Cadwallader Colden (25 page)

Committee of Fifty One,
155

Committee of One Hundred,
155

Committee of Sixty,
155

“Concerning the Throat-Distemper” (Colden),
110

“Conduct of Cadwallader Colden, Esquire, Late Lieutenant Governor of New York, relating to the Judges Commissions, Appeals to the King and the Stamp Act,”
145

Connecticut Colony,
25
,
27
,
142

determining contested borders with New York,
35
,
56

Contest in America between Great Britain and France with Its Consequence and Importance
(Mitchell),
74
–
75

Continental Army, formation of,
156

Continental Congress

first meeting in 1774,
155

Second Continental Congress in 1775,
155

Continuation of Colden's History of the Five Indian Nations for the years 1707 through 1720
,
91
–
92

Contributions in American History
(series),
10

Conway, Henry Seymour,
144

Conwell, William,
158

corpuscular light,
78

Cortlandt, Phillip,
89

Cosby, William,
53
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56
,
57
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58
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59
,
60
–
61

Council of New York,
30
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60
,
101
,
128
,
135
,
141

Colden serving on,
30
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41
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49
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53
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64
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86
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95
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102
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109
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151
,
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attacks on Colden for work on Council,
55
,
56
,
89
,
93
,
143
,
145

Colden being deliberately absent from,
56
–
57
,
59

dismissed from in 1747,
93

relationship with Governor Cosby,
54
–
57

report on government revenues,
43
–
44

serving as President of Council,
87
–
88
,
131

Delancey serving on,
87
,
89
,
90
,
101

President as acting-governor when necessary,
59
,
131
,
135
–
36

Schuyler removed from Council,
29
,
128

and the Stamp Act,
142

See also
Assembly of New York

Court of Chancery.
See
Chancery, Court of (New York)

Cox, John,
163

Cunningham, Mr.,
138
,
141

 

Dare, Virginia,
24

Dartmouth, Earl of,
152
,
155
,
156

Davis, Lockyer,
110
–
11

Declaration of Independence,
9
,
156

Declaration of King William,
149
,
150

Declaratory Act of 1766,
145

Deism,
85
,
171

Delancey, Alice (daughter of Peter and Elizabeth),
163

Delancey, Ann (daughter of Peter and Elizabeth),
163

Delancey, Ann (Van Cortland) (mother of James and Peter),
163

Delancey, Elizabeth (Colden) (daughter),
46
,
52

in Cadwallader Colden's will,
163

as an executor of Cadwallader Colden's will,
158

marriage to Peter Delancey,
90
,
163

Delancey, James,
60
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87
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89
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90
,
95

antagonistic relationship with Cadwallader Colden,
60
,
89
,
92
,
95
,
101

in Assembly,
45
,
129

and Burnet,
45
,
128
–
29

chairing convention for adoption of a Plan of Union of the Colonies,
105

as chief justice,
57
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59
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89
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90
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92
,
96
,
99

and Clinton,
87
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90
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92
–
93
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99
,
101

and Cosby,
54
,
59

death of,
130
,
131
,
134

and Hardy,
102

as lieutenant governor of New York,
90
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92
,
99
,
100
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101
,
108
,
130
,
131

member of Council,
87
,
89
,
101

Delancey, James (son of Peter and Elizabeth),
164

Delancey, Jane (daughter of Peter and Elizabeth),
164

Delancey, John (son of Peter and Elizabeth),
163

Delancey, Oliver (son of Peter and Elizabeth),
164

Delancey, Peter (brother of James) (married to Elizabeth Colden),
90
,
163

Delancey, Peter (son of Peter and Elizabeth),
163

Delancey, Stephen (father of James and Peter),
42
,
163

Delancey, Stephen (grandson),
144

Delancey, Stephen (son of Peter and Elizabeth),
163

Delancey, Suzanna (daughter of Peter and Elizabeth),
164

Delancey, Warren (grandson) (son of Peter and Elizabeth),
152
,
164

portrait,
154

Delaware,
26
,
27

Delaware (Indians),
141

DeLisle, Guillaume,
38

Denonville, Jacques René de Brisay,
91

deputy post master general,
100

Descartes, René,
84
,
113

Diary of a Journey through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida
(Bartram),
65

Dieskau, Jean Armand,
107

Dinwiddie, Robert,
104

Domestic Narrative of the Life of Samuel Bard, A
(McVickar),
122

Dominion of New England,
25
,
26
,
28

Dongan, Thomas,
34

Douglass, William,
19
,
31
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33
,
46
,
52
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53

Drake, Francis,
24

Dunk, George.
See
Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of

Dunmore, James Murray, Earl of,
148
,
149

Duquesne, Fort,
108

Dutch colonization in North America,
26
–
27

duties, protective,
42
–
44

 

earthquake in New England in 1727,
32

East India Company,
152

East Jersey,
26

Edinburgh Essays
,
121

Edward, Fort,
107

electricity

David Colden experiments,
114
,
166

kite flying experiment,
114

lightning rod,
139

Elizabeth I (queen),
23
,
24

Ellis, John,
117
,
118
,
123

Ellison, Elizabeth (married to Cadwallader, Jr.),
164
–
65

Ellison, Thomas,
164

English Restoration,
25

epidemics

diptheria in 1739,
33

dysentery epidemic in 1734,
53

in New York City in 1743 and 1745,
70

smallpox epidemic in 1721,
32

Erie Canal,
50
–
51
,
174

engraving celebrating the opening of,
167
–
68

Essay on the Iliac Passion
(Colden),
69

ether,
77
–
78
,
84
,
112

Euler, Leonhard,
112

Evans, John,
35

Evans, Lewis,
97
–
98

Evers, James,
142

Explanation of the First Causes of Action in Matter; and the Cause of Gravitation
(Colden),
80
–
81

See also
Principles of Action in Matter, the Gravitation of Bodies and the Motion of the Planets, explained from those Principles, The
(Colden)

 

Farmer's Instructor, The
(Ellis),
117

“Farm Journal, 1727-1736, Coldengham, Orange County, N.Y.” (Colden),
45
–
46

Farquhar, William,
124
,
125

Fauquier, Francis,
131

“The Fifteen,”
16

finances of Cadwallader Colden,
99

concerns about finances and family,
99
,
100
,
131
,
145
,
166

efforts to get salary and perquisites during period as lieutenant governor,
135
–
36
,
146
,
148
–
50
,
152
,
154

order for Colden's compensation for losses during disturbances,
146

while awaiting Dunmore's arrival,
148
–
50
,
152
,
154

while Monckton's was away,
135
–
36
,
149

land grants and purchases,
28
,
45
,
134
,
157
,
159

not receiving salary as surveyor general,
64
,
100
,
101

First Continental Congress in 1774,
155

“First Principles of Morality, or of the Actions of Intelligent Beings” (Colden),
83
,
84
,
85
–
86
,
171

First Scottish Rebellion,
16

Five Nations (Iroquois),
36
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37
,
39
,
40
,
92
,
93
,
109
,
170

See also
History of the Five Indian Nations, The
(Colden); Iroquois

Flora Virginica
(Clayton),
72

Flora Zeylanica
(Linnaeus),
66

Flushing, New York,
9
,
108
,
125
,
128
–
29
,
134
,
144
,
145
,
158
,
166

See also
Spring Hill (mansion in Flushing)

fluxions,
78
,
82

Folger, Timothy,
67

Forbes, John,
109

Forsey, Mr.,
138
,
141

forts during the French and Indian War,
103
–
104
,
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,
106
,
107
–
109
,
129
,
134

See also
names of specific forts, i.e., Necessity, Fort, Oswego, Fort, etc.,

Fort William Henry,
107

Fothergill, John,
110

Franklin, Benjamin,
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69
,
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,
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,
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and the American Philosophical Society,
68
–
69

appointed deputy post master general of America,
100

and Colden,
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67
,
69

appreciation of Colden,
66
,
68
,
131
,
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correspondence,
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–
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113
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120

not mentioning Cadwallader Colden in his autobiography,
10
,
174

inventions,
67
,
137
,
139

political cartoon “Join or Die,”
105
,
106

on sailing time to and from Europe,
67

study of electricity,
97
,
114
,
139
,
166

on water spouts,
114
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15

free trade vs. protective duties,
42
–
44

French and Indian War,
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109
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30
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134
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35

Cadwallader, Jr., serving in militia during,
164

early stages,
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,
95
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financial problems for Britain after,
141

formal declaration of war in 1756,
107

French and English building forts,
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104
,
105
,
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107
–
109
,
129
,
134
.
See also
names of specific forts, i.e., Necessity, Fort, Oswego, Fort, etc.,

signing of Treaty of Paris in 1763,
138
–
39

Frontenac, Fort,
108
–
109

 

Gage, Thomas,
142
,
155

Garden, Alexander,
44
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19
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,
131
,
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