Bellows, Col., 350.
Bemis Heights, Gates occupies, 304;
battle, 356.
_See_ Saratoga.
Benedict, E. C., _Battle of Harlem_, 334.
Bennett, C. P., 545.
Bennington, Vt., authorities on the battle, 354;
loss at, 354;
Indians at, 627;
fight at, 300;
maps of the fight, 356.
Benson, Egbert, _Vindication of the Captors of André_, 466.
Bentalou, Paul, _Pulaski Vindicated_, 522, 524;
_Reply to Johnson_, 522.
Benton, N. S., _Herkimer County_, 351, 657.
Bergen Point, 343, 404.
Berkeley, Bishop, his house in Rhode Island, 602.
Bernard, Edward, view of Bunker Hill, 198;
_Hist. of England_, 273.
Bernard, Francis, Gov. of Mass., 12, 22;
his letters sent back to Boston, 83;
_Causes of the present distractions_, 106;
_Select letters_, 106;
his rebukes of the legislature, 34;
on the seizure of the "Liberty", 43;
and the Stamp Act, 73;
replies to him by the legislature, 73;
leaves Mass., 47, 84;
made baronet, 49;
his _Letters_, 67;
_Letters to Hillsborough_, etc., 84;
_Letters to the Ministry_, 84;
instructed to enforce the navigation laws, 32;
_Third extraordinary Budget of epistles_, 84;
_Copies of letters_, 84;
enforces laws of trade, 84;
his character, 84.
Bernard, John, _Retrospections of America_, 407.
Berniere. _See_ Bernière.
Bernière, Henry de, 182;
plan of Bunker Hill battle, 199, 202;
criticised, 202.
Berthelot, Amable, 216.
Besom, Capt. Philip, narrative, 592.
Bethlehem, Pa., Moravian Sisters, 524.
Bickerstaff's _Boston Almanac_, 86.
Bickham, George, 372.
Bicknell, _Barrington, R. I._, 203.
Biddle, Chas. J., defends the execution of André, 468.
Biddle, James, 74.
Biddle, Capt. Nicholas, in the "Andrea Doria", 570;
portrait, 570;
in the "Randolph", 571;
engages the "Yarmouth", 571.
Bigelow, Col. Timothy, orderly-books (1779, 1780), 359.
Big-Knives (Kentuckians), 722.
Bilbao, prizes taken to, 592.
Billingsport, N. J., 386, 425;
attacked, 387.
Billon, _Annals of St. Louis_, 737.
Bishop, _Hist. Amer. Manufactures_, 108.
Bishops, their introduction opposed in N. E., 243.
Bisset, _George III_, 223.
Bixby, Samuel, 203.
Blackbird, Pa., 421.
Blackstocks, affair at, 480, 536.
Blanchard, Claude, _Journal_, 554.
Blanchard, Col., _Map of N. Hampshire_, 217.
Bland, Col. Theodoric, commands Convention troops in Virginia, 321;
his papers, 321;
_Bland Papers_, 321.
Bland, Richard, _Enquiry_, 85.
Blaskowitz, Charles, plan of Frog's Neck, 337;
chart of Narragansett Bay, 593, 601;
map of Newport, 597.
Bleecker, Capt. Leonard, order-book, 670.
Bliss, E. F., 736.
Blood, Thaddeus, 178.
Bloodgood, _Sexagenary_, 358.
Blowers, Sampson S., autog., 51.
Blue Licks, battle at, 730.
Board of War, 392, 437.
Boardman, S. W., _Privateer Cromwell_, 592.
Boardman, Timothy, _Log-book_, 591.
Bollan, William, _Coloniæ Anglicanæ illustratæ_, 70;
transmits Gage's letters to Boston, 83.
Bolton, Dr. Thomas, 120.
Bond, Col., 227.
Bonner, map of Boston, 207.
Bonneville, picture of D'Estaing, 594.
Boone, Daniel, portrait, 707;
his adventures, 708;
his biographers, 708;
in Kentucky, 710, 715;
defends his fort (1778), 716.
Boonesborough, Ky., 715.
Bordenton, 408, 410.
Border life, literature of, 248.
Border warfare, 605;
literature of, 248;
in the South, scant material for accounts of, 678.
Boston inflamed by the Grenville Act, 27;
arrival of troops (1766), 38;
threats to take her patriots to England for trial, 46;
troops sent to (1768), 43, 45;
(1769), 47;
Brazen Head, sign of, 47;
non-importation agreements, 49, 78;
Col. Dalrymple gets key of the Castle, 53;
tea-ships at, 57, 91;
Port Act meeting, 60;
affected by navigation laws, 64;
_Observations of the merchants upon several Acts of Parliament_, 64,
83;
_Records_, 67;
(1768) Revere's picture, 81;
convention to consider the coming of troops, 81;
agitation over the quartering of troops in Boston, 82;
_Appeal to the world_, 84;
petition to the king (1772), 89;
_The American Alarm_, 90;
the "Mohawks" and the tea-party, 91;
_Votes and Proceedings_ respecting the tea-ships, 91;
warning broadside, 92;
accounts reach London, 92;
condition during the Port Bill, 95;
title of Port Bill Act, 95;
news arrives, 97;
broadside, 97;
records of this time in Boston City Hall, 95;
gifts to, 95;
effect of Port Bill, references, 96;
newspapers of 1775, 110;
blockade of, 113;
Gage shut up in, 114;
fortifies the Neck, 115;
Gage's force (Jan., 1775), 118;
meetings at the Green Dragon, 120;
maps of roads about, 120, 121;
after Lexington, families leaving the town, 125;
conditions of leaving, 128;
country Tories enter Boston, 128;
army besieging, 134;
British in, 134;
reinforcements under Burgoyne, Clinton, and Howe, 134;
Gates advises against an assault, 142;
want of provisions during the siege, 144;
contemporary views from Beacon Hill, 148-151;
British encampments on the Common, 149;
Howe advised by the ministry to abandon the town, 152;
the siege pressed, 152;
to be destroyed if necessary, 153;
plays acted, 153;
_Boston Blockade_, 153;
songs from, 154;
_Tragedy of Zara_, 155;
view of (1776), 157;
view of the Castle, 157;
the town evacuated, 158;
population, 158;
authorities on the siege, 172;
Washington proposed boat attack, 172;
_Antique views_, 185;
plan by Norman, 201;
siege of, 202;
account of the American camps, 202;
diaries, 202;
letters, 203;
orderly-books, 204;
the British camp, 204;
_Newsletter printed_, 204;
Liberty-tree cut down, 204;
houses occupied by British generals, 204;
British works, 204;
selectmen correspond with Gen. Thomas, 204;
diaries, letters, etc., during the siege, 204;
American prisoners in the town, 204;
evacuated, 205, 568;
_Evacuation Memorial_, 205;
property destroyed, 205;
Ward left in command, 205;
the Quakers of Philadelphia help the poor, 205;
fears of an attack, 205;
medal given to Washington to commemorate the siege, 206, 207;
maps of the siege, 207;
from Marshall's _Washington_, 206;
maps of the town of the Rev. period, 207, 209;
landmarks of the siege, 207;
English plans, 207;
that in _Almon's Remembrancer_, 208;
one in the library of Congress, 209, 210;
Pelham's map, 209;
Rawdon map, 209;
surveys of Wm. Page, 210;
map of lines on the Neck, 211;
Brown's house, 211;
Trumbull's plan of the Neck lines, 211;
plan indorsed by Mifflin, 212;
other plans, 212;
British plan of American lines, 212;
plan of Boston and vicinity, 212;
French maps of the siege, 212;
Latin map, 213;
German maps, 213;
feared Howe in 1777 was coming there, 416;
congress at, in 1780, 560;
_Proceedings_ ed. by F. B. Hough, 560;
her privateers, 587;
fleets of Howe and Byron off the harbor (1778), 603;
D'Estaing in, 603;
riot in, 603;
fear of British advancing from Rhode Island, 603;
siege of, Indians employed, 613;
killing of sentries, 657;
"Boston", frigate, given to Captain Tucker, 566;
lost at Charleston, 583.
_Boston Gazette_, 110.
Boston harbor, forays in (1775), 131;
plans of, 202, 207, 209, 212, 213.
Boston massacre, 49, 85;
plan of the ground, 47, 48;
picture of, 47;
news of, in England, 52;
causes, 85;
authorities, 85;
_Short Narrative_, 85;
sent to England, 85;
_Additional Observations_, 85;
_Letter to C. Lucas_, 85;
other accounts, 85;
Kidder's _Boston Massacre_, 86;
Preston's trial, 86;
trial of soldiers, 49, 86;
printed _Report_, 86;
_Fair Account_, 86;
did the soldiers fire before being assaulted? 88;
its effect in producing the Rev., 88;
its anniversary observed, 88;
ovations, 88;
commemorated (1775), 119;
burlesqued, 120.
Boston Neck (R. I.), 600.
_Boston Newsletter_, 110, 204.
Boston Port Bill, 58.
_See_ Boston.
Botetourt, Gov., 46.
Boucher, Jona., _Views of the Amer. Rev._, 98.
Boudinot, Elias, _Star in the West_, 652.
Bound Brook, 408, 409.
Bounties offered to Indians, 674;
for scalps, 681.
Bouquet, Col. Henry, his portrait, 692;
his character, 692;
account of, 692, 693;
_Hist. Acc. of Expedition_, 651, 699;
marches to relieve Fort Pitt, 694;
fight at Bushy Run, 696;
map of his campaign, 696;
at Fort Pitt, 697;
marches into the Ohio Valley, 698;
returns, 699;
dies, 699;
captives retaken by him, 699;
West's picture of them, 699;
West's picture of his Council with the Indians, 694;
Papers, 690, 693.
Bourgoin, _Thèâtre de la Guerre_, 416.
Bowdoin, James, 128;
in Congress (1774), 59;
taking the lead, 83;
his autog., 83;
his character, 83;
_Letter to Hillsborough_, 84;
on the desire for independence, 255.
Bowen, Ephraim, on the destruction of the "Gaspee", 90.
Bowen, Francis, his _Otis_, 70;
_Benj. Lincoln_, 513;
_Steuben_, 515.
Bowen, J. S., on Brandywine, 419.
Bowen, Nathan, 318.
Bowman, Capt. Joseph, 718.
Bowman, Capt. Josiah, 682.
Bowman, Major, fighting the Shawanese, 730.
Bowring, _Jeremy Bentham_, 95.
Bowyer, Adj., on Waxhaws, 527.
Boyd, Lieut. Thomas, 640, 671.
Boyle, _Marylanders_, 227.
Boylston, E. D., _Hillsborough County Congress_, 108.
Boynton, Edw. C., _West Point_, 464.
Boynton, Thomas, 188.
Brackenborough, Judge, life of Braxton, 265.
Brackenridge, H. H., drama on Bunker Hill, 198;
_Death of Montgomery_, 216;
on the Monmouth field, 446.
Brackenridge, H. M., _Views of Louisiana_, 652.
Brackinridge, H., on the Indians, 736.
Bradford, Alden, _Jonathan Mayhew_, 71;
edits _Mass. State Papers_, 73;
_Bunker Hill_, 191;
life of R. T. Paine, 265.
Bradford, Job, 187.
Bradford Club, 219.
Bradford's _Collection_, 73.
Bradstreet, Col., goes up the lakes (1764), 698;
at Detroit, 698;
orderly-book, 698.
Brainerd, W. F., 562.
Brandywine, battle of, 381;
map of battle, 414;
view of the field, 419;
Galloway's plan of, 415;
sources, 418;
Washington's map of the campaign, 420, 421;
Hessian map, 422;
other plans, 422, 423.
Brant, Joseph, at Montreal, 619;
made Guy Johnson's secretary, 623;
portraits, 623, 625;
autograph, 625;
at the Cedars, 625, 626;
his early life, 625;
invades New York (1777), 626;
at siege of Fort Stanwix, 299, 628, 661;
to operate in New York (1778), 633;
his ravages, 633;
burns Andrustown, 636;
attacks German Flats, 636;
at Cherry Valley, 636, 665;
denied responsibility for massacre at Cherry Valley, 638;
accounts of, 657;
descendants, 657;
letters, 657;
meets Herkimer, 627;
attacks the Minisink settlements, 639;
his report, 672;
at Canajoharie, 644;
not at Wyoming, 663.
Brashear, Lieut., 729.
Brassier, Wm., surveyed Lake Champlain, 347.
Brattle, Gen., his letter to Gage in fac-simile, 98.
Braxton, Carter, life, 265;
autog., 266;
_Address to the Convention_, 272.
Breechloaders used at Brandywine, 419.
Brehm, Capt., 738.
Brent, _Archbishop Carroll_, 229.
Brevoort, J. C., has some of Paul Jones's papers, 590.
Breyman, Col., at Bennington, 300, 354.
Briar Creek, 520.
Bridgdens, of Boston, 47.
Bridgetown, Pa., 421.
Briggs, C. A., _American Presbyterianism_, 244.
Bristol (Pa.), 409, 410.
Bristol (R. I.), 600.
British army, brutality of, 372.
British Constitution, spirit of, 5.
British regiments, historical records of, 198.
Brock, R. A., on the Nelson house, 506.
Brodhead, Col., attacks the Indians of the Alleghany, 642, 671;
his route, 642;
at Fort Pitt, 731;
acc. of his exped., 653.
Bromfield, John, 187.
Bronson, J., 464.
Bronx River, 337.
Brookline, Mass., fort at, 206, 210;
view of, 150.
Brooklyn, maps of, 329;
battle of, 277;
risks of the British, 290;
maps, 344, 404;
accounts of, 344;
roads of approach, 277;
British plans, 278.
_See_ Long Island.
Brooklyn Heights, 275;
defences of, 275.
Brooks, Chas., _Medford_, ed. by Usher, 202.
Brooks, Erastus, 665;
on Indian history, 681.
Brooks, Col. John, at Bemis's Heights, 357;
on Valley Forge, 436;
on Monmouth, 446;
autog., 136;
portrait, 202;
on Bunker Hill plans, 202.
Brooks, N. C., on the Burgoyne campaign, 361.
Broom, J., surveyor, 421.
Brotherhead, _Signers_, 259.
Brougham, Henry, 9, 10, 63.
Broughton, Capt. Nicholas, 565.
Brown, Capt. Abraham, 130.
Brown, Dr. Buckminster, 194.
Brown, Dr. Geo., 187.
Brown, H. A., _Oration on the Congress of 1774_, 99;
_Mem. and Orations_, 439;
on Monmouth, 446.
Brown, H. K., statue of Gen. Greene, 510.
Brown, Col. John, and Ticonderoga, 213;
killed at Stone Arabia, 644;
in Canada, 161, 613, 615, 674;
his letters from Canada, 215.
Brown, Mrs. J. B., _Stories of Warren_, 194.
Brown, J. M., _Schoharie County_, 660.
Brown, Peter, 187.
Brown, Dr. Samuel, 710.
Brown, Thomas, 203.
Brunswick (N. C.), 542.
Brush, Crean, 205.
Bryan, Alexander, Gates's scout (1777), 358.
Bryan, Geo., 401.
Bryd, Col., 730, 731.
Brymner, Douglas, 693;
edits Haldimand calendar, 653;
Report on Canadian Archives, 733.
Buchanan, James, _No. American Indians_, 651;
on removing André's remains, 461.
Buck, W. J., _Washington on the Neshaminy_, 418.
Buck Island, 661.
Buckingham, J. T., _Specimens of newspaper lit._, 110.
Buffalo, N. Y., history of, 648.
Buffenton's Ford, 418.
Buford, Col., defeated at Waxhaws, 475, 527.
Bugbee, J. M., _Centennial of Bunker Hill_, 172.
Bull, Col., 679.
Bull, Gen., 519.
Bull, surveys of Georgia, 538.
Bullard, E. F., address, 366.
Bullock, Alex. H., on the Constitution of Mass., 274.
Bull's Ferry, affair at, 560.
Bunker Hill, occupied, 135;
order for it, 135;
battle of, 136;
forces engaged, 140;
Howe criticised, 140;
losses, 140;
news of it spread, 140;
authorities, 184;
earliest accounts, 186;
contemporary letters, diaries, and orderly-books, 187, 188;
losses of property at Charlestown, 187;
depositions of survivors, 189;
early historians, 189;
who commanded? 190;
officers engaged, 191;
monument, 194;
anniversary discourses, 194;
British accounts, 194;
letters, 194;
fac-simile of the Tory broadside account, 196;
Rawdon drawing of the battle, 197;
other pictures, 197;
general histories, 198;
ballads, 198;
dramas, 198;
British plan of the battle, 199;
_America invincible_, 200;
novels and poems, 200;
plans, 200, 202;
plan from the _Impartial History_, 201;
plan of the redoubt, 212;
of the works built by the British, 212.
Burch, 39.
Burdge, Franklin, 270.
Burgoyne, Gen. John, writes Gage's proclamations, 131;
correspondence with Chas. Lee, 144;
his opinion, 1775, on subduing the colonies, 145;
feared the occupation of Dorchester Heights, 156;
reaches Quebec (1776), 167, 225;
follows Sullivan, 167;
on Bunker Hill, 195;
life by Fonblanque, 195;
portraits of, 292, 293;
autog., 292;
suggests the use of mercenaries, 293;
his army, 294;
his character, 294;
orders from Germain, 295;
at St. Johns, 295;
his bombastic proclamation, 295;
at Crown Point, 296;
at Ticonderoga, 299;
refused troops by Carleton, 299;
at Fort Edward, 299;
losses at Stanwix and Bennington, 301;
moved towards Saratoga, 304;
at Freeman's Farm, 305;
awaits succor from Clinton, 307;
makes reconnoissance (Oct. 7), 307;
his losses, 309;
retreats to Saratoga, 309;
surrounded, 309;
sends flag of truce, 309;
terms gained, 309, 317;
fac-simile of letter to Gates about the British wounded, 310;
at Gates's headquarters, 310;
his losses in the campaign, 311;
his army marched to Boston, 311, 318;
the plan of his campaign criticised, 312;
his difficulties of supply, 313;
his slow movements, 313;
authorities on his campaign, 315;
charges against Henley, 318;
examination of the observance of the convention, 318;
breaks the provisions of the convention, 318;
neither side scrupulous, 319;
flags concealed, 319;
plan for the campaign of 1777, 348;
preparations, 348;
issues a proclamation, 349;
reprints, 349;
burlesqued, 349;
maps of the entire campaign, 349;
captures Ticonderoga, 349;
Hubbardton, 350;
proclamation, 350;
_Campaign of_, by W. L. Stone, 351;
worsted at Bennington, 354;
instructions to Baum, 354;
his report to Germain, 354;
discouraged, 356;
Freeman's Farm, 356;
battle of Oct. 7, 357;
surrenders, 358;
view of field, 358;
view of camp, 358;
his letter to Germain, 358;
strength of his army, 358;
authorities on the campaign in general, 358, 360, 361;
orderly-books and journals, 359, 360;
his own orders, 359;
life by De Fonblanque, 361;
maps of the final battles, 361;
fac-simile of map in _Analectic Mag._, 362;
view of the field of surrender, 361;
signatures of the convention, 361;
Gates's headquarters, 361;
landmarks of the campaign, 361;
effects of the surrender in Europe, 364;
sails for England, 364;
in Parliament, 364;
his birth, 364;
satires upon, 364;
his defences in Parliament, 365;
_Substance of Speeches_, 365;
John Wilkes' comments, 365;
resigns his commission, 365;
_Letter to his Constituents_, 365;
_Reply_, 365;
_Letter to Burgoyne_, 366;
_A brief examination_, 366;
_Enquiry into the conduct of Burgoyne_, 366;
_Supplement to the State of the Expedition_, 366;
attacked in _Remarks_, 366;
_Letter to Lieut.-Gen. Burgoyne_, 366;
reply by Rev. Sam. Peters, 366;
_Essay on modern martyrs_, 366;
his _State of the Expedition_, 366;
his documents laid before Parliament, 366;
documents in the War Office, 366;
his speech to the Indians, 366;
his letter from Albany, 366;
councils of war, 366;
exchanged, 366;
news of his surrender sent to Europe by Massachusetts, 571, 586;
his opinion of the use of Indians, 621, 627;
charged with buying scalps, 683;
Washington visits the scene of his campaign, 746.
Burk, John, _Virginia,_ 515.
Burke, Ardanus, _Address_, 527.
Burke, Edmund, 31;
his first speech, 32;
in Parliament (1770), 52;
_European Settlements_, 64;
on the debates of 1765, 72;
_Observations_ on Tickle's tract, 85;
_Thoughts on the Causes of the present Discontents_, 88;
on the Quebec Bill, 102;
on American taxation, 112;
his _Works_, 112;
speeches on conciliation, 112;
conversation with North, 112;
his character, 112;
lives of, 112;
as a speaker, 112;
on Bunker Hill, 195;
ridicules Burgoyne's proclamations, 295;
in the _Annual Register_, 687.
Burke, J. W., 258.
Burr, Aaron, on the Kennebec exped., 162;
as a soldier, 163;
in the assault on Quebec, 165;
his house in N. York, 276.
Burton, Jonathan, 202, 227;
his diary, 346.
Bury, Viscount, _Exodus of the Western Nations_, 232.
Bushnell, C. I., _Crumbs for Antiquarians_, 202, 219.
Bushnell, David, invents the "American Turtle", 567.
Bushy Run, battle of, 694;
losses, 669;
plan, 692;
described by Burke, 697;
by Wm. Smith, 697.
Bute, Earl of, 21;
his ministry, 23.
Butler, James D., on Bennington, 356.
Butler, Col. John, at Niagara (Sept., 1776), 626;
to invade the Susquehanna country (1778), 633;
at Wyoming, 634, 636, 663;
his report, 664.
Butler, Mann, 718.
Butler, Col. Richard, at Monmouth, 446;
_Diary of Yorktown_, 554.
Butler, Walter N., at Cherry Valley, 636, 665;
on the Mohawk (1781), 646;
killed, 646.
Butler, Col. Wm., 346;
burns Oquaga, 636;
route of, in 1778, 681.
Butler, Zebulon, report on Wyoming, 634, 664;
acc. of, 664;
and the Tuscaroras, 619;
escapes, 635.
Butler's Rangers, 661;
their badge, 631.
Butterfield, C. W., edits Leith's _Narrative_, 682;
_Washington-Crawford letters_, 714;
_Exped. against Sandusky_, 737;
_Washington-Irvine Corresp._, 737.
Butt's Hill (R. I.), 602.
Byrd, Capt., 739, 741.
Byron, Admiral, on the American coast, 580;
off Boston harbor, 603.
Cadwalader, Col. Lambert, 288, 341;
at Fort Washington, 338;
and Gen. Prescott, 403.
Cahokia, 730;
Indian council at, 719;
surrenders, 722;
raid upon, 737, 739.
Caldwell, Charles, _Life of Gen. Greene_, 510.
Caldwell, David, his life, 514.
Caldwell, Col. Henry, 222.
Caldwell on Ticonderoga, 214.
Calef, John, _Siege of Penobscot_, 604.
Callendar, George, 209.
Calvé, 739.
Calvert, Geo. H., play on André, 464.
Cambell, David, 535.
Cambridge (Mass.) fortified (1775), 130;
Holmes House, 135;
Tory Row, 142;
Vassall or Craigie House, 142;
Brattle House, 142;
Riedesel House, 142;
Oliver House, 142;
Bishop's Palace, 142;
Christ Church, 142;
_Centennial Memorial_, 142;
Washington Elm, 142;
councils of war in, 142;
accounts of the camp, 202, 203;
letters from the camp, 203;
orderly-books, 204; works at, 206;
legislature at (1769), 47;
men at Lexington, 184;
roads near, 121, 122.
Camden, Lord, on the Decl. of Indep., 269;
speeches, 112, 529.
Camden (Carolina), campaign of, 514;
battle of (Gates), 477, 478, 529;
and the militia, 478;
number of forces, 529;
losses, 530;
Faden's plan, 531;
other plans, 531;
Senff's plan, 533.
For the second battle at, _see_ Hobkirk's Hill.
Campbell, Archibald, map of Georgia, 675;
at Savannah, 469.
Campbell, Brigadier, at Pensacola, 739, 740.
Campbell, Col. Arthur, of Virginia, 677;
raid on the Indians, 680.
Campbell, C., edits Lewis's _Order-book_, 168;
edits _Bland Papers_, 321.
Campbell, C. A., on the Robinson House, 452;
on the Odell House, 561.
Campbell, Donald, succeeds to the command before Quebec, 165;
despatch about the siege of Quebec, 221.
Campbell, Douglass, on Cherry Valley, 666;
on the Iroquois and N. Y.'s Indian policy, 681.
Campbell, J. W., _Biog. Sketches_, 219.
Campbell, Robert, on King's Mountain, 535.
Campbell, Thomas, his letter to Brant, 663;
_Gertrude of Wyoming_, 665.
Campbell, Col. Wm., 478;
on King's Mountain, 535.
Campbell, W. W., on Gen. James Clinton, 659, 670;
_Tryon County or Border Warfare_, 351, 659;
_Border Warfare_, 655;
on Indians in the Rev. War, 655;
on Cherry Valley, 666.
Campbell, _Life of Loughborough_, 112.
Campfield, Jabez, diary, 668.
Canada, campaign in (1775-1776), 162;
authorities, 174, 215;
Schuyler in command, 215;
address of Congress to the inhabitants, 215;
maps of the campaign, 215;
maps of the region, 216;
Arnold's share in it (_see_ Kennebec expedition, Quebec);
retreat from Canada, 226;
local aspects, 227;
commissioners of Congress in, 227;
their instructions, 227;
new commissioners sent, 227;
their letters, 227, 229;
D'Estaing's proclamation to the inhabitants, 603;
Franklin's advocacy of its retention by England (1763), 686;
Indians of, visited by Maj. Brown, 613;
sought by Ethan Allen, 614;
invasion from, threatened, 615;
messengers sent to, by Adams and Warren, 119.
Canadea, N. Y., 669.
Canajoharie Castle, 608;
destroyed, 644.
Canandaigua, 669.
Caner, Henry, _Candid Examination_, 70.
Canot, P., 331.
Cantwell's Bridge, 421.
Cape Fear River, 485;
map, 542.
Cardinal, Nic., 726.
Carleton, General Guy, refuses troops to Burgoyne, 299;
opposes the use of Indians, 613, 618, 655;
thought to be intending an invasion, 615;
charged with coercing the Indians to take sides, 615;
uses them for defence, 618, 621;
instructed by Germain (1777), 348;
disappointed in not conducting the campaign (1777), 348;
his commissions, 653, 654, 673;
his orders (1776-1777), 359;
correspondence from Quebec, 222;
at Crown Point, 293;
reaches Quebec (1776), 164;
portrait, 164;
autog., 164;
arrives in N. Y. (1782), 745.
Carlisle, Pa., taken, 691.
Carmichael-Smyth, Sir James, _Précis of the War in Canada_, 223.
Carolinas, map of, by Henry Monson, 675.
Carpenter, J. C., 227.
Carr, Dabney, 56.
Carr, Lucien, on women's rights among the Indians, 607.
Carrington, Gen. H. B., _Boston and New York_, 173;
plan of Bunker Hill, 189, 202;
_Strategic relations of New Jersey_, 413;
on Lafayette in Virginia, 547.
Carroll, Chas., autog., 227, 265;
letters from Canada, 229;
in Canada, 166, 227;
last survivor of the signers of the Decl. of Indep., 264;
his _Journal_, 227;
references, 227;
his wealth, 227;
his house, 227;
medal, 227;
portrait, 227;
life, 266.
Carroll, John, in Canada, 166, 227.
Carter, William, _Genuine Detail_, 195.
Carter's Valley, 678.
Cartwright, John, 244.
Caruthers, E. W., _Interesting Rev. Incidents_, 514, 539;
_Life of David Caldwell_, 81, 514.
Carver, Jonathan, map of province of Quebec, 226.
Cary, Archibald, 259.
_Case of Great Britain and America_, 85.
Castiglione, _Viaggio_, 529.
Castine, 604;
British at (1779), 603.
Castle William (Boston), view, 157;
blown up, 158.
Castleton, Vt., 297;
Burgoyne's orders to people of, 359.
Caswell and the North Carolina militia, 476.
Catawba Indians, 611;
in the war, 525, 677;
friendly to the Americans, 620.
Catawba River, 475.
Catharine's town, N. Y., 669.
Caughnawagas, 613, 655;
at Montreal, 624;
offer aid, 673.
Caulkins, F. M., _New London_, 591.
Cavendish, Lady Georgiana, _Admiral Gambier_, 230, 326, 436.
_Cavendish Debates_, 102.
Caverley, A. M., _Pittsford, Vt._, 355.
Cayugas, their country, 609.
Caziare, Lieut., his surveys of Yorktown, 553.
Cedars, affair at, 166, 225, 616;
_Authentic Narrative_, 225.
Ceracchi, bust of Hamilton, 384.
Chad's Ford, 381, 421.
Chadwick, J. W., 331.
Chalmers, Geo., _Polit. Annals_, 64;
_Revolt of the Colonies_, 64, 232, 255;
_Opinions of Eminent Lawyers_, 255;
_Plain Truth_, 270;
on the growth of Amer. independence, 232.
Chamberlain, Mellen, "The Revolution impending", 1;
edits Dearborn's journal, 219, 360;
his _John Adams_, 261;
_Authentication of the Decl. of Indep._, 269.
Chambers, Col., _Chambersburg_, 327.
Chambers, John, 219.
Chamblée on the Sorel, 215;
Sullivan at, 167;
fort captured, 162;
its colors in Philad., 162.
Champe, Sergeant, and Arnold, 468;
_Champe's Adventures_, 468.
Champlain, Lake, armed vessels on (1776), 346;
Arnold on, 346;
surveyed by Brassier, 347;
maps, 348.
Champney, L. W., "Memories of New London", 562.
Chandler Ford, Pa., 421.
Chandler, P. W., _Amer. Criminal Trials_, 86, 463.
Chandler, Thomas B., his controversy with Chauncey, 71;
_What think ye of Congress now?_ 101;
_Strictures examined_, 106.
Channing, Edw., "War in the Southern Dept.", 469.
Channing, Wm. H., edits J. H. Perkins' _Memoirs_, 648.
Chapin, C. W. E., 650.
Chapman, Isaac A., 199, 362;
_Wyoming,_ 664.
Chapman, T. J., on the siege of Fort Pitt, 697;
on C. F. Post, 736.
Charleston, S. C., view, 171;
(1776), 229;
(1777), 471;
defences (1776), 169;
map of its harbor, 170, 471;
news of Lexington in, 178;
capitulation at, 322;
evacuated, 507;
Lincoln at, 474, 513;
attacked by Prevost, 520;
_Address to Clinton_, 527;
tea-ships at, 57;
siege (1780), 471, 524;
forces engaged, 525;
losses, 525;
plans of the siege, 526, 528;
American prisoners at, 534;
plan of, 538;
repossessed, 546;
ships taken at (1780), 582, 583.
Charlestown, Mass., views of, 197;
plan of, 198, 201, 202, 206, 210;
survey of, 200;
works made by the British (1775-1776), 202;
deserted, 138;
burned, 138.
Charters amended or revoked by the crown, 3;
Franklin's opinion, 3.
Chartres, Fort, surrendered, 705;
acc. of, 706;
abandoned, 720.
_See_ Fort.
Chase, Samuel, in Canada, 166, 227;
autog., 265;
life, 266;
letters, 341.
Chase, Thomas, _Sketches of Paul Jones_, 590.
Chastellux, autog., 500;
on Cowpens, 538;
_Remarks on his Travels,_ 463, 560;
sails from Baltimore, 745.
Chatham resigned, 46;
_Appeal_, 109 (_see_ Pitt);
common popular portrait, 109;
portrait for R. H. Lee, 110;
Hoare's picture of, 110;
bust by Wilton, 110;
statue at Charleston, 110;
medals, 110;
lives of, 112;
his speeches, 112;
his speeches against using Indians, 617, 621.
Chatterton's Hill, 286.
Chaudiere River, 224.
Chauncey, Chas., his autog., 71;
controversy with Chandler, 71;
_Discourse on Mayhew_, 71;
sermon, the Stamp Act repeal, 74;
on the Penobscot exped., 603;
_Letter to a friend_, 76, 95.
Chauvignerie, report on the Indians, 652.
Cheever, David, 187.
Chemung, 669;
ambuscade at, 681;
destroyed, 639.
Cheney, J. V., 138.
Cheraws, camp at, 483.
Cherokees, 611;
in the war, 523, 675;
their territory, 610;
ready to fight, 620;
map of campaign against, 675;
country invaded, 676;
treaties with, 677, 679;
their houses, 678.
Cherry Valley, 609;
accounts of massacre, 665;
attacked, 636, 638;
fortified (1778), 636.
Chesapeake Bay, charts of, 548;
French map, 553;
map of entrance, 550.
Chesney, Alex., acc. of war in So. Carolina, 535.
Chesney, Col., _Essays in modern military biography_, 536.
Chester, John, 187.
Chester, J. L., on André's lineage, 464.
Chester (Pa.), 429;
Washington at, 382, 415.
Chestnut Hill (Pa.), 425, 428;
skirmish at, 389.
Chevalier, M., _La Marine Française_, 598.
Chew, Benj., his house, 385, 426.
Chew, Joseph, 658.
Chickamaugas, 678.
Child, D. L., _Inquiry into conduct of Gen. Putnam_, 191.
Child, Sir Josiah, 63.
Chilicothe destroyed, 731.
Chipman, _Life of Warner_, 356.
Chittenden, L. E., _Address_, 214.
Choctaws, 611.
Choiseul, Duc de, 686;
sends a messenger to the English colonies, 244;
understood American affairs, 60;
watching the colonies, 16.
Choisy, autog., 500.
Chotteau, Léon, _Les Français en Amérique_, 463, 560.
Chouteau, Col. P., 705.
Christian, Col. Wm., 676, 679, 714.
Christiana Bridge (Pa.), 421;
creek, 381;
river, 421.
Church, Dr. Benj., his traitorous correspondence, 118, 145;
confined in Cambridge, 142;
_Elegy on Dr. Mayhew_, 71;
_The Times_, 73;
oration on Boston Massacre, 88.
Churchill, Amos, _Hubbardton_, 350.
Cincinnati Society, 746.
Circular letter of Mass., 42;
in England, 44, 46;
responses, 44.
Cist, Lewis J., 264.
Clap, Ensign, 203.
Clapham, Mrs., 47.
Clapp, _Dorchester_, 173.
Clarence, C. W., _Ralph Farnham_, 192.
Clark, Abraham, 407;
autog., 264;
life, 265.
Clark, Geo. Rogers, on the origin of the Dunmore war, 710;
on Cresap, 712;
his tour in Kentucky, 716;
sent to Va. Assembly, 716;
plans the conquest of the Northwest, 716;
made a colonel, 717;
raises troops, 717;
his own accounts of his Illinois campaign, 718;
his papers owned by L. C. Draper, 718;
his journal at Vincennes, 718;
his despatches captured, 718;
captures Kaskaskia, 719;
captures Vincennes, 718, 722;
his youth, 723;
holds council with the Indians, 724;
marches to retake Vincennes, 725;
transactions with Vigo, 725;
summons Hamilton, 726, 727;
on Hamilton, 682;
fac-simile of autog., 727;
captures stores, 728;
plans of capturing Detroit, 728;
builds Fort Jefferson, 730;
intercepted letters 730, 733;
estimate of him by Washington, 731;
fights Arnold in Va., 732;
made brig.-general, 732;
urged to capture B. Arnold in Va., 732;
disappears from Western history, 733;
on the Miami, 733;
discharged, 733;
social habits, 733;
in French service (1793), 733;
references, 734;
death, 734;
portrait, 734;
at St. Louis, 737, 740.
Clark, Henry, on Hubbardton, 350.
Clark, John, _Battle fought 17th June_, 195.
Clark, John, diary, 436, 446.
Clark, Rev. Jonas, 122, 180.
Clark, Joseph, 445.
Clark, Gen. J. S., map of the Newtown battle, 681;
on the Sullivan campaign (1779), 671.
Clark, Major, spy of Washington, 439.
Clark, Peter, on Bennington, 354.
Clark, Thomas, _Naval Hist. of U. S._, 589.
Claus, Col. Daniel, 247, 351, 661;
has charge of St. Leger's Indians, 628;
manuscript anecdotes of Brant, 663:
Cleveland, Col., and North Carolinians, 478.
Clinch Valley, 676.
Clinton, De Witt, life of Philip Livingston, 265.
Clinton, George, house in N. Y., 276;
portraits, 197, 308;
memoir by W. L. Stone, 308;
opposes evacuation of N. Y., 333;
autog., 364.
Clinton, Sir Henry, at Bunker Hill, 138;
proclamations in S. Carolina, 229, 322, 513, 526;
attacks Fort Moultrie, 153, 170, 230;
in the battle of Brooklyn, 279;
attack on Forts Clinton and Montgomery, 306;
plan, 363;
despatches, 364;
in Philadelphia, 396;
succeeds Howe, 443;
on Monmouth, 446;
on the Southern campaign (1778), 520;
endeavors to save André, 461;
his MS. _Hist. of the War_, 467;
his accounts of Arnold and André, 467;
in the South, 469;
attacks Charlestown, S. C., 471, 526;
captures it, 474;
his report, 525;
deceived by Washington's seeming intention of attacking New York,
498, 501, 561;
_Narrative_, 516;
_Observations on Cornwallis's Answer_, 516;
his notes on the correspondence, 156;
controversy with Arbuthnot, 517;
_Letter to Com. on Public Accounts_, 517;
_Observations on Stedman_, 517;
_Memorandum on plundering_, 517;
forged despatch about siege of Charleston, 527;
his controversy with Cornwallis, 547;
orders him to occupy Old Point Comfort, 548;
ordered by Germain to continue the war in the South, 548;
seeks to succor Cornwallis, 549;
in New Jersey, 559;
on the revolt of the Penn. line, 561;
in Rhode Island (1776), 593;
(1778), 603;
sends naval force to Penobscot (1779), 603;
portraits, 306, 307;
relieved by Carleton, 745.
Clinton, Gen. James, his expedition against the Indians, 638;
acc. of, 659;
in the Sullivan exped. (1779), 667, 670;
portraits, 670, 681;
_Revolutionary Relics_, 457.
Clunes, John, 360.
Cluny, Alex., _Amer. Traveller_, 85.
Clymer, Geo., autog., 265;
life, 265.
Cobb, David, diary at Yorktown, 554.
Cobbett, Wm., 359.
Cobleskill, Brant at, 633;
confused accounts of, 633;
destroyed, 660.
Coburn, F. W., _Bennington_, 356.
Cockings, Geo., _The American War_, 197, 200.
Coffin, Chas., _Bunker Hill_, 189;
_Mem. of Gen. Thomas_, 167.
Coffin, C. C., _Boscawen_, 355;
on Bunker Hill, 190.
Coffin, Shubael, 33.
Cohoes, 609.
Colden, lieut.-gov. of New York, 30.
Coleman, C. W., on Greene, 537.
Coleman, E. C., on Simon Kenton, 708.
Colerain, Lord, 517 (_see_ Hanger, Geo.), _Life of Hanger_, 517.
Coles, Edward, 258.
Collet, O. W., 730, 740.
Collet, surveys of No. Carolina, 538.
Colleville, Vicomte de, _Les missions secretes du Baron de Kalb_, 244.
Collier, Sir Geo., 326;
in N. Y. harbor, 330;
relieves Penobscot, 582;
in the "Rainbow", 589.
Colman, R. F., 734.
Colonies, English, their independence of England, 232;
their relations to the crown, 3, 5.
Colonization, English idea of, 687.
Colucci, Giuseppe, _Guerra per l'Independenza_, 523.
_Columbian Magazine_, 510.
Combahee Ferry, 507.
Committees of correspondence, origin of, 89;
of correspondence, inspection, and safety, 90.
Conanicut Island, map of, 596, 600, 602.
Concord (Mass.), fight at, 124;
roads about, 121;
visited by Brown and Bernière, 119;
authorities on the fight, 175;
depositions, 175;
fac-simile of Col. James Barrett's, 177;
plan of, 180;
centennial celebration, 184;
histories, 184;
view of, 185 (_see_ Lexington);
military stores at, 123;
Prov. Congress at, 120.
Cone, Mary, 729;
_Rufus Putnam_, 158.
Conestogoes, massacred by Paxton Boys, 606, 682;
their lands, 606.
"Confederacy", captured, 584.
Confederation of the United States (1776), 240, 274;
articles, 174;
debates on, 274;
Franklin's proposed plan, 654.
Congaree River, 475.
Congress of 1754, 63, 65;
various plans at, 66;
Rhode Island and, 66, 67.
Congress of 1774, proposed, 59, 60;
who originated?, 98;
sessions, 99;
legal aspects of, 99;
the delegates, how chosen 99;
feelings in N. Y. towards, 99;
Delaware members, 99;
Virginia members, 99;
tracts about, 99;
New England in, 99;
Sunday sessions opposed, 99;
Middle States in, 99;
Virginia in, 99;
Carolina in, 99;
its _Journal_, 100;
its device, 100;
copy owned by Thomas Cushing, 100;
_The whole proceedings_, 100;
_Extracts from its Journal_, 100;
documents in Force, 100;
notes of the debates, 100;
_Declaration of Rights_, 100;
_Petition to the King_, 100;
MS. copies in existence, 100;
printed copies, 100;
_Address to the people of Great Britain_, 100;
a _Letter_ in response, 100;
_Memorial to the Colonies_, 100;
_Suffolk Resolves_, read, 100;
the approval of them drove out the loyalists, 101;
effect in England, 101;
Galloway's plan of adjustment, 101;
relations of loyalists, 101;
_Articles of Association,_ 101;
fac-similes of signatures, 102;
address to inhabitants of Quebec, 104;
every step known in London, 104;
its views challenged in New York, 104;
the Seabury-Wilkins tracts on, 104;
letter to the king, 237;
declaration, 237.
Congress of 1775, 107;
_Journal_, 107;
different eds., 107;
debates, 107;
its _Declaration_, 108;
_Address to the inhabitants of Great Britain_, 108;
_Address to Ireland_, 108;
_Address to New England_, 108;
_Petition to the King_, 108, 255;
chooses Washington commander-in-chief, 108;
articles of confederation, 108;
approves the form of government adopted in Mass., 108;
articles for the government of the troops, 108;
plan for organizing militia, 108;
proceedings, secret, 108;
com. of secret correspondence, 108;
general references, 108;
lives of members, 108;
effect in England, 109;
Dr. Samuel Johnson's _Taxation no Tyranny_, 109;
tender of Canada, 160;
parties in, 255.
Congress, Continental, sends a commission to Canada, 166;
Declaration of Independence, 228 (_see_ Declaration);
and independence, 231;
its character, 233;
New Hampshire in, 234;
Massachusetts in, 234;
Connecticut in, 234;
Pennsylvania in, 234;
journals, 252, 261, 268;
leaves Philadelphia (1776), 373, 383;
its lessening character, 391;
distrust of Washington in, 391;
inefficiency of, 556, 744;
creates inspector-general, 556;
seeks to regulate prices, 556;
naval committee, 567;
appoints Hopkins commander-in-chief of navy, 568;
arranges the rank of captains, 570;
gives commissioners in Europe power to commission naval officers,
573;
authorizes privateers, 591;
_Extracts from Journals on prizes and privateers_, 591;
prize claims, 591;
and the use of Indians, 615, 616, 622, 632, 654;
creates Indian departments, 616;
addresses the Six Nations, 616;
plan of confederation, 616;
address to Ireland, 617.
Connecticut claims the credit of capturing Ticonderoga (1775), 160,
213;
claim to land in Pennsylvania, 605, 665, 680;
creates a navy, 565;
equips troops (1775), 122;
her seamen, 587;
invaded by Tryon, 557;
men at Bunker Hill, 189;
naval officers, 568;
organizes a militia, 116;
issues paper money, 116;
privateers, 591;
whale-boat warfare, 591;
_Queries and Answers_ as to her commerce, 64;
retains her original charter, 274;
sends a message to Gage (1775), 128;
Mass. delegates in, 128;
Stamp Act in, 73;
troops in Long Island battle, 329;
trouble with the Mohawks, 605.
Connecticut Valley invaded (1780), 645.
Conner, Timothy, journal, 575.
Connolly, Dr. John, 709.
Connolly's arrest, 653.
Conover, Geo. S., edits journals of Sullivan expedition, 681;
_Sayengueraghta_, 663.
Conrad, R. T., edited Sanderson's _Signers_, 266.
Constitution Island in the Hudson, 323, 462, 465;
plan, 325.
Constitutional Society in London, 175.
Constitutions of the several United States, 268, 272.
Continental army reorganized, 437;
distresses of, 560;
number of men in, year by year, 588;
including militia, 588;
not paid, 745;
disbanded, 746.
Continental Congress. _See_ Congress.
Continental navy, general accounts of, 589;
forming of, 567;
naval committee, 567;
names of first-built ships, 567;
officers commissioned in Europe, 573;
its captures, 576, 589;
losses, 576;
force in 1780, 583;
total number engaged in service, 584, 587;
compared with land forces, 588;
vessels sunk in the Delaware, 428;
raised, 445.
_See_ Navy.
Convention troops (Burgoyne's army), 317;
at Rutland, 321;
in Virginia, 321.
Conway Cabal, 392;
who shared in it?, 446;
references, 446, 447.
Conway, Gen. H. S., 31, 238;
his portrait ordered by Boston, 74;
likenesses, 74.
Conway, Gen. Thomas, at Brandywine, 382;
and the Conway Cabal, 392.
Conyngham, Gustavus, commands the "Surprise", 573;
takes prizes into Dunkirk, 573;
imprisoned in France, 573;
demanded of France by England, 574;
in the "Revenge", 574.
Cook, Frederick, 681.
Cook, James, map of So. Carolina, 537.
Cook, Col. John, 668.
Cook, Lemuel, 746.
Cook, Col. Thaddeus, orderly-book (1777), 359.
Cooke, Geo. W., _Hist. of Party_, 112.
Cooke, J. E., on Chas. Lee, Gates, etc., 144;
on Jefferson, 259;
on the Virginia Declaration of Independence, 259;
on the Virginia Constitution, 272;
"Historic houses in the Shenandoah", 407;
on the British in Virginia, 546.
Cooke, Samuel, _The Violent destroyed_, 180.
Cooke, W. D., _Rev. Hist. of N. Carolina_, 256.
Coolidge, G. A., _Brochure of Bunker Hill_, 132.
Coolidge, T. Jefferson, 258.
Cooper, J. F., _Lionel Lincoln_, 185, 200;
_Travelling Bachelor_, 466;
_Naval Hist. U. S._, 589;
editions, 589;
_Lives of Distinguished Naval Officers_, 589;
_Pilot_, 590.
Cooper, Dr. Myles, _Friendly Address_, 106;
drew out other tracts, 106;
_American Querist_, 106;
_What think ye of Congress now?_ 101.
Cooper, Dr. Samuel, defends D'Estaing, 580, 601;
corresponding with Wm. Livingston, 83;
on Preston's trial, 86;
letters, 203.
Cooper, Samuel (Penna.), 436.
Cooper, Wm., 84;
town clerk of Boston, autog., 87, 115.
Copley, J. S., paints Hancock, 270;
John Adams, 36;
Sam. Adams, 40;
Chief Justice Oliver, 95.
Copp, J. J., 562.
Cornplanter, chief of the Senecas, 644.
Cornstalk, at battle of Point Pleasant, 714;
accounts of, 714.
Cornwallis, Lord, attacks Fort Washington, 289;
crosses the Hudson (1776), and occupies Fort Lee, 338, 367;
in New Jersey, 376;
at Brandywine, 381, 422;
in Philadelphia, 384;
at Germantown, 427;
at Gloucester, 430;
headquarters in Savannah, 471;
at Charlestown, S. C. (1780), 473;
portraits, 474, 475;
contemp. acc. of, 474;
in command in the South, 475;
attacks Gates at Camden, 477;
weakened by the loss at King's Mountain, 480;
destroys his train, 483;
pursues Greene, 484;
at Hillsborough, 484;
at Guilford, 485;
pursued, 487;
at Wilmington, N. C., 494;
moves to Virginia, 495;
in command, 496;
tries to intercept Lafayette, 497;
at Portsmouth, Va., 498;
ordered to fortify a post, 498;
seizes Yorktown, 498;
surrenders, 504;
autog., 505;
his headquarters in Yorktown, 506;
his cave, 506;
his headquarters at Williamsburg, 506;
_Correspondence_, 516;
controversy with Clinton, 516;
_Reply to Clinton_, 516;
_Answer to Clinton's Narrative_, 516;
and Arbuthnot, 517;
on Tarleton, 518;
at siege of Charleston (1780), 526;
at Camden, 529;
his proclamation, 532;
his opinion of rebels, 534;
affected by Ferguson's defeat, 536;
maps of his Southern campaigns, 537, 538;
map of his campaign with Lafayette, 538;
on the Cowpens 538;
his order-book, 539;
pursuit of Greene to the Dan, 539;
at Guilford, 539, 541;
his order-book, 541;
at Wilmington, N. C., 547;
disagrees with Clinton about moving into Virginia, 547;
Germain approved, 548;
fortifies Yorktown, 549.
Correspondence, committees of, 54, 56.
_See_ Committees.
Cortelyou House, 329.
Cortland Manor, 340.
Cortlandt, Col. Philip, autobiography, 360;
portrait, 681.
Coryell's Ferry, 369.
Courts of vice-admiralty, 71.
Coventry Forge, 415.
Cowan's Ford, 539.
Cowboys, 456.
Cowley, R., _Harbor of Charleston_, 529.
Cowpens, battle of, 481, 482, 538;
its importance, 482;
forces at, 539;
losses, 539;
plan of fight, 539;
medals given, 539.
Cox, Daniel, 372.
Cox, S. S., 366.
Craft, Rev. David, on Sullivan's campaign, 670, 681.
Crafts, Wm., 230.
Craigie, Andrew, 142.
Cramahé commands in Quebec, 163.
Cranberry, N. J., 408, 410.
Crawford, Col. Wm., killed, 736.
Crawford, James, 684.
Creasy, _Decisive Battles_, 357.
Creek Indians, 611, 679.
Cresap, Capt. Michael, advises against a war with the Indians, 710;
acc. of, 710;
unjustly charged with killing Logan's family, 711, 712;
accounts of, 712;
dies, 713;
grave, 713.
Cresap, Col. Thomas, 710, 712;
treaty with the Indians, 607.
Cresap's War, 707.
Criminals enlisted by the British, 112, 705.
Croghan, Geo., on the Indian lands, 650;
his estimate of Indian population, 650;
sent among the Western Indians (1765), 702;
at Vincennes, 703;
meets Pontiac, 704;
journals of his Western journey, 704.
Croghan, Major William, journal at Charleston, 525.
Cromot-Dubourg, _Journal_, 553, 554.
Crooked Billet (Pa.), 442.
Cross, Ralph, journal, 360.
Crosscup, B. S., _Heart of the Alleghanies_, 536.
Crosswicks, 408, 410.
Crown's right to unoccupied lands, 2, 6, 15;
can administer justice, 4.
Crufts, Benj., 188.
Cruger, J. H., 522.
Cruger, Lewis, 74.
Cruvat, Don Francisco, 743.
Cullum, General G. W., on Richard Montgomery, 216;
"The Struggle for the Hudson", 275;
_Defences of Narragansett Bay_, 593.
Currietown, N. Y., destroyed, 645.
Curry, J. L. M., address on Yorktown, 555.
Curtis, G. W., _Concord Oration_, 184;
on Burgoyne's surrender, 361.
Cushing, Caleb, on Brant at Wyoming, 663.
Cushing, John, autog., 50.
Cushing, Thomas, in Congress (1774), 59, 93;
autog., 99;
report on building of armed ships, 591.
Custis, G. W. P., on John Laurens, 545.
Cutler, Manasseh, diary in R. I. (1778), 601.
D'Abbadie, gov. at N. Orleans, 701.
Daggett, John, Jr., 85.
Dale, Richard, on the "Bon Homme Richard", 590;
revised the acc. in Cooper's _Naval Hist._, 590.
Dallas, A. J., _Laws of Penna._, 649.
Dalrymple, Sir John, _Reply to Burgoyne_, 365;
_Rights of Great Britain asserted_, 109, 269;
_Address_, 109.
Dalton, Capt., 652.
Dalzell, Capt., at Detroit, 697;
killed, 697.
Dalzell, J. M., 746.
Damer, G., his letters, 549.
Dana, Francis, 437;
on independence, 256.
Dana, Richard, autog., 87.
Dana, R. H., Jr., edits diary of a British officer in Boston, 204;
address at Lexington, 184.
Danbury (Conn.), 340, 348.
Danvers (Mass.) men at Lexington, 184.
Darke, Gen., 144.
Dartmouth, Earl of, autog., 111;
orders the employment of Indians, 620;
on the ministry, 53;
_Dartmouth Papers_, 106.
Daughters of Liberty, 79, 80.
Davenant, Chas., 63.
Davie, Col., at Hobkirk's Hill, 543.
Davie, W. R., accounts of, 537.
Davis, A. McF., edits McKendry's journal, 666;
"The Indians and the Border Warfare", 605.
Davis, Capt., of Acton, 184.
Davis, Capt. John (Penna.), journal, 546, 554.
Davis, Nathan, 668.
Davis, Thomas W., 202.
Davis, Wm., 439.
Davis, W. J., 219, 747.
Davis, W. W. H., _John Lacey_, 442;
"Washington on the west bank of the Delaware", 407.
Dawes, Thomas, 88.
Dawes, Wm., sent to Concord, 123.
Dawson, H. B., "_Sons of Liberty in N. Y._", 72;
on Golden Hill, 172;
_Bunker Hill_, 185, 189;
controversy with "Selah", 191;
_Gleanings_, 191;
_Major-Gen. Putnam_, 191;
edits How's journal, 202;
on Ticonderoga (1775), 214;
_Decl. of Indep. by Mass._, 257;
_Westchester County_, 325;
edits _N. Y. City during the Rev._, 346;
edits _Trial of J. H. Smith_, 463;
edits _Yonkers Gazette_, 464;
_Gazette Series_, 464;
_Papers Concerning Major John André_, 464;
edits _Conduct of Graves_, 549;
_Assault on Stony Point_, 558;
on Jones's fight in the "Bon Homme Richard", 590.
Dawson, S. E., 225.
Dayton, Col., at Fort Stanwix, 626.
Dayton, _Siege of Yorktown_, 554.
De Berdt, Dennis, agent of Mass., 45;
dies, 53;
portrait, 88.
De Brahm, _Journal of Siege of Charleston_, 525.
De Costa, B. F., on Ethan Allen, 214;
_Fort George_, 214;
on Diamond Island, 357;
_Lake George_, 129.
D'Estaing. _See_ Estaing.
De Kalb, Baron, in America (1768), 244;
joins the army, 380;
in the South, 475;
commands regulars, 476;
killed, 477;
lives, 530;
monument, 530.
De Lancey, E. F., on Bennington, 354;
on Demont's treason, 287, 341.
De la Touche, 500.
De Leyba, 730.
De Peyster, Col. A. S., _Miscellanies_, 733.
De Peyster, Gen. J. Watts, on Burgoyne's campaign, 313, 315;
on Monmouth, 446;
on Wayne, 385.
De Peyster, Major, 720.
Deane, Charles, on history of slave trade in Mass., 9;
on John Russell Bartlett, 90;
on R. Frothingham, 186;
owns a MS. map of the siege of Boston, 209;
on the _Report of a Constitution_ (Mass.), 274;
on the convention of Burgoyne and Gates, 319;
owns Vaughan's journal, 506.
Deane, James, acc. of, 674.
Deane, Silas, letters, 99, 108;
his instructions, 256;
fits out the "Surprise", 573;
and privateers, 592.
Dearborn, Gen. Henry, on plans of Bunker Hill, 202;
his MS. journal, 467;
on the Bunker Hill controversy, 190;
journal of Quebec expedition (1775-1776), 219;
journal of Saratoga campaign, 360;
his journal, edited by Chamberlain, 360;
diary at Valley Forge, 436;
at Monmouth, 446;
diary at Yorktown, 554;
journal of Sullivan campaign (1779), 671.
Dearborn, H. A., 437.
Dearborn, Nath., _Boston Notions_, 200.
_Debrett's Debates_, 516.
Debt of Great Britain, 16.
Declaration of Amer. Independence, who drafted it, 239 (_see_ Congress
of 1776);
its character, 239;
fac-simile of original draft, 260;
debates on, 261;
paragraphs omitted from the paper as passed, 261;
changes made in the wording, 261;
early drafts, 261;
essence in earlier tracts of Otis and Sam. Adams, 261;
its literary character, 261;
the original text, 261;
Trumbull's picture, 261;
medals, 261;
autographs of signers, 263-266;
sets of the autographs, 264;
birthplaces of the signers, 264;
their occupations, 264;
college graduates, 264;
their ages at death, 264;
average age at signing, 264;
their lives, 265;
fac-similes of, 266;
fac-simile of an early broadside edition, 267;
other broadside editions, 268;
contemporary reprints, 268;
earliest authorized edition, 268;
when signed by the members, 268;
the authentication, 269;
effect of, 269;
comments on, at the time, 269;
an _Answer_, 240, 269;
read in Philadelphia, 273;
in New York, 273;
in Boston, 273;
the day to be commemorated, 274;
_Strictures_ on, 240;
relations to religious sects, 241;
separated the patriots and the loyal, 247.
_See_ Independence.
Declaratory Act, 32;
(1766), 74.
Dejean, 728, 729.
Delaplaine's _Repository_, 40.
Delaware, Stamp Act in, 73;
effect of Boston Port Bill in, 96;
non-importation, 79;
northern bounds, 421;
militia, 380;
troops, 545.
Delaware Bay, map, 437.
"Delaware" frigate taken, 384.
Delaware Indians, 610, 674, 709;
make treaty, 703;
neutral, 734.
Delaware River, the struggle for, 367;
its defences, 386;
operations on (1777), 429;
map by Faden, 429;
maps, 437;
obstructed (1777), 437;
first naval conflict on, 565.
Deming, H. C., 191.
Demont, Wm., his treachery at Fort Washington, 287, 341.
Denison, J., 602.
Deniston, Col., surrenders to Major John Butler, 635;
his report, 635.
Dennie, _Portfolio_, 222.
Dennison, Col., 664.
Denny, Major Ebenezer, _Diary_, 546, 554.
Depew, Chauncey M., on André's captors, 466.
Derby, E. H., 190;
fits out privateers, 591.
Derby, Capt. John, carries news of Lexington to England, 175.
Des Barres, _Siege of Charleston_, 528;
charts of Boston harbor, 209;
_Atlantic Neptune_, 212, 315;
_Coasts and harbors of N. England_, 212;
map of the campaign around New York, 342;
_Port Royal in South Carolina_, 519;
_Map of coasts of Georgia_, 521;
_map of Narragansett Bay_, 601.
Desaussure, W. G., 527;
on General Moultrie, 172.
Deshler, C. D., 744.
Deshon, John, autog., 566.
Destouche's fleet beaten, 496.
Detroit, council at (1764), 698;
its fort, 690;
besieged, 690;
headquarters of the British northwestern government, 690;
Indians near, 610;
reinforced, 697;
raising of siege, 698;
siege of, references, 701;
G. R. Clark's scheme for capturing, 730, 731;
papers about, 733;
plan of the river, 733.
_Deutsch-Amerikanisches Magazin_, 360.
Deux-Ponts, Count, 504;
his _Campaign_, 554.
Devens, Chas., _Bunker Hill Oration_, 191, 194.
Devens, Richard, 136;
letters, 203;
on Lexington, 174.
Dewitt, Simon, 744.
Dewitt's Corner, treaty at, 679.
Dexter, Dr. A., 202.
Dexter, George, 123.
Dexter, Henry, 194.
Dexter, Samuel, on com. on the Stamp Act, 73;
his portrait, 73.
Diamond Island, fight at, 357.
Dickinson, John, 68, 238;
_Late Regulations respecting. Brit. Colonies_, 64, 75;
his _Speech_ (1764), 68;
_Reply to Galloway_, 68;
_Denunciation of the Stamp Act_, 75;
portrait, 268;
rude portrait and autog., 82;
Peale's portrait, 82;
his character, 82;
references, 82;
_Farmers' letters_, 39, 67, 83;
bibliog. of, 83;
_Polit. writings_, 83;
controverted in the _Controversy between Great Britain and her
Colonies_, 83;
on the Boston massacre, 85;
_Liberty Song_, 86;
wrote petition of Congress of 1774 to the king, 100;
_Essay on the constitutional power_, 106;
on Lexington, 178;
and independence, 249, 257;
Galloway on, 255;
speech against the Declar. of Independence, 261;
plan of confederation, 274;
and the Penna. militia, 398.
Dickinson, John D., 464.
Dickson, Col., 739.
Digby, Lieut., 360.
Dillon, _Indiana_, 729.
Diman, Prof., on Prescott's capture, 404.
Dobbs Ferry, 336, 337.
Dodd, Robt., picture of the fight of the "Bon Homme Richard", 590.
Dodd, Stephen, _Revolutionary Memorials_, 627.
Doddridge, Jos., on Cresap, 712;
Logan, _Chief of the Cayuga Nation_, 712;
_Notes on Settlements_, etc., 248.
Dodge, John, captured, 683.
Döhla, J. K., 360.
Donkin's _Military Collections_, 183.
Donop, Count, 427;
at Fort Mercer, 428, 430;
killed at Red Bank, 387;
at Bordentown, 374;
at Brooklyn, 279;
at Long Island, 329.
Doolittle, Amos, engraver, 185.
Doolittle, Eph., 204.
Dorchester Heights (near Boston), 148, 206, 210;
occupied, 156.
Douglas, Col. Wm., 326.
Dowdswell, 21.
Downer, Silas, _Discourse on dedicating Liberty Tree_, 72.
Downing, Sir George, 7.
Downman, Col., 435.
Drake, F. S., _Roxbury_, 173;
_Tea-leaves_, 91.
Drake, S. A., _Bunker Hill,_ 194;
_Gen. Putnam_, 191;
_Middlesex County_, 175;
_Hist. Fields of Middlesex_, 175;
_Old Landmarks of Middlesex_, 175;
_New England Coast_, 560.
Drake, S. G., _Book of the Indians_, 648;
on Brant, 657.
Draper, L. C., acc. of, 535, 727;
on battle of Point Pleasant, 714;
his collections on Brant, 657;
has the Geo. R. Clark papers, 718;
_King's Mountain_, 535;
on Montgomery's exped. (1780), 741.
Drayton, Judge W. H., 79;
his famous charge, 119;
_Memoirs_, 678.
Dreer, Ferdinand J., 217.
Drewe, Edw., _Case_, 198.
Drisko, G. W., _Hannah Weston_, 564, 657.
Drowne, H. T., 592.
Drowne, Solomon, _Journal_, 592.
Du Buysson, 530.
Ducharme, J. M., 739.
Du Chesnoy, _Théâtre de la Guerre_, 416.
Du Portail, autog., 500;
on Brandywine, 419;
on the siege of Charleston, 525.
Du Simitière, his portrait of Arnold, 447;
_Thirteen Portraits_, 268, 405.
Duane, Wm., 554;
_Canada and the Continental Congress_, 227;
edits Marshall's diary, 273.
Duché, Jacob, his letter to Washington, 437;
in Congress of 1774, 99.
Dufey, P. J. S., _Histoire des Rev. de l'Amérique_, 520.
Dufresne, M. M., 723.
Dulaney, Daniel, _Considerations on the propriety of imposing taxes_,
65, 75;
_The Right to the Tonnage_, 65.
Dumas, Alex., _Capitaine Paul_, 590.
Dumas, C. G. F., acc. of Bouquet, 692, 699.
Dumas, C. W. F., letters, 108.
Dumas, autog., 500.
Dummer, _Defence of the N. E. Charters_, 255.
Duncan, E., _Royal Artillery_, 183, 198, 559.
Dunkirk, American cruisers at, 573;
privateers at, 592.
Dunlap, John, printer, 372.
Dunlap, Wm., _Tragedy of André_, 460, 560.
Dunmore, Lord, 238;
negotiates a peace, 611;
incites the Indians, 618;
leads exped. against Indians, 713;
makes treaty with Ohio Indians, 714;
his seal, 167;
in Virginia (1776), 122, 167;
his proclamation, 168;
organizes an Indian regiment, 168.
Dunmore War, 708;
causes of, 709;
references, 714.
Dupuy, _Ethan Allen_, 214.
Durand, A. B., 227.
Durnford, Lieut., 356.
Durrett, R. T., _John Filson,_ 708.
Dwight, Theodore, _Connecticut_, 663.
Dwight, T. F., on Washington's journal, 553.
Dwight, Timothy, 189;
on fights near Fort Stanwix, 351.
Dyer, Eliphalet, 215.
Eager, Samuel W., _Orange County_, 662.
Earl, pictures of Lexington fight, 185.
Earle, J. E., _English Premiers_, 75.
East India Co. send tea to America, 57.
Eastburn, map of Philad., 442.
Eastern Indians, addressed by Washington 674;
visit Cambridge, 674.
_See_ Indians.
Eaton, Amos, 679.
Ebeling on Steuben, 515.
Ebenezer (Georgia), 523.
Ecuyer, Simeon, 690, 691.
Eddy, Samuel, 464.
Edes, Peter, 204.
Edes and Gill, _No. Amer. Almanac_, 81.
Edisto inlet, 526.
Edson, Obed., on Brodhead's exped., 671.
Edwards, N. W., _Illinois_, 729.
Eelking, Max von, _Die Deutschen Hülfstruppen_, 361;
_Leben von Riedesel_, 361;
_Generalin von Riedesel_, 361.
Egle, _Notes and Queries_, 554.
Eld, Lieut., 517;
his journal, 559.
Eliot, Andrew, 205;
on Bunker Hill, 187.
Elizabethtown, N. J., 404.
Elk Ferry, 379, 414.
Ellery, Wm., 265;
autog., 263;
life, 266.
Ellet, Mrs. E. F., _Domest. Hist. Am. Rev._, 527, 665;
_Women of the Rev._, 665.
Ellicott, Andrew, _Map of the Mississippi River_, 702.
Elliot, H. F., 72.
Elliott, Andrew, on Arnold's treason, 467.
Elliott, Matthew, 735.
Ellis, Arthur B., _American patriotism on the sea_, 591.
Ellis, E. S., _Daniel Boone_, 708.
Ellis, Geo. E., Address on siege of Boston, 173;
on Bunker Hill, 189, 191, 194;
on Burgoyne, 204;
"Chronicles of the siege of Boston", 204;
the Prescott statue, 194;
"The sentiment of independence", 231.
Elmer, Eben, 221
Elmer, L. Q. C., _Constitution of N. Jersey_, 272.
Elmira, N. Y., 640.
Elonis, Henry, 385.
Elwyn, Alfred, on Brandywine, 418.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, _Hist. Discourse on Concord_, 180.
Emerson, Rev. Wm., at Lexington, 180;
fac-simile of his diary, 181.
Emmet, Dr. T. A., 197, 264, 467, 532;
owns memorials of the siege of Boston, 212.
Emmons, G. F., _Navy of the U. S._, 589.
Endicott, C. M., _Leslie's expedition_, 172.
England, its constitution effected by the Amer. Revolution, 1;
rights of the crown to lands, 2;
parties in, on the American question, 112;
her naval losses, 589;
_Rept. from Com. on the disturbances in Mass._, 67;
her trade with the colonies, 64;
proceedings in Parliament (1774), 106;
Hutchinson's diary, 106;
war with Spain, 19.
English, T. D., 230;
on Oriskany, 351.
Englishtown, N. J., 445.
Engraving, earliest, by a native artist in British America, 198, 199.
Enlistments, long, 333.
Enos, Col. Roger, deserts Arnold, 163, 217;
court martial, 217.
Episcopacy for America urged on the ministry, 19, 38.
Episcopalians and the Declar. of Independence, 241.
Erskine, Robert, map of N. Y. harbor, 326;
map of the Hudson, 459;
topographical engineer of the Amer. army, 459;
map of Newport, 560;
map of country round N. Y., 561;
his map of the New Jersey campaign, 409.
Escomaligo, 507.
Esopus burned, 307.
_Essex Gazette_, 110.
Estaing, Comte d', sails from France, 579;
off New York harbor, 580;
at Newport, 580;
engages the English fleet, 580;
sails for Boston, 580;
off N. Y. harbor, 593;
goes to Newport, 593;
confronts Howe's fleet, 594;
portraits, 594, 595;
sails for Boston, 595;
autog., 595;
the French view of his conduct, 598;
his journal, 598;
defended by Dr. Cooper, 601;
causes the destruction of English ships in Narragansett Bay, 601;
in Boston (1778), 603;
issues proclamation to Canadians, 603;
sails to the West Indies, 603;
at Savannah (1779), 470, 471, 524;
on the siege of Savannah, 522.
Ethier, Marcel, 225.
Etting, Col. F. M., books on Independence Hall, 259.
Euchee Indians, 679.
Eustis, Dr. Wm., on Arnold's flight, 458.
Eutaw Springs, battle at, 493, 545;
plans, 545.
Evans, A. W. W., on Kosciusko, 492, 557.
Evans, Chaplain, 554.
Evans, S., 734.
Everett, A. H., _Bunker Hill address_, 194;
_Jos. Warren_, 194.
Everett, Edw., _Bunker Hill oration_, 194;
_Concord Oration_, 184;
on Lexington, 184;
life of Roger Sherman, 265.
Ewald, _Beyspiele grosser Helden_, 419.
Ewing, Dr. John, 329;
on the Lancaster massacre, 606.
Exmouth, Viscount, life by Osler, 347.