s of education, 388;
institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392, 393.

Massachusetts, petition of the free Negroes for relief from
taxation, 1780, 126, 127;
law preventing Negroes from other States from settling in, 127;
notice to Negroes, Indians, and Mulattoes warning them to
leave, 128;
list of the same, 128, 129;
first school for Colored children, 162;
number of Negro troops, furnished, 299;
captured Negro soldiers from, sold into slavery, 353.

Massachusetts General Colored Association, 78;
letter to New England Anti-Slavery Society desiring to become
auxiliary to the latter, 79.

Massachusetts Medical Society, first Colored member admitted to
the, 133.

Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, amount of money furnished
for the relief of Kansas, 216, 218.

Massachusetts Volunteers, 54th regiment, first Colored troops
raised at the North, 289;
at James Island, 328, 335;
march to Morris Island, 328, 329, 332;
assault Fort Wagner, and plant the colors of the regiment on the
fort, 329;
Edward L. Pierce's letter describing the valor and losses of the
regiment, 331;
Gen. Strong commends the bravery of the regiment, 334.

Mattock, White, mentioned, 166.

May, Rev. Samuel J., in favor of education of Colored children in
Conn., 150, 151, 153, 157.

Memphis, Tenn., Negro troops raised for the Confederate
States, 277;
fort garrisoned by Negroes, 345.

Mercer, Brig.-Gen. Hugh W., order to impress Negroes to build
fortifications, 261.

Methodist Episcopal Church founded, Negro servants and slaves
contributors to the erection of the first chapel in New
York, 1768, 465;
first American annual conference, 465, 466;
first Negro preacher in the, 466;
opposed to slavery, 467;
organized, interested in the welfare of the Negro, 468;
strength of the churches and Sunday-schools of the Colored
members in the, 469.

Michigan, slave population in the territory of, 1810, 9;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
U. S., 422.

Middleton, Charles H., establishes school for Colored
children, 207, 208.

Milliken's Bend., La., bravery of the Negro troops at the battle
of, 308, 313, 326, 345.

Miner, Myrtilla, establishes seminary for