PAGE INTRODUCTION Albert Shaw xv ALBANY Walton W. Battershall 1 SARATOGA Ellen Hardin Walworth 39 SCHENECTADY Judson S. Landon 71 NEWBURGH Adelaide Skeel 107 TARRYTOWN-ON-HUDSON Hamilton Wright Mabie 137 NEW YORK CITY Joseph B. Gilder 169 BROOKLYN Harrington Putnam 213 PRINCETON William M. Sloane 251 PHILADELPHIA Talcott Williams 297 WILMINGTON E. N. Vallandigham 335 BUFFALO Rowland B. Mahany 367 PITTSBURGH Samuel Harden Church 393 [Illustration] ILLUSTRATIONS Transcriber’s Note: The illustrations listed as “Seal of Tarrytown” and “Seal of New York City” were not, in fact, printed in the book. Illustrations have been moved to the nearest paragraph break, which may be on a different page. PAGE THE “HALF-MOON” ON THE HUDSON, 1609 _Frontispiece_ From the painting by L. W. Seavey. ALBANY OLD CHART OF NIEU NEDERLANDT[1] 5 PLAN OF ALBANY, 1695[1] 11 OLD DUTCH CHURCH, ERECTED IN 1715 ON SITE OF ORIGINAL CHURCH ERECTED IN 1656[1] 13 ST. PETER’S CHURCH ERECTED IN 1715. FORT FREDERICK IN THE BACKGROUND[1] 15 From a water-color sketch in the British Museum. MAJOR-GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER[1] 23 From the painting by Colonel Trumbull. STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER[1] 25 From the painting by Ezra Ames. VAN RENSSELAER MANOR-HOUSE, 1765[2] 26 SCHUYLER MANSION, 1760[1] 27 WEST SIDE OF PEARL STREET, FROM STATE STREET TO MAIDEN LANE, 1814[1] 31 VIEW OF ALBANY, 1899[2] 33 JOHN V. L. PRUYN 35 SEAL OF ALBANY 37 SARATOGA SARATOGA LAKE, N. Y. 40 MAP SHOWING HISTORIC AND OTHER DRIVES IN THE VICINITY OF SARATOGA SPRINGS 42 SARATOGA BATTLE MONUMENT, SCHUYLERVILLE, N. Y. 43 NORTH BROADWAY, SARATOGA SPRINGS, 1898 47