Mason, Jeremiah, elected senator from New Hampshire, vii. 48; votes against a mission to Sweden, 63; his speech against Giles’s bill for drafting militia, viii. 271; votes for internal improvements, ix. 151. Mason, John Thomson, declines appointment as attorney-general, iii. 11; iv. 168. Mason, Jonathan, iv. 411; his letter to Nicholas on the alternative to disunion, viii. 306, 307. Massa, Duc de, letter from, v. 347. Massac (see Fort Massac). Massachusetts, population of, in 1700 and 1800, i. 20; valuation of, 23; society of, in 1800, 76; political divisions of, 76, 82; suffrage in, 86; intellectual activity of, 93; separatist tendency in, 138; judicial tenure in, 256; Jefferson’s conception of, 310, 315, 329; the necessary head of a New England Confederation, ii. 163; election of May, 1804, 163; political apathy in, 165–168, 170; chooses republican electors in 1804, 201, 204; anxiety for settlement of eastern boundary, 392; militia of, iv. 210; feelings of, toward Virginia in 1808, iv. 409–420, 433; proceedings of legislature in February, 1809, 416; address of legislature in March, 1809, 456; “Patriotick Proceedings” of, in 1809, 458, 459; tonnage of, v. 15; manufactures of, 17–19; resolutions of legislature regarding F. J. Jackson, 214; election of 1810, 215; republican control of, in 1810 and 1811, vi. 115; Federalists recover control in 1812, 204; gives trouble to Dearborn, 305; refuses obedience to call for militia, 309; temper of, in 1812, 399–402; federalist majority in the elections of 1812, 413; disaffection of, vii. 33; election in April, 1813, 50; delays action, 52; reports and resolutions of legislature in 1813, 64–66; banks of, their condition and influence, 386–389; expression of legislature in January, 1814, viii. 2, 3; blockaded April 25, 1814, 3; in danger from both sides, 4; town meetings in January, 1814, 5–7; report of legislature on a New England Convention, Feb. 18, 1814, 8; election in April, 1814, 9–11, 13; prosperity in 1814, 14; expressions of clergy, 20–23; regular troops in, vii. 284; viii. 95, 316; territory of, occupied, 95, 96; object of, in dependence on militia, 220; places militia under State major-general, 221; ix. 160; “dangerous and perplexing” situation of, viii. 222–224; calls a New England Convention at Hartford, 225–227, 287; election of November, 1814, a federalist triumph, 228, 288, 289; Jefferson’s remark that Virginia got no aid from, 233; money furnished by, 233–235; men furnished by, 235, 236; moral support furnished by, 236, 237; arrears of internal taxes in, 255, 256;