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Heemskerck, expedition of, 30.
Heemstede, first settled, 120; Indian massacre it. 121.
Ilvermans, Augustine, one of the Council of Nine Mon, 133.
Bayard's Mount, afterward Bunker Hill, 25, 324, 503. Crimashie, $24, Inelenberg, 321. Murray, 504, 619. Potter's, 324. Zanthere. 25, 324.
Hofimam, Josiah Ogden, recorder, 689, 703. Holmes, George, settles at Turtle Bay, 85. Hospitals-
New York, Tomaled, 463, 625, 783. Bellevue, 621. Woman's, 779.
Hotel Burning, 837.
Howe, den., arrival at Staten Island of, 493: In the battle of Long Island, 195-t98; at Kip's Bay, 50%; in the battle of Harlem Plains. 505. 506; in command at New York, 511, 513; recall of. 55Z.
Hudson, Henry, first expeditions of, 31 ; discoy- ery of Manhattan by, 83; ascends the river, 31; chepunter with the Indians at Fort Wash- ington, 36; return to Europe, 87; death of,
Hudson River, various names of, 34. 85.
Hughes, Hugh, one of The Sons of Liberty, 412.
Huyek, dan, " Krank besoccker" at New Amster- dan.
Ineleuberg-See Hills.
Independence, Declaration of, reception in New York of, J92.
Indian War, first, 111-122; second, 144, 145. Institutions, benevolent, in the beginning of the nineteenth century, 62 --- 680.
Trying, Washington, birthplace of, $35.
Barent's of Barn, Great, now Ward's, pur- chased by Van Twiller, 76, 77; site of Lui- grand Hospital, >7%.
Burcht's or Barn, Little, how Randall's, site of the House of Refuge, 87%.
Bedloe's, first quarantine established at, 855; Fortifientions of, 874,
Blackwell's, purchased by Van Twiller, 76, 77; pubhe buildings of, 878.
Nutten, noy Governor's, purchased by Van Twiller, 76; Fortifications of. 193, 874.
Oyster, now Ellis, fortifications of, 874.
Staten, grant of land to Cornelis Melyn, 85; purchased by the Company ; first settlement of the Huguenots, 149; Ilowe at, 493; in the Revolution, 555, 556; fortifications of, 874.
Jacobson, Marcus, sold into slavery by order of Lovelace. 163. Jantes, Major, konse destroyed by the Sons of LilRely. 424 datoer. Rock 1. land granted by Van Twiller to, 73. 76.
dans, or dan 5. Ancke, widow of Roelet; mar- vinge with Bogardus of, 76; sale of estate to tie ( Moniale wermment, and subsequent lease lo Trinity ("'urch. 76, 275.
I n . i. Huthi k. one of the Council of Twelve M. a. 17
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INDEX.
888
Jansen, Michael, one of the Counell of Nine Men, 188.
Japanese Embassy, visit to New York, 782, 783. Jay, Augustus, carly IInguenot resident, 200. Jay, John, in the Committee of Fifty-one, 471; delegate to the Continental Congress, 477; chairman of the Committee of Safety, 510; Chief Justice, 545; Peace Commissioner, 567; in the Doctors' Moh, 555; governor of New York, 509; treaty of, 509-511.
Jay, Peter A., recorder, 701.
Jolinson, Rev. Samnel, first president of King's College, 373, 897, 621.
Kennedy House, head-quarters of Lee, Putnam und Washington, 490, 622.
Kennedy, John A., seizure of Confederate arms by, 789, 790.
Kidd, William, history of, 251; in command of Adventure galley, 254; piruey of, 255; arrest and execution of, 256.
Kip, Hendrick Hendricksen, first city lot granted to, 95; one of the Council of Nine .Men, 138. King, Charles, president of Columbia College, 754.
King's Farm granted to Trinity Church, 275, 847. King, Preston, death of, 857.
Knox, General, in command at New York, 568- 571.
Knowlton, Colonel, in the battle of Harlem Plains, 505; death of, 506.
Knyphausen, General, in the battle of Long Island, J95; at Fort Washington, 508; at New York, 511.
Kolek-see Collect.
Kossuth. Louis, arrival at New York of, 751.
Krigier, Martin, one of the first burgomasters, 96, 183, 136.
Krol, Sebastian Jansen, "Krank besoecker" at New Amsterdam, 53.
Kuyter, Jochem Pietersen, arrival of, 83; one of Council of Twelve Men, 107; one of Council of Eight Men, 118; dispute with Kieft; exiled from the province, 130, 131; shipwreck, 132; appointed schout by the Company, 140; mur- der of, 141.
Laborie, Rev. James, first pastor of the French church In Pine street, 281.
Laight, Edward, one of the Sons of Liberty, 412. Lafayette, Gen., arrival of, 507; departure from New York, 51; subsequent visit of, 714.
laub, John, one of the Sons of Liberty, 412, 417; arrested by the assembly , 445, 450; in the affair of the Asla, 485; in the federal riot, 590, 591.
Lampo, Jan, first schout fiscal of the province, 52, 59.
La Montagne, Johannes, member of the Council of Kieft, 79, 111, 120, 121, 186.
Landttag of delegates from The five Dutch towns assembled at New Amsterdam, 141.
Lee, Gen. Charles, in command at New York, 490; arrested and Imprisoned in the City Hall, 543.
Leitch, Major, in the battle of Harlem Plains, 505; death of, 506.
Lewis, Francis, one of the Sons of Liberty, 412, 477, 517, 550.
Lewis, Morgan, governor of the State of New York, GS7, 701.
Liberty Pole, erected on the Commons, 429; cut down by the British soldiers, erected and again cut down, 432-435; new Liberty Pole erected by the Sons of Liberty, 454, 455.
Libraria- Artor, 876. Cooper Union, 87S. Historical Society, ir 1804, 876.
Mercantile, In 1836, 876, 878.
Society. in 1754, 319, 820, 354, 655, 876.
Lincoln, President, election of, 754, 75; first call for men by, 791 ; death of, 830; obsequies in New York, 850-551.
Lispenard, Leonard, delegate to rst Colonial Congress, 412, 477.
Lispenard's Meadows, 22, 825.
Livingston, Robert. first proprietor of Livingston Manor, 236, 256: 265.
Livingston, William, 880, 409.
Livingston, Philip, leader of the Presbyterian party, 873; delegate to tirst Colonial Congress, 412, 477, 547.
Livingston. Robert R. delegate to first Colonial Congress, 412; one of the framers of the Decla- ration of Independence, 492; chancellor, 545; in the Erie Canal, 712, 720.
Livingston, Maturin, recorder, 687.
Loockermans, Govert, 92; one of the Council of Nine Men, 133.
Low, Isaac, 441, 474.
Lupold, Ulrich, schout fiscal, 77, 79.
Magaw, Colonel, in command at Fort Washing ton, 507-509; prisoner at New York, 512.
Manhattan, the island of. in its primitive state,
21, 24, 25; natives of, 25-25; canses which led to the discovery of, 29, 33; first settlement of, 39; purchase by the Dutch from the Indians ot, 52; Fort Amsterdam erected on, 57; first ship built at, 59.
Manhattan Waterworks, 745, 746.
Manning, Captain John, left in command of the city, 161; surrender of the fort to the Dutch by, 166; court martial of, for cowardice, 100, 167.
Mamaroneck, the property of Caleb Heathcote, 299. Mayors-
Willett, Thomas, first mayor of the city in 1665, 1667, 157; in the affair of Leisler, 285. Delavall, Thomas, 1666, 1671, 1675, 157, 171, 172, 173.
Steenwyck, Cornelius, 1668-1671, 1681-1653, 172. Nicoll, Matthias, 1672, 172.
Lawrence, John, 1673, 157; 1691, 172, 173, 235, 236.
Dervall, William, 1675, 173.
De Meyer, Nicholas, in 1676, 198.
Van Cortlandt, Stephanus, 1677, 1696, 1687, 200, 201 ; in the affair of Leisler, 220, 226, 229, 234, 235, 211.
Rombouts, Frangois, 1679, 201.
Dyre, William, In 1650, 205, 206.
Minveille, Gabriel, In 1654, 210, 211; in the atfair of Leisler, 235.
Bayard, Nicholas, in 1685, 158, 211; in tho affair of Leisler, 220-224, 220, 229, 229; in the administration of Nantun, 234. 267.
Delaney, Pieter, first mayor elected by the people, 1689, 1690, 222, 225; contest with Van Cortlandt, 226, 228.
De Peyster, Abraham, 1691-1693, 241, 305. Lodowick. Charles, 1694. 1695, 223, 250.
Merritt, William, 1695-1693, 260.
De Peyster, Johannes, 1698, 1699, 260, 266, 267.
Provoost, David, 1699. 1700, 262, 266.
De Riemer, Isaac, 1700, 1701.
Noell. Thomas, 1701, 1702; appointed, 265; com' st between the Leish rians and anti- Liderians during the administration of. 205-207.
French, Philip. 1702, 1703. 263, 230.
Peartree, Willian. 1703-1707, 251.
Wilson, Ebenezer. 1707-1710. 2-3.
Van Cartlandt. Jacobus, 1710, 1711, 1719, 1720,
Ileathicone, Caleb, 1711-1714, 217, 298, 299, 805.
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INDEX.
Johnston, John, 1714-1719, 800, 805. Walters, Robert, 1720-1725. 805, 311.
Jansen, Johannes, 1725. 1726, 811.
Lurting, Robert, 1726-1785, 311, 347.
Richard, Paul, 1735-1789, 347.
C'ruger, Jolm, 1789-1744. 853. Bayard, Stephen, 1744-1747, 870, 871. Holland, Edward, 1747-1757, 378.
Cruger, John, jr., 1757-1766, 391 ; dispute with Lord London, 891, 892; delegate to first Colonial Congress, 412; stamps received from Colden by, 421, 422, 441.
llieks, Whitehead, 1766-1776, 437, 438, 454.
Mathews, David, mayor during the Revolu- tion, 552.
Duane, James, first mayor after the Revoln- tion, 1784-1789, 474, 479, 574, 601.
Varick, Richard, 1759-1501, 604, 610.
Livingston. Edward, 1501-1503, 614, 662, 668. Clinton, De Witt, 1803-1807, 1505-1810, 1811- 1815, appointed, 668; removed fromn tho mayoralty ; remppointed and again removed, 657; restored to office, 688; elected gover- nor, 704; in the Erie Canal, 716-721; death of, 722.
Willett, Marinns, 1807-1808, appointed mayor, 6-7; previous career of, 412. 450, 484, 486, 603; ambassador to the Creeks, 696.
Radefiff, Jacob, 1810, 1511, 1815-1819, ap- pointed, 659; reappointed, 703, 704.
Colden, Cadwallader D., 1518-1921, appointed to the mayoralty, 701; removed, 705.
Allen, Stephen, 1521-1823, appointed, 705; superseded, 700.
Paulding, William, 1823-1825, 1826-1829, 705, 709, 715, 780, 782.
Bowne, Walter, 1829-1633, 732-733.
Lee, Gideon, 1833-1534, 783.
Lawrence, Cornelius W., 1884-1837, 743, 744. Clark, Aaron, 1837-1839, 741.
Varian, Isaac L., 1839-1841, 741, 745.
Morris, Robert 11., 1811-1844, 745.
Harper, James, 1844, 1845, 749.
Havemeyer, William F., 1845, 1846, 1848, 1849, 7-13, 749.
Mickle, A. II., 1846, 1847, 748.
Brady, William V., 1817, 1548, 749.
Woodhull, Caleb S., 1819-1851, 749-751.
Kingsland, Ambrose C., 1551-1853, 751.
Westervelt, Jacob A., 1858-1855, 751, 754.
Wood, Fernando, 1855-1858, 755; 1800-1862, 782.
Tiemann, Daniel F., 1858-1560, 750.
Opilyke, George, 1562-1561, 503.
Aiutaher, C. Godfrey, Jatil-1566, SB-4, Hotfinan, John T., 1566-1569, 557.
MeDougall, Alexander, one of the Sons of Lib- orty, 112; arrest und imprisonment of, 445, 416; one of the Committee of Fifty-one, 174; colonel of New York regiment, 486.
MeEvers, James, stamp distributor at New York, 107, 417.
Metillivray, Alexander, visit of, with Creek deputation, 603, 604.
Megapoleusis, Domine, clergymun ut New Ant- sterdam, 184.
Melyn, Cornelis, arrival of, 83; grantee of Staten Island, 85; one of Council of Eight Men, 118; dispute with Kieft; exiled from the colony, 180, 181 ; shipwreck of, 132.
Mespath, destruction of, 119; Indian massacre at, 121.
Michaelius, Rev, Jonas, supposed first clergy - man at New Amsterdam. 68, 61
Milborne, Jacob, despatch Al by Lafler to Al- bany, 227 : return to New York, 225; second expedition to. Albathy, 280, 281; priest and imprisonment of, 235; trial and excempion of, 200-238 ; disinterred and buried in the Garden tirret church, 271.
Militia, New York City, tendered by Gen. Sand-
ford for the suppression of the rebellion, 789; first departure for the seat of war, 795-801; in 1863, ST9.
Minetta Brook, 25, 324.
Molenaar, Abrata, one of the council of Twelve Men, 107.
Montagne, Abraham, 413, 447, 455, 402.
Montgomery, Gen. Richard, interment of, in St. Paul's Churchyard, 710; tomb of, 711, 712.
Morgan, William, abduction and supposed mur- der of; anti-Masonic excitement, 731, 732.
Morris, Lewis, antecedents of, 255, 289; in the councils of Hunter, 285, 292; chief-justice, 293, 303, 306, 329 ; removed from otlico by Cosby, 831 ; espouses the cause of Van Dam, 315 ; governor of New Jersey, 846.
Morris, Gouverneur, 485, 547, 550, 691, 719.
Morrisania purchased by Lewis Morris, 255.
Morris' House, Col. Roger, head-quarters of Washington, 506, 621.
Museum, Barnum's, burned, 857.
Negro plot of 1712, 291, 292; of 1741, 355-369. New Netherland erected into a province, 51 ; conquest of, by the English, 153 ; recapture by the Dutch, 161; ceded to the English govern- ment in exchange for Surinam, 166.
Newspapers-
Constitutional Courant, issued in 1765, 409, 410.
Greenleaf's Patriotic Register, 559, 590.
Independent Reflector, organ of the Presbyte- rian party in 1754, 883.
New York Gazette, first paper in the city, published by William Bradford, 250, 311, 332, 331, 853.
New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, 353, 118, 4-14, 513.
New York Weekly Journal, issued by John Peter Zenger, 232; burnt by the hangman, 233; discontinuance of, 853.
Rivington's Gazette, destroyed by the Liberty Boys, 199; transformed into the Royal Ga- Zette, 543.
Weekly Mercury, published by Hugh Gaine, 883, 543.
Journalism in the city in the beginning of the nineteenth century, 656; from 1825 to 1841, 781-741; in 1559, 759.
Newtown founded, 187.
Nutelman, Conrad, schout fiscal, 52, 59, 65, 72.
O'Brien. Colonel, murder of, 827.
Opera-House Riot, Astor Place, 719-752.
Oswald, Francis, one of the Sons of Liberty, 412, 457.
Packets, first line of European, established, 709, 710.
Palatines, immigration of, 287; migration to Pennsylvania and Livingston's Manor, 2sS. Paulus look, purchase of, 57.
Pauw, Michael, patroon of Pavouia, 57.
Pavonia, first erected into a patroonship, 57; purchased by the company, 75; Indian massa- ero at, 111, 112.
Philipse, Frederick, member of council in 1689, 220.
Philipse, Adolphus, judge of Supreme Court, 330. 331; in the Zenger trial, 335.
Planck, Abraham, one of the council of Twelve Meu, 107.
l'intard. John, reminiscences of, 513, 511, 526- 530, 710, 719.
Pitt, William, statue of, 431.
Potlimit, Domine Johannes, installed at Lol wout. 142.
¡ Police, Metropolitan, instituted, 772.
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INDEX.
Police Riot, 773, 774, 776.
Potter's Field, 616, 617.
Prisons of the Revolution, 512-531.
Prison Ships of the Revolution, 531-540. Public Buildings --
Government House and public buildings erected by Van Twiller, 65; stone tavern, in 1642, at Coenties Slip, by Kieft, 79; converted into a Stadt Huys, 186.
First Market-house built ut the Bowling Green, 147.
City Hall built in Wall street; Stadt Iluys sold at auction, 258,
Alms-llouse erected on the Commons, 800, 847.
First Merchants' Exchange, at the foot of Broad street, in 1752, 874.
King's College, at the foot of Park Place, 873: Columbia College, 627, 628.
New York Hospital, founded in 1773, 463, 464, 625, 626.
Bridewell, in the Revolution, 522, 523, 580, 581, 623.
New Jail, in the Revolution, 523-530, 581, 623, 624.
Federal Hall in Wall street fitted up for Con- gress, 591.
Government House erected on the site of the old fort ; afterward the Custom House, 596, 597, 655.
Alms House on the Commons, in 1796, 581. State Prison at Greenwich, 623.
Bellevue Establishment, 627.
Post-oflice, 655.
Tontine Coffee House, 630.
Arsenal, 660.
City Hall built in the Park, 667, 668.
Merchants' Exchange built in Wall street, 729 ; burning of, 742.
Public buildings of 1859, 775-783.
Public improvements and municipal ordi-
Fort staked out; horse-nill built, 53.
Fort rebuilt; graveyard laid out; windmills built, 65.
Civil and erlminal court established; excise laws established by Kielt, 80.
Two annual fairs instituted in 1641, 96.
City wall built ulong the line of Wall street, 123.
Fire wardens appointed; weights und meas- ures regulated, 131.
Fortifications erected in Wall street, 187. Burgher rights established in the city, 145, 146.
Fire-buckets, books and ladders Imported, and a ratllo watch organized; thatched roof's and wooden chhinney's abolished, and Improved property subjected to taxation, 146.
Latin school opened, 147.
Roud opened to Harlem, 148.
Publie meeting for merchants in 1669, in Broad street, instituted; monthly mall established between New York and Boston, 162.
Ordinances of Andros, 197-200.
Broad street improved, 199.
Slaughter houses removed from the city, 200. Public wells built in the city, 134, 201.
City divided into six wards, 209, 210.
Powder magazine established at the Smit's Vly, 212.
Water street projected; Wull street laid out, 213, 214.
City fortified by Leisler, 226.
Water street extended ; Pine and Cedar streets laid out, 241. Maiuen Lane regulated, 253.
Streets cleaned ac publie expense, and for the first time lighted, 258, 259.
First English school cerablished in the city, 278 214.
First night watch established. 259.
Freedom of the city in Cornbury's adminis tration ; street cleaning ; publie pound, 279, 281.
Water street extended ; Broadway paved ; ordinances of 1707, 283.
Market opened at the upper end of Broad street, 296, 897.
First purchase of furniture for the use of the Common Council, 297, 298.
Publie clock put up on the City IIall, 800. First ropewalk built in Broadway, 301.
New ferry established, 801.
Jews' burial ground established near Chatham Square, 815.
Powder Magazine built on the island in the Collect, 815.
Greenwich and Washington streets com- menced; new ships built, 819.
Line of stages established between New York and Philadelphia, 319.
First public library established in the city, 819, 320.
Markets of 1785, 821.
The " Strand " sokl at public quetion, 822.
Pearl street laid out and regulated, 822.
City divided into seven wards, 825.
Fire engines first introduced, 325; fire depart- ment organized, 326.
Alins House and House of Correction built on the Commons: Cortlandt street opened, 817. First stone of the new battery lald on the Whitehall rocks, 348.
Water street named and extended, 849.
Rector street opened, 349,
Quarantine established at Bedloe's Island, 355. Market-house built in Broadway, opposite Liberty street, 353.
John, Dey, Beckman and Thames streets paved und regulated, 374.
First Merchants' Exchange built at the foot of Broad street, 874.
King's College proposed, 873.
Walton Honse built, 854,
Ferry established between New York and Staten Island, Bs1.
Peck Stip opened and paved, 884.
Fulton street opened and regulated, 894. Theatre opened in Beekman street, 395.
Publie lamps and lamp-posts for the first thne erected, 397.
Sandy Hook lighthouse lighted for the first time, 898.
Ferries established between New York and Paulus Hook, and Staten Island and Bergen, 893.
New York Hospital commenced, 463. Canal constructed in Canal street, 578, 579.
Colleet filled up, 580.
First sidewalks laid in the city, 581, 582. Broadway graded below Canal street, 582. Streets numbered, 582.
Manhattan Water-works constructed, 663, 667. Public Schools established in the city, 674- 677.
Introduction of Steam Navigation, 678-683.
Steam ferry-bouts first used on the rivers, 686, GS7.
New York island surveyed and lald out, 691, 692.
Fortification of the harbor, 697-701.
European packet lines established, 709, 710. Tiret Savings Bank opened in the city, 710. Intro inetion of gas into the city, 723, 724.
Marble first used as a building material, 726, 727.
Penny pross first established, 734-738.
Introduction of the Croton water into the city, 745-713. Crystal Palace opened in 1853, 751.
Central Park purchased and laid out, 759-770.
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INDEX.
Putnam, Gen. Israel, in command at New York,
490; in the battle of Long Island, 495-498; evacuation of the city by, 503, 504, 508.
Quackenbos, Isaac, in the battle of Golden Ilill, 418-450. Quarantine, Staten Island, burned, 780.
Rachel in New York, 758, 759.
Randall, Thomas, 477.
Rapelje, George Jansen de, arrival of, 50; family of, 84; one of the Council of Twelve Men, 107. Rasières, Isaac de, first koopman of the province, 52; letter to Governor Bradford of, 53, 54.
Rawlins, Colonel, at Fort Washington, 507, 508; prisoner at New York, 512.
Regiment, Seventh, march to Washington, 793- 79-1.
Rensselaer, William Van, first patroon of Rens- selaerswick, 57.
Rensselaerswick, erected into a patroonship, 57. Ridgewood Water Works, construction of, 771. Riot, Great New York, 820-833.
Ristori, visit of, 869, 870.
Riker, Richard, recorder, 698, 703, 704.
Ritzma, Domine, of the Collegiate Church, 582,
Hitzina, Adolph, colonel of New York regiment, 487.
Robertson, General, military commandant of the city, 505, 533.
Robinson, Thomas, one of the Sons of Liberty, 410, 417. Robinson, Beverly, 421.
Ron, Rev. Louis, of the French Church In Pine street, 309.
Sandy Hook, discovery of, 82. Baybrook founded, 78.
Schuyler, Peter, 224, 265, 294, 805.
Scott, John Morin, one of the Sons of Liberty, 411 ; in the Broad street affair, 485,
Seal first grauted to the city, 139, 140; first Eng- lish seal, 162; seal of 1686. 213, 214.
Sears, Isaac, one of the Sons of Liberty, 410, 417; wounded at the Liberty Pole, 432, 435; in the battle of Golden Ilill, 445-450; removal from office of, 462, 477; delegate from the city to the first Provincial Congress, 479; arrest and subsequent release of, 480; enters tho army, 457; office of Rivington's Gazette de- stroyed by, 459.
Belyus, Domine Henry, Installed at Breuckelen, 171.
Shoemaker's Land, the, 829.
Skinner, Abraham, Amerlean Commissary, 589. Bmlts, Claes, murder of, 106.
Smith, William, 293, 805; in the Zenger trial, 331, 383; struck from the list of attorneys by
Cosby, 834; restored to the bar, 873, 876, 409. Sinith, Michael, in the battle of Golden Hill, 451. Smith, Goldwin, reception of, 838.
Societles, benevolent, in the beginning of the nineteenth century, 628-630; in 1859, 784; religious, In the beginning of the nineteenth century, 631.
Society, Loyal Publication, history of, 809-818. Sons of Liberty, organization of, 409; leaders of, 410; patriotic handbills of, 413; Committee of Correspondence chosen by, 417; Colden burnt in etligy on the Commons by 118-420, stainps delivered by Colden to, 429, 428; stamp distributor for Maryland wized by, 426; stamps on board the Minerva seized ind burnt by. 427. 428; ihrst stamped paper seen in the city, 128; Lord Grenville, Lord Colville ond General Murray burat in efligy on the Commons, 428, 429; repeat of the Stamp Act ; Liberty Pole erected on the Commons by,
429, 430; battles about the Liberty Pole, 429- 436; handbills denouncing the Assembly is- sued by, 444; mrrest of John Lamb, 445; Liberty Polo cut down by the soldiers; In- dignation meeting of the Sons of Liberty, 447; battle of Golden Hill, 41>453; Liberty Pole erected by, 454, 455; Hampden Hall purchased by, 455, 456; Nathan Rogers, 455; spirited action in respect to the landing of tea, 467, 468; arrival of the tea ships; ten-party in New York Harbor, 469-473; leave taking of the captains by the Sons of Liberty, 472, 473; correspondence with the Sons of Liberty in Boston ; the Committee of Fifty-one; renewal of the non-importation agreement proposed, 478, 474; great meeting in the fields, 476, 477 ; boards for the Boston Barracks seized by. 480; reception of the news of the battle of Lexington by, 481-488; seizure of the stores at Turtle Bay by, 483; the Broad street ntfair, 484-486; removal of the cannon from the Battery; bombardment of the town by the Asia, 458; Rivington's Gazette destroyed by, 459; Declaration of Independence in New York; statute of George 111. demolished by the Liberty Boys, 492; after the occupation of the city by the British, 510, 5P1; at the fire of 1776, 541; burning of Oliver De Laneey's house at Bloomingdale by, 542, 543.
Sproat, David, British commissary, 538-540.
Stenben, Baron, arrival of. 507; public reception by the civic authorities of, 575; in the Doe- tors' Mob, 586.
Stirling, Lord, Long Island granted by Plymouth Company to, 85, 66.
Stirling, Lord William Alexander, in the battle of Long Island, 494-498; expedition against Staten Island of, 556.
Streets of New Amsterdam In 1664, 188-190.
Strickland's Plain, battle of, 122. Sub- Treasury, 875.
Sugar-house in Liberty street, erection of, 816, 317; in the Revolution, 514-516, 521.
Sugar-house, Rhinelander's, in the Revolution, 521.
Sullivan, General, In the battle of Long Island, 494-498.
Swaanendael, clahned as a patroonship, 57; massacro at, 58, 59; purchased by the Com. pany, 72.
Swamp, the, 823.
Tabernacle, Broadway, history of, 779-780. Telegraph, first Maguetie, from New York, 748 Tombs, 783. Tompkins, Daniel D., 761, 702, 715. Treaty of Tawasentba, 41, 45.
Underhill, John, settles in New Netherland, 89; in the Indian war, 118-121 ; revolts against the Dutch government, 187.
Union Square Meeting, April 20, 1861, 795, 796. Utrecht, New, founded by Jaques Cortelyou, 150.
Van Cortlandt, Oloffe Stevenson, alderman, 157. Van Couwenhoven, 92, 183, 186.
Van Dam, Rip, member of Council of Hunter, 985, 293; of Burnet, 305; administers affairs after the death of Montgomerie, 828; contest with Cosby, 830, 881 ; contest with Clarke, 8.15. Vanderchff's Orchard, 323, 824.
Vandergrist, Paulus, Que of the first schepers, 18G.
Van Direhrigen, Lubbertus, schout fiscal of the province; dispute with Van Twiller, 72; sus- taited by the States General, 77, 78; Vice- Director under Stuyvesant, 125,
Van Dyck, Hendrick, in the Indian war, 109.
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Van Fees, Anthony, carliest conveyance of pro- jwrty in the city made to, 95,
Van Gheel, Maximilian, one of the first schepens, 136.
Van Hutten, Arent, one of the first burgomas- ters, 186.
Van Ness Ilouse, the, 618, 619.
Van Remund, Jan, koopman, 52, 63, 65.
Van Ruyven, Cornelius, alderman, 157.
Van Schellnyne, Direk, first lawyer of New Amsterdam, 184.
Van Tienhoven, Cornelius, koopman, 61, 79; in the Indian war, 104, 105; schout, 136.
Van Vaurk, James, 145.
Van Wyck, Pierre C., recorder, 687-689.
Van Zandt, Jacobus, 445.
Verrazani; Jean, discovery of Manhattan by, 28; narrative of. 28, 29.
Vesvy, Rev. William, first clergyman of Trinity Church, 251, 252.
Wadsworth, Jatnes A., Major-General, of New York, SD1.
Wales, Prince of, visit to New York, 783-784. Wallabont, the, settled, 50, 51.
Walloons, arrival of, 50.
Walton House, the, erected, 855, 886.
Wangau, description of, 99, 100; ordinance respecting, 100, 101
Washington, Gen., in command at New York, 491; at the Battle of Long Island, 495-199; retreats from Long Island, 495-500 ; evacuates the city, 501; in the battle of Harlem Phins, 505, 506; at Morrisania, 506; evaenates the island, 501 ; conspiracy against, baffled by the New York delegation, 549, 550; enters the city on the 25th of November. 1783, 5ts: at Fraunces' Tavern. 572, 573; inaugurated first President of the United States in the City llull in Wall street, 594, 595; lifo in New York, 596-600.
Washington, Union Square statue, 770,
Wiley, William, one of the Sons of Liberty, 412, 417, 457,
Williams, Erasmus, one of the Sons of Liberty, 445.
Winter Garden burned, 872.
Wistar, Caspar, one of the Sons of Liberty, 445.
Wolfert's Marsh, 25, 824.
WoodhnD, Gen. Nathaniel, death of, 49S.
Wool, Gen., in command at New York, 799. Worth Monument, erection of, 770.
Zantberg-See Hills.
Zenger, John Peter, birth and history of. 332; New York Weekly Journal published by, 3:12; arrest atal imprisonment of, 853; "the Zenger trial," 385-348.
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