Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919). New York. 1906.
Subject Index
| Mill, the first, 18 |
| Minuit, Peter, first governor |
| Mitchell, Dr. Samuel, 208 |
| Mohawk River, fort near, 9 |
| Mohawks, secret society, reorganization of, 146 |
| Mohawk Valley, under rule of Johnson family, 136 |
| Money, issue of paper, 107 |
| Montreal, Schuyler’s raids on, 83 |
| Morris, Chief-Justice, expelled from office, 124; conservative principles of, 137 |
| Morris, Gouverneur, type of Whig party, 150; attitude in the Revolution, 151; leader of Federalist party, 181; position in 1812, 201; elected senator, 189; plans Erie Canal, 215 |
| Morris family, armorial bearings of, 115; leaders in Provincial Congress, 155 |
| Morse, Samuel F. B., 216 |
| Mount Vernon Gardens, 204 |
| Museums, 260 |
| Native American party, 194, 237 |
| Naturalization, 47, 66 |
| Negroes, early importations of, 34; legislation against assemblages of, 67; plot of 1741, 119; massacre of, 122; annual celebration of Pinkster, 116; emancipation, 211; suffrage, 213; in draft riots, 248 |
| Netherlands, cradle of seamen, 1 |
| New Amsterdam, founded, 14; mixture of population, 14, 34; beginning of stable existence, 34; compared with New England, 35; society in, 35, 36; incorporation of, 36; appearance of the town, 37, 38; costume in, 39; amusements, 39; seized by England, 43, 44; name changed to New York, 46, 57 |
| New England, English settlements in, 3; compared with New Amsterdam, 35; colonists held in check by Stuyvesant, 40; settlers opposed to aristocracy and Episcopacy, 49; united to New York and New Jersey, 69; action on fall of the Stuarts, 74; indifference to welfare of New York, 99; quarrels with Gov. Fletcher, 99; indifference to New York’s prosperity, 129; sympathy for, in New York, 146 |
| New Englanders, characteristics of, 23; kept in check by Colve, 56 |
| “New England Invasion,” the, 211 |
| New Jersey, settlements in, 25; severed from New York, 59; united with New York and New England, 69; retreat of Washington to, 165 |
| “New Netherland,” the, 13 |
| New Netherland Company, formation of the, 11 |
| New Netherlands, value compared with Java and Surinam, 4, 57; named, 11; |
| Newsboys’ lodging house, 257 |
| Newspapers, scurrility of, 189, 190; see also their titles. |
| New Year observance, 116 |
| New Yorker, composition of a typical, 108 |
| New York Medical Society, 174 |
| New York Province, united with New England and New Jersey, 69 |
| New York Society Library, 174 |
| Nicholson, Sir Francis, leader of aristocratic party in 1689, 74; quarrel with militia, 78 |
| Nicolls, Col. Richard, seizes New Amsterdam, 44; agent for Duke of York, 47; rule in New York, 47; character, 47, 51; refuses right of election of representatives, 50; treatment of Indians, 51; benefits of his control, 51; returns to England, 52 |
| Night-schools, 257 |
| “Nine Men,” the, 42 |
| Non-importation agreement, the, 139 |
| North Carolina, effects of rebellion in, 180 |
| Northwest passage, search for, 1, 6 |
| O’Brien, Colonel, killed in draft riots, 249 |
| “Onrest,” the, first ship built in American waters, 9 |
| Opera-house riot, 233 |
| Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 219 |
| Packet ships, 221 |
| Palisades, the, 8 |
| Panic, of 1836, 234 |
| Paper money, issue of, 107, 178 |
| Parks, 257 |