Barnstable, Sandwich and Yarmouth, date of incorporation, 44, 45. Connecticut. Equivalent lands granted

by Massachusetts, for towns, which afterwards returned to the jurisdiction of Connecticut. Opinion by the Earl of Mansfield on this subject; the following towns were formerly of Massachusetts; Enfield, Somers, Stonington, Suffield and Woodstock, 23, 24. Counties of Massachusetts, 31. County, movements for one not allowed,

33.

Districts, regulation about them, 30. Dukes County. Under Massachusetts and New York; petition, 45, 46. Hungry March, 29.

Incorporation of Towns, the mode, 28. List of Counties and Towns set off to Maine, 57 to 100; Heights, Latitudes and Longitudes of Eminences, 103, 104; Latitudes and Longitudes of objects, 104 to 108; Latitudes and Longitudes of Light-Houses, 109. Maine. Name, 57; Cross erected at Kennebeck by de Monts; settlement at Sagadahock; Jesuits at Mt. Desert; Richard Vines and other emigrants; Madame Guercheville zealous to spread the Catholic faith here, 58; Capt. Argal conquers the French; Capt. Smith's voyage; Hunt's kidnapping of Indians; occupation of Saco and Monhegan Island; jealousy of the Council for New England as to the French; Nova Scotia obtained for the Earl of Stirling, 59; Admiral West forbids unlicensed fishermen to continue their employments; this causes dissatisfaction at home; patent for Agamenticus granted to Sir Ferdinando Gorges; Sagadahock ceded to France, though not effectually; House of Commons propose to have the Charter of the Council for New England abolished; Mon

hegan Colony sold; Plymouth set up Truck houses at Penobscot and Kennebeck 60, 61; New Hampshire; patent of Thomas Commock (Cammock); grants to Saco, Lygonia charter; Muscongus patent, 61; grants to Goodyeare and Trelawney; to Elbridge and Aldsworth, cession of Sagadahock to the French, who commence hostilities, 62; Council for New England dissolve; their divisions of Maine territory; Sir Ferdinando Gorges appointed Governor of them and other divisions; D'Aulney takes possession of Penobscot; General Court at Saco, 63; patent to Sir Ferdinando, which required Episcopacy; conveyance of Pejepscot to Massachusetts; death of Sir Ferdinando, 64; Plough Patent bought by Alexander Rigby; discord; people of Maine come under Massachusetts; reply of the latter to royalists; bounds, 65; French subjected; Sir William Temple made Governor of their territory; decision of Cromwell in favor of Massachusetts; address to him; Lygonia; claim to the Gorges territory revived, 66; report of a Parliament Committee against Massachusetts; commotion; Maine withdrawn from Massachusetts; Sagadahock granted to the Duke of York and ceded to the French; Royal Commissioners, 67; Governor Temple deprived of his office and territory; discord; Thomas Danforth presides over Maine Courts; correction of boundary line; Duke of York's patent renewed; Penobscot taken by the Dutch, who are driven away by Bostoneers, 68; answer of Massachusetts, to proposal of Governor Andros; purchase of Maine; government of Massachusetts set up there, 69; Col. Kirke; usurpation; difficulty; people suffer; Castine; second charter; Madocawando

sells land to Sir William Phips, 70; treaty of Ryswick; French erect a chapel at Norridgewock; letter to Earl of Bellomont; Pejepscot; grants in lower Maine not valid without royal consent; schemes for its occupation by Armstrong and Coram, 71; Sagadahock granted to Col. Dunbar; dissatisfaction with him; he resigns his authority there; claim of Sterling's heirs; twelve townships granted, 72; Sterling's plan to settle Sagadahock; his letter; proclamation against his purpose, 73; report of a committee and commissioners; St. Croix bound; an Indian trader's deposition, 74; Maine called a District; Eastern land for sale and prices, deficiency in the Waldo patent made up; lottery townships, 75; petition of Barthelemy and Marie Gregoire, for territory at Donaquee; grant to Governor Bernard and Sir John Bernard, 77; grants to literary Institutions and for other public objects; excessive speculation; Betterment act, 78; Counties and towns, 78 to 100. Martha's Vineyard, 46. Massachusetts. Title to soil, 9; Mason's grant, 9, 10; Weston's colony at Weymouth; Robert Gorges' territory; Wollaston's settlement at Quincy; patent for Cape Ann, 10; charter for Massachusetts; design of French on Ipswich; Council for New England opposed to the policy and continuance of Massachusetts; advice of clergy, 11; Massachusetts charged with having freed themselves from England; charter nullified and demanded; precaution about the charter, afterwards made void; usurpation, 12; Revolution; second charter; extent of Massachusetts jurisdiction to include Nova Scotia; this ceded to the French; Sagadahock retained, 13; relations with New Hampshire, 13 to 15. Dover, Exeter, Great Island, Hampton, Oyster river and Portsmouth withdrawn from Massachusetts, 15; see New Hampshire, 13 to 21, including towns set off to them by the new boundary; claim to Vermont, 21; territory assigned to Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York, 22 to 25; opinion of Massachusetts about their lost territory, 26, 27; incorporation of towns; grant of townships for military services, 28 to 30; law about districts, 30; list of counties and towns, 31 to 57. Names of towns, petitions that they may be altered, because called after Royalists, 37, 84. Nantucket County, 47. Narragansett soldiers march from Dedham Plain, 28.

New Hampshire. Its towns desire to come under the government of Massachusetts, 13; order to run the line, which is reported; Mason's claim revived; decision in his favor; but the inhabitants desire no change and they petition accordingly, though ineffectually; they are withdrawn from the authority of Massachusetts; towns designated, 14, 15. Mason's claim to North River in Salem; land sold by Wanalanset to Joseph Dudley and others, called the million-acre purchase; Massachusetts order townships to be laid out, subsequently assigned to New Hampshire; such townships are to be comprised in certain counties, 16, 17; statement of John Ringe, an agent; royal decision more against Massachusetts and more in favor of New Hampshire, than even the latter expected, 18; towns taken from Massachusetts, 19 to 21.

New York. Difficulties about the frontier settlements; violent assaults; Western territory of Massachusetts; boundary fixed; ensuing towns assigned to New York, Canaan, Hillsdale, Livingston and Stephenstown, 24, 25. Norfolk County, 53. Plymouth Colony. Patent; trials; attempt to oppress them, 38; trading house at Nantasket; grant of Cape Ann; adventurers in England unfriendly; undertakers; patent for land on Kennebeck river for trade; strong desire and effort for a royal charter, 39; new patent; Kennebeck grant sold, truck house at Penobscot, 40; imprisonment of Edward Winslow by means of Bishop Laud; trading house at Windsor; patent assigned to the freemen, in favor with the King, who gives them Mt. Hope, for which Crown, the poet, had petitioned; suspected of Toryism as well as Connecticut, 41; divided into counties; comes under Massachusetts, 42. Regimental bounds, designated what subsequently became Counties, 31. Rhode Island. Decision of Commissioners in its favor; opinion of Governor Hutchinson as to such a result; territory withdrawn from Massachusetts; Attleborough Gore or Cumberland, Barrington partly, Bristol, Little Compton, Swanzey in part, Tiverton, Warren and Warwick, 22, 23. Townships, for military service, 28, 29,