Founding Myths (68 page)

Medford, Massachusetts,
20
; militia,
20

Menotomy, Massachusetts,
19
; militia,
20

Merchants and Traders,
45

Miami Indians,
270–71

Miles, Wesley,
63

militarism in American culture,
158
,
289
,
296

Military Journal of the American Revolution
(Thacher),
341n15

Miller, John,
41–42

Minorca,
250
,
251
,
254

minute men,
75–77
,
84
,
87
,
89
,
95–97
,
351n54

Minutemen National Historical Park,
75

Missouri Compromise,
394n2

Mohawk Indians,
265–66

Molineaux, William,
44

Moll Pitcher, or the Fortune Teller of Lynn
(melodrama),
59

Molly Pitcher, the Heroine of Monmouth,
50
,
60

Monmouth, Battle of: black soldiers,
374n14
; camp followers,
51
,
53–56
,
60
,
66
,
69–70
,
341n14
; Molly Pitcher and,
49–68
,
317–18
,
341n14
,
342nn20–21
,
344n33
; women at,
49–68
,
317–18
,
341n14
,
342nn20–21
,
343n29
,
344n33

Montgomery, D. H.,
275
,
386n17

Montgomery, Richard,
119
,
158

Morris, Gouverneur: Federal Convention debates,
145–46
,
148–49
,
153
; Great Compromise,
145–46
,
148–49
; slave importation debate,
153

Morris, Lewis,
282
,
390n5

Morris, Richard B.,
65
,
92
,
263–64

Morris, Robert,
160
,
164–65
,
365n9

Morristown and “The Hard Winter” (1779–80),
107–13
,
117–18
,
266
,
353n26

Morristown National Historical Park,
353n36

Moultrie, William,
192

Mudd, Roger,
162–63

Munroe, William,
14
,
15
,
19

Murray, Charles,
364–65n7

Muzzey, David Saville,
274

Napoleonic Wars,
56

narrative fallacies,
300–302

A Narrative of the Excursion and Ravages of the King's Troops,
12
,
76

National Council for Social Studies, 2002 conference,
259–60
,
274
,
377n31
,
383n39

Native Americans.
See
Indians

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization),
259

navigation laws,
153
,
363n25

The Negro in Our History
(Woodson),
213

The Negro in the American Rebellion
(Brown),
376n20

The Negro in the American Revolution
(Quarles),
214–15
,
216

Nell, William,
210–11
,
376n20

Nelson, Josiah,
19

New Hampshire,
20
,
25
,
82
,
86
,
130
,
362n17
; Federal Convention delegation and Great Compromise debates,
362n14

New Jersey: Federal Convention delegation and Great Compromise debates,
147–48
.
See also
Morristown and “The Hard Winter” (1779–80)

New Jersey Brigade,
112
,
353n36

New Jersey Turnpike,
318

“A New Touch on the Times” (poem),
321–22

New York: and the Hard Winter,
108–9
; local declaration of independence,
357n15

“Newburg Conspiracy,”
105

Newman, Robert,
18

North, Lord Frederick,
87–88
,
244
,
254
,
261

North Carolina: brutality of the Revolution in the South,
228–31
; Federal Convention delegation and Great Compromise debates,
362n14
; and the Hard Winter,
108
; Waxhaws incident,
190–91
,
228–29

Northwest Ordinance (1787),
275–77

Old North Church (Boston),
9
,
11
,
20
,
24

Old South Meeting House (Boston),
35
,
335n22

Oliver, Andrew,
33–34

Oliver, Peter,
30–32
,
37
,
334n5

Olsen, Eric P.,
353n36

Oneida Indians,
265–66

Onondaga Indians,
265–66

oral tradition and American Revolution,
2–3
,
292

Oriskany, New York,
265

Orne, Azor,
18–19

O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson,
385n46

Otis, James, Jr.,
30–32
,
285
,
303

Otis, James, Sr.,
31

pacifists,
194
,
246

Paine, Thomas,
38
,
137–38
,
300
,
304
,
360n46

Parker, James,
180–81

Parkman, Breck,
82

Paterson, William,
147–48

The Patriot
(film),
205–9
,
225–31
; myth of British brutality,
225–31
,
236–37
; myth of patriotic slaves,
205
,
208–9
,
219
; and slaves in the Revolutionary War,
205–9

Patriotic Sons of America,
64

patriotism and founding myths,
5–6
,
144
,
178
,
286
,
294
,
330n7

Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution
(Langguth),
27
,
244
,
372n27

Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
(Forbes),
22

Paul Revere's Ride
(Fischer),
22

“Paul Revere's Ride” (Longfellow),
9–11
,
15–25
,
331n28
,
395n2

Payne, Edward,
44

Peckham, Howard,
191
,
248
,
351n2
,
354n37

Pennsylvania: Federal Convention delegation and Great Compromise debates,
145–50
,
362n14
; and Molly Pitcher story,
51
,
53
,
61–67
,
344n33
,
345n42
; Philadelphia winter of 1777–1778,
107–8
,
352n21
; termination of slavery in,
218

Pennsylvania Gazette,
126

Pennsylvania Line,
353n36

Pennsylvania militia,
267

Pennsylvania State House,
142
,
155
.
See also
Federal Convention (1787)

People's History of the American Revolution
(Raphael),
35
,
340n8

people's revolution.
See
Massachusetts Revolution of 1774

Peters, Thomas,
221
,
378n45

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
107–8
,
352n21
.
See also
Federal Convention (1787)

Philipsburg Proclamation,
218

Phillips, Wendell,
210

Pickering, Timothy,
97
,
359n32

Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution
(Lossing),
15
,
210
,
292

Pierce, William,
230

Pinckney, Charles,
152–53
,
211

Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth,
152

Pitcher, Moll Dimond,
59–60
,
343n26

Pitcher, Molly,
4–5
,
49–71
,
50
,
312
,
315
,
317–18
; artists and,
50
,
51–52
,
60
,
340n8
; Battle of Monmouth,
49–68
,
317–18
,
341n14
,
342nn20–21
,
343n29
,
344n33
; “Captain Molly” name and legend,
53–60
,
64–65
,
69–71
,
342n20
,
343n26
,
345n42
; and Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
51
,
53
,
61–67
,
344n33
,
345n42
; “Dirty Kate,”
54
; evolution of legend,
53–69
,
341n14
,
343n29
; and female “camp followers,”
51
,
53–56
,
60
,
66
,
69–70
,
341n14
; historians and,
64–70
,
344n33
,
346n48
; Internet and legend of,
68–69
,
317–18
,
347n54
; “Maid of Saragossa,”
56–57
,
63
; Margaret Corbin,
54
,
64–65
,
67
,
69
; Mary Hays McCauley,
51
,
61–70
,
317–18
,
344n33
,
345n42
,
346n48
; Moll Dimond Pitcher,
59–60
,
343n26
; newspaper accounts,
57
,
342nn20–21
; textbooks,
51–53
,
67–69
,
312
,
340n7

Pitt, William, the Younger,
255

Plymouth, Massachusetts,
83

Popular Cyclopedia of History,
57

popular sovereignty,
92–93
,
165–70
,
263
,
283
,
297
; Adams and,
167–70
; Declaration of Independence,
125
; England's Glorious Revolution,
40

Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
25

Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics,
59

post-Yorktown War.
See
Indians
;
westward expansion
;
Yorktown, British defeat at

“Powder Alarm,”
81

Prescott, Samuel,
15
,
20
,
23
,
312–13
,
332n31
,
333n33

Prescott, William,
189
,
193–94
,
199–200
,
372n25
,
372n27
,
373n28

presidential selection and the electoral college,
149–50
,
363n21

Progressive-era historians,
22
,
92
,
144
,
236
,
375–76n19

Pulling, John,
18

Putnam, Israel: and Battle of Bunker Hill,
158
,
198–200
,
371n22
,
372n25
,
372n27
,
373n28
; as Founding Father,
158

Putnam, Rufus,
395n6

Pybus, Cassandra,
221
,
373n3

Pyle, Howard,
122

Quakers,
103

Quarles, Benjamin,
214–15
,
216
,
374–75n14
,
376n28

Quincy, Josiah,
46
,
337–38n42

Ramsay, David,
284–85
,
289
,
329n3
; on Samuel Adams,
41
; on black patriots and the Revolution,
210
,
376n21
; on brutality of the Revolution in the South,
232
,
237
; on Bunker Hill,
197–98
; on campaign against Cherokees,
268
; on Declaration of Independence,
130
,
131
; on Massachusetts Revolution,
90
; on Paul Revere's ride,
12
; on post-Yorktown War,
257
; on Valley Forge winter,
114
,
115–16