of, 67, 75; addresses, 75, 79; adjournment, Crane, Stephen, naval committee, 1. 311 n.
90; committee to camp, 119, 125, 149, 169; | Cumberland, Richard, 11. 301.

secrecy, 124, 126, 138, 170; committee on
hostilities, 143; governments, 242; Eastern
district, 245; committee on the Howes,
274; pay of troops, 276; bounties, 277;
foreign relations, 281; II. 192; naval
committee, 1. 311; finance, 360; adjourns
to Yorktown, 371; Hancock's speech, 378;
address, II. 18, 38; returns to Philadelphia,
35; toast and salute, 49; representation,
110, 270; resolutions, 120; economy, 124;
requisitions, 152, 190; at Annapolis, 233;
proceedings, 236; indecision, 442.
'Congress' mortar, 1. 189.
Connecticut, I. 75; general officers, 86; land-
jobbers, 168; militia, 188; misconduct of
troops, 194; cowardice, 323; regulation act,
II. 19; rewarded, 152.
Conquérant, II. 125.
Consuls, appointment of, II. 226, 241, 264,
266, 267.

Currency, danger of, 11. 90, 98; mending,
108, 112.
Cushing, Thomas, 1. 10, 15, 63, 190 n., 319 n.;
II. 118, 293, 413; in Continental Congress,
1. 27 n.; II. 430; discouraging letter, 1. 57;
in council, 94; Supreme Court, 150, 178;
militia appointments, 192; conduct of,
211; for Congress, 264; letter from, 286;
naval agent, 305, 324; councillor, 331;
Springfield convention, 350; lieutenant
governor, II. 135.

Dalton, Tristram, 1. 286 n., 319 n., 324.
Dana, Francis, 1. 217, 264, 266; 11. 13, 41, 52,
65, 106, 150, 176, 193, 208, 256, 441; Lee's
letter, 69; absorption in business, 92; for
Russia, 158; at St. Petersburg, 221; return,
222; Congress, 236; judge, 261.
Danbury, descent upon, 1. 323.
Dane, Nathan, II. 36.

Danielson, Timothy, 1. 252 n., 276 n.; II. 142,
231.

Dartmouth, Lord, see William Legge.
Dauphin Royal, 11. 125.
Davis's, I. 149.

Deane, Silas, committee on hostilities, 1. 143,
144, 162; naval committee, 311; charges
against, 379, 380; expenditures, II. 67;
statement, 68, 83, 86, 89, 94, 96; Adams
on, 75; fall of, 106, 171.

Deane, 11. 87, 93, 135, 138, 141.
Dedham, Mass., I. 106.

I. 301; II. 406.

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Council, Massachusetts, 1. 83; militia officers, De la Balme, Mottin, I. 333.

178.

Courageuse, 11. 125.

Courier de l'Europe, 11. 130.

Couronne, II. 125.

Courter, Harmon, II. II.

Covenant, II. 405, 406.
Crafts, Edward, 1. 187.

Contempt of enemies, II. 47.
Convention, constitutional, II. 295, 297, 299.
Convention, troops of, II. 4, 5, 7; in Boston,

45I.

Conway, Thomas, 1. 333; Warren on, 319.
Conyngham, Gustavus, I. 381.
Cooke, Nicholas, 1. 151.
Coolidge, Nathaniel, 1. 149.
Cooper, Myles, 'Friendly Address,' I. 47 n.
Cooper, Samuel, 1. 58, 73, 194, 268.
Cooper, William, 1. 144, 319 n.; II. 92;
Adams on, 149.

Cornwallis, Charles, II. 144, 157.
Cossacks, British said to want, I. 289, 295.
Cotton, John, 11. 78, 88.

Cotton,

Custis, Eleanor (Calvert), 1. 220, 229; 11. 6.
Custis, John Parke, 1. 220, 229.
Custis, Martha Parke, 11. 6.
Cutting, John Brown, 11. 290.

248, 253, 304.

Craige, Andrew, I. 190.

ment, 251.

Democrat, the, II. 368.

Denmark, honors flag, 11. 208; treaty, 222;
minister, 331.

Departments, staff, committee, II. 124.
Dependence, 11. 238.

Crafts, Thomas, jr., 1. 186, 194, 195, 240, Derby, John, returns from England, 1. 84.

Deserters, law on, II. 430.

Deshon, John, navy board, 1. 312 n., 324,

Cramahé, Hector Theophilus, I. 148.
Cranch, Richard, II. 121, 293.

Delaware Bay, blockading, 1. 145; govern-

350; II. 44, 122.

Destin, II. 125.

115, 158.

De Witt,
Dexter, Samuel, 1. 110.
Diadem, II. 125.

Dialogue of the Dead, by John Adams, 11.

Eliot, Andrew, reported confinement, 1.73,78.
Elmer, Jonathan, 1. 293 n.

Embargo, Adams on, 1. 312; Jefferson's, II.

356.

387 n., 389.

Emigration from Europe, 11. 205, 232,

Dickinson, John, letters to Otis, I. 3, 4, 5, 6; | Encyclopedia, French, 11. 273, 277-
sends Farmer's Letters, 3; corrections, 4; Enos, Roger, deserts Arnold, 1. 181, 188.
on Massachusetts, 3; advises moderation, Ervin, dr., 1. 360.

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4; letter to Boston, 5; a colonel, 51; Adams
on, 88; change of heart, 251; error in con-
duct, 280; letters to Mrs. Warren, II. 347,
348; on Otis, 347; writings, 364.
Dickinson, Philemon, 1. 370 n.
Dilly, Charles, I. 8 n.

Dilly, Edward, 1. 8 n.
Dimsdale, Thomas, 1. 263.

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Estaing, Charles Hector, comte d', II. 38,
112; entertainment, 55.
Eugène, François, 1. 70 n.
Europe, balance of power, 192.
Evans, John, 1. 298 n.
Extravagance, prevalence of, 11. 59, 66, 82,
86, 91, 105, 114, 147, 154, 178, 180, 184,
249, 264, 269, 289.

Doane, Elisha, I. 23; II. 404.
Dobrée,
II. 118.
Dodd, William, 1. 381; 11. 65, 77.
Donop, Carl Emil Kurt von, death, 1. 374.
Dorchester Neck, 1. 133; importance of,
154; occupied, 210; fort on, 216, 237;
rendezvous, 268; affair, 11. 435.
Draper's newspaper, 1. 12, 155-
Drayton, William Henry, 1. 230; II. 38.
Duane, James, 1. 378 n.; 11. 143, 167.
Duché, Elizabeth (Hopkinson), 1. 165 n.
Duché, Jacob, 1. 80, 143, 165.
Du Coudray, Philippe Charles John Baptist | Fenner, Mary, II. 329 n.
Tronson, II. 213; arrival, 1. 318;

Fellows, John, I. 80 n.; II. 434.
Fendant, II. 125.

ton, 49.

Edes, Peter, 1. 151.

Edes and Gill, 1. 170.
Edson, II. 406.
Edwards, Richard, 11. 146.

Edwards, Timothy, II. 106.

Egg, Plymouth prophetical, 1. 283.

Falmouth, 1. 178; burning of, 154.
Faneuil, Mary, 11. 136 n.
Faneuil, Peter, II. 136 n.

'Farmer's Letters' (Dickinson's), 1. 3, 5.
Fast, continental, I. 58, 80, 83; 11. 416.
Fawcett, Sir William, 11. 131.
Fayerweather, Anne, 1. 102 n.
Fayerweather, Hannah, 1. 16 n.
Fee bill, 1. 219.

embarrass-Ferguson, Adam, passport for, 11. 21.
Fermoy, Mathieu Alexis Roche de, 1. 347.
Fessenden, Josiah, 1. 55, 58, 81, 110, 169, 181,

ment, 333.

Dudley, Charles, 1. 121.

Duer, William, I. 378 n.; on Cushing, 212.

Dunmore, Lord, see John Murray.

Dwight, Timothy, II. 301.

Dwight,

col., I. 109.

Fish, export of, 1. 198, 203; II. 430.

Dyer, Eliphalet, 1. 115, 119 n., 158; Canada | Fisheries, sacrifice of, 11. 106, 107, 109, 168,
committee, 190.

Dyre,

I. 190.

172; rights, 193, 197; trade, 271.
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 11. 288.
Fitzsimons, Thomas, 11. 230.

Eagle, II. II, n.

East India, American prisoners for, 1. 363.
Eclipse of sun, by Cynthia, 1. 283.
Edel, Benjamin, 1. 66 n.; comes out of Bos-

195, 219, 264.
Firebrand, 11. 183.
Fire ships, 1. 256.

Fleet, Thomas, article in paper of, 1. 2.
Fleming, John, 1. 122.

Fleury, Jean François Joly de, II. 195.
Flora, 1. 366, 373.

Flour, purchase of, 1. 288.

Gadsden, Christopher, on navy, I. 81, 311.
Gage, Thomas, 1. 50, 68, 84, 106; treachery
feared, 48; reinforcements, 57; courage,
69; denounced, 72; inhabitants of Boston,
98, 100, 102; governor general, 133; goes
to England, 141, 151; proclamation, 405,
416.

Gaine, Hugh, 1. 310.

Gallies, row, I. 130, 154.
Gamble, Thomas, 1. 123; II. 421.
Game Cock, 1. 339.

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Gansevoort, Peter, I. 356.
Gardiner, Sylvester, 11. 48.
Gardner, Christopher, 1. 96 n.
Gardner, Henry, II. 407.
Gardner, captain, 1. 319 n.
Gardoqui, Joseph and Sons, 1. 370 n.; II. 153.
Gates, Horatio, 1. 54, 257, 277, 282, 307, 323,
368; 11. 97, 452; major general, 1. 246; on
pay of troops, 278; command of northern
army, 329, 351, 357; victory over Bur-
goyne, 374; defeat, 11. 140.
Gates, Mary (Valence), 11. 6.
Gellée, N. M., 11. 127.
Generals, continental, appointments, 1. 64;
criticised, 69; method, 79, 85.
Gentille, 11. 125.

George III, reply to London, 1. 109; procla-
mation, II. 426.

George IV and Mrs. Fitzherbert, 11. 288.
George Tavern, 1. 96.
George's Island, 1. 216, 217, 238.
Georgia, defense of, 1, 170; for independence,
249; descent on, II. 104.
Gérard, Conrad Alexandre, II. 33, 125, 197;
on A. Lee, 70; communication from, 109.
Germain, George, 11. 165.

Germans, arousing, 1. 76; not to be hired,
II. 124, 131.

Gerry, Elbridge, 1. 13, 15, 78, 81, 183, 219,
238, 260, 336, 342; 11. 14, 27, 50, 136, 137,
150, 248; elected to Congress, I. 212 n.,
267, 272; II. 142, 183, 231, 256, 261, 264,
430; marriage, 284; vice president, 373;
reconciliation of Adams and Warren, 374;
law on armed vessels, 378, 380; writing
history, 381.

Frye, James, 1. 91.

Gibbon, Edward, History, II. 327.
Gibraltar, II. 177, 182; praised, 268.

Frye, Joseph, 1. 91; brigadier general, 204; Gill, John, 1. 49 n., 58, 99, 100, 151.
resigns, 218 n.

Gill, Moses, 1. 319 n.

Fort Hill, 1. 237.
Fort Mifflin, 1. 375.
Fort Miller, N.Y., I. 356.
Fort Schuyler, 1. 355, 360.
Fort Stanwix, 1. 366.

Foster, Jedidiah, 1. 131 n., 178; 11. 406; judge,
I. 219, 226.

Foster, Thomas Wait, 1. 187.

Foster,

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I. 109.

Fox, Charles James, II. 176, 199, 208, 288.
Fox, 1. 366, 373-
France, policy of, 1. 184; II. 171, 173; army
in America, 1. 241; fleet, 259; recognition
of America, 302; supplies from, 302, 306,
307, 317; officers, 303; ports open, 307;
war with Great Britain, 309, 313, 315, 321,
330; doubt, 313; aid to America, 322, 357,
381; fleet at Boston, II. 8, 9, 44, 46, 51, 55;
tories on, 9, 15; pennants in ports, 32;
minister, 33, 34; repair of squadron, 61, 78,
93, 122; recall proposed, 100; fleet in West
Indies, 102, 105, 112; preparations and
ships, 125; Americans in, 127; at Newport,
140, 151; cultivates tories, 167; peace
objects, 185, 193; American minister, 198;
influence, 229; Mrs. Adams on, 242;
treaty with Great Britain, 284; mission
to, 335, 336, 340.
Francy,
II. 117.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1. 57, 211, 293 n., 380;
II. 118, 171, 182, 185, 387 n.; letter from
England, 1. 8; return, 34; committee to
camp, 119, 120, 125, 149; to Canada,
206; goes to France, 283; reception, 301;
Adams on, II. 74, 209, 222; Mrs. Warren
on, 132; trade permits, 137, 142; recall of,
144, 158; peace commission, 169, 171, 173;
Vergennes and, 197; resignation, 211, 251,
263; Warren on, 231.
Franklin, William, II. 186.

Franklin, William Temple, 11. 186.

Franklin, 1. 270.

Fraser, Simon, I. 373.
Freeman, James, II. 103; clerk to council, 1.

83 n.

Freeman, Samuel, 1. 60.
Freeman, col., 1. 131 n.
Furnace, II. 436.

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government, 230, 231.

Hoops, Adam, II. 212.
Hopkins, Ezek, 1. 271.
1; Hopkins, Stephen, 1. 73, 85.
Hopkins, of Baltimore, I. 93.
Hopkinson, Elizabeth, 1. 165 n.
Hopkinson, Francis, 1. 165 n.; navy board,

Hingham, Mass., I. 12, 14; II. 401.
Hinman, Elisha, 1. 350; II. II, 43.
Hodgdon, Samuel, II. 100.
Hoge, Jonathan, 1. 298 n.
Holker, John, II. 93, 118.
Holker, Mrs., II. 56.

Holland, not hostile, 1. 309; angry, II. 127;
to keep peace, 154; alliance, 117, 178, 179,
182, 188.
Holroyd, John Baker, earl of Sheffield, II. |