Colden, Janet (Hughes) (mother), 13
Colden, John (son), 51, 93
as clerk of peace & of the common pleas, 96
death of, 97–98
Colden, Richard Nicholls (grandson)
mentions in Cadwallader Colden's will, 157
Colden, Richard Nicholls (grandson) (son of Alexander), 152, 162
Colden, Sarah (daughter), 46
Colden, Thomas (son of Cadwallader, Jr., and Elizabeth), 165
Coldengham farm, 35, 169, 174
Cadwallader Colden, Jr.
as heir to, 157, 164
managing estate, 164
Cadwallader Colden at
Colden's residence 1729–1738, 49–61
Colden's residence 1739–1748, 63–93
Colden's residence 1749–1758, 95–125
moving to, 45–47
fate of after death of Cadwallader Colden, 159, 162
reconstruction of receiving National Historical Landmark status, 162
maps of, 160–61
nearness of French and Indian War battles to, 107
woodcut, 51
Coldengham Preservation & Historical Society, 162
Collections of the New-York Historical Society, 120
Collegiate School (later Yale College and University), 80
Collinson, Peter, 38, 63–64, 65, 78, 108
and Colden's concerns about finance and family, 99, 100, 131, 145, 166
and Colden's History of the Five Indian Nations, 65, 73
and Colden's work on Newtonian science, 76, 80, 82, 111–12, 113
interest in botany, 44, 63, 64, 72, 121, 122, 123
Columbia University. See King's College (later Columbia University)
Committee of Fifty One, 155
Committee of One Hundred, 155
Committee of Sixty, 155
“Concerning the Throat-Distemper” (Colden), 110
“Conduct of Cadwallader Colden, Esquire, Late Lieutenant Governor of New York, relating to the Judges Commissions, Appeals to the King and the Stamp Act,” 145
Connecticut Colony, 25, 27, 142
determining contested borders with New York, 35, 56
Contest in America between Great Britain and France with Its Consequence and Importance (Mitchell), 74–75
Continental Army, formation of, 156
Continental Congress
first meeting in 1774, 155
Second Continental Congress in 1775, 155
Continuation of Colden's History of the Five Indian Nations for the years 1707 through 1720, 91–92
Contributions in American History (series), 10
Conway, Henry Seymour, 144
Conwell, William, 158
corpuscular light, 78
Cortlandt, Phillip, 89
Cosby, William, 53–56, 57–58, 59, 60–61
Council of New York, 30, 60, 101, 128, 135, 141
Colden serving on, 30, 41, 49, 53, 64, 86, 95, 102, 109, 151, 159
attacks on Colden for work on Council, 55, 56, 89, 93, 143, 145
Colden being deliberately absent from, 56–57, 59
dismissed from in 1747, 93
relationship with Governor Cosby, 54–57
report on government revenues, 43–44
serving as President of Council, 87–88, 131
Delancey serving on, 87, 89, 90, 101
President as acting-governor when necessary, 59, 131, 135–36
Schuyler removed from Council, 29, 128
and the Stamp Act, 142
See also Assembly of New York
Court of Chancery. See Chancery, Court of (New York)
Cox, John, 163
Cunningham, Mr., 138, 141
Dare, Virginia, 24
Dartmouth, Earl of, 152, 155, 156
Davis, Lockyer, 110–11
Declaration of Independence, 9, 156
Declaration of King William, 149, 150
Declaratory Act of 1766, 145
Deism, 85, 171
Delancey, Alice (daughter of Peter and Elizabeth), 163
Delancey, Ann (daughter of Peter and Elizabeth), 163
Delancey, Ann (Van Cortland) (mother of James and Peter), 163
Delancey, Elizabeth (Colden) (daughter), 46, 52
in Cadwallader Colden's will, 163
as an executor of Cadwallader Colden's will, 158
marriage to Peter Delancey, 90, 163
Delancey, James, 60, 87, 89, 90, 95
antagonistic relationship with Cadwallader Colden, 60, 89, 92, 95, 101
in Assembly, 45, 129
and Burnet, 45, 128–29
chairing convention for adoption of a Plan of Union of the Colonies, 105
as chief justice, 57, 59, 89, 90, 92, 96, 99
and Clinton, 87, 90, 92–93, 96, 99, 101
and Cosby, 54, 59
death of, 130, 131, 134
and Hardy, 102
as lieutenant governor of New York, 90, 92, 99, 100–101, 108, 130, 131
member of Council, 87, 89, 101
Delancey, James (son of Peter and Elizabeth), 164
Delancey, Jane (daughter of Peter and Elizabeth), 164
Delancey, John (son of Peter and Elizabeth), 163
Delancey, Oliver (son of Peter and Elizabeth), 164
Delancey, Peter (brother of James) (married to Elizabeth Colden), 90, 163
Delancey, Peter (son of Peter and Elizabeth), 163
Delancey, Stephen (father of James and Peter), 42, 163
Delancey, Stephen (grandson), 144
Delancey, Stephen (son of Peter and Elizabeth), 163
Delancey, Suzanna (daughter of Peter and Elizabeth), 164
Delancey, Warren (grandson) (son of Peter and Elizabeth), 152, 164
portrait, 154
Delaware, 26, 27
Delaware (Indians), 141
DeLisle, Guillaume, 38
Denonville, Jacques René de Brisay, 91
deputy post master general, 100
Descartes, René, 84, 113
Diary of a Journey through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida (Bartram), 65
Dieskau, Jean Armand, 107
Dinwiddie, Robert, 104
Domestic Narrative of the Life of Samuel Bard, A (McVickar), 122
Dominion of New England, 25, 26, 28
Dongan, Thomas, 34
Douglass, William, 19, 31–33, 46, 52–53
Drake, Francis, 24
Dunk, George. See Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of
Dunmore, James Murray, Earl of, 148, 149
Duquesne, Fort, 108
Dutch colonization in North America, 26–27
duties, protective, 42–44
earthquake in New England in 1727, 32
East India Company, 152
East Jersey, 26
Edinburgh Essays, 121
Edward, Fort, 107
electricity
David Colden experiments, 114, 166
kite flying experiment, 114
lightning rod, 139
Elizabeth I (queen), 23, 24
Ellis, John, 117, 118, 123
Ellison, Elizabeth (married to Cadwallader, Jr.), 164–65
Ellison, Thomas, 164
English Restoration, 25
epidemics
diptheria in 1739, 33
dysentery epidemic in 1734, 53
in New York City in 1743 and 1745, 70
smallpox epidemic in 1721, 32
Erie Canal, 50–51, 174
engraving celebrating the opening of, 167–68
Essay on the Iliac Passion (Colden), 69
ether, 77–78, 84, 112
Euler, Leonhard, 112
Evans, John, 35
Evans, Lewis, 97–98
Evers, James, 142
Explanation of the First Causes of Action in Matter; and the Cause of Gravitation (Colden), 80–81
See also Principles of Action in Matter, the Gravitation of Bodies and the Motion of the Planets, e
xplained from those Principles, The (Colden)
Farmer's Instructor, The (Ellis), 117
“Farm Journal, 1727-1736, Coldengham, Orange County, N.Y.” (Colden), 45–46
Farquhar, William, 124, 125
Fauquier, Francis, 131
“The Fifteen,” 16
finances of Cadwallader Colden, 99
concerns about finances and family, 99, 100, 131, 145, 166
efforts to get salary and perquisites during period as lieutenant governor, 135–36, 146, 148–50, 152, 154
order for Colden's compensation for losses during disturbances, 146
while awaiting Dunmore's arrival, 148–50, 152, 154
while Monckton's was away, 135–36, 149
land grants and purchases, 28, 45, 134, 157, 159
not receiving salary as surveyor general, 64, 100, 101
First Continental Congress in 1774, 155
“First Principles of Morality, or of the Actions of Intelligent Beings” (Colden), 83, 84, 85–86, 171
First Scottish Rebellion, 16
Five Nations (Iroquois), 36–37, 39, 40, 92, 93, 109, 170
See also History of the Five Indian Nations, The (Colden); Iroquois
Flora Virginica (Clayton), 72
Flora Zeylanica (Linnaeus), 66
Flushing, New York, 9, 108, 125, 128–29, 134, 144, 145, 158, 166
See also Spring Hill (mansion in Flushing)
fluxions, 78, 82
Folger, Timothy, 67
Forbes, John, 109
Forsey, Mr., 138, 141
forts during the French and Indian War, 103–104, 105, 106, 107–109, 129, 134
See also names of specific forts, i.e., Necessity, Fort, Oswego, Fort, etc.,
Fort William Henry, 107
Fothergill, John, 110
Franklin, Benjamin, 63, 66–69, 73, 74, 78–79, 93, 97, 116
and the American Philosophical Society, 68–69
appointed deputy post master general of America, 100
and Colden, 66–67, 69
appreciation of Colden, 66, 68, 131, 172
correspondence, 10, 63, 67, 68, 70, 78–79, 105, 109, 112, 113–15, 120
not mentioning Cadwallader Colden in his autobiography, 10, 174
inventions, 67, 137, 139
political cartoon “Join or Die,” 105, 106
on sailing time to and from Europe, 67
study of electricity, 97, 114, 139, 166
on water spouts, 114–15
free trade vs. protective duties, 42–44
French and Indian War, 105, 108–109, 129–30, 134–35
Cadwallader, Jr., serving in militia during, 164
early stages, 73, 74, 95, 102–107
financial problems for Britain after, 141
formal declaration of war in 1756, 107
French and English building forts, 103–104, 105, 106, 107–109, 129, 134. See also names of specific forts, i.e., Necessity, Fort, Oswego, Fort, etc.,
signing of Treaty of Paris in 1763, 138–39
Frontenac, Fort, 108–109
Gage, Thomas, 142, 155
Garden, Alexander, 44, 116–19, 122, 131, 169
gardenia, naming of, 118–19
Gazette (newspaper), 58, 101–102
Genealogical Notes of The Colden Family in America (Purple), 162
“General Scholium” (Newton), 77
Genera Plantarum (Linnaeus), 65
Gentlemen's Magazine, 109, 111, 113
George, Fort, 131, 143
George I (king), 28
George II (king), 26, 53, 74, 132, 133
George III (king), 132, 148, 151
statue of torn down in New York City, 156
Gilbert, Humphrey, 23
glass armonica, 137
Glen, James, 117
Gordon, James, 116
gout, 70
Graham, Augustine, 29
gravity, 70–71, 75, 76, 77–78, 80–82, 95, 111, 171
See also Explanation of the First Causes of Action in Matter; and the Cause of Gravitation (Colden)
Great Awakening, 85
Great Meadows, 104
Great Minnisink patent, 34
Great New York Fire of 1776, 9
Greene, Nathanael, 118
Gregory, Dr., 18
Grenville, George, 141, 146
Grenville, Richard, 24
Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus, 44, 63, 65, 72, 120, 124
Gulf Stream, 67
Hale, Nathan, 9
Haley, John, 163
Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 100, 131, 137–38, 140
Hall, David, 67, 93
Halley, Edmund, 18
Hamilton, Alexander, 163
Hamilton, Andrew, 58
Hamilton, James, 131
Hanover Precinct (now Montgomery, New York), 165
Hardy, Charles, 101–102
Hartford, Connecticut, 25
Heathcote, John, 90
Herkimer, Fort, 107
Herkimer County, New York, 55
Herring, Thomas, 90
Hill, Elizabeth (aunt), 16, 56–57
Hill, R., 20
Hillsborough, Earl of, 146, 147, 148
“His Address to the Freeholders and Freemen of the Cities & Counties of the Province of New York by a Freeholder” (Colden), 93
Historia Plantarum (Morison), 121
History of the Five Indian Nations, The (Colden), 38–41, 64, 68, 73, 170–71
draft for Continuation of Colden's History of the Five Indian Nations for the years 1707 through 1720, 91–92
sales of, 110–11
second edition of, 91
History of the Province of New-York, from the First Discovery to the Year MDCCXXXII (1732), The (Smith), 18, 38, 60–61, 86
Colden's problems with the content of, 127–29, 132, 137
Hobbes, Thomas, 84
Horsmanden, Daniel, 55, 89, 90, 138
Hortus Medicus Edinburgensis (Preston), 15
hospital, founding of second oldest, 151
Hovius de Circulari Humoum, 18
Hudson's Bay Company, 102
Hughes, Janet (mother), 13
Hunter, Robert, 20–21, 28, 29, 30, 92
Huske, John, 38
Hyde, Edward [aka Lord Cornbury], 34
hydrophobia, cure for, 109–110
Ile Royale (Cape Breton Island), 103
Ile Saint Jean (Prince Edward Island), 103
Indian affairs, Colden's interest in, 30
attending conference with Five Nations, 36
Colden's adoption by the Mohawks, 41
Colden's efforts to get funding for presents for, 90–91
Colden's efforts to raise a militia to protect against hostile Indians, 102
meeting with Indians in Albany in 1746, 87–89
while lieutenant governor of New York, 138–39, 141
writings, 91, 110–11
about trade with the Indians, 36, 37, 41–42, 91
draft for Continuation of Colden's History of the Five Indian Nations for the years 1707 through 1720, 91–92
The History of the Five Indian Nations, 38–41, 64, 68, 73, 170–71
infectious hepatitis, 70
Ingoldesby, Richard, 92
inoculations, 32
Institutiones Herbariae (Tournefort), 121
“Intelligent Beings,” 86
Interest of City and Country to Lay No Duties: or A Short Discourse shewing that Duties on Trade, tend to the Impoverishing City and Country, The (anonymous), 43
Interest of the Country in laying Duties: or, a Discourse shewing how Duties on some Sorts of Merchandize may make the Province of New-York richer than it would be without them, The (Colden), 43
Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxioms, An (Colden), 78–79
“Introduction to the Study of Phylosophy, An” (Colden), 130
Iroquois (Indians), 102, 105, 107, 167
Five Nations, 36–37, 39, 40, 92, 93, 10
9, 170
France recognizing British control of, 102
Six Nations, 53, 103, 139
treaty with, 89
See also History of the Five Indian Nations, The (Colden)
Izard, Alice (Delancey) (daughter of Peter and Elizabeth), 163
Izard, George (son of Henry and Alice), 163
Izard, Henry (married to Alice Delancey), 163
Izard, Ralph (son of Henry and Alice), 164
Jacobite, Colden accused of being, 16, 56
James, Thomas, 143
James I (king), 24
James II (king) [aka Duke of York], 25, 26, 27, 28, 33
Jamestown, Virginia, 24
Jarratt, Allane, 29
Jay, John, 74
Jefferys, Thomas, 33
Jews, disfranchisement of, 59
Johnson, Samuel, 63, 76, 80, 82, 83, 84–85, 109
Johnson, William, 103, 105, 106–107, 138, 139, 141
“Join or Die” (political cartoon by Franklin), 105, 106
Journal für Botanik (Schrader), 124
Kalm, Peter, 15, 93, 115, 122, 169
Kastner, Abraham Gotthelf, 112
Kempe, John Tabor, 138, 149
Kennedy, Archibald, 54
Kent County, Delaware, 26
King's College (later Columbia University), 80, 122, 151
Knight, Gowin, 74
Lahontan, Baron de, 36–37, 39
Lake George, Battle of in 1755, 138
Lane, Ralph, 24
Le Clerc Histoire de la Medicine, 18
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 84
Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, The (collected by the New York Historical Society), 43
Lexington, battle in 1775, 155
libel issues and Zenger trial, 57–58
lieutenant governor of New York
acting governor in lieu of absent governor, 149–50
Cadwallader Colden as, 123, 132, 133–34, 135–36, 137, 141, 148–49, 150–51, 158, 162, 172
coming out of retirement in 1760 to serve, 131–32
Dunmore's efforts to remove from position, 154
final retirement in 1775, 155–56
pamphlet attacking performance, 145
recommended to be, but Delancey appointed instead, 91
resuming service after 1766 retirement, 147
resuming service awaiting arrival of Tryon in 1771, 151
resuming service while Tryon away in 1774, 155
retiring again in 1770 with arrival of Dunmore, 148
retiring from post of lieutenant governor in 1766, 144
George Clarke as, 42, 59, 60, 61, 86, 87
James Delancey as, 90, 92, 99, 100–101, 108, 130, 131
Richard Ingoldesby as, 87
lightning rod, 139
Lind, James, 117
Linnaeus, Carolus, 44
and Alexander Garden, 117, 125
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