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DONGAN, GOV., letters of, to M. de la
Barre, 100, 105; forbids the Iroquois
treating with the French without his
permission, 114, 403; promises the
Indians a reinforcement, 115; sends
an emissary to the Five Nations 136;
complained of by the French Court,
143; Report of, on the state of the
Province, 147; recommends Catholic
Missionaries to be sent from England
to the Five Nations, 156; sends Maps
of the Province to England, 158, 160;
accusations of, against Collector San-
ten, 167; answer of, to charges against
him, 174, et seq.; grants a Charter to
the City of Albany, 189; fees received
for Patents by, 182; sends Collector
Santen to England, 188; proposes the
names of new Councillors, 189; let-
ters of, to M. de Denonville, 205, 209,
226, 235, 266; remonstrates against
garrisoning Fort Frontenac, 205; and
building a fort at Niagara, 206; claims
25,000 liv. from the French Govern-
ment, 210; charged with exciting the
Indians against the French, 211, 213;
proposes an English post at Niagara,
216; vindicates his conduct regarding
the Indian trade, 227; propositions of,
to the Iroquois, 229; the French king
rejects the claim of, 232; let'ers of,
to Father de Lamberville, 233; re-
monstrates against that Jesuit med-
dling with the Five Nations, 225; de-

East Hamp on, officers of militia in the
town of, in 1700, 358; Lion Gardiner's
Observations on, 674.

Effingham, Lord, Gov. of Virginia, bu-
ries the hatchet with the Iroquois,
154; the Indian name of, 195; arrives
at New York, 215.

Elephant's teeth imported into New
Jersey, 152.

England, the Church of, 92, 186.
English, the, date when they first went
beyond the Seneca country, 156; De-
nonville orders the seizure of the, on
Lake Erie, 202; accused of inciting
the Indians against the French, 228;

Famine, La, (see Hungry Bay.)
Fecundity, remarkable instance of, 150.
First English settlement in Western
New York, 443; launch of the Eng-
lish vessel on Lake Ontario, 472.
Five Nations, the, (see Iroquois.)
Flag, the English, planted in the Iro-
quois country, 99; the English, cap-
tured at Oswego deposited in the
churches in Canada, 497.

E.

F.

nies having ordered the Indians to rob
the French, ib.; sends a present of
Oranges to M. de Denonville, 236;
letters of, to the Lord President, 255,
271; recommends his nephew to be
employed in bringing settlers from
Ireland to N. York, 256; proceedings
of, on learning the French movements
against the Senecas, 257; proposes
erecting_forts on Lake Champlain,
Hungry Bay, the Mohawk river and
Niagara, 259; demands a surrender of
English taken prisoners by the French,
271; obtains a conveyance of the Up-
per Susquehannah river, 401.
Duke's county, places composing, 317.
Duperon, Father Frs., proceeds to On-
ondaga, 45.

Dupuis, M., commander of a French
Colony at Onondaga, 45, 50.
Dutch, the, supply the French army at
Schenectady with provisions, 73; sup
posed to be friendly to William III.,
291.

Dutchess county forms part of Ulster,
317; names of the militia officers of,
in 1700, 363; names and number of the
inhabitants of, in 1714, 368, 691; pop-
ulation of, in 1723, 693; in 1731 and
'37, 694; in 1746 and 49, 695; in 1756,
696; in 1771, 697.

Duties on imports and exports in 1678,
92; tariff of, in 1686, 163.

design of, to monopolize the fur trade,
286.

Enume ation of the Indian tribes con-
nected with Canada, 15; of the Nor-
thern Indians, 26; of the Five Na-
tions, 690.

Esopus in 1691, 407; number of Ger-
mans settled at, in 1718, 693.
Estates, value of the, in 1678, 91.
Exchequer, court of, jurisdiction of the,
148.

Expense incurred by N. York, through
the French invasion of the Seneca
country, 273, et seq.
Exports, in 1678, 90; in 1686, 160; tables
of Imports, &c., 699.

Flatbush, militia officers of the town of,
in 1700, 360.
Flatlands, militia officers of the town
of, 360.
FLETCHER, Gov. Benjamin, brings the
subject of Count de Frontenac's expe-
dition before the Council of N. York,
323; his report thereon to the Com-
mittee of Trade, 339; fails in obtain-
ing assistance from the neighbouring

Colonies, 340; report of his proceed-
ings regarding the Indians at Albany,
341; establishes a Board at Albany for
the management of Indian affairs,
343; his instructions to the same, 344;
his letter to Mr. Blathwayte on the
French invasion of the Onnondaga
Country, 346; a journal of his expe-
dition to Albany to renew the trea y
with the Five Nations, ib.; extract
of his speech to the Assembly of N.
York, 355.

Flushing, officers of the militia in the
town of, in 1700, 359; names of the
inhabitants of, in 168, 661.

Forces levied in the Province of New
York, 244.

Foreigners, the major part of the Pro-
vince of New York in 1686, inhabited
by, 162.

Forts, description of the first on the
Iroquois river, 59; of the Mohawk,

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70; in the Province of New York in
1678, 89; in 1687, 149; built by the
French, 258; between Oswego and
Albany, in 1756, 524.

Freight, price of, between Montreal
and Fort Frontenac in 1686, 204.
French, names given by the, to the se-
veral Indian tribes, 14, 15; the, in-
vited to settle at Onondaga, 41; retire
from Onondaga, 52; the, take posses-
sion of the Mohawk country, 77; ca-
noes of the, plundered, 104, 109;
number of the forces brought by the,
from the West, to aid M. de la Barre,
120; the, claim as far as the Gult of
Mexico, 155; defeat of the, on the
Oswego river, 483; capture Oswego,
488; Seigniories on Lake Champlain,

535.

Frontenac, M. de, instructions to, 292;
account of his expedition against the
Senecas, 323, et seq.

Government, constitution of the pro-
vincial, in 1678, 88.

Grant by the Five Nations of their hunt-
ing ground to the King of England,
773.

Greenhalgh, Wentworth, observations
of, among the Iroquois, 11.
Gravesend, militia officers of the town
of, in 1700, 360; first patent for the
town of, 629.

H.

Heathcote, Col., on the trade and manu-
factures of the Province of New-York,
712.

Hempstead, laws passed at, 89; extent
of plain of, 181; amount paid Gov.
Dongan for the patent for, 182; names
of the militia officers of, 359; of the
inhabitants of, 658.

Herkimer fort, descriptions of, 516, 526.
Hillsborough, Lord, to Gov. Moore,
directing that the French should not
be disturbed in the possession of land
settled by them on Lake Champlain,
549; approving of the boundary line
between the province of New-York
and Quebec, 550.

History of the first settlement of New
Utrecht, 633; of Easthampton, 674.

Illinois, the, attacked by the Iroquois,
97; M. de la Barre abandons the, 125;
distance of the, from Niagara, 201.
Imports, value of, in 1678, 90.
Indians, papers relating to the several
tribes of, 3, et seq; numerical strength
of the, 12, 22, 61, 98, 196, 690; totums

I.

Hocquart, Seigniory of, 541, 544, 586.
Houses, description of the, in the Pro
vince of New-York in 1686, 160.
Huguenots, arrival of, from the West
Indies, 225; proposed disposition of
the, in case N. York were conquered
by the French, 295.

Hungry bay, account of De la Barre's
expedition to, 109; the French en-
camp at, 113; sickness among the
troops at, 114; treaty between the
French and Indians at, 117; Indian
name of, 138, 259, 267.

Hunter, fort, description of, 529; Gov.,
on the trade and manufactures of New-
York, 713.

Huntington, militia officers of the town
of, in 1700, 358.

of the, 15; why the flesh of the French
was considered salty by the, 129;
their lands annexed to New-York, 154;
traders sent by Gov. Dongan to the
Far, 157; the, as far as the South Sea
claimed by the English, 209, 214;
cruelties after the attack on the Sene-

780

INDEX.

cas, exercised by, 238; Indian account
of the French attack on the Seneca,
246, 248; notices of the, with pipes
through their noses, 266-8; a board
established for the management of the
affairs of the, 343; proceedings at the
conference between Gov. Fletcher
and the, 349; conveyance of lands on
the Susquehanna, by the, 369; com-
plaints of the, against Pennsylvania,
413, et seq; deed establishing a line
of division between the whites and
the, 587.

Ireland, Gov. Dongan recommends peo-
ple to be sent over from, to colonize
New-York, 256.

Irish Brigade, some of the, serve at the
siege of Oswego, 491, 504.
Irondequot bay, 132, 141, 237; an
lish colony sent to settle at, 443.
Eng-
Iroquois, papers relating to the, 2:
names of the several tribes of, 3; cus-
toms of the, 4; explanations of illus-
trations relating to the, 7, et seq.;

J.

Jamaica, names of the militia officers
of the town of, in 1700, 359.
Jerseys, the, evils arising from their
being separated from New-York, 151;
their annexation to the latter Govern-
ment earnestly recommended by Gov.
Dongan, 152-3, 256, 259.
Jesuit missions to Onondaga, 33, 44.
Jews, 92, 186.

Johnson, Sir Wm., report of, on the
numerical force of the Indians in 1736,
26; remarks of, on the proceedings
of Pennsylvania regarding the Susque-
hanna river, 412; sends a party of
savages against the French settlement
at Oswegatchie, 427; gives the name

Wentworth Greenhalgh's observations
among the, 11; first forts on the river
of the, 59; location, climate and pro-
ducts of the country of the, 60; the
river of the, 63; the Illinois attacked
by the, 97; general council convoked
at Onondaga by the, 129; the best sea-
son to wage war against, ib.; reason
of the missionaries returning from
among the, 134; plan of the, if attack-
ed, 141; Gov. Dongan's character of
the, 154; number of the castles of the,
156; means adopted by the, to increase
their numbers, 196; numerical force
of the, 196, 231, 690; Fort St. Louis
Ill. attacked by the, 229; plan of the
French attack on the, 231; a number
of the, sent to the French galleys,
237; the, taken under the protection
of Gov. Andros, 285; report of the
council for the securing the friendship
of the, 342; conference with the, at
Albany, 349.

of "George" to Lake St. Sacrament,
429; news from Oswego, communi-
cated by, 475; Indian name of, 521;
Joncaire, M. de, adopted into the tribe
description of the mansion of, 532.
of the Plover, 23.

Journal of Gov. Fletcher's expedition
to Albany in 1691, 346; of the siege
Juries take cognizance of all cases in
and capture of Oswego, 488.
Justices of the peace allowed to marry,
1668, 88.
91; names of the, in the Province of
New-York in 1693, 315; powers of
the, 317.

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Lamberville, Rev. J. de, 112; confers
with De la Barre, 116; letters of, from
Onondaga, 127, et seq.; advises De la
Barre against hostilities. 128; reasons
of, for such views. 129; suggests mild-
ness towards the Senecas, 130; urges
the Onondagas to give satisfaction to
De la Barre, 131; recommends Sieur
le Moine to be employed as negotiator
with the Indians, 132; reports pro-
ceedings of a council at Onondaga,
133; further reports from, 134; dis-

population of, in 1698, 689; in 1703 12,
691; in 1723, 693; in 1731, 37, 694; in
1746, 49, 695; in 1756, 696; in 1771,
697.

King's farm, allowed to Gov. Dongan
during his administration, 183.

tributes presents among the Indians,
135; counteracts Governor Dongan s
schemes, 136; endeavors to gain over
the Senecas, 137, 140; styled liberator
of the country, 141; letier of, to Gov.
Dongan, 194; Indian name of, 195;
at Onondaga, 200; bearer of a letter
from Gov. Dongan to M. de Denon-
ville, 208; exerts himself to preserve
peace between the Indians and the
French, 214; persuades the Indians by
underground presents, 215; length of

time he has been a missionary at
Onondaga, 216; sends M. de Denon-
ville copy of Gov. Dongan s speech
10 the Indians, 226, 229.

Lands, tenure and price of, in 1668, 87;
Cadwallader Colden's report on the
public 375.

Latitude of New-York and Albany, 90.
Laws in force in 1687, 148.
Legislative power in New-York, in
whom vested in 1668, 87; in 1687,
89.
Leisler, Jacob, letters of, on the burn-
ing of Schenectady, 307, et seq;
Le Moyne, Father Simon, voyage of,
to Onondaga, 33; speeches of, to the
Indians, 36, 38; recovers Father Bre-
bouf s bible, 41; discovers the salt
springs, 42; returns to Quebec, 44;
notice of the death of, 65; Sieur,
sent to Onondaga, 113; result of his
negotiations, 114, et seq.

Lespinart, Antoine, communicates Gov.
Dongan' movements to M. de Denon-
ville, 223, gives intelligence from
Canada to Gov. Dongan, 253.
Lighthouse, when erected, 704; how
supported, ib.

Littlehales, Major John, appointed to
the 1st. American Regiment, 494;
capitulates at Oswego, ib.; reflections
on the conduct of, 499.

Livingston, Robt., collector and town
clerk of Albany, 165; letters of, on
the burning of Schenectady, 309, 311.
Long Island, excise of, farmed, 166, 178;
character of the people on the East
end of, 166; in 1691, 407; papers re-
lating to, 627.

Longueuil, M. de, obliged by the Eng-
lish at Oswego, to exhibi: his pass-
port, 445; endeavors to turn the In-
dians against the English, 446; directs
his son to plunder any English canoes
he may meet with on Lake Ontario,
ib.
Lotbinière, M. de, his representations
regarding his Seigniories on Lake
Champlain, 558; report of the Board
of Trade on, 581.

Louis XIV., instructions of, to M. De
la Barre, regarding the Indians, 95,
107; to his Minister at London, to
prevail on the Duke of York to order
his Gov. at N. Y. not to supply the In-
dians with arms, 108; directs the Iro-
quois prisoners tobe sent to the galleys,
109; all things said to be possible to,
213; approves of the proposed attack
on the Senecas, 232; repeats his orders
for the transmission of the Iroquois
to the French galleys, 233; instruc-
tions to Count Frontenac relative to
the conquest of New York, 292.

M.

attack the Iroquois, 217.

Mamaroneck, names of the militia offi- | Miamis, numerical strength of the, 29;
cers of, in 1700, 362.
Manaudière, La, deed of sale of the
Seigniory of, 564; location of, 565,
567.

Map, an Italian, of New Netherland,
(faces Title;) of the Province and
harbor of New York, sent to Eng-
land, 158, 160; early, of the Susque-
hannah river mentioned, 394; of the
south side of the Mohawk river, 420;
showing situation of Forts Bull and
Williams, 509; of French grants on
Lake Champlain, 557; of English
grants on Lake Champlain, 572; of
the Province of New-York, in 1779,
774.

Maryland, Iroquois name for, 401.
Mayor of New-York, by whom ap-
pointed in 1687, 148; powers of the
courts of, in 1693, 315, 317.
McGregory, Major, sent by Gov. Don-
gan to the Far Indians, 157; taken
prisoner by the French, 259; de-
tained at Montreal, 264; the Coun-
cil propose measures for the release
of, 265; liberated by orders from
France, 273.

Mercer, Col, appointed to the 2d Ame-
rican Regiment, 494; killed at Oswe-
go, ib.

Meulles, M. de, report against M. de la
Barre, 120.

Michilimakinak, the English visit, 214;
Gov. Dongan despatches an expedi
tion to, 224; Indians arrive at Albany
from, 717.

Militia, number of the Provincial, in
1678, 89; in 1687, 149; in 1693, 318;
in 1700, 357; in 1716 and 1720, 692.
Millet, Rev. Father, missionary among
the Oneidas, 112; retires from that
mission, 131; at Catarakoui, 200; at
Fort Niagara, 276.

Ministers, the several sorts of, in the
city of New York, in 1687, 186; the
King's natural born subjects disin-
clined to pay their, 187; of the Dutch
Church, list of the, 625.
Missionaries, reason why the French,
withdrew from the Iroquois, 134.
Mississippi, discovery of the, 158.
Mohawks, names and description of the
towns belonging to the, 11, 70; nu-
merical strength of the, 12, 22, 60,
196; French expeditions against the,
56, 65, et seq.; some French officers
murdered by the, 68; verification of
the French conquest of the country
of the, 77; the English flag planted
in the villages of the, 99; map of the
land on the south side of the river,
420; topographical description of the
valley of the, 524.

MOORE, Gov., on the French grants on
Lake Champlain, 547, 552; instruc-
tions to, not to make any grants of

Names of the Iroquois tribes, 3; and
towns, 11, et seq.; of the members of
Gov. Dongan's Council, 188; of the in-
habitants of Ulster county in 1689,
279; of those killed and taken prison-
ers at Schenectady in 1691, 304; of the
Indian Board, 343; of inhabitants of
Orange county in 1704,317; of Dutchess
in 1714, 368; of Albany in 1720, 370;
of all the civil and militia officers of
the Province of New-York in 1693,
313; of the killed and missing in an
action near Oswego, 478; of the me-
chanics and sailors taken prisoners at
Oswego, 505; of the inhabitants of
the city of New-York in 1703, 611;
of the ministers of the Dutch church-
es, 625; of the first patentees of New
Utrecht, 634; of the inhabitants of
the present county of Kings in 1687,
659.

Negroes imported into New-York, from
1701 to 1726, 707.

New Amsterdam, first application for

a municipal form of Government for,
595; instructions for the Sheriff of, 600.
New England saved by the Government
of New-York, 154.
New Orange, charters of the city of,
604, 608, 655.

New Rochelle, names of the militia
officers of the town of, in 1700, 362.
Newtown, militia officers of, in 1700,
359.

New Utrecht, officers of the militia in
the town of, 360; history of the first
settlement of, 633.

New-York, Courts of the city of, 87, 89,
148; Governor's Reports on the prov.
of, 85, 89, 147; boundaries, latitude
and places of trade of the Province of,
90; population of, 91; description of
buildings in the city of, in 1678, ib.;
description of the fort at, in 1686, 149;
Dongan's char. of the people of, 150;
Maps of the harbor and prov. of, sent
to England, 158, 160; M. de Denon-
ville recommends the French govern-
ment to purchase, 202; axes levied
in 1688, for the support of the govern-
ment of, 274; M. de Callières' project
for the conquest of the province of,

Observations of Wentworth Greenhalgh
among the Five Nations, 11.
Officers, civil, in 1693, 313; of the mili-
tia in 1700, names of the, 357.
Ogdensburgh, papers relating to an

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0.

Land within the French Seigniories,
north of Crown Point, 553.

285; number of the houses and adults
in, in 1689, 289; proposed disposition
of the people of, and their property
when conquered by the French, 293
et seq.; officers of the corporation of,
in 1693, 315; militia of the prov. of,
in 1693, 318; names of the militia offi-
cers of the prov. of, 357; address of the
Gov. and Council on the state of the
prov. of, in 1691, 405; city of, in 1691,
407; first settlement of the English in
Western, 443; papers relating to the
city of, 593; Nichol's charter for the
city of, 602; Benck's and Evertsen's
charter, 604; Colve's charter, 608;
census of the city of, in 1703, 611;
Dutch Ministers of, 1758, 625; tables
of population of the prov. of, 687;
population of, in 1647,. 1673 and 1712,
691; in 1723, 693; in 1731 and 1737,
694; in 1746 and 1749, 695; in 1756,
696; in 1771 and 1774, 697; revenue,
&c., of the prov. of, 699; trade and
manufactures of, 709; Gov. Tryon's
report on the state of the province of,
737; civil establishment of the prov.
of, paid by the Crown, 770; do., paid
by the province, 771.

Niagara, Gov. Dongan recommends the
construction of a fort at, 155; the Duke
of York's arms put up as far as, 157;
distance from Illinois and Lake Supe-
rior to, 201; M. de Denonville recom-
mends the erection of a fort at, 203;
advantages of a post at, 204; situation
and soil of, ib.; Gov. Dongan remon-
strates against the erection by the
French of a fort at, 206; the French
propose establishing a post at, 232;
erection of a French fort at, 239; M.
de Denonville takes possession of, 243;
date of the erection of La Salle's fort
at, ib.; French garrison at, 244
French fort at, 251, 258; abandoned,
275; condition in 1688, of fort, 276;
names of the officers then at fort, 277;
height of the falls of, 435; the French
erect another fort at, 446.
NICOLLS, Gov to M. de Tracy, 78; serv-
ed in the French army, ib.; his re-
port on the state of the prov., 87; his
charter to N. York, 602.

early French settlement at, 421. (See,
Presentation.)

Oneagorah, Oneigra, Onyegra. (See,
Niagara.)

Oneidas, strength of the, in 1674, 12; in

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