Federal Convention, 217; in Congress,
258.

Elvas, Gentleman of, FROM THE OCEAN
TO THE MISSISSIPPI, i, 57-59.
Emancipation, Jefferson on, iii, 18; in Vir-
ginia Constitutional Convention, 574-579;
sentiment in favor of, iv, 233; slaves as
contraband of war, 390-391; Garrison on,
396-397; Greeley on demand for, 397-
398; Lincoln on, 399-401; cabinet dis-
cussion, 401-402; Vallandigham on, 402-
405. See also Abolitionists, Freedmen,
Reconstruction, Slavery.
Emancipator, iii, 612.

Embargo, argument for, iii, 403-406; Story
on repeal of, 407-409.
Emigration, accounts of, i, 7; incitements

to, 25; forbidden, 175, 183; licenses, 183;
Higginson's voyage, 190-195; reasons for
leaving England, 195; Dankers and Sluy-
ter's voyage, 197-199; instructions to
colonists, 247-252; John Cotton on, 337;
Johnson's reasons, 366-368; to Rhode
Island, 408; to the Connecticut, 410;
to New York, 543, 576; of Palatines, ii,
77-79; of Salzburgers, 114-116; from
east to west, iii, 153; French, 304; to
Kansas, iv, 104-114.
Endicott, John, comes over, i, 369; AN
EXCULPATORY ADDRESS ΤΟ KING
CHARLES II, 454-457-
England, archives, i, 9, ii, 10; raciness of
sources, i, 20; method of teaching history,
21, ii, 27; captives in Mexico, i, 65-68; dis-
coveries, 70-144; first slave-trader, 73; con-
ditions in 1586, 145; title to America, 153;
claims to North America, 164-167; Pil-
grim exodus, 167-170; commissioners to
Rhode Island, 405; in New Netherland,
523; capture of New Netherland, 537-541;
dislikes arbitrary government, ii, 131-132;
fears Mississippi settlements, 316-320;
French and fur trade, 320-324; massacre
at Schenectady, 323, 337-339; conflicts
with the Spanish, 340-344; expedition
against Louisburg, 346-349; Spanish pri-
vateers, 349-351; claims to the Ohio River,
354-356; to resist the French, 356-357;
removes Acadians, 360-365; defeat of
Braddock, 365-367; fears French influ-
ence on the continent, 367-369; capture

of Quebec, 369-372; question of Ohio
settlement, 386-387; protest against taxa-
tion in America, 404-407; army, 500-518;
jealous of German troops, 506-507; mili-
tary prisons, 508-511; breach with the
colonies, 519-539; campaigns, 546-590,
606-618; surrender at Vincennes, 579-
582; conciliation, 586-587; peace, 623-
625; restrictions on American commerce,
iii, 167-170; refusal to negotiate, 171;
disposition toward the United States, 175:
and Anti-Federalists, 291, 297; Jay Treaty,
315-319; Jefferson on alliance, 364;
Orders in Council, 400-402; Calhoun on
policy toward slavery, 649-652; views on
Civil War, iv, 296-298; Trent affair, 298-
301; fishery question, 542-546; desire for
Alaska, 549; Geneva award, 550-556;
Bering Sea arbitration, 564-567; Monroe
Doctrine and Venezuelan boundary dis-
pute, 567-572; as an ally, 615; as an
American power, 626.-See also Army
(English), Colonies, Revolution, United
States, and Tables of Contents.
Enlistments, in Revolution, ii, 457, 481-483.
586; in Civil War, iv, 256-259. --- See
also Army.

Episcopacy, fear of, in the colonies, ii, 418-
420. - See also Bishops.
Epuremei (Guiana), gold of, i, 100–101.
Eric the Red, i, 28.

Ericsson, Leif, i, 29-30.

Erlendsson, Hauk, NORSE DISCOVERIES
OF GREENLAND AND WINELAND THE
GOOD, i, 28-34-

Escaped Slaves, GRATITUDE OF UNDER-
GROUND RAILROAD PASSENGERS, iv,
91-93.

Evangelist, in Georgia, ii, 283-287. - See
also Religion.

Evarts, William Maxwell, ISSUE IN THE
IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT, iv,
489-492.

Everett, Alexander Hill, DESIGNS ON
CUBA, iii, 502-506.

Everett, Edward, STAND FOR THE UNION,
iv, 237-239; Orations and Speeches, 239.
Examinations, college, skit on, ii, 272–275.
Excise law, Jefferson on, iii, 286. - See also

Taxation.

Executive, power of, iii, 548-553; Lincoln

Faithfull, Emily, Three Visits to America,
iv, 10.

Family life, of a Puritan, i, 512-516; in nine-

teenth century, iv, 659.-See also Tables
of Contents.

Fannin, Colonel J. W., in Texas, iii, 637–639.
Farmer, J., and Moore, J. B., Collections,
ii, 346.

Farmer's Letters. See Dickinson, John.
Farragut, David Glasgow, IN MOBILE
BAY, iv, 418-421.

Fashions, in 1797, iii, 41-44.

Federal Convention. - See Convention.
Federal Gazette, iii, 93.

Federal Grand Jury, THE KU-KLUX-
KLAN, iv, 495-497.

Federalists, principles of, iii, 297; hostile
comment on, 336-339; wail of, 339–343.
Federations, proceedings as sources, i, 5.-
See also Confederation, New England
Confederation.

Fenner, Robert, settlement at Stamford,
Connecticut, i, 581.

Fenwick, John, in Jersey, i, 568, 573.

Ferdinand and Isabella, papal grant, i, 40.
Fernow, Berthold, Documents relative to the
Colonial History of New York, i, 549, 551.
Field, David D., in peace conference, iv, 204.
Field Museum, collections, i, 4, ii, 5.
Fifteenth amendment, Wilson on, iv, 492-
494.

Filson, John, THE ADVENTURES OF COL.
DANIEL BOON, ii, 383-385; Discovery
of Kentucke, 385.

Finances, bill for paper money disallowed,

ii, 183-184; Franklin's pamphlet on paper
money, 231; paper money defended, 251-
253; paper money forbidden, 254; con-
sidered in Second Continental Congress,
527, 529; government censured for neg-
lecting to keep up credit, 572, 586; Wash-
ington on, 594-597; national debt, 598-
600; continental currency, 601-603; bank
of North America established, 605; of
the Confederation, iii, 120-122, 132-136;
public credit, 255-257; Blaine on Demo-
cratic control of, iv, 509; clearing-house
loan certificates, 526-528; modern con-
ditions, 529-541.
See also Banks, Cur-

rency, Money, Tariff.

Fish, Hamilton, PROPOSED INTERVENTION
IN CUBA, iv, 557, 561.

Fisher, George P., Colonial Era, i, 22, 26,
ii, 28, 34.

Fisheries, value of, i, 154, iii, 69; in New
England, i, 313; in Maine, 433-434; in
Jersey, 565; treaty of 1763, ii, 379; of 1783,
625; Newfoundland, and Treaty of Ghent,
iii, 426; controversy with Canada, iv, 542–
546; pelagic-sealing arbitration, 564-567.
Fiske, John, Beginnings of New England,
i, 22, 27; History for Schools, 26, ii, 22;
Discovery of America, i, 27; use of rec-
ords, ii, 22.

Fithian, Philip, A GREAT PLANTATION,
iii, 49-52; Journal, 52.

Fitzhugh, William, value of his letters, i,
2, 19; LIFE OF A SOUTHERN PLANTER,
301-306.

Flax, iii, 67.

Florida, De Soto in, i, 58; cession of, iii,
482-483; legislation on freedmen, iv, 480-
481.

Flour, export of, iii, 55.

Fonblanque, Edward B. de, Political and

Military Episodes of Burgoyne, ii, 19.
Food, in England, i, 147; in Virginia, 226.
Forbes, Arthur, AN ACCOUNT OF EAST
JERSEY, i, 569-572.

Force, Peter, Tracts relating to the Colo-
nies, i, 9, 310, ii, 114, 121; American Ar-
chives, ii, 11, 12, 441, 537, 550, 556, 559.
Ford, Paul Leicester, Essays on the Consti-
tution, iii, 2; Pamphlets, 2.

Foreign relations, southern hopes for for-
eign intervention, iv, 192, 240; Seward

and Lincoln on policy in 1861, 293-295;
change in American policy, 612-616.
See also Annexations, Arbitration, Con-
federate States, Monroe Doctrine, Reci-
procity, and nations by name.

Forsyth, John, l'Amistad case, iii, 627-629.
Forts, old, as sources, i, 4, ii, 4; in Vir-

ginia, i, 238-239.- See also forts by name.
Forum, iv, 523, 536.

Foster, John Gray, SURRENDER OF FORT
SUMTER, iv, 216–220.

Foster, W. E., References to the Constitution,
iii, 2; References to Presidential Admin-
istrations, 2, iv, 2; Bulletins of the Provi-
dence Public Library, iv, 2.

Fourteenth amendment, Stevens on, iv, 482-
485.

Fox, Charles James, Memorials and Corre-
spondence, ii, 19.

France. See French.
Franklin (Tenn.), State of, iii, 147-150;
town of, Hood's report on battle at, iv,
433-434.

Franklin, Benjamin, Autobiography, a mile-
stone in literature, ii, 4, 235; Works, 21,
74, 187, 382, 575, 623, iii, 93; spirit of his
age, ii, 24; DISPUTE OVER THE AGENCY,
184-187; A MAN DILIGENT IN HIS
CALLING, 229-235; starts in printing
business, 229-231; publishes pamphlet on
paper currency, 231; success in business,
232-233; courtship, 233; starts subscrip-
tion library, 233-234; frugality, 234-235;
THE PEOPLE'S FAVORITE LITERATURE,
263-266; Poor Richard (1744), 266;
GRENVILLE'S SCHEME OF TAXATION,
381-382; THE STATE OF THE COLO-
NIES, 407-411; Examination, 411; A
TREATY WITH FRANCE, 574-575; blamed
by Vergennes, 621-623; EXPLANATION
OF THE PEACE OF 1782, 623-625; CHAR-
ACTERISTICS OF AMERICA, iii, 22-27;
Two Tracts, 27; A JOURNALIST'S CRITI-
CISM OF THE PRESS, 89-93; character,
207; in the Federal Convention, 222-228.
Franklin, William B., at Antietam, iv, 349;
at Fredericksburg, 353-355.
Fredericksburg, Burnside's account of bat-
tle, iv, 351-355; engagement at, during
Chancellorsville, 361-362.

Free speech, Zenger's trial, ii, 192-199; plea

for, iii, 633-636; publicity given by news-
papers, iv, 659-660.
Freedmen, conditions, iv, 445-458; desire
for education, 447; mistaken beliefs of,
448, 458; labor of, 449-456; southern
opinions on, 449-454; care of, 450; in-
timidation of, 453-454; legislation on,
479-481.-See also Emancipation, Ne-
groes, Reconstruction, Slavery.
Freeholders, THE QUESTION OF SLAV-
ERY IN GEORGIA, ii, 118–121.

Free-Soil party, attitude toward Missouri
Compromise, iv, 101.

Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon, BEHIND
THE CONFEDERATE LINES, iv, 284–286;
Three Months in the Southern States, 286.
Fremont, J. C., Republican nominee for
president, iv, 104.

French, archives, i, 8, ii, 10; discoveries,
i, 102-144; on New England coast, 181,
314, 317; protect Indian captives, 505,
506; on the Hudson, 530; explorations,
542; in New York, 589; incite Indians,
ii, 57; expeditions against, 60; found
Louisiana, 312-316; English fear of their
settlements, 316-320; fur trade, 320-324;
extent of their American settlements, 320-
321; trade, 321-323; relations with In-
dians, 323-324; share in massacre at
Schenectady, 323, 337-339; government
in Canada, 324-326; Ministerial Min-
utes, THE FRENCH TITLE TO THE
BEAUTIFUL RIVER, 354-356; encroach-
ments feared by English, 356-357; re-
moved by English from Acadia, 360-365;
account of Braddock's defeat, 365-367;
conquests on the continent, 367-369;
frontier settlements, 392-393; arrival of
Lafayette in America, 485-488; Chastellux
visits Washington, 495-497; Mirabeau's
appeal to the Hessians, 500-504; aid to
America, 558-559; treaty (1778),574-575;
Patrick Henry's appreciation, 586-587:
blocked at Rhode Island, 609; naval con-
flict with English in West Indies, 612-615;
protest against separate articles of peace,
621-623; and Anti-Federalists, iii, 291;
character, 301; gratitude toward, 306;
Revolution, 303-305; Genet's protest,
307-312; treaties, 310; "X.Y.Z. corre-
spondence," 322-326; decrees on trade,

402-403; relations with the Confederate
States, iv, 301-303; in Mexico, 301, 571.

See also Canada, Colonies, Indians,
Louisiana, Mississippi River, War.
French, Benjamin Franklin, Historical Col-
lections of Louisiana, i, 14, 118, 140, 144,
ii, 17, 316.

French and Indian War, ii, 352-372.
Freneau, Philip, Poems, ii, 19, iii, 119;
PEOPLING THE WESTERN COUNTRY,
iii, 118-119; Stanzas on Emigration, 119.
Friend, The, ii, 293.

-

Fugitive slaves, iii, 630-633, iv, 80-96. - See
also Slavery, and next title.
Fugitive-Slave Law, Webster on, iv, 53;
Seward on, 57-58; personal-liberty act,
93-96; enforcement of, fosters Republican
party, 103; nullification of, a southern
grievance, 167; Stephens's remedies, 167–
169; changes suggested, 193; Lincoln on,
202-203. See also Compromise, Slavery.
Fundamental Constitutions, i, 280–282. —
See also Carolinas.
Fundamental Orders. See Connecticut.
Fur trade, in New York, i, 542; Dutch, 584;
in Georgia, Carolina, and Virginia, ii, 126;
in Canada, 320-324; on Nootka Sound,
iii, 56; with Indians, 69.-See also Can-
ada, French, Indians.

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GAGE, Lyman Judson, THE GOLD-

STANDARD ACT, iv, 539-541; Gold
Standard Law, 541.

Gaines's Mill, McClellan on battle of, iv,
339-341.

Gallatin, Albert, envoy, iii, 426-429.
Gambier, J., British minister, iii, 426–429.
Gardoqui, Don Diego de, Spanish minister,
iii, 170-171.

Garrard, James, speech, iii, 337.

Garrison, William Lloyd, STATEMENT OF

PRINCIPLES, iii, 595-597; THANK GOD
FOR WAR, iv, 395-397.

Gates, Horatio, in command of the southern
department, ii, 606; recalled, 606; meet-
ing with Greene, 610.

Gates, Sir Thomas, CHARACTER OF THE
FIRST COLONISTS, i, 206–208.

General Court. See Connecticut, Massa-

chusetts, New Haven, Plymouth Colony,

Rhode Island.

General histories, lists, i, 26-27, ii, 33-34.
Genet, Edmond Charles, COMPLAINT OF
THE FRENCH MINISTER, iii, 307–312.
Geneva (N.Y.), description, iii, 61.
Geneva award, iv, 550-556; rules govern-
ing, 551.

Genoa, archives at, i, 8, ii, 10.
Gentleman of the City of New York,

LEISLER'S REBELLION, i, 544-547.
George I, poem on his death, ii, 258-260.
George III, value of letters, ii, 2; character
as Prince of Wales, 373-374; instances
of tyranny, 449-451; AN OBSTINATE
GUELPH, 451-453; opinion of Chatham,
452; plans for conduct of the American
war, 453; Correspondence, 453, 620; THE
SUDDEN CHANGE OF SENTIMENTS, 619-
620; presentation of John Adams to, iii,
172-176. See also England, Revolution.
Georgia, reasons for settlement of, ii, 110-

113; charter incorporating the trustees
for establishing the colony, III; settle-
ment of, probable aid to England, 112;
settlement of, probable aid to conversion
of Indians, 113; benefactions solicited
for, 114; Salzburg Germans in, 114-116,
283-284; an unfavorable opinion of, 117;
Trustees, THE QUESTION OF SLAVERY
IN GEORGIA, 118-121; Whitefield's or-
phan-house, 122-124; need of relief in
1749. 124-126; manufactures and trade,
125-126; John Wesley in, 283-287; re-
demption of, 607; emits bills of credit,
iii, 134; Sherman's march through, iv,
428-432; post-bellum condition, 451-452.
See also Slavery, South.
Germanna (Va.), description, ii, 235.
Germans, in Pennsylvania, i, 559; Palatines
in New York, ii, 77-79; question of natu-
ralization, IoI; the Salzburgers in Geor-
gia, 114-116, 283-284; Washington's de-

sire to import Palatines, 310-311; Mira-
beau's appeal to the Hessians, 500-504;
Hessian troops in Canada, 504-507; il-
feeling against England, 506-507; in
Rhode Island, 578; Steuben in America,
582-585.

Germantown, foundation, i, 560-561; Chew
house at, ii, 4; first vote against slavery,
291-293.

Gerrit, a Dutchman, i, 586-588.

Gerry, Elbridge, character, iii, 205; in Fed-
eral Convention, 211, 213, 219, 221, 226;
THE X. Y. Z. CORRESPONDENCE, 322-
326.

Gettysburg, Pickett's charge at battle of, iv,
372-376.

Ghent, Treaty of, iii, 426-429.

Gibbons, James Sloan, Three Hundred
Thousand More, iv, 260–261.

Gibbs, Sir Samuel, at New Orleans, iii, 424.
Giddings, Joshua R., Speeches in Congress,
iv, 10.

Giles, William B., ARGUMENT FOR THE
EMBARGO, iii, 403-406; Speech on the
Resolution of Mr. Hillhouse, 406.
Girard, Stephen, founds hospital, iii, 40.
Gladstone, Thomas H., CIVIL WAR IN
KANSAS, iv, 114-118; The Englishman
in Kansas, 118.

NEW ORLEANS, iii, 422-425; Narrative,
425.

Gloucester, New Jersey, i, 574.
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, THE SOUTH AS
IT IS, iv, 448-452.

Godwyn, Morgan, PROPOSALS FOR THE
CARRYING ON OF THE NEGRO'S CHRIS-
TIANITY, 1, 298-301; Supplement to the
Negro's & Indian's Advocate, 301.
Goelet, Francis, BOSTON THE METROPO-

LIS OF NORTH AMERICA, ii, 61-63;
Journal, 63, 243; ROISTERERS IN BOS-
TON, 240-243.

Gold, Columbus inquires for, i, 38; Colum-
bus's quest, 44-48; in Peru, 56; De Soto's
share in Peru, 57: Drake's plunderings,
84: Ralegh's search, 96-101.- See also
Money.

Gold-Standard Act, Gage on, iv. 539-541.
Gómara, Lopez de, How CORTEZ TOOK

MONTEZUMA PRISONER, i, 49-53; Pleas
ant Historie, 53.

Good, Sarah, tried as a witch, ii, 40-43;
testimony, 45-48.

Goodhue, Benjamin, speech, iii, 269.
Goodrich, Elizur, a Connecticut office-
holder, iii, 348.

Gordon, William, THE CLOSING SCENE,
ii, 627-629; History of the United States,
629.
Gorges, Ferdinando, record, i, 3; New
England claims, 430–431.

Gorges Society, Publications, i, 9.
Gorham, Nathaniel, character, ii, 205; in
Federal Convention, 224.

Gorsuch, Edward, in Christiana tragedy, iv,
84-87.

Gorton, Samuel, SETTLEMENT IN RHODE
ISLAND, i, 397-401; Simplicities Defence,

401.

Gosnold, Bartholomew, in Virginia, i, 211–
213.

Gospel, propagation in Massachusetts, i, 178;
for the Indians, 186. - See also Religion.
Goudy, William, OBSTINATE Objectors,
iii, 251-254.

Goulburn, Henry, British envoy, iii, 426-429.
Government, attacks on, i, 25; foundation
in Massachusetts, 179; principles of selec-
tion, 189; of Virginia, 237-241; of Mary-
land, 268-270; Calvin's principles, 324-
330; theocratic, 330-333; of Plymouth,
359-361; of Massachusetts, 373-382, 390-
392; of Connecticut, 415-419; of New
Hampshire and Maine, 429-431; of New
Netherland, 529-541; under Leisler,
544-547; of New Jersey, 566; colonial, in
general, ii, 127-223; three powers of, 144-
149; financial support of, 166-169; local,
205-223; county, 205-208; city, 208-211;
of Canada, 324-326; relation between
governors and governed, 423-424; foreign
opinions of American democracy, iii,
76-79, 86-89, 283-285. 553-557; Samuel
Adams on popular, 93-96; of Mexican
California, iv, 13-15; people's right to
abolish, 190; of colonies in 1898, 593-
594; Spanish colonial, 595-597, 599: ca-
pacity of Porto Ricans for self-, 599-601;
American, in Cuba, 601-603; McKinley
on colonial, 604-607; Hoar on right of