Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919). New York. 1906.
Subject Index
| Taxation, opposition to Stuyvesant’s plan of, 42; of Long Island Puritans, 53; by Colve, 57; indirect, 131, 132; claim of “no taxation without representation,” 132 |
| Tea Act, passage of, 146; opposition to, 146, 147, 149 |
| Tenant-farming, favored by Fletcher, 97 |
| Theatre, early, 115 |
| “Times,” the, exposures of Tweed, 253 |
| Tories, name assumed by court party, 125; numerous in New York, 134; rioting by, 149; persecution of, 150, 154; ferocity of struggle with Whigs, 153; weakening influence among colonists, 157; plotting among, 160; destruction of power, 177; see also LOYALISTS |
| Trading companies, 11, 13 |
| Traveling, in early colonial days, 115 |
| Treasurer, early powers of, 178 |
| Trenton, battle of, 165 |
| “Tri-Insula,” proposed independent commonwealth, 246 |
| Trinity Church, rebuilt, 173; beauty of, 240 |
| Tryon, Gov. William, 154 |
| Tweed, William M., 253 |
| Underhill, Capt. John, Indian fighter, 28, 40 |
| Union, rise of the principle of 179 |
| Union Club, 257 |
| Union League Club, 257 |
| University Club, 257 |
| Ury, Rev. John, hung for complicity in negro plot, 122 |
| Van Cortlandt, Stephanus, leader of aristocratic party in 1689, 74; chased from the city, 82 |
| Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 217, 219 |
| Van Rensselaer, patroon, 17 |
| Van Rensselaer family, leaders in Provincial Congress, 155; supporters of Hamilton, 187; influence of, 200 |
| Van Twiller, Wouter, succeeds Minuit, 19; character, 20; relations with Indians, 20; relations with English, 20; removal of, 22 |
| Van Wyck, Abraham, 156, note. |
| Varick, Robert, mayoralty of, 196 |
| Vassalage, system of, 17 |
| Virginia, English settlements in, 3; influence over other colonies, 150 |
| Virginians, take possession of Dutch forts on Delaware River, 21 |
| Vox Populi placards, 140 |
| Walker, William, filibuster, 219 |
| Wallabout Bay, prison ships in, 170 |
| Walloons, early colonists, 13, 14; early settlers of New Amsterdam, 34 |
| Wall Street, origin of name, 37; swindling in, 252 |
| Warehouses, first, 18 |
| War of 1812, 209 |
| Washington, D. C., 261 |
| Washington, George, rebukes destroyers of monument, 142; passes through New York to Boston, 154; makes New York his head-quarters, 156; discordant materials for his work, 158; plot for abduction or murder of, 160; proposes to burn the city, 160; training his raw army, 160, 161; punishes outrages by his army, 161; rescues forces from Long Island, 162; courage of, 162, 163; evacuates New York, 162, 163; at rout at Kip’s Bay, 163; at Haarlem Heights, 164; retreat from New York, 165; retreats to New Jersey, 165; crosses the Delaware, 165; wins battle of Trenton, 165; difficulties of his position, 171; re-enters city, 171; influence of, 180; inaugurated President, 185; a Federalist, 188; appointments in New York, 188, 195; respect for memory of, 259 |
| Water, early supply of, 205 |
| Wealth, increase after Revolution, 173; growth of, 245 |
| Webster, Noah, 190 |
| “We Dare” placards, 140 |
| Weehawken, N. J., Hamilton-Burr duel at, 199 |
| “Weekly Journal,” the, established, 123, 124 |
| West India Company, chartered, 11; real founders of the city, 12, 13; magnitude of its operations, 12, 13; appreciation of stock, of, 16; treatment of colony, 18; decline of interest in New Netherlands, 22; death of, 55 |
| West Indies, early trade with, 90 |
| Whale fisheries, early, 53 |
| Whig party, the, 235 |