very of the Mississippi_; Parkman, _La Salle_; Breese, _Early
History of Illinois_; Sparks, _American Biography_, ser. 1, vol. 10.
=Marriages.= =W= Dissenting ministers forbidden to perform ceremony in
New Brunswick, 14, 15; the Dissenters' Marriage Bill, 14, 15; question
settled in 1834, 16. =F= Stimulated by civil authorities, 57. =S=
Question of, in Upper Canada, 85-88, 161.
=Marriott, Sir James= (1730?-1803). Advocate general, 1764;
vice-chancellor, 1767; sat in Parliament for Sudbury, 1781-1784, and
1796-1802. =Index=: His views on question of Canadian laws, 62; examined
in connection with the Quebec Act, 63, 69. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._
=Marshall, John George= (1786-1880). Born in Nova Scotia. Educated at
Halifax, and called to the bar, 1808. Represented Sydney in the Nova
Scotia Assembly, 1811-1823. Subsequently appointed chief-justice of the
Court of Common Pleas. Died in Halifax. =Bib.=: _Brief History of Events
in Nova Scotia during the Earliest Years of the Present Century_.
=Marsolet, Nicolas= (1587-1677). Came to Canada from France about 1608,
and for many years an interpreter for the Montagnais and Algonquian
tribes. In 1629, when Kirke took Quebec, deserted to the English.
=Index=: =Ch= Accompanies Champlain to Quebec, 41; joins Algonquians to
learn their language, 63; interpreter of Algonquian language, 144; sides
with the Kirkes, 194; subsequent career, 203. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Pioneers
of France_.
=Marteilhe.= =Dr= Appointed judge, 183.
=Martial Law.= =Bk= Question respecting, 226. =Hd= Canada under, for
four years after conquest, 41, 43; abolished, 59; Haldimand's opinion
of, for Florida, 65; at Vincennes, 93; not strictly enforced by
Haldimand, 275.
=Martin, Abraham= (1589-1664). Born in Scotland. Came to Canada in 1614,
having married Marguerite Langlois the previous year. Engaged as a pilot
at Quebec. In 1635 granted lands on the heights of Quebec by the Hundred
Associates, and in 1648 and 1652 received further gifts of land from
Adrien Duchesne. =Index=: =WM= First proprietor of Plains of Abraham,
186. =Ch= Early settler, 145, 146; his property, 147. =Bib.=: Doughty,
_Siege of Quebec_; Wood, _Fight for Canada_.
=Martin, Anne.= =Ch= Daughter of Abraham Martin, 146.
=Martin, Charles Amador.= =Ch= Priest, 146.
=Martin (or Marten), Sir Henry= (1562-1641). Born in London. Educated at
Oxford. Sent to the Palatinate, 1613; chancellor of London diocese,
1616; judge of the Admiralty Co
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