U.

Utrecht, Treaty of, 306 p. 200, 314 ii p. 220, 454.
-, -,-, acquisition of Nova Scotia under, 592 i.
-, -,-, Article 13th, 592 i.
-, -,-, effect of, on the Leeward Islands, 106 p. 68.
-, -,-,-, in Nova Scotia, 592 i.
-, -,-, effect of, on the Leeward Islands, 106 p. 68.
-, -,-, fishing rights in Newfoundland under, 145.
-, -,-, infringement of terms of, in Newfoundland, 31, 40.
-, -,-, Sta. Cruz not mentioned in, 338 i.

V.

Verte (Vert), Bay of, French activities at, 246 ii p. 162, 504 i.

Virginia, Act for allowing Indians to be witnesses in criminal offences committed by Indians, explanation of, 389 p. 303.
-, -, Act to amend the laws now in force for the more speedy recovery of small debts, explanation of, 389 p. 304.
-, -, Act for amending the Act, entitled an Act for settling the tithes and bounds of land and preventing unlawful shooting and ranging thereupon, explanation of, 389 pp. 301, 302.
-, -, Act for appointing several new ferries, etc., 389 p. 306.
-, -, Act appointing a Treasurer, etc., 389 p. 306.
-, -, Act for the better direction of officers in the sale of goods or other things taken in execution or distrained for rent, explanation of, 389 pp. 303, 304.
-, -, Act for the better enabling the Executors of the last will and testament of Charles Burgess, etc., 389 p. 307.
-, -, Act for better regulating and collecting certain officers fees and other purposes therein mentioned, a temporary Act, 389 p. 303.
-, -, Act for better regulating ordinary keepers and retailers of strong liquors and to prevent their giving them credit, explanation of, 389 p. 304.
-, -, Act for better regulating the tryal of criminals for capital offences, explanation of, 389 pp. 302, 303.
-, -, Act for the better support and encouragement of the College of William and Mary, explanation of, 389 pp. 304, 305.
-, -, Act for continuing the duty on liquors, explanation of, 389 p. 300.
-, -, Act continuing the duty on slaves etc., explanation of, 389 p. 301.
-, -, Act for continuing and further amending the Act for improving the staple of tobacco and preventing frauds in H.M. Customs, explanation of, 389 p. 300.
-, -, Act for declaring the Glebe of Elizabeth City Parish lately purchased to be a sufficient Glebe, 389 p. 306.
-, -, Act for destroying crows and squirrels in the Northern Neck and on the Eastern shore, 389 p. 307.
-, -, Act for dividing the County of Prince George and Parish of Bristol and for adding part of the County of Brunswick to the new erected County, 389 p. 308.
-, -, Act for dividing the Parish of Henrico for uniting and dividing the parishes of Warwicksqueak and Newport in the Isle of Wight County, explanation of, 389 p. 306.
-, -, Act for dividing Spotsilvania County, explanation of, 389 p. 307.
-, -, Act for docking the entail of certain lands in the County of Gloucester and Elizabeth City and vesting the same in Henry Willis, Gentm., in fee simple etc., 389 p. 308.
-, -, Act to enable the Nottaway Indians to sell certain lands etc., explanation of, 389 p. 308.
-, -, Act to encourage the making of linen cloth, suspended, 179.
-, -, Act for erecting two new Counties of Spotsylvania and Brunswick, conditions governing foreign inhabitants under, 472 i.
-, -,-, instructions concerning, 503 i.
-, -, Act concerning foreign debts (1663), 20 p. 15.
-, -, Act for freeing owners from Castle duties (1669), 20 p. 16.
-, -, Act for further continuing an Act for making more effectual provision against insurrections and invasions (1727), 389 p. 301.
-, -, Act laying a duty on imported liquors, 389 p. 305.
-, -, Act laying a duty on skins and fur, granted for support of William and Mary College, 389 pp. 304, 305.
-, -, Act to lessen the penalty for killing deer at improper seasons and for the better recovery thereof, 389 p. 304.
-, -, Act to make void certain contracts for the paying excessive usury, and for the discouragement of the unrighteous practice of taking more than the lawful interest and reducing the rate of interest, 389 p. 301.
-, -, Act, Militia, proposed amendments to, 290 i.
-, -, Act for the more effectual obliging persons to buy and sell by weights and measures according to the English standard, 389 p. 303.
-, -, Act to oblige the Justices of James City and York Counties to levy tobacco for certain officers of the city of Williamsburgh, explanation of, 389 p. 307.
-, -, Act to prevent the building wooden chimneys in the towns of York and Gloucester etc., 389 p. 308.
-, -, Act for the priority of payment to the country creditors (1664), 20 p. 15.
-, -, Act "Privilege of owners," 20 p. 15.
-, -, Act for raising a publick revenue for the better support of this H.M. Colony of (1680), 20 p. 16.
-, -, Act for raising a public levy, etc., explanation of, 389 p. 306.
-, -, Act regulating the tobacco trade, proposal to renew, 290 i.
-, -, Act for the relief of such persons as have suffered or may suffer by the loss of the Records of Nansemond County, lately consumed by fire, 389 p. 307.
-, -, Act, tobacco, 179, 290 ii (a) (b).
-, -, Act to vest certain entailed lands with the appurtenances therein mentioned in Charles Tomkins etc., 389 p. 308.
-, -, Act to vest part of the Estate of Robert Carter, etc., 389 p. 307.
-, -, Acts, private, instructions concerning, 311 p. 204.
-, -,-, transmitted, 389 p. 299, 393.
-, -, Amelia County, 389 p. 308.
-, -, Assembly of, dissolution of, 389 p. 309, 544.
-, -,-, journal of, 389 p. 299, 393.
-, -,-, meeting of, 290.
-, -,-, beef, pork and fish, difficulty in curing, 311 p. 204.
-, -, Blue Mountains, petition from inhabitants of, 180 ii.
-, -,-, settlement at, advantages of, 180 ii.
-, -,-,-, terms proposed for, 180 ii.
-, -, boundaries of, with Maryland and Pennsylvania, settlement urged, 180.
-, -, Brushwick, Act to erect a county at, 472 i.
-, -, Cahongarota (Cahongarotten) River, settlement on, proposed, 180 i.
-, -, Chesapeake Bay. See Chesapeake.
-, -, Council of, 180.
-, -,-, address from, 290 iii (a).
-, -,-, minutes of, 389 p. 299, 393.
-, -, Council and Assembly, good disposition of, 389 p. 309.
-, -,-, instructions to, concerning Lutheran Congregations, 479, 493.
-, -, Council and Burgesses of, address from, 442, 442 i.
-, -,-,-, congratulatory, 389 p. 309.
-, -, Councillors of. See Dandridge, William.
-, -, Court of Oyer and Terminer, Act for settling procedure in, 389 pp. 302, 303.
-, -, Court, Supreme, method of procedure in, 389 p. 302.
-, -, Deputy Auditor of. See Blair, John.
-, -, exports and imports of, account of, 179.
-, -, General Assembly of, Lieutenant Governor's speech to, 290 i.
-, -, German Lutherans in, exemptions granted to congregations of, 493.
-, -,-, instructions concerning, 503 i.
-, -,-, petition of granted, 479.
-, -,-, settled by Colonel Spotswood, 472 i.
-, -, Government of, under the Crown, 20 p. 11.
-, -, Governor of. See Hamilton, George.
-, -, Grand Jury, 389 pp. 302, 303.
-, -, Great Ridge of Mountains, settlement on, 472 i.
-, -, Hampton, incidents concerning Spanish subjects at, 578.
-, -,-, Spanish ship at, 481 i.
-, -, hemp, manufacture of, 311 p. 204.
-, -,-, flax, pitch and tar, production of, 311 p. 204.
-, -, House of Burgesses, address from, 290 ii (a).
-, -,-, Speaker of. See Randolph, Sir John.
-, -, Indian traders, dispute concerning, 380 p. 294.
-, -, Indians, complaint by Spanish concerning, 481 i.
-, -,-, Nottaway, Act concerning lands of, 389 p. 308.
-, -,-, Saponies, 389 p. 308.
-, -,-, tributary, case of Englishman murdered by, 389 p. 303.
-, -, inhabitants, increase of, 389 pp. 306, 308.
-, -, iron works in, 20 p. 21.
-, -,-, account of, 179.
-, -,-, encouragement of, 311 p. 204.
-, -, lands beyond the Great Mountains, advantages in settling, 180.
-, -,-, claims to, 180, 390; and see Fairfax; Baltimore; Penn.
-, -,-,-, Lord Fairfax's upheld, 480, 505.
-, -,-, dispute concerning, 180.
-, -,-, settlements on, 390.
-, -,-,-, power of French weakened by, 180.
-, -,-,-, by Swiss, 390; and see Ochs, John.
-, -,-, suitable for hemp and flax, 311 p. 204.
-, -, laws, manufactures and trade of affecting Great Britain, reply to query concerning, 179, 311.
-, -, Lieut.-Governor of. See Gooch, William.
-, -, manufactures in, account of, 179.
-, -, mines in, copper, tin, lead, 179.
-, -, Nansemond County, records destroyed by fire, 389 p. 307.
-, -, naval stores in, encouragement of, 311.
-, -, negroes in, acts regulating, 578.
-, -,-, duty on, 389 p. 301.
-, -,-, Spanish claims to, 578.
-, -, Northern Neck, settlement of boundaries urged, 180.
-, -, Peace and Plenty in, 80.
-, -, pottery works at, 20 p. 21.
-, -, Prince of Orange County. See Spotsylvania.
-, -, quit rents, revenue from, 241 ii.
-, -, Receiver General of. See Greymer (Grymes), John.
-, -, Revenue, accounts of, 241, 241 i, ii, 389 i.
-, -,-, prejudiced by dispute over land in, 180.
-, -, St. Andrew's Parish, 472 i, 503 i.
-, -, St. George's Parish, 503 i.
-, -, Sasquehanaugh, settlement on, 460.
-, -, ships entered and cleared at, list of, 241.
-, -, silver mine in, report of, 356.
-, -, sloop captured by Spaniards, account of, 376 p. 287; and see Woodbridge.
-, -, Spaniards in, reply to query concerning, 578.
-, -,-, treatment of, 578.
-, -, Spotsylvania (Prince of Orange County), account of settlement of, 472 i.
-, -,-, instructions concerning parochial dues in, 503 i.
-, -,-, petition of Ministers, Elders and Members of a German Lutheran Congregation, 472 i.
-, -,-, renamed County of Orange, 389 p. 307.
-, -,-, St. George's parish, Lutheran pastor for, 472 i.
-, -,-, timber in, 380 p. 290.
-, -, Three Lower Counties, title to, 460; and see Maryland; Pennsylvania Delaware.
-, -, tobacco, complaint concerning planters' hardships, 442 i.
-, -,-, duty to be paid on, 20 p. 24.
-, -,-, frauds in packing and exporting, 389 p. 305.
-, -,-, packed as beef or pork in casks, 389 p. 304.
-, -, tobacco trade, 20 p. 20, 311.
-, -,-, evasions of duty in, 389 p. 305.
-, -,-, regulations for, satisfactory nature of, 389 p. 300.
-, -, trade of, with Great Britain, 179.
-, -,-, with Madeira, 179.
-, -,-, with Northern Colonies, 311.
-, -,-, prosperous, 241.
-, -,-, with West Indies, 179.
-, -, Treasurer of. See Randolph, Sir John.
-, -, William and Mary College, revenue of, 389 pp. 304, 305.
-, -, Williamsburgh, 389 p. 302.
-, -, woollen manufactures in, 20 p. 20.
-, -, York Town, pottery at, 179.

Virgin Islands (Anguilla, Barbuda, St. John's, St. Thomas, Spanish Town, Tortola), Councils proposed for, 216 p. 135.
-, -, deputy Governors of, 216 p. 135.
-, -, fortifications of, 457.
-, -, Governor Mathew's account of, 314 ii p. 236.
-, -, inhabitants remove to Danish and Dutch islands, 314 ii p. 236.
-, -, lawlessness in, proposal for remedying, 216 p. 135.
-, -, militia in, 457.
-, -, population of, 457.
-, -, removal of settlers to Sta. Cruz feared, 83.
-, -, trade of, 457.

Weekly Rehearsal, copy of, 230 v.

West India Company, French, activities of, 108.

West Indies, account of imports and exports to Great Britain, 373 i.
-, -, exports and imports of, account required, 289.
-, -, exports of whale oil to, from Bermuda, 187, 188.
-, -, negroes from Africa for, 196 p. 123.
-, -, salt from, poor quality of, 311 p. 204.

Westminster, petition from artizans and workmen in, 546 ii.

Whale fishery, in Bermuda, account of, 187.
-, -,-, decrease in, Lt. Governor's salary affected by, 187, 188, 189.
-, -,-, exports, 187, 188.
-, -, instructions to Governors concerning, 20 p. 24.

Williamsburgh, ship, 393.

Winchelsea, H.M.S., 578.

Wines, exports and imports in the Plantations, account of duty on, required, 581 ii.

Woods, H.M., in the Plantations, Colonel Dunbar's proposal for safeguarding of, 166.
-, -, destruction of, in Massachusetts Bay, 387, 387 i.
-, -,-, in New England, 321.
-, -,-,-, instructions from Admiralty concerning, 327.
-, -,-, in New Hampshire, 151, 153.
-, -, Surveyor General of, instructions to Governors concerning, 20 pp. 24, 25; and see Dunbar, David.
-, -, white pine trees, Acts of Parliament for preservation of, 20 p. 25.

Woollen manufacture in the Plantations, encouragement of, 20 p. 25.
-, -, traded for furs with Indians, 252 i pp. 171, 172.

Yucaban, 481 i.

Yucatan, 551.

Zenger's Journal, in New York, Governor Cosby attacked in, 222 pp. 137, 138.

Zurich, settlers from, for the Plantations, 384 i.