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thick and thin to the hills, where we thot they were to be confind, but what was our Surprise when in the morning we beheld an inundation of those disagreable objects filling our streets! How mortifying is it? they in a manner demanding our Houses and Colleges for their genteel accommodation. Did the brave G Gates ever mean this? Did our Legislature ever intend the military should prevail above the Civil? is there not a degree of unkindness in loading poor Cambridge, almost ruined before this great army seem[d] to be let loose upon us, and what will be the Consequence time will discover.

Some Polite ones say, we ought not to look on them as Prisoners. they are persons of distinguished rank. perhaps too we must not view them in the light of enemys. I fear this distinction will be soon lost. Surpriseing that our G[enera]l or any of our C[olone]ls should insist on the first University in America being disbanded for their more genteel accomodation, and we poor oppressed people seek an Asylum in the woods against a piercing Winter.

where is the stern Virtue of an A[dam]s who opposd such an infraction in former days? Who is there to plead our Cause? Pity, Pity, it is our Assembly had not settled these matters before their adjournment. It will be vastly more difficult to abridg them after such an unbounded Licence. perhaps you may see some of them at Plimouth. for my part I think, insult Famine and a Train of evils present to View. G[enera]l B[urgoy]n dind a Saterday in Boston with G[enera]l H[eat]h. He rode thro the Town properly attended down Court Street and thro the Main Street, and on his return walkt on foot to Charlestown Ferry Followd by a great Number of Spectators as ever attended a pope and generously observd to an officer with him the Decent and modest behavior of the inhabitants as he passd, saying if he had been conducting Prisoners through the City of London, not all the Guards of Majesty could have prevented Insults. He likewise acknowledges Lincoln and Arnold to be great Generals. It is said we shall have not less than seven thousand persons to feed in Cambridge and its environs, more than its inhabitants. Two hundred and fifty cord of wood will not serve them a week. think then how we must be distrest. wood is risen to £5.10 pr.Cord and but little to be purchasd. I never thought I could lie down to sleep surrounded by these enemies. but we strangely become enured to those things which appear difficult when distant.

While I am writing a Neighbor comes in with an enlivened Countenance to tell us G[enera]l How has Surrenderd to G[enera]l Washington, but can we suffer ourselves to believe Providence will so marvelously appear for us? Ah the Events of Battles are so Precarious we dare not indulge the thought till it is confirmd by the best authority. my Partner

joyns me in the sincerest regards to General Warren and Lady, and as you must be tird by this time of my chit chat, allow me to subscribe Ever

yours

Cambridge, Novr. 11th, 1777.

[No signature.]

P.S. G[enera]l B[urgoy]n has repeated said he was convincd it was impossible Great Britain should ever subdue America. he therefore wishd a Union might take place that would never be broken and that he might get home soon to prevent any more attempts that way.

If you like anecdotes I will give you one more. When G[enera]l Phillips was travelling thro the back of Albany, where it is very rocky and barren, he expressd his Astonishment that they should ever cross the Atlantic and go thro such difficulty to conquer so unfavorable a Country which would not be worth a keeping when conquered. when they came upon the fertile banks of Connecticut river G[enera]l Whipple said to him, This is the Country which we are fighting for. Ah, replyd the G[enera]l. This is a country worth a Ten Years war.

We hear no Parole signd yet.

Index

Abarca de Bolea, Pedro Pablo, conde de
Aranda, II. 176.

Accounts, committee of, 1. 89.
Actionnaire, II. 125.

Adams, Abigail, death of mother, 1. 159;
inoculated, 261, 267, 268; farmer, 320;
on Lord Chesterfield, 11. 128; in Europe,
238, 240, 242, 274, 287; on presidency, 332;
French mission, 336; war with France,
337, 339; abuse of confidence, 342; health,
344, 345, 352; on S. A. Otis, 392.
Adams, Abigail, 11. 79, 81, 84, 95, 165;
married, 277.

Adams, Ann (Harod), 11. 386.
Adams, Charles, 1. 268; 11. 263, 386.
Adams, Elizabeth (Wells), I. II.
Adams, John, 11. 445; on Waterhouse, 1. 2 n.;
in Continental Congress, 27 n.; feels his
insufficiency, 29; opening letters, 39; in
Provincial Congress, 40 n.; health, 66,
265; 11. 206; return to Congress, 1. 105,
106; committee on hostilities, 143, 144; on
Supreme Court, 150, 178; militia officers,
192; republic, 201; form of government,
221; 'Thoughts on Government,' 230,
240; Braxton's reply, 242; on woman's
rights, 236; preamble, 242, 245; resigns,
265; 11. 205; leaves Congress, I. 280; on
horse hire, 290; naval committee, 311;
cost of living, 333, 341; leaves for Europe,
II. 1; voyage, 27; on affairs in France, 67;
merit, 71; description of manners, 81; on
currency, 90; honesty, 95; obnoxious, 101,
106; disposition of, 108, 112; return, 115,
118; want of success in France, 118;
charges, 128; second voyage to France,
129; on Europe, 156; intrigues against,
167; peace commission, 169, 185; Dutch
negotiation, 177, 179, 182, 188; self-
examination, 188; report on foreign
relations, 192; on Franklin, 209; wanted
as governor, 219, 221, 253; wishes to
retire, 223; minister to England, 255, 259,
275; on social unrest, 277, 280; Defence
of the Constitutions, 281, 284, 291, 294; |

returns, 304, 305; vice president, 305; on
Warren, 313; patronage, 313; Mrs.
Warren's poems, 324; an unsealed letter,
325; on Jefferson, 331; intercepted letter,
342; on Napoleon, 353; reconciliation with
Warren, 374; Dialogue of the Dead, 387 n.,
389; thoughts on July 4, 393; failing
health, 394; Mrs. Warren's poem, 402; tea
letter, 403.

Adams, John Quincy, 11. 217, 240, 259, 263,
357 m., 383, 390.
Adams, Robert, 1. 193 n.
Adams, Samuel, 1. 45, 101, 120, 272, 293; II.
150, 293; on Hutchinson, 1. 8; moderation,
9; boy for, 10; in Continental Congress,
27 n.; illness, 60, 265; secretary of province,
94, 173; II. 417; rides a horse, 1, 110; II.
419; on government, I. 195; independence,
224; account of expenses, 290, 324; horse
hire, 280; loyalists, 292; opposed to Wash-
ington, II. 12, 92; on marine committee,
15; health, 96; councillor, 106; rumors,
128, 138; for secretary, 145; malice, 148;
on Bowdoin and Hancock, 161; warning
on safety, 405; not a justice, 423.
Adams, Samuel, jr., 1.80, 90, 94,98, 190;11.418.
Adams, Sarah (Smith), 11. 386 n.
Adams, Susanna Boylston, 11. 386 n.
Adams, Thomas Boylston, 1. 226; 11. 263, 386.
'Adulateur,' the, 1. 18 n.
Aitken, Robert, 1. 256 n.
Albany, N.Y., militia for, 1. 323.
Aldrich,
I. 343.
Alexander, Alexander John, 11. 127 n.
Alexander, Mariamne, II. 127 n.
Alexander, Robert, 11. 127 n.
Alexander, William, 11. 127 n.
Alfred, 1. 304, 335, 365; 11. 442.
Algiers, corsairs, 11. 271, 276.
Allan, John, 1. 286.
Allen, Ethan, 1. 131.
Allen, Jolley, 1. 220.
Alliance, 11. 16, 22, 30, 82, 125, 127, 135, 141,
143, 158, 167.

Alliances, with foreign powers, 1. 127.

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Appreciation, papers on, II. 124.
Apprentice, boy, I. 10.

Aranda, see Abarca de Bolea.
Arbre de Cracovie, II. 131.
Arms, imported, 1. 339, 351.

Army, before Boston, wants direction, I. 47;
cleanliness and health, 53; operations, 67;
size, 77; continental, II. 12, 19.
Army, continental, 1. 58, 61; 11. 416, 418;
officers, 1. 73, 78, 79, 85; vote for, 80; size,
81; appointments, 97; committee on, 119,
125, 149, 152, 169, 174; numbering the
regiments, 269; new plan, 1. 275; 11. 426;
clothing, 1. 278; II. 143; situation, 140, 432;
enlistments, 431, 439; paymaster, 437;
northern, 450.

Army, British, honor in, 1. 141; situation, II.
416, 420, 422; standing, dangers, 1. 198.
Arnold, Benedict, 1. 368; expedition against
Quebec, 109, 123, 140, 148, 152, 181; 11.
419, 421, 428; brigadier general, 1. 204; at
Fort Stanwix, 366; at Saratoga, 373;
treachery, II. 139, 157; in the south, 166.
Arnold, -, captain, 1. 316.
Artésien, 11. 125.

Artillery, commissary of, 1. 86, 90.
Association, continental, 1. 166.
Athalie, Racine's, II. 244.

Attainder, bill of, suggested, 1. 75.
Augusta, 1. 375.

Austin, Benjamin, 1. 319 n.
Austin, James Trecothick, 11. 36.
Austin, Jonathan Williams, 1. 248.
Austria and America, II. 208.

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Baldwin, Loammi, 11. 62, 77; Dickinson's
writings, 364, 368.
Bancroft, Edward, 1. 380.
Bant, William, 1. 87.
Barbadoes, I. 147.

Barbé-Marbois, François, II. 193, 197.
Barber, Francis, II. 439.

Barclay, Robert, dedication, II. 149.
Barclay, Mrs. Thomas, II. 245.
Barlow, Joel, 11. 301.

Barnard, John, 1. 2.
Barnes, ———, 11. 29, 36.
Barney, Joshua, II. 184, 207.
Barnstable, Mass., privateers, I. 193; militia,
273 n.

Barrell, William, 1. 95.
Barrett, Samuel, claims the Group, II. 395.
Barruel, Augustin de, II. 341.
Barry, John, 11. 16, 24, 31, 141.
Bates, I. III.
Bayard, John, 1. 124 n.
Beaumarchais, Caron de, 1. 301 n.
Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish, Duke
of Portland, II. 199.

Berkenhout, John, Lee and, 11. 70.
Bernard, Francis, 1. 100; on Hutchinson's
salary, 7 n.; title, 11. 350, 355.
Bethune, George, II. 136.
Bethune, Mary (Faneuil), 11. 136 n.
Bigelow, Timothy, 1. 354, 357-

Bills of credit, continental, 1. 56 n., 58, 61,
80, 92, 151; standing of, 268, 322, 377; II.
135, 141.

Bingham, Anne (Willing), 11. 245.
Bingham, Anne Louise, 11. 245 n.
Bingham, Maria Matilda, 11. 245 n.
Bingham, William, 11. 184.
captain, 1. 360.

Blair,

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