Chapter IX: The West, (6)
Otis, James, 84;
on writs of assistance, 9, 13, 68;
John Adams on, 68;
made member of the General Court, 13;
assumed the right to independence, 24;
in Stamp Act Congress, 30;
in the legislature, 42;
praises Oliver Cromwell, 44;
_Vindication of the British Colonies_, 70;
_Considerations on behalf of the Eng. Colonies_, 75;
speaking in the legislature (1768), 83;
at Bunker Hill, 137;
_Rights of the British Colonies_, 28, 68;
his passionate appeals, 35;
probably draws address to Bernard, 43;
presides at meeting (1768), 45;
_Vindication of the conduct of the Ho. of Rep._, 68;
Crawford's statue, 69;
likeness by Blackburn, 70;
his house, 70;
killed by lightning, 70;
Tudor's _Life of Otis_, 70;
Bowen's _Life_, 70;
his character, 70;
assaulted, 70.
Otsego Lake, Clinton at, 639.
Ottawa confederacy, 610.
Ouabache. _See_ Wabash.
Ouatanon, 703.
Paca, Wm., autog., 265;
life, 266.
Packard, G. T., 218.
Page, Capt., journal, 557.
Page, Edw., map of Rhode Island, 601.
Page, Wm., surveys of Boston, 210, 211;
plans of Bunker Hill, 200.
Paige, _Cambridge_, 173.
Paine, Robt. Treat, autog., 51, 263;
in Congress (1774), 59;
in Canada, 227;
life by Alden Bradford, 265.
Paine, Samuel, 187, 205.
Paine, Thomas, 419, _Liberty Tree Ballad_, 72;
_Dialogue with Montgomery_, 217;
_Common Sense_, 252, 269;
_American Crisis_, 744;
Barlow on, 253;
portrait, 269;
bibliog. of, 269;
references on him, 269;
_Writings_, 269;
French ed., 269;
"The times that try men's souls", 367.
Palfrey, J. G., on the navigation acts, 64.
Palfrey, Wm., 85.
"Pallas" takes the "Countess of Scarborough", 578.
Palmer, Wm. P., _Calendar of Va. State Papers_, 515.
Palmer, _Lake Champlain_, 214, 347.
Pamphlet literature of the Revolution, 110.
Paoli, fight at, 383;
sources, 419;
Hessian map of attack, 423;
Faden's map, 424;
other maps, 425;
monument, 425.
Paper money, first, of the war, 116.
Paris, treaty of (1763), 14, 685;
printed, 685.
Parker, Capt. Hyde, his report on Savannah, 519;
portrait, 519.
Parker, Capt. John, at Lexington, 176.
Parker, Com. F. H., 564.
Parker, Francis J., _Col. Wm. Prescott_, 191.
Parker, J. M. _Rochester, N. Y._, 670.
Parker, Sir Peter, 279;
on the coast with a fleet, 168;
attacks Fort Moultrie, 170, 229;
in Narragansett Bay, 593.
Parker, Theodore, 185.
Parkman, Francis, _Conspiracy of Pontiac_, 690;
his MS. collections, 690;
prefaces Smith's _Acc. of Bouquet's exped._, 699.
Parliament, invades the royal prerogative, 15;
colonial representation in, 28;
of 1766, 32.
_Parliamentary Register, or Debates_, 516, 653.
Parsons, Gen. S. H., on the capture of Fort Clinton, etc., 364;
a spy for the British, 460;
on the board examining André, 460;
his letters, 557;
in Long Island battle, 279, 328.
Parsons, Theophilus, life of, by T. Parsons, 274.
Parsons Case, in Virginia, 24.
Parton, James, _Jefferson_, 515.
Partridge, Oliver, 30.
Paterson, Col. John, 613.
Patison, T. H., 106.
Patterson, D. W., 665.
Patterson, W. A., 364.
Pattison, Gen., on N. Y., 557;
on Paulus Hook, 559.
Patton, J. H., _Yorktown_, 555.
Patty, Sir Wm., 63.
Paulding, John, 456;
petitions for increase of pension, 466;
his son defends him, 466;
his portrait, 466.
Paulus Hook, 326, 335, 343, 403;
plans, 559;
attacked, 559;
medal, 559.
Pausch, Capt., _Journal_, 360;
at Valcour Island, 346.
Pawling, Col., 667.
Paxton, Charles, 10, 12.
Paxton, Pa., 606; its "Boys", 606;
_Narrative of the late Massacre_, 606;
threaten the Moravian Indians, 607.
Payson, Philip, 180.
Peabody, Stephen, 350.
Peabody, S. H., _Amer. Patriotism_, 70.
Peabody Museum of Archæology, 607.
Peale, C. W., portrait of Dickinson, 82;
of Thomas Paine, 269;
of St. Clair, 297;
of Gen. Greene, 510;
of Morgan, 511;
of Sumter, 532;
of Paul Jones, 592;
of Chatham, 110;
of Joseph Reed, 405.
Peale, R., painted portrait of Gen. Greene, 510.
Pearce, Stuart, _Luzerne County_, 665.
Pearson, Capt. Richard, his acc. of the loss of the "Serapis", 577,
590;
portrait, 593.
Pearson, _Schenectady Patent_, 608.
Peck, Geo., _Wyoming_, 664.
Peck, J. M., 649;
_Daniel Boone_, 708.
Peck, L. W., 665.
Peekskill, 455, 465.
Peet, S. D., on the Delawares, 708.
Peirce, John, 219.
Pelham, Henry, map of Boston, 209.
Pell, Joshua, Jr., 227, 350.
Pell's Point, 285, 337.
Pellew, Viscount Exmouth, 358.
_See_ Exmouth.
Pencour (St. Louis), 737, 738.
Pendleton, Edmund, 259;
writes resolutions of Va., 261.
Penn, John, life, 265;
autog., 266.
Penn, Richard, 237.
Pennington, N. J., 410.
Pennsylvania, controversy over its form of government, 68;
Stamp Act in, 73;
Muhlenberg's journal, 73;
com. of corresp., 90;
effect of Boston Port Bill in, 96;
feeling in 1774, 98;
Thomas Mifflin advocating non-intercourse, 117;
its share in the Canada campaign (1776), 174;
in the Continental Congress, 234, 235;
her Assembly (1776) still loyal, 245;
records of, 247;
timidity in, respecting independence, 257;
constitutional agitation, 272;
convention of 1776, 272;
anarchical state of, in 1776, 373;
navy of, 386, 565;
new constitution of, 401, 405;
Council of Safety, 405;
_Hist. of First Troop of Cavalry_, 407;
revolt of her troops, 561;
forts in, 643;
prohibits settlements on land not bought of Indians, 649;
_Laws_ (1797), 649;
_Register_, 650;
Connecticut settlers in, 680;
controversies, 680;
embarrass Bouquet, 698;
controversy with Va. over Ohio lands, 709.
_Pennsylvania Evening Post_, 436.
Pennytown, 372.
Penobscot, expedition against (1779), 582, 603, 604;
the troops retreat through the woods, 604;
maps of, 604;
court of inquiry, 604;
Eben Hazard questions its decision, 604.
Penobscot Indians, 617, 656;
enlistment of, 674.
Pensacola captured, 739.
Pensioner, last, of the Rev., 746.
Pequaket Indians, 614, 655.
Percy, Earl, marches out of Boston, 121;
to Lexington, 123;
joins Smith, 124;
his train captured, 124;
his report on Lexington, 178;
reported killed, 178;
portraits, 182, 183;
his family, 182;
papers, 183;
at Brooklyn, 279, 330;
attacks the Harlem lines, 285, 289;
at N. Y., 337, 338;
at Fort Washington, 345.
Perkins' Jas. Handasyd, 657;
_Memoir and Writings_, 648;
"Pioneers of Kentucky", 708.
Perley, _Bedford, Mass._, 184.
Perrault, Abbé, 216.
Perrin du Lac, _Voyage_, 652.
Perry, W. S., _Amer. Episc. Church_, 242.
Perth Amboy, 409.
Peters, Richard, on Steuben, 515;
on the massacre of Conestogoes, 606.
Peters, Rev. Samuel, reply to Burgoyne, 366.
Peyster, J. Watts de, on Sir John Johnson, 351, 660;
on Oriskany, 351;
on Schuyler's campaign (1777), 356;
on the Burgoyne campaign, 361;
on Brandywine, 419;
on Paoli, 419;
on the siege of Savannah, 523;
on King's Mountain, 536;
on Eutaw, 45;
on Stony Point, 558;
on the Penobscot exped., 603;
_Sir John Johnson_, 625;
edits _Johnson's Orderly-book_, 660;
on Sullivan's campaign, 670.
Peyton, J. L., _Adventures of my Grandfather_, 714.
Phelippeaux, his map, 416.
Phelps, Matthew, journal, 709.
Phelps, _Rights of the Colonies_, 85.
Philadelphia, non-importation in, 79;
corresp. of merchants (1769), 83;
feeling in, during the Congress of, 1774, 99;
Carpenters' Hall, 99;
news of Lexington in, 178;
life in, during the American Rev., 259;
Old State House, view of, 259;
Independence Hall, 259;
trepidation in, 370, 380;
Washington's army marches through, 380;
guns of Brandywine heard in, 383;
occupied by Cornwallis and Howe, 384;
fortified by the British, 384;
the British fleet reaches the town, 389;
the winter of 1777-78, 393;
the Quakers, 393;
theatre in, during British occupancy, 394, 395;
Clinton arrives, 396;
"Mischianza", 396, 436;
evacuated, 397, 445;
Arnold in command, 400;
condition of the town, 401;
Congress reassembled, 401;
Tories executed, 401;
Quaker element, 405;
map of the campaign of 1777, 414, 416;
seaward defences, 423;
map of vicinity (1777), 425;
life in, during the British occupation, 436;
map of defences (1777-78), 440, 441;
Hessian map of the vicinity, 442;
maps of, during the Rev., 442;
_Hist. First Troop City Cavalry_, 561.
Philbrook, Thomas, 603.
Philipsbourg Patent, 340.
Phillips, G. C., 47.
Phillips, Gen., with Burgoyne, 294;
in command of convention troops, 318;
at siege of Ticonderoga (1777), 354;
his orders, 359;
in Virginia, 496, 546;
dies, 496, 546.
Phillipse Patent, 340.
Phillopson, Col., 319.
Phinney, Elias, _Battle of Lexington_, 183.
Pickens, Gen. Andrew, 513, 677;
with Carolina militia, 485;
letters, 513;
his raid on the Indians, 680.
Pickering, Col., writes the report of Brandywine, 418;
of Germantown, 421;
charged with dilatoriness on Lexington day, 124;
papers, 467;
_Rules for the militia_, 108.
Pierce, Maj. Wm., at Hobkirk's Hill, 542.
Pigot, Gen., his account of the campaign in Rhode Island, 598;
in Newport, 593;
at Bunker Hill, 137;
autog., 137.
Pinckney, C. C., on Washington's staff, 418;
on Germantown, 421;
deserts Fort Moultrie, 472.
Pinckney, Maj. Thos., _Siege of Savannah_, 522;
on Camden, 530.
Pine, Robt., paints Burgoyne, 293.
Pinto, Isaac, _Lettre_ and _Seconde Lettre_, 109;
_Letters_, 109;
_Nouvelles Observations_, 109;
_Rèponse_, 109.
Pirtle, Henry, on G. R. Clark, 718.
Pitcairn, Maj., at Lexington, 123;
killed at Bunker Hill, 139;
his remains, 139;
on the firing at Lexington, 183;
paper on, 183;
likeness by Trumbull, 197.
Pitcher, Moll, at Monmouth, 446.
Pitt, William, his influence in English affairs, 18, 19;
would seize Spanish bullion ships, 19;
in ministry, 20;
his speeches, 32;
made Earl of Chatham, 35;
in power, 35;
his character, 35;
thanked by Mass. for the repeal of the Stamp Act, 74.
Pittman, Capt. Philip, 702;
_European Settlements_, 702;
_Present State_, 717.
_Plain Truth_, 270.
Plessis, Mauduit du, his battery at Monmouth, 444.
Plumb, J. B., 663.
Point Pleasant, Va., affair at, 611, 714.
Pollock, Oliver, at New Orleans, 738.
Pomeroy, Seth, made general, 116;
at Bunker Hill, 137.
Pontiac, his ability, 689;
besieges Detroit, 690;
still at large, 700;
sends messengers to New Orleans, 701;
meets Croghan, 704;
agrees to a peace, 704;
his submission, 705;
murdered, 705.
Pontiac War, 688;
references, 701.
Poole, Wm. F., "The West", 685.
Poor, Gen. Enoch, 357;
headquarters at Saratoga, 358;
with Gates (1777), 308;
at Newtown, 640.
Porcher, address, 230.
Port Royal, S. C., map, 519.
Porter, E. G., 182;
_Four Drawings_, 185;
_Rambles in Old Boston_, 175.
Porter, L. H., _Outlines Const. Hist. U. S._, 108, 274.
Portraits of Revolutionary characters engraved in England and
Germany, 270.
Portsmouth, N. H., Fort William and Mary taken, 117.
Portsmouth, Va., maps, 553.
Post, C. F., 736.
Post, L. M., _Recol. of Am. Rev._, 418.
Post, Vincent, 703.
Potsgrove, Washington at, 419.
Potter, Col. Asa, 346.
Potter, Israel R., _Adventures_, 189.
Potter, _Manchester_, 190.
Potter, Gen., 393.
Potts Grove, 383.
Pouchet, _War in N. America_, 660.
Poundridge, affair at, 557.
Pourré, Eugenio, 743.
Powder, scarce during siege of Boston, 203;
seized at Bermuda, 567.
Pownall, Gov. Thomas, 22;
in Parliament, 51, 52, 90;
on the union of the colonies, 66;
his _Administration of the Colonies_, 66, 90;
his character, 90;
corresp. with James Bowdoin, 90;
furnishes materials to Holland for his maps, 341;
_Memorials to the Sovereigns of Europe_, 91;
_Memorials to the Sovereigns of America_, 91;
portrait, 91;
talk on the American question, 112.
Poyntz, L., 191.
Prairie du Chien, 738.
Pratt, G. W., 364.
Prattent, T., 474.
Preble, Admiral Geo. H., _American flag_, 80;
"Ships in the 18th Century", 564;
acc. of Hopkins, 570;
on Com. Barry, 581;
on the flag of the "Bon Homme Richard", 590;
edits Ezra Greene's journal, 590;
privateers of Mass., 591.
Preble, Jedediah, autog., 116;
made general, 116.
Prerogative of the king, 2, 3;
opposed, 3, 4;
and the Long Parliament, 4;
detected by Franklin, 4;
a cause of the Revolution, 5;
questioned by Patrick Henry, 24.
Presbyterians and the Amer. Rev., 244.
Prescott, Gen. Richard, captured, 403;
autog., 403.
Prescott, Col. Wm., commands the detachment sent to Bunker Hill, 135;
autog., 135;
letter on Bunker Hill, 186;
at Bunker Hill, 190;
his monument and statue, 191, 194.
Prescott, Judge, 191.
_Present State of Liberty_, 85.
Preston, Capt., trial of, 49, 86;
autographs of court and counsel, 50, 51.
Preston, H. W., _Documents_, etc., 268.
Preston, John C., _Address on King's Mountain_, 535.
"Preston", ship at Boston, 205.
Prevost, Gen. Augustine, 519, 699;
on the siege of Savannah (1779), 469, 522;
attacks Charleston, 520;
dies, 524.
Price, Ezekiel, 188, 203;
diary, 318.
Price, Dr. Richard, _Letter to_, 109;
_Observations, etc._, 110;
portrait and autog., 111.
Price publishes ed. of Bonner's map of Boston, 207.
Prime, Temple, _Temple Family_, 93.
Primm, Wilson, _Hist. Address_, 737.
Prince, Ezekiel, 47.
Princeton, attacked, 377;
maps of the attack, 408, 409, 410, 413.
Pringle, Capt., 292;
on the fight at Valcour Island, 346.
Prisoners of war, the first taken, 123;
treatment of, 145;
disputes over those taken at the Cedars, 225;
captured at sea, 568;
naval, in England, 575;
exchanged, 575.
Privateers, before the Revolution, 19;
commissioned, 567, 579;
the service preferred by seamen, 568;
under the Treaty of Utrecht, 572;
their captures, 581, 584;
history of, 583, 584;
enrich New England, 584;
of Salem, 585;
in New London, 585;
commissioned in Massachusetts, 585, 586, 591;
total number in all the States, 585;
of Salem, 586, 587, 591;
of Boston, 587;
commissioned in France, 587;
their prize crews, 587;
bibliography, 591;
legislation on, in Mass., 591;
captures by those of Mass., 591;
of New Hampshire, 591;
of Rhode Island, 591;
of Connecticut, 591;
of New York, 591;
great losses inflicted on the British, 591;
narratives of their cruises, 591;
diplomatic complications, 592.
Proctor, Gen., at Brandywine, 382.
Property-line, so called, 650.
Prospect Hill, 206;
camp near Boston, 203.
Protective system, 5, 7.
"Protector", a Massachusetts frigate, 586.
Providence, R. I., _Providence Plantations_, 90;
tea burned at, 121;
defences, 593.
Province Island, Pa., 438.
Provoost, Bishop, 242.
Pulaski joins the army, 380;
his monument, 510;
defended by Bentalou, 522;
killed, 524;
acc. of, 524;
burial, 524;
his banner, 524;
portrait, 524;
recompense of the government, 524.
Pulling, John, 175.
Puplopens Kill, 324.
Pulsifer, David, 195.
Puritanism and the Declaration of Indep., 241, 242.
Purkitt, Henry, 91.
Putnam, Col. Daniel, in the Bunker Hill controversy, 190.
Putnam, Gen. Israel, 271;
at Bunker Hill, 137, 190;
lives of, 190, 193;
his sword, 191;
portraits, 192, 193;
autog., 192;
in New York, 275, 325;
in command on Long Island, 278;
a bad general, 314;
accused of treachery, 314;
opposes Clinton on the Hudson (1777), 361, 362;
drives sheep into Boston, 114;
reaches Cambridge, 134;
likeness by Trumbull, 197.
Putnam, Col. Rufus, builds Fort Washington, 287;
in campaign of 1776, 346;
plans of the Saratoga battles, 361;
diary on the Mississippi, 709.
Putnam, Lt.-Col., 601.
Quaker Hill (R. I.), 596, 602;
view of the fight, 600.
Quakers, arming in Philadelphia, 131;
in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War, 393;
implicated in hostile movements, 417.
Quebec, besieged (1775-76), 163;
plan by Jefferys, 215;
_Lit. and Hist. Soc. bibliography_, 222;
siege of (1775-1776), authorities, 220;
diaries, etc., 221;
American contemporary accounts, 221;
general accounts, 222;
accounts as received in Cambridge and N. Y., 222;
British official accounts, 222;
journals, etc., 222;
Wooster in command before the town, 222;
local associations, 223;
French accounts, 223;
_Centenaire de l'Assault de Québec_, 223;
Arnold's map of the siege, 226;
engraved maps of the town, 226;
views of, 226;
plains of Abraham, 226.
Quebec, _province_, maps of (1776), 226.
Quebec Bill, 58, 101, 714, 715;
debates in Parliament, 102;
"virtual representation", 103;
_Doctor Marriot_, 102;
_Hypocrisy Unmasked_, 102;
_Letter to Lord Chatham_, 102;
other tracts, 104.
Queen's Rangers, 395, 518.
Quibbletown, 379.
Quincy, Dorothy, 123.
Quincy, Eliza Susan, 96.
Quincy, Edmund, on the evacuation of Boston, 205.
Quincy, Josiah (_senior_, 1775), 152.
Quincy, Josiah (_junior_), his report of Otis's argument, 13;
defends Capt. Preston, 49;
dies, 125;
portrait, 96, 126;
autog., 51;
speech on the tea ships, 57, 91;
_Reports of Cases_, 68;
drafts instructions (1770), 87;
_Observations on the Boston Port Bill_, 67, 94;
fac-simile of his dedication, 94;
autog., 94;
fac-simile of diary in London, 105;
interview with Lord North, 105;
goes to Europe, 105;
his report, 106;
his notes of debates in Parliament, 112.
Quincy, Josiah (_President_), _Life of Josiah Quincy, Jr._, 94.
Quincy, Samuel, autog., 51.
Quincy, Samuel M., edits _Reports of Cases, by Josiah Quincy, Jr._,
68.
Quincy mansion at Quincy, Mass., 96.
Quinton's Bridge, 442.
Rahl, Col., at Trenton, 374;
killed, 375;
attacks Fort Washington, 289, 338.
Rainer, G. S., 330.
"Raleigh", Continental vessel, 576.
Rall. _See_ Rahl.
Ramapo, 379.
Ramsay, Allen, _Hist. Essay on the English Constitution_, 89;
_Thoughts on the Origin of Government_, 85.
Ramsay, David, a prisoner, 533;
map of Southern campaigns, 537;
_Revolution in South Carolina_, 507;
his career, 508;
_Amer. Revolution_, 67;
his acc. of Wyoming, 663.
Ramsey, J. G. M., _Annals of Tennessee_, 536, 678, 708.
Ramsour's Mill, fight at, 475, 510, 529.
Randall, O. E., _Chesterfield, N. H._, 355.
Randolph, Edmund, 259.
Randolph, Col. T. J., 258.
"Randolph", blown up, 571.
Randon, John, 194.
"Ranger." _See_ Jones, Paul.
Rangers on the frontiers, 608.
Rankin, E. E., address at Fairfield, 557.
Rantoul, Robt., Jr., oration at Concord, 184.
Rariton Bay, 327.
Rathbourne, I., in the "Queen of France", 583.
Rathbun, Jonathan, _Narrative_, 562.
Ratzer, Bernard, his different maps of N. Y., 328, 332, 333;
surveys of New Jersey, 409;
his surveys, 341.
Raum, _Trenton_, 407.
Ravenal, Daniel, 528.
Rawdon, Lord, drawing of Bunker Hill battle made for him, 197;
in the South, 476;
at Hobkirk's Hill, 488, 541;
captured, 534;
case of Hayne, 534;
retreats to Monk's Corner, 489;
portraits, 489;
made Marquis of Hastings, 489;
at Camden, 530;
his letters to Rugely, 532;
relieves Ninety-six, 493, 544.
Rawle, W. H., on Lambert Cadwalader, 341.
Rawlings, Col., 288.
Raymond, H. J., address at Tarrytown, 466.
Read, Geo., autog., 265;
life of, 265.
Read, Thos., assigned to the "Bourbon", 583.
Read, W. T., 416.
Read, Dr. Wm., _Reminiscences_, 537.
Reading, Pa., 383.
Red Bank, 386, 425, 435, 437.
Red Clay Creek, Pa., 381, 421.
Red Jacket, 662.
Red Lion, Pa., 421.
Redman, Rebecca, 452.
Reed, Esther, life of, 436.
Reed, Col. James, at Bunker Hill, 190.
Reed, John, _City and Liberties of Philad._, 442.
Reed, Joseph, writes to Dartmouth during the Congress of 1774, 90,
104;
letters to Josiah Quincy, 106;
autog., 141;
letter on the siege of Boston, 173;
on Washington's indecision, 403;
portrait, 405;
on the campaign of 1776 in Jersey, 405.
Reed, W. B., on Thomas Paine, 269;
on the retreat from Long Island, 330;
oration on reinterment of Mercer, 412;
on Brandywine, 418;
_Esther Reed_, 436.
Reed-Cadwalader controversy, 407.
Regulators, war of, 80.
_See_ North Carolina.
Renault, J. F., map of Yorktown, 553.
Renwick, _Benj. Thompson_, 546.
Revenue to be obtained from the colonies, 15, 24;
cases tried, 23;
seizures, 28.
Revere, Paul, engraves likeness of Sam. Adams, 40;
makes plan of State Street, 47;
engraves view of massacre, 47;
his views of Boston, 81;
as an engraver, 81;
at Portsmouth, 117;
his signal, 123;
his ride, 123, 173, 174;
where were his lanterns shown? 174;
paper by E. H. Goss, 47, 175;
portraits, 175;
commands artillery in the Penobscot expedition, 603;
re-engraves West picture of Bouquet's Indian council, 695.
Reynolds, Gov., _My own Times_, 721.
Reynolds, Grindall, 184.
Reynolds, John, 729, 734;
_Illinois_, 708.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, paints Burgoyne, 293;
paints Cornwallis, 474;
his _Engraved Works_, 474;
portrait of Tarleton, 517;
_Catalogue_ by Hamilton, 517.
Rhode Island, illicit trade in, 26;
com. of correspondence, 90;
cannon concealed (1774), 117;
equips troops (1775), 122;
renounces allegiance to England, 257;
retained her original charter, 274;
creates a navy (1775), 565, 567;
Esek Hopkins, 568;
her seamen, 587;
privateers, 591;
the "Gen. Washington", 591;
English fleet in (1776), 593;
fire-ships proposed, 593;
campaign (1778), 592;
maps of, 596, 598, 600, 602.
Rich, Obadiah, 608.
Rich, _Truro_, 568.
Richards, Thomas, 331;
account of attack on Fort Clinton, etc., 364.
Richardson, Ebenezer, shot Snider, 89.
Richman, Andrew, 153.
Richmond, old Raleigh Tavern, 259.
Rider, S. S., on the R. I. campaign of 1778, 595.
Ridgeley, _Annapolis_, 327.
Riedesel, Baron, in Cambridge, 142;
with Burgoyne, 294;
his comments on Burgoyne, 358;
life by Eelking, 361;
his wife conceals Hessian flags, 319;
on Bennington, 354.
Riley, E. S., Jr., 117.
Rising Sun Tavern, Pa., 421.
Rittenhouse, David, 371.
Ritzema, Rudolphus, 222.
Rivington's _Gazette_, or _Gazetteer_, 98, 110;
his press destroyed, 323.
Robbin, Rev. Ammi R., his journal, 346.
Robbins, Jonathan, 681.
Roberts, Algernon, 326, 403.
Roberts, Dr., of Boston, 47.
Roberts, Ellis H., _Oriskany_, 351.
Roberts, George, 398.
Robertson, Col. Charles, 677.
Robertson, Gen., 461;
in N. Y., 284.
Robin, Abbé, _Travels_, 560.
Robinson, Beverly, his supposed letter to Arnold, 452;
his house, 452, 458, 462, 465;
endeavors to save André, 461.
Robinson, J. DeLancey, 535.
Robinson, M. M., 198.
Rochambeau, Le Comte de, his maps, 345;
_Mèmoires_, 516, 560;
in Soulé's _Troubles_, 516;
portraits, 498;
autog., 498;
sails from Brest, 498;
at Newport, 499;
meets Washington at Weathersfield, 499, 560;
leaves Newport, 499;
reaches the Hudson, 500, 561;
map of route, 561;
marches to Virginia, 500;
his maps of Yorktown, 553;
march of his army to Yorktown, 551;
alleged journal, 554;
corresp. with the R. I. authorities, 560;
arrives in America, 560;
his instructions, 560;
letters, 560;
blockaded in Newport, 560;
maps of his camps, etc., about N. Y. (1781), 561;
at Odell House in Westchester, 561;
meets Washington at New Windsor, 561;
at Williamsburg, 744;
sails for France, 745.
Rocheblave, Gov., at Vincennes, 719;
sent to Williamsburg, 723;
account of him, 723.
Rochefoucault-Liancourt, _Travels_, 658.
Rock River, 741.
Rockingham, ministry, 21, 31, 74;
attacked, 76;
portrait, 31.
Rockwell, E. F., 98, 678.
Rocky Hill, N. J., 408;
Washington at, 746.
Rocky Mount, 475.
Rodney, Admiral Sir George, relations with Sir Henry Clinton, 501;
at N. Y., 454, 458.
Rodney, Cæsar, 405;
autog., 265;
life, 266;
on the battle of Long Island, 327;
commands Delaware militia, 380.
Rodney, Capt. Thomas, 407.
Rogers, Col. David, 738.
Rogers Gen. Horatio, edits _Hadden's Journal_, 359.
Rogers, Lieut. John, 725.
Rogers, Josias, _Memoirs_, 527.
Rogers, J. E. T., edits _Protests of the Lords_, 74;
Franklin's notes on, 74.
Rogers, Maj. Robert, on the Pontiac War, 690, 701;
his MS. diary, 701.
Rogers, T. J., _Departed Heroes_, 508.
Rolfe, J., _Naval Biog._, 589.
Romans, Bernard, at Fort George (Lake George), 129;
acc. of, 129;
plan of siege of Boston, 207;
surveys of Carolina, 538;
lines on Boston Neck, 212.
Rome, N. Y., 351.
Romilly, Sir Samuel, justified the execution of André, 463.
Romney, G., paints Brant, 625;
Thomas Paine, 269.
"Romney", man-of-war, 43.
Rondthaler, _Heckewelder_, 736.
Rosengarten, J. C., on the German soldiers in Newport, 601.
Rosenthal, Louis, 269.
Ross, Chas., his _Cornwallis Correspondence_, 516.
Ross, Geo., autog., 265;
life, 266.
Ross, Lieut., _Map of Mississippi_, 720;
section of, 721.
Rowland, K. M., "Virginia Cavaliers", 407.
Roxbury (Mass.), camp, 203;
lines at, 206, 210;
roads of, 120, 121;
view of lines, 130;
view of, 149.
_Royal American Magazine_, 40, 81, 271.
Royce, C. C., 735.
Rugeley Mills, 476.
Ruggles, Timothy, president of the Congress of 1765, 30, 74;
organized an association of loyalists, 97, 118.
Rum made in New England, 25.
Rumford, Count. _See_ Thompson, Benj.
Rupp, I. D., _Western Penna._, 693.
Rush, Benj., approves John Adams's _Thoughts on Government_, 272;
autog., 264;
and the Conway cabal, 392;
life, 265.
Rush, Richard, _Washington in Domestic Life_, 466.
Rushbrooke, Barham, likeness of Gen. Lee, 406.
Rusoe d'Eres, C. D., 222.
Russell, Major Benj., 467.
Russell, Earl, his books on C. J. Fox, 112;
on the Decl. of Indep., 269.
_Russell's Magazine_, 519.
Rutherford, Gen. Griffeth, 475, 676, 677, 678.
Rutland, Mass., 298, 321.
Rutledge, Edw., 264;
life by Flanders, 73, 520;
life by A. Middleton, 265;
autog., 266;
proposes neutrality for S. C., 470, 520.
Rutledge, H. M., life of Arthur Middleton, 265.
Ruttenber, E. M., _Obstructions in the Hudson River_, 323, 465;
_Orange County_, 662.
Ryerson, _Loyalists of America_, 523, 670.
Sabine, Lorenzo, _Report on Fisheries_, 568.
Sackville Papers, 516.
Saffrel, W. T. R., _Records_, 418.
Sag Harbor, expedition to, 591.
Saint. _See_ St.
Salem (Muskingum Valley), 734.
Salem, Mass., Leslie at, 119, 172;
her privateers, 586.
Saltonstall, Capt. Dudley, in the navy, 570;
commands the fleet sent against Penobscot, 582, 603;
quarrels with Lovell, 603;
blamed by court of inquiry, 604.
Sampson, Deborah, 191.
Sampson, Simeon, in the "Ranger", 583.
Sanderson, John, lives of Franklin and B. Rush, 265;
_Signers of the Decl. of Indep._, 265.
Sands, Robert, edits _Life of Paul Jones_, 590;
annotated copy, 590.
Sandusky, the modern city, 735;
the old site, 735;
missionaries at, 735.
Sandy Hook, 340;
lighthouse, 325.
Sanguinet, Simon, _La Guerre des Bastonnais_, 223.
Santee River, 475;
High Hills of, 493.
Sappington, John, 711.
Saratoga, N. Y., 609;
articles of surrender at, 317, 358;
authorities on the surrender, 358;
prisoners and stores, 358;
strength of the two armies, 358;
monument at, 366.
_See_ Burgoyne, Schuyler, Gates.
Sargent, John, 613.
Sargent, L. M., _Dealings with the Dead_, 72, 461;
on Leonard as Massachusettensis, 110.
Sargent, Winthrop, 106;
_Life and Career of Maj. John André_, 464;
on the Cincinnati Society, 746;
_Stansbury and Odell_, 273.
Sartigan, 655.
Saunderson, H. H., _Charlestown, N. H._, 355.
Saunderson, Lieut., march to Yorktown, 554.
Sauthier, C. J., map of Hudson River and the Canada route, 349;
of Canada, 349;
map of New York province (1774), 340, 341;
map of N. Y. campaign (1776), 336, 338;
plan of Fort Washington, 338.
Savage, S. P., 92.
Savannah, attacked (1778), 469, 519;
D'Estaing at (1779), 470;
assault, 471, 523;
evacuated (1782), 507, 546;
maps, 521;
accounts, 522.
Sawyer, Capt. Samuel, diary, 326.
Scalps, Americans charged with buying, 683;
bounties, 681;
divided, 682;
bought by British generals, 731;
want of evidence as regards the English buying them, 683.
Scammans, Col., court-martial, 189.
Scammell, Alexander, 128, 466;
in Lexington, 178;
letters (Winter Hill), 203;
letters on Canada exped., 216;
killed, 502, 555;
Burgoyne's surrender, 358.
Scharff, _St. Louis_, 740.
Schaukirk, E. G., diary, 325
Scheifflin, Lieut., 729.
Schenectady, 609.
Schoharie Valley ravaged, 644, 658.
Schönbrun, 734.
Schoolcraft, H. R., on Oriskany, 351;
_Indian Tribe_, 652.
Schulenberg on Burgoyne's surrender, 364.
Schuyler, G. W., on the landmarks of Burgoyne's campaign, 361.
Schuyler, Gen. Philip, differences with Wooster, 161;
on Ticonderoga (1775), 214;
in command of the Northern department (1775), 215;
papers, 215;
on the siege of Quebec, 221;
prepares for the campaign of 1777, 293;
autograph, 297;
joined by St. Clair, at Fort Edward, 298;
portrait, 298;
accounts of, 298;
his family, 298;
his Albany house, 298;
his wife, 298;
at Fort Miller, 298;
his headquarters at Saratoga, 356;
orderly-book (1777), 359;
secures Guy Johnson's war-belt, 624;
ordered to arrest Sir John Johnson, 624;
his "Peacock expedition", 625;
on the employment of Indians, 673;
Indian commissioner, 674;
his quarrel with Gates, 346;
correspondence with Gouverneur Morris during the Burgoyne campaign,
358;
_Proc. Court Martial_, 358;
disliked by New Englanders, 161, 358, 359;
in command of the Northern department (1777), 348;
proclamation, 350;
calls out militia, 356;
his spy, 356;
superseded by Gates, 356;
controversy of Bancroft with G. W. Schuyler and others over his
conduct, 316, 356;
intercedes for Arnold, 452;
his expedition to Tryon County, 653;
in N. Y., 1775, watching Tryon, 142;
authorized to advance into Canada, 161;
resigns the command to Montgomery, 162;
relieved of command in Canada, 165;
at Stillwater, 298;
superseded by Gates, 301;
his military character, 316.
Schuyler, Hanyost, 351.
_Scot's Magazine_, 516.
Scott, Capt., sent by Burgoyne to open communication with Clinton,
364.
Scott, Eben G., _Development of Constitutional Liberty_, 64.
Scott, Geo. G., _Saratoga Address_, 366.
Scott, Capt. James, marries Hancock's widow, 270.
Scudder, H. E., "Life in Boston during the Siege", 204;
_Men and Manners_, 204;
on siege of Boston, 173;
on Bunker Hill, 191.
Scull, G. D., _Capt. Evelyn_, 183, 205;
_Evelyns in America_, 183, 364;
edits Montresor's Journal, 419.
Scull and Heap, map of Philad., 442.
Scull, _Map of Penna._, 416.
Seabury, Samuel, arrested, 98;
his tracts, 104.
Sears, Isaac, 98.
Seaver, Jas. E., _Mary Jemison_, 662.
Seaver, _Mary Jemison_, 683.
Secker, Archbp., 243.
Sedgwick, Theo., Jr., 359.
Seeley, J. R., _Expansion of England_, 66, 255.
Ségur, Count, _Mémoires_, 560.
Selman, Capt., 565.
Seneca Lake, Sullivan on, 640.
Senecas, incursions of, 605;
their numbers, 610;
their great Castle, 640;
destroyed, 641;
in St. Leger's army, 661;
on the Alleghany, 671.
Senff, Col., 531;
his plan of Camden, 533.
Senter, Isaac, _Exped. against Quebec_, 219.
Seven Years' War, 14.
Sevier, Col. John, 478;
portrait, 535;
fights the Indians, 677.
Sewall, Jonathan, 108;
autog., 50;
his house in Cambridge, 142.
Sewall, W., _Method of making Saltpetre_, 108.
Seward, Miss, _Monody on André_, 464.
Seward, W. H., on Cherry Valley, 666;
on Sullivan's expedition (1779), 671.
Seymour, Horatio, on Burgoyne's surrender, 361.
Seymour, Wm., _Southern Expedition, 1780-83_, 531.
Shabbakong Creek, 377.
Shallos, Jacob, 227.
Sharp, Granville, _Declaration of the people's natural right_, 106.
Sharp, W. S., reprints Smith's _New Jersey_, 409.
Shattuck, Lemuel, 184;
his _Concord_, 184.
Shaw, Maj. Samuel, 467;
_Journals_, 191.
Shawanese, 610; history of, 735;
make treaty, 702;
their ravages, 709.
Shea, J. G., edits _Operations of the French Fleet_, 502, 548.
Sheffield, Wm. P., _Rhode Island Privateers_, 591.
Sheftall, Capt. Mordecai, _Acc. of his Capture_, 519.
Shelburne, Earl of, 21;
attacks the government for using Indians, 621;
retires (1767), 43.
Shelby, Col. Evan, 677.
Shelby, Col. Isaac, 478, 678;
portrait, 535;
acc. of, 536;
at King's Mountain, 535.
Sheldon, Col., at Poundridge, 557;
receives André, 458.
Shelpot Creek, 421.
Sheppard, J. H., _Com. Tucker_, 567.
Sherburne, Andrew, _Memoirs_, 404, 525, 590.
Sherburne, J. H., _Paul Jones_, 589.
Sherman, Roger, on com. to draft Declar. of Indep., 230;
portrait and autog., 262, 263;
life of, 265;
on Burgoyne's campaign, 358.
Shimmin, Wm., 464.
Shipbuilding, discouraged, 8;
in New England, 563.
Shipley, Bishop, _Speech intended_, etc., 97;
references, 97;
portrait, 97.
Shippack Creek, 423.
Shippen, Edward, 402.
Shippen, Peggy, 402, 449;
corresponds with André, 449;
marries Benedict Arnold, 449;
her knowledge of his treason, 449.
Shippen Papers, 464.
Ships must be English built, 8.
Shirley, Gov. William, his house, 156;
character, 22;
his stamp act (1755), 11;
Writs of Assistance, 12.
Shoes manufactured in Lynn, 39.
Short, W. T. P., 222.
Shreve, John, 419.
Shuldham, Admiral, arrives at Boston, 152.
Silliman, Gen., on Harlem, 334;
on the Saratoga battlefield, 357.
Simcoe, Col. J. G., raiding near Philadelphia, 442;
offered to try to rescue André, 467;
in Virginia, 546;
his maps, 547;
_Journal_, 518;
_Queen's Rangers_, 395, 518;
pursues Steuben in Va., 497;
fight at Spencer's Ordinary, 497.
Simms, Jephtha R., _Schoharie County_, or _The Frontiersmen of N. Y._,
659.
Simms, W. G., _Views and Reviews_, 464;
_Life of Gen. Greene_, 510;
_Life of Marion_, 512;
on King's Mountain, 536;
novels of Revolutionary times, 545.
Simond, T. C., _South Boston_, 156.
Simpson, Thomas, 472.
Simpson, Wm., plan of Stony Point, 558.
Sinclair, Lt.-Gov., 737;
his letters, 738.
Sioux Indians, 738, 741.
Six Nations, boundary line, 605, 609;
map of their country, 607, 608;
their conquered territory, 609;
conflicts with the Cherokee claims, 610;
their numbers, 610;
their allies, 610;
addressed by Congress, 616;
support Guy Johnson, 619;
professions of peace, 619;
the ministry order them to service, 620;
Lord North defends such use, 621;
divided in their councils, 622;
invaded by Sullivan, 640;
their claims of land by conquest, 650;
divided in the Rev. War, 659;
their houses and way of living, 668, 669;
with some exceptions join the British, 623, 627;
Congress attempts to lure them to their side, 633;
their supremacy over other tribes, 706.
_See_ Iroquois.
Skene, Philip, 214.
Skenesborough, fight at, 297.
Skinners (on the Hudson), 456.
Slave-trade, 9.
Slavery and the Declar. of Independence, 239.
Slover, John, _Narrative_, 736.
Small, John, Major, 153;
at Bunker Hill, 138;
likeness by Trumbull, 197.
Smallwood, Gen., 393, 533;
in the South, 477;
his Marylanders, 329.
Smedley, Samuel, 568.
Smibert, his portrait of Mayhew, 71.
Smith, Adam, 63;
_Wealth of Nations_, 7, 9, 253;
controverted by Brougham, 9.
Smith, Aubrey H., 219.
Smith, Chas., _American War_, 189, 200.
Smith, Charles C., on André, 464;
on Cornwallis, 516;
edits Henshaw's orderly-book, 204;
edits Jolley Allen's _Sufferings_, 205;
on making gunpowder, 108.
Smith, Col., sent out by Gage to scour the country, 119;
his report on Lexington, 178.
Smith, E. V., _Newburyport_, 568.
Smith, Goldwin, _Study of History_, 93;
on Yorktown, 555.
Smith, Horace W., edits _Proceedings_ of André's examination, 461;
_Siege of Yorktown_, 553.
Smith, Isaac, 187.
Smith, James, autog., 265;
life, 266.
Smith, Col. James, _Life and Travels_, 248.
Smith, J. A. 184.
Smith, Joshua Hett, brings André ashore, 454;
his house, 454, 455, 456;
his character, 456;
arrested, 460;
his trial, 463;
Dawson's _Record of the Trial_, etc., 463;
escapes to England, 463;
his _Narrative_, 463.
Smith, J. S., _Memoir of De Kalb_, 530.
Smith, Lloyd P., 746.
Smith, Marshall, _Legends_, 708.
Smith, Noah, on Bennington, 355.
Smith, R. P., life of Hopkinson, 265.
Smith, Col. Samuel, wounded at Fort Mifflin, 388;
on the Delaware (1777), 431.
Smith, Seba, 173.
Smith, Thomas, _Mecklenburg Declaration_, 257.
Smith, Wm. _Hist. Acc. of Exped. against Ohio Indians_, 696, 699;
editions, 699;
letter on Stamp Act, 73;
on Montgomery, 216.
Smith, Wm. Henry, _Life of St. Clair_, 349;
on Princeton, 412.
Smith, chaplain at Saratoga, 360.
Smucker, Isaac, 708;
_Ohio Pioneer History_, 736.
Smyth, J. F. D., _Tour in the U. S._, 652.
Snider, the boy, killed, 85, 89.
Snow, a vessel, 572.
Sons of Liberty, 30;
in N. Y., 53;
history of, 72;
their correspondence, 72;
correspond with John Wilkes, 72;
support non-importation, 78;
propose a Congress (1774), 99.
Sorel River, 215.
Soulés, _Troubles_, etc., 560.
South Carolina, agrees to a Stamp Act Congress, 30, 73;
non-importation in, 79;
_Letters of a Freeman_, 79;
movements (1774), 98;
rice-planters in, 117;
in the Cont. Congress, 235;
adopts a constitution, 272;
militia in, 478;
maps, 537, 538;
her naval force, 571.
Spain, her North American possessions, 685;
settlements on the Mississippi to be attacked by England, 738;
at war with Great Britain, 738;
her assistance to G. R. Clark, 742;
her relations to the United States, 742;
would restrict their boundaries, 742;
invades the Illinois country, 743.
Spanish Main, commerce with, 25.
Sparks, Jared, intended history of the Stamp Act, 75;
occupies Craigie House, 142;
_Life of Ethan Allen_, 214;
_Charles Lee_, 407;
on Brandywine, 418;
_Life and Treason of Arnold_, 464;
the documents given in his _Washington_, 464;
reviews Johnson's _Greene_, 511;
on Pulaski, 522, 524;
prompts Mackenzie's life of Paul Jones, 590;
gives a due share of blame to the Americans for the use of Indians,
622.
Speed, Thomas, _Wilderness Road_, 708.
Speier, R. J., 194.
Spencer, Joseph, 134.
Spencer, J. A., _United States_, 665.
Spencer's Ordinary, fight at, 497.
Sprague, Wm. B., 264.
Springfield, N. J., action at, 559.
Springfield, N. Y., burned, 633.
Sproule, Capt. George, _Environs of Charleston_, 528.
Squier, Ephraim, 219;
diary, 360.
St. Ange de Bellerive at Fort Chartres, 701.
St. Augustine, plan of, 538.
St. Clair, Gen. Arthur, commands at Ticonderoga, 296, 348;
evacuates the post, 296;
his trial, 349;
_Life and Public Services_, 349;
his papers, 350;
portrait, 297;
other likenesses, 297;
his house, 297;
at Castleton, 297;
hears of Lexington fight, 178;
sent South, 546, 744;
at West Point, 460.
St. François Indians, 656;
at Cambridge, 655.
St. John Indians, 617.
St. John (Sorel River), island of, fort on, 215, 216;
attacked (1775), 565;
surrenders, 162, 217.
St. Lawrence, gulf, chart, 215;
river, chart, 215.
St. Leger, Col. Barry, his part in Burgoyne's campaign, 296;
authorities, 351;
portrait, 351;
his letter from Oswego, 366;
his expedition, 299, 628;
diagram of his order of march, 628;
attacks Fort Stanwix, 628;
his proclamation, 629;
defeats Herkimer, 631;
retreats, 300, 632;
his opinion of Indians, 632;
number of his troops, 661;
offers for scalps, 683.
St. Louis attacked, 730, 737, 739.
St. Luc, La Corne, 351.
St. Pierre and Miquelon, trade with, prohibited, 27.
St. Simon, Gen., in Virginia, 501.
Ste. Geneviève, 738.
Stamp Act (1755), 11, 72;
(1765), 29, 333;
Franklin's view, 5;
violence, 24;
threatened (1764), 26;
Franklin asks for patronage under it, 29;
arouses indignation, 29;
petitions against, in Parliament, 32;
rejoicing in London, 33;
riots and compensation for them, 34;
origin of, 72;
debates on it languid, 72;
Congress determined on, 72;
title of act, 72;
the stamps, 72;
repealed, 32, 74;
debates on the repeal, 74;
the lords protest, 74, 85;
Congress to consider the act, 29, 30, 74;
_Authentic Account_, 74;
_Journal_, 74;
references, 74;
Tory support of act, 75;
American and British authorities on the turmoil, 75;
Sparks intended a history, 75.
Stanhope, Earl (_see_ Mahon), _Miscellanies_, 464.
Stanley, Dean, _Westminster Abbey_, 461.
Stanwix, Fort, 274;
movements near (1777), 350;
authorities, 351;
bounds of treaty at, 650, 706, 707;
described, 660;
rumors of its capture, 672.
_See_ Fort.
Staples, W. R., _Doc. Hist. of the Destruction of the Gaspee_, 90;
_Annals of Providence_, 565.
Stark, Caleb, _Memoir of Gen. Stark_, 301.
Stark, Gen. John, on Bunker Hill, 137, 187, 190;
at siege of Boston, 134;
autog., 137;
notices, 190;
letters (Winter Hill), 203;
at Bennington, 300;
silhouette, 301;
his monument, 301;
homestead, 301;
portraits, 301;
memoir, 301;
life of, by Caleb Stark, 354;
his letters about Bennington, 354;
his papers, 354.
Staten Island, 340, 404;
British on, 275, 326;
map, 327;
Sullivan's raid on, 417;
expedition to (1780), 561.
Stearns's _North Amer. Almanac_, 178.
Stedman, Charles, _Amer. War_, 518, 659;
under Cornwallis, 517;
his _History_ noticed by Clinton, 517.
Stedman, James, 464.
Stenton, situation of, 425, 429.
Stephen, Gen. Adam, 144, 421;
at Brandywine, 381.
Steuben, Baron, at Valley Forge, 393;
inspector-general, 393, 437;
reorganizes the army, 560;
in Virginia, 496, 515, 546, 732;
pursued by Simcoe, 497;
portraits, 497;
lives of, 515.
Stevens, B. F., 467, 719;
_Howe's Orderly-Book_, 415.
Stevens, Henry, 359.
Stevens, J. A., on Stamp Act times in New York, 73;
on New York in the Continental Congress, 99;
"Birth of the Empire State", 274;
on Harlem fight, 334;
on Benedict _Arnold_, 357;
on Burgoyne's campaign, 366;
on Washington's headquarters at Tappan, 460;
on Arnold's _Arnold_, 464;
on the French in Virginia, 516;
on their departure, 745;
on Camden, 530;
on Gates at Camden, 532;
on Lafayette's expedition against Arnold, 547;
on Rochambeau's march to Virginia and return, 551;
edits Fersen's letters, 554;
on Yorktown, 555;
on the combined movements near N. Y., 561;
on the campaign in R. I. (1778), 601.
Stevens, _History of Georgia_, 522.
Steward, Rev. James, and Trumbull's _Indian Wars_, 651.
Stickney, Chas. E., _Minisink Region_, 662.
Stiles, Ezra, on Bunker Hill, 187;
portrait and autog., 188;
his account of Long Island battle, 329.
Stiles, H. R., _Brooklyn_, 330;
_Fort Chartres_, 705.
Stillman, Wm. J., _Poetic Localities of Cambridge_, 142.
Stillwater, battle, 356;
Schuyler at, 298.
Stirling, Gen. Lord, captured at Brooklyn, 279, 280, 328;
at Monmouth, 400, 444;
portrait, 280;
in N. Y. (1776), 325;
his house, 331;
at Princeton, 368;
at Brandywine, 381;
at Germantown, 385;
on Trenton, 407.
Stirling, Capt. Thomas, 705, 706.
Stockbridge Indians, 655;
enlisted, 120, 612, 674;
visit the Six Nations, 613;
addicted to liquor, 613;
at siege of Boston, 613, 657;
at White Plains, 613;
at King's Bridge, 613;
in Indiana (1819), 613.
Stockton, H., life of R. Stockton, 265.
Stockton, Richard, 108;
autog., 264;
life by H. Stockton, 265.
Stoddard, _Louisiana_, 737.
Stoddard, Frances Mary, 205.
Stoddard, R. H., 193.
Stokes, Chief Justice Anthony, 522;
_View of the British Constitution_, 523.
Stone, Enos, account of Hubbardton fight, 350.
Stone, E. M., _John Howland_, 90, 405;
_Invasion of Canada_, 219;
on Yorktown, 555;
_French Allies_, 560;
on the R. I. campaign (1778), 601.
Stone, F. D., "Philadelphia Society", 260;
"The Struggle for the Delaware", 367.
Stone, Thos., autog., 265;
life, 266.
Stone, W. L. (_Senior_), _Sir Wm. Johnson_, 647;
_Brant_, 247, 351, 657;
_Red Jacket_, 247;
_Border Wars of the Rev._, 247, 657;
_Wyoming_, 247;
_Uncas and Miantonomoh_, 247;
account of, 247;
on New York and the Dec. of Indep., 262;
memoir of George Clinton, 308.
Stone, W. L. (_the younger_), edits Pausch, 347;
on Moses Harris, 356;
_Cent. Cel. of Burgoyne's Surrender_, 357;
on Major Acland, 358;
_Wyoming_, 665;
_Orderly-Book of Sir John Johnson_, 351;
_Campaign of Burgoyne_, 351;
_Saratoga and Ballston_, 360;
"Burgoyne in a New Light", 360;
notes to Pausch's Journal, 360;
_Campaign of Burgoyne_, 361;
_Cent. Cel. of Burgoyne's Surrender_, 361;
translates the Riedesel memoirs, 361;
landmarks of Burgoyne's campaign, 361.
Stone Arabia (N. Y.), 609, 644.
Stone, _Beverley, Mass._, 350.
Stonington, Conn., attacked, 145.
Stono River, 526;
attacked by Lincoln, 520.
Stony Point, 455, 456, 465, 556;
plans of, 557, 558;
attacked, 558;
medals, 559.
Stormont, Lord, his correspondence, 592.
Storrs, Experience, 203.
Storrs, Lt.-Col., 188.
Stow, Edw., 204.
Strahan, Wm., corresp. with Franklin, 85;
on the repeal of the Stamp Act, 74.
Straus, _Origin of Repub. Form of Govt._, 71.
Street, A. B., on Burgoyne's campaign, 357;
on Saratoga, 361.
Strobel, P. A., _Salzburghers_, 523.
Strong, _Flatbush_, 330.
Stryker, W. S., _Maxwell's brigade in Sullivan's Exped._, 670;
_Block House at Tom's River_, 744;
_New Jersey line in Va._, 555;
on Princeton, 412.
Stuart, Gilbert, paints John Brooks, 202;
Gates, 303;
Gansevoort, 629;
John Adams, 36.
Stuart, I. W., _Jona. Trumbull_, 674;
_Nathan Hale_, 334.
Stuart, Capt. John, 714;
_Indian Wars_, 714;
supt. of Southern Indians, 615, 620;
instructed by Gage to stir up the Indians, 620.
Stuart, Lieut.-Col., at Eutaws, 545.
Suffolk, Earl of, justifies use of Indians, 621.
Suffolk Resolves, 100, 236.
Sugar Act (1733), 63, 72;
modified, 25.
Sugar Islands, 7, 686.
Sullivan, James, on the Penobscot exped., 603.
Sullivan, Gen. John, portrait, 68;
sent to Portsmouth (1775), 146;
sent to Canada, 166;
took command, 167;
retreats to Crown Point, 167;
at Winter Hill (1776), 203;
in command on Long Island, 278;
his character, 278;
wished the command at Ticonderoga (1777), 348;
joins Washington (1776), 373;
at Trenton, 375, 407;
at Brandywine, 381, 418;
at Germantown, 385;
his raid on Staten Island, 417;
at Chestnut Hill, 419;
on the Conway Cabal, 446;
in the Rhode Island campaign, 593;
advances, 595;
assails D'Estaing in an order, 595;
retires, 595;
fighting takes place, 595;
his report on the R. I. campaign, 595;
crosses to mainland, 598;
his conduct criticised, 598;
defended by T. C. Amory, 598;
his orders, 598;
letters, 598;
effect on the country, 601;
his proclamation, 653;
journals of his Indian exped., 671, 681;
lists them, 681;
all published by the State of New York, 681;
the army's route, 681;
losses in his campaign (1779), 642;
maps of his marches, 642;
portrait, 637;
autog., 637;
his house, 637;
his family, 637;
commands exped. against the Indians, 638;
exped. against the Indians, 666;
acc. by Gordon, 666;
life, by Amory, 666;
by Peabody, 667, 670;
his force (1779), 667;
not intending to attack Niagara, 669;
brigade book, siege of Boston, 204;
captured at Brooklyn, 279, 280;
in command in Canada, 226;
letters, 226;
the battle of Long Island, 327.
Sullivan's Island (1776), 169, 170;
view of fort, 228;
attack, 229;
authorities, 229;
the news in Philadelphia, 229;
contemp. accounts, 229;
plan of the attack, 229;
general American accounts, 229;
British accounts, 229, 230.
Sulte, B., _Canadiens Français_, 164.
Sumner, Geo., _Oration_ (1859), 592, 738.
Sumner, Wm. H., 123;
on Gen. Warren, 194;
on Hancock, 271.
Sumter, Gen., 475;
in the South, 477;
attacked by Tarleton, 478, 480;
threatens to resign, 490;
harasses Greene, 492;
at Fishdam Ford, 532;
portraits, 532;
on Weemys's attack, 536;
his differences with Morgan, 537.
Sunbury, Georgia, 519.
Susquehanna Company of Connecticut, 680.
Sutherland, Capt. of the "Vulture", 461.
Sutton, Sir Richard, 232.
Sutton (Mass.) men at Lexington, 182.
Swain, D. L., on invasion of N. Carolina, 168;
_Indian War of 1776_, 678.
Sweat, Samuel, letters (Winter Hill), 203.
Swedes' Ford, 425.
Swett, Col. Samuel, papers on Bunker Hill, 189, 191;
plan of Bunker Hill, 202;
acc. of, 191;
autog., 191.
Sylvester, R. B., _Saratoga_, etc., 366.
Sylvester, Richard, 83.
Talbot, Major, wounded at Fort Mifflin, 389.
Talbot, Silas, in Rhode Island, 602;
lives of, 603.
Tallmadge, B., 464;
his letters, etc., on André, 466;
his estimate of the captors of André, 466;
portraits and autog., 457;
_Memoir_, 457;
and André, 458, 460.
Tappan, N. Y., André at, 460;
De Wint House, 460;
Seventy-Six Stone House, 460.
Tarbox, Increase N., his views on the question of the command at
Bunker Hill, 191;
_Life of Putnam_, 191.
Tardieu, P. F., _Carte des Etats Unis_, 675.
Tarleton, Col., at the siege of Charlestown, S. C., 473;
defeats Buford, 475;
at Black-Stocks, 536;
at the Cowpens, 481, 538;
at Poundridge, 557;
raid in Va., 497, 515;
_Campaign of 1780 and 1781_, 517;
his losses, 517;
his career, 517;
portrait, 517;
Mackenzie's _Strictures_, 517;
at Camden, 530;
attacks Sumter, 478;
pursues Marion, 480;
pursues Morgan, 481;
at Guilford, 486;
at the Waxhaws, 527;
at Fishdam Ford, 532.
Tarrytown, N. Y., monument at, 466.
Tate, W., 223.
Taxation of the colonies, ministerial view, 17;
colonial view, 17;
right of, 63;
denied, 24;
internal and external, 50;
first movement against, 68;
_Reasons why the British colonies should not be charged with
internal taxes_, 70;
the government view in the Protest of the Lords against repeal of
Stamp Act, 74;
_History of Amer. Taxation, 1763-1775_, 75;
pro and con arguments in Read's _George Read_, 75;
Soame Jenyns's _Objections_, 75;
James Otis's _Considerations_, 75;
_Regulations lately made_, 75;
tracts on, 75;
_Letter to a Member_, 75;
_Objections to the taxation_, etc., 75;
_Good Humour_, 85;
_Inquiry into the nature of the present disputes_, 85;
_True constitutional way of putting an end to the disputes_, 85;
Johnson's _Taxation no tyranny_, 109;
_Defence of the American Congress_, 109;
_Letter to Dr. Price_, 109.
Taylor, Eldad, 205.
Taylor, Geo., autog., 265;
life, 266.
Taylor, Janette, 590.
Taylor, John, life of John Penn, 265.
Taylor, John, _Inquiry_, etc., 272.
Taylor, J. W., _Ohio_, 708.
Taylor, R., on Geo. Mason, 272.
Tea, destroyed, 46, 91;
duty on, 46;
importation of it arouses Philadelphia, 57;
and the other colonies, 57;
in Boston, 91;
in N. H., 92;
in Connecticut, 93;
in New York, 93;
in Pennsylvania, 93;
fac-simile of broadside, 93;
in N. Carolina, 93;
tax on, to remain, 51.
Teller, _Ridgefield, Conn._, 348.
Temple, John, duel with Whateley, 93.
Tennessee, 708;
Haywood's hist. of, 678.
Ternant, Gen., 513.
Ternay, Chev. de, 499;
at Newport, 499, 560;
dies, 499;
his tomb, 499;
autog., 500.
Tetard Hill (N. Y.), 287, 338, 339.
Thacher, B. B., 91.
Thacher, Dr. James, 464;
_Military Journal_, 189, 202, 660.
Thacher, Oxenbridge, 13;
_Sentiments of a British American_, 70;
dies, 70.
Thacher, Peter, oration on Boston Massacre, 88;
his account of Bunker Hill, 186.
Thaxter, Jos., 178.
Thayendanegea. _See_ Brant, Joseph.
Thayer, Capt. Simeon, _Journal_, 219;
at Fort Mifflin, 388.
Thomas, E. S., _Reminiscences_, 184, 412.
Thomas, Gen. John, 108;
second in command under Ward, 134;
at Roxbury, 134;
at Dorchester Heights, 156;
his headquarters in Roxbury, 156;
at Quebec, 225;
letters, 225;
made general, 119, 165;
in command at Roxbury, 130;
ordered to Canada, 165;
retreats from Quebec, 166;
dies, 167;
portrait, 167;
_Memoir_, 167;
affronted at Congress, 167.
Thomas, Isaiah, 122;
_Narrative of Lexington_, etc., 175;
_Mass. Kalendar_, 47.
Thomas, Lieut. John, on Louisiana, 737.
Thomas, W. H. B., 214.
Thompson, Benj., Count Rumford, 507;
in Boston, 128;
in S. Carolina, 545;
lives of, 546.
Thompson, Eben, _Memoir_, by Mary P. Thompson, 117.
Thompson, Gen., on Canada exped., 225;
acc. of, 225.
Thompson, Wm., 203.
Thomson, Chas., letter on taxation, 75;
letter to Wm. Drayton, 96;
on Bunker Hill, 189;
portrait, 272;
his house, 272;
autog., 450.
Thornton, J. W., _Pulpit of the Rev._, 244;
his sale, 467.
Thornton, Matthew, autog., 263;
life, 265;
signed the Decl. of Indep., 268.
Three County troop in Massachusetts, 184.
Three Rivers (1775), 216;
attack (1776), 167, 225, 227.
Throckmorton, B. W., on Benedict Arnold, 357.
Throg's Neck, 285.
Thwaites, R. G., on L. C. Draper, 727.
Tickle, Robt., _Present state of the Nation_, 85;
_Considerations_ in reply, 85.
Ticonderoga, capture planned, 613;
taken (1775), 129;
view of ruins, 129;
papers on capture, 130;
cannon taken to Cambridge, 156;
authorities on its capture (1775), 213;
disputes over the origination of the expedition, 213;
trophies, 214;
Arnold's report, 214;
current reports, 214;
ruins of, 214;
diary (1775) at, 215;
its condition after capture, 215;
apprehension at, after fall of Quebec, 227;
Gates at, 291;
St. Clair at (1777), 348;
attacked by Burgoyne, 296;
evacuation, 296, 349;
authorities, 349;
effect of it, 350;
works, 314, 353, 354;
maps (1777), 350;
Trumbull's, 350, 352;
that used at St. Clair's trial, 350, 353;
recaptured, 304.
Tiddeman, Mark, map of N. Y. harbor, 326.
Tiffany, Osmond, _Life of O. H. Williams_, 537.
Tilghman, James, 709.
Tilghman, Col. Tench, 334;
_Memoirs_, 407;
_Diary of Yorktown_, 554.
Tilton, James, 337.
Tinicum Island, 429, 437.
Tioga (Tiaoga), 609;
attacked, 636;
plan of, 681.
Tioga Valley, 641.
Tiverton, R. I., 600.
Tobacco trade restricted, 8, 9.
Todd, C. B., _Redding, Conn._, 348;
on Col. Ledyard, 562;
_Joel Barlow_, 467.
Todd, Col. John, 723;
on Kaskaskia, 729;
his _Record Book_, 730.
Tomahawk improvements (squatter rights), 611.
Tom's River, 744.
Tonicas Indians, 702.
Tonyn, Gov., 522.
Topham, John, 219.
Tories, acc. of, by T. B. Myers, 351;
at Wyoming, 635.
_See_ Loyalists.
Totowa, 404.
Towle, N. C., _Constitution of the U. S._, 74, 274.
Town, Ithiel, _Particular Services_, 341, 546, 589.
_Town and County Mag._, 209.
Townshend, Chas., 21, 23, 38;
died, 39;
in the Stamp Act debates, 72.
Townshend, C. H., _Invasion of Conn._, 557.
Townshend, Jos., on Brandywine, 419.
Townshend, M. I., on Burgoyne's exped., 366.
Townshend acts, 20, 38;
resisted, 42;
misunderstood by Bancroft, 64;
attempt to repeal, 51;
repealed (except on tea), 52.
Trade monopolized by English merchants, 5.
Transylvania (Kentucky), 716.
Treaty of Paris (1783), 747.
_See_ Paris.
Trecothic, alderman, 51.
Tremain, Grenville, 466.
Trenton, N. J., surprise at, 374;
authorities, 407;
maps, 408-412;
court-martial of the Hessian officers, 412;
picture by Trumbull, 412;
current verses, 412;
flag captured, 412.
Troup, Col. Robert, on the Conway Cabal, 447.
Trout, Rev. Jacob, 418.
Trowbridge, Edmund, autog., 50.
Trudruffrin. _See_ Paoli, 423.
Trumbull, Henry, _Indian Wars_, bibliog. of, 651;
its various titles, 651;
reprinted by Pritts, 651.
Trumbull, Col. John, painted Moultrie, 172;
his picture of Bunker Hill, 190, 197;
plan of the siege of Boston, 207;
his painting of _Death of Montgomery_, 220;
paints John Adams, 36;
autobiog., 189;
portrait of Putnam, 193;
plan of Boston Neck lines, 211;
paints St. Clair, 297;
Schuyler, 298;
map of Ticonderoga, 350;
paints Col. Tallmadge, 457;
arrested in London, 463;
his picture of Yorktown, 506;
of Trenton, 412;
his portrait of Gen. Greene, 510;
of Morgan, 511;
on the Rhode Island campaign, 597.
Trumbull, Col. Jonathan, diary at Yorktown, 554.
Trumbull, Gov. Jonathan, his letter to Gage, 181.
Trumbull, Jos., 203.
Trumbull, James H., on "Sons of Liberty", 72;
edits Mott's journal, 213;
on the origin of the Ticonderoga expedition (1775), 213;
on the _Indian Wars_ of H. Trumbull, 651.
Trumbull MSS., 681.
Tryon, Gov., seeks safety on a man-of-war, 107;
his seal and autog., 140;
his proclamation (1776), 325;
the Hickey Plot, 326;
orders a map of N. Y. province made, 341;
report on the province, 341;
his address to the people of Conn., 557;
_Address on his late expedition_, 557;
invades Connecticut, 557.
Tryon County, N. Y., 645, 659.
Tucker, Dr. Josiah, Dean of Gloucester, 75;
and Franklin, 74;
on the Amer. Rev., 254;
tracts, 75;
_Letter from a merchant_, 75;
_Series of answers_, 75;
_Humble Address_, 75.
Tucker, Sam., of New Jersey, joins the enemy, 370.
Tucker, Com. Samuel, at siege of Charleston, 524;
orders to command the "Boston" in fac-simile, 566;
his career, 567;
takes John Adams to France, 567;
his log-book, 567;
his papers, 567;
lives of, 567;
in the "Boston", 583;
his parole in fac-simile, 583.
Tucker, St. George, on Guildford, 541.
Tuckerman, H. T., _America and her Commentators_, 560;
_Silas Talbot_, 603;
on Daniel Boone, 708.
Tudor, Wm., letters to, 7, 9, 88, 187;
his _Otis_, 70;
his Massacre oration, 446.
Tugaloo River, 676.
Tupper, Benj., 325.
Turkey Hill (R. I.), 596, 598, 602.
Turner, H. E., _Greenes of Warwick_, 510.
Turner, O., _Phelps and Gorham Purchase_, 670.
Turtle Bay (N. Y.), 333, 335.
Tuscaroras, Col. Butler among the, 619;
their lands, 610;
mostly took the American side, 623.
Tuttle, J. F., _Hibernia Furnace_, 108;
_Morris County_, 407;
_Rev. Forefathers_, 407;
_Washington in Morris County_, 407;
_Washington at Morristown_, 417;
on the camp at Morristown, 559.
Twightwees, 610.
Two-penny Act, 24.
Tyler, Albert, _Bennington_, 301, 356.
Tyler, John, _Address at Jamestown_, 107.
Tyler, Moses Coit, on Patrick Henry, 107;
his _Patrick Henry_, 723.
Tyng, D. A., 746.
"Tyrannicide", her log, 582;
takes the "Revenge", 586.
Uhlhorn, J. F., 712.
Ulloa at New Orleans (1766), 737.
Unadilla destroyed, 636, 653.
Union, growth of, in the colonies, 79;
symbol of disjointed snake, 79.
United States, independence of, growth of the sentiment, 231;
_Public Land Laws_, 247.
_See_ Congress, Independence, etc.
_Universal Asylum_, 207.
_Universal Magazine_, 463.
Upham, W. P., 205;
_Life of Gen. Glover_, 325.
Urquhart, James, 209.
Valcour Island, fight at, 292, 346;
map of, 347.
Valentine, _N. Y. City Manual_, 331.
Vallancey, Capt. C., 543.
Valley Forge, 416;
Committee of Congress at, 393;
Baron Steuben at, 393;
condition of army, 436;
encampment, 389;
French alliance celebrated, 439;
life at, 437;
plan of camp, 439;
Washington's H. Q., 439.
Van Cortlandt, Philip, autobiography, 670.
Van Dyk, Col., 467.
Van Schaick, Col., attacks the Onondagas, 639;
marches to Cherry Valley, 626.
Van Schaick's Island, 298.
Van Wart, Isaac, 456.
Vandalia, 708.
Varick, Col. Richard, at Freeman's Farm, 316;
on the Saratoga campaign, 356;
aide to Arnold, 460;
his papers, 460.
Varnum, Gen., abandons Fort Mercer, 389.
Vaughan, Benj., his ed. of Franklin's _Pieces_, 653.
Vaughan, David, 341.
Vaughan, Samuel, his journal, 506.
Vermont, constitutional movements in, 274;
_Documents relating to the resistance to Burgoyne_, 354;
proclamations issued by Burgoyne and Schuyler, 350;
signs of defection in, 646.
_Vermont Quart. Mag._, 356.
Vernon, Wm., autograph, 566.
Verplanck House, 746.
Verplanck's Point, 455, 465;
plan, 557, 558.
Verreau, _Invasion du Canada_, 216.
Vigo, Col. F., 724.
Villefranche, his maps of the Hudson, 456, 462.
Vincennes (Indiana), 704;
captured, 718, 719;
fort at, 719;
evacuated by the British, 722;
taken by Hamilton, 724;
authorities, 729.
Vinton, J. A., 191.
Viomenil, 504, 745.
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