Historic Shrines of America / Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable

by John T. Faris

INDEX

• Abraham Lincoln House, Springfield, Illinois, [369]
• Acrostic, [23]
• Adams House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, [44]
• Adams, Abigail, [20], [48], [230]
• Adams, John, [20], [24], [25], [44], [45], [47], [52], [150], [160], [226], [230], [305], [329]
• Adams, John Quincy, [45], [47], [48], [232]
• Adams, Samuel, [20], [26], [27]
• Alamo, the, San Antonio, Texas, [347]
• Alamo, battle of the, [348]
• Alcott, Bronson, [64]
• American Revolution, Daughters of the, [125], [377], [381]
• American Standard, Richmond, Virginia, [295]
• Amesbury, Massachusetts, [56]
• Amstel House, New Castle, Delaware, [205]
• Andros, Governor, [19], [34], [35]
• Annapolis, Maryland, [226]
• Arlington, Virginia, [246]
• Asbury, Bishop Francis, [244]
• Ashland, Lexington, Kentucky, [355]
• Aubrey, William, [148]
• Audubon, John James, [187]
• Bakewell, Mary, [190]
• Bell, Mary, mother of George Washington, [251]
• Bells of St. Philip's, romance of the, [334]
• Bennet-Boardman House, Saugus, Massachusetts, [69]
• Bennet, Samuel, [70]
• Berrian, John, [137]
• Biglow Papers, [38]
• Bill of Rights, Virginia's, [284]
• "Birds of America," Audubon's preparation for, [190]
• Blair, Rev. James, [289], [291]
• Boardman, Abijah, [71]
• Boone, Daniel, [360]
• Boonesborough, Kentucky, [360]
• Boston, Brattle Street meeting, [29]
  • fire of 1761, [30]
  • Gazette, [30]
  • Massacre, [19], [31]
  • News Letter, [28]
  • North Church, [27]
  • North Square, [28]
  • Old South Church, [31]
  • Port Bill, [25], [73], [271]
  • Tea Party, [24], [31], [34], [37], [68], [73]
• Boudinot, Elias, [43], [120]
• Braddock, General, [115], [253]
• Braintree, Massachusetts, [46]
• Brandon, Virginia, [281]
• Breck, Samuel, [183]
• Brewton, Miles, [336]
• Brick Capitol, the, [228]
• British at Monticello, [324]
• Broadhearth, Saugus, Massachusetts, [69]
• Broadstreet, Simon, [69]
• Brown, Richard, [82]
• Brown University, [83]
• Bruton Parish, Virginia, [288]
• Budden, Captain, [165]
• Bunker Hill, [26], [68]
• Burgoyne, General, [34], [179], [391]
• Burlington, New Jersey, [226]
• Burr, Aaron, [90], [131], [394]
• Byrd, Evelyn, [279]
• Cabildo, New Orleans, Louisiana, [343]
• Cabot, Arthur, [37]
• Caldwell, New Jersey, church at, [119]
• Caldwell, Rev. James, [119]
• Cambridge, Massachusetts, [36], [73]
• Campfield House, Morristown, New Jersey, [126]
• Canonicus, [81]
• Capitol at Washington, [225]
• Carleton, Sir Guy, [108], [110]
• Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, [149]
• Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia, [149]
• Carroll, Charles, [216]
• Carter, Elizabeth Hill, [279]
• Carter, Landon, [278]
• Carter's Grove, Virginia, [280]
• Cartwright, Peter, [352]
• Castle at Fort Niagara, New York, [386]
• Chaplains: James Caldwell, [139]
  • George Duffield, [160]
• Charles River, [27]
• Charleston, Massachusetts, [27]
• Chastellux, Marquis de, [107], [279], [324]
• Chew, Benjamin, Jr., [159]
• Chew, Joseph, [93]
• Chew, Samuel, [156]
• Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia, [249]
• Christ Church, Philadelphia, [153], [199]
• Christmas, the first, at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, [197]
• Church furnishings, primitive, [95], [121]
• Churches: Old North, Boston, [27], [32];
  • Old South, Boston, [20], [24], [32];
  • King's Chapel, Boston, [32];
  • West, Boston, [37]
  • Old South, Newburyport, Massachusetts, [75]
  • First Baptist, Providence, Rhode Island, [80]
  • St. Paul's Chapel, New York, [95]
  • St. Martins-in-the-Fields, London, [95]
  • Trinity Church, New York, [96]
  • Caldwell, New Jersey, [119]
  • Old Tennent, Freehold, New Jersey, [122]
  • Springfield Meeting House, New Jersey, [138]
  • St. Peter's, Philadelphia, [153]
  • Christ Church Philadelphia, [153]
  • Old Pine Street, Philadelphia, [159]
  • Norriton Presbyterian, [172]
  • Moravian at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, [196]
  • Emmanuel, New Castle, Delaware, [204]
  • Presbyterian, New Castle, Delaware, [205]
  • Rehoboth, Delaware, [211]
  • Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia, [277], [294]
  • Pohick, Virginia, [249], [311]
  • St. John's, Richmond, [264]
  • Bruton Parish, Virginia, [288]
  • Monumental, Richmond, Virginia, [277], [294]
  • Pohick Church, Virginia, [311]
  • St. Luke's, Smithfield, Virginia, [318]
  • St. Peter's, New Kent County, Virginia, [318]
  • St. Michael's, Charleston, S. C., [333]
  • Huguenot, Charleston, South Carolina, [333]
  • St. Philip's, Charleston, South Carolina, [333], [340]
  • Independent, Savannah, Georgia, [340]
  • Old Stone Church, Elm Grove, West Virginia, [386]
• Clark, George Rogers, [360]
• Clay, Henry, [308], [355], [383]
• Clermont, the, [234]
• Cleveland, Stephen Grover, [122]
• Clinton, General George, [107]
• Clinton, Sir Henry, [337]
• Cliveden, Germantown, Philadelphia, [156]
• Clock on Independence Hall, Philadelphia, [166]
• Coddington, William, [49]
• College of New Jersey, [130], [297]
• College Customs at Nassau Hall, [130]
• Collins, Varnum Lansing, [130]
• Colonial Dames of Massachusetts, [53]
• Concord, Massachusetts, [26], [27]
• Congress at Princeton, New Jersey, [133]
• Constitutional Convention of 1787, [168]
• Continental Congress, [83], [93], [150]
• Conway Cabal, [182]
• Cordale, Thomas, [213]
• Cornwallis, Lord, [134], [293]
• Council of Safety, Philadelphia, [172], [193]
• Courtship of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, [128]
• Crab Orchard, Kentucky, [360]
• Craigie, Andrew, [41]
• Craigie House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, [40], [403]
• Crockett, David, [350]
• Crown Point, [23]
• Cumberland Road, [384]
• Cunningham, Ann Pamela, [245]
• Curtis, George William, [64]
• Custis, George Washington Parke, [246], [255]
• Custis, Nelly, [219]
• Daily Advertiser, New York, [87]
• Daily American Advertiser, Philadelphia, [196]
• Dartmouth, ship, [24]
• Daughters of the American Revolution, [90], [377], [381]
• Daughters of the War of 1812, [390]
• Decatur, Stephen, [154]
• Declaration of Independence, [37], [48], [132], [167], [216], [325]
• Dent, Fred, [362]
• Desecration of Carpenters' Hall, [152]
• Desecration of the Capitol, [229]
• Dexter, Thomas, [69]
• Diaries:
  • of John Tudor, [19]
  • of Albigence Waldo, [182]
  • of George Washington, [21], [89], [218], [313]
  • of John Adams, [45]
  • of Robert Breck, [184]
  • of Tench Tilghman, [392]
• Dix, Dr. Morgan, [96]
• Dorchester Heights, Massachusetts, [68]
• Doughoregan Manor, Maryland, [216]
• Dowry of pine-tree shillings, [50]
• Duché, Rev. Jacob, [150], [154]
• Duffield, Rev. George, [160]
• Dunlap, William, [137]
• Du Ponceau, Peter S., [176]
• Duston Garrison House, Haverhill, Massachusetts, [56]
• Duston, Hannah, [56]
• Duston, Thomas, [56]
• East India Company, [31]
• Eden, Governor Robert, [221]
• Edwards, Jonathan, [75]
• Elizabeth Town, New Jersey, [120], [139]
• Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts, [36]
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [33]
• Emlen House, Pennsylvania, [178]
• Emmanuel Church, Newcastle, Delaware, [204]
• Everett, Edward, [41]
• Expenses in raising the Tower of the State House, Philadelphia, [164]
• Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, [148]
• Faneuil, Andrew, [28]
• Faneuil, Peter, [28], [35]
• Faneuil Hall, Boston, [20], [28], [30], [31], [34]
• Fatlands, near Philadelphia, [187]
• Federal District, location of the, [226]
• Fernside Farm, Haverhill, Massachusetts, [54]
• First Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island, [80]
• Fitch, John, [234]
• Flag, American, [89]
• Flag, first American in British waters, [78]
• Flint, Ruth, [54]
• Flynt, Tutor, [51]
• Ford Mansion, Morristown, New Jersey, [126]
• Forks of the Delaware, [196]
• Fort Washington, New York City, [89]
• Fort William and Mary, [26]
• Fox, George, [212]
• Franklin, Benjamin, [34], [52], [97], [115], [172], [235], [392], [399]
• Fraunces, Samuel, [98]
• Fraunces' Tavern, New York, [97]
• Freeman, Rev. James, [36]
• "From Greenland's Icy Mountains," [342]
• Gage, General, [37], [43]
• Gano, Rev. Stephen, [83]
• Garrison, William Lloyd, [22], [55]
• Gazette, Boston, [30]
• Gazette, Essex, [25]
• Gazette, New York, [95], [99]
• Gazette of the United States, [256]
• Gazette, Portland, Maine, [402]
• Gazette, Williamsburg, Virginia, [262]
• Germantown, battle of, [157], [180]
• Germantown, Pennsylvania, [226]
• Gerry, Elbridge, [37], [73]
• Girard College, Philadelphia, [229]
• Glover, Colonel, [42]
• Grant, Ulysses S., [362]
• Green, General, [42]
• Greenway, Virginia, [257]
• Griffon, building of the, [387]
• Gunston Hall, Virginia, [281]
• Hale, Edward Everett, [37]
• Hallet, Stephen L., [226]
• Hamilton, Alexander, [100], [127], [393]
• Hamilton, Allan MacLane, [101]
• Hancock, John, [20], [24], [26], [27], [34], [45], [52], [53]
• Hanover Court House, Virginia, [262]
• "Hardscrabble," St. Louis, Missouri, [363]
• Harlem Heights, battle of, [88]
• Harmar, Fort, [379]
• Harrison, Benjamin, [263], [281]
• Harrison Mansion, the, Vincennes, Indiana, [374]
• Harrison, William Henry, [360], [374]
• Harte, Bret, [140]
• Harvard College, [38]
• Hasbrouck, Jonathan, [107]
• Haverhill Historical Society, [60]
• Haverhill, Massachusetts, [56]
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, [40], [61]
• Hay, Henry Hanby, [205]
• Headquarters: Washington's at Roger Morris House, New York, [88]
  • Washington's at Richmond Hill, New York, [99]
  • Washington's at Van Cortlandt House, New York, [105]
  • Washington's at Newburgh, New York, [107].
  • Washington's at Morristown, New Jersey, [126]
  • Washington's at Rocky Hill, New Jersey, [134]
  • Washington's at Rocky Hill, New Jersey, [137]
  • Washington's at Valley Forge, [174]
  • Washington's at Pennypacker's Mills, Dawesfield, and Emlen House, [178]
• Heijt, Hans Joest, [178]
• Henricopolis, Virginia, [266]
• Henry, Patrick, [264], [266], [268], [271], [283], [285], [290], [305], [309], [314]
• Henry, William, [179]
• Herald, the San Antonio, Texas, [348]
• Hermitage, The, Nashville, Tennessee, [351]
• Hoban, James, architect of White House, [227], [230]
• Hodgson, Adam, [219].
• Hollyman, Ezekiel, [81]
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, [52], [53]
• Honor System, the, in William and Mary College, [294]
• Hospitality: at Montpelier, Virginia, [299]
  • at Oak Hill, Virginia, [303]
  • at Red Hill, Virginia, [306]
  • at Mount Airy, Virginia, [315]
  • at Monticello, [325]
  • at The Hermitage, [353]
  • at Ashland, Kentucky, [357]
  • at the Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York, [394]
• Hough, Atherton, [50]
• House of Seven Gables, [41]
• Houses: Paul Revere's, Boston, Massachusetts, [23]
  • Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts, [36]
  • Craigie House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, [40], [403]
  • Adams House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, [44]
  • Quincy Mansion, Quincy, Massachusetts, [49]
  • Fernside Farm, Haverhill, Massachusetts, [54]
  • Duston Garrison House, Haverhill, Massachusetts, [56]
  • The Old Manse, Concord, Massachusetts, [61]
  • The Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts, [61]
  • Royall House, Medford, Massachusetts, [66]
  • Bennet-Boardman, Saugus, Massachusetts, [69]
  • Broadhearth, Saugus, Massachusetts, [69]
  • Jeremiah Lee House, Marblehead, Massachusetts, [72]
  • Morris-Jumel House, New York City, [87]
  • Philipse Manor, Yonkers, New York, [91], [105]
  • The Grange, New York City, [100]
  • Van Cortlandt, New York City, [105]
  • Hasbrouck, Newburgh, New York, [106]
  • Franklin Palace, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, [115]
  • Ford Mansion, Morristown, New Jersey, [126]
  • Campfield, Morristown, New Jersey, [126]
  • Morven, the Mercer House and Washington's Headquarters at Rocky Hill, New Jersey, [134]
  • Letitia Penn, Philadelphia, [145]
  • Pennsbury Manor, Pennsylvania, [147]
  • Cliveden, Germantown, Pennsylvania, [156]
  • David Rittenhouse, Philadelphia, [170]
  • Isaac Potts, at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, [175]
  • Pennypacker's Mills, Pennsylvania, [178]
  • Dawesfield, Pennsylvania, [178]
  • Sweetbrier, Philadelphia, [183]
  • Mill Grove, Pennsylvania, [187]
  • Fatlands, Pennsylvania, [187]
  • Waynesborough, Paoli, Pennsylvania, [192]
  • Amstel, New Castle, Delaware, [205]
  • George Read's, New Castle, Delaware, [207]
  • Ridgely, Dover, Delaware, [208]
  • Doughoregan Manor, Maryland, [216]
  • Upton Scott, Annapolis, Maryland, [220]
  • White House, Washington, [230], [236]
  • Octagon, Washington, [231], [234], [236], [317]
  • Mt. Airy, Virginia, [234], [314]
  • Mt. Vernon, Virginia, [241]
  • Arlington, Virginia, [246]
  • Mary Washington's, Fredericksburg, Virginia, [251]
  • Pine Grove, Virginia, [253]
  • Kenmore, Virginia, [253]
  • Greenway, Virginia, [257]
  • Sherwood Forest, Virginia, [257]
  • Nelson, Yorktown, Virginia, [270]
  • Moore House, Yorktown, Virginia, [270]
  • John Marshall's, Richmond, Virginia, [274]
  • Sabine Hall, Virginia, [278]
  • Westover, Virginia, [278]
  • Shirley, Virginia, [280]
  • Carter's Grove, Virginia, [280]
  • Brandon, Virginia, [281]
  • Gunston Hall, Virginia, [281]
  • Montpelier, Virginia, [296]
  • Shadwell, Virginia, [297], [322]
  • Oak Hill, Virginia, [301]
  • Red Hill, Virginia, [305]
  • Monticello, Virginia, [322]
  • Rebecca Motte's, Charleston, South Carolina, [336]
  • Pringle House, Charleston, [336]
  • Hermitage, Nashville, Tennessee, [351]
  • Ashland, Lexington, Kentucky, [355]
  • Whitley's Station, Kentucky, [359]
  • White Haven, St. Louis, Missouri, [362]
  • "Hardscrabble," St. Louis, Missouri, [363]
  • Abraham Lincoln's, Springfield, Illinois, [369]
  • Harrison Mansion, Vincennes, Indiana, [374]
  • Rufus Putnam's House, Marietta, Ohio, [377]
  • Monument Place, Elm Grove, West Virginia, [381]
  • Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York, [391]
  • Wentworth House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, [395]
  • Warner House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, [399]
  • Longfellow House, Portland, Maine, [400]
• Houston, Sam, [347]
• Hovey, Dr. H. C., [77]
• Howe, Lord, [95], [192]
• Huguenot Church, Charleston, South Carolina, [335]
• Hull, Hannah, [50]
• Hutchinson, Ann, [50]
• Independence Bell, [169], [199]
• Independence, The Declaration of, [20]
• Independence Hall, Philadelphia, [151], [162]
• Independent Church, Savannah, Georgia, [340]
• Indians, attacked by the, [58], [361], [382]
• Institute of American Architects, [238]
• Jackson, Andrew, [233], [347], [351]
• James River Canal Company, [285]
• Jamestown, Virginia, [288]
• Jay, John, [98]
• Jefferson, Thomas, [170], [173], [260], [272], [294], [297], [299], [301], [322], [326]
• Jeremiah Lee House, Marblehead, Massachusetts, [72]
• John Marshall's House, Richmond, Virginia, [274]
• Johns, Kensey, [206]
• Johnson, Nicholas, [78]
• Journal and General Advertiser, New York, [95]
• Journal, Springfield, Illinois, [372]
• Jumel-Burr, Madam, [90]
• Jumel, Stephen, [90]
• Kasimir, Fort, Delaware, [203]
• Kenmore, Virginia, [253]
• Kent, Chancellor, [103]
• Kentucke Gazette, [355]
• Key, Francis Scott, [222]
• Kidd, Captain, [92]
• King, Washington asked to become, [108]
• King's Chapel, Boston, [32]
• Kingston, New York, [226]
• Knyphausen, General, [138], [194]
• Lafayette, Marquis de, [107], [193], [199], [256], [296], [299], [304], [346], [353], [381]
• Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, [227]
• Leader, Richard, [69]
• Lee, Jeremiah, [72]
• Lee, Richard Henry, [124], [244]
• Lee, Robert E., [246], [280], [287]
• "Lehigh, House on the," [197]
• Letitia Penn House, Philadelphia, [145]
• Lexington, battle of, [78], [166]
• Lexington, Massachusetts, [26], [27], [73]
• Liberator, The, [22]
• Liberty Bell, [169], [199]
• Lidgett, Mrs. Elizabeth, [67]
• Lightning, ship, [333]
• Lincoln, Abraham, [230], [233], [369], [371], [372]
• Little Pilgrim, The newspaper, [54]
• Livingston, Robert R., [98]
• Logan, James, [148]
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, [40], [396], [400]
• Longfellow, Mrs. Henry Wadsworth, [41]
• Lossing, Benson J., [152]
• Lottery for church building purposes, [159]
• Louisiana, [191]
• Louisiana Purchase, [294]
• Louisiana transferred to the United States, [344]
• Lowell, General Charles Russell, [38]
• Lowell, James Jackson, [38]
• Lowell, James Russell, [36], [37]
• Lowell, Maria, [38]
• Lowell, Rev. Charles, [37]
• Lowly office after the Presidency, [261]
• Loyalists' houses confiscated, [89]
• Lunt, Ezra, [78]
• Maddox, Rev. Robert, [212]
• Madison, James, [37], [223], [236], [296]
• Makemie, Frances, [212]
• Mantonomi, [81]
• Marblehead, Massachusetts, [72]
• Marietta, Ohio, [377]
• Marion, General, [337]
• Marriages: Mary Philipse and Roger Morris, [93]
  • Rev. William Tennent and Mrs. Noble, [123]
  • Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, [129]
  • William Penn and Guli Springett, [145]
  • William Penn and Hannah Callowhill, [147]
  • William Aubrey and Letitia Penn, [148]
  • John James Audubon and Mary Bakewell, [190]
  • Kensey Johns and Anne Van Dyke, [206]
  • Charles J. Du Pont and Dorcas M. Van Dyke, [208]
  • Upton Scott and Elizabeth Ross, [221]
  • Robert E. Lee and Miss Custis, [247]
  • Augustine Washington and Mary Ball, [252]
  • John Rolfe and Pocahontas, [266]
  • John Tyler and Letitia Christian, [260]
  • Thomas Nelson and Lucy Grymes, [270]
  • James Madison and Dorothy Todd, [298]
  • James Madison and Eliza Kortwright, [301]
  • George Washington and Martha Custis, [321]
  • Thomas Jefferson and Martha Skelton, [322]
  • Jacob Motte and Rebecca Brewton, [336]
  • Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Axson, [343]
  • Henry Clay and Lavinia Hart, [355]
  • Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Dent, [362]
  • Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd, [370]
  • Moses Shepherd and Lydia Boggs, [383]
  • Philip Schuyler and Catherine Van Rensselaer, [393]
  • Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, [393]
  • Governor Wentworth and Martha Hilton, [397]
  • Michael Wentworth and Mrs. Martha Wentworth, [399]
• Marshall, Chief Justice, [169], [274], [294]
• Martineau, Harriet, [299], [356]
• Mary, ship, [245]
• Mary Washington House, Fredericksburg, Virginia, [251]
• Mason and Dixon line, [171]
• Mason, George, [281], [312]
• Mason, Lowell, [342]
• Massachusetts Bay Colony, [28]
• Massacre, Boston, [19], [31]
• Massasoit, [80]
• Mather, Cotton, [58]
• Mather, Increase, [32]
• Mayflower, Putnam's barge on the Ohio, [379]
• McColloch's leap, [382]
• McKinley, William, [346]
• Meade, Bishop, [276], [319]
• Medford, Massachusetts, [27], [66]
• Mercer, General, [135]
• Mercer House, Princeton, New Jersey, [134]
• Mercury, New York, [87]
• Mill Grove, near Philadelphia, [187]
• Monmouth, battle of, [123]
• Monroe, James, [232], [294], [301], [342]
• Montgomery, General, [97]
• Monticello, Virginia, [322]
• Montpelier, Virginia, [296]
• Monument Place, Elm Grove, West Virginia, [381]
• Monumental Church, Richmond, Virginia, [277], [294]
• Moore House, Yorktown, Virginia, [270], [274]
• Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, [196]
• Morris, Gouverneur, [98], [103]
• Morris-Jumel House, New York City, [87], [94]
• Morris, Robert, [184]
• Morris, Roger, [87], [93]
• Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, [134]
• "Mosses from an Old Manse," [63]
• Mount Airy, Virginia, [234], [314]
• Mount Vernon, Virginia, [109], [241]
• Munitions, Revolutionary, [173]
• Nantes, Edict of, [28]
• Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, [130]
• National Intelligencer, Washington, [236]
• National Pike, [384]
• Nelson House, Yorktown, Virginia, [270]
• Nelson, Thomas, [270]
• Newark, New Jersey, [130]
• Newburyport, Massachusetts, [55], [75]
• New Castle, Delaware, [145], [203]
• New England Antiquities, Society for the Preservation of, [71]
• New Orleans, battle of, [346]
• Newspapers: Liberator, [22]
  • Essex Gazette, [25]
  • Boston News Letter, [28]
  • Boston Gazette, [30]
  • Little Pilgrim, The, [54]
  • New York Mercury, [87]
  • New York Daily Advertiser, [87]
  • New York Gazette, [95], [99]
  • New York Journal and General Advertiser, [95]
  • Philadelphia Pennsylvania Packet, [97]
  • Pennsylvania Evening Post, [155], [173]
  • Pennsylvania Gazette, [164]
  • Daily American Advertiser, Philadelphia, [196]
  • National Intelligencer, Washington, [227], [236]
  • Gazette of the United States, [256]
  • Williamsburg Gazette, [262]
  • American Standard, Richmond, Virginia, [295]
  • San Antonio Herald, [348]
  • Kentucke Gazette, [355]
  • Springfield Journal, [372]
  • Portland Gazette, [402]
• Nicola, Lewis, tries to tempt Washington, [108]
• Norriton, Pennsylvania, [170]
• Norriton Presbyterian Church, [172]
• North Church, Boston, [27]
• Northwestern Territory, [274]
• Nova Scotia, Franklin's land speculation in, [117]
• Noyes, Alfred, [136]
• Oak Hill, Virginia, [301]
• Octagon House, Washington, [231], [234], [236], [317]
• Oglethorpe, General James E., [341]
• Ohio Company, the, [378]
• Ohio River, floating down the, [190]
• Old Manse, the, Concord, Massachusetts, [61]
• Old Pine Street Church, Philadelphia, [159]
• Old North Church, Boston, [32]
• Old South Church, [20], [24], [31], [32]
• Old South Church, Newburyport, Massachusetts, [75]
• Old State House, Boston, [19]
• Old Tennent Church, Freehold, New Jersey, [122]
• Oliver, Thomas, [36]
• Ordway, Alfred A., [56]
• O'Reilly, Count Alejandro, [343]
• Orin, Azor, [73]
• "Oven, The," temporary Capitol, [227]
• Paoli Massacre, [181], [194]
• Parsons, Dr. Jonathan, [78]
• Patriot who destroyed their own houses: Thomas Nelson, [271];
  • Rebecca Motte, [339]
• Pauling, John, [178]
• Paul Revere's House, Boston, Massachusetts, [23]
• Peabody, Sophia, [62]
• Peace, signing of, in 1783, [110]
• Peale, Charles Wilson, [133], [154]
• Penn, Letitia, [146]
• Penn, Thomas and Richard, [153]
• Penn, William, [145], [162], [204]
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