e (_note_),
i. 419.

Medal in gold ordered by Congress in commemoration of the evacuation of
Boston, ii. 80.

Megantic, Lake, encampment of Arnold on the eastern shore of, i. 693.

Meigs, Lieutenant-Colonel, British stores at Sag Harbor destroyed by,
ii. 439.

Melvin, James, hardships endured in Arnold's Quebec expedition described
by, i. 692.

Mercer, Colonel, death of, at Oswego, i. 234.

Mercer, Doctor Hugh, with Braddock in his expedition against Fort
Duquesne, i. 152;
at the destruction of Kittanning, i. 226;
commissioned a brigadier-general, ii. 172;
backwardness of recruits for the flying camp of, at Amboy, ii. 231;
watch to be kept by, over West Jersey, ii. 308;
night-march on Princeton led by, ii. 386;
attacked by Colonel Mawhood at Princeton, ii. 387;
left for dead in a bayonet-charge of Mawhood's men, ii. 388;
biographical notice of (_note_), ii. 391.

Merchandise, British, refusal of the colonists to purchase, i. 322, 333;
associations with the object to exclude, i. 347, 355;
views of Washington on the exclusion of, i. 347;
letter of George Mason to Washington, on the exclusion of, i. 350.

Mercier, Chevalier de, architect of Fort Duquesne, i. 98.

Methodist Church, early opposition of, to slavery, iii. 152.

Middlebrook, camp of Washington established at--strength of the army at,
ii. 443;
ample equipments of the army at--vigilance of Washington when at,
ii. 444;
forces concentrated by Washington at, ii. 450;
anxiety of General Howe to draw Washington from his camp at, ii. 451;
perplexity of Washington at, with regard to the movements of the
British, ii. 454, 455;
Captain Graydon's account of a visit to the American army at, ii. 457;
headquarters of Washington at, in 1778, ii. 645.

Mifflin, Thomas, urgency of, though a Quaker, to resort to arms if
necessary, i. 460;
invited for the first time to a council of war, ii. 61;
commissioned brigadier-general by Congress, ii. 157;
appointed major-general in the continental army, ii. 403;
leader of _Conway's Cabal_, in the army, ii. 576;
duties as quartermaster neglected by, ii. 599;
address of, as president of Congress, to Washington, on the latter's
resigning
his commission, iii. 36;
second in command in the force sent against the Whiskey Insurrection
in 1794, iii. 315.

Militia, Washington's opinion