David Griffith elected bishop of, 440; legal provision for the clergy of, 495; mode of presentation to the churches of, 496.

Vriesland, Goy. Stuyvesent originally from, 107. 4

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Waldenses sent to New Netherland, 131.

Wallkill, names of the officers and soldiers of the militia of, in 1738, 252.

Wallumschack patent, James Breakenridge and others ordered to be arrested for obstructing the division of the, 615, 661; affidavit of Breakenridge and Robinson explaining their conduct on this occasion, 617; further riot and opposition to the civil authority at, 724, 732, ef seq.

Wampum, 28, 128; belts of, used as records of public transactions by the Indians, 434.

Wappenas, the, 102. }

Wappingers, the, plunder a boat coming from Fort Orange, 12; some of the, killed in an attack on the Westchester Indians, 17; aid the Esepus Indians, 46; co-operate with the Esopus Indians, 63; a sachem of the, visits Wildwyck, 90; and promises to procure the release of the christians in the hands of the Esopus Indians, 95.

Warner, Seth, order of council to arrest, 729; mentioned, 848, 860; appointed Lt. Col. of the Green Mountain boys, by the New York provincial congress, 920; attends a convention at, Dorset for the purpose of forming the New Hampshire grants into a separate district, 921; remonstrance against congress authorizing, to raise a regiment independent of New York, 924; fails in raising a regiment, 932; the state of New York protests against the continental congress appoinb-

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