MAGAZINE

OF

AMERICAN HISTORY

WITH

NOTES AND QUERIES

ILLUSTRATED

EDITED BY MRS. MARTHA J. LAMB

VOL. XIII

JANUARY-JUNE, 1885

30 LAFAYETTE PLACE, NEW YORK CITY

COPYRIGHT, 1885,

BY HISTORICAL PUBLICATION CO.

Press of J. J. Little & Co.,
Nos. 10 to 20 Astor Place, New York.

CONTENTS

The Manor of Gardiner's Island..

Count De Vergennes...

Puritanism in New York..

Building of the Monitor..

PAGE

.Mrs. Martha J. Lamb. I

..Hon. John Jay. 31

.Rev. Charles A. Briggs, D.D. 39

.Rev. Francis B. Wheeler, D.D. 59

First Ærial Voyage Across the English Channel. Diary of Dr. John Jeffries, the Æronaut

B. Joy Jeffries, M.D. 66

Unpublished Revolutionary Letters from Burgoyne, Gates, Heath, Phillips, John Hancock,

John Adams, and Gen. Ward. Contributed by Ferguson Haines ...

Bi-Centennial of American Proprietors of East New Jersey...

Charity in the American Colonies..

Political Americanisms....

Notes, Queries and Replies

Societies..

Book Notices..

89

94

95

Charles Ledyard Norton. 98, 199, 295, 394, 495

100, 203, 299, 404, 498, 596

106, 209, 305, 409, 505, 599

109, 213, 309, 414, 508, 604

The Early New York Post Office. Ebenezer Hazard, Postmaster and Postmaster-General.

Chief George H. M. Johnson-Onwanonsyshon

Benedict Arnold's March to Canada...

Early Virginia Claims in Pennsylvania..

The Character of Andrew Jackson.

André's Landing-Place at Haverstraw..

Unpublished Letter from James Duane to George Clinton..

Letter from C. S. Bushnell on the Building of the Monitor...

Origin of the Name Monitor.....

The River Tiber in Washington

Older than the Mound Builders

Some Recent School Books..

Alexander William Deniphan...

A Memento of Lewis and Clark's Expedition

The Tory Postmaster of the Revolution..

Signatures to the Peace Treaty of 1764..

The Sweets of Historical Study..

The Fairfaxes of Yorkshire and Virginia..

Brig.-Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, U. S. A..

The Adventure of Monsieur de Belle Isle.

An Old Masonic Charter....

About Richard Bellingham..

The Story of Astoria....

Unpublished Letters from George Clinton, Henry Laurens, Fisher Ames, Major-Gen. Rotten-

burg, Judge Peters. Contributed by Ferguson Haines.

Revolutionary Sermon, by the Rev. Joab Trout..

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