=Wessagusset= [Wessaguscus] (early name of Weymouth), 12, 44, 86, 91, 94, 109. Described in Wood’s N. E. Prospect, 44. Distress in winter, 14-16. Double name of, 35. History indistinct from 1623 to 1628, 37. Importance of its early history, 118. Morton’s colony destroyed, 27. Name changed to Weymouth, 100, 111, 116. Original site of, 123. [See Weymouth.] =Weston=, Andrew, 133. Thomas, 8-11, 89, 124, 125, 130, 133, 144. Abandons Plymouth colony, 10. At Wessagusset, 29, 133. Character of, 10. Dies in Bristol, Eng., 29. Influence of, in settlements at Plymouth and Weymouth, 9. Plans for settlement, 8, 9, 125. Returns to England, 133. Trials of his colony, 14-17, 21. =Weymouth=, Action on Stamp Act, 71, 72. Action on tax on tea, 72, 73. Allowed a deputy to the Gen’l Court, 45, 111. Arrival of Weston’s party 8. their character, 11, 12. Attack on, anticipated in the Revolution, 74-76. Attitude at opening of the Revolution, 73-76. Birth record, 93. Bridge, 91. Centre of the Gorges movement, 132. Changes in, 88. Chooses three deputies, 45, 111. Church troubles, 102-111, 138. Comparative size of, 94. Clergymen, 66-70, 95-113. Council, 1637, 102, 103, 111. Council, 1639, 103, 104, 106. Date of settlement, 7, 90, 91, 114. Deaths in 1718, 98. Deserters from Continental army paid, 80. Distance from Boston, 55. Episodes in its early history, 118-123, 144. European contemporaries with its settlement, 6. Expenses, 58, 82-84. Extinguishes Indian title in 1642, 94. Families in 1644, 107. Facts as to early settlement, 94. Ferry, 56, 91. First twenty years, 87. Fisheries, 62. Grant for tanyard, 61. Great snow-storms in, 64. Holidays observed, 66. In the Civil War, 76, 147, 148. Intemperance in, 147, 153. Jealousy of, 95. Made a plantation, 45, 100. Meeting-house burned, 50, 51, 152. Morals of, 65, 152. Number of families in, before 1644, 93. Old North Church, organization of, 87, 88. Origin of name, 90. Originally called Wessagusset, 116. Pisciculture in, 62. Plague centre of prelatical poison, 142. Population of, 1635, 93. Post Office established, 150. Probable date of settlement, 114. Records, extracts from, etc., 48-50, 54, 57-66, 77, 78, 81, 82, 90, 92, 153, 154. Religion in, 153. Rival claimants to pastorate, 111, 112. Rules concerning fires, 58. Sad accident at, 66. Schools, 57, 82, 83, 153. School-master, 57. Settlement antedates Boston, 127. Sickness in, 52, 63. Sketch of, by Cotton Tufts, 47, 52, 55, 64. Soldiers and the Lord’s day, 66. Soldiers in Canada campaign, 78-79. Soldiers in Civil War, 79, 148-151. Soldiers in Continental service, 77-81. Snow-storm of 1717, 64.