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British, Government assume conquest of Canada, 128 ; act as to provincial troops, 130 ; plan of campaign and result, 131 ; naval force pass obstructions in the Highlands, 203.
Brockholls, Lieutenant, entrusted with government, 70; letter on trouble at Esopus, 71; instructions from Duke of York as to Assembly, etc., 72.
Brodhead, ancestral notes, 473.
Brodhead, Captain, in charge of military at Wiltwyck, 50, 51; his instructions, 51; exasperates the Dutch, 52; com- plaint, trial, suspension, and death, 53- 57.
Broome on committee to prepare State Con- stitution, 259.
Bruyn, ancestral notes, 473.
Bruyn, Jacobus, survey of road for block- houses, 134; Assembly, 142, 145.
Bruyn, Jacobus S., Lieutenant-Colonel, 243, 439.
Buell, Jesse, establishes a paper at Kings- ton, 417, 418.
Burghers at Kingston, trouble with sol- diers, and justify their acts, 56.
Burgoyne, General, supersedes Carleton in command of army, 278 ; his progress at the North, 284; his right wing defeated, 286 ; his surrender, 286.
Burhans, ancestral notes, 474.
Burhans, Jan, Schepen for Swanenburgh, 66.
Burnet, William, Governor of New York
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and New Jersey, 111 ; establishes trad- ing-post at Oswego, and opposition, 111 ; transferred to Massachusetts, 111.
Burr, Aaron, patronizes the artist Vander- lyn, 458, 459.
Bush, Jacobus, engaged in a treasonable expedition, etc., 253.
By-laws for Wiltwyck, 27.
Campaign of 1776, condition of army, 230. Canada expeditions by colonies, 106, 108 ; ordered by England, Assembly appro- priation, but England fails to support, 121 ; another ordered, its plan, and main- ly successful, 141; but defeated at Ti- conderoga, 141.
Canada, invasion of, determined by Con- gress, 169 ; disastrous result, 171. Cantine, ancestral notes, 475.
Cantine, John, 397 ; Assembly, 275 ; con- vention as to adoption of United States Constitution, 392.
Cantine, Matthew, Provisional Convention, 180 ; Committee of Safety, 263.
Cantine, Moses, procures ferry charter, 197.
Capito, Mattys, clerk of Schepens, 34; Schout, 42 ; wife killed at Wiltwyck, 33. Capitulation of New Amsterdam, 48.
Captives taken by Indians and expeditions for recovery, 35 ; some rescued, 38 ; rest returned, 42.
Cartwright, Captain, took possession of Fort Orange and Wiltwyck, 48, 49.
Catsbaan Church, appropriation Trustees, 382.
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Chambers, Abraham Gaasbeek, devisee of Foxhall, Manor, 492; Assembly, 110, 116, 118.
Chambers, Thomas, settles at Esopus and had grant from Indians, 6; taken prisoner and exchanged, 13; captain of military, 30, 32, 34, 42; Assembly, 44 ; overseer, 60; Justice, 63, 73; Lord of Foxhall Manor, 63 ; letter from Brock- holls, 73; will, 492.
Chancery, Court of, created, 109 ; Assem- bly denied the power to create, 109; court confirmed by Crown, 109.
Christmas observances, 427. Chriskinkle day, 427.
Church organized at Esopus, 22, 204 ; history of, 204 ; Rev. Harmanus Blom set- tled, 204; signers to his call, 204; first communion and names of communicants, 206 ; church and parsonage built and lo-
cations, 206 ; Blom resigns, 208 ; refuse to support a Church of England minis- ter, 105; new church built, 208; incor- poration and action therefor, 209, 211 ; repairs and " doop huys," 212 ; bell pro- cured, 212 ; building enlarged and thick- ness of walls, 213 ; Meyer, pastor, and his difficulties, 215; the cotus and confer- entiæ controversy dividing the congre- gation, 215 ; council of Ministers, 220; Meyer ejected from pulpit, 220 ; Dominie Doll settled at, 220 ; church independent of Classis, 221; burnt and rebuilt, 221 ; procure a new bell, 222 ; its bill of lading and a letter, 222 ; donation from Trus -. tees, 223 ; application for Dutch preach- ing refused, 226 ; early customs, 226, 227 ; letter to Governor Clinton, 269 ; address to Washington, 338 ; land pur- chase, 375 ; contribution from Trustees, 382 ; church services and attendance, 424 ; Pastors-Harmanus Blom, 1659, 204 ; Petrus Tesschenmaeker as supply, 208; Van Gaasbeek, 1678, 208; Week- stein, 1681, 208; Vanden Bosch, 1687, 208; Nucella, 1695, 208 ; Beys, 1706, 209 ; Vas, 1710, 209 ; Mancius assistant, 211; Meyer, 1763, 215 ; Doll, 1775, 220 : Gosman, 1808, 226.
Clark, Lieutenant-Governor, 116 ; adminis- tration and adroit management of Assem- bly, 117.
Clinton, Charles, Commissioner for survey of road for block-houses, 134 ; colonel of Provincial troops in expedition against Frontenac, 141.
Clinton, De Witt, son of James, 400.
Clinton, George, in Colonial Assembly, 153, 155 ; letter to De Witt, 156 ; Provin- cial Convention, 166, 180 ; Continental Convention, 167 ; Brigadier-General of Ulster and Orange Co. militia, 175, 244 ; elected Governor and Lieutenant-Gov- ernor, 266 ; notice, 267 ; qualified as Gov- ernor, 268 ; letter to him from Church, 269 ; letter to convention, 280 ; appointed Brigadier-General by Congress, 281, 282 ; orders for detachment of militia, 282 ; letters to Council of Safety, 284, 203, 294 ; defence and loss of Fort Montgomery and escape, 287 ; letters to Gates, 301, 316, 317 ; letters to Putnam, 316 ; in con- vention as to adoption of United States Constitution, 392 ; his subsequent elec- tions as Governor and Vice-President, character and death, 398.
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Clinton, Admiral George, Governor, 118 ; administration and controversies with Assembly, 118, 125.
Clinton, Sir Henry, in command of Eng- lish forces at New York, expedition against forts in Highlands, 287 ; his let- ter to Burgoyne, 292.
Clinton, James, Colonel of Third Ulster County Regiment, in Canada expedi- tion, 170 ; in Provincial Congress, 167 ; Brigadier-General Continental Army, 234 ; in convention for adoption United States Constitution, 392 ; offices hield by him, his character, family, death, etc., 399, 400.
Cock, Gerardus, Rev., pacificator in King- ston Church and treatment, 217.
Cock, John, commissioner to lay out roads in Ulster, 104.
Cœtus and conferentie troubles in King- ston Church, 214.
Coin, its value established, 75.
Colden, Lieutenant-Governor, 144; de- scribes effect of battle of Lexington in New York, 167.
Colden, Sheriff, prevented from reading proclamation, 177.
Cole, ancestral notes, 475.
Collier, the, and the commodore, 152.
Collision between soldiers and citizens in New York, 152.
Colonial Congress remonstrate against Stamp Act, 149.
Columbus Point in 1820, 470.
Colve, Dutch Admiral and Governor, 66, 67.
Comet, extraordinary appearance, etc., 70. Commission to examine into troubles at Kingston, 53, 57.
Commission to arrange and settle matters at Kingston, 58, 59.
Commission to establish town boundaries and make allotments, 62.
Committee, county and town, to be ap- pointed. 168.
Committee, Executive, of New York, 158. Committee, Observation for Kingston, 164. Committee of Safety, 85, 171, 178, 236.
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Committee of Safety under Constitution, 263; address to Congress, 283 ; address to delegates in Congress, 285 ; for defeat of conspiracies and personnel thereof, 241 ; committees continued under resolu- tion of joint convention, 289.
Communication with New York, facilities for, 412.
Congress of Colonial Governors at Albany, 111. .
Congress of Colonial deputies, 137 ; plan of union, 128.
Congress, Continental, met, 158 ; abstract proceedings, etc., 158 ; delegates from Ulster, 166 ; protest, 166 ; invasion of Can- ada ordered, 169; orders as to troops in Highlands, 174 ; call on Ulster for three companies, 176 ; recommend organiza- tion of State governments, 179; adopt Declaration of Independence, 179.
Congress of Confederation, attempt to pro- cure location of at Kingston, 369.
Constitution of United States adopted. 395 ; amended, 396.
Constitution of State of New York adopted, 261; Ulster delegates, 262.
Continental regiments of New York and account of them. 331.
Convention of delegates to New Amster- dam-T. Chambers and G. Van Im- broeck, delegates from Esopus, 44; re- fuse to levy tax, 45 ; at next meeting ad- vise peace with Indians, 46.
Convention called by Leisler, 85 (Kingston not represented); form themselves into a Committee of Safety, 85.
Convention, a second, called, 86 ; Ulster represented, prorogued, 87.
Convention of New York, resolution as to treason, 230 ; order troops from Ulster to Highlands, 231 ; appoint George Clinton Brigadier-General, and command levies in Highlands, 232 ; decides horsemen not liable to levy, 233 : arms ordered to regiment of Lieutenant-Colonel Harden- bergh, 233 ; State prisoners, ordered re- moval to New Jersey, 234; officers for reinforcement in Highlands, 238; direc- tion to Committee ou Conspiracies, 255 ; to prepare fleet prison, 255 ; report to Washington on condition of militia in Ulster, etc., 236 ; to provide lances, 237 ; order Ulster and Orange committees to provide a defence for frontier, 240 ; order as to Tories in Ulster and Orange, 240; Special Committee on Conspiracies, 241 ; committee to confer with General Clin- ton and call out militia in Ulster, etc., 243 ; resolution in regard to, 244; com- mittee appointed to prepare Constitution, 259; convention agreed to adjourn to Kingston, 259, 260; met at Kingston, 260 ; Constitution reported and adopted, 261 ; Committee on Organization of Gov-
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ernment, 263 ; Committee of Safety ap- pointed, 263 ; judicial and local officers appointed, 263 ; sheriffs ordered to give notice of election, 263 ; case of breach of privilege, 263 ; commissioners to take care of refugees, 265 ; committees author- ized to impress teams, etc., 265; ordered block- houses in Kingston to be repaired, 265 ; ordered companies raised to per- forin militia service for Committee of Safety, 265 ; received resignation of George Clinton as General, refused to accept, 265 ; ordered Committee of Safety to meet at Kingston, then dissolved, 265.
Convention to recommend plan of General Government, 391 : delegates from New York under special instructions-Robert Yates, Jolin Lansing, Jr., and Alexander Hamilton, 391 ; Yates and Lansing with- drew, 392; Constitution recommended, 392.
Convention of State to act upon adoption of Constitution ordered, 392 ; delegates elected from Ulster, 392; proceedings of convention, letters in regard thereto, and result, 392-395.
Copp, William, established papers, 417.
Cornbury, Viscount Edward, Governor, 103 ; character and government, 104 ; attempt to force pastor on Kingston church and result, 105.
Cornellisen, Hendrick, murder of, by a sol- dier, 53.
Cortelyou, Jacques, on Boundary Commis- sion, 61.
Cosby, William, Governor, 112 ; contro- versy with Van Dam, 112 ; removed Chief-Justice Morris, 113 ; newspaper attacks on him by Zenger, 113, 114; Zen- ger prosecuted, 114 : trial and result, 114, 115; death of Cosby, 115.
Couch, Seth, Captain of No. 2 Fire Engine Company, 383.
Council of Safety organized by joint con- vention of Legislature, 200 ; order pris- oners to Hartford, and letter to Govern- or, 200; letter to General Gates, 291; order for enrolment at Kingston,, 201; for removal of property and records to place of safety, 291; letter from Gov- ernor, 294; despatch to Clinton, mes- senger's neglect, 296 ; meet at Marble- town, 318 ; Resolution as to Kingston, . 318 ; adjourn to Hurley and next to . Poughkeepsie, 319.
Council of war of Dutch commodores at New York, 66 ; summon magistrates to take oath of allegiance, 66; change name of Kingston to Swanenbergh, 66. Council of war at Wiltwyck, formation and personnel of, 34.
Courts opened at Wiltuyck, 27.
Courts organized under Kingston, Trustees, and trial at, 185, 186.
Courts authorized and designated, 76.
Court of Chancery created by Hunter, Governor, 109.
Court, Supreme, opened at Kingston, 1777, and charge of Chief-Justice Jay to Grand Jury, 270.
Court House built in Kingston, 372, 389.
Crannell, Counsellor, opinion on Church troubles, 216.
Currency, effect of war with England on 402.
Crispell, ancestral notes, 476. Customs of inhabitants, 420.
Dancing and balls, 203, 422.
Davids, Christoffel, an interpreter, 37 ; re- port as to captives and Indians, 37.
Davis, Christopher, settled at Kingston, 5 ; special messenger to New York, 12.
D'Elba, Antonio, convicted of mutiny, 57.
De Hulter purchases one thousand acres from Indians, 6.
Delameter, Cornelius, privilege from Trus- tees to build a mill above Twaalfskill, 199.
De Lancey appointed Chief-Justice, 113 ; assumes Government as Lieutenant-Gov- ernor, 127 ; his administration, and death. 127-144.
Delavall, Counsellor, sent on commission upon Esopus troubles with soldiers. 53 : on commission to settle troubles between inhabitants, 63 ; authorized to build store- house, 63 ; chief magistrate and troubles on bench, 71 ; letter to in regard to them, and death, 72.
Demyer, ancestral notes, 476.
De Mire, William, Assembly, 90.
Depuy, ancestral notes, 476.
Depuy, Moses, Jr., Assembly, 125. Despatches from English Government, opened by Leisler, contents, 86.
Dewaal, William, 386, 438.
De Witt, ancestral notes, 477.
De Witt, Charles, letters, 148, 154, 201, 342; Assembly, 153, 155 ; Provincial Convention, 166, 180; on committee to
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defeat conspiracies, 241; on committee to frame Constitution, 259 ; unlawfully arrested and parties convicted of breach of privilege, etc., 263, 264; Congress under confederation, 537.
De Witt, Charles G., 484.
Doll, Domninie, pastor of church at King. ston, 220 ; letter to Governor Clinton, 269 ; address to General Washington, 338 ; Trustee of Academy, 350.
Dongan, Thomas, Governor, 80 ; instruc- tions vest full legislative power in Gov- ernor and Council, and charter of fran- chises to people repealed, 81; Kingston patent granted, 82 ; troubles with French and Indians, 83; tax levied, 83 ; super- seded, 84.
Dress, custom as to, 423.
Duane, Counsellor, opinion as to church troubles, 218.
Du Bois, ancestral notes, 477.
Du Bois, Lewis, to command Fifth New. York Battalion, 243.
Du Bois, Louis (Walloon), attacked by In- dians, 41; overseer, 60 ; agency in troubles at E-opus, 71.
Du Bois, Peter and Walter, protest, 166.
Duer, Mr., on committee to prepare Consti- tution, 259.
Duke's Laws extended over the province, their provisions, 60.
Dumond, ancestral notes, 479.
Dumond, Egbert, Provincial Congress, 167 ; sheriff of Ulster, 263.
Dunscomb, Daniel, on Council of Safety, 290.
De Pui, Moses, Jr., Colonial Assembly," 125.
De Pui, Nicholas, tradition as to mine road and mines, 411.
Dutch settlements in Minisink, 411.
Dutch festivals and observance, 427.
Dutchess County electors to vote in Ulster, 102.
Duties prohibitory imposed by Parliament, and effect, 147.
East India Company establish trading posts, 2.
Easter observance, 427.
Ebel, Peter, Sergeant, arrives with rein- forcements, 34.
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Eddyville in 1820, 470.
Educational matters in Kingston, 341; fund invested for by Trustees, 341; academy established, 343 ; rate bill of
English school at burning of Kingston, 344; after burning of Kingston em- ployment of teachers, 345.
Elections, regulation of, 202.
Election of State officers, result, 266.
Ellison, Colonel Thomas, letter in reference to Fort William Henry expedition, 137 .. Elmendorf, ancestral notes, 479.
Elmendorf, Coenraedt, House, republican quarters, 456.
Elmendorf, C. E., Captain of Fire Engine Company, resigned, 375.
Elmendorf, J. C., Captain No. 1 Fire En- gine Company, 333.
Elmendorf, Lucas, turnpike experience, 408-410 ; sketch of life, 447.
Elting, ancestral notes, 479, 480.
Elting, Peter, letter events below High- lands, 239.
Emigrants, character of, 3.
English claims upon Dutch possessions, 43. English expedition against New Nether- lands, 47.
English failure to support expedition or- dered against Canada, 121.
English prohibitory duties, evil effect and resistance, 147 ; repeal certain laws, 156 ; course toward Boston and New York, 157.
Esopus, settlement, 6 ; Indian trouble, 7 ; arrival of Stuyvesant, ? ; forms a village, 8 ; plan of stockade, 9 ; invested by Ind- ians, 12; soldiers fall into ambuscade. 12 ; peace with Indians, 20 ; agricultural productions, 21 ; church organized, 22 : village charter granted name Wiltwyck, 25 ; Indian aların, 30; trouble with mili- tary, 53; petition for power to elect minor officers, 77 ; petitioners indicted therefor, 78. (See Wiltwyck.)
Evans grant of land, Fletcherdon Manor vacated, 99. -
Evertse, Cornelius, Jr., commodore Dutch fleet, 67.
Expedition against French, and Governor Winthrop's failure, 87.
Expedition, another, against Canada, 93.
Expedition, Sullivan, against Indians, 327.
Fairs established by law, 91.
Fantasticals in militia, 433.
Federalists' action in war with England. 400.
Ferry established at Rhinebeck, 197.
Ferry across Rondout Creek and sale of. 381.
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Festivals and observance, 427.
Fiero, Christian, on Committee of Obser- vation, 164. Financial distress, 148.
Fire-engine ordered, 139, 199 ; received, 200.
Fire-engine Company organized by Trus- tees to take charge of engine, 375 ; C. E. Elmendorf, captain, 375 ; resigned, N. Vanderlyn, Jr., appointed, 36; dis- banded, 376 ; new company organized, N. Vanderlyn, Jr., captain, 376 ; rules adopted, 376 ; engine transferred to vil- lage and department reorganized, 383 ; N. Vanderlyn, Jr., foreman, 383 ; anoth- er engine bought and department reor- ganized, and James C. Elmendorf made captain of No. 1 and Seth Conch of No. 2, 333; fire in Kingston, 1776, and houses burnt, 202, 335, 336.
Fisheries in Kingston, 373.
Fletcher, Benjamin, appointed Governor, his arrival, administration, dishonesty, and recall, 95, 97.
Fletcherdon Manor vacated, 99.
Floyd, William, on Council of Safety, 290. Forts in Highlands, 279 ; captured, etc., 288.
Forts, Indian, location and capture, 35, 37 ; description of, 40.
Forts Montgomery and Clinton captured and Fort Constitution demolished, 288. Fort Orange surrendered to British, 48.
Foxhall Manor created, 63; confirmatory grant. 64.
Franklin, Benjamin, plan of union against Indians, 128.
French in Canada, operations, 62 ; annoy frontiers, 83 ; expedition for invasion, 87; operations in West, 128.
Freer, Garret and Jan, 250.
Freer, Samuel, 417; Samuel S., 417, 418. Freligh, Samuel, 253.
Freshets, 200.
Funerals, pipes, tobacco, and liquor fur- nished, 203.
Gansevoort, L., on committee to defeat conspiracies, 241.
Gardinier, Barent, 418, 451.
Gardinier, Dick, warrant against, 256.
Garton, Thomas, Justice, 77; Assembly, 96, 105, 107.
Gasherie, ancestral notes, 480.
Gaspe, anecdote connected with burning, : 152.
Gates, General, lettera, 220 ; to Vaughan, 301
Gazette, Ulster, 418.
Gemeco surrendered to English, 44. Gerretson, Adrien, Assembly, 102.
Gerretson, Barent, killed at Wiltwyck massacre, 33.
Goes, Matthew, Jr., warrant against, 256. Gosman, Jolin, pastor of Kingston Church, 226 ; President Academy, 364.
Governors, Colonial-(Dutch), Minuit, 4 ; Van Twiller, 4; Kieft, 4; Stuyvesant, 5; Colve, 66; (English), Nicolls, 48; Lovelace, 58; Andros, 67; Brockholls, 70; Dongan, 74; Andros, 84 ; Leisler, Số ; Sloughter, 89; Ingoldsby, 93 ; Fletcher, 95 ; Bellomont, 97 ; Nanfan, 101; Cornbury, 103; Lovelace, 105; In- goldsby, Lieutenant, 105; Beeckman, senior councilman, 106; Hunter, 107; Schuyler, senior councilman, 110 ; Bur- net, 110; Montgomerie, 112; Rip Van Dam, senior councilman, 112; Cosby, 112 ; Clarke, 116 ; Clinton, 118 ; Osborne, 126; De Lancey, Lieutenant, 127, 135 ; Hardy, 132; Colden, senior councilman, 145 ; Monckton, 146 ; Moore, 149; Try- on, 155.
Gravesend surrendered to English, 44. Grevenwart, Sheriff, 63 ; Schout, 66.
Habits of settlers, 423.
. Hall, George, Sheriff, 67.
Hamilton of Philadelphia, counsel for Zen- ger, 114 ; his triumph, 115.
Hap, William Janse, killed at the massa- cre of Wiltwyck, 33.
Hardenbergh, ancestral notes, 480.
Hardenbergh, Johannis G., Assembly, 275. Hardenbergh, Johannis, Provincial Con- gress, 167; Assembly, 116, 120, 123.
Hardenbergh, Johannis, Jr., Lieutenant- Colonel, stationed for defence of New York, short of arms, application for sup- ply, 233.
Hardy, Governor, 132 ; left with fleet, 135; message as to murders in Ulster, 133.
Harper, Robert, Committee of Safety, 263 ; Council of Safety, 290.
Harrison, of Governor's Council, malprac- tice exposed, and flight, 113.
Hasbrouck, ancestral notes, 480.
Hasbrouck, Abraham, Assembly, 99, 118, 121, 142, 145 ; commissioner to lay out roads, 104; refusal to serve as colonel, 175, 176; diary entries as to weather,
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freshets, etc., 200; agency in church troubles, 216.
Hasbrouck, Abraham Bruyn, 449.
Hawkins, Colonel of Kingston Regiment, War of 1812, 401.
Heath, Major-General, assigned to com- mand of forces in Highlands, 233.
Heemstede surrendered to English, 44.
Hendrix, Mattys, settles at Esopus, 5.
Hepburn, Rev., of English Church, sent to Kingston, refused, 103.
Heymans, Albert, convicted of mutiny, 57; overseer for Hurley, 60.
Hobart, John S., on committee to prepare Constitution, 259 ; on committee to or- ganize Government, 262, 263 ; appointed Judge Supreme Court, 263.
Hoffman, ancestral notes, 481.
Hoffmans pioneers in cement, 414.
Holidays observed, 203, 427.
Holland grant to New Netherland Com- pany, 3.
Holland answer to remonstrance and states power of West India Company, 45.
Holt, John, established paper, its emblem. etc., 103, 417.
Hornbeek, ancestral notes, 481.
Hornbeek, Jacob, Provincial Convention, 167.
Houghteling, ancestral notes, fa).
Howe, General, plan of campaign. 29 : efforts to create disaffecting, 238 : 114 advantages at battle of Long Iv'and. 231. his character, 235 ; treatment of pr * *** ers, 236 ; proceeds against New York and Pennsylvania, 212 ; his plan of cảm paign for 1777, 277.
Howe, Sir William, report on taxmanling expedition up the Hudson, 300.
Hudson, Hendrick, discovery, atl arturo io Europe, 2.
Hulter, Johan D., settles at Empor, and purchase of Indians, 6.
Hunter, Governor, 107 ; contrompe # 1 Assembly, 107; treaty with lidl . sal leaves for Europe, 110.
Hurley located and lote al'o'tel in w !. diers, 60 ; Du Bois and Heymans otet seers and Christopher Prenions text Magistrate, 60; General Wach visits, address of its Trunks, and rais 335.
Hussey, Frederick, overnet tut Maske, town, 60.
Improvements in Kingston, 441
Indians, Algonquins, and Esopus, 3; at- tacked by order of Kieft; and Indian war, 4, 5; gift of land to Stuyvesant, and conference, 10; attacked by Stoll and others at Esopus and murdered, 12 ; at- tack soldiers and take sergeant and thirteen men prisoners, 12 ; some of pris- oners tortured and some ransomed or exchanged, 13; expedition against, 15; Stuyvesant sends some Indians to Cu- raçoa, 16 ; expedition against, 17 ; truce agreed on, 18; peace, 19 ; they attack Wiltwyck, 31 ; expeditions against, 34, 37, 40; forts, location of, 35, 39,41; Eso- pus clan broken up, 42 ; treaty of peace, 4%; treaty with Nicolls, 51, 52 ; H. Paw- ling officer over, 60; conference and agreement with, 68 ; in Northern New York, suspicious actions, 62; annoying frontiers, 83; trouble with and attacked by Schuyler, 95 ; operation by French. 120; outrages in Ulster, 132, 133, 139 ; Exopuy, demeanor after second Esopus war. 186 ; raid threatened at Papakonk, 229 ; friendly, addressed by Committee of Safety, 266; preparations in anti- cipation of an attack, 284; Sullivan's ripedition, 327; Shanks Ben and oth- «rx attack on Jansen, Shawangunk, 328; on Captain Snyder, Saugerties,
Information, proceedings by, 114, 118, 119.
lagulisby, Captain, demands fort from Leis- ler. * 3: assumes government on death of Slaughter, 93 ; and on death of Love- laer, 105 ; removed, 106.
Jacat's, Harmon, killed at Ponckhockie, 6. Jarahmen, Peter, appointed officer of militia,
Justin Valley, resort for pleasure and fish- .
Jawww If . his instructions to Governor in fratralot of liberty, 81 ; unites British paraalso under Governor Andros and i .estemast Governor Nicholson, 84 ; ab-
Jau the Kanlib killed at Wiltwyck massa-
Jewo Hendrick, appointed officer militia,
... . ... Assembly, 121, 123, 125 ; & IN tel Ly Invilane, 829.
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acies, 241 ; do. to prepare Constitution, 259 ; do. to organize State Government, 263; do. Committee of Safety, 263 ; ap- pointed Chief-Justice, 263; charge to Grand Jury, 270.
Jesuit priests expelled, 101.
Johnson, Sir William, defence of Fort Ed- ward, 131.
Joosten, Jacob, messenger to Court and Church, 27.
Judicial officers appointed for State, 263. July 4, observance of, 428.
Kieft, Governor, 4; massacre of Indians, 5 ; recalled, 6.
Kiersted, ancestral notes, 482.
Kiersted, Roeliff, appointed Schepen of Swanenburgh, 66.
Kipp, Jacob, application for ferry, 197.
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Kingston (see Esopus, Wiltwyck, and Trustees), trouble with soldiers at, 53; complaint and trial under secret instruc- tions, 54; name given to village, 59 ; Thomas Chambers and William Beeck- man, overseers, 60; orders to renew stockade, 62; George Hall, sheriff, R. Peacock, constable, 67; Governor All- dros, letter to, 67; lots laid out for in- habitants, 68 ; troubles in court, 73 ; con- stables appointed, 77; patents granted to Trustees of Freeholders, etc., 82 ; does not recognize Leisler, 85 ; called on for aid against French invasion, 87 ; fur- nish troops, etc., for expedition against Canada, 88; fairs arranged for, 91; repeal of bolting act, 97; support Con- tinental Congress, few malcontents, 163 ; proceedings of meeting with other towns, 164; Committee of Observation appointed, 164; association agreement signed, 169 ; militia officers, 172 ; do. of horse, 173 ; allowed 2 supervisors in 1743, 198 ; improve after peace with In- dians 186 ; description of lowlands and streams in vicinity, 182 ; strength of building walls, 187; committee order sloop seized, 174; State prisoners or- dered removed from, 234 ; report to con- vention as to Indian raids, 240; tea troubles in, 246 ; prisoners. sent to Hart- ford, 290 ; British expedition against and destruction of. 207 ; extent of damage, 303 ; documents as to sufferers, 805 ; names of, 306; map of, 308 ; traditions, 309, 311 ; relief from South Carolina, 310 ; from R. R. Livingston, 311, 322 ;
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