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-

"ation of, 171; timber of; extent of settlements in, the highest part of, 172; the great inland lakes of, 173; mineralg and soil of, 174; climate of, 175; boundaries of, 177; expenses of the government of, 180; length of the sessions of the legislature of, previous to 1728, 244; papers illustrating the controversy respecting Vermont between New Hampshire and, 529; bounded east by the Connecticut river, 535; report of the attorney-general on the eastern boundary of, 537; surveyor-general's observations thereupon, 546; extract of a letter from Gov. Wentworth furnished by order of the board of trade to the agent of, 548; report of the council of, on the east bounds of, 550; proclamation declaring the Connectieut river to be the east bounds of, 558; order of the king in council fixing the boundary between New Hampshire and, 574; petition for the erection of several counties west of Connecticut river and in the northern part of the province of, 578; report of the council thereupon, 583; the