Arnold, B., at Saratoga, 62; in Philadelphia, 312; treason of, 160, 161, 182, 195 Arnold, Matthew, cited, 300 As-que-sent-wah, _see_ E. W. Paige B Baldwin’s Locomotive Works, 326 Baltimore, Congress flees to, 272 Barbadoes, Washington’s voyage to, 393 Barclay, Rev. T., quoted, 100 Barnard College, 207 Baron, Father, 407 Bartram, John, and his garden, 312, 314 Battershall, W. W., on Albany, 1-37 Bayard, James A., 360 Bayard, Richard A., 360 Bayard, Thomas F., 350, 351 Beatty, Charles, quoted, 268 Beatty, Rev., preaches first Protestant sermon at Pittsburgh, 407 Bedford, Gunning, 267 Bedford, Gunning, Jr., 358 Beecher, H. W., 247 Beekman Mansion, 195-197 Belcher, Governor J., 252, 257 Bemis Heights, 23, 41, 64 Bennington, battle of, 58 Bertholf, Rev. G., at Tarrytown, 154 Beverwyck, 73, 81 Biddle, Colonel, 122 Bidwell, D. D., 390 Binney, Horace, house of, 318 _Bird Grip_, Swedish vessel, 337 Bjork, Rev. Eric, builds Old Swedes’ Church, 349 Black Rock, battery at, 373, 384 “Block House,” the Pittsburgh, 408 Bloomingdale, absorbed by New York, 188 Blue Anchor, the Swedish tavern, 301 Bordentown, 269 Boston, 181, 188 Boudinot, President, of Princeton, 288 Bouquet, Col. Henry, builds the “Block House,” 407; defeats Indians, 407-410 Bowles, naval constructor, 244 Bowling Green, 193 Boyle, H., 107 Brackinridge, 269 Bracola, _see_ Brooklyn Braddock, defeat and death of, 51, 399-404, 416 Braddock’s Field, 418 Bradford, Governor, quoted, 4, 6 Bradford, press of, 306 Brainerd, David, expelled from Yale, 256 Brandt, 56 Brazil, Emperor of, 206 Breuckelen, _see_ Brooklyn Brewster, E. A., 135 Brinkerhoff, M., 132 Broadhead, Colonel, attacks Indians, 412 Brocklandia, _see_ Brooklyn Broecke, _see_ Brooklyn Broeckede, _see_ Brooklyn Broicklede, _see_ Brooklyn Bronck, Jonas, 77, 80 Brooklyn, 181, 186, 271; Harrington Putnam on, 213-249; Dutch settlement, 213; Dutch settlers described, 216-220; first church, 220-222; British rule, 224-227; battle of Long Island, 228-240; the Navy Yard, 242; Fort Lafayette, 244-248; modern Brooklyn, 248 Brooklyn Institute, 249 Brown, General, in War of 1812, 378, 380, 381 Brown, H. K., 119, 125, 135 Bryant, Wm. Cullen, 215 Buffalo, Rowland B. Mahany on, 367-391; founding of, 367; early history, 368; incorporated, 370; strategic position in the War of 1812, 373; Perry’s victory, 376; burning of, 377; battle of Chippewa, 378; Lundy’s Lane, 380; unsuccessful siege by the British of Fort Erie, 381; the Erie Canal, 382-384; the modern city, 385-391 Burgoyne, surrender at Saratoga, 22, 23, 58-68; imprisoned at Albany, 28 Burns, Robert, statue of, 36 Burr, Aaron, 28, 204, 205, 254, 259, 267 Burr, Rev. Aaron, 252, 259