Abercromby: Major-General, James, 44,
50, 51, 168

Albright: Jacob, 319, 350, 354, 356.
Alexander: James, 60.
Alexander: William (Earl of Stirling),
appointed Surveyor-General, 60, 61.-
In Council, 246, 247, 250, 251, 254, 266,
268, 270, 273, 277, 278, 287, 290, 297, 299,
301, 303, 306-309, 315, 317, 342, 348, 350,
860, 364-366, 369, 372-374, 376, 377, 379,
383, 384, 387-398, 403-405, 407, 465, 466,
468, 469, 471-476, 451-483, 485, 487-490-
494. 500, 506, 507, 509, 511.-Of a com,
mittee, 246, 249, 252, 395, 397, 474-176,
496.--Messenger, 253, 493.--Letter from,
437-439.-Warrants to, 510.

Allen: William, 505.

Allison: John, 227–229, 232.
Alstone: David, 294.

Allwood: Henry, 359, 504.

Amherst Major-General, 212, 283, 287, 288,
295, 298, 313-317, 324.

Anderson: John, 4, 224, 274, 349, 373, 395,
429, 505.

Angell: Henry, 359.

Angle: Nicholas, 349, 350, 354, 356.

Antill: Edward, In Council, 1, 6, 10, 13-
15, 75, 80, 100, 101, 107, 121-123, 128, 130,
173, 174, 200, 202, 210, 213.-Warrant to,
201-Suspended, 238.

Ashfield: Lewis Morris, In Council, 10,

13-15, 17, 18, 20-22, 25, 26, 28, 29, 34, 83,
87, 92, 95, 96, 113, 115, 118-123, 136, 151,
155, 157, 159-165, 169, 171, 178, 174, 182,
183, 186-190, 192, 194, 195, 199, 205, 209,
210, 213, 243, 246, 247, 250, 251, 254, 255,
266, 269, 270, 273, 295, 313, 321, 323, 379,
380, 391-398, 403-405, 407, 410, 413-416,
418-420, 423 424, 431, 432.-Messenger,
13, 22, 26, 27, 162, 188, 191, 192, 216, 217,
221, 244, 253, 254, 394, 415.-Of a com-
mittee, 19-21, 23, 25, 88-90, 116, 117, 119,
158, 162, 164, 183, 187, 214, 220, 221, 246,

248, 249, 257, 258, 265, 335, 390, 404.-
Warrant to, 33, 97, 170, 208, 383.-Lays
a petition before the Council, 198.
Ashton David, 503.
Assembly: Addresses to, by Governor
Belcher, 14.-Addresses by, to Gov-
ernor Belcher, 11, 12, 24, 45-47, 93-95,
109-112.-Proceedings of, on learning
the death of Governor Belcher, 129.-
Message to, from the Council, 129.-
Addresses of, to President Reading,
150, 165-167.-Addresses of, to Gov-
ernor Bernard, 181, 182, 215.-Ad-
dresses to, by Governor Bernard, 182,
193. Addresses by, to Governor
Boone, 230, 240, 241, 266, 297-299, 306-
308, 324-326.-Addresses of, to Gov.
ernor Hardy, 252, 253, 305, 306, 310, 335.
-Addresses of, to Governor Franklin,
369-371, 469, 470.-Call for a session of,
advised by the Council, 446-Address
of, to the King, on the repeal of the
Stamp Act, 451-453.
Assembly, General: Addresses to, by

B.

Governor Belcher, 6-9, 41-15, 62-66, 71-
73, 103-105, 113-115.-Messages to, by
Governor Belcher, 91, 120-Speech
to, by President Reading, 151-154.-
Addresses to, by Governor Bernard,
210-213, 218-220.-Proceedings of, as
given in a note, 22-224-Speeches to,
by Governor Boone, 224, 225, 232, 239,
243.-Speeches to, by Governor Hardy,
244, 245.-Speeches to, by Governor
Franklin, 344-347, 360-364, 384-387, 448-
450, 466-168.-Acts of the Thirteenth
Session of the Twentieth Assembly,
held June, 1766, 453, 454.
Aynsley William, 136, 172, 199.
Ayres: John, 233.
Ayres: Moses, 505.
Ayres: Obadiah, 273.

Belcher: Jonathan, In Council, 1, 3, 28,
29, 34, 35, 49, 51-53, 56, 60, 61, 67, 75, 80,
82, 83, 98, 100, 101, 103, 125.-Speech of
to the General Assembly, 6, 14, 16, 17,
41-15, 62-66, 71, 84-85, 103-105, 113-115.
-Addresses to, by the Assembly, 11,
12, 24, 45, 93, 109.-Proclamation by,
5, 29, 35, 50, 61, 77.-Orders of in rela-
tion to the murder of an Indian
woman, and the threatened rescue
of the murderer, 38.-Message from
to the General Assembly, 91, 120.-
Illness of, 116.-Letter to, from Gen-

eral Webb, 116.-Death of, and pro-
ceedings of the General Assembly
thereupon, 127–132.
Bemer: Philip. 471, 472, 475, 499.
Bergen: Jacob, 501.

Bernard: Francis, Governor of New Jer-

sey. Takes the oath of office, 173.-
Proclaims his authority, 174.-Speech
of, to the General Assembly, 176-178.

Address to, by the Council, 179, 180.
-Reply to the same, 181.-Address to
the Assembly, 193.-In Council, 194,
195, 199, 200, 202, 204, 205.-Speeches of,
to the General Assembly, 210-213, 218-
220.
Berrian: John, Appointed one of the
Justices of the Supreme Court, 374.-
Warrants to, 382, 456, 462, 464, 515.-
Indignity offered by, to the Chief
Justice, 500, 501, 506, 507.- Dispute
with Mr. Low, 507-509, 511, 512.
Berry, Jr.: John, 277, 502.
Bickers: Lieutenant, 136.
Biles: Benjamin, 33.

Bills and Acts: For raising 250 able-
bodied freemen volunteers, to pro-
tect and defend the frontiers of
this Colony from invasion, &c., 10,
13, 14. For the more effectual ob-
structing the exportation of pro-
visions and warlike stores from the
Colony of New Jersey, &c., 18-20, 23 —
To enable the owners of the meadows
and marshes at Elsinborough, in the
county of Salem, to keep out the tides
from overflowing the same, 19, 20, 23.
-To enable the owners of two several
tracts of tide-meadow and marsh on
the north side of Cohansey creek, in
the county of Cumberland, to stop
out the tide, &c., 19, 20, 25, 27.-For
the support of Government, &c., from
May 21st, 1756, to May 21st, 1757, 21, 22-
24 (2d Bill), 88-90, 95 (3d Bill), 186, 187,
193 (4th Bill), 217, 220-222 (5th Bill),
248, 255. 265 (6th Bill), 348-350, 356
(7th Bill), 365-367, 372 (8th Bill), 406,
411, 415 (9th Bill), 488, 492, 498.-For
naturalizing Johannes Belervelt and
Peter Vanallen, 21.-For continuing
several acts, &c., 21, 22, 24.-For mak-
ing current £17,500 in Bills of Credit
for the further supply and pay of the
forces raised in this Colony, lately
raised, &c., 23, 25, 27-For the better
regulation of the forces upon the
frontiers of the Colony of New Jersey,
in the county of Sussex, &c, 26. 27.—
To continue the pay of the forces
under Col. Schuyler, 73, 74.- To make
current £60,000 in Bills of Credit, 87.
-For regulating Indian affairs and
to prevent the setting of deer traps
within the Colony of New Jersey, 87-
89, 94, 95.-For completing the regi-
ment in the pay of this Colony, 89, 91,
95.-For raising and maintaining 120
men for the defense of the frontiers
of this Colony, 106-108, 112.-To en-
able the owners and possessors of a
large tract of salt marsh, &c., in the
township of Greenwich, &c., 106-108,
112. For the better settling and regu-
lating the militia, &c., 107, 108.-For
the trial of Benjamin Springer, for
felony and murder, 118, 119, 145, 146,

149. For continuing several acts
which will expire at the end of the
present session, 118, 119, 146, 149.-
For the relief of poor distressed
prisoners for debt, 119, 146, 147, 149
(zd Bill), 247, 249, 251, 265.-For mak-
ing current £30.000 in Bills of Credit
for His Majesty's service in the pres-
ent war. 145, 148, 149.-For providing
additional security to the frontiers of
this Colony, 147-149.-For appropri-
ating a certain sum of money for the
support of the Commander-in-Chief
of this Colony, &c., 147-149.-To supply
Col. Peter Schuyler with the sum of
£6,000, 155, 156, 167.-For augmenting
the regiment of New Jersey to 1,000
men, &c., 157, 158-10, 167.-For alter-
ing one part of a six-rod road which
leads from Perth Amboy ferry to Bur-
lington. 161, 162, 189-193.-For build-
ing of barracks within this Colony
and for preventing spirituous liquors
being sold to common soldiers, &c.,
and for other purposes, 162-165, 168.-
For rendering the office of recording
of deeds and other conveyances more
expensive and beneficial to the in-
habitants, &c., 164.-For the settle-
ment and relief of the poor, 184, 185,
188, 193.-To enable the owners and
possessors of some meadows, &c., in
Mannington, county of Salem, to
keep the tide from overflowing, 188,
192, 193.-For the further defense of
the frontiers of the Colony of New
Jersey, 189, 190, 193.-To impower
certain persons to purchase the
claims of the Indians to lands in the
Colony, 191, 193.-For better settling
and regulating the militia of this
Colony, 195.-For raising 1,000 effec-
tive volunteers, 214, 216-218.-For
continuing several acts of the General
Assembly of this Colony, 214, 220-222.
-To enable John Lawrence, of Bur-
lington, to stop out the tide from
overflowing his marsh, &c., 214, 216,
217, 222.-For the preservation of tim-
ber, &c, 217, 221, 222.-To provide for
the pay of the New Jersey regiment
for the month of November, 1760,
223. To erect and establish courts in
the several counties for the trial of
small causes, 223.-For the preserva-
tion of the public records of the
Colony, 223-For regulating the
roads and bridges, 223.-To prevent
the sale of tickets in lotteries erected
out of this Province, and to prevent
gaming, and to revive three public
lotteries appointed by a former law,
223-To regulate the size of traps to
be hereafter set in this Colony, 223.-
To impower the Justices and Free-
holders of each county to adjourn,
and to remedy the neglect of choosing
County Collectors, 223.--To revive and
amend an act for the better enabling
creditors to recover their just debts
from persons who abscond them-
selves, 223.-To continue the dam
across Woodbury greek, in the county
of Gloucester, 223.-To enable the
owners and possessors of some
marshes and cripple swamp in the

county of Cape May to keep out the
tide from overflowing the same. 223.
-For raising 600 volunteers, officers
included, for His Majesty's service,
227-229, 331.-For obviating doubts
respecting the acts passed at the last
session, and continuing the ordi-
nances for establishing courts in this
Colony, 227-230, 232, 285.-For natur-
alizing David Sleyback, Henry Lutts,
Michael Hammer and John Allison,
227-229, 232.-For the relief of John
Goelett, 228, 229, 232, 285.-To provide
for the enlisting, clothing and pay
of sixty-six volunteers, including
officers, 242, 243-To prevent horse-
racing and gaming, 246, 247, 265.-
For vacating and rendering void the
lottery made by Peter Gordon, &c.,
247-249, 250.-For building a court-
house and jail in Sussex county, 250,
251, 253, 265.-To enable the owners,
&c., of three tracts of tide meadow
lying on the north side of Cohansey
creek, &c., to keep out the tide, &c.,
254, 255, 266-To impower the Church-
wardens, &c., of St. Peter's Church, in
the city of Perth Amboy, to raise by lot
tery money for repairing church par-
sonage, &c., 254-256, 266.-For paying
incidental charges, 266.-To complete
the New Jersey regiment to 666 vol.
unteers, 299, 300, 302. 304.-To enable
owners, &c, of meadows on a branch
of Newton creek to erect a bank,
dam, &c., 300, 302, 304.-To impower
the Churchwardens, &c., of St.
Mary's Church, in Burlington, to
raise by lottery a sum of money, &c.,
300, 302, 301-To impower the mana-
gers of the Bound Brook bridge to
raise by lottery a sum of money, &c.,
300, 301, 303. 305.-For naturalizing
George Beck, Jacob Wigmore and
Stephen Sarick, 301-303, 305.-For
granting additional supply for finish-
ing the Secretaries' offices at Burling-
ton and Amboy, 301, 302, 305.-For
continuing the bridge near Cedar
Swamp creek in the back of Cape
May, &c., 301-304, 305.-Directing the
Treasurers of this Colony to pay the
Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's
forces £1,602. to be repaid, &c.. 309,
311.-For naturalizing Christian Sy-
berberg and others, 309-311.-To
enable the owners of the meadows,
&c., on Great Mantua creek to drain
the marshes. &c., 327, 328, 330, 338 -
To enable the owners of meadows,
&c., on Raccoon creek, &c., to keep
out the tide, &c., 327, 328, 330, 331,
338.-For regulating roads and
bridges, 327, 329, 330, 338.-For vacat-
ing and rendering void the lottery
lately made by Peter Gordon, 327,
331, 338, 385-To enable the owners.
&c., of marshes on Pumpessy creek
to erect a bank, dam. &c., 328-332,
338. To impower the Trustees of the
College of New Jersey to raise by
lottery a sum of money for said Col-
lege, 328-330, 332, 338.-To provide for
the enlisting, clothing and pay of
sixty-six volunteers for His Majesty's
service, &c., 329, 332, 337.-To post-i

pone the drawing of the Province
lottery, 329, 332, 338.-To preserve the
navigation of the rivers and creeks
in the Colony of New Jersey, 330, 333,
334, 338.-For laying a duty on negro
or mulatto slaves imported into this
Province, 333, 334, 336, 338, 385.-To
prevent persons prosecuted in the Col-
ony of New York for trespasses com-
mitted on Sandy Hook being again
prosecuted in New Jersey, 337, 338.—
To raise a fund for defraying dam-
ages done by dogs, 349, 356 (2d Bill).
396, 409.-To provide for the pay of
the New Jersey regiment for the
month of November, 1762, 349, 850,
353, 356, 431.-For naturalizing Jacob
Abright, Daniel Dorn, Nicholas
Angle. Benedict Yare, Johannes
Nos, Gabriel Hymer, Johannes Hey-
ler, Cornelius Ferberg, Johannes Fer-
berg, Johannes Hupple and John
Sneyder, 349, 350, 354, 356.-For sub-
mitting the property of lands held or
claimed as lying within this Colony,
and affected by the controversy about
the boundary line, to such a method
of decision as His Majesty may think
proper. &c., 350, 351, 854, 356, 366-368,
371.-For subjecting the estates of the
general proprietors of the Eastern
division of this Colony to the indem-
nification of this Province, &c., 350,
351, 356, 367, 368, 371.-For raising a
number of men not exceeding 600
for the ensuing campaign, &c., 365,
366, 369, 372, 373, 376.-To naturalize
Joseph Beringer and others, 365-367,
371 To enable the owners of certain
salt meadows, lying in the townships
of Woodbridge and Piscataway, to
make necessary drains. &c., 365, 367,
371. To enable the Treasurers, or
either of them, to receive and pay
certain sums of money, 391, 392, 394.-
To enable the owners. &c, of the
marsh on a creek called Newport, in
Cumberland county, to erect a bank,
&c., 391-393.-To regulate the prac-
tice of the law, &c. 391.-To enable
the owners, &c., of meadows and
swamps on Little Mantua creek, &c.,
to maintain the dam, bank, &c., 392-
394. For the preservation of fish in
the river Delaware, and to prevent
obstruction in the navigation thereof,
392-394--For building and maintain-
ing a drawbridge over Raccoon
creek, in Gloucester county, 394, 407.
For laying out a road from Newark,
in Essex county, to Paules Hook, on
Hudson's river, 396, 404, 409.-To con-
stitute and make Crosswicks creek a
good and lawful fence from Watson's
Ferry to the mouth of the same, 396,
398, 407.-To naturalize John Houze,
Peter Hendrick Striepers, John Her-
bergs, John William Pollman and
Peter Kurtz, 897, 398, 406.-To amend
an act to regulate the size of traps,
&c. and to prohibit the watching
with a gun at night, &c., 403, 406, 410,
413, 415-To enable the owners, &c.,
of meadows on Newton creek, in the
county of Gloucester, to repair and
maintain a bank and other water-

works, &c.. 403.-To enable Rev. Colin
Campbell, Rector of St. Mary's Church
in Burlington, with the Church-
wardens, &c., to sell 206 acres of
land in Somerset county, 405, 409.-
To enable the owners, &c., of the
meadows on Newton creek, in
Gloucester county, to repair and
amend a bank, &c., 406.-To repair
the public road in the township of
Chesterfield, in Burlington county, by
a tax, 407-409.-To appoint Commis-
sioners to take care of and let the
barracks in the Colony of New Jersey,
408, 414, 417, 421.-For building and
maintaining a bridge over Cooper's
creek, and rebuilding and maintain-
ing other bridges in the great road
from Burlington county, &c., 408, 414.
-For preventing frauds by mortgages
which shall be made and executed
after January 1st, 1766, 408, 411, 416,
419. For granting a bounty upon the
raising of flax and hemp and planting
mulberry trees, &c., 408, 414 (2d Bill).
471, 472, 475, 498.-To alter so much of
the road leading from Elizabeth Town
to the point called Elizabeth Town
Point as goes through the Point tract,
and laying out a straight road to the
same, 406, 411, 415.-For building a
court-house and gaol in the county
of Middlesex, 413, 414, 420, 421, 425,
427.-To suppress fairs at the town of
Greenwich, 414, 416, 417.-To prevent
waste from being committed upon the
common land allotted to the patent of
Secaucus in the corporation of Bergen,
415, 420, 424, 427, 429.-For restraining
the burning of the woods, marshes
and meadows, 415, 418, 419, 422.-For
preventing the waste of timber, 413,
416, 417.-For better settling and regu-
lating the militia, 417, 419, 420-To
regulate the method of taking fish in
the river Delaware, and to prevent
obstructions, &c, 417, 419 (2d Bill),
477, 480, 498.-To enable the proprie.
tors, &c., of meadows on Assisconk
or Birch creek to deepen and widen
the same, &c., 418, 420, 422.-For en-
abling the owners, proprietors, &c.,
of the meadows on Burlington creek,
including Christopher Wetherill's,
&c., 423, 424.-For the relief of in-
solvent debtors, 423, 426, 429 (2d Bill).
483, 485-488. 498.-To enable the Jus-
tices and Chosen Freeholders of Hun-
terdon county to erect a new court-
house and gaol. 425, 428.-For build-
ing a stone bridge over Assanpink,
near Robert Lettice Hooper's mills,
425, 428.-To enable Hon. Charles
Read to erect a dam over Batstow
creek, 425, 428.-To enable John Estill
to erect a dam over Atsion river, 425.
-For regulating Constables and ven-
dues, and for better regulating tav-
erns, 425, 428 (2d Bill), 476, 477, 479, 498.
-For regulating the practice of the
law, and to alter the Courts of Quarter
Sessions, &c., 426, 430, 432.-To indem-
nify the Treasurers of this Province
for the sum of £200, to be lent for the
inhabitants of Sussex county, 429, 431.
-For collecting and securing the

books of mortgages formerly kept by
the Loan Officer of this Province, 430-
432.-To naturalize John Lanterman,
John Snook, Frederick Hayn, Wil-
liam Stroder, Philip Bemer, John
Haas, Johannes Mayar and Peter
Colsher, 471, 472, 475, 499.-For choos
ing Representatives in the counties
of Morris, Sussex and Cumberland,
and directing the Morris county taxes
to be paid into the Eastern Treasury,
472, 477, 498, 508.-For the septennial
election of Representatives to serve
in the General Assembly, 472-474, 478,
498, 508.-To regulate the fishery
within that part of the Eastern Divi-
sion from the mouth of Raritan river,
northward, 472-474, 478, 498.-To en-
able the owners, &c., of the lower
meadows on Woodbury creek to keep
up and maintain the dam, banks and
other water-works, 475, 476, 478, 499.-
To impower the inhabitants of Bridge-
water and Bedminster, &c., to repair
roads by tax, &c., 476, 478, 499-To
repair the public roads in the South
ward of the corporation of Amboy,
&c., 476, 477, 479, 480, 482, 499.-To
build a bridge over South river, in
the county of Middlesex, 477, 479, 481,
499.-To naturalize Nicholas Ott, 481.
482, 500.-To erect and establish courts
for the trial of small causes, 481, 483,
481, 488, 498.-To impower the inhabi-
tants of the township of Pequanack
to repair their highways by hire and
raise of money for that purpose, 482-
484, 499.-To regulate the trial of slaves
for murder, &c., 483, 485, 486, 498.-For
the relief of Robert Lettice Hooper,
Jr., 485, 487, 495.-For making current
£100,000 in Bills of Credit, 488, 489 -
Appointing Commissioners for sup-
plying the several barracks in the
Colony, 489-193, 495, 498.-To enable
creditors more easily to recover their
debts from joint partners, 489-491, 498.
-For more effectually compelling the
Assessors to return complete and
exact duplicates, &c., 490, 491, 493, 494.
499.-To compel the several officers of
the cities, townships, &c., to deliver to
their successors the laws put in their
hands for the use of said cities, &c.,
493, 494, 499.-Appointing Commis-
sioners to sell a quantity of gunpow-
der and lead, &c., 494, 499.-Appoint-
ing Commissioners for supplying the
several barracks in this Colony, &c.,
509. To amend an act for punishing
mutiny and desertion, and for the
better payment of the army and their
quarters in America, 509.

Bills of Credit: An act to make current
£17,500, 23, 25, 27.-An act to make
current £60,000, 87.-An act to make
current £30,000, 145, 148, 149.-An act
to make current £100,000, 488, 489.-
Canceled, 164, 183, 214, 248, 889.
Bispham : Joshua, 33.
Bloodgood: William, 209.
Board: James, 277, 502.
Boone: Thomas, Succeeded Gov. Ber-
nard as Governor of New Jersey, 225.
-Speech of, to the General Assembly,
224, 225, 282, 239.-Address to, by the