Magazine of American History - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5

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Magazine Of
American History
With Notes and Queries
Volumes I, II, III, IV & V
By A. S. Barnes and Co., 1877 - 1881
illustrated, indexed
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First Five Volumes, 500-700 pages per volume.
Example of CONTENTS – Volume II
The Fall of the Alamo, by Capt. R. M. Potter, U. S. A., .... 1
Oriskany, by Gen. J. Watts de Peyster, 22
Remarks on the Portraiture of Washington, by Isaac J. Greenwood, . . 30
The Waltons of New York, by John Austin Stevens, 39
Diary of Joshua Pell Junior, an Officer of the British Army in America, 1776-1777, 43i 107
A New Poland in America, 47
Settlement of Acadia, 49
Notes, Queries and Replies, 52, 1 16, 185, 247, 300, 363, 439, 493, 561, 626, 694, 751
Proceedings of the New York Historical Society, . 60, 124, 190, 252, 314
Literary Notices, 62, 125, 191, 253, 315, 375, 446, 505, 570, 637, 701, 761
The Letter of Verrazano, by the Rev. B. F. De Costa, 65
Observations on the Dighton Rock Inscription, by Charles Rau, ... 82
Parkman's French Colonization and Empire in North America, by George E. Ellis, 86
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, by John C. Carpenter, 10 1
Letter of Thomas Paine to Citizen Danton, 112
A Remarkable Character, 114
De Celoron's Expedition to the Ohio in 1749, by O. H. Marshall, . .129
The Four Kings of Canada, by the Hon. John R. Bartlett, . .
Where are the Remains of Columbus ? by J. Carson Brevoort, . . 57
Col. Rudolphus Ritzema, by the Rev. William Hall, 163
News from Camp. Letters received by Cornelius Ten Broeck, of Rocky Hill, New Jersey, from his sons Cornelius and Peter,
serving in the Continental Army, 1 779-1 780, 168
Narrative of Lieut. Luke Matthewman, of the Revolutionary Navy, . . 175
The Continental Congress before the Declaration of Independence, by Col. John Ward, . 193 Greene, . .221
Col. Peter Force, the American Annalist, by Prof. George W
Visit of the Mohawks to Fort Penobscot, 1662
La Salle's Account of the American Indians, 238
The Voyage of Verrazano, by the Rev. B. F. De Costa, . . . .257
Autobiography of Philip Van Cortlandt, Brig. Gen. in the Continental Army, 278
Irving's History of New York. A letter from Diedrick Knickerbocker, . 298
A Month among the Records in London, by the Rev. Charles W. Baird, . 321
Early Spanish and Portuguese Coinage in America, by J. Carson Brevoort, . 334
Christopher Colles, the first Projector of Inland Navigation in America, by John Austin Stevens, 340
Record of the Services of Constant Freeman, Captain of Artillery in the Continental Army, 349
The Nantucket Indians, described by St. John de Creve-Coeur,
Books Wanted, 374, 445, 504, 569, 636, 700, 760
New York and the Federal Constitution, by John Austin Stevens, . . 385
The Battle of Monmouth, by Gen. J. Watts de Peyster, . ... . 407
Schuyler's Faithful Spy ; an incident in the Burgoyne Campaign, by William Liotone,..... 414
John Berrien Montgomery, Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy, by Theophilus F. Rodenbough, 420
Letter of Laurence Washington, with Notes, by Ella Bassett Washington, . 435
The Family of Penn, 437
The Verrazano Map, by the Rev. B. F. De Costa, ..... 449
Champlain's Expedition of 16 15. Reply to Dr. Shea and General Clark, by
O. H. Marshall, ........... 470
William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey, by John Austin Stevens. . 484
The Siege of Savannah, 1779, related by Col. John Harris Cruger, . . 489
Letter of a Philadelphia Quaker, 1769 492
An old Kinderhook Mansion, by Henry Cruger Schaack, . . -513
Our National Medals, by Col. T. Bailey Myers 529
The Moundbuilders — were they Egyptians, and did they ever occupy the State of New York, by William L. Stone, 533
Governor Stuyvesant's Journey to Esopus, 1658, 540
Siege of Savannah. General orders of the Count d'Estaing. 548
Exploration of the Mississippi by Cavelier de la Salle, . . 551
The Texas Revolution. Distinguished Mexicans who took part in the Revolution of Texas, by Capt. R. M. Potter, U. S. A., 577
Description of the Falls of Niagara, 1785, by St. John de Creve-Coeur, . 604
Seven Letters of the American Revolution, 613
Rivers and Peoples discovered by La Salle, 1681-1682, .... 619
Washington's Real Estate in 1784, 623
The Last of the Puritans. The Sewall Diary, by Henry Cabot Lodge, . 641
Beaumarchais Plan to aid the Colonics, by George Clinton Genet, . . 663
The First American Baronet— Sir William Pepperrell, by John Austin Stevens, 673
Diary of Ephraim Scpiier, Sergeant in the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army, 685
Development of Constitutional Government in the American Colonies, by Henry Osborn Taylor, 705
Visit of Lafayette to the United States, 1784, by John Austin Stevens, . 724
The Aborigines of the Housatonic Valley, by E. W. B. Canning, . . . 734
Journal «of Col. Israel Shreve, from Jersey to the Monongahala, 1788, . . 741
New York City in 1772, described by St. John de Creve-Coeur, , . . 748
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