The writings of George Washington; being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes and illustrations. By Jared Sparks.

498 GENERAL INDEX. [INDEX,
CHALMERS, raises loyalist troops, IV. 488. Humorous letter to% about his
523. marriage, IX. 346.
Chamblee, Fort, surrenders, III. 142. CHASTELLUX, Madame de, her applicaNumber of prisoners taken at, IV. tion for aid, XII. 319.
548. Chatterton's Hill, battle at, IV. 526.
CHAMPE, JOHN, Sergeant, his adven- Chaudicre River, III. 112.
ture to seize the person of Arnold CHEESMAN, Captain, death and burial
in New York, VII. 545-549. of, at Quebec, III. 264.
Champlain, Lake, III. 41. Fleet on, Cheraw NJeck, action at, VIII. 357.
IV. 12. Destruction of the fleet on, Cherry Valley, attack upon, V1. 111,
155. 114, 122, 185.
Chaplaincy in the army, advised, II. Chesapeake Bay, threatened and desert188, 200, 203, 278. Dinwiddie's re- ed, iII. 339. British expedition in
marks on a, 200, 201. Is provided for, the, VI. 261. Arrival of the French
278. Inadequacy of the pay; impor- fleet in the, VIII. 148, 154, 155, 156,
tance of, I1I. 220. Advance of the 158, 160. French fleet leaves the,
pay of; officers ordered to fill the, 197.
456. Number of persons allowed, IV. Chestnut Hill, Howe's expedition to,
436. Washingon's agency in regard and loss, V. 180, 182, 238.
to the, XII. 399. CHIAPPE, FRANCO, American agent at
CHAPMAN, Major, II. 78. Left by Brad- Mogadore, X. 61.
dock, 82. CHILD, MosEs, III. 169, 170, 289.
Charg6 d'lffaires, non-concurrence of CHIPMAN, JOHN, Captain, detaches men
Portugal in the grade of, XII. 93. to Fort Edward; skirmish, loss, and
Charleston, Lafayette's account of, V. capitulation of, at Fort George, VII.
45'2. Apprehensions for its safety, 269, 270.
VII. 10, 19, 22, 42. Capitulation of, CHITTENDEN, THOMAS, governor of
69, 326. Gazette published at, by the Vermont, letter to, about the jurisdicBritish, 92. Inquiry into the loss of, tion of the State and its negotiations
102. Considerations about the reduc- with the enemy; its effects, VIII.
tion of, 326, 328, 329, 408. Leslie 220, 384. Letter respecting his rearrives at, 348. Importance of, to the monstrance to Congress, 382.
enemy, VIII. 130. Rutledge's propo- CHOISY, a French brigadier-general,
sition for a combined attack on, 173, commands at Newport, VIII. 64, 65.
200. Proposition to Count de Grasse ArriVal of, in the Chesapeake, 161.
to attack, 185. British evacuation of, Commands the American and French
340, 359. Visited by the President, troops at Gloucester, 168. Directions
X. 144, 146, 152, 157, 161. Donation to, in regard to the surrender of
to sufferers there by a fire, XI. 164. Gloucester, 182. His march with
Address and resolutions passed at, troops to Charlotte County, 259. Sent
sustaining the Executive, 236. Pres- to Governor Hancock about Vauident's address to the citizens of, in dreuil's proposed expedition to Penob1791, XlI. 196. scot, 329. Sails for France, 369.
CHASE, SAMUEL, a commissioner to CHOUIN, Major, despatched by Count
Canada, III. 390. On a committee d'Estaing to Congress; visits the
of Congress to inquire into the con- Commander-in-chief, VI. 4, 13.
duct of the British and Hessian offi- CHURCH, BENJAMIN, recommended; on
cers towards Americans, IV. 309. a committee of the Massachusetts
On a committee reporting a plan for Provincial Congress to accompany the
the government of the Western Ter- Commander-in-chief to Cambridge,
ritory, IX. 47. Appointed associate III. 20, 484. His letter in cipher to
justice of the Supreme Court of the Major Cane; his trial, 115, 502. ImUnited States, XI. 107; 240. prisoned in Connecticut, 167, 505.
CHASTELLUX, a French major-general, Biographical notice of, 502.
visits head-quarters and Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Society of the, meeting of,
VII. 308, 319, 325. Commended, 336; at Philadelphia, in 1784, IX. 21, 42,
VIII. 4. To command a proposed ex- 47, 495. Particulars of the institution
pedition to Penobscot, 10. Present at of the, 22, 216, 252. Jealousy of the,
the Wethersfield interview, 54. His 26, 28, 35, 216, 495. Judge Burke's
intercepted letter, 60; 87. Has an pamphlet, 28. The wearing of the
interview with Count de Grasse, 1'62. order of, not permitted in Sweden, 56
Letter to, on leaving the country, 366; Alterations in its rules, 47, 127, 217.