Chapter M: Mabie, H. W., on Tarrytown, 137-167

Maclean, John, 292

Madison, James, 290, 291;
quoted, 267

Mahany, R. B., on Buffalo, 367-391

Maidenhead, skirmish at, 276

_Maine_, the, 244

Manhattan, island of, 75, 80, 142, 169, 213, 214, 219

Manhattanville absorbed by New York, 188

Manning, Captain, 175

Manning, James, 254

Mantua, village of, 327

Marquis Ito, 206

Martin, Luther, 254

Martin, Thomas, Madison to, 267

Mather, Cotton, 221

Mauritius, 3, 7

Mawhood, Colonel, at Princeton, 280

_Mayflower_, the, 4, 5, 110

McCosh, President James, 295

McKean, Governor, 358

McKinly, President John, 355

McMahon, James P., 390

Megapolensis, Domine, 9

Mercer at battle of Princeton, 279-283

_Messenger, The_, of Ontario, 382

Metropolitan Museum, N. Y., 208

Meynders, Birgert, 118, 121

Midwout, 219, 220

Mifflin in battle of Princeton, 275

Miles, Colonel, at Brooklyn, 235

Miller, Rev. John, 10

Minquas River, 337, 357

Minuit, Peter, in New Netherlands, 172, 173, 336

Mischienza, the, 316, 320

Mohawks, _see_ Indians

Monmouth’s Rebellion, 302

Montcalm, death of, 407

Montgomery, Robert, 357

Montreal, 178;
massacre of, 46;
capture of, 407

Moravians come to Philadelphia, 302

Morgan, Gen. Daniel, at Saratoga, 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

N

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 settlement, 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 Netherlands, fur trade in, 71

New Utrecht, 216

New York, 271, 317;
J. B. Gilder on, 169-211;
Dutch settlement, 169-175;
captured by the English, 175;
recaptured by the Dutch, 175;
governorship of Andros, 176;
resumption 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 Society, 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

Niagara Falls, 369, 386

Nicola, Colonel, letter to Washington, 127, 132

Nicolls, Colonel, at New Amsterdam, 175, 177, 224

Nieu Nederlandt, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9

Niles, Nathaniel, 254

Nott, President E., 105, 106

O

Ohio Company formed, 397

“Old French War,” 96

_Old Jersey_, the ship, 242

Old Swedes’ Church, Wilmington, 350-352

Oxenstiern revives the Usselinx charter, 336

P

Paige, E. W., cited, 83

Paine, Thomas, 205

Palatines, at Newburgh, 108-117;
at Philadelphia, 302

Palmer, the sculptor, 36

Paris, treaty of, 97;
New York compared with, 317

Parker, Judge, 36

Paterson, William, 252, 290

Patton, President, of Princeton, 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 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania, 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 University of Pennsylvania, 324;
the city before the Civil War, 325-329;
modern Philadelphia, 329-334

Philadelphia Library, 306

Philips, Frederick, and his Manor, 145-151

Phipps, Henry, conservatory of, 424

Pilgrims compared with Palatines, 113

Pitt, William, statue of, 194;
befriends colonies, 404

Pittsburgh, S. H. Church on, 393-426;
site determined by Washington, 393;
first permanent settlement, 397;
taken by French, 399;
the Braddock expedition, 399-404;
English take Fort Duquesne and name it Pittsburgh, 406;
Indians attack, 409;
in the Revolution, 411-413;
becomes the county seat, 414;
in the Indian war of 1791, 416;
the Whiskey Insurrection, 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 Brooklyn, 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 established at Elizabethtown, 252;
removed to Princeton, 254;
parting from Yale, 254;
early character, 256-260;
Witherspoon 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 Philadelphia, 272;
at Princeton, 285

Putnam, Gideon, at Saratoga, 69

Putnam, Harrington, on Brooklyn, 213-249

Q

Quassaick, 107, 114, 118, 127, 128

Quebec, capture of, 407

Queen Anne, 108;
gives bell to Lutherans at Newburgh, 115, 117

Queen Anne’s War, 48, 96

_Queen Charlotte_, British war vessel, 375

Queen Charlotte, portrait of, 184

Queen’s Head Tavern, 184

Queenstown in War of 1812, 380

R

Raymond, President, of Union College, 106

Red Jacket in War of 1812, 380

Rensselaerswyck, 8, 28, 73, 80, 81, 87

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

Ripley, General, at Fort Erie, 381

Rising, John Claudius, 341

Rittenhouse, 314;
his observatory, 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

Ryan, 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, Schenectady, 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 Indian 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;
preliminary warfare of the American Revolution, 54-56;
Burgoyne’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 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;
government seized by Leisler, 91;
Indian wars, 92-96;
Schenectady in the Revolution, 97-99;
religious history, 100-103;
modern history, 104-106

Schenley, Mary, 424

Schermerhoorn, 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 Saratoga, 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 Wilmington, 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

Squaw 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 Island, 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 Amsterdam, 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 Revolution, 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 Philadelphia, 301

T

Tammany Hall, history of, 189, 190

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., 206

Thaw, Wm., generosity to Pittsburgh, 424

Thesschenmaecher, Rev. Petrus, 88

Ticonderoga, 19, 40, 51, 54, 233, 405

Tiemann, Mayor, death of, 170

Tifft house, the, 377

Tilden, Samuel J., 205

Tinicum, Prinz’s fort at, 340

Torkillius, Rev. R., at Fort Christina, 338, 365

Townsend, Charles, 384

Townsend, Sam, 361

Tran Hook, _see_ Crane Hook

Treaty of 1783, 289

Trefalldigheet, 343

Trent, Captain Wm., 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

Usselinx, Wm., and his trading company, 335

Utrecht, 216;
treaty of, 96