petitions of .John Fitch and Henry Voight to tlie Pennsylvania House of, 1082; letter of Jolin Fitch to tlie speaker of the New-York, 1084; report on John Fitch's peiilion to the Pennsylvania, 1086; petitionsof Jn. Fitch to the New-York, 1U87, 1093; ])etitions of James Runisey to the New-York,]088, 1091, 1095; report on the petition of James Rumsey and John Fitch to the New-York, 1092; votes regarding the petitions of Jas. Rumsey and John Fitch in the Virginia, 1097 ; petition of John Stevens Jun. to theNew-Y'Tk, 1102.

Assessors, order for the election of, 320.

Attainder of Jacob Leisler and others an act reversing the, 435.

Aurora village, 1188.

B.

Bane, Colonel, dismissed by the king for having insisted, in a speech, on further allowance for American scddiers, 807.

Barbadoes, Leisler's letters to 40, 46, 243.

Barley, price of, in 1799, in western New-York, 1148.

Bartles, Mr. Frederick, commences settlements near Mud Lake, 1135; quantity oftimber exported by, 1159.

Batavia, description of, in 1804, 1183.

Bath, first settlement of the town of, 1134; shiretown of Steuben County, 1135; population of, in 1796, ib; first newspaper at, 1136; weekly market at, 1141; further improvements in, 1146; Gazette^ circulation of, in 1799, 1152; number of deer killed annually in former times in the neighborhood of, 1155; description of, in 1804, 1183.

Battle of Lake George, official account of the, 691; officers killed at the, 693; map showing the locality of the, 696; list of certain companies that served at the, ib.

Baxter, Captain, a Papist, 32, 426.