Gilman, Governor, 69 Girard College, 326 Gist, Christopher, 394 Gowanus, 213, 218, 233; Canal, 214 Grant, Major, defeat of, 405 Grant, Mrs., of Laggan, 18 Grant’s Hill, fight at, 405 Gravesend settled by English, 222 Gray’s Ferry, Hessians at, 320 Great Britain, wars with, 373-382, 411, 413 Great Meadows, battle at, 399 Greeley, Horace, 205 Green, Ashbel, 292 Greene, Gen. Nathaniel, 122; plans defensive works for Brooklyn, 232; in battle of Princeton, 276 Greenwich, New Yorkers at, 188 _Griffin_, La Salle’s vessel, 384 Gustavus Adolphus and Usselinx, 335 H Hale, Nathan, statue of, 195 _Half Moon_, Hudson’s, 2, 3, 110, 170 Hall, James, 35 Hamilton, Alexander, 205; marriage of, 28; political principles of, 180; in Philadelphia, 320 Hamilton, Governor, 252 Hancock, John, 314, 412 Hand, General, 276, 281, 412 Harlem absorbed by New York, 188 Harrison, Provost C. C., of University of Pennsylvania, 324 Hart, John, Signer, 268 Hasbrouck, Col. J., 121, 127 Hasbrouck House, 126 Hawley, Jesse, and the Erie Canal, 382 Headley, J. T., 111, 135 Helvetius, Madame, 310 Henry, Joseph, 35, 292 Hessians, at Trenton, 270-274; at Gray’s Ferry, 320 Hiawatha, real story of, 81-83 Hitchcock at battle of Princeton, 281 Hodge, Mr., at Buffalo, 373 Holland Land Company, 369 Holland, laws of, 85; States-General of, 3, 71, 143 Hollendare, Peter, 339 Holy Trinity church, Wilmington, 350 Hopkins, Stephen, 20 Hopkinson, Francis, Signer, 269 Houdon’s bust of Franklin, 308 Howe, Admiral, 230, 271, 272 Howe, Lord, 194; at New York, 230, 236; at Brooklyn, 239 Howe, Lord Viscount, death of, 19, 22, 51 Howells, W. D., 205 Hudde at Fort Nassau, 337 Hudson, Henry, 2, 3, 45, 110, 140, 142, 143, 164 “Hugh Wynne,” 318 Hunter, Governor, 14 I Independence Hall, 157, 317 Indians in history of Saratoga, 16 _ff._; of Schenectady, 75-84, 91-93; of Buffalo, 369; of Pittsburgh, 394-411, 416 Ingoldsby, Major, 48 Ingoldsby, Richard, 112 Iroquois, _see_ Indians Irvine, Gen. Wm., 413 Irving, Washington, 9, 30, 81, 110, 161-166, 205, 344; quoted, 146, 147 J James, Duke of York, 175, 346 James, Henry, 29 James II., 91 Jamestown, Va., 157 Jay, John, 132, 180, 205 Jefferson, Thomas, writes Declaration of Independence, 265, 318 Jensen, Sally, 122 Jogues, Father, 9, 76 Johnson, Sir John, 97 Johnson, Sir William, 17, 51, 52, 97 Johnstown Flood, 421 Jumel Mansion, 202-204 Jumonville, death of, 399 K Kalm, 314 Kayadrossera patent, the, 45, 53, 55 Keith, Governor, 327 Kennedy, Colonel, 194 Kennedy House, the, 197 Kidd, Captain, 206 Kieft, Governor, 336, 337 King George’s War, 48 King’s College, 179; _see_ Columbia College Kip, Leonard, 29 Kipling, Rudyard, 206