INDEX
Abraham ihc Mohawk Chief, Speech of, 339.
Acadia, operations of the French on the coast of, 28.
Act, an, reversing rh&- Attainder of Jacob Liesler andothers, 249.
Address, an, to the English freemen of the Prov., affixedto the door of the Custom house of N. Y. , 30.
Admiralty, proc. of a court of, in Leisler ’s time, 164,
1 66 .
Affidavits against Lt. Gov. Nicholson, 8, 17 ; againstCol. Bayard et al., ib.
Agreement between the Col. of Conn , and the Conven-vention at Albany , concerning troops, 67; betweenNew-York , Maryland &New England regarding ope-rations against the French , 134; between Leisler ’sCommissioners and John Winthrop , 157.
Albany , King William and Queen Mary proclaimed at,5; King James ’ soldiers keep the fort of, 19 ; anelection of Mayor and aldermen of, ordered, 31;names of the persons recommended by Leisler to bechosen Magistrates of, ib.; proceedings of the Anti-Leisler Convention at, 46, et seq. (see, Conventiori);answer of the magistrates of, to the Onondagoes, 49 ;assists the Mohawks to build their new castle atTionondage, 50 ; Measures adopted for the repairof the fortifications of, ib.; subscriptions of the citi-zens of, 53 ; proposals of the Convention to theinhabitants of, 01; answer thereto, 62; letter of theCom. of Safety of N. Y. to the Magistrates of, 64 ;excitement at, 68; Jocliem Staats elected Captainof the fort at, ib; reasons given by the mayor forsecuring the fort of, 72; orders issued by Leisler ’sCommissioners at 107, et seq.; two representativesfor, elected, 114; the Leisler party take possessionof the fort at, 127 ; small pox prevails in, 142;dysentery prevalent at, 143 ; writ for the electionof an additional member of Assembly for, 159;names of the aldermen and assistants when Leisler got possession of, 171; proceedings of the Prov.Congress at in 1754, 317, et seq.; Indian accountof the grant of ground to the whites to build a townat, 349; the Indians dissatisfied with a purchaseof land concluded by Pennsylvania at, 437, 441 ;the lower Mohawk flatts granted to the Corporationof, 511; Sir Win. Johnson’s obs. on the bill for
dividing the county of, 553 ; description of the coun-try between Niagara and, in 1782, 643 ; distancefrom the Genesee country to, 646 ; from Ontariocounty to, 657; description of a journey to theGenesee country in 1792 from, 658.
Agricultural produce, prices of in Western New-York in1791; 651; in 1799, 667.
Alexandria, minutes of the council of Governors heldat, 378.
Aliens allowed to hold real property in the State ofNew-York , 671.
Allegany mountains, the line separating Pennsylvania from Maryland to be run west of the, 496; a newProv. proposed to be erected west of the, 578; river,course of the, 685.
Allen, John , secy, of Connecticut , letter from Jacob Leisler to, 10 ; from, • to Leisler, 20, 44, 105, 130,143, 160, 162, 189 ; from, to Secy. Clarkson, 188.
Andross, Sir E., charged with having carried awaythe New-York Records, 3 ; reported to have escap-ed, 14 ; legality of the commissions of, vindicated,22 ; the friends of, offer a reward for his rescue, 23 ;ordered to England, 28 ; all persons holding com-missions from, to be arrested, 41 ; sails in the Mehi-tabel, 42.
Animals, wild, in Western New-York, 647, 683
Anthony, N., letters of, to the commissioners at Alba ny , 129, 131.
Anti-Leisler party at Albany , proceedings of the, 46,et seq. (see, Convention.)
Antil, Edward, ordered to be arrested, 41.
Appointment of a council, by Lt. Gov. Liesler, 27.
Arks on the western waters, description of the, 668, 674.
Arrests ordered by Leisler , 27, 35, 42,106, 148, 149,154.
Assembly, Leisler ’s proc. convoking a legislative, 158,163 ; writs for the election of new members of, 158 ;resolves against Leisler and his party, passed by theNew-York , 207; execution of Leisler and Milborne,approved by the, 212; James Rumsey ’s petition to thePennsylvania , 608 ; petitions of John Fitch andHenry Yoight. to the Pennsylvania house of, 628 ;letter of John Fitch to the speaker of the New- York , 629; report on John Fitch ’s petition to the