Cadwallader Colden (27 page)

materialism,
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85
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Mather, Cotton,
32

matter,
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171

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

Mead, Dr.,
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110

medical associations,
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,
52
,
63
,
118

Medical Observations and Inquiries
(publication),
110

medical school, first in New York,
122
,
151

medicine, Colden's interest in,
15
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16
,
18
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20

attempts to establish medical lectures,
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20

Colden helping pass regulation of medical practices,
130

concerns about seasonal fevers,
69

maintaining interest in after ceasing practice,
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publications on medicine,
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“Memorial concerning the Fur Trade of the Province of New York presented to His Excellency William Burnet, Esquire, Captain Generall & Governor &c By Cadwallader Colden, Surveyor General of said Province, November 10th, 1724, A” (Colden),
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42

Metropolitan Museum of Art,
165

Mr. Boyle's Head (Fleet Street),
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Mitchell, John,
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Mitchella repens
,
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Mohawk (Indians),
37

Colden adopted by,
41

Mohawk Valley, surveying in,
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36
,
59

Monckton, Robert,
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,
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36
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137

Monro, Alexander (
primus
),
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Montcalm de Saint-Véran, Louis-Joseph,
107

Montgomerie, John,
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Monthly Review
(magazine),
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Montreal, surrendering of in 1760,
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30

Moore, Henry,
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Moore, John,
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Morison, Robert,
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Morris, Lewis, Jr.,
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Morris, Lewis, Sr.,
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Motie in Oculis
,
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moving matter,
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Murray, Alexander (married Jane Colden),
165

Murray, James.
See
Dunmore, James Murray, Earl of

Murray, Jane (Colden).
See
Colden, Jane [aka Jenny] (daughter)

Murray, Joseph,
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Nantucket,
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National Historical Landmark,
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National Museum of the American Indian,
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Necessity, Fort,
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Negro skin, composition of,
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Newcastle, Duke of.
See
Pelham, Thomas [aka Duke of Newcastle]

New Castle County, Delaware,
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New England, Dominion of,
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,
28

Newfoundland,
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New Hampshire,
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,
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New Haven Colony,
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New Jersey,
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New Netherlands,
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Newton, Isaac,
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Newtonian science,
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See also
ether; gravity; matter

Newton's Optics
(Newton),
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New York (City of),
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British occupying in 1776,
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Colden moving to,
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Dutch in,
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first map,
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statue of George III torn down,
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New York (Colony of),
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charter for,
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conflicts over free trade vs. protective duties,
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determining contested borders with Connecticut,
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electing new assembly after death of George II,
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financing problems before French and Indian War,
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governors of.
See
Burnet, William; Clinton, George; Cosby, William; Dongan, Thomas; Dunmore, James Murray, Earl of; Hardy, Charles; Hunter, Robert; Hyde, Edward [aka Lord Cornbury]; Ingoldesby, Richard; Lovelace, Francis; Monckton, Robert; Montgomerie,
John; Moore, Henry; Nicolls, Richard; Tryon, William

See also
Assembly of New York; Chancery, Court of (New York); Council of New York; political service of Cadwallader Colden in New York

New York Chamber of Commerce,
146

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society,
162

New York Historical Society,
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,
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,
174

New-York Weekly Journal
(newspaper),
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58

New York Weekly Post
,
58

Niagara, Fort,
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129

Nicholls, Elizabeth (marriage to Alexander Colden),
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Nicolls, Richard,
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Nollet, Jean-Antoine (Abbé Nollet),
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North, Lord,
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North Carolina,
26

Nuck Operationes et Experiment Chirurg
,
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Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals and other Matters Worthy of Notice
(Bartram),
65

“Of the First Principles of Morality or the Actions of Intelligent Beings” (Calden).
See
“First Principles of Morality, or of the Actions of Intelligent Beings” (Colden)

Ogelthorpe, James Edward,
73

Old Saybrook Colony,
25

Oliver, Andrew,
142

Oneida (Indians),
38

Onondaga (Indians),
38

Optics
(Newton),
77

Orange County, New York,
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Osborn, Danvers,
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Osborne, Thomas,
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Oswego, Fort,
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Paper Currency Bill,
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Papers Relating to an Act of New-York for Encouragement of the Indian Trade
(Colden),
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Paris, Treaty of in 1763,
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Paris, Treaty of in 1783,
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Parker, James,
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Park of Artillery,
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Pelham, Thomas [aka Duke of Newcastle],
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Penn, William,
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Pennsylvania,
26

pestilential distemper.
See
Yellow Fever

Philadelphia, Colden's time in,
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18

moving to New York,
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23
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28

Philadelphia Medical Society,
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Philipse, Adolph,
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Philosophical Society of Edinburgh,
118

Philosophical Transactions
(journal of Royal Society of London),
72

philosophy and metaphysical interests of Colden,
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Pitt, Fort,
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Pitt, William (the Elder),
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Plains of Abraham, battle at,
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135

planetary motion,
111

“Plan of British Dominions of New England”
(map by Douglass),
33

Plan of Union of the Colonies,
105

“Plantae Coldenhamiae in provincia Novaboracensi Americanes sponte Crescentes” (Colden),
66

pleurisy,
70

Plymouth Colony,
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pneumonia,
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pokeweed, value of,
109

political cartoon, first in America,
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106

political service of Cadwallader Colden in New York

and the Assembly of New York,
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serving as lieutenant governor,
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coming out of retirement in 1760 to serve,
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Dunmore's efforts to remove from position,
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final retirement in 1775,
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56

pamphlet attacking performance,
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recommended to be, but Delancey appointed instead,
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resuming service after 1766 retirement,
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resuming service awaiting arrival of Tryon in 1771,
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resuming service while Tryon away in 1774,
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retiring again in 1770 with arrival of Dunmore,
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retiring from post of lieutenant governor in 1766,
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serving on Council,
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attacks on Colden for work on Council,
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Colden being deliberately absent from,
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coming out of retirement in 1760 to be President of Council,
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dismissal by Clinton,
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dismissed from in 1747,
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relationship with Governor Cosby,
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report on government revenues,
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44

serving as President of Council,
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,
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serving on privy council that dealt with Zenger,
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siding with Governor Clinton and the Crown,
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,
96

Pontiac (Indian leader),
139

Popple, Henry,
74

Post-boy
(periodical),
89

post master general, deputy,
100

Pownall, John,
137

Pratt, Matthew,
152

Premium Society,
117

Present State of Great Britain and North America with regard to Agriculture, Population, Trade, and Manufactures, impartially considered
(Mitchell),
75

Preston, Charles,
15

Principia Mathematica
(Newton),
75
,
77

Principles of Action in Matter, the Gravitation of Bodies and the Motion of the Planets, explained from those Principles, The
(Colden),
111
,
112
–
13

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

“PROPOSAL, for Promoting USEFUL KNOWLEDGE among the British Plantations in America” (Franklin),
68

Providence Plantations,
25

Purple, Edwin R.,
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,
162

 

quadrant, Colden trying to develop a more exact,
170

Quartering Act of 1765,
145

Quebec, battle of,
135

 

Raleigh, Walter,
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24

Rattlesnake Root (
Polygala senega
),
70

Rebellion against the Crown in 1715,
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93

religious belief of Colden,
85

Representation to Clinton of seven members of the Council in reference to Colden's pamphlet of the Treaty with the Six Nations
,
89

reputation of Cadwallader Colden,
127

Franklin's appreciation for Colden,
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,
131
,
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