young friend of the author, DANIEL W. BALLOU, JR. of Lockport, whom he transferred from his place as compositor in a printing office, to assist him as a copyist; for aid in historical researches he had so well qualified himself to render, by early studious habits, and an employment of his leisure hours in the laudable pursuit of knowledge. To all, who are identified in the body of the work, as having lent their coöperation and assistance; and especially to such surviving Pioneers as have cheerfully given the author the benefit of their recollections. The Author closes with an acknowledgement of his obligations to the enterprising Printers and Publishers, Messrs. JEWETT, THOMAS, & Co. prompted as well by a sense of gratitude for their uniform personal courtesy and kindness, as by the gratification which is derived from seeing his work go out from their hands so good a specimen of the progress of the art of typography upon the Holland Purchase; and so creditable to a craft with which he has himself been so long identified. NOTE.-The Portraits in the work are mostly daguerreotype transfers from oil painte ings, made at the Gallery of Messrs. EVANS & POWELSON, Buffalo. To the correctness of the transfers, their excellence is in a great measure to be attributed; though their after execution is regarded as a creditable specimen of the progress of the art of Lithography in the United States. The artists employed upon the illustrations are indicated by their names. Allegany County,. 296 Clinton, De Witt.. 414 Cuisick's History, (note). ... 531 Captives of the Iroquois, 579 Council of the League, 20, 623 Attica, . 532 Civil and Military Relations of the Brebeuf's journey to the Neuter Nation 65 Consanguinity of the Iroquois, Biart, Father. 99 Cabot, John and Sebastian. Barre, De La........ Blacksmith's Tradition,. Burnet, Gov. William. Barnwell,.. Bradstreet, Col. 137 Cortereal, Gaspar.... 150 Cartier, James... 72 77, 79 108 Brief notices of events under English dominion,... Battle near Buffalo, Border Wars of the Revolution, Brant Thayendanega,. Colonists of New France, (note)..... 109 226 Charlevoix's Description of Niagara 231 Falls, ... 233 Crown Point,. 112 194 216 265 ... 276 277 321 335 387 425 445 452, 598 466, 620 481 282 Cazenove, Theophilus.... 317 Progress to 1812, 348 Chapin, Cyrenius. Devil's Hole,. 227 Human bones excavated, 27 Dorchester's, Lord, Indian Speech,... 342 Ho-de-no-sau-nee... 42 Dunham, Gideon... 467 Henry VII, 71 497 Hochelaga, 404, 412, 430 408, 432 Douglass' description of Buffalo. Equality of the Iroquois Confederacy, 59 Early Notices of Niagara Falls,..... 192 Eddy, Thomas. Fort Hill,. ... 31, 152 Hall, General.. First vessels upon the Upper Lakes, 116 533 Hunt, Capt.... 81 606 Hudson, Henry 82, 87 129 Hennepin's account of the Falls,. 193 Hudson Bay Company, 222 Herkimer, General,. 268 Hopkins, Silas...... 310 Hosmer, Timothy.. 376 Historical Deduction of Holland Com- pany Title,.. 401 432 Haudecour.... 414 Frontier Posts after peace of 1783,... 338 | Independence of each Indian Nation, 51 Structure of the Iroquois Confederacy, 48 Van Schaick, Senecas and Eries,. Smith, John... Slowness of Colonization, Stevens, James. 201 Van Horn, Judge............. 205 Washington, (note,).... 174 72 145 170, 216 281 69 81 Variation of the Magnetic Needle, 164 Vander Kemp, John J. 429 551 200, 619 200 205, 213 177 267 West, Dr. Joseph. 188 272 Womp, 240 277 Willett, Col... 271, 282 |