INDEX

    “A. B.,” (anti-government writer), 354n

    Abowndrawonit

    mentioned, 124, 132

    petition of, 134n

    Abrahams, Woodward

    affidavit

    as enclosure, 487

    cited, 500

    Acadia National Park, 6

    Acadians

    and Assembly, 192

    in Boston, 34, 191-92, 261

    Castle William, moved to, 34

    and Hispaniola, governor’s proclamation, 190-91, 229, 232

    flight to Hispaniola, 107, 190-93n, 232-33, 249, 260

    and labor, price of, 34

    at Louisbourg, 96

    numbers of, 191, 233

    petitions and memorials of, 193n

    as enclosures, 191, 261

    FB, memorial to, 191-92, 260

    and politics, 8

    poverty, relief of, 192

    religion of, 33, 232-33n, 249, 260

    relocation of, 96, 107

    and British policy, 33-34, 119, 192, 229, 249

    Cambridge meeting discusses, 107

    to Canada, 232-33, 249

    and France, king of, 107

    to Maine, 33

    to Nova Scotia, 33, 260

    to Quebec, 33, 229, 260

    Rhode Island, leave from, 191

    and smallpox epidemic (1764), 34, 96

    to St. Pierre, 33, 96, 190-91

    Accomplishment of Scripture Prophecies (William Whiston), 465

    Account of the Fire at Harvard-College, as enclosure, 45

    Accounts, 169

    Acts and Resolves, Public and Private of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 20

    Actual Survey of the Sea Coast from New York to the I. Cape Briton (Cyprian Southack), 228n

    Adams, Benjamin (Mrs), 38n

    Adams, John

    Boston memorial, presents to FB, 446n

    as counsel for Boston, 446n

    library of, 461

    “Novanglus,” 480, 482-83n

    on “Principles of Law and Polity,” 480

    on Ruggles, 373

    Adams, Samuel, 424n

    and Boston caucus, 306n

    and Boston committee, 444n

    House of Representatives, member of, as, 392n-3n

    identified, 392n

    and MacIntosh, 429n

    popularity of, 392n

    at “Union Feast,” 424n

    Administration of the Colonies (Thomas Pownall), 481n

    Administration, Letters of, 169

    Admiralty Board

    and Colvill, 53, 55, 62, 76

    mentioned, 15, 274, 276

    Affidavits, 170

    African Queen (snow), 310

    Alexandria, Va., 39, 40n, 69

    Allegheny Mountains, 182

    Allen, Thomas

    identified, 284n

    mentioned, 297-98

    seizes La Vray Amitie, 282

    Allen, William, 221n

    Mayhew, letter to, 218

    Allestree, Richard

    Eighteen Sermons, 453, 461n

    Gentleman’s Calling, 469n

    Officium Hominis Cum Stylo, 458, 469n

    Alsop, Anthony (step-father of FB), 460

    Amaguntic Pond, Maine, 67

    American Colonies

    Britain, opposition to, 1-2, 90, 370, 377-87, 390, 414

    constitutions of, 157, 414-17

    as dominions outside realm, 482-83n

    government of. See under Government, Colonial

    Great Britain, constitutional relationship with, 87, 383, 414, 418, 433, 479, See also BERNARD, FRANCIS:WRITINGS:“The Principles of Law and Polity” (1764)

    independence, aspirations of, 375

    mentioned, 11

    Parliament, representation in, 418, 433

    and parliamentary authority, 432-33

    and parliamentary taxation, 44, 216, 308, 413-15

    and secretaries of state, 15

    specie, drain on, 163-64

    and Vice Admiralty Courts, 271

    American Revolution, 2, 13

    Amherst, Sir Jeffery

    identified, 37n

    letters from cited, 354n

    letters to cited, 37n, 354n

    mentioned, 36, 48, 49, 167n

    Amyand, Claudius

    identified, 532n

    letters to listed, 525

    mentioned, 214n

    An Act for Granting and Applying certain Stamp Duties . . . in America, 393n

    An Answer to the Dissenters Pleas for Separation (Thomas Bennet), 468n

    Anderson, Thomas, 38n

    Androscoggin River, Maine, 146

    Anguilla, Leeward Islands

    forged customs clearances from, 32n, 125-28n, 131, 486, 489-90

    governor of, 202n

    imports from, 32n, 128n, 131, 485

    Animadversions Upon Dr. Sherlock’s Book . . . A Vindication of the Holy and Ever-Blessed Trinity (Robert South), 454, 463n

    Annotations Upon Some Difficult Texts in All the Books of the New Testament (Norton Knatchbull), 454, 464n

    Answer Rejoyned (John Burges), 454, 463n

    Antiquitates Apostolicae (William Cave), 453, 462n

    Antiquitates Christianae (Jeremy Taylor), 453, 462n

    Antrobus, Charles

    and Bristol Co. justices

    advises FB to direct, 508

    lack of assistance from, 514, 517

    letters to, 266-67, 508

    as co-signatory, 267, 509

    FB views on, 518

    and Polly

    prosecution of, 270, 517

    seizure and rescue of, 255-56, 265, 505, 507

    and Taunton riot, 266-67, 506

    and Temple

    Council proceedings, sends, 245

    reports Taunton riot, 507-8

    Temple, letter to, 507-8

    as enclosure, 244

    received by FB, 246

    Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion (William Reeves), 455, 465n

    Appeals, 169-70

    Apthorp, Charles, 406n

    Arguments to Prove the Being of God (John Hancock), 465n

    Aristotle, 481n

    Arsenau, Marguerite, 98n

    Art of Contentment (Anon. ), 458, 470n

    Art of Making Common Salt (William Brownrigg), 40n

    Assembly (the Council and the House of Representatives)

    about, 8

    and Acadians, 165-66, 229, 233

    acts and resolves, 153, 236, 242, 287, 289, 509, See also under General Court, Legislation

    adjournments, 368, 419

    Castle William, reinforcements for, 165-66

    census, ordered, 52

    and Customhouse fees, 117

    divisions in, 231, 280

    petition to Parliament, 165-66

    special province agent, election of, 43

    elections to, 20

    FB, opposition to, 52, 231

    fees in public offices, regulation of, 238

    Fort Pownall, enlarges garrison, 40n

    forts, establishment for, 41

    friends of government in, 9

    and governor, 5, 100, 134, 184, 420, 447

    harmony in, 50, 175

    Harvard Hall, rebuilding of, 50

    House of Commons, petition to, as enclosure, 166

    Maine Survey (1764), approves, 7, 41, 42n, 45, 50-51, 70-71, 150, 158-59, 259

    Massachusetts regiments, refuses requisition for, 36, 42, 45, 49-51, 165-66

    meetings of, 174, 219, 310, 319, 323, 340-41, 346, 368-69, 383

    mentioned, 100, 147

    and Naval Office fees, 117, 153

    Parliament, petition to

    as enclosure, 161, 166

    concerning Sugar Act and Stamp Tax, 120n, 145n, 165-66, 263

    and parliamentary taxation, 119, 139, 141, 165-66

    Penobscot Bay survey, 52, 70

    petitions, 161-166, 263

    Penobscot townships grants, approves, 45, 47n, 51-52, 70-71

    and Pope’s Day, 398

    popular party in, 8, 319, 375, 389-90, 394, 419, 426

    prorogations of, 165-66, 319

    and province agent

    election of, 165-66, 225

    instructions to, 29, 31, 44, 47n, 120n

    instructions, as enclosure, 45

    salary of, 234

    special agent, election of, 219, 384

    and public finances, 109

    public offices, resolve to open, 442

    public offices, fee bills, as enclosures, 240

    in session, 149, 165, 200, 210, 217, 400, 479

    Stamp Act, implementation of, 310, 341, 351, 355-56, 359, 362-68, 383

    Stamp Act Congress, circular letter on, 287

    and Stamp Act riots, 311n

    stamped papers, distribution of, 369

    Superior Court justices, votes salaries of, 242n

    unanimity of, 165

    votes of, 426

    Assurance Policies, 171

    Atheist’s Objection . . . Refuted (John Harris), 463n

    Atheist’s Objections (John Harris), 463n

    Atheistical Objections (John Harris), 463n

    Atkinson, Ichabod

    petition of, as enclosure, 141

    Atterbury, Francis, 460

    Attorney General of England and Wales, 238

    Attorney General of Massachusetts, 114, 183, 504

    Attorneys, Admissions of, 170

    Auchmuty, Robert

    as advocate general of Vice Admiralty, 273-276

    biography, 275n

    and Cockle

    advises Cockle on composition, 125, 491-93

    prosecutes seizures by Cockle, 127, 136, 187, 197, 201, 485, 490-92

    and Colvill, 63

    FB praises, 274

    and Fitch v Peate, 448

    Freemason, seizure and prosecution of, 61-62, 75

    identified, 63n

    and Polly, prosecution of, 265, 270, 517

    rivals for office, 274

    and Temple, 198

    Avery, John, Jr.

    identified, 438n

    mentioned, 436, 441

    Bail, 170

    Bailey, Joseph, 133

    Baines, Lt. (Royal Navy officer), 268, 509, 511

    Baker, Sir William

    identified, 211n

    mentioned, 210

    province agent, and election of, 218, 405

    Ball, Robert

    identified, 325n

    letters to, 325

    listed, 528

    orders concerning stamped papers, 325

    Bankruptcy, 163, 237, 241n

    Banks, R. R.

    Religion and Reason Adjusted and Accorded, 458, 470n

    Baptismon Didache, the Doctrine of Baptisms (William Walker), 455, 465n

    Bar Iron, 238

    Barlow, Thomas

    as critic of Arminianism, 460

    Genuine Remains of That Learned Prelate Dr. Thomas Barlow, 458, 469n

    Several Miscellaneous and Weighty Cases of Conscience Learnedly and Judiciously Resolved, 458, 469n

    Barnard and Harrison (merchants), 311-12, 320, 342, 347

    Barnet, William

    identified, 38n

    letter to, 37-38

    cited, 34, 38n

    listed, 521

    smallpox inoculating hospital, invited to establish, 37-38

    Barons Controversy

    mentioned, 137n, 193, 248n

    and Stamp Act riots, 337

    and Treasury, 343n

    Barons, Benjamin, 137n

    Barrington, John, 145n

    Barrington, Lord

    and Bernard, Amelia, 2, 25n, 64

    her illness and recovery, reported by FB, 87-88, 211

    sends letter to her, 129

    on Bernard, Francis, Jr., 69, 128-29

    on British politics, 64-65

    and Egremont, 128

    and FB

    friendship, 87, 130n, 408

    as patron, 5, 67-70, 88, 129, 408-9

    FB disappointed with Mount Desert Island grant, 210-11

    FB proposes reform of colonial government, 413-17

    FB seeks

    Naval Office for son, 409

    patronage, 69-70, 408

    support against Temple, 408

    gift of fish, receives, 64

    on Grenville administration, 64

    and Halifax, 98, 128

    happiness of, 211

    and Hillsborough, 98

    on Hillsborough, 64

    identified, 25n, 65n

    and Jackson, 64, 141, 279

    Journals of the House of Representatives, FB sends copies, 417, 418

    letters from, 128-29

    cited, 70, 88, 106n, 130n, 182, 211, 241n, 480

    listed, 522-24, 527, 529, 531

    received, 87, 129, 210, 408

    as replies, 70, 88, 128

    letters to, 69-70, 87-88, 210-11, 408-10, 413-18

    cited, 10, 17, 59, 65n, 70n, 98-99n, 101n, 129n-30n, 141, 211n, 343, 406n, 418n, 479-81n

    as enclosures, 141

    listed, 522-25, 531

    received, 65, 128-29, 418

    as replies, 129, 210, 408

    Select Letters, published in, 418

    marital relations of, 130n

    mentioned, 129, 418

    on Mount Desert Island Grant, 64

    Naval Office, discussions about, 128-29, 211, 409

    and Parliament, 74

    and Pemberton, 409

    and Pitt, 128-29

    Pownall, J., FB advises he consult, 417

    “Principles of Law and Polity” (1764)

    FB sends copies, 87-88, 98, 432, 480

    Halifax and Hillsborough on, reports views of, 480

    receives, 129, 479

    Temple’s complaint to Treasury, concerning, 242, 278, 299

    as Treasurer of the Navy, 128

    Barrington, Mary, 130n

    Barrington, Shute

    letters to

    cited, 59

    listed, 522

    mentioned, 59, 532n

    Barristers, 275n

    Bartlett (ship’s captain), 363

    Bates, William

    Harmony of the Divine Attributes, in the Contrivance and Accomplishment of Man’s Redemption, 454, 464n

    Bay of Fundy, 148-49

    Beaver, 236

    Becancour River, Qu., 78

    Belcher, Jonathan

    and Acadians, 97n

    identified, 75n

    mentioned, 73-74

    Belfast, 313

    Bell, William, 307, 313, 315

    Bennet, Thomas

    Abridgement of London Cases, 457

    Answer to the Dissenters Pleas for Separation, 468n

    Confutation of Popery, 457, 468n

    Discourse of Schism, 457, 468n

    History of Precomposed Set Forms of Prayers, 458, 469n

    Benoit, Rosalie, 192n

    Beresford, Jane, 311n

    Berkeley, George

    Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, 456, 466n

    mentioned, 470n

    Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, 456, 466n

    Bernard Family

    in Boston, 17-18, 39, 59, 308, 311n

    at Castle William, 346

    inheritance of, 135

    Bernard, Amelia (daughter), 311n

    Bernard, Amelia (née Offley)

    Barrington, writes to, 129, 210

    identified, 65n

    illness, recovery from, 87, 129, 211

    mentioned, 2, 64, 70, 145n, 346

    represents FB in composition, 492-93

    Bernard, Frances Elizabeth (daughter), 311n

    BERNARD, FRANCIS

    AND JAMES COCKLE

    appraisal of, 203-7n

    defends, 136, 187-90n, 197-98, 203-7, 277

    effectiveness of, 205-7n

    Gloucester, meet owners of, 207

    petty corruption, 205-7n

    on suspension of, 198

    CORRESPONDENCE

    with Board of Trade, about, 16-17, 284, 296, 300

    Colvill’s claim, 105-6

    and editorial policy, 17

    instructions concerning, 356n

    secretary of state, original versions of letters to, 16

    Stamp Act riots, 12, 447

    Stamp Act, enforcement of, 10

    and clerks, 17-18

    conveyance, concerns about security of, 151, 373

    with Conway, about

    imperial crisis, 343

    Stamp Act Crisis, 369-70

    description of, 1

    disruption to, 408

    epistolary style, about, 11-12

    FB holographs, 15, 17

    as governor, about, 1, 2

    Hancock’s ships, carried by, about, 310-11

    with Hillsborough, private correspondence, 144

    as historical evidence, 2, 8, 10

    in-letters, 1

    Isaiah, quotes, 355

    with Jackson, 120n, 145n

    king, for attention of, 401

    letterbooks, 1, 15, 17

    List of Correspondence, 520-32

    mentioned, 20

    Lucan, quotes, 400

    Matthew, paraphrases, 383

    with Most, J., 138

    private and public letters, discusses, 400

    and Rockingham ministry, about, 386-87

    secret, 350

    with secretary of state, about, 15-16, 300

    protocol, 33, 111, 134

    Stamp Act riots, 447

    security concerns, 320

    Sparks Manuscripts, 1

    on Stamp Act riots, about, 10, 12, 305-6, 322, 324, 343n, 355, 386-87, 447

    and British government, 342-43, 355

    hides papers, 417

    House of Commons, referred to, 342

    Treasury, referred to, 214

    CROWD ACTION

    American Colonies, rumored in, 308

    democracy, 422

    on disorders, 404

    “fresh disturbances,” fears, 417

    on MacIntosh, 397-98, 423-24n

    Pope’s Day (1765)

    discusses, 395-401, 420-24

    effigies, 397

    leaves Boston, 397

    meets with militia officers, 397

    government lacks authority and power, 420

    MacIntosh as street leader, 397-98

    military watch, orders countermanded, 399

    military watch, preparations for, 396, 420

    militia refuse orders, 398, 420

    parades and processions, 399, 401n, 420, 423

    receives “Assurances” about peace, 397

    and popular power, 428

    and Stamp Act riots. See under BERNARD, FRANCIS:STAMP ACT RIOTS, AND

    GEOGRAPHY

    Halifax, sends maps and charts to, 259

    Machias Bay, unfamiliar with, 156

    and Maine survey (1764), 7

    describes, 315-16, 282-83

    engineers needed, 41, 67, 68

    and colonial government, reform of, 159

    maps prepared from, 159, 282-83, 243, 249-51, 259-60

    proposes routes of, 42, 67-68, 243, 73

    route plans, 79-80

    teams, established, 48, 51, 71

    and maps and charts, 1

    Pownall, J., sends to, 259

    Mount Desert Island, third voyage to, 160n

    Sagadahoc, lacks knowledge of, 298

    on St. Croix River, identification and location of, 226-27

    GOVERNMENT

    and assembly

    on Crown requisitions, 426-27

    Parliament, petition to

    “merit” of, 263

    reviews, 144, 175, 184-85, 404-5

    Penobscot township grants, 45

    proceedings of

    discusses, 43-46, 51-53, 88-92, 175-76, 183-85, 284-87, 426-29

    remains aloof from, 141, 144

    refuses assent to bills, 238

    salaries of judges, voted, 315-16

    speech of 25 Sept. 1765

    about, 370

    explains, 365-66, 368, 426

    impact of, 364-66, 368, 373, 381

    reactions to, 382n

    speech of 8 Nov. 1765, explains, 426

    on Stamp Act, implementation of, 353, 356, 359

    on bankruptcy law, 288

    on boundary dispute between Massachusetts and New York, 294

    Circular to the governors of the American Colonies, listed, 525

    Crown civil list, advocates, 240

    fees in public offices, discusses, 116, 139, 153-54

    fees in public offices, sends list of, 117

    on fiscal policy and public finances, 315-16, 288, 383

    Fort Pownall, proposes refortification of, 103-4

    on French hostages, ransom of, 282-83

    on grant of governor’s salary, 315-16

    as hard money advocate, 167n

    on Hutchinson as special agent, 404-5

    on Hutchinson’s leave of absence, 225

    on Jackson as province agent, 217-221n, 224-26, 404-5

    on land grants as compensation, 315-16

    on Massachusetts regiments, requisition for, 36, 42

    Gage, requires supporting letter from, 36

    presents Gage’s letter to assembly, 42

    on Penobscot township grants, 47n, 51-52, 70-72, 142-44

    on province agent

    election of, 217-21

    election of special agent, 43-44, 404-5

    instructions for, 404-5

    protests election of separate agent by House, 90

    on Province Treasury Annual Supply Act (1765), 315-16

    on radicalism of other colonies, 185

    on Sagadahoc, territory of, 227

    on Turks Islands, merchants’ losses in, 223-24

    Vice Admiralty court, advocate general, appoints, 276

    Waldo patent proprietors, complains about, 102-4

    GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS

    on Acadians and British policy, 33-34

    appointment, 2

    British interests, upholds, 8, 74

    business of, 174

    census, deplores opposition to, 238

    and Council, 246

    early years (1760-63), 2

    historical reputation, 2, 13

    and House of Representatives

    Acadians, presents petition of, 34

    income as, 76, 116, 134-35, 408-9

    independence of, 101

    Instructions as

    as enclosure, 271

    military assistance, about, 230

    trade laws, enforcement of, about, 264

    leave of absence, 225, 391, 399, 404, 417

    Liberty Tree, expects summons to, 440

    military support, lacks, 308

    Molasses Act (1733), orders to enforce, 194

    newspapers, attacked in, 184

    oath

    as enclosure, 392

    takes, 111

    obliged to “quit” province, 391, 394, 396, 442

    on opposition to, 8, 62, 90, 146, 220, 285, 396, See also Whig Party, See also Government of Massachusetts:opposition to

    orders to Saltonstall and Miller, 328-32

    orders, awaiting, 423, 428, 442

    patrons in Britain, 5

    perquisites, 76

    political priorities, about, 8

    professionalism of, 2

    royal and provincial instruments used, 113-14

    rumors about replacement, 186

    salary, 102n

    seal, 171n

    seizures, defends entitlement to share of, 54-55, 61-62, 75-77, 83-84, 199

    speeches and messages to assembly

    as enclosures, 165, 224, 278-79, 364, 366, 369, 400, 420

    impact of, 184

    speeches, career defining, 9

    Stamp Act Crisis, conducts business during, 317, 346, 447

    stamped papers, declares he has no authority to distribute, 354n

    GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY

    appointment, 2

    IMPERIAL CRISIS

    and American Colonies

    constitutions of, 477-78

    as dominions, 473, 482n-83n

    subjects’ rights in, 476

    subordination of, 473

    union of, 473, 481n-82n

    American nobility, proposes an, 478, 483n

    American parliament, 481n

    as “beleaguered imperialist,” 10-11

    British government, reputation with, 11

    British identity, 483n

    charters, limitations of, 477, 483n

    civil list, recommends, 157-58, 405, 482n

    colonial government, reform of

    about, 418

    advocates, 87, 158, 343

    anticipates, 154

    disappointments over, 225

    expects, 142-43, 472, 478-79

    as experiment, 158

    mentioned, 141

    New England Union, proposes, 147, 158, 483n

    New England, proposes “Division” of, 146-50, 154-60

    opposition to, 146

    options, discusses, 418, 413-18

    principles underlying, 158, 210, 471

    restructuring and reorganization, 477-78

    royal government, extension of, 482n

    and Superior Court, 147

    urgency of, 100, 321, 405, 416-17, 421, 432

    on Council, Crown-appointed, 405

    England, prepares to leave for, 394

    FB and, 12

    on governors, weakness of, 308

    and Grenville ministry, 300

    historiography of, 2

    as imperial reformer, 5-6, 7

    imperial sovereignty, 472, 482n

    Ireland as precedent, 416, 419n, 433

    on King and Parliament, 473-74

    King-in-Parliament, sovereignty of, 472-73, 482n

    legislative independence, colonists aiming at, 414

    and natural rights, 482n

    Parliament

    American Colonies, defence of, 474

    on American representation in, 415, 432-33, 476, 483n

    legislative supremacy of, 415, 472-77

    parliamentary taxation

    and colonial rights, 482n

    and defence of American Colonies, 474-75

    expenditure in dominions, 474

    as “innovation,” 383, 413

    on opposition to, 308

    preferable to provincial taxes, 475, 482n

    and representation, 474

    and Rockingham ministry, 12-13, 300

    on Stamp Act Congress, 315-16, 404-5

    INDIAN AFFAIRS

    and Fort Pownall conference (1764), 124

    hunting, impact of “English,” 178

    on Indian religions, 123, 180

    on Indian trade, recommendations, 177-79

    Maine Indians, good humor among, 35

    on Penobscots’ request for priest, 123

    Penobscots, proposes missionary to, 91-92, 122-24, 131-33

    Penobscots, suspects insurrection, 78-79

    Plan for Future Management of Indian affairs, responds to, 182, 176-82

    Pontiac’s Rebellion, 40-42, 48-49, 67-68

    Toma and Espegueunt, proposes arrest of, 78

    views on, about, 7

    LEGISLATION

    on acts and resolves, 93-95, 236-41, 288-90, 315-16

    on Additional Debtors Act (1765), 315-16

    on Eastern Indians Annual Supply Act (1764), 315-16

    fees in public offices, provincial bills for, vetoes, 315-16

    Harvard Lottery Act (1765), Board of Trade approval, requests, 315-16

    on Impost and Tunnage Act (1764), 315-16

    on Little, Abigail (1764), act to enable, “Equity” of, 315-16

    on Naval Office Act (1701), limits of, 153

    LETTERS. See also under CORRESPONDENCE

    in-letters. See under named correspondent:letters from

    enclosures, listed. See under Enclosures:in-letters

    letters from. See under named correspondent:letters from

    letters to. See under named correspondent:letters to

    out-letters. See under named correspondent:letters to

    enclosures, listed. See under Enclosures:out-letters

    OPINIONS

    on Acadians

    as British subjects, 34, 442

    religion of, 34

    relocation of, 35n

    America, desires land in, 144

    on assembly

    harmony in, 45, 73

    understanding with, 41, 73

    on British-Colonial relations, future of, 383-84

    BSETC, “State of Trade” (1763), flaws in, 53

    on Crown civil list, 240, 285

    civil war, prospect of, 383

    on Cockle, 204, 207, See also BERNARD, FRANCIS:COCKLE, JAMES, AND

    on Connecticut and Rhode Island, republican tendencies of, 156, 208, 443

    on constitution of Massachusetts, 89-90, 157, 225, 285, 426, 445

    on crowd action and militia, 247

    Customs Act (1762), governors’ share of seizures not denied by, 83

    on economy, colonial

    specie payments, fears drain from, 163-64, 167n

    government lacks power and authority, 13, 303, 308, 346, 356, 359, 362, 380, 383, 399, 404, 424, 430, 432

    government, fears “dissolution” of, 442

    governor as “Cypher,” 400

    on governors’ salaries and incomes, 76

    on Halifax, 300

    on Harvard College library, 43

    House of Representatives, harmony in, 41

    on Hutchinson, 225

    as imperialist, 166

    independence, radicals aim at, 375, 432

    on judges, independence of, 117

    land grants, settlers for, 262

    land shortage, 33

    Massachusetts regiments, requisition for

    hopes assembly will act, 36

    on failure of, 36, 49-50

    on merchants, 166

    military assistance, decides not to request, 363

    on Miller as surveyor and cartographer, 41

    Molasses Act (1733), commercial impact of, 29-31

    molasses duty, optimum rates, 161

    newspapers, sedition in, 184

    on Otis Jr., J., 111, 219, 263, 390, 398-99, 423

    parliamentary taxation, reviews criticism of, 100-1

    Pennsylvania, favors establishment of royal government in, 74

    on province agents, special, 225

    salmon, likes pickled, 39

    smallpox inoculation, favors, 37

    smugglers, criticism from, considers, 52

    social conflict, prospect of, 352

    Stamp Act Crisis, social and economic consequences of, 352

    on Stamp Act riots, impact of, 307-11, 313, 319-20, 345-47

    trade, colonial

    exports, 161-62

    and foreign colonies, 30, 164-65

    and Great Britain, 164

    ignorance of, 164

    on trade laws, 76

    Turks Islands, merchants’ losses in, 223

    on Vice Admiralty courts, 162-63

    on Waldo, F., 195, 197

    PAPERS. See under BERNARD, FRANCIS:CORRESPONDENCE;WRITINGS

    PERSONAL AFFAIRS

    Barrington, relationship with, about, 2, 130n

    Bernard, Francis, Jr.

    on career prospects of, 69

    Franklin’s help for, requests, 40

    on language skills and scholarship of, 69

    proposes career plans for, 60, 210-11

    urges return to Boston of, 39

    on return to England of, 69-70

    on travels in America of, 69

    biography of, 2

    Boston, absent from, 140

    career positions of, about, 2

    at Castle William, 139

    family life, about, 2, 311n

    fatigued, 185, 355

    health of, 185, 211

    Jackson to advise Cockle, engages, 187-88

    Jamaica Plain farm, purchases, 381-82n

    land grants, speculation in, 7

    on Mount Desert Island

    development of, 281n

    German settlers for, 243

    third voyage to, 231, 490

    Mount Desert Island grant

    on delay in confirmation, 30, 32n, 47n, 112-13, 137-41, 144, 210-11, 243, 262

    and colonial government, reform of, 482n

    memorial concerning, 113n, 134-35, 138

    on value of, 135, 138

    Naval Office, fears competition for, 409

    portrait of, iv

    Privy Council, petitions, 32n

    Sagadahoc, schemes concerning, 144

    as scholar, 7, 12, 461

    St. Croix Bay grants

    accepts, 410-12

    advises caution, 73

    agreement of partners, 228

    applies for, 404-5

    as partner, 152, 228, 373, 374

    and boundary disputes, 72-74, 227-28, 231-32

    interest in, 61

    Jackson, requests clarification from, 404-5

    recommends location for, 226-27, 404-5

    requests confirmation, 73

    reviews terms of, 404-5

    sturgeon fishery, plans for, 39

    worship, at, 490

    POLITICS

    assembly, friends of government in, 404-5

    Auchmuty, appointment for, 282-83

    Boston Gazette

    a “most factious paper,” 296

    radicalism of, 296

    Boston politicians, 262-63

    Boston representatives, meets with, 119

    on Brattle, 377-80

    and BSETC, “State of Trade” (1763), 31

    on Council, 285

    fees current in public offices, discusses, 116-18

    friends of FB, 319

    friends of government, reliance on, 221

    governor of Nova Scotia, rumors about appointment as, 186

    governor, rumors concerning replacement as, 186

    His Majesty in Council, petition to, 140n

    libels, ignores, 295

    on Oliver

    election to Council, 315-16

    public resignation of, 444-45

    on Otis

    “repents” radicalism, 263

    vehemence of, 111

    people, madness of, 355-56, 380, 399

    on popular politicians, 111, 356, 375, 380, 423, 426

    organization of, 428

    “wickedness” of, 399

    on radical literature, 100

    on radicalism, 9, 111, 144

    on revolution, 10

    on Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (James Otis Jr.), 111

    Ruggles, advises, 372-73

    on Stamp Act Crisis, political strategy for

    about, 370

    and assembly, 354n

    devises, 345n-47, 351-60, 363

    discusses, 362-66, 421

    SOCIETY

    and Acadians

    communicates through leader, 96

    departure of, 190-92

    Hispaniola, flight to, 190-91, 233

    industriousness of, 233, 261

    and relief of, 34

    religion of, 233, 249

    religious bigotry, 232

    relocation of, 34, 282-83, 107, 232-33, 260-61

    “Improvements,” FB advocates, 281n

    and Harvard College fire (1764), 43, 46n

    and Harvard College, donations to, 121-22

    and Harvard Hall, building of, 289

    Robins, aids, 97n

    smallpox inoculation, supports, 37

    ON STAMP ACT

    failure, expects, 346, 359

    instructions concerning, 119, 392

    orders to assist stamp distributor, 361

    and parliamentary taxation, 9

    popular opposition to, 278, 380-81

    receives instructions, 120n

    royal instruments to be taxed, sends list of, 168

    stamped papers, 314-16, 325, 445-449, 354n

    disclaims authority to distribute, 361

    makes public declaration, 351-52

    submission, expects, 301

    “sudden Accident,” like, 433

    views, 9, 373, 413, See also BERNARD, FRANCIS:POLITICS:on Stamp Act Crisis, political strategy for

    STAMP ACT CRISIS

    and assembly

    delays calling, 319

    requests support to implement act, 340, 353-57, 363, 373-74, 444-45

    on resolves to suspend Stamp Act, 390-92, 394

    summoned to discuss, 119

    on British response to, 12-13, 16, 322, 361, 387

    Castle William garrison, reinforces, 316

    on failure to implement act, consequences of, 340-41, 356, 359, 364-65, 369, 383

    Council, ineffectiveness of, 341

    and Customhouse, 430

    government lacks power and authority, 10, 355, 369

    military assistance, considers, 359, 360, 367

    nonexportation, 411

    orders, awaiting, 340

    political strategy, reviews, 375, 444-47

    on public offices, closure of, 12, 340, 442-45

    response to, discussed, 2, 6-8, 109

    AND STAMP ACT RIOTS

    Boston (14 Aug. 1765)

    account of, gives, 301-6, 315-17

    anxious about being attacked, 10, 304-5, 308, 321

    Barnard and Harrison, reports directed to, 311, 320, 342, 347

    fears for safety of family, 308

    fears further disturbances, 316-17

    hides valuables, 417

    on leaders and organizers, 304

    military assistance lacking, 321-22

    Oliver, fears murder of, 302-3, 305

    popular support for, 304

    proclamation, issues, 334

    protection, wants, 310

    on success of, 304

    Boston (26 Aug. 1765)

    account of, gives, 337-43

    Council, summons, 339

    describes mob, 344n

    fears further disturbances, 323

    Hutchinson, fears murder of, 338

    military watch, organizes, 339, 344n, 348

    proclamation, issues, 336

    Castle William

    orders reinforcements for, 332-33, 340, 346, 358

    prepares to defend, 321-33, 359-60, 363-64

    resides at, 311, 319, 342

    and Council, 315-16

    Crown officers, vulnerability of, 11

    describes as

    “insurrection,” 304, 308, 316-17, 321-22, 324, 337, 352-53, 414

    “rebellion,” 321, 325

    “War of plunder,” 339

    England, awaiting orders from, 317

    government lacks power and authority, 10, 319, 321-23, 340

    governor possible target, 319, 323, 346, 447

    military assistance, considers requesting, 304, 317, 322-26, 333n, 339-40

    secret correspondence concerning, 350

    murder allegations, about, 307n

    on Oliver’s vulnerability, 305

    personal memories of, 355

    proclamation calling General Court, cited, 354n

    response to, describes his, 351-53

    and social conflict, 10

    sources of information, about, 307n, 342

    south battery in Boston, orders for preparing, 348

    AND TAUNTON RIOT

    on Bristol Co. justices, 256-57

    Council, summons, 246, 251

    Council, presents Temple’s information to, 244

    defends his response to, 257

    describes, 256, 251-58

    no “riotous Opposition to the Laws,” 256

    on Polly, seizure and rescue of, 244, 255-56, 282-83

    Temple, confronted by, 246-48, 254

    AND TEMPLE, JOHN

    deposition of FB, cited, 500

    disagreements and mutual antipathy, 4, 136, 187, 193-201, 269-72, 282-83

    and FB’s reputation, 5

    interdepartmental rivalry, 4, 194-95, 275n

    reconciliation with, 194

    and Robinson, 264

    on Temple’s complaint to Treasury, 242, 277

    acknowledges, 130-31

    allegations, aware of, 207

    wants commission of enquiry, 279n

    contests, 127, 262, 278, 404-5

    refutes, 174, 188, 198-201, 282-83

    unware of details, 278, 488

    on trade laws, Temple’s obstructiveness, 197

    views on, 199-200, 257, 408-9

    Temple’s abusive behavior, 198, 248, 254, 257

    aggrandisement of, 199-200, 271

    customs officers, relations with, 3, 194, 212-14

    AND TRADE LAWS

    Colvill, dispute with, 63, 315-16

    Customhouse, working with, 188, 193-94, 269

    on Freemason (brigantine), seizure and prosecution of, 61-63

    on informers, use of, 272-75

    on La Vray Amitie, seizure and prosecution of, 297-98

    on Molasses Act (1733), 9, 29-31

    on Polly, prosecution of, 270-71

    on Rhode Island, lax enforcement in, 259

    on Royal Navy, lack of co-operation with, 282-83

    on Sally, seizure and prosecution of, 195-200

    on smuggling, reports, 208-9, 282-84

    Vice Admiralty Court, working with, 166, 193

    on Waldo, F., 196-97

    WRITINGS

    “A State of the Grant of the Island of Mount Desert” (1764)

    cited, 140n, 142n, 145n

    as enclosure, 141, 144

    “An Enquiry into an Act of [3 Geo. 3, c. 22]”

    as enclosure, 32n

    Pownall, J., sends, 30

    Answer to the Queries of the Board of Trade (1763), cited, 46n

    Board of Trade, memorial to

    as enclosure, 134, 135

    Jackson, sends, 138, 140

    listed, 524

    Certification of the Conduct of James Cockle, 203-7

    and British administration, 207

    cited, 5, 189n, 201, 500n

    listed, 525

    mentioned, 188

    “Defence of the Right of the American Governors to a third of seizures”

    and British government, 54

    as enclosure, 54, 63, 83

    governors, sends, 83

    Jackson, sends, 54

    Pownall, J., sends, 54, 75

    Deposition, listed, 525

    Minutes of a Conference with the Indians of Maine (1764)

    cited, 124

    as enclosure, 133

    Minutes of Conferences with the Penobscots (1763)

    as enclosure, 78, 91-92

    “Principles of Law and Polity” (1764), 461-81

    about, 6

    Adams, J., read by, 480

    aims of, 98, 471-72

    arguments, candor of, 100

    Barrington, Halifax, and Hillsborough, sends to, 87-88, 98, 100

    Britain, reception in, 480

    Britain, sends to, 87-88, 98-100, 432, 479-80

    cited, 6, 9, 88, 99, 120n, 130n, 166n, 211n, 311n, 418, 419n, 434

    as enclosure, 98-99, 101, 434

    British government files copy, 6

    and colonial government, reform of, 100-101, 432-34

    and Grenville, 99

    and imperial crisis, as commentary on, 479, 480

    Jackson and J. Pownall, sends to, 100

    mentioned, 88

    parliamentary sovereignty, defends, 480

    Pownall, J., sends to, 98, 100, 432

    Pownall, T., comparison with, 481n, 483n

    provenance of, 479

    published in Select Letters (1774), 479-80

    publishing, against, 98, 480

    publishing, considers, 87, 479, 111

    re-examines, 413, 434n

    revises, 432, 434n, 482n

    writing of, 6, 100, 210, 479

    writing style, 471-72, 481n

    “Proceedings relative to the Robbery at Taunton,” as enclosure, 258

    Proposals for a Fishery at Mount Desert, cited, 40n, 113n

    Proposals for settling a Colony of Germans at a Town in Mount Desert, cited, 113n, 142n

    Representation on a Rescue at Taunton, Bristol Co., Mass., 246-48

    cited, 258n, 260

    Council, laid before, 248n, 255

    as enclosure, 260

    listed, 526

    secretary of state and Board of Trade, sends copies, 259

    Treasury, received by, 248

    Royal and Provincial Instruments in Massachusetts, 169-71

    cited, 9

    as enclosure, 168

    listed, 524

    secretary of state, memorial to

    Jackson, sends, 140

    Select Letters (1774)

    cited, 30

    publishing history, xxv

    Bernard, Francis, Jr. (son)

    allowance of, 57

    American Colonies, travels in, 39-40, 59

    and Barrington, 128

    Boston, returns to, 39-40

    career prospects of, 56-59

    character of, 58

    Christ Church, returns to, 57, 59, 69

    as father’s clerk, 18

    FB, relationship with, 59

    FB, reports to, 58

    FB’s views on, 56-60, 210

    “illness” of, 56, 59

    “instructions” to, 56-59

    letters from received, 58

    letters to, 56-60

    cited, 18, 521

    London, visits to, 57, 74

    morality of, 58, 59

    Naval Office, appointment to, 210, 211

    at Oxford, 311n

    at Philadelphia, 40n

    Bernard, Jane (daughter), 311n

    Bernard, John (son)

    Boston, comes to, 17

    as father’s clerk, 17-18, 87, 296, 312-14, 322, 326-27, 389, 402n, 418, 479

    as merchant, 18

    Bernard, Julia (daughter), 311n

    Bernard, Margery (mother of FB), 460

    Bernard, Rev. Francis, (father of FB), 459-60

    Bernard, Scrope (son), 311n

    Bernard, Shute (son), 311n

    Bernard, Thomas (son)

    as father’s clerk, 18, 400

    education of, 291n

    England, returns to, 18

    mentioned, 311n

    Bernard, William (son), 311n

    Bethune, Nathaniel, 449n

    Beveridge, William

    as High Church Anglican, 460

    Private Thoughts Upon Religion, Digested into Twelve Articles, 455, 464n

    Private Thoughts, in Two Parts, 458

    Sermons on Several Subjects, 455, 464n

    Thesaurus Theologicus, or, A Complete System of Divinity, 455, 464n

    Bingham, Joseph

    French Churches Apology for the Church of England, 458, 469n

    Bishop, Thomas

    Board of Customs Commissoners, letter to, cited, 55

    Colvill, letter to, carries, 326

    Customs Act, claims shares of seizures under, 55

    on FB and Customs Act, 55

    FB praises, 283

    FB, co-operates with, 55, 283, 284n

    and Freemason, seizure of, 53n, 61, 63, 75

    letters to, 312, 314

    cited, 18, 318n, 326n

    listed, 528-29

    mentioned, 4, 12, 52, 62, 212

    orders concerning stamped papers, 312, 314-15

    and Sally, seizure of, 53n, 55, 200

    seizures made, 283

    and stamped papers, arrival of, 326

    Treasury, complains to, 55

    Black Colonists, 348

    Blackall, Offspring

    Boylean Lectures, 454

    Sufficiency of a Standing Revelation, 463n

    Blackbourne, Leverett, 152

    Blackburn, Joseph

    Otis, James, Jr., portrait of, 222

    Blackstone, William, 482n

    Board of Customs Commissioners

    customs officers, circular letter to, mentioned, 96, 188

    Hallowell, letter from, cited, 344n

    and Temple’s complaints about FB, 131, 272

    Board of Trade

    and American business, 16

    and assembly

    act to enable Abigail Little (1764), FB sends proceedings, 93-94

    address, FB sends copy, 166, 175

    FB’s speech, FB sends copy, 166

    fee bills, FB sends abstracts, 240

    petition to Parliament, FB sends copy, 166

    proceedings reported by FB, 426-28

    Auchmuty’s appointment, 275n

    Brattle, disaffection of reported by FB, 377-78

    Cockle’s certification, sends to Privy Council, 207

    and colonial policymaking, 16

    and Colvill

    on his claim, 53, 105

    dispute with FB reported, 75-76

    commands from, 174

    commission (from 12 Aug. 1765), 290, 429

    Council minutes, FB sends copies, 305, 317

    Council minutes, received, 290

    FB advocates Crown civil list, 240

    FB requests direction in responding to election irregularities, 88-90

    FB responds to Plan for Future Management of Indian affairs, 176-82

    FB warns of House electing separate agent, 90

    FB warns of Otis and radicalism, 90

    FB writes to, 30, 52, 54, 76, 200, 257, 400

    fees in public offices, FB sends list of, 116-17, 153-54, 239

    filing system, 17

    General Court, acts and resolves

    act to enable Abigail Little (1764)

    considers, 95

    reviewed by FB, 93-94

    considered, 66, 105, 290

    Eastern Indians Annual Supply Act (1764), notes, 105

    Impost and Tunnage Act (1764), notes, 105

    Mashpees Act (1763), approves, 106

    reviewed by FB, 65-66, 236-41, 288-90

    House of Commons resolution, sends copy to FB, 109

    and House of Representatives

    proceedings referred to Privy Council, 287

    proceedings reviewed by FB, 284-86

    votes of, FB sends copy, 426

    letters from, 105-6

    cited, 55, 63, 66, 71, 97n-98n, 109, 118n, 202n, 291n, 429

    listed, 522-23, 531

    quoted, 71

    received, 106, 109, 116, 150, 378

    as replies, 66, 71, 105

    letters to, 65-66, 70-72, 75-77, 88-92, 93-95, 108-11, 116-18, 153-54, 176-82, 236-41, 284-90, 301-6, 315-17, 377-80, 426-29

    cited, 7, 8, 10, 32n, 47n, 55, 70n, 77n-79, 97n, 118, 133, 139, 140n, 145n, 154n, 167n, 176, 182n, 207n, 241n, 242n, 275n, 284, 291n, 296n, 300, 305-6, 310, 313n, 318n, 333, 335, 342-43n, 355n-56n, 366n-67n, 387n, 403n, 418n, 421-22n, 438, 441

    considered by Board, 92, 118, 258, 305-6, 317, 342, 378, 392

    as enclosures, 355

    FB writes, 365

    House of Commons, referred to, 306, 317

    for king’s attention, 401

    listed, 522-532

    Privy Council, referred to, 12, 305, 336, 342, 375, 381, 392

    quoted, 424n

    read by Board, 66, 71, 77, 92, 94, 118, 124, 133, 240, 305, 317, 428

    received, 66, 71, 92, 94, 118, 124, 240, 305, 428, 440, 445

    as replies, 109, 153

    secretary of state, original versions of letters to

    cited, 77, 124, 133, 166, 257, 258, 305, 307, 315, 342, 353, 355, 366, 369, 375, 378, 440, 443, 445

    listed, 522-532

    Treasury, referred to, 105

    Maine survey, described by FB, 70-71

    and map of America, 226

    and Massachusetts’s boundary disputes, 286-87

    mentioned, 15

    Minutes of a Conference with the Indians of Maine (1764), FB sends copy, 133

    Minutes of Conferences with the Penobscots (1763), FB sends copies, 91-92

    and Mount Desert Island grant

    confirmation, recommends, 139

    Privy Council, referred to, 71

    Mount Desert Island grant, FB’s memorial concerning

    FB sends, 135

    Privy Council, referred to, 113n

    Murray, message to Toma, FB sends copy, 124

    naval office lists, received, 290

    Nova Scotia land grants

    recommends, 152

    Vassall, memorial of, 145n

    “Objections against a Bill . . . for Fees to be taken by . . . Customs” (Hale), FB sends copy, 241

    Penobscot township grants

    considers, 71-72, 105-6n

    FB sends, 70

    plans (1763), by Jones, FB sends copies, 71

    Privy Council, referred to, 106n

    Penobscots request missionary, 90-91

    Plan for Future Management of Indian affairs (1764)

    about, 181

    FB responds to, 175

    and Pownall, J., FB’s private letters to, 424

    proclamations concerning Stamp Act riots, FB sends copies, 305, 335

    province treasurer’s accounts, FB sends, 108

    and public finances of Massachusetts, 111

    Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (James Otis Jr.), FB sends copy, 90

    and Robins, 97n

    and Stamp Act riots

    Boston (14 Aug. 1765)

    described by FB, 301-5

    reported by FB, 10, 313, 315-17

    report received, 317

    Boston (26 Aug. 1765), FB sends report, 355

    and Temple’s complaint about FB

    considers, 215-16

    dismisses, 488

    treasurer’s accounts, received, 290

    Turner, petition of, considers, 97n

    Waldo patent, FB complains about proprietors of, 102

    Body of Divinity, or, The Sum and Substance of Christian Religion (James Ussher), 454, 463n

    Bollan, William

    as advocate general of Vice Admiralty, 276n

    resignation expected, 274, 276

    and Auchmuty, appointment of

    FB requests his support, 273, 276

    Boston, not returning to, 274

    letters to, 276

    listed, 526

    mentioned, 501n

    and province agent, 218, 404

    as province agent, 234-35n, 404

    Stephens, FB’s letter to, FB sends copy, 276

    Bonds and Obligations, 170

    Boone, Thomas

    identified, 64n

    mentioned, 62

    Bordeaux, 97n

    Boscawen (ship), 355

    Boston

    assembly sitting at, about, 310, 341, 351

    and assembly, 359, 362

    blacks, 348

    and British Army, 1, 11, 324

    as capital, 147, 155

    Council meeting at, about, 303, 339, 341, 351

    Customhouse. See under Customhouse:Boston

    gangs, union of, 422-24n

    harbor, 281, 312, 364

    Indians, 348

    mentioned, 8-9, 18, 32, 63, 138, 149, 256, 269, 282, 377, 380, 485

    merchants. See under Merchants

    North End, 38, 79, 326n, 344, 403, 422

    Overseers of the Poor, 192

    political writers, 295

    politicians, 175, 263, 295, 310, 375, 380

    Oliver, criticize, 284

    Oliver’s public resignation, attend, 436

    popular opinion, 9, 317, 436

    popular power in, 442-43

    rumors in, 186

    selectmen. See under Boston Selectmen

    sherriffs’s deputies resign, 316

    smallpox epidemic. See under Smallpox Epidemic (1764)

    South End, 12, 306, 351, 363, 402-3, 422-23

    and Stamp Act

    popular opposition, 312, 315-17, 396, 398, 422-23, 428, 430, 440, 443

    public offices, campaign to open, 442-43

    and Stamp Act riots

    aftermath of, 365, 367, 375

    discussed, 12, 301-6, 310-11, 319, 323-25, 337, 340, 359, See also under Stamp Act Riot, Boston (14 Aug. 1765), (26 Aug. 1765)

    people of “property,” 352

    streets and places mentioned, 10, 38n, 192, 302-4, 306n-7n, 311n, 320n, 343n-44n, 349n, 403n, 439n. See also under name of location

    town meeting. See under Boston Town Meeting

    town representatives. See under Boston Representatives

    Boston Customs Officers

    letters to listed, 530

    Boston Evening-Post

    articles, reprints, 297n

    cited, 38, 46, 193n, 214n, 284n, 299n-300, 306n, 311, 324n-43n, 349n, 382n, 402n-3n, 412n

    Customhouse open, announces, 438

    as enclosure, 369, 400

    “Essay upon Trade” (Stephen Hopkins), printed, 47n

    letters, reprints, 402n

    MacIntosh depicted in, 424n

    Pope’s Day, reported, 402n

    Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (James Otis Jr.), advertised, 92

    Temple’s announcement, printed, 31n

    Boston Gazette

    “A. B.,” 354n

    articles, reprints, 167n

    cited, 32n, 36, 38n, 101n, 182n, 207n, 287n, 299n, 312, 364

    Conway, letter to FB, printed, 386

    criticizes FB, 167, 175, 190, 421n

    as enclosure, 101, 347, 363, 366, 375

    Haverhill riot, reported, 354n, 358

    Husk, letter to Boston merchants, printed, 402n

    legislative proceedings, reprinted, 176n

    libels in, 296

    and New York Assembly, 176n

    “Novanglus,” 480, 483n

    and Otis, 363n, 390

    Pennsylvania assembly, address to governor, printed, 75n

    printers of, 381

    proclamations, prints, 343n

    proprietors, 306n

    radicalism of, 100-1n, 296, 362, 380

    Sons of Liberty, letters by, 438n

    Stamp Act, advertised, 393n

    Stamp Act riots, reported

    (14 Aug. 1765), 306n

    (26 Aug. 1765), 347n, 333

    Story, letter to printers, 343n

    Temple’s announcement, printed, 31n

    threats in, 306n

    Boston Lighthouse, 212, 325n

    Boston Packet, 88, 98

    Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser

    Account of the Fire at Harvard-College, 45

    cited, 214n, 311n, 324n, 344n, 347n, 364, 372n, 403n

    Conway, letter to FB, printed, 386

    as enclosure, 400

    FB’s speeches to the assembly, printed, 224

    notice, reprints, 97n

    proclamations, prints, 54n, 354n

    Stamp Act Congress, resolves of, 401n

    Temple’s announcement, printed, 31n

    Treaty with France (1763), 501n

    Boston Representatives

    assembly, ask FB to call, 119

    assembly, propose meeting of, 120n, 175, 183

    instructions to

    as enclosure, 101

    quoted, 120n

    Oliver’s public resignation, attend, 436

    Parliament, introduce petition to, 184

    on parliamentary taxation, 119

    and province agent

    disagreements over, 219

    election of, 217

    propose joint agents, 217

    and Stamp Act (1765), 119-20, 404-5

    Boston Selectmen

    Oliver’s public resignation, attend, 436

    and Pope’s Day, 396

    and smallpox inoculation, 37-38

    and Stamp Act riot (14 Aug. 1765), 303

    Boston Society for Encouraging Trade and Commerce (BSETC)

    State of Trade (1763), 31, 44, 47n, 52-54n

    Boston Town Meeting

    law courts, requests opening of, 444

    lawyers for, 444-46n

    mentioned, 12

    and Pope’s Day (1765), 402n

    Stamp Act, memorial concerning, 444-45

    as enclosure, 135, 442-43

    Boundary Disputes between Massachusetts and

    Connecticut, 46n, 224

    New Hampshire, 286-88n

    New York, 522, 294

    Nova Scotia, 7, 72-73, 139, 227, 294

    Bourne, Melatiah, 449n

    Boutineau, Anne, 412n

    Boutineau, James

    identified, 412n

    mentioned, 411

    Bowdoin, James

    as councilor, 354n

    mentioned, 25n

    Bowers, Jerathmiel

    identified, 268n

    mentioned, 266-67, 508

    and writs of assistance, 268n, 509-10

    Boylston, Nicholas, 201, 449n

    Boylston, Thomas, 53n, 195, 200, 202n, 349n

    Bradbury, Jonathan, 97n

    Bradford, Gamaliel, 353n

    Bradford, Samuel

    Boylean Lectures, 454

    Imperfect Promulgation of the Gospel . . . Considered, 463n

    Imperfect Promulgation of the Gospel . . . Preached, 463n

    Bradstreet, John, 36

    Bragge, Francis

    Of Undissembled and Perservering Religion, 467n

    Practical Treatise of the Regulation of the Passions, 456, 467n

    Sermons, 456

    Brandy, 209

    Brattle, William

    FB, opposition to, 377-78

    FB’s views on, 377-80

    identified, 380n

    and MacIntosh, 12, 398, 429n

    mentioned, 426-28

    portrait of, 379

    Bray, Thomas

    Papal Usurpation and Persecution, 453, 462n

    Brett (ship’s captain), 43, 54

    Brevint, Daniel

    Missale Romanum, or Depth and Mystery of the Roman Mass, 455, 458, 465n, 470n

    and Restoration monarchy, 460

    Saul and Samuel at Endor, 457, 468n

    Brief Defense of Episcopal Ordination (Benjamin Hoadly), 468n

    Brief Exposition of the Apostles Creed (Basil Kennett), 456, 467n

    Brightwell, Eng., 460

    Bristol Co. Justices

    Robinson and Antrobus, letter from, 508-9

    Bristol Packet (brigantine), 363

    Bristol, Eng., 45, 53, 60, 66, 69, 71, 74, 77, 83, 224, 231, 305, 317, 355

    British Army

    29th Regiment of Foot, 350

    garrison duty, 183

    at New York, 311n

    British Dominions, 138, 156, 432, 472, 474, 476-77, 495, 482-83n

    British Empire, 1-3, 6, 29, 386, 471-79

    British Government

    colonial policy, 87, 115

    and Native Americans, 132

    patronage and American Colonies, 69

    on Regulars, deployment of, 387

    and Stamp Act Crisis, 387

    British North America. See under British Empire

    British Politics, 16, 64, 84-85, 300, 306, 387, 429

    Broadfield, Edward

    identified, 40n

    mentioned, 39

    Brownrig, Ralph

    as anti-Calvinist, 460

    Sixty Five Sermons, 453, 461n

    Brownrigg, William, 40

    Bruce, James, 364

    Bulkeley, Richard, 152

    Burges, John

    Answer Rejoyned, 454, 463n

    Burgess, Anthony

    as Parliamentarian, 460

    Spiritual Refining, 453, 461n

    Burgis, Lt. (Royal Navy officer), 509

    Burnet, Gilbert

    Discourse of the Pastoral Care, 455, 465n

    Exposition of the Church Catechism, 458, 469n

    Relation of a Conference Held About Religion at London, 457, 467n

    Some Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, 457, 469n

    Burscough, Robert

    Treatise of Church-Government, 455, 465n

    Burt, Eleazer

    letter from, 81-82

    listed, 522

    received, 82

    Burton, Daniel

    letter to

    cited, 121

    listed, 523

    Secker, T., FB’s letter to, FB sends, 121

    Business

    insolvency, 236-37

    Bute, Earl of, 114, 306n

    Butler, Lilly

    Boylean Lectures, 454

    Discourse, Proving, That Faith and Practice of True Christians, Are No Just Matter of Shame or Reproach, 464n

    Cadets,Company of

    and Stamp Act riots, 326, 339, 344n

    Caesar (C. Julius Caesar), 403n, 407n

    Calamy, Benjamin

    Discourse Concerning the Rise and Antiquity of Cathedral Worship, 469n

    as High Church Anglican, 460

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, 457, 468n

    Calamy, Edmund

    Inspiration of the Holy Writings of the Old and New Testament, 457, 467n

    Calef, Robert, 375

    Calvin, Jean

    Institution of Christian Religion, 453, 461n

    Calwald, Mr. (of Taunton), 512

    Cambridge Town Meeting

    instructions to representative, 377-78

    and FB, 377, 421n

    quoted, 380n

    votes and resolutions, as enclosure, 378, 400

    Cambridge, Mass.

    Council convened at, 323-24, 339, 341, 346

    General Court convenes at, 40, 43

    and Harvard College, 121

    militia, 339

    town meeting. See under Cambridge Town Meeting

    Campobello Island, N.S., 145n

    Canada

    conquest of, 132

    mentioned, 71, 122-23

    and Penobscots, disaffection of, 78

    priests in, Roman Catholic, 123, 133

    routes to, 36, 249

    Caner, Rev. Henry, 318n

    Canon of the New Testament Vindicated (John Richardson and Henry Dodwell), 457, 468n

    Canterbury, Archbishop of

    papers of, 121

    as president of SPG, 121

    Cape Ann, Mass., 327

    Cape Francois (Hispaniola), 107, 195-96

    Cape St. Nicholas (Hispaniola), 190, 192n, 232

    “Casariensis,” 362

    Casco Bay, Maine, 41-42, 148, 154-55, 195

    smugglers at, 195, 199, 282

    Castle Island (Boston Harbor), 192, 312, See also Castle William

    Castle William

    about, 282

    attack on, rumors of, 316, 321, 326, 332, 340, 369, 420, 427

    barracks at, 34, 317

    Bernard family in residence, 311

    British warships achored at, 364

    defence of, 10, 83-84, 316, 321, 323, 326, 332-33, 340, 349-53, 359-60, 447

    FB in residence, 313, 395

    garrison, 316, 321, 323, 326-27, 332, 340

    inoculating hospital at, 38

    map of, 331

    mentioned, 33, 139, 190, 197, 212, 490

    as refuge, 10, 315, 319, 339, 342, 346, 397, 417, 430

    reinforcements for, 327-32, 340, 398, 405, 420, 427

    British soldiers, 359

    cost of, 358, 420, 427

    Council votes, 352, 367

    pay and bounty, 328, 358

    repairs to, 281, 282

    stamped papers deposited at, 12, 312, 314-16, 332, 340, 351, 366, 369

    expenses incurred, dispute over, 447-48

    Cave, William

    Antiquitates Apostolicae, 453, 462n

    Primitive Christianity, 457, 467n

    Cavendish, William, 393n

    Census, 53n

    Certainty and Necessity of Religion in General (Francis Gastrell), 464

    Certainty of Divine Revelation (John Williams), 463n

    Certainty of the Christian Revelation (Francis Gastrell), 455, 464n

    Certificates, 169

    Chadwick, Joseph

    journal of, 80

    and Maine survey (1764), 80

    map of disputed lands in the Waldo Patent, 104

    maps of the route from Fort Pownall to Quebec (1764-78), 80

    Chalmers, George, 25n

    Champlain, Samuel

    on St. Croix River, 388

    Voyages de la Novvelle France (1632), 226

    Chandler, Edward

    Defence of Christianity From the Prophecies of the Old Testament, 457, 469n

    Chandler, John, 354n

    Characters of Divine Revelation (John Williams), 463n

    Charles I, King, 318n, 424n, 460

    Charles II, King, 460

    Charlestown, Mass.

    mentioned, 38

    militia, 339

    Charron, Pierre

    Of Wisdom, 455, 464n

    Chatham-Grafton Ministry, 16

    Chaudière River, Qu., 51, 67-68, 79-80, 158, See also Maps and Charts

    Chester, Eng., 473

    China, 69

    China Ware, 170

    Choate, John, 353n

    Christian Blessedness, or, Discourses Upon the Beatitudes (John Norris), 458

    Christian Life (John Scott), 455, 464n

    Church of England, 2, 123-24, 132-33, 459, 460

    Seven Bishops, protest of, 460

    Church, Benjamin

    as spy, 407n

    The Times: A Poem, 407

    writings of, 406n

    Citations, 169

    Civil List

    colonial opposition to, 482n

    and independence of officials, 475-76

    mentioned, 157, 240, 405

    Clagett, Nicholas

    Persuasive to an Ingenuous Tryal of Opinions in Religion (Nicholas Clagett), 463n

    Clagett, William

    Seventeen Sermons, 456, 466n

    Clarke, Samuel

    Collection of Papers, Which Passed Between the Late Learned Mr. Leibnitz, and Dr. Clarke in the Years 1715 and 1716, 455, 465n

    Clerk no. 1

    mentioned, 17

    papers in handwriting of, 17, 63, 70, 109, 113, 120-21, 152, 176, 189, 211, 221, 225, 227, 233, 235, 261, 264, 276-77, 299, 357, 364, 366, 373-74

    Clerk no. 2

    mentioned, 17

    papers in handwriting of, 17, 30, 279

    Clerk no. 3

    mentioned, 17

    papers in handwriting of, 59

    Clerk no. 4

    papers in handwriting of, 171

    Clerks of FB, about, 17-18

    Cobscook Bay, Maine, 388-89

    Cockle, James

    and accounts, 189

    and Anguilla, forged clearances from, 125, 187

    Auchmuty, advised by, 493

    FB advises on prosecution, 490-91

    FB, alerts, 136, 187, 197-98, 485, 489-90

    notified of, 489

    prosecutes and compounds with owners, 485-86, 491-93

    Temple, delays alerting, 485, 493

    Answer to Temple, 489-500

    cited, 207-8n

    bankruptcy of, 188-89n

    Certification of the Conduct of James Cockle, FB writes, 188

    character of, 204

    character references, 204-5

    compounding, defends legality of, 491-92

    and corruption, 5, 203-4, 497

    as customs officer, 188-89, 207n, 494-97

    declaration of

    cited, 131

    as enclosure, 487

    dismissed, 207, 488

    England, sails to, 189

    extortion, denies, 190n, 493, 496-97

    FB promises assistance, 277

    FB views on. See BERNARD, FRANCIS:COCKLE, JAMES, AND

    FB, co-operates with, 5, 131, 136, 203, 207n

    France or Holland, going to, 188

    and Gloucester

    bribes owners, 207

    negotiates with, 495-97

    identified, 128n

    Jackson, carries letter to, 231

    justice of the peace, appointed, 205, 208n

    letter to, 277

    cited, 5

    listed, 526n

    as reply, 277

    letters from

    received, 277

    in Lincoln, 189n, 207n

    Massachusetts, arrival in, 203, 207n

    and merchants, 205

    and Molasses Act (1733), enforcement of, 203

    property of, 277n

    replaced, 209n

    seizures, defends entitlement to share of, 491-92

    suspension of, 131, 136, 187-88, 198, 488

    and Temple

    bribes, 131, 198, 493, 494

    relationship with, 204

    reprimanded by, 491

    “tyranny” of Temple, 187

    Cockle, John, 188

    Cockle, William, 207n

    Cocoa Tree, 86n

    Coffee, 170

    Coffin, Nathaniel, 345n

    Coke on Littleton, 98-99n

    Coke, Sir Edward, 99n

    Colden, Cadwallader

    on boundary disputes between Massachusetts and New York, 522

    Council resolution, FB sends copy, 294

    FB complains about Livingston, 294

    letters from

    cited, 294

    listed, 522, 524, 527

    letters to, 294

    cited, 294

    listed, 525, 527

    quoted, 294

    on Livingston, 294

    mentioned, 295n

    Whitmarsh claim, dismisses, 294

    Collection of Cases and Other Discourses Lately Written (Anon.), 453, 462n

    Collection of Interesting, Authentic Papers, relative to the Dispute between Great Britain and America (John Almon), 25n

    Collection of Miscellanies (John Norris), 456, 467n

    Collection of Papers, which passed between the late learned Mr. Leibnitz, and Dr. Clarke in the Years 1715 and 1716 (Samuel Clarke and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz), 455, 465n

    Collier, Jeremy

    Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects, 457, 468n

    Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1

    Colvill, Lord

    Admiralty about FB, complains to, 55, 63-4n

    assembly’s resolves to suspend Stamp Act postponed, 394

    Conway, orders from, 386

    and Customhouse, 55

    “Defence of the Right of the American Governors to a third of seizures,” FB sends copy, 63, 83

    FB, and

    dispute governors’ entitlement to shares of seizures, 83

    dispute Royal Navy entitlement to shares of seizures, 61-62

    FB may “quit” province, 394, 403n

    naval and military assistance, requested, 363

    FB’s speech, FB sends copy, 364

    Gage, letter from, 350

    High Court of Admiralty, applies to, 54

    identified, 54n

    Journals of the House of Representatives, FB sends copy, 394

    letters from

    received, 61, 76, 83, 394

    letters to, 61-63, 83-84, 325-26, 363-64, 394

    cited, 54-55, 63, 77n, 318n, 324, 360n, 393n, 401n, 403n, 412n

    as enclosures, 54, 412

    listed, 521-25, 528-31

    as replies, 63

    letters transmitted, 64n, 83

    mentioned, 4, 105, 360, 386

    and Parliament, 54, 76

    Russell, letter to, cited, 75

    seizures, claims Royal Navy entitlement to shares of, 54, 55, 63, 75-76, 106

    and Stamp Act riots, 324, 339

    Treasury, complains to, 55

    Comber, Thomas

    Companion to the Temple, 469n

    On the Common Prayer, 458

    as Williamite, 460

    Commentary on the Five Books of Moses (Richard Kidder), 455, 465n

    Commentary on the Prophecy of Hosea (Edward Pococke), 453, 461n

    Commentary on the Prophet Isaiah (Samuel White), 454, 463n

    Commissions, 169

    Companion to the Temple (Thomas Comber), 469n

    Compensation, Stamp Act Riots

    assembly, FB proposes to, 426-27

    Compounding, 4-5, 127, 131, 486-89, 491-94

    Concord, Mass., 100

    Concordance to the Holy Scriptures (Samuel Newman), 453, 462n

    Confutation of Popery (Thomas Bennet), 457, 468n

    Congregational Ministers, 316

    Connecticut

    Acadians in, 190

    and colonial government, reform of, 146-48, 154-56

    smuggling into, 208

    and Stamp Act riots, 346

    Stamp Act, opposition to, 423, 443

    Connecticut Gazette

    “Philolutherus,” 382n

    Connecticut River, 155

    Constitutional Courant, 382

    as enclosure, 381, 384

    Continuation of the Friendly Debate (Simon Patrick), 458, 469n

    Conway, Henry Seymour

    Bernard, Francis Jr., confirms appointment of, 211

    Boston Evening-Post, FB sends copies, 369

    Boston, memorial, FB sends copy, 443, 445

    on colonial greivances, 386

    Council minutes, FB sends copies, 369

    on FB as governor, 300, 385-87

    urges “lenient & persuasive Methods,” 386

    FB explains

    assembly’s response to Stamp Act Crisis, 419-20

    government lacks authority, 343

    political strategy, 367-69

    FB urges resolution of Stamp Act Crisis, 420-21

    FB writes to, 300

    FB’s speeches and messages, FB sends copies, 368-69

    Hutchinson, letter from, cited, 385n

    identified, 301n, 372n

    Journals of the House of Representatives, FB sends copies, 369, 421, 429

    letters from, 300, 385-87, 531

    cited, 13, 290

    published, 386

    received, 386

    as replies, 306, 342

    letters to, 300, 531n, 419-21, 440, 442-45

    cited, 12, 300, 343, 360n, 366n, 367n, 376, 386, 419, 421n, 429, 438, 441, 443-45n

    listed, 530-32

    quoted, 402

    received, 300, 369, 385-86, 421, 440, 443, 445

    as replies, 300, 370, 386

    Select Letters, published in, 369, 372n

    Loring, permits leave for, 300

    mentioned, 15

    military assistance, advises FB on procedures, 386

    military assistance, orders providing, 386

    New London (Conn.), resolves of assembly at, FB sends copy, 443

    newspapers, FB sends copies, 421, 429, 440

    Oliver, letters from, FB sends copies, 440

    Oliver’s public resignation, account of, FB sends copy, 440

    Oliver’s resignation, reported by FB, 440

    parliamentary authority, determined to uphold, 386

    Pope’s Day crowd action, reported by FB, 420

    on popular party, 386

    portrait of, 371

    public offices, campaign to re-open, reported by FB, 442-45

    secretary of state, appointed, 211

    and Stamp Act riots, 343

    on Temple’s complaint about FB, 300

    writes to FB, 12, 300

    Conybeare, John

    Defence of Revealed Religion, 455, 465n

    mentioned, 470n

    Cooper, Grey

    identified, 376n

    Journals of the House of Representatives, FB sends copy, 448

    letters from, 530

    cited, 361, 449n

    listed, 530

    quoted, 361

    received, 376, 447

    letters to

    cited, 12, 361, 367n

    listed, 532

    as replies, 361, 376, 447

    Stamp Act, failure of, reported by FB, 447-48

    stamped papers, distribution, transmits instructions, 376

    Cooper, William

    identified, 444n

    mentioned, 442

    Copies and Extracts of Several News Papers Printed in New England (Anon.), 382n

    Copley, John Singleton

    portraits of

    Brattle, 379

    FB, iv

    Oliver, 439

    Copp’s Hill, Boston, 403n

    Copy of letters sent to Great-Britain, by His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, the Hon Andrew Oliver, and several other persons, born and educated among us, 214n

    Cornhill, Boston, 306n, 324n

    Cosin, John

    Scholastical History of the Canon of the Holy Scripture or The Certain Indubitate Books Thereof . . ., 454, 462n

    as Tory, 460

    Cosmography in Four Books (Peter Heylyn), 453, 461n

    Cosmologia Sacra (Nehemiah Grew), 453, 462n

    Cotton, John

    certifies documents, 248

    as clerk to FB, 294, 348

    as co-signatory, 334

    Council

    and Acadians, 192

    assembly, advise FB to call, 351

    Boston, memorial, considers, 442

    boundary disputes between Massachusetts and New York

    resolution concerning, 294

    Castle William repairs, cost of, 282

    Castle William, reinforcements for, 327, 332, 346, 358, 420

    orders countermanded, 358, 362, 367, 420, 427

    courts, closure of, proceedings concerning, 12, 430, 442-45

    and crowd action, 82

    divisions in, 43-44, 46n, 220

    elections to, 157, 378

    and Oliver, 284

    FB views on, 285

    and FB

    General Council summoned, 351

    ineffectiveness of, 391, 399

    Stamp Act, discuss consequences of nonimplementation, 351

    stamped papers, FB’s declaration on, 351-52

    and Fitch, 367n, 448

    and French hostages, ransom of, 95-96

    and House

    fee bills, 238-39

    Parliament, petition to, proceedings concerning, 184-85

    province agent, instructions to, 90

    Stamp Act, resolves to suspend, 395n

    and Indian trade, 66

    meetings, attendance at, about, 354

    minutes of, as enclosures, 260, 305, 317, 333, 342, 353, 355, 363, 369, 400, 445

    Otis, insulted by, 398-99

    Pope’s Day (1765), proceedings concerning, 396-399, 420

    popular party in, 362, 377, 391, 399

    and province agents, election of, 90, 219

    public offices, closure of, proceedings concerning, 395-96, 430, 446n

    records, about, xxv

    reform of, 157

    resolution, as enclosure, 400

    Stamp Act riot (14 Aug. 1765), proceedings concerning, 301-3

    Stamp Act riot (26 Aug. 1765), proceedings concerning, 339-42

    and Stamp Act riots

    assembly, calling of, 346

    Cambridge, meeting at, 323-24, 339

    ineffectiveness of, 10, 82, 341

    meetings during, 313, 319, 323, 356

    military assistance, advises against requesting, 324, 332, 339-40

    military guard, dismisses, 362

    stamped papers, proceedings concerning

    distribution, 361, 364, 366, 369

    payments for storage, 447-49

    preparations for arrival, 314-16, 332, 346, 349-52

    Taunton riot, proceedings concerning, 244-47, 251-57, 269, 502-3, 512, 518-19

    Countess of Leicester (packet boat), 32n

    Court of the King’s Bench, 86n

    Court Orders, 169, 170

    Craddock, George, 214n

    Cranston, Thomas, 52, 54n

    Crawford, William, 80, 91, 93n

    Creditors, 236, 237

    Cromwell, Oliver, 318n

    Crowd Action. See also Stamp Act Riots; Stamp Act Riots, Boston (14 and 26 Aug. 1765); Pope’s Day (5 Nov.)

    about, 10, 11, 82, 401

    aims and objectives of, 10, 304, 308-10, 321, 323, 337, 427

    Boston “mobs,” 10, 12, 17, 303, 398-99, 404, 423, 427, 438

    crowds

    composition of, 10, 303-4, 337

    leaders of, 397-98, 422, 429n

    restraint of, 315

    violence of, 10, 302-3, 305, 326, 338-39

    and governor, 11, 323, 346

    Haverhill, Mass., 352, 354n, 358

    Jubilee, 316

    and justices of the peace, 82

    land riots, 294

    mentioned, 304, 510

    Northampton, Mass., 81

    numbers involved, 307n

    and Oliver’s publication resignation, 437

    parades and processions, 395, 397-98, 419, 422-23

    rumors of, 301

    Crown

    authority of, 416

    civil list, 6

    and Fort Pownall, 102-3, 104

    and colonial government, reform of, 157

    and Indian affairs, regulation of, 181-82

    and Indian trade, 178-79, 182

    interests of, 129

    land grants, colonial, 7, 144

    law officers, 504

    and Mount Desert Island grant, confirmation of, 137, 139

    officers

    salaries of, 413

    and smugglers, 5, 511

    and Stamp Act, 12, 414, 428, 448

    and Stamp Act riots, 413

    requisitions for provincial forces, 2, 42

    requisitions, authority regarding, 426-27

    revenues, 5, 189

    seizures, 265

    service of, in, 270-71, 274, 278, 300, 486, 503, 519

    white pines monopoly, 82

    Cudworth, Benjamin, 318n

    Cultural Imperialsim, 459

    Cunningham, James

    identified, 351n

    ready to send detachment to Castle William, 349

    Curwen, Samuel, 382n

    Cushing, Thomas

    and assembly committee, 282n

    as Boston representative, 46, 444n

    mentioned, 438n

    Customhouse

    Boston, 195

    Royal Navy complains of, 55

    and ships’ clearances, 411-12n

    chest moved to Castle William, 430

    “confederacy” against, 273

    customs officers, 117, See under Customs Officers

    Falmouth, 199

    and governors, colonial, 4-5, 115, 197

    and Molasses Act (1733), 3

    Newport, R.I., 505

    Northern District establishment, 3

    Rhode Island, 266, 508, 514, 517

    and Royal Navy, 55, 283

    Salem, 131, 204

    accounting procedures, 205

    and Anguilla, false clearances from, 485, 489-90

    and fraud, 136, 189-90n, 497

    and seizures, 4

    and Stamp Act, 12, 401n, 430

    reopens, 430, 438, 442

    and Stamp Act riots, 338-39, 427

    and Sugar Act, provisions of, 31

    and Temple, FB’s dispute with, 127, 131, 209

    Temple, under, 3

    and writs of assistance, 4

    Customs Officers

    compounding with merchants, 5

    conduct of, 115

    fees confirmed, 343n

    liability of, 31

    FB, relations with, 278

    seizures, shares from profits of, 4, 31, 55

    smugglers, collusion with, 3, 188, 205-7n

    smugglers, struggle to detect, 272

    and Stamp Act, 430

    and Temple’s complaint about FB, 278

    Customs, North America (Northern District). See under Customhouse

    Cutting, Bartlett, 97n

    Cygnet, HMS (sloop), 25n, 347n

    D’Estaing, Comte Charles-Henri

    and Acadians, 193n, 229, 232

    Hispaniola, governor of, as, 193n

    mentioned, 191

    Danforth, Samuel, 345n

    Dartmouth, Earl of

    Board of Trade, president of, as, 429

    identified, 429n

    letters to, listed, 531

    Dawes, Thomas, 290

    De Monts, Pierre Du Gua, 226, 228n

    DeBerdt, Dennys

    health of, 404

    House of Representatives, special agent for, as, 404-6n

    identified, 406n

    Deblois, Gilbert, 507

    Debtors, 237

    Deckwessit River (Digdeguash River, N.B.), 227, 231

    Declarations, 170, 173n

    Decrees, Interlocutory, 172n

    Deeds, 170

    Defence of Christianity From the Prophecies of the Old Testament (Edward Chandler), 457, 469n

    Defence of Revealed Religion (John Conybeare), 455, 465n

    Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome (Edward Stillingfleet), 457, 467n

    Democracy, 101n

    Demonstration of the Existence and Providence of God (John Edwards), 455, 466n

    Demonstration of the Messias (Richard Kidder), 457, 468n

    Depositions, 169-70, 172n

    Detroit, 35-36

    Deverson, William, Jr., 400, 403n

    Devonshire (ship), 231

    stamped papers, carries, 449n

    stamped papers, delivers, 364

    D’Holbach, Baron, 59

    Diana (snow), 221, 224, 231

    Diatribae. Discourses on Divers Texts of Scripture (Joseph Mede), 454, 463n

    Dighton, Mass., 244, 248, 266, 268n, 505, 507-10

    Discourse Concerning [Five Points of Calvinism] (Daniel Whitby), 468n

    Discourse Concerning a Judge of Controversies in Matters of Religion (William Sherlock), 454, 462n

    Discourse Concerning Prodigies (John Spencer), 458, 470n

    Discourse Concerning the Authority, Stile, and Perfection of the Books of the Old and New Testament (John Edwards), 456, 466n

    Discourse Concerning the Beauty of Providence (John Wilkins), 468n

    Discourse Concerning the Existence of God (Edward Pelling), 458, 469n

    Discourse Concerning the Gift of Prayer (John Wilkins), 457, 468n

    Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome (Edward Stillingfleet), 457, 467n

    Discourse Concerning the Imputation of Christ’s Righteousness to Us (Thomas Hotchkis), 454, 464n

    Discourse Concerning the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Humphry Ditton), 458, 469n

    Discourse Concerning the Rise and Antiquity of Cathedral Worship (Benjamin Calamy), 458, 469n

    Discourse in Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (Edward Stillingfleet), 457, 467n

    Discourse of Schism (Thomas Bennet), 457, 468n

    Discourse of Superstition (William Shelton), 458, 469n

    Discourse of the Necessity and Usefulness of the Christian Revelation (Daniel Whitby), 456, 467n

    Discourse of the Pastoral Care (Gilbert Burnet), 455, 465n

    Discourse of the Right of the Church in a Christian State (Herbert Thorndike), 458, 469n, 470n

    Discourse, Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers (Jonathan Mayhew), 318

    Discourse, Proving, That Faith and Practice of True Christians, Are No Just Matter of Shame or Reproach (Lilly Butler), 464n

    Discourses (John Scott), 455

    Disney, John

    Primitiae Sacre. The Reflections of a Devout Solitude, 455-56, 466n

    Second Essay Upon the Execution of the Laws Against Immorality and Prophaneness, 456, 466n

    Ditton, Humphry

    Discourse Concerning the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, 458, 469n

    Divine Essays (Samuel Walker), 455, 465n

    Dodwell, Henry

    as High Church Anglican, 460

    Separation of Churches From Episcopal Government, 454, 462n

    Doggett, Timothy, 244, 266, 505, 508

    Domett, Mrs., 38n

    Donation of Books to Harvard College Library (1764), 450-61

    cited, 8, 46, 122

    subject matter of, 460-61

    Dorr, Harbottle, 297n

    Dorrington, John, 353

    Dougdale, Capt.

    mentioned, 25, 195-96, 202

    Temple, dispute with, 195, 197

    Dowse, Joseph

    Council, attends, 248n

    identified, 248n

    mentioned, 258n

    representation cited, 248, 503

    and Temple, 246, 503

    Draper, Richard, 305, 333, 335-36, 406n

    Draper, Samuel, 406n

    Du Simitière, Pierre

    drawing of Boston Pope’s Day, 425

    drawing of Harvard Hall, 293

    plan of Harvard Hall, 292

    Ductor Dubitantium, or, The Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures (Jeremy Taylor), 453, 462n

    Duelling, 213

    Duke, Richard

    Fifteen Sermons, 455, 465n

    Dunlap, William, 39, 40n

    Durham, 473

    Dyer, Eliphalet, 140

    identified, 142n

    Dyson, Jeremiah

    as co-signatory, 106

    identified, 106n

    Eastern Country (Maine), 35, 41, 50, 71, 73, 91, 174, 176, 186, 215, 236, See also under Maine

    Eckstorm, Frances H., 80

    Ecology, 236

    Economy, Colonial

    circulation of money, 163

    specie payments, 161, 167n

    Ectambuit (sachem), 92n

    Edes, Benjamin

    mentioned, 306, 435, 438

    and Oliver, 434

    Editorial Method, 1, 18-24

    biographical sources, 25n

    and Council records, xxv

    and legislative records, 25n

    Editorial Policy, 1, 15, 17

    Edwards, John

    as critic of Arminianism, 460

    Demonstration of the Existence and Providence of God, 455, 466n

    Discourse Concerning the Authority, Stile, and Perfection of the Books of the Old and New Testament, 456, 466n

    Enquiry into Four Remarkable Texts of the New Testament, 456, 466n

    Exercitations Critical, Philosophical, Historical, Theological . . ., 456, 466n

    Farther Enquiry into Several Remarkable Texts of the Old and New Testament, 456, 466n

    Polpoikilos Sophia, a Compleat History or Survey of All the Dispensations and Methods of Religion, 455, 466n

    Sermons on Special Occasions and Subjects, 455, 466n

    Some Thoughts Concerning the Several Causes and Occasions of Atheism, Especially in the Present Age, 456, 466n

    Egremont, Earl of

    and Customs Act (1762), 283

    letters from

    received, 283

    mentioned, 69, 128

    Eighteen Sermons (Richard Allestree), 453, 461n

    Eliot, Aaron, 39

    Elisabeth (snow), 306-7, 313

    Stamp Act riots, carries first dispatches about, 313, 315

    Ellery, William

    deposition, cited, 500

    Elliot, Andrew, 38n

    Ellis, Clement

    Folly of Atheism, Demonstrated, 457, 469n

    Ellis, Welbore

    identified, 532n

    letters to

    cited, 113n

    listed, 531

    Ellys, Richard

    Fortuita Sacra. Quibus Subjicitur Commentarius De Cymbalis, 457, 468n

    Embargo (1762), 354n

    Enclosures

    in-letters

    explanatory orders, 230

    Halifax, letter from, 35

    House of Commons resolution, 109

    not found, 129

    out-letters

    “A State of the Grant of the Island of Mount Desert” (1764), 141, 144

    Acadians, petitions and memorials of, 191, 261

    Account of the Fire at Harvard-College, 45

    Antrobus, letter to Temple, 244

    assembly, FB’s speeches and messages to, 165, 224, 278-79, 364, 366, 369, 400, 420

    assembly’s bills concerning fees in public offices, abstracts of, 240

    assembly’s petition to Parliament, 166

    Atkinson, I., petition of, 141

    Barrington, letters to, 141

    Board of Trade, letters to, 77, 355, 378

    Board of Trade, memorial to, 135

    Boston Evening-Post, 369, 400

    Boston Gazette, 101, 347, 363, 366, 375

    Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser, 400

    Boston representatives, instructions to, 101

    Boston, memorial, 135, 442-45

    Cambridge town meeting, votes and resolutions, 378, 400

    Colvill, letter to, 54

    Constitutional Courant, 381, 384

    Council minutes, 260, 305, 317, 333, 342, 353, 355, 363, 369, 400, 445

    Council resolutions, 400, 445

    “Defence of the Right of the American Governors to a third of seizures,” 54, 63, 83

    “Essay upon the Trade of the Northern Colonies” (Hopkins), 46

    Gage, letter to Colvill, 350

    Gage, letter to Cunningham, 350

    General Court, acts of, 66

    General Court, proceedings of, 94, 166

    governor’s instructions, extract of, 271

    governor’s oath, 113, 392

    Halifax, letters to, 141

    Hillsborough, letter to, 141

    French hostages, list of, 96

    Jackson, letters to, 55, 366

    Journals of the House of Representatives, 66, 280, 369, 374, 381, 394, 418, 421, 429, 448

    land grant at St. Croix Bay, 412

    maps of the Maine Survey (1764), by Miller, 251

    Massachusetts Gazette and Boston News-Letter, 363, 378, 400, 440

    Massachusetts newspapers, 421, 429

    Mauduit, J. and I., letters of, 219

    Minutes of a Conference with the Indians of Maine (1764), 133

    Minutes of Conferences with the Penobscots (1763), 92

    Murray, message to Toma, 124

    “Narrative of the Proceedings relating to the sloop Polly” (Robinson), 244

    Naval Office, tables of fees, 153

    New London, Conn., resolves of assembly at, 443

    not found, 152, 154, 166, 227, 233, 279-80, 320, 366, 392, 412, 429, 448

    “Objections against a Bill . . . for Fees to be taken by . . . Customs” (Hale), 239

    Oliver, account of public resignation, 440

    Oliver, letters from, 440

    opinions of advocate-general of Vice Admiralty and attorney general of Massachusetts, 201

    plans of the Penobscot townships (1763), by Jones, 71

    Pownall, J., letters to, 54, 61, 113, 141, 263, 378, 423-24

    “Principles of Law and Polity” (1764), 88, 99, 101, 434, 480

    “Proceedings relative to the Robbery at Taunton,” 248, 258, 260

    proclamation by the French governor of Hispaniola, 191

    proclamations concerning

    Acadians, 191

    fees in public offices, 118

    Stamp Act Riot of 14 Aug. 1765, 305, 333, 347

    Stamp Act Riot of 26 Aug. 1765, 333, 342, 347

    Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (James Otis Jr.), 113

    Robinson, letter to Temple, 244

    Robinson, letters to, 271

    royal and provincial instruments in Massachusetts, 168

    Saltonstall and Miller, instructions to, 327

    Stamp Act Congress resolves, 401

    Stephens, letter to, 276

    Temple-Russell correspondence, 201

    The Times: A Poem (Church), 400, 406

    Voyages de la Novvelle France (Samuel Champlain, et al.), extract of, 227

    Wilmot, letter to, 232

    England, 12, 44, 85, 121, 161, 185, 203, 304, 391, 411, 416

    Enquiry into Four Remarkable Texts of the New Testament (John Edwards), 456, 466n

    Espegueunt (Penobscot sachem), 78

    Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (George Berkeley), 456, 466n

    Essay Upon Miracles (William Fleetwood), 456, 466n

    Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects (Jeremy Collier), 457, 468n

    Essex Street, Boston, 306n

    Etechemmes, Rivière des, 388

    Exchequer, 367n

    Executions, 170

    Exemplifications, 169, 170

    Exercitations Critical, Philosophical, Historical, Theological . . . (John Edwards), 456, 466n

    Explication of the Catechism of the Church of England (Gabriel Towerson), 453, 462n

    Exposition of the Church Catechism (Gilbert Burnet), 458, 469n

    Ezekiel’s Wheels. A Treatise Concerning Divine Providence (Thomas Morton), 458, 470n

    Fabularum Æsopicarum Delectus (Anthony Alsop), 460

    Fales, Timothy, 258, 267, 511

    Falkner, William

    Vindication of Liturgies, 457, 468n

    Falmouth (Portland, Maine)

    capital, site for, 148-49, 155

    mentioned, 364

    Falmouth, Eng., 32n

    Farindon, Anthony

    Fifty Sermons, 453, 462n

    Farther Enquiry into Several Remarkable Texts of the Old and New Testament (John Edwards), 456, 466n

    Featley, Daniel

    Threnoikos. The House of Mourning, 453, 461n

    Fees in Public Offices

    and legislation, 237-40

    list of, as enclosure, 175

    mentioned, 72, 76, 134, 163, 408, 411

    summary of, 116-17, 153

    tables of, 116

    Felix, Marcus Minucius

    Octavius, 457, 468n

    Fell, John

    On St. Paul’s Epistles, 458, 469n

    Field, Richard

    Of the Church Five Books, 453, 462n

    Fifteen Sermons (John Sharp), 454, 463n

    Fifteen Sermons (Richard Duke), 455, 465n

    Fifty Sermons (Anthony Farindon), 453, 462n

    Fish Street, Boston, 38n

    Fisher, John

    letter to

    cited, 209

    listed, 526

    mentioned, 209

    Fisheries, 30, 161, 357

    Fitch, Thomas

    letters to listed, 521

    mentioned, 208, 209n

    Fitch, Timothy

    owner of John Galley (ship), 318n, 364

    sues for damages, 367n, 448-49

    Fitzherbert, William

    FB’s conduct approved, 430n

    as friend of FB, 429, 431

    identified, 429n

    letters from, quoted, 430n

    letters to

    listed, 531

    quoted, 430n

    Five Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions (Humphrey Sydenham), 454, 464n

    Fleetwood, William

    Essay Upon Miracles, 456, 466n

    Flucker, Thomas, 345n

    Folly of Atheism, Demonstrated (Clement Ellis), 457, 469n

    Food, 39

    Forest Policy, 82

    Fort Carillon (Fort Ticonderoga), 31n

    Fort Edward, N.S., 97n

    Fort Edward, N.Y., 31n

    Fort Halifax, 36, 42, 45, 66, 68, 71, 79, 92n, 177, 249

    Fort Hill, Boston, 10, 302-3, 349n

    Fort Pownall

    disputes over surrounding land, 105n

    garrison, 42n, 103-4

    mentioned, 39, 45, 66, 68, 70-73, 78, 91-92n, 102, 111, 122-24, 132-3, 178

    truckmaster, 177

    Fort Pownall Conferences

    (1763), 66, 78, 91, 93, 122

    (1764), 91, 124, 132

    Fort William Henry Massacre (1757), 3, 6, 29, 31n

    Fortuita Sacra. Quibus Subjicitur Commentarius De Cymbalis (Richard Ellys), 457, 468n

    Fortune, HMS (sloop), 4, 52-53n, 75, 200, 212, 283, 284n, 312, 315, 318n, 321, 325-26, 344n, 353

    Foster, Thomas, 374n

    Fourteen Sermons (Henry Wharton), 456, 466n

    Fox Islands, Maine, 50, 52, 73

    France

    and Acadians, 192n, 229, 261

    Canada, cession of, 229

    hostages in, 96

    and Indian affairs, 133, 181

    mentioned, 162, 188

    North America, policy respecting, 123, 132, 224

    Francklin, Michael

    FB laments political “Evils,” 389

    FB reviews boundary between Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, 388-89

    identified, 390n

    letters from

    cited, 357n

    received, 356, 384, 388, 410

    letters to, 388-89, 410-12

    cited, 7, 61, 152n, 332-33n, 354n, 406n, 412n

    listed, 526-27, 529-31

    as reply, 410

    and Nova Scotia, land grants in, 384, 412

    Plan of Part of the Province of Nova Scotia (1765), by Morris, sends, 388

    and St. Croix Bay grants

    advises on location, 384

    FB corrects deeds, 411-412

    FB proposes amendments, 410-12

    FB recommends location, 389

    FB requests copies, 373

    Franklin, Benjamin

    and Bernard, Francis Jr., return of, 39, 40n

    FB requests

    advice on College of Philadelpia, 291n

    assistance for son, 39

    recipes, 39

    and Florida, 143

    and governorship of Massachusetts, 186

    and Hutchinson-Oliver letters, 214n

    and Jackson, 75n

    “Join or Die,” 382n

    letters from

    cited, 40n

    listed, 521-22

    received, 39-40

    as reply, 39

    letters to, 39-40

    cited, 40n, 60n

    listed, 521, 522

    quoted, 291n

    and Pennsylvania, campaign for royal government in, 74

    Freemason (brigantine)

    seizure and prosecution of, 53n-55, 61, 83-84, 64n, 75, 106

    French Language, 69, 92, 123, 191

    French and Indian War (1754-63), 1-3, 36, 105n, 165, 261, 301n

    American Colonies reimbursed, 111

    provincial recruitment, 111n

    French Churches Apology for the Church of England (Joseph Bingham), 458, 469n

    French Colonies

    fisheries, 30

    illicit trade with, 208-9, 282-83, 298

    mentioned, 30, 495, See also St. Domingue (Fr. W.I.)

    molasses and sugar, 30

    trade with North America, 162, 164-65

    French Neutrals. See under Acadians

    Friendly Debate Between a Conformist and a Non-Conformist (Simon Patrick), 458, 470n

    Friends of Government

    about, 281n

    House of Representatives, numbers in, 8, 219-20

    as king’s party, 274

    mentioned, 9, 165, 184, 285, 327, 365-66, See also House of Representatives:friends of government in

    and province agent, election of, 218-21

    and Stamp Act, 225-26, 316, 327, 365, 370, 380, 382n

    Stamp Act Crisis, after, 13

    Stamp Act riots, intimidated by, 316, 368

    Fruit, 131, 206

    Fulke, William

    as critic of Arminianism, 460

    New Testament of Jesus Christ, 453, 461n

    Fuller, Thomas

    as moderate Calvinist, 460

    Pisgah-Sight of Palestine, 453, 462n

    Fur Trade, 236

    Further Continuation and Defence, or, Third Part of the Friendly Debate (Simon Patrick), 458, 469n

    Gage, Thomas

    Boston, prepares to send troops to, 349-50

    and Castle William

    defence of, 282, 350

    defences described by FB, 332-33

    Colvill, letter to

    as enclosure, 350

    sends copy to FB, 350

    Colvill, writes to, 349

    Council minutes, FB sends copies, 333

    Council resolutions, FB sends copies, 332, 340

    Cunningham, letter to

    as enclosure, 350

    sends copy to FB, 350

    FB explains failure of troop requisition, 40-41, 48

    FB requests

    engineer for Maine survey, 67

    letter of support, 35

    military assistance, 323

    Montresor’s map, 36

    FB writes to, 35

    identified, 37n

    letters from, 349-50

    assembly, presented to, 42

    cited, 36, 42, 48-49, 324, 333, 360, 364n

    listed, 529

    received, 35, 40, 67, 350, 360, 363

    as replies, 68n, 333, 349n, 360

    Sherriff, W., delivered by, 349

    letters to, 35-37, 40-42, 48-49, 67-68, 323-24, 332-33, 359-60

    cited, 7, 36, 37n, 40n, 42, 47n, 49n, 50, 53n, 68n, 75n, 336, 344n-45n, 351n, 364, 370n

    as enclosures, 335

    listed, 521-23, 525-29

    not sent, 333n

    quoted, 324

    received, 36, 42, 49, 68, 333, 349

    as replies, 350

    and Massachusetts regiments, raising of, 36, 49-50

    mentioned, 42n, 311n, 386

    military assistance

    and civil authority, 333n

    FB declines, 363

    offers FB, 349-50

    proclamations concerning Stamp Act riots, FB sends copies, 332-33, 340

    and Stamp Act Congress, 403

    Garden Court Street, Boston, 344n

    Gardner, Andrew, 53, 66, 71, 74, 77, 83, 305, 317, 347, 355

    Gascoyne, Bamber

    as co-signatory, 106

    identified, 106n

    Gaspee, HMS (schooner), 284n, 297

    Gastrell, Francis

    Boylean Lectures, 455

    Certainty and Necessity of Religion in General, 464n

    Certainty of the Christian Revelation, 455

    as Williamite, 460

    Geddes, Michael

    History of the Church of Malabar, 455, 465n

    Gelston, Samuel, 38

    General Court

    about, 8, 20, 90

    acts and resolves. See also under General Court, Legislation

    as enclosures, 66

    adjournments, 40, 43, 365-66, 368, 373, 375

    Assembly (the Council and the House of Representatives). See under Assembly (the Council and the House of Representatives)

    and boundary disputes between Massachusetts and

    New Hampshire, 286

    Nova Scotia, 7

    and Castle William, repairs to, 281

    as court of chancery, 93

    and crowd action, 399, 420, 422, 423

    fast, approves, 390

    Governor. See under BERNARD, FRANCIS:GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS

    Governor and Council. See under Governor and Council

    and governor, 220, 223, 226, 353, 369, 381

    Governor’s Council. See under Council

    harmony in, 90

    House of Representatives. See under House of Representatives

    and judiciary, 270

    land, proprietor of, as, 286

    legislation. See under General Court, Legislation

    and Maine Survey (1764), 70

    mentioned, 43, 284, 289, 295-96

    and Mount Desert Island grant, 6

    opposition in, 90

    and Penobscot township grants, 70, 105, 112

    proceedings of, as enclosure, 94, 166

    prorogations, 295-96

    and province agent, appointment of, 90, 218, 220

    and public finances, 288

    in recess, 428

    and smallpox inoculation, 38

    and Stamp Act, implementation of, 353, 359, 366

    stamped papers, proceedings concerning, 366

    General Court, Legislation

    acts and resolves, about, 20

    acts passed, 93, 289

    and Board of Trade, 290

    Additional Debtors Act (1765), 241n, 288, 291n

    Bankruptcy Act (1757), 236, 241n

    Bankruptcy Act (1765), 237

    Census Act (1765), 238, 241n

    Customhouse Fees Bill (1765), 238, 239, 240

    Customs Officers Fees Act (1716), 117-18n

    Eastern Indians Annual Supply Act (1764), 67n, 105, 178, 183n, 236

    Eastern Indians Annual Supply Act (1765), 236, 241n

    Excise Act (1765), 237, 241n

    Fees Act (1765), 241n

    Harvard Lottery Act (1765), 289, 291n

    House of Representatives Act (1692), cited, 89, 92n

    Impost and Tunnage Act (1764), 66n-67n, 105

    British commerce, benefits, 237-38

    and Privy Council, 106n

    Impost and Tunnage Act (1765), 237-38, 241n

    Little, Abigail (1764), act to enable, 94-95

    Mashpees Act (1763), Board of Trade approves, 105-6

    Mount Desert Island grant, 6

    Naval Office Act (1701), 117-18n, 153

    Naval Office Fees Bill (1765), 238-40

    Newbury Act (1764), 88-89, 92n

    Night-time Disorders Act (1703), 348-49n

    Province Treasury Annual Supply Act (1765), 288

    provincial fee bills (1765), Governor and Council veto, 238-39

    Public Offices Bill (1765), 391

    FB reviews, 395-96

    postponed, 396

    Public Offices Fees Bills (1765), 241n

    Regulation of Fees Act (1692), 116

    Regulation of Fees Act (1765), 118n, 237

    Regulation of Officers’ Fees (1760), 116, 118n

    Stamp Act (1755), 118n, 168

    Vice Admiralty Court Fees Bill (1765), 238-40

    Gentleman’s Calling (Richard Allestree, et al.), 458, 469n

    Genuine Remains of That Learned Prelate Dr. Thomas Barlow (Thomas Barlow), 458-59, 469n

    George III, King, 86n, 134n, 300

    George’s River, Maine, 259

    Germany, 72, 112, 138, 141

    Gerrish, Joseph, 92

    Gerrish, Joseph (N.S.), 411

    identified, 412n

    Gilbert (law officer), 509

    Gilpin, James

    letters to cited, 60n

    Glasgow, 306-7, 313, 315, 319

    Glorious Epiphany, With the Devout Christians Love to It (Simon Patrick), 455, 465n

    Glorious Revolution, 460

    Gloucester (sloop), 190n, 207, 495, 501n

    Glover, David

    declaration, cited, 501n

    mentioned, 489, 495-96, 500-1n

    God, 83, 130, 319, 331, 333, 352

    Goldthwait, Thomas

    identified, 40n

    intelligence, supplies, 78

    letters from

    cited, 79n

    listed, 522

    Maine, influence in, 183n

    mentioned, 92n

    as secretary at war, 177

    as truckmaster, 179-80, 182

    Goodman, John

    Penitent Pardoned, 457, 468n

    Government of Massachusetts

    fees in public offices, regulation of, 116-18

    mentioned, 4, 8, 76

    opposition to. See also Whig Party, See also BERNARD, FRANCIS:GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS:on opposition to

    in assembly, 280, 368, 395

    Barons controversy, 193

    in Council, 378, 396

    and crowd action, 420

    and popular power, 443

    province agent, during election of, 217-18, 220

    public finances. See under Public Finances

    support for, 280, 339, 368, 377, 428, See also Friends of Government

    Government, Colonial

    expense of, 285

    Indian trade, 182

    and liberty, 6

    mentioned, 85, 87, 123, 193

    reform of, 5-6, 87, 98, 100, 147, 150, 154-60, 210, 317, 387, 414, 418, 433, 479-80

    about, 1, 480-81

    and Stamp Act riots, 433

    weakness of, 322, 413-14, 422

    Government, Royal

    authority of, 6, 12, 158, 413-14, 480

    governors, 8, 208, See also under Governors, Colonial

    instructions, 261

    instruments of, 9, See also under Legal Instruments

    mentioned, 112, 148, 185, 238-39, 482n

    prerogatives, 5

    proclamations, 6, 182

    royal arms, 305, 333

    Governor and Council

    as court of law, 169

    functions of, 157, 225

    and Indian trade, 179

    land grants, authority respecting, 112

    libels, prosecuting, 296

    martial law, authority respecting, 230

    opposition to, 356

    and parliamentary legislation, 190, 192n

    proclamations concerning

    Acadians, as enclosure, 191

    fees in public offices, as enclosure, 118

    Hispaniola, French governor of, as enclosure, 191

    Stamp Act riot (14 Aug. 1765), 303, 335-36

    cited, 347

    as enclosure, 305, 333, 347, 349

    Stamp Act riot (26 Aug. 1765), 335-36

    cited, 347

    as enclosure, 333, 342, 347, 349

    surveyor general of Woods, 82n

    Taunton riot, 513

    Governor of Massachusetts. See under BERNARD, FRANCIS: GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS

    Governor’s Island, Boston Harbor, 312

    Governor’s Council. See under Council

    Governor’s Seal, 169, 171, 313

    Governors, Colonial

    “Defence of the Right of the American Governors to a third of seizures,” FB sends copies, 83

    and riots, 308, 323

    salaries and income of, 76

    seizures, entitlement to share of, 4, 54-55, 62, 83-84, 106

    Gray, Harrison

    as councilor, 345n, 519

    mentioned, 79, 233, 349n, See also under Province Treasurer of Massachusetts

    Gray, Thomas, 282

    Great Britain

    and American Colonies, revenue from, 164, 413

    interests of, 162, 165, 181, 206, 322

    laws, 52, 90

    legal system, 147

    mentioned, 7-9, 11, 29, 91

    monarchy, 156

    political power of, 158, 304, 322, 380

    and priests, Roman Catholic, 133

    and trade, 29-31, 161-65

    Great Lakes, 36, 301n

    Green, Benjamin, 411

    Green, Jeremiah

    identified, 349n

    letters to, 348

    cited, 344n

    listed, 529

    Stamp Act riots, orders concerning, 348

    Green, John, 370n

    Greenleaf, Stephen

    FB’s opinion of, 316

    identified, 38n

    mentioned, 37, 277, 301, 302

    Grenville Ministry

    colonial policy, 86n, 115, 119-20, 167n

    departure, 300

    mentioned, 11, 115, 290

    and Stamp Tax, 479

    Grenville, George

    in effigy, 397

    identified, 202n

    mentioned, 75n, 99, 280, 300

    opposition to, 85

    province agents, meets, 120n

    royal and provincial instruments, requests information about, 114

    and Stamp Act, 9, 114

    Grew, Nehemiah

    Cosmologia Sacra, 453, 462n

    Gridley, Jeremiah, 173n

    as counsel for Boston, 445n-46n

    Grimston, Samuel, 130n

    Grove (ship’s captain), 224, 231

    Guadeloupe, 202n, 495

    Guardianship, 169

    Gumbs, Benjamin

    Cockle, letter to

    cited, 128, 488, 500

    as enclosure, 487

    identified, 128n

    mentioned, 489, 490

    Guteridge, Daniel, 244, 255, 267, 505-6, 509

    Hakluyt Posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrims (Samuel Purchas), 226, 228n

    Hale, Roger

    consults FB, 270

    identified, 214n

    “Objections against a Bill . . . for Fees to be taken by . . . Customs”

    as enclosure, 241

    and Robinson, 269-70

    Temple, argues with, 212-13, 277

    Haliday and Dunbar (merchants), 201, 209

    Halifax, Earl of

    Acadians

    and British policy, reviewed by FB, 33-34, 96, 107, 190-91

    petitions and memorials of, FB sends copies, 191

    on relocation of, 33, 229, 232

    requests information on, 35

    assembly

    address of, FB sends, 165

    FB’s speeches and messages, FB sends copies, 165, 224

    petition to Parliament

    FB sends, 161

    reviewed by FB, 161-65

    proceedings reported by FB, 50

    commands, issues, 174

    Council minutes, FB sends copies, 342, 353

    explanatory orders, sends, 230

    FB explains

    government lacks power and authority, 10, 343

    political strategy, 351-53

    FB proposes reform of colonial government, 154-58

    FB requests

    appointment for Auchmuty, 273-74

    authorization for payments to informers, 273

    direction in relocating Acadians, 190-91

    support against Temple, 174, 201, 257, 271

    FB writes to, 175, 200, 319, 366, 375

    FB’s conduct as governor, approves, 229, 249

    governor’s instructions, extract of, FB sends copy, 271

    Hispaniola, French governor’s proclamation

    British ambassador in France, sends to, 229

    hostages in France

    instructions on ransom, issues, 97n

    list of, FB sends, 96

    identified, 35n

    illicit trade, requests information on, 115

    as imperial reformer, 5, 479

    leaves office, 11, 272

    letters from, 113-15, 229, 230

    cited, 35n, 51n, 53n, 95-97, 107, 115, 120, 133, 168, 171, 174n, 192, 202n, 209n, 230n, 233n, 235n, 251n, 261n, 275n, 284n

    as enclosures, 35

    listed, 522-25

    quoted, 50, 232-33n

    received, 33, 49, 95-96, 174, 208, 229, 249, 282

    as replies, 50, 229

    letters to, 33-35, 49-50, 95-96, 107, 122-24, 131-35, 154-66, 168, 174, 190-201, 208-9, 212-14, 223-24, 251-58, 269-75, 282-84, 337-43n, 351-53, 387n

    Board of Trade, referred to, 124, 160

    Board of Trade, considered by, 306

    cited, 3-6, 8-12, 17n, 35n-36, 46, 53n, 55, 63, 68, 77-78, 92, 96, 97n, 107n, 114, 127, 133n, 137, 140n-41, 145n, 166, 171, 174n, 176n, 185, 189-90n, 192n, 206, 209, 214n, 221n, 229-30n, 234n, 242n, 260-61, 263n, 264-65, 268, 272n, 275n, 276-77n, 297, 300-1n, 305-6, 311n, 313n, 315, 318n, 320n, 324, 326n, 328, 335-36, 342-43, 347-48, 353n, 355n-56n, 358, 370n, 387n, 480, 483n

    Elisabeth, carried by, 307, 313

    as enclosures, 138, 141

    FB sends duplicates, 319, 347, 355

    FB writes, 365

    Haliday and Dunbar, forwarded by, 201, 209

    Hertford, referred to, 191

    as historical evidence, 11

    House of Commons, referred to, 342

    King, referred to, 133

    listed, 521-29

    quoted, 63, 97n, 324

    Pownall, J., extract, referred to, 133

    received, 34, 50, 77, 107, 114-15, 124, 133, 160, 168, 174, 191, 201, 209, 214, 224, 229, 258, 306, 342, 353

    Mauduit, delivered by, 96

    as replies, 114, 168

    Stamp Act Crisis, during, 300

    Treasury, copied to, 201, 275

    Treasury, referred to, 77, 168, 214, 258

    Maine Indians, negotiations with, reported by FB, 122-24, 131-33

    Maine survey (1764)

    maps and charts, FB sends, 259

    reported by FB, 158-60

    Massachusetts regiments, requisition for

    FB reports failure, 35, 40, 42, 49, 50

    mentioned, 5, 15, 63, 87, 100, 111, 128, 225

    on military assistance, governors requesting, 230

    Mount Desert Island grant, memorial, FB sends, 134-35

    office, leaves, 211

    offices of, 16

    opinions of advocate-general of Vice Admiralty and attorney general, FB sends copies, 201

    Polly, seizure and prosecution of, reported by FB, 269-71

    “Principles of Law and Polity” (1764), FB sends copy, 87, 432, 480

    on “Principles of Law and Polity” (1764), 210

    private information for, 143

    “Proceedings relative to the Robbery at Taunton,” FB sends copy, 258

    proclamation concerning the Acadians, FB sends copy, 191

    proclamation of the French governor of Hispaniola, FB sends copy, 191

    proclamations concerning Stamp Act riots, FB sends copies, 335-36, 342

    Representation on a Rescue at Taunton, FB sends copy, 259

    Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (James Otis Jr.), FB sends copy, 111

    Robinson, FB’s correspondence with, FB sends copies, 264-5, 271

    Robinson, reported by FB, 269-71

    Royal and Provincial Instruments in Massachusetts

    list of, FB sends, 168

    requests list, 113-14

    Royal Navy, lack of co-operation from, reported by FB, 282-83

    smuggling, reported by FB, 193-200, 208-9, 282-83

    Stamp Act riot (14 Aug. 1765)

    FB sends report, 313, 315

    reports received, 317

    Stamp Act riot, Boston (26 Aug. 1765)

    described by FB, 10, 337-42

    FB sends report, 342, 355

    Hutchinson sends report, 342

    Stamp Act riots, FB’s reports on, about, 343, 345n

    stamp duties, and introduction of, 113, 171

    stamped papers secured, FB reports, 319

    Taunton riot, reported by FB, 251-57

    Temple and Russell, correspondence of, FB sends copies, 201

    Temple, disagreements with, reported by FB, 212-13, 257, 262, 269, 271-73

    Treasury, refers FB’s papers to, 207

    Turks Islands, merchants’ losses reported by FB, 223

    and Wilmot, 152n

    Halifax, N.S., 349

    Hallowell, Benjamin

    Board of Customs Commissioners, letter to, cited, 344n

    identified, 214n

    letter to cited, 430

    mentioned, 342, 448

    Stamp Act riot (26 Aug. 1765), account of, 344n

    Stamp Act riots

    house attacked, 319, 320n, 321, 323, 325, 335, 338, 344n, 429n

    proclamation concerning, 335

    Temple, dispute with, 212-13

    discusses with FB, 213

    Hallowell, Briggs, 337, 343n

    Hammond, Henry

    as anti-Calvinist, 460

    Sermons, 453, 461n

    Works of . . ., 453, 462n

    Hampden, John, 424n

    Hancock, John (merchant)

    and Boston committee, 444n

    mentioned, 310, 424n

    ship carries FB’s letters, 310-11

    Stamp Act, opposes, 311

    Hancock, John (theologian)

    Arguments to Prove the Being of God, 465n

    Boylean Lectures, 455

    Hancock’s Wharf, Boston, 310

    Handbills

    law courts, on closure of, 443

    proclamation on Stamp Act riot, concerning, 308

    Hanover Street, Boston, 320n, 344n

    Hanoverian Monarchy, 134n, 171n

    Hansen, John

    identified, 193n

    mentioned, 191

    Harmony of the Divine Attributes, in the Contrivance and Accomplishment of Man’s Redemption (William Bates), 454, 464n

    Harris, Grace, 187n

    Harris, John

    Atheist’s Objection . . . Refuted, 463n

    Atheist’s Objections, 463n

    Atheistical Objections, 463n

    Boylean Lectures, 454

    Immorality and Pride, the Great Causes of Atheism, 463n

    Refutation of the Atheistical Notion of Fate, 463n

    Refutation of the Objections Against the Attributes, 463n

    Harvard College

    Board of Overseers, 8, 121

    books, sale of, 144

    donations to, 121-22

    donations, FB solicits, 122

    Harvard College Fire (1764), 7, 46, 50, 289, 404-5

    and FB, 7-8

    Harvard Hall, 46n

    architectural drawings by FB, 8, 290-91n

    building of, 289, 291n

    drawing of, 293

    plan of, 292

    Haswell, William, 53n

    Haverhill, Mass., 327, 354n

    Hearts Ease, or, Remedy Against All Troubles (Simon Patrick), 457, 469n

    Hemp

    FB’s cultivation plans, 281n

    Henshaw, Joshua, 444n

    Hertford, Lord

    identified, 230n

    mentioned, 191

    Hervey, Augustus John, 86n

    Hesse-Cassel (Holy Roman Empire), 139, 141

    Heylyn, Peter

    as anti-Calvinist, 460

    Cosmography in Four Books, 453, 461n

    Keimelia Ekklesiastika, 453, 461n

    Theologia Veterum, 453, 462n

    Hibbert, Henry

    Syntagma Theologicum, 453, 461n

    High Court of Admiralty, 54, 63, 170

    Hillsborough, Earl of

    as co-signatory, 106

    identified, 65n

    letter to

    cited, 141

    as enclosure, 138

    mentioned, 15, 64, 87, 100

    “Principles of Law and Polity” (1764), FB sends copy, 87, 432, 480

    private correspondence, with, 144

    Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (James Otis Jr.), FB sends copy, 111

    Hispaniola, 165, 199, 282, See also Acadians:Hispaniola, flight to

    Historiography

    of Imperial Crisis, 2, 13

    of Stamp Act Crisis, 11, 430

    History of All Religions in the World, From the Creation Down to This Present Time (William Turner), 456, 467n

    History of England (William Temple), 407n

    History of Precomposed Set Forms of Prayers (Thomas Bennet), 458, 469n

    History of the Apostles’ Creed (Peter King), 457, 468n

    History of the Church of Malabar (Michael Geddes), 455, 465n

    History of the World (Walter Raleigh), 453, 461n

    Hoadly, Benjamin

    Brief Defense of Episcopal Ordination, 468n

    as Low Church Anglican, 460

    Measures of Submission to the Civil Magistrate Considered, 456, 467

    Reasonableness of Conformity to the Church of England, 456, 467n

    Sermons, 456

    Several Discourses Concerning the Terms of Acceptance With God, 467n

    Holland, 188, 215

    Holland, Samuel, 80

    Hollis Hall, Harvard College, 291n

    Hollis, Thomas

    Harvard College, donations to, 122

    Holyoke, Edward, 45

    letter to listed, 525

    Hooper, Robert, 205

    identified, 208n

    Hopkins, Stephen

    customs officer, unable to administer oath to, 52

    “Essay upon the Trade of the Northern Colonies,” 47n

    identified, 47n

    letters to listed, 522

    mentioned, 45, 46, 53-54n, 249n

    as political writer, 45

    Rights of Colonies Examined, 47n

    Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), 98n

    Hoskins, William, 63

    Hostages

    French, ransom of, 95-97n

    list of, as enclosure, 96

    Hotchkis, Thomas

    Discourse Concerning the Imputation of Christ’s Righteousness to Us, 454, 464n

    Hotham, Charles, 86

    Houghton Library, 1, 459

    House of Commons

    American Colonies, petitions from, 185

    resolutions of, as enclosure, 109

    House of Representatives

    and Acadians, 34, 192

    Council, disputes with, 405, 420

    country members, 219

    Crown requisitions, contests, 426-27

    divisions in

    Massachusetts regiments, vote on raising of, 42, 48, 50

    province agent, vote to elect, 219, 223n, 232

    province agent, votes to elect special, 43-44, 46n, 219

    election privileges, 89

    elections to, 231, 280

    fast, considers public, 390-91, 393n, 395

    and FB’s speech of 25 Sept. 1765, 365, 368, 373

    replies to, 390, 392n

    friends of government in, 278, 280, 281n, 285

    Harvard College, and rebuilding of, 43

    inter-colonial action, proposes, 90

    Journals, as enclosures, 66, 280, 369, 374, 381, 394, 418, 421, 429, 448

    land grants, and authority respecting, 112

    Massachusetts regiments, refuses requisition for, 35, 40-42, 48

    mentioned, 12, 89

    moderation of, 285, 295

    and Newbury elections, 89

    Newbury representatives, rejects, 89

    Parliament, petition to, 184-85n

    parliamentary taxation, resolves contesting, 375

    proceedings in, 8

    and province agent

    accounts, 234

    election of, 220

    election of special agent, 43, 44

    separate instructions to, 90

    provincial fee bills, 118, 238-39

    public offices, debates opening of, 391

    Stamp Act Congress, proposes, 285, 288n

    Stamp Act, resolves to suspend, 394, 396, 399

    about, 393n, 395n, 401n

    FB discusses, 373-74n, 390, 420, 427

    stamped papers, proceedings concerning, 369

    votes of, 43-44, 48, 50, 219-20, 240, 286

    Howard, Martin, Jr., 347n

    Howell, William

    Institution of General History, 453, 461n

    Hubbard Haskell, 207, 500-1n

    deposition of, cited, 501n

    Hubbard, Thomas

    and assembly committee, 282n

    on Castle William repairs, 281-82

    as councilor, 345n

    identified, 182n

    letters from, 281-82

    cited, 527

    as signatory, 281

    Hudson River, N.Y., 31n, 259

    Hulme,Thomas, 364, 367n

    Hunter, Hugh, 231, 364, 449n

    Hunting, 178, 182n

    prohibition of, 236

    Husbandry, 29

    Husk, John

    about, 402n

    Boston merchants, letter to, 402n

    effigy, in, 397

    and English merchants, 402n

    and Grenville, 402n

    mocked, 402n

    and Stamp Act, repeal of, 402n

    Hutchinson, Sally

    identified, 344n

    and Stamp Act riot (26 Aug. 1765), 338

    Hutchinson, Thomas

    Castle William, commander of, as, 312

    and compensation for losses, 384-85n, 399

    as councilor, 354n

    and FB, 25n, 137n, 393n

    FB’s assessment of, 225

    and FB’s leave of absence, 391

    FB’s views on

    confidence in, 225

    “Confidence proved his ruin,” 346

    and governorship, 137n

    Halifax, letters to

    cited, 47n, 326n

    quoted, 342

    Hollis, letters to, mentioned, 122

    Hutchinson-Oliver letters published, 214n

    identified, 25n, 46n

    on Ingersoll, 299n

    intimidation of, 11

    and Jackson, 220, 279

    letters to cited, 113n, 137n, 166, 223n, 306n-7n, 342

    letters to, quoted, 137, 299n

    on Jackson, 218, 299n

    leave of absence, 225, 231, 384, 399

    library, destruction of, 46, 325, 338

    mentioned, 247, 254

    offices of, 221n

    Parliament, revises assembly’s petition to, 166, 184

    as political manager, 221

    portrait of, 111

    province agent, and election of special, 43-44, 218, 224-26

    Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (James Otis Jr.), criticizes, 113n

    and Stamp Act riot (14 Aug. 1765), 10, 301-2, 304, 306n-7n

    and Stamp Act riot (26 Aug. 1765)

    dining with family, 338

    house destroyed and looted, 323, 325, 338-39, 362, 427

    losses, 344n

    Milton, retreats to, 342

    money stolen, 326n

    popular resentment, 306n, 343n

    proclamation concerning, 335-36

    on Stamp Act, 225-26, 370n

    and stamped papers, arrival of, 312

    Superior Court (27 Aug. 1765), addresses, 366

    on Temple’s complaint about FB, 137

    and writs of assistance case, 427

    Immorality and Pride, the Great Causes of Atheism (John Harris), 463n

    Imperfect Promulgation of the Gospel . . .Considered (Samuel Bradford), 463n

    Imperfect Promulgation of the Gospel . . Preached (Samuel Bradford), 463n

    Imperial Administration

    reform of, 6, 480

    Imperial Crisis, 1-2, 82

    Indentures, 170

    Indian Trade, 66, 176-182

    abuses in, 66

    truckhouses, 66, 177-78

    Indian Affairs, 104, 180-82

    Informers

    disagreements concerning use of, 275n

    FB and, 5

    and Paxton, 272

    payments to, 273

    Ingersoll, Jared

    arrives in Boston, 298

    FB, meets with, 298

    FB’s views on, 404-5

    Jackson, letters from, delivers, 298n

    resignation, 346, 347n

    Rhode Island, supposed to be in, 308

    as stamp distributor, 299n

    stamped papers, coming on merchant ship, 315

    Innholders, 170

    Inspiration of the Holy Writings of the Old and New Testament (Edmund Calamy), 457, 467n

    Institutes of the Laws of England (Coke), 99n

    Institution of Christian Religion (Jean Calvin), 453, 461n

    Institution of General History (William Howell), 453, 461n

    Ipswich, Mass., 297, 327

    Ireland

    and colonial government, reform of, 415-16, 418-19n, 433

    mentioned, 72, 473

    priests from, 123, 133

    settlers from, 72

    and trade, colonial, 162

    Isaiah, Book of

    quoted, 356n

    Jackson, Joseph, 344n, 348, 397

    Jackson, Richard

    “A State of the Grant of the Island of Mount Desert” (1764)

    FB sends abstract, 144

    FB sends copy, 141

    Account of the Fire at Harvard-College, FB sends copy, 45

    assembly

    petition to Parliament, deliberations reviewed by FB, 183-85

    proceedings of, FB sends copy, 60

    response to Stamp Act Crisis, reviewed by FB, 373-74, 383-84, 404-8

    speeches, FB sends copies, 280, 373

    Barrington, Halifax, Hillsborough, and J. Pownall, FB letters to, FB sends, 141

    Board of Trade and secretary of state, memorials to, FB sends, 140

    Board of Trade, memorial to, FB sends, 138

    Bollan, letter to, as enclosure, 276

    and British ministers, 31

    and British politics, 60

    as business agent, 166n

    Cockle, retained as counsel for, 187-89

    Colvill’s claim, and

    advice regarding, 53-54

    as confidant, 142

    colonial government, anticpates reform of, 146

    Constitutional Courant, FB sends copy, 384

    correspondence with FB, 145n, 232

    DeBerdt, relationship with, 405

    “Defence of the Right of the American Governors to a third of seizures,” FB sends copy, 54

    duplicate letters, FB sends, 61

    “Essay of the Trade of the Northern Colonies” (Hopkins), FB sends copy, 46

    Exchequer, appointment to, 73, 75n, 223

    FB advises on St. Croix Bay grants, 72-74, 143-44, 231, 298-99

    FB apologizes for being “unpunctual,” 383

    FB disappointed with Mount Desert Island grant, 140-41

    FB explains

    government lacks power and authority, 404-5

    political strategy, 356-57

    FB proposes

    “Land jobbing,” 60

    New England union, 142-43

    reform of colonial government, 6, 98, 146-50

    FB requests

    account of ministerial changes, 357

    intercession to avert Stamp Tax, 120

    intercession with Halifax, 225

    transmit speech to Grenville, 280

    FB seeks

    leave for Hutchinson, 225

    support against Temple, 136

    FB speculates on being replaced as governor, 186

    FB writes to, 60, 231

    and Francklin, 374

    and Franklin, 75n

    as friend, 278

    Grenville, meets, 120n

    Harvard College fire, reported by FB, 43

    identified, 32n

    influence of, 221

    Ingersoll’s arrival reported by FB, 298

    Journals of the House of Representatives, FB sends copy, 374

    letters from

    acknowledged, 279-80

    delivered by Ingersoll, 298

    received, 60, 72, 73, 140, 146, 279, 298

    returns with broken seal, 373

    letters to, 43-46, 54-55, 60-61, 72-74, 98-99, 119-20, 136-37, 140-44, 146-50, 183-89, 217-21, 224-26, 231-32, 234-35, 279-80, 298-99, 321-22, 356-57, 373-74, 383-84, 404-6

    cited, 3-4, 6-9, 11, 18, 20, 25n, 32n, 35n, 45, 47n, 53-55, 61, 63-4n, 74, 77n, 79n, 86n, 101n, 120n, 139-40n, 145n, 152, 160n, 166, 176n, 185-86, 202n, 207-8n, 211n, 221, 226n, 232n, 276-77n, 291n, 299n-300, 322, 347n, 356n-57n, 367n, 406n, 479-80, 488, 521n

    as enclosures, 55, 61, 186, 366

    listed, 521-27, 528-31

    quoted, 8, 10, 47n, 150, 279n, 424n

    as replies, 142, 146, 231

    Mauduit, J. and I., letters of, FB sends copies, 219

    Mauduit, J., Oliver’s letter to, FB sends copy, 46

    mentioned, 53, 219

    Molasses Act, merchants concern at enforcement of, reported by FB, 29-33

    and Nova Scotia land grants, 61, 74

    opposition to Sugar Act and Stamp Tax, described by FB, 119-20

    Pownall, J., advised to consult, 99, 141, 186, 225, 279, 322, 383, 404

    “Principles of Law and Polity” (1764), FB sends copy, 98-100, 432, 480

    as province agent

    attributes, 220-21

    commission begins, 221

    commission, FB sends, 217, 231

    for Connecticut, 44, 46n, 224

    election reported by FB, 217-21

    Hutchinson, to assist, 220

    interest in, 46

    may decline, 279

    salary, reported by FB, 234-35

    special agent, election of, reported by FB, 43-44, 224-25

    and St. Croix Bay grants, 150, 152, 228, 410

    and Stamp Act, 120n

    Stamp Act riot (14 Aug. 1765), reported by FB, 321-23

    and Temple’s complaint about FB, 279, 299

    The Times: A Poem (Church), FB sends copy, 406

    Wilmot, FB letter to, FB sends copy, 231-32

    Jacobitism, 132

    Jamaica, 165

    Jamaica, HMS (sloop), 25n, 202n, 353, 354n, 449n

    Jamaica Plain, Boston, 301n

    James I, King, 132, 134n

    James II, King, 460

    Jamin, Peirre, 284n

    Jarvis, Leonard, 344n

    Jenkin, Robert

    Reasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Religion, 456, 467n

    Jenyns, Soame

    American colonists, hostile to, 429

    identified, 429n

    Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies, 429n

    Jesuitical Aphorisms (Ezerel Tonge), 453, 461n

    Jesus and the Resurrection Justified by Witnesses in Heaven and in Earth (Simon Patrick), 456, 467n

    Jewish Hypocrisie, a Caveat to the Present Generation (Simon Patrick), 458, 470n

    John & Sukey (ship)

    stamped papers, delivers, 364

    John (ship), 392

    John Galley (ship)

    mentioned, 318n, 364n, 366, 375

    stamped papers, delivers, 364, 367n-68, 448

    Johnson, Sir William, 180

    identified, 183n

    rumored replacement for FB, 183n

    Johnston, Augustus, 346, 347n

    Johnstone, George, 145n

    “Join or Die,” 382n

    Jones, Inigo

    indentified, 344n

    mentioned, 338

    Jones, John

    maps by, as enclosures, 71

    plans of the Penobscot townships (1763), 71

    Joseph (Wewenock), 182n

    Judgements, 170

    Judges of Massachusetts

    and stamped papers, non-use of, 442, 445

    Judiciary, England, 150n

    Judiciary, Scotland, 150n

    Just Weights and Measures That Is, the Present State of Religion Weighed in the Balance (Herbert Thorndike), 454, 463n

    Justices of the Peace

    and Council, 246

    at Fort Pownall and Fort Halifax, 181

    mentioned, 247

    MacIntosh, discharge, 398

    and Penobscots, 181

    and Pope’s Day, 396

    and Stamp Act riot (14 Aug. 1765)

    Fort Hill, attend mob on, 303

    Governor and Council, proclamation and orders of, 303, 334, 336

    and Stamp Act riots, about, 10

    and stamped papers, 376, 442

    and Taunton riot, 246-47, 251, 254-258, 264-67, 506-19

    and writs and legal instruments, 170, 244, 247, 257, 506, 509

    Keimelia Ekklesiastika (Peter Heylyn and George Vernon), 453, 461n

    Kennebec River

    mentioned, 36, 67-68, 79-80, 149, 154, 159, 177, 249

    survey of (1764), 51

    townships, 148

    Kennebeck Proprietors, 145n

    Kennett, Basil

    Brief Exposition of the Apostles Creed, 456, 467n

    Kent, Benjamin, 444n

    Kettlewell, John

    Measures of Christian Obedience, 457, 468n

    Kidder, Richard

    Commentary on the Five Books of Moses, 455, 465n

    Demonstration of the Messias, 457, 468n

    Kilby Street, Boston, 307n

    Kilby, Barnard & Partners, 202n

    King and Parliament, 368, 423, 427

    King Street, Boston, 307n, 311n, 343n, 403n

    King, Peter

    History of the Apostles’ Creed, 457, 468n

    King, The

    and Crown lands, 143

    as executive, 472

    and FB’s correspondence, 124, 133, 401

    and Fort Pownall, 103-4

    and colonial government, reform of, 149, 157-58, 416

    “insolent” treatment of, 400, 406

    and legislation, colonial, 117, 239

    mentioned, 33, 76, 102-3, 163

    and revenues, colonial, 205, 491, 492

    royal prerogatives, 472

    seizures, shares from profits of, 4, 198, 492

    in service of, 270, 278

    subjects of, 96, 232

    King-in-Parliament, 158, 472

    Knatchbull, Norton

    Annotations Upon Some Difficult Texts in All the Books of the New Testament, 454, 464n

    La Vray Amitie (schooner), 284n, 297

    Labree, Benjamin, 38n

    Lake George, N.Y., 3, 31n

    Lamar, Hill, and Bisset

    letters to listed, 521

    Lamb, Sir Matthew

    Board of Trade, counsel to the, as, 66, 105, 106n

    Little, Abigail (1764), act to enable, opinion on, 95

    Lambeth Palace Library, 121

    Lancaster, Penn.

    massacre at, 75n

    Land Grants

    east of the St. Croix River, 61, See also under St. Croix Bay Grants

    as enclosure, 412

    Florida, 143

    mentioned, 169

    Sagadahoc, 144

    Landry, Paul

    family of, 192n

    identified, 192n

    memorial of, 193n

    mentioned, 191

    Laud, William

    as anti-Calvinist, 460

    Relation of the Conference Between William Laud, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and Mr. Fisher the Jesuit, 453, 462n

    Laurence, R. Roger

    Lay-Baptism Invalid, 465n

    Law Courts. See also Superior Court

    common law courts, 169-70

    court of chancery, 93

    mentioned, 5, 31, 270, 365

    probate courts, 93, 169

    and smugglers, prosecution of, 270, 423

    Stamp Act Crisis, closure during, 12

    Lay-Baptism Invalid (R. Roger Laurence), 455, 465

    Le Clerc, Jean

    Logica, Sive, Ars Ratiocinandi, 458, 470n

    Treatise of the Causes of Incredulity, 455, 465n

    Lechmere, Nicholas

    as co-signatory, 506

    mentioned, 244, 255, 267, 502, 505-6, 508-9, 511

    negligence of, 269

    Lechmere, Thomas, 202n, 247

    Lee, John, 466n

    Lee, Joseph, 374n

    Legal Instruments, 169-71

    Legislation

    editorial policy and citation of, 20

    Legislation, English. See under Parliament of England, Legislation

    Legislation, Massachusetts. See under General Court, Legislation

    Lemons, 206

    Leonard, Daniel

    as “Massachusettensis,” 480-81

    Leonard, George

    identified, 516n

    mentioned, 268, 513

    Lescarbot, Mark

    Nova Francia (1632), 226

    Leslie, Charles

    letters to listed, 525

    mentioned, 25n, 62

    Lewis (Arasagunticook), 182n

    Libels, 169, 172n, 295-96

    Liberty (ship), 310-12, 320, 342, 347

    Liberty Tree, 306n, 363n, 403, 435-36, 440

    plaque, 397

    Licences, 170

    Lightfoot, John

    Harvard College, bequest to, 46n

    Lincolnshire (Eng.), 2

    Lithgow, William (Mass. militia officer), 92n

    Little Deer Island, Maine, 75n

    Little, Abigail, 93-94

    Little, Isaac, 94

    Little, Isaac, Jr., 94

    Little, Lemuel, 94

    Little, Moses, 92

    Littleton , Sir Thomas de, 99n

    Liverpool, 201, 209, 231, 235, 242, 310, 313, 354, 402

    Livingston, Robert R.

    identified, 295n

    land claims, 294

    Logica, Sive, Ars Ratiocinandi (Jean Le Clerc), 458, 470n

    London

    government departments and offices in, 63, 131, 150, 163, 265, 294, 518

    mentioned, 8-9, 74, 138

    news arrives, of Stamp Act riots, 12, 305-6, 311, 343, 361

    news from

    ministry, change of, 300

    parliamentary taxation, 285

    publishers, 480

    London Gazette

    cited, 95-97n

    imported, 372n

    London Packet (ship), 375

    Loring, Joshua

    identified, 301n

    mentioned, 300, 409-10n

    Loring, Joshua, Jr., 409-10

    Louisbourg, N.S.

    campaign (1745), 105n, 111

    mentioned, 108, 349, 363, 411

    Loveday, Samuel

    Personal Reprobation Reprobated, 458, 470n

    Lowndes, Charles

    identified, 361n

    letters from, 529

    cited, 449n

    listed, 529

    quoted, 421n

    received, 361, 447

    stamp distributors, instructions for governors to assist, 361

    Lowth, William

    Vindication of the Divine Authority, 458, 469n

    Loyal Nine, 306, 392, 424n, 429, 438

    Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus), 403n

    Lucas, Richard

    Practical Christianity, 456, 467n

    Religious Perfection or A Third Part of the Enquiry After Happiness, 456, 466n

    Lumber, 281n

    white pines, theft of, 81-82

    Luther, Martin, 481n

    Lyman, Elijah

    letter from, 81-82

    letter from listed, 522

    Lynde, Benjamin, Jr.

    identified, 208n

    mentioned, 204

    Lyttleton, William Henry

    identified, 224n

    letters to

    cited, 223, 224n

    listed, 525, 527

    Machias Bay, Maine, 156

    MacIntosh, Ebenezer

    arrested and released, 344n, 351n

    FB describes, 397-98

    identified, 402n

    influence of, 398

    mentioned, 431, 438n

    and Oliver, public resignation of, 438

    and Pope’s Day (1765), 397-98, 403n, 422-23

    procession, leads, 398

    Stamp Act riots, mob leader during, 398

    taxes unpaid, 429n

    and Whigs, 424n, 429

    Madeira, 31

    Magaguadavic River, N.B., 152, 389, 412n

    Magdalene, HMS, 25n, 202n

    Maidstone, HMS (man of war), 244, 246, 248n, 265-68, 283, 502, 505, 508-9, 517

    Mail

    Boston to England

    carried by

    Boscawen, 355

    Bristol packet-boat, 45, 231, 363

    John Galley, 366, 375

    John, 392

    for Bristol, 45, 53, 60, 66, 69-71, 77, 83, 224, 231, 305, 317, 347, 355

    for London, 45, 88

    ready for departure, 33

    waiting on ship, 303

    Boston to Glasgow, Elisabeth, by, 307

    Boston to Halifax, 152

    delayed by closure of Customhouse, 411-12n

    carried by Green, 411

    Boston to Liverpool

    carried by

    African Queen, 310

    John, 353, 354n

    Boston to London

    carried by

    Liberty, 311-12, 320, 342, 347

    London Packet, 375

    Thomas & Samuel, 400

    Boston to Philadelphia, 40n

    Boston to Quebec, 249

    delayed by closure of Customhouse, 411-12n

    England to New York, 32n, 73

    New York to Boston, 381

    New York to England, 53, 62

    packet boat lost, 30

    secret correspondence, carried by HMS Tryal, 360, 364

    Maine Survey (1764)

    about, 40-42

    Boston to Fort Pownall, 159

    of coast between Penobscot River and St. Croix River, 159

    Fort Halifax via Kennebec River to Chaudière River and return to Casco Bay, 41-42, 67

    Fort Pownall to George’s River road, 159, 243

    Fort Pownall via Penobscot River and Chaudière River to Quebec, 41-42, 67-68, 71, 79-80, 158, 243

    Fort Pownall via Penobscot River and Sebasticook River to Fort Halifax, 158-59, 243

    from Quebec via Chaudière River and west branch of Penobscot River to Fort Pownall, 243

    from St. Croix Bay via Passimaquoddy River and Penobscot River to Fort Pownall, 243

    mentioned, 7, 91, 154, 156-59, See also Maps and Charts

    Passamaquoddy Bay and St. Croix River, 7, 48, 50, 68, 70, 73, 151, 158-59, 243

    Passimaquoddy River to Penobscot River and Fort Pownall, 132, 151, 159, 227, 233

    Penobscot Bay and Fox Islands, 52, 159, 243

    Penobscot townships, 70, 159

    route plans, 42, 48, 67-68

    St. Croix River and Passamaquoddy River, 71, 73

    survey teams, 7, 41, 48-9n, 50, 68, 71, 80, 158

    wages, 42n

    Maine, Province of

    and colonial government, reform of, 146-48, 155

    interior (backcountry), 42

    mentioned, 3, 6, 127

    Native Americans in, 389

    settlers in, 6

    white pines, 82

    Mansfield, Earl of

    mentioned, 444n

    “Principles of Law and Polity” (1764), FB sends copy, 480

    Manufactures

    of Great Britain, 65, 164

    of Massachusetts, 29, 164

    Map of Boston (William Price), 309

    Map of the British and French Dominions in North America (John Mitchell), 226, 228n

    Map of the British Empire in America (Henry Popple), 226, 228n

    Map of the Province of Nova-Scotia (John Turner), 226, 228n

    Maps and Charts

    map of a route from Fort Pownall to Quebec (1764), by Miller, 7, 80, 159-60n, 233, 243, 249, 250, 259

    Map of Boston (1769), by Price, 309

    map of Castle William (1771), by Montresor, 331

    map of disputed lands in the Waldo Patent, by Chadwick, 104

    Map of Nova Scotia (1759), by Turner, 226

    map of Penobscot Bay and the Maine Interior (1765), by Miller, 7, 53n, 159-60n, 253, 259

    Map of the British and French Dominions in North America (1755), by Mitchell, 226

    Map of the British Empire in America (1733), by Popple et al., 226

    map of the road from Boston to Albany (1765), by Miller, 259

    map of the road from Boston to Penobscot (1765), by Miller, 259

    map of the St. John’s River, N.S. (1761), by Peach, 67, 233

    maps of the Kennebec River and the Penobscot River (1760), by Small, 36

    New England Coastal Pilot (1758), by Southack, 226

    plan of a passage from Penobscot by the Sebasticook River to Fort Halifax, 243, 249

    plan of a road cut from Fort Pownall to St. George’s Fort, 243

    plan of part of the province of Nova Scotia (1765), by Morris, 388-89n, 410

    plan of Penobscot Bay and River, the Fox Islands, and the sea coast on the east side of the townships, 159, 243, 259

    plan of the Bay of Passamaquoddy and St. Croix, 151, 243, 259, 260n

    plan of the Bay of St. Croix and a passage by the Passamaquoddy River to Fort Pownall, 156, 243, 249

    plans of the Penobscot townships (1763), by Jones, 71

    survey and map of a route from Quebec to Boston (1761), by Montresor, 36, 67-68, 80, 249

    surveys and maps of the route from Fort Pownall to Quebec (1764-78), by Chadwick, 80

    Marblehead, Mass., 32n, 207n, 380, 382n, 428, 490

    Marlborough Street, Boston, 306n

    Marque and Reprisal, 169

    Marshall, John, 88

    Mary, Queen of Scots, 134n

    Maryland, 108, 352

    “Massachusettensis”

    on FB and Otis, 480

    Massachusetts

    boundary disputes. See under Boundary Disputes between Massachusetts and

    climate, 87, 211, 233

    coinage, 3, 164

    constitution of. See under Government of Massachusetts:constitution

    courts. See under Law Courts

    court officials, 168

    currency, 108

    earnings of laborer, 320n

    eastern counties. See under Maine; Eastern Country (Maine)

    economy, 32n

    excise and tonnage duties, 237-38

    exports.

    bricks, 283

    fish, 29, 44

    lumber, 29, 161-62, 282-83

    finances of, 241n, See under Public Finances

    and colonial government, reform of, 142-43, 146-47, 149, 155-57

    imports

    boards and bricks, 298

    impost duties on, 65

    sugar and molasses, 29, 131

    labor, price of, 34

    legislature. See under General Court

    magistrates. See under Justices of the Peace

    merchants. See under Merchants

    militia. See under Militia

    Native Americans. See under Native Americans

    Naval Office. See under Naval Office

    Penobscots. See under Native Americans:Penobscots

    politics. See under Politics

    province agent. See under Province Agent

    royal charter. See under Province Charter (1691)

    shipping. See under Shipping

    soldiers. See under Massachusetts Regiments

    towns. See under Towns

    trade. See under Trade, Colonial

    wartime expenses and parliamentary reimbursements, 108, 111n

    western counties, 154

    Massachusetts (province sloop), 7

    Massachusetts Gazette and Boston News-Letter

    cited, 74, 351n, 354n

    as enclosure, 363, 378, 400

    FB, declaration of, quotes, 354n

    mentioned, 362, 406

    Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies (Soame Jenyns), reprints, 429n

    Oliver’s public resignation, reports, 441

    proclamations, printed, 82n, 118, 333

    Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Post-Boy Advertiser

    “Massachusettensis,” 481

    Massachusetts Regiments

    assembly considers requisition, 40, 42

    requisition discussed, 35-37, 40-41, 48-50, 67-68, 111n

    requisition refused, 35-36, 67-68, 282-83

    wages of, 332n

    Mather, Samuel

    admonished by Council, 82

    identified, 82n

    as justice of the peace, 81

    Mattawamkeag River, Maine, 249

    Matthew, Book of

    paraphrased, 384n

    Mauduit, Israel

    identified, 406n

    province agent, proposed as, 217-220

    Mauduit, Jasper. See also Province Agent

    and assembly

    accounts considered, 234

    salary voted, 234, 405

    House, letter read in, 218

    identified, 47n

    and Jackson, 217-218, 220, 234

    mentioned, 47n, 92n, 120n

    as province agent, 234, 235n

    resigns, 46

    and special agent, 43

    stamp tax, writes about, 119-20n, 219

    Maurice, Jacques

    family of, 98n

    identified, 98n

    mentioned, 96

    Mayhew, Jonathan

    Discourse, Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers, 318n

    mentioned, 218, 318n

    Stamp Act and sermons, 316, 318n

    McCarthy, Daniel, 53n, 196, 202n

    McHard, William, 97n

    McNutt, Alexander, 74n, 373-74n

    McWharton, William, 259, 265, 513

    Measures of Christian Obedience (John Kettlewell), 457, 468n

    Measures of Submission to the Civil Magistrate Considered (Benjamin Hoadly), 456, 467n

    Mede, Joseph

    Diatribae. Discourses on Divers Texts of Scripture, 454, 463n

    Mensa Mystica, or, A Discourse Concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper (Simon Patrick), 454, 464n

    Merchants

    and Acadians, 193n

    of Boston

    mentioned, 3, 17, 62-63, 195, 422, 448

    Oliver’s public resignation, attend, 436

    British, 29, 406n

    and compounding, 5

    fees in public offices, complain of, 153

    of Jamaica, 165

    of London, 236

    Molasses Act (1733), oppose, 3n, 29, 31, 32n

    of Salem and Marblehead, oppose nonimportation, 380

    as smugglers, 337

    and Stamp Act, opposition to, 401n

    and Temple, 199

    and Temple’s complaint about FB, 137n

    of West Indies, 29

    writs of assistance, legal challenge to, 273

    Merrimack River, Mass., 146, 149

    Meserve, George, 347n

    Meserwanderomet (sachem), 92n, 124n

    Michell, John

    identified, 152n

    and St. Croix Bay grants, 150, 152, 228, 280, 410

    Militia

    and Pope’s Day (1765), 396-97

    and Stamp Act riots

    about, 10

    and Castle William garrison, 316

    ineffectiveness of, 303, 321, 345, 398

    mentioned, 348-49

    orders to, 303, 339, 398

    patrolling Boston, 326, 332, 340, 422

    recruitment, 327

    Miller, Francis

    appointment to militia company, 333

    and Castle William, command of, 350

    defies local opposition, 358

    FB’s assessment of, 41

    identified, 42n

    instructions, FB sends, 327

    letters to, 328-32, 358

    cited, 328, 354n, 356n, 358, 370n

    as enclosure, 327

    listed, 522, 528-29

    and Maine survey (1764), 41, 48, 67, 68n

    maps by, 260n, See also Maps and Charts

    as enclosure, 251

    map of a route from Fort Pownall to Quebec (1764), 7, 80, 159-60, 243, 249-50, 259

    map of Penobscot Bay and the Maine Interior (1765), 7, 47n, 53n, 159, 253, 259-60n

    map of the road from Boston to Albany (1765), 259

    map of the road from Boston to Penobscot (1765), 259

    mentioned, 41

    orders to discharge militia company, 358

    orders to raise militia company, 328n-32

    road from Boston to George’s River, surveys, 259

    Milton, Mass., 342

    Minucius Felix’s Octavius, and Tertullian’s Apology for the Primitive Christians, Rendered into English, 457, 468n

    Miquelon, nr. Nfld., 98n

    Missale Romanum, or, The Depth and Mystery of Roman Mass Laid Open and Explained (Daniel Brevint), 455, 458, 465n, 470n

    Mitchell, John (cartographer)

    identified, 228n

    Map of the British and French Dominions in North America (1755), 226

    Mobs. See under Crowd Action

    Moderation of the Church of England Considered (Timothy Puller), 457, 468n

    Moffat, Thomas, 347n

    Molasses and Sugar

    duties on, 31, 127, 161, 196, 203, See also Sugar Act (1764)

    foreign, 127, 131, 196-98, 203-5

    fraud, penalties for, 208n

    imports, 29, 201

    seizures of, 197, 212, 244, 267, 283, 485, 505-6, 513-15

    smuggling of, 125, 188, 195n-201, 205, 489, See also Smuggling

    Monitions, 170

    Monro, George, 31n

    Monson, John, 207n

    Montcalm, Marquis de, 31n

    Montresor, John

    identified, 37n

    map of Castle William, 331

    map of route from Quebec to Boston (1761), 36-37n, 42n, 80

    mentioned, 36, 41, 68, 79, 80

    Moose Lake (Moosehead Lake, Maine), 67-68

    Morgan, James, 266-67, 509, 511

    Bristol Co. justices, letter to, 266-67, 508

    as co-signatory, 267, 509

    Morris, Charles

    cartography, FB’s views on, 388

    identified, 385n

    mentioned, 411

    plan of part of the province of Nova Scotia (1765), 388-89, 410

    Morton, Thomas

    Ezekiel’s Wheels. A Treatise Concerning Divine Providence, 458, 470n

    Most, Johann, 138-39, 216n

    Jackson, introduction to, 141

    returning home, 140

    Mount Desert Island Grant

    Boston Gazette, criticism in, 167

    confirmation, 7, 129, 139, 141

    confirmation delayed, 111-12, 137-40

    memorial concerning, 135, 140-41

    mentioned, 7, 64, 73, 127, 131, 134, 215

    Mount Desert Island, Maine

    development of, 7, 111-12, 262, 491n

    German settlers, 112, 138, 140-41, 215, 243, 262

    mentioned, 52, 149

    settlement of, 113n, 138

    survey of, 7

    Murray, James

    Acadians, relocation of, discusses with FB, 232-33, 261n

    FB warns of Penobscots’ insurrection, 78

    identified, 79n

    letter from

    listed, 527

    received, 79

    letters to, 78-79, 249-51

    cited, 7, 79-80, 160n, 229, 251n, 261n

    listed, 522, 525-26

    Maine survey (1764), described by FB, 80

    maps of the Maine Survey (1764), by Miller, FB sends copies of, 233, 249, 251

    mentioned, 78-79, 92, 122

    and Penobscots, priest for, 92

    proclamation on settlement of Quebec, 229

    and Quebec surveys, 80

    Toma, message to, as enclosure, 124

    National Archives of the UK, 1

    Native American Peoples. See also Indian Trade

    Arasagunticooks, 177, 181

    conferences with, 79, 91, 132, 182n, See also Fort Pownall Conferences

    demography, 67n

    hunting and ecology, 7, 178

    Jacobitism of, 132-33

    Machiases, 93n, 133

    of Maine, 35, 66, 91, 154

    future relations with, 180

    Mashpees, 106

    Mohawks, 124

    Narragansetts, 101n

    in New England, 178, 180-81

    Norridgewalks, 80, 177

    in Nova Scotia, 48, 178, 180-81

    Oneidas, 124

    Passamaquoddies. See under Passamaquoddies

    Penobscots. See under Penobscots

    Plan for Management of (1764), about, 181-82

    and rum, 178

    of St. Croix Bay, 151, 152, 158, 226-27

    St. John’s Indians, 177, 181

    Stockbridge Indians, 180

    Naval Office (Mass.)

    fees of, 116-17, 153, 239, 238-40

    fees table, as enclosure, 153

    mentioned, 70n

    shipping lists, about, 313n

    Navigation Acts

    mentioned, 4, 55, 106, 283

    seizures, governors’ entitlements to share of, 4, 54, 105, 298, 491

    Nelson, Mehitabel, 25n

    New Castle, Del., 39

    New Discoverer Discovered by Way of Answer to Mr. Baxter (Thomas Pierce), 454, 463n

    New England

    constitutions of, 147

    distances between major towns, 149

    geography of, 259

    and colonial government, reform of, 6

    mentioned, 3, 129, 132, 190, 229

    and Pontiac’s Rebellion, 36, 48-49

    New England Coasting Pilot (Southack), 228n

    New Hampshire

    and colonial government, reform of, 146-49, 154, 155

    mentioned, 72, 364

    and Stamp Act, opposition to, 346

    New Jersey

    mentioned, 2, 3, 59

    and Pontiac’s Rebellion, 35-36, 48-49

    New Jersey Assembly

    provincial regiments, refuses to raise, 48-49

    New London, Conn.

    assembly, resolves, as enclosure, 443

    New Swallow (brigantine), 53, 66, 71, 74, 77, 83, 305, 317, 347, 355

    New Testament of Jesus Christ (William Fulke, et al.), 453, 461n

    New York

    British Army garrison at, 326

    financial crisis (1759), 164

    and colonial government, reform of, 154-56

    mentioned, 39, 125

    seizures at, 54

    Stamp Act Congress at, 285, 366, 380, 398, 404

    New York Assembly

    Bankruptcy Act (1763), 237, 241n

    bills of credit passed, 167n

    provincial regiments, refuses to raise, 35, 48-49

    Stamp Act, petitions against, 175-76n, 185

    New York, Province of

    backcountry, 3

    Pontiac’s Rebellion, 48-49

    Newbury Street, Boston, 306n

    Newbury, Mass.

    division of, 88-89

    mentioned, 62

    representatives invalidated, election of, 89

    smuggling at, 209, 282, 297

    Newcastle, Duke of, 86n, 409

    Newfoundland, 209

    New-Hampshire Gazette

    cited, 284n, 297

    mentioned, 297

    Newichewannock River, N.H., 155

    Newman, Samuel

    Concordance to the Holy Scriptures, 453, 462

    New-North Church, Boston, 38n

    Newport Gazette

    articles, reprints, 381

    mentioned, 297

    Newport Mercury

    cited, 101n, 113n

    Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies (Soame Jenyns), reprints, 429

    Pennsylvania assembly, address to governor, printed, 75n

    “Philolutherus,” 382n

    proclamations, prints, 54n

    Rockingham ministry, formation reported, 300

    Virginia resolves, prints, 296n

    Newport, R.I., 39, 244, 255, 265, 346, 505-6, 512

    Newspapers

    in Boston, 3, 296, 437

    in Connecticut, 384, 443

    information, sources of, as, 96, 300

    as enclosures, 101, 347, 363, 366, 369, 375, 378, 381, 384, 400, 421, 429, 440

    and government, opposition to, 6, 184, 295, 378, 387, 423, 428, 440

    as historical sources, 21

    libels in, 295-96

    and New York Assembly, proceedings of, 49

    in New York

    and Britain, opposition to, 185, 381

    peace negotiations with Indians, 49

    on Pontiac’s Rebellion, 36

    radicalism in, 100, 165, 297, 419

    in Rhode Island, 45, 100, 111, 185, 295, 384

    on smallpox inoculation, demand for, 38

    stamped papers, printed without, 398

    Newtonian Physics, 69

    New-York Gazette

    cited, 36, 97n, 362

    Indian raids, reports, 36

    Nichols, John, 52, 53n

    Nonexportation, 411

    Nonimportation, 382n

    Noodogawerimet, 182n

    Norris, John

    Christian Blessedness, or, Discourses Upon the Beatitudes, 458, 469n

    Collection of Miscellanies, 456, 467n

    North America, 30, 46, 73, 98, 114, 165, 478-79

    North Briton, No. 45, 61n

    North Carolina, 30

    North End Gang, 306n, 422, 429n

    Northampton, Mass., 81

    Norton, Sir Fletcher

    identified, 86n

    mentioned, 85, 242n

    Notarial Acts, 170

    Nova Francia (Mark Lescarbot), 226, 228n

    Nova Scotia, 72

    Acadians in, about, 33, 261

    and colonial government, reform of, 142, 154-55, 156

    land grants in, 7, 72-74, 152, 410-12, See also St. Croix Bay Grants

    mentioned, 42

    secretary’s office, errors by, 410

    settlement of, 6

    Noyes, Belcher, 519

    Nuton, Philop, 80

    Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies (Soame Jenyns), 429n

    Obligatione Conscientiae Praelectiones Decem Oxonii (Robert Sanderson), 458, 470n

    Occasional Sermons (William Sancroft), 455, 465n

    Of the Church Five Books (Richard Field), 453, 462n

    Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion (John Wilkins), 457

    Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion (John Wilkins, et al.), 468n

    Of the Sacrament of Baptism (Gabriel Towerson), 455, 465n

    Of the Sacraments in General (Gabriel Towerson), 455, 465n

    Of Undissembled and Perservering Religion (Francis Bragge), 467n

    Of Wisdom (Pierre Charron and George Stanhope), 455, 464n

    Officium Hominis Cum Stylo (Richard Allestree), 458, 469n

    Oil, 44

    Oliver, Andrew

    anonymous, letter from, 435

    Avery’s house, meeting at, on, 441

    and Board of Trade

    acts passed, sends copies of, 65

    and Boston politicians, 284

    and Council, election to, 284-85

    as councilor, 345n

    “declaration” resigning as stamp distributor, 441

    in effigy, 301-2, 306n, 422

    FB fears his murder, 10, 302

    FB, concerned for, 436

    FB’s views on, 284, 305, 440, 447

    friends of, 436

    identified, 66n, 287n

    intimidation of, 11, 302, 316, 339, 340, 398, 435, 440, 531

    letters from, 531

    cited, 12, 307n, 440n, 444n

    as enclosure, 443

    listed, 531

    Mauduit, J., letter to

    cited, 185n

    as enclosure, 46

    mentioned, 12, 97, 361n

    portrait of, 439

    printers of Boston Gazette, letter to, 435

    sons of, 437

    Sons of Liberty, complies with demands, 436

    Sons of Liberty, letter from, 435-36

    and Stamp Act riot (14 Aug. 1765)

    briefs FB, 307n

    at Castle William, 302

    concessions, makes, 315

    further attacks feared but averted, 303-4

    house attacked, 302, 337, 397, 422

    mentioned, 313, 397

    murder allegations, 307n

    proclamation concerning, 334

    store house attacked, 302, 422

    and Stamp Act riots, 321, 324

    letters about, 306

    as stamp distributor

    appointment, 284, 299n, 301, 438

    duties, 361

    public resignation, 307n, 440-41

    public resignation, “narrative” account of, 434-38, 441

    resignation, 10, 303, 305, 361, 376, 391, 441

    and stamped papers, 314-15

    Treasury, letters to

    cited, 12, 376

    read, 376

    Whately, letter to, cited, 306, 336

    Whatley, proclamations concerning Stamp Act riot, sends copies, 336

    Oliver, Andrew, Jr., 205, 208n

    Oliver, Brinley, 438n

    Oliver, Daniel, 438n

    Oliver, Peter (son of Andrew Oliver), 438n

    Oliver, William Sanford, 438n

    Oliver’s Dock, Boston, 307n

    Ollyffe, John

    Practical Exposition of the Church-Catechism, 455, 465n

    On St. Paul’s Epistles (John Fell), 458, 469n

    Orange Street, Boston, 306n

    Orr, Hugh, 223, 224n

    Oso (Penobscot squaw), 79n

    Otis, James, Jr.

    as Boston representative, 46n

    representatives, disagrees with, 219

    as counsel

    for Boston, 445n-46n

    for Fitch, 448

    Council, insults, 398-99

    and FB, 263n

    FB, views on, about, 8

    FB quotes, 381

    FB responds to, 482n

    FB’s views on, 8, 111, 219, 262-63, 362, 373, 390, 398-99, 423-24n, 482n

    on governor’s salary, 101

    and Hallowell, B., 343n

    “Hampden,” 424n

    Hutchinson, insults, 398

    influence wanes, 263n

    Mauduit, I., favors, 219

    Mauduit, J., letter from, 218

    mental illness of, 263n

    merchants, represents, 273

    on militia, 398

    newspapers, writings in, 362-63n, 423, 426n

    opinions reported, 398

    on parliamentary supremacy, 480

    on parliamentary taxation, 101

    as political leader, 9

    and Pope’s Day (1765), 429n

    portrait of, 222

    and province agent, election of, 219, 223n

    recants radicalism, 263n

    Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved, 90, 92n, 111, 113n

    as enclosure, 113

    and Stamp Act (1765), resolves, 390

    and Stamp Act Congress, 288n, 398

    and Stamp Act riot (26 Aug. 1765), 344n

    and writs of assistance, 173n

    Otis, James, Sr., 353n

    Otis, Joseph, 318n

    Oxford, 69, 74, 128

    Paddock, Adino, 349n

    Pages, Solomon

    Preservative Against Separation From the Church of England, 458, 470n

    Paine, Robert Treat, 258n, 513-14

    Paine, Timothy, 354n

    Pallas, 434n

    Palliser, Hugh

    identified, 532n

    letter to listed, 527

    Palmer, Mr. (landlord), 324n

    Papal Usurpation and Persecution (Thomas Bray), 453, 462n

    Papers of Francis Bernard (Colin Nicolson), 1, 8, 13, 17

    Parable of the Pilgrim Written to a Friend (Simon Patrick), 454, 463n

    Paraphrase and Comment Upon the Epistles and Gospels (George Stanhope), 454, 464n

    Pardons, 169

    Parker, James, 382n

    Parker, William

    FB advises on prosecution of La Vray Amitie, 297-98

    identified, 298n

    letter from received, 297

    letter to, 297-98

    listed, 527

    quoted, 298

    as reply, 297

    Parliament

    and American Colonies

    reimburses, 108

    resentment toward, 185, 216

    American representation in, 414-15, 418, 433, 482n-483n

    authority of; See Parliamentary Authority

    and colonial government, reform of, 415-16, 432-33

    and governors, colonial, 308

    members of, friends of FB, 150

    mentioned, 31

    petitions from

    Massachusetts assembly, 175, 184

    Stamp Act Congress, 404

    proceedings of, reported, 87, 100

    prorogations of, 109

    sessions of, 113

    and stamp duties, 9

    taxation of American Colonies. See under Parliamentary Taxation

    Parliament of England, Legislation

    acts, citation of, 20

    Bill of Rights (1689), 419n

    Encouragement of Trade Act (1663), 54-55, 61, 63, 75, 105-6, 506

    Navigation Act (1660), 54-55, 298

    Plantation Trade Act (1695), 54, 113n

    Plantation Trade Act (1696), 162, 167n

    stamp acts, 168

    Parliament of Ireland

    acts, citation of, 20

    Poyning’s Law (1494), 418n

    Parliament of Scotland

    after Act of Union (1707), 481n

    acts, citation of, 20

    Parliament, Legislation

    acts of, relating to American Colonies, 52, 285

    acts, citation of, 20

    American Declaratory Act (1766), 418n, 482n

    Bankrupts Act (1763), 241n

    Coffee and Sugar Repealing Act (1765), 106

    in colonial law books, 52

    Currency Act (1764), 167n

    Customs Act (1762), 3, 4, 30-31, 54-55, 62, 63, 75, 83, 105-6, 298

    Customs Act (1765), 343n

    Irish Declaratory Act (1720), 418n

    Massachusetts Government Act (1774), 480

    Molasses Act (1733)

    enforce, orders to, 3, 29, 31n-32n

    enforcement of, 3, 195, 201, 490-91

    evasion of, 3

    prosecutions under, 195, 197, 490

    provisions of, 3, 9, 20n, 127

    ready money payments, 207n

    renewal of, 5, 31, 44

    Paper Bills of Credit, American Colonies Act (1750), 288

    Preservation of Woods Act (1733), 82

    Stamp Act (1765). See under Stamp Act (1765)

    Sugar Act (1764). See under Sugar Act (1764)

    White Pines Act (1710), 82

    Parliamentarians (English Civil War), 460

    Parliamentary Authority

    in American Colonies, 9, 208, 308, 367-68, 383, 414, 420, 433

    and American independence, 432

    and colonial legislatures, 414, 418

    and legislative supremacy, 416, 433, 472, 482n

    opposition to, 341, 360, 364, 368, 383, 386, 426

    and Stamp Act, repeal of, 421

    and trade, regulation of, 82

    Parliamentary Taxation

    and colonial legislatures, 9, 119

    for defence of American Colonies, 474-75

    duties, and trade, 237

    Grenville announces, 114

    as innovation, 10, 120, 308, 383, 413-14, 418

    opposition to, 119, 184

    prospect of, 9, 114, 221, 285

    and province agent, 44, 119

    and rights and liberties, 184, 368, 373, 383, 390

    Partridge, Oliver

    mentioned, 367n, 372

    and Stamp Act Congress, 288n

    Passadamkeag, Maine, 79

    Passamaquoddies, 93n, 122, 131-33, 177

    and English language, 133

    pacification of, 78, 93n

    petition of, 124n

    request priest, 122

    Passamaquoddy Bay Grant, 231, 384

    Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine, 6, 7, 42, 73, 152n, 177, 226-27, 373, 389

    Passamaquoddy Island, Maine, 73

    Passamaquoddy River, Maine

    as boundary line, 74, 226-27, 384, 388-89

    mentioned, 68, 144, 149, 159, 231, 249, 388, See also Schoodic River, Maine

    Patrick, Simon

    Continuation of the Friendly Debate, 469n

    Friendly Debate Between a Conformist and a Non-Conformist, 470n

    Further Continuation and Defence, or, Third Part of the Friendly Debate, 469n

    Glorious Epiphany, With the Devout Christians Love to It, 455, 465n

    Hearts Ease, or, Remedy Against All Troubles, 457, 469n

    Jesus and the Resurrection Justified by Witnesses in Heaven and in Earth, 456, 467n

    Jewish Hypocrisie, a Caveat to the Present Generation, 458, 470n

    Mensa Mystica, or, A Discourse Concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, 454, 464n

    Parable of the Pilgrim Written to a Friend, 454, 463n

    Search the Scriptures. A Treatise Shewing That All Christians Ought to Read the Holy Books, 458, 469n

    “Patriotism! A Farce,” 113n

    Patronage

    Barrington and FB, 130n

    FB as beneficiary, 2

    reversionary appointment, 211

    Paxton Riots, 75n

    Paxton v. Gray (1761), 516

    Paxton, Charles

    as customs officer, 272

    and FB, 5

    house threatened, 323, 325, 429n

    mentioned, 207n, 448

    and Polly, seizure and prosecution of, 514, 519

    Robinson, bails, 514

    and Stamp Act riot (26 Aug. 1765), 338, 344n

    and Taunton riot, 245, 265, 268n

    Peach, Joseph

    identified, 68n

    map of the St. John’s River, N.S., (1761), 67n, 233

    mentioned, 67, 79, 152, 233

    Pearl-Ash, 281n

    Pearson, William

    Sermons on Several Occasions, 455, 466n

    Peate, John, 448

    Pegge, S., 86n

    Pelling, Edward

    Discourse Concerning the Existence of God, 458, 469n

    Pemberton, Benjamin

    identified, 211n

    memorial, 118n

    and Naval Office, 210, 409

    Newcastle, letters to, cited, 410

    Newcastle, writes to, 409

    Pemble, William

    Works of . . ., 453, 462n

    Penitent Pardoned (John Goodman), 457, 468n

    Penn, John

    identified, 75n

    letters to listed, 521, 527

    Pennsylvania

    mentioned, 36, 59, 108, 111n, 352

    proprietors’ Indian policy, 75n

    royal government, campaign for, 74-75n

    Pennsylvania Assembly

    address to governor, 75n

    Pennsylvania Gazette

    “Philolutherus” and “Philopatriae,” 382n

    Penobscot Bay, Maine, 154-55

    Penobscot River, Maine, 39, 47n, 51, 68, 78, 102, 104, 123, 133, 149, 155, 177, 249, See also Maps and Charts

    branches of, 67-68, 249

    marine ecology, 40n

    Penobscot Township Grants, Maine

    agents, 45

    Board of Trade delays confirmation, 71, 105

    confirmed by Crown, 44, 47n, 71, 106, 139

    and General Court, 45, 47n, 51

    grantees, 70

    laid out, 47n, 70

    mentioned, 7, 123, 142, 149

    population of, 155-56

    Privy Council, referred to, 106n

    settlement of, 7, 155-56

    Penobscot, Maine

    new colony in, 142, 148-49, 155

    Penobscots. See also Indian Trade; Indian Affairs

    Anglican missionary to, 123-24, 133

    communities of, 93n, 177

    conferences with, 67n, See also Fort Pownall Conferences

    demography of, 78

    and English language, 133

    insurrection of, 78-79

    Jacobitism of, 134n

    and Maine Survey (1764), 67-68, 79, 159

    Massachusetts, relations with, 176, 181

    pacification of, 78, 91, 180

    request priest, 91-92, 122, 131-33

    and Roman Catholicism, 123

    Personal Reprobation Reprobated (Samuel Loveday), 458, 470n

    Persuasive to an Ingenuous Tryal of Opinions in Religion (Nicholas Clagett), 454, 463n

    Peterborough, Mass., 288n

    Pharsalia, 403

    Philadelphia, 39, 69, 74-75n, 186, 372n

    Phillips, John

    indentified, 311n

    mentioned, 33

    stamped papers, orders to secure, mentioned, 315

    “Philolutherus,” 382n

    “Philopatriae,” 382n

    Philosophy, 69

    Physicians, 38

    Pickman, Benjamin, 205, 208n

    Pierce, Thomas

    New Discoverer Discovered by Way of Answer to Mr. Baxter, 454, 463n

    Pierre Michael (Norridgewalk), 182n

    Pietas et Gratulatio Collegii Cantabrigiensis Apud Novanglos Bostoni, Massachuttensium, 45

    Piscataqua River, N.H., 149, 155

    Pisgah-Sight of Palestine (Thomas Fuller), 453, 462n

    Pitt, William, 128-29

    Plan of the Bay and District of Passamaquoddy (Charles Morris), 389n

    Plumb Island, Mass., 282, 297

    Plymouth Colony, 286

    Plymouth County, Mass., 94

    Plymouth, Mass., 32n

    Pococke, Edward

    Commentary on the Prophecy of Hosea, 453, 461n

    Point Shirley Hospital, 38

    Politics

    about, 8, 12, See also BERNARD, FRANCIS:POLITICS

    after Stamp Act Crisis, 8-9, 11, 13

    Polly (sloop)

    rescue of, 244, 251-58, 267, 502, 505-9

    seizure and prosecution of, 244-45, 255, 265-67, 505-18

    Polpoikilos Sophia, a Complete History or Survey of All the Dispensations and Methods of Religion (John Edwards), 455, 466n

    Pontiac’s Rebellion, 35-36, 41, 50-51

    Pope’s Day (5 Nov.)

    (1764), 422

    (1765), 12, 396, 401, 422-24

    gangs, union of, 403n, 422

    leaders, 422-23, 428

    parades and processions, 397, 403n, 423

    “Union Feast,” 423-24n

    and Boston town meeting, 402n

    drawing by Du Simitière, 425

    Popple, Henry (cartographer)

    Map of the British Empire in America (1753), 226

    Portland, Duke of, 207n

    Portsmouth, N.H., 146-49, 282, 297

    Portugal, 162, 188, 206

    imports from, 44

    Potash, 281n

    Pownalborough, Maine, 133

    Pownall, John

    “A State of the Grant of the Island of Mount Desert” (1764), FB sends copy, 141

    acts of the General Court, FB sends copies, 66

    advises FB not to leave Boston, 431

    “An Enquiry into an Act of [3 Geo. 3, c. 22],” FB sends, 30

    and assembly

    answer to FB’s speech, FB sends copy, 395

    FB explains speech, 365-66

    FB reviews assembly’s response to Stamp Act Crisis, 365-66

    meeting out of Boston, FB requests orders, 310

    petition to Parliament, sent, 175

    proceedings reported, 51-52

    proceedings, FB sends copies, 60, 175

    speeches and messages, FB sends copies, 278-79, 366, 375, 400

    Atkinson, petition of, FB sends copy, 141

    and Barrington, 215

    Barrington, FB letter to, FB sends copy, 141

    on Board of Trade approving FB’s conduct, 215

    Board of Trade, FB letters to, FB sends copies, 77, 355, 378

    Boston Evening-Post, FB sends copy, 401

    Boston Gazette, FB sends copies, 100-01, 296, 313, 320n, 347, 362-63, 366, 375

    Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser, FB sends copy, 400

    Boston representatives, instructions to, FB sends copy, 101

    and British ministers, 31, 431

    BSETC, “State of Trade” (1763), FB sends copy, 52

    on business, burden of, 215

    Cambridge town meeting, votes and resolutions, FB sends copy, 378, 400

    and colonial policymaking, 166, 343

    and Colvill’s claim, 54

    Constitutional Courant, FB sends copy, 381-82n

    Council minutes, FB sends copies, 259, 355, 362-63, 400

    “Defence of the Right of the American Governors to a third of seizures,” FB sends copies, 54, 75

    on FB as governor, 13, 431

    FB obliged to “quit” province, 391

    FB proposes

    civil list, 405

    commission to examine Temple’s complaint, 262

    political strategy, 362

    reform of colonial government, 100-1, 432-33

    FB reports Stamp Act riots

    (14 Aug. 1765), 307-10, 319-20

    (26 Aug. 1765), 345-47, 355

    FB requests

    advice on prosecution of newspaper libels, 295-96

    Board of Trade, correspondence be presented to, 296, 428

    Halifax, newspaper libels be referred to, 296

    leave of absence, 391, 399-400

    land grants, instructions concerning, 111-12

    Mount Desert Island grant, confirmation of, 138

    removal, 375

    support in dispute with Temple, 243, 278

    FB warns

    government lacks authority, 343

    of Otis and radicalism, 111, 262-63

    of radicalism, 375, 380-81

    FB writes to, 45, 231

    friendship with FB, 5, 142, 262

    governor’s oath, FB sends, 113

    Halifax, FB letter to, FB sends copy, 141, 355

    Hillsborough, FB letter to, FB sends copy, 141

    House of Representatives, votes of, FB sends copy, 381

    identified, 32n

    ill-health of, 137

    and Jackson, 346

    Jackson, FB letter to, FB sends copy, 366, 375

    Journals of the House of Representatives, FB sends copies, 66, 280, 381

    letters from, 431

    cited, 5, 16, 84, 263n, 279n-80n, 431n, 488

    listed, 523, 525, 531

    quoted, 13, 139n, 141

    received, 137, 142n, 216, 262, 278, 280, 431

    letters to, 137-39, 141, 175-76, 242-43, 259-60, 262-63, 278-79, 295-96, 307-11, 313, 319-20, 345-47, 355, 362-63, 365-66, 375, 380-81, 390-92, 395-401, 422-24, 432-34

    Barnard and Harrison, carried by, 347

    Board of Trade, considered by, 401

    Board of Trade, read by, 104, 381

    cited, 6-12, 18, 30-32, 47n, 53-55, 61n, 72, 77, 97n, 99, 111, 113, 130n, 140n-42n, 154, 167n, 171n, 185n, 207n, 209n, 221n, 243n, 248, 259n, 263n, 287n, 305-6n, 310-11, 313n, 320, 322, 335-36, 343, 347n, 355n, 360n, 364, 366, 370, 374, 378, 381, 384, 392n-95n, 403n, 406n, 422n, 424n, 429n, 431n, 444n, 448, 479-80, 482n

    as enclosures, 54, 113, 141, 263, 378, 423-24

    FB sends copies, 141, 263, 378, 381, 424

    FB sends duplicates, 104, 111, 355, 423-24

    FB sends triplicates, 319

    for publication, 400

    listed, 521-31

    private, 307-10, 365, 424, 432-33

    Privy Council, referred to, 401

    received, 104, 392

    as replies, 216, 262, 279n, 390, 431

    Rockingham, Pownall sends to, 166, 310

    secretary of state, referred to, 166

    Select Letters, published in, 434

    written in stages, 400

    on MacIntosh, 431

    map of a route from Fort Pownall to Quebec (1764), by Miller, FB sends, 243, 259

    map of Penobscot Bay and the Maine Interior (1765), by Miller, FB sends, 227, 259

    Massachusetts Gazette and Boston News-Letter, FB sends copies, 362, 378

    mentioned, 30, 54, 66, 71, 75, 77, 92, 94, 104, 118, 201, 240, 287, 290, 305, 378, 410, 428

    military assistance, advises FB on, 431

    Most, J., to assist, 138

    and Mount Desert Island grant, 144

    expects confirmation, 130n, 139n, 137-39

    meets Germans, 215

    under consideration, 215

    Newport Gazette, FB sends copy, 381

    newspapers, FB sends copies, 296, 362, 398, 424

    New-York Gazette, FB sends copy, 362

    oath, certificate of taking, FB sends, 111

    on Parliament’s attitude toward American Colonies, 215-16

    plan of a passage from Penobscot by the Sebasticook River to Fort Halifax, FB sends, 243

    plan of a road cut from Fort Pownall to St. George’s Fort, FB sends, 243

    plan of Penobscot Bay and River, the Fox Islands, and the sea coast on the east side of the townships, FB sends, 243

    plan of the Bay of Passamaquoddy and St. Croix, FB sends, 243, 259

    plan of the Bay of St. Croix and a passage by the Passamaquoddy River to Fort Pownall, FB sends, 243

    Pope’s Day crowd action, described by FB, 396-99, 422-24

    “Principles of Law and Polity” (1764), FB sends copies, 98, 100-1, 432, 434, 480

    proclamation relative to the fees of public offices, FB sends copy, 118

    proclamations concerning Stamp Act riots, FB sends copies, 335-36, 347

    Public Offices Bill (1765), FB sends copy, 396

    public offices, campaign to re-open, reported by FB, 390-91, 395-96

    Representation on a Rescue at Taunton, FB sends copies, 248, 259-60

    Rhode Island newspapers, FB sends copies, 111, 113

    Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (James Otis Jr.), FB sends copies, 111, 113

    “seditious papers,” FB sends copies, 380

    snake emblem (“Join or Die”), FB sends copy, 381

    Stamp Act Congress, resolves of, FB sends copy, 401

    Taunton riot, FB sends papers concerning, 257

    on Temple’s complaint to Treasury, 216, 279

    The Times: A Poem (Church), FB sends copies, 400

    Virginia Resolves (1765), FB sends copy, 395

    Waldo patent, dispute reported by FB, 102-5

    Pownall, Mary (wife of John Pownall), 215

    Pownall, Thomas

    Administration of the Colonies, 481n

    FB’s concerns about, 280

    identified, 61n

    letters to

    cited, 281n, 344n

    listed, 525

    mentioned, 62, 64n, 201

    and Nova Scotia land grants, 60-61, 280, 410

    Principles of Polity being the Grounds and Reasons of Civil Empire, 481n

    Rockingham, delivers FB’s letters to, 310

    and St. Croix Bay grants, 61n, 150, 152, 228

    Poyning’s Law, 415

    Poynings, Edward, 418n

    Pietas et Gratulatio Collegii Cantabrigiensis Apud Novanglos Bostoni, Massachuttensium, 47n

    Practical Christianity (Richard Lucas), 456, 467

    Practical Discourse Concerning Death (William Sherlock), 455, 464n

    Practical Discourse Concerning Swearing (William Wake), 458, 470n

    Practical Exposition of the Church-Catechism (John Ollyffe), 455, 465n

    Practical Treatise of the Regulation of the Passions (Francis Bragge), 456, 467n

    Praelectiones Theologicae (Anthony Tuckney), 454, 462n

    Pratt, Benjamin, 491

    Preble, Jedidiah, 80, 103, 105n, 182n

    Preble, John, 79

    and Maine survey (1764), 80, 92

    mentioned, 78

    Preservative Against Quakerism (Patrick Smith), 457, 468n

    Preservative Against Separation From the Church of England (Solomon Pages), 458, 470n

    Price, Mr., 137

    Price, William

    Map of Boston, 309

    Primitiae Sacre. The Reflections of a Devout Solitude (John Disney), 455-56, 466n

    Primitive Christianity (William Cave), 457, 467n

    Principles of Polity being the Grounds and Reasons of Civil Empire (Thomas Pownall), 481n

    Pringle, James

    identified, 532n

    letters to listed, 530

    Private Thoughts Upon Religion, Digested into Twelve Articles (William Beveridge), 455, 464n

    Private Thoughts: in Two Parts (William Beveridge), 469n

    Privy Council

    and boundary disputes between Massachusetts and New York, 294

    clerical errors, 410

    as court of appeal, 169, 294

    House of Representatives’ proceedings of, considers, 287

    Little, Abigail (1764), act to enable, disallows, 95

    mentioned, 15, 106n

    Mount Desert Island grant, delays confirming, 6, 71, 113n, 130n, 139

    Penobscot township grants, delays confirming, 106

    and Stamp Act riots, 336, 342

    FB’s correspondence, considers, 12

    Temple’s complaint about FB, dismisses, 216, 488

    Probates, 169, 172n

    Proclamation of Peace (1763), 25n

    Proclamation for requiring all Justices of the Peace to bring to Justice Persons concerned in the unlawful proceedings [of 14 Aug. 1765] (Governor and Council), 335-36

    paper “stuck up” in response to, 308

    Proclamation for requiring all Justices of the Peace to bring to Justice Persons concerned in the unlawful proceedings [of 26 Aug. 1765] (Governor and Council), 335-36

    Providence Gazette

    cited, 47, 202n, 297, 402n

    letters, reprints, 402n

    Pennsylvania assembly, address to governor, printed, 75n

    proclamations, prints, 54n

    Providence, R.I., 52

    Province Agent. See also Jackson, Richard; Mauduit, Jasper

    accounts of, problems in, 234

    appointment, procedure for, 90

    election of, 8, 217-21, 277

    and government interests, 221

    House of Representatives, letter from, 263, 295

    instructions for, 29, 31, 44, 101, 119

    joint agents proposed, 217

    payments to, 406n

    salary of, 234, 235

    special agent, election of, 43-44, 46, 224-26, 404-5

    and Stamp Act Crisis, 383-84

    Province Charter (1691), 90, 146, 365

    Province House, Boston, 61, 246, 264, 304n, 341, 404, 430, 447, 492, 517

    and Stamp Act riots, 311n, 313, 323

    Province Seal, 169, 171n, 248, 490

    Province Secretary of Massachusetts. See also Oliver, Andrew

    Board of Trade, sends copies of

    acts of the General Court, 287, 290

    Council minutes, 290

    Journals of the House of Representatives, 290

    treasurer’s accounts, 290

    fees, 116, 139

    office mentioned, 96, 169, 448

    province agent, corresponds with, 90

    Province Treasurer of Massachusetts

    mentioned, 282

    treasurer’s notes, 108

    Province Treasury, 428

    Public Finances, 108-9, 163, 288, 291n, 414

    about, 109

    and parliamentary taxation, 414

    public debt, 8

    and specie, 164

    taxes, provincial, 109

    Puffendorf, Samuel, 469n

    Puller, Timothy

    Moderation of the Church of England Considered, 457, 468n

    Puritans, English, 393n

    Putnam, James, 275n

    Quebec, 34, 42, 67, 68, 79-80, 91-92, 154, 192n, 232

    Quincy, Josiah. Jr., 446n

    Rainsford Island, Boston Harbor, 38n

    Raleigh, Walter

    History of the World, 453, 461n

    Rawlet, John

    Treatise of Sacramental-Covenanting With Christ, 457, 468n

    Reade, Charles

    identified, 532n

    letter to listed, 527

    Reasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Religion (Robert Jenkin), 456, 467n

    Reasonableness of Conformity to the Church of England (Benjamin Hoadly), 456, 467n

    Reeves, William

    Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion, 455, 465n

    Reformation of Manners Promoted by Argument, in Several Essays (Samuel Walker), 455, 465n

    Refutation of the Atheistical Notion of Fate (John Harris), 463n

    Refutation of the Objections Against the Attributes (John Harris), 463n

    Registers, 169

    Regulations lately Made concerning the Colonies and the Taxes Imposed upon Them, Considered (Thomas Whately), 418n

    Relation of a Conference Held About Religion at London (Gilbert Burnet), 457, 467n

    Relation of the Conference Between William Laud, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and Mr. Fisher the Jesuit (William Laud and John Fisher), 453

    Religion, 459

    liberty of, 219

    and politics, 157, 395

    Protestant nonconformists, 460

    Protestant theology, 460

    Roman Catholic priests, 33, 34

    Religion and Reason Adjusted and Accorded (R. R. Banks), 458, 470n

    Religious Perfection or A Third Part of the Enquiry After Happiness (Richard Lucas), 456, 466n

    Replications, 172n

    Reply to Jesuit Fisher’s Answer (Francis White), 453, 461n

    Request, Letters of, 170

    Restoration (1660), 156, 460

    Rhode Island

    and Acadians, 190

    assembly, 394

    governor, 208

    Stamp Act, resolves against, 390, 393n

    fees acts, 242n

    and colonial government, reform of, 146-48, 154-55

    and king’s attorney general, 238

    mentioned, 52, 364

    Molasses Act (1733), criticism of, 53n

    parliamentary authority, opposition to, 52, 100, 185, 295

    printers, 377, 381

    Stamp Act, opposition to, 423

    Stamp Act riots, 347n

    Rice, George

    as co-signatory, 106

    identified, 106n

    Richardson and Henry Dodwell, John

    Canon of the New Testament Vindicated, 457, 468n

    Richmond, Ezra

    identified, 268n

    and Taunton riot, 258n, 266-67, 506-10, 513, 519

    and writs of assistance, 268n, 516n

    Rights of Colonies Examined (Stephen Hopkins), 47n

    Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (James Otis Jr.), 90, 92, 113n

    as enclosure, 113

    Rivers, James

    identified, 139n

    mentioned, 137

    Rivière Chaudière. See under Chaudière River

    Rivière des Etchemins, 227

    Roberts, Benjamin

    Cockle, letter to

    as enclosure, 487

    cited, 128n, 488n, 500n

    identified, 128n

    Roberts, John

    as friend of FB, 429, 431

    identified, 429n

    Robicheau (Acadian leader)

    identity and role, 97n

    mentioned, 96, 107

    Robins, Jacques

    and Board of Trade, 97n

    identified, 97n

    mentioned, 96

    Robinson, John (Boston merchant), 63

    Robinson, John (customs officer)

    American Board of Customs Commissioners, appointed to, 272

    in Boston, 264

    and Bristol Co. justices

    complains to FB about, 517, 519

    lack of assistance from, 265, 267-68, 510-11, 514

    letter to, 266-67, 508

    as co-signatory, 267, 506, 509

    and Council, 518-19, 264

    deposition on Taunton Riot (1765), 264-65, 268, 517-20

    enclosures to, 520

    FB reminds him of duties, 272n

    and FB, 264, 271, 519

    FB’s complaint, responds to, 517-18, 520

    letters from, 265-68

    cited, 258n, 259n, 265, 268, 515n, 516n, 520n

    as enclosure, 265

    listed, 526

    as replies, 264

    letters to, 264

    cited, 266n, 272n, 520n

    as enclosure, 271

    listed, 526

    marries, 412n

    “Narrative of the Proceedings relating to the sloop Polly” (1765), 505-6

    cited, 249n, 258n, 515n, 520n

    as enclosure, 244, 520

    and Polly, prosecution of, 244, 265, 270-71, 517

    and Auchmuty, 517

    and FB, 265, 270-71, 518

    and Russell, 517

    and Temple, 517

    and Polly, seizure and rescue of, 244, 255-56, 507

    FB demands account, 264

    reported to FB, 265

    on Russell, 271

    sends messenger, 246

    sued by Smith, 244

    and Stamp Act riots, 346-47n

    and Taunton riot

    on Antrobus, 510-11

    armed resistance, warns of, 249n

    arrested, 246, 509-11

    bailed, 245, 514

    Bristol Co. justices, response of, 268n

    conducts searches, 256

    military assistance, considers, 248

    reports, 266-68

    writs of assistance, requests, 249, 256, 267

    and Temple, 245, 264, 271, 518

    Temple, letters to, 245, 507, 510-11

    cited, 248n-49n, 258n, 516n

    FB receives, 246

    FB returns, 244

    Rockingham Ministry

    on FB as governor, 387, 431

    FB unaware of, 11, 290

    formed, 290, 300, 429

    imperial reform, FB hopes for, 387

    mentioned, 16, 300, 357n

    Stamp Act riots, reponds to, 12

    Temple’s complaints about FB, dismisses, 272

    Rockingham Whigs, 86n

    Rockingham, Marquess of, 13, 207n, 290, 300

    Rogers, John

    Twelve Sermons, Preached Upon Several Occasions, 456, 467n

    Roman Catholicism, 123-24n, 233n

    Rome, History of, 101n, 403n

    Ropes, Nathaniel, 205, 208n

    Rowe, John

    and Boston committee, 444

    expences relating to stamped papers, 447

    identified, 449n

    on storm, 281

    Rowe’s Wharf, Boston, 349n

    Roxbury, Mass., 339

    Royal Exchange Tavern, Boston, 307, 311n, 347n, 423-24n

    Royal Government. See under Government, Royal

    Royal Household, 84, 86n

    Royal Navy

    and Customs Act (1762), 3-4, 31, 55

    masts from white pines, 82

    North Atlantic Station, 4

    officers fail to consult FB, 283

    officers liaise with Temple, 283

    officers mentioned, 4, 55, 75, 195, 197, 244, 246, 256, 282, 506, 510, 517

    seizures, entitlement to shares of, 4, 31, 55, 106

    smuggling, operations against, 4

    Royalism, 460

    Ruddock, John, 444n

    Ruggles, Timothy

    character of, 373

    and FB, 372

    letter to, 372-73

    listed, 530

    mentioned, 367n

    and potash, 281n

    speech, FB sends copy, 373

    and Stamp Act Congress, 288n

    Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (Jeremy Taylor), 453-54, 461n, 464n

    Russell, Chambers

    character of, 117, 163, 270-71

    and Cockle, 198

    and Colvill, 61, 63, 75

    and FB, 55

    Freemason, on prosecution of, 62, 64n

    identified, 63n

    informers, and payments to, 273

    mentioned, 118n, 193

    Robinson and, 265, 271, 517-18

    Temple, answers criticism by, 198

    Temple, letter to

    cited, 488n

    as enclosure, 201

    Russell, James, 32n, 345n

    Russell, Joseph, 370n

    Saco River, N.H., 148, 286

    Sagadahoc River, Maine (Androscoggin River), 146

    Sagadahoc, Territory of

    and colonial government, reform of, 6, 142-43, 148-49, 155-58, 227

    jurisdiction disputed, 47n

    mentioned, 45, 50-51, 105, 155, 178

    Salem, Mass.

    Anguilla, imports from, 485

    association, 382n

    mentioned, 31n-32n, 207n, 310, 327, 380, 382n, 428, 485

    Sally (sloop)

    mentioned, 201, 202n

    seizure and prosecution of, 53n, 55, 195-96, 199

    Saltonstall, Richard

    defies local opposition, 352, 354n, 358

    identified, 328n

    instructions, FB sends, 327

    letters to, 327-32, 358

    cited, 18, 328, 344n, 354n-56n, 358, 370n

    as enclosure, 327

    listed, 528, 529

    orders to discharge militia company, 358

    orders to raise militia company, 327-32, 352

    popularity of, 352

    recruiting orders, accepts, 328

    sheriff of Essex County, appointed, 328

    on Stamp Act, 327

    Sancroft, William

    as nonjuror, 460

    Occasional Sermons, 455, 465n

    Sanderson, Robert

    Obligatione Conscientiae Praelectiones Decem Oxonii, 458, 470n

    Twenty Sermons Formerly Preached, 453, 462n

    Twenty-Six Sermons, 453, 462n

    Sandwich, Earl of, 139n

    Saul and Samuel at Endor (Daniel Brevint), 457, 468n

    Saunders, Bradbury, 92n

    letter to listed, 531

    Sauro Woraromogasa, 92

    Saxony (Holy Roman Empire), 141

    Scaeva, 403n

    Scholastical History of the Canon of the Holy Scripture or The Certain Indubitate Books Thereof . . . (John Cosin), 454, 462n

    Schoodic River, Maine, 388

    Scott, John

    Christian Life, 455, 464n

    Discourses, 455, 464

    Sermons Upon Several Occasions, 457, 468n

    Search the Scriptures. A Treatise Shewing That All Christians Ought to Read the Holy Books (Simon Patrick), 458, 469n

    Sebem Lake, Maine, 243, 249, See also under Moose Lake

    Secker, Thomas, 121

    FB seeks aid for Harvard College, 121

    identified, 122n

    letters to, 121-22

    cited, 8

    listed, 523

    Second Essay Upon the Execution of the Laws Against Immorality and Prophaneness (John Disney), 456, 466n

    Secretary of State

    and Colvill’s claim, 53

    filing system, 16

    letters referred to, 31

    letters to considered, 50, 300

    Seizures

    in America, 53

    in Boston, 270, 504

    and compounding, 198, See under Compounding

    and duties, payment of, 487

    FB views on, 193-94

    Freemason, 61, 62, 75

    frequency of, 272

    Hallowell, by, 212

    HMS Fortune, by, 52

    and informers, 273

    La Vray Amitie, 282-83, 297-98

    at Newbury, 209

    Polly, 244, 251, 255-56, 265, 269, 505-10, 517-19

    prosecution, mode of, about, 127

    prosecutors’ shares, 31, 53-54, 62-63, 75-76, 83, 105, 134

    Rhoda, 52

    Sally, 195, 197, 199-200

    Select Discourses (John Smith), 454, 463n

    Select Letters (FB), xxv

    Sentences, 169-70

    Separation of Churches From Episcopal Government (Henry Dodwell), 454, 462n

    Sermon Preached at the Reviving of the General Meetings (William Wake), 466n

    Sermon Preached Before the King and Queen (William Wake), 466n

    Sermon Preached Before the Lord-Mayor and Court of Alderman (William Wake), 466n

    Sermons (Henry Hammond), 453, 461n

    Sermons and Essays Upon Several Subjects (William Whiston), 455, 465n

    Sermons on Several Occasions (William Pearson), 455, 466n

    Sermons on Several Subjects (William Beveridge), 455, 464n

    Sermons on Special Occasions and Subjects (John Edwards), 455, 466n

    Sermons on the Attributes of God (Daniel Whitby), 456, 467n

    Sermons Preached (William Wake), 456

    Sermons Preached (George Stanhope), 456, 466n

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions (Benjamin Calamy), 457, 468n

    Sermons Upon Several Occasions (John Scott), 457, 468n

    Seventeen Sermons (William Clagett), 456, 466n

    Several Discourses (Thomas Sherlock), 467n

    Several Discourses Concerning the Terms of Acceptance With God (Benjamin Hoadly), 467n

    Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church (Thomas Sherlock), 470n

    Several Miscellaneous and Weighty Cases of Conscience Learnedly and Judiciously Resolved (Thomas Barlow), 458, 469n

    Several Sermons Upon Useful Subjects (William Sherlock), 455, 464n

    Sewall, Jonathan, 275n, 448

    Sewall, Samuel, 444n

    Seymour, Henry, 86n

    Shaeffer, John Martin, 141, 216n

    Sharp, John

    Fifteen Sermons, 454, 463n

    Sheaffe, Edward, 282

    Sheaffe, William

    letter to cited, 430

    Shelburne, Earl of

    Board of Trade, president of, as, 140n

    mentioned, 15

    secretary of state, appointed, 140n

    Shelden, Christopher, 54n

    Shelton, William

    Discourse of Superstition, 458, 469n

    Sherlock, Thomas

    mentioned, 470n

    Sermons, 456, 458

    Several Discourses, 467n

    Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church, 470n

    Sherlock, William

    Discourse Concerning a Judge of Controversies in Matters of Religion, 454, 462n

    Practical Discourse Concerning Death, 455, 464n

    Several Sermons Upon Useful Subjects, 455, 464n

    Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and Ever Blessed Trinity, 454, 463n

    Sherriff William

    Gage, letter from, delivers, 349, 363, 367

    Gage, reports to, 360

    identified, 351n

    mentioned, 359

    Shipbuilding, 155

    Ships’ Captains, 31, 43, 53, 54n, 63, 66, 71, 74, 77, 83, 88, 127, 190-91, 195-96, 206, 223-24, 244, 266, 305, 307, 310, 315, 317, 347, 353, 355, 364, 374-75, 448, 495-96, 505, 508

    Shirley, William

    identified, 532n

    letters to listed, 526, 530

    Signals, 325

    Sixty Five Sermons (Ralph Brownrig), 453, 461n

    Small, John.

    identified, 37n

    maps of the Kennebec River and the Penobscot River (1760), 36

    mentioned, 36n, 37n

    Smallpox Epidemic (1764), 38, 40, 43, 50, 96, 107n, 289

    Smallpox Inoculation, 37-38

    Smith (ship’s captain), 310

    Smith, Henry, 310, 311, 320, 342, 347

    Smith, Job

    Customhouse, enters cargo at, 505

    friends and neighbors of, 512

    justices of the peace show favor, 513-14

    ready to pay duties, 514

    Robinson makes example of, 514

    Robinson, arrests and sues, 246, 504, 509-10

    as smuggler, 510-11

    son of, 509-10

    stores searched, 267, 268, 509-15

    Smith, John (theologian)

    Select Discourses, 454, 463n

    Smith, John (innholder)

    deposition cited, 499-500

    Smith, Patrick

    Preservative Against Quakerism, 457, 468n

    Smuggling, 208-9, 272-73, 282-83, See also Molasses and Sugar:smuggling of

    into Boston, 208, 272

    and compounding, 5

    Dutch tea, 208

    into Newbury, 209

    penalties, 127, See also Compounding

    into York, 209

    Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG), 78, 121-24, 133

    Some Sermons Preached on Several Occasions (Gilbert Burnet), 457, 469n

    Some Thoughts Concerning the Several Causes and Occasions of Atheism, Especially in the Present Age (John Edwards), 456, 466n

    Somerset v. Stewart (1772), 444

    Sons of Liberty

    about, 370

    mentioned, 347n, 435

    Oliver, letter to, quoted, 435-36

    and Oliver’s public resignation, 440

    South Battery, Boston, 348-49

    South Carolina, 351n

    South End Gang, 306n, 422, 429n

    South, Robert

    Animadversions Upon Dr. Sherlock’s Book . . . A Vindication of the Holy and Ever-Blessed Trinity, 463n

    Southack, Cyprian

    Actual Survey of the Sea Cost from New York to the I. Cape Briton, 228

    identified, 228n

    New England Coastal Pilot (1758), 226

    Sovereignty, 472

    Spain, 162, 206

    imports from, 44

    Sparks, Jared, 459, 467n

    Spencer, John

    Discourse Concerning Prodigies, 458, 470n

    Spicer, John

    identified, 60n

    mentioned, 58, 231

    Spirits, 170

    Spiritual Refining (Anthony Burgess), 453, 461n

    Spry, William

    identified, 266n

    mentioned, 166n, 265, 517

    St. Croix Bay

    capital, site for, 149, 156

    mentioned, 158

    St. Croix Bay Grants

    about, 152

    applications for, 298, 356, 410-11

    confirmation of, 73, 410

    documentation, errors in, 411

    FB as partner, 280, 356, 411

    and colonial government, reform of, 156

    jurisdiction, problems concerning, 143, 152, 226-27, 299, 356, 388, 410

    location of, 150-51, 226, 231, 280, 388, 389, 412n, See also See also Boundary Disputes between Massachusetts and:Nova Scotia

    memorial for, 61n

    mentioned, 60, 143, 228

    partners, 150, 152

    settlers for, 72-73, 152

    Stamp Act riots, plans disrupted by, 357

    survey of, 357

    terms and conditions of, 72, 150-51, 299

    warrants received, 143, 150

    St. Croix River. See also Maps and Charts

    as boundary line, 6, 61, 67, 71, 74, 139, 143, 151, 410

    location of, 151, 152n, 226-27, 231, 384, 388-89, 410

    mentioned, 67, 68, 144, 146, 149-51, 357

    St. Domingue (Fr. W.I.), 191-92n, 223n, 261

    St. John’s River, N.S, 7, 67, 149, 155, 233, 249

    St. John’s, Nfld., 41, 67, 349

    St. Lawrence River, 42, 45, 48, 50-51, 78, 177

    St. Pierre (nr. Nfld.), 209

    St. Stephen, N.B., 390n

    Stamp Act (1765), See also Stamped Papers

    court pleadings, duty on, 171

    distributors, 299n

    drafted, 114

    duties levied, 171-73

    effect, takes, 12

    failure of, 11, 430, 433

    implementation of, 308, 347, 351, 353, 357, 390, 392, 396, 420

    and assembly, 366-70, 381, 419-21, See also Assembly (the Council and the House of Representatives):Stamp Act, implementation of

    and governor, 361, 372, 447

    submission to, 420

    mentioned, 9, 114n, 343, See under Stamp Act (1765)

    official imprint, 393n

    opposition to

    in American Colonies, 6, 414-15

    in assembly, 280, 365, 368, 394, See also Assembly (the Council and the House of Representatives):Parliament, petition to

    in Boston, 10, 82, 304, 311, 321, 338, 340, 362, 365, 420, 437, 443

    discussed, 1, 90, 280, 301-2, 366, 390, 413, 426

    in Massachusetts, 297n, 340, 352, 356, 367

    passage of, 9, 114, 225

    provisions of, 9, 171

    and public offices, 438, 442-45

    repeal of, 13, 304, 386, 387

    and royal instruments, 171

    stamped papers. See under Stamped Papers

    taxation, and parliamentary, 120, 171, 184

    Stamp Act Congress

    dates, 92n

    delegates to, 285, 367

    FB views on, 285

    mentioned, 285-87, 366, 372-73, 398, 404-5

    resolves

    about, 401n

    as enclosure, 401

    Stamp Act Riot, Boston (14 Aug. 1765)

    aftermath, 308, 321

    approved by “principal people,” 337

    and assembly, 311n

    British regulars, rumors about, 308

    commemorated, 397

    Council deliberations, 301-3

    crowds, 302, 304, 306-7n

    visit Province House, 304, 311n, 417

    discussed, 17, 301-5, 315-17

    effigies, 301-2

    Fort Hill bonfire, 303-4

    leaders and organizers, 304

    and militia, 303

    Oliver’s house and store attacked, 302, 307n

    proclamation concerning, 334-35, 528

    as enclosure, 335

    listed, 528

    reward and pardon for information, 334

    Stamp Act Riot, Boston (26 Aug. 1765)

    Boston town meeting disapproves, 344n

    Castle William threatened, 326, 332

    Crown officers, 323

    discussed, 46, 323-24, 337-43

    proclamation concerning, 336

    further disturbances feared, 346

    grievances of mob, 337

    Hallowell’s house destroyed, 323, 325, 338

    houses targeted, sequence of, 324n-325

    Hutchinson’s house destroyed and looted, 323-25, 338-39

    loyal associations, 380

    military patrols, 326, 332, 362

    mob gathers, 337

    organization of, 311

    Paxton’s house visited by mob, 323, 338

    proclamation concerning, 335-36

    listed, 528

    reward and pardon for information, 336

    reports arrive in London, 306

    Story’s house attacked, 323, 325, 338

    Vice Admiralty papers burnt, 323, 325, 338

    volunteer guard, 339, 344n

    Stamp Act Riots

    aftermath of, 351-53, 356, 359

    and American Colonies, 346

    British government deliberates, 376, 387

    compensation for victims. See under Compensation, Stamp Act Riots

    and Council, 315-16

    Crown officers threatened, 321

    discussed, 9-10, 11, 17, 166, 282, 290

    distinctions made between the two riots, 340

    friends of government, intimidation of, 316

    law enforcement, weakness of, 345n

    military assistance after, 323-26, 332-33, 367-68, 431

    militia orders respecting, 348

    organization of, 306n

    reports of, about, 12

    Rhode Island, 346-47

    rioters arrested, 340, 345n, 351n

    stamped papers threatened, 314-15

    and volunteer guard, 345-46, 362

    Stamp Acts, History of, 168n

    Stamp Distributors, 361, 364, 376, 434, 447, See also Oliver, Andrew

    Stamp Office, 361

    Stamp Tax

    and colonial assemblies, 120

    news of, 479

    and Parliament, 113, 114, See also Parliamentary Taxation

    Stamped Papers

    arrival of, 312, 314-15, 325, 364, 366, 368

    orders concerning, 325

    delivery of, 364

    distribution of, 376, 530

    failure of, 447-49

    Treasury orders, 376

    expenses concerning, 447-48

    and governor, 354n

    preservation of, 353, 447

    disputes about, 428

    security of, 314-16

    storage of, 315, 447

    usage, FB’s views on, 445

    Stanhope, George

    Boylean Lectures, 454

    Of Wisdom (trans.), 455

    Paraphrase and Comment Upon the Epistles and Gospels, 454, 464n

    Sermons Preached, 456, 466n

    Success of the Gospel a Proof of Its Divine Authority, 464n

    Stephens, Philip

    letter to, as enclosure, 276

    Stillingfleet, Edward

    Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome, 457, 467n

    Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome, 457, 467n

    Discourse in Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity of the Doctrine of the Trinity (Edward Stillingfleet), 457, 467n

    Twelve Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, 454, 464n

    Unreasonableness of Separation, 454, 463n

    Stipulations, 170

    Stockbridge, Mass., 183n

    Story, William

    house attacked, 323, 325, 338, 429n

    proclamation concerning, 335

    identified, 324n

    merchants, deposition concerning, 343n

    Stuart, Gilbert

    Temple, portrait of, 126

    Stuart, James Francis Edward, 132, 134n

    Sturgeon, 39, 40n

    Success of the Gospel a Proof of Its Divine Authority (George Stanhope), 464n

    Sufficiency of a Standing Revelation (Offspring Blackall), 463n

    Sugar Act (1764)

    aims, 31

    in effect, 8, 31, 115, 166

    fraud, penalties for, 208n

    governor’s oath, 111, 113n

    passage of, 31, 479

    provisions of, 31-32, 106

    repeal of, 13

    scope of, 9

    seizures, governor’s entitlement to share of, 98n

    and Vice Admiralty court, 270

    Summonses, 170

    Superior Court of Massachusetts

    justices of, 183, 240, 242n

    mentioned, 147, 170

    and public offices, closure of, 12, 183

    and writs of assistance, 4, 245, 247, 254, 267, 509

    Surinam, 266, 505, 508

    Swansea River, Mass., 255, 505

    Swansea, Mass., 246, 266, 508

    Swift, Henry, 403n, 422, 424n, 429n

    Sydenham, Humphrey

    Five Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, 454, 464n

    Symbolon Theologikon, or, A Collection of Polemical Discourses (Jeremy Taylor), 453, 462n

    Syntagma Theologicum (Henry Hibbert), 453, 461n

    Tatamagouche Bay, N.S., 145n

    Taunton, 245

    Taunton Riot (1765)

    about, 244

    and Bristol Co. justices of the peace, 256, 513-14

    discussed, 251-58

    and militia, 247, 251, 254-55, 257

    Taunton River, Mass., 244, 256, 266-67, 506-8

    Taunton, Mass., 510, 513

    Taxation, 163-64, See also Public Finances; Parliamentary Taxation

    Taylor, Jeremy

    Antiquitates Christianae, 453, 462n

    Ductor Dubitantium, or, The Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures, 453, 462n

    Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, 453, 454, 461n, 464n

    Symbolon Theologikon, or, A Collection of Polemical Discourses, 453, 462n

    Tea, 170, 208, 272-73

    Temple, Earl, 202n

    Temple, John

    affidavits, as enclosures, 487

    Anguilla, investigates imports to Salem from, 32n

    and Antrobus

    letter from, FB returns, 244

    letter to, as reply, 516n

    views on, 502

    and Auchmuty

    letter to

    cited, 488n

    as enclosure, 487

    views on, 499

    and Board of Customs Commissioners

    Abrahams, affidavit, sends, 487

    affidavits, sends, 487

    Auchmuty, Temple’s letter to, sends, 487

    Cockle, declaration, sends, 487

    Cockle, Temple’s letter to, sends, 487

    collectors of the Northern District, letter to, sends, 487

    FB and Cockle, complains of, 216, 502-4, 488

    FB, letter to, sends, 487

    Gumbs and Roberts, letter to Cockle, sends, 487

    letters to, 127, 502-4

    cited, 128n, 131, 207, 216, 248, 258, 500n, 520

    as enclosure, 515

    Privy Council, referred to, 488

    Treasury, referred to, 488

    “Narrative of the Proceedings relating to the sloop Polly” (Robinson), sends copy, 502, 520

    Oliver, letter to, sends copy, 502

    Robinson, deposition, sends copy, 520

    Robinson, letter to FB, sends copy, 265

    “State of the Riot and Robbery at Taunton, Massachusetts,” sends, 504

    Toovey, affidavits, sends, 487

    on Bristol Co. justices, 513-14

    career of, 25n

    and Cockle

    absences of, 498

    accounts, 189

    on Anguilla clearances, 125, 485

    Cockle’s Answer, comments on, 498-500

    complains about, 207, 485-88

    dismisses, 207

    on extortion and fraud of, 488n, 499

    on FB, collusion with, 125, 486, 498-99

    letter to cited, 131, 487

    reprimands, 131, 488

    secrecy of, 498

    suspends, 131, 136, 189, 198, 488

    suspicious of, 131

    collectors, letters to, as enclosures, 487

    on compounding, 486-87

    condemnation, receives share of, 499

    and Council, 248, 251, 254, 503

    and Customhouse, reopening of, 430, 438

    and Customs Act (1763), prosecutions under, 4

    customs officers, relations with, 3, 127, 212-14, 277

    duels with customs officer, 213

    and FB

    Antrobus and Robinson, letters from, sends copies, 512

    arguments between, 246-48, 254

    meetings, 246, 254, 503

    operational differences, 4, 5, 127, 131, 200, 212, 213, 271

    plans counter-offensive against, 201

    relations with, discussed, 4-5, 115, 136-37, 174, 187, 194, 201, 209, 272

    views on, 5, 131, 248, 254, 512-15

    FB’s views on, 136, 174, 187, 194, 213, 242, 248, 257, 262, 271

    writes to FB, 502

    friends in England, 207

    and Grenville, 193-201, 216, 499

    Hale, argument with, 212-13, 277

    Hallowell, dispute with, 212

    on Hopkins, 54n, 512

    and Hutchinson-Oliver letters, 214n

    identified, 25n

    informers, dislikes using, 273

    and Jackson

    complains of FB, 189, 201, 279

    influence with, 279

    letter to

    cited, 189

    quoted, 201

    letters from, 524

    acknowledged, 130, 244-45, 430

    cited, 5, 131n, 207, 244n, 248n, 487

    as enclosures, 487

    listed, 524

    received, 130, 246, 251, 430

    letters to, 245, 430

    cited, 207, 235n

    listed, 524, 526, 531

    as replies, 125, 127, 130, 244-45, 251, 258n, 430

    mentioned, 12

    and merchants, 213

    Molasses Act (1733), orders enforcement of, 3, 31n, 207n

    “Narrative of the Proceedings relating to the sloop Polly” (Robinson), FB returns, 244

    Oliver, letter to

    cited, 255

    quoted, 258n

    and Polly

    prosecution of, 270-71, 517

    seizure and rescue of, 505-7

    portrait of, 126

    proclamation requesting information on smuggling, 54n

    Representation on a Rescue at Taunton, received from FB, 248

    on revenue, loss of, 487

    and Rhoda, rescue of, 52

    Robinson and Antrobus

    letters from, FB returns, 244

    letter to, 512

    about, 258n

    and Robinson

    on arrest of, 245, 509-10

    letters from

    cited, 502-3

    sends to FB, 245

    letter to, as reply, 516n

    Taunton riot, Robinson reports, 502-3

    Royal Navy, relations with, 282

    and Russell, C.

    letter from, as enclosure, 487

    letter to

    cited, 488n

    as enclosure, 201, 487

    Salem Customhouse, investigates, 131

    and Sally, seizure and prosecution of, 195-97, 200

    on Smith, 503-4, 514

    “State of the Riot and Robbery at Taunton, Massachusetts,” 505-15

    cited, 249n, 268, 520

    as enclosure, 504

    as surveyor general of the Customs for the Northern District, 3

    and Taunton riot

    armed resistance, fears, 249n

    correspondence concerning, 245, 515

    FB, informs, 251

    justices of the peace, criticizes, 504, 511-12

    militia raised, wants, 248n, 254

    on search for contraband, 508

    on writs of assistance, 247, 254

    temper of, 212

    and Treasury

    Dowse’s representation, sends, 248n

    FB and Cockle, complains about, 5, 125-27, 174, 197-200, 485, 502

    FB, complaint about

    at Board of Trade, 216

    under consideration, 215-16

    and Conway, 300

    discussed, 125-27, 487-88

    dismissed, 5, 207, 216

    evidence submitted, 487

    evidence, gathers, 127, 131

    Privy Council receives, 216

    and Rockingham administration, 272

    reports on Taunton riot, 502-3

    requests advice on recovery of duties, 487

    and Whately, W.

    corresponds with, 114

    duel with, 214n

    Temple, Robert, 25n

    Temple, Sir William, 407n

    Introduction to the History of England, 407n

    Terry, Moses, 311n

    Terry, Sarah, 311n

    Tertullian

    Apology for the Primitive Christians, 457, 468n

    Thacher, Oxenbridge

    as Boston representative, 46n, 102n

    death of, 287n, 392n

    as lawyer, 173

    The Times: A Poem (Church)

    as enclosure, 400, 406

    preface quoted, 407n

    Theologia Veterum (Peter Heylyn), 453, 462n

    Thesaurus Theologicus, or, A Complete System of Divinity (William Beveridge), 455, 464

    Thomas & Samuel (ship), 400

    Thomas, Abigail, 94

    Thomas, Edward, 94

    Thomas, George

    identified, 500n

    letters to

    cited, 128n, 500

    listed, 523-24, 527

    mentioned, 187, 498

    Thomas, Isaac, 93-94

    Thomas, Isaac, Jr., 94

    Thomas, Mary, 94

    Thomas, Ruth, 94

    Thorndike, Herbert

    Discourse of the Right of the Church in a Christian State, 458, 469n, 470n

    Just Weights and Measures That Is, the Present State of Religion Weighed in the Balance, 454, 463n

    Two Discourses on the Primitive Church, 457

    Thoroton, Thomas

    identified, 152n

    and St. Croix Bay grants, 150, 152, 228, 410

    Threnoikos. The House of Mourning (Daniel Featley), 453, 461n

    Toma (Penobscot sachem)

    mentioned, 78-79

    Murray, message from, cited, 124

    priest, requests, 78

    Tonge, Ezerel

    Jesuitical Aphorisms, 453, 461n

    Toovey, Sampson

    affidavit

    cited, 131

    as enclosure, 487

    quoted, 189n

    and Cockle, 496

    FB and Cockle take bribes, 131

    Temple, assists, 190n

    Temple, recommended to, 499

    Tories, 460

    Tory Party (England), 84, 86n, 297n, 347n, 460

    Towerson, Gabriel

    Explication of the Catechism of the Church of England, 453, 462n

    Of the Sacrament of Baptism, 455, 465n

    Of the Sacraments in General, 455, 465n

    Town House, Boston, 302n, 306n, 307n, 311n, 337, 398-99, 403n, 420, 423, 443

    Towns. See also Penobscot Township Grants; Boston; Cambridge; Charlestown; Marblehead; Newbury; Roxbury; Salem; Taunton

    and Acadians, 34

    government, support for, 428

    Molasses Act, petition against, 29, 32n

    Townsend, Gregory, 411-12n

    Trade Laws, Enforcement of

    discussed, 4, 199, 208, 283, See also Compounding

    informers, 272-73

    and Royal Navy, 3-4

    seizures, profits to officials from, 4

    Trade, Colonial

    exports, 29, 161-62, 495

    with foreign colonies, 164-165

    with Great Britain, 29-30, 164

    illicit. See under Smuggling

    imports, 44, See also Massachusetts:imports

    molasses. See under Molasses:imports

    as ships’ stores, 206

    and Molasses Act (1733), 161

    Trahant, Jean, 192, 261

    Treasury

    Cockle, dismisses, 207, 488

    Halifax, FB’s letters to, receives, 201, 275

    mentioned, 52, 130, 164

    Oliver, letters from, reads, 376

    and Privy Council

    FB’s correspondence, refers to, 207

    Temple’s correspondence, refers to, 488

    “Proceedings relative to the Robbery at Taunton,” received from FB, 248

    Representation on a Rescue at Taunton, Bristol Co., Mass., received from FB, 248

    and stamp distributors

    orders FB to assist, 361

    orders to governors concerning, 376

    and stamped papers

    FB unable to comply with orders, 447

    orders FB to distribute, 376

    Temple’s complaint about FB, considers, 215

    Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (George Berkeley), 456, 466n

    Treatise of Church-Government (Robert Burscough), 455, 465n

    Treatise of Sacramental-Covenanting With Christ (John Rawlet), 457, 468n

    Treatise of the Causes of Incredulity (Jean Le Clerc), 455, 465n

    Treaty of Paris (1763), 495

    Trecothick, Barlow

    indentified, 406n

    mentioned, 405

    Trenton, N.J., 39

    Trinity Church, Boston, 145n

    Trois-Rivières, Qu., 192n

    Trowbridge, Edmund, 168

    and Bollan, 218

    on Cambridge town meeting, 378

    Cockle, opinion on prosecutions by, 198, 201

    identified, 221n, 380n

    and Temple, 503

    Troy, 434n

    Truman, Edward

    Hutchinson, Thomas, portrait of, 110

    Tryal, HMS (sloop), 350-51n, 360, 364

    Tryon, William

    identified, 532n

    letters to listed, 527

    Tuckney, Anthony

    Praelectiones Theologicae, 454, 462n

    Tulleken, John

    identified, 42n

    letters to

    cited, 97n

    listed, 522

    mentioned, 41, 67, 97n

    Turks Islands

    French colonies, raiders from, 224

    merchants’ losses in, 223-24, 351n

    Turner, James

    Map of the Province of Nova-Scotia (1759), 226

    Turner, John (hostage)

    identified, 97n

    ransomed, 95, 97

    Turner, John (theologian)

    Boylean Lectures, 455

    Wisdom of God in the Redemption of Man, 464n

    Turner, William

    History of All Religions in the World, From the Creation Down to This Present Time, 456, 467n

    Twelve Sermons Preached on Several Occasions (Edward Stillingfleet), 454, 464n

    Twelve Sermons, Preached Upon Several Occasions (John Rogers), 456, 467n

    Twenty Sermons Formerly Preached (Robert Sanderson), 453, 462n

    Twenty-Six Sermons (Robert Sanderson), 453, 462n

    Two Discourses on the Primitive Church (Herbert Thorndike), 457

    Two Discourses, of Purgatory, and Prayers for the Dead (William Wake ), 454, 463n

    Tyler, Royal, 46n, 192, 282n, 345n, 354n

    Union River, Maine, 47n, 71

    Unreasonableness of Separation (Edward Stillingfleet), 454, 463n

    Ussher, James

    Body of Divinity, or, The Sum and Substance of Christian Religion, 454, 463n

    as moderate Calvinist, 460

    Vassall, Florentius, 144

    Vassall, Leonard, 145n

    Vice Admiralty Court

    advocate general, 276, 504

    opinion of, as enclosure, 201

    Boston, 55, 63, 127, 187, 193, 270, 485-86

    “confederacy” against, 273

    courts established, 167n

    fees, 116-17, 153, 238-40

    Halifax, at, 161-62, 244, 517

    and informers, use of, 273

    judges, payments to, 163, 239

    juries, trials without, 161

    mentioned, 4, 31

    officials mentioned, 117

    and salaries from civil list, 240

    and Stamp Act riot (26 Aug. 1765), 325, 338, 427

    and trade laws, enforcement of, 162-63

    Vindication of Liturgies (William Falkner), 457, 468n

    Vindication of the Divine Authority (William Lowth), 458, 469n

    Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and Ever Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation of the Son of God Occasioned (William Sherlock), 454, 463n

    Virginia, 59

    Virginia Resolves (1765)

    authenticity of, about, 296

    FB’s views on, 301, 395

    mentioned, 295, 301, 395, 420, 427

    Virtual Representation, 415, 418n, 482n, 483n

    Voyages de la Novvelle France (Samuel Champlain, et al.), 226

    as enclosure, 227

    Wake, William

    Practical Discourse Concerning Swearing, 458, 470n

    Sermon Preached at the Reviving of the General Meetings, 466

    Sermon Preached Before the King and Queen, 466n

    Sermon Preached Before the Lord-Mayor and Court of Alderman, 466n

    Sermons Preached, 456

    Two Discourses, of Purgatory, and Prayers for the Dead, 454, 463n

    Waldo Patent, Maine, 102, 105n, 148

    Waldo, Francis

    deposition, 196

    FB views on, 195, 197

    identified, 202n

    letter to cited, 430

    and Sally, seizure and prosecution of, 195-97, 199

    and Temple, 196

    Waldo, Samuel, 102

    Waldo, Samuel, Jr., 103, 150n

    complaint concerning, 102-4

    identified, 105n

    Wales, 473, 482n

    Walker, Samuel

    Divine Essays, 455, 465n

    Reformation of Manners Promoted by Argument, in Several Essays, 455, 465n

    Walker, William

    Baptismon Didache, the Doctrine of Baptisms, 455, 465n

    Wallace, James, 351n

    delivering FB’s secret correspondence to Halifax, 350

    Walters, William

    identified, 532n

    letters to listed, 526

    War Veterans, 45, 47n, 50, 70

    Ward, Richard, 223, 224

    Warner, Philemon, 207, 500-1n

    deposition of, cited, 501n

    Warrants, 169-70

    Warren, Daniel, 38n

    Watchusett Hill, Mass., 281n

    Watertown, Mass., 107

    Way to the True Church (John White), 454, 464n

    Weather

    freezing temperatures, 221, 224

    snow storms, 219, 221

    storm on east coast (Mar. 1765), 281

    Welles, Arnold, 444n

    Wentworth, Benning

    identified, 82n

    letter from listed, 522

    letters to

    cited, 122

    listed, 523, 527, 531

    mentioned, 122

    New Hampshire estates, 82

    as surveyor general of Woods, 81

    Wentworth, John, 152

    West Florida, 143, 145n, 280

    West Indies

    imports from, 485

    mentioned, 190, 243

    planters, 29, 74

    trade with, 32n

    Westminster School, 59, 460

    Wharton, Henry

    Fourteen Sermons, 456, 466n

    Whately, Thomas

    Regulations lately Made concerning the Colonies and the Taxes Imposed upon Them, Considered, 418n

    Whately, William

    Stamp Act, drafts, 114

    Temple, corresponds with, 114

    Temple, duels with, 214n

    Wheelwright, Nathaniel, 236, 241n

    Whig Party, 13, 189n, 297n, 318n, 370, 393n, 419, 438, See also Assembly (the Council and the House of Representatives):popular party in

    Whig Party (England), 86n

    Whiston, William

    Accomplishment of Scripture Prophecies, 465n

    Boylean Lectures, 455

    Sermons and Essays Upon Several Subjects, 455, 465n

    Whitby, Daniel

    Discourse Concerning [Five Points of Calvinsim], 457, 468n

    Discourse of the Necessity and Usefulness of the Christian Revelation, 456, 467n

    Sermons on the Attributes of God, 456, 467n

    White Pines, 82

    White, Francis

    Reply to Jesuit Fisher’s Answer, 453, 461n

    White, John

    Way to the True Church, 454, 464n

    White, Samuel (of Taunton), 267, 511, 513, 258

    White, Samuel (theologian), 454, 463n

    Widow’s Dowery

    right of action, 93-95

    Wilbraham, Randle

    on British politics, 84-86

    identified, 86n

    introduces bearer of letter, 84

    letter from, 84-86

    listed, 522

    received, 85

    Wild, Jonathan, 5

    Wildman’s Club, 86n

    Wilkes, John

    arrest and prosecution, 61n, 86n

    Wilkins, John

    Discourse Concerning the Gift of Prayer, 457, 468n

    Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion, 457, 468

    Sermons, 457

    William III, King, 116-17, 460

    “William Pym,” 424n

    Williams, Israel, 81, 354n

    Williams, James, 258, 267, 511, 513

    Williams, John

    Boylean Lectures, 454

    Certainty of Divine Revelation, 463n

    Characters of Divine Revelation, 463n

    Williams, Jonathan, 39, 186

    Franklin, correspondence with, 187n

    identified, 187n

    Willson (ship’s captain), 32n

    Wilmot, Montague

    and Acadians, 97n, 261

    Acadians, petitions and memorials of, FB sends copies of, 261

    Conway, orders from, 386

    FB proposes allocation of St. Croix Bay grants, 150-52, 226-27

    FB requests land grant, 228

    FB writes to, 143

    and Halifax, 152n

    identified, 152n

    land grant to FB, 411

    letters from received, 226

    letters to, 150-52, 226-28, 260-61

    cited, 7, 61, 68, 74, 75n, 145n, 193n, 228n, 389, 412n

    as enclosure, 232

    listed, 524-27, 531

    quoted, 228

    map, FB sends, 143

    mentioned, 7, 74, 143, 186, 228, 231, 326, 356, 411

    Voyages de la Novvelle France (Samuel Champlain, et al.), FB sends extract, 227

    Windmill Point, Boston, 192

    Wine

    excise and tonnage duties, 237, 238

    French, 75

    Madeira, 31

    mentioned, 44, 55, 131, 170, 188, 206, 209, 237, 336

    of Portugal and Spain, 188, 206

    Wing’s Lane, Boston, 320n

    Winslow, Edward, Jr., 382

    Winslow, John, 374n

    Wisdom of God in the Redemption of Man (John Turner), 464n

    Wiswall House, Harvard College, 291n

    Wolf River, Maine, 67-68

    Woodbridge, Timothy

    identified, 183n

    letters from

    cited, 183n

    listed, 521

    Woodhouse, Robert, 466n

    Works of . . . Henry Hammond (Henry Hammond), 453, 462n

    Works of . . . William Pemble (William Pemble), 453, 462

    Writs

    listed and described, 170-173

    Writs of Assitance

    mentioned, 170, 173n, 209n, 247, 268n

    and merchants, 173n

    Paxton’s Case (1761), 4, 516

    Stamp Act riots, as grievance behind, 427

    Wyer, Daniel, 196

    Wyer, David, 40n

    Yamachiche, Qu., 192n

    Yonge, Phillip

    identified, 532n

    letter from cited, 522

    York, Maine, 196, 208

    “Z. Y.” (government writer), 101n