Burlesque Almanacs: see Dekker, Poor Robin, Rabelais, Billings. Burlington, Vt., stage, 294. Burney, Miss, her novels sold by Mr. Thomas, 318.
Burning over the woods, Indian cus- tom, 195.
Burnt Cabins, the, on the Ohio Road, 304.
Bushes, mowing, effect of the moon, 306, 310 ff.; eradicating, 328 ff. Bushnell, R., 351 f.
Busybodies, sketches of, 89, 90 f. Bute County, N. C., tavern, 263. Butter, cream bewitched, 206. Buttonwood bushes, 312. Buzzard's Bay, Mass., 246. Byron and Zeluco, 319.
CAKES, Shrove Tuesday, 177 f. Calash, 349.
Calendar, manuscript, 54; illustra- tions for, 62 ff.; Roman farmer's, 65 f. 78 f.; Anglo-Saxon, 66; Athenian liturgical, 66; illumin- ated, 66. See Farmer's Calendar. Cambridge, Eng., Christ's College, 3. Cambridge, Mass., Indian school at, 76; stage from Boston to, 290. See Harvard College. Canada, Jesuits in, 109; Indians of, 109, 124, 160.
Candler, Isaac, on American inquisi- tiveness, 268 f.; on inns, 269. Candles, 189. Cannibalism, 355 f. Canonchet, capture of, 356. Canso, N. S., 73. Canterbury Tales, 61, 72. Cantharides, 186 f.
Canton, Mass., stage from Boston to,
Cape Ann, stage from Boston to, 289.
Cape Cod, 96; Dwight's journey to, 129; salt manufacture on, 129 ff.; Thoreau's, 135; lighthouse on, 163. Cape of Good Hope, observatory at, 254 ff.
Captives taken by Indians, 171, 368 ff.
Cards, playing, 95 f., 139. Carleton, Osgood, 8 f.; his mathe- matical school, 8; his almanac, 8; his English accent, 8 f.; invited
to contribute Almanack, 8. Carts, 285.
Carver, Capt. John, his explorations, 320 f.; his escape at the massacre of Fort William Henry, 321. Castine, Maine, trial of Susup at, 365 f.
Cat, black, dreaming of, 206; cat's tail as weather sign, 205. Catalogue of books sold by R. B. Thomas, 318 ff.
Cato on agriculture, compared with the Farmer's Calendar, 79 f. Cattle shows, 93.
Caughnawaga Indians, 171. Ceyx and Alcyone, 196 f. Chabanakongkomun (Dudley, Mass.), 340 f.
Chairs or chaises, 286. Changing works, 179 ff. Chapbooks, 42, 137 ff. Chapmen and their books, 137 ff. Character sketches in the Almanac, 86 ff.
Charity inculcated, 81. Chaucer, 56, 61, 72, 155 f., 348, 355. Cheever, Ezekiel, anecdotes of, 231 ff.; elegy on, 232 f. Chemical medicine, rise of, 118. Chesterfield, Lord, his Letters, 318. Child, Francis J., his Ballads, 161. Chimneys, sweeping, 146; glazing, 148.
Christmas, objection to the celebra- tion of, 173 ff.; date of, 175 ff. Church, Thomas, his King Philip's War, 358.
Church of England, 174, 176 f. Church-going, 88.
Cider, 83 f., 172, 282, 315; selling to Indians, fine for, 351 f.
Cigars, 147, 154 f., 156 f., 220 f. Cincinnati, Society of, motto of, 263. Circle of the months, figure, 66. Clark, James, White Lion tavern, Boston, 288.
Clayton, B., translator of Israel Hübner, 314.
Clearing land, 311 ff., 328 ff. Clergy, 100, 108 ff., 125, 172 f., 175 ff.,
181 f., 197 f., 199 ff., 204 f., 223 f., 230, 260, 271, 336 ff. See Ministers. Cleveland, John, on the Man of the Signs, 58.
Climate, 191 ff. See also Weather. | Counter-irritants, 186 f. Clough, Samuel, his almanac, 58; on the Man of the Signs, 58. Clytemnestra, 115.
Coaches, private, 286. See Stage- coaches.
Cobbett, Wm., Treatise on Garden- ing, 141.
Cock, throwing at the, 177 f. Coffee, consumption of, 184 f.; po- tatoes as a substitute for, 184 f. Cogan, Dr. Thomas, on resuscitation, 163.
Cogswell, Dr. M. F., on Indian sum- mer, 191 f.
Coins, silver, value in 1797, 37. Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 235.
Columbiad, epic by Joel Barlow, 170. Columbian Centinel, 238, 276. Columbian Muse, 318.
Comets, 41; effect on weather, 191, 198 ff.; portentous, 198 ff.; In- crease Mather on, 199 f.; Professor Winthrop on, 200.
Company of Stationers, publishers of almanacs, 46 f. Congress in 1794, 234. Connecticut, maple sugar in, 122 f.; peddlers in, 144 f.; schools in, 227 f.; Sunday laws in, 238 f.; Indians in, 124 ff., 376 f.
Connecticut Courant, 164. Constables, Indian, 333 ff., 338, 340 ff. Constitution, frigate, 215. Continental Congress encourages salt- making, 133.
Conveyance, means of, 285 ff. Cooper, Judith (Sewall), 14. Corn, huskings, 168 ff.; red ears, 168, 171 f.; crows, 189 f.; corn crop and Indian summer, 198; uses of, 191; the word, in England and America, 327 f. Cornish, murder of, 75. Cornish language, 377. Cornstalks, molasses from, 129. Corpse, bleeding of, 74 ff. Corpse lights, 162.
Correspondents of the Almanac, 25 ff. Costume, 63 ff., 222; Indian, 359 f. Cotton, Rev. John. estate on Pem- berton (Cotton) Hill, 14. Cotton, John, 349.
Cotton, Rev. Seaborn, 14.
Courts, held at taverns, 278; Indian, 337 ff.
Courts martial, 210 f.
Coverly, N., Boston printer, 7. Cracow, salt mine at, 134. Cranfield, Gov. Edward, of New Hampshire, 374 ff. Cream bewitched, 206. Crosby, Rev. C. C. P., 5, 98. Crown Point, expedition to, in 1756, 4. Crows, means of preventing them from pulling up corn, 189 f. Cumberland Gazette, 182. Cure for greasy heels in horses, 188; wonderful cures, 115 ff.
Curiosity of Americans, 268 f. Currency, 37; different standards, 38; tenor bill, 352 f.
Currier, J. J., historian of Newbury, Mass., 262.
Curtis, G. W., on the Pilgrim and Puritan Christmas, 174 f. Cutler, Rev. Manasseh, on the weather, 198.
Cuts: see Illustrations.
DACIA: see Petrus de Dacia. Dairy, cleanliness in, 182. Dark Day of 1780, 203 ff.; of 1819, 205.
Davenport, Abraham, poem by Whit- tier, 203. Davis, John, traveller and pedagogue, on ballad peddler, 142 f.; on Fair- banks murder, 142 f.; on inns and innkeepers, 263, 283 f.; on motto of the Cincinnati, 263; on hospi- tality, 284.
Davis, Judge John, edition of Mor- ton's Memorial, 327, 333; on wheat, 327; version of Indian warrant, 333 f.; early life, 334.
Davy, John, M. D., on the poison of the toad, 115.
Day, Benjamin H., founder of New York Sun, 259; on the Moon
Day, Thomas, his Sandford and Mer- ton, 319.
Dead languages, Thomas Paine on, 319 f.
Deane, Samuel, D. D., his New Eng- land Farmer, or Georgical Diction-
ary, 142, 309f.; spinning bee at his | Dogs, Mr. Thomas on, 84. house, 181 f.; his character, 308 f.; his humor, 308 f.; on the moon's effect on apples, etc., 309 f. Dearborn, Benjamin, Directions for preventing Calamities by Fire, 146 ff.; his inventions, 152 f. Death and moon, 308. Debt, precepts concerning, 95. Decatur, Stephen, 215.
Domestic service, 84, 270 f., 281, 283, 286, 291.
Dominion of the moon in man's body,
Dedham, Mass., Sun tavern, 264 f., 304; stage from Boston to, 290; Indian school at, 345. Dedham Historical Register, 103. Deer Island, Mass., Indians confined in, 343 f., 368.
Defoe, Daniel, his Religious Court- ship, sold by Mr. Thomas, 319. Degrees, academic: LL. D., 234 ff.; A. M., 40 f., 116 f.
Dekker, Thomas, his Ravens Alma- nacke, 56; on the Man of the Signs, 56.
Delaware Indians, 353.
Democrats, headquarters at Tam- many Hall in 1818, 280. Demonology: see Witchcraft. Dennis, Mass., salt manufacture at, 129 f., 134 f.
Denny, Maj. Ebenezer, on Indian summer, 191.
De Quincey, on Indian summer, 192. Derne, capture of, 238. Devil, worship of, 108 ff.
Devoll, Capt. Jonathan, manufacturer of molasses from cornstalks, 129. De Witt, Benjamin, M. D., on Onon- daga salt-springs, 135. Dialect: see Language. Dickinson, John, his Farmer's Let- ters, 68; his portrait, 68. Dickman, Thomas, printer, 144. Digby, Sir Kenelm, his sympathetic powder, 115 ff.; on toads, 117; on the plague, 117; on magnetic treat- ment, 117.
Diseases, lunar, 314. Dissection of a plague-stricken pa- tient, 118.
Divoli, Hannah, captive among In- dians, 369. Divorce, Indian, 362.
Dodd, William, D. D., his character and execution, 318; his Thoughts in Prison, 318.
53 ff. Dorchester, Mass., stage from Bos- ton to, 289; opposition to railroad, 302. Drake, Sir Francis, his discoveries on the Pacific coast, 321.
Drake, S. G., his Book of the Indians, 241 ff., 358, 368; his account of Sam Hyde, 241 ff. Draught horses, 286. Dreams, 73, 206.
Drinking, 31 f., 168 ff., 172, 272 ff., 315. Drowning: recovery of bodies, 158 ff.;
resuscitation, 162 ff.; Dr. Rowland Jackson's treatise on, 164 ff. Drunkard, picture of a, verses, 31 f. Drunkenness, Indian, 335, 350 ff. Dublet (Dubler), Tom, Indian, 368, 372.
Dudley, Gov. Joseph, and the In- dian, 361 f.
Dudley, Paul, on maple sugar, 124; and Capt. Uring, 361. Dudley, Mass., Indian settlement, 340 f.
Duncan, J. M., description of Tam- many Hall, 279 f.
Dunton, John, his Letters from New England, 139, 250, 341; on mer- maids, 250.
Durham, Conn., tavern fare, 124. Dwight, Elizabeth A., 319. Dwight, Nathaniel, his Geography, 317.
Dwight, Thomas, M. D., 359. Dwight, Timothy, D. D., President of Yale College, tour to Cape Cod, 129; on salt manufacture, 129 f.; on peddlers, 144 f.; on Washington and mosquitoes, 249; on inns, 271 f.; on barberries, 329 f.
Earthquakes, Professor Winthrop and the Rev. Thomas Prince on, 200 ff. Eaton, Gen. William, and the Bey of Tunis, 208; encounter with tithing- man, 238 f.; capture of Derne, 238. Eclipses portentous, 59. Economies, small, 184 ff. Economy, 85 ff., 184 ff, 223.
Edes, Henry H., on Washington's FAIRBANKS, EBENEZER, 144. LL. D. and Professor Winthrop's, 235.
Education, theories of, 319 f. See Schools.
Edward VII, coronation, 48.
Eels, use in magnetic treatment, 117. Election sermons, 224.
Fairbanks, Jason, executed for murder, 142 ff.
Fairs, agricultural, 93.
Fales, Betsy, murder of, 143. Falmouth, Maine, 181; burning of, in 1775, 309. Falstaff, 193.
Farcey, how cured, 117.
Electricity and earthquakes, 201 ff. Fares on stage lines, 296; wagon
Elegies, 232 f.
Eliduc, Lay of, 120.
Eliot, Abigail, her brains, 307. Eliot, Rev. Jared, Essays on Field- Husbandry, 311 ff.; on the influ- ence of the moon on vegetation, 311 ff.
Eliot, Rev. John, his mission to the Indians, 336 ff., 367; service in Waban's wigwam at Nonantum, 335 f., 345; his character of Wa- ban, 336f.; his settlement of Natick, Mass., 336 f.; his Indian Bible, 371.
Eliot, Rev. John, the Younger, on education of women, 229. Eliot tracts, the, The Day-Breaking, etc., 196, 336 ff., 345, 351. Emancipation, 127 f.
Emerson, Rev. Wm., on use of to-
bacco smoke in resuscitation, 164. Eneström, G., on Petrus de Dacia, 54. Enfield, Conn., inn at, 264. England, witchcraft in, III ff.; inns in, 266 ff.
English grain, 198. English harvest, 198.
English language, spread of, pre-
dicted, 17; as spoken by Indians, 333 ff.; in America, see Language. Entertainment for man and beast, 262 ff.
Ephraim, Deacon, Natick Indian, 363.
Epsom salts, manufacture of, 134. Erra Pater, 42.
Essex, of U. S. Navy, 215. Essex (Mass.) Agricultural Society,
Essex Antiquarian, 74. Evans's tavern, Boston, 289. Exaggeration, humor of, 240 ff.
Exeter, N. H., books published at, 317. Exploration, 321.
fare, 296.
Farm hands, 85 f.
Farmer's Almanack, author and history of, 1 ff.; character of the time when first issued, 17; pref- ace to the first number, 18 f.; to the fiftieth number, 19 ff.; to that for 1901, 23f.; miscellaneous con- tributors to, 25 ff.; correspond- ents, 25 ff.; postage tables, 35 ff.; table of money, 37; freedom from astrology, 39, 53; illustrations, 62 ff.; anecdotes, 72 f., 104, 158 f.; Farmer's Calendar, 78 ff.; charac- ter sketches, 87 ff.; circulated by book peddlers, 139; directions for preventing calamities by fire, 146 ff.; directions for recovering persons apparently dead from drowning, 162, 164 f.; on huskings, etc., 168 ff.; on changing work, 179 ff.; on spinning, 182; on small economies, 184 ff.; on crows and corn, 189 f.; on Indian summer, 191; on superstition, 205 f.; on trainings, 209; military fines in, 209 ff.; list of U. S. Navy in 1813, 213 f.; on schools, 217 ff.; list of Congress in 1794, 234; on Sir William Herschel's discoveries in the moon, 251; on tavern-haunting, etc., 272 ff.; list of stages, 287 ff.; railroads, 299, 301 ff.; list of post roads, 303 ff.; on the moon, 305 ff.; on reading, 315 ff.; books adver- tised in, 318 ff.; on barberry bushes, 328 f.; Indian warrant in, 333 ff. See also Agriculture; Amusements; Anecdotes; Farmer's Calendar; Poetry; Proverbs; Thomas, R. B. Farmer's Calendar, Wit and Wis- dom of, 78 ff.; Roman, 65, 78 ff.; Mr. Thomas and Cato, 79 f. Farmer's Castle, on the Ohio,
Farmer's Letters, by John Dickinson, 68.
Farming: see Agriculture. Fearing, Israel, his gun, 245. Feast of Bricriu, Irish saga, 355- Federal Galaxy, 269.
Felt, J. B., historian of Ipswich, Mass., 73; on means of conveyance, 285. Ferguson, James, his Astronomy studied by Mr. Thomas, 6. Fetch fire, to, 155 f. Fevers and moon, 308.
Fiction in New England, 318 f., 322 f. Field, Edward, on taverns, 265, 296. Fielding, Mrs., Pequot, 377. Fielding's novels, sold by Mr. Thomas, 318.
Fines, for carrying fire or smoking in streets, 155 f.; for keeping Christmas, 174; for selling cider to Indians, 351 f.; military, 209 ff. Fire, precautions against, etc., 146ff.; carrying, 155f.; laws, 155 f. Fire companies and engines, 151 f. Fire-escapes, 152 f. Fire insurance, 28, 150.
romance of, 355. Gentleman's Magazine, 160, 308. Geography, works on, 315, 317, 320. German folk-lore, 159. Germans in America, 283. Gévaudun, Wild Beast of, 69 ff. Ghost stories, 73. Giotto, 67.
Giraldus Cambrensis, on weasels, 120. Girdling trees, 311. Girls' schools, 229 f. Glade Road, Old, 304.
Glanvil, Rev. Joseph, on witchcraft,
Glauber's salts, manufacture of, 134 f. Goble, Daniel, executed, 374.
Godfrey of Bulloigne, chapbook, 139.
Flying Machine, coach, 296; Flying God's Revenge against Murder, 72.
Mail, coach, 296.
Flying stationers, 137 ff.
Folk-lore: see Superstitions. Folk-medicine, 118 f.
Food at inns, 279f., 286.
Fool's gold, fool's parsley, etc., 196.
Footman, -75.
Forman: see Smith and Forman.
Fortunatus, chapbook, 139.
Gods, Indian, 109.
Göldi, Anna, alleged witch, 114. Goodale, Azubah, 4. Goodale, Joseph, 4.
Gookin, Daniel, 337, 339 ff.; as
Indian magistrate, 340 ff.; opinion of Waban, 337; Indian letter to, 373.
Goose Lone as weather sign, 205. Goose-summer, 196.
Fowler, James, on the figures of the Goshen, Conn., 123.
France, salt-making in, 133. Francis, Convers, D.D., biography of Judge John Davis, 334. Franklin, Benjamin, and Thomas, I f.; on labor in America, 180; lightning rods, 201; Auto- biography, 316, 320. Free will, controversy between Hobbes and Bramhall, 57.
Gossip, characterized, 89, 90 f. Go-summer, 195.
Gout, moxa as cure for, 187. Grafting and the moon, 313. Grafton, Mass., Indian ruler at, 342; Indian proprietors of, 371 f. Grain: see Corn; English grain;
Grammar schools, 226 f. Grammars, 230.
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