of a gas-pipe explosion. It is only conjectured ; and at any rate,
the possibility of bursting such pipes and devastating a whole city,
is worth the timely and serious attention of Philadelphians, before
they go too far in imitation of this foreign invention and embel-
lishment, as it is called. We may take solemn warning too, and
shun the pernicious imitation of four and five storied houses,
producing nothing but ugly deformity in the perspective — with no
adequate counterbalancing advantage.

If one could know all the cases of suffering by the calamity,
we should perhaps find it too often among quiet and unobtrusive
widows, females, and orphans, who had their investments in the
Fire Insurance Companies, where the long tide of successful reve-
nues and consequent high dividends of nine per cent, made them
a favourite investment. Such persons must pay over their litde
all to the covered merchants and traders ; for these, be it remarked,
have been remarkably tenacious of keeping their current interests
insured. I know one case of a widowed lady, a loser of '$5000,
and of her grand-daughter another §3000 more. In another
family, three maidens and elderly women, orphans too, had their
whole interest in insurance stock, and were weeping themselves
sick, with apprehension and evil forebodings, after others had
settled down to composure. Some persons would inculcate that
all this calamity was a premeditated and purposed evil, inflicted
by a Divine hand, and employing as its agent, an incendiary cul-
prit. But if so, where is the discrimination among the sufterers
— the evil and the good are equally involved, and even the Dutch
church itself, erected to the worship of God, is among the ruins.
Why not rather say, in the language of the Proverbs, that " time
and chance happeneth to all men," and that it is the province
of divine interposition, "from evil to educe good," — good to those
who will improve the occasion to note the uncertain tenure of the
best earthly goods, and to lay up their treasure where thieves
(like fire) do not break through and harm ; or else evil to those,
who utterly overlook the lessons which the losses and crosses of
life should bestow to those that are exercised thereby. But this
is, perhaps, speculating on religious premises, where I have no
licensed charter for my opinion.



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378 Supplemental Notes.



SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES.



The cause of so miicli unparalleled havoc, was tliat oi a fierce
wind — felt equally all the way to Philadelphia, which was blow-
ing from the north-west during all the night; and besides this,
the weather was too intensely cold, to admit of a due use of the
engines and hose. In many places firemen could be seen beating
their hose to prevent the formation of ice within them.

It Avas impossible to find firemen reckless enough to ascend
ladders, which might be raised to the eves of houses, of four and
five stories — and in narrow streets, the water played so high,
necessarily fell back upon the people below. In such extremities,
men had to stand useless gazers upon the destruction of their
property.

Seventeen blocks, (squares,) containing houses of the largest
and most costly construction, were consumed in one night. What
an awful picture of the Great Assize, " when the elements shall
melt with fervent heat !"

Explosions were often heard, resulting sometimes purposely
from the use of gunpowder, and in other cases from the bursting
of liquor casks, and from the presence of gunpowder held for sale.
These when they occurred, were subjects of indescribable grandeur
and terror — it set every bosom upon the qui vive.

How wonderful, that in so much just cause of personal appre-
hension and danger, only one person should have been wounded,
and one other missing.

It was somewhat peculiar that the fire travelled so readily to
tvindivard, so that those who conveyed their goods and stored
them for safety in the Merchants' Exchange, and the old Dutch
church, should have had them overtaken, even there, by the con-
suming element, and wholly burned. The best refuge was found
in the Bowling Green and Battery, where marine guards with
fixed bayonets, gave them protection.

The several streets, after the fire, were seen for several days,
choked up with rich merchandizes — all trampled under foot, and
almost totally ruined. In short, thousands upon thousands of
dollars in value, were lying wasted and whelmed in ruin.

Wall after wall, were seen or heard tumbling like avalanches
to the ground, while flames were darting their tongues of fire,
and were heard roaring from roofs and windows, along whole
streets. At the same time, firemen worn out with over exertion,
were still struggling for mastery over the storm of fire, which



Supplemental Notes. 379

seemed to revel in its power, and to mock all human skill and
prowess.

The next day, all the city military were put under requisition,
to be ready to protect property exposed, and to aid the civil au-
thorities in the preservation of order and the civil rule.

It was curious to see occasionally, the harvest which occurred
to the poor, and to strolling boys and girls. You could see the
rag gatherers, crowding their sacks with scorched fragments of
cotton and silk stuffs. In one place was the remains of a jeweller's
store, in which ragged boys and girls were very busy searching
for sundry trinkets. At the china stores, men, women, and chil-
dren, were engaged raking among broken china and queensware,
for small articles unbroken. In one such place, I saw and pur-
chased, as a relic, an ewer in good state.

It seems strange, that so great a fire should not have been re-
ported by any vessel arriving, as having been observed at sea.

One cdn see upon the eves of the northern side of Wall street,
that several houses there, were intensely scorched with the fire
from the opposite side of that street. What an awful career it
must have run, had it succeeded to pass that barrier. Even the
eves of the Tontine Coffee-house, so very high, and at least 130
feet from the opposite buildings, were quite scorched and charred
with the flames. Houses up by the Exchange, had even their
marble eves pealed and marred.

In naming sundry streets of olden time recollection, and bidding
them a ]ast farewell, [vide page 374,] the mind is led to consider
how very strange it is, that even these first known names, should
be all of English formation and origin, and that there should be
so little remains of Orange Boven and the Fader land, retained
by tradition or otherwise, of what must have been the first named
streets in Nieuw Amsterdam. The Hxre Graft, once the name
of what is since the Broad street, and which was once literally
"the Gentleman's canal," until ordered to be filled up in 167G;
and the Flatten barrack, near it, which imported the sliding-
down hill for the sledding boys and girls of the Dutch race ; and
the Nas'iau street, which joined to and continued the Broad street,
are the sole names of Dutch origin which have come down to us.

An inspector of mason work has been talked of, also an intended
restriction upon the elevation of houses, so as not to exceed 40
feet. Insurance offices too, have needed legislative checks, so
as not to insure illimitably.

When I saw such masses of fallen walls, say of at least 500
houses at once, the bricks therein so much dissevered by the in-
considerate use of lime of secondary formation, it made me
remember the much more durable condition of those " seventeen
houses" of brick and stone, fired by the British in the revolution,
between Philadelphia and Germantown, and which sustained
their bare walls undiminished, as the people may remember, for



380 Supplemeiital Notes.

twenty and thirty years after the event ; in short until they were
picked down by sledge and pick. Should they condescend to
try our Flyynouth lime, they may find it to their lasting future
benefit.

The New-Yorkers will hardly conceive of the interest which
their fire will allbrd to others. They will probably omit the oc-
casion to draw the perspective of the scene as it was; and it will
be only after it is too late to draw it from actual observation, that
any attempt will be made to give to persons at a distance, and to
future visiters, and to their own posterity, the chance of seeing
by delineation, the things as they were. What men can see every
day as a spectacle, seems for the time of little worth to them, but
there is a generation to come, which will " earnestly desire to
look into these things."

It shall come to this hereafter, that they who have seen the
catastrophe of Ncav York, like those who may have seen that of
JNIoscow, may go half a head taller among their cotemporaries.
It was the thing of a century.

Only think of human ingenuity to gain a penny! I saw 'a
shanty tavern of rougli boards, actually erected amid the ruins,
close by Hanover Square, and plenty of customers too, — even
without a license.

The total loss by this great fire, has been eventually reported
by the official examining committee, at the sum total of 17 mil-
lions ; being 4 millions for houses, and 13 millions for goods.
There is however some mystification in this report, which moves
our special wonder, leaves us in the dark, and makes the whole
uncertain still. It is stated that 528 houses were consumed ; but
out of all these, only 129 houses are positively certified as to their
value ; and these are set down at ly% millions, and their goods at
G|- millions ; thus making these 129 cases which is but about one
fifth of the total, to be worth in value, the half of the whole
loss ; and at the same time, exactly insured for precisely the
same total value. What a very queer result! If stated in figures
in round numbers, it would stand thus, viz :

129 houses, at g 14,000, is g 1,800,000

398 " at 5,000, 2,200,000

527 4,000,000

129 stocks of goods, at ^50,000, 6,500,000

398 " 16,000, 6,500,000

527 ig 17,000,000

Such seems to be the result ; but can it be true, that houses
could possibly cost an average sum of §14,000 apiece. In Phi-
ladelphia, we know it to be a fact, that four storied brick houses
are built by contract for about 83,000. Some on High street are
constructed at that price ; and Wistar's range, with copper roofs



Supplemental Notes. 381

and granite foundations, of IS by 75 feet dimensions, and of best
finish throughout, were done for i^4,100 severally.

It was not till after the water gave out, say at 4 o'clock in the
morning, that they resorted to blowing up houses. They used
two barrels of 100 pound each, to each cellar, and then laid planks
from, them to the cellar door, laid over with straw, in which
plenty of powder was sprinkled ; the straw came out beyond the
cellar door. This last had no powder in it, but a firebrand — all
the doors and windows were closed. It showed no fire in blowing
up — but lifted up and fell, and giving the earth a shake.

The place on Old slip, the " Market,"" was all a ivaier dock
when I first saw New York. I went up in a vessel above Water
street. I went up ihcn into the city, just as Coenties slip still
remains a water dock, to about Water street.

Sales of Real Estate by Jas. Bleecker & Sons, Feb. 23, 1836 —
at their Sales room, 13 Broad street. The Real Estate of the
late Joel Post.

llot on Wall street, corner Exchange Place, 28 feet 6

inches by 63 feet 6 inches, S66,500

1 lot on Wall street, adjoining above, 19 feet by 28 feet, 55,750
1 lot on Exchange street, 30 feet 5 inches by 54 feet, 46,500

1 lot on Exchange street, 29 feet 7 inches by 52 feet 9

inches, 41,000

1 lot on Exchange street, 20 feet 4 inches by 45 feet

deep, running to a point, 18,100

1 lot corner of William street and Exchange Place, 25

feet 11 inches by 52 feet 5 inches, ... - 46,500

1 lot next but one adjoining, 39 feet 2 inches by 40 feet, 38,750
1 lot on William street, next to corner of Wall street, 17

feet 2 inches front, 1 1 feet rear, and 60 feet deep, 25,000
1 lot on Exchange Place, 32 feet 9 inches front by 55

feet deep, 36,500

1 lot adjoining, 26 feet 2 inches by 66 feet, 28,250

1 lot in rear, on Merchant street, 23 feet 6 inches by 52

feet, - - - - - 24,250

1 lot fronting on Exchange Place and Merchant street,

20 feet 5 inches by 91 feet, 45,500

^ ^°^ ^0 feet 6 inches ^ ^y 88 feet, - - - - 47,500

1 lot adjoining, 20 feet 6 inches 1 . .^ ^ _ _ ^

24 feet 3

1 lot 20 feet 6 inches, J ^ g^ ^ .... 37,750

24 feet J

1 lot 20 feet 5 inches on Exchange Place, 24 feet on

Merchant street, and 60 feet deep, 44,250

1 lot corner of Exchange street and Pearl street, 19 feet

11 inches front, by 65 feet, 32,500



382 Supplemental Notes.

Amount brought forward, - - - -$673,100

1 lot on Pearl street, 20 feet by 67 feet, - - - 29,500
1 lot rear on Exchange Place, 2S feet by 64 feet, 33,000

1 lot corner Exchange Place and Merchant street, 28

feet 7 inches front, 38 feet 7 inches rear, by 64 feet, 35,500

55771,100

From such sales, effected so soon after the great disaster, we
may see plainly enough, how little the burnt district was impaired
in value ; and how much, men of capital regarded the removal
of former houses, as an improvement to the locality, and as an
advantage to the whole city at large.



PARTICULAR INDEX.



Amsterdam, New, 10, 11, 44, 149.
Albany, 14, 40-1, 45, 61, 127, 13S, 222,

316.
Albanians, 19, 221-2, 269.
Apparel, 13, 26, 170, 247, 352.
Adams, J. Q., 84.
Amalgamation, 223.
Argol, Sir Samuel, 229.
Aspasia, corvette, 241.
Anne, Queen, 46, 60, 63, 220.
Allen, Col., 47.
Abercrombie, General, 47, 349.
Alden,Col., 71.
American character, 91-2, 95.
American army, 325, 329.
Allegiance, oath, 150.
Apprentices, 257,
Aged, 26S, 276-7, 281, 289,294, 312, 345,

358.
Amherst, General, 272.
Andre, Major, 325, 348.
Ancient memorials, 154, 314.
Ancient Edifices, 350.
Alliance, frigate, 291,343-4.
Astor, John J., 51, 310, 362.
Andres, Gov., 156, 233.
Andros, Rev. Thomas, 338.
Amboy, 270-1,321.
Avon, 83, 86.
Arnold, Gen., 76, 347-8.
Anglo-Saxon race, 93-4, 218.
Aurora, 103.
Amusements, 193-4.
Auctioneers, 283.
Ashburton, Lord, 105.

Battery and Capsey, 11,148,161,163, 172,

179, 198, 301.
Bayard, 44, 62, 152, 176, 273.
Bayard's mount and woods, 176, 273, 341.
Ballstown, 45. ,
Backus, Rev. Azel, 53, 126.
Brant, Colonel, 66-7, 69, 71, 76, 125.
Bath and Batavia, SI.
Bradford Wm., 147, 229, 286-7, 298.
Basse Bouwery, 160.
BakewelPs city view, 185.
Banks, 186.
Basin, 353.
Blazing star, 188.
Balls, 267, 273.
Bake-house, 276.
Blackbeard, 290.
Bever-Wyck, 15.
Bear market, 177.



Bears, 31,50, 55, 70, 77, 79, 88, 100, 104,

136, 233.
Bellermont, Lord, 36, 171, 183, 352.
Beavers, 45, 70, 82, 232, 253.
Becker, Lieut., 66.
Beekman, 161, 187, 246, 267,296.
Bleekers,3n.

Benson, Judge E., 191, 277.
Bees, 231.
Bells, 355.
Beads, 253.

Breeches, leather, 283.
Breevort, Henry, 310.
Bergen's land, 311.
British officers, 330, 340, 346, 352.
British fleet, 272, 325, 330, 339.
British rule, 11, 20, 58, 94, 118, 184, 205,

235, 308, 325, 333.
Big Spring, 82.
Brighton, 83.
Binghamton, 102.
Bridges, 85.
Birthday, 279, 282.
Bishops, 283, 297.
Birds, 20,21.

Block and Christianse, 10, 41.
Block houses, 27, 63, 161, 176.
Brockholst, Gov., 24.
Bogardus and Bogerts, 30, 82, 149, 152-3,

172, 184, 205, 269, 274, 294.
Bownes, 36, 165, 347.
Brown, John W., 31, 60.
Bouwlandt, 32.

Brooklyn, 34, 172, 311, 328, 335, 341.
Bos, 45.
Brownists, 48.
Border wars, 55, 137.
Broadhead, 155, 315.
Brower, Abram, 172,245, 261, 292, 295.

325.
Broadway, 179, 182, 192, 270, 275, 340.

359.
Broad street, 188, 199, 310.
Boston frigate, 209.
Bouwerys, 167, 225, 245, 270, 275-6, 277,

298.
Brokers, 353.
Bonnets, 250.
Boots, 254, 255.
Bowdoin, James, 299.
Boston, 306, 312.
Buffalo, 31, 55, 138, 140.
Butlers, Cols., 58, 71-2, 75-6.
Burgoyne, Gen., 75.
Bunker Hill, 176, 193,334.



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Particular Index.



Buttermilk channel, 1S9.
Buttons, 251, 270,277.
Blue points, 292.
Butter, 292.
Burling slip, 296.
Bull's head, 298.
Burr, Col. A., 339.

Chamber of commerce, 2S4.

Chambers street, 176, 353.

Changes of prices, 292.

Carriages, 278.

Canada creek, 50.

Canandaigua, 50, 54, 82, 95-6, 104. 119.

Canals, 50,55-6, 101, 136, 137-8.

Canal street, 181,245.

Canajoharie, 67.

Caughnawaga, 65-6, IIS.

Caves, 67.

Campbell's New York, 72, 93, 117, 120,

219.
Campbell, Col. S., 71.
Claus, Col., 56, 65, 75.
Caladonia, 82.

Cayuga, 86, 88, 102, 117, 120, 139.
Carlton, Sir George, 346.
Carmen, 157.
Canvas Town, 172.
Chatham, Earl, 174-5,183,202,307.
Charlotte Temple, 225.
Carpets, 259, 261, 269, 271.
Capsey, 263.

Cherry Valley, 65, 70, 72.
Cleveland, 78.
Chew, Benj., 79.
Chemung, 119.
Children, 19,
Circus, 193-4.
Clinton, 53, 136, 347.
Clinton, Sir H., 334-5, 340, 346, 349.
China, first voyage, 300.
City Halls, 12, 176, 179, 182, 237, 350-1.
Colonization, 10, 11, 42.
Colve, Gov., 12, 166.
Coenties slip, 12, 161, 171, 276,
Cornwallis, Lord, 349.
Communipaw, 9, 38, 202, 358-9.
Comets, 24, 293.
Cromwell, 35, 106, 227.
Corlear, 26, 297, 317, 341.
Corlear's Hook, 245, 275.
Cochran, Doct., 49.
Coney island, 37.
Cord dii roi roads, 77.
Cooper, J. v., 73.
Coventry, Doct., 86.
Colles, Christopher, 137.
Cohoes fells, 139.
Collect, 145, 173, 181, 192, 199, 244. 246,

265,273,279,299,331.
Cornelissen, Arien, 160.
Courtships,, 169, 211.
Congress Hall, 179, 351-2.
Columbia college, 192.
Coffins, 183. Cows, 199.
Colden,Gov., 201, 266.
Commerce, 234-5, 312.
Cloaks, 254,



Coaches, 260-1, 278, 308.

Colleges, 265-6, 283.

Cotton goods, 270.

Copper mines, 273.

Crowell, Thos., 286.

Courtezans, 265.

Common council, 276.

Crockeser, John, 276-7,

Clover, 266.

Convicts, 283.

Continental money, 321-2.

Cowfoot hill, 284,294.

Cholera, 299.

Colonial times, 308.

Cold, extreme, 306.

Conclusion, 366.

Custom houses, 353.

Churchmen, 106, 283.

Churches, 15,30,44, 50, 63,66, 69, 91,

153, 165, 191, 200, 266, 316, 353.
Custick, David, 125.
Curricles, 271.
Cruger's dock, 278, 296.
Cunningham, of Provost, 282, 327.
Custis, Geo. W., 301.

Dayton, Col., 75. *

Drake, Adam, 79.

Dancing, 204, 210, 212, 267, 280, 285.

Delaware river, 38.

Delawares, 9, 38, 115.

De Collieres, 27.

Deer, 31, 50, 70, 84, 100, 284.

Delancy's, 174, 275.

Denton, Dan., 230.

Dress, 212-3, 247, 252, 255-6, 264, 267,

283, 299, 308, 352.
Dentists, 281, 283-4,
Dean, Captain, 300.
Diet, 17, 211, 217, 233, 276, 292, 315.
" Drives," 100.
Dinondadies, 118.
Dwight, Rev. Dr., 332.
Digl)V, Admiral, 346.
Domines, 20, 30, 170.
Doctors, 178, 267, 277, 283, 298.
" Doctors riot," 298.
Drover's inn, 245.
Duke of York, 11,
Dutch, 11, 12, 13, 16, 26, 30, 33-4, 44,60,

114, 147, 1.50, 164, 167, 172, 203, 207,

229, 232, 238, 256, 308-9, 316, 355, 357,

363.
Dunlap, Rev. S., 71.
Dunlap, Wm., 122, 155, 161, 183, 187,

198, 202.
Dunmore, Gov., 172, 285.
Diitcli reformed, 165, 200.
Drunimond, Lord, 284.
Dutch forefathers, 309, 354.
Duels, 288.
Duten's, Charles, 263.
Ducks, 175.

Earl of Chatham, 184, 280, 307.
Early notices of New York, 230.
Eastburn, Rev. Joseph, 305.
Edwards, Rev. T., 107.



Particular Index.



385



Executions, 297.

England, 312.

Exchange, the, 266, 271, 353.

Elections, 225.

Ebbets, Danl. J., I7S, 353.

English, 16, 20, 31, 232.

Elmira, 103.

Erie Canal, 136.

Esopus, 46.

Exploring voyages, 241, 300.

Education, 17, 21.

Fanning, Edward and Nathaniel, 240, 344,

" Flatten-barrack," ISS.

Franklin house, 300.

Franklin, 341.

Fairs, 285.

Farms and gardens, 245, 273, 277, 285.

Flag, American, 343, 345.

French war, 50, 59,70, 77, 107, 118, 161.

French revolution, 209.

French, 27, 28, 33-4, 50, 118, 153, 18S,

209, 210, 219, 229, 273, 312, 335, 354.
Ferry, 162, 172, 176, 182, 310.
French Protestant church, 354.
Federal Hall, 351.
Federal procession, 239.
Fevers, 86-7, 190, 298.
Fletcher, Gov., 161, 314.
Freemen, 158,
Festivals, 204, 279.

Friends, 36, 44, 150, 177, 202, 305. 311.
Fish, 37, 91, 114-15, 178-9, 278, 292^
"First-born," 42, 54, 61.
Fitzhugh, Col., 82.

Fitch and Fulton, 129, 130, 137, 242, 244.
Fire companies, 157, 163, 166, 281.
Five Nations, 117.
Fires, great, 197, 295, 309, 333, 341, and

appendix.
First discoverers, 229.
Forts, 11, 12, 14, 27, 34, 43, 47, 63, 77,

80, 146, 172, 219, 233, 329, 330.
"Fort Plain," 58, 68-9.
Frontiers, 98, 100.
Flour, 159.
Flowers, 232.
Fox, George, 165.
Foreigners, 300, 354.
Flood, 306

Fort Washington, 329, 330-1.
Fulton, Robert, 312.
Fur trade, 10, 11,51-2, 146.
Flushing 36, 165, 202.
Furniture, 211, 214, 215, 258, 278.
Funerals, 205-6, 208, 234, 270, 284, 308.
Fry, Col., 50, 76.

Game, 19, 31, 50,77, 292.

Grant, Mrs., 17, 23, 59, 69, 77, 121, 220.

Gardiner, family and island, 35-6, 46, 314.

Grapes, 9, 44.

Gravesend, 35.

Gazettes, 55, 173, 199, 262, 269, 277, 287,

312.
Gansevoort, Col., 76.
Gardens, 98, 245, 275, 285, 341.
Grand canal, 136, 138.
49



Graydon, Capt., 170, 329.

Garden Alley, 182, 196.

Gaine, Hugh, 188, 263.

Gates, Gen. Horatio, 201, 256.

Gage, Gen., 282, 284, 346.

Germans, 46, 60, 73, 207, 220, 340.

German Flats, 73.

Geneva, 54, 82, 86.

Genessee, 54, SO, 119.

Greenwich, 173, 178, 192, 268, 271.

Greyhound, sloop war, 228.

Great Western steamer, 241.

Green, Capt., 300.

Grim, David, 183. 246, 283, 294, 297.

Gibbet, 297.

Gist and Washington, 303.

Grouse, 31.

Gowanus, 35, 148.

Governor's Island, 38, 44, 172, 189.

Godfrey's Quadrant, 263.

Growth of our country, 312.

Gouge, Mrs., 291.

Half-moon, bark, 9, 14.

Hasbrook house, 48.

Harpers, 58, 64-5, 71, 287.

Harpers' Press, 287.

Hanford's landing, 83.

IJair dressing, 216, 248-9,

Hamiltons, 225, 287, 298, 313.

Harponding, S., 244.

Hats, 253, 278.

Harvey, Rev. Benj., 291.

Hancock, John, 299.

Havre packets, 311.

Hessians, 327, 340.

Heckewelder, 10, 38.

Hell gate, 41.

Herkimer and Fort, 50, 53, 60, 73.

Herkimer, Gen., 73, 76.

Hills, 145.

Historical Society, 183, 185, 217, 224,

227.
Holland, 10, 48.
Hospital, 245.
Houses, 16, 35, 45, 55, 67, 88, 98, 147,

182, 200, 232, 238, 350, 362.
Holland land co., 54, 81.
" Holland papers," 316.
Howe's cave, 67.
Horses, 61,63, 157,234,260.
Hoops, 250, 264,
Hotels, 89-90, 306.
Holt's Hotel, 306.
Howe, Gen. 325-6, 341, 347, 349.
Hoffman, C.F., 217.
Hodgson, Robt., 150.
Hudson city, 39, 48. ^

Hudson river, 10, 37, 40.
Hudson, the discoverer, 9, 10, 11, 38, 41,

229.
Hunter, Fort, 50, 63, 66.
Hudson's square, 186, 294.
Hutching, John, 244.
Hutton, John S., 289.
Hustan, John, 297.
Hughs, Joseph R., 291.'

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386



Particular Index.



Inhabitants, 45, 230-1.

Inland settlers and pioneers, 95.. '

Inauguration of President Washington,

352.
Ireland, 2S3.

Impressment, 163, 201, 269.
Ice, 242.

Incidents of the revolutionary war, 324-6,
Indians, 9, 14, 27, 31, 32, 34, 37, 40, 42,

44,50, 54,63,79, 103, 110, 120, 128,

146, 155, 158, 162, 231, 233-4, 294, 302.
Indian ravages, 27, 33, 46, 58, 64-5, 66-7,

71-2, 74, 123.
Indian slaves, 162.
Indian paths, 124.
Indian Allen, 83.
Indians, their number, 128.
Indian fortifications, 128.
Irving, Washington, 168, 309.
Iroquois, 117.
Immoralities, 287.
Insurance, 268.
Jay, John, 85, 298.
Jamieson, Mary, 125,
Janeway, 174, 246.
Jacob's well, 175, 180.
Jants, Annake, 243.
Jews, 150.

Jerroleram, Mr., 310.
Johnstown, 56.

Johnson, Sir William, 56, 79, 122.
Johnson, Cols. Guy and John^ 56, 65, 71.
Johnson, J., 335.
Jones, Paul, 343.
Jones, Interpreter, 75.
Journals of House Commons, 227.

" Katey, Mutz," 246, 295.

Kalm, Prof. 16, 42, 113.

Keith, Sir Wm. 46, 62,

Keift, Gov., 10, 34, 165, 316, 351.

Kennedy house, 341, 346.

Knickerbockers, 13, 158, 196, 224, 239,

309, 355.
Kidd, pirate, 36, 227, 283, 313.
Kidd's island, 314.
King Hendrick, 51, 59, 77.
" King William," 346.
King Louis Philippe, 54, 105.
Kipp house, 325.
Kipp bay, 246, 294, 325-6.
" King's arms," 281-2, 306-7, 352.
Knighthood, 272.
Kinderhook, 46.
Knyphausen, Gen., 347, 349.

Landing day, 9, 37.
Lake George, 47.
Lakes, 56, 90-1, 134.
Landerse, Mrs., 60.
Lafayette, Gen., 71, 207-8.
Lamps, 186, 192.
Laidlie, Rev. Dr., 204.
L'Ambuscadc frigate, 209.
Lawyers, 225, 267, 2S0, 2S7, 356. a
Ladies, 2.50, 267, 273.
Lands, SI, 281.
Laudais, Captain, 344.



Leary, John, 297.

Leani, Lenape, 9, 38, 115.

Lewistown, 86.

Leisler's war, 176.

Leather breeches, 257.

Livingstons, 46, 48, 49, 62, 227, 267, 273,

283, 308, 352.