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Building and Loan Associations, 625.
Baptist Church, First, 153
Baptist Churches, 681
Bar Association, Bronx County, 505
Baremore, The Capture of Major, 213
Barter and Currency, 163
Battle of Long Island, 179
Battle of Pells Point, 187
Battle of White Plains, 190
Beliefs, Early Education and, 264
Block, Adriaen, Navigator, 64-67
Board of Trade, The Bronx 714, 731, 822
"Bond News" The, 736
Borough and City Officials, Present, 383
Borough, Early History of the, 19
Borough of The Bronx created, 23, 237, 384
Boston Post Road, 314
Botanical Gardens, 697
Boundaries, Township, 21
Boundary Between Connecticut and West- chester, 229, et seq.
Bounty Bonds, The, 413
Bridges, Parks, Parkways and, 685, et seq.
Briggs, Josiah A., 382, 688, title page
British at Throgg's Neck, 184
British Vessels anchored during Revolutionary War, 179
Bronck (Bronk or Brunk) Jonas, first settler, 7, 57, 96, 111, 126
Bronx Board of Trade, The, 731, 822
Bronx Borough Created, 23, 237, 384
Bronx Borough Officials, List of, 382
"Bronx City Islander," The, 736
Bronx Commercial advantages, The, 819
Bronx County Administration at present time, 382
Bronx County Bar Association, 505-11
Bronx County legal officials, 504 Bronxdale, 342
Bronx Dental Clinic, The, 581
Bronx, Growth of The, 821
Bronx, in the Spanish-American War, The, 423
Bronx Lawyers, 495, et seq.
Bronx Park, 695
"Bronx Record and Times," The, 736
Bronx River, A Tribute (poem), by Joseph Rodman Drake, 124
Bronx River Parkway, 690, 791-94
"Bronx Sentinel," The, 736
"Bronx Star," The, 736
Bronx Territory, War in, 114
Bronx Tuberculosis and Health Committee, 574 Bronx Village Skirmishes, 213
Bronze Tablet, commemoration Battle of White Plains, 191
Bronze Tablet for Chief Ninhan, 695
Brouncksland as Manor, 136
Brown, Judge Nehemiah, 478
Building Code, The, 800
Building Construction, Modern, 801, 821
336
THE BRONX AND ITS PEOPLE
Building development figures from 1883-1925, 795
Building statistics, 713
Bureaus and Standing Committees : Civic Trade and Commerce; Industrial; Traffic and Waterways; Publicity; Membership Com- mittee; Law Committee, 732
Business in The Bronx, 822
Canal Traffic, 786
Catholic Big Brothers League, Bronx, 637
Catholic Churches, Roman, 684
Catholic Protectory, New York, 641 Cattle imported, 76
Cause of the Spanish-American War, 423 Cemeteries, 706
Chain store branches, 824
Changes in Government, 370 et seq.
Channels, Enlarging New York Harbor chan- nels, 802
Charitable and Philanthropic Organizations, 627 et seq.
Charter of Greater New York, 23
"Charter of Privileges and Exemptions," 366 Chief Ninhan, Bronze Tablet for, 695 Children, Welfare and Relief Societies for, 628 Christiaensen, Hendrick, Dutch navigator, 64- 67
Church and State, 270
Church Early Welfare Agency, 630
Churches, see particular denominations
Circuit Court and Circuit Judges, 492 City Administration in The Bronx, 382 City Island (Minnewits), 346 Civil and Police Courts, 503
Civil War, Decades preceding, 360
Civil War: Leading newspapers in Bronx ter- ritory at beginning of, 387; secession and abolitionism, 388; firing on Fort Sumter, 389; local volunteers, 391; organizing military units, 393; party rancor, 394; Bull Run and the press, 396; draft riots, 400; Lincoln and the press, 406; Lincoln's assassination, 410; societies give aid, 411; county bonds, 413; return of the volunteers, 415; drafted men, 417; Grand Army posts, 419; draft riots, 421 Claremont Park, 702 Clason's Point, 337 Clergymen, Early, 273
Clinic, The Bronx Dental, 581 Clothes and Textile Manufacturing, 721
Clubs of The Bronx, 744 Code, The Building, 800 Colonial Legislature, First, 77
Colonizing territory of New Netherland, 134 Comfort, Randall, historian, 825
Commerce, Early, 811 Commercial advantages of The Bronx, 819 Commercial background, 810
Common Pleas, Court of, 477 Common Pleas Judges, Early, 488
Condition of Bronx Territory, 241 Condition of two armies at beginning of Revo- lutionary War, 183 Confederation, Articles of, 224 Congregational Churches, 682 Congressional District, Eighteenth, 475
Constitution Revised, 359
Controversy among the medical profession, 598 "Copperheads," 421
Cornwallis, The Surrender of, 219 County Judges, 490
County Seats and Courthouses, 479
Court House in White Plains, The first, 479
Courts and Lawyers, Chapter, 475-512 Courts in 1757, 368
"Cowboys" and "Skinners," 200, 316 Crippled Children Association, 653
Croton Dam, Plot to blow up, 410
Crotona Park, 702
Crystalline Rocks, 15-18
Currencies, Indian and other, 275
Currency, Early, 163
Customs, Early, 267
Decades preceding Civil War, 360 Declaration of Independence, 225; received at White Plains Courthouse, 479
De Laet, Johan, historian, 68, 75, 86 De Lancey, James, 696
De Lancey Mansion, 696
de Rasieres, Isaac, secretary Colonial Govern- ment, 78, 79, 81
Description of The Bronx about 1642, 125
Description of "Rustic" Bronx, 310
Development in Medical practice, 565
De Vries, David Pietersen, (David Pieters), 89 et seq.
Director-General appointed, 78
Disciples of Christ, 682
Discovery of Hudson River, 57-63
Disputes during Civil War, Party, 394
District Attorneys, 490
District Court, Justices of the United States, 493
District Schools, Establishment of, 521
Domestic Economy among Huguenots, 255
Drafted Men in Civil War, The, 417
Draft Riots in Civil War, 400, 421
Drake, Joseph Rodman, Poem by, 124 Drink and Food, 276
Dutch and English Language Schools, 531
Dutch and English meet, 107 Dutch and Indian difficulties, 53
Dutch Claims, 228
Dutch Settlers' private property, 797 Dutch Trading, 65
Earliest Settlers in The Bronx, 69, et seq. Early Happenings: Bronx homes, 827; Bronx villages, 312; care of the sick, 560; customs, 267; ferry transportation, 786; material prog- ress, 259; period homes, 242; social life, 247; trails, 284; transportation, 259-64, 292; White Plains Courthouse destroyed by fire, 479; early writers' description of the Red Men, 39
Early Inhabitants, Chapter, 19-56 Eastchester, 343
"Eastern State Journal" quoted, 396 Education and Beliefs, Early, 264 Education, Chapter, 513-53
Education, Early, 534
Education in the Colonies, 514 Education on the Manors, 158
337
HISTORICAL INDEX
Education, Modern, 534
Electioneering, Old Time, 358
Elevated and Underground Railways, 303-308
Embargo and Non-Intercourse, 356
Enforced Labor, 156 1
England, Manors in, 130 England's attempt to carry on a fur trade, 89 English and Dutch Language Schools, 531
English attempt to leave Holland, 71
English Puritans in Holland, 69
English Rule, Under, 797 Enmity of the Indians, 112 Erection of Manors by the English, 134 Erection of New Schools, 535
Establishing a town government, 78
Establishing First Colonies, 75
Establishing "patroonships," 84-85 European Settlement, 57 et seq. Evacuation of New York, 220
Evangelical Churches, 682
"Evening Journal," The, 733
Families, Old Homes and, 825, et seq. Ferries established, 347 Ferris Mansion, 834
Ferry transportation, 777 Feudalism and the Manor, 129
First Colonies established, 75
First New York Volunteers, can War, 426 First White Child, The, 73 Food and Drink, 276 Food Products, 724
Spanish-Ameri-
Food Supply of the Indians, 30
Fordham Hospital, 557, 559
Fordham Manor, 144
Fordham University, 547-550 Foresters of America, 750
Fort Amsterdam, Settling of, 74 Fort Good Hope, 75
Fort Independence, 208
Fort Nassau, 75 Fort Orange, Settling of, 74
Fort Schuyler, 341 Fort Sumter, Firing on, 389 Forts at Kingsbridge, 176
Fourth Provincial Congress, The, 375
Franz Sigel Park, 691
Fraternal Orders and Societies, 741, et seq. Free Home for Young Girls, 648
Furniture and Cabinet Work. 731
"Gazette," The, 407-410 General Assembly convened, 372 Geology of New York, 14 Geology of The Bronx, 1 Glacial Period, 10 "Glover's Rock," 12; tablet, 700 Government, Indian Form of, 41 Grace Church, West Farms, 152 Gradual emigration of the Indians to other points, 55 Grand Army Posts, The, 419 "Great Patents," 135 Greater New York Charter, 23 Growth of The Bronx, 821
Haffen, Louis F., 351, 382, 384-86, 687, 688, title page
"Half-Moon," The, 60-63 Hardships in New Colony, 82 Harlem River and Port Chester Railroad, 768
Hebrew United Charities, 638 .
Hessians, The, 192
High Schools and Pupils, 544
History in Bronx Territory, Civil, 365 History of Assemblies and Conventions, 372 Holidays for the Dutch and the English, 165 Home Life of the Indian, 35
Homes in the Early Period, 242 Homesteads, Old, 833
Hospitals: Fordham; 557, 559; Lincoln Hospital and Home, 557; Lebanon, 557, 559; Riverside, 558; St. Francis, 558-59, 592-98; St. Joseph's, 558-59; Seton, 558; The Home for Incurables, 558; Union, 559; Montefiore, 583-92.
Household interiors, 829
Houses of the Manor-Lords and Tenants, 153 Howe's Defense, 200 "Hudson River" Railroad, The, 765 Hudson, Statue of Henry, 320
Hudson's Exploitation, Henry, 60-63 Huguenot Thrift, 255 Hutchinson, Anne, 47, 53, 98, 114, 700
Importing of Cattle, 76
Incidents in Revolutionary War, 206, 278 Indian and other currencies, 275 Indian Characteristics, 36-38
"Indian Field" attacked, 211
Indian History: General Review, 25-126; local tribes, 27, 44; population and food supply, 30; manufacture of implements, 33-35; home life, 35; their dress, 39; form of government, 42; religion, 43; languages, 48; early Indian names, 50; invasion by the whites, 51; first meeting with the white man, 58; the Wal- loons, 72; settling Forts Amsterdam and Orange, 74; purchase of Manhattan Island, 78; enmity of Indians, 112; war in Bronx territory, 114; peace with the Indians, 120 Indian Implements and Ornaments, 33 Indian property ownership, 796
Indian's first meeting with the White Man, 58- 59 Industrial and commercial development, 714 Industries, 713, et seq. Inhabitants, Early, Chapter, 19-56 Intercourse and Conflict with the Indians, 105 et seq. Interior of early households, 829
Jay, John, First Chief Justice of the United States, 486
Jay, Judge William, 480 Jenkins, Stephen, historian, 695 Jewish Congregations, 685 Jewish Ladies' Day Nursery, 637
Jorisz, Adriaen, 74, 79
Joseph Rodman Drake Park, 703 Judges and Personnel, 480 Judges appointed, Early, 378 Judges, Early, 476-479
338
THE BRONX AND ITS PEOPLE
Judicial Districts of The Bronx, 475 Jumel Estate, 279 Justices of Sessions, 489
Kieft, William, Director-General, 105; his suc- cessor appointed, 121
Kingsbridge forts, 176 King's Bridge, Oid, 315 Kingsbridge, Township of, 313, 321 Kingsland Orphan Children's Home, 637 Knights of Pythias, 751
Knight's, Sarah, trip from New York to Bos- ton in 1704, 314
Labor and Slaves, 265 Labor, Enforced, 156 Land prices, 792 Land Transportation, 259-264, 292
Languages of the Indians, 48
Lawyers, Noted Early, 484 Lebanon Hospital, 557, 559 Lee, Major General Charles, 175, 186 Leggett, Gabriel, pioneer settler, 9
Legislature, First Colonial, 77
Libraries, 552 Lincoln attacked by the Press, 406 Lincoln Hospital and Home, 557 Lincoln's election, 364 List of drafted men who sent substitutes, 417 Locomotive, First Steam, 762
Lorillard Mansion, 696 Lutheran Churches, 682
Maccabees, The, 751 Macomb's Dam Park, 703
Magistrate's Courts, 503 "Maine," Sinking of the, 424 Mainland advantages, 714 Manhattan Island purchased, 78 Manila, Battle of, 424 Manners in Revolutionary Period, 252 Manors: Use of, 127; Feudalism and the, 129; in England, 130; in America, 132; and Pat- ents, 134; in Westchester County, 135; Brouncksland, 136; Morrisania, 138; Ford- ham, 144; Pelham, 146; Philipseburgh, 149; education on the, 158 Manors and Patents, Chapter, 127-166 Manufacturing formerly of slow growth, 715 Manufacturing in Greater New York, 717 Markets, 823 Masonic Lodges in The Bronx, 749 Masonic Society, The first, 743 "Mauritius," The, 66, 123 May, Captain Cornelius Jacobsen, explorer, 73- 75
Medical Profession, The, 555-99 Medicine in the Nineteenth Century, 571 Mercantile Interests, 809-24 Merchandise, Modern, 824 Merchants' business in The Bronx, 822 Metal Products, 729 Methodist Episcopal Churches, 682 Michaelius, Rev. Jonas, first clergyman to settle in Manhattan, 81 Military Units Organized in Civil War, 393 Minuit, Peter, 76, 77, 78, 81, 88, 91, 811
Missions, Church, 685
Modern building construction, 801, 821
Modern Merchandise, 824
Montefiore Hospital, 583
Moravian Churches, 683
Morris Family, The, 140
Morris, Gouverneur, 142, 353
Morris, Lewis, pioneer settler and signer of the Declaration of Independence, 20, 98, 140, 141, 330 Morrisania, 329, 332
Morrisania Manor Grant, 138
Mosholu Parkway, 689
Mott Haven Canal, 330
Mullally, John, active in park development, 687
Municipal Courts and Judges, 504-05
Musical Instruments, 725
Names, Origin of Indian, 49
National Administration in The Bronx, 383
Navigation, Steam, 780
"New Netherland Company," 68
New Netherland granted Seal, 75
"New Netherland," The, 73
New Netherland, Trade in, 67
New Netherland Unprofitable, 119
Newspaper article on Bronx campaign in Rev- olutionary War, 205 Newspaper, The first, 733 Newspapers, Early, 733
New York an independent State, 370
New York and New Haven Railroad, 768
New York Port Authority, 789
New York State organized, 223
New York University, 550-52
North Side Board of Trade, The, 809
"North Side News," The, 736, 737
Nurse Service, Visiting, 634
Nurseries, Day, 629
Nursery, Bronx Day, 639
Nurses and Pharmacopoeias, 564
Occupations in The Bronx, 162
Odd Fellows, Independent Order of, 751
Offenses and Punishments, 278
Official Record and Personnel, Chapter, 351
Officials, Early Bronx, 352
Officials of City and Borough at present time, 383
Old Homes and Families, 825 et seq.
Old Homesteads, 833
Old Time Electioneering, 358
Old Time Taverns, 280
Organization of New York State, 223
Organizations, Early social, 742
Organizing Military Units, 393 Ownership of Indian property, 796
Parks, Parkways and Bridges, 685, et seq. Parkway, Bronx River, 791-94 Party disputes during Civil War, 394
"Patroonships" established, 84-85 Peace Overtures, 219
Peace Treaty, Signers of the, 120
Peace Treaty in Spanish-American War, 426 Pelham, 346 Pelham Bay Park, 698
339
HISTORICAL INDEX
Pelham Manor, 146 Pell family burial place, 701 Pell, Judge John, 475 Pell manor-house, The, 834 Pell, Thomas, first manor-lord, 701 Personnel of Political Parties, 355
Philanthropies, Private, 632 Philipse, Colonel Frederick, pioneer settler, 20 Philipseburgh Manor, 149 Physicians, Early, 569
Piano Manufacturing, 726 Plans for greater New York Harbor channels, 802 Plot to blow up Croton Dam, 410 Poe Cottage, The, 703, 834 Poe Park, 703
Poem on the Bronx River, by Joseph Rodman Drake, 124
Political Status of the Territory, 227-308
Population of The Bronx, 713
Port developments on Real Estate, 802 Port of New York Authority, 789 Porter Statue, General Josiah, 694
Post-Revolutionary Days, 238
Post-Revolutionary Education in The Bronx Territory, 518
Post Roads, Boston and Albany, 314
Posts attacked in Revolutionary War, Various, 214-219 Posts, Grand Army, 419
Preparations for War with the Indians, 1642, 110
Presbyterian Churches, 683
Presbyterian Church in City, Oldest, 153
Present-day County Administration, 382 Press attacks Lincoln, The, 406
Press, The, 732, et seq.
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Society for the, 658 Primordial Bronx, 1
Private Philanthropies, 632
Privateering carried on, 814
Property of Dutch Settlers, 797
Prospect and Retrospect, 804 Protectory, New York Catholic, 641 Protestant Episcopal Churches, 683
Provincial Congress formed, 171
Public Schools, 537-44
Public Welfare, Department of, 631 "Pudding Rock," 10 Punishments for Offenses, 278
Pupils in High Schools, 544 Purchase of Manhattan Island, 78 Purchase of Manhattan from the Indians, 811
Puritanism, revived, 274
Putnam Division, New York Central and Hud- son River Railroad, 769
Queen's Rangers, The, 172, 208
Racing Parks, Early, 704 Railroad, Coming of the, 762 Railroad facilities, 714 Railroads, 294-301 Railroads electrified, 768
Railroads, The Bronx, 762, et seq. Railways, Underground, 774
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Randall's Island, 329 Raritan Indians incite trouble, 108 Real Estate along the waterfront, 802 Real Estate and Building, 795-809 Recreations and Festivals, 164 Recruits urged, 173
Red Men, Improved Order of, 751 Reformed Church in America, 683 Reformed Church in the United States, 684
Relief Agencies, Special, 629 Religion of the Indians, 43
Religious Aspect, The: pioneer churches, 663; churches in 1926, 663; early religions, min- isters and churches, 664-668; during the Revolution, 668; rectors of St. Peter's, 669; St. Ann's Church, 671; Society of Friends, 673; Reformed Dutch Church, 674; the Estab- lished Church, 676; Catholicity, 677; early Methodists, 680; Baptists, 681; Churches of Christ, 681; list of present-day churches, 681, et seq .; Missions, 685
Representatives in Congress, 377 Residence building in The Bronx, 803 Residents in the '60's, 825
Restoration of River Valley, 792
Retrospect and Prospect, 804
Return of the Volunteers in Civil War, 415 Revision of the Constitution, 359
Revolution, Building progress after the, 798 Revolutionary Companies from Bronx Ter- ritory, 172
Revolutionary Incidents, 206, 278
Revolutionary War: apathy towards, 168; Bronx companies formed, 172; forts at Kings- bridge, 176; hostilities, 179; Battle of Long Island, 179; Washington's headquarters, 182; contrast of two armies at beginning of war, 183; British at Throgg's Neck, 184; Battle of Pell's Point, 187; of White Plains, 190; Lower Westchester County in, 196; Howe's defense, 200; André and Arnold, 202-206; Young's' House, 204; Surrender of Corn- wallis, 219; New York evacuated, 220; Ar- ticles of Confederation, 224; Declaration of Independence, 225; Manners and customs during, 252
Riots in Civil War Draft, 400 Riverdale, 317
Riverside Hospital, 558
River Valley restored, 792
Roads through The Bronx region, 285-292
Robinson Rev. John, 70
"Rocking Stone," The famous, 11
Rocks, Crystalline, 15-18
Roosevelt's Rough Riders, 433
Rough Riders, Roosevelt's, 433
Royal Arcanum', Order of, 751
"Rustic" Bronx, 310
Sacred Heart Academy, The, 537
St. Francis Hospital, 558-59, 592-98
St. John's College, 536
St. Joseph's Hospital, 559
St. Joseph's Institute for the Care and In- struction of the Deaf and Dumb, 536
St. Mary's Park, 703 Salvation Army, The, 633, 655
340
THE BRONX AND ITS PEOPLE
San Juan Hill, Capture of, 425 Savages still aggressive, 117
Schaghen, Peter Jans, quoted, 80
Scharf, John T., historian, quoted, 198 Schoolmasters, Early, 160, 517
Schools above and below the Harlem, 524 Schools for the Dutch, 158 . Schools: See Chapter on Education
Seal granted New Netherland, 75
Secession and Abolitionism, 388
Second Regiment, New York Volunteers,
Spanish-American War, 427
Seventh-Day Adventists, 685 Seventy-first Regiment, Spanish-American War, 431
Shipbuilding industry, 720, 758 Shipping facilities, 777
Signers of the Peace Treaty, 121
Sixty-ninth Regiment, Spanish-American War, 430
"Skinners" and "Cowboys," 200, 316
Skirmishes in Bronx Village, 213
Slavery in New Amsterdam, 156
Slaves and Labor, 265
Social Life, Early, 247
Societies and Clubs, Older local, 752
Societies giving succor during Civil War, 411 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals, 658
Spanish-American War: Cause and general review, 423; call for volunteers, 425; five regiments called, 426-434; the "Maine," 424; capture of San Juan Hill, 425; peace treaty, 426
"Split Rock," 11 State Administration in The Bronx, 383
State and Church, 270
State Constitution of 1777, The, 375
State Government changes, 370 et seq.
Steam Navigation, 780
Street Car Lines, 771
Street Cars, Companies in the 1850's, 301-303 Stuyvesant, Peter, 121, 123, 229
Substitutes in Civil War, 417
Supreme Court Justices, 491 and 494 Surrender of Cornwallis, 219
Surrogate's Court and list of Surrogates, 488- 89
Tablets, Bronze: commemoration Battle of White Plains, 191; for Chief Ninhan, 695 Taverns, Old Time, 280
Taxpayers' Alliance, The, 809
Terms of the Settlement of New York by early colonists, 132
Territories of Various Tribes, 44
Textile Manufacturing, Clothes and, 721
The Bronx: Geology and topography, 1-18; early history, 19; borough and county created, 23; Indian settlements, 25; European settle- ment, 57; early settlers, 96; war in Bronx territory, 114; peace, 116; Manors and pat- ents, 127; early education, 160; early occupa- tions, 162; in Revolutionary War, 167; its political status, 227; former villages, 309; official record and personnel, 351; in Civil
War, 387; in Spanish-American War, 423; in World War, 435; its courts and lawyers, 475; education, 513; Medical profession, 555; banks, 601; welfare organizations, 627; re- ligious activities, 663; parks, 687; industries, 713; newspapers, 733; fraternal orders and societies, 741; transportation and shipping, 757; real estate, 795; Mercantile interests, 809; old homes and families, 825
"The Bronx Home News," 736
The Bronx in Revolutionary War, 167
"The Purchase of Keskeskeck," painting visual- izing life of The Bronx, 123
Third Regiment Infantry, Spanish-American War, 428
Thoroughfares, Old Bronx, 759
Throckmorton (Throgmorton), John, patroon, 98, 365
Throgg's Neck, 340
Tibbett (or Tippett), George, pioneer settler, 9
Title to New Netherland, 91
Tompkins, Judge Caleb, 478
Tompkins, Judge Jonathan G., 478
Topography of The Bronx, 4
Totem, The, 43 Towns and Villages, 312 Township Boundaries, 21
Trade in New Netherland, 67
Trading, Early, 814, et seq.
Trading in the Seventeenth Century, 812
Traffic, Canal, 786
Transportation and Shipping, 757 et seq.
Travel, Early, 259-264, 292
Treaty of Peace with England, 224
Treaty of Peace between the Dutch and the Indians, 54
Tribes and Their Territories, 44
Trouble with Raritan Indians, 108
Trouble with the Indians, 94
Under the English Rule, 797
Underground Railways, 774
United Odd Fellows' Home and Orphanage Association, 652 United Presbyterian Church, 683 United States offers aid to Cuba, 423
Van Cortlandt, Frederick, 693
Van Cortlandt, Jacobus, 692
Van Cortlandt Mansion, 322, 692
Van Cortlandt Park, 692
Van Der Donck, Jonkheer Adrien, 100, 122 Van Nest, 335
Van Twiller, Walter, 88, et seq.
Various duties of the early schoolmasters, 161 Verrazano, Giovanni da, 57-59; quoted, 58
Veterans Bureau of The Bronx, United States, 578-81 Villages, Early Bronx, 309-349
Visiting Nurse Service, 634
Vocational Training, 547
Volunteers and Copperheads in Draft Riots, 421
Volunteers for Spanish-American War, 425 Volunteers, Local, 391 Volunteers return from Civil War, 415
341
HISTORICAL INDEX
Walloons, The, 72 War in Bronx Territory, 114 Washington's arrival, General, 173 Washington's Headquarters, 182 Waterfront development, 802 Water travel, 283 Watts, Judge John, 478 Weapons of Warfare, 41 Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, (Webb Academy), 536, 650, 827 Webb, William H., builder of ships, 721 "Weckquaesgacks," The, 46, 47, 53, 110 Wells, James L., 351, 687, title page Westchester, 334
Westchester a county, 367
Westchester and Connecticut Boundary, 229, et seq. Westchester County formed, 233 Westchester County Manors, 135 Westchester County, Pillaging Lower, 196 "Westchester Globe," The, 736 Westchester, Revolutionary incidents in Low- er, 279 West Farms, 324 West Farms Patent, 151
West India Company, 68, 72, 75, 77, 89, 121 White Child, The first, 73
White Plains Courthouse, Declaration of In- dependence received at, 479 Williamsbridge, 325 Woman's Club, Bronx, 746 Wood, James, quoted, 25, 26, 37 Woodmen of the World, 752
World War, The: Preparations for, 435; the 27th and 77th Divisions, 435, et seq .; mobili- zation, 437; the 27th in camp, 438; National Guard of New York, 440; starting overseas, 444; at the front, 445; relieving the British, 449; the Hindenburg Line, 453; the armistice, 460; homeward bound, 461; war decorations, 461; the Argonne, 463; welcome from the Germans, Chateau Thierry, 466; distinguished service crosses awarded to men of 77th Divi- sion from The Bronx, 469; Bronx welcomes its soldiers, 469-472; 258th Field Artillery, 472
Young's House in Revolutionary War, 205
Zoological Park, The, 697
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