Wickquaeskeck, description of, 29; mentioned, 102. (see Witqueschreek.)

Wight, Rev. Jabez, 319.

Wildwyck, massacre of the Dutch at, 39; list of the killed at, 42; names, of the magistrates of, ib.; list of those taken prisoners at, 43; houses burnt at, 44; list of the wounded at, ib.; fort at, ordered to be repaired, 86. (see Hsopus.)

Willard, Joseph, a pass to, permitting him to proceed to Lake Superior to observe the transit of Venus, 407.

Williams, Lt., instructed to superintend the erection of a fort at the Oneida carrying place, 524.

INDEX.

Windmill, a, at Crown Point, 259.

Windsor, delegates from the west side of the Green Mountains visit, for the purpose of obtaining signatures in favor.of erecting the New Hampshire grants into a new state, 923; the convention of, change the name of New Connecticut into that of Vermont, 942.

Wine manufactured in New Netherland, 116, 117.

Witcheraft, a trial at New York for, 133; Indians believe in, and are "much afraid of, 434.

Witqueschreek, where, 8; the Indians of, take refuge among the Dutch, 10; attacked by the Dutch, 15. (see, Witquaeskeck.) f

Wood Creek, extent of the carrying place between the Hudson river and, 173.

Woolley, Joseph, biographical notice of, 342; mentioned, 353.

Wooster, David, deposition of, setting forth the illegal intrusion of sundry persons on his lands on the east side of Lake Champlain, and their determination to resist all attempts to dispossess them, 824; further notice of, 827.

Wortel, red, very abundant in New Netherland, 30.