Benson. Lieutenant, wounded at Siege of Fort Ninety-six in 1781, [694.]
Berkeley, Sir William, Notice of, [446,] [559;] Succeeds Wyatt as Governor of Virginia in 1641--Biographical Sketch of, [459;] Flees to Virginia on Death of Charles I.--Proclaims Charles II. King of Virginia--Elected Governor of Virginia in 1659, [460;] Refuses Virginians Privilege of protecting themselves--Proclaims Bacon a Traitor--Orders Troops to pursue and arrest him--Recalls them to quell Rebellion--Compelled to yield--Promises to sign Bacon's Commission--Publishes Proclamation reversing former Proceedings--Calls upon Aristocracy to join him--Driven from Jamestown to the Chesapeake, [461;] Returns to Middle Plantation on Death of.
Bacon--Wreaks Vengeance upon insurgents--Rules with iron Hand--Recalled to England--Dies, [462.]
Beverly Dock, Notice of, [140,] [161.]
Bethlehem, Moravian Establishment at, Notice of--The Recipient of La Fayette while recovering from Wounds in 1778, [382,] [391.]
Billingsport, Capture of, by British in 1777, [292.]
Bills, drawn on Franklin and Jay by Government in 1780, [087;] Proposed conciliatory Passage of Lord North's relative to Disorders in America, [346;] Rejected by Americans, [349.]
Biographical Sketch of Major John Armstrong, [166;] General Benedict Arnold, [142;] James Robertson Arnold, [158;] Major John André, [197;] Reverend James F. Armstrong, [246;] General John Armstrong, [315;] General James Agnew, [318;] Charles Armand (Marquis de la Rouarie), [466;] Abraham Alexander--Elijah Alexander, [617;] General John Ashe, [714;] William Alexander (Earl of Stirling), [807;] Colonel William Barton, [075;] Major Robert Burnet, [118;] William Bradford, [258;] Colonel Theodorie Bland, [380;] Governor William Berkeley, [459;] Nathaniel Bacon, [461;] Norborne Berkeley (Baron de Botetourt), [469;] General Henry Boquet, [347;] Colonel Daniel Boone, [491;] Dr. Ephraim Brevard, [618;] Governor Thomas Burke, [777;] John Battin, [827;] Governor Nicholas Cooke, [057;] Captain Benjamin Church, [095;] General James Clinton, [112;] Enoch Crosby (Harvey Birch), [123;] General John Cadwallader, [226;] Dr. Craik, [241;] Benjamin Chew, [314;] Colonel Cresap, [490;] Colonel George R. Clarke, [493;] Lord Cornwallis, [510;] Marquis De Chastellux,513; Count De Custine, [517;] Anthony A. Cooper (Earl of Shaftesbury), [560;] Governor Richard Caswell, [585;] Colonel Edward Carrington, [604;] Colonel William Campbell, [632;] Robert Cunningham, [649;] Colonel Cruger, [690;] Captain John Coffin, [699;] Lord William Campbell, [750;] Sir Henry Clinton, [762;] Dr. Cadwallader Colden, [786;] General George Clinton, [838;] Lieutenant-colonel De Fleury, [181;] General Dickinson, [220;] Reverend Mr. Duché, [208;] Count De Grasse, [511;] Count Mathieu Dumas, [520;] Lord Dunmore, [538;] General William Davidson, [599;] William H. Drayton, [649;] Baron De Kalb, [667;] Colonel John Dooly, [712;] General Oliver Delancey, [829;] Martha Dandridge (Mrs. Washington), [840;] Count D'Estaing, [078;] Reverend John Eliot, [091;] General James Ewing, [229;] General Samuel Elbert, [711;] Mrs. Faugeres, [130;] Governor William Franklin, [217;] Colonel Frederic Frelinghuysen, [219;] Colonel Joshua Fry, [475;] General John Forbes, [479;] Edmund Fanning, [574;] Major Patrick Ferguson, [634;] Daniel Gookin, [092;] Joseph Galloway, [269;] Colonel Christopher Greene, [294;] Colonel William Grayson, [355;] General John Gibson, [490;] General Nathaniel Greene, [595;] Captain Joseph Graham, [598;] George Graham, [626;] General Horatio Gates, [669;] General Mordecai Gist, [671;] Governor Christopher Gadsden, [748;] Stephen Hopkins (see Biography of Signers of Declaration of Independence, Supplement); Benjamin Huntington, [032;] General Jabez Huntington, [039;] Governor Richard Howell. [245;] Colonel Moses Hazen, [380;] Patrick Henry, [439;] John Holt, [534;] Cornelius Harnett, [582;] Colonel John E. Howard, [639;] Colonel Joseph Habersham, [726;] General Robert Howe, [729;] Colonel Isaac Hayne, [774;] Richard Earl Howe, [814;] General William Heath, [820;] Reverend David Jones, [371;] Samuel Jenkins, [421;] John Harvey, [579;] Governor Janies Jackson, [739;] Usual Knapp, [119;] Simon Kenton, [494;] Ruloff de Kype, [803;] General Henry Knox, [838;] Duke De Lauzun, [034;] Colonel Henry Livingston. [152;] John Laurance, [197;] General Charles Lee, [221;] James Logan, [313;] General La Fayette, [324;] Colonel Fielding Lewis, [427;] Logan, [490;] General Andrew Lewis, [537;] Joint Locke, [560;] General John Alexander Lillington, [585;] General Benjamin Lincoln, [733;] John Laurens, [778;] Jacob Leisler, [785;] Colonel John Lamb, [791;] General Alexander M'Dougall, [172;] Robert Morris (see Biography of Signers of Declaration of Independence. Supplement); General Mercer, [237;] Dr. Morgan, [240;] General William Maxwell, [358;] Captain Molly, [361;] General John P. G. Muhlenberg, [383;] Governor Josiah Martin, [598;] General Daniel Morgan, [637;] Captain John M'Clure, [663;] General Francis Marion, [683;] Mrs. Jacob Motte (Rebecca Brewton), [685;] Colonel Hezekiah Maham, [707;] General Lachlin M'Intosh, [728;] General William Moultrie, [751;] General Thomas Mifflin, [841;] General Francis Nash, [320;] General W. North, [342;] Governor Thomas Nelson, [508;] Governor Abner Nash, [675;] Colonel Aaron Ogden, [200;] Colonel Eleazer Oswald, [357;] General James Oglethorpe, [721;] General Samuel H. Parsons, [174;] William Penn, [253;] General Enoch Poor, [328;] William Pitt, [348;] Charles Pratt (Earl of Camulin), [400;] Charles W. Peale, [409;] General William Phillips, [546;] Colonel Thomas Polk, [624;] Colonel William Polk, [700;] General Andrew Pickens, [717;] Count Casimir Pulaski, [735;] General Thomas Pinckney, [758;] General Charles C. Pinckney, [763;] General Israel Putnam, [805;] Dr. David Rittenhouse, [243;] Peyton Randolph, [266;] Mrs. Esther Reed, [312;] James Rees, [313;] General Joseph Reed, [351;] Sir Walter Raleigh, [451;] Count De Rochambeau, [527;] General Rutherford, [597;] Colonel Richard Richardson, [650;] Lord Francis Rawdon, [677;] Governor John Reynolds, [723;] Judge John Rutlege, [752;] James Rivington, [796;] Thomas Short, [050;] Hannah Sabine, [057;] General Joseph Spencer, [080;] Beverly Robinson, [140,] [481;] Joshua II. Smith, [184;] Claudius Smith, [210;] Dr. Shippen, [241;] Richard Stockton (see Biography of Signers of Declaration of Independence, Supplement); Colonel Samuel Smith, [295;] General Adam Stephen, [320;] Baron Steuben, [342;] General Charles Seott, [353;] Captain John Smith, [453;] Colonel Alexander Seammell, [515;] Colonel Ebenezer Stevens, [516;] General Edward Stevens, [535,] [536;] Colonel Isaac Shelby, [631;] Colonel John Sevier, [633;] John Stuart, [647;] General Thomas Sumter, [651;] General William Smallwood, [673;] General Jethro Sumner, [607;] Governor Petrus Stuyvesant, [784;] Colonel Micah Smith, [791;] Captain Isaac Sears--Bishop Samuel Seabury, [797;] General John Morin Scott, [805;] Major Thompson (Count Rumford), [023;] Jonathan Trumbull, [033;] Charles Thomson, [266;] Reverend William Tennant--Reverend Gilbert Tennant, [365;] Governor William Tryon, [567;] General Banastre Tarleton, [607;] Colonel William 'Thompson, [650;] Major Benjamin Tallmadge, [833;] Colonel Richard Varick, [157;] General Philip van Cortlandt, [170;] General James Varnum, [292;] William Williams (see Biography of Signers of Declaration of Independence, Supplement); General Joseph Williams, [040;] Reverend Roger Williams, [055;] Governor Joseph Wanton, [060;] David Williams, [205;] Captain White Eyes, [250;] Baron Do Woedtke, [329;] General George Weedon, [382;] General Woodford, [363;] Washington Family, [423;] Ensign Robert Wilson, [524;] General Otho II. Williams, [602;] Colonel James Williams, [632;] Major Joseph Winston, [633;] Colonel William Augustus Washington, [641;] William Winn, [658;] General Nathaniel Woodhull, [811;] Elizabeth Zane, [498.]
Bill, Boston Port, Effect of, on Colonies, [486.]
Bills of Credit, issued at New, York in 1769, [791.]