INDEX

Adventure Galley, 82, 83

Amherst, General Jeffrey, 123

Amsterdam, 2, 14

Andre, Major John, 177, 178

Andros, Edmund, 61, 62, 64, 66, 68

Anne, Queen, 28, 91-93

Annetje Jans's farm, 27, 28

Anti-Federalists, 187

Anti-Leislerian Party, 68

Apthorpe, Charles Ward, 156

Apthorpe mansion, 156

Aqueduct, Croton, 227-229

Army, Continental, 144, 148, 151, 179

Arnold, Benedict, 177, 178

Astor Place riot, 231, 232

Astor Place, 231

Bank, Manhattan, 203

Banks, 201-203

Battery, 10, 68, 176

Battle of Bunker Hill, 148

Battle of Golden Hill, 136-138

Battle of Harlem Heights, 164, 165, 166

Battle of Long Island, 154, 155

Bayard Farm, 189

Bayard, Nicholas, 69, 72, 89

Bellomont, Lord, 82, 83, 86-88

Block, Adrian, 10-12

Bogardus, Everardus, 26, 37, 42

Bolting Act, 62, 63

Boston, 66, 84, 140, 141, 143

Boston Port closed, 141

Bouweries laid out, 21

Bouwerie Lane, 21

Bouwerie Village, 54, 76, 231

Bowery Road, 179

Bowery, the, 21, 35

Bowling Green, 12, 35, 93, 105, 131, 134, 152, 200

Bradford, William, 79, 108

Bridge, East River, 236

Bridge, High, 227

British occupy New York City, 163

Broad Street, 57, 148

Broadway, 12, 58, 93, 162, 198, 204

Bunker Hill, Battle of, 148

Burgomasters, 46

Burgoyne, General, 171, 172

Burnet, William, 101-103

Burns's Coffee-House, 129, 130

Burr, Aaron, 150, 201, 203-207

Burton, Mary, 112-114

Buttermilk Channel, 30

Cabot, John, 23, 50

Cabot, Sebastian, 23, 50

Canal, Erie, 220-222

Canal Street, 205

Cape of Good Hope, 3

Castle Garden, 215, 232

Cemetery, first Jewish, 104

Central Park, 233

Chambers, Captain, 139, 140

Charles I., 23

Charles II., 62

Church in the Fort, 36, 37

Church, St. Mark's, 54

Church, St. Paul's, 150, 167, 195, 198

Church, Trinity, 28, 79, 129, 198

City Hall (first), 36, 47, 75, 87, 122

City Hall (in Wall Street), 87-89, 94, 99, 128, 133, 152, 190

City Hall (present), 152, 205

City Hall Park, 50, 175, 176, 214

City Hospital, 184

City Plan, 212, 213

City Wall, 48, 87

Clarke, George, 111, 115, 116

Clermont, the, 210, 211

Clinton, Admiral George, 116-118

Clinton, De Witt, 208, 220-222

Clinton, Governor George, 171

Clock, first public, 99

Colden, Cadwallader, 102, 131, 133

Collect Pond, 50, 114, 189, 198, 202, 204, 205, 209

College, Columbia, 184

College, King's, 121, 184

Colonial Congress, the, 129

Columbia College, 184

Columbia Heights, 164

Columbia University, 121, 164

Colve, Captain Anthony, 58, 59

Committee of Safety, 68

Common, the, 50, 137, 152, 184, 198, 205

Congress, Colonial, 129

Congress, First Continental, 141-143

Congress, Second Continental, 144, 147

Constitution of the United States, 186-188

Continental Army, 148-149, 151, 179

Continental Congress, First, 141-143

Continental Congress, Second, 144, 147

Cornbury, Lord, 89-94

Cornwallis, Lord, 178

Corporation Library, 87

Cosby, William, 105-110

Council of Twelve, 39

Croton Aqueduct, 223, 227-229

Crystal Palace, 233

Cunningham, Provost-Marshal, 176

Declaration of Independence, 152

De Lancey, James, 107-109, 117-121, 123-125

De Lancey, Stephen, 99

De Lancey, Susannah, 116

Demont, William, 168

De Vries, Captain David Pietersen, 28, 39, 40

District of Columbia, 199

Doctors' Mob, 185

Dongan Charter, 65

Dongan, Thomas, 64, 65

Draft Riot, 234

Duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, 206, 207

Duke of York, 50-54, 55, 60, 61, 64, 65

Dutch Netherlands, 2

East India Company, 2-5, 13

East Indies, 2-5, 13

East River Bridge, 236

Elevated railways, 234

English claim New Netherland, 23, 53

Erie Canal, 220-222

Exchange Place, 57

Fairs on Bowling Green, 35, 36

Federal Hall, 190-194

Federalists, 187, 188

"Federal Ship Hamilton," 188

Ferry-boats, 211

Fire Department, first, 105

Fire of 1776, 167

Fire, "the Great," 224

First City Hall, 36, 47, 75, 87, 122

First Continental Congress, 141-143

First Fire Department, 105

First houses of white men, 12

First Jewish cemetery, 104

First mail route, 57

First minister, 26, 36, 42, 43

First newspaper, 79

First night-watch, 87

First pavements, 93

First printing press, 79

First public clock, 99

First roads, 35

First schoolmaster, 26

First sidewalks, 198

First soldiers in New Netherland, 26

First steamboat, 208-211

First street lamps, 87

First street numbers, 198

First telegraph, 230, 231

First vessel built, 12

Fitch, John, 209

Fitzroy, Lord Augustus, 109, 110

Fletcher, Benjamin, 77-81

Forrest, Edwin, 231

Fort Amsterdam, 19, 27, 53

Fort Clinton, 215, 232

Fort James, 54

Fort Manhattan, 13

Fort Washington, 168

"Fourteen Miles 'round," 195

Franklin House, 193

Franklin Square, 193

Franklin, Walter, 193

Fraunces's Tavern, 99, 100, 180

Frederick, Kryn, 19

Free School Society, 208

French Revolution, 199

"Fulton's Folly," 211

Fulton, Robert, 210, 211

Gage, General Thomas, 141

Gardiner's Island, 84

Gates, General, 172

Gazette, New York, 108

George II., 104, 116, 125

George III., 125, 134, 136, 142, 152

Golden Hill, Battle of, 136, 137, 138

Golden Hill Inn, 137

Government House, 196

Governor's Island, 30

Grant's Tomb, 164

"Great Fire," the, 224

Greenwich Village, 216, 231

Hale, Nathan, 157, 158

Half Moon, 2, 3, 4

Hall of Records, 176

Hamilton, Alexander, 187, 188, 201-203, 206, 207

Hamilton, Andrew, 109

Hardy, Sir Charles, 121

Harlem Heights, 161

Harlem Heights, Battle of, 164-166

Harlem River, 229

Heights, Columbia, 164

Heights, Harlem, 161

Heights, Vandewater, 164

High Bridge, 227

Holland, 2

Holland, States-General of, 15, 16

Houses, first, of white men, 12

Howe, Admiral, 153

Howe, General William, 153, 155, 158, 168, 171

Hudson's Bay, 7

Hudson, Henry, 3-8, 10

Hudson's River, 8

Hunter, Robert, 96, 97, 99, 100

Hyde, Edward (Lord Cornbury), 91.

India, 4

Indians, 1, 4, 8, 9, 10, 16, 33, 34, 37-41

Indian War, 38-43, 49

Ingoldsby, Richard, 71

Island, Gardiner's, 84

Island, Governor's, 30

Island, Long, 30, 31, 84

Island of Manhattan bought from Indians, 18

Island, Nut, 30

Island, Randall's, 31

Island, Staten, 10, 28, 39

Island, Ward's, 31

Jail, New, 175, 176

Jamaica, Long Island, 92

James, Duke of York, 50-54, 60, 61, 64, 65

James II., 64, 66, 67

Jans, Annetje, 28, 42

Jans's farm, 27, 28

Jersey, the, 176, 177

Jewish cemetery, the first, 104

John Street Theatre, 195

Journal, New York Weekly, 108

Kidd, Captain William, 83-85

Kieft, William, 33-43

King's College, 121, 184

Kip's Bay, 158, 161, 162

Koopman, the, 19, 34

Lafayette, Marquis de, 171, 217-219

Leisler, Jacob, 67-76, 86, 89

Leislerian Party, 68, 89

Lexington massacre, 143

Liberty Pole, 134, 136

Lind, Jenny, 232

Lispenard's Meadow, 204

Livingston, Robert, 209, 210

Lockyer, Captain, 138, 139

Long Island, 30, 31, 84

Long Island, Battle of, 154-155

Lords of the Manors, 21, 22

Loudoun, Lord, 123

Louisburg, 117

Lovelace, Francis, 55-58

Lovelace, Lord John, 95, 96

Macready, William Charles, 231, 232

Mail route, the first, 57

Manhattan Bank, 203

Manhattan Company, 203

Manhattan Island, 8, 10

Manhattans, 8

Manning, Captain John, 58, 59, 61, 62

Manors, 21, 22

May, Cornelius Jacobsen, 16

Milborne, Jacob, 68, 69, 72-74

Minister, first, 26, 36, 42, 43

Minuit, Peter, 17-24

Mohawks, 40

Monckton, Robert, 125, 126

Money used by Indians, 37

Montgomery, General Richard, 150

Montgomery, John, 103-105

Montreal, capture of, 123

Moore, Sir Henry, 133

Morris, Lewis, 96, 101, 107

Morris Mansion, 164

Morris, Richard, 96

Morris, Roger, 164

Morrisania, 96

Morse, Samuel F.B., 230, 231

Murray Family, 158-161

Murray Hill, 158

Mutiny Bill, 134, 135

Nanfan, John, 89

National Academy of Design, 230

Negro Plot, 111-115

Negro slaves, 27, 98, 99, 111-115

Netherlands, 2

Netherlands, Dutch, 2

New England, 48, 64-67

New Jail, 175, 176

New Jersey, 40

New Netherland, 12-14, 16-18, 24, 50, 60

New Orange, 59

Newspaper, first, 79

Newspapers, 223, 224

New York Gazette, 108

New York Weekly Journal, 108

Nicholson, Francis, 66, 68-70

Nicolls, Colonel Richard, 55

Night watch, first, 87

Non-Importation Agreement, 130, 136

Non-Importation Association, 130

North Pole, 7

Northwest Passage, 7

Nut Island, 30

Orange, Prince of, 60

Osborne, Sir Danvers, 116-120

Park, City Hall, 50, 175, 176, 214

Patriots, 143

Patroons, 21, 22, 34

Pavements, first, 93

Pearl Street, 16, 36, 193

Permanent revenue, the, 95, 97, 119

Pirates, 80-84

Pitt, William, 134

Plot, Negro, 111-115

Prince of Orange, 60

Printing press, the first, 79

Prisons, 173-177

Prison ships, 176, 177

Prison, Tombs, 205

Privateers, 80, 83

Provisional Assembly, the, 144, 147, 149

Provost, the, 176

Putnam, General, 157, 161

Quebec, 149, 150

Queen Street, 122

Railroad, elevated, 234

Randall's Island, 31

Rebels, 143

Restless, the, 12

Revolution, French, 199

Revolutionary War, 143, 144, 146, 152, 177, 178

Riot, Astor Place, 231, 232

Riot, Doctors', 185

Riot, Draft, 234

River of the Mountains, 4, 8

Roads, the first, 35

Rolandsen, Adam, 26

Royalists, 143

St. Mark's Church, 54

St. Paul's Chapel, 150, 167, 195, 198

Schepens, the, 46

Schoolmaster, the first, 26

Schools, 208

School Society, Free, 208

Schout, the, 46

Schout-fiscal, the, 19

Schuyler, General Philip, 172

Schuyler, Peter, 99

Seal of New York, 63

Second Continental Congress, 144, 147

Ship Adventure Galley, 82, 83

Ship Clermont, 210, 211

Ship, the first built, 12

Ship Half Moon, 2-4

Ship Restless, 12

Ship Tiger, 10, 12

Ships, prison, 176, 177

Ships, tea, 138, 139, 140

Sidewalks, the first, 198

Slave Market, 98

Slaves, 26, 27, 98, 99, 111-115

Sloughter, Henry, 70-73, 75, 76

Small-pox, 200

Smugglers, 34, 39

Soldiers, first, 25, 26

Sons of Liberty, 128, 136, 137, 145-147

Spain, 13

Stadt Huys, 36, 47, 75, 87, 122

Stamp Act, 127-136

Staten Island, 10, 28, 39

States-General of Holland, 15, 16

Steamboat, first, 208-211

Steam ferry-boats, 211

Street lamps, first, 87

Street numbers, first, 198

Street railways, elevated, 234

Streets, how laid out, 212

Stuyvesant, Peter, 44-49, 53, 54, 76

Sugar-house, 174, 175

Tammany Hall, 197

Tammany Society, 197

Taxed tea, 135, 139-141

Tea ships, 138, 139, 140

Tea taxed, 135, 139-141

Telegraph, first, 230, 231

Theatre, John Street, 195

Third City Hall, 152, 205

Tiger, 10, 12

Tombs Prison, 152, 205

Tories, 143

Trading Stations, 103

Trinity Church, 28, 79, 129, 198

Trinity Churchyard, 207

Tryon's Gate, 198

Tryon's Row, 198

Tryon, William, 149, 158

Turtle Bay, 145, 146

"Tyrant of New England," 64

United New Netherland Company, 12

University of the City of New York, 230

Valley Forge, 172

Van Arsdale, John, 180

Van Dam, Rip, 105-108, 110, 111

Vandewater Heights, 164

Van Dincklagen, the schout-fiscal, 31

Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen, 25

Van Twiller buys Governor's Island, 30

Van Twiller's tobacco plantation, 27

Van Twiller, Walter, 25-32

Vauxhall, 132

Verhulst, William, 17

Wall Street, 41, 87, 190

Wall Street, City Hall in, 87-89, 94, 99, 128, 133, 152, 190

Wall, the city's, 48, 87

Walton House, 122

Walton, William, 122

Ward's Island, 31

War, Indian, 38-43, 49

War of the Revolution, 143, 144, 146, 152, 177, 178

War of 1812, 213-215

Warren, Admiral Peter, 116, 117

Washington, City of, 199

Washington, George, 123, 145, 148, 149, 151-158, 162, 164, 168, 170, 172, 173,178-183, 186, 189, 190, 193-195, 199, 200

Weehawken, 207

Westchester, 168

West India Company, 13-16, 18, 21-23, 25, 32, 42, 46, 53, 67

West Indies, 14

West Point, 177

Whigs, 143

Willett, Marinus, 147, 148

Willett, Thomas, 55

William III., 60, 67, 68, 70, 82

"William the Testy," 33

Windmills, 27, 34

World's Fair, 233

Yellow fever, 216

York, James, Duke of, 50-54. 55, 60, 61, 64, 65

Zenger, Peter, 108-110