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Montreal, 178; massacre of, 46;

Philadel

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,

325

Myggenborg, see Elfsborg

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

against, 51

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New Netherlands, fur trade in, Paris, treaty of, 97; New York

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compared with, 317

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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 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,

conservatory

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

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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

S

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,

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 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,

49

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

T

Tammany Hall, history of, 189,
190

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