VOL. II NO. 5 THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY WITH NOTES AND QUERIES NOVEMBER, 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. II NOVEMBER, 1905. NO. 5 CONTENTS MONUMENT WHERE WAS CLINTON’S COOPERSTOWN DAM _Frontispiece_ PAGE SULLIVAN’S GREAT MARCH INTO THE INDIAN REV. W. E. GRIFFIS, COUNTRY (_First Paper_) L.H.D. 295 THE BRITISH NAVY IN THE REVOLUTION (_Second Paper_) REGINALD PELHAM BOLTON 311 THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS (_Seventh Paper_) REV. LIVINGSTON ROWE SCHUYLER 315 REMINISCENCES OF ROBERT FULTON J. B. CALHOUN 326 DOMINIE SOLOMON FROELIGH AND HIS GREAT SCHISM REV. J. R. DURYEE, D.D. 330 A DAY IN THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP LOUISE E. CATLIN 339 MISCELLANEA OF AMERICAN HISTORY EUGENE F. MCPIKE 346 EDITORIAL 352 MINOR TOPICS: The Fate of the Pigeons 353 INDIAN LEGENDS: _III._ THE LONE BUFFALO (The Late) CHARLES LANMAN 356 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS Agreement Between Edmund Munro and John Sellon 359 Letters (three) of Lieut. Edmund Munro to His Wife 360 Original MS. of Abraham Lincoln’s Speech, 1859 362 Letter of Major James McHenry to Gen. Greene 362 Letter of Washington to the Citizens of Savannah 364 Letter of Martha Washington to Mrs. F. Washington 364 Entered as a second-class matter, March 1, 1905, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. _Copyright, 1905, by William Abbatt_ [Illustration: MONUMENT MARKING SITE OF GEN. CLINTON’S DAM COOPERSTOWN, N. Y. ] THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY WITH NOTES AND QUERIES VOL. II NOVEMBER, 1905 NO. 5