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]