The Colonies, 1492-1750

by Reuben Gold Thwaites

• Massachusetts Bay, visited by Roberval, [33];
  • early settlements on, [122], [124], [127].

• — Company, chartered, [125];
  • removes to America, [126], [127];
  • charter annulled, [131], [132], [169], [174], [175].

• Massasoit, head-chief of Pokanokets, [121], [170].

• Mather, Cotton, in witchcraft trials, [191], [192].

• —, Increase, influence in Massachusetts politics, [176], [177].

• Maverick, Samuel, early Massachusetts settler, [122], [150];
  • royal commissioner, [167].

• "Mayflower," voyage of, [36], [117], [118], [142], [197].

• Melendez de Aviles, Pedro, his massacre of Huguenots in Florida, [34].

• Mexico, aborigines of, [8];
  • Spanish conquest of, [8], [11], [27]-31, [42], [47];
  • Spanish colonies, [31], [32].

• — Gulf of, Spanish explorations of, [4], [27];
  • aborigines of, [9], [11];
  • Spanish possessions on, [43].