settlers, 11 Dutch West India Company, 489 Dutchess County, 337, 345, 349, 350, 416, 426—427, 480 Duyckinck, A. E., 242, 253, 270- 271, 280 Duyvel's Dans Kamer, 393, 418, 421 Dwight, Hon. Theodore, 552 Dwight, Mrs., 554 Dyer, John, 352 Dykman, Judge, 297 E Earl of Devon, 143 East Camp, 402 East India Company, i, 2 Eastman College, 422 East River, 155, 167, 171, 172, 174; (Brown's shipyard), 122 Eckerson, Captain, 35 Eelkins, commander of trading post, 472 Eighth Avenue and Wolfe Monu- ment, 62 El Capitan, steamboat, 130 Elkins, Jacob Jacobsen, 107 Elm Park, 140 Elysian Fields, 78-80 Emigration Commissioners, 40 Empire Building, New York, 38 Empire State, 12 Englewood, 198 Equitable Building, New York, 35, 39 Erie Canal, 48, 119, 499, 542, 551 Erie Lake, 49 Digitized by Microsoft® 578 Index Esopus, II, 13, 14, 91, 106, 107, III, 114, 325, 443, 444, 450, 4SS, 457. 459. 473. 526 Esopus Creek, 470, 472 Esopus Massacre, 472 Esperanza, 508 Ettrick, his attempt to kidnap Washington, 412 Evening Post, New York, and La- fayette fSte, 47 Evertsen, Captain CorneUus, 23 Fair Street, New York, 458 Falconer's purchase, 91 Fall Kill, 425 Fanning, Colonel, 317 Farrington, Harvey P., 105 Febiger, Colonel, 309 Federalists of Albany, 544 Ferris, Oliver, 241 Feudatories, 89 Field Building, New York, 32 Field, Cyrus W., 32, 230 Fiero, 488 Ellipse, Frederick, 194, 206, 231 Fish Commission, 437, 438, 440, 442 Fish hatcheries, 440, 442 Fisher's Reach, 114 Fishkill, 226, 322, 346, 349, 408, 416-418, 457, 470 Fishkill Creek, 91, 562 Fitch, John, iig, 120 Fitzroy Road, 62 Five Nations, the, 473 Fleming, General, and Lafayette, 47 Fleury, Lieutenant-Colonel, 309 Fort, Amsterdam, 20, 21; Clinton, 3,37-339, 383. 460; Constitu- tion, 170, 172, 332, 379; Ed- ward, 568-569; George, 22, .168; Hill, 196; Independence, 313, 319. 338, 379; Lee, '80-82, 139, 156, 182, 184, i86-i8g, 190, 192, ig8, 257,436,438; Lyman, 568; Montgomery, 328, 335, 337-339, 379, 428, 460, 461-462; Nichol- son, 568; Orange, 6, m, 353, 516, 519, 520, 522; Oranier, 513; Putnam, 379, 384; Schuyler, 562 ; Washington, 106, 155-156, 172, 181-182, 184-185, 187, i8g, 190, 330,416; Willem Hendrick, 107 Fortifications and Governor Don- gan, 22 Forty-second Street Ferry, New York, 80 Fourth Provincial Congress, 456, 457 . Franklin, Benjamin, 424 Frazer, General, 554, 563, 564, 567 Freehold, 352 Frelinghuysen, Chancellor, 278 Frelinghuysen, Rev. Theodorus, 494, 526, 531 Fremont, General John C, 238, 241, 285 Fremont, Jessie Benton, 285 French and Indian Wars, 475, 569 French Church at New Paltz, 470 FuUerton's tract, 472, 473 Fulton, Robert, 118-122, 125-126, 478 Fur trade and agriculture, 91 Gallatin, Albert, 118 Gallows Hill, 317 Gansevoort, 458, 538 Gansevoort family, 538 Gansevoort Street, New York, 57, 62 Garrisons, 385 Gates, General Horatio, 169, 407, 408, 460, 465, 539, 561, 562-565, ^ 567, 569 Gazette, of Hudson, 508—509 Geikie, Professor Archibald, 197, 223 General Jackson, the, steamboat, 130 General Synod of Dutch Church, 449 Genesee River, 493 Genet, Edmond Charles, 546 George III., 297, 461 Gerard, Hon. James W., 311 German camp, 351 German exiles, 474 Gibbet Island, 69, 70-71 Gibbon, Lieutenant, 309 Gifiord, S. R., 507 Gillender Building, New York, 38 Glass House farm, 63, 64 Glen, Johannes, 528 Glens Falls, 570-571 Goede Vrouw, the, 65 Gooch, Captain, 190 Gordon, Duchess of, 352 Goshen, 346 Gould, Miss Helen, 231 Gouverneur, Samuel, 369 Digitized by Microsoft® Index 579 Governors, Dutch and English, 369 Grand Battery, the, 168 Grand Opera House, 63 Grange, the, 152 Grant, General U. S., 372 Grant, Mrs., an American lady, 528 Grant's Tomb, 52, 143, 144, 176, 179 Grassy Point, 133 Graystone, 209 Great Britain and American Inde- pendence, 26 Great Chip Rock, 114 Great Kill Road, 62 Green Mountains, 508 Greenburgh, 227 Greene, General Nathanael, 172, 173, 176, 179, 184, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190,228, 335, 411 Greene County, 443, 449, 486 Greene's Patent, 486 Greenwich Road, 61, 62 Greenwich Village, 61, 62, 174 Grenadier Battery, 168 Greyhound, British frigate, 167 Grievous Hook, 215 Grinnell, Irving, 50 Grinnell, Moses H., 262 Griswold, Rufus W., 269, 271, 383 Groot Esopus, 459 Groot Riviere, 2 Guadaloupe, 23 Guest, Henry, 354 Guests from Gibbet Island, 68 H Hackensack, 192 Hafenje, 216, 241 Hague, The, i Hale, Captain Nathan, 151 Hale's regiment at Saratoga, 563 Half Moon, 2, 194, 201, 509, 513 Halifax, 167 Halleck, Fitz-Greene, So, 253, 256, 257, 261, 269, 270 Halve Maenc, 1 Hamburg- American steamships, 81 Hamilton, General Alexander, 74- 77. 152. 249. 366, 411. S°9. 542, 560 Hammond, Colonel James, 326 Hancock, H. Irving, 376 Handlers Street, Albany, 528, 538 Hardenbergh, Colonel Johannes, 460 Hardenbergh's Patent, 356, 360, 372 Harlem, 24; battle of, 148, 171, 174-175. 179. 184; Cove, 155; Heights, 174-175; River, 189, 195. 344; Speedway, 151 Harmensen, 528 Harrison's brewery, 61 Harschias, 476 Hartford, 552 Hasbrouck house, 406, 412, 463 Hastings, 198 Haverstraw (Havestro), 13,