850 Index. Martin, governor of North Carolina, 173 Martinique, 78, 79, 85, 96, 97 Maryland, settlement of, 31 ; and Virginia, dispute between, 32; and the Common- wealth, 33; after the Kestoration, 34; the proprietor of, 54; economical con- dition of, 55; tobacco industry of, 56; Church of England and Dissenters in, 58; disaffection in, 163; Declaration of Bights, 240; Virginia and Maryland joint commission, 311 ; Lee's invasion of, 481 Mason, George, 246, 267, 270, 271, 280, 281, 283, 287, 292, 297, 300 Mason, Captain John, 19, 21 Massachusetts, settlement and early history of, 16-31; the Quakers in, 25; French Huguenots and Irish Presbyterians in, 55 ; education in, 58 ; disputes concerning governor's salary, 64 sq. ; takes principal part in the capture of Louisbourg, 115 sq. ; resistance to the tea-duties, 152 sq. ; Con- vention of, 167 ; and the writs of assist- ance, 177 sq. ; the Declaration of Eights, 181, 239; the constitution of (1776), 241; cession of territory by, 308; General Court of, 311 ; effects of paper-money in, 313; woollen industry of, 376 Massachusetts Bay, fishing stations in, 15 Massachusetts Company, the, 15, 17 Mataafa, King of Samoa, 662 Matamoras, capture of, 395 Materials, raw, import of, 716 Mather, Cotton, 726, 729; his Magnolia, Ghristi Americana, 727 sq. Mather, Increase, 29, 729 Matta, Senor (Chilian minister), 666 Mayflower, the, 13 Mayhew, Dr, of Boston, 144 McClellan, General George B., 456 sq., 467-9, 472-82, 593 McClure, General, 341 McCulloch, General Benjamin, 460 McCulloch, Secretary, 631 McDowell, Brigadier-General Irvin, 465 sq., 475 McKinley, William, President of United States, 673-85 McKinley Tariff, the, 664 Meade, General George G., 487-90 Meadows, the Great, Washington's sur- render at, 120 Meat trade, the American, 709 Mediterranean Sea, exclusion of England from trade of, 1 Memminger, C. G., 604 Memphis, capture of, 499 Mercer (American politician), 246, 278 Meridian, Sherman's expedition against, 520 Merrimac, the, 560-3; destruction of, 474 Merritt, General, 679 Metacam (Pokanchet Indian chief) : see Philip Mexico, American conquest of, 394-7 ; purchase of territory from, 426 Migration, the westward, and its results, 357-61, 689, 712 Milan Decree, Napoleon's (1807), 331 Miles, General, 680 Millborne, Jacob, execution of, 45 Miller, John (Episcopalian clergyman), controversy concerning, 144 Minnesota, 438 Missionary work, English and French, 109, 101 Mississippi, formation of, 359; secession of, 446 Mississippi river, the French on the, 87, 108 ; closed to trade, 325 ; the Civil War on the, 491-500 ; naval operations on the, 559 "Missouri Compromise," the (1820), 362, 406 Missouri, formation of, 359, 361 ; secession of part of, 458 ; reaction in, 639 sq. Mobile Bay, Farragut in, 554 sqq. Mobile, capture of, 556 Mohawk Indians, the, 75 ; see Five Nations Molasses Acts, the, 67, 148 Molasses, duty on, 67 Money-bills, debate on, 261 sq. Monitor, the, 560; her fight with the Merrimac, 562 Monkton, Brigadier-General, 137 sqq. Monroe, James, President of United States, 316, 320, 325, 350, 368 sqq. Monroe Doctrine, the, 369 sq. Montcalm, Louis Joseph, Marquis de : cap- tures Oswego, 126, and Fort William Henry, 130; defeats the English at Ticonderoga, 135 ; besieged in Quebec by Wolfe, 138 ; his defeat and death, 141 Monterey, capture of, 396 Montgomery Congress, the, 449, 603 Montgomery, Eichard, his invasion of Canada, 170, 171 Montmorency, river, 137, 138 Montojo, Admiral, 679 Montreal, French trading-post at, 76 ; British capture of, 143 ; their evacuation of, 170 Monts, de (Huguenot), Lieutenant of the King in New France, 71 Moore, James, his attack on the Spaniards, 37 Morales, Don Juan Ventura, 325 Moravians, the, in Georgia, 62 Morgan, General Daniel, 227 Morgan, William, the kidnapping of, 379 Mormons, the, 402 Morris, Gouverneur (American statesman), 246, 262-268, 280-289, 294, 297, 300, 319, 328 Morton (a New England squatter), 15, 16 "Mosquito fleet," the, 679 Motley, John Lothrop, 745 "Mud March," the, 484 Munn v. Illinois, 648 Munro, Colonel, defeat of, 130 Murfreesborough, battle of, 507 sq.