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78 ; protest of, ib.; letter to, on Indian affairs, 77 ;allowance to Col., in the expedition against CrownPoint, 387.

Soiota, an Indian congress at, 566; result thereof, 568,571, 573.

Selyns, Rev. Mr., abused by Leisler during divine ser-vice, 247.

Seneca Indians, the, the western door of the Six Na-tions, 370 ; desire a fort in their country, 416, 422.

-lake, 644, 658, 661, 685, 691.

-oil, brought to Niagara, 510.

-river, how formed, 675 ; course of the, 690.

Sewall, Rev. Mr., 26.

Shirley, Gov. Wm., secretary of the meeting at Alex-andria, 379 ; Sir Wm. Johnson writes to, 386 ; fur-nishes a supply of powder to the Crown Point expe-dition, 391; complaints against, 399.

Shuckburgh, Richard, secretary of Indian affairs, 460.

Skaneateles lake, 690.

Six Nations, population of the, in 1792, 645, (see, In-dians.)

Slate near Seneca lake, 691.

Slaves, few in western N. Y , 688.

Sloop, the first, built on Seneca lake, 661.

Sloughter , Henry, Col., alluded to, 152; sworn inas governor of the province of New-York , 202;orders Major Ingoldesby to demand the fort fromLeisler , ib.; commits Milborne and Delanoy, ib.;arrests Leisler and his council, ib.; Leisler ’s letterto, 203; letters of, to Lord Inehiquin, 211, 217;to Joseph Church, 211 ; letter of, to Col. Coddring-ton, on the execution of Leisler and Milborne, 216;to Sec’y Blathwayt, on the same subject, ib.; tothe governor of Connecticut , giving an account ofhis proceedings, 217; death of, 219 ; public senti-ment regarding him after his death, 234.

Small pox prevails at Boston , 42; at Albany , 142;among the Mohawks , 143.

Smith, Rev. John, catholic chaplain to Lt. GovernorNicholson, 17.

Smithtown, rate list of, 308.

Sodus, settlement of, 660, 663.

Southampton, rate lists of the town of, 262, 311.

Southold, a force ordered to be raised, for the defenceof, 154; rate list of, 257, 310.

Staas, Capt. Jochem, ordered by Leisler to take pos-session of Fort Orange and to be commander there-of, 30, 81; Leisler ’s instructions to, 31thesecommissions but little regarded at Albany , 35 ; or-dered by the convention there to Saratoga, 51 ;notified by the convention that they will resist allLeisler ’s efforts to change the government in Albany ,59; accompanies Jacob Milborne and party to Al­ bany , 64; elected captain by the people, 68; theconvention propose to appoint him captain, whichhe refuses, 70 ; remains in Albany with his compa-pany, 74 ; differences between a delegation from theconvention and, 75 ; visits„Schenectady , 76 ; callson the convention to proclaim William and Mary ,and demands if they acknowledge Leisler as lieut.gov., 82 ; the convention at Albany protest against,83 ; ordered to keep 60 men always under his com-mand at Fort Albany , 109.

Stage, the first public, to western New-York , 664.

Stamp act riots said to be fomented by a few lawyers,478.

Stanwix, treaty of Fort, ratified, 556, 564.

Staten Island , people of, afraid of a popish plot, 17.

Steam navigation, early, papers on, 585, et seq. ■

Steuben county erected, 660 ; why so called, ib.; theRev. Mr. Gray moves into, ib.; first newspaper in,661; militia of, mills in, in 1799, 670.

Stevens, John, petition of, for an exclusive right forhis steamboat, 640.

Suffolk county submits to Leisler , 139.

Sulphur spring in western New-York , 650, 683.

Superior , Lake , copper mines on, 533.

Susquehannah river, the names of several Indian set-tlements on the, 416 ; the course of the, 673.

Swartwout, Roelof, delicacy of, as to freedom of elec-tions, 129.

Sweegaehie, a French settlement on the St. Lawrence,421, 423, 446.

Talmadge, Lt. Enos, ordered to Schenectady , 74.

Taverns, the principal, between Albany and Canan-daigua in 1799, 678.

Ten Broeck, Wessel, ambassador under Dongan, 23;appointed commissary to the expedition againstCanada , 108.

Thanksgiving for General Johnson’s victory at LakeGeorge, a day of, ordered, 407.

Three Rivers Point, 676.

Tiaogo, 444.

Tidescung, chief of the Delawares , enquiry orderedinto the complaints of, against Pennsylvania , 458 ;postponed, 459.

Timber in the Genesee country, 646, 682.

Tioga river, 673 ; course of the, 675, 684.

Tionondage, the Mohawks demand aid to build theirnew castle at, 50, 88.

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Title of the king of England to North America setforth, 353.

Tobacco, price of, at New-York , in 1689, 20; raisedin western New-York , 683.

Tonawanda creek, course of the, 685.

Tonawandoe village, 677.

Tonnoraunto, 644.

Toronto , traders arrested at, 498 ; no person to tradeat, 510.

Townly, Richard, ordered to be arrested, 43.

Towns in Ontario and Genesee counties, votes of the, in1804, 687.

Trainbands of New-York , declaration of the, 7.

Treat, Gov., letters from Leisler to, 13, 15, 16, 40,130, 145, 149, 151, 179 ; orders Livingston’s con-ditional arrest, 105 ; has only the name of governor,127; letter to Leisler from, 130, 155 ; Messrs. Ed-