CONTENTS. Address of the Assembly to the King, 451. Answer to, by Board Albany, Treaty at, 23. Proposed Commissioners to, 25. Their commission, 47. Conference at, Minutes of, 57-133. Prece- dence of Colonies fixed, 65. Draft of a general speech to In- dians, 69. Union of Colonies, plan of, 66, 71, 72. Title of the English to North America stated, 100-105. Alexandria, Council at, composed of General Braddock, Commodore Armstrong, Colonel John, report of mission to Connecticut, 259. Appointed a Commissioner to lay out road, 323. A report from, 369. Letters to and from, 323, 379, 401, 402, 403, 676. Assembly, their religious scruples complained of, 2, 5. Object to Belcher, Governor of New Jersey, destination of troops for Oswego Berks Bills of Credit, 39, 191, 192, 208, 211, 214, 222, 339, 340, 352, 437, 438, 441, 447, 587, 588, 597, 599, 683, 696, 702, 708, 711, 714, 736, 737, 743. King's approval in 1748, found, 356. Historical and Chronological views of acts of preceding Gover- Board of Trade, letters from and to, 14, 59, 505. Boscawen, Admiral, letter from, 451. Boundary Line between Virginia and Pennsylvania, 8. Braddock, General E., his arrival, 303, 307. Letters to and from, 306, 331, 332, 333, 335, 377, 380, 383, 398, 399, 400, 406, 408, 409, 415, 426, 428, 429, 430, 431, 445, 459, 475, 476. Asks for a post to be established between Philadelphia and Win- chester, 321. Transports arrive, 331. Attends a Council of Gov- ernors at Alexandria, 365. His plan for a general fund, 366. Plan of operations, 366. His road, 317, 318, 323, 368, 377, 380, 395, 405, 466. Intentions respecting Fort Du Queste, 399. Censures Governor Dinwiddie and Assembly-Governo, Sharpe-Cresap, 400. Proposals for contracts, and obligation, 401. Letter from William Shirley, his Secretary-views of the expedition, 404. Distress for provisions, 383, 407. Has begun his march, 413. A present of fat cattle, &c., for his table, by Governor Morris, from the three lower counties, 414, 415. Pro- visions sent to, 415. Defeat and death of, 479, 480, 481, 482, 487, 502, 510, 513, 515, 517, 519, 549, 600. John Campbell, messenger, escaped, 481. Depositions respecting defeat, 482, 483. Governor's Speech on defeat, 486. Captain Orme's account, 487. List of officers killed and wounded, 489-491, 502. Col. Dunbar retreating to Wills' Creek, 492. Information of road cutters, 493. Governor Morris' views of the defeat, 496, 599. Colonel Burd's account, 499, 502. Effect of defeat on Indians, 768. Bucks county, sheriffs and coroners elected, 144, 638. Burd, Colonel James, letters to and from, 403, 433, 435, 436, 467, Capitulation, articles of, at Fort Necessity, 51, 52. Chester county, sheriffs and coroners elected, 144, 638. A large body going to Philadelphia to compel Assembly to provide for Claus, Daniel, letters to and from, 181, 182, 292, 469. Coffen, Stephen, Deposition, 9. Commissioners at Albany for several Colonies, 25, 47, 58. To lay out Braddock's road, 318, 323. Report from, 368. Letters to Congress of Governors at New York, 745, 747, 751. Assembly's Connecticut, Indians to be apprized of the intentions of, 24. Let- ters to and from Governor of, 255, 261. Report of Col. J. Arm- strong's mission to, 259. Bounds of, and New York by Commis- sioners, 263. Letter of William Alexander respecting, 262. Pro- ceedings at Court of Kensington, 264. Relating to, 267-277. Title of J. Lydius, 291, 293. Governor meets General Braddock Council of War called by General Johnson, proceedings of, 608. Courtenay, Charles, a French deserter, examined, 226. Cove, Great, reduced to ashes and people murdered, 673-677. Cresap, Braddock's opinion of, 401. Croghan, George, letters to and from, 20, 140, 145, 160, 180, 181, 218, 226, 372, 374, 398, 642. Sent messenger to Indians, 169. Appointed commissioner to survey road, 325. Makes a state- Crown Point, fort proposed near, 313. Expedition against-pro- ceedings of a Council of War, 608. Resolution of Massachusetts Assembly, 611. Message from Governor, 612. Letter Colonel Cumberland County, petition from, for protection, 131. Sheriffs and coroners elected, 144, 638. Indian murders, 459. Letter to, for aid to Colonel Dunbar's troops, 515. Petition from a company formed-ask for arms, 533. Indian murders, 642- 645. Destruction of the Great Core, 675. Houses burned, 707. Indian conference at Carlisle, 773, 781. Deed from the Six Nations for the lands west of Susquehanna as far De Lancey, Governor, letters to and from, 9, 13, 32, 48, 511, 520, De Villiers takes Fort Necessity-articles of capitulation, 52, 136. Delap, an Irishman, to be arrested, 381. Delaware, present from the three counties to General Braddock, 415. Depositions of Stephen Coffen, 9-13. Peter Franks, 54. Charles Courtney, 224. Francis Charles Bouviere, 225. Of Jean Silves- tre (a French deserter), 416. Michael Hoover, Mathew Lard, and Jacob Huber (Braddock's defeat), 483. Adam Terance, In- dian murders, 649. Of Philips Burgh, 758. J. M. Hute, 758. Dinwiddie, Governor, letters to and from, 1, 3, 5, 27, 31, 55, 136, Drought, no rain for two or three months-fast day in consequence, Dunbar, Colonel Thomas, retreating towards Wills' Creek, 492, 548, Du Quesne, Fort, Braddock's march for, 399. Colonel Dunbar's Elder, Reverend John, letters to and from, 653, 704. Embargo on provisions, order for, 319, 323, 439, 450, 451, 453, English, their title to North America stated, 105. Fast day appointed, on account of great drought, and for success to Fitch, Thomas, Governor of Connecticut, Letters to and from, 255, Fort in forks of Monongahela, surrender of, to French Captain Fort Mount Pleasant built at Wills' Creek, 180. Fort at Crown Point proposed, 313. Fort Cumberland, 445, 447, Fort Necessity surrenders to Captain De Villier, articles of Capitu- Fort at McDowell's, 431. Francis, Tench, resigns as Attorney General, 277. Franklin, Benjamin, Commissioner to Albany, 25, 47. Benjamin's French invasions, 4, 9, 13, 16-20, 22, 33, 34, 46. Take fort in |