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| army, 24; How the Frontiers were Settled, 392-292; Travels, 393, 497; At Washington's Headquarters, 495-497. |
| Chatham, Earl of. — See Pitt, William. |
| Chauncy, Charles, Fears of Episcopacy, 418, 420; Letters to a Friend, 420. |
| Cheever, Ezekiel, Witches' Testimony, 40-48. |
| Chesapeake Bay, naval actions in, 575-576, 609. |
| Chew house, at Germantown, 4. |
| Chimneys and fire-places, care of, 211. |
| Church of England, dissenters, 52-53; tendency to undermine, 106; church wardens 210, 212-213; attempt to establish, 289-290, 418-420. — See also Religion. |
| Churchill, Charles, The North Briton, 380. |
| Cincinnati, The, society of, 626-627. |
| City government, record, 208-211. |
| Clap, Thomas, The History of Yale-College, 255-258; History of Yale-College, 258. |
| Clark, George Rogers, The Conquest of the Illinois Country, 579-582; Journal, 582. |
| Clark, Walter, State Records of North Carolina, 13. |
| Clarke, George, Jr., One Thousand Pounds for a Governorship, 161-162. |
| Clergy, benefit of, claimed, 192. |
| Clinton, General George, Abandonment of New York, 554-556. |
| Clinton,Governor George, A Governor's Perquisites, 162-164. |
| Coercion, issue of, 434-453. |
| Colden, Cadwallader, The French and the Fur Trade, 320-324; History of the Five Nations, 324. |
| Collections of documents, 11-13. |
| College, founding of Yale, 255-258; life at Harvard in 1758, 266-272; examinations of 288. — See also Intellectual Life. |
| Colonies, records of 2, 5, 6; sources on, 14-21; charter colonies, 133-137; power of Parliament over charters, 137; relation to mother country, 138-141; common law, 139; need of judges from England, 140; militia of, 140; union of, 140; emulations in, 140; suggestion of stamp duties, 141; distinguished from provinces, 141-142; character of first settlers, 142; good effect on the mother country, 142; kinds of population, 142; royal grants, 143; remedies for misgovernment, 149; English law in, 149-150; legislative power, 151; instructions, 152; executive salaries, 166-169; elections, 171-172; summoning of juries, 188-189; grand jury charged, 189-191; life in, 224-243; episcopacy, 289-290; 418-420; French, 312-326; question of independence, 352-353; Albany Plan of Union, 357-360; Grenville's scheme of taxation, 381-382; the Ohio country, 387-391; rights limited by charters, 394-395; smuggling in, 396-397; Stamp Act riot, 397-400; declaration of rights and grievances, 402-404; Franklin on the state of, 407-411; population in 1766, 408; attitude toward England, 409-411; Townshend's taxation scheme, 413-415; complaint of acts of trade, 415-417; troops in, 420-423; "Sons of Liberty," 420; Dickinson's plea for moderation, 423-426; statement of grievances, 442-445; Sam Johnson's reply, 445-448; attitude of George III, 451-453; beginning of the Revolution, 455-457; mobs in, 458- 461; opposition to Britain, 482; change into states, 519-524; 534-539. — See also each colony by name, Table of Contents, and Vol. I. |
| Commerce. — See Trade. |
| Commissioners of Maryland and Pennsylvania, The Running of Mason and Dixon's Line, 107-109. |
| Commons, House of, The State of the Colonies, 407-411. |
| Conciliation, opposed by Patrick Henry, 586-587. |
| Concord (Mass.), conflict at, 546-550. |
| Confederation, difficulties in framing Articles of, 539-543; Maryland refuses to join, 591-593; completed, 604. — See also Congress, Revolution. |
| Congress of the Confederation, receives Washington's resignation, 627-629. |
| Congress, First Continental, meeting, 434-439; Adams's estimate, 438. |
