THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY

WITH NOTES AND QUERIES

Vol. II OCTOBER, 1905 No. 4


CONTENTS

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THE BRITISH NAVY IN THE REVOLUTIONReginald Pelham Bolton[223]
LIBERTY OF THE PRESS (Sixth Paper)Rev. Livingston Rowe Schuyler[228]
EARLY DAYS IN LUZERNE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIAW. P. Ryman [239]
THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC (Concluded)R. N. Arpe[249]
THE NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIAE. N. Vallandigham[259]
FANCIES AT NAVESINK (Poem)Walt Whitman[264]
THE FIGHT AT DIAMOND ISLANDRev. B. F. DeCosta[265]
INDIAN LEGENDS: II. THE MAIDEN OF THE MOONThe late Charles Lanman[273]
THE FIRST WOMAN IN THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT[276]
HAND-LOOM WEAVING REVIVED[278]
ERROR—MEMORIAL TREES[281]
BALTIMORE’S OLD STEPPING-STONES[282]
THE GRAVE OF LEATHERSTOCKING[283]
THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA (Excerpt)William L. Stone[284]
COMMUNICATION (John Paul Jones)A. A. Folsom[285]
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
Letter of Col. Henry Glen to Col. Marinus Willett[287]
Letter of Washington to the Board of War [289]
Letter of John Dickinson to the President of Congress [290]
MINOR TOPICS: The First U. S. Flag[291]
GENEALOGICAL: Queries—Answers[292]
BOOK NOTICES[293]

Entered as second-class matter, March 1, 1905, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.

Copyright, 1905, by William Abbatt

THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY