sistant, 19, 41, 89, 142, 206, 364, 425, 491,
547; in council, 14, 269, 272, 289-91, 305,
360, 420, 446, 447, 450, 475, 487, 539, 540,
568-70; committee, 11, 47, 87, 137, 150,
184, 280, 333, 336, 354, 424, 447, 554, 525,
547; grant of land to, 34; commissioner
on N. Y. boundary, 406; judge of coun-
ty court, 63, 94, 145, 219, 230, 321, 445,
509, 566, of superior court, 240, 332, 344,
384, 430, 509, 566; major, 88; committee
of war, 130; auditor, 158, 276, 320, 380,
425, 463, 539.
Burrit, Peleg, 56.
Burroughs, Capt., 190.

Burton, Simon, 859.

Burwell, Ephraim, 399:
sign, 9.

Samuel, en-

Bushnell, Benajah, 211, 257; lieutenant,
426: -
Caleb, 585:- Richard, 178,
419, 426, 584, 585; deputy for Norwich,
1, 17, 19, 30, 40, 66, 89, 142, 206, 245, 275,
308, 346, 363, 393, 424, 452, 489, 519, 546;
clerk, 36, 62, 84, 103, 158, 228, 245, 253,
276, 267,310, 330; speaker, 364, 380, 490,
509; committee, 8, 148, 161, 398, 454,
459, 498, 507; justice, 21, 62, 94, 145, 219,
445, 509, 578; in nomination, 403, 453,
522, 576; censured, 555.
Butler, James, 263: Thomas, 62:
Walter, 353.

Butt, Samuel, 225; deputy for Canterbury,
519, 546, 572.

Butten, Mathias, 369.

Byfield, Nathaniel, 196, 204, 411.

Cady, Joseph, 18, 61; lieutenant, 75.
Cadwell, Thomas, 201; lieutenant, 432.
Cakebread, Isaac, 211.

-

Camp, Edward, 133; deputy for Milford,
308: Martha, 568: Samuel, 568.
Campbell, John, 67, 203.
Canada, preparations for expedition
against, (1709,) 91, 108; design laid aside,
123; expedition, (1711,) 243, 245; settle-
ment of expenses of expedition, 124, 218;
disaster to expedition, 272, 294; Dupuis
and Rouville, messengers from, referen-
ces to, 197, 198, 202, 305.
Canfield, Thomas, 120.

Cannon, provision for the purchase of cer-
tain, 327.

Canterbury, bounds of, 181, 311, 369, 375,
427, 461, 463; military officers, 24, 520;
controversy with Plainfield, 26, 173; re-
leased from rates, 75, 226; to return lists,
346, 582; may gather a church, 217; set-
tlement of land titles in, 225; town clerk
may administer oaths, 348; enlarged,

463.

Carter, Samuel, brief granted to, 27.
Cary, Joseph, 575; deputy for Windham,
20, 37, 66, 114, 141, 162, 519, 546, 572.
Case, John, captain, 380:- Joseph, dep-
uty for Symsbury, 394, 424, 452, 49, 546,
572:- Richard, ensign, 145; lieuten-

ant, 492; captain, 553.
Castle, Henry, 428.

Catamounts, bounty for killing, 406.
Causchawet, 213.

Chalker, Abraham, 46.
Chamberlin, Joseph, 305, 449.
Chandler, John, 61, 72, 76, 218, 537:
Philemon, lieutenant, 430.
Chaplains in expeditions, 112, 255, 265.
Chapman, Henry, 262: -Jeremiah, 392;

-

ensign, 493: John, deputy for Had-
dam, 2, 17; justice, 20, 62, 94: Jo-
seph, 420: Mary, 262: - Nathan-
iel, deputy for Saybrook, 19, 30, 37, 345,
363, 394, 424, 452, 519, 547: Robert,
25; deputy for Saybrook, 2, 17, 169, 205,
245, 276, 294; justice, 145, 219:
Simon, 42, 262, 512; quartermaster, 553.
Chappell, Caleb, 438: Comfort, 438:
George, 438: John, 542.

Charles Island, 214.
Charter, attempts in England to over-
throw, 376, 410, 522, 569; Mass. and R.
I. to be asked to aid in defence of, 414;
grant to Capt. Wadsworth for securing,

507.

nomination, 6, 31, 70, 114, 171, 276;
elected assistant, 19, 41, 89, 143, 206;
present in court, 1, 16, 29, 40, 88, 107,
113, 141, 162, 169, 205; in council, 14,
188, 199; to revise laws, 96; committee,
17, 25, 47, 112, 180, 206; committee of
war, 32, 113; judge of county and pro-
bate courts, 230; his death alluded to,

297.

Christophers, Christopher, 256, 2"; com-
missary, 167, 187, 252, 257, 433; naval
officer, 437; captain, 493; in council, 344,
386-90, 410-20, 448-50, 477-87, 512-17,
541-45, 570, 583-86: Richard, 256,

314, 339, 345, 380, 385, 548; in nomina-
tion, 6, 31, 70, 114, 171, 276, 347, 403, 453,
522, 576; chosen assistant, 19, 41, 89, 142,
206, 310, 364, 425, 491, 547; in court, 1,
29, 37, 40, 66, 107, 141, 162, 169, 205, 244,
275, 308, 363, 423, 546, 572; in council,
29, 189-97, 202-4, 243, 253-4, 272, 289-92,
295-9,-306-7, 343-4, 359-62, 386-92, 410-
22, 446, 448-50, 477-87, 512-17, 541-5,
569, 570, 583-6; John Rogers complains
of, 348, 365; judge of county court, 94;
of county and probate courts, 145, 219,
333, 384, 430, 445, 509, 566; of superior
court, 211, 332, 509, 566; auditor, 22,
108, 158, 220, 320, 380, 425, 463, 539; on
committees, 8, 9, 38, 61, 137, 151, 165,
206, 207, 226, 242, 290, 311, 313, 329, 336,
424, 547: Richard, jr., 190, 194; in

council, 482.
Church discipline, delegates to meet at

Saybrook to consider thereof, 51; rules
of, established, 87; rules of, to be revised
and printed, 97, 192, distributed, 433,

449.

Churchill, Benjamin, deputy for Wethers-
field, 363, 393: Josiah, 503.

Clapp, John, 173: — Stephen, 154.
Clark, Daniel, 47, 148, 186, 212, 483, 484,
523: George, deputy for Milford,
66: John, 25, 139, 258, 319, 366, 550;
deputy for Saybrook, 40, 114, 205, 245,
309, 345, 490, 572; committee, 41, 206,
326, 329; captain, 69; major, 95:
John, of Stratford, lieutenant, 168:
Martha, 262: Nathaniel, 533:
Samuel, 399, 557; deputy for Milford,
546, 572; ensign, 453; Thomas, 12;
justice, 20, 62, 94: William, 398,
558, 584; deputy for Lebanon, 2, 17, 67,
90, 108, 142, 162, 170, 276, 294, 309, 364,
393, 490, 519; justice, 63, 94, 145, 219,
446, 509, 566; captain, 69.

Coale, John, 263.

Coasset, men sent to, 305.

Coasters, measures taken to protect, 207,
226, 290, 307, 326, 339.

Cockerill, Thomas, 387.

tion of rates by, 71, 188, 441; allowance
to for impressing men, etc., 82; for col-
lecting rates, 146; when to make up ac-
counts with the treasurer, 85; consta-
bles' watch regulated, 101.
Contempt of court punished, 47, 492.
Convoy vessel to be provided, 207, 226, 290;
not arrived, 307, 326; provided, 339.
Cook, Aaron, 103, 263, 372, 430, 466; in
council, 15, 300; deputy for Hartford,
29, 37, 40, 66, 275, 293, 308, 345, 363, 393,
423, 451, 519, 572; of council of war, 32,
87; justice, 321, 338, 445, 508, 565; com-
mittee, 41, 229, 348, 354, 357, 425, 460,
474, 499, 511, 526, 529: John, 565:
Jonah, 262: Joseph, 263:
Samuel, 364; deputy for New Haven,
346, 363, 393, 423, 451, 489; clerk, 364,
380, 394, 406, 442, 452, 468, 490, 510;
auditor, 349.

Cooly, Samuel, 368, 433.
Coots, Charles, 16.
Cooper, Ebenezer, 517.

Copp, John, 101, 194, 209, 280, 340, 550,
553, 569; physician in Canada expedi-
tion, 255, 260; deputy for Norwalk, 546;
surveyor, 278.

Coggery Nossett, 538.

Coit, Joseph, 497; land laid out for, 394,
397: Solomon, 565.

Colchester, claims of Owaneco to lands in,
8, 26; military officers, 24, 314, 496, 504,
520, 556; to send in list, 32; freed from
rates, 80; to pay tax, 288; to belong to
Hartford county, 80; bounds, 559.
Colefox, Sarah, widow of Jonathan, may
sell land, 322.

Coleman, Ebenezer, deputy for Colches
ter, 519.

Collegiate school, grants to, 353, 529; in
languishing condition, 550.
Collins, Daniel, 12; deputy for East Haven,
90, 107, 141, 364: John, 206, 264, 265,
379, 569; deputy for Guilford, 114, 205,
Mary, widow of Samuel, may

245:

sell land, 216.
Colt, John, 482; ensign, 95; deputy for
Lyme, 309.

Commissioners of sewers, how appointed,
220; form of commission, 273.
Commissions to be granted to judges and
justices, 242; provision relative to the
continuance of such commission, 429.
Common fields and fences regulated, 234,

403.

military service, 323; at Symsbury, reg-
ulated, 104, 154, 285; at Wallingford,
315, 455.

209, 214; ensign, 109; lieutenant, 115;
captain, 171; deputy for Fairfield, 169,
Thomas, 197, 257, 264.

346:
Council stated, 22, 32, 53, 84, 103, 139, 159,
185, 223, 287, 330, 356, 382, 408, 442, 468,
508, 538, 567; powers of, 7; matters re-
ferred to, 82, 184, 325, 337, 373, 376, 377,
403, 467, 468; act of, approved, 139.
Council or committee of war, in Hartford
county, constitution of, 32, 87, 113, 167;
powers, of, 29, 87, 167, 296, 298; in
Fairfield county, 180: for Water-
bury, 166.

Counterfeiting, how punished, 158, 241.
Counties, excise money settled on, 320; to
be provided with standard weights and
measures, 328.

County courts, criminals condemned at, to
have but one review, 5; when held, 239;
grand jurors to serve at, 324; may lay
tax on towns, 329; may license tavern
keepers, 319; place of absent justices,
how supplied, 567.

Court of assistants, time of sessions of, 47,
63; records of, transcribed, 65; act es-
tablishing, repealed, 239.

Court houses, land to be sold for building,

333.

188, 190, 300, 33, 305, 362; commission
to be given to about the ports, 355, 361;
bills of credit left with for exchange, 356,
387, 391, 471; letters sent to, 360, 570;
received from, 410, 450; money put in
his hands for defence of the charter, 414.
Dunham, Nathaniel, 466, 573.

56.

Dunning,
Dupuis 2nd Rouville, messengers from
Canada, references to, 197, 198, 202, 305.
Duran, Mr. of Derby, surgeon in Canada
expedition, 99.

Durham, military officers, 115, 458, 564;
committee on bounds of, 25; incorpora-
tion of, 49; to belong to New Haven
county, 51; rate for ministerial charges
at, 53, 322; may embody in church es-
tate, 72; to send in list, 132; to pay rates,
278; draining of land in, 568.

Dutch, Mr., pilot of the Mary Gally, 303.
Dutch House Neck, 575.

Duty, on goods imported by strangers,
(abortive law,) 405; on timber exported,
434, 499.
Dwight, Henry, 201:
Mr., 23.
Dyer, Giles, 567.

Seth, 201:

East Haven, incorporated as a village, 24;
controversy with New Haven, 34, 47, 87;
sends representatives to assembly, 66,
90, 107, 114, 141, 162, 169, 364; has no
right to send them, 176; may embody in
church estate, 96; military officers, 171,
574; care of poor of, belongs to New
Haven, 582; list of, to be added to that
of New Haven, 330, 464.

Easton, James, 447:
Ecclesiastical affairs:

Joseph, 447.

Canterbury may gather a church, 217.
Coventry may lay tax for support of
minister, 321.

Durham may embody in church estate,

72.

Fairfield, West Farmers want a minis-
ter, 42, 183, 209; may embody in
church estate, 454.
Farmington, Great Swamp village may
embody as a church, 279.
Greenwich, east part may embody in
church estate, 24; difficulties in, 282;
west part may embody in church es-
tate, 581.

Guilford, East Farms in, made a society,

33.

Hartford, West Division ask leave to set-
tle a minister, 174; leave granted, 230.
Hebron may gather a church, 578; act
for support of public worship in, 381.
Killingly may gather a church, 520.
Lebanon, minister to be provided for, 54;
Lebanon Crank, petition to be a soci-
ety, 500; granted, 557.
Middletown, eastern part allowed to be

a society, 442; north part may em-
body in church estate, 97, 432; loca-

Norwich, east farmers made a society,

573; west farmers made a society, 574;
acts for the support of Mr. Woodward,
468, 527, 555.

Pomfret may lay tax for procuring a
minister, 373; may gather a church,
520.

Preston divided into two societies, 574.
Ridgefield may embody into church es-
tate, 434.

Stratford, minister to be provided for, 54.
Wethersfield, west part made a distinct
parish, 374.

Convention to meet at Saybrook to draw
up form of church discipline, 51; plat-
form approved, 87, to be printed, 97,
192, distributed, 423, 449.

Dissenters from established order, priv-
ileges of, 50, 87.

Disturbance of public worship, how
punished, 50; persons in prison for,

559.

Ministers, released from taxation, 2; how
called and settled, 48; to preach to the
freemen on the day of election, 61;
their salaries, how collected, 50, 186;
to enquire concerning the declension
in religion, 436; report, and action
thereon, 529.

Persons presented for absence from pub-
lic worship, how dealt with, 323.
Societies may choose clerks, 552.
Edgecomb, John, 150; v. Hempstead, 43,
80, 400, 439, 474; v. Fish, 311, 354, 473.
Education: school money, how paid, 213,
408; every parish or society to have it,
353; grammar schools in county towns,
353; grants to college, 353, 529; college
languishing, 550; act for encouragement
of town schools, 462.

Edwards, John, 34, 35, 109, 210, 264, 268,
581; deputy for Fairfield, 275, 346; na-
val officer, 437; justice, 445, 509, 566:

Mary, widow of Thomas, has leave
to sell land, 72; act suspended, 109:
Richard, 27, 103, 538; admitted to the
bar, 48; queen's attorney, 365:
Timothy, 287, 303; chaplain in expedi-
tion, 255, 265; sick, 270.
Eells, Nathaniel, 214:

Samuel, 56, 102,
133, 214, 256, 264, 266, 289, 339, 548;
deputy for Milford, 1, 17, 30, 37, 40;
speaker, 12, 36, 62; in nomination, 6, 31,
70, 114, 171, 276, 347, 403, 453, 522, 576;
elected assistant, 89, 143, 206, 309, 364,
425, 491, 547; present in court, 107, 113,

141, 162, 169, 205, 244, 275, 293, 308,|
345, 363, 393, 423, 451, 489, 519, 546, 571;
in council, 254-65, 290, 305, 358, 360,
420, 446-7, 450, 475-6. 487, 539-40, 568,
569; justice, 20, 62; judge of superior
court, 241, 352, 384, 430, 509, 566, of
probate court, 569; lay out of land for,
77; major, 95; naval officer, 437; Mur-
win vs. 117; on committees, 38, 166, 226,
809, 358, 424, 498.
Egleston, Thomas, 262.
Egunck, 72.

Elderkin, Joseph, released from prison,

355.

Eldridge, Daniel, 351; deputy for Stoning-
ton, 90.

Election of Governor by general assembly,

38.

Election sermons: by Mr. Buckingham,
(1711,) 211; Mr. Whitman, (1714,) 425;
Mr. Moss, (1715,) 498; Mr. Stoddard,
(1716,) 548. Other election sermons of
this period, not mentioned in the text,
are: Rev. Timothy Edwards, 1708; Rev.
Eliphalet Adams, 1710; Rev. John
Woodward, 1712; Rev. John Bulkley,
1713. Ministers to preach to the free
men in the towns on the day of election,
61.

Eliott, John, 202, 267; deputy for Windsor,

19, 29, 37, 40, 66, 90, 108, 141, 162, 170,
546, 572; speaker, 84, 103, 113; in nom-
ination, 70, 114, 171, 276, 347, 403, 453,
522; justice, 20, 62, 93, 144, 218, 508;
auditor, 63, 109; committee of war, 87;
monopoly of tar and pitch granted to,
46; to revise laws, 96; in council, 199-
201, 257-61, 300-2; on committees, 38,
112, 225.

Ellis, James, 256, 353.

Elsworth, John, 511; lieutenant, 374; John
and Thomas, their troubles with Massa-
chusetts, 301, 304, 825, 326, 342, 858:
Jonathan, 262, 560; ensign, 369:
Martha, 262.

Ely, William, 35, 95, 292; deputy for
Lyme, 2, 17, 20, 30, 40, 90, 206, 245, 346,
363, 519; justice, 21, 62, 94, 145, 219,
445, 509; committee, 9; admitted to the
bar, 48; in council, 448; complains
against selectmen of Lyme, 482-86.
Embargo laid, 161, 417; taken off, 420.
Enfield, boundary troubles with, 58; lands
annexed to, 564.

England, letters received from, 67, 90, 144,
163, 192, 243, 478; to be written to, 75;
a case decided by laws, of, 350; pilots
sent to, 292, 295; attempts made in, to
remodel charter governments, 410, 522,
569. See Agents.

English officers in the colony service, 291.
Ennis, Thomas, 484.
Eno, James, 262, 565.

Ensign, David, 174:

Thomas, 23.

Escheats, disposition of, 327.

Estates, how distributed, 404, 438, 577.

Evans, Nicholas, 340:

Everts, Samuel, 386.

Samuel, 304.

Evidence, provision for procuring in crim-

inal actions, 233; parties admitted to
testify in action of book debt, 505.
Excise and impost, laws concerning, 56,
84, 118, 159, 318, 320.
Executions, how levied, 223.
Exportation of timber regulated, 434, 499.

Fairbanks, Samuel, 420.
Fairchild, Joseph, 56:
ensign, 116.

Samuel, 49;

Fairfield, West Farmers petition for leave
to have a minister, 42, 183; granted, 209;
military officers, 53, 95, 109, 115, 171,
816, 504; tax to be collected from, 122;
societies in, 209; school land laid out,
215; bounds of west parish fixed, 317;
west farms may embody in church es-
tate, 454.

Fairfield county, military officers, 88, 432;
committee of war in, 130; surveyor, 278;

Newtown annexed to, 470.

Farmington, and Wethersfield bounds, 74,
102, 179, 230, 410; military officers, 33,
452, 494, 525, 548; Great Swamp village
freed from rates, 43; inhabitants to pay
tax to support public worship, 102; may
embody in church estate, 279; rs. Mid-
dletown, 53; to send in list, 88; garrison
to be erected at, 86; mines in, leased to
J. Belcher, 456; exchange of lands with
Wethersfield, 499, 532.

Fasts appointed, 258, 362, 419, 450, 487,
543.

Fellows, John, deputy for Plainfield, 40,
67, 90, 451: — Joseph, deputy for
Plainfield, 308.

Fences and fence viewers, laws concern-
ing, 64, 234, 403.

Fenn, Benjamin, deputy for Milford, 66;
lieutenant, 68.

Fernes, Samuel, his land may be sold, 11.
Ferries: grant to T. Mather revoked, 11;
at New Haven, 465; fare at, 81; grants
to N. Stoughton, 323; to R. Keeny, 354;
to J. Hawkins, 549; to Hez. Brainerd,
561; complaint about that at New Lon-
don, 392.
Ferris, Caleb, 520:
Joshua, 520:
Filly, John, 498, 554:

554:

James, 119, 282:
Zechariah, 56.
Jonathan, 498,

Samuel, 554.
Finch, Joseph, 282; deputy for Greenwich,

107.

Fish, Moses, deputy for Groton, 309:

Samuel, 150, 357; deputy for Groton, 2,
30, 66, 345; vs. Edgcomb, 811, 354, 439,
478; captain, 143.

Fish, act for protection of, from weirs, etc.,

606.

Fisher's Island, beacon erected on, 343.
Fishing trade, a grant made to Atherton
Mather, 177.

Fitch, Ebenezer, 200; land confirmed to,
454: Eleazar, deputy for Lebanon,
519: James, 33, 61, 148, 152, 154,
171, 181, 396, 454, 459, 463; in nomina-
tion, 6, 31, 69; elected assistant, 18, 41;
in court, 19, 29, 40; attempts to lay out
a township without leave, 586: