INDEX

    Abenakis, 108, 223. See also Native Americans

    Abercromby, James, 11, 12, 54, 72–73, 137, 138n, 140

    identified, 41

    letters from, 520, 521

    letters to, 519, 520, 521, 522

    Acadia, 107, 112n, 209, 217n

    Acadian refugees, 49, 71, 146n, 163, 164n

    “Account and Defense of Conduct” (1775). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of

    An Act for Ascertaining the Rates of Foreign Coin in Her Majesty’s Plantations in America, 351n

    An Act for the Better Enabling the Officers of His Majesty’s Customs to Carry the Acts of Trade into Execution (1762), 158, 159n

    An Act for the Better Securing the Dependency of His Majesty’s Dominions in America upon the Crown and Parliament of Great Britain (1766). See Declaratory Act

    An Act for the Better Securing & Encouraging the Trade of His Majesty’s Sugar Colonies in America (1733). See Molasses Act

    An Act for Drawing in the Bills of Credit of the Several Denominations Which Have at Any Time Been Issued by This Government and Are Still Outstanding, and for Ascertaining the Rate of Coin’d Silver in This Province for the Future (1748/49), 104n, 105–06

    An Act for the Further Improvement of His Majesty’s Revenue of Customs; and for the Encouragement of Officers Making Seizures; and for the Prevention of the Clandestine Running of Goods into Any Part of His Majesty’s Dominions (1763), 177, 181n, 182, 183

    An Act for Granting Certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America (1765). See Stamp Act

    An Act for Granting unto His Majesty Several Rates and Dutys of Impost and Tunnage of Shipping (1734, 1764), 246n

    An Act for Incorporating a Society for the Founding and Regulating an Academy in the Western Parts of the Province (1762), 161n

    An Act for Making Several Species of Foreign Gold Coin a Lawful Tender, and for More Effectual Preventing the Forging and Counterfeiting of Money (1761), 156n

    An Act Providing for the Reception and Accommodation of His Majesty’s Forces within This Province (1758), 350n

    Act of Union (England and Scotland, 1707), 28, 207–08, 217n, 397n

    Acts of Trade. See Navigation Acts

    Adams, John, 16, 28, 37, 44, 46

    identified, 41

    on TH, 1, 9

    on opening the courts, 359n, 424n

    papers of, xxxvii

    Adams, Phinehas, 170n

    Adams, Samuel, 2, 7, 26–27, 28, 37, 46, 51, 57, 83

    and Boston Massacre, 25

    identified, 41

    and Stamp Act, 17, 78, 81, 345, 465, 466n

    and Tea Party, 32–33

    writings of,

    Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders . . . of . . . Boston (1772), 27

    Adamson, Benjamin

    letter from, 534

    letter to, 534

    Addison, Joseph, 419

    Administration of the Colonies (1764 and subsequent editions). See Pownall, Thomas: writings of

    Aeneid, 155n

    Aesop’s Fables, 258, 259n, 299

    agents, provincial, 174, 264n. See also under individual agents’ names

    Connecticut, 54, 80, 184, 185n, 256n, 486n

    Massachusetts, 11, 47, 54, 97n–98n, 99, 262, 476, 477n

    choice of agents, 26, 43, 55, 67, 76, 165, 166n, 178–79, 184, 185n, 256, 258, 259n, 471–72, 484, 485n, 487, 492

    and the Stamp Act, 17, 78, 83, 233, 236–37, 248, 249, 341, 342, 345

    TH as possible agent (1758–1759), 139

    TH as possible agent (1764), 61, 187–96, 197–98, 202, 204

    TH as possible agent (1766), 486n

    New Hampshire, 486n

    Pennsylvania, 48, 54, 80

    South Carolina, 80

    Aix-la-Chappelle, Treaty of (1748), 69, 108, 110, 112n, 213, 217n, 346, 347n

    Akers, Charles, 286n

    Alamance, battle of, 62

    Albany Conference (1754), xxiv, 70. See also Native Americans

    attendees, 10, 48, 52, 58, 64, 130, 313n, 346, 435n

    proceedings, 106–22

    Albany Plan of Union (1754), 107, 115, 117, 118n

    alternative plans, 107, 119–22

    drafting of, 10, 48, 70, 347n

    rejected by General Court, 70, 107, 118n, 121n

    report of commissioners, 113–18

    Alford, England, 487

    Allen, James, 9, 69, 93, 157, 158n, 470, 471n

    identified, 97n

    Allen, Samuel, 222, 226n

    Alexander the Great, 1

    Almon, John, xx

    American Board of Customs Commissioners, 22, 24, 44, 51, 52, 58, 59, 62, 437n, 458n. See also customs service; Liberty riot

    American colonial union, 113–22, 258

    American independence, 27, 29, 377, 403

    America’s Burke (1982). See Pencak, William

    America Painted to the Life (1659). See Gorges, Ferdinando

    Amherst, Jeffery, 12, 49, 138, 139n, 174

    Abercromby, replacement of, 73, 138n, 140, 141n

    Acadian refugees, 164n

    and TH, 140, 143, 144, 145

    identified, 42

    letters from, 141, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 530, 531, 532, 533

    letters to, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 529, 530, 531, 532, 535

    Louisbourg, capture of, 42, 72, 141

    Pontiac’s Rebellion, 42, 179, 186

    portrait, 142

    and Thomas Pownall, 137n, 141n, 143

    Ticonderoga and Crown Point, capture of, 73

    amnesty, for Stamp Act rioters, 20, 87, 426, 462, 465–70, 476–78, 481, 484, 487. See also Berkshire rioters

    Andros, Edmund, 217n, 269, 274, 366

    identified, 270n

    Anglicanism. See Church of England

    Anglo-Dutch wars (1652–1674), 217n

    Aniello, Tommaso (“Massianello”), 358, 406, 488

    identified, 359n

    Annapolis Royal, 146

    Antinomian Controversy, 3, 253n

    Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, 357

    identified, 358n

    Anville, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld de Roye, Duc d’, 109, 125

    identified, 112n

    Appalachian Mountains, 77

    Apthorp, Charles, 41, 156

    identified, 157n

    Apthorp, East, 55, 242, 243, 310n

    identified, 42

    letters to, 309–10, 558, 565

    Arbuthnot, William, 145

    identified, 146n

    letter to, 529

    Aristides, 301

    identified, 303n

    Aristotle, 365n

    Armstrong, Freeborn. See Otis, James, Jr.

    Articles of Confederation, 41

    Atkinson, Theodore, 106–07, 124

    identified, 127n

    letter to, 518

    Auchmuty, Robert, 29, 60, 348

    identified, 349n

    letter to, 577

    Austrian Succession, War of. See King George’s War

    Avery, Benjamin, 95, 199

    identified, 97n

    Avery, John, 46

    Bailyn, Bernard, xvii–xviii, 2n, 26n, 27, 30–31, 33, 36

    Baker, William, 96

    identified, 98n

    Bank of England, 350

    bankruptcies, 56, 80, 481n. See also Scollay, John; Wheelwright, Nathaniel

    Barbados, 224, 253n, 448, 449n

    Barnard, John, 417

    identified, 418n

    Barnard, Jonathan

    letter to, 572

    Barons, Benjamin, 13, 73, 134, 152, 154, 299n, 357n, 409n

    identified, 42

    Barré, Isaac, 156, 492, 493n

    identified, 157n

    letter to, 535

    Barrington, William Wildman Shute Barrington, 2nd Viscount, 12, 42, 152n

    Baumgarten, Linda, xviii

    Bayard, William, 239, 302, 404

    identified, 240n

    Bay of Fundy, 112n, 147, 149n

    Bayle & Game

    letter from, 513

    letters to, 513, 545

    Beauchamp, John, 223, 227n

    Beckford, William, 163

    identified, 164n

    Bedford, John Russell, 4th Duke of, 163

    identified, 164n

    Belcher, Jonathan, xix, 6, 39, 65–67, 72, 91

    on currency, 99, 100n

    identified, 42

    land holdings in New Hampshire, 7–8, 96, 98n

    letters from, 92, 93, 95–98, 496, 497, 507, 510

    letter to, 496

    portrait, 94

    and William Shirley, 8, 12, 99

    Belcher, Jonathan, Jr., 95, 97n

    identified, 92n

    letter to, 163–64, 540

    Bennington (Vermont), 275–76

    Berkshire rioters (1765), 51, 86, 464, 466n, 468, 475–78, 485, 490

    Bernard, Amelia Offley, 12, 42, 152

    identified, 152n

    Bernard, Francis, 39, 52, 143, 220, 234, 436, 446–47. See also Castle William; Temple-Bernard affair

    as governor, 23, 52, 165, 386

    Acadian refugees, 163, 164n

    agents, 165, 178

    TH, 17, 187, 189, 190–93, 257n

    Richard Jackson, 47, 80, 162n, 256–58, 271, 275, 474–75

    arrival, 12, 73, 140, 141, 143n, 145n, 149, 151–52, 218

    colonial reform, 30, 63

    on internal taxes, 217n, 237

    Council purge (1766), 21, 86, 433–35, 440–42, 470, 471n

    currency, 76, 155–57, 162, 163n

    customs service, 19, 42, 44, 75, 154, 155n, 158, 159n, 177, 184, 219, 266–68, 375, 492, 493n

    James Cockle, 75, 219n

    John Temple, 23, 75, 219n, 220, 257n, 266–68

    departure as governor, 24

    applies for leave, 341, 386, 387n, 391, 392n, 394, 397n, 398n, 413, 447, 448n, 453, 457, 460, 471, 472n, 492, 493n

    impeachment efforts, 484–87, 490–91

    publication of his letters, 23–24, 43

    successor, 24, 26

    General Court, 170n, 358, 359n, 380, 385–86, 406–07, 409n, 470, 471n, 484, 487, 490–91

    Harvard College fire, 195

    militia, 356

    Mount Desert Island, 76, 79, 180, 181n, 182, 183n, 207, 264, 265n, 338n

    Parliament, 84, 401, 441, 442n

    political allies and enemies, 13, 31, 43, 45, 57, 60, 151, 393

    Thomas Clap, 45, 46, 372–73, 385, 386n

    Superior Court appointments, 12–13, 57, 74, 149, 154n, 185n

    suspending clause, 261

    Stamp Act, 434, 436, 483n

    compensation, 20, 83, 84, 86, 305–07, 309n, 316n, 317, 338, 351, 356, 434, 435n, 438, 443, 444, 446–47, 449n, 451–54, 457, 458n, 461–66, 468–69, 470, 471n, 478, 492

    enforcement, 308–09, 356, 360

    passage of, 17, 80

    petition, 231n

    riots, 19, 82, 279–81, 290, 296, 297n, 302, 303n, 306, 337, 355, 357n

    opening of the courts, 84, 358–63, 372, 373n, 377–80, 384n, 386, 390, 436, 441, 442n

    stamped paper, 82, 278, 282, 303n, 304n, 341n, 356

    Virginia Resolves, 277n

    troops, 23, 159–60

    western Mass. college, 160, 161n

    identified, 42–43

    letters to, 530, 534, 552

    letters from, 282, 531, 563

    personal affairs

    baronetcy, 24, 43

    expectations, 12, 23, 149

    family, 12, 42, 152n

    finances of, 13, 23

    potash, 264, 265n

    portrait, 150

    writings of

    The Principles of Law and Polity (1764), 203

    Bernard, John

    identified, 43

    Berry, Thomas

    letter from, 503

    Billingsgate Fish Market (London), 384

    Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time (1723–1724). See Burnet, Gilbert: writings of

    Bishop, Thomas, 183, 282

    Blackstone, William, 236n

    Bladen, Martin, 99

    identified, 100n

    Blanchard, Joseph, 95

    identified, 97n

    Board of Trade (or Lords of Trade), 34–35, 157, 161n. See also Hutchinson, Thomas: as a representative of the province

    administration and bureaucracy of, 50, 51, 54, 58, 260–61, 459, 460n

    Albany Conference, 115, 118n

    customs service, 77, 160, 161n

    letters to, 338–39

    New Hampshire division from Massachusetts, 7–8, 67, 91, 93, 96, 101–02

    Stamp Act, 231n, 338–39

    Bollan, Frances, 296–97

    identified, 298n

    Bollan, William, 8, 24, 48, 104, 165, 172n, 176, 194n, 218, 251n, 261, 447–49

    as Massachusetts agent, 134, 139, 157n, 204, 205n, 219n, 258, 471

    accounts, dispute with General Court, 162n, 219n, 236–37, 249, 257, 258n, 417, 478, 480n

    attempts to remove, 139

    disliked by Thomas Pownall, 11, 139, 218

    first resignation as agent, 178, 180n

    removal from agency (1762), 17, 76, 151, 160–62, 167–68, 184, 218

    Louisbourg expedition reimbursement, 8–9, 122, 155–57, 259n

    and the Marquis of Rockingham, 311–12, 381, 429, 454

    Stamp Act

    compensation for TH, 311, 312n, 361, 420, 421n, 423, 424n, 426, 430, 447, 458n

    TH Jr.’s trip to London, 417, 436–37, 442–44, 447, 449, 453, 462

    repeal, 381, 399

    Revenue and Stamp Acts, 248–49

    riots, 278, 312n, 357n

    Stamp Act Congress, 342

    identified, 43

    letters from, 248–49, 311, 361–62, 381, 399, 420, 426, 429–30, 459, 534, 536, 541, 552, 557, 558, 565, 568, 569, 571, 573, 574, 577

    letters to, 155–56, 157, 158–59, 159–60, 161, 162, 165–66, 172, 174, 176, 192, 218–19, 236–37, 257–58, 283–84, 296–97, 304, 342–43, 359, 362–63, 364–65, 375–76, 382, 397–98, 414, 433, 439, 451–52, 461, 462–63, 477–80, 492, 508, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537, 538, 540, 544, 545, 546, 547, 550, 555, 557, 558, 560, 563, 564, 566, 567, 568, 569, 571, 572, 574, 575, 576, 578, 579, 581

    writings of

    Freedom of Speech and the Writing upon Public Affairs Considered (1766), 429–30, 444, 446n, 451, 452n, 478–79, 480n

    Succinct View of the Origin of Our Colonies (1766), 430n

    writs of assistance, 16, 16n, 74, 267n, 307n

    Bollingbroke, Henry St. John, 1st Viscount, 36

    Bonham’s case, 301n

    Boston Chronicle (newspaper), 56

    Boston Customs House

    and Stamp Act, 21, 84, 359n, 360, 361n, 372, 373n, 374, 376, 406

    and Tea Party, 32

    Boston Evening-Post (newspaper), 59, 81, 157, 158n, 187n, 250n, 284n, 436, 437n, 490, 491n

    Boston Gazette (newspaper), 18, 23, 47, 56, 81, 207n, 284, 308, 309n, 365n, 385, 435n, 483n

    criticism of TH, 157, 158n, 172, 176n, 192n, 384n, 386n, 390, 391n, 392, 398, 407, 409n

    publications of TH’s letters, xx, 31, 239

    Boston Massacre (1770), 25, 33, 41, 47, 55, 59, 62

    Boston merchants. See merchants: Boston

    Boston News-Letter (newspaper), 31n, 187n

    Boston Port Act (1774), 34

    Boston Society for Encouraging Trade and Commerce, 17, 77, 87, 178

    Boston Tea Party (1773), 1, 2, 32–34, 37, 41, 45, 47, 49, 56, 378n, 409n

    Boston town meeting, 2, 7, 22, 24, 30, 35, 41, 176n, 356, 406, 427, 431

    Albany plan, 70, 122n

    correspondence with other colonies, 85, 441, 442n

    Revenue Act (1764), 79

    Stamp Act, 17, 21, 78, 81, 143

    compensation by town, 87, 352, 461n, 462, 467, 468, 477, 486, 493

    condemns riots, 82, 294n, 305, 357n, 438

    opening of the courts, 21, 84, 358, 359n, 363, 372–74, 378, 380, 391n, 406

    repeal, 426n, 427, 434

    boundary disputes, between Massachusetts and

    Connecticut, 69, 138n, 175, 184, 185n, 256

    New Hampshire

    1741 line, 66–67, 96–98, 124

    western boundary of, 221–26, 239, 241, 481, 482, 485, 486n

    New York, 184, 185n, 190, 191n, 226n, 275–76, 456–57, 471, 481, 482

    Nova Scotia, 76, 138n, 140, 168, 169n

    Rhode Island, 99, 100n

    Bourne, William, 465, 479

    identified, 466n

    Bowdoin, James, 44, 46, 139, 155–57, 232, 449

    family relations, 23, 30, 34, 48, 61, 348n, 435n

    identified, 43

    leadership role on Council, 21, 28, 389

    Bowers, Jerathmiel, 258n, 410, 433, 434, 464–66n

    identified, 411n

    boycott, of British goods, 22, 79, 81, 84. See also non-consumption agreement; nonimportation agreements

    Bradbury, John, 407, 410, 411n, 444

    identified, 409n

    Braddock, Edward, 10, 71, 137

    identified, 138n

    Bradford, Alden, xx

    Bradford, Robert, 357

    identified, 358n

    Bradford, William, 223

    Bradley, Richard, xvii

    Brattle Street Church (Boston, Mass.), 46

    Brattle, William, 151, 152n, 161, 162n, 169, 289n, 407, 410, 411n

    identified, 44

    Bray, John, 97n

    Bridgetown, Barbados, 448n

    Briefe Narration of the Originall Undertakings of the Advancement of Plantations into the Parts of America. Especially, Shewing the Begining, Progress and Continuance of That of New-England (1658). See Gorges, Ferdinando: writings of

    [A Brief State of the Claim of the Colonies and the Interest of the Nation with Respect to Them] (1764). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of

    “A Brief State of the Title of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay to the Country between the Rivers Kennebeck and St. Croix” (1762). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of

    British army, 17, 49, 50, 59, 247, 302, 303n, 350n, 447. See also Quartering Act

    troops in Boston, 10, 23, 24–25, 30, 43, 47, 52

    Brintnall, Bassett, 181

    British Coffeehouse, 57, 59

    British Library, xxii, xxvi

    British navy, 16–17, 49, 52, 181, 182n, 215, 227n

    officers to act as customs agents, 77, 177, 182–83, 363n

    Brooke, Nathaniel, 272n

    Browne, Benjamin, 99

    identified, 100n

    Browne, William, 465, 479

    identified, 466n

    Bubble Act (1720), 7, 67, 69, 91, 97n

    Burn, Richard

    writings of

    Ecclesiastical Law (1763), 235, 236n

    Burke, Edmund, 454

    identified, 454n

    Burnet, Gilbert

    writings of

    Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time (1723–1724), 170, 170n

    Burch, William, 458n

    identified, 44

    Bute, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of, 18, 40, 45, 50, 76, 77, 81, 177, 459, 460n

    identified, 44

    Byng, Admiral John, 134

    identified, 135n

    Cabot, John

    identified, 111n

    Cabot, Sebastian, 107

    identified, 111n

    Cæsar, Augustus, 419

    Cæsar, Julius, 1, 104n, 210–11, 419

    Calais, 444, 446n

    Canada (New France), 107–111, 365n. See also Acadia; Nova Scotia

    as British colony, 177, 218n, 360

    as French colony, 73, 108, 109, 126

    Cape Bretton Island, 107, 109, 112, 133, 213, 217n, 259n

    Cape Cod, 102, 135, 138n

    Carr, Ralph

    letters from, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 512, 513, 515, 546

    letters to, 510, 543

    Carroll, Charles

    letters from, 499, 500, 501, 504, 506

    letters to, 499, 504, 506

    Carter, Richard, 97n

    Carter, Timothy

    letter to, 551

    Case of Ireland’s Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated (1698). See Molyneux, William: writings of

    Castle William, 2, 26, 32, 147n

    garrison of, 47, 130, 147, 148

    and Stamp Act repeal, 426n

    and stamped paper, 21, 82, 83, 278, 282, 303n, 304n, 341n, 356

    as place of refuge, 23, 44, 45, 52, 53, 56, 59, 341n

    removal of troops to, 25, 33, 47

    as summer residence, 151–52

    Catalina, Lucius Sergius, 358

    identified, 359n

    Catanzariti, John, xviii

    Cataraqui River, 109

    Caucus, The, 41

    Caughnawaga Indians, 116, 118n

    Chambers, John, 115

    identified, 117n

    Champion & Healy, 417, 418n

    letters to, 557, 560, 572

    Champlain, Lake, 108, 112n, 121, 123, 124n, 138n

    Chandler, John, II, 131

    identified, 133n

    Chandler, John, III, 491

    identified, 492n

    letter from, 519

    letters to, 513, 519

    Chardon, Peter, 448

    identified, 449n

    letter from, 575

    letters to, 573, 576

    Charles I, King, 4, 28, 49, 213

    charters, colonial, 107, 111, 208–09, 212, 405, 435n, 474

    Chase, Samuel, 302–03

    identified, 303n

    Chatham, William Pitt, 1st Earl of, 11, 40, 50, 63, 164n, 184

    first ministry, 40, 45, 72, 76, 138n, 185n, 493n

    identified, 45

    made an earl, 22, 45, 84

    relations with George III, 59

    relations with the Marquis of Rockingham, 362, 426

    second ministry, 40, 22, 45, 49, 60, 62, 86, 362, 454, 455n, 459, 461n, 472

    smuggling, circular letter against, 15, 73

    Stamp Act repeal, 45, 84, 362, 427n, 440n

    Chesebrough, David, 196, 270, 274

    identified, 45

    letters from, 567, 569, 574, 577, 578

    letters to, 172–73, 195–96, 259–60, 544, 545, 546, 548, 549, 550, 551, 553, 554, 556, 560, 567

    Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of, 399

    identified, 399n

    Chignecto, Isthmus of, 149n

    Choate, John, 169, 340n, 380

    identified, 170n

    letter from, 507

    Christ Church (Cambridge, Mass.), 42

    Christie, Gabriel, 145, 146

    identified, 146n

    Chronological History of New England in the Form of Annals (1736–1755). See Prince, Thomas: writings of

    Church, Benjamin

    writings of

    Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip’s War (1716), 4

    Church of England, 42, 55, 97n, 256n

    American bishopric, 48, 55, 310n

    Cicero, 98n, 122n, 210–11, 217n, 359n, 408n, 419

    circular letters

    from Crown authorities, 177, 180–81, 182, 183n

    from Massachusetts House of Representatives, 41

    Clap, Thomas, 372–73, 385, 386n, 483, 490–91. See also Cushing, John

    identified, 45

    letter from, 571

    Clark, George, 352

    identified, 353n

    Clark & Lane Company, 227n, 458n

    Clarke, Richard, 45, 51, 54, 359n

    Clarke, William, 96–97, 122n

    identified, 98n

    Clements Library, University of Michigan, xxii

    Clodius, 406

    identified, 408n

    Cockle, James, 75, 219n, 268. See also Temple-Bernard affair

    Coercive Acts (1774), 2, 34, 35, 49, 56

    Coggeshall, John, 252

    identified, 253n

    Coke, Edward, 300, 357

    identified, 301n

    Colden, Cadwallader, 62, 302, 303n, 345

    identified, 46

    Collection of Original Papers Relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay (1769). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of

    Colman, John, 7

    Colonial Office, 30

    Colonial Society of Massachusetts, xvi, xvii

    Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, xviii

    Colville, Alexander, 7th Baron Culross, 364

    identified, 365n

    Comines, Philippe de

    identified, 180n

    writings of

    Memoirs of Philip de Comines (1524–1525), 179, 180n

    Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765). See Blackstone, William: writings of

    committees of correspondence, 27, 41, 85, 407, 409n, 441, 442n

    Condy, Jeremiah, 242–44, 246, 250, 255, 272

    identified, 242n

    Confucius, 201

    Congregationalism, 42, 48, 161n

    Connecticut, 54, 61, 82, 107, 111n, 113–19, 362, 364, 379, 407. See also agents, provincial; boundary disputes; Stamp Act: riots

    founding, 201, 252–55

    Connecticut Gazette (newspaper), 379n

    Connecticut River, 63, 108, 127n

    Considerations on Lowering the Value of Gold Coins, Within the Province of Massachusetts-Bay (1762). See Thacher, Oxenbridge: writings of

    Considerations on a Paper Currency (1765). See Pownall, Thomas: writings of

    Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies: For the Purpose of Raising Revenue by Act of Parliament (1765). See Dulany, Daniel: writings of

    Continental Congress

    First, 41

    Second, 2, 35, 41, 51

    Conway, Henry Seymour, 40, 50, 400, 413, 437, 459, 492, 493n

    identified, 46

    letters to, 305–07, 335, 360–61, 565, 568

    and Stamp Act, 86, 304, 305n, 308, 309n, 310, 313, 315, 316, 335–340, 342–44, 351–53, 357n, 360, 361n, 363, 364n, 393, 394, 397n, 423, 434, 435n, 438, 439, 448n, 458n

    Cooke, Elisha, Jr., 6, 7, 93

    identified, 97n

    Cooke, George, 492, 493n

    Cooper, Samuel

    identified, 46

    Copley, John Singleton

    family of, 45

    portrait by, 150

    A 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 (1773), xxvii, xxxii, xxxiii, 31, 63

    Cotton, John, 252, 253

    identified, 253n

    Council (Mass.), 9, 23, 26, 34, 43, 78, 148, 225, 265–67, 492. See also General Court; House of Representatives (Mass.)

    Acadian refugees, 163, 164n

    agency, 161, 165, 166n, 484

    Albany Conference and Plan, 121n

    and the Boston Gazette, 398, 407, 409n

    Boston Massacre, 25, 47

    college in western Mass., 160, 161n

    currency, 9, 103, 105–06, 155, 157

    leadership of, 123, 161, 162n, 485n

    objections to judges as members, 75–76, 390, 391n

    precedence in, 11, 131, 133n

    purges or attempted purges

    May 1765, 271, 272n

    May 1766, 21, 43, 44, 46, 63, 86, 432–35, 438, 439–41, 467n, 470, 471n, 485n

    May 1767, 490, 491

    Stamp Act, 204, 441, 442n

    compensation for riots, 82, 306, 307n, 310, 316, 332, 356, 443n, 457, 485, 486

    opening of the courts, 21, 84, 358, 359n, 362–64, 372, 373n, 378, 379, 382–84, 387–90, 392, 406–07

    petition, 17–18, 80, 228–32 (text), 232–34

    riots, 19, 30, 82, 279, 281n, 302, 303n, 355–56, 442n

    Cowas (Upper Coos, NH), 108, 112n

    crowd action, 25, 50, 52, 53, 56, 372, 379, 393, 398, 406–07, 411, 412n, 456, 457n, 474, 475n. See also Pope’s Day; Stamp Act: riots

    Crown Point, 71, 73, 108, 112n, 123, 124n, 127n, 137, 159

    Croydon, England, 42

    Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke of, 447

    identified, 448n

    currency, 96, 350, 474. See also hard money; gold, as legal tender; Land Bank; silver, as legal tender

    Massachusetts, 7, 9, 57, 62, 66, 91, 95–96, 99–100, 162, 305, 306, 337, 363, 365

    depreciation of, 166–68, 204, 205n

    redemption of, 68, 69, 465

    parliamentary restrictions, 69, 428

    Rhode Island, 173, 259

    Cushing, Caleb

    identified, 340n

    Cushing, John, 85, 191, 251, 482

    identified, 46

    on opening the Superior Court, 85, 86, 284, 384, 385, 387, 390, 479

    feud with Thomas Clap, 45, 372, 482, 490–91

    letters from, 372–73, 385, 390, 483, 490–91, 541, 568, 570, 580, 581

    letters to, 169, 188, 284, 379–80, 542, 550, 563, 569

    Cushing, Thomas, 163n, 178, 193, 194n, 204, 205n, 258n, 465, 466n

    identified, 46

    as Speaker of the House, 21, 29, 86, 399n, 452n, 476, 477n, 485n, 486n

    Cushing, William

    letter from, 570

    Cust, John, 401

    identified, 401n

    customs house. See Boston Customs House

    customs service, 16, 21, 23, 42, 58, 77, 149, 154n, 158–60, 177–78, 180n, 181n, 271, 455. See also American Board of Customs; Daniel Malcom affair; Liberty riot; merchants: Boston; nonimportation agreements; smuggling; writs of assistance

    legal campaign by merchants against, 13, 57, 73, 154

    informants, 13, 15, 21, 74, 152, 154, 268, 348

    naval officers to act as agents, 52, 77, 182, 183

    in Rhode Island, 266, 267n

    seizures, 13, 23, 48, 154n, 184, 219, 235, 236n, 266, 268, 375, 405, 408, 431–32, 456, 458n

    writs, 15, 266

    Dalrymple, William, 25

    identified, 47

    Dana, Richard, 372

    identified, 373n

    Dartmouth (ship), 32

    Dartmouth, William Legge, 2nd Earl of, 29, 33–34, 35, 40, 46, 56, 58, 437

    identified, 47

    Davenport, John, 252

    identified, 253n

    Davis, Solomon (Solomon Davy), 19n, 406

    identified, 409n

    Dawes, Thomas, 406

    identified, 408n

    DeBerdt, Dennys, 55, 83, 342, 345, 463n, 465, 470–71, 484–86

    identified, 47

    Declaration of Independence (1776), 35, 52

    Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1765), 83

    Declaratory Act (1766), 22, 27, 59, 60, 85, 400, 401n, 424, 427–29, 442, 443n, 449, 450

    Defense of the New-England Charters (1721). See Dummer, Jeremiah: writings of

    DeLancey, James, 115, 117n, 118n

    identified, 112n

    letter from, 531

    letter to, 527

    Detroit, 186

    Devonshire & Reeve

    letter to, 547

    Dexter, Samuel, xx, 389, 410, 411n, 433, 434, 446n

    identified, 389n

    Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson (1883–1886). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of

    Dickinson, John, 409

    identified, 410n

    writings of

    Late Regulations Respecting the British Colonies . . . Considered (1765), 410n

    Dissenting Deputies, 52, 55, 97n, 99, 199

    Domett, Joseph

    letters from, 537, 538

    letter to, 538

    Dorr, Harbottle, 365n

    identified, 365n

    Dowdeswell, William, 40, 401, 492, 493n

    identified, 401n

    Drusus, Marcus Livius, 211

    identified, 217n

    duels, 30, 31

    Dulany, Daniel, 409

    identified, 410n

    writings of

    Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies: For the Purpose of Raising Revenue by Act of Parliament (1765), 410n

    Dummer, Jeremiah, 200

    identified, 201n

    writings of

    Defense of the New-England Charters (1721), 201n

    Durkee, John, 308

    identified, 309n

    Dwight, Joseph

    letter to, 526

    Dwight, Josiah, 465

    identified, 466n

    East India Company, 32–34, 45, 52–53, 56

    Eastward or Eastern Country. See Maine: district of

    Eaton, Theophilus, 252

    identified, 253n

    Ecclesiastical Law (1763). See Burn, Richard: writings of

    Edes, Benjamin, 31, 308, 309n, 385, 409n. See also Boston Gazette

    identified, 47

    Edes, Thomas, 291, 293n

    Edgcumbe, George, 1st Earl of, 223, 308, 350, 394, 397n, 492, 493n

    effigies, 18, 31, 81, 278, 279, 283, 296, 298, 314, 340, 345, 354, 364, 406. See also crowd action; Liberty Tree

    Egremont, Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of, 40, 77, 159, 163–64, 182, 183n

    identified, 160n

    letters to, 180–181, 548

    Eliot, Andrew, 199, 261

    identified, 48

    letter from, 552

    Ellery, William, 274

    identified, 274n

    embargoes. See French and Indian War; nonimportation agreements

    Endecott, John, 253

    identified, 253n

    English liberties, 16, 30, 32, 200, 209, 229, 258, 277n, 281, 295, 299, 300, 306, 337, 343n, 356, 377, 403

    Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip’s War (1716). See Church, Benjamin: writings of

    Epictetus, 357

    identified, 358n

    Erasmus, Desiderius, 419

    Erie, Lake, 108

    Erving, George, 34

    Erving, John, 43, 73, 157, 407, 411n

    identified, 48

    Essay on the Original and Nature of Government (1680). See Temple, William: writings of

    An Essay on the Trade of the Northern Colonies (1764). See Hopkins, Stephen: writings of

    An Essay upon Money and Coins (1757–1758). See Harris, Joseph: writings of

    Euclid, 248

    Euston, George Fitzroy, Earl of, 98

    identified, 100n

    external taxes, 211, 217n, 237–38

    Falmouth, Maine, 224, 455–56

    Fearnes, James

    letter from, 551

    letters to, 539, 541, 542, 543, 548, 552

    fifteenth resolution, 404, 408n

    Finch, Daniel, 311, 312n

    First Church (Boston, Mass.), 253n

    First Church (Cambridge, Mass.), 253n

    First Church (Hadley, Mass.), 370n

    “First Fifty Years” (1958). See Freiberg, Malcolm: writings of

    fisheries, 129, 178, 182, 214, 229, 411

    Fitch, Thomas, 137

    identified, 138n

    letters to, 516, 517

    writings of

    Reasons Why the British Colonies, in America, Should Not Be Charged with Internal Taxes, by Authority of Parliament; Humbly Offered, for Consideration, in Behalf of the Colony of Connecticut (1764), 237, 239n

    Five Nations. See Iroquois Indians

    Fleet, John and Thomas, 250, 436, 437n, 490, 491n

    identified, 250n

    Fleming, John, 56

    Flucker, Thomas, 39, 139, 307n, 347, 348

    identified, 48

    forts. See also Crown Point; French and Indian War; Penobscot expedition

    Beauséjour, 149n

    Cumberland, 148, 149n

    De Chartres, 180n

    De La Présentation, 112n

    Duquesne, 41, 71, 138n

    Frederick, 145, 146n, 147, 148, 149n

    George, 72, 135, 138, 139n, 302, 303n, 345

    Lawrence, 149n

    at No. 4, 124, 127n

    Oswego, 72

    Pownall, 49

    St. Frederic, 112n

    St. Jean, 112n

    Ticonderoga, 41, 72, 73, 124n, 137, 138n, 139n

    William Henry, 72, 138n, 186, 187n, 222, 226n

    Fort Hill, 18, 279, 281n, 283, 355

    Fortune (ship), 183, 282

    Foster, John, 4, 277, 419

    identified, 278n

    France, 95, 107–113, 116, 163, 209, 211, 215–18. See also Albany Conference; Native Americans

    Frankland, Harry, 98, 131, 133n, 250, 401

    identified, 100n

    Franklin, Benjamin, 31, 46, 49, 80, 336, 349, 350, 361n

    identified, 48

    and Albany Conference, 10, 48, 106, 118n, 122n, 346, 347n

    and TH letter affair (1773), 30–31, 47

    letter from, 563

    letters to, 244, 336, 346–47, 377, 414, 514, 558, 565, 566, 568, 572

    TH’s History, 242, 243, 244

    and TH Jr., 414, 417, 450

    Franklin, William

    identified, 49

    Franklyn, George, 195, 259, 260n

    identified, 196n

    letters to, 549, 553, 556, 561

    Free Port Act (1766), 85

    Freedom of Speech and the Writing upon Public Affairs Considered (1766). See Bollan, William: writings of

    Freiberg, Malcolm, xvi–xviii, xxi, xxvii–viii, xix, xxxvii, 2n, 3, 118n, 216n

    writings of

    “The First Fifty Years” (1958), 2

    Prelude to Purgatory (1950), 2

    French, David, 97n

    French and Indian War (1754–1763), 10, 41, 42, 44, 45, 50, 52, 54, 58, 70, 106, 123–29, 137, 149n, 164n. See also Crown Point; forts; Louisburg; Montreal; Paris, Treaty of; Quebec; and under individual commanders’ names

    deserters, 135, 138n, 140

    economic impact of, 16, 50, 80, 177, 230, 247

    commanders-in-chief, 10, 41, 42, 54, 61, 72–73, 125–27, 137, 138n, 171

    French neutrals. See Acadians.

    Frothingham, Richard, 33

    Frye, Joseph, 226

    identified, 226n

    Fuller, Rose, 426

    identified, 427n

    Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669). See Locke, John: writings of

    Gage, Margaret Kemble, 49

    Gage, Thomas, 24, 25, 39, 43, 60, 186, 187n

    as governor of Massachusetts, 34, 35, 40

    identified, 49

    and Stamp Act riots, 302, 303n

    Gambier, James, 28

    identified, 49

    Gardiner, Sylvester, 456

    identified, 458n

    Garth, Charles, 80

    Gathom & Graham

    letter to, 552

    Gay, John, 419

    identified, 419n

    writings of

    The Beggar’s Opera (1728), 419n

    General Abridgement of Law and Equity (1741–1751). See Viner, Charles: writings of

    General Court, 23, 27–29, 31, 33, 35, 58, 133, 226n, 346–47, 373, 391. See also agents, provincial; boundary disputes; Council (Mass.); House of Representatives (Mass.)

    agents, 204–05, 241, 258

    William Bollan, 155, 157n, 161, 237n

    Dennys DeBerdt, 83, 341, 342, 345

    TH, 78, 91, 187–93, 196–98, 238

    Richard Jackson, 256, 342, 345

    Jasper Mauduit, 76, 80, 162n

    Albany Conference and Plan, 70, 107, 113, 117n, 118n

    Cambridge, convening in, 26, 27, 78, 190, 192, 193

    currency, 91, 155, 157n, 158, 162

    customs seizures, 154, 155n, 158, 159n

    elections, 29, 81, 85–86, 162, 270n, 432

    Harvard College fire, 198, 199n

    Revenue Act (1764), 17, 78

    Stamp Act

    compensation, 20, 83, 87, 304n, 315, 335, 338, 339, 343, 351, 426, 442, 448, 450–51, 460

    execution of, 304, 308, 313

    petition, 15, 17, 18, 80, 228–232 (text), 233–36, 238, 306, 314, 344, 404

    repeal, 439, 440n

    troops, raising and quartering, 130, 141, 145, 146, 159, 160n, 350n

    writs of assistance, 75, 158

    Genoa, 211

    George I, King, 397n

    George II, King, 74, 102, 133n, 176n, 205n

    George III, King, 50, 56, 63, 78, 419, 448n

    accession of, 74, 156n, 205n

    and TH, 26, 33–35

    ministers and advisers of, 18, 22, 42, 44, 45, 50, 56, 59, 81, 185n, 459, 460n, 487

    on Stamp Act, 85, 240n, 264n

    Georgia, 107, 212

    Gerrish, Joseph, 410, 433n, 434

    identified, 411n

    Gibbon, Edward, 35

    Gibbs, Henry

    identified, 176n

    Gibbs, Katherine Willard, 175

    identified, 176n

    Gill, John, 30, 56.See also Boston Gazette

    identified, 47

    Gipson, Lawrence Henry, 10n, 118n

    Glorious Revolution (1688–1689), 217n, 269, 270, 274, 366, 370, 494

    Goffe. See Edmund Trowbridge.

    Goffe, Edmund, 62

    Goffe, Frances Whalley, 275n, 369n

    Goffe, William, 63, 175, 176n, 274, 275n, 366, 369n, 370, 371

    identified, 49

    gold, as legal tender, 75–76, 151, 155–56, 157, 158, 162, 163n, 166–68, 178. See also currency; gold, as legal tender; hard money; silver, as legal tender

    Goldsmith’s letter, 370, 371

    Goldthwait, Thomas, 66

    identified, 49

    letters from, 499, 504, 506, 533

    letters to, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506

    Gonsales, Antonio Manuel

    letter to, 539

    Goodwin, Ichabod

    letter from, 534

    Gordon, Adam, 340, 394, 397n

    identified, 340n

    letters to, 339–40, 566

    Gordon, William, xx, xxxiii, 36

    Gorges, Ferdinando, 213, 217n, 220, 226n, 271, 272n

    identified, 217n

    writings of

    America Painted to the Life (1659), 272n

    Briefe Narration of the Originall Undertakings of the Advancement of Plantations into the Parts of America. Especially, Shewing the Begining, Progress and Continuance of That of New-England (1658), 217n

    Gorges, Ferdinando (grandson), 272n

    Gracchus, Gaius, 211

    identified, 217n

    Gracchus, Tiberius, 211

    identified, 303n

    Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of, 98

    identified, 100n

    Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of, 40, 45, 86, 440n, 455n, 460n

    identified, 49

    “Grand Court of the Five United British Colonies” (1754), 121n

    Granville, John Carteret, 2nd Earl of, 175

    identified, 176n

    Gray, Charles, 426

    identified, 427n

    Gray, Harrison, 184, 185n, 307n, 407, 410, 411n

    identified, 155n

    and legal challenge against customs service, 39, 74, 75, 154–56, 159n

    Gray, Thomas

    identified, 258n

    Gray v. Paxton (1761), 74–75, 155n, 158, 159n

    Great Lakes, 10, 108, 130, 177

    Green, Benjamin, 348

    Greenleaf, Stephen, 279–81, 283, 296, 297n, 314–15, 354–56, 376, 460n

    identified, 50

    Greenwich hospital duty, 404, 408n

    Grenville, George, 22, 44, 51, 59, 77, 82, 250, 349, 350n, 364

    family connections of, 61, 160n, 454n

    identified, 50

    private secretaries to, 29, 47, 48, 54, 63

    revenue program, 52, 54, 77, 177, 184, 185n, 408n

    parliamentary opposition to, 60, 362

    proposed stamp duty, 17, 78, 184, 185n, 217n, 264n, 404

    Revenue Act of 1764 (Sugar Act), 16

    Stamp Act (1765), 18, 80, 272n, 273n, 311, 312n

    Gridley, Jeremiah, 12–13, 359, 390

    identified, 391n

    Groton School, xviii

    Grub Street, 95, 97n, 384

    Hadley, Mass., 49, 62, 175, 176n, 269–70, 274, 370

    Haldane, George

    identified, 143n

    Hale, Robert, 131, 133n

    identified, 50

    letter from, 511

    letters to, 122, 511, 515, 527, 528

    Hale, Roger, 299

    identified, 299n

    Halifax, George Montagu Dunk, 2nd Earl of, 11, 40, 79, 145, 155, 171, 195, 221, 234n, 243

    identified, 50

    letters to, 189, 290, 550, 564

    Stamp Act, 231n, 290, 295, 305, 351

    TH’s leave of absence (1764), 17, 187, 190–98, 202n, 205n, 257n, 221n, 239n, 277

    Halifax, Nova Scotia, 44, 47, 112, 145, 159, 212

    as location of vice-admiralty court, 17, 235, 236n, 364, 365n

    Hall, Stephen, Jr., 444

    identified, 446n

    Hallowell, Benjamin, 133, 135, 348, 349n, 357n

    identified, 50

    and Stamp Act riots, 19, 82, 285, 291, 293n, 295, 300, 301n

    compensation, 463n, 464–65, 466n, 487, 493

    Hallowell, Briggs, 19n, 357n

    Halsey & Hanbury, 417

    “Hampden letters.” See Otis, James, Jr.

    Hancock, John, 26–27, 37, 41, 46, 403, 408n, 409, 446n, 465, 466n. See also Liberty riot

    identified, 51

    Hancock, Thomas, 51, 147

    identified, 147n

    Hanover (Germany), 395, 397n

    hard money, 6, 50, 56, 61, 66, 103–06, 305. See also currency; gold, as legal tender; silver, as legal tender

    Hardwick, Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of, 37

    Harris, Joseph, 167, 206, 207n

    identified, 168n

    writings of

    An Essay upon Money and Coins (1757–1758), 168n

    Harris, Samuel

    letter to, 546

    Harris, William, 254

    identified, 255n

    writings of

    Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Oliver Cromwell (1762), 254, 255n

    Harrison, Joseph, 436, 465, 466n

    identified, 437n

    Hartford, Conn., 252, 254, 255n, 309n

    Harvard College, 3, 4, 65, 160, 161n, 273

    Board of Overseers, 43, 44, 48, 58

    donations for library, 52, 198–99, 261, 262n

    fire (1764), 48, 52, 58, 78, 188, 195, 198–99

    Hatch, Nathaniel, 162

    identified, 51

    letters to, 183, 549

    Hawley, Gideon

    identified, 313n

    letters from, 312–13, 565

    Hawley, Joseph, 479. See also Berkshire rioters; Stamp Act: compensation

    identified, 51

    compensation, 28, 464–65, 466n, 468, 469, 471, 472n, 477–78, 481, 482, 485, 490, 491n

    Hayley, George (also spelled Healey), 417

    identified, 418n

    letters to, 557, 560, 572

    Haywood, Arthur, 417, 418n

    identified, 416n

    letter to, 416, 572

    and TH Jr., 416, 417

    Henry VII, King, 107, 111n

    Henshaw, Samuel, xix

    Hillsborough, Wills Hill, 1st Earl of, 23, 25–26, 40, 58, 60, 63, 239, 243, 401

    identified, 51

    Hispaniola, 163

    Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Oliver Cromwell (1762). See Harris, William: writings of

    History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI (1759). See Robertson, William: writings of

    History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, vol. 1 (1764). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of

    History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, vol. 2 (1767). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of

    History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, vol. 3 (1828). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of

    History of Three of the Judges of King Charles I (1794). See Stiles, Ezra: writings of

    Holland, 209, 211, 217n, 246

    Hollis, Thomas, 242, 243, 250

    identified, 52

    letters to, 198–99, 552, 557

    Hood, Samuel, 1st Viscount

    identified, 52

    Hood, Zachariah, 302–03

    identified, 303n

    Hopkins, Samuel, 370

    identified, 370n

    Hopkins, Stephen, 106–07, 395, 409

    identified, 52

    letter to, 531

    writings of

    An Essay on the Trade of the Northern Colonies (1764), 52

    Horace, 138n, 166n, 184–85, 185n, 419

    Hosmer, James K., 2n, 447n

    House of Commons, 45, 98, 100n. See also Parliament

    rights of colonists, 208, 367

    Stamp Act, 264n, 400, 401n, 424, 459, 492n

    House of Lords. See also Parliament

    Stamp Act, 264n, 399, 400n, 420

    House of Representatives (Mass.). See also agents, provincial; Council (Mass.); General Court

    Acadian refugees, 163

    agents, 47, 166, 341, 342n

    William Bollan, 161, 162n, 218, 219n, 236, 237n, 257, 258n

    TH, 17, 78, 189, 192, 193, 195, 197–98, 202, 204

    Richard Jackson, 491

    Jasper Mauduit, 204, 205n, 398, 399n

    Francis Wilks, 67

    Albany Conference and Plan of Union, 70, 107, 117n, 118n, 121n

    currency, 9, 103, 106n, 155, 156n, 157, 158n

    customs service, legal challenge to, 74, 76, 155n

    TH as governor, relationship with, 27–29, 31, 48, 147, 148n

    Massachusetts Resolves, 83

    Revenue Act (1764), 404

    Shelburne, correspondence with, 492, 493n

    Stamp Act, 17–18, 79, 404

    compensation to sufferers, 20, 84, 86, 87, 304–05, 306–07, 308, 309n, 310, 315, 316n, 317, 336, 337, 338, 339, 351, 353, 356, 424, 426, 438, 442, 443, 444, 446n, 448, 449n, 451, 452, 453, 454n, 455, 456, 457, 460, 461, 462, 463–65, 466n, 467, 468–69, 470, 471, 476, 477–78, 481, 483n, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 492, 493–94

    opening of the courts, 85, 382, 383n, 386n, 389, 391n, 407

    petition, 228–232 (text), 233, 236

    repeal, 439

    riots, 86, 87, 345

    Stamp Act Congress, 59, 81, 392, 398

    Superior Court

    objections to judges as members, 75, 76, 161

    salaries of Superior Court justices, 75, 251, 271, 272n

    western Mass., 103–104, 160, 171, 175, 176n, 481, 485

    Howard, Sir Charles, 492n

    Howard, Martin, Jr., 434

    identified, 435n

    Howe, George Augustus, 3rd Viscount, 138

    identified, 139n

    Howe, Richard, 138

    identified, 139n

    Hubbard, Thomas, 199, 307n

    identified, 52

    letter from, 552

    letter to, 506

    Hudson Bay, 112n

    Hudson River valley, 42

    Hulton, Henry, 44, 458n

    identified, 52

    Hume, David, 36

    Huntington Library, xxii

    Hutchinson & Goldthwait, 49, 66, 417, 418n

    letters from, 499, 504, 506

    letters to, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506

    Hutchinson, Anne (great-great-grandmother), 3, 202, 253n

    identified, 202n

    Hutchinson, Edward (great-grandfather), 3, 240n

    Hutchinson, Edward (uncle), 7

    Hutchinson, Elisha (grandfather), 3

    Hutchinson, Elisha (son), xxxvii, 6, 34, 54, 67, 296, 298n, 330, 443

    as TH’s secretary, xxv

    identified, 52–53

    mercantile business, 54, 446, 448

    nonimportation agreement, 23, 43, 54

    as tea consignee, 32, 54

    Hutchinson, Foster (brother), 15, 62, 263, 264n

    identified, 53

    letter to, 513

    Suffolk County Probate Court appointment, 21, 84, 341n, 359, 360n, 363, 364, 378n, 379–80, 453, 489, 490n

    “Hutchinson in America” (1778). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of

    Hutchinson, Margaret Sanford (wife), 4, 6, 8, 60, 65, 70, 93, 173

    identified, 53

    letters to, 92–93, 495, 496, 497

    Hutchinson, Margaret (Peggy) (daughter), xxxviii, 6, 34, 37, 41, 54, 70, 196, 418, 419n, 423, 424n, 442, 443n, 453

    identified, 53

    as secretary, xxii

    and Stamp Act riot, 280, 282n, 290, 291, 296, 300, 309, 315, 328

    Hutchinson-Oliver family connection, 6, 53, 56, 133n

    Hutchinson, Peter Orlando (descendant), xix

    Hutchinson, Sarah (Sally) (daughter), xxxviii, 6, 37, 68, 418, 419n, 423, 424n, 442, 443n, 446, 447n

    identified, 53

    Stamp Act riot, 280, 282, 290, 291, 293n, 296, 297n, 300, 309, 315, 328, 380

    Hutchinson, Sarah Foster (mother), 4, 57, 65

    identified, 278n

    Hutchinson, Thomas, 39

    as Boston Selectman, 66

    as chief justice, 191, 428

    apparel of justices, 20

    appointment, 12–13, 14–15, 44, 57, 73, 149, 152

    background and experience, 13, 151, 375

    Berkshire rioters, 51, 86, 464, 477–78

    contemplates resignation, 375, 377

    exclusion of justices from General Court, 14

    successors, 55, 56

    Superior Court during the Stamp Act, 342n, 378n, 380, 387

    appearance after the riots, 20, 82, 287–88, 355

    Boston memorial, response to, 372, 374

    closing the courts in response to Stamp Act, 21, 22, 341, 486

    Council, no direction provided by, 21, 364

    delays opening court, 21, 363, 364n

    open but no business requiring stamps, 85, 423–24

    opening of the customs house, 348–49, 374

    petition of the House, response to, 382n, 387, 388n

    plural office-holding, 22, 151, 192, 384n

    putative role in suppression of smuggling, 19n, 21–22, 62, 357n

    salary, 14, 27, 75, 159n, 251, 271, 272n

    writs of assistance, 13–16, 16n, 21, 74, 75, 151, 158, 159n, 183, 266, 267n, 300, 305–06, 337, 338, 388

    on the Council, 69

    Acadian refugees, 71, 163, 164n

    French and Indian War, 10, 71, 123–29

    Lord Loudoun, interaction with, 10–11

    Spencer Phips, death of, 10–11, 71–72

    precedence in, 11, 72, 131

    purge (1766), 21, 43, 44, 63, 69, 86, 432–35, 440–41

    attendance after purge, 21, 441, 483, 485n

    Stamp Act, 17–18, 19, 21, 22, 80

    petition to the House of Commons (1764), 17–18, 22, 80, 205–28, 228–32 (text), 232–33, 306, 314, 344, 404

    in exile, 34–37

    as governor

    affair of the letters (1773), 24, 29–32, 44, 47, 48, 51, 55, 61, 63

    appointment, 24, 25–26, 457

    Boston Tea Party, 1, 2, 32–34

    burned in effigy, 31

    debate with General Court, 27–29, 47

    efforts to conciliate the opposition, 24, 26–27, 35, 51

    granted leave to go to England, 33–34

    instructions, 26

    reluctant to seek appointment, 457

    reproved by Lord Dartmouth, 29, 47

    requires General Court to meet in Cambridge, 27

    salaries of Crown officials, 27, 33

    successor, 49

    support of the customs service, 44

    and Harvard College

    fire, 43, 48, 52, 58, 188, 195, 198–99

    student years, 3–4, 65

    as a historian, 3, 35–37, 48, 49, 61, 63, 76, 168, 175, 201, 202, 208–11, 213–14, 220, 221–23, 242, 244, 246, 252–54, 254–55, 269–70, 274, 275n, 310n, 393, 404, 478. See also writings of

    as judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas (Suffolk County), 13, 69, 72

    as judge of the Probate Court (Suffolk County), 13, 14, 69, 169, 170n, 235, 236n, 488

    resignation, 21, 53, 62, 84, 341n, 359, 363, 364, 374–77, 378, 379

    as justice of the peace (Suffolk County), 66

    as lieutenant governor, 39

    under Thomas Pownall, 134, 151, 152n

    acting governor, 12, 73, 145–49, 218, 338n

    appointment as lieutenant governor, 11, 58, 72, 133

    apprehension of deserters, 73, 135, 138n

    French and Indian War, 137, 140–49

    Penobscot expedition, 12, 59, 73, 135, 140, 143

    relationship with Pownall, 2, 10–12, 37, 58, 130, 135, 140, 143, 144, 233, 275, 417

    and William Bollan, 11–12, 139, 218, 233

    under Francis Bernard, 204, 155–56

    acting governor, 180–81

    before Bernard’s arrival, 12, 140, 338n

    and Boston Massacre (1770), 25

    agency

    William Bollan, 17, 43, 151, 160, 161, 165, 174, 184, 218, 233–236, 257, 342, 417, 447, 451–52

    Richard Jackson, 178, 184, 218, 256, 257n, 258, 262, 271, 277, 345, 434

    and Bernard, 17, 24, 42–43, 47, 151, 234, 237, 256, 257n, 258, 266, 268, 413, 441, 470

    British troops in Boston, 23, 24–25, 33

    gold, as legal tender, 61–62, 151, 155, 157, 158, 162, 166–67, 168n, 178

    leave to go to England as agent (1764), 17, 184, 187, 189, 190, 192, 257n, 277, 361, 406–07, 476

    Maine, 220, 221–27, 346–47, 441, 456–57

    nonimportation, 23, 405, 408n, 413

    and James Otis Jr., 13–15, 57, 149, 152, 160n, 172, 173n, 175, 184, 202, 206, 406–07, 476

    Stamp Act, 265, 271, 273, 277, 354–56, 360

    early knowledge of and suspected of favoring, 19–20, 21, 184, 238, 265, 278, 280, 283, 285, 295–97, 300, 304, 306, 336–38, 344, 465

    execution of, 295, 304, 306, 308, 313, 341–43, 359, 376, 391–92, 395, 396, 404–05, 431

    opposition to, 20, 298–99, 339–40, 414

    riots

    (14–15 August 1765), 19, 278–84, 314–15, 354–55

    (26 August 1765)

    destruction of his house, 18–19, 50, 82, 285–91, 292–97, 300, 309–10, 315, 317, 344, 355

    condolences for, 298, 301–02, 311, 312, 313, 343, 366, 370, 373, 388

    inventory of items lost from his home, 318–35

    manuscripts lost, 48, 202n, 300, 317, 344, 366, 369n

    perpetrators of, 19–20, 299, 356

    reasons for attack, 10, 18–19, 45, 55, 300, 305–06, 314, 337–38, 338–39, 465

    repeal, 346, 394, 396, 397–98, 405, 409–10, 421, 424, 427

    Stamp Act Congress, 346, 398

    TH’s application for compensation

    in England

    by patronage jobs, 363, 375, 453, 457, 488

    by royal grant

    petition to king, 304–08, 313, 316–35, 336–37, 351, 353, 360, 363, 378, 381, 382, 391, 434, 446, 455

    contemplates soliciting in person, 347, 352, 378, 387n, 388n, 391, 394, 397, 410, 414, 421

    recommended by Parliament, 400, 431, 443, 446, 457, 467

    seeks assistance with compensation, 20, 46, 285, 336–38, 338–39, 336–38, 344, 375, 388, 394, 421, 457, 476

    sends TH Jr. to London, 20, 85, 87, 391, 394, 410, 412–16, 420

    instructions to TH Jr., 416–17

    in Massachusetts

    compensated by a tax, 426, 439, 440, 443, 464, 481

    compensated by Boston alone, 351, 461

    compensated by private charity, 352, 358

    compensation recommended by Parliament, 438, 440, 443, 468, 476, 477

    compensation required by Parliament, 343, 456

    granted, 87, 484–88, 492, 493

    inaction of General Court (1766), 434, 448, 451–52, 457, 462–69

    initial attempt for compensation by province, 20, 300, 305, 313, 315, 335, 336, 343, 344, 351, 412, 424

    Council estimates loss, 305, 310, 315, 316, 439

    General Court fails to act, 316–17, 336, 338, 339

    linked to amnesty, 20, 462, 465, 467, 469, 470, 477–78

    related proceedings of General Court printed, 462, 465

    TH’s claim separated from other victims, 463, 464

    urged to flee Boston, 365, 379

    as a member of House of Representatives, 6–7, 8, 66–68, 71

    currency, 6–7, 8–9, 57, 66, 68, 69, 96, 98n, 103–06, 155, 204, 305, 337, 363, 465

    as Speaker of the House, 8–9, 68–69, 103, 305

    as a merchant, 6, 58, 67, 263, 264

    Hutchinson & Goldthwait, 49, 66

    importer of tea, 181, 186, 271

    personal affairs

    ancestors, 3, 240, 339

    childhood, 4, 65

    death, 37, 42

    family, 6, 15, 23, 34, 42, 52–54, 56, 57, 59, 60, 62, 65, 66–68, 70, 82, 93, 181, 182n, 380, 453

    finances, 4, 6, 20, 22, 24, 197, 394, 416–17, 423, 457, 462

    homes

    Garden Court St. home, 4, 9, 19, 45, 69, 82, 87, 278, 280, 283

    illustration of, 292

    illustration of ruins, 299

    Milton home, xix, 6, 9, 19, 33, 53, 67, 82, 280, 282n, 291, 293, 341, 345, 365, 423, 457

    illustration of, 425

    marriage, 5–6, 8, 65, 70, 173

    portrait, frontispiece

    Rhode Island property, 45, 173, 195, 259–60

    as a representative of the province

    agency in London (1740–1741), 7–8, 42, 62, 64, 67, 91–96, 98n, 101–02, 124, 127n

    Albany Conference (1754), xxiv, 70, 106–22, 346, 347n, 377

    boundary disputes with other colonies, 7–8, 10, 10n, 48, 58, 62, 64, 69, 76, 91, 101, 124, 239, 240, 241

    Native American affairs, 8, 68

    possible agent (1756), 178

    possible agent (1758–1759), 134, 139

    possible agent (1764), 17, 78, 187–95, 197–98, 202, 204–05, 233, 238, 256, 277

    possible agent (1766), 471, 481, 485

    reputation and character, 1–2, 3, 8, 9, 14, 21–22, 23–24, 25, 27, 28, 31, 32–33, 36–38, 154, 158, 160, 314, 382, 470

    views on

    distinction between internal and external taxes, 237–38, 263, 404

    imperial reform, 30, 34–35, 54, 63, 137

    hard money, 6, 50, 66, 75, 157, 204, 259

    instructions to representatives, 462, 464, 478

    monarchy, 211, 395–96

    natural rights, 16, 17–18, 204–05, 208

    regulation of trade, 130, 179, 182–83, 184, 204–05, 214–16, 211, 220, 235, 238, 244, 246–47, 263, 266, 271, 338–39, 413

    sovereignty of Parliament, 14, 18, 23, 27–29, 208, 300, 338, 395–96, 428–29, 450

    taxation without representation, 18, 179, 208, 209

    writings of

    history of papers, xvi–xviii, xix–xxii, 19

    epistolary habits, xxii, xxvi–xxxi

    handwriting, xxii, xiii, xxvi, xxxvi

    letterbooks, xvi–xvii, xix–xxiii, xxiv–xxviii, 203, 239, 403, 489n

    cipher, xxii, xxix–xxxi, 244, 346, 347n

    works

    “Account and Defense of Conduct” (1775), 35

    [A Brief State of the Claim of the Colonies and the Interest of the Nation with Respect to Them] (1764), 203, 206, 207, 208–18 (text), 220, 221n, 262, 400, 401n

    “A Brief State of the Title of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay to the Country between the Rivers Kennebeck and St. Croix” (1762), 169n

    Collection of Original Papers Relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay (1769), 202

    Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson (1883–1886), xix, 4, 11, 14

    History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, vol. 1 (1764), xix, xx, xxiv, 19, 47–48, 76, 78, 175, 271, 194

    dedication to Halifax, 195, 221

    distribution of, 241–44, 246, 250, 401

    publication of, in America, 80, 196–97, 198, 221, 250, 369n, 478

    publication of, in England, 80, 194–95, 250, 255, 272, 273, 400–01, 451, 478

    reaction to, 252–54, 260, 261n, 265, 309, 310n, 313, 407–08, 409n

    History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, vol. 2 (1767), xx, 81, 82, 100n, 202n, 242n, 250, 272, 366, 494

    History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, vol. 3 (1828), 35, 37, 170

    “Hutchinson in America” (1778), 37

    A Letter to a Member of the Honourable House of Representatives on the Present State of the Bills of Credit (1736), 6, 66

    Petition to the House of Commons (1764), 80, 228–32 (text)

    Protest of Andrew Oliver and Thomas Hutchinson (1751), 105–06 (text)

    Representation of the Present State of the Colonies (1754), 10, 107–113 (text), 116

    Speeches of His Excellency Governor Hutchinson, to the General Assembly of the Massachusetts-Bay . . . with the Answers (1773), 28

    [A State of Trade of the Colonies] (1764), 244, 246–47 (text)

    Strictures upon the Declaration of Congress at Philadelphia (1776), 35

    [A Summary of the Disorders in the Massachusetts Province] ([1765]), 354–56 (text)

    Hutchinson, Thomas, Jr. (son), xix, xxxviii, 6, 52, 67, 329

    identified, 53–54

    letters from, 436–37, 442, 446–47, 449–50, 453–54, 455, 456, 574, 575, 576, 577

    letters to, 416–18, 423, 424, 431, 434–35, 438, 443–44, 448–49, 453, 455, 572, 573, 574, 575, 576, 577

    mercantile business, 263, 264n, 296, 298n, 416

    and nonimportation, 23, 43, 52

    as secretary to TH, xxii, xxv,

    as tea consignee, 32, 52–53

    trip to England (1766), 414–21, 423, 424, 431, 434, 436, 442, 445–46, 448–49, 462–64, 467, 484, 487

    to lobby on behalf of TH, 20, 85, 87, 391, 392n, 394, 397n, 410–13

    power of attorney, 417

    Hutchinson, Colonel Thomas (father), 3, 4, 65, 66, 277

    identified, 278n

    Hutchinson, William Sanford (Billy) (son), 6, 34, 37, 42, 70, 196, 453

    identified, 54

    as secretary to TH, xxii, xxv, xxxviii, 403

    and Stamp Act riot, 280, 282n, 290, 291, 293n, 296, 300, 309, 315, 330

    illicit trade. See smuggling

    Illinois, 179, 180n

    impressments, 181, 182n. See also Knowles impressment riot

    Independent Chronicle (London), 37

    Ingersoll, Jared,

    identified, 54

    and Stamp Act, 80, 82, 237, 239n, 277, 278n, 308, 309n, 354, 379

    Institute of the Laws of England: or, the Laws of England in their Natural Order, According to Common Use (1763). See Wood, Thomas: writings of

    internal taxes, 211–12, 217n, 230–31, 237–38, 295, 404, 431, 444

    Ireland, 368, 400, 401n, 428, 431

    Iroquois Indians (Five Nations), 107–110, 112n, 179, 180n

    Jackson, Joseph, 279

    identified, 281n

    Jackson, Richard, 47, 206, 238, 239n, 275, 361n, 378, 450, 458n, 472

    Harvard College fire, 199

    identified, 54

    on imperial reform, 472–73

    on internal taxes, 217, 237, 239n

    letters from, 400–01, 472–75, 552, 554, 566, 568, 571, 579

    letters to, 166–68, 168, 178–79, 182–83, 190, 194, 194–95, 204–05, 206, 207, 220–21, 221–25, 232–34, 235, 239–40, 241, 241–42, 243, 250, 256, 262, 266, 268, 271–72, 273, 277, 279–81, 291–94, 298–99, 341, 345, 378–79, 394–96, 413, 427–29, 440–41, 450–51, 463–64, 470–71, 484, 540, 541, 547, 548, 550, 551, 553, 554, 555, 556, 557, 558, 559, 560, 561, 563, 564, 566, 568, 570, 571, 573, 575, 576, 578, 580, 581

    as Massachusetts agent, 18, 47, 80, 162n, 178, 184, 185n, 256–58, 262, 271–73, 277, 345, 434, 484–87, 492

    Stamp Act, 231n

    compensation, 391, 443, 446

    repeal, 400, 421

    riots, 278–81, 295, 357n

    and TH’s writings, 203, 206, 207, 241–44, 246, 250, 401

    and TH Jr., 413, 417, 436–38, 442, 446–47, 449, 453, 454, 463, 474, 475n

    Jacobites, 448n

    Jamaica, 143, 181, 224, 427n

    James I, King, 28, 107, 213

    James II, King, 185n, 217n

    James & Dickinson

    letter to, 576

    James, Thomas, 302, 303n, 345, 375

    identified, 303n

    James, William

    letters from, 569, 573

    letters to, 566, 571, 581

    Jefferson, Thomas, 35

    papers of, xxxvii

    “Jemmibullero” (by Samuel Waterhouse, 1765), 81

    Jenyns, Soames, 447

    identified, 448n

    Johnson, Edward, 271

    identified, 272n

    writings of

    Wonder-Working Providence of Sion’s Savior (1654), 272n

    Johnson, William, 71, 115, 117n, 312, 313n, 485

    identified, 486n

    letter from, 514

    letter to, 514

    Juvenal, 239n

    Kennebec Proprietors, 226n, 294n, 458n

    Kennebec River, 108, 112n, 169n, 226n, 222, 294n

    Kennedy, Archibald, 364

    identified, 365n

    Kentish privileges of Gavelkind, 208

    Kilby, Christopher, 96–97

    identified, 98n

    King George (ship), 50, 147, 148, 324

    King George’s War (1744–1748), 8, 43, 50, 57, 69, 97, 105n, 112n, 122n, 217n, 347

    King Philip’s War (1675–1676), 4, 49, 226n

    Kinnoull, Thomas Hay, 8th Earl of, 250, 394, 397n, 401

    identified, 250n

    letter from, 388, 570

    letters to, 336–37, 538, 559, 565

    Knowles impressment riot (1747), 68

    Knollenberg, Bernhard, 216, 217n, 218n

    Lamar Hill & Bisset

    letter from, 538

    letters to, 540, 550

    Land Bank, 7, 8, 42, 50, 51, 66–67, 91, 95–97, 99, 434, 435n

    land speculation, 91–92, 110, 115–16, 180n

    Lane & Booth

    letter to, 556

    Lane, Son & Fraser, 417, 418n

    Lane, Thomas, 417, 418

    identified, 418n

    letters from, 561, 577

    letter to, 572

    Late Regulations Respecting the British Colonies . . . Considered (1765). See Dickinson, John: writings of

    Lawrence, Charles, 71, 145, 146n, 148

    identified, 46

    letters to, 531

    Lechmere, Thomas, 75

    Lee, Joseph, 257, 258n, 363, 365, 430, 480

    identified, 54

    Leitch, Peter, 419

    identified, 419n

    letters to, 537, 543, 553, 554, 557, 573

    Lemonier, Philip, 174

    identified, 174n

    Leonard, George, 434

    identified, 435n

    Letter from a Gentleman at Halifax to His Friend in Rhode Island (1765). See Howard Jr., Martin: writings of

    Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies (1768). See Dickinson, John: writings of

    Leverett, John, 4

    Leverett, Thomas, 223, 227n

    Lewis, Andrew, xvii

    Lexington and Concord, battles of, xix, 2, 35

    Liberty riot, 23, 51, 60

    Liberty Tree, 18, 278–79, 281n, 283, 354, 360n, 406, 426n

    Life of Thomas Hutchinson (1896). See Hosmer, James K.

    Lincoln, Benjamin

    identified, 489n

    letters from, 489, 581

    linen manufactory, 56

    Lisbon, Portugal, 174, 218, 219n

    Livingston, Robert, 275

    identified, 276n

    Livy, 200, 201n

    Lloyd, Edward

    letters from, 515, 533

    letters to, 537, 538, 540

    Lloyd & James

    letter to, 551

    Locke, John, 269, 419

    identified, 270n

    writings of

    Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669), 270n

    London, Charter of, 207, 217n

    Lords of Trade. See Board of Trade

    Loudoun, John Campbell, 4th Earl of, 10, 137, 138n, 350, 394, 397n

    French and Indian War, 10, 41, 71, 72, 123, 129n, 130

    identified, 54

    letters from, 516, 517, 518

    letters to, 124–27, 127–29, 344, 515, 516, 517, 518, 566

    portrait, 128

    Louisbourg, 108, 112n, 124–27

    campaign of 1745, 8–9, 43, 50, 57, 68, 133, 217n

    campaign of 1758, 41, 42, 49, 72, 134, 141, 146–48, 217n

    reimbursement from 1758 expedition, 43, 68, 69, 103, 122n, 184, 185n, 257, 259n. See also Bollan, William: as Massachusetts agent

    Louis XV, King, 334n

    Louisiana, 109

    Loyalists exiles, 43, 44, 48, 51, 52, 53–54, 57, 58

    Loyal Nine, 46, 47, 294n, 386n

    Luther, Heinrich Eberfrud, 346–47

    identified, 347n

    Lycurgus, 269, 473

    identified, 270n

    Lydius, John

    letter from, 562

    letter to, 508

    Lynde, Benjamin, Jr., 13, 56, 85, 100n, 251n, 384, 392, 434, 435n, 479

    identified, 55

    letters from, 387, 389, 480, 570, 580

    letter to, 579

    Lynde, Benjamin, Sr.

    identified, 100n

    letter from, 496

    letters to, 98–100, 497

    Mackintosh, Ebenezer, 19–20, 44, 282n, 294n, 345, 356, 406, 438

    identified, 55

    Maier, Pauline, xviii

    Maine, district of, 108, 112n, 294n, 456–57, 458n. See also Kennebec Proprietors; Kennebec River; Penobscot expedition; Penobscot Region; Penobscot River; Sagadohoc

    boundaries, 76, 138n, 168, 169n, 222

    exchange for New Hampshire, 220, 222–27, 232, 239, 240n

    importation of foreign Protestants to, 346, 347n

    Malcom, Daniel, 50, 86, 87, 460

    identified, 460n

    Marchant, Abigail Hutchinson (sister)

    identified, 453n

    Marchant, William

    identified, 453n

    Marmora Arundelia (1628–1629). See Seldon, John: writings of

    mandamus council, 35, 48, 51, 53, 54, 57, 59, 64, 348n, 435n

    Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl of, 40, 401

    identified, 401n

    Martin, John, 173, 195, 196n

    identified, 173n

    letters to, 545, 546

    Mary II, Queen, 274n

    Mary, Queen of Scots, 255

    Maryland, 107, 111, 113–19, 129n, 215, 303n, 360n, 410n

    Mason, John, 222

    identified, 226n

    Mason, John Tufton, 222

    identified, 226n

    Mason, Robert Tufton, 222

    identified, 226n

    Masonian Proprietors, 222, 226n

    Massachusetts charter (1692), 30, 35, 196, 225, 254n, 262n

    Massachusetts, early history of, 27, 48, 49, 61, 63, 168, 200–01, 213, 224, 242, 252–55, 260, 262n, 269–70, 274, 310n, 366. See also Goffe, William; Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of; Whalley, Edward

    Massachusetts Archives, xvi–xvii, xix–xxi, xxvi–xxviii

    Massachusetts Circular Letter (1768), 23, 41

    Massachusetts Government Act (1774), 35

    Massachusetts Historical Society, xvi, xx, xxi, xxii

    Massachusetts Resolves, 83

    Massachusetts Spy (newspaper), xx

    Massianello. See Aniello, Tommaso

    mast trees, 225, 227n

    Mather, Cotton, 4

    Mather, Hannah Hutchinson (sister), 181, 282, 296, 297n, 453n

    identified, 182n

    Mather, Increase, 260, 262n

    Mather, Increase (nephew), 181

    identified, 182n

    Mather, Samuel, 291, 293n, 296, 297n, 453n

    identified, 182n

    Mauduit, Israel, 218, 256, 258, 476. See also agents, provincial

    identified, 55

    Massachusetts agency, 76, 165, 166n, 174, 237n

    letter from, 569

    letters to, 420–21, 493–94, 573, 582

    Mauduit, Jasper, 46, 76, 79, 80, 166, 168, 176, 178, 179n, 256, 258, 259n, 423, 424n

    identified, 55

    letters to, 476–77, 558, 579

    Massachusetts agency, 218–19

    accounts with General Court, 398, 399n, 470–71, 478–79, 480n

    appointed agent, 43, 76, 161, 162n, 165, 184, 185n, 218

    Harvard College fire, 199

    instructions to

    on boundaries, 239, 240n, 241

    on molasses duty, 178

    on Stamp Act, 17, 79, 204, 205n, 206, 207n, 262

    parliamentary reimbursements, 174

    Stamp Act petition, 17, 231n, 233, 234n, 236, 237n

    Maximus, Valerius, 303n

    Mayhew, Jonathan, 42, 45, 82, 285–86, 294, 309, 310n

    identified, 55

    letter from, 285–86, 564

    letter to, 294, 564

    Mayo, Catherine Barton, xvi–xvii, xxi, xxvii–xxviii

    Mein, John, 25, 51

    identified, 56

    Memoirs of Philip de Comines (1524–1525). See Comines, Philippe de: writings of

    merchants

    Boston, 130, 145, 146n, 406, 431, 492, 493n. See also customs service; nonimportation agreements; smuggling

    legal campaign against the customs service, 13–14, 74, 149, 151, 152, 154, 155n, 159n

    opposition to Grenville program, 17, 77, 178, 179

    London, 84, 85, 246–47, 422, 430, 462

    Merchants and Traders of Boston, 22

    Merrimack River, 108, 226n

    Middleborough, Mass., 53, 411, 412n

    Milford, Conn., 252, 255n

    militia, 11, 26, 267n, 308

    Massachusetts, 19–20, 43, 44, 45, 50, 82, 135, 146, 372, 373n

    Stamp Act riots, 279, 281n, 356

    Milton, Mass., xix. See also Hutchinson, Thomas: personal affairs: homes

    Milton, John, 419

    Minerva (ship), 34

    Miquelon Island, 182n

    Mississippi River, 109

    mobs. See crowd action

    Moffat, Thomas, 29n

    Mohawk Indians, 112n. See also Native Americans

    Mohegan Indians, 252. See also Native Americans

    Molasses Act (1733), 73, 77, 177–80, 228–29, 375, 376n, 404, 408n

    Molineux, William, 406

    identified, 56

    Molyneux, William, 368

    identified, 369n

    writings of

    Case of Ireland’s Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated (1698), 368n

    Monckton, Robert, 135

    identified, 138n

    letter to, 520

    Montcalm, Marquis de, 71–73, 186, 187n, 222

    Montreal, 42, 49, 186. See also French and Indian War

    Morgan, Edmund S., 216

    Morris, Charles

    letter to, 562

    Morton, Nathaniel, 4

    writings of

    New England Memorial (1669), 4

    Mosely (or Moseley), Reverend Eleazer, 313

    identified, 313n

    Moulton, Daniel

    letter from, 571

    letter to, 570

    Mourgue v. Buissiers (1755), 235, 236n

    Mount Desert Island, Maine. See Bernard, Francis

    Murray, James, 147, 364, 365n

    identified, 148n

    letter from, 530

    Murray, Joseph, 115

    identified, 117n

    Muscongus Patent, 348n

    Mutiny Act (enacted by Parliament annually), 130

    Myers, Warren, xviii

    Namier, Lewis, 12

    Narragansett Grants, 222, 226n

    Narragansett Indians, 269. See also Native Americans

    National Historical Publications Commission, xvi

    National Archives of the United Kingdom (formerly the Public Record Office [PRO]), xxi–xxii

    Native Americans, 63, 252, 312–13. See also names of individual tribes

    at Albany Conference, 107–16, 179, 180n

    diplomatic presents, 112n, 116–17, 118n

    English superintendency of, 110, 116, 313n

    fraudulent land purchases, 110, 114–15, 179, 180n

    French influence among, 114

    fur trade, 112

    Massachusetts relations with, 8, 64, 68, 215, 227n

    and rum trade, 110–11, 112n, 115–16, 120

    natural rights, 15–18, 204–05, 208, 211, 354, 356, 366, 390, 396, 403, 405, 406, 428

    Navigation Acts, 13, 177, 179, 187, 263, 271, 272n, 351n, 405. See also customs service; smuggling

    Nemasket River, 412n

    Netherlands, 41

    New Brick Church (Boston, Mass.), 58

    New Brunswick (Canada), 112n

    Newbury, Mass., 339–40, 408

    Newcastle, Thomas Pelham–Holles, 1st Duke of, 40, 72, 76, 492

    identified, 493n

    New England, Dominion of, 217n, 270n

    New England Company, 55

    New England Chronicle (newspaper), xx

    New England Memorial (1669). See Morton, Nathaniel: writings of

    Newfoundland, 111, 112n, 163, 182

    New France. See Canada

    New Hampshire, 61, 62, 108, 113–19, 375–76. See also boundary disputes

    division from Massachusetts, 7, 42, 67, 91–92, 96–98, 100n, 101–02, 124, 260, 261n

    exchange for Maine, 220, 222–27, 232, 239, 240n

    New Hampshire grants (Vermont), 221, 226n, 275–76

    New Haven, Conn., 49, 63, 252, 253n, 254, 255n, 370

    New Jersey, 42, 49, 58, 118n, 119, 130, 143, 149, 190, 217n, 347n, 407

    New London Gazette (newspaper), 379n

    New Netherlands, 185n

    New North Church (Boston, Mass.), 48

    New Plymouth (Plimoth), Maine, 223, 226n

    New York City, 22, 61, 350n, 353n, 409

    and Stamp Act, 46, 84, 298, 302, 303n, 345, 346, 362–64, 376, 423

    New York (province), 6, 33, 62, 86, 113–19, 224, 407. See also boundary disputes

    boundary dispute with New Hampshire, 275–76

    and Stamp Act, 18, 228, 239–40, 404, 408n, 424, 454, 455

    Newport, R.I., 45, 59, 61, 298, 299n, 364

    Niantic Indians, 252. See also Native Americans

    Nicolson, Colin, xviii

    Nivernais, Louis Mancini, Duc de, 163

    identified, 164n

    non-consumption movement, 22, 405, 408n

    nonimportation agreements, 44, 59

    first (1765), 79, 83, 84, 405, 408n, 413

    second (1768), 22–23, 24–25, 43, 45, 46, 52, 53, 55, 56

    Norris, Isaac

    letter from, 495

    North Briton No. 45 (1763). See Wilkes, John: writings of

    North Carolina, 62, 119, 264n, 423, 435n

    North End crowd, 55, 80, 345n, 346. See also crowd action; Pope’s Day

    North Grammar School, 4, 65

    Northington, Robert Henley, 1st Earl of, 399

    identified, 400n

    North, Lord Frederick, 2nd Earl of Guilford, 31n, 34, 40, 43, 47, 50, 60, 61

    identified, 56

    Norwich, Conn., 309n

    Nova Scotia, 209, 360. See also Acadia

    boundary dispute with Massachusetts, 76, 138n, 140, 168, 169n

    disputed with New France, 107–08, 112n, 125–26, 146n, 164n

    Nugent, Robert Craggs-Nugent, 1st Earl, 40

    Number Four, N.H. See forts

    Ogden, Robert, 346

    identified, 347n

    Ohio River, 138n, 177

    Old South Church (Boston, Mass.), 57

    Oliver, Andrew, 6, 32, 34, 39, 53, 131, 133n, 134, 157, 161, 199, 383, 393, 451, 452n, 453n

    Council purge (1766), 21, 432–34, 439–41

    identified, 56

    letters from, 444, 507, 552, 575

    letters to, 189, 387, 550, 553, 562, 570

    portrait, 5

    “Protest” of, 103, 105–06 (text), 157

    publication of his letters, 29, 47

    as province secretary, 48, 231, 236, 237n, 256, 258, 430, 450, 451n

    and Stamp Act, 278–79, 281n, 283, 284n, 294n, 296, 299, 314–15

    compensation, 426, 462, 463n, 464–65, 466n, 487, 493

    as stamp distributor, 343, 354–55, 357n

    resignations, 18–19, 81–84, 283, 284n, 295, 296, 315, 341n, 343, 344, 355, 360n, 372, 373n, 406, 408n, 426n

    Oliver, Andrew, Jr., 465, 466n, 479

    identified, 284n

    Oliver, Daniel, 392, 411, 488

    identified, 393n

    portrait, 5

    Oliver, Mary (Clarke), 358, 402

    identified, 359n

    Oliver, Mary Sanford, 6, 53

    Oliver, Peter, 53

    identified, 56–57

    letters from, 357–58, 383, 384, 387, 392–93, 402, 411, 422, 475, 488, 567, 569, 570, 571, 573, 579, 580

    letters to, 580, 582

    on the Council, 21, 175, 176n, 383n

    Council purge (1766), 432–34, 440n, 441

    on the Superior Court, 33, 84, 86, 251, 383n, 385, 402, 411, 422, 479–81

    portrait, 5

    writings of

    “Origin and Progress of the American War to 1776” (1781), 57

    Oliver, Peter, Jr., 53

    Oliver, Sarah, 53, 133n

    Oliver, William, 422

    identified, 422n

    Oneida Indians, 313n. See also Native Americans

    Onohoquaja, 312–13. See also Native Americans

    Onondaga Indians, 109. See also Native Americans

    Ontario, Lake, 108

    Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1974). See Bailyn, Bernard

    “Origin and Progress of the American War to 1776” (1781). See Oliver, Peter: writings of

    Osborn, Danvers, 130

    identified, 118n

    Osborne, John (stepfather), 131, 133n

    identified, 57

    letter from, 289, 564

    Oswegatchie, 109

    Otis, James, Jr., 2, 37, 41, 62, 81, 377, 391n, 434

    advocate general of admiralty, 13, 73–74, 149

    and agents, 193, 194n, 204, 205n, 447, 448n, 476, 477n, 478, 480n

    William Bollan, 160–62, 219n, 237

    Richard Jackson, 256n, 484, 486

    and Francis Bernard, 169, 170n, 470, 471n, 487

    as Boston representative, 86, 163n, 175, 193, 194n

    character and reputation of, 169, 175

    maligned in letters to England, 449, 450n, 470, 471n, 483

    Council purge (1766), 21, 433, 434, 435n, 439, 440

    customs service

    fight with John Robinson, 59

    legal challenge to, 74, 149–50, 154, 357n

    trade regulations, 431, 432n

    writs of assistance, 15–16, 301n

    Declaratory Act, 424, 426n, 427, 429n

    gold as legal tender, 157, 158n

    identified, 57

    leadership of popular party, 46, 206, 232, 234n, 256n, 373n, 391–92, 434

    political influence of, 409n, 436, 478, 490

    mental instability, 14–15, 59, 414, 439

    plural office-holding, 14, 22, 75, 384n

    portrait, 153

    Stamp Act, 17, 79, 204, 205n, 206, 236, 237, 354, 357n

    compensation, 457, 465, 486

    on opening the courts, 359n, 363, 364n, 365, 389, 391–92, 406, 423–24, 457, 458n, 465, 466n, 470, 471, 472, 486

    repeal, 42

    Stamp Act Congress, 81, 342n

    Superior Court, 384

    TH as chief justice, 13–14, 15, 149, 151, 152, 154, 206

    justices’ salaries, 251n

    and TH, 8, 26–27, 172, 173n, 175, 176n, 184, 202, 363, 398, 407–08, 434, 449, 470, 471n, 484, 485n

    writings of

    “Bluster,” 436, 437n

    “Freeborn Armstrong,” 384n, 385, 386n, 390, 391n, 407

    “Hampden” letters, 365, 398, 483n

    Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764), 17, 79, 203, 205n, 206, 207n

    Vindication of the Conduct of the House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay (1762), 76, 169, 170n

    Vindication of the Rights of the British Colonies: against the Aspersions of the Halifax Gentleman, in a letter to a Rhode Island Friend (1765), 80

    Otis, James, Sr., 39, 45, 151, 161, 162n, 175, 176n, 184, 185n

    as attorney general, 235, 236n

    on Council, 407, 410, 411n, 433

    identified, 57

    as judge, 386

    letter to, 520

    as Speaker, 152, 154n

    on Superior Court, 13, 149, 154n

    Ottaway Indians, 186. See also Native Americans

    Ovid, 168n, 221

    Paine, Robert Treat

    letters to, 556, 580

    Palmer, Charlton, 301n, 415, 417, 418n, 447, 448

    identified, 58

    letters to, 300–01, 415, 535, 536, 539, 542, 545, 547, 563, 564, 567, 572, 575

    Palmer, Eliakim, 99, 102

    identified, 100n

    Palmer, Thomas, & Co., 58

    letters to, 578, 579, 582

    paper money. See currency

    Paris, Treaty of (1763), 44, 77, 160n, 163–64, 168, 174, 177, 179, 180n, 182, 218n

    Paris, Treaty of (1783), 60

    Parker, William, 479

    identified, 261n

    letters to, 260, 560

    Parliament (Great Britain), 32, 33, 44, 177, 179, 209, 212, 259n, 367–68, 395, 444, 446n, 476. See also Declaratory Act; House of Commons; House of Lords; Land Bank; Revenue Act (1764); Stamp Act; taxation without representation

    right to regulate trade, 182, 211, 215–16, 237, 431

    right to tax, 1, 29, 59, 62, 208–19, 212, 215, 234n, 237–38, 263, 350, 404, 408, 427, 472–73

    sovereignty of, 2, 14, 16, 17–18, 27–29, 30, 33, 35, 47, 59, 85, 95, 204–05, 208–10, 215, 232n, 237, 271, 272n, 275, 300, 306, 314, 336, 338, 362, 367, 370–71, 377, 395, 403–04, 413, 428–29, 449, 450, 471–72, 492

    Stamp Act, 264n, 228–33, 235, 236, 238

    compensation, 20, 343, 352, 381n, 400, 401n, 420, 426, 431, 436, 443n, 445–46, 448n, 450, 453, 455, 457, 465, 476, 477, 484, 494

    repeal, 21, 59, 84, 85, 397n, 399, 400, 401n, 424

    Parsons, Moses

    letters from, 540

    letters to, 541, 543, 564

    Partridge, Oliver, 104, 117, 137, 138n, 143, 171, 342n, 479, 481

    identified, 58

    letter from, 521

    letter to, 513, 521

    Partridge, Richard, 92, 96, 98n, 99, 100n

    identified, 92n

    patronage, 26, 61, 159n

    Paxton, Charles, 29, 44, 154, 244, 431–32, 474, 475n

    identified, 58

    legal challenge by merchants, 74–76, 152, 158, 159n

    letters to, 456–58, 460, 486, 577, 580

    portrait, 245

    Stamp Act riots, 82, 279, 283, 285, 291, 293n, 314–15

    trip to England, 86, 451–53, 455

    Peas, Simon, 269–70

    identified, 270n

    Pemberton, Ebenezer, 199, 261

    identified, 58

    letter from, 198, 552

    Pencak, William, 2n, 36

    Pennsylvania, 33, 54, 106, 113–19, 179, 180n, 264n, 410n

    Penobscot Bay, 139

    Penobscot expedition (1759), 12, 73, 138n, 140, 144

    Penobscot Region (territory disputed with Nova Scotia), 138, 139n, 143n, 168

    Penobscot River, 49, 138, 139n, 223, 224

    Pepperell, William, 11, 68, 72, 131

    identified, 133n

    portrait, 132

    Pequot War (1634–1638), 252, 254, 255n

    Phaedrus, 299

    Philadelphia, Penn., 22, 32, 35, 83, 92, 119, 298, 409, 410n

    “Philalethes.” See Jonathan Sewall

    “Philanthrop.” See Jonathan Sewall

    Phillips, John

    identified, 163n

    Phips, Spencer, 10, 39, 71, 72, 104, 123, 346, 347n

    identified, 105n

    Pickering, John, 480

    identified, 481n

    Pickman, Benjamin

    identified, 340n

    Piscataqua River, 222

    Pitkin, William, 106–07

    Pitt, William. See Chatham, William Pitt, 1st Earl of

    Pitts, James, 434

    identified, 435n

    “Plan of Union,” 119–22. See also Albany Conference; Albany Plan of Union

    Plantation Trade Act (1741), 93, 95, 97n

    Plato, 264

    Pliny the Younger, 419

    Plumb, J. H., 36

    plural office-holding, 14, 22, 75, 151, 192n, 384n, 391n

    Plutarch, 211

    Plymouth Colony, 223, 226n, 252

    Plymouth, Mass., 45, 53, 309n, 313n, 358n, 373n

    Polybius, 364, 365n

    Pompadour, Madame de, 334n

    Pompilius, Numa, 252

    identified, 253n

    Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763), 42, 77, 177, 179, 180n, 182, 183n, 186

    Pope, Alexander, 419

    Pope’s Day, 44, 55, 80, 83, 345, 346. See also North End crowd; South End crowd

    Portugal, 171, 197

    potash, 264, 265n

    Potts, William

    letter from, 521

    Poulett, Vere, 3rd Earl of, 492, 493n

    Powell, Jeremiah Dummer, 434

    identified, 435n

    Powell, John, 465

    identified, 466n

    letter to, 562

    Powers, Peter

    identified, 112n

    Pownall, Vermont, 275

    Pownall, John, 10, 34–35, 50, 130, 134, 135n, 160, 161n, 194, 243, 277n, 447

    identified, 58

    Pownall, Thomas, 2, 31, 39, 130, 349, 419, 487

    Albany Conference, 10, 58, 130, 233

    and Francis Bernard, 141, 143, 151, 152n

    colonial reform, 63, 350

    and TH, 2, 11–12, 37, 58, 130, 135, 137n, 138–39, 145, 155, 156n, 160, 233, 234n, 243, 381

    displeasure with TH as acting governor, 140, 141, 143, 144, 233

    TH letter affair (1773), 31, 31n

    recommends TH as lieutenant governor, 11, 72, 233, 234n

    identified, 58–59

    letters from, 349–50, 524, 525, 529, 560, 567, 569

    letters to, 123–24, 275–76, 295, 308, 342, 403–08, 409–10, 431–432, 487, 515, 562, 564, 565, 566, 571, 574, 580

    as Massachusetts governor, 11–12, 72, 133, 138n, 146, 148, 152n, 219n, 260, 262n, 338n

    and William Bollan, 11–12, 43, 161n, 165, 166n, 218, 219n, 233

    French and Indian War, 11–12, 58, 130, 137

    and James Abercrombie, 12, 135, 137n

    and Jeffery Amherst, 12, 140–41, 143

    and Quartering Act, 349, 350n

    quarrel with Lord Loudoun, 11

    Penobscot expedition, 12, 73, 135, 138, 139n, 140, 143, 144

    political allies of, 11, 46, 57, 61, 130, 135n, 149

    and William Shirley, 11, 58, 61, 130

    vice-admiralty courts, 350, 351n

    portrait, 136

    as South Carolina governor, 12, 73, 143n

    and TH Jr., 417, 456, 487

    writings of

    Administration of the Colonies (1764 and subsequent editions), 59, 77, 275, 276n, 350, 351n

    Considerations on a Paper Currency (1765), 350n

    Pratt, Benjamin, 134

    identified, 135n

    Prelude to Purgatory (1950). See Freiberg, Malcolm: writings of

    Prescott, Charles, 465, 479

    identified, 466n

    Prescott, James, 465

    identified, 466n

    Prescott, Jonas, 465

    identified, 466n

    Preston, Thomas

    identified, 59

    Prince, Thomas

    writings of

    Chronological History of New England in the Form of Annals (1736–1755), 170

    The Principles of Law and Polity (1764). See Bernard, Francis: writings of

    Pringle, Robert

    letters from, 497, 498, 499, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505

    letters to, 497, 498, 499, 501, 502, 504, 505

    Privy Council, 31, 48, 55n, 93, 101, 175, 368, 458n

    PRO (Public Record Office). See National Archives of the United Kingdom

    Proceedings of the Governor, Council, and House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, Concerning an Indemnification for the Sufferers by the Rioters in Boston, from August 27, 1765 to June 28, 1766 (1766), 452

    Proclamation of 1765, 77

    Protectorate (Oliver Cromwell), 253

    Protest of Andrew Oliver and Thomas Hutchinson (1751). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of; Oliver, Andrew: writings of

    Province of Massachusetts Bay v. Paxton (1762), 75–76, 154, 155n, 158, 159n. See also merchants: Boston

    Provincial Congress (Mass.), xx

    Prudden, Peter, 254

    identified, 255n

    Quartering Act (1758), 350n

    Quartering Act (1765), 81, 349, 350n

    Quebec, 73, 125, 141n, 144n, 147, 148n

    Quebec Act (1774), 365n

    Queen Anne’s War (1702–1713), 112n

    Quincy, Josiah, Jr., 32, 287, 288n

    Rands, Joshua, 187n

    Reasons Why the British Colonies, in America, Should Not Be Charged with Internal Taxes, by Authority of Parliament; Humbly Offered, for Consideration, in Behalf of the Colony of Connecticut (1764). See Fitch, Thomas: writings of

    regicides, 49, 63, 176. See also Goffe, William; Whalley, Edward

    Regulator movement, 62

    religion. See under specific denominations and faiths

    freedom of, 213, 310n

    Remembrancer (by John Almon), xx, xxxii

    Remington, Gershom, 196

    identified, 196n

    letters to, 542, 545, 553, 568

    Remington, Stephen

    letter from, 551

    letters to, 553, 561

    [Representation of the Present State of the Colonies] (1754). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of

    revenue, American, 184, 185n, 214–16, 217n, 404

    Revenue Act (1764) (also known as the Sugar Act), 16–17, 50, 77, 184, 185n, 186, 228, 238, 239n, 311, 404, 408n, 430n. See also customs service; smuggling

    colonial response to, 22, 54, 78, 79, 187, 203–05, 217n, 277n, 300, 343n

    Revenue Act (1766), 22, 50, 85, 87, 211, 217n, 430

    Reyes, Andres, xviii

    Rhode Island, 52, 53, 61, 63, 113–19, 201, 259, 428

    Massachusetts border with, 99, 100n

    currency, 173, 259

    customs enforcement in, 59, 267n

    Stamp Act, 18, 298

    Richardson, Ebenezer, 55

    Richardson, J., 250, 272, 273, 401n, 450

    identified, 250n

    Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of, 40

    identified, 437n

    Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764). See Otis, James, Jr.: writings of

    The Rights of the Colonies Examined (1764). See Hopkins, Stephen: writings of

    Roberts, John, 447

    identified, 448n

    Robertson, William, 255

    identified, 255n

    writings of

    History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI (1759), 255

    Robinson, John, 57, 267, 275, 276n

    identified, 59

    Robinson, Samuel, 275–76

    identified, 276n

    Rockingham, Charles Watson–Wentworth, 2nd Marquis of, 22, 40, 49, 60, 61, 82, 85, 86, 350, 401, 436, 454, 455

    identified, 59

    letter to, 421, 573

    Stamp Act

    compensation, 311, 312n, 381, 420, 421, 429, 447

    repeal, 22, 84, 311, 362, 399, 421

    and TH Jr., 421, 436, 449, 454, 484, 485n

    Rogers, George, 59

    Rogers, Lydia Hutchinson (sister), 59

    Rogers, Nathaniel (nephew), 29, 165, 166, 168, 202, 437, 443

    identified, 59

    letters from, 301–303, 564, 579

    letters to, 535, 536, 538

    and TH Jr., 417, 418n

    Rome, 210–211, 212, 217n, 368, 369n

    Rome, George, 29n

    Romney (ship), 52

    Ropes, Nathaniel, 380

    identified, 381n

    Rowe, John, 19n, 56, 406

    identified, 408n

    Royal Navy. See British navy

    Royall, Isaac, Jr., 134, 407, 410, 411n

    identified, 135n

    Ruggles, Timothy, 446n, 465, 466n, 479

    identified, 59

    and Stamp Act Congress, 81, 342n, 343n, 346, 347n, 398

    reproved by General Court, 392, 393

    Rullus, Publius Servilius, 210–11, 217n

    rum trade, 110, 112n, 116, 178. See also Native Americans

    Russell, Chambers, 85, 251n, 257, 376n, 380

    identified, 60

    letter from, 387, 570

    letter to, 580

    travels to England, 87, 389, 393, 460, 461, 479

    Russell, Joseph, 428

    identified, 429n

    Russell, John, 175

    identified, 176n

    Sagadohoc, 220, 433, 434, 439, 440n. See also Maine, district of

    salaries of provincial officials, 22, 27, 33. See also House of Representatives (Mass.)

    Salem, Mass., 172n, 219n, 268n, 270n, 479, 480

    Saltonstall, Richard, III, 465, 479

    identified, 466n

    Sanford, Grizell (sister-in-law), 196n, 259, 260, 296, 298n, 326–27, 431, 437, 444, 446, 447n

    identified, 60

    Sanford, Peleg, 4, 53, 65

    Sarah (brig), 48, 73

    Saunders, Thomas, 433, 434

    identified, 433n

    Savile, George, 311, 492n, 493

    identified, 312n

    Scollay, John, 197, 480, 481n

    identified, 198n

    Scipio Nasca Serapio, Publius Cornelius, 301

    identified, 303n

    Scotland, 208, 368, 395, 397n

    Scott, Christopher

    letter to, 543

    Scy, Peter Bours

    letter to, 514

    seamen’s tickets, 454

    Searl, Isaac, 152, 154n

    Second Continental Congress. See Continental Congress

    Second Church (Boston, Mass.), 4

    Sedgwick, Edward, 190, 243

    identified, 191n

    Seldon, John, 200

    identified, 201n

    writings of

    Marmora Arundelia (1628–1629), 201n

    The Selling of Joseph (1700). See Sewall, Samuel: writings of

    Seneca, 357, 358n

    identified, 303n

    Seneca Indians, 109. See also Native Americans

    Sentiments of a British American (1764). See Thacher, Oxenbridge: writings of

    September Bill. See Land Bank

    Seven Years’ War. See French and Indian War

    Sewall, David

    letter from, 563

    Sewall, Jonathan, 21, 32

    identified, 60

    Sewall, Joseph, 199

    identified, 199n

    letters from, 199, 552

    Sewall, Samuel, 199n, 269–70

    identified, 270n

    writings of

    The Selling of Joseph (1700), 270n

    Sewall, Stephen, 12, 46, 60, 73, 149

    Shakespeare, William, 418

    Sharpe, John, 178

    identified, 180n

    Sheaffe, Edward, 251n, 389, 444, 446n, 479

    identified, 389n

    Sheaffe, William, 348

    identified, 349n

    Shelburne, William Petty, 2nd Earl of, 21, 23, 40, 87, 437, 459, 469, 484, 485n, 486n, 492, 493n

    identified, 60

    letters to, 468–69, 488, 578, 581

    Shepard, Thomas, 252, 255

    identified, 253n

    Shipton, Clifford K., xvi, 2n, 3, 36, 70

    Shirley, William, 8, 11–12, 15, 39, 42, 43, 57, 64, 67, 68, 71, 105n, 149

    Albany Plan, 70, 113, 117n

    and James Allen, 470, 471n

    and Jonathan Belcher, 91, 98

    and currency, 106n, 337

    French and Indian War, 10, 63, 71, 112, 124n, 129n, 137, 138n

    Louisbourg expedition and reimbursement, 50, 57, 122n

    identified, 61

    letters from, 504, 507, 513

    letter to, 504

    loan to Massachusetts, 155–56

    portrait, 114

    and Thomas Pownall, 58, 234n

    recalled, 123, 130

    and James Otis Sr., 13, 57, 149

    Silliman, Ebenezer

    identified, 61

    letters to, 237–39, 557

    Silliman, Gold Selleck, 237

    identified, 238n

    silver, as legal tender, 6–7, 103, 105–06, 350, 351n. See also currency; gold, as legal tender; hard money

    Silver Bank, 7

    Six Nations. See Iroquois Indians; Native Americans

    smallpox, 62, 78, 93, 152, 188, 190–93, 196

    Smith, Richard

    letters to, 544, 557

    Smith, William, 106–07, 115

    identified, 117n

    letter from, 569

    letter to, 569

    smuggling, 13, 15, 16, 32, 42, 61, 70, 73, 177, 181–82, 186, 197, 246, 271, 272n, 300, 351n. See also Malcom, Daniel; merchants, Boston; tea; Temple-Bernard affair; vice-admiralty courts; writs of assistance

    TH takes depositions against, 19, 19n, 294n, 338–39, 355, 357n

    and Stamp Act riots, 21–22, 306

    Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, 261, 262n

    Socrates, 301, 303n

    Solemn League and Covenant, 35

    Sons of Liberty, 44, 46, 47, 56, 294n, 361–62, 391, 397, 451–52, 409n, 461, 483

    in other colonies, 62, 379n, 414, 457

    and Stamp Act

    repeal, 85, 395, 423, 424, 427, 432

    riots, 83, 385, 386n, 410

    South Carolina, 33, 73, 119, 141

    South End crowd, 55, 80, 345n, 346. See also crowd action; Pope’s Day

    South Sea Company, 54

    South Sea (Pacific Ocean), 107, 111

    South Sea Bubble Crisis (1720), 97n

    Southold, NY, 254, 255n

    Spain, 45, 134, 163, 171, 185n, 211, 216

    Sparhawk, Nathaniel, 407, 410, 411n, 433

    identified, 409n

    letter to, 183

    Sparta, 473

    Spear, Nathaniel, 97n

    Speeches of His Excellency Governor Hutchinson, to the General Assembly of the Massachusetts-Bay . . . with the Answers (1773), 28

    Spry, William, 235

    identified, 236n

    Stamp Act (1765), 20–21, 45, 47, 51, 59, 79, 211, 228, 272n, 397n, 409. See also agents, provincial; amnesty; Berkshire riots; natural rights; nonimportation agreements

    arrival of news of, 81, 264n, 271, 272n, 273, 276, 281, 295, 354, 357n, 404

    British attitudes toward, 45, 46, 60

    compensation for victims, 20, 53, 83–87, 293, 300, 304–06, 308, 309n, 316–40, 341, 343, 347, 351–53, 357, 358, 361–63, 375, 378, 381n, 382, 388n, 391, 394, 397, 400, 401n, 410, 412–17, 420, 421, 423, 424, 426, 430, 431, 434–36, 438–40, 442–44, 446, 448, 449n, 451, 452, 454–58, 460, 461, 463–71, 475–78, 480, 481, 483–89, 492–94

    drafting of, 18, 50, 54, 63, 80, 264n

    enforcement of, 271, 273, 277, 281, 293, 298–99, 300, 303n, 304, 307n, 308, 310, 313, 341, 342, 343, 359, 360, 362, 364, 374, 379, 394–98, 404–05, 409n, 410, 414–16, 431, 446, 488

    revenue from, 81, 273

    opening of the customs house, 21, 84, 348, 358, 359n, 360, 361n, 372, 373n, 374, 376, 378

    opening of courts, 21, 22, 53, 84–85, 341n, 358, 359, 361n, 362–65, 372, 374, 376–79, 382–90, 392, 393, 402, 406–07, 486

    passage of, 18, 78, 263, 264n

    petitions against

    British response to petitions, 258, 264n

    Massachusetts, 15, 17–18, 22, 79–80, 228–32 (text), 233, 234n, 235, 236, 238, 251n, 263, 276, 314, 344, 404, 408n, 409n

    other colonies, 258, 259n, 264n

    Connecticut, 54, 82

    New York, 17, 45, 84, 404, 408n

    Rhode Island, 17, 82

    Virginia, 18, 81, 276, 277n, 354, 357n, 405, 408n

    proposed, 78, 184, 185n, 203, 205n, 230, 265, 272n, 377, 404

    repeal, 47, 59, 312n, 343, 362, 381, 385, 391, 394–97, 399, 400, 401n, 405, 409–10, 415, 423, 431, 447

    celebration of, 432, 434

    colonial confidence in repeal, 341, 346, 358, 372, 374, 378n, 380, 391, 409–10, 414, 416, 421

    concern over accompanying resolutions, 402, 424, 426n, 427, 442, 449

    passage through Parliament, 22, 85, 362, 396n, 401n

    riots and resistance, 15, 45, 50, 55, 299n, 360n, 378, 402, 414, 431, 473

    Annapolis, 302, 303n

    Boston, 55, 86, 87

    (14–15 August 1765), 18–19, 81–82, 278–84, 293n, 294n, 296, 299, 311, 312n, 314–15, 344, 354–55

    (26 August 1765), xxi, 19–20, 48, 50, 82, 285–301, 309–10, 311–35, 337–39, 344, 351, 355, 366, 467

    Charleston, S.C., 83

    Connecticut, 278n, 298, 308, 309n

    Halifax, Mass., 402n

    Marshfield, Mass., 372

    Newbury, Mass., 339–40

    New York, 46, 298, 302, 303n, 345, 346, 362, 363n, 364

    Philadelphia, 83

    Newport, 82, 298, 299n, 435n

    rioters, 20, 29, 82, 83, 293, 294n, 299, 355–57, 360, 361n, 444, 446n

    Stamp Act Congress (1765), 64, 81, 83, 240n, 302, 303n, 341–43, 346, 347n, 377, 392n, 398. See also Ruggles, Timothy

    stamp distributors

    Connecticut, 54, 354

    Massachusetts, 21, 56, 81, 84, 343, 354, 360n, 372, 373n

    Maryland, 360n

    New York, 360n

    stamped paper, 21, 82, 83, 272n, 278, 282, 303n, 304, 341n, 345, 348, 349n, 356, 359, 360, 363n, 364n, 373n, 378, 398, 424n

    Stanhope, James Stanhope, 1st Earl of, 383

    identified, 383n

    Stanly, Captain

    letters from, 510

    Stark, John

    identified, 112n

    [A State of Trade of the Colonies] (1764). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of

    “State of Trade” (1763). See Boston Society for Encouraging Trade and Commerce

    Stiles, Ezra, 45, 195, 197

    identified, 61

    letters from, 200–01, 252–53, 269–70, 366–69, 370, 370–71, 552, 559, 561, 568

    letters to, 196–97, 202, 254–55, 274–75, 551, 553, 559, 561

    and TH’s History, 200, 252, 269, 274, 366, 370

    writings of

    History of Three of the Judges of King Charles I (1794), 270n, 275n

    St. Croix River, 169n

    St. Eustatius, 431

    St. Francis River, 108

    St. Johns River, 108, 109, 139n

    St. Lawrence River, 8, 107, 108, 112n, 124, 125, 134

    St. Pierre Island, 182n

    Stoddard, John

    letter from, 506

    letter to, 503

    Stoddard, William, 444

    identified, 445n

    Storke, Samuel, Jr., 417

    identified, 418n

    letters from, 501, 512

    letter to, 543

    Story, William

    Stamp Act

    compensation, 463n, 464–66, 486, 487, 493

    riots, 19, 82, 285, 293n, 300, 301n

    Strictures upon the Declaration of Congress at Philadelphia (1776). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of

    Succinct View of the Origin of Our Colonies (1766). See Bollan, William: writings of

    Suetonius, 104n

    Suffolk County, Mass.

    Inferior Court of Common Pleas, 53, 70, 159n, 363n, 374, 406

    Probate Court, 21, 53, 70, 84, 169, 170n

    operating without stamps, 359, 360n, 361n, 363, 364, 374–80, 440, 442n, 489, 490n

    sugar, 16, 179, 219n, 220, 404, 408n, 427n

    Sugar Act. See Revenue Act of 1764

    [A Summary of the Disorders in the Massachusetts Province] ([1765]). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of

    Superior Court, Mass., 188, 191, 204, 205n, 461, 480, 483n, 490. See also Berkshire rioters

    apparel, 173

    chief justiceship, 12–13, 15, 20, 44, 55, 74, 149, 151, 152, 154n

    exclusion of justices from General Court, 14, 161, 162n

    letter to, 183

    salaries of justices, 27, 44, 75, 158–59, 159n, 251, 271, 272n, 411

    Stamp Act,

    TH’s appearance after riots, 20, 284, 285, 287–88

    urged to open in defiance of, 21, 84, 85, 341, 342, 363–65, 372–75, 378n, 382n, 383–90, 392n, 393, 402, 406–07, 409n, 411, 422–24, 431

    writs of assistance, 15–16, 76, 158, 159n, 183, 266, 267n, 300, 301n, 305–07, 337

    Surinam, 209, 211, 217n

    Survey of Trade in Four Parts . . . Together with Considerations on our Money and Bullion, Its Exportation Discuss’d, Scarcity of Silver Coin Accounted for, the Means of Procuring a Plenty and Free Circulation of Both Species (1718). See Wood, William: writings of

    suspending clause, 162, 260–61, 262n

    Susquehannah Company, 180n

    Susquehannah River, 313n

    Swift, Samuel, 345

    Sylvester, Margaret, 260

    identified, 260n

    Tasker, Benjamin, 106–07

    Tasker, John

    identified, 340n

    Taunton, Mass., 267n

    Taylor, Ezra, 465

    identified, 466n

    Taylor, Israel, 465

    identified, 466n

    Taylor, Mary, 270

    identified, 270n

    taxation without representation, 18, 179, 208–09, 212, 230, 232n, 234n, 277n, 367–68, 377, 395, 427–28, 444

    tea, 22, 271, 272n, 416, 448. See also Boston Tea Party; Hutchinson, Thomas: as merchant; smuggling

    consignees, 45, 51, 52, 53, 54

    Tea Act (1773), 32, 45, 62

    Temple-Bernard affair (1764), 219, 220, 221n, 257n, 266–68. See also Bernard, Francis; Cockle, James; Temple, John

    Temple, John, 2, 23, 43, 51, 75, 77, 156, 160, 161n, 348, 349n. See also Temple-Bernard affair

    TH letters affair (1773), 30–31, 63

    identified, 61

    writs of assistance, 183

    Temple, Richard Grenville, 2nd Earl of, 61, 454

    identified, 454n

    Temple, William, 184

    identified, 185n

    writings of

    Essay on the Original and Nature of Government (1680), 185n

    Test Acts, 97n

    textiles, 247, 318–35, 418–19

    Thacher, Oxenbridge, 79, 83, 193, 205n, 234n, 236, 237n, 258n, 391n

    identified, 62–63

    writings of

    Considerations on Lowering the Value of Gold Coins, Within the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay (1762), 75

    Sentiments of a British American (1764), 79, 203, 207

    Theobald, James

    letter from, 512

    letter to, 512

    Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution (1999). See Walmsley, Andrew

    Thomas, John, xx

    Thomlinson, John, Sr., 102

    identified, 102n

    Ticonderoga. See Fort Ticonderoga

    Tillotson, John, 419

    identified, 419n

    Town House (Old State House, Boston, Mass.), 18, 25, 279, 281n

    Townshend, Charles, 4th Viscount, 22, 40, 60, 250, 460, 474, 475n. See also Townshend Act

    identified, 62

    Townshend Act (1767), 22, 23, 27, 32, 50, 60, 62, 475n

    Townshend, Susannah, 331

    Trecothick, Barlow, 243

    identified, 243n

    Trowbridge, Edmund (also known as Goffe), 15, 39, 235, 236n, 257–59, 299, 389, 479

    Council purge (1766), 21, 432–34, 440n, 441

    identified, 62

    letter from, 348, 567

    letters to, 560

    Stamp Act, 348, 355–56

    urges TH to flee, 363, 364n, 365

    Trumbull, Jonathan

    letters to, 519

    Tryon, William

    identified, 62

    Tulling, Richard

    letter to, 542

    Turner, John, 172

    identified, 172n

    letter to, 544

    Tyler, Royall, 194n, 307n, 389, 407, 410, 411n

    identified, 163n

    letter to, 553

    Tyng, John, 134, 139, 151, 152n

    identified, 135n

    Union Feast, 345, 346. See also Pope’s Day

    Universal History, 446, 447n

    Utrecht, Treaty of (1713), 107–09, 112n

    Vane, Henry, 252, 254

    identified, 253n

    Vassall, William, 253

    identified, 253n

    vice-admiralty courts, 62, 235, 236n, 350, 351n, 380, 459n

    in Boston, 57, 60, 73, 158, 159n, 375, 377, 378n

    in Halifax, 17, 229, 232n, 364, 365n

    Villiers, Pierre Joseph Neyon de, 179

    identified, 180n

    Vindication of the Rights of the British Colonies: against the Aspersions of the Halifax Gentleman, in a letter to a Rhode Island Friend (1765). See Otis, James, Jr.: writings of

    Vindication of the Conduct of the House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay (1762). See Otis, James, Jr.: writings of

    Viner, Charles, 448

    identified, 449n

    writings of

    General Abridgement of Law and Equity (1741–1751), 447

    Virgil, 100n, 105n, 419

    Virginia, 63, 107, 118n, 119, 129n, 212–13, 370

    House of Burgesses, 18, 81

    Virginia Resolves (1765), 18, 81, 276, 277n, 354, 357n, 405, 408n

    virtual representation, 212, 367–68, 395, 477

    Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet, 36

    Vose, Moses, 331

    Vossius, Gerald John, 200

    identified, 201n

    Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders . . . of . . . Boston (1772), 27

    Waldo, Francis, 456

    identified, 458n

    Waldo Patent, 227n

    Waldo, Samuel, 223, 227n, 347

    identified, 348n

    letter from, 511

    letter to, 512

    Waldron, Richard

    letter to, 498

    Wales, 444, 446n

    Walmsley, Andrew, 2

    Walpole, Robert, 158, 383

    identified, 159n

    Walsingham, William de Grey, 1st Baron, 401

    identified, 401n

    Ward, Artemas, 491

    identified, 491n

    Ward, Samuel

    letter from, 536

    letter to, 536

    War of Austrian Succession. See King George’s War

    Warren, Mercy Otis, 14, 36

    Warren, Seth, 466n, 477

    Waterhouse, Samuel, 81

    Waterman, Benony

    letters from, 508, 510

    letters to, 540, 546, 565, 581

    Watson, George, 53

    Watson, Mary (Polly), 53

    Watts, Samuel, Sr., 131

    identified, 133n

    Wedderburn, Alexander, 31

    Welles (or Wells), Samuel, 117, 121

    identified, 118n

    letter to, 513

    Welsteed, Sarah Hutchinson (sister)

    identified, 453

    Welsteed, William

    identified, 453n

    Wendell, Jacob, 131

    identified, 133n

    letter from, 503

    Wendell, John

    letter to, 544

    Wentworth, Benning, 67, 112n

    boundaries of NH, 226n, 275, 276n

    as governor of NH, 98, 100n, 101–02, 221, 260–62

    identified, 62

    letter to, 554

    as surveyor of the king’s woods, 225, 227n, 375–76

    Wentworth, John, 261n, 262n, 376n

    West Church (Boston, Mass.), 45, 55, 82

    West Indies, 6, 97n, 177, 178, 179, 265, 427n

    West, James, 426

    identified, 427n

    Western Islands. See Azores

    Westminster, Treaty of (1674), 217n

    Whalley, Edward, 49, 175, 176n, 269, 270n, 274, 275n, 366, 370, 371

    identified, 63

    Whalley, Robert, 63, 269–70

    identified, 270n

    Whately, Thomas, 54, 80, 264n. See also Grenville, George; Stamp Act: proposed

    correspondence with TH, 29–30, 44, 47, 48, 61

    identified, 63

    Whately, William, 30–31

    Wheelock, Captain

    letter from, 526

    letter to, 526

    Wheelwright, John, 252, 255

    identified, 253n

    Wheelwright, Nathaniel, 56, 80, 141, 481n, 486

    White, Samuel, 204, 231, 237n, 434, 435n

    identified, 205n

    Whitefield, George, 63

    Whitmore, Rebeckah, 330–31

    Whittelsey, Chauncey, 370

    identified, 371n

    Whitworth, Miles, 176

    identified, 176n

    Wilbraham, Randle (or Randall), 165

    identified, 166n

    Wilkes, John, 46, 50, 160n, 179, 180n, 181–82, 418n

    identified, 63

    writings of

    North Briton No. 45 (1763), 63, 180n

    Wilks, Francis, 67, 95–96, 99, 100n, 398, 415

    identified, 97n

    Willard, Josiah, 39, 96, 175, 176n

    identified, 63

    letters to, 101–02, 497, 507, 509

    Willet, Andrew, 270

    identified, 270n

    Willet, Francis, 173, 269–70, 274, 275n, 371

    identified, 173n

    letters to, 544, 545, 562

    Willet, Martha, 269

    identified, 270n

    William III, King, 274n

    Williams, Israel, 11, 36, 51, 58, 104, 105n, 264, 361n

    attendance at the General Court, 103, 104n, 171, 175, 481

    college in western Mass., 161n

    Council purge (1766), 21, 490

    identified, 63–64

    letters from, 481–82, 507, 509, 524, 526, 527, 528, 532, 533, 560, 580

    letters to, 103–04, 104–05, 131–33, 135, 136–137, 138–39, 141–43, 151–52, 152–54, 171, 175, 184–85, 264–65, 391–92, 471–72, 485, 507, 508, 509, 512, 513, 518, 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 527, 528, 529, 532, 533, 542, 545, 549, 556, 561, 570, 578, 580

    and Isaac Searl, 152, 154n

    on Stamp Act compensation and amnesty, 481

    Wilmington, Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of, 95, 98–99, 100n, 101, 102n

    identified, 97n

    Wilsonn, Robert, 156, 206, 236n, 416

    identified, 64

    letters from, 541, 547, 555

    letters to, 181–82, 186, 197–98, 537, 539, 540, 542, 546, 547, 548, 549, 551, 554, 555, 557, 558, 559, 562, 563, 565, 572

    Wiltshire, Richard

    letters from, 549, 555

    letters to, 547, 549, 555, 559, 562, 576, 581

    Winchester measure, 350, 351n

    Winchilsea, Daniel Fitch, 8th Earl of, 311

    identified, 312n

    wine, 211–12, 244, 246, 295

    Winslow, Edward, 95

    identified, 97n

    Winslow, Isaac, 347

    identified, 348n

    Winslow, John

    letter to, 581

    Winthrop, John, 252

    identified, 253n

    Witt, Samuel, 410

    identified, 411n

    Wolfe, James, 72, 73, 141, 148n

    identified, 141n

    Wonder-Working Providence of Sion’s Savior (1654). See Johnson, Edward: writings of

    Wood, Thomas, 235

    writings of

    Institute of the Laws of England: or, the Laws of England in their Natural Order, According to Common Use (1763), 236n

    Wood, William, 243

    identified, 243n

    letters to, 244–46, 558

    writings of

    Survey of Trade in Four Parts . . . Together with Considerations on our Money and Bullion, Its Exportation Discuss’d, Scarcity of Silver Coin Accounted for, the Means of Procuring a Plenty and Free Circulation of Both Species (1718), 243n

    Woodward, Hobson, xviii

    Works Projects Administration, xxi

    Worthington, John, 81, 117, 152, 479, 481, 490

    identified, 64

    letters from, 513

    writs of assistance. See also customs service; merchants: Boston; smuggling

    court case, 14–16, 21, 57, 61, 62, 74–76, 135n, 149, 151, 158, 159n, 305–07, 336–39, 391n

    involvement of William Bollan, 16, 74, 307n

    issuance of, 70, 183, 266, 267n, 271

    and merchants, 305–07, 409n

    and Stamp Act riots, 300, 301n, 305–07

    Wyllys, George, 237

    identified, 239n

    Yale College, 58, 61, 64

    York, James Stuart, Duke of. See James II, King

    Yorke, Charles, 401

    identified, 401n