Blair, James, death of. ii. 22.
Bland, Richard, his enquiry into the rights
of the British colonies, ii. 147.
Block island Indians, i. 235.

Blockade of American ports, ii. 452. ad-
miral Cochrane's declaration of; counter
proclamation, 462.

Bollan, William, dies in England, ii. 259.
Bombay, American mission to, ii. 460.
Boon, Daniel, death of, ii. 488.

Boston settled, i. 204. fortification in, 215.
enlarged, 225. state of, in 1638, 249. ship
from, seized and confiscated by the
French, 282. church at north end of, 288,
first fire in, 298. synod at, 324. baptist
church in, 341. old south church in, 352.
population &c. of, in 1673, 365. printing
press in, 367. fire in, 1676, 387. quit-
claim of the peninsula of, 416. first epis
Icopal society in, 420. and church built
in, 426. wooden buildings prohibited in,
441. church in Brattle street founded in,
473. population of, 476. first newspaper
established in, 490. Quaker meeting
house in, 503. great fire in, 505. new
north church in, 512. light house at, 514.
brick church in, 527. Hollis street church
in, 555. third episcopal church in, ii. 5.
market established in, ib. divided into
wards, 6. church in Lynde street, 9.
workhouse in, 11. Faneuil Hall built in,
20. church in Bennet street, ib. ship
building in, 21. second baptist church in,
ib. threatened by the French in 1746, 30.
tumult in, 34. town house in, 35. trade
of, 37, 40. stone chapel built in, 41.
population of, 48. great fire in, 1760, 103.
great storm in, 108. instructions to rep-
resentatives, 126. tumults in, on account
of the stamp act; discountenanced by the
town, 136. population of, 142. merchants
of, enter into non-importation agreements,
155. seizure of a wine vessel causes
disorder there, 157. convention at, 158.
British troops arrive at; land and march
to the common; occupy the public build-
ings; council refuse to provide barracks;
more troops arrive, 158, 159. massacre in,
166. transactions of; choose a committee
of correspondence, which is the basis of
the union of the colonies, 178. distressed
by an act of parliament. See Port bill.
lamps first used in, 197. evacuated by
the British, 242. fire in, 367, 401. new
state house in, 413. municipal court es-
tablished, 416. city incorporated, 498.
See Fires.

Botanic gardens, and a botanic society,
ii. 431.

Botany, elements of, published, ii. 426.
American medical, 497.
Boudinot, Elias, death of, ii. 498.

Bouquet, colonel, defeats the Indians and
relieves Fort Pitt, ii. 122.
Bovadilla supersedes Columbus, 1500. lost
at sea, 1502.

Bow incorporated, i. 541.

Boxer, British brig, captured, ii. 455.
Boylston, Nicholas, founds a professorship
in Harvard college, ii. 179.

Zabdiel, Dr., introduction of in-
oculation by, i. 526. death of, ii. 148.
Braddock, general, commands troops to
America, ii. 59. expedition of, against
Fort Duquesne, 60. defeat and death of,

62.

Bradford, William, governor of Plymouth,
i. 168. death of, 309.

-, major, commands the Plymouth
troops in Philip's war, i. 375.

William, printer, death of, ii. 49.
Bradstreet, governor of Massachusetts, i.
428, 436. death of, 466.

colonel, takes Fort Frontenac,

ii. 83. death of, 198.
Brainerd, David, death of, ii. 36.

mission at, commenced among
the Cherokee Indians, ii. 485.
Braintree, church at, i. 255.
Branford settled, i. 274. inhabitants of,
remove to Jersey, 338. resettled, 415.
Brattle, Thomas, death of, i. 511.

William, death of, i. 518.
Brazil discovered, 1500. French protest-
ants in, 1556, 1558, 1560. attempted Eng-
lish settlement in, 1572.
Breda, peace of, i. 346.
Brewster, William, death of, i. 276.
Briar Creek, defeat at, ii. 294.
Bridge, over York river, ii. 109. Connecti-
cut river, 354. Mystic, at Malden, 367.
Bass, at Salem, 370. Merrimack and Ra-
ritan, 403. Mystic, at Chelsea, 429.
Schuylkill, near Philadelphia, 431. Ash-
ley river, 442.

Thomas, death of, i. 515.
Bridgewater settled, i. 295. attacked by
Indians, 380.

British ministry, intentions in regard to
America after the peace of 1763, ii. 124.
compromise between the ministry and
East India company, 181.-government,
regulation about the customs excites com-
plaints; its effects, 123. corps and re-
cruits embarked for North America, 305,
316, and Tables.

orders in council, ii. 436. repeal-

ed, 448.

troops defeated at Broad river; re-
pulsed at Black Stocks, ii. 314.
Brock, British general, killed at Queens-
town, ii. 449.

Brookfield settled, i. 316, 347. burned by
Indians, 371. incorporated, 520.

gathered at, 518.

Brooks, John, dies at Medford, ii. 515.
Bucaniers in West Indies, i. 345, 422.
Buckminster, Joseph, death of, and of his
son Joseph S. ii. 451.

Buell, Abel, makes printing types, and so-
licits aid for a foundery, ii. 165.
Buenos Ayres founded, 1535.
Buffalo, village of, burnt by the British,

ii. 459.

Buford, colonel, defeated at Waxhaws by
colonel Tarleton, ii. 309.

Bulkley, Peter, death of, i. 314.

Bull, captain, spirited resistance of, to An-
dros, i. 368.

Bunker hill, anniversary of battle of, com-
memorated, ii. 511. monument, ib. See
Battle.

Burgoyne, general, arrives at Boston, ii.
208. arrives at Quebec; advances to
Crown Point; invests Ticonderoga, which
is evacuated by the Americans; reaches
fort Edward; encamps at Saratoga; bat-
tle near Stillwater; detaches colonel Baum
to Bennington; general Stark prepares to
attack him; Baum and Brayman defeat-
ed; Baum mortally wounded; Burgoyne
encamps at Saratoga; battle near Still-
water; second action; he retires to Sara-
toga; attempts in vain to retreat; the
royal army surrender prisoners of war, ii.
269-275. dies in England, 393.
Burke, Edmund, in parliament, on Ameri-
can affairs, ii. 228-230.

Burlington, N. Jersey, settled, i. 388.
Burnet, governor, i. 541. dispute of, with
legislature of Massachusetts, 542. death
of, 546.

Burr, Aaron, president of N. Jersey col-
lege, death of, ii. 78.

vice president of the United
States, ii. 418. arrested for a conspiracy,
436.

Butler, general, mortally wounded, ii. 388.
Button, T. voyage of, i. 142. Button's
bay, ib.

Byfield, Nathaniel, death of, ii. 4.

plored, 1539.

Calota founded, 1543.

Calvert, P. and C. governors of Maryland,
i. 315, 325, 341, 386.

Cambridge, called Newtown, founded, i.
209. becomes settled, 214. proposed re-
moval of, 213. settlers of, remove to Con-
necticut, 231. synod at, 280. platform of,
283.
Port, rise and progress of, ii.

518, and Note XIV.

Lechmere Point in, ii. 480.
Camden, lord, vindicates the colonies, ii.
145.

S. Carolina, battle at, between
lord Rawdon and general Greene; evacu-
ated, ii. 325.

Campaign, British, objects of, ii. 243.
northern, 269. plan of, fixed on by gen-
eral Washington in consultation with
American and French officers, afterwards
changed, 329.

Campbell, Laughlin, Highland colony or,
ii. 9.

lieut. colonel in the American
army, mortally wounded, ii. 327.
Campeache [Campeachy] founded, 1540.
taken, i. 314. sacked by bucaniers, 345.
Canada visited by Cortereal, 1500. Car-
tier's voyages to, 1534, 1535. settled by
Cartier, 1540. French trade to, 1581.
French fleet sails for, 1591. commission
for the conquest of, 1598. project for
settling, i. 192. taken by the English,
199. restored to France, 212. first bishop
of, 313. earthquake in, 331. granted to
the French West India company, 342.
peace of, with the Iroquois, 347. disease
among the Indians of, 355. population of,
416, 426. expedition of Sir W. Phips
against, 432. projected expedition against,
447. population of, in 1693, 448. manu-
factures in, 493. projected expedition
against, 500. disastrous expedition against,
in 1711, 504. population of, in 1714, 512.
mission from N. England to, 537. pro-
jected expedition against, ii. 28. militia
of, 40. alarm of the governor of, 49.
number of forts in, 72. entire reduction
of, by the English, 100. confirmed to the
English in 1763, 113. population of, 115.
submits to the stamp act,.138. expedition
to, under generals Schuyler and Mont-
gomery; Schuyler's address to the inhabi-
tants, 220. Arnold's expedition to, 220.
221. evacuated by the Americans, 243.
number of inhabitants in, 352. See Que-
bec.

Canal, Middlesex, (Mass.) ii. 395. on
Connecticut river, at S. Hadley, 403.

Santee, 416. on the Merrimack, to Con-
cord, 476. by Amoskeag falls, 480. Roa-
noke, 500. between Albany and Schenec-
tady, 503. Dismal swamp, 503. number
of bridges over the, between Utica and
Albany, 508. canal boats, ib. Ohio, Far-
mington, 514. Blackstone, 517.

Cannon, first used in the war of the revo-
lution, ii. 369.

Canonicus, sachem of the Narragansets,
i. 177. death of, 286.

Canonicut purchased, i. 309.

Canso taken, ii. 23.

Canterbury incorporated, i. 487.
Canton and Calcutta, amount of dollars
shipped to, from Philadelphia, ii. 446.
Cape Ann discovered, i. 147. settlement
at, 184, 188.

Cod discovered, 1602.

Fear, settlement at, i. 317. contri-
bution for, 348.

Horn doubled by Schouten, i. 152.
Caracas, St. Jago de, founded, 1566.
Caraibs, of St. Vincent's surrender to col.
Dalrymple, ii. 183.

Card manufactory set up at Boston, ii.

370.

Cardross, lord, Scotch colony under, i.

406.

Caribbee islands, i. 195. grant of, 320.
Carolana, grant of, i. 207.

Carolina, grant of, to the earl of Claren-
don, i. 327. measures for the settlement
of, 328. second charter of limits, 340.
'settlement in, from Barbadoes, ib. petition
of, 344. Spaniards march against, 361.
representatives chosen by freemen of,
366. Dutch emigrants to, 367. customs
collected and insurrection in, 389. pro-
testants sent to, 394. Charlestown, the
capital of, founded, 398. war with the
natives in, 398. divided into counties,
406. acts of, 411. quo warranto against,
416. settlement of French refugees in,
433. Sothel's usurpation in, 433. trans-
actions of, with the southern Indians, 445.
government of,446. settlement of the affairs
of, 453. rice introduced into, 454. friend-
ly understanding of, with the Spanish, ib.
act of, in favour of French protestants,
460. removal of a N. England church to,
461. pirates in, 475. white inhabitants
of, 476. duty imposed by, 479. expedi-
tion from, against St. Augustine, 483.
first paper currency of, 484. church of
England established in, by law of the
provincial legislature, 489; which is de-
clared void by the queen, 491. invaded
by the Spaniards and French, without
success, 494-496. bills of credit issued
by, 496. Indian war in, 507, 513. bank
bills in, 507. common law declared to be

of force, 508. act respecting elections,
516. pirates exterminated from the coast
of, 519. proprietary government thrown
off by, 521. Spanish invasion threatened,
ib. proprietary government abolished, 523.
royal governor of, 525. Indians in, 529.
population of, 531. hurricane and yellow
fever in, 543. purchased for the crown,
and divided into two governments, 541.
See North Carolina. exports from, ib.
number and plot of the negroes in, 547.
printing in, 550. state of. in 1731, 550.
population of, in 1732, 554. colony of
Swiss in, ii. 3. townships laid out in, ib.
exports from, 4. Irish colony in, 9. in-
surrection of negroes in, 10. law of,
against instructing slaves, 16. silver mine
in, 21. culture of indigo in, 22. trade of,
24. fort in, 35. population of, 43. pros-
perity of, 47. exports from, 58. congress
of, with the Cherokees, 66. population
of, in 1758, 86. Cherokee war in, 100.
whirlwind in, 103. gives encouragement
to settlers; Germans, French protest-
ants, and others from England, and the
northern colonies, arrive at, 129. popula
tion of, and of Charlestown, 142. assem-
bly of, disobeys the mutiny act, and
adopts resolutions similar to those of Vir-
ginia respecting non-importation, 161.
disorders in the interior of; courts of
justice established in, 165. line run be-
tween, and North Carolina, 179; Ger-
mans remove to, 183. negroes imported
into, 184. expedition of Sir H. Clinton
against, 306. loss of negroes during the
war, 341. patriotism of the ladies, ib.
restores confiscated estates, 351. acts of,
to encourage the arts, 354. boundaries
settled, 370. constitution formed; orphan
house established, 385. weather in, cold,
several snows, 417. act to establish free
schools, 450. act for a board of public
works, 490. fundamental constitutions of,
i. 351. See Charlestown.
Carolina, North, division of, into parishes,
i. 514, 515. boundary of, 543. made a
distinct government, 544. gold in, Note
XVI, 569. Moravians in, ii. 44. exports
from, 52. printing in, 68. population of,
in 1763, 117. assembly of, disobeys the
mutiny act, and adopts resolutions similar
to those of Virginia respecting non-impor
tation, and is dissolved by governor Try-
on, 161. number of taxables in, 173. in-
surrection in, 175. line run, 179. royalists
in, defeated, 256. admitted into the Union,
376. university of, incorporated, account
of, 376, 378. seat of government fixed,

Carroll, John, dies at Baltimore, ii. 477.
Carthagena founded, 1533. expedition a-
gainst, ii. 15.

Cartier, James, voyages of, to Canada,
1534, 1535, 1540, Note XI. 564.

Carver, John, first governor of Plymouth,
i. 161. dies, 163.

Casas, Barth. de las, protects the Ameri-
can Indians, 1516. forms a settlement at
Cumana, 1521. returns to Spain, 1551.
death of, 1565.

Casco fort destroyed by Indians, i. 431.
Casimir fort, i. 295, 305.

Castine taken by the British, ii. 466.
Castle Island, fort on, i. 225. rebuilt, 274.
named Castle William, 493. garrisoned
by royal troops, ii. 173. named Fort In-
dependence, 412.

Cataraugus, mission to, ii. 500.
Catawba, Indians, ii. 21.

the seat of government of Ala-
bama, was laid out, ii. 489.
Cavendish, voyage of, round the earth,
1588. attempts to pass the straits of Ma-
gellan, and dies, 1591.

Census, first, of the United States, ii. 385.
second, 416. third, 442. fourth, 492. See
Tables, 540.

Central America, treaty with, ii. 517.
Ceylon, American mission to, ii. 481.
Challons, H. voyage of, 1606.
Chalmers, Lionel, death of, ii. 280.
Chamblee taken by the Americans, ii. 221.
Champlain founds Quebec, i. 133. joins
the Adirondack Indians, and discovers
Lake Champlain, 141. death of, 231.

-, lake, French fort on, i. 551.
naval engagement on, ii. 257.
Chancery, court of, in New York, i. 481.
Charles I. beheaded, i. 289.

- II. proclaimed in Virginia, i. 311.
restoration of, 314. proclaimed in Massa-
chusetts, 318. death of, 412.

Fort, in Carolina, built by Ribault,
1562. probable location of, i. 566. Note
XII.

river bridge opened, ii. 360.
river, West Boston bridge built

across, ii. 395.
Charlesbourg, in Canada, built, 1540.
Charlestown, Mass. founded at Mishaw-
um, i. 198. burnt by the British, ii. 210.
No. 4. N. H. captain Ste-

vens' brave defence of, ii. 33.

old, in Carolina, i. 354, 357.
-, capital of Carolina, founded,
i. 398. first collector of, 415. police of,
regulated, ib. act for the security of, 452.
church gathered at, 469. hurricane at,
475. fire in, and diseases in, 47. spirited
defence of, against the Spaniards and
French, 494. hurricane and yellow fever

in, 542-3. state of, in 1731, 550. fire in,
ii, 15. approached by general Prevost,
summoned to surrender, but refuses;
British troops withdrawn, 295, 296. Brit-
ish fleet pass over the bar; general Lin-
coln summoned to surrender the town,
but refuses; surrenders on capitulation,
307, 308. citizens of, sent to St. Augus-
tine, 317. evacuated by the loyalists, and
taken possession of by continental troops,
341. incorporated by the name of The
City of Charleston, 352. first vessel sails
from, for the East Indies, 403. fire in,
406. suffers greatly by a gale and inun-
dation, 428. negro conspiracy in, 499.
Charlevoix, P. death of, ii. 110.
Charters of New England, defence of, i.
526.

Chastellux, marquis de, dies at Paris, ii.
371.

Chatham, lord, brings a conciliatory bill
into the house of lords, which is rejected,
ii. 200.

Chauncy, president of Harvard College,
death of, i. 363.

Charles, death of, ii. 367.
Chauvin, voyages of, 1600.
Cheever, Ezekiel, death of, i. 500.
Chelmsford incorporated, i. 305. attacked
by Indians, 379.

Chelsea incorporated, ii. 11.

Chemistry, first course of instruction in,
by Dr. Rush, ii. 165. progress of, in the
United States, 393.

Chesapeak bay entered by the first perma-
nent Virginia colony, i. 126.

-, frigate, attacked in Hampton
roads by a British ship of war; the presi-
dent interdicts the harbours and waters of
the United States to all armed British
vessels, ii. 434, 435. reparation for the
attack, 443. taken by the British, 454.
Chester incorporated, i. 530.

Cheverus, John, consecrated bishop of
the Roman Catholic church in Boston,
ii. 442.

Chickahominy Indians, treaty with, i. 145.
Chili invaded, 1535. discoveries in, 1538.
reduced, 1541.

China, first voyage from U. States to, ii.

354.

Chiquitos discovered, 1557.
Christina fort taken, i. 305.
Church, Benjamin, distinguished in Phil-
ip's war, i. 370 et seq. expedition of, to
eastern shore of New England, 488. death
of, 520.

Dr. is convicted of a traiterous
correspondence; departs the country, and
is lost at sea, ii. 234, 235.
Cincinnati, society of, instituted, ii. 349.
Clair, Arthur St., commands an expedition

against the Miamis; battle with; retreats
to Fort Washington, ii 338.
Clap, Thomas, death of, ii. 151.
Clarendon, earl of, grant of Carolina to, i.

327.

Clergy, act of Connecticut in favour of,
i. 496.

Clinton, George, elected vice president of
the United States, ii. 430. dies at Wash-
ington, 451.

Sir Henry, takes forts Clinton and
Montgomery, ii. 276. succeeds Sir Wil-
liam Howe as commander in chief of the
royal army, 291, N. expedition of, against
S. Carolina, 306. leaves Cornwallis in
command for the southern service, and
returns to New York, 309.

Coal, Lehigh, obtained in Pennsylvania,
ii. 433.

Cobb, Ebenezer, dies, aged 107, ii. 422.
Coddington, William, death of, i. 392.
Coins, regulation of, in the colonies by
queen Anne, i. 488.

Colchester incorporated, i. 487.

Colden, Cadwallader, death of, ii. 259.
Coligny, admiral, project of, for settling
protestants in Brazil, 1555. failure of his
plan, 1557, 1558, 1560. petition of, for
French protestants, 1561.
College, at Henrico, i. 157.

at Quebec, i. 231.

-, Harvard, founded, i. 247. income
of ferry granted to, 258. first commence-
ment at, 264. governors of, appointed,
273. first charter of, 292. grant to, 312.
new charter, 362. rebuilt, 390. addition-
al edifice, 431. new incorporation of, 441.
Stoughton Hall, 469. old charter resum-
ed, 497. Massachusetts hall, 524. pro-
fessorship of divinity in, 529. of mathe-
matics, 539. Hollis hall, ii. 131. Harvard
burnt, ib. professorship of rhetoric and
oratory, 179. in 1774 has no public com-
mencement, 198. medical institution in,
343. constitution of, altered, 441. profes-
sor of Greek, professorship of Greek lite-
rature, 476. law, and Rumford professor-
ships, 481. professorships of natural re-
ligion, moral philosophy, and civil polity,
and of the French and Spanish languages,
485. of sacred literature, 490. of miner-
alogy and geology, 496. [Holworthy
hall was built in 1812; University hall,
in 1814.]

at New Haven, projected; termi-
nates in a grammar school, i. 302.

in Virginia. i. 323. charter for, so-

licited, 434.

,William & Mary, charter of, i. 443.
act relating to, 520.

-, Yale, founded at Saybrook, i. 479.
library of, 511. removed to New Haven,

516. donations to, by Elihu Yale, 527.
episcopacy adopted by some of its officers,
530. donations to, of land by the general
assembly, and of land and books by dean
Berkeley, 554. orrery for, ii. 24. act for
its more full establishment, and for en-
larging its powers and privileges, 28.
professorship of mathematics and natural
philosophy, 174. donation to, for a He-
brew professor, 337. act for enlarging its
powers, and increasing its funds, 392.
medical institution of, 471. medical col-
lege, botanic garden, ib. N. professorship
of thetoric and oratory, 485. hall built,
490. professorship of chemistry and na-
tural history; mineralogy, 490, new edi-
fice, 496. professorship of didactic theol-
ogy, 499. new chapel built, 508.

Nassau Hall, at Princeton, ii. 11.
charter obtained; organized, 31. building
burnt, 424.

Rhode Island, origin and incor-
poration of, ii. 163. afterward named
Brown University, in honour of Nicholas
Brown, who, in addition to a previous
liberal donation, presented it with a col-
lege edifice, 500.

in New York, ii. 57. See Co-
lumbia college.

-, Dartmouth, at Hanover, origin
and incorporation of, ii. 163, 164. grant
of land to, 357. important case of, decided
in supreme court of U. States, 489.
Pennsylvania, ii. 305, 390.

Washington, in Maryland, ii. 343.
Dickinson, in Carlisle, ii, 352.
St. John's, at Annapolis, & Wash-
ington college make the University of
Maryland, ii. 353.

ii. 353.

Roman Catholic, in Georgetown,

Georgia, university of, ii. 357.
Cokesbury, ii. 357.

Columbia, in New York, ii. 367.
Franklin, in Pennsylvania, ii. 367.
North Carolina, ii. 376, 378.
Burlington, in Vermont, ii. 390.
Williams, at Williamstown, ii. 395.
Bowdoin, at Brunswick, ii. 401.
-, Greenville, at Tennessee, ii. 401.
Union, at Schenectady, ii. 401.
Transylvania university, at Lex-
ington, Kentucky, ii. 412.

Middlebury, in Vermont, ii. 416.
South Carolina, ii. 420, 423.
Jefferson, at Canonsburg, Penn.

Washington, in Pennsylv. ii. 433.
Cumberland, at Nashville, ii. 433.
Miami, university of, in Ohio, ii.

Hamilton, at Clinton, ii. 450.