Stanhope, Samuel, 292 Stanwix, General, builds second Fort Pitt, 407 Stark, General, 275; at Fort Edward, 66; at Princeton, 281 Stedman, E. C., 205 Steuben, 28; at Newburgh, 132 Stirling, in battle of Long Island, 234-239; in Trenton campaign, 271 Stockton, Richard, 252, 265, 269 Stoddard, R. H., 205 Stone, Gen. C. P., imprisoned at Fort Lafayette, 245, 246 Strasburg Cathedral, 34 Stuyvesant, Peter, at New Amsterdam, 9, 81, 144, 175-177, 218-221, 248; buys land west of the Delaware, 340; captures forts on the Delaware, 343 Suffolk County in the Revolution, 228 Sullivan, General, at Brooklyn, 235-237; at Princeton, 285 Sunnyside, Washington Irving at, 162, 163 Swedes, on the Delaware, 335-344; their church at Philadelphia, 301 T Tammany Hall, history of, 189, 190 Tarrytown, H. W. Mabie on, 137-167; described, 137-140; early Dutch settlements, 140-145; derivation of name, 146; the Philips Manor-House, 148-150; the old Dutch church, 150-156; Tarrytown in the Revolution, 157-160; capture of John André, 158-161; Washington Irving, 161-164 Tatnall, Joseph, Washington visits, 357; gives clock to Wilmington, 359 Tawasentha, Vale of, 29 Taylor, Bayard, 205 Tenacong, _see_ Tinicum Thackeray, W. M., 206 Thaw, Wm., generosity to Pittsburgh, 424 Thesschenmaecher, Rev. Petrus, 88 Ticonderoga, 19, 40, 51, 54, 233, 405 Tiemann, Mayor, death of, 170 Tifft house, the, 377 Tilden, Samuel J., 205 Tinicum, Prinz’s fort at, 340 Torkillius, Rev. R., at Fort Christina, 338, 365 Townsend, Charles, 384 Townsend, Sam, 361 Tran Hook, _see_ Crane Hook Treaty of 1783, 289 Trefalldigheet, 343 Trent, Captain Wm., establishes first settlement at Pittsburgh, 397-399 Trenton, battle of, 270-274 Trinity Church, New York, 227 Tryon, Governor, quoted, 56 Tusculum, 271 U Union College, 102-106 University of Pennsylvania, 324 University Settlement, New York, 208 Usselinx, Wm., and his trading company, 335 Utrecht, 216; treaty of, 96 V Vallandigham, E. N., on Wilmington, 335-365 Van Curler, Arendt, at Schenectady, 75-84, 92 Vanderheyden Palace, 30 Van Rensselaer, Killiaen, 8, 75 Van Rensselaer, Stephen, 25 Van Rensselaer Island, 4 Van Rensselaer Manor-House, 25, 26 Van Slechtenhorst, Brandt, 9 Van Twiller, Walter, 336 Van Wart, Isaac, 160 Van Wyck house, 132 Van Wyck, James, 132 Verplanck house, 131 Verrazzano, 2 Versailles, peace of, 289 Virginia, dispute with Pennsylvania, 414 Vliessingen, _see_ Flushing Von Königsmark, 346 Von Steuben, _see_ Steuben W Waalboght, 213 Wadsworth, Colonel, 122 Wallabout, village of, 224, 233, 242 _Walk-in-the-Water_, first steamboat on Lake Erie, 384 Walworth, E. H., on Saratoga, 39-70 War of 1812, _see_ various chapters