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Johnson, Guy, Indian agent, 224; holds Indian councils, 225, 226.
Johnson, Sir John, at Johnson Hall, 227 ; gives his parole; biography of (note), 231 ; breaks his parole, 240 ; flight of, to Canada ; commissioned a brigadier-gen- eral, 241: leads Canadians and Indians, 264, 303; desolates his home neighbor- hood, 305; desolates Stone Arabia, 308. Jolinson, Lady, conveyed to Albany, 241.
Johnson, William, at a conference at Al- bany, 157 ; Indian commissioner in com- mand of provincial troops, 164, 165; and King Hendrick (note), 165 ; in bat- tle at Lake George ; builds Fort Will- iam Henry, 166; knighted, 166, 167; captures Fort Niagara, 179 ; at Montreal, 184 ; biography of (note), 224.
Johnson, William, and the rebellion in Canada ; biography of, 490.
Johnson, William Samuel, first President of King's College ; biography of (note), 188.
Johnson and Lyman contrasted, 167.
Johnson's Royal Green, 270 ; defeated and dispersed, 271.
Johnston, Colonel, British commander at Stony Point, 300.
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Jones, Captain Jacob, wins a naval victory, 397
Jones, John Paul, wins a naval victory, 305. Jones, Samuel, Chief-Justice ; biography of (note), 474.
Joris, Captain Adriaens, commands the New, Netherland, 25; constructs a fort on the site of Albany, 26.
Journalism, Revolution in, 482, 483.
Jumonville, French commander, slain, 162.
K.
Kalb, Baron de, in South Carolina, 309.
Keane, General, defeated below New Or- leans, 441.
Kent, James, and Colonel Burr, 373 ; Chan- cellor, portrait of : biography of, 448.
Kentuckians, War-cry of the, 404.
Kidd, William, commands a privateer, 121 ; becomes a pirate and is hanged ; treasure of, 122.
Kieft, Governor William, succeeds Van Twiller ; De Vries's opinion of, 39; ener- getic rule of ; builds a harberg and church, 40 ; snubbed by the people ; calls heads of families to a consultation, 43-46 ; makes war on the Indians ; sends sol- diers agaiust fugitive Indians at Hobo- ken, 48; asks the Commonalty to appoint a committee of conference, 49 ; recalled ; threatened, 51 ; departure and death of, 53.
King George, Equestrian statue of, 199. King George's War, 155.
King, John A., Governor, Biography of (note), 513 ; recommends the extension of the right of suffrage to colored men, 514.
King Philip's War, 93.
King William's War, 114.
King, Rufus, United States Senator ; biog- raphy of (note), 341.
King's (now Columbia) College, founded and chartered, 187, 188.
Kings and Queens counties, Territory of, 98. King's Mountain, Battle on, 309.
Kingston (note), 262 ; burned by the Brit- ish, 286.
Kip, Jacob, Secretary of New Amsterdam, 63 ; alderman ; imprisoned, 92.
Klock's Field, Battle at, 308. Knowlton, Colonel, Death of, 247.
Knyphausen, General, leader of German troops; 244 ; in command of Germans at the capture of Fort Washington, 249.
Konick, Frederick de, commander of Stuy- vesant's flag-ship in the Delaware, 67. Kregier, Martin, burgomaster, 62.
L.
La Colle Mills, Battle at, 421.
Lafayette, Marquis de, joins the American army, 286 ; appointed to commission an expedition against Canada ; loyalty to Washington ; deceived by Gates, 288, 289; in Virginia, 321; in New York, the nation's guest, 461.
Lake Champlain, British force on, in 1776, 252 ; military affairs near, 414.
Lake Erie, Naval battle on, 405, 406.
Lamb, John, an active Son of Liberty, 205 ; addresses the people, 206 ; biography of (note), 206 ; removes cannons from the fort at New York, 232 ; home of, attack- ed by a mob, 352.
Lamb, Martha J., historian, 574.
Lancastrian and Pestalozzian systems of education, 488, 489.
Lansing, John, Chancellor, 371.
Lee, Charles, sent by Washington to New York, 234 ; disobedience and treason of, 253.
Lee, Gideon, Mayor of New York ; wound- ed by rioters, 484.
Lee, Colonel Henry, in South Carolina, 324.
Lee, Richard Henry, offers resolutions for independence, 237.
Leggett, William, Notice of ; biography of (note), 482.
Legislative reforms, 471.
L'Hommedieu, Ezra, and popular educa- tion ; biography of, 362.
Leisler, Jacob, helps the Huguenots, 105; chosen chief ruler, temporarily, 106 ; organizes a provisional government, 107; tenders the fort and his power to the royal governor ; arrested, 110; con- demned to death, 111 ; executed, 112.
Leisler and Milborne, Property of, confis-
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cated, and afterward restored, 112; re- mains of, lie in state at the City Hall, and buried in a cemetery, 124.
Leislerians or Democrats in political con- trol, 129.
Lemon slaves' case, The, 512.
Levi, General de, attempts to recover Que- bec, 183, 184.
Lewis, Morgan, Governor; biography of (note), 374.
Liberty Pole erected, 199.
Liberal Republican Party, 548.
Life Guard of Washington tampered with ; origin of the (note), 235.
Lincoln, Abraham, President of the United States, 511 ; calls for troops, 522; re- elected President, 536 ; assassination of, 538.
Lincoln, General Benjamin, joins General Gates, 275 ; attack of, on Savannah, 305 ; surrenders Charleston, 308.
Liquor Bill, Prohibitory, vetoed, 510. Literature Fund established, 361.
Livingston, Gilbert, in Constitutional Con- vention at Poughkeepsie, 341.
Livingston, John and Mary, 562.
Livingston, Philip, and the Society Library, 187; President of the Provincial Con- gress ; biography of (note), 221.
Livingston, Robert, Secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Indian Affairs, 93; controls the Provincial Convention ; ac- cused of uttering treasonable words, and goes to New England, 108, 109; engages in a privateering scheme; a friend of Kidd, 121, 122 ; changes his political position, 122.
Livingston, Robert R., first Chancellor of the State of New York, 264; adminis- ters the oatlı of office to Washington ; biography of (note), 345 ; Minister at the French Court, 371; becomes a Republican, 364 ; assists Fulton in his steam naviga- tion scheme, 377 ; and the Manor House, 563.
Livingston, Walter, first Speaker of the New York Assembly, 262.
Livingston, William, a political and theo- logical writer, 189, 213; prophetic ap- peal of, 201 : on immigrants into New York (note), 571, 572.
Livingstons in America, Ancestors of the, 562.
Livingston's Manor desolated, 286 ; account of the, 562.
Loco-foco Party, Origin of the name of the, 481.
Long Island, English settlements on, 42 ; revolt on, 73 ; preparations for battle on, 243 ; landing of British troops on ; battle on, 244 ; expedition against Tories on, 315.
Loudoun, Lord, succeeds Shirley in com- mand of troops; biography of (note) ; sends Abercrombie to America, 167 ; on expedition against Louisburg, 170 ; bad conduct of, 169, 170.
Louisburg, Expedition against, 155, 156 ; capture of, 173.
Lovelace, Francis, Governor ; biography of (note), 87 ; character of, 88.
Lovelace, Lord John, Governor, calls a new Assembly, 133.
Loyalists, Flight of, from New York ; con- fiscation of property of the ; return of the, 330.
Lundy's Lane, Battle of, 425.
Luyck, Ægidius, burgomaster, 89; im- prisoned, 92.
Lyman, General Phineas ; biography of (note), 164 ; lieutenant of General Wm. Johnson ; builds Fort Edward, 165; gains the victory at Lake George, 166.
M.
McArthur, Duncan, Raid of, 433. McCrea, Jane, Tragedy of, 267.
McDonnell, Lieutenant-Colonel, attacks Ogdensburg, 408.
Macdonough, Thomas, on Lake Champlain, 414, 415 ; commands in a naval battle on Lake Champlain; biography of (note), 429.
McDougall, Alexander, issues an offensive hand-bill ; imprisoned, and regarded as a martyr, 202.
McDougall, Sir Duncan, General Paken- ham's aide, 442.
McEvers, James, stamp-distributor, re- signs, 186.
McHenry, Fort, Bombardment of, 437.
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Mackinaw, Attempt to take Fort, 432. Mckenzie, Wm. Lyon, and the insurrec- tion in Canada, 489, 490.
McLeod, Trial and acquittal of, 491.
McLane, Secretary Louis, writes Jackson's nullification proclamation (note), 480.
Macomb, Alexander, an extensive land- owner in Northern New York, 335.
Macomb, General, in command at Platts- burgh, 427-431; biography of (note), 430.
Macomb and Macdonough, recipients of honors, 431.
McNeil, Major, in battle of Chippewa, 424. Madison, James, one of the writers of The
Federalist, 338; elected president of the United States, 381 ; re-elected, 398.
Malden burned, 406.
Manning, Captain Jolin, surrenders New York to the Dutch ; punished (note), 89. Manhattan Island, 1, 13 ; purchase of, from the Indians, 27.
Manhattan, Village of ; an Indian murdered near, 29 ; flight of settlers to, 30.
Manhattan Water-works and Bank, 365.
Map of New Netherland, 36, 37.
Marauding expedition on the shores of Connecticut, 264.
Marcy, Wm. L., captures a British flag, 401; Comptroller of the State, 460; Governor ; biography of (note), 479.
Marin, M., a French officer, 156, 170.
Marion, Francis, the " Swamp Fox," 309. Mary, Queen, Death of, 129.
Maryland, Dutch Embassy sent to, 68; invasion of, 468.
Massachusetts, First emission of bills of credit of, 116 ; claims of, to New York territory adjusted ; (note), 335.
Massasoit and his family (note), 93.
Matthews, Mayor, of New York, and a plot against Washington, 236.
May, Captain Jacobsen, and the Walloons, 25.
Mayflower, The, lands emigrants at Cape Cod, 24.
Medal, A descriptive French, 116.
Megopolensis, Dominie, with Stuyvesant, against the Swedes, 67.
Meigs, Colonel R. J., Exploit of, in Long Island, 316.
Meigs, Fort, relieved, 404.
Melyn, Cornelis, Notice of (note), 51, 62. Mennonites settle near Swaanendael ; plundered and ruined, 72.
Mercer, Colonel, in command at Oswego, 168 ; surrenders, 169.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (note), 575. Michigan recovered, 403, 406. .
Mifflin and Mercer, Forts, captured, 287. Militia of New York, Arrangement of the, 389.
Milborne, Jacob, sent to Albany, 107, 108 ; addresses the people; leaves Albany, 108 ; condemned to death and executed, 111, 112.
Miller, Colonel James, Exploit of, at Lundy's Lane, 425.
Minisink, Raid upon the settlement of, 301. Minuit, Peter, Director of New Netherland ;
purchases Manhattan Island, 27; Gov- ernor of New Sweden ; defies Kieft, 41 ; death of, 52.
Minute Men, Organization of, 207.
Mitchell, Samuel L., Speech of, at the canal celebration ; biography of (note), 466 ; notice of, 575.
Monckton, Robert, Governor, 192.
Monmouth, Battle of, 295.
Monongaliela, Battle of, 163.
Montcalm, Marquis de, French commander, captures Oswego, 168; biography of (note) ; dances with the Indians. 170 ; captures Fort William Henry, 171 ; in command at Quebec, 181, 182 ; death of, 183.
Montgomery, John, Governor, Character of; administration of, 141 ; death of, 142. . Montgomery, Richard, at Albany, 227; biography of (note), 228 ; advances upon St. Johns, 228, 229; captures it and Montreal, 229 ; attacks Quebec ; death of, 230.
Montmorenci, Falls of, Battle near, 181.
Montreal, Indians gathered at, 170; cap- tured, 229.
Moody, Sir J. Henry, patentee of Graves- end (note), 49.
Moody, Lady Deborah, Sketch of (note), 49. Mooers, General Benjamin, commands militia; biography of (note), 427; in battle of Plattsburgh, 430.
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Moore, Sir Henry, Governor ; administra- tion of, 193 ; death of, 201.
Morgan, General Daniel, defeats Tarleton at the Cowpens ; rewarded ; joined by Greene, 323 ; in battle on Bemis's Heights, 275.
Morgan, Edwin D., Governor ; biography of (note), 514 ; conservative position of, 518, 519; energetic action of, in upholding the National Government, 525, 526.
Morgan, Louis, historian, 575.
Morgan, William, and the Masonic frater- nity, 471, 472.
Morris, George P., 575.
Morris, Gouverneur, Remarks of, concern- ing Zenger's trial (note), 147 ; biography of (note), 382 ; a political writer, 572.
Morris, Lewis, Chief Justice, 143.
Moravian Towns, Battle near the, 406.
Morse, Samuel F. B., artist and scientist, 500, 575.
Mott, Samuel, to Governor Trumbull, 228. Mott, Valentine, and Women's Relief Com- mittee, 529.
Mount Defiance, taken possession of by the British, 266.
Mount Independence, Garrison of; sur- render of, 265.
Munro, Colonel, surrenders Fort William Henry, 171.
Murray, General, 181 ; in possession of Quebec, 193, 184.
Murray, Lindley, author of English Gram- mar and Reader, 572.
Mutiny Act extended to New York; op- posed by the Assembly, 200; and the people, 201.
N.
Nancy, a tea-ship, returns to England, 206. Nanfan, John, Lieutenant-Governor ; dis- solves the Assembly, 128.
Nassau, Fort, below the site of Albany, built, 15; abandoned, 18.
National affairs, Critical state of, 514-516.
National Capital threatened, 525 ; isolated, 526.
National Convention at Philadelphia frames a new Constitution, 336, 337.
National Constitution framed, 336, 337; adopted by New York, 341 ; XVth
Amendment of the, adopted, 542, and withdrawn, 543.
National currency, A, established, 535. National Government, The, warned of dan- ger, 436 ; weakly administered, 521. Native American Party, The, 485.
Naval movements on Lake Champlain, 251.
Naval events on the ocean, 417, 418, and 438, 439.
Navigation, Steam, on the Hudson River, 377.
Navy, First Continental, 223, 252.
New Amstel founded and perished, 72.
New Amsterdam, 59 ; organized as a city ; municipal officers of, 62 ; emigrants from New England at, 63, 64 ; popular assem- bly at, 64; city seal of, sent to, 66; menaced with destruction by Indians, 67, 68; social aspects of, 69, 70; described, 79; social condition of the people of, 80-82.
Neutrality, Proclamation of, 354.
New England coasts, Events on the, 433.
New Hampshire Committee of Safety, Action of the, 228.
New Hampshire Grants, The, 190, 191 ; events on the, 316.
New Haven Colony, The, 58.
Needham, Robert, councilman, 84.
Negro Plot in 1712, 138; in 1741, 152, 154.
Newburgh Letters or Addresses, The, 327 ; action of Washington on the, 328.
New Gottenburg, Fort, 52.
New Jersey, Latin name of, 78; given to Berkeley and Carteret, 86 ; Washington's flight across, 253.
New Netherland, Province of, created, 28 ; government of, under Dutch rule, 79.
New Plymouth, Relations between; and Manhattan, 56, 57; Dutch mission to, 57
New Sweden, 41.
Newspapers in New York, 211.
New York City, Government of, 85 ; name of, changed to New Orange, 89; city and county of, 97 ; political divisions of (note), 99; state of society at, 151 ; im- portant social events in, 186: British invasion of ; great fire in 1776, 247;
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evacuation of, by the British troops, 331; Washington with civil officers en- ters ; civil government re-established in, 331 ; the foundations of its greatness laid, 332 ; residence of the National Govern- ment at ; inauguration of President Washington at, 344; condition of, one hundred years ago, 350, 351 ; at the begin- ning of the nineteenth century, 367, 368; benevolent institutions in, 369 ; churches in, 370; patriotic popular movements at, 434 ; grand canal celebration at, 463- 468; Mayor first elected by the people ; conservatism of the merchants of the, 520; charter of, amended, 543; plun- dered by the " Tweed Ring," 545-547 ; other plunderers (note), 547 ; attractive features of, 566, 567 ; harbor of, 567.
New York Province ; area, topography, and canals of, 1; farms, population, manufactories, birthplace of, 2; Indian tribes in, 3; first political organization of the ; conduct of divine worship in the, 84; laws imposed upon the people of the, 85; divided into counties, 87, 88 ; consolidated with New England, 103; violence of party spirit in ; social con- dition of, 148, 149 ; state of political so- ciety in, 201; delegate of, in the Con- tinental Congress, 210, 215; Provincial Congress of, 215, 216 ; members of the Provincial Congress of (note), 216 ; pa- triotic efforts of the, 217, 218; condi- tion of, 221 ; important events in, 256.
New York State, First Constitution of, adopted ; features of the, 259, 260 ; choice of State officers of, 262 ; session of Legis- lature of ; claims to the soil of, 333 ; seals of (note), 333, 334; reserves the right to collect import duties, 335 ; advocates more power for Congress in the matter of revenue, 336; Legislature of first, sanc- tions a movement toward the formation of a National Constitution (note), 336; Constitutional Convention of, 338, 339 ; members of the, 339; ratifies the Na- tional Constitution ; first member of the National Congress from, 341 ; political divisions of, 342; early settlements in the interior of, 342, 343 ; emigrants from New England to, 342 ; political parties in,
343 ; power of the Governor of ; num- ber of voters in, 346 ; inland navigation of, 347; recuperation of, 349; ruling families in, 371 ; defences of, 380; meas- ures for defence of, provided, 448 ; popu- lation, resources and influence of, 458; new era in history of, 462; condition of, 517 ; Legislative action of, 517-519 ; prompt response of, to the President's call for troops, 522; patriotism, generosity and faith of, 526 ; contributions of men and money for the Civil War, in 1864, by, 537, 538 ; decrease of, in population during the war ; patriotic resolutions of the Legislature of ; adopts the XIVth Amendment to the National Constitution; a free school system for, 539; revised Constitution of, rejected, 540 ; political divisions of, 556 ; new State House of ; funded debts of ; population of (note), 557; industrial products of, 558, 559 ; rank of, in intelligence and wealth, 559, 560 ; church organizations in, 560.
New York on the New Hampshire Grants, Relation of, 189-191.
Niagara, Fort, Artillery duel at, 402.
Niagara frontier in Canada seized by the Americans, 410 ; desolation of the Niag- ara frontier, 417.
Nicola, Colonel, proposes a kingship for Washington, 327.
NicolIs, Matthias, Secretary of the province of New York ; provincial council of, 84 ; Speaker of the Provincial Assembly, 84. Nicolls, Richard, commands an expedition against New Netherland ; surrender of the province to, 75-78; Governor of ; biography of (note), 87.
Nicholson, Francis, Lieutenant-Governor, deserts his post, 107.
Nine, Council of, The, 56 ; papers of, seized by Stuyvesant ; sends a memorial and remonstrance to the States-General ; asks for a burgher government, 61, 62.
Ninety-Six, Fort, Siege of, 325. Non-importation League, 197.
Normal College at New York (note), 497. Normal School at Albany, 488.
North, Lord, Retirement of, 323.
North Point, Battle of ; death of General Ross at, 437.
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Northern New York, Events in, 420, 421. Nullification movement suppressed, 480. Nuptials of the lakes and the sea, 466.
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Oblong, The, 142. O'Conor, Charles, and the " Tweed Ring," 547.
Ogden, Robert, 196.
Ogdensburg, Attacks upon, 401, 408.
Ohio country, Conflicting claims to the, 161.
Onondaga country protected, 128; expe- dition against the, 301.
Onrust (Restless), first ship built on Man- hattan Island, 15.
Ontario, Lake, Vessels on, 390, 391.
Orangeburg, British forces at, and retreat from, 325.
Orange County, Territory of, 98.
Ordinance for special privileges, 15.
Osborne, Sir Danvers, Governor, 159.
Oswego, Capture of, by the British, 421.
Otis, James, opposes Writs of Assistance, 194.
Oxenstierna, Count of, sends a Swedish colony to the Delaware, 41.
P.
Paine, Thomas, writes "Common Sense," 236.
Paine, Judge, decision of, in the Lemon case, Effects of the, 512, 513.
Pakenham, General, commands the Britishı at New Orleans, 441 ; death of, 442. Palatines sent to New York, 137.
Paoli Tavern, Massacre near, 286.
Papineau, Joseph, and the insurrection in Canada, 489. Paris, Treaty of, 185. Parliament, Arbitrary acts of the, 201. Partisan and personal warfare, 372.
Paterson, General, on Bemis's Heights, 280.
Patricians and Tribunes, 204. Patroon estates, Features of the, 31.
Patroons, New charter for, granted, 44. Paulding, James K., Notice of, 572. Pauw, Michael, a patroon, 32.
Peace commissioners, Foolish acts of, 242, 246.
Peace commissioners appointed by Parlia- ment, 295.
Peace faction, The, 420, 443 ; movements of the, and Vallandigham, 532, 533.
Peace with Great Britain, 442 ; rejoicing for the return of, 449; treaties of, signed, 323.
Pelgrave, Paul (note), 14.
Pemaquid, Indian runner from, to Fronte- nac, 116.
Penn, William, receives a grant of terri- tory, 94, 95.
Pensacola, British driven from, 441.
People's Party, 460.
Pepperell, William, captures Louisburg ; biography of (note), 156.
Perry, Oliver Hazard, on Lake Erie, 405, 406 ; biography of (note), 405 ; in an at- tack on Fort George, 410 ; wins a naval victory, 405, 406.
Petition to the King, 214.
Phelps and Gorham purchase lands, 335, 343.
Philadelphia menaced, 435 ; National Con- vention at, in 1787, 336, 337.
Philipse, Adolph, 143.
Philipse, Frederick, last "Lord of the Manor," 56; and Society Library, 187.
Philipse, Family and Manor of, 564, 565.
Phillips, General William, Burgoyne's lieutenant, 275; with Arnold in Virginia, 321.
Phipps, Sir William, naval commander, 115 ; before Quebec, 116 ; also note.
Pierce, Franklin, President of the United States, 509.
Pike, Zebulon M., attacks York ; biog- raphy of (note), 409 ; death of, 410.
Pilgrims, The, found New Plymouth, 24.
Piquet, Father, 156.
Piracy during Fletcher's administration, 120.
Pitt, William, Prime Minister, 172 ; ener- getic and wise action of, 173 ; superseded by the Earl of Bute, 192; statue of, erected at New York, 199.
Plattsburgh, Naval battle near, 429 ; battle on land at; Americans victorious at ; British retreat from, 430 ; " The siege of Plattsburgh," a song (note), 431.
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Plockhoy, Peter, leader of the Mennonites, 72.
Plowden, Sir Edmund, Absurd claim of, 52.
Point Levi, English batteries at, 181.
Political division of the State, 556.
Political parties and schemes, 379. Political and theological discussions, 213. Pontiac's conspiracy, 185, 186 (note).
Poor, General Enoch, in battle on Bemis's Heights, 278.
Pope, The, and James II., 103, 106.
Popular education, Apathy of the people concerning (note), 495.
Porter, Captain David, Famous cruise of, 418.
Porter, General Peter B., at Black Rock, 413 ; at Chippewa, 422.
Poughkeepsie, Flight of Legislature to, from Kingston, 286.
Prence, Thomas, at Hartford, 1650, 58. Press, Freedom of the, vindicated, 147.
Prevost, Sir George, in Canada, 408; at Sackett's Harbor, 411, 412; invades New York ; advances upon Plattsburgh ; bi- ography of (note), 428 ; hasty retreat from Plattsburgh, 430, 431.
Prideaux, General, besieges Fort Niagara ; death of, 179.
Prince of Wales, Alleged birth of, 103.
Princess, The, wrecked, 53.
Princeton, Battle at, 255.
Printz, John, Governor of New Sweden instructions to, 52 ; friendly relations of, with Stuyvesant, 59 ; succeeded by John Risingh, 66.
Prisons and prison-ships, 249.
Privateers, American, 439, 440.
Privateering association, 120.
Privy Council, The British (note), 169.
Proctor and Tecumtha at Forts Meigs and Stephenson, 404.
Provincial Congress, Migration of the, 250. Public Instruction, State Superintendent of, created, 510.
Public property, Seizure of, by patriots, 215.
Public School Society and ward schools in New York City consolidated, 510.
Public-school system in New York City, 544.
Putnam, Israel, Rescue of (note), 172; in command on Long Island, 244; com- mands the Highland forts, 283.
Q.
Quaker Hill, Battle of, 296. Quakers at New Amsterdam, 71.
Queen Anne's War, 132. Queen Esther, 294.
Queenstown, Battle of, 393-396.
Quebec, Surrender of, refused (note), 116 ; expedition against, 180; siege of, 181- 183, 230. .
R.
Railways in the State, and their work, 555.
Randall, S. S., and school district libraries, 487-495 ; Deputy Superintendent of Com- mon Schools, 509.
Randolpb, Peyton, President of the Con- tinental Congress, 210.
Rangers of Putnam and Rogers (note), 172.
Raritan Indians attacked by the Dutch, 43.
Rawden, General, defeats Greene at Hob kirk's Hill ; abandons Camden, 324.
Rebellion, Beginning of the, 517.
Red Jacket, First public appearance of, 334 ; commands the Indians ; biography of (note), 422.
Regents, Board of, 362.
Reid, Captain S. C., and the General Arm- strong, 440.
Rensselaer, Killian Van, a patroon, 32; power of, 45.
Rensselaerwyck, Colonie of, 33, 44, 46.
Renwick, James, Notice of, 575.
Representative Assembly at New Amster- dam ; defies Governor Stuyvesant ; names of members of the (note), 65.
Representative Council, A first, in New Netherland, 46, 47 : name of the, 47.
Republican Party, Formation of the, 511; character of the, 512.
Republicanism appears in New Nether- land, 64.
Retreat of the American army from Long Island, 245 ; to Harlem Heights, 247.
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Revolution in England, Effect of, in America, 105.
Rhode Island, D'Estaing at ; military events on, 296 ; evacuated by the British, 305.
Riall, General, commands the British at Chippewa, 423, 424; retreats to Queens- town, 424.
Rice, Victor M., first Superintendent of Public Instruction, 510.
Richmond County, Territory of, 98.
Riedesel, General, commands German mer- cenaries, 240, 264 ; on Bemis's Heights, 276.
Riedesel, Baroness de, Sketch of (note), 264. Riker, Richard, Duel of; biography of (note), 372.
Riot between religious factions, 544.
Ripley, General, on the Niagara frontier, 422-425 ; superseded by General Gaines, 495.
Risingh, John, Governor of New Sweden, 66.
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