M.
Mackerel, habits of, [91].
Macy, Thomas, settles at Nantucket, [339].
"Magnalia," Mather's, Southey's opinion of, [93].
Maine, sea-coast of, [17], [18]; embraces Norumbega, Mavoshen, [18]; other names applied to her territory, [18]; French occupation of, [18]; her enterprise and products, [60]; part of Massachusetts, [68].
Maintenon, Madame de, intrigue with the Jesuits, [82], [83].
Malaga Island, [160].
Malbone, Colonel Godfrey, [408], [409].
Malbone, Edward G., [409].
Mananas Island, [104].
Mansell, Sir Robert, mentioned, [34].
Marblehead, its conformation and topography, [228], [229], [230], [231]; Lafayette there, [229]; islands off the port, [231]; the Neck, [231]; annals and decay of the cod-fishery, [232], [233], [234], [235]; early settlement, [236], [241], [242]; described, [238], [239], [240], [241]; character of early fishermen, [243]; Goelet's account, [243]; Lee Mansion, [245], [246]; St. Michael's, [248]; the old sea-lions, [251], [252]; the dialect, [254]; Fort Sewall, [255]; Chesapeake and Shannon, [256], [257]; old burial-ground, [258]; perils of the fishery, [259], [260].
Marriage, first, in New England, [285].
Mashope, legend of, [349].
Mason, Captain John, [201].
Mason, John, attacks the Pequot stronghold, [429], note, [430].
Massachusetts Bay, alleged discovery of, [18], [22].
Massachusetts Historical Society, motive of its founding, [147].
Massasoit, entry into Plymouth, [293], [294].
Masse, Enemond, at Mount Desert, [35].
Mavoshen, Maine, so styled, [18].
Mayhew, Thomas, purchases Nantucket, [339]; owns Martha's Vineyard and Elizabeth Islands, [340].
May-pole, ancient custom of, [182].
M'Clary, Andrew, [144].
M'Lean, Colonel Francis, seizes and fortifies Castine, [67].
Mercator, atlas of, cited, [21].
Miantonimo makes war on Uncas, [435]; is killed, [436].
Miantonimo Hill, [407], [408].
Mohegan Indians, [436], [437].
Monhegan Island, probably seen and named in 1604, [92], [102]; early knowledge of, [102]; described, [104]; inscription at, [106]; naval battle near, [106], [107], [324].
Moody, Joseph, Handkerchief, [135].
Moody, Rev. Samuel, anecdote of, [135]; epitaph, [136].
Moore, Sir John, at Castine, [67]; Napoleon's opinion of, [68].
Morse, Rev. Jedediah, at the Shoals, [164]; describes curing fish, [174].
Morse, S. F. B., paints Landing of Pilgrims, [264].
Morton, Thomas, his banishment, [180], [181].
Mount Desert Island, discovered and named, [28]; Champlain's description of, [29]; mountain ranges, [29]-[32]; approach from Ellsworth, [31]; first settlers, [33]; road to South-west Harbor, [33], [34]; French colony on, [34], [35], [36]; shell-heaps at, [37]; neighborhood of South-west Harbor, [38], [39]; islands off Somes's Sound, [39]; Christmas on, [40], et seq.; route to Bar Harbor, [41], [42]; island nomenclature, [42]; islands off Bar Harbor, [43]; shore rambles to Schooner Head and Great Head, [43]-[48]; naturalists and artists who have visited, [48]-[50]; excursion to Otter Creek and North-east Harbor, [53], [54]; the Ovens, etc., [55], [56].
Mount Desert Rock, [53].
Mount Hope, [414], [415], [416].