Fairs on Bowling Green, 35, 36 Federal Hall, 190-194 Federalists, 187, 188 "Federal Ship Hamilton," 188 Ferry-boats, 211 Fire Department, first, 105 Fire of 1776, 167 Fire, "the Great," 224 First City Hall, 36, 47, 75, 87, 122 First Continental Congress, 141-143 First Fire Department, 105 First houses of white men, 12 First Jewish cemetery, 104 First mail route, 57 First minister, 26, 36, 42, 43 First newspaper, 79 First night-watch, 87 First pavements, 93 First printing press, 79 First public clock, 99 First roads, 35 First schoolmaster, 26 First sidewalks, 198 First soldiers in New Netherland, 26 First steamboat, 208-211 First street lamps, 87 First street numbers, 198 First telegraph, 230, 231 First vessel built, 12 Fitch, John, 209 Fitzroy, Lord Augustus, 109, 110 Fletcher, Benjamin, 77-81 Forrest, Edwin, 231 Fort Amsterdam, 19, 27, 53 Fort Clinton, 215, 232 Fort James, 54 Fort Manhattan, 13 Fort Washington, 168 "Fourteen Miles 'round," 195 Franklin House, 193 Franklin Square, 193 Franklin, Walter, 193 Fraunces's Tavern, 99, 100, 180 Frederick, Kryn, 19 Free School Society, 208 French Revolution, 199 "Fulton's Folly," 211 Fulton, Robert, 210, 211 Gage, General Thomas, 141 Gardiner's Island, 84 Gates, General, 172 _Gazette, New York_, 108 George II., 104, 116, 125 George III., 125, 134, 136, 142, 152 Golden Hill, Battle of, 136, 137, 138 Golden Hill Inn, 137 Government House, 196 Governor's Island, 30 Grant's Tomb, 164 "Great Fire," the, 224 Greenwich Village, 216, 231 Hale, Nathan, 157, 158 Half Moon, 2, 3, 4 Hall of Records, 176 Hamilton, Alexander, 187, 188, 201-203, 206, 207 Hamilton, Andrew, 109 Hardy, Sir Charles, 121 Harlem Heights, 161 Harlem Heights, Battle of, 164-166 Harlem River, 229 Heights, Columbia, 164 Heights, Harlem, 161 Heights, Vandewater, 164 High Bridge, 227 Holland, 2 Holland, States-General of, 15, 16 Houses, first, of white men, 12 Howe, Admiral, 153 Howe, General William, 153, 155, 158, 168, 171 Hudson's Bay, 7 Hudson, Henry, 3-8, 10 Hudson's River, 8 Hunter, Robert, 96, 97, 99, 100 Hyde, Edward (Lord Cornbury), 91. India, 4 Indians, 1, 4, 8, 9, 10, 16, 33, 34, 37-41 Indian War, 38-43, 49 Ingoldsby, Richard, 71 Island, Gardiner's, 84 Island, Governor's, 30 Island, Long, 30, 31, 84 Island of Manhattan bought from Indians, 18 Island, Nut, 30 Island, Randall's, 31 Island, Staten, 10, 28, 39 Island, Ward's, 31 Jail, New, 175, 176 Jamaica, Long Island, 92 James, Duke of York, 50-54, 60, 61, 64, 65 James II., 64, 66, 67 Jans, Annetje, 28, 42 Jans's farm, 27, 28 Jersey, the, 176, 177 Jewish cemetery, the first, 104 John Street Theatre, 195 _Journal, New York Weekly_, 108 Kidd, Captain William, 83-85 Kieft, William, 33-43 King's College, 121, 184 Kip's Bay, 158, 161, 162 Koopman, the, 19, 34