Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
2005 Index
©2005 The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
A
Abbott and Simpson (merchants), 68
abolitionism, George W. Woodward’s correspondence on,
203–11
Academy of Music, Phila., 79
Adam, Robert, President’s House, Phila., built in
style of, 421
Adams, Abigail, description of 190 Market Street,
Phila.: president’s private office, location of, 379; summer room location, 380
Adams, John, 311; character of, book on, 484–85; creation
of U.S. Marine Band and, 377; household of, 459; moves into White House,
Washington, DC, 423; in Phila., and Ninth Street property, 420, 423; in Phila.,
official residence of, 453
Adams, Samuel, 12–13, 15–20, 28
Ad Hoc Historians group: in community-based
interpretation process, 450; in public forum on plans for President’s House
site, Phila., 452–53
Affleck, Thomas (Phila. furniture maker), 173, 176,
186
African Americans, 314: “Black Mafia” in Phila., book
on, 242–44; and category labeling, 193–94; ceremonies at Liberty Bell, 447; 18th-century
category labels for, 172–78; emancipation celebrations of, book on, 490–91; historical
interpretation and, 477–78; as kidnapping victims in Phila., notes and
documents on, 317–45; losses incurred by (1619–1865), 463; as nurses, in yellow
fever epidemic of 1793, 163–65, 171, 185–89, 193; in Pittsburgh, history of,
book on, 490–91; population increase in Phila. (1926), 77, 96–97; recreational
outings/leisure-time activities of (Phila., 1876–1926), 73–104; repeal of black
suffrage, 196; rioting during social excursions, 84–85; as troops in
Revolutionary War, 463; in yellow fever epidemic of 1793, 163–94
African Methodist Episcopal Church: in Atlantic City,
N J, 97; in Phila., 81, 83
AHA. See American Historical Association
Alabama, African American kidnap victims sold in, 323
Albright and Lahn (printers), 58
Allen, James, 175
Allen, Richard, 164, 166, 173, 177–79, 185, 192–93,
318–19
Allen, Richie, book on, 240–42
Allen, Thomas M., book rev. by, 483–84
Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church, Phila., 83
Allison, Robert J., book rev. by, 115–16
almshouse (Phila.), 321
Alnutt, Brian E., “‘The Negro Excursions’:
Recreational Outings among Philadelphia African Americans, 1876–1926,” 73–104
America: in 1816, book on, 115–16; citizenship in 18th-century
PA, 285–87; democracy in Jeffersonian PA, book on, 354–55; impact of sensuous
experience on history of, book on, 347–48; spiritualism in, book on, 119–20; urban
history of, book on, 118–19
American Freedom, American Slavery (Morgan), 351
American Historical Association, female historians
and, 123
American Revolution: consumer politics shaping, book
on, 231–32; as culture war, 12; enlisted soldiers and American identity in,
book on, 351–52; “man-stealing” before and after, 318; PA bachelors and,
283–315; Phila. (1774–1783) and, 7–44
Amherst, Maj. Gen. Jeffery, 270
amusement parks: in Ohio, 91; in Phila. area, 88–91; in
southern states, 91–92
amusements, studies on, 75–76
André, Maj. John, 22; Gentleman’s Magazine article by,
24–25; as Meschianza organizer, 23; Meschianza sketch by, 25 (illus.)
Anglo-American culture, 260, 273, 281
Anglo-American trade, in fur and skins from
backcountry PA (1760s), 133–62
Annals of Philadelphia (Watson), 376–77
Anthony, Susan B., selected papers (1873–1880) of,
book on, 238–40
anthracite coal region (PA), book on, 121–22
Appelman, Roy E., 371
Aquia Creek, VA, 424
Arch Street Prison (Phila.), 327
Arnold, Benedict, 10–11; patriotic parade in Phila.
organized by, 27; as resident of 190 High Street, Phila., 418; treason of, and
effigy parade depicting, 10–11, 32–42, 33 (illus.)
Articles of Association (1774), 8, 13, 15–17; flouting
of, 22; fostering personal restraint, 15–16
Articles of Confederation, 53
Asbury Park, NJ, 94–95, 97–99
ATAC. See Avenging The Ancestors Coalition
Atlantic City, NJ, 78; African American excursions to,
92–103; cakewalk competitions in, 101 (photo)
Atlantic ocean, European mercenary recruits journey
across, 266–67
“Atlantic Social Club,” Phila., 93
Augusta County, VA, 1859–1863, book on, 236–38
Augustan kings, 273
Augustine Park, DE, 87
Aurand, Harold W., Coalcracker Culture: Work and
Values in Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1835–1935, rev., 121–22
Austin (dower slave in Washington’s Phila. household),
463, 468; biographical sketch of, 392–93; death of, 387
Austria, mercenaries recruited from, 264, 281
Avenging The Ancestors Coalition: activities of,
469–70; perspective on President’s House site, Phila., 469–71
Ayers, Edward L., In the Presence of Mine Enemies:
War in the Heart of America, 1859–1863, rev., 236–38
B
Bach, Jeff, Voices of the Turtledoves: The Sacred
World of Ephrata, rev.,
106–7
bachelors, and the Amer. Rev., 283–315
backcountry, Seven Years’ War and, book on, 227–28
Background and preliminary planning for Interpreting
the Site at 190 High Street–Now SE Corner of 6th and Market Streets (INHP), 400
Bain [Baur], Jacob (Washington’s valet and
hairdresser), 401
Baker, Godfrey (bookstore owner), 64, 69
Baker and Conegy (general merchants), 64
Baldwin, Justice Henry, 196
Bartlett, Josiah, 31
Bartow, Thomas (merchant), 65
baseball, and racial integration, book on, 240–42
Bassett, Burnwell, Jr., Oney Judge and, 398–99
Bassett, Sarah, 184
bathhouse, at President’s House, Phila., site, 378,
380, 381 (plan)
battles. See individual battles by name of
location
Baumann, Roland M., book rev. by, 360–61
Baur [Bain], Jacob (Washington’s valet and
hairdresser), 401
Baynton, John (fur trader), 143, 146
Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan (Quaker trading firm),
144, 147, 149–50, 152, 155, 159–61; Joseph Rigby’s letter to, 133–34
Bay of Fundy estates, settlers in, 279
Bayton, John (fur trader), 138
Beates, Barbara (tobacconist), 64
Beates, Conrad (tobacco merchant), 66
Bedford County, PA, 295, 304, 306
Beeman, Richard, 284
Beissel, Georg Conrad, and Ephrata Society, book on,
106
Benedict Dorsey and Son (grocers), 64
Benjamin Rush: Patriot and Physician, by Brodsky, rev., 485–86
Berlin, Ira, 457
Bernstein, R. B., Thomas Jefferson, rev., 234–35
Bett (slave), attempted escape of, 467
Bevan, David (merchant), 69
Bezís-Selfa, John, Forging America: Ironworkers,
Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution, rev., 235–36
Bickman and Reese (textile business), 64
Biddle, Charles, 181
Biddle, Sarah, 181
biographies, of slaves, for President’s House site,
Phila., 454–55
Birch, William, engraving of President’s House, Ninth
Street, Phila., 420 (illus.),
421
The Birth
of City Planning in the United States, 1840–1917, by Peterson, rev., 358–59
Black, Jeremiah S., correspondence with George W.
Woodward, 203–16, 218–20, 222–25
“The Black
Eye on George Washington’s ‘White House’,” by Michael Coard, 461–71
“Black Mafia” (Phila.), book on, 242–44
blacks. See African Americans
Blaine, Ephraim (fur trader), 148, 151–52; as
Commissary General of Purchases in Amer. Rev., 149; warehouse work of, 150–51
Blandford
(British naval vessel), 255
Blockson, Charles, 454, 468
Blodget, Samuel, 429
Board of War, Benedict Arnold and, 40
Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American
Spiritualism, by Cox, rev., 119–20
Bolivar, W. Carl, 99
Bomar, Mary A., 408–9, 471
Boucher, Joshua and R. L. Kennon, correspondence with
Joseph Watson, 341–42
Boudinot, Elias, 42–43
Bouquet, Lt. Col. Henry, 257, 269, 272; report to,
274–75
Bourbon kings, 273–74
Bowling, Kenneth R., 42; ed., The House and Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional
Development, with Kennon., rev., 109–11
Boyer, Paul, 75
Braddock, Maj. Gen. Edward, 255, 258
Bradford, Thomas, Jr. (clerk of Phila. Select
Council), 341
Bradford, William (PA attorney general), 169
Bradley, James, 95, 97
Brandywine Springs Park, DE, 83
Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years’ War in
Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754–1765,
by Ward, rev., 227–28
Brecht, Philip (locksmith), 57
Breen, T. H., The Marketplace of Revolution: How
Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, rev., 231–32
Breton, William L., watercolor of original President’s
House, 190 High Street, Phila., 376–77
Bristol, Eng., study of amusements in, 75
Britain, fur and skin trade with, 137–38
British army, in Seven Years’ War, book on, 227–28
British navy, 261
British soldiers, as knights in Phila. Meschianza
celebration, 23
British troops: occupation of Phila., 9; in Phila.,
sporting events organized by, 22
Brodsky, Alyn, Benjamin Rush: Patriot and
Physician, rev., 485–86
Brown, Job, correspondence with Joseph Watson, 338
Brown, Washington (African American kidnap victim),
letters concerning, 342–43
Bryan, George, 308
Buchanan, James, correspondence with George W.
Woodward, 217–18
Bucks County, PA, 306
Bunting, Josiah (business partner of Joseph Watson),
317
Burt, Nathaniel: gutting of 190 High Street, Phila.,
474; lecture (1875) on and plan of President’s House, 190 High Street, Phila.,
375–76, 376 (plan), 379
Bush Hill epidemic hospital, 189
Bushman, Richard, 47–49
butter, production and sale in country stores, 61–62
C
Cakewalk competitions, in Atlantic City, NJ, 101
(photo)
Calhoun, John C., 200–201
Callender, Robert (fur trader), 140–41, 143, 147–48,
153, 157–58, 160, 162
Camden and Atlantic Railroad, 93, 100
Cameron, Simon, 196
Campbell, Alexander V., “A ‘nursery for soldiers to
the whole world’: Colonel James Prevost and the Foreign Protestant Military
Migration of the Mid-Eighteenth Century,” 253–81
Campbell, Dr. George W., 185
Campbell, John, Earl of Loudoun, 260
Canada, surrender of (1760), 271
Cannon, James, 37, 308
Cannon, Jesse (slave trader), 322
Cannon, Patty (wife of Jesse), 322, 328
Cannon-Johnson family (kidnapping ring), 322–23, 328; extradition
warrants for, 326
Cape May, NJ, 88, 92, 94–95
capitalism, in Jeffersonian PA, book on, 354–55
Carey, Mathew, 164–66, 178, 185–86, 188–89, 192–93
Carlisle, PA, fur trade and, 133–62
The Carpenters’ Company of Phila., 9
Carr, Henry (African American slave trader), 323, 327
Carshore, Andrew Mayfield, 425
Cassels, Richard, 429
Casway, Jerrold, Ed Delahanty in the Emerald Age of
Baseball, rev., 240–41
Catin, Edward, 185
Cayton, Horace, Chicago free time study (1945) of, 76
Cazenove, Theophile, 46
Centennial Exhibition, Phila. (1876), 76–77, 79
Central Presbyterian Church, Phila., 83
ceramics, in archaeological find at “House of
Families,” Mount Vernon, VA, 441
Chambers-Schiller, Lee Virginia, 314–15
Charles, Robert, 258
Charles II (king of England), 288
Charlotte (queen of King George III), 279
Chester County, PA: Committee of Inspection and
Observation, 18, 20; taxable residents by sex, property, and marital status
(1774), 305 (table); taxation in, 283–306; tax collection in (1718–1775),
294–95; tax rate returns (1715–1788), 296 (table)
Chestnut Hill Park (“White City”), Phila. (amusement
park), 90–91
Chicago, free time of African Americans, study of
(1945), 76
children, African American, vulnerability in Phila.,
321–22
Christian Recorder (weekly journal), 81, 83, 94, 97–98
Chudacoff, Howard, 287
Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America, by Demos, rev., 483–84
citizenship, in eighteenth-century PA, 285–87
Citizens Republican Club, Phila., 89–90, 102
City Hall, Phila. See Old City Hall, Phila.
City Tavern, Phila., 12–20, 19 (illus.); threatened razing of, 10–20;
Washington household at, 375
Ciulla, Vincent, 451, 453
civic culture, in nineteenth-century America, book on,
118–19
Civil War, American (1861–1865): correspondence of
George W. Woodward during, 203–25; Franklin Country, PA, and Augusta County, VA,
in, book on, 236–37; Gettysburg, books on, 116–18; Pennsylvania Germans in,
book on, 356–57
“Civis” (pseudonym), 307
Clark, Christopher, 48, 56
Clark, William, expedition journals of, book on,
111–13
Clark, William (wet goods agent), 66
Clarkson, Mathew (Phila. mayor), 171, 189
Claus, Daniel, 273
Clemens, Paul G. E., 49
Clifford, James, 458
Clifford, Thomas, 189–90
Cline, John. See Klein, John (indentured
servant)
Clinton, Gen. Henry, 21, 34; as resident of 190 High
Street, Phila., 418
clothing, in archaeological find at “House of
Families,” Mount Vernon, VA, 440–41
Coalcracker Culture: Work and Values in Pennsylvania
Anthracite, 1835–1935, by Aurand, rev., 121–22
coal mining, in northeastern PA, book on, 121–22
Coard, Michael, “The Black Eye on George
Washington’s ‘White House’,” 461–71
Coates, James, Baltimore leisure-time study and (1890–1920),
76
Coats, William (merchant), 68
Cole, Arthur H., 47
Collins, John, 425
Colored American Magazine, 99
commemoration: history vs., 456; scholarship vs.,
476–77; of slaves at President’s House site, Phila., arguments for and against,
453–544; of slaves at President’s House site, Phila., ATAC’s views on, 470–71;
of slaves at President’s House site, Phila., community input for, 451–52; of
slaves at President’s House site, Phila., congressionally mandated, 450; of
slaves at President’s House site, Phila., humanization and individualization
and, 467–68; of slaves at President’s House site, Phila., “Noosed Nine,” 461,
468, 471; of slaves at President’s House site, Phila., scholarly vs. public’s
understanding, 452; of slaves at President’s House site, Phila., themes in, 451.
See also historic-site interpretation
Committee of Privates, 10, 302
Committee of Safety, 302
composition ornaments, manufacture of, book on, 487–88
Concord Township, PA, monthly meeting in, 284
Condit, W. J., drawing of Government House, New York
City, 415
Coney Island, NY (amusement park), 77–78, 86, 89–90,
98
Congress, U.S., in 1790s, book on, 109–11
Congress Hall, Phila.: proximity to President’s House
site, 373, 446; restoration of, 446
conscript law, George W. Woodward’s correspondence on,
217–18
Constitution, U.S., slavery clauses in, 463–64
Constitutional Convention, PA (1837–1838), 196–97
Constitutionalists, 37–44
consumers, in early America, book on, 231–32
“Continella” (Dutchess of Independence), 30–30n56
Continental army, 312
Continental Congress: 1st (1776), and city of Phila.,
7–44; 1st (1776), states’ constitutions and, 302; 2nd (1783), 14
Continental currency, rescinded as legal tender in PA,
39
Convenient and Ornamental Architecture (Crunden), 417
correspondence: on African American kidnap victims in
Phila., 317–45; on Civil War (1861–1865), 203–25; on plans for President's
House, 190 High Street, Phila., 379–80, 385, 391, 403–4, 407, 418, 462–63. See
also individual correspondents by name
Coryell, Lewis S., correspondence with George W.
Woodward, 216–17
Cottinger, Elizabeth (Phila. businesswoman), 64
Coulson, E. Bret, book rev. by, 356–57
country stores, in early mid-Atlantic states, 45–72
Courtwright, David, 2878
Cox, Robert S., Body and Soul: A Sympathetic
History of American Spiritualism,
rev., 119–20
Coxe, Tench, 184
Crammond, Maj., 24
Cresson, Caleb, Jr., 184–85
Cresson, Caleb, Sr., 184
crime, in Phila., “Black Mafia” and, book on, 242–44
Croghan, George, 140–41, 144, 147–48
crowds, in Phila. (1774–1783), 7–44, 11n10
Crown Gardens, OH, 91
Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse
Egalitarianism and Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania, by Shankman, rev., 354–55
Crunden, John (architect), 417
Cumberland County, PA, 148–49, 152, 154; fur trade in,
152
Cumberland Valley, PA, 145; fur trade in, 139
Cupid (slave), attempted escape of, 467
Curtain, Andrew G. (governor of PA), 197–98
Custis, Daniel Parke, slaves of, 436; legal status
following death of, 387–88
Custis, Elizabeth, 1786 marriage to Thomas Law, 397
Custis, George Washington Parke, on Washington’s
slaves, 440
Custis, Martha (widow of Daniel), marriage to George
Washington, 387
Cyrus (slave), 402
D
Dahomey Park, OH (amusement park), 91
Dailey, James (African American kidnap victim),
letters concerning, 342–43
Damn Dutch: Pennsylvania Germans at Gettysburg, by Valuska and Keller, rev., 356–57
Darroch, Henry (merchant), 62, 65–66, 68
Davis, Susan, 43
Davy, in Washington’s Phila. household, 401
Day, Thomas (fur trader), 150, 152
Deane, Silas (French commissioner), 36
Declaration of Rights, 311
Deer skins, 135–36, 151
deindustrialization, in Pittsburgh, book on, 123–24
Delahanty, Ed, book on, 240–41
Delaware, Cannon-Johnson gang in, 322
Delaware County jail, 175
Delaware River, George Washington crossing of, book
on, 353–54
Delaware Valley, in-migration of black southerners to,
96–97
“Delivering the Goods: The Country Storekeeper and
Inland Commerce in the Mid-Atlantic,” by Diane Wenger, 45–72
Delphy (sister of Oney Judge), 399
Democratic Press (newspaper), Mayor Watson’s appeal and reward offer in (1827), 327
Demos, John, 287–88; Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America, rev., 483–84
Demuth, Christian (tobacconist), 58
Denmark, mercenaries recruited from, 264
DesBarres, Lt. Joseph F. W., 273, 278–79
Deshler-Morris House, Germantown, Phila., Washington
household in, 393, 448
Des Jardins, Julie, Women and the Historical
Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880–1945,
rev., 122–23
Detweiler, Susan Gray, 377
Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of
Pittsburgh and Its Region, by Tarr, ed., rev., 123–24
Diamond, James, 425
Die Deutschen im Amerikanischen Bürgerkriege (Kaufmann), 356
discovery, Lewis and Clark expedition of, book on,
111–13
Dobson, George (brother of Joseph), 149
Dobson, Joseph (fur trader), 148–50, 153, 155–62
Documenting Pennsylvania’s Past: The First Century of
the Pennsylvania State Archives, by Shirk
Jr., ed., rev., 360–61
documents, Euro-American control of, 477–78
Donegal, Lancaster County, PA, 148
Dorsey, Benedict, Jr., (businessman), 67
Dorsey, Benedict (father of Abby Dorsey Morris), 191
Dorsey, Leonard (uncle of Abby Dorsey Morris), 192
Douglass, Frederick, 79
dower slaves, of George Washington, 387–88; plans for,
390, 390n44
Downs, Rev. R. R., 83
Drake, St. Clair, Chicago free time study (1945) of,
76
Draw the Lightning Down: Benjamin Franklin and
Electrical Technology in the Age of Enlightenment, by Schiffer, rev., 348–49
Drinker, Daniel, 68
Drinker, Elizabeth, 24, 30; yellow fever epidemic of
1793 and, 172–73, 180
Duane, James, 34
Du Bois, W. E. B., 73, 80; The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study, 85
Dubs, Martin (merchant), 65–66
Dubs and Earl (wet goods agents), 65–66
Dubs and Marquedant (wet goods agents), 66
Dulles, Foster Rhea, amusement preference study of
(1940), 74–75
Duncan, Daniel (tavernkeeper), 153
Dunmore, Lord, freedom proclamation of 1775, 468–69
Dunn, Richard and Mary, 291
E
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, 379, 404; on President’s
House, 190 High Street, Phila., 447n4
effigy parade, of Benedict Arnold, in Phila (1780),
10–11, 32–42, 33 (illus.)
egalitarianism, in Jeffersonian PA, book on, 354–55
Ege, George (ironmaster), 59
Eichholtz, Jacob, book on, 113–15
1816: America Rising, by Skeen, rev., 115–16
Eldredge, Samuel (merchant), 65–67, 69
“Elector” (pseudonym of Dr. Thomas Young), 306–7
electrical energy, in eighteenth-century America and
Europe, book on, 348–49
Eller, David B., book rev. by, 106–7
Ellery, William, 28
Ellinger, Casper (farmer), 46, 63
Ellis, Joseph, on Washington as slave owner, 466
emancipation, African American celebrations of, book
on, 490–91
England, borough franchise model from, 307
Enlightenment, electrical technology during, book on,
348–49
Ephrata Society, Lancaster County, PA, book on, 106–7
epidemics, yellow fever, in Phila. (1793), 163–94
Erma Social Club, Phila., 84–85
ethnography project, on interpretation of President’s
House site, Phila., 449
Europa
(ship), 267
Europe, mercenaries recruited from, 264
exhibitions, Enola Gay, controversy over, 457
F
Fairlamb, Nicholas (Phila. sheriff), 175
Fanelli, Doris Devine, “History, Commemoration, and an
Interdisciplinary Approach to the President’s House Site,” 445–60
Fatherly, Sarah E., book rev. by, 349–51`
Fattah, Chaka (U.S. Congressman), 410, 470
Faunces, Samuel (New York tavern owner), 454
Federal City. See Washington, DC
Federated Colored Women’s Clubs, 1896 convention of,
85
Fergusson, Elizabeth Graeme, book on, 349–50
Fesch family, 280
Fesch, John Jacob, 279
Fesch, Capt. John Rudolph, 263
Fesch, Capt. Rudolph, 263
Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African
American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808–1915, by
Kachun, rev., 490–91
feu de joie
(running fire), pyrotechnic displays, 274
The Final report to the United States Congress by the
Philadelphia National Shrines Park Commission (Peterson), 409
Fischer, David Hackett, Washington’s Crossing, rev., 353–54
Fisher, Jabez (son of Miers), 176
Fisher, Mary (African American kidnap victim), 323–24;
letter concerning, 341–42
Fisher, Miers (merchant), 172–73, 183–84
Fisher, Samuel, 176
Fisher, Samuel Rowland, on effigy parade in Phila.,
40–41
Fisher, Sarah Logan, 24, 174, 186, 188, 191
Fisher, Thomas, Jr., 173
Fisher, Thomas (son of Miers), 172–73, 192
Fisher family, in yellow fever epidemic of 1793, 175
Fitzgerald, B. G., 99
Fitzgerald’s Auditorium, Atlantic City, NJ, 99
Flexner, James Thomas, 401
Flower, John (craftsman), 58
Folmer, Jacob (tinsmith), 58
Forbes, Gen. John, army of, in Seven Years’ War, 149
Forbes wagon road, 137, 145
Foreigners in the Union Army and Navy (Lonn), 356
foreign mercenaries, and mid-eighteenth century
migration to North America, 253–81. See also Royal American Regiments
(1756–1766)
Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the
Industrious Revolution, by Bezís-Selfa, rev., 235–36
Fort Allen, 137
Fort Augusta, 137
Fort Chartres, 145, 158
Fort Duquesne, 269
Fort Niagara expeditionary force, 270
Fort Pitt, 133, 137, 144, 146–47, 149–52, 158
Fort Sumter, Confederate firing on (1861), 202
Fortune, T. Thomas, 80, 91
Fort Wilson Riot, 38–39
Foster, Herbert, 98
The Founding
Fathers and the Place of Religion in America, by Lambert, rev., 107–9
The Founding Fathers and the Politics of Character, by Trees, rev., 484–85
Fourth of July (1778), 44; formal and informal celebrations
on, 21–32
Fox, Henry, 259
Frank Harrison Republican Club, Phila., 85
Franklin, Benjamin, 144, 310–11; on America’s future,
480; on bachelors, 308–9; and electrical technology, book on, 348–49; Poor Richard’s Almanac, 309
Franklin, Walter, 412
Franklin County, PA, 1859–1863, book on, 236–38
Franklin-Osgood House, New York City, as George Washington’s
official residence, 411; description and history of, 412–13.
Franks, Rebecca (Phila. socialite), 22–24, 30
Frazier, E. Franklin, study of young black Washingtonians,
75–76
Frederick Douglass Hospital, Phila., 87
Free African Society, 178, 180
Freedom Trail, Boston, 456
freeholders, right to vote and, 300
Fresnel (tutor), 382
Friend, John (merchant), 69
Friendly Association, 144
frontier history, Indian wars and, book on, 227–28
Fugitive Slave Act (1793): effects of, 390, 469; Washington
signs, 390, 464, 473, 475
Fuller, B., 171, 174, 190
“Fundamental Constitutions” of PA, Penn’s model of,
291
fur trade, in backcountry PA (1760s), 133–62
G
Gabriel, Michael P., book rev. by, 230–31, 353–54
Gage, Maj. Gen. Thomas, 276
Gallman, J. Matthew, book rev. by, 236–38
Galloway, Grace Growden, 34–35
Galloway, Joseph, 22, 144
Gardener, Betsy, 191
Garrett, Clarke, book rev. by, 119–20
Garrigues, Samuel (Phila. constable), 322, 327–28
Gayda, William ( country store customer), 56
gender, historical endeavors and, book on, 122–23
gender relations: in occupied Phila. (1778), 24–27; in
postoccupation Phila., 30–32
Geneva Seminary, NY, 195
George II (king of England), 256, 263, 273, 275
George III (king of England), 277
Gérard, Conrad, 26–27
German American corps, 258
German Americans, rioting during social excursion, 85
German Lutheran Church, Schaefferstown, PA, 51
German Reformed Church, Schaefferstown,PA, 53
German Sectarians of Pennsylvania: A Critical and
Legendary History of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers (Sachse), 107
The German
Soldier in the Wars of the United States (Rosengarten), 356
Germany: mercenaries recruited from, 257, 262, 264–65;
recruiting sergeants in, 277
Geschichte des 75sten Regiments, Pa. Vols. (Nachtigall), 356
Gettysburg, Battle of: books on, 116–18; Pennsylvania
Germans at, book on, 356–57; U.S. Army at, book on, 116–18
Gettysburg,
by Sears, rev., 116–18
The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command (Coddington), 117
Gibbs, Joseph (servant), 172–73
Giesberg, Judith Ann, book rev. by, 488–89
Gilded Age, politics in, book on, 357–58
Giles (dower slave in Washington’s Phila. residence),
463, 468; biographical sketch of, 395
Gilje, Paul A., Liberty on the Waterfront: American
Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution, rev., 232–33
Gilpin, Joshua (cousin of Thomas Fisher), 173, 192
Girty, Simon (fur trader), 152
Gitts family, in yellow fever epidemic of 1793, 184
Glasco, Laurence A., ed., The WPA History of the
Negro in Pittsburgh, rev.,
491–92
Gloucester City, NJ, 88–89, 92
Gmelin, Capt. George Adam, 267, 279
The Godless Constitution (Kramnick and Moore), 107
Gordon, Ann D., ed., The Selected Papers of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Vol. 3, National Protection for National Citizens, 1873–1880,
rev., 238–40
Government House, New York City: as George
Washington’s official residence, 411; as Washington’s official residence,
building of, 413–14; as Washington’s official residence, president’s office in,
383
Governor’s Island, NY, 268
Grabill, Michael (oil miller), 60–61, 68
Gradual Abolition of Slavery Act (1780), 170, 455, 468;
proposed exemptions under, 388–89; provisions of, 388
Grand Army of the Republic, Robert Bryan post of, Sept.
1891 excursion of, 87
Grant’s Hill, Battle of (1758), 269
Grass, Michael, 273
Gray, William, 164, 173, 177–78, 180, 192–93
Great Road, 145
Green, Jesse, 328
Griffin, Sean Patrick, Philadelphia’s “Black
Mafia”: A Social and Political History, rev., 242–44
Griffith, Sally, 192–93
Gugy, Conrad, 273
Guinand family, 256
Guinand, Henry, Sr., 256
Guinand merchant house, 262, 266–67
Gumienny, Kevin, book rev. by, 348–49
Gustafson, Melanie, book rev. by, 238–40
H
Habsburg territories, mercenaries recruited from, 262
Haddon Hall Hotel, Atlantic City, NJ, 93
Haines, Casper, 187
Haines, Catherine, 183
Haines, Margaret, 187, 191
Haines, Reuben, 187
Haldimand, Lt. Col. Frederick, 257, 269–70, 278; as
Quebec’s governor (1777–1786), 272
Hall, Jeffrey C., The Stand of the U.S. Army at
Gettysburg, rev., 116–18
Haller, Mark H., book rev. by, 242–44
Hallett, Stephen, 426
Hamilton, Alexander, 53; character of, book on, 484–85
Hamilton, J. W. (John), 324–26; correspondence with
Joseph Watson, 333–37
Hamilton, William, countryseat of, 418, 418n28
Hancock, John, 20
Hanover, William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, 256
Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories, by Humez, rev., 488–89
Harrisburg State Journal (newspaper), 93
Harris’ Ferry, PA, 139
Harrison, Benjamin, 20
Hasenclever, Peter, 279
Hawke, Vice Adm. Edward, 267–68
Hazard, Ebenezer, 174, 187
Heidelberg Township, PA, 52
Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History, by Morone, rev., 105–6
Henderson, Amy Hudson, book rev. by, 487–88
Henderson, John, 324–26, 329; correspondence
with Joseph Watson, 330–32, 334–40,
343–44
Hepp, John H. IV, book rev. by, 118–19
Herbert, Leila, 402
Hercules (slave in Washington’s Phila. household), 468;
biographical sketch of, 393–94; escape of, 440, 467, 474; outside activities
of, 442–43; portrait of, cover illus.;
Washington’s preferential treatment of, 440
High Street (No. 190), Phila., Washington’s official
residence on. See Masters-Penn-Morris house, 190 High Street, Phila.
Hills, John, map of Phila., 379
Hinderaker, Eric, 144
historians, scholarship and public history: blending
of, 478; competing needs of, 478; role in 21st century, 481
Historical Records in Pennsylvania (1983 report of PSA), 360
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: inaugural meeting
of, 446n2; Joseph Watson Papers held at, 317–45; in public forum on plans for
President’s House site, Phila., 452–53
historical truth: political imperatives of, 475; scholars
and, 476–77
historic-site interpretation: honesty in, 456–57; President’s
House site, Phila., approaches in establishing, 445–60; President’s House site,
Phila., ATAC’s perspective on, 469–71; President’s House site, Phila., daily
life of slaves in, 433–43; President’s House site, Phila., INHP resistance to,
402–6; President’s House site, Phila., known and unknown aspects of, 479;
President’s House site, Phila., scholarly understanding vs. public history in,
459–60, 473–81; President’s House site, Phila., values guiding, 454–55. See
also commemoration
“History, Commemoration, and an Interdisciplinary
Approach to the President’s House Site,” by Doris Devine Fanelli, 445–60
The History of a German-Polish Civil War Brigade (Pula), 356
Hoban, James: rebuilds White House after destruction
by British, 430; White House designs of, 425–26, 427 (plan), 428 (illus.); White House designs of, changes
to, 426–29
Hockley, Thomas (hardware shop owner), 64
Hoeffel, Joseph (U.S. congressman), 408
Hoffer, Peter Charles, Sensory Worlds in Early
America, rev., 347–48
Hoffman, Jacob, 62
Holker, John, as resident of 190 High Street, Phila.,
418
Holland, Capt. Samuel, 273, 278
Hollingsworth, Levi, 173, 176, 186
Holt, Michael F., 200
Holt, Sharon Ann: book rev. by, 232–33; “Questioning
the Answers: Modernizing Public History to Serve the Citizens,” 473–81
Holt, Thomas, 165
homosexuals, 290, 292
Hood, Adrienne D., The Weaver’s Craft: Cloth,
Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania, rev., 228–29
Hoskins, Caleb (cousin of Benjamin Smith), 190–91
The House
and Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development, by Bowling and Kennon, eds., rev.,
109–11
“House for Families,” at Mount Vernon, VA, 437, 438 (illus.); archaeological finds from,
438–41, 439 (photo)
House of Refuge for Colored Children (Phila.), 320
House of Refuge, Phila. (1828), 320
Houston, William Churchill, 41–42
Howe, Gen. William, 21–22; at Brandywine, 22; Meschianza
farewell for, 24; as resident of 190 High Street, Phila., 418
Howell, David, 43
Humez, Jean M., Harriet Tubman: The Life and the
Life Stories, rev., 488–89
Hungary, mercenaries recruited from, 257
Huntington, Benjamin, 42
Hurley, James and Fanny, servants in Washington’s
Phila. household, 385–86
Hutchins, Frank W., 379
Hutchinson, Thomas (lieutenant governor of MA), 18
I
icehouse, at President’s House site, Phila., 378, 435;
discovery of, 404; location of, 384 (plan), 386
IHA. See Independence Hall Association
Illinois, and backcountry PA fur trade (1760s), 144,
146–47
Illinois Company, 144–45
Imroff, Fidus and Jane, servants in Wahington’s Phila.
household, 385–86
indentured servants: slaves vs., 470; in Washington’s
Phila. residence, 400–401
independence, personal, determination of, 310–13
Independence Hall, Phila.: George W. Woodward’s speech
at, 197–98; preservation of, 445–46
Independence Hall Association, 372; on Olin
Partnership footprint design for President’s House site, 407; purpose of, 371
Independence Mall, 446; design of, 447; INHP map of,
405n86
Independence National Historical Park: creation of,
474; General Management Plan for, 447–48; interpretive programs at, 445; map of
Independence Mall, 405n86; public forum held by, 408–9, 452–53; REAP project
conducted by, 449; redevelopment of, 447–48; scholarly roundtable conducted by,
408; visitor experiences at, 409, 458; Washington’s slaves and commemoration
of, 470–71; Washington’s slaves and refuted report (2002) identifying, 400–401
industrial revolution, ironworkers and, book on,
235–36
Industry
(snow), 266
INHP. See Independence National Historical Park
inmates, and single men, differences between, 296–97,
300
“Interpreting the Dimensions of Daily Life for the
Slaves Living in the President’s House and at Mount Vernon,” by Dennis J.
Pogue, 433–43
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of
America, 1859–1863, by Ayers, rev., 236–38
Intolerable Acts, 13
iron industry, before 1840, book on, 235–36
ironworkers, before 1840, book on, 235–36
Irvin, Benjamin H.: book rev. by, 484–85; “The Streets
of Philadelphia: Crowds, Congress, and the Political Culture of Revolution,
1774–1783,” 7–44
Irwin, John (fur trader), 147–50, 152, 155–56
Ivory, Thomas, 426
J
Jack (slave), attempted escape of, 467
Jefferson, Thomas, 16; architectural designs of, 425; book
on, 234–35; character of, book on, 484–85; completes White House, 430; letter
to L’Enfant, 423–24; living conditions in Phila. (1776), 448
Jeffersonian Republicans, in PA, book on, 354–55
Jenkins, Elijah (pastor), 100
Jenks, Ann (mother of Joseph Watson), 317
Jensen, Joan M., on butter production by women, 62–63
Joe [Richardson] (dower slave at Washington’s Phila.
residence), 399–400, 468
John Davis and Company (textile business), 64
John Milner Associates, Inc., discovery of icehouse at
president’s House site, Phila., 404
Johnson, Ebenezer F. (brother of Joe Johnson, slave
trader), 323–24, 326, 328
Johnson, Joe (African American kidnap victim), 323–24
Johnson, Joe (slave trader), 322–23, 327
Johnson, William (deputy superintendent of Indian
affairs), 144, 146
Jones, Absalom, 164, 166, 173, 177–78, 180, 192–93,
318
Jones, Jack (son of Ralph), 90–91
Jones, Ralph (Episcopal pastor), 90n
Jones, William Henry, recreation of African Americans
in Washington, DC, study of, 75
Jordan, Winthrop, 166, 174
Joseph Watson Papers, African American kidnappings
documented in, 317–45
Journal of American History, review process for submissions to, 123
Judge, Andrew (father of Oney), 397
Judge, Oney (dower slave at Washington’s Phila.
residence), 468; biographical sketch of, 397–99; escape of, 467, 474; escape
of, historically interpreted, 479–80; escape of, Washington’s reaction to, 455;
Washington’s pursuit of, 390
K
Kachun, Mitch, Festivals of Freedom: Memory and
Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808–1915, rev., 490–91
Kann, Mark, 287
Kashatus, William C., September Swoon: Richie
Allen, the ’64 Phillies, and Racial Integration, rev., 240–42
Kaskaskia, IL, 146
Kasson, John, on Coney Island of 1890s and early
1900s, 77–78, 82, 86, 90
Kearsley, John, 18
Keller, Christian B., Damn Dutch: Pennsylvania
Germans at Gettysburg, with
Valuska, rev., 356–57
Kennon, Donald R., ed., The House and Senate in the
1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development, with Bowling, rev., 109–11
Kennon, R. L. and Joshua Boucher, correspondence with
Joseph Watson, 341–42
Kerber, Linda, 301, 313
kidnapping, of African Americans in Phila., notes and
documents on, 317–45
King, Martin Luther, Jr., assassination of, history
vs. belief in, 452
Klein, John (indentured servant), 400, 402
Klein, John (tanner), 59, 68
Klein, Martin (indentured servant), 400–401
Klepp, Susan E.: African American immunity noted by,
179; on “Continella,” 30n56; on increase in free African American Phila.
population (1775–1800), 170; on saturnalia, 29
Knouff, Gregory T., The Soldiers’ Revolution:
Pennsylvanians in Arms and the Forging of Early American Identity, rev., 351–52
Koschnik, Albrecht, book rev. by, 354–55
Kreider, Lewis (storekeeper), 51
Kromkowski, Charles A., book rev. by, 109–11
Kulikoff, Allan, 48
L
labor supply: single men and, 297–300; in yellow fever
epidemic of 1793, 163–94
Lafayette, George Washington Motier, 382, 396
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du
Motier, Marquis de, 413; in Phila. (1824), 318
Lake Champlain, land claims around, 275–76
Lakeside Park, NJ, 80–82, 84–86
Lambert, Frank, The Founding Fathers and the Place
of Religion in America,
rev., 107–9
Lamoreaux, Naomi R., 49; on backcountry PA fur
traders, 157
Lancaster County, PA, 295, 304–6; taxable residents by
sex, property, and marital status (1774), 305 (table)
Lancaster Turnpike, wagons on, 46
Lanctot, Neil, book revs. by, 240–42
Langdon, Elizabeth, and Oney Judge, 398
Langdon family, Oney Judge and, 399
La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Duc De, 253–54
Larson, Roy. See Independence Hall Association
Latrobe, B. Henry, 429
Laurens, Henry, 27, 31, 38
Law, Thomas, 1786 marriage to Elizabeth Custis, 397
Lawler, Edward, Jr., 450, 468; “The President’s House
Revisited,” 371–410, 433
Lawrence, John, project (1767), of Robert Smith, 374n4
Lear, Tobias, 379; correspondence with George
Washington, 379–80, 407, 418, 462–63; correspondence with Washington, biographical
details of slaves gleaned from, 391; correspondence with Washington, on
quarters for married servants, 385; correspondence with Washington, on quarters
for slaves and servants, 403–4; office of, 383
Lee, Arthur (French commissioner), 36
Lee, Benjamin F. (editor), 94
Lee, Richard Henry, 31
Lee, Will (body servant to George Washington), 395–96
Leinster House, Dublin, Eire, 429
LeMaigre, Peter, wife first to be diagnosed with
yellow fever, 1793, 171
Lemon, James, 286, 299
L’Enfant, Pierre Charles, Federal City design and,
419, 421, 423–24
Letitia Court house, Phila., 446n2
Letort, James (fur trader), 140
The Letters of Lewis and Clark with Related Documents,
1784–1854 (Jackson, ed.), 112
Levy, Hannah, 35
Lewis, Andrew, J., book rev. by, 111–13
Lewis, Edwin O. See Independence Hall
Association
Lewis, Francis, 36
Lewis, Meriwether, expedition journals of, book on,
111–13
Lewis, Ronald L., book rev. by, 121–22
Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists (Cutright), 113
The Lewis
and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery, by Moulton, ed., rev.,
111–13
Ley, Christian, 71
liberty, concepts of, mariners and, book on, 232–33
Liberty Bell: African American ceremonies at, 447; first
mention of, 462n3; transformation from functional to symbolic object, 450
Liberty Bell Center, Phila., 446; archaeological
survey for, 435; construction changes to, 407–8; grand opening of, 408; interpretive
panels rewritten, 450; proximity to President’s House site, 375, 462
Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture
in the Age of Revolution, by Gilje, rev., 232–33
Library Company of Philadelphia, 9
Ligonier, Sir John, 256
Lincoln, Abraham, 199; memorials to, style and
character of, 475–76
Linenthal, Edward T.: in community-based
interpretation process, 450; on historical vs. commemorative voice, 457
Lining, John (physician), 180
List, Lewis (servant), 391
Literary Repository, on
building of Government House in New York City, 414–15
Lithuania, mercenaries recruited from, 257
Little John
(sloop), 327
Livingston, William (governor of NJ), 26
lobbying, of Congress and Senate, in 1790s, 109–11
Logan, James, 140
Long Branch, NJ, 92
Looney, J. Jefferson, book rev. by, 234–35
Lorraine Motel, Memphis, 452
Louisbourg, Canada, conquest of (1758), 270
Louis XV (king of France), 255, 266–67
Low, Setha (ethnographer), 449
Luna Park (amusement park), 89
M
Mabley, Abbé de, 310–11
Macomb House, New York City, as George Washington’s
official residence, 411; description and history of, 413
Maddach, James (cordwainer), 57
Madison, James, character of, book on, 484–85
Manlove, Alexander (African American kidnap victim),
323, 327–28
“Mansion House Farm,” at Mount Vernon, VA, 436; brick
slave quarters at, 437
man-stealing: of African Americans in Phila., notes
and documents on, 317–45; foreign mercenaries and, 263
Marcus (Rush family servant), 176, 188
mariners, and concept of liberty, book on, 232–33
marital status, of men, poll tax and, 283–315
maritime settlements, 279
The Marketplace
of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, by Breen, rev., 231–32
markets: in early America, book on, 231–32; in 19th-century
America, book on, 118–19
marriage: Benjamin Rush advocates, 309–10; tax rates
and, 304–5, 305 (tables)
Marshall, Christopher, 12–13, 15–16, 18, 20
Martin, John (wet goods agent), 66
Martin Luther King Association for Non-Violence, 447
Maryland, Cannon-Johnson gang in, 322
Maryland Historical Society, White House designs held
by, 425
Mason-Dixon Line, African American child kidnapping
and, 318
Massachusetts Historical Society, Jefferson designs
held by, 425
Masters, Mary Lawrence, 418
Masters, Polly (daughter of Mary Lawrence Masters),
418
Masters-Penn-Morris house, 190 High Street, Phila.: acquisition
by Robert Morris, 418; as Adams’ official residence, 419; demolition of, 445; description
of, 421; early owners and occupiers of, 418; Robert Smith and, 374, 374n4; as
Washington’s official residence, 411, 418. See also President’s House
site, 190 High Street, Phila.
Matlack, Timothy (radical organizer), 17, 36–37, 307
Matson, Cathy, book rev. by, 235–36
Mayer, Holly A., book rev. by, 351–52
Mayor’s Court, Phila., 320, 327
McCall, Peter, correspondence with George W. Woodward,
221–22
McClane, John (merchant), 56
McComb, Eleazer, 42
McComb, John, Jr., 414; elevation and plan for
Government House by, 415–18, 416 (illus.),
417 (plan)
McCurdy, John Gilbert, “Taxation and Representation:
Pennsylvania Bachelors and the American Revolution,” 283–315
Melish, Joanne, 166–67
Meller, Helen E., 75
Melting Pot Soldiers: The Union’s Ethnic Regiments (Burton), 356
memory, politics of, women and, book on, 122–23
mercenaries, foreign, and mid-eighteenth century
migration to North America, 253–81. See also Royal American Regiments
(1756–1766)
Merritt, Jane T., book rev. by, 231–32
Meschianza, 23–26, 25 (illus.)
Middle Atlantic states, storekeepers and commerce in,
45–72
middlemen, and fur trade in backcountry PA (1760s),
133–62
Mifflin, Thomas (governor of PA), 419
military, African Americans serving in Revolutionary
War, 463
Miller, Jacquelyn C.: book rev. by, 485–86; “The Wages
of Blackness: African American Workers and the Meanings of Race during
Philadelphia’s 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic,” 163–94
Miller, Marla R., book rev. by, 228–29
Miller, Thomas (merchant), 65–66
Mississippi, African American kidnap victims sold in,
324–26
Mississippi River, fur trade along, 146
Mock, Henry (farmer), 60
Moll (dower slave in Washington’s Phila. household),
biographical sketch of, 391–92, 468
“Mollies.” See homosexuals
Monongahela River, Braddock’s defeat at, 255
Montreal, Canada, advance upon (1760), 270
Moore, Mr. (mason), 415
Moore, Peter (cooper), 60
morality, of bachelors, 289–91
Morgan, Benjamin (New Orleans merchant), 326
Morgan, David H., 379
Morgan, Edmund, 287–88
Morgan, George, 138, 144, 146
Morone, James A., Hellfire Nation: The Politics of
Sin in American History,
rev., 105–6
Morris, Abigail (daughter-in-law of Margaret), 163,
191–92
Morris, James (alias for John Purnell). See
Purnell, John
Morris, John (son of Margaret), 163, 191
Morris, Margaret, and yellow fever epidemic in 1793,
163–68, 169, 181, 183–84, 186, 190–92
Morris, Milcah (sister of Margaret), 190
Morris, Richard (son of Margaret), 169
Morris, Robert, 37–38, 42, 448; acquisition
of 190 High Street, Phila., 418; deed of sale for 190 High Street, Phila. (Mar.
18, 1795), 418; icehouse built by, 435; investments of, 462
Mossell, Sadie, 90
The Most
Learned Woman in America: A Life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, by Ousterhout, rev., 349–50
Moulton, Gary E., ed., The Lewis and Clark
Journals: An American Epic of Discovery, rev., 111–13
Mount Vernon, VA: archaeological record at, 438–40,
439 (photo); described, 436–37; documentary record for, 435; and President’s
House, Phila., differences between, 437–38; slave quarters at, 436–37
Municipal Research Bureau of Philadelphia, 74
Münster, Herbert, Baron von, 263
museum exhibits: contact zone and, 458–59; elitist
attitude and, 480; passive consumption and, 480
Musical Fund Hall, Phila., dances at (1885–1891), 84
Myerstown, PA, 52
N
Nasaw, David, study on public entertainment (1880 and
1910), 76
Nash, Gary, 166–67, 450; book rev. by, 490–91
Nathan, Benjamin (storekeeper), 54
Nathan (slave), 402
National Civil Rights Museum, 452
National Freedom Day Association, 447
National Historic Preservation Act (1966), 446
National Park Service: archaeological survey for
Liberty Bell Center by, 435; architectural architects of, 371–72; data
collection on President’s House, Phila., 446; and historical markers at
President’s House, Phila., 409, 445; Underground Railroad Initiative of, 449–50
Native Americans: historical interpretation and,
477–78; in Ohio Valley, clandestine lead shipments to, 133; in Ohio Valley, impact
of fur trade on, 161; in Seven Years’ War, book on, 227–28
nativism, in PA, 196n1, 197
Navigation Acts, 266
Neal, Maria (African American kidnap victim), 322
“‘The Negro Excursions’: Recreational Outings among
Philadelphia African Americans, 1876–1926,” by Brian E. Alnutt, 73–104
Nelson, Larry, on backcountry PA fur trade, 161
Neptune (slave), attempted escape of, 467
Nesbit, J. M., 183
Neshaminy Falls Park, PA, 83, 86
Netherlands: mercenaries recruited from, 257, 261; neutrality
of, 261; recruiting sergeants in, 277
New England: Pope Day processions in, 32; single
people in, 287–88; storekeepers’ putting-out system in, 58; workers’ wages in,
299
New Jersey, seashore of, African American excursions
to, 77, 92. See also individual New Jersey towns
Newlin, Richard, 283–84
Newmanstown, PA, 52
New Orleans, 146
Newtown Township, PA, 299
New York Age
(newspaper), 96
New York (city): amusements in, study of, 75; president’s
official residence in. See Government House, New York City
New York Globe
(newspaper), 80, 82, 93
New-York Magazine, on
building of Government House in New York City, 414–15
New York (state), land grants for foreign mercenaries
in, 278
Niemcewicz, Julian (Polish poet), on conditions of
Washington’s slaves, 465–66
Ninth Street, Phila, Washington’s official residence
on. See President’s House, Ninth Street, Phila.
“Noosed Nine”: biographical sketches of, 391–400; commemoration
of, 461, 468, 471
Norris, Hannah (indentured servant), 184
Norris, Patty, 191
North American
(newspaper), 318
Northampton County, PA, 306
Nottnagle, Montmollin and Company (textile business),
64
Nova Scotia, land grants for foreign mercenaries in,
278
Numa Barned Papers (unpublished), 356
“A ‘nursery for soldiers to the whole world’: Colonel
James Prevost and the Foreign Protestant Military Migration of the
Mid-Eighteenth Century,” by Alexander V. Campbell, 253–81
Nuxoll, Elizabeth M., 378
O
Oakland Grove, Bucks County, PA, 83, 85
Oceana
(Harrington), 289, 291
Offley, Daniel, and family, 172, 184, 188
Ohio Valley: foreign mercenaries in, 269; fur and skin
trade in, 137, 146, 161
Old City Hall, Phila.: proximity to President’s House
site, 373, 446; restoration of, 446
Olin, Laurie (landscape architect), 451, 453
Olin Partnership, footprint design for President’s
House site by, 406–7
Osgood, Samuel, 412
Oswego, Battle of (1759), 270
Ousterhout, Anne M., The Most Learned Woman in
America: A Life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, rev., 349–50
P
Paca, Mary, 22
Paine, Robert Treat, 16
Paine, Thomas, 37, 39
pamphleteers, Union League, 197
The Papers of Robert Morris (Nuxoll, ed.), 378
Parague, alias of William Pettigon. See
Pettigon, William
Parham, Shirley, 468
Paris (slave in Washington’s Phila. residence), 463,
468; biographical sketch of, 395–96
Parliament, 288
Partridge, Richard, 258
Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in
Gilded Age Politics, by Summers, rev., 357–58
Patrick-Stamp, Leslie, 329
Paul Revere’s Ride (Fischer), 353
Peale, Charles Willson, 32, 34–35, 41
Pegram, Thomas R., book rev. by, 105–6
Peiss, Kathy, study of New York amusements by, 75, 86
Pemberton, Ann (niece of John Pemberton), 173, 181
Pemberton, John, 180–81
Penn, John, 15, 20
Penn, Richard, 418
Penn, Thomas, 139–41, 263
Penn, William, 310
“Fundamental Constitutions” of PA, 291
Penn’s Woods, 259
Pennsylvania: bachelors’ taxation and representation
in, 1700s, 283–315; early American identity in, book on, 351–52; estates and
propertyless single men in (1779–1785), 304 (table); farmers and labor system
in, 297–98
Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth (Miller and Pencak, eds.), 361
Pennsylvania Abolition Society, African American
kidnappings and, 325–26
Pennsylvania Archives, 360
Pennsylvania Assembly, 17–18, 302, 312; authorizes
paid police agency for Phila. (1751), 319
Pennsylvania at Gettysburg (Gettysburg Battlefield Commission), 356
Pennsylvania Constitution (1776), 284, 286, 303,
307–14; as model for American democracy, 285
Pennsylvania Gazette (newspaper), 41, 174, 299
Pennsylvania Germans: in Civil War, book on, 356–57; as
farmers and craftsman, 50
“A Pennsylvania Judge Views the Rebellion: The Civil
War Letters of George Washington Woodward,” by Jonathan W. White, 195–225
Pennsylvania Packet (newspaper), 32–33, 36, 306
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Executive Council, 34, 37, 39,
42
Pennsylvania State Archives, history of, book on,
360–61
Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 309
Pennysylvania State House. See Independence Hall
“Permanent Exhibition,” Phila. (1877), 79
Peros (slave), attempted escape of, 467
Perry, Christopher, (newspaper publisher), 99
Peter, Martha (granddaughter of Martha Washington),
382
Peter, Thomas, 382
Peterson, Charles E.: death of, 409; involvement in
INHP, 371, 373; Philadelphia National Shrines Park Commission and, 371–72
Peterson, Jon A., The Birth of City Planning in the
United States, 1840–1917,
rev., 358–59
petitioning, of Congress and Senate, in 1790s, 109–11
“Petition of the People of Colour, Freemen within the
City and Suburbs of Philadelphia” (Allen and Jones), 318
Pettigon, William (sea captain), 327
Philadelphia: as battleground for culture war (1774–1783),
11–12; as host to first Continental Congress (1776), 7–44; populous sentiments
in (1774–1783), 7–44, 11n10; as U.S. capital, 411
Philadelphia Assembly Hall, African American ball at,
84
The Philadelphia
Campaign, 1777–1778, by
Taaffe, rev., 230–31
Philadelphia Inquirer (newspaper), 94
articles on President’s House site in, 373, 405–6
Philadelphia in the Civil War (Taylor), 356
Philadelphia militia, 10
Philadelphia National Shrines Park Commission, 371–72;
report on President’s House site, Phila., 372
The Philadelphia
Negro: A Social Study (Du Bois), 85
Philadelphia’s “Black Mafia”: A Social and Political
History, by Griffin, rev., 242–44
Philadelphia Select Council, resolution of (Feb. 8,
1827), 340–41
Philadelphia Times (newspaper), 85, 95
Philadelphia Tribune (newspaper), 90–91, 99, 101–3
Phillies baseball team (1964), book on, 240–42
Philosophical Hall, Phila., 20
Pickering, Timothy, 192
Pittsburgh, PA, deindustrialization in, book on,
123–24
plagiat. See
man-stealing
Plains of Abraham (1759), 270
Plato, and taxation on single men, 288
Plymouth, MA, poll tax in, 289
Pogue, Dennis J., “Interpreting the Dimensions of
Daily Life for the Slaves Living in the President’s House and at Mount Vernon,”
433–43
Poland, mercenaries recruited from, 257
Polish Americans, rioting during social excursions, 85
political parties, in Gilded Age politics, book on,
357–58
The Political Philosophy of James Madison (Hutson), 108
politics: of memory, women and, book on, 122–23; of
sin, in American history, book on, 105–6
Polk, James K., 196
poll tax: origins of, 288–90; on single men in PA,
283–315
Pomerania, mercenaries recruited from, 257
Pontiac’s Uprising (1763), 134, 136, 139, 269
“The Poor Man’s Advice to His Poor Neighbours”
(ballad), 17–18
Poor Richard’s Almanac (Franklin), 309
Portraiture, of Jacob Eichholtz, book on, 113–15
Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser (newspaper), article on returned African American
kidnap victims (May 8, 1828), 344–45
Pratt, Mary Louise, “contact zone” of, 458
President’s House, New York City. See
Government House, New York City
President’s House, Ninth Street, Phila.: erected by PA
state government, 411, 419–21, 420 (illus.);
floor pan of, 422; and Government House, New York City, compared, 421–23;
sold to University of Pennsylvania, 423
“The President’s House Revisited,” by Edward Lawler
Jr., 371–410
President’s House site, 190 High Street, Phila.: alternative
(erroneous) locations for, 375; archaeological record for, 434–36; in archaeological
survey for Liberty Bell Center, 435; articles in Philadelphia Inquirer
on, 373, 405–6; Charles E. Peterson and, 372; collaborative research on, 478; community
reactions to, 457–58; as contact zone, 459; documentary record for, 435, 456; federal
and city funding for, 374–75, 470; historical markers at, 409, 445; important
dates in history of, 473–74; interpretive challenges of, 452; and Mount Vernon,
VA, differences between, 437–38; Olin Partnership footprint design for, 406–7; original
house on, auction of household property (Mar. 10, 1797), 377; original house
on, Breton watercolor of, 376–77; original house on, conversion of, details
about, 378; original house on, elevation drawing, 386 (illus.), 386n32; original house on, floor plans, 382, 384, 386;
original house on, ground plan, 376; original house on, guests staying at, 382;
original house on, insurance policy of 1798, 380n20, 385; original house one, letters
describing, 377; original house on, piazza, 382–83, 383n24, 384 (plan);
original house on, president’s private office in, location of, 378–80, 381
(plan), 382; original house on, slaves in, 389, 391–401, 468. See also individual slaves by name;
original house on, summer room in, 380, 381 (plan), 382, 382n21; original house
on, third floor of, 382–83; original house on, visitors to, 383; proximity to
Congress Hall and Old City Hall, 373–74, 446; proximity to Liberty Bell Center,
375, 462; represented in Liberty Bell Center exhibit, 450; surviving walls,
demolition of, 372–73, 372 (photo with overlay)
Preston, David L., book rev. by, 227–28
Prevost, Augustine (1723–1786), 257
Prevost, Maj. Augustine (1744–1821), 253, 268, 277
Prevost, Col. James, 253–81
prices, riots over, 37–38
Private Affairs of George Washington (Decatur), 400
privateering, 266–67
Proclamation Line, 144
property: single men without, poll tax on, 286–315; women
with, suffrage and, 301–2, 315
Protecting Society of the City and County of
Philadelphia for the Prevention of Kidnapping and Man-Stealing, 325
Protestants, European, mercenaries recruited among
(mid-eighteenth century), 253–81
PSA. See Pennsylvania State Archives
public markets, in nineteenth-century America, book
on, 118–19
Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century
America, by Tangires, rev., 118–19
public records, Euro-American control of, 477–78
Purnell, Isaac (alias for John Purnell). See
Purnell, John
Purnell, John (African American slave trader), 323,
326–28; letter concerning, 338
Q
Quakers, 284; accusations against, 18; and fur trade,
147; fur trade and, 137, 143–44; in Phila., 8; single males and, 290–91
Quarter Sessions Court (Phila.), 328
“Questioning the Answers: Modernizing Public History
to Serve the Citizens,” by Sharon Ann Holt, 473–81
R
race: historical endeavors and, book on, 122–23; slavery
as metaphor for, 457
race relations, in yellow fever epidemic of 1793,
163–94
racial discrimination, African American recreation and
(1876–1926), 76–80, 87, 91, 93; in New Jersey seashore resorts, 95–103; southern
amusement parks, 91–92
racial integration, in baseball, book on, 240–42
raiding parties, French and Native American, 258, 269
Ralston, Robert, 174, 187
Randolph, Edmund, 388, 468
Rapid Ethnographic Assessment Procedure, President’s
House site, Phila., and, 449
REAP. See Rapid Ethnographic Assessment
Procedure
recreation: of African Americans in Phila. (1876–1926),
73–104; of African American in Phila. (1876–1926), before and after Civil War,
78–79; of African Americans in Phila. (1876–1926), racial discrimination and,
87; studies on, 75–76
Reed, Joseph, 35–36, 309
Reinberger, Mark, Utility and Beauty: Robert
Wellford and Composition Ornament in America, rev., 487–88
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Hutson), 108
“Relying on the ‘Saucy’ Men of the Backcountry:
Middlemen and the Fur Trade in Pennsylvania,” by Judith Ridner, 133–62
Rendell, Edward G. (governor of PA), 408
Republican Clubs, African American, in Phila., 84–85,
89–90, 102
Residence Act (1790), 411, 413n11, 419, 423
Ressler, Master Gunnery Sergeant D. Michael, 377
revolution, political culture of, in Phila. (1774–1783),
7–44
Revolutionary War: African American troops in, 463; Philadelphia
Campaign (1777–1778) in, book on, 230–31; single men and, 302–3
Rex, Abraham (Samuel’s father), 51
Rex, Mary (Samuel’s wife), 45, 51
Rex, Samuel (storekeeper), 45–72; accounts of, 57; butter
purchases of, 61–63; estate of, 71; “market revolution” and, 48; payment
arrangements and, 50, 56–58; and Pennsylvania German language, 51–53; purchases
from Phila. businesses, 64–67; purchases of, 57–58; sale of store (1807), 70; services
provided by, 47, 56; stock carried by, 53–56
Rhine region, mercenaries recruited from, 264
Richardson, Sall (slave, wife of Joe), 399–400
Richmond (dower slave in Washington’s Phila.
household), 468; attempted escape by, 394, 467; biographical sketch of, 394–95
Ridner, Judith, “Relying on the ‘Saucy’ Men of the
Backcountry: Middlemen and the Fur Trade in Pennsylvania,” 133–62
Rigby, Joseph (fur trade agent), 133–62
riots: over prices of goods and foodstuffs, 37–38; during
social excursions, 84–86, 88
Riou, Etienne, 256
Rising Sun Park, Phila., 80
Rivington, James, 17
Roberdeau, Col. Daniel, 13
Roberdeau, Isaac, 424
Robert J. Moore Republican Club, Phila., 84
Robinson, H. R., lithograph of Government House, New
York City, 415
Robinson, James (carpenter and builder), 415
Rollinson, William, engraving of Government House, New
York City, 415
Roop, Samuel (apprentice clerk), 45
Rosenzweig, Roy, amusements in Worcester, MA, study
on, 75
Rosswurm, Steven, 10, 285, 303, 307
Rothenberg, Winifred, 48
Royal American Regiments (1756–1766), 253–81; enrollment
in, 256–57, 265; recruiting for, 264–65
Royer, John (farmer), 62
Rush, Benjamin, 37, 308–10, 312; book on, 485–86; in
yellow fever epidemic of 1793, 171
Rush, Julia (wife of Benjamin), 169, 176–77, 189
Ryan, Thomas R., ed., The Worlds of Jacob
Eichholtz: Portrait Painter of the Early Republic, rev., 113–15
Ryerson, Richard, 10, 14, 285, 303
S
sailors, and concept of liberty, book on, 232–33
St. George, Robert Blair, 19
St. Thomas African Episcopal Church, Phila., 83
Sam (slave), attempted escape of, 467
Sandow, Robert M., book revs. by, 116–18
Sansom, Beulah, 181
Santino, Jack, 457
saturnalian displays, on Fourth of July 1778, 21–32
Savage, Edward, painting of “House for Families” at
Mount Vernon, VA, 437, 438 (illus.)
Savelle, Max, 146
Scanlon, Jennifer, book rev. by, 122–23
Scattergood family, 184
Scattergood, Joseph, 186
Scattergood, Thomas, 171
Schaeffer, Alexander, 52
Schaefferstown, PA, 52; country store in, 45–72. See
also Rex, Samuel (storekeeper); as market and commerce center, 52–53
Schiffer, Michael Brian, Draw the Lightning Down:
Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of Enlightenment, rev., 348–49
Schlatter, Michael (chaplain), 274
Schlatter, William (businessman), 67
Schoepf, Johann, 46
Schultz, John (governor of PA), 326
Schwartz, Joel, book rev. by, 358–59
Schweitzer, Mary, 298; on ethnic or social enclaves in
Phila., 63–64
Scomp, Sam (African American kidnap victim), 323–24,
326, 328
Scranton Defender (newspaper), 99
Sea Lion Park, Coney Island, NY (amusement park), 89
Sears, Stephen W., Gettysburg, rev., 116–18
Sea View Excursion House, Atlantic City, NJ, 73, 95
secession, 200–202; Franklin Country, PA, and Augusta
County, VA, and, book on, 236–37; George W. Woodward’s correspondence
concerning, 203–11, 214–16, 223–25
Second Baptist Church, Atlantic City, NJ, 100
The Secret
War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War
(Fishel), 117
The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony. Vol. 3, National Protection for National Citizens, 1873–1880, by Gordon, ed., rev., 238–40
Senate, U.S., in 1790s, book on, 109–11
Sensory Worlds in Early America, by Hoffer, rev., 347–48
sensuous experience, impact on history of America,
book on, 347–48
Separation of Church and State (Hamburger), 108
September Swoon: Richie Allen, the ’64 Phillies, and Racial Integration, by Kashatus, rev., 240–42
“Servants Hall,” at Mount Vernon, VA, 437
Sesquicentennial, Phila. (1926), 76
Seth, Joseph (merchant), 93
Settle, Thomas S., 74
Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), 134, 136, 139, 141, 143,
149, 254, 278, 280–81, 295; in PA and VA, book on, 227–28
sex crimes, punishment for, 292
sexuality: homosexuality, 290, 292; in occupied Phila.
(1778), 24
Seymour, Thomas, 200
Shankman, Andrew, Crucible of American Democracy:
The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism and Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania, rev., 354–55
Sheels, Christopher (dower slave in Washington’s
Phila. household), 468; attempted escape by, 397, 467; biographical sketch of,
496–397
Shelbourne Hotel, Atlantic City, NJ, 93
Sheldon, Garrett Ward, book rev. by, 107–9
Sheridan, Thomas (English writer), 289–90
Shields, David, 20
Shippen, Margaret, 36
Shippensburg, PA, 153
Shirk, Willis L., Jr., ed., Documenting
Pennsylvania’s Past: The First Century of the Pennsylvania State Archives, rev., 360–61
Shrines Commission, 372
Shultz, H. M. (weaver), 54
Simler, Lucy, 286
Simon, Joseph (storekeeper), 54
Simons, Jacob “Charly” (African American kidnap
victim), letter concerning, 341–42
Simpson, Robert, 185–86
sin, politics of, in American history, book on, 105–6
Sinclair, Cornelius (African American kidnap victim),
323, 325, 327–28
single men, poll tax on, 283–315
“Six Houses for the President,” by Damie Stillman,
411–31
Skeen, C. Edward, 1819: America Rising, rev., 115–16
Skene, Maj. Philip, 277
slave quarters: at Mount Vernon, VA, 436–37; at
President’s House site, Phila., 462–63; at President’s House site, Phila., controversy
over, 402–8; at President’s House site, Phila., interpretive challenges of, 452;
at President’s House site, Phila., proximity to Liberty Bell Center, 402–3, 403
(photo with overlay)
slavery: freedom and, nested nature of, 474; as
metaphor for race, 457
slaves: indentured servants vs., 470; of George
Washington, actions toward, 389–90; of George Washington, autonomy and, 442; of
George Washington, diet of, 435, 441–42; of George Washington, escapes by, 467;
of George Washington, in interpretation of President’s House site, Phila.,
454–55; of George Washington, legal status of, on marriage to Martha Custis,
387–88; of George Washington, legal status of, upon Washington’s death, 388,
435; of George Washington, at Mount Vernon, VA, provisions and shelter for,
465–66; of George Washington, at Mount Vernon, VA, quarters housing, 436–37; of
George Washington, in Phila. residence, biographical sketches, 391–400; of
George Washington, in Phila. residence, refuted INHP report (2002) identifying,
400–401; of George Washington, in Phila. residence, rotation after 1780, 389,
468; of George Washington, preferential treatment of, 440; of George
Washington, resistance of, 454–55
slave trade: ATAC’s activities to redress wrongs of,
469–70; ban on importing slaves into U.S. (1807), 319
Small, Jacob, 425
Smith, Benjamin (clergyman), 172–73, 182–83, 188,
190–92
Smith, Billy G., 9, 286, 306
Smith, Eric Ledell: book rev. by, 491–92; “Rescuing
African American Kidnapping Victims in Philadelphia as Documented in the Joseph
Watson Papers at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania,” 317–45
Smith, Gulielma (daughter of Margaret Morris), 169
Smith, John, 421
Smith, John (alias for John Purnell). See Purnell,
John
Smith, Mr. (mason), 415
Smith, Rebecca Moore, 30
Smith, Robert, Masters-Penn-Morris house and, 374,
374n4
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, 166–67
smokehouse, at President’s House site, Phila., 375, 462–63;
conversion of, 403; location of, 404, 404n83, 405n88
Smolenski, John, book rev. by, 347–48
“Soap Box Minstrels” (African American comedy revue
troupe), 102
Society of Friends. See Quakers
Soderlund, Jean, 166
The Soldiers’ Revolution: Pennsylvanians in Arms and
the Forging of Early American Identity, by Knouff,
rev., 351–52
Somerville, H. V., correspondence with Joseph Watson,
342–43
Sousa, John Philip, 90
Southwark Theatre, reopening of, 22
Span, Christopher, on vulnerability of African
American children, 320
Spear, Joseph (fur trader), 148
Spear, William (fur trader), 148
spiritualism, in America, book on, 119–20
Staines, Jack (husband of Oney Judge), 399
Stamp Act (1765), crowds remembered, 18–19
The Stand
of the U.S. Army at Gettysburg,
by Hall, rev., 116–18
Stansbury, Joseph (merchant), 68–69
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, selected papers (1873–1880) of,
book on, 238–40
State House, 9, 11–12, 15–17, 36, 42
Steinberg, Ted, book rev. by, 123–24
Stevens, Thaddeus, 198
Still, William, 84
Stillman, Damie, “Six Houses for the President,”
411–31
Stockson, Richard (attorney general of MS), 325
Stockton, Ann (mother of Julia Rush), 176
Stockton Grove, Camden, NJ, 83, 85, 87
Stookey, John (country store customer), 54
storekeepers: in mid-Atlantic states, 45–72; in New
England, putting-out system of, 58
Street, John (mayor of Phila.), 408; funding for
President’s House site and, 374, 408, 410, 470
“The Streets of Philadelphia: Crowds, Congress, and
the Political Culture of Revolution, 1774–1783,” by Benjamin H. Irvin, 7–44
Strickland, William, reconstructive work on Independence
Hall, 445–46
Stuart, Gilbert, portrait of Hercules (Washington’s
slave) attributed to, cover illus.
suffrage: repeal of, African Americans and, 196; in
1700 PA, 300; single men and, 302–6; taxpayer, 285
Summers, Mark Wahlgren, Party Games: Getting,
Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics, rev., 357–58
Swanger, Nicholas (farmer), 46, 63
Sweden, mercenaries recruited from, 257
Sweitzer, John (nailsmith), 58–60
Switzerland, mercenaries recruited from, 257, 259, 264
symbolism: of Liberty Bell, 450; President’s House
site, Phila., and, 454
T
Taaffe, Stephen R., The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777–1778, rev., 230–31
Tangires, Helen, Public Markets and Civic Culture
in Nineteenth-Century America,
rev., 118–19
Tarr, Joel A., Devastation and Renewal: An
Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region, rev., 123–24
taxation, of single men in PA, 283–315
“Taxation and Representation: Pennsylvania Bachelors
and the American Revolution,” by John Gilbert McCurdy, 283–315
Teagle, “Majah” James, 89
teeth, of George Washington, myth and truth about, 465
Temple, Sir William, 289–90
Theology of Law and Authority in the English
Reformation (O’Donovan), 108
Theory of Moral Sentiments (Smith), 120
Thomas, Jacob (merchant), 68
Thomas, Spencer (alias for John Purnell). See
Purnell, John
Thomas Jefferson, by
Bernstein, rev., 234–35
Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between
Church and State (Dreisbach), 108
Thompson, Mary V., 387
Thompson, William, 89
Ticonderoga, Battle of (1758), 269–70
Tilghman, Edward, 173
Tilghman, Enos (African American kidnap victim),
323–24, 326, 328
time, seventeenth-century attitudes toward, book on,
483–84
Tindley, Charles (Methodist pastor), 90
Tindley, Elbert (son of Charles), 90
Tindley, Emma (daughter of Charles), 90
Tom (slave), attempted escape of, 467
To the Commissioners and Assessors of Chester County, for the Year 1764 (broadside), 299
Townshend, Charles, 271–72
Townshend Acts, 14, 19; duties imposed by, 283;
resistance to, in Phila., 10
trade and commerce: inland, in early mid-Atlantic
states, 45–72; rural-urban, in Phila. region, 47–72
trade boycott, in Phila. (1774–1783), 13–14, 16
trade goods, in Phila. (1774–1783), 13
transportation, in backcountry PA (1760s), 153–54
treason, of Benedict Arnold, effigies depicting, 10–11,
32–42, 33 (illus.)
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 255
Trees, Andrew S., The Founding Fathers and the
Politics of Character,
rev., 484–85
Tubman, Harriet, book on, 488–89
“Turks” (costumed maidens), 26; in Phila. Meschianza
celebration, 23
Tyranny of Printers (Pasley), 355
U
Underground Railroad Initiative, 449–50
Union, and execution of laws, George W. Woodward’s
correspondence on, 214–16
Union League, Phila., 197
United Company of Philadelphia for Promoting American
Manufactures, 13
United States: urban planning in, book on, 358–59. See
also America
United States Gazette (newspaper), 321
United States Marine Band: creation of, 377; performances
by, 377–78
University of Pennsylvania, purchases President’s
House, Ninth Street, Phila., 423
University of Virginia, Jefferson’s architectural
designs held by, 425–26
urban history: “Black Mafia” in Phila., book on,
242–44; Pittsburgh industry and, book on, 123–24
urban planning, in U.S., book on, 358–59
Utility and Beauty: Robert Wellford and Composition
Ornament in America, by Reinberger, rev., 487–88
V
Valentine, Michael (Mary Rex’s brother), 45
Vallandigham, Clement L., 200
Valuska, David L., Damn Dutch: Pennsylvania Germans
at Gettysburg, with Keller,
rev., 356–57
Vanlear, Dr., 171
Vanlear, Christopher (wagon hauler/tavern keeper), 142
Vanlear, Elizabeth (wife of Christopher), 142
Vaughn, Barbara, letters providing details of 190 High
Street, Phila., 378–80, 383
Verplanck, Anne, book rev. by, 113–15
Vickers, Daniel, 48
Viebert, Joseph (Miers Fisher’s servant), 184
Villa Rotonda, Vicenza, White House design based on,
425
Voices of the Turtledoves: The Sacred World of Ephrata, by Bach, rev., 106–7
Volontaires Etranger (Foreign Volunteers), 268
von Weissenfels, Lt. Frederick, 280
Voss-Hubbard, Mark, book rev. by, 357–58
W
“The Wages of Blackness: African American Workers and
the Meanings of Race during Philadelphia’s 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic,” by
Jacquelyn C. Miller, 163–94
Waggoner Jack (slave), 389
Walls, George, 99
Wall’s pavilion and bathhouse, Atlantic City, NJ,
99–100, 102
Walnut Street Prison (Phila.), 328
Ward, Matthew C., Breaking the Backcountry: The
Seven Years’ War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754–1765, rev., 227–28
Warner, Sam Bass, 63
War of Austrian Succession (1740–1748), 254–55
Warren, Mercy Otis, 16
Warrick, William (physician), 93
Washington, DC: L’Enfant designs, 419, 421; President’s
House built in, 411–12
Washington, George, 12–13, 21–22; attitude toward own
slaves, 455, 464, 466–67; auction of Phila. household property (Mar. 10, 1797),
377; Benedict Arnold and, 34–35; and Christmas raid on Trenton, 22; Delaware
crossing by, book on, 353–54; official residences of, 411–31; official
residences of, in New York City. See Franklin-Osgood House, and Macomb
House; official residences of, in Phila. See Masters-Penn-Morris house,
190 High Street, Phila.; slave holdings of, 461, 464; teeth of, myth and fact
about, 465
Washington, Lawrence, 437
Washington, Martha, 11
and City Tavern, 10, 12–20
Washington Park, NJ (amusement park), 89–90
Washington’s Crossing, by Fischer, rev., 353–54
Waskan, Henry (indentured servant), 400
Watson, Harriet Snowden (wife of Joseph Watson), 329
Watson, Isaac (father of Joseph Watson), 317
Watson, John F., on saturnalia, 29
Watson, Joseph, 317–29; African
American kidnappings during term as mayor of Phila. (1824–1827), 317–29; letters
and notes on, 330–45; correspondence of, with H. V. Somerville, 342–33;
correspondence of, with J. W. Hamilton, 333–34; correspondence of, with J. W.
Hamilton and John Henderson, 334–37, 334n; correspondence of, with Job Brown,
338; correspondence of, with John Henderson, 330–32, 337–40, 343–44;
correspondence of, with R. L. Kennon and Joshua Boucher, 341–42; papers of,
317–45; postmayoral life of, 329; as Quaker, 317–18, 320
Wayne, Anthony, 18, 26
The Weaver’s Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in
Early Pennsylvania, by Hood, rev., 228–29
weaving, in PA, book on, 228–29
Wedgwood creamware, in archaeological find at “House
of Families,” Mount Vernon, VA, 441
Weems, Mason Locke, 466–67
Welch, John, 186
Weld, Isaac, on Ninth Street, Phila., official
presidential residence, 419–21
Wellford, Robert, compo manufacturer, book on, 487–88
Wells, Hannah (niece of Margaret Morris), 191–92
Wells, Rachel (niece of Margaret Morris), 191–92
Wells, Rachel (sister of Margaret Morris), 191
Wells, Richard (brother-in-law to Margaret Morris),
191
Wenger, Diane, “Delivering the Goods: The Country
Storekeeper and Inland Commerce in the Mid-Atlantic,” 45–72
West, William (merchant), 151
West End Fife and Drum Corps, Phila., 82
West Point, NY, 33, 41
Wharton, Joseph, 23
Wharton, Samuel, 138, 143, 146
Whigs: ideology of, 310; in postoccupation Phila.,
26–32
Whipple, Joseph, Oney Judge and, 398
White, Jonathan W., “A Pennsylvania Judge Views the
Rebellion: The Civil War Letters of George W. Woodward,” 195–225
Whitehead, Tony (ethnographer), 449
White House, Washington, DC: Adams moves into, 423; completed
by Jefferson, 430; design competition for, 424–25; Hoban’s plans for, 425–26,
427 (plan), 428 (illus.); Hoban’s
plans for, changes to, 426–29; and president’s houses of New York City
and Phila. compared, 430–31; rebuilding after destruction by British, 430; style
of, 429
Whitney, Eli, and cotton gin, 319
Wiencek, Henry: on Washington as slave owner, 464–65; on
Washington’s plans for his dower slaves, 390n44
William Chancellor and Company (Phila. business), 64
Williams, William, 421
Willow Grove Park, Phila., 90–91
Wilson, Carol, on African American kidnappings, 318,
321–22
Wilson, James, 37–38, 309–10. See also Fort
Wilson Riot
Wilson, John (of Tredyffrin Township, Chester County),
175
Wilson, Mrs., 57
Winch, Julie, on “man-stealing,” 318
Wistar and Cooke (dry goods merchants), 65
Wister, Richard (merchant), 67–68
Wolcott, Oliver: Oney Judge and, 398; yellow fever
epidemic of 1793 and, 190
women: as butter producers in early mid-Atlantic
states, 61–63; as landowners, suffrage and, 301–2, 315
Women and the Historical Enterprise in America:
Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880–1945, by Des Jardins, rev., 122–23
Woodlands (countryseat), remodeling of (1787–1788),
418–18n
Woodside Park, Phila., 90–91
Woodward, George W., 195–202; correspondence
of, with James Buchanan, 217–18; correspondence of, with Jeremiah S. Black,
203–16, 218–20, 222–25; correspondence of, with Lewis S. Coryell, 216–17;
correspondence of, with Peter McCall, 221–22; and Independence Hall speech
(1860), 197–98; judicial opinions of, 198–99; political disappointment for,
197–98; and proslavery stance, 197–98; and secession, 200–202
Worcester, MA, amusement study in, 75
Works Progress Administration: African Americans in
Pittsburgh, book on, 490–91; survey of President’s House site, Phila., 372–73,
404
World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893), 80, 89
The Worlds of Jacob Eichholtz: Portrait Painter of the
Early Republic, by Ryan, ed., rev., 113–15
WPA. See Works Progress Administration
The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh, by Glasco, rev., 491–92
Wriesberg, Daniel, 280
Wright, J. A. (beer distributor), 87
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yellow fever epidemic, in Phila. (1793), 163–94; African
American immunity to, 167–69, 178–85; first diagnosis in, 171; population
figures during, 171; prior exposure and, 179; prior exposure to, 181
York County, PA, 306
Yorke, Sir Joseph, 263
Young, Alfred F., on Boston’s Freedom Trail, 456
Young, Dr. Thomas (“Elector”), 306–7
Young, William (apprentice), 173–86