Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919). New York. 1906.
Subject Index
Mill, the first, 18 |
Minuit, Peter, first governor |
Mitchell, Dr. Samuel, 208 |
Mohawk River, fort near, 9 |
Mohawks, secret society, reorganization of, 146 |
Mohawk Valley, under rule of Johnson family, 136 |
Money, issue of paper, 107 |
Montreal, Schuyler’s raids on, 83 |
Morris, Chief-Justice, expelled from office, 124; conservative principles of, 137 |
Morris, Gouverneur, type of Whig party, 150; attitude in the Revolution, 151; leader of Federalist party, 181; position in 1812, 201; elected senator, 189; plans Erie Canal, 215 |
Morris family, armorial bearings of, 115; leaders in Provincial Congress, 155 |
Morse, Samuel F. B., 216 |
Mount Vernon Gardens, 204 |
Museums, 260 |
Native American party, 194, 237 |
Naturalization, 47, 66 |
Negroes, early importations of, 34; legislation against assemblages of, 67; plot of 1741, 119; massacre of, 122; annual celebration of Pinkster, 116; emancipation, 211; suffrage, 213; in draft riots, 248 |
Netherlands, cradle of seamen, 1 |
New Amsterdam, founded, 14; mixture of population, 14, 34; beginning of stable existence, 34; compared with New England, 35; society in, 35, 36; incorporation of, 36; appearance of the town, 37, 38; costume in, 39; amusements, 39; seized by England, 43, 44; name changed to New York, 46, 57 |
New England, English settlements in, 3; compared with New Amsterdam, 35; colonists held in check by Stuyvesant, 40; settlers opposed to aristocracy and Episcopacy, 49; united to New York and New Jersey, 69; action on fall of the Stuarts, 74; indifference to welfare of New York, 99; quarrels with Gov. Fletcher, 99; indifference to New York’s prosperity, 129; sympathy for, in New York, 146 |
New Englanders, characteristics of, 23; kept in check by Colve, 56 |
“New England Invasion,” the, 211 |
New Jersey, settlements in, 25; severed from New York, 59; united with New York and New England, 69; retreat of Washington to, 165 |
“New Netherland,” the, 13 |
New Netherland Company, formation of the, 11 |
New Netherlands, value compared with Java and Surinam, 4, 57; named, 11; |
Newsboys’ lodging house, 257 |
Newspapers, scurrility of, 189, 190; see also their titles. |
New Year observance, 116 |
New Yorker, composition of a typical, 108 |
New York Medical Society, 174 |
New York Province, united with New England and New Jersey, 69 |
New York Society Library, 174 |
Nicholson, Sir Francis, leader of aristocratic party in 1689, 74; quarrel with militia, 78 |
Nicolls, Col. Richard, seizes New Amsterdam, 44; agent for Duke of York, 47; rule in New York, 47; character, 47, 51; refuses right of election of representatives, 50; treatment of Indians, 51; benefits of his control, 51; returns to England, 52 |
Night-schools, 257 |
“Nine Men,” the, 42 |
Non-importation agreement, the, 139 |
North Carolina, effects of rebellion in, 180 |
Northwest passage, search for, 1, 6 |
O’Brien, Colonel, killed in draft riots, 249 |
“Onrest,” the, first ship built in American waters, 9 |
Opera-house riot, 233 |
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 219 |
Packet ships, 221 |
Palisades, the, 8 |
Panic, of 1836, 234 |
Paper money, issue of, 107, 178 |
Parks, 257 |