sends agents to England, 162;
charter forfeited (1684), 163;
grows more liberal, 164;
territory enlarged, 166; a royal colony, 166 _et seq._;
preliminary royal government, 168-69;
changes in life of people, 170-73;
faults in royal government, 185-89;
government of Andros overthrown, 190;
resumes self-government, 191;
sends Mather to England, 194-96;
charter of 1691, 197

Massachusetts Bay Company, charter granted (1629), 26;
control passes to Puritans, 27

Massachusetts Commission, personnel, 118-19;
object, 120-121;
failure, 123-26

Mather, Cotton, quoted, 79

Mather, Increase, 194-95, 196

Maverick, Samuel, 23, 38, 116 _et seq._

_Mayflower, The_, ship, 10, 11

Mayflower Compact, 12-13

Merrymount, 22

Middletown (Conn.), 198

Milford (Conn.), 70

Mishawum (Charlestown), 24

Moody, Lady Deborah, 35

Morrell, 23

Morton, Thomas, 22, 31, 34, 41, 47

Mount Wollaston, 22

Mystic, taken into Connecticut, 109

Naumkeag (Salem), 25

New Amsterdam, seized by English, 110

New England, people of, 72-73;
settled by radicals, 73-74;
lack of toleration in, 74;
town life, 75-76;
local color in various settlements, 76-78;
witchcraft, 80-81;
superstitions of people, 81-82;
medicine and surgery, 82-83;
education, 83-85;
travel, 85-86;
homes, 86;
money, 86-87;
reckoning of time, 87;
respect for grants and charters, 88;
attitude toward England, 88-90;
organization in, 89;
rivalry with Dutch and French, 90-91;
confederation of colonies, 91 _et seq._;
trouble with the French, 94-96;
trouble with the Dutch, 96-98;
period of readjustment, 129 _et seq._;
Indian troubles, 133 _et seq._;
boundary disputes, 133;
population, 139;
menace from French, 177-79;
Dominion of, 182-83;
brought closer to English control, 199

_New England Canaan_, Morton, 32

New England Confederation _see_ United Colonies of New England

New England Council, 9, 12, 22, 26, 30, 32-33

New Hampshire, influential leaders in, 47;
controversy over title, 65;
under jurisdiction of Massachusetts, 66-67;
separation from Massachusetts, 67, 71;
status undecided, 132;
military preparedness, 135

New Haven, influential leaders in, 47;
settled, 67-68;
government, 68-70;
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