Accounts, collector ordered to pay sun-
dry, 448.
Adultery, executions for, in Massachu-
setts, 26.
Albany, a town of trade, 76; not well
fortified, 168; propositions of the
Maquas Sachems to the authorities at,
165; answer upon the Maquas Sachems
propositions by the authorities at,
169; called Fort d'Orange by the
French, 175; fears there of an inva-
sion by the French, 391; draft of
soldiers to go there, ib. ; consternation
at, 395; authorities there to provide
Indian corn for the Schackooks, 394;
and Charlotte, memorial from inhabit-
ants of, 313.
Alcock, Dr., his purchase of Block Is-
land, 107.
Allegiance, oath of, not in use in Massa-
chusetts, 17, 23, 29, 39.
Allyn, Capt. John, member of the court
at East Hampton, 245; Secretary of
Connecticut, mentioned, 405.
Ameagansett, Indian village on Long
Island, 229.
Andros, Sir Edmund, his answer to the
agents of Connecticut concerning In-
dian affairs, 375; goes to Albany in
April, 1677, 877; his commission as
Governor from the Duke of York, 523.
Arabian gold coins brought to America
by pirates, 206.
Arbuthnot, Vice-Admiral, noticed, 227.
Arguments on certain New York acts of
Assembly offered to the Lords Commis-
sioners for Trade and Plantations,
177-200.
Arnout, Indian interpreter, noticed, 165,
169, 388.
Articles of capitulation of New Nether-
land in 1664, 333.
Ashley, Samuel, and others, arrested for
riot, 291.
Assembly of New York, consists but of
twenty-one men, 190; usurps author-
ity to repeal laws, 204.
Assizes, court of in New York, its first
session, 76.
Atherton, Major, noticed, 103.
Atkinson, Theodore, Secretary of New
Hampshire, 284.
Aurania, Fort, mentioned, 4.
Baker, Remember, a rioter, noticed, 304,
307; his violent proceedings, 310.
Baker, Thomas, noticed, 235, 237, 239,
Ballard, William Samuel, noticed, 365,
Bancker, Gerard, Report of William
Nicoll and, on Massachusetts boundary
line, 325.
Banker, Captain Evert, agent among the
Senecas, 486; not allowed to trade,
487; instructions to, 495.
Barret, Charles, noticed, 213.
Batt, Mr., goes to New Albion, 222.
Baulston, William, Letters to the Earl
of Clarendon, 142, 151.
Bayard, Colonel Nicholas, noticed, 185
188, 403; offers money to defray
charge of expedition against the
French, 430.
Bayley, Stephen, his memorial to the in-
habitants of East Hampton, 250.
Beaver trade in New York, 117.
Bedford, ship dismasted, 227.
Bedingfield, Colonel, his injustice to the
corporation for the propagation of the
Gospel, 15.
Belle Isle, M., noticed, 50.
Bellingham, Governor Richard, letter to
the Earl of Clarendon, 60; letter to
Robert Boyle, 63; to be ordered to
England, 70; the order disregarded in
Massachusetts, 127.
Bellomont, Earl of, Governor of New
York, his oppressive and illegal acts
181; act granting him £1500 men
tioned, 189; noticed, 199, 435; com-
plimented by his council, 436; his
reply, ib.; his letter to Frontenac
being in French, he expounds it to
his council, 436; promises to protect
the Indians from the French, 438.
Bellows, Justice, proceeds against the
Putney rioters, 307.
Bennington, inhabitants of appear by
counsel before New York authorities,
314; justify their conduct, 316; their
letter considered insolent, 317.
Berkeley, Sir William, remonstrates
against the seizure of vessel from Vir-
ginia by Governor Stuyvesant, 7; his
instructions noticed, 110.
Berkeley and Carteret, the indenture to
them noticed, 75, 76, 115, 116, 126.
Bigotry, explanations concerning, 210.
Blackman, Captain Jeremiah, noticed, 34.
lock Island, noticed, 107.
Bond, Robert, noticed, 231, 235, 239.
Boston, description of, in 1665, 86; ad-
vantages in trade with New York, 114;
the ambitious saints of, noticed, 118;
formerly a market for the eastern part
of Long Island, 256, 271.
Borgne, M. le, noticed, 50.
Bound-house, the, marking the Massa-
chusetts boundary eastward, 71.
Boundary between New York and Que-
bec determined, 504.
Boundary Commission between New
York and Massachusetts establish the
line, 324; approved by the Governor,
325; attempt to run the line, 325.
Boundaries of Massachusetts, 98.
Boundaries-Report on the Eastern
boundaries of New York, 496.
Boyle, Robert, correspondence with
Gov. Bellingham, 63.
Boylston, Dr. Zabdiel, noticed, 261.
Brackenbrige, James, noticed, 302; a
leader among the rioters, 309, 313.
Bradstreet Simon, agent for Massachu-
setts in England, noticed, 37.
Brattle, William, commissary on part of
Massachusetts to settle boundaries with
New York, 322, 323.
Breedon, John, noticed, 70.
Breedon, Capt. Thomas, his letter to the
Council for Foreign Plantations, 16;
to the Earl of Clarendon, 129; recog-
nizes Whalley and Goffe in Massachu-
setts, 17; difficulties with Colonel
Temple, 53, 55; noticed, 37, 45, 837.
Brenton, Mr., his purchase from Sachem
Philip, 108.
Brenton, William, letters to the Earl of
Clarendon, 112, 151; to the King,
Bristol Patent, for Rapahannock, its re-
vocation desired, 108.
Brookes, Mr., noticed, 29.
Brown, Mr., his case noticed, 102; Sir
Henry Vane's steward at Raby, ib.
Bruyas, Father, and other French emis-
saries, noticed, 444.
Buell, Rev. Samuel, third minister of
East Hampton, 252, preaches half
century sermon, 254.
Burnet, Governor William, noticed, 211;
his methods taken with the Indian
trade, 212; his speech to the Assem-
bly Sept. 30, 1727, 526.
Burt Samuel, Act of Assembly concern-
ing, 180.
Cachanaquand, transactions with concer-
ning land, 90.
Cadaracqui, noticed, 166, 170; its des-
truction, 176; French at, 386; no-
ticed, 417, 419; French strive to reset-
tle, 425, 426; their success, 427, 428.
Callier, M., noticed, 174.
Cambridge, college at, 87.
Canada, great preparations to reduce the
Five Nations, 429.
Carr, Sir Robert, letter to the Earl of
Clarendon, 81, 157; sick in New York,
126; noticed, 71, 336.
Carteret, Captain, noticed, 74, 78.
Cartwright, Colonel George, noticed, 71;
news of his capture by the Dutch re-
ceived in Massachusetts, 80, 81; his
account of Massachusetts, 82; answer
to the Massachusetts Narrative, etc.,
88; prepares the instructions and other
papers to be given in to the Court, 94;
suffers from the gout, 95; his Memo-
randa concerning Massachusetts and
Rhode Island, 107; treaty with the
Indians at Albany, Sept. 24, 1664,
336.
Casimir, Fort, built by Stuyvesant, 8,
taken possession of by the Swedes, 8,
recovered by the Dutch, 9.
Cason, Edward, prosecuted in Massachu-
setts, 24, 40.
Catskill, noticed, 390.
Cayenguirago, (Indian name of Gov.
Fletcher) the Indians acknowledge him
to be their master, 404.
Chambers, John, chairman of committee,
report on boundary question with
N. H., 496, 503.
Charles the First, reception of the news
of his death in Massachusetts, 24, 29,
39; letter to the Lords Justices of
Ireland concerning grant of New Al-
bion, 218.
Charles, Robert, agent for the Province
of New York, 503.
Charlotte and Albany, memorial from
inhabitants of, 313.
Chatfield, Thomas, noticed, 239.
Chectanoo, Indian interpreter, noticed,
Chickeens, Arabian gold coins, noticed,
206.
Child, Dr., prosecution of, in Massachu-
setts, 23, 29, 41.
Christina, Fort of the Swedes, noticed, 7.
Church of England, not one in the
English colony of New York, 206.
Claessen, Lawrence, the representatives
desire that he may be the only inter-
preter employed, 450, estives
Clarendon Papers, the, 1-162.
Clark, Capt. Christopher, noticed, 70.
Clark, Capt., noticed, 379.
Clark, Thomas, noticed, 336.
Clarke, John, letter to King Charles II.
soliciting a charter for Rhode Island,
etc., 44; noticed, 47; vilifies and ac-
cuses John Winthrop, 47; his banish-
ment noticed, 100; agent for Rhode
Island and Providence Plantations,
139; letter to the Earl of Clarendon,
142; contest with Winthrop about
territory, 152.
Clergy of East Hampton, 252.
Clinton Academy, incorporated by the
Regents of the University, 260.
Clinton, Governor George, letters to
Governor Wentworth, June 6, 1750,
286; 25 July 1750, 288; informs Gov-
ernor Wentworth of the riotous pro-
ceedings of claimants under his grants,
296; receives a letter disclaiming any
countenance of the rioters, ib.; pro-
clamation to be issued, ib.
Cockran, Robert, riotous proceedings
of, 303, 304; proclamation, etc.,
against, 305.
Coke, John, secretary, noticed, 219.
Colden, Cadwallader, his letter on Smith's
History of New York, 203; letters on
Smith's History, note to, 211; noticed,
Collector, ordered to pay sundry ac-
counts, 448.
Commissioners of the United Colonies,
threaten war against the Dutch, 11.
Commissioners, their transactions in
Massachusetts, 88. See Royal Com-
missioners.
Commissioners of Indian Affairs, noticed,
449, 460.
Commissioners, from neighboring col-
onies and provinces to meet at New
York, 406; their meeting, 410; from
various colonies meet at Albany in
1745, 515; their proceedings, 516–522.
Conference between the Royal Commis-
sioners and the General Court of Mas-
sachusetts, noticed, 95.
Conkling, Benjamin, noticed, 244.
Connecticut, charter of, noticed, 44;
boundary with New York, 76; not
refractory, 114; boundary claim to
the westward, 284; agreement with
New York, ib.; confirmed by the King,
ib.; 286, 497; settlers on the grants,
noticed, 298; sends agents to commu-
nicate with the Indians, 374; their
proposals to Governor Andros, 374;
his answer, 375; refuses supplies, 405 ;
doubts of its assisting New York, 426;
to be informed of the French design
against Cadaracqui, ib.; agreement
with New York, 528.
Connecticut River, the eastern boundary
of New York, 281, 296, 500; its
western bank determined by His Ma-
jesty's final order in Council to be the
western bounds of New Hampshire,
Cooke, Captain, noticed, 40.
Corbett, Abraham, noticed, 107; papers
in his case, 138; his crime, 139.
Corlear's Lake, noticed, 390; Indians
killed near, 394, 395.
Cornbury, Lord Viscount, accused at
home of converting the revenue to his
own use, 456; the council exonerate
him, ib.
Cornelison, Jacques, owns the flatts at
Schenectady, 381; his title question-
ed, 383.
Cortlandt, Colonel Stephen, noticed, 403;
offers money to defray charge of expe-
dition against the French, 430.
Council Minutes of New York:
Cromwell Oliver, favored in Massachu-
setts, 86.
Culloden, seventy-four gun ship lost on
Montauk Point, 227.
Cumberland County, noticed, 293, courts
of Common Pleas and General Ses-
sions of the Peace established in,
295.
Danby, Mr., goes to New Albion, 222.
Dawaganhaes, mentioned, 429. See
Waganhaes.
Dayton, Ralph, messenger from East
Hampton to Connecticut, 230; consta-
ble, 235.
Deane, Thomas, letter to the Earl of
Clarendon, 68; his case noticed, 61,
68, 99, 113.
D'eaux, Chevalier, noticed, 414; his es-
cape into Canada, 477.
De Decker, John, noticed, 336.
Dekanisore, noticed, 420, 421, 437.
Delancey, James, noticed, 338.
Delavall, Mr., noticed, 80.
Delaware settled by families from New
England, 4; settlements broken up by
Dutch and Swedes, 4; English of New
Haven prove their claim to lands there,
6; their trade thither interrupted by
Stuyvesant, 7; discovered and pos-
sessed by the English, 9; Dutch be.
come masters of the whole river, 9;
plunder taken at, 78; taken from the
Swedes and annexed to New Nether-
land, 115; sold to the Burgomasters
of Amsterdam, ib., its exchange pro-
posed for the patent of Berkeley and
Carteret, 126.
Dellius, Rev. Godfrey, accused by reso-
lution of the New York Assembly, and
suspended from the ministry in Alba-
ny, 183; his case considered, 184; his
services among the Indians, ib.; no-
ticed, 401; paid for maintenance of
three Indian boys, 403; letter from,
read in Council, 465.
Denonville, M., noticed, 174; letter to
Governor Dongan read in Council,
359; translated by Judge Nicolls, 390;
letter, mentioned, 391.
De Ruyter, rumor of his invasion, 74.
Dionondadies, remote Indians, noticed,
385; Dongan proposes treaty with, to
the five nations, 386; noticed, 415.
Dongan, Thomas, Governor, noticed, 233,
211; his conference with the Maquas,
378; letter to the Governor of Cana-
da respecting French encroachments,
383; addresses the Indians, 384; their
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