Netherland of, 23; defeat the Esopus Indians and release their christian captives, 73; (see Esopus Indians.), surrender N. Netherland, 131.

----,-- Provinces, motto of the United, 7.

towns on Long Island, assessment rolls of the five, 139.

Dutchess co., census of, in 1738, 184; names of the freeholders of, in 1740, 205.

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Eastabrook, Rev. Hobart, 319.

Ebel, Serg't Pieter, serves at Esopus, 45; sent out scouting, 47.

Hden, Sir Rob't, the last royal governor of Maryland, biographical memoir of, 477.

» Wm. (see Auckland, Lord.)

Hells, Rev. Nathaniel, 319.

Hight men, the, elected at New Amsterdam, 18.

Elections, triennial, in the Prov. of N. Y., reasons in support of, 243; septennial, in the Prov. of N. Y., when, 256.

Elk, habits of the, 120.

Emigrants, proper season when they should sail to N. N., 30; rules to be observed by, in preparing wild land, 31.

English, the, settle in N. Netherland, 5; bouweries, number of in N. Netherland, 6; furnish guns to the Indians, 7; of N. Netherland enlisted by the Dutch against the Indians, 13; prefer holding lands

under the Dutch, 22; reduce N. Netherland, 131. ,

Episcopal churches in America, Case of the, considered, 515.

Esopus, journal of the second war at, the, 37; particulars of the massacre of the settlers at the, 39; settlers at the, refuse to supply wagons to the military at that post, 52; settlers forbidden to remove from the, 58; regulation for the sale of strong drink at the, 61; the settlers of, warned not to labor in the fields without a guard, 63; the harvest at, much injured by the August storm, 66; journal of Capt. | Kregier's voyage from the Manhatans to the, 96; ordinance prohibiting firing of guns on new year's day at the, 97; Capt. Kvegier finally sails from the, 98.