INDEX

Abraham Lincoln House, Springfield, Illinois, 369

Acrostic, 23

Adams House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 44

Adams, Abigail, 20, 48, 230

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

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

Adams, Samuel, 20, 26, 27

Alamo, the, San Antonio, Texas, 347

Alamo, battle of the, 348

Alcott, Bronson, 64

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

American Standard, Richmond, Virginia, 295

Amesbury, Massachusetts, 56

Amstel House, New Castle, Delaware, 205

Andros, Governor, 19, 34, 35

Annapolis, Maryland, 226

Arlington, Virginia, 246

Asbury, Bishop Francis, 244

Ashland, Lexington, Kentucky, 355

Aubrey, William, 148

Audubon, John James, 187

Bakewell, Mary, 190

Bell, Mary, mother of George Washington, 251

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

Bennet-Boardman House, Saugus, Massachusetts, 69

Bennet, Samuel, 70

Berrian, John, 137

Biglow Papers, 38

Bill of Rights, Virginia's, 284

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

Blair, Rev. James, 289, 291

Boardman, Abijah, 71

Boone, Daniel, 360

Boonesborough, Kentucky, 360

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

Boudinot, Elias, 43, 120

Braddock, General, 115, 253

Braintree, Massachusetts, 46

Brandon, Virginia, 281

Breck, Samuel, 183

Brewton, Miles, 336

Brick Capitol, the, 228

British at Monticello, 324

Broadhearth, Saugus, Massachusetts, 69

Broadstreet, Simon, 69

Brown, Richard, 82

Brown University, 83

Bruton Parish, Virginia, 288

Budden, Captain, 165

Bunker Hill, 26, 68

Burgoyne, General, 34, 179, 391

Burlington, New Jersey, 226

Burr, Aaron, 90, 131, 394

Byrd, Evelyn, 279

Cabildo, New Orleans, Louisiana, 343

Cabot, Arthur, 37

Caldwell, New Jersey, church at, 119

Caldwell, Rev. James, 119

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 36, 73

Campfield House, Morristown, New Jersey, 126

Canonicus, 81

Capitol at Washington, 225

Carleton, Sir Guy, 108, 110

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

Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia, 149

Carroll, Charles, 216

Carter, Elizabeth Hill, 279

Carter, Landon, 278

Carter's Grove, Virginia, 280

Cartwright, Peter, 352

Castle at Fort Niagara, New York, 386

Chaplains: James Caldwell, 139 George Duffield, 160

Charles River, 27

Charleston, Massachusetts, 27

Chastellux, Marquis de, 107, 279, 324

Chew, Benjamin, Jr., 159

Chew, Joseph, 93

Chew, Samuel, 156

Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia, 249

Christ Church, Philadelphia, 153, 199

Christmas, the first, at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 197

Church furnishings, primitive, 95, 121

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

Clark, George Rogers, 360

Clay, Henry, 308, 355, 383

Clermont, the, 234

Cleveland, Stephen Grover, 122

Clinton, General George, 107

Clinton, Sir Henry, 337

Cliveden, Germantown, Philadelphia, 156

Clock on Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 166

Coddington, William, 49

College of New Jersey, 130, 297

College Customs at Nassau Hall, 130

Collins, Varnum Lansing, 130

Colonial Dames of Massachusetts, 53

Concord, Massachusetts, 26, 27

Congress at Princeton, New Jersey, 133

Constitutional Convention of 1787, 168

Continental Congress, 83, 93, 150

Conway Cabal, 182

Cordale, Thomas, 213

Cornwallis, Lord, 134, 293

Council of Safety, Philadelphia, 172, 193

Courtship of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, 128

Crab Orchard, Kentucky, 360

Craigie, Andrew, 41

Craigie House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 40, 403

Crockett, David, 350

Crown Point, 23

Cumberland Road, 384

Cunningham, Ann Pamela, 245

Curtis, George William, 64

Custis, George Washington Parke, 246, 255

Custis, Nelly, 219

Daily Advertiser, New York, 87

Daily American Advertiser, Philadelphia, 196

Dartmouth, ship, 24

Daughters of the American Revolution, 90, 377, 381

Daughters of the War of 1812, 390

Decatur, Stephen, 154

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

Dent, Fred, 362

Desecration of Carpenters' Hall, 152

Desecration of the Capitol, 229

Dexter, Thomas, 69

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

Dix, Dr. Morgan, 96

Dorchester Heights, Massachusetts, 68

Doughoregan Manor, Maryland, 216

Dowry of pine-tree shillings, 50

Duché, Rev. Jacob, 150, 154

Duffield, Rev. George, 160

Dunlap, William, 137

Du Ponceau, Peter S., 176

Duston Garrison House, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 56

Duston, Hannah, 56

Duston, Thomas, 56

East India Company, 31

Eden, Governor Robert, 221

Edwards, Jonathan, 75

Elizabeth Town, New Jersey, 120, 139

Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 36

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 33

Emlen House, Pennsylvania, 178

Emmanuel Church, Newcastle, Delaware, 204

Everett, Edward, 41

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

Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 148

Faneuil, Andrew, 28

Faneuil, Peter, 28, 35

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

Fatlands, near Philadelphia, 187

Federal District, location of the, 226

Fernside Farm, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 54

First Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island, 80

Fitch, John, 234

Flag, American, 89

Flag, first American in British waters, 78

Flint, Ruth, 54

Flynt, Tutor, 51

Ford Mansion, Morristown, New Jersey, 126

Forks of the Delaware, 196

Fort Washington, New York City, 89

Fort William and Mary, 26

Fox, George, 212

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

Fraunces, Samuel, 98

Fraunces' Tavern, New York, 97

Freeman, Rev. James, 36

"From Greenland's Icy Mountains," 342

Gage, General, 37, 43

Gano, Rev. Stephen, 83

Garrison, William Lloyd, 22, 55

Gazette, Boston, 30

Gazette, Essex, 25

Gazette, New York, 95, 99

Gazette of the United States, 256

Gazette, Portland, Maine, 402

Gazette, Williamsburg, Virginia, 262

Germantown, battle of, 157, 180

Germantown, Pennsylvania, 226

Gerry, Elbridge, 37, 73

Girard College, Philadelphia, 229

Glover, Colonel, 42

Grant, Ulysses S., 362

Green, General, 42

Greenway, Virginia, 257

Griffon, building of the, 387

Gunston Hall, Virginia, 281

Hale, Edward Everett, 37

Hallet, Stephen L., 226

Hamilton, Alexander, 100, 127, 393

Hamilton, Allan MacLane, 101

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

Hanover Court House, Virginia, 262

"Hardscrabble," St. Louis, Missouri, 363

Harlem Heights, battle of, 88

Harmar, Fort, 379

Harrison, Benjamin, 263, 281

Harrison Mansion, the, Vincennes, Indiana, 374

Harrison, William Henry, 360, 374

Harte, Bret, 140

Harvard College, 38

Hasbrouck, Jonathan, 107

Haverhill Historical Society, 60

Haverhill, Massachusetts, 56

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 40, 61

Hay, Henry Hanby, 205

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

Heijt, Hans Joest, 178

Henricopolis, Virginia, 266

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

Henry, William, 179

Herald, the San Antonio, Texas, 348

Hermitage, The, Nashville, Tennessee, 351

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

Hodgson, Adam, 219.

Hollyman, Ezekiel, 81

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 52, 53

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

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

Hough, Atherton, 50

House of Seven Gables, 41

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

Houston, Sam, 347

Hovey, Dr. H. C., 77

Howe, Lord, 95, 192

Huguenot Church, Charleston, South Carolina, 335

Hull, Hannah, 50

Hutchinson, Ann, 50

Independence Bell, 169, 199

Independence, The Declaration of, 20

Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 151, 162

Independent Church, Savannah, Georgia, 340

Indians, attacked by the, 58, 361, 382

Institute of American Architects, 238

Jackson, Andrew, 233, 347, 351

James River Canal Company, 285

Jamestown, Virginia, 288

Jay, John, 98

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

Jeremiah Lee House, Marblehead, Massachusetts, 72

John Marshall's House, Richmond, Virginia, 274

Johns, Kensey, 206

Johnson, Nicholas, 78

Journal and General Advertiser, New York, 95

Journal, Springfield, Illinois, 372

Jumel-Burr, Madam, 90

Jumel, Stephen, 90

Kasimir, Fort, Delaware, 203

Kenmore, Virginia, 253

Kent, Chancellor, 103

Kentucke Gazette, 355

Key, Francis Scott, 222

Kidd, Captain, 92

King, Washington asked to become, 108

King's Chapel, Boston, 32

Kingston, New York, 226

Knyphausen, General, 138, 194

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

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 227

Leader, Richard, 69

Lee, Jeremiah, 72

Lee, Richard Henry, 124, 244

Lee, Robert E., 246, 280, 287

"Lehigh, House on the," 197

Letitia Penn House, Philadelphia, 145

Lexington, battle of, 78, 166

Lexington, Massachusetts, 26, 27, 73

Liberator, The, 22

Liberty Bell, 169, 199

Lidgett, Mrs. Elizabeth, 67

Lightning, ship, 333

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

Little Pilgrim, The newspaper, 54

Livingston, Robert R., 98

Logan, James, 148

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 40, 396, 400

Longfellow, Mrs. Henry Wadsworth, 41

Lossing, Benson J., 152

Lottery for church building purposes, 159

Louisiana, 191

Louisiana Purchase, 294

Louisiana transferred to the United States, 344

Lowell, General Charles Russell, 38

Lowell, James Jackson, 38

Lowell, James Russell, 36, 37

Lowell, Maria, 38

Lowell, Rev. Charles, 37

Lowly office after the Presidency, 261

Loyalists' houses confiscated, 89

Lunt, Ezra, 78

Maddox, Rev. Robert, 212

Madison, James, 37, 223, 236, 296

Makemie, Frances, 212

Mantonomi, 81

Marblehead, Massachusetts, 72

Marietta, Ohio, 377

Marion, General, 337

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

Marshall, Chief Justice, 169, 274, 294

Martineau, Harriet, 299, 356

Mary, ship, 245

Mary Washington House, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 251

Mason and Dixon line, 171

Mason, George, 281, 312

Mason, Lowell, 342

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 28

Massacre, Boston, 19, 31

Massasoit, 80

Mather, Cotton, 58

Mather, Increase, 32

Mayflower, Putnam's barge on the Ohio, 379

McColloch's leap, 382

McKinley, William, 346

Meade, Bishop, 276, 319

Medford, Massachusetts, 27, 66

Mercer, General, 135

Mercer House, Princeton, New Jersey, 134

Mercury, New York, 87

Mill Grove, near Philadelphia, 187

Monmouth, battle of, 123

Monroe, James, 232, 294, 301, 342

Montgomery, General, 97

Monticello, Virginia, 322

Montpelier, Virginia, 296

Monument Place, Elm Grove, West Virginia, 381

Monumental Church, Richmond, Virginia, 277, 294

Moore House, Yorktown, Virginia, 270, 274

Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 196

Morris, Gouverneur, 98, 103

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

Morris, Robert, 184

Morris, Roger, 87, 93

Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, 134

"Mosses from an Old Manse," 63

Mount Airy, Virginia, 234, 314

Mount Vernon, Virginia, 109, 241

Munitions, Revolutionary, 173

Nantes, Edict of, 28

Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, 130

National Intelligencer, Washington, 236

National Pike, 384

Nelson House, Yorktown, Virginia, 270

Nelson, Thomas, 270

Newark, New Jersey, 130

Newburyport, Massachusetts, 55, 75

New Castle, Delaware, 145, 203

New England Antiquities, Society for the Preservation of, 71

New Orleans, battle of, 346

Newspapers: Liberator, 22 Essex Gazette, 25 Boston News Letter, 28 Boston Gazette, 30 Little Pilgrim, The, 54 New York Mercury, 87 New York Daily Advertiser, 87 New York Gazette, 95, 99 New York Journal and General Advertiser, 95 Philadelphia Pennsylvania Packet, 97 Pennsylvania Evening Post, 155, 173 Pennsylvania Gazette, 164 Daily American Advertiser, Philadelphia, 196 National Intelligencer, Washington, 227, 236 Gazette of the United States, 256 Williamsburg Gazette, 262 American Standard, Richmond, Virginia, 295 San Antonio Herald, 348 Kentucke Gazette, 355 Springfield Journal, 372 Portland Gazette, 402

Nicola, Lewis, tries to tempt Washington, 108

Norriton, Pennsylvania, 170

Norriton Presbyterian Church, 172

North Church, Boston, 27

Northwestern Territory, 274

Nova Scotia, Franklin's land speculation in, 117

Noyes, Alfred, 136

Oak Hill, Virginia, 301

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

Oglethorpe, General James E., 341

Ohio Company, the, 378

Ohio River, floating down the, 190

Old Manse, the, Concord, Massachusetts, 61

Old Pine Street Church, Philadelphia, 159

Old North Church, Boston, 32

Old South Church, 20, 24, 31, 32

Old South Church, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 75

Old State House, Boston, 19

Old Tennent Church, Freehold, New Jersey, 122

Oliver, Thomas, 36

Ordway, Alfred A., 56

O'Reilly, Count Alejandro, 343

Orin, Azor, 73

"Oven, The," temporary Capitol, 227

Paoli Massacre, 181, 194

Parsons, Dr. Jonathan, 78

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

Pauling, John, 178

Paul Revere's House, Boston, Massachusetts, 23

Peabody, Sophia, 62

Peace, signing of, in 1783, 110

Peale, Charles Wilson, 133, 154

Penn, Letitia, 146

Penn, Thomas and Richard, 153

Penn, William, 145, 162, 204

Pennsbury Manor, Pennsylvania, 147

Pennsylvania Evening Post, 155, 173

Pennsylvania Gazette, 164

Pennsylvania Packet, Philadelphia, 97

Pennypacker, Samuel W., 171

Penobscot expedition, 28

Persecution, religious, in New York, 213

Phi Beta Kappa Society, 294

Philadelphia, evacuation of, 177

Philadelphia, Paul Revere rides to, 25

Philipsburgh, Manor of, 92

Philipse, Colonel Frederick, 92

Philipse, Frederick, 91

Philipse Manor House, Yonkers, New York, 91

Philipse, Mary, 93

Pine Grove, Virginia, 253

Pine-tree shillings, dowry of, 50

Plum pudding, the best dinner, 260

Plymouth, New Hampshire, 66

Pohick Church, Virginia, 249, 311

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 26, 395

Potomac Canal, 218, 285

Prayer at opening of First Continental Congress, 151

Prayer for the King, omitted, 154

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

Princeton, battle of, 133, 135

Princeton University, 130

Pringle House, Charleston, South Carolina, 336

Providence, Rhode Island, 82

Putnam, William Lowell, 38

"Put Watts into them, boys," 140

Quincy, Dorothy, 52

Quincy, Edmund, 49, 51

Quincy, Edmund, III, 51

Quincy, Josiah, 53

Quincy, Judith, 50

Quincy Mansion, Quincy, Massachusetts, 49

Quincy, Massachusetts, 44

Quincy, Massachusetts Historical Society, 47

Randolph, Edmund, 269, 294

Randolph, John, 228

Read, George, 205

Red Bank, New Jersey, victory at, 181

Redemptioners, purchase of, 186

Red Hill, Virginia, 305

Revere, Paul, 23, 33, 53, 77

Rhode Island, 83

Ridgely, Dr. Charles Greenburg, 209

Rittenhouse, David, 198

Rittenhouse House, Philadelphia, 170

Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Duc de la, 325

Rodney, Cæsar, 208, 209

Roosevelt, Theodore, 233, 290

Ross, George, 204

Royall House, Medford, Massachusetts, 66

Royall, Isaac, 67

Royall, William, 67

Rufus Putnam's House, Marietta, Ohio, 377

Rush, Dr. Benjamin, 163, 171

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

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

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

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

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

St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, 153

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

Salem, Massachusetts, 80

Savannah, Georgia, Siege of, 341

Schools, free, beginnings of, in Pennsylvania, 186

Schuyler, Catherine, 393

Schuyler, Elizabeth, 100, 127

Schuyler, General Philip, 100, 126

Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York, 391

Scott House, Annapolis, Maryland, 220

Scott, Molly, 382

Scott, Upton, 220

Servants, problem of, in early days, 185

Severance, Frank H., 386

Sewell, Judge Samuel, 50, 74

Shadwell, Virginia, 297, 322

Sharpe, Horatio, 221

Shepherd, Moses, 381

Sherwood Forest, Virginia, 257, 261

Shippen, Dr. William, Jr., 162

Ships: Dartmouth, 24 Somerset, 27 Welcome, 145 John and Sarah, 146 Surprise, 223 Mary, 245 Constitution and Guerriere, Cyano and Levant, 317 Lightning, 333

Shirley, Virginia, 280

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

Skippack, Pennsylvania, 180

Smith, Abigail, 46

Smith, Rev. William, 46

"Snow-Bound," 55

Society for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, 277

Somerset, ship, 27

Sons of the Revolution, 99

Springett, Guli, 145

Springfield, battle of, 141

Springfield Meeting House, New Jersey, 138

Stamp Act, 30, 46, 218

Star-Spangled Banner, story of the, 222

Stark, General John, 68

Stark, Molly, 68

State House Clock, Philadelphia, 172

State House Yard, Philadelphia, 163

Steuben, Baron, 176

Stevens, Colonel William, 211

Stockton, Mrs. Richard, 134

Stone Church, Elm Grove, West Virginia, 386

Stony Point, New York, 195

Stuart, Gilbert, 218

Stuyvesant, Petrus, 204

Sullivan, General, 43

Susquehanna, Falls of the, 226

Sweetbrier, Philadelphia, 183

Swett, Martha, 74

Symmes, Rev. Frank R., 123

Taney, Chief Justice R. R., 222

Tayloe, John, 232, 234, 314

Tea meetings, 31

Tecumseh, Indian chief, 375

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

Texas, Republic of, 350

Thames, battle of the, 360

Theatre fire in Richmond, Virginia, 294

Thomson, George, 208

Thornton, Dr. William, 226, 234

Ticonderoga, 193

Tilghman, Tench, 127, 392

Tillinghast, Pardon, 81

Treaty of 1783, 133

Trenton, battle of, 135

Tudor, John, 19

Tyler, Henry, 290

Tyler, Judge John, 257, 258, 294

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

University of Virginia, the, 326

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

Vanarsdal, Rev. Jacob, 141

Van Buren, Martin, 232

Van Cortlandt, Jacobus, 105

Van Cortlandt Park, 104

Van der Donck, Jonkheer Adriaen, 91, 105

Van Dyke, Henry, 215

Van Dyke, Nicholas, 205

Vane, Sir Harry, 50

Vassall, John, 41

Vassall, Leonard, 48

Venus, transit of, 171

Vincennes, Indiana, 374

Waldo, Albigence, 182

Walker, Rachel, 23

Wallace Nutting Corporation, 70

Walter, Thomas U., 229

Ward, Samuel, 42

Warner House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 399

Warren, General, 26

Washington and Lee University, 248

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

Washington College, Lexington, Virginia, 285

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

Washington, Laurence, 241, 253

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

Wayne, Captain Isaac, 192

Wayne, General Anthony, 107, 157, 192

Waynesborough, near Philadelphia, 192

Wayside, The, Concord, Massachusetts, 61

Weare, Meschech, 108

Webster, Daniel, 384

Weems, Parson, 313

Wentworth, Governor Benning, 395

Wentworth House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 395

West Church, Boston, 37

Westover, Virginia, 278

West Point Military Academy, 100, 106, 362

Wheelwright, Rev. John, 50

Whitefield, Rev. George, 75

White Haven, St. Louis, Missouri, 362

White House, Washington, 230, 236

Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, 181

Whitley's Station, Kentucky, 359

Whittier, John G., 54, 79

Whittier, Thomas, 54

Wilkinson, General, 158

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

Williamsburg Court House, Virginia, 262

Williamsburg, Virginia, 289

Williams, Roger, 80

Wilson, Daniel Munro, 44, 47

Winthrop, Governor, 34, 66

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

Witherspoon, John, 132

Wolfe, Colonel James, 220

Women's Centennial Executive Committee, 339

Wren, James, 249

Wren, Sir Christopher, 82, 292

Wythe, George, 290

Yonkers, New York, 88, 91

York, Pennsylvania, 174

Yorktown, Siege of, 271, 279

Zinzendorf, Count, 197