the Governor's views; condemns course |
of Proprietors; adjourns for fifty days;
petitions the King to assume direct gov-
ernment of the Province, 173, 235;
action of, in reference to taxation of
the Colonies, 173; dines with the Gov-
ernor; instructs agent in London to
urge repeal of revenue act, 174; action
of, on letters received on Colonial af-
fairs relating to taxation; urges entire
repeal of tax law, 175; rejects decisions
of Continental Congress on Wyoming
controversy; Council forbidden to ap-
prove acts of, 177; Richard Penn's in-
tercourse with, 179; general conference
instructs the, 182; adopts instructions;
appoints delegates to Congress; recom-
mendations of Congress approved by,
183; message of John Penn to; pro-
vides pay for militia, 184; appoints
committee of safety; resolve of public
meeting against the, 185; instructs
delegates in Congress; declaration of,
186; adjourned sessions of the; ceases
to exist; last acts of, 188; passes postal
law, 258. See Commonwealth, Assem-
bly of the.
Atchinson, George, 417.
Battles, Braddock's Defeat, 157; Quebec,
164; Lexington, 184, 275; Bunker Hill,
185; Brandywine, 202, 203; German-
town, 203; Pass of La Hoya; Chapulte
pec; Garita de Belen, 470; Bolivar,
476; Cedar Mountain; Bull Run; An-
tietam, 477; Fredericksburg; Chancel-
lorsville; Gettysburg, 478; Chicka-
mauga, 479; Wauhatchie; Lookout
Mountain; Mission Ridge; Ringgold;
480; Mill Creek; Resaca; New Hope
Church; Pine Hill; Muddy Creek;
Nose's Creek; Kolb's Farm; Kene
saw; Marietta; Peach-Tree Creek;
Siege of Atlanta, 483; Fort McAllis-
ter; Savannah; Bentonville, 484.
Bladensburg, 315.
Bay, The Delaware, discovered, 18; land
on, conveyed to Penn, 82; Penn de-
sirous of holding, 101.
Bay of New York, 17; discovered, 18;
Chesapeake, 17.
Beekman, William, appointed vice-di-
rector; sketch of, 46; in charge of
West India Company's revenues, 47;
jurisdiction ends; returns to New
Amsterdam; commissary at Esopus;
envious of D'Hinoyossa, 49.
Auditor-General, Packer appointed, 438. Bellefonte, 450, 451, 455.
Augur, General C. C., 477.
Balance, the ship, dispatched to bring
ship Mercury to New Amsterdam, 44.
Baltimore, city of, included in Penn's
charter, 66; Congress adjourns to
meet at, 197; Congress returns to
Philadelphia from, 199; attacked by
General Ross, 316; guarantees bonds
of railroad, 442; revolt in, 459.
Baltimore, Lord, demands surrender of
territory on the Delaware; lets claim
rest, 47; throws obstacles in Penn's
way, 60; letter to, from Penn; con-
fers with Markham about boundary,
66; Penn unable to agree with; sub.
mits question of boundary to home
government, 101; applies for trans-
fer of the lower counties, 136; claims
jurisdiction over lower counties, 141.
Bancroft, the historian, quoted, 22, 41,
42, 100.
Bank of United States, Jackson opposes;
Wolf approves, 360; failure of, 417;
Bank of Pennsylvania fails, 417.
Banks, General N. P., 477.
Banner, The Star-Spangled, song of,
composed, 316.
Barbadoes, Dickinson writes pamphlet
to inhabitants of, 236.
Barney, Commodore, fleet of, abandoned
and burned, 315.
Barrett, O., 438.
Benckes, with Evertson, in command of
squadron, 56.
Benner, General Philip, 451.
Berkeley, Lord, and Sir George Carteret,
grant of Southern New Jersey to, 53;
sell part of territory, 60; statutes of, 77.
Berks County, Indian murders in, 162;
Heister brothers settle in; Joseph
Heister born in, 333; John Andrew
Shulze born in; is pastor in, 344; Rit-
ner born in, 361.
Bettering House, 212.
Beversreede, redoubt at, recommended, 34.
Bezer, John, Commissioner, arrives, 67.
Bicker, Gerrit, in command of Fort Cas-
imir, 37.
Biddle, Edward, delegate to Congress,
Bigler, William, birth of; parents of;
education, 414; learns printing; pub-
lishes a paper; removes to Clearfield,
415; fine marksman; marries, 416;
enters mercantile business; large lum-
ber dealer; elected to the Senate; re-
ceives every vote in his county but one,
417; speaks upon resumption of specie
payments; Speaker of the Senate;
returned for a second term; advocates
building the Pennsylvania Railroad,
418; advocate of the Tyrone and
Clearfield, and Philadelphia and Erie
railroads; candidate in convention for
Governor; Revenue Commissioner;
elected Governor, 420; administration,
420; opposes omnibus legislation, 421;
renominated; illness of; defeated by
the Native American party; opinion
on Kansas-Nebraska bill; President
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad; elect-
ed to the United States Senate; pitted
against Douglas, 422; travels over
Kansas, and urges Free State men to
action; acts with Crittenden in his
Compromise measures; opposes seces-
sion; member of Committee on the
Crittenden Compromise; member of
Charleston Convention; Chairman of
Democratic Convention of 1864; de-
feated for Congress; delegate to Dem-
ocratic Convention of 1868; living in
retirement; member of Presbyterian
Church, 424.
Bigler, John, Governor of California,
414, 420; Jacob, father of, 414.
Big Timber Creek, 21.
Billingsport, defences at, 200.
Billop, Captain Christopher, succeeds
Collier, 60.
Binns, John, gives incident of Governor
Snyder, 318.
Birmingham, brother-in-law of Gookin,
124; township in Bucks County named
for, 124.
Birmingham, meeting-house, battle at;
wounded carried to, 202; stains of
blood on floor of, 203.
Blackwell, Captain John, commissioned
Deputy Governor, 104; Penn's opinion
of; Penn disappointed in reference to;
arbitrary rule of; relieved of office, 105.
Blanchard, John, 451.
Block, Adrian, vessel of, burned; builds
first vessel ever built in America, 19.
Block, Hans, to be councillor, 53.
Bloemart, Samuel, purchases tract of
land, 23; joined by De Vries, 23.
Blue Ridge, 323, 477.
Board of War, established, 280, 282;
members of, 280, 281.
Boileau, Roland Curtin, 451.
Boquet, Colonel, sent to relief of Fort
Pitt; arrives at Fort Ligonier; attacked
by Indians near Bushy Run; lays am-
buscade; routs Indians; arrives at Fort
Pitt, 168; marches from Carlisle to
Fort Pitt; reaches forks of the Mus-
kingum, 171; strikes terror into the
Indians, 172.
Borden, Mary, marries Thomas McKean;
Joseph, 306.
Boston, harbor, 17; Colonel Nicholls ar-
rives at, 51; vessels sent to, boarded
and tea thrown into the water; harbor
proclaimed a tea-pot, 181; port closed;
harsh measures towards, 182, 183;
Washington in camp at, 275.
Boundary line of Pennsylvania, 66, 67.
Bowers, Theodosia, mother of President
Reed, 216.
Braddock, General, arrives at Alexan-
dria, Va., with two regiments; marches
to Frederick, Md.; Franklin sent to,
and commissioned by, to procure trans-
portation, 156, 258; advances on Fort
Du Quesne; scorns advice of Washing-
ton, 156; battle with French and In-
dians; mortally wounded; defeat of,
left the frontier unprotected, 157.
Bradford, William, 253.
Brandon, John, 436.
Breckenridge, Judge, asks to be im-
peached, 326; official conduct investi-
gated; Governor asked to remove from
office, 327.
Brigadier General, eight appointed, 185.
Bright, General Michael, commands
militia ordered out by Governor Sny-
der, 312.
Brinton's Ford, on Brandywine Creek;
General Sullivan at, 202.
British, The, part of army sent against
Indians, 166; ministry, prosecute war
with the Indians, 171; ministry of
fended at Massachusetts' circular let-
ters, 171; troops withdrawn from Fort
Pitt, 180; invade Pennsylvania, 201;
army march into Philadelphia, 204;
wanton conduct in Philadelphia; fleet
follows D'Estang, 212; army under
Cornwallis surrenders, 248; incite In-
dians to hostilities; army on Canada
frontier unfortunate; murder sick and
wounded prisoners, 314.
British America, finest capital city in,
133; Logan's life in, a laborious one,
141; French power in, to be broken,
163; taxation of, 181; address of first
Congress to people of, 183.
Brock holls, Captain Anthony, succeeds
Andros as Governor, 65; king's decla-
ration delivered to, by Markham, 65.
Brown, General Jacob, victories of, 315;
Adjutant, ancestor of Governor Find-
lay, 323; John, famous Raid of,
446, 447; Mr., teaches Curtin, 451.
Bryan, George, appointed to attend gene-
ral Congress, 173, 213; elected Vice-
President of Council, 199; acting Presi-
dent of Council, 211; re-elected Vice-
President; resigns; born in Ireland;
engages in mercantile pursuits; mem-
ber of Assembly; message of, on aboli-
tion of slavery, 213; Judge of the Su-
preme Court, 214; member of Council
of Censors; death of; character of, 215.
Buchanan, James, presides over meeting
of Federalists, 344; speech of, 353, 380;
Governor Porter friend of, 389; Presi-
dent, 422, 443; Packer's letter to, 444;
Geary resigns governorship to, 475.
Cavaliers, The, filed Smita no V2
pizda, 17.
Celltre County, Wa. F. Pa. Ker tors 12,
4941 457, 44% 47% 471, 455.
Cholis Ford, Washing a at
Campobanz, 600
Champlain, Lake, 166,
Charles River, 17; the Datù ame
Delaware river, Is
Chariest wn, Mass., tet steal in 1-1.
Charleston, S. C.. attacked by Beat
15: enemy with draw ir m is.
Charles, Robert, appointed associate of
Franklin at Lozila. 154.
Charles II, grants patent 1) Dake of
York: ascends throne, 1:
grant to Duke of York, in: declaration
of, respecting grant to Penn, só: Char-
ter of, to Pean, to; Pean petitionst
name Penvivania, Dai dien ao
sumended by his brother James, 1 1.
Charter, Penn's, date of, 695.
Chatham, Earl of, on addresses of C ́n
Cress, 243.
Chesapeake Bay, 17, 47.
Chester, militia stationed at, 201 ; Ameri- |
can army retires to, after battle of
Brandywine, 203.
Chester County, artillerists of, erect a
monument, 203; incident relating to,
319, 434.
Christina, Queen, succeeds to throne of
Sweden; creek named after; fort
named after, 30; ministers of, instruct
Printz, 33; feeble reign of; yields throne
to Charles Gustavus, 40.
Christina, Fort, 30; colony at, in want,
31; Governor Printz arrives at, 32;
under command of Governor Rysingh;
besieged; surrendered to Stuyvesant;
inhuman conduct of Dutch troops at,
41; commanded by Hudde; called
Altona, 44.
Church, Robert R., 489.
Church, The Established, party of, in-
imical to Quaker rule, 116.
Cicero, his De Senectute translated by
James Logan, 139.
Clarke, James, 438.
Clay, Henry, 452.
Claypoole, James, commissioners of land
office, 102; appointed one of five com-
missioners, but never acted, 103.
Clearfield, William Bigler removes to,
415, 424; County of, 437.
Clinton, Sir Henry, sails from Boston on
secret expedition, 195; attacks Charles-
ton, S. C., and meets with repulse;
joins Howe at New York, 196; takes
command of British army, 206; evacu-
ates Philadelphia and moves towards
New York; fights at Monmouth,
Clinton County, 435, 439, 440.
Clymer, George, appointed member of
Congress; signs Declaration, 187.
Clymer, Heister, 486.
Coaquannock, at the site of Philadel-
phia, 82.
Cock, Peter, to be councillor, 53.
Cogswell, Robert, party from Connecti-
cut sail under, 31.
Coleman, Henry, engaged with the Long
Finn in an insurrection, 54; taken and
transported, 54.
Coleman, William, merchant; Mifflin in
counting-house of, 273; member of
Junto; described by Franklin, 274.
College of Commerce, the Swedish, com-
mission John Amundson; Rysingh
Secretary of, 36.
College, Philadelphia, authority of trus-
tees suspended, 208.
College, Dickinson, endowed; named in
memory of John Dickinson, 248; Dr.
Nisbet, President of, 249.
Collier, Captain John, made commander
on the Delaware; usurps authority;
is deposed by Andross, 59.
Colony, the Virginia, 18, 26; first on
Delaware; attention drawn to, by de
Laet, 22; of fifty souls, ruler of, 23;
Hosset left in charge of, 24; young,
destroyed, 26; of Connecticut, 28;
passengers of ship Mercury absorbed
in the, 44; year of distress in the,
46; evils in, due to Alrichs; the city's,
represented by Beekman, 47; that of,
city evades payment of the revenues;
transfer of the Niew Amstet, 48;
Swedes plans repossession of, 49; cer-
emonies in the New England, 49;
Needham placed in command in,
53; twelve articles for government of,
59; Upland, the heart of, 66; ships
arrive with four commissioners; laws
in force in, 67; Penn's influence in,
puissant, 108; Lloyd's influence over
the, 112; Penn arrives in, 115. See
Province.
Colonies, the two Northern, of Delaware,
23; the New England, 28; in the New
World, 29; the New England and
Virginia, 31; importation of negroes
in, a source of revenue, 123; French
encroach upon, 148; raise troops
against the French, 153; all to con-
tribute men and money for defence of
frontier, 111; conference of Governors
of, at Albany, 129; encroachment of
home government on, 134; first gen-
eral Congress of, meets; plan of gov-
ernment for, prepared by Franklin,
154; military operations along line of,
163; money voted to, for expenses in
French war, 166; taxing of, considered
in Parliament, 172; agents of, informed
that revenue was to be drawn from
stamp-duty; stamp act meets intense
opposition in; action of the, in regard
to stamp act; occasion of independence
of, 173; Congress of, meets, 174; last
petition of, to the King, entrusted to
Richard Penn and Arthur Lee, 179;
non-importation agreements of; action
of, on the taxation of tea; conduct of,
exasperates the ministry, 181; sympa-
thy of, towards Massachusetts, 182;
Congress of, 182, 183; resolve against
importations, 183; John Penn believed
to sympathize with; Ministry resolve
to enforce submission of; great excite-
ment in, 184; to form new govern-
ments, 185; united, declared free, 186.
Colonial Records, quoted, 95.
Colonists, West Jersey, Penn's letter to;
under Carteret and Berkeley, 77;
and the Indians, 80, 86; code of laws
for, 80.
Colonization, 17, 20, 21.
Colve, Captain Anthony, Governor of
New Netherland; in command of
military forces, 56; yields power to
Andros, 58.
Commander-in-Chief, Washington, ap-
pointed, 185.
Commissioners sent to Chesapeake Bay,
47; four arrive from England, 67;
duties of; Penn sends letter with, to
the Indians, 68.
Commissioners, five, appointed, and ex-
ecutive power lodged in; instruc-
tions of Penn to, 103.
Commissioners to provide arms, 185;
British, appointed; attempt bribery,
225; to settle Wyoming controversy,
meet at Trenton, 229.
Committee of Safety, McKean chairman
of, 296.
Common schools, system of, inaugurated,
353, 358; Burrowes, ex-officio Super-
intendent, 368; interest of Porter in;
Shunk Superintendent, 387.
Schools.
Commons, House of, Franklin before the,
261, 262.
Commonwealth. See Pennsylvania.
Company, The Dutch East India, em-
ploy Hudson, 18; of merchants of Am-
sterdam, exclusive privileges granted
to, 19; West India, in contemplation;
Dutch West India, incorporated; sub-
scription to its stock open to all na-
tions; divided into five branches, 20;
West India, powers enlarged, 22;
privileges to patroons granted by, 23;
Dutch, 30.
Company, The West India, report of
Stuyvesant to; the Amsterdami, make
new conditions of settlement, 46.
Condorcet, oration of, on Franklin, at
Paris, 268.
Conestoga Creek, Indians on, 33.
Conestoga, conference of Indian chiefs
with Gov. Keith at, 128; Indian killed
near, 129; Indian assassins traced to;
massacre of Indians at, 169.
Confederation, Articles of, McKean on
committee to draw; gave power to
Congress, 294.
Conference, general, held; resolves of;
instructs Assembly, 182; second, held;
Reed, president of; resolves of, 184;
approves Declaration of Independence,
and raising militia, 186; Joseph Hies-
ter a member of, 334. See Provincial
Convention.
Congress, the first general, meets, 154,
173, 174, 235, 291; delegates to, from
Pennsylvania, 173, 235; vote in, on
representation, 291; MeKean repre-
sents Delaware in, 293.
Congress, The Continental, decide in favor
of Connecticut claimants, 177; action
of people toward convening, 182; as
sembled at Philadelphia; resolves of
delegates of, from Pennsylvania; presi
dent and secretary of; addresses of;
adjourned; delegates from Pennsylva
nia to second meeting, 183, 241; King
receives address of, kindly; action of,
approved by second Pennsylvania con-
vention; second, meets; resolves to or-
ganize army, 184; recommends forma-
tion of new governments in the colo-
nies, 185; arrests John Penn, 189;
agrees upon articles of war; issues bills
of credit, 194; alarmed; adjourns to
meet in Baltimore; invests Washing
ton with dictatorial powers; returns to
Philadelphia, 199; establishes camp
for recruits; General Mitilin appears be-
fore, 200; adjourns to meet at Lancas
ter and at York, 204; sends ambassa-
dors to France, 207; returns to Phila-
delphia, 211; refuses to listen to Brit-
ish Commissioners of peace, 225; ap
points commission to settle Wyoming
controversy, 229; Mifflin delegate to,
274; refuses Mifflin's resignation, 281,
282; asks inquiry into Mifflin's conduct,
281; confidence of, in Mifflin renewed;
party in, fault Washington; appoints
Board of War, 282; McKean president
of; Hanson president of, 299.
Congress, of the United States, decides
Wyoming controversy in favor of Penn-
sylvania, 177; Hiester member of, 339;
Wolf member of, 351; debates on tariff
in, 360; Pollock member of, 426; first
action of, on Pacific Railroad, 427.
Coningsmark, the Swedish general, father
of Long Finn, 54.
Connecticut, claim of, as to western
boundary, 50, 175; authorities to meet
Lovelace, 56; emigrants settle in Wyo-
ming valley; people of, form Susque-
hanna Company; Governor Penn pro-
tests to Governor of, 176; question of
claim settled, 177, 229; warfare in, 248.
Connolly, one, occupies Fort Pitt; im-
prisoned by Governor Penn, 180.
Constitution, of the Province; features
in, 80; defect in, 81; relinquished by
Assembly; new one prepared; last,
granted to Province and Territories,
provisions of, 97; Assembly pass new,
114; long debate on new; adopted,
115; review of, by Franklin, 165.
Constitution, of 1776, convention assem-
bles for framing, 187; completed;
signed; intrusted to Council of Safety,
188; provisions of, 194; opposition to,
223, 286; convention to revise, 286, 301.
Constitution of 1790, adopted, 286; Simon
Snyder member of convention to frame,
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