Newport, ii. 679;
blockaded in Newport by Admiral Arbutbnot, ii. 681;
conference of Washington with, at Weathersfield, ii. 722;
money borrowed of, by Robert Morris, ii. 726;
death of, at the age of eighty-two, iii. 500.

Rockingham, marquis of, speech of, in Parliament, on the evacuation of
Boston, ii. 88.

Rocky hill, near Princeton, house engaged by Congress at, for the use
of Washington, iii. 28;
last general order of Washington dated at, iii. 29.

Roebuck, Doctor, efforts of, to counteract the influence of Franklin in
England, i. 485.

Rogers, Major, suspicious conduct of, ii. 18;
British army joined by, ii. 19;
arrested, by order of Washington, at South Amboy (_note_), ii. 20;
Queen's Rangers embodied by, ii. 309;
attack made upon the rangers of, by Colonel Haslet, at Mamaroneck,
ii. 314.

Roxbury, description of the fort at (_note_), i. 589;
General Ward's division stationed at, at the siege of Boston, i. 619.

Roxbury Neck, burning of Brown's house at, i. 588.

Royal American regiment, formation of, proposed, i. 229.

_Royal Gazette_, spurious letters published in, in 1778, charged to
have been written by Washington, iii. 448.

Rules of behavior, fifty-four, from an early manuscript volume of
Washington, i. 37-41.

Rush, Doctor Benjamin, courage and philanthropy of--biographical notice
of (_note_), iii. 281.

Rutledge, John, Patrick Henry's opinion of, as an orator, i. 450;
made governor of South Carolina--biographical notice of (_note_),
ii. 187;
military works constructed by, near Charleston, ii. 188;
made dictator by the legislature of South Carolina ii. 671;
appointed associate judge of the supreme court in 1789, iii. 122;
hostility of, to Jay's treaty, iii. 354.

S.

Sabbath, observance of the, by Washington, iii. 112.

Sag Harbor, destruction of British stores at, by Lieutenant-Colonel
Meigs, ii. 439.

St. Clair, Colonel Arthur, despatched by General Thompson against
Maclean, at Three Rivers, ii. 147;
commissioned major-general in the continental army, ii. 403;
force under the command of, at Ticonderoga, ii. 463;
Ticonderoga evacuated by, ii. 465;
pursued by Burgoyne, ii. 466;
retreat of, to Fort Edward, ii. 467;
superseded in the northern department by Arnold, ii. 470;
suspicions excited against, ii. 697;
appointed governor of the Northwest ter