The Colonies, 1492-1750

by Reuben Gold Thwaites

• Maine, De Monts' colony, [36];
  • visited by Gosnold and Pring, [41];
  • Gorges' proprietorship, [150], [151], [173];
  • characteristics, [150];
  • not in the New England Confederation, [157], [158];
  • absorbed by Massachusetts, [152], [173], [174];
  • Indian uprising, [172], [188];
  • rule of Andros, [175];
  • in King William's War, [177], [254];
  • river system, [179];
  • commerce, [185];
  • agriculture 186;
  • education, [188];
  • population (1700) 180, (1754) 265;
  • boundary established, [268].

• Maldonado, Lorenzo Ferret de, on the Pacific coast, [28].

• Manhattan Island, Block's visit, [196];
  • early settlement, [197], [198].
  • See New York City.

• Marquette, Father Jacques, on Mississippi River, [26], [248].

• Martha's Vineyard, Indian missionary efforts at, [170].

• Maryland, origin of name, [82];
  • settlement, [76], [81]-84;
  • landed estates, [58];
  • judiciary, [60];
  • during English Revolution, [84], [85];
  • development, [86], [87];
  • becomes a royal province, [61], [87];
  • Claiborne's quarrel, [76], [77];
  • geography, [96];
  • character of colonists, [97];
  • its capital, [98];
  • occupations, [102];
  • religion, [102], [108];
  • commerce, [103], [104];
  • tobacco-raising, [103];
  • William and Mary's College, [103];
  • witchcraft trials, [192];
  • boundary disputes, [209], [217], [268];
  • settlers patronize Pennsylvania mills, [225];
  • represented in colonial congress, [270];
  • Indian affairs, [83], [86], [277];
  • influence of Virginia ideas on, [280];
  • political spirit, [280];
  • population (1688) 97, (1763) 266.

• Mason, Charles, runs "Mason and Dixon line," 268.

• —, John, colonizing efforts in New Hampshire, [125], [150], [152], [153], [277].

• —, Capt. John, in Pequod War, [137], [142].

• Massachusetts, settlement, [124]-127, [144];
  • suffrage qualifications, [61], [62], [167];
  • social distinctions, [59];
  • Harvard College founded, [80];
  • internal dissensions, [129]-132;
  • religious troubles, [132]-136, [146], [152];
  • interest in Pequod War, [136], [137];
  • laws, [137]-139;
  • characteristics, [139], [140];
  • the Watertown protest, [62];
  • emigration to Connecticut, [140]-142;
  • emigration to Rhode Island, [147];
  • interest in the Gorton case, [160], [164];
  • absorbs New Hampshire, [152], [153], [173];
  • absorbs Plymouth, [124], [176];
  • annexes land in Connecticut and Maine, [173];
  • influence in the Confederation, [155]-157, [164];
  • independent attitude towards England, [158], [159], [161];
  • jealousy of King Charles, [173];
  • under the royal commissioners, [167], [168];
  • charter annulled, [131], [132], [169], [174], [175];
  • becomes a royal province, [175];
  • rule of Andros, [175], [176];
  • the Presbyterian movement, [162];
  • attitude in war with New Netherlands, [163], [164];
  • disputes Connecticut ship-toll, [164];
  • repression of Quakers, [165], [166], [169];
  • Philip's War, [170]-172, [188];
  • absorbs Acadia, [176];
  • new charter, [176], [177];
  • population, (1700) 180, (1754) 265;
  • slavery, [182], [272], [275];
  • iron mining, [184];
  • manufactures, [184];
  • fisheries, [184];
  • shipbuilding and commerce, [185];
  • agriculture, [186];
  • witchcraft delusion, [190]-192;
  • boundary disputes, [267], [268];
  • represented in second colonial congress, [270];
  • Phipps's term, [275], [276];
  • Bellomont's term, [207], [276];
  • loses New Hampshire, [277];
  • paper money, [278], [279].