Cities and towns -- Middle Atlantic States; Middle Atlantic States -- History
Morristown, 285;
Washington marches to, 283
Morse, S. F. B., 35, 206
Morven, 265, 271, 273
Moses, Rhind’s statue of, 36
Mount McGregor, 46, 48
Music Fund Hall, Philadelphia, 325
Myggenborg, _see_ Elfsborg
N
Napier, General, cited, 381
Nassau Hall, 254, 258, 264, 269, 270, 281, 294, 296
Navy Yard, Brooklyn, 242-244
New Amsterdam, 143, 144, 346;
taken by the English, 175, 224;
name changed to New York, 175, 187, 224;
Buffalo first named, 367, 372
Newburgh, Adelaide Skeel on, 107-135;
the Palatine settlement, 107-117;
the coming of the Scotch and English, 117-121;
in the Revolution, 121-126;
Washington’s stay in, 126;
the Nicola letter, 127;
capture of Ettrick, 128-130;
Washington’s address to the unpaid troops, 131;
recent history, 132-135
New Castle, Del., 364
New Netherlands, fur trade in, 71
New Utrecht, 216
New York, 271, 317;
J. B. Gilder on, 169-211;
Dutch settlement, 169-175;
captured by the English, 175;
recaptured by the Dutch, 175;
governorship of Andros, 176;
resumption of Dutch authority, 177;
Leisler’s rule, 177;
in the Revolution, 178-184;
in the War of 1812, 184-186;
in the Civil War, 186;
expansion of, 187-189;
the Tammany Society, 189;
historic survivals in, 190-204;
characteristics of, 204-211
New York Central Railroad, 78
New York University, 207, 211
Niagara, Shirley’s expedition against, 51
Niagara Falls, 369, 386
Nicola, Colonel, letter to Washington, 127, 132
Nicolls, Colonel, at New Amsterdam, 175, 177, 224
Nieu Nederlandt, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9
Niles, Nathaniel, 254
Nott, President E., 105, 106
O
Ohio Company formed, 397
“Old French War,” 96
_Old Jersey_, the ship, 242
Old Swedes’ Church, Wilmington, 350-352
Oxenstiern revives the Usselinx charter, 336
P
Paige, E. W., cited, 83
Paine, Thomas, 205
Palatines, at Newburgh, 108-117;
at Philadelphia, 302
Palmer, the sculptor, 36
Paris, treaty of, 97;
New York compared with, 317
Parker, Judge, 36
Paterson, William, 252, 290
Patton, President, of Princeton, 295
Paulding, J., 160
Paulding, J. K., 110
Penn, John, house of, 312
Penn, Letitia, house of, 304
Penn, William, 333;
founds Philadelphia, 298-307, 316;
grants charter to Wilmington, 353
Penn family’s charter to Pennsylvania annulled, 413
Pennsylvania, charter to, 413;
dispute with Va., 414
Pennsylvania Historical Society, 323
Pennsylvania Hospital, 314
Pepper, Dr. William, services to the University of Pennsylvania, 324
Percy, Lord, at Brooklyn, 236
Perry, Commodore, 376
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