(private), 290.

Au Glaize River (see Glaize).
Augustine, Fla., 199.

Axes, specifications for, 66; quality and
price, 69.

Ayrshire, Scotland, 174 note.

Baby, Francois, M.P. (Francis Baby),
225 and note 2, 297, 298, 366, 374,
387, 390.

Baby's (Capt.) company, 389.
Baby, Hon. James (Jacques Baby de
Rainville), 95, 179, 224, 225 and
note 2, 245, 256, 298, 359, 374, 376
and note 1, 381, 401, 413, 414;
letters from R. G. England, 381,
395, 400; letters to J. G. Simcoe, 93,
376.

Baby Point, Humber River, 70 note 4.
Baggage, 378.

Bahamas, 130 note, 200 note.
Baker, Capt., 119, 266, 303.
Baker, William, assistant builder, 414
and note.

Baldoon settlement, Lord Selkirk's, 70
note 2.

Baltimore, Md., 250, 393 note.
Banditti in the neighborhood of Fort

Ontario, Oswego, 201, 204, 257.
Barber, Capt., 257.

Barclay's fleet on Lake Erie in the war

of 1812, 185 note.

Barnes, John, letter from E. B. Little-
hales, 377; letter to Francis Le
Maistre, 282.

Baron de Carondelet, letter from J. G.
Simcoe, 200; letter to J. G. Simcoe,
334. (See also Carondelet and
De Carondelet.)

Barracks, stores and baggage at York,
378.

Bass Islands, 219 and note, 221.
Bath, Countess of, 393 note.
Bath, N.Y., 190, 385, 393 and note.
Battalions (two) to be raised in Canada,

one in Lower, and one in Upper
Canada, 235, 301.

Batteaux, 140, 198, 211, 243, 252, 267,
298, 336, 342, 362, 378, 379.
Bavarian families decoyed to Upper
Canada, 341 and note.

Beating orders obtained by regiments
in Canada, 140.

Beaubien, Joseph, 389, 390.
Beausoleil Island, 75 note 2.
Beaver, Delaware warrior, 247.
Beaver, sloop, 373, 375, 378, 379, 387,
Beckwith, Lt. Col. George, 208, 384;
401, 412.
letter from William MacKay, 217.
Beckenham, Eng., 290.
Bell, Mathew, biographical note, 234;
Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish

234 and note.

(third Duke of Portland), 319 note.
Berczy, William, biographical note,

190; 110 and note 3, 190 and note 1,
191, 192, 237, 257, 278, 297, 341
note; appointed agent for a land
company, 191 (referred to as W.B.);
letter to J. G. Simcoe, 237.
Bergen Point, 384.

Bethlehem, Pa., 190 note 2.
Betton, Capt. David, 119 and note.
Bevan, Drummer, 398.

Biddle, Col. C., 255; letter from General
Wilkins, 245.

Big Bay Point, Lake Simcoe (see Point
Endeavour).

Big Knives (the Indian name for the
Virginians in Wayne's army), 230,
231, 232, 345, 357, 360.
Big Miamis River, 247, 258 note 1.
Big Sail family of Snake Island, Lake
Simcoe, 72 note 2. (See also
Great Sail.)

Big Sodus, 205, 295. (See also Great
Sodus.)

Big Tree, chief, death of, 195, 196, 272,
276.

Bills of exchange in return for paper
money, approved by Robert Hamil-
ton, 153; possibility of their supply
being deficient, 134.

Bill to establish a Superior Court of
civil and criminal jurisdiction and
to regulate the Court of Appeal.
(See Judicature Bill.)

Bird's corps, 198 note.
Bishop, establishment of a, 167.
Bishop of Quebec, the, 80.

Bittern (mud-hen), 77 note 3.
Black River (tributary of the Severn
River), 73.

Black River, N.Y., 331.
Blackstone, Justice, on the subversion
of the County Courts in England,

269.

Bliss, Eugene F., Translation of Zeis-
berger's Diary, 190 note 2, 219,
220, 348.

Blockhouse, plan of, 207.
Blockhouses, 383, 384.
Blockhouses to be erected, 161.
Blue Jacket, Shawnee chief, 247.
Board of Ordnance, 64.
Board of Survey, a, 338.
Boat builders required, 343.
Boat builders, 354.

Boat of commandant of Detroit, 386.
Boats for Lake Erie for Wayne, 362.
Bois Blanc Island, Post at, 64, 67.
Bombardier as storekeeper, 173.
Boston, Mass., 34, 177, 178, 210, 213,
364 note 1.

Bouchette, Joseph, biographical note, 2;

2 and note, 118 and note 3, 119,
130, 180, 206, 257.
Bouchette's (Capt.) vessel, 378.
Boundary between Canada and the

United States, unsettled question
with respect to Indian lands along
the, 81, 83, 121, 148, 149, 159,
160, 281, 289, 300, 303, 318, 325,
336, 407; Lord Dorchester's view
as to its settlement, 3.

Boundary line between the United
States and the Indians, 7, 12, 14, 15,
16, 33, 34, 38, 85, 86, 141, 142, 144,
146, 215; a question on which
Gov. Simcoe deemed it unnecessary
to give his opinion, 5; line proposed
by the Six Nations and Lake
Indians in Council at Buffaloe
Creek, Oct. 10, 1793, to be trans-
mitted by Gen. Chapin to Congress,
86.
Boundary line of the Muskingum River

proposed by Brant at the Miamis
Rapids, to the Western Indians, 15.
Boundary between the Six Nations and
the U.S., 272.

Boundary between the Southern Indians
and Georgia and Carolina, 201.
Bounty money for recruits, ten guineas,
302, 306, 347.
Bowles, Mr., 201.

Brackenridge, John, letter from James
Bradley, Senator (U.S.), 228.
Monroe (extract), 38.
Braithwaite, Captain, 250.
Brandywine, Battle of, 280.

Brant, Joseph, 23 note, 27, 31, 32, 37,
42, 44, 48, 49, 59, 60, 62, 65, 85, 86,
99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 114, 115,
116 and note, 137, 144, 147, 169,
174, 182, 189, 195, 214, 218, 261,
265, 266, 268, 272, 285, 286, 287,
288, 296, 315, 319, 386, 411, 413,
417; cool reception by the Western
Indians, 6; his designs, 100; dis-
union of the Indian confederacy
imputed to him by Mr. Sheehan,
102; his journal of the Indian
Council at the Foot of the Miamis
Rapids, May 17 to August 9, 1793,
5; his obsequious attitude toward
the United States, 59; how regarded
by the Western Indians, 49, 59;
how regarded by Gov. Simcoe, 59;
his guidance of the Superintendent
General's office as far as the Six
Nations have been concerned, 59;
his trip to Philadelphia in 1792,
42; his conduct before the com-
missioners at Niagara strongly re-
probated at the Miamis Indian
Council, 101; his reasons for re-
ceding from his former sentiments
in respect to the Ohio boundary,
103; his illness, 180, 182, 189, 194;
reconciliation between him and the
Senecas, 180; his rejection of the
deed that prohibited the leasing of
lands by the Six Nations, 59; offers
of the U.S. for his fealty, 116 and
note; tendency of his conduct to
implicate Great Britain in the war
between the United States and the
Western Indians, 187; title deeds of
lands on the Grand River per-
emptorily refused by him, 114;
letter from J. G. Simcoe, 4; letter

from Alexander McKee, 235; letters |
to Joseph Chew, secretary of Indian
Affairs (extract), 68, (extract) 155,
(extract) 193, 217; letter to J. G.
Simcoe, 47; letter to Cornplanter,
254; letter to Major John Smith,
326.

Brant's Indians, 183.
Brant's settlements, 104.

Brant's Village, Grand River, 402.

Brant, Molly, 118 note 1, 174 note,
263 note 1.

Brauer, C. L., & Son, of Bremen,
Germany, 191.

Brauer, Charles Lewis, 237.

Brauer, Dederic Conrad, 191, 237.
Brazen, gun boat, 279.

Bremen, Germany, 191.

Brewerton, Lieut., 49, 50.
Bridgewater, 361 note 2.
Brighton, 75 note 1.

British America, 223; its position un-
safe, 285.

British affairs, 319 note.

British agent in attendance at con-

ference between Indians and U.S.
officer, 296.

British aggressions alleged by James
Monroe, 188.

British alliance with Spain, 238.
British cabinet, unceasing employment
of the, 346.

British Canadians, their language in
respect to U.S. subjects, 223.
British capital, misapplication of, 190.
British commandant at Detroit, 328.
British commerce,
preservation of,

secured by the establishment of a
government in Upper Canada, 305.
British conduct respecting the alleged
instigation of Indian hostilities,
etc., as seen in the United States,
255, 278 note, 330, 341, 410.
British conquests in the West Indies,

229.

British creditors of the United States,
346.

British Foreign Office, 125.

British funds, 116.

British House of Commons, 319 note.
British inhabitants, 325.

British inhabitants of Upper Canada,
loyalty among, 383.
British ministers, their instructions to
raise two provincial battalions with-
out delay for the defence of Upper
and Lower Canada, 187.
British monarch called Father by the
Indians, 245.

British North-west trade, 42.
British officer, a, 393.

British opposed to Presqu'Isle, 245.
British post existed upon the Miamis
River prior to the peace of 1783, a,
408.

British relations with the Six Nations,
365.

British return to the Floridas wished
by the Southern Indians, 199.
British settlements in N. America, the
United States ripe for an attack
on the, 177.

British settlements, protection of, 329.
British subjects, 266.

British subjects not rightfully deprived
of commerce with Indians in Indian
territory, 329.

British traders, false reports in Detroit
relative to, 138, 139.

British troops, 325, 366, 367; practic-
ability for them to pass by the
Chicago route, 222.

British War Office, 140.

British West Indies, embargo upon
supplies going to, proposed in the
United States, 188.

Broken Fronts to be held for Garrison
purposes, 52.

Brooking, Lieut., 257, 266, 280, 302,
303.
Brown, Col., 199.
Brunswick, Duke of, 279.
Bryce, Lt. Alexander, 208 and note 2,
210, 236, 256, 336, 369.
Buckangehallis, Delaware chief, 7, 8,
16, 132, 247.
Buckingham, Marquis of, letters to
Lord Grenville, 326, 358, (bis) 358.
Buell, Major John H., 409.
Buffalo Creek, 9, 26, 141, 142, 143, 147,
155, 182, 183, 184, 193, 194, 214,
217, 218, 223, 229, 254, 255, 272,

274, 282, 285, 288, 353, 364, 365, |
368, 369, 382, 383; Six Nations'
Council at, Oct. 10, 1793, 47, 69,
85, 86, 103; Six Nations' Council at,
Feb. 7, 1794, 141.
Buffalo Historical Society, publications
of, 250.

Bunbury, Capt. Joseph (of the 5th

Regt.), 31, 32, 34, 141, 266, 368,
369, 377, 378, 384, 385, 386, 388,
392, 393, 410, 412, 414, 418, 419;
letter from Major William Camp-
bell, 408; letters from J. G. Sim-
coe, (extract) 32, 370, 389.
Burch, John, biographical note, 361;
361 and note 2.

Burges, Sir James Bland, Foreign Office
Journal of, 125; Letters and Cor-
respondence of, quoted, 220; letter
from George Hammond, 220; letter
from Edward Thornton, 250.
Burgoyne, Gen., 127, 263 note 1.
Burlington Bay, 1, 58, 59, 62, 94, 107,
115, 160, 161, 179, 323, 327.
Burnt Creek, Lake Erie, 401.
Burton Historical Collection (Detroit
Public Library), 4.

Bush, Mr., settler near Oswego, 204.
Butler, General, U.S. Army, 274, 330.
Butler, Lieut. Col. John, 37, 60, 61,
85, 99, 101, 102, 103, 113, 115, 155,
174, 180, 182, 189, 214, 257, 299,
320; letters to Joseph Chew, 218,
264, 316, 360; letter to Major
John Smith, 45.
Butler, Ensign J., 297.

Butler, Lieut. Johnson, 226 and note.
Butler's Rangers, 70 note 2, 117 note 1,
198 note, 227 notes 1, 2 and 5, 414.

Cain, Barnabas, 45.
Caldwell, William, biographical note,

198; 198 and note, 225 and note 3,
227 and note 5, 297, 374, 376, 387,
389, 401, 414; letter to Alexander
McKee, 227.

Caldwell's Manor, Lake Champlain,
163.

Caldwell, the, King's vessel on Lake
Ontario, 1, 118, 119.
Campbell, Capt., U.S. army, 410.

Campbell, Col. John, Superintendent of
Indian Affairs in Lower Canada, 4,
136, 177, 207 and note, 209, 233.
Campbell, Major William, 24th Regi-

ment, 197, 211, 237, 362, 373, 374,
375, 379, 381, 386, 389, 398, 402,
403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 415,
419; his refusal as Major command-
ing at Fort Miamis to abandon the
Fort when ordered by Gen. Wayne,
408; letters from Gen. Anthony
Wayne, 406, (No. 4) 407; letters
to Gen. Anthony Wayne, (No. 1)
405, (No. 3) 406, (No. 5) 408;
letter to Joseph Bunbury, 408;
letters to R. G. England, 395, 398,
404; letters to Alexander McKee,
380, 399, 416; letter to J. G.
Simcoe, 417.

Canada Act, 1791, 81, 82, 185.
Canada, Lower, grants made by the
government of, 159; importance of
the St. Lawrence to, 157.
Canada, Upper and Lower, 412; ad-
justment of revenues, 87; antici-
pated withdrawal of the King's
forces from, 122; flour supply for,
233; H. M. forces in, 235; in-
habitants of, Order to raise a com-
pany amongst for the Royal Can-
adian Volunteers, 345; Simcoe's
mode of defence for, 301.
Canada Creek, 160.

Canadasaga Lake, N.Y., 205.
Canadasaga River, 205.

Canadian corps, difficulty in raising
men for the, 286; officers for the,
288.

Canadian regiments to be raised, 280.
Canadians, French, 298, 299.
Canandorque (Canandaigua, N.Y.), 144,
147 notes, 182.

Canaseraga Creek (Genesee), 393 note.
Canawya, Shawnee chief (also called
Cat's Eyes), 7, 27.
Canewango River, 274.

Canise, Indian chief (see "Keenees").
Canise Island, Lake Simcoe, 73 note 2.
Canning, George, 242 note.

Canvas houses used by Gov. Simcoe,
70.

Cape Breton Island, 164.

Cassewago settlement, 296.

note.

Capt. Hendrick, Mohawk chief, 6.
Captain John, Mohawk chief (Bay of
Quinté), 116, 178.

Capt. Johnny, chief of the Shawanoes,
6, 8, 12, 13, 16, 35.
Captain Pipe, Wyandot, 128.
Capinou, Mr., agent for the Holland
Company, 189.

Carleton, Guy, Lord Dorchester (see
"Dorchester").

Carleton Island, 80, 168, 172, 197, 203;

cannon and carronades from, 63,
68; condemned cannon to be trans-
ferred to York (Toronto), 2; ques-
tion as to its position relative to
the boundary line, 3.

Carleton, Thomas, Governor of New
Brunswick, 84.

Carmagnoles, 279.
Carolina, 201.

Carondelet, Baron de, Spanish Governor
of Louisiana, 129, 222. (See also
Baron de Carondelet and De
Carondelet).

Carribean Seas, 210.

Carrol, Bishop of Baltimore, 292 note.
Carrying Place between Lake Ontario
and the Thames River, 58.
Carrying Place on the Onondaga River,
205.

Carrying Place to the Bay of Quinté,
338.

Carthew's Bay, Lake Simcoe, 73 note 1.
Cartwright, Hon. Richard, 97, 184,

264, 271; his connection with the
Commissariat, 265; his opposition
to the Judicature Bill, 264, 265;
his pork, 234; his speech on the
Judicature Bill, 1794, 268; his
views of the Executive Govern-
ment of Upper Canada, 88; his
view of the situation of York for a
capital, 88; letter to Isaac Todd,
87; Life and Letters of, 89, 268-270.
Cartwright, Hon. Richard, and Robert

Hamilton, their ascendancy from
being agents for the contractors of
supplies to the King's troops, 55, 56.

Cataraugus, N.Y., 254, 268 and note,
353, 355.
Catfish Creek, 125.

Catherine, schooner on Lake Ontario,
201, 394.

Cattle, purchase of them from the
United States, 133, 151.
Cavalry artillery, 249.
Caughnawaga, 178, 233.
Caughnawaga Indians, 130 (?), 194, 202,
266, 286, 303.
Cayugas, 141, 361.

Cayuga Lake, N.Y., 205, 383.
Centinel of the North West, Cincinnati,
258 note 1.

Chambly Fort, 197. (See also Fort
Chambly).

Chanal Ecarté, 58, 413.

Chapin, Gen. Israel, superintendent of
Indian Affairs for the U.S., bio-
graphical note, 147; 31, 85, 86,
102, 103, 105, 130, 141, 142, 143,
144, 147 and note 1, 194, 214, 218,
254, 272, 273, 274, 275, 288, 294,

296, 301, 315, 364, 368, 411; letter
to Andrew Ellicott, 294.

Chapin, Capt. Israel (son of the pre-
ceding), 147 note 1.

Chaplain to the Legislative Council of
Upper Canada (Rev. Dr. John
Stuart), 147.

Charleston, S.C., 241.

Chase, Samuel, Chief Justice of Mary-
land, 250.

Chatham, 112, 167, 189 note; to be

made the capital of the district on
the Lower Thames, 58, 62.
Chaudière River, Lower Canada, 159.
Chautauqua Lake, N.Y., 274.
Chawanas (Shawnees, q.v.).
Chesapeake, 177, 206, 208, 213, 256.
Chenolou, chief of the Hurons, 10.
Cherokee country, 199.
Cherokees, 33, 36, 105, 169, 199, 201,
232, 335; totem mark, 20.
Chew, Joseph, secretary of Indian
affairs, 20, 126, 233, 262, 410;
letters from Joseph Brant, (extract)
68, (extract) 155, (extract) 193,