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Peckham, Wheeler H., 629.
Peloponnesus, The, 412. Peltry, export duty on, increased, 50.
Penn, William, 113.
Pennsylvania, 123.
Pepperell, Sir William, 487. Pequods, 31. Percival, James Gates, dines with J. F. Cooper at the City Hotel, 489. Percy, Lord, 250.
Periodicals, number of, in the United States, note, 278.
Perth Amboy Ferry, stage-boats run to, 186. Peters, Henry, 170. . Philadelphia, stages established between New York and, 186. Philipse, Colonel Adolph, 140.
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INDEX.
Philippe, Louis, teaches school in New York, 597.
Phillips, General, 260, 265.
Phoenix, Mrs. D., 81.
Phyfe, D., makes a box from a log of Erie cedar, for Lafayette, 397. Pine Street, 336, 425.
Pintard, Lewis, 206, 317. John, 255.
Pinxter (Whitsuntide), 70.
Pitt, William, 208, 210.
Pleasure Gardens at Harlem, 85.
Plymouth Company, 24 Harbor, 23 Rock, 18.
Pneumatic Railroad, 612.
Poelnitz, Baron, 284.
Police Regulations, a new code of, enact- ed, 114.
Political Parties in New York, origin of, 142. Pomeroy, General, 244. Popish Pretender, 158. Popish Plot, 150.
Popular Government established, by the construction of a General As- sembly, 113.
Population of New York, 642, 652. Porter, Peter B., 408.
Portuguese, 148.
Post Office, 166: history of, 516-520. Office Building, the New, 601. Road, old, 93. Doctor, 234.
Potatoes, Price of Bermuda, 30.
Potemkin, Prince. 435.
Potomac River, 128.
Potter's Field, removal of bodies from, 537. Hill, 91.
Potter, Bishop Alonzo, 349.
Powder House, The, 91, notc.
Powell, Thos., a steamboat, 352, 353, note. Powle's (Paulus) Hook, 375.
Pownal, Thomas. 190.
Pratt, Chief Justice, 191, 195.
Presbyterian (Wall Street: Church, 165. President of the United States, official title of the. 294. Preston, Colonel, 227.
Prevost, General, 182.
Price of Provisions, 184.
Priestly, Doctor, 422.
Printing House Square, 639.
Printz, Gov., 42.
Prison Ship, the horrors of the " Jersey." 255, 256, note.
Prisoners, neglect and ill-treatment of, 255. Prison Weekly Dietary, 255.
Privateer. La Garce, 43.
Procession in honor of founding the Re- public, 282-290.
Provincial Congress, 243, 245.
Provost, Old, see Debtors' Prison.
Bishop, 304. Rev. Samuel, 168.
David, a Tobacco Inspector at Manhattan, and Commissary at Fort Good Hope, 148.
Ready Money (David), the Long Island Smuggler, 488.
Provost's Tomb, Jones's Wood, 491.
Prussia, 289.
Public burial-ground in the entrench- ments, 255. Public School Society, 345.
Public Wells established, 569.
Puritans, 18, 31, 654.
Putnam, General, 244, 246.
Mrs. Washington, 74.
QUAKERS, 22. Quarantine Establishment at Bedloe's Is- land, 139.
Buildings on Staten Island de- stroyed by the populace, 537.
Quebec, 113, 214, 244.
Queen's County, 114.
Queen Street (Pearl), 284, 298, 300.
Quider, Indian name of Peter Schuyler, 119.
Quilting Bees, 69.
RABBIT ISLAND, 97. Raneleagh Gardens, 232, 339."
Raritan River, 186. Indians, 48.
" Ready Money Provost," 488, 489, note. Reade Street, 232, 335. Real Estate Auctions, 606.
Rector Street, 139.
Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha) visits New York, and has his portrait paint- ed, 416; Doctor Francis de- scribes his personal appearance, 417-419.
Reformed Dutch Church, 24.
Reid, an Assemblyman, 199.
Captain Mayne, relates an anec- dote of Lafayette, 380. Religious Denominations of New York, 641. Rensselaer, Killian Van, 25.
Rensselaerwyck (Albany), 44. Renwiek, Doctor, 365. Reservoir on Fifth Avenue, 505. Distributing. 501.
Restless, the first vessel built in New Amsterdam. 15. . Revenue, Public, of New Netherland, 66.
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Review of administrations of various Governors, 141.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 455.
Rhoda, Lewis, first man killed by a Steamboat accident, 356.
Rhode Island, 197.
Richards, T. Addison, 637.
Richmond Hill, 348, 415, 440. - County, 114. Riedesel, General, 256, 268.
Mrs. General, her history of the Siege of New York, and inci- dents connected therewith, 256- 270.
Riots :
Abolitionist, 460. Astor Place, 520.
Boston, 199.
Bread, 536.
Dead Rabbit, 534.
Doctor's Mob, 234-236.
Draft, 368, 461, 539 ..
Election, 456-460.
Five Points, 467, 468.
Flour, 493-499.
'Longshoremen's, 486.
Macready, 520-528.
Negro, of 1712, 272.
Negro, of 1741, 147-152.
Orange, 616, 617.
Police, 532. Quarantine, 537. Stamp Act, 197-199. Stone Cutters', 466. Trinity Church, 359-365, note.
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Riots, year of, 456.
Rivington, James, editor and owner New York Gazette, 277, 278.
Battle of, 256. Springs, 74, 374.
troops captured at, 26S.
Schaats, Domine, 95.
Schermerhorn, Cornelius, 170.
Schenectady, 120.
Schieffelin, S. B., 637.
School of Painting, 637; of Sculpture, 637. Schout Fiscal, 20, 77.
Schultz, Jackson S., 613.
Schutter's Island, 104. Schuyler, Peter, 119, 123, 224.
Philip, 237, 245.
Fort, 188.
Sconce, 74. Scott, John Morin, 194, 219. Captain, 60.
Scudder's Museum, 330. 405. Sea Mew, The, a ship, 20.
Sears, Isaac, a leader of the Sons of Liberty, 201.
Seguine, Joseph, 376. Seigneuries, 21. Senate, first meeting of the, 202.
Russia, 14. Rutgers Street, 13.
Rutgers' Farm, 231. Mr., 232.
Colonel, 340. Ryker, Hendrick, 90.
ST. BENICIO, a ship, 50, 51.
St. Clair, Governor, 295. St. Frederick, Fort, 132.
St. George Building, 169.
St. George's Chapel, 166-169, 366.
St. George, a ship, 271.
St. John's, 374. St. John's Park, 12, 598, 599.
St. James Coffee House, 488. . St. James's Chronicle, 227.
St. John's Day, 219.
St. Lawrence River, 109.
St. Nicholas, Old Church of, 78, 475.
St. Michael's Day, 116.
St. Paul's Church, 232, 304, 333, 366.
St. Petersburg, 436.
St. Philip's Church (Colored), 463,, 465.
St. Tammany, see Tammany. Sagoyewatha (Red Jacket', 416, 417, 419. Sam Francis's Tavern (Black Sam's), 231, 298. Sandford, General, 525.
Sand Hills, 13.
Sand's Point, 375.
Sands, Robert C., 489, 637.
Juliana Elmore, murder of, 342.
Sandy Hook, 11, 55, 67, 97, 380.
Santa Claus (Christ-Kinkle Day), 70.
Sappokanikke (Greenwich , 104.
Sargeant, Charles and John, 203.
Saratoga Battle Ground, 502.
Roach, Thomas, 319.
Roberts, Marshall O., 637.
Robinson, Thomas, one of the Sons of Liberty, 201. - Colonel, 167.
Rochambeau. Count, 338.
Rochefort. 113.
Rodgers, Rev. Doctor, 421.
Roelandsen, Adam, a school-master, 24, 32. Rogers, Doctor, 234. Roosevelt Street, 91.
Hon. R. B., 620, 624. Jacobus, 91. Rose Street, 461. Rossa, O'Donovan, 631. Rostopchin, General, 248. Ruggles, Timothy, 198. Rushmore, Isaac, his experiences in cross- ing the ferries in early times, 354.
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Senecas, 108, 124, 139. Seneca Chief, the first eanal-boat, 390. Seventh Regiment. 374, 617. Seawant, see Wampum. Seymour, Horatio, 403, 545. Shaera Straat, see Broadway. Shakespeare Tavern. 488-490. Sharpe, Rev. John, 131. Sheldon's Dragoons, 301. Sherman, Roger, 292, 303, 489. Shoe and Leather Bank, 603.
Shoemaker's Land, 90.
Simonson, Daniel, earries the mail from Staten Island to New York on the ice, 376.
Sims, Doctor J. M., founds the State Woman's Hospital. 537.
Singeron, Auguste Louis de, 428-430. Sing Sing, 460, 501.
Sirius, a steamship, 325.
Six Nations, treaty with the, 124. Nations, 127, 165.
Slave Market at the foot of Wall Street, 149. Trade, History of, 147-151.
Sloap Banck (Bunk), 19, 75.
Sloat Lane, 404, 419.
Sloughter, Colonel Henry, Governor of New York, 118, 142.
Small-Pox, 159. "Small Citizenship," record of, 57.
Smith, William, 132, 134, 194, 220, 242 262. - T., 219. Doctor, 234.
Peter, 274.
Richard, 103.
Colonel W. S., 309. Colonel, 49S.
Smit's Valey, 97.
Smuggling abolished, 49.
Snake Ifill, N. J., 361.
Society Library, N. Y., 131, 345, 649. for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, 638. Soldiers' (Martyrs') Monument, 515 Sons of Liberty, 192, 199, 200, 206, 207, 212, 216, 224, 225, 243.
South Street, 29, 192, 480, 481. River, 35, 42, 52. Soutberg, a ship, 19, 24, 28.
Spain, 24, 50.
Spotswood, Governor, 127. Spring Street Church, 462, 463. - Street, 342. 463. Street Market, 378.
Spuyten Duyvel, 102. Stadt Huys (City Hall) of New Amster- dam, 37, 68, 89.
Stage Boats first introduced, 186. Line started from New York to Philadelphia, 187.
Stages first run between New York and Albany, 183. - line extended to Utica, 188.
Stamp Act, 195, 199, 200, 202. 203, 206- 208, 210, 211, 213, 227, 238, 239. Stanwix, Fort (Rome), 139. 344. Staple Right granted, 26. Star Chamber, 137.
"Stars and Stripes," The, displaces the British Standard, 273. Staten Island, 48, 55, 67, 97, 122, 182. 376, 474, 537. Island and Bergen Ferry estab- lished, 185.
States-General, the Dutch, 15, 17, 23, 34, 46. State Right, 51.
Arsenal, 457, 530.
Street, 92, 125, 318. Prisoners, 378.
Steadman, the historian, 252. Steam navigation, 348.
Steamer, the first, the Clermont, con- structed under Fulton's nominal superintendence, 351, 352.
Steddiford, Captain, 299.
Steenwyck, Cornelis, 57, 61.
Steenwyck's Orchard, 93.
Steeregraft, 92.
Steuben, Baron, 235, 304, 312, 441
Stevenson, Doetor J., 360.
Stevens, Doctor, 234,
Horatio G., 327. Colonel John, 355, 386, 461.
Stewart, A. T., 232, 603.
Stirling, General Lord, 247, 489. Lady, 808.
Stoffelson, Jacob, of Pavonia, one of the Twelve Men, 25.
Stokes, Captain, 299.
James, 608.
Edward S., shoots James Fisk, Jr .. 634. Stone, Colouel William L., 282, 331. 389, 390, 413, 419, 483, 498, 507, 508, 63S.
Mrs., 490. Street, 30, 92, 93, 481, 509, 510.
Stoneall, J. C. (Alderman), keeps the Shakespeare Tavern, 492.
Strycker, J. Gerritsen, 57.
Stuart, R. L., 60S. Sturges, Jonathan, 608. Stuyvesant, Governor Peter, 48, 49, 50, 55, 56, 60, 62, 65. Mrs., wife of Governor, 148. Pear-tree, 596.
Stuyvesant's " Bowerie," 93.
Suaaendael, 26. Sub-Treasury, 507.
Suckanhock sueki, 38 Suffolk County, 14S.
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Sullivan, General, 247. Sumpter, General, 416. Swamp, The, 90, 91. Swart, Jacob, 94. Swartwout, Captain, 299. Swedes, their connection with the early history of America, 42.
Sweden, 42, 289. Sweeney, Peter B., 620. Syracuse, 391.
TABERNACLE, New York, 494. Tailer, Colonel, 129.
Talcott, a Mr., holds a conversation with " Ready Money" Provost, 488. Talleyrand, 422. Tallmadge, F. A., 528. Tamkill, 83.
Tammany organization, 328-330.
- Frauds, etc., exposure of, 618-635. Hall, 336. Museum, 330.
Tammanund, the Patron Saint of Tam- many, history of, 328.
" Tap," The, 497.
Tappan, Gov. Kieft sends sloops to, 36. Lewis, 461. Arthur, 461.
Taverns, Licenses for, first issued, 51. Tavern, the first erected in' New Nether- land, 37. Tayler, Asher, 375, 456, 483. Taylor, Jeremy, 654.
"Tea Water Pump," The, in Chatham Street, 500, 573.
Temple, Sir John, 236.
Teunissen, Jan., 98, 101.
Thames Street, 165, 264.
Thayendagea (Joseph Brant), 415.
Thirtieth Street, 613.
Thirty-first Street, 348. Thirty-sixth Street, 93.
Thomson, Charles, 293.
Thompson, Launt, a sculptor, 637.
Ticonderoga, Fort, 214, 593.
"Tiger" and "Fortune," two Dutch ships, 14. Tilden, S. J., 629. Tillary, Doctor, 425.
Tombs, The, 12, 271.
Tompkins Square, 335. Daniel D. 374, 379.
Tontine Coffee House, history of, 318, 319-327.
Hotel Association (Fifth Ward', #20.
Town Hall, 171. Townsend, Robert C., 466. Trading Charter, 15.
Treaty of Peace between the States General and Great Britain, G8.
Treaty of Peace between United States and Great Britain, 272. with Indians, 47.
Trenton, Battle of, 295.
Tribune Building, 337; threatened by rioters, 543.
Trinity Church, 68, 83, 121, 166, 252, 333. Church Riot, 359-365. Place, 600.
Troup, Robert, 287, 341.
Tromp, Admiral, 54.
Troy, N. Y. 186.
Trumbull, John, 587.
Tryon, Governor William, 231, 237, 240, 244, 245, 257, 265.
Tucker, Thomas Tudor, 292.
Tuliva Mico, 329.
Turk's Head, London, compared with the Shakespeare Tavern, 488, 491, 492.
Tweed, William M., 613, 620, 629.
Twenty-third Street, 609.
Tyng, Rev. Dr., 170.
ULSTER COUNTY, 114, 136. Union Bank, 603.
Square, 335, 514, 657.
~ Hotel, 341.
League Club, 613.
of New England Colonies, 239.
United Colonies, The, resist the execu- tion of the Tea Duties, 240.
New Netherland Company, 16, 21.
Provinces, 35, 53.
States Sanitary Commission. 638. States Navy Yard, Brooklyn, 335. University of New York, 466, 507.
Utica, 188.
Utrecht, Peace of, 126, 132.
Ury, John, a priest and school-master, im- plicated in the Negro Plot, 151.
VALENTINE, DAVID T., 126, 152, 640.
Van Birkel, Mr., 441.
Van Burggh, Jan Gilleson, 56. Johannes Pietersen, 57. Karl, 57.
Van Cortlandt, Stephanus, first native- born Mayor of N. Y., 107, 117. Gen. Philip, conducts Lafayette to the chair of Louis XVI., 386. Van Couwenhoven, Jacob, 57. - Pieter, 57.
Van Dam, Rip, 76, 91, 132, 138.
Van Dyck, Captain, 29S. Van Ecke, Domine, 95.
Van Horne, Gerrit, 140. . - Major, 299.
Van Der Huyghens, Schout Fiscal, 46. 48. Van Rensselaer, General Stephen, 390. 108.
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Van Rensselaer, Johannes, the first pa- troon, 44. Killian, 25. Van Schaick, Henry, 206, 219. Peter, 219.
Van Tienhoven, Cornelis, 32.
Mrs., 57.
Van Twiller, Wouter, Governor, 24, 27, 32, 43, 24, 25, 26, 27, 43, 92.
Van Vorst, Anna, 270. Hooper C., 270, 649.
Van Wyck, Laurisen Cornelisen, 57.
Van Zye, Captain, 67.
Vanderbilt. John, 376. Vandercliff's Orchard (John Street), 89, 90.
Vandergrist and Van Dyck, 92.
Vanderlyn, the pupil of Stuart, 516.
Vandewater Street, 71.
Varennes, Baron De, 422.
Varick, Richard, 322.
Street, 13, 462, 463, 464, 609. Vasseur, Auguste L., Secretary to La- fayette, 379. Venerable Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 252.
Vergennes, Count De, 431.
Verhulst, William, 20.
Verplanck, Gulian, 139, 272, 818, 321, 336. - Gulian C. 272, 345, 420-455.
Vesey Street, 355. Vessels, Toll levied on, 45.
Vigné, Jean, 96.
Virginia, 11; 15, 16, 31, 35, 49. 110, 222. Virtue & Forston, house of, 636, 637.
" Vlackte." The, or Flat, 91.
Vly Market (Market in the Marsh), SO, note. Volckertsen, Captain, 14.
WALDRON, W. J., 330.
Wales, Prince of, visits New York, 538. Coast of, 48.
Walker Street, 529, 603.
Wallace, Hugh, 221.
Walloons, 18, 22.
Wall Street, 24, 68, 115, 117, 165, 231, 263, 264, 212, 318, 336, 344. 419, 421, 425, 471, 476, 477, 450, 481, 452. Street Church, 420.
Walphat's Meadow, 91.
Walton, Jacob, 221.
Wampum, Sevant, or Zeawant, taken as the standard of value, and used as currency, 29, 31, 36, 38, 42, 64. 77.
Wardell, Robert, 170.
Ward's Island, bodies from the Potter's Field removed to, 537. Ward, John Q. A., a sculptor, 637.
Warren, Admiral Sir Peter, 150, 153, 167, 271, 590. Mansion, Old, history destruction of, 590. Street, 153, 612. Joseph, 229. War of 1812, 367-370, 516.
Washington, General George, 166, 244, 245, 247, 249, 272, 281, 291, 294- 317.
Lady, 315-317
Hotel, 152.
Medal, 417.
Parade Ground, 14, 335, 466, 537.
Street, 463.
Fort, 250, 255.
a steam-boat, 393. Monument, 514.
Watch House, 336. Water Gate, 89.
Street, 29, 87, 88. 92, 231, 318, 314, 472, 473, 477, 480, 481.
Watkins, Rev. Hezekiah, 137. Watts, Hon. John (Recorder), 271, 284, 318. Mary, marries Sir John Johnson, 271.
Watt, James, 349. Way-house, 88.
Wayland, Francis, gives an account as an eye-witness of the reception of the news of Peace by the citizens of New York, 369.
Wayman, William, 136, 276. Webster, Noah, 287, 422. Daniel, 412.
Weed, Thurlow, 352, 390.
Weehawken Duelling Ground, 34S.
Weeks, Ezra, keeps the City Hotel, 308, 342. Levi, nephew of Ezra Weeks, tried for the murder of Miss Sands, 342.
Weigh-house, SS.
Weir, Robert W., an artist, 416.
Wellington, Duke of. 601.
Westchester County, 148, 504,
Westfield, disastrous explosion of the, 635. West Indies, 59, 166. India Company, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 25, 27, 31. 36, 42, 45, 50, 58, 59, 63, 83, 103.
Westminster, 68. Abbey, 374.
Wesley Chapel, 211, 420. Westphalia, 93. West Point, 352.
Wetmore, Prosper M., 348, 388, 463, 483. Wey, Captain. 14, 18, 20. White Conduit House, 340.
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White Street, 457, 604.
Whitehall, N. Y., the funeral cortege of Gen. Montgomery halts at, 373. Street, 2-1, 30, 87, 88, 92, 125. Whitefield, Rev. George, 420.
Wieringen Shoals, 98.
Wignell, an actor at John St. Theatre, 338. Wiley, William, 201. Willett, Colonel M., 318, 328, 344. Willoe, Captain, 260.
William Street, 90, 92, 93, 115, 404, 421, 422, 472, 474, 480, 481. and Mary, 141.
Williamsburgh, 356.
Willis, Nathaniel P., 636.
Willy, Noe, 91.
Windmill Hill, 339.
Winthrop, Governor, 31, 43.
Wolfe, General, 374 .. .
Wolfert's Valley, 91.
Woodbridge, N. J., early stages run to, 186, Wood Creek, 139
Woodhull, Caleb S., 520. Wooley, Rev. Charles, 105. Wooster Street, 342, 609. World's Fair, 528.
Worth, General W. J., monument to, 516. Wren, Sir Christopher, 601.
YAMOYDEN, a poem, 490.
Yellow Fever, 122, 330-332, 377-379. York, James, Duke of, 60.
Young Men's Christian Association of New York City, its aims, etc., 606-609, 638.
Young, Thomas, 408.
ZABRISKIE, Alderman, 384.
Zantberg Hills, The, 93.
Zantzinger, Captain, 397.
"Zealandia" (Wall and William Streets', 92.
Zeeland, 95. .
Zeawant, see Wampum. Zelo, Tzarzko, 436. Zenger, John Philip, 133, 134, 135, 136.
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