First Legislative Assembly, in 1635, at St. Mary's; Repre-
sentative Government of, in 1639; civil war in, under Clay-
borne, in 1644; religious animosity between Protestants and
Roman Catholics in 1649; civil war in 1655, ii., 192. Gov.
ernors of, ii., 193. Upper House of the Assembly of, dissolved
in 1658, ii., 192. Votes a statue to the King and a portrait
of Lord Camden in 1766, ii., 194. Its Constitution adopted
in 1776, ii., 76, 83, 196. Its instructions to its delegates re-
specting the Declaration of Independence in 1776, ii., 70,
196. Delegates of, sign the Articles of Confederation, 1781,
ii., 655. Is called upon by Congress in 1780 for funds to
carry on the war, i., 655.

Mashapaug, or Alexander's Lake, Legion of, i., 595.
MASON, EUNICE, Mrs., occupies the Trumbull House in 1849,
i., 602.

MASON, GEORGE, friend and associate of Washington; mem-
ber of the Committee of Safety in 1776; author of the Decla-
ration of Rights and the Plan of Government for Virginia in
1776, ii., 299. Member of the Virginia Constitutional Con-
vention in 1788, ii., 232. Anecdote of him and Washington
as to the site of Pohick Church; Autograph of, ii., 215.
MASON, JOHN, Captain, his expedition against the Pequots in
1637; his Brief History of the Pequot War, i., 615, 616.
MASON, Captain, at the siege of Fort Henry in 1777, ii., 292.
Masonic Sign: see Free-masonry.

Massachusettensis, signature of a Tory writer, i., 513.
Massachusetts, Services rendered to, by Roger Williams; in-
gratitude of, to him, i., 623. Sufferings of colonists of, in
1676, i., 663. New charter of, in 1692, i., 451. Circular of,
to other colonies, proposing a General Congress in 1765, i.,
464, 477; ii., 277. Convention of town delegates in 1768, i.,
479. Early patriotism of, i., 304, 455, 479. Circular of,
against taxation, ii., 54. Petition Governor Bernard to re-
move the British troops from Boston, i., 483. Protest against
a standing army in the colony, and petition for the removal
of Bernard, i., 483. First of the Colonies to suggest Com-
mittees of Correspondence, ii., 279. Proceedings of the As-
sembly of, on account of the Port Bill in 1774, i., 506, 509.
Gage's attempt to dissolve the Assembly; its "League and
Covenant," i., 510. Last adjournment of the Assembly of,
under royalty, i., 511. Prepares for war, on the eve of the
Revolution, i., 512. Assembly of, resolves itself into a Pro-
vincial Congress in 1774, i., 515. The sympathy of the Colo-
nies enlisted in behalf of, ii., 62. Ready for independence,
ii., 69. Military officers of, appointed, i., 516. Purchases
ammunition and stores in 1775, i., 521. Effect produced in,
by the Battle of Lexington, i., 531. Takes measures to raise
an army, i., 533. Circular of, issued in 1775, i,, 533. Re-
nounces allegiance to General Gage, i., 534. Benevolence
of the Provincial Congress, i., 536. Organizes a House of
Representatives under the original charter in 1775, i., 568.
Establishes a Board of Admiralty in 1775, ii., 637. Prohib-
its waste of powder in 1775, i., 570. Pays Dr. Franklin for
his services as colonial agent in England, i., 575. Militia
of, organized anew in 1776, i., 578. Sanctions General Lin-
coln's plan of driving the British from Boston Harbor, i.,
583. Instructs its Representatives in Congress on the sub-
ject of American Independence in 1776, ii., 69. Militia of,
join in an expedition against Rhode Island in 1778, i., 648.
Delegates of, sign the Articles of Confederation, 1778, ii.,
655. Constitution of, in 1779, ii., 83. Called upon by Con-
gress for funds to carry on the war in 1780, i., 655. Old
map of the Bay of, i., 446. Historical Society of, i., 562, 572.
Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Post Boy, i., 513.
Massachusetts Historical Collections, i., 622.
Massachusetts Spy, i., 513, 515.

MASSASOIT, Indian Sagamore, Chief of the Wampanoags, i.,
444. His hospitality and grant of land to Roger Williams,
i., 622. Domains of; the friend of white men; his sons;
visited by Pilgrim fathers, i., 658.

MASSEY, Lieutenant-colonel, i., 213.

MATHER, COTTON, Reverend, his Magnalia quoted, i., 622,
661. The work not reliable, i., 661. Letter and Autograph
of, i., 562. Death of; tomb of, i., 561.

MATHER, INCREASE, Reverend, Portrait of, i., 562. Death of;
tomb of, i., 561.

MATHER, MOSES, Reverend, he and his Congregation made
prisoners by Tories, i., 414.

MATHER, SAMUEL, Reverend, of Boston, i., 557. His library
burned by the British in 1775; death of; tomb of, i., 561.
MATHEWS, Tory, his house, i., 399.

Matson's Ford, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, described, ii.,

122.

MATTHEWS, or MATHEWS, JOHN, Governor of South Carolina,
ii., 570. Enters Charleston after its evacuation by the Brit-
ish in 1782, ii., 573.

MATTHEWS, SAMUEL, Governor of Virginia in 1656, it.. 253.
MATTHEWS, THOMAS, Colonel, at the Battle of Germantown
in 1777, ii., 111. Surrenders, ii., 112. Abandons Fort Nel-
son and flees to Dismal Swamp in 1779, ii., 332.
MATTHEWS, General (British), at the attack on Fort Wash-
ington, ii., 620. In the marauding expedition to Virginia in
1779, i., 780. Devastates Suffolk; proceeds with Admiral
Collier to Stony Point, ii., 332. At Elizabethtown Point in
1780, 1., 322. His allusion to Arnold, i., 713.
MATTHEWS, Captain (British), at the Mischianza, ii., 99.

MATTHEWS, Mrs., her house on the Rahway, i., 323.
MATTOCKS, JOHN, Captain, killed in the Battle of King's
Mountain in 1780, ii., 428.
MATTOON, General, of Amherst, Massachusetts, i., 138.
MAUDUIT, Mr., agent of Massachusetts, i., 461.
MAUREPAS, Count, Prime Minister of France, i., 654; ii., 649.
Anecdote of him and La Fayette, 1., 654, 655.
MAVERICK, SAMUEL, mortally wounded in a mob at Boston in
1770, i., 490. Funeral of, i., 491.
MAWHOOD, Colonel (British), quartered at Princeton, ii., 27.
In the skirmish at Quintan's Bridge, ii., 138. His expedi-
tion to Hancock's Bridge, ii., 139.
MAWNEY, JOHN, medical student, in the expedition against the
Gaspee; dresses the wound of Lieutenant Duddington, i.,

630.

MAXHOOD, CHARLES, Colonel, his expedition against the mil-
itary posts in New Jersey in 1778, ii., 138.
MAXWELL, Major, attacked by Lee at Fort Granby in 1781;
surrenders; anecdote of him and Mr. Friday; his love of
money, ii., 482.

MAXWELL, WILLIAM, of New Jersey, General, at Valley Forge,
ii., 128. At the Battle of Germantown, ii., 110. In the skirm-
ish at Pencader in 1777, ii., 170. At the Battle of Monmouth,
ii., 150, 152. In pursuit of the British in New Jersey in 1778,
ii., 147. In Sullivan's expedition in 1779, i., 274. Autograph
and Biographical Sketch of, ii., 152.

MAY, JACOBUS, Captain, his settlement in New Jersey; names
Cape May; builds Fort Nassau, ii., 45.

"May Martin," heroine of the money-diggers, i., 153.
May Flower, Emigrants in the first birth in the; compact of
the emigrants; fac-simile of the hand-writing of Puritans, i.,
437, 438. Account of the, i., 440. Arrival of the, at Cape
Cod Bay, i., 442.

MAYER, BRANTZ, his discourse before the Maryland Historical
Society, ii., 283, 284.
MAYHAM: see MAHAM.

Mayham Tower described, ii., 487, 501.
MAYHEW, JONATHAN, Reverend, his sermon against the Stamp
Act, i., 467.
MAYNARD, Captain, wounded in the Battle of Guilford in 1784,
ii., 405.
Mayo's Bridge, over the James River, ii., 227, 232.
MAZEON, descendant of Uncas, Funeral of, i., 598.
MAZZEI, an Italian gentleman, Baron Riedesel resides upon
the estate of, in 1781, ii., 345.

MEAD, EBENEZER, General, his house at West Greenwich, i.,
411, 413.
MEADE, WILLIAM, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Virginia,
ii., 231.
Mechanicsville, New York, i., 44.
Mecklenberg County, North Carolina, Patriotism of, in 1777,
ii., 411, 412. Convention at Charlotte, ii., 411. Declaration
of Independence, ii., 412, 416.

Medal awarded to Andrè's captors, i., 773-to Colonel De
Fleury, i., 749-to Dr. Franklin, ii., 82-to General Gates,
i., 83-to General Greene, ii., 498-to Colonel Howard, ii.,
433, 437-to Captain John Paul Jones, ii., 643-to Major Lee,
ii., 623-to General Hugh Mercer, ii., 30-to General Daniel
Morgan, ii., 431, 432, 437-to Lord North, i., 586-to Major
Stewart, i., 750-to General Wayne, i., 748-to Colonel Wash-
ington, ii., 435-to General Washington, i., 584; ii., 114.
Medals, Vattemere's, destroyed, ii., 200.

Medfield, Massachusetts, burnt by Indians in 1676, i., 662.
Medical School at Philadelphia: see RUSH, BENJAMIN, and
MORGAN, JOHN.

MEEKER, Major, at the Battle of Minisink in 1779, i., 670.
MEEKER, TIMOTHY, at the Battle of Springfield; his family;
his idea of a standing army, i., 324, 325.
Meeting-house, The first, in Connecticut, i., 433. Friends', at
New York, used as a hospital, ii., 659.

Meherrin River, fords of the, Simcoe sent to the, i., 622.
MEIGS, Colonel, in Arnold's expedition to Canada, i., 190, 194.
At the storming of Stony Point, i., 746. His expedition to
Sag Harbor; is presented with a sword by Congress, i., 201;
ii., 646.

MELLON, Colonel, at the siege of Fort Schuyler, i., 242.
MENDOZA, Cardinal, favors Columbus, i., 21.
MENONVILLE, Colonel, introduced by Washington to Trum-
bull, i., 606.

MERCER, CHARLES F., of Virginia, Member of Congress; his
resolution on the slave trade, ii., 71.

MERCER. Colonel, in command of the garrison at Oswego in
1756; killed there, i., 218.

MERCER, HUGH, General, in command of a flying camp at Am-
boy in 1776, ii., 594. At Fort Washington in 1776, ii., 619.
With Washington in New Jersey; his dream, ii., 19, 20.
At Worth's Mill, ii., 27. At the Battle of Princeton in 1777,
ii., 28. His bravery; mortally wounded; place of his death,
ii., 29. Congress resolves to erect a monument to, ii, 30,
668. His monument, ii., 30. Portrait of, by Peale, ii., 37
Grave of, ii., 43. His son Hugh, ii., 668. Autograph of, ii.,
668. Biographical Sketch of, ii., 30.

MERCER, HUGH, Colonel, son of General, at the battle near
Jamestown Island in 1781, ii., 260. Educated at the expense
of the United States, ii., 30, 222. Portrait, Autograph, and
Sketch of, ii., 668.

MERCER, JAMES, member of the Virginia Committee of Safety,
11., 299.
Merchants, American, Club of, suggest a Stamp Act in 1739,
i., 461. At Boston, A few, evade the Non-importation Agree-
ments, i., 488.
At Boston, offer to pay for tea destroyed
there, i., 512. At London, offer to pay the taxes of America
rather than risk the loss of its trade, i., 483. Rebuked by
George III. for favoring the American cause, i., 521.
tion against destroying the New England fisheries, i., 520.
Merino Sheep introduced into the United States by Colonel
Humphreys in 1811, i., 429. In Hoosick Valley, i., 400.
MERRILL, JOHN, his house attacked by Indians in 1777; his
wife's heroism, ii., 292.

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

METACOMET: see King Philip.

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.
MIANTONOMOH, 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, ii., 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, iì., 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

dre; 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, i., 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 hir
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., 31.
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,

Monmouth, Topography of, ii., 150. Battle of, ii., 147–159.
Monocasy Island. View of, 1, 356.

Monongahela, Battle of, Washington's remarkable escape from
death at, ii, 273.

Monongahela River, ii., 271, passed by Braddock in 1755, ii.,

272.

MONROE, Colonel, takes command of Fort William Henry;
surrenders, i., 110, 111.

MONROE, JAMES, Lieutenant (afterward President of the Unit-
ed States), born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, ii, 217.
Wounded at the Battle of Trenton, 11., 20. Member of the
Constitutional Convention at Richmond in 1788, 11., 232.
Anecdote of him and Samuel Hardy, ii, 233.
MONROE, ROBERT, Ensign, killed at Lexington in 1775, i., 553.
MONTAGNE, ABRAHAM, his public house and garden at New
York, 11. 581.

MONTAGNIE, Commissary, his letter to the Dutch Governor of
New Amsterdam, i., 301.

MONTAGNIE, Reverend Mr., an ardent Whig, his capture and
imprisonment, i., 781.

MONTAGUE, Admiral, his letter to Governor Wanton, i., 629.
Anecdote of, i., 499. In command at Boston in 1773, i., 497.
MONTAGUE, Lady: see Inoculation.

MONTCALM, Marquis De, successor to Dieskau, i., 110; at Os-
wego, i, 218, 219. His attempt to capture Fort William
Henry, returns to Ticonderoga, i., 110. Second attack on
the fort, perfidy of the French and Indians, i., 111. Position
of the army at Quebec, i., 185. Death and grave of, i., 188.
Monument to, i., 205. Biographical Sketch of, i., 188.
MONTEZUMA, Notice of, i., 16.

MONTFAUCON, his description of the triumphal procession of
Antiochus Epiphanes, ii., 201.

MONTGOMERY, British soldier at Boston, i., 490.

MOOERS, BENJAMIN, Lieutenant, afterward Major General, i.,
165.

Moon, Eclipse of the, in 1848, 1., 316. And stars, telescopic
view of the, i., 627.

MOONEY, Captain, Evidence of, before a Committee of Parlia-
ment, i., 64.

MOORE, ALEXANDER, Jun., member of the New Jersey Tea-
party, ii., 54.

MOORE, Colonel, in the expedition against the Southern In-
dians in 1713, ii., 356.

MOORE, SIR HENRY, Governor of New York, ii., 583. Death
of, ii., 585.

MOORE, JACOB B., his monthly historical work quoted, i., 691.
MOORE, JAMES, Captain (afterward Colonel), of North Caro-
lina, in Tryon's expedition against the Regulators, ii., 369.
In the expedition against the Highlanders in North Carolina
in 1776, ii, 378. Colonel of a regiment in the North Caro-
lina Provincial troops, ii., 376. Autograph of, ii., 378.
MOORE, JAMES, Captain, takes prisoners at Nassau Hall,
Princeton, in 1777, ii., 31.

MOORE, JAMES, Governor of South Carolina, ii., 438, 539, 540.
MOORE, JOHN, Colonel (British), in the battle at Ramsour's
Mills, ii., 391.

MOORE, Major, killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, i., 545.
MOORE, MAURICE, Judge; Autograph of, ii., 366.
MOORE, Mrs., of Cherry Valley, captured by Tories and In-
dians; a hostage; her daughter marries a British officer,
Powell, i., 269, 278.

MOORE, RICHARD CHANNING, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of
Virginia, ii., 231. His daughter wife of General Hunting-
ton, i., 600.

MOORE, SAMUEL, proprietor of Mrs. Falls's house, i., 684.
MOORE, THOMAS, his poems quoted, i., 206; ií., 333.

MONTGOMERY, Captain, a Regulator, Death of, ii., 370.
MONTGOMERY, Colonel (Earl of Eglinton), his expedition
against the Cherokees in 1760, ii., 439, 440.
MONTGOMERY, Major, killed at Fort Griswold, i., 612.
MONTGOMERY, Mrs., Carleton's courtesy to, i., 200. Resides
at Rhinebeck Flats, i., 388.

MONTGOMERY, RICHARD, General, i., 190. At the Battle of
St. John's, i., 162, 168, 170. Captures Fort St. John and
Fort Chambly, i., 162. His march upon Montreal, i., 181.
His junction with Arnold, i., 197. Approaches Cape Dia-
mond; attacks the British, i., 198. Death of, i., 162, 198.
Recovery and burial of the body of, i., 200. Tomb of; his
sword, i., 201. Biographical Sketch of, i., 200. Portrait
and Autograph of, i., 200. His letter to Schuyler respecting
Brown and Arnold, i., 197.

MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM, Commissioner to Wyoming, i., 375.
Monticello, the residence of Jefferson; Picture and description
of, ii., 341.

MONTLUISSANT, Hessian Lieutenant, at the Mischianza, ii.,

99.

MONTMOLIN, Reverend Mr., performs the funeral service at
the burial of General Montgomery, i., 201.
MONTMORENCI, Duke DE LAVAL, at the siege of Yorktown,
ii., 309. Portrait of, ii., 310. First Bishop of Canada, i.,
204.

Montmorenci, i., 202. Battle of, i., 186. Falls of, i., 183, 184,
203. Picture of the Falls, i., 203.
MONTOUR, CATHARINE, Captivity of; goes to Philadelphia
with delegates of the Six Nations; Biographical Sketch of,
i., 357.

Montreal, First settlement of, i., 177, 178. Captured by the
English in 1760; Allen's proposed attack of, i., 179. Mont-
gomery's march upon, i., 181. Capture of, i., 189. Battle
of, i., 180-182. View of, i., 179.

MONTRESSOR, Colonel, i., 191; i., 607. Chief engineer, ii., 97.
His Journal used by Arnold, i., 191. Manager of the Mis-
chianza, ii., 97. His fireworks at the fete, ii., 101.
Montressor's Island, Skirmish at, in 1776, ii., 614.
Monument of Andrè, i., 767. Brock and M'Donald, i., 226.
Bunker Hill, i., 558. Caldwell's, at Elizabethtown, i., 326.
Major Campbell, near Milford Hill, i., 423. Chatham, ii., 142.
De Witt Clinton, i., 259. Concord, in memory of the slain,
i., 531, 552, 553. Governor Cooke, i., 625. Danvers, i., 531.
De Kalb, ii., 462. Colonel Dixwell, at New Haven, i., 420.
Colonel Greene, at Red Bank, ii., 88, 89. Greene and Pulas
ki, at Savannah, ii., 514. Groton, i., 614. Stephen Hopkins,
i., 624. Hopper, i, 782. Colonel David Humphreys, at New
Haven, i., 429. King's Mountain, ii., 428. Kosciuszko, i.,
705. La Fayette, ii., 120. Lexington, i., 531, 553. Philip
Livingston, ii., 133. M'Donald, i., 226. Colonel Maham, ii.,
501. General Mercer, ii., 30. Miantonómoh, i., 597. Min-
isink, in memory of the slain, i., 671. General Nash, at
Kulpsville, ii., 469. Naval, at the Capitol at Washington,
ii., 205. Paoli, fi., 164, 166. Penn's Treaty, ii., 48. Perry,
i., 635. Bishop Seabury, i., 618. General Edward Stevens,
11., 329. Trumbull, i., 604. Uncas, i., 598. Van Wart, i.,
760. Dr. Joseph Warren, on Breed's Hill, i., 549. Wash-
ington, ii., 184, 218. 231. Mother of Washington, ii., 217,
221, 222. William Williams, i., 603. Wood, at West Point,
1., 699. Woodhull, ii., 159, 365. Wooster, i., 406. Wyo-
ming, near Troy, i., 365. Yorktown, ii., 321.

139.

Moore's Creek Bridge, Battle of, in 1776, ii., 379–382.
Moore's Memoirs of Colonial Governors, i., 437, 443, 621.
MOORHEAD, JOHN, Reverend, Daughters of Liberty meet at the
house of, i., 482.

21.

Moors of Africa, John the First's expedition against the, i., 17,
Moravian Missionaries, i., 343; ii., 107. Settlements at Beth-
lehem, Pennsylvania, and at Salem, North Carolina; nuns
at Bethlehem, i., 343; 1., 185-at Nazareth, Pennsylvania, i.,
337-at Nain, Freidenshal, Gnadenthal, and Gnadenhütten.
i., 343-in North Carolina in 1749, ti., 359, 360-at Ebene-
zer in Georgia in 1733, ii., 516. La Fayette, wounded at
Brandywine, conveyed to Bethlehem, ii., 176. Persecution
of, by Simon Girty, i., 264.

MORE, Lieutenant, Black Herald at the Mischianza, ií., 99.
MORE, U., subscribing witness to the Pennsylvania Charter,
ii., 50.

MOREHEAD: see MOORHEAD.

MORGAN, American Spy in Cornwallis's Camp, Anecdote of,
ii., 305.

MORGAN, Captain, of Virginia, at the Battle of Hobkirk's Hill,
ii., 472.

MORGAN, DANIEL, General, joins the camp at Cambridge in
1775, i., 565 With Arnold in his Canada expedition, i., 191.
194 At the Battle of Bemis's Heights, i., 50, 51 His bold
movements at the Battle of Stillwater; vindicated, i., 61, 62
At Quebec, i., 199 At Whitemarsh, ii., 115. At Brandy-
wine, i., 169. In New Jersey in 1778, ii., 147. At Mon-
mouth, ii., 149. With Greene in North Carolina; crosses
the Catawba, ii., 390, 392. At Sherrard's Ford in 1781, ii.,
391. Retreats across the Yadkin, ii., 394. His ill health, ii.,
396. At the Battle of Cowpens, ii., 432. Congress votes a
gold medal to, ii., 431, 432, 437. His fame, i., 200. His
powerful frame, and his courage, i., 5651 Picture of his
quarters at Bemis's Heights, i., 45. Portrait, Autograph,
and Biographical Sketch of, ii., 431.

MORGAN, GEORGE, Colonel, of Princeton, his character ii., 41.
MORGAN, JAMES, murderer of the Reverend James Caldwell,
i., 327.

MORGAN, Jerseyman, spy at Yorktown; La Fayette's recollec-
tion of, ii., 305, 306.

MORGAN, JOHN, M.D., succeeds Dr. Church as surgeon of the
army hospital in 1775, i., 568. Dismissed by Congress; hon-
orably acquitted by a Court of Inquiry, ii., 33, 34. Autograph
and Biographical Sketch of, ii., 33.
MORGAN LEWIS, General, at the Battle of Klock's Field, i.,
281. Ordered to Currytown, i., 294. Death of, i., 295.
MORPETH, Lord, his description of the tomb of Washington,
ii., 211.
MORRIS, GEORGE P., his country seat "Under-Cliff,” i., 702.
His poems quoted, i., 382, 480, 702; ii., 201, 574. His poet-
ical account of the origin of Yankee Doodle, i., 480.
MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR, author of the Constitution of the
United States, ii., 657. On the Committee to draft the Con-
stitution of New York, i., 386. On the Committee of Con-
gress to visit Valley Forge, ii., 136. Portrait, Autograph.
and Biographical Sketch of, ii., 657, 658.
MORRIS, LEWIS, signer of the Declaration of Independence;
Biographical Sketch of, ii., 664. Portrait of, ii., frontispiece.
Autograph of, ii., 80.

MORRIS, Lieutenant, at the Battle of Stillwater, i., 52.

MORRIS, LOUIS R., Under Foreign Secretary, ii., 656. Mem-
ber of Congress; Watson's account of him corrected, ii.,

102.
MORRIS, Major, maimed in the skirmish at Whitemarsh, ii.,
115. Killed at the Battle of Princeton, ii., 30.
MORRIS, ROBERT, 1., 321; ii., 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, ií., 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, i., 412, 413.
Morristown, New Jersey, i., 305. Bounty offered to American
troops at, i., 312. Fort Nonsense; Washington's head-quar-
ters; encampment in 1777, i., 305, 306, 310. Picture of Wash-
ington's head-quarters at, i., 309. Mutiny at, i., 312. Room
occupied by Washington, i., 315. Small-pox in the army at,
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.

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, ii.,
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 stormin 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 17C5, 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 Falinouth 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, ii., 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, i., 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, ii., 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,
ii., 36. Skirmish near, ii., 30. Picture of, ii., 31.
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.,
367.

National Bank: see Bank.

Silas

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

Navy, American, Committee of the Continental Congress on

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 Jame 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, i,, 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, ii., 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,
i., 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, i., 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 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, ii., 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 in
1776, ii., 10, 83. Delegates of, sign the Articles of Confed-
eration in 1778, ii., 655. General Clinton's operations in, in
1778, i., 332. Expedition against military posts in, i., 138.
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, resorted
to by Captain Kidd and by British fleets; patriotism of, in
1774, 1., 609. Vessels of war and privateers sent from:
prizes; British fleet under Arnold arrives at, in 1781, i., 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.

Pa-

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 1625,
ii., 577. Duty of the Dutch Mayor at, in 1673, i., 576.
troons, ii., 577. Seized by the British in 1664, ii., 46, 578.
Name changed from New Amsterdam, ii., 578. Negro Plot
in 1741, ii., 580. Arrival of Stamps in 1765, ii., 582. Tumult
in, ii., 582, 583. General Congress at, in 1765, ii., 259, 277.
Statue in honor of William Pitt in 1770, ii., 583. Murmurs
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 "Pa-
trician" party and the "Tribune" party in 1774; meeting of
the Provincial Congress; independent Post-office, ii., 587.
Arming of the people; Custom-house closed; arms 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., 591.
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, ii., 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 ship
Eagle, ii., 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, iì., 632. The Americans
occupy the city; Washington's parting with his officers, i.,
633. Washington's departure from, for Annapolis, iì., 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, i.,
316. Proceedings of the Assembly at White Plains, i., 366.
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; i., 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, i., 387; ii., 63.
State organized in 1777; election of members of the legisla-
ture; names of state officers elected, i., 386, 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, 1., 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, iî., 360.
NEWBERRY, his inhumanity, i., 269. Captured and executed,
i., 273.