218, 219, 220, 224, 327. 438 O to Oath of office administered Washington, 120 Obelisk Lane (Greenwich), 62 Ocean Steamship Company piers, 60 O'Connor, Charles, 156 Ogden, Henry, 252 Old Dutch Church, Sleepy Hollow, 23, 239 Oloffe the Dreamer, 65, 66 Oo,thoudts, 488 Orange County, 345, 346, 405 Orange, N. J., 172 Order disbanding Washington's army, 414 Ormsbee, 120 Ossining, 10, 224, 289, 293, 439 Osterhout family, 456 Otego, 344, 346 Otsego, 349 Ouselsticker, Skipper, 322 Overbaghs, 488 Oyster Battery, 168 Paas and Pinxter, 67 Pacham, Pachami, 13, Palatinate, 474 16 Palatines, 402, 472-475, 477, 494 Palisades, 9, 114, 139, 191, 196, 197, 198, 201, 211, 223,415; Park, 41S Palmer & Peters's stages, 63 Palmer, Lieutenant Edmund, the spy, 317. 336 Papin, inventor, 119 Papuinemen, 10, 193, 194, 206 Paragon, steamboat, 128 Park Row Building, 38 Pasture, the Albany, 527 Patentees, 87 Patroons, 87, 89, 90, 91, 96,352; of Rensselaerswyck, 501 Patroons' ships, 88, 90, 107 Paulding family, the, 239 Paulding, General William, 231 Paulding, James Kirke, 231, 240, 242, 246, 250, 252, 262, 484-485 Paulding, John, 236, 314, 318 Paulus Hook, 82, 112, 337 Paulus Hook Ferry, 58, 72, 344- 34S . Pavonia, 15, 16, 17, 520 Peak, John, 313 Pearl Street, Albany, 528, 531 Peekskill, 10, 105, 187, 282, 304, 313-315. 317-318, 320, 332, 337, 338 Peekskill Bay, 320, 332 Peekskill Creek, 297 Pemberton, General, 372 Pendleton, Hamilton's second, 76, Pennsylvania, 60, 402, 406, 499 Pennsylvania soldiers, 82, i8g Peploep's Kill, 337 Pequod, Indians, 425; lover, 425- 426 Percy, Lord, 186, 189 Perier, inventor, 119 Perry, Commander Matthew Gal- braith, 237 Perseverance, steamboat, 128 Petanoch, 519 Philadelphia, 304 Philadelphia and Reading terminal, 65, 429 Philadelphia, removal of Govern- ment to, 30 Philadelphia, steamship, 51 Philips, 528; Constantia, 243; Fred- erick, 366; General, at Saratoga, 563; manor-house, 206, 2x37, £o8, 219; Margaret, 366; Mary, 151, 207, 366, 369; Philip, 366, 369; Susannah, 366; Digitized by Microsoft® Index 585 Philipse, 95, 208; Adolphus, 365- 366; family, 290; house at Yon- kers, 366; house m Highlands, 25°, 345 ; patent (lower), 91; (upper), 365 Philipsburg, 366 Phcenix, ship of war, 183, 329, 330 Phcenix, steamboat, 79 Pickering, Henry, 272 Piermont, 112, 130, 211, 219, 436 Pine Street and Damen's farm, 35 Placentia, 484 Place of the Bark Kettle, 226 Planck family, 488 Playsier Reach, 114 Pleasant Valley, 81 Plymouth and the Pilgrims, 450 Pocantico, 10, 216, 231, 239, 240 Pockhantes, 10 Poe, Edgar Allen, 79, 80 Poestenkill, 551 Point-no- Point, 106, 216, 221, 229, 301 Polk, James K., 278 Polopel's Island, 322, 346, 390, 393, 401, 422 Ponckhockie, 450 Poor, General, 565 Posey, Major, 309 Post Road, at Greenwich, 62 Potter, Orlando, 152 Poughkeepsie, 91, 278, 285, 328, 416-422, 424-428, 430, 436 Poughkeepsie Academy, 255 Poughkeepsie Bridge, 428-429 Poughkeepsie Collegiate School, 421 Poughkeepsing, 349 Prescott, 269 Prime, Edward D., 282 Prime, Nathaniel Scudder, 282 Prime, Samuel Irenasus, 282 Prime, Rev. Wendell, D.D., 209 Prime, William C, 282 Prince of Orange, 514 Prince of Wales's visit to America, 130 Produce Exchange Building, 39 Prospect Hill, Albany, 547 Prospect Hill, Hudson, 508 Providence, R. I., 503 Provincial Congress, 331,431 Provincial Legislature, 460 Provost, Theodosia, 217 Putnam County, 91 Putnam, Colonel Rufus, 167 Putnam, General Israel, 119, 168, 169, 170, 172, 173, 174, 177, 178, 182, 1S3, 187, 188, 189, 314, 330, 335. 336, 338, 339. 340, 379, 461, 464, 569 Putnam's Monthly, 270 Quebec, 4S0,, 539 Queen Anne, 402, 474 R Ramapo Hills, 82, 217 Rangers, Knowlton's, 175, 176, 177, Rapelje, Rem, 64 Rawlings, 188 Read, Nathan, 119 Red Jacket, 431 Reed, Adjutant-General, 177, 178 Reidesel, Baron de, 563-564 Reindeer, steamboat, 133 Remonstrance of colonists, 87 Rensselaer County, 550 Rensselaerswyck, 11, 13, 15, 18, 106. 352, 354, 490, 502, 516, 519, 543, 521—522 Rensselaerswyck, Patroon of, 87, 92 Rensselaerstein, 512-514 Renwick, James, 250, 251 Requa, Captain Samuel, 105 Revolution, the, 72, 277, 280, 290, 378, 406, 414, 426, 427, 456, 458, 496, 538, 542 Rhinebeck, 13, 92, 278, 464, 467, 479 Rhode Island, 553 Richmond Hill, 174, 366, 369 Richmond Hill, steamboat, 128, 483 Ridgway, William, 344 Ridley, Mrs. Catherine, 31 Ridley, Matthew, 31 Rijckman, Albert, 528 Ritzenier, Domine, 24 River craft and passengers, 115 Riverdale, 133, 198 Riverside Park and Drive, 52, 139, 140, 143, 144, 151 Riverview Academy, the, 422 Rivington's Gazette, 86 Roa Hook, 319 Roberts, EUis H., 476 Robinson, Beverly, 366, 369, 380 Robinson house, the, 297 Rochambeau, 228, 316, 411 Rockefeller, William, 237 Rockland County, N. Y., 219 Digitized by Microsoft® 586 Index Rockland Lake, 104, 221 Rockland Point, 221 Rockwell, Rev. Charles, 288 Roe, Rev. E. P., 393 Roebuck, British warship, 183 Roeleff Jansen's Kill, 477 Rogers, Archibald, 50 Rogers, Mary (Marie Roget), 79, 80 Rogers, Moses, 35 Rombout, Francis, 416 Rondout, II, 91, 443-444, 450, 452-, 459. 463. 467-468 Rondout Creek, 467 Rose, British warship, 329,