Chapter XCI: The Wadsworth Longfellow House, Portland, Maine 400 (12)

The Warner house has a lightning rod, which was put up in 1762, under the personal supervision of Benjamin Franklin. It is said that this was the first lightning rod erected in New Hampshire.

XCI

THE WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW HOUSE, PORTLAND, MAINE

WHERE HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SPENT HIS BOYHOOD

_The old house by the linden
Stood silent in the shade,
And on the gravelled pathway
The light and shadow played._

_I saw the nursery windows
Wide open to the air;
But the faces of the children,
They were no longer there._

_The large Newfoundland house-dog
Was standing by the door;
He looked for his little playmates
Who would return no more._

_They walked not under the linden,
They played not in the hall;
But shadow and silence, and sadness
Were hanging over all._

_The birds sang in the branches,
With sweet familiar tone;
But the voices of the children
Will be heard in dreams alone!_

_And the boy that walked beside me,
He could not understand
Why close in mine, ah! closer,
I pressed his little hand!_

When Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote these lines perhaps he was thinking of the home of his boyhood in Portland, which his grandfather, General Peleg Wadsworth, built in 1785.

The house was the wonder of the town, for it was the first brick building erected there. The brick had been brought from Virginia. Originally there were but two stories; the third story was added when the future poet was eight years old.

Longfellow was born in the house at the corner of Fourth and Hancock streets, but he was only eight months old when he was carried within the inviting front doors of the Wadsworth house, and the mansion was home to him for at least thirty-five years.

He was only five years old when he declared that he wanted to be a soldier and fight for his country. The War of 1812 was then in progress. His aunt wrote one day, "Our little Henry is ready to march; he had his gun prepared and his head powdered a week ago."

But, agreeing with his parents that school was a better place for him than the army, he began his studies when he was five years old. A year later his teacher gave him a certificate which read:

"Master Henry Longfellow is one of the best boys we have in
school. He spells and reads very well. He also can add and
multiply numbers. His conduct last quarter was very correct
and amiable."

Life in the Longfellow home was delightful. Samuel Longfellow, the poet's brother, has given a pleasing picture:

"In the evenings the children gathered with their books and
slates round the table in the family sitting room. The
silence would be broken for a minute by the long, mysterious
blast of a horn announcing the arrival in town of the evening
mail, then the rattle of its passing wheels, then silence
again, save the singing of the wood fire. Studies over, there
would be games till bedtime. If these became too noisy, or
the father had brought home his law papers from the office,
enjoining strictest quiet, then there was flight to another
room--perhaps, in winter, to the kitchen, where hung the
crane over the coals in the broad old fireplace, upon whose
iron back a fish forever baked in effigy.

"When bedtime came, it was hard to leave the warm fire to go
up into the unwarmed bedrooms; still harder next morning to
get up out of the comfortable feather beds and break the ice
in the pitchers for washing. But hardship made hardihood. In
summer it was pleasant enough to look out from the upper
windows; those of the boys' room looked out over the Cove and
the farms and woodlands toward Mount Washington, full in view
on the western horizon; while the eastern chambers commanded
a then unobstructed view of the bay, White Head, Port
Prebble, and the lighthouse on Cape Elizabeth."

One day in 1820, when the family was gathered about the fire, Henry was on tiptoe with eager excitement. He had written a poem and had sent it to The Portland _Gazette_. Would it be in the paper which his father had in his hand as he seated himself before the fire? Robertson, in his life of the poet, has described those anxious moments:

"How carefully his father unfolded the damp sheet, and how
carefully he dried it at the fire ere beginning to read it!
And how much foreign news there seemed to be in it! At last
Henry and a sympathetic sister who shared his secret,
obtained a peep over their parent's shoulder--and the poem
was there!"

There are sixteen rooms in the old house. In Henry's day these rooms were heated by eight fireplaces, which consumed thirty cords of wood during the long winter. On the first floor are the great living-room, the kitchen with its old fireplace, and the den, once the dining-room. On the desk still shown in this room Longfellow wrote, in 1841, "The Rainy Day," whose opening lines are:

"The day is cold, and dark, and dreary,
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary."

Into the ground floor rooms have been gathered many relics of the days when the poet was a boy. The four rooms of the second floor are also full of mementoes. But the most interesting part of the house is the third story, where there are seven rooms. To this floor the four children made their way on summer nights when the long hours of daylight invited them to stay up longer, and on winter evenings, when the fire downstairs seemed far more inviting than the cold floors and the colder sheets.

One of these rooms is pointed out as the poet's chamber. Here he wrote many of his earlier poems. Among these was "The Lighthouse." In this he described sights in which he delighted, sights the lighthouse daily witnessed:

"And the great ships sail outward and return
Bending and bowing o'er the billowing swell,
And ever joyful as they see it burn,
They wave their silent welcome and farewell.

"'Sail on,' it says, 'sail on, ye stately ships!
And with your floating bridge the ocean span;
Be mine to guard the light from all eclipse,
Be yours to bring man nearer unto man.'"

During the years after 1843, when Longfellow bought the Craigie House at Cambridge, his thoughts turned back with longing to the old home and the old town, and he wrote:

"Often I think of the beautiful town
That is seated by the sea;
Often in thought go up and down
The pleasant streets of the dear old town,
And my youth comes back to me."

For nineteen years after the poet's death his sister Ann, Mrs. Pierce, lived in the old home. When she died, in 1901, she deeded it to the Maine Historical Society, that the place might be made a permanent memorial of the life of The Children's Poet.

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INDEX

Abraham Lincoln House, Springfield, Illinois, 369

Acrostic, 23

Adams House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 44

Adams, Abigail, 20, 48, 230

Adams, John, 20, 24, 25, 44, 45, 47, 52, 150, 160, 226, 230, 305,
329

Adams, John Quincy, 45, 47, 48, 232

Adams, Samuel, 20, 26, 27

Alamo, the, San Antonio, Texas, 347

Alamo, battle of the, 348

Alcott, Bronson, 64

American Revolution, Daughters of the, 125, 377, 381

_American Standard_, Richmond, Virginia, 295

Amesbury, Massachusetts, 56

Amstel House, New Castle, Delaware, 205

Andros, Governor, 19, 34, 35

Annapolis, Maryland, 226

Arlington, Virginia, 246

Asbury, Bishop Francis, 244

Ashland, Lexington, Kentucky, 355

Aubrey, William, 148

Audubon, John James, 187

Bakewell, Mary, 190

Bell, Mary, mother of George Washington, 251

Bells of St. Philip's, romance of the, 334

Bennet-Boardman House, Saugus, Massachusetts, 69

Bennet, Samuel, 70

Berrian, John, 137

Biglow Papers, 38

Bill of Rights, Virginia's, 284

"Birds of America," Audubon's preparation for, 190

Blair, Rev. James, 289, 291

Boardman, Abijah, 71

Boone, Daniel, 360

Boonesborough, Kentucky, 360

Boston, Brattle Street meeting, 29
fire of 1761, 30
_Gazette_, 30
Massacre, 19, 31
_News Letter_, 28
North Church, 27
North Square, 28
Old South Church, 31
Port Bill, 25, 73, 271
Tea Party, 24, 31, 34, 37, 68, 73

Boudinot, Elias, 43, 120

Braddock, General, 115, 253

Braintree, Massachusetts, 46

Brandon, Virginia, 281

Breck, Samuel, 183

Brewton, Miles, 336

Brick Capitol, the, 228

British at Monticello, 324

Broadhearth, Saugus, Massachusetts, 69

Broadstreet, Simon, 69

Brown, Richard, 82

Brown University, 83

Bruton Parish, Virginia, 288

Budden, Captain, 165

Bunker Hill, 26, 68

Burgoyne, General, 34, 179, 391

Burlington, New Jersey, 226

Burr, Aaron, 90, 131, 394

Byrd, Evelyn, 279

Cabildo, New Orleans, Louisiana, 343

Cabot, Arthur, 37

Caldwell, New Jersey, church at, 119

Caldwell, Rev. James, 119

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 36, 73

Campfield House, Morristown, New Jersey, 126

Canonicus, 81

Capitol at Washington, 225

Carleton, Sir Guy, 108, 110

Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, 149

Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia, 149

Carroll, Charles, 216

Carter, Elizabeth Hill, 279

Carter, Landon, 278

Carter's Grove, Virginia, 280

Cartwright, Peter, 352

Castle at Fort Niagara, New York, 386

Chaplains: James Caldwell, 139
George Duffield, 160

Charles River, 27

Charleston, Massachusetts, 27

Chastellux, Marquis de, 107, 279, 324

Chew, Benjamin, Jr., 159

Chew, Joseph, 93

Chew, Samuel, 156

Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia, 249

Christ Church, Philadelphia, 153, 199

Christmas, the first, at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 197

Church furnishings, primitive, 95, 121

Churches: Old North, Boston, 27, 32;
Old South, Boston, 20, 24, 32;
King's Chapel, Boston, 32;
West, Boston, 37
Old South, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 75
First Baptist, Providence, Rhode Island, 80
St. Paul's Chapel, New York, 95
St. Martins-in-the-Fields, London, 95
Trinity Church, New York, 96
Caldwell, New Jersey, 119
Old Tennent, Freehold, New Jersey, 122
Springfield Meeting House, New Jersey, 138
St. Peter's, Philadelphia, 153
Christ Church Philadelphia, 153
Old Pine Street, Philadelphia, 159
Norriton Presbyterian, 172
Moravian at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 196
Emmanuel, New Castle, Delaware, 204
Presbyterian, New Castle, Delaware, 205
Rehoboth, Delaware, 211
Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia, 277, 294
Pohick, Virginia, 249, 311
St. John's, Richmond, 264
Bruton Parish, Virginia, 288
Monumental, Richmond, Virginia, 277, 294
Pohick Church, Virginia, 311
St. Luke's, Smithfield, Virginia, 318
St. Peter's, New Kent County, Virginia, 318
St. Michael's, Charleston, S. C., 333
Huguenot, Charleston, South Carolina, 333
St. Philip's, Charleston, South Carolina, 333, 340
Independent, Savannah, Georgia, 340
Old Stone Church, Elm Grove, West Virginia, 386

Clark, George Rogers, 360

Clay, Henry, 308, 355, 383

_Clermont_, the, 234

Cleveland, Stephen Grover, 122

Clinton, General George, 107

Clinton, Sir Henry, 337

Cliveden, Germantown, Philadelphia, 156

Clock on Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 166

Coddington, William, 49

College of New Jersey, 130, 297

College Customs at Nassau Hall, 130

Collins, Varnum Lansing, 130

Colonial Dames of Massachusetts, 53

Concord, Massachusetts, 26, 27

Congress at Princeton, New Jersey, 133

Constitutional Convention of 1787, 168

Continental Congress, 83, 93, 150

Conway Cabal, 182

Cordale, Thomas, 213

Cornwallis, Lord, 134, 293

Council of Safety, Philadelphia, 172, 193

Courtship of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, 128

Crab Orchard, Kentucky, 360

Craigie, Andrew, 41

Craigie House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 40, 403

Crockett, David, 350

Crown Point, 23

Cumberland Road, 384

Cunningham, Ann Pamela, 245

Curtis, George William, 64

Custis, George Washington Parke, 246, 255

Custis, Nelly, 219

_Daily Advertiser_, New York, 87

_Daily American Advertiser_, Philadelphia, 196

_Dartmouth_, ship, 24

Daughters of the American Revolution, 90, 377, 381

Daughters of the War of 1812, 390

Decatur, Stephen, 154

Declaration of Independence, 37, 48, 132, 167, 216, 325

Dent, Fred, 362

Desecration of Carpenters' Hall, 152

Desecration of the Capitol, 229

Dexter, Thomas, 69

Diaries:
of John Tudor, 19
of Albigence Waldo, 182
of George Washington, 21, 89, 218, 313
of John Adams, 45
of Robert Breck, 184
of Tench Tilghman, 392

Dix, Dr. Morgan, 96

Dorchester Heights, Massachusetts, 68

Doughoregan Manor, Maryland, 216

Dowry of pine-tree shillings, 50

Duche, Rev. Jacob, 150, 154

Duffield, Rev. George, 160

Dunlap, William, 137

Du Ponceau, Peter S., 176

Duston Garrison House, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 56

Duston, Hannah, 56

Duston, Thomas, 56

East India Company, 31

Eden, Governor Robert, 221

Edwards, Jonathan, 75

Elizabeth Town, New Jersey, 120, 139

Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 36

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 33

Emlen House, Pennsylvania, 178

Emmanuel Church, Newcastle, Delaware, 204

Everett, Edward, 41

Expenses in raising the Tower of the State House, Philadelphia,
164

Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 148

Faneuil, Andrew, 28

Faneuil, Peter, 28, 35

Faneuil Hall, Boston, 20, 28, 30, 31, 34

Fatlands, near Philadelphia, 187

Federal District, location of the, 226

Fernside Farm, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 54

First Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island, 80

Fitch, John, 234

Flag, American, 89

Flag, first American in British waters, 78

Flint, Ruth, 54

Flynt, Tutor, 51

Ford Mansion, Morristown, New Jersey, 126

Forks of the Delaware, 196

Fort Washington, New York City, 89

Fort William and Mary, 26

Fox, George, 212

Franklin, Benjamin, 34, 52, 97, 115, 172, 235, 392, 399

Fraunces, Samuel, 98

Fraunces' Tavern, New York, 97

Freeman, Rev. James, 36

"From Greenland's Icy Mountains," 342

Gage, General, 37, 43

Gano, Rev. Stephen, 83

Garrison, William Lloyd, 22, 55

_Gazette_, Boston, 30

_Gazette_, Essex, 25

_Gazette_, New York, 95, 99

_Gazette of the United States_, 256

_Gazette_, Portland, Maine, 402

_Gazette_, Williamsburg, Virginia, 262

Germantown, battle of, 157, 180

Germantown, Pennsylvania, 226

Gerry, Elbridge, 37, 73

Girard College, Philadelphia, 229

Glover, Colonel, 42

Grant, Ulysses S., 362

Green, General, 42

Greenway, Virginia, 257

_Griffon_, building of the, 387

Gunston Hall, Virginia, 281

Hale, Edward Everett, 37

Hallet, Stephen L., 226

Hamilton, Alexander, 100, 127, 393

Hamilton, Allan MacLane, 101

Hancock, John, 20, 24, 26, 27, 34, 45, 52, 53

Hanover Court House, Virginia, 262

"Hardscrabble," St. Louis, Missouri, 363

Harlem Heights, battle of, 88

Harmar, Fort, 379

Harrison, Benjamin, 263, 281

Harrison Mansion, the, Vincennes, Indiana, 374

Harrison, William Henry, 360, 374

Harte, Bret, 140

Harvard College, 38

Hasbrouck, Jonathan, 107

Haverhill Historical Society, 60

Haverhill, Massachusetts, 56

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 40, 61

Hay, Henry Hanby, 205

Headquarters: Washington's at Roger Morris House, New York, 88
Washington's at Richmond Hill, New York, 99
Washington's at Van Cortlandt House, New York, 105
Washington's at Newburgh, New York, 107.
Washington's at Morristown, New Jersey, 126
Washington's at Rocky Hill, New Jersey, 134
Washington's at Rocky Hill, New Jersey, 137
Washington's at Valley Forge, 174
Washington's at Pennypacker's Mills, Dawesfield, and Emlen
House, 178

Heijt, Hans Joest, 178

Henricopolis, Virginia, 266

Henry, Patrick, 264, 266, 268, 271, 283, 285, 290, 305, 309, 314

Henry, William, 179

_Herald_, the San Antonio, Texas, 348

Hermitage, The, Nashville, Tennessee, 351

Hoban, James, architect of White House, 227, 230

Hodgson, Adam, 219.

Hollyman, Ezekiel, 81

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 52, 53

Honor System, the, in William and Mary College, 294

Hospitality: at Montpelier, Virginia, 299
at Oak Hill, Virginia, 303
at Red Hill, Virginia, 306
at Mount Airy, Virginia, 315
at Monticello, 325
at The Hermitage, 353
at Ashland, Kentucky, 357
at the Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York, 394

Hough, Atherton, 50

House of Seven Gables, 41

Houses: Paul Revere's, Boston, Massachusetts, 23
Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 36
Craigie House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 40, 403
Adams House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 44
Quincy Mansion, Quincy, Massachusetts, 49
Fernside Farm, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 54
Duston Garrison House, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 56
The Old Manse, Concord, Massachusetts, 61
The Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts, 61
Royall House, Medford, Massachusetts, 66
Bennet-Boardman, Saugus, Massachusetts, 69
Broadhearth, Saugus, Massachusetts, 69
Jeremiah Lee House, Marblehead, Massachusetts, 72
Morris-Jumel House, New York City, 87
Philipse Manor, Yonkers, New York, 91, 105
The Grange, New York City, 100
Van Cortlandt, New York City, 105
Hasbrouck, Newburgh, New York, 106
Franklin Palace, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, 115
Ford Mansion, Morristown, New Jersey, 126
Campfield, Morristown, New Jersey, 126
Morven, the Mercer House and Washington's Headquarters at Rocky
Hill, New Jersey, 134
Letitia Penn, Philadelphia, 145
Pennsbury Manor, Pennsylvania, 147
Cliveden, Germantown, Pennsylvania, 156
David Rittenhouse, Philadelphia, 170
Isaac Potts, at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 175
Pennypacker's Mills, Pennsylvania, 178
Dawesfield, Pennsylvania, 178
Sweetbrier, Philadelphia, 183
Mill Grove, Pennsylvania, 187
Fatlands, Pennsylvania, 187
Waynesborough, Paoli, Pennsylvania, 192
Amstel, New Castle, Delaware, 205
George Read's, New Castle, Delaware, 207
Ridgely, Dover, Delaware, 208
Doughoregan Manor, Maryland, 216
Upton Scott, Annapolis, Maryland, 220
White House, Washington, 230, 236
Octagon, Washington, 231, 234, 236, 317
Mt. Airy, Virginia, 234, 314
Mt. Vernon, Virginia, 241
Arlington, Virginia, 246
Mary Washington's, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 251
Pine Grove, Virginia, 253
Kenmore, Virginia, 253
Greenway, Virginia, 257
Sherwood Forest, Virginia, 257
Nelson, Yorktown, Virginia, 270
Moore House, Yorktown, Virginia, 270
John Marshall's, Richmond, Virginia, 274
Sabine Hall, Virginia, 278
Westover, Virginia, 278
Shirley, Virginia, 280
Carter's Grove, Virginia, 280
Brandon, Virginia, 281
Gunston Hall, Virginia, 281
Montpelier, Virginia, 296
Shadwell, Virginia, 297, 322
Oak Hill, Virginia, 301
Red Hill, Virginia, 305
Monticello, Virginia, 322
Rebecca Motte's, Charleston, South Carolina, 336
Pringle House, Charleston, 336
Hermitage, Nashville, Tennessee, 351
Ashland, Lexington, Kentucky, 355
Whitley's Station, Kentucky, 359
White Haven, St. Louis, Missouri, 362
"Hardscrabble," St. Louis, Missouri, 363
Abraham Lincoln's, Springfield, Illinois, 369
Harrison Mansion, Vincennes, Indiana, 374
Rufus Putnam's House, Marietta, Ohio, 377
Monument Place, Elm Grove, West Virginia, 381
Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York, 391
Wentworth House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 395
Warner House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 399
Longfellow House, Portland, Maine, 400

Houston, Sam, 347

Hovey, Dr. H. C., 77

Howe, Lord, 95, 192

Huguenot Church, Charleston, South Carolina, 335

Hull, Hannah, 50

Hutchinson, Ann, 50

Independence Bell, 169, 199

Independence, The Declaration of, 20

Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 151, 162

Independent Church, Savannah, Georgia, 340

Indians, attacked by the, 58, 361, 382

Institute of American Architects, 238

Jackson, Andrew, 233, 347, 351

James River Canal Company, 285

Jamestown, Virginia, 288

Jay, John, 98

Jefferson, Thomas, 170, 173, 260, 272, 294, 297, 299, 301, 322,
326

Jeremiah Lee House, Marblehead, Massachusetts, 72

John Marshall's House, Richmond, Virginia, 274

Johns, Kensey, 206

Johnson, Nicholas, 78

_Journal and General Advertiser_, New York, 95

_Journal_, Springfield, Illinois, 372

Jumel-Burr, Madam, 90

Jumel, Stephen, 90

Kasimir, Fort, Delaware, 203

Kenmore, Virginia, 253

Kent, Chancellor, 103

_Kentucke Gazette_, 355

Key, Francis Scott, 222

Kidd, Captain, 92

King, Washington asked to become, 108

King's Chapel, Boston, 32

Kingston, New York, 226

Knyphausen, General, 138, 194

Lafayette, Marquis de, 107, 193, 199, 256, 296, 299, 304, 346,
353, 381

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 227

Leader, Richard, 69

Lee, Jeremiah, 72

Lee, Richard Henry, 124, 244

Lee, Robert E., 246, 280, 287

"Lehigh, House on the," 197

Letitia Penn House, Philadelphia, 145

Lexington, battle of, 78, 166

Lexington, Massachusetts, 26, 27, 73

_Liberator, The_, 22

Liberty Bell, 169, 199

Lidgett, Mrs. Elizabeth, 67

_Lightning_, ship, 333

Lincoln, Abraham, 230, 233, 369, 371, 372

_Little Pilgrim, The_ newspaper, 54

Livingston, Robert R., 98

Logan, James, 148

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 40, 396, 400

Longfellow, Mrs. Henry Wadsworth, 41

Lossing, Benson J., 152

Lottery for church building purposes, 159

Louisiana, 191

Louisiana Purchase, 294

Louisiana transferred to the United States, 344

Lowell, General Charles Russell, 38

Lowell, James Jackson, 38

Lowell, James Russell, 36, 37

Lowell, Maria, 38

Lowell, Rev. Charles, 37

Lowly office after the Presidency, 261

Loyalists' houses confiscated, 89

Lunt, Ezra, 78

Maddox, Rev. Robert, 212

Madison, James, 37, 223, 236, 296

Makemie, Frances, 212

Mantonomi, 81

Marblehead, Massachusetts, 72

Marietta, Ohio, 377

Marion, General, 337

Marriages: Mary Philipse and Roger Morris, 93
Rev. William Tennent and Mrs. Noble, 123
Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, 129
William Penn and Guli Springett, 145
William Penn and Hannah Callowhill, 147
William Aubrey and Letitia Penn, 148
John James Audubon and Mary Bakewell, 190
Kensey Johns and Anne Van Dyke, 206
Charles J. Du Pont and Dorcas M. Van Dyke, 208
Upton Scott and Elizabeth Ross, 221
Robert E. Lee and Miss Custis, 247
Augustine Washington and Mary Ball, 252
John Rolfe and Pocahontas, 266
John Tyler and Letitia Christian, 260
Thomas Nelson and Lucy Grymes, 270
James Madison and Dorothy Todd, 298
James Madison and Eliza Kortwright, 301
George Washington and Martha Custis, 321
Thomas Jefferson and Martha Skelton, 322
Jacob Motte and Rebecca Brewton, 336
Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Axson, 343
Henry Clay and Lavinia Hart, 355
Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Dent, 362
Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd, 370
Moses Shepherd and Lydia Boggs, 383
Philip Schuyler and Catherine Van Rensselaer, 393
Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, 393
Governor Wentworth and Martha Hilton, 397
Michael Wentworth and Mrs. Martha Wentworth, 399

Marshall, Chief Justice, 169, 274, 294

Martineau, Harriet, 299, 356

_Mary_, ship, 245

Mary Washington House, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 251

Mason and Dixon line, 171

Mason, George, 281, 312

Mason, Lowell, 342

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 28

Massacre, Boston, 19, 31

Massasoit, 80

Mather, Cotton, 58

Mather, Increase, 32

_Mayflower_, Putnam's barge on the Ohio, 379

McColloch's leap, 382

McKinley, William, 346

Meade, Bishop, 276, 319

Medford, Massachusetts, 27, 66

Mercer, General, 135

Mercer House, Princeton, New Jersey, 134

_Mercury_, New York, 87

Mill Grove, near Philadelphia, 187

Monmouth, battle of, 123

Monroe, James, 232, 294, 301, 342

Montgomery, General, 97

Monticello, Virginia, 322

Montpelier, Virginia, 296

Monument Place, Elm Grove, West Virginia, 381

Monumental Church, Richmond, Virginia, 277, 294

Moore House, Yorktown, Virginia, 270, 274

Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 196

Morris, Gouverneur, 98, 103

Morris-Jumel House, New York City, 87, 94

Morris, Robert, 184

Morris, Roger, 87, 93

Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, 134

"Mosses from an Old Manse," 63

Mount Airy, Virginia, 234, 314

Mount Vernon, Virginia, 109, 241

Munitions, Revolutionary, 173

Nantes, Edict of, 28

Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, 130

_National Intelligencer_, Washington, 236

National Pike, 384

Nelson House, Yorktown, Virginia, 270

Nelson, Thomas, 270

Newark, New Jersey, 130

Newburyport, Massachusetts, 55, 75

New Castle, Delaware, 145, 203

New England Antiquities, Society for the Preservation of, 71

New Orleans, battle of, 346

Newspapers: _Liberator_, 22
Essex _Gazette_, 25
Boston _News Letter_, 28
Boston _Gazette_, 30
_Little Pilgrim, The_, 54
New York _Mercury_, 87
New York _Daily Advertiser_, 87
New York _Gazette_, 95, 99
New York _Journal and General Advertiser_, 95
Philadelphia _Pennsylvania Packet_, 97
_Pennsylvania Evening Post_, 155, 173
_Pennsylvania Gazette_, 164
_Daily American Advertiser_, Philadelphia, 196
_National Intelligencer_, Washington, 227, 236
_Gazette of the United States_, 256
Williamsburg _Gazette_, 262
_American Standard_, Richmond, Virginia, 295
San Antonio _Herald_, 348
_Kentucke Gazette_, 355
Springfield _Journal_, 372
Portland _Gazette_, 402

Nicola, Lewis, tries to tempt Washington, 108

Norriton, Pennsylvania, 170

Norriton Presbyterian Church, 172

North Church, Boston, 27

Northwestern Territory, 274

Nova Scotia, Franklin's land speculation in, 117

Noyes, Alfred, 136

Oak Hill, Virginia, 301

Octagon House, Washington, 231, 234, 236, 317

Oglethorpe, General James E., 341

Ohio Company, the, 378

Ohio River, floating down the, 190

Old Manse, the, Concord, Massachusetts, 61

Old Pine Street Church, Philadelphia, 159

Old North Church, Boston, 32

Old South Church, 20, 24, 31, 32

Old South Church, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 75

Old State House, Boston, 19

Old Tennent Church, Freehold, New Jersey, 122

Oliver, Thomas, 36

Ordway, Alfred A., 56

O'Reilly, Count Alejandro, 343

Orin, Azor, 73

"Oven, The," temporary Capitol, 227

Paoli Massacre, 181, 194

Parsons, Dr. Jonathan, 78

Patriot who destroyed their own houses: Thomas Nelson, 271;
Rebecca Motte, 339

Pauling, John, 178

Paul Revere's House, Boston, Massachusetts, 23

Peabody, Sophia, 62

Peace, signing of, in 1783, 110

Peale, Charles Wilson, 133, 154

Penn, Letitia, 146

Penn, Thomas and Richard, 153

Penn, William, 145, 162, 204

Pennsbury Manor, Pennsylvania, 147

_Pennsylvania Evening Post_, 155, 173

_Pennsylvania Gazette_, 164

_Pennsylvania Packet_, Philadelphia, 97

Pennypacker, Samuel W., 171

Penobscot expedition, 28

Persecution, religious, in New York, 213

Phi Beta Kappa Society, 294

Philadelphia, evacuation of, 177

Philadelphia, Paul Revere rides to, 25

Philipsburgh, Manor of, 92

Philipse, Colonel Frederick, 92

Philipse, Frederick, 91

Philipse Manor House, Yonkers, New York, 91

Philipse, Mary, 93

Pine Grove, Virginia, 253

Pine-tree shillings, dowry of, 50

Plum pudding, the best dinner, 260

Plymouth, New Hampshire, 66

Pohick Church, Virginia, 249, 311

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 26, 395

Potomac Canal, 218, 285

Prayer at opening of First Continental Congress, 151

Prayer for the King, omitted, 154

President's pew: in St. Paul's Chapel, New York, 96
in St. Peter's, Philadelphia, 154
in Pohick Church, Virginia, 312

Princeton, battle of, 133, 135

Princeton University, 130

Pringle House, Charleston, South Carolina, 336

Providence, Rhode Island, 82

Putnam, William Lowell, 38

"Put Watts into them, boys," 140

Quincy, Dorothy, 52

Quincy, Edmund, 49, 51

Quincy, Edmund, III, 51

Quincy, Josiah, 53

Quincy, Judith, 50

Quincy Mansion, Quincy, Massachusetts, 49

Quincy, Massachusetts, 44

Quincy, Massachusetts Historical Society, 47

Randolph, Edmund, 269, 294

Randolph, John, 228

Read, George, 205

Red Bank, New Jersey, victory at, 181

Redemptioners, purchase of, 186

Red Hill, Virginia, 305

Revere, Paul, 23, 33, 53, 77

Rhode Island, 83

Ridgely, Dr. Charles Greenburg, 209

Rittenhouse, David, 198

Rittenhouse House, Philadelphia, 170

Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Duc de la, 325

Rodney, Caesar, 208, 209

Roosevelt, Theodore, 233, 290

Ross, George, 204

Royall House, Medford, Massachusetts, 66

Royall, Isaac, 67

Royall, William, 67

Rufus Putnam's House, Marietta, Ohio, 377

Rush, Dr. Benjamin, 163, 171

St. John's Church, Richmond, Virginia, 264, 266

St. Luke's Church, Smithfield, Virginia, 318

St. Martins-in-the-Fields, London, 82

St. Michael's Church, Charleston, South Carolina, 333

St. Peter's Church, New Kent County, Virginia, 318

St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, 153

St. Philip's Church, Charleston, South Carolina, 335, 340

Salem, Massachusetts, 80

Savannah, Georgia, Siege of, 341

Schools, free, beginnings of, in Pennsylvania, 186

Schuyler, Catherine, 393

Schuyler, Elizabeth, 100, 127

Schuyler, General Philip, 100, 126

Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York, 391

Scott House, Annapolis, Maryland, 220

Scott, Molly, 382

Scott, Upton, 220

Servants, problem of, in early days, 185

Severance, Frank H., 386

Sewell, Judge Samuel, 50, 74

Shadwell, Virginia, 297, 322

Sharpe, Horatio, 221

Shepherd, Moses, 381

Sherwood Forest, Virginia, 257, 261

Shippen, Dr. William, Jr., 162

Ships: _Dartmouth_, 24
_Somerset_, 27
_Welcome_, 145
_John and Sarah_, 146
_Surprise_, 223
_Mary_, 245
_Constitution_ and _Guerriere_, _Cyano_ and _Levant_, 317
_Lightning_, 333

Shirley, Virginia, 280

Signers of the Declaration of Independence: John Witherspoon, 132
Benjamin Rush, 162
George Ross, 204
George Read, 205
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 216
Thomas Nelson, 270
George Wythe, 290
Richard Lightfoot Lee, 314

Skippack, Pennsylvania, 180

Smith, Abigail, 46

Smith, Rev. William, 46

"Snow-Bound," 55

Society for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, 277

_Somerset_, ship, 27

Sons of the Revolution, 99

Springett, Guli, 145

Springfield, battle of, 141

Springfield Meeting House, New Jersey, 138

Stamp Act, 30, 46, 218

Star-Spangled Banner, story of the, 222

Stark, General John, 68

Stark, Molly, 68

State House Clock, Philadelphia, 172

State House Yard, Philadelphia, 163

Steuben, Baron, 176

Stevens, Colonel William, 211

Stockton, Mrs. Richard, 134

Stone Church, Elm Grove, West Virginia, 386

Stony Point, New York, 195

Stuart, Gilbert, 218

Stuyvesant, Petrus, 204

Sullivan, General, 43

Susquehanna, Falls of the, 226

Sweetbrier, Philadelphia, 183

Swett, Martha, 74

Symmes, Rev. Frank R., 123

Taney, Chief Justice R. R., 222

Tayloe, John, 232, 234, 314

Tea meetings, 31

Tecumseh, Indian chief, 375

Tennent, Rev. John, 123
Rev. William, 123

Texas, Republic of, 350

Thames, battle of the, 360

Theatre fire in Richmond, Virginia, 294

Thomson, George, 208

Thornton, Dr. William, 226, 234

Ticonderoga, 193

Tilghman, Tench, 127, 392

Tillinghast, Pardon, 81

Treaty of 1783, 133

Trenton, battle of, 135

Tudor, John, 19

Tyler, Henry, 290

Tyler, Judge John, 257, 258, 294

United States archives, removed to new Capitol at Washington, 227

University of Virginia, the, 326

Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 174, 182, 189, 195, 218

Vanarsdal, Rev. Jacob, 141

Van Buren, Martin, 232

Van Cortlandt, Jacobus, 105

Van Cortlandt Park, 104

Van der Donck, Jonkheer Adriaen, 91, 105

Van Dyke, Henry, 215

Van Dyke, Nicholas, 205

Vane, Sir Harry, 50

Vassall, John, 41

Vassall, Leonard, 48

Venus, transit of, 171

Vincennes, Indiana, 374

Waldo, Albigence, 182

Walker, Rachel, 23

Wallace Nutting Corporation, 70

Walter, Thomas U., 229

Ward, Samuel, 42

Warner House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 399

Warren, General, 26

Washington and Lee University, 248

Washington, burning of, in 1814, 184, 228, 231, 235, 317

Washington College, Lexington, Virginia, 285

Washington, George, 21, 31, 40, 72, 88, 93, 95, 96, 98, 99, 105,
108, 110, 124, 133, 137, 139, 157, 173, 174, 178, 189, 192, 194,
206, 218, 226, 234, 241, 246, 252, 256, 272, 281, 283, 285, 290,
294, 305, 308, 311, 315, 316, 321, 374, 377, 378

Washington, Laurence, 241, 253

Washington, Mrs. George, 42, 127, 177, 245

Wayne, Captain Isaac, 192

Wayne, General Anthony, 107, 157, 192

Waynesborough, near Philadelphia, 192

Wayside, The, Concord, Massachusetts, 61

Weare, Meschech, 108

Webster, Daniel, 384

Weems, Parson, 313

Wentworth, Governor Benning, 395

Wentworth House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 395

West Church, Boston, 37

Westover, Virginia, 278

West Point Military Academy, 100, 106, 362

Wheelwright, Rev. John, 50

Whitefield, Rev. George, 75

White Haven, St. Louis, Missouri, 362

White House, Washington, 230, 236

Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, 181

Whitley's Station, Kentucky, 359

Whittier, John G., 54, 79

Whittier, Thomas, 54

Wilkinson, General, 158

William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, 259, 289, 291

Williamsburg Court House, Virginia, 262

Williamsburg, Virginia, 289

Williams, Roger, 80

Wilson, Daniel Munro, 44, 47

Winthrop, Governor, 34, 66

Wirt, William, describes Patrick Henry's first public speech, 264

Witherspoon, John, 132

Wolfe, Colonel James, 220

Women's Centennial Executive Committee, 339

Wren, James, 249

Wren, Sir Christopher, 82, 292

Wythe, George, 290

Yonkers, New York, 88, 91

York, Pennsylvania, 174

Yorktown, Siege of, 271, 279

Zinzendorf, Count, 197

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Transcriber's note:

Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have
been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

Page 107: "1872" possibly should be 1782.
Page 309: "Hampdon Sidney" possibly should be "Hampden Sydney."

Various references to Newcastle or New Castle, Delaware have been
left as printed.

All illustrations except the frontispiece have been moved to their
references in the text.

Unmatched quotation marks were left as printed.