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Chatham — Domestic Life
637
Congress, Second Continental, statement of grievances, 442-445; proceedings, 525-530; debate over independence, 537-539; debate over slavery, 539-541; debate over voting, 531-542; debate over state boundaries, 542-543; falling-off in character, 543-545; appealed to by Washington, 560-562; recompense promised to Steuben, 585.
Congress, Stamp Act, statement of rights and grievances 402-404.
Congress of the United States, records, 6; library, 10; Journals, 12, 445; Secret Journals, 12, 593, 600.
Connecticut, value of records, 6; Records, 17, 202; government, 59-60, 143; character, 228; trade, 228-229.
Connecticut Historical Society, Collections, 61.
Constables, duties, 208-209.
Constitution, French view of British, 144-149; of New Hampshire, 534-537. — See also Confederation.
Convention, Maryland, proceedings, 519-524. — See also Revolution.
Conway, Henry Seymour, The Repeal of the Stamp Act, 411-412.
Copy of Letters sent to Great-Britain by Thomas Hutchinson, 423.
Cornell University, library, 10.
Cornwallis, Marquis, Correspondence, 19, 618; in the Carolinas and Virginia, 606-608; The Capitulation of York-Town, 615-618.
Correspondence, committees of, attitude toward Tories, 470-472.
Cosby, William, A Governor's Plea for Patronage, 153-154; libelled, 193-194.
Councils, records of, as sources, 6; His Majesty's Council in New Jersey, Concerning the Riots & Insurrections in New Jersey, 80-84; business of a council, 175-179; Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Common Council of Albany, Records of a City Government, 208-211.
County, on Delaware, 72; juries, 188; court, 205.
Courts, colonial, records of, as sources 6; Court of Perquimans, Records of a Precinct Court, 191-192; appointment of judges, 202; defects, 203-204; need of court of appeal and equity, 204; business of a county court, 205-208; admiralty, 396-397. — See Juries, Trial.
Cranston, Samuel, An Explanation by Rhode Island, 49-52.
Creditors, American and British, 624.
Currency, continental, 601-603. — See also Finances, Money.
Curwen, Samuel, Journal and Letters, 21, 349, 480; a loyalist refugee, 25; The Louisburg Expedition, 346-349; The Lots of the Refugee, 477-480.
DANVERS, General Gage's house at, 2.
Dartmouth, Earl of, A Reprimand to a Colonial Governor, 169-170.
Dates, use of, 24.
Deane, Silas, Papers, 19.
Debt, state of national, 598-600.
Declaration of Independence, facsimile, 11; debates on 537-539.
Dedham Historical Register, 272.
Delaware, separation from Pennsylvania, 72-74.
Dickinson, John, Farmer's Letters, 2, 426; Writings, 21; The Pennsylvania Farmer's Remedy, 423-426.
Dinwiddie, Robert, Charge to a Grand Jury, 189-191; Official Records, 191.
Dissenters, in New England, 52-53. — See also Religion.
Documents, collections of, 11-13; Documents relative to New-York, 13, 17, 21, 79, 131, 154, 162, 164, 170, 184, 247, 250, 253, 290, 334, 339, 356, 357, 367, 387, 412; Documents relating New Jersey, 13, 21, 84, 161, 166, 179, 181, 254, 289, 302, 351. — See also Sources.
Doddridge, Joseph, shows hardship of frontier life, 25; The Settlement of the Western Country, 387-391; Notes on the Settlement of the Western Parts of Virginia & Pennsylvania, 391.
Domestic life, among the Indians, 327-330; in the Ohio River settlements, 387-391; on the frontiers, 392-393. — See also Colonies.