Abercrombie, General, 30, 51

Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia, 332

Ackland, Lady, 64

Adams, John, 266

Adams, Mrs. John, 310

Adams, John Quincy, 380

Albany, W. W. Battershall on, 1-37;
  settled by Dutch, 1-9;
  captured by English, 9;
  incorporated, 10;
  English church built, 14;
  its frontier position, 15-18;
  during the French wars, 18;
  convention of 1754, 20;
  in the Revolution, 20-23;
  becomes the State Capital, 24;
  historic survivals in, 24-37;
  architecture of, 30-32;
  the Capitol described, 32-34

Aldrich, T. B., 205

Allegheny, 414

_Almirante Oquendo_, 244

American Philosophical Society, 310, 318

Amersfoort, 216, 219

Amherst, Lord, 52

Amsterdam, 3, 6

André, John, in New York, 194;
  capture of, 158-161

Andros, Edmund, 176

Army, American, volunteer system organized, 380

Arnold, B., at Saratoga, 62;
  in Philadelphia, 312;
  treason of, 160, 161, 182, 195

Arnold, Matthew, cited, 300

As-que-sent-wah, _see_ E. W. Paige

B

Baldwin’s Locomotive Works, 326

Baltimore, Congress flees to, 272

Barbadoes, Washington’s voyage to, 393

Barclay, Rev. T., quoted, 100

Barnard College, 207

Baron, Father, 407

Bartram, John, and his garden, 312, 314

Battershall, W. W., on Albany, 1-37

Bayard, James A., 360

Bayard, Richard A., 360

Bayard, Thomas F., 350, 351

Beatty, Charles, quoted, 268

Beatty, Rev., preaches first Protestant sermon at Pittsburgh, 407

Bedford, Gunning, 267

Bedford, Gunning, Jr., 358

Beecher, H. W., 247

Beekman Mansion, 195-197

Belcher, Governor J., 252, 257

Bemis Heights, 23, 41, 64

Bennington, battle of, 58

Bertholf, Rev. G., at Tarrytown, 154

Beverwyck, 73, 81

Biddle, Colonel, 122

Bidwell, D. D., 390

Binney, Horace, house of, 318

_Bird Grip_, Swedish vessel, 337

Bjork, Rev. Eric, builds Old Swedes’ Church, 349

Black Rock, battery at, 373, 384

“Block House,” the Pittsburgh, 408

Bloomingdale, absorbed by New York, 188

Blue Anchor, the Swedish tavern, 301

Bordentown, 269

Boston, 181, 188

Boudinot, President, of Princeton, 288

Bouquet, Col. Henry, builds the “Block House,” 407;
  defeats Indians, 407-410

Bowles, naval constructor, 244

Bowling Green, 193

Boyle, H., 107

Brackinridge, 269

Bracola, _see_ Brooklyn

Braddock, defeat and death of, 51, 399-404, 416

Braddock’s Field, 418

Bradford, Governor, quoted, 4, 6

Bradford, press of, 306

Brainerd, David, expelled from Yale, 256

Brandt, 56

Brazil, Emperor of, 206

Breuckelen, _see_ Brooklyn

Brewster, E. A., 135

Brinkerhoff, M., 132

Broadhead, Colonel, attacks Indians, 412

Brocklandia, _see_ Brooklyn

Broecke, _see_ Brooklyn

Broeckede, _see_ Brooklyn

Broicklede, _see_ Brooklyn

Bronck, Jonas, 77, 80

Brooklyn, 181, 186, 271;
  Harrington Putnam on, 213-249;
  Dutch settlement, 213;
  Dutch settlers described, 216-220;
  first church, 220-222;
  British rule, 224-227;
  battle of Long Island, 228-240;
  the Navy Yard, 242;
  Fort Lafayette, 244-248;
  modern Brooklyn, 248

Brooklyn Institute, 249

Brown, General, in War of 1812, 378, 380, 381

Brown, H. K., 119, 125, 135

Bryant, Wm. Cullen, 215

Buffalo, Rowland B. Mahany on, 367-391;
  founding of, 367;
  early history, 368;
  incorporated, 370;
  strategic position in the War of 1812, 373;
  Perry’s victory, 376;
  burning of, 377;
  battle of Chippewa, 378;
  Lundy’s Lane, 380;
  unsuccessful siege by the British of Fort Erie, 381;
  the Erie Canal, 382-384;
  the modern city, 385-391

Burgoyne, surrender at Saratoga, 22, 23, 58-68;
  imprisoned at Albany, 28

Burns, Robert, statue of, 36

Burr, Aaron, 28, 204, 205, 254, 259, 267

Burr, Rev. Aaron, 252, 259

Burr, Dr. Horace, 350

Burwell, Dr. G. N., 389

Bushy Run, battle at, 410

C

Cadwalader, in battle of Princeton, 275

_Caledonia_, captured in War of 1812, 374

Campanius, at Fort Christina, 339

Campbell, Douglas, cited, 6

Canada acquired by England, 19

Carnahan, James, 292

Carnegie, Andrew, 424

Carnegie Institute, 424

Carpenters’ Hall, 314

Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton, 28

Caverley’s statue of Burns, 36

Celeron, Louis, 397

Centennial Exhibition of 1876, 332

Champlain, Samuel, 45

Chapin, E. P., 390

Charles I., 13, 346

Charles II., 175

Chemnitz, surrender of, 339

Cherry Valley, 49

Chippewa, battle of, 378, 380

Christiana, Swedes settle on the, 337;
  fortified, 355

Christina, Queen, 336

Christina Harbor, village of, 339

Christinaham, 346, 347

Church, S. H., on Pittsburgh, 393-426

Cincinnatus, Society of, 132

Clark, Abraham, signer, 268

Clinton, DeWitt, 205;
  favors Erie Canal, 382, 383

Clinton, General George, at Saratoga, 69;
  at Newburgh, 124-126

Clinton, Sir Henry, 194, 229, 236

Clinton, James, 124

Coit, George, 384

Colden, C., 121

Colden, Maria, 122

College Settlement, New York, 208

Colonnade Hotel, Philadelphia, 326

Columbia University, 207, 211

Colve, Captain, 175

Congress, first general American, 94

Congress, Continental, Witherspoon elected to, 265;
  flees to Baltimore, 272;
  meets in Nassau Hall, 286, 288;
  Declaration of Independence, 318;
  and the Indians, 412

Congress, U. S., and Whiskey Insurrection, 417

Congress Spring, _see_ Saratoga

_Connecticut_, the, captured in War of 1812, 374

_Constitution_, the, 242

Constitution, U. S., adoption of, 367

Contrecœur, Captain, 399

Convention of 1787, 290

Cooper, J. Fenimore, 29, 110, 157, 205

Cooper Institute, 204

Cornwallis, Lord, 194;
  at Brooklyn, 234-237;
  at Trenton and Princeton, 271-283

Courcelle, 46

Coxe, Right Reverend A. C., 389

Cramps, shipbuilders, 326

Crane Hook, 349

Cronyn, Dr. John, 389

Crown Point, 40, 54

Curtis, G. W., 141, 205

D

“Daughters of the American Revolution,” 408

Davies, President, of Princeton, 259

de Beauvois, Carel, 222

Declaration of Independence, 265, 270, 318

de Kockerthal, Joshua, 107, 115

Delaware, Washington crossing the, 274

Delaware Historical Society, 358

Denny, Governor, 406

de Rochambeau, Count, 28

de Tracy, Lieutenant-General, 46

_Detroit_, the, captured in War of 1812, 374

Dickens, Charles, 206

Dickinson, John, 264

Dickinson, President, of Princeton, 252, 259

Dinwiddie, Governor, 394

Dongan, Governor, 10

Donop at Princeton, 282

Dordrecht, Synod of, 89

Dort, Synod of, 13

Downing, A. J., 116, 135

Downing, Charles, 135

Drummond, Lieutenant-General, besieges Fort Erie, 381

Duke Alexis, the Grand, 206

Duke of Veragua, 206

Duke of York, 9

Dunham, Carroll, 135

Dunlap, Wm., quoted, 17

Dunmore, Governor, at Pittsburgh, 410

Du Ponts, the, 357

Dutch church, Tarrytown, 152-156

Dutch East India Company, 3

Dutch West India Company, 7, 71, 75, 87, 335, 340

E

Eager, S. W., 135

_Eagle_, the, 341

Ebeling cited, 353

Ecuyer, Simon, 410

Edison, Thomas, 206

Edwards, Jonathan, at Princeton, 254, 256, 259

Elfsborg, 343

Elizabethtown, 252

Ellicott, Andrew, 367

Ellicott, Joseph, founds Buffalo, 367-369, 385;
  favors Erie Canal, 382

Elliott, Lieut. J. D., in War of 1812, 374

Ellison house, Newburgh, 122, 126

Ellsworth, Oliver, 254, 291

Elsinborough, 343

Emperor of Brazil, 206

Erie Canal, history of, 104, 186, 382-385

Ettrick house, Newburgh, 128

F

Fairfax, Lord, estates of, 393

Fairmount Water-works, 324

Fall’s house, at Newburgh, 124

Faneuil Hall, 157

Fillmore, Millard, 383, 389

Finley, President, of Princeton, 260

Five Nations, _see_ Indians

Flash, Sandy, 362

Fletcher, Governor, 46

Flypse, Vredryk, _see_ Philips

Forbes, General, 405, 406

Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, 380

Forsythe, Rev. John, 135

Forts: Albany, 9;
  Amsterdam, 172;
  Ann, 97;
  Box, 232;
  Carillon, 40;
  Casimir, 341;
  Christina, 339, 341, 343, 360;
  Clinton, 121, 124, 125;
  Corkscrew, 232;
  Crailo, 30;
  Defiance, 232, 233, 417;
  Duquesne, 51, 401, 405, 406;
  Edward, 41, 58, 97;
  Elfsborg, 340, 341;
  Erie, 373, 378, 380, 381;
  Frederick, 40, 48;
  Frontenac, 405;
  George, 380;
  Greene, 232;
  Hamilton, 216, 244;
  Hardy, 66;
  Hunter, 97;
  Johnson, 97;
  Lafayette, 244-248, 416;
  Lee, 271;
  Montgomery, 121, 124, 125;
  Nassau, 337, 340;
  Necessity, 399;
  Niagara, 407;
  Orange, 7-9, 12, 73, 75, 80, 83;
  Pitt, 407-410, 413, 414, 416;
  Putnam, 232, 233, 239;
  Schuyler, 97;
  Stanwix, 58;
  Sterling, 233;
  Sumter, 362;
  Ticonderoga, 19;
  Washington, 271;
  Wayne, 417;
  William Henry, 18

Fort Stanwix Conference, 53

Forward, Oliver, 384

_Fox’s Journal_, 300, 302

Francis I., 2

Franklin, Benjamin, 20, 28, 99, 205, 307, 400

Franklin Institute, 310

Franklin, William, 265

Fraser at Saratoga, 60-64

Fraunces, Samuel, 184

Fraunces’s Tavern, 184

Frederick, Harold, 29

Freeman’s Farm, 59, 61

Freerman, Rev. B., 95

French and Indian Wars, 16, 46, 50, 91-93

Freneau, 269;
  quoted, 175

Frontenac, 46;
  and the Schenectady Massacre, 92

Fugitive Slave Law, 362

Fulton, Robert, 185, 206

G

Ganson, John, 389

Garrett, Thomas, 362

Gates, General, displaces Schuyler, 22;
  at Saratoga, 57-68, 122

_Gazette, The_, of Buffalo, 373;
  of Pittsburgh, 416

Genêt, 418

George II., 17;
  portrait of, 282, 287

George III., statue of, in Bowling Green, 194

Germantown in the Revolution, 320

Gibbs’s St. Martin in the Fields, 317

Gilder, J. B., on New York City, 169-211

Gilman, Governor, 69

Girard College, 326

Gist, Christopher, 394

Gowanus, 213, 218, 233;
  Canal, 214

Grant, Major, defeat of, 405

Grant, Mrs., of Laggan, 18

Grant’s Hill, fight at, 405

Gravesend settled by English, 222

Gray’s Ferry, Hessians at, 320

Great Britain, wars with, 373-382, 411, 413

Great Meadows, battle at, 399

Greeley, Horace, 205

Green, Ashbel, 292

Greene, Gen. Nathaniel, 122;
  plans defensive works for Brooklyn, 232;
  in battle of Princeton, 276

Greenwich, New Yorkers at, 188

_Griffin_, La Salle’s vessel, 384

Gustavus Adolphus and Usselinx, 335

H

Hale, Nathan, statue of, 195

_Half Moon_, Hudson’s, 2, 3, 110, 170

Hall, James, 35

Hamilton, Alexander, 205;
  marriage of, 28;
  political principles of, 180;
  in Philadelphia, 320

Hamilton, Governor, 252

Hancock, John, 314, 412

Hand, General, 276, 281, 412

Harlem absorbed by New York, 188

Harrison, Provost C. C., of University of Pennsylvania, 324

Hart, John, Signer, 268

Hasbrouck, Col. J., 121, 127

Hasbrouck House, 126

Hawley, Jesse, and the Erie Canal, 382

Headley, J. T., 111, 135

Helvetius, Madame, 310

Henry, Joseph, 35, 292

Hessians, at Trenton, 270-274;
  at Gray’s Ferry, 320

Hiawatha, real story of, 81-83

Hitchcock at battle of Princeton, 281

Hodge, Mr., at Buffalo, 373

Holland Land Company, 369

Holland, laws of, 85;
  States-General of, 3, 71, 143

Hollendare, Peter, 339

Holy Trinity church, Wilmington, 350

Hopkins, Stephen, 20

Hopkinson, Francis, Signer, 269

Houdon’s bust of Franklin, 308

Howe, Admiral, 230, 271, 272

Howe, Lord, 194;
  at New York, 230, 236;
  at Brooklyn, 239

Howe, Lord Viscount, death of, 19, 22, 51

Howells, W. D., 205

Hudde at Fort Nassau, 337

Hudson, Henry, 2, 3, 45, 110, 140, 142, 143, 164

“Hugh Wynne,” 318

Hunter, Governor, 14

I

Independence Hall, 157, 317

Indians in history of Saratoga, 16 _ff._;
  of Schenectady, 75-84, 91-93;
  of Buffalo, 369;
  of Pittsburgh, 394-411, 416

Ingoldsby, Major, 48

Ingoldsby, Richard, 112

Iroquois, _see_ Indians

Irvine, Gen. Wm., 413

Irving, Washington, 9, 30, 81, 110, 161-166, 205, 344;
  quoted, 146, 147

J

James, Duke of York, 175, 346

James, Henry, 29

James II., 91

Jamestown, Va., 157

Jay, John, 132, 180, 205

Jefferson, Thomas, writes Declaration of Independence, 265, 318

Jensen, Sally, 122

Jogues, Father, 9, 76

Johnson, Sir John, 97

Johnson, Sir William, 17, 51, 52, 97

Johnstown Flood, 421

Jumel Mansion, 202-204

Jumonville, death of, 399

K

Kalm, 314

Kayadrossera patent, the, 45, 53, 55

Keith, Governor, 327

Kennedy, Colonel, 194

Kennedy House, the, 197

Kidd, Captain, 206

Kieft, Governor, 336, 337

King George’s War, 48

King’s College, 179;
  _see_ Columbia College

Kip, Leonard, 29

Kipling, Rudyard, 206

Knickerbocker, Diedrich, 164

Knoll, Rev. M. C., 116

Knox, General, 122

Knox, Lucy, 122

Königsmark, rebellion of, 346

Kosciuszko at Saratoga, 58

Kossuth, Louis, 206

L

_La Dauphine_, Verrazzano’s ship, 2

Lafayette, 28, 206;
  at Newburgh, 122, 132;
  at Princeton, 292;
  in the French Revolution, 418

Lake Erie, battle of, 376

Landon, J. S., on Schenectady, 71-106

Larned at Saratoga, 62

La Salle, 384

Lawrenceville School, 295

Le Brun, Napoleon, 330

Le Couteulx, L. S., founds asylum, 370

Lee, Bishop Alfred, 349, 350

Lee, R. H., 266

Leisler, Jacob, 91, 95, 177, 178

L’Enfant, Capt. P. C., and plan for the National Capital, 368

Lewis, Elizabeth, 352, 365

Lexington, battle of, 20, 228, 411

Li Hung Chang at New York, 206

Lincoln, A., his body brought to New York, 204

Lindstrom, P., Swedish engineer, 339, 341

Livingston, Catherine, 25

Livingston, Chancellor, 197, 205

Livingston, Philip, 25, 30, 36

Logstown and the Ohio Company, 394, 397

London, Philadelphia compared with, 300

Longfellow cited, 29, 83, 314

Long Island, battle of, 229-240

Lord, Rev. Dr. John, 389

Louisburg, expedition against, 405

Lovejoy, Mrs. Joshua, 377

Lovelace, Lord, 107, 175, 176

Low, Seth, Mayor of Brooklyn, 248

Lundy’s Lane, battle of, 380

Luther, Martin, 264

Lutherans, German, at Newburgh, 108-117

Lützen, battle of, 336

Luzerne, French envoy, 288

M

Mabie, H. W., on Tarrytown, 137-167

Maclean, John, 292

Madison, James, 290, 291;
  quoted, 267

Mahany, R. B., on Buffalo, 367-391

Maidenhead, skirmish at, 276

_Maine_, the, 244

Manhattan, island of, 75, 80, 142, 169, 213, 214, 219

Manhattanville absorbed by New York, 188

Manning, Captain, 175

Manning, James, 254

Mantua, village of, 327

Marquis Ito, 206

Martin, Luther, 254

Martin, Thomas, Madison to, 267

Mather, Cotton, 221

Mauritius, 3, 7

Mawhood, Colonel, at Princeton, 280

_Mayflower_, the, 4, 5, 110

McCosh, President James, 295

McKean, Governor, 358

McKinly, President John, 355

McMahon, James P., 390

Megapolensis, Domine, 9

Mercer at battle of Princeton, 279-283

_Messenger, The_, of Ontario, 382

Metropolitan Museum, N. Y., 208

Meynders, Birgert, 118, 121

Midwout, 219, 220

Mifflin in battle of Princeton, 275

Miles, Colonel, at Brooklyn, 235

Miller, Rev. John, 10

Minquas River, 337, 357

Minuit, Peter, in New Netherlands, 172, 173, 336

Mischienza, the, 316, 320

Mohawks, _see_ Indians

Monmouth’s Rebellion, 302

Montcalm, death of, 407

Montgomery, Robert, 357

Montreal, 178;
  massacre of, 46;
  capture of, 407

Moravians come to Philadelphia, 302

Morgan, Gen. Daniel, at Saratoga, 58-62

Morgan, Col. George, to John Hancock, 412

Morris, Gouverneur, 180, 205;
  favors Erie Canal, 382

Morris, Robert, 288, 314;
  in the Trenton campaign, 275;
  house, 320

Morristown, 285;
  Washington marches to, 283

Morse, S. F. B., 35, 206

Morven, 265, 271, 273

Moses, Rhind’s statue of, 36

Mount McGregor, 46, 48

Music Fund Hall, Philadelphia, 325

Myggenborg, _see_ Elfsborg

N

Napier, General, cited, 381

Nassau Hall, 254, 258, 264, 269, 270, 281, 294, 296

Navy Yard, Brooklyn, 242-244

New Amsterdam, 143, 144, 346;
  taken by the English, 175, 224;
  name changed to New York, 175, 187, 224;
  Buffalo first named, 367, 372

Newburgh, Adelaide Skeel on, 107-135;
  the Palatine settlement, 107-117;
  the coming of the Scotch and English, 117-121;
  in the Revolution, 121-126;
  Washington’s stay in, 126;
  the Nicola letter, 127;
  capture of Ettrick, 128-130;
  Washington’s address to the unpaid troops, 131;
  recent history, 132-135

New Castle, Del., 364

New Netherlands, fur trade in, 71

New Utrecht, 216

New York, 271, 317;
  J. B. Gilder on, 169-211;
  Dutch settlement, 169-175;
  captured by the English, 175;
  recaptured by the Dutch, 175;
  governorship of Andros, 176;
  resumption of Dutch authority, 177;
  Leisler’s rule, 177;
  in the Revolution, 178-184;
  in the War of 1812, 184-186;
  in the Civil War, 186;
  expansion of, 187-189;
  the Tammany Society, 189;
  historic survivals in, 190-204;
  characteristics of, 204-211

New York Central Railroad, 78

New York University, 207, 211

Niagara, Shirley’s expedition against, 51

Niagara Falls, 369, 386

Nicola, Colonel, letter to Washington, 127, 132

Nicolls, Colonel, at New Amsterdam, 175, 177, 224

Nieu Nederlandt, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9

Niles, Nathaniel, 254

Nott, President E., 105, 106

O

Ohio Company formed, 397

“Old French War,” 96

_Old Jersey_, the ship, 242

Old Swedes’ Church, Wilmington, 350-352

Oxenstiern revives the Usselinx charter, 336

P

Paige, E. W., cited, 83

Paine, Thomas, 205

Palatines, at Newburgh, 108-117;
  at Philadelphia, 302

Palmer, the sculptor, 36

Paris, treaty of, 97;
  New York compared with, 317

Parker, Judge, 36

Paterson, William, 252, 290

Patton, President, of Princeton, 295

Paulding, J., 160

Paulding, J. K., 110

Penn, John, house of, 312

Penn, Letitia, house of, 304

Penn, William, 333;
  founds Philadelphia, 298-307, 316;
  grants charter to Wilmington, 353

Penn family’s charter to Pennsylvania annulled, 413

Pennsylvania, charter to, 413;
  dispute with Va., 414

Pennsylvania Historical Society, 323

Pennsylvania Hospital, 314

Pepper, Dr. William, services to the University of Pennsylvania, 324

Percy, Lord, at Brooklyn, 236

Perry, Commodore, 376

Philadelphia, Talcott Williams on, 297-334;
  geographical site, 297;
  early houses, 298;
  coming of William Penn, 300-302;
  rapid growth of city, 302-317;
  in the Revolution, 317-320;
  between 1790 and 1820, 320-323;
  history of water supply, 323;
  the University of Pennsylvania, 324;
  the city before the Civil War, 325-329;
  modern Philadelphia, 329-334

Philadelphia Library, 306

Philips, Frederick, and his Manor, 145-151

Phipps, Henry, conservatory of, 424

Pilgrims compared with Palatines, 113

Pitt, William, statue of, 194;
  befriends colonies, 404

Pittsburgh, S. H. Church on, 393-426;
  site determined by Washington, 393;
  first permanent settlement, 397;
  taken by French, 399;
  the Braddock expedition, 399-404;
  English take Fort Duquesne and name it Pittsburgh, 406;
  Indians attack, 409;
  in the Revolution, 411-413;
  becomes the county seat, 414;
  in the Indian war of 1791, 416;
  the Whiskey Insurrection, 417;
  incorporated, 418;
  the strike of 1877, 420;
  industrial importance, 422;
  higher life of, 423-426

Plymouth Rock, 6

Poe, Edgar Allan, 205

Polhemus, Rev. Mr., at Brooklyn, 220, 221

Pontiac, confederacy of, 408

Poor at Saratoga, 62

Porter, General P. B., in War of 1812, 378, 381;
  favors Erie Canal, 382

Pratt Institute, 248

Prince of Wales, 206

Princess Eulalia, 206

Princeton, W. M. Sloane on, 251-296;
  first settlement, 251;
  College of New Jersey established at Elizabethtown, 252;
  removed to Princeton, 254;
  parting from Yale, 254;
  early character, 256-260;
  Witherspoon and his administration, 260-266;
  Revolutionary spirit in, 266-270;
  the Trenton campaign, 272;
  battle of Princeton, 274-284;
  mutinous Continentals at, 285;
  Congress meets at, 286;
  Washington’s visits to, 287;
  contributions to the Convention of 1787, 289-291;
  modern Princeton, 291-296

Prinz, John, in New Sweden, 339-342

Pruyn, John V. L., 35, 36

Putnam, at Brooklyn, 234;
  at Philadelphia, 272;
  at Princeton, 285

Putnam, Gideon, at Saratoga, 69

Putnam, Harrington, on Brooklyn, 213-249

Q

Quassaick, 107, 114, 118, 127, 128

Quebec, capture of, 407

Queen Anne, 108;
  gives bell to Lutherans at Newburgh, 115, 117

Queen Anne’s War, 48, 96

_Queen Charlotte_, British war vessel, 375

Queen Charlotte, portrait of, 184

Queen’s Head Tavern, 184

Queenstown in War of 1812, 380

R

Raymond, President, of Union College, 106

Red Jacket in War of 1812, 380

Rensselaerswyck, 8, 28, 73, 80, 81, 87

Revolution, Philadelphia in the, 318

Reynolds, Marcus, quoted, 28

Rhind’s statue of Moses, 36

Riall, General, burns Buffalo, 377;
  retreats, 380, 381

Richardson, H. H., 31, 424

Richardson, William, 390

Richmond Hill, 202

Riedesel, Madame, 64, 65

Ripley, General, at Fort Erie, 381

Rising, John Claudius, 341

Rittenhouse, 314;
  his observatory, 318

Roe, E. P., 135

Rogers, Wm. F., 390

Romeyn, Domine, 102, 103

Roosevelt, Governor, cited, 178

Ross house, the Betsy, 316

Rudman, Pastor, cited, 345

Ruttenber, E. M., 135

Ryan, Bishop S. V., 389

Ryswyck, peace of, 95

S

St. Augustine, 157

St. Clair, defeat of, 416

St. Francis de Sales, Order of, 28

St. George’s church, Schenectady, 101

St. John, Mrs., 377

St. Luke’s church, Philadelphia, 326

St. Mark’s Church, Philadelphia, 326

St. Martin in the Fields, Gibbs’s, 317

St. Paul’s chapel, New York, 201, 202

St. Peter’s church, Albany, 19, 32

Santo Domingo, 357

Saratoga, E. H. Walworth on, 39-69;
  site of, 39-42;
  the name, 42-44;
  French and Indian struggles for site, 45-48;
  massacre of old Saratoga, 49;
  Seven Years’ War, 50-52;
  medicinal value of Saratoga waters discovered, 52;
  the Fort Stanwix Conference, 53;
  preliminary warfare of the American Revolution, 54-56;
  Burgoyne’s defeat and surrender, 56-68;
  General Schuyler makes old Saratoga his summer resort, 68;
  Gideon Putnam founds the present Saratoga, 69

Sassoonan, 397

Schaets, Rev. Gideon, 89

Schenectady, 16, 29, 46;
  J. S. Landon on, 71-106;
  settled, 71;
  subject to the Dutch West India Company, 71-73;
  Arendt Van Curler’s directorship, 75-83;
  land purchased from the Indians, 83;
  character of the early settlement, 83-87;
  under English rule, 87-90;
  the first legislative assembly, 90;
  government seized by Leisler, 91;
  Indian wars, 92-96;
  Schenectady in the Revolution, 97-99;
  religious history, 100-103;
  modern history, 104-106

Schenley, Mary, 424

Schermerhoorn, Symon, 16

Schonowe, 79, 81

Schoonmaker, Domine, 226

Schute, Swen, 343, 365

Schuyler, Elizabeth, marriage of, 28

Schuyler, Margaret, 29

Schuyler, Peter, 12, 46

Schuyler, Philip, shot by Indians, 49

Schuyler, Gen. Philip, 19, 22, 23, 27, 28;
  in battle of Saratoga, 58-68;
  visits Saratoga Springs, 68

Schuyler, Mrs. Philip, 18

Schuyler Mansion, 27

Schuylerville, 22, 41

Scott, Walter, 162

Scott, Gen. Winfield, in War of 1812, 378, 381

Selyns, Rev. H., at Brooklyn, 221

_Seneca Chief_, first boat on Erie Canal, 382

Seven Years’ War, 50

Seymour, Governor, quoted, 22

Shelton, Rev. Dr. Wm., 389

Sherman, Roger, 291

Shipley, Elizabeth, 365

Shipley, William, at Wilmington, 352, 365

Shirley, expedition of, 51

Six Nations, _see_ Indians

Skeel, Adelaide, on Newburgh, 107-135

Skipper Block, 170

Sleepy Hollow, 147, 164, 167

Sloane, W. M., on Princeton, 251-296

Sloughter, Governor, replaces Leisler, 177

Smith, James M., 390

Smithsonian Institution, 294

Spaulding, E. G., introduces Legal-Tender Act, 391

Spuyten Duyvil Creek, fight at, 170

Squaw Island, the _Detroit_ aground on, 374

Stackpole, Dr., composes Yankee Doodle, 30

Stanhope, Samuel, 292

Stanwix, General, builds second Fort Pitt, 407

Stark, General, 275;
  at Fort Edward, 66;
  at Princeton, 281

Stedman, E. C., 205

Steuben, 28;
  at Newburgh, 132

Stirling, in battle of Long Island, 234-239;
  in Trenton campaign, 271

Stockton, Richard, 252, 265, 269

Stoddard, R. H., 205

Stone, Gen. C. P., imprisoned at Fort Lafayette, 245, 246

Strasburg Cathedral, 34

Stuyvesant, Peter, at New Amsterdam, 9, 81, 144, 175-177, 218-221,
      248;
  buys land west of the Delaware, 340;
  captures forts on the Delaware, 343

Suffolk County in the Revolution, 228

Sullivan, General, at Brooklyn, 235-237;
  at Princeton, 285

Sunnyside, Washington Irving at, 162, 163

Swedes, on the Delaware, 335-344;
  their church at Philadelphia, 301

T

Tammany Hall, history of, 189, 190

Tarrytown, H. W. Mabie on, 137-167;
  described, 137-140;
  early Dutch settlements, 140-145;
  derivation of name, 146;
  the Philips Manor-House, 148-150;
  the old Dutch church, 150-156;
  Tarrytown in the Revolution, 157-160;
  capture of John André, 158-161;
  Washington Irving, 161-164

Tatnall, Joseph, Washington visits, 357;
  gives clock to Wilmington, 359

Tawasentha, Vale of, 29

Taylor, Bayard, 205

Tenacong, _see_ Tinicum

Thackeray, W. M., 206

Thaw, Wm., generosity to Pittsburgh, 424

Thesschenmaecher, Rev. Petrus, 88

Ticonderoga, 19, 40, 51, 54, 233, 405

Tiemann, Mayor, death of, 170

Tifft house, the, 377

Tilden, Samuel J., 205

Tinicum, Prinz’s fort at, 340

Torkillius, Rev. R., at Fort Christina, 338, 365

Townsend, Charles, 384

Townsend, Sam, 361

Tran Hook, _see_ Crane Hook

Treaty of 1783, 289

Trefalldigheet, 343

Trent, Captain Wm., establishes first settlement at Pittsburgh,
      397-399

Trenton, battle of, 270-274

Trinity Church, New York, 227

Tryon, Governor, quoted, 56

Tusculum, 271

U

Union College, 102-106

University of Pennsylvania, 324

University Settlement, New York, 208

Usselinx, Wm., and his trading company, 335

Utrecht, 216;
  treaty of, 96

V

Vallandigham, E. N., on Wilmington, 335-365

Van Curler, Arendt, at Schenectady, 75-84, 92

Vanderheyden Palace, 30

Van Rensselaer, Killiaen, 8, 75

Van Rensselaer, Stephen, 25

Van Rensselaer Island, 4

Van Rensselaer Manor-House, 25, 26

Van Slechtenhorst, Brandt, 9

Van Twiller, Walter, 336

Van Wart, Isaac, 160

Van Wyck house, 132

Van Wyck, James, 132

Verplanck house, 131

Verrazzano, 2

Versailles, peace of, 289

Virginia, dispute with Pennsylvania, 414

Vliessingen, _see_ Flushing

Von Königsmark, 346

Von Steuben, _see_ Steuben

W

Waalboght, 213

Wadsworth, Colonel, 122

Wallabout, village of, 224, 233, 242

_Walk-in-the-Water_, first steamboat on Lake Erie, 384

Walworth, E. H., on Saratoga, 39-70

War of 1812, _see_ various chapters

Washington, plan of city, 187, 368

Washington, George, and the site of Pittsburgh, 393;
  at Great Meadows, 399;
  with Braddock, 404;
  opens road to Fort Duquesne, 405;
  at Schenectady, 98;
  in battle of Long Island, 238-240;
  at Trenton and Princeton, 270-290;
  at Saratoga, 69;
  in New York, 181, 182, 194, 197-202;
  at Newburgh, 114, 122, 126-131;
  visits Wilmington, 355-358;
  instructions to St. Clair, 416;
  plan for the National Capital, 367;
  quoted, 1, 23, 238

Watkins, Rev. H., 118

Wayne, Anthony, 125, 286, 416

Webb, Captain Thomas, 101

Weigand’s Tavern, Newburgh, 126

Wesley, John, 101

Western University of Pennsylvania, 416

West India Company, 143, 173

West Point, 122, 160, 378

Whiskey Insurrection, 417

Whitefield, George, 256

Whitman, Walt, 205

William and Mary, 91

William III., 177

William IV., 206

Williams, David, 160

Williams, Talcott, on Philadelphia, 297-334

Williams College, 26

Williams house, Newburgh, 122

Williams, William I., 389

Willing, Thomas, founds Wilmington, 352

Willingstown, 352

Willis, N. P., 110, 135

Wilmington, E. N. Vallandigham on, 335-365;
  plans of Usselinx, 335;
  expedition of Minuit, 336;
  settlement on the Christina, 337;
  governorship of Prinz, 339;
  struggles of the Swedes and Dutch for the Delaware, 341-344;
  Dutch rule, 344-346;
  English supremacy, 346;
  friendly services of Wm. Penn, 346-349;
  Old Swedes’ church, 349;
  Wilmington laid out, 352;
  services of William Shipley, 352;
  the earlier city, 353-360;
  before and in the Civil War, 360-364;
  modern changes, 364

Winthrop, Fitz John, 46

Witherspoon, John, 254, 260-271, 290, 291

Wiedrich, Michael, 390

Wilkeson, Samuel, 384

Wilkeson, John, 390

Worth, Captain, in War of 1812, 381

Wolfe, death of, 19, 52, 407

Wolfert’s Roost, 161

Wyncoop, Gitty, 122

Wyoming Valley, 49

Y

Yale relations with Princeton, 254

Yorktown, 127, 182

Yorkville absorbed by New York, 188

Z

Zoölogical Garden, Philadelphia, 323

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