Negro slaves arrive, 269;
part of them sold, 269;
vessels fitted out for the slave-trade, 269;
streets repaired from the impost-tax on Negroes, 273, 275.

New York, slavery in, 134-171;
slaves imported from Brazil, 146;
laws relative to slavery, 139;
slaves the property of West-India Company, 139;
supply of slaves, 140;
Act for regulating slaves, 140;
Act to baptize slaves, 141;
expedition against Canada, 143;
governor of, claims jurisdiction over Pennsylvania, 312;
number of slaves in, 325;
Act for raising Negro troops, 352;
Negro soldiers promised freedom, 411;
slave population in 1790, 436;
bill for the gradual extinction of slavery, 440;
laws in regard to slaves, 463.

New York City, settled by the Dutch, 134;
growth of slavery under the Holland government, 134;
children of manumitted Negroes made slaves, 135, 136;
slaves imported from Brazil, 136;
captured by the English, 138;
laws on slavery, 139;
identical with Massachusetts, 139;
Gov. Dongan arrives, 139;
General Assembly meet, 139;
proclamation against the harboring of slaves, 141;
slaves forbidden the streets after nightfall, 141;
slave-market erected, 142;
Negro riot, 143;
Negro plot, 144-171;
house of Robert Hogg robbed, 145;
population, 145;
fire at Fort George, 145;
fires in, 146;
crew of Spanish vessel adjudged slaves, 146;
charged with firing houses, 146;
house of John Hughson, resort for Negroes, 147;
act against entertaining slaves, 148;
council meet, request governor to offer reward for incendiaries, 149;
Negroes deny all knowledge of the fires and plot, 149;
Supreme Court convened, 149;
trial of Negroes, 149;
Negroes hanged, 154;
fast observed in, 154;
Negroes arrested, 155;
chained to a stake, and burned, 157;
proclamation granting freedom to conspirators who would confess, 159;
Spanish Negroes sentenced to be hung, 161;
Hughson executed, 161;
Negroes hanged, 161, 169;
thanksgiving, 169;
Rev. John Ury executed, 169;
arrests for conspiracy, 170;
first session of Congress held at, in 1789, 426.

Nicoll, Benjamin, volunteers to prosecute the Negroes in New York, 151.

Nineveh, the city of, founded, 9-10.

Noddle's Island, Mass., slaves on, 176.

Non-Importation Act passed by Congress, 325