Lord President, 156,165; recommends his nephew to be employed in bringing settlers from Ireland to N. York, 157 proceedings of, on learning the French movements against the Senecas, ib.; proposes erecting forts on Lake Champlain, Hungry Bay, the Mohawk river and Niagara, 158 demands a surrender of English taken prisoners by the French, 165; obtains a conveyance of the Upper Susquehannah river, 264. Duke's county, places composing, 201. Duperon, Father Frs., proceeds to Onondaga, 35. Dupuis, M., commander of a French Colony at Onon;

;

daga, 36, 38. M. du Lhut arrives at, 138. Dieskau Baron, appointed commander of the expedi- D'Urfe, Abbe, 283.

Detroit, garrison at, 136;

tion against Oswego, 307.

Dionondade, 155. Discovery of the Onondaga Salt Springs, 34.

Dogs draw the sleds of the French tion against the Mohawks, .50.

Dutch, the, supply the French army at Schenectady with provisions, 50; supposed to be friendly to

William III., 182.

Dutchess county forms part of Ulster, 201; names of the militia officers of, in 1700, 233; names and Dollier, Rev. M., 65, 66, 73, 283. number of the inhabitants of, in 1714, 240 populaDongan, Gov., letters of, to M. de la Barre, 6S, 69, tion of, in 1723, 471 in 1731, ib.; inl737,472; in forbids the Iroquois treating with the French 1746,ib.; inl749,473; inl756,473; in 1771,474. without his permission, 76 promises the In- Duties on imports and exports in 1678, 61 tariff of, dians a reinforcement, 76; sends an emissary to the in 1686, 103. in

their expedi-