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 land purchased from the Indians, 83; character of the early settlement, 83-87; under English rule, 87-90; the first legislative assembly, 90; government seized by Leisler, 91; Indian wars, 92-96; Schenectady in the Revolution, 97-99; religious history, 100-103; modern history, 104-106
 * Van Curler's directorship, 75-83;

Schenley, Mary, 424

Schermerhorn, Symon, 16

Schonowe, 79, 81

Schoonmaker, Domine, 226

Schute, Swen, 343, 365

Schuyler, Elizabeth, marriage of, 28

Schuyler, Margaret, 29

Schuyler, Peter, 12, 46

Schuyler, Philip, shot by Indians, 49

Schuyler, Gen. Philip, 19, 22, 23, 27, 28; in battle of Saratoga, 58-68; visits Saratoga Springs, 68

Schuyler, Mrs. Philip, 18

Schuyler Mansion, 27

Schuylerville, 22, 41

Scott, Walter, 162

Scott, Gen. Winfield, in War of 1812, 378, 381

Selyns, Rev. H., at Brooklyn, 221

Seneca Chief, first boat on Erie Canal, 382

Seven Years' War, 50

Seymour, Governor, quoted, 22

Shelton, Rev. Dr. Wm., 389

Sherman, Roger, 291

Shipley, Elizabeth, 365

Shipley, William, at Wilmington, 352, 365

Shirley, expedition of, 51

Six Nations, see Indians

Skeel, Adelaide, on Newburgh, 107-135

Skipper Block, 170

Sleepy Hollow, 147, 164, 167

Sloane, W. M., on Princeton, 251-296

Sloughter, Governor, replaces Leisler, 177

Smith, James M., 390

Smithsonian Institution, 294

Spaulding, E. G., introduces Legal-Tender Act, 391

Spuyten Duyvil Creek, fight at, 170

Squam Island, the Detroit aground on, 374

Stackpole, Dr., composes Yankee Doodle, 30

Stanhope, Samuel, 292

Stanwix, General, builds second Fort Pitt, 407

Stark, General, 275; at Fort Edward, 66; at Princeton, 281

Stedman, E. C., 205

Steuben, 28; at Newburgh, 132

Stirling, in battle of Long Island, 234-239; in Trenton campaign, 271

Stockton, Richard, 252, 265, 269

Stoddard, R. H., 205

Stone, Gen. C. P., imprisoned at Fort Lafayette, 245, 246

Strasburg Cathedral, 34

Stuyvesant, Peter, at New Amsterdam, 9, 81, 144, 175-177, 218-221, 248; buys land west of the Delaware, 340; captures forts on the Delaware, 343

Suffolk County in the Revolution, 228

Sullivan, General, at Brooklyn, 235-237; at Princeton, 285

Sunnyside, Washington Irving at, 162, 163

Swedes, on the Delaware, 335-344; their church at Philadelphia, 301

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Tammany Hall, history of, 189, 190