Massachusetts Bay Colony, 21 _et seq._; begins as fishing venture, 24; obtains patent for land, 25; founded, 29; Gorges attempts overthrow of, 30-34; growth (1630-40), 34-36; time of stress, 36; government, 37-40; religious intolerance, 41-43; commercial ventures, 78; leader among colonies, 100-01; sends petition to King, 103; restoration of Stuarts causes trouble for, 104-05; charter confirmed, 105; religious liberty defined by King, 105-06; inquiry into affairs by Clarendon, 116-18; commissioners sent to, 118 _et seq._; franchise law modified, 121; defies commission, 123-126; recognizes Connecticut's title (1672), 131; asserts right to control Maine and New Hampshire, 132; military preparedness, 135; Randolph inquires into affairs, 147; new instructions to royal governors, 148-49; attitude of England toward, 148-52; inquiry by Randolph, 154-56; mission sent to England, 156-57; purchases title to Maine and estranges England further, 158-59; royal orders in regard to trade and religious liberty, 159-60; attitude toward England, 160-61; sends agents to England, 162; charter forfeited (1684), 163; grows more liberal, 164; territory enlarged, 166; a royal colony, 166 _et seq._; preliminary royal government, 168-69; changes in life of people, 170-73; faults in royal government, 185-89; government of Andros overthrown, 190; resumes self-government, 191; sends Mather to England, 194-96; charter of 1691, 197 Massachusetts Bay Company, charter granted (1629), 26; control passes to Puritans, 27 Massachusetts Commission, personnel, 118-19; object, 120-121; failure, 123-26 Mather, Cotton, quoted, 79 Mather, Increase, 194-95, 196 Maverick, Samuel, 23, 38, 116 _et seq._ _Mayflower, The_, ship, 10, 11 Mayflower Compact, 12-13 Merrymount, 22 Middletown (Conn.), 198 Milford (Conn.), 70 Mishawum (Charlestown), 24 Moody, Lady Deborah, 35 Morrell, 23 Morton, Thomas, 22, 31, 34, 41, 47 Mount Wollaston, 22 Mystic, taken into Connecticut, 109 Naumkeag (Salem), 25 New Amsterdam, seized by English, 110