A Sketch of the Life of Com. Robert F. Stockton, 352–354, 463, 466–467, 472, 478–479, 482–483, 506–507, 510–520, 526, 529–532, 535, 539, 547

Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon (British Foreign Secretary), 162

abolition of slavery, 286, 347, 358, 363, 560

Act of Union

Camden & Amboy Railroad joins the Delaware and Raritan Canal, 81

ad hominium rhetorical fallacy, 334

Adams

Israel (engineer of train in 1855 accident in Burlington), 337

President John, 8

President John Quincy, 39, 47, 60, 66, 88, 122, 319–320

Address to the People of California, 186

Address to the People of New Jersey, 85, 259, 262

Admiral (British)

George Francis Seymour, 170

Horatio Nelson, 16, 43, 48, 63–64

Hyde Parker, 12

John Jervis, 12

Thomas C. Cockburn, 18, 20–21

African Repository, 40, 75

African Squadron of US Navy, 471

Alexandria (Virginia), 20, 123

Algiers, 24, 26

Allen, Lt. William Howard, 61

Alligator, USS, 3, 43–48, 50–52, 59–62, 155, 291, 293–294, 549

All-Mexico movement, 254–256, 258, 261

America (HMS), 162

American Colonization Society, 4, 38–40, 42, 44, 52, 59, 75–76, 312, 330, 550

American Institute of Technology, 120

American Nativist Party, 141

American Party, 4, 69, 144–145, 227, 256, 258, 325, 337, 345–350, 354–359, 361–363, 365, 368–369, 437, 441–442, 444–450, 454, 456–457, 551, 561–563

North American Party, 337, 344, 351, 355–359, 361, 364, 403, 581, 562

True North American Party (the break-away, break-away Stockton contingent), 359–361

Straight-Out Americans (a.k.a. Shanghai Americans), 368

American Philosophical Society, 113, 129, 557–558

American Railroad Journal, 324, 326

Anbinder, Tyler, 562