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for the settlement of the township belonging to, 466;charter of, signed, 635.

Colonies, information for the planting of, in New Nether-land, 19 ; title of a rare political pamphlet on the,(see Pamphlet.)

Colvin, Oliver, banished from Vermont for being an oldYorker, 576.

Common Prayer, Book of, in the Mohawk language,(see Prayer Book .)

Communipaw, 59.

Congress , the Continental, the people of the N. II.grants send in their adhesion to, 555 ; some membersof, consulted on the subject of forming the N. II.grants into a new state, ib.; reported to have autho-rized Col. Warner and others to raise a regiment in-dependent of N. Y. , 556 ; the resolutions of, discoun-tenancing the projects of Vermont to be independentof New York, 568; are ordered by the N. Y. com.of safety to be distributed through the eastern part ofthe state, 569 ; Capt. Clay arrested for circulatingthe resolutions of, 570 ; resolves to send a committeeto the inhabitants of the N. H. grants to inquire whythey refuse to continue citizens of the respective stateswhich heretofore exercised jurisdiction over them, 583;instructions of, to the committee sent to the N. II.grants, 587 ; letter of the committee of, to the com-mittee of Cumberland co., 588 ; Gov. Chittenden’sanswers to the committee of, 589 ; resolutions of, re-commending the states of New Hampshire, Massachu-setts and New-York to pass laws authorizing congressto hear and determine all differences between themrelative to their respective boundaries, 596 ; notes ofthe proceedings of the first, 647, et seq.

Connecticut , why the west bounds of the Prov. of, ap-proach so near Hudson river , 333, 334.

-, river, called by the Dutch , the Fresh river, 3 ;

Lt. Gov. Colden claims the, to be the east bounds ofthe Prov. of N. York, 346 ; the western banks of,declared by the king in council to be the boundarybetween the provinces of New-York and New Hamp-shire , 355; petitions for the erection of sundry newcounties on the west side of, 358, 359, 360 ; reportof the committee of the council of N. Y. on the saidpetitions, 361 ; number of men fit to bear arms onthe west side of the, and within the province of N.York, 363 ; persons having valid deeds under NewHampshire not to be disturbed in the grants on thewest side of, 365 ; not two hundred and fifty soulssettled on the west side of, 371 ; cost of a townshipon, ib.; petition praying for the confirmation by NewYork of certain N. Hampshire grants on the west sideof, 409 ; the head waters of, explored, 439 ; New-York reiterates its right to the lands west of the,456.

Connoquaga, 201.

Connor, James, report of his scout on Lake George ,178 ; joins another scouting party, 180.

Connosomothdian, 200; a place between Connequagaand Tuscarora castle, 201.

Constable, Dr., of Schenectady , 305.

Cooper, Rev. Ezekiel, 657.

Cooper, Rev. Myles, 260; visits Fort Johnson, why, 266;highly esteemed by Sir Win. Jolmson, 267; letterfrom Sir Wm. to, respecting Rev. Mr. Griffith, 275 ;sails to England, 291, 294 ; Col. Henry Babcock’sletter to, proposing to take holy orders and to estab-lish an Episcopal seminary among the Six Nations,302.

Corlaer’s Hook, attack on the Indians at, 7, 66.

Corlaer’s Lake, called by the French, Lake Champlain ,156.

Coroners of the Prov. of New York , whence commis-sioned, 116.

Corsen, Arent, sent by Kieft to Holland with specimensof the minerals of New Netherland , 75 ; drowned, 76.

Cosby, Gov., dies almost universally detested, 158.

Couwenhoven, Lt. (see, Van Couivenhoven.)

Cowass, a murder committed between upper and lower,360.

Cows, price of, in N. Netherland , 32; in N. Eng., 24.

Cranz, David, author of the history of Greenland , 237.

Crea, Rev. John, 657.

Creation, the Indian’s ideas of the, 83.

Croghan, Geo., introduces Rev. Wm. Andrews to SirWm. Johnson, 263 ; some notice of, ib.

Cromme-sce Vly, in the city of New York , 650.

Crops, rotation of, in N. Netherland , 23.

Crown Point, latitude and longitude of, 114 ; the French fort at, 156 ; description of, ib.; a party sent to recon-noitre the French fort at., 169; distance of, from thelower end of Lake George , ib.; reports of scouts to,175, 180, 182, 183,184; table of the distances fromAlbany to, 185 ; reduced by the English , 345; namesof the inhabitants of the district of, 497; entirelydemolished, 512; captured by the Green Mountainboys, 553.

Cruger, Mr., chosen speaker of New York assembly, 257.

Cumberland county, ordinance establishing courts in,364 ; names of the civil officers appointed for, ib.;Gov. Moore encourages the culture of potash, andhemp, and at his own expense erects a church in, 368 ;act erecting, disallowed, 375 ; list of the judges, &c.,appointed for, 377 ; officers of, obstructed in the per-formance of their duty, 392, 394, 397, et seq., (seeGrout, John,) petition in opposition to one prayingfor the re-annexation of, to N. II., 406; petitionagainst being annexed to New Hampshire , transmit-ted by Gov. Dumnorc to Lord Hillsboro, 414 ; cen-sus of, 432 ; an account of a riot in, 461; civil offi-cers for, 471; the people of, demand the privilege ofelecting a representative to the assembly of N. Y. ,495; the inhabitants of, demand that the several town-ships held by them under N. Hampshire be confirmedunder the great seal of N. Y. , 498 ; particulars ofanother riot in, 544 ; the civil officers of, petition thegov’t of N. Y. for the payment of sundry expensesincurred in the public service, 552; with Gloucester proposed to form a new state, 555 ; the several townsof, invited to declare whether they wish to revolt fromN. York, ib.; the inhabitants of, submitted to thejurisdiction of N. Y. until the commencement of therevolution, 558; the greater part of the people of, who