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.

Newspapers, early N. York, 327, 385.

Newton, Rey. Christopher, 614.

Newtown, L. I., Rev. Andrew Bay, minister of, 383.

New Utrecht, assessment roll of, in 1675, 158; population of, in 1738, 186; names of the inhabitants of, in 1738, 194.

New Vermount, the state of, 942. Vermont.)

New year's day, ordinance prohibiting firing guns on, 97.

New York city, formerly New Amsterdam, 131; latitude and longitude of, 176; fortifications of, 180; mayor and recorder of, appointed by the governor, 181; census of, in 1738, 186; names of the officers and soldiers in 1738, of the companies in, 211, ef seq.; public libraries destroyed by the British in, 1060; James Duane appointed mayor of, 1078; names of the clergy of, in 1796, 1084.

college, order of the governor's of

the, for the settlement of their township,

767.

(see

, the province of, in 1738, 163; queries relating to, 165; census of, ordered to be taken, 166; Cadwallader Colden's observations on the climate, soil, water communications, &c., of, 169; situ-