INDEX
Reading edition
A
Abercrombie, General, 30, 51
Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia, 332
Ackland, Lady, 64
Adams, John, 266
Adams, Mrs. John, 310
Adams, John Quincy, 380
Albany, W. W. Battershall on, 1-37;
settled by Dutch, 1-9;
captured by English, 9;
incorporated, 10;
English church built, 14;
its frontier position, 15-18;
during the French wars, 18;
convention of 1754, 20;
in the Revolution, 20-23;
becomes the State Capital, 24;
historic survivals in, 24-37;
architecture of, 30-32;
the Capitol described, 32-34
Aldrich, T. B., 205
Allegheny, 414
Almirante Oquendo, 244
American Philosophical Society, 310, 318
Amersfoort, 216, 219
Amherst, Lord, 52
Amsterdam, 3, 6
André, John, in New York, 194;
capture of, 158-161
Andros, Edmund, 176
Army, American, volunteer system organized, 380
Arnold, B., at Saratoga, 62;
in Philadelphia, 312;
treason of, 160, 161, 182, 195
Arnold, Matthew, cited, 300
As-que-sent-wah, see E. W. Paige
B
Baldwin’s Locomotive Works, 326
Baltimore, Congress flees to, 272
Barbadoes, Washington’s voyage to, 393
Barclay, Rev. T., quoted, 100
Barnard College, 207
Baron, Father, 407
Bartram, John, and his garden, 312, 314
Battershall, W. W., on Albany, 1-37
Bayard, James A., 360
Bayard, Richard A., 360
Bayard, Thomas F., 350, 351
Beatty, Charles, quoted, 268
Beatty, Rev., preaches first Protestant sermon at Pittsburgh, 407
Bedford, Gunning, 267
Bedford, Gunning, Jr., 358
Beecher, H. W., 247
Beekman Mansion, 195-197
Belcher, Governor J., 252, 257
Bemis Heights, 23, 41, 64
Bennington, battle of, 58
Bertholf, Rev. G., at Tarrytown, 154
Beverwyck, 73, 81
Biddle, Colonel, 122
Bidwell, D. D., 390
Binney, Horace, house of, 318
Bird Grip, Swedish vessel, 337
Bjork, Rev. Eric, builds Old Swedes’ Church, 349
Black Rock, battery at, 373, 384
“Block House,” the Pittsburgh, 408
Bloomingdale, absorbed by New York, 188
Blue Anchor, the Swedish tavern, 301
Bordentown, 269
Boston, 181, 188
Boudinot, President, of Princeton, 288
Bouquet, Col. Henry, builds the “Block House,” 407;
defeats Indians, 407-410
Bowles, naval constructor, 244
Bowling Green, 193
Boyle, H., 107
Brackinridge, 269
Bracola, see Brooklyn
Braddock, defeat and death of, 51, 399-404, 416
Braddock’s Field, 418
Bradford, Governor, quoted, 4, 6
Bradford, press of, 306
Brainerd, David, expelled from Yale, 256
Brandt, 56
Brazil, Emperor of, 206
Breuckelen, see Brooklyn
Brewster, E. A., 135
Brinkerhoff, M., 132
Broadhead, Colonel, attacks Indians, 412
Brocklandia, see Brooklyn
Broecke, see Brooklyn
Broeckede, see Brooklyn
Broicklede, see Brooklyn
Bronck, Jonas, 77, 80
Brooklyn, 181, 186, 271;
Harrington Putnam on, 213-249;
Dutch settlement, 213;
Dutch settlers described, 216-220;
first church, 220-222;
British rule, 224-227;
battle of Long Island, 228-240;
the Navy Yard, 242;
Fort Lafayette, 244-248;
modern Brooklyn, 248
Brooklyn Institute, 249
Brown, General, in War of 1812, 378, 380, 381
Brown, H. K., 119, 125, 135
Bryant, Wm. Cullen, 215
Buffalo, Rowland B. Mahany on, 367-391;
founding of, 367;
early history, 368;
incorporated, 370;
strategic position in the War of 1812, 373;
Perry’s victory, 376;
burning of, 377;
battle of Chippewa, 378;
Lundy’s Lane, 380;
unsuccessful siege by the British of Fort Erie, 381;
the Erie Canal, 382-384;
the modern city, 385-391
Burgoyne, surrender at Saratoga, 22, 23, 58-68;
imprisoned at Albany, 28
Burns, Robert, statue of, 36
Burr, Aaron, 28, 204, 205, 254, 259, 267
Burr, Rev. Aaron, 252, 259
Burr, Dr. Horace, 350
Burwell, Dr. G. N., 389
Bushy Run, battle at, 410
C
Cadwalader, in battle of Princeton, 275
Caledonia, captured in War of 1812, 374
Campanius, at Fort Christina, 339
Campbell, Douglas, cited, 6
Canada acquired by England, 19
Carnahan, James, 292
Carnegie, Andrew, 424
Carnegie Institute, 424
Carpenters’ Hall, 314
Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton, 28
Caverley’s statue of Burns, 36
Celeron, Louis, 397
Centennial Exhibition of 1876, 332
Champlain, Samuel, 45
Chapin, E. P., 390
Charles I., 13, 346
Charles II., 175
Chemnitz, surrender of, 339
Cherry Valley, 49
Chippewa, battle of, 378, 380
Christiana, Swedes settle on the, 337;
fortified, 355
Christina, Queen, 336
Christina Harbor, village of, 339
Christinaham, 346, 347
Church, S. H., on Pittsburgh, 393-426
Cincinnatus, Society of, 132
Clark, Abraham, signer, 268
Clinton, DeWitt, 205;
favors Erie Canal, 382, 383
Clinton, General George, at Saratoga, 69;
at Newburgh, 124-126
Clinton, Sir Henry, 194, 229, 236
Clinton, James, 124
Coit, George, 384
Colden, C., 121
Colden, Maria, 122
College Settlement, New York, 208
Colonnade Hotel, Philadelphia, 326
Columbia University, 207, 211
Colve, Captain, 175
Congress, first general American, 94
Congress, Continental, Witherspoon elected to, 265;
flees to Baltimore, 272;
meets in Nassau Hall, 286, 288;
Declaration of Independence, 318;
and the Indians, 412
Congress, U. S., and Whiskey Insurrection, 417
Congress Spring, see Saratoga
Connecticut, the, captured in War of 1812, 374
Constitution, the, 242
Constitution, U. S., adoption of, 367
Contrecœur, Captain, 399
Convention of 1787, 290
Cooper, J. Fenimore, 29, 110, 157, 205
Cooper Institute, 204
Cornwallis, Lord, 194;
at Brooklyn, 234-237;
at Trenton and Princeton, 271-283
Courcelle, 46
Coxe, Right Reverend A. C., 389
Cramps, shipbuilders, 326
Crane Hook, 349
Cronyn, Dr. John, 389
Crown Point, 40, 54
Curtis, G. W., 141, 205
D
“Daughters of the American Revolution,” 408
Davies, President, of Princeton, 259
de Beauvois, Carel, 222
Declaration of Independence, 265, 270, 318
de Kockerthal, Joshua, 107, 115
Delaware, Washington crossing the, 274
Delaware Historical Society, 358
Denny, Governor, 406
de Rochambeau, Count, 28
de Tracy, Lieutenant-General, 46
Detroit, the, captured in War of 1812, 374
Dickens, Charles, 206
Dickinson, John, 264
Dickinson, President, of Princeton, 252, 259
Dinwiddie, Governor, 394
Dongan, Governor, 10
Donop at Princeton, 282
Dordrecht, Synod of, 89
Dort, Synod of, 13
Downing, A. J., 116, 135
Downing, Charles, 135
Drummond, Lieutenant-General, besieges Fort Erie, 381
Duke Alexis, the Grand, 206
Duke of Veragua, 206
Duke of York, 9
Dunham, Carroll, 135
Dunlap, Wm., quoted, 17
Dunmore, Governor, at Pittsburgh, 410
Du Ponts, the, 357
Dutch church, Tarrytown, 152-156
Dutch East India Company, 3
Dutch West India Company, 7, 71, 75, 87, 335, 340
E
Eager, S. W., 135
Eagle, the, 341
Ebeling cited, 353
Ecuyer, Simon, 410
Edison, Thomas, 206
Edwards, Jonathan, at Princeton, 254, 256, 259
Elfsborg, 343
Elizabethtown, 252
Ellicott, Andrew, 367
Ellicott, Joseph, founds Buffalo, 367-369, 385;
favors Erie Canal, 382
Elliott, Lieut. J. D., in War of 1812, 374
Ellison house, Newburgh, 122, 126
Ellsworth, Oliver, 254, 291
Elsinborough, 343
Emperor of Brazil, 206
Erie Canal, history of, 104, 186, 382-385
Ettrick house, Newburgh, 128
F
Fairfax, Lord, estates of, 393
Fairmount Water-works, 324
Fall’s house, at Newburgh, 124
Faneuil Hall, 157
Fillmore, Millard, 383, 389
Finley, President, of Princeton, 260
Five Nations, see Indians
Flash, Sandy, 362
Fletcher, Governor, 46
Flypse, Vredryk, see Philips
Forbes, General, 405, 406
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, 380
Forsythe, Rev. John, 135
Forts: Albany, 9;
Amsterdam, 172;
Ann, 97;
Box, 232;
Carillon, 40;
Casimir, 341;
Christina, 339, 341, 343, 360;
Clinton, 121, 124, 125;
Corkscrew, 232;
Crailo, 30;
Defiance, 232, 233, 417;
Duquesne, 51, 401, 405, 406;
Edward, 41, 58, 97;
Elfsborg, 340, 341;
Erie, 373, 378, 380, 381;
Frederick, 40, 48;
Frontenac, 405;
George, 380;
Greene, 232;
Hamilton, 216, 244;
Hardy, 66;
Hunter, 97;
Johnson, 97;
Lafayette, 244-248, 416;
Lee, 271;
Montgomery, 121, 124, 125;
Nassau, 337, 340;
Necessity, 399;
Niagara, 407;
Orange, 7-9, 12, 73, 75, 80, 83;
Pitt, 407-410, 413, 414, 416;
Putnam, 232, 233, 239;
Schuyler, 97;
Stanwix, 58;
Sterling, 233;
Sumter, 362;
Ticonderoga, 19;
Washington, 271;
Wayne, 417;
William Henry, 18
Fort Stanwix Conference, 53
Forward, Oliver, 384
Fox’s Journal, 300, 302
Francis I., 2
Franklin, Benjamin, 20, 28, 99, 205, 307, 400
Franklin Institute, 310
Franklin, William, 265
Fraser at Saratoga, 60-64
Fraunces, Samuel, 184
Fraunces’s Tavern, 184
Frederick, Harold, 29
Freeman’s Farm, 59, 61
Freerman, Rev. B., 95
French and Indian Wars, 16, 46, 50, 91-93
Freneau, 269;
quoted, 175
Frontenac, 46;
and the Schenectady Massacre, 92
Fugitive Slave Law, 362
Fulton, Robert, 185, 206
G
Ganson, John, 389
Garrett, Thomas, 362
Gates, General, displaces Schuyler, 22;
at Saratoga, 57-68, 122
Gazette, The, of Buffalo, 373;
of Pittsburgh, 416
Genêt, 418
George II., 17;
portrait of, 282, 287
George III., statue of, in Bowling Green, 194
Germantown in the Revolution, 320
Gibbs’s St. Martin in the Fields, 317
Gilder, J. B., on New York City, 169-211
Gilman, Governor, 69
Girard College, 326
Gist, Christopher, 394
Gowanus, 213, 218, 233;
Canal, 214
Grant, Major, defeat of, 405
Grant, Mrs., of Laggan, 18
Grant’s Hill, fight at, 405
Gravesend settled by English, 222
Gray’s Ferry, Hessians at, 320
Great Britain, wars with, 373-382, 411, 413
Great Meadows, battle at, 399
Greeley, Horace, 205
Green, Ashbel, 292
Greene, Gen. Nathaniel, 122;
plans defensive works for Brooklyn, 232;
in battle of Princeton, 276
Greenwich, New Yorkers at, 188
Griffin, La Salle’s vessel, 384
Gustavus Adolphus and Usselinx, 335
H
Hale, Nathan, statue of, 195
Half Moon, Hudson’s, 2, 3, 110, 170
Hall, James, 35
Hamilton, Alexander, 205;
marriage of, 28;
political principles of, 180;
in Philadelphia, 320
Hamilton, Governor, 252
Hancock, John, 314, 412
Hand, General, 276, 281, 412
Harlem absorbed by New York, 188
Harrison, Provost C. C., of University of Pennsylvania, 324
Hart, John, Signer, 268
Hasbrouck, Col. J., 121, 127
Hasbrouck House, 126
Hawley, Jesse, and the Erie Canal, 382
Headley, J. T., 111, 135
Helvetius, Madame, 310
Henry, Joseph, 35, 292
Hessians, at Trenton, 270-274;
at Gray’s Ferry, 320
Hiawatha, real story of, 81-83
Hitchcock at battle of Princeton, 281
Hodge, Mr., at Buffalo, 373
Holland Land Company, 369
Holland, laws of, 85;
States-General of, 3, 71, 143
Hollendare, Peter, 339
Holy Trinity church, Wilmington, 350
Hopkins, Stephen, 20
Hopkinson, Francis, Signer, 269
Houdon’s bust of Franklin, 308
Howe, Admiral, 230, 271, 272
Howe, Lord, 194;
at New York, 230, 236;
at Brooklyn, 239
Howe, Lord Viscount, death of, 19, 22, 51
Howells, W. D., 205
Hudde at Fort Nassau, 337
Hudson, Henry, 2, 3, 45, 110, 140, 142, 143, 164
“Hugh Wynne,” 318
Hunter, Governor, 14
I
Independence Hall, 157, 317
Indians in history of Saratoga, 16 ff.;
of Schenectady, 75-84, 91-93;
of Buffalo, 369;
of Pittsburgh, 394-411, 416
Ingoldsby, Major, 48
Ingoldsby, Richard, 112
Iroquois, see Indians
Irvine, Gen. Wm., 413
Irving, Washington, 9, 30, 81, 110, 161-166, 205, 344;
quoted, 146, 147
J
James, Duke of York, 175, 346
James, Henry, 29
James II., 91
Jamestown, Va., 157
Jay, John, 132, 180, 205
Jefferson, Thomas, writes Declaration of Independence, 265, 318
Jensen, Sally, 122
Jogues, Father, 9, 76
Johnson, Sir John, 97
Johnson, Sir William, 17, 51, 52, 97
Johnstown Flood, 421
Jumel Mansion, 202-204
Jumonville, death of, 399
K
Kalm, 314
Kayadrossera patent, the, 45, 53, 55
Keith, Governor, 327
Kennedy, Colonel, 194
Kennedy House, the, 197
Kidd, Captain, 206
Kieft, Governor, 336, 337
King George’s War, 48
King’s College, 179;
see Columbia College
Kip, Leonard, 29
Kipling, Rudyard, 206
Knickerbocker, Diedrich, 164
Knoll, Rev. M. C., 116
Knox, General, 122
Knox, Lucy, 122
Königsmark, rebellion of, 346
Kosciuszko at Saratoga, 58
Kossuth, Louis, 206
L
La Dauphine, Verrazzano’s ship, 2
Lafayette, 28, 206;
at Newburgh, 122, 132;
at Princeton, 292;
in the French Revolution, 418
Lake Erie, battle of, 376
Landon, J. S., on Schenectady, 71-106
Larned at Saratoga, 62
La Salle, 384
Lawrenceville School, 295
Le Brun, Napoleon, 330
Le Couteulx, L. S., founds asylum, 370
Lee, Bishop Alfred, 349, 350
Lee, R. H., 266
Leisler, Jacob, 91, 95, 177, 178
L’Enfant, Capt. P. C., and plan for the National Capital, 368
Lewis, Elizabeth, 352, 365
Lexington, battle of, 20, 228, 411
Li Hung Chang at New York, 206
Lincoln, A., his body brought to New York, 204
Lindstrom, P., Swedish engineer, 339, 341
Livingston, Catherine, 25
Livingston, Chancellor, 197, 205
Livingston, Philip, 25, 30, 36
Logstown and the Ohio Company, 394, 397
London, Philadelphia compared with, 300
Longfellow cited, 29, 83, 314
Long Island, battle of, 229-240
Lord, Rev. Dr. John, 389
Louisburg, expedition against, 405
Lovejoy, Mrs. Joshua, 377
Lovelace, Lord, 107, 175, 176
Low, Seth, Mayor of Brooklyn, 248
Lundy’s Lane, battle of, 380
Luther, Martin, 264
Lutherans, German, at Newburgh, 108-117
Lützen, battle of, 336
Luzerne, French envoy, 288
M
Mabie, H. W., on Tarrytown, 137-167
Maclean, John, 292
Madison, James, 290, 291;
quoted, 267
Mahany, R. B., on Buffalo, 367-391
Maidenhead, skirmish at, 276
Maine, the, 244
Manhattan, island of, 75, 80, 142, 169, 213, 214, 219
Manhattanville absorbed by New York, 188
Manning, Captain, 175
Manning, James, 254
Mantua, village of, 327
Marquis Ito, 206
Martin, Luther, 254
Martin, Thomas, Madison to, 267
Mather, Cotton, 221
Mauritius, 3, 7
Mawhood, Colonel, at Princeton, 280
Mayflower, the, 4, 5, 110
McCosh, President James, 295
McKean, Governor, 358
McKinly, President John, 355
McMahon, James P., 390
Megapolensis, Domine, 9
Mercer at battle of Princeton, 279-283
Messenger, The, of Ontario, 382
Metropolitan Museum, N. Y., 208
Meynders, Birgert, 118, 121
Midwout, 219, 220
Mifflin in battle of Princeton, 275
Miles, Colonel, at Brooklyn, 235
Miller, Rev. John, 10
Minquas River, 337, 357
Minuit, Peter, in New Netherlands, 172, 173, 336
Mischienza, the, 316, 320
Mohawks, see Indians
Monmouth’s Rebellion, 302
Montcalm, death of, 407
Montgomery, Robert, 357
Montreal, 178;
massacre of, 46;
capture of, 407
Moravians come to Philadelphia, 302
Morgan, Gen. Daniel, at Saratoga, 58-62
Morgan, Col. George, to John Hancock, 412
Morris, Gouverneur, 180, 205;
favors Erie Canal, 382
Morris, Robert, 288, 314;
in the Trenton campaign, 275;
house, 320
Morristown, 285;
Washington marches to, 283
Morse, S. F. B., 35, 206
Morven, 265, 271, 273
Moses, Rhind’s statue of, 36
Mount McGregor, 46, 48
Music Fund Hall, Philadelphia, 325
Myggenborg, see Elfsborg
N
Napier, General, cited, 381
Nassau Hall, 254, 258, 264, 269, 270, 281, 294, 296
Navy Yard, Brooklyn, 242-244
New Amsterdam, 143, 144, 346;
taken by the English, 175, 224;
name changed to New York, 175, 187, 224;
Buffalo first named, 367, 372
Newburgh, Adelaide Skeel on, 107-135;
the Palatine settlement, 107-117;
the coming of the Scotch and English, 117-121;
in the Revolution, 121-126;
Washington’s stay in, 126;
the Nicola letter, 127;
capture of Ettrick, 128-130;
Washington’s address to the unpaid troops, 131;
recent history, 132-135
New Castle, Del., 364
New Netherlands, fur trade in, 71
New Utrecht, 216
New York, 271, 317;
J. B. Gilder on, 169-211;
Dutch settlement, 169-175;
captured by the English, 175;
recaptured by the Dutch, 175;
governorship of Andros, 176;
resumption of Dutch authority, 177;
Leisler’s rule, 177;
in the Revolution, 178-184;
in the War of 1812, 184-186;
in the Civil War, 186;
expansion of, 187-189;
the Tammany Society, 189;
historic survivals in, 190-204;
characteristics of, 204-211
New York Central Railroad, 78
New York University, 207, 211
Niagara, Shirley’s expedition against, 51
Niagara Falls, 369, 386
Nicola, Colonel, letter to Washington, 127, 132
Nicolls, Colonel, at New Amsterdam, 175, 177, 224
Nieu Nederlandt, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9
Niles, Nathaniel, 254
Nott, President E., 105, 106
O
Ohio Company formed, 397
“Old French War,” 96
Old Jersey, the ship, 242
Old Swedes’ Church, Wilmington, 350-352
Oxenstiern revives the Usselinx charter, 336
P
Paige, E. W., cited, 83
Paine, Thomas, 205
Palatines, at Newburgh, 108-117;
at Philadelphia, 302
Palmer, the sculptor, 36
Paris, treaty of, 97;
New York compared with, 317
Parker, Judge, 36
Paterson, William, 252, 290
Patton, President, of Princeton, 295
Paulding, J., 160
Paulding, J. K., 110
Penn, John, house of, 312
Penn, Letitia, house of, 304
Penn, William, 333;
founds Philadelphia, 298-307, 316;
grants charter to Wilmington, 353
Penn family’s charter to Pennsylvania annulled, 413
Pennsylvania, charter to, 413;
dispute with Va., 414
Pennsylvania Historical Society, 323
Pennsylvania Hospital, 314
Pepper, Dr. William, services to the University of Pennsylvania, 324
Percy, Lord, at Brooklyn, 236
Perry, Commodore, 376
Philadelphia, Talcott Williams on, 297-334;
geographical site, 297;
early houses, 298;
coming of William Penn, 300-302;
rapid growth of city, 302-317;
in the Revolution, 317-320;
between 1790 and 1820, 320-323;
history of water supply, 323;
the University of Pennsylvania, 324;
the city before the Civil War, 325-329;
modern Philadelphia, 329-334
Philadelphia Library, 306
Philips, Frederick, and his Manor, 145-151
Phipps, Henry, conservatory of, 424
Pilgrims compared with Palatines, 113
Pitt, William, statue of, 194;
befriends colonies, 404
Pittsburgh, S. H. Church on, 393-426;
site determined by Washington, 393;
first permanent settlement, 397;
taken by French, 399;
the Braddock expedition, 399-404;
English take Fort Duquesne and name it Pittsburgh, 406;
Indians attack, 409;
in the Revolution, 411-413;
becomes the county seat, 414;
in the Indian war of 1791, 416;
the Whiskey Insurrection, 417;
incorporated, 418;
the strike of 1877, 420;
industrial importance, 422;
higher life of, 423-426
Plymouth Rock, 6
Poe, Edgar Allan, 205
Polhemus, Rev. Mr., at Brooklyn, 220, 221
Pontiac, confederacy of, 408
Poor at Saratoga, 62
Porter, General P. B., in War of 1812, 378, 381;
favors Erie Canal, 382
Pratt Institute, 248
Prince of Wales, 206
Princess Eulalia, 206
Princeton, W. M. Sloane on, 251-296;
first settlement, 251;
College of New Jersey established at Elizabethtown, 252;
removed to Princeton, 254;
parting from Yale, 254;
early character, 256-260;
Witherspoon and his administration, 260-266;
Revolutionary spirit in, 266-270;
the Trenton campaign, 272;
battle of Princeton, 274-284;
mutinous Continentals at, 285;
Congress meets at, 286;
Washington’s visits to, 287;
contributions to the Convention of 1787, 289-291;
modern Princeton, 291-296
Prinz, John, in New Sweden, 339-342
Pruyn, John V. L., 35, 36
Putnam, at Brooklyn, 234;
at Philadelphia, 272;
at Princeton, 285
Putnam, Gideon, at Saratoga, 69
Putnam, Harrington, on Brooklyn, 213-249
Q
Quassaick, 107, 114, 118, 127, 128
Quebec, capture of, 407
Queen Anne, 108;
gives bell to Lutherans at Newburgh, 115, 117
Queen Anne’s War, 48, 96
Queen Charlotte, British war vessel, 375
Queen Charlotte, portrait of, 184
Queen’s Head Tavern, 184
Queenstown in War of 1812, 380
R
Raymond, President, of Union College, 106
Red Jacket in War of 1812, 380
Rensselaerswyck, 8, 28, 73, 80, 81, 87
Revolution, Philadelphia in the, 318
Reynolds, Marcus, quoted, 28
Rhind’s statue of Moses, 36
Riall, General, burns Buffalo, 377;
retreats, 380, 381
Richardson, H. H., 31, 424
Richardson, William, 390
Richmond Hill, 202
Riedesel, Madame, 64, 65
Ripley, General, at Fort Erie, 381
Rising, John Claudius, 341
Rittenhouse, 314;
his observatory, 318
Roe, E. P., 135
Rogers, Wm. F., 390
Romeyn, Domine, 102, 103
Roosevelt, Governor, cited, 178
Ross house, the Betsy, 316
Rudman, Pastor, cited, 345
Ruttenber, E. M., 135
Ryan, Bishop S. V., 389
Ryswyck, peace of, 95
S
St. Augustine, 157
St. Clair, defeat of, 416
St. Francis de Sales, Order of, 28
St. George’s church, Schenectady, 101
St. John, Mrs., 377
St. Luke’s church, Philadelphia, 326
St. Mark’s Church, Philadelphia, 326
St. Martin in the Fields, Gibbs’s, 317
St. Paul’s chapel, New York, 201, 202
St. Peter’s church, Albany, 19, 32
Santo Domingo, 357
Saratoga, E. H. Walworth on, 39-69;
site of, 39-42;
the name, 42-44;
French and Indian struggles for site, 45-48;
massacre of old Saratoga, 49;
Seven Years’ War, 50-52;
medicinal value of Saratoga waters discovered, 52;
the Fort Stanwix Conference, 53;
preliminary warfare of the American Revolution, 54-56;
Burgoyne’s defeat and surrender, 56-68;
General Schuyler makes old Saratoga his summer resort, 68;
Gideon Putnam founds the present Saratoga, 69
Sassoonan, 397
Schaets, Rev. Gideon, 89
Schenectady, 16, 29, 46;
J. S. Landon on, 71-106;
settled, 71;
subject to the Dutch West India Company, 71-73;
Arendt Van Curler’s directorship, 75-83;
land purchased from the Indians, 83;
character of the early settlement, 83-87;
under English rule, 87-90;
the first legislative assembly, 90;
government seized by Leisler, 91;
Indian wars, 92-96;
Schenectady in the Revolution, 97-99;
religious history, 100-103;
modern history, 104-106
Schenley, Mary, 424
Schermerhoorn, Symon, 16
Schonowe, 79, 81
Schoonmaker, Domine, 226
Schute, Swen, 343, 365
Schuyler, Elizabeth, marriage of, 28
Schuyler, Margaret, 29
Schuyler, Peter, 12, 46
Schuyler, Philip, shot by Indians, 49
Schuyler, Gen. Philip, 19, 22, 23, 27, 28;
in battle of Saratoga, 58-68;
visits Saratoga Springs, 68
Schuyler, Mrs. Philip, 18
Schuyler Mansion, 27
Schuylerville, 22, 41
Scott, Walter, 162
Scott, Gen. Winfield, in War of 1812, 378, 381
Selyns, Rev. H., at Brooklyn, 221
Seneca Chief, first boat on Erie Canal, 382
Seven Years’ War, 50
Seymour, Governor, quoted, 22
Shelton, Rev. Dr. Wm., 389
Sherman, Roger, 291
Shipley, Elizabeth, 365
Shipley, William, at Wilmington, 352, 365
Shirley, expedition of, 51
Six Nations, see Indians
Skeel, Adelaide, on Newburgh, 107-135
Skipper Block, 170
Sleepy Hollow, 147, 164, 167
Sloane, W. M., on Princeton, 251-296
Sloughter, Governor, replaces Leisler, 177
Smith, James M., 390
Smithsonian Institution, 294
Spaulding, E. G., introduces Legal-Tender Act, 391
Spuyten Duyvil Creek, fight at, 170
Squaw Island, the Detroit aground on, 374
Stackpole, Dr., composes Yankee Doodle, 30
Stanhope, Samuel, 292
Stanwix, General, builds second Fort Pitt, 407
Stark, General, 275;
at Fort Edward, 66;
at Princeton, 281
Stedman, E. C., 205
Steuben, 28;
at Newburgh, 132
Stirling, in battle of Long Island, 234-239;
in Trenton campaign, 271
Stockton, Richard, 252, 265, 269
Stoddard, R. H., 205
Stone, Gen. C. P., imprisoned at Fort Lafayette, 245, 246
Strasburg Cathedral, 34
Stuyvesant, Peter, at New Amsterdam, 9, 81, 144, 175-177, 218-221, 248;
buys land west of the Delaware, 340;
captures forts on the Delaware, 343
Suffolk County in the Revolution, 228
Sullivan, General, at Brooklyn, 235-237;
at Princeton, 285
Sunnyside, Washington Irving at, 162, 163
Swedes, on the Delaware, 335-344;
their church at Philadelphia, 301
T
Tammany Hall, history of, 189, 190
Tarrytown, H. W. Mabie on, 137-167;
described, 137-140;
early Dutch settlements, 140-145;
derivation of name, 146;
the Philips Manor-House, 148-150;
the old Dutch church, 150-156;
Tarrytown in the Revolution, 157-160;
capture of John André, 158-161;
Washington Irving, 161-164
Tatnall, Joseph, Washington visits, 357;
gives clock to Wilmington, 359
Tawasentha, Vale of, 29
Taylor, Bayard, 205
Tenacong, see Tinicum
Thackeray, W. M., 206
Thaw, Wm., generosity to Pittsburgh, 424
Thesschenmaecher, Rev. Petrus, 88
Ticonderoga, 19, 40, 51, 54, 233, 405
Tiemann, Mayor, death of, 170
Tifft house, the, 377
Tilden, Samuel J., 205
Tinicum, Prinz’s fort at, 340
Torkillius, Rev. R., at Fort Christina, 338, 365
Townsend, Charles, 384
Townsend, Sam, 361
Tran Hook, see Crane Hook
Treaty of 1783, 289
Trefalldigheet, 343
Trent, Captain Wm., establishes first settlement at Pittsburgh, 397-399
Trenton, battle of, 270-274
Trinity Church, New York, 227
Tryon, Governor, quoted, 56
Tusculum, 271
U
Union College, 102-106
University of Pennsylvania, 324
University Settlement, New York, 208
Usselinx, Wm., and his trading company, 335
Utrecht, 216;
treaty of, 96
V
Vallandigham, E. N., on Wilmington, 335-365
Van Curler, Arendt, at Schenectady, 75-84, 92
Vanderheyden Palace, 30
Van Rensselaer, Killiaen, 8, 75
Van Rensselaer, Stephen, 25
Van Rensselaer Island, 4
Van Rensselaer Manor-House, 25, 26
Van Slechtenhorst, Brandt, 9
Van Twiller, Walter, 336
Van Wart, Isaac, 160
Van Wyck house, 132
Van Wyck, James, 132
Verplanck house, 131
Verrazzano, 2
Versailles, peace of, 289
Virginia, dispute with Pennsylvania, 414
Vliessingen, see Flushing
Von Königsmark, 346
Von Steuben, see Steuben
W
Waalboght, 213
Wadsworth, Colonel, 122
Wallabout, village of, 224, 233, 242
Walk-in-the-Water, first steamboat on Lake Erie, 384
Walworth, E. H., on Saratoga, 39-70
War of 1812, see various chapters
Washington, plan of city, 187, 368
Washington, George, and the site of Pittsburgh, 393;
at Great Meadows, 399;
with Braddock, 404;
opens road to Fort Duquesne, 405;
at Schenectady, 98;
in battle of Long Island, 238-240;
at Trenton and Princeton, 270-290;
at Saratoga, 69;
in New York, 181, 182, 194, 197-202;
at Newburgh, 114, 122, 126-131;
visits Wilmington, 355-358;
instructions to St. Clair, 416;
plan for the National Capital, 367;
quoted, 1, 23, 238
Watkins, Rev. H., 118
Wayne, Anthony, 125, 286, 416
Webb, Captain Thomas, 101
Weigand’s Tavern, Newburgh, 126
Wesley, John, 101
Western University of Pennsylvania, 416
West India Company, 143, 173
West Point, 122, 160, 378
Whiskey Insurrection, 417
Whitefield, George, 256
Whitman, Walt, 205
William and Mary, 91
William III., 177
William IV., 206
Williams, David, 160
Williams, Talcott, on Philadelphia, 297-334
Williams College, 26
Williams house, Newburgh, 122
Williams, William I., 389
Willing, Thomas, founds Wilmington, 352
Willingstown, 352
Willis, N. P., 110, 135
Wilmington, E. N. Vallandigham on, 335-365;
plans of Usselinx, 335;
expedition of Minuit, 336;
settlement on the Christina, 337;
governorship of Prinz, 339;
struggles of the Swedes and Dutch for the Delaware, 341-344;
Dutch rule, 344-346;
English supremacy, 346;
friendly services of Wm. Penn, 346-349;
Old Swedes’ church, 349;
Wilmington laid out, 352;
services of William Shipley, 352;
the earlier city, 353-360;
before and in the Civil War, 360-364;
modern changes, 364
Winthrop, Fitz John, 46
Witherspoon, John, 254, 260-271, 290, 291
Wiedrich, Michael, 390
Wilkeson, Samuel, 384
Wilkeson, John, 390
Worth, Captain, in War of 1812, 381
Wolfe, death of, 19, 52, 407
Wolfert’s Roost, 161
Wyncoop, Gitty, 122
Wyoming Valley, 49
Y
Yale relations with Princeton, 254
Yorktown, 127, 182
Yorkville absorbed by New York, 188
Z
Zoölogical Garden, Philadelphia, 323