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Continental Convention, held at Hart-
ford, 1780, 688.

Continental Village, New York, de-
stroyed, 332.

Conway, Thomas, duel with General
Cadwallader, 229.

Cook, George H., geological survey of
New Jersey, noticed, 788.
Cooke, J. Esten, communicates a letter
of Governor Dinwiddie, 502.
Cooper, Anna, monument at Butter-
nuts, N. Y., 470.

Cooper, James Fenimore, names Lake
George, Horicon, 574.
Copley, John Singleton, the domestic
and artistic life of, noticed, 371.
Copp's Hill and burial- ground, no-
ticed, 710.

Coppin, Robert, an English pilot with
the pilgrims at Plymouth, 796.
Cotton, first cargo of, to England from
United States, 435.

Cowley, Charles, the romance of his-
tory in the black country, noticed,
715; sketch of, mentioned, 716.
Cowpens, battle, the hero of, noticed,
154.

Cox, Jacob D., second battle of Bull
Run, noticed, 372; Atlanta campaign,
noticed, 711.

Craig, Isaac, Spungettsburg Manor,
Pa., 60; Colonel George Croghan's
relations, 142; coal mine in Muskin-
gum Valley, Pa., 1748, 142; meaning
of the word penterareses, 294; Bene-
dict Arnold, jr., 297; the battle of
the Kegs, 297; Shawanese name for
the Ohio, 363; a mortuary ring, 510.
Crake, A. D., Edwy the Fair, noticed,

79: the Andreds Weald, or the house
of Michelham, noticed, 304; Algar
the Dane, noticed, 375:
Crawford, Colonel William, letter to
Washington, 1773, 142.
Creoles, origin of the, 619.
Crêvecœur, St. John de, describes fish-

hawks on the Hudson River, 358;
mentioned, 440.

Croghan, Colonel George, his relations,

142.

Crow, Samuel, marriage, 703.
Crown Point, Graham's Journal of the
expedition to, in 1756, 206.
Cushman, George F., review of Von
Holst's memoir of John C. Calhoun,
612.

DAR

ABNEY, WILLIAM POPE, the
Huguenots of Va., 31; Indian
tribes, 31.
Daguerrotype perfected, 245.
Daly, Charles P., Spain and the Straits
of Gibraltar, in 1881, 299.
Dartmouth College founded, 7.
Day, Stephen, printer of the first alma-
nac in America, 148.

Dealy, P. F. Dongan, the great colo-
nial governor, 106, 150.
Dean, John Ward, newspaper entitled
the Traveller, 855.

De Bry, original sketches used in his
voyage, 221.

De Costa, B F., Morton of Merry
Mount, 81; the memorial history of
Boston, 233; discovery of the Hud-
son river. 369; the two hundred and
seventy-fifth anniversary of the land-
ing at the Kennebec, 555; Verraza-
no the explorer, noticed, 579: Ban-
croft's history of the formation of the
constitution, 669; the origin of

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thanksgiving day, 757; Plymouth
before the pilgrims, 806.
De Grand, P. P. F., letter on the
presidential campaign of 1824-25, 621.
D'Grasse, Count, his daughter inter-
red at Charleston, S. C., 140.

De Kalb, Baron, action in the Camden
campaign, 496.

Delafield, Maturin L., corrections and
addenda of the sketch William
Smith, 60.

De Marsellac, John, French military
Quaker, 53, 367.

De Peyster, Frederic, memorial sketch
of, 769, 786; proceedings of Mass.
Hist. Socy. on death of, 856; of the
St. Nicholas Society, 858.
Dermer, Capt. Thomas, visits Ply-
mouth harbor, 1619. 817.

De Vinne, Theodore L., history of the
invention of printing, noticed, 76.
Dexter, Franklin B., the founding

of Yale College, noticed; sketch of
Gov. Elihu Dale, noticed, 858.
Dexter, Henry Martyn, the true story
of John Smyth, noticed, 303.
Dickinson, Ellen, Joshua Forman,
the founder of Syracuse, N. Y., 400.
Dickinson, John, author of the declara-

tion on taking up arms in 1775. 514.
Dickinson, Wharton, Thomas Wynne,
chirurgeon, 662.

Dinwiddie, Gov. Robt., letter on Brad-
dock's defeat, 502.

Dinwiddie, William, times before the
reformation, noticed, 77.
Dodge, Robert, proposed genealogy of
Tristam Dodge, 580.

Dollar mark, origin of the, 637, 706, 784.
Dongan, Thomas, the great colonial
governor, Rev. P. F. Dealy, S.J.,
106, 150; proposes to explore a river

Egle, William H., the campaign of the
Allies, 59, 146.

Eggleston, Edward. contributions to the
Century Magagine, 221.
Eichelberger, M. S., Gates-Wilkinson
duel, 298.

Elephant, the first in U. S. 358, 513.
Ellis, George E., origin and method of
history. 787.

Ellison, Thomas, Jr. letters describing
events in New York City, 1762-1775,

279.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, proceedings
of Mass. Historical Society on the
death of, 442; sketch of, by C. A.
Bartol, mentioned, 448.
Emmerton, James A., materials for a
genealogy of the Emmerton family,
noticed, 76.

England, a rare pamphlet relating to
the church of, 51; abridged history
of, noticed, 74; brief history of, no-
ticed, 74: British Colonies vs. Greek,
139: the making of mentioned, 376;
discrimination against American pris-
oners in, 428; first American cargo of
cotton sent to, 435; history of the
church of Christ in, noticed, 447:
municipal governments in, 598; first
sale of a black slave in, 703.
Erie Canal, N. Y., history of the pro-
ject, 401.

Ethnology, bureau of, first annual re-
port, noticed, 231.

Evelyn, Capt. W. G., account of the
action at Harlem, 39.

Evelyn family in America, extracts

from, 39; noticed, 75: quoted, 361.
Exeter, N. H., first State assembly

meet in, 1.

leading to the Bay of Mexico, 296, FAIRFIELD, Conn., headquarters

367; charter to New York City, 605.
Donnelly, Ignatius, Atlantis, the ante-
diluvian world, noticed, 155.
Doubleday, Gen. Abner, Chancellors-
ville and Gettysburg, noticed, 153.
Doughty Rev. Francis, of Flushing,
L. I., 577.

Douglas, Stephen, A., eulogy on, no-
ticed, 375.

Downs, Charles A., a border N. H.
town in the Vt. controversy, 443.
Draper, John W.. biographical sketch
of, Benjamin N. Martin, 233.
Drowne, Dr. Solomon, describes
Washington in 1774. 360.

Du Bois, Peter, account of the opera-
tions of the army at N. Y., 1776, 41.
Dudley, Gov. Joseph, Capt. Bernon's

letter to, 504.

Duer, William, letter on the battle of
Harlem plains, 628.

Dunbar, John B., the Pawnee Indians,

their habits and customs, 734; Lone
Chief and Medicine Bull, 754:
Durr, Louis, his gallery of paintings,
369.

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of whaleboat men in the revolution,
170; settlement at, 267; the old
burying-ground of, noticed, 710;
John Jones, first minister of, noticed,

714.

Faneuil, Peter, founder of Faneuil hall,
527; portrait of, 576.

Fay, Joseph Story, the track of the
Norsemen, 431.

Febiger, Col. Christian, extracts from

letters to J. Sobotken, 1784-86, 350.
Federal Convention, the sun blazoned
on the president's chair, 705.
Fenwicke, John, arrives at New Jersey,
647.

Fernow, Berthold, name of Tappan, 51;
documents relating to the history and
settlements of the towns along the
Hudson and Mohawk rivers, noticed,
73; Caledonian Society, N. Y., 229:
correction of Jameson's article on the
government of N. Y. City, 511;
badges of merit, 577.

Field, David Dudley, letter of Junius
Smith to, 774.

Fish, Hamilton, residence in N.Y., 707;
remarks on the death of Frederic de
Peyster, 786.

Fitzhugh, Perigrine, aide-de-camp to
Washington, 365.

Fleming, Capt. George, describes the
post at Harlem, 45.

Force, Peter, publication of his Amer-
ican archives, 350.

Forefathers, the homes of our, noticed,

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Fort Crêvecœur built, 310.

Fort Edward, N. Y., scene of murder
of Miss McCrea, 203; the red house
at, 362.

Fort Frederick, N. S., burned, 488.
Fort Frontenac, built, 308.

Fort George, L. I., captured, 104; ex-
pedition against, 174.

Fort Lee, N. J., fortifications at, 706.
Fort Mackinac, annals of, mentioned,
716.

Fort Plain, N. Y., site of old block-
house marked, 784.

Fort St. Louis, built, 312.

Fort Washington, N. Y., Moore's tav-
ern at, 854.

Foster, Col. Thomas A., noticed, 365.
France, allied troops in America, 59:
abridged. history of, noticed, 74 ; alli-
ance with the U. S.. 114: voyages to
Newfoundland, 286; discovery of the
Mississippi, 294; cost of the revolu
tionary war to, 294, 439, spoliation
claims, 426; exiled nobles from, 437;
sailors mobbed at Boston, 785, 856.
Franklin, Benjamin, account of his
MSS., 346; letter to Mr. Strahan,
1775, 509; remarks in the federal con-
vention, 705.

Franklin, John, appointed agent for
prisoners, 1781, 141.

Franks, Major David S., charged with
complicity in Arnold's treason, 717.
Free thoughts on proceedings of Conti-
nental Congress, 1774, authorship of,

117.

Freeman, Edward A., lecture on Eng-
lish folk, 139.

Freeman, Samuel, portrait, 445.
Frey, S. L.. an old Mohawk valley
house, 337; log canoes, 441.
Frey, Heinrich, sketch of, by S. L.
Frey, 337.

GADSEN, GENERAL CHRIS-

TOPHER, character of, 435.
Gallatin, Albert, address on, by W. B.
Lawrence, 150.

Gardner, Asa Bird, the allied armies,
59 N. Y. continental line, 146;
allied troops at Yorktown, 146; por-
trait of Gen. Poor, 441.

Gardner, Ephraim, his numerous fam-
ily, 141

Garfield, James Abram, life of, no-
ticed, 154; head engraved for post-
age stamp, 360; his place in history,
noticed, 520; his place in American
history, 561.

Garritse, William, tied to a May-pole,
576.

Garth, Charles, agent of S. C. in
England, 216.

Gates, Gen. Horatio, duel with Col.
Wilkinson, 298, 368; headquarters
at Saratoga, 359: parentage of, 363:
his northern laurels and southern
willows, 437; action in the Camden
campaign, 496; takes command of
the Northern Department, 1777,
567.

Gatschet, Albert S., number of Indians
in large cities, 1880, 224; languages
of the Pacific States and Territories
and of the Pueblos of New Mexico,

254.

Gay, Col. Fisher, extracts from his di-
ary, 227; origin of the name of
Texas, 146.

General Arnold, armed schooner, cap-
tured, 363.

George III., head of the statue de-
stroyed at N. Y., 854.
Georgia Historical Society, paper on
Admiral Buchanan and the Conteder-
ate States' steam ram Tennessee, by
J. D. Johnston, 300; sword of Capt.
William Bee, presented, 300.
Gilbert, Raleigh, voyage to N. E., 556;
a descendant of, 574-

Globes first manufactured in America,

143.

Gold, Major Nathan, public services
of, noticed, 714.

Goodwin, Daniel. Jr., memorial of
lives and services of James Pitts and
his sons, noticed, 716.
Gorges, family tombs, 562, 575; settle-
ment in Maine, 822.
Gosnold, Bartholomew, voyage to New
England, 1602, 555, 806.
Goss, E. H., the dollar mark, 784;
Lovewell's fight, 785.

Gould, S. Baring, curious myths of the
middle ages, noticed, 375.

Graham, Alexander, depredations by,
176.

Graham, Rev. John, journal of the ex-
pedition to Crown Point, 1756, 206;
family of, 440.

Graham, William, sketch of, William
Hall, 204.

Graves, Grace, first English female born
in New England, 706.
Gravier, Gabriel, study of an unknown
chart, noticed, 155; sketch of La
Salle, 305, 620.

Greek vs. British colonies, 139.
Green, Matthew, printer, death of,
852.

Greene, Gen. Nathaniel, dines with
Washington, 634.

Green, Richard, the making of Eng-
land, mentioned, 376.

Greene, Ohio, historical sketch of,
mentioned, 716.

Groaning beer in New England, 707.
Groton Heights, battle of. noticed, 578.
Gunboat, description of one, on Lake
Champlain, 1760, 498.

HAGUE, WILLIAM, old Pelham

and New Rochelle, 151, 521.
Hale, Edward F., address on Capt.
Nathan Hale, noticed, 304.
Hale, Nathan, employed as a spy, 97,
169; proposed monument to, 291 ; ad-
dress on, at Groton, Mass., by E. E.
Hale, noticed, 304.

Hall, William, note on the Macomb
House, 52: George Clinton Society,
54 sketch of William Graham, 204;
the old Benson House, 229: Cava-
lier Jouët, 336: Bayard mansion,
N. Y., 360; first cargo of American
cotton to England, 435.
Hamilton, Alexander, life of, noticed,
446.

Hammond, A. G., noticed, 854.
Hanigen, J. B., Methodism, old and
new, noticed, 232.

Harlem, N. Y., Marriner's tavern, 181;
Bayard mansion, 360.
Harlem Plains, battle of, additional
documents, 39, 627, mentioned, 223;
verses on, 629,

Harper's Cyclopedia of U. S. History,
noticed, 156.

Harris, William W., battle of Groton
Heights, noticed, 578.

Harrison, William H., election as
President of the U. S., 378.

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Hickey, William, constitution of U. S.,
noticed, 74.

Higginson, Francis, portrait, 443-
Hills, J., collection of maps by, 202.
History, false methods in, 221; how
manufactured, 699.

Historical Literature, manual of, men-
tioned, 376; noticed, 860.
Hitchcock family of Conn., 774.
Hodgkins, Joseph, letter on the battle
of Harlem Plains, 627.

Hoffman, Charles Fenno, winter in the
west, letters descriptive of Chicago
and vicinity in 133-34. reprinted,
noticed, 715.

Holland, Hitchen family of, 471.
Holmes, Capt. Thomas, commission of,
as assistant to deputy gov. of Pa. 849.
Horicon, applied by Cooper to Lake
George, 574.

Holst, Hermann von, review of Lis
Memior of Calhoun, 612.
Houston, Samuel, military operations
in Texas, 55.

Hovey, Horace C., celebrated American
taverns, noticed, 713.

Howe, Sir William, operations of the
army under at N. Y., 39; recalled to
England, 114; in command at Bun-
ker Hill. 125.
Howell. George R., settlement of South-
ampton and Southold, noticed, 76.
Huddy, Capt. Joshua, murdered, 178.
Hudson River, history of the settlements
on the towns of, noticed, 73: eagles
and fish-hawks on, 358, 440: when
first called the, 364; its discovery,
369; various names, 513.
Huger, Gen. Isaac, sketch of, 357.
Huguenots of Va., William Pope

Dabney, 31; exiled from France, 523.
Hunt, Freemam, editor of the Traveller,
855.
Hunter's Island, N. Y., 532, 537-
Huntoon, Daniel T. V., Huntoon gene
alogy, noticed, 75.

Hurlburt, Henry H., Chicago antiqui-

ties noticed, 74: review of Gravier's
memoir of La Salle, 620.
Hutcheson, Francis, account of the op-
erations at N. Y., 1776, 40.
Hyler, Adam, a noted whaleboat cap-
tain in the revolution, 177.

LLINOIS, description of the coun-

ILL

try of the, 470; early records, 586;
expedition to, 587; militia, 589;
negro slaves executed for witchcraft,
591; French settlers, 593.
Indians, tribes in Va., 31; Mohegan
tribe, 50; treatment in New England,
89, 106; in New York, 108, 111; use
match-coats, 144; number in large
fly kites, 225;
cities, 1880, 224;
report of U. S. bureau of ethnology,
noticed, 231; Rau's anthropological
articles, noticed, 232: Zuñians, 232;
languages of the Pacific States and
Territories, and of the Pueblos of
New Mexico, Albert S. Gatschet,
254: tribes in Conn., 266; review of
Hiawatha, 274; memorial relating to
the Pueblos, 298; the Iroquois ravage
Canada, 306; Mohawks, 338: Sha-
wanese name for the Ohio, 363; of
the Northwest, 408, 417; log canoes,
441: Caverly's war of New England,
noticed, 448; of the Illinois country,
471; in Nova Scotia, 491; at Brad-
dock's defeat, 500; treaty with Penn,
653; first physician, 662; Mohegan
land controversy, noticed, 714; habits
and customs of the Pawnees, 734:
on Cape Cod, 794; at Plymouth, 809,
819, 841; antiquities of the Pueblos,
853.

INDEX

346; French spoliation claims, 426:
De Kalb, Gates, and the Camden
campaign, 496; the St. Clair papers,
538 Garfield and American history,
561; William Penn's likeness, 666;
Col. Varick and Arnold's treason,
717; the inventor of the submarine
torpedo, 764; the Washington pedi-
gree and shield, 765; a rare news-
paper, 767; evacuation of Charleston,
S. C., 1782, 825.

Johnston, J. D.. Admiral Buchanan
and the Confederate ram Tennessee,
300.

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"Join or die," earliest use of the motto
in America, 768, 855.

Jones, Charles C., Jr., address before
the Confederate Survivors Associa-
tion, mentioned, 520.

Jones, Charles Henry, history of the
campaign for the conquest of Canada
in 1776, noticed, 644.
Jones, John, first minister of Fairfield,
Conn., noticed, 714.
Jones, M. M., discrimination against
American prisoners in the revolution,
420; origin of O. K., 856.
Jones, Nicholas, damages to his prop-
erty by the British, 47.

Jones, Paul, medal presented to, 52.
Jones, Judge Thomas, made prisoner,

173; correction of his history of N.
,361.

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Jouët, Cavalier, the loyalist. 336.
Joutel, Sieur, exploration of the Mis-
sissippi, 185; journal of his expedition
and death, 314..

Judson, R. W., his collection of revolu-
tionary relics, 52.

Inman, George, extract from Journal KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIE-

of. 40.

Iroquois ravage Canada, 306.

TY, noticed, 370.
Kaskaskia, capital of Ill., 586.

Kegs, battle of the, 143, 296, 297,
638.

JACKSON, ANDREW, his popular. Kelly, Mary E., brief history of Eng.

candidate

for vice-president, 629; as a public
man, by W. G. Sumner, reviewed by
George B. Newcomb, 831.
Jamaica, L. I., antiquities of the parish
church of, noticed, 714.
James, D. Willis, description of a foun-

tain presented to N. Y., noticed, 75.
Jameson, John Franklin, the origin
and development of the municipal
government of N. Y. City-I. the
Dutch period, 315, 511; origin and
development of the municipal govern-
ment of N. Y. City-II. the English
and American period, 598.
Japan, publication of American books
in, 144.

Jefferson, Thomas, monument

Over

his grave, 291; his treatment of J.
Q. Adams, 453.

Jennings. Arthur Charles, History of
the Church of Christ in England,
noticed, 447:

Johnson, Sir John, Orderly book, 1777,
announced, 860.
Johnson, Sir William, letter of Gov.
Colden to, 503; letter from Gov.
Shirley, 504.
Johnston, Elizabeth Bryant, original
portraits of Washington, noticed, 152.
Johnston, Henry P., the secret service

of the revolution, 95; Pa. troops at
Yorktown, 147; the Yorktown-Wash-

land, France, and Germany, noticed,

74.

Kelton, Dwight H., the annals of Fort
Mackinac, noticed, 716.

Kennebec, the two hundred and seven-
ty-fifth anniversary of the landing at
the, B. F. De Costa, 555.
Kentucky, first court in, 587.
Key, Francis Scott, monument to, 291.
Kieft, Willem, director-general of New
Netherland, 322; removed, 325.
King's Chapel, Boston, the first episco-
pal church in N. E., 365.
Kings County Genealogical
lections, noticed, 710.
Kingsbridge, N. Y., to be fortified, 284:
Cox's tavern at. 854.
Kirkwood, Captain Robert, portrait,

294.

Club, col-

Kite flying, antiquity of, 225.
Knowlton, Col. Thomas, death of, 43,

49.

Knox, Gen. Henry, loses his baggage,
46.

Kohl, J. G., notice of his volume on
Maine, 130: criticised, 228.
Kosciusko, Thaddeus, as an artist,

854:
Kosciusko school, founded in N. J.,
1827, 437.

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Lee, Gen. Charles, marches to Bunker
Hill, 125 behavior at Monmouth,
191; remarks on Gates' campaign,
437.

Legare, Hugh S., death of, 380.
Leo, Friar, Capuchin missionary in
Maine, 854.

Letters-Capt. Evelyn to Hon. Mrs.
Bowcawen, 39; Capt. Francis Hutch-
eson to Gen. Fredk. Haldiman, 40;
John Moore, William Harper, and Vol-
kert Veeder to committee of Tryon
County, 40; Peter Du Bois to Maj.
Colden, 41; Gen. Clinton to N. Y.
Convention, 42; Capt. Geo. Fleming
to Major Sebastian Bauman, 45;
Gen. Knox to his brother, 46; Mrs.
Knox to Wm. Knox, 46; S. Benson
McGown to [William Kelby], 46;
Gov. Trumbull to Joseph Trumbull,
49; Washington to Maj. Tallmadge,
100, 101; Maj. Tallmadge to Wash-
ington, 103; Gov. Dongan to M. De
la Barre, 111; Capt. John Chester,
125-127 John Ball to Elizabeth
Washington, 213; Charles Garth to
Committee of Assembly of S. C..
216; Thomas Ellison, Jr., to his
father, 279-286; Washington to
Maj. Tailmadge, 290; Washington
to Jabez Hartington, 298; Col. Feb-
iger to J. Sobotken, 351-354; Copley
to Gardner Greene, 371 Andrew
Jackson to J. B. Sutherland, 391;
Joshua Forman to Dr. Hosack, 402;
Judge Wright to Dr. Hosack, 402;
Thomas Morris to Mrs. Van Schaack,
Lord Rawdon to his
476, 479;
mother, 496: John Armstrong to
Richard Peters, 500; Gen. Brad-
Gov.
dock to Gov. Morris, 502;
Dinwiddie to Gov. Morris, 502;
Gov. Colden to Sir William John-
son, 503; Capt. Bernon to Gov.
Dudley, 504; Gov. Shirley to Sir
Earl of
William Johnson, 504;
Northampton to King James, 505;
Benj. Franklin to Mr. Strahan, 529;
Philip Schuyler to Col. Williams,
548; same to Jacob Cuyler, 548;
Col. Varick to Col. Ward, 566, 567;
Maj. Lansing to Col. Varick, 566;
Gov. Todd to Capt. Janis, 592: same
to Judge Cerre, 593: Joseph Hodg-
kins to his wife, 627; Nathaniel
Wade to his mother, 628; William
Duer to Tench Tilghman, 628; P. P.
F. De Grand to Gen. Dearborn, 629;

Circular Letters of the Convention
held at Hartford in 1780, 691, 695;
Junius Smith to Rev. D. D. Field,
774 to Mr. Lewen relative to Penn's
patent, 1681, 848.
Levett, Capt. Christopher, voyage to
New England, 1623-24, 822.
Lewis, Francis, presentation of his
cane, 710.
Leyden, the seven articles of the
church of, 1617, 845.
Licking, Ohio, centennial history, men-
tioned, 716.

Lincoln, Abraham, reminiscences of,
and Congress during the Rebellion,
300; the type of American genius,
noticed, 375; sketch of, noticed,
375 family of, in Pa., 634.
Lion, the first in U. S., 435, 512.
Lippincott, Capt. Richard, murders
Capt. Huddy, 178.
Literary Notices-January-Winsor's
Memorial History of Boston, 73;
Maine Historical Society Collections,
73; Documents relating to History
and Settlements of the Towns along
the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers,
edited by B. Fernow, 73; Hurlbut's
Chicago Antiquities, 74 Hickey's
Constitution of the U. S., 74; Mc-
Calman's Abridged History of Eng-
land, 74; Massachusetts Historical
Society Proceedings, 74; Kelly's
Complete History of England,
France, and Germany, 74; Wol-
cott's Memorial of Henry Wolcott,
75; Scull's Evelyns in America, 75;
More Public Parks, 75; Huntoon
Genealogy, 75; the James Fountain,
75: Howell's Southampton and
Southold, 76; Chamber of Commerce
Tribute to Samuel B. Ruggles, 76;
Van Voorhis Genealogy, 76: Em-
merton Genealogy, 76; De Vinne's
Invention of Printing, 76; Yorktown
Centennial, Message of the Gov. of
N. Y., 77; Briggs Varian Family,
77: Preble's Sketch of Henry Knox
Thatcher, 77; Peabody Education
Fund, Proceedings of the Trustees,
1874-1881, 77; Dinwiddie's Times
before the Reformation, 77; Crake's
Edwy the Fair, 79.
February-Johnston's Original Por-
traits of Washington, 152; the St.
Clair Papers, 152; Lucbock's Stud-
ies in the History of the Book of
Common Prayer, 153: Doubleday's
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, 153:
Palfrey's Antietam and Fredericks-
burg, 153 Macklay's Debates in
the First U. S. Senate, 154; Bundy's
Life of Garfield, 154; the Hero of
Cowpens, 154; Donnelly's Atlantis,
155 Gravier's Study of an unknown
Chart, 155; Harper's Cyclopedia, by
Lossing, 156.
March-Powell's Report on Ethno-
logy, 231; Hanigen's Methodism,
Old and New, 232; Tome's My
College Days, 232; Rau's Anthro-
pological Subjects, 232; Stevenson's
Zuñi and Zuñians, 232.
April-Massachusetts Historical Soci-
ety's Proceedings, 301; Dexter's true
story of John Smyth, 303; N. J. Colo-
nial Documents, 303; Hale's Capt.
Nathan Hale, 304; Stryker's N. J.
Continental Line in the Virginia
Campaign, 1781, 304; Crake's An-
dred Weald, 304.

May-Amory's Life of Copley, 371;

Cox's Second Battle of Bull Run,
372: Whitefield's Homes of our Fore-
fathers, 373: Morse's American
Statesmen, 373; Stryker's Washing-
ton's Reception by the People of N. J.,
374 New England Society Proceed-
ings, 374: Arnold's Lincoln, 375:
Sheahan's Eulogy on Douglas, 375;
Crake's Alfgar the Dane, 375: Scud-
der's Stories and Romances, 375;
Gould's Curious Myths of the Mid-
dle Ages, 375; Blanchard's Abraham
Lincoln, 375; Spooner's Poems of
the Pilgrims, 375: American Natu-
ralist, 376: Adams' Manual of His-
torical Literature, 376: Green's the
Making of England, 376; American
Journal of Numismatics for January,
376.
June-Condit's History of the English
Bible, 446; Lodge's Hamilton, 446;
Jennings' Church of Christ, 447:
Sealing of the Century Box by the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company. 448; Caverly's Indian
Wars of New England, 448; Smith-
sonian Report, 448; Bartol's Emer-
son, 448.

July-Mass. Historical Society Col-
lections, 516; Roosevelt's Naval War
of 1812, 518; Poore's Life of General
Burnside, 519; Hayden's History of
Soldiers, issued by West Virginia,
520; Pedder's Garfield's Place in
History, 520: Jones' Address before
the Confederate Survivors' Associa-
tion, 520; Portraits and Vignettes in
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, 520.

August-Harris' Battle of Groton
Heights, 578: R. I. Historical Tracts,
578; De Costa's Verrazano the Ex-
plorer, 579; Waring and Cable's His-
tory of New Orleans and Report on
Austin, Texas, 579; Nicolet's Dis-
covery of the Northwest, 580; Cen-
tennial of Vermont and battle of Ben-
nington, 580; Tristram Dodge and
his Descendants, 580; Handbook of
the White Mountains, 580.
September Callender's Stevens the
Commoner, 643; Jones' History of the
Campaign for the Conquest of Can-
ada in 1776, 644.
October-Perry's Old Burying-Ground
of Fairfield, 710; MacDonald's Old
Copp's Hill and Burial-Ground, 710;
Kings County Genealogical Club
Collections, 710; Cox's Atlantis, 711;
Cist's Army of the Cumberland, 712;
Translation of New Testament, 712;
Dutch Church Year-Book,
713:
Hovey's celebrated American Cav-
erns, 713; Parton's Gen. Butler in
New Orleans, 713; Beers' Sketch of
John Jones, 714; Onderdonk's An-
tiquities of Parish Church of Jamaica,
714: Re-dedication of the Old State
House in Boston, 714: Beardsley's
Mohegan Land Controversy, 714
Beers Sketch of Maj. Nathan Gold,
714: Charleston Year-Book, 714;
Stevens' Fly-Fishing in Maine lakes,
715: Chicago Bar Association Lec-
tures, 715; N. Y. Academy of Sci-
ences Transactions, 715; Archæologi-
cal Institute of America, Report, 715;
Cleaver's Early Chicago Reminiscen-
ces, 715: Hoffman's Winter in the
West, 715; Cowley's Romance of
History, 715: Titus Family in Amer-
ica, 716, War of 1776 between U. S.

and Great Britain, 716; Short's In-
dustrial Progress of Ohio, 716;
Reemelin's Sketch of Greene Town-
ship, Ohio, 716; Newly Discovered
Oration of Daniel Webster, 716;
Bureau of Education Circulars, 716;
Kelton's Fort Mackinac, 716; Nel-
son's N. J. Law on Bridges, 716;
White's Money and its Substitutes,
716; Smucker's Licking County, 716;
Sullivan's Sketch of Charles Cowley,
716; Goodwin's Sketch of James
Pitts and his Sons, 716; Headley's
Newburg Centennial, 716; Brinton's
Books of Chilan Balam, 716; Titus'
Sabin Family, 716.
November-Lord's Points of History.
788; Mackenzie's America, 788:
Cook's Geological Survey of N. J..
788.

December-Dexter's Founding of Yale
College, and Gov. Elihu Vale, 858;
Baldwin's Ecclesiastical Constitution
of Yale College, 858, Adams' Manual
of Historical Literature, 860; White-
head's Colonial History of N. J.,
860.

Little Compton, R. I., Pilgrim memorial
erected, 597-

Livingston, Philip, engaged in whaling,
169.

Lloyd's Neck, L. I., British captured

at, 175.

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Life of Alexander
Hamilton, noticed, 446.
Lone Chief, a Pawnee Indian, sketch of,

754.

Longfellow, Henry W., celebration of
his birthday at Portland, 151; death
of, 231; his relation to American his-
tory, 272; memorial notices of, 298,
300; early works of, 636; poem Love-
well's Fight, 636, 785.

Long Island, N. Y.. settlement of
Southampton and Southold, 76:
secret service in the revolution, 99:
attack on Fort George. 104; Sound
frozen in 1780, 103: operations on, in
the revolution, 168; May-pole, 577:
colonial fishery, 640.

Long Island Historical Society, annual
meeting, 445.
Lord, John, Points of History for
Schools and Colleges, noticed, 788.
Loring, Capt. Joshua, constructs a gun-

boat on Lake Champlain, 1760, 498.
Lossing, Benson J., Harper's Cyclo-

pedia of U. S. History, noticed, 156.
Lott, Col. Abraham, made prisoner. 177.
Lucbock, H. M., Studies in the History
of the Book of Common Prayer,
noticed, 153.

Ludlowe, Roger, the father of Conn.
jurisprudence, William A. Beers,
264.

Luis, St. John, Island of, 5r0.

MCCREA. MISS JANE, monument

and locality of her murder.
Charles A. Campbell, 202.
McCalman, Archibald H., History of
England, noticed, 74.

MacDonald, Edward, early New Eng-
land tombstones, 708; old Copp's
hill and burial-ground, noticed, 710.
McGown, S. Benson, his father's resi
dence in Central Park, 39, 43, 46,
48, 229.
Machias, Me., Revolutionary opera-
tions, 488.

Mackenzie, Robert, History of the U.

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Maine, city of Agamenticus, 93; anni-
versary of the landing at Kennebec,
555: Sir Robert Carr in 623 : Mon-
tressor's plan of expedition, in 1760,
from Quebec to, 709: Fly-Fishing in
the Lakes of, noticed, 715; early
visits to the coast, 821; copper-plate,
1648, found at Castine, 855.
Maine Historical Society, Collections,
noticed, 73; Collections edited by Dr.
Kohl, 130; celebration of Longfellow's
birthday, 151; a paper on Gen. Peleg
Wadsworth, read by William Gould,
151; portrait of Judge Freeman pre-
sented, 445 Annual Meeting, 642;
field day at Damariscotta, 856; pa-
pers on ancient Pemaquid, 857; A.
G. Tenny's remarks on the N. E.
Charter of 1620, 857.

Malsburg, Hauptman Frederick von
dem, diaries of, 509.

Margaretta, British armed schooner,
captured, 487.

Marriner, William, a noted whaleboat
captain in the Revolution, 177.
Marshall, John, statue to the memory
of. 142.

Marsnall, Orsamus H., The New York
Charter, 1664 and 1674, 24.

Martin, Benjamin N., Sketch of John
W. Draper, 233.

Maryland not a Catholic Settlement,
480.

Maryland Gazette, a set for sale, 54-
Mason Edward G., the record book

of Col. John Todd, first Civil Gov-
ernor of the Illinois Country, 586.
Mason, Rev. John, portrait of, 854.
Mason Grant, in N. H., 2.
Massachusetts, boundary controversy
with N. Y., 28; Bay Company au-
thorizes the settlement of Conn.,
265 council and clergy dressed in
homespun, 293; regulates her com-
merce, 1785, 353; May-pole in, 508;
Sabbath-breakers fined in, 634:
represented in the Hartford conven-
tion of 1780, 688; to furnish quota of
continental troops, 690; trading
towns and number of houses, 1675,
850.

Massachusetts Historical Society, Pro-
ceedings, Vol. xviii., noticed, 74,
301; memorial notice of Longfellow,
300 action on the death of Emer-
:
son, 442; collections VII., noticed,

516, announcement of the deaths of
Frederic de Peyster and Chandler
Robbins, 856.

Massasoit treats with the Pilgrims,

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Mayas of Yucatan, Historic Records of
the, mentioned, 716.
Mayflower, origin of the name, 293,
368, 439, 514; arrives at Cape Cod,
791; the compact signed on the,
847.

May-pole, in Mass., 508; in N. Y.,

577.

Mecklenberg Declaration, 507.

Medicine Bull, a Pawnee Chief, sketch
of, 756.

Methodism, Old and New, noticed,
231.

Mexico, hostilities with Texas, 383.
Miller, Peter, presentation of his mili-

tary equipments, 710.
Minuit. Peter, Director-general of New
Netherland, 322.

Mississippi River, celebration of the
discovery of, 139; discovery, 182,
226, 294, 366; explored by La Salle,
312, 620.

Mohawk Valley, N. Y., settlement,

337.

Mohawk Indians, 338.

Mohegan Indians, census of, 50; land
controversy, noticed, 714.

Money, and its substitutes, mentioned,
716.

Monmouth, N.J., battle of, 191; monu-
ment, 291.

Montgomery, Col., commander of Fort
Gage, Ill., 594.

Montgomery, Gen. Richard, farm for
sale, 293.

Montressor, John, note on the battle of
Harlem, 39; his loss of property
in
America, 361; plan of expedition in
1760, from Quebec to Maine, 709:
rescues the head of the statue of
George III., 854.

Monts, Pierre du Guast, voyage of,
1605, 812.

Moody, Joshua, and his times, 299.
Moon, first photograph of, by Dr.

Draper, 246; curser, 145.
Moore, Goorge H., John Dickinson

the author of the Declaration on tak-
ing up arms in 1775, 514.
Moore, Jacob B., memorial sketch of
Frederic de Peyster, 769, 786.
Morgan, Gen. Daniel, Hero of Cow-
pens, noticed, 154; confounded with
Col. George Morgan, 229; monument
over his grave, 291.

Morgan, Joseph, invention in naviga-
tion, 1714, 637.

Morris, Lewis, letter of Gen. Braddock
to, 512; ill-treated by N.J. Assembly,

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EGROES, slaves executed for
witchcraft, in Ill., 591.
Nelson, William, parents of James
Smithson, 144; match-coats described,
144: law of N. J. on public bridges,
716.

Netherlands, Government of the towns
of the, 316.

New Brunswick, N. J., mentioned, 177.
New Brunswick, N. S., in the Revolu-
tion, 486.

Newburgh, N. Y., memorial column,

291; proposed centennial celebration
in 1883, 436; plan of the encamp-
ment at, 511; reasons for the centen-
nial, 716.

New Castle, Pa., date of Penn's land-
'ng at, 665.

Newcomb, George B., Review of Sum-
ner's Andrew Jackson, 831.

New England, grant of land in, by the
Duke of York, 26; called New Ca-
naan, 85, 510, 708, hawks imported
to, 86; May-pole cut down, 87;
treatment of the Indians, 89, 106;
first Episcopal church, 365; History
of the Indian Wars of, noticed, 448;
Gosnold's voyage to, 555; Popham's
voyage, 1607, 556; first sketch of the
coast, 556; first divine service in,
557 first white woman born in, 597,
706; the Good Samaritan shilling,
635; early tombstones. 638, 708; date
of forefathers' day, 575, 641, 789, 803;
groaning beer, 707; thanksgiving
day, 757; Plymouth Rock_restored,
789; Pring's voyage, 806; Plymouth
before the Pilgrims, 806; charter of,
1620, 857; early voyages, 806, 818:
colonization of, 819-824; habits and
customs of the Indians, 841; product
and animals, 843; trading towns, with
number of houses, 1675, 850; cate-
chising declared unscriptural in, 854.
New England Historic Genealogical
Society, Muster-roll of Maj. Thaxter
presented, 151; Certain Elements in
the Development of American Char-
acter, paper read by Rev. Anson Titus,
151; petition Congress in regard to
the Pueblo Indians, 298; Rev.
Joshua Moody and his Times, paper
read by Edward Winslow, 299; Seal
of Middlesex Canal Company pre-
sented, 443: A Border New Hamp-
shire Town in the Vermont Controver
sy, paper by Charles A. Downs, 443:
resolutions on the death of Lemuel
Chester, 709; address on Concord,
by A. Bronson Alcott, 709; original
plan of Montressor's Expedition in
1760, from Quebec to Maine, pre-
sented, 709.

New England Historical and Genealo-
gical Register, noticed, 232.
New England Primer, earliest edition
of the, 785.

New England Society of Brooklyn,
Proceedings, noticed, 374.

New England Canaan, by Thomas
Morton, 83, 91, 94-

Newfoundland, French voyages to,
286; Colony of Avalon, founded by
Lord Baltimore. 480.

New Hampshire, The Grants of, Germs
of Nullification and Secession, 1776,
John L. Rice, t; first Assembly at
Exeter, 1 formation of Constitution,
10; boundary controversy, 443; rep-
resented in the Hartford Convention
of 1780 688; to furnish quota of
Continental troops, 690; trading

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