Lindsay, Lord, on Germantown, 423.
Lindsay, W., _Invasion of Canada_, 223.
Linn, _Buffalo Valley_, 446.
Linquet, 366.
Lippincott, Capt. Richard, 744.
Litchfield, Paul, 203.
Little, Moses, 326.
Livermore, Daniel, 668.
Livermore, Geo., _Hist. Research_, 85.
Liverpool, Eng., 563.
Livesey, R., 575.
Livingston, Col., at Freeman's Farm, 316.
Livingston, Henry B., 359;
orderly-book (1777), 359.
Livingston, Col. James, before Quebec, 165.
Livingston, Philip, _The other side of the question_, 106, 108;
autog., 264;
life of, 265.
Livingston, R. R., intercedes for Arnold, 452;
in Canada, 227;
on com. to draft Declar. of Indep., 239;
on Stamp Act, 73.
Livingston, Gov. Wm., his papers, 359;
_Collection of Tracts_, 83;
corresponding with Sam Cooper, 83;
_Letter to Bishop of Landaff_, 76;
his silhouette, 84.
Lloyd, Charles, 49;
sec. to Grenville, 75;
_Conduct of the late administration examined_, 76.
Locke, Col., 475.
Lockwood, David, 472.
Lockwood, James, 178.
Lodge, Lieut. Benj., map of Sullivan's route (1779), 681.
Lodge, John, 212.
Loftus, Maj. Arthur, on the Mississippi, 701.
Logan, Col., at Blue Licks, 730.
Logan, James, his house, 429.
Logan, J. H. _Upper country of So. Carolina_, 536.
Logan Historical Soc., 713;
_American Pioneer_, 713.
Logan (Indian), his speech, 711, 712.
Logtown, N. C., 543.
_London Gazette_, 516.
Long, J., _Indian interpreter_, 649.
Long, _Voyages_, 741.
Long Island, battle of, 326;
sources, 328, 329;
movements of, 329;
British strength at, 330;
bibliography of, 329;
the British land on, 326;
Hessian map of battle, 327;
other maps, 327, 328, 340.
_See_ Brooklyn.
Long Island Sound, whale boat warfare in, 591.
Longchamps. _Histoire impartiale_, 555.
Longfellow, H. W., occupies Craigie House, 142;
_Paul Revere's Ride_, 173.
Longfellow, Samuel, _Life of H. W. Longfellow_, 142.
Lord, W. W., play on André, 464.
Loring, Geo. B., on Leslie's expedition, 172.
Loring, J. S., _Hundred Boston Orators_, 107.
Lossing, B. J., 197; on Arnold, 220;
on Daniel Boone, 708;
_Field-book of the Rev._, 659;
edits Lyon's _Mil. Journal_, 178;
on the signers of the Decl. of Indep., 266;
on Putnam, 193;
on the Revolutionary navy, 589;
_Two Spies_, 464;
on Arnold's treason, 464;
_United States_, 659;
_Seventeen hundred and seventy-six_, 659;
on Quebec, 223.
Lothrop, Isaac, 187.
Lothrop, S. K., _Samuel Kirkland_, 659, 674.
Louisiana, ceded (1762) to Spain, 686;
Ulloa in, 737;
a republic tried, 737;
French forts in, 699.
Lovell, James, 88;
imprisoned, 204;
on Burgoyne's advance, 348;
the Conway Cabal, 392;
on Howe's movements, 416;
on Washington, 421.
Lovell, Gen. Solomon, in Penobscot expedition, 582;
autog., 603;
quarrels with Saltonstall, 603;
his _Journal_, 603;
life by Nash, 603;
acquitted court of inquiry, 604.
Lovewell, John, 681.
Low, Nath., _Astron. Diary_, 178;
map from, 342.
Lowell, E. J., 411;
introduction to Pausch's journal, 360.
Lowell, Jas. Russell, _Concord Ode_, 184;
his house, 115.
Lowell, John, on the Bunker Hill controversy, 191.
Lowell, Robert, "Burgoyne's last march", 357.
Lownes, C., 207.
Loyalists in Boston, organized into battalions, 153;
leave Boston with Howe, 158;
leave Charleston and Savannah, 546;
discouraged by Trenton, 407;
military organizations in Philad., 395.
_See_ Tories.
Lunt, Paul, 203.
Lushington, S. R., _Lord Harris_, 183.
Lynch, Thomas, 264;
life, 265;
autog., 266.
Lynch's Creek, 476.
Lynde, Judge Benj., portrait, 86;
_Diary_, 86;
autog., 50.
Lyons, L., _Mil. Journals_, 178.
Lyttelton, Lord, _A letter to Chatham_, 104.
M'Gauran, Major Edward, 360.
Macaulay, Catharine, _Observations_, 88;
on Chatham, 685.
Macdonald, Flora, 168.
Machias, Me., affair of the "Margaretta", 564.
Machigwawish, 738.
Machin, Thomas, map of the Hudson River, 455.
Mackay, Capt. Samuel, _Narrative_, 360.
Mackenzie, Alex. S., _Life of Paul Jones_, 590.
Mackenzie, John, 79.
Mackenzie, Roderick, _Strictures on Tarleton_, 517;
answered, 517;
on Cowpens, 538;
wounded at Cowpens, 541.
Macpherson, James, _Rights of Great Britain Asserted_, 109, 269.
Madison, James, 259.
Magaw, Robert, on Fort Washington, 341;
letter (Cambridge), 203.
_Magnolia_, a Georgia periodical, 519.
Mahem, Marion's lieutenant, 545.
Mahem towers, 491.
Mahon, Lord (Earl Stanhope), on Bunker Hill, 198;
condemns André's execution, 467;
on the Decl. of Indep., 269.
Mahoning, 643.
Maidenhead, N. J., 409, 410.
Maine, H. C., _Burgoyne's Campaign_, 366.
Maine created as the province of New Ireland, 604.
Maisonville, Francis, 729.
Maitland, Col., at Savannah, 470, 520;
dies, 524.
Majabigwaduce, 604.
Malcolm, Daniel, his house assailed, 68.
Malmedy, autog., 500;
fortifies Narragansett Bay, 593.
Mamaroneck, 337.
Manchac, 739.
Manchester, N. H., 190.
Manly, Capt. John, captures Crean Brush, 205;
takes prizes, 565;
the first to show a Continental flag, 565;
driven into Plymouth, 565;
second captain in rank, 570;
captures the "Fox", 579;
loses the "Hancock", 579;
cruises in the West Indies in "The Hague", 584.
Mann, Herman, _Female Review_, or _Life of Deborah Sampson_, 191.
Manors in N. Y., 340.
Mansfield, his speeches, 112;
_Plea of the Colonies on the charges of Mansfield and others_, 112.
Manufactures prohibited in the colonies, 6;
encouraged, 77, 78.
Manwaring, Edw., 86.
Marblehead (Mass.), Glover's regiment, 375, 565.
Marbois, _Complot d'Arnold et Clinton_, 463;
translated in _American Register_, 463.
Marbury, Col. Leonard, 676.
Marcus Hook, 415.
"Margaretta", affair of, 564.
Marion, Francis, 511;
lives, 512;
portraits, 512;
his relations with Greene, 490;
at Fort Watson, 544;
discouraged, 544;
pursued by Tarleton, 480.
"Marion's men", 490.
Marsh, Luther R., _Gen. Woodhull_, 330.
Marshall, Christopher, diary, 260, 273, 404, 436, 447;
his acc. of the reading of the Decl. of Indep. in Philad., 273.
Marshall, Col., of Boston, 47.
Marshall, John, at Brandywine, 418;
at Germantown, 422;
his account of Wyoming, 663.
Marshall, O. H., _Niagara Frontier_, 658.
Marshfield, Mass., garrisoned, 118.
Martin, D., engraved the earliest American plan of Bunker Hill, 200.
Martin, gov. of No. Carolina, 168.
Martin, Joseph, 677.
Martin, J. S., _Revolutionary Soldier_, 329.
Martin, Luther, 712.
Martin, _Gazetteer of Va._, 554.
Martin, _No. Carolina_, 678.
Martler's Rock, 323.
Maryland, in the Continental Congress, 234;
effect of Boston Port Bill in, 96;
militia in (1774), 117;
movements (1774), 98;
Stamp Act in, 73; troops, 485;
at Hobkirk's Hill, 488;
at Camden, 533;
at Guildford, 541.
Mascoutins, 703, 741.
Masères, Francis, _Essays_, 90;
_Account of the proceedings_, 104;
_Additional Papers_, 104;
_Canadian Freeholder_, 104.
Mason, Col. David, 119.
Mason, Edw. G., _Todd's Record Book_, 730;
Spaniards in Illinois, 743;
_Kaskaskia_, 723;
on Fort Chartres, 706.
Mason, Geo., 259, 716;
his house, 259;
Virginia Decl. of Rights, 272;
references, 272.
Mason, G. C., on the English fleet in Newport, 593;
on war vessels in Narragansett Bay, 90.
Mason, Jonathan, 88.
Mason, Thaddeus, 187.
Massachusetts, circular letter (1768), 2, 42, 79;
causes of the Revolution in, 18;
character of her governors, 22;
its fisheries, 25;
trade with the West Indies, 26;
the Stamp Act, 29;
refuses to rescind the circular letter, 44;
calls a convention (1768), 45;
protests against the military occupation of Boston (1769), 47;
legislature moved to Cambridge, 47;
adopts intercolonial com. of correspondence, 56;
bill for regulating the government, 58;
legislature at Salem, 58;
_Answer of the major part of the Council_, 67;
_Speeches of the governors, 1765-1775, and the answers of the House
of Rep._, 67;
_Journals of the House_, 67;
_State Papers_, 67, 73;
her letter to Rockingham, 83;
_Song of Liberty_, 86, 87;
_Reply to Hutchinson_ (1773), 90;
petition to the king for the removal of Hutchinson, 95;
Americans in London oppose the Regulating Act, 97;
debate in Parliament, 97;
_Bill for the impartial administration of justice_, 97;
_Solemn League and Covenant_, 97, 98;
action taken for a Congress (1774), 99;
her assembly becomes a provincial congress, 116;
_Journals of the Provincial Congress_, 106;
articles of war, 108;
form of her government (1775) approved by Congress, 108;
ceases to be called province, 108;
provincial congress chooses general officers, 116, 243;
militia, 116;
second provincial congress, 118;
empowers Com. of Safety to gather the militia, 119;
provincial congress, 120;
meets (May, 1775), 131;
warns (June 17, 1775) the militia, 133;
the doings of the provincial congress, approved by the Continental
Congress, 134;
Com. of Safety send acc. of Bunker Hill to England and elsewhere,
187;
in the Cont. Congress, 234;
sets up its autonomy, 237, 257;
_Centennial of the Constitution_, 274;
frames a constitution, 274;
_Report on a Constitution_, 274;
other publications, 274;
sends mast timber to Charles II, 564;
ships owned in, 564;
commissions a naval force (1775), 565;
their captures, 568, 582;
her force in 1779, 579;
sends expedition against Penobscot, 582;
privateers of, 585, 587, 591;
commissioned in France, 587;
her navy, 585, 586;
her losses at Penobscot, 586;
her number of men at sea, 587;
her legislation about privateers, 591;
their captures, 591;
troops in R. I. (1778), 601;
issues bills to defray cost of Penobscot expedition, 603;
military rolls of the exped., 603;
Stockbridge Indians enlisted by, 612;
their plea of justification, 612, 613;
seek to enlist the Nova Scotia Indians, 614;
treaty with them, 614;
_Journals_ of its provincial congresses, 656.
_Massachusetts Gazette_, 110.
_Massachusetts Spy_, 110, 122.
Massey, _England_, 112.
Masts, timber for, 564.
Mathew, Geo., 560.
Matson's Ford, 425.
Matthewman, Luke, 581.
Matthews, David, 326.
Matthews, Gen., invades New Jersey, 559;
in Virginia, 546.
Matthis, Samuel, _Hobkirk's Hill_, 542.
Mattoon, Gen. Ebenezer, on Burgoyne's surrender, 358.
Mauduit, Israel, 83;
_Short View_, etc., 85;
edits the Hutchinson letters, 93;
on Bunker Hill, 195;
on Gen. Howe, 329;
_Howe at White Plains_, 337;
_Three Letters to Howe_, 195, 337, 344;
on the Mischianza, 436;
agent of Mass., 28.
Maverick, Peter, 266.
Mawhood, Col., 378.
Maxwell, Gen., 380; at Morristown, 373;
his brigade, 670.
Maxwell, Major Thompson, 190.
Maxwell, Thomas, 663.
Maxwell on Arnold's fight on Lake Champlain, 346.
May, Thomas E., _Const. Hist. England_, 75.
Mayer, Brantz, edits Carroll's journal, 227;
_Logan and Cresap_, 712;
_Tah-Gah-Jute_, 712.
Mayhew, Jonathan, his controversy with Apthorpe, 70;
his _Unlimited submission to the higher powers_, 70;
_Observations_, in reply to Apthorpe, 70;
_Defence of Observations_, 70;
_Remarks_, 70;
his portraits, 71;
references on his career, 71;
suggests union of colonies, 89;
view of his meeting-house, 151, 197;
controversy with Secker, 243;
sermon on the Stamp Act, 77.
Maynard, Needham, 189.
McAlpine, _Memoirs_, 360.
McBury, Col. Leonard, 676, 678.
McCall, Hugh, lives of Lyman Hall, Button Gwinnett, 265;
George Walton, 265;
_Hist. of Georgia_, 513, 570.
McCall, Capt. James, 679.
McClean, Capt., 443.
McClellan, Capt. Jos., journal, 561.
McClure, diary, 180.
McConkey, Mrs., _Hero of Cowpens_, 511.
McCoy, John F., publishes ed. of proceedings of the André examination,
461.
McCoy, Sergeant, 219.
McCrea, Miss Jane, murder of, 627;
her _Life_, 627.
McCurlin, David, 202.
McDonald, Capt. Angus, goes against the Indians, 713.
McDougall, Gen., at Chatterton Hill, 286;
at Germantown, 385;
at West Point, 557.
McDowell, Col. Chas., 478.
McDowell, Jos., portrait, 535.
McGill, Maj., on Camden, 530.
McGowan's Pass (N. Y.), 338, 339.
McHenry, James, 446.
McKean, Thomas, on the Congress of 1765, 74;
life, 265;
signed the Decl. of Indep., 168;
autog., 265.
McKendry, Wm., _Journal_, 666.
McKenney and Hall, _Indian Tribes_, 625.
McKenzie, Alex., on Cambridge, 142;
on Lexington, 184.
McLane, Capt. Allen, 385, 393, 398.
McNiel, Capt., in the navy, 570.
McNeill, Gen., commands at Penobscot, 603.
McRae, Sherwin, 515.
McRae, _Life of James Iredell_, 532, 537.
McReath, Dr., 729.
McVeagh, Wayne, on Paoli, 419.
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, 256;
autographs of the committee, 256;
disputed questions, 256.
Medcalfe, map of Burgoyne's campaign, 349.
Meigs, Return J., _Expedition against Quebec_, 219;
accounts of, 219;
expedition to Sag Harbor, 591;
his character, 591.
Mein, John, Boston, 83;
proscribed, 78;
_State of the importation_, etc., 78.
Mellish and Tanner, _Seat of War_, 416.
Melville, Herman, _Israel Potter_, 590.
Melvin, J., _Expedition to Quebec_, 219.
Mendon (Mass.), resolves of independence, 257.
Ménonville, M. de, journal at Yorktown, 554.
Mercantile system, 5, 7.
Mercer, Charles Fenton, 707.
Mercer, Gen. Hugh, commands Flying Camp, 326, 403;
death of, 378, 412;
action of Congress, 412;
portraits, 412.
Merchants in England, and navigation laws, 64;
monopolies of, 7.
Meredith, Sir Wm., _A letter to Chatham_, 104.
Metcalfe, S. L., _Indian Warfare_, 708.
Meyer, E. L., _Map of Elizabethport_, 560.
Meyrick, Surgeon, 358.
Meyrick, S. J., 227.
Miamis, 610.
Micmacs, 614.
Middle colonies, maps of, 341.
Middlebrook, camp at, 556;
Washington at, 579.
Middleton, Arthur, life, 265;
life of Rutledge, 265;
autog., 266.
Mifflin, Gen. Thomas, 117, 203;
the Conway Cabal, 392;
leads militia into New Jersey, 376;
on the British lines at Boston Neck, 212.
Mifflin, Fort, abandoned, 447.
_See_ Fort.
Miles, Samuel, 327.
Militia, in battle, 541;
organized, 108;
in Mass., 116;
in the Rev. War, 588.
Miller, Thomas, at Bunker Hill, 202.
Miller, W. T., 203.
Miller House, 338.
Mills, W. H., on the Kennebec route, 217.
Mills, _Statistics of So. Carolina_, 527.
Milltown, Pa., 381.
Miner, Charles, _Wyoming_, 664.
Mingo Bottom, 736.
Mingo Indians, 610, 671.
Minisink massacre, 639, 653, 662;
loss, 662.
Minomines, 738.
Minot, Geo. R., 88.
Mischianza, 396, 436.
Misère (Ste. Geneviève), 738.
Mississippi River as western boundary of the U. S., 730;
plan by Pittman, 702.
Mobile, Pittman's plan, 702;
captured, 739.
Moffat, of R. I., on Stamp Act debates, 74.
Mohawk River, 609;
map of the neighborhood, 351;
valley, 610;
Indian incursion, 672;
warfare in, 657.
Mohawks in Canada, 656;
irritated by the Conn. Co., 605;
their lands east of the boundary line, 610;
solicited, 120;
would protect Guy Johnson, 624.
Mohegans, 622.
Molasses Act, 25, 26, 72.
Monckton, Lt.-Col., at Monmouth, 400.
Moncrieff, Col., 521;
at Savannah (1779), 524.
Monette, _Valley of the Mississippi_, 686.
Monk's Corner, 473.
Monmouth, battle, 399;
plans of, 408, 444, 445;
accounts of, 445, 446.
Monotomy, roads about, 121.
Monroe, James, at Trenton, 376.
Monson, Henry, map of Carolina, 675.
Montague, Admiral, 90.
Montague, Lord, letter to Moultrie, 534.
Montgar (Armstrong), 746.
Montgomery, Col. John, attacked by the Cherokees (1760), 675;
at Kaskaskia, 740.
Montgomery, Gen. Richard, urges advance into Canada, 161;
made brigadier, 161;
advances on St. Johns, 161;
before St. Johns, 162;
captures Fort Chamblée, 162;
takes St. Johns, 162;
has Indians, 656;
takes Montreal, 163;
at Pont-aux-Trembles, 164;
attacks Quebec, 165;
in the Canada campaign, authorities, 216;
despatches, 216;
lives, 216;
his sword, 216;
his house, 216;
ancestry, 216;
death and burial, 165, 216, 226;
remains removed to New York, 216;
tributes of Congress, 216;
his monument, 216;
tragedy by H. H. Brackenridge, 216;
autograph note on capitulation of St. Johns, 217;
signatures of his will, 218;
portraits, 220, 221;
Trumbull's "Death of Montgomery", 220.
_Monthly Military Repository_, 510.
Montreal, Guy Johnson's conference at, 624;
position of, 215;
taken by Montgomery, 163, 216.
Montresor, Capt. John, plan of Boston, 210;
maps of the English colonies, 341;
account of, 341;
plan of Charlestown, Mass., 198;
survey of Bunker Hill field, 200;
plans of New York, 326, 331, 333, 561;
map of the northern region of N. Y., 349;
his journal ed. by Scull, 413, 419;
map of defences of Philad. (1777), 441;
accounts of his family, 217;
map of Kennebec route, 217, 224;
journal on the Kennebec, 217;
_Map of N. Y. and Penna._, 416;
map of Newport, 560.
Moore, F., _Diary of the Amer. Rev._, 654.
Moore, Geo. H., _Treason of Chas. Lee_, 407, 416.
Moore, Hugh, _Ethan Allen_, 214.
Moore, Sir Henry, 38.
Moore, Thomas, _Life of Sheridan_, 109.
Moore, T. W., aide to Prevost, 522.
Moore's Creek Bridge, action at, 168;
references, 168.
Moorsom, _Fifty-second Reg._, 198.
Moravian Indians, 606;
sent to New York, 607;
protected by Gen. Gage, 607;
missions among, 734;
attacked by British, 734;
removed to Sandusky, 735;
at Detroit, 735;
lands in Michigan, 735;
general references, 736.
_See_ Indians.
Morgan, Gen. Daniel, on the Kennebec exped., 162;
captured at Quebec, 165;
his account of the attack, 222;
at Freeman's Farm, 305;
headquarters at Saratoga, 358, 360;
threatens Cornwallis' flank in Carolina, 481;
pursued by Tarleton, 481;
at Cowpens, 481, 538;
his differences with Sumter, 537;
his correspondence, 538;
_The Hero of Cowpens_, 360;
medal, 539;
in New Jersey, 398;
his lives, 511;
his grave, 511;
portraits, 511;
statue, 511;
his house, 511.
Morgan, Col. George, 704.
Morgan, Dr. John, 203.
Morgan, L. H., _League of the Iroquois_, 659.
Morgann, _Life of Price_, 110.
Morley, Henry, edits Burke's _Speeches_, 112;
_Edmund Burke_, 269.
Morris, Gouverneur, _Observations on the Amer. Rev._, 556.
Morris, Jacob, 169.
Morris, Lewis, letters from Cambridge, 203;
autog., 264;
life, 266;
on Greene, 537.
Morris, Margaret, diary, 436.
Morris, Robert, autog., 264;
life, 265;
on the campaign of 1776, 344;
(in 1776), 376;
on Charles Lee's capture, 403;
letters, 404;
his privateers, 591.
Morris, Col. Roger, his house, 288, 339.
Morris, Capt. Thomas, sent to Pontiac, 698;
his _Miscellanies_, 698;
his journal, 698.
Morrisania, 344;
English works at, 561.
Morristown, orderly-books, 559;
Washington at, 417.
Morsman, Oliver, _Bunker Hill_, 189.
Mortier House in N. Y., 276, 335.
Morton, John, autog., 264;
life, 265.
Morton, Perez, on Gen. Warren, 194.
Morton, Robt., his diary, 431, 436.
Mott, Edw., journal, 213.
Mott, Samuel, letters, 216.
Moultrie, Gen. Wm., his acc. of the defence of Fort Moultrie, 229;
at Sullivan Island, 168;
portrait, 171, 172;
_Memoirs_, 171;
references, 172;
defends Charleston (1779), 470;
his campaign (1778), 520;
fac-simile of his order to Tucker, 471;
his affair near Beaufort, 519;
his career, 508;
sketches of, 508;
_Memoirs of Amer. Rev._, 508;
on the siege of Charleston, 525;
refused command of a Tory regiment, 534;
correspondence with Lord Montague, 534.
Moultrie, Fort (1776), plans, 169, 170;
abandoned (1780), 472.
_See_ Fort, Sullivan's Island.
Mountfort, G., on John Hancock, 271.
Mouzon, H., map. of Carolinas, 538.
Mowatt, Capt., with British vessels at Penobscot, 603.
Mud Island in the Delaware, 432, 435;
plans, 437, 438.
Mugford, Capt., 567;
killed, 160.
Muhheakunuks, 613.
Muhlenberg, Gen. Peter, 376;
at Brandywine, 382;
his life, 546;
at Yorktown, 555.
Muhlenberg, Rev. Dr., his journal, 404.
Muhlenberg, H. A., _General Muhlenberg_, 546.
Mukerck, Capt. Chas., journal, 681.
Mulgrave, Col., 426.
Mun, Thomas, 63.
Munroe, Nathan, 179.
Munsee towns, 606.
Munsell, Hezekiah, 329.
Munsey Indians, 671.
Mure, Capt. Wm., at Yorktown, 555.
Murray, James, _Impartial History of the present war_, much the same,
in parts as _The Impartial History of the War in America_, 663.
Murray, Lindley, 284.
Murray House (N. Y.), 335.
Musgrave, Col., at Germantown, 385.
Musgrove Mills, 475, 529.
Muskingum, forks of, 699.
Mutiny Act, 20, 38;
practically annulled in Mass., 46.
Muzzey, A. B., _Lexington_, 184;
_Reminiscences_, 173.
Myers, Col. T. B., 264, 538;
on the Tories, 351.
Naaman's Creek, Pa., 421.
Napier, Geo., 590.
Narragansett Bay, fortified, 593, 596;
chart by Blaskowitz, 593;
Lafayette's plan, 600;
English maps, 601.
Nash, Gen., of N. C., killed, 386.
Nash, Gilbert, _Life of Gen. Lovell_, 603.
Nash, Gov., on Camden, 532.
Nash, Samuel, diary of, 346.
Nash, Solomon, 202.
Natchez, captured, 738, 740.
_National Portrait Gallery_, 510.
Naval Hist. of the American Revolution, 563.
_See_ Navy.
Navigation laws, 2, 4, 6, 63;
aimed at the Dutch, 6;
history of, 7;
authorities, 64;
and writs of assistance, 19;
enforced by the Bute ministry, 23;
influence in producing the Revolution, 64;
and the Revolution of 1689 in N. E., 65.
Navy of United States, commissioned by Washington, 152;
vessels destroyed in the Delaware, 389.
_See_ Naval.
Navy of England, men engaged in 1776, 588;
in 1777, 585;
in 1779, 587.
Nazro, John, 47.
_Nederlandsche Mercurius_, 570.
Neilson, Charles, _Burgoyne's Campaign_, 357, 360.
Nelson, Thomas, life, 266;
autog., 266.
Nelson, Thomas, Jr., 259;
_Letters_, 575.
Nelson, gov. of Va., on Yorktown, 544.
Neshaminy, 418.
Neutral Ground (Hudson River), 456.
Neversink, 340.
New Bedford, naval exploits of her people, 564.
New Brunswick, N. J., 408, 409.
New Castle, Del., 421.
_New Dominion Monthly_, 216.
New England, her great staples, 8;
her export trade, 9;
grows rich, 10;
trade with West Indies broken up, 25;
staples, 25;
imports molasses, 25;
jealousy of, in the Congress of 1774, 99;
population (1775), 117;
armed alliance (1775), 122;
Sam. Adams proposed her independence, 231;
Puritanism and the Am. Rev., 242;
opposition to bishop, 243;
a maritime country, 563;
her cruisers, 563;
ship-building, 563;
enriched by privateering, 584;
large numbers in the business, 584.
New Hampshire, Stamp Act in, 73;
change in its government (1775), 108;
people of the Grants aroused, 108, 121;
men at Bunker Hill, 190;
troops in the Canada exped., 220;
in the Continental Congress, 234;
constitution of, 272;
furnishes masts to England, 564;
her seamen, 587;
privateers of, 591;
"General Sullivan", 591;
troops in R. I. (1778), 601.
New Haven attacked, 557.
New Ireland (Maine), 604.
New Jersey, Stamp Act in, 73;
address to king (1769), 83;
her constitution, 272;
invaded (Jan., 1776), 323;
surveys by Sauthier and Ratzer, 341;
invaded and evacuated by Howe, 368, 379;
campaign in (1776), authorities, 405;
maps of, 409;
revolt of her soldiers, 561;
troops in Sullivan's campaign, 670.
New London, Conn., attacked by Arnold, 562;
privateers in, 585.
New Orleans, Pittman's plan, 702;
to be captured, 737;
letters from, 738.
New Providence attacked, 570.
New Rochelle, the British at, 286.
New Salem, N. Y., 458.
New Windsor, N. Y., 556;
camp, 744.
New York _city_, Stamp Act in, 73;
coffee-houses in, 73;
Burn's Coffee-House, 73;
"Sons of Liberty" in, 73;
old City Hall, 74;
com. of correspondence, 90;
effect of Boston Port Bill in, 96;
apathy in (1774), 98;
British navy at (1776), 153;
Lee sent to possess the town, 156;
artillery company formed, 156;
news of Lexington in, 178;
Lee in (1775), 275;
Washington arrives, 275;
Putnam in command, 275;
defences of (1776), 275;
army in, 275;
Washington's headquarters, 276;
spared by Howe, 283;
Americans leave it, 283;
Howe occupies it, 283;
partly burned, 285;
campaign round N. Y. (1776), criticism on, 290;
campaign about, 323;
condition of the town (1775), 323;
plans in the Revolution, 331;
appearance of the town, 331;
Johnston's map, 331, 335;
Randall's, 331;
descriptions of the town, 331;
views, 331;
localities, 331;
Beekman House, 331;
Rutger's mansion, 331;
Ratzer's smaller map, 332;
evacuated by Washington, 333;
occupied by Howe, 333;
various maps, 333;
extent of the armies about (1776), 333;
fire in, 334;
Johnston's map, 335, 338;
Mortier House, 335;
map of city and bay, 342;
maps of the campaign near (1776), 342, 343, 345;
accounts of, 341-346;
_N. Y. City during the Amer. Rev._, 346;
map of campaign about, 404;
Knyphausen in command, 559;
Washington's feint of attacking (1781), 501;
British in, 556;
British cantonments near, 745;
entered by Washington at the close of the war, 746;
evacuated, 746;
Fraunce's Tavern, 747;
its appearance at the end of the war, 747;
commerce of, 747.
New York _harbor_, maps of, in the Revolutionary time, 326.
New York _province_, maps of, 349;
Indians of, 611.
New York _State_, Assembly (1775), 106;
its character, 106;
proceedings, 106;
provincial congress, 106;
its records, 106;
constitutional convention, 272;
debates of, 272;
centennial of its constitution, 274;
_Centennial Addresses_, 366;
privateers of, 591;
_Centennial Celebrations_, 666;
Continental line organized, 220;
documentary publications, 247;
_Journals of Provincial Congress_, 247.
_New York Magazine_, 510.
Newark, Pa., 421.
Newburgh, N. Y., 340, 465;
addresses, 745;
Washington at, 744;
his headquarters, 744.
Newburgh Bay Historical Soc., 744.
Newell, Thomas, 95.
Newell, Timothy, 95.
Newman, Robert, 175.
Newport, R. I., blockaded by the English (1780), 560;
the French in, 560;
maps, 560;
diaries in (1778), 601;
maps of, and surroundings, 596, 597, 598, 600, 602;
memorial to Congress (1775), 108;
occupied by the British (Dec., 1776), 403;
occupied by Sir Henry Clinton (1776), 593;
seamen in the Revolutionary navy, 591.
Newport, Pa., 421.
Newspapers in the Revolution, 110.
Newton, _Panhandle_, 716.
Newtown (Elmira, N. Y.), battle at, 640, 668, 670;
accounts, 653;
Butler's report, 672;
map of battlefield, 642, 671, 681.
Newtown, Pa., 410.
Neyon, M., in Illinois, 700.
Niagara, not to be attacked by Sullivan, 669;
Indians at (1779-80), 643.
Nicholas, P. H., _Royal Marine Forces_, 194.
Nichols, Isaac, 204.
Nicholson, James, capt. in navy, 570;
in the "Trumbull", 583;
surrenders, 584.
Nicholson, Samuel, in the "Deane", 583.
Nicola, Col. Lewis, 440;
his letter to Washington, 745.
Nicoll, Isaac, 323.
Nicollet, J. N., 705.
Ninety-six, 478;
besieged, 491, 544;
plans of, 545.
Ninham, Capt. Daniel, 613.
Noailles, autog., 500.
Noddle's Island, 206, 210;
fight, 131.
Non-importation agreements, 23, 29, 31, 47, 49, 50, 51, 76, 77, 78,
79, 99, 106.
Nook's Hill (near Boston), 158.
Norfolk, Va., destroyed, 168.
Norman, J., engraver, 40, 41;
engraving of Montgomery, 221;
engraving of Gates, 302;
engraving of burning of Falmouth, 146;
engraves Gen. Greene, 509;
Gen. Lincoln, 473;
_Death of Montgomery_, 217;
_Death of Warren_, 198;
plan of Bunker Hill, 201, 202;
plan of Boston, 201.
North, Lord, premier, 21;
portrait, 21, 107;
autog., 21;
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 46;
conversations with Burke, 112.
North, S. W. D., "Story of a Monument", 351;
on Oriskany, 351.
North, Wm., acc. of Steuben, 515.
North, _Augusta, Me._, 217.
_North American Pilot_, 212.
North Carolina, in the Cont. Congress, 235;
defended by Iredell, 537;
effect of Boston Port Bill, 96;
the English fleet on the coast (1776), 168;
maps, 537, 538;
militia at Camden, 533;
militia fled at Guildford, 541;
movements (1774), 98;
(1776), 168;
non-importation, 47;
Stamp Act in, 73;
war of the Regulators, 80;
disputes about, 81.
_North Carolina University Magazine_, 514, 519.
North Castle, N. Y., 458.
Northwest territory reserved as crown lands (1763), 687;
government of, 730.
_See_ Ohio country.
Norton, A. T., _Sullivan's Campaign_, 670.
Norton, J. N., _Pioneer Missionaries_, 657.
Norwalk, Conn., 340;
burnt, 557.
Nova Scotia Indians, 614.
Nunn, Lieut., 175.
O'Brien, Jeremiah, naval officer, 564.
O'Callaghan, E. B., edits _Burgoyne's Order-book_, 358, 359;
on George Croghan, 705;
on Stirling, 706;
on Cresap, 712.
O'Dane, 523.
O'Hara, Gen., follows the march of Greene, 484.
O'Key, Samuel, 40.
O'Reilly, Henry, Sullivan's Campaign, 671.
Ochs, Baron von, _Betrachtungen über die neuere Kriegskunst_, 446.
Ogeechee, attack at, 653.
Ogletown, Pa., 421.
Ohio Company, 707.
Ohio country, effect of the Quebec Bill, 715.
_See_ Northwest Territory.
Ohio Indians, 610;
their towns, 699.
Ohio River, early settlers on, 708;
plan of rapids, 701.
Oliver, Andrew, deposition on Boston Massacre, 88;
his letters, 56;
hanged in effigy, 30, 72;
stamp distributor, 72;
resigns, 73, 115;
makes oath, 73;
portrait, 73.
Oliver, Peter, autog., 50;
letter from Boston, 205;
impeachment, 57, 95;
portrait, 95;
account of, 95;
diary, 205.
Ollier, Edmund, _Cassell's United States_, 665.
Olney, Stephen, 404.
Onderdonk, Henry, Jr., on the battle of Long Island, 330;
_Woodhull's capture_, 330.
Oneidas, their country, 609;
their lands, 610;
at White Plains, 613;
mostly took the American side, 623, 624, 659;
offer to become scouts, 626;
convey warning of St. Leger's coming, 628;
join Herkimer, 630;
their village burnt, 632, 658;
threatened by Haldimand, 639;
at Schenectady, 643;
failed to help Sullivan (1779), 667;
removed from their castles, 672;
proposed attack on, by Sir John Johnson, 672.
_See_ Six Nations, Iroquois.
Onondagas, destruction of their villages, 639, 653;
their country, 609.
Ontario identified with Oswego, 619, 658.
Oquaga burned, 636.
Orangetown, 404.
Orcutt, coll. of newspaper scraps, 522.
_Orion_, a Georgia periodical, 519.
Oriskany, battle of, 631;
authorities, 351;
the first accounts, 660;
view of field, 354;
Indian loss at, 662.
Osborn, Sir Danvers, 673.
Osborn, J. H., 437.
Osgood, Samuel, 191;
address at Fairfield, 55.
Osler, _Life of Exmouth_, 347.
Ossabaw Sound, 470.
Oswego, attempted surprise by Col. Willett, 646;
known sometimes as Ontario, 658.
Otis, James, 84;
on writs of assistance, 9, 13, 68;
John Adams on, 68;
made member of the General Court, 13;
assumed the right to independence, 24;
in Stamp Act Congress, 30;
in the legislature, 42;
praises Oliver Cromwell, 44;
_Vindication of the British Colonies_, 70;
_Considerations on behalf of the Eng. Colonies_, 75;
speaking in the legislature (1768), 83;
at Bunker Hill, 137;
_Rights of the British Colonies_, 28, 68;
his passionate appeals, 35;
probably draws address to Bernard, 43;
presides at meeting (1768), 45;
_Vindication of the conduct of the Ho. of Rep._, 68;
Crawford's statue, 69;
likeness by Blackburn, 70;
his house, 70;
killed by lightning, 70;
Tudor's _Life of Otis_, 70;
Bowen's _Life_, 70;
his character, 70;
assaulted, 70.
Otsego Lake, Clinton at, 639.
Ottawa confederacy, 610.
Ouabache. _See_ Wabash.
Ouatanon, 703.
Paca, Wm., autog., 265;
life, 266.
Packard, G. T., 218.
Page, Capt., journal, 557.
Page, Edw., map of Rhode Island, 601.
Page, Wm., surveys of Boston, 210, 211;
plans of Bunker Hill, 200.
Paige, _Cambridge_, 173.
Paine, Robt. Treat, autog., 51, 263;
in Congress (1774), 59;
in Canada, 227;
life by Alden Bradford, 265.
Paine, Samuel, 187, 205.
Paine, Thomas, 419, _Liberty Tree Ballad_, 72;
_Dialogue with Montgomery_, 217;
_Common Sense_, 252, 269;
_American Crisis_, 744;
Barlow on, 253;
portrait, 269;
bibliog. of, 269;
references on him, 269;
_Writings_, 269;
French ed., 269;
"The times that try men's souls", 367.
Palfrey, J. G., on the navigation acts, 64.
Palfrey, Wm., 85.
"Pallas" takes the "Countess of Scarborough", 578.
Palmer, Wm. P., _Calendar of Va. State Papers_, 515.
Palmer, _Lake Champlain_, 214, 347.
Pamphlet literature of the Revolution, 110.
Paoli, fight at, 383;
sources, 419;
Hessian map of attack, 423;
Faden's map, 424;
other maps, 425;
monument, 425.
Paper money, first, of the war, 116.
Paris, treaty of (1763), 14, 685;
printed, 685.
Parker, Capt. Hyde, his report on Savannah, 519;
portrait, 519.
Parker, Capt. John, at Lexington, 176.
Parker, Com. F. H., 564.
Parker, Francis J., _Col. Wm. Prescott_, 191.
Parker, J. M. _Rochester, N. Y._, 670.
Parker, Sir Peter, 279;
on the coast with a fleet, 168;
attacks Fort Moultrie, 170, 229;
in Narragansett Bay, 593.
Parker, Theodore, 185.
Parkman, Francis, _Conspiracy of Pontiac_, 690;
his MS. collections, 690;
prefaces Smith's _Acc. of Bouquet's exped._, 699.
Parliament, invades the royal prerogative, 15;
colonial representation in, 28;
of 1766, 32.
_Parliamentary Register, or Debates_, 516, 653.
Parsons, Gen. S. H., on the capture of Fort Clinton, etc., 364;
a spy for the British, 460;
on the board examining André, 460;
his letters, 557;
in Long Island battle, 279, 328.
Parsons, Theophilus, life of, by T. Parsons, 274.
Parsons Case, in Virginia, 24.
Parton, James, _Jefferson_, 515.
Partridge, Oliver, 30.
Paterson, Col. John, 613.
Patison, T. H., 106.
Patterson, D. W., 665.
Patterson, W. A., 364.
Pattison, Gen., on N. Y., 557;
on Paulus Hook, 559.
Patton, J. H., _Yorktown_, 555.
Patty, Sir Wm., 63.
Paulding, John, 456;
petitions for increase of pension, 466;
his son defends him, 466;
his portrait, 466.
Paulus Hook, 326, 335, 343, 403;
plans, 559;
attacked, 559;
medal, 559.
Pausch, Capt., _Journal_, 360;
at Valcour Island, 346.
Pawling, Col., 667.
Paxton, Charles, 10, 12.
Paxton, Pa., 606; its "Boys", 606;
_Narrative of the late Massacre_, 606;
threaten the Moravian Indians, 607.
Payson, Philip, 180.
Peabody, Stephen, 350.
Peabody, S. H., _Amer. Patriotism_, 70.
Peabody Museum of Archæology, 607.
Peale, C. W., portrait of Dickinson, 82;
of Thomas Paine, 269;
of St. Clair, 297;
of Gen. Greene, 510;
of Morgan, 511;
of Sumter, 532;
of Paul Jones, 592;
of Chatham, 110;
of Joseph Reed, 405.
Peale, R., painted portrait of Gen. Greene, 510.
Pearce, Stuart, _Luzerne County_, 665.
Pearson, Capt. Richard, his acc. of the loss of the "Serapis", 577,
590;
portrait, 593.
Pearson, _Schenectady Patent_, 608.
Peck, Geo., _Wyoming_, 664.
Peck, J. M., 649;
_Daniel Boone_, 708.
Peck, L. W., 665.
Peekskill, 455, 465.
Peet, S. D., on the Delawares, 708.
Peirce, John, 219.
Pelham, Henry, map of Boston, 209.
Pell, Joshua, Jr., 227, 350.
Pell's Point, 285, 337.
Pellew, Viscount Exmouth, 358.
_See_ Exmouth.
Pencour (St. Louis), 737, 738.
Pendleton, Edmund, 259;
writes resolutions of Va., 261.
Penn, John, life, 265;
autog., 266.
Penn, Richard, 237.
Pennington, N. J., 410.
Pennsylvania, controversy over its form of government, 68;
Stamp Act in, 73;
Muhlenberg's journal, 73;
com. of corresp., 90;
effect of Boston Port Bill in, 96;
feeling in 1774, 98;
Thomas Mifflin advocating non-intercourse, 117;
its share in the Canada campaign (1776), 174;
in the Continental Congress, 234, 235;
her Assembly (1776) still loyal, 245;
records of, 247;
timidity in, respecting independence, 257;
constitutional agitation, 272;
convention of 1776, 272;
anarchical state of, in 1776, 373;
navy of, 386, 565;
new constitution of, 401, 405;
Council of Safety, 405;
_Hist. of First Troop of Cavalry_, 407;
revolt of her troops, 561;
forts in, 643;
prohibits settlements on land not bought of Indians, 649;
_Laws_ (1797), 649;
_Register_, 650;
Connecticut settlers in, 680;
controversies, 680;
embarrass Bouquet, 698;
controversy with Va. over Ohio lands, 709.
_Pennsylvania Evening Post_, 436.
Pennytown, 372.
Penobscot, expedition against (1779), 582, 603, 604;
the troops retreat through the woods, 604;
maps of, 604;
court of inquiry, 604;
Eben Hazard questions its decision, 604.
Penobscot Indians, 617, 656;
enlistment of, 674.
Pensacola captured, 739.
Pensioner, last, of the Rev., 746.
Pequaket Indians, 614, 655.
Percy, Earl, marches out of Boston, 121;
to Lexington, 123;
joins Smith, 124;
his train captured, 124;
his report on Lexington, 178;
reported killed, 178;
portraits, 182, 183;
his family, 182;
papers, 183;
at Brooklyn, 279, 330;
attacks the Harlem lines, 285, 289;
at N. Y., 337, 338;
at Fort Washington, 345.
Perkins' Jas. Handasyd, 657;
_Memoir and Writings_, 648;
"Pioneers of Kentucky", 708.
Perley, _Bedford, Mass._, 184.
Perrault, Abbé, 216.
Perrin du Lac, _Voyage_, 652.
Perry, W. S., _Amer. Episc. Church_, 242.
Perth Amboy, 409.
Peters, Richard, on Steuben, 515;
on the massacre of Conestogoes, 606.
Peters, Rev. Samuel, reply to Burgoyne, 366.
Peyster, J. Watts de, on Sir John Johnson, 351, 660;
on Oriskany, 351;
on Schuyler's campaign (1777), 356;
on the Burgoyne campaign, 361;
on Brandywine, 419;
on Paoli, 419;
on the siege of Savannah, 523;
on King's Mountain, 536;
on Eutaw, 45;
on Stony Point, 558;
on the Penobscot exped., 603;
_Sir John Johnson_, 625;
edits _Johnson's Orderly-book_, 660;
on Sullivan's campaign, 670.
Peyton, J. L., _Adventures of my Grandfather_, 714.
Phelippeaux, his map, 416.
Phelps, Matthew, journal, 709.
Phelps, _Rights of the Colonies_, 85.
Philadelphia, non-importation in, 79;
corresp. of merchants (1769), 83;
feeling in, during the Congress of, 1774, 99;
Carpenters' Hall, 99;
news of Lexington in, 178;
life in, during the American Rev., 259;
Old State House, view of, 259;
Independence Hall, 259;
trepidation in, 370, 380;
Washington's army marches through, 380;
guns of Brandywine heard in, 383;
occupied by Cornwallis and Howe, 384;
fortified by the British, 384;
the British fleet reaches the town, 389;
the winter of 1777-78, 393;
the Quakers, 393;
theatre in, during British occupancy, 394, 395;
Clinton arrives, 396;
"Mischianza", 396, 436;
evacuated, 397, 445;
Arnold in command, 400;
condition of the town, 401;
Congress reassembled, 401;
Tories executed, 401;
Quaker element, 405;
map of the campaign of 1777, 414, 416;
seaward defences, 423;
map of vicinity (1777), 425;
life in, during the British occupation, 436;
map of defences (1777-78), 440, 441;
Hessian map of the vicinity, 442;
maps of, during the Rev., 442;
_Hist. First Troop City Cavalry_, 561.
Philbrook, Thomas, 603.
Philipsbourg Patent, 340.
Phillips, G. C., 47.
Phillips, Gen., with Burgoyne, 294;
in command of convention troops, 318;
at siege of Ticonderoga (1777), 354;
his orders, 359;
in Virginia, 496, 546;
dies, 496, 546.
Phillipse Patent, 340.
Phillopson, Col., 319.
Phinney, Elias, _Battle of Lexington_, 183.
Pickens, Gen. Andrew, 513, 677;
with Carolina militia, 485;
letters, 513;
his raid on the Indians, 680.
Pickering, Col., writes the report of Brandywine, 418;
of Germantown, 421;
charged with dilatoriness on Lexington day, 124;
papers, 467;
_Rules for the militia_, 108.
Pierce, Maj. Wm., at Hobkirk's Hill, 542.
Pigot, Gen., his account of the campaign in Rhode Island, 598;
in Newport, 593;
at Bunker Hill, 137;
autog., 137.
Pinckney, C. C., on Washington's staff, 418;
on Germantown, 421;
deserts Fort Moultrie, 472.
Pinckney, Maj. Thos., _Siege of Savannah_, 522;
on Camden, 530.
Pine, Robt., paints Burgoyne, 293.
Pinto, Isaac, _Lettre_ and _Seconde Lettre_, 109;
_Letters_, 109;
_Nouvelles Observations_, 109;
_Rèponse_, 109.
Pirtle, Henry, on G. R. Clark, 718.
Pitcairn, Maj., at Lexington, 123;
killed at Bunker Hill, 139;
his remains, 139;
on the firing at Lexington, 183;
paper on, 183;
likeness by Trumbull, 197.
Pitcher, Moll, at Monmouth, 446.
Pitt, William, his influence in English affairs, 18, 19;
would seize Spanish bullion ships, 19;
in ministry, 20;
his speeches, 32;
made Earl of Chatham, 35;
in power, 35;
his character, 35;
thanked by Mass. for the repeal of the Stamp Act, 74.
Pittman, Capt. Philip, 702;
_European Settlements_, 702;
_Present State_, 717.
_Plain Truth_, 270.
Plessis, Mauduit du, his battery at Monmouth, 444.
Plumb, J. B., 663.
Point Pleasant, Va., affair at, 611, 714.
Pollock, Oliver, at New Orleans, 738.
Pomeroy, Seth, made general, 116;
at Bunker Hill, 137.
Pontiac, his ability, 689;
besieges Detroit, 690;
still at large, 700;
sends messengers to New Orleans, 701;
meets Croghan, 704;
agrees to a peace, 704;
his submission, 705;
murdered, 705.
Pontiac War, 688;
references, 701.
Poole, Wm. F., "The West", 685.
Poor, Gen. Enoch, 357;
headquarters at Saratoga, 358;
with Gates (1777), 308;
at Newtown, 640.
Porcher, address, 230.
Port Royal, S. C., map, 519.
Porter, E. G., 182;
_Four Drawings_, 185;
_Rambles in Old Boston_, 175.
Porter, L. H., _Outlines Const. Hist. U. S._, 108, 274.
Portraits of Revolutionary characters engraved in England and
Germany, 270.
Portsmouth, N. H., Fort William and Mary taken, 117.
Portsmouth, Va., maps, 553.
Post, C. F., 736.
Post, L. M., _Recol. of Am. Rev._, 418.
Post, Vincent, 703.
Potsgrove, Washington at, 419.
Potter, Col. Asa, 346.
Potter, Israel R., _Adventures_, 189.
Potter, _Manchester_, 190.
Potter, Gen., 393.
Potts Grove, 383.
Pouchet, _War in N. America_, 660.
Poundridge, affair at, 557.
Pourré, Eugenio, 743.
Powder, scarce during siege of Boston, 203;
seized at Bermuda, 567.
Pownall, Gov. Thomas, 22;
in Parliament, 51, 52, 90;
on the union of the colonies, 66;
his _Administration of the Colonies_, 66, 90;
his character, 90;
corresp. with James Bowdoin, 90;
furnishes materials to Holland for his maps, 341;
_Memorials to the Sovereigns of Europe_, 91;
_Memorials to the Sovereigns of America_, 91;
portrait, 91;
talk on the American question, 112.
Poyntz, L., 191.
Prairie du Chien, 738.
Pratt, G. W., 364.
Prattent, T., 474.
Preble, Admiral Geo. H., _American flag_, 80;
"Ships in the 18th Century", 564;
acc. of Hopkins, 570;
on Com. Barry, 581;
on the flag of the "Bon Homme Richard", 590;
edits Ezra Greene's journal, 590;
privateers of Mass., 591.
Preble, Jedediah, autog., 116;
made general, 116.
Prerogative of the king, 2, 3;
opposed, 3, 4;
and the Long Parliament, 4;
detected by Franklin, 4;
a cause of the Revolution, 5;
questioned by Patrick Henry, 24.
Presbyterians and the Amer. Rev., 244.
Prescott, Gen. Richard, captured, 403;
autog., 403.
Prescott, Col. Wm., commands the detachment sent to Bunker Hill, 135;
autog., 135;
letter on Bunker Hill, 186;
at Bunker Hill, 190;
his monument and statue, 191, 194.
Prescott, Judge, 191.
_Present State of Liberty_, 85.
Preston, Capt., trial of, 49, 86;
autographs of court and counsel, 50, 51.
Preston, H. W., _Documents_, etc., 268.
Preston, John C., _Address on King's Mountain_, 535.
"Preston", ship at Boston, 205.
Prevost, Gen. Augustine, 519, 699;
on the siege of Savannah (1779), 469, 522;
attacks Charleston, 520;
dies, 524.
Price, Ezekiel, 188, 203;
diary, 318.
Price, Dr. Richard, _Letter to_, 109;
_Observations, etc._, 110;
portrait and autog., 111.
Price publishes ed. of Bonner's map of Boston, 207.
Prime, Temple, _Temple Family_, 93.
Primm, Wilson, _Hist. Address_, 737.
Prince, Ezekiel, 47.
Princeton, attacked, 377;
maps of the attack, 408, 409, 410, 413.
Pringle, Capt., 292;
on the fight at Valcour Island, 346.
Prisoners of war, the first taken, 123;
treatment of, 145;
disputes over those taken at the Cedars, 225;
captured at sea, 568;
naval, in England, 575;
exchanged, 575.
Privateers, before the Revolution, 19;
commissioned, 567, 579;
the service preferred by seamen, 568;
under the Treaty of Utrecht, 572;
their captures, 581, 584;
history of, 583, 584;
enrich New England, 584;
of Salem, 585;
in New London, 585;
commissioned in Massachusetts, 585, 586, 591;
total number in all the States, 585;
of Salem, 586, 587, 591;
of Boston, 587;
commissioned in France, 587;
their prize crews, 587;
bibliography, 591;
legislation on, in Mass., 591;
captures by those of Mass., 591;
of New Hampshire, 591;
of Rhode Island, 591;
of Connecticut, 591;
of New York, 591;
great losses inflicted on the British, 591;
narratives of their cruises, 591;
diplomatic complications, 592.
Proctor, Gen., at Brandywine, 382.
Property-line, so called, 650.
Prospect Hill, 206;
camp near Boston, 203.
Protective system, 5, 7.
"Protector", a Massachusetts frigate, 586.
Providence, R. I., _Providence Plantations_, 90;
tea burned at, 121;
defences, 593.
Province Island, Pa., 438.
Provoost, Bishop, 242.
Pulaski joins the army, 380;
his monument, 510;
defended by Bentalou, 522;
killed, 524;
acc. of, 524;
burial, 524;
his banner, 524;
portrait, 524;
recompense of the government, 524.
Pulling, John, 175.
Puplopens Kill, 324.
Pulsifer, David, 195.
Puritanism and the Declaration of Indep., 241, 242.
Purkitt, Henry, 91.
Putnam, Col. Daniel, in the Bunker Hill controversy, 190.
Putnam, Gen. Israel, 271;
at Bunker Hill, 137, 190;
lives of, 190, 193;
his sword, 191;
portraits, 192, 193;
autog., 192;
in New York, 275, 325;
in command on Long Island, 278;
a bad general, 314;
accused of treachery, 314;
opposes Clinton on the Hudson (1777), 361, 362;
drives sheep into Boston, 114;
reaches Cambridge, 134;
likeness by Trumbull, 197.
Putnam, Col. Rufus, builds Fort Washington, 287;
in campaign of 1776, 346;
plans of the Saratoga battles, 361;
diary on the Mississippi, 709.
Putnam, Lt.-Col., 601.
Quaker Hill (R. I.), 596, 602;
view of the fight, 600.
Quakers, arming in Philadelphia, 131;
in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War, 393;
implicated in hostile movements, 417.
Quebec, besieged (1775-76), 163;
plan by Jefferys, 215;
_Lit. and Hist. Soc. bibliography_, 222;
siege of (1775-1776), authorities, 220;
diaries, etc., 221;
American contemporary accounts, 221;
general accounts, 222;
accounts as received in Cambridge and N. Y., 222;
British official accounts, 222;
journals, etc., 222;
Wooster in command before the town, 222;
local associations, 223;
French accounts, 223;
_Centenaire de l'Assault de Québec_, 223;
Arnold's map of the siege, 226;
engraved maps of the town, 226;
views of, 226;
plains of Abraham, 226.
Quebec, _province_, maps of (1776), 226.
Quebec Bill, 58, 101, 714, 715;
debates in Parliament, 102;
"virtual representation", 103;
_Doctor Marriot_, 102;
_Hypocrisy Unmasked_, 102;
_Letter to Lord Chatham_, 102;
other tracts, 104.
Queen's Rangers, 395, 518.
Quibbletown, 379.
Quincy, Dorothy, 123.
Quincy, Eliza Susan, 96.
Quincy, Edmund, on the evacuation of Boston, 205.
Quincy, Josiah (_senior_, 1775), 152.
Quincy, Josiah (_junior_), his report of Otis's argument, 13;
defends Capt. Preston, 49;
dies, 125;
portrait, 96, 126;
autog., 51;
speech on the tea ships, 57, 91;
_Reports of Cases_, 68;
drafts instructions (1770), 87;
_Observations on the Boston Port Bill_, 67, 94;
fac-simile of his dedication, 94;
autog., 94;
fac-simile of diary in London, 105;
interview with Lord North, 105;
goes to Europe, 105;
his report, 106;
his notes of debates in Parliament, 112.
Quincy, Josiah (_President_), _Life of Josiah Quincy, Jr._, 94.
Quincy, Samuel, autog., 51.
Quincy, Samuel M., edits _Reports of Cases, by Josiah Quincy, Jr._,
68.
Quincy mansion at Quincy, Mass., 96.
Quinton's Bridge, 442.
Rahl, Col., at Trenton, 374;
killed, 375;
attacks Fort Washington, 289, 338.
Rainer, G. S., 330.
"Raleigh", Continental vessel, 576.
Rall. _See_ Rahl.
Ramapo, 379.
Ramsay, Allen, _Hist. Essay on the English Constitution_, 89;
_Thoughts on the Origin of Government_, 85.
Ramsay, David, a prisoner, 533;
map of Southern campaigns, 537;
_Revolution in South Carolina_, 507;
his career, 508;
_Amer. Revolution_, 67;
his acc. of Wyoming, 663.
Ramsey, J. G. M., _Annals of Tennessee_, 536, 678, 708.
Ramsour's Mill, fight at, 475, 510, 529.
Randall, O. E., _Chesterfield, N. H._, 355.
Randolph, Edmund, 259.
Randolph, Col. T. J., 258.
"Randolph", blown up, 571.
Randon, John, 194.
"Ranger." _See_ Jones, Paul.
Rangers on the frontiers, 608.
Rankin, E. E., address at Fairfield, 557.
Rantoul, Robt., Jr., oration at Concord, 184.
Rariton Bay, 327.
Rathbourne, I., in the "Queen of France", 583.
Rathbun, Jonathan, _Narrative_, 562.
Ratzer, Bernard, his different maps of N. Y., 328, 332, 333;
surveys of New Jersey, 409;
his surveys, 341.
Raum, _Trenton_, 407.
Ravenal, Daniel, 528.
Rawdon, Lord, drawing of Bunker Hill battle made for him, 197;
in the South, 476;
at Hobkirk's Hill, 488, 541;
captured, 534;
case of Hayne, 534;
retreats to Monk's Corner, 489;
portraits, 489;
made Marquis of Hastings, 489;
at Camden, 530;
his letters to Rugely, 532;
relieves Ninety-six, 493, 544.
Rawle, W. H., on Lambert Cadwalader, 341.
Rawlings, Col., 288.
Raymond, H. J., address at Tarrytown, 466.
Read, Geo., autog., 265;
life of, 265.
Read, Thos., assigned to the "Bourbon", 583.
Read, W. T., 416.
Read, Dr. Wm., _Reminiscences_, 537.
Reading, Pa., 383.
Red Bank, 386, 425, 435, 437.
Red Clay Creek, Pa., 381, 421.
Red Jacket, 662.
Red Lion, Pa., 421.
Redman, Rebecca, 452.
Reed, Esther, life of, 436.
Reed, Col. James, at Bunker Hill, 190.
Reed, John, _City and Liberties of Philad._, 442.
Reed, Joseph, writes to Dartmouth during the Congress of 1774, 90,
104;
letters to Josiah Quincy, 106;
autog., 141;
letter on the siege of Boston, 173;
on Washington's indecision, 403;
portrait, 405;
on the campaign of 1776 in Jersey, 405.
Reed, W. B., on Thomas Paine, 269;
on the retreat from Long Island, 330;
oration on reinterment of Mercer, 412;
on Brandywine, 418;
_Esther Reed_, 436.
Reed-Cadwalader controversy, 407.
Regulators, war of, 80.
_See_ North Carolina.
Renault, J. F., map of Yorktown, 553.
Renwick, _Benj. Thompson_, 546.
Revenue to be obtained from the colonies, 15, 24;
cases tried, 23;
seizures, 28.
Revere, Paul, engraves likeness of Sam. Adams, 40;
makes plan of State Street, 47;
engraves view of massacre, 47;
his views of Boston, 81;
as an engraver, 81;
at Portsmouth, 117;
his signal, 123;
his ride, 123, 173, 174;
where were his lanterns shown? 174;
paper by E. H. Goss, 47, 175;
portraits, 175;
commands artillery in the Penobscot expedition, 603;
re-engraves West picture of Bouquet's Indian council, 695.
Reynolds, Gov., _My own Times_, 721.
Reynolds, Grindall, 184.
Reynolds, John, 729, 734;
_Illinois_, 708.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, paints Burgoyne, 293;
paints Cornwallis, 474;
his _Engraved Works_, 474;
portrait of Tarleton, 517;
_Catalogue_ by Hamilton, 517.
Rhode Island, illicit trade in, 26;
com. of correspondence, 90;
cannon concealed (1774), 117;
equips troops (1775), 122;
renounces allegiance to England, 257;
retained her original charter, 274;
creates a navy (1775), 565, 567;
Esek Hopkins, 568;
her seamen, 587;
privateers, 591;
the "Gen. Washington", 591;
English fleet in (1776), 593;
fire-ships proposed, 593;
campaign (1778), 592;
maps of, 596, 598, 600, 602.
Rich, Obadiah, 608.
Rich, _Truro_, 568.
Richards, Thomas, 331;
account of attack on Fort Clinton, etc., 364.
Richardson, Ebenezer, shot Snider, 89.
Richman, Andrew, 153.
Richmond, old Raleigh Tavern, 259.
Rider, S. S., on the R. I. campaign of 1778, 595.
Ridgeley, _Annapolis_, 327.
Riedesel, Baron, in Cambridge, 142;
with Burgoyne, 294;
his comments on Burgoyne, 358;
life by Eelking, 361;
his wife conceals Hessian flags, 319;
on Bennington, 354.
Riley, E. S., Jr., 117.
Rising Sun Tavern, Pa., 421.
Rittenhouse, David, 371.
Ritzema, Rudolphus, 222.
Rivington's _Gazette_, or _Gazetteer_, 98, 110;
his press destroyed, 323.
Robbin, Rev. Ammi R., his journal, 346.
Robbins, Jonathan, 681.
Roberts, Algernon, 326, 403.
Roberts, Dr., of Boston, 47.
Roberts, Ellis H., _Oriskany_, 351.
Roberts, George, 398.
Robertson, Col. Charles, 677.
Robertson, Gen., 461;
in N. Y., 284.
Robin, Abbé, _Travels_, 560.
Robinson, Beverly, his supposed letter to Arnold, 452;
his house, 452, 458, 462, 465;
endeavors to save André, 461.
Robinson, J. DeLancey, 535.
Robinson, M. M., 198.
Rochambeau, Le Comte de, his maps, 345;
_Mèmoires_, 516, 560;
in Soulé's _Troubles_, 516;
portraits, 498;
autog., 498;
sails from Brest, 498;
at Newport, 499;
meets Washington at Weathersfield, 499, 560;
leaves Newport, 499;
reaches the Hudson, 500, 561;
map of route, 561;
marches to Virginia, 500;
his maps of Yorktown, 553;
march of his army to Yorktown, 551;
alleged journal, 554;
corresp. with the R. I. authorities, 560;
arrives in America, 560;
his instructions, 560;
letters, 560;
blockaded in Newport, 560;
maps of his camps, etc., about N. Y. (1781), 561;
at Odell House in Westchester, 561;
meets Washington at New Windsor, 561;
at Williamsburg, 744;
sails for France, 745.
Rocheblave, Gov., at Vincennes, 719;
sent to Williamsburg, 723;
account of him, 723.
Rochefoucault-Liancourt, _Travels_, 658.
Rock River, 741.
Rockingham, ministry, 21, 31, 74;
attacked, 76;
portrait, 31.
Rockwell, E. F., 98, 678.
Rocky Hill, N. J., 408;
Washington at, 746.
Rocky Mount, 475.
Rodney, Admiral Sir George, relations with Sir Henry Clinton, 501;
at N. Y., 454, 458.
Rodney, Cæsar, 405;
autog., 265;
life, 266;
on the battle of Long Island, 327;
commands Delaware militia, 380.
Rodney, Capt. Thomas, 407.
Rogers, Col. David, 738.
Rogers Gen. Horatio, edits _Hadden's Journal_, 359.
Rogers, Lieut. John, 725.
Rogers, Josias, _Memoirs_, 527.
Rogers, J. E. T., edits _Protests of the Lords_, 74;
Franklin's notes on, 74.
Rogers, Maj. Robert, on the Pontiac War, 690, 701;
his MS. diary, 701.
Rogers, T. J., _Departed Heroes_, 508.
Rolfe, J., _Naval Biog._, 589.
Romans, Bernard, at Fort George (Lake George), 129;
acc. of, 129;
plan of siege of Boston, 207;
surveys of Carolina, 538;
lines on Boston Neck, 212.
Rome, N. Y., 351.
Romilly, Sir Samuel, justified the execution of André, 463.
Romney, G., paints Brant, 625;
Thomas Paine, 269.
"Romney", man-of-war, 43.
Rondthaler, _Heckewelder_, 736.
Rosengarten, J. C., on the German soldiers in Newport, 601.
Rosenthal, Louis, 269.
Ross, Chas., his _Cornwallis Correspondence_, 516.
Ross, Geo., autog., 265;
life, 266.
Ross, Lieut., _Map of Mississippi_, 720;
section of, 721.
Rowland, K. M., "Virginia Cavaliers", 407.
Roxbury (Mass.), camp, 203;
lines at, 206, 210;
roads of, 120, 121;
view of lines, 130;
view of, 149.
_Royal American Magazine_, 40, 81, 271.
Royce, C. C., 735.
Rugeley Mills, 476.
Ruggles, Timothy, president of the Congress of 1765, 30, 74;
organized an association of loyalists, 97, 118.
Rum made in New England, 25.
Rumford, Count. _See_ Thompson, Benj.
Rupp, I. D., _Western Penna._, 693.
Rush, Benj., approves John Adams's _Thoughts on Government_, 272;
autog., 264;
and the Conway cabal, 392;
life, 265.
Rush, Richard, _Washington in Domestic Life_, 466.
Rushbrooke, Barham, likeness of Gen. Lee, 406.
Rusoe d'Eres, C. D., 222.
Russell, Major Benj., 467.
Russell, Earl, his books on C. J. Fox, 112;
on the Decl. of Indep., 269.
_Russell's Magazine_, 519.
Rutherford, Gen. Griffeth, 475, 676, 677, 678.
Rutland, Mass., 298, 321.
Rutledge, Edw., 264;
life by Flanders, 73, 520;
life by A. Middleton, 265;
autog., 266;
proposes neutrality for S. C., 470, 520.
Rutledge, H. M., life of Arthur Middleton, 265.
Ruttenber, E. M., _Obstructions in the Hudson River_, 323, 465;
_Orange County_, 662.
Ryerson, _Loyalists of America_, 523, 670.
Sabine, Lorenzo, _Report on Fisheries_, 568.
Sackville Papers, 516.
Saffrel, W. T. R., _Records_, 418.
Sag Harbor, expedition to, 591.
Saint. _See_ St.
Salem (Muskingum Valley), 734.
Salem, Mass., Leslie at, 119, 172;
her privateers, 586.
Saltonstall, Capt. Dudley, in the navy, 570;
commands the fleet sent against Penobscot, 582, 603;
quarrels with Lovell, 603;
blamed by court of inquiry, 604.
Sampson, Deborah, 191.
Sampson, Simeon, in the "Ranger", 583.
Sanderson, John, lives of Franklin and B. Rush, 265;
_Signers of the Decl. of Indep._, 265.
Sands, Robert, edits _Life of Paul Jones_, 590;
annotated copy, 590.
Sandusky, the modern city, 735;
the old site, 735;
missionaries at, 735.
Sandy Hook, 340;
lighthouse, 325.
Sanguinet, Simon, _La Guerre des Bastonnais_, 223.
Santee River, 475;
High Hills of, 493.