Plan of La Presentation, 281 of Oswego, 292, 312, 315. Poor, provision for the maintenance of the, 62, 117. Population of the Province of N. York, in 1678, 61 statistics of, from 1647 to 1774, 467, in 1687, 96 ;

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Powder, price of, in 1696, 215. Prerogative court, in 1693, officers and functions of the, 202. Presbyterians, 62, 116. Presentation la, the Abbe" Picquet establishes the mission of, on the Oswegatchie river, 277, 282

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distance of, from Montreal, Kingston and Oswego, post of, fortified, 27S, 282 ; attacked and latitude and longitude of, 281 ; advanburnt, ib. tages of a post at, 282 ; number of Indians at, ib. the Bishop of Quebec visits, 283; names of maps in which mention is made of, 2S6. Pretty, Mr., sheriff of Albany, 112. Printer, allowance in 1693, to the public, 200. ;

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Q. Quakers, 62, 116. Quarter Sessions, in 1693, powers of the, 202. Queens county, names of the sheriff, clerk and justistrength of the militia of, 1693, iiOl names of the militia officers of in 1700, 230

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