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Abbot, Joseph, 32.
Absence from musters, 333; leave of, from Congress, 357.
Accounts, committee of, 262, 475, See also Claims.
Post-office, 516.
Adams, James, 39.
Adams, John, a delegate from the Massachusetts Bay. Attends, 11; credentials, 14, 405; thanked, 14; on pay of officers, 94n. Committees: Address to Ireland, 80; fast day, 81; Skene, 82; instructions for Washington, 93; for generals, 99; Lee, 98; printing bills of credit, 106; Lord North's motion, 202; lead, 234; medicines, 250; Washington's letter, 261; intercepting vessels, 277n; Schuyler's letter, 285; tea, 294; powder, 296; hostilities, 299; New Hampshire instructions, 307; equipping vessels, 312; Passamaquoddy application, 316; instruction to Schuyler committee, 317; captures in Canada, 358; Jenkins, 406. Quoted, 52n, 91n, 376n. Debates, 471, 473, 475, 486.
Adams, John, 36.
Adams, Richard, 243, 346.
Adams, Samuel, a delegate from the Massachusetts Bay. Attends, 11; credentials, 14, 405; thanked, 14. Committees: Fortifying New York, 53; letter to Canadians, 64; ammunition and military stores, 67; posts, 71; address to Ireland, 80; Lee, 98; Washington's queries, 102; revising Journal, 208; instructions to camp committee, 266; tea, 294; New York convention, 307; South Carolina, 319; Virginia, 344; frauds, 367; refusal to receive bills of credit, 367; qualifications of officers, 416; Navy, 420; Preston's bills, 434; allowance to prisoners, 442; Indians, 444; Stirling's letter, 460; Washington's letter, 466. Mentioned, 161, 275n. Debates, 471, 472, 473, 475, 486, 487, 488.
Address to inhabitants of Jamaica, committee, 79, 80; reported, 194; printed, 204.
Address to the people of Great Britain, committee, 79, 80; reported, 110, 157; printed, 163, 509.
Address to the people of Ireland, committee, 79, 80; reported, 194; printed, 212, 510.
Adjutants, pay, 220.
Adjutant-general, 94; deputy, pay, 220; New York department, 249.
Agents, colony, 368, 391.
Aids-de-camp, 94, 102.
Albany, committee letter, 108, 109; controversy with Mohawk Indians, 365.
Alexander, James, 265.
Alexander, Robert, a delegate from Maryland, 440.
Alfred, 443.

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Allen, Andrew, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 327. Committees: New York, 327; ration contract, 350; Newton's petition, 369; qualifications of officers, 416.
Allen, Ethan, 104, 402.
Allen, James, 328.
Allison, Francis, 185.
Alsop, John, a delegate from New York. Attends, 11; credentials, 15; Indian goods, 173. Committees: Powder, 255; woolens, 260; purchasing supplies for northern army, 318; grant for powder, 210, 218. Mentioned, 161, 221, 330.
Ammunition and military stores, committee on, 67; reported, 74. See Arms.
Anderson, Ephraim, 376.
Andrew, Benjamin, 48.
Andrew Doria, 443
Apothecary, hospitals, 210, 211.
Arms, declaration on taking up, Jefferson's drafts, 128; Dickinson's draft and final form, 140; importation, 184, 253, 406, 460, 464, 466; inspection, 450.
Armstrong, John, Brigadier General, 257.
Army, British, 78.
Army, Continental. Flour, 84; powder, 85; returns, 100, 121; camp equipage, 103; articles of war, 111, 331, 352, 508, 511; in Massachusetts Bay, 202; money for, 235, 245, 273, 275, 276, 352, 394; clothing, 248, 407; new, 270, 321; officers, 287, 288, 305; provisions, 299, 323; state of, 318; wood and hay, 399; necessaries, 401, 453.
Army, northern, 317, 339, 446.
Arnold, Benedict, 73, 109, 284, 350, 357, 377, 413, 414, 417, 447.
Arnold, Rhodes, 443.
Arrest of soldiers for debt, 459.
Articles of Confederation, Franklin's, 195, 456.
Articles of war, 111, 331, 352, 508, 511.
Artificers, engagement of, 400.
Artillery, commissary, 220; regiment, 399.
Association, continental, fourteenth article, 54; offenses, 67, 238, 268, 409; Georgia, 251; suspension, 510.
Augusta County, Va., petition, 76.
Axford, Charles, 277.
Aylett, William, 346.
Bache, Richard, 194, 299, 370.
Backhouse, Richard, 329.
Bacon, John, 48.
Bacon, William, jr., 48.
Ball, Edward, 48.
Bancroft, George, 263n.
Bancroft, Thaddeus, 39.
Bannister, John, 244, 346.
Barclay, Thomas, 207, 423.
Barnes, Cornelius, 423.
Barnet, William, jr., 416.
Barrell, --, 271.
Barrett, James, 28n, 36, 38.
Barrett, John, 37.
Barrett, Nathan, 36, 37.
Barrett, Samuel, 37.
Barron, William, 354.
Bartlett, Josiah, a delegate from New Hampshire. Credentials, 252. Committees: Powder, 335; qualifications of officers, 416; navy, 420; armed vessels, 428.
Bartow, Thomas, jr., 207.
Bassett, Burwell, 346.
Bateman, John, 35.
Baughman, Samuel, 272.
Bayard, John, 207, 423.
Bear, Samuel, 337.
Bedford, Gunning, 186, 246, 317, 417.
Bedford County, Pa., accounts, 275.
Beef, salting, 273.
Benson, Egbert, 16.
Bentham, sloop, 276.
Berks County, Pa., accounts, 258.
Bermudas, address from, 174, 187; letter from, 246; trade privileges, 268, 362.
Berton, Paul, 428, 454, 455.
Betsey, schooner, 354.
Beveridge, David, 423, 435, 438.

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Bibliography, 507.
Bicking, Frederick, 272.
Biddle, Clement, 329.
Biddle, Edward, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Attends, 12; credentials, 17, 327; mentioned, 162.
Biddle, John, 305.
Biddle, John, jr., 337.
Biddle, Nicholas, captain, 443.
Billeting of soldiers, 288, 289.
Bills of credit, emission of 3,000,000, 103; denominations, 105; form, 106; superintendents of press, 194. Emission of 1,000,000, 207; signers, 207; quotas of colonies, 221; canceling, 222; paper, 272, 342; cuts, 286, 310; printing, 299; signing, 345, 378; bills refused, 367. Emission of 3,000,000, 390; denominations, 398; form, 407; numbering, 422; signers, 423; credit of, 424, 455. Emission of 3,000,000, 457; quotas, 458.
Bills, of exchange, 78, 434.
Blackburn, Thomas, 346.
Blackwell, Jacob, 16.
Blaine, Ephraim, 452.
Bland, Richard, a delegate from Virginia. Attends, 12; credentials, 19, 243; to notify and thank Duché, 12, 22; declines reelection, 243; mentioned, 346.
Bland, Theodorick, jr., 346.
Blankenberg, Frederick, 273.
Blankets, 103, 306, 323.
Block Island, 406.
Boerum, Simon, a delegate from New York. Credentials, 15.
Bollan, William, 22, 162.
Bombardiers, pay, 221.
Bond, Phineas, 423.
Bonds, treasurers', 252.
Bonner, Andrew, 310, 320.
Boston, situation of, 65; agreement with Gage, 136, 151; oppression, 165, 214; attack upon, 270, 273, 423, 442, 444.
Bounty, northern army, 340, 448; Navy, 387; reenlistment, 393; Rhode Island, 408.
Bowman, Ebenezer, 32.
Box, Philip, 242, 257.
Boyd, --, 423.
Bradford, William and Thomas, 277.
Bradish, Hannah, 39.
Brasher, Abraham, 16.
Braxton, Carter, 244, 346.
Brewer, Samuel, 257.
Brewster, John, 315.
Bridge, John, jr., 33.
Brigade major, 220, 257.
Brimstone for Army, 85.
Britton, Charity, 277.
Broadwater, Charles, 346.
Brook, George, 346.
Brooks, Jonathan, 315.
Broome, John, 299n.
Brown, James, 33.
Brown, John, 37.
Brown, John, 55.
Brown, John, major, 341.
Brown, Joseph, 329.
Brown, Richard, 260.
Brown, Solomon, 28.
Brownson, Nathan, 48.
Brownson, Nathan, jr., 241.
Bryan, Hugh, 242.
Bryan, Jonathan, 242.
Bryan, William, 241.
Buffin, John, 346.
Bull, John, colonel, 370, 412.
Bullock, Archibald, a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 193, 240. Committees: South Carolina, 319; powder, 335.
Bunker, Andrew, 370.
Bunner, Andrew, 207, 423.
Burke, Edmund, 16n.
Burney, Andrew, 242.
Burroughs, Ezekiel, 443.
Butler, Elisha, 241.
Butler, Joseph, 37, 38.
Buttrick, Nathan, 37.
Cabinet, King's, 63n.
Cabot, 443.
Caldwell, Samuel, 423.
Cameron, Allen, 415.

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Camp, committee to Cambridge, 265, 266; instructions, 270; expenses, 273, 371; letter, 313; returns, 318; report, 320, 321, 328, 330, 398, 423.
Campbell, Donald, 186.
Campbell, Duncan, 305, 309.
Campbell, George, 423.
Canada, letter to, 64, 67, 68; translation, 70; printed in English, 88; printed, 507; no incursions, 75; disposition, 174, 340; gold and silver, 279, 284, 287; captured property, 358.
Cannon, imported, 253.
Canteens, 263.
Captain, pay, 220.
Captain lieutenant, pay, 220.
Carabines, 273.
Carleton, Guy, 109, 152, 167.
Carlisle, Pa., 404.
Carpenter, master, 221.
Carter, Charles, 346.
Cartridge box, tin, 351.
Cary, Archibald, 243, 244, 346.
Caswell, Richard, a delegate from North Carolina. Attends, 12; credentials, 19; resigns, 290; signer bills of credit, 290; committee on Lee, 98.
Centinels, sleeping, 332.
Certificates, false, health, 334.
Chambers, James, captain, 328.
Chambly, 320.
Chandler, John, 32.
Chandler, John, jr., 32.
Chandler, Joseph, 37.
Chaplain, pay, 220.
Charleston, S. C., 45, 326.
Charlestown, Mass., 216.
Chase, Samuel, a delegate from Maryland. Attends, 12; credentials, 19, 245. Committees: Expenses, 250; Schuyler's letters, 255, 285; saltpeter, 296; Connecticut-Pennsylvania dispute, 297; Randolph's funeral, 303; South Carolina, 319; armed vessels, 428. Debates, 472, 478, 482, 484, 485, 486, 489, 493, 494, 495, 496, 498, 501. Mentioned, 162, 377.
Chatham, Lord, 22, 62n, 143.
Chew, William, 419.
Childs, George Washington, 97n.
Christ, Henry, 336.
Church, Benjamin, 28n, 76; director-general of hospital, 211; arrest, 294, 297, 334.
Claims, committee, 262; instructions, 263; manner of payment, 265; quorum, 310; asks instructions, 406, 408. See Accounts.
Clarkson, Matthew, 423.
Clay, Joseph, 242.
Clearances from favored colonies, 292, 314.
Clerk, hospital, 210, 211.
Clifford, Thomas, and Sons, 309.
Clinton, George, a delegate from New York. Credentials, 15; attends, 48; committee on lead, 234.
Clothing, intercepted at Philadelphia, 248; stoppages, 323; purchased, 342; army, 407; purchased at Montreal, 418, 448.
Clough, Alexander, adjutant, 360.
Clowes, Peter, 16.
Cluggage, Robert, 275, 371.
Clunn, Joseph, 277.
Clymer, Daniel, 207, 423.
Clymer, George, 201; treasurer, 221; bond, 253.
Coasts, defense 189.
Coates, John, major, 357.
Cochran, Jonathan, 242.
Coffin, Sylvanus, 445, 463.
Coffin, --, 90.
Colden, Cadwalader, 80.
Collins, Stephen, 423.
Colonel, pay, 220.
Columbus, 443,
Commissaries for receiving supplies for Lake Champlain, 75.
Commissary-general, 94, 190; of musters, 94, 220.
Commissary of artillery, pay, 220; of stores, 186, 220.
Commission for Washington, 92, 96; officers, 100, 249, 289, 325; navy, 396, 397.

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Committees of safety, 189.
Compton, Thomas, 337.
Concord, Mass., affair, 24, 135, 151.
Confederation, articles of, 195, 456.
Conference, committee of. See Camp, committee.
Congress, Continental, proposed removal, 7; secret proceedings, 22, 342; rules of debate, 55, 357; pledges support to Washington, 97; will indemnify Lee, 98; resolution of 2 adjournment, 224, 235; attendance of members, 357; rules of motions, 434; unfinished business, 445, 454; members of, 516. See Journals.
Connecticut, credentials of delegates, 15; troops for Ticonderoga, 74; for Albany, 186, 191; advance to, 236, 263; dispute with Pennsylvania, 235, 238, 268, 283, 285, 287, 295, 297, 321, 335, 349, 352, 377, 435, 439, 452, 487; troops in service, 270.
Connolly, John, 394, 415, 445.
Contracts, frauds in, 367.
Cooke, Nicholas, 174, 279, 297.
Coombe, Thomas, 207, 423.
Cooper, Grey, 71.
Cooper, Peter, 290.
Cork, intercepted letters, 360.
Corporal, pay, 220; artillery pay, 221.
Correspondence, committee of, 392, 423; with enemy, 331.
Cortlandt, Philip, 16.
Courts-martial, 117; navy, 382.
Courts on captures, 373.
Cowardice, punishment, 331; navy, 381.
Cowper, B., jr., 241.
Cowperthwaite, --, 357.
Crafts, Thomas, jr., 399.
Craig, William, 207.
Crane, Stephen, a delegate from New Jersey. Attends, 11; credentials, 17. Committees: Lead, 234; expenses, 250; Navy, 420; armed vessels, 428. Mentioned, 416.
Crawford, Christopher, 329.
Cresap, Michael, 260, 290, 320, 329.
Crispin, William, 423.
Crown Point, troops for, 74; letters, 104; powder, 108; fortifications, 450.
Cruger, Henry, 16n.
Cumberland County, N. J., 295.
Cummings, John,. 36n.
Cungle, George, 336.
Cuppaidge, George, lieut., 413.
Cursing, 378.
Cushing, Caleb, 405n.
Cushing, Thomas, a delegate from the Massachusetts Bay. Attends, 11; credentials, 14, 405; thanked, 14, Committees: Money, 80; army rules, 90; printing Articles of War, 122; Kirkland, 186, 336; expenses, 192; Trumbull's memorial, 258; claims, 262; money in treasury, 328; Indian treaty, 350; Jenkins, 406; Motte's guard, 461. Mentioned, 161, 474.
Cuthbert, Seth John, 242.
Cuthbert, --, 396.
Dandridge, Bartholomew, 346.
Dartmouth, Lord, 63n, 185.
Davies, John, 315.
Davis, George, 329.
Day of humiliation, 81. 87.
Dean, --, 476.
Deane, James, 366.
Deane, Silas, a delegate from Connecticut. Attends, 11; credentials, 15; business of Congress. 80n. Committees: Letter to Canadians, 64; ammunition, 67; money, 80; Skene, 82; army rules, 90; Washington's queries, 102; printing Articles of War, 122; trade, 177; Kirkland, 186; expenses, 192, 250; lead, 234; Schuyler's letters, 255, 285; powder, 255; Trumbull's memorial, 258; trade, 259; woolens, 260; claims, 262; intercepting ships, 277n, 294; fortifying North River, 280; billeting soldiers, 288; hostilities, 290 299; New York letter, 307; Passamaquoddy application, 316; instructions to Schuyler committee, 317; Pennsylvania assembly, 321; Indian

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trade, 366; expresses, 401; navy, 420; recess, 427; armed vessels, 428; unfinished business, 445; Motte's guard, 461; New York, 463; Washington's letter, 466. Debates, 471, 472, 474, 477, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 490, 492, 495, 496., Mentioned, 7, 161, 236, 335, 435n.
Dearing, Henry, 337.
Debt and soldiers, 459.
Declaration on taking arms, 105, 106; recommitted, 108; again reported, 127; Jefferson's drafts, 128; Dickinson's draft, 140; final form, 140; translated into Italian, 157n; printed, 508.
Delaware credentials of delegates, 18, 304; battalions, 418; field officers, 429; Indians, 433.
Derby, Israel, 16.
Derby, Richard, 27, 28n.
Desertion, 113, 324, 325; to the enemy, 332.
Dewees, Thomas, 370.
De Witt, Cahrles, 16.
Dickinson, John, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Attends, 12; credentials, 17, 327; motion for petition to King, 52n; draft declaration on taking arms, 140. Committees: Translation of letter to Canada, 70; petition to king, 80; militia, 106; declaration for Washington, 108; Duché, 185; powder, 255; excused from service, 335; New Jersey letter, 295; correspondence, 392; New Jersey, assembly, 404; Schuyler's letter, 419, 459. Mentioned, 128n, 158n, 162, 221, 335.
Dimon, David, 341.
Director general hospitals, 209.
Dix, Jonas, 28n, 40n.
Dolly, schooner, 445.
Donaldson, --, 254.
Douw, Volkert, P., 183, 350, 351, 364, 365, 455 456.
Dowdle, --, captain, 316.
Drake, Samuel, 16.
Draper, William, 34.
Drayton, Stephen, 241.
Dreer, Ferdinand J., 97n.
Drinker, James, and, 52, 309.
Drowne, Solomon, 303n.
Drummer, pay, 220.
Drunkenness, 115, 332, 378.
Duane, James, a delegate from New York. Attends, 11; credentials, 15; petition to king, 65n. Committees: Address to Ireland, 80; Indians, 93; printing bills of credit, 106; powder, 284; New York convention, 307; money in treasury, 328; Indian treaty, 350; Preston, 402. Debates, 484, 485, 487, 490. Mentioned, 161.
Dubois, Zachariah, 315.
Duché, Jacob, 12, 13, 22, 185, 303.
Duckett, John, 19.
Duels in army, 114.
Duer, William, 367.
Dunmore, Lord, 58n, 76, 395, 403, 482.
Dunwody, James, 48.
Durant, Isaac,. 32.
Du Simitiere, Pierre Eugène, 286.
Duvall, George, 245, 441.
Dyer, Eliphalet, a delegate from Connecticut. Attends, 11; credentials, 15. Committees: Lee, 98; medicines, 250; powder, 296; Schuyler, 317; excused, 339; qualifications of officers, 416. Debates, 471, 474, 482, 485, 488, 489, 496. Mentioned, 161, 236, 419.
Edwards, Timothy, 368.
Elbert, Samuel, 242.
Elizabethtown, N. J., 288.
Elliott, John, 48.
Embezzlement, punishment, 331.
Engineers, 94, 401.
Enlistment, form, 90, 289.
Ensign, pay, 220.
Erwin, Robert, 263, 329, 408, 432.
Estimate of expenses, 192.
Evans, Joel, 423.
Ewen, William, 242.
Exchange, bills of, 78, 434.

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Expenses, estimate of, 192; rifle and hussars, 237, 250, 254.
Exports stopped, 54.
Expresses, 401, 417, 455.
Falconer, N., 247.
Falmouth, 313, 398n.
Fanning, John, 443.
Fanning, Phineas, 16.
Farley, M., 405n.
Farr, Thomas, jr., 21.
Farrar, Jonathan, 37.
Fast day resolution, 507.
Fegener, Andrew, 310.
Fehr, Godfried, 360.
Feltham, Jocelyn, 412.
Fenton, John, 255.
Fessenden, Josiah, 433.
Fessenden, Thomas, 35.
Fifer, pay, 220.
Firelocks, manufacture of, 322.
Fisher, Jabez, 405n.
Fitzhugh, William, 346.
Flaxseed, 269.
Fleming, Edward, 249.
Flints, purchase of, 408.
Florida, East and West, 54.
Flour, 84, 264, 299.
Floyd, William, a delegate from New York. Credentials, 15. Committees: Militia, 106; Sellick, 463. Mentioned, 161.
Forbes, John, 328.
Ford, Paul Leicester, 507.
Foulke, Judah, 207.
Francis, Turbott, 183.
Frank, George, 284.
Franklin, Benjamin, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Attends, 12; credentials, 18, 327; letter as agent, 22; motion on arms and ammunition, 184; articles of confederation, 195; postmaster- general, 209; amendment, 233n; household effects, 247. Committees: Posts, 71; petition to King, 80; saltpeter, 86; Washington, declaration, 105; printing bills of credit, 106; trade, 177; report on, 200; Indian (middle) department, 183, 251; Lord North's motion, 202; lead, 234; powder, 255; trade, 259; camp, 266; Indian treaty, 350; packets, 355; captures in Canada, 358; refusal to receive bills of credit, 367; correspondence, 392; expresses, 401; recess, 427; unfinished business, 445. Mentioned, 63n, 72, 162, 371, 455, 487.
Franks, David, 399.
Fraud, punishment for, 331; in contracts, 367, 417, 455.
Frederick County, Va., 48.
Frederick County, Md., 394, 415.
Freeman, Samuel, 26, 27, 28n.
French, Christopher, 315.
Friendship, ship, 246.
Fromberger, George, 310.
Fry, Joseph, brigadier-general, 257.
Fuller, Benjamin, 423.
Fulton, John, 242.
Furloughs, 120.
Gadsden, Christopher, a delegate from South Carolina. Attends, 12; credentials, 21. Committees: Skene, 86; militia, 106; trade, 177; matrosses, 191; lead, 234; claims, 262; intercepting vessels, 294; navy, 420; armed vessels, 428. Debates, 471, 472, 474, 475, 480, 486, 487, 492, 494, 495, 501. Mentioned, 162.
Gage, Thomas, to Dartmouth, 23; attack on Concord and Lexington, 24, 111, 150; treatment of Boston, 65, 83, 136, 151, 165, 167, 391; letter to Joseph Martin, 124; instructions to Campbell, 305.
Galloway, Joseph, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 17; excused, 17n.
Gardner, Henry, 27n.
Garfield, Abraham, 36.
Garrigues, Samuel, 310.
Garrison, Nicholas, 423.

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Gates, Horatio, adjutant-general, 97.
General, commander in chief, 91, 96; major and brigadiers, 93, 99, 103.
Georgia, credentials of delegates, 45, 192, 240; exports to, 54; events, 193n; papers, 250; troops, 325; money, 343.
Gerrish, Joseph, 28n, 45n.
Gerry, Elbridge, 28n.
Gibbons, Joseph, 242.
Gibbons, William, 242.
Gill, Moses, 405n.
Glen, John, 242.
Gold, 279, 284, 287, 454, 467.
Goldsborough, Robert, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 19, 245; attends, 48.
Goodwin, James, 242.
Goodwin, --, captain, 418.
Gorham, Nathaniel, 29n, 41.
Gould, Edward Thoroton, 40.
Government for Massachusetts, 83; New Hampshire, 298, 319; South Carolina, 326.
Govett, William, 286.
Green, James, jr., 20.
Graff, Andrew, 329.
Graff, George, 329.
Graham, Morris, 16.
Graham, Robert, 16.
Grant, --, 306.
Great Britain, address to. See Address.
Green, Isaac, 32.
Green Mountain Boys, 105, 123, 446.
Greene, Nathanael, brigadier-general, 103.
Grenada, island of, 455.
Gridley, Richard, 256, 358.
Griffin, Jasper, 352, 353.
Grimes, William, 32.
Guadeloupe, masters of vessels, 457.
Habersham, Joseph, 242.
Hacker, Hoysted, 443.
Hadley (or Headley), Thomas, jr., 32.
Hagner, Micah, 33.
Hall, John, a delegate from Maryland. Attends, 12; credeptials, 19, 245.
Hall, Lyman, a delegate from Georgia. Attends, 44, 249; credentials, 45. 193n, 240. Committee: Lead, 234. Debate, 484.
Hall, William, 267.
Halsted, Matthias, 442.
Hamar, --, 367.
Hancock, John, a delegate from the Massachusetts Bay. Attends, 11; credentials, 14, 405; thanked, 14; presents papers, 24; elected president, 59. Committee: Armed vessels, 428. Mentioned, 172, 218, 221, 239, 476.
Hanson,John, 343.
Harbors, defense of, 189.
Harbow, Judah, 328.
Haring, John, 16, 259.
Harrington, Daniel, 29, 32.
Harrington, John, 32.
Harrington, Levi, 34.
Harrington, Moses, jr., 32.
Harrington, Moses, 3d, 32.
Harrington, Thaddeus, 32.
Harrington, Thomas, 32.
Harris, Francis Henry, 242.
Harris, John, jr., 272.
Harrison, Benjamin, a delegate from Virginia. Attends, 12; credentials, 19, 243; sent to Maryland, 395. Committees: Militia, 106; camp, 266; South Carolina, 319; New York, 327; Massachusetts papers, 356; correspondence, 392; Nantucket, 446. Debates, 472, 474, 475, 476. Mentioned, 162, 371, 445.
Hart, John De, a delegate from New Jersey. Attends, 11; credentials, 17; resigns, 397. Mentioned, 161, 473.
Hart, William De, 335.
Harvey, John, 19, 20.
Hastings, Isaac, 32.
Hastings, Jonathan, 30n.
Hastings, Samuel, 33.
Hastings, --, 305.
Hawley, Joseph, 183, 247, 366, 368.
Hay, A. Hawkes, 16.
Hay, --, lieutenant, 428.

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Hayne, Christopher, 370.
Hazlehurst, Isaac, 207, 423.
Headley (or Hadley), Thomas, jr., 32.
Heath, William,. brigadier-general, 103.
Hendricks, William, 336.
Henry, Patrick, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 19; attends, 55; inquiries from Washington, 102. Committees: Indians, 93; Lee, 98; Washington's queries, 102; Indian goods, 173; Indian (middle) department, 183, 251; Kirkland, 186; lead, 234. Mentioned, 162, 242, 244.
Henry and Simons, 315.
Henry, Usher and, 309.
Hewes, Joseph, a delegate from North Carolina. Attends, 12; credentials, 19. Committees: Money, 80; army, rules, 90; military articles of war, 122; lead, 234;claims, 306; equipping vessels, 312; Navy, 420; armed vessels, 428. Mentioned, 162, 290, 330.
Hider, John, 356.
Higgins, Thomas, 432.
Highlanders, North Carolina, 387.
Highlands, New York, fortified, 60; commander, 337, 343; New Jersey troops, 345; defense, 446, 485.
Highlands, New Jersey, 416.
Hillegas, Michael, 194, 221, 252, 299.
Hinchman, John, 370.
Hinman, Benjamin, 109.
Hoar, John, 36.
Hobart, John Sloss, 16.
Holliday, William, 319.
Hollingsworth, Levi, 285, 370.
Holmes, James, 442.
Holmes, Joseph, 371.
Holmes, William, 310.
Holton, Samuel, 405n.
Hooper, William, a delegate from North Carolina. Attends, 12; credentials, 19. Committees: Address to Jamaica, 80; fast day, 81; South Carolina, 319; Massachusetts papers, 356; Connecticut-Pennsylvania dispute, 377; recess, 427; merchants' petition, 434; Schuyler's letters, 436, 459; unfinished business, 445; Washington's letter, 466. Mentioned, 162, 290, 330.
Hopkins, Ezek, commander-in-chief of Navy, 443.
Hopkins, John Burrows, 443.
Hopkins, Stephen, a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 50; attends, 55. Committees: Lee, 98; militia, 106; lead, 234; McPherson, 296; Connecticut-Pennsylvania dispute, 297; Randolph's funeral, 303; equipping vessels, 312; Passamaquoddy application, 316; Navy, 420; armed vessels, 428. Mentioned, 161, 485.
Hosmer, John, 32.
Hosmer, Stephen, jr., 37.
Hosmer, Titus, elected a delegate from Connecticut, 15.
Hosmer, William, 36.
Hospitals, 191, 203, 209; Massachusetts, 294, 297; northern department, 249.
Hostilities, account of, 298, 306, 307.
Houstoun, George, 242.
Houstoun, John, a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 193n, 240. Committee: Armed vessels, 428. Debates, 494.
Howe, Lord, 465.
Howe, Sir William, 210.
Howell, Isaac, 423.
Hoyler, Jacob, 305.
Hudson, Jonathan, 415, 422.
Hudson River, defenses 95, 280, 281, 309, 335, 338, 341, 343.
Hulbert, John, 360, 364.
Humphreys, Charles, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Attends, 12; credentials, 17, 327. Committee: Saltpeter, 311. Mentioned, 162.
Hussars, 173, 238, 250, 254.
Hutchinson, Thomas, 214.
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Indians, friendship of, 93, 174; reports, 108; talks, 123, 173, 177, 185; alliances, 123; consult, 126; Carleton's relations, 152; goods, 173; Stockbridge, 110, 185; commissioners, 175, 183, 192, 194; northern department, 250; treaty at Albany, 350, 351, 365; Mohawk, 365; trade, 366, 465; called upon, 401; middle department, 251, 419, 455; southern department, 423, 456; Delaware, 433; committee of conference, 444, 452, 454, 455; ministerial agents, 456; presents, 456, 462.
Ingraham, Duncan, 30n.
Ireland, address to. See Address. Trade and land, 269.
Irvine, James, 370, 403, 433, 461.
Jackson, Samuel, memorial, 246.
Jackson, William, 207.
Jackson, --, 328.
Jamaica, address to inhabitants. See Address.
James and Drinker, 52, 309.
Jann, Thomas, 246.
Jay, John, a delegate from New York. Credentials, 15; attends, 44; proposes petition to the King, 52n. Committees: Letter to Canadians, 64, 68n; Massachusetts letter, 79; petition to King, 80; Washington declaration, 105; trade, 177, 259, 268; medicines, 250; expenses, 250; Schuyler's letter, 255; Passamaquoddy application, 316; instructions to Schuyler committee, 317; refusal to receive bills of credit, 367; Newton's petition, 369; Connecticut-Pennsylvania dispute, 377; correspondence, 392; thanks to officers, 393; New Jersey assembly, 404; qualifications of officers, 416; arrest of soldiers for debt, 417; Beveridge's petition, 423; recess, 427; unfinished business, 445; New York, 463; Stirling's letter, 460; arms and ammunition, 464. Debates, 471, 473, 490, 492, 493, 495, 496. Mentioned, 161, 367.
Jefferson, Thomas, a delegate from Virginia. Attends, 101; credentials, 101, 243; draft declaration on taking arms, 128; Lord North's motion, 224. Committees: Washington's declaration, 108; Lord North's motion, 202, 224; Connecticut-Pennsylvania dispute, 297; Massachusetts papers, 356; refusal to receive bills of credit, 368; North Carolina, 368; Newton's petition, 369; Hudson's petition, 415; Beveridge's petition, 423; recess, 427, 430; merchants' petition, 434; Schuyler's letters, 436, 459; unfinished business, 445. Mentioned, 162, 508.
Jenkins, Thomas, 397, 406, 415, 420.
Jewell, Joseph, 356.
Johnson, Josiah, 29, 31, 41.
Johnson, Thomas, jr., a delegate from Maryland. Attends, 12; credentials, 19, 245; nominates Washington, 91n. Committees: Massachusetts letter, 79; petition to King, 80; saltpeter, 86; Lee, 98; Washington declaration, 105; expenses incurred, 192; lead, 234; trade, 259; claims, 262; instructions to camp committee, 266; Virginia, 344; petitions, 352; Massachusetts papers, 356; captures in Canada, 358; frauds, 367; refusal to receive bills of credit, 367; correspondence, 392. Debates, 472, 474, 476, 478, 482, 484. Mentioned, 162, 395n.
Johnston, Samuel, 290.
Jones, Henry, 241.
Jones, John, 337.
Jones, John Paul, 443.
Jones, Joseph, 346.
Jones, Noble Wimberley, a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 193n, 240.
Jones, Robert Strettle, 207.

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Jones, Thomas, 37.
Jones, Valentine, 35.
Jones, Willie, 194.
Jones, William, 241.
Jordan, John, 267.
Journal, 208, 263, 264, 393, 454; printing, 264, 514; reading, 427.
Judge-advocate, pay, 220, 257.
Kennedy, George, 337.
Kerlin, William, 310.
Kettles, 263.
Kiger, George, 267.
King, Daniel, 433.
King, petition to, 52n, 65, 509; by colonies, 404; reception of, 343.
Kingsbridge, New York, fortified, 59.
Kinnear, Francis, captain, 418.
Kinsey, James, a delegate from New Jersey. Attends, 11; credentials, 17; resigns, 397. Committees: Billeting soldiers, 288; Connecticut-Pennsylvania dispute, 297.
Kirkland, Samuel, 186, 187, 336, 350, 455.
Klinger, Alexander, 336.
Knox, Andrew, 20, 290.
Knox, Henry, colonel of artillery, 359, 404, 449.
Kugher, Lewis, 310.
Kuhl, Frederick, 207, 423.
Lake George, New York, 60.
Lamb, John, 447.
Lancaster, Pa., 173, 299, 404, 461.
Land for Irish, 269.
Langdon, John, a delegate from New Hampshire. Attends, 11; credentials, 13, 252. Committees: Lead, 234; powder, 255, 296; woolens, 260; claims, 262; intercepting vessels, 277n, 294; billeting soldiers, 288; Passamaquoddy application, 316; Schuyler, 317, 459. Debates, 472, 437, 488, 490. Mentioned, 161, 281, 344, 446, 452.
Law, Richard, 15.
Lawrence, Thomas, 207.
Lead, 234, 361, 401, 456.
Leather, wearing of, 269, 293.
Le Conte, William, 242.
Lee, Arthur, 22, 27n, 162, 343.
Lee, Charles, major-general, 97; conference, 98.
Lee, Francis, 356.
Lee, Francis Lightfoot, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 244. Committees: Qualifications of officers, 416; Sellick's petition, 463.
Lee, Richard Henry, a delegate from Virginia. Attends, 12; credentials, 19, 243. Committees: Posts, 71; Massachusetts letter, 79; address to Great Britain, 80; saltpeter, 86; instructions for Washington, 93; generals, 99; Washington's queries, 102; trade, 177, 200; matrosses, 191; Lord North's motion, 202; revising journal, 208; Washington's letter, 261; instructions to camp committee, 266; tea, 294; New Hampshire instructions, 307; equipping vessels, 312; instructions to Schuyler's committee, 317; petitions, 352; ministerial proclamations, 353; frauds, 367; navy, 420; armed vessels, 428; Preston's bills, 434; allowance to prisoners, 442. Debates, 476, 477, 478, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485, 487, 488, 489, 490, 492, 493, 495, 496, 497, 499, 501. Mentioned, 162, 221.
Lee, Thomas Ludwell, 346.
Lee, schooner, 420, 424.
Leffingwell, Christopher, 424.
Leinbach, Frederick, 329.
Leslie, James, 288.
Letters, Massachusetts convention, 76, 79, 81, 83; intercepted, 360, 361, 368, 465, 467, 512.
Lewis, Benjamin, 242.
Lewis, David, 242.
Lewis, Ellis, 207.
Lewis, Fielding, 346.

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Lewis, Francis, a delegate from New York. Credentials, 15; grant for powder, 210, 281. Committees: Hospital, 191; medicines, 250; woolens, 260; claims, 262; supplies for army, 318; powder, 335; ration contract, 350; Indian trade, 366; expresses, 401; navy, 420; armed vessels, 428. Debates, 471, 484. Mentioned, 161, 342.
Lewis, Mordecai, 207, 423.
Lexington, Mass., 24, 135, 151.
Lieutenant, pay, 220; artillery, 220; second, 272; fire workers, 220; lieutenant-colonel, 220.
Light infantry, pay, 20.
Lincoln, Benjamin, 14, 405n.
Lispenard, Leonard, 16.
Little, John, 356.
Live stock export, 293, 315.
Livingston, Henry Beekman, 341, 425.
Livingston, James, 448.
Livingston, Philip, a delegate from New York. Attends, 11; credentials, 15; grant for powder, 210. Committees: Posts, 71; Indians, 93; Lee, 98; Indian goods, 173; powder, 255; Trumbull's memorial, 258. Mentioned, 161, 432.
Livingston, Robert R., a delegate from New York. Credentials, 15; attends, 48. Committees: Address to Great Britain, 80; instructions to camp committee, 266; fortifying North River, 280; Schuyler's letter, 285; New York, 327; to Schuyler, 329. Debates, 472, 473, 476, 477, 479, 484, 487, 489, 494, 503. Mentioned, 161, 344.
Livingston, Walter, 16, 186, 312, 317, 340, 393.
Livingston, William, a delegate from New Jersey. Attends, 11; credentials, 17. Committees: Address to Ireland, 80; Lee, 98; Washington declaration, 105; New Jersey letter, 295; ministerial proclamations, 353; Massachusetts papers, 356; captures in Canada, 358; thanks to officers, 393; qualifications of officers, 416; arrest of soldiers for debt, 417; Stirling's letter, 460; New York, 463. Mentioned, 128n, 161.
Loan of £6,000, 79.
Lock, Benjamin, 32.
Lock, Reuben, 32.
London, letter to mayor of, 157, 162, 170.
Lord, William, 241.
Loring, Jonathan, 28.
Loughead, James, 349.
Lowdon, John, 272.
Lowry, Thomas, 360, 361, 415.
Loyalists, arrest of, 280.
Lundy, --, 82, 86, 126, 127, 290, 315.
Ludwig, Christopher, 286.
Lynch, Thomas, a delegate from South Carolina. Attends, 12; credentials, 21. Committees: Fortifying New York, 53; posts, 71; address to Jamaica, 80; Lee, 98; Duché, 185; matrosses, 191; medicines, 250; Washington's letter, 261; camp, 266; instructions to Schuyler committee, 317; New York, 327, 463; Virginia, 344; ration contract, 350; petitions, 352; packets, 355; frauds, 367; qualifications of officers, 416; Berton's petition, 428; Indians, 444; Motte's guard, 461; arms and ammunition, 464; Washington letter, 466. Debates, 471, 472, 474, 475, 476. Mentioned, 162, 221, 319, 371.
Lyne, George, 346.
McClenachan, Blair, 328.
McCluer, John, 242.
McDougall, Alexander, 16.
McDougall, --, 443.
McGregor, Dugal, 369, 408.
McIntosh, John, 241.
McKean, Thomas, a delegate from Delaware. Attends, 12; credentials, 18, 304n; Pennsylvania assembly, 321. Committees: Treasurer's bonds, 212, 224, 252; powder, 255;

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Jenkins, 406; Schuyler's letters, 419, 436, 459; Preston's bills, 434; allowance to prisoners, 442; Nantucket, 446; arms and ammunition, 464. Mentioned, 162, 335, 428, 493.
McKee, John, 452.
McNair (or McNeare), Andrew, 12, 259.
McPherson, John, 296, 300, 301.
McWhorter, Alexander, 438.
Madeira, Christopher, 370.
Major, pay, 220.
Manchester, Duke of, 16n.
Manley, John, captain, 277, 420, 424.
Mann, Luke, 241.
Marbury, L., 241.
Marines, battalion of, 348, 393; term of engagement, 405; pay, 417, 427.
Marr, James, 40.
Martin, Ephraim, 297.
Martin, John, 241.
Martin, Joseph, governor, 185.
Mary and Elizabeth, ship, 247.
Maryland, credentials of delegates, 18, 245, 440; rifle companies, 89; vessels, 395.
Mason, George, 244, 346.
Mason, Thaddeus, 41.
Massachusetts, credentials of delegates, 13, 405; letter to Congress, 24; treasury note, 25; letter to Franklin, 26; letter to inhabitants of Great Britain, 42; on army, 76; government, 79, 81, 83; flour, 84; troops, 99; complete regiments, 191; papers from general court, 356; money, 402, 403.
Matron, hospital, 210.
Matrosses, 191, 221, 309.
Matlack, Timothy, 49, 88n, 257, 278, 310, 329.
Maxwell, James, 48, 241.
Maxwell, William, 242, 335.
Mayflower, sloop, 445.
Mead, Levi, 34.
Meade, George, & Co., 429.
Mease, John, 207, 423.
Medicines, 250, 261, 344, 442.
Meeds, Abner, 33.
Melvin, Ephraim, 37, 38.
Meredith, Reese, 210.
Meredith, Samuel. 207, 210.
Middleton, Henry, a delegate from South Carolina. Attends, 12; credentials, 21. Committees: Hospital, 191; Randolph's funeral, 303. Mentioned, 162, 221.
Mifflin, George, 207.
Mifflin, Samuel, 210.
Mifflin, Thomas, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Attends, 12; credentials, 17; letter from, 357. Committees: Ammunition and military stores, 67; letter to Canada, 70; Skene, 82. Mentioned, 471, 473.
Miles and Wister, 272, 329.
Militia, 106, 173, 177, 183, 187, 195, 324, 338, 414.
Milligan, James, 207, 258.
Ministers of gospel for North Carolina, 388.
Minot, Timothy, jr., 38.
Minutemen, 188, 324, 414.
Mitchell, David, 320.
Mohawk Indians, 365.
Moland, Joseph, 400.
Moncrieffe, Patrick, 82, 86, 124.
Money, required, 80, 81, 84, 89, 90, 91, 297; sent to army, 235, 237, 245, 273, 275; in treasury, 328, 369, 390.
Montgomery, John, 315.
Montgomery, Richard, grigadier-general, 103. Mentioned, 284, 317, 320, 353, 389, 414, 417, 418, 424, 447, 448.
Month, defined, 272.
Montreal taken, 389, 511; clothing purchased, 448.
Moore, Andrew, 241.
Moore, Charles, 17, 18, 283, 313, 327.
Moore, William, 276.
Morel, John, 241.
Morgan, Daniel, 267, 320.
Morgan, John, director-general of hospital, 297, 344.

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Morris, Anthony, 207.
Morris, Anthony, jr., 423.
Morris, Anthony James, 370.
Morris, Lewis, a delegate from New York. Credentials, 15; attends, 48; Indian commissioner, 251; on ammunition, 67; letters, 246, 247, 259, 262, 283. Mentioned, 161.
Morris, Luke, 207.
Morris, Robert, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 327; powder contract, 473. Committees: Packets, 355; Newton's petition, 390; Hudson's petition, 415; Navy, 420; secret committee, 426; armed vessels, 428; merchants' petition, 434. Mentioned. 360, 368, 378, 396.
Morris, Samuel, 207, 423.
Morris, Samuel Cadwalader, 423.
Morris, Thomas, 423.
Morton, John, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Attends, 12; credentials, 17, 327; in assembly, 310. Committees: Fortifying North River, 280; saltpeter, 296. Mentioned, 207, 488.
Morton, Perez, 405n.
Motions, rules of, 434.
Motte, Edward, 429, 433, 434, 435, 461, 462.
Mourer, Resina, 336.
Mulattoes, in quotas, 221.
Mulliken, Nathaniel, 32.
Munroe, Benjamin, 36.
Munroe, John, jr., 33.
Munroe, William, 3d, 32.
Murray, Robert and John, 53, 67.
Murray, Sansom & Co., 352, 353.
Murrow, John, 329.
Muskets, 190, 253.
Muster-master-general, pay, 220.
Musters, commissary of, 94; commissary-general, 220; of troops, 333.
Mutiny, 113, 331, 382.
Muzzy, John, 33.
Nancy, stores from the, 420, 424.
Nantucket, 70, 397, 420, 445.
Narrative, Concord and Lexington, 28n.
Navy, Rhode Island on, 274, 281, 283; rules for government, 364, 375, 378, 393, 513; pay, 384; shipping agreement, 384; committee on, 423, 425; debates, 485; money for, 433; pay of commanders, 443; instructions, 444.
Neff, Melchior, 360.
Negroes, in estimation of quotas, 221; in Army, 263n.
Nelson, Thomas, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 243. Committees: Expenses, 250; claims, 262; money in Treasury, 328. Debates, 472, 475, 476.
Nesbit, John Maxwell, 207.
Newfoundland, 52, 54.
New Hampshire, credentials of delegates, 13, 252; to complete regiments, 191; instructions to delegates, 298, 307, 317, 319; money, 403.
New Jersey, credentials of delegates, 17, 396; Lord North's motion, 61; letter, 66; troops, 285, 291, 360, 376, 416; convention, 295, 304n, 305; field officers, 312, 313, 336; money, 345; assembly, 404; battalion mustered, 457.
New Providence, 389.
Newton, Downham, 369, 389.
New York, credentials of delegates, 15; petitions to King and Parliament, 16n; city asks for guidance, 49, 52; fortifications, 52, 57, 59, 64, 280 (see North River); stores from Ticonderoga 56; troops, 60; flour for Massachusetts, 84; powder mills, 85; detention of vessel, 90; troops for, 95; officers, 186; army in, 207, 255; money for, 236, 352; committee of safety, 248; letters, 281, 304, 307, 308, 309, 327, 336, 337, 432; convention and Tryon, 300; matrosses, 309; loan denied, 452; state of, 463.
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Noble, Anthony, 370.
Nonexportation modified, 184.
North, Lord. Motion, 62; committee, 202; report, 203; printed, 224, 510; communication from, 71.
Northampton County, Pa., 264; Virginia, 395, 403.
North Carolina, credentials of delegates, 19, 290; militia, 107; money, 330; State of, 368, 377, 387; battalions, 387.
Nova Scotia, 54, 316, 343, 348.
Nurses, hospital, 210, 211.
Oath, 223; court-martial, Navy, 383.
O'Bryan, William, 241.
Officers, appointment, 100, 287, 288, 325, 489; field, 305, 312, 429; new Army, 323, 324; rank of Militia, 326; inferior naval, 379; rules of command, 399; qualifications of, 416; thanked, 424.
Ogden, Lewis, 337.
Ogden, William, 310.
Olney, Joseph, 443.
Ord, John, 423.
Oswald, Joseph, 48.
Otis, James, 405n.
Paca, William, a delegate from Maryland. Attends, 12; credentials, 19, 245. Committees: North Carolina, 368; Virginia, 395; Navy, 420. Mentioned, 162.
Packets, 355.
Paddock, Seth, 445, 463.
Page, Mann, jr., 346.
Paine, Robert Treat, a delegate from the Massachusetts Bay. Attends, 11; credentials, 14, 405; thanked, 14. Committees: Fast day, 81; saltpeter, 86, 311; militia, 106; hospital, 191; Schuyler, 317. Debates, 471, 472, 475, 484, 485, 489. Mentioned, 161, 344, 452.
Paine, Timothy, 39.
Palmer, J., 405n.
Parker, Ebenezer, 32.
Parker, John, captain, 30, 31, 32, 33.
Parker, Jonas, 33.
Parker, Joseph, 423.
Parkhurst, Nathaniel, 33.
Parks, Isaac, 36.
Parliament, elections of, 1774, 62n; trades acts, 125.
Paschal, Stephen, 194, 299.
Passamaquoddy, 316, 344, 348.
Patterson, John, 423.
Pawling, Levi, 16.
Pay, rifle companies, 89; generals, 91, 93; officers, 220, 322; northern hospital, 249;judge-advocate, 257; reduction, 270; second lieutenants, 272; Navy, 384.
Paymaster-general, 94; bond, 211; New York department, 212.
Paymasters, regimental, 450.
Peacock, William, 48.
Peggy, 354.
Peirce, Nathan, 37.
Pendleton, Edmund, a delegate from Virginia. Attends, 12; credentials, 19; drafts Washington's speech, 92n; committee on address to Great Britain, 80; excused from re-election, 242. Mentioned, 162, 243, 244, 346.
Penet, P., 466n.
Penn, John, a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials, 290. Committees: Hudson's petition, 415; qualifications of officers, 416. Mentioned, 330.
Penn, John, governor, 63n.
Penn, Richard, 162, 170, 171, 172, 343.
Pennsylvania, credentials of delegates, 17, 327; boundary dispute with Virginia, 76; rifle companies, 89, 104, 250; dispute with Connecticut, 235, 238, 268, 283, 285, 287, 295, 297, 321, 335, 349, 352, 377, 435, 439, 452, 487; loan repaid, 237; clothing, 248; troops, 291; battalions, 313, 418, 441, 457, 460; Symes, 317; money, 342, 463; recruits, 350; field officers, 356, 370, 429; petition of inhabitants, 464, 467.

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Penobscot Indians, 401.
Petition to King, 22, 52n, 65; committee, 79, 80; report, 100; considered, 126, 127; printed, 158, 509; reception, 343; from colonies, 404.
Phelps, Elisha, 248, 418, 423.
Philadelphia, college, 54n; company, 191; clothing, 248; flour exports, 264, 268; committee of inspection, 365; merchants' petition, 434.
Pierce, Solomon, 33.
Pistols, 273.
Pitcher, Jonathan, 443.
Pliarne, de, 466n.
Plunder, punishment, 333.
Polhemus, Theodosius, 16.
Pomeroy, Seth, brigadier-general, 103, 191.
Population of colonies, 458.
Pork salting, 273.
Ports, opening, 314, 317, 457, 477.
Posts, 71, 203, 208, 488; accounts, 516.
Postage, rates, 208, 267, 516; for delegates, 342; generals, 345.
Powder, mills, 85; for Army, 85, 191, 204; for Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 108; importation, 210, 212; damaged, 223; distribution, 238, 249, 262; secret committee, 253, 265, 473; loan, 284; New York, 286; Highlands, 338; Rhode Island, 345; for Indians, 365; North Carolina, 388; New Providence, 390; vessels, 426, 436.
Powell, John, 265.
Powell, J., 48.
Poythress, Peter, 346.
Prahl, Lewis, 310.
Precedence of officers, 326.
Prescott, James, 405n.
Preston, Charles, major, 402, 412, 418, 434, 435, 466.
Price, Thomas, 329, 353.
Princeton, N. J., 432.
Prisoners, regulations, 341; from Canada, 358; officers paroled, 359, 461; supplies for, 398; defined, 399; exchange, 400; disposition, 404, 408, 434, 435; bills, 418.
Privates, pay, 220.
Prizes, disposition, 316, 371, 379, 444.
Proclamations, ministerial, 353, 392, 409, 455, 513.
Produce, exports of, 184, 280, 306, 308, 314, 396, 464, 484.
Provisions for Army, 299, 323.
Provost-marshal, 221.
Pugh, James, 242.
Purviance, John, 423.
Purviance, Robert and Samuel, 264, 476.
Putnam, Israel, major-general, 99.
Quakers, 189.
Qualifications of officers, 416.
Quartermaster, pay, 220.
Quartermaster-General, 94, 445, 471.
Quebec, exports to, 54; address, 286; captured, 413.
Quotas, colonial 221, 453.
Rae, James, 242.
Rains, John, 317.
Randal, Sears and, 300, 319, 330.
Randolph, Peyton, a delegate from Virginia. Attends, 12; credentials, 19, 243; elected president, 12; returns to Virginia, 58; speaker of Burgesses, 102; reelected, 243; death, 302. Committees: Trade, 259; saltpeter, 296; McPherson, 296. Debates, 486, 496.
Randolph, Richard, 346.
Rankin, Henry, 356.
Rapalje, --, 261.
Rates of postage, 208, 267, 516.
Ration, defined, 322; contract, 349, 356, 360; Navy, 383; New Jersey, 415; Pennsylvania, 419.
Read (or Reed), James, 207, 423.
Read, George, a delegate from Delaware. Attends, 12; credentials, 18, 304n; mentioned, 162, 476. Committees: Navy, 420; Beveridge's petition, 423; armed vessels, 428.
Reading, Pa., 404.
Rebecca and Frances, 305, 309, 370.

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Recaptures 407.
Recess, committee 427, 430.
Recruiting service, 324: bounty. 394.
Reed, (or Read), James, 207, 423.
Reed, Joseph, 248, 271n.
Reed, Joshua, 32.
Reed, Joshua, jr., 32.
Reed, Nathan, 32.
Reed, William, 29.
Reed, --, captain, 484.
Reganville, (or Regonville), 442.
Regiment, constitution of, 322.
Regulars, North Carolina, 387.
Removal of Congress proposed, 7.
Returns, of Army, 100.
Reynolds, Joseph. 342.
Reynolds, Rebecca, 438.
Rhea, David, major, 335.
Rhinelander, Frederick, 354.
Rhode Island, credentials of delegates, 50; instructions to delegates, 51n; instructions on fleet, 274, 281, 283, 357, 419, 420; accounts, 406, 408; money, 425.
Rice, --, captain 329.
Rice, exports, 292, 314; for Bermudas, 363.
Richardson, Edward, 37.
Rifle companies, 80 89, 104; Lancaster, 173; expenses, 237, 250, 254; selection, 400.
Ritchie, Robert, 207.
Rittenhouse, David, 275, 286.
Roads, repair of, 269.
Robbins, --, captain, 360n.
Robert, John, 507.
Roberts, Daniel, 48, 241.
Roberts, George, 315.
Roberts, Hugh, 315.
Roberts, Robert, 423.
Robins, John, 31.
Robinson, Bradbury, 39.
Robinson, Joseph, 16.
Rodney, Caesar, a delegate from Delaware. Attends, 12; credentials 18, 304; mentioned, 162. Committees: Lee, 98; lead, 234; claims, 262; qualifications of officers, 416.
Rogers, John, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 440.
Rogers, Robert, 259.
Roosevelt, Isaac, 16.
Ross, George, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Attends, 12; credentials, 17; committee on Lee, 98; mentioned, 162, 283; debates, 474, 487, 490, 504.
Ross, James, captain, 267, 272, 277, 286, 305, 336, 337, 356, 370.
Rousseau, Jean Jaques, 507.
Rules of debate, 55, 357.
Runold Broughton, 288.
Russell, Philip, 32.
Rutherford, Thomas, 438.
Rutledge, Edward, a delegate from South Carolina. Attends, 12; credentials, 21; motion on negroes in Army, 263n. Committees; Washington's commission, 93; general's commission, 99; captures in Canada, 358; refusal to receive bills of credit, 368; North Carolina, 368; Berton's petition, 428. Debates, 471, 479, 484, 487, 489, 490. Mentioned, 162.
Rutledge, John, a delegate from South Carolina. Attends, 12; credentials 21. Committees: Massachusetts letter, 79; petition to King, 80; Washington's queries, 102; Washington's declaration, 105; printing bills of credit, 106; revising Journal, 208; Schuyler's letters, 255, 285; trade, 259; instructions to camp committee, 266; tea, 294; New Jersey letter, 295; saltpeter, 296; McPherson, 296; Connecticut-Pennsylvania dispute, 297; New Hampshire instructions, 307. Debates, 474, 477, 478, 485, 486, 487, 493, 495, 499, 504. Mentioned, 128, 162, 319, 377, 393.
Sackett, Nathaniel, 355.
Sailcloth, 426.
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Saint John's 45; exports to, 54; surrender, 353 358, 368; Indians, 401; prisoners prisoners, 413.
Salt, 235, 362, 464.
Saltonstall, Dudley, 443.
Saltpeter, for Army, 85; manufacture, 86, 107, 296, 345, 349, 352, 355, 369, 511; resolutions, 218; import, 253; Virginia mine, 307.
Saltus, Samuel, 48.
Sanderson, Elijah, 28, 29.
Sansom, Murray and, 352, 353.
Saunderson, Samuel, 33.
Saville, George, 23.
Scammell, Alexander, 257.
Schlosser George, 329.
Schuyler, Philip, a delegate from New York. Credentials, 15; attends, 48; elected major-general, 99; ordered to Ticonderoga, 109; directions, 194; money, 237, 287; clothes for Army, 317; committee of conference, 317, 339, 350, 446, 456, 459. Committees: Ammunition, 67; money to be raised, 80; saltpeter 86; army rules, 90; Indians, 93, 183. Letters, 123, 157n, 172n, 186, 192, 246, 249, 254 244, 256, 279, 288, 295, 312, 317, 353, 389, 393, 414, 417, 424, 436, 443, 455, 466. Mentioned, 256, 284, 307.
Screven, James, 48, 242.
Sea Nymph, 364.
Seabury, Benjamin, 443.
Seamen, engagement, 392, 405; pay, 417, 427.
Sears, Isaac, 299, 300, 319, 330, 344.
Secrecy, 342.
Secret committee on powder 253, 255, 280, 336.
Secretaries to generals 94.
Sellick, Simeon, captain, 463, 467.
Sentinels, sleeping, 332.
Sergeant, pay, 220, 221.
Service, divine, 185, 192.
Sexton, Meshech 267.
Shad (or Shed), William, 12, 260.
Shee, John, 207, 423.
Sherburne, Nantucket, 421.
Sherman, Roger, a delegate from Connecticut. Attends, 11; credentials, 15; motion for committee of accounts, 475. Committees: Militia, 106; New Hampshire instructions, 307; purchasing supplies, 318; Indian treaty, 350; Massachusetts papers, 356; frauds, 367; Nantucket, 446. Debates, 471, 472, 473, 476, 484, 487, 489. Mentioned, 161, 236, 342.
Shinn, Buddel, 376.
Shipping agreement, Navy, 384.
Shirts, king's stores, 306.
Shoemaker, Samuel, 52.
Shreve, Israel, 335.
Sickle, William, 316.
Silver for Canada, 279, 284, 287, 454, 467.
Simonds, Joseph, 32.
Simons, and Henry, 315.
Sims, Joseph, 207.
Six Nations of Indians, 177, 251, 366
Skene, John Philip, 376.
Skene, Philip, arrest, 82; committee, 82, 86; report, 86; sent to Connecticut, 108, 126, 290, 315.
Slops, sailors', 379.
Slough, Matthias, 265, 337.
Smith, Daniel, 315.
Smith, John, 32.
Smith, John, 242.
Smith, Jonathan Bayard, 423
Smith, Matthew, 267.
Smith, Phineas, 32.
Smith, Richard, a delegate from New Jersey. Attends, 11; credentials, 17; clerk of assembly, 397: Committees: Claims, 262; Berton's petition 428; Sellick's petition, 463. Mentioned, 61, 161.
Smith, Thomas, 423.
Smith, Timothy, 34.
Smyth, John F. D., 415.
Snow, Simeon, 32.
Soldiers, arrest for debt, 417, 420, 459.
South Carolina, credentials, 20; weekly post, 209; powder, 237; committee, 318, 319, 325.

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Spencer, Elihu, 438.
Spencer, Joseph, brigadier-general, 103.
Spooner W., 405n.
Spoons, 263.
Spring, Samuel, 39.
Stacy, John, 48.
Stansbury, --, 443.
Stearns, Phineas,. 32.
Steel, Ephraim, 452.
Steel, Thomas, 40.
Stein, Leonard, 273.
Stephenson Hugh, 320, 329, 370.
Sterret, John, 371.
Stevens, John, 48.
Stevens, Samuel, 48.
Stewart, James, 246, 305.
Stewart, John, 48.
Stickney, William, 29, 31.
Stiles, Edward, 364.
Stille, Rachel, 277, 310.
Stillwell, Richard, 16.
Stimes, Jasper 329.
Stirling, Lord, colonel, 335; orders, 376; letters 406, 413, 415, 417, 443, 445, 456, 459, 465.
Stobel, Samuel, 364.
Stockbridge Indians, 185, 401.
Stone, Gregory, 36.
Stone, Jonas, jr., 32.
Stone, Thomas, a delegate from Maryland Credentials, 19, 245; attends, 44. Debates, 484, 489, 494, 497. Mentioned, 162.
Stone, --, 27n, 28n.
Stone, --, captain, 395.
Stopford, Joseph, 402, 418.
Storekeepers, hospital, 210, 211.
Stores, commissary-general, 220; stealing or wasting, 331; in encampment, 332.
Storm, Abraham, 329.
Stringer, Samuel 249.
Stuart, Allan, 242.
Stubblefield, George, 346.
Sturges, Jonathan, elected a delegate from Connecticut, 15.
Sullivan, James, 28n.
Sullivan, John, a delegate from New Hampshire. Attends, 11; credentials, 13; to notify and thank Duché, 12, 22; committee on Lee, 98; elected brigadier-general, 103; mentioned, 252.
Sulphur, 219, 253, 297.
Sunbury, Pa., 268.
Surgeons, 210, 211, 416.
Syme, John, 346.
Symes, --,lieutenant, 309, 317, 367.
Taarling, Peter, 241.
Tabb, John, 346.
Talman, John, 16.
Taxes, 222.
Taylor Eldad, 405n.
Taylor, James, 346.
Taylor, John, 405n.
Taylor, --, 27n, 28n.
Tazewell, John, 19.
Tea, 235, 294, 298, 353, 370, 389, 427, 455.
Telfair, Edward, 242.
Tea Broeck, Abraham, 16.
Tent, cloth, 190, 258.
Thanks to officers, northern department, 393, 424.
Thomas, John, brigadier-general, 103, 191.
Thomas, John, jr., 16.
Thompson, David, 18.
Thompson, E., 252.
Thompson, William, 223, 258.
Thomson, Charles, 6, 12, 239, 292n, 412.
Thornton, John, 286.
Thornton, Matthew, 252.
Tidd, Benjamin, 32.
Tidd, Samuel, 32.
Tidd, William, 32.
Ticonderoga, capture, 55, 70; stores. 56; troops, 74; garrison, 104; powder 108; fortifications, 450.
Tilghman, Matthew, a delegate from Maryland. Attends, 12; credentials, 19, 245; mentioned, 53, 162,
Tories, arrest of, 280.
Tracy, --, 284.

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Trade, state of, 125; committee, 177; report, 200, 202, 235, 253, 256, 258, 259, 268, 275, 281, 286, 287, 291; report, 292; considered, 301, 307, 308, 311, 312, 361; committee, 455, 457, 464, 477, 490; Jay's report, 268; with Indians, 366.
Transports 428, 432, 437.
Treasurers, Continental, 212, 221, 223, 224, 252.
Treasury, Continental, state of, 328, 369, 453, 457; in recess, 427.
Tredwell, Thomas, 16.
Trenton, N. J., 272, 359, 424.
Trott, George, 399.
Trumbull, Jonathan, governor, 74, 95, 107, 108, 110, 127, 248, 256, 266, 279, 304, 457.
Trumbull, Jonathan, jr., 212.
Trumbull, Joseph, 190, 257, 284, 299.
Tryon, William 300, 487.
Tryon County, N. Y., 466.
Tuckniss, Robert, 207, 423.
Tudor, William 221.
Tufts, Simon, 41.
Turtle Bay, New York, 296.
Two Sisters, 360n.
Unfinished business, 445, 454.
Usher and Henry, 309.
Valentine, Henry, 337.
Vanderbilt, John, 16.
Vaughan, Daniel, 443.
Vessels, armed, colonial, 189; for intercepting supplies, 277, 278, 280, 293, 401, 406, 417; equipping, 311, 316; purchased, 339; committee, 428; arms, 436; captured, 439.
Viles, Joel, 32.
Virginia, credentials of delegates, 19. 102, 242; boundary dispute with Pennsylvania, 76; rifle companies, 89; saltpeter, 307; defense, 344; state of, 403, 455, 462, 463; letter from committee of correspondence, 465.
Wade, Francis, 290.
Wagon master, 221.
Walker, John, 192.
Walker, Silas, 37.
Walker, Thomas, 251.
Wallins, Joseph, 297.
Walton, Abraham, 16.
Walton, George, 193n, 242,
Walton, John, 242.
Ward, Artemas, 97, 174.
Ward, Henry, 50.
Ward, Samuel, a delegate from Rhode Island. Attends, 50; credentials, 50. Committees: Powder, 255; Trumbull's memorial, 258; claims, 262; New Hampshire instructions, 307; New York, 327; Kirkland, 336; Virginia, 344; Massachusetts papers, 356; qualifications of officers, 416. Debates, 472, 489. Mentioned, 57, 58, 59, 64, 66, 73, 75, 81, 83, 88, 89, 91, 93, 105, 124, 161, 195, 202, 203, 276, 291, 292, 294, 301, 302, 307, 308, 312, 361, 442, 444, 464.
Ward, Stephen, 16.
Warner, Elisha, 443.
Warner, Seth, 104, 447.
Warren, James, paymaster-general, 211, 405n.
Warren, Joseph, 25, 27, 44, 78.
Washington, George, a delegate from Virginia. Attends, 12; credentials, 19. Committees: Fortifying New York, 53; ammunition, 67; money to be raised, 80; army rules, 90. Commander in Chief, 91, 92; commission, 96; Congress pledges support, 97; instructions, 100; queries, 102, 103; declaration for, 105, 106, 140; officers, 191; Fenton, 255; Thompson's accounts, 258; committee of conference, 266, 270; intercepting vessels, 277n, 278, 293; Nova Scotia expedition, 348; Allen, 402. Letters, 190, 203, 246, 248, 253, 254, 255, 256, 261, 263, 264, 294, 302, 304, 313, 330, 352, 357, 360, 365, 368,

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371, 377, 393, 394, 413, 425, 428, 432, 437, 439, 457, 465. Mentioned, 242, 300, 490.
Watkins, Benjamin, 346.
Watkins, Joseph, jr., 423.
Watson, Brooke, 424.
Watson, Jacob, 354.
Way, Parmenas, 48.
Weare, Meshech, 13.
Weaver, Thomas, 443.
Webb, Charles, 256.
Webb, George, 346.
Webb, William, 423.
Weitzell, Caspar, 272.
Wellington, Enoch, 32.
Wells, David Ames, 97n.
Wendall, John, 345.
Wentworth, John, 13.
West, William, 254, 371.
West Indies, defined, 239; exports to, 292, 308.
Westmoreland, Pa., memorial, 247.
Wharton, Carpenter, 419.
Wharton, Charles, 349.
Wharton, James, 423.
Wheat, exports, 264.
Wheeler, Francis, 37.
Wheeler, Peter, 37.
Wheelock, Eleazer, 176.
Whetcomb, John, 405n.
Whipple, Abraham, 396, 408, 443.
White, B., 405n.
White Eyes, captain, 433.
Whitehead, James, 260.
Whitehead, John, 36.
Willard, Thomas Rice, 29.
Williams, William, 15.
Williams, Zebulon, 16.
Willing, Thomas, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Attends, 12; credentials, 18, 327; to notify Duché, 12, 22. Committees: Posts, 71; powder, 255, 473; Trumbull's memorial, 258; trade, 259; woolens, 260; claims, 262; secret committee, 426. Debates, 471, 472, 474, 475, 476, 477, 478, 487, 488. Mentioned, 52, 71, 281, 396.
Wilson, James, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 18, 327; attends, 48. Committees: Massachusetts letter, 79; address to Jamaica, 80; Indians, 93; printing bills of credit, 106; Indian (middle) department,. 183; tent cloth, 190, 194;: treasurers' bond, 212; Virginia, 344; ministerial proclamations, 353; captures in Canada, 358; Indian trade, 366; thanks to officers, 393; arrest of soldiers for debt, 417. Letters, 246, 251, 259, 262, 283.
Winds, William, lieutenant-colonel, 335.
Winn, John, 48.
Winship, John, 33.
Winship, Simon, 30.
Winship, Thomas, 32.
Wisner, Henry, a delegate from New York. Credentials, 15; attends, 48; committee on saltpeter, 296. Mentioned, 161, 315, 328, 432, 438.
Wister, Miles and, 272, 329.
Wolcott, Oliver, 183.
Woolens, 260, 269, 293.
Wood, Sacheveral, 462.
Wood for officers, 441.
Woodhull, Nathaniel, 16.
Wooster, David, brigadier-general, 103; mentioned, 123, 186, 256, 282.
Wright, Ambrose, 242.
Wright, James, governor, 185.
Wyman, James, 32.
Wyoming, Pa., 321, 336, 435, 439.
Wythe, George, a delegate from Virginia. Notes on Franklin's confederation, 199n; credentials, 243. Committees: Hostilities, 299; saltpeter, 311; Kirkland, 336; Indian treaty, 350; captures in Canada, 358; refusal to receive bills of credit, 368; Connecticut-Pennsylvania dispute, 377; journals, 393; New Jersey assembly, 404; Schuyler's letter, 419, 459; Indians, 444; New York, 463; Washington's letter, 466. Debates, 483, 494, 497, 500.

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Yates, Abraham, jr., 16.
York, Pa., 404.
Young, Isaac, 242.
Young, William, 242.
Younkman, Elias, 272.
Zubly, D., jr., 242.
Zubly, John Joachim, a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 193n, 240; committee on claims, 262. Debates, 472, 474, 478, 481, 482, 483, 486, 488, 490, 493, 496, 497, 499, 504.

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