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Mill, the first, 18
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Minuit, Peter, first governor of the colony, 13; character, 15; buys Manhattan Island from Indians, 14; relations with Indians, 16; relations with English, 18; rule of, 18; recall of, 19; enters Swedish service, 19; leads band of Swedes to the Delaware, 26
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Mitchell, Dr. Samuel, 208
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Mohawk River, fort near, 9
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Mohawks, secret society, reorganization of, 146
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Mohawk Valley, under rule of Johnson family, 136
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Money, issue of paper, 107
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Montreal, Schuyler’s raids on, 83
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Morris, Chief-Justice, expelled from office, 124; conservative principles of, 137
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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
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Morris family, armorial bearings of, 115; leaders in Provincial Congress, 155
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Morse, Samuel F. B., 216
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Mount Vernon Gardens, 204
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Museums, 260
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Native American party, 194, 237
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Naturalization, 47, 66
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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
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Netherlands, cradle of seamen, 1
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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
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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
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New Englanders, characteristics of, 23; kept in check by Colve, 56
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“New England Invasion,” the, 211
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New Jersey, settlements in, 25; severed from New York, 59; united with New York and New England, 69; retreat of Washington to, 165
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“New Netherland,” the, 13
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New Netherland Company, formation of the, 11
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New Netherlands, value compared with Java and Surinam, 4, 57; named, 11; decline of, 23; seized by England, 44
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Newsboys’ lodging house, 257
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Newspapers, scurrility of, 189, 190; see also their titles.
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New Year observance, 116
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New Yorker, composition of a typical, 108
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New York Medical Society, 174
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New York Province, united with New England and New Jersey, 69
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New York Society Library, 174
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Nicholson, Sir Francis, leader of aristocratic party in 1689, 74; quarrel with militia, 78
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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
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Night-schools, 257
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“Nine Men,” the, 42
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Non-importation agreement, the, 139
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North Carolina, effects of rebellion in, 180
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Northwest passage, search for, 1, 6
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O’Brien, Colonel, killed in draft riots, 249
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“Onrest,” the, first ship built in American waters, 9
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Opera-house riot, 233
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 219
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Packet ships, 221
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Palisades, the, 8
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Panic, of 1836, 234
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Paper money, issue of, 107, 178
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Parks, 257
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