177

_Authorities_: "Life of Lord Stirling." W. Duer.
"Historical Collections." Barber and Howe.
"Story of an Old Farm." A. D. Mellick.

MOLLY PITCHER. (Period, 1778.) 186

_Authorities_: "History of New Jersey." J. C. Raum.
"Historical Collections." Barber and Howe.

THE MORRISTOWN GHOSTS. A Story of 1788 193

_Authorities_: Pamphlet published in 1792. Anonymous.
"Historical Collections." Barber and Howe.

A JERSEYMAN AND HIS ROYAL CROWN. Joseph Bonaparte at Bordentown.
(Period, 1815-39.) 204

_Authorities_: "Encyclopaedia Britannica."
"Historical Collections." Barber and Howe.
"Bordentown and the Bonapartes." J. B. Gilder.
"Joseph Bonaparte in Bordentown." F. M. Crawford.
"New Jersey Newspaper Clippings."

THE DEY, THE BEY, AND SOME JERSEY SAILORS. The Barbary
War. (Period, 1800-4) 214

_Authorities_: "History of the United States Navy." J. F. Cooper.
"Historical Collections." Barber and Howe.

SEA FIGHTS WITH A NOBLER FOE. The War of 1812 230

_Authorities_: "History of the United States Navy." J. F. Cooper.
"Field Book of the Revolution." B. J. Lossing.

THE STORY OF THE TELEGRAPH AND THE STEAMBOAT. (Period,
1787-1838.) 239

_Authorities_: "Appletons' Dictionary."
"New Jersey Newspaper Clippings."
"American Inventors of the Telegraph." F. L. Pope.
"History of New Jersey." J. C. Raum.

NEW JERSEY AND THE LAND OF GOLD. The Conquest of California.
(Period, 1816-66.) 246

_Authorities_: "Appletons' Dictionary."
"Biographical Encyclopaedia of New Jersey."

STORIES OF NEW JERSEY.

THE STORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF SCHEYICHBI.

The North American Indians, the earliest inhabitants of this country of
whom we know anything definite, were great story-tellers; and their
histories consist entirely of stories handed down from parents to
children, or, more likely, from grandparents to grandchildren, for
grandfathers and grandmothers are generally more willing to tell
stor