Alabama, Confederate cruiser, combat with
the Kearsarge, iv, 416-418; Geneva award
on depredations of, 552-553.
Alamo, the, in Mexico, iii, 638.

Alaska, ukase on the waters of, iii, 487-489;
Sumner on, iv, 547-550; Bering Sea arbi-
tration, 564-567.

Albany, town of, i, 542; RECORDS OF A CITY
GOVERNMENT, ii, 208-211; clearing of
streets, 208; keeping of Sabbath, 208;
constables, 208-209; taxes, 209-210; min-
ister's salary, 210; selling of liquor, 210;
care of chimneys and fire-places, 211;
center for Indian trade, 322-324; Plan of
Union formed at, 357-360.
Albany Evening Journal, iv, 195.
Aleutian Islands, iii, 488.

Alexander I, Czar, THE RUSSIAN UKASE

ON ALASKAN WATERS, iii, 487-489.
Alexander VI, Pope, PAPAL BULL DIVID-
ING THE NEW WORLD, i, 2, 24, 40-43.
Algiers, demand for subsidies, iii, 351-355.
Allbright, Jacob, BURR'S MUSTER AT
BLENNERHASSET ISLAND, iii, 356-359.
Allen, Ethan, sent to England, ii, 529–530.
Alliance. See Treaty.

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Allibone, S. Austin, Critical Dictionary, i,
24, ii, 30.

Allied Sovereigns, THE HOLY ALLIANCE,
iii, 479-480.

Almanac, Poor Richard's, extract, ii, 263-
266, title-page, 264; Ames's, 266–272.
Almon, John, Collection of Papers, ii, 11;
Remembrancer, 11, 451; Anecdotes of the
Life of Pitt, 19, 407.

Alsop, George, Province of Maryland, i, 14,
271; A CHARACTER OF THE PROVINCE
OF MARY-LAND, 267–271.

Amadas, Philip, voyage to Virginia, i, 89.
Amazons, in South America, i, 97.
Amendments. See Constitution.
America, discovered, i, 35; first use of the
name, 49; Cabot's voyage, 70-72; first
printed account in English, 72; archives
on, in Europe, ii, 10; pride, 411; distin-
guishing characteristic, 423; Lafayette's
opinion, 485-488; reconciliation or inde-
pendence? 530-534; foundation of state
constitutions, 534-537; character of Con-
gress, 543-545; during the Revolution,
560-562; Steuben's opinion, 584-585;

financial state in 1781, 594-603; people
discontented, 597; Articles of Confedera-
tion, 604; bank, 605; attitude of George
III toward, 619-620; peace with England,
623-625; results of the Revolution, 629-
632; conditions in 1784. iii, 22-27.—
See also Civil War, Colonies, Congress,
Revolution, United States, and Tables of
Contents.

American Annual Cyclopædia, iv, 6.
American Antiquarian Society, library, i, 8,
ii, 10; Proceedings, i, 178.
American Anti-Slavery Society, iii, 608.
American Historical Association, Annual
Report, ii, 11, 23, iv, 1; favors study of
sources, ii, 26; Report on History in
Schools, iii, 1, iv, I.

American Historical Review, ii, 32, 530, 582,
iii, 52, 211, 276, 336, 351.
American History Leaflets, i, 5, 14, ii, 5, 12,
20, iii, 8, iv, 6.

American Museum, iii, 37, 239.

American Philosophical Society, Transac-
tions, iii, 471.

American State Papers, iii, 10; Foreign Re-
lations, 171, 312, 314, 326, 355, 400, 403.
501.
American War Ballads and Lyrics, iv, 263.
Americans, characteristics of, iii, 77.
Ames, Fisher, DEFENCE OF THE JAY
TREATY, iii, 315-319; Speech on the Fay
Treaty, 319.

Ames, Nathaniel, A YEAR OF A COLLEGE
STUDENT'S LIFE, ii, 266–272; Diary, 272,
iii, 339; POLITICAL COMMENTS, iii, 336-
339.

Amistad case, iii, 626-629.

Anburey, Thomas, Travels, ii, 18, 20.
Anderson, Robert, BREAKING OF THE
STORM, iv, 213-216; SURRENDER OF
FORT SUMTER, 220.

Andover (Mass.), life at, iii, 509-512.
André, John, THE EXPERIENCES OF A
BRITISH SPY, ii, 515-518,

Andrews, John, THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY,
ii, 431-433: Letters, 433.

sional Debates, Congressional Globe,
Congressional Record.
Annapolis Convention, iii, 185-187.
Annexations, Louisiana, iii, 367-372; objec-
tions, 373-376, 642-645; Florida, 482-483;
Texas, 642-655; Mexican territory, iv,
24-26, 32-34; Alaska, 547-550; general
passion for, 548; Spanish, in 1898, 589. -
See also Colonies, Territories.
Annual Register, ii, 11, iii, 302.
Anonymous, FIRST PRINTED ACCOUNT OF
AMERICA IN ENGLISH, 1, 72-73; ENGLISH
CLAIMS TO NORTH AMERICA, 164-166;
BACON'S REBELLION, 242-246; THE
TRIAL OF A WOMAN ANTINOMIAN, 382-
387; FOUNDING OF THE FIRST AMERI-
CAN COLLEGE, 467-472; THE TRIAL OF
A QUAKER, 481-484; A PLEA FOR PRO-
TECTIVE DUTIES, ii, 247-248; A BALLAD
OF PIGWACKET, 344-346; A FRENCH
ACCOUNT OF BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT, 365-
367; A BRAVE MAN'S DEATH, 484-485;
EXPLOITS OF DE GRASSE IN THE WEST
INDIES, 612-615; Journal of an Officer,
615; A CONFESSION OF ENGLAND'S
ERROR, iii, 302; John Brown's Body, iv,
259-260; REASONS FOR WAR, 573-575;
War with Spain and After, 575.
Antietam, Smalley's account of battle of, iv,
346-351.

Anti-Federalists, policy of, iii, 289-292,

297.

Antinomians, in Massachusetts, i, 382–387.
Anti-slavery, meeting. iii, 602-608; protest
against annexation of Texas, 642–645.—
See also Abolitionists, Slavery.
Appleton's Annual Cyclopædia, iv, 6.
Appomattox, surrender of Lee at, iv, 437-
440, 443-444-
Apprentices, iii, 25-26.

Arber, Edward, First Three English Books
on America, i, 73.

Arbitration, Halifax commission, iv, 544;
Geneva award, 550-556; Bering Sea,
564-567; Venezuelan boundary dispute,
568, 572.

Arbitrators, THE GENEVA AWARD, iv,
550-556.

Archives, American, in Europe, ii, 10.
Argall, Sir Samuel, in Virginia, i, 220,
Arkansas River, discovered, i, 139.

Armstrong, Edward, Record of the Court at
Upland, ii, 208.

Armstrong, John, THE NEWBURG AD-
DRESSES, iii, 122-125.

Army, Confederate, scarcity of food, iv,

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254-255, 440; conditions, 277-286; experi-
ence in battle, 280-282; an Englishman's
impressions, 284-286; partisan campaign-
ing, 287-289; preparation for war, 319-
323; appearance, 327; commissariat, 371.
See also Civil War, battles by name,
and Table of Contents of Vol. IV.
Army, English, employs Hessians, ii, 500-
504; camp life in Canada, 504-507; Ger-
mans and English, 506-507; loyalist
corps, 511-513; capture of André, 515-
518; losses at Concord and Lexington,
550: Battle of the Kegs," 562-565; a
woman's life in, 565-568.- See also
Officers, Revolution, War, and Table of
Contents of Vol. II.

Army, United States, recruiting service, ii,
457, 481-483, 586; clothing, 468–469, 527:
joined by Lafayette, 485-488; proposed
use of negroes, 488-490; Washington on
militia, 490-492, 560-562; punishments,
493-494; Washington's headquarters, 495-
497; prisoners, 508-511; needs, 528, 530;
losses at Concord and Lexington, 548; at
Valley Forge, 568-573; rank, 570; resig-
nations, 572; Steuben in, 582-585; foreign
officers in, 584-585; Patrick Henry's
views of, 586; condition in the South,
612; Order of Cincinnati, 626-627; of
Connecticut, iii, 47; discontent in conti-
nental, 121; on Texas frontier, iv, 22-23;
in Mexico, 26-31; guard of fugitive slave,
88-91; attack on John Brown, 144-146;
in Civil War, 216-220, 256-276, 309-389,
412-444; call for troops, 221, 235; boun-
ties, 222, 234-235; negroes as soldiers,
233, 406-407, 442, 458; conditions, 256-
276; enlistment, 256-259; hardships, 263-
265; experience in battle, 268, 273-276;
bummers, 268-270, 431; Sanitary Com-
mission, 270-273; organization, 314-319;
generals appointed, 315; staff and ad-
ministrative officers, 316; medical depart-
ment, 316; discipline, 316–318; capability
of soldiers, 318-319; contrabands follow,
408-411; military government of the South,

Assistants, in Massachusetts, i, 373-382.
"Association," adopted by First Continental
Congress, ii, 439-441.

Atahualpa, captured by Pizarro, i, 53-57.
Atkins, John Black, CAPTURE OF SANTI-

AGO, iv, 586-588; War in Cuba, 588.
Atlantic Monthly, iv, 87, 464, 575, 594, 616,
632.

Augusta (Ga.), center for Indian trade, ii, 126.
Aumsequen. - See Pessecus.

Austin, J. T., Life of Elbridge Gerry, ii, 19.
Autobiographies, as sources, i, 1; lists, iii,
Io, iv, 8.

Azores, in papal grant, i, 42.

BACKUS, ISAAC, History of New Eng-

land, ii, 15.

Backwoodsmen, iii, 463-467. - See also
West.

Bacon, Ezekiel, on the embargo, iii, 408-409.
Bacon's Rebellion, i, 242-246.

Bailey, Theodorus, PASSING THE FORTS
AT NEW ORLEANS, iv, 336-338.
Bainbridge, William, CAPTURE OF THE
JAVA, iii, 414-417.

Baldwin, Abraham, in convention, iii, 219.

Baldwin, R. S., l'Amistad case, iii, 626, 629.
Balloting, method of, iii, 334.
Baltimore, a growing town, ii, 102.
Baltimore, Cecil, Lord, INSTRUCTIONS TO
COLONISTS, i, 247-252; THE QUESTION
OF KENT ISLAND, 257-261.- See also
Maryland.

Baltimore, Charles, Lord, THE QUAKER
AND THE NOBLEMAN, 1, 272-274. - See
also Maryland.

Baltimore American, iii, 422.

Bancroft, George, transcripts of documents,
i, 16, 21, iv, 34; History of the United
States, i, 16, 21, ii, 22, iii, 2; use of sources,
ii, 22, 28; History of the Constitution, ¡¡¡,
154, 160, 187.

Bank of North America, established, ii, 605.
Banks, earnings of, iii, 62, 296; Hamilton's

report on, 276-281; political influence,
333; State, 441-445; clearing-house loan
certificates, iv, 526-528.

Banks, Nathaniel P., major-general, iv, 315.
Baptists, in Rhode Island, i, 409.

Barber, John W., and Howe, Henry, His-

torical Collections of New York, i, 14.
Barclay, David, AN ACCOUNT OF EAST
JERSEY, i, 569–572.

Barlowe, Arthur, FIRST VOYAGE TO VIR-
GINIA, 1, 89-95.

Barnegate (N. J.), settlement, i, 571.
Barnes, Mary Sheldon, and Barnes, Earl,
Studies in American History, ii, 33.
Barringer, D. M., in peace conference, iv,

207.

Barron, James, CAPTURE OF THE CHESA-
PEAKE BY THE LEOPARD, iii, 395-400.
Barter, in the Confederate States, iv, 249-
251.

Bartlett, John Russell, Records of Rhode
Island and Providence Plantations, ii, 17,
52, 174.

Bartram, William, Travels, ii, 18.

Bates, Edward, on relief of Sumter, iv, 212.
Bayard, J. A., American envoy, iii, 426-
427.

Bay Psalm Book, literary value, i, 4, 18;
extracts, 472-476.

Beardsley, Eben Edwards, Life and Corre-
spondence of Samuel Seabury, ii, 19.
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave, BREAKING
OF THE STORM, iv, 213-216,

Beauvois, Carel van, a Dutch schoolmaster,
i, 586.

Belcher, Jonathan, speech, ii, 176; A
GOOD MAN'S LETTER, 287-289.
Belknap, Jeremy, History of New Hamp

shire, ii, 15, iii, 34; Belknap Papers, iii, 257.
Bellini, at Williamsburg, ii, 608.
Bellomont, Earl of, OFFICIAL PROTEC-

TION OF PIRATES, ii, 244-247.
Bennet, Richard, SURRENDER OF VIR-
GINIA TO PARLIAMENT, i, 235-236; in
Maryland, 264.

Benton, Thomas Hart, HOW ANNEXA-
TION WAS SECURED, iii, 652-655;
Thirty Years' View, iv, 8; DRED SCOTT
DECISION REVIEWED, 132-135; Exam-
ination of Dred Scott Case, 135.
Berdt, Dennis de, COMPLAINT AGAINST
THE ACTS OF TRADE, ii, 415-417.
Bering Sea arbitration, iv, 564-567.
Berkeley, G. C., British naval officer, orders

the Chesapeake to be searched, iii, 395.
Berkeley, John, Lord, CONCESSIONS AND
AGREEMENTS OF THE PROPRIETORS
OF EAST JERSEY, i, 563-566.
Berkeley, Sir William, loyalty, i, 23; AP-
PEAL OF A LOYAL GOVERNOR, 233-234;
AN OFFICIAL REPORT ON VIRGINIA,
237-241; dealings with Bacon, 243-246.
Bermuda, shipwreck on, i, 286.
See Saxe-Weimar.
Besse, Joseph, Collection of the Sufferings
of the People called Quakers, i, 484.
Beverly, Robert, History of Virginia, i, 11,
ii, 15, 94; ANDROS'S AND NICHOLSON'S
ADMINISTRATIONS, ii, 90-94.

Bernhard.

Bio

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Bienville, Jean Baptiste, in Louisiana, ii,
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Bigelow, John, France and the Confederate
Navy, iv, 303.

Billings, John Davis, ENLISTING, iv, 256-

259; Hardtack and Coffee, 259.

Bills of credit, iii, 133-136. - See also
Banks, Currency, Finances, Money.
Billyng. E., proprietor of Jersey, i, 573-574.
Bimeta
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als

V.

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Bird, Isabella, Englishwoman in America,
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Birkbeck, Morris, Notes on America, iii,
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Birney, James Gillespie, A WESTERN
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Bishops, plan for establishment in America,
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Blackstone, William, settlement, i, 371.
Blaine, James Gillespie, Twenty Years in
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Blair, Montgomery, on relief of Sumter, iv,
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Blennerhasset and Burr, iii, 356-359, 460-
461.
Blockade, effect of southern, iv, 192, 244.
246; Confederate government blockade-
runners, 323, 356-358.

Blount, W., in Federal Convention, iii, 225.
Board of Trade. See Lords Commis-
sioners.

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Boat, travel by, iii, 564.- See also Canals.
Bodleian Library, i, 8, ii, 10.

Boker, George Henry, THE BLACK REGI-
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Bolzius, Johann Martin, quaintness, ii, 4;
THE COMING OF THE SALZBURG GER-
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Bonaparte, Lucien, How NAPOLEON PER-
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372.

Bond house, at Edenton, ii, 4.

Bon Homme Richard, and Serapis, ii, 587-

590.

Boone, Daniel, adventures in Kentucky, ii,
383-385.

Boston, Town Records, i, 12, ii, 14, 17, 21;
Dutch visitors, i, 496-501; description in
1680, 501, in 1750, ii, 61-63, in 1788, iii,
31-35; Sir William Phipps at, i, 507-509;
Old South Church, ii, 4; observance of
the Sabbath, 63; merry-making in, 240-
243; earthquake in 1727,261-262; Stamp
Act riot, 397-400; troops in, 420-423:
massacre," 429-431; "tea-party," 431-

433; siege of, 550-554; attempted fugitive-
slave rescue, iv, 87-91; enthusiasm in
1861, 221-224; departure of troops, 223.
- See also Government, Massachusetts,
Religion, Revolution, Trade.
Boston Athenæum, catalogue, i, 16, ii, 22.
Boston Gazette, ii, 263.

Boston Public Library, i, 8, ii, 10; catalogue,

i, 16, ii, 22.

Botume, Elizabeth Hyde, AMONG THE
FREEDMEN, iv, 445-448; First Days
amongst the Contrabands, 448.

Boudinot, Elias, AN INVESTIGATION OF
BRITISH MILITARY PRISONS, ii, 508-
511; Life, 511.

Boudinot, Jane J., Life of Elias Boudinot,
ii, 511.

Boundaries, of states, ii, 542-543; English,
624. See also Annexations, Colonies,
Land, Treaties.

Bourget, Paul, Outre-Mer, iv, 10.
Boutwell, George S., Speeches and Papers,
iv, 10.

Bowker and Iles, Reader's Guide, iv, 2.
Boyle, Robert, Voyages and Adventures, ii, 77.
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Brackenridge, Henry M., VOYAGE DOWN
THE OHIO, iii, 459-463; Recollections of
the West, 463.

Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, A MOCK
CRITICISM OF THE CONSTITUTION, iii,
237-239.

Braddock, General, defeated, ii, 365–367.
Bradford, Alden, Speeches of Massachusetts
Governors, ii, 12.

Bradford, William, literary importance, i,

4; facsimile of his manuscript, 9; Phy-
mouth Plantation, 12, 14, 170, 343, 344.
348, 355, 412; WHY THE PILGRIMS LEFT
ENGLAND FOR HOLLAND, 167-170;
WHY THE PILGRIMS LEFT HOLLAND,
340-343; THE GERM OF POPULAR GOV-
ERNMENT, 344: THE FIRST LANDING
AT PLYMOUTH, 345-348; LIFE IN A
PILGRIM COMMONWEALTH, 349-355;
THE ENGLISH IN THE CONNECTICUT,
410-412.

Bradford, William, Life and Correspondence
of Joseph Reed, ii, 20.

Brazil, William Hawkins's voyage, i, 74;
Drake's voyage, 82.

Breck, Samuel, YELLOW FEVER IN PHIL-
ADELPHIA, iii, 39-41; Recollections, 41.
Bremer, Fredrika, Homes of the New World,
iv, 10.

Breweries, iii, 54.

Brewster, William, Puritan, i, 169; at Ply-
mouth, 349.

Brewton, Miles, and others, THE EVIL
DEEDS OF THE SPANIARDS, ii, 340–344.
Briefe and true Relation of the Discouerie
of Virginia, i, 163.

Bright, John, A FRIEND IN NEED, iv, 296–
298; Speeches on the American Question,
298.

Brissot. See Warville.

Bristol, on the Delaware, iii, 39.

British Guiana. - See Venezuela.
British Museum, Americana in, i, 8, ii, 1o.
Brodhead, J. R., History of New York, i,
13.

Brookline (Mass.), town records, i, 4, ii, 5.
Brooklyn (N. Y.), Dutch schoolmaster in,
i, 585-586; Dutchmen's visit to, 588.
Brown, Alexander, Genesis of the United
States, i, 11, 22.

Brown, John, raid on Harper's Ferry, iv,
144-150; WHY JOHN BROWN BROKE
THE LAWS, 147-150; "John Brown's
Body," 259-260.

Brown, John Carter, library, i, 8, ii, 10.
Browne, Charles Farrar, GOOD ADVICE
TO J. DAVIS, iv, 228-230; Artemus Ward
his Book, 230.

Browne, William Hand, Archives of Mary-
land, i, 294.

Brownell, Henry Howard, LET US ALONE,
iv, 178-179; Lyrics of a Day, 179.
Bruce, P. A., Economic History of Virginia,
i, 16, 27.

Bryan, William Jennings, DEFENCE OF
SILVER, iv, 536-538; First Battle, 538.
Bryant, William Cullen, OUR COUNTRY'S
CALL, iv, 230-232; Thirty Poems, 232.
Brymner, Douglas, Canadian Archives, i,
17.

Buchanan, James, Administration, iv, 9:

and the Lecompton constitution, 119-
121; on the Dred Scott case, 137; cause
of Republican success in 1860, 162; HELP-
LESSNESS OF THE ADMINISTRATION, 196
199.