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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,
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,

485-489; federal troops in the South, 503-
504, 507; preparation for Spanish War,
578; Santiago campaign, 586-588; Rough
Riders, 587-588.- See also Civil War,
Officers, Reconstruction, Revolution,
War, battles by name, and Tables of
Contents.

Arnold, S. G., History of Rhode Island, i,
14, 409.

Arnold, William, OBJECTIONS TO THE
NEW CHARTER, i, 401-402.

Artemus Ward. -
-See Browne, Charles
Farrar.

Articles of Confederation, difficulties in
framing, ii, 539-543; Maryland's refusal,
591-593; completed, 604; violated, iii,
127.- See also Confederation, Congress,

United States.

Assembly, first representative, in America,
i, 218-225; Maryland, 269; records of, ii,
6; business of, 173-174; dissolution, 174-
175; bills vetoed, 179-181; bills disal-
lowed, 183-184; conversion into conven-
tion, 519-524. See also Colonies, Gov-
ernment, States.

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,
10, 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.

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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, mì,
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, i, 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.

Bernhard.
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.
Bibliography, of sources, i, 16-18, ii, 22-23,
iii, 2-3, iv, 2; of secondary books, i, 26-
27, ii, 32-34, iii, 12-13.

Bienville, Jean Baptiste, in Louisiana, ii,
312-313, 315-316.

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.
Bimetallism, Bryan on, iv, 536-538. - See
also Money.

Biographies, as sources, ii, 19.

Bird, Isabella, Englishwoman in America,
iv, 10.

Birkbeck, Morris, Notes on America, iii,

10, 467; PEOPLE OF THE WOODS, 463-
467.
Birney, James Gillespie, A WESTERN
POLITICAL ABOLITIONIST, iii, 608-612;
Letter on Abolitionists, 612.

Bishops, plan for establishment in America,
ii, 289-290; colonies opposed to, 418-420,
-See also Religion.

Blackstone, William, settlement, i, 371.
Blaine, James Gillespie, Twenty Years in
Congress, iv, 8; APPEAL TO THE Voters,
508-511; RELATIONS TO LATIN-AMER-
ICA, 561-563.

Blair, Montgomery, on relief of Sumter, iv,
212; Russell's impressions of, 291; on
the emancipation proclamation, 402.
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.

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

Boker, George Henry, THE BLACK REGI-
MENT, iv, 405-407; Poems of the War, 407.
Bolzius, Johann Martin, quaintness, ii, 4;
THE COMING OF THE SALZBURG GER-
MANS, 114-116; Journal, 116.
Bonaparte, Lucien, How NAPOLEON PER-
SISTED IN SELLING LOUISIANA, iii, 367–
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-

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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.
Bozman, J. L., History of Maryland, i, 14.
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; Ply-
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, 10.
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, ii,
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.

Buckingham, Joseph T., Specimens of News-
paper Literature, ii, 263.

Buckner, Simon B., surrenders Fort Donel-

son, iv, 328.

Buffaloes, discovery of, i, 61; Marquette's
experience, 138.

Bulkeley, Peter, NEW ENGLAND'S OPIN-
ION OF ITSELF, i, 451-452; Gospel-Cov-
enant, 452.

Bullock, William, CONDITIONS OF MEX-
ICO, iii, 489-493; Six Months in Mexico,
493.

Bull Run, Russell's description of battle of,
iv, 309-313; southern poem on, 313-314;
Jackson's report on second, 342-346.
Bunker Hill, battle, ii, 550-551.
Bureau of Ethnology, Fourteenth Annual
Report, i, 64.

Burgoyne, John, lenity of America to, ii,
480; surrender, 565-568; Madame Riede-
sel's opinion of, 566.

Burk, J. D., Virginia, i, 11, ii, 15.
Burke, Edmund, European Settlements, ii,
20, 126, 150; distance from colonies a
disadvantage, 31; NEED OF RELIEVING
GEORGIA, 124-126; THE LAW IN ALL
OUR PROVINCES, 149–150.
Burke, Emily P., THE POOR WHITES, iv,

59-62; Reminiscences of Georgia, 62.
Burlington, New Jersey, i, 567-568.
Burnaby, Andrew, Travels, ii, 20, 89; NEW-
YORK CITY, 87-89.

Burnet, William, A DEFENCE OF PAPER
MONEY, ii, 251-253.

Burns, Anthony, fugitive slave, attempted
rescue and rendition, iv, 87-91.
Burnside, Ambrose Everett, at Antietam,
iv, 347-351; FREDERICKSBURG, 351–355.
Burr, Aaron. See Blennerhasset.
Burrough, Edward, Declaration of the Per-
secution of the Quakers, i, 481, 486; THE
WRONGS OF THE QUAKERS, 484-486.
Bute, Lord, head of the English army, ii,
379.

Butler, Benjamin Franklin, major-general,

iv, 315; at New Orleans, 336-337; CON-
TRABAND OF WAR, 390-391; ISSUE IN
THE IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESI-
DENT, 489-492.

Butler, Frances Anne (Kemble), Journal,
iii, 10, 567,- See also Kemble,

Butler, Nathaniel, THE DISMASKING OF
VIRGINIA, i, 225-227.

Butler, Pierce, in Federal Convention, iii,

220.

Byles, Mather, A POETICAL LAMENTA-

TION OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF
HIS LATE MAJESTY KING GEORGE THE
FIRST, ii, 258–260; Collection of Poems,
260.

Byrd, William, house, ii, 4; History of the
Dividing Line, 141, 238; SOCIETY IN
VIRGINIA, 235-238.

CABINET, Polk's, terms of peace with

Mexico, iv, 32-34; Lincoln's, SHALL
SUMTER BE RELIEVED, 211-212; de-
bate on emancipation, 400-402.
Cabot, John, voyage of (1497), i, 70-72;
statement of discovery, 165.

Calder, E. F., Ames Diary, ii, 272, iii, 339.
Calderon, F., Spanish minister, iii, 627.
Caldwell, David, OBSTINATE OBJECTORS,
iii, 251-254.

Caldwell, H. W., Source Extracts, iii, 7,
iv, 6.

Calhoun, John C., AN ARGUMENT FOR
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, iii, 436–440;
RIGHT OF NULLIFICATION, 544-548;
REASONS FOR ANNEXATION, 649-652;
Works, 652; letter to Texan minister,
653; DANGER OF DISUNION, iv, 48-51.
California, Drake in, i, 86; Mexican, condi-
tions in 1835, iv, 11-15; government, 13-
15; cession of, demanded, 32-33; free
territory, 40; overland journey to, 43-45;
mining camps in 1850, 45-48; slavery
in, 51, 52. See also Compromise,
Congress, Slavery, Territories, Wilmot
Proviso.

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