ROCHAMBEAU, Count de, VII. 39. His correspondence with Vergennes; with the Commander-in-chief, upon his arrival in America, sends him a copy of his instructions, and an ac- count of his voyage, VII. 110–112, 477-506, 511. His personal inter- view with Washington at Hartford, 119, 172, 192, 199, 203, 207, 208, 212, 228, 250, 300, 301, 319, 322, 372, 407. Clinton's expedition against, 126-128, 132, 133, 143. Commenda- tion of his measures, 143. Commends Heath, 155. On Lafayette's proposed expedition against New York, 171. Warned of Clinton's movements, 182. Visited by Indians, 183; his address to them, 184. Informed of Arnold's treason, 218. His disposition of his troops for the winter, 319. His opin- ion of Marquis de Castries, 324. De- clines propositions for cooperating with the Spanish, 329, 374. Cited respecting the coming of vessels from Brest, and a change in the French ministry, 339. Offers to send land forces against Arnold, 404. Proposals to, respecting a combination of forces against Arnold, 410, 419, 425, 434, 461. Cited about movements against Arnold, and Tilly's return to New- port, 426, 428, 429, 444. His inter- view with Washington at Newport, 446. Consulted about an expedition against Lloyd's Neck, VIII. 3. Will furnish troops for an expedition against Penobscot, 8, 10. On an in- tercepted letter of the Commander- in-chief, 29. On Count de Barras and his arrival, 40, 64. Instructions to, from France, 41. His interview with Washington at Weathersfield, 40, 48, 50, 54, 59, 60-62, 64, 77, 120, 517. Displeased with Chastellux's letter to Luzerne, 60. Despatches a vessel to Count de Grasse in the West Indies; Mémoires of, cited re- specting the proposed operation in the Chesapeake, 76. His progress toward the American army and junction with it, 81, 84, 86, 87, 96, 98-100. On his recruits, 82. Approves Lafay. ette's conduct in Virginia, 101. Goes to Philadelphia, 140. Loans 20,000 hard dollars for the payment of the American troops, 150. Arrives at Mount Vernon, 157. Has an inter- view with Count de Grasse, 162. His assistance at the siege of Yorktown, 178, 183, 516. Thanks, and two pieces of field-ordnance voted to, by Congress, 184, 237, 368. Makes his head-quarters at Williamsburg, 198.
Is willing to advance Lauzun's legion to the southward, 236, 242, 258. Ac- knowledgments made to, by Virginia, 238. Invited to Mount Vernon, 259. Officers under, rewarded in France, 289. His interview with Washing- ton at Philadelphia, 314, 321, 322, 326, 328. His march to Baltimore and continuance there, 322, 331. His junction with the American army on the North River, 332, 340, 345. Ac- companies the French army to Prov- idence, 365. His departure from the United States, 368. Appointed to the government of Picardy, IX. 56; 149; 359; 465; X. 38. At his coun- try-seat near Vendôme, 208. ROCHAMBEAU, Colonel, (son of the Count,) despatched to France, after the conference at Hartford, to make known the result, and the wants of the Americans, VII. 319. Brings de- spatches from France to his father, VIII. 47, 64.
ROCHEFONTAINE, a French officer, dis- possessed of his quarters, VI. 450. ROCKINGHAM, Marquis of, political ef fects of his death, VIII. 344, 349,
RODNEY, CESAR, Brigadier-General, commendatory letter to, upon his leaving the service, IV. 34; 526. Commander of the Delaware militia; directions to, upon the enemy's land- ing near the Head of Elk, V. 46. RODNEY, Admiral, reinforces the Brit- ish fleet, VII. 239. ROGERS, DANIEL, XII. 240. ROGERS, ROBERT, Major, President Wheelock's statements respecting, III. 208, 244. His solicitation of a pass- port from the Commander-in-chief, 209. Suspected, 439. Ordered to New Hampshire, 440. Joins the Brit- ish and raises troops on Long Island, IV. 128, 520. Appointed colonel; commands the Queen's Rangers; sends out enlisting orders, 521. Ex- pedition against, 524, 526. Rollers used, XII. 332.
Roman Catholics, address to, XII. 177. Ross, JAMES, senator in Congress, con- sulted about the sale of western lands, XII. 317.
Ross, Major, a British commissioner at Yorktown, VIII. 532. Rotheram plough, commended, XII. 284.
ROUERIE, Marquis de la. See ARMAND. Roxbury Neck, troops at, III. 18, 39, 54. Royal American Regiment, raised, II. 168; 189. Employed in Forbes's ex- pedition, 289.
RUDULPH, JOHN, Captain, VI. 333, Brevet rank and pay of captain given to, 377.
RUGGLES, TIMOTHY, Brigadier-General, commands the Loyal American Asso- ciators, III. 162.
RUMSEY, JAMES, is engaged in con- structing a steamboat, IX. 104, X. 139. Dies suddenly in London, 139; XII. 279.
RUSH, BENJAMIN, sent to take care of American prisoners after the battle of the Brandywine, V. 63. Brings charges against Dr. Shippen, 292. RUSSELL, BENJAMIN, his letter con- cerning the President's visit to Bos- ton, X. 491.
RUSSELL, Lieutenant-Colonel, com- mands at Fort Mifflin after Smith is wounded, V. 155. At Germantown, 468.
Russia, Empress of, proposes to act as mediatress for a general peace, VIII. 71. Her request for an Indian vocab- ulary, IX. 165, 195, 213, 241, 249, 301, 306.
Russian troops, promised to the British, but not furnished, V. 159.
RUTHERFORD, ROBERT, Lieutenant, de- feated, II. 167.
RUTLEDGE, EDWARD, member of the first Board of War, III. 429. On a committee of Congress to hold a con- ference with Lord Howe, IV. 88. Urges a combined attack on Charles- ton, VIII. 174. Declines the ap- pointment of associate judge, X. 165. Recommended for the Provisional ar- my, XI. 322.
RUTLEDGE, JOHN, governor of South Carolina, requested to cooperate in the reduction of St. Augustine, IV. 366; VI. 201; VII. 201. Vehemently opposes the release of Cornwallis from parole, VIII. 334. Appointed asso- ciate justice of the Supreme Court, X. 51. Resignation of, 164. Appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court, XI. 33.
Rye, price of, in Virginia, XII. 294. Ryswick, treaty of, referred to, II. 430.
Saddles, price of, VI. 80.
Safe conduct granted to the baggage, surgeons, and medicines for the Hes- sian prisoners, IV. 268. SAFFORD, SAMUEL, Lieutenant-Colo- nel, VII. 270.
Sag Harbour, Meigs's expedition to, IV. 441.
ST. CLAIR, ARTHUR, appointed briga- dier-general, IV. 32. Major-general, 329. Performs the duties of adjutant- general, 372. At Ticonderoga, 484. Takes upon himself the responsibility for the loss of Ticonderoga, 491, 492. Should justify himself, 499. Inquiry into the conduct of, V. 23, 25, 61, 86. To be consulted, 71, 157; 163. Un- easy about the delay of his trial, 385. Despatched to Elizabethtown, VI. 452. A commissioner for exchange of pris- oners, 483. Effects of his suspension after the loss of Ticonderoga, VII. 152. Ordered to the command at West Point, 222, 223, 544, 545. To move troops to the main army, 233. Aids against the mutiny in the Penn- sylvania line, 362-365, 375. Ordered to aid Lafayette with troops in the expedition against Arnold, 423; to march the Pennsylvania line to the southward, VII. 436; to send the recruits for the Pennsylvania line against Cornwallis, VIII. 161. De- tached to the southward; instruc- tions to, 193, 198; IX. 127. Gover-
nor of the Northwestern Territory, X. 91; 122, 125. Expedition of, against the western Indians, 142, 154. His defeat, 222, 225. Inquiry respecting the failure of the expedition of, order- ed, 228. Resigns his command, 248. Permitted to go to Pennsylvania on private business, 261. President of Congress, XII. 420. ST. CLAIR, SIR JOHN, II. 129. Quar- termaster of Forbes's army, 282. De- spatches Washington to the Virginia Council to represent the wants of the troops, 285. Wounded at Braddock's defeat, 471.
St. Croix River, commissioners meet for determining the, XII. 66. St. Domingo. See Hispaniola. St. Eustatia, surprised, and recaptured by France, VIII. 225.
ST. JOHN, HECTOR. See CRÈVECœur. St. John's, III. 41. Preparations against, 60. Americans land near, and are driven back, 110. Invested, 132. Sur- renders, 165. Prisoners taken at, IV.
St. John's Island, descent upon, by Broughton and Sellman, III. 193. St. Lucia, V. 550, VI. 60. ST. OUARY, a French volunteer, made prisoner, V. 184.
ST. PIERRE, LEGARDEUR DE, com- mander of the Fort at Le Boœuf, II.
441. Uses artifice to detain the In- dians, 443.
ST. SIMON, Marquis de, commander of troops from the West Indies, VIII. 156, 523. Commended for his as- sistance in the siege at Yorktown, 178. Leaves the Chesapeake with his troops, 197. Writes on the business of the Society of Cincinnati, IX. 129.
St. Vincent's, Fort, capitulation of, VI. 316.
Salem, address to the inhabitants of, XII. 204.
Salt springs, discovered in the western country, II. 377.
SALTONSTALL, DUDLEY, a naval captain, summoned before Congress, III. 353. Sandusky, Lower, Indian treaty at, X. 328, 335.
Saratoga, militia ordered to rendezvous
at, IV. 500. Northern army retires
to, V. 23. See BURGOYNE.
SARGENT, PAUL DUDLEY, Colonel, at Boston, III. 456.
SARTINE, French minister of marine, resignation of, VII. 324, 339. SAVAGE, EDWARD, takes a portrait of Washington for Harvard College, X. 64.
Savannah, British expedition against, VI. 101, 191. Americans and French attack, are repulsed, and raise the siege of, 400, 409, 410, 415. Address to the Hebrew congregation of, XII. 185; to the mayor and aldermen of, 197. SAYRE, STEPHEN, letters of, found by General Howe, III. 186. Is com-
mitted to the Tower, bailed, and ac- quitted, 242.
SCAMMELL, ALEXANDER, Colonel, his resignation of the office of adjutant- general; takes command of his regi- ment, VII. 314, 321, 347. Ordered to disperse a party of refugees at Fort Lee, VIII. 46, 47; 90.
Schoharie, destruction of, VII. 271, 286. Destruction of grain at, 286. SCHUYLER, PHILIP, appointed major- general, III. 6; 8. Appointed to the command of the New York depart- ment, 11. Orders to, respecting St. John's and Montreal, 41. His dis- couragements, 60, 62, 132. Leaves Crown Point, 85. Sick, and leaves the army, 119. Importance of his expedition, 134. His conduct in re- gard to Wooster, approved, 143. On the state and impatience of his troops, 191. Purposes to retire from the army, 191, 209, 243. Visited by Cagh- nawaga Indians, 245. His proposi-
tion for reinforcements laid before a council of war at Cambridge, 249.
Continues in the service, 250. False charges against him and others, 396, 535. Despatches Colonel Dayton to secure Sir John Johnson, 410. Ad- vised to make an alliance with In- dians, 417, 419. Orders to, after the defeat of General Thompson, 436. To employ Indians, IV. 24. To keep Burgoyne and Carleton at bay, 156. To send troops to New Jersey, 192. Leaves Philadelphia to resume the command of the Northern Depart- ment, 453. Has small forces to op- pose Burgoyne, 486. Inability to grant his requests, 488, 491. On the evacuation of Fort Anne, and his in- ability to oppose the enemy, 492. On the evacuation and condition of Fort
George, 494. Impedes Burgoyne's march, V. 2. Is superseded; his pa- triotism and unwearied services, 14. Has the command of the northern army at the time of the battle of Ben- nington, 15. His conduct in the Northern Department inquired into, 23, 25, 244. Commissioner of Indian affairs, 273. His trial and acquittal, VI. 84, 145. On the Canada expedi- tion of 1778-9, 114, 145. Requested to command the northern army, 153. Resignation of, 167. Takes his seat in Congress, 378, 409. On proceed- ings in Congress about an inquiry into Greene's conduct, VII. 5. On a committee to effect reforms and changes in the army, 15. On a com- mittee of coöperation in regard to the American and French forces, 34, 47, 50, 80. Questions to, respecting op- erations against the enemy, 48. Ef- fects of his suspension after the loss of Ticonderoga, 152. On the appoint- ment of a minister of war, 460. On the understanding between the lead- ers of Vermont and British officers, and the independence of that State, VIII. 42, 43. His success against an attempt made to seize him, 129. Is furnished with a guard, 129, 231. His sentiments as to the conduct to be pursued towards the Indians, after the war, 477; IX. 15; 42. Written to, by Washington, at the time of entering upon the presidency, X. 2. Schuyler, Fort, V. 3. Reinforced, siege raised, 37, 38. Provisions ordered to, 265; 286; VI. 236. Importance of; provisions thrown into, VII. 64, 65, 82, 262, 280, 282. Troops ordered to, 131. Well garrisoned, 271. Aban- doned, VIII. 56, 57. Visited by the Commander-in-chief, 467, 469, 488. Formerly Fort Stanwix, 488. Indian treaty at, IX. 448.
Schuylkill, redoubts on the, V. 60. Enemy's redoubt at the mouth of, at- tacked, 90.
SCOLLAY, JOHN, III. 531. SCOLLAY, WILLIAM, XI. 42. Scotch Highlanders, III. 409, 411. Ta- ken in transports, 432, 439. Make good settlers, XII. 304. Scotch Plains, question about occupy- ing, considered, IV. 304. SCOTT, CHARLES, appointed brigadier- general, IV. 373. Detached to hang on the flank of the enemy, 475. Fa- vors an attack on Philadelphia, V. 168. To gall the enemy's left flank and rear, 417, 423. Stationed at Bed- ford; officers under, threaten to re- sign, VI. 102. Recruits in Virginia; ordered to Carolina, 261, 262. Check against the liberation of, VIII. 240. SCOTT, JOHN MORIN, general of mili- tia, leads a division of Heath's army toward New York, IV. 280, 308. SCULL, PETER, brigade-major, his qual- ifications for the office of adjutant- general, V. 158.
Scythes, militia ordered to arm them- selves with, IV. 42. SEAGROVE, JAMES, charged with a ne- gotiation in Florida respecting fugi- tive slaves, X. 162. His despatches to the President, 265, 267, 278, 291. Seamen, act passed by Congress for the relief of, and agents appointed, XII. 67. See Marines.
SEARS, ISAAC, Captain, III. 226. spatched to Connecticut for volun- teers to secure New York, 232. Tem- porary adjutant-general to collect vol- unteers in Connecticut, 295. Seeds from Europe, XII. 284, 286, 292, 355. Should be procured in season, 290. On sowing and planting, 291. Should never be put into the hold of a vessel, 332. Sowed, 380. SEGUR, Count de, V. 445, 447. Visits the Commander-in-chief, VIII. 358. French minister at the court of St. Petersburg, X. 103.
SEGUR, Marquis de, succeeds Mont- barrey in the French ministry, VII. 429. His letter on Lafayette's ap- pointment as field-marshal after the capitulation at Yorktown, VIII. 226. Seizures, evil consequences of, V. 209. SELMAN, Captain. See BROUGHTON. Senate of the United States, organization of the, IX. 491. Proceedings in, re- specting titles, X. 20. Conference of a committee of, with the President, on the mode of communication in the formation of treaties and appointments to office, 25, 484. On the agency it
ought to have in judging of the ex- pediency of sending ministers abroad, 479. Proceedings of, in relation to Jay's treaty, XI. 32. Ratifies the Spanish treaty, 112. Approves the President's proclamation of Neutral- ity, XII. 43; their approbation of his conduct in relation to the Penn- sylvania insurgents, 54. Message to the, respecting the British treaty; their conditional ratification of it, 58, 90. Messages to, about Indian hos- tilities, 79; Indian treaties, 81; the eastern boundary, 83; the treaty with the Creek Indians, 84, 86, 108; the Cherokee Indians, 87; transmitting questions relative to Algiers, 95. SENF, Colonel, XI. 431, 433. Servants. See Emigrant Servants. Seven years, Paine's remarks on the period of, VIII. 346.
SEYMOUR, THOMAS, Colonel, arrives at New York with light-horse from Con- necticut, III. 453. Commended, 454, 465. Returns home, IV. 3. SHAACH, Captain, held as a subject for retaliation, IX. 197.
SHARPE, HORATIO, governor of Mary- land, II. 59. Appointed Command- er-in-chief against the French, 64. Requests Washington to return to the service, 65. Favors Dagworthy, 112, 128. Is reconciled with the Assem- bly, and builds Fort Frederic, 165. His difference with the Assembly, in 1757, 233. His military rank, 310. Commands at Fort Cumberland, 313, 316.
Shawanese Town, its situation; unsuc cessful expedition against, II. 125,
SHEE, JOHN, Colonel, III. 414. Sheep, the policy of increasing the number of, IX. 455, X. 50. Price of, XII. 294. Number of, at Mount Ver- non, 314. On folding, 363. Feeding, 368, 373.
SHEFFIELD, Lord, writes Observations on the Commerce of the American States, XI. 11.
SHELBURNE, Earl, appointed first lord of the treasury, VIII. 344, 359. SHELDON, ELISHA, appointed com- mander of a regiment of dragoons, IV. 249, 293. Condition of his horses, V. 315. Skirmish of, at Pound Ridge, VI. 287; VII. 134; 149; 168. Rein- forced with Connecticut regiments, 181. Put under the command of Greene, 234. His connexion with the capture of André, 235, 522 - 524, 528. Dismounted dragoons of, detached on an expedition to Long Island, 293.
His cantonment at Northampton, in Massachusetts, 330-332. To form a junction with Waterbury, in a pro- posed attack on Delancey's corps, VIII. 88, 93, 95, 97. Legion of, put under Heath's cominand, 136. Shenandoah River, increase in the value of lands at the, XII. 313. SHERBURNE, HENRY, aid to Sullivan; his bravery applauded; killed at Ger- mantown, V. 466.
SHERMAN, ROGER, member of the first Board of War, III. 429. On a com- mittee of Congress to go to the camp, IV. 117. On the agency of the Senate in sending ministers abroad, X. 481. SHINGISS, King of the Delaware In- dians, at the council at Logstown, II. 433; 438.
SHIPPEN, WILLIAM, to inoculate the troops, IV. 311. Director-general,
charged with mal-practice and neg- lect, V. 292. Ships. See Vessels.
SHIRLEY, WILLIAM, Governor, intro- duction to, and opinion of, II. 74; 76; 79; 93; 98; 112. Commander of his Majesty's forces in America, 113; 115; 117; 120; 128. Visited by Washington in Boston, 130, 132. De- cides against Dagworthy's claim, 133. Gone to England, 229.
SHIRLEY, W., Secretary, shot at Brad- dock's battle, II. 471.
Shoes, deplorable want of, in the army, V. 71, 77, 126, 167, 199, 225, 329. Price of, VI. 80.
SHORT, WILLIAM, negotiates a loan at Amsterdam, X. 161; 191; 278. SHREVE, ISRAEL, Colonel, VII. 335. His exertions to suppress the revolt in the Jersey line, 381, 561 - 464. In the action at Springfield, 507. SHULDHAM, a British admiral, III. 220. Arrives at Boston, 222, 225. SIEYES, President of the National As- sembly of France, X. 133, 497. SILLIMAN, G. SELLECK, general of the Connecticut militia, pursues the Brit- ish on their return from Danbury, IV. 405.
SIMCOE, a British colonel, his engage- ment with Macpherson, VIII. 101. SIMITIÈRE, his likenesses of military characters, IX. 100.
SIMPSON, negotiating a treaty with the Emperor of Morocco, XI. 84.
SINCLAIR, SIR JOHN, letter to, respect- ing the soil and agriculture of various parts of the United States, XII. 323. SINCLAIR, ROBERT, XII. 303.
SKENE, PHILIP, Governor, proposition to exchange for Lovell, III. 269, 524.
Exchanged; biographical sketch of, 524, IV. 23. See LOVELL. SKINNER, ABRAHAM, deputy-commis- sary of prisoners, goes to Elizabeth- town to effect an exchange of prison- ers, receives directions, VII. 194, 209. Despatched to Congress; instructions to, about citizens who are prisoners, VIII. 126.
SKINNER, CORTLAND, general of New Jersey, with his corps adheres to the British, IV. 326. Appointed briga- dier-general to enlist Loyalists, 522; V. 64; 174.
Slavery, captives sold into, II. 137. Opinions and exertions respecting, IX. 159, 163. Laws for the abolition of, XII. 326.
Slaves, Dinwiddie's apprehensions from, II. 154. Trade in, condemned, 494, 495. Not enlisted, III. 218. Ques- tionable policy of arming, VI. 204. Project for raising a regiment of, VIII. 323. Lafayette on the emanci- pation of, 414, IX. 163. Proceedings in Congress in regard to the trade in, X. 82, 85, 94, 98. Measures in regard to fugitive, to Florida, 163. Proceed- ings in the South Carolina legislature about the importation of, 224, 225. From Georgia cross the Spanish line, XII. 181. See Negroes. Smallpox, in Boston, III. 177. ported as to Howe's design to send it into the American camp, 188, 195. In the army at Ticonderoga, IV. 12; at Morristown, 311. Troops inocu- lated with the, 311, 314, 362. Estab- lishments for inoculating with the, 364, 376. Destructiveness of, to an army, 390. Inoculation for, in Vir- ginia, prohibited by law, V. 22. SMALLWOOD, WILLIAM, Colonel, ar- rives with his battalion at New York, IV. 41. In the action at White Plains, 528. General, and despatched to take command of the Maryland western shore militia, V. 52; 53. Coming for- ward with militia, 66; 70. Joins the main army, 75. In the battle of Ger- mantown, 78. Opposes an attack on Philadelphia, 168. To take post at Wilmington, 190, 191, 196. Desired to return Dr. Boyes's manuscripts, 223. His advance towards Elizabethtown, VI. 176. Appointed major-general, VII. 308. His misunderstanding with Steuben, about command, 360. SMITH, JOSHUA HETT, his connexion with Arnold's treason; his arrest and trial, VII. 214, 216, 220, 221, 261, 529, 533, 536, 540.
SMITH, ROBERT, Captain, does not ac-
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