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is (Mrs. Amelia). ii. 228-236. Hessian soldiers--Their unreliable and bad character. ii. 73. Hildreth, the historian, on the gloomy state of American affairs at the close of 1780. ii. 41. Hillsborough (Earl of)--Effects of his circular letter to Colonial Governors. i. 345. Joy in the Colonies at his despatch promising to repeal the obnoxious revenue Acts, and to impose no more taxes on the Colonists by acts of the British Parliament. i. 361. Holland--Flight of Pilgrim Fathers to; trades there. i. 10. Howe (Lord)--A monument erected to his memory in Westminster Abbey, at the expense of L250 sterling, by the Massachusetts Court. i. 260. Hutchinson (Governor of Massachusetts) and his sons alone determine to land the East India Company tea in Boston. i. 376. His account of the transactions at Boston, and vindication of himself. i. 383. His conduct different from that of the Governors of other Colonies. i. 387. Independence disclaimed by Franklin in 1773, by Washington and Jefferson and by leading New Englanders in July, 1775. i. 451-453. Independents, origin of. i. 7. Indians--Employed by both French and English in their wars. ii. 75. Their employment in the war with the Colonies, opposed by the English Generals. ii. 76. Their employment disadvantageous to England. ii. 76. Their alliance and co-operation sought for by Congress. ii. 77. Retaliations upon them by the Congress soldiers exceeded all that had been committed by the Indians upon the Americans--opinion of American writers. ii. 77. Much that was written against them during the Revolution, since shown by the letters and biographies of its actors to have been fictitious. ii. 78. Their employment against the English recommended by Washington, July 27th, 1776. ii. 80. Efforts of General Burgoyne to restrain them from all cruel acts and excesses. ii. 82. Their conduct injurious to the English cause and beneficial to the American. ii. 83. The unprovoked invasion of their country, destruction of their settlements, and desolation of their towns, orchards, and crops and farms, by order of Congress. ii. 84. Further examples of "retaliation," so-called, upon the Indian settlements. ii. 106. The "Tories" driven among them as their only refuge, and treated as "traitors;" their conduct and duty. ii. 107. Indians (Six Nations)--Colonel Stone's account in detail of Gene
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