Cadwallader Colden (26 page)

gardenia, naming of,
118
–
19

Gazette
(newspaper),
58
,
101
–
102

Genealogical Notes of The Colden Family in America
(Purple),
162

“General Scholium” (Newton),
77

Genera Plantarum
(Linnaeus),
65

Gentlemen's Magazine
,
109
,
111
,
113

George, Fort,
131
,
143

George I (king),
28

George II (king),
26
,
53
,
74
,
132
,
133

George III (king),
132
,
148
,
151

statue of torn down in New York City,
156

Gilbert, Humphrey,
23

glass armonica,
137

Glen, James,
117

Gordon, James,
116

gout,
70

Graham, Augustine,
29

gravity,
70
–
71
,
75
,
76
,
77
–
78
,
80
–
82
,
95
,
111
,
171

See also
Explanation of the First Causes of Action in Matter; and the Cause of Gravitation
(Colden)

Great Awakening,
85

Great Meadows,
104

Great Minnisink patent,
34

Great New York Fire of 1776,
9

Greene, Nathanael,
118

Gregory, Dr.,
18

Grenville, George,
141
,
146

Grenville, Richard,
24

Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus,
44
,
63
,
65
,
72
,
120
,
124

Gulf Stream,
67

 

Hale, Nathan,
9

Haley, John,
163

Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of,
100
,
131
,
137
–
38
,
140

Hall, David,
67
,
93

Halley, Edmund,
18

Hamilton, Alexander,
163

Hamilton, Andrew,
58

Hamilton, James,
131

Hanover Precinct (now Montgomery, New York),
165

Hardy, Charles,
101
–
102

Hartford, Connecticut,
25

Heathcote, John,
90

Herkimer, Fort,
107

Herkimer County, New York,
55

Herring, Thomas,
90

Hill, Elizabeth (aunt),
16
,
56
–
57

Hill, R.,
20

Hillsborough, Earl of,
146
,
147
,
148

“His Address to the Freeholders and Freemen of the Cities & Counties of the Province of New York by a Freeholder” (Colden),
93

Historia Plantarum
(Morison),
121

History of the Five Indian Nations, The
(Colden),
38
–
41
,
64
,
68
,
73
,
170
–
71

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

sales of,
110
–
11

second edition of,
91

History of the Province of New-York, from the First Discovery to the Year MDCCXXXII (1732), The
(Smith),
18
,
38
,
60
–
61
,
86

Colden's problems with the content of,
127
–
29
,
132
,
137

Hobbes, Thomas,
84

Horsmanden, Daniel,
55
,
89
,
90
,
138

Hortus Medicus Edinburgensis
(Preston),
15

hospital, founding of second oldest,
151

Hovius de Circulari Humoum
,
18

Hudson's Bay Company,
102

Hughes, Janet (mother),
13

Hunter, Robert,
20
–
21
,
28
,
29
,
30
,
92

Huske, John,
38

Hyde, Edward [aka Lord Cornbury],
34

hydrophobia, cure for,
109
–
110

 

Ile Royale (Cape Breton Island),
103

Ile Saint Jean (Prince Edward Island),
103

Indian affairs, Colden's interest in,
30

attending conference with Five Nations,
36

Colden's adoption by the Mohawks,
41

Colden's efforts to get funding for presents for,
90
–
91

Colden's efforts to raise a militia to protect against hostile Indians,
102

meeting with Indians in Albany in 1746,
87
–
89

while lieutenant governor of New York,
138
–
39
,
141

writings,
91
,
110
–
11

about trade with the Indians,
36
,
37
,
41
–
42
,
91

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

The History of the Five Indian Nations
,
38
–
41
,
64
,
68
,
73
,
170
–
71

infectious hepatitis,
70

Ingoldesby, Richard,
92

inoculations,
32

Institutiones Herbariae
(Tournefort),
121

“Intelligent Beings,”
86

Interest of City and Country to Lay No Duties: or A Short Discourse shewing that Duties on Trade, tend to the Impoverishing City and Country, The
(anonymous),
43

Interest of the Country in laying Duties: or, a Discourse shewing how Duties on some Sorts of Merchandize may make the Province of New-York richer than it would be without them, The
(Colden),
43

Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxioms, An
(Colden),
78
–
79

“Introduction to the Study of Phylosophy, An” (Colden),
130

Iroquois (Indians),
102
,
105
,
107
,
167

Five Nations,
36
–
37
,
39
,
40
,
92
,
93
,
109
,
170

France recognizing British control of,
102

Six Nations,
53
,
103
,
139

treaty with,
89

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

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

Izard, George (son of Henry and Alice),
163

Izard, Henry (married to Alice Delancey),
163

Izard, Ralph (son of Henry and Alice),
164

 

Jacobite, Colden accused of being,
16
,
56

James, Thomas,
143

James I (king),
24

James II (king) [aka Duke of York],
25
,
26
,
27
,
28
,
33

Jamestown, Virginia,
24

Jarratt, Allane,
29

Jay, John,
74

Jefferys, Thomas,
33

Jews, disfranchisement of,
59

Johnson, Samuel,
63
,
76
,
80
,
82
,
83
,
84
–
85
,
109

Johnson, William,
103
,
105
,
106
–
107
,
138
,
139
,
141

“Join or Die” (political cartoon by Franklin),
105
,
106

Journal für Botanik
(Schrader),
124

 

Kalm, Peter,
15
,
93
,
115
,
122
,
169

Kastner, Abraham Gotthelf,
112

Kempe, John Tabor,
138
,
149

Kennedy, Archibald,
54

Kent County, Delaware,
26

King's College (later Columbia University),
80
,
122
,
151

Knight, Gowin,
74

 

Lahontan, Baron de,
36
–
37
,
39

Lake George, Battle of in 1755,
138

Lane, Ralph,
24

Le Clerc Histoire de la Medicine
,
18

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,
84

Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, The
(collected by the New York Historical Society),
43

Lexington, battle in 1775,
155

libel issues and Zenger trial,
57
–
58

lieutenant governor of New York

acting governor in lieu of absent governor,
149
–
50

Cadwallader Colden as,
123
,
132
,
133
–
34
,
135
–
36
,
137
,
141
,
148
–
49
,
150
–
51
,
158
,
162
,
172

coming out of retirement in 1760 to serve,
131
–
32

Dunmore's efforts to remove from position,
154

final retirement in 1775,
155
–
56

pamphlet attacking performance,
145

recommended to be, but Delancey appointed instead,
91

resuming service after 1766 retirement,
147

resuming service awaiting arrival of Tryon in 1771,
151

resuming service while Tryon away in 1774,
155

retiring again in 1770 with arrival of Dunmore,
148

retiring from post of lieutenant governor in 1766,
144

George Clarke as,
42
,
59
,
60
,
61
,
86
,
87

James Delancey as,
90
,
92
,
99
,
100
–
101
,
108
,
130
,
131

Richard Ingoldesby as,
87

lightning rod,
139

Lind, James,
117

Linnaeus, Carolus,
44

and Alexander Garden,
117
,
125

and Bartram,
64
,
65

and Colden,
63
,
65
,
66

designating a specific genus
Coldenia
after Colden,
66
,
171

and Collinson,
123

and Jane Calden,
120
–
21
,
123
,
124
,
125

and Mitchell,
73

sending Kalm to America,
93

Livingston, Philip,
87
,
89
,
96

Livingston, William,
132
,
145

Logan, James,
19
–
20
,
21
,
44
,
67
,
78
–
79

London
(ship),
155

London Magazine
,
111

London Society of Arts,
117

Long Island, Battle of,
156

Lord Beacon's Head (Fleet Street),
110

Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantation,
74

“Lost Colony,”
24

Lothian, Marquis of,
55

Louisbourg, expedition against,
102

Lovelace, Francis,
27

Lues Venera,
70

Lyne, James,
54

Lyne Survey for New York,
53
,
54

 

magnetism,
137

Maine,
27

maps

“Map of Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the Three Delaware Counties” (map by Lewis Evans),
97
–
98

“Map of the British and French Dominions in North America with the Roads, Distances, Limits, and Extent of the Settlements, A” (map by Mitchell),
74

“MAP of the Countrey of THE FIVE NATIONS belonging to the province of NEW-YORK and of the LAKES near which the Nations of FAR INDIANS live with part of CANADA taken from the Map of LOUISIANE done by M' DeLisle in 1718” (map by Colden),
36
–
37

“Map of the Most Inhabited Part of New England” (based on map by Douglass),
33

See also
cartography

Marine Society of New York,
151

Martha's Vineyard,
25
,
27

Martinique, surrender of,
135

Mary (queen).
See
William and Mary (king and queen)

Maryland,
25

Massachusetts, Province of (aka Massachusetts Bay Colony),
25
,
26
,
30
,
32
,
44
,
96

battle near Lexington in 1775,
155

commissions to define borders,
64

with New Hampshire,
56

with Rhode Island,
56

in French and Indian War,
105
,
106
,
107