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Hoare, Midshipman, killed, 51.
Hoard, Sylvius, agency of, 87.
Hoffman, Josiah Ogden, purchase of, 62. Holland purchase, clamor of title, 210.
Hollow, Rutland, 240.
Honey comb, petrified (so called), a fossil coral, 536.
Hoosic tunnel, S. Harbor and S. R. R., depend- ant upon, 338.
Hoover, Capt. John, adventure of, 244.
Hopkins, Jesse, 431.
Hornblende, 554; tremolite, amphibole, diallage, pargasite, 554; asbestus, 554.
Houndsfield, Ezra, purchase of, 63; notice of, 172.
Houndsfield, town of, 171; English families at, 174; incident, 175.
Hubbard, Abner, captures fort Carlton, 462.
- Noadiah, letter of, 121; see Clayton, 137.
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Index.
Hudson River shales, 544. Hungerford Bank, 418.
Orville, president of rail road Co., 328; notice of, 435.
Hungry Bay, see Bay of Famine.
Hunter lodges, 519, 529.
Huntington, Dyer, notice of, 435.
Hydraulic power of Black River, 283, 302.
Ice cave, Watertown, 537. Idocrase, 555.
Impressment, a tale of British, 471.
Indian remains, 9-15; names of places, 15; speech of Garangula, 19; treaty, 39; name of French creek, 138. Indian Hut Island, patented, 69.
Indian River, early name of Antwerp, 87; ob- structions to be removed, 245; a highway, 348.
Individual banks, 418.
Industrial Association, Jefferson County, 414.
Infantry, 2d regiment organized, 182.
Inhabitants, statistics of, 357.
Inman, William, purchase of, 45, 61, 62.
Inscriptions, former, on wooden monument, 183. Inspectors of fish, 207.
Insolvent commissioner, 369.
Institute, Jefferson County, 379, 385.
Insurance Companies. Jefferson County, 419. - Agricultural, 419.
Internal improvements, 307.
Irish, relief to. 398.
Iron Mines, 557, to 560.
Iron, ores of, 82, 93; manganese mistaken for, 153, 197, 226.
Irving, Washington, aid to Governor, arrives at Sackets Harbor, 516
Island, ancient, suggested, 550.
Island Packet vessel burned, 462.
Islands, title of, 68; not patented till survey of boundary, 68; certain, ceded to United States, 69; belonging to Houndsfield, 187.
Zzard, General, arrives at Sackets Harbor, 516.
Jack Downing, steamer, 353.
Jail, in Court House, 31; built separate, 33; enlarged, 33.
- liberties, singular plan of, 31; statute concerning, 32.
Jefferson revenue cutter, 518,
Jefferson County Agricultural Society, 401; arti- cles of association, 402.
Bank, 415. - Industrial Association, 414.
- Institute, organized, 379; report, 380; opened, 381; name changed, 382; statistics, 385.
Jenne, D. C., surveys of rail road by, 339.
Jenny Lind, steamer, 355,
John Marshall, steamer, 353.
Johnston, William, concerned in burning the Peel, 522; notice of, 522; pursued, 524, 525.
Johnstown, road to, 317.
Jones, Brig, 508.
Joulin, Pierre Charles, agency of, 191.
Journey, diary of. See James Constable.
Judges, county, 368.
Juhel, Madame C., purchase by, 58.
Juhelville, village of, 216.
Julia, schooner, affair of, 465: captured, 497; recaptured, 501; named Hamilton by British, 501.
Justices, assistant, 368; of sessions, 369; one on Carlton Island, 111.
Katarokouy, American, 52, 54.
Keeene, iron mine, 93.
Kent, Moss, agent of Antwerp company, 57; for Le Ray, 191.
Kemble, Peter, purchase of, 63, 173.
Keyes, Perley, notice of, 436; bail for Whittle- sey, 263.
King's garden, on Carlton Island, 110.
Kingston, proposed attack on, 473, 474, 475, 497. Kirby, Col. Edmund, notice of, 439. Knights of Jericho, 413.
Labradorite (opalescent feldspar), 555.
Lady Gore, vessel captured, 502. Lady Murray, schooner captured, 493.
La Farge, John, see Penet's Square, 44, 212, 213; 38
buys land of Count Survilliers, 60; of Ant- werp company, 61.
La Fargeville, village of, 213.
Lake Ontario, extent, 548 ; stages of water, 548 ; water spouts, 549; mirage, 549; ancient ex- tent of, 549.
Lakes, in Theresa, 246.
La Moine, missionary, notice of, 17.
Land commissioners' office, created, 41; convey to Macomb, 41 ; convey islands, 68.
Land office, Le Ray's, 192.
Lazelle, Rev. E., an early missionary, 231, 291, 390.
Lead, veins of, in Trenton limestone, 541.
Lead works, Brownville, 103.
Leases, in perpetuity, attempted, 218, 222.
Le Ray, town of, 190; incident, 191; office at, 192; Evan's mills, 192; pine plains, 193; monthly meeting, 222, 395.
-- James D., sales by, 55, 57; purchase by, 56, 57; settlement of estate of, 60; incident, 114; settles at Le Raysville, 192; petition for road, 321; see turnpikes; agricultual society, &c .; notice of, 441; canal loan, 445; agricul- true, 446.
- Vincent, purchases by, 61.
Le Raysville, property of Le Ray at, 60.
Le Roy, Herman, see Penet's square, 43; pur- chases in number IV., 58.
Lett. attempts to burn steamer, 528.
Le Tonelier, John S., claim of, 210.
Levasseur, French shipwright, to be sent to fort Carlton, 24.
Levy, Chevalier, plan of, for fortifying the St. Lawrence, 24.
Lewis, Gen. Morgan, arrives at Sackets Harbor, 494.
Leyden, former bounds of, 70, 248, 299.
Libraries, social, 75, 83, 106, 118, 132, 162, 169, 187, 193, 227, 241, 290, 304, 388.
License, votes on, 371.
Light Houses, cession of lands for, 69; sunken rock, 81; Tibbets Point, 116; in Houndsfield, 185, 187 ; Rock Island, 214.
Limerick, village of, 105.
Limestone, Chazy, 533; birdseye, 534; Black River, 535; Trenton, 539; features and soil of, 546.
Limonite (bog iron ore), 555.
Link in the Chain, quotation from articles en- titled. 252.
Litchfield company formed at, 306.
Lithic paint, manufacture of, 554; Utica slate used for, 543.
Livingston, Robert F., rail road surveys by, 326, 339.
Livingston and Fulton. See Ontario steamer. Loan Commissioners, 370.
Lockport. See Black River village, 238.
Lodges. See Masons, Odd Fellows, Hunter Lodges,
Log Mills, former name of La Fargeville, 213.
Long Falls. See Carthage, Black River, &e. Long Island. See Wolf Island.
Lord Nelson, schooner seized and condemned 460 ; changed to Scourge, 460.
Lord, William, resolutions on rail road by, 328. Lorraine, town of, 195; Constables Journal, 196; Silver Grays, 198; gulfs, 198.
Lorraine Shales, 198, 544; fossils, 544; features and soil of, 545.
Loss of child in woods, 175. See Watertown, 252.
Lottery for state road, 315, 316.
Low, Nicholas, purchase of, 62; Sales by, 154.
Low water in Lake Ontario, 549.
Luce, Vinal, concerned on Penet's Square, 212. Lumber trade, 81, 112, 137, 141.
Lusher, Eri, concerned in steam boats, 350.
Lutherans, societies of, 395.
Lyme, town of, 199; roads, 203; bridge, 203; Three Mile Bay, 204; fisheries, 206.
Lynch Law applied to Whittlesey, 263.
Lyon, Caleb, of Lyonsdale, poem on Thousand Islands, 569.
Macedonian, crew of, sent to lake, 513.
Macomb, Alexander, purchase of, 41: area of, 44; tracts of, 44 ; Jane. wife of, releases lands, 56. See Constable, William.
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Macomb, General A., sent to northern frontier, 524. - of towns, given by proprietors, 70. Naptha? 556
Madison Barracks at Sackets Harbor, 181, 517, Magazine at York, explosion of, 482.
Magnetile (magnetic iron ore), 555.
Mail line of steamers, 355.
Malachite (green carb copper), 555.
Maneuvers, indecisive of fleet, 501.
Manganese, oxyde of, noticed, 153, 197.
Mannsville, 160.
Manufactories, of machinery, &c., 282.
Marble, in Antwerp, 94.
Marcy, Governor, visits county, 523.
Marsclis, Arent, first surveyor of county, 38.
Martha Ogden, steamer, wrecked, 352.
Martin, Gen. W., road commissioner, 317.
Mary Ann, vessel, captured, 502.
Masonic, associations, 409.
Massey, Hart, notice of, 447; letter of, 459. - Solon, author of Link in the Chain, 252. Manufactures, statistics of, 358, 361.
Mc Allaster, Wm., agency of, 87.
McCormick, Daniel, purchase of, 41 ; concerned in conveyances, 63, 64; title to islands, 68. Mc Donell, brings back patriot prisoners, 527.
McEvers, James, see Penet's Square, 43.
Mc Kenzie, patriot leader, 520,
Mc Nabb, Sir Allen, procures rail road subscrip- tions in London, 327.
McNeil, Henry, road commissioner, 317.
Mc Nitt, Capt. Samuel, 467, 487.
Mc Pherson, Capt., in affair at French Creek, 506.
McVickar, John, an executor of W. Constable's estate, 63.
Mechanics' bank, 418. --- protections, 414.
Medal, presented to Gen. Brown, 426.
Medical societies, Jefferson county, 399; list of members, 399; notices, 400.
Meeting, to discourage patriot movements, 525, 526, 527.
- rail road, 338, 339; see W. & R. R., &c. Members, of Congress, 365; of Assembly, 366. Merchants' Exchange Bank, 418.
Merchants' Exchange, Watertown, 289.
Merritt, David, narrative of child lost, 175.
Metalic veins, in Trenton limestone, 541. Meteorological table, 561.
Methodist Episcopal societies, 391 ; conference, 391; districts, 392; circuits, 392; presiding elders, 392.
Mexico, bounds of in 1800, 70.
Militia, drafts of, 461, 500, 516, 521.
Mil tary executions at Sackets Harbor, 19
- school, proposed at Sackets Harbor, 182. - road, 79, 319.
Miller, Asher, agency of, 63, 233. , M. S., agency of, 63, 249,
Millerite (sulphuret of nickel), 555.
Mills, Colonel John, notice of burial, 183.
Millstones, quarries of, 93.
Mineral localities, 551.
Mines, iron, in Antwerp, 93; in Philadelphia, 206; near Natural Bridge, 304.
Mirage on Lake Ontario, 549.
Missionaries, early, 390; societies for sending, 390.
Moffattville, village of, 106.
Mohawk, vessel, 508.
Money, digging, in Ellisburgh, 158.
Money stolenby Whittlesey, 263.
Monopoly of steamboats, see Ontario steamer.
Monroe, tour of President, 181.
Monument proposed to the memory of Pike and others, 182,
Moore, Thomas, Canadian Boat Song,
Moore, killed at Cape V., 113.
Morris and Hammond road, 79, 319.
Morris, Gouverneur, agent of Antwerp Com- pany, 56: incident of journey, 114; concern- ing roads, 311, 314, 319.
Morris, Lewis R., purchase by, 57; undertakes to settle Antwerp, 87. Mortars, rude wooden, 125, 147.
Mundic (sulphuret of iron), 555.
Munitions removed from Sandy Creek, 512.
Muscovite (mica of granites), 556.
Murder of Rogers and Diamond, 100; of White family, 143.
Myers, C. G., visits.Kingston, 527.
Names, Indian, of places, 15.
Nativity of citizens, statistics of, 360, 361. Natural Bridge, village of, 304.
Navigation of Black River, 99, 347. -, dangers of lake, 161.
Neptune, cruise of, 494.
Nets, varieties used, 205, 206.
Newark Village burned, 501.
New Jerusalem, Church of, 170.
New Orleans, frigate, on stocks at Sackets Har- bor. 183, 517.
Newspapers, list of, 372; at Watertown, 373; Adams, 374, 377; Sackets Harbor, 377; The- resa, 378; Carthage, 378.
New York, Company, see French Company. - steamer, 354.
Niagara, schooner, seizure of, 112, 4€0.
, steamer, 354; fleet sails for, 516.
Niahoure, bay of, 172, 200.
Nivernois, bay, 200.
Noble, Arthur, petition for road. 307.
Non residents, clamor against, 210.
Noon, Darby, builds barracks, 473.
Northerner, steamer, 354.
Oakley, T. C., report on Penet's Title, 211.
Ocean Wave, burning of, 118, 355. Odd Fellows, societies of, 412
Officers, public, list of, 365.
Ogdens', title of, in islands, 68; in Sackets Har- bor, 172; letters to, 310, 312, 314.
Ogdensburgh, attack upon, 424, 468.
Ogdensburgh, Clayton and Rome R. R., 341; resolutions of, 341; money may be borrowed for, 343.
Ogilvie, John, British boundary com., 68. Olive, Nicholas, see Penet's Square, 43. Omar, village of, 214.
Oneida, steamer, 353; brig, 177, 458.
Oneidas, title and boundaries of, 38; treaty with, 39; at battle of Sandy Creek, 510.
Ontario, first steamer, 348; cut of, 349; peti- tion concerning, 350; present steamer, 354. -, schooner, seizure of, 112, 460.
Organization of county, 25, 130.
Orleans, town of, 208 ; settled by squatters, 209; titles, 212; La Fargeville, 213; seminary. 213: Stone Mills, 214; Omar, 214; Rock Island light, 214; academy, 388.
Oswegatchie, claim of Indians, 38; road to, 310, 317; a highway, 348.
Oswego, steamer, 353; attempt to rescue pro- perty at the port of, 459.
Paddock, John, notice of, 448.
Paint, lithic, 543, 554.
Palæontology, objects of, 530.
Pamelia, town of, 215; changed to Leander, and back, 215; village, 216; corners, 216; Ju- helville, 216.
Panic among patriots, 521.
Panther, encounter with, 80.
Parish Iron Mine, 559.
Parish, David, purchase by, 57; settlement of Antwerp, 87; builds bridge at Carthage, 307. Parkinson, Mr., adventures of, 235. Patent. See Macomb's, 41, &c. Penet's, 42.
Patridge, Captain A., proposes to establish & military school, 182.
Patriot War, 519.
Peel, steamer, burned, 521.
Pellegrin, French shipwright, to be sent to Fort Carlton, 24.
Penet, Peter, stipulation in treaty for, 40 ; square laid out, 42; appoints Duncan his attorney, 43; chain of title, 43; called Richland, 52; lumbering on, 137; squatters, 209.
Penet, Peter, title investigated, 211; attorney general's report, 211.
Penet, Hippolyte, claims of, 210.
Pensioners in 1840, 362.
Perch River, alarm of war at, 100; former sick- ness on, 105; channel improved, 105.
Periodicals, list of, 372.
Perpetual Leases attempted, 222.
Petrified honey-comb, so called, a fossil coral, 536. Pharoux, Peter, death of, 50, 52; his body found,
51; tablet to his memory by Le Ray, 51.
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Index.
Phelps, Matoon, d Barnes, rail road contractors, 333, 335, 336.
Phelps, Rev. R., early missionary, 390.
Philadelphia, town of, 217 ; settled by Quakers, 218; De Lanney's Mill, 225 ; Sterlingville, 225. Plilogopyte (mica of white limestone), 556.
Phynn, John Johnson, conveyances of, 62.
Physicians, list of, members of county society, 399.
Pierce, Lieutenant, discovers enemy, 510.
Pierrepont Manor, 160 ; rail road, celebration at, 330.
Pierreponl, Hezekiah B., purchase of, 63; an executor of W. C.'s estate, 63; patentee of sev- eral islands, 69 ; notice of, 448.
- William C., title of, 63, 196; president of rail road, 330.
Piers at Dexter, appropriations for, 185.
Pike, Colonel Z. M., moves to Sackets Harbor, 474; brigade order of attack on York, 477 ; letter written, at request of, 479; death, 483; biographical note, monument proposed, 182. Pike, ship, equipped, 496.
Pillar Point, 106. Pine Piains, extent of, 193, 237.
Pian, of Fort Carlton, 110; of fort on Six Town Point, 166; of Wilkinson's encampment, 503. Plan of General Brown, for war in Canada, 425. Plank Roads, list of, 322.
Plessis, village of, 82.
Plunder of the Peel, 521.
Pneumonia, epidemic, 400.
Point Salubrious, in Chaumont Bay, 201; fish- eries on, 206.
Polishing, drift agencies, 557.
Political, parties, strength of, 371; rancor du- ring war, 459.
Poor House, erected, 34; removed, 34; present system, 35 ; overseers of, 35.
Popham, Captain, captured at Sandy Creek, 511, 513.
Population, statistics of, 357.
Porter, General Peter B., boundary commission- er, 68.
Port Pulnam, in Cape Vincent, 111.
Presbytery, St. Lawrence, Watertown, 390; his- torical compendium, 391.
Prescolt, battle near, 524.
Presentiment, apparent ease of, 471.
President, steamer, 353.
Presiding elders, Methodist, 372.
Press, newspaper, 372.
Prevosl, Sir George, arrives in Kingston, 474; attack on Sackets Harbor, 485.
Prices, early, of grain and cattle, 53, 54.
Primary rocks, 530, 547.
Prisoners, maintenance of, 33.
- of Peel, trial of, 523 ; patriot, 527. - patriot, sent to Sackets IIarbor, 527.
Privateering, on St. Lawrence, 494.
Proclamation, of Gov. Marcy, 523.
Propellers, lines of, 356.
Property, seized during the war, 458.
Public officers, list of, 365.
Pulpit rock, notice of, 92.
Pultney, propositions for purchase, 56.
Pursuit of those concerned in burning the Peel, 524.
Pyroxene, 556.
Quaker Settlement, village of, 217. Quartz, localities of, 556. Quilliard, Claudius S., agency of, 300.
Rail Roads, see Watertown and Rome 324 ; Sackets Harbor and Ellisburgh, 334; Sackets Harbor and Saratoga, 397 ; Potsdam and Wa- tertown, 335, &c. Ravines in Lorraine shales, 198.
Redwood, village of, 82.
Rescue, of property seized under embargo, 458. Revenue Cutter, Jefferson, 518.
Revivals, religious, 391. See the several towns. Revolutionary pensioners, 362.
Reward offered for plunderers of Peel, 523.
Rich, Jairus, encounter with panther, 80.
Richardson, William, a class right issued to, 109. Ridges, lake, 549; height of, 549; William Dew- ey's remarks on, 549; curious occurrence of red eedar, 550; queries, 550.
Ruot of ship carpenters, 508.
Nipple marks in sandstone, 531.
Rivers declared highways, 348.
Roids, petition for, in 1791, 307; in 1801, 128, See letters to Ford, Sage, Ogden, Brown, Mor- ris, &c., lotteries for, 315, 316; com'rs, 318-9 ; Morris and Hammond, 319. See turnpikes, plank roads, rail roads, &e.
- French, 97, 142, 308.
Robbery of arsenal, 520. - of public money by Whittlesey, 263.
Rochester steamer, 353, 354.
Rocks, classification of, see Geology, 530. Rock Island light-house, 214.
Rodman, town of, 228; village, 230; seminary, 230 ; Zoar, 230 ; Whitesville, 231; note, 572. Rome, see roads; rail road project, 339.
-- corporation, may borrow money, 342.
Rosseel, Joseph, agency of Parish estate in Ant- werp, 88.
Rottiers, John N., agent of Antwerp Co., 60. Routes surveyed for canal, 347. Rural Hill, 159.
Rutland, town of, 232; agencies, 234; incidents, 235; wrestling, 236; company of exempts, 236 ; Felt's Mills, 238 ; Tylerville, 238; factory, 39; Black River Village, 238; schools, 239; Hollow, 240, 551; Burrville cascades, 240, 556.
Sabbath School Union, 390.
- Union, Jefferson county, 396.
Sucket, Augustus, 157, 172; notice, 451.
Sachets Harbor Bank, 417.
- district of, 184.
and Ellisburgh rail road, 334-5,
and Saratoga rail road, 337.
- village, settled, 174, 176; defense of, 177; importance in war, 178; executions at 179; incident, 179; Monroe's visit, 181; duel, 180; barracks, 181; vessels at, 183 : canal, 185; fire, 186; charter, 186; ferry, 187; union school, 187; library, 187 ; Y. M. Asso., 188; in war, 485 to 517.
Sage, Nathan, letter on road, 312; com'r, 317. Salmon River, road to, 312.
Salt-works, road from, 312, 318.
Sandstone, Potsdam, 531; calciferous, 532.
Sandy Creek, French post at, 21; battle of, 157 ; mouth of, 161; marshes, 161; wrecks at, 161; survey of, 162; battle of, 509.
Satin spar, localities of. 552.
Scalp found in legislative hall at York, 483. Scapolite, 556.
Schools, superintendents of, 397; free, tax for, 398.
- military, proposed at Sackets Harbor, 182. ---- lot in Philadelphia, 219.
Schooners, Niagara and Ontario seized. 112, Schuyler, Peter, road commissioner, 317. - Philip, concerned in Penet Square, 212,
Scourge, schooner, Lord Nelson, 460.
Scriba, George, purchase of, 63.
Societies, religious, see each town; see religious societies. Secondary rock, 530.
Secret expeditions against Sackets Harbor, 493, 507.
Secret socielies, 409 ; patriot, 519.
Seine fisheries, see fisheries, 205.
Seizure of property under embargo, 458.
Selkirk, Earl of, purchase of, 63.
Seminary, Adams, 75; Brownville, 388; Cath- olic, at La Fargeville, 213; Rodman, 230. Serpenline, 557.
Seventh Day Baplisls, Adams, 77, 78; Hounds- field, 189.
Sewalt, Henry D., factory of Hamilton Co., £81. Seymour. David, agent for making road, 316. Shales, Lorraine, 544.
Sheaffe. General, commands at York, 483.
Sherriffs, list of, 367.
Ship-building, 115, 141, 204, 205.
Ships, at Sackets Harbor, 183.
Ship carpenters, incident with, 508.
Shoemaker, Abram, exploit of, 515.
Sickness, prevailing, 80, 147, 150, 158, 201, 221, 400.
Silver Grays, companies of exempts, in Adams, 74; Ellisburgh, 157; Lorraine, 198; Rodman 230; Rutland, 236.
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Index.
Sir Robert Peel, steamer, burned, 521, to 524. Six Town Point, trace of a work on, 20; plan, 166. SZ. eletons, Indian, of great size, 13.
Slute, Utica, 543 ; features and soil of, 545.
Slope of primary rocks, 547.
Smith, Charles, rail road survey by, 329.
--- Jesse, 75, 229.
- Jonas, agency of, 200.
- William, receiver for Penet Square, 212; aid in rail road acknowledged, 326.
- William Stevens, to locate lands for Lord l'ultney, 561.
Smith's cantonment, 518.
Smith's Mills, see Adams, 73.
Smithville, 75.
Smuggling during the war, 89; facilities for, in winter, 459.
"Smyth, Charles, patentee of part of Carlton Is- land, 109 ; concerned in steam boat, 350.
Sociat Libraries, see libraries, social.
Shil of the several rocks, 532.
Sons of Temperance, divisions of, 113.
Sophia, vessel burned, 462.
Spear, Rev. David, an early missionary, 135, 231, 390,
Specular Iron, 557; geological place of, 557 ; mines, 557, 558.
Spencer, Joshua A., efforts of, to quiet patriot questions, 525, 526.
Spilsbury, Capt., captured at Sandy Creek, 511, 513.
Spitfire, gun boat, captured, 494.
Sphene, 560.
Squatters on Penet Square, 209.
St. Domingo, settlers from, 53, 54,
St. Lawrence River, importance of, 23, 348; steamers, 353. See Thousand Isles.
St. Vincent de Paul, seminary, 213.
State Bank at Sackets Harbor, 419.
State Roads, 203. See Oswegatchie, 314 to 319. Stations on Watertown and Rome rail road, 332, 333; elevations of, 331.
Statistics of Watertown and Rome rail road, 331; of Potsdam and Watertown rail road, 336; from censuses, 357 : of academies, 385, 388.
Steamers, American lines of, 115, 348 ; Canadian, 356: attempt to fire Great Britain, 528 ; Brown- ville, 99; Ocean Wave burnt, 118 ; at Clayton, 141: Cornelia, 344.
Steamboat companies, Black River, 347 ; Ontario, 349; St. Lawrence, 354; Ontario and St. Law- rence, 352 ; success of, 355. See steamers.
Sterling iron mine, 93.
Sterling, Micah. notice of, 452.
Sterlingville, village and iron works, 225.
Steuben, Baron, petition for road, 307.
Stickney, Col. Paul, militia drawn from regiment of, 458.
Stocks to be erected in Lorraine, 195.
Stocking, Samuel, purchase of, 61.
Stone Mills, village of, 214.
Stone quarries, at Chaumont village, 205.
Stony Island, patented, 69.
Stony Point, wreck of steamer near, 352.
Storrs, Lemuel, pu, chase of, 63-4, 120, 121,131, 173.
Stow, Silas, ageney of, 63, 173, 229; road eom- missioner, 319 ; vote of, 461.
Sultan, Turkish compliment of. to Eekford, 513. Sunken Rock, light-house on. 81.
Superintendents of schools, 397.
Superior, armed frigate, 508.
Supervisors, first meeting of, 30; doings of, 30, 36; lists of, see the first paragraphs in the several towns; time of meeting, 37.
Surrender of York, terms of, 484. Surrogates, list of, 367.
Surveys, first, 38; of Macomb's purchase, 42; of French lands, 50; Cockburn's 55; of traet No. IV, Van Allen's, 57; of B. Wright, 64; of Crary, 306. See Rail Road, &c.
Surveyors of French lands, 50; of traet No. IV, 56; of Black River Tract, 64.
Survilliers, Count (Joseph Bonaparte), 60.
Swedenborgians, society of, 170.
Table, statistical rail road, 331; census, 357, 359, 360, 361 : of academies, 385, 388.
Talc, localities of, 60.
Tax, see county buildings, bridges ; petition for academy, 388; for schools, 398; general in war, 497.
Taylor, Rev. John, early missionary, 76, 390. Telegraphs, lines of, 343 ; steamers, 353.
Temperance society, county, 396, 397.
Ten Eyel:, Egbert, notice of, 452.
Terraces, of limestone rocks, 545.
Theological seminary, Catholic, 213.
Theresa, town of, 243; incident, 244; village, 245 ; falls, 245; furnace, 246; lakes, 246.
Thousand Islands, scenery of, 81, 141; church of, 84; poetry of, 569.
Three Mile Bay, village of, 204; vessels built at, 204.
Tibbets, George, ageney of, 156.
Tillier, Rodolph, agent of French Co., 49, 299; is succeeded by Gouv. Morris, 55; acquaintance with Brown, 97.
Timber, &c., of eleven towns, 64; stealing of, 81, 136.
Titles, primitive, 38; Oneida and other Indian, 38 ; see French company, Antwerp company, Penet, Black River traet, islands, &c.
Tompkins, Gov. Daniel D., letters from, 426; see appendix ; letters to, 177, 423, 424, 426, 465, 466, 467, 489, 517; see appendix; visits Sack- ets Harbor, 468.
- Fort, at Saekets Harbor, 468.
Tornadoes, 561.
Toronto, see York.
Tour of President Monroe, 181.
Tourmaline, 560.
Towns, survey of eleven, 64; see Adams, Alex- andria, &e.
Agricultural Societies, 83, 408.
- dates of erection of the several, 69.
names given by the proprietors, 70.
meeting, stealing of, 90.
Track, length of rail road, 331.
Tracts, of Macomb's purchase, 44; see Black River, French Co., Boylston, Constable, &e. Treasurers, county, 367.
Treaty with Oneidas, 39.
Trenton limestone, 539; extent, 539; fossils, 539; thickness, 54; veins in, 541.
Tug Hill, composed of slate, 545.
Turin, road to, from Whitestown, 317.
Turnpikes, Oneida and Jefferson, 319; St. Law- rence, 320; Cape Vineent, 203, 321; Ogdens- burgh, 320.
Tuttle, Col. G., post of, in battle of Sackets Har- bor, 486.
United States boundary survey, 68.
, cession of land to, 69.
- deposit fund, 370.
, steamer, 353, 524.
Union Bank, 418.
, Jefferson County Sabbath, 396.
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Literary Society, 385.
- - school of Saekets Harbor, 187.
Universalists' association, 395.
Upjohn, R., plan of church by, 295.
Utica city bonds for rail road, 342.
Utica slate, 543; fossils, 543; features, and soil of, 545.
Valley, remarkable, in Rutland, 240.
Valleys of Jefferson County, 547, 551.
Valuation of towns in 1805,
Van Rensselaer, Rensselaer, at Hiekory Island, 520. -, Stephen, letter to, 309.
Van Vleet, surveys on rail road, 329.
Vaudreuil, M. de, takes post at Sandy Creek. 21.
Vaughan, Captain William, 352, 512, 154; note on, 514, 515.
Veins of lead, in Trenton limestone, 541.
Vessels, burned by enemy, 462. - to be reduced to one on lake, 417.
-on lake before the war, 184 ; see ship build- ing. fitted with armaments, 468; see fleet. British, captured. 503.
- caught at Ogdensburgh, by war, 464.
Vincence, duc de, purchase by, 57. Volume, of water in the several rivers. 548.
Von Schoultz, patriot leader, 525; executed, 527; note on, 591.
Votes, on special elections, 370; for governor, 371 ; for comptroller, in 1847, 435. Voters, numbers of, 357.
Index. 601
Wad (oxyde of manganese), 560.
Waddington, Joshua, concerned in title of Is]- ands, 69.
War, with Great Britain, 458, 461, 462: prepa- rations for, on lake, 177; Gen. Brown's letters on, 423, 424; see appendix.
Ward, Samuel, buys of Constable, 61. Water lime, manufacture of, 144.
Water power, of Black River, 283.
Water spouts, on Lake Ontario, 549.
Water works, Watertown, 277, 281.
Water, volume of, in several rivers, 548.
Watertown, academy, 378, 379 ; circular of, 379. - bank of, 417.
- bank and loan company, 418.
gas company, 290.
hotel company, 284.
town of, organized, 247; bounds in 1801, 247; town officers, 248; Wright's remarks on,
249; incidents, 254; affair of Whittlesey, 263. mechanic's association, 414.
Presbytery, 390.
- village, 270; trustees, 273 ; cemetery, 275; board of health, 276; census in 1827, 277; Ar- tesian well, 277; factories, 278 ; extraordinary water power, 283 ; public square, 283; fires, 284; arcade, 287; elegance of public buildings, 289; fountains, 290.
young men's association, 290,
Watertown and Cape Vincent R. R., incorporat- ed, 326.
Watertown and Rome R. R., origin, 324; legis- lation on, 324; surveys of, 325, 326; company organized, 327; road begun, 328 ; officers cho- sen, 328 ; appeal of agricultural society, 329; opened, 330; bonds, 330; statistics, 331; ele- vations, 331; stations, 332; business of, 333 ; success of, 332.
Watson, James, see Penet's Square, 43, 210. - Matthew, purchases a class right, 109.
Well, Artesian, Watertown, 277.
Weld, Isaac, Jr., note on Thousand Islands, 567. Wells, Asa, affair of, 156, 459.
--- Island, 68 ; extent of, S1.
West Carthage, 132.
Wheelock, O. L., plans by, 287, 289, 292, 297. White, family of, murdered, 143.
- Major George, agency of, 237; notice of, 452.
Whitestown, former bounds of, 70; road from, 317.
Whitesville, village of, 231.
Whitney's Corners, 227.
Whittlesey, Samuel, robbery of, 263; Mr. Fair- bank's remarks on, 574.
Wilcox's Corners, post office of, 306.
Wilkes, see Penet's Square, 43.
Wilkinson, General, appointed to command of frontier, 497.
- army of, arrives at Sackets Harbor, 501; disastrous issue of expedition, 502.
- army of, at Cape Vincent, 113; Grenadier Island. 503; result of expedition, 506.
Williams' Woolen Company, 282.
Wilna, town of, 299; Carthage, 300, 303; fur- nace, 300; Natural Bridge, 304.
Windmill, battle of, 524; prisoners, 527; note on Von Schoultz, 591.
Wolf, Charles Michael de. See Antwerp Com- pany, 56.
- Island, ship building at, 141; rail road, 327 ; canal, 331.
- story. See " Link in the Chain," 258.
Wollastonite (tabular spar), 5€0.
Woodruff, Norris M., purchase of, 61.
Woodward, Rev. James, an early missionary, 76, 390.
Woodville, 159.
Woolen Factories at Dexter, 104; Henderson, 168; Rutland, 238; Watertown, 278.
Woolsey, Melancthon T., builds brig Oneida, 17%; affair of Sandy Creek, 509; incident at auction, 460.
Worth, Colonel, stationed at Sackets Harbor, 524.
Worth, town of, 305.
Wrecks on the Ellisburgh coast, 161; of steam- er Martha Ogden, 352.
Wright, Benjamin, of Rome, surveys of, 64, 72, 120, 146, 166, 196, 233, 249 ; road commisioner, 319; agencies of, 196; notice of, 453.
Yeo, Sir James L., commands British fleet, 489, 501, 512.
York, attack planned, 476; fleet sails, 477; Brigade order of attack, 477 ; description of, 478; attack on, 479; terms of surrender, 484; retaliation, 484, evacuated, 484.
Young Men's Association at Sackets Harbor, 188; Watertown, 290.
Zoar, vilage, in Rodman, 230.
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Page. 43, 8th line from top, for 1729, read 1789.
66 51, 22d line from top, for Cortland, read Castorland.
53, 2d line from bottom of text, for origin, read original.
66 69, 7th line from top, for Melancton L., read Melancthon T.
77, 2d line from bottom, for Briley, read Bailey.
88, 9th line from top, for vigor, read rigor.
143. The figure near the top of this page should be turned so that the finer divisions would be in the upper left hand corner.
66 164, last line , for E. C., read C. B.
192, 22d line from bottom, for 1819, read 1813.
249, 7th line from top, for Wm. , read Mr.
327, 6th line from bottom, for 1, 3, 2, read 1 and 2.
329, 23d line from top, for Van Vlect, read Van Vleck.
66 334, 13th line from bottom, for 1840, read 1850.
525. The number designating this page accidentally omitted.
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