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Prince Thomas, 80
Princess, ship, 69, 72
Prinz, John, governor Sweden, 54
of New
Private tokens used as coins, 438 Privateers in War of 1812, 329 Proctor (General), 326
Provincial bills and Continental "shin-plasters," 438
Provisional Order of West India Company concerning government of New Netherland, 78
Provoost, David, 73 Provoost, Rev. Dr. 297
Samuel, 295.
Provost, David, 171
Public school system begun, 313 Public Utilities Commission, 417 Pulaski, 284
Putnam, General Israel, 269, 274, 275, 277 Pyne, Percy Rivington, 2d, 560
Quackenbos, Walter, 245
Quaker affirmation made equivalent to oath, 194 Quaker oath refused, 193
Quarantine established at Fire Is- land, 405
Quarantine riots, 365
Quarantine station on Staten Island, 334
Queen Anne, confirms Cornbury's commission, 163; proclaimed in New York, 163; grants the Queen's Farm and Queen's Gar- den to Trinity Church in fee simple, 167; provides a bell for Palatine Church, 171; dies, 175, 441
Queensborough Bridge opened, 421. Queen's Cup won by the America, yacht (see America's Cup), 360. Queen's Farm deeded to Trinity, 167 Queen's Garden deeded to Trinity, 167
Quidagh Merchant, Kidd's prize, 158 Quincy (Colonel), 371 Quincy, Josiah, 325, 337
Radcliff. Jacob, 315, 329, 331 Raet, ship, 69
Rahl, General, 279 Railroads of New York, 446-448 Raines Liquor Law, 408
Raleigh, Sir Walter, Carolina Set- tlement of, 21 Ramsay, Colonel, 281 Randall, Thomas, 259, 260, 262, 292, 294 Randolph. Edmund, 303 Rapelje, Joris, 58
Rapid transit in New York, 449, 453
Raritans, Indians, 31
Raritans (Indian) raid DeVrie's plantation, 57; and other planta- tions, 63
Raven, Anton Adolph, 630 Rawling, Colonel, 279 Ray, Cornelius, 294 Ray, Robert, 262
Raymond, Henry Jarvis, 361
Rea, Samuel, 612
Read, George Rowland, 816 Reade. John, 227, 262 Real estate speculation, 1869, 386
1867 to
Ream, Norman Bruce, 589 Reckgawawanes, Indians, 31 Records, see Documents
Reed (Lieutenant), 376
Reeve, Tappan, 308 Reform campaign of 1872, 392
Reform campaign of 1901, 413
Reformed Dutch Church in Man- hattan, first, 45
Reichhelm, Edward Paul, 708 Reid, Whitelaw, 403
Religion and Colonial Settlement, 36
Religious denominations in New
York in 1687, 130
Religious tolerance in early New York, 106
"Remonstrance and Petition of the Colonies and Villages in this New Netherland Province," presented to Stuyvesant and Council, 85
"Remonstrance of New Netherland to the States-General of United Netherland," 76; another "Re- monstrance," 78
Remsen Henry, 259, 262 Rensselaerswyck. only successful patroonship, surrenders to Eng- lish, 43, 55, 98
Republican factions in and after the Garfield campaign, 395
Restraints by Holland and England on Colonial trade, 439
Resumption after the panic of 1837, 344
Revere, Paul, 259
Revival of shipping and trade after War of 1812, 328
Revolution, later events of, 288, 289
Revolutionary forces formed in the city, 263-264
Revolutionary troops occupy the city, 268-277 Revolutionary War, movements of 1777. 284, 286
Rhinelander, Philip, 335
Ribeiro's map, founded on voyage of Gomez, 20
Richard, Paul, 201, 206, 207
Richard, The, fired into by the British frigate Leander, 320
Richards, A. C., 372
Richmond falls, 379
Riedesel, General, 287
Riedesel, Madame de. on New York under British occupation, 287
Riker, John Jackson, 838
Riker, Richard, 331
Rio de Sanct Antonio-early Span- ish name for The Narrows, 20
Rising, Governor of New Sweden, turns Dutch out of Fort Casimir, 86
Ritzema, Rudolphus, 262, 266
Rivington, James, 267. 268
Robertson, William H., 395, 397, 401
Robinson, John, and flock settle in Leyden and seek transportation to New Netherland, 36; request re- fused, 36
Robinson, John, 129 Robinson, Lucius, 395
Rockefeller. John Davison, 486 Rockefeller, William, 459 Ridder, Herman, 426, 431 Rockingham, Lord, 288 Roebling, John A., 382 Roebling, Washington L., 382 Roelantsen, Adam, 47 Roelofse, Theunis, 139 Rogers, Jacob S., 413 Rogers, Robert, 714 Rogers, Colonel, 372
Roman Catholic priests, laws
against, 159
Rombouts, Francis. 144
Roosevelt, Alice, 414
Roosevelt, Cornelius, 229 Roosevelt, Hilborne L., 463
Roosevelt, Isaac, 261, 262, 294.
Roosevelt, Nicholas, 229, 261, 262
Roosevelt, Theodore. 410, 412 Roosevelt (steamer), 432 Rou, Louis (Rev.), 180 Rowland, William, 646
Rowley, Henry, 850 Royal Americans, 220
Royal Gazette (Rivington's), 283
Royalists who left when Revolution triumphed, 291 Ruggles, General Timothy, 226
Russell, Charles H., 360, 372 Russell, Samuel, 313
Rutgers, Henry (Colonel), 314
Rutledge, John, 226
Rut. John, explorer, 21
Rutgers, Hermanas, 197
Rutherford, John, 322 Ruttenber, Edward Manning, on the word "Manna-hata," 31
Ryle. William, 770
Sackett, Henry W. (Colonel), 426 Sage, Russell, 403
St. Clair, General Arthur, 288
St. George's Chapel at Cliff and Beekman Streets, 208
St. Leger, Lieutenant Colonel, 284 St. Luke's Hospital, 356
St. Paul's Church erected, 243
St. Tammany Society, or Colum- bian Order, 299 Salingburgh, Peggy, 202
Salomon, William, 528 Sanderson, Henry. 578
Sandford, Charles W. (General),
354, 355, 363, 377 Sands, Comfort, 262, 294
Sandy Hook, 20 Sanhikans, Indians, 31
Sanitary Fairs in New York and Brooklyn, 379
Sanitary reforms accomplished by Colonel Waring, 410
Santen, Lucas, 124
Sapohanican. early name of Green- wich Village, 55; granted by Kieft to Wouter van Twiller, 55 Schaats, Gideon (Domine), 115 Schaukirk, Ewald Gustav, 280, 287 Schenck, Wessel, 29
Schenectady, massacre and de-
struction of, 141
Schiff, Jacob Henry, 516
Schley, Winfield S. (Rear Admiral), 399, 410 Schmitt, William P., 414
Schmittberger, Inspector, 406
Schniewind, Heinrich Ernst, Jr., 798
School, first in Manhattan, 47
School, Free Grammar, act to es- tablish, 165 Schouts-fiscal of New Netherland, duties of, 40
Schultz, Jackson S., 385
Schuyler, Brandt, 145 Schuyler, Charles Edward, 822 Schuyler, Peter, 129, 139, 145, 146, 156, 157, 169, 170, 171, 172, 177, 180, 206 Schuyler, Peter. Jr., 178
Schuyler, Philip (General), 261, 302 Schwarzwaelder, C. (Colonel), 371 Scott, John (Captain), 90, 91, 92. 03 Scott, John Morin, 222, 251, 262, 265
Scott, Winfield (General), 357
Sea Mew, ship, and passengers, 39 Seal granted to New Netherland, 38 Sears, Isaac, 226, 232, 233, 236, 244, 245, 259, 260, 262, 267, 293 Selden, Dudley, 350 Seligman, Isaac Newton, 426, 524 Sells, Elijah Watt, 895
Selyns, Henricus (Domine), 124, 125, 148. 160
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HISTORY OF NEW YORK
Senecas, Indians, 31 Seton, William, 262 Settling Act, 147
Seven Years War, 220
Seventh Regiment in Opera House Riots, 354; in Police Riot, 363; first to front in Civil War, 371; its new armory, 394; brief his- tory, 394
Seward, Clarence A., 401 Seward, Frederick W., 426
Seward, William H. (Governor), 348
Sewell, Arthur, 408
Seymour, Sir Edward Hobart, G. C. B., 427, 429
Seymour, Horatio, 374. 378
Shannon and Chesapeake, battle be- tween, 328
Sharp, Jacob, 401
Sharp, John (Rev.), 166
Sharp, Richard, 259. 262
Shaw, Charles, 259
Shepard, Edwin M., 413
Shelburne, Lord, 237
Sherbrooke, Miles, 259
Sherman, James S., 418
Sherman, John Taylor, 766
Sherman, William T. (General), 399, 400, 403
Sherwood, E. F., 466
Shipbuilding at New York, 105
Shipping, loss of, caused by the Civil War, 381
Shrewsbury, Lord, one of Kidd's backers. 154
Shumway, Henry C. (Captain), 355 Shute, Henry, 292 Siegbert, Louis, 804
Simmons, Charles Herbert, 709 Simon, Herman, 776
Simpson. C. C., 459
Six Nations, Indians, 31
Sixteenth Regiment soldiers, out- breaks by, 245
Sjöström, P. Robert G., 786
Slave market in Wall Street, 173 Slavery abolished in New York, 307 Slavery question in politics, 361 Sloan, Samuel. 372
Sloan, Samuel, 459
Sloat (Commodore), 351
Sloughter, Henry (Colonel), Gov- ernor of New York, 142, causes arrest of Leisler, Milborne and companions, and they are exe- cuted, 143; appoints a Council, calls an Assembly. and establishes a Supreme Court; his sudden death, 144 Smith, Edward, 249
Smith, Francis Marion, 846
Smith, George Carson, 902
Smith, George Theodore, 590
Smith, James, 190, 192, 196, 197 Smith, Lenox, 694
Smith, Melancthon, 302
Smith, Richard, 66
Smith, Thomas. 262
Smith, William, 144, 145, 155, 156, 173, 174. 194, 207, 212. 219
Smith, William (the younger), 1 223, 291, 292
Smith's History quoted, 162
Smyth, Chief Justice. 162 Snow, Elbridge Gerry, 495
Snowstorm, severest in history of city, 400; another severe blizzard, 416
Society of the Cincinnati, 299
Social life in New York in Gov- ernor Burnet's time, 178
Soldiers and citizens fight in streets, 232, 236, 237. 238
Somers, Lord, one of Kidd's back- ers, 154, 159
Sons of Liberty, 223, 224, 225, 228, 231, 232, 234, 242, 244, 246, 247 Sooysmith, Charles, 743
Sound Money Parades, 408, 412 Soutberg, ship, and its passengers, 47; captures a sugar-laden Span- ish caravel, 47
South River, voyage of Hendrick- sen to, 37; Walloon Settlement on, 38 Southern sentiment in New York, 367
Speiden, Clement Coote, Jr., 844 Spencer, General, 274
Speyer, James, 520
Sphynx (H. M. S.), 215
Spiegelberg, William I., 805
Spinets owned in New York, 179 Spragge, John, 124
Spreckels, Claus August, 866
Spuyten Duyvil Creek, 23 Staats, Samuel (Dr.), 140, 163, 17I
156,
Stadt Huis, meeting in, 84
Stakes, Captain, 297
Stamp Act, The. 222, 223; repealed, 234; anniversaries of repeal cele- brated, 238, 240, 252. (See also "Anti-Stamp")
Stamp Act Congress in New York. 225; the Colonies represented and some of the members, 225, 226
Stamps seized by Sons of Liberty, 232 Stanhope, Earl of, 315
Stanton. Edwin M., 368
Stanton, John Robert, 908
Stark, General, 286
State Customs tariff law, 294
State government organized at
White Plains, 273
States-General of United Nether- lands offers reward for success in Artic Exploration, 21, 22; grants United Netherland Char- ter, 29; charters West India Company, 35; disputes with Eng- land, 36; refuses request of the pilgrims, 36; vovages licensed by, 37 ; summons Stuyvesant to an- swer, and issues mandamus. 75; confirms charter of West India Company and asks Charles II to define boundaries by confirming the Hartford treaty, 92; hears defense of Stuyvesant, 102; makes treaty of alliance with England, 116
Steam ferry-boats introduced, 320 Steam navigation. beginnings of, 315
Steenwyck, Cornelis, 104, 113, 120, 127
Steinway, Charles Herman. 741
Steinway, Henry Engelhard, 734
Steinway, William, 738
Stephens, Alexander H., 370
Sterling, J. W., 459
Sterling, Colonel, 279
Stetson, Francis Lynde, 426
Stettinius, Edward R., 904
Steuben, Baron, 284, 294
Stevens, John C. (Commodore), 360 Stevens, Samuel, 341
Stevensen, Oloff, 66, 74, 87
Stevenson, Adlai E., 403, 412
Stevenson, John, 448
Stewart, Alexander T., 372, 394
Stiles. John W. (Colonel), 371
Stilson, Arthur Theodore, 706
Stirling, Lord, his English patent to Long Island, 73
Stoehr, P. R., Eduard, 778
Stoffelsen, Jacob, 58. 66 Stoll, Ensign, 138
Stone, Isaac Frank, 843
Stone, John O., 385
Stone, W. L. (Colonel), 336, 349
Stoutenburgh, Isaac, 292
Stranahan, James S. T., 362
Street Railways in New York, 4' Straus, Oscar S., 426 Strike of 1872, 392 Strong, William L., 407, 410
Sturhahn, Carl F., 637 Stuyvesant, Nicholas, 127
Stuyvesant, Pieter, confirms An- neke Jans grant, 51 ; Governor of
Curaçoa, appointed director-gen- eral of New Netherland, 67; biography, his voyage, 69; his re- ception, and his unpopular ap- pointments, 70; laws made by him. favors Kieft, sentences Kuyter and Melyn, 71; orders election of eighteen representa- tives from whom he selects the Nine Men, 72; complaints against, 73, 75; summoned to an- swer before States-General, 75; tears seals from mandamus of the States-General, 76; his unpopu- larity increases, 76-77; charges against him in the "Petition," "Remonstrance" and "Additional Observations" of the Nine Men, 77; he disregards the "Provi- sional Order" of the West India Company 78; has support from English settlers, 79; appoints two Englishmen to settle boundary, and signs Hartford Treaty, which he does not report to Holland, arrests Melyn, and confiscates and sells his property in Manhattan, 80; arrests English expedition to South River, pulls down Fort Nassau and erects Fort Casimir, south of Swedish settlement, dis- pute with Governor Prinz of New Sweden, and with Van Schlecten- horst, director of the patroonship of Rensselaerswyck, 81; ordered to organize "Suitable" burgher government, ordered to
The Hague, but order rescinded, his seal, 82; appoints burgher gov- ernment and is soon in conflict with magistrates, 83, 86; seizes a Swedish ship. 86; goes to Bar- badoes and is caught in embargo, 86-87; heads expedition against New Sweden, which he captures and ends Swedish dominion in America, 87; meets Governor Winthrop, but reaches no agree- ment, 93; goes to Fort Orange to quell Indian troubles, but is called back to Manhattan as Eng- lish fleet approaches, and sets about improving the city's de- fenses, 93; is notified to sur- render the city, but favors resist- ance, though urged by the burghers to yield, 92; finally after written remonstance and petition of the most prominent officers and burghers, signs and ratifies articles of capitulation, goes to Holland on call of States-General, then returns to New York, where he resides until he dies; estimate of his character, 94-96; explains his surrender, 97; takes oath of obedience, 99; goes to Amster- dam to defend his acts hefore States-General, and after Treaty of Breda becomes resident of New York, 102, 103
Stuyvesant, widow of Pieter, 173 Subways, 414, 451, 453
Sucki (black wampum), Indian
currency. 32
Sullivan, General, 274, 275, 276 Sullivan, Owen, 438
Sulzberger, Ferdinand, 916
Sumner, Major. 292
Supreme Court of United States, Centennial of, 402
Surrender, Articles of, 99
Sutherland, William A., 406 Suvanoys, Indians, 31
Swanendael. patroonship on Dela- ware River, colony planted there, but exterminated by Indians, 43 Swedish colony (New Sweden) planted on the Delaware by Peter Minuit and Samuel Bloemart, 44, 54 Sweeny, Lawrence, 225
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INDEX
Sweeney, Peter B., 387. 388, 389, 390, 391 Sweertsen, Barent, 29 Swits, Claes Cornellisen, 57
Taft, William H., 418 Talbott (Captain), Mark, 126
Tallmadge (Recorder), 354
Tallmadge, Frederick A., 340
Tammany establishes a museum,
302; bolts the Clinton ticket, 325; denounced by Dr. Parkhurst, 405 Taney, Roger Brooke, 342
Tankitekes, Indians, 60; attack boats on Hudson, 62
Tarleton, General, 288 Tartar (H. M. S.), 201
Tate, Joseph, 577 Tawasentha River, 37
Taxes on British imports, 175 Taxes (British) on the Colonies, 239 Taylor, Moses, 372, 459
Taylor, William H., 906
Tea ship Nancy, Captain Lockyer, 258
Tea tax agitation, 249, 252, 256 Tea-water pump, 179
Tecumseh, 326
Telegraph extended to New York, 350. 462
Telegraph service in New York, 463 Telephone service in New York, history and development, 463, 465, 466, 468
Templeton, Oliver, 262
Tener, Hampden Evans. 563
Ten Eyck, Thomas, 292 Tennyson, Alfred, 418
Tesla, Nikola, 724
Test Act passed, 144 Teunissen, lessee of farm, 55 Tew, Thomas, 150
Thalmann, Ernst, 530
Thames, Battle of The, 326
Thaw, Harry K., 417 Thomas, Seth Edward. 890
Thomas, Philip F., 368, 369 Thomas, General, 270
Thompson, A. K., 465
Thompson, Jacob. 368
Thomson, William, 461
Throgmorton, Rev., and his colony, 59
Throop, Enos T., 338 Thurber, H. F., 466
Thurman, Allen G., 401
Thurman, John, 235, 245, 259
Ticonderoga, captured, first by
French and later by British, 217 Tiemann, Daniel F., 364
Tiger, the (Adriaen Block's ship) voyage of, 27; destroyed by fire, 28
Tilden, Samuel J., 369, 390, 391, 393, 394
Tilden-Hayes election, 393 Tilford, Frank, 852
Timmer's Kill on South (Delaware) River, fort built at, 38
Tobacco, duty on removed, 82
Tod, Andrew Kinnaird, 894
Tomlins, William Maddox, Jr., 865 Tompkins, Daniel D., 313, 325, 329, 334 Tompkins, George W. (Colonel), 371
Tonnage duties on foreign vessels, 175
Tonneman, Peter, 90, 95
Tontine Coffee House, 337
Topping, John Alexander, 672
Tories take refuge at Bedloe's Island, 269 Tories flock to New York, 280
Tory exodus from New York, 289
Tothill, Jeremiah, 147
Totten, Joseph, 262
Towne, Henry R., 686 Townley, Richard, 145
Townsend, John, 66
Townshend, Charles, 221, 239, 241 Tracy, Benjamin F. (General), 409 Tracy, Marquis de, viccroy, 101
Trade Statistics (1717-1727), 179 Trade with Indians in early days, its character, 433 Treaty of Breda signed, 101
Treaty of Ghent, 328
Treaty of Nimeguen, 117
Treaty of Paris, 220
Treaty of Utrecht, 173 Treaty of Westminster restores
Province of New York to the English, 108
Trinity Church, building fund, 147; land lease, first rector and his in- duction, church opened, 148; de- stroyed by fire, 281; corner-stone of new church laid, 295; conse- crated, 299; bicentennial cele- brated, 408
Tryon (Miss), 256
Tryon, William, transferred from governorship of North Carolina to be governor of New York, 251; his previous record, 251-252; re- ception in New York, address to Assembly recommends formation of militia, and twenty-six regi- ments and eleven troops of light horse. 252; loses personal effects in destruction of Province House, 256; but is reimbursed by Assem- bly, 257; prorogues Assembly and goes to England, 258; is sent back by Lord Dartmouth, 263; finds himself practically without author- ity, 266; expresses fear for per- sonal safety in letter to Mayor Hicks, who tries to reassure him, but moves with family aboard H. M. S. Asia, 267; calls on Lord Howe, 271; return to city with British troops, 280
Tucker, Thomas, 294
Tudor, Captain, 281
Turner, Thomas Morgan, 764
Tuscaroras, Indians, 31
Tweed (H. M. S.), 250
Tweed Ring. its formation, its pecu- lations and its collapse, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392
Tweed, William Marcy, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392
Tweenhuysen, Lambrecht van, 29
Twelve Men, appointed by Com- monalty, controversy with Kieft, demand reforms, 58; prohibited from meeting, 59
Underhill, John, 63
Union Defense Committee, 372
Union Defense Fund Bonds voted, 370
Union League Club organized, 379 Union Square Mass Convention, 370
United New Netherland Company organized-charter members, 29; charter expires. members continue trade to Manhattan, 35
United States, frigate, captures the British frigate Macedonian, 326 United States Sanitary Commission, 373
Upper New York Bay discovercd, 23 Urquhart, William (Rev.), 164 Ury, John, 202
Utrecht, peace of, 173
Vail, Theodore Newton, 463, 465, 466, 510
Valentine and Orson, Indians, taken to Holland, 27
Van Borsom, Egbert, 197 Van Brugh, Johannes, 99, 108, 113, 129
Van Buren. Martin, 332, 335, 338, 341
Vance, S. B. H., 397 Van Corlaer, Jacob, 50, 51 Van Cortlandt, Jacobus, 174
Van Cortlandt, John, 262
Van Cortlandt, Oloff Stevensen, 90, 99 Van Cortlandt, Pierre, 292
Van Cortlandt, Robert B., 532
Van Cortlandt, Stephanus, 111, 112,
116, 119, 124, 131, 137, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 154, 156 Van Cortlandt, Widow, 173 Van Couwenhoven, Jacobus Wol- fertsen, 72, 77, 78
Van Couwenhoven. Peter, 82 Van Curler, Arent, 141 Van Dain, Anthony, 262
Van Dam, Claes Ripse, 185
Van Dam, Rip, appointed to Coun- cil, 163, 169, 171. 173, 177; presi- dent of Council and governor pro tem, 184; biography, 185; his peaceful administration, and his census, 186; remains in Council, 189; Governor Cosby demands half his salary, which he refuses, and is unsuccessfully sued, 190; his friends inform the home au- thorities, 197; absents himself from Council and is secretly de- posed, 198
Vandeput, Captain, 266
Vanderbilt, William H., 395, 398 Vanderburgh, Cornelius, 147.
Van der Donck, Adriaen, 66, 74, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81
Van der Grist, Paulus Leendertsen, 70, 83, 95
Van der Horst. Myndert, 56 Van der Huyghens, Cornelis, 53, 66, 71, 72
Vanderlip, Frank Arthur, 459, 540 Vanderpoel, 375
Vanderspeigle, Laurens, 108
Van Dincklagen. Lubbertus, 50, 52, 53, 69, 75, 76, 77, 79, 81
Van Dyck, Hendrick, 69, 79, 80, 87 Van Gelden, Abraham, 292 Van Gheel, Maximilian, 83
Van Hardenburgh, Arnoldus, 72, 76 Van Hattem, Arendt, 83
Van Horne, Abraham, 177, 178
Van Horne, Anna Maria (Mrs. Burnet), 177
Van Horne, Augustus, 262
Van Horne, David, 259 Van Lybergen, Arnolt, 29
Van Nieuwenhuysen, Wilhelmus
(Domine), 106, 115 Van Remund, Jan, 47
Van Rensselaer, Hendrick, 116 Van Rensselaer, Jan Baptist, 116
Van Rensselaer, Jeremias, 116
Van Rensselaer, Johannes, 114
Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen, 43, 51, 54, 78
Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen (son of Jan Baptist), 116
Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen (son of Jeremias), fourth patroon, 116, 163, 17I
Van Rensselaer, Nicolaus (Rev.), 114, 115, 116
Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler, quoted, 45. 47
Van Rensselaer (General), 326, 336 Van Rensselaer, William B., 426 Van Ruyven, Cornelis, 85. 99, 103 Van Schaack, Peter William, 259, 262
Van Schlectenhorst, 81
Van Tienhoven, Cornelis, 47, 53, 56, 61. 70, 74, 77, 79, 83 Vantilburgh's slave, 173 Van Twiller, Wouter, third di- rector-general of New Netherland, and nephew of Kiliaen van Rens- selaer, arrives in ship Soutberg, 47; buys land in Connecticut from the Indians, 49; builds a church in the fort, and makes several improvements, his habits, takes large grants for himself, buys land from Indians on Long Island, 50; his qualities and char- acter, 51-52; receives letter of re- call, 52; returns to Holland a year later, 53; carries records to Am- sterdam, 54; gets grant at Sapo- hanican, 55; attacks West India Company for neglect of Rensse- laerswyck, 78; trade during his administration, 439
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HISTORY OF NEW YORK
Van Vaurk, James, 244 Van Voorhees, Jacob, 262 Van Wyck, Robert, 409, 410, 412, 413, 414
Van Zandt, Jacobus, 244, 259, 260, 262, 294
Van Zandt, Viner, 294 Varian, Isaac L., 346 Varick. Domine, 142 Varick, Richard, 292, 293, 305,
312 Vaux, Calvert, 360 Vauxhall wrecked by anti-stamp
mob, 229, 231
Veit, Richard Charles, 607
Verhulst, William, 38 Vermilye. Ashbel G. (Rev.), 153
Vermilye, Johannes, 139, 140 Vernon, Edward (Admiral), 201
Ver Plunck, Abraham Isaacksen, 55 Verplanck, Geleyn, 108
Verplanck, Gulian, 287
Verplanck, Gulian C., 339
Verplanck, Samuel, 262, 438
Verrazano, Giovanni, Visits San Germano (New York) Bay, 18, 19; lands on Staten Island, dis- coveries Luisa (Block) Island, 19 Vesey street, 148
Vesey, William (Rev.), 148, 157, 164, 167, 170, 172
Vespucius, Americus, 17
Victoria (Queen), 365, 366
Vietor, George Frederick, 754
Vinje, Jan, first white child born in Manhattan, 58, 87
Vlissingen (Flushing), English col- ony established at, 66
Volckertsen, Cornelis, 31
Volckertsen, Thys (Captain), 27, 29 Volunteer fire system, 383
Volunteer regiments organized, 371 Volunteer system in war, its in- equalities, 374 Von Steinwehr (Colonel), 372
Vosburgh, A. S (Colonel). 371 Vredendael, plantation, 56 Vriesendall, plantation, 56
Wadsworth, James S. (General), 372, 374
Wakeman (Postmaster), 377
Walker, Robert J., 371
Wallace, Alexander, 259
Wallace, Hugh, 24
Walloons, settle in New Netherland, settle at Fort Orange on North River, 37; and Fort Nassau on South River, 38
Walrath (Colonel), 371
Walters, Robert, 156, 163, 177, 181
Walton, Abraham. 259, 260, 262 Walton, Jacob, 240
Walton, William, 259, 262, 442
Wampum, Indian currency, adopted by Dutch and English settlers- standard of value, 32, 433
Wapanachki, an Algonquin tribe of Indians, 31
Wappingers, Indians, attack boats on Hudson, 62
War between England and France (1711-1713), 172-173
War between England and Holland. 82; peace declared, 86; war again declared, 106; peace by Treaty of Westminster, 108
War of 1812 and its effect on com- merce, 325-328
Ward, Ferdinand, 398, 399 Ward, Stephen, 292
Waring. George Edward (Colonel), 410 Warren, Sir Peter, 205, 206, 216, 286
Washington, Gen. George, 263, 265, 268, 269, 270, 271, 273, 275, 276, 277, 278, 282, 284, 289, 293, 294, 296, 297, 306, 307. 308, 402. Washington Memorial Arch, 402 Washington's retreat from Long Is- land, 277
Wasp (The)), captures The Prolic, 326
Wassermann, Edward, 567
Watson, James, 389, 390, 391 Watson, William, 235
Watts, John, 220, 286, 302 Watts, Stephen (General), 351
Weaver. James B., 403
Weaver, Robert, 150, 159, 162 Weaver, Samuel, 197 Webb, Charles, 281
Webb, James Watson, 361
Weber, Wolfert, 129
Webster. Daniel, 319
Weckquaesgecks, indians, raids by, 57; murder Anne Hutchinson and her household, 63.
Weed, Thurlow, 336, 397
Weidmann, Jacob, 800
Wells, Edward Hubbard, 688
Wells in John Street and Spring Garden, 207
Welsh visitors to America, 17, 21
Wendover, Hercules, 197
Wenham, Thomas, 163, 169
Werden, Sir John, instructions to Andros, 114
Wessels, Dirk, 157
West, Benjamin, 315
West, John, 119, 120, 127, 129,
West, Major, 281
Westchester settled by English who are compelled to swear allegiance by Stuyvesant, 88
West Farms annexed to city, 383 West India Company, backs Stuy- vesants' view against appeals from Wistar, Caspar, 245 New Netherland to the States- Witssen, Jonas, 29 General, but is overruled, 75; attacked by Van Twiller for ne- Wolfe, General, 217 glecting Rensselaerswyck ; issues Provisional Order for "suitable Wolsey, Joris, 73 burgher government," 78; tries to settle boundary on South River, 81; tries to procure boun- dary settlement, 89; asks States General to get boundaries de- fined, and company's title is con- firmed by States-General, 92; 410, 43I Wood. William, 437
property on Broadway consficated by Governor Nicolls, 105
West Jersey given to Duke of York to Lord Berkeley, by patent which is later revoked, 100, 117; Andros tries to assert authority over it, but is overruled on ap- peal to England, and Jersey is entirely separated from New
York, 117
West Shore Railroad, 448
West Riding of Yorkshire, division of Long Island, 98
Westervelt, Jacob A., 354, 358
Westminster, Treaty of, 108
Weston, Edward, 930
Wetmore. Prosper M., 372
Wheeler, Joseph (General), 410
Whelan, Father, 296
Whig Club, 823
Whig Party organized in New York, 3.38
Whitby (Captain), 320
White, Henry, 235, 255
White, John, 262
White, Stanford, 402. 417 White Plains, Battle of, 278, 279
Whitely, Benjamin, 459
Whiting, Colonel, 172
Whitman, Clarence, 748
Wickham, William H., 392, 397, 450
"Wild-cat" money, 34I
Wildcat speculation, 337
Wiley, patriot committeeman, 232 Wiley, C. A., 465 Wilkes. John, 247, 249
Willcox, William Goodenow, 515 Willett, Marinus (Colonel), 314, 315, 325
Willett, Marinus, 265, 271, 292, 293, 300
Willett, Thomas, first mayor of New York, 80, 93, 94, 99, 104, 144, 145, 146, 155, 314
William and Mary crowned, how New York received the news,
136; proclaimed at the Fort and City Hall. 139; letter to Nichol- son, 140
William, The, English ship, ar- rives off Fort Amsterdam, claims English sovereignty and defying protest goes up Hudson River, is pursued, brought back and re- lieved of its cargo, 48-49; her owners complain to English Gov- ernor, 49
Williams, Erasmus, 244
Williams, George, 356
Williams, Major, 281
Williams, Thomas, 139
Willson, Ebenezer, 147
Wilson, Alexander, 145
Wilson, Captain 281 Wilson (Colonel), 371
Wilson, James Grant
(General),
41, 403, 426 Wilson, Samuel, 119
Wilton, Joseph. London sculptor, 249
Winder, Samuel, 119
Windom, William, secretary of Treasury, dies at banquet in his honor, 403
Wing, John D., 834
Winthrop, John, governor of Con- necticut, 89, 93, 94
Wisner, Henry, 261
Wissinck, Jacob Elbertsen, 40
Witssen, Gerrit Jocobz, 29
Witthaus Rudolph A., 372
Wolfertsen, Gerrit, 63
Women, condition of in the In- dian tribes, 32
Wood (Lieutenant), 377
Wood (Colonel), 371
Wood, Fernando, 358, 362, 365, 369
Wood, Leonard (Major General),
Woodbury, Levi, 344, 345
Woodford, General Stewart L., 4 429
Woodhull, Caleb S., 353 Woodruff, Timothy L., 408 Woodward, of Tweed Ring, 391
Wool, Jeremiah, 292
Wool (General), 377
Worth (General). 351
Wright, Joseph H., 792
Wright, Wilbur, 432
Yankee (The), fishing smack, cap- tures British sloop-of-war Eagle, 328
Yates, Richard, 259, 262
Yates. Robert (Judge), 292
Yellow fever in New York (1702), 163; (1795), 306; (1798), 306; (1819, 1822, 1823), 333
Yonkers, how it was settled and named, 66
York, Duke of. patroon of Royal African Company, receives from Charles II charter covering all New Netherland and other por-
. tions of America, 92; appoints Richard Nicoll deputy governor of his new colony, who starts out on expedition, 92
Yorkshire, name given to Long Is- land, 98
Young, George Washington, 585
Young (Governor), 394
Young, Hamilton. 259, 262
Young, John (Captain), 94, 119, 124, 145
Young Men's Christian Association, organized, 356, 357
Zedwitz. Herman (Major), 266 Zegendall, Kuyter's grant, 56
Zenger, John Peter, and the fight for a free press, 191, 192, 193. 194, 195, 196, 197, 206
Zia, Youssef (Pasha), 429 Zwol, ship, 69
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