Chapter IX: The West, (4)
Claus, Col. Daniel, 247, 351, 661;
has charge of St. Leger's Indians, 628;
manuscript anecdotes of Brant, 663:
Cleveland, Col., and North Carolinians, 478.
Clinch Valley, 676.
Clinton, De Witt, life of Philip Livingston, 265.
Clinton, George, house in N. Y., 276;
portraits, 197, 308;
memoir by W. L. Stone, 308;
opposes evacuation of N. Y., 333;
autog., 364.
Clinton, Sir Henry, at Bunker Hill, 138;
proclamations in S. Carolina, 229, 322, 513, 526;
attacks Fort Moultrie, 153, 170, 230;
in the battle of Brooklyn, 279;
attack on Forts Clinton and Montgomery, 306;
plan, 363;
despatches, 364;
in Philadelphia, 396;
succeeds Howe, 443;
on Monmouth, 446;
on the Southern campaign (1778), 520;
endeavors to save André, 461;
his MS. _Hist. of the War_, 467;
his accounts of Arnold and André, 467;
in the South, 469;
attacks Charlestown, S. C., 471, 526;
captures it, 474;
his report, 525;
deceived by Washington's seeming intention of attacking New York,
498, 501, 561;
_Narrative_, 516;
_Observations on Cornwallis's Answer_, 516;
his notes on the correspondence, 156;
controversy with Arbuthnot, 517;
_Letter to Com. on Public Accounts_, 517;
_Observations on Stedman_, 517;
_Memorandum on plundering_, 517;
forged despatch about siege of Charleston, 527;
his controversy with Cornwallis, 547;
orders him to occupy Old Point Comfort, 548;
ordered by Germain to continue the war in the South, 548;
seeks to succor Cornwallis, 549;
in New Jersey, 559;
on the revolt of the Penn. line, 561;
in Rhode Island (1776), 593;
(1778), 603;
sends naval force to Penobscot (1779), 603;
portraits, 306, 307;
relieved by Carleton, 745.
Clinton, Gen. James, his expedition against the Indians, 638;
acc. of, 659;
in the Sullivan exped. (1779), 667, 670;
portraits, 670, 681;
_Revolutionary Relics_, 457.
Clunes, John, 360.
Cluny, Alex., _Amer. Traveller_, 85.
Clymer, Geo., autog., 265;
life, 265.
Cobb, David, diary at Yorktown, 554.
Cobbett, Wm., 359.
Cobleskill, Brant at, 633;
confused accounts of, 633;
destroyed, 660.
Coburn, F. W., _Bennington_, 356.
Cockings, Geo., _The American War_, 197, 200.
Coffin, Chas., _Bunker Hill_, 189;
_Mem. of Gen. Thomas_, 167.
Coffin, C. C., _Boscawen_, 355;
on Bunker Hill, 190.
Coffin, Shubael, 33.
Cohoes, 609.
Colden, lieut.-gov. of New York, 30.
Coleman, C. W., on Greene, 537.
Coleman, E. C., on Simon Kenton, 708.
Colerain, Lord, 517 (_see_ Hanger, Geo.), _Life of Hanger_, 517.
Coles, Edward, 258.
Collet, O. W., 730, 740.
Collet, surveys of No. Carolina, 538.
Colleville, Vicomte de, _Les missions secretes du Baron de Kalb_, 244.
Collier, Sir Geo., 326;
in N. Y. harbor, 330;
relieves Penobscot, 582;
in the "Rainbow", 589.
Colman, R. F., 734.
Colonies, English, their independence of England, 232;
their relations to the crown, 3, 5.
Colonization, English idea of, 687.
Colucci, Giuseppe, _Guerra per l'Independenza_, 523.
_Columbian Magazine_, 510.
Combahee Ferry, 507.
Committees of correspondence, origin of, 89;
of correspondence, inspection, and safety, 90.
Conanicut Island, map of, 596, 600, 602.
Concord (Mass.), fight at, 124;
roads about, 121;
visited by Brown and Bernière, 119;
authorities on the fight, 175;
depositions, 175;
fac-simile of Col. James Barrett's, 177;
plan of, 180;
centennial celebration, 184;
histories, 184;
view of, 185 (_see_ Lexington);
military stores at, 123;
Prov. Congress at, 120.
Cone, Mary, 729;
_Rufus Putnam_, 158.
Conestogoes, massacred by Paxton Boys, 606, 682;
their lands, 606.
"Confederacy", captured, 584.
Confederation of the United States (1776), 240, 274;
articles, 174;
debates on, 274;
Franklin's proposed plan, 654.
Congaree River, 475.
Congress of 1754, 63, 65;
various plans at, 66;
Rhode Island and, 66, 67.
Congress of 1774, proposed, 59, 60;
who originated?, 98;
sessions, 99;
legal aspects of, 99;
the delegates, how chosen 99;
feelings in N. Y. towards, 99;
Delaware members, 99;
Virginia members, 99;
tracts about, 99;
New England in, 99;
Sunday sessions opposed, 99;
Middle States in, 99;
Virginia in, 99;
Carolina in, 99;
its _Journal_, 100;
its device, 100;
copy owned by Thomas Cushing, 100;
_The whole proceedings_, 100;
_Extracts from its Journal_, 100;
documents in Force, 100;
notes of the debates, 100;
_Declaration of Rights_, 100;
_Petition to the King_, 100;
MS. copies in existence, 100;
printed copies, 100;
_Address to the people of Great Britain_, 100;
a _Letter_ in response, 100;
_Memorial to the Colonies_, 100;
_Suffolk Resolves_, read, 100;
the approval of them drove out the loyalists, 101;
effect in England, 101;
Galloway's plan of adjustment, 101;
relations of loyalists, 101;
_Articles of Association,_ 101;
fac-similes of signatures, 102;
address to inhabitants of Quebec, 104;
every step known in London, 104;
its views challenged in New York, 104;
the Seabury-Wilkins tracts on, 104;
letter to the king, 237;
declaration, 237.
Congress of 1775, 107;
_Journal_, 107;
different eds., 107;
debates, 107;
its _Declaration_, 108;
_Address to the inhabitants of Great Britain_, 108;
_Address to Ireland_, 108;
_Address to New England_, 108;
_Petition to the King_, 108, 255;
chooses Washington commander-in-chief, 108;
articles of confederation, 108;
approves the form of government adopted in Mass., 108;
articles for the government of the troops, 108;
plan for organizing militia, 108;
proceedings, secret, 108;
com. of secret correspondence, 108;
general references, 108;
lives of members, 108;
effect in England, 109;
Dr. Samuel Johnson's _Taxation no Tyranny_, 109;
tender of Canada, 160;
parties in, 255.
Congress, Continental, sends a commission to Canada, 166;
Declaration of Independence, 228 (_see_ Declaration);
and independence, 231;
its character, 233;
New Hampshire in, 234;
Massachusetts in, 234;
Connecticut in, 234;
Pennsylvania in, 234;
journals, 252, 261, 268;
leaves Philadelphia (1776), 373, 383;
its lessening character, 391;
distrust of Washington in, 391;
inefficiency of, 556, 744;
creates inspector-general, 556;
seeks to regulate prices, 556;
naval committee, 567;
appoints Hopkins commander-in-chief of navy, 568;
arranges the rank of captains, 570;
gives commissioners in Europe power to commission naval officers,
573;
authorizes privateers, 591;
_Extracts from Journals on prizes and privateers_, 591;
prize claims, 591;
and the use of Indians, 615, 616, 622, 632, 654;
creates Indian departments, 616;
addresses the Six Nations, 616;
plan of confederation, 616;
address to Ireland, 617.
Connecticut claims the credit of capturing Ticonderoga (1775), 160,
213;
claim to land in Pennsylvania, 605, 665, 680;
creates a navy, 565;
equips troops (1775), 122;
her seamen, 587;
invaded by Tryon, 557;
men at Bunker Hill, 189;
naval officers, 568;
organizes a militia, 116;
issues paper money, 116;
privateers, 591;
whale-boat warfare, 591;
_Queries and Answers_ as to her commerce, 64;
retains her original charter, 274;
sends a message to Gage (1775), 128;
Mass. delegates in, 128;
Stamp Act in, 73;
troops in Long Island battle, 329;
trouble with the Mohawks, 605.
Connecticut Valley invaded (1780), 645.
Conner, Timothy, journal, 575.
Connolly, Dr. John, 709.
Connolly's arrest, 653.
Conover, Geo. S., edits journals of Sullivan expedition, 681;
_Sayengueraghta_, 663.
Conrad, R. T., edited Sanderson's _Signers_, 266.
Constitution Island in the Hudson, 323, 462, 465;
plan, 325.
Constitutional Society in London, 175.
Constitutions of the several United States, 268, 272.
Continental army reorganized, 437;
distresses of, 560;
number of men in, year by year, 588;
including militia, 588;
not paid, 745;
disbanded, 746.
Continental Congress. _See_ Congress.
Continental navy, general accounts of, 589;
forming of, 567;
naval committee, 567;
names of first-built ships, 567;
officers commissioned in Europe, 573;
its captures, 576, 589;
losses, 576;
force in 1780, 583;
total number engaged in service, 584, 587;
compared with land forces, 588;
vessels sunk in the Delaware, 428;
raised, 445.
_See_ Navy.
Convention troops (Burgoyne's army), 317;
at Rutland, 321;
in Virginia, 321.
Conway Cabal, 392;
who shared in it?, 446;
references, 446, 447.
Conway, Gen. H. S., 31, 238;
his portrait ordered by Boston, 74;
likenesses, 74.
Conway, Gen. Thomas, at Brandywine, 382;
and the Conway Cabal, 392.
Conyngham, Gustavus, commands the "Surprise", 573;
takes prizes into Dunkirk, 573;
imprisoned in France, 573;
demanded of France by England, 574;
in the "Revenge", 574.
Cook, Frederick, 681.
Cook, James, map of So. Carolina, 537.
Cook, Col. John, 668.
Cook, Lemuel, 746.
Cook, Col. Thaddeus, orderly-book (1777), 359.
Cooke, Geo. W., _Hist. of Party_, 112.
Cooke, J. E., on Chas. Lee, Gates, etc., 144;
on Jefferson, 259;
on the Virginia Declaration of Independence, 259;
on the Virginia Constitution, 272;
"Historic houses in the Shenandoah", 407;
on the British in Virginia, 546.
Cooke, Samuel, _The Violent destroyed_, 180.
Cooke, W. D., _Rev. Hist. of N. Carolina_, 256.
Coolidge, G. A., _Brochure of Bunker Hill_, 132.
Coolidge, T. Jefferson, 258.
Cooper, J. F., _Lionel Lincoln_, 185, 200;
_Travelling Bachelor_, 466;
_Naval Hist. U. S._, 589;
editions, 589;
_Lives of Distinguished Naval Officers_, 589;
_Pilot_, 590.
Cooper, Dr. Myles, _Friendly Address_, 106;
drew out other tracts, 106;
_American Querist_, 106;
_What think ye of Congress now?_ 101.
Cooper, Dr. Samuel, defends D'Estaing, 580, 601;
corresponding with Wm. Livingston, 83;
on Preston's trial, 86;
letters, 203.
Cooper, Samuel (Penna.), 436.
Cooper, Wm., 84;
town clerk of Boston, autog., 87, 115.
Copley, J. S., paints Hancock, 270;
John Adams, 36;
Sam. Adams, 40;
Chief Justice Oliver, 95.
Copp, J. J., 562.
Cornplanter, chief of the Senecas, 644.
Cornstalk, at battle of Point Pleasant, 714;
accounts of, 714.
Cornwallis, Lord, attacks Fort Washington, 289;
crosses the Hudson (1776), and occupies Fort Lee, 338, 367;
in New Jersey, 376;
at Brandywine, 381, 422;
in Philadelphia, 384;
at Germantown, 427;
at Gloucester, 430;
headquarters in Savannah, 471;
at Charlestown, S. C. (1780), 473;
portraits, 474, 475;
contemp. acc. of, 474;
in command in the South, 475;
attacks Gates at Camden, 477;
weakened by the loss at King's Mountain, 480;
destroys his train, 483;
pursues Greene, 484;
at Hillsborough, 484;
at Guilford, 485;
pursued, 487;
at Wilmington, N. C., 494;
moves to Virginia, 495;
in command, 496;
tries to intercept Lafayette, 497;
at Portsmouth, Va., 498;
ordered to fortify a post, 498;
seizes Yorktown, 498;
surrenders, 504;
autog., 505;
his headquarters in Yorktown, 506;
his cave, 506;
his headquarters at Williamsburg, 506;
_Correspondence_, 516;
controversy with Clinton, 516;
_Reply to Clinton_, 516;
_Answer to Clinton's Narrative_, 516;
and Arbuthnot, 517;
on Tarleton, 518;
at siege of Charleston (1780), 526;
at Camden, 529;
his proclamation, 532;
his opinion of rebels, 534;
affected by Ferguson's defeat, 536;
maps of his Southern campaigns, 537, 538;
map of his campaign with Lafayette, 538;
on the Cowpens 538;
his order-book, 539;
pursuit of Greene to the Dan, 539;
at Guilford, 539, 541;
his order-book, 541;
at Wilmington, N. C., 547;
disagrees with Clinton about moving into Virginia, 547;
Germain approved, 548;
fortifies Yorktown, 549.
Correspondence, committees of, 54, 56.
_See_ Committees.
Cortelyou House, 329.
Cortland Manor, 340.
Cortlandt, Col. Philip, autobiography, 360;
portrait, 681.
Coryell's Ferry, 369.
Courts of vice-admiralty, 71.
Coventry Forge, 415.
Cowan's Ford, 539.
Cowboys, 456.
Cowley, R., _Harbor of Charleston_, 529.
Cowpens, battle of, 481, 482, 538;
its importance, 482;
forces at, 539;
losses, 539;
plan of fight, 539;
medals given, 539.
Cox, Daniel, 372.
Cox, S. S., 366.
Craft, Rev. David, on Sullivan's campaign, 670, 681.
Crafts, Wm., 230.
Craigie, Andrew, 142.
Cramahé commands in Quebec, 163.
Cranberry, N. J., 408, 410.
Crawford, Col. Wm., killed, 736.
Crawford, James, 684.
Creasy, _Decisive Battles_, 357.
Creek Indians, 611, 679.
Cresap, Capt. Michael, advises against a war with the Indians, 710;
acc. of, 710;
unjustly charged with killing Logan's family, 711, 712;
accounts of, 712;
dies, 713;
grave, 713.
Cresap, Col. Thomas, 710, 712;
treaty with the Indians, 607.
Cresap's War, 707.
Criminals enlisted by the British, 112, 705.
Croghan, Geo., on the Indian lands, 650;
his estimate of Indian population, 650;
sent among the Western Indians (1765), 702;
at Vincennes, 703;
meets Pontiac, 704;
journals of his Western journey, 704.
Croghan, Major William, journal at Charleston, 525.
Cromot-Dubourg, _Journal_, 553, 554.
Crooked Billet (Pa.), 442.
Cross, Ralph, journal, 360.
Crosscup, B. S., _Heart of the Alleghanies_, 536.
Crosswicks, 408, 410.
Crown's right to unoccupied lands, 2, 6, 15;
can administer justice, 4.
Crufts, Benj., 188.
Cruger, J. H., 522.
Cruger, Lewis, 74.
Cruvat, Don Francisco, 743.
Cullum, General G. W., on Richard Montgomery, 216;
"The Struggle for the Hudson", 275;
_Defences of Narragansett Bay_, 593.
Currietown, N. Y., destroyed, 645.
Curry, J. L. M., address on Yorktown, 555.
Curtis, G. W., _Concord Oration_, 184;
on Burgoyne's surrender, 361.
Cushing, Caleb, on Brant at Wyoming, 663.
Cushing, John, autog., 50.
Cushing, Thomas, in Congress (1774), 59, 93;
autog., 99;
report on building of armed ships, 591.
Custis, G. W. P., on John Laurens, 545.
Cutler, Manasseh, diary in R. I. (1778), 601.
D'Abbadie, gov. at N. Orleans, 701.
Daggett, John, Jr., 85.
Dale, Richard, on the "Bon Homme Richard", 590;
revised the acc. in Cooper's _Naval Hist._, 590.
Dallas, A. J., _Laws of Penna._, 649.
Dalrymple, Sir John, _Reply to Burgoyne_, 365;
_Rights of Great Britain asserted_, 109, 269;
_Address_, 109.
Dalton, Capt., 652.
Dalzell, Capt., at Detroit, 697;
killed, 697.
Dalzell, J. M., 746.
Damer, G., his letters, 549.
Dana, Francis, 437;
on independence, 256.
Dana, Richard, autog., 87.
Dana, R. H., Jr., edits diary of a British officer in Boston, 204;
address at Lexington, 184.
Danbury (Conn.), 340, 348.
Danvers (Mass.) men at Lexington, 184.
Darke, Gen., 144.
Dartmouth, Earl of, autog., 111;
orders the employment of Indians, 620;
on the ministry, 53;
_Dartmouth Papers_, 106.
Daughters of Liberty, 79, 80.
Davenant, Chas., 63.
Davie, Col., at Hobkirk's Hill, 543.
Davie, W. R., accounts of, 537.
Davis, A. McF., edits McKendry's journal, 666;
"The Indians and the Border Warfare", 605.
Davis, Capt., of Acton, 184.
Davis, Capt. John (Penna.), journal, 546, 554.
Davis, Nathan, 668.
Davis, Thomas W., 202.
Davis, Wm., 439.
Davis, W. J., 219, 747.
Davis, W. W. H., _John Lacey_, 442;
"Washington on the west bank of the Delaware", 407.
Dawes, Thomas, 88.
Dawes, Wm., sent to Concord, 123.
Dawson, H. B., "_Sons of Liberty in N. Y._", 72;
on Golden Hill, 172;
_Bunker Hill_, 185, 189;
controversy with "Selah", 191;
_Gleanings_, 191;
_Major-Gen. Putnam_, 191;
edits How's journal, 202;
on Ticonderoga (1775), 214;
_Decl. of Indep. by Mass._, 257;
_Westchester County_, 325;
edits _N. Y. City during the Rev._, 346;
edits _Trial of J. H. Smith_, 463;
edits _Yonkers Gazette_, 464;
_Gazette Series_, 464;
_Papers Concerning Major John André_, 464;
edits _Conduct of Graves_, 549;
_Assault on Stony Point_, 558;
on Jones's fight in the "Bon Homme Richard", 590.
Dawson, S. E., 225.
Dayton, Col., at Fort Stanwix, 626.
Dayton, _Siege of Yorktown_, 554.
De Berdt, Dennis, agent of Mass., 45;
dies, 53;
portrait, 88.
De Brahm, _Journal of Siege of Charleston_, 525.
De Costa, B. F., on Ethan Allen, 214;
_Fort George_, 214;
on Diamond Island, 357;
_Lake George_, 129.
D'Estaing. _See_ Estaing.
De Kalb, Baron, in America (1768), 244;
joins the army, 380;
in the South, 475;
commands regulars, 476;
killed, 477;
lives, 530;
monument, 530.
De Lancey, E. F., on Bennington, 354;
on Demont's treason, 287, 341.
De la Touche, 500.
De Leyba, 730.
De Peyster, Col. A. S., _Miscellanies_, 733.
De Peyster, Gen. J. Watts, on Burgoyne's campaign, 313, 315;
on Monmouth, 446;
on Wayne, 385.
De Peyster, Major, 720.
Deane, Charles, on history of slave trade in Mass., 9;
on John Russell Bartlett, 90;
on R. Frothingham, 186;
owns a MS. map of the siege of Boston, 209;
on the _Report of a Constitution_ (Mass.), 274;
on the convention of Burgoyne and Gates, 319;
owns Vaughan's journal, 506.
Deane, James, acc. of, 674.
Deane, Silas, letters, 99, 108;
his instructions, 256;
fits out the "Surprise", 573;
and privateers, 592.
Dearborn, Gen. Henry, on plans of Bunker Hill, 202;
his MS. journal, 467;
on the Bunker Hill controversy, 190;
journal of Quebec expedition (1775-1776), 219;
journal of Saratoga campaign, 360;
his journal, edited by Chamberlain, 360;
diary at Valley Forge, 436;
at Monmouth, 446;
diary at Yorktown, 554;
journal of Sullivan campaign (1779), 671.
Dearborn, H. A., 437.
Dearborn, Nath., _Boston Notions_, 200.
_Debrett's Debates_, 516.
Debt of Great Britain, 16.
Declaration of Amer. Independence, who drafted it, 239 (_see_ Congress
of 1776);
its character, 239;
fac-simile of original draft, 260;
debates on, 261;
paragraphs omitted from the paper as passed, 261;
changes made in the wording, 261;
early drafts, 261;
essence in earlier tracts of Otis and Sam. Adams, 261;
its literary character, 261;
the original text, 261;
Trumbull's picture, 261;
medals, 261;
autographs of signers, 263-266;
sets of the autographs, 264;
birthplaces of the signers, 264;
their occupations, 264;
college graduates, 264;
their ages at death, 264;
average age at signing, 264;
their lives, 265;
fac-similes of, 266;
fac-simile of an early broadside edition, 267;
other broadside editions, 268;
contemporary reprints, 268;
earliest authorized edition, 268;
when signed by the members, 268;
the authentication, 269;
effect of, 269;
comments on, at the time, 269;
an _Answer_, 240, 269;
read in Philadelphia, 273;
in New York, 273;
in Boston, 273;
the day to be commemorated, 274;
_Strictures_ on, 240;
relations to religious sects, 241;
separated the patriots and the loyal, 247.
_See_ Independence.
Declaratory Act, 32;
(1766), 74.
Dejean, 728, 729.
Delaplaine's _Repository_, 40.
Delaware, Stamp Act in, 73;
effect of Boston Port Bill in, 96;
non-importation, 79;
northern bounds, 421;
militia, 380;
troops, 545.
Delaware Bay, map, 437.
"Delaware" frigate taken, 384.
Delaware Indians, 610, 674, 709;
make treaty, 703;
neutral, 734.
Delaware River, the struggle for, 367;
its defences, 386;
operations on (1777), 429;
map by Faden, 429;
maps, 437;
obstructed (1777), 437;
first naval conflict on, 565.
Deming, H. C., 191.
Demont, Wm., his treachery at Fort Washington, 287, 341.
Denison, J., 602.
Deniston, Col., surrenders to Major John Butler, 635;
his report, 635.
Dennie, _Portfolio_, 222.
Dennison, Col., 664.
Denny, Major Ebenezer, _Diary_, 546, 554.
Depew, Chauncey M., on André's captors, 466.
Derby, E. H., 190;
fits out privateers, 591.
Derby, Capt. John, carries news of Lexington to England, 175.
Des Barres, _Siege of Charleston_, 528;
charts of Boston harbor, 209;
_Atlantic Neptune_, 212, 315;
_Coasts and harbors of N. England_, 212;
map of the campaign around New York, 342;
_Port Royal in South Carolina_, 519;
_Map of coasts of Georgia_, 521;
_map of Narragansett Bay_, 601.
Desaussure, W. G., 527;
on General Moultrie, 172.
Deshler, C. D., 744.
Deshon, John, autog., 566.
Destouche's fleet beaten, 496.
Detroit, council at (1764), 698;
its fort, 690;
besieged, 690;
headquarters of the British northwestern government, 690;
Indians near, 610;
reinforced, 697;
raising of siege, 698;
siege of, references, 701;
G. R. Clark's scheme for capturing, 730, 731;
papers about, 733;
plan of the river, 733.
_Deutsch-Amerikanisches Magazin_, 360.
Deux-Ponts, Count, 504;
his _Campaign_, 554.
Devens, Chas., _Bunker Hill Oration_, 191, 194.
Devens, Richard, 136;
letters, 203;
on Lexington, 174.
Dewitt, Simon, 744.
Dewitt's Corner, treaty at, 679.
Dexter, Dr. A., 202.
Dexter, George, 123.
Dexter, Henry, 194.
Dexter, Samuel, on com. on the Stamp Act, 73;
his portrait, 73.
Diamond Island, fight at, 357.
Dickinson, John, 68, 238;
_Late Regulations respecting. Brit. Colonies_, 64, 75;
his _Speech_ (1764), 68;
_Reply to Galloway_, 68;
_Denunciation of the Stamp Act_, 75;
portrait, 268;
rude portrait and autog., 82;
Peale's portrait, 82;
his character, 82;
references, 82;
_Farmers' letters_, 39, 67, 83;
bibliog. of, 83;
_Polit. writings_, 83;
controverted in the _Controversy between Great Britain and her
Colonies_, 83;
on the Boston massacre, 85;
_Liberty Song_, 86;
wrote petition of Congress of 1774 to the king, 100;
_Essay on the constitutional power_, 106;
on Lexington, 178;
and independence, 249, 257;
Galloway on, 255;
speech against the Declar. of Independence, 261;
plan of confederation, 274;
and the Penna. militia, 398.
Dickinson, John D., 464.
Dickson, Col., 739.
Digby, Lieut., 360.
Dillon, _Indiana_, 729.
Diman, Prof., on Prescott's capture, 404.
Dobbs Ferry, 336, 337.
Dodd, Robt., picture of the fight of the "Bon Homme Richard", 590.
Dodd, Stephen, _Revolutionary Memorials_, 627.
Doddridge, Jos., on Cresap, 712;
Logan, _Chief of the Cayuga Nation_, 712;
_Notes on Settlements_, etc., 248.
Dodge, John, captured, 683.
Döhla, J. K., 360.
Donkin's _Military Collections_, 183.
Donop, Count, 427;
at Fort Mercer, 428, 430;
killed at Red Bank, 387;
at Bordentown, 374;
at Brooklyn, 279;
at Long Island, 329.
Doolittle, Amos, engraver, 185.
Doolittle, Eph., 204.
Dorchester Heights (near Boston), 148, 206, 210;
occupied, 156.
Douglas, Col. Wm., 326.
Dowdswell, 21.
Downer, Silas, _Discourse on dedicating Liberty Tree_, 72.
Downing, Sir George, 7.
Downman, Col., 435.
Drake, F. S., _Roxbury_, 173;
_Tea-leaves_, 91.
Drake, S. A., _Bunker Hill,_ 194;
_Gen. Putnam_, 191;
_Middlesex County_, 175;
_Hist. Fields of Middlesex_, 175;
_Old Landmarks of Middlesex_, 175;
_New England Coast_, 560.
Drake, S. G., _Book of the Indians_, 648;
on Brant, 657.
Draper, L. C., acc. of, 535, 727;
on battle of Point Pleasant, 714;
his collections on Brant, 657;
has the Geo. R. Clark papers, 718;
_King's Mountain_, 535;
on Montgomery's exped. (1780), 741.
Drayton, Judge W. H., 79;
his famous charge, 119;
_Memoirs_, 678.
Dreer, Ferdinand J., 217.
Drewe, Edw., _Case_, 198.
Drisko, G. W., _Hannah Weston_, 564, 657.
Drowne, H. T., 592.
Drowne, Solomon, _Journal_, 592.
Du Buysson, 530.
Ducharme, J. M., 739.
Du Chesnoy, _Théâtre de la Guerre_, 416.
Du Portail, autog., 500;
on Brandywine, 419;
on the siege of Charleston, 525.
Du Simitière, his portrait of Arnold, 447;
_Thirteen Portraits_, 268, 405.
Duane, Wm., 554;
_Canada and the Continental Congress_, 227;
edits Marshall's diary, 273.
Duché, Jacob, his letter to Washington, 437;
in Congress of 1774, 99.
Dufey, P. J. S., _Histoire des Rev. de l'Amérique_, 520.
Dufresne, M. M., 723.
Dulaney, Daniel, _Considerations on the propriety of imposing taxes_,
65, 75;
_The Right to the Tonnage_, 65.
Dumas, Alex., _Capitaine Paul_, 590.
Dumas, C. G. F., acc. of Bouquet, 692, 699.
Dumas, C. W. F., letters, 108.
Dumas, autog., 500.
Dummer, _Defence of the N. E. Charters_, 255.
Duncan, E., _Royal Artillery_, 183, 198, 559.
Dunkirk, American cruisers at, 573;
privateers at, 592.
Dunlap, John, printer, 372.
Dunlap, Wm., _Tragedy of André_, 460, 560.
Dunmore, Lord, 238;
negotiates a peace, 611;
incites the Indians, 618;
leads exped. against Indians, 713;
makes treaty with Ohio Indians, 714;
his seal, 167;
in Virginia (1776), 122, 167;
his proclamation, 168;
organizes an Indian regiment, 168.
Dunmore War, 708;
causes of, 709;
references, 714.
Dupuy, _Ethan Allen_, 214.
Durand, A. B., 227.
Durnford, Lieut., 356.
Durrett, R. T., _John Filson,_ 708.
Dwight, Theodore, _Connecticut_, 663.
Dwight, T. F., on Washington's journal, 553.
Dwight, Timothy, 189;
on fights near Fort Stanwix, 351.
Dyer, Eliphalet, 215.
Eager, Samuel W., _Orange County_, 662.
Earl, pictures of Lexington fight, 185.
Earle, J. E., _English Premiers_, 75.
East India Co. send tea to America, 57.
Eastburn, map of Philad., 442.
Eastern Indians, addressed by Washington 674;
visit Cambridge, 674.
_See_ Indians.
Eaton, Amos, 679.
Ebeling on Steuben, 515.
Ebenezer (Georgia), 523.
Ecuyer, Simeon, 690, 691.
Eddy, Samuel, 464.
Edes, Peter, 204.
Edes and Gill, _No. Amer. Almanac_, 81.
Edisto inlet, 526.
Edson, Obed., on Brodhead's exped., 671.
Edwards, N. W., _Illinois_, 729.
Eelking, Max von, _Die Deutschen Hülfstruppen_, 361;
_Leben von Riedesel_, 361;
_Generalin von Riedesel_, 361.
Egle, _Notes and Queries_, 554.
Eld, Lieut., 517;
his journal, 559.
Eliot, Andrew, 205;
on Bunker Hill, 187.
Elizabethtown, N. J., 404.
Elk Ferry, 379, 414.
Ellery, Wm., 265;
autog., 263;
life, 266.
Ellet, Mrs. E. F., _Domest. Hist. Am. Rev._, 527, 665;
_Women of the Rev._, 665.
Ellicott, Andrew, _Map of the Mississippi River_, 702.
Elliot, H. F., 72.
Elliott, Andrew, on Arnold's treason, 467.
Elliott, Matthew, 735.
Ellis, Arthur B., _American patriotism on the sea_, 591.
Ellis, E. S., _Daniel Boone_, 708.
Ellis, Geo. E., Address on siege of Boston, 173;
on Bunker Hill, 189, 191, 194;
on Burgoyne, 204;
"Chronicles of the siege of Boston", 204;
the Prescott statue, 194;
"The sentiment of independence", 231.
Elmer, Eben, 221
Elmer, L. Q. C., _Constitution of N. Jersey_, 272.
Elmira, N. Y., 640.
Elonis, Henry, 385.
Elwyn, Alfred, on Brandywine, 418.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, _Hist. Discourse on Concord_, 180.
Emerson, Rev. Wm., at Lexington, 180;
fac-simile of his diary, 181.
Emmet, Dr. T. A., 197, 264, 467, 532;
owns memorials of the siege of Boston, 212.
Emmons, G. F., _Navy of the U. S._, 589.
Endicott, C. M., _Leslie's expedition_, 172.
England, its constitution effected by the Amer. Revolution, 1;
rights of the crown to lands, 2;
parties in, on the American question, 112;
her naval losses, 589;
_Rept. from Com. on the disturbances in Mass._, 67;
her trade with the colonies, 64;
proceedings in Parliament (1774), 106;
Hutchinson's diary, 106;
war with Spain, 19.
English, T. D., 230;
on Oriskany, 351.
Englishtown, N. J., 445.
Engraving, earliest, by a native artist in British America, 198, 199.
Enlistments, long, 333.
Enos, Col. Roger, deserts Arnold, 163, 217;
court martial, 217.
Episcopacy for America urged on the ministry, 19, 38.
Episcopalians and the Declar. of Independence, 241.
Erskine, Robert, map of N. Y. harbor, 326;
map of the Hudson, 459;
topographical engineer of the Amer. army, 459;
map of Newport, 560;
map of country round N. Y., 561;
his map of the New Jersey campaign, 409.
Escomaligo, 507.
Esopus burned, 307.
_Essex Gazette_, 110.
Estaing, Comte d', sails from France, 579;
off New York harbor, 580;
at Newport, 580;
engages the English fleet, 580;
sails for Boston, 580;
off N. Y. harbor, 593;
goes to Newport, 593;
confronts Howe's fleet, 594;
portraits, 594, 595;
sails for Boston, 595;
autog., 595;
the French view of his conduct, 598;
his journal, 598;
defended by Dr. Cooper, 601;
causes the destruction of English ships in Narragansett Bay, 601;
in Boston (1778), 603;
issues proclamation to Canadians, 603;
sails to the West Indies, 603;
at Savannah (1779), 470, 471, 524;
on the siege of Savannah, 522.
Ethier, Marcel, 225.
Etting, Col. F. M., books on Independence Hall, 259.
Euchee Indians, 679.
Eustis, Dr. Wm., on Arnold's flight, 458.
Eutaw Springs, battle at, 493, 545;
plans, 545.
Evans, A. W. W., on Kosciusko, 492, 557.
Evans, Chaplain, 554.
Evans, S., 734.
Everett, A. H., _Bunker Hill address_, 194;
_Jos. Warren_, 194.
Everett, Edw., _Bunker Hill oration_, 194;
_Concord Oration_, 184;
on Lexington, 184;
life of Roger Sherman, 265.
Ewald, _Beyspiele grosser Helden_, 419.
Ewing, Dr. John, 329;
on the Lancaster massacre, 606.
Exmouth, Viscount, life by Osler, 347.
Faden, Wm., map of New Jersey, 409;
_Bay of Narragansett_, 601;
map of the campaigns of Cornwallis, 537;
of So. Carolina, 538;
map of Delaware River, 429;
_Map of Guildford_, 540;
_Map of Newport_, 547;
map of the N. Y. Campaign (1776), 337, 338;
his maps of N. Y. province, 349;
of Philad., 442;
_of Quebec_, 226;
of Trenton and Princeton, 410;
_Northern Frontiers of Georgia_, 519.
Fairfax County resolutions, 98.
Fairfield, Conn., burned, 557.
Falmouth (Portland) burned, 237;
Norman's engraving, 146.
Family Compact, 19.
Fanning, Col. David, _Narrative_, 541.
Fanning, Capt. Nath., _Memoir_, 590.
Fantinekill, 639.
Farlow, R. L., 91.
Farmar, Major, at Mobile, 704.
Farmer, Robert, 705.
Farmer, Silas, _Detroit_, 733.
Farnham, Ralph, 192.
Farrier, Geo. H., _Cent. Paulus Hook_, 559.
Farwell, Josiah, 681.
Fassoux, Dr. P., 533.
Featherstonhaugh, G. W., 704;
_Monthly Amer. Journ. of Geology_, 704.
Febiger, Col. Christian, 547;
acc. of, 220;
at Stony Point, 558.
Fellows, John, _Veil Removed_, 191.
Feltman, Lieut. Wm., _Journal_, 554.
Fergus, Henry, _United States_, 665.
Fergusson, Adam, _Memoir of Patrick Fergusson_, 535.
Fergusson, Col. Patrick, 473;
defeated at King's Mountain, 478;
killed, 479, 535;
his headquarters at King's Mountain, 535;
sketch of, 535.
Fermois, Gen. de, 297, 326.
Fersen, Count, letters, 554;
at Newport, 560.
Few, James, 81.
Field, T. W., _Battle of Long Island_, 329.
Filson, John, _Kentucky_, 708.
Filson Club, 708.
Finch on the remains of the Boston lines, 207.
Finlay, Hugh, 222.
Finotti, J. M., 227.
Fish, Capt. J., journal, 591.
Fish, Nicholas, 333, 346.
Fishdam Ford, 518, 532, 536.
Fisher, George H., on Bouquet, 693.
Fisher, J. B., 85.
Fisher, Joshua, 437.
Fisheries, as a school for the navy, 568, 587;
value to Massachusetts, 25.
Fishkill, 340.
Fiske, John, on the political consequences of Yorktown, 549.
Fitch, Asa, 203, 627.
Fitch, gov. of Conn., 73.
Fitzpatrick, Gen., on Brandywine, 419.
Flag, the federal flag (1776), 153;
with Liberty Tree, 570;
with serpent, "Don't Tread on Me", 570;
that displayed by Paul Jones, 571;
by Johnston, 575;
pine-tree, 213;
of the United States, first fought under at Fort Stanwix, 300.
Flanders, _Life of Rutledge_, 73.
Flatbush, 328.
Flathe, Theodor, _Geschichte der neuesten Zeit_, 492.
Flatland, 328.
Flaxman, his statue of Lord Howe, 380.
_Fleet's Evening Post_, 110.
Fletcher, Ebenezer, _Narrative_, 350.
Fleury, Major Louis, at Germantown, 385;
his diary, 431;
his plan of Fort Mifflin, 433;
his plan of the attack, 435;
wounded at Fort Mifflin, 389.
Flint, _West. Mo. Review_, 92.
Florida, acquired by Great Britain (1763), 686;
bounds of (1763), 687.
Floyd, Augustus, life of Wm. Floyd, 265.
Floyd, Wm., autog., 264;
life, 265.
Flucker, Thomas, 59.
Flying Camp in New Jersey, 326, 403.
Fogg, Jeremiah, 204.
Folsom, Gen. M., 187.
Fonblanque, E. B. de, _Burgoyne_, 204, 361.
Fontleroy in America, 244.
Foote, W. H., 714.
Forbes, Major (1777), 366.
Force, Col. Peter, _Amer. Archives_, 653;
their bad indexes, 567;
on the signing of the Decl. of Indep., 269.
Ford, Paul L., _Hamiltoniana_, 104.
Forman and the Penna. militia, 398.
Forrest, Capt. Thomas, 375.
Fort Anne burned, 297.
Fort Arnold (West Point), 462, 463.
Fort Bedford, 694.
Fort Box (Brooklyn), 329.
Fort Brewerton, 609.
Fort Chartres, map of its vicinity, 700;
ruins of magazine, 703.
_See_ Chartres.
Fort Clark, 720.
Fort Clinton, 324;
attached plan, 363.
_See_ Forts.
Fort Clinton (West Point), 465.
Fort Constitution (Hudson River), 455.
Fort Cornwallis (Augusta), 490.
Fort Dayton (German Flats), 630.
Fort Defiance (Long Island), 328.
Fort Edward, 609;
Burgoyne at, 299;
Schuyler at, 297, 298.
Fort Erie, 609.
Fort Frederick, Convention troops at, 321.
Fort Gage, 719.
Fort Galphin, 544.
Fort George (N. Y.), 333, 609.
Fort Granby, 490, 544.
Fort Grierson, 490.
Fort Griswold (Conn.), 562.
Fort Hardy, ruins of, 362.
Fort Henry (Wheeling, Va.), 716.
Fort Hunter, 609.
Fort Independence (Hudson River), 456.
Fort Independence (N. Y.), 287.
Fort Jefferson (Mississippi River), 730.
Fort Johnson, 609.
Fort Johnson (James Island), 528.
Fort Johnson (N. C.), 542.
Fort Knyphausen, formerly Fort Washington, 338.
Fort Le Bœuf, 691.
Fort Lee, 288, 339;
evacuated, 338, 341, 367.
Fort Ligonier, 694.
Fort Logan attacked (1777), 716.
Fort Massac, 718.
Fort Mercer, 429;
(Red Bank), 386;
attacked, 387.
Fort Michillimackinac, 691.
Fort Mifflin, 386, 429;
attacked, 388;
Plans, 431, 432, 435.
Fort Miller, 298.
Fort Montgomery, 323;
attacked, 363;
plan, 324;
chain, 324.
_See_ Forts.
Fort Motte, 489, 544;
captured, 490.
Fort Moultrie surrendered (1780), 526.
Fort Niagara, 609.
Fort Ontario, 609.
Fort Ouatanon taken, 691.
Fort Pitt, 690, 733;
attacked, 691;
Bouquet at, 697.
Fort Presqu' Isle taken, 691.
Fort Putnam (West Point), 462, 465.
Fort Rutledge, 675, 676.
Fort Sandusky taken, 691.
Fort Schlosser, 609.
Fort St. Joseph taken, 691.
Fort Stanwix (Schuyler) built, 299;
under Gansevoort, 299, 628;
attacked by St. Leger, 299, 628;
siege raised, 632;
conference at, for establishing bounds, 605, 610;
maps of bounds, 608, 609;
abandoned, 645;
map by Fleury, 351, 354, 355;
other maps, 351;
occupied (1775), 624;
its site, 626;
called Fort Schuyler, 626.
Fort Stirling (Long Island), 328, 335.
Fort Sullivan (Tioga River), 641.
Fort Trumbull (Conn.), 562.
Fort Tryon, 287.
Fort Venango, 691.
Fort Washington, attacked, 287;
commanded by Magaw, 287;
plans of it carried to Percy, 287;
its position, 287;
its armament, 287;
discretionary orders to Greene, 288;
surrendered, 289;
map of, 339;
fall of, 338;
named Fort Knyphausen, 338;
garrisoned, 285;
treachery of Demont, 341.
Fort Watson, 544.
Fort. _See_ names of forts.
Forts Clinton and Montgomery, 455, 456, 465;
plan of attack, 365;
captured by Gen. H. Clinton, 306.
_See_ Fort.
Forton, prison at, 575.
Foster, W. E., _Stephen Hopkins_, 70, 567.
Foucher, Antoine, _Fort St. Jean_, 223.
Fowler, R. L., 91.
Fox, C. J., on the battle of Guilford, 487;
on the side of the opposition, 112;
lives of, 112.
Fox, Ebenezer, _Revolutionary Adventures_, 582.
France driven from North America, 686;
her No. American possessions before 1763, 685;
her treaty obligations with England, 272.
Francis, J. W., _Old New York_, 269.
Frankland, Lady, 128.
Frankland, Sir Henry, 12.
Franklin, B., "Rules for reducing a Great Empire", 11;
examination as to the Stamp Act, 32, 74;
agent of Massachusetts, 53, 89;
agent of Penna., 74;
on the Stamp Act, 74;
correspondence with Dean Tucker, 74;
_Familiar Letters_, 85;
defamed for his connection with the Hutchinson letters, 56, 93;
blamed by Mahon, 93;
vindicates himself, 93;
acknowledged his agency in the Hutchinson letters to prevent a duel,
93;
attacked by Wedderburn, 95;
_Franklin before the Privy Council_, 93, 95;
his clothes then worn, 95;
_Appeal_, 109;
in Canada, 166, 227;
on com. to draft Decla. of Indep., 239;
and the Revolution, 252;
views of independence, 255;
autog., 264;
the oldest signer of the Decl. of Independence, 264;
proposes a confederation, 274, 654;
_Narrative of Massacre in Lancaster County_, 606;
proposes an alliance with the Six Nations, 616;
his interest in Western lands, 649;
_Political Pieces_, etc., 653;
and the Vandalia Company, 708;
goes to Europe with Lambert Wickes, 571;
replies to Hillsborough's report, 688;
and the Wilkes turmoils, 28;
removed as postmaster of the colonies, 56;
on the union of the colonies, 65;
his plan of union (1754), 65;
_Proceedings in Mass._, 67;
_Some special Transactions in London_, 68;
letters on the feelings in England during the Stamp Act times, 75;
his annotations on pamphlets (1769), 84;
in London (1769), 85;
correspondence with Wm. Strahan, 85;
writes preface to Sam. Adams's _Rights of the Colonies_, 90;
corresponds with Cushing about a congress (1773), 99;
in London watched by Quincy, 105;
_A true State of the Proceedings_, 106;
his conferences with Chatham, 112;
with the Howes, 112;
writing in the _Public Advertiser_ (London), 112;
returns (1775) from England, 122;
in Cambridge (1775), 146;
urging a resort to bows and arrows, 156;
and Paul Jones, 590;
and privateers, 592;
his _Supplement to the Boston Independent Chronicle_ a hoax, 659,
684;
advocates the retention of Canada (1763), 686.
Franklin, Gov. W., seized, 325;
on Galloway's plan, 101.
Franklin, Wm., letter, 73.
Franklin Club, 219.
Franks, Maj. D. S., aide to Arnold, 460.
Fraser, Gen., with Burgoyne, 294;
wounded, 308;
at Hubbardton, 350;
death, 357;
removal of remains, 357.
Fraser, Lt. Andrew, 702;
at Fort Chartres, 702;
escapes, 702.
Frazer, Capt., at Fort Chartres, 706.
Frazer, Persifer, 325;
on Monmouth, 446;
his papers, 346, 417.
Frederic, H., on the Mohawk Valley 672.
Free trade, 6.
Freehold, N. J., 400, 408.
Freeland's Fort, 639.
Freeman's Farm, battle, 305, 336.
Fremont, J. C., _Memoirs_, 258.
French, their treatment of the Indian, 688;
their army moves from Va., 745;
near King's Ferry, 745;
march to Boston, 745.
Friedenshütten, 734.
Frisbie and Ruggles, _Poultney, Vt._, 355.
Frog's Neck (N. Y.), 337;
English works at, 561.
Frontiers, 248;
literature of, 248;
lawlessness on the, 608, 611;
bands of rangers, 608.
_See_ Border life and warfare.
Frost, John, _Pict.-book of the Commodores_, 592.
Frothingham, R., _Rise of the Republic_, 3, 252;
"Sam. Adams' Regiments", 78;
_Alarm on the night of Apr. 18, 1775_, 174;
_Siege of Boston_, 184;
_Joseph Warren_, 184, 194;
_Battlefield of Bunker Hill_, 184;
_The Centennial_, 184;
portrait, 186;
notices of, 186;
on Bunker Hill, 189;
on the command at Bunker Hill, 191.
Fry and Jefferson, map of Virginia, 538.
Fuller, O. P., _Warwick, R. I._, 90.
Funerals, use of gloves, 77.
Fur trade disturbed by colonization, 687.
Futhey, J. S., on Brandywine, 419;
on Paoli, 419.
Futhey and Cope, _Chester County_, 385.
Gadsden, Christopher, 79, 238, 269;
in the Congress of 1774, 99;
favors the Articles of Association, 101.
Gage, Gen. Thomas, his letters sent back to Boston, 83;
_Letters to the ministry_, 84;
in Boston, 95, 113;
removes from Danvers, 114;
his wife, 123;
his report of Lexington, etc., 178;
instructions to Brown and Bernière, 182;
on Bunker Hill, 195;
his papers stolen, 204;
his letters, 204;
sends troops to Philad. to protect Indians, 606;
proclamation against intrusions on the Indian lands, 611;
complains of the Indians in the rebel army, 656;
succeeds Amherst in command in America, 702;
commands in N. Y., 30;
succeeds Hutchinson, 57;
caricature of, 59;
portrait, 114;
his spies make plans of the roads around Boston, 120;
autog., 145;
obstructed by Com. of Correspondence, 115;
awake to the magnitude of the revolt, 116;
his military reputation ruined at Bunker Hill, 136;
goes to England, 146;
loyalists address him, 146;
dissatisfied with Boston as a military post, 152.
Gaine, _N. Y. Pocket Almanac_, 331.
Gale, George, _Upper Mississippi_, 648.
Gallatin, Albert, _Synopsis of Indian tribes_, 651.
Galloway, Jos., 68; his plan of adjustment, 101;
_Candid Examination_, etc., 101;
a reply in an _Address_, 101;
and in response, _A Reply_, 101;
_Hist. and Polit. Reflections_, 101;
_Examination before the House of Commons_, 101;
Lecky's opinion of him, 101;
his character, 235;
in Cont. Congress, 235;
and the patriot leaders, 247;
_Hist. and Polit. Reflections_, 254;
joins the British, 370;
made superintendent of police in Philad., 395;
on Indian lands, 650;
his _Speech in answer to Dickinson_, 68;
conveyed information to Dartmouth through W. Franklin, 101, 104,
111;
_Arguments on both sides_, 101;
his map of the 1777 campaign, 415;
_Letters to a Nobleman_, 415;
and the campaign of 1777, 416.
Galvez, Gov., at New Orleans, 739;
captures British posts on the Mississippi, 739;
takes Mobile, 739.
Gambier, Admiral, 436;
life by Cavendish, 326.
Gambrall, _Church life in Colonial Maryland_, 71.
Gammell, Wm., on John Russell Bartlett, 90;
_Samuel Ward_, 565.
Gansevoort, Col., holds Fort Stanwix, 299, 628;
portrait, 629, 681;
refuses to surrender, 632;
in Sullivan's expedition, 641;
papers, 350, 670.
Gardiner, Asa Bird, 156, 744.
Gardiner, D., engraving of Cornwallis, 474.
Gardiner and Mullinger, _Eng. Hist. for Students_, 75.
Garth on the Stamp Act debates, 74.
"Gaspee" burned, 46, 53, 90;
references, 90.
Gates, Gen. Horatio, advises against an assault on Boston, 142;
paper on, by J. E. Cooke, 144;
letters from Cambridge, 203;
his character, 291;
at Ticonderoga, 291;
portraits, 302, 303, 310, 476;
autog., 303;
supersedes Schuyler, 303;
his estate in the Shenandoah Valley, 303;
in N. Y., 303;
headquarters at Saratoga, 303, 356, 361;
on the surrender of Burgoyne, 358;
medal given to him, 358;
strength of his army, 358;
joins Washington in the Jerseys, 378;
refuses to reinforce Washington (1777), 447;
sent South, 476;
deceived as to the size of his army, 476;
defeated at Camden, 477, 529;
at Charlotte, 477;
at Hillsborough, 477;
superseded by Greene, 480;
never tried, 480;
his papers, 532;
letters after Camden, 532;
defended by Greene and others, 532;
map of his Southern campaign, 537;
declines command of exped. against the Indians, 638;
commands in Canada (1776), 346;
differences with Schuyler, 346;
remonstrates at Schuyler's being confirmed, 349;
supersedes Schuyler, 356;
adj.-general at Cambridge, 655;
and the Board of War, 392;
quarrels with Arnold, 306, 315;
not on the field in the battles about Saratoga, 309;
agrees to Burgoyne's terms, 309;
aspires to supplant Washington, 312;
his military character, 314.
Gates, Capt. Wm., orderly-book (1777), 359.
Gay, S. H., on Cornwallis in Virginia, 549.
Gee, Joshua, 63.
Gee, Thomas, order-book, 670.
General officers, first of the war, 143.
_General View of the Amer. navy_, 589.
General warrants, 11.
Genet and the Western exped., 733.
George II. died, 12.
George III., portrait, 20, 76;
by Walpole, 75;
supported by his people, 111;
his determination to crush the revolt, 111;
his proclamation, 111;
his responsibility for the Amer. Rev., 244, 245;
justification by Mahon, 244;
his hatred of Chatham, 246;
his statue in N. Y., 325;
his proclamation of 1763, 687.
George, Capt. Robert, 729.
George, Fort (N. Y.), 275.
_See_ Fort.
George, Lake, surveys of, 348.
George's _Cambridge Almanac_, 178.
Georgia, address to the king (1769), 83;
not represented in the Congress of 1774, 99;
movements (1775), 131;
in the Cont. Congress, 238;
Constitution of, 274;
occupied by the British (1779), 470;
war in, 513;
map of northern frontiers, 519;
map of A. Campbell, 675;
Indian war in, 676.
Gérard in Philadelphia, 101.
Gerlach, P., 350.
Germain, Lord Geo., his orders to Burgoyne, 295;
portrait, 295;
fails to instruct Howe, 295;
and Gen. Howe, 329;
_Reply to Burgoyne_, 365;
_Correspondance avec Clinton_, etc., 516;
his instructions to reduce South Carolina, 526, 527;
family papers, 719;
to Clinton on Arnold and André, 467;
_The Rights of Great Britain_, 269;
scheme to conquer the West, 742.
German Flats, 350.
Germantown, battle of, sources, 385, 421;
map of approaches, 424;
Montresor's map, 426, 427;
other maps, 414, 426, 428;
Chew House, 426;
British camp at, 442.
Gerry, Elbridge, 238;
on Washington as commander-in-chief, 131;
book of contracts, 203;
autog., 263;
life, 266;
draws law for admiralty cases in Mass., 591.
Getty, Gen. G. W., his plan of Yorktown, 553.
Gibault, a priest, 722.
Gibbes, W. R., _Doc. Hist. Amer. Rev._, 512.
Gibbs, Major, diary, 601.
Gibson, Gen. John, 711, 712.
Gibson, Thomas, 421.
Gillett, E. H., 71.
Gilman, Arthur, _Cambridge of 1776_, 142.
Gilman, Caroline, edits _Wilkinson Letters_, 520.
Gilmor Papers, 73.
Gilmore, Jas. R., on the Cherokee wars, 679;
_Rear Guard of the Revolution_, 536.
Gilpin, H. D., life of Jefferson, 265;
of Thomas Nelson, 266;
of Elbridge Gerry, 266;
of Cæsar Rodney, 266;
of Benj. Harrison, 266;
of Geo. Ross, 266;
life of Geo. Taylor, 266;
of William Ellery, 266;
of Sam. Adams, 266.
Gilpin, Rev. Wm., _Memoirs of Josias Rogers_, 527.
Giradin, L. H., _Virginia_, 515.
Gist, Gen. Mordecai, 477, 533, 534.
Gist, Col. Nath., and Indian recruits, 633, 677.
Gladwin, Maj. Henry, at Detroit, 690;
acc. of, 690.
Gleig, G. R., _British Commanders_, 516;
on Burgoyne's surrender, 358.
Glick, on Bennington, 354.
Gloucester, N. J., 425;
British at, 442;
map of Lafayette's victory at, 430.
Glover, C. _Appeal_, 109.
Glover, John, orderly-books, 204, 601;
conducts Convention troops to Boston, 317;
life, by Upham, 325;
his letters, etc., on the Saratoga campaign 356.
Gnadenhütten, 606, 734, 736.
Goddard, D. A., on Mass. men in Bennington fight, 355.
Goddard, May Katharine, 268.
Godefroy, Fr., _Recueil_, 185.
Golden Hill, N. Y. city, 172.
Goldsborough, Chas. W., _U. S. Naval Chronicle_, 589.
Gooch, John, on Harlem, 334.
_Good Literature_, 218.
Goodell, A. C., Jr., 96, 108.
Goodhue, _Shoreham, l't._, 214.
Goodrich, Chas. A., _Lives of the Signers_, 266.
Goodrich, Chauncy, 557.
Goodrich, Capt. Wm., 613.
Goodwin, Daniel, Jr., on Dearborn, 190;
_Provincial Pictures_, 73.
Goodwin, H. C., _Cortland County_, 351, 666.
Gookin, Daniel, 668.
Goold, Wm., _Portland in the Past_, 146, 603.
Gordon, Col Cosmo, his court-martial, 560.
Gordon, Capt. Harry, 709.
Gordon, Wm., _Acc. of the Commencement of Hostilities_, 178;
_Amer. Rev._, 518;
map of siege of Boston, 207, 212;
on battle of Camden, 532;
his maps of the Southern campaigns, 547;
on Sullivan's exped., 666.
Goshen, Pa., skirmish, 416.
Goss, E. H., on Revere, 47, 175.
Gould, E. T., 175.
Gould, Jay, _Delaware County_, 670.
Goussencourt, Chev. de, 502.
Gowanus Creek, 328.
Grafton, Duke of, 21;
ministry, 46.
Graham, James, Life of Morgan, 511, 539.
Graham, Gen. Joseph, 514, 529;
on King's Mountain, 535;
on the Carolina campaign, 539.
Graham, J. J., on Gen. Graham, 518.
Graham, Gen. Samuel, _Memoir_, 518, 744.
Graham, W. A., _British Invasion of N. Carolina_, 514, 539;
_Mecklenburg Centennial_, 257.
Grant, Col., attacked by the Cherokees (1761), 675.
Grant, Gen., 153, 427;
in command in New Jersey (1776), 374;
at Barren Hill, 443.
Grant, George, 668;
his journal, 671.
Grant, Thomas, his journal, 671.
Grant, _Picturesque Canada_, 216.
Grantham, Lord, 592.
Grape Island, 131.
Grasse, Comte de, sails for America, 499;
on the Chesapeake, 501;
engages Graves, 501;
plans of fight, 548;
portraits, 502, 503;
autog., 502;
accounts of, 502.
Grasshoppers, so called, 482.
Graves, Adm. Samuel, relieved by Shuldham, 114, 152;
engages De Grasse near the Chesapeake, 501, 548;
succeeds Arbuthnot, 517;
autog., 114.
Graves, Wm., _Two letters_, 549.
Gravesend, 326, 327.
Gray, Horace, on the writs of assistance question, 13.
Gray, John, 746.
Gray, Col. Robt., 514.
Gray, Samuel, 187.
Gray, Capt. Wm., map of Butler's route (1778), 681.
Greathouse, murderer of Logan's family, 711.
Greely, Mary W., 142.
Green, Ashbel, life of Witherspoon, 265.
Green, Dr. Ezra, _Journal_, 119, 590.
Green, S. A., prints the records of the Tea-ships Meeting, 91;
owns map of the siege of Savannah, 521;
edits Deuxpont's journal, 554;
on Paulus Hook, 559.
Green Mountain Boys, 161.
Greene, Colonel Christopher, defends Fort Mercer, 387.
Greene, Gardiner, 205.
Greene, G. W., _Life of N. Greene_, 511;
_Biog. Discourse_, 511;
_German Element_, 530;
on battle of Long Island, 330.
Greene, Gen. Nathanael, at Roxbury, 134;
on Bunker Hill, 187;
in Brooklyn, 275;
too ill to command, 278;
builds the Brooklyn lines, 326;
his conduct at Brooklyn criticised, 330;
his mistake at Fort Washington, 341;
evacuates Fort Lee, 367;
at Trenton, 375;
at Brandywine, 381, 419;
at Germantown, 385;
quartermaster of the army, 391, 436;
at Monmouth, 400, 444;
interview with Gen. Robertson about André, 461;
supersedes Gates in the South, 480;
as a soldier, 481;
confronts Cornwallis, 483;
crosses the Dan, 484;
at Guilford, 485;
at Ramsey's Mill, 487;
on Hobkirk's Hill, 487;
at Rugeley's Mill, 488;
relations with Sumter and Marion, 490;
besieges Ninety-Six, 491;
at High Hills of Santee, 493;
at Eutaw Springs, 493;
at Round O, 506;
engraved portraits, 508, 509, 512, 513;
accounts of them, 509;
notice of his life, 510;
lives of, 510, 511;
his statue, 510;
medal, 510;
his monument, 510, 511;
dies, 510;
lives of, by Geo. W. Greene, 511;
eulogy by Hamilton, 511;
grant for his services, 511;
burial-place, 511;
autog., 514;
on Gates's defeat at Camden, 532;
defends Gates, 532;
and the case of Isaac Hayne, 534;
his Southern campaign, 537;
his influence over his officers, 537;
letters, 537;
instructions, 537;
maps of his campaigns, 537, 538;
corrects maps for Gordon, 537;
at Cowpens, 538;
his letters, 538;
acc. of his retreat to the Dan, 539;
at Guilford, 539;
at Hobkirk's Hill, 541;
at Ninety-Six, 544;
his medal for Eutaw, 545;
at Morristown, 559;
at Springfield, 559;
under Sullivan in Rhode Island, 593;
makes treaty with Cherokees, 677.
Greene, Jos., 178.
Greenleaf, B., 156.
Greenleaf, Moses, MSS., 437;
in the Northern campaign (1776), 346;
orderly-book, 557.
Greg, Percy, _United States_, 456.
Gregg, Alexander, _Old Cheraws_, 676.
Greive, George, 560.
Grenadier Guards at Cowan's Ford, 539.
Grenell, John, 323.
Grenville, George, in power, 21, 23, 49;
and the Hutchinson letters, 56;
_Regulations lately made_, 75;
_Controversy between Great Britain and her Colonies_, 83;
speech on the Tea-ship's commotions, 92;
Stamp Act, 29.
Grenville Act (1764), 7, 27, 63;
characterized by Bancroft, 27;
in Boston, 27.
Grey, Gen., 426, 427;
at Fairhaven, 603;
at Paoli, 383, 423;
portrait, 383.
Gridlestone, Thomas, on Chas. Lee as Junius, 406.
Gridley, A. D., _Town of Kirkland_, 659.
Gridley, Jeremy, 13, 83.
Gridley, Richard, made chief engineer (1775), 134;
marks out redoubt on Bunker Hill, 135;
Washington's opinion of, 159;
letters, 203.
Grierson, Col., shot, 534.
Griffin, Col., 374.
Grigsby, H. B., _Virginia Convention of 1776_, 107, 257.
Grimke, Cpl., 520.
Grindall's Ford, 481.
Griswold, A. C., 191.
Grosvenor, L., 191.
Groton, Conn., attacked (1781), 562.
Grout, Lieut. David, orderly-book (1779), 359.
Groveland, ambuscade at, 642, 681;
map of ambuscade, 671.
Guadaloupe, 686.
Guernsey, A. H., 665.
Guess, Col. Nath., 677.
Guild, R. A., _Chaplin Smith and the Baptists_, 354, 357.
Guilford, battle of, 485, 540;
losses, 487;
Faden's map, 540.
Gummersall, Thomas, 683.
Gunby, at Hobkirk's Hill, 488.
Gunpowder, making of, 108, 118.
Gwinnett, Button, 264;
life of, 265;
autog., 266.
Habersham, Major John, 677.
Hackensack, 340, 343, 367.
Hadden, James Murray, _Journal_, 359.
Haddonfield, 430, 442.
Hageman, J. F., _Princeton_, 412.
Haldane, Lieut., 545.
Haldimand, Gen., deceived as to Sullivan's purpose (1779), 642, 667;
his relations with the Indians, 653;
Papers, calendar of, 653, 690;
ordered to attack New Orleans, 738.
Hale, Benj., 326.
Hale, E. E., on siege of Boston, 173;
_Hundred years ago_, 173;
on Bunker Hill, 189;
_Faden maps_, 210;
edits _Howe's Orderly Book_, 415;
on Cornwallis, 516;
on Yorktown, 555;
"Naval History of the American Revolution", 563;
on Paul Jones, 590;
_Franklin in France_, 591.
Hale, J. P., _Trans-Alleghany Pioneers_, 714.
Hale, Capt. Nathan, hanged, 333.
Half-King, a Huron, 735.
Halifax, refugees from Boston at, 206.
Hall, Capt., _Civil war in America_, 342.
Hall, Hiland, _Ticonderoga_, 214;
on Bennington, 356;
on Warner at Bennington, 356.
Hall, Lyman, 264;
life by H. McCall, 265;
autog., 266.
Hall, _The Dutch and the Iroquois_, 689.
Hallet,. Capt. J. A., 582;
in the "Tyrannicide", 582;
his log, 582.
Hallowell, Robt., 80.
Halsey, E. D., _Morris County_, 407.
Hamilton, Alex. his appeal (1774), 98;
_A full vindication_, 104;
_The Farmer refuted_, 104;
at Chatterton Hill, 286;
his house, 331, 384;
portraits of, 384;
bust of, 384;
aid to Washington, 416;
at Monmouth, 445;
his letters about Arnold and André, 466;
receives the news of Arnold's treason, 459;
at Yorktown, 504, 555;
_Eulogy on Gen. Greene_, 511;
his plan of operations with Rochambeau, 561.
Hamilton, E., _Reynolds_, 517.
Hamilton, F. W., _Grenadier Guards_, 518.
Hamilton, Gov., his case, 653;
charged with paying for scalps, 682, 726;
his report on the capture of Vincennes, 719;
defends his character, 719;
invades the Illinois country, 724;
recaptures Vincennes, 724;
letters from Detroit, 733;
his report of his surrender to Clark, 726;
sent to Virginia, 728;
sent to N. Y., 729.
Hamilton, Jas., _Life of Thomas Heyward_, 265;
_Thomas Lynch_, 265.
Hamilton, _Engraved Works of Reynolds_, 474.
Hammond, Col. Samuel, portrait, 535;
on Blackstocks, 536;
on Cowpens, 538;
his plan, 539.
Hancock, John, his brig "Harrison", 33;
and S. Adams' portrait, 40;
in the legislature, 42;
his sloop "Liberty" seized, 43, 80;
his "Rising Liberty", 80;
his letters, 107;
presides over Provincial Congress, 116;
at Lexington (1775), 122, 179;
excepted from pardon, 132;
letter to Ward, in fac-simile, 143;
his house, 207;
in Congress, 236;
autog., 263, 450;
life by John Adams, 265;
portraits, 270, 271;
his character, 107, 271;
estimate of him by John Adams, 271;
sketch by C. F. Adams, 271;
by G. Mountfort, 271;
other accounts, 271;
naval instructions, 565;
commands Mass. militia in R. I., 603;
entertains D'Estaing in Boston, 603;
oration on Boston Massacre, 88;
suggests a Congress (1774), 99;
President of Congress, 107;
on his way to Congress, received with enthusiasm in N. Y., 125;
his house, 149;
abused, 204.
Hancock's Bridge (Pa.), 442.
Hand, Col., 278.
Hanger, Geo., _Address to the Army_, 517 (_see_ Colerain).
Hanging Rock, 475.
Harcourt, Lt.-Col., 369.
Hardenburgh, John L., in Sullivan's campaign (1779), 671.
Harding, Chester, 227, 707.
Harding, Seth, 568;
in the "Confederacy", 583.
Harlem Heights, 335;
Americans occupy, 284;
Washington's headquarters, 284;
fight at, 285;
evacuated, 285;
lines at, 334, 339;
Washington at, 334;
maps of, 334;
references, 334;
view, 334.
Harpersfield, N. Y., 643.
Harriman, Walter, 129.
Harrington, Daniel, 179.
Harrington, Jona., 179, 185.
Harris, Capt. (Lord), 183;
wounded at Bunker Hill, 195.
Harris, Moses, the spy of Schuyler, 356.
Harris, Samuel, Jr., journal of Saratoga campaign, 360.
Harris, W. W., _Groton Heights_, 562.
Harris and Allyn, _Groton Heights_, 448.
Harrison, Benj., 259;
his house, 259;
autog., 266;
life, 266.
Harrison, R. H., aide to Washington, 327, 390, 418.
Harrod, James, in Kentucky, 715.
Harrodsburg, Ky., 715.
Hart, John, autog., 264.
Hart, Thomas, 570.
Hartford, convention at (1780), 560;
Washington meets Rochambeau at, 561.
Hartley, Cecil B., _Heroes and patriots_, 680.
Hartley, Col., attacks Tioga, 636.
Hartley, Thomas, 346.
Hartley, _Heroes of the South_, 508.
Haskell, Caleb, 203;
diary, 219.
Hass, Wells de, _Indian Wars_, 649.
Hastings, Marquis of, 197.
Haswell, Anthony, _Memoirs and Adventures_, 709.
Hatfield, _Hist. of Elizabeth_, 407, 560.
Hathorn, Col., defeated by Brant, 639.
Hatton, Lieut., 534, 544.
Hawthorne, Nath., his "Old Manse" house, 180;
_Septimius Felton_, 185.
Haven, C. C., _Washington in N. Jersey_, 407;
_Thirty days in N. Jersey_, 407;
_Annals of Trenton_, 407;
_Hist. Manual_, 407.
Haw River, 485.
Hawkins, Benj., 651.
Hawks, F. L., on the Regulators, 81.
Hawley, James, 42.
Hawley, Gen. Jos., on Stony Point, 558.
Hawley, Joseph, 34;
urges fighting, 117;
"Broken Hints", 118;
autog., 118;
tries to assuage passions, 118;
on independence, 258.
Hay, Major, 728.
Hay, P. D., _The Swamp Fox_, 512.
Hayden, H. E., bibliog. of Wyoming, 665;
_General Enos_, 217.
Hayes, W. A., 746.
Hayne, Isaac, his career and execution, 534.
Hayne, Paul H., poem on King's Mountain, 536.
Hayward, E. L., 522.
Haywood, John, _Hist. Tennessee_, 676, 678.
Hazard, Eben, on the Penobscot exped., 604.
Hazard, Samuel, _Penna. Register_, 650.
Hazlewood, Com. John, 386;
on the Delaware, 430, 431.
Head of Elk, 379.
Headley, J. T., on Burgoyne's campaign, 359;
on the camp at Newburgh, 744;
_Miscellanies_, 590;
on Bouquet, 693.
Heath, Gen., account of the fight at Menotomy, 126;
portraits, 127, 128;
autog., 127;
his service, 128;
his papers, 128;
at Lexington, 125, 180;
_Memoirs_, 180;
commands Eastern department, 318;
at Peekskill, 403;
on the Hudson, 500, 557;
plan of Stony Point, 557;
in Boston (1778), 603;
made general, 119;
autog., 203.
Heckewelder, John, the missionary, 651, 734.
Heister, Gen. de, 277, 345;
at Brooklyn, 279, 327.
Hele, Lieut., 449.
Hellwald, Von, _America_, 129.
Helm, Capt., at Vincennes, 723, 728, 729.
Hempstead, Stephen, 562.
Hendricks, Capt. Wm., 219.
Henley, Capt. David, 318.
Hennequin, _Biographie Maritime_, 595.
Henry, Capt. John, 520, 522.
Henry, J. J., _Campaign against Quebec_, 219.
Henry, Moses, 724.
Henry, Patrick, 238;
questions the prerogative, 24;
and the Stamp Act, 29, 73;
supports com. of corresp., 56;
character, 107;
memoir by W. W. Henry, 107;
by M. C. Tyler, 107, 723;
portraits, 107, 259;
prepared (1774) to fight, 117;
"We must fight", 121;
commands Virginia militia, 167;
on independence, 257;
his house, 259;
and Western lands, 649;
gov. of Va., 716;
corresponds with Spanish governor of New Orleans, 738;
his letter on Clark's conquests, 723.
Henry, W. W., memoir on Patrick Henry, 107;
on G. R. Clark, 734.
Henshaw, Joshua, 73.
Henshaw, Col. Wm., 204.
Herbert, Chas., _Relics of Amer. Prisoners_, 575;
_The Prisoners of 1776_, 575.
Hering, J. H., 348.
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