INDEX.

[Reference is commonly made but once to a book, if repeatedly mentioned in the text; but other references are made when additional information about the book is conveyed.]

Abercrombie, Lt.-Col., at Yorktown, 504.

Acland, Lady, 357;

portrait, 358.

Acland, Major, 294, 308, 357, 358.

Acton, Mass., men at Concord, 184.

Acts of trade, 2, 6, 63;

evaded, 10;

enforced, 11.

Adams, Abigail, 205;

on Bunker Hill, 187.

Adams, Brooks, Emancipation of Mass., 255.

Adams, C. F., on John Hancock, 271.

Adams, H. B., Maryland's influence upon land cessions, 708.

Adams, John, on Acts of Trade, 7, 9;

on Otis's argument on Writs of Assistance, 11;

report of Otis's argument, 13;

demands reopening of courts, closed by want of stamps, 32;

his political philosophy, 35;

on Canon and Feudal Law, 35, 83;

likeness, 36;

Dutch edition of his acc. of the troubles with Great Britain, 36;

his personal appearance, 36;

painted by Copley, 36;

by Stuart, 36;

by Trumbull, 36;

by Winstanley, 36;

engravings of, 36;

of his wife, 36;

his homestead, 36;

his writing in fac-simile, 37;

his part against Great Britain, 37;

defends Capt. Preston, 49;

autog., 51;

leads in impeachment of Oliver, 57;

in Congress (1774), 59;

presides at Port Act meeting, 60;

and the navigation laws, 64;

in the Congress of 1765, 74;

brief at trial of Preston, 86;

helps Sam. Adams in the replies to Hutchinson (1773), 90;

on the tea-ship commotions, 91;

controversy with Brattle on the payment of judges, 95;

Familiar letters, 95;

in the Congress of 1774, 99;

notes of debates in Congress of 1774, 100;

drafts part of the Declaration of Rights, 100;

notes on debates in Congress of 1775, 107;

controversy with Daniel Leonard, 108;

as Novanglus, 110;

Hist. of the dispute, 110;

considered Jonathan Sewall his adversary, 110;

attracts attention (1774), 117;

uneasy over Washington's inaction at Cambridge, 152;

visits Lexington, 180;

on independence, 238;

on com. to draft Declaration of Independence, 239;

in debate, 239;

his intercepted letters, 249;

his belief in independence, 249;

outspoken for independence, 255;

on the growing spirit of independence, 257;

owned portrait of Jefferson, 258;

leading advocate of the Decl. of Indep., 261;

autog. 263;

life of Hancock, 265;

life by E. Ingersoll, 266;

on Hancock, 271;

on Paine's Common Sense, 272;

his Thoughts on Government, 272;

preceded by letter to R. H. Lee, 272;

letter to John Penn, 272;

on observing the anniversary of the Decl. of Indep., 274;

drafts the Mass. Constitution, 274;

Defence of the Constitutions, 274;

lives in New York, 276;

weary of Washington's Fabian policy, 392;

proposes to elect generals annually, 446;

his interest in naval matters, 567;

goes to France with Com. Tucker, 567;

on employing Indians, 673.

Adams, Josiah, Address, 184.

Adams, Samuel, portraits, 40, 41;

autograph, 40;

painted by Copley, 40;

by John Johnson, 41;

statue, 41;

in the Mass. legislature, 42;

his political writings, 42, 83;

compared with Lord Mansfield's speeches, 43;

demands that the troops in Boston be removed to the Castle (1770), 49;

moves for a com. of correspondence, 54;

in Congress (1774), 59;

would prevent reconciliation, 60;

wrote the answers of the legislature to Gov. Hutchinson, 67, 90;

Vindication of the Town of Boston, 67;

first mover against taxation, 68;

wrote the replies to Bernard, 73;

Appeal to the World, 84;

Letter to Hillsborough, 84;

on "Vindex", 86;

writes Hancock's massacre oration, 88;

and com. of correspondence, 89;

Rights of the Colonies, 90;

proposes Congress, 99;

proposes Duché for chaplain of Congress (1774), 99;

in the Congress of 1774, 99;

had a hand in the Declaration of Rights (1774), 100;

the tribune of the Mass. yeomanry, 113;

returns from the Congress of 1774, 116;

repute in London, 117;

at Lexington (1775), 122, 179;

excepted from pardon, 132;

urges independence, 231, 257;

in the Cont. Congress, 236;

his character, 236;

alienated from Hancock, 238;

the earliest to avow independence, 248;

Galloway on, 254, 255;

autog., 263;

life by H. D. Gilpin, 266;

a spurious Oration, 274;

and the Conway cabal, 446.

Admiralty courts, 4, 6, 10;

first held in N. E., 65;

instituted, 567.

Adolphus, England, 112.

Agnew, Daniel, Region of Penna. north of the Ohio, 709.

Agnew, General, 427;

killed, 386.

Agnew, J. L., Savannah, 519.

Ainslee, Capt. Thomas, Journal, 222.

Aitkins, Plan of Boston, 207.

Aix-la-Chapelle, treaty, 14.

Alamance, battle of, 81.

Albach, James R., Annals of the West, 648.

Albany, 609;

Indian treaty at (Aug., 1775), 623;

plan of (1770), 298.

Alden, Col. Ichabod, at Cherry Valley, 636;

killed, 638.

Alden, Fort (Cherry Valley), 666.

Alexander, Capt. James, 534.

Allaire, Anthony, diary, 525, 535.

Allan, Col. John, 657;

correspondence with Haldimand, 657.

Alleghany River, 609.

Allen, Battles of the British navy, 589.

Allen, Ethan, 160;

autog., 128;

would lead an invasion of Canada, 160;

at Ticonderoga, 161, 213;

captured at Montreal, 162;

statue, 214;

Narrative, 214;

letters, 214;

lives of, 214;

a price on his head offered in N. Y., 214;

seeks to enlist Canadian Indians, 614;

Indians with, 660.

Allen, Ira, Ship Olive Branch, 214;

letters (1776), 227;

on the evacuation of Ticonderoga, 350.

Allen, James, poem on the Boston Massacre, 88.

Allen, James (Philad., 1777), diary, 260, 436.

Allen, Jolley, 205.

Allen, Paul, Amer. Rev., 664.

Allen, Wm., Arnold's Expedition, 1775, 217.

Allen, William, Jr., 395.

Allenstown, N. J., 410.

"Alliance", ship, 576, 577, 584, 586.

Allyn, Chas., 562.

Almon, Seat of War in N. Y., etc., 416.

Almon's Remembrancer, important documents in, 653.

Alsop, John, 108.

Amboy, 340, 404, 408;

map of, 342.

American and British Chronicle of War, 672.

American Revolution, causes of, 5, 62;

ecclesiasticism as a cause, 62;

authorities on the causes, 62, 255;

earliest outbreaks, 173.

See names of heroes and battles of the war.

Ames, Nathaniel, Astron. diary, 82;

Almanac, 118.

Amherst, Gen., and the Pontiac conspiracy, 692.

Amory, T. C., Old and New Cambridge, 142;

defends Gen. Sullivan, 598;

Gen. Sullivan, 666;

papers on Sullivan, 667;

James Sullivan, 83.

Analectic Magazine, 187.

Anayea, 669.

Anburey, Thomas, Travels, 360.

Anderson, Col. Robt., 677.

Anderson, W. J., 216.

André, Maj. John, at Boston, 204;

in Philadelphia, 395;

in the Mischianza, 436;

his letters to Mrs. Arnold, 449;

as "John Anderson", 449;

profile likeness, 452;

autographs, 452, 453;

other portraits, 453, 454;

one by Reynolds, 454;

sketch by himself, 454, 461;

Adj.-General, 453;

his instructions from Clinton, 454;

on the "Vulture", 454;

lands at the Clove, 454;

meets Arnold, 454;

goes to Smith's house, 455;

receives papers from Arnold, 455;

disguises himself, 456;

goes by land towards New York, 456;

captured, 457;

papers found on him, 457;

their history, 457;

carried to Jameson, 458;

writes a letter to Washington, 458;

at West Point, 460;

confined at Tappan, 460;

before a military board, 460;

condemned, 460;

proceedings of the board printed, 460;

various editions, 460;

subject of tragedy, 460, 464;

Clinton endeavors to save him, 461;

requests to be shot, 461;

his conduct, 461;

his sketches, 461;

hanged, 461;

his remains taken to England, 461;

his statement, 461;

his monument, 463;

his mother pensioned, 463;

Life by W. Sargent, 464;

Papers on, ed. by Dawson, 464;

captured at St. John, 464;

a prisoner, 464;

served with Gen. Grey, 464;

his lineage, 464;

his will, 464;

bibliography, 464;

various papers on, 464;

his captors honored, 466;

their patriotism questioned, 466;

his confinement, 466;

justice of his execution, 322, 467;

his character, 467;

his last hours, 467;

Case of Maj. André, 467;

was he a spy at Charleston? (1780), 468;

his Cow Chace, 560;

tragedy of, 560.

André, Mémoire de Paul Jones, 590.

Andrews, John, letters from Boston, 90, 178, 205.

Annapolis, Md., Washington at, 747.

Annual Register, 516.

Antell, E., his plan of siege of Quebec, 226;

express from Quebec, 222.

Anthony, H. B., on Ternay's tomb, 499;

address on Greene, 510.

Anthony's Nose (Hudson River), 324.

Appleton, W. S., 110.

Appletown, N. Y., 669.

Appoquinimink Creek, 421.

Apthorpe, Considerations on the conduct, etc., 70;

Review, 70.

Arbuthnot, Admiral Mariot, attacks Charlestown, S. C., 472, 526, 527;

blockades Newport, 560;

controversy with Clinton, 517;

succeeded Graves, 517.

Armand, Col., 533;

with Gates, 477.

Armstrong, Gen., on Burgoyne's campaign, 358;

on Germantown, 421;

Newburgh addresses, 745.

Armstrong, J., Richard Montgomery, 216.

Armstrong, John, Life of Wayne, 514.

Armstrong, M., 209.

Armstrong commands the Penna. militia, 381.

Arnell, Dr., Address, 662.

Arnold, Benedict, in Cambridge (1775), 128;

shares command with Allen at Ticonderoga, 129;

surprised St. John's (1775), 130;

trouble with Ethan Allen, 130;

at Ticonderoga, 161;

commences Kennebec expedition, 162;

before Quebec, 163;

wounded, 165;

his post at Cedar Rapids attacked, 166;

interest in Gen. Warren's children, 194;

commissioned by Mass. to take Ticonderoga, 213;

Dawson's view of his connection with Ticonderoga, 214;

his regimental book, 214;

letters, 214;

part in the Canada expedition, 216;

instructions for the Kennebec route, 217 (see Kennebec expedition);

his journal, 218;

his letters, 218, 219, 220;

intercepted, 222;

portraits, 223;

autog., 223;

letters during the retreat, 226;

in command on Lake Champlain, 292, 346;

at Valcour's Island, 292;

escapes, 293;

joins Schuyler, 298;

advances toward Fort Stanwix, 300, 350, 632;

under Gates, 304;

at Freeman's Farm, 305;

quarrel with Gates, 306;

in fight of Oct. 7, 1777, 308;

was he at Freeman's Farm? 315, 357;

wounded (Oct. 7, 1777), 357;

at Trenton, 379;

marries, 402;

did he suggest the attack on Trenton? 407;

his treason, 447;

portraits, 447, 448, 449;

the beginning of his treasonable correspondence, 447, 448;

his birthplace, 448;

his house, 448;

his marriage, 449;

as "Gustavus", 449;

gives Clinton information, 449;

not trusted by Congress, 450;

at Danbury, 450;

made major-general, 450;

fac-simile of his commission, 450;

his wife at Robinson house, 458;

in command in Philad., 367, 400, 402, 450, 451;

charges against him by the Council of Penna., 450;

court-martial, 402, 450, 451;

his accounts of the Canada expedition questioned, 450;

reprimanded by Washington, 403, 451;

at the Robinson house, 452;

his treasonable letters preserved, 452;

efforts to meet André, 453;

his passes, 453;

his price, 454, 463;

meets André, 454;

receives Jameson's letter, 458;

his flight, 458;

his aides grow suspicious, 460;

attempts to intercept him, 460;

sends letter to Washington, 460;

his aides, 460;

has plans of West Point, 460;

threats if André is executed, 461;

his life in England, 463;

in New Brunswick, 463;

his descendants, 463;

his address of exculpation, 463;

his proclamation to induce desertion, 463;

his vindication in Remarks on Travels of Chastellux, 463;

authorities on his treason, 463;

Life by Sparks, 464;

Life by I. N. Arnold, 464;

his own telling of the story, 466;

attempt to seize him, 468;

in Virginia, 495, 546, 732;

distrusted by Clinton, 546;

invades Connecticut, 562;

had Indians with him on the Kennebec exped., 614;

his treason and the northern invasions, 672;

his capture attempted, 732.

Arnold, S. G., in the Rhode Island campaign, 595.

Arnold, Isaac N., on Benedict Arnold at Freeman's Farm, 357;

"Arnold at the court of George III", 463;

Life of Benedict Arnold, 464;

his family, 464;

controverted by J. A. Stevens, 464;

his death, 464.

Asgill, Capt. Chas., case of, 744;

portrait, 745.

Ashe, Gen., 470;

at Briar Creek, 520;

his career, 520.

Ashley, John, 63.

Assanpink Creek, 375.

Atkinson, Newark, 560.

Atlas Amériquaine, 341.

Atlee, Col. S. J., 327.

Attenbocum, Capt., 411.

Attucks, Crispus, 85.

Atwill, Winthrop, Treason of Arnold, 466.

Aubry, Gov., at N. Orleans, 701.

Auchmuty, Judge, 119.

Auckland MSS., 467.

"Augusta", frigate, blown up, 387, 428;

picture of, 388.

Augusta, Georgia, its defences, 490;

siege of, 535, 544.

Austin, Jonathan Loring, carries news of Burgoyne's surrender to Europe, 364, 571;

journals of his trip, 586.

Austin, Jona. W., 88.

Avery, Joseph, 521.

Avery, Rufus, 562.

Avery, Samuel, 662.

Babson, Gloucester, 568.

Bacon, Leonard W., on the invasion of Conn., 557;

address on Groton Heights, 562.

Badeaux, J. B., Invasion du Canada, 223.

Bailey, J. T., Brooklyn, 329.

Baker, W. S., American Engravers, 81, 185;

William Sharp, 492.

Balcarras, Earl, 366;

with Burgoyne, 294.

Balch, Thomas, 101;

Maryland Line, 202;

edits Blanchard's Journal, 554;

Les français en Amérique, 560.

Baldwin, C. C., on Vigo and G. R. Clark, 725.

Baldwin, Loammi, 187.

Baldwin, Samuel, Diary, 525.

Balfour, Capt., 118.

Balfour, Col., commands in Charleston, 517, 538, 541.

Ballston, N. Y., destroyed, 645.

Baltimore, Lord, 673.

Bancroft, Col. E., 189.

Bancroft, Geo., on the navigation acts, 64;

on the siege of Boston, 173;

his account of the Long Island battle criticised, 330;

on Arnold's treason, 464;

on Oriskany, 665;

on Wyoming, 665.

Bangs, Lieut., 326.

Banker, Gerard, 409.

Banks, James, Hist. Address, 676.

Barber, Col. Francis, 668;

order-book, 670.

Barber, Geo. C., 670.

Barber, J. W., Hist Coll. N. Y., 666.

Barber, New Haven, 185.

Barclay, S., Personal Recollections, 329.

Barlow, Aaron, 216.

Barlow, Joel, on Thomas Paine, 253;

life by Burr, 253.

Barlow, S. L. M., owns Arnold's journal, 218.

Barnard, Hist. England, 461.

Barney, Joshua, Com. Acc. of, 575;

autog., 575.

Barney, Mary, Com. Joshua Barney, 575.

Barras, autog., 500;

succeeds Ternay, 499.

Barré, Isaac, accounts of, 72;

his speeches on the Stamp Act, 29, 72;

originates the phrase "Sons of Liberty", 72;

his portrait ordered by Boston, 74;

predicts loss of colonies, 85.

Barren Hill, Lafayette at, 396, 442;

map, 443.

Barrett, Col., 124.

Barrette, Lieut., 545.

Barretts, Samuel, 109.

Barrow, Sir John, Lord Howe, 594.

Barry, Henry, Strictures Examined, 106.

Barry, Com. John, his autog., 581;

on the "Raleigh", 581;

accounts of, 581;

in the "America", 583.

Bartlet, W. S., Frontier Missionary, 657.

Bartlett, Josiah, 186; on Bunker Hill, 194;

autog., 263;

life of, 265;

on privateering, 591.

Bartlett, J. R., Hist. of destruction of the Gaspee, 90;

dies, 90;

account of, by Gammell, 90.

Bartlett, S. C., on Bennington, 356.

Barton, Col., place of capturing Gen. Prescott, 602;

the capture, 403;

accounts of, 404;

his diary, 643.

Baton Rouge, 739.

Battle, K. P., 519.

Baum, Colonel, at Bennington, 300, 354;

death of, 356;

his instructions, 366.

Bauman, Sebastian, map of Yorktown, 551.

Baurmeister, Major, 333.

Bayley, Col., and the Indians, 614.

Bayley, Col. J., at Lake George, 346.

Beach, Allen C., Centennial Celebrations, 308.

Beach, W. W., Indian Miscellany, 657.

Beaman on Ticonderoga, 214.

Bean, T. W., Washington at Valley Forge, 416, 439.

Beardsley, Life of W. S. Johnson, 85.

Bears, Isaac, 178.

Beatson, Robert, Naval and Mil. Memoirs, 518, 589.

Beatty, Erkuries, 667;

his journal, 671.

Beatty, Capt. William, 418.

Beaulieu, Georgia, 470.

Beaurain, Carte de la Guerre, 416;

map of Boston and harbor, 213.

Becket, publishes Authentic Papers from America, 100.

Beckford, Alderman, 83.

Beckwith, H. W., Historic Notes, 718;

on Vigo, 725.

Bedell, Col. Timothy, 216;

at the Cedars, 616.

Bedford, Col. Gunning, 327.

Bedford, Duke of, 21.

Bedford (Long Island), 328.

Bedford (Mass.) men at Lexington, 184;

their flag, 184.

Bedford, Pa., taken, 691.

Beers, Nathan, 464.

Belisle, Independence Hall, 259.

Belknap, Dr. Jeremy, note-books, 189;

diary, 202;

life, 202.

Belknap, Jeremy, uncle of historian, 85.

Belknap, Jos., 85.

Bell, Andrew, 445.

Bell, Charles H., on the privateer "Gen. Sullivan", 591.

Bell, Robt., publishes Paine's Common Sense, 269.

Bellefeuille, Mr., 729.

Bellomont, Lord, 564.

Bellows, Col., 350.

Bemis Heights, Gates occupies, 304;

battle, 356.

See Saratoga.

Benedict, E. C., Battle of Harlem, 334.

Bennett, C. P., 545.

Bennington, Vt., authorities on the battle, 354;

loss at, 354;

Indians at, 627;

fight at, 300;

maps of the fight, 356.

Benson, Egbert, Vindication of the Captors of André, 466.

Bentalou, Paul, Pulaski Vindicated, 522, 524;

Reply to Johnson, 522.

Benton, N. S., Herkimer County, 351, 657.

Bergen Point, 343, 404.

Berkeley, Bishop, his house in Rhode Island, 602.

Bernard, Edward, view of Bunker Hill, 198;

Hist. of England, 273.

Bernard, Francis, Gov. of Mass., 12, 22;

his letters sent back to Boston, 83;

Causes of the present distractions, 106;

Select letters, 106;

his rebukes of the legislature, 34;

on the seizure of the "Liberty", 43;

and the Stamp Act, 73;

replies to him by the legislature, 73;

leaves Mass., 47, 84;

made baronet, 49;

his Letters, 67;

Letters to Hillsborough, etc., 84;

Letters to the Ministry, 84;

instructed to enforce the navigation laws, 32;

Third extraordinary Budget of epistles, 84;

Copies of letters, 84;

enforces laws of trade, 84;

his character, 84.

Bernard, John, Retrospections of America, 407.

Berniere. See Bernière.

Bernière, Henry de, 182;

plan of Bunker Hill battle, 199, 202;

criticised, 202.

Berthelot, Amable, 216.

Besom, Capt. Philip, narrative, 592.

Bethlehem, Pa., Moravian Sisters, 524.

Bickerstaff's Boston Almanac, 86.

Bickham, George, 372.

Bicknell, Barrington, R. I., 203.

Biddle, Chas. J., defends the execution of André, 468.

Biddle, James, 74.

Biddle, Capt. Nicholas, in the "Andrea Doria", 570;

portrait, 570;

in the "Randolph", 571;

engages the "Yarmouth", 571.

Bigelow, Col. Timothy, orderly-books (1779, 1780), 359.

Big-Knives (Kentuckians), 722.

Bilbao, prizes taken to, 592.

Billingsport, N. J., 386, 425;

attacked, 387.

Billon, Annals of St. Louis, 737.

Bishop, Hist. Amer. Manufactures, 108.

Bishops, their introduction opposed in N. E., 243.

Bisset, George III, 223.

Bixby, Samuel, 203.

Blackbird, Pa., 421.

Blackstocks, affair at, 480, 536.

Blanchard, Claude, Journal, 554.

Blanchard, Col., Map of N. Hampshire, 217.

Bland, Col. Theodoric, commands Convention troops in Virginia, 321;

his papers, 321;

Bland Papers, 321.

Bland, Richard, Enquiry, 85.

Blaskowitz, Charles, plan of Frog's Neck, 337;

chart of Narragansett Bay, 593, 601;

map of Newport, 597.

Bleecker, Capt. Leonard, order-book, 670.

Bliss, E. F., 736.

Blood, Thaddeus, 178.

Bloodgood, Sexagenary, 358.

Blowers, Sampson S., autog., 51.

Blue Licks, battle at, 730.

Board of War, 392, 437.

Boardman, S. W., Privateer Cromwell, 592.

Boardman, Timothy, Log-book, 591.

Bollan, William, Coloniæ Anglicanæ illustratæ, 70;

transmits Gage's letters to Boston, 83.

Bolton, Dr. Thomas, 120.

Bond, Col., 227.

Bonner, map of Boston, 207.

Bonneville, picture of D'Estaing, 594.

Boone, Daniel, portrait, 707;

his adventures, 708;

his biographers, 708;

in Kentucky, 710, 715;

defends his fort (1778), 716.

Boonesborough, Ky., 715.

Bordenton, 408, 410.

Border life, literature of, 248.

Border warfare, 605;

literature of, 248;

in the South, scant material for accounts of, 678.

Boston inflamed by the Grenville Act, 27;

arrival of troops (1766), 38;

threats to take her patriots to England for trial, 46;

troops sent to (1768), 43, 45;

(1769), 47;

Brazen Head, sign of, 47;

non-importation agreements, 49, 78;

Col. Dalrymple gets key of the Castle, 53;

tea-ships at, 57, 91;

Port Act meeting, 60;

affected by navigation laws, 64;

Observations of the merchants upon several Acts of Parliament, 64, 83;

Records, 67;

(1768) Revere's picture, 81;

convention to consider the coming of troops, 81;

agitation over the quartering of troops in Boston, 82;

Appeal to the world, 84;

petition to the king (1772), 89;

The American Alarm, 90;

the "Mohawks" and the tea-party, 91;

Votes and Proceedings respecting the tea-ships, 91;

warning broadside, 92;

accounts reach London, 92;

condition during the Port Bill, 95;

title of Port Bill Act, 95;

news arrives, 97;

broadside, 97;

records of this time in Boston City Hall, 95;

gifts to, 95;

effect of Port Bill, references, 96;

newspapers of 1775, 110;

blockade of, 113;

Gage shut up in, 114;

fortifies the Neck, 115;

Gage's force (Jan., 1775), 118;

meetings at the Green Dragon, 120;

maps of roads about, 120, 121;

after Lexington, families leaving the town, 125;

conditions of leaving, 128;

country Tories enter Boston, 128;

army besieging, 134;

British in, 134;

reinforcements under Burgoyne, Clinton, and Howe, 134;

Gates advises against an assault, 142;

want of provisions during the siege, 144;

contemporary views from Beacon Hill, 148-151;

British encampments on the Common, 149;

Howe advised by the ministry to abandon the town, 152;

the siege pressed, 152;

to be destroyed if necessary, 153;

plays acted, 153;

Boston Blockade, 153;

songs from, 154;

Tragedy of Zara, 155;

view of (1776), 157;

view of the Castle, 157;

the town evacuated, 158;

population, 158;

authorities on the siege, 172;

Washington proposed boat attack, 172;

Antique views, 185;

plan by Norman, 201;

siege of, 202;

account of the American camps, 202;

diaries, 202;

letters, 203;

orderly-books, 204;

the British camp, 204;

Newsletter printed, 204;

Liberty-tree cut down, 204;

houses occupied by British generals, 204;

British works, 204;

selectmen correspond with Gen. Thomas, 204;

diaries, letters, etc., during the siege, 204;

American prisoners in the town, 204;

evacuated, 205, 568;

Evacuation Memorial, 205;

property destroyed, 205;

Ward left in command, 205;

the Quakers of Philadelphia help the poor, 205;

fears of an attack, 205;

medal given to Washington to commemorate the siege, 206, 207;

maps of the siege, 207;

from Marshall's Washington, 206;

maps of the town of the Rev. period, 207, 209;

landmarks of the siege, 207;

English plans, 207;

that in Almon's Remembrancer, 208;

one in the library of Congress, 209, 210;

Pelham's map, 209;

Rawdon map, 209;

surveys of Wm. Page, 210;

map of lines on the Neck, 211;

Brown's house, 211;

Trumbull's plan of the Neck lines, 211;

plan indorsed by Mifflin, 212;

other plans, 212;

British plan of American lines, 212;

plan of Boston and vicinity, 212;

French maps of the siege, 212;

Latin map, 213;

German maps, 213;

feared Howe in 1777 was coming there, 416;

congress at, in 1780, 560;

Proceedings ed. by F. B. Hough, 560;

her privateers, 587;

fleets of Howe and Byron off the harbor (1778), 603;

D'Estaing in, 603;

riot in, 603;

fear of British advancing from Rhode Island, 603;

siege of, Indians employed, 613;

killing of sentries, 657;

"Boston", frigate, given to Captain Tucker, 566;

lost at Charleston, 583.

Boston Gazette, 110.

Boston harbor, forays in (1775), 131;

plans of, 202, 207, 209, 212, 213.

Boston massacre, 49, 85;

plan of the ground, 47, 48;

picture of, 47;

news of, in England, 52;

causes, 85;

authorities, 85;

Short Narrative, 85;

sent to England, 85;

Additional Observations, 85;

Letter to C. Lucas, 85;

other accounts, 85;

Kidder's Boston Massacre, 86;

Preston's trial, 86;

trial of soldiers, 49, 86;

printed Report, 86;

Fair Account, 86;

did the soldiers fire before being assaulted? 88;

its effect in producing the Rev., 88;

its anniversary observed, 88;

ovations, 88;

commemorated (1775), 119;

burlesqued, 120.

Boston Neck (R. I.), 600.

Boston Newsletter, 110, 204.

Boston Port Bill, 58.

See Boston.

Botetourt, Gov., 46.

Boucher, Jona., Views of the Amer. Rev., 98.

Boudinot, Elias, Star in the West, 652.

Bound Brook, 408, 409.

Bounties offered to Indians, 674;

for scalps, 681.

Bouquet, Col. Henry, his portrait, 692;

his character, 692;

account of, 692, 693;

Hist. Acc. of Expedition, 651, 699;

marches to relieve Fort Pitt, 694;

fight at Bushy Run, 696;

map of his campaign, 696;

at Fort Pitt, 697;

marches into the Ohio Valley, 698;

returns, 699;

dies, 699;

captives retaken by him, 699;

West's picture of them, 699;

West's picture of his Council with the Indians, 694;

Papers, 690, 693.

Bourgoin, Thèâtre de la Guerre, 416.

Bowdoin, James, 128;

in Congress (1774), 59;

taking the lead, 83;

his autog., 83;

his character, 83;

Letter to Hillsborough, 84;

on the desire for independence, 255.

Bowen, Ephraim, on the destruction of the "Gaspee", 90.

Bowen, Francis, his Otis, 70;

Benj. Lincoln, 513;

Steuben, 515.

Bowen, J. S., on Brandywine, 419.

Bowen, Nathan, 318.

Bowman, Capt. Joseph, 718.

Bowman, Capt. Josiah, 682.

Bowman, Major, fighting the Shawanese, 730.

Bowring, Jeremy Bentham, 95.

Bowyer, Adj., on Waxhaws, 527.

Boyd, Lieut. Thomas, 640, 671.

Boyle, Marylanders, 227.

Boylston, E. D., Hillsborough County Congress, 108.

Boynton, Edw. C., West Point, 464.

Boynton, Thomas, 188.

Brackenborough, Judge, life of Braxton, 265.

Brackenridge, H. H., drama on Bunker Hill, 198;

Death of Montgomery, 216;

on the Monmouth field, 446.

Brackenridge, H. M., Views of Louisiana, 652.

Brackinridge, H., on the Indians, 736.

Bradford, Alden, Jonathan Mayhew, 71;

edits Mass. State Papers, 73;

Bunker Hill, 191;

life of R. T. Paine, 265.

Bradford, Job, 187.

Bradford Club, 219.

Bradford's Collection, 73.

Bradstreet, Col., goes up the lakes (1764), 698;

at Detroit, 698;

orderly-book, 698.

Brainerd, W. F., 562.

Brandywine, battle of, 381;

map of battle, 414;

view of the field, 419;

Galloway's plan of, 415;

sources, 418;

Washington's map of the campaign, 420, 421;

Hessian map, 422;

other plans, 422, 423.

Brant, Joseph, at Montreal, 619;

made Guy Johnson's secretary, 623;

portraits, 623, 625;

autograph, 625;

at the Cedars, 625, 626;

his early life, 625;

invades New York (1777), 626;

at siege of Fort Stanwix, 299, 628, 661;

to operate in New York (1778), 633;

his ravages, 633;

burns Andrustown, 636;

attacks German Flats, 636;

at Cherry Valley, 636, 665;

denied responsibility for massacre at Cherry Valley, 638;

accounts of, 657;

descendants, 657;

letters, 657;

meets Herkimer, 627;

attacks the Minisink settlements, 639;

his report, 672;

at Canajoharie, 644;

not at Wyoming, 663.

Brashear, Lieut., 729.

Brassier, Wm., surveyed Lake Champlain, 347.

Brattle, Gen., his letter to Gage in fac-simile, 98.

Braxton, Carter, life, 265;

autog., 266;

Address to the Convention, 272.

Breechloaders used at Brandywine, 419.

Brehm, Capt., 738.

Brent, Archbishop Carroll, 229.

Brevoort, J. C., has some of Paul Jones's papers, 590.

Breyman, Col., at Bennington, 300, 354.

Briar Creek, 520.

Bridgdens, of Boston, 47.

Bridgetown, Pa., 421.

Briggs, C. A., American Presbyterianism, 244.

Bristol (Pa.), 409, 410.

Bristol (R. I.), 600.

British army, brutality of, 372.

British Constitution, spirit of, 5.

British regiments, historical records of, 198.

Brock, R. A., on the Nelson house, 506.

Brodhead, Col., attacks the Indians of the Alleghany, 642, 671;

his route, 642;

at Fort Pitt, 731;

acc. of his exped., 653.

Bromfield, John, 187.

Bronson, J., 464.

Bronx River, 337.

Brookline, Mass., fort at, 206, 210;

view of, 150.

Brooklyn, maps of, 329;

battle of, 277;

risks of the British, 290;

maps, 344, 404;

accounts of, 344;

roads of approach, 277;

British plans, 278.

See Long Island.

Brooklyn Heights, 275;

defences of, 275.

Brooks, Chas., Medford, ed. by Usher, 202.

Brooks, Erastus, 665;

on Indian history, 681.

Brooks, Col. John, at Bemis's Heights, 357;

on Valley Forge, 436;

on Monmouth, 446;

autog., 136;

portrait, 202;

on Bunker Hill plans, 202.

Brooks, N. C., on the Burgoyne campaign, 361.

Broom, J., surveyor, 421.

Brotherhead, Signers, 259.

Brougham, Henry, 9, 10, 63.

Broughton, Capt. Nicholas, 565.

Brown, Capt. Abraham, 130.

Brown, Dr. Buckminster, 194.

Brown, Dr. Geo., 187.

Brown, H. A., Oration on the Congress of 1774, 99;

Mem. and Orations, 439;

on Monmouth, 446.

Brown, H. K., statue of Gen. Greene, 510.

Brown, Col. John, and Ticonderoga, 213;

killed at Stone Arabia, 644;

in Canada, 161, 613, 615, 674;

his letters from Canada, 215.

Brown, Mrs. J. B., Stories of Warren, 194.

Brown, J. M., Schoharie County, 660.

Brown, Peter, 187.

Brown, Dr. Samuel, 710.

Brown, Thomas, 203.

Brunswick (N. C.), 542.

Brush, Crean, 205.

Bryan, Alexander, Gates's scout (1777), 358.

Bryan, Geo., 401.

Bryd, Col., 730, 731.

Brymner, Douglas, 693;

edits Haldimand calendar, 653;

Report on Canadian Archives, 733.

Buchanan, James, No. American Indians, 651;

on removing André's remains, 461.

Buck, W. J., Washington on the Neshaminy, 418.

Buck Island, 661.

Buckingham, J. T., Specimens of newspaper lit., 110.

Buffalo, N. Y., history of, 648.

Buffenton's Ford, 418.

Buford, Col., defeated at Waxhaws, 475, 527.

Bugbee, J. M., Centennial of Bunker Hill, 172.

Bull, Col., 679.

Bull, Gen., 519.

Bull, surveys of Georgia, 538.

Bullard, E. F., address, 366.

Bullock, Alex. H., on the Constitution of Mass., 274.

Bull's Ferry, affair at, 560.

Bunker Hill, occupied, 135;

order for it, 135;

battle of, 136;

forces engaged, 140;

Howe criticised, 140;

losses, 140;

news of it spread, 140;

authorities, 184;

earliest accounts, 186;

contemporary letters, diaries, and orderly-books, 187, 188;

losses of property at Charlestown, 187;

depositions of survivors, 189;

early historians, 189;

who commanded? 190;

officers engaged, 191;

monument, 194;

anniversary discourses, 194;

British accounts, 194;

letters, 194;

fac-simile of the Tory broadside account, 196;

Rawdon drawing of the battle, 197;

other pictures, 197;

general histories, 198;

ballads, 198;

dramas, 198;

British plan of the battle, 199;

America invincible, 200;

novels and poems, 200;

plans, 200, 202;

plan from the Impartial History, 201;

plan of the redoubt, 212;

of the works built by the British, 212.

Burch, 39.

Burdge, Franklin, 270.

Burgoyne, Gen. John, writes Gage's proclamations, 131;

correspondence with Chas. Lee, 144;

his opinion, 1775, on subduing the colonies, 145;

feared the occupation of Dorchester Heights, 156;

reaches Quebec (1776), 167, 225;

follows Sullivan, 167;

on Bunker Hill, 195;

life by Fonblanque, 195;

portraits of, 292, 293;

autog., 292;

suggests the use of mercenaries, 293;

his army, 294;

his character, 294;

orders from Germain, 295;

at St. Johns, 295;

his bombastic proclamation, 295;

at Crown Point, 296;

at Ticonderoga, 299;

refused troops by Carleton, 299;

at Fort Edward, 299;

losses at Stanwix and Bennington, 301;

moved towards Saratoga, 304;

at Freeman's Farm, 305;

awaits succor from Clinton, 307;

makes reconnoissance (Oct. 7), 307;

his losses, 309;

retreats to Saratoga, 309;

surrounded, 309;

sends flag of truce, 309;

terms gained, 309, 317;

fac-simile of letter to Gates about the British wounded, 310;

at Gates's headquarters, 310;

his losses in the campaign, 311;

his army marched to Boston, 311, 318;

the plan of his campaign criticised, 312;

his difficulties of supply, 313;

his slow movements, 313;

authorities on his campaign, 315;

charges against Henley, 318;

examination of the observance of the convention, 318;

breaks the provisions of the convention, 318;

neither side scrupulous, 319;

flags concealed, 319;

plan for the campaign of 1777, 348;

preparations, 348;

issues a proclamation, 349;

reprints, 349;

burlesqued, 349;

maps of the entire campaign, 349;

captures Ticonderoga, 349;

Hubbardton, 350;

proclamation, 350;

Campaign of, by W. L. Stone, 351;

worsted at Bennington, 354;

instructions to Baum, 354;

his report to Germain, 354;

discouraged, 356;

Freeman's Farm, 356;

battle of Oct. 7, 357;

surrenders, 358;

view of field, 358;

view of camp, 358;

his letter to Germain, 358;

strength of his army, 358;

authorities on the campaign in general, 358, 360, 361;

orderly-books and journals, 359, 360;

his own orders, 359;

life by De Fonblanque, 361;

maps of the final battles, 361;

fac-simile of map in Analectic Mag., 362;

view of the field of surrender, 361;

signatures of the convention, 361;

Gates's headquarters, 361;

landmarks of the campaign, 361;

effects of the surrender in Europe, 364;

sails for England, 364;

in Parliament, 364;

his birth, 364;

satires upon, 364;

his defences in Parliament, 365;

Substance of Speeches, 365;

John Wilkes' comments, 365;

resigns his commission, 365;

Letter to his Constituents, 365;

Reply, 365;

Letter to Burgoyne, 366;

A brief examination, 366;

Enquiry into the conduct of Burgoyne, 366;

Supplement to the State of the Expedition, 366;

attacked in Remarks, 366;

Letter to Lieut.-Gen. Burgoyne, 366;

reply by Rev. Sam. Peters, 366;

Essay on modern martyrs, 366;

his State of the Expedition, 366;

his documents laid before Parliament, 366;

documents in the War Office, 366;

his speech to the Indians, 366;

his letter from Albany, 366;

councils of war, 366;

exchanged, 366;

news of his surrender sent to Europe by Massachusetts, 571, 586;

his opinion of the use of Indians, 621, 627;

charged with buying scalps, 683;

Washington visits the scene of his campaign, 746.

Burk, John, Virginia, 515.

Burke, Ardanus, Address, 527.

Burke, Edmund, 31;

his first speech, 32;

in Parliament (1770), 52;

European Settlements, 64;

on the debates of 1765, 72;

Observations on Tickle's tract, 85;

Thoughts on the Causes of the present Discontents, 88;

on the Quebec Bill, 102;

on American taxation, 112;

his Works, 112;

speeches on conciliation, 112;

conversation with North, 112;

his character, 112;

lives of, 112;

as a speaker, 112;

on Bunker Hill, 195;

ridicules Burgoyne's proclamations, 295;

in the Annual Register, 687.

Burke, J. W., 258.

Burr, Aaron, on the Kennebec exped., 162;

as a soldier, 163;

in the assault on Quebec, 165;

his house in N. York, 276.

Burton, Jonathan, 202, 227;

his diary, 346.

Bury, Viscount, Exodus of the Western Nations, 232.

Bushnell, C. I., Crumbs for Antiquarians, 202, 219.

Bushnell, David, invents the "American Turtle", 567.

Bushy Run, battle of, 694;

losses, 669;

plan, 692;

described by Burke, 697;

by Wm. Smith, 697.

Bute, Earl of, 21;

his ministry, 23.

Butler, James D., on Bennington, 356.

Butler, Col. John, at Niagara (Sept., 1776), 626;

to invade the Susquehanna country (1778), 633;

at Wyoming, 634, 636, 663;

his report, 664.

Butler, Mann, 718.

Butler, Col. Richard, at Monmouth, 446;

Diary of Yorktown, 554.

Butler, Walter N., at Cherry Valley, 636, 665;

on the Mohawk (1781), 646;

killed, 646.

Butler, Col. Wm., 346;

burns Oquaga, 636;

route of, in 1778, 681.

Butler, Zebulon, report on Wyoming, 634, 664;

acc. of, 664;

and the Tuscaroras, 619;

escapes, 635.

Butler's Rangers, 661;

their badge, 631.

Butterfield, C. W., edits Leith's Narrative, 682;

Washington-Crawford letters, 714;

Exped. against Sandusky, 737;

Washington-Irvine Corresp., 737.

Butt's Hill (R. I.), 602.

Byrd, Capt., 739, 741.

Byron, Admiral, on the American coast, 580;

off Boston harbor, 603.

Cadwalader, Col. Lambert, 288, 341;

at Fort Washington, 338;

and Gen. Prescott, 403.

Cahokia, 730;

Indian council at, 719;

surrenders, 722;

raid upon, 737, 739.

Caldwell, Charles, Life of Gen. Greene, 510.

Caldwell, David, his life, 514.

Caldwell, Col. Henry, 222.

Caldwell on Ticonderoga, 214.

Calef, John, Siege of Penobscot, 604.

Callendar, George, 209.

Calvé, 739.

Calvert, Geo. H., play on André, 464.

Cambell, David, 535.

Cambridge (Mass.) fortified (1775), 130;

Holmes House, 135;

Tory Row, 142;

Vassall or Craigie House, 142;

Brattle House, 142;

Riedesel House, 142;

Oliver House, 142;

Bishop's Palace, 142;

Christ Church, 142;

Centennial Memorial, 142;

Washington Elm, 142;

councils of war in, 142;

accounts of the camp, 202, 203;

letters from the camp, 203;

orderly-books, 204; works at, 206;

legislature at (1769), 47;

men at Lexington, 184;

roads near, 121, 122.

Camden, Lord, on the Decl. of Indep., 269;

speeches, 112, 529.

Camden (Carolina), campaign of, 514;

battle of (Gates), 477, 478, 529;

and the militia, 478;

number of forces, 529;

losses, 530;

Faden's plan, 531;

other plans, 531;

Senff's plan, 533.

For the second battle at, see Hobkirk's Hill.

Campbell, Archibald, map of Georgia, 675;

at Savannah, 469.

Campbell, Brigadier, at Pensacola, 739, 740.

Campbell, Col. Arthur, of Virginia, 677;

raid on the Indians, 680.

Campbell, C., edits Lewis's Order-book, 168;

edits Bland Papers, 321.

Campbell, C. A., on the Robinson House, 452;

on the Odell House, 561.

Campbell, Donald, succeeds to the command before Quebec, 165;

despatch about the siege of Quebec, 221.

Campbell, Douglass, on Cherry Valley, 666;

on the Iroquois and N. Y.'s Indian policy, 681.

Campbell, J. W., Biog. Sketches, 219.

Campbell, Robert, on King's Mountain, 535.

Campbell, Thomas, his letter to Brant, 663;

Gertrude of Wyoming, 665.

Campbell, Col. Wm., 478;

on King's Mountain, 535.

Campbell, W. W., on Gen. James Clinton, 659, 670;

Tryon County or Border Warfare, 351, 659;

Border Warfare, 655;

on Indians in the Rev. War, 655;

on Cherry Valley, 666.

Campbell, Life of Loughborough, 112.

Campfield, Jabez, diary, 668.

Canada, campaign in (1775-1776), 162;

authorities, 174, 215;

Schuyler in command, 215;

address of Congress to the inhabitants, 215;

maps of the campaign, 215;

maps of the region, 216;

Arnold's share in it (see Kennebec expedition, Quebec);

retreat from Canada, 226;

local aspects, 227;

commissioners of Congress in, 227;

their instructions, 227;

new commissioners sent, 227;

their letters, 227, 229;

D'Estaing's proclamation to the inhabitants, 603;

Franklin's advocacy of its retention by England (1763), 686;

Indians of, visited by Maj. Brown, 613;

sought by Ethan Allen, 614;

invasion from, threatened, 615;

messengers sent to, by Adams and Warren, 119.

Canadea, N. Y., 669.

Canajoharie Castle, 608;

destroyed, 644.

Canandaigua, 669.

Caner, Henry, Candid Examination, 70.

Canot, P., 331.

Cantwell's Bridge, 421.

Cape Fear River, 485;

map, 542.

Cardinal, Nic., 726.

Carleton, General Guy, refuses troops to Burgoyne, 299;

opposes the use of Indians, 613, 618, 655;

thought to be intending an invasion, 615;

charged with coercing the Indians to take sides, 615;

uses them for defence, 618, 621;

instructed by Germain (1777), 348;

disappointed in not conducting the campaign (1777), 348;

his commissions, 653, 654, 673;

his orders (1776-1777), 359;

correspondence from Quebec, 222;

at Crown Point, 293;

reaches Quebec (1776), 164;

portrait, 164;

autog., 164;

arrives in N. Y. (1782), 745.

Carlisle, Pa., taken, 691.

Carmichael-Smyth, Sir James, Précis of the War in Canada, 223.

Carolinas, map of, by Henry Monson, 675.

Carpenter, J. C., 227.

Carr, Dabney, 56.

Carr, Lucien, on women's rights among the Indians, 607.

Carrington, Gen. H. B., Boston and New York, 173;

plan of Bunker Hill, 189, 202;

Strategic relations of New Jersey, 413;

on Lafayette in Virginia, 547.

Carroll, Chas., autog., 227, 265;

letters from Canada, 229;

in Canada, 166, 227;

last survivor of the signers of the Decl. of Indep., 264;

his Journal, 227;

references, 227;

his wealth, 227;

his house, 227;

medal, 227;

portrait, 227;

life, 266.

Carroll, John, in Canada, 166, 227.

Carter, William, Genuine Detail, 195.

Carter's Valley, 678.

Cartwright, John, 244.

Caruthers, E. W., Interesting Rev. Incidents, 514, 539;

Life of David Caldwell, 81, 514.

Carver, Jonathan, map of province of Quebec, 226.

Cary, Archibald, 259.

Case of Great Britain and America, 85.

Castiglione, Viaggio, 529.

Castine, 604;

British at (1779), 603.

Castle William (Boston), view, 157;

blown up, 158.

Castleton, Vt., 297;

Burgoyne's orders to people of, 359.

Caswell and the North Carolina militia, 476.

Catawba Indians, 611;

in the war, 525, 677;

friendly to the Americans, 620.

Catawba River, 475.

Catharine's town, N. Y., 669.

Caughnawagas, 613, 655;

at Montreal, 624;

offer aid, 673.

Caulkins, F. M., New London, 591.

Cavendish, Lady Georgiana, Admiral Gambier, 230, 326, 436.

Cavendish Debates, 102.

Caverley, A. M., Pittsford, Vt., 355.

Cayugas, their country, 609.

Caziare, Lieut., his surveys of Yorktown, 553.

Cedars, affair at, 166, 225, 616;

Authentic Narrative, 225.

Ceracchi, bust of Hamilton, 384.

Chad's Ford, 381, 421.

Chadwick, J. W., 331.

Chalmers, Geo., Polit. Annals, 64;

Revolt of the Colonies, 64, 232, 255;

Opinions of Eminent Lawyers, 255;

Plain Truth, 270;

on the growth of Amer. independence, 232.

Chamberlain, Mellen, "The Revolution impending", 1;

edits Dearborn's journal, 219, 360;

his John Adams, 261;

Authentication of the Decl. of Indep., 269.

Chambers, Col., Chambersburg, 327.

Chambers, John, 219.

Chamblée on the Sorel, 215;

Sullivan at, 167;

fort captured, 162;

its colors in Philad., 162.

Champe, Sergeant, and Arnold, 468;

Champe's Adventures, 468.

Champlain, Lake, armed vessels on (1776), 346;

Arnold on, 346;

surveyed by Brassier, 347;

maps, 348.

Champney, L. W., "Memories of New London", 562.

Chandler Ford, Pa., 421.

Chandler, P. W., Amer. Criminal Trials, 86, 463.

Chandler, Thomas B., his controversy with Chauncey, 71;

What think ye of Congress now? 101;

Strictures examined, 106.

Channing, Edw., "War in the Southern Dept.", 469.

Channing, Wm. H., edits J. H. Perkins' Memoirs, 648.

Chapin, C. W. E., 650.

Chapman, Isaac A., 199, 362;

Wyoming, 664.

Chapman, T. J., on the siege of Fort Pitt, 697;

on C. F. Post, 736.

Charleston, S. C., view, 171;

(1776), 229;

(1777), 471;

defences (1776), 169;

map of its harbor, 170, 471;

news of Lexington in, 178;

capitulation at, 322;

evacuated, 507;

Lincoln at, 474, 513;

attacked by Prevost, 520;

Address to Clinton, 527;

tea-ships at, 57;

siege (1780), 471, 524;

forces engaged, 525;

losses, 525;

plans of the siege, 526, 528;

American prisoners at, 534;

plan of, 538;

repossessed, 546;

ships taken at (1780), 582, 583.

Charlestown, Mass., views of, 197;

plan of, 198, 201, 202, 206, 210;

survey of, 200;

works made by the British (1775-1776), 202;

deserted, 138;

burned, 138.

Charters amended or revoked by the crown, 3;

Franklin's opinion, 3.

Chartres, Fort, surrendered, 705;

acc. of, 706;

abandoned, 720.

See Fort.

Chase, Samuel, in Canada, 166, 227;

autog., 265;

life, 266;

letters, 341.

Chase, Thomas, Sketches of Paul Jones, 590.

Chastellux, autog., 500;

on Cowpens, 538;

Remarks on his Travels, 463, 560;

sails from Baltimore, 745.

Chatham resigned, 46;

Appeal, 109 (see Pitt);

common popular portrait, 109;

portrait for R. H. Lee, 110;

Hoare's picture of, 110;

bust by Wilton, 110;

statue at Charleston, 110;

medals, 110;

lives of, 112;

his speeches, 112;

his speeches against using Indians, 617, 621.

Chatterton's Hill, 286.

Chaudiere River, 224.

Chauncey, Chas., his autog., 71;

controversy with Chandler, 71;

Discourse on Mayhew, 71;

sermon, the Stamp Act repeal, 74;

on the Penobscot exped., 603;

Letter to a friend, 76, 95.

Chauvignerie, report on the Indians, 652.

Cheever, David, 187.

Chemung, 669;

ambuscade at, 681;

destroyed, 639.

Cheney, J. V., 138.

Cheraws, camp at, 483.

Cherokees, 611;

in the war, 523, 675;

their territory, 610;

ready to fight, 620;

map of campaign against, 675;

country invaded, 676;

treaties with, 677, 679;

their houses, 678.

Cherry Valley, 609;

accounts of massacre, 665;

attacked, 636, 638;

fortified (1778), 636.

Chesapeake Bay, charts of, 548;

French map, 553;

map of entrance, 550.

Chesney, Alex., acc. of war in So. Carolina, 535.

Chesney, Col., Essays in modern military biography, 536.

Chester, John, 187.

Chester, J. L., on André's lineage, 464.

Chester (Pa.), 429;

Washington at, 382, 415.

Chestnut Hill (Pa.), 425, 428;

skirmish at, 389.

Chevalier, M., La Marine Française, 598.

Chew, Benj., his house, 385, 426.

Chew, Joseph, 658.

Chickamaugas, 678.

Child, D. L., Inquiry into conduct of Gen. Putnam, 191.

Child, Sir Josiah, 63.

Chilicothe destroyed, 731.

Chipman, Life of Warner, 356.

Chittenden, L. E., Address, 214.

Choctaws, 611.

Choiseul, Duc de, 686;

sends a messenger to the English colonies, 244;

understood American affairs, 60;

watching the colonies, 16.

Choisy, autog., 500.

Chotteau, Léon, Les Français en Amérique, 463, 560.

Chouteau, Col. P., 705.

Christian, Col. Wm., 676, 679, 714.

Christiana Bridge (Pa.), 421;

creek, 381;

river, 421.

Church, Dr. Benj., his traitorous correspondence, 118, 145;

confined in Cambridge, 142;

Elegy on Dr. Mayhew, 71;

The Times, 73;

oration on Boston Massacre, 88.

Churchill, Amos, Hubbardton, 350.

Cincinnati Society, 746.

Circular letter of Mass., 42;

in England, 44, 46;

responses, 44.

Cist, Lewis J., 264.

Clap, Ensign, 203.

Clapham, Mrs., 47.

Clapp, Dorchester, 173.

Clarence, C. W., Ralph Farnham, 192.

Clark, Abraham, 407;

autog., 264;

life, 265.

Clark, Geo. Rogers, on the origin of the Dunmore war, 710;

on Cresap, 712;

his tour in Kentucky, 716;

sent to Va. Assembly, 716;

plans the conquest of the Northwest, 716;

made a colonel, 717;

raises troops, 717;

his own accounts of his Illinois campaign, 718;

his papers owned by L. C. Draper, 718;

his journal at Vincennes, 718;

his despatches captured, 718;

captures Kaskaskia, 719;

captures Vincennes, 718, 722;

his youth, 723;

holds council with the Indians, 724;

marches to retake Vincennes, 725;

transactions with Vigo, 725;

summons Hamilton, 726, 727;

on Hamilton, 682;

fac-simile of autog., 727;

captures stores, 728;

plans of capturing Detroit, 728;

builds Fort Jefferson, 730;

intercepted letters 730, 733;

estimate of him by Washington, 731;

fights Arnold in Va., 732;

made brig.-general, 732;

urged to capture B. Arnold in Va., 732;

disappears from Western history, 733;

on the Miami, 733;

discharged, 733;

social habits, 733;

in French service (1793), 733;

references, 734;

death, 734;

portrait, 734;

at St. Louis, 737, 740.

Clark, Henry, on Hubbardton, 350.

Clark, John, Battle fought 17th June, 195.

Clark, John, diary, 436, 446.

Clark, Rev. Jonas, 122, 180.

Clark, Joseph, 445.

Clark, Gen. J. S., map of the Newtown battle, 681;

on the Sullivan campaign (1779), 671.

Clark, Major, spy of Washington, 439.

Clark, Peter, on Bennington, 354.

Clark, Thomas, Naval Hist. of U. S., 589.

Claus, Col. Daniel, 247, 351, 661;

has charge of St. Leger's Indians, 628;

manuscript anecdotes of Brant, 663:

Cleveland, Col., and North Carolinians, 478.

Clinch Valley, 676.

Clinton, De Witt, life of Philip Livingston, 265.

Clinton, George, house in N. Y., 276;

portraits, 197, 308;

memoir by W. L. Stone, 308;

opposes evacuation of N. Y., 333;

autog., 364.

Clinton, Sir Henry, at Bunker Hill, 138;

proclamations in S. Carolina, 229, 322, 513, 526;

attacks Fort Moultrie, 153, 170, 230;

in the battle of Brooklyn, 279;

attack on Forts Clinton and Montgomery, 306;

plan, 363;

despatches, 364;

in Philadelphia, 396;

succeeds Howe, 443;

on Monmouth, 446;

on the Southern campaign (1778), 520;

endeavors to save André, 461;

his MS. Hist. of the War, 467;

his accounts of Arnold and André, 467;

in the South, 469;

attacks Charlestown, S. C., 471, 526;

captures it, 474;

his report, 525;

deceived by Washington's seeming intention of attacking New York, 498, 501, 561;

Narrative, 516;

Observations on Cornwallis's Answer, 516;

his notes on the correspondence, 156;

controversy with Arbuthnot, 517;

Letter to Com. on Public Accounts, 517;

Observations on Stedman, 517;

Memorandum on plundering, 517;

forged despatch about siege of Charleston, 527;

his controversy with Cornwallis, 547;

orders him to occupy Old Point Comfort, 548;

ordered by Germain to continue the war in the South, 548;

seeks to succor Cornwallis, 549;

in New Jersey, 559;

on the revolt of the Penn. line, 561;

in Rhode Island (1776), 593;

(1778), 603;

sends naval force to Penobscot (1779), 603;

portraits, 306, 307;

relieved by Carleton, 745.

Clinton, Gen. James, his expedition against the Indians, 638;

acc. of, 659;

in the Sullivan exped. (1779), 667, 670;

portraits, 670, 681;

Revolutionary Relics, 457.

Clunes, John, 360.

Cluny, Alex., Amer. Traveller, 85.

Clymer, Geo., autog., 265;

life, 265.

Cobb, David, diary at Yorktown, 554.

Cobbett, Wm., 359.

Cobleskill, Brant at, 633;

confused accounts of, 633;

destroyed, 660.

Coburn, F. W., Bennington, 356.

Cockings, Geo., The American War, 197, 200.

Coffin, Chas., Bunker Hill, 189;

Mem. of Gen. Thomas, 167.

Coffin, C. C., Boscawen, 355;

on Bunker Hill, 190.

Coffin, Shubael, 33.

Cohoes, 609.

Colden, lieut.-gov. of New York, 30.

Coleman, C. W., on Greene, 537.

Coleman, E. C., on Simon Kenton, 708.

Colerain, Lord, 517 (see Hanger, Geo.), Life of Hanger, 517.

Coles, Edward, 258.

Collet, O. W., 730, 740.

Collet, surveys of No. Carolina, 538.

Colleville, Vicomte de, Les missions secretes du Baron de Kalb, 244.

Collier, Sir Geo., 326;

in N. Y. harbor, 330;

relieves Penobscot, 582;

in the "Rainbow", 589.

Colman, R. F., 734.

Colonies, English, their independence of England, 232;

their relations to the crown, 3, 5.

Colonization, English idea of, 687.

Colucci, Giuseppe, Guerra per l'Independenza, 523.

Columbian Magazine, 510.

Combahee Ferry, 507.

Committees of correspondence, origin of, 89;

of correspondence, inspection, and safety, 90.

Conanicut Island, map of, 596, 600, 602.

Concord (Mass.), fight at, 124;

roads about, 121;

visited by Brown and Bernière, 119;

authorities on the fight, 175;

depositions, 175;

fac-simile of Col. James Barrett's, 177;

plan of, 180;

centennial celebration, 184;

histories, 184;

view of, 185 (see Lexington);

military stores at, 123;

Prov. Congress at, 120.

Cone, Mary, 729;

Rufus Putnam, 158.

Conestogoes, massacred by Paxton Boys, 606, 682;

their lands, 606.

"Confederacy", captured, 584.

Confederation of the United States (1776), 240, 274;

articles, 174;

debates on, 274;

Franklin's proposed plan, 654.

Congaree River, 475.

Congress of 1754, 63, 65;

various plans at, 66;

Rhode Island and, 66, 67.

Congress of 1774, proposed, 59, 60;

who originated?, 98;

sessions, 99;

legal aspects of, 99;

the delegates, how chosen 99;

feelings in N. Y. towards, 99;

Delaware members, 99;

Virginia members, 99;

tracts about, 99;

New England in, 99;

Sunday sessions opposed, 99;

Middle States in, 99;

Virginia in, 99;

Carolina in, 99;

its Journal, 100;

its device, 100;

copy owned by Thomas Cushing, 100;

The whole proceedings, 100;

Extracts from its Journal, 100;

documents in Force, 100;

notes of the debates, 100;

Declaration of Rights, 100;

Petition to the King, 100;

MS. copies in existence, 100;

printed copies, 100;

Address to the people of Great Britain, 100;

a Letter in response, 100;

Memorial to the Colonies, 100;

Suffolk Resolves, read, 100;

the approval of them drove out the loyalists, 101;

effect in England, 101;

Galloway's plan of adjustment, 101;

relations of loyalists, 101;

Articles of Association, 101;

fac-similes of signatures, 102;

address to inhabitants of Quebec, 104;

every step known in London, 104;

its views challenged in New York, 104;

the Seabury-Wilkins tracts on, 104;

letter to the king, 237;

declaration, 237.

Congress of 1775, 107;

Journal, 107;

different eds., 107;

debates, 107;

its Declaration, 108;

Address to the inhabitants of Great Britain, 108;

Address to Ireland, 108;

Address to New England, 108;

Petition to the King, 108, 255;

chooses Washington commander-in-chief, 108;

articles of confederation, 108;

approves the form of government adopted in Mass., 108;

articles for the government of the troops, 108;

plan for organizing militia, 108;

proceedings, secret, 108;

com. of secret correspondence, 108;

general references, 108;

lives of members, 108;

effect in England, 109;

Dr. Samuel Johnson's Taxation no Tyranny, 109;

tender of Canada, 160;

parties in, 255.

Congress, Continental, sends a commission to Canada, 166;

Declaration of Independence, 228 (see Declaration);

and independence, 231;

its character, 233;

New Hampshire in, 234;

Massachusetts in, 234;

Connecticut in, 234;

Pennsylvania in, 234;

journals, 252, 261, 268;

leaves Philadelphia (1776), 373, 383;

its lessening character, 391;

distrust of Washington in, 391;

inefficiency of, 556, 744;

creates inspector-general, 556;

seeks to regulate prices, 556;

naval committee, 567;

appoints Hopkins commander-in-chief of navy, 568;

arranges the rank of captains, 570;

gives commissioners in Europe power to commission naval officers, 573;

authorizes privateers, 591;

Extracts from Journals on prizes and privateers, 591;

prize claims, 591;

and the use of Indians, 615, 616, 622, 632, 654;

creates Indian departments, 616;

addresses the Six Nations, 616;

plan of confederation, 616;

address to Ireland, 617.

Connecticut claims the credit of capturing Ticonderoga (1775), 160, 213;

claim to land in Pennsylvania, 605, 665, 680;

creates a navy, 565;

equips troops (1775), 122;

her seamen, 587;

invaded by Tryon, 557;

men at Bunker Hill, 189;

naval officers, 568;

organizes a militia, 116;

issues paper money, 116;

privateers, 591;

whale-boat warfare, 591;

Queries and Answers as to her commerce, 64;

retains her original charter, 274;

sends a message to Gage (1775), 128;

Mass. delegates in, 128;

Stamp Act in, 73;

troops in Long Island battle, 329;

trouble with the Mohawks, 605.

Connecticut Valley invaded (1780), 645.

Conner, Timothy, journal, 575.

Connolly, Dr. John, 709.

Connolly's arrest, 653.

Conover, Geo. S., edits journals of Sullivan expedition, 681;

Sayengueraghta, 663.

Conrad, R. T., edited Sanderson's Signers, 266.

Constitution Island in the Hudson, 323, 462, 465;

plan, 325.

Constitutional Society in London, 175.

Constitutions of the several United States, 268, 272.

Continental army reorganized, 437;

distresses of, 560;

number of men in, year by year, 588;

including militia, 588;

not paid, 745;

disbanded, 746.

Continental Congress. See Congress.

Continental navy, general accounts of, 589;

forming of, 567;

naval committee, 567;

names of first-built ships, 567;

officers commissioned in Europe, 573;

its captures, 576, 589;

losses, 576;

force in 1780, 583;

total number engaged in service, 584, 587;

compared with land forces, 588;

vessels sunk in the Delaware, 428;

raised, 445.

See Navy.

Convention troops (Burgoyne's army), 317;

at Rutland, 321;

in Virginia, 321.

Conway Cabal, 392;

who shared in it?, 446;

references, 446, 447.

Conway, Gen. H. S., 31, 238;

his portrait ordered by Boston, 74;

likenesses, 74.

Conway, Gen. Thomas, at Brandywine, 382;

and the Conway Cabal, 392.

Conyngham, Gustavus, commands the "Surprise", 573;

takes prizes into Dunkirk, 573;

imprisoned in France, 573;

demanded of France by England, 574;

in the "Revenge", 574.

Cook, Frederick, 681.

Cook, James, map of So. Carolina, 537.

Cook, Col. John, 668.

Cook, Lemuel, 746.

Cook, Col. Thaddeus, orderly-book (1777), 359.

Cooke, Geo. W., Hist. of Party, 112.

Cooke, J. E., on Chas. Lee, Gates, etc., 144;

on Jefferson, 259;

on the Virginia Declaration of Independence, 259;

on the Virginia Constitution, 272;

"Historic houses in the Shenandoah", 407;

on the British in Virginia, 546.

Cooke, Samuel, The Violent destroyed, 180.

Cooke, W. D., Rev. Hist. of N. Carolina, 256.

Coolidge, G. A., Brochure of Bunker Hill, 132.

Coolidge, T. Jefferson, 258.

Cooper, J. F., Lionel Lincoln, 185, 200;

Travelling Bachelor, 466;

Naval Hist. U. S., 589;

editions, 589;

Lives of Distinguished Naval Officers, 589;

Pilot, 590.

Cooper, Dr. Myles, Friendly Address, 106;

drew out other tracts, 106;

American Querist, 106;

What think ye of Congress now? 101.

Cooper, Dr. Samuel, defends D'Estaing, 580, 601;

corresponding with Wm. Livingston, 83;

on Preston's trial, 86;

letters, 203.

Cooper, Samuel (Penna.), 436.

Cooper, Wm., 84;

town clerk of Boston, autog., 87, 115.

Copley, J. S., paints Hancock, 270;

John Adams, 36;

Sam. Adams, 40;

Chief Justice Oliver, 95.

Copp, J. J., 562.

Cornplanter, chief of the Senecas, 644.

Cornstalk, at battle of Point Pleasant, 714;

accounts of, 714.

Cornwallis, Lord, attacks Fort Washington, 289;

crosses the Hudson (1776), and occupies Fort Lee, 338, 367;

in New Jersey, 376;

at Brandywine, 381, 422;

in Philadelphia, 384;

at Germantown, 427;

at Gloucester, 430;

headquarters in Savannah, 471;

at Charlestown, S. C. (1780), 473;

portraits, 474, 475;

contemp. acc. of, 474;

in command in the South, 475;

attacks Gates at Camden, 477;

weakened by the loss at King's Mountain, 480;

destroys his train, 483;

pursues Greene, 484;

at Hillsborough, 484;

at Guilford, 485;

pursued, 487;

at Wilmington, N. C., 494;

moves to Virginia, 495;

in command, 496;

tries to intercept Lafayette, 497;

at Portsmouth, Va., 498;

ordered to fortify a post, 498;

seizes Yorktown, 498;

surrenders, 504;

autog., 505;

his headquarters in Yorktown, 506;

his cave, 506;

his headquarters at Williamsburg, 506;

Correspondence, 516;

controversy with Clinton, 516;

Reply to Clinton, 516;

Answer to Clinton's Narrative, 516;

and Arbuthnot, 517;

on Tarleton, 518;

at siege of Charleston (1780), 526;

at Camden, 529;

his proclamation, 532;

his opinion of rebels, 534;

affected by Ferguson's defeat, 536;

maps of his Southern campaigns, 537, 538;

map of his campaign with Lafayette, 538;

on the Cowpens 538;

his order-book, 539;

pursuit of Greene to the Dan, 539;

at Guilford, 539, 541;

his order-book, 541;

at Wilmington, N. C., 547;

disagrees with Clinton about moving into Virginia, 547;

Germain approved, 548;

fortifies Yorktown, 549.

Correspondence, committees of, 54, 56.

See Committees.

Cortelyou House, 329.

Cortland Manor, 340.

Cortlandt, Col. Philip, autobiography, 360;

portrait, 681.

Coryell's Ferry, 369.

Courts of vice-admiralty, 71.

Coventry Forge, 415.

Cowan's Ford, 539.

Cowboys, 456.

Cowley, R., Harbor of Charleston, 529.

Cowpens, battle of, 481, 482, 538;

its importance, 482;

forces at, 539;

losses, 539;

plan of fight, 539;

medals given, 539.

Cox, Daniel, 372.

Cox, S. S., 366.

Craft, Rev. David, on Sullivan's campaign, 670, 681.

Crafts, Wm., 230.

Craigie, Andrew, 142.

Cramahé commands in Quebec, 163.

Cranberry, N. J., 408, 410.

Crawford, Col. Wm., killed, 736.

Crawford, James, 684.

Creasy, Decisive Battles, 357.

Creek Indians, 611, 679.

Cresap, Capt. Michael, advises against a war with the Indians, 710;

acc. of, 710;

unjustly charged with killing Logan's family, 711, 712;

accounts of, 712;

dies, 713;

grave, 713.

Cresap, Col. Thomas, 710, 712;

treaty with the Indians, 607.

Cresap's War, 707.

Criminals enlisted by the British, 112, 705.

Croghan, Geo., on the Indian lands, 650;

his estimate of Indian population, 650;

sent among the Western Indians (1765), 702;

at Vincennes, 703;

meets Pontiac, 704;

journals of his Western journey, 704.

Croghan, Major William, journal at Charleston, 525.

Cromot-Dubourg, Journal, 553, 554.

Crooked Billet (Pa.), 442.

Cross, Ralph, journal, 360.

Crosscup, B. S., Heart of the Alleghanies, 536.

Crosswicks, 408, 410.

Crown's right to unoccupied lands, 2, 6, 15;

can administer justice, 4.

Crufts, Benj., 188.

Cruger, J. H., 522.

Cruger, Lewis, 74.

Cruvat, Don Francisco, 743.

Cullum, General G. W., on Richard Montgomery, 216;

"The Struggle for the Hudson", 275;

Defences of Narragansett Bay, 593.

Currietown, N. Y., destroyed, 645.

Curry, J. L. M., address on Yorktown, 555.

Curtis, G. W., Concord Oration, 184;

on Burgoyne's surrender, 361.

Cushing, Caleb, on Brant at Wyoming, 663.

Cushing, John, autog., 50.

Cushing, Thomas, in Congress (1774), 59, 93;

autog., 99;

report on building of armed ships, 591.

Custis, G. W. P., on John Laurens, 545.

Cutler, Manasseh, diary in R. I. (1778), 601.

D'Abbadie, gov. at N. Orleans, 701.

Daggett, John, Jr., 85.

Dale, Richard, on the "Bon Homme Richard", 590;

revised the acc. in Cooper's Naval Hist., 590.

Dallas, A. J., Laws of Penna., 649.

Dalrymple, Sir John, Reply to Burgoyne, 365;

Rights of Great Britain asserted, 109, 269;

Address, 109.

Dalton, Capt., 652.

Dalzell, Capt., at Detroit, 697;

killed, 697.

Dalzell, J. M., 746.

Damer, G., his letters, 549.

Dana, Francis, 437;

on independence, 256.

Dana, Richard, autog., 87.

Dana, R. H., Jr., edits diary of a British officer in Boston, 204;

address at Lexington, 184.

Danbury (Conn.), 340, 348.

Danvers (Mass.) men at Lexington, 184.

Darke, Gen., 144.

Dartmouth, Earl of, autog., 111;

orders the employment of Indians, 620;

on the ministry, 53;

Dartmouth Papers, 106.

Daughters of Liberty, 79, 80.

Davenant, Chas., 63.

Davie, Col., at Hobkirk's Hill, 543.

Davie, W. R., accounts of, 537.

Davis, A. McF., edits McKendry's journal, 666;

"The Indians and the Border Warfare", 605.

Davis, Capt., of Acton, 184.

Davis, Capt. John (Penna.), journal, 546, 554.

Davis, Nathan, 668.

Davis, Thomas W., 202.

Davis, Wm., 439.

Davis, W. J., 219, 747.

Davis, W. W. H., John Lacey, 442;

"Washington on the west bank of the Delaware", 407.

Dawes, Thomas, 88.

Dawes, Wm., sent to Concord, 123.

Dawson, H. B., "Sons of Liberty in N. Y.", 72;

on Golden Hill, 172;

Bunker Hill, 185, 189;

controversy with "Selah", 191;

Gleanings, 191;

Major-Gen. Putnam, 191;

edits How's journal, 202;

on Ticonderoga (1775), 214;

Decl. of Indep. by Mass., 257;

Westchester County, 325;

edits N. Y. City during the Rev., 346;

edits Trial of J. H. Smith, 463;

edits Yonkers Gazette, 464;

Gazette Series, 464;

Papers Concerning Major John André, 464;

edits Conduct of Graves, 549;

Assault on Stony Point, 558;

on Jones's fight in the "Bon Homme Richard", 590.

Dawson, S. E., 225.

Dayton, Col., at Fort Stanwix, 626.

Dayton, Siege of Yorktown, 554.

De Berdt, Dennis, agent of Mass., 45;

dies, 53;

portrait, 88.

De Brahm, Journal of Siege of Charleston, 525.

De Costa, B. F., on Ethan Allen, 214;

Fort George, 214;

on Diamond Island, 357;

Lake George, 129.

D'Estaing. See Estaing.

De Kalb, Baron, in America (1768), 244;

joins the army, 380;

in the South, 475;

commands regulars, 476;

killed, 477;

lives, 530;

monument, 530.

De Lancey, E. F., on Bennington, 354;

on Demont's treason, 287, 341.

De la Touche, 500.

De Leyba, 730.

De Peyster, Col. A. S., Miscellanies, 733.

De Peyster, Gen. J. Watts, on Burgoyne's campaign, 313, 315;

on Monmouth, 446;

on Wayne, 385.

De Peyster, Major, 720.

Deane, Charles, on history of slave trade in Mass., 9;

on John Russell Bartlett, 90;

on R. Frothingham, 186;

owns a MS. map of the siege of Boston, 209;

on the Report of a Constitution (Mass.), 274;

on the convention of Burgoyne and Gates, 319;

owns Vaughan's journal, 506.

Deane, James, acc. of, 674.

Deane, Silas, letters, 99, 108;

his instructions, 256;

fits out the "Surprise", 573;

and privateers, 592.

Dearborn, Gen. Henry, on plans of Bunker Hill, 202;

his MS. journal, 467;

on the Bunker Hill controversy, 190;

journal of Quebec expedition (1775-1776), 219;

journal of Saratoga campaign, 360;

his journal, edited by Chamberlain, 360;

diary at Valley Forge, 436;

at Monmouth, 446;

diary at Yorktown, 554;

journal of Sullivan campaign (1779), 671.

Dearborn, H. A., 437.

Dearborn, Nath., Boston Notions, 200.

Debrett's Debates, 516.

Debt of Great Britain, 16.

Declaration of Amer. Independence, who drafted it, 239 (see Congress of 1776);

its character, 239;

fac-simile of original draft, 260;

debates on, 261;

paragraphs omitted from the paper as passed, 261;

changes made in the wording, 261;

early drafts, 261;

essence in earlier tracts of Otis and Sam. Adams, 261;

its literary character, 261;

the original text, 261;

Trumbull's picture, 261;

medals, 261;

autographs of signers, 263-266;

sets of the autographs, 264;

birthplaces of the signers, 264;

their occupations, 264;

college graduates, 264;

their ages at death, 264;

average age at signing, 264;

their lives, 265;

fac-similes of, 266;

fac-simile of an early broadside edition, 267;

other broadside editions, 268;

contemporary reprints, 268;

earliest authorized edition, 268;

when signed by the members, 268;

the authentication, 269;

effect of, 269;

comments on, at the time, 269;

an Answer, 240, 269;

read in Philadelphia, 273;

in New York, 273;

in Boston, 273;

the day to be commemorated, 274;

Strictures on, 240;

relations to religious sects, 241;

separated the patriots and the loyal, 247.

See Independence.

Declaratory Act, 32;

(1766), 74.

Dejean, 728, 729.

Delaplaine's Repository, 40.

Delaware, Stamp Act in, 73;

effect of Boston Port Bill in, 96;

non-importation, 79;

northern bounds, 421;

militia, 380;

troops, 545.

Delaware Bay, map, 437.

"Delaware" frigate taken, 384.

Delaware Indians, 610, 674, 709;

make treaty, 703;

neutral, 734.

Delaware River, the struggle for, 367;

its defences, 386;

operations on (1777), 429;

map by Faden, 429;

maps, 437;

obstructed (1777), 437;

first naval conflict on, 565.

Deming, H. C., 191.

Demont, Wm., his treachery at Fort Washington, 287, 341.

Denison, J., 602.

Deniston, Col., surrenders to Major John Butler, 635;

his report, 635.

Dennie, Portfolio, 222.

Dennison, Col., 664.

Denny, Major Ebenezer, Diary, 546, 554.

Depew, Chauncey M., on André's captors, 466.

Derby, E. H., 190;

fits out privateers, 591.

Derby, Capt. John, carries news of Lexington to England, 175.

Des Barres, Siege of Charleston, 528;

charts of Boston harbor, 209;

Atlantic Neptune, 212, 315;

Coasts and harbors of N. England, 212;

map of the campaign around New York, 342;

Port Royal in South Carolina, 519;

Map of coasts of Georgia, 521;

map of Narragansett Bay, 601.

Desaussure, W. G., 527;

on General Moultrie, 172.

Deshler, C. D., 744.

Deshon, John, autog., 566.

Destouche's fleet beaten, 496.

Detroit, council at (1764), 698;

its fort, 690;

besieged, 690;

headquarters of the British northwestern government, 690;

Indians near, 610;

reinforced, 697;

raising of siege, 698;

siege of, references, 701;

G. R. Clark's scheme for capturing, 730, 731;

papers about, 733;

plan of the river, 733.

Deutsch-Amerikanisches Magazin, 360.

Deux-Ponts, Count, 504;

his Campaign, 554.

Devens, Chas., Bunker Hill Oration, 191, 194.

Devens, Richard, 136;

letters, 203;

on Lexington, 174.

Dewitt, Simon, 744.

Dewitt's Corner, treaty at, 679.

Dexter, Dr. A., 202.

Dexter, George, 123.

Dexter, Henry, 194.

Dexter, Samuel, on com. on the Stamp Act, 73;

his portrait, 73.

Diamond Island, fight at, 357.

Dickinson, John, 68, 238;

Late Regulations respecting. Brit. Colonies, 64, 75;

his Speech (1764), 68;

Reply to Galloway, 68;

Denunciation of the Stamp Act, 75;

portrait, 268;

rude portrait and autog., 82;

Peale's portrait, 82;

his character, 82;

references, 82;

Farmers' letters, 39, 67, 83;

bibliog. of, 83;

Polit. writings, 83;

controverted in the Controversy between Great Britain and her Colonies, 83;

on the Boston massacre, 85;

Liberty Song, 86;

wrote petition of Congress of 1774 to the king, 100;

Essay on the constitutional power, 106;

on Lexington, 178;

and independence, 249, 257;

Galloway on, 255;

speech against the Declar. of Independence, 261;

plan of confederation, 274;

and the Penna. militia, 398.

Dickinson, John D., 464.

Dickson, Col., 739.

Digby, Lieut., 360.

Dillon, Indiana, 729.

Diman, Prof., on Prescott's capture, 404.

Dobbs Ferry, 336, 337.

Dodd, Robt., picture of the fight of the "Bon Homme Richard", 590.

Dodd, Stephen, Revolutionary Memorials, 627.

Doddridge, Jos., on Cresap, 712;

Logan, Chief of the Cayuga Nation, 712;

Notes on Settlements, etc., 248.

Dodge, John, captured, 683.

Döhla, J. K., 360.

Donkin's Military Collections, 183.

Donop, Count, 427;

at Fort Mercer, 428, 430;

killed at Red Bank, 387;

at Bordentown, 374;

at Brooklyn, 279;

at Long Island, 329.

Doolittle, Amos, engraver, 185.

Doolittle, Eph., 204.

Dorchester Heights (near Boston), 148, 206, 210;

occupied, 156.

Douglas, Col. Wm., 326.

Dowdswell, 21.

Downer, Silas, Discourse on dedicating Liberty Tree, 72.

Downing, Sir George, 7.

Downman, Col., 435.

Drake, F. S., Roxbury, 173;

Tea-leaves, 91.

Drake, S. A., Bunker Hill, 194;

Gen. Putnam, 191;

Middlesex County, 175;

Hist. Fields of Middlesex, 175;

Old Landmarks of Middlesex, 175;

New England Coast, 560.

Drake, S. G., Book of the Indians, 648;

on Brant, 657.

Draper, L. C., acc. of, 535, 727;

on battle of Point Pleasant, 714;

his collections on Brant, 657;

has the Geo. R. Clark papers, 718;

King's Mountain, 535;

on Montgomery's exped. (1780), 741.

Drayton, Judge W. H., 79;

his famous charge, 119;

Memoirs, 678.

Dreer, Ferdinand J., 217.

Drewe, Edw., Case, 198.

Drisko, G. W., Hannah Weston, 564, 657.

Drowne, H. T., 592.

Drowne, Solomon, Journal, 592.

Du Buysson, 530.

Ducharme, J. M., 739.

Du Chesnoy, Théâtre de la Guerre, 416.

Du Portail, autog., 500;

on Brandywine, 419;

on the siege of Charleston, 525.

Du Simitière, his portrait of Arnold, 447;

Thirteen Portraits, 268, 405.

Duane, Wm., 554;

Canada and the Continental Congress, 227;

edits Marshall's diary, 273.

Duché, Jacob, his letter to Washington, 437;

in Congress of 1774, 99.

Dufey, P. J. S., Histoire des Rev. de l'Amérique, 520.

Dufresne, M. M., 723.

Dulaney, Daniel, Considerations on the propriety of imposing taxes, 65, 75;

The Right to the Tonnage, 65.

Dumas, Alex., Capitaine Paul, 590.

Dumas, C. G. F., acc. of Bouquet, 692, 699.

Dumas, C. W. F., letters, 108.

Dumas, autog., 500.

Dummer, Defence of the N. E. Charters, 255.

Duncan, E., Royal Artillery, 183, 198, 559.

Dunkirk, American cruisers at, 573;

privateers at, 592.

Dunlap, John, printer, 372.

Dunlap, Wm., Tragedy of André, 460, 560.

Dunmore, Lord, 238;

negotiates a peace, 611;

incites the Indians, 618;

leads exped. against Indians, 713;

makes treaty with Ohio Indians, 714;

his seal, 167;

in Virginia (1776), 122, 167;

his proclamation, 168;

organizes an Indian regiment, 168.

Dunmore War, 708;

causes of, 709;

references, 714.

Dupuy, Ethan Allen, 214.

Durand, A. B., 227.

Durnford, Lieut., 356.

Durrett, R. T., John Filson, 708.

Dwight, Theodore, Connecticut, 663.

Dwight, T. F., on Washington's journal, 553.

Dwight, Timothy, 189;

on fights near Fort Stanwix, 351.

Dyer, Eliphalet, 215.

Eager, Samuel W., Orange County, 662.

Earl, pictures of Lexington fight, 185.

Earle, J. E., English Premiers, 75.

East India Co. send tea to America, 57.

Eastburn, map of Philad., 442.

Eastern Indians, addressed by Washington 674;

visit Cambridge, 674.

See Indians.

Eaton, Amos, 679.

Ebeling on Steuben, 515.

Ebenezer (Georgia), 523.

Ecuyer, Simeon, 690, 691.

Eddy, Samuel, 464.

Edes, Peter, 204.

Edes and Gill, No. Amer. Almanac, 81.

Edisto inlet, 526.

Edson, Obed., on Brodhead's exped., 671.

Edwards, N. W., Illinois, 729.

Eelking, Max von, Die Deutschen Hülfstruppen, 361;

Leben von Riedesel, 361;

Generalin von Riedesel, 361.

Egle, Notes and Queries, 554.

Eld, Lieut., 517;

his journal, 559.

Eliot, Andrew, 205;

on Bunker Hill, 187.

Elizabethtown, N. J., 404.

Elk Ferry, 379, 414.

Ellery, Wm., 265;

autog., 263;

life, 266.

Ellet, Mrs. E. F., Domest. Hist. Am. Rev., 527, 665;

Women of the Rev., 665.

Ellicott, Andrew, Map of the Mississippi River, 702.

Elliot, H. F., 72.

Elliott, Andrew, on Arnold's treason, 467.

Elliott, Matthew, 735.

Ellis, Arthur B., American patriotism on the sea, 591.

Ellis, E. S., Daniel Boone, 708.

Ellis, Geo. E., Address on siege of Boston, 173;

on Bunker Hill, 189, 191, 194;

on Burgoyne, 204;

"Chronicles of the siege of Boston", 204;

the Prescott statue, 194;

"The sentiment of independence", 231.

Elmer, Eben, 221

Elmer, L. Q. C., Constitution of N. Jersey, 272.

Elmira, N. Y., 640.

Elonis, Henry, 385.

Elwyn, Alfred, on Brandywine, 418.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Hist. Discourse on Concord, 180.

Emerson, Rev. Wm., at Lexington, 180;

fac-simile of his diary, 181.

Emmet, Dr. T. A., 197, 264, 467, 532;

owns memorials of the siege of Boston, 212.

Emmons, G. F., Navy of the U. S., 589.

Endicott, C. M., Leslie's expedition, 172.

England, its constitution effected by the Amer. Revolution, 1;

rights of the crown to lands, 2;

parties in, on the American question, 112;

her naval losses, 589;

Rept. from Com. on the disturbances in Mass., 67;

her trade with the colonies, 64;

proceedings in Parliament (1774), 106;

Hutchinson's diary, 106;

war with Spain, 19.

English, T. D., 230;

on Oriskany, 351.

Englishtown, N. J., 445.

Engraving, earliest, by a native artist in British America, 198, 199.

Enlistments, long, 333.

Enos, Col. Roger, deserts Arnold, 163, 217;

court martial, 217.

Episcopacy for America urged on the ministry, 19, 38.

Episcopalians and the Declar. of Independence, 241.

Erskine, Robert, map of N. Y. harbor, 326;

map of the Hudson, 459;

topographical engineer of the Amer. army, 459;

map of Newport, 560;

map of country round N. Y., 561;

his map of the New Jersey campaign, 409.

Escomaligo, 507.

Esopus burned, 307.

Essex Gazette, 110.

Estaing, Comte d', sails from France, 579;

off New York harbor, 580;

at Newport, 580;

engages the English fleet, 580;

sails for Boston, 580;

off N. Y. harbor, 593;

goes to Newport, 593;

confronts Howe's fleet, 594;

portraits, 594, 595;

sails for Boston, 595;

autog., 595;

the French view of his conduct, 598;

his journal, 598;

defended by Dr. Cooper, 601;

causes the destruction of English ships in Narragansett Bay, 601;

in Boston (1778), 603;

issues proclamation to Canadians, 603;

sails to the West Indies, 603;

at Savannah (1779), 470, 471, 524;

on the siege of Savannah, 522.

Ethier, Marcel, 225.

Etting, Col. F. M., books on Independence Hall, 259.

Euchee Indians, 679.

Eustis, Dr. Wm., on Arnold's flight, 458.

Eutaw Springs, battle at, 493, 545;

plans, 545.

Evans, A. W. W., on Kosciusko, 492, 557.

Evans, Chaplain, 554.

Evans, S., 734.

Everett, A. H., Bunker Hill address, 194;

Jos. Warren, 194.

Everett, Edw., Bunker Hill oration, 194;

Concord Oration, 184;

on Lexington, 184;

life of Roger Sherman, 265.

Ewald, Beyspiele grosser Helden, 419.

Ewing, Dr. John, 329;

on the Lancaster massacre, 606.

Exmouth, Viscount, life by Osler, 347.

Faden, Wm., map of New Jersey, 409;

Bay of Narragansett, 601;

map of the campaigns of Cornwallis, 537;

of So. Carolina, 538;

map of Delaware River, 429;

Map of Guildford, 540;

Map of Newport, 547;

map of the N. Y. Campaign (1776), 337, 338;

his maps of N. Y. province, 349;

of Philad., 442;

of Quebec, 226;

of Trenton and Princeton, 410;

Northern Frontiers of Georgia, 519.

Fairfax County resolutions, 98.

Fairfield, Conn., burned, 557.

Falmouth (Portland) burned, 237;

Norman's engraving, 146.

Family Compact, 19.

Fanning, Col. David, Narrative, 541.

Fanning, Capt. Nath., Memoir, 590.

Fantinekill, 639.

Farlow, R. L., 91.

Farmar, Major, at Mobile, 704.

Farmer, Robert, 705.

Farmer, Silas, Detroit, 733.

Farnham, Ralph, 192.

Farrier, Geo. H., Cent. Paulus Hook, 559.

Farwell, Josiah, 681.

Fassoux, Dr. P., 533.

Featherstonhaugh, G. W., 704;

Monthly Amer. Journ. of Geology, 704.

Febiger, Col. Christian, 547;

acc. of, 220;

at Stony Point, 558.

Fellows, John, Veil Removed, 191.

Feltman, Lieut. Wm., Journal, 554.

Fergus, Henry, United States, 665.

Fergusson, Adam, Memoir of Patrick Fergusson, 535.

Fergusson, Col. Patrick, 473;

defeated at King's Mountain, 478;

killed, 479, 535;

his headquarters at King's Mountain, 535;

sketch of, 535.

Fermois, Gen. de, 297, 326.

Fersen, Count, letters, 554;

at Newport, 560.

Few, James, 81.

Field, T. W., Battle of Long Island, 329.

Filson, John, Kentucky, 708.

Filson Club, 708.

Finch on the remains of the Boston lines, 207.

Finlay, Hugh, 222.

Finotti, J. M., 227.

Fish, Capt. J., journal, 591.

Fish, Nicholas, 333, 346.

Fishdam Ford, 518, 532, 536.

Fisher, George H., on Bouquet, 693.

Fisher, J. B., 85.

Fisher, Joshua, 437.

Fisheries, as a school for the navy, 568, 587;

value to Massachusetts, 25.

Fishkill, 340.

Fiske, John, on the political consequences of Yorktown, 549.

Fitch, Asa, 203, 627.

Fitch, gov. of Conn., 73.

Fitzpatrick, Gen., on Brandywine, 419.