Maryland, proprietary grant of, 64; and English trade, 138; charter recalled and restored, 146; quit-rents in, 164; social conditions in, 166, 167; forces cession of Western lands, 265. Mason, John, 57. Massachusetts Bay, grant of territory, 57; charter of, 64; settlement of, 90 _ff._; government of, 96 _ff._; dissensions in, 100 _ff._; and the New England Confederation, 106; relations with the Protectorate, 107; hangs the Quakers, 108 _ff._; ideals of the founders, 112 _ff._; growth of material interests in, 120; recall of the charter, 121 _ff._; charter of 1691, 146; repaid for conquest of Louisburg, 155; troops raised in the Seven Years' War, 159; rise of Puritan democracy in, 194 _ff._; paper money retired, 208; class conflict in, 242-44. Massacre of 1622 in Virginia, 62. Mather, Cotton, 120, 123. Mather, Increase, 120, 123. Mather, Richard, 93, 120. Mayhew, Jonathan, 220. Mediterranean. _See_ Levant. Mendoza, Cardinal, 23. Mendoza, Governor of New Spain, 33. Mennonites, 180. Mercantile theory, 48 _ff._ Merchant marine, 125, 137. Merchants, growing influence in Boston, 120; colonial system fashioned to suit the interests of English, 134 _ff._; trade with France during war, 145; colonial legislation influenced by, 183. _See_ Trade. Meuthen, Treaty of, 150. Mexico, 32, 33. Miami, English traders on the, 154. Michilimackinac, 142, 144. Middle colonies, population of, 162; extension of frontier in, 175 _ff._; North's resolutions of conciliation and the, 251; "levelling spirit of New England" feared in the, 246; opposed to declaration of independence in 1776, 253. Middleton, New Jersey, 133. Milan, 6. Mississippi Forts, 265, 266. Mississippi River, discovered, 33; explored, 143; boundary of the United States, 272. _See_ France in America. "Mohawks," 233. Mohawk Valley settlements, 131, 153, 179. Molasses Act, 139, 151, 207. Moluccas, 5. Monasteries, effect of destruction of the, 67. _Mondo Novo_, 27, 29. Money Bills, 164. Mongols, 7, 15. Monmouth, settled, 133; battle of, 261. Monopoly, non-importation and, 229. Montcalm, Marquis de, 159. Montesquieu, 215. Montezuma, 32. Montreal, 39, 45, 142. Moodie, Lady Deborah, 116. Moors, Prince Henry and the, 20. Moravians, 180, 186. Morgan, Daniel, 265. Morris, Robert, 254. Morristown Heights, 256. Mount Vernon, 274. Mutiny Act, extended to the colonies, 214; reenacted, 224; causes trouble in New York, 225, 226, 230. Narvaez, 33. National state, rise of centralized, 48 _ff._ Nationality, rise of sentiment of, 184 _ff._; French wars develop, 191; Franklin the embodiment of, 199. Native-born New Englanders, first generation of, 117. Natural rights, 172, 237. Naval stores, 50.