Chapter V: Van Buren, Martin, 551

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 575

Vane, Sir Henry, 222, 248, 249

Varnum, J. M., 94

Very, Jones, 159, 292

Vezzerano, 446, 448

Voltaire, 258

W

Wachusett, Mass., 82, 103, 104, 105,114

Wadsworth, Captain, 519

Wadsworth, Henry, 68

Wadsworth, Gen. Peleg, 68, 69

Wales, Prince of, 72

Walker, Gen. Francis A., 117

Walker, Rev. James, 227

Walpole, Sir Robert, 452

Wamassick, 104

Wananapan, 104

Ward, Gen. Artemas, 106, 204, 207, 208, 232

Ward, Edward, 184

Ware, Ashur, 76

Wareham, Mass., 396

Warner, Charles Dudley, 548

Warren, James, 338

Warren, Joseph, 174, 214, 228, 259, 262

Warren, Mercy Otis, 338

Warren, R. I., 49

Warville, Brissot de, 464

Warwick, R. I., 481

Washington, D. C., 241, 527

Washington, George, 93, 96, 98, 99, 102, 154,
158, 202, 207, 208, 214, 232, 260, 265,
268, 278, 286, 288, 289, 388, 462, 471,
472, 490, 521, 526, 568, 582, 584

Waterbury, Conn., 525

Waters, Lieutenant, 66

Watertown, Conn., 523

Watertown, Mass., 215, 260, 511

Watson, Ellen, 299

Wauchatopick, 105

Wayland, Francis, 499, 500

Webster, Daniel, 49, 87, 88, 180, 332

Webster, Noah, 523, 544, 578, 582, 584

Weeden, William B., 475

Weld, Daniel, 407

Welles, Gideon, 550

Wellesley College, 180

Wellfleet, Mass., 351, 374, 375, 376, 380, 393

Wells, Captain, 420

Wells, Thomas, 419

Westbury, Conn., 523

Westfield, Conn., 532

Westford, Mass., 266

West Haven, Conn., 568

West Point, 568

Wethersfield, Conn., 508, 521, 533

Weybosset, R. I., 482, 485

Whalley, Edward, 563, 564

Wheaton, Henry, 499

Wheelwright, John, 248, 249

Whipple, Abraham, 492, 494

Whipple, Edwin P., 176

White, Peregrine, 337, 354

Whitefield, George, 570

Whiting, Rev. John, 253

Whitney, Eli, 582

Whittier, John G., 50, 54, 81, 176, 544, 570

Wickenden, William, 480

Wilkins, Mary E., 50

Willard, Benjamin, 105

Willard, Henry, 105

Willard, Rev. Joseph, 108, 227

Willard, Rev. Samuel, 440

Willard, Simon, 105, 219, 243, 244, 246, 268

William the Silent, 311

Williams, Abigail, 140

Williams, Col. Ephraim, 429

Williams, Rev. John, 418, 422, 428

Williams, Roger, 9, 11, 124, 136, 138,
152, 449, 476, 478, 480, 481, 482, 484, 485, 486, 488, 489, 502

Williams, Rev. Stephen, 428

Willis, N. P., 78, 178

Wilson, Rev. John, 220

Windsor, Conn., 508

Winslow, Edward, 312, 314, 315, 317, 326, 328, 329, 332, 334, 389

Winslow, Gen. John, 332

Winslow, Josiah, 332, 337

Winthrop, Gov. John, 136, 140, 168, 180, 214, 216, 220, 248

Winthrop, Robert C., 49

Winthrop, Theodore, 582

Woburn, Mass., 260

Wolfe, Gen. James, 277

Wolsey, Cardinal, 306

Woodhill, 244

Wood’s Holl, Mass., 394

Worcester County, Mass., 97, 103, 105

Worcester, Eng., 302

Worcester, Mass., 82, 103, 105, 111, 113, 116, 117, 498, 499

Worcestershire, 312

Wyclif, John, 303

Wyllys, Samuel, 519

Y

Yale, Elihu, 574

Yale University, 24, 366, 454, 523, 572, 574, 575, 576, 582, 584, 586

Yarmouth, Mass., 368, 377, 380, 381, 385, 393

Yorkshire, 247, 304

Yorktown, 521

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Reproduced by permission of A. S. Burbank, Plymouth, Mass.

[2] Reproduced by permission of the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.

[3] Reproduced by permission of C. R. Bartlett, Rutland, Mass.

[4] Reproduced by permission of the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.

[5] Reproduced by permission of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

[6] Reproduced by permission of the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.

[7] Reproduced by permission of the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.

[8] Reproduced by permission of C. R. Bartlett, Rutland, Mass.

[9] Reproduced by permission of the _New England Magazine_, Boston, Mass.

[10] Reproduced by permission of C. R. Bartlett, Rutland, Mass.

[11] Reproduced by permission of the _New England Magazine_, Boston, Mass.

[12] Reproduced by permission of C. R. Bartlett, Rutland, Mass.

[13] Reproduced by permission of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

[14] Reproduced by permission of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

[15] Reproduced by permission of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

[16] Reproduced by permission of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

[17] Reproduced by permission of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

[18] Reproduced by permission of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

[19] Reproduced by permission of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

[20] Reproduced by permission of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

[21] Reproduced by permission of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

[22] Reproduced by permission of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

[23] Reproduced by permission of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

[24] Reproduced by permission of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

[25] Reproduced by permission of Daniel W. Colbath & Co., Boston, Mass.

[26] Reproduced by permission of Daniel W. Colbath & Co., Boston, Mass.

[27] Reproduced by permission of the _New England Magazine_, Boston, Mass.

[28] Reproduced by permission of the W. H. Brett Engraving Co., Boston, Mass.

[29] Reproduced by permission of the _New England Magazine_, Boston, Mass.

[30] Reproduced by permission of the _New England Magazine_, Boston, Mass.

[31] Reproduced by permission of the _New England Magazine_, Boston, Mass.

[32] Reproduced by permission of A. S. Burbank, Plymouth, Mass.

[33] Reproduced by permission of A. S. Burbank, Plymouth, Mass.

[34] Reproduced by permission of A. S. Burbank, Plymouth, Mass.

[35] Reproduced by permission of A. S. Burbank, Plymouth, Mass.

[36] Reproduced by permission of A. S. Burbank, Plymouth, Mass.

[37] Reproduced by permission of A. S. Burbank, Plymouth, Mass.

[38] Reproduced by permission of A. S. Burbank, Plymouth, Mass.

[39] Reproduced by permission of A. S. Burbank, Plymouth, Mass.

[40] Reproduced by permission of the Falmouth Board of Industry, Falmouth, Mass.

[41] Reproduced by permission of Geo. H. Walker & Co., Boston, Mass.

[42] Reproduced by permission of the Falmouth Board of Industry, Falmouth, Mass.

[43] Reproduced by permission of W. H. Hewins, Falmouth, Mass.

[44] Reproduced by permission of the Falmouth Board of Industry, Falmouth, Mass.

[45] Reproduced by permission of the Falmouth Board of Industry, Falmouth, Mass.

[46] Reproduced by permission of Simon Hart, Newport, R. I.

[47] Reproduced, with permission, from Porter’s _Two Hundredth Birthday of Bishop George Berkeley_, published by Messrs. Charles Scribner’s Sons.

[48] Reproduced by permission of The Century Co.

[49] Reproduced by permission of Simon Hart, Newport, R. I.

[50] Reproduced, with permission, from the _American Monthly Review of Reviews_, from the editor’s article on the _Renaissance of the Mediæval Pilgrimage_, published in October, 1893.

[51] Reproduced by permission of Simon Hart, Newport, R. I.

[52] Reproduced by permission of The Century Co.

[53] Reproduced by permission of Simon Hart, Newport, R. I.

[54] Reproduced by permission of Messrs. D. Appleton & Co.

[55] Reproduced from _Trips by Trolley and A-wheel around Hartford_.

[56] Reproduced, with permission, from Boutell’s _Life of Roger Sherman_, published by A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, Ill.

[57] Reproduced, with permission, from _Webster’s Dictionary_, published by G. & C. Merriam Co., Springfield, Mass.

[58] De Tocqueville’s _Democracy in America_, chapter v. Mr. F. J. Lippitt, who assisted M. de Tocqueville in the preparation of this work, says that once when they “had been talking about town-meetings, de Tocqueville exclaimed with a kindling eye (usually quite expressionless), ‘Mais, c’est la commune!’”--_Cf. The Century Magazine_, September, 1898, p. 707.

[59] Geo. Wm. Curtis, _Orations and Addresses_, vol. iii.

[60] In 1810, less than 15 per cent. of the population of Rhode Island was found in towns of 8000 or more inhabitants; in 1890, nearly 80 per cent. In Massachusetts, in 1790, five per cent. were urban dwellers; in 1890, 70 per cent. In Connecticut, in 1830, 3 per cent. lived in cities; in 1890, more than 50 per cent. In 1840, 3 per cent. in New Hampshire lived in cities; in 1890, more than 25 per cent. In 1820, in Maine, 4 per cent. lived in cities; in 1890, 20 per cent.

[61] _Cf._ Town Records of Brookline, 1897-98.

[62] Chapter cii., Bryce’s _American Commonwealth_. For an interesting and significant account of the impression made by one of the Western Christian colleges upon a friendly and thoroughly trained French observer, see the translation of an article by Th. Bentzon (Madame Blanc) in the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, printed in _McClure’s Magazine_, May, 1895.

[63] See Editor’s Preface p. v.

[64] The Ordinance of 1784, the original of the Ordinance of 1787, was drawn up by Jefferson himself, as chairman of the committee appointed by Congress to prepare a plan for the government of the territory. The draft of the committee’s report, in Jefferson’s own handwriting, is still preserved in the archives of the State Department at Washington. “It is as completely Jefferson’s own work,” says Bancroft, “as the Declaration of Independence.” Jefferson worked with the greatest earnestness to secure the insertion of a clause in the Ordinance of 1784 prohibiting slavery in the Northwest; and the clause was lost by only a single vote. “The voice of a single individual,” said Jefferson, who foresaw more clearly than any other what the conflict with slavery was to mean to the republic, “would have prevented this abominable crime. Heaven will not always be silent. The friends of the rights of human nature will in the end prevail.” They prevailed for the Northwest Territory with the achievement of Manasseh Cutler, Rufus Putnam and Nathan Dane.

Was it from Jefferson that Putnam and his men at Marietta caught their classical jargon? There was a great deal of pretentious classicism in America at that time, new towns everywhere being freighted with high-sounding Greek and Roman names. The founders of Marietta--so named in honor of Marie Antoinette--named one of their squares _Capitolium_; the road which led up from the river was the _Sacra Via_; and the new garrison, with blockhouses at the corners, was the _Campus Martius_. Jefferson had proposed dividing the Northwest into ten States, instead of five as was finally done, and for these States he proposed the names of Sylvania, Michigania, Assenisipia, Illinoia, Polypotamia, Cherronesus, Metropotamia, Saratoga, Pelisipia and Washington.

[65] Rufus Putnam was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, April 9, 1738, just fifty years before he founded Marietta, where he died May 1, 1824. He was a cousin of General Putnam. Early in life he was a millwright and a farmer; but he studied mathematics, surveying and engineering--after distinguished service in the old French war--and became our leading engineer during the Revolution, and an able officer in many campaigns. He first planned the Ohio settlement, and at the outset made it a distinct condition that there should be no slavery in the territory. Five years after the founding of Marietta, Putnam was made Surveyor-General of the United States; and his services in Ohio until the time of his death were of high importance.

[66] The illustration shown on page 335 is from a pen-and-ink copy of a quaint old painting on glass from China, probably in 1820. In that country a set of china with this design as decoration was made for this Plymouth celebration.

[67] _Pioneers of France in the New World._

[68] Arnold, _Rhode Island_, i., 107.

[69] _Proc. R. I. H. S._, July, 1895

[70] Isham & Brown, _Houses_, p. 21.

[71] _Planting of Providence_, p. 43.

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Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:

For eleven months after Concord fight=> For eleven months after the Concord fight {pg 232}

and Governer Andrew had placed in he=> and Governor Andrew had placed in he {pg 265}

which was animatting the community=> which was animating the community {pg 489}

graver class of litererary=> graver class of literary {pg 544}

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