Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. II

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*

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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-

• mends Major Gorham as Indian agent in Acadie, under Sir Wm. Johnson, 341; and removes the com'y at Michilimakinac, 865; offers the Governors of Virginia and Pennsylvania his co-operation against the frontier people, 888; gives intelligence of Indian excesses in the west, 81*0.

Gansevoort, Harme, and other citizens of Albany, make arrangements for the quartering of Milborne's soldiers, 132.

Gates, General Hor., certificate of, legarding Rumsey's steamboat, 1021

Gazette, the Bath, established, 1136; the Ontario, circulation of, in 1799, 1152.

Genesee country in 1791, an account of the, 1111; first Quaker settlement in the, 1107, 1115, 1132; population of the, at various periods, 1113, 1121, 1139, 1182; Col. Williamson's letters on the, 1127; boundaries of the, 1129; date of the first settlement of the, 1130; a road opened from Pennsylvania to the, 1133; scarcity of provisions in the, 1134; the, compared to Yorkshire in England, 1154; routes to the, 1155, 1165; a Scotch settlement in the, 1156; water communications from the, 1159; road to Niagara from, 1165; Robert Munro's description of the, 1169; latitude and longitude of the, 1171; meaning of the word, 1172; physical appearance of the, ib; lumber in the, 1173; fruit of the, 1174.