Blodget, Nathan, 11. 158, 166, 170.

Boats, flat, for lakes, 1. 133.

Boileau, Jacques, I. 37.

Bollan, William, 11. 188.

Brattle, William, 1. 13; II. 381; recantation,
I. 32 n.

Braxton, Carter, 1. 218 n.; address to
Virginia convention, 242, 252, 257.

Bonaparte, J. Adams on, 11. 353; doubt on, Breck, Samuel, 11. 286.
382.

Borré, Prudhomme de, 1. 303.

Boston, 'massacre,' Lovell's oration, I. 10;
pleasures of, 17; tea, 18, 19; 11. 403;
fortifications, 1. 32; of harbor, 216, 226,
237; refugees, 48; British army in, 68;
situation in, 71, 100, 113, 150; II. 426;
operations near, 1. 83, 96; II. 422, 431,
437; inhabitants and Gage, 1. 98, 100, 101,
102, 194; channels in harbor, 129; plan of,
130; S. Adams desires an attack on, 141;
play interrupted, 151; move upon, 210;
defense of, 217, 225, 238, 239, 244, 271; 11. |
443; condition after evacuation, 1. 262;
tories, 292, 369; navy board, 312, 324;
General Court and, 332, 341; II. 440;
representatives, 10; meeting, 406.

Breteuil, Louis Auguste le Tonnelier, baron
de, II. 196.

Brewer, David, 1. 195.

Bromfield, Henry, II. 446; committee of war,
1. 276 n.
Bromfield, I. 196.
Brown, Gawen, 1. 162.
Brown, John, 11. 10.
Brown, John, 1. 52, 98, 169.
Brown, Woodbridge, 1. 226.
Brown, captain, 11. 60.
Brown's House, affair at, 1. 83.
Browne, John, of Providence, II. 113.
Brownson, Nathan, 1. 321.
Bruce, I. 346.
Brunswick, N.J., 1. 289, 336.
Bryan, George, I. 298.

Boston, 1. 304, 312 n., 366, 372; 11. 10, 14, 18, Buchanan, Archibald, 1. 39.

29, 53, 88, 103.
Boston Patriot, II. 368.

Boundaries, settlement of disputes, under
confederation, 1. 376.

Bounties, army, I. 152; for inlistments, 211,
258, 276, 277, 295, 299, 304, 325; II. 446;
money for, 1. 285.

Bourke, William, II. 15, 26, 29, 30.
Bowdoin, Elizabeth, 1. 216 n.
Bowdoin, James, 1. 152, 241, 264; II. 5; on
Paine's Common Sense, 1. 208; governor,
243, 253, 340; committee of war, 275
n.; for governor, II. 135, 141, 144,
161; governor, 250, 262, 293; refuses aid,
267.

Bowen, Eliza, 11. 330.

Bowen, Ephraim, 11. 329 n.

Bowen, Fanny, II. 330.

Buchanan, Claudius, II. 376.

Buffoonery, Morgan lecture on, 1. 17.
Bunker, David, II. 443.

Bunker Hill, battle of, 1. 59, 62, 66, 69, 78;
II. 412; British account, I. 79; official
relation, 144 n.

Burbank, Silas, 1. 91, 101.
Burbeck, Edward, I. 187, 194.
Burgoyne, John, 1. 53, 56, 62, 69 n., 360, 362;
return to England, 68; march from
Canada, 263; at Fort Edward, 353, 354;
Saratoga, 356; dangerous situation, 357,
364, 368, 371, 372; surrender, 374; at
Boston, 374, 377; II. 28, 32, 451; hand bill,
1. 375; trial of Henley, 11. 4.
Burke, Ædanus, II. 237.

Burke, Edmund, 1. 34; II. 327.

Burke, Thomas, I. 293 n.; II. 444.

Bowen, Jabez, letters, II. 234, 329; on impost, Burlington, N.J., British at, I. 279.

Currency, danger of, II. 90, 98; mending,
108, 112.

of, 67, 75; addresses, 75, 79; adjournment, Crane, Stephen, naval committee, 1. 311 n.
90; committee to camp, 119, 125, 149, 169; | Cumberland, Richard, 11. 301.
secrecy, 124, 126, 138, 170; committee on
hostilities, 143; governments, 242; Eastern
district, 245; committee on the Howes,
274; pay of troops, 276; bounties, 277;
foreign relations, 281; II. 192; naval
committee, 1. 311; finance, 360; adjourns
to Yorktown, 371; Hancock's speech, 378;
address, II. 18, 38; returns to Philadelphia,
35; toast and salute, 49; representation,
110, 270; resolutions, 120; economy, 124;
requisitions, 152, 190; at Annapolis, 233;
proceedings, 236; indecision, 442.
'Congress' mortar, 1. 189.

Connecticut, 1. 75; general officers, 86; land-
jobbers, 168; militia, 188; misconduct of
troops, 194; cowardice, 323; regulation act,
II. 19; rewarded, 152.

Conquérant, II. 125.

Consuls, appointment of, II. 226, 241, 264,
266, 267.

Contempt of enemies, II. 47.

Convention, constitutional, II. 295, 297, 299.
Convention, troops of, II. 4, 5, 7; in Boston,
451.

Conway, Thomas, 1. 333; Warren on, 319.
Conyngham, Gustavus, 1. 381.
Cooke, Nicholas, 1. 151.
Coolidge, Nathaniel, 1. 149.
Cooper, Myles, 'Friendly Address,' I. 47 n.
Cooper, Samuel, 1. 58, 73, 194, 268.
Cooper, William, 1. 144, 319 n.; II. 92;
Adams on, 149.

Cornwallis, Charles, II. 144, 157.

Cossacks, British said to want, I. 289, 295.
Cotton, John, 11. 78, 88.

Cotton, I. 301; II. 406.

Cushing, Thomas, 1. 10, 15, 63, 190 n., 319 n.;
II. 118, 293, 413; in Continental Congress,
I. 27 n.; II. 430; discouraging letter, 1. 57;
in council, 94; Supreme Court, 150, 178;
militia appointments, 192; conduct of,
211; for Congress, 264; letter from, 286;
naval agent, 305, 324; councillor, 331;
Springfield convention, 350; lieutenant

governor, II. 135.

Custis, Eleanor (Calvert), 1. 220, 229; 11. 6.
Custis, John Parke, 1. 220, 229.
Custis, Martha Parke, 11. 6.
Cutting, John Brown, II. 290.

Dalton, Tristram, 1. 286 n., 319 n., 324.
Dana, Francis, 1. 217, 264, 266; II. 13, 41, 52,
65, 106, 150, 176, 193, 208, 256, 441; Lee's
letter, 69; absorption in business, 92; for
Russia, 158; at St. Petersburg, 221; return,
222; Congress, 236; judge, 261.
Danbury, descent upon, 1. 323.
Dane, Nathan, 11. 36.

Danielson, Timothy, 1. 252 n., 276 n.; II. 142,
231.

Dartmouth, Lord, see William Legge.
Dauphin Royal, 11. 125.
Davis's, I. 149.

Deane, Silas, committee on hostilities, 1. 143,
144, 162; naval committee, 311; charges
against, 379, 380; expenditures, 11. 67;
statement, 68, 83, 86, 89, 94, 96; Adams
on, 75; fall of, 106, 171.

Deane, 11. 87, 93, 135, 138, 141.
Dedham, Mass., 1. 106.

Council, Massachusetts, 1.83; militia officers, De la Balme, Mottin, 1. 333.

Delaware Bay, blockading, 1. 145; govern-

Deserters, law on, II. 430.

Crafts, Thomas, jr., 1. 186, 194, 195, 240, Derby, John, returns from England, 1. 84.

248, 253, 304.

Craige, Andrew, 1. 190.

Cramahé, Hector Theophilus, 1. 148.
Cranch, Richard, 11. 121, 293.

Deshon, John, navy board, 1. 312 n., 324,

350; II. 44, 122.

Destin, II. 125.

Dialogue of the Dead, by John Adams, II.

Eliot, Andrew, reported confinement, 1.73,78.
Elmer, Jonathan, 1. 293 n.

Embargo, Adams on, 1. 312; Jefferson's, II.

356.

,

387 n., 389.
Emigration from Europe, 11. 205, 232.
Dickinson, John, letters to Otis, 1. 3, 4, 5, 6; | Encyclopedia, French, 11. 273, 277.
sends Farmer's Letters, 3; corrections, 4; Enos, Roger, deserts Arnold, 1. 181, 188.
on Massachusetts, 3; advises moderation, Ervin, dr., 1. 360.
4; letter to Boston, 5; a colonel, 51; Adams
on, 88; change of heart, 251; error in con-
duct, 280; letters to Mrs. Warren, II. 347,
348; on Otis, 347; writings, 364.
Dickinson, Philemon, 1. 370 n.
Dilly, Charles, 1. 8 n.

Dilly, Edward, 1. 8 n.

Dimsdale, Thomas, 1. 263.

Doane, Elisha, I. 23; II. 404.

Dobrée, — II. 118.

Dodd, William, 1. 381; 11. 65, 77.
Donop, Carl Emil Kurt von, death, 1. 374.
Dorchester Neck, 1. 133; importance of,
154; occupied, 210; fort on, 216, 237;
rendezvous, 268; affair, II. 435.
Draper's newspaper, 1. 12, 155.
Drayton, William Henry, 1. 230; II. 38.
Duane, James, 1. 378 n.; II. 143, 167.
Duché, Elizabeth (Hopkinson), 1. 165 n.
Duché, Jacob, 1. 80, 143, 165.

Du Coudray, Philippe Charles John Baptist

Estaing, Charles Hector, comte d', II. 38,
112; entertainment, 55.
Eugène, François, 1. 70 n.
Europe, balance of power, 192.
Evans, John, 1. 298 n.

Extravagance, prevalence of, 11. 59, 66, 82,
86, 91, 105, 114, 147, 154, 178, 180, 184,
249, 264, 269, 289.

Falmouth, 1. 178; burning of, 154.
Faneuil, Mary, 11. 136 n.

Faneuil, Peter, 11. 136 n.
'Farmer's Letters' (Dickinson's), 1. 3, 5.
Fast, continental, 1. 58, 80, 83; 11. 416.
Fawcett, Sir William, 11. 131.
Fayerweather, Anne, 1. 102 n.
Fayerweather, Hannah, 1. 16 n.
Fee bill, 1. 219.

Fellows, John, 1. 80 n.; II. 434.
Fendant, II. 125.

Fenner, Mary, II. 329 n.

Tronson, II. 213; arrival, 1. 318; embarrass-Ferguson, Adam, passport for, 11. 21.

ment, 333.

Dudley, Charles, 1. 121.

Duer, William, 1. 378 n.; on Cushing, 212.

Dunmore, Lord, see John Murray.

Dwight, Timothy, II. 301.

Dwight, —————, col., 1. 109.

Fermoy, Mathieu Alexis Roche de, 1. 347.

Fessenden, Josiah, 1. 55, 58, 81, 110, 169, 181,

195, 219, 264.

Firebrand, 11. 183.

Fire ships, 1. 256.

Fish, export of, 1. 198, 203; II. 430.

Dyer, Eliphalet, 1. 115, 119 n., 158; Canada | Fisheries, sacrifice of, 11. 106, 107, 109, 168,

Gaine, Hugh, 1. 310.

Gallies, row, 1. 130, 154.

Gamble, Thomas, 1. 123; II. 421.
Game Cock, 1. 339.

France, policy of, 1. 184; 11. 171, 173; army | Gansevoort, Peter, 1. 356.
in America, 1. 241; fleet, 259; recognition Gardiner, Sylvester, II. 48.
of America, 302; supplies from, 302, 306, | Gardner, Christopher, 1. 96 n.
307, 317; officers, 303; ports open, 307; Gardner, Henry, II. 407.
war with Great Britain, 309, 313, 315, 321,
330; doubt, 313; aid to America, 322, 357,
381; fleet at Boston, II. 8, 9, 44, 46, 51, 55; |
tories on, 9, 15; pennants in ports, 32;
minister, 33, 34; repair of squadron, 61, 78,
93, 122; recall proposed, 100; fleet in West
Indies, 102, 105, 112; preparations and
ships, 125; Americans in, 127; at Newport,
140, 151; cultivates tories, 167; peace
objects, 185, 193; American minister, 198;
influence, 229; Mrs. Adams on, 242;
treaty with Great Britain, 284; mission
to, 335, 336, 340.
Francy,
II. 117.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1. 57, 211, 293 n., 380;
II. 118, 171, 182, 185, 387 n.; letter from
England, 1. 8; return, 34; committee to
camp, 119, 120, 125, 149; to Canada,
206; goes to France, 283; reception, 301;
Adams on, II. 74, 209, 222; Mrs. Warren
on, 132; trade permits, 137, 142; recall of,
144, 158; peace commission, 169, 171, 173;
Vergennes and, 197; resignation, 211, 251,
263; Warren on, 231.
Franklin, William, 11. 186.

Gardner, ———, captain, 1. 319 n.
Gardoqui, Joseph and Sons, 1. 370 n.; 11. 153.
Gates, Horatio, 1. 54, 257, 277, 282, 307, 323,
368; II. 97, 452; major general, 1. 246; on
pay of troops, 278; command of northern
army, 329, 351, 357; victory over Bur-
goyne, 374; defeat, II. 140.
Gates, Mary (Valence), 11. 6.
Gellée, N. M., 11. 127.

Generals, continental, appointments, 1. 64;
criticised, 69; method, 79, 85.
Gentille, 11. 125.

George III, reply to London, 1. 109; procla-
mation, II. 426.

George IV and Mrs. Fitzherbert, II. 288.
George Tavern, 1. 96.

George's Island, 1. 216, 217, 238.
Georgia, defense of, 1, 170; for independence,
249; descent on, II. 104.
Gérard, Conrad Alexandre, II. 33, 125, 197;
on A. Lee, 70; communication from, 109.
Germain, George, 11. 165.
Germans, arousing, 1. 76; not to be hired,
II. 124, 131.

Gerry, Elbridge, 1. 13, 15, 78, 81, 183, 219,
238, 260, 336, 342; II. 14, 27, 50, 136, 137,
150, 248; elected to Congress, I. 212 n.,
267, 272; II. 142, 183, 231, 256, 261, 264,
430; marriage, 284; vice president, 373;
reconciliation of Adams and Warren, 374;
law on armed vessels, 378, 380; writing
history, 381.

Gibbon, Edward, History, II. 327.
Gibraltar, 11. 177, 182; praised, 268.

Frye, Joseph, 1. 91; brigadier general, 204; Gill, John, 1. 49 n., 58, 99, 100, 151.

resigns, 218 n.

Gill, Moses, 1. 319 n.