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]