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.

Forts building in the country of the Six Nations, 726.

Fowl, wild, the several sorts of, in western New-\ork, 1112.

Franklin, Benj., petition of, to the king, 770 ; report of the Board of Trade on the petition of 772; and others, propose to erect a new province in western Virginia, 998; approved by the crown, 1001 ; member of the Riimseian Soc. of Philadelphia, 1038.

Friends' settlement on Seneca Lake, 1107, 1115, 1132.

French, privateers fitted out in New- York against the, 250, 275 ; a ship belonging to the, captured at the mouth of theCanada river, 272; enumeration of the encroachments in America by the, 607; intrigues of the, in the western country, 833.

Fruit trees in western New-York, 1112, 1174*

G.

Gage, General, news from the western country sent to, 811, 833; his views of the course of Indian trade and the irreg-, proc. of Indian traders, 83(5; method recommended by, to prevent the trade between N. Orleans and the western country, 840 ; recom-