Beekman Mansion, 195-197
Belcher, Governor J., 252, 257
Bemis Heights, 23, 41, 64
Bennington, battle of, 58
Bertholf, Rev. G., at Tarrytown,
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 tav-
ern, 301
Bordentown, 269
Boston, 181, 188
Boudinot, President, of Prince-
ton, 288
Bouquet, Col. Henry, builds the
Block House," 407; defeats
Indians, 407-410
Bowles, naval constructor, 244
Bowling Green, 193
Boyle, H., 107
Brackenridge, 269
Bracola, se 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
Vale, 256
Brandt, 56
Brazil, Emperor of, 206
Breuckelen, see Brooklyn
Brewster, E. A., 135
Brinkerhoff, M., 132
Broadhead, Colonel, attacks In-
Brocklandia, see Brooklyn
Broecke, see Brooklyn
Broeckede, see Brooklyn
Broicklede, see Brooklyn
Bronck, Jonas, 77, 80
Brooklyn, 181, 186, 271; Har-
rington 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; in-
corporated, 370; strategic po-
sition 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,
Burr, Rev. Aaron, 252, 259
Burr, Dr. Horace, 350
Burwell, Dr. G. N., 389
Bushy Run, battle at, 410
Cadwalader, in battle of Prince-
ton, 275
Caledonia, captured in War of
IS12, 374
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,
303-426
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 Ameri-
Congress, Continental, Wither-
spoon 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,
de Rochambeau, Count, 28
de Tracy, Lieutenant-General.
46
Detroit, the, captured in War of
Dickens, Charles, 206
Dickinson, John, 264
Dickinson, President, of Prince-
ton, 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-Gene-
ral, 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 Pitts-
burgh, 410
Du Ponts, the, 357
Dutch church, Tarrytown, 152-
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Dutch East India Company, 3
Dutch West India Company, 7,
71, 75, 87, 335, 340
Eager, S. W., 135
Eagle, the, 341
Ebeling cited, 353
Ecuyer, Simon, 410
Edison, Thomas, 206
Edwards, Jonathan, at Prince-
ton, 254, 256, 259
Elfsborg, 343
Elizabethtown, 252
Ellicott, Andrew, 367
Ellicott, Joseph, founds Buffalo,
367-369. 385; favors Erie
Canal, 382
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; Cork-
screw, 232; Crailo, 30; Defi-
ance, 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; John-
son, 97; Lafayette, 244-248,
416; Lee, 271; Montgomery,
121, 124, 125; Nassau, 337,
340; Necessity, 399; Niagara,
407; Orange, 7-9, 12, 73, 75.
So, 83; Pitt, 407-410, 413,
414, 416; Putnam, 232, 233,
239 Schuyler, 97; Stanwix,
58; Sterling, 233; Sum-
ter, 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,
Hamilton, Alexander, 205; mar-
riage of, 28; political princi-
ples of, 180; in Philadelphia,
320
Hamilton, Governor, 252
Hancock, John, 314, 412
Hand, General, 276, 281, 412
Harlem absorbed by New York,
ISS
Harrison, Provost C.C., of Uni-
versity 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., III, 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 Prince-
ton, 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, Wilming-
ton, 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
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
James, Duke of York, 175, 346
James, Henry, 29
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 Col-
umbia 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
La Dauphine, Verrazzano's ship,
Lafayette, 28, 206; at New-
burgh, 122, 132; at Princeton,
292; in the French Revolu-
tion, 418
Lake Erie, battle of, 376
Landon, J. S., on Schenectady,
71-106
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