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Navigation Acts, 24, 27.

Netherlands, the, commerical treaty with, 11.

New England, prosperity due to commerce, 24; effect of trade restrictions on, 26; “plantation covenants”, 40; system of land grant, 65; interest in trade, 97; favors navigation acts, 129.

New England Confederation (1643), 48.

New Hampshire, Vermont withdraws from New York and, 68; and Federal Convention, 106-107; ratification of Constitution, 154-155, 157.

New Jersey, ratification of Constitution, 149.

New Jersey Plan, 118, 119, 121, 125-126.

New York cession of western land claims to United States, 58, 59; Vermont, withdraws from New Hampshire and, 68; refuses to accede to Revenue Amendment, 88; ratification of Constitution, 150, 156-158.

New York City chosen as seat of government, 163.

Newburg on the Hudson, mutinous Revolutionary soldiers at, 81-82.

Newfoundland, fisheries, 13.

North Carolina, ratification of constitution, 158.

Northwest Ordinance, 55 et seq.; see also Land Ordinance of 1785, Ordinance of 1784, Ordinance of 1787.

Northwest Territory, settlement, 55-56; States relinquish claims, 57-59; question of land sale and government, 62 et seq.