VOL. I NO. 2 THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY WITH NOTES AND QUERIES FEBRUARY 1905 WILLIAM ABBATT 281 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Published Monthly $5.00 a Year 50 Cents a Number THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY WITH NOTES AND QUERIES VOL. I FEBRUARY NO. 2 CONTENTS PORTRAITS—Lorenzo Dow Thompson, Jonathan Moore _Frontispiece_ SOME POPULAR MYTHS OF AMERICAN HISTORY THOMAS ADDIS EMMET, M.D. 61 ILLUSTRATIONS: Account of Negro School-House Cost—Boston Committee of Correspondence Notice—Delaware Pilot’s “Broadside” EARLY MENTION OF EVENTS IN THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY DAVID S. KELLOGG, M.D. 77 LINCOLN (_Poem_) MARY ISABELLA FORSYTH 85 CAPTAIN LINCOLN _vs._ PRIVATE THOMPSON FRANK E. STEVENS 86 (Author of “The Black Hawk War”) SIDE-LIGHTS ON CAROLINA HISTORY H. E. BELIN 91 INDIAN AGRICULTURE IN WISCONSIN BENJ. H. HIBBARD 97 THE AUTHENTICITY OF CARVER’S “TRAVELS” 105 OLD FORT GEORGE, NEW YORK CITY EDW. HAGAMAN HALL 107 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS (Sec’y Am. Scenic and Hist. Pres. Soc’y) A War Letter of Walt Whitman 113 Letter of Lincoln Declining an Office 114 SOCIETIES—New York—Rhode Island 115 NOTES AND QUERIES 116 MINOR TOPICS 116 GENEALOGY 117 BOOK NOTICE 121 Copyright, 1905, by William Abbatt. [Illustration: PRIVATE LORENZO DOW THOMPSON. _The wrestler who threw Captain Abraham Lincoln._ _From original owned by Henry Cadle, Esq., Bethany, Mo._ ] [Illustration: JONATHAN MOORE. _The referee of the match._ _From photo owned by his son, Col. R. M. Moore. San Antonio, Texas._ ] THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY WITH NOTES AND QUERIES VOL. I FEBRUARY, 1905 NO. 2 SOME POPULAR MYTHS OF AMERICAN HISTORY