KLAN, iv, 495-497.

Federalists, principles of, iii, 297; hostile
comment on, 336-339; wail of, 339-343.
Federations, proceedings as sources, i, 5.-
See also Confederation, New England
Confederation.

Fenner, Robert, settlement at Stamford,
Connecticut, i, 581.

Fenwick, John, in Jersey, i, 568, 573-
Ferdinand and Isabella, papal grant, i, 40.
Fernow, Berthold, Documents relative to the
Colonial History of New York, i, 549, 551.
Field, David D., in peace conference, iv, 204.
Field Museum, collections, i, 4, ii, 5.

enth amendment, Wilson on, iv, 492-

ii, 183-184; Franklin's pamphlet on paper
money, 231; paper money defended, 251-
253; paper money forbidden, 254; con-
sidered in Second Continental Congress,
527, 529; government censured for neg-
lecting to keep up credit, 572, 586; Wash-
ington on, 594-597; national debt, 598-
600; continental currency, 601-603; bank
of North America established, 605; of
the Confederation, iii, 120-122, 132-136;
public credit, 255-257; Blaine on Demo-
cratic control of, iv, 509; clearing-house
loan certificates, 526-528; modern con-
ditions, 529-541.
See also Banks, Cur-
rency, Money, Tariff.

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Fish, Hamilton, PROPOSED INTERVENTION
IN CUBA, iv, 557, 561.

Fisher, George P., Colonial Era, i, 22, 26,
ii, 28, 34.

Fisheries, value of, i, 154, iii, 69; in New
England, i, 313; in Maine, 433-434; in
Jersey, 565; treaty of 1763, ii, 379; of 1783,
625; Newfoundland, and Treaty of Ghent,
iii, 426; controversy with Canada, iv, 542-
546; pelagic-sealing arbitration, 564-567.
Fiske, John, Beginnings of New England,
i, 22, 27; History for Schools, 26, ii, 22;
Discovery of America, i, 27; use of rec-
ords, ii, 22.

Fithian, Philip, A GREAT PLANTATION,
iii, 49-52; Journal, 52.

Fitzhugh, William, value of his letters, i,
2, 19; LIFE OF A SOUTHERN PLANTER,
301-306.

Flax, iii, 67.

Florida, De Soto in, i, 58; cession of, iii,
482-483; legislation on freedmen, iv, 480-
481.

Flour, export of, iii, 55.

Fonblanque, Edward B. de, Political and

Military Episodes of Burgoyne, ii, 19.
Food, in England, i, 147; in Virginia, 226.
Forbes, Arthur, AN ACCOUNT OF EAST
JERSEY, i, 569-572.

Force, Peter, Tracts relating to the Colo-
nies, i, 9, 310, ii, 114, 121; American Ar-
chives, ii, 11, 12, 441, 537, 550, 556, 559.
Ford, Paul Leicester, Essays on the Consti-
tution, iii, 2; Pamphlets, 2.

Foreign relations, southern hopes for for-
eign intervention, iv, 192, 240; Seward

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and Lincoln on policy in 1861, 293-295;
change in American policy, 612-616.
See also Annexations, Arbitration, Con-
federate States, Monroe Doctrine, Reci-
procity, and nations by name.

Forsyth, John, l'Amistad case, iii, 627-629.
Forts, old, as sources, i, 4, ii, 4; in Vir-

ginia, i, 238-239.-See also forts by name.
Forum, iv, 523, 536.

Foster, John Gray, SURRENDER OF FORT
SUMTER, iv, 216–220.

Foster, W. E., References to the Constitution,
iii, 2; References to Presidential Admin-
istrations, 2, iv, 2; Bulletins of the Provi-
dence Public Library, iv, 2.

Fourteenth amendment, Stevens on, iv, 482-
485.

Fox, Charles James, Memorials and Corre-
spondence, ii, 19.

France. See French.

Franklin (Tenn.), State of, iii, 147-150;
town of, Hood's report on battle at, iv,
433-434.

Franklin, Benjamin, Autobiography, a mile-
stone in literature, ii, 4, 235; Works, 21,
74, 187, 382, 575, 623, iii, 93; spirit of his
age, ii, 24; DISPUTE OVER THE AGENCY,
184-187; A MAN DILIGENT IN HIS
CALLING, 229-235; starts in printing
business, 229-231; publishes pamphlet on
paper currency, 231; success in business,
232-233: courtship, 233; starts subscrip-
tion library, 233-234; frugality, 234-235;
THE PEOPLE'S FAVORITE LITERATURE,
263-266; Poor Richard (1744), 266;
GRENVILLE'S SCHEME OF TAXATION,
381-382; THE STATE OF THE COLO-
NIES, 407-411; Examination, 411; A
TREATY WITH FRANCE, 574-575; blamed
by Vergennes, 621-623; EXPLANATION
OF THE PEACE OF 1782, 623-625; CHAR-
ACTERISTICS OF AMERICA, iii, 22-27;
Two Tracts, 27; A JOURNALIST'S CRITI-
CISM OF THE PRESS, 89-93; character,
207; in the Federal Convention, 222-228.
Franklin, William B., at Antietam, iv, 349;
at Fredericksburg, 353-355.
Fredericksburg, Burnside's account of bat-
tle, iv, 351-355; engagement at, during
Chancellorsville, 361-362.

Free speech, Zenger's trial, ii, 192-199; plea

for, iii, 633-636; publicity given by news-
papers, iv, 659-660.
Freedmen, conditions, iv, 445-458; desire
for education, 447; mistaken beliefs of,
448, 458; labor of, 449-456; southern
opinions on, 449-454; care of, 450; in-
timidation of, 453-454; legislation on,
479-481.-See also Emancipation, Ne-
groes, Reconstruction, Slavery.
Freeholders, THE QUESTION OF SLAV-
ERY IN GEORGIA, ii, 118–121.

Free-Soil party, attitude toward Missouri
Compromise, iv, 101.

Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon, BEHIND
THE CONFEDERATE LINES, iv, 284-286;
Three Months in the Southern States, 286.
Fremont, J. C., Republican nominee for
president, iv, 104.

THE

French, archives, i, 8, ii, 10; discoveries,
i, 102-144; on New England coast, 181,
314, 317; protect Indian captives, 505,
506; on the Hudson, 530; explorations,
542; in New York, 589; incite Indians,
ii, 57; expeditions against, 60; found
Louisiana, 312-316; English fear of their
settlements, 316-320; fur trade, 320-324;
extent of their American settlements, 320-
321; trade, 321-323; relations with In-
dians, 323-324; share in massacre at
Schenectady, 323, 337-339; government
in Canada, 324-326; Ministerial Min-
utes, THE FRENCH TITLE TO
BEAUTIFUL RIVER, 354-356; encroach-
ments feared by English, 356-357; re-
moved by English from Acadia, 360-365;
account of Braddock's defeat, 365-367:
conquests on the continent, 367-369;
frontier settlements, 392-393; arrival of
Lafayette in America, 485-488; Chastellux
visits Washington, 495-497; Mirabeau's
appeal to the Hessians, 500-504; aid to
America, 558-559; treaty (1778).574-575;
Patrick Henry's appreciation, 586-587;
blocked at Rhode Island, 609; naval con-
flict with English in West Indies, 612-615;
protest against separate articles of peace,
621-623; and Anti-Federalists, iii, 291;
character, 301; gratitude toward, 306;
Revolution, 303-305; Genet's protest,
307-312; treaties, 310; "X.Y.Z. corre-
spondence," 322-326; decrees on trade,

402-403; relations with the Confederate
States, iv, 301-303; in Mexico, 301, 571.
--See also Canada, Colonies, Indians,
Louisiana, Mississippi River, War.
French, Benjamin Franklin, Historical Col-
lections of Louisiana, i, 14, 118, 140, 144,
ii, 17, 316.

French and Indian War, ii, 352-372.
Freneau, Philip, Poems, ii, 19, iii, 119;
PEOPLING THE WESTERN COUNTRY,
iii, 118-119; Stanzas on Emigration, 119.
Friend, The, ii, 293.
Friends. -See Quakers.

Fromentin, Judge E., and Jackson, iii, 487.
Frontier, skirmishes on the, ii, 344-346;
settlement of the, 392-393; poverty of
people, iii, 97; famine, 98-99; roads, 98;
occupation of lands, 100-101; retention
of posts, 158-160; Indian hostilities on,
317. See also Indians, West.
Frothingham, Richard, Rise of the Republic,
ii, 22.

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Fugitive slaves, iii, 630-633, iv, 80-96. — See
also Slavery, and next title.
Fugitive-Slave Law, Webster on, iv, 53;
Seward on, 57-58; personal-liberty act,
93-96; enforcement of, fosters Republican
party, 103; nullification of, a southern
grievance, 167; Stephens's remedies, 167–
169; changes suggested, 193; Lincoln on,
202-203. -See also Compromise, Slavery.
Fundamental Constitutions, i, 280-282. -
See also Carolinas.

Fundamental Orders. See Connecticut.
Fur trade, in New York, i, 542; Dutch, 584;
in Georgia, Carolina, and Virginia, ii, 126;
in Canada, 320-324; on Nootka Sound,
iii, 56; with Indians, 69.-See also Can-
ada, French, Indians.

GAGE, Lyman Judson, THE GOLD-

STANDARD ACT, iv, 539-541; Gold
Standard Law, 541.

Gaines's Mill, McClellan on battle of, iv,
339-341.

Gallatin, Albert, envoy, iii, 426-429.
Gambier, J., British minister, iii, 426-429.
Gardoqui, Don Diego de, Spanish minister,
iii, 170-171.

Garrard, James, speech, iii, 337.

Garrison, William Lloyd, STATEMENT OF

PRINCIPLES, iii, 595-597; THANK GOD
FOR WAR, iv, 395–397.

Gates, Horatio, in command of the southern
department, ii, 606; recalled, 606; meet-
ing with Greene, 610.

Gates, Sir Thomas, CHARACTER OF THE
FIRST COLONISTS, i, 206–208.

General Court. See Connecticut, Massa-

chusetts, New Haven, Plymouth Colony,

Rhode Island.

General histories, lists, i, 26-27, ii, 33-34.
Genet, Edmond Charles, COMPLAINT OF
THE FRENCH MINISTER, iii, 307-312.
Geneva (N.Y.), description, iii, 61.
Geneva award, iv, 550-556; rules govern-
ing, 551.

Genoa, archives at, i, 8, ii, 10.
Gentleman of the City of New York,

LEISLER'S REBELLION, i, 544-547.
George I, poem on his death, ii, 258–260.
George III, value of letters, ii, 2; character
as Prince of Wales, 373-374; instances
of tyranny, 449-451; AN OBSTINATE
GUELPH, 451-453; opinion of Chatham,
452; plans for conduct of the American
war, 453: Correspondence, 453, 620; THE
SUDDEN CHANGE OF SENTIMENTS, 619-
620; presentation of John Adams to, iii,
172-176. See also England, Revolution.
Georgia, reasons for settlement of, ii, 110-
113; charter incorporating the trustees
for establishing the colony, III; settle-
ment of, probable aid to England, 112;
settlement of, probable aid to conversion
of Indians, 113; benefactions solicited
for, 114; Salzburg Germans in, 114-116,
283-284; an unfavorable opinion of, 117;
Trustees, THE QUESTION OF SLAVERY
IN GEORGIA, 118-121; Whitefield's or-
phan-house, 122-124; need of relief in
1749, 124-126; manufactures and trade,
125-126; John Wesley in, 283-287; re-
demption of, 607; emits bills of credit,
iii, 134; Sherman's march through, iv,
428-432; post-bellum condition, 451-452.
See also Slavery, South.
Germanna (Va.), description, ii, 235.
Germans, in Pennsylvania, i, 559; Palatines
in New York, ii, 77-79; question of natu-
ralization, 101; the Salzburgers in Geor-
gia, 114-116, 283-284; Washington's de-

sire to import Palatines, 310-311; Mira-
beau's appeal to the Hessians, 500-504;
Hessian troops in Canada, 504-507; il-
feeling against England, 506-507;
Rhode Island, 578; Steuben in America,
582-585.

in

Germantown, foundation, i, 560-561; Chew
house at, ii, 4; first vote against slavery,
291-293.

Gerrit, a Dutchman, i, 586-588.

Gerry, Elbridge, character, iii, 205; in Fed-
eral Convention, 211, 213, 219, 221, 226;
THE X. Y. Z. CORRESPONDENCE, 322-
326.

Gettysburg, Pickett's charge at battle of, iv,
372-376.

Ghent, Treaty of, iii, 426-429.

Gibbons, James Sloan, Three Hundred
Thousand More, iv, 260-261.

Gibbs, Sir Samuel, at New Orleans, iii, 424.
Giddings, Joshua R., Speeches in Congress,
iv, 10.

Giles, William B., ARGUMENT FOR THE
EMBARGO, ii, 403-406; Speech on the
Resolution of Mr. Hillhouse, 406.
Girard, Stephen, founds hospital, iii, 40.
Gladstone, Thomas H., CIVIL WAR IN
KANSAS, iv, 114-118; The Englishman
in Kansas, 118.

MONTEZUMA PRISONER, i, 49-53; Pleas
ant Historie, 53.

Good, Sarah, tried as a witch, ii, 40-43;
testimony, 45-48.

Goodhue, Benjamin, speech, iii, 269.
Goodrich, Elizur, a Connecticut office-
holder, iii, 348.

Gordon, William, THE CLOSING SCENE,
ii, 627-629; History of the United States,
629.

Gorges, Ferdinando, record, i, 3; New
England claims, 430–431.

Gorges Society, Publications, i, 9.
Gorham, Nathaniel, character, ii, 205; in
Federal Convention, 224.

Gorsuch, Edward, in Christiana tragedy, iv,
84-87.

Gorton, Samuel, SETTLEMENT IN RHODE
ISLAND, i, 397-401; Simplicities Defence,

401.

Gosnold, Bartholomew, in Virginia, i, 211-
213.

Gospel, propagation in Massachusetts, i, 178;
for the Indians, 186. See also Religion.
Goudy, William, OBSTINATE Objectors,
iii, 251-254.

Goulburn, Henry, British envoy, iii, 426-429.
Government, attacks on, i, 25; foundation
in Massachusetts, 179; principles of selec-
tion, 189; of Virginia, 237-241; of Mary-
land, 268-270; Calvin's principles, 324-
330; theocratic, 330-333; of Plymouth,
359-361; of Massachusetts, 373-382, 390-
392; of Connecticut, 415-419; of New
Hampshire and Maine, 429-431; of New
Netherland, 529-541; under Leisler,
544-547; of New Jersey, 566; colonial, in
general, ii, 127-223; three powers of, 144-
149; financial support of, 166-169; local,
205-223; county, 205-208; city, 208-211;
of Canada, 324-326; relation between
governors and governed, 423-424; foreign
opinions of American democracy, iii,
76-79, 86-89, 283-285, 553-557; Samuel
Adams on popular, 93-96; of Mexican
California, iv, 13-15; people's right to
abolish, 190; of colonies in 1898, 593-
594: Spanish colonial, 595-597, 599; ca-
pacity of Porto Ricans for self-, 599-601;
American, in Cuba, 601-603; McKinley
on colonial, 604-607; Hoar on right of

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See

self-, 608-611; problems, 629-646.
also Colonies, Confederate States, Con-
federation, Congress, Constitution,
County, Executive, Governors, Politics,
States, Towns, United States, and Table
of Contents of Vol. III.

Governors, official papers, as sources, i, 5,
6, ii, 6; plea for patronage, ii, 153; sample
of commission and instructions, 154-161;
money offered for office, 161-162; per-
quisites, 162-164; reasons for removal,
165-166; support, 167-168; reprimanded,
169-170; a veto message, 179-181; in-

structions, 184.-See also Government,
colonies by name, and governors by name.
Grady, Henry Woodfin, THE NEGRO
QUESTION, iv, 652-654; Life and Labors,
654.

Granger, Francis, in peace conference, iv,

208.

Granger, Gideon, ADVICE ON REMOVALS,
iii, 348-351.

Grant, Anne, Memoirs, ii, 18.

Grant, Ulysses Simpson, Personal Memoirs,

iv, 9, 27, 440; A YOUNG OFFICER IN THE
WAR, 26-27; at Fort Donelson, 324-328;
correspondence on surrender, 328; at
Vicksburg, 368-371; plan of Wilderness
campaign, 412-415; SURRENDER OF LEE,
437-440; A SOLDIER'S OBSERVATIONS,
457-458.

Grasse, Count de, naval exploits, ii, 612-615.
Graydon, Alexander, Memoirs, ii, 1, 21, 483,
iii, 76; THE RECRUITING SERVICE, ii,
481-483; POLITICS IN PENNSYLVANIA,
iii, 73-76.

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Grayson, William, in Congress of the Con-
federation, iii, 157.
Great Britain. -See England.
Greeley, Horace, Recollections, iv, 9; SLAV-
ERY AND THE UNION, 397-399; demands
emancipation, 397-398.- See also New
York Tribune.

Greene, George Washington, Life of Na-
thanael Greene, ii, 19; Historical View
of the Revolution, 34.

Greene, Nathanael,succeeds General Gates,

ii, 606; active in the South, 606-607; AF-
FAIRS IN THE SOUTH, 609-612.

Greenland, discovered, i, 28.

Greenwich, Connecticut, i, 581.

Grenville, George, scheme of taxation, ii,
381-382.

Griffin, A. P. C,, Bibliography of Historical
Societies, i, 7, 17, ii, 11, 23.

Guanahani, island discovered, i, 36.
Guard, Theodore de la, Simple Cobler of
Aggavvamm, i, 396.

Guiana, Ralegh's explorations, i, 96-101.
Guinea, slave trade, i, 75.

Gustavus Adolphus, AUTHORIZATION FOR
A SWEDISH COLONY, i, 548-549.

HA

[ABEAS CORPUS, fugitive slaves enti-
tled to writ of, iv, 94-95.

Hakluyt, Richard, Principall Navigations,
i, 9, 14, 59, 68, 74, 88, 95, 112, 157; THE
FIRST ENGLISH SLAVE-TRADER, 73-74;
HOW SPAIN MAY BE ABASED, 158-160;
Discourse on Western Planting, 160.
Hakluyt Society, Works issued, i, 9, 48, 57,
72, 81, 107, 125, 203, 205.

Hale, Nathan, capture and death, ii, 484-
485.

Halifax Commission, iv, 543-544.

Hall, Basil, Travels in North America, iii,
II; EXPERIENCE OF IMPRESSMENTS,
385-388; Fragments of Voyages, 388.
Hall, James, Sketches of the West, iii, 11.
Halstead, Murat, SPLIT IN THE DEMO-
CRATIC PARTY, iv, 151-155; Caucuses of
1860, 155, 159; NOMINATION OF LIN-
COLN, 155-159.
Hamilton, Alexander, BATTALIONS OF NE-
GROES, ii, 488-490; FALLING-OFF OF
THE CHARACTER OF CONGRESS, 543-
545; Works, iii, 11, 281; NEED OF RE-
FORM, 177-182; character, 206; in Fed-
eral Convention, 225; DEFENCE OF THE
CONSTITUTION, 242-246; REPORT ON A
NATIONAL BANK, 276-281; Jefferson on,
286-289; AN OPINION OF JEFFERSON,
289-292.

Hamilton, Andrew, counsel in Zenger trial,
ii, 195-199.

Hamilton, Henry, surrender of Vincennes,
ii, 579-582.

Hamilton, James, governor of Pennsylvania,
ii, 86-87.

Hamilton, John C., History of the Republic,
iii, 182, 292.

Hammond, John, Leah and Rachael, i, 14,