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I have spoken of history and its many relations. History the schoolmen have divided into sacred and profane. All history may be deemed sacred, inasmuch as it teaches the ways of God, whose eternity knows neither time nor space, and unfolds the anatomy of that microcosm man, the image of his Maker. History is a deep philosophy, yet capable of appropriation to vulgar designs ; it is a prodigious monitor, a mighty instructor. Be it our aim to use it for beneficent ends, cherishing as a rule of life the revealed truth, that there is a still higher wisdom within our reach, and that our intelligence, however great, must recognize the inflexible sentence, uttered of old ; the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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The rapid sketch I have given, however im- perfect, is, I believe, authentic. Brief as is the period included in my reminiscent glance, it is in some important respects as much a picture of the past, as a century's retrospect would be in Euro- pean communities. Not only have many of the individuals I have attempted to describe, passed away, but not a few of the local, social, political, and professional characteristics of New York, sixty years ago, are now traditional. In the old world we are called a fast people, and the history of no spot in our vast confederacy, is more impressed with the change that seems a normal condition of our republican life, than this city. Its original land-marks are scarcely to be recognized ; its population is utterly transformed ; its resources indefinitely enlarged ; nay, to the backward and loving gaze of a venerable Knickerbocker, its individuality is almost lost. I think there has been manifest in this discourse, a sympathy with progress, vivid and earnest enough to save me from the imputation of a prejudiced and obtuse conservatism. I have expressed, and certainly feel no want of interest in new truth, improved methods, and growing knowledge ; I am so far of the old school as to firmly believe that integrity is the corner-stone of Christian morality, that lit- erature, art, and science are the noblest human vocations, that benevolence is the most obvious
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duty, friendship the greatest solace, domestic ties the purest sphere, and simple habits the most sa- lubrious hygiene ; I am also loyal to the aspira- tions of humanity, and firm in the conviction that God's will ordains the highest development of our race.
If I have betrayed an honest local attachment and some national partiality for the men and things amid which I was born and live, it is not because I am blind to the faults and insensible to the dangers of our beloved metropolis. Her for- tunes have been marvellously prosperous, but her position is unique. As the mart of the nation, millions of emigrants land on her quays, thousands of foreigners crowd her thoroughfares : more casual residents dwell here for temporary objects than in any city on earth. Every nation of Europe is represented, every phase of opinion finds voice, the refuse and the cream of the old world float on the surface or disappear in the whirlpool of New York life : read the signs down town, scan the draw- ing-rooms of the upper quarter, turn over the journals, look in at the places of public amuse- ment, observe the festive celebrations, enter the churches, and you will find somewhat,-a man, a custom, a language, a vocation or a faith borrowed from every quarter of the globe.
New York is the most cosmopolitan of modern cities ; hence, in a great measure, its ineffective
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municipal government, its rowdyism, its perpetual demolition, its spasmodic and versatile phenomena, its advantages and its nuisances, its dangers and its blessings as a place of abode ; larger opportu- nities with greater risks, more liberality of senti- ment with less rectitude of principle, more work and more dissipation, higher achievement and dceper recklessness ; in a word, more obvious and actual extremes of fortune, character, violence, philanthropy, indifference and zeal, taste and vulgarity, isolation and gregariousness, business and pleasure, vice and piety. Wherever there is more in quantity there is a corresponding latitude in quality. Enterprise hath here an everlasting carnival ; fashion is often rampant ; financial crises swecp away fortunes ; reputations are made and lost with magical facility ; friends come and go, life and death, toil and amusement, worth and folly, truth and error, poetry and matter of fact alternate with more than dramatic celerity.
The multifarious access to New York, the nu- cleus it forms to ocean and continent, the remark- able salubrity, the abundant capital, and the large floating population ; its natural resources and the circumstances of its history, all conduce to these results. Our duty as natives and citizens under such conditions is apparent. We should cling to republican simplicity, to personal independence, to fidelity in our respective spheres ; we should
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obey a patriotic inspiration, and in household and vocation, by word and act, keep up a public spirit which repudiates external corruption, insists on civic duty, promotes cducation, defies the cn- croachments of material luxury, fiscal recklessness and political turpitude. Whatever is said of the indifference to moral and intellectual distinction and the slavery to gain prevalent, men and women here assuredly find their just level and pass eventu- ally for what they are worth. Fraud enjoys but a temporary success ; imposture is sure to be un- masked, and benevolence to be duly honored. New York in the past affords us innumerable precious memories and honorable achievements : New York in the future may, through the loyalty of her faithful children, reach a height of auspicious re- nown, commensurate with her mercantile famc, her historical significance and her material pros- perity. The Dutch gable ends have disappeared, the unpretending hospitality has vanished, the rural vicinage is demolished ; Peter Stuyvesant's pear tree is the last relic of suburban gardens ; theology has ramified, and in so doing miti- gated its rancor ; physic has multiplied her dis- ciples ; law has acquired a thousand clever, for a dozen brilliant votaries ; the opera has outvied the drama ; rents have become fabulous ; land has risen in value beyond all precedent ; Yankecs have driven out burgomasters ; Cuban segars Holland
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pipes ; railways old fashioned gigs, and omnibuses family chariots : the tonsorial occupation is all but superseded by the perpetual holiday of beards ; and skirts, instead of being gathered up as of old, sway in fixed expansion on the encroaching hoop ; turbans, shoe-buckles, cues, the pillory, spinning-wheels, and short ruffles are obsolete, while the "last of the cocked hats" is visi- ble in our streets ; but the good old Knicker- bocker honesty and geniality may yet be found by some firesides. We have eloquent proof that Wash- ington's memory is still tenderly revered, that Franklin's maxims are yet reliable, that Hamil- ton's political sagacity and chivalry are not for- gotten, that Fulton's inventive genius and De Witt Clinton's comprehensive polity are still ap- preciated ; and while this remains true, New York " still lives," the New York where the principle of internal improvement was initiated, the liberty of the press earliest recognized, and the first Presi- dent of the republic inaugurated.
Mr. President :
For a series of years you have held the ele- vated office of head of the Historical Society. The distinguished men, your predecessors, who have filled that prominent station, have, I believe, all departed. You stand the sole representative of a long list of worthies who have discharged trusts
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similar to those committed to you, and which your wisdom and experience in public councils and in state affairs have enabled you to fortify with an ability which reflects credit on your administra- tion, and has proved signally advantageous to this * institution. The duties which have devolved on you . may at times have been onerous, but if I can fathom your nature, must have proved grateful to your feelings, and congenial to your patriotism. Your copious reading had made you familiar with the great events of the two wars which this state waged, and in which she was so great a sufferer, but in which she proved successful : more valuable materials, growing out of such circumstances, for the future historian, could not be gathered from any other colony. This Society, amidst its other treasures, has secured for the most part these pre- cious documents ; and from the period at which New York assumed the sovereignty of an inde- pendent state, there are few intervals pregnant with important events the records of which are not to be found in our archives. Thus, Sir, if ever an association adhered with fidelity to a literal inter- pretation of its charter power, it may be affirmed to be that in whose transactions you have taken so deep an interest. The work demanded intel- ligence, and it received it ; it called for devotion and earnestness, and they were at hand ; and thus was secured that continuity of effort so re-
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quisite to accomplish the undertaking. With what judgment the work has been executed, must be left to the decision of our arbiters, the public ; I fear not the verdict.
Scholarship, the learned have said, was a rare acquisition in England, until the time of Bentley. It may as truthfully be asserted, that until the career of our founder commenced, there was little antiquarian zeal among us ; and hence you may have perceived, that on several occasions I have ventured to place JOHN PINTARD in the foremost ground in the picture. The head and the heart of our eastern brethren exercise a warmer devotion for knowledge of this nature, than is found else- where in our Union ; and the rare example on that account of my old friend proffered its claims to my notice in strongest accents. Let me say, Sir, that the forerunner in the course you so tri- umphantly have maintained, was not a mere holi- day officer, but an untiring laborer in the great design. The talent he possessed was of peculiar value, and under certain circumstances might have commanded the highest premium. He had a fit- ness for the work, and none can rob him of the honor.
Your able Vice-Presidents have, I believe, concurred with you, at all times, in furtherance of those enlarged plans and that policy, which, as occasion demanded, have proved most salutary to
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the institution. Their enlightened cooperation must, on some occasions, have lessened individual responsibility, and lightened perplexities in the path of duty. I am inclined to think, that there is an unity of opinion throughout the Society in commendation of the manner in which the various services, rendered by your fiscal and other com- mittees, your secretaries, corresponding and record- ing, have been discharged. In times like these, sagacity in finance may be acknowledged wisdom of the highest order ; and the fruits of sound fore- thought, when demonstrated by palpable results, yield arguments that cannot be demolished. I have but to add, that your intelligent and inde- fatigable librarian has nobly fulfilled his account- able appointment. Every thing around me leads to the conviction that your literary treasures have been preserved ; your MS. records regarded at a proper estimate ; your library so disposed, that every accommodation can be given to the searcher after wisdom in this curious repository of historical material. Where all deserve commendation, and there remains nothing for censure, conscious recti- tude yields unadulterated satisfaction to official capacity.
Mr. President : An abiding conviction prevails, that the interests of the Society have been in proper hands, and controlled by wise counsels. The memory of your administration will long endure
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with us. The ornamental and stately edifice, in which we are now gathered, erected by the liber- ality of our citizens, and in an especial manner by that class so often found generous in good works, the mercantile community, will, I trust, stand, for generations to come, a monument of the public spirit of New York-of her love and devo- tion to the refined and useful-and vindicate to the rising youth of the nation the estimate which their fathers formed of the blessings of wisdom de- rived from pure historical truth. If I am rightly informed, I stand before you at this Anniversary, among the oldest living members of this associa- tion. Yet have I consoled myself with the pleasing thought, while meditating on the eventful occur- rences of this day, that although the sun of my declining years is nearly set, its last rays, however feeble, are reflected from the classical walls of the New York Historical Society.
FINIS.
INDEX.
Abbott, Dr., Henry 301. Abernethy, John, 319. Academy of Fine Arts, New York, 277. Academy of Music, 14. Adams, John, 17, 99, 114, 294, 337, 363. Adams, Joseph A., 287. Adams, Mrs. Abigail, 17.
Adams, John Quincy, 214, 271.
Addison, Joseph, 51.
Adrain, Prof., Robert, 360. Aitken, R., 332. Akenside, Mark, 90. Akerly, Dr. Samuel, 87. Alboni, Madame, 270. Aldrovandus, 188.
Alexander, 345. Allen, Caradori, 270. Allibone, S. Austin, 366. Allston, Washington, 280, 286. Alms Housc, New York, 65. Alsop, Mrs., 216. American Medical and Philo- sophical Register, 98. Ames, Fisher, 64, 332. Anderson, Alexander, 286, 346. Anderson, Dr., Robert, 348. Andre, Major, 15, 16. Angrisani, 255, 263. Anthon, Charles, 36, 40, 47, 363. Apollo Association, 280.
Appletons, Messrs., 354, 365, 366. Aristotle, 38. Arnold, Benedict, 15. Asbury, Rev. Francis, 49, 51, 121. Astor, John Jacob, 17, 86, 300. Astor Library, 14. Atkinson, 16, 289. Atwood, Dr., 200. Audubon, John James, 33, 362. Austin, Rev. David, 133.
Bagioli, Signor, 265. Baker, Gardener, 20. Baker, George A., 286. Bancroft, George, 117, 362, 368.
Bangs, Nathan, 157. Barbiere, Madame, 256, 263.
Barclay, Robert, 81, 143, 309. Barclay, Rev. Henry, 164.
Bard, Dr. John, 66, 288,296, 302. Bard, Dr. Samuel, 65, 66, 95, 105, 302. Baretto, Francis, 289. Barlow, Joel, 79, 342. Barnes, John, 214. Barrett, G. L., 214, 215.
Barrett, Eaton Stannard, 347. Bacon, Lord, 40. Barnard, Henry, 189.
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Barrett, Jackey, 45.
Bartlett, John R., 363.
Bartley, George, 216. Bartley, Mrs., 216.
Barton, Benjamin Smith, 29.
Battery, the, 23.
Bayard, Samuel, Jr., 73, 74.
Bayard, William, 298.
Bayley, Dr. Richard, 103, 303, 306, 308, 351.
Beattie, Dr. James, 340.
Beck, Dr. T. R., 353.
Bedell, Bishop Gregory T., 178.
Beckman, Gerardus, 202.
Beekman House, 16.
Belknap, Jeremy, 57.
Bell, Rev. Dr. Andrew, 185, 186.
Bell, Charles, 278.
Bellevue Hospital, New York, 305.
Bellows, Rev. Dr. Henry W., 157, 196.
Belmont, August, 284.
Belsham, Rev. Thomas, 156. *
Benedict, Erastus C., 183, 184, 189.
Benson, Egbert, 63, 64, 65, 68.
Bentley, Richard, 382.
Benton, Thomas H., 363.
Bernard, John, 214.
Berrian, Samuel, 352.
Berrian, Rev. Dr. William, 171, 176.
Bethune, Rev. Dr. G. W., 282.
Bethunc, Mrs. Divie, 350.
Bible Society House, 14. Billington, Mrs., 267.
Bingham, Caleb, 341. Bisset, Robert, 69.
Black Hawk, 235. Blackwell's Island, 21.
Blanchard, Jean Pierre, 346. Bleecker, Anthony, 68, 69, 70, 204.
Bloomfield, Robert, 348.
Bloomingdale Asylum, 231.
Blount, William, 105.
Blunt, Edmund, 342.
Blunt, Joseph, 368.
Bobbett, William, 287.
Bogle, James, 283.
Boker, John G., 284.
Boker, George H., 64.
Bolingbroke, Lord, 337.
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 242, 278, 345.
Boswell, James, 21.
Bouck, Gov. William C., 27.
Boudinot, Elias, 55.
Boulanger, 133.
Bowden, Rev. Dr. John, 34, 360.
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 341.
Bowling Green, the, 23.
Bowne, Robert, 54, 81, 182.
Bradford, Alexander W., 368.
Bradford, William, 331.
Bradford, Samuel F., 158.
Bradish, Luther, 320.
Braham, John, 267.
Branch, Mr., 149.
Brant, Capt. Joseph, 165, 333.
Brevoort, Henry, 70, 272.
Brick Church, the, 67.
Brodhead, John Romeyn, 126, 180, 373. Brothers, Richard 133, 134. Brougham, Lord, 358.
INDEX. 387
Brown, Charles Brockden, 69, 291. Brown, Henry Kirke, 27, 283.
Brown, Dr. D. Tilden, 308. Brownell, Bishop, 179. Bruce, Archibald, 83. Bruce, Dr. Archibald, 308. Bryant, William Cullen, 285, 289, 293, 355, 363. Buckingham, Joseph T., 364. Buckminster, Rev. J. S., 159. Bull, Ole, 270. Burgess, Bishop, 179. Burgoyne, Gen., 112. Burk, John, 197. Burke, Edmund, 70. Burns, Robert, 345. Burr, Aaron, 16, 17, 18, 140, 142, 337, 345, 351. Burton, Robert, 355. Butler, Benjamin F., 368.
Caines, George, 351. Calhoun, John C., 363. Caldani, 267.
Calvert, George H., 363. Cambridge, 39. Campbell, Samuel, 350.
Campbell, Thomas, 193, 348. Carey, Matthew, 353, 354. Caritat, Hugh, 351. Carleton, Sir Guy, 63. Carlyle, Thomas, 271. Caroline, Queen, 262. Carver, Jonathan, 177.
Cassilis, Earl of, 15.
Catalani, Madame, 257. Ceracchi, 100, 277.
Channing, William Ellery, 151, 156, 161. 363. Chandler, Rev. T. B., 177. Chapin, Rev. Dr. E. H., 145. Chapman, J. G., 286.
Chase, Bishop Philander, 176. Chauncy, Rev. Dr., 145 . Cheatham, James, 142, 143, 334, 335, 337, 338, 351. Chcever, Ezekiel, 340. Chesterfield, Lord, 195. Childs, Francis, 332.
Childs, George C., 365.
Chillingworth, William, 60.
Christian, Charles, 136.
Church, Frederick E., 283, 285.
Cibber, Colley, 197, 206, 245.
City Hall, 14, 24. City Hall in Wall Street, 123. City Hotel, 19, 232. Clarkson, Matthew, 111. Clason, Isaac Starr, 249.
Clay Henry, 363. Clevenger, Shubal Vail, 283. Cliffton, William, 346.
Clinton, De Witt, 14, 24, 34, 89, 54, 63, 72, 78, 81, 82, 85, 98, 111, 142, 183, 185, 186, 187, 188, 277, 294, 368, 380. Clinton, George, 15, 55, 111, 274, 337, 375. Clinton, Sir Henry, 15, 112. Cloggett, Rev. Thomas John, 166. Clossy, Dr. Samuel, 66, 288, 303. Clubs in New York, 288-296. Clusius, 104. Cobbett, Will'am, 116, 141. Cochran, Prof. William, 47.
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Cock, Dr. Thomas, 316.
Cogswell, Joseph G., 300
Coit, Rev. Dr. Thomas W., 179. Coke, Rev. Thomas, 50, 51. Colburn, Zerah, 221. Colden, Lieut .- Gov., 53, 56, 57, 365.
Colden, Cadwallader D., 53, 54, 75, 78, 80, 81, 89, 117, 168, 182, 277, 288, 289, 352. Cole, Thomas, 280, 285. Coleman, William, 203, 242, 243, 335, 337, 338, 351.
Colman, George, 200, 357.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 217, 226.
College of Physicians and Sur- geons, 84.
Colles, Christopher, 34, 201, 330. Collier, J. P., 195.
Collins, Isaac, 81, 350, 354.
Collins, J. W. J., 345.
Collins, Messrs., 74.
Colquhoun, Patrick, 81.
Columbia College, 33, 39, 41, 69, 86, 87, 103, 109, 127, 145. Columbus, 27.
Condorcet, 133. ,
Conway, 214, 248, 249.
Cooke, George Frederick, 191, 204, 213, 233, 247, 292.
Cooper Institute, 14. Cooper, James Fenimore, 242, 291.
Cooper, Myles, 288.
Cooper, Peter, 300.
Cooper, Thomas A., 198, 215, 233, 249. Cooper, William, 372.
Copley, J. S., 272, 283. Cornbury, Lord, 146. Correa de Serra, 60.
Cotheal, Alexander, 363.
Cowan, Andrew, 33.
Cowper, William, 83, 361.
Cozzens, Abraham M., 284.
Crawford, Thomas, 283, 285.
Crevelli, 255. Cromwell, Oliver, 134.
Cropsey, Jasper F., 285.
Crosby, Dr. Ebenezer, 303.
Cruger, Henry, 70. Cullen, Dr. William, 319, 320.
Cumberland, Richard, 200, 279.
Cummings, Thomas S, 279.
Curran, John Philpot, 240.
Curtis, George T., 363.
Curtis, Joseph, 182.
Cutler, Rev. Dr. Benjamin C., 176.
Cutting, Dr., 307.
Cutting, Leonard, 288.
Cutting, William, 277.
Cuvier, 88.
Dalcho, Rev. Frederick, 176. Daly, Charles P., 352.
Dana, Charles A., 366. Dana, Richard Henry, 232, 363.
Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 254, 260, 269. Darley, F. O. C, 285. Darley, Mrs., 214.
Dartmouth College, 134. Darwin, Erasmus, 93. Davies, Prof. Charles, 41. Davis, John, 345.
INDEX. 389
Davis, E. H., 363. Davis, Charles A., 291. Davy, Sir Humphrey, 88. De Kay, James E., 291, 372. Dennie, Joseph, 352. . De Quineey, Thomas, 217. De Rhonde, Lambertus, 203. Detmold, Dr. William, 323. Dewey, Rev. Orville, 157, 161. Dewitt, Rev. Dr., 49, 203. Dibdin, Thomas, 250. Dilworth, Thomas, 340. Dix, Gen. John A., 327.
Doane, Rt. Rev. George W., 179. Dobson, Thomas, 345. Doddridge, Philip, 160. Dorr, Rev. Benjamin, 176.
Doughty, Thomas, 29. Douglass, David B., 115.
Dow, Lorenzo, 147-150. Doyer, Anthony, 295. Drake, Samuel G., 371. Draper, Dr. John W., 316. Drisler, Prof. Henry, 40. Drone Club, the, 69. Dryden, John, 245. Duer, William, 111. Duer, John, 291, 359. Duer, William A., 291. Dunean, Dr. Andrew, 353. Dunlap, William, 46, 66, 67, 69, 191, 193, 196, 197, 242, 272, 279, 290, 357. Durand, Asher B., 280, 283, 285.
Durand, Elias, 29. Durand, John, 273. Durbin, Rev. John P., 151. Duyckinek, Evert, 350.
Duyekinek, Evert A., 73, 214, 344, 353, 364. Duyckinck, George L., 73, 214, 344, 353, 364. Dwight, Theodore, 172, 298.
Dwight, Theodore, Jr., 363. Dwight, Timothy, 341, 342.
Earle, Dr. Pliny, 308. Eastburn, James, 154. Eddy, Thomas, 34, 54, 80, 82, 83, 182, 185, 309, 310. Edwards, Jonathan, 172, 273. Elgin Botanie Garden, 28. Elliott, Charles L., 283, 286. Ehot, Samuel, 363.
Ellsworth, Oliver, 64. Emerson, Rev. William, 172. Emmett, Thomas Addis, 78, 95, 240, 352, 353, 358, 359.
Enfield, William, 341. Everett, Edward, 97, 117, 156, 223, 362. Euelid, 342.
Farquhar, Dr., 66. Fellows, John, 136. Felton, Corns. Conway, 301, 363. Fennell, James, 198, 215. Few, Colonel William, 21. Finlaison, 314. Fish, Nicholas, 55, 111, 289. Fisk, Rev. Wilbur, 151. Floyer, Sir John, 65. Foderé, 353. Folsom, George, 72. Foote, Samuel. 200.
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Forbes, John, 19. Fornasari, 265, 270. Forrest, Edwin, 238. Foster, Rev. John, 129, 136. Fox, George, 81. Franklin, Benj., 45, 82, 101, 143, 160, 209, 332, 342-345, 363, 365. Frazer, J., 283.
Freeman, Dr. James, 155, 156.
Freeman, Philip, 56, 116, 345. Fuller, Dr. Thomas, 87. Fulton, Robert, 34, 75, 76, 80, 88, 277, 278, 283, 380.
Gage, Governor, 201. Gaine, Hugh, 119, 163, 364. Gallatin, Albert, 363, 368. Garat, 257. Garcia, M., 256, 259. Gareia, Signora, 256. Gardner, Dr. A. K., 323. Garnet, 90. Garriek, David, 200, 208, 213, 219, 247, 273. Gates, Gen., 16, 76, 111, 113, 337. General Theological Seminary, New York, 55. Genet, Citizen, 116, 119, 121
Gerard, James W., 81. Gibbon, Edward, 343. Gibbs, Dr. Wolcott, 189. Gifford, William, 347. Gilfert, Charles, 213. Gilfert, Mrs., 214. Good, Dr. John Mason, 326.
Gordon, Rev. Wm., 112, 113, 114.
Gough, -, 340.
Gould, Edward S., 247.
Government House at the Bowl- ing Green, 15. Grange, the, 32. Grattan, Thomas Colley, 237. Grattan, Henry, 358.
Gray, Prof. Asa, 31. Green, Dr. Ashbel, 158.
Green, Dr. Horace, 316.
Greene, Nathaniel, 113.
Greenleaf, Thomas, 116. Greenough, Horatio, 283.
Gregory, Rev. Olinthus, 61.
Gregory, Dr. John, 104. Griffin, Rev. Edmund D., 179. Grinnell, Henry, 371.
Griseom, John, 81, 185.
Griscom, Dr. John H., 312.
Grisi, Madame, 270. Griswold, Bishop Alexander V., 178. Griswold, Rufus W., 250, 352. Gross, Rev. John Daniel, 47. Grub, Sarah, 81.
Hackett, James H., 214. Haekley, Prof. Charles W., 41. Haldemand, Governor, 164.
Hale, Nathan, 16.
Hall, Francis H., 333.
Hall, Rev. Robert, 60. Hallam, Lewis, and Family, 197. 198, 215. Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 242, 291, 363. Hamilton, Alexander, 18, 19, 33, 55, 58, 111, 123, 142, 294, 335, 337, 357, 358, 363, 380. Hancock, John, 294.
INDEX. 391
Hanson, Rev. J. H., 165. Hardy, James, 340.
Harper Brothers, 50, 353, 365.
Harrison, Richard, 351. Harwood, John Edmund, 198. Hauy, Abbe, 40, 86.
Hawks, Rev. Francis L., 12, 179, 223, 363, 371. Hawley, Mr., 189.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 363.
Hayley, William, 350.
Hazlitt, William, 226, 245.
Heber, Reginald, 170.
Hedding, Rev. E., 157.
Helvetius, 130. Henry, Mr., 198.
Herring, James, 280.
Herschel, William, 34.
Henderson, Mr., 220.
Hicks, Elias, 81, 143.
Hicks, Thomas, 283, 286. Hill, Rev. Rowland, 147.
Hillard, George S., 363. Hillhouse, James A., 263.
Hilson, Thomas, 214, 215. Hippocrates, 93. Historical Society, N. Y., the, 33. Hobart, John Henry, 85, 165, 168, 169, 170, 178, 179, 233, 360. Hodge, Rev. Dr. Charles, 172. Hodgkinson, John, 198, 215, 220, 239. Hodgkinson, Mrs., 198. Hoe, Richard, 283, 364. Hoffman, Charles Fenno, 7. Hoffman, Josiah Ogden, 117, 290, 352. Hoffman, Murray, 179.
Hoffman, J. O., 289. Hogg, Mr., 214. Holbrook, J. E,, 372. Holman, Mr., 212.
Holman, Mrs., 214.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 363. Hone, Philip, 291, 293, 242, 296- 299, 351.
. Honeywood, St. John, 346. Hopkins, John, 342. Hopkins, George F., 350. Hopkins, Bishop John Henry, 179. Hopkins, Samuel M., 75. Hopkinson, Francis, 273. Horace, 307.
Horn, 251. Homer, 299.
Horsmanden, Daniel, 201.
Hosack, Dr. David, 28, 30, 31, 32,, 78, 79, 81, 83, 84, 85, 99, 152, 211, 242, 277, 278, 303, 304, 306, 308, 338, 357, 359, 368. How, Rev. Thomas Y., 360. Howe, Dr. Samuel G., 311. Howe, Sir William, 15, 16. Houdon, 279.
Hudson, Rev. H'y Norman, 247. Hunter, John, 101. Hunter, William, 278. Huntington, David, 283, 286. Huntington, William, 145, 147.
Incledon, 250. Indian Queen Garden, 20. Ingenhouze, 101. Inman, Henry, 272, 280.
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