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Clinton, George, first Governor of the State, 262 ; and the Highland Forts, 283 ; leads troops to Ticonderoga, 305 ; leads troops to the Mohawk Valley, 307; re- elected Governor, 353; Vice-President of the United States, 381 ; biography of (note), 398.
C'lintou, James, and the Highland Forts, 283 ; biography of (note), 384.
Clinton, Sir George, Governor ; biography of (note), 154 ; arrives at New York, 155; and the Assembly, 158, 159 ; administra- tion of, 158.
Clinton, Sir Henry, at Sandy Hook, 234; march of, upon Forts Clinton and Mont- gomery ; attacks them, 283; evacuates Philadelphia ; in battle at Monmoutlı Conrt-House, 295; biography of (note), 297 ; sails for Charleston ; captures that city, 308; deceived by misleading letters, 322.
Clinton's courier hnng as a spy, 285.
Coalition, A political, 346.
Cochran, Admiral, 433.
Cockburn, Admiral, Marauding expeditions of, 418, 419.
Coerten, Myndert, arrested, 110.
Coffee, General Jolin, in the Creek War, 406.
Colbert, French Minister, 91.
Celden, Cadwallader, remarks on the Five
Nations (note), 8 ; a member of the Gov- ernor's Council, 139; and the Society Library, 187; Acting - Governor, 189 ; hung in effigy, and property destroyed by a mob, 196 ; notice of, 572.
Cole, Thomas, artist, 575.
College of Nineteen, The, 23, 31, 32, 52 ; changes the government of New Nether- land, 53 ; gives a burgher government to New Amsterdam, 62.
Collegians in New York (note), 188.
Collegiate (Dutch Reformed) Church School, and two prominent principals of the (note), 568.
Colles, Christopher, on the canal system ; biography of (note). 347.
Collier, Sir George, commands a flotilla in the Hudson River, 279.
Collyer, Vincent, and the Christian Com- mission, 529.
Colonial Congress at Albany, 107, 115.
Colonial Convention at Albany, 161.
Colonial Governors, Conference of, at An- napolis, 163.
Colored Orphan Asylum, New York, de- stroyed by a mob, 534.
Colve, Captain Anthony, Governor of New York ; sketch of (note), S9; vigilance of, 90.
Commissioners of Congress sent to Canada, 239.
Commissioners of Indian Affairs (note), 140.
Committee of One Hundred (note), 217.
Committee of Safety, 523.
Committees of Correspondence, 210.
Committees of Fifty-one and Vigilance, Feud between the, 208, 209.
Common School Fund, Appropriations for a, 376 ; and the Roman Catholic Schools, 496, 497 ; condition of the, 360, 361, and note ; notice of the, 555, 556.
Common Schools, Appropriations for, 376.
"Common Sense " and its effect, 236, 237. Comptroller, Office of, created, 363.
Compulsory Education, 550; and note on, 551.
Confederate agents conspire to burn New York City, 536.
"Confederate States of America"-a league of politicians and a misnomer, 521.
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Confederation, Articles of, Weakness of the, 327.
Confiscation and Attainder Acts, 261 ; per- sons affected by the (note), 262.
Congress, called, Session of, 526.
Congress, The First Continental ; mem- bers of, from New York, 210.
Connecticut, Depredations on the coasts of ; towns in, burned, 298.
Connecticut Valley, Contentions for occu- pation of the, 35.
Consolers of the sick, Duties of the, 32.
Constitution of the State of New York formed, 257; adopted, 258; published (note), 258; first revision of the, 370 ; government organized under the, 459, 460; third revision of the, 503, 504; amendments to, ratified, 549, 550.
Constitution and Guerriere, Battle between the, 397.
Continental Army, Disbandment of the, 328 ; last survivors of the, 329 and note ; quotas for, furnished by States (note), 329. Continental Congress, The first meeting of the, 210; resolutions of defiauce ; work of the, 211 ; effect of proceedings of the, 212 ; powers of the, 219 ; disarms Tories, 233 ; flight of the, to Lancaster, 287.
Continental paper money, Counterfeit, 319. Convention of the State of New York ; as- sembles at Kingston, 256 ; forms and adopts a constitution, 258 ; members of the new (note), 256.
Conway, General, Sketch of (note), 287.
"Conway's Cabal," 287.
Cook, Lemuel, Biography of (note), 329.
Cooper, James Fenimore, 573 ; biography of (note), 573.
Cooper, Myles, D.D., President of King's College, 213, 572.
Cooper, Peter, builder of the first Ameri- can locomotive engine (note), 555.
Coote, Richard, Lord Bellomont, Governor ; biography of (note), 120.
Cornbury, Lord, Governor, Character and career of, 129-132.
Cornell University; 540,
Cornwall County, Location of, 98.
Cornwallis, Earl, in battle of Long Island, 244; in command in South Carolina ; invades North Carolina, 309 ; clases
Greene ; at Guilford Court-House ; marches to the sea-coast, 324; in com- mand in Virginia, 321, 324 ; at Yorktown, 321 ; surrender of, 322 ; effect of the sur- render of, 323.
Corrupt judges. 547.
Cortlandt, Oloff Stevens Van, in the Coun- cil of Nine, 61 ; burgomaster, 85.
Cosby, Governor, Character of, 142 ; con- flict of, with Van Dam and others, 143.
Council of Appointment, Composition of the, 259 ; actions of the, 459 ; powers of the, 505.
Council of Eight, 49, 50; send a memorial to the States-General concerning the conduct of Kieft, 50, 51.
Council of Nine, 61.
Council of Plymouth send a colony to Cape Cod Bay, 24.
Council of Revision, Composition of the, 259; (note), 454.
Council of Safety, Members of the, 260.
Cousseau, Jacques, Alderman, 85.
Covington, General, at Chrysler's Field, 416.
Cow Bay, Arms of Holland at, pulled down, 42.
Couwenhoven, Peter Wolfertsen Van, a schepen, 63.
Craney Island, Conflict at, 418.
Crawford, Thomas, sculptor, 576.
Credit system, Collapse of the, 481, 485; effects of the, 486.
Creek Indians, War against the, 406, 407. Creek Nation, Ruin of the, 407.
Crittenden Compromise, The, 520.
Croghan, Major George, at Sandusky, 404. Croton Aqueduct. The, 486.
Crown Point, Expedition against, 164; fort built at, 179; capture of, 219; possessed by the British, 252.
Cruger, John, Biography of (note), 369.
Cumberland County claimed by Vermont, 316.
Cummings, Thomas S., artist, 576.
Cunningham, William, British Provost Marshal (note), 250.
Curler or Corlear, Arendt Van, commissary at Rensselaerwyck, rescues Jesuit mis- sionary, 46 ; biography of (note), 49.
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Curler, Jacob Van, commands Fort Good Hope, 35.
D.
D'Anville, Duc, Expedition of, 156.
D'Aubrey, Colonel, commands French and Indians, 179.
Davis, Jefferson, President of the "Con- federate States of America," 521
Dawson, Henry B., historian, 574. Day, Benjamin H., publisher of the first " penny paper," 483.
Deane, James, Indian interpreter, 289.
Dearborn, Henry, commander of the North- ern Department ; biography of (note), 392 ; resolves to invade Canada, 408 ; resignation of, 412.
Debt, Imprisonment for, abolished, 478. De Bougainville, Errand of, 182.
Decatur, Commodore Stephen, 398; com- mander of the President, 439 ; humbles the Barbary Powers ; biography of (note), 458.
Declaration of Independence, 237 ; read to the army at New York ; approved by the Provincial Congress, 238.
De Grist, Paul K. Van, a schepen, 62. De Heister, leader of German troops, 244. Delavall, Thomas, Councilman, 84.
De Laet, historian (note), 63, 592.
De Lancey, James, Chief-Justice, 143 ; presides at the trial of Zenger, 145; and Governor Clinton, 158; biography of (note), 158; Acting-Governor, 159 ; death of, 186; to Lords of Trade, 180; and Society Library, 187.
De Lancey, Oliver, in the Assembly ; biog- raphy of (note), 213.
Delaware River, Settlers on the, 26 ; Wash- ington crossing the, 254.
Dellius, Dominie, obtains land by fraud, 126.
De Milt, Anthony, schout, 89 ; imprisoned, 92.
Democratic Party overthrown, 49; schism in the, 373 ; disruption of the, 516.
Democratic Society song of "God Save the Guillotine," sung at meeting of (note), 357.
De Nouville, Dongan and, 102 ; invades the Iroquois country, 102, 103.
De Peyster, Abraham, Associate-Justice ;
biography of (note), 129 ; and the Society Library, 187.
De Peyster, Johannes, Alderman, 85 ; notice of (note), 85 ; burgomaster, 89, 92.
Dermer, Captain, at Manhattan, 23.
De Ruyven, Secretary, receiver of revenues, 90.
De Sille, Nicasius, Vice-Director-General, 67.
Detroit, Surrender of, 184, 185.
De Vries, David Pietersen, plants a colony on Delaware Bay, 33 ; leaves the colony, 50 ; prophetic words of, 51.
De Witt, a Dutch navigator, 14.
De Witt, Simeon, and the Erie Canal, 383, 384; surveyor-general, 460.
Dieskau, Baron de, defeated and wounded at Lake George, 166.
Dincklagen, Lubbertus Van, causes the re- call of Van Twiller, 38 ; Provisional Gov- ernor, 51; joins in a memorial to the States-General, 62.
Dix, John Adams, and School District Libraries, 487; famous Order of, 517, 518 ; Governor ; biography of (note), 549.
Donck, Adriaen Van der, one of the Coun- cil of Nine ; imprisoned by Stuyvesant, 61 ; presents the memorial of the Council of Nine to the States-General, 62.
Dongan, Thomas, Governor, 96 ; biography of (note), 96; foreign relations of, 99, 100; refuses to obey the King, 101; is dismissed, 102.
Downie, Commodore, at Plattsburgh, 428. Draft. The, 533.
Draft Riots in New York, 533, 534.
Drake, Joseph Rodman, 573.
Draper, A. S., Superintendent of Public Instruction, 556.
Draper, John W., 572.
Drummond, Lt .- General, with Wellington's veterans in Canada; commands the Britishı forces in Canada, 424.
Duane, James, District Judge, 346 ; first Mayor of New York City after the Rev- olution, 350.
Duchess County, Territory of ; name of (note), 89.
Dudley. Guilford D., 401.
Dudley, Joseph, Chief-Justice of New York (note), 116.
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Duke of York, Character of, 92. Duke's County, Location of, 98. Duke's laws, The (note), 85. Dunlap, Rev. Mr., at Cherry Valley, 291. Dunlap, Wm., artist and historian, 572. Dunmore, Lord, Governor, 203.
Duquesne, Fort, 162. Durand, A. B., artist, 575.
Dutch, The, on Manhattan, surrounded by Indians, 18; liberality of the, 40 ; Chris- tian charity of the, 46 ; embassy of the, to New Plymouth, and its results, 57 ; embassy of, to Maryland, 68, 69 ; retake New York, 88, 89.
Dutch West India Co., The, chartered ; features of the charter; powers of the, 22; favored by the States-General, 22, 23; organization of the, 23 ; send colo- nists to New Netherland, 25, 27 ; success of the, 30 ; offer an asylum to the op- pressed in New Netherland, 71.
E.
East and West Jersey, 94., Eelkens defies Van Twiller, 34.
Election Riots in New York City, 483-485. Elliott, Charles, artist, 575.
Elliott, Captain Jesse D., captures vessels near Buffalo, 402.
Embargoes and Orders in Council, 378- 381.
Empire State, the, Retrospect of the life of, 568-576 ; religious denominations in 568, 569 ; political condition of, 569, 570 ; courts of ; trade, manufactures and popu- lation of, 571 ; statesmen, jurists, literary men, and arts and artists in, 572-575. Emuckfan, Battle of, 406.
England, Monarchy restored in ; a royal state trick, 71; Revolution in, and its effect in America, 105.
English-American Colonists, Character and condition of, 185.
English, The, in America, 161.
English, The, in America, encroach on Dutch domain, 42.
Enterprise and Boxer, Battle between, 418. Episcopacy in the Colonies, 185-189.
" Equal Rights " Party, Action of the ; dis- solution of the, 482.
Erie Canal, Genesis of the, 382, 384 ; begin- ning of the construction of the, 384, 385 ; preliminary measures adopted ; meeting in favor of the (note), 450; ridiculed and opposed, 451; first boat on the, 453 ; in- fluence of the ; prophecy concerning the (note), 468 ; celebration of the opening of the, 463-468.
Erie, Fort, Capture of, by Americans, 422, 423 ; siege of, and sortie from, 426.
Esopus (Kingston), Settlement at, 26; trouble with the Indians at, 68.
Estaing, Count de, commands a French naval force on the American coasts, 295. Europe, Condition of, in 1814, 420. Eutaw Spring, Battle at, 325.
Evertsen, Admiral Cornelis, 88; proclama tion of, 89.
Expedition against Canada, 115, 415-417.
F.
Falmouth (now Portland), burned, 252. Fashions in New York changed, 476. Faulkner, Major, at Craney Island, 418. Federal Celebration at New York, 351; consequences of the, 352.
Federal Party, Chief leaders of the, in New York, 346 ; overthrow of the, 379 ; second overthrow of the, 386.
Federalist, The, 388.
Federalists and Anti-Federalists, 337.
Fenton, R. E., Governor ; biography of (note), 536 ; and the Thirteenth Amend- ment of the National Constitution, 538.
Field, Cyrus W., erects a monument at Tappan, 315.
Field, David Dudley, and the Women's Relief Association, 527.
"Fields, The." Great meeting in, addressed by young Hamilton, 208.
Fillmore, Millard, Vice-President of the United States, 507.
Financial scheme, A, denounced (note), 201.
Fish, Hamilton, Governor, Biography of (note), 507.
Fitzroy, Lord, Reception of ; marries Gov- ernor Cosby's daughter (note), 144.
Five Nations, Grant of land by the, to the English, 128.
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Fletcher, Benjamin, Governor, 117 ; in con-
fliet with the Assembly; at Hartford, 118. Forbes, General Joseph, Tardy movements of, 176.
Forman, Joshua, and the Erie Canal, 383, 474.
Forsythe, Major Benjamin, at Ogdens- burg, 401, 408.
Fort Amsterdam built, 29 ; treaty with Ind- ians at, 52 ; taken by British troops and named Fort James, 78.
Fort Casimer built, 59; captured and named Fort Trinity, 66.
Fort Christina, 41.
Fort Clinton captured by the British, 283, 284.
Fort Duquesne, Capture of, 177.
Fort Edward, built by General Lyman, 165.
Fort Good Hope, 26.
Fort James, Name of, changed to William Henry, 89.
Fort Lee, 243; commanded by General Greene, 248 ; abandoned, 250.
Fort Montgomery captured by the British, 283, 284.
Fort Nassau on the Delaware, 26.
Fort Necessity, Surrender of, 162.
Fort Niagara captured by the English, 179, 180.
Fort Orange built, 26, 46 ; surrendered and named Albany, 78.
Fort Plain, 290 ; settlement desolated, 306. Fort Schuyler besieged by St. Leger, 269 ; garrison of, 270; relieved (note), 273.
Fort Washington captured by the British, 249.
Fort William Henry, 166 ; winter expedi- tion against (note), 171 ; massacre at, 171, 172.
Forts Mifflin and Mercer captured by the British, 289.
Forty Fort, Surrender of, 294.
France, Treaty of Alliance with, 294.
Francis, Dr. J. W., Notice of, 575.
Franklin, Dr. B., commissioner in Canada, 239.
Fraser, General, commands grenadiers ; fatally wounded ; death and burial of (note), 280.
Fraunce, Samnel (note), 331.
Free Colonists, Commercial privileges ex- tended to, 44.
Free School District Libraries established, 487.
Free School Society, 376; members of the (note), 376.
Free Schools established by law, 505, 506 ; law for, repealed, 507, 508.
Free-will Offerings of the loyal people during the Civil War, 529.
Fremont, John Charles, candidate for the Presidency of the United States, 511.
French, Activity of the, in seeking power ; settlements of the, 160 ; aggressive move- ments of the, 161.
French emigrants, Effect of, on New York society, 358.
French forces at Newport, 309.
French and Indian War, The, 162-184.
French Neutrals-Acadians, 163.
French Revolution, Influence of, in Amer- ica, 353.
French vessel driven from Manhattan Har- bor, 26.
Frenchtown, Massacre at, 404.
Frenean, Philip, " Poet of the Revolution," 592.
Friends or Quakers, Attitude of, during the Civil War (note), 524.
| Frontenac, Count Louis, Governor of Canada ; conduct toward the Five Na- tions ; builds a fort, 91; invades New York, 114; performs an Indian war- dance, 116; invades the Iroquois country, 118. 119; death of, 119.
Fry, Colonel Joshua, commands Virginia troops, 162.
Fulton, Robert, and navigation by steam ; biography of (note), 377.
G.
Gabry, Timothy, Alderman, 85.
Gage, Thomas, fortifies Boston Neck, 215. Gaines, General E. P., succeeds General Ripley, 495.
Galphin Fort, Capture of, 325.
Gardiner, Lyon, settles on Gardiner's Isl- and, 42.
Gaspé, Burning of the (note), 204.
Gates, General Horatio, supersedes General
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Schuyler ; on Bemis's Heights, 274 ; con- duct of, 276; jealousy of, displayed, 277; receives thanks and a gold medal from Congress, 282.
General Congress, A, recommended, 207; delegates to, from New York, appointed, 209.
Genet, Edmund C., Minister of the French Republic, 353 ; arrival of, 354 ; fits out privateers, 354, 355; reception of, at Philadelphia ; banquet in honor of (note), 355; conduct of, 356 ; reception of, at New York ; recalled ; remains in America and marries, 357.
George III., First arbitrary act of, toward the Colonies, 189; ascends the throne, 192. Germain, Lady Betty, Remark of, 373. German mercenaries in Canada, 240.
Gerry, Elbridge, Vice-President of the United States, 398.
Gheel, Maximilian Van, a schepen, 62.
Glover, General, on Bemis's Heights, 280. Godyn, Samuel, a patroon, 32.
Golden Hill, New York City, Skirmish on, 200.
Gorham and Phelps, purchase land in New York State, 335.
Gouverneur, Abraham, Leisler's secretary, imprisoned, 110; pardoned, 111.
Graham, James, first Recorder of New York (note), 100.
Granger, Francis, Anti-Masonic candidate for Governor, 476.
Grant, British General, in battle of Long Island, 244.
Grant, Mrs., of Laggan's description of social life at Albany (note), 151.
Grasse, Count de, in the West Indies, 321 ; before Yorktown with a French fleet, 322.
Great Britain and Ilolland, War between, 86 ; declares war against France in 1756, 167; causes of war between, and the United States, 387 ; United States de- clares war against, 387, 388 ; opposition to the war with, 388.
Greeley, Horace, candidate for the Presi- dency of the United States, 548.
Green Mountain Boys, 191; at Ticondero- ga, 218; at Crown Point, 219; employ- ment of, in the army, 223.
Greene, General Nathaniel, in command on Long Island ; sick, 243; in South Caro- lina, 323 ; famous retreat of, 324; fights Cornwallis at Guilford Court-House ; de- feated near Camden ; march of, toward Ninety-Six, 324 ; siege of Ninety-Six, by ; on the High Hills of Santee ; battle of, at Eutaw Springs ; rewards given to, 325. Grinnell, Moses H., at a war-meeting ; biography of (note), 522.
Grotius condemned to imprisonment, 20. Guilford Court-House, Battle at, 324.
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden killed at Lutzen, 41.
H.
Hague, Residence of Counts of Holland at the, 16.
Hale, Nathan, Fate of (note), 246. Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 573, 574.
Hamilton, Andrew, defends Zenger, 145 ; address of, to the jury, 146 ; triumph of, and honors to, 146, 147.
Hamilton, Alexander, speaks at " The Great Meeting" in The Fields, 208 ; at Arnold's headquarters, 313; in the National Con- vention, 336 ; biography of (note), 337 ; the chief writer of The Federalist, 338 ; in the State Convention at Poughkeep- sie, in 1788, 341; Secretary of the United States Treasury, 346; helps in the establishment of the Board of Re- gents in New York, 362; death of, 375 ; allusion to, 572.
Hamilton and Burr, 373, 375; duel be- tween, 374, 375.
Hampton, General Wade, in Northern New York ; character of, 413, 415.
Hard-Cider Campaign, The, 494.
Ilardy, Commodore Charles, Character of, 419.
Hardy, Sir Charles, Governor of New York, 160; leaves the province, 186.
Harlem, Village of, founded, 69.
Harlem Plains, Battle on, 247.
Harper, James, Mayor of New York, 485. Harper's Ferry, John Brown's raid at, 515. Harrison, Richard, United States Attorney for New York, 346.
Harrison, General Wm. Henry, marches for the recovery of Michigan, 403, 404 ;
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builds Fort Meigs, 404; wins a battle at the Thames, and recovers Michigan, 406 ; becomes President of the United States, 494.
Hartford, Conference at, between the Dutch and English, in 1650 ; and the result, 58, 59.
Hartford Convention, The, in 1814, 443, 444.
Hathorn, Colonel, commands troops at Minisink, 301, 302.
Hattem, Arendt Van, burgomaster, 62.
Haviland, Colonel, at Montreal, 184.
Hawley, Jesse, and the Erie Canal, 383.
Hawley, Jesse. Superintendent of Public Instruction, 446 ; removal of, 454.
Heath, General William, in command in the Highlands, 248.
Heathcote, Caleb, Biography of (note), 132, 133.
Hell-Gate, 23.
Hendrick, King, at Lake George; and William Jolinson, 165 ; death of, 166.
Hendricksen, Captain, before the States- General, 16, 18 ; exploring voyage of, 18.
Herkimer, Nicholas, commands Tryon County militia, 270 ; defeated at Oris-
kany ; biography of. 271 ; death of, 272. Heyn, Admiral, Exploit and death of, 30. Hi-a-wat-ha, Death of daughter of, 4; ser- vices and departure of, 4, 5.
Hickey, one of Washington's Life Guard, Crime and execution of, £36.
Hobkirk's Hill, Battle of, 324.
Hoboken, Massacre of Indians at, 48.
Hoffman, John T., Governor, 541 ; biog- raphy of (note), 542.
" Holder of the Heavens," Legend of, 3, 4. Holland, Prosperity of, anticipated ; social condition of, 19-21.
Hollandare, Peter, 52.
Holmes, Captain, puts a house on the site of Hartford, 38.
Holt's Journal, Devices on, 211, 212.
Hone, Philip, Mayor of New York ; biog- raphy of (note), 464.
Hongers, Hans, 14.
Hopkins, Commodore Esek, Exploits of, 252.
Hornet and Peacock, Battle between, 417.
Horseshoe Bend, Battle of, 407.
Hotham, Commodore, on the Hudson River, 283.
Hough, Franklin B., historian, 574.
Howe, Lord, on Lake George, 173, 174; death of, 174 ; biography of (note). 175. Howe, Admiral Richard, before New York with a fleet ; a peace commissioner, 242. Howe, General William, goes to Halifax from Boston, 235 ; before New York with troops ; joined by Sir Henry Clinton, 243; in battle on Long Island, 244; at White Plains, 248 ; captures Fort Wash- ington, 249; in battle of Brandywine Creek, 286; takes Philadelphia, 287 ; succeeded by Sir Henry Clinton, 295.
Howe and Washington confront each other in New Jersey, 286.
Hubbardton, Battle of, 267.
Hudson, Henry, Biography of (note) ; seeks a northeast passage to India, 10, 11 ; discovers New York Bay, 11 ; voyages on the river that bears his name, 12; de- tained in England, 13; perishes in Polar waters, 14.
Hudson Highlands, Obstructions of the river in the, 253.
Hudson River, Names of the (note), 13; first trading vessels in the, 14; associa- tions of the, 561 ; manors on the, 561- 565.
Hughes, Archbishop, and the Common School Fund, 497 ; biography of (note), 496.
Hughson, John, a victim of the "Negro Plot " affair, 153.
Huguenots in New York, 148.
Hull, Captain Isaac, 397.
Hull, General William, in Michigan ; sur- renders Detroit, 389.
Hunkers, a political faction, 501.
Hunt, Washington, Governor ; biography of (note); administration of, 508.
Hunter, Robert, Governor ; character of, 137, 138 ; brings Palatines to New York, 137 ; administration of, 137, 138.
" Hunters' Lodges " suppressed, 491.
Huntington, Daniel, President of the Na- tional Academy of the Arts of Design, 576.
Hutchings, William, one of the last two
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survivors of the Continental Army (note), 329.
Hutchinson, Anne, Sketch of (note), 49. Hyde, Sir Edward (Lord Cornbury), Gov- ernor of New York, 129.
I.
Independence, Yearnings of the people for ;
Paine's plea for, 236 ; resolutions for, adopted ; Declaration of, adopted, 237, 238.
Indian Affairs, Board of Commissioners of, 93, 227.
Indian Fort (note), 17 ; Champlain's attack on the, 17, 18.
Indian tribes in New York, 3.
Indian war, A fierce, kindled by Kieft, 49. Ingoldsby, Richard, demands possession of the fort at New York, 109, 110; notice of, 117 ; Acting-Governor of New York, 134; biography of (note), 186.
Inman, Henry, artist, 575.
Investigating Committee, concerning the Erie Canal, Work of the, 554.
Iroquois Confederacy, Origin of the, 3-5 ; Indian name of the, 6 ; polity of the, 6-9 ; totemic system of the, 7 ; customs of the, 8, 9 ; final disappearance of the, 334.
Irving, Peter, Reference to, 572.
Irving, Washington, Biography of (note), 572.
Izard, General George, on the Niagara frontier ; biography of (note), 426.
J.
Jackson, Andrew, at war with the Creek Indians, 406 ; at Pensacola, Mobile, and New Orleans, 441; gains a victory at New Orleans ; honors awarded to, 442 ; President of the United States, 474.
James II. King of England, and the New York "Charter of Liberties," 101; at- tempts of, to make the Roman Catholic the State religion ; and French Jesuit missions in New York, 103, 104 ; flies to France, 104.
James, Major, Country residence of, deso- lated, 196.
Jarvis, J. Wesley, artist, 575.
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Jay, John, and the State Constitution, 257, 258 ; biography of (note), 257 ; first Chief- Justice of the State, 260; one of the writers of The Federalist, 338 ; Chief- Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 346; Governor of New York, 363 ; a political writer, 572.
Jay, William, Notice of; biography of (note), 451.
Jay's treaty considered, 358, 359 ; burned by the populace; treatment of, at Charles- ton, 359.
Jefferson, Thomas, writes the Declaration of Independence, 227; his suspicions of the Federalists, 253, 254; his opinion of Hamilton ; leader of the Republican Party, 354 : Vice-President of the United States, 363 ; President of the United States, 366.
Jersey, The, a prison ship (note), 149.
Jesuit missions in America, 90; active in New York, 140; influence of the, 160.
Jogues, Father, Notice of, 46.
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