Cadwallader Colden (28 page)

loyalty to Britain and the Crown,
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seen as being against the populace,
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43

Marine Society of New York recognizing work of Colden,
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negative views about

antagonism of James Delancey,
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antagonism of William Smith, Jr.,
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37
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“Conduct of Cadwallader Colden, Esquire, Late Lieutenant Governor of New York, relating to the Judges Commissions, Appeals to the King and the Stamp Act,”
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dismissal from Council by Clinton,
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hanged in effigy,
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Hillsborough chastising Colden,
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impact of Colden's activities as lieutenant governor,
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37
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145

for meeting with Indians in Albany,
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for siding with Clinton,
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for work on Council,
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143
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positive words fifty years after Colden's death,
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73

seen as a provocateur and without tact,
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resisting matter,
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Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,
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commission to define borders with Massachusetts,
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Richfield, rights of citizens of,
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Riley, I. Woodbridge,
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Roanoke,
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Rose, William,
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Rosenbach Museum and Library,
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Royal Botanic Gardens,
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Royal Society of London,
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Royal Society of Uppsala,
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Royal Swedish Academy of Science,
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Rupert's Land,
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Rush, Benjamin,
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Rutherfurd, John,
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Rutherfurd, Walter,
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Ryswick, Treaty of,
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St. Anne's Church, Westminster,
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Saratoga, destruction of by French and Indians in 1745,
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Schoepff, Dr.,
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Schrader, Heinrich Adolph,
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Schuyler, Peter,
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scoliosis,
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Scott, John Morin,
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Scott, Walter,
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scurvy,
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Second Continental Congress in 1775,
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Second Part of the Interest of the Country in Laying Duties, The
(Colden),
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Seneca (Indians),
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Septennial Act,
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Sharpe, Horatio,
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Shirley, William,
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Six Nations (Iroquois),
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See also
Iroquois

Sloane, Hans,
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smallpox epidemic in Boston in 1721,
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Smith, William, Jr.,
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antagonistic relationship with Cadwallader Colden,
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bias concerning Colden's term as lieutenant governor,
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controversy over content of book,
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Smith, William, Sr.,
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“Society of the Hospital in the City of New-York in America, The,”
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Sons of Liberty,
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South Carolina,
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Species Plantarum
(Linnaeus),
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Spinoza, Baruch,
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Spring Hill (mansion in Flushing),
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as burial site for Cadwallader Colden,
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confiscated after Revolutionary War,
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David Colden heir to,
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fate of after death of Cadwallader Colden,
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Stamp Act of 1765,
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repeal of,
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Stanwix, Fort,
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Strahan, William,
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Stuyvesant, Peter,
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Sugar Act of 1764,
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Summary, Historical and Political of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of the British Settlements in North America
(Douglass),
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surveying and Cadwallader Colden

efforts to develop a more exact quadrant,
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as surveyor general for New York,
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asking to be replaced,
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attempt to suspend Colden from office,
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not receiving salary as surveyor general,
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recommending family members for position,
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surveying and George Washington,
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Susquehanna (Indians),
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Sussex County, Delaware,
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Sutherland, James,
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Sydenham, Thomas,
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Tar water,
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taxonomy, first North American,
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Tea Act of 1773,
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Ticonderoga, battle at,
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Tournefort, Josephi Pitton,
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Townshend Duties,
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Treaties

Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748,
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Treaty of Paris in 1763,
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Treaty of Paris in 1783,
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Treaty of Ryswick in 1697,
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Treaty of Utrecht in 1713,
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Treatise on Wounds and Fevers
(Colden),
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Trew, Christopher Jacob,
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Trinity Church,
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Tryon, William,
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Tuscaroras (Indians),
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Two Interests reconciled; occasioned by two late Pamphlets, called the Interest of the Country and the Interest of City and Country, The
(Colden),
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Ulster County, New York,
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University of Edinburgh,
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U.S. Sporting Magazine
,
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Utrecht, Treaty of in 1713,
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Van Cortland, Philip,
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Van Dam, Rip,
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Vandeput, George,
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Virginia,
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Dunmore as governor of,
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John Mitchell in,
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Wall, Alexander J.,
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Walpole, Robert,
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Wangenheim, Frederick von,
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Ward, John,
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Warren, Peter,
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Washington, George,
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named commander-in-chief of Continental Army,
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water spouts,
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Watt, James, Jr. (married to Jane Delancey),
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Watts, Jane (Delancey) (daughter of Peter and Elizabeth),
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Watts, John,
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Wawayanda (Indian tract),
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weigh-master of the Port of New York,
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Weil's disease,
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Wepfer Historia Cicutae Acquaticae
,
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Westchester, New York,
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West Jersey,
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Wetherfield, Connecticut,
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Whig Club,
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Whiston, John,
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White, John,
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White Plains, Battle of,
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Whytt, Robert,
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Willet, Alice (Colden) (daughter),
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marriage to William Willet,
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mentions of Alice's children in Cadwallader Colden's will,
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Willet, Alice (daughter of William and Alice),
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Willet, Ann (marriage to David Colden),
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Willet, John and Thomas,
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Willet, William (marriage to Alice Colden),
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William, Colonel,
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William and Mary (king and queen),
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William Henry, Fort,
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William III (king) [aka Prince of Orange],
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Williams, Fort,
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Wilson, Mr. (professor),
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Windsor, Connecticut,
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Wolfe, James,
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Wren, J.,
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Wroth, Lawrence C.,
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Yale College and University.
See
Collegiate School (later Yale College and University)

Yaws,
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Yellow Fever,
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Zenger, John Peter,
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