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INDEX

A

Abercrombie, General, 30, 51

Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia, 332

Ackland, Lady, 64

Adams, John, 266

Adams, Mrs. John, 310

Adams, John Quincy, 380

Albany, W. W. Battershall on, 1-37; settled by Dutch, 1-9; captured by English, 9; incorporated, 10; English church built, 14; its frontier position, 15-18; during the French wars, 18; convention of 1754, 20; in the Revolution, 20-23; becomes the State Capital, 24; historic survivals in, 24-37; architecture of, 30-32; the Capitol described, 32-34

Aldrich, T. B., 205

Allegheny, 414

Almirante Oquendo, 244

American Philosophical Society, 310, 318

Amersfoort, 216, 219

Amherst, Lord, 52

Amsterdam, 3, 6

André, John, in New York, 194; capture of, 158-161

Andros, Edmund, 176

Army, American, volunteer system organized, 380

Arnold, B., at Saratoga, 62; in Philadelphia, 312; treason of, 160, 161, 182, 195

Arnold, Matthew, cited, 300

As-que-sent-wah, see E. W. Paige

B

Baldwin's Locomotive Works, 326

Baltimore, Congress flees to, 272

Barbadoes, Washington's voyage to, 393

Barclay, Rev. T., quoted, 100

Barnard College, 207

Baron, Father, 407

Bartram, John, and his garden, 312, 314

Battershall, W. W., on Albany, 1-37

Bayard, James A., 360

Bayard, Richard A., 360

Bayard, Thomas F., 350, 351

Beatty, Charles, quoted, 268

Beatty, Rev., preaches first Protestant sermon at Pittsburgh, 407

Bedford, Gunning, 267

Bedford, Gunning, Jr., 358