Camden, Lord, [103].
Canada, Franklin urges England to retain, [5]; question of retaining, [53], [54].
“Caucus Club,” [159].
“Caulkers’ Club,” [158].
Céloron de Blainville, [32]-[33].
Chase, Samuel, [237].
Chase, Thomas, [83].
Chatham, Earl of, see Pitt.
Cockle, James, Collector of Customs for the port of Salem, [20].
Coercive Acts, [207], [222].
Colden, Cadwallader, Lieutenant-Governor of N. Y., [87]-[88].
Colonies, governors urge reforms, [21]-[22]; defense of, [29] et seq.; lack of coöperation among, [37]; relation of assemblies and governors, [38]; population, [50]-[51]; wealth, [51]-[52]; trade, [53]-[55]; governors, [58]-[61]; legislative independence, [131]; see also Army, Commerce, Conciliation, Taxation, and colonies by name.
Commerce, trade with West Indies, [26], [28]; increase (1748-1760), [54]; colonial merchants agree to non-importation, [139]-[140]; London merchants petition Parliament, [141]; effects of non-importation agreement, [143]-[147].
Conciliation, Galloway’s plan, [216]; Pitt’s plan, [221]-[222]; North’s plan, [223]-[224]; [231]; Dickinson advises petition, [233]-[235]; Great Britain to make concessions, [239].
Concord (Mass.), battle, [229]-[230].
Continental Congress, first, Mass. delegates, [201]; reasons for calling, [201]-[208]; non-importation question, [213]-[215]; question of authority, [214]; “Suffolk Resolves,” [215]-[216], [217]; conciliation plan rejected, [216]; dissensions in, [217]; Declaration of Rights, [218]; Association, [219]-[220]; accomplishments, [220]; adjourns, [220].
Continental Congress, second, meets, [225]; moderate men in, [231]; Dickinson’s petition, [233]-[235]; raises army, [235]; Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, [235]-[236]; question of war or reconciliation, [237] et seq.; opens ports, [243]-[244]; idea of independence, [245]-[246].
Conway, H. S., presents bill for repeal of Stamp Act, [108].
Curling, Captain, [205].
Cushing, Thomas, [200].
Customs, colonial duties, [24] et seq.; Townshend duties, [123]; Board of Commissioners, [124]; Liberty sloop riot, [124]-[126]; protest against Townshend duties, [131] et seq.; duties repealed except on tea, [142]-[143], [148]-[149].
D
Dartmouth, Earl of, opinion of first Continental Congress, [220]; petition presented to, [242].
Dawes, William, [229].
De Berdt, Dennys, [134].
Declaration of Independence, [245], [253]-[256].
Declaration of Rights, [218].
Declaratory Act, [114].
Delaware, on question of independence, [252], [253].
Dickinson, John, quoted, [98]; Farmer’s Letters, [131]-[134]; on conduct of East India Company, [204]-[205]; advises conciliation petition to King, [233]-[235]; for conciliation, [243]; attitude toward independence, [252], [253].
Dowdeswell, William, [120].
Duane, James, [211], [214], [232].
Dulaney, Daniel, Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes on the British Colonies, [108] [(note)], [113]-[114].
E
East Indian Company, Government suggests taking over possessions, [117]; sends tea to colonies, [199], [202]-[206].
England, of Franklin’s day, [4]-[5], [7]; sinecures in, [12] et seq.
F
Finance, revenues from America, [16]; debt of England, [18], [23]; taxes, [23]-[24]; colonial customs, [24] et seq.; Stamp Tax, [39] et seq.; plan to take over possessions of East India Company, [117]; land tax, [120]; Townshend duties, [123]-[124]; Dickinson distinguishes between kinds of duties, [131]-[134]; reasons for decay of business in New York, [144]-[146]; see also Customs, Taxation.
Fleming, John, [70].
Fox, C. J., quoted, [208].
France cedes possessions to England, [30].
Franklin, Benjamin, commissioned to London by Assembly of Pa. (1757), [1]-[2]; delays going to accommodate Loudoun, [2]-[3]; journeys to London, [4]; pamphlet urging retention of Canada, [5]; opinion of colonial loyalty, [5]; life in England, [6]-[7]; returns to Philadelphia, [8]; desired to return to England, [8]-[10]; opinion as to relations between Britain and colonies, [10]-[11]; Plan of Union rejected, [37]; description of American attitude toward defense, [38]; as colonial agent, [44]-[45]; on rights of colonies, [50]; The Increase of Mankind …, [51]; The Interest of Great Britain Considered, [54]; opinion of Stamp Act, [65]; opinion as to union of colonies, [78]; examined in Parliament on tax question, [104]-[107]; opinion of rights of Parliament in the colonies, [137]-[138]; letters to first Continental Congress, [215], [217]; Pitt discusses conciliation plan with, [221]; consulted as to North's conciliation plan, [222]-[223]; votes for independence, [253].
Friends of Liberty and Trade, [147].
Fur-trade, [27].
G
Gadsden, Christopher, quoted, [80].
Gage, Thomas, General, [199], [207], [208], [229], [230].
Galloway, Joseph, at first Continental Congress, [214], [215]; conciliation plan, [216]; in second Continental Congress, [232].
George III, attitude toward Stamp Act, [99] et seq.; quoted, [200].
Georgia, unrepresented in Stamp Act congress, [79].
Gordon, William, quoted, [74].
Grenville, George, Premier, [13]; character, [15]; letter to Walpole, [16]; government efficiency, [17]; interest in revenue, [19]-[20]; content with colonial government, [22]; budget, [23]-[29]; plan of colonial defense, [39]; plans stamp tax, [40]-[41]; answers colonial agents concerning stamp tax, [42]; postpones stamp tax, [43]; consults Franklin, [44]-[45]; perfects stamp tax plan, [45]-[46]; quoted, [98]; dismissed from ministry, [100], [101]; leader of Opposition, [102]-[103], [119].
Gridley, Jeremiah, [91], [167].
Guadeloupe, [5], [53], [54].