69, 74, 84, 86. Cited respecting the expedition against Springfield, 86. Accedes to a proposition to appoint agents for prisoners, 123. His kind treatment of prisoners, 123. His ex- pedition against Rochambeau, 131 146. Lands troops on Long Island, 137, 143, 147. Number of troops un- der, 197. Correspondence with, about the treatment of prisoners taken at Charleston, 234, 552. His exertions in behalf of André, 236, 534, 538, 539. His measures to aid the British move- ments at the south, and detachment of Leslie, 269. Declines granting Mathews's request, 277. On an ex- change of prisoners, 302. Makes an embarkation for the southward, 325. Humphreys' attempt to surprise and seize, 338. Sends emissaries to the Pennsylvania line, 359, 362, 472. Cited respecting his numbers, and the comparative importance of different southern States, 458. Misconstrues intercepted letters respecting an at- tack on New York, VIII. 60. Extracts from intercepted letters to, 112, 519. Sends conditional instructions to Lord Cornwallis to forward a detachment to New York, 116. His solicitation of a recall, 119, 281. Proposition to, for a meeting of commissioners in rela- tion to prisoners, 215, 245, 247. The application to, for Lippencot as a sub- ject for retaliation, 263, 264, 265, 280, 292. His account of the meeting of commissioners at Elizabethtown, 278. His return to England, 281. His dis- approbation of Lippencot's conduct, 33. Measures taken to bewilder him in the campaign of 1781, IX. 404. CLINTON, JAMES, Colonel, III. 469. Appointed brigadier-general, IV. 32. Commands at the Highlands, in the Continental service, 149. Wounded at Fort Montgomery, V. 475. Order- ed to Albany, VI. 111. Ordered on the Western expedition, under Sulli- van, 264, 275. His movements cen- sured, but prove successful, 280. Di- rected to march to the northward, upon the incursion of Sir John John- son, VII 64; to take the command of the northern department, 279, 280, 282; to make provision for replacing troops to be recalled from the fron- tiers, VIII. 79; to send troops toward York Island, 89.
Clinton, Fort, repaired by the British, IV. 104. Inquiry into the loss of, 280. Progress of the works at, VI. 67. CLOSEN, Baron, aid to Rochambeau, despatched to Count de Grasse, with
intelligence of Admiral Digby's arri- val, VIII. 162.
Clothing, want of, in the army, III. 21, 210. Designed for the army, stopped by the New York Convention, IV. 299. Want of, and measures for pro- curing, V. 67, 100, 155, 156, 199, 225, 329. Purchases of, 156. Sufficiency of, VI. 127, 192, 253. Perplexities about a supply of, 408. Mismanage- ment in the department of, 201, 397. Method of providing, condemned, and a remedy proposed, VII. 298. Want of 351-355, 388. Non-arrival of, from France, 360; VIII. 257.
CLOUGH, ALEXANDER, Major, to pro- cure intelligence from New York, VI. 40. Barbarously and mortally wound- ed, 75, 76.
Clore, camp at the, IV. 495. Advance into the, 501.
Clover lots, on the River Farm, XII. 362. On the Union Farm, 370. CLYMER, GEORGE, on a committee of Congress to remain in Philadelphia, IV. 253, 552. Written to, after the battle at Trenton, 256.
COBB, DAVID, Lieutenant-Colonel, aid to the Commander-in-chief, despatched to Rochambeau, VIII. 84. Despatch- ed again, with a detailed plan of an attack on the north part of New York Island, 88. Sent to Sir Guy Carleton, 497; IX. 3.
COBBETT, WILLIAM, XI. 181. Cobble Hill, near Boston, fortified, III. 172, 175.
COCHRAN, JOHN, commended, VII. 192. Coinage, plans of, IX. 125. Coins, scarcity of small, XII. 25. Cole River, Washington's lands at, XII. 319.
Colerain, unsuccessful meeting of dep- uties at, from the Creek nation, XII.
COLERUS, Major, IV. 429. Cole's Fort, in the Minisink settle- ment, VI. 113, 123. COLLIER, SIR GEORGE, VI. 294. Goes to Penobscot, 307, 350. COLLINS, JOHN, Governor of Rhode Island, states grounds of opposition to the Federal Constitution, X. 39, 487. COLLINS, apprehended, and sent to Phil- adelphia for trial, IV. 374.
Columbia, District of, proclamation and particulars respecting the limits, and establishment of, as a permanent seat of government, X. 147. See Federal City and Government. Combahee River, British detachment sent to the, VIII. 357. Commander-in-chief of the American
army, circumstances, and political motives connected with the choice of a, III, 1, 479. His arrival in Cam- bridge to take command of the army, 14, 454. Three aids-de-camp allowed to, 269. Guard of the, IV. 407. His commission and his instructions, 482, 483, IX. 16, 17. List of his aids-de- camp, XII. 415.
Commerce, the enlargement of the pow- ers of Congress for the regulation of, IX. 122, 125, 145, 501. Advantages or evils of foreign, 140, 194. Curtail- ed for want of credit, 464. On the formation of a treaty of, with Great Britain, X. 43. A navy necessary for the protection of, XII. 68. British ministry avoid direct answers about a treaty of, 91. General policy in re- gard to, 232. See Trade.
Commissary, in the French war, some of the duties of, in Virginia, II. 259. In the American army, recommended, III. 21. Pay of, recommended to be increased, 414.
Commissioners to France, instructed to procure engineers, IV. 491. Disagree, V.383. See British Commissioners. Commissions, retained by the Comman- der-in-chief, III. 22. Issued, who may apply for, 102; 108; 387. Per- sons holding, under the crown, 145, 159. Comparative pecuniary value of, in the two armies, V. 322. See Foreign Officers, Officers, and Rank. Committee from Congress, to the army, III. 123. To the Northern Depart- ment, 174. To the main army, IV. 117, 130. To remain in Philadelphia, 253. Sent to camp, V. 212, 231. At Philadelphia, consults and corresponds with the Commander-in-chief, VI. 153, 167. To the army, with exten- sive powers, VII. 14. To promote a cooperation with the French fleet and army, 33, 34, 47, 50. Addresses a circular to the different States, 50, 70, 80; 179. Importance of the measures recommended by, 93. The powers of, 121. Reception of, on their return to Congress, 226.
Common Sense, a pamphlet, commend- ed, III. 276. Effects of, 347, IX. 49. Commutation, opposition to, in Con- necticut, IX. 6. Not approved, 210, 280, 285. See Specific supplies. Company, rules and directions respect- ing, II. 411, IX. 482. The reception of, by the President, X. 18, 99. Conciliatory Bills. See NORTH. Concord, remarks on the march of the British troops to, II. 406. Provincial Congress adjourned to, III. 44.
Confederacies, abstract of the general principles of ancient and modern, IX. 521.
Confederation of the United States, com- pleted, VII. 456. Defects and neces- sity of a reform in the, VIII. 410. Impotency of the, IX. 140, 167, 187, 298. A paper drawn up with a view to reforming it, 249, 521. Confiscation, on restitution for, VIII. 542.
Congregational Church and Society of Medway, address to the, XII 198. Congress, Continental, first suggest- ed by Franklin, II. 396. Appoints Washington commander-in-chief of the American army, III. 1-6, 481. Consents to a Continental currency; votes a Continental army; appoints officers, 6, 23. John Hancock chosen president of, 37. Resolves by, respect- ing Canada, 41. Recommends to Mas- chusetts the old form of an Assem- bly for a form of government, 44. Jealous of military power, 51. Raises rifle companies, 100. Appoints a committee respecting the army, 123. Orders vessels to intercept brigan- tines, 125. Resolves of, respecting Nova Scotia, 169. Sends a committee to the Northern Department, having instructions to invite delegates from Canada to Congress, and to raise a regiment of Canadians, 174. Decla- ration of, respecting the proclamation of the King, 204. Resolves on nine battalions for the defence of Canada, 250. Their resolve respecting the mode of receiving the expected com- missioners, 329. Jealousies and party feelings in, about independence, 347, 357. Orders naval officers before it, to answer for their conduct, 353. Votes thanks after the evacuation of Boston, 360, 533. Sends commis- sioners to Canada, 390. Appoints a fast, 392. Visit to, by the Comman- der-in-chief, 395, 402-406. Votes to employ Indians, 407, 431. Recalls Wooster from Canada, 411. Offers a bounty for captures by Indians, 431. Votes to augment the forces in the Northern Department, 443; to raise companies of Germans and riflemen, 444. Declares Independence, 455. Resolution of, respecting the letter addressed to " George Washington, Esq.," 474. Measures taken by, in regard to the Indians, 496. Appoints officers, IV. 32. Public papers con- fided to the care of, 46. Proceed- ings of, respecting the affair at the Cedars, 56; in relation to the mission
of Sullivan by Howe, 87. Reorgan- izes the army, 116. Committee of, visits camp, 117, 130. Resolutions of, respecting the appointment of officers, enlistments, and bounties, 134. Warm debate in, respecting the army; hostile feelings to the Commander-in-chief,
Appoints five major-generals and ten brigadiers, 329. Their resolve before their adjournment to Baltimore, 210, 222. Confers extraordinary pow- ers on Washington, and issues a cir- cular to the governors of the States, 232, 256, 550. Appoints a committee to remain in Philadelphia, 253. Val- uable men absent, 341. Authorizes the States to fill military vacancies, 393. Condemns the distinctive ap- pellations of regiments, 394. Ap- points Lafayette major-general, V. 10, 454. Their plan for raising recruits under the direction of the State au- thorities, 15. Yeas and nays first entered in the journals of, in the ques- tion about Arnold's rank, 25. Con- fers extraordinary powers on the Commander-in-chief, 65. Adjourns to Lancaster, and afterwards to York,
Hancock retires from, 106, 133. Henry Laurens appointed President, 139. Disposition of, towards Wash- ington, 203, 390, 483. Sends a com- mittee to camp to mature a new sys- tem of arrangements, 212, 213, 231. Appoints commissioners to confer about prisoners, 272, 294, 317. Au- thorizes the Commander-in-chief to call out five thousand militia, 311, 317. Numbers, and able men absent from, 326, 327, 350, 496, 508. Indecision and delay of, 328, 508. Spurious re- solves attributed to, 332, 333, 336. Proceedings of, in relation to Lord North's bills and commissioners, 344, 397, 398, 401. Their reception of the news of the French treaty, 353, 357. Adjourns to Philadelphia, 436. Votes thanks after the battle of Monmouth, 438. Proceedings of, in regard to Governor Johnstone, VI. 32. Rec- ommends to young men to organize themselves into cavalry, 35. Visited by the Commander-in-chief; the mode of his reception, 137. Henry Laurens leaves the presidency of, 140. John Jay chosen President, 141, 378. Able men withdrawn from, 142-144, 151, 152. Consultation and correspond- ence of a committee of, with the Com- mander-in-chief, 153, 158, 167. Em- powers him to negotiate a cartel of exchange for all prisoners, and renews the same, 195, 436. Authorizes him
to conduct the military operations as shall appear to him most expedient, 241. Projects and parties in, 271, 341, 551. Discordant spirit in, dimin- ished, 364. Invests the Commander- in-chief with an unqualified power to cooperate with Count d'Estaing, 368. Jay leaves the chair of, 377. Samuel Huntington, president of, 80. Pro- ceedings of, in the election of Adams and Jay as ministers plenipotentiary, 385, 36. Faction in, respecting the Commander-in-chief, 421, 492. On Greene's request for an inquiry into his conduct, VII. 5. On a commit- tee to visit head-quarters, 14. Jealous of the power of the Commander-in- chief, 15. A committee of, sent to the army, 33, 34, 47, 50. Incompe- tent powers of, 55, 67-69, 391, 442. Parties in, 92, 93. Confers powers on the Commander-in-chief for exchang- ing prisoners, 104. Proceedings in, relative to Greene's resignation as quartermaster, 150. Enlarges the pow- ers of the Commander-in-chief, 156, 157, 189. Party-spirit in, 226. Ap- points Colonel Laurens to go as special minister to solicit succours of France, 340, 341, 379. Measures adopted by, in regard to the revolt in the Pennsylvania line, 359. Dis- position of, towards Franklin, 379, 380. Establishes departments of war, finance, and foreign affairs, 399, 400. Should be vested with legislative or controlling powers, 401, 442, 463. Resolve of, respecting Washington's public letters and documents, 468. Orders the recall of Burgoyne, and countermands the order, VIII. 15. The resolutions of, to establish separ- ate departments, and the not filling of them, 39. Thomas McKean cho- sen to succeed Huntington as presi- dent of, 112, 114. Resolves of, after Lord Cornwallis's surrender at York- town, 184. Appoints a day of public prayer and thanksgiving, 207. Pro- ceedings and resolves of, in relation to Lafayette, upon his second return to France, 207. John Hanson chosen president of, 209. Reception of the Commander-in-chief by, 211. Orders an inquiry respecting the Board of Directors of the Associated Loyalists, 218, 252. Gives the Commander-in- chief powers for exchanging prison- ers, with a secret instruction as to Cornwallis, 243. Committee of, re- ports on Bieniewsky's plan of raising troops in Germany, 270. Their treat- ment of Sir Guy Carleton's advances
in regard to peace, 296. Approves and orders retaliation in the case of Hud- dy, 310, 351. Repeals the resolution for an inquiry into Gates's conduct at Camden, 331. On the release of Cornwallis and exchange of prisoners; state of opinions in, 334, 547. Delay of, in the case of Huddy and Asgill, 350. Elias Boudinot chosen Presi- dent of, 376. Resolves of, about the operations of 1783, 379. A committee of, recommended for the arrangements in the army after the intelligence of peace, 420, 422. Orders the cessation of hostilities, 421, 425. Resolves of, respecting the times of service, fur- loughs, and gratuities of arms and accoutrements to soldiers, 424. In- structs the Commander-in-chief to make arrangements with Sir Guy Carleton, 428. Sends to Washington about the mutinous temper of the troops in Philadelphia; adjourns and re-assembles at Princeton, 457. At- tendance on, by the Commander-in- chief, and his reception, 468, 469, 473, 474. Resolves of, respecting a statue of him, 472. Delays to act on the peace establishment, and on a seat of government, 485. Thomas Mifflin chosen President of; adjourns, to meet at Annapolis, 500. Washington re- signs his commission to, 504, 569. On the enlargement of the powers of, for commercial and other purposes, IX. 5, 11, 36, 122, 125, 140, 145, 161, 183, 187, 243, 246, 501. Suggestions respecting delegates to, 12. Opposes knighthood, 14. Non-attendance of members, and frequent adjournments of, 33, 177. Annual, preferable to constant sessions of, 34. Richard Henry Lee chosen President of, 79. Different opinions in, about the navi- gation of the Mississippi, 173, 180, 205. On the Connecticut Reserve, 178. On a general convention for revising the federal constitution, 236, 237, 242, 243, 246. Approves the proceedings of the general convention of 1787, and takes measures for putting the new system of government into operation, 267, 428, 542, 551, 554. List of its Presidents and Members, XII. 420. Congress under the Federal Constitu- tion, meeting, and the election of members of, IX. 406, 418, 440, 452, 459, 462, 467, 555. The place for the meeting of, 407, 418, 427, 428, 433, 550. Early proceedings of, 486, 487, 488, 491, X. 1, 459. Proceedings of, in regard to slavery, 82, 85, 94, 98. Shortness of their daily sittings, 95.
Adjourns, 107, 109. Assembles at Philadelphia, 121; 139. The ques- tion of an immediate convocation of, in August, 1793, 362. Opinions about the Executive's changing the place of meeting, 373, 374, 375, 378, 379, 384, 549. Assembles, 387. Proceedings of, respecting neutral vessels, 409. Authorizes the raising of a Provisional Army, 242. Speeches to, by the Pres- ident, XII. 1-77. Passes an act for the relief of seamen, 67. Messages to, on Indian hostilities, 79; on estab- lishing a permanent seat of govern- ment, 89; relative to Great Britain, 90; on the acceptance of the Consti- tution by the King of France, 94; on Genet and the relations with France, 96; relative to transactions with Spain, 99; to Morocco and Al- giers, 101; on the execution of the law imposing an embargo, 102; rel- ative to hostile proceedings against the territories of Spain, 103; con- cerning British and Indian encroach- ments, 104; intercourse with foreign nations, 105; on the presentation of the colors of the French Republic, 110; public buildings at the seat of government, 111; the territory south of the Ohio River, 116; on the injury sustained by commerce from French cruisers, 117. Makes a grant to the daughters of Count de Grasse, 319. Measures for obtaining a loan from, for the city of Washington, 334. List of the members of, during Washing- ton's administration, 427. Congress's Own, a regiment so called; its history, IV. 267. To consist of two thousand men, 318. See HAZEN. Connanicut Island. Descent on, III. 197.
Connecticut, votes reinforcements to the army, III. 33. Sends troops under Colonel Hinman to Ticonderoga, 63; 198. Summary of acts of, 228. Light-horse sent from, to New York, and discharged, 453, 459, 465, IV. 3. Sends commissioners to the American camp; mistaken policy of, in voting advanced pay for enlistments, 170, 173. Called on for militia to coöpe- rate with D'Estaing, VI. 368. Pro- ceedings of, in relation to Governor Trumbull's address, declining a re- election, IX. 5. Address to the legislature of, XII. 169. Names of governors of, 417. Members of the Continental Congress from, 421; of Congress from, during Washington's administration, 428.
Connecticut line, in the army, III. 33,
176. Reprehensible conduct of the, 183, 243. Misunderstanding about the payment of the; called to the defence of New York, 300. Two regiments of, mutiny, VII. 55. See WOOSTER.
Connecticut militia, two thousand or- dered to New York, III. 313. Return home unpaid, 367. Solicited for New York, 374, 416. Fourteen regiments of, ordered there, IV. 35. Arrival there of nine regiments, 66. Two thousand wanted and ordered out, 352, 405. One third of the western, to be sent to Saratoga to oppose the junc- tion of the British armies, 500. Put- nam to be reinforced by, at the High- lands, V. 11. Four thousand called for, to cooperate with D'Estaing, VI. 368. Connecticut State regiments, VII. 181. Connecticut Reserve, near Lake Erie, compromise in Congress respecting the, IX. 178.
CONNOLLY, JOHN, II. 532. With his associates, taken, III. 197. Instruc- tions to, concealed in his saddle, 211, 212, 269, 271. Facts respecting, 212. Measures for effecting the exchange of, VII. 211; VIII. 25. In Kentucky, IX. 474, 485.
Conococheague, magazine at, II. 137, 163. Murders in the neighbourhood of, by the Indians, 169. Inhabitants flee from, 183.
Constitution, Federal, IX. 265, 267, 269, 301, 543. Reception of the, by the peo- ple, 267, 272, 275, 277, 283, 290, 292, 295, 298, 401, 411. Its reception and adoption in Virginia, 272, 273, 274, 275, 287, 293, 303, 309, 311, 339, 367, 370, 372, 377, 388, 389, 392, 396, 397, 420; in Maryland, 275, 333, 345, 363, 369, 375, 376, 382, 407. Letters in favor of the, 277, 283, 316, 349, 542. Referred to conventions, 286, 301. Its reception and adoption in Pennsylvania, 286, 290, 292, 296, 312, 319, 341, 342, 348; in Delaware, 286, 290, 292, 319, 348; in South Caro- lina, 256, 333, 345, 348, 372, 376, 389; in Georgia, 286, 312, 348; in New Jersey, 290, 292, 319, 348; in New York, 293, 312, 340, 372, 379, 391, 392, 393, 406, 408, 420, 549. On a proposition for a second convention in reference to the, 296, 319, 420. Its reception and adoption in Mas- sachusetts, 310, 312, 323, 329, 331, 332, 357; in Connecticut, 319, 397; in New Hampshire, 333, 334, 339, 340, 345, 372, 382, 390, 395.
a concerted and organized combina tion against the, 405. New York cir- cular requesting a general convention
for amendments to the, 418, 420, 429, 549. George Mason's objections to the, 544. Secures religious toleration, XII. 155. To be maintained, 217. Gouverneur Morris's agency in form- ing the, 398. See Convention, North Carolina, and Rhode Island. Constitution, Fort, opposite West Point, III. 469. Demolished by the British, V. 104.
CONTRECŒUR, a French officer, sum- mons and captures Captain Trent's men at the Fork of the Ohio, II. 6. Succeeded by Dumas in the command at Fort Duquesne, 137. Letter of, respecting Jumonville, 449. Com- manded at Fort Duquesne at the time of Braddock's defeat, 472. Convention, at Annapolis, IX. 162, 223, 226, 513. Forwards papers to Con- gress, 246.
Convention for revising the Federal Constitution, proposed, IX. 162, 167, 226. Circumstances and opinions con- nected with Washington's attendance on it, 208, 212, 218, 219, 220, 222, 228, 236-239, 243, 251, 253, 254, 349, 514. Evils of an abortive attempt for a, 224. On the legality of the, 230, 512, 513, 542. Approved and recommended by Congress, 236, 237, 242, 243, 246, 542. Washington's election to the presi- dency of the, 237, 540. Delegates appointed to attend the, 242. Ends its session, 265; 267. Diary cited respecting the, 539. List of the mem- bers, XII. 426.
Convention Troops, exchange of, not to be hastened, V. 138, 143, 171. Their supplies to be paid for before embarkation, 187, 536, 537. Not to embark till the ratification of the con- vention in Great Britain, 213, 221; 358. Concerns of, referred to Con- gress by the Commander-in-chief, 234. Deserters from, and prisoners, not to be employed or enlisted in the American service, 287, 288, 297, 346, 375, 376. Marched to Charlottesville, VI. 94, 96, 105, 122, 124. Negotiations for exchanging, 139, 194, 508. Troubles in their barracks, 178. The source of great perplexity and trouble, 256. Measures for exchanging the officers of the, VII. 103, 104, 211, 245, 288. Treatment of, at Charlottesville, 123, 124. Partial exchange of, 287, 288. General exchange of, proposed, 288. Good policy to remove the, 291. Flag-vessel permitted to proceed to, with supplies, 291. Proposition for a general exchange of, and for the ad- justment of their accounts, 301, 302. Suggestions respecting a removal and
« AnteriorContinuar » |