Index:The Memorial History of Boston - Vol 1 - 1881.djvu

Title	The Memorial History of Boston, 1
Author	Various Authors
Editor	Justin Winsor
Year	1880
Publisher	James R. Osgood & Company
Location	Boston
Source	djvu
Progress	To be proofread
Transclusion	Index not transcluded or unreviewed
OCLC	4953409

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CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

Frontispiece. Boston, old and new, a topographical map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		Facing titlepage
PREFACE.
The Editor to the Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		v
INTRODUCTION.
The Sources of Boston's History. The Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		xiii
HISTORICAL POEM.
The King's Missive, 1661. John G. Whittier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		xxv
⁠	Illustrations: Boston Town-house, Endicott and Shattuck, xxvii; the Jail Delivery, xxviii; the Quakers on the Common, xxix; the Great Windmill on Snow Hill, xxx tail-piece, xxxii.

Prehistoric Period and Natural History.
⁠
CHAPTER I.
The Geology of Boston and its Environs. Nathaniel Southgate Shaler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		1
CHAPTER II.
The Fauna of Eastern Massachusetts. Joel A. Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		9
	Illustration: The Great Auk, 12.
CHAPTER III.
The Flora of Boston and its Vicinity. Asa Gray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		17
	Illustration: The Great Elm on Boston Common, 21.
Early History.
CHAPTER I.
Early European Voyagers in Massachusetts Bay. George Dexter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		23
⁠	Illustration: A Norse Ship, 25.
CHAPTER II.
The earliest Maps of Massachusetts Bay and Boston Harbor. Justin Winsore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		37
	Illustrations: Cosa's Map (1500), 39; Stephanius's Map (1570), 39; Fernando Columbus's Map (1527), 41; French Map (1542–43), 43; Lok's Map (1582), 44; Hood's Map (1592), 45; Wytfliet's Map (1597), 45; Champlain's Map (1612), 49; Lescarbot's Map (1612), heliotype, 49; John Smith's Map (1614), heliolype, 52; Portrait of Smith, heliotype, 52; Figurative Map (1614), 57; Jacobsz's Map (1621), 5S ; Governor Winthrop's Sketch of Coast, 61.
	Autographs: Champlain, 48; John Smith, 50; Isaac Allerton, 60.
CHAPTER III.
The earliest Explorations and Settlement of Boston Harbor. Charles Francis Adams, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		63
	Illustrations: Squaw Rock, or Squantum Head, 64; Miles Standish, 65; Standish's Sword and a Matchlock, 66; Blackstone's Lot, 84.
	Autographs: Miles Standish, 63; Phinehas Pratt, 70; Ferdinando Gorges, 72; Samuel Maverick, 7S ; Thomas Morton, 82.

The Colonial Period.
CHAPTER I.
The Massachusetts Company. Samuel Foster Haven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		87
	Illustration: Seal of the Council for New England, 92.
	Autogtaph: Joshua Scottow, 97.
CHAPTER II.
Boston Founded. Robert C. Winthrop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		99
	Illustrations: The Winthrop Cup, heliotype, 114; Plan of Ten Hills (1636), heliotype, 114; Winthrop's Fleet, 115; "Trimountaine shall be called Boston," heliotype, 116; St. Botolph's Church, 117; First page of the Town Records, heliotype, 122; Sir Harry Vane, 125; John Winthrop, 137; Letter of John Hampden in fac-simile, 140.
	Autographs: Matthew Cradock, 102; Margaret Winthrop, 104; John Winthrop, 114; John Wilson, 114; Isaac Johnson, 114; Thomas Dudley, 114; Hugh Peter, 124; John Haynes, 124; Harry Vane, 125; Sir Richard Saltonstall, 129; Richard Saltonstall, Jr., 129.
CHAPTER III.
The Puritan Commonwealth. George E. Ellis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		141
⁠	Illustrations: John Cotton, 157; Sir Richard Saltonstall, 183; Recantation of Winlock Christison, in fac-simile, 188.
	Autographs: John Cotton, 157; Samuel Gorton, 170; Roger Williams, 171; William Coddington, 174; William Aspinwall, 175; Edward Rainsford, 175; Thomas Savage, 175; John Underhill, 175; John Wheelwright, 176; John Clarke, 178; Mary Trask, 185; Margaret Smith, 185; William Dyer, 186; Nicholas Upsall, 187; Dorothy Upsall, 187; William Greenough, 1S7; Elizabeth Upsall, 187; Experience Upsall, 187; Susannah Upsall, 1S7.
CHAPTER IV.
The Rise of Dissenting Faiths. Henry W. Foote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		191
	Illustrations: Samuel Willard, heliotype, 208; Cotton Mather, heilotype, 208; Simon Bradstreet, 209; the first King's Chapel, 214.
	Autographs: John Davenport, 193; Thomas Thacher, 194; James Allen, 194, 206; Increase Mather, 194, 206; John Russell, 195; Robert Ratcliffe, 200; John Eliot, 2016; Samuel Phillips, 206; Joshua Moodey, 206; Samuel Willard, 208.
CHAPTER V.
Boston and the Colony. Charles C. Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		217
	Illustration: The Old Aspinwall House, 221.
	Autograph: Robert Keayne, 237.
CHAPTER VI.
The Indians of Eastern Massachusetts. George E. Ellis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		241
	Illustrations: Charles Sprague's Ode (1830), in fac-simile, 246; Indian Deed of Boston, heliotype, 250; John Eliot, the Apostle, 261.
	Autographs: John Mason, 253; Israel Stoughton, 253; Lion Gardiner, 253; Miantonomo, 253; John Eliot, 263.
CHAPTER VII.
Boston and the Neighboring Jurisdictions. Charles C. Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		275
	Autographs: D'Aulnay, 2S5; Edward Gibbons, 2S6; La Tour, 288; William Hathorne, 292; Daniel Denison, 292; Commissioners of the United Colonies (Theophilus Eaton, John Endicott, John Haynes, Stephen Goodyear, Herbert Pelham, Edward Hopkins, John Brown, Timothy Hatherly), 300; another group (Simon Bradstreet, Daniel Denison, Thomas Prence, James Cudworth, John Mason, John Tallcott, Theophilus Eaton, William Leete), 301.
CHAPTER VIII.
From Winthrop's Death to Philip's War. Thomas W. Higginson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		303
	Illustration: John Endicott, 308.
	Autographs: James Davids, 305; John Endicott, 307, 30S; Richard Bellingham, 307; Daniel Gookin, 307.
CHAPTER IX.
Philip's War. Edward E. Hale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		311
⁠	Illustrations: Secretary Rawson's Memorandum on Captain Richard, 313; John Leverett, 315; Thomas Savage, 318; a part of Hubbard's Map of New England (1677), 32S.
	Autographs: Josiah Winslow, 311; Wussausman, 311; Richard Russell, 312; Thomas Danforth, 312; Daniel Denison, 313; Samuel Mosley, 313; Commissioners of the United Colonies (Thomas Danforth, President, William Stoughton, Josiah Winslow, Thomas Hinckley, Jr., John Winthrop, Wait Winthrop), 314; John Leverett, 316; Thomas Clark, 316; William Hudson, 316; Thomas Savage, 316; John Hull, 316; Daniel Henchman, 316, 317; James Oliver, 316; John Richards, 316; Isaac Johnson, 319; Thomas Wheeler, 320; Nathaniel Davenport, 323; Samuel Appleton, 323; William Turner, 325; Philip's mark, 325.
CHAPTER X.
The Struggle to maintain the Charter of King Charles the First, and its Final Loss in 1684. Charles Deane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		329
	Illustrations: The Massachusetts Charter, heliotype, 329; Oliver Cromwell, 348; Edward Rawson, 381.
	Autographs: Charles I., 331; John Hull, 354; Royal Commissioners (Richard Nicolls, Robert Carr, George Cartwright, Samuel Maverick), 358; Richard Bellingham, 360; Edmund Randolph, 364; Charles II., 365; Simon Bradstreet, 369; Thomas Danforth, 369; Joseph Dudley, 369; Daniel Gookin, Sen., 369; William Stoughton, 369; Elisha Hutchinson, 369; Elisha Cooke, 369; Samuel Nowell, 371; James II., 3S0; Edward Rawson, 381.
CHAPTER XI.
Charlestown in the Colonial Period. Henry H. Edes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		383
	Illustrations: Order, Feb. 10, 1634, establishing Board of Selectmen, heliotype, 388; Order, Oct. 13, 1634, relating to lands, &c., heliotype, 388; the Training-Field, 392; John Harvard's Monument, 395.
	Autographs: The Squaw-Sachem's mark, 3S3; John Greene, 384; Richard Sprague, 384; Thomas Walford's mark, 3S4 ; Thomas Graves, surveyor, 385; Walter Palmer, 386; Thomas Coitmore, 3S8; Thomas Lynde, 389; Samuel Adams, 389; Thomas Graves, the admiral, 3S9 ; Edward Burt, 389; James Cary, 390 ; John Newell, 390 ; Abraham Palmer, 391 ; John Edes, 392; Edward Converse, 393; Robert Long, 393; Increase Nowell, 394; Zechariah Symmes, 394; Thomas Goold, 396; Thomas Shepard, 396; John Greene, 396; John Morley, 397; Ezekiel Cheever, 397; Samuel Phipps, 397; Lawrence Hammond, 399; Richard .Sprague, the younger, 399; Robert Sedgwick, 399; Francis Norton, 399; Francis Willoughby, 399; Richard Russell, 399.
CHAPTER XII.
Roxbury in the Colonial Period. Francis S. Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		401
	Illustrations; William Pynchon, 404; the Curtis Homestead, 406; John Eliot's Chair, 415 ; Certificate signed by John Eliot and Samuel Danforth, 416.
	Autographs: William Pyncheon, 404; John Eliot, 414; Thomas Dudley, 417.
CHAPTER XIII.
Dorchester in the Colonial Period. Samuel J. Barrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		423
⁠	Illustrations: Pierce House, 431; Minot House, 432; Blake House, 433; Tolman House, 434; Bridgham House, 435; Richard Mather, 437.
	Autographs: Roger Clap, 428; Humphrey Atherton, 428; James Parker, 428; Richard Mather, 438; George Minot, 438; Henry Withington, 438.
CHAPTER XIV.
Brighton in the Colonial Period. Francis S. Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		439
CHAPTER XV.
Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point in the Colonial Period. Mellen Chamberlain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		445
	Illustrations: Deane Winthrop House, 447; Yeaman House, 448; Floyd Mansion, 450.
	Autographs: Proprietors (Robert Keayne, John Cogan, John Newgate, James Penn, Samuel Cole, George Burden), 451.
CHAPTER XVI.
The Literature of the Colonial Period. Justin Winsor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		453
	Illustrations: Title of first book printed in Boston, 457; Memorandum of Richard Mather, 45S; Stanza signed by Benjamin Tompson, 460.
	Autographs: Jose Glover, 455; Stephen Dave, 455; Henry Dunster, 456; Samuel Green, 456; Marmaduke Johnson, 456; John Foster, 456; Richard Mather, 458; Thomas Weld, 458; Anne Bradstreet, 461; Michael Wigglesworth, 461; Thomas Shepard, 462; Edward Johnson, 463.
CHAPTER XVII.
The Indian Tongue and its Literature. J. Hammond Trumbull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		465
	Illustrations: Title to the Indian Bible, 469; the Massachusetts Psalter, 476; the Indian Primer, 478.
	Autographs: John Cotton the younger, 470; James Printer, 477.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Life in Boston in the Colonial Period. Horace E. Scudder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		481
	Illustrations: Bill of Lading (1632), 490; Adam Winthrop's Pot, 491; the Stocks, 506; the Pillory, 507; Rebecca Rawson, 519.
	Autographs: Samuel Cole, 493; George Monck, 494; Nehemiah Bourne, 498; Hezekiah Usher, 500; John Usher, 500; John Dunton, 500; Samuel Fuller, 501.
CHAPTER XIX.
Topography and Landmarks of the Colonial Period. Edwin L. Bynner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		521
	Illustrations: Wood's Map of Boston and Vicinity (1634), 524; the Tramount, 525; section of Bonner's Map (1722), 526; Plan of the Summit of Beacon Hill, 527; West Hill in 1775, 528; the Old Feather Store, 547; Old House in Salem Street, 551.
CHAPTER XX.
Boston Families Prior to 1700. William H. Whitmore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		557
⁠	Illustrations: Isaac Addington, 576; Mrs, Jane Addington, 577; Simeon Stoddard, 583; Colonel Samuel Shrimpton, 584; Mrs. Shrimpton, 585; Increase Mather, 587.
	Autographs: Isaac Addington, 575; Penn Townsend, 575; Humphrey Davie, 578; Edward Hutchinson, 579; Peter Oliver, 580; Thomas Brattle, 580; Edward Tyng, 581; Anthony Stoddard, 583; Samuel Shrimpton, 5S4; Peter Sergeant, 585; Increase Mather, 587; Crescentius Matherus, 587.

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		589

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