Putney, an account of a riot in the town of, 758, 759.

Q.

Quebeck, latitude and longitude of, 176; description of, in 1738, 240.

Queens county, census of, in 1738, 187; names of the officers and soldiers of the militia of, 209.

Quince trees killed by the frost in New York, 175. ;

R:

Religion, the Calvinist, only publicly exer-

Rafeix, Rev. Piérre, 292.

Ragueneau, Rey. Paul, 291.

Rand, Jno., schoolmaster at Rye, 408.

Raritans, some of the, attacked, 11; location of the, 29; mentioned, 102.

Rattlesnake, a man hit by a, at Red Hook, 48; description of the, 123.

Receiver-general of the province of New York, how appointed, 181.

Red Hook, Dutchess county, the Esopus Indians retire to, 46; are attacked and

. defeated at, 47; a man bit by a rattlesnake at, 48.

Reders, reservations in thei townships west of Connecticut river for members of the New Hampshire council, called, 603. :

Reed, Capt. James, report of his scout t Wood creek, 271.

farts Col., settlement of, destroyed, $42,

Quitrents, an innovation upon the rights of

mankind, for whose use lands were originally given by Providence, 938; rate fixed for the commutation of the, due to the state of New York, 945.

cised in New Netherland ; all others, however, tolerated, 22. >

Remonstrance 'against erecting five new

counties in the northern part of the prorince of New York, and praying for the erection of the county of Colden\on the west side of Connecticut river, 580.

Renselaerwyck, colonie of, 5, 6: colonists