Election of the Mayor and common council of New-York, by the freemen, 35; of the mayor and aldermen of Albany ordered, 52; of representatives, order for the, 73.

Emmett ordered to be arrested,

74. Erie, Lake, description and trade of,

1179. Exports of western New-York in 1799,

1149.

False weights, the traders in the Indian country make use of, 834.

Fasting and prayer, a day of public, ordered in Albany, 133.

Fines and forfeitures imposed on some of Leisler's party, 304.

First visit of the Dutch to the Hudson river, an Indian account of the, 598.

Fishes, the, in tlie Genesee country, 1112.

Fitch, John, the original steamboat supported by, 1039 ; certificates in favor of the claim of, to the invention of the steamboat, 1059; dimensions of the machinery of the steamboat of, 1024; length of the steam, boat of, 1079; letter to the speaker of the Assembly of New- York from, 1084 ; petitions of, to the several assemblies, 1082, 1087, 1093.

Flatbush, a court martial ordered to sit at, 310; rate lists of the town of, 470, 504.

Flatlands, rate lists of the town of, 488, 495.

Fletcher, Gov., petition of Thomas Statham to, 412; of the meml)ers of I^eisler's council to, 413 ; of Peter Delanoy to, 417.

Flushing, rate lists of the town of, 459, 516.

Flying stores in western New-York, 1119.

Fort James seized by Leisler, 3, 5 ; condition of, 16,24; turrets of, fired 17.

Fort Schuyler, 1105,

Fortifications, antient, in western N. York, 1177.