Taxation, opposition to Stuyvesant’s plan of, 42; of Long Island Puritans, 53; by Colve, 57; indirect, 131, 132; claim of “no taxation without representation,” 132
Tea Act, passage of, 146; opposition to, 146, 147, 149
Tories, name assumed by court party, 125; numerous in New York, 134; rioting by, 149; persecution of, 150, 154; ferocity of struggle with Whigs, 153; weakening influence among colonists, 157; plotting among, 160; destruction of power, 177; see also LOYALISTS
Washington, George, rebukes destroyers of monument, 142; passes through New York to Boston, 154; makes New York his head-quarters, 156; discordant materials for his work, 158; plot for abduction or murder of, 160; proposes to burn the city, 160; training his raw army, 160, 161; punishes outrages by his army, 161; rescues forces from Long Island, 162; courage of, 162, 163; evacuates New York, 162, 163; at rout at Kip’s Bay, 163; at Haarlem Heights, 164; retreat from New York, 165; retreats to New Jersey, 165; crosses the Delaware, 165; wins battle of Trenton, 165; difficulties of his position, 171; re-enters city, 171; influence of, 180; inaugurated President, 185; a Federalist, 188; appointments in New York, 188, 195; respect for memory of, 259
West India Company, chartered, 11; real founders of the city, 12, 13; magnitude of its operations, 12, 13; appreciation of stock, of, 16; treatment of colony, 18; decline of interest in New Netherlands, 22; death of, 55
