Historic towns of the middle states
Part 18
But while these surpassing industries have given Pittsburgh her wealth, population, supremacy and power, commercial materialism is not the _ultima thule_ of her people. She has the largest and handsomest court-house in the world, the crowning architectural triumph of H. H. Richardson. Her churches and schoolhouses are found in nearly every block. She spends a quarter of a million annually on her parks,—Schenley and Highland. She maintains by popular support one of the three symphony orchestras in America. She has given many famous names to Science, Literature and Art. Her astronomical observatory is known throughout the world. Her rich men are often liberal beyond their own needs—particularly so William Thaw, who spent millions for education and benevolence; Mrs. Mary Schenley, who has given the city a great park, four hundred picturesque acres in the very heart of its boundaries; and Henry Phipps, who erected the largest conservatory for plants and flowers in our country. There is one other, Andrew Carnegie, whose wise and continuous use of vast wealth for the public good is nearly beyond human precedent. Mr. Carnegie has spent many millions on libraries, art galleries and scientific museums in Pittsburgh alone, and millions more for similar institutions in other parts of the world. The Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh, comprising Art Galleries, Library, Museum and Music Hall, now in its fourth year, is the rallying-ground of the whole people in their growing love of æsthetic and spiritual life. Its doors are open all day, from nine in the morning until ten at night, free to the people. And the people use it with delight, more than five hundred thousand of them having thronged its halls in this past year.
Pittsburgh is truly an imperial city.
FOOTNOTES
[1] Reproduced by permission of Augustus Pruyn, Albany, N. Y.
[2] Reproduced by permission of Dr. Samuel B. Ward, Albany, N. Y.
[3] Reproduced by permission from _King Washington_, by Adelaide Skeel and William H. Brearley.
[4] From _Book of Newburgh_.
[5] _From Spirit of ’76_.
[6] From _American Patriots_.
[7] Reproduced by permission from _Bowling Green_, by Spencer Trask.
[8] Reproduced by permission from _Bowling Green_, by Spencer Trask.
[9] Reproduced by permission from _The Outlook_.
[10] Reproduced by permission of Lewis C. Vandegrift, Wilmington, Del.
[11] Reproduced by permission of Henry C. Conrad, Wilmington, Del.
[12] Reproduced by permission of Buffalo Historical Society.
[13] Subsequently the river bore the name of North River, to distinguish it from the Delaware, the South River of Nieu Nederlandt. In fact the fair stream has been renamed as often as a Parisian street. Albany has shared the fate of the river.
[14] The Chart illustrating this article is one of a later date.
[15] See page 93, Bradford’s _History of Plimoth Plantation. From the original manuscript_. Boston, 1898. This original MS. in the above year was transferred with appropriate ceremonies from the library of the Archiepiscopal Palace at Fulham to the archives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
[16] The writer is indebted to As-que-sent-wah, a member of the Onondaga tribe, an authority upon Indian local lore, and well known among white men as Edward Winslow Paige, for an account of the tradition which fixes the residence of Hiawatha at Schonowe. Mr. Paige owns the lot at the west end of Union Street on the bank of the Binnekill, upon which the castle and residence stood. He points out to the visitor existing traces of the Indian occupation.
[17] He was drowned in October, 1667, in Lake Champlain, while journeying to Canada in response to the pressing invitation of the Governor General to visit him.
[18] Governor Leisler was afterwards unjustly condemned and executed for high treason; the destruction of Schenectady being one of the charges against him.
[19] He came again in 1782, when the struggle was practically over. The authorities and the people did their utmost in his honor. This he suitably acknowledged in a letter addressed “To the magistrates and military authorities of the township of Schenectady,” closing in these words: “May the complete blessings of peace soon reward your arduous struggle for the freedom and independence of our common country.”
[20] “Ten eynde de Gemeente niet verstroyt werde.”
[21] EPITAPH OF JOSHUA DE KOCKERTHAL, IN BURYING-GROUND AT SAUGERTIES, N. Y.
Wisse Wandersman Unter diesem Steine Rusht nebst Seiner Sibylla Charlotte Ein Rechter Wandersman Per Hoch Jeutsehen in Nord America ihr Josua und der selben an Der Ost and West seite Der Hudson’s River rein Lutherischer Prediger. Seine erste an Kunft war mit Lrd Lovelace, 1707-8, den 1 Januar. Seine sweite mit Col. Hunter 1710 d. 14 Juny. Seine Englandische ruc reise unterbrach Seine Seelen Himmelische reise an St. Johannis sage 1719. Regherstu mehr Ku wissen So untersuche in Welaneh thons vaterland, Wer war de Kockerthal, Wer Harschias, Wer Winchenbuch, B. Berkenmayer, S. Heurtin, L. Brevort.
MDCCXLII.
Know, Wanderer, under this stone rests beside his Sybilla Charlotte a right wanderer, the Joshua of the High Dutch in N. America, the pure Lutheran Preacher of them on the East and West side of the Hudson River. His first arrival was with Lord Lovelace in 1707, the first of January. His second with Colonel Hunter, 1710, the fourteenth of June. His voyage back to England was prevented (literally interrupted) by the voyage of his soul to Heaven, on St. John’s Day, 1719. Do you wish to know more? Seek in Melancthon’s fatherland who was Kockerthal, who was Harschias, who Winchenbuch, B. Berkenmayer, S. Heurtin, L. Brevort.
1742.
[22] On this Glebe site was erected about 1730 the Lutheran Church of the Palatine Parish by Quassaick. Reverend Michael Christian Knoll, Pastor.
From July 19, 1747, the Reverend Hezekiah Watkins of the Church of England held services for about twenty-five years.
Erected by Quassaick Chapter, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
[23]
IN MEMORY OF REVEREND HEZEKIAH WATKINS YALE 1737 ORDAINED 1754 IN ENGLAND SENT HERE BY VEN. SOC. P. G. IN F. P. FOUNDED THE PARISHES OF S. DAVID’S, S. ANDREW’S AND S. GEORGE’S RESIDENT MINISTER AT NEWBURGH FROM 1752 UNTIL HIS DEATH. APRIL 10, 1765. AET. 57.
_Tablet in S. George’s Church, Newburgh._
[24]
GEORGE CLINTON MEMBER OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1775-1777 BRIGADIER-GENERAL CONTINENTAL ARMY 1777 GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 1777-85—1801-4 VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 1804-1812
_Cara Patria Carior Libertas._
Inscription on Clinton Statue in Colden Square, Newburgh. Statue by Henry Kirke Brown. Presented to the city by the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands and other citizens. Unveiled on the 119th anniversary of the battles of Forts Clinton and Montgomery in the Highlands.
[25] The change from Vredryk Flypse to Frederick Philips was synchronously made—both names being changed at the same time.
[26] The word is commonly spelt thus for the mountains, but thus—_Allegheny_—for the river, county and city.
[27] “The commissaries will issue a gill of whiskey, extraordinary, to the non-commissioned officers and privates, upon this joyful occasion.”—General Irvine’s Order.
INDEX
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