Montreal, 178; massacre of, 46;
capture of, 407 Moravians come to phia, 302 Morgan, Gen. Daniel, at Sara- toga, 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,
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 settle- ment, 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 Utrecht, 216
New York, 271, 317; J. B. Gilder on, 169-211; Dutch settlement, 169-175; captured by the English, 175; recap- tured by the Dutch, 175; gov- ernorship of Andros, 176; re- sumption 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 So- ciety, 189; historic survivals in, 190-204; characteristics of, 204-211
New York Central Railroad, 78 New York University, 207, 211 Niagara, Shirley's expedition
New Netherlands, fur trade in, Paris, treaty of, 97; New York
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 Penn- sylvania 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 Pennsyl- vania, 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 Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, 324; the city before the Civil War, 325-329; modern Phila- delphia, 329-334 Philadelphia Library, 306 Philips, Frederick, and his Manor, 145-151 Phipps, Henry,
of, 424 Pilgrims compared with Pala- tines, 113
Pitt, William, statue of, 194; befriends colonies, 404 Pittsburgh, S. H. Church on, 393-426; site determined by
Washington, 393; first perma- nent settlement, 397; taken by French, 399; the Braddock expedition, 399-404; English take Fort Duquesne and name it Pittsburgh, 406; Indians at- tack, 409; in the Revolution, 411-413; becomes the county seat, 414; in the Indian war of 1791, 416; the Whiskey In- surrection, 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 Brook- lyn, 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 estab- lished at Elizabethtown, 252; removed to Princeton, 254; parting from Yale, 254; early character, 256-260; Wither- spoon 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
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
Kipley, General, at Fort Erie, 381
Rising, John Claudius, 341 Rittenhouse, 314; his observa- tory, 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 Kyan, Bishop S. V., 389 Ryswyck, peace of, 95
St. Augustine, 157
St. Clair, defeat of, 416 St. Francis de Sales, Order of, 28
St. George's church, Schenec- tady, 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,
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 In- dian 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; pre- liminary warfare of the Amer- ican Revolution, 54-56; Bur- goyne'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
Schenectady-Continued 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; gov- ernment seized by Leisler, 91; Indian wars, 92-96; Schenec- tady in the Revolution, 97-99 ; religious history, 100-103;
modern history, 104-106 Schenley, Mary, 424
Schermerhorn, 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,
Schuyler, Gen. Philip, 19, 22, 23, 27, 28; in battle of Sara- toga, 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 Wilming-
ton, 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
Squam 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 Isl- and, 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 Am- sterdam, 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 Revolu- tion, 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 Phila- delphia, 301
Tammany Hall, history of, 189, 190
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