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Montgomery, Janet (Livingston), II. 306, Negroes, freeing, in Massachusetts, 1. 335,

307.
Montgomery, Richard, 1. 131; 11. 307 n.
Montserrat, powder, 1. 136.

Moon, the, proposed fort, 1. 130, 216.
Moore, Fanny (Bowen), II. 330.
Moore, John E., II. 330.
Morality, principles of, 1. 172.
Morehead, John, rev., 11. 188.
Morgan, Daniel, 1. 360; 11. 166.

Morgan, John, director of hospitals, 1. 142,
164, 174, 185, 187, 229; inoculation, 263.
Morgan, Mary (Hopkinson), I. 165 n.;
described, 229.

Morgan lecture, 1. 17.

Morris, Gouverneur, II. 118.

Morris, Robert, I. 293, 379 n.; II. 13, 143,
170, 171, 184, 248; conduct, 225; king,
230.

Morris, Thomas, 1. 379 n., 380.

Morris, 1. 314.

Morton, Perez, 1. 87.

Moscow, destruction of, II. 372.
Mount Independence, 1. 346.
Moylan, James, II. 143.
Murphy, Arthur, II. 301 n.

Murray, David, viscount Stormont, I. 302.
Murray, John, Earl of Dunmore, 1. 145; II. 5;
conduct in Virginia, 1. 191; rumor, 277.

Murray, John, rev., II. 329 n.

339.

Nelson, Thomas, I. 112.

Netherlands in prophecy, II. 376.
Neutrality, armed, II. 154.
Neutrals, trade of, II. 367.
Nevis, powder, 1. 136.

Newburyport, Mass., I. 12; saltworks, 177,
193; privateers, 193.
Newcastle, Del., Howe at, 1. 355-

New England, jealousy of, 1. 77, 324; con-
vention of states, 286, 293; British designs,
315, 361, 362.

Newfoundland, provisioning, 1. 98; loss at,

190.

New Hampshire, II. 218; government for, 1.
170, 175, 182; militia, 188; misconduct of
troops, 194; independency, 233; grants and
statehood, 321; exertions of, II. 152.
New Jersey, government, 1. 250; lethargy,
279; representation in Congress, 293;
Howe in, 328, 357, 370; New York and, II.
270.

Newport, R.I., 1. 289; trial of Gaspee actors,
16; threatened, 151; British at, 296.
New York, plot discovered, 1. 259; expecta-
tions, 260; weakness, 263; troops from
Massachusetts, 268, 273; force at, 272.
Nicholson, Thomas, II. 17.
Nicola, Lewis, on fireships, 1. 256.

Murray, Judith (Sargent | Stevens), letters, New York, tea, 1. 20; government, 250;

II. 328, 346.

Muses, Mrs. Warren on, II. 94.

Musketo shore, 1. 314, 360.

Musters, commissary of, 1. 86, 90.

Nancy, 1. 189 n.

Nation, making a, 11. 295.
National Aegis, 11. 342, 368.
Navy, Warren's proposition, 1. 78; Gadsden
on, 81; Adams, 145; vessels fitting, 151;
idle, 268; of Massachusetts, 270; conti-
nental, 297, 304; II. 440; local boards, 1.
305, 311, 312, 327, 332; commissions, 340;
Boston, 350, 365; check for board, 367;
suspension of officers, 372; importance of,
II. 123; beginnings of, 378.

Navy Board, money for, II. 8, 12, 25, 61, 78,
88; confidence in, 26, 92; pay, 64; im-
portance, 66; reflections on, 87, 122;
accounts, 265, 269.

change at, 272; impost, II. 270.
Nixon, John, navy board, 1. 312, 254.
Noddle's Island, 1. 216, 237.

Non-exportation, efficacy of, 1. 30, 128, 166,

176, 185; except for powder, 170.
Norfolk, Va., bombarded, 1. 200.
North Carolina, recommendation by Con-
gress, I. 67; preparations, 230; independ-
ence, 232, 249; ratifies confederation, II.
33; constitution, 303.

Oath of allegiance, 11. 52, 448.
O'Brian, Jeremiah, 1. 140, 163, 185.
Officers, militia, difference on appointing, 1.
178, 183; 11. 427; pay, 1. 194; promotion,
296; foreign, difficulty of, 333, 341;
Schuyler, on, 352; British, of convention,
11. 4; half-pay, 237.
Oliver, Andrew, death of, 1. 25.
Oliver, Peter, 1. 25.

Oliver Cromwell, 1. 335.

Olney, Joseph, 11. 26, 31.

Omoa, II. 126.

Oriskany, N.Y., I. 356 n.

Passion flower, II. 359, 363.

Passy, France, American commissioners at,
I. 381.
Paterson, John, I. 347.

Orne, Azor, 1. 15, 190, 229 n., 252 n., 286 n., Paul of Russia, 1. 263 n.

324, 350; II. 145, 435.
Orne, Joshua, 1. 229 n.
Orne, Mrs., 1. 229.

Orvilliers, Louis Guillouet, comte d', II. 38.
Osgood, Samuel, major, 1. 212; 11. 183, 231.
Ostermann, Jean, comte d', 11. 208.
Otis, Elizabeth (Gray), II. 408.
Otis, Harrison Gray, II. 341; letters, 334, 361;
political conduct, 361.

Otis, James, 1. 15; II. 401; commencement
expenses, 1. 1; Bluster, 2 n.; Dickinson on,
4; on committee of correspondence, 11;
curious behavior, 61; council, 152; death,
II. 223, 224; McKean on, 386 n.
Otis, James, death, 11. 78, 82, 85.
Otis, James, ensign, II. 34 n., 49.
Otis, Joseph, I. 59.

Otis, Mary, II. 304 n., 354.

Otis, Rebecca (Sturgis), death of, I. I m.
Otis, Ruth Cunningham, II. 304 n.
Otis, Samuel Alleyne, II. 341, 408 m.; com-
mittee of war, I. 276 n.; cloathing, 320;
agent, 369; death, 11. 392.

Otis and Andrews, difficulties, II. 9.
Otsego County, N.Y., reply to address, II. 340.

Paca, William, 1. 293, 294 n.
Paddock, 1. 187.
Paine, Robert Treat, 1. 98; 11. 36, 443; in
continental congress, I. 27 n.; II. 52;
supreme court, I. 150, 178; to Canada, 190;
illness, 265, 266; leaves Congress, 280;
speaker, 331; Springfield convention, 350.
Paine, Samuel, 1. 133.

Paine, Thomas, Common Sense, 1. 204, 208,
215; II. 434; influence of, 1. 243.
Pallas, 1. 133 n.; II. 147.
Palmer, Joseph, 1. 40 n., 66, 131 n., 178, 190,

253, 264; committee of war, 276 n.
Palmer, Joseph Pearce, 1. 91, 92, 101.
Palmes, Richard, 1. 372.

Palmier, 11. 125.

Paper on politics, II. 117, 122.

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Pay, high, for officers, I. 79, 194; soldiers,
152, 186, 189, 278.

Paymaster general, 1. 91; Warren, 93, 152;
duties, 218; needs, 238.

Peace, British commissioners, II. 21, 23, 24,
37, 39; rumors of, 97, 119, 127; conditions,
109, 177; American commissioners, 169;
instructions, 173, 205, 214; preliminary
articles, 184, 186, 190, 207; secret motive,
195; acceptable, 217; definitive treaty,
233, 237.

Peck, John, I. 177, 305, 11. 16.
Pedrero, 1. 54 n.

Peekskill, N.Y., troops at, I. 339.
Pemberton, Samuel, II. 120.
Pendleton, Edmund, 1. 80, 112.
Penet, Pierre, II. 6 n., 148.
Penn, John, 1. 230, 231, 280.
Penn, Richard, 1. 79.

Pennants in French ports, II. 32.
Pennet,, II. 265, 269.
Pennsylvania, martial spirit, 1. 51; riflemen,
76; representation in Congress, 213, 293;
instructions to delegates, 250; lethargy,
279; government, 298.
'Pennsylvania Chronicle,' 1. 5.
'Pennsylvania Gazette,' Farmer's Letters in,
1. 5.

Penobscot, expedition, 1. 305; II. 112;
evacuated, 237.

Peter, Martha Parke (Custis), 11. 6 n.
Peter, Thomas, 11. 6 n.

Petition to King, Congress, 1. 75, 79, 84, 178.
Petrie, Samuel, II. 127.

Petry, Jean Baptiste, II. 130, 150.
Petticks Island, 1. 217.

Petty, William, Lord Shelburne, II. 75, 176,
191, 195, 199.

Philadelphia, review of troops, 62; Quaker
interest, 213; town meeting, 250; British
and, 278, 300, 334; navy board, 312;
Howe and, 364, 369, 371; evacuated, II. 14,
23; address, 226; pestilence, 334.
Phillips, William, II. 10.

Partridge, George, 1. 276; for Congress, 11. Phillips, William, general, 11. 28, 45; on

102, 136, 142, 231.

conquering America, 453.

Phinney, Edmund, 1. 80.
Phips, Jedidiah, 1. 177, 284.
Phips farm, 1. 48.

Pickering, John, 1. 78, 81; speaker, II. 52.

Pickering, Timothy, on departments, 11. 124.
Pigeon, John, 1. 91, 101.
Pigot, Hugh, II. 175.
Pike men, favored, I. 54 n.
Pinckney, Charles, I. 294 n.
Pitcairn, John, 1. 63.

Pitt, William, II. 241.
Pitts, John, 1. 58.

Places, multiplicity of, in one person, 1. 173.
Pliarne, Emanuel de, death of, 11. 6.
Ploughed Hill, 1. 107.
Plumer, William, 11. 382.
Plymouth, Mass., town meeting and petition,
1. 12; II. 399, 400, 405; annual festivity,
1. 19, 22; letter and protest, 20; threatened,
151, 177; privateers, 193; militia, 273 n.;
prophetical egg, 283; attacks Warren, 11.
17; collector of port, 315.
Point Alderton, 1. 216.
Politician, art of a, 1. 160.

Polk, Josiah, 1. 294 n.

Pomeroy, Seth, 1. 79, 85 n.

Poor, Enoch, 1. 347, 354.

Pope, Alexander, 1. 37.

Preble, Jedidiah, 1. 106.

Prescott, James, committee of war, 1. 276 n.
Prescott, William, 1. 109.

Prevost, Augustine, II. 126.

Price, James, on Canada, 1. 52 n.
Price, James, II. 245.

Prices, I. 159, 175, 298; regulating act, Mass.,
305, 330, 334; extravagant, 367; II. 3, 19,
32, 104.

Prince, Thomas, papers, II. 47.
Princeton, N.J., affair at, 1. 283.
Privateers, 1. 182, 189, 213, 255, 267, 271;
resolves, 227; embargo, 312, 317; pre-
valence, II. 438.

Proctor, John, 1. 298 n.

Prophecy, Winthrop on, II. 357, 365, 375.
Prospect Hill, 1. 107.

Providence, R.I., continental ships, 1. 305,
311, 318, 335, 350, 365.
Providence, 11. 103.

Provoost, Samuel, II. 284.
Pulaski, Kazimierz (Casimir), civil power
and, II. 58.

Purviance, Samuel and Robert, 1. 288.
Putnam, Israel, 1. 50, 68, 151; general, 61,
64, 65; at Cobble Hill, 114.

Quakers, 1. 168, 213; non-resistance, 280.

Popery, danger of, 11. 9, 15, 39; loss of Quartermaster General, 1. 86, 90, 92; II. 125.

temporal power, 365.

Port bill, Boston, losses from, 1. 160.

Porter, Elisha, II. 434.

Portia, see Abigail Adams.

Quebec, Arnold's expedition, I. 109, 149, 152,
248; capture of fleet, II. 141.

Queen of France, 11. 35, 93.

Porter, introduction of manufacture, 1. 273. Quincy, Dorothy, marriage, I. 110.

Portland, duke of, see Bentinck.
Portland, II. 145.

Portsmouth, N.H., arms, 1. 339.

Portugal, rumor of war with England, 1. 262;
attitude of, 307; feeling against, 321;
recognizes America, II. 194, 208; treaty,
222, 265; Great Britain and, 376.
Post, defective service, I. 279.

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Quincy, Elizabeth, 1. 159.

Quincy, Josiah, 1. 131, 230; II. 236, 238.

Rainbow, 1. 305 n., 366, 373.
Raleigh, 1. 365; 11. 16, 26, 44, 93.
Ramsay, David, 11. 301.

Randolph, Peyton, 1. 158; returns to Con-
gress, 112; death of, 161, 181.
Randolph, 1. 371.

Rapatio, 1. 18.

Post office, establishment of, 1. 25, 91; un- Ranger, 1. 365; 11. 93.
certainty, 337.
Potes,, captain, 1. 278.

Pottstown, Penn., reply to address, II. 340.
Powder, 1. 55, 65, 92, 93, 99, 108, 169; efforts
to obtain, 66, 115, 170; anxiety on, 68, 132;
from Antigua, 135; supplies, 199, 238.
Powell, Jeremiah, 11. 138, 145.
Pownall, Thomas, Hutchinson's salary, 1.7 n.

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Reconciliation, II. 435-

Redbank, defence of, 1. 374, 375-
Redman, John, 1. 164.

Reed, Joseph, 1. 85, 88, 99 n., 168, 174; II.
414; a lieut.-colonel, 1. 51; resigns, 238.
Reflecteur, 11. 125.

Reed, William, supreme court, I. 150, 178, 226.
Regulating act, II. 449.
Religion, jealousy of, II. 39.
Republic, J. Adams on, 1. 201.
Resistance, II. 11, 15, 26, 44.
Retaliation, II. 166, 352.

Revere, Paul, 1. 20, 183, 187; II. 425.
Rhode Island, troops for, 1. 273, 323;
attempt upon, 304, 310, 315, 317, 329,
330, 371, 372, 377; expedition, II. 42, 44,
50; impost in, 234, 248.
Rice, Nathan, II. 110.

Riedesel, Friedrich Adolph, baron, II. 451.
Riflemen, 1. 54, 58, 61, 64, 67, 76, 84; re-

strained, 100; trouble with, 107.

Rivington, James, II. 161, 164.
Roberdeau, Daniel, 1. 250, 293 n.

Robinson, Matthew, 11. 287.

Robuste, 11. 125.

Roche de Fermoy, see Fermoy.

Rodney, George Brydges, 11. 126, 131.
Rogers, John, 1. 294 n.

Rose, 1. 121 n.

Ross, John, 11. 184.

Roxbury, Mass., town proceedings, 1. 13, 15;
II. 401; army at, 1. 67; strength of, 83.
'Royal American Magazine,' 1. 33.
Ruggles, Timothy, 407; at Albany Congress,
II. 386.

Rumsey, Benjamin, 1. 294 n.

Rush, Benjamin, 1. 263; 11. 164, 381.
Russell, Jonathan, 1. 1 n.

Russell, Lothrop, 1. 1.

Russell, Sarah (Sever), 11. 299, 302.

St. Clair, Arthur, evacuation of Ticonderoga,
I. 342, 343, 344, 345, 347, 348; II. 450;
Glover on, 1. 355, 356; inquiry, 356.

St. Eustatius, powder, 1. 136.

St. Johns, Canada, I. 123, 131, 152, 181.
St. Kitts, powder, 1. 136.

St. Martens, powder, I. 136.
St. Michel, II. 125.

Salaries, reduction of, II. 248.

Salem, Mass., 1. 98; privateers, 193; election
disallowed, 253.

Salt, South Carolina, 1. 313; Massachusetts,
368.

Saltonstall, Dudley, 1. 271.

Saltpetre, efforts to make, 1. 66, 67, 115, 153,
157, 158, 163, 177, 189, 193; II. 430, 433;
need, 1. 132; supply, 199.
Sampson, Deborah, 1. 305 n.
Sampson, Peleg, 1. 305 n.

Sampson, Simeon, I. 182, 305; 11. 112, 127,
136, 139.

San Domingo, I. 362.

Sandwich, see John Montagu.

Sandwich, Mass., 1. 368.

Saratoga, N.Y., I. 348; Burgoyne at, 356.
Saratoga, II. 141.

Sargent, Judith, II. 329 n.
Sargent, Winthrop, II. 329 n.

Sartine, Antoine Raymond Jean Gualbert
Gabriel de, 11. 71, 210.

Savage, Samuel Phillips, committee of war,
I. 276 n.

Sawbridge, Catharine, 1. 7 n.
Saxe, Maurice, comte de, 1. 70.
Schools, grammar, 1. 171.

Schuyler, Philip, 1. 125, 131, 132, 140, 148,
156; 355; II. 439; general, 1. 61, 64, 65; in
command, 208; on Ticonderoga, 295, 343;
criticised, 342, 344, 353 n., 357, 364; inves-
tigation of, 347, 356; distrust, 348; letter
on Massachusetts, 352, 364; Glover on,
355, 356; on departments, II. 124.

Russia, attitude of, 1. 307; mediation, II. 122; Schweighauser, John D., 11. 118.

Scollay, John, II. 157.

Russell, Rachel, 1. 21.

Russell, Thomas, 11. 258, 284.

minister to, 158; invasion of, 372.

Rutland, convention prisoners, II. 28.
Rutledge, Edward, 1. 276 n.; naval

Scollay, Mercy, 1. 33.

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Seamen, number of, 1. 174.

Searle, James, 1. 277 n.; 11. 164, 171.
Secretary of Massachusetts, I. 94, 173.
Sellers, Hall and, 1. 5.

Sensible, II. 119.

Sergeant, Jonathan Dickinson, 1. 231, 293 n.;
naval committee, 311 n.

Sergeant, Nathaniel Peaslee, supreme court,

I. 150, 178.

Sever, William, 1. 131 n.; II. 121, 406; su-
preme court, 1. 150; council, 152.

Sewall, David, 1. 264.

Souverain, 11. 125.
Sovereignty, offer to foreign powers, I. 127.
Spain, attitude of, 1. 127; fiat for, 198, 203;
ports open, 1. 307; difference with Great
Britain, 314, 360; alliance with, 11. 93, 153;
mediation of, 119; policy, 174; treaty, 176,
182.

Sewall, Jonathan, 1. 2, 101; Massachuset- Spanktown, skirmish, 1. 298.

tensis, II. 407.

Sharpe, Horatio, 1. 6.

Shaw, Nathaniel, Jr., 11. 25.

Shays' rebellion, II. 279, 292, 312, 314.
Shelburne, Lord, see William Petty.
Sherburne, Mass., saltpeter, I. 193.
Sheriff, William, 1. 63, 123.

Sherman, Roger, 1. 293; naval committee,
340.

Shippen, Thomas, II. 186, 290.
Shippen,, dr., 11. 166.

Ships, number and construction, I. 174, 182;
destruction of British on lakes, 279, 282.
Shipwright, row gallies, 1. 130; number, 174.
Skene, Philip, prisoner, 1. 65.
Slaves, in apportionment, II. 201.
Smallpox, 1. 84, 194, 257, 260, 263; Boston,
261, 267; 11. 14, 428.

Smith, Abigail (Adams), 11. 277, 290; illness,
384; death, 385.

Smith, Carolina, 11. 385.

Spencer, Joseph, 1. 86, 95, 349; 11. 418; Rhode
Island expedition, I. 372.

Sphinx, 11. 125.

Spooner, Sarah Warren, 1. 152 n.
Spooner, Walter, 1. 178; council, 152.
Spooner, II. 405.

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Springfield, Mass., convention, 350.
Squantum, proposed fort, 1. 130, 216.
Stamp office, destruction of, 1. 358.
Stanhope, Edwin, captain, 11. 269.
Stanhope, Philip Dormer, Earl of Chester-
field, 11. 128.

States, votes of, under confederation, 1. 338,
375; reserved powers, 375.
Steigner, Nicolas Frederic de, II. 340.
Steuben, Frederick William Augustus Henry
Ferdinand von, II. 12, 19.
Stevens, Ebenezer, I. 343.

Stevenson, John, captain, 1. 193; II. 424.
Stewart, Walter, 1. 282.
Stille,, 1. 290.

Smith, Elizabeth (Quincy), death of, 1. 159. Stillman, Samuel, 1. 143, 165.

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Stillwater, N.Y., I. 348.

Stirling, Thomas, Lord, 1. 208.
Stockton, Richard, 1. 293 n.
Stone, Thomas, I. 294 n.
Storer, Ebenezer, 1. 310 n.
Stormont, see David Murray.
Story, William, 1. 131 N.; II. 101.
Stoughton, Mass., I. 193.
Strong, Caleb, II, 142.
Sturgis, Rebecca, I. I n.
Suffolk county, justices, II. 120.
Sullivan, James, judge, 1. 219, 226; repre-
sentative, II. 219, 231, 236.

Sullivan, John, 1. 188, 282; mission from
Howe, 272, 274; on Staten Island, 364;
western expedition, II. 111; letter to
Hancock, 161.
Sulphur, 1. 163.

Sun, eclipse of, 1. 283.

Sutton, Mass., powder mill, 1. 193.
Swanwick, John, 11. 225.

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