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Acadia, 3
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Adventure, an age of, 1, 2
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Advisory Council, Minuit’s, 17; Stuyvesant’s, 36
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Africa, early trade with, 90
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Albany, Hudson’s arrival near site of, 8; establishment of post near site, 11; refuses allegiance to Leisler’s rule, 83; trade with, 90
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Aldermen, first, 50; office abolished, 55; elected by freeholders, 67; disorderly election for, 103; “rights” of, 177; how elected after Revolution, 178; a local legislature, 178
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Algonquins, massacre of, 27; reasons for their defeats, 29
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Allotment Commission, the, 248
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America, Spanish possessions in, 2, 3; uncertain ownership in early times, 3
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American Fur Company, 218
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American Museum of Natural History, 260
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Amusements, of early settlers, 39, 115; at beginning of nineteenth century, 203, 204
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Anarchy, threatened, 30
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Andros, Sir Edmund, appointed governor, 58; reinstates English form of government, 58; makes English the official language, 59; character of his rule, 60; grants monopoly of bolting and exporting flour, 60; abolishes Indian slavery, 61; hostility to Puritans, 61; summoned to England, 62; restored to favor, 62; reappointed, 69; imprisonment of, 70; consequences of fall of, 73
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Annexed District, the, 245
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Anti-Monopolist party, 236
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Architecture, 240, 257
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Aristocratic element, 17, 49, 114 and note
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Aristocratic party, in 1689, 74; supported by Fletcher, 97, 98; trial of leaders for treason, 103
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Armorial bearings, 115
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Art, encouragement of, 240
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Assembly, the, constitution of, 66; early acts of, 66; property qualification for election to, 87; struggles in, 88, 89; Fletcher’s interference with elections for, 96, 97; characteristics of, 98; quarrels with Fletcher, 99; parsimony as regards defenses, 99, 128, 129; condemns Roman Catholic prisests to death, 105; issues paper money, 107; minority of popular party in, 142; set aside, and replaced by Provincial Congress, 156
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Astor, John Jacob, 217, 219
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Astor Library, 218
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Astor Place Riots, 233, 234
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Asylums, 206
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Australia, owes practical independence to United States, 131
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Backwoodsman, evolution of the, 24
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Bakery, the first, 18
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Ballston Springs, 204
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Bankruptcy of States, 180
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Banks, chartering of, 201
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Baptists, refuge for, 26; persecuted by Stuyvesant, 42; strength before the Revolution and at present day, 109
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Battery Park,204
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Bayard, Col. Nicholas, leader of aristocratic party in 1689, 74; colonel of trainbands, 75; chased from the city, 82
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Bayard House, feast at, 185
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Beekman, David, 128, note
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Beekman, William, 128, note
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Bellomont, Earl of, succeeds Gov. Fletcher, 99; character, 99, 100; favors Leislerians and popular party, 100; honors bodies of Leisler and Milborne, 100; connection with Capt. Kidd, 101; land policy of, 102; death, 103
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Berrian, John, 156, note
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Bigotry, 70
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Billeting Act, opposition to, 142, 143
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Binckes, Adm., takes the city, 54
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Blackball Line of packets, 221
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Block, Adrian, loses vessel by fire, 8; builds first ship in American waters, 9
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Blockade of city, 209
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Bogardus, Dominie, 20, 27
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Bohemian immigration, 256
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Bond servants, 118, 119
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