M

mail service. Seepostal service

Maine, 55, 211;

settlement of, 140

Makemie, Francis, 56

Maryland, 54, 75, 76, 77, 83, 84, 209, 235, 243, 244;

Assembly, 235;

militia, 232;

money in, 128, 129, 134;

proprietary in, 202;

religion in, 156, 166, 174;

slavery in, 97, 175, 178

Mascarene, Paul, 239

Mason, Charles, 75

Massachusetts, 29, 32–33, 35, 40, 50, 53, 55, 68, 74, 75, 118, 134, 159, 208, 212, 213, 218–219, 223, 243, 244, 252, 265;

Assembly, 17, 129, 135–136, 139–140, 144–145, 146, 147, 201, 211, 220, 222, 237, 251–252, 262;

Council, 17, 130, 136, 140, 144, 145, 146, 201, 221, 222;

education in, 21, 22, 26;

General Court, 17–18, 20, 22, 32, 132, 135, 210, 219, 222, 253;

militia, 40–41, 220, 221, 237, 251, 252–253;

money in, 127, 129, 130–133, 135–137, 139–140, 219;

newspapers in, 141, 144–147, 151, 152;

postal service in, 142;

proprietors in, 28;

religion in, 20–21, 23–24, 25, 146, 156, 157, 160, 162, 165, 166, 168–169, 170–172, 182, 188, 189, 196, 197;

slavery in, 18–20, 175, 178

Massachusetts Charter (1691), 20, 209, 210

Massachusetts Proposals (1705), 23

Mather, Cotton, 18–19, 20, 22, 23, 138, 158

Mather, Increase, 22, 23, 145

Mauduit, Israel, 258, 259, 262

Maule, Thomas, 151

Mayhew, Experience, 170, 171

Mayhew, Jonathan, 161, 171–172, 183, 188, 189, 196

mercantile restrictions, 202, 204, 205–214, 224, 268

Methodism, 166

Methodists, 161, 166

Middleton, Henry, 119

Middleton family, 106

military grants, 41

militia, 63, 64, 248, 253. See also individual colonies

militia: “association,” voluntary, 64—65, 67, 71, 74;

independent companies, 71

Mohawk Indians, 43

Molasses Act (1733), 212, 213–214

money. See individual colonies; paper money

monopoly, mercantilist, 75

Monson, Lord, 207, 224

Montcalm, Marquis de, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249

Montgomery, John, 36

Montgomery, Robert, 108

Moore, James, 90, 103

Moore, William, 152, 153–154

Moravians, 58, 73–74, 117

Morgan, Cadwallader, 174

Morgan, Thomas, 172

Morris, Lewis, 37, 47, 48, 49, 147, 148

Morris, Robert Hunter, 48, 49, 51–52, 68, 69, 71, 72, 234, 243

Morris, Samuel, 163

Mullenix, Horsman, 175

Murray, James, 249, 267