Olfertsen treats with Indians, 65
Orange, Fort, 39; established, 19; colonists, 23, 25, 40; supplies brought up Hudson to, 29; in 1626, 54; Stuyvesant's orders concerning, 71-72; strengthened, 77; town on Hudson, 102; Eelkens lands near, 134; becomes Albany, 137; see also Albany
Oxenstiern conducts government of Sweden, 126
Oxford, Earl of, 170
Palatines in New York, 186-88
Patroons, 32 et seq.
Philipse, Judge Adolphe, 196, 199
Philipse, Frederick, 184
Philipse Manor, 47
Pietersen, Evert, 95
Piracy, 165-79
Portuguese, Anthony, one of the first negro slaves, 25
Postal service established, 140-42
Princess, The (ship), 66
Printz, Johan, Governor of New Sweden, 128-29
Quakers, pay Indians for land, 37-38; Stuyvesant's dealings with, 70, 85-86
Quedagh Merchant, The (ship), 172, 174, 177
Raritan Indians, 63
Religion in New Netherland, 83-93
Rensselaer's Stein (Castle Rensselaer), 45
Rensselaerswyck, typical patroonship, 39; settlement, 39-41; life in, 41-46; library, 42; cost of living, 42-43; terms of leases, 43-44; hostility between patroon and tenants, 44; relation of patroon and Company, 45; Stuyvesant and, 71-72
Roelantsen, Adam, 94
Romney, Earl of, 170
Rondout, 102
Rysing, Governor of New Sweden, 130
St. John, The (slaver), 26
San Salvador, victory of Dutch over Spanish off (1627), 55
Schenectady, massacre at, 156
Schoharie, Palatines at, 188
Schuyler estate near Albany, 48-49
Sewall, Samuel, 168
Shipbuilding at New Amsterdam, 56
Shrewsbury, Duke of, 170
Slavery, Dutch introduce, 25-26; treatment of slaves in New Netherland, 26-27; in New York, 208-09; ordinance regulating slaves (1684), 209-10; see also Negroes
Sleepy Hollow, church at, 47-48
Sloughter, Colonel Henry, Governor of New York, 160, 161, 162, 163, 165, 191
Smits, Claes, 63
Somers, Lord Chancellor, 170
Soutbergh, The (ship), 57
South (now Delaware) River, 22, 51, 59
Spain, truce with Holland, 17, 30; plots against Holland, 30; defeat by Holland, 55
Spuyten Duyvil, 120
Stanwix, Fort, Treaty of, 228
"Staple right" at New Amsterdam, 61
Staten Island, 36, 50, 63; purchased by Pauw, 39; transferred to Melyn, 39; Indians attack, 74; becomes part of Yorkshire, 138; Dutch fleet off, 143
Steenwyck, Cornelis, 139
Stevensen, Jan, 95
Stony Point, Half Moon becalmed at, 13
Stuyvesant, 196
Stuyvesant, Petrus (Pieter), made Director-General, 45; appearance, 67; as Director-General, 68; upholds Kieft, 69; arraigned by burghers, 69; defense of, 69-70; character of, 70-71; contest with Van Slichtenhorst, 71-72; arbitrariness, 72; opposes local self-government, 72-73; treatment of Indians, 74; warns Company of lack of defense, 76; treatment of Convention, 77-79; begs for reinforcements, 79; surrenders to English, 81-82; religious tyranny under, 85-87; builds Fort Casimir, 130; tries to settle boundary disputes, 136
Swannendael, 36
Sweden, plans expedition to New World, 126; entrance into Thirty Years' War, 126; establishes colony in America, 127-28
Tarrytown, 47
Tew, Thomas, 166-67
Tienpont, associate of May, 61
Tiger, The (ship), 18
Trevor, Captain of the William, 132
Trinity Church founded, 165
Ulster refuses to send delegates to Fort James, 153
United Netherlands, gains foothold in America, 2, 17; colonists from, 22-29; relations with Spain, 30, 55; character of people, 30-31; relations with England, 76-77, 79-82; takes possession of New York in 1674, 143; see also New Netherland
Usselinx, William, 126
Van Buren, A. H., cited, 23 (note)
Van Cortlandt, Stephanus, 154
Van Cortlandt Manor, 47
Van Curler, Arendt, 44
Van Dam, Rip, 195-97
Van der Donck, Adrian, 68, 72; Representation, 68, 70
Van Dyck, Hendrick, 74
Van Hoboocken, Harmanus, 95; Reverential Request, 100
Van Rensselaer, Jan, 43
Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen, system of patroonship suggested by, 32-33; establishes Rensselaerswyck, 39-40; born (1580), 59 (note)
Van Rensselaer, Maria, 59 (note)
Van Slichtenhorst, Brandt, 71
Van Tienhoven, Cornelis, 69-70, 103
Van Twiller, Wouter, Governor of New Netherland, 45, 56, 57-61; nephew of Van Rensselaer, 45, 59 (note); De Vries's opinion of, 57; Irving's description of, 58; Griffis defends, 58-59; birth, 59 (note); lavish expenditure of, 59-60; Eelkens incident, 59, 132-35; recalled, 60
Van Wassenaer, Nicholas Janszoon, account of shipment of live stock, 24; of colony under Minuit, 52-53; of settlement of Fort Orange, 53-54
Verhulst, William, Director-General of New Netherland (1625-1626), 51
Verhulsten Island, 51
Verrazano visits Hudson River region, 16
Verstius (Vestens), William, 95
Warren, Anne, mother of Sir William Johnson, 221
Warren, Captain Peter, 221
Warrensbush, 222
Wendell, Captain, 156
Westchester, New Englanders in, 138; becomes part of Yorkshire, 138
West Point, Hudson reaches, 10
Willem Hendrick, Fort, 143
William of Orange and Mary, sovereigns of England, 149 et seq.
William, The (ship), 132, 133, 134, 135
Wiltwyck, 23
Wisenberg, Catherine, wife of Sir William Johnson, 223
Yorkshire, 138
Zenger, John Peter, apprentice to Bradford, 193; collects subscription for playing organ, 193-94; publisher of New York Weekly Journal, 197; arrested for libel, 198; trial, 199-205
AN OUTLINE OF THE PLAN OF
THE CHRONICLES OF AMERICA
The fifty titles of the Series fall into eight topical sequences or groups, each with a dominant theme of its own—
I. The Morning of America
TIME: 1492-1763
The theme of the first sequence is the struggle of nations for the possession of the New World. The mariners of four European kingdoms—Spain, Portugal, France, and England—are intent upon the discovery of a new route to Asia. They come upon the American continent which blocks the way. Spain plants colonies in the south, lured by gold. France, in pursuit of the fur trade, plants colonies in the north. Englishmen, in search of homes and of a wider freedom, occupy the Atlantic seaboard. These Englishmen come in time to need the land into which the French have penetrated by way of the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes, and a mighty struggle between the two nations takes place in the wilderness, ending in the expulsion of the French. This sequence comprises ten volumes:
1. THE RED MAN'S CONTINENT, by Ellsworth Huntington
2. THE SPANISH CONQUERORS, by Irving Berdine Richman
3. ELIZABETHAN SEA-DOGS, by William Wood
4. CRUSADERS OF NEW FRANCE, by William Bennett Munro
5. PIONEERS OF THE OLD SOUTH, by Mary Johnston
6. THE FATHERS OF NEW ENGLAND, by Charles M. Andrews
7. DUTCH AND ENGLISH ON THE HUDSON, by Maud Wilder Goodwin
8. THE QUAKER COLONIES, by Sydney G. Fisher
9. COLONIAL FOLKWAYS, by Charles M. Andrews
10. THE CONQUEST OF NEW FRANCE, by George M. Wrong
II. The Winning of Independence
TIME: 1763-1815
The French peril has passed, and the great territory between the Alleghanies and the Mississippi is now open to the Englishmen on the seaboard, with no enemy to contest their right of way except the Indian. But the question arises whether these Englishmen in the New World shall submit to political dictation from the King and Parliament of England. To decide this question the War of the Revolution is fought; the Union is born: and the second war with England follows. Seven volumes:
11. THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTION, by Carl Becker
12. WASHINGTON AND HIS COMRADES IN ARMS, by George M. Wrong
13. THE FATHERS OF THE CONSTITUTION, by Max Farrand
14. WASHINGTON AND HIS COLLEAGUES, by Henry Jones Ford
15. JEFFERSON AND HIS COLLEAGUES, by Allen Johnson
16. JOHN MARSHALL AND THE CONSTITUTION, by Edward S. Corwin
17. THE FIGHT FOR A FREE SEA, by Ralph D. Paine
III. The Vision of the West
TIME: 1750-1890
The theme of the third sequence is the American frontier—the conquest of the continent from the Alleghanies to the Pacific Ocean. The story covers nearly a century and a half, from the first crossing of the Alleghanies by the backwoodsmen of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the Carolinas (about 1750) to the heyday of the cowboy on the Great Plains in the latter part of the nineteenth century. This is the marvelous tale of the greatest migrations in history, told in nine volumes as follows:
18. PIONEERS OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST, by Constance Lindsay Skinner
19. THE OLD NORTHWEST, by Frederic Austin Ogg
20. THE REIGN OF ANDREW JACKSON, by Frederic Austin Ogg
21. THE PATHS OF INLAND COMMERCE, by Archer B. Hulbert
22. ADVENTURERS OF OREGON, by Constance Lindsay Skinner
23. THE SPANISH BORDERLANDS, by Herbert E. Bolton
24. TEXAS AND THE MEXICAN WAR, by Nathaniel W. Stephenson
25. THE FORTY-NINERS, by Stewart Edward White
26. THE PASSING OF THE FRONTIER, by Emerson Hough
IV. The Storm of Secession
TIME: 1830-1876
The curtain rises on the gathering storm of secession. The theme of the fourth sequence is the preservation of the Union, which carries with it the extermination of slavery. Six volumes as follows:
27. THE COTTON KINGDOM, by William E. Dodd
28. THE ANTI-SLAVERY CRUSADE, by Jesse Macy
29. ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE UNION, by Nathaniel W. Stephenson
30. THE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY, by Nathaniel W. Stephenson
31. CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR, by William Wood
32. THE SEQUEL OF APPOMATTOX, by Walter Lynwood Fleming
V. The Intellectual Life
Two volumes follow on the higher national life, telling of the nation's great teachers and interpreters:
33. THE AMERICAN SPIRIT IN EDUCATION, by Edwin E. Slosson
34. THE AMERICAN SPIRIT IN LITERATURE, by Bliss Perry
VI. The Epic of Commerce and Industry
The sixth sequence is devoted to the romance of industry and business, and the dominant theme is the transformation caused by the inflow of immigrants and the development and utilization of mechanics on a great scale. The long age of muscular power has passed, and the era of mechanical power has brought with it a new kind of civilization. Eight volumes:
35. OUR FOREIGNERS, by Samuel P. Orth
36. THE OLD MERCHANT MARINE, by Ralph D. Paine
37. THE AGE OF INVENTION, by Holland Thompson
38. THE RAILROAD BUILDERS, by John Moody
39. THE AGE OF BIG BUSINESS, by Burton J. Hendrick
40. THE ARMIES OF LABOR, by Samuel P. Orth
41. THE MASTERS OF CAPITAL, by John Moody
42. THE NEW SOUTH, by Holland Thompson
VII. The Era of World Power
The seventh sequence carries on the story of government and diplomacy and political expansion from the Reconstruction (1876) to the present day, in six volumes:
43. THE BOSS AND THE MACHINE, by Samuel P. Orth
44. THE CLEVELAND ERA, by Henry Jones Ford
45. THE AGRARIAN CRUSADE, by Solon J. Buck
46. THE PATH OF EMPIRE, by Carl Russell Fish
47. THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND HIS TIMES, by Harold Howland
48. WOODROW WILSON AND THE WORLD WAR, by Charles Seymour
VIII. Our Neighbors
Now to round out the story of the continent, the Hispanic peoples on the south and the Canadians on the north are taken up where they were dropped further back in the Series, and these peoples are followed down to the present day:
49. THE CANADIAN DOMINION, by Oscar D. Skelton
50. THE HISPANIC NATIONS OF THE NEW WORLD, by William R. Shepherd
The Chronicles of America is thus a great synthesis, giving a new projection and a new interpretation of American History. These narratives are works of real scholarship, for every one is written after an exhaustive examination of the sources. Many of them contain new facts; some of them—such as those by Howland, Seymour, and Hough—are founded on intimate personal knowledge. But the originality of the Series lies, not chiefly in new facts, but rather in new ideas and new combinations of old facts.
The General Editor of the Series is Dr. Allen Johnson, Chairman of the Department of History of Yale University, and the entire work has been planned, prepared, and published under the control of the Council's Committee on Publications of Yale University.