MERCER, JAMES, member of the Virginia Committee of Safety,
ii., 299.

MINUITS, PETER, Governor of New Netherland, ii., 577.
Swedish colony under, settles on the Delaware in 1638, ii.,
45, 46.

MESSER, Captain, his reprieve by Tryon; appeal made by his
little son; his execution, ii., 371, 372.

METACOMET: see King Philip.

Minute-men in Massachusetts, i., 515. In Virginia, ii., 299.
In North Carolina, ii., 376.
MIRABEAU, his opinion of the Declaration of American Inde-
pendence, ii., 82.

MIRALLES, DON JUAN DE, accompanies Luzerne to Morris-
town to visit Washingtown; death and funeral of, i., 311.
His wealth; his daughters, i., 312.

MIRANDA, DON FRANCISCO DE, ii., 365.

Mirror, The New York, a journal, referred to, i., 668.

Meteorological Phenomenon at Bemis's Heights, i., 69.
Methodists in Georgia in 1732, ii., 516.

Mexico, Narvaez's expedition to, in 1528, i., 30. City of, i., 16.
Miami Indians: see SLOCUM, FRANCES.
MIANTONOMOн, Narraganset chief, i., 596, 597, 615. His seat,
i., 636. His grant of land to Roger Williams in 1636, i., 622.
His grant to Clarke and Coddington, i., 638. His men join
Captain Mason, i., 615. Captured by Uncas, i., 596. His
flesh eaten by Uncas, i., 597. Monument to, i., 597.
Middle Ravine, or Mill Creek, i., 52, 58.
Middlebrook, American army at, i., 79, 133, 331, 332, 335.
MIDDLETON, ARTHUR, Acting Governor of South Carolina, ii.,
540. Signer of the Declaration of Independence; Biograph-
ical Sketch of, ii., 666. Autograph of, ii., 81. Portrait of,
ii.. frontispiece.

MIDDLETON, Colonel, his expedition against the Cherokees in
1761, ., 440.

MIDDLETON, HENRY, of South Carolina, delegate to the first
Continental Congress, ii., 60, 543.
MIDDLETON, Lieutenant, leads the pursuers of Champe, i., 776.
MIFFLIN, THOMAS, Major-general, ii., 34. Delegate from
Pennsylvania to the first Continental Congress, ii., 55. His
eloquence in urging a resort to arms, ii., 55, 59. Appointed
by Washington Quarter-master General, i., 566. His meas-
ure for repelling the British at Dorchester Heights, i., 580.
On Long Island in 1776, ii., 606. With Putnam erecting de-
fenses at Philadelphia in 1776, ii., 18. Breaks up the Brit-
ish line of posts at the Delaware, ii., 24. Address of, to
Washington at Annapolis, ii., 635, 636. His alleged oppo-
sition to Washington at Valley Forge, ii., 130. Member of
the Board of War in 1777, i., 133, 662. Mobbed in 1779, i.,
321. Portrait, Autograph, and Biographical Sketch of, ii.,
635.

MILBORNE, Son-in-law of Jacob Leisler, executed, ii., 579.
MILES, Colonel, at Brooklyn, 1776, ii., 600. At the Battle of
Long Island, ii., 603.

MILES, Captain, at the Battle of Concord, i., 527.
Milford, Pennsylvania, i., 380.

Milford Hill, Connecticut, in 1779; Battle of; death of Major
Campbell, i., 423. Treatment of Dr. Daggett; landing of
Tryon, i., 424. Conduct of the enemy, i., 425. Picture of,
i., 423.
Military Academy at West Point established by Congress in
1802; organized in 1812; Major Delafield commandant in
1838, i., 706.

Military honors, Buried with, Meaning of the phrase, ii., 250.
Militia, Massachusetts, in 1776, i., 578. Pennsylvania, in
1775, i., 586. Norwich, under Major Durkee, i., 600. In
"Washington's army, in 1776, ii., 19.

Mill Creek, or Middle Ravine, i., 52, 58.

MILLER, CHRISTOPHER, Captain in the United States navy in
1776, 11., 638. On the Committee on Fortifications at West
Point in 1775, i., 703.

MILLER, Acting Governor of North Carolina, ii., 355.
MILLER, Captain, murders Lee's bugler; captured, ii., 397.
MILLER, JEMIMA, MISS, of White Plains, ii., 615.
MILLER, MARY, captured by Indians, i., 294. Scalped, i., 295.
MILLER, the poet, quoted, i., 129, 136.

MILLS, ELISHA, Sergeant, killed in the Battle of Concord, i.,
530.

MILLS and HICKS, printers of the Massachusetts Gazette, i.,
513.

Millstone River, i., 351.

MILTON, JOHN, of Georgia, Secretary of State in 1784, ii., 535.
Mina, the name of one of the caravels furnished by Isabella for
Columbus, i., 23.

MINER, CHARLES, quoted, i., 340, 341, 352, 357, 360, 361. His
letter to Colonel Stone, i., 350.

MINGERODE, Hessian officer, wounded in the Battle of Red
Bank, ii., 88.

Mingo Indians in Wyoming Valley, i., 342.

Minisink, Early settlement of. Indian depredations at, in
1778, Battles of, in 1669 and 1779, i., 669, 670. Monument
to the slain, i., 671.

Ministers, British, denounced in Parliament after the evacua-
tion of Boston, i., 587.

Ministers of the Gospel, Patriotism of, in 1774, i, 512. Belli-
cose, i., 396. Preach liberty; at Danvers, Massachusetts,

Mischianza

drè; meaning of the word, i., 712; ii., 97.
ticket, ii., 98. Alarm during the fête, ii., 105.
Mississippi River, ascended by De Soto in 1542, i., 31. Mr.
Jay's negotiations with Spain respecting the right to navi-
gate the, i., 650, 651. Treaty between England and the
United States respecting the navigation of the, 1783, ii., 652.
Mississippi Valley, explored by the French, ii., 266.
MITCHELL, Mr., and his family, massacred at Cherry Valley.
i., 269.

MITCHELL, SAMUEL L., M.D., his Memorial to Congress in
behalf of the "Martyrs," ii., 661.
MOALE, JOHN, of Maryland, Son of Liberty, ii., 194. Member
of the Baltimore Committee of Correspondence, ii., 186.
Mob at New York in 1765, ii., 582, 583. At Philadelphia in
1765, ii., 52; and in 1779, i., 321. At Baltimore in 1814, ii.,
386.

Mobley's Meeting-house, Skirmish at, ii., 453.
MOFFATT, THOMAS, his letters to Whately, i., 494.
MOFFATT, WILLIAM, Regulator, outlawed by Tryon, ii., 367.
MOFFIT, Captain, in the Battle of Rocky Mount, ii., 452, 453.
Mohawk River, Retreat of General Schuyler to the i., 40. De-
scribed; Difficulties in crossing the, i., 36, 41.

Mohawk Valley, Early hostilities in the, i., 231, 232. Violence
of Loyalists; assault upon Sammons; meeting at Cherry
Valley; baronial hall fortified, i., 233. Kirkland; the John-
sons; Indian Councils, i., 234. Schuyler ordered to seize
the military stores, i., 235. Tories disarmed; Johnson's
perfidy, i., 236. Brant; Herkimer and Harper, i., 237, 238.
Grand Council at Oswego; Indians seduced, i., 239. Con-
dition of the, in 1781, i., 283. Description of the, i., 284.
Last Battle of, i., 291. John Lipe, i., 263. St. Leger, i., 40.
Schuyler, 1., 40. Reverses of the British, i., 48.
Mohawks, i., 109, 264. At the Council at Johnstown in 1778,
i., 265. Escape of Sassacus to the, i., 616. Little Aaron,
Chief of the, i., 269. Mohawk Sachem and Sir William
Johnson, i., 106. Daniel, Chief, i., 256. Little Hendrick;
Great Hendrick, i., 106, 256. Join the Americans in 1777,
i., 59.

Mohegan Country, i., 596. Narragansets invade the, in 1645.
i., 597. Cemetery of the, i., 598.
Mohegans, at Shantock Point, i., 596. Accompany Captain
Mason against the Pequots, i., 615. Battle of, with Narra-
gansets; Uncas pursues Miantonómoh, and captures him,
i., 596. Faithful to the English, i., 663.
MoLANG, Indian Chief, i., 140, 143. Rescues Putnam, i., 141.
MOLINEUX, WILLIAM, on the Committee for removing the
British troops from Boston, i., 491.
MOLLESTON, WILLIAM, Lieutenant in the United States navy
in 1777, ii., 638.

MOLLOY, Captain (British), ii., 644.

MOLLY, wife of a cannonier, her character, ii., 155, 156. Fires
the last gun at Fort Clinton, i., 732. Her bravery at the
Battle of Monmouth; Washington gives her the commission
of Sergeant; Biographical Sketch of, ii., 155, 156.
MONCKTON, Colonel, killed at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778;
Grave of, ii., 153, 155, 157.

MONCKTON, General, lands, with his grenadiers, near Mont-
morenci in 1759, i., 185.

MONCRIEF, Major, at Boston in 1774, i., 521. At New York
in 1775, ii., 588. At Savannah in 1779, ii., 528.
MONELL, J. J., his address at the dedication of the Hasbrouck
House in 1850, i., 667.

MONELL, Mrs., quoted, i., 667.
Money, Continental, i., 317, 318.

Fac-simile of the Continent-
al bills, i., 317. A bill, not signed, found in a crevice of the
Old Tower at Newport, i., 633. Tories counterfeit, i., 318.
Depreciation of, i., 319; ii., 557. Value of, in 1778, i., 352.
Counterfeits of, i., 318; ii, 630. First coined, in the United
States, i., 318. First coined in New England in 1652, i..
449. First paper, in New England, i., 451, 452. Paper, is-
sued by Dinwiddie, in 1754, in North Carolina, ii., 360. Pa-
per, in Massachusetts in 1775, i., 534. Spurious, in New
York in 1777, ii., 630. See Coins.

Money-digging at Mount Independence, i., 148. At Snake
Mountain. i., 153. At Crown Point, i., 152, 153.
MONIS DE PALESTRELLO, distinguished navigator; father-in-
law of Columbus, i., 19.

MONK, GEORGE, General, Duke of Albemarle, ii., 353.,
MONKTON: see MONCKTON,

102.

MORRIS, LOUIS R., Under Foreign Secretary, ii., 656. Mem-
ber of Congress; Watson's account of him corrected, ii.,
MORRIS, Major, maimed in the skirmish at Whitemarsh, ii.,
115. Killed at the Battle of Princeton, ii., 30.
MORRIS, ROBERT, i., 321; i., 509. His large fortune, ii., 107.
His pecuniary aid to the American army in 1776, 11., 25. On
the Committee of Congress to remain at Philadelphia in 1776,
ii., 18. Opposes the regulation of the prices of provisions,
i., 321. Agent of Marine in 1781, ii., 638. With Washing-
ton at the Livingston Mansion in 1781, ii., 303. On the Com-
mittee of Congress on National Treaties, ii., 648. Fits out
privateers, ii., 638. First Superintendent of Finance of the
United States; his plan of a National Bank, ii., 656. His
princely donation to the relief of poor soldiers, ii., 107. Sign-
er of the Declaration of Independence; Biographical Sketch
of, ii., 664. Autograph of, ii., 80.
MORRIS, ROBERT H., Governor of Pennsylvania, ii., 271.
MORRIS, ROGER, Colonel, with Washington at the Battle of
Great Meadows, i., 709; ii., 610. His house Washington's
head-quarters in 1776, ii., 609. Picture of the house; prop-
erty of the widow of Aaron Burr, ii., 610. Marries Mary
Phillipse, i., 709; ii., 626.
MORRISSON, NEIL, member of the Mecklenburg Committee;
Autograph of, ii., 412, 413.
Morristown, New Jersey, i., 305.
troops at, i., 312. Fort Nonsense;
ters; encampment in 1777, i., 305,
ington's head-quarters at, i., 309.
occupied by Washington, i., 315.
i., 307. Pulaski at, i., 310.
MORTON, CHARLES F., of New Windsor, i., 672, 682.
MORTON, JOHN, of Pennsylvania, delegate to the Stamp Act
Congress in 1765, i., 465; and to the first Continental Con-
gress in 1774, ii., 55, 59. Autograph of, ii., 80. Signer of
the Declaration of Independence; Biographical Sketch of, ii.,

664.

MORTON, Mrs., Lines by, i., 68.

Bounty offered to American
Washington's head-quar-
306, 310. Picture of Wash-
Mutiny at, i., 312. Room
Small-pox in the army at,

MORTON, PEREZ, his Oration on Warren, i., 549.
Morton's Point, near Boston, i., 538, 539, 541.
Morven, Stockton's estate, ii., 35.

169, 172, 177. At Valley Forge, ii., 128. At the storming of
Stony Point, i., 746. In pursuit of Arnold, ii., 334. Anec-
dote of, on laying aside his clerical robes; Portrait, Auto-
graph, and Biographical Sketch of, ii., 177.
Mule Driving, Specimen of, ii., 449.
MULLINS, WILLIAM, signer of the Pilgrim Covenant, i., 437.
MULOYNE, JOHN, escapes with Governor Wright, ii., 521.
MUMFORD, Adjutant, killed at Plowed Hill in 1775, i., 571.
MUNASHUM, or Nimrod, King Philip's Chief Captain; his
sign-manual, i., 659.
MUNCH, Dr., antiquarian, i., 635.

MUNGER, JOSEPH, Notice of the cabin of, i., 60.
Munitions of War manufactured in America before the Revo-
lution, i., 586, ii., 377. Seized at Charleston in 1775, i..
544.

Munoz's History of the World, i., 18, 23, 25, 28.
MUNSON, ENEAS, M.D., his letter on vaccination, i., 307. His
father, i., 308. Inoculates American soldiers, i., 702. His
anecdote of Washington at Yorktown, ii, 313. Portrait
and Autograph of, i., 430. Biographical Sketch of his fa-
ther, i., 308.

Murderer, Tradition of a, i., 489.
MURDOCK, WILLIAM, of Maryland, delegate to the Stamp Act
Congress in 1765, i., 465.

MURFEY, Major, at the storming of Stony Point, i., 746.
MURPHY, JOHN, American Naval Commander, i., 656.
MURPHY, TIMOTHY, kills General Fraser, i., 62, 267. The
terror of Indians and Tories, i., 267. Escapes from Indians,
i., 276. His boldness at Schoharie, i., 279. Biographical
Sketch of, i., 267.

MURRAY, ALEXANDER, Lieutenant in the United States navy
in 1781, ii., 638.

MURRAY, BERLAH, Mrs. Martin Hoffman, i., 327.
MURRAY, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, ii., 297.
MURRAY, D. S., editor, i., 139.

MURRAY, JOHN, Lord, his Regiment of Scotch Highlanders, i.,
119. See DUNMORE.

MURRAY, JOHN B., procures from London, in 1841, Dr. Frank-
lin's printing-press, ii., 202.

MURRAY, JOSEPH, Commissioner to the Colonial Convention
in 1754, i., 303.

Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History, i., 620.
"Mother Bailey," Anecdote of, i., 617.

MOTT, EDWARD, Deputy Governor of Virginia in 1765, ii., 265.
MOTT, GERSHAM, of the New York Committee of Correspond-
ence respecting the Stamp Act, ii., 581.

MOTTE, Lieutenant-colonel, takes possession of Fort Johnson
in 1775, ii., 545.

MOTTE, Mrs. JACOB (Rebecca Brewton), Patriotism of, ii., 480.
Her plantation and house, ii., 477. Portrait, Autograph, and
Biographical Sketch of, ii., 479.

Mottoes used at the Mischianza, ii., 98, 99.

MOULDER, Captain, his battery at Princeton, ii., 28.
MOULTON, Mrs., extinguishes the flames of Concord Court-
house, i., 526.

Moulton's Point: see Morton's Point.
MOULTRIE, ALEXANDER, Attorney General of South Carolina,
ii., 547.

MOULTRIE, WILLIAM, General, in the expedition against the
Cherokees in 1760, ii., 440. Takes possession of the fort on
Sullivan's Island, ii., 545, 546. His bravery in 1776, ii., 551.
On Port Royal Island, ii., 553. His flag, ii., 545. In com-
mand at Charleston, ii., 554. Prisoner at Charleston in 1780,
ii., 561. President of the court-martial in the case of Gen-
eral Ashe, ii., 508. His Memoirs. ii., 508, 543, 551, 560, 573.
Portrait, Autograph, and Biographical Sketch of, ii., 545.
Mount Bigelow, Origin of the name, i., 192.
Mount Dearborn, proposed military establishment, ii., 451.
Mount Defiance, i., 39, 130, 134. View from, i., 131. Pictures
of, i., 127, 131, 149. The British on, i., 134.

Mount Holly, Clinton at, ii., 147.

Mount Hope, New York, i., 39, 128, 133, 134, 149.
Mount Hope, Rhode Island, royal seat of King Philip, i., 658.
Mount Independence, i., 39, 131; ascent and topography of, i.,
147, 148. Retreat of Americans from, i., 135. Battery at, i.,
129, 133. Picture of, i., 122.

Mount Ledyard, or Groton Hill, i., 611, 613, 614.
Mount Taurus, or Bull Hill, i., 702.

Mount Tom. The lofty summit of, i., 45.
Mount Vernon described; Pictures of, ii., 208, 212.
Mountain Men, pioneers of the West, ii., 424.

MOWATT, Lieutenant, his descent upon Gloucester, Cape Ann,
i., 549. Fires Falmouth and Bristol, i., 569.
MOYLAN, Colonel, ii., 34; at the bombardment of Boston, i.,
579.

Mud Creek, View of, i., 343.

MUDGE, ALVAH, Elm-tree by the house of, i., 231.
MUGFORD, Captain, captures the British ship Hope; mortally
wounded; his last words, i., 583.

MUHLENBERG, HENRY MELCHIOR, D.D., founder of the Lu-
theran Church in America, ii., 177.
MUHLENBERG, JOHN PETER GABRIEL, General, ii., 34; re-
ceives ordination from the Bishop of London in 1772, ii., 177.
At the Battles of Germantown, il., 111; and Brandywine, ii.,

His house Washington's quarters in 1776, ii., 609.
MURRAY, WILLIAM, of Maryland, Son of Liberty, ii., 194.
Murray Family, of Virginia, descended from Pocahontas, ii.,
248.

Murray's United States cited, i., 484.
Musconetcong River, Account of; meaning of the name, i.,

335.

MUSGRAVE, Colonel, at Dorchester Neck in 1776, i., 580. At
the Battle of Germantown in 1777, ii., 110.
Musgrove's Mill, Battle of, in 1780, ii., 444, 445.
Mutiny among Washington's troops in New Jersey, i., 312,
314. In Colonel Van Rensselaer's regiment, i., 399, 400.
In the Southern Army in 1781, ii., 499. At Charleston in
1782, ii., 570. Of Pennsylvania troops, ii., 631.
Mutiny Act passed by Parliament, its effect in America, i.,
474; ii., 584.

Muzzy, ISAAC, killed at Lexington in 1775, i., 553.
MYERS, JACOB, and his son captured by Indians, i., 294.
MYERS, Mrs., Incidents of the life of; her parents escape from
Indians, i., 370. Owner of the Treaty Table." i., 359, 365.
MYERS, settler near Yellow Creek, shoots two Indians, ii., 283.
Mystic River, Captain John Mason at, in his expedition against
the Pequots in 1637, i., 615.

Nancy, Bishop of, his huge cross on Beloeil Mountain, i., 174.-
Napkin used at the christening of Washington, ii., 208.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE: see BONAPARTE.
Narraganset Bay, The British blockade at, in 1780, i., 656.
Narraganset Chief: see CANONCHET.

Narraganset Country, Account of the, i., 658.

Narraganset Indians, i., 596, 597, 615. Play false to the white
men; fearful desolation of, i., 662.

Narrows, the, Long Point, and Dome Island, Account of, i.,
114.

Narvaez, his expedition to Florida and Mexico in 1528; per-
ishes in a storm at sea, i., 30.

NASH, ABNER, of North Carolina, member of the Provincial
Council, i., 376. His reception of General Greene, ii.. 390.
Governor; Autograph and Biographical Sketch of, ii., 469.
NASH, FRANCIS, General, of North Carolina, ii., 34. At the
Battle of Brandywine, ii., 169; and of Germantown in 1777,
ii., 110. Killed in battle: Biographical Sketch of, ii., 114.
Nassau Hall, College of New Jersey, ii., 31, 36. History of,
ji., 36. Skirmish near, ii., 30. Picture of, ii., 31. Silas
Dean's proposal to present the library of, to France, ii., 36.
See Colleges and BELCHER.

NATANIS, Norridgewock Indian Chief, i., 194.
NATION, CHRISTOPHER, Regulator, outlawed by Tryon, ii.,
National Bank: see Bank.

367.

Naval Operations, American: see Navy.
Navigation Act, British, prohibiting foreign commerce with
British settlements, ii., 254.

Navy, American, Committee of the Continental Congress on

the, in 1775, ii., 637. Members of the first Naval Committee, |
ii., 637. First organization of, în 1775, i., 569, 575. Code
of, adopted; augmented in 1776, i., 576. List of Command-
ers in the Middle department, ii., 638. Pay of Officers in
the, ii., 637. Rank of Officers in 1776, ii., 638. Revolution-
ary commanders and seamen, i., 656.- -Naval Battles, at
Machias, the first of the Revolution, ii., 637. On Lake
Champlain in 1776, i., 162, 163, 164. Operations against
Niagara in 1755, i., 217. Expedition fitted out at Elizabeth-
town Point in 1776, i., 328. Operations of the British on
the coast after the Battle of Bunker Hill, i., 569. Engage-
ment off Cape Ann in 1775, i., 570; and off Newport in
1778, i., 649. See Admiralty.

Navy Board, Continental, created in 1775, ii., 637.
Navy Boards of the Colonies, i., 569, 575.

Navy Yard at Gosport, Virginia, ii., 334.

Nazareth, Pennsylvania, Moravian settlement at, i., 337.

NEAL, Captain, in the skirmish at Worth's Mill, ii., 27. Killed
in the Battle of Princeton, ii., 30.

NEAL, JOHN, his poems quoted, i., 539.

NEALE, CHRISTOPHER, Captain (British), in the expedition
against the Regulators in 1771, ii., 369.

NECOTOWANCE, Indian Chief, succeeds Opechancanough; ac-
knowledges the sovereignty of England; cedes his lands be-
tween Pemunkey and James rivers, ii., 253.
Negro Plot at New York in 1741, ii., 580.
Negroes, at the Battle of Great Bridge, ii., 329. A negro sol-
dier shoots Pitcairn, i., 546. A negro soldier kills Major
Montgomery, i., 612. Anecdote of a negro hostler and a
goat, ii., 335. Sir John Johnson's, i., 289. Captain Lamb's
negro, Pompey, guides Wayne at Stony Point, i., 744.
NEIL, Colonel, killed in the Battle at Rocky Mount in 1780, ii.,
453, 454.

NEILSON, CHARLES, cited and quoted, i., 40, 52, 58, 64, 93.
His house at Bemis's Heights, i., 44, 45. Picture of it, i.,
46. His "Account of Burgoyne's Campaign," i., 44. Rev-
olutionary relics in his possession, i., 64.

NELLIS, Mr., of Whitesborough, ì,, 253.

NELSON, ROBERT and WILLIAM, brothers of General Nelson,
captured by Tarleton in 1781, ii., 343.

NELSON, THOMAS, Jun., Governor of Virginia, ii., 289, 343.
General, ii., 341. Signer of the Declaration of Independence,
ii., 666. On the Committee on Articles of Confederation in
1776, ii., 653. Washington's letter to, in 1778, i., 653. Pur-
sues Arnold in 1781, ii., 230, 334. At the siege of Yorktown
in 1781, ii., 311, 314, 315. His patriotism, ii., 315. Com-
mended by Washington for his conduct at Yorktown, ii., 320.
Jefferson named him as a proper person to be Governor of
Virginia, ii., 341. Notices of, ii., 237, 324. Biographical
Sketches of, ii., 302, 666. His mansion, ii., 315. Grave of,
ii., 302. Autograph of, ii., 81. Portrait of, ii., frontispiece.
NELSON, THOMAS, son of Hugo, called "Scotch Tom," ac-
count of him and his house, ii., 324. His grave, at York-
town, ii., 302.

NELSON, WILLIAM, President, Governor of Virginia in 1770,
ii., 267. His grave, ii., 302.

NELSON, WILLIAM, grandson of Governor Thomas Nelson, ii.,
301.

Nelson's Ferry, Historical associations of; View at, ii., 499.
NEUFVILLE, JOHN, seizes dispatches to Governors at Charles-
ton in 1775, ii., 543.

Neutral Ground on the Hudson River, i., 753.
Neutrality, the armed, Account of, i., 468, 651.

Neversink Valley, Scenery of the, i., 381.

New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch, ii., 45, 577.

New Bedford plundered by the British in 1778, i., 652.

*New Bridewell, New York, ii., 659.

New Castle, Delaware, The Dutch at, in 1651; William Penn
arrives at, in 1682, ii., 46, 47.

New Castle, Virginia, ii., 225.

New Dorlach (Sharon Springs), Battle of, i., 294.

New England, Origin of the name of; Union of the Colonies
of, i., 433. Associations of, i., 432. Bounds and extent of
the original territory of, i., 434. Churches of, denounced by
Roger Williams as anti-Christian, i., 621. People of, aroused
to arms in 1774, i., 514. Fisheries of, i., 520. Flag of, at
the Battle of Bunker Hill, i., 541. Civil government of, dur-
ing the Revolution, i., 568. The coast of, the chief theatre
of naval operations during the Revolution, ii., 638. Coins of,
1., 449. People from, settle in North Carolina in 1661, ii.,
353.

New France, or Canada, ii., 267.

New Garden, Delaware, Knyphausen at, in 1770, ii., 170.
New Garden Meeting-house, Engagement between Tarleton
and Greene at, ii., 401. Picture and description of, ii., 407.
New Hampshire, grants, i., 131, 168. Measures for defending,
i., 393. Constitution of, adopted before the year 1776, ii., 83.
Delegates of, sign the Articles of Confederation, 1778, ii.,
655. Approves of making a Declaration of Independence in
1776, ii., 70. Called upon by Congress for funds to carry on
the war in 1780, 1., 655.

New Haven, Settlement of, i., 417, 418, 434. Organic law of
the colony the regicides, i.. 419. Opposes the Stamp Act,
i., 420. Patriotism of, i., 421. Residence of Arnold at, i.,
421. Elm-trees at, i., 428. Cemetery, i., 428, 429. Land-
ing of Tryon's troops at, in 1779, i., 422. See Colonies.

New Jail in New York city, ii., 658, 659.
New Jersey, settled by Swedes in 1638; opposition to the
Dutch, ii., 46. Early history of, ii., 578. English settle
ments in, in 1665, ii., 46. Divided into East and West Jer-
sey; separated from New York in 1738, 11., 578. Constitu
tion of, before 1776, ii., 83. Measures of, relative to the
Declaration of Independence in 1776, ii., 70. Provincial
Congress of, meet at Trenton; Constitution of, adopted m
1776, ii., 10, 83. Delegates of, sign the Articles of Corfed-
eration in 1778, ii., 655. General Clinton's operations in, n
1778, i., 332. Expedition against military posts in, i., 13
Mutiny of the New Jersey line, i., 314. Called upon by Con
gress for money to carry on the war in 1780, i., 655.
New London, Connecticut, settled in 1658, i., 597, 609. To-
pography of, i., 609-611. Fortifications; harbor of, resorte
to by Captain Kidd and by British fleets; patriotism of, in
1774, i., 609. Vessels of war and privateers sent from.
prizes; British fleet under Arnold arrives at, in 1781. 1,610
Destruction of, i., 611. Cruelties at Fort Griswold; block-
aded by the British fleet in 1813, i., 613. Printing-press at
in 1709, i., 618.

New London, Maryland, ii., 181.

New Milford, Connecticut, i., 400.

New Netherlands, Grant of the, by Charles II. to the Duke of
York, ii., 577, 578. See New York.
New Providence, Island of, ii., 638.

New Rochelle, Howe's head-quarters at, ii., 614.
New Sweden, Settlement of, ii., 46.

New Testament, translated by Eliot into the language of the
Indians at Natick, i., 659.

New Windsor, New York, i., 680; Washington's head-quar
ters at, in 1779, i., 681; and in 1780, i., 672. The Temple
near; view of the camp-ground, i., 685.

New York Bay, Governor Argall enters, and compels the Dutch
to acknowledge the supremacy of England, ii., 251.
New York City, Early history of, ii., 46, 576. Account of an-
cient buildings in, ii., 659. Government established in 1.
ii., 577. Duty of the Dutch Mayor at, in 1673, ii., 576. P-
troons, ii., 577. Seized by the British in 1664, ii., 46, 578.
Name changed from New Amsterdam, ii., 578. Negro Flat
in 1741, ii., 580. Arrival of Stamps in 1765, ii., 582. Tumul
in, ii., 582, 583. General Congress at, in 1765, ii., 259, 277.
Statue in honor of William Pitt in 1770, ii., 583. Murmers
against the Mutiny Act; the Liberty Pole, ii., 584, 585. Po-
litical coalition in, ii., 585. M'Dougall imprisoned; tea-ship
Nancy arrives in 1773; tea destroyed, ii., 586. The "Pr
trician" party and the "Tribune" party in 1774; meeting of
the Provincial Congress; independent Post-office, ii., 58.
Arming of the people; Custom-house closed; arins seized
by the "Sons of Liberty;" fortifications, ii., 588. British
stores captured; Committee of one hundred, ii., 589. Can-
nons removed from the Battery: cannonade from the Asia
ii., 590. Rivington's printing materials destroyed, ii, 59!
Tories disarmed; Lee's encampment, ii., 592. Preparation
for defense in 1776, ii., 594. Tryon's plot for destroying
Washington; the Declaration of Independence read to the
American army; the statue of George III. destroyed, 11, 79,
595. Effect of the Declaration of Independence, ii., 79, 596.
Governor's Island, ii., 596. Arrival of the British at Long
Island, and the consequent alarm, ii., 599. Washington's
arrangements for evacuating the city; condition of the Amer-
ican army, ii., 607. Attempt to destroy the British she
Eagle, ., 608. Evacuation of the city, ii., 609, 611. The
British prepare to invade it; fortifications, ii., 610. Great
fire at, in 1776; Trinity Church burnt, ii., 613. The British
Occupy the city; prisons and hospitals, ii., 629. Great fire
in 1778; powder magazine exploded by lightning, ii., 630, 631
Evacuated by the British in 1783, ii., 632. The Americans
occupy the city; Washington's parting with his officers, B.,
633. Washington's departure from, for Annapolis, ii, 634
The British fleet arrives at, in 1778, i., 652. Arnold's head-
quarters in 1780, i., 777. First seat of the Federal Govern-
ment, ii., 658.

New York State. Measures of the Legislature to strengthen
Crown Point in 1759, i., 152. The Provincial Assembly sug
gests the fortifying of the Hudson River in 1775; and ap
points a Committee for this purpose in 1776, i., 703. Con-
vention of, its proposed modes of issuing paper money,
316. Proceedings of the Assembly at White Plains, i.,
The "Provincial Congress" of the colony changes its title to
that of "Convention of the Representatives of the State of
New York" in 1776, i., 386; ii., 596. Measures relative to
National Independence in 1776, i., 386; ii., 69. Committee
on the Constitution of, i., 386. Constitution of, first printed
at Fishkill, i.. 693; and adopted in 1777, 1., 387; 11., 63.
State organized in 1777; election of members of the legisla
ture; names of state officers elected, i., 366, 387. Subse-
quent Constitutions, i., 387. Anti-rentism, i., 391. Dele
gates of, sign the Articles of Confederation in 1778, ii., 655.
Called upon by Congress for funds to carry on the war in
1780, i., 655.

Newark, New Jersey, Associations of, i., 305.
Newbern, founded by Baron De Graffenreidt; first printing.
press in North Carolina set up at, in 1749, ii., 360.
NEWBERRY, his inhumanity, i., 269. Captured and executed,
i., 273.

Newburgh, New York, i., 666. Washington's head-quarters
at, i., 667, 672. Settlement of, i., 668. American army can-
toned at, in 1780, i., 671, 672.
Newburgh Addresses, Author of the, i., 61, 674.
NEWELL, TIMOTHY, A communication signed by, sent to Rox-
bury, i., 581.

Newfoundland, discovered by Cabot in 1498, i., 27. Fisheries:

see Fisheries.

NEWHOUSE, THOMAS, fanatic, i., 449.

NEWMAN, ANTHONY, anecdote of him and his sons, ii., 394.
NEWPORT, CHRISTOPHER, Captain, sails with colonists to
Virginia in 1606, ii., 245. His visit to Powhatan in 1607;
his return to England, ii., 246. Revisits Virginia in 1608;
loads his vessel with worthless earth, supposed to be gold,
and returns to England, íi., 249. Returns to Virginia; is
stranded on Bermuda; proceeds to Jamestown, ii., 250.
Newport, Rhode Island, founded in 1639, i., 638. A favorite
place of resort before the Revolution; its harbor, i., 639.
Quaker Hill; Prescott's head-quarters, i., 635. Tonomy
Hill; Hubbard House and Mill, i., 636. Harbor of; British
sloop "Liberty" destroyed in 1765, i., 639. Commerce and
trade of, in 1769, í., 639. Hostilities at, in 1775, i., 641.
Topography of, i., 648. Naval battle of, in 1778, i., 649; and
in 1779, ii., 528. Town Records of, sunk at Hell Gate by
Sir Henry Clinton; recovered and sent back, i., 653. Sea-
men of, in the navy during the Revolution, i., 656. Reduc-
tion of the inhabitants of, during the Revolution, i., 656.
Amount of property then destroyed at, i., 657. Encamp-
ment at, in 1780, i., 655. Blockaded by the British in 1780;
French fleet at, i., 435. Domestic manufactures of, before
the Revolution, i., 470. Picture and account of the Old
Tower at, i., 632, 633. Cemetery at, i., 635.
Newspapers, American, Political importance of, during the
Revolution, i., 476, 485, 507, 508, 513; ii., 580. Devices of,

i., 507, 508. Poetry of, quoted, i., 508.

Anderson's Constitutional Gazette, i., 513; ii., 76, 590.

Boston Gazette and Country Journal, i., 488, 513.

Boston Intelligencer, i., 639.

Boston Journal of the Times, i., 480, 486.

Boston News Letter, i., 513.

Boston Post, i., 513.

Brother Jonathan, ii., 320.

Cape Fear Mercury, ii., 360, 375, 417.

Connecticut Gazetteer, i., 599, 618.

Connecticut Journal, i., 613; ii., 26.

Constitutional Courant, i., 468.

Constitutional Gazette, i., 513; ii., 76, 590.

Detroit Advertiser, i., 677.

Edes and Gill's Gazette, i., 466.

Essex Gazette, i., 467, 569.

Essex Register (Massachusetts), ii., 416.

Newtown, Long Island, General Howe's quarters at, ii., 607.
Niagara, New York, Shirley's expedition against, i., 217; ii.,
271. The author's visit to, i., 217, 227.

Niagara Falls, Topography; incidents, i., 227, 228, 328, 329.
Events at, in the war of 1812, i., 226. Suspension Bridge
at, i., 228.

Niagara River, Description of, i., 226.
NICHOLAS, Colonel, Lieutenant of Washington's Life Guard,
i., 688; ii., 232. Member of the Virginia Constitutional Con-
vention, ii., 232.
NICHOLAS, ROBERT CARTER, on the Virginia Committee of
Vigilance in 1773, ii., 279.

NICHOLS, Captain, takes possession of Nassau, New Provi-
dence, ii., 638.
NICHOLS, Colonel, at the Battle of Bennington, i., 397.
NICHOLS, Lieutenant (British), at the Mischianza, ii., 99.
NICHOLSON, FRANCIS, Governor of New York, ii., 579; and
of Maryland, ii., 193. Deputy Governor of Virginia in 1690;
succeeded by Andros in 1692, ii., 264, 265. Governor of Vir-
ginia in 1698; removes the seat of government to Williams-
burg; his scheme for uniting all the Anglo-American colo-
nies;
his memorial to the Queen; succeeded by the Earl of
Orkney in 1705, ii., 264, 265. Succeeds Moore as Governor
of South Carolina, ii., 540.

NICHOLSON, General, builds Fort Anne in 1757, i., 139.
NICHOLSON, JAMES, Captain in the United States navy in 1776,
ii., 638. Capture of his ship the Virginia, ii., 640. His en-
gagement with Captain Coulthard in 1780, ii., 644. Auto-
graph and Biographical Sketch of, ii., 644.

NICHOLSON, JOHN, Lieutenant in the United States navy in
1776; Captain in 1779, ii., 638.

NICHOLSON, JOSEPH, and JOSEPH, Jun., of Maryland, Sons of
Liberty, ii., 194.

NICHOLSON, SAMUEL, Captain in the United States navy in
1779, i., 638. His exploits, ii., 644. Autograph and Bio-
graphical Sketch of, ii., 644.

NICOLA, Colonel, his letter to Washington proposing a King
for America; Autograph of, i., 672, 673.

NICOLLS, RICHARD, sent by James, Duke of York, to take pos-
session of New Netherlands in 1664, ii., 578.
NIEMCEWICZ, Count, Polish nobleman; marries the widow
of John Kean, i., 329.

Niles's Register, ii., 188.

Ninety-six, Fort, origin of the name; described, ii., 483, 484.
General Greene before, in 1781; Cruger defics Greene; plan
of the siege; Kosciuszko begins the siege, ii., 485. Raw-
don's approach to, ii., 486. Assault on the redoubt; capture
of the stockade; raising of the siege, ii., 487, 488.
NISCHMAN, Moravian Bishop, i., 337.
NIXON, JOHN, General, reads to the people the Declaration of
Independence in 1776, ii., 66. Member of the first Marine
Committee of Congress in 1776, ii., 637. Wounded at the
Battle of Bunker Hill, i., 545. At the Battle of Stillwater, 1.,
51. Biographical Sketch of, i., 76.

NIXON, Lieutenant-colonel, in the Council of War held by Gen-
eral Ward in 1775, i., 534.

NOAILLES, ANASTASIE DE, daughter of the Duke De; wife of
La Fayette, i., 117, 118.

NOAILLES, Viscount DE, French envoy to the British Court
uncle of La Fayette's wife, i., 646. At the siege of York-
town in 1781; Commissioner at the surrender of Cornwal-
his Autograph of, ii., 316.

Noddle's Island fortified by Colonel Gridley in 1775, i., 583.
NOLEN, H. S., his poems quoted, ii, 184, 192.
NOEL, Mrs., of Elizabetntown, i., 327.

"No-flint General:" see GREY,

Non-Conformists banished from Virginia in 1645, ii., 253.
Nonesuch, Smith's Settlement, ii., 226.

Non-importation Agreements and Associations, i., 469, 470,
481, 484, 488,; ii., 62, 280, 373, 543, 583.

Norfolk, Virginia, Early history of, ii., 326. Dunmore at; he
removes Holt's printing materials, ii., 328. Bombarded by
the British in 1776, ii., 330. Taken by the British, ii., 332.
See Great Bridge; Churches.
Norridgewock Falls; picture of the Falls; Indians at, i., 191.
NORRIS, ISAAC, of Pennsylvania, i., 303; ii., 66, 124.
Norristown, Pennsylvania, Iron Works at, ii, 124.
NORTH, FREDERICK. Lord, Earl of Guilford, his policy relative
to America; opposes the receiving of the petition from New
York. i., 483. His proposition retaining the duty on tea only,
i., 492. His Bills for coercing America and placing the Col-
onies under martial law in 1775, i., 519, 588. His scheme
for punishing Boston, i., 503. Policy of, in relation to the
Battle of Saratoga in 1777, i., 85. His bills in 1778, ii., 140,
141; rejected by the Americans, ii., 143. His agitation on
hearing of the surrender of Cornwallis, ii., 322. Fêtes and