Constitution of the United States, Washington sug-
gests a convention on the subject of a; history of
the, 355; articles of the, 359, 360, 361. Amendments, 758.
Constitution of Government, Pilgrim, 78.
"Constitution," frigate, 382, 415, 440. Action of the, with
the Guerriere, 414.
Continental, Army, 238. Congress: see
Congress.
Money, 245; Depreciation of, 293, 328; Counterfeited,
293.
CONTRECŒUR, M., attacks the Ohio Company's men,
182.
Contreras, Battle of, 1847. 493.
CRUGER, Lieutenant-Colonel, 335. In South Carolina, 313
Cuba, Discovery of, 40. Fears of invasion of, 508.
Difficulties about settlement of, 520.
CULPEPPER, Lord, Grants to by Charles II., 110.
CULPEPPER JOHN, 99. The revolt led by, 164. Lays out
the city of Charleston, 165.
Currency, National, Of the United States, 872.
CURTIN, Governor, calls out Militia, 653,
CURTIS, S. R., General. 591.
CUSHING, CALEB, 540.
CUSHING, THOMAS, 588.
Convention on the Articles of Confederation, 356. At CUSHING, WILLIAM, Judge, 869
Albany, 1754, 183.
CONWAY, THOMAS, General, 285.
CONWAY, HENRY SEYMOUR, General, his motion in Par-
liament, 846, 847.
COODE, The insurgent, 153.
COPLEY, JOHN SINGLETON, 209.
COPLEY, LIONEL, Royal Governor, 153.
COPPIN, Pilot of the Mayflower, 78.
Copp's Hill, 235.
COOPER, ASHLEY, Lord, 98.
Cooper River, Origin of the name, 99.
CORDOVA, FRANCISCO FERNANDEZ DE, discovers Mexico,
43.
Coree Indians, 17, 20, 57. Conspire against the North
Carolina settlements, 168.
Corinth, Battle at, 635. Evacuation of, 604.
CORNBURY, Lord, 149, 161.
Cornplanter, 26, 304.
CORNSTALK unites with Logan against the white men,
20. His bravery and death, 20.
CORNWALLIS, CHARLES, Lord, on Long Island, 253, 254.
Captures Fort Lee, 259. Pursues Washington, 260. At
New York, 262. At Princeton, 268. At Charleston,
811. In South Carolina, 313. At Sander's Creek, 315.
In command of the British Army at the South, 315.
At Charlotte, 318. At Winnsborough, 319. Suc-
ceeds Phillips, 830. Pursues Morgan, 332. Abandons
North Carolina, 334. At Wilmington and Petersburg,
388. His operations in Virginia, 388. Surrenders at
Yorktown, 341. His cruelty, 318. Notice of, 318.
Corpus Christi village, Mexico, 450.
CORTEZ, FERNANDO, his expedition to Mexico, 43. De-
thrones Montezuma, 10. Notice of, 43.
CORTOREAL, GASPER, his expedition to America, in 1500,
47.
COSBY, WILLIAM, Governor, 150.
COSTA RICA declares war against Nicaragua, 1856, 526.
COTTON, Rev. Mr., 118. Comes to America, 86.
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CUSHMAN, ROBERT, 77.
“ Cyane,” frigate, 440.
DADE, FRANCIS L., Major, massacred, 467. Notice of
467.
Dahcotah Indians, 81, 82.
DALE, SIR THOMAS, arrives at Jamestown, with supplies,
69. Governor of Virginia, 70.
DAHLGREN, Admiral, 688, 673.
Dalton, Georgia, Raid at, 682.
Danvers, Witchcraft at, 133.
DARE, ELEANOR, her daughter Virginia, 56.
Dartmouth College, 178.
Daughters of Liberty, 216.
DAVENPORT, JOHN, 88.
DAVIE, WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Colonel, 818, 356. Envoy
to France, 385.
DAVIS, JEFFERSON, Secretary of War, 528. Notice of
547, 569. Elected President of Confederacy, 641-
Flies from Richmond, 718. Taken prisoner, 722.
DAVIS, JEFERSON C., 591.
D'HANVILLE, 138.
D'AYLLON, LUCAS Vasquez, 42.
DAYTON, JONATHAN, 856, 629.
DEANE, SILAS, Member of the first Continental Congress,
588. Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs,
807, 308. American Agent in France, 266. On the
American embassy to France, 266.
DEARBORN, HENRY, 890. Commands the Army of the
North, 412. At York, Canada, 425. Notice of, 410.
Debt of United States, 679. In 1868, 784.
DECATUR, STEPHEN, Commodore, 415. In the Mediter-
ranean; at Algiers; at Tunis, 445. His exploit at
Tripoli, notice of, 392. Captured, 440.
Declaration of Rights, 215.
Deerfield, 126. Attacked by Rouville, 185.
DE HART, JOHN, 588.
DE HEISTER, 253, 254.
"Countess of Scarborough" captured by Paul Jones, DE KALB, Baron, in the Southern campaign, 309, 314.
Cotton, Cultivation of, in the United States, 368.
Council of Plymouth, 117, 120.
Council Indian, how composed, 16.
Cowpens, Battle of, 331, 332.
Death of, 316. Notice of, 316.
DELANCEY, JAMES, Governor, 183, 185. Favors a Stamp
Act, 541.
Cows brought to America by Columbus, 41. Taken to Delaware, Settlement of, 92. Colonies, 144. Swedes
Virginia, 68.
in, 62. Yields to the Dutch, 147. An independent
colony, 159.
Delaware Bay, Verrazani anchors in, 48.
Delaware Indians, 17, 21, 161, 363.
DE LA WAKR, Lord, Governor of Virginia, 68. At James-
town, 69. Character of; death of, 69.
Delft-Haven, Holland, Puritans sail from, 77.
DE MONTS, 58.
Deseret, the country of the Mormons; signification of
the name, 504.
DE SOTO, FERDINAND, 44, 45.
D'ESTAING; see Estaing.
DETROIT, Capture of, 424.
DEVENS, CHARLES, General, 585.
DE VRIES, Captain. 92. His plantation, 140.
Crimea, the, Enlistments in American cities, for the DEXTER, SAMUEL, 359.
English Army in, 52S.
CRITTENDEN, GEORGE B., Colonel, 593.
CRITTENDEN, WILLIAM L., at Cuba; executed, 508.
CROGHAN, Major, Notice of, 420.
CROMWELL, OLIVER, 155. His supposed intention to mi-
grate to America, 120, 130. Opposed by Virginia, 108.
Notice of, 108.
Cross of St. George, 144. Of St. Andrew, 144. Pine,
erected by De Soto, 44. Planted on the shore of Gaspè
inlet, 48.
DICKENSON, JOHN, Chairman of the convention on the
Constitution of the United States, 355. His letters
DIESKAU, Baron, Fate of his expedition, 189, 190. Death
of, 190.
Dime, United States coin, 372.
Dinwiddie Court House, 717.
DINWIDDIE, ROBERT, Governor, 185. His letter to St.
Pierre, 181. His independent companies, 184.
Directory, The French, 888, 884.
DORBS, Governor, 185,
Crown Point, 199. Champlain at, 59. Johnson's expe- Dobb's Ferry, 257.
Dominion, The Old: see Old Dominion.
Donelson, Fort, Victory at, 597.
DONGAN, THOMAS, Governor, 147.
DONIPHAN, Colonel, 488, 489.
DONOP, Count, at Burlington, 262. Death of, 295.
DOUGLAS, STEPHEN A., 541.
Dover, attacked by the French and Indians, 1669, 180.
DOWNIE, Commodore, 434. Death of, 435.
Dpaft, 657.
DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS, 56. At St. Augustine, 57. Dis-
covers the tobacco-plant; introduces it into England,
70.
DRUMMOND, General, 432, 438. At Burlington Heights,
433. At Fort Erie, 434.
DRUMMOND, WILLIAM, Rev., 111. Executed, 97, 112.
DUANE, WILLIAM J., refuses to withdraw the Govern-
ment funds from the United States Bank, 465.
DUCHE, JACOB, Rev., 228.
DUTCH, The, their maritime enterprise, 71. East India
Company of, send a ship to the Hudson River, 71.
Purchase Manhattan Island from the Manhattan
Indians, 21. Settle at New Amsterdam, 62. In New
Netherland, send a friendly salutation to the Massa-
chusetts Colony, 118. Their friendly intercourse with
the Puritans, 85. Oppose Captain Holmes, 85.
Purchase Long Island, 114. Claim jurisdiction upon
the Connecticut, 121. Settle in South Carolina, 99.
Take possession of New York, 147.
Dutch East India Company, 59, 71.
Dutch West India Company, 72, 93, 139, 144.
Dutch Point, Connecticut, 85.
Eagle, American gold coin, 872.
292. Off the coast of Georgia, 305. At the siege of
Savannah, 305. Notice of 289.
Estramadura, Cortez died at, in 1554, 48.
Etchemin Indians, 22.
Eutaw Springs, Battle of, 338.
EVERETT, EDWARD, Mass., 542.
EWELL, General, 617, 654.
EWING, JAMES, General, at Trenton, 263.
Exeter, New Hampshire, founded, 80.
Fairfield, Connecticut, 88.
Fair Oaks, Battle at, 619.
Falls of the James River, 105, 108.
Famine in the Virginia Colony, 69.
FARRAGUT, Commodore, 610, 630, 632, 678, 708,
FAUCHET, M., succeeds M. Genet, 878
FAULKNER, Major, 430.
FAUST, JOHN, his printing office, 62
Fayetteville, Engagement at, 675.
Federalist Party, 377.
"Federalist," The, 361.
Felucca Gun-boat, 401.
FENDALL, Governor, 153.
Fenian Brotherhood, 728.
FERDINAND and ISABELLA, 88, 60.
FERGUSON, ADAM, 266.
FERGUSON, Captain, 336.
FERGUSON, Mrs., her attempt to bribe General Reed,
286.
FERGUSON, PATRICK, Major, at King's Mountain, 1750,
319. Death and grave of 819.
Fernando de Taos, Massacre at, 489.
FERRAR, NICHOLAS, 107.
FEW, WILLIAM, 355, 356.
Fidelity, The Order of, 852.
FILLMORE, MILLARD, Vice-President, 498. President, 501.
Notice of, 501. Cabinet of, 502. Close of administra-
tion of, 512.
Fine Arts in America, 209.
Finances of the United States, 679.
FISHER, MARY, Quakeress, arrives at Boston, 122.
East India Company send tea to America; notice of FISHERIES, 349. Prohibitory Act of Parliament respect-
the, 224.
121. In the colonies, 178.
EDWARDS, JONATHAN, 210.
EFFINGHAM, Governor, Character of, 118.
Elba, Bonaparte at, 431.
ing the, 231. Difficulties between Great Britain and
the United States respecting the, 511, 523.
Fishing Creek, 27.
FITZSIMONS, THOMAS, 356, 629.
Five Nations, The, History of 23. Captain John
Smith's friendly relations with, 67. Allies of Governor
Winthrop, 131. Attempts of James II. to introduce
French priests among them, 147. Their treaty of
neutrality, 185.
Royal, of Great Britain, 144.
Union, 245. Of the thirteen stripes, unfurled by
Washington at Cambridge, 144.
Electors for President and Vice-President of the United Flathead Indians, 33.
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FLEMING, Captain, Death of, 269.
FLETCHER, BENJAMIN, Governor, 149, 156, 184.
Flint River, De Soto on the banks of the, 44.
Floating Batteries described, 201.
Florida, Discovery of; origin of the name, 42. Narvaez,
Governor of, 48, 44. Melendez's expedition to, 50, 51.
Oglethorpe's expedition to, 172. Ceded to England
204. Restored to Spain, 349. Ceded to the United
States, 1819, 451. State of, added to the Union, 475
Secession of, 547.
FOOTE, A. H., Commander, 595. Wounded, 605,
Forts:-Adams, 874. Amsterdam, 189. Andrew, 173
Bower, 438. Brooke, 467. Brown, 481. Butler, 67%
Carolina, 51, 98. Casimir, 142, 143. Clinton, 23, 24
Cumberland, 198. Darling, 694. Dearborn, 412 De-
fiance, 374, 416. Deposit, 416. De Russy, 677,
Diego, 172. Donelson, 595, Drane, 467. Du Quesne,
27, 182, 185, 186. Edward, 189, 190, 191, 192, 275, Erie.
433, 434. Fisher, 713. Forty Fort, 290. Frederica
173. Frontenac, 198. Gaines, 709. Galphin, SSA
George, on Lake George, 198, 414, 425, 426, 47,
George, New York City, 248, 351. Granby, 235, Gris-
wold, 840. Hamilton, 253. Harrison. 416, Hatteras.
580. Henry, 595. Hindman, 643. Independence,
220. Jackson, 610. King, 467. La Fayette, 295, 586,
Leavenworth, 483, 486. Le Boeuf, 181. Lee, 259. Ly-
man, 189. Mackinaw, 411. Macon, 607. Malden, 410
Meigs, 419. Mercer, 274, 275. Miflin, 274. M'Henry,
487. Mimms, 427. Monroe, 615, 695. Montgomery | Funeral Ceremonies, Indian, 15.
283. Morgan, 488. Moosa, 172. Motte, 835. Moultrie, Furs, Trade in, 72, 116, 189, 140.
249, 310, 468. Nassau, 72, 93, 94. Necessity, 183.
Niagara, 199, 200, 427. Ninety-Six, 316, 335, 336.
Ontario, 189, 192. Orange, 72, 139, 144, 148. Oswego,
189, 192. Pemberton, 643. Pepperell, 159. Pickens,
580. Pillow, 605, 682. Pitt, 198. Powhatan, 691.
Presque Isle, 181. Prince George, 335. Putnam, 283,
824. Recovery, 874. Republic, 617. St. Frederick,
189. St. Philip. 440, 610. Sandusky, 419. Schuyler,
278. Simon, 173. Stanwix, 278. Steadman, 717.
Stephenson, 419. Stoddart, 898. Sullivan, 249.
Trumbull, 340. Venango, 181. Wagner, 673, 674.
Warren, 557. Washington, 258. Watson, 835, Wayne,
874, 416. William, 178. William Henry, 191, 194.
FORREST, N. B., Guerilla Chief, 682, 681.
Fox, GEORGE, visits his Quaker brethren in America,
94. Notice of, 122.
For Indians, 17. Conspire against the English, 205.
See Sacs and Foxes.
France, First American embassy to, 266. Alliance of,
with the United States, 283. Fleet of, sent to America,
286. Secret treaty of, with Spain, 306. Depredations
by, on American commerce, 382. Fleet of, attacked
by Arbuthnot, 330. War with United States, 385. Its
commerce, 401. Negotiation with United States, 406.
United States Minister to, 429. Claims of the United
States against, 468.
FRANCIS I., his expedition to America, 47.
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, 210. His plan of Colonial Confed-
eration, 183. A Colonel, 193. At Boston, on the sub-
ject of the invasion of Canada, 239. Circulates in Eng-
land the State-papers of the Continental Congress, 230,
On the Committee to confer with Lord Howe, 257. On
the Committe to draft a Declaration of Independence,
251, 252. On the embassy to France. Issues commis-
sions to Naval Officers,308. Commissioner on the Treaty
of Peace, 348. The Pope's Nur sio makes overtures to,
respecting an Apostolic Virar in the United States,
853.
Member of the Convention on the Articles of
Confederation, 356. His proposition respecting prayers
at the Convention, 859. His account of the father of
Cotton Mather, 134.
FRANKLIN, General, 625, 684.
FRANKLIN, SIR JOHN, Search for, 509, 510.
Franklin, Battle at, 705.
Frankfort, Capture of, 633.
FRASER, General, 276.
FREDERICK THE GREAT, his opinion of Washington,
269.
FREDERICK III, of Prussia, 481.
Fredericksburg, 625, Battle of, 631. Battle near, 692.
Free Institutions, Growth of, 114.
Freedom, Ideas of, in Massachusetts, 118.
FREMONT, JOHN CHARLES, Colonel, his exploits in Califor-
nia, 487; at Los Angeles; at San Gabriel; deprived of
his commission, 487. Senator from California, 499.
Notice of, 487. Explorations of 515, 574.
FRENCH, PARKER H., Colonel, 427.
French Colony on Sable Island, 57. Acadia, 121.
Possessions in North America, between the Penobscot
and St. Croix, 129. In Carolina, 55. Revolution, 877.
Settlement, the earliest in the New World, 58, 59.
Spoliations, 468.
French, The, in Canada, discover the Algonquins, 17.
First visit of, to the Sioux Indians, 32. Earliest Ex-
plorers of the Middle and Upper Mississippi, 31. Sub-
jugation of, in North America, 204. Assailed by the
Natchez Indians, 29. Their expedition against Charles-
French and Indian War, 19, 104, 188, 179.
Frenchtown, burned, 430.
Fresh Water River, 85.
FROBISHER, SIR MARTIN, his expedition, 52.
used by, 60. Notice of, 51.
GAEDSDEN, CHRISTOPHER, Lieutenant Governor, 812.
GAGE, THOMAS, General, A Lieutenant-Colonel at the
battle of Monongahela, 186. Governor of Montreal,
203. Enters Boston with soldiers, 220. Governor of
Massachusetts, 226. Sends his secretary to dissolve
the General Assembly of Massachusetts, 227. Fortifies,
Boston, 229. Notice of, 229.
GAINES, EDMUND P., General, Arrests Aaron Burr, 898.
At Fort Erie, 733. His expedition against the Semi-
noles; joined by General Jackson, 448. Assailed by
the Seminoles, near Withlacoochee, 467. Notices of,
448, 467.
GALLATIN, ALBERT, Member of the House of Representa-
tives, 389. Secretary of the Treasury, 390, 406. Envoy,
419. United States Commissioner at Ghent, 1814, 433.
GALLOWAY, JOSEPH, 260, 588.
Galveston, Pirates and slave-dealers at, 448.
GAMBIER, Lord, British Commissioner at Ghent, 1814
433.
GANSEVOORT, Colonel, At Fort Stanwix, 278.
Garangula, 26.
GARDINER, Colonel, 295.
Gaspé Inlet, 48.
"Gaspé," schooner, 223, 810.
GATES, HORATIO, General, His appointment as Adjutant
General, 238. Succeeds General Thomas, 261. Super-
sedes General Schuyler, 277. At Bemis's Heights, 278.
Burgoyne surrenders to, 281. Chairman of the Board
of War, 294. His flight to Charlotte, 316. Trial of,
880. Notice of, 314.
GATES, Sir THOMAS, 68. At Jamestown. Returns to
England.
GEIGER, EMILY, 337.
GENET, EDMUND CHARLES, Minister from France to the
United States, 377. Fits out privateers, 877. Recalled,
in 1798, 378. Notice of, 877.
GEORGE L, of England, 136, 137.
GEORGE II, of England, Accession of, 187. Charter
granted by, for the proposed Georgia Colony, 100.
GEORGE III, of England. Accession of, 212. His insan-
ity, 93. Leaden statue of, at New York, pulled down,
GEORGE, Prince of Denmark, 186.
"George Washington," frigate, 891.
Georgetown, Burnt, 480.
Georgia, Settlement of, 99. Colony in. founded by
Oglethorpe, 62. Colony of; origin of the name, 100.
Invaded by the Spaniards, 172. Receives Parliamentary
aid, 209. Claims of, to Cherokee lands, 461. Contro-
versy in, concerning the Creek lands, 455, 456. Seces-
sion of, 547. Quiet in, 678.
GERARD, M., French Minister to the United States, 287.
Germans in North Carolina, 168.
GERRY, ELBRIDGE, 856. Envoy, 385. Vice-President, 497.
GERMAINE, GEORGE, Lord, 282, 845.
Germantown, Battle of, 275.
Gettysburg, Battle of, 655.
GIBSON, C. W., Major, 683.
GIDDINGS, Major, at Ceralvo, 486.
GILBERT, EDWARD, 499.
GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY, 52, 63. His expedition to
America; notice of, 52.
GILBERT, SIR JOHN, 63.
GILBERT, RALEIGH, 63.
GILMAN, NICHOLAS, 856, 629.
GILMORE, Q. A., General, 607, 678,
GIST, General, 847.
Glendale, Battle at, 621.
Gloucester, Virginia, fortified by Cornwallis, 840.
Goats, The first, taken to Virginia, 68.
GODFREY, THOMAS, 209.
The ship GoFFE, WILLIAM, The regicide judge, 123, 126.
Gold, Thirst for, in the Virginia Colony, 67. Dis.
covery of, California, 497.
FRONTENAC, M., Governor of Canada, 181. Burns Sche- Golden Circle, Knights of, 656, 687, 710.
nectady, 130, 181, Repelled by Schuyler, 149.
FRY, JOSHUA A., Colonel, 182.
Fugitive Slave Law, 507, 521, 527.
FULTON, ROBERT, Notice of, 398, 399.
Fundamental Constitutions," The, of Shaftsbury and
Locke, 164, 165, 167.
Goldsboro', Raid on, 671. Battle at, 714.
Goldsmiths among the Virginia colonists, 67.
GORE, CHRISTOPHER, 222.
GEORGES, SIR FERNANDO, 63, 79, 129. Associated with
John Mason, 79.
GORHAM, NATHANIEL, 856, 359,
GOSNOLD, BARTHOLOMEW, 57, 63, 65. His discoveries;
his fort, 57. Death of, 65.
GOULDBOURNE, HENRY, British Commissioner at Ghent,
448.
GOURGES, DOMINIC DE, Surprises and captures Fort Car-
olina, 51.
Government, Three forms of, in America, 211.
GRAFFENREID, Count, 168.
GRANT, JAMES, Colonel, 204.
GRANT, General, (British), 253. His reply to Rall, 262.
GRANT, ULYSSES S., General, 595, makes vigorous pre-
parations for ascending the Tennessee river, 601, 634,
642. Begins siege of Vicksburg, 645, 666, 678. Com-
mander-in-chief, 681, 689, 690, 692, 693, 716, 719. Fare-
well address of, 723. Placed in charge of the War
Department, 780. Elected President of the U. S. 733.
GRASSE, Count de, 339, 340.
GRAVES, Adiniral, 340.
GRAY, SAMUEL, killed at Boston, by Preston's men, 221.
GRAYSON, WILLIAM, 355.
Great Britain acknowledges the Independence of the
United States, 348. Non-intercourse with the United
States, 399. Injures the commerce of the United
States, 401. Navy of, 414. At war with the United
States, 409; Treaty of Peace, 443. Claims of, to terri-
tory in North America, 17, 63, 180, 478, 479. Roval
standard of, 144. Ill feeling against, 511. Friendly
relations with disturbed, 526. Her sympathy with re
bellion, 561. Demands return of Mason and Slidell,
5S8.
Great Horseshoe Bend, General Jackson at the, 1841,
Great Kanawha River, Battle at the, 19
GREEN, ROGER, 97.
Green Bay, Indians on the western shores of, 18.
GREEN, CHRISTOPHER, Lieutenant-Colonel, of Rhode
Island, 275.
GREENE, NATHANIEL, General, appointed Brigadier-
General, 238. At Fort Lee, 259. At Trenton, 259. Ac-
companies La Fayette to Rhode Island, 289. At
Springfield, 320. Succeeds Gates; his operations,
830. Joins Morgan at the Yadkin; his retreat from
Virginia, 332. Opposes Cornwallis at Guilford court-
house, 333. Pursues Cornwallis; at the battle of
Hobkirk's Hill; his letter to M. Luzerne, 334. At
the siege of Fort Ninety-Six, 336 Pursues Stewart,
837. At the battle of Eutaw Springs, 338. Receives
intelligence of the capture of Cornwallis, 345. Takes
possession of Charleston, 347.
GREENE, ZECHARIAH, Rev., 252.
Greenville, Treaty of, in 1795, 24.
GRENVILLE, GEORGE, Author of the Stamp Act, 221.
vention on the Articles of Confederation, 1787, $36.
Signer of the Constitution of the United States One
of the authors of The Federalist," 861. Secretary of
the Treasury, 370; his financial Reports, 870, 371.
His Scheme respecting Public Lands, 372. His dis-
agreement with Jefferson, 374. His duel with Barr,
896. Notice of, 360.
HAMPDEN, JOHN, 85. His supposed intention to migrate
to America, 120.
HAMPTON, WADE, General, 410, 427.
Hampton Roads, The British fleet in, 430. Armament
in, 582. A naval force in, 613.
Hancock, JoHN, at Salem, 230. Gage's purpose to
hang him, 234. Leads troops to Rhode Island, 989.
His sloop Liberty," 220. Notice of, 230, 231.
HANCOCK, General, 654, 689.
HANSFORD, CHARLES, executed, 112.
HARDY, Commodore, 430, 437.
Harlem Heights, Washington at, 257.
Harlem Plains, Skirmish at, 258.
HAEMER, General, his Expedition against the Indians,
873.
Harper's Ferry, Insurrection, 438. In 1861, 557, 629.
HARPER, JOHN, A., 409.
HARRINGTON, JONATHAN, 222,
HARRIOT, his "Report on the new found land of Vir-
ginia;" notice of, 55, 56.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, National Convention at, 458,
HARRISON, BENJAMIN, at Boston, 289.
Harrison's Landing, 622.
HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY, at the battle of Tippecanoe,
408. Commands the army of the North-east, 412
His Expedition against the Indians, 416. At Fort
Meigs, 418. Attacks Malden, 423. President of the
United States; his administration, 478. Death of
475. Notice of, 473.
Hartford, Connecticut, 88. Convention st, 444
HARTLEY, David, 848.
HARVARD, EBENEZER, 22, 378.
HARVARD, JOHN, Rev., 121.
Harvard College, 121, 178.
HARVEY, SIR JOHN, 107, 165. Impeached, 207
HASLETT, Colonel, Death of, 269.
Hatteras Indians, 20, 55, 167.
Hatteras Inlet, Fight at, 579.
Havana, The body of Columbus removed to, 41.
Ilaverhill, Massachusetts, 134.
HAVILAND, Colonel, 203.
Havre-de-Grace, Maryland, 82, 430.
HAWLEY, JESSE, 456.
HAYNE, ISAAC, Colonel, 837.
HAYNE, ROBERT Y., 463, 464.
GRENVILLE, SIR RICHARD, his Expedition to America, 55, HAYES, J., General, 696.
Grenville, Georgia, 213.
GREY, General, his Marauding Expeditton, 290.
GREY, Captain, of Boston, 479.
HAZZARD, W. W., his plantation, 173.
Head of Elk, Maryland, 340.
HEALD, Captain, 412.
HEATH, SIR ROBERT, 97, 98.
GRIDLEY, RICHARD, Engineer of the Continental Army, HEATH, WILLIAM, General, 238. In the Highlands, 250.
188, 190, 193. 284.
GRIERSON, Colonel, Raid of, 645.
GRIER, Mrs., Judge Henry's account of, 241.
GRIJALVA, JUAN DE, his Expedition to Mexico, 43.
GRIFFITII, Admiral, at Castine, 428.
Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of, 521.
Groveton, Battle near, 626.
At Peekskill, 260. In New Jersey, 264, 265.
HECKEWELDER, his History of the Indian Nations, $3.
Heights of Abraham, 202,
HEINTZELMAN, General, 619.
Hell Gate, New York, navigated by Block, 72.
HENDERSON, General, 483.
HENDRICK, Death of, 190.
Guanahama, The place of Columbus's first landing in HENRY, Prince. of Portugal, patron of navigators, Sâ
America, 40.
GUDRIDA, Wife of a Scandinavian Navigator, 85.
GUESS, GEORGE, a native Cherokee, invents an alphabet
of his language, 28.
Guilford, Battle of, 333.
Gun-boats of the United States, 401.
HENRY IV., of France, his edict of Nantes, 166.
HENRY IV., of Castile and Leon, 38.
HENRY VII., of England, 46.
HENRY VIII., of England, defies the Pope; Defender
of the Faith, 75. Revival of an obsolete statute of
221. Punishes witchcraft, 132.
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS," The assumed name of Arnold, HENRY, PATRICK, member of the First Continental Con-
92, 325.
gress, 228.
His eloquence, 237. His regiment at the
battle of the Great Bridge, 243. Member of the Con-
vention on the Articles of Confederation, 356 De
clines the appointment of Envoy to France, 385.
Notice of, 214.
HENRY, Judge, 241.
HERKIMER, General, At Oriskany, 27S.
HERRERA, President, 481.
HALE SIR MATTHEW, condemns persons accused of Hessians, the, account of, 246. Marauders, 296, 291.
HALE, NATHAN, Captain, executed, 258.
"Half-Moon," The, 48, 59, 71.
HALLECK, H. W., General, 595, 591, 623, 625, 653.
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, General, Washington's favorite
Aid and Secretary, 360, 361. Member of the Con-
HOLMES, Admiral, 201.
HOLMES, WILLIAM, Captain, 85.
HOPKINS, EDWARD, Governor, SS, 155.
Illinois Indians, 17, 18, 19. Invaded by the Sacs and
Foxes, 18.
Illinois, Territory and State of, 390, 448.
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, 782. Verdict given,
733.
Independence, American, General desire for, in 1776,
250. War for, 229. Asserted by the Committee of
Conference with Lord Howe, 257. Acknowledged by
Great Britain, 348.
Indians alliances against the Colonies, 124. Chiefs
dine with Governor Winthrop, 118. Confederacy
against South Carolina, 170. Presents received from
Great Britain, 206. Religion, 15. Treaties, 862, 363.
Treaty of Peace, 874. Policy toward, 735, 743.
Indians, The, 11. Resemblance of, to Asiatics, 11. Ac-
count of the Aboriginal tribes of, 12. Employments of
women among, 12, 13. Extreme Western, 32, 33.
Population of, in the United States, 32.
Their plan
to exterminate the white people; slaughter of, 106.
Troublesome in Oregon and Washington Territory,525.
HOPKINS, EZEK, first Commander-in-chief of the Amer- Indian War, 462.
ican Navy, 808.
HOPKINSON, FRANCIS, Notice of, 285.
HOPKINSON, JOSEPH, author of
"Hornet," sloop of war, 414, 428, 429.
HORRY, Colonel, 386.
Horse, The first taken to Virginia, 68. Columbus takes
horses to America, 41. Taken from Cuba to Florida;
their fate, 44. Taken by De Soto to Florida, 44.
HOTHAM, Admiral, 292.
House of Burgesses, Virginia, the beginning of the,
House of Representatives of Massachusetts Colony, 122.
HOUSTON, WILLIAM, 356.
HOUSTON, WILLIAM CHURCHILL, 356,
HOUSTON, General, at the battle of San Jacinto, 478.
HOWARD. JOHN EAGER, Colonel, at the battle of the Cow-
pens, 332.
HOWARD, Admiral, 57.
HOWARD, O. O., General, 701, 708.
HOWE, GEORGE, Lord, Notice of, 197.
HOWE, RICHARD, Lord, at Boston, 247. At New York,
252. Prepares to attack New York; paroles General
Sullivan; asks Congress to appoint a Committee of
Conference, 257. His letter to Washington, 253. Meets
the Committee appointed by Congress, 257. In Rari-
tan Bay, 287. His fleet disabled by a storm in, 289.
HOWE, ROBERT, General, 244, 292, 298. Suppresses the
mutiny at Pompton, 329.
HOWE, SIR WILLIAM, General, 202, 234, 285. At Quebec,
202. At New York, 232. His Proclamation, 260.
Perplexes Washington, 272. At Brandywine, 273. At
Elkton, 178. Attempts to entice Washington from
his encampment, 183. Knighted, after the battle of
Brooklyn, 273.
Huamantla, Battle of, 494.
Indies, the, Columbus's voyage in quest of a western
passage to, 84. The trade of, monopolized by the
Italian cities, 36.
Industry, private, Effects of, in Virginia, and in Pl. -
mouth, 70.
INGOLDSBY, RICHARD, 158, 150.
Intolerance in Massachusetts, 118, 119, 123. In Mary.
land, New York, and New England, 132, 133.
"Intrepid," The, Tripolitan vessel, 392.
Iowa Indians, 32.
Iowa, State of, added to the Union, 478.
Iron chain across the Hudson, 824.
Iroquois Indians, 24, 31.
IRVIN, Colonel, at Agua Frio, 486.
IRVINE, WILLIAM, 855.
ISABELLA, Queen, Sister of Henry IV., of Castile and
Leon, 88. Columbus's personal interview with, 88.
Italian Cities, their monopoly of the trade of the In-
dies, 86.
Iuka Springs, Battle near, 634.
IZARD, General, Succeeds Wilkinson, 482.
434.
JACKSON, ANDREW, General, anecdote of him, when a
boy, 314. The mother of, 314. His confidence won by
Burr, 897. His expedition against the Creeks, in 1818,
428. Storms Pensacola, 438. At New Orleans, 438,
439. His treaty with the Creek Indians, 488. His
expedition against the Seminoles, 443. Captures Pen-
sacola, 451. Subdues the Seminoles, 30, 464, 459, 461.
JACKSON, STONEWALL, 678, 624, 625, 629.
JACKSON, T. J., 617.
JACKSONVILLE, Attack on, 608.
HUDSON, HENRY, Captain, his glowing account of his JACKSON, JAMES, Notice of, 347, 348.
JAMES II, of England, Accession of; his character, 118,
147. Oppressive measures of, 129. His arbitrary pro-
ceedings respecting the Jerseys, 160. Driven into
exile, 162.
Jameson River, Origin of the name, 64. English navi-
gators enter the, 20, 61. Indians on the, 17.
JAMES, Colonel, 326.
Jamestown, Virginia, founded, 166. Origin of the
name, 64. Cultivation of tobacco at, 70. Famine at,
saved by Pocahontas, 69; saved by Chanco, 106. Na-
thaniel Bacon at, 111. Destruction of, by Bacon, 112.
James Island, Fight at, 674.
Japan opened to United States trade, 511. Sends Em-
bassy to United States, 512.
JASPER, Sergeant, 249, 805.
"Java" frigate, 415.
JAY, JOHN, one of the authors of the Federalist, 861.
Commissioner on the Treaty of Peace, 848, First
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