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School-girls raise money for Soldiers' Aid Society, 111.
Scolds, treatment of, 58.
Screws, infinitesimal, 136.
Scurvy, many sick with, 15.
Sea Island cotton, 126.
Seal of Watertown, 63.
Second Congregational Church (Whitman's, 1826) organized, 114.
Second Orthodox Church organized and dissolved, 114.
Second Religious Society (1812), 109; rejoins First Church, 110.
Second Religious Society (1820) incorporated, 112; Rev. Sewall Harding ordained pastor, 113; dismissed, 113; meeting-houses of, 113, 114.
Second Religious Society (1826), Bernard Whitman, pastor, 114: Warren Burton, pastor, 114; meeting-house struck by lightning, 115; new church on the Common, 115; sold to the Methodists, 115.
Selectmen, first use of the name, 34; first of Watertown, 34.
Servants, full supply of, 59.
Settlements, earlier New England, 9.
Settlers, dispersion of the, 15; many deaths among, 15; one hundred return, 16; privations and sufferings, 18; increase in numbers, 31; scattered upon farms, 53.
Sever, Nicholas, tutor at Harvard College, 119.
Sewall, Judge, extract from diary of, 49.
Shade trees marked, 52 n. 2; planted by Factory Co., 132; by Farmers' Club, 140.
Shattuck, Philip, funeral of, 72.
Shays, Daniel (Shays's rebellion), 107.
Shedd, Geo. F., machine-shop of, 97.
Sheetings, extra wide, manufactured, 133.
Sherman, Capt., John, 61.
Sherman, John, Jr., killed, 61.
Sherman, Rev., John. preaches his first sermon, 45; removes to Weathersfield, 46; returns and is ordained pastor, 48; autograph, 48 n. 1; lectures to Harvard students, 49.
Sherman's Pond, 27 n. 1; singular fatality to fish in, 28.
Sickness among the settlers, 15; and mortality at Charlestown, 22.
Simmons, Rev., George, installed over Indep.
Cong. Soc., 116.
Sir Loin of beef knighted, 66 n. 1.
Skelton, Samuel, pastor at Salem, 11.
Sleepers in church kept awake, 76.
Small lots, 39, 50.
Small-pox Hospital, 80, 91.
Smith: David built ‘Brick Tavern,’ 89, 90; Samuel built ‘ Prospect House,’ 89.
Snake Rock Hill, 106.
Soil rich in Trapelo, 81.
Soldiers' Aid Society, 111.
Soldiers drafted for Indian war, 62.
Soldiers' monument, 110.
Somersetshire, colonists from 13.
Somerville, 38.
Southcot, Mr., a brave soldier, 14.
Southside. territory included in, 137.
Spirit of liberty in thought and action, 23.
Sportsman's paradise, 81.
Spring. Dr. Marshall, 82 n. 1.
Springfield settled, 40.
Squadron lines, 51.
Squeb, Capt., a merciless man, 13; lands his passengers on Nantasket Point, 13.
Steam-power introduced at factory, 133.
Steams: Isaac, autograph, 79; 81, 100; Isak, autograph, 79; Jonathan, 88; Phinehas, 79; Samuel, 124.
Stearns, Rev. Dr., of Lincoln, 77.
Sterns, Widow, 53.
Stirling, Lord, received grant of Long Island, etc., 46.
Stocks set up, 71.
Stone, Capt., 40, 42.
Stone rolling-dam, 127.
Stony Brook, 15 n. 2, 38; boundary of middle precinct, 54; first mill at. 93, 124.
Stoughton Hall, Harvard College, 44 n. 3.
Stoughton, Israel, assists in exterminating the Pequots, 44; William, 44 n. 3.
Stove in church, 112.
Straight, Thomas, house of, 65, 78.
Students walk from Cambridge to Rev. John Sherman's lectures, 49.
Sudbury, 20, 47; attacked by Indians, 62.
Sudbury, Suffolk Co., England, 23 n. 1.
Suicide, first at Watertown, 63.
Sulphuric acid, manufacture of, 134.
Sumner, Dr., Enos, 125.
Sunday afternoon offerings, 58-9.
Supplies for the colony provided, 12.
Swanzey attacked by Indians, 60.
Swine, resolutions concerning, 33; allowed to run at large, 73.
Taverns, number of, 90-1.
Taxation, Watertown resists, 29.
Tax list, first, of Waltham, 48.
Teams go South with goods, 126.
Tea-selling bachelor (a), 85.
Territory, earliest divisions of, 50.
Thanksgiving, day of, 13.
Throstle filling frame, 131.
Timmins, Henry, 96.
Tin Horn, village of, 127.
Toothache remedy, 59.
Tovi, the Dane, founder of Waltham, Eng., 66-7.
Town, first use of the name, 33.
Town clerk, 34.
Town-meeting, fine for absence from, 52; first in Waltham, 70.
Town Plot, 52.
Townsend, Col., David, 84.
Townsend: Cornet David, 84, 85, 87: Deacon Samuel, 87.
Township, reservation for a, 51.
Trainings every Saturday, 18.
Trapelo road first settled, 78-9; origin of name, 78 n. 1.
Trimountaine, old name of Boston, 16 n. 2.
Trinitarian Congregational Church organized, 112; present name taken, 113; meeting-house of, 113-114.
Trumbull, Col. Jonathan, commissioner to England under Jay's treaty, 82.
Thomas Lewis, Landscape Photographs, 1879.
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