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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