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Claus, Lieut . Daniel, scout of, to Ticonderoga andCrown Point, 182 ; sends Dr. Barclay a copy of theold Indian prayer-book, 211 ; referred to as havinga perfect copy of the Indian prayer-book, 217 ; com-poses an Indian primer, 314.

Claverack, five tribes of river Indians meet near, 54.

Clay, James, calls on the several towns in Cumberlandcounty to declare whether they desire to separate fromNew-York , 555 ; reports that efforts are making tohave the N. H. grants formed into a new state, 556;authorized by N. York to circulate the resolutions ofcongress dismissing the application of Vermont to heacknowledged an independent state, 569; report ofthe proceedings, and order for the arrest of, 570 ; whyhe was arrested, ib.; sent by Cumberland co. to N.York to report the difficulties under which thatcounty labors, 572 ; the Vermont party make a levyon, 578.

Cleaveland, Rev. Ebenezer, biog. notice of, 245.

Clench, Robert, introduced to Sir ffm. Johnson, 241 ;biographical notice of, 311.

Clerks of the peace, whence commissioned in the Prov.of N. York, 116.

Climate of N. Netherland, 3, 16 ; of N. York , 113.

Clinton, G-eorge, governor of the province of N. York ,is notified that Gov. Wentworth proposes makinggrants of the unimproved lands within his govern-ment, 331 ; claims the Connecticut river as the eastbounds of N. York , 332 ; is informed by Gov. Went-worth that he has granted a patent for the townshipof Bennington, ib.; explains why Conn, and Mass,west bounds approach so near to the Hudson river ,333 ; and claims the town of Bennington to be withinthe territory of N. Y. , ib.; informs Gov. Wentworththat the government of N. York is ready to ex-change copies of its representations to the king onthe difference between them as to bounds, 334 ; Gov.Wentworth promises to transmit an authentic copy ofthe representation of New Hampshire to, ib.

-, George, Gov. of the State of New-York , grants

leave to the Rev. Mr. Stuart to proceed to Canada ,317 ; candidate for governor, 567 ; issues a proclama-tion setting forth the terms offered by the state of N.Y. to the people of the N. Hampshire grants, 573 ;Cumberland co. petitions, for protection, 5?6 ; Col.Patterson communicates various instances of oppressionsuffered in Vermont by the friends of N. Y. to, 578 ;recommends the latter in no instance to acknowledgethe authority of Vermont , 579 ; writes to presidentJay on the subject, 580 ; and informs him of furtheroutrages committed by the Green Mountain boys,581 ; intends calling out the militia for the protectionof the people of Brattleboro’ unless congress inter-pose, 582 ; president Jay communicates the actionof congress thereupon to, ib.; the N. Y. congressionaldelegation write on the same subject to, 583; presi-dent Jay transmits the names of the committee ofcongress appointed to repair to the inhabitants of theN. H. grants, to, ib.; is obliged to take the fieldagainst the common enemy, 584 ; complains of theinattention of congress to the complaints of N. Y. ,Vol. IV. 86

and of sundry insults offered to the civil authority ofthat state by officers in the service of the U. S. , ib.;is of opinion that the measure of the sufferings of thestate of N. Y. , is nearly full, 585 ; remonstrates, also,with the congressional delegation on the same subject,586; communicates to Gen. Washington his intentionof convening the state legislature for the purpose ofvindicating the authority of government, and requeststhe return of sundry field pieces loaned to the U. S.army, ib.; transmits to the legislature of New-York the act of congress for settling the disturbances in theN. E. district of that state, 600 ; communicates hisadvice to the committee of Cumberland co., 607 ; ad-vises reprisals on the opponents of the state in the N.H. grants, should they attack the friends of N. Y. ,608; and reports the ill conduct of Ethan Allen tocongress, 609.

Clinton, township of, appropriated to the Vermont suf-ferers, 611.

Cochrane, Rob’t, and others forcibly eject grantees underN. Y. from their lands, 439; ordered to be arrested,456 ; mentioned, 520.

Cock, Pieter, employed against the Indians, 9.

Cockcroft, Col., 178.

Cognawaghes, 192.

Cohoes falls referred to, 16.

Colden, Cadwallader, ordered to answer certain querieson the state of the province of New-York , 108 ; ob-servations on the soil, climate, water communications,&e., of the Prov. of New-York , by, 109; observa-tions on the attorney-general’s report on the easternboundary of New-York , presented by, 339 ; issues aproclamation claiming the Connecticut river to be theEast bounds of the Prov. of N. York, 346 ; lays be-fore the board of trade the state of the dispute be-tween N. York and N. Hampshire as to boundary,348, 351; transmits Gov. Wentworth’s proclamationto the board of trade, and pronounces the grants underNew Hampshire west of Connecticut river to be found-ed in jobbing and fraud, 354; sheriff Schuyler ac-quaints, that he had arrested several persons belongingto New Hampshire who had forcibly ejected sundrytenants on the Hoosick patent, 356 ; issues a procla-mation for the arrest of James Breakenridge andothers, 379 ; calls the attention of Lord Hillsboro’ tothe order forbidding the granting patents for land al-ready granted by N. Hampshire, 882; states thatGov. Moore always exacted fees for grants of land,383 ; complaint of Judge Wells made to, ib.; in-formed that Gen. Gage declines to call out the militaryagainst the N. Hampshire rioters, 534 ; transmits toLord Dartmouth an account of the condition of affairson the New Hampshire grants, 535; Lord Dartmouthinforms, that he still disapproves of calling out thetroops, 537 ; informs Lord Dartmouth of the pro-gress of the Bennington rioters, 550 ; and that theyhave captured Forts Ticonderoga and Crown Point,553.

Colden, sundry petitions for the erection of a new countyto be called, 358.

College, King’s, a township granted to, 375 ,391; order