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INDEX.

Dutch towns on Long Island , rate bills of the five,269, et seq; an Indian account of the first visit tothe Hudson river of the, 349.

Duycking,Gerrit, member of t he court of Admiralty, 164,166; appointed Capt., 197; further reference to, 233.

Dyckman, Jacob, offers to furnish fruit trees and anew breed of sheep to Sir Wm. Johnson, 474.Dying speeches of Leislcr and Milborne, 213.Dysentery supposed to proceed from bad pork, 148.

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Easthampton, the town of, desires to be re-annexed toConnecticut , 104; rate lists of, 253, 312.

Election of tbe Mayor and common council of NewYork , by the freemen, 21 ; of the mayor and aider-

men of Albany ordered, 31; of representatives,order for the, 42.

Emmott-ordered to be arrested, 42.

Erie, Lake , description and trade of, 685.

Exports i)f western New-York in 1799, 668.

False weights, the traders in the Indian country makeuse of, 484.

Fasting and’prayer, a day of public, ordered in Albany ,74.

Fines and forfeitures imposed on some of Leisler ’sparty, 224.

First visit of the Dutch to the Hudson river, an Indian account of the, 349.

Fishes, the, in the Genesee country, 643.

Fitch, John, dimensions of the machinery of the steam-boat of, 593 ; the original steamboat supported by,603 ; certificates in favor of the claim of, to theinvention of the steamboat, 615; length of thesteamboat of, 626; letter to the speaker of the As-sembly of New-York from, 629 ; petitions of, tothe several assemblies, 628, 631, 635.

Flatbush, a court martial ordered to sit at, 175 ; ratelists of the town of, 269, 293.

Flatlands, rate lists of the town of, 283, 288.

Fletcher, Gov., petition of Thomas Statliam to, 234;of the members of Leisler ’s council to, 235; ofPeter Delanoy to, 237.

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Flushing, rate lists of the town of, 263, 300.

Flying stores in western New-York , 650.

Fort Hunter, Indian name for, 50, 88.

Fort James seized by Leislcr, 3, 4 ; condition of, 10,15 ; turretts of, fired, 11. *

Fort Schuyler, 643.

Fortifications, antient, in western N. York , 684,

Forts building in the country of the Six Nations, 422.

Fowl, wild, the several sorts of, in western N. York , 643.

Franklin, Benj., petition of, to the king, 447; reportof, the Board of Trade on the petition of, 449; andothers, propose to erect a new province in westernVirginia , 578; approved by the crown, 580, mem-ber of the Rumseian Soe. of Philadelphia , 602.

French emissaries among the Onondagoes, 144 ; pri-vateers fitted out in New-York against the, 141,155 ; a ship belonging to the, captured at the mouthof the Canada riyer, 153; enumeration of the en-croachments in America by the, 354; intrigues ofthe, in the western country, 484.

Friends’ settlement on Seneca lake, 644, 648, 650.

Fruit trees in western New-York , 643, 683.

Gage, General, news from the western country sent to,483, 484; his views of the course of Indian tradeand the irreg. proc. of Indian traders, 486; methodrecommended by, to prevent the trade between N.Orleans and the western country, 488; recommendsMajor Gorham as Indian agent in Acadie , under SirWm. Johnson, 489; and removes the com’y atMichilimakinae, 502; offers the Governors of Vir-ginia and Pennsylvania his co-opcration against thefrontier people, 515 ; gives intelligence of Indian excesses in the west, 516.

Gansevoort, Ilarme, and other citizens of Albany , makearrangements for the quartering of Milbornc’s sol-diers, 74.

Gates, General Hor., certificate of, regarding Ramsey’ssteamboat, 591.

Gazette, the Bath, established, 661 ; the Ontario, cir-culation of, in 1799, 670.

Gemocnepa, 39.

Genesee country, in 1791, an account of the, 646;first Quaker settlement in the, 644, 648, 659 ; popu-lation of the, at various periods, 647, 648, 649,

652, 687; Col. Williamson’s letters on the, 657;boundaries of the, 657, 682; date of the first set-tlement of the, ib; a road opened from Pennsylva-nia to the, 659 ; scarcity of provision in the, 660;the, compared to Yorkshire in-England, 671; routesto the, 671, 677; a Scotch settlement in the, 672;water communications from the, 673; road to Ni-agara from, 677 ; Robert Munro’s description of the,679; latitude and longitude of the, 681; meaningof the word, 682; physical appearance of the, ib;lumber in the, ib ; fruit of the, 683.

Genesee Falls, 665, 676.

-fiatts, estimated contents of the, 674.

-river, 644; number of stores on the, in

1792, 658; the port on the, 665 ; the course of the,684.

Geneseis (or Genesee) Indians, 509, 510 ; castle ofthe,'511.

Geneva , facts relating to the early history of the toivnof, 644, 648, 658, 661 ; a sloop built and a news-paper established at, 661; a weekly market at, 664 ;the first stage runs to, ib; a brewery established at, ib ;