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Mease's Picture of Philadelphia | Mercurius Populus, ii, 246

cited, i, 270.

Mecor & Osborne, ii, 94.
Mecom, Benjamin, i, 86; stereotyper,
32; notice of, 142; at Antigua,
142; returns to Boston, 142;
bookseller, 142; moved to New
Haven, and postmaster there,
143; anecdote of, 144; New
Haven, 189; printer at Antigua,
Boston, and New Haven, 189;
printer in Antigua, Boston, New
Haven and Philadelphia, 259;
lives at Burlington, N. J., 260;
attempted stereotype printing,
270; ii, 70, 170, 192.
Medford, i, 177, 178.
Medina, J., i, 377.
Mein, John, i, 150, 151, 152; book-
seller, Boston, notice of, 152,
loyalist; and odious to the
people, 154; goes to London,
154; ii, 60, 228; 230.
Mein & Fleming, ii, 59, 60, 145,
150, 152, 192.

Mein & Sandeman, i, 153.

Memoires des Arts et des Sciences,
ii, 5.

Memoirs of the life of Gen. Charles
Lee, ii, 159.

Memoir of Isaiah Thomas, ii, preface,
xvii.

Memoirs of Literature, ii, 6.
Menkenius, ii, 5.

Mendoza, i, 368, 371, 372.
Mendoza, D. Antonio de, i, 367.
Mendoza, D. G., Hurtado de, i, 379;
introduces printing into Spanish
America, i, 1.

Mennonist meeting, N. Rittenhouse
a member of, i, 21.
Mensagero of Havana, ii, 198.
Mercuries, English, ii, 3, 246.
Mercurio Peruano de Historia Lit-

eratura y Noticias publias, i, 6.
Mercurius Academicus, ii, 246.
Mercurius Americanus, ii, 246.
Mercurius Anti-Pragmaticus, ii, 246.
Mercurius Aulicus, London, ii, 246.
Mercurius Bellicus, ii, 246.
Mercurius Britannicus, ii, 246.
Mercurius Cambro Britannicus, ii,
246.

Mercurius Candidus, ii, 246.
Mercurius Civicus, ii, 246.
Mercurius Diutinus, ii, 246.
Mercurius Dogmaticus, ii, 246.
Mercurius Elencticus, ii, 246.
Mercurius Melancholicus, ii, 246.

Mercurius Pragmaticus, ii, 246.
Mercurius Publicus, ii, 3.
Mercurius Rusticus, ii, 3, 246.
Mercurius Veridicus, ii, 246.
Mercury, The Newport, i, 195, 196,
199, 200.

Meredith, Hugh, i, 233, 239, 240,
241; partner of Franklin, 234,
240; dissolves partnership, 234,
240; ii, 135.
Meredith & Franklin, Philadelphia,
i, 234; ii, 135.
Mesplet, Fleury, ii, 183.
Mexican arts, coinage, engraving,
i, 34.

Mexican Gazette, i, 9.
Mexican painting and engraving, i,

1.

Mexican post, ii, 2.

Mexican sculptures, i, 34, 35.
Mexico, i, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 18,

19, 20; early printing in, 1, 2,
4.5, 47; gazettes in, 6; hist.
of printing in, by J. R. Bartlett,
366; hist. of early books in,
373 paper making in, 18, 19,
20; ii, 197.

Michigan territory, hist. of printing
in, i, 354, 355; newspapers in,
ii, 177.

Mico, John, deposition of, i, 417, 418,
420, 421, 422, 423.

Middlesex Record, cited, i, 385, 386.
Middleton, Ct., ii, 242.

Middleton Point, N. J., i, 312; ii,
124.

Milborne, Jacob, ii, 259.
Mill at Chester, i, 381.
Miller, Dr., cited, ii, 5, 2C0, 204.
Miller, Henry, i, 269, 286; ii, 142, 147.
Miller, Henry, or John Henry, print-

er, Philadelphia, i, 253; returns
to Europe; lives in Marienburg,
253; again at Philadelphia, or
Lancaster, 254; bookseller, 254;
zealous whig, 254; his vale-
dictory, 255; goes to Bethlehem,
and dies, 255; his wife, 255.
Miller, Peter, conveyancer, Phila.,
i, 249, 250, 251; printer, Ephra-
ta, 287, 288; erects a paper
mill, 288; prints religious
books, 288; notice of, 289;
death, 289.

Miller, Wm., bookseller, Boston, i,
307; ii, 229.

Miller & Holland, printers, Lan-
caster, i, 286.

Mills, Nathaniel, i, 173; notice of.
171; partner of J. Hicks, 171;
loyalist, 172; went to Halifax,
172; to Great Britain, 172; to N.
Y., 172; to Halifax, 172.
Mills & Hicks, i, 140, 145, 152, 171,
173, 174; loyalists, 172; at
Halifax, 172; at N. Y., 172;
again at Halifax, 172; ii, 59.
Milton, paper mill, ii, 224.
Minerva, figure of, ii, 551.
Minnesota, printing in, i, 355, ii,
178.

Minshull, Miss, marries Jas. Riving-
ton, i, 309.

Mint, F. Geiger engraver at, i, 30.
Mint, Jacob Bay engraver at, i, 29.
Mirabeau's works condemned. i, 9.
Mischianza, or Fête Champêtre at
Philadelphia, i, 412.
Missale Romanum, i, 375.
Missionaries, printing introduced by,
i, 2.

Missions, Indian, i, 394.
Mississippi, printing in, i, 355.
Mississippi territory, hist. of printing
in, i, 354; newspapers in, ii,
176, 177.

Missouri, printing in, i, 355; news-
papers in, ii, 177.
Misteca Theologia, i, 378.
Mist's Journal, ii, 6.

Mitchel, Rev. Jonathan, licenser of
the press, i, 16, 58, 59.
Mitchell's Nehemiah upon the wall,
i, 70.

Mitchelson, Mr., first type founder
in Boston, i, 27.
Mixe dictionary and grammar, i, 7.
Miztecan grammar, i, 7.

Moderate Intelligencer, The, ii, 246.
Molina, Alonzo de, i, 375, 376, 377;

dictionary by, 2, 3, 336.
Monathlichen Untervedungen, ii, 6.
Money coined by Mexicans, i, 34.
Monis, Prof. of Hebrew, i, 127.
Monitor General, of Saint Domingo,
i, 11.

Monmouth, battle of, ii, 158, 160.
Monmouth, Duke of, i, 210.
Monmouth, N. J., ii, 110.

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Moody's Souldiers Spiritualized, i,
72.

Moore, Judge Wm., ii, 145, 146, 147.
Moore, Sir Henry, ii, 112.
Moore's Notes on Hist. of Slavery in
Mass. cited i, 99.
Moral Monitor, ii, 78.
Morecroft, Mr., i, 390.
Morris, Anthony, i, 408, 409.
Mortgage given by Stephen Daye,
i, 43.

Morton's New England Memorial,
i, 70.

Mother Goose's Melodies, reputed
author of, i, 145.
Motteux,, ii, 212.
Moulding machines, by Dr. Kins-
ley, i, 36.

Mount Vernon, letter dated, ii, 161.
Moxon, presses in time of, i, 36.
Mozard, M., printer, Port au Prince,
i, 10.

Muhlenburgh, Frederick Augustus,
i, 280.

Munro, John, i, 177.

Murrey, Humphrey, i, 408, 409.
Musgrave, Philip, printer, Boston,
i, 110; printer, and publisher of
Boston Gazette, 106; ii, 29, 31,
250.
Mycall, John, printer, Newburyport,
i, 11, 180; ii, 76.

Mycall, Thomas, death of, i, 180.
Mycall & Tinges, Newburyport, i,

180; retires to farm in Harvard,

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National Democrat, i, 201.

National Intelligencer, ii, 9.
National Observer. i, 201.
Necessity of an early Religion,

by Tho. Bray, ii, 243.

Neglect of Supporting and Main-
taining the Pure Worship of
God, ii, 241.

Neilson, John, ii, 183.
Neilson, Samuel, ii, 183.
Nevil, Judge, ii, 150.
Nevil, Samuel, ii, 129.
Nevill, Judge, edits laws of N. J.,
i, 314.

New American Magazine, ii, 150;
Woodbridge, N. J., ii, 129.
Newark, Hugh Gaine at, i, 301; ii,
110.

Newbern, hist. of printing in, i, 338;

ii, 9; newspapers in, 166.

New Biscay, i, 9.

New England Weekly Journal, ii,
30; hist. of, 39 to 42; incor-
porated with Boston Gazette, 42.
New Hampshire, i, 18, 25, 33; bank
bills in, 33; hist. of printing
in, 18, 205; no paper mills in
at time of revolution, 137;
paper mills in, 25; ii, 8, 52;
Hist. Soc. Coll. cited, 12; J.
Usher, lieut., gov., 206; news-
papers in, 93.

New Hampshire Gazette, Exeter, i,
132; ii, 82, 97.

New Brunswick, newspapers in, ii, New Hampshire Gazette or Exeter

184.

Newburgh, N. Y., ii, 106.
Newburyport, i, 11, 32, 170, 179,
180; hist. of printing in, 179;
T. Mycall, printer at, 11; press
at, 170; stereotype experiments
at, 32; Whitefield dies at, 342;
ii, 8, 56; booksellers in, 232;
hist. of newspapers in, 76.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ii, 3.
Newcome, Thomas, printer, London,
ii, 3.

New England Chronicle, ii, 74.
New England Chronicle, or the
Essex Gazette, ii, 74.
New England Chronology, ii, 66.
New England Courant, i, 16, 114.
194, 406; ii, 19, 20, 22.
New England Courant, published

by J. Franklin, i, 110, 111, 112,
hist. of, ii, 31 to 38; denounced
by Increase Mather, 33; printer,
imprisoned, 33; opposed by
general court, 33, 34, 35; evasive
transfer, 37.

New England Gazette, controversy,
ii, 249.

New England Gen. Register, cited,
i, 235, 331.

New England Journal, Boston, i,
106.

New England Magazine, ii, 86.
New England Magazine of Know.

ledge and Pleasure, hist. of, i,
142; ii, 69, 70.
New England, paper mills in, i, 25;
pleaded with, etc., 72.
New England Primer, i, 143.
New England Spelling Book, i, 134.
New England Spirit of Persecution
transmitted to Pennsylvania,

etc., i, 213.
New England version of the Psalms,
i, 46, 65; specimen of, 404, 405;
ii, 205.

Morning Chronicle, ii, 97; hist.
of, 93; title changed, 94.
New Haven, i, 65, 75, 143, 189, 298,
299, 303, 314; colony, 393;
hist. of printing in, 188; ii, 8,
68, 87, 90, 192; booksellers in,
233; newspapers in, 85.
New Jersey Gazette, history of, ii,
128.

New Jersey, history of printing in, i,
314; laws of, 314; money printed
by Keimer, 232; William Frank-
lin, governor of, 237; newspa-
pers printed in, ii, 128.

New Jersey Journal, ii, 128.
New Lights, facetious allusion to, i,
103.

New London, i, 17, 95, 106, 107

127, 185, 186, 187, 189, 190,
201, 203, 225, 321, 353; first
printing in, 17; hist. of printing
in, 184; Jonas Green settles at,
127; summary, hist. of, 87, 88,
T. Green at, 120; ii, 8, 13, 88,
174; newspapers in, ii, 87.
New London Gazette, hist. of, ii. 88;
changed to Connecticut Gazette,
88.

New Market races, i, 307.
New Mexico, i. 9.
New Orleans, i, 355, 413; news-
papers in, ii, 177.
New Plimouth, i, 70.
Newport, i, 112, 162, 164, 177, 195,

196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201,
358; hist. of printing in, 194;
J. Franklin sets up first press
at, 112; newspapers in, 80; ii,
8, 38, 56, 69, 82; booksellers
in, 234.

Newport Mercury, i, 199, 200; ii,
93; hist. of, 81, 82.
New Providence, i, 128: E. Love

dies at, 128; printing in, ii, 194.
News from Beyond Seas, ii, 246.

News Letter, first and last title of
paper in Boston, before revolu-
tion, i, 176.
Newspapers, first American, ii, 7;
general observations upon, 199;
number in 1810, 199; Rev. Dr.
Miller's remarks upon, 200;
literary importance, 200; ad-
vertisements, 200; universal use,
201; form of changed, 200;
hist. of, 1; statistics of in 1810, 7.
New Spain, i, 5, 9, 18; researches

more practicable in, 5.
New States, hist. of printing in, i,

352; newspapers in, ii, 175.
New Style, explanation of, i, 109.
New Testament, i, 108; first attempt
to stereotype, 260; Indian, 54,
55, 58, 66; printing of, 75, 393;
395; printed at Boston, 129;
printed at Trenton, 317; Ro-
gers & Fowle, privately printed,
123; D. Henchman publishes, ii,
217.

Newton, i, 174.

Newton & Peck, ii, 87.
New World, ii, 9.
New York, i, 18, 25, 26, 31, 32,
115, 117, 119, 172, 174, 175,
188, 189, 192, 193, 202, 207,
223, 224, 225, 229, 232, 241,
261, 264, 268, 269, 283, 284,
298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303,
304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309,
310, 311, 314, 324, 363, 366,
381, 407, 412, 413, 415; B.
Franklin at, 115, 119; hist.
of printing in colony of, 290;
in city of, 291; in 1700, 291; in
1760, 18; Col. Docs. cited, i,
299; Doc. Hist. cited, 301, 303;
early paper mills in, 25; type
foundry by A. G. Mappa, at,
31; ii, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 68,
85, 90, 101, 102, 103, 106, 107,
108, 110, 118, 119, 125, 127,
128, 133, 148, 177, 189, 231;
booksellers in, 234; N. Y. Hist.
Coll. cited, 121; hist. of news
papers in, 98.
New York Chronicle, i, 314;
of, ii, 120.

hist.

New York Journal, i, 303, 304.
New York Evening Post, i, 300;
ii, 142; hist. of, 108.
New York Gazette, Bradfords', ii, 98,
99, 101, 116.

New York Gazette, i, 294, 206, 297,
302, 312; hist. of, ii, 111, 112;

New York Gazette, revived in the
Weekly Post Boy, ii, 104.
New York Gazette, and Weekly
Mercury, ii, 109.

New York Gazetteer and Northern
Intelligencer, Albany, ii, 126.
New York Gazette and Post Boy,
Parker's, i, 298, 302, 306; hist.
of, Parker, ii, 104.
New York Gazette, or the Weekly
Post Boy, ii, 105.

New York Journal and Daily Patri-
otic Register, ii, 119.
New York Journal, or General Ad-
vertiser, ii, 116.

New York Mercury, i, 197, 301;
hist. of, ii, 109, 110.
New York Mercury and General Ad-
vertiser, ii, 123.

New York Packet, i, 312, 410.
New York Packet and American
Advertiser, hist. of, ii, 124.
New York Pacquet, hist. of, ii, 115.
New York Thursdays Gazette and

Weekly Post Boy, ii, 116.
New York Weekly Journal, i, 299;
hist. of, ii, 99; publisher (Zen-
ger), prosecuted, 100; not in-
dicted, 100; tried upon inform-
ation and acquitted, 101, 102,103.
Nicholson, Commodore, i, 326.
Nicholson Wm., cylindrical presses

made in London, by, i, 36, 37.
Nicola, Lewis, bookseller, Philadel-
phia, i, 238; ii, 150.
Night Walker, the, ii, 212.
Noel Garrat, bookseller N. Y., ii,
235.

Noll and Hazard, booksellers, N.
Y., ii, 235.

Norfolk, i, 261, 325; ii, 165.
Norristown, i, 285.
North Carolina, i, 156, 162, 240,

412; hist. of printing in, 338;
ii, 9; newspapers in, 166.
North Carolina Gazette, Newbern,
'hist. of, ii, 166.

North Carolina Gazette and Week-
ly Post Boy, ii, 167.
North Carolina Magazine, or Uni-
versal Intelligencer, ii, 166
Norton's Heart of New England
rent, etc., i. 64.
Norwalk, i, 207.
Norwich, i, 72, 193, 305, 353; hist. of
printing in, 192; ii, 148, 187;
Jubilee, cited, 91; newspapers
at, 91.
Norwich Packet, ii, 127.

Norwich Packet, The, and Ct., Mass., | Orderanzas, etc., i, 272.

N. H. and R. I. Weekly Adver-
tiser, hist. of, ii, 91, 92.

Notes and Queries cited, ii, 3.
Notes from most parts of Christen-
dom, ii, 3.

Nottingham, England, i, 208.
Nouvelle (la) de la Republique des
lettres, ii, 5.
Nova Literaria Maris Balthici, ii, 6.
Nova Scotia, i, 157, 158, 159, 177,
358, 361; hist. of printing in,
357; ii, 9, 181, 280; newspapers
in, 179.

Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly
Chronicle, ii, 181.

Nova Scotia Packet, i, 264.
Nowell's Almanac, 1665, i, 68.
Nuñez, Don Joseph, certificate of, i,
10.

Nuthead, Wm., printer at St. Maries,
Md., 1689, i, 320.

Ordenanzas de Antonio de Mendoza,
i, 374.

Ordenanzas que mando hacer, D.
Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, etc.,
i, 379.

Ordenanzas sobre alcabalas, i, 376.
Order of the Gospel, the, i, 290, 420.
421.

Ordinarium sacri ordinis hæremita-
rum, i, 375.

Ordinationes legumque collectiones,
pro convento juridico, Mex., i,
372.

Ore, Geronimo de, i, 378.
Oregon, printing in, i, 355; ii, 178.
Orsuna, F. Bravo de, i, 374.
Osborne, Governor, ii, 109.
Oswald, Ebenezer, printer, Phila-
delphia, i, 268.

Oswald, Eleazer, i, 202, 328; ii, 119.
Otis, James, anecdote of, ii, 257, 258.

Nutter, Valentine, bookseller and Otis, John, ii, 257.
binder, N. Y., ii, 236.

Oakes, Urian, book on astronomical
calculations by, i, 48; elegy by,
70; Fast sermon by, 73; sermon
by, 71, 72; poem dedicated to, ii,
242.

Observations, general, ii, 199.
O'Callaghan's List of editions of Am.

Bibles, cited, i, 108, 272, 273,
299, 403; ii, 113, 115, 152.
Ocharte, 'Pedro, printer, Mex., i, 373,
375, 376, 377.

Ogilvie, Rev. Mr., i, 302.
Ohio Gazette, ii, 176.
Ohio Patriot, ii, 176.

Ohio, printing in, i, 354; newspapers
in, ii, 176.

Old meeting house in Cornhill, Bos-
ton, burned in 1711; rebuilt and
known as the Old Brick, i, 93.
Oliver, Capt. James, aids first press
in Cambridge, i, 39.

Oliver, Lt. Governor, ii, 71.

Otomi dictionaries and grammars, i, 7.
Ovidii Nasonis tam de tristibus, i,
377.

Ovid's Metamorphoses translated, i,
235.

Owfield, Sarah, married Rev. Joseph
Glover, i, 41.

Oxford, i, 281, 302; first Gazette at,
ii, 4.

Oxfordshire, England, i. 113.

Pablos, Juan, Mexico, i, 367, 371,
372; the first printer in Mexico,
366.

Pacock & Sill, i, 387.
Padilla, i, 366, 367.
Padilla, Augustin Davilla, cited, i,
372.

Page, Dr.. Ms. Hist. of Cambridge,
cited, i, 44.

Paine, Thomas, Common Sense, by,

i, 261; anecdote of, ii, 151, 152.
Paintings, Mexican, i, 19.
Palacio, Garcia del, i, 377, 378.

Oliphant, Andrew, bookseller, Pro- Panizzi, Antonio, ii, 3.

vidence, ii, 234.

Olmos, Andres de, i, 375.

Papen, Heiver, married Elizabeth
Rittenhouse, i, 22.

Omnia Domini Andreæ, Alciati Em- Paper hangings, statistics of, i, 26.

blemata, i, 377.

Oña, Pedro de, i, 380

Onzeno de Amidas, i, 371.
Opera Medicinalia, i, 374.
Orange county, N. Y., ii, 105, 106
Orcharte, Melch., printer, Santiago
Tlatilulco, i, 378. See Ocharte.

Paper made at Germantown, i, 20.
Paper making, i, 381; historical

notice of, 18.

Paper mill, at Elizabethtown, N. J., i,
294; first in America, 21; swept
away, 21; first rebuilt, 22; en
larged, 22; second in British

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