legislature of, refuses to co-operate in expelling enemy from Maine, 272, 304; creates a State army of ten thousand men, 272, 282; her delegation to the Hartford Convention, 290–292; accepts the report of the Hartford Convention, 295, 301; banks refuse to lend money to the State, 302; suspends organization of State army, 303; disunion sentiment of, 305–308; her indifference to the negotiation at Ghent, ix. 16, 45; alone interested in the obstacles to a treaty, 49; election of April, 1815, 92; interests affected by peace, 95, 97; suffers from Dallas’s arrangements, 98–103; election of April, 1816, 133; legislature denounces Compensation Act, 137; in Presidential election of 1816, 139. Massassinway, council at, vi. 111. “Matilda,” privateer, captured, vii. 330. Matthews, George, appointed commissioner to take possession of East Florida, vi. 237; his proceedings, 238–240; disavowed, 240–242. McArthur, Duncan, colonel of Ohio militia, vi. 298, 326, 328, 332, 334; brigadier-general, vii. 128. McClure, George, brigadier-general of New York militia, commands at Niagara, vii. 200; evacuates Fort George and burns Newark, 201, 202. McDonald, William, captain in Nineteenth U. S. Infantry, on Ripley’s staff, his account of the battle of Lundy’s Lane, viii. 55, 57. McDonogh, P., lieutenant of artillery in Fort Erie, viii. 76. McFarland, D., major of Twenty-third U. S. Infantry, viii. 35; at Chippawa, 42; at Lundy’s Lane, 50; wounded, 52, 63. McKean, Thomas, Governor of Pennsylvania, i. 228; iii. 210; declines to remove Judge Brackenridge, ii. 196, 259. McKee, John, vi. 237. McLean, John, member of Congress from Ohio, ix. 107. McQueen, Peter, half-breed Creek Indian, visits Pensacola, vii. 228; attacked at Burnt Corn, 229; captures Fort Mims, 229–231; claims forty-eight hundred gun-men, 233; escapes to Florida, 257. McRae, Alexander, counsel for Burr, iii. 445. McRee, William, major of engineers, advises Brown to move against Riall, viii. 47; directs entrenchments at Fort Erie, 67, 76; ix. 235. Meade, lieutenant of the British frigate “Leopard,” iv. 12. Meade, Cowles, governor of Mississippi Territory, iii. 304; arrests Burr, 326. Meade, William, bishop of Virginia, i. 193. Mecklenburg, Grand Duchy of, closes its ports to American commerce, v. 413. Mediterranean Fund, the, ii. 141; iii. 137, 182, 183. Meigs, Return Jonathan, appointed postmaster-general, vii. 401. “Melampus,” British frigate, iv. 2, 23; vi. 25. Melville, Viscount, First Lord of the Admiralty, iii. 235, 238. “Menelaus,” British frigate, engaged in house-burning on the Potomac, viii. 164; off Sassafras River, 165.