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le Moine to be employed as negotiator with theIndians, ib.; reports proceedings of a council atOnondaga, 86; further reports from, 87; distributespresents among the Indians, ib.; counteracts Gov-ernor Dongan’s schemes, 88; endeavors to gainover the Senecas, 89, 90; letter of, to Gov. Don-gan, 122; Indian name of, 123; at Onondaga, 125;bearer of a letter from Gov. Dongan to M. de De-nonville, 130; exerts himself to preserve peacebetween the Indians and the French , 133; per-suades the Indians by underground presents, 134;length of time he has been a missionary at Onon-daga, ib.; sends M. de Denonville copy of Gov.Dongan’s speech to the Indians, 139, 141.

Lands, tenure and price of, in 1668, 59; CadwalladerColden ’s report on the public; 247.

Latitude of New-York and Albany , 60, 504.

Laws in force in 1687, 96.

Leather manufactories in New-York , 499.

Legislative power in New-York , in whom vested in1668, 59; in 1678, 60.

Leisler, Jacob, letters of, on the burning of Schenec-tady , 192, et seq.

Le Moyne, Father Simon, voyage of, to Onondaga,29; speeches of, to the Indians, 30, 31 ; recoversFather BrebouPs bible, 33; discovers the saltsprings, 34 ; returns to Quebec , 35, 36, 38 ; noticeof the death of, 46 ; Sieur, sent to Onondaga, 75 ;result of his negotiations, 76, et seq.

Lespinart, Antoine, communicates Gov. Dongan’s

movements toM. de Denonville, 137 ; gives intelli-gence from Canada to Gov. Dongan, 155.

Lighthouse, when erected, 480; how supported, ib.

Littlehaies, Major John, appointed to the 1st Ameri-can Regiment, 319 ; capitulates at O. \u go, ib.; re-flections on the conduct of, 322.

Livingston, Robt., collector and town clerk of Albany ,105; letters of, on the burning of Schoi.< rtad'y,193, 195.

Long Island , excise of, farmed, 105, 112; characterof the people on the east end of, 105; in 1691, 268;papers relating to, 409.

Longueuil, M. de, obliged by the English at Oswego ,to exhibit his pastport, 290 ; endeavors to turn theIndians against the English , ib.; directs his son toplunder any English canoes he may meet with onLake Ontario , 291.

Lotbinifere, M. de, his representations regarding hisSeigniories on Lake Champlain , 360 ; report of theBoard of Trade on, 373.

Louis XIV. , instructions of, to M. de la Barre, regard-ing the Indians, 65, 72; to his Minister at London ,to prevail on the Duke of York to order his Gov. atN. Y. not to supply the Indians with arms, ib.; di-rects the Iroquois prisoners to be sent to the galleys,73; all things said to be possible to, 132; approvesof the proposed attack on the Senecas, 143; repeatshis orders for the transmission of the Iroquois to theFrench galleys, ib.; instructions to Count Fronte-nac relative to the conquest of New-York , 183.

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Mamaroneck, names of the militia officers of, in 1700,233.

Manaudiere, La , deed of sale of the Seigniory of,363; location of, 364, 365.

Manufactures of N. York , papers on the trade and, 483.

Map, an Italian, of New Netherland , {faces Title;) ofthe Province and harbor of New-York , sent to Eng-land, 101, 102; early, of the Susquehanah river mentioned, 260; of the south side of the Mohawkriver , 274; showing situations of Forts Bull andWilliams, 329 ; of French grants on Lake Cham-plain, 359 ; of English grants on Lake Champlain ,368; of the Province of New-York , in 1779, 526.

Maryland, Iroquois name for, 264.

Mayor of New-York , by whom appointed in 1687,95 ; powers of the courts of, in 1693, 200, 202.

McGregory, Major, sent by Gov. Dongan to the FarIndians, 100; taken prisoner by the French , 158;detained at Montreal , 161; the Council proposemeasures for the release of, 162; liberated by or-ders from France , 166.

Mercer, Col., appointed to the 2d American Regi-ment, 319 ; killed at Oswego , ib.

Meulles, M. de, report against M. de la Barre, 79.

Miamis, numerical strength of the, 25; attack theIroquois , 134.

Michilimakinak, the English visit, 133 ; Gov. Don-gan despotches an expedition to, 138; Indians ar-

rive at Albany from, 488.

Militia, number of the Provincial, in 1678,60; in1687,96; in 1693, 203; in 1700, 227; in 1716and 1720, 469.

Milet, Rev. Father, missionary among the Oneidas.74; retires from that mission, 85 ; at Catarakoui,125 ; at Fort Niagara , 168.

Ministers, the several sorts of, in the city of New-York , in 1687, 116; the King’s natural born sub-jects disinclined to pay their, 117; of the DutchChurch, list of the, 406.

Missionaries, reason why the French withdrew fromthe Iroquois , 86.

Mississippi , discovery of the, 101.

Mohaws, names and description of the towns belong-ing to the, 15 ; numerical strength of the, 15, 21,24,43, 46S; French expeditions against the, 41, et seq.;some French officers murdered by the, 47; verifi-cation of the French conquest of the country of the,63; the English flag planted in the villages of the,67; map of the land on the south side of the river,274 ; topographical description of the valley of the,338;

Moore, Gov., on the French grants on Lake Cham-plain , 353, 356; instructions to, not to make anygrants of Land within the French Seigniories,north of Crown Point, 356; report of, on the manu-factures in N. Y. , 498.