New England, 11, 161, 324; Puritans, 5; militia, 69; members of Continental Congress, 71, 79, 80.
New York city, 1; society in, 26; exposed positions, 43; entered by Continental forces, 46; left by peaceable citizens, 48; held by British, 116.
New York colony, 1, 3; battles in, 3, 4; claim of liberty as a right, 6; loyalty, 7, 8; many nationalities, 9, 10; churches, 9; ethnic type, 11; rivalries, 14; government, 14; three parties, 19; in debt, 23; not in full sympathy with the patriots, 35, 36; soldiers in royal armies, 44; famous Tory leaders, 45; second Provincial Congress, 46; third Provincial Congress, 47; Declaration of Independence ratified, and State Constitution organized,47; adoption of the national Constitution, 165, 167.
Officers, in trade, 81; foreign, 85; French, in American Revolution, 264.
Orleans, Duchess of, 207, 208, 209, 245, 246.
Orleans, Duke of (Egalité), 207, 216, 275, 288.
Paris, 266, 267; factions in, 269; changed, 270.
Provincial Congress, 34, 35, 38, 39, 43, 46, 47, 53, 58.
Representation of slave states, 157, 158, 164.
Revolution, enemies in, 49, 68; two sides of, 30; officers of, 79; men of, 81, 82; influence of, compared with that of French, 298, 299.
Revolutionary armies compared with those in Civil War, 50, 51, 81.
Schuyler, Philip, 10, 68, 69, 71; replaced by Gates, 71, 72, 73; his noble behavior, 74.
Southern States, 115, 147, 148, 158, 161, 162, 163.
Spain, 90, 91, 112, 115, 120, 121, 122, 123, 148.
Suffrage not an inborn or natural right, 149, 150, 157.
Treaty, 124; obligations of, unfulfilled, 227, 228; Jay's, 327.
Virginia, 114, 160, 161, 165; her statesmen and warriors, 325.
Washington, 33, 44, 47, 48; statesman, soldier, patriot, 52; difficulties, 78, 79; confidence in Morris, 83; dislike to foreign officers, 85; letter to Jay, 118; delegate in National Convention, 133; letter to Morris, 189, 190; views with regard to French Revolution, 191, 192, 252, 292, 293; a watch for, 195; statue by Hudon, 196; kind advice, 252, 253; recalls Monroe, 300; reply to letter of Morris, 306; distrust of Jefferson, and Madison, 321.
Wisdom of many worth more than wisdom of one, 136, 137.
A Series of Biographies of Men famous in the Political History of the United States. Edited by JOHN T. MORSE, Jr. Each volume, 16mo, gilt top, $1.25; half morocco, $2.50.
