St. Mark's Church, 54 St. Paul's Chapel, 150, 167, 195, 198 Schepens, the, 46 Schoolmaster, the first, 26 Schools, 208 School Society, Free, 208 Schout, the, 46 Schout-fiscal, the, 19 Schuyler, General Philip, 172 Schuyler, Peter, 99 Seal of New York, 63 Second Continental Congress, 144, 147 Ship Adventure Galley, 82, 83 Ship Clermont, 210, 211 Ship, the first built, 12 Ship Half Moon, 2-4 Ship Restless, 12 Ship Tiger, 10, 12 Ships, prison, 176, 177 Ships, tea, 138, 139, 140 Sidewalks, the first, 198 Slave Market, 98 Slaves, 26, 27, 98, 99, 111-115 Sloughter, Henry, 70-73, 75, 76 Small-pox, 200 Smugglers, 34, 39 Soldiers, first, 25, 26 Sons of Liberty, 128, 136, 137, 145-147 Spain, 13 Stadt Huys, 36, 47, 75, 87, 122 Stamp Act, 127-136 Staten Island, 10, 28, 39 States-General of Holland, 15, 16 Steamboat, first, 208-211 Steam ferry-boats, 211 Street lamps, first, 87 Street numbers, first, 198 Street railways, elevated, 234 Streets, how laid out, 212 Stuyvesant, Peter, 44-49, 53, 54, 76 Sugar-house, 174, 175 Tammany Hall, 197 Tammany Society, 197 Taxed tea, 135, 139-141 Tea ships, 138, 139, 140 Tea taxed, 135, 139-141 Telegraph, first, 230, 231 Theatre, John Street, 195 Third City Hall, 152, 205 Tiger, 10, 12 Tombs Prison, 152, 205 Tories, 143 Trading Stations, 103 Trinity Church, 28, 79, 129, 198 Trinity Churchyard, 207 Tryon's Gate, 198 Tryon's Row, 198 Tryon, William, 149, 158 Turtle Bay, 145, 146 "Tyrant of New England," 64 United New Netherland Company, 12 University of the City of New York, 230 Valley Forge, 172 Van Arsdale, John, 180 Van Dam, Rip, 105-108, 110, 111 Vandewater Heights, 164 Van Dincklagen, the schout-fiscal, 31 Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen, 25 Van Twiller buys Governor's Island, 30 Van Twiller's tobacco plantation, 27 Van Twiller, Walter, 25-32 Vauxhall, 132 Verhulst, William, 17 Wall Street, 41, 87, 190 Wall Street, City Hall in, 87-89, 94, 99, 128, 133, 152, 190 Wall, the city's, 48, 87 Walton House, 122 Walton, William, 122 Ward's Island, 31 War, Indian, 38-43, 49 War of the Revolution, 143, 144, 146, 152, 177, 178 War of 1812, 213-215 Warren, Admiral Peter, 116, 117 Washington, City of, 199 Washington, George, 123, 145, 148, 149, 151-158, 162, 164, 168, 170, 172, 173,178-183, 186, 189, 190, 193-195, 199, 200 Weehawken, 207 Westchester, 168 West India Company, 13-16, 18, 21-23, 25, 32, 42, 46, 53, 67 West Indies, 14 West Point, 177 Whigs, 143 Willett, Marinus, 147, 148 Willett, Thomas, 55 William III., 60, 67, 68, 70, 82 "William the Testy," 33 Windmills, 27, 34 World's Fair, 233 Yellow fever, 216 York, James, Duke of, 50-54. 55, 60, 61, 64, 65 Zenger, Peter, 108-110