[22] On this Glebe site was erected about 1730 the Lutheran Church of the Palatine Parish by Quassaick. Reverend Michael Christian Knoll, Pastor. From July 19, 1747, the Reverend Hezekiah Watkins of the Church of England held services for about twenty-five years. Erected by Quassaick Chapter, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. [23] IN MEMORY OF REVEREND HEZEKIAH WATKINS YALE 1737 ORDAINED 1754 IN ENGLAND SENT HERE BY VEN. SOC. P. G. IN F. P. FOUNDED THE PARISHES OF S. DAVID’S, S. ANDREW’S AND S. GEORGE’S RESIDENT MINISTER AT NEWBURGH FROM 1752 UNTIL HIS DEATH. APRIL 10, 1765. AET. 57. _Tablet in S. George’s Church, Newburgh._ [24] GEORGE CLINTON MEMBER OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1775-1777 BRIGADIER-GENERAL CONTINENTAL ARMY 1777 GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 1777-85—1801-4 VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 1804-1812 _Cara Patria Carior Libertas._ Inscription on Clinton Statue in Colden Square, Newburgh. Statue by Henry Kirke Brown. Presented to the city by the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands and other citizens. Unveiled on the 119th anniversary of the battles of Forts Clinton and Montgomery in the Highlands. [25] The change from Vredryk Flypse to Frederick Philips was synchronously made—both names being changed at the same time. [26] The word is commonly spelt thus for the mountains, but thus—_Allegheny_—for the river, county and city. [27] “The commissaries will issue a gill of whiskey, extraordinary, to the non-commissioned officers and privates, upon this joyful occasion.”—General Irvine’s Order. [Illustration] INDEX A Abercrombie, General, 30, 51 Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia, 332 Ackland, Lady, 64 Adams, John, 266 Adams, Mrs. John, 310 Adams, John Quincy, 380 Albany, W. W. Battershall on, 1-37; settled by Dutch, 1-9; captured by English, 9; incorporated, 10; English church built, 14; its frontier position, 15-18; during the French wars, 18; convention of 1754, 20; in the Revolution, 20-23; becomes the State Capital, 24; historic survivals in, 24-37; architecture of, 30-32; the Capitol described, 32-34 Aldrich, T. B., 205 Allegheny, 414 _Almirante Oquendo_, 244 American Philosophical Society, 310, 318 Amersfoort, 216, 219 Amherst, Lord, 52 Amsterdam, 3, 6 André, John, in New York, 194; capture of, 158-161 Andros, Edmund, 176 Army, American, volunteer system organized, 380