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the enemy, 242. Arrives at Raystown
with troops in Indian dress, 294.
taken at Fort Duquesne and sent to
Montreal, 313; 340. Appointed briga-
dier-general and ordered to the South-
ern Department, III. 294, 319. Let-
ter to, upon his non-promotion, IV.
345. Resignation of, 347.
Acts as
commissioner at Fort Pitt, VI. 90.
Superseded and resigns, 92.
LEWIS, GEORGE, Major, sent on a mis-
sion to Canada, XI. 132. His services,
434.

LEWIS, LAWRENCE, captain of cavalry,
XI. 397. Aid to General Wayne, 398.
LEWIS, ROBERT, his statements re-
specting Washington's private devo-
tions, XII. 407.

LEWIS, STEPHEN, XII. 240.

LEWIS, THOMAS, Colonel, declines be-
ing agent about western land, XII.
301.

LEWIS, WARNER, II. 94.
LEWIS, Colonel, at the battle of Ger-
mantown, V. 468.

Lexington battle, III. 35. Officers at,
ordered home, 118. Gratuity to the
sufferers by the, 133. Effects of, 487.
Citation from Lord Dartmouth's letter
to Gage respecting, 512. The affair
not approved by the British govern-
ment, 520.

Leyden, in Holland, Poetical Society
of, X. 102.

LIANCOURT, Duke de, on Lafayette's
imprisonment at Olmutz, XI. 163, 489.
Light-horse. See Cavalry.
Light Infantry, organization of, VII.
135, 137. Broken up, 316.
LIGUERY, a French captain at Brad-
dock's defeat, II. 473.

LINCOLN, BENJAMIN, appointed by the
Assembly of Massachusetts to com-
mand the troops destined to New
York, IV. 125. To concert an expe-
dition against Long Island, 125 – 129.
Commended, 229, 240, 294. Ordered
to Morristown, 263. His move to-
wards New York, 266, 280. Recom-
mended for the Continental line, 294.
Arrives at Morristown with Massa-
chusetts militia, 322. Appointed ma-
jor-general in the Continental service,
329. Retreats from Boundbrook, 391.
Letter to, respecting the officers ap-
propriating to themselves the pay of
the soldiers, 402. Ordered to join
Schuyler, and take command of the
eastern militia, 505. His influence
over the militia, V. 2. To join Gates;
commendation of, 2, 10, 19, 61. Join-
ed by Stark, 30. Wounded, 115, 217.
Epaulettes and sword-knots presented

to, 361. Ordered to Charleston, to
command the Southern Department,
VI. 74, 83, 101, 191. Asks to retire
from command, 230. Insufficient
force under, 342. His attack upon
Stono Ferry, 357. Directed to di-
vert the enemy in order to favor
the Spaniards, 474; VII. 10. Made
prisoner at Charleston, 69, 102. In-
quiry ordered respecting, 102. Meas-
ures for effecting his exchange, 104,
122, 193, 209, 210, 212, 287. His
interview with General Phillips, 122,
193, 195, 209, 210, 212. Exchanged,
287, 290. Advised to exert his influ-
ence in Massachusetts in behalf of the
army, 290, 466. Completes the crew
of the Alliance, 438. Requested to
join the army, VIII. 40. Instructions
to, for an attack on the north end of
York Island, 90, 97-99, 109. Has
the immediate command of the army
in its progress to the southward, 140,
150. Takes command of the troops
on their march to the northward, 199.
His appointment as secretary of war,
214, 215, 225. Written to about
Knox's promotion, 214. Presents two
standards taken at Yorktown to the
Commander-in-chief, 220. His que-
ries answered respecting a reduction
of the army, 308, 319. On the half-
pay establishments, 356. Authorized
to concert with the Commander-in-
chief a plan for the liberation of pris-
oners, 425, 428. Recommends Lear,
IX. 155. His operations against the
insurgents in Massachusetts, 234, 239.
His opinion of the disfranchising act
in Massachusetts, 240. Correspond-
ence with, respecting the adoption of
the Constitution, 310, 322, 334, 391;
respecting the first meeting of Con-
gress, and its members, under the
Federal Constitution, and the candi-
dates for the presidency and vice-
presidency, 417, 439, 468, 555. Ap-
pointed commissioner for a treaty
with the southern Indians, X. 28;
for a conference with the western
Indians, in 1793, 314.
LINDSAY, lieutenant under Captain
Lee, wounded, V. 220, 221.
LINN, JAMES, vice-president of the
Council of New Jersey, XII. 236.
LIPPENCOT, RICHARD, Captain, unwar-
rantably executes Joshua Huddy, VIII.
263 Is demanded of Sir Henry Clin-
ton, 265. Court-martial ordered for
the trial of, 291,311. Papers respect-
ing the trial of, forwarded, 324, 336,
363, 539. A second trial of, 336-338,
363.

Litter for stables and pens, materials to
be used for, XII. 364.
Little Kenhawa, Washington's lands
near the, XII. 264, 301, 318.
Little Meadows, II. 14, 15. Fort pro-
posed at, 79. Council held at, 81.
Little Sarah, a vessel in the Delaware,
in 1793, X. 355, 366, 536.
LITTLEPAGE, his difficulty with John
Jay, IX. 157, 166, X. 173.
LIVINGSTON, EDWARD, XI. 119.
LIVINGSTON, HENRY B., Colonel, ap-
pointed to protect the well-affected
at the east end of Long Island; re-
treats, IV. 123. Commended by
Greene for his conduct in the action
on Rhode Island, VI. 52.

LIVINGSTON, HENRY BROCKHOLST, cap-
tured; set at liberty by Sir Guy Carle-
ton, VIII.537.

LIVINGSTON, JAMES, colonel of a Cana-
dian regiment, III. 250. Regiment
of, garrisons Verplanck's and Stony
Points, VII. 139, 525. Laconic letter
to, after Arnold's flight from West
Point, 213. Ordered to West Point,
222, 234. A witness at Smith's trial,
262.

LIVINGSTON, ROBERT R., cited respect-
ing the King's proclamation, as to
western lands, II. 348. A member of
the committee for drafting the Decla-
ration of Independence, III. 468.
Chancellor of New York; cited re-
specting Putnam, V. 284. Recom-
mends Arnold for the command at
West Point, VII. 94, 95, 266. Sec-
retary of foreign affairs, VIII. 277.
Letter to, respecting the prospects of
Declines the office of
peace, 371.
minister to France, X. 406. Disap-
proves the British treaty, XI. 49, 57.
LIVINGSTON, WALTER, X. 11.
LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM, brigadier-gen-
eral of the New Jersey militia, order-
ed to send troops to New York city,
III. 446. Plans the defence of the
Jerseys, 450. Governor of New Jer-
sey; written to, for troops, IV. 189.
Writes about the oath of allegiance,
320. Requested to send militia to
protect the Highlands, V. 89. Design
against, detected, 231. Requested to
send cavalry to camp, 243, 279. His
opinion respecting deserters attending
flags, 342. Opposes the half-pay es-
tablishment, 386. An unsuccessful
attempt to capture, VI. 182. Calum-
niated; his exertions with Holland,
414. Written to, about the complaints
of soldiers, 469. Requested to send
troops against New York, 132. Is
warned of an attempt to take or as-
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sassinate him, 472. Written to, about
retaliation in the case of Huddy, VIII.
290.

Lloyd's Neck, expedition against, VIII.
114. See Long Island.

Loans, importance and necessity of,
urged, VII. 289, 300, 337. Obtained
from France, 379, 380. Acts of Con-
gress for, X. 110, 208. Obtained, 161.
Further, recommended, and obtained
in Holland, 349, 351, 352, 414, XII.
13, 22, 33, 107. Subscriptions to, 23.
Instalments on, 41.

Locks in canals, plans of substitutes
for, XI. 7.

LOGAN, GEORGE, XI. 383. Memoran-
dum of an interview with him, 384.
LOGAN, Major, at Fort Montgomery,
V. 473.

Logstown, II. 44, 54. Council at, in

1753, 433. Treaty made there, 480.
LONG, Colonel, evacuates Fort Anne,
contrary to orders, IV. 492.
LONGCHAMPS, assaults Marbois, and
thus embarrasses Congress, IX. 121,
128.

Long Island, Wooster stationed on;
three companies, raised there, are or-
dered to the northward, III. 75. Move-
ments of the Tories on, 230. Con-
gress countermands two regiments
destined against the Tories of, 255.
Tories on, seized, 391. Scheme against
the Tories on, 397. Tories on, take
up arms, 441. Committee sent to
King's County on, IV. 42. Landing
of the British on, 59, 61. Putnam
takes command there while Greene is
sick, 62, 513. Skirmishing on, 66,
68. Battle on, 68, 79, 513. Retreat
from, 69, 70, 80, 102. Effects of the
battle of, particularly on the militia,
72, 86. Communication with, cut off,
74. People of, generally go over to
the enemy, 88. The enemy raising
recruits on, 127. Expedition against,
proposed and abandoned, 128. Par-
sons's proposed expedition to, 314,
427, 440. Duer's proposed descent
on, 354. Meigs's expedition to Sag
Harbour, 441. Campbell's proposal
to attempt to bring prisoners on pa-
role from, VI. 174. Plundering par-
ties prohibited from going to, 361.
Tallmadge's successful expedition to,
VII. 292. Proposed expedition against
the Refugees at Lloyd's Neck, VIII.
4. See SULLIVAN.

Long Island Sound, British ships pass
up, IV. 74, 151, 501. Proposition to
clear of ships, 90. British transports
pass up, VI. 207.
LORING, JOSHUA, British commissary-
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Loriot's cement, experiments with, IX.
456.

LOUDOUN, Lord, II. 161. Succeeds
Shirley; raises the Royal American
Regiment, 168. Favors the maintain-
ing of Fort Cumberland, 211. Prej-
udiced against Washington, 212, 215,
217. Meets the governors of the
southern colonies at Philadelphia, 230.
Does not put the Virginia regiment
upon the same footing as the regular
army, 231. Protests against the de-
nial of his power over the Maryland
troops, 233. Is succeeded by General
Abercromby, 289.

Loudoun, Fort, commenced at Win-
chester, II. 162. Should be garrison-
ed, 183. The importance of, 205.
Captain Mercer appointed to com-
mand at, 210. Virginia troops order-
ed to, 233. Head-quarters fixed at,
235. Attacks in the vicinity of, 264;
268; 275; 277. Posture of affairs at,
in 1758, 285.

Loudoun, Fort, in the Cherokee coun-
try, capitulates, II. 333.

LOUIS, Colonel, an Indian of the Cagh-
nawaga tribe, visits head-quarters,
III. 260.

LOUIS THE SIXTEENTH, King of France,
sends a message to the court of Lon-
don respecting the treaty of France
with America, V. 363, 399, 549. Loans
money to the United States, VIII. 230,
273, 525. Endeavours to check liberty,
IX. 332. His character and conduct,
381; 466. Letter to, on the death of
the Dauphin, X. 36. At the head of
the revolution, 104, 106. Accepts the
constitution presented by the National
Assembly, 209; 234. Sends a private
message to the President about the
advances made to Britain, 238. His
choice of a council, 503. His accept-
ance of the constitution communicated
to Congress, XII. 94.
Louisiana, Lord Dorchester's expected
expedition against, X. 112.
LOVELL, JAMES, case of, referred to
Congress, III. 206, 522. Proposition
to exchange Governor Skene for, 269,
281, 523. Resolve of Congress con-
cerning, 523. His imprisonment and
exchange for Governor Skene, 524,
IV. 23, 108, 143, 511, 512. Chairman
of the committee of foreign affairs;
opposes the half-pay establishment, V.
370, 454.

LOVELL, general of militia, his conduct
on Rhode Island, VI. 51.
Low, Major, to march troops to the
landing opposite to West-Point, VII.
Reached by

213.

Loyal Hanna, II. 304.

Forbes's expedition, and a council of
war called. 316.

Loyalists, American, recommended to
be seized, III. 159. Three companies
of, embodied for the defence of Bos-
ton, 162. Acts of Connecticut re-
specting, 228; 263. Seizure and dis-
arming of, 273, 391, 397, 415. Civil
power to take cognizance of, 382.
Their arts and schemes, 396, 535. Re-
moved by the Virginia Convention,
404. Encouraged by Tryon, 414, 440,
535. Tried and executed, 441. Howe's
expectations from, 452. Confined at
Litchfield, 471. Circulate reports
about Schuyler, 535. Plots and con-
spiracies of, IV. 15, 17, 151, 152. To
serve as fatigue-men, 42. Measures
respecting, 44, 45. Property of, plun-
dered, 118, 289. Should be disarmed,
223. Enemy strengthened by, 234.
Attempt to cut off militia at Paramus,
423. Pardon recommended for, 447.
In the British service, 519. Executed,
V. 12. Taken in arms to be tried as
traitors, 309. Proclamation of pardon
to, by Congress, 331, 343. Treatment
of, in Vermont, VI. 8. Plundering
of, prohibited, 361. Two companies
of, in the attack on Forts George and
Anne, VII. 270. Plot of, in Stratford
and Fairfield County, 423. Board
established at New York for the direc-
tion of the Associated, VIII. 4, 218,
521. Inquiry ordered into the Board
of Directors of the, 218, 252. Lippen-
cot considers himself as acting under
the Board of Directors, 338. Meas-
ures connected with the remuneration
of them, IX. 177. See Albany, BUT-
LER, King's County, Long Island, New
Jersey, and Queen's County.
LUDLOW, G. J., a British captain, de-
spatched to Sir Guy Carleton in be-
half of Asgill, VIII. 303–305.
LUDWELL, PHILIP, cited, II. 94.
Lutheran. See German.
LUTTERLOH, HENRY EMANUEL, a for-
eign officer, IV. 196.
LUZAC, JOHN, professor in the Univer-
sity of Leyden, a zealous friend of
America, XI. 221.

LUZERNE, minister of France, recep-
tion of, at Boston; visits head-quar-
ters, VI. 350, 362, 364, 540. Cited
respecting John Adams, 365. Con-
sulted by Greene respecting an expe-

dition to Canada, 423.
Upon the
importance of the most favorable terms
in the exchange of prisoners, 458.
Writes to Vergennes about Miralles,
477; on the proceedings of Congress
in electing a committee to make
changes and reforms in the army,
VII. 15. His visit to camp; his opin-
ion of Washington, 10, 27, 28, 32.
His letter to France after Lafayette's
arrival, 32. A committee of Congress
confers with, about supplies for the
French, 47. His free correspondence
solicited by the Commander-in-chief,
73. Cited about the British treatment
of the southern people, 92. Sends out
cruisers to meet the second division
of the French fleet, 143. Writes to
France about Izard's views of alarin-
ing the French, 175. Sends a letter
in cipher to Count de Guichen, 198,
200. Cited about the establishment
of separate departments by Congress,
and respecting Samuel Adams, 400.
Solicits ships to oppose Arnold, 404,
435. Solicited to desire Count de
Grasse to bring land forces, VIII. 78.
Visits camp, 99; 155. Favors a plan
of cooperation against Charleston, 174;
268; 273. Cited respecting French
officers' opinions of Washington, 277.
Cited about Sir Guy Carleton's ad-
vances in regard to peace, 312; on
Colonel Laurens's zeal in France,
527. His return to France, IX. 50,
57. On Washington's visiting France,
77. On the sentiments at Versailles
about the powers of Congress, 183.
Made a marquis; goes to the court of
London; cited, X. 87. Death of, 188.
Lycian Confederacy, IX. 521.
LYMAN, Major, IX. 27.

LYNCH, THOMAS, on a committee of
Congress respecting the army, III.
123, 185. Cited as to a reconciliation,
525, 526.

M.

MCALLISTER, Lieutenant, despatched
to Congress with the standard taken
at Paulus Hook, VI. 332, 333. Brevet
rank and pay of captain given to, 377.
MCCARTY, DENNIS, II. 127.
MCCORMICK, GEORGE, XII. 287.
MCDONALD, DONALD, a British officer,
made prisoner, IV. 78. Difficulty
about exchanging, on account of his
rank, 106.

MCDONALD, captain of the enemy at
Newtown, VI. 349.

MCDOUGALL, ALEXANDER, III. 62. Ap-

pointed colonel; patriotism of, 256.
Appointed brigadier-general, IV. 32
Retreats from Peekskill, 370. Letter
to, about cutting off the British, 403.
Ordered to fortify Fort Montgomery,
409; to introduce uniformity of dis-
cipline, 430. His position at the ac-
tion on Chatterton's Hill, 528. Or-
dered into New Jersey, V. 64; 70.
Number of his corps, 72. In the bat-
tle of Germantown, 78, 464. Recom-
mended for a major-generalship, 85.
To take command at the Highlands,
280, 283, 235. Discourages an expe-
dition against New York, 303. Cited
respecting the works at West Point,
311. To rejoin the main army, 333.
Forwards information of the treaty
with France, 353. Ordered to join
General Gates at Hartford, VI. 96.
Commands in the Highlands, 125,
131; at West Point, 276, 304. His
misconception at the storming of Sto-
ny Point, 299, 303. To join Howe,
VII. 79. Commended, 94. Takes
command at West Point, 221; 234;
259. Appointed a delegate in Con-
gress, 278.
Appointed minister of
marine, 400. At West Point, VIII.
95. Unprovided with command, 121.
On a committee from the army to
Congress, 551, 554. Death of, IX.
186.
MCGILLIVRAY, X. 75. Visits Congress
with Indians, 107. Stimulates the
southern Indians to hostility, 267, 278.
Death of, 335.

MCHENRY, JAMES, letter to, about the
prospects of peace, after the death of
the Marquis of Rockingham, VIII.
344. Cited about a visit of the Com-
mander-in-chief to Congress, 469. On
a committee of Congress to make ar-
rangements for the last audience of
the Commander-in-chief, 569. Writes
a memoir of Lafayette, IX. 121. On
the enlargement of the powers of
Congress, 122, 501. On the appoint-
ment of judicial officers, X. 56. De-
sires an appointment to procure the
release of Lafayette, 398. On Pink-
ney's support of a Declaration of the
General Assembly of Maryland, XI.
98. Appointed secretary of war,
107. On Washington's taking com-
mand of the Provisional army, 246,
255. His visit to Mount Vernon, 259,
261, 263, 281, 531, 532. On the rank
of officers in the Provisional army,
297, 331, 318, 542. Suggests matters
for consideration in relation to the
war, 344, 552. On the affairs of the
army, 413, 420, 532. His instructions

to General Hamilton, 417, 563. His
plan in regard to officers for the twen-
ty-four additional regiments, 427, 429.
On the promotion of General Wilkin-
son, 440, 445. On a mission to France,
573.

MCINTOSH, LACHLAN, General, appoint-
ed to command at Fort Pitt and in
the west, V. 361, 382. His situation,
VI. 91, 92. Head-quarters of, at Pitts-
burg, 154. Disappointed as to assist-
ance, 156.
MCINTOSH,

WILLIAM, forwards a
scheme of governinent for the United
States, IX. 300.
MACKAY, JAMES, commands an Inde-
pendent Company, II. 41. Arrives at
the Great Meadows, 48. Doubts the
superiority of Dinwiddie's commis-
sions, 49. Takes the command of
Fort Necessity; cited respecting its
capitulation, 51, 465. Facts respect-
ing, XII. 303.

MCKAY, SAMUEL, a British captain, a
prisoner, III. 352.

MCKEAN, THOMAS, chosen president
of Congress; forwards to the Com-
mander-in-chief extracts from inter-
cepted letters of Lord George Ger-
main to Sir Henry Clinton, VIII. 112,
114, 519. Retires from Congress, 209.
MACKENZIE, ROBERT, Captain, recom-
mended to General Amherst, II. 334.
On the condition of the Massachu-
setts Bay; wounded at Bunker's Hill,
399. Facts respecting, IV. 129.
MCKINLY, JOHN, Governor, a prisoner,
V. 191.

McKonkey's Ferry, IV. 246.
MACLEAN, a British colonel, takes pos-
session of Penobscot, VI. 307, 350.
MCNEILL, JOHN, Captain, II. 190, 191,
211. Recommended for promotion,

252. His confinement of a commis-
sary, 327.

MACPHERSON, DUNCAN, Captain, III.
146, 150. Killed and buried at Que-
bec, 264.

MACPHERSON, W., Major, VIII. 25, 26.
His action with Simcoe, 101.
MCVICKAR, JOHN, cited, X. 13.
MCWHIR, WILLIAM, X. 37.
Machias, III. 58, 97.

MADISON, JAMES, on the early inten-
tions of the Colonists to become inde-
pendent, II. 497; VII. 465; VIII. 270.
On the policy and objects of the dif-
ferent States, VIII. 334, 547. On a
bill for the relief of Thomas Paine,
IX. 50. On propositions for invest-
ing Congress with powers for com-
mercial purposes, 145, 508. On paper
money and a general convention, 208,

218. On a form of government, 230,
516. On the embarrassments in Con-
gress about acting in relation to the
proposed convention in 1787, 247.
Correspondence with, about the Con-
stitution, 267, 542, 547. A writer in
The Federalist, 284. On Richard Hen-
ry Lee's objections to the Constitution,
288. On parties in Massachusetts in
regard to the adoption of the Constitu-
tion, 312. A candidate for the state
convention on the new Constitution,
313, 331. Cited about the convention,
369. Advocates the adoption of the
new Constitution, 374, 378. On the
first meeting of Congress under the new
Constitution, 407, 549, 554. Should
be in the Assembly, 430. Loses an
election, 447. Queries sent to, by the
President respecting a system of con-
duct, X. 4, 5, 464. Consulted about
nominations to the judiciary, 26. Cit-
ed about Jefferson's appointment as
secretary of state, 43; 82, 85, 95. On
the power of the executive to change
the place of convening Congress, 379,
552. A Democratic Society takes its
name from, 443. Written to about a
Farewell Address, in 1792, XII. 382.
His reply, 385. His draft for one,
387.

MAGAW, ROBERT, appointed lieuten-
ant-colonel of one of the Pennsylva-
nia battalions, III. 315. At Philadel
phia, 414. Appointed to hold Fort
Washington; his reply to the sum-
mons to surrender, IV. 179. Ordered
to defend the fort, 180. Surrenders,
181.
Comes out of New York on
parole with propositions for exchange
of prisoners, VI. 435; VII. 2.
MAGILL, CHARLES, XII. 213.
Major-Generals, in the army at New
York, needed, IV. 30. Appointed, 32.
List of the, during the war, XII. 412.
MALCOLM, WILLIAM, Colonel, station-
ed at Ramapo, V. 64; 73; 388. Com-
manding officer at Fort Arnold, West
Point, VI. 8. His regiment, being
united to Spencer's, mutinies, 242.
To join the main army, VII. 139. A
letter from, forwarded to Arnold, 144.
Opposes savages, 262. Expiration of
the service of, 263.
MALMEDY, a French officer, his dissat-
isfaction with his rank, IV. 419, 422.
Mamaronec, loss at, IV. 160, 526, 548.
Managers at Mount Vernon, qualifica-
tions wanted in, XII. 308. Their
weekly reports, 351.
MANDRILLON, JOSEPH, author of works
on America, IX. 72, 421, 450.
MANLY, WILLIAM, Commodore, cap-

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