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to build roads, 136; manager at trial of
Chase, 177, 180, 181; moves an amend-
ment to Federal Constitution, 182; op-
poses the purchase of Florida, 213-215;
on the embargo, 278; on suspension of
non-intercourse, 344, 345; on the non-
intercourse bill, 392, 396; quarrels with
Eppes, 396; is challenged, 396; on
standing army, 433, 435; on the use of
the army, 437, 438.

Ranges, 104 and note; survey of The
Siren, 108, 109.

Raritan. The steamboat, 491, 492; ex-
plosion of the boiler, 491.
Ratford, Jenkin. Deserts from the Hali-
fax and enters on the Chesapeake, 256;
included in Berkeley's order, 257;
taken from Chesapeake and hung, 259.
Rateliff, Jacob. Mayor of New York,

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Religion. "Section 29" set apart for use
of religious bodies, 115, note.
Representation. Massachusetts proposes
to limit it to freemen, 44, 45; action of
the States on, 46, 47.
Representatives in State Legislatures.
Qualifications for the office, 148.
Resolutions. Virginia and Kentucky, of
1798, 1799, affirmed by Pennsylvania,
388 and note.

Resource. Case of the ship, 302, 303.
Restrictions. On San Domingo trade,

216-218; rule of 1756, 219, 222; orders
in council and French decrees, 220-
223; non-importation from England,
231-236.

Revenge, The. Sent to England with
despatches, 264, 270.

Revenue. From sale of public lands,
120, 121; to be used to build roads,
135, 136.

Rhea, John. President of convention of
New Feliciana, 371.

Rhode Island. On the land claims of the
States, 92, 93; opposition to Force Act,
333; Governor refuses to call out the
militia, 546.

Richard, The sloop. Murder of the
helmsman, 236, 237; excitement over,
237-240.

Rhea, John, 299.

Richmond. Burr brought before Mar-

shall, 76, 79; during the trial of Burr,
79, 80.

Rio Bravo, 14, 38, 39, 40.
Rio Colorado, 38, 39.
Rio Grande, 32.

Roads. Grant to Zane, 121; the United
States to build roads to and in Ohio,
134, 135, 136; effect of western movement
of population on, 462; rise of turnpike
companies in the East, 462, 463; cost of
land carriage, 463, 464; turnpike toll,
464; Cumberland Road, 469, 470.
Rodney, Judge. Burr tried before, 75.
Rodney, Cesar A., 177, 180.
Rodgers, Commodore John. Commands
fleet off Tripoli, 208; sails on the Presi-
dent, 403; affair with Little Belt, 403-
405.

Rose, George Henry. English envoy to
adjust Chesapeake affair, 269, 270;
reaches United States, 270, 281, 282;
instructions, 282; negotiations, 282,
283; takes formal leave, 283; corre-
spondence with Pickering, 283, 284.
Roxbury. Town of, in Massachusetts, 454.
"Rule of 1756," 219-222.
Rumsey, James, 487.

Russell, Jonathan. Chargé d'affaires at
Paris; asks if decrees are repealed, 407;
reads report of Cadore, 408; of Semon-
ville, 408; protests against seizure of
American ships, 408; demands mean-
ing of Semonville's words, 408; is
given two letters from Minister of Jus-
tice and Minister of Finance, 408; de-
livers Non-intercourse Act of 1811 to
Bassano, 409; action of Napoleon, 409.
Ryland, Herman W., secretary to Sir
James Craig. Letters of Henry to, 285,

286.

Sackett's Harbor. Embargo broken at,

305.

Sailors. Suffering of, in the cities after
embargo, 289, 290.

St. Albans. People of, answer the pro-
clamation declaring them insurgents,

297.

St. Augustine. Attacked by the East
Florida rebels, 539, 540.

St. Clair, Arthur, Governor of North-
west Territory, 112; organizes govern-
ment, 113; laws adopted by, 113–115;
on division of territory, 123.
St. John's Plains. Convention at, 370.
St. Louis, Burr at, in 1805, 59.
St. Mary's, 537-540.

Salary Act of Massachusetts, 453, 454.
Salcedo, Don Juan Manuel de. Delivers
Louisiana to France, 10, 11.
Salina. Salt works at, 480.
Salem. Supports the embargo, 312; an-
niversary of embargo, 323; representa-
tion tax, 454.

Salt. Manufacture of, at Salina, 480;
salt trade of New York, 480, 481; Te-
cumthe refuses to receive the annual
allowance, 531; seizes the allowance
for the Northwest Indians, 532.

INDEX.

San Domingo. The island, 215, 216;
L'Ouverture, 216; trade suspended and
renewed, 216, 217; fall of L'Ouverture,
217; ports opened, 217; trade with,
217, 218; Napoleon orders it stopped,
218, 219; a law passed, 219.
Sargent, Winthrop, Secretary of North-
west Territory, 112; Governor of Miss
issippi Territory, 129; describes people
of Mississippi, 129, 130; charges against
him, 130.

Saunders, Henry. Deserter from the
Halifax and from the Chesapeake, 256;
included in Berkeley's order, 257.
Sauvé, Pierre, 28.

Savannah. Cyclone of 1804 at, 196.
Schenectady boat, 480.

Schuyler, Philip. Delegate to the Con-
tinental Congress, 94; on land troubles,
94; letter to Congress on Indian mat-
ters, 94.

Schuylkill and Susquehanna Canal, 478.
(See Union Canal.)

Secession. Existence of a desire for, 43;
sentiments of public men on, 44, note,
47, 48; Pickering's plan for a northern
confederacy, 48, 51, 52; Burr's plan for
a southwestern, 54-56; begins his move-
ments, 56, 57, 58, 60; hints of his plan
made public, 60.

"Section," 104 and note; "section 16" re-
served for education, 105; "section
29" reserved for use of religious bodies,
115, note.

Semonville, Comte. Speech to French
Senate on the decrees, 408, 425.
Senate, United States. (See Congress.)
Senators. In the State Legislatures,
qualification for the office, 148, 150.
Serurier. Succeeds Turreau as French
Minister, 394; protests against delay in
sending Barlow to France, 410; asked
to write a letter stating that the decrees
are repealed, 410.

"Servants." Law concerning, in In-
diana, 525.

"Seven Ranges" surveyed, 108, 109.
Shippen, Edward. Impeached, 159.
Shrewsbury, Against war, 552.
Simpson, Slingsby, 239.
Sinclair, Lieutenant.

Enlists deserters

from English ships, 256.
Siren, The, 202, 206.
Skipwith, Fulwar, Governor of State of
West Florida, 372.
Slaves. Massachusetts proposes to abol-

ish three-fifths representation of, 44, 45 ;
answers of the States, 46, 47; excluded
from Northwest Territory, 114; admit-
ted to territory south of Ohio, 117, 118.
Slave trade. Restrictions on, 515, 516;
South Carolina opens her ports to, 517;
North Carolina proposes a constitution
al amendment, 517; abolished by Con-
gress, 520, 521.

Slavery. Feeling toward, at end of Revo-
lution, 514, 515; powers of Congress
over, stated, 515; Fugitive-Slave Act,
515; restriction on the slave trade, 515,

581

516; State laws on slave trade, 517;
South Carolina repeals hers, 517; North
Carolina proposes a constitutional
amendment, 517; South Carolina de-
fended, 518, 519; in the Northwest
Territory, 521-524; in Indiana Terri-
tory, 524-527; in Michigan, 527, 528.
Sloan, James. Resolutions on trade, 230,

231.

Smith, Israel, indicted for treason, 83.
Smith, Israel, 175.

Smith, John, of New York, 175.
Smith, John, Senator from Ohio, in-
dicted for treason, 83; later career,
88; in the trial of Judge Chase, 175.
Smith, Robert, Secretary of State, 339;
dismissed from office, 400, 401.
Smith, Thomas. Impeached, 159.
Smuggling. Over the frontier, 293, 294,
296, 297, 304–307.
Snyder, Simon, 161, 162.
Societies. To encourage manufactures,
500, 501; manufacturing, 504, 505; be-
nevolent, 511; trade unions, 511; jour-
neymen trade, 511-513.

Somers, Captain. Lost in the Intrepid,

206.

South, the. Feeling toward, in New
England, 42-45, 47.

South Carolina. On the Ely amend-
ment of the United States Constitu-
tion, 46; land cession, 115; land dis-
pute with Georgia, 125, 126; franchise
in, 147; office-holder's qualification,
148; opens her ports to slave trade,
517; action defended, 528, 529.
Spain. Delivers Louisiana to France,
10, 11; protests against sale of Louisi-
ana to United States, 11, 12; keeps
troops at New Orleans, 27, 28; protests
against Mobile Act, 31, 32; dispute
with, regarding West Florida, 31, 34;
indemnity demanded of, for spolia-
tion, 34, 35; Yrujo takes opinion of
American lawyers on, 35, 36; conven-
tion regarding, 34-41; conduct of Pinck-
ney concerning, 36, 37; Monroe sent
to, 37; negotiations of Monroe and
Pinckney regarding Louisiana bound-
ary, 37-41; Spanish decree of Febru-
ary 19, 1807, 270; Spanish Minister
applies for interpretation of Berlin
decree, 270; attacked by Napoleon,
309, 310; Carlos IV abdicates, 310;
people rise, 310; Napoleon at Bayonne,
310; Bayonne decree, 310; Joseph
Bonaparte made king, 312; French re-
verses in, 312.

Springfield. Wages at, 509.
Spoliations, French. On American com-
merce in Spanish ports, 34-36; demand
for indemnity, 38.

Squatters. Driven from the public lands,
105-107, 108.

Stage-coach line. Philadelphia to New
York, 492, note.

State. Call for a convention to frame a
government for one north of Ohio
river, 106 and note.

State rights. Contest for, 183-186; as-
serted by Massachusetts towns, 327-
329; by General Court, 330; asserted
by Connecticut, 331, 332, 545; resolu-
tion of Pennsylvania affirming the Vir-
ginia and Kentucky doctrine of 1798,
388 and note.

States. Admission of "new States," 6.
States, The original thirteen. Land
claims and disputes of, 90-92; land
cessions of, 92, 93; plans for forming
new States, Westsylvania, 91 and note;
petition from Kentucky, 97, 98; Bland's
plan, 98, 99; promises to Virginia, 100.
States, number of, in 1812, 459.
Statira, British frigate, 270.

Stay laws. Under embargo, 416, 417.
Steamboat, 486; early history of, 487;
Fulton's labor, 488; Livingston's la-
bors, 488; Fulton's experiments on the
Seine, 489; the Clermont, 490, 491;
Livingston and Fulton monopoly, 491;
the Phoenix, 491; the Raritan, 491, 492;
New Jersey attacks the Livingston-
Fulton monopoly, 492, 493; rival com-
pany on the Hudson enjoined, 493;
Stevens attempts to establish a line on
Chesapeake Bay, 493 and note; steam-
boat on the Mississippi, 493; on ferry
to New Jersey, 493; on ferry to Cam-
den, 494.

Stele, John. Secretary of Mississippi
Territory, 129.

Steubenville. Land office at, 124.
Stevens, John Cox. His steamboat on

the Hudson, 487; builds and operates
the Phoenix, 491, 492; attempt to estab-
lish a steamboat line on Chesapeake
Bay, 493 and note.

Stockbridge. Wages at, 509.
Stoddart, Amos. Receives Upper Louisi-
ana and delivers it to United States, 13,

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Susquehanna Bridge Company, 475.
Swartwout, Samuel. Confederate of
Burr, 63; goes to New Orleans, 69, 70;
delivers Burr's letter to Wilkinson, 70;
arrested at Fort Adams, 74; sent north
by sea, 74; arrested at Washington, 78;
set free, 79.

Symmes, John Cleve, Judge of New York
Territory, 113; land purchase of, 115.
Syndic, 21.

Tailors. Strike of journeymen, at Balti-
more, 511.

Talleyrand. Consulted as to Louisiana
boundary by Monroe, 39; informed of
Burr's conspiracy, 56; succeeded by
Champagny, 270.

Tammany Society, of New York City.
Attends funeral of Pierce, 237, 238; of
Philadelphia, resolutions, 239, 240.
Tardiveau, Bartholomew. Asks for inter-
pretation of Article VI of ordinance of
1787, 521, 522.

Tariffs. The first, 495; rise of the pro-
tective system, 496-498; desire for

home manufactures, 499; attempt to
tax slaves imported, 518, 519.
Taxes. Spanish, in Louisiana, 22; land
sold by United States not to be taxed
for five years, 134, 135; war taxes, 442–

444.

Tecumthe. Sketch of, 529; his plan for
an Indian confederacy, 529, 530; oceu-
pies Tippecanoe, 530; meets Harrison
at Vincennes, 531; his demands, 531,
582; comes to Vincennes with his war-
riors, 532; goes to Georgia, 532; people
demand that his town be broken up,
532; his journey to Georgia, 585; effect
on the Indians there, 535, 536.
Tennessee. Stay laws, 416; trade in,
484; lack of money in, 484; plan for
improvement of trade, 485, 486; on the
Erie Canal, 479; trade and commerce
of, 484-486.

Tenure of office. Life tenure, 152; at-
tempt to abolish, in Pennsylvania, 153-
159.

Territories, The formation of. Orleans,
23; Louisiana, 30; Northwest, 100–102,

110,112; south of Ohio, 117, 118; status
of, under the Constitution, 10, 24-26.
Tests. Religious, for office-holders, 148;
for voters, 147; abolition of, 149, 150.
Testaments. Belief in the inspiration
of the, a qualification for voting, 148.
Texas. Armstrong urges Jefferson to
seize, 209; action of Spaniards in, 210.
Theatre in New Orleans, 18.
Thomas, Philemon. Leader in New Fe-
liciana rebellion, 371, 872.
Tilsit. Peace of, 272.

Tilton, Daniel. Judge in Mississippi
Territory, 129.

Tinsley, Peter, 428.

Title. The Indian, to Western land
extinguished, 103.

Tippecanoe. Indian town at, 530, 531;
alarm of the people at, 532; Harrison

INDEX.

marches against, 533; battle of, 533,
534; destruction of, 534.
Tivoli Garden, 19.

Toasts. At dinner to Rufus King, 197; to
the "virtuous minority," 337; at Ded-
ham, 552; "The Potomac, the Bound-
ary," 43.

Tobacco. Cost of transporting, 463.
Toronto, or York. Capital of Upper Can-
ada, 558.

Torpedo, Fulton's, 488, 489.

Toussaint L'Ouverture, 216, 217.
Township, 104 and note; sections re-
served for education, 105.
Trade with San Domingo, 216-218, 219;
restriction of, by Great Britain, 219;
direct trade defined, 222-224; British
licenses, 274; cost of trade under the
license system, 307, 308; Non-inter-
course Act of March 1, 1809, 335, 336;
suspended after June 10, 1809, as to
England, 342; effect of suspension, 342,
343; rejoicings over, 346, 347; non-inter-
course renewed, 349, 361; Napoleon
restores limited trade with United
States, 368; promise of repeal of Berlin
and Milan decree, 368.

Trade unions, 511; strikes of, 511-513.
Transportation in the United States.

Effect of Western movement of popu-
lation, 461, 462; turnpikes, 462, 463;
cost of, 463, 464; tolls, 464; effect of
embargo on routes of, 464, 465; cost of,
from New York towns to Canada, 464,
465; difficulties of, between Albany
and Pittsburg, 480, 481.

Travel. By steamboat, 490-492; by
stage coach between New York and
Philadelphia, 492, note.

Treason. Overt act defied by prosecu-
tors of Burr, 84; decision of Marshall,

85.

Treasury notes. Issue of, 549.

Treaty of 1806 with England. Instruc-
tions of Monroe and Pinckney, 248;
negotiation, 249-251; rejected by Jef-
ferson, 252, 253.

Treaty. Louisiana purchase, ratifica-
tions exchanged, 3; Griswold calls for
papers, 4; of Greenville, 118; Indian
treaty of Fort Stanwix, 103; Fort Mc-
Intosh, 103; new treaties with the In-
dians, 529; anger of the Indians, 530.
Trenton. Meeting of peace party at, 552.
Trial of Aaron Burr at Richmond, 79-
88; of Judge Addison, 157; of Shippen,
Yeates, and Smith, 159; of Pickering,
165, 166-168, 172, 173; of Chase, 177-
182; of the Philadelphia cordwainers
for conspiracy, 512; of the New York
cordwainers for conspiracy, 513.
"Triangle, The." In Pennsylvania,
origin of, 112, note.

Trinity. Belief in, a necessary qualifica-
tion for voting, 148.

Tripoli. War with, 200-202; Philadel-
phia captured off, 202, 203; Eaton's
plan to restore Hamet, 205; siege of, by
Preble, 206; loss of the Intrepid, 206;

583

Eaton's march from Cairo, 206, 207;
capture of Derne, 207; peace, 207, 208.
Troup, George M., 420; on war with Eng-
land, 320.

Trumbull, Jonathan, Governor of Con-
necticut. Refuses to execute Force Act,
331, 332.

Truxton, Commodore. Entertains Burr
after the duel, 54; Burr attempts to
enlist him in his plans, 63, 70, 84.
Tuckaubatchee, a Creek town. Tecum-
the at, 535.

Turner, Judge. Attempts to free slaves
under the ordinance of 1787, 522.
Turner, Charles. Insulted at Plymouth,

555.

Turnpikes. Beginning of, in United
States, 462, 463; rate of toll, 464.
Turreau, Louis Marie, French Minister
to the United States. Acquainted with
Burr's schemes, 56; asks for stoppage of
San Domingo trade, 218, 219.
"Two thirds of both Houses." Meaning
of, 186.
Tyler, Comfort.
Indicted for treason,

83.

Union Canal Company. Applies to Con-
gress for aid, 478, 479.

'Union, This." Meaning of the words,
6-8.

Urbana, 556.

Van Ness, William P. Defends Burr,
49; carries the challenge to Hamilton,

52.

Varnum, James W. Judge of North-
west Territory, 112.

Varnum, James B.

Sert to United
States Senate in place of Pickering,
422, 423.

Venezuela. Insurrection in, 369.
Vermont. Embargo evaded in, 297;
proclamation declaring the people in-
surgents, 297; answer of people, 297;
turnpikes in, 463.

Vessels. Number of, in the navy in
1812, 548.

Vice-President. Separate ballot for, 183-
187; candidates for, in 1804, 188; in
1808, 314; death of Clinton, 456; can-
didates for, in 1812, 456.
Vincennes. Capital of Indiana Terri-
tory, 524; Teeumthe at, 531, 532.
"Vincennes Convention." Petition from,
for the introduction of slaves into
Indiana, 524, 525; Randolph's report

on, 525.

Virginia. Answers Ely amendment to
Constitution, 45, 46; feeling toward, in
New England, 47, 48, 51; dispute with
Maryland over Western lands, 93, 94;
opens a land office, 93; protests against,
94; her position, 94; dispute with
Pennsylvania, 95; with Kentucky, 96;
Paine's pamphlets, “Public Good," 96,
and "Plain Facts," 97; question of ac-
cepting the cession, 97, 99, 100; cession
accepted, 100; Stay Law, 416; against

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513.

Wagner, Jacob. Editor of Federal Re-
publican, 553, 554.

Wagons going toward the frontier stopped
by the embargo, 304.

War. Question of going to, discussed,
265-267; the war message, 456, 457;
the declaration, 457, 458; the proclama-
tion, 458; the declaration, opposition
to, in New England, 551, 552.
War taxes. Debate on, 442-444.
Ware, William. Deserts from Melam-
pus, 255; takes service on Chesapeake,
255; taken from Chesapeake, 259.
Washington, George, 240, 241.
"We, the people of the United States," 377.
Webster, Pelatiah. On the use to be made
of Western lands, 96 and note.
Wellesley, Arthur. In Spain, 312.
Wellesley, Marquis. His reply to Pink-
ney regarding orders in council, 364,
365; his reply to Champagny's letter
of August 5, 369.

West Indies, French. Negroes and mu-
lattoes from, excluded from the United
States, 517.

"Westsylvania." Petition to form the
State of, 91; boundary of, 91, note.
Western World, The, 64, 65.
Wheat. Cost of transporting, 463.
Whitby, Henry, 239.

Widgery, William. Insulted at Boston,

555.

Wilkinson, James. Receives Louisiana
from France, 13; military commander

of Orleans Territory, 26; aids Burr,
55; Burr visits, at Fort Massac, 58; at-
tempts to corrupt the army, 59; Burr
visits, at St. Louis, 59, 60; Burr's letter
to, 70; betrays Burr, 70; activity after
the betrayal, 73; goes to New Orleans,
73; begins to arrest the conspirators at
New Orleans, 74; attached for con-
tempt, 74; defies the Court, 74; chal-
lenged by Swartwout, 81; appears as a
witness against Burr, 83.

Williamson, Colonel. Agent of Burr, 54,
55, note, 56.

Wilmington, N. C. Free negroes land
at, 517; memorial from the citizens,
517; action of Congress, 517.
Winchester, James, 547.

Windmill Bay. Smuggling at, 304.
Wirt, William. At Burr's trial, 79, 80;
his famous oration at Burr's trial, 85.
Women. Vote in New Jersey, 147.
Wool and woollen mills, 503, 504.
Worcester. On the embargo, 312.
Wyandots. Join Tecumthe, 531; join
the English, 559.
Wyeth, George, 428.

Yazoo Land Companies. Origin of Geor-
gia claim, 125, 126; the sales by Geor-
gia, 127, 128; claims before Congress,
132; before Supreme Court, 132; settle-
ment, 132, 133.

Yeates, Jasper. Impeached, 159.
Yellow Creek. Squatters driven from,

107.

York, or Toronto, capital of Upper Cana-
da, 558.

Yrujo, Don Carlos Martinez, Spanish
Minister at Washington. Protests
against sale of Louisiana to the United
States, 11, 12; against "Mobile Act,"
31; takes opinion of American lawyers
on our demand for indemnity, 35, 36;
Dayton makes known Burr's plan to
62; Burr's letter to, 71; warns Spanish
Governors against Burr, 71, 72.

Zane, Ebenezer. Land grant to, 121.
Zanesville, 121.

END OF VOLUME III.

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