- Van Curler's directorship, 75-83;
land purchased from the Indians, 83;
character of the early settlement, 83-87;
under English rule, 87-90;
the first legislative assembly, 90;
government seized by Leisler, 91;
Indian wars, 92-96;
Schenectady in the Revolution, 97-99;
religious history, 100-103;
modern history, 104-106
Schenley, Mary, 424
Schermerhorn, Symon, 16
Schonowe, 79, 81
Schoonmaker, Domine, 226
Schute, Swen, 343, 365
Schuyler, Elizabeth, marriage of, 28
Schuyler, Margaret, 29
Schuyler, Peter, 12, 46
Schuyler, Philip, shot by Indians, 49
Schuyler, Gen. Philip, 19, 22, 23, 27, 28;
in battle of Saratoga, 58-68;
visits Saratoga Springs, 68
Schuyler, Mrs. Philip, 18
Schuyler Mansion, 27
Schuylerville, 22, 41
Scott, Walter, 162
Scott, Gen. Winfield, in War of 1812, 378, 381
Selyns, Rev. H., at Brooklyn, 221
Seneca Chief, first boat on Erie Canal, 382
Seven Years' War, 50
Seymour, Governor, quoted, 22
Shelton, Rev. Dr. Wm., 389
Sherman, Roger, 291
Shipley, Elizabeth, 365
Shipley, William, at Wilmington, 352, 365
Shirley, expedition of, 51
Six Nations, see Indians
Skeel, Adelaide, on Newburgh, 107-135
Skipper Block, 170
Sleepy Hollow, 147, 164, 167
Sloane, W. M., on Princeton, 251-296
Sloughter, Governor, replaces Leisler, 177
Smith, James M., 390
Smithsonian Institution, 294
Spaulding, E. G., introduces Legal-Tender Act, 391
Spuyten Duyvil Creek, fight at, 170
Squam Island, the Detroit aground on, 374
Stackpole, Dr., composes Yankee Doodle, 30
Stanhope, Samuel, 292
Stanwix, General, builds second Fort Pitt, 407
Stark, General, 275;
at Fort Edward, 66;
at Princeton, 281
Stedman, E. C., 205
Steuben, 28;
at Newburgh, 132
Stirling, in battle of Long Island, 234-239;
in Trenton campaign, 271
Stockton, Richard, 252, 265, 269
Stoddard, R. H., 205
Stone, Gen. C. P., imprisoned at Fort Lafayette, 245, 246
Strasburg Cathedral, 34
Stuyvesant, Peter, at New Amsterdam, 9, 81, 144, 175-177, 218-221, 248;
buys land west of the Delaware, 340;
captures forts on the Delaware, 343
Suffolk County in the Revolution, 228
Sullivan, General, at Brooklyn, 235-237;
at Princeton, 285
Sunnyside, Washington Irving at, 162, 163
Swedes, on the Delaware, 335-344;
their church at Philadelphia, 301
T
Tammany Hall, history of, 189, 190
