western frontier, 303. Climate of the Iroquois country, 44. Colden, Cadwallader, report of, on the public lands, 247; prejudicial to, 255; Board of Plantations, instruction to, relative to lands on Lake Champlain, 347; on the trade of New-York in 1723, 487. Collins, Mr., Collector at Westchester, 105. Colve, Gov., charter of, to the city of N. Orange, 392; to the towns on Long Island, 426. Commission of the board for the management of Indian affairs, 2 IS.

Common Pleas, officers of the courts of, 200. Confederacy, numerical force of the Iroquois, 24; of the Ottawa, 25. Connecticut, defeat of Sir E. Andros' attempt to reduce, 117; Gov. Dongan recommends the annexation of, to N. Y., 97, 117, 157, 159;

population

of,

in 1686, 101.

Conscience, liberty of, in New- York in 1668, 59. Copper, sample of, from Lake Superior, 148. Corlar, through respect for a Dutchman the Indians call the Governors of New-York, 100. Cornbury, Lord, on the trade and manufactures of the Province of New-York, 485. Corn forbid to be exported from certain places, 163. Cosby, Gov., his character of the people of NewYork, 722. Cosson, Rev. Mr., 49. Cotton imported, 4SS. Council, names of the members of H. M.'s, in 1687, IIS; extracts from the minutes of, 150, 154, 162, officers of the, et seq; members of, in 1693, 199 200; minute of the Quebec, 372. Council of New- York, names of the members of the, under Dongan, 118; members of, under Fletcher, 199; officers of the, 200; proceedings of the, on ;