MAGAZINE

OF

AMERICAN HISTORY

WITH

NOTES AND QUERIES

ILLUSTRATED

EDITED BY MRS. MARTHA J. LAMB

VOL XXII

JULY-DECEMBER, 1889

743 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY

COPYRIGHT, 1889,

BY HISTORICAL PUBLICATION CO.

Press of J. J. Little & Co.

Astor Place, New York

Mrs. Martha J. Lamb.

Henry Lee Reynolds. 37

.M. M. Baldwin. 4I

Hon. J. O. Dykman, II., 49; III., 148

.Gen. Alfred E. Lee. 58

Lost in the Ice. Extract from Elisha Kent Kane's Arctic Explorations..

Tribute to the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop .

Col. William S. Smith of the Revolution...

A Relic of Washington's Saddle. A Poem

Notes, Queries, and Replies.

Societies

Historic and Social Jottings

Book Notices ....

69

Daniel Goodwin. 72

.M. D. Raymond. 74

.Rev. J. R. Barnes. 76

.78, 168, 256, 347, 431, 509

.81, 171, 259, 350, 434, 513

..84, 172, 260, 435, 515

.86, 174, 262, 351, 437, 517

The Career of a Beneficent Enterprise. One Hundred and Four Years of Interesting Work

of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York.

The Philipse Patent in the Highlands

The Earliest American People.....

England's Struggle with the American Colonies..

The Founding of Post Vincennes...

Tribute to Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes

Life and its Activities.....

Mrs. Martha J. Lamb. 89

William S. Pelletreau. 106

J. T. Everett, A. M., M.D., Ph.D. 114

.Rev. William W. Taylor. 121

J. P. Dunn, Jr. 143

.Mrs. Martha J. Lamb. 158

...Hon. Merrill E. Gates. 160

The Wit and Wisdom of Keokuk, Chief of the Sacs and Foxes, 1832-1845.

Original Documents. . . . . .

Unpublished Letter of Washington. Contributed by Rev. J. R. Barnes..

Letter from Pierre Van Cortlandt to his Son.

Historic Homes and Landmarks...

Old French Post at Trempeleau, Wisconsin

Lincoln's Restoration Policy for Virginia.

Tribute to John W. Hamersley...

Growth of a Great National Library.

St. John de Crèvecœur...

163

.165, 253, 506

165

Contributed by Mrs. Pierre Van Cortlandt... 167

.Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, III., 177

T. H. Lewis. 204

.Robert Stiles. 209

.Maj.-Gen. John Watts De Peyster. 224

Milton T. Adkins. 229

New York's Great Landholder.

Sketch of Mrs. Amasa J. Parker.

Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour

William Seton. 234

.George Clarke. 246

250

Dr. J. M. Toner. 251

253

253

254

Roy Singleton. 265

.Prof. H. A. Scomp. 280

Enlistment of Colored Soldiers, 1814. Contributed by Lieut.-Col. A. K. Arnold .

Act of Assessment for Oyster Bay, 1717. Contributed by Townsend D. Cock..

Letter of Captain Ten Eyck on the Execution of André. Contributed by Mrs. Pierre Van

Cortlandt

The Romantic Beginnings of Milwaukee....

Georgia the only Free Colony. How the Negro Came..