SEC. XV. 1698. Richard, earl of Bellomont, who had been appointed the previous year to succeed Fletcher, arrived, and assumed the government. The assembly of the province, at this time, consisted of but nineteen members. In the following year, M. de Callieres, succeeding Count Frontenac as governor of Canada, terminated the existing disputes between the French and the Five Nations, by agreeing to have an exchange of prisoners at Onondaga. SEC. XVI. Lord Bellomont died in March, 1701, and John Nanfan, who had been previously appointed lieutenant governor, arrived soon after, and assumed the command. Lord Cornbury was appointed governor the following year. After an administration, distinguished only by his oppression, avarice, and injustice, he was superseded, in 1708, by lord Lovelace. The war between England and France was again proclaimed in 1702; but, with the exception of an expedition against Canada some years after, its operations in the colony were not attended with any remarkable event.

In 1701, a Court of Chancery was organised in the province of New York. During the summer of the following year, an uncommon mortality prevailed in the city of New York, which distinguished this period, as "the time of the great sickness." Three years after, the city was thrown into great consternation by the appearance of a French privateer in the harbor.

A fruitless attempt was made, in 1709, to conquer Can-ada, in which the province of New York discovered much zeal. Besides raising several companies, she procured six

xv. By whom was Fletcher succeeded?

XVI.

Who succeeded Lord Bellomont?

Who were the next governors? What is said of Cornbury?What is said of the war?

hundred Indians, paid their wages, and maintained a thou-. sand of their wives and children at Albany, while they were in the campaign, at the expense of above twenty thousand pounds.

In 1710, Col. Schuyler went to England, to inculcate. on the ministry, the absolute necessity of reducing Canada to the crown of Great Britain. The more effectually to accomplish this, he carried with him five Indian chiefs; who gave assurances to the queen of their fidelity, and solicited her assistance against their common enemies, the French,

CHAP. VII.

FROM 1710 TO 1743.

Hunter's administration. Expedition against Canada. Administration of Burnet, Montgomery, Crosby, and Clarke.

SEC. I. 1710. Col. Robert Hunter was appointed, governor of the province, and arrived in June. He brought over with him near three thousand Palatines, who had fled to England, the year before, from the rage of persecution in Germany.

Many of these people settled in the city of New York; others, on a tract of several thousand acres in the manor of Livingston; while others went into Pennsylvania.

SEC. II. In 1711, Nicholson went to England, and solicited another expedition against Canada, which was granted, and an armament ordered, proportional to the magnitude of the

1. Who was appointed governor in 1710 ?- -Who came over with him?

enterprise. New York, New England, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania provided the quotas of men intended for the expedition.

Soon after his return from Europe, Nicholson proceeded to Albany to take command of the troops of Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey, consisting of about a thousand Palatines, who had come to New York some time before, six hundred Indians, and the regiments commanded by Colonels Whiting, Schuyler and Ingolsby; amounting, in the whole to upwards of four thousand.

The fleet, consisting of fifteen men of war, forty transports, six store ships, and an excellent train of artillery, under the command of Sir Hovenden Walker, set sail from Boston with a land army, consisting of five regiments from Europe, and two, from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire, making in all about seven thousand.

The Admiral arrived in the St. Lawrence early in August, and on the 22d, in a thick fog and high wind, the fleet was driven on the rocks and shoals of the north shore. Eight or nine of the British transports were lost, and above a thousand lives, besides great damage done to the vessels saved. The Admiral bore away for Spanish bay, where, after full consultation, it was agreed to abandon the expedition.

Gen. Nicholson, who had proceeded as far as lake George with his troops, received information of the failure of the enterprise, and retreated.

SEC. III. The conquest of Canada had been an object of earnest desire, and sanguine expectation to the colony; and the failure of this last enterprise was attended by circumstances, equally mortifying and calamitous. They had suffered heavy losses, and were again exposed to the depredations of their ancient foe.

II. What expedition was soon after undertaken ?
Give some account of it

III. What is said of the failure of his enterprise?

The

war was however terminated, in 1713, by the treaty of Utrecht, and their apprehensions, for the present, relieved..

In 1712, the Tuscarora Indians, after having been defeated in an attempt to exterminate the English settlers in North Carolina, abandoned their country, and repaired to the Five Nations, who received them into their confederacy, and made them the sixth nation.

The same year, the negroes in New York, in the execution of a plot to set fire to the city, burned a house in the night, and killed several people, who come to extinguish the fire. Nineteen of the incendiaries were afterward executed.

SEC. IV. During the early part of Hunter's administration, much disagreement prevailed between the different departments of government, and their respective partisans. His exercising the office of chancellor was received with high disapprobation by a large portion of the inhabitants. Before his leaving the province, they appear to have become reconciled, and the most perfect concord to have subsisted.

Hunter, by the advice of his council, began to exercise the office of chancellor in October, 1712. Van Dam and Philipse were appointed masters. Whillman, register, Harrison examiner, and Sharpas and Broughton, clerks. A proclamation was then issued to signify the sitting of the court, which gave rise to the two following resolutions of the house. Resolved, that the erecting a court of chancery, without consent in general assembly, is contrary to law, and of dangerous consequence to the liberty and property of the subjects; and, "That the establishing fees, without consent in general assembly, is contrary to law." The assembly were prorogued the next session.

Hunter left the province in 1719, and the

Of the Tuscarora Indians ?

Of a plot in New York?

IV. What can you say of Hunter's administration ?

command devolved on Peter Schuyler. During his short administration, Schuyler conducted the affairs of the colony with prudence and integrity. Little is observable in his time, except a treaty at Albany, with the Indians for confirming the ancient league.

SEC. v. 1720. On the 17th of September, William Burnet, Esq. assumed the government of the province, and soon after obtained an act from the assembly, prohibiting the trade between New York and Canada. This prohibitory act had a very beneficial effect on the interests of the colony.

From the conclusion of the peace of Utrecht, a considerable trade was carried on between Albany and Canada, for goods saleable among the Indians. The object of this act was to draw the Indian trade into New York; and to obstruct the communication between the French and the Indian allies, which gave them frequent opportunities of seducing them from their fidelity; and to regain the Caghauagas, who had become interested in their disaffection, by being the carriers between Albany and Montreal.

SEC. VI. In 1720, for the purpose of securing the benefit of the trade, and friendship of the Six Nations, Gov. Burnet erected a trading house at Oswego, in the country of the Senecas.

This establishment naturally excited the jealousy of the French, who, in 1726, launched two vessels into lake Ontario, and transported materials to Niagara, for building a store house, and repairing the fort. Their object was not only to secure the entrance into the west end of the lake, but likewise to carry their trade more westerly, and thus

Of Schuyler?

V. Who was appointed governor in 1720 ?passed.

What is said of the trade with Canada?
What measures were taken by the French?
VI. What took place in 1720.

-What act was