Senecas, numerical strength of the, 16, 21, 44, 66, sue for peace from the French, 47 ; unite with the Cayugas in plundering French canoes, ib., 70, 74 account of M. de la Barre's operations against the, 81 hide their grain and prepare for war, 85 the Duke of York's arms erected in the country of the, and torn down, 87 ; description of the forts of the, 90; surrender their country to the English, 100; an account of M. de Denonville's attack on the, 146; number of the killed and wounded, 147; quantity of grain possessed by the, ib.; verification of the French possession of the country of the, 149; M. de la Salle's fort burnt by the, 150 ; account of the French attack on the, 151, et seq. in 1678, 60 Sessions, County, in 1668, 59 in 1687, 95. Shaw, Wm., Surveyor of Customs in Albany, 112 ; Sheriff, by whom appointed, 95 ; in 1693, of NewYork, Albany, Westchester, 200; of Richmond, ;

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Saratoga, some of the Five Nations established at, 99 settlement at destroyed, 280. Schenectady, M. de Courcelles arrives with his army at, 50 accounts of the burning of, 186, et seq.; description of, in 1756, 341. Schuyler, Peter, 155, 218; Abram, 289. Scious, French canoes plundered on their way to trade with the, 70. Seabrook, Sir E. Andros resisted bv the garrison of, ;

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in 1731, 471.

number of, trading to the Province in 1678, 61; in 1686, 102. Slaves, in 1678, prices of, 61; number of, imported 117. into New-York, from 1701 to 1726, 482. Seigniories, French, on Lake Champlain, instruc- Snow shoes, the French march from the St. Lawtions to the government of New-York not to make rence to the Mohawk on, 46, 50. any grants within the, 348, 354, 356; order of the Southampton, names of the officers of militia of, in king in council relative to the, 355; council of 1700, 229 of the inhabitants of, in 1698, 437.