Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919). New York. 1906.
Subject Index
| Legislative council, the first, 36 |
| Legislature, loyalty to George III., 150; control city government, 178, 179 |
| Leisler, Jacob, leader of popular party in 1689, 75; character, 75, 80; quarrel with collector of the port, 76; overcomes lieutenant-governor and city council, 78; short-sighted policy of, 80, 82; opposition to, Episcopalians and Puritans, 81; disobeys royal proclamation, 82; nominated as commander-in-chief, 82; rule assumes the title of lieutenant-governor, 82; rule not recognized by Albany, 83; quarrel with New England allies, 84; treatment of Long Islanders, 84; deserted by his supporters, 85; refuses to recognize Lt.-Gov. Ingoldsby, 85; arrested and hung, 86; disinterred and honored, 100 |
| Leislerian party, put down, 104; influence of, 105 |
| Lewis Morgan, 191; elected governor, 198; defeat of, 199 |
| Libel law, obsolete theory of, 124 |
| Liberties and privileges, charter of, 66; granted by Dongan, 67 |
| Liberty, struggle for, 179 |
| Liberty pole, erection of, 143; riot over, 144, 145 |
| Libraries, the New York Society, 174; the Astor, 218 |
| Literature, societies, 207, 208 |
| Literature, early colonial, 117; rise of, 208; the birthplace of American, 240; growth of, 260 |
| Livingston, Edward, appointed mayor and U. S. district attorney, 196 |
| Livingston, Robert R., feelings toward Hamilton, 188 |
| Livingston, Robert, partner with Captain Kidd, 101 |
| Livingston family, descent of, 87, note; armorial bearings of, 115; leaders in, the popular party, 125, 136, 142; prominent members of, 155, note; 156, note; supporters of Hamilton, 187; indorse Burr, 189; distrust of Burr, 191; apportionment of patronage among, 196; opposition to Burr, 197; decline of power, 200; power of, 202 |
| Local boards, 239 |
| Loco-foco party, 236 |
| Long Island, English take possession of eastern half of, 26; revolt against Stuyvesant on, 40; Puritans refuse to be taxed, 53; horse-racing on, 53; troubles between Puritans and Colve, 56; Leisler’s operations in, 84; Tory majority in, 158; landing of British |
| Long Island Sound, first ship on, 9; new settlements on, 25; passage forced by British fleet, 164, 165; steamboats on, 216 |
| Lovelace, Gov. Francis, successor to Nicolls, 52; character, 52; troubles with Long Island Puritans, 53; supported by Dutch and English, 53; relations with Indians, 53; establishes mail to Boston and Hartford, 54 |
| Loyalists, devotion of, 151; plundered, 153; their newspaper office wrecked, 154; flight of, 160; in population surrounding the city, 166; deported on evacuation, 172; Hamilton and Jay as defenders of, 182; restored to legal equality with other citizens, 182; see also TORIES |
| Loyalty, lack of, in early Dutch settlers, 16; of citizens at outbreak of civil war, 247 |
| Ludlow family, prominent members of, 155, and note. |
| Lutherans, Church, growth of, 256 |
| Lutherans, persecution by Stuyvesant, 42; religious liberty under English rule, 50 |
| Lu¨tzen, battle of, 4 |
| Madagascar, pirate station at, 94 |
| Madison, James, joint author of the “Federalist,” 183 |
| Magazines, 260 |
| Magyar immigration, 256 |
| Maiden Lane, origin of name,37 |
| Mall, the, 113 |
| Manhattan, discovery of, 1, 6; value compared with Java, 4; Dutch post on, 9; early civilized life on, 10; sold to the Dutch, 14 |
| Manufacture, right to, 25 |
| Markets, 205 |
| Massachusetts, effects of rebellion in, 180 |
| Mayor, first, 50; office abolished, 55; appointed by governor, 67; first elective, 83; appointment of James Duane, 178 |
| Mayoralty, colonial system of appointment, 178; change in manner of election to, 214; first election by universal suffrage, 235 |
| Mayors, various nationalities of, 107 |
| Meeting, first popular, 29 |
| Mercenary troops, New England, 28; employment of Hessians, and hatred for, 159 |
| Merchants, early colonial, 117 |
| Methodist Church, strength before the Revolution and at present day, 109; increase in, 174 |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art, 260 |
| Metropolitan Opera House, 260 |
| Milborne, Jacob, leader of popular party in 1689, 75; hung, 86; disinterred, 100 |
| Military law, established by Colve, 57 |
| Militia, rising against Gov. Nicholson, 77, 78 |