Young encourages the people of the, to form a state constitution, 934; the recommendation of congress to form state constitutions sent to the, 936; report to the N. Y. Prov. Cong. on the eastern part of the, 937; the inhabitants of, meet in convention and declare their independence, 942; the independent government attempted to be established by the people of, discountenanced by the continental congress, 945; proposals tendered by N. Y., for the settlement of the difficulties in the, 951; petition of the proprietors of the, to the king, 1027. New Hampshire, the province of, description

of the bounds of, 532; the authorities of. lay out Jands near Crown Pt., 557; order of

the king in council fixing the boundary hetween New York and, 574; the governor of, authorizes an exploration of the head waters of the Connecticut river, 721; the council of, advises Gov. Wentworth not to take any notice of Gov. Tryon's proclamation, 756. ; ,

New Johnstown, 517.

New Netherland, journal of, 1; early Dutch tracts on, 2; why so called, 3; situation, climate, appearance and rivers of, ib. ; trees' and animals and fishes of, 4; by whom peopled, 5; forts and saw mills erected in, settlers sent to, ib.; first settlers in, 6; the cause of the war in, ib.; proposed to be mortgaged to N. England, 13; description of, by Father Isaac Jogues, 19; situation of, in 1644, 21;

variety of sects in, 22; conditions of land granting in, ib.; date of the first arrival of the Dutch at, 23; climate of, ib.; Seec'y Van Tienhoven's information respecting the wild lands in, 25; proper season when emigrants should sail to, 30; rules observed in the construction of houses and villages in, 31; mode of fattening hogs in, 32; cattle necessary for farmers in, ib.; classes of persons best adapted for emigration to, 34; mode adopted in the granting of land in, 35; Montanus' description of, 113; boundaries of, 115; the first emigrants to, 131, 132. (see New Yori.) first church erected in, 1059.