1778, Sept. 5. 1691. 1691, Oct. 7. 1696, Nov. 7. 1697, Sept. 20. 1699, July 5. 1700, Jan. 15. 1700, W. 3. 1701, Aug. 12. 1701, Oct. 2. 1701. 1702, Apr. 15. 1702, Apr. 17. 1702, Nov. 16. 1702, Dec. 5. 1703, June 27. 1703. The remonstrance and petition of the inhabitants of East New The memorial of the proprietors of East New Jersey to the Lords Agreement of the line of partition between East and West New Conveyance of the government of West Jersey and territories, A charter granted by King William and Queen Mary to the inhabitants of the province of Massachusetts bay, in New England. 2 Mem. de 1 Am. 593. The frame of government of the province of Pennsylvania and The treaty of peace between France and England, made at Rys- The petition of the proprietors of East and West New Jersey to A confirmation of the boundary between the colonies of New The memorial of the proprietors of East and West New Jersey Representation of the Lords of trade to the Lords justices. Sm. A treaty with the Indians. Report of Lords of trade to king William, of draughts of a commission and instructions for a governor of N. Jersey. Sm. N. J. 262. Surrender from the proprietors of E. and W. N. Jersey, of their pretended right of government to her majesty Queen Anne. Sm. N. J. 211. The Queen's acceptance of the surrender of government of East and West Jersey. Sm. N. J. 219. Instructions to lord Cornbury. Sm. N. J. 230. A commission from Queen Anne to Lord Cornbury, to be captain general and governor in chief of New Jersey. Sm. N. J. 220. Recognition by the council of proprietors of the true boundary Indian deeds for the lands above the falls of the Delaware in Indian deed for the lands at the head of Rankokus river, in A proclamation by Queen Anne, for settling and ascertaining Sm. N. J. 258. Instructions to Colonel Vetch in his negotiations with the gover- Instructions to the governor of New Jersey and New York. Sm. Earl of Dartmouth's letter to governor Hunter. Réponses de la France aux demandes préliminaries de la Grande Demandes préliminaries plus particulieres de la Grande-Bre- 356. The Queen's instructions to the Bishop of Bristol and Earl of A memorial of Mr. St. John to the Marquis de Torci, with regard Traité pour une suspension d'armes entre Louis XIV. roi de The petition of the representatives of the province of New Jer- Deed of release by the government of Connecticut to that of The charter granted by George II. for Georgia. 4. Mem. de l'Am. 617. 1733. 1733, Nov. 29. 1736, Aug. 5. 1737, Aug. 10. 1737, Aug. 11. 1738, Dec. 21. 1744, June. 1745, Apr. 6. 1745, Apr. 11. 1748, Apr. 30. 1748, May 21. 1748, Oct. 718. 22. G. 2. 1754. 1758, Aug. 7. 1758, Oct. 8. 1759, July 25. 33. G. 2. 175-. 3. G. 3. 1763, Oct. 7. G. 3. 1763. 1768, Nov. 3. 1768, Nov. 5 Petition of Lord Fairfax, that a commission might issue for running and marking the dividing line between his district and the province of Virginia. Order of the king in council for commissioners to survey and settle the said dividing line between the proprietary and royal territory. Report of the Lords of trade relating to the separating the gov ernment of the province of New Jersey from New York. Sm. N. J. 423. Survey and report of the commissioners appointed on the part Survey and report of the commissioners appointed on the part Treaty with the Indians of the six nations at Lancaster. Order of the king in council confirming the said report of the Articles preliminaries pour parvenir à la paix, signés à Aix-laChapelle entre les ministres de France, de la Grande-Bretagne, et des Provinces-Unies des Pays-Bas. 2 Mem. de l'Am. 159. Declaration des ministres de France, de la Grande-Bretagne, et des Provinces-Unies des Pays-Bas, pour rectifier les articles I. et II. des préliminaries. 2. Mem. Am. 165. The general and definitive treaty of peace concluded at Aix- A conference between governor Bernard and Indian nations at A conference between governor Denny, governor Bernard, and The capitulation of Niagara. The king's proclamation proming lands to soldiers. The definitive treaty concluded at Paris. Lon. Mag. 1763. 149. A proclamation for regulating the cessions made by the last treaty of peace. Guth. Geogr. Gram. 623. The king's proclamation against settling on any lands on the Deed from the six nations of Indians to William Trent, and oth- APPENDIX. The preceding sheets have been submitted to my friend Mr. Charles Thompson, Secretary of Congress; he has furnished me with the following observations, which have too much merit not to be communicated: (A.) p. 262. Besides the three channels of communication mentioned between the western waters and the Atlantic, there are two others to which the Pennsylvanians are turning their attention; one from Presque Isle, on Lake Erie, to Le Bouf, down the Alleghany to Kiskiminitas, then up the Kiskiminitas, and from thence, by a small portage, to Juniata, which falls into the Susquehanna; the other from Lake Ontario to the East Branch of the Delaware, and down that to Philadelphia. Both these are said to be very practicable; and, considering the enterprising temper of the Pennsylvanians, and particularly of the merchants of Philadelphia, whose object is concentred in promoting the commerce and trade of one city, it is not improbable but one or both of these communications will be opened and improved. (B.) p. 265. The reflections I was led into on viewing this passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge were, that this country must have suffered some violent convulsion, and that the face of it must have been changed from what it probably was some centuries ago; that the broken and ragged faces of the mountain on each side the river; the tremendous rocks, which are left with one end fixed in the precipice, and the other jutting out, and seemingly ready to fall for want of support, the bed of the river for several miles below obstructed, and filled with the loose stones carried from this mound; in short, everything on which you cast your eye evidently demonstrates a disrupture and breach in the mountain, and that, before this happened, what is now a fruitful vale, was formerly a great lake or collection of water, which possibly might have here formed a mighty cascade, or had its vent to the ocean by the Susquehanna, where the Blue Ridge seems to terminate. Besides this, there are other parts of this country which bear evident traces of a like convulsion. From the best accounts I have been able to obtain, the place where the Delaware now flows through the Kittatinney mountain, which is a continuation of what is called the North Ridge, or mountain, was not its original course, but that it passed through what is now called "the Wind-gap," a place several miles to the westward, and about a hundred feet higher than the present bed of the river. This Wind-gap is about a mile broad, and the stones in it such as seem to have been washed for ages by water running over them. Should this have been the case, there must have been a large lake behind that mountain, and by some uncommon swell in the waters, or by some convulsion of nature, the river must have opened its way through a different part of the mountain, and meeting there with less obstruction, carried away with it the opposing mounds of earth, and deluged the country below with the immense collection of waters to which this new passage gave vent. There are still remaining, and daily discovered, innumerable instances of such a deluge on both sides of the river, after it passed the hills above the falls of Trenton, and reached the Champaign. On the New Jersey side, which is flatter than the Pennsylvania side, all the country below Croswick hills seems to have been overflowed to the distance of frem ten to fifteen miles back from the river, and to have acquired a new soil by the earth and clay brought down and mixed with the native sand. The spot on which Philadelphia stands evidently appears to be made ground. The different strata through which they pass in digging to water, the acorns, leaves, and sometimes branches, which are found above twenty feet below the surface, all seem to demonstrate this. I am informed that at Yorktown in Virginia, in the bank of York river, there are different strata of shells and earth, one above another, which seem to point out that the country there has undergone several changes; that the sea has, for a succession of ages, |