Kingston, town of, Rhode Island, III.
114.

Kingston, Indian depredations at, IV.
437; represented in General As
sembly, 466.

Kingsley, Professor, IV. 495, n.
Kinsman, Robert, fined and imprisoned,
in Andros's administration, III. 528.
Kirk, Col. Piercey, appointed governor
of New England, &c., III. 394.
Kirk, Sir William, captures Port Royal
and Quebec from the French, I. 235.
Kirkland, Rev. M., V. 561.
Kiss,

wounded in a fight with In-
dians, IV. 442.
Kittery, settlement at, II. 383; annexed
to Massachusetts, 386.

Knight, Madam, her journey from Boston

to New York, IV. 375, n.

Knollys, Hansard, settles at Cochecho as
minister, I. 519; slanders the colonial
government, 520; his quarrel with Mr.
Larkham, 590.

Knowles, Commodore Charles, makes an
impressment of seamen, V. 88; resigns
the governorship of Jamaica, 145.
Knox, John, opposes Cox, bishop of Ely,
I. 118; adopts the Presbyterian polity
of Calvin, II 73.
Krossanes, name given by the Northmen
to Point Allerton, I. 55.

L.

Laconia grant to Gorges and Mason, I.

205.

La Fayette, Mount, situation and height
of, I. 6.

Lakes of New England, general character
of, I. 2, 9.
Lambert, General, ambitious projects of,
II. 418; quarrels with the Parliament,
419; meets with disaster, 421; is tried
and sentenced to death, but his punish-
ment is commuted, 430; close of his
life, ib.

Lamberton, Captain, loss of his ship, II. 237.
Lancaster, description of, III. 182; as-
saulted and sacked by the Indians,
183; Massachusetts, mentioned, IV.
30; assault on, by Indians, 266.
Lancastrian kings, religious policy of the,
I. 106.

Land Bank, the scheme of a, revived in
Massachusetts, IV. 550; discouraged
by the Privy Council, 550, n., 551, n.;
Governor Belcher pronounces against
it, 551; failure of the enterprise, 552 ;
suppressed by Parliament, V. 54; vote
of the General Court to revive, 99; act
of Parliament restricting the, ib., 100;
failure of the scheme, ib.

Lane, Prof. George M., Harvard College,
quoted concerning some poetical effu-
sions, V. 218.

Languages of the aborigines, I. 40.
Larkham, Thomas, settles at Dover, I.

589.

Larned, Miss, her "History of Windham
Co." cited, V. 302, n.

La Salle, French explorer in America, V.

171.

La Tour, Claude Etienne de, quarrels with
D'Aulnay in Acadie, II. 144; seeks
aid from Massachusetts, 145; fits out
an expedition from Boston, ib.; visits
Boston a second time, 146; visit of
his wife to Boston, 148; is defeated
by D'Aulnay, 200; death of his wife,
ib.; his dishonesty towards his Boston
friends, ib.; his varied fortunes, 285;
Cromwell makes him a proprietor of
Nova Scotia, 286.

Laud, William, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, advancement of, I. 268; suc-
ceeds to the primacy, 367; letter to,
from George Burdett, 518, n.; his
tyranny, 562; impeached of high
treason and executed, 572.

Law, John, Milford, lieutenant-governor
of Connecticut, IV. 576, n.; appointed
governor of Connecticut, 584, V. 28,
192; favored union of .Church and
State, 29; death of, mentioned, 199.
Laws, committee to prepare a code of, in
Massachusetts, I. 442; II. 260; revi-
sion of, Ill. 40, 348; of Connecticut,
57; passed in New England, repug-
nant to the laws of England, repeal of,
demanded, 309.

Lawrence, Lieutenant-Governor, of Nova
Scotia, V. 132; his plan for expelling
the French Neutrals from Nova Scotia,
133; quoted, 163, n.

Laws of Trade, orders of Pitt concern-
ing the violation of, in the colonies,
V. 235.

Lawson, Deodat, interested in the witch-

craft excitement, IV. 102, n.

Lawson, Roger, charged with illicit trad-
ing, IV. 299.

Lawyers, mention of, in Connecticut,
IV. 232

Leader, Richard, elected councillor in
Maine, II. 384.

League and Covenant, I. 579.
Lebanon, Connecticut, IV. 474, n.
Lechford, Thomas, the first lawyer in
New England, punished for pleading
out of court, I. 553; his Plain-deal-
ing," cited, 591, n., II. 8, n., 10, n., 35,
n., 44, n., 119, n.

Lectures postponed in Massachusetts
in the Antinomian controversy, I.

477.

Lecturers, employed by the Puritans, I.
295, n.

Leddra, William, a Quaker, execution
of, II 480.

Lee, Arthur, Virginia, proposed as agent
in England, 441; counsel in London,
V. 466; petition of, against the Boston
Port Bill, 524.

Lee, General Charles, V. 385, n.
Lee, John (solicitor-general), counsel
for prosecution in the hearing against
Hutchinson, V. 484.

Lee, Richard Henry, mentioned, V. 460,
n.; member of Virginia committee,
461; represents Virginia in the first
Congress, 538.

Leete, William, at Quinnipiac, I. 534;
settles at Guilford, ib.; deputy-gov-
ernor of New Haven, II. 501; un-
willing to aid in the capture of the
regicides, ib., 503; his consequent
embarrassments, 517; an assistant of
Connecticut, 596; president of the
Federal commissioners, 631; deputy-
governor of Connecticut, III. 114;
his death and character, ib.; governor,

442.

Legislature, provided for under the sec-
ond charter, IV. 81; address of Gov-
ernor Dudley to, 248; rejection of the
proposals of Governor Dudley, 249,
251; the diversity in the constitution
of the two bodies of, 251; their action
concerning the salary of Governor
Shirley, V. 55. See General Court.
Leigh, Lord, visit of, to Boston, and re-
turn to England, I. 482.

Leisler, Jacob, condemned to death by
Dudley, IV. 164; governor of New
York, his cruel fate mentioned, 149,
223; militia sent from Connecticut to
his defence, 221; attempt to court-
martial Fitz-John Winthrop, ib.
Lenerson, Samuel, escaped from cap-
tivity, IV. 156, n.

Lenthal, Robert, first schoolmaster at
Newport, II. 48.

Leonard, Daniel, member of a committee
protesting against holding Court at
Cambridge, V. 444.

Lerett, Christopher, his voyage published
in the Massachusetts Historical Col-
lections, I. 206.

L'Escarbot. See Escarbot.

Leslie, Alexander, commands the Scot-

tish force against Charles I., I. 568;
becomes Earl of Leven, and a second
time invades England, and defeats
Montrose, II. 100.

Leslie, David, commands the Scottish
forces against Cromwell, II. 277.
Leslie's "Short and Easy Method with
Deists," cited, V. 218, n.

Letter-Office, established in Boston, IV.
329.

Leverett, John, a subaltern of Cromwell,
I. 585; commands part of the expedi-
tion against the Narragansetts, II.
226; associated with Sedgwick in the
expedition against New Netherland
and Acadie, II. 285; some account of,
ib, n.; a commissioner to the Dutch,
315; commander of colonial forces,
316; agent for Massachusetts in Eng-
land, 388; succeeds Bellingham as
governor of Massachusetts, III. 92;
one of the umpires between Plymouth
Colony and Philip, 149; his reception
of Edward Randolph, 285; his quali-
fications for government, 328; his
death, 329.

Leverett, John, member of the corpo-
ration of Harvard College, IV. 193,
n.; sent to confer with Lord Love-
lace, 275; elected president of Har-
vard College, 318, V. 404, n.; his
religious influence at Harvard Col-
lege questioned by General Court,

416.

Leverett, Thomas, lands granted to, on
Muscongus Bay, I. 523.

Leverich, Rev. William, minister at Do-
ver, I. 517; his labors among the In-
dians, II. 341.

Lévis, Chevalier de, succeeds Montcalm
in command of French troops, V.

170; failure of an attempt by, to re-
take Quebec, ib.
Lexington, the attack of the British
troops upon, V. 563.

Leyden, description of, I. 140; the
Scrooby congregation remove to, ib.
n.; its university, 141; disturbances
at, 145; renewed emigration from, to
New England, 331, 333.

Lightfoot, John, English divine, IV.
384, n.

Lilburne, John, punished by the Star-
Chamber, I. 563; turns Quaker, II.
457.

Liquors, bill in General Court for an ex-
cise upon the use of wines and, V.
126; Shirley's objection to it, ib.; it
becomes a law, 127.

Lisle, Lady Alice, her trial and execu-
tion, III. 451.

Litchfield, Connecticut, IV. 474, n.;
dispute concerning a grant of land
near, to Hartford, 577.

Little Compton, Rhode Island, IV. 586.
Little, Isaac, rejected as councillor by
Burnet, IV. 523.

"Little James," arrival of the, at Ply-
mouth, I. 211.

Liveen, John, the controversy of the
Hallam brothers over his will, IV.
490.

Livingston, Philip, among the commis-
sioners for settling the boundary of
Massachusetts, IV. 556.

Livingston, Colonel Robert, IV. 180,
278, n.

Livius, Peter, submits charges against
Governor Wentworth to the Privy
Council, V. 502.

Lloyd, Mr., married a daughter of Gov-
ernor Belcher, IV. 568, n.
Locke, John, English philosopher, IV.
384, n.; his "Toleration " reprinted in
Boston, V. 218, n.

Locke, John, III. 24; secretary of the
Council for Foreign Plantations, 33;
concerned in the passage of the Tol-
eration Act, IV. 9; commissioner of
the Board of Trade, 21.

Lollards, penal laws against the, re-
pealed, I. 111.

London, occupied by Fairfax's army, II.
106; occupied by the army a second
time, 110; plague and fire in, 442;
charter vacated by Charles the Sec-
ond, III. 259.

London, Bishop of, member of Privy
Council, IV. 20, n.

London Company, South Virginia as-
signed to the, I. 82; Smith's connec
tion with the, 91; his services again
solicited by the, but declined, 94; ill
success of the, 190.

London partners, settlement of the Ply-
mouth colonists with the, I. 597.
Londonderry, New Hampshire, settlement
of, by Irish Presbyterians, IV. 461.
Long Island, attached by nature to New
England, I. 3; annexed to New York,
II. 595.

Long Parliament, its first measures of
reform, I. 572; its prorogation, 573;
forms a "solemn League and Cove-
nant with the Scots, 579; passes
the "Self-denying Ordinance," II. 97;

its authority defied by the army, 110;
expulsion of the Rump of the, by
Cromwell, 288.

Lord, Josephi, IV. 559, n.

Lords of the Committee of Trade and
Plantations, a standing committee of
the Privy Council, III. 275; consulta-
tions and projects of the, 280; their
advice on the claims of Mason and
Gorges, 281; advise the enforcement
of the laws of trade, 290; advise a
quo warranto against the charter of
Massachusetts, 317; petition to, from
Mather and his associates, 565.
Lords of Trade, look to New Hampshire
for naval stores, IV. 216; complaint
of Dudley to, concerning Rhode Is-
land, 355, 356; inquire of Governor
Bernard concerning the manufactures
and trade of Massachusetts, V. 262;
orders of, concerning the enforcement
of revenue, 262, n.; offended at the
proceedings of the General Court on
the adoption of the Sugar Act, 277, n.
Lothrop, Barnabas, left off the Board of
Councillors, IV. 254.

Lothrop, Captain, commands a company
of Massachusetts troops in Philip's
war, III. 162; engaged in the affair
at Sugar-Loaf Hill, 163; commands
the English at Bloody Brook, and is
killed, 169.

Lothrop, Rev. S. K., "History of the
.Church in Brattle Street," cited, IV.
191, n.

Loudoun, Earl of, expected to command
the forces in North America, V. 145;
assumes command of the troops in
America, 150; attempts a descent on
Louisburg and fails, 151; his quarrel
with Massachusetts concerning the
quartering of troops, 154; asks for
troops from Massachusetts, 156; re-
lieved from the command of the
troops, 157; organized companies in
New Hampshire for defence against
Indians, 190.

Louis Fourteenth, his power and re-
sources, III. 4; his position in refer-
ence to Charles II., 9; his religious
views, 10; forms a treaty with Charles
II., 12; his war with Holland a suc-
cess, 28; persuades Charles II. not to
call a Parliament, 270; revokes the
Edict of Nantes, 453; stirs up dissen-
sions between James II. and his sub-
jects, 458; mentioned, IV. 6.
Louisburg, the French fort at, V. 60;
Shirley's proposal to seize the fort at,
61; the scheme adopted by the Court,
64; arrival of Pepperell with the
troops at Canseau, 67; preparations
for the attack, ib; arrival of Com-
modore Warren with the fleet, 69;
attack made by Colonel Vaughan, 70;
the landing at, ib.; a French supply

ship captured by Commodore Warren,
71; repulse of the English in a boat
attack on, 72; progress of the siege,
73; capitulation of the French garri-
son at, ib.; rejoicings in Massachusetts
over the surrender of, 75; news of the
surrender in England, 78; importance
of the conquest to England, 79;
visited by Governor Shirley, 81;
opinions of Shirley, &c., concerning
the value of the conquest of, 91; sur-
render of, in the treaty of Aix-la-
Chapelle, 91, 93; the severe climate
of, 92, n.; what the expedition to,
cost Massachusetts, 101; surrender of,
to Sir Jeffrey Amherst, 163.
Lovelace, Francis, succeeds Nicolls

as

governor of New York, III. 108; ar
rival in New York as governor, IV.

275.

Lovell, James, delivers a 5th of March
oration, V. 423, n.

Lovell, John, a writer of verses, V. 218, n.
Lovewell, John, bounty paid him for the
scalps of Indians, IV. 440; his fight
with Indians at Piggwacket, 441;
killed in the fight, ib.; ballad com-
memorating his fight, 442; mentioned,
V. 191.

Lovewell, Zacheus, commands New
Hampshire troops at Ticonderoga,
V. 191.

Lowell, James Russell, mentioned, IV.
123, n.

Ludewig, Mr., quotation from his "Lit-
erature of American Aboriginal Lan-
guages," I. 19.

Ludlow, Roger, chosen an assistant, I.
323; elected deputy-governor, 378;
falls into disgrace, 429; chosen de-
puty-governor in Connecticut, 537,
601; settles at Fairfield, 538; ap-
pointed to draw up a code of laws,
ÎI. 235; his character, 412; departure
from New England, 413.

Luther, his church polity, what, and
where adopted, II. 71.

Lyde, Byfield, a son-in-law of Governor

Belcher, mentioned, IV. 540, n.; dis-
placed from office of collector of cus-
toms, V. 46, n.

Lyford, his conduct at Plymouth, I. 219;

his trial, conviction, and removal, 220;
repeats his injurious statements against
the Plymouth colonists, 221; is de-
posed from the ministry, ib.; makes
trouble between the settlements at
Plymouth and Cape Ann, 223; minis-
ter at Cape Ann, 286.
Lygonia or plough patent, the, I. 594;
purchased by Alexander Rigby, 595;
annexation of, to Massachusetts, II.
387; titles under, declared invalid by
the royal commissioners, II. 622.
Lyman, Major-General Phineas, com-
mands New England troops in an

Magdalen College, Oxford, quarrel of
James II. with, III. 461.
Magistrates, lists of, in the several colo-
nies, I. 635, II. 637, III. 601; in the
colonies, II. 9; attempt to abridge the
power of, in Massachusetts, 158.
Mahomet, Indian sachem, IV. 365, n.
Mahon's "History of England," cited, V.
486, n.

Maidston, John, letter to John Winthrop,
Jr., II. 542, n., III. 235, n.
"Maidstone," the king's ship at Newport,
V. 505, n.

Maine, superficial measurement of, I. 3;
character of highlands, 6; size of riv-
ers in, 9; coast of, visited by Way-
mouth, 76; by De Monts, 78; district
system of representation in, 382; boun-
daries of, 525; origin of the name, ib.,
n.; government of, under Gorges,
526; divided into two counties, 527;
number of its towns in 1850, II. 12;
independent government organized in,
383; annexation to Massachusetts,
384; conflicting claims to the lands
of, 620; proceedings of the royal com-
missioners in, 622; restoration of the
authority of Massachusetts in, 632;
description of, by the royal commis-
sioners, III. 38; Indian war in, 206;
condition of, after the Indian war,
214; decided by the judges not to be
within the limits of Massachusetts,
307; political condition of, after the
Indian war, 399; deputies from, ad-
mitted to the General Court of Massa-
chusetts, ib.; institution of a provincial
government for, by Massachusetts,
400; probable population of, in 1679,
402; history during the presidency of
Dudley, 503; comprehended within
Andros's government, 532; condition
of, under Palmer and West, 533; an
expedition made into, under Captain
Church, IV. 52; devastation in, owing
to war, 287; order of General Court
concerning settlers in, 338, n.; enlist

ments from, V. 111; the settlement
and trade of in 1743, ib.
Maitland, John, Earl and Duke of Lau-
derdale, one of the Cabal ministry,
III. 11; complained of by the House
of Commons, 21.

Maize, not indigenous in New England,
I. 27.

Malabar, name given by the French to
Nauset Harbor, I. 78.

Maltby,
560.
Malte Brun, "Précis de la Géographie,"
cited, I. 56, n., 60, n.

an English dissenter, IV.

Manchester, Edward, Earl of, made lord
chamberlain, after the Restoration, II.

425.

Mandamus respecting the Quakers, sent
to Massachusetts, II. 519.

Manhattan, Dutch settlement at. I. 235;
purchased from the natives, 287.
Manitou, signification of, I. 45.
Manning, James, first president of Brown
University, V. 294.*

Manomet River, settlement on the, I.
233.

Mansfield, John, mentioned, V. 224, n.
Mansfield, Conn., IV. 474, n.

Mansfield Mountain, situation and height
of, I. 5.

Manufactures of the Aborigines, I. 28; in
New England, II. 63.

Map of New England by Smith, I. 94;

by Wood, 360; in 1689, III. 1; by
Hubbard, 154; by Seller, 489.
Mapes, Walter, his Latin poems, I.

106.

Maps, early, of the New England coast,
I. 95, n.

Marblehead, attempt to impress seamen
from a vessel at, V. 399.
March, Major, engages in a fight with
Indians at Damariscotta, IV. 157; at-
tacked by the Indians at Casco, 260;
retreats to Casco Bay, 271; leads an
attack upon Port Royal, ib.; resigns
his command in favor of Wainwright,

272.

Mariana, the tract of land between
Naumkeag and the Merrimac, granted
to Mason, I. 204.

Marie, a friar, sent on an embassy from
D'Aulnay to Boston, I. 149.
Market ordered to be kept at Boston, I.
359.

Markland, a supposed early name for
Nova Scotia, I. 53. 55.
Marlborough, Duke of, victories in Eu-

rope, IV. 280; banished from the
council of George the First, 381.
Marlborough, destruction of, by the In-
dians, III. 189.

Marquette, Jacques, French explorer in
America, V. 171.
Marriages, how contracted in Plymouth,
II. 20, 21.

Marshfield, settlement of, I. 336.
Marston Moor, battle of, II. 70.
Martha's Vineyard, discovery of, by Gos
nold, I. 72; visited by Pring, 75; Mas-
sachusetts authorized to receive it into
their jurisdiction, II. 152; labors of
Thomas Mayhew, Jr., at, 339.
Martial law in Massachusetts, V. 561, n.
Martyn, Richard, a magistrate and treas-
urer of New Hampshire, III. 403;
dismissed from the government by
Cranfield, 408; prosecuted for official
misconduct, 414.

Mary, Princess, married to William,
Prince of Orange, III. 26; proclaimed
queen of England, 479.

Mary, Queen, her accession to the throne,
I. 114; promises to make no alteration
in religion, 115; her hard treatment of
l'rotestants, 116; her marriage, ib.;
her death, ib.

Mascarene, Capt. Paul, recommended for
Heutenant-governor of Massachusetts,
IV. 543, n.; in command at Annapolis,
V. 59, n.

Masham, Mrs., the queen's favorite, IV.
280.

Mason, Arthur, a Boston constable, ar-

rests Sir Robert Carr for disorderly

conduct, II. 623.

Mason, Capt. John, is highly esteemed
by Sir Thomas Fairfax, I. 463; ac-
count of, ib.; his expedition against
the Pequots, ib; his assault on the
Pequot fort, 465; his "History of the
Pequot War," cited, 467; his narrow
escape from death, ib.; return of his
expedition, 468; engaged in the expe-
dition against the Narragansetts, II.
226; elected deputy-governor of Con-
necticut, III. 114; publication of his
History," 436, n.

Mason, Capt. John, the younger, wounded
at the Narragansett fort, III 178; elect-
ed an assistant, ib.; his death, ib.
Muson, John, obtains a grant of certain
lands in New England, I. 204; made
vice-admiral of New England, 402, n.;
is patron of the plantation at the
mouth of the Piscataqua, 522; his
death, ib.; his will, 523; libels Gov-
ernor Minuit's ship for carrying on an
unlawful trade, 624; account of the de-
scendants of, and their claim to lands
on the Piscataqua, II. 618; his claim
to territory in New Hampshire, IV.
206; his purchase of land from the
sachem Uncas, 364; his controversy
with the colony of Connecticut con-
cerning his land claim, ib.; the claim
decided in favor of the colony, 365,
365, n.; death of, in England, ib.;
appointed to live among the Mohe-
gans as protector, &c., 480; sells his
claim to New Hampshire lands, V.
186.