sovereignty, distinguished, 22, 33.
One-man cars, 683, 852, 1189.
Opinion of the Nine Lawyers, 489.
O'Reilly, Bernard, Rt. Rev., 585, 999, 1000-0I, 1017-18, 1025. Ormsbee, Elijah, 406-07, 519, 825.
Packets, 525, 824, 832, 846. Padelford, Seth, 595, 642-43, 718.
Panics, 431, 521, 527, 762-63, 791, 795-98, 802, 805- 806, 862-63, 866, 872, 1185-86.
Paper money, 134, 180, 182-83, 202, 215, 218, 264, 293, 299, 310-II, 319, 333, 335-37, 340, 342, 349, 357, 372, 378, 388-89, 394, 396, 525, 535, 559, 744, 781, 813, 1084-85, 1196. Continental notes, 299, 310, 331, 342, 349.
Pardoning power, 576, 593, 641, 713, 760, 1192.
Parsons, Usher, 455, 458, 1032-34, 1038, 1061.
Pay of Assemblymen, 641, 667, 671, 680. Peace conference, 596-97, 691, 1185.
"Peck Bill," 684, 747, 949, 950, 102I.
Peck, Frederick S., 729, 949, 950.
Penn, William, 173.
Pequot War, 33-35. See Indians.
Perry, Christopher R., 444, 461.
Perry, James De Wolf, Rt. Rev., 988, 1023.
Perry, Marsden J., 811, 842, 986, IIOI.
Perry, Matthew G., 460-63, 1060.
Perry, Oliver Hazard, 444, 453-59, 461, 624, 1051- 1052, 1057-58, 1060, 1118, 1164, 1185.
Piecemeal amendment, 475, 669, 671, 1188.
Pirates and privateers, 92, 127, 129, 135-36, 146, 158-59, 166, 279, 296-97, 306, 399, 402, 444, 446, 453, 459, 461, 513-16. Plantations Club, 1140. Pocasset, 24-26.
Poles, 1019, 1158-59. Police commissions, 673, 675, 686, 723, 1187.
Political parties- American, 585-86.
Democratic, 500, 567-68, 573, 577, 579, 591, 598, 611, 642-43, 653-54, 658, 673-74, 1000, 1087, 1089, 1094, 1096, 1134-35, 1150, 1164, 1186- 1187, 1190-92. Federalist, 447, 449, 453, 559, 560, 562-64, 572, 788, 792, 795, 1085-87, 1150.
Free Soil, 577, 586, 591.
Know Nothing, 550, 582, 584, 591, 642, 1000, 1091, 115I.
Law and Order, 500, 576, 1089, 1090.
Liberation, 577.
Liberty, 586, 591.
Progressive, 680, 705, 1187.
Prohibition, 651.
Republican (1), 559, 563-64, 792, 1092.
Republican (2), 568, 591, 598, 643, 651, 654, 673, 691, 1085, 1092, 1094, 1095-97, IIOI, II34-35, 1151, 1186-87, 1190-92.
Royalist, 157.
True American, 563.
Union, 595, 643, 1185.
Whig, 436, 500, 507, 567-68, 571, 573-74, 577, 591, 691, 1092, 1150-51.
Pollution and purification of waters, 735, 790, 901, 903, 1037, 1040.
Popular election of Senators, 707, 1190.
Population, 4, 198, 212, 264, 349, 401, 402, 422-23, 441, 473-76, 530, 535, 556, 595, 644, 646, 667, 716, 749, 789, 790, 798, 846, 856, 886, 888-89, 892, 894, 909, 911-12, 927, 930-31, 938, 957, 1010, 1016, 1030, 1037, 1116, 1149, II51-53, 1155, 1157, 1160, 1194-96.
Segregation of population, 1148, 1152, 1154, 1157- 1158, 1160, 1164, 1194.
Portsmouth Grove, 605, 608.
Portuguese, 1019, 1157-59.
Post-election sessions of Assembly, 671, 675-76.
Post offices and post roads, 196, 268, 358.
Pothier, Aram J., 679, 688-89, 705, 710, 1056, 1191.
Potter, Elisha R. (1), 475, 490-92, 550, 564-65, 567. Potter, Elisha R. (2), 542-44, 547, 549, 550-52, 568, 570, 572, 577, 584, 715, 765, 767, 769, 770-71, 776, 1000, 1060-61, 1072, 1093, 118I.
Potter, Israel, 274-75, 1068.
Potter, Simeon, 137, 256-57, 263, 293, 297, 413, I07I.
Power, Hope, 401-02.
Power loom invented, 406.
Power, Nicholas, 401-02, 1052.
Power, Sarah Helen (Whitman), 1052, 1058, 1064- 66, 1132.
Preparedness parade, IIII, 1189.
Primogeniture, 213, 386, 472, 1129.
Printing commission, 726-27.
Private appropriations an issue, 686.
Proportional representation, 675.
Providence Association of Mechanics and Manu- factures, 387, 418, 429, 432, 544, 571-73, 935, 1071, 1076-77.
Providence Car Trust Company, 770. See Union Company. Providence County Courthouse, 716-17, 784, 1057, 1079. Providence tea party, 265.
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Providence Plantations, 26, 67. Public Health Service, 735, 1036, 1040-41, 1047. Public property, 666, 715, 724. Public relief service, 739. Public utilities, 657, 673, 677, 726, 785-86, 791, 822, 839, 1187. Commission, 683, 725, 737, 851, 858. Puritan vindictiveness, 51, 57, 1126, 1183.
Quasi-judicial powers, 722, 752. Quebec Act, 262, 344. Quidnick Company, 765, 770-71. Quorum of General Assembly reduced, 309, 387, 466. Quo Warranto, 160-62.
Racial solidarity, 1136. Radeke, Mrs. Gustav, 1134, 1142.
Radio and wireless telegraph, 858, 1024, 1098, 1103, III6. Railroad Commissioner, 841. Railroads, 523-24, 535, 582, 798, 826, 828-29, 830, 837, 839, 846, 853, 856, 886-88, 893, 904, 911, 919, 1185, 1187-88.
Randolph, 160, 162, 166-67.
Ranger, Walter E., 943, 949, 957, 977, 989, 1141. Rathom, John R., 701-02, 1056, 1066, 1068, 1097, IIIO.
Representation, apportionment of, 211, 398, 465-66, 473-74, 478-79, 481, 487, 500, 503, 559, 574, 595, 641, 646, 667, 672, 675, 678, 681, 685, 717-18, 731, 1185, 1190, 1193-94.
Restaurants, 929. Retail markets, 920. Revolutionary War, chapters IX, XI, XII, XIII, 1029, 1032, 1122, 1128, 1146, 1148, 1164, 1172, 1184
Army of Observation, 266, 273, 293, 295, 354. Boston, seige of, 223, 267. Brandywine Creek, 287. Bunker Hill, 268, 274-75, 403. Forts Mercer and Mifflin, 287.
Germantown, 287. Harlem Heights, 280-82. Lexington, 273, 1083. Monmouth, 289. Negro regiment, 289, 322, 328. Prescott, capture of, 331. Princeton, 286. Prudence Island, battle of, 301.
Quebec, 275, 277. Red Bank, 287. Rhode Island, battle of, 290, 326. Rhode Island Brigade, 273-74, 278-79, 284. Trenton, 248, 418. Valley Forge, 289, 311, 328. White Plains, 280-82. Yorktown, 292, 344-45, 347, 349, 1084.
Rhode Island Book, 1064-65. Rhode Island Company, 843, 851-52.
Rhode Island Equal Suffrage Association, 1133, II35. Rhode Island Historical Society, 418, 421, 1049, 1052-57, 1062, 1072, 1079. Rhode Island Institute of Instruction, 539, 547, 944, 948, 957, 1060.
Rhode Island Suburban Railway, 831, 837. Rhode Island Suffrage Association, 480, 1131. Right of revolution, 503.
"Rights of Colonies Examined," 234, 241, 356, 1061, IOS2.
Riot at convent, 385, 1000. Roads, 400, 577, 724-26, 729, 737, 784-86, 791, 823- 824, 844, 846, 1175, 1181, 1185, 1188, 1194. State Board of Public Roads, 844. Toll roads, 522, 524, 782, 825-27, 846.
Robbins, Asher, 961, 1065.
Robinson, Ezekiel G., 968-69, 971, 988, 1001, 1063. Rochambeau, Count, 292, 343, 345-46. Rodman, Isaac P., 605, 609, 617, 624, 637.
Roger Williams Park, 840, 1053, 1143, 1170.
Rogers, Horatio, 615-16, 622, 637.
Rogers, William, 960, 974, 995.
Rosecrans, W. A., 837, 1016.
Russians, 1157-59.
Salt, 305, 320, 342. San Souci, Emery J., 682-83, 950, 1056. Scotch, 1147, 1149, 1154, 1157, 1159. Seabury, Samuel, Rt. Rev., IOII.
Sears, Barnas, 964, 967, 1063. Sectionalism, 218, 359, 374, 475, 563, 1194, 1196. Country vs. Town, 374, 388, 392, 1184, 1196. Secession threatened, 379, 1196.
Selective draft, 443, 1112, 1189.
Separation of church and state, 1197.
Separation of houses, General Assembly, 353, 465, 1183, 1192. Separatism, 823, 1145.
September gale, 406, 413, 528-29, 821, 838, 1016, II84-85.
Shays Rebellion, 374, 394. Sharpe, Henry D., 687, 869, 1044, 1096, 1195.
Shopping centres, 907-09, 919.
Shore resorts, 831, 835-36, 1174-75.
Sidepaths, 844, 1188.
"Simplicity's Defence," 57. Sinking funds, 785, 789. Sisson, Henry T., 64, 605, 623-24, 651, 766, 1057.
Skeleton in Armor, 12.
Slate Rock, 23, 1167, 117I.
Slater, Samuel, 399, 405, 414, 516, 519, 530-31, 534- 535, 561-62, 993, 1128-29, 1147, 1181, 1185, 1195.
Smallpox, inoculation and vaccination, 213, 311-12, 349, 625, 955, 1027-29, 1030-31, 1037. Smibert, John, 125, 1049.
Smith, James Y., 610-12, 618, 621, 632-35, 643, 1053. Smith, Richard, 30, 60, 63, III, 156, 161, 907, 1010. Smuggling, 191, 233, 239, 362-63.
Snooping ordinance in Massachusetts, 120, 885. Soldiers' Home, 639, 716, 724, 739, 784, 1187.
Soldier monuments, 636, 1124.
Sons of Liberty, 249, 1128.
Southwick, Solomon, 1070, 1081-82, 1084, 1086.
Sovereignty, 353, 356-57, 361, 369, 370, 379, 383, 421, 448, 451-52, 459, 460, 465, 468, 478, 481, 484-85, 492, 503, 561.
Sowams, 26.
Spanish War, 784, 971, 1105-09, IIII, 1187.
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Montauk Point relief expeditions, 1108. "Vulcan," 1105-07.
Spartan Band, 497. Sports, 1179.
Sprague family, 438, 456, 520-21, 533, 551, 567-69, 570-71, 573, 576, 595, 598-99, 600-04, 609, 612- 615, 634-35, 642, 653-55, 658, 691-92, 695, 754, 761-64, 801-02, 806-09, 830, 834, 863, 865, 872, 875, 968, 1035, 1057, 1088, 1090, 1093, 1131, 1173, 1185-86, 1195. Sprague, Kate Chase, 691, 765, 772, 1173. Sprinklers, 817-19, 861, 870.
"Squirrel," 191, 233, 237.
Stagecoaches, 212, 523, 823, 825, 827-29, 846, 854.
Stage plays forbidden, 230.
Stamp Act, 240-42, 244-45, 351, 960, 1028, 1081, 1083, 1128. Stamp Act Congress, 243, 351.
Stang, William, Rt. Rev., 1020, 1045.
Staples, William, 112, 488, 494, 529, 581, 583-84, 592, 714, 744, 746, 964, 1060-62.
State House, 594, 717, 718, 784-85, 880, 1050-52, 1055-57, 1117, 1132, 1186-87.
State Office Building, 724, 730, 785, 787, 1189.
State piers, 724, 848-49, 1188.
State police, 650, 652, 724, 728, 739, 783, 791, 119I.
State prison, 714-16, 782, 784, 1131-32.
Steamboats, 400, 406-08, 516, 525, 824-26, 832-37, 846-47, 856, 1185. Steam power, 798, 861, 891, 1149.
Stiles, Ezra, 1011-12, 1065, 1172.
Stiness, John H., 666, 672, 680, 693, 698, 767, 769, 771, 773, 1108.
Stockwell, Thomas B., 948, 980-81, 1060-61.
Strikes and lockouts, 669, 674, 683-84, 841, 843, 852, 865, 972, 1094, 1096, 1115, 1187, 1189, 1190.
Stuart, Gilbert, 458, 561, 985, 1049, 1050-52, 1057, 1058, 1060, 1067.
Submarines, IIIO, IIII, III4, 1117, 1189.
Suffrage, 384, 474, 476, 479, 481, 487, 498-99, 500, 503, 534, 574, 592, 604, 611, 641-46, 653-56, 731, 1089, 1132, 1150, 1185-86, 1190, 1192-93. Absentee voting, 611, 641, 708.
Educational qualification, proposed, 592, 667, 672. Property qualification, 102, 208, 219, 465, 471, 476, 478, 481, 484, 574, 579, 645, 655-57, 659, 660, 667, 678-79, 680, 682, 685, 689, 724, 731. Proxy voting, 82, 87, 99, 228, 353, 465, 471, 1183, 1190-93.
Woman suffrage, 645, 651, 653, 655, 682, 695, 704, 1096-97, 1126, 1131-35, 1190, 1193. Sugar Act, 199, 233, 245.
Sullivan, John, 322, 324, 326-27, 329, 330, 333. Sunday laws, 106, 214, 648.
Swedes, 1154, 1157, 1159.
Talbot, Silas, 288, 325-27, 329, 331-32, 443, 1060. Tammany societies, 566.
Tariff, 387, 405, 459, 527-28, 571, 658, 691, 697-98, 798, 864, 866, 918, 969, 1097. "Tartar," colony sloop, 135, 140-45. Tax Commission, 725-26, 734, 785.
Taxation, 103, 185, 191, 195-96, 247, 319, 320, 336- 337, 342, 346-48, 363, 368, 459, 468, 477, 594, 605, 610-12, 642, 648, 666, 781, 783-88, 790-
791, 801-03, 844, 928, 951, 953-54, 1001, III6, 1 189.
Direct taxes, 362, 379.
Dog taxes, 541, 552, 556, 953-54.
Exemption from taxation, 440, 553, 959, 791, 797, 974, 1000-02, 1012.
Federal taxation, 450, 704, 791, III6.
Gasoline tax, 786-87.
Impost, 347-48, 358, 361-63, 370, 372, 781, 1184, I 196.
Inheritance tax, 704, 784, 786.
Poll tax, 196, 362, 364, 379, 433, 474, 541, 556, 592, 611, 641, 655, 953-54, 1186.
Registry tax, 433, 501, 541, 579, 580, 592, 611, 641-42, 655, 1186.
Taxation for churches forbidden, 118.
Taxicabs, 853-56.
'Telegraph and telephone, 858, 920, 1098, 1103.
Ten-hour law, 669, 671, 673, 675, 843, 1187.
Tenure of judges, 581, 744-46.
Ternay, de, Admiral, 343-45.
Test oaths, 384, 394.
Thayer, Simeon, 273, 276, 277, 286, 288, 315.
Theory of revolution, 235, 356.
Thorp, John, 406, 577, 1195.
Three-fifths compromise, 368.
Ticonderoga, 150.
Tockwotton House, 828, 935, 937.
Toleration, 1000, 1007-08, 1059, 1071, 1146-48, 1151, 1160, 1163, 1197-99.
Tories, 309, 322, 330, 338, 385, 415, 484, 1011, 1028, 1 1.46. Topham, John, 276-77, 280.
Toupin, Felix, 684-88, 706, 949, 1190-91.
Trade and commerce, chapter XXXI.
Trading stamps, 925.
Transfers and transfer stations, 673-74, 842-43, 852, 1187.
Transportation, chapter XXVIII, 525, 821.
Treason, 488-89, 504-06, 754.
Trevett vs. Weeden, 384, 392, 466, 744, 745.
Triangular trade route, 40I.
Troy, William G., 706, 708-09.
Trucks, 854, 856, 859.
Trumbull, Jonathan, 320, 323-24, 333, 335.
Tuberculosis, 1037-38, 1041-42, 1045.
Tunnels, 831, 840-41.
Turpin, William, 112, 122.
Tyler, John, 490-93, 503-04, 508-09, 510, 596.
Tyler, William, Rt. Rev., 999, 1017, 1019.
Union Company, 654, 769, 770.
Union proposed, 260-62, 351-52.
Union Railroad Company, 830, 831, 837.
Union station, 829, 830, 834, 849, 1187.
Union Traction and Electric Company, 831, 837.
United Electric Railway, 852.
United Spanish War Veterans, 1123.
"U. S. A." (1776), 305.
Updike, Wilkins, 537-38, 542, 544, 568.
Utter, George H., 676-77, 698, 705, 1055, IIOI.
Valuation of property, 264, 320, 346, 468, 610, 781, 789, 791, 807, 957.
Vane, Sir Harry, 26, 35, 50, 67, 72, 74, 78, 92, 1058.
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Van Zandt, C. C., 643-44, 717, 1061.
Varnum, James M., 267, 273, 275, 280-01, 284, 286- 287, 289, 293, 312-15, 322, 324, 330, 333, 358- 359, 360, 368, 372, 378, 385, 393-94, 398, 401, 440, 745, 960, 963, 992, 1053. Venice of America, 409, 821, 886, 1030. Verrazanno, 7, 14, 15, 33.
Verein, Joshua, et ux., 28, 69, 70, 116, 1007, 1126- II27.
Veterans of Foreign Wars, 1123.
Veto power, 175, 200, 205, 217, 465, 475, 667-68, 672, 678, 681, 684, 686, 713, 719, 732, 741, 747, 796, 950, 1190, 1192-93, Victory loan, 1123.
Voting machines, 665.
Walpole, Horace, 181. Wampum, 781.
Wanton family, 132-34, 175, 179, 180-82, 217, 241, 266, 302, 1009, 1146, 1192. War of 1812, chapter XVII, 564-65, 572, 793, 1064, 1146, 1171, 1185. Ward, Henry, 310, 35I.
Ward, Samuel (1), 182, 191, 216, 225, 239, 240-41, 243, 304, 307, 310. Ward, Samuel (2), 276, 286, 289, 352, 443, 453, 1195. Warren, invasion of, 323. Warwick, Earl of, 75, 77. "Washington," brigantine, 275.
Washington, George, 273, 278-79, 280-81, 283-84, 289, 292, 295-96, 299, 312, 314, 316, 324, 329, 342-47, 349, 350, 376-78, 380-82, 403, 418, 445, 465, 469, 482, 522, 559, 561, 568, 823, 831, 1029, 1050-51, 1057, 1128, 1164. Water for drinking, 789, 856-57, 909, 1037, 1168. Fountain societies, 401.
Water power, 9, 10, 400, 406, 516, 520-22, 535, 798, 824, 861, 1149. Water sports, 1178. Wayland, Francis, 420, 426, 429, 549, 962, 964-67, 969, 971, 988, 1033, 1052, 1056, 1061, 1065, II36-37, 1142 .. Webster, Daniel, 493, 528, 568, 573-74, 591, 595, 1051, 1092, 1150. Weekly payment law, 671.
Wetmore, George P., 655, 679, 697-98, 702-04, 1095, 1097.
Wheaton, Frank, 603, 616, 630-31.
Wheaton, Henry, 473, 963, 1052, 1061-62, 1082.
Wheaton, Levi, 962, 1029, 1031-32.
Whipple, Abraham, 147, 255-56, 267, 278, 297, 306, 317, 322, 401, 1060.
Whitney, Eli, 405, 862. Wickford, 30, 36.
Wilkinson family, 405-07, 519, 584, 795, 861, 869, 1017, 1082, 1085, 1088, 1128, 1195.
Williams, Alfred M., 658, 1055, 1068, 1077, 1095.
Williams, Mary, 68, 1125, 1143. See Mary Bar-
nard.
Williams, Roger, 6-7, 20-24, 29, 30, 33, 35, 37, 40-42, 49, 50-52, 54, 58, 60, 67-69, 70, 73, 75, 79, 80, 82-83, 86, 88, 90, 92-93, 95, 98, 104-05, 109, III, 113, 117, 120, 155, 170, 193, 241, 382, 5II, 520, 545, 585, 637, 694, 821, 824, 885, 907, 928, 959, 973, 1007-09, 1010, 1054, 1058- 1059, 1060, 1064, 1069, 1125-26, 1143, 1145-46, 1149, 1166-67, 1171, 1176, 1178, 1183, 1195, 1197-98. Wilson, Ellery H., 661, 666, 672, 698.
Wilson, Woodrow, 672, 705, IIII, II87-88.
Winslow, Edward, 50, 57.
Winthrop, John, 50, 55, 59, 79, 742, 1125.
Women, activities of, 1125, 1130, 1135-36, 1142.
Women workers in industry, 1116, 1129.
Women's Christian Temperance Union, 651, 1140- II4I. Women's clubs, 1138-39, 1140-42.
Woodley, Rev. Robert, 584, 1016.
Workmen's compensation law, 774, 819.
World War, 344, 443, 791, 851, 855, 869, 873, 973, 978-79, 980-89, 990-91, 1004, 1032, 1056, 1058, 1063, 1066, 1079, 1109-24, 1149, 1150, 1157-58, 1163, 1189. Armistice, 1119, II20.
Battery A, IIII, III8-19.
Battery B, IIII, III9. Battery C, IIII, 1120.
Verdun, 1119, II20-21.
Yankee Division, 1112, III7-19, 1120-21.
Yachting, 1178-79. "Yankee," privateer, 459. Young, Henry H., 616, 637, 1057.
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