The Documentary history of the state of New-York; arranged under direction of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, secretary of State. By E. B. O'Callaghan ...

INDEX. 1135
sons having valid titles to, not to be dis- variety of sects in, 22; conditions of land
turbed in the possession of their lands granting in, ib.; date of the first arrival
by the govt. of N. York, 589; lands held of the Dutch at, 23; climate of, ib.;
under, not to be regranted by N. Y. 609; Sec y Van Tienhoven's information rePartridge Thatcher recommended to be specting the wild lands in, 25; proper
the first governor of the, 614; petition to season when emigrants should sail to, 30;
the king from certain persons on the, to rules observed in the construction of
the westward of Connecticut river praying houses arid villages in, 31; mode of fatto be re-annexed to New Hampshire, 672; tening hogs in, 32; cattle necessary for
certificate of the surveyor-general of N. farmers in, ib.; classes of persons best
York, of reservations in favor of the oo- adapted for emifgration to, 34; mode
cupants of, 678; affidavits proving public adopted in the.granting of land in, 35;
disorders to have been fomented by New Montanus' description of, 113; boundaHampshire on the, 679, et seq.; list and ries of, 115; the first emigrants to, 131,
dates of the west of Connecticut river, 132. (see New York.) first church erected
706, 707; certain parties holding, to be in, 1059.
allowed not exceeding 500 acres, 717; the Newspapers, early N. York, 327, 385.
rioters and traitors of the, retire to the Newton, Rev. Christopher, 614.
mountains where they cannot be appre- Newtown, L. I., Rev. Andrew Bay, minhended, 747; some of the, afterwards ister of, 383.
confirmed under New York, 785; the in- New Utrecht, assessment roll of, in 1675,
habitants of the, west of Connecticut 158; population of, in 1738, 186; names
river, resolve to send an agent to England, of the inhabitants of, in. 1738, 194.
800; the people of the, send agents to New Vermount, the state of, 942. (see
London to demand an alteration in the Vermosnt.)
jurisdiction, 802; plan of the board of New year's day, ordinance prohibiting firing
trade for the settlement of the difficulties guns on, 97.
on the, 803; approved, 827; (see Tryon, New York city, formerly New Amsterdam,
Gov.) a convention at Dorset declare the 131; latitude and longitude of, 176; fortinecessity of erecting the, into a separate fications of, 180; mayor and recorder of,
district, 920; further proceedings for the appointed by the governor, 181; census
purpose of forming the, into a new state, of, in 1738, 186; namees of the officers and
923; several of the, declare themselves in- soldiers in 1738, of the companies in,
dependant of the State of N. Y., 930; 211, et seq.; public libraries destroyed
and assume the name of New Connecticut, by the British in, 1060; James Duane
ib.; (see Ver?'7oalt.) Thos. Young en- appointed mayor of, 1078; names of the
courates the people of the, to form a state clergy of, in 1796, 1084.
constitution, 934; the recommendation of —- college, order of the governor's of
congress to form state constitutions sent to the, for the settlement of their township,
the, 936; report to the N. Y. Prov. Cong. 1767.
on the eastern part of the, 937; the inhab- --, the province of, in 1732, 163;
itants of, meet in convention and declare queries relating to, 165; census of, ordertheir independence, 942; the independent ed to be taken, 166; Cadwallader Colgovernment attempted to be established den's observations on the climate, soil,
by the people of, discountenanced by the water communications, &c., of, 169; situcontinental congress, 945; proposals ten- ation of, 171; timber of; extent of setdered by N. Y., for the settlement of the tlements in, the highest part of, 172;
difficulties in the, 951; petition of the the great inland lakes of, 173; minerals
proprietors of the, to the king, 1027. and soil of, 174; climate of, 175; bounNew Hampshire, the province of, description daries of; 177; expenses of the government
of the bounds of, 532; the authorities of, of, 180; length of the sessions of the
lay out lands near CrownPt., 557; order of legislature of, previous to 1738, 244;
the king in council fixing the boundary be- papers illustrating the controversy retween New York and, 574; the governor specting Vermont between New Hampof, authorizes an exploration of the head shire and, 529; bounded east by the
waters of the Connecticut river, 721; the Connecticut river, 533; report of the
council of, advises Gov. Wentworth not to attorney-general on the eastern boundary
take any notice of Gov. Tryon's procla- of, 537; surveyor-general's observations
mation, 756. thereupon, 546; extract of a letter from
New Johnstown, 517. Gov. Wentworth furnished by order of the
New Netherland, journal of, 1; early Dutch board of trade to the agent of, 548; report
tracts on, 2; why so called, 3; situation, of the council of, on the east bounds of,
climate, appearance and rivers of, ib.; 550; proclamation declaring the Connectrees and animals and fishes of, 4; by ticut river to be the east bounds of, 558;
whom peopled, 5; forts and saw mills order of the king in council fixing the
erected in, settlers sent to, ib.; first set- boundary between New Hampshire and,
tiers in, 6; the cause of the war in, ib.; 574; petition for the erection of several
proposed to be mortgaged to N. England, counties west of Connecticut river and in
13; description of, by Father Isaac the northern part of the province of, 578;
Jogues, 13; situation of, in 1644, 21; report of the counsil thereupon, 583; the