Buffon, Comte de
building
Bull, John
Bunker’s Hill, Battle of
Bureau de la Guerre (France)
Burgoyne, John
Burke, Edmund
Byles, Mather
Cabanis, Pierre-Georges
Caisse d’Escompte
Calais, France
Cambridge, England
Camden, Lord
Canada; American Revolution and; Franklin, Benjamin, mission to; Treaty of Paris and; U.S. currency and
Caritat, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas. See Condorcet, Marquis de
Carmichael, William
Carroll, Charles
Catechism
Catholicism. See Roman Catholicism
Chamberlain, Mason
character: enemies and; idleness and; prudence and; public
charitable institutions, mismanagement of
charity
Charlestown, Mass.
Chase, Samuel
Chatham, Lord
Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de
chess
Chester
chevaux de frise
Child, Ann
Childs, Francis
Chinese
Cholmondly, Lord
Christian VII,
Church of Notre Dame
circles, magic
Civil Usage
Clarke, General
Club of Honest Whigs
Cocke, William
Cockpit
Coder, Mons.
Coffyn, Francis
Colbert, Jean Baptiste
Collinson, Peter
colonies: Albany Plan and; British taxation of; England and; quartering of soldiers in; reconciliation between England and; Stamp Act and; union of. See also America; American Revolution; United States
commerce: American Revolution and; currency and; currency depreciation and; external; free; government interference in; universal; war and
Committee of Safety, Pennsylvania Assembly
Committee of Secret Correspondence, Second Continental Congress
Common Sense (Paine)
Compleated Autobiography (Franklin)
Concord, Battle of
Condorcet, Marquis de
conduct, modes of
Conestogoe Manor, Pa.
Connecticut
Connecticut Compromise
Constitution, U.S.: Franklin, Benjamin and; opposition to; ratification of
Constitutional Convention (1787); Articles of Confederation and; Connecticut Compromise and; executive salaries and; Franklin, Benjamin, speech before; God and; legislature, single vs. dual, and; Pennsylvania and; representation and
Continental Congress: American Revolution and; Articles of Confederation and; Committee of Secret Correspondence of; Declaration of Independence and; Franklin, Benjamin, as member of
Cook, James
Cooper, Samuel
Copley, John Singleton
Cornwallis, Charles
Court of France. See France
Craven Street home
currency: copper coins and; depreciation of; French; trade and
Cushing, Thomas
Dalibard, Mrs.
Dante
d’Arlandes, Marquis
Dartmouth, Lord William
Davenport, Sarah (sister)
Day, Luke
Dean, Joseph
Deane, Silas; Franklin-Lee conflict and; French financial and military aid and; as minister to France; political letter of; recall of; Treaty of Alliance with France and
death; certainty of; God and; as punishment for an offense
debauchery
debt. See national debt
Decalogue
Declaration of Independence; American Revolution and; approval of; celebration of; drafting of; Franklin, Benjamin and; signing of
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon)
De Grasse, M.
De La Roche, Abbe
Denmark
de Raynevall, Mr.
d’Estaing, Charles-Henri, Comte
d’Houdetot, Countess
Dialogue entre la Goutte et M. Franklin (Franklin)
Dick, Janet
Dickinson, John
Diderot, Denis
Diede, Baron
Digges, Thomas
Dissertations on the English Language (Webster)
Dorcet, Monsr.
Drake
Draper, Sir W.
Duffield, Edward
du Motier, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roche-Gilbert. See Lafayette, Marquis de
Dunkirk, France
du Pont de Nemours, Pierre-Samuel
Du Tartre, Mademoiselle
eagle, as symbol of United States
East Indies
Ecton, England
An Edict of the King of Prussia (Franklin)
Edinburgh, England
education; Catechism and; importance of; Negro; of orphans; poverty and; virtue and
Egypt
electricity; Electrophorus perpetuus and; Experiments and Observations on Electricity; Franklin, Benjamin, experiments with
Electrophorus perpetuus
“The Elysian Fields,”
Elysium
Empereur
Encyclopedie
enemies: benefits of; character and
England: alehouses in; colonies and; Franklin, Benjamin, as colonial agent in; French and Indian War and; poverty in; reconciliation between colonies and; slavery in; taxation of colonies and; Treaty of Paris and. See also American Revolution
Enlightenment
envy
Epictetus
“E Pluribus Unum,”
Eripuit celo fulmen sceptrimque tyrannis (He snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from tyrants)
Essays to Do Good (Mather)
Europe: American Revolution and; gulf stream in; poverty in
Eurydice
evaporation, cooling bodies by
Executive: salaries for; term limits for
exercise
Experiment
Experiments and Observations on Electricity (Franklin)
faction
Fair American
faith
Fall of Man
family; Franklin, Benjamin, absence from; Franklin, Benjamin and
Farmer General
“Father Abraham’s Speech,”
The Federal Gazette and Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Federalists and anti-federalists
fireplace, Pennsylvania
Fisher, Edward
fishing
Fitz-Herbert, Alleyne
Flanders, Netherlands
Florida
Folger, Captain
Forbach, Madame de
foreign officers
fortitude
Forton Prison
Fortune
Fothergill, Dr.
Founding Fathers
Fox, Charles James
franc
France; ambassador’s life in; American independence and; American Revolution and; American treaties of peace and commerce with; Articles of Confederation and; character of; cleanliness in; currency in; financial and military aid of; Franklin, Benjamin, as minister to; Franklin, Benjamin, love of; French and Indian War and; politeness in; slavery in; Treaty of Alliance with; Treaty of Commerce with; Treaty of Paris and; U.S. national debt and; U.S. trade with; women in
Frankland
Franklin, Abiah Folger (mother)
Franklin, Benjamin: American Philosophical Society and; Articles of Confederation and; Autobiography of; birth of; as colonial agent in London, England; Constitution, U.S. and; Constitutional Convention and; death of; Declaration of Independence and; as entrepreneur; as essayist,; family and; family background of; final years of; financial matters and; as Founding Father; health of ; honorary degrees of; as inventor; libel against; marriage of; memoirs of; as minister to Fra
nce; as minister to France (1776-78); as minister to France (1778-79); as minister to France (1779-81); as minister to France (1781-83); as minister to France (1783-85); pennames of; Pennsylvania Assembly and; philandering, rumors of; as philosopher-wit; as plenipotentiary in France; politics of; portraits of; as postmaster; as president of Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania; as printer; as publisher; religion and; religion of; as scientist; Second Continental Congress and; slavery and; Treaty of Paris and; will of
Franklin, Deborah Rogers (wife); death of; Franklin, Benjamin, absence from; Franklin, Benjamin, correspondence with; marriage of
Franklin, Francis Folger (son)
Franklin, James (brother)
Franklin, Jane (sister). See Mecom, Jane Franklin (sister)
Franklin, John (brother)
Franklin, Josiah (father)
Franklin, Sally
Franklin, Samuel
Franklin, Thomas
Franklin, William (son); arrest of; Franklin, Benjamin, as colonial agent,and; Franklin, Benjamin, as colonial agent, and; Franklin, Benjamin, estrangement from; Franklin, Benjamin, will of, and; Franklin, Deborah Rogers, death of, and; as loyalist; marriage of; as New Jersey governor
Franklin, William Temple (grandson); education and; Franklin, Benjamin, as minister to France, and; Franklin, Benjamin, will of, and; marriage for
Franklin House
“Franklin Papers Reader,”
Franklin stove
Frederick II,
free trade. See commerce
French and Indian War (1754-1760)
French language
French Revolution
friendship; correspondence and; death and; Junto and; wealth and
frugality
Gage, Thomas
Galloway, Joseph
Galloway, Mrs. Joseph
Gates, Horatio
Gentleman’s Magazine
George II,
George III,. See also American Revolution
Georgia
Gérard, Conrad-Alexandre
Gerard, M.
Germany
Gibbon, Edward
Gillon, Mr.
glasses, reading
gluttony
Goddard, William
good works
Gordon, Lord George
Grace, Robert
Grammont, M.
Grand, Radolphe-Ferdinand
Grand, Sir George
Grand Ohio Company
Grantham, Lord
Great Britain. See England
Greek orators
Greene, Catherine Ray
Greene, William
Greene, Nathanael
Grenada
Grenville, George
Grenville, Thomas
Guillotin, Joseph Ignace
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Hadley, John
Hall, David
Hancock, John
The Handsome and Deformed Leg (Franklin)
harpsichord
Harris, Anne (sister)
Hart, Michael H.
Hartley, David
Hazard, Mr.
Heaven
Hell-Fire Club
Helvétius, Anne-Catherine de Ligniville d’Autricourt
Helvétius, Claude-Adrien
Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.
Henry VIII,
Herbert, Eugenia W.
Hercules
heresy, virtue and
Herschel, Sir William
Hessian mercenaries
Hewson, Elizabeth
Hewson, Mary Stevenson “Polly,” ; Franklin, Benjamin, will of, and; Stevenson, Margaret, death of, and
Hewson, Thomas
Hewson, William
Hill, Henry
Hillsborough, Lord
Hillsborough, Mr.
Hints for Conversation (Barclay)
An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania (Jackson)
Hodgson, William
Holland
Home, Henry. See Kames, Lord
honesty
hope
Hopkinson, Francis
Hortalez & Co.
hot air balloons
Houdetot, Claude-Constance-Cesar, Comte d’
Houdetot, Countess d’
Houdon, Jean-Antointe
House of Commons; Committee of the Whole of; Stamp Act and
House of Fizeaux & Grand
House of Hornica Fizeaux & Co.
House of Lords
Howe, Caroline
Howe, John
Howe, Lord Richard
Howe, William
Hubbart, Elizabeth
Huey, Joseph
Hume, David
Humphreys, David
Hutchinson, Thomas
Hutchinson Letters scandal
Hutton, James
Hyde, Lord
Idea of an English School (Franklin)
idleness
immigration
India
Indiana
Indian Massacres
Indians; cruelty to; Ohio land grant and
industry
inflation
Information for those who would remove to America (Franklin)
Ingenhousz, Jan
Intolerable Acts
inventions: double spectacles; Franklin stove; lightning rod; long arm; steam engines
Ireland; poverty in; wretched situation in
Israel
Italy
Izard, Ralph
Jackson, Richard
Jacob’s Ladder
James, Abel
Jardin du Roi, France
Jay, John; Franklin, Benjamin, will of, and; national debt and; as Secretary of Foreign Affairs; Spanish aid to American Revolution and; Treaty of Paris and
jealousy
Jefferson, Thomas; as ambassador to France; Declaration of Independence and; Treaty of Paris and; United States seal and
Jennings, Captain
Jesuits
Jesus
John, King
Johnson, Samuel
Johonnot, Samuel Cooper
Jones, John
Jones, John Paul
Jourdain, M.
“Journal of Negotiations in London” (Franklin)
Journal of the Negotiation for Peace with Great Britain (Franklin)
Junto
Kames, Lord
Keimer, Samuel
Keith, George
King’s Bridge, New York
King (servant)
“La Belle et la Mauvaise Jambe” (Franklin)
Lafayette, Marquis de; American Revolution and; character of; Franklin, Benjamin, friendship with; French financial and military aid and; Treaty of Paris and
la Goutte, Madame
laissez faire
Lancaster, Pa.
land grants
Landais, P.
Lang, Thomas
Lange, Mr.
language
Laurens, Henry; French financial and military aid and; health of; imprisonment of; national debt and; Treaty of Paris and
Laurens, John
Lauzun, Duke de
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent
Lay, Benjamin
Leclerc, Georges-Louis. See Buffon, Comte de
Le Despencer, Lord
Lee, Arthur; Franklin, Benjamin, conflict with; French financial and military aid and; Spain and American Revolution and; Treaty of Alliance with France and
Lee, Charles
Lee, William
Leeds, England
Legge, William. See Dartmouth, Lord William
Le Roy, Jean-Baptiste
Le Sage et la Goutte
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer (Dickinson)
Le Veillard, Louis-Guillaume
Lexington, Battle of
liberty of the press
Library Company
Life of Johnson (Boswell)
lightning rod
&
nbsp; Livingston, Robert
livre
London, England: Franklin, Benjamin, as colonial agent in; Franklin, Benjamin, as printer in; friendship in; as “great smoky house,” riots in; silk in
London Chronicle
London Gazette
Long Island, N.Y.
Lopez, Claude-Anne
Lords of the Admiralty
L’Orient, France
Louisiana
Louis XV,
Louis XVI,
love
Lovell, James
loyalists
lust
Madeira, Portugal
Magnetisme Animale
malice
Manchester, England
Manners (Whitehead)
Mansfield, Earl of. See Stormont, David Murray
Marie Antoinette, Queen
Marmontel
Marquis de Lafayette
marriage
“The Marriage of Figaro” (Beaumarchais)
Martinet, Francois
Maryland
Massachusetts Bay
The Massachusetts Magazine
Mather, Cotton
Mather, Increase
Mather, Samuel
Mauduit, solicitor
Mecom, Jane Franklin (sister)
medicine
Medius. See Franklin, Benjamin
“Memoir concerning the present State of the late British Colonies in North America” (Franklin)
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin
mentally ill,
Mesmer, Franz Anton
mesmerism
Mexico
minimum wage laws
misfortune, wisdom and
Montagu, John. See Sandwich, Lord
Montgolfier, Mr.
Moore, George
Moore, Robert W.
morality
The Morals of Chess (Franklin)
Morellet, Abbe Andre
Moreton, Lord
Morris, Robert; as Finance Secretary; Treaty of Paris and
Moses
Moulin Joli
music
A Narrative of the Late Massacres in Lancaster County, of a Number of Indians, Friends of This Province (Franklin)
national debt: American independence and; payment of; taxation and
natural philosophy
natural rights
Navigation Acts
Necker, Jacques
Negroes: Franklin, Benjamin, opinion of. See also slavery
Netherlands. See Holland
Neufville, Messr. de
Newfoundland
Newgate prison
New Jersey
New York
New York, N.Y.
Nollet, Abbe
None but Christ
Nord, Comte du
Norris, Isaac
North, Lord Frederick; American Revolution and; British-colonial reconciliation and; prisoners of war and