Blair killed in the vicinity county of, 201; in 1702, 239; population of, in 1698,' 467; in 1703 and '12, 469; in 1723, 471; of, ib.; names of the killed and missing at the fight near, ib.; early naval operations before, 310; Col. in 1731, ib.; in 1737, 472; in 1746, ib.; in 1749, Bradstreet defeats a French force above, 312; de473; in 1756, ib.; in 1771, 474. scription of in 1756, 315; journal of the seige of, Oswegatchie River, the Abbe Picquet forms an estabib., et seq.; articles of capitulation of, 319 lishment on the, 278; different names for the, 286. return of stores captured at, 320; further particulars of Oswego, description by Abbe Picquet of the fort at, the capture of, 321, et seq.; names of the mechanics 2S4: condition of, in 1725, 290; the French enand sailors taken prisoners at, 326; description of deavor to persuade the Indians not to permit the the country between Albany and, 338; distance English to settle at, ib.; a stone wall built around from Albany to, 341. fort, 291; distance from Schenectady to, ib.; M. de Beauharnois protests against the English erecting Ottawas, confederacy of the, number of the, 25; first visit of the English to the, 100. a fort at, 292; summoned by a French officer, 294; Terminer, court of, erected, 95. formalities observed on that occasion, ib.* visited Oyer by M. de Chauvignerie, 304; garrison at, in 727, Ovsterbay, officers of militia, in 1700, belonging to, '231. 291; in 1742, 301; the Indian traders, in a panic,