Index to History. 



419 



Prisoners taken by the English and Col- 

 onists, i. 264. 



Prisoners during the Civil War, i. 307. 



Private or dame schools, their influence 

 not to be underestimated ; names of 

 several teachers of, ii.84, 143, 144. 



Proclamation relating to bounties, i. 195. 



Produce, the price of, ii. 184. 



Professor in the Divinity School at Cam- 

 bridge, and of pulpit eloquence, ii. 353. 



Prohibition, the errors of, ii. 196. 



Prominent contributors toward the estab- 

 lishment and support of the Free Chris- 

 tian Mission, ii. 69. 



Property, real and personal, in the hands 

 of the treasurer of the trustees of 

 Derby Academv, ii. 139. 



Prospect Hill, i. 197. 



" Protector," the armed ship, i. 327. 



Prouty, Benjamin W., i. 354. 



Prouty, David, i. 299, 310. 



Prouty, Elijah (Weymouth), i. 341 ; died 

 in the Civil War, 354. 



Prouty, George M., i. 349. 



Prouty, Isaac, transferred to V. R. C, 

 i. 355. 



Proutv, James B., i. 349. 



Prouty, John H. (W. Scituate), i. 342; 

 2d Lieut., 354, 367. 



Prouty, William, Jr. (W. Scituate), l. 

 342, 355. 



Publications, ii. 193-240. 



Public benefactors. See Benefactors. 



Public conveyances, ii. 241-256. 



Public halls a necessity in the social life 

 of a community, ii. 288. 



Public institutions, ii. 271-288. 



Public Library, the Hingham, history of, 

 and report to the town by its presi- 

 dent, Solomon Lincoln, ii. 144-154. 



Public schools, records relating to the, 

 ii. 83-115. 



Puffer, Rev. and Mrs. Stephen ; their 

 liberality in furnishing pecuniary aid 

 for the erection of the Methodist meet- 

 ing-house and parsonage, ii 63, 64. 



Pugsley, Sewall, i. 355; died in the Civil 

 War, 356. 



Pulpit exchanges with the ministers of 

 other religious societies, correspondence 

 on the subject of, ii. 221. 



Pump and block makers, ii. 173. 



Punch-bowl, The, i. 159. 



Purgatory Swamp, i. 167. 



Putnam, George W. R., i. 362. 



Putnam, Israel, Major-General, i. 265, 

 294. 



Quamino Rock, i. 158. 



Quebec, defeat of the American forces 



at ; surrender of, i. 268, 283, 284. 

 Queen Ann's Corner, i. 183, 185. 

 Queen Ann's Turnpike, i. 183. 

 Quincy, an oration delivered before the 



citizens of, ii. 214. 



Quincy Light Infantry visits Hingham, 



the, i. 338. 

 Quincy, regiment of Colonel Josiah, i. 



2G9. 

 Quotas of the town, how made, i. 316. 

 Quotations from a record of the school 



committee, ii. 91. 

 Quotations from diaries and letters, i. 



250, 288, 289, 300, 301 ; ii. 22, 137. 



Raffertt, Thomas, Jr., i. 349, 360. 



Ragged Island, i. 177. 



Randall, Stephen, i. 262. 



Randall, William, i. 366. 



Randallwining, George, i. 259. 



Ranslow, a battalion of negroes to carry 



small-pox people to Albany, under the 



command of Colonel, i. 268. 

 Rattlesnake Den, Rock, and Run, i. 166, 



167, 168. 

 Rawson, sermon at the instalment of Rev. 



Grindall, ii. 205. 

 Raymond, James G., died at Hilton Head, 



i. 360. 

 Raymond, Theodore (Wej r mouth), i. 



341. 

 Read, company of Capt., i. 260. 

 Reardon, Michael, i. 350. 

 Rebel Army, declined accepting a com- 

 mission in the, i. 356. 

 Recent Period (Geological) ; its effect 



upon climate, i. 68, 69. 

 Reception of the Lincoln Light Infantry 



upon its return from Portress Monroe, 



i. 342. 

 Records of the school committee, earl}-, 



ii. 88. 

 Reed, George R., i. 341 ; Lieut., Capt., 



347, 367. 

 Reed, John A., i. 351. 

 Reed, regiment of Colonel John, i. 310. 

 Re-enlistments, i. 283. 

 Reformation, an essay tending to pro- 

 mote, ii. 219. 

 Regiments ordered to Canada, i. 301. 

 " Register and Meteorological Journal," 



Sprague's, ii. 224. 

 Register of Probate for Plymouth County, 



ii. 339. 

 Regular communications of Old Colony 



Lodge of Ancient Free and accepted 



Masons, concerning the, ii. 291, 292. 

 Regulation of the schools, report on the, ii. 



93, 94. 

 Relief for the families of the Lincoln 



Light Infantry needing assistance, 



means devised for the, i. 342. 

 Religion, foundation, evidences, and 



truth of, ii. 227. 

 Religion, Thoughts on True and False, ii. 



218. 

 Religious Customs of New England, the 



Early, ii. 231. 

 Religious denominations referred to, ii. 



341, 342 (2), 343 (2), 345 (2), 348, 349, 



