Lowell, Rev. Charles, 37
Lowly office after the Presidency, 261
Loyalists' houses confiscated, 89
Lunt, Ezra, 78
Maddox, Rev. Robert, 212
Madison, James, 37, 223, 236, 296
Makemie, Frances, 212
Mantonomi, 81
Marblehead, Massachusetts, 72
Marietta, Ohio, 377
Marion, General, 337
Marriages: Mary Philipse and Roger Morris, 93
Rev. William Tennent and Mrs. Noble, 123
Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, 129
William Penn and Guli Springett, 145
William Penn and Hannah Callowhill, 147
William Aubrey and Letitia Penn, 148
John James Audubon and Mary Bakewell, 190
Kensey Johns and Anne Van Dyke, 206
Charles J. Du Pont and Dorcas M. Van Dyke, 208
Upton Scott and Elizabeth Ross, 221
Robert E. Lee and Miss Custis, 247
Augustine Washington and Mary Ball, 252
John Rolfe and Pocahontas, 266
John Tyler and Letitia Christian, 260
Thomas Nelson and Lucy Grymes, 270
James Madison and Dorothy Todd, 298
James Madison and Eliza Kortwright, 301
George Washington and Martha Custis, 321
Thomas Jefferson and Martha Skelton, 322
Jacob Motte and Rebecca Brewton, 336
Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Axson, 343
Henry Clay and Lavinia Hart, 355
Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Dent, 362
Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd, 370
Moses Shepherd and Lydia Boggs, 383
Philip Schuyler and Catherine Van Rensselaer, 393
Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, 393
Governor Wentworth and Martha Hilton, 397
Michael Wentworth and Mrs. Martha Wentworth, 399
Marshall, Chief Justice, 169, 274, 294
Martineau, Harriet, 299, 356
_Mary_, ship, 245
Mary Washington House, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 251
Mason and Dixon line, 171
Mason, George, 281, 312
Mason, Lowell, 342
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 28
Massacre, Boston, 19, 31
Massasoit, 80
Mather, Cotton, 58
Mather, Increase, 32
_Mayflower_, Putnam's barge on the Ohio, 379
McColloch's leap, 382
McKinley, William, 346
Meade, Bishop, 276, 319
Medford, Massachusetts, 27, 66
Mercer, General, 135
Mercer House, Princeton, New Jersey, 134
_Mercury_, New York, 87
Mill Grove, near Philadelphia, 187
Monmouth, battle of, 123
Monroe, James, 232, 294, 301, 342
Montgomery, General, 97
Monticello, Virginia, 322
Montpelier, Virginia, 296
Monument Place, Elm Grove, West Virginia, 381
Monumental Church, Richmond, Virginia, 277, 294
Moore House, Yorktown, Virginia, 270, 274
Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 196
Morris, Gouverneur, 98, 103
Morris-Jumel House, New York City, 87, 94
Morris, Robert, 184
Morris, Roger, 87, 93
Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, 134
"Mosses from an Old Manse," 63
Mount Airy, Virginia, 234, 314
Mount Vernon, Virginia, 109, 241
Munitions, Revolutionary, 173
Nantes, Edict of, 28
Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, 130
_National Intelligencer_, Washington, 236
National Pike, 384
Nelson House, Yorktown, Virginia, 270
Nelson, Thomas, 270
Newark, New Jersey, 130
Newburyport, Massachusetts, 55, 75
New Castle, Delaware, 145, 203
New England Antiquities, Society for the Preservation of, 71
New Orleans, battle of, 346
Newspapers: _Liberator_, 22
Essex _Gazette_, 25
Boston _News Letter_, 28
Boston _Gazette_, 30
_Little Pilgrim, The_, 54
New York _Mercury_, 87
New York _Daily Advertiser_, 87
New York _Gazette_, 95, 99
New York _Journal and General Advertiser_, 95
Philadelphia _Pennsylvania Packet_, 97
_Pennsylvania Evening Post_, 155, 173
_Pennsylvania Gazette_, 164
_Daily American Advertiser_, Philadelphia, 196
_National Intelligencer_, Washington, 227, 236
_Gazette of the United States_, 256
Williamsburg _Gazette_, 262
_American Standard_, Richmond, Virginia, 295
San Antonio _Herald_, 348
_Kentucke Gazette_, 355
Springfield _Journal_, 372
Portland _Gazette_, 402
Nicola, Lewis, tries to tempt Washington, 108
Norriton, Pennsylvania, 170
Norriton Presbyterian Church, 172
North Church, Boston, 27
Northwestern Territory, 274
Nova Scotia, Franklin's land speculation in, 117
Noyes, Alfred, 136
Oak Hill, Virginia, 301
Octagon House, Washington, 231, 234, 236, 317
Oglethorpe, General James E., 341
Ohio Company, the, 378
Ohio River, floating down the, 190
Old Manse, the, Concord, Massachusetts, 61
Old Pine Street Church, Philadelphia, 159
Old North Church, Boston, 32
Old South Church, 20, 24, 31, 32
Old South Church, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 75
Old State House, Boston, 19
Old Tennent Church, Freehold, New Jersey, 122
Oliver, Thomas, 36
Ordway, Alfred A., 56
O'Reilly, Count Alejandro, 343
Orin, Azor, 73
"Oven, The," temporary Capitol, 227
Paoli Massacre, 181, 194
Parsons, Dr. Jonathan, 78
Patriot who destroyed their own houses: Thomas Nelson, 271;
Rebecca Motte, 339
Pauling, John, 178
Paul Revere's House, Boston, Massachusetts, 23
Peabody, Sophia, 62
Peace, signing of, in 1783, 110
Peale, Charles Wilson, 133, 154
Penn, Letitia, 146
Penn, Thomas and Richard, 153
Penn, William, 145, 162, 204
Pennsbury Manor, Pennsylvania, 147
_Pennsylvania Evening Post_, 155, 173
_Pennsylvania Gazette_, 164
_Pennsylvania Packet_, Philadelphia, 97
Pennypacker, Samuel W., 171
Penobscot expedition, 28
Persecution, religious, in New York, 213
Phi Beta Kappa Society, 294
Philadelphia, evacuation of, 177
Philadelphia, Paul Revere rides to, 25
Philipsburgh, Manor of, 92
Philipse, Colonel Frederick, 92
Philipse, Frederick, 91
Philipse Manor House, Yonkers, New York, 91
Philipse, Mary, 93
Pine Grove, Virginia, 253
Pine-tree shillings, dowry of, 50
Plum pudding, the best dinner, 260
Plymouth, New Hampshire, 66
Pohick Church, Virginia, 249, 311
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 26, 395
Potomac Canal, 218, 285
Prayer at opening of First Continental Congress, 151
Prayer for the King, omitted, 154
President's pew: in St. Paul's Chapel, New York, 96
in St. Peter's, Philadelphia, 154
in Pohick Church, Virginia, 312
Princeton, battle of, 133, 135
Princeton University, 130
Pringle House, Charleston, South Carolina, 336
Providence, Rhode Island, 82
Putnam, William Lowell, 38
"Put Watts into them, boys," 140
Quincy, Dorothy, 52
Quincy, Edmund, 49, 51
Quincy, Edmund, III, 51
Quincy, Josiah, 53
Quincy, Judith, 50
Quincy Mansion, Quincy, Massachusetts, 49
Quincy, Massachusetts, 44
Quincy, Massachusetts Historical Society, 47
Randolph, Edmund, 269, 294
Randolph, John, 228
Read, George, 205
Red Bank, New Jersey, victory at, 181
Redemptioners, purchase of, 186
Red Hill, Virginia, 305
Revere, Paul, 23, 33, 53, 77
Rhode Island, 83
Ridgely, Dr. Charles Greenburg, 209
Rittenhouse, David, 198
Rittenhouse House, Philadelphia, 170
Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Duc de la, 325
Rodney, Caesar, 208, 209
Roosevelt, Theodore, 233, 290
Ross, George, 204
Royall House, Medford, Massachusetts, 66
Royall, Isaac, 67
Royall, William, 67
Rufus Putnam's House, Marietta, Ohio, 377
Rush, Dr. Benjamin, 163, 171
St. John's Church, Richmond, Virginia, 264, 266
St. Luke's Church, Smithfield, Virginia, 318
St. Martins-in-the-Fields, London, 82
St. Michael's Church, Charleston, South Carolina, 333
St. Peter's Church, New Kent County, Virginia, 318
St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, 153
St. Philip's Church, Charleston, South Carolina, 335, 340
Salem, Massachusetts, 80
Savannah, Georgia, Siege of, 341
Schools, free, beginnings of, in Pennsylvania, 186
Schuyler, Catherine, 393
Schuyler, Elizabeth, 100, 127
Schuyler, General Philip, 100, 126
Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York, 391
Scott House, Annapolis, Maryland, 220
Scott, Molly, 382
Scott, Upton, 220
Servants, problem of, in early days, 185
Severance, Frank H., 386
Sewell, Judge Samuel, 50, 74
Shadwell, Virginia, 297, 322
Sharpe, Horatio, 221
Shepherd, Moses, 381
Sherwood Forest, Virginia, 257, 261
Shippen, Dr. William, Jr., 162
Ships: _Dartmouth_, 24
_Somerset_, 27
_Welcome_, 145
_John and Sarah_, 146
_Surprise_, 223
_Mary_, 245
_Constitution_ and _Guerriere_, _Cyano_ and _Levant_, 317
_Lightning_, 333
Shirley, Virginia, 280
Signers of the Declaration of Independence: John Witherspoon, 132
Benjamin Rush, 162
George Ross, 204
George Read, 205
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 216
Thomas Nelson, 270
George Wythe, 290
Richard Lightfoot Lee, 314
Skippack, Pennsylvania, 180
Smith, Abigail, 46
Smith, Rev. William, 46
"Snow-Bound," 55
Society for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, 277
_Somerset_, ship, 27
Sons of the Revolution, 99
Springett, Guli, 145
Springfield, battle of, 141
Springfield Meeting House, New Jersey, 138
Stamp Act, 30, 46, 218
Star-Spangled Banner, story of the, 222
Stark, General John, 68
Stark, Molly, 68
State House Clock, Philadelphia, 172
State House Yard, Philadelphia, 163
Steuben, Baron, 176
Stevens, Colonel William, 211
Stockton, Mrs. Richard, 134
Stone Church, Elm Grove, West Virginia, 386
Stony Point, New York, 195
Stuart, Gilbert, 218
Stuyvesant, Petrus, 204
Sullivan, General, 43
Susquehanna, Falls of the, 226
Sweetbrier, Philadelphia, 183
Swett, Martha, 74
Symmes, Rev. Frank R., 123
Taney, Chief Justice R. R., 222
Tayloe, John, 232, 234, 314
Tea meetings, 31
Tecumseh, Indian chief, 375
Tennent, Rev. John, 123
Rev. William, 123
Texas, Republic of, 350
Thames, battle of the, 360
Theatre fire in Richmond, Virginia, 294
Thomson, George, 208
Thornton, Dr. William, 226, 234
Ticonderoga, 193
Tilghman, Tench, 127, 392
Tillinghast, Pardon, 81
Treaty of 1783, 133
Trenton, battle of, 135
Tudor, John, 19
Tyler, Henry, 290
Tyler, Judge John, 257, 258, 294
United States archives, removed to new Capitol at Washington, 227
University of Virginia, the, 326
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 174, 182, 189, 195, 218
Vanarsdal, Rev. Jacob, 141
Van Buren, Martin, 232
Van Cortlandt, Jacobus, 105
Van Cortlandt Park, 104
Van der Donck, Jonkheer Adriaen, 91, 105
Van Dyke, Henry, 215
Van Dyke, Nicholas, 205
Vane, Sir Harry, 50
Vassall, John, 41
Vassall, Leonard, 48
Venus, transit of, 171
Vincennes, Indiana, 374
Waldo, Albigence, 182
Walker, Rachel, 23
Wallace Nutting Corporation, 70
Walter, Thomas U., 229
Ward, Samuel, 42
Warner House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 399
Warren, General, 26
Washington and Lee University, 248
Washington, burning of, in 1814, 184, 228, 231, 235, 317
Washington College, Lexington, Virginia, 285
Washington, George, 21, 31, 40, 72, 88, 93, 95, 96, 98, 99, 105,
108, 110, 124, 133, 137, 139, 157, 173, 174, 178, 189, 192, 194,
206, 218, 226, 234, 241, 246, 252, 256, 272, 281, 283, 285, 290,
294, 305, 308, 311, 315, 316, 321, 374, 377, 378
Washington, Laurence, 241, 253
Washington, Mrs. George, 42, 127, 177, 245
Wayne, Captain Isaac, 192
Wayne, General Anthony, 107, 157, 192
Waynesborough, near Philadelphia, 192
Wayside, The, Concord, Massachusetts, 61
Weare, Meschech, 108
Webster, Daniel, 384
Weems, Parson, 313
Wentworth, Governor Benning, 395
Wentworth House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 395
West Church, Boston, 37
Westover, Virginia, 278
West Point Military Academy, 100, 106, 362
Wheelwright, Rev. John, 50
Whitefield, Rev. George, 75
White Haven, St. Louis, Missouri, 362
White House, Washington, 230, 236
Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, 181
Whitley's Station, Kentucky, 359
Whittier, John G., 54, 79
Whittier, Thomas, 54
Wilkinson, General, 158
William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, 259, 289, 291
Williamsburg Court House, Virginia, 262
Williamsburg, Virginia, 289
Williams, Roger, 80
Wilson, Daniel Munro, 44, 47
Winthrop, Governor, 34, 66
Wirt, William, describes Patrick Henry's first public speech, 264
Witherspoon, John, 132
Wolfe, Colonel James, 220
Women's Centennial Executive Committee, 339
Wren, James, 249
Wren, Sir Christopher, 82, 292
Wythe, George, 290
Yonkers, New York, 88, 91
York, Pennsylvania, 174
Yorktown, Siege of, 271, 279
Zinzendorf, Count, 197
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Transcriber's note:
Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have
been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Page 107: "1872" possibly should be 1782.
Page 309: "Hampdon Sidney" possibly should be "Hampden Sydney."
Various references to Newcastle or New Castle, Delaware have been
left as printed.
All illustrations except the frontispiece have been moved to their
references in the text.
Unmatched quotation marks were left as printed.