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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., 200

Thaw, Wm., generosity to Pitts-
burgh, 424

Thesschenmaecher, Rev. Petrus,

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Townsend, Sam, 361

Tran Hook, see Crane Hook
Treaty of 1783, 289

Trefalldigheet, 343

Trent, Captain Win., 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

Waalboght, 213

W

Wadsworth, Colonel, 122
Wallabout, village of, 224, 233,

242

Walk-in-the-Water, first steam-
boat 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

Washington, George—Continued
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 Pennsyl-
vania, 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 Philadel-

phia, 297-334
Williams College, 26

Williams house, Newburgh, 122
Williams, William I., 389
Willing, Thomas, founds Wil-
mington, 352
Willingstown, 352

Willis, N. P., 110, 135
Wilmington, E. N. Vallandigham
on, 335-365; plans of Usse-

linx, 335; expedition of Min-
uit, 336; settlement on the
Christina, 337; governorship
of Prinz, 339; struggles of the
Swedes and Dutch for the Del-
aware. 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, 399

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


Zoological Garden, Philadelphia,
323

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