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Index to History. 



May, Jonathan, i. 249 



Maynard, Lyman,* li. 47. 



Maypole at Breadencheese Tree, i. 106. 



Mayse's, or May's Hill, i. 185. 



Meade, Charles S., i. 361 ; death of, 348. 



Meade, Francis K., i. 356. 



Meagher, Dennis, death of, i. 344. 



Meakum, lehabod (Boston), i. 312. 



Mears, Samuel T., i. 345. 



Measurements of some notable trees, 



i 156. 

 Medfield, sermon by Rev. Samuel Dun- 

 bar preached at, ii. 203. 

 Medford, publisher of the History of, 



ii. 200. 

 Medical and Surgical Association, Presi- 

 dent of the, ii. 319. 

 Medical Examiner for Plymouth Count}', 



ii. 322. 

 Medical Society of the South Norfolk 



District, president of the, ii. 319. 

 Medicine, works relating to the science of, 



ii. 229, 230. 

 Meeting-house of the First Parish, de- 

 scription and location of the first, and 

 liberty granted for its use as a watch- 

 house, i. 189, 213, ii. 22 ; erection of the 

 present structure ; its antiquity, cost, 

 dimensions, and location ; introduction 

 of pews and stoves ; the two hundredth 

 anniversary of its erection celebrated, 

 ii 35,36, 211,219; Meeting-house of the 

 First Parish, Hingham, a Discourse on 

 the Re-opening of the, ii. 213. 

 Meeting-house of the Second Parish 

 (Cohasset) ; votes of the town relating 

 to the first; cost, date of erection, and 

 dimensions of the present structure, 

 i. 163, ii. 30, 37, 38, 39, 40. 

 Meeting-house of the Third (now Second) 

 Parish ; date of its erection ; extensive 

 repairs and improvements made, ii. 

 40-48. 

 Meeting-house of the Third Congrega- 

 tional Society in Hingham, sermon at 

 the re-opening of the, ii. 225. See also 

 Ecclesiastical History, ii. 1-82. 

 Meeting-houses other than the preceding, 



ii. 57-82. 

 Melaphyr, the best local exposures for the 



study of, i. 44, 45. 

 Melcher, Charles C, Lieut, and Quarter- 

 master, i. 374. 

 Melville, company of Capt. Thomas, i. 



308. 

 " Melville Gardens," and their well fitted 



pleasure grounds, ii. 250. 

 Membership of the Church of St. Paul 



(Roman Catholic), a large, ii. 80. 

 Membership of the public schools of 



Hingham, the average, ii. 101. 

 Members of the Massachusetts Medical 

 Society, ii. 308, 309 (3), 311, 312, 313 (2), 

 315, 318, 320, 321, 322, 323 (2), 324 (2), 

 325 (2). 

 Memoir of Martha Whiting, ii. 198. 



Memoir of Noah Worcester, D.D., ii. 229. 



Memoir of Oberlin, ii. 229. 



Memoir of Rev. Charles Brooks, by Hon. 



Solomon Lincoln, ii. 50-52. 

 Memoir of Rev. Dr. Gay, by Solomon 



Lincoln, ii. 24. 

 Memoir of Rev. Dr. Shute, by Solomon 



Lincoln, ii. 43—45. 

 Memorial Day, references to the observ- 

 ance and recurring exercises of, i. 370, 

 371. 

 Men and Things, or Short Essays on Free 



Trade, ii. 198. 

 Men furnished by Hingham for the differ- 

 ent wars of the countrj', number of, i 

 203, 214, 269, 326, 327, 329, 366, 367. 

 Merritt, Billings, i. 353. 

 Merritt, George II., U. S. N., death of, 



i. 365. 

 Merrow, Arvander, i. 360. 

 Meservey Benjamin F., Lieut., Capt., B'vt. 



Major, i. 345, 367. 

 Methodist class formed in Hingham, 



members of the first, ii. 62. 

 Methodist Episcopal Church, an historical 

 sketch, and list of ministers ; other 

 references to the, ii. 62-64. 

 Methods of cultivation adopted by the 

 first settlers, and at later periods, ii. 183, 

 184. 

 Methods of transportation in years past, 



ii. 241, 242. 

 Middletown, Conn., address at, ii. 216. 

 Miles, Henry Adolphus, * § ii. 55, 217. 

 Miles, Mary, § ii. 218. 

 Military Commissions held by present or 

 former residents of Hingham, i. 331, 

 332, 337, 338, 339, 374. 

 Military companies in Hingham, lecture 



before several, ii. 204. 

 Military company formed in the Second 



Precinct (Cohasset), l. 250. 

 Military conscription, a plea for personal 



freedom from, ii. 231. 

 Military history, i. 209-374. 

 Military troubles, early, i. 217, ii. 3-15. 

 Military, volunteer companies of, i. 339. 

 Militia companies, i. 331, 332. 

 Militia company, the last, i. 362. 

 Militia officers to instruct their men in the 



art of war, i. 275. 

 Miller, Daniel H., i. 356. 

 Miller, Frank H., i. 349, 361. 

 Miller, George, i. 341. 

 Miller, Henry F., mortally wounded, 



i. 354. 

 Miller, Joseph S., i. 360. 

 Miller, William C, i. 352. 

 Millery, Esriglolm, i. 317. 

 Mill-house at Strait's Pond removed to 



Jerusalem road, ii. 155. 

 Mill-Lane Bridge, i. 170. 

 Mill privileges and sites, and persons who 

 were known by their occupation as 

 millers, early, ii. 155, 157, 161. 

 Mill, or Beechwood, River, i. 185. 



