INTRODUCTION           Albert Shaw               xv

ALBANY                 Walton W. Battershall      1

SARATOGA               Ellen Hardin Walworth     39

SCHENECTADY            Judson S. Landon          71

NEWBURGH               Adelaide Skeel           107

TARRYTOWN-ON-HUDSON    Hamilton Wright Mabie    137

NEW YORK CITY          Joseph B. Gilder         169

BROOKLYN               Harrington Putnam        213

PRINCETON              William M. Sloane        251

PHILADELPHIA           Talcott Williams         297

WILMINGTON             E. N. Vallandigham       335

BUFFALO                Rowland B. Mahany        367

PITTSBURGH             Samuel Harden Church     393

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THE “HALF-MOON” ON THE HUDSON, 1609                        _Frontispiece_
  From the painting by L. W. Seavey.

ALBANY

OLD CHART OF NIEU NEDERLANDT[1]                                        5

PLAN OF ALBANY, 1695[1]                                               11

OLD DUTCH CHURCH, ERECTED IN 1715 ON SITE OF ORIGINAL CHURCH
    ERECTED IN 1656[1]                                                13

ST. PETER’S CHURCH ERECTED IN 1715. FORT FREDERICK IN THE
    BACKGROUND[1]                                                     15
  From a water-color sketch in the British Museum.

MAJOR-GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER[1]                                      23
  From the painting by Colonel Trumbull.

STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER[1]                                             25
  From the painting by Ezra Ames.

VAN RENSSELAER MANOR-HOUSE, 1765[2]                                   26

SCHUYLER MANSION, 1760[1]                                             27

WEST SIDE OF PEARL STREET, FROM STATE STREET TO MAIDEN LANE, 1814[1]  31

VIEW OF ALBANY, 1899[2]                                               33

JOHN V. L. PRUYN                                                      35

SEAL OF ALBANY                                                        37

SARATOGA

SARATOGA LAKE, N. Y.                                                  40

MAP SHOWING HISTORIC AND OTHER DRIVES IN THE VICINITY OF SARATOGA
    SPRINGS                                                           42

SARATOGA BATTLE MONUMENT, SCHUYLERVILLE, N. Y.                        43

NORTH BROADWAY, SARATOGA SPRINGS, 1898                                47

GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER                                               50
  Bronze statue in niche of Saratoga monument, Schuylerville, N. Y.

CONGRESS SPRING IN 1820                                               52

KAYADROSSERA PATENT, WITH GREAT SEAL OF QUEEN ANNE PENDANT, 1708      55
  Original in Saratoga County Clerk’s Office.

WOMEN OF THE REVOLUTION, 1776                                         57
  From tablet on Saratoga battle monument, Schuylerville, N. Y.

“OLD WELL,” FREEMAN’S FARM, BATTLE-GROUND, BEMIS HEIGHTS, SEPT.
    19, 1777                                                          61

GENERAL DANIEL MORGAN                                                 63

CONGRESS SPRING, 1898                                                 66

SIGN, “PUTNAM AND THE WOLF,” ON PUTNAM’S TAVERN, SARATOGA SPRINGS     67
  Original sign in Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.

SEAL OF SARATOGA                                                      70

SCHENECTADY

COLONIAL HOUSE, UNION STREET                                          72

VIEW ON STATE STREET                                                  74

“THE BLUE GATE” ENTRANCE TO UNION COLLEGE GROUNDS                     77

GLEN-SANDERS MANSION, ERECTED 1714                                    82

FIRST REFORMED (DUTCH) CHURCH                                         87

ELLIS HOSPITAL                                                        90

EDISON HOTEL                                                          93

UNION COLLEGE, 1795                                                   99

STATUE, SITE OF “OLD FORT”                                           100

“THE BROOK THAT BOUNDS THRO’ UNION’S GROUNDS,” UNION COLLEGE         103

ELIPHALET NOTT                                                       105
  President of Union College for sixty years.

SEAL OF SCHENECTADY                                                  106

NEWBURGH

WASHINGTON’S HEADQUARTERS AT NEWBURGH[3]                             109

JOEL T. HEADLEY[4]                                                   111

THE LUTHERAN CHURCH                                                  113

ANDREW J. DOWNING[4]                                                 116

HENRY KIRKE BROWN[4]                                                 119

HEADQUARTERS OF MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX AT VAIL’S GATE[3]                 123

CLINTON’S HEADQUARTERS AT LITTLE BRITAIN, NEAR NEWBURGH              124

CLINTON STATUE IN COLDEN SQUARE, NEWBURGH                            126

THE WILLIAMS HOUSE[3]                                                129

MONUMENT ON TEMPLE HILL, NEAR NEWBURGH[5]                            130

THE VERPLANCK HOUSE[5]                                               131
  Baron Steuben’s headquarters, where the “Nicola Letter” was
  written.

WASHINGTON’S HEADQUARTERS AT FISHKILL[6]                             133

CHARLES DOWNING[4]                                                   134

SEAL OF NEWBURGH                                                     135

TARRYTOWN-ON-HUDSON

BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF TARRYTOWN                                         139
  From a photograph by F. Ahrens.

THE POCANTICO RIVER                                                  149
  From a photograph.

OLD MANOR-HOUSE (“FLYPSE’S CASTLE”) AND MILL, TARRYTOWN              151

THE OLD DUTCH CHURCH, SLEEPY HOLLOW                                  153
  From a drawing by W. J. Wilson.

INTERIOR OF THE OLD DUTCH CHURCH, SLEEPY HOLLOW, PRIOR TO ITS
    RESTORATION IN 1897                                              155
  From a photograph by F. Ahrens.

MONUMENT TO THE CAPTORS OF ANDRÉ                                     159
  From a photograph by F. Ahrens.

WASHINGTON IRVING                                                    161

“SUNNYSIDE”                                                          163
  The home of Washington Irving.

THE JACOB MOTT HOUSE, WHERE KATRINA VAN TASSEL WAS MARRIED           165
  Now occupied by the new Washington Irving High School.

SEAL OF TARRYTOWN                                                    166

OLD SLEEPY HOLLOW MILL                                               167

NEW YORK CITY

FIRST SEAL OF THE CITY, 1623-1654[7]                                 170

MAP OF ORIGINAL GRANTS[7]                                            171

THE FORT IN GOVERNOR KIEFT’S DAY                                     174

PETER STUYVESANT                                                     176

SEAL OF THE CITY IN 1686[7]                                          177

JOHN JAY                                                             179

ALEXANDER HAMILTON                                                   180

FRAUNCES TAVERN                                                      183

THE STADT HUYS                                                       191

STAINED-GLASS WINDOW IN “BOWLING GREEN OFFICES,” SHOWING GREEN
    ABOUT 1760[8]                                                    193

GOVERNMENT HOUSE[8]                                                  195

FEDERAL HALL                                                         196

ST. PAUL’S CHURCH                                                    199

CITY HALL                                                            200

GRANT’S TOMB, RIVERSIDE DRIVE                                        203

WASHINGTON ARCH                                                      209

SEAL OF NEW YORK CITY                                                211

BROOKLYN

VIEW IN BROOKLYN IN THE OLDEN TIMES                                  215

DENYSE’S FERRY                                                       217
  The first place at which the British and Hessians landed on
  Long Island, August 22, 1776. Now Fort Hamilton.

BUSHWICK TOWN-HOUSE AND CHURCH, 1800                                 223

SECTION OF MAP OF BROOKLYN, 1776                                     231

BROWER’S MILL, GOWANUS                                               233
  The Yellow Mill is seen in the distance.

MONUMENT TO MARYLAND’S “400”                                         241

NAVY YARD                                                            243
  In foreground 5.5-inch breech-loading gun, with mount
  and shield, taken from Spanish cruiser _Vizcaya_, after
  destruction of Spanish fleet, July 3, 1898; also submarine
  mine from Guantanamo.

FORT LAFAYETTE, NEW YORK NARROWS                                     245

BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM                                            246

HENRY WARD BEECHER                                                   247

SEAL OF BROOKLYN                                                     249

PRINCETON

THE LINE OF HISTORIC CATALPAS                                        253

A VIEW OF THE FRONT CAMPUS                                           255

JOHN WITHERSPOON                                                     260

WASHINGTON’S HEADQUARTERS AT ROCKY HILL, N. J., NEAR PRINCETON       261

MORVEN                                                               263

RICHARD STOCKTON, “THE SIGNER”                                       269

HALL IN THE MORVEN HOUSE                                             273

BATTLE OF PRINCETON. DEATH OF MERCER                                 277
  From the painting by Col. J. Trumbull.

NASSAU HALL                                                          287

PRESIDENT JAMES MCCOSH                                               293

SEAL OF PRINCETON                                                    296

PHILADELPHIA

READING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE                              299
  From an old French print.

THOMAS PENN                                                          303
  From a painting owned by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
  copied by M. I. Naylor from the portrait in the possession of
  Major Dugald Stuart.

SECOND STREET, PHILADELPHIA, SHOWING THE OLD COURT HOUSE ON THE
    LEFT                                                             305
  From an engraving by W. Birch & Son.

FRANKLIN IN 1777                                                     307
  After the print reproduced from the drawing of Cochin.

THE PHILADELPHIA LIBRARY                                             309
  The old building on Fifth Street, now demolished. From an
  engraving by W. Birch & Son.

CARPENTER’S HALL, PHILADELPHIA                                       313
  Wherein met the First Continental Congress, 1774.

THE PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL                                            315
  From an engraving by W. Birch & Son.

INDEPENDENCE HALL, PHILADELPHIA, BEFORE 1876                         319

THE MORRIS HOUSE, GERMANTOWN, PHILADELPHIA                           321

DR. WILLIAM PEPPER[9]                                                324

FRANK THOMSON[9]                                                     326

THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE                  331

SEAL OF PHILADELPHIA                                                 333

WILMINGTON

PLAN OF CHRISTINA FORT, 1655                                         338

RESIDENCE OF THE LATE THOMAS F. BAYARD[10]                           342

OLD SWEDES’ CHURCH                                                   345

REV. ERIC BJORK[11]                                                  348

BISHOP LEE                                                           349

THOMAS F. BAYARD                                                     351

SHIPLEY BUILDING[11]                                                 354

OLD FRIENDS’ MEETING-HOUSE                                           356

HOUSE OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY                                      359

CITY HALL                                                            361

NEWCASTLE COUNTY COURT HOUSE                                         363

SEAL OF WILMINGTON                                                   365

BUFFALO

JOSEPH ELLICOTT                                                      368
  Founder of Buffalo.

LAFAYETTE SQUARE                                                     371

A GLIMPSE OF BUFFALO HARBOR                                          375

ST. PAUL’S CHURCH                                                    379

MILLARD FILLMORE[12]                                                 383

BEACON ON OLD BREAKWATER                                             386

DELAWARE AVENUE, SHOWING BISHOP QUIGLEY’S HOUSE                      388

DR. JOHN CRONYN                                                      389

WILLIAM I. WILLIAMS                                                  390

SEAL OF BUFFALO                                                      391

PITTSBURGH

AN EARLY RESIDENT OF PITTSBURGH                                      395
  From the statue by T. A. Mills in the Carnegie Museum.

SUN-DIAL USED AT FORT DUQUESNE                                       398

THE EARL OF CHATHAM                                                  403
  From an oil painting in the possession of the Historical
  Society of Pennsylvania.

BLOCKHOUSE OF FORT PITT. BUILT IN 1764                               406

PLAN OF FORT PITT                                                    409

PHIPPS CONSERVATORY                                                  415

THE COAL FLEET                                                       419

CARNEGIE INSTITUTE                                                   421

COURT HOUSE                                                          425

SEAL OF PITTSBURGH                                                   426