Chapter 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