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English official reports as to expedition against Kingston, 299, 300; address to Governor and Governor's reply, 321 ; dis- covery of remains of breastworks at Ponckhockie, 313; militia exempt from drafts engaged in rebuilding, 322 ; Washington's visit, address, and reply, 337; do. by Consistory, 338.
Kingston village incorporated, 382 ; or- ganization, 383; Fire Department, 383. attempt to organize a watch, 381; ma- larial fever, and mill-pond drained, 395; large fire, 386; tornado, 389 ; descrip- tion and map of in 1820, 435, 436 ; sup- port Government in war with England,. 400, 401; meetings, 401; committee appointed, 401; illumination, 402 ; com- merce by sloop, 412, 413.
Klyne Esopus Church, appropriation from Trustees, 382.
Kregier, Martin, command at Wiltwyck, and reinforced, 34.
La Montagne, William, appointed Secre- tary for three towns, 66.
Langdon, Jonathan, on Council of Safety, 290.
Laws, Colonial, passed by Assembly, de- claratory of rights, 75, 90; power to enact vested by James II. in Govern- or and Council. 81 : power to enact vested by William and Mary in Govern- or, Council, and Assembly, 89 ; passed, dividing province into shires and coun- ties, 76, 91; establishing courts in cities and towns and counties, 90 ; county and town officers, 91; establishing fails and markets, 01; Pypowder court, 91; against profanation of Sunday, 92, 99; regulating and to prevent frauds at elections. 99; annulling some extrava- gant land grants. 99 ; expelling Jesuit priests, 101; circular tences in Ulster, and electors of Dutchess to vote in Ul- ster, 102; for survey and laying ont roads, 104; repose of land titles, 107; to repair Ulster Court House, 110, 113.
Leatherstocking's (Cooper) description of the burning of Kingston, 314.
Lebe, Willem Jansen, killed at Wiltwyck massacre, 33.
Legislature of State organization in Kings- ton, 275 ; dispersed on approach of Brit- ish, and joint convention organized, 289 : action as to convention to revise articles
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of confederation, 391 ; as to convention to pass upon the adoption of the United States Constitution, 392.
Leisler, Jacob, takes possession of Govern- ment, and proceedings, 85, 86 ; expedi- tion against Canada a failure, 87 ; con- troversy with Captain Ingoldsby, 88; his imprisonment, trial, conviction, and execution, S9 ; conviction reversed by Parliament and his heirs restored to their rights, 102.
Lexington, battle of, 166.
Liberties, charter of, passed by Colonial Assembly, 75; refusal to confirm, 80; repealed, 81.
Liberty poles erected by citizens cut down by soldiers, 152.
Lighthorse company of Kingston assigned to express duty, 283.
Livingston, Abraham, transmits contribu- tion of Charlestown for Kingston suffer- ers, 310.
Livingston, Robert R., appointed Chancel- lor, 263; gift of land to Kingston, 311, 322, 324 ; burning of his house, 313 ; re- ception at Kingston, 443.
Loan officers created, 117.
Lockwood, P. V. D., pioneer in bluestone, 414.
Locusts, visitations of, 200.
Looman, Hendrick Jansen, killed at Wilt- wyck massacre, 33.
Lot-owners in Wiltwyck, names of, 28, 29.
Lord Loudoun, Commander-in-chief of British army, 134; campaign against Cape Breton and Canada, 135; super- seded, 140.
Lovelace, Francis, Colonel, appointed Governor, 58 : he appointed commission to regulate affairs at Esopus, 58 ; names of the commissioners, 58; he discharged the garrison, leaving duty for burghers, 58 ; commissioners made ordinances and directed repair of the Dominie's or town house in Kingston, 50 ; Thomas Cham- bers appointed surveyor of highways, 59; changed name of Wiltwyck to Kingston, 59; Duke's laws extended over Ulster and statement of their pro- visions, 60 ; appointed commission to settle disputes between inhabitants of Kingston, 63; Isaac Greevenwart ap- pointed sheriff, 63; Foxhall Manor erected and copy of patent thereof to Thomas Chambers, 63; in absence of
Governor, New York was surrendered to the Dutch, 65.
Lovelace, John, appointed Governor, 105 ; very early death, 105.
Low, ancestral notes, 482.
Low, family traditions connected with burning of Kingston, 311, 312.
Low, Jacobus, censured by committee for sale of tea, arraigned, 165.
Lyman, General, at Fort Edward, 131.
Mamakating precinct, Tory plot disclosed, 250.
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Manhattan Island, purchase from Ind- ians, 4.
Mancius, Dominie, assistant to Dominie Vas, 211 ; ministers until death, 214.
Manners and customs, 202, 420.
Manning, Captain, surrenders New York to the Dutch, 65.
Manorial grants and accompanying evils, 100
Marbletown located and lots to be allotted to soldiers, 60 ; Christopher Beresford, Chief Magistrate, and Biggs and Hus- sey, overseers, 60.
Marius Groen, ancestral notes, 483.
Marius Groen, Peter, Speaker of Trustees, refuses to transfer corporation funds, in- dicted and tried therefor, 383; surro- gate, and held other offices, 451.
Market house built and allowances at dur- ing building, 197.
Martins, Hendrick, killed at massacre at Wiltwyck, 33.
Masonic Order, annual observance of, June 24th, 430.
Massacre at Wiltwyck and new village, 31.
Masten, ancestral notes, 484.
Meyer, Rev. Hermanus, settled as pastor at Kingston, 215; compelled to take oath of allegiance, 216 ; marriage, 216 ; involved in difficulties and driven from pulpit, 220 ; preachers in private houses until called elsewhere, 220.
Middagh, Jacob, 252 ; convicted of treason, 254; hanged, 255.
Militia organized, 30, 42.
Militia guarding frontiers, 1756. and list of officers, 135; do. 1757, 138; do. 1758. 142 ; do. 1759, 143 ; sent, 1757, troops for relief of Fort William Henry, list of officers, 137 ; list of officers in four Ulster County regiments in 1775, 170, 172, 173. 175. (See Appendix.)
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Militia force of State ordered out, 236. (As to local militia, see Ulster County.)
Militia, organization under State laws in 1820, 430 ; company and general parades, 431; uniformed company organized in Kingston, 433.
Mines and minerals reported, and letter in regard to it, 21.
Minuit, Peter, Governor, 4.
Monckton, General, appointed Governor, but soon left for Martinique, 146.
Montague, the English admiral, and the collier, story of, 152.
Montcalm, Marquis, commander of French forces in America, 134; death, 143.
Montgomerie, John. appointed Governor, in 1728, died, 1731, 112.
Montgomery, appointed to command New York regiments for Canada, 171 ; killed at his assault upon Quebec, 171.
Morris, Chief-Justice, removed by Govern- or Cosby, 113.
Morris, Gouverneur, on committee to pre- pare Constitution, 259; do. to report plan for State Government and Commit- tee of Safety, 263.
. Munroe, Colonel, his defence of Fort Wil- liam Henry, 135.
Munsell, Jabez, principal of Academy, 364.
Mutiny Act, Assembly refuse to obey, 150; next Assembly succumb, 155.
Mr. McMillan, principal of Academy, 347. Myer, Abraham, 440.
Nanfan, Lieutenant-Governor, succeeds to Government, 101.
Naval officers, English, arbitrary and in- sulting conduct, and how resented, 146, 152.
Needham, counsellor, commissioner on troubles at Kingston, 53.
Never sink, fabulous account of mines at, 21. Newkirk, ancestral notes, 484.
New Netherlands, surrender to English, 48; remarks on stealth of, 49 ; retaken by Dutch, 65 ; restored to English, 67.
New Paltz Patent, granted, and settlement, 69.
Newspapers, account of, 417.
New village, Hurley, settled, 31; burnt by Indians, 31.
New Year, observance of, 427.
New York City, Leisler in possession of fort, 35; slave insurrection in, 117 ; yel- low fever in, 118; citizens appoint Com-
mittee of Correspondence, 149 ; action of citizens, 157; appoint Executive Committee, 158; attack on for removal of cannon, 173.
Nicolls, Colonel, in nume of Duke of York demands surrender of province, 47 ; sur- . render made, 48; conciliatory conduct, 49; commissioned by Duke of York as his deputy, 50; proposes code of laws and submits to convention of deputies from Long Island, 50 ; he visits Kings- ton and puts Captain Brodhead in charge of military, 50; gives him special in- structions and advice, 51 ; offers induce- ments to settlers. 53 ; appoints commis- sion to settle difficulties at Kingston be- tween the burghers and military, 53; gives secret instructions in advance di- recting their judgment, 53; commutes the sentence of those convicted, 57; fears an attack from the Dutch, 58 ; re- lieved from command, 58.
Nicholson, Captain, appointed Lieutenant- Governor British possessions, 84; left in charge of New York, 84; surrendered keys and left New York, 85.
Nicholson, John, Provincial Congress, 167. Niessen, Ensign, arrived at Wiltwyck, 33 ; skirmish with Indians, 33.
Non-intercourse, partial, with Great Brit- ain, 149.
Nova Scotia reduced, 131. Nucilla, Rev., pastorate, 208.
Officers in militia, Ulster County : of regi- ment for Canada invasion, 170; of mili- tia on reorganization, 172 ; of Orange and Ulster militia for service in High- lands, 174 ; of minute-men and Southern regiment of Ulster and militia, 175 ; militia defending the frontiers, 1756, 135 ; with their commands sent to Fort Edward in 1757, 137 ; do., scouting frontiers, 1757, 138; do., 1758, 143 ; do., 1759, 143 ; officers of Fifth Battalion, Lewis Du Bois, Colonel, 243.
Olferts, Harry, negro killed at massacre of Wiltwyck, 33.
Oriskany, battle of, 286.
Osborne, Sir Danvers, arrival as Governor, and suicide, 126.
Osterhoudt, ancestral notes, 483.
Oswego, trading posts established, 111 ; abolished, 112 ; appropriation for, 117 ; forts at, demolished by French, 134. Owners of lots in Wiltwyck, 28.
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Parks, Arthur, delegate to Provincial Con- gress, 180.
Parliament, action as to Colonial troops, 130 ; imposing prohibitory duties, 147 ; passage of Stamp Act and resistance, 149 ; repeal it, but declare right to tax, 150 ; prohibit Assembly from acting un- til they comply with Mutiny Act, 150 ; power denied by Assembly, 150; im- pose duties on tea, etc, 151 ; repeal except as to threepence per pound on tea, 151.
Parties, political, origin and rise of, 308 ; violence, 400.
Parties, social tea, etc., 422.
Pawling, Albert, delegate to Assembly, 120.
Pawling, Henry, chief officer over Indians, 60 ; on commission establishing town boundaries, 62.
Pawling, levi, delegate to Provincial Con- vention, 166, 180 ; Senator, 275; first Judge, 263 ; Council of Safety, 200.
Peace, negotiations with Indians, 15, 16, 18; treaty of, 20, 46 ; concluded between English and French, 122; with Eng- land, 1783, 339 ; do., 1814, 402.
Peacock, Robert, appointed constable Eso- pus, 67.
Pells, ancestral notes, 485.
Pels, Evert, appointed Schepen, 27.
Pennsylvania refuses to contribute for de- fence against Indians, 120 ; its call after- ward for assistance refused, 124.
People refuse to pay taxes, etc., and de- mand representation, 71 ; oppose prohibi- tory duties, 147; oppose Stamp Act, 149, 150
Perry, G. B., principal of Academy, 363. Persen, ancestral notes, 435.
Petition for right to elect minor officers, 77; met by indictment for riot, 78 ; of Trustees for troops to defend frontier, 332.
Petrifactions, etc., 425.
Phillipse appointed second Judge by Colve, 113.
Pine Bush, Rochester, murder of families in, by Indians and Tories, 395.
Platt, Zephaniah, on commission to defeat conspiracies, 241 ; Committee of Safety, 263.
. Plebeian, Ulster, 417.
Ponckhockie, houses burned and man kill- ed by Indians, 6; breastworks, etc., at burning of Kingston, 297; remains of, 313.
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Porter, Captain, with Rangers to guard frontier, 139.
Postal facilities, 416 ; post-offices and routes, 417.
Preymaker, Indian chief, killed, 18.
Printing-press and publications restricted, 81.
Prisoners at Kingston ordered removal to New Jersey, 234; committee appointed to examine, 261 ; large arrival of from Albany, 267 ; troops ordered for their safe keeping, 267; removal to Connecti- cut, 290.
Proclamation declaring Clinton Governor to be printed and read at Court House, 26S.
Province, trade and prosperity crippled by English Government, 147.
Provincial Convention determined on, 166 ; protest against, 166 ; delegates from Ulster, 166; meet, 167; re-elect dele- gates to Continental Congress and also appoint five more, including George Clinton, 167 ; new Convention elected delegates from Ulster, 167; meet, 168; establish order and rank of New York regiments, 170 ; arrangement of Ulster regiments, 170; appoint Committee of Safety with power, 171 ; reorganize mili- tia, 172 ; Ulster delegates appointed, 174; appoint militia officers for Ulster County, 175 ; refusal of Abraham Has- brouck to serve, and action thereon, 175, 176 ; refer to people to select, 176 ; Con- gress to adopt form of government, 179 ; delegates at that time, 179 ; refer elec- tion of delegates to people, 180; dele- gates elected from Ulster, 180 ; approve Declaration of Independence, 180 ; and the action of delegates in Continental Congress, 180. (See Convention of New York.)
Purchasing from Indians regulated, 187 ; form of consent, 187.
Putnam, Major-General, assigned to com- mand forces in Highlands, 233.
Pypowder Court provided for fairs in Ulster County and Kingston, 91 ; descrip- tion and jurisdiction of, 92.
Quarries, bluestone and cement, opening of, 414.
Records, loss of, 183 ; public, ordered sent to Kingston, 241; removal ordered to Rochester, 291.
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Regiments, New York, officers and relative -
rank of, 170; Ulster County and field officers, 170, 172 ; officers of Colonel Snyder's regiment, 238.
Rensselaerwyck, troubles at, 5.
Report of committee as to reinforcing forts in the Highlands, 237 ; do., as to mili- tia remaining in Ulster and some other counties, 241.
Revenue laws expired, and effect, 71.
Rhinebeck, mutiny in troops at, and troops from Ulster sent to quell, 256.
Ritzemas', Colonel, Ulster County Regiment in battle, 242.
Roads, commission appointed to lay out, 104 ; mine road through Rondout Valley,
411 ; Trustees build road to Schoharie, 375 ; proceedings for road across Esopus flats, 404. (See also Turnpikes.)
Rocks, favorite resort at Kingston, 424.
Rock, Indian inscription on, at Esopus Landing, 496.
Roggen, ancestral notes, 485.
Rondout Creek, fort built at, 3 ; its rise and course to river, 182.
Roosa, ancestral notes, 485.
Roosa, Jacobus, Tory. expedition, 253 ; con- victed of treason, 234 ; hanged, 255.
Roose, Elbert Hymans, appointed Schepen, 27.
Ratsen, Jacob, Assembly, 96, 99, 102, 109, 110.
Ruggles, Charles H., 449.
Sacket, N., on committee to defeat con- spiracies, 241.
Salisbury, ancestral notes, 485.
Saxe family attacked by Indians, 139.
St. Nicholas day, 427.
Schenectady, massacre at, 87.
Schepmoes, ancestral notes, 487.
Schepens, first, for Wiltwyck, 27.
Schoharie, Colonel Pawling sent with de- tachment to protect, 284.
Schoonmaker, ancestral notes, 487.
Schoonmaker, Cornelius C., on committee of Shawangunk examination of Tory ex- pedition, 253 ; on committee for relief of refugees, 265 ; Assembly, 275 ; member of convention upon adoption of United States Constitution, 392 ; letters from convention, 393. 394 ; offices, 397.
Schoonmaker, Egbert, on Committee of Ob- servation, 164.
Schoonmaker, Hendrick, on Committee of Observation, 164.
Schoonmaker, Hendrick Jochem, married, 28; Lieutenant, 30, 34; wounded at Wiltwyck, attack on, 32; one of the War Council, 34; settles at Rochester, 28.
Scott, J. Morin, General, his brigade refuse to re-enlist, 243 ; on committee to prepare Constitution, 259 ; on committee to re- port plan for organization of government, 262; on Committee of Safety, 263; on Council of Safety, 200.
Schuyler, General, goes to England with Indian chiefs, 106 ; letter to, as to his condition at the North, 285, 295.
Settlers, character of early, 3, 181, 420 .; indignant at conduct of Kieft, 5 ; fear of .Indians, 6.
Senate House, 442.
Senators elected in middle district, 267.
Shawangunk, Precinct of, examination as to Tory expedition, 253.
Shirley, General, in command of English forces, 132 ; superseded, 133.
Skeel. R. R., his statement as to Kingston commerce, 413.
Slave insurrection in New York and ori- gin, 117.
Sleght, ancestral notes, 489.
Slecht, C. Barentsen, signed agreement to concentrate and build stockade, 8 ; his son, prisoner to Indians, made to run the gauntlet, 13 ; amount of grain sowed by bim, 21; appointed Schepen, 27; his wife Tryntje licensed as midwife, 28 : officer in militia, 30 ; trial and conviction of mutiny, 57 ; his daughter, taken pris- oner, and married an Indian, 42.
Slecht, Johannis, Chairman Committee of Observation, 164 ; report on tea troubles in Kingston, 247, 243 ; commissioner for relief of refugees, 265.
Sloops, travel by, 411, 412 ; commerce by, 413.
Sloughter appointed Governor, 88 ; arrival and execution of Leisler and Milbourne, 89 ; commission, 89 ; death, 93.
Smit, Ensign, in charge of garrison, 11 ; threatens to leave, 12; attacks on In- dians, 16; expedition against, 17.
Smith, William, counsel for Zenger, si- lenced by court, 114; prophecy in letter, 147, 149.
Smith, William, Jr., opinion on church difficulties, 219.
Smith, William, on committee to prepare Constitution, 259.
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Smoking, 424.
Snyder, Johannis, Colonel First Ulster County Regiment, 176; trouble in regi- ment as to including horsemen in draft, 232 ; to cominand levies reinforcing forts in Highlands, 237 ; letters to conven. tion, 238 ; names of his officers, 238; only one hundred of his brigade re-enlist, 243 ; in Assembly, 213 ; Committee of Safety, 200 ; homestead, 456.
Snyder, Captain Jeremiah and son Elias, chased by Indians, 329 ; taken prisoners by Indians and Tories, 329; taken to Canada, and their travels and final es- cape, 330, 331.
Social customs, 421.
Soil and description of country in Kingston and vicinity, 182.
Soldiers, lots allotted to them in Hurley and Marbletown, 60, 62.
Soldier, copy discharge of a Revolutionary soldier, 340.
Stages, early communication by, 415.
Stamp Act, 149 ; resistance to, 149 ; stamps destroyed, 150 ; act disregarded, 150 ; re- pealed, 150.
State officers, judicial, appointed, 263.
Steamboat, first passage of, on Hudson River, 414.
Stockade, plan and location, 9 ; ordered re- paired, 41.
Stocks in Court House yard, their use, 373.
Stoll, J. J., and company attack Indians when drunk and stupid, 12.
Storms, record of some severe, 200, 201, 389
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Stuyvesant, Governor, 3 ; conference with settlers and Indians at Esopus, 7, 10; gift from Indians, 10 ; leaves with rein- forcements to relieve Esopus, 13 ; con- cludes to declare war against Indians, 14 ; sends Indians to Curaçoa, 16 ; and reasons, 17; negotiations with Indians and peace concluded, 19, 26 ; refusal to appoint Swartwout scout, 24; repre- manded, 25 ; grants charter to Wiltwyck, 25; efforts to raise recruits, etc., for Esopus, 34 ; report to West India Compa- ny, 42 ; opposes surrender to English, 47; surrender, 48 ; negotiation in Eng- land with English, 58; returns to and settles at New York, 53.
Sudam, John, 453.
Sudam, Oke, on Committee of Observation, 164.
Sullivan, General, expedition against the Indians, 327.
Sunday quiet enforced, 203, 424.
Supervisors, two, allowed to Kingston, 198. Swanenburgh, name given to Kingston by the Dutch, 66 ; schout and other officers appointed, 66, 67.
Swartwout, ancestral notes, 489.
Swartwout, Philip, family murdered by Indians, 133.
Swartwont, Roeliff, his appointment as schout ordered, 23; refused, 24; ap- pointed, 27; when born, etc., 28 ; of- ficer in militia, 30 ; discharged as schout, 42 ; reinstated, 47.
Tappen, ancestral notes, 489. Tappen, Christoffel, 440.
Tappen, Christopher, delegate to Provincial Congress, 167, 180; on Committee of Safety, 263; saves public papers, 311, 440.
Tappen, Christopher, Jr., 447.
Tappen, John, 416, 418, 419.
Tax levy, Governor Dongan's, 83 ; tax ordered, 120.
Tea, tax imposed on, 151 ; use abandoned, 151 ; cargo prevented landing, 151 ; some destroyed, 151; troubles in relation to, in Kingston, and its history, 246.
Ten Broeck, ancestral notes, 489.
Ten Broeck. Petrus, house burnt by British, 299, 300.
Ten Broeck, Wessel, appointed schepen for Swanenburgh, 66.
Ten Eyck, ancestral notes, 490.
Ten Eyck, President Trustees of Hurley, address to General Washington, 335.
Tesschenmaeker, Rev., supplies pulpit in church, 208.
Thyeson, Sergeant, attacked by Indians, 33.
Tompkins, Jonathan G., Committee of Safety, 263.
Tories, 229, 250, 251. 252 ; tried and con- victed, 254 ; two hanged, 255.
Tories concealed at Woodstock, 255.
Tories, convention order disposal of their property, 260; their disguises and cruelty, 325.
Townsend, Samuel, on committee to report Constitution, 259.
Treadwell, Thomas, on Committee of Safety, 263.
Treason defined by resolution, 230.
Troops to be raised to guard prison ships
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and also for Committee of Safety, and officers designated, 257.
Troops withdrawn from Wiltwyck, 42. Trustees of Academy receive deed for Academy and certificate of incorpora- tion, 349, 350 ; organize and adopt rules for government, 351; John Addison, se- nior Trustee, 351; found a library and adopt rules for its care and use, 355 ; committee appointed to inquire into state of funds, 356 ; question of power of principal decided, 356; special meeting as to funds, 356 ; death of Mr. Addison, and Rev. Mr. Doll becomes senior Trus- tee, 356 ; address to Regents, 358; do- nation from Regents, 359 ; application to found a college, and answer, 360; receive conveyance of land from corpora- tion Trustees, 361 ; proceedings initiated in regard to building new Academy, but abandoned, 361, 363 ; Rev. Mr. Gosman appointed President, 364; sessions of school required to be opened with prayer and reading a chapter in Bible, and also requiring regular attendance at church, 363; committee appointed to examine into education of students and report, 364 ; English pupils of both sexes admit- ted, 364 ; resolve not to fill vacancies in Board, 365 ; classical department closed temporarily, 365 ; mem. of English schools therein, 366; first privilege to young lady pupils, 366; subsequently others admitted, 367 ; its final transfer to Board of Education, 367.
Trustees of the Freeholders and Common- alty of the town of Kingston, patent granted, 82 ; organization, 83 ; arrange accommodations for military and provide scouts to patrol the woods, 139, 140 ; pro- cure a fire-engine, 200, 139 ; ordinance as to slaves, 140 ; build a block-house on the frontiers, 141, 143 ; their power and gov- ernment, 183 ; loss of their minute-book and records, 184, 185 ; list of first Trus- tees, 184; result of first election, 184; three of their early ordinances, 185; copy of record of a trial in the town courts, 185 ; distribution of land by, 188 ; minutes of, 189 ; mode of . adopting or- ders, 189; Resolution to prevent waste on common lands, 190 ; order as to stran- gers coming in, 190 ; reduce rate of in- terest, 190; prohibit smoking in streets at night, 190, 191; also fast riding in the streets, 191; public whipper to be
appointed, 191; suits brought against them to settle boundaries and for quit rents and their character, 192; suits in regard to Northern boundary, 193; bow the memory of a witness was strength- ened, 194; build a market house, 197 ; take counsel in regard to local courts, their jurisdiction being questioned, and attempt to procure explanatory charter, 198, 199; lay out additional building lots and colored burying-ground in vil- lage, 199; build a dock at landing, 190 ; gave Delameter privilege to build a mill, 199 ; contributed toward purchase of church-bell, 212 ; conveyance of land to church, 212; after burning of Kings- ton met at Van Steenbergh's, 322; ordered lead to be run into bullets, 322 ; letter received from R. R. Livingston offering land for suffering inhabitants, 322 ; lands thus given located and allotted, 323, 324, 325 ; deposited £1200 in Continent- al loan office, 324 ; apply to Legislature for troops to defend frontier, 332 ; employ scouts, 333 ; ordered field-pieces and can- non put in order, 334 ; order timber for fortifications, 334; establish a clas- sical school or academy, 342, 344; pro- ceedings to establish a University, 346 ; letter to Dr. Witherspoon to procure a principal for Academy, 348 ; notice of its reopening, 349 ; procure incorporation of Academy and convey Academy to its Trustees, 349, 350 ; Trustees organize a fire company, 376; Trustees lay the plains out into lots, sale and forfeiture of most of them for non-compliance with terms, 368 ; proceedings to procure loca- tion of Congress, 369 ; Trustees' claims and acts as to fisheries, 373 ; exploration and appropriation for road to Schoharie Kill, 375; contribute to buy land for church, 375 ; charge of poor, 376; con- vey lot to Academy, 377 ; proceedings for and final distribution of common lands, 378, 380; finances, 378; convey lots to Academy, 380, 381 ; sale of ferry, 381 ; new board elected distribute funds to churches, 381, 382 ; appropriation for funerals, 381 ; Trustees indicted for re- fusal to surrender trust, trial and final dissolution, 387 ; remarks thereon, 389 ; appropriation of money by to build bridge, 404, 405.
Tryon, Governor, address to inhabitants of New York, 177.
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Turnpikes, Ulster and Delaware, 405 ; fail- ure, and its causes, 406.
Turnpike, Neversink, its struggles, etc., 408; law for relief, change of name, and failure, 410.
Twaalfskill in 1811, 413, 414 ; sloops and commerce of, 1825, 413; description of in 1820, 468.
Ulster County created and boundaries defined, 76; drafts made on her for troops and peas for Albany, 88; act to defray expenses for building Court House, 112 ; fear of French and Indians, 120 ; troops sent for defence of Fort Ed- ward, list of officers, 131 ; men guarding frontiers, 133 : troops from to reinforce Fort William Henry, and letter as to, 137 ; officers scouting on frontier, 138, 142 ; quota of Ulster for invasion of French possessions, 142; troops occupy- ing block- houses in, 142 ; elect delegates to Provincial Congress, 166, 167 ; officers of Ulster County regiment for Canada, 170; were in the Canadian campaign, and their arms and uniform, 171; reor- ganization of militia and officers of Ulster and Orange Counties, 172 ; elect delegates to Provincial Congress, 174 ; three com- panies enlisted under Continental call, 176 ; return of officers of first regiment of foot, 176; census in 1703, 196 ; militia ordered out for Highlands, 231 ; ordered, with adjoining counties, to have militia ready at a moment's notice, 236 ; rangers ordered for threatened raid on borders, 240 : militia ordered to Peekskill, 242; furnished three companies for war, 243 ; officers of Fifth Brigade, 243; Tory troubles, and jails filled, 249; militia ordered to Highlands, and officers as- signed, 282 ; detachment ordered to Schoharie, 294 ; infested with Tories and Indians, their cruelty, 335.
Van Buren, ancestral notes, 490.
Van Cortlandt, General P., on Committee of Safety, 263 ; President of Council of Safety, 269 ; President of State Senate and of Joint Convention, 289 ; letter, 296.
Van Cowenhoven, Schepen, and on War Council, 34 ; arrives with reinforcements, 34.
Van Dam, Rip, succeeds to Governorship,
112; controversy with Cosby, 113; claims office of Governor, 116.
Vandemark, ancestral notes, 491.
Vander Bosch, Rev., his pastorate and dis- solution, 208.
Vanderlyn, ancestral notes, 491.
Vanderlyn, John, the artist, 458 ; paint- ings, 461.
Vanderlyn, Nicholas, Captain of Fire En- gine Company, 376, 283.
Van Etten, ancestral notes, 491.
Van Gaasbeek, ancestral notes, 492.
Van Gaasbeek, Laurentius, pastor, and deatlı, 208.
Van Hart, Peter, killed in massacre at. Wiltwyck, 33.
Van Imbroeck, Gysbert, Assembly, 44.
Van Imbroeck, Madam, escaped from Ind- ians, 35.
Van Keuren, ancestral notes, 493.
Van Keuren, Abraham, agency in church troubles, 216.
Van Ryen, Justice, commissioner in trou- bles at Kingston, 53.
Van Steenbergh, ancestral notes, 403.
Van Steenbergh house escaped conflagra- tion, 304.
Van Twiller, Governor, 4.
Van Wagonen, ancestral notes, 493.
Vanzyll. Abram, Ferd., captain in Dutch fleet, 66.
Vas, Petrus, his pastorate, 209 ; death, 211. Vaughan, General, expedition up Hudson, 294; burning Kingston, 298; his false- hood, 298 ; report, 299 ; sails down the river, 318.
Vernooy, ancestral notes, 493.
Vredenbergh, ancestral notes, 494.
Wallace, James, report as to burning of Kingston, 299.
Walloons settling on Long Island, etc., 4. Wampum belt, 46.
War between England and Holland, 57. War between England and France, 134.
War with Indians, 5, 12, 33 ; expeditions against, 35, 37.
War of the Revolution, invasion of Canada, 169 ; battle of Long Island, 235 ; cam- paign of 1776, 228; British plan, 228; summary of, 229; trouble from Tories, 229; New York City evacuated, Fort Washington taken, 242; campaign of 1777, 277; battle of Oriskany, 286; bat- tle of Bennington, 286; retreat of St. Leger, 286; surrender of Burgoyne,
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286 ; capture of forts in Highlands, 287 ; expedition up river, and burning of Kingston, 297 ; campaign of 1778, Sulli- van's expedition against Indians, 327.
Warden, David, principal of Academy, 356.
Waring, Samuel, a Tory plot, 250.
Warrant issued by Committee on Conspir- acies, 256.
War with England, 1812 ; troops ordered from Ulster County, 400 ; injurious ef- fects, 402 ; peace proclaimed, 402.
Washington, General, letter in regard to Tories, 230 ; address to army, 231 ; nom- inates General George Clinton to com- mand forts in Highlands, 232 ; arrange- ments for defence of New York and Long Island, 232 ; assigns Generals Put- nam and Heath to command forces in Highlands, 233 ; at battle of Long Isl- and, 235 ; calls out whole force of the State and reply of Committee of Safety, 236 ; his embarrassment, 242 ; letter to Governor Clinton, 279 ; passage through Ulster, spends night at Marbletown, and reception at Hurley and Kingston, 335, 339.
Webb, General, operation at Fort Edward, 135.
Webster, Alexander, on Council of Safety, 290.
Weekstein, Rev., pastorate, and death, 208.
Westbrook, ancestral notes, 494.
Westbrook, General Frederick, 401.
West India Company, Government, etc., 3. Whipping a remedy for strengthening a short memory, 194.
Whipping-post and its use, 373 ; whipper appointed, 373 ; stood in Court House yard, 3:3.
Whiting, William B., on Council of Safe- ty, 290.
Whitsuntide, 427.
Wietsen, Christian, sent to attack Indians back of Magdalen Island, 34.
Wiesner, Henry, Sr., Provincial Congress, 180 ; on committee to prepare Constitu- tion, 259.
Wiesner, Henry, Jr., Assembly, 275.
Wiltwyck, stockade, 9; created into a village, 25 ; charter, 25; by-laws, 27; court organized, 27; owners of lots in. 28, 29; militia company organized, 30 ; massacre at, 21 ; list of killed, wounded, and prisoners, and houses burned, 33. 34 ; martial law proclaimed and council of war held, 34; additional soldiers sent, 34; expeditions sent out, 38, 40; cap- tives returned, 42 ; troops withdrawn, 43 ; delegates elected to Assembly, 44 ; surrender to English, 48 ; name changed to Kingston, 59 ; order to remove stock- ade, 62. (See Kingston.)
Woodhull, General, President of New York Convention, wounded at battle of Long Island, and death, 235.
Wolfe, General, capture of Louisburg, 141: death at Quebec, 143.
Wolverton, Peter, sent to attack Indians back of Magdalen Island, 34 ; brought in two children exchanged, 42.
Worms and caterpillars, great destruction by, 200.
Wynkoop, ancestral notes, 494.
Wynkoop, Andrew, Major. to command de- tachment at Peekskill, 242.
Wynkoop, Cornelius, appointed schepen for Swanenburgh, 66.
Wynkoop, Cornelius D., Lieutenant-Col- onel Third Ulster Co. Regiment, Cana- da, 170 ; entertains Washington, 335.
Yankee Doodle, origin of, 130.
Yates, Abraham, on committee to prepare Constitution, 259; Council of Safety, 290.
Yates, Abraham, Jr., on Committee of Safe- ty, 263.
Yates, Robert, appointed judge, 263; on committee to prepare Constitution, 259. York, Duke of, patent from King, 50; commissions Nicolls as deputy. 50 ; let- ter to Governor Dongan, 79; ascends the throne, 79 ; as King gives different or- ders, 80.
Zenger, Editor, attacks on the Govern- ment, 113, 114 ; arrest, imprisonment, .prosecution, and acquittal, 115. .
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