Bunker Hill

312–13n
    Massachusetts House of Representatives, 35, 41, 44–46, 252–53
    Massachusetts Spy
, 101
    Massacre Day Oration, 38, 96–100, 130
    McClary, Andrew, 212
    Mecom, Jane, 158–59
    Medford, Mass., 14, 158, 197, 202, 205, 235
    medical corps, 109, 193, 244, 251
    medical supplies, 88–89, 109, 166, 318n, 320n
    Melvill, Thomas, 55, 312n
    men-of-war.
See
specific names
; warships
    Menotomy (Arlington), Mass., 118, 122–23, 150, 152–53, 155–59, 162, 191, 194, 242, 324n, 330n
    Mercury
, 184
    Meriam’s Hill, 133–34, 145, 151
    Mifflin, Thomas, 277, 279
    military stores
    in Concord, 115–16, 118–19, 130, 134–35, 138–39, 323n
    funds for, 88
    for provincial army, 88, 109, 115–16, 118–19, 173–74
    militiamen, 58, 175, 188, 242
    and Battle of Bunker Hill, 195, 197
    and Battle Road, 152–60
    and British regulars, 77, 85, 115, 118, 148
    at Concord fight, 132, 134–47, 323n
    and powdering hair, 156, 330n
    at Lexington, 123–31, 134, 326n
    loyalties of, 259–60
    organizing of, 73, 77, 152, 160–65
    skillful shooting of, 92
    surround Boston, 174–75, 189
    undisciplined, 178–79, 238, 241, 243, 329n
    See also
farmers; Independent Company of Cadets; minutemen;
specific battles
; town militias
    Mill Pond, 12, 15, 69, 79, 212
    Milton, 12, 14, 20, 30, 74
    minutemen, 77–78, 136, 144, 315n
    Mitchell, Edward, 123, 126
    mobs, 6, 11, 17–18, 22, 84, 154, 305n, 346n
    Molineux, William, 36, 48, 82, 100, 316n
    Montagu, John, 10, 39–40, 51
    Montgomery, Richard, 245, 271
    Montresor, John, 86, 196–97, 282, 285
    Morris, Gouverneur, 240
    Morton’s Hill, 196, 200, 209, 211, 218
    Moulton, Martha, 139
    Mount Whoredom, 15, 51, 279, 311n
    Mowat, Henry, 257
    Muller, John, 275, 353n
    Munroe, Ebenezer, 127
    Munroe, Jedidiah, 148
    Munroe, John, 127
    Munroe, Marret, 119
    Munroe Tavern, 152
    Munroe, Timothy, 157
    Munroe, William, 119, 122, 124, 130, 325n
    Murray, Gov. John, 262
    muskets, 228, 244, 267
    of British army, 141–42, 146, 154, 217, 222
    loading of, 124
    of provincial army, 78, 129, 135, 179, 195, 214, 221, 229
    surrender of, 168
    Mystic River, 14, 64–65, 116, 184, 197, 203, 209, 211, 213, 217, 221, 226, 254, 256, 340n
    Nancy
, 258, 268, 279
    Nantucket Island, 9, 170, 304n, 332n
    Native Americans, 61, 165.
See also
Indians; King Philip’s War
    Needham, Mass., 159, 330n
    New Hampshire, 65, 84, 101, 165, 205, 211–12, 214, 241, 249, 260, 268, 317n
    New York, 8, 27, 44, 48, 56, 82, 167, 237, 271, 287, 345n
    Nichols, James, 137, 160, 326n
    Nixon, John, 185
    Noddle’s Island, 12, 63, 183–86, 246, 254, 265
    North Administration, 76, 86, 103, 114
    North Carolina, 16, 167
    North End (Boston), 10, 15, 21, 39, 68–69, 79, 88, 168, 192, 230
    North End Caucus, 68–69, 314n
    North, Lord, 24, 29, 188, 190, 319n
    and Coercive Acts, 95
    criticism of, 53, 56, 311n
    and Josiah Quincy, Jr., 94
    King George writes to, 112
    Northampton, 59
    Nova Scotia, 5.
See also
Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Occom, Samson, 23
    Old North Meetinghouse, 15, 256, 349n
    Old South Meetinghouse, 3–4, 9, 15, 20, 38, 48–49, 96–99, 256, 284
    Oliver, Thomas, 63, 72–73, 256, 355n
    Oliver, Peter, 61, 111, 169, 233, 248, 311–12n, 314n, 317n, 335–36n
    Orne, Azor, 123, 150
    Otis, James, 7, 29, 32, 293, 307n, 313n
    Paddock, Adino, 78, 284
    Paine, Robert Treat, 45, 56, 309n
    Paine, Samuel, 229, 333n
    Palmer, Joseph, 167, 195
    Parker, John, 119–22, 125–27, 129–30, 141, 148
    Parker’s Revenge, 148, 153, 328n
    Parliament, 5–6, 11, 29, 35, 96, 103, 171, 253
    and Conciliatory Proposition, 95
    and King’s Speech, 264
    opposition to, 92, 109
    passes Coercive Acts, 53
    and Port Act, 31–32, 37, 40–41
    revokes charter, 41
    sovereignty of, 111
    and Tea Party, 25
    and war with colonies, 216
    Parsons, Lawrence, 135–36, 138–39, 144–45
    patriot movement
    anthems for, 54, 82
    clemency offered to, 190
    demands for unity, 60
    divisions among, 317n
    and moral duplicity, 23, 319n
    motivations of, 8–9
    and preserving status quo, 289
    psychological cost of, 32, 307–8n
    secret activities of, 45, 90, 101, 191–92
    Pennsylvania, 8, 29, 44, 53, 56, 76, 238, 244
    Percy, Hugh, 52, 104, 197, 282
    and Battle Road, 152–55
    in Boston, 60, 111, 113, 117
    brigade of, 149–50, 152, 165, 246, 323n
    description of, 51, 311n, 330n
    leads expedition to Concord, 114, 117
    leads march into countryside, 102–3
    on provincial army, 154–55, 321n
    retreats to Charlestown, 158–60, 163, 329n
    Philadelphia, 44, 48, 54–56, 74–76, 81–82, 113, 163, 167–68,