INDEX
[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z]
A Abridgement of the Book of Common Prayer, [108] Adams, Abigail, [126], [155], [168]-69 Adams, John, [126], [138], [140], [155]-56, [163], [168]-69, [184] Adams, John Quincy, [155] Adams, Matthew, [13] Adams, Samuel, [113] Addison, Joseph, [14] Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of, [47] Albany, New York, [64] Alibard, Thomas François d’, [58], [103] American Philosophical Society, [45], [56] André, Major John, [162] Animal magnetism, [173]-74 Anton, Franz, [173] Ants, experiment with, [57]-58 Arland, Marquis d’, [165]-66 Armonica, invention of the, [81] Arnold, General Benedict, [136]-37, [161] Articles of Confederation, [179] Auteuil, France, [168] Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, [34], [108], [141], [184] Azyr, Felix Vicq d’, [172]
B Bache, Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin’s grandson), [107], [123], [142], [148], [155], [175], [176], [178], [185], [186] Bache, Deborah (Benjamin’s granddaughter), [185] Bache, Richard (Benjamin’s son-in-law), [101], [106], [119], [123], [125], [141], [161] Bache, Sarah Franklin (Benjamin’s daughter), [44], [78], [84], [85], [90], [95], [99], [101], [123], [147], [151], [177], [181], [182], [186] Bache, William (Benjamin’s grandson), [123] Balloon ascensions, [165]-66 Bancroft, Edward, [153] Bathurst, Lord and Lady, [105] Beaumarchais, Caron de, [145], [152] Beethoven, Ludwig von, [81] Belgium, [81] Berkshire, ship, [26] Bermuda, [127]-28 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, [69] Black Prince, privateer, [159] Black Princess, privateer, [159] Bond, Dr. Thomas, [56]-57 Bonhomme Richard, privateer, [160]-61 Bonvouloir, Achard de, [134], [135] Boston, Massachusetts, [9]-17, [23], [40], [49], [104], [105], [111]-13, [115], [119], [123], [126], [139] Boston City Council, [16] Boston Gazette, [13] Boston Massacre, [105] Boston Tea Party, [115], [119] Boswell, James, [101] Braddock, General Edward, [65]-66, [70], [71] Bradford, Andrew, [17], [19], [32], [33], [35] Bradford, William, [17] Brillon, Madame, [167]-68, [176] British Royal Society, [25], [45], [51], [58], [59], [60], [78], [91], [100], [150], [151], [171] Brooklyn Heights, Battle of, [139] Bruere, James, [127], [128] Brussels, Holland, [81] Buffon, Count Georges Louis, [58] Bunker Hill, Battle of, [124] Burgesses, Virginia House of, [94] Burgoyne, General John, [152] Burke, Edmund, [96], [117] Burlington, New Jersey, [19], [48], [57]
C Cabanis, Georges, [172]-73 Calgagnia, Jean-François, [51] Canada, [61], [136]-37, [152] Canton, John, [59], [78] Carlisle, Pennsylvania, [62] Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-César, [165] Charles II, King, [20] Charleston, South Carolina, [40] Chaumont, Le Ray de, [147], [155] Chaumont, Sophie de, [167] Christian VII, King, [105] Collins (Benjamin’s friend), [17] Collinson, Peter, [51], [53], [55], [58], [59], [74] “Common Sense,” [135]-36, [137], [147] Concord, Battle of, [123]-24 Constitutional Convention, [179]-81 Continental Congress, see First Continental Congress, Second Continental Congress Continental Navy, [129]; see also Privateers Cook, Captain James, [158], [167] Cornwallis, General Charles, [161], [162] Craven Street Gazette, [107] Cunaeus, [50] Cushing, Thomas, [112], [113], [118] Cutler, Manasseh, [181]-82
D Dartmouth, Lord, [96], [106], [117] Davies, Marianne, [81] Deane, Silas, [141], [144]-45, [152], [153], [155] Declaration of Independence, [137]-39, [147] Declaration of Rights and Grievances, [120] Deffand, Marquise du, [145]-46 De Lor, [58] Denham, Thomas, [24], [26], [28] Denny, William, [71], [80] “Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout,” [171] Dickinson, John, [133] Dinwiddie, Robert, [64] “Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain, A,” [25] Drake, H.M.S., [160] Dublin, Ireland, [105] Dubourg, Barbeu, [110], [133], [144] Du Fay, Charles François, [49] Dumas, Charles, [133] Dunning, John, [117]
E Easton, Pennsylvania, [69] “Edict by the King of Prussia,” [114]-15 Edwards, Jonathan, [55] Electricity, [49]-56, [58]-60, [100] Empedocles, [54] England, [24]-26, [47], [61], [74]-83, [86], [91]-99, [100]-10, [111]-21, [126], [150]-51, [152]-53, [158]-59, [161] “Ephemera,” [167], [171] “Experiments and Observations in Electricity, Made at Philadelphia, in America,” [58]
F Fearnot, privateer, [159] First Continental Congress, [119], [120] Fisher, Daniel, [68] Forbes, Brigadier General, [71] Fort Duquesne, [65], [66], [70]-71 Fothergill, Dr. John, [58], [77], [89] Fox, Charles James, [150] France and the French, [47], [61], [64], [65], [67], [82], [93], [103], [126], [133]-35, [143]-54, [157]-64, [165]-76, [184]-85, [187] Franklin, Abiah (Benjamin’s mother), [9], [40] Franklin, Benjamin, agricultural interests, [57]; ambassador to France, [158]-63, [166]-76; birth, [9]; book publisher, [42]; boyhood, [9]-17; Braddock and, [65]-67; children, [38], [44]; civic improvements suggested by, [46]-47, [56]-57; clerk to Pennsylvania Assembly, [41]; commissioner to France, [141], [143]-54; continental trips, [81], [101], [103]-04; courtship, [20], [34], [169]; death, [186]; Declaration of Independence and, [137]-38; delegate to Constitutional Convention, [179]-81; delegate to Second Continental Congress, [124]-31, [132]-41; education, [10], [40]; educational proposals, [45]-46; electrical experiments, [51]-56, [58]-60, [100]; England visited by, [24]-26, [74]-83, [91]-121; founder of American Philosophical Society, [44]-45; France visited by, [103]; friendships in England, [100]-10; funeral of, [186]; honors, [60], [79], [81], [166]-67, [177], [186]-87; Hutchinson letters and, [112]-13, [115]-18; illnesses, [77]-78, [93], [107], [137], [163], [164], [171], [183], [184], [185]; inventions, [11], [43]-44, [45], [80]-81, [178]; journey to Philadelphia, [18]-19; library for public established by, [34]-35; marriage, [34]; Masonic leader, [35], [56]; meeting with Richard Howe, [140]-41; military career, [68]-71; musical interests, [10], [81]; old age, [166]-76, [177]-86; peace negotiations with England, [163]; Penn family and, [76]-77, [80], [89]-90, [91]-92; Pennsylvania Hospital established by, [57]; personal appearance, [11], [20], [42]-43, [75], [111], [143]-44, [153], [181]-82; postmaster-general of the colonies, [63], [118], [125]; postmaster of Philadelphia, [41]; printer in Philadelphia, [19]-24, [29]-30, [31]-37, [40], [42], [47]; printer’s apprentice, [12]-17; publisher of the Courant in Boston, [16]; religious beliefs, [35], [180]; retirement, [47]-48; scientific interests, [26]-27, [33], [49], [51]-56, [57]-60, [78], [100], [108]-10, [121]-22, [171]-74, [182]; Stamp Act and, [92]-99; summoned before King’s Privy Council, [116]-17; vegetarian diet, [14], [18]; verse-making, [13]-14, [43]; virtues, thirteen, [38]-40, [41]; Voltaire and, [157]; will of, [183] Franklin, Benjamin (Benjamin’s uncle), [10] Franklin, Deborah Read (Benjamin’s wife), [20], [24], [25], [28], [34], [37], [43]-44, [68], [69]-70, [71], [74]-75, [78], [84], [90], [95], [99], [101], [105], [107], [121] Franklin, Elizabeth (William’s wife), [85] Franklin, Francis Folger (Benjamin’s son), [38], [41], [44] Franklin, James (Benjamin’s brother), [12]-13, [14], [15], [16]-17, [23], [28], [40]-41 Franklin, Jane, see Mecom, Jane Franklin Franklin, John (Benjamin’s brother), [42], [63] Franklin, Josiah (Benjamin’s father), [9], [10], [11]-12, [14], [23], [40], [42], [105] Franklin, Lydia (Benjamin’s sister), [9] Franklin, Peter (Benjamin’s brother), [42], [63] Franklin, Sally (Benjamin’s cousin), [107] Franklin, Sarah (Sally), see Bache, Sarah Franklin Franklin, William (Benjamin’s son), [38], [44], [47], [59], [63], [65], [68], [71], [77]-78, [81]-83, [85], [95], [108], [119], [128], [139], [176] Franklin, William Temple (Benjamin’s grandson), [107], [111], [121], [123], [128], [139], [141], [148], [150], [152], [157], [158], [160], [171], [175], [176], [178], [186] Franklin Stove, [44], [45], [90] Frederick the Great, [114] Freedom of the press, [17], [35] Freemasonry, [35] French, Colonel, [21]-22, [24] French and Indian Wars, [65], [86] French Academy of Sciences, [157], [171], [172] French Revolution, [184]-85 French Royal Academy, [107]
G Gage, General Thomas, [115] Galloway, Joseph, [89], [141] Gates, General Horatio, [161] Gebelin, Count de, [171]-72 George III, King, [81], [92], [93], [101], [104], [118], [120], [124], [132], [150], [151], [162] Gérard, Conrad-Alexandre, [152], [153] German Royal Academy of Sciences, [101] Germantown, Pennsylvania, [88] Gerry, Elbridge, [181] Gibbon, Edward, [148] Glover, John, [139] Gnadenhuetten, Pennsylvania, [68], [69] Göttingen, Germany, [101] Greene, Catherine Ray, [67], [85]-86, [162], [168] Greene, General Nathanael, [162] Greene, William, [67], [86] Grenville, Lord George, [75]-76, [92], [93], [94], [95], [97] Gruet, M., [144] Guillotin, Joseph-Ignace, [174] Gulf Stream, [121]-22
H Hadley, John, [78] Hall, David, [47] Hamilton, Andrew, [32] Hamilton, James, [62], [69] Hancock, John, [138] Harrison, Benjamin, [130], [133] Hartley, David, [158] Havre, France, [175], [176] Harvard College, [10], [15], [45], [60] Hell Fire Club, [12] Helvétius, Madame, [168]-69, [176] Henry, Patrick, [94] Hessians, [139], [148] Hewitt, James, [97] Hewson, Polly Stevenson, [75], [85], [91], [103], [107], [118], [174] Hewson, William, [107], [118] Hillsborough, Earl of, [104], [106], [117] Holland, [81], [161] Holmes, Robert, [21], [22] Hortalez and Company, [144]-45, [146], [184] Houdon, Jean-Antoine, [157] Howe, Admiral Lord Richard, [120], [139]-40, [167] Howe, General Sir William, [123], [124], [126], [139], [151] Hughes, John, [93], [94] Hume, David, [79] Hunter, William, [63] Hutchinson, Thomas, [112], [113], [116] Hutchinson Letters, [112]-13, [115]-18 Hypnotism, [174]
I Indians, American, [61]-62, [64], [65], [67], [68], [71], [86]-88, [125], [170], [171]-72, [178] “Information to Those who would Remove to America,” [169]-70 Ingenhousz, Jan, [171] Ingersoll, Jared, [93], [95] Insurance company, [57] Ireland, [105]
J Jay, John, [133], [163] Jay, Maria [163] Jefferson, Thomas, [124], [138], [141], [174], [175], [185]-86 Johnson, Samuel, [101] Johnson, Thomas, [133] Jones, John Paul, [160]-61 Junto, the, [30]-31, [34], [43], [46], [52], [88], [123]
K Kames, Lord Henry Home, [79], [89], [95], [102] Keimer, Samuel, [19]-20, [21], [22], [24], [29], [33] Keith, Sir William, [21]-22, [23], [24], [31], [71] King of Prussia, ship, [91] Kinnersley, Ebenezer, [52]-53 Kleist, E. C. von, [50] Knox, Henry, [126]
L Lady Catherine, ship, [127], [128] Lafayette, Marquis de, [150], [162] Laurens, Henry, [162] Laurens, Colonel John, [162] Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent, [171], [174] Le Despencer, Lord, [108], [114], [117] Lee, Arthur, [141], [145], [153], [155], [183] Lee, “Light-Horse Harry,” [162] Lee, Richard Henry, [137] Letters on Philosophical Subjects, [110] Lexington, Battle of, [123] Leyden jar, [50]-51, [81], [171] Lighthouse Tragedy, The, [13] Lightning rods, [55]-56, [58], [60], [90], [150]-51 Linnaeus, [182] Livingston, Robert, [138] London, England, [24]-26, [74] London Journal, [16] London Spectator, [14] Lorraine, Prince of, [81] Loudon, Lord, [71] Louis XV, King, [51], [59], [103]-04, [105] Louis XVI, King, [146], [153], [154], [173], [175], [185] Lynch, Thomas, [130]
M Marchant, Captain Stephen, [159] Marie Antoinette, Queen, [81], [154] Marion, Francis, [162] Massachusetts Assembly, [104], [112], [113], [117], [118] Massachusetts Committee of Safety, [123] Mather, Cotton, [12] Mecom, Edward, [40] Mecom, Jane Franklin (Benjamin’s daughter), [9], [10], [40], [130]-31, [183], [187] Meredith, Hugh, [29]-30, [31]-32 Mesmer, Dr., [174] Mifflin, Thomas, [183] Militia, Pennsylvania, [47], [68]-71, [88], [125] Minutemen, [123]-24 Mirabeau, Count de, [187] Montgomery, General Richard, [136] Montreal, Canada, [136], [137] Moravians, [68], [69], [86] Morgan, Daniel, [162] Morris, Robert, [128]-29 Morris, Robert Hunter, [68], [70]-71 Mozart, Wolfgang, [81] Musschenbroek, Pieter van, [50], [81]
N Nairne, Edward, [171] Nantes, France, [143]-44 “Narrative of the Late Massacres in Lancaster County,” [87] “Nature and Necessity of Paper Money, The,” [32] New Castle, Pennsylvania, [47] New England Courant, [13], [15], [16] Newport, Rhode Island, [40], [53] Newton, Sir Isaac, [25] New York City, [17], [71], [137], [186]-87 Nollet, Abbé Jean-Antoine, [51] North, Lord, [104], [125] Northwest Passage, search for, [57]
O Oliver, Andrew, [112], [113], [116] “On the Slave Trade,” [185] Oxford University, [81]
P Paine, Thomas, [119], [135]-36, [138], [147], [162], [164], [178] Palmer (London printer), [25] Paper currency, [32] Paris, Ferdinand John, [77] Paris, France, [144], [161], [165] Paris, Treaty of (1763), [86] Paris, Treaty of (1783), [163] Passy, France, [151], [152], [155], [162], [163], [165], [167]-69, [172], [175]-76 Paxton Boys, [86]-87, [88]-89 Peabody, Mrs., [14] Penal code revision, [178] Penn, John, [76], [87], [88], [89], [90] Penn, Richard, [76] Penn, Thomas, [61], [62], [68], [70], [76]-77, [89] Penn, William, [20], [21], [61], [62], [76], [87], [110] Pennsylvania Academy, [46], [79], [139] Pennsylvania Assembly, [32], [41], [47], [56], [65], [66], [67], [68], [70], [76], [79], [80], [85], [87], [89], [99], [125], [177], [178] Pennsylvania Gazette, [33], [35]-36, [41], [42], [60], [64] Pennsylvania Hospital, [57] Pennsylvania Magazine, [135] Pennsylvania Packet, ship, [121] Perth Amboy, New Jersey, [19] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [18], [19], [20]-21, [26], [27], [32], [46]-47, [87], [110], [123], [125], [177], [179], [186] Philadelphia City Council, [56] Philadelphia Gazette, [56] Pilgrim’s Progress, [10] Pinel, Philippe, [168] Pitt, William (Lord Chatham), [80], [101]-02, [104], [120] “Plain Truth,” [47] Plutarch’s Lives, [10] Police force, Philadelphia, [46] Poor Richard’ s Almanack, [36]-37, [42], [56], [60], [73]-74 Portsmouth, England, [109] Pratt, Charles, [77], [80] Priestley, Joseph, [100], [117], [118], [121], [131], [171], [173] Pringle, Sir John, [78], [100]-01, [103]-04, [150], [151] Privateers, [159]-61 “Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge Among British Plantations in North America,” [44]-45 “Proposal Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania,” [45]-46 Public Advertiser, London, [113], [116] Puysegur, Marquis de, [174] Pyrmont, Germany, [101]
Q Quebec, Canada, [136] Queensberry, Duke of, [117] Quincy, Josiah, [136], [163]-64
R Ralph, James, [21], [24], [25] Rancocas, New Jersey, [178] Ranger, privateer, [160] Raspe, Rudolf Erich, [101] Ray, Catherine, see Greene, Catherine Ray Read, Deborah, see Franklin, Deborah Read “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America,” [170] Reprisal, sloop, [142], [143] Revere, Paul, [123] Revolutionary War, [123]-31, [132]-42, [147], [148], [149]-50, [151]-52, [157], [158]-63 Rochambeau, General, [162] Rockingham, Marquis of, [94], [96], [101], [150] Rozier, Pilâtre de, [165] “Rules by Which a Great Empire may be Reduced to a Small One,” [113]-14, [115] Rush, Dr. Benjamin, [57] Rutledge, Edward, [140] Ryan, Luke, [159]
S St. Andrews University, [79] St. Eustatius, West Indies, [129], [161] St. George, Bermuda, [127] Sandwich, Earl of, [117] Saratoga, Battle of, [152] Savannah Pacquet, ship, [127], [128] Scotland, [79] Scotosh, Chief, [178] Second Continental Congress, [124]-30, [132]-41, [151], [157]-58, [161], [163], [166], [174], [175], [178], [179], [183], [185] Serapis, H.M.S., [161] Shelburne, Earl of, [103], [104], [108], [175] Sherman, Roger, [138] Shipley, Jonathan, [107]-08 Shipley, Kitty, [111] Shirley, Governor, [67] Six Nations, [62], [64], [87] Slaves and slavery, [9], [16], [36], [75], [138], [185] Sloane, Sir Hans, [25] Smallpox epidemics, [13], [41], [86] Smith, Adam, [79] Smith, William, [79], [84], [187] Socrates, [14]-15, [20] Sons of Liberty, [94] Soulavie, Abbé, [172] Southampton, England, [176] Spain, [47], [126], [152] Spencer, Dr. Adam, [49] Stamp Act, [92]-99, [102] Steele, Richard, [14] Steuben, Baron von, [150] Stevenson, Margaret, [75], [77], [91], [99], [107], [174] Stevenson, Polly, see Hewson, Polly Stevenson Storage battery, [52]-53 Stormont, Lord, [147], [148], [158] Strahan, William, [74], [132]-33 Sullivan, General John, [140] Swaine, Captain Charles, [57] Swift, Jonathan, [26] Synge, Philip, [52]
T Temple, John, [115]-16, [117] Townshend, Charles, [102], [104] Townshend Acts, [102], [104] Trenton, Battle of, [148] Tryon, Mr., [14], [18] Tucker, Colonel Henry, [127] Turgot, Baron, [157], [168]
U Union Fire Company of Philadelphia, [47] Universal Instructor in All Arts and Science, and Pennsylvania Gazette, [33]
V Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, [150] Vergennes, Count Charles Gravier de, [134], [135], [145], [146], [151], [152], [153], [154] Versailles, France, [104], [145], [154] Virginia Resolves, [94] Voltaire, [157], [168]
W Walking Purchase, the, [61]-62 Warwick, Rhode Island, [130] Washington, General George, [64], [65], [66], [71], [124], [126], [130], [135], [137], [139], [148], [150], [162], [178], [179], [183], [185] Watt (London printer), [25] “Way to Wealth, The,” [74], [110], [147] Wedderburn, Alexander, [117]-18 Wentworth, Paul, [152]-53 Whately, William, [115], [116], [117] Whig Club, [80] “Whistle, The,” [171] Whitehead, Paul, [114]-15 William and Mary College, [45], [60] Williamsburg, Virginia, [45], [94] Wilson, Benjamin, [150], [162] Wilson, James, [180] Wygate (Benjamin’s London friend), [25]-26 Wyndham, Sir William, [26]
X Xenophon’s Memorabilia, [14]
Y Yale College, [45], [60] Yorke, Charles, [77], [80] Yorktown, Battle of, [162]
Z Zenger, Peter, [17]
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