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Gotham_ A History of New York City to 1898 - Edwin G. Burrows [1160]

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Woman’s Suffrage Organization, 1017

Native American Democratic Association, 545, 546

Native American Party, 609, 674

Nativism: and abolitionists, 559

as anti-Catholicism, 545-46

and Catholics, 752

and Civil War, 871, 882, 886

in early nineteenth century, 513

in 1830s, 542, 555, 559

and evangelical religion, 542, 555

and immigrants, 752, 753

and Irish, 545

in late nineteenth century, 1010, 1106, 1108, 1176, 1194

in mid-nineteenth century, 631-33, 638, 752, 753, 828-30, 831, 835, 839-40

and police, 638

in 1790s and early 1800s, 326, 401, 402

and sex, 545-46

Natural rights, 283

Naturalization, 269, 402, 632, 829, 1108

Naturalization Act, 326

Nature: in early nineteenth century, 470-71

Navarro Flats, 1078

Navigation Acts: adoption of first, 63, 112

and Anglo-Dutch relationship, 63, 72

and Bellomont’s administration, 112

in colonial New York, 112, 118, 121, 133, 651

compliance with, 121, 195, 207

and Jews, 133

and prohibition on European imports, 170

in proprietary New York, 78, 90

second, 71

Navy: need for American, 228

and ratification of Constitution, 290

Nayack, 69

“Negro Barracks,” 249

Negro Burial Ground, 249, 386, 400, 480

“Negro dancing cellars,” 403

“Negro Fort,” 249

Neptune Iron Works, 874

Netherlands: Calvinism in, 19

French relations with, 82

independence for, 48

Protestants in, 15-16, 21

religion in, 16, 19, 41

size of, 16

and Spain, 15-16, 19, 20, 28, 40, 41-42, 48, 62, 70. See also Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Anglo-Dutch relations

East India Company

States-General; West India Company

Neutral Ground, 246, 254

Neutrality, 314-15, 318, 321, 325, 409-12, 413, 423

Nevada Apartments, 1080

Nevis, 119. See also Leeward Islands

New Achtervelt, 30, 36

New Amersfoort, 4, 30, 36, 67

New Amphitheater, 403

New Amsterdam: becomes New York, 73-74

class issues in, 50-56

development of, 35-37, 43–46

dilapidation of, 31–32

Dutch disappointments with, 28

early days in, 27-40

founding and settlement of, 23-26, 29-30

inhabitants of, 31-33

Irving’s stories about, 472

Jews in, 503

and Kieft administration, 30-40

law and order issues in, 58-59

morality in, 33-35, 42-43, 46

orphanages in, 383

poor relief in, 144–45

popular culture in, 33-35, 54-55, 57-58

population of, 30-31, 42, 49, 126

St. Nicholas as patron saint of, 462

Stuyvesant’s administration of, 41-56, 57–74

surrender to English of, 73-74, 77, 80, 126

town plan for, 43. See also West India Company; specific person

New Barracks, 196, 214

New Brighton, 583, 612, 1031, 1058

New Brunswick (Canada), 258, 259

New Circus in the Bowery, 389

New England: Commons in, 140

and Covenant Chain, 86

and denigration of New York by New Englanders, 697

Dominion of, 94–95, 96

and English on Long Island, 85

expansion of settlements in, 28-29

French as threat to, 72

fur trade in, 29

Indians in, 39, 86

merchants from, 272

migration from, 272, 736

militia from, 227, 228, 230

New Netherland compared with, 70

patterns of settlement in, 36, 40

and Pequot War, 37

pirates around, 66

Pope Day in, 107

and proprietary New York, 79, 85

radicalism in, 219-20

as threat to New Netherland, 29, 35, 48-49, 63-64, 67

as threat to New York, 85

and trade, 35, 79, 122, 247

wampum in, 48

and West Indies trade, 120

New England Society, 337, 375, 454-55

New England Tract Society, 497

New Fourteenth Street Theater, 1145

New Gaol, 192, 213-14, 252, 365

New Haarlem, 69-70

New Haven, Connecticut, 35, 107, 889

New Haven Rail Road, 665, 772, 943

New Jersey: anti-Leislerians in, 100

blacks in, 88, 897

and British occupation of New York, 247

and British return to New York, 234, 241-42

Duke of York gives away, 80

Dutch in, 89, 90, 105, 136

farming in, 94, 122-23

forts in, 229

Germans in, 746

inunigrants to, 130, 132

Indians in, 5, 28, 69, 86

legal confusions in, 80

and Leisler’s reburial, 112

manufacturing in, 662

migration from, 736


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