note_), ii. 366;
indignation of the people of, at the brutal conduct of the Hessians,
ii. 397;
proclamation issued in, by Washington, in relation to loyalists,
ii. 400;
course of conduct of Washington censured by members of the legislature
of, ii. 401;
Americans left in possession of, by General Howe, ii. 453;
remonstrance of troops from, with the legislature--mediation of
Washington in favor of troops from, ii. 657;
sum of money raised by the ladies of, for the army, ii. 679;
mutiny of troops of, at Pompton, ii. 709.

Newport, threatened by Captain Wallace, ii. 16;
tories of, deprived of their arms by General Lee--oath administered by
General Lee to the tories of, ii. 17;
the French blockaded in, by Admiral Arbuthnot, ii. 681;
voyage of Washington to, in 1790, accompanied by Jefferson, iii. 162.

New Rochelle, post taken at, by Lord Howe, ii. 312.

New York, population of, in 1756, i. 198;
powers of the governor and legislature of, suspended--sympathy of all
the other colonies with, i. 342;
British ministers misled by the loyal bearing of the assembly of, i 487;
loyalty of, in 1775, i. 496;
refusal of the assembly of, to sanction the proceedings of the first
continental Congress--provincial congress assembled in, i. 515;
functions of government assumed by the provincial congress of--large
proportion of troops furnished by, for the continental army (_note_),
i. 516;
arrival of Washington in the city of, on his way to Cambridge--address
of the president of the provincial congress of, to Washington, i. 577;
peculiar position of the province of--influence of the loyalists in,
i. 579;
plan of the British ministry for taking possession of, ii. 30;
measures recommended by Congress for the defence of--machinations of
Tryon in, ii. 31;
alarm occasioned in, by the action of Lee against the tories, ii. 39;
flight of tories from, ii. 39, 41;
effect in, of the news of the evacuation of Boston, ii. 78;
measures of Washington for the defence of, ii. 82;
respect paid to Washington on his way to, from Boston--fortified by
Lord Stirling, ii. 84;
extreme caution of the provincial congress of, ii. 127;
list of names of the vigilance committee appointed by the whigs of,
ii. 128;
alarm occasioned in, by broadsides from the _Asia_, ii. 129;
temporizing policy of the provincial