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Herkimer, Gen. Nicholas, at Oriskany, 299, 630;
goes to Unadilla, 626;
conference with Brant, 627;
his force, 630;
wounded, 631;
dies, 300, 632;
suspicious portrait, 351;
view of house, 351;
his name, 351.

Herrick, H. W., on Stark and Bennington, 354.

_Hesperian, The_, 710.

Hesse, Mr., 738.

Hesse-Cassel, Prince of, his letter to Baron Hohendorf a forgery, 411.

Hessians in the Long Island battle, 329;
their maps, 327, 345, 409;
at Oriskany, 351;
their jealousy of the English, 354;
taken at Trenton, marched through Philadelphia, 376;
at Brandywine, 419;
in the South, 482;
at Savannah (1779), 524;
at Guilford, 541;
in the R. I. campaign (1778), 595, 601.

Heth, Lieut. Wm., 219, 421.

Hewes, G. R. T., _Traits of the Tea Party_, 91;
_Retrospect of the Tea Party_, 91.

Hewes, Joseph, life and autog., 266.

Heyward, Thomas, life, 265;
autog., 266.

Hichborn, Benj., 88.

Hickey, Thomas, 326.

Hickey Plot, 326.

Hide, Elijah, 186.

Higginson, T. W., on Paul Revere, 175;
on Salem privateers, 591.

Hildreth, S. P., _Pioneer Settlers of Ohio_, 219, 567, 708.

Hill, Geo. C., _Arnold_, 461;
_Daniel Boone,_ 708.

Hill, J. B., _Old Dunstable_, 189.

Hill, John, his plan of N. York, 331;
map of Philad., 442.

Hill, N. N., Jr., 736.

Hillard, E. B., _Last Men of the Rev._, 746.

Hills, John, 426; _Map of Springfield_, N. J., 560;
map of Stony Point, 558;
plan of attack on Forts Clinton and Montgomery, 363.

Hillsborough, Earl of, 21, 43;
leaves the ministry, 53;
requires Massachusetts to rescind its circular letter, 44;
she refuses, 45.

Hinman, _Connecticut during the Rev._, 663.

Hite, Col. John, 718.

Hobkirk's Hill (second battle of Camden), battle of, 488, 541;
plans of battle, 543, 544;
forces and losses, 544.

Hodge, Wm., 573, 574, 575.

Hodgkin, Col. Joseph, 325.

Hodgkinson, Samuel, 222, 225.

Hodgson, John, 86.

Hoffman, F. S., 451.

Holden, _Queensbury_, 214.

Holland, E. G., "Highland Treason", 466.

Holland, Sam., chart of Boston harbor, 209;
his plan of N. Y., 333;
his maps of the English colonies, 341;
surveys of Fort Clinton, etc., 364.

Hollis, Thomas, 68;
prints _The True Sentiments of America_, 83.

Hollister, H., _Lackawanna Valley_, 665.

Holmes, O. W., _Grandmother's Story_, 200.

Holmes, _Missions_, 736.

Holyoke, Dr., 187.

Home, John, 269.

Hood, Admiral, 83;
_Letters_, 84;
on the American coast, 501.

Hooper, Archibald M., acc. of Robert Howe, 519.

Hooper, J. C., life of Wm. Hooper, 265.

Hooper, "King", 114.

Hooper, Wm., life, 265;
autog., 266.

Hopkins, Esek, made chief naval officer, 568;
portraits, 569;
attacks New Providence, 570;
attacks the "Glasgow", 570;
court-martial, 570;
accounts of, 570;
retires, 570.

Hopkins, John B., capt. in the navy, 570.

Hopkins, Stephen, 53;
answered in a _Letter from a gentleman at Halifax_, 70;
and in _Defence of a Letter_, 70;
and _Brief Remarks_, 70;
_Rights of the Colonies_, 70;
_Grievances of the American Colonies_, 70;
autog., 263;
life, 265;
and the Congress of 1754, 66.

Hopkinson, Francis, autog., 264;
life, by R. P. Smith, 265;
letter to Duché, 438;
_Battle of the Kegs_, 442.

Hoppin, J. M., 439;
edits H. A. Brown's _Orations_, 446.

Hoppin, Nicholas, 142.

Horry, P., _Life of Marion_, 512.

Horry, quarrels with Mahem, 545.

Hosack, David, 464.

Hosmer, Rufus, 189.

Hotham, Com., 364.

Houdon, his bust of Paul Jones, 592.

Hough, F. B., _Order-book of Captain Bleecker_, 670;
edits the _Cow-Chace_, 560;
_Proc. of Congress at Boston_, 560;
_Northern Invasions_, 452, 672;
_Savannah_, 522;
_Siege of Charleston_, 525;
edits _Siege of Detroit_, 701.

Houghton, G. F., on Colonel Warner, 356.

How, David, 202.

How, Henry K., _Trenton_, 407.

Howard, Col. J. E., 421, 481.

Howe, Henry, _Hist. Coll. N. Y._, 666.

Howe, John, _Journal_, 119.

Howe, Richard, Admiral Lord, 380;
portrait, 277, 380;
confronts D'Estaing off Newport, 594;
_Candid and Impartial Narrative_, 594;
arrives at New York, 326;
statue, 380;
attempts to force the Delaware defences, 387;
cruised off Boston to lure out D'Estaing, 603.

Howe, Gen. Robt., on defences of Charleston, 230;
at West Point, 456;
at Savannah, 469;
his _Court-Martial Proceedings_, 519;
acc. of, 519.

Howe, Gen. Wm., autog., 136;
his army on Staten Island (1776), 275;
lands on Long Island, 276;
his portrait, 197, 278, 383, 417, 418;
his blunders in the N. Y. campaign (1776), 291;
his lineage, 291, 415;
in Philadelphia, 384;
his army attacked at Germantown, 385;
criticised in _Letters to a nobleman_, 415;
his Observations, 415;
Reply to Observations, 415;
Letters from Agricolas, 415;
generally criticised, 415;
connection with Mrs. Loring, 415;
leaves Philadelphia, 396;
Mischianza, 396;
attacks Lafayette at Barren Hill, 396;
his reputation ruined by the campaign of 1777, 414;
tracts on his incompetency, 414;
his _Narrative_, 329, 414;
his _Orderly-book, 1775-1776_, 194, 415;
his H. Q. at Brandywine, 415;
sails from N. Y., 417;
at Head of Elk, 418;
his character, 418;
enters Philad., 419;
his proclamations, 419;
his acc. of Germantown, 426;
tries to lure Washington to battle, 439;
H. Q. at Stenton, 429;
orders in Philadelphia, 436;
H. Q. in Philad., 436;
relieved by Clinton, 443;
hopes to use the Indians, 621;
criticised for his attack at Bunker Hill, 140;
his fleet, 158;
evacuates Boston, 158, 205;
his conduct of the siege criticised in _A View of the Evidence_,
etc., 205;
knighted, 281;
occupies N. Y., 283;
dallies at Mrs. Murray's, 284;
attacks to outflank Washington by way of Throg's Neck, 285;
at White Plains, 286;
at Dobbs's Ferry, 287;
attacks Fort Washington, 287, 288;
crosses into Jersey, 290;
his letters during the Long Island campaign, 329;
criticised by Mauduit, 329, 337;
his quarters in N. Y., 331;
his movements above New York (1776), 337;
going to Philadelphia, defeated Germain's plans, 348;
sends expedition to Danbury, 348;
takes Philadelphia, 367;
invades the Jerseys, 368;
evacuates New Jersey, 379;
sails south, and lands at Head of Elk, 379;
at Brandywine, 381;
criticised (1776), 331.

Howells, W. D., _Three Villages_, 184;
on Gnadenhütten, 736.

Howland, John, of Rhode Island, 405.

Hoyt, A. H., 95.

Hoyt, Epaphras, 627.

Hoyt, Gen., on the Saratoga battlefield, 357.

Hubbard, Frances M., _Wm. Richardson Davie_, 537.

Hubbard, John, _Maj. Moses Van Campen_, 669.

Hubbard, J. N., _Sa-go-ye-wat-ha_, 625, 662;
_Red Jacket_, 351, 625;
_Life of Van Campen_, 665.

Hubbardton, affair at, 297, 350;
map, 350.

Huberton. _See_ Hubbardton.

Hubley, Col. Adam, 668;
_American Revolution_, 650.

Huddy, Capt. Joshua, case of, 744.

Hudson, Chas., 184;
_Lexington_, 180;
on Pitcairn, 183;
_Doubts concerning Bunker Hill_, 189.

Hudson, C., and Porter, E. E., _Centennial of Lexington_, 184.

Hudson, F., _Amer. Journalism_, 110;
on Lexington, 184.

Hudson River, the campaigns about, 275;
maps of, 323, 340, 364, 455, 456, 465, 556, 557;
the British to secure its line, 323;
British ships in (1776), 326;
obstructions in, 364;
frozen at New York, 559;
highlands of, 340.

Huger, Gen., 483;
the Virginia brigade, 485.

Hughes, Major, aide to Gen. Gates, 360.

Hull, Capt. Wm., on Trenton, 407.

Hulton, Henry, 39, 194.

Humphreys, _Life of Putnam_, 190.

Hunnewell, J. F., _Bibliog. of Charlestown_, 185.

Hunt, Louise L., on Gen. Montgomery, 216.

Hunter, C. L., _Western No. Carolina_, 256, 536, 678.

Huntington, Jed., letters during siege of Boston, 203;
on Valley Forge, 436.

Huntington, Samuel, autog., 263;
life, 265.

Hurd, John, 227.

Husband, Herman, 81;
_A Fan for Fanning_, 81;
_Impartial Relation_, 82.

Huske, _Present State_, etc., 650.

Husted, N. C., _Centennial Souvenir_, 466.

Hutcheson, Maj. Francis, his diary, 205, 346.

Hutchins, Thomas, 693, 699;
_Louisiana_, 651;
his maps of Bouquet's exped., 699;
map of Illinois country, 700;
_Louisiana and West Florida_, 700;
_Virginia_, etc., 700.

Hutchinson, Col. Israel, 204.

Hutchinson, Gov. Thomas, 89;
on Boston Massacre, 85;
his _Strictures on the Declaration of Congress_, 240;
chief justice of Mass., 12;
his house sacked, 19, 30, 72;
lieut.-gov. of Mass., 22;
on feelings in England, 111;
his coach used by Washington, 146;
his character, 26;
draws up petition to the Commons, 28;
succeeds Bernard (1769), 49;
made gov. of Mass. (1771), 53;
his letters returned to Boston by Franklin, 56, 93;
sails for England, 57;
death, 58;
plan of union in 1754, 66;
disapproval of the Stamp Act, 72;
his speech after the mob, 73;
his controversy with his Assembly, 88;
threatened, 88;
_Copies of letters_, etc., 93;
_Letters of Gov. Hutchinson_, etc., 93;
_The Representations of Gov. Hutchinson_, 93;
R. C. Winthrop's views of the return of his letters, 93;
George Bancroft's, 93;
Grenville's connection, 94;
interview with the king (1774), 97;
opposes the Boston Port Bill, 97;
addressed on leaving Boston, 113.

Hyrne, W. A., 169.

Hyslop, Robt., has Paul Jones's papers, 589.

ILLINOIS, county of Va., 729.

Illinois country, 708;
map of, by Hutchins, 700;
Clark's campaign in, 718;
to be invaded by the British (1780), 737;
attacked, 739, 741.

Illman, Thomas, 194.

Imlay, Gilbert, _Western Territory_, 652, 708.

Importers in Boston proscribed, 79, 80;
list of them, 79.

Indeberg (N. Y. city), 284.

Independence, of the United States, growth of the sentiment, 231, 256.

Indians, taken prisoners and made slaves, 676;
threaten the Southern colonies (1763), 17;
_Indian Treaties_, etc., 247;
their part in the Rev. War, 605;
their grants of lands, 607;
rights of their women, 607;
private persons forbidden to buy their lands, 608;
spare woman's chastity, 610, 652;
their numbers, 610, 611, 650;
proportion of warriors, 611;
names of tribes, 699;
enlisted as minute-men at Cambridge, 612;
of more use to the British, 612;
counter-movements to employ them, 613, 614, 615, 616, 618;
in battle of Long Island, 613;
used as scouts, 613;
at White Plains, 613;
on the Kennebec exped., 614;
commissions given to them, 617;
and the British ministry, 617;
the British government announce their intention of using them, 621;
entice them by gifts, 621;
books about, 648;
as allies in war, 649;
their lands encroached upon, 649;
number in the British service, 652;
with St. Leger, 661;
commissioned by Congress, 672;
employment of, in war, opinions as regards, 673;
counter-statements of English and French, 688, 689;
bounties offered to engage in the war, 674;
enlisted, 677;
join the Americans in the South, 679;
_Laws relating to Indians_, 682;
civilized by the Moravians, 736.

Ingersoll, E., life of L. Morris, 266;
of Thomas Stone, 266;
of Samuel Chase, 266;
of James Smith, 266;
of Jos. Hewes, 266;
of Wm. Paca, 266;
of John Adams, 266.

Ingersoll, Jared., to be stamp distributor, 72;
his _Letters_, 73.

Inglis, Chas., _Plain Truth_, 270;
on the Iroquois, 608.

Inman, George, on Princeton, 412.

Innes, Col. Jas., 718.

Insurance, maritime, rates of, during the Rev. War, 563, 573.

Ipswich dreads a raid from Boston (1775), 128.

Iredell, James, 532.

Ireland, address of Congress to, 617.

Irenæus, Father, 710.

Iroquois, histories of, 247;
Inglis' memorial about, 608.

Irvine, Col., attack at Three Rivers, 225.

Irvine, Gen., diary, 222.

Irvine, Gen. James, wounded at Chestnut Hill, 389.

Irvine, William, at Monmouth, 446;
at Fort Pitt, 732;
letters and papers, 737.

JACK, MAJOR, in Georgia, 676, 678, 679.

Jackson, Helen Hunt, _Century of Dishonor_, 681,

Jackson, Wm., 80, 268.

Jackson, survey of Lake George, 348.

Jacob, John J., _Life of Cresap_, 712.

Jacobs, Francis, 419.

Jamaica Bay, 327.

James, John, _Life of Marion_, 512.

James, Thomas, 170, 228.

James, Wm. D., _Life of Marion_, 512.

James Island (near Charleston, S. C.), 526.

Jameson, Col., receives André, 458.

Jameson, _Constitutional Conventions_, 72.

Jarvis, J. W., 734.

Jasper, Sergeant William, 172, 230;
killed, 524.

Jay, John, address to the people of Great Britain, 100;
an Episcopalian, 241;
on Harlem fight, 334;
on the desire for independence, 255.

Jefferson, Thomas, _Summary View_, 98, 99;
the Decl. of Indep., 239;
Stuart's profile likeness of, 258;
portraits of, 258;
his house, Monticello, 259;
fac-simile of his orig. draft of the Decl. of Independence, 260;
why at the head of the com. for drafting the Decl. of Indep., 261;
his autog., 261, 266;
the house where he wrote the Decl. of Indep. 261;
the desk, 261;
life of George Wythe, 265;
life by Gilpin, 265;
escapes from Tarleton, 497;
during the invasion of Va., 515, 547;
controversy with H. Lee, 515;
_Notes on Virginia_, 650, 711, 712;
on Cresap, 711.

Jefferys, _Gen. Topog. of No. Amer._, 696;
plan of Boston, 209;
_Province of Quebec_, 215;
charts of the St. Lawrence, river and gulf, 215.

Jeffries, Dr. John, on Gen. Warren's death, 194.

Jemison, Mary, 648, 662.

Jening, Levi, 47.

Jenkins, Howard, _Gwynedd_, 436.

Jenkins, H. M., on Brandywine, 419.

Jenkins, Steuben, on Wyoming, 665.

Jenkinson, C., 76.

Jennings, Edmund, 109.

Jennings, Isaac, _Memorials of a Century_, 355.

Jennys, Richard, 71.

Jenyns, Soame, his _Objections to Taxation_, 75.

Jephson, Mrs., 276.

Jesse, _Etonians_, 516.

Jesuits in Kaskaskia, 717, 720.

Johnson, Crisfield, _Erie County_, 670.

Johnson, Col. Guy, 142;
succeeds Sir Wm. Johnson, 612;
favors use of Indians, 613;
the object of suspicion, 618;
fortified his house, 619;
confers with the Indians at Fort Stanwix and Oswego, 619;
at Ontario, 619;
at Montreal, 619, 624;
instructed to have the Indians prepared for service, 620;
his war-belt, 624;
goes to Connecticut, 605;
his map of the country of the Six Nations (1771), 609;
correspondence with Haldimand, 654;
persuading Indians to join the British, 655.

Johnson, Jeremiah, 329.

Johnson, Sir John, urging the Indians to take sides, 615;
his position, 624;
arrested, 625;
flies to Canada, 625;
_Life of_, 625;
_Orderly-book_, 351, 625, 660;
at Oriskany, 630;
raids in the Mohawk Valley, 634, 644;
in the Schoharie Valley, 644;
exped. into N. Y. 672;
in St. Leger's campaign, 299;
life of, by J. W. de Peyster, 351.

Johnson, Jos., _Traditions of Amer. Rev._, 514.

Johnson, R. M., 707.

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, his appearance, 109;
_Taxation no Tyranny_, 109;
_Hypocrisy unmasked_, 102.

Johnson, Stephen, 203.

Johnson, Wesley, 665.

Johnson, Sir Wm., life by Stone, 247;
his tact, 605;
labors to prevent outbreaks, 607, 608;
dies, 612;
acc. of, 648;
his estimate of Indian warriors, 651;
makes a treaty (1764) at Niagara, 698;
letters to Lords of Trade, 704;
the Western Indians, 706, 707.

Johnson, Wm., _Sketches of life of Gen. Greene_, 510, 511;
reviews of, 511.

Johnson, W. S., and the Wilkes turmoils, 28;
in the Congress of 1765, 74;
on feelings in England during the Stamp Act times, 75;
describes debates in Parliament, 85;
predicts independence, 85;
a patriot, 241.

Johnston, Alexander, _Representative Amer. Orations_, 107;
on the Cincinnati, 746.

Johnston, Capt., in the navy, 575;
in the "Lexington", 575;
surrenders to the "Alert", 575.

Johnston, Henry P., "Yale in the Revolution", 189;
on R. J. Meigs, 219;
his map of Long Island, 328;
_Campaign of 1776_, 331;
plan of New York Island, 331, 335;
on Nathan Hale, 334;
on Col. Varick, 460;
on De Kalb, 530;
his plan of battle of Camden, 531;
on De Kalb, Gates, and the Camden campaign, 532;
_Yorktown Campaign_, 555;
on Stony Point, 558.

Johnston, _Bristol and Bremen_, 567.

Johnstown, Gen. Schuyler at, 624;
fight at, 646.

Jones, Brig.-Gen., 194.

Jones, C. C., _Georgia_, 679;
_Last Days of Lee_, 509, 510;
_Serg. Wm. Jasper_, 230, 524;
_Sepulture of Greene and Pulaski_, 510, 524;
_Siege of Savannah in 1779_, 522.

Jones, Ch. H., _Campaign for the Conquest of Canada_, 174.

Jones, Dr., of Boston, 47.

Jones, Gabriel, 716.

Jones, J. S., _Defence of No. Carolina_, 257.

Jones, John Paul, made lieutenant, 568;
cruising in the "Providence", 570;
made captain, 570, 571;
in the "Alfred", 571;
captures the "Mellish", 571;
in the "Ranger", 571, 576;
displays the national flag, 571;
acc. of him, 576;
takes the "Drake", 577;
descent on the Scotch coast, 577;
his letter-books, 577;
in the "Bon Homme Richard", 577, 590;
her log-book, 590;
her flag, 590;
engages the "Serapis", 578, 590;
goes into the Texel, 578;
effect in England, 590;
seeks the French service, 579;
in the "Alliance", 583;
life by J. F. Cooper, 589;
other lives, 589;
his papers, 589, 590;
life purporting to be by himself, issued in French, 590;
figures in Cooper's _Pilot_ and Dumas' _Capitaine Paul_, 590;
in the "Ranger", 590;
her log, 590;
his letters, 590;
claims on the U. S., 591;
causes diplomatic embarrassments, 591;
portraits, 592;
medals, 592;
Houdon's bust, 592.

Jones, Lieut., 627.

Jones, M. M., on Cornstalk, 714.

Jones, Pearson, 146.

Jones, Pomroy, _Oneida County_, 351.

Jones, Skelton, _Virginia_, 515.

Jones, Thomas, the loyalist, his cynical character, 467.

Jordan, S., 227.

Joy, Arad, of Ovid, N. Y., 467.

Judges paid by the king, 54;
tenure of office in England, 4;
in America, 4.

Judson, L. C., on the signers of Decl. of Indep., 266.

Jumel, Madam, 284.

Kalb. _See_ De Kalb.

Kalm predicts the Amer. revolt, 686.

Kanadalauga, 669.

Kapp, Frederick, _Die Deutschen im Staate New York_, 351;
_Life of John Kalb_, 530;
_Leben des Generals Kalb_, 530;
_Life of Steuben_, 515.

Kaskaskia 730, 738;
Jesuits at, 720;
captured, 720;
references, 722;
maps, 700, 702, 717.

Kaye, G. W., _Indian Officers_, 516.

Kearney, Maj., surveys of Yorktown, 553.

Kemble, Peter, 123.

Kennebec expedition (1775), led by Arnold, 217;
used surveys by Montresor, 217;
Indians join, 655;
maps of the route, 217;
references, 217;
letters, 218;
Arnold's journal, 218;
other journals, 219;
orderly-books, 220;
list of officers, 220;
lists of men and of the losses, 220.
_See_ Quebec, siege of (1755).

Kennedy, Patrick, _Journal_, 701.

Kennedy, Samuel, surgeon, 325, 359.

Kennett Square, Pa., 381, 415.

Kent, Benj., 47.

Kenton, Simon, 708.

Kentucky, explored, 710, 715;
first log cabin, 715;
made a county of Virginia, 716;
forts in, 739.

Ketchum, Silas, edits Mrs. Walker's _Events in Canada_, 222.

Ketchum, Wm., _Buffalo_, 648.

Kettell, John, at Bunker Hill, 202.

Kettle Creek, 520.

Kickapoos, 703,

Kidder, Frederick, _Military operations in Eastern Maine_, 564, 657;
acc. of him, 657.

Kimball, James, orderly-book (1777-1778), 360.

King, C., on Monmouth, 446.

King, David, 219.

King, D. P., 184.

King, Gen. Joshua, on André's captors, 466.

King's Bridge, 336, 337;
affair at (1781), 561.

King's Ferry (Hudson River), 456.

King's Mountain, battle, 479, 535, 536, 677;
forces and losses, 535;
no good plan, 536;
view, 536;
diagrams, 536.

Kingsley, J. L., _Hist. address_, 93;
on Ezra Stiles, 187.

Kingston, Duchess of, 112.

Kingston, Fort, 664.

Kingston, Lt. Col. (1777), 366.

Kingston, N. Y., senate house, 274;
burned (1777), 364.

Kingstown, N. J., 408, 410.

Kinnison, David, 91.

Kip's Bay, 283, 333, 335.

Kirke, Edmund, _pseud._ for J. R. Gilmore.

Kirkland, J. T., 672;
sketch of Gen. Lincoln, 513.

Kirkland, Samuel, 612, 659;
acc. of, 674;
life by S. K. Lothrop, 274, 659;
his account of siege of Fort Stanwix, 351.

Kirkwood, Capt., his journal, 545.

Kitanning, 609.

Kitchin, Thomas, map of N. Y., 333, 349;
map of Philad., 442.

Kloster-Zeven, convention of, 322.

Knight, Dr. (with Slover), _Narrative_, 736.

Knight, Lieut. John, 364.

Knower, Daniel, 466.

Knowlton, Col., 135, 191;
attacks at Harlem, 285;
his scouts in Charlestown Mass. (1776), 153.

Knox, Gen. Henry, his acc. of Brandywine, 419;
his report on the Continental army, 588;
misconceived later, 588;
brings cannon from Ticonderoga, 156;
his letters, 156;
autog., 156;
on Germantown, 421;
headquarters in N. Y., 276;
last general officer of the army, 746;
suggests the Cincinnati Soc., 746.

Knox, Wm., _Claim of the Colonies_, 75;
_Controversy between Great Britain and her Colonies_, 83;
_The justice and policy of the late act_, 104.

Knyphausen, Gen., at Fort Washington, 289, 338, 345;
autog., 289;
at Brandywine, 381;
in command in N. Y., 559;
at Germantown, 385, 428;
on the Delaware, 430;
at Haddenfield, 442;
at New Rochelle, 286;
at King's Bridge, 286;
his quarters in N. Y., 331;
at Trenton, 411.

Kosciusko, Thaddeus, fortifies Bemis Heights, 304;
at Ninety-six, 491;
portraits, 492;
memoir by Evans, 492;
his claims, 492.

_Kriegstheater in Amerika_, 341.

Kulp, Geo. B., _Families of the Wyoming Valley_, 664.

L'Amoreaux, J. S., address, 366.

La Chesnais, edits Blanchard's journal, 554.

La Corne, St. Luc, with Burgoyne, 294.

La Mothe, Capt., 729.

La Tour, Brionde, _Théâtre de la Guerre_, 416.

Lacy, Gen. John, 393;
Papers, 216;
at Valley Forge, 436.

Lafayette, his view of the English observance of the Saratoga
convention, 321;
joins the army, 380;
wounded at Brandywine, 382, 418;
headquarters, 419;
his attack at Gloucester, N. Jersey 389, 430;
proposed for command of an expedition to Canada, 392, 447;
at Barren Hill, 396, 442;
first sits at council of war, 417;
at Monmouth, 444, 445;
account of Arnold and André, 466;
marches south, 496;
in Richmond, 496;
map of his fight with Cornwallis, 538;
in Virginia, 547;
his _Mèmoires_, 547;
at Yorktown, 555;
plans an invasion of England, 577;
in R. I. campaign (1778), 593, 601;
his letters, 593;
visits Boston, 595;
his plan of Narragansett Bay, 600;
his plan of Rhode Island, 602.

Lake Pontchartrain, map, 702.

Lake. _See_ names of lakes.

Lally, Thomas, 227.

Lamb, Col. John, 670;
at West Point, 460;
his artillery company at Quebec, 220.

Lamb, Roger, _Journal of Occurrences_, 198, 360, 518, 532;
_Memoirs_, 360.

Lambdin, A. C., 423.

Lamoth, Capt., 728. _See_ La Mothe.

Lancaster, Pa., Congress at, 383.

Lancaster County, Pa., massacre in, 606.

Land companies, 649, 650.

Land grants, fraudulently obtained from the Indians, 607, 608.

Landaff, Bishop, his sermon (1767), 76;
answered by Livingston, 76;
a _Vindication_, 76.

Landais, Capt., in the "Alliance", 577, 578;
insane, 579;
his _Memorial_, 590;
_Charges and Proofs_, 591;
acc. by E. E. Hale, 591;
his claims, 591.

Lane, Capt. John, 614.

Lane, S. E., 714.

Langdon, John, in Canada, 227.

Langdon, Rev. John, sermon on Lexington, 180.

Langdon, Samuel, election sermon, 131;
_Map of N. Hampshire_, 217.

Langworthy, Edward, _Chas. Lee_, 407.

Lanman, James, 464, 597.

Lareau, _Litt. Canadienne_, 216.

Larned, Miss, _Windham County_, 193.

Lathrop, John, sermon on Boston Massacre, 88.

Latrobe, H. B., life of Chas. Carroll, 266.

Laurens, John, Lt.-Col., at Germantown, 385;
on the Delaware, 431;
killed, 507, 545;
at Monmouth, 446;
challenges Lee, 446;
at Charleston (1780), 525.

Lauzun, Duc de, _Mémoires_, 560.

Lawrence, Eugene, 559.

Leach, John, 204.

Learned, Gen., at Bemis Heights, 304;
at Freeman's Farm, 316.

Leboucher, _La Guerre de l'Indépendance_, 560.

Lecky, on Bunker Hill, 198;
on siege of Boston, 173;
_England, etc._, 68.

Ledyard, Col., his career, etc., 562;
killed, 562.

Lee, Andrew, diary, 417.

Lee, Arthur, _A True State of the Proceedings_, 106;
_An Appeal to the People of Great Britain_, 106, 109;
on the news of Lexington, 175;
helps in writing the _Liberty Song_, 86;
_Political Detection_, 88;
trying to secure powder for Virginia, 168.

Lee, Chas., _Strictures on a Friendly Address_, 106;
at Cambridge, 144;
correspondence with Burgoyne, 144;
his headquarters in Medford, 144;
sent to New York (1776), 156;
goes south, 156, 168;
his letters at this time, 156;
in Virginia, 168;
in South Carolina, 168;
letters during siege of Boston, 203;
report on defence of Sullivan's Island, 229;
in New York, 275;
on the fortifications of New York, 325;
refuses to follow Washington into the Jerseys, 368, 403;
captured, 369, 403;
likenesses, 369, 406;
autograph, 370;
following Clinton, 398;
at Monmouth, 399, 444;
court-martial of, 400, 446;
dismissed from the army, 400;
exchanged, 403;
his criticism of Washington, 403, 446;
his conduct suspicious, 403;
as "Junius", 406;
his house in Virginia, 407;
lives of, 407;
_Papers_, 407;
the campaign of 1777, 416;
his treason, 416;
his vindication, 446;
corresponds with Washington, 446;
duel with Col. Laurens, 446.

Lee, C. C., 515.

Lee, F. D., _Hist. Rec. of Savannah_, 519.

Lee, Francis Lightfoot, autog., 266;
life, 266.

Lee, Capt. John, 592.

Lee, Gen. Henry, 222, 509;
and his legion, 484;
on Rawdon's communications, 487;
joins Marion, 487;
at Augusta, 490;
at Ninety-Six, 491;
at the Eutaws, 545;
retires, 545;
_War in the Southern Dept._, 509;
edited by H. Lee, 509;
by R. E. Lee, 509;
called "Legion Harry", and "Light Horse Harry", 509;
portraits, 509;
severe on Jefferson, 515;
controversy, 515;
at Yorktown, 555;
(son of "Legion Harry") his _Campaign of 1781_, 511;
_Observations on Jefferson_, 515;
on the capture of André, 466;
attacks Paulus Hook, 559.

Lee, R. H., 236, 259;
and the Stamp Act, 29;
supports com. of correspondence, 56;
address to people of Great Britain, 100;
drafts address of Congress of 1775, 108;
moves for independence, 238;
not on the committee to draft the Declar. of Independence, 239;
his resolutions of June 7th preserved, 261;
references, 261;
autog., 265;
life, 266;
on Trenton, 407.

Lee, Major Wm., 204;
_Legal adviser_, 729.

Leiste, C., on the British colonies, 341.

Leitch, Col. Thomas, 171, 285.

Leith, John, _Narrative_, 682.

Le Marchant, _Walpole's George III._, 75.

Lemoine, _Maple leaves_, 223;
_Picturesque Quebec_, 223.

Leney, W. S., 107.

Leonard, Daniel, _The present political state_, etc., 110;
_The Origin of the Amer. Contest_, 110;
_Massachusettensis, or a series of letters_, 110;
references, 112.

Leslie, Col., at Salem, 119, 172.

Leslie, Gen., attacks Chatterton Hill, 286;
at Charleston, S. C., 507;
proposes a truce, 545;
marches to the Carolinas, 536;
at Princeton, 378;
in Virginia, 495, 546.

Lesperance, J., _Bastonnais_, 223.

Levasseur, A., _Lafayette en Amérique_, 194.

Levinge, R. G. A., _Monmouthshire Light Infantry_, 198.

Lewis, Gen. Andrew, leads exped. against Indians, 713;
at Point Pleasant, 713;
in Virginia, 168;
his _Order-book_, 168.

Lewis, Col., of Virginia, 679.

Lewis, Francis, autog., 264; life, 265.

Lewis, Morgan, life of Francis Lewis, 265.

Lewis, S., 338.

Lewis, _Chester Co._, 419.

Lexington, Ky., 708; named in commemoration
of the fight in 1775, 178.

Lexington, Mass., march to, 123;
Percy's reinforcements, 123;
effect of the news in England, 125;
authorities, 174;
depositions, 175;
fac-simile of John Parker's, 176;
which fired first? 175, 183;
news of the fight in London, 175;
its effect, 178;
the news sent South, 178;
_Bloody Butchery_, 178;
plan of Lexington, 179;
Clarke house, 179;
British accounts, 180;
_Circumstantial Account_, 180;
losses, 182;
alarm rolls, 182;
loss of property, 182;
disputes with Concord, 183;
depositions of survivors, 184;
_Centennial Souvenir_, 184;
view of Lexington Green, 185;
the fight in fiction, 185;
relics, 185.
_See_ Concord.

"Liberty" sloop seized, 43.

Liberty Song, 86; Tree in Boston, 72;
in other places, 72.

Lincoln, Benjamin, at Charleston (1779), 469;
his order-books, 469, 522, 554;
at Savannah, 470, 519, 522, 523;
withdraws, 471;
autograph, 473;
portrait, 473;
lives, 513;
his papers, 359, 513;
his letters, 513;
coöperates with D'Estaing, 513;
surrenders Charleston, 474, 513;
defends his conduct, 524;
drove off the last ship from Boston, 160;
in Burgoyne's campaign, 299, 359;
acting on Burgoyne's communications, 304;
on New York Island (1781), 499;
account of Bennington, 354;
attack on Stono, 520;
with Gates (1777), 307.

Lincoln, Wm., ed. _Journals of Mass. Prov. Cong._, 180.

Lind, John, _Answer to the Decl. of Indep._, 269.

Lindsay, Lord, on Germantown, 423.

Lindsay, W., _Invasion of Canada_, 223.

Linn, _Buffalo Valley_, 446.

Linquet, 366.

Lippincott, Capt. Richard, 744.

Litchfield, Paul, 203.

Little, Moses, 326.

Livermore, Daniel, 668.

Livermore, Geo., _Hist. Research_, 85.

Liverpool, Eng., 563.

Livesey, R., 575.

Livingston, Col., at Freeman's Farm, 316.

Livingston, Henry B., 359;
orderly-book (1777), 359.

Livingston, Col. James, before Quebec, 165.

Livingston, Philip, _The other side of the question_, 106, 108;
autog., 264;
life of, 265.

Livingston, R. R., intercedes for Arnold, 452;
in Canada, 227;
on com. to draft Declar. of Indep., 239;
on Stamp Act, 73.

Livingston, Gov. Wm., his papers, 359;
_Collection of Tracts_, 83;
corresponding with Sam Cooper, 83;
_Letter to Bishop of Landaff_, 76;
his silhouette, 84.

Lloyd, Charles, 49;
sec. to Grenville, 75;
_Conduct of the late administration examined_, 76.

Locke, Col., 475.

Lockwood, David, 472.

Lockwood, James, 178.

Lodge, Lieut. Benj., map of Sullivan's route (1779), 681.

Lodge, John, 212.

Loftus, Maj. Arthur, on the Mississippi, 701.

Logan, Col., at Blue Licks, 730.

Logan, James, his house, 429.

Logan, J. H. _Upper country of So. Carolina_, 536.

Logan Historical Soc., 713;
_American Pioneer_, 713.

Logan (Indian), his speech, 711, 712.

Logtown, N. C., 543.

_London Gazette_, 516.

Long, J., _Indian interpreter_, 649.

Long, _Voyages_, 741.

Long Island, battle of, 326;
sources, 328, 329;
movements of, 329;
British strength at, 330;
bibliography of, 329;
the British land on, 326;
Hessian map of battle, 327;
other maps, 327, 328, 340.
_See_ Brooklyn.

Long Island Sound, whale boat warfare in, 591.

Longchamps. _Histoire impartiale_, 555.

Longfellow, H. W., occupies Craigie House, 142;
_Paul Revere's Ride_, 173.

Longfellow, Samuel, _Life of H. W. Longfellow_, 142.

Lord, W. W., play on André, 464.

Loring, Geo. B., on Leslie's expedition, 172.

Loring, J. S., _Hundred Boston Orators_, 107.

Lossing, B. J., 197; on Arnold, 220;
on Daniel Boone, 708;
_Field-book of the Rev._, 659;
edits Lyon's _Mil. Journal_, 178;
on the signers of the Decl. of Indep., 266;
on Putnam, 193;
on the Revolutionary navy, 589;
_Two Spies_, 464;
on Arnold's treason, 464;
_United States_, 659;
_Seventeen hundred and seventy-six_, 659;
on Quebec, 223.

Lothrop, Isaac, 187.

Lothrop, S. K., _Samuel Kirkland_, 659, 674.

Louisiana, ceded (1762) to Spain, 686;
Ulloa in, 737;
a republic tried, 737;
French forts in, 699.

Lovell, James, 88;
imprisoned, 204;
on Burgoyne's advance, 348;
the Conway Cabal, 392;
on Howe's movements, 416;
on Washington, 421.

Lovell, Gen. Solomon, in Penobscot expedition, 582;
autog., 603;
quarrels with Saltonstall, 603;
his _Journal_, 603;
life by Nash, 603;
acquitted court of inquiry, 604.

Lovewell, John, 681.

Low, Nath., _Astron. Diary_, 178;
map from, 342.

Lowell, E. J., 411;
introduction to Pausch's journal, 360.

Lowell, Jas. Russell, _Concord Ode_, 184;
his house, 115.

Lowell, John, on the Bunker Hill controversy, 191.

Lowell, Robert, "Burgoyne's last march", 357.

Lownes, C., 207.

Loyalists in Boston, organized into battalions, 153;
leave Boston with Howe, 158;
leave Charleston and Savannah, 546;
discouraged by Trenton, 407;
military organizations in Philad., 395.
_See_ Tories.

Lunt, Paul, 203.

Lushington, S. R., _Lord Harris_, 183.

Lynch, Thomas, 264;
life, 265;
autog., 266.

Lynch's Creek, 476.

Lynde, Judge Benj., portrait, 86;
_Diary_, 86;
autog., 50.

Lyons, L., _Mil. Journals_, 178.

Lyttelton, Lord, _A letter to Chatham_, 104.

M'Gauran, Major Edward, 360.

Macaulay, Catharine, _Observations_, 88;
on Chatham, 685.

Macdonald, Flora, 168.

Machias, Me., affair of the "Margaretta", 564.

Machigwawish, 738.

Machin, Thomas, map of the Hudson River, 455.

Mackay, Capt. Samuel, _Narrative_, 360.

Mackenzie, Alex. S., _Life of Paul Jones_, 590.

Mackenzie, John, 79.

Mackenzie, Roderick, _Strictures on Tarleton_, 517;
answered, 517;
on Cowpens, 538;
wounded at Cowpens, 541.

Macpherson, James, _Rights of Great Britain Asserted_, 109, 269.

Madison, James, 259.

Magaw, Robert, on Fort Washington, 341;
letter (Cambridge), 203.

_Magnolia_, a Georgia periodical, 519.

Mahem, Marion's lieutenant, 545.

Mahem towers, 491.

Mahon, Lord (Earl Stanhope), on Bunker Hill, 198;
condemns André's execution, 467;
on the Decl. of Indep., 269.

Mahoning, 643.

Maidenhead, N. J., 409, 410.

Maine, H. C., _Burgoyne's Campaign_, 366.

Maine created as the province of New Ireland, 604.

Maisonville, Francis, 729.

Maitland, Col., at Savannah, 470, 520;
dies, 524.

Majabigwaduce, 604.

Malcolm, Daniel, his house assailed, 68.

Malmedy, autog., 500;
fortifies Narragansett Bay, 593.

Mamaroneck, 337.

Manchac, 739.

Manchester, N. H., 190.

Manly, Capt. John, captures Crean Brush, 205;
takes prizes, 565;
the first to show a Continental flag, 565;
driven into Plymouth, 565;
second captain in rank, 570;
captures the "Fox", 579;
loses the "Hancock", 579;
cruises in the West Indies in "The Hague", 584.

Mann, Herman, _Female Review_, or _Life of Deborah Sampson_, 191.

Manors in N. Y., 340.

Mansfield, his speeches, 112;
_Plea of the Colonies on the charges of Mansfield and others_, 112.

Manufactures prohibited in the colonies, 6;
encouraged, 77, 78.

Manwaring, Edw., 86.

Marblehead (Mass.), Glover's regiment, 375, 565.

Marbois, _Complot d'Arnold et Clinton_, 463;
translated in _American Register_, 463.

Marbury, Col. Leonard, 676.

Marcus Hook, 415.

"Margaretta", affair of, 564.

Marion, Francis, 511;
lives, 512;
portraits, 512;
his relations with Greene, 490;
at Fort Watson, 544;
discouraged, 544;
pursued by Tarleton, 480.

"Marion's men", 490.

Marsh, Luther R., _Gen. Woodhull_, 330.

Marshall, Christopher, diary, 260, 273, 404, 436, 447;
his acc. of the reading of the Decl. of Indep. in Philad., 273.

Marshall, Col., of Boston, 47.

Marshall, John, at Brandywine, 418;
at Germantown, 422;
his account of Wyoming, 663.

Marshall, O. H., _Niagara Frontier_, 658.

Marshfield, Mass., garrisoned, 118.

Martin, D., engraved the earliest American plan of Bunker Hill, 200.

Martin, gov. of No. Carolina, 168.

Martin, Joseph, 677.

Martin, J. S., _Revolutionary Soldier_, 329.

Martin, Luther, 712.

Martin, _Gazetteer of Va._, 554.

Martin, _No. Carolina_, 678.

Martler's Rock, 323.

Maryland, in the Continental Congress, 234;
effect of Boston Port Bill in, 96;
militia in (1774), 117;
movements (1774), 98;
Stamp Act in, 73; troops, 485;
at Hobkirk's Hill, 488;
at Camden, 533;
at Guildford, 541.

Mascoutins, 703, 741.

Masères, Francis, _Essays_, 90;
_Account of the proceedings_, 104;
_Additional Papers_, 104;
_Canadian Freeholder_, 104.

Mason, Col. David, 119.

Mason, Edw. G., _Todd's Record Book_, 730;
Spaniards in Illinois, 743;
_Kaskaskia_, 723;
on Fort Chartres, 706.

Mason, Geo., 259, 716;
his house, 259;
Virginia Decl. of Rights, 272;
references, 272.

Mason, G. C., on the English fleet in Newport, 593;
on war vessels in Narragansett Bay, 90.

Mason, Jonathan, 88.

Mason, Thaddeus, 187.

Massachusetts, circular letter (1768), 2, 42, 79;
causes of the Revolution in, 18;
character of her governors, 22;
its fisheries, 25;
trade with the West Indies, 26;
the Stamp Act, 29;
refuses to rescind the circular letter, 44;
calls a convention (1768), 45;
protests against the military occupation of Boston (1769), 47;
legislature moved to Cambridge, 47;
adopts intercolonial com. of correspondence, 56;
bill for regulating the government, 58;
legislature at Salem, 58;
_Answer of the major part of the Council_, 67;
_Speeches of the governors, 1765-1775, and the answers of the House
of Rep._, 67;
_Journals of the House_, 67;
_State Papers_, 67, 73;
her letter to Rockingham, 83;
_Song of Liberty_, 86, 87;
_Reply to Hutchinson_ (1773), 90;
petition to the king for the removal of Hutchinson, 95;
Americans in London oppose the Regulating Act, 97;
debate in Parliament, 97;
_Bill for the impartial administration of justice_, 97;
_Solemn League and Covenant_, 97, 98;
action taken for a Congress (1774), 99;
her assembly becomes a provincial congress, 116;
_Journals of the Provincial Congress_, 106;
articles of war, 108;
form of her government (1775) approved by Congress, 108;
ceases to be called province, 108;
provincial congress chooses general officers, 116, 243;
militia, 116;
second provincial congress, 118;
empowers Com. of Safety to gather the militia, 119;
provincial congress, 120;
meets (May, 1775), 131;
warns (June 17, 1775) the militia, 133;
the doings of the provincial congress, approved by the Continental
Congress, 134;
Com. of Safety send acc. of Bunker Hill to England and elsewhere,
187;
in the Cont. Congress, 234;
sets up its autonomy, 237, 257;
_Centennial of the Constitution_, 274;
frames a constitution, 274;
_Report on a Constitution_, 274;
other publications, 274;
sends mast timber to Charles II, 564;
ships owned in, 564;
commissions a naval force (1775), 565;
their captures, 568, 582;
her force in 1779, 579;
sends expedition against Penobscot, 582;
privateers of, 585, 587, 591;
commissioned in France, 587;
her navy, 585, 586;
her losses at Penobscot, 586;
her number of men at sea, 587;
her legislation about privateers, 591;
their captures, 591;
troops in R. I. (1778), 601;
issues bills to defray cost of Penobscot expedition, 603;
military rolls of the exped., 603;
Stockbridge Indians enlisted by, 612;
their plea of justification, 612, 613;
seek to enlist the Nova Scotia Indians, 614;
treaty with them, 614;
_Journals_ of its provincial congresses, 656.

_Massachusetts Gazette_, 110.

_Massachusetts Spy_, 110, 122.

Massey, _England_, 112.

Masts, timber for, 564.

Mathew, Geo., 560.

Matson's Ford, 425.

Matthewman, Luke, 581.

Matthews, David, 326.

Matthews, Gen., invades New Jersey, 559;
in Virginia, 546.

Matthis, Samuel, _Hobkirk's Hill_, 542.

Mattoon, Gen. Ebenezer, on Burgoyne's surrender, 358.

Mauduit, Israel, 83;
_Short View_, etc., 85;
edits the Hutchinson letters, 93;
on Bunker Hill, 195;
on Gen. Howe, 329;
_Howe at White Plains_, 337;
_Three Letters to Howe_, 195, 337, 344;
on the Mischianza, 436;
agent of Mass., 28.

Maverick, Peter, 266.

Mawhood, Col., 378.

Maxwell, Gen., 380; at Morristown, 373;
his brigade, 670.

Maxwell, Major Thompson, 190.

Maxwell, Thomas, 663.

Maxwell on Arnold's fight on Lake Champlain, 346.

May, Thomas E., _Const. Hist. England_, 75.

Mayer, Brantz, edits Carroll's journal, 227;
_Logan and Cresap_, 712;
_Tah-Gah-Jute_, 712.

Mayhew, Jonathan, his controversy with Apthorpe, 70;
his _Unlimited submission to the higher powers_, 70;
_Observations_, in reply to Apthorpe, 70;
_Defence of Observations_, 70;
_Remarks_, 70;
his portraits, 71;
references on his career, 71;
suggests union of colonies, 89;
view of his meeting-house, 151, 197;
controversy with Secker, 243;
sermon on the Stamp Act, 77.

Maynard, Needham, 189.

McAlpine, _Memoirs_, 360.

McBury, Col. Leonard, 676, 678.

McCall, Hugh, lives of Lyman Hall, Button Gwinnett, 265;
George Walton, 265;
_Hist. of Georgia_, 513, 570.

McCall, Capt. James, 679.

McClean, Capt., 443.

McClellan, Capt. Jos., journal, 561.

McClure, diary, 180.

McConkey, Mrs., _Hero of Cowpens_, 511.

McCoy, John F., publishes ed. of proceedings of the André examination,
461.

McCoy, Sergeant, 219.

McCrea, Miss Jane, murder of, 627;
her _Life_, 627.

McCurlin, David, 202.

McDonald, Capt. Angus, goes against the Indians, 713.

McDougall, Gen., at Chatterton Hill, 286;
at Germantown, 385;
at West Point, 557.

McDowell, Col. Chas., 478.

McDowell, Jos., portrait, 535.

McGill, Maj., on Camden, 530.

McGowan's Pass (N. Y.), 338, 339.

McHenry, James, 446.

McKean, Thomas, on the Congress of 1765, 74;
life, 265;
signed the Decl. of Indep., 168;
autog., 265.

McKendry, Wm., _Journal_, 666.

McKenney and Hall, _Indian Tribes_, 625.

McKenzie, Alex., on Cambridge, 142;
on Lexington, 184.

McLane, Capt. Allen, 385, 393, 398.

McNiel, Capt., in the navy, 570.

McNeill, Gen., commands at Penobscot, 603.

McRae, Sherwin, 515.

McRae, _Life of James Iredell_, 532, 537.

McReath, Dr., 729.

McVeagh, Wayne, on Paoli, 419.

Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, 256;
autographs of the committee, 256;
disputed questions, 256.

Medcalfe, map of Burgoyne's campaign, 349.

Meigs, Return J., _Expedition against Quebec_, 219;
accounts of, 219;
expedition to Sag Harbor, 591;
his character, 591.

Mein, John, Boston, 83;
proscribed, 78;
_State of the importation_, etc., 78.

Mellish and Tanner, _Seat of War_, 416.

Melville, Herman, _Israel Potter_, 590.

Melvin, J., _Expedition to Quebec_, 219.

Mendon (Mass.), resolves of independence, 257.

Ménonville, M. de, journal at Yorktown, 554.

Mercantile system, 5, 7.

Mercer, Charles Fenton, 707.

Mercer, Gen. Hugh, commands Flying Camp, 326, 403;
death of, 378, 412;
action of Congress, 412;
portraits, 412.

Merchants in England, and navigation laws, 64;
monopolies of, 7.

Meredith, Sir Wm., _A letter to Chatham_, 104.

Metcalfe, S. L., _Indian Warfare_, 708.

Meyer, E. L., _Map of Elizabethport_, 560.

Meyrick, Surgeon, 358.

Meyrick, S. J., 227.

Miamis, 610.

Micmacs, 614.

Middle colonies, maps of, 341.

Middlebrook, camp at, 556;
Washington at, 579.

Middleton, Arthur, life, 265;
life of Rutledge, 265;
autog., 266.

Mifflin, Gen. Thomas, 117, 203;
the Conway Cabal, 392;
leads militia into New Jersey, 376;
on the British lines at Boston Neck, 212.

Mifflin, Fort, abandoned, 447.
_See_ Fort.

Miles, Samuel, 327.

Militia, in battle, 541;
organized, 108;
in Mass., 116;
in the Rev. War, 588.

Miller, Thomas, at Bunker Hill, 202.

Miller, W. T., 203.

Miller House, 338.

Mills, W. H., on the Kennebec route, 217.

Mills, _Statistics of So. Carolina_, 527.

Milltown, Pa., 381.

Miner, Charles, _Wyoming_, 664.

Mingo Bottom, 736.

Mingo Indians, 610, 671.

Minisink massacre, 639, 653, 662;
loss, 662.

Minomines, 738.

Minot, Geo. R., 88.

Mischianza, 396, 436.

Misère (Ste. Geneviève), 738.

Mississippi River as western boundary of the U. S., 730;
plan by Pittman, 702.

Mobile, Pittman's plan, 702;
captured, 739.

Moffat, of R. I., on Stamp Act debates, 74.

Mohawk River, 609;
map of the neighborhood, 351;
valley, 610;
Indian incursion, 672;
warfare in, 657.

Mohawks in Canada, 656;
irritated by the Conn. Co., 605;
their lands east of the boundary line, 610;
solicited, 120;
would protect Guy Johnson, 624.

Mohegans, 622.

Molasses Act, 25, 26, 72.

Monckton, Lt.-Col., at Monmouth, 400.

Moncrieff, Col., 521;
at Savannah (1779), 524.

Monette, _Valley of the Mississippi_, 686.

Monk's Corner, 473.

Monmouth, battle, 399;
plans of, 408, 444, 445;
accounts of, 445, 446.

Monotomy, roads about, 121.

Monroe, James, at Trenton, 376.

Monson, Henry, map of Carolina, 675.

Montague, Admiral, 90.

Montague, Lord, letter to Moultrie, 534.

Montgar (Armstrong), 746.

Montgomery, Col. John, attacked by the Cherokees (1760), 675;
at Kaskaskia, 740.

Montgomery, Gen. Richard, urges advance into Canada, 161;
made brigadier, 161;
advances on St. Johns, 161;
before St. Johns, 162;
captures Fort Chamblée, 162;
takes St. Johns, 162;
has Indians, 656;
takes Montreal, 163;
at Pont-aux-Trembles, 164;
attacks Quebec, 165;
in the Canada campaign, authorities, 216;
despatches, 216;
lives, 216;
his sword, 216;
his house, 216;
ancestry, 216;
death and burial, 165, 216, 226;
remains removed to New York, 216;
tributes of Congress, 216;
his monument, 216;
tragedy by H. H. Brackenridge, 216;
autograph note on capitulation of St. Johns, 217;
signatures of his will, 218;
portraits, 220, 221;
Trumbull's "Death of Montgomery", 220.

_Monthly Military Repository_, 510.

Montreal, Guy Johnson's conference at, 624;
position of, 215;
taken by Montgomery, 163, 216.

Montresor, Capt. John, plan of Boston, 210;
maps of the English colonies, 341;
account of, 341;
plan of Charlestown, Mass., 198;
survey of Bunker Hill field, 200;
plans of New York, 326, 331, 333, 561;
map of the northern region of N. Y., 349;
his journal ed. by Scull, 413, 419;
map of defences of Philad. (1777), 441;
accounts of his family, 217;
map of Kennebec route, 217, 224;
journal on the Kennebec, 217;
_Map of N. Y. and Penna._, 416;
map of Newport, 560.

Moore, F., _Diary of the Amer. Rev._, 654.

Moore, Geo. H., _Treason of Chas. Lee_, 407, 416.

Moore, Hugh, _Ethan Allen_, 214.

Moore, Sir Henry, 38.

Moore, Thomas, _Life of Sheridan_, 109.

Moore, T. W., aide to Prevost, 522.

Moore's Creek Bridge, action at, 168;
references, 168.

Moorsom, _Fifty-second Reg._, 198.

Moravian Indians, 606;
sent to New York, 607;
protected by Gen. Gage, 607;
missions among, 734;
attacked by British, 734;
removed to Sandusky, 735;
at Detroit, 735;
lands in Michigan, 735;
general references, 736.
_See_ Indians.

Morgan, Gen. Daniel, on the Kennebec exped., 162;
captured at Quebec, 165;
his account of the attack, 222;
at Freeman's Farm, 305;
headquarters at Saratoga, 358, 360;
threatens Cornwallis' flank in Carolina, 481;
pursued by Tarleton, 481;
at Cowpens, 481, 538;
his differences with Sumter, 537;
his correspondence, 538;
_The Hero of Cowpens_, 360;
medal, 539;
in New Jersey, 398;
his lives, 511;
his grave, 511;
portraits, 511;
statue, 511;
his house, 511.

Morgan, Col. George, 704.

Morgan, Dr. John, 203.

Morgan, L. H., _League of the Iroquois_, 659.

Morgann, _Life of Price_, 110.

Morley, Henry, edits Burke's _Speeches_, 112;
_Edmund Burke_, 269.

Morris, Gouverneur, _Observations on the Amer. Rev._, 556.

Morris, Jacob, 169.

Morris, Lewis, letters from Cambridge, 203;
autog., 264;
life, 266;
on Greene, 537.

Morris, Margaret, diary, 436.

Morris, Robert, autog., 264;
life, 265;
on the campaign of 1776, 344;
(in 1776), 376;
on Charles Lee's capture, 403;
letters, 404;
his privateers, 591.

Morris, Col. Roger, his house, 288, 339.

Morris, Capt. Thomas, sent to Pontiac, 698;
his _Miscellanies_, 698;
his journal, 698.

Morrisania, 344;
English works at, 561.

Morristown, orderly-books, 559;
Washington at, 417.

Morsman, Oliver, _Bunker Hill_, 189.

Mortier House in N. Y., 276, 335.

Morton, John, autog., 264;
life, 265.

Morton, Perez, on Gen. Warren, 194.

Morton, Robt., his diary, 431, 436.

Mott, Edw., journal, 213.

Mott, Samuel, letters, 216.

Moultrie, Gen. Wm., his acc. of the defence of Fort Moultrie, 229;
at Sullivan Island, 168;
portrait, 171, 172;
_Memoirs_, 171;
references, 172;
defends Charleston (1779), 470;
his campaign (1778), 520;
fac-simile of his order to Tucker, 471;
his affair near Beaufort, 519;
his career, 508;
sketches of, 508;
_Memoirs of Amer. Rev._, 508;
on the siege of Charleston, 525;
refused command of a Tory regiment, 534;
correspondence with Lord Montague, 534.

Moultrie, Fort (1776), plans, 169, 170;
abandoned (1780), 472.
_See_ Fort, Sullivan's Island.

Mountfort, G., on John Hancock, 271.

Mouzon, H., map. of Carolinas, 538.

Mowatt, Capt., with British vessels at Penobscot, 603.

Mud Island in the Delaware, 432, 435;
plans, 437, 438.

Mugford, Capt., 567;
killed, 160.

Muhheakunuks, 613.

Muhlenberg, Gen. Peter, 376;
at Brandywine, 382;
his life, 546;
at Yorktown, 555.

Muhlenberg, Rev. Dr., his journal, 404.

Muhlenberg, H. A., _General Muhlenberg_, 546.

Mukerck, Capt. Chas., journal, 681.

Mulgrave, Col., 426.

Mun, Thomas, 63.

Munroe, Nathan, 179.

Munsee towns, 606.

Munsell, Hezekiah, 329.

Munsey Indians, 671.

Mure, Capt. Wm., at Yorktown, 555.

Murray, James, _Impartial History of the present war_, much the same,
in parts as _The Impartial History of the War in America_, 663.

Murray, Lindley, 284.

Murray House (N. Y.), 335.

Musgrave, Col., at Germantown, 385.

Musgrove Mills, 475, 529.

Muskingum, forks of, 699.

Mutiny Act, 20, 38;
practically annulled in Mass., 46.

Muzzey, A. B., _Lexington_, 184;
_Reminiscences_, 173.

Myers, Col. T. B., 264, 538;
on the Tories, 351.

Naaman's Creek, Pa., 421.

Napier, Geo., 590.

Narragansett Bay, fortified, 593, 596;
chart by Blaskowitz, 593;
Lafayette's plan, 600;
English maps, 601.

Nash, Gen., of N. C., killed, 386.

Nash, Gilbert, _Life of Gen. Lovell_, 603.

Nash, Gov., on Camden, 532.

Nash, Samuel, diary of, 346.

Nash, Solomon, 202.

Natchez, captured, 738, 740.

_National Portrait Gallery_, 510.

Naval Hist. of the American Revolution, 563.
_See_ Navy.

Navigation laws, 2, 4, 6, 63;
aimed at the Dutch, 6;
history of, 7;
authorities, 64;
and writs of assistance, 19;
enforced by the Bute ministry, 23;
influence in producing the Revolution, 64;
and the Revolution of 1689 in N. E., 65.

Navy of United States, commissioned by Washington, 152;
vessels destroyed in the Delaware, 389.
_See_ Naval.

Navy of England, men engaged in 1776, 588;
in 1777, 585;
in 1779, 587.

Nazro, John, 47.

_Nederlandsche Mercurius_, 570.

Neilson, Charles, _Burgoyne's Campaign_, 357, 360.

Nelson, Thomas, life, 266;
autog., 266.

Nelson, Thomas, Jr., 259;
_Letters_, 575.

Nelson, gov. of Va., on Yorktown, 544.

Neshaminy, 418.

Neutral Ground (Hudson River), 456.

Neversink, 340.

New Bedford, naval exploits of her people, 564.

New Brunswick, N. J., 408, 409.

New Castle, Del., 421.

_New Dominion Monthly_, 216.

New England, her great staples, 8;
her export trade, 9;
grows rich, 10;
trade with West Indies broken up, 25;
staples, 25;
imports molasses, 25;
jealousy of, in the Congress of 1774, 99;
population (1775), 117;
armed alliance (1775), 122;
Sam. Adams proposed her independence, 231;
Puritanism and the Am. Rev., 242;
opposition to bishop, 243;
a maritime country, 563;
her cruisers, 563;
ship-building, 563;
enriched by privateering, 584;
large numbers in the business, 584.

New Hampshire, Stamp Act in, 73;
change in its government (1775), 108;
people of the Grants aroused, 108, 121;
men at Bunker Hill, 190;
troops in the Canada exped., 220;
in the Continental Congress, 234;
constitution of, 272;
furnishes masts to England, 564;
her seamen, 587;
privateers of, 591;
"General Sullivan", 591;
troops in R. I. (1778), 601.

New Haven attacked, 557.

New Ireland (Maine), 604.

New Jersey, Stamp Act in, 73;
address to king (1769), 83;
her constitution, 272;
invaded (Jan., 1776), 323;
surveys by Sauthier and Ratzer, 341;
invaded and evacuated by Howe, 368, 379;
campaign in (1776), authorities, 405;
maps of, 409;
revolt of her soldiers, 561;
troops in Sullivan's campaign, 670.

New London, Conn., attacked by Arnold, 562;
privateers in, 585.

New Orleans, Pittman's plan, 702;
to be captured, 737;
letters from, 738.

New Providence attacked, 570.

New Rochelle, the British at, 286.

New Salem, N. Y., 458.

New Windsor, N. Y., 556;
camp, 744.

New York _city_, Stamp Act in, 73;
coffee-houses in, 73;
Burn's Coffee-House, 73;
"Sons of Liberty" in, 73;
old City Hall, 74;
com. of correspondence, 90;
effect of Boston Port Bill in, 96;
apathy in (1774), 98;
British navy at (1776), 153;
Lee sent to possess the town, 156;
artillery company formed, 156;
news of Lexington in, 178;
Lee in (1775), 275;
Washington arrives, 275;
Putnam in command, 275;
defences of (1776), 275;
army in, 275;
Washington's headquarters, 276;
spared by Howe, 283;
Americans leave it, 283;
Howe occupies it, 283;
partly burned, 285;
campaign round N. Y. (1776), criticism on, 290;
campaign about, 323;
condition of the town (1775), 323;
plans in the Revolution, 331;
appearance of the town, 331;
Johnston's map, 331, 335;
Randall's, 331;
descriptions of the town, 331;
views, 331;
localities, 331;
Beekman House, 331;
Rutger's mansion, 331;
Ratzer's smaller map, 332;
evacuated by Washington, 333;
occupied by Howe, 333;
various maps, 333;
extent of the armies about (1776), 333;
fire in, 334;
Johnston's map, 335, 338;
Mortier House, 335;
map of city and bay, 342;
maps of the campaign near (1776), 342, 343, 345;
accounts of, 341-346;
_N. Y. City during the Amer. Rev._, 346;
map of campaign about, 404;
Knyphausen in command, 559;
Washington's feint of attacking (1781), 501;
British in, 556;
British cantonments near, 745;
entered by Washington at the close of the war, 746;
evacuated, 746;
Fraunce's Tavern, 747;
its appearance at the end of the war, 747;
commerce of, 747.

New York _harbor_, maps of, in the Revolutionary time, 326.

New York _province_, maps of, 349;
Indians of, 611.

New York _State_, Assembly (1775), 106;
its character, 106;
proceedings, 106;
provincial congress, 106;
its records, 106;
constitutional convention, 272;
debates of, 272;
centennial of its constitution, 274;
_Centennial Addresses_, 366;
privateers of, 591;
_Centennial Celebrations_, 666;
Continental line organized, 220;
documentary publications, 247;
_Journals of Provincial Congress_, 247.

_New York Magazine_, 510.

Newark, Pa., 421.

Newburgh, N. Y., 340, 465;
addresses, 745;
Washington at, 744;
his headquarters, 744.

Newburgh Bay Historical Soc., 744.

Newell, Thomas, 95.

Newell, Timothy, 95.

Newman, Robert, 175.

Newport, R. I., blockaded by the English (1780), 560;
the French in, 560;
maps, 560;
diaries in (1778), 601;
maps of, and surroundings, 596, 597, 598, 600, 602;
memorial to Congress (1775), 108;
occupied by the British (Dec., 1776), 403;
occupied by Sir Henry Clinton (1776), 593;
seamen in the Revolutionary navy, 591.

Newport, Pa., 421.

Newspapers in the Revolution, 110.

Newton, _Panhandle_, 716.

Newtown (Elmira, N. Y.), battle at, 640, 668, 670;
accounts, 653;
Butler's report, 672;
map of battlefield, 642, 671, 681.

Newtown, Pa., 410.

Neyon, M., in Illinois, 700.

Niagara, not to be attacked by Sullivan, 669;
Indians at (1779-80), 643.

Nicholas, P. H., _Royal Marine Forces_, 194.

Nichols, Isaac, 204.

Nicholson, James, capt. in navy, 570;
in the "Trumbull", 583;
surrenders, 584.

Nicholson, Samuel, in the "Deane", 583.

Nicola, Col. Lewis, 440;
his letter to Washington, 745.

Nicoll, Isaac, 323.

Nicollet, J. N., 705.

Ninety-six, 478;
besieged, 491, 544;
plans of, 545.

Ninham, Capt. Daniel, 613.

Noailles, autog., 500.

Noddle's Island, 206, 210;
fight, 131.

Non-importation agreements, 23, 29, 31, 47, 49, 50, 51, 76, 77, 78,
79, 99, 106.

Nook's Hill (near Boston), 158.

Norfolk, Va., destroyed, 168.

Norman, J., engraver, 40, 41;
engraving of Montgomery, 221;
engraving of Gates, 302;
engraving of burning of Falmouth, 146;
engraves Gen. Greene, 509;
Gen. Lincoln, 473;
_Death of Montgomery_, 217;
_Death of Warren_, 198;
plan of Bunker Hill, 201, 202;
plan of Boston, 201.

North, Lord, premier, 21;
portrait, 21, 107;
autog., 21;
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 46;
conversations with Burke, 112.

North, S. W. D., "Story of a Monument", 351;
on Oriskany, 351.

North, Wm., acc. of Steuben, 515.

North, _Augusta, Me._, 217.

_North American Pilot_, 212.

North Carolina, in the Cont. Congress, 235;
defended by Iredell, 537;
effect of Boston Port Bill, 96;
the English fleet on the coast (1776), 168;
maps, 537, 538;
militia at Camden, 533;
militia fled at Guildford, 541;
movements (1774), 98;
(1776), 168;
non-importation, 47;
Stamp Act in, 73;
war of the Regulators, 80;
disputes about, 81.

_North Carolina University Magazine_, 514, 519.

North Castle, N. Y., 458.

Northwest territory reserved as crown lands (1763), 687;
government of, 730.
_See_ Ohio country.

Norton, A. T., _Sullivan's Campaign_, 670.

Norton, J. N., _Pioneer Missionaries_, 657.

Norwalk, Conn., 340;
burnt, 557.

Nova Scotia Indians, 614.

Nunn, Lieut., 175.

O'Brien, Jeremiah, naval officer, 564.

O'Callaghan, E. B., edits _Burgoyne's Order-book_, 358, 359;
on George Croghan, 705;
on Stirling, 706;
on Cresap, 712.

O'Dane, 523.

O'Hara, Gen., follows the march of Greene, 484.

O'Key, Samuel, 40.

O'Reilly, Henry, Sullivan's Campaign, 671.

Ochs, Baron von, _Betrachtungen über die neuere Kriegskunst_, 446.

Ogeechee, attack at, 653.

Ogletown, Pa., 421.

Ohio Company, 707.

Ohio country, effect of the Quebec Bill, 715.
_See_ Northwest Territory.

Ohio Indians, 610;
their towns, 699.

Ohio River, early settlers on, 708;
plan of rapids, 701.

Oliver, Andrew, deposition on Boston Massacre, 88;
his letters, 56;
hanged in effigy, 30, 72;
stamp distributor, 72;
resigns, 73, 115;
makes oath, 73;
portrait, 73.

Oliver, Peter, autog., 50;
letter from Boston, 205;
impeachment, 57, 95;
portrait, 95;
account of, 95;
diary, 205.

Ollier, Edmund, _Cassell's United States_, 665.

Olney, Stephen, 404.

Onderdonk, Henry, Jr., on the battle of Long Island, 330;
_Woodhull's capture_, 330.

Oneidas, their country, 609;
their lands, 610;
at White Plains, 613;
mostly took the American side, 623, 624, 659;
offer to become scouts, 626;
convey warning of St. Leger's coming, 628;
join Herkimer, 630;
their village burnt, 632, 658;
threatened by Haldimand, 639;
at Schenectady, 643;
failed to help Sullivan (1779), 667;
removed from their castles, 672;
proposed attack on, by Sir John Johnson, 672.
_See_ Six Nations, Iroquois.

Onondagas, destruction of their villages, 639, 653;
their country, 609.

Ontario identified with Oswego, 619, 658.

Oquaga burned, 636.

Orangetown, 404.

Orcutt, coll. of newspaper scraps, 522.

_Orion_, a Georgia periodical, 519.

Oriskany, battle of, 631;
authorities, 351;
the first accounts, 660;
view of field, 354;
Indian loss at, 662.

Osborn, Sir Danvers, 673.

Osborn, J. H., 437.

Osgood, Samuel, 191;
address at Fairfield, 55.

Osler, _Life of Exmouth_, 347.

Ossabaw Sound, 470.

Oswego, attempted surprise by Col. Willett, 646;
known sometimes as Ontario, 658.

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