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Independence in thought and action, 23.
Independence, Town pledged to, 101.
Independent Congregational Society organized, 116; Rev. George Simmons pastor, 116; list of pastors, 116-117; name changed to First Parish, 117.
India cottons imitated, 131.
Indian corn from Virginia, 19.
Indians converted at Martha's Vineyard, 47 n. 1; dwelling on western shore of Sherman's Pond, 28; exchange fish for bread, 14; paid for lands, 60; sell corn to the starving settlers, 19; threaten to burn Watertown, 62.
Industrial Exhibition, 141.
Inoculation for small-pox forbidden, 91.
Jackson, Patrick T., manager of the Boston Manufacturing Co., 130,
Jennings, Capt., William, 58 n. 1 (see next name).
Jenison, Ensign, William, 41; autograph, 41 n. 3; one of the three first selectmen, 34.
Jewell (the) arrives at Salem, 13.
Jewels, watch, how made, 136; delicate measurement of, 137.
Johnson, Lady, Arbella, death of, 16.
Johnson, Mr., death of, 16.
Kendall: Jonas B., Josiah S., 79.
Kendall's grist-mill, 79, 124.
Kimball, Henry, dwelling of, 85.
Kimball Tavern, 86-7, 110.
King Phillip's War begun, 60-62.
King's colors mutilated, 25, 41 n. 4.
King's common.
50.
Knowles, Rev., John, ordained associate pastor, 46; went to Virginia and returned, 46; returns to England, 48.
Laborers, scarcity of, 31.
Lancaster, first settlement at, 47 n. 3; attacked by Indians, 60; second attack, 61.
Land Bank Co., 94.
Land in Great Dividends allotted, 53.
Lawrence: Geo. sen., lands of, 70, 79; Jacob, Leonard, 117.
Leagues. three up Charles River, 15.
Levy by General Court, 100.
Levy for palisade at Newtown, 28; resisted by Watertown, 29.
Lexington. 100, 107.
Library, The Manufacturers', established, 132.
Library given to Rumford Institute, 132
Library given to the town, 135.
Lieu of Township lots, 51.
Lightning-rods introduced, 77.
Lily pond, 27.
Lincoln, 9, 100.
Liquor law, first, 33.
Liquors, first retailer of, 90.
Livermore Farm, 27, 83.
Livermore: Abijah, 86; Elijah, 95, 104.
Livermore, John. ancestor of all of that name in U. S., 95; Moses, 91.
Livermore, Nathaniel, 74 n. 1; 86, 91, 95.
Livermore, Samuel, 64, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75 n. 2, 83, 88 n. 1, 95, 97 n. 3, 99; autograph, 74 n. 1.
Livermore, Thomas, chosen deacon, 56; autograph, 56, n. 2; 70, 97, 124.
Lock, Nathan, last survivor of Revolutionary patriots, 104; Jonas, William, 103.
London, 10, 12, 15, 31, 48, 66 n. 1.
Longevity in Waltham, 108-9.
Long Island visited by the Blessing of the Bay, 35; 40, 46.
Loom, English, operated by a crank motion, adopted at Waltham and Lowell, 133.
Loom, Waltham, operated by a cam motion, 132.
Lothrop, Capt., sent to Brookfield, 61.
Lowell, Francis C., 91, 129; perfects the powerloom, 130.
Lowell, founded, 133.
Lowndes, Wm., of South Carolina, 132.
Ludlow, Roger, the assistant, arrives in the Mary and John, 13; has the western fever at Dorchester, 36.
Lyford, John, welcomed at Plymouth, 37; his complaining letters intercepted, 37; plays the penitent, 37.
Lyman place, Chester Brook flows through, 27, 95-6.
Lyman, Theodore, estate of, 95-6.
Lynn, 2, 41 n. 2.
McCauley, Rev. C., pastor of First Parish, 117.
Machinery at Waltham rebuilt, 133.
Machines, six new invented, 130.
Machine-shop on Chester Brook, 27, 97.
Mackerel Hill, 79.
Macomber, Zebedee, 90.
Main street a great thoroughfare, 91.
Manufacturing establishments, number of, 141.
Martha's Vineyard settled, 46.
Mary and John (the), Ludlow's ship arrives at Nantasket, 13.
Mason, Lt. Hugh, 58: autograph, 58 n. 2 made a captain, 58, n. 2; Capt. Hugh and his train-band at Sudbury, 62.
Mason, Capt. John, commander in the Pequot war, 43.
Massachusetts, 10, 15 n. 1, 38, 42, 57.
Massachusetts Bay, 11, 22, 38.
Massachusetts Bay: to what the name was first applied, 11 n. 3.
Massachusetts Bay Company incorporated, 10; sends out its first colony, 10; transfers its charter and government to New England, 12.
Massachusetts River, Charles River called by this name, 13, n. 4.
Massasoit Hotel, 83.
Masters's Brook, named by Gov. Winthrop, 26; in 1815, 17.
Masters, John, 26, 30.
Mattachusetts, 14.
Mattapan (Dorchester), settled, 14.
Maxwell House, 82, 96.
Mayhew, Thomas, granted the 150 acres on the south side of Charles River by the wear, 21: owner of Oldham Farm, 39, 46 n 2: sends settlers to Martha's Vineyard, 46, 58 n. 1.
Mayhew, Thomas, Jr., the first missionary among the Indians, 47 n. 1; pastor at Martha's Vineyard, 47; lost at sea, 47 n. 2.
Mead: Capt., 85; Hopestill , 79; Joshua, Moses, 81.
Meadford upon the Mistick settled, 15; 23.
Meadows, Remote or West Pine, 51, 52.
Thomas Lewis, Landscape Photographs, 1879.
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