INDEX

ABINGTON, Mass., cannon for

the Revolutionary war, cast
in, 204:
Adams, Herbert B., memorial sketch
of Leopold von Ranke, 85.
Adams, John, papers of, 32.
Adams, John Quincy, life of, no-
ticed, 550.

Adams, Samuel, papers of, 32.
Adams, Walter Booth, present home
of the Magazine of American His-
tory, its memories and associa-
tions, 76.
Africa, Prof. Drummond's address
on central, 544-
Albany, N. Y., Milbert's views of,
1826, 458, 468; Lafayette's visit to,
1824, 467.

America, the tread-mill in, 525; the
Fairfaxes of, 542.
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, annual
meeting, election of officers, 264;
abbreviation of the title of, 266;
papers on the economy of food, by
Prof. Atwater: the testimony of
statistics to our national progress,
by Prof. James, 267; to be invited
to England, 268.

American Biography, Vol. II., no-
ticed, 184.

American Economic Association,

annual meeting, papers on the ef-
forts of manual laborers to better
their condition, by Francis A.
Walker, 84; the problem of trans-
portation, by E. J. James; the
long and short haul clauses of the
inter-State commerce act, by Ed-
win R. A. Seligman, 85.
American Electoral System, no-
ticed, 182.

American Historical Association,
annual meeting, papers on the
manuscript sources of American
history, by Justin Winsor; Diplo-
matic prelude to the Seven Years'
War, by Herbert Elmer Mills;
Silas Deane, by Charles Isham;
Historical grouping, by James
Schouler; the Constitutional rela-
tions of the American Colonies to
the English Government at the
commencement of the American
Revolution, by Mellen Chamber-
lain; the Peace Negotiations of
1783, by John Jay; sketch of Leo-
pold von Ranke, by Herbert B.
Adams: the Parliamentary ex-
periment in Germany, by Kuno
Francke; a study in Swiss history,
by John Martin Vincent; the
Spaniard in New Mexico, by W.

H. H. Davis; the historic name of
our country, by Moses Coit Ty-
ler; the government of London,
by Arthur M. Wheeler; religious
liberty in Va., and Patrick Henry,

by Charles J. Sillé; the American
chapter in church history, by
Philip Schaff; historical studies
in Canada, by George Stewart,
Jr., 84; election of officers, 86.
American History. manuscript
sources of, Justin Winsor, 21.
American Progress. Poem by
Charies K. Tuckerman, 72.
American Revolution, Henry Lau-
rens in the London tower, 1;
manuscripts relating to the, 26, 27,
29, 30, 31. Enoch Crosby, the
Spy, 73, 341; the constitutional re-
lations of the American colonies
at the commencement of the,
85; peace negotiations of 1783,
85; Silas Deane, 85; John
Sevier, as a commonwealth
builder, a sequel to the rear-
guard of the, noticed, 95; general
orders relating to German troops
at Winchester, Va., 1781, 164; the
first naval battle of the, 173; Gen.
James M. Varnum of the Conti-
nental army, 185; cannon
nished for the, 203; a patriotic
parson, 239; a patriotic letter of
Gen. Arnold, 250; route of Col.
Campbell, from Savannah to Au-
gusta, 1779, 256, 342; N. J. Volun-
teers in the, 272.

fur-

Ancient Cities of the new world,
noticed, 548.

André, John, the spy, noticed, 455.
Andrews, Prof. F. B., the Federal
Convention of 1787, 542.
Andrews, Israel Ward, settlement
of the Northwest, 81; the admis-
sion of Kentucky, Tennessee and
Ohio into the Union, 356.
Architecture, a short history of,
noticed, 453.

Armstrong, William Jackson, the
captured battle flags, 252.
Arnold, Gen. Benedict, letter to the
Committee of Safety of Schenec-
tady, Aug. 16, 177, in regard to
Fort George, 250; wounded at
Quebec, 350, 445.
Artists, jealousy of, 354.
Ashton, Eugene, the Latrobe corn-
stalk columns at Washington, 128.
Assyria, History of, noticed, 94.
Atkinson, Edward, the Margin of
Profits, noticed, 270.
Augusta Co., Va., Annals of, no-
ticed, 270.

"Auld Lang Syne," the manuscript
of, 265.

Authors, a century ago, 349.

BAs, a poem, Mrs. Martha
J. Lamb, 535:

Grace, the Christmas sum-

Bacon, Nathaniel, the rebel, his prop-
ositions to John Goode. 1676, 418.
Baker, Charles D., the First Re-
formed Dutch church of Brook-
lyn, N. Y., 336.

Baker, George A., Mrs. Hephaestus,
and other short stories, noticed,
181.

Baker, John, the Federal Constitu-
tion, noticed, 181.
Bancroft, George, the study of his-
tory, 266.

Bancroft, Hubert Howe, how Cali-
fornia was secured, 194.
Baptist Church, the first in Boston,

82.

Barneveld, John, execution of, 278.
Beauchamp, W. M., the Church of
England in N. Y., 83.
Beecher, Henry Ward. Memorial,
noticed, 269; as a humorist, 434,
456.

Belleville, N. J., the Reformed
church at, 87.

Benjamin, S. G. W., Lady Franklin
in Greece, 161; character of Daniel
Webster, 317.

Bent, Samuel Arthur, Familiar Short

Sayings of Great Men, noticed, 95.
Bernard, Gov. Francis. papers of, 30.
Betts, Beverly R., family and resi-

dence of Col. Beverly Robinson,

352.

Birch, Harvey, the spy, 341.
Bishop, John M., The U. S. Mail
Service, 45.

Bok, Edward W., Beecher Memorial,
edited by, noticed, 269.
Boodle, origin of the word, 82, 191,
262, 353, 445.
Book Notices.-July-Lecky's Eng-
land, 93; Shurz's Life of Henry
Clay, 94 Ragozin's Story of Assy-
ria, 94; Gilmore's John Sevier, 95;
Strohm's Cookery book, 95; Mun-
ger's Appeal to Life, 95; Bent's
Short Sayings of Great Men, 95;
Wood's Natural Law in the Busi-
ness World, 96: Papers of the
California Historical Society, Vol.
I., 96.

August-Holland Society year
book, 180; Chapman's French in
the Alleghany Valley, 180; Walsh's
Queen of the House of David,
180; Baker's Mrs. Hephaestus and

Bride, the custom of casting a shoe
after a, 169, 262.
Bridger, James, ancestry of, 351.
Bridgewater, Mass., cannon foundry
in, 203.

Brinley, Thomas, home of, in Eng-
land, 363

Brooklyn. N. Y., the First Reformed
Dutch Church, 336, 543.
Brown, Charles Brockden, novelist,

542.

Brunner, Arnold W., interior decor-
ations, noticed, 551.

Buchanan, James, letter to Royal
Phelps, December, 22, 1800, in
regard to the secession of the
Southern states, 77.

Burns, Robert, the manuscript songs
"Auld Lang Syne" and Scots
wha ha wi' Wallace bled," 265.
Burr, Aaron, a study, Charles H.
Peck, I., 403; II., 482; expedition
of, 538, 539.

Butler, James D., Our Revolution-
ary Thunder, 203: alien disabil.
ities, 261; church-bells in America,
261.

Butterfield, Consul W., Biographical
Sketch of Mortimer M. Jackson,
noticed, 271.

November-Tuckerman's Archi-
tecture, 453; McClellan's per-
sonal memoirs and military his-
tory of U. S. Grant, versus the
record of the Army of the Poto-
mac, 453; Hale's Trans-Alleghany
Pioneers, 454; Martin's Life of
Father Jaques. 454; Lossing's two
spies, Hale and André, 455; Dimi-
try's Three Good Giants, 455;
Drake's Great West, 455; Long-
fellow's Prose birthday book, 455;
Hague's life notes, 456; Mathew's
Uncle Rutherford's attic, 456;

Kirk's Beecher as a humorist, 456.

December-Charney's Ancient
Cities of the New World, 548;
Washburne's Recollections of a
minister to France, 548; Cabot's
Memoirs of Emerson; 549; San-
ford's Connecticut, 549; John-
ston's Connecticut, 549; Cooke's
Clapboard Trees, 549; Stoddard's
Madison, Monroe, and John Quin-
cy Adams, 550; Coolidge's Phila-
delphia, 550; Frey's Sobriquets
and Nicknames, 550; Jessup Gene-
alogy, 550; Canadian Institute
Proceedings, 551; Nova Scotia
Historical Society Collections. 551;
Lathbury's Child Life. 551; Brun-
ner and Tryon's Interior Decora-
tions, 551

Boston, Mass., the first Baptist
Church in '82; Lafayette's visit
to. 1825, 459, 465; Milbert's view
of, 1826, 464.
Boudinot, Elias, papers of, 31.
Bowdoin, Edgar, the custom of cast-
ing a shoe after a bride, 169.
Bowdoin, James, papers of, 33.
Bradford, John, founder of the Ken-
tucky Gazette, portrait, 125.

549.

Calhoun, John C., secession, illus-
trated in the career of, 206.
California, secured by the U. S.,

194.

California Historical Society, papers,
Vol. I., noticed, 96.
Campbell, Col. Arthur, memoran-
dum of the route of, from Savannah
to Augusta, 1779, 256, 342.
Camp-meetings, early, 427.
Canada, historical studies in, 86.
Canadian Institute, proceedings,
noticed, 551

Canning, E. W. B., Indian land
grants in Western Mass, 142.
Cantley. E. A., school law in the N.
W. territory, 444-
Carroll, Charles, papers of, 33.
Chalmers, George, papers of, 30.

ter in Part 1., Philip Schaff, 289,
II.. 390.
Clap-boardTrees, history of, noticed,
Clarke, Daniel, ancestry of, 170, 350.
Clarke, Gen. George Rogers, papers
of, 33.

549.

Clason, A. W., Stephen A. Douglas
and the Free Soilers, 478.
Clay, Henry, Life of, noticed, 04-
Cleaveland, Rev. John, a Patriotic
Parson of the Revolution, D. F.
Lamson, 239.

Cleveland, Grover, address at the
centennial of Clinton, N. Y., 176.
Clinton, Gov. George, fac-simile of
letter from, to Gov. Hamilton,
June 2, 1753,439.
Clinton, N. Y., centennial celebration
of, 174, 175.

Clinton, Sir Henry, introduces the
willow tree in America, 169.
Collyer, Rev. Robert, the Fairfaxes
of England and America, 542.
Columbia College, N. Y., 88.
Columbus, Christopher, an original
portrait of, 444.
Connecticut, history of, noticed, 549.
Constitution, the, a poem, 7.7.7.
Rooney, 443 centennial of the
framing of the, 449..
Cooke, George Willis, History of
clap-board trees, noticed. 549.
Cooke, Gen. P. St. George, one day's
work of a Captain of Dragoons, 35,
a winter's work of a Captain of
Dragoons, 510; marches troops
from New Mexico to San Diego,
Cal., 1846, 510; discovers railroad
route to the Pacific, makes new
southern boundary of the U. S.,
513: suppresses the Fremont
Mutiny, 514.
Cookery Book, Universal, noticed,

95.

Coolidge, Susan, History of Phila-
delphia, noticed, 550.
Cromwell, Oliver, portrait, 361.
Crosby, Enoch, the spy, 73, 341.
Cushing, Thomas, papers of, 33.

Chamberlain, Mellen, the constitu- DANA; Francis, papers of, 33.

tional relations of the American
Colonies to the English Govern-
ment at the commencement of the
American Revolution, 85.
Chapman, T. J., the French in the
Allegheny Valley, noticed. 189;
the religious movement of 1800,
426.

Charles I., silver knife and fork of,
364:

Charleston, S. C., the earthquake in,
251; year book of, noticed, 269.
Charney, Désiré, ancient cities of
the New World, no iced, 548.
Cherokee Indians, Journalism
among the, George E. Foster, 65.
Cherokee Phoenix, first aboriginal
newspaper, 65.

China, Travels in, noticed, 182
Christ in camp, or Religion in Lee's
army, noticed, 358.
Christmas poems, Mrs. Martha J.
Lamb, 535; Gilbert Nash, 537.
Church-bells, the first cast in Ameri-

ca, 261.

Church of England, established in
N. Y., 83.

Church History, the American chap-

Davis, S. M. Henry, Norway
Nightsand Russian Days, noticed,
270.

Davis, W. W. H., the Spaniard in
New Mexico, 85.

Dawes, E. C., letter of Jeremiah Nel-
son to Dr. Cutler, Feb. 18, 1807,
relative to the Burr expedition,
contributed by, 538.
Deane, James E., Enoch Crosby, the
Spy, not a myth, 73.
Deane, Silas, papers of, 31.
Dedham, Mass., Births, Marriages
and Deaths in, Vol. I., noticed,

272.

Devereaux, Gen. Arthur F., Some
account of Pickett's Charge at
Gettysburg, 13.
Dickson, W. M., Union, Secession,
Abolition, as illustrated in the
careers of Webster, Calhoun and
Sumner, 206; the apotheosis of the
Plutocrat, 497.

Dimitry, John, three good giants
from Rabelais, noticed, 455.
Douglas, Stephen A., and the Free
Soilers, A. W. Clason, 478.
Drake, Samuel Adams, the making
of the great West, noticed, 455.

Emmons, Edward, the Sabbath a
legal day of rest, 261, 351, 352.
England, history of, noticed, 93; ship
Resolute presented to. 97.
English Calendar, change in the,
170. 262.

English Publishers, and American
authors, 349-

FAmerica, 542.
AIRFAX Family of England and

Fairfield, Conn., Lafayette at, 1824,
463.

Fairfield County Historical Society,
officers, 448.
Federal Constitution, origin of the
Francis Norton Sharpe, 130; his-
tory of, noticed, 181; the framing
of the, 542.

Federal Convention of 1787, 542.
Fitzgerald, David, change in the
English calendar, 263.
Forbes, Walter K., readings for
young ladies, noticed, 360.
Foster, George E., journalism
among the Cherokee Indians, 65.
France, recollections of a minister
to, noticed, 548.
Francke, Kuno, the Parliamentary
experiment in Germany. 85.
Franklin, Benjamin, papers of, 26.
Franklin. Lady Jane, portrait and
fac-simile autograph of, 99; visits
Greece, 161.
Freehold, N. J., the old Tennent
church at, 87.
Free Soilers, Stephen A. Douglas
and the, 478.
Fremont, Gen. John C., expedition
into California, 198; the mutiny
of, 1846, 514.
French, the, in the Allegheny Valley,
noticed, 180.
Frey, Albert R., Sobriquets and
Nicknames, noticed, 550.
Fuller, Amos H., Egyptian Obelisk
in N. Y., 169.

Asa Gen.

Goode, G. Brown, an interesting
dialogue in 1676 between Bacon
the rebel, and John Goode, 418.
Goode, John, letter to Gov. Berke-
ley, Jan. 30, 1676, giving the prop-
ositions of Nathaniel Bacon, the
rebel, 418.

Goold, William, the first treaty of
the U. S., 173-

Grant, Gen. U. S., The Personal Me-
moirs and Military History of,
versus the Record of the Army of
the Potomac, noticed, 453; ances-
try of, 540.
Grantham, Lord, diplomatic corre-
spondence of, 30.

Greek Revolution, United States and

the, Charles K. Tuckerman, 217.
Greeley, Horace, Practical advice
of, an incident of Reconstruction
of Mississippi, 423; extract of a
letter to Bayard Taylor, 449.
Greene, Gen. Nathaniel, papers of,

26.

Greenough, Horatio, letters to E. E.
Salisbury, respecting the works
of, 330.
Greenwich, Conn., Lafayette at,
1824, 463.

HAGEMAN, John F. the French
colony at Princeton, N. J., 87.
Hague, Rev. William, Life Notes or
fifty years' outlook, noticed, 456.
Haines, Ferguson, fac-simile letter
of Gov. George Clinton to Gov.
Hamilton, June 2, 1753, contributed
by, 439.

Hale, John P., Trans-Allegheny
Pioneers, noticed, 454.
Hale, Nathan, the spy, noticed, 455.
Halleck, Fitz Greene, anecdote of,
356.

Hallock, Robert C., the old Tennent

Church at Freehold, N. J., 87.
Hamilton, Alexander, papers of, 26.
Hamilton Oneida Academy in 1794,
Walstein Root, 396.
Hancock, John, papers of, 29.
Hancock, Gen. Winfield S., battle
scene representing, at Gettysburg,

tinental Army, 185.
Gardiner, Samuel S., portrait, 381.
Gates, Gen. Horatio, papers of, 31.

Henry, Patrick, papers of, 33; re-
ligious liberty in Virginia, and, 86.
Hillsborough, Earl of, portrait, 7.

Holland Society of New York, Year
Book, noticed, 180.

Holmes. Oliver Wendell, the large
trees of New England, 544.
Hopkins, Esek, papers of, 31.
Hopkins, Rev.

Mark, memorial

sketch of, 162.
Hopkins, Stephen, papers of, de-
stroyed, 33.
Horse chestnuts, utility of, 172.
Hubbard, Oliver P., an extraordi-
nary Indian town, 339; the tread-
mill in America, 525.
Hudson River, N. Y., view of bridge
on, 1826, 460.

Hurlbut, George C., meaning of the
word boodle, 262.
Hurlbut, Henry H., the Prototype
of Leather Stocking," 532.
Hutchinson, Gov. Thomas, papers
of, 25.

475.

INDIAN Brook, N. Y., view of,
Indians, Journalism among the Cher-
okees, 65; meaning of the word
Tianderra, 82; land grants in
Western Mass, 142; of Kings
Bridge, N. Y.. 169; Running-An-
telope's autobiography, 243; an ex-
traordinary Indian town, 339;
Gen. Sullivan's expedition against
the, 1779, 359; education of the
Oneida, 396.

Irving, Washington, literary work
of, 175.

Isham, Charles, sketch of Silas
Deane, 85; the fishery question,
I noticed, 182.

JACKSON, Mortimer M., sketch of,
noticed, 271.
James, E. J., the problem of trans-
portation, legal tender decisions,
85.

Jaques, Father Isaac, life of, no-
ticed, 454.

Jay, John, papers of, 33; peace ne-
gotiations of 1783, 85.
Jefferson, Thomas, papers of, 26.
Jessup, Edward, descendants of,
noticed, 550.

Jessup, Rev. Henry Griswold, de-
scendants of Edward Jessup, no-
ticed. 550.
Johnson, Laura Winthrop, the Long-
fellow prose birthday book, no-
ticed, 455.

Johnston, Alexander, History of
Conn., noticed. 549.
Jones, Col. Charles C, Jr, Route of
Col. Campbell from Savannah to
Augusta, 1779, annotated by, 256
Jones, J. William, Christ in Camp,
or Religion in Lee's Army, no-
ticed, 358.
Joseph II., character of, 80.

342.

Ashes territorial government in
EARNY, Gen. S. W., estab-
New Mexico, 1846, 510.
Kentucky, the admission of, into the
Union, 306.
Kentucky Gazette, first newspaper
West of the Alleghanies, 121; fac-
simile of heading, 132; view of
building used by, 1787, 126.
King, Horatio, unpublished letter of
President Buchanan, contributed

by, 77; speech of Daniel Webster,
candidate for President, 443.
King, John A., the framing of the
Federal Constitution, 542.
Kings Bridge, N. Y., Indian name
for, 169; history of, noticed, 360.
Kirk, Eleanor, Beecher as a humor-
ist, noticed, 456.

Kirkland, Joseph, Zury, a novel,
noticed, 271.

Kirkland, Rev. Samuel, founder of
the Hamilton Oneida Academy,
396.

Knight, George W., location of land
granted to Lafayette, 83.
Knox, Gen. Henry, papers of, 30.

L

AFAYETTE, Marquis de, land
granted to, 83; in Missouri,
154; portrait, 457; his visit to U.S.
1824-25, 457; at Boston, 459, 465;
reception at N. Y., 459, 465; at
Providence, 461; in Connecticut,
461; reception at New Rochelle,
463; at Greenwich, Norwalk,
Stamford, and New Haven, 463;
at Albany, 467; reception at Phil-
adelphia, 467; entertained by the
"State in Schuylkill Club," 469;
menu of dinner to, 471; thirteen
toasts at dinner to, 477.
Lake George, the first steamboat on,
78.
Lakeville, Conn., cannon cast for
the Continental Army in, 204.
Lamb, Gen. John, papers of, 31.
Lamb, Mrs. Martha J., Henry
Laurens in the London Tower, 1;
a love romance in history, 150; the
origin of N. Y., glimpse of the
famous West India Company, 273;
the manor of Shelter Island, 361;
Lafayette's visit to U. S., 1824-25,
459; Baby Grace, the Christmas

Laurens, Henry, portrait, 1; in the
London Tower, Mrs. Martha 7.
Lamb, 1; fac-simile autograph
letter of, 3;
Lawrence, Papers of, 31.

who led the troops
after Arnold was wounded at
Quebec,

to his lands, same to Mrs. Ogilvie,
April 28, 1787, relating to family
affairs, 164; Gen. Arnold to Com-
mittee of Safety of Schenectady,
Aug. 16, 1777, relative to move-
ments of the British at Fort
George, 250; Horatio Greenough,
to E. E. Salisbury, Jan. 30, 1838,
and April 28, 1839, in regard to
his works, 330: Gov. Stuyvesant
to the church at Brooklyn, N. Y.,
1660, 336; fac-simile letter of Na-
thaniel Sylvester, 1675, to Gov.
John Winthrop, 367; fac-simile
letter of Gov. George Clinton,
June 2, 1753, to Gov. Hamilton,
439; Gen. Peter Muhlenberg to
Col. Richard C. Anderson, June 7,
1794, relative to land for Va. troops,
441; William Milner to Thomas
Morris, July 22, 1825, on the re-
ception of Gen. Lafayette, 471;
Richard Rush to William Milner,
July 21, 1825, in regard to reception
of Gen. Lafayette, 475; Jeremiah
Nelson to Dr. Cutler, Feb. 18, 1807,
relative to the Burr expedition,
538.

Lewis, Richard C., letter of Gen.
Muhlenberg to Col. Anderson,
June 7, 1794, contributed by, 441.
Lexington, Ky., view of the old
fort at, 123; present business
block on the site of old fort, 127.
Libraries, increase of, 355.
Lincoln, Abraham, the first dollar
earned by, 71.

Lincoln, Gen. Benjamin, papers of,

Ludlum, J.K., the Way of the World,

Death of Louis XIV., a poem, 540.
Luzerne, Chevalier de la, diploma-
tic correspondence of, 31.
Luzerne, N. Y., Milbert's view of
bridge near, 1826, 460.

CCLELLAN, Caswell, the Per-

the capture of the Margarita at
Machias, by George F. Talbot,
173.

Manchester Historical Society,
Mass., organization of, officers, 87.
Mansfield, Q. P., change in the Eng-
lish calendar, 170.

Martin, Rev. Felix, life of Father
Isaac Jaques, noticed, 454.
Maryland, cannon cast for the Con-
tinental Army in, 204.
Massachusetts, Indian land grants in
Western, E. W. B. Canning, 142;
cannon foundries in, 203.
Mathews, Joanna H., Uncle Ruther-
ford's Attic, a story for girls, no-
ticed, 456.

May, Sophie, Drone's Honey, no-
ticed, 182.

Mayas, Customs, Laws, and Religion
of the, Alice D. Le Plongeon, 233.
Memory, the faculty of, 543:
Metlakahtla, history of, noticed, 183.
Mexico, boundary of, 1843, 35-
Milbert, J., picturesque sketches in

United States, 1826, 90, 458, 460,
462, 464, 466, 468, 470, 473.474, 475-
Mills, Herbert Elmer, diplomatic
prelude to the Seven Years' War,

85.

NASH, Gilbert, Christmas, a poem,
Nebraska Historical Society, Trans-
actions and Reports, Vol. II., no-
ticed, 359.
Nelson, Jeremiah, letter to Dr.
Cutler, Feb. 18, 1807, relative to
the Burr expedition, 538.
Nelson, William, the founding of
Paterson, N. J., as a manufacturing
metropolis, 87; the Stamp Act,
1765, 445.

Nelson's River, origin of, 444.
Newberry, Walter L., bequest of, for

a

of. Henry H. Hurlbut, 532.
Lecky, William Edward Hartpole,
History of England, noticed, 93.
Lee, Arthur, papers of, 29.
Lee, Gen. Charles, papers of, 31.
Le Plongeon, Alice D., the Mayas,
their customs, laws, and religion,

History of U. S. Grant versus the
Record of the Army of the Poto-
mac, noticed, 543.
McFarland, R. W., change in the
English calendar, 262; school lands
in N. W. territory, 541.
Machias, Me., the capture of the
Margarita at, 173.

Madison, James, papers of, 26; life
of, noticed, 550.
Magazine of American History,
present home of the, its memories
and associations. 76.
Maine, the visits of the Presidents of
the U. S. to, 173.
Maine Historical Society, June meet-
ing, papers on the first treaty of
the U. S. by William Goold; the
visits of the Presidents of the U.S.
to Maine, by Joseph Williamson;

annual meeting, election of officers,
173.

New Haven, Conn., view of monu-
ment erected to the memory of the
soldiers of, 179; Lafayette at, 1824,
463.

New Jersey, cannon cast for the
Continental Army in, 204; Loyal-
ists in the Revolutionary War,
noticed, 272.

New Jersey Historical Society, May
meeting, papers on the Tennent
Church, by Robert C. Hallock;
French colony at Princeton, by
John F. Hageman; eulogy on
Gov. Ward, by F. W. Ricord; the
Reformed Church at Belleville, by
Aaron Lloyd; the founding of
Paterson, by William Nelson, 87.
New Mexico, the Spaniard in, 85;

the insurrection of 1846-47, 333;
territorial government established
in, 510.

New Rochelle, N. Y., Lafayette at,
1824, 462.

New York City, Revolutionary manu-
scripts in, 31; the present home of
the Magazine of American History,
76; Church of England established
in, 83; the Egyptian Obelisk in,
169; barges in. 261; the origin of,
273; Daguerré's experiment for
taking portraits, 1839, 356; recep-
tion to Lafayette, 1824, 459: 465;
view of Provost and Chapel
streets, 1826, 466.

New York Historical Society, Octo-
ber meeting, papers on the Fair-
faxes of England and America by
Rev. Robert Collyer, D.D.; Nov.
meeting, Charles Brockden Brown,
Novelists and Men of Letters, by
Edward I. Stevenson; anniver-
sary meeting; the framing of the
Federal Constitution, by John A.
King, 542.

North Carolina, an extraordinary In-

dian town in, 339.
Northwest, settlement of the, 81.
Norwalk, Conn., Lafayette at, 1824,
463.

Norway Nights, noticed, 270.
Notes-July-Character of Joseph
II., 80; political parties, 80; satire
and humor, 80; settlement of the
Northwest, 81.

August-Our diplomatic service,
168; death of Rev. Dr. Roswell D.
Hitchcock, 168; Kings Bridge In-
dians, 169.

September-Souvenirs of the
Arctic ship Resolute, 259; the um-
brella in history, 259; postal ser-
vice in the Spanish-Portuguese
colonies in America, 1800, 260; the
use of words, 260.
October Authors a hundred
years ago, 349; English publishers
and American authors, 349; wed-
dings in colonial days, 349.

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November-Harvard catalogue,
442; death of Hon. Mark Skin-
ner, 442; the Constitution, a poem,
443;
Daniel Webster, 443; the
Pringle family, 444.

December--A Yankee Thanks-
giving, 1792, 439; Aaron Burr's
expedition, 439; a Paris Christ-
mas, 439; the way of the world,
death of Louis XIV., 440.
Nova Scotia Historical Society, col-
lections, noticed, 551.

O

GDEN, David, ancestry of, 170.
Ohio, the admission of, into
the Union. 306.

Ohio Historical Society, July meet-
ing, election of officers, 264.
Oliver, Charles, 540.

Oliver, John F., ancestry of James
Bridger, 351.

Oneida Historical Society, June
meeting, take action on the cen-
tennial of Clinton, N. Y., 174.
Oneida Indians, education of, 396.
O'Neil, Charles A.. American Elec-
toral System, noticed, 182.
Original Documents Letter of
President Buchanan to Royal
Phelps, Dec. 22, 1860, respecting
the secession of the Southern

States, 77; unpublished papers re-

lating to the first steamboat on
Lake George, 78; General orders
relating to German troops at Win-
chester, Va., 1781, 164; unpub-
lished letters of Col. Beverly Rob
inson, 1786, 1787, relating to family
affairs, 164; route of Col. Camp-
bell from Savannah to Augusta,
1779, 256, 342; fac-simile letter of
Gov. George Clinton to Gov.
Hamilton, June 2, 1753, 439; letter
of Gen. Peter Muhlenberg to Col.
Richard C. Anderson, June 7, 1794,
441; letter of Jeremiah Nelson to
Dr. Manasseh Cutler, Feb. 18, 1807,
relative to the Burr expedition,
538.

Orr, Hugh, cannon foundry of, fur-
nishes cannon for the Revolution-
ary War, 203.

Otis, Fessenden N., M. D., Presenta-
tion of the Arctic ship Resolute by
the U. S. to the Queen of England,

97.

Otis, James, papers of, destroyed, 33.

PACIFIC Ocean, first railroad

route to the, 513.
Paris Christmas, a, 539.
Paterson, N. J., the founding of, as
a manufacturing metropolis, 87.
Peck, Charles H., Aaron Burr, a
study, I, 403; II, 482.
Pelletreau, William S., two unpub-
lished letters of Col. Beverly Rob-
inson, contributed by, 164; loca-
tion of Pittsburgh, N. Y., 262.
Pennsylvania, cannon cast for the
Continental Army in, 204, 205.
Perrin, William Henry, the first
newspaper West of the Alleghan-
ies, 121.

Phelps Family, the, 444.
Philadelphia, Pa., centennial of the
Constitution of the U. S. in, 265,
449; Lafayette at, 1824, 459, 467;
history of. noticed, 550.

Pickering, Timothy, papers of, 29.
Pickett, Gen. George E., Confeder-
ate Army, at the battle of Gettys-

burg. 17.

Pittsburgh, N. Y., location of, 82,

262.

Plutocrat, the Apotheosis of the, W.
M. Dickson, 497
Pocahontas, and her descendants,
noticed, 360.
Political Parties, 8o.

Price, Gen. Sterling, portrait, 333;
suppresses the New Mexico insur.
rection of 1846-47, 333-
Princeton, N. J., the French colony

at, 87.

Pringle family, the, 444.
Providence, R. I., view of, 1826, 462;
Lafayette's visit to, 465.

QUEBEC, Literary and Historical

Society of, annual meeting,
election of officers, 87; who led
the troops after Arnold was
wounded at, 350, 445.
Queries-July- The Stamp Act, 82;
Pittsburgh, N. Y., 82; Boodle, 82.
August-Casting a shoe after a
bride, 169: did Sir Henry Clinton
introduce the weeping willow in
America, 169; the Egyptian Obe-
lisk in N. Y., 169; change in the
English calendar, 170; ancestry of
William Swayne, David Ogden,
and Daniel Clark, 170.

RA

ABELAIS, Francois, three good
giants, noticed, 455.
Ragozin, Zénaide A., Story of As-
syria, noticed, 94.
Railroad route to the Pacific, the
first, 513.
Ranke, Leopold von, memorial

sketch of, 85.
Read, George, papers of, 33.
Reed, Joseph, papers of, 28, 31.
Religious Movement of 1800, the,
T. J. Chapman, 426.
Replies - July-A historic meet-.
ing-house. 82; Tianderra, 83; the
church of England in N. Y, 83;
public land, 83.

August Our presidents as
horsemen, 170; origin of the word
Boodle, 171; at the death angle
and from the Wilderness to Spott-
sylvania, 171; horse-chestnuts, 17!
September-Casting a shoe after
a bride, 262; Pittsburgh, N.Y., 262;
Boodle, 262; change in the Eng-
lish calendar, 262, 263.

October-Ancestry of James
Bridger, 351; the Sabbath, 351, 352;
residence of Col. Beverly Robin-
son, 352; Egyptian Obelisk, 353;
Boodle, 353.

at

November-Boodle, 445; Stamp
Act, 1765, 445; who led the troops
Quebec, after Arnold was
wounded, 445; ancestry of Robert
Drummond, 44chool lands, 541

December

Daniel Webster, 541; citizenship
and suffrage, 542; first Reformed
Dutch Church, Brooklyn, 543.
Resolute, the Arctic ship, present-
ed by the U. S. to Queen Victoria,
97; views of, 97, 103, 105.
Rhode Island Historical Society.
July meeting, papers on the appli-.
cation of steam power, 1663 to 1781,
by Gov. Dyer, 174; October meet-
ing, report on seal of the Society,
appoints delegate to the centen-
nial of Marietta, Ohio, 448; No-
vember meeting, the Federal Con-
vention of 1787, by Prof. F. B. An-
drews, 542.

Rhode Island Society of the Cin-
cinnati, appoint delegates to the
centennial of Marietta, Ohio, 449.
Robertson. R. S., similarity of the
paper, at the Death Angle, by
Charles A. Patch, and from the
Wilderness to Spottsylvania, by,

172.

Robertson, Wyndham, Pocahontas,