1702, May 28. News of Queen Anne's acces- |
sion reaches Boston, v. 103.

June 1. Queen Anne proclaimed in Bos-
ton, v. 102.

June. Jos. Dudley, governor of Mass., v.

104.

George Keith began to journey through the
Atlantic colonies, v. 104.

Cornbury, gov. of New York, v. 195.
Map of the Atlantic colonies, from Campa-
nius, iv. 394, 485.

Vincennes said to have been founded, v. 53.
The French vacate their post on the Illi-
nois, iv. 239.

J. B. Homann publishing maps, up to 1724,
v. 234.

1703. Callières, gov. of Canada, dies, and
Philippe de Vaudreuil succeeds, v. 4, 5.

Lahontan's map, iv. 260.

Frontier war in New England, lasting for
some years, v. 105, 106.

Penhallow's Wars of New England covers
the period from this year to 1726, v. 424.

Pennsylvania and Delaware have separate
assemblies, v. 209.

Col. Moore invades the Apalache country,
v. 319.
1704. Church again in the Bay of Fundy, v.
408.

Deerfield and later Haverhill (1708) at-
tacked, v. 5, 185, 186.

Plan of Charleston, S. C., v. 343.

Apr. 24. The Boston Newsletter begins, v.
106.

Sept. Tonty dies, v. 24.

1705. Robert Beverly's Virginia, v. 279.

The Bourbons on the Spanish throne, viii.
306.

Torfæus' Vinlandia, i. 91.

1706. The Spaniards threaten Charleston,
S. C., v. 319, 342.

Iberville dies, v. 23.

Van der Aa's Voyagien, i. xxxv.

1707. Port Royal expedition failed, v. 106,
408, 421.

Francis Mackemie prosecuted for preach-
ing without a license, v. 241, 282.

Samuel Fritz first maps the Amazon with
any correctness, ii. 589.

1708. Diron d'Artaguette arrives in Louisiana,
v. 27.

1709. La Hontan's map of Acadia, iv. 153;
of the Rivière Longue, iv. 261; of the
Lakes and the Mississippi, iv. 258, 259.

Schuyler and Maqua chiefs go to London,
V. 107.

Paper money first issued in New York, v. 247.
New Jersey issues paper money, v. 230.
Alex. Selkirk found on Juan Fernandez,
viii. 205.

1710, Sept. Expedition against Port Royal,
v. 107, 108, 408, 423.

The Mather-Wise controversy in New Eng-
land, v. 108.

Alex. Spotswood, gov. of Virginia, v. 265.
Correspondence of Alex. Spotswood, of
Virginia, begins and lasts till 1722, v. 28.

The writ of Habeas Corpus allowed in Vir-
ginia, v. 265.

1711. Sir Hoveden Walker's unsuccessful ex-
pedition against Quebec, v. 109, 484, 561.

Carey rebellion and Indian war in Carolina,
v. 345, 346.

1711, Sept. 22. The Tuscaroras massacre whites
in Carolina, v. 298.

Sept. René de Guay-Thouin attacks Rio de
Janeiro, viii. 355-56.

1712. Detroit attacked by the Foxes, v. 561.
Col. Moore's march from South Carolina to
the relief of North Carolina, v. 345.

Mass. Province Bills made legal tender, v.
170.

Aug. Truce between England and France,

V. IIO.

Sept. 14. Antony Crozat authorized to
trade in Louisiana, v. 28.

Cassard at Surinam, viii. 364.

Frezier on the coasts of Peru and Chile,
viii. 367.

1713. White Kennett, the earliest English bib-
liographer of Americana, i. p. i.

Mar. 31. Treaty of Utrecht gives Acadia
to the English, makes the Five Nations sub-
ject to England, and confirms Portugal in its
possession of Brazil, iv. 135, 154; v. 6, 110,
408, 475, 476, 484; vi. 572; vii. 83; viii. 27, 28,
206, 236, 242, 356.

Treaties with the Abenakis, in this year and
in 1715, v. 424.

Col. Maurice Moore's campaigns in Caro-
lina in this and the two following years, v. 345.

The Tuscaroras overthrown and scattered,
V. 299, 583; and joining the Five Nations
they become the Six Nations, v. 487.

La Mothe Cadillac, gov. of Louisiana, v. 29.
Trading Post at Natchez, v. 29.
1714. Project for a bank of credit in Boston,
v. 170.

Land bank controversy in Mass., lasting
several years, v. 170.

Sept. 15. Death of Queen Anne known in
Boston, v. 113.

St. Denys goes to Mexico, v. 29.

The English government offer a reward for
a method of ascertaining longitude at sea, ii.

1717. Illinois joined to Louisiana, v. 35.

June. Grant of Sir Robert Montgomery [unoccupied] in Georgia called Azilia, v. 359, 392.

Aug. Indian conference at Arrowsick, v. 118.

Sept. 6. The Company of the West chartered, with John Law director, v. 31, later known as the Company of the Indies, 33.

Lettres Edifiantes supplement the Jesuit relations for Canada, and throw light on those in other parts of America, iv. 316. Shea says the first of the series appeared in 1702-3; but they are usually placed as beginning in 1717 and ending in 1776.

1718. Scotch-Irish come to New England, v. 118.

Potatoes introduced into New England by the Scotch-Irish, v. 119.

French settlements in the Ohio Valley, v. 563.

Renard de la Harpe and Le Page du Pratz reach Louisiana, v. 36, 65.

La Harpe in Texas, v. 40.

New Orleans founded, v. 36.

Bienville, Commandant-General of Louis

iana, v. 35.

1722. The Marylanders declare themselves the inheritors of the English common law, v. 261. Bacqueville de la Potherie's Hist. de la Amérique published, iv. 299, 357.

Coxe's map of Carolana, v. 70.

1723. Col. Westbrook on the Penobscot, v. 430.

Aug. 23. Increase Mather dies, v. 125.

The Jesuits in the Mississippi Valley, north of Natchez, v. 43.

Second Natchez war, v. 46.

1724, Feb. Bienville ordered to France, v. 45. Aug. Attack on Norridgewock and killing of Sebastian Rasle, v. 127, 274, 430.

Fort Dummer built, making the first Eng. lish settlement in Vermont, v. 127, 183.

Parry and the Swiss emigration to South Carolina, v. 347.

Earliest issue of the map of the Five Nations' country, later reproduced in the 1747 ed. of Colden's Five Nations, v. 235.

Colden's map of the manorial grants along the Hudson, v. 436, 437.

Homann, who published many American maps, dies, v. 81.

Lafitau's Maurs des Sauvages published, i. 317; iv. 298.

John Senex's map of Louisiana, v. 81. Fort at St. Georges, Me., built, v. 181. 1720. Charlevoix reaches Canada; but does not publish his Histoire till 1744, iv. 358.

The French begin the defences at Louisburg, v. 434.

Royal orders forbid the English colonies to issue paper money, v. 212.

Law's projects in full operation, v. 76.
Herman Moll's map, v. 8o.

Claude Delisle dies, v. 8o.

1721. Hans Egede goes to Greenland, i. 69. Inoculation controversy in Boston, v. 120,

121.

The English on the Oswego river, v. 485. Conference with the Five Nations at Conestoga, v. 212.

Joncaire's post at Niagara, v. 6.

Charlevoix in the Illinois country, v. 52. The proprietary government in South Carolina overthrown, v. 327.

June. News of Law's flight reaches Louisiana, v. 42.

1722. Map of Hudson's Bay, viii. 26.

Lovewell's or Gov. Dummer's War (New England) continues three years, v. 122, 430. New York, Penna., and Virginia hold a conference with the Iroquois, v. 485, 563.

An explanatory charter imposed on Massachusetts, v. 124.

May 8. Lovewell's fight at Pigwacket, v. 127, 431.

Dec. 15. Dummer's treaty with the Eastern Indians (Mass.), v. 127, 432.

The N. Y. Gazette, the earliest newspaper in New York, v. 248.

The rivalry of the French and English for the possession of Oswego and Niagara begins, v. 566.

Vaudreuil, gov. of Canada, dies, v. 6. 1726. The Indians surrender to the English a six mile strip along the southern shore of Lake Ontario, v. 565.

The French retake Fort Denonville near Niagara, viii. 132.

Beauharnois, gov. of Canada, v. 7. Guillaume Delisle dies, iv. 375; v. 8o. 1727, June 11. George I of England dies, v. 129.

July. Further Indian treaty at Falmouth (Me.), v. 432.

Oct. 29. Earthquake in New England, v. 128.

Colden's Five Nations published, i. 324; iv.

299, 421.

Wm. Gooch, gov. of Virginia, v. 267. The Maryland Gazette, the first newspaper in that province, v. 261.

Ursuline nuns at New Orleans, v. 44, 68. 1728. Behring unwittingly passes through Behring's Straits, ii. 468.

Feb. 13. Cotton Mather dies, v. 129.
Burnet, gov. of Mass., v. 129.

Byrd's dividing line (Va., and N. Carolina), v. 275

1729. Hans Egede throws the first light on the fate of the Greenland colonists, i. 107.

Geo. Berkeley comes to Rhode Island, v.

141.

The proprietors of Carolina surrender their patent, v. 347, 361.

German Palatines reach South Carolina, v. 331.

1729.

132.

Aug. 10. Belcher arrives as gov. of Mass.,
v. 132.

Rhode Island wild in the issue of paper
money in this and succeeding years, v. 141.

Baltimore, Md., founded, v. 261, 271.

Sir Alex. Cuming among the Cherokees, v.
392.

Early stragglers into Kentucky in this and
succeeding years, v. 565.

The Natchez driven away, v. 48.
Vérendrye west of Lake Superior, for ten
years, v. 78.

Earliest general account of Brazil, viii. 349.
1731. Vérendrye penetrates to Lake Winnipeg,
v. 8; and discovers the Rocky Mountains,
viii. 27.

The French first permanently occupy the
Lake Champlain country, v. 487, 567.

North Carolina a royal province, v. 301.
The South Carolina Gazette begins, v. 350.
Neal's History of the Puritans published,
iii. 250.

The Gentleman's Magazine begins in Lon-
don, viii. 499.
1732. Various maps defining the westerly
bounds of the N. Amer. English colonies
issued for some years, v. 566.

Henry Popples' map of the British empire
in America first issued, v. 81; shows New
England, 134; a plan of Boston harbor, 143;
Lakes George and Champlain, 486; a plan
of New York harbor, 253; and a plan of
Charleston, S. C., 330.

Indian treaty at Falmouth, Me., v. 139.
An agreement of bounds between Pennsyl-
vania and Maryland, v. 263.

The followers of Schwenckfeld come to
Pennsylvania, v. 217.

The Swiss in South Carolina, v. 331.
June 9. Charter of Georgia, v. 364.
Lord Carteret conveys his rights under the
Carolina grant to the trustees of the colony
of Georgia, v. 361.

The London Magazine begins in London,
viii. 499.

A Russian visit to Alaska, ii. 468.
1733, Jan. 30. Savannah and Georgia founded,
v. 332, 367; map, 373.

May. The Indians cede lands to the trustees

of Georgia, v. 370.

Tobacco made a legal tender in Maryland
because of the depreciation of the paper cur-
rency, v. 261.

Richmond, Va., laid out, v. 268.

The Irish in South Carolina, v. 331.

Map of South Carolina and Georgia, v. 365.
Bienville again in Louisiana, and remains
for ten years, v. 49, 50.

Sugar Act (England), vi. 25, 63.

Lafitau's book on the discoveries of the
Portuguese, the first attempt to do them jus-
tice, viii. 372.

The trial of Zenger in N. Y., establishing
the freedom of the press, v. 199, 242.

Mar. The Salzburgers reach Georgia, v.
372, and build Ebenezer, 374, 395.
1735. Indian treaty at Deerfield, Mass., v.
139.

Treaty with the Five Nations, v. 245.

French expedition (Condamine, etc.) to
measure an arc of the meridian in Peru, ii.
590.

1736. Prince's Chronological Hist. of N. Eng-
land, v. 137, 346.

The "Walking Purchase" in Pennsyl-
vania, v. 240.

Map of the northern neck of Virginia, v. 277.
Wesley in Georgia, v. 403.

Bienville unsuccessfully invades the Chicka-
saw territory, v. 49.

Vérendrye builds Fort Rouge in the Red
River country, viii. 46.

Boturini in Mexico, i. 159.

1737. Conrad Weiser negotiates with the Six
Nations, i. 305.

1738. Behring develops the geography of
Behring's Straits in this and the following
years, ii. 468.

La Franche's exploration between Hudson
Bay and Lake Superior continued for four
years, viii. 78.

Sir Wm. Keith's Virginia, v. 280; with
map, 273, 274.

Negro insurrection in South Carolina, v.
331.

Whitefield in Georgia, v. 404.

1739. War of Spain and England, viii. 208,
292; Rhode Island and the Spanish war, v.

142.

A new invasion of the Chickasaw lands,
and a peace obtained, v. 50.
Vernon attacks Porto Bello, viii. 238.
1740, Mar. 24. Vernon attacks San Lorenzo
Castle, viii. 237.

Oglethorpe invades Florida, v. 384, 397.
Attack on St. Augustine, v. 323, 350.
Oct. New England troops join Vernon in
the West Indies, v. 135.

Heckewelder's narrative of the Moravian
missions among the Delaware and Mohegan
Indians covers a period of nearly seventy
years, v. 582.

New Granada made a viceroyalty, viii. 315.
1741, Mar. Vernon repulsed at Cartagena,
viii. 244, 292.

May 6. Wm. Shirley governor of Massa-
chusetts, v. 143.

Negro plot in N. Y., v. 201, 242.

The American Magazine, published in Phil-
adelphia, the earliest magazine in the English
colonies, v. 248.

The Moravians found Bethlehem in Penna.,
v. 245.

1742. Middleton and Moore's discoveries in
Hudson Bay, viii. 108.

July. Treaty with the Six Nations at Phil-
adelphia, v. 145, 245.

Map of the coast of Florida, v. 382, in the
vicinity of St. Augustine, v. 382, 383.

A Spanish fleet threatens the Georgia coast,
v. 386, 398.

1743. Map of Georgia settlements up to this
time, v. 375.

Mar. 15.
England, v. 434.
June 2.

The French Declaration of War
reaches Boston, v. 145.

War with the French and Indians, known in
New England as King George's, Shirley's, or
Five Years' War, v. 434, 568.

Treaty at Lancaster by which the Six Na-
tions confirm to the English their conquered
territory beyond the mountains, i. 300, 305;
v. 487, 566.

English efforts to occupy the Ohio Valley,
continued for thirty years, v. 566.

Charles de Langlade settles in what is now
Wisconsin, v. 568.

Bellin's maps in Charlevoix, v. 81, 474; in-
cluding Annapolis Basin, 418.

1745. Capture of Louisburg, v. 146, 410, 434,
etc.; contemporary plans, etc., 441, 442, 443,
444, 445, 446.

Lord Fairfax settles beyond the mountains
in Va., v. 268.

1746. Explorations of Captains Moor and
Smith in Hudson's Bay, viii. 81.

Bellin's map of Cape Breton, v. 440.
William Johnson as Indian commissioner,
v. 487.

Futile Crown Point exped. v. 568.
Boston apprehensive of an attack from
D'Anville's fleet, v. 147, 413.

Aug. Fort Massachuse.ts atacked, v. 187.
The College of New Jersey, Princeton,
founded, v. 231.

Boturini Benaduci's Idea de una nueva
historia published, ii. 418.

Oct. 28. Earthquake at Lima, viii. 312, 344.
1747, Jan. 31. Battle of Minas, v. 448.

Feb. 4. Col. Noble surprised at Grand Pré,
v. 413.

Com. Knowles' press gang in Boston, v. 148.
Dr. Douglass' Brit. Settlements in North
America, v. 158.

Dr. Walker in the Kentucky region, vi. 715.
June. Montreal Island raided upon by the
English, v. 489.

Galissonière, gov. of Canada, v. 8.

Colden's map of the Portages between the
Lakes and the Mississippi, v. 83.

The younger Delisle, the French cartog
rapher, dies, ii. 468.

Consag's map of the Gulf of California, viii.

255

1748. Map of Hudson's Bay, viii. 27.

Peter Kalm in the English colonies for three
years, v. 244.

Ohio Land Company formed, i. 309, 570.
Grants of Virginia beyond the mountains
during the next ten years, v. 570.

Oct. 7. Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, i. 306;
v. 9, 148, 413, 476, 490; vi. 14; viii. 475.

Spanish galleon trade ceases, viii. 209.
1749, May 10. The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
proclaimed in Boston, v. 449.

1749. Parliamentary inquiry into the Hudson
Bay Co.'s management, viii. 33, 65.

New England reimbursed in specie for her
outlay on the Louisburg expedition and en-
abled thus to redeem her paper currency in
part, v. 176.

June. Halifax, Nova Scotia, founded, v.
414, 450.

Oct. 16. Massachusetts makes a treaty with
the Eastern Indians, v. 149.

Disputes over the New Hampshire grants,
lasting forty years, v. 178; viii. 438.

Ogdensburg, N. Y., settled, v. 3.

The school founded in Philadelphia which
is now the University of Pennsylvania, v. 231.
Printing introduced into North Carolina, v.
303.

Céloron buries plates on the Ohio, i. 286;
v. 8, 9.

Bonnecamp's map of the Ohio country,
showing where Céloron buried his plates, v.
569, 570.

Fort Rouillé (Toronto) built, v. 490.
1750. Jonathan Mayhew's bold utterances in
Boston, v. 150; vi. 70.

The Ohio Company have the Ohio lands
granted to them, v. 10.

Christopher Gist, George Croghan, and An-
drew Mentour on the Ohio, v. 10.

The Shawnees in the Ohio country, v. 564.
The Palenqué ruins first discovered, i. 191.
1751, July. Conference with the Iroquois, v.

204.

Geo. Washington in military command in
Va., v. 268.

Robert Dinwiddie, gov. of Virginia, v. 268.
Official records of Gov. Dinwiddie of Va.
continued till 1758, v. 281, 572.

Fry and Jefferson's map of Virginia, v

4139

Sugar cane into Louisiana, v. 51.
1752. Buache's map of his theory of the
Arctic regions, as affected by the De Fuca
and De Fonte stories, viii. 110.

June 13. Virginia treats with the Indians
at Logstown and builds a fort at the forks of
the Ohio, v. 490, 570.

The English trading post Pickawillany, in
the Ohio country, destroyed by the French, v.
571.

June 23. The trustees of Georgia surren-
der their charter, and Georgia becomes a
royal province, v. 389.

Duquesne, gov. of Canada, v. II.

1753. Arctic expedition sent from Philadel-
phia under the instigation of Dr. Franklin,
viii. 81.

William Livingston's Review of the Mil.
Operations in North America, v. 573.
Connecticut colonizes lands in Pennsylva-
nia, v. 180.

Horatio Sharpe becomes governor of Mary-
land, v. 262.

Dec. 11. Washington at Fort Le Bouf as
a messenger from Dinwiddie, v. 492, 572.
The French occupy the Ohio country, v.

II, 204, 490.

Dumont de Montigny's map of Louisiana,
v. 82.

1754. Fort Halifax built on the Kennebec, v.
151, 181.

King's College, later Columbia College,
chartered, v. 230.