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Clinton family leaders of Democracy, 191; distrust of Burr, 191; apportionment of patronage among, 197; opposition to Burr, 197
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Clipper ships, 220
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Clubs, 52, 257
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Coast trade, 90
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Cod-fisheries, 53
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Coffee-houses, 118
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Colden, Gov. Cadwallader, attempts to enforce Stamp Act, 139; hung in effigy, 140; burned in effigy, 140; yields custody of stamps to municipal authorities, 141
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Colonial families, descent of prominent, 87, note
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Colonialism, spirit of, 241
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Colonial system, vice of, 15, 126
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Colonies, Congress of, 83; English restrictions on trade of, 98; Tory and neutral element in, 150
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Colonists, first, 13; love of liberty among English, 127; home tie of, a drawback, 133; feeling of, on their reputed inferiority, 152
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Colonization, European theory of, 127; change in that theory, 131
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Columbia College (see also KING’S COLLEGE), name of King’s College changed to, 173; development into a university, 260
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Columbia Gardens, 204
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Colve, Capt. Anthony, receives surrender of city, 55; character, 56; troubles with Long Island Puritans, 56; establishes military law, 57; imposes heavy taxes, 57; succeeded by Sir Edmund Andros, 58
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Commerce, influence of, 9; blow to, by war between Holland and England, 54; early, 90; restrictions on, 98; increase of, 175, 245
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Commercial honor, low tone of, 180
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Committee of Fifty-one, 147, 148
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Committee of Mechanics, 147
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Committee of Safety, 82
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Committee of Sixty, 148
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Committee of Vigilance, 147
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Common the, 116; Stamp Act rioting on, 140
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Common Council, disloyalty of, 246
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Connecticut, joins expedition against Canada, 83
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Connecticut River, Van Twiller’s fort on, 21
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Connecticut Valley, English take possession of, 21, 26
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Constables, election of, 178
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Constitution of New York, abolishes religious disabilities, 174; character of framers, 176; adoption of a new, 210, 213
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Constitution of United States, adoption of, 180; position of Hamilton in regard to, 183; procession in honor of, 184, 185; centennial celebration of adoption of, 259
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Continental Army, motley character of, 156
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Continental Congress, first idea of holding, 147; the first and second, 149
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Convicts, early importations of, 118, 119
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Cooper, James Fenimore, 240
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Cooper, Peter, 258
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Cooper Union, 258
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Cornbury, Lord Edward H., appointed governor, 104; character, 105; misappropriates public funds, 105; removal of, 105
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Corruption, political, 251, 263
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Cosby, Gov. William, character, 123; libeled by Zenger, 124
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Costume, of early Dutch settlers, 39; in colonial period, 95; at beginning of nineteenth century, 203
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Council of Appointment, 175, 176; power of, 196; abolition of, 213
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Council of Twelve, Kieft’s, 29
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Court house, frauds in construction of, 233
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Court party, known as Tories, 125; Episcopalians and Dutch in, 136; great families the leaders in, 136; revival of, 142
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Criminal classes, large proportion of, among early settlers, 35
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Croton aqueduct, 240
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Crow’s Nest, 8
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Curtis, George W., author of “Potiphar Paper,” 241
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