Ulster county, list of the inhabitants of, in 1689, 171 names of the civil officers of, in 1693, 201 Dutchess annexed to, ib.; strength of the militia of, 203; names of the officers of militia of, in 1700, 233 ;

Vaillant, Rev. Father, 155.

Van Cortlant, Mr., on the burning of Schenectady, 194.

Vaudreuil, M. de, expedition of, against the Oneidas, 213; informs the minister of the English movements at Oswego, 305 describes a naval fight on

Vessels captured at Oswego, return of the, 320. Viele, Arnaud Cornelis, sent by Col. Dongan to plant the Duke of York's arms in the several Iroquois villages, 76 ; meets with opposition at Onondaga,

supposed to be an emissary from the Albany ; merchants, 91.

;

Lake Ontario,

Virginia, the Iroquois name for, 264.

311.

w. Washington, Col., 272. Westchester county, officers of, in 1693, 200; strength names of the militia officers of the militia of, 203 population of, in 1698, 467 in of, in 1700, 233 1703 and '12, 469; in 1723, 471; in 1731, ib.; in 1737,472; in 1746, ib.; in 1749,473; in 1756, ;

;

ib.;

;

Western

New-York,

first

English settlement

in,

289.

Wheat, price of, in 1696, 215. Williams fort, location of, 329; abandoned, 338. Wolf, Indian name of the tribe of the, 11. Wyoming, Indian name for, 271.

in 1771, 474.

Y. York, Duke of, applied to by the French ambassador to prevent his governor supplying the Indians with

arms, 72 villages,

the arms of the, erected in the Iroquois 76 ; torn down by a drunken Indian, 87.