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Academy, military, 838.
Accomac county, Va., resolution, 182; troops for, 40, 41; mentioned, 197, 200, 210, 211, 213, 237.
Accounts, commissioners of, 471, 564, 593, 1063; main army, 155, 969; Canada, 463; militia, 1036, 1127; northern army, 593, 612, 660, 670, 923; public, 156, 170, 243, 341; rifle battalions, 474; Schuyler's, 39; Virginia, 761, 930.
Adams, John, a delegate from the Massachusetts Bay. Credentials, 122; attack on, 125n; on ports, 159n; encouraging arts, 224, 1072; on peace commissioners, 328n; on enlistments, 360n; on independence, 505; on confederation, 616n; on Hessians, 655n. Committees: Washington's letters, 123, 172, 307, 352, 672, 830; New Jersey, 130; Schuyler, 147; Canada instructions, 159; Indian trade, 182; Wrixon, 219; fortifying ports, 233; Washington medal, 234; coins, 294; West Augusta, 298; counterfeit bills, 321; Simon's petition, 324; Hopkins's case, 337; preamble on government, 342; Jacobs, 347; letters, 359; South Carolina, 368; Hessians, 370; conference, 384, 391; aid to enemy, 417; secretary, 429; declaration of independence, 431; treaties, 433, 576; board of war, 438; seal, 517; confiscation, 572; Parsons, 661; prizes, 694; Wilson, 705; to Howe, 738; letter of credence, 827; Mifflin, 838; military academy, 838. Reports, 378, 425, 459, 476, 576. Mentioned, 164n, 210n, 218n, 237n, 259n, 426n, 491n, 493n, 494n, 495n, 611n, 657n, 665n, 670n, 691n, 728n, 767n, 784n, 964, 1117. Debates, 1069, 1073, 1099.
Adams, Mrs. John (Portia), 57n.
Adams, Peter, 317.
Adams, Samuel, a delegate from the Massachusetts Bay. Credentials, 122; absence, 648n. Committees: Claims, 23; Washington letters, 54, 94, 337; trade, 63; Schuyler's letters, 65, 164, 223, 240, 282; Sparling, 77; Prescott, 89; treasury, 107; naval stores, 115; prisoners, 116; Hazen, 192; southern department, 194; Ward's funeral, 237; letters, 331, 1029; Livingston contract, 338; address to people, 402; expresses, 419; confederation, 433; Georgia, 444; Lee, 608; North Carolina, 617; Irwin, 903; internal enemies, 915; salt, 950; Hessians, 985; northern army, 985, 989n; fast day, 1014; chaplains, 1034; foreign aid, 1039; army, 1041; Washington's powers, 1047. Mentioned, 55n, 57n, 95, 164n. Debates, 1075, 1104.
Adams, William, 467.
Address to Canada, 1117; to colonies. 87, 134, 400, 402n, 1014, 1018, 1126.
Adjournment of Congress, rules, 468, 628; to Baltimore, 1015; denied, 1023, 1031; done, 1027.
Adjutants, pay and rank, 787; general department, 401.
Agents to foreign countries, 779, 782, 813; navy, 929, 933, 946, 958; prize, 289, 300.
Agnew, Peter, 445.
Agriculture, societies of, 224, 1072.
Aid to enemy, 417.
Aids-de-camp, rank, 34, 155, 418; horses, 201; pay, 311; brigadier-general, 505; Washington, 613.
Aitken, Robert, 822, 829, 1030.
Albany, N. Y., committee, 260, 447; provisions, 988; ship carpenters, 519.
Albertson, Thomas, 861.

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Alden, Judah, 16.
Alfred, 542, 649, 861.
Algeo, --, captain, 642.
Alexander, Charles, 293, 423, 711, 861, 995.
Alexander, John, 228.
Alexander, Robert, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 574. Committees: Stirling's letter, 55; secret committee, 59; address to colonies, 87; Keppele and Steinmetz, 96; military departments, 133; Easton, 275; marine, 275; Philadelphia, 303; North Carolina, 315; Woodward, 337. Mentioned, 104n, 127, 175n.
Allen, Andrew, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Committees: Cannon, 55; to New York, 92n, 94; allowance for troops, 93; journals, 224; Dugan, 234. Mentioned, 91, 168, 326n.
Allen, Ethan, 22, 261, 445, 599.
Allen, Herman, 328, 339, 385, 405n, 406, 416, 428.
Allen, Jane, 292.
Allen, John, 518, 761.
Allen, Levi, 598.
Allen, Samuel, 265.
Allen, William, lieutenant-colonel, 30, 32, 50n, 206, 604, 615.
Allen, William, 898.
Allen, --, 909.
Alliances, foreign, 425.
Allibone, William, 663.
Allice, --, 228.
Allison, Benjamin, 438, 533.
Allison, P., 1034.
Allison, Robert, 69.
Alsop, John, a delegate from New York. Resigns, 566. Committees: Powder, 40; clothing, 103; claims, 182; Champlin, 502. Mentioned, 62, 118, 163, 189, 196, 265, 304, 328, 482n.
Alster, Conrad, 649, 892.
Alston, William, lieutenant-colonel, 332.
Amboy, N. J., battalion, 365; packet boat, 188, 214.
Anderson, Ephraim, 531, 598, 630.
Anderson, James, 992.
Andrew Doria, 847, 861.
Angel, A biather, 518.
Anstruther, P., captain, 41, 81, 664, 744, 902.
Antignac, chevalier d', 882.
Antill, Edward, lieutenant, 64n, 78, 80, 87, 503, 811, 1002, 1021, 1058, 1059.
Mrs. 896.
Antiscorbutics, 990.
Apothecary, 569.
Applications, committee on, 1066.
Appointments to places of profit, 419.
Apprentices, enlistment of, 94, 96, 100, 103.
Apricht, Philip, 242.
Apty, Thomas, 56, 189.
Arden, Charles, 27.
Armed vessels, 60, 104.
Armitage, Benjamin, 482.
Armer, John, 265.
Armour, Thomas, 544, 877, 948.
Armourer, 558, 966.
Arms, captured, 524; care of continental, 758, 1016; distribution, 150, 779; for Canada army, 109; for flying camp, 627; for McCallister, 658; for marines, 697; for Maryland, 706; for Pennsylvania, 84; for Virginia, 290; from France, 815, 1044; from loyalists, 220; from West Indies, 414; loss and damage, 100; manufacture of, 384; officers' allowance, 873; purchase of, 128, 354, 363; sale of , by soldiers, 449; seizure of imported, 18; States to import, 904; supply of, 103, 223, 312.
Armstrong, John, brigadier-general, 181, 447, 485, 756, 758, 963, 977, 1031.
Army, accounts, 54n, 155, 969; under confederation, 548, 552, 677; discipline, 781, 784; lists, 434; maintenance, 1043; money for, 116, 117, 213, 263, 342, 432, 465, 693, 747; at New York, 808, 842; new, 762, 854, 920, 966, 970, 973, 1009; northern (accounts), 660, 670, 923; (barracks), 757; (harmony), 591; (medicines), 812, 822; (situation), 479, 637, 985, 988, 990; (committee), 1013, 1037, 1047, 1051; oath, 861, 868; reenforcing,

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975, 1126; state of, 1041; supplies, 24, 407, 810, 820, 839, 997; vacancies, 361, 451, 486; in Virginia, 894.
Arnold, Benedict, brigadier-general, 47; money for, 77; before Quebec, 82; cartel with Forster, 446, 454, 468, 475, 534, 601; difference with court-martial, 723, 780, 812, 849. Letters, 64, 79, 123, 147, 157, 183, 191, 420, 459, 477, 503, 825, 889, 890. Mentioned, 313, 387, 557, 671, 781.
Arnold, Howelman, 1013.
Arrest of soldiers for debt, 17.
Articles of confederation. See Confederation.
Articles of war, 442, 764, 787, 788, 1125.
Artificers for Canada, 158.
Artillery battalion, 607; brass fieldpieces, 963, 982; for Gates, 876; Montgomery's, 998; New York, 296, 325; Virginia, 212, 364, 981, 983, 993, service and courts-martial, 805; wagons, 999; yard, 987.
Arts, societies of, 224, 1072.
Arundel, Dohicky, 58n, 111, 120, 211, 212, 241, 243, 247, 363.
Ash, James, 194, 389.
Ashby, John, captain, 864, 977.
Ashby, Nathaniel, 864.
Ashur, Chapman, 668.
Asia, 49.
Aspden, Matthias, 108.
Asquith, William, 1046.
Association of 1774, 138.
Associators, Philadelphia, 979, 995, 999.
Assistance, foreign, 1039, 1049, 1054.
Aston, George, 948.
Aston, Gibson and, 663.
Atlee, Samuel John, 24n, 933.
Auditor-general, 244, 255, 264, 658, 930.
Aurora, 850.
Austin, Aaron, 481.
Austin, Samuel, 370.
Avery, Elisha, 387.
Avery, John, 1013.
Avery, John, jr., 289.
Aylett, William, 315.
Ayres, John, 835, 870.
Baccarère, Jean, 857.
Bache, Richard, superintendent of press, 165, 697; postmaster-general, 931, 978; mentioned, 908, 916, 921, 926, 940.
Badlam, S., 228.
Bailey, Mountjoy, 1016.
Baker, Peter, 755.
Baker, Philip, 764.
Baldwin, Jeduthun, 312, 732.
Baldwin, John, 861.
Baldwin, Joseph, 964.
Baldwin, Loammi, 651.
Ball, George, lieutenant, 345, 357, 416, 822, 977.
Ballentine, Patrick, 695.
Ballots for committee, 164n.
Baltimore, committee, 285, 286; adjournment to, 1015; prisoners, 1030, 1052.
Baltzell, Charles, 825.
Bankson, Jacob, 710.
Bankson, John, 84.
Bannister, John, 930.
Barber, Francis, 123, 129.
Barbarie, --, 105.
Barbarity of enemy, 21.
Barbary states, 578, 770.
Barge, Jacob, 968.
Bark, Peruvian, 324, 788.
Barnes, Cornelius, 194.
Barnes, John, 379.
Barnes, William, 649.
Barracks, New Jersey, 17; northern army. 757; Philadelphia, 130, 272.
Barrel, William, 238, 867.
Barrell, Theodore, 1046.
Barry, John, 213, 238, 270, 423, 663, 861, 931, 964, 995.
Bartlett, Josiah, a delegate from New Hampshire. Credentials, 177; attendance, 362. Committees: Claims, 23, 182; New Jersey, 130; powder, 171; expresses, 419; confederation, 433; Canada, 741; blankets, 822; secret, 968. Letters, 76n, 459n, 612n, 641n, 659n, 734n, 873n. Mentioned, 189, 215, 712.
Bates, John, 487, 610, 643, 663, 697, 721, 743, 755, 764, 818, 888, 918, 971, 992.
Bates, Thomas, 443.

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Battalions, "88," 762.
Batteaus for Canada, 191; Lakes George and Champlain, 990; Schenectady, 990; men, 111.
Bausman, William, 221, 724.
Bavard, James, 786.
Bayard, John, 331, 427, 839, 863n, 907.
Bayard, Stephen, captain, 1005.
Bayer, Michael, 825.
Bayonets, committee on, 169, 192, 212.
Bazin, Nicholas, 888.
Beale, Thomas, 764.
Beane, John, 117.
Bear-skin, Indian trader, 669.
Beatty, Charles, 287.
Beatty, John, captain, 30n, 656.
Beaubassin, P. H. de, 894.
Beaudreau, Isaiah, 314.
Beaumarchais, Caron de, 8.
Beaumont, Ebenezer, 519.
Beaumont, Henry, 74, 288, 339, 596, 941.
Beck, Joseph, 756, 964.
Bedel, Timothy, colonel, 313, 534, 617, 942.
Bedford, Gunning, lieutenant-colonel, 69, 177, 351, 460, 475, 826, 832, 1007.
Bedford, William, 339.
Bedford, --, 865.
Bedford, Pa., 562, 590, 759, 953.
Bedinger, Henry, 529.
Beef, removal of, 999.
Beekman, Gerard William, 981.
Beeler, James, 759.
Belestre, --, colonel, 184, 212, 249, 255.
Bell, William, & Co., 640, 721.
Bellew, --, captain, 416.
Bellew, Mrs., 388, 340.
Benedict, Joseph, major, 190, 326.
Benedict, Noble(?), captain, 566.
Benezet, Samuel, captain, 305, 350, 445, 466, 656.
Benner, George, 118.
Bennet, Elijah, 610.
Benson, Henry, 852.
Benson, Robert, 560.
Bentley, Joseph, 888.
Bentley, William, 888.
Berkeley county, Va., 1042.
Berks county, Pa., 68, 175, 404, 603.
Bermudas, exports to, 417, 421, 423, 626.
Bernard, John, 463, 620, 852.
Bernard, --, major, 35.
Berry, --, captain, 433.
Bessonet, --, 968, 985.
Betsey, sloop, 706, 931, 964.
Betsey and Ann, sloop, 417.
Bevier, Philip D. B., 481.
Bicker, Henry, 30n, 31, 50n, 485.
Bicking, Frederick, 189, 351, 756.
Biddle, Aaron, 338.
Biddle, Clement, 72, 168, 265, 527, 531, 540, 558, 656, 663, 665, 666, 697, 742, 743, 963, 978.
Biddle, James, 948.
Biddle, Nicholas, 423, 635, 861, 995, 999, 1009, 1026.
Biddle, Owen, 863n, 968.
Bigelow, Timothy, major, 695.
Big-knife, 669.
Billeting money, 39.
Billingsport, defenses, 443, 490.
Bills of credit, counterfeiting, 49, 321, 426, 476, 849; currency and depreciation, 727, 1007, 1008, 1046; emissions (4,000,000), 157, 164; (5,000,000), 339, 374, 380; (5,000,000), 599, 651; (5,000,000), 918, 1047; (total), 974n; legal tender, 426; paper, 35; printing, 189, 697; ragged and torn, 32; signing, 30, 194, 484, 502.
Bills of exchange, prisoners, 52.
Bird, Mark, 119, 355, 695, 860.
Blackburn, Ephraim, captain, 759.
Blackburn, John, 1005.
Blacksmiths, 177, 720.
Blackwell, John, 864.
Blackwell, Joseph, 864.
Blagden, Samuel, 563, 650.
Blaine, Ephraim, 221, 226, 296, 365, 367, 369, 318, 411, 589, 637, 885, 902, 952.
Blair, --, 712.
Blaney, Aaron, 386.
Blankets, 129, 296, 750, 821, 983.
Blewer, Joseph, 210, 211, 213.
Blue Mountain Valley, 100, 106, 174, 214, 227.

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Board of War. See War, Board of.
Boards, executive, 1041.
Boats, advice to south, 717, 719; on Delaware, 1000.
Bogar (Boyer, Bogart), Richard, lieutenant, 416, 822, 977.
Bogart, John, 697.
Bois, Pierre François de, 836, 852, 857.
Bond, Phineas, 194, 482.
Bonds, privateers, 252; trade, 258.
Bonfield, Adam, 916.
Bonfield, John, 781.
Bonner (Bunner), Jacob, 825.
Bonvouloir, Achard, 6.
Bonvoulour, 986.
Borden, Joseph, 898.
Boston, evacuation medal, 234; cannon, 327, 330, 334; vessels, 320; British, 343.
Boston, 423, 444, 861.
Bouderot, Bazil, 692.
Boundaries, under confederation, 549, 680, 1082.
Bounty for Canada service, 110; enlistments, 483, 565, 620, 722, 874, 1043, 1125; money for, 870; by Maryland, 912; for making muskets, 478; salt, 398.
Bourignon, Francis, 716.
Bouvé, Elizbeth, 903.
Bowden, Lawrence, 939.
Bowdoin, James, 848, 950.
Bower, Jacob, 590, 825.
Bowley, Daniel, 1046.
Boxe, David, 729.
Boyd, John, 596, 1033, 1036, 1046.
Boyd, Matthew, captain, 639.
Boyd, Robert, 298.
Boyer, Jacob, 1010.
Boyer, Peter, 590, 825.
Boyer, Richard. See Bogar.
Brackett, Joshua, 870.
Bradford, John, 301.
Bradford, William, 603, 987.
Bradford, W. and T., 829.
Bradley, Stephen Rowe, 477, 484.
Brady, Christopher, 741.
Brady, Samuel, 571, 736.
Brady, William, 334, 741, 907.
Brannan, Benjamin, 194.
Brasher, Abraham E., 31n, 162, 169, 251.
Brass, 153.
Braxton, Carter, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 167. Committees: powder, 171; New Hampshire, 179; Easton, 275; British captures, 284; Warren, 291; West Augusta, 298; counterfeit bills, 321; letters, 331; Francis, 415; expresses, 419; finance, 423; Cedars' cartel, 446; cartel, 530. Debates, 1077. Mentioned, 922.
Brazier, Alice, 903.
Brecht, Michael, 597.
Brenesy, Martin, 877.
Brice, Arthur Hill, 263, 309, 887.
Brice, John, 76.
Bridge, Ebenezer, colonel, 291.
Bridgetown, N. J., 343.
Brigade majors, 243.
Brigadiers general, 45, 181, 209, 356, 359.
Brisben, James, 635.
Bristol, Pa., theft of despatches, 907, 914, 930, 968; prisoners, 915, 1002.
Broadhead, Daniel, 24n, 30n.
Broadhead, Garret, 282.
Brookfield, Mass., magazine, 1044.
Brooks, David, 28, 114.
Brothers(?), Henry, 785.
Brown, Daniel, 387.
Brown, David, 737.
Brown, Hubbard, 110.
Brown, Jacob, captain, 82, 392, 408, 756.
Brown, John, major and colonel, 261, 313, 485, 615, 618, 619, 626, 928, 942, 1040.
Brown, John, lieutenant, 444.
Brown, Josiah, 386.
Brown, Peregrine, 478.
Brown, William, 386, 642, 808.
Brown, --, 878.
Browne, James, 850.
Brownson, Gideon, 518, 751, 758.
Brownson, Nathan, a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 1028.
Bruce, John, 265, 465.
Brunner, Peter, 294.
Brunswick, Duke of, 369.
Brunswick, N. J., powder, 163.
Brush, Crean, 871.

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Brush, Samuel, 764.
Bruyn, Jacobus S., lieutenant-colonel, 481.
Bryant, Mary, 222.
Buchanan, William, 1046.
Buck, Asahel, 701.
Buckner, Mordecai, colonel, 132, 908.
Budden, James, 611, 698, 935, 941.
Budden, William, captain, 340, 357, 398, 460n.
Bull, John, colonel, 39, 45, 54, 62, 70, 72, 78, 117, 130, 292.
Bullitt, Thomas, lieutenant-colonel, 157, 317, 364.
Bulloch, Archibald, a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 367.
Bullock, Joseph, 194.
Buncombe, Edward, colonel, 332.
Bunner, George, 663.
Bunner, Jacob, 526.
Bunner, Peter, 294n.
Burbeck, William, lieutenant-colonel, 345, 361, 392.
Burgoyne, John, 539, 633.
Burk, William, 873.
Burkhard, Daniel, 526, 825.
Burlington, N. J., 256, 375, 673.
Burr, Ephraim, 824.
Burr, Thaddeus, 292.
Burrell, Joseph, 697.
Burwell, Nathaniel, captain, 995.
Bushong, Jacob, 877.
Business, unfinished, 61.
Butler, John, 308.
Butler, Richard, 41, 303, 359, 596.
Butler, Thomas, 220.
Butler, William, major, 746.
Butler, Zebulon, 706, 750, 914.
Butterfield, Isaac, major, 455, 457, 534, 617, 990.
Byers, John, 948.
Cabell, William, 167.
Cable, Abraham, 904.
Cabot, 291, 649, 861.
Cadwalader, Lambert, colonel, 24n, 30, 54n, 907, 988, 998.
Cadwalader, Thomas, 101, 104, 112, 310, 350.
Cady, Jeremiah, 927.
Caldwell, William, 651.
Caldwell and Mease, 656, 673, 712.
Caldwell, --, 844.
Cambridge, Mass., commissary department, 386, 387.
Cameron, Allan, lieutenant, 31, 34, 212, 242, 246, 261, 310, 311, 319, 408.
Camp, committee to, 847, 857, 973.
Camp, flying, 400, 401, 412, 413, 508, 509, 525.
Campaign, military operations, 729.
Campbell, Archibald, 255.Campbell, Donald, colonel, 83, 667, 882.
Campbell, Duncan, colonel, 74, 79, 208, 261, 264, 642, 1021.
Campbell, George, 194, 844.
Campbell, Sarah, 656.
Campbell, William, Lord, 68n.
Campbell, Simon and, 652.
Campbell, --, lieutenant-colonel, 506.
Campbell, --, major, 818.
Canada, affairs in, 148, 376, 665; army to be mustered, 177; commissioners to, 151; instructions, 159, 192, 197, 198, 213, 215, 233, 377; money, 233, 415; letters from, 298, 358, 362, 374, 420, 428, 435; report, 436; under confederation, 554, 688; debts, 463; defense of, 39, 71; importance, 388; address or letter to, 79, 85, 168, 301, 1117; medicines, 453; imprisoned militia, 191; miscarriages in, 474, 524, 530, 592, 617, 623, 629, 633, 644, 741, 852; general officers, 401, 414, 448; commissary, 449, 451; unemployed, 465, 609; conduct of, 472; Nelson's company, 102; powder, 152; release of prisoners, 865; provisioning army, 192, 221, 236, 240, 257, 284; independent companies, 233; rangers, 223, 239; riflemen, 284; road, 342; specie, 73, 76, 113, 155, 156, 191, 229, 397; troops for, 40, 45, 70, 71, 75, 99, 301, 399.
Canadians, exchange of, 1009; petition, 604; regiment of, 157; return of, 716, 721, 895.
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Cannon, committee, 55, 590, 1039, 1064; reports, 154, 162; instructions, 453; money, 781, 935, 1010; captured, 982; casting contract, 424, 593, 599, 693, 695; Salisbury furnace, 807; proving, 355, 437, 860, 865; Boston, 327, 330, 334; Canada, 451; New London, 327, 486, 595; New Providence, 375; Philadelphia, 333, 406, 445; Ticonderoga, 84, 376, 988, 989; Virginia, 943.
Cape Ann, fortification, 476.
Cape Breton, 1056.
Cape Fear river, fortification, 908.
Cape François, letter, 647.
Cape May, 284, 291, 344, 452, 697.
Captures, British aided, 284; resolutions, 986.
Carbolais, Simon, 902.
Carleton, Guy, 88, 216, 255, 261, 458, 695, 848, 951, 1038.
Carlisle, Pa., 696, 732, 1033, 1044.
Carpenters, 147, 363, 466, 937, 1051.
Carrington, Edward, lieutenant-colonel, 167, 995.
Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 574, 962. Committees: Intercepted letters, 575; board of war, 575. Commissioner to Canada, 152, 219, 415, 431, 557. Mentioned, 748.
Carroll, John, 152, 557.
Carson, Joseph, 359.
Carson, Moses, captain, 759.
Carson, Richard, 759.
Carson, Samuel, 998.
Cartel for exchange, 530, 594, 598.
Carter, John, 612.
Carter, --, 167.
Carver, Caspar, 743.
Cary, Richard, 922.
Casedorp, --, captain, 898, 937.
Catherine, brig, 482, 484.
Cavalry, committee, 992; regiment, 1025.
Cayashuta, 95, 621.
Cazneau, Isaac, 290.
Cedars, cartel of, 446, 454, 468, 475, 534, 601.
Census of population, 156.
Certificates of purchases, 451.
Chambault, de, 744.
Chambers, James, lieutenant-colonel, 16, 188, 221.
Chambers, Rowland, 564.
Chambers, William, 1016.
Chambly, 376.
Chamier, Mrs., 1003.
Champeney, Jonathan, 824.
Champeney, Joseph, 729.
Champigny, de, 1039.
Champlain, boats on, 990, 1048.
Champlin, Christopher, 502.
Chance, sloop, 250, 958.
Chaplains, army, 61, 522, 789; to Congress, 530, 1033, 1034.
Chapman, James, 667.
Chapman, John, 129.
Charleston, S. C., 638.
Charming Peggy, 884.
Chase, Robert, captain, 78, 88, 89, 91, 101, 351, 389, 903.
Chase, Samuel, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 574, 962. Committees: Stirling's letter, 115; Washington's letter, 123; Schuyler, 147; Canada, 152, 219; Northumberland-Pittsburg, 162; trade permits, 173; Wrixon, 219; marine, 275; Vidal, 572; cannon, 590; New York, 808; northern army, 812; Betsey, 964; reinforcements, 975; Vulcan, 986; captures, 986; Sullivan, 990. Reports, 154, 488. Letters, 946n, 974n, 978. On confederation, 622n, 748. Debates, 1076, 1078, 1079, 1082, 1099, 1102. Mentioned, 55n, 125n, 127, 160, 163, 175n, 415, 431, 566, 637.
Checkley, Samuel, 263.
Cheeseman, Jacob, captain, 83, 601.
Cheesman, Thomas, 722.
Cheney, Richard, 482, 629, 717, 755.
Cherokees, hostile, 616.
Cheshire's, 450.
Chester, Pa., 129.
Chevalier, John, 390.
Chevalier, Peter, 390, 820.
Chew, William, 287.
Chilton, John, captain, 864.

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Chipman, John, 761.
Christian, William, colonel, 132, 211, 649.
Christiana bridge, 999.
Christman, Paul, 826, 934.
Christopher, Nicholas, 251.
Church, Benjamin, 61, 65, 350, 352.
Church, Edward, 350, 352.
Church, Samuel, 350, 352.
Cist and Styner, 829, 996.
Claiborne, Buller, captain, 995.
Claims, committee on, 23, 65, 182, 244, 1063; discharged, 620.
Clapham, Jonas, colonel, 745.
Clark, Abraham, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 489, 1002. Committees: Canada, 524; flying camp, 614; prisoners, N. J., 1014; foreign aid, 1039. Debates, 1079.
Clark, John, major, 1006.
Clark, --, captain, 649.
Clark, --, lieutenant, 862.
Clarke, Michael, 471.
Clarke, Thomas, lieutenant-colonel, 332.
Clarkson, Matthew, 194, 668.
Clay, Slator, 1000.
Clayton, William, 663, 722, 756, 888, 922.
Cleveland, Ebinezer, 824.
Clinton, George, a delegate from New York. Committees: Cannon, 272; Warren, 291; Canada, 474. Mentioned, 472n, 482n.
Clinton, Sir Henry, 112, 127, 151.
Clinton, James, brigadier-general, 641.
Clofflin, Samuel, 824.
Cloth, duck and sail, 224.
Clothier, general, 1043.
Clothing, committee, 864, 1064; commissary, 858, 881; for army, 453, 466, 810, 823, 880, 896, 997; monopolizing, 915.
Clowes, Samuel, 28, 114.
Cluggage, Robert, captain, 118, 221, 242, 305, 656, 903.
Clymer, Daniel, 194.
Clymer, George, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 596. Treasurer, 634. Committees: Board of treasury, 603; Ticonderoga, 828; reinforcements, 975; northern army, 985; executive, 1032. Mentioned, 920, 957.
Coal, sale of captured, 227.
Coates, John, 481, 656.
Coates, William, 194.
Coburne, John, 522.
Cochran, Robert, major, 67, 615, 942.
Cochran, Stephen, 759.
Coffin, Sylvanus, 17.
Coins, value of gold and silver, 293, 381, 608, 724.
Cokey, John, 1046.
Colden, Miss, 896.
Cole, --, 229.
Colefax, Robert, 919.
Colerus, Christian de, major, 784, 809.
Colhoun, James, 1046.
Collier, --, 30n.
Collins, S., 866.
Colonel Parry, privateer, 839.
Colonies, state of, 48; address to, 134; institute governments, 342, 351, 357.
Columbus, 407, 542, 861, 939.
Commerce, societies of, 224, 1072; treaties with Europe, 1057.
Commissary-general, 401; northern department, 527; weekly returns, 627; deputies, 891.
Commissary of clothing, 858; of prisononers, 361, 850, 1043; of stores, 868.
Commissioners from Great Britain, 222n, 328, 368; to France, 827; instructions, 827, 833, 884; Indian, northern department, 155.
Commissions, 74; dates of, 864.
Committee at Philadelphia, 1032.
Committees of Congress, 76n; standing, 1061; Saturdays set apart, 468.
Comstock, Adam, lieutenant-colonel, 742.
Conductors for commissary of stores, 859.
Condy, Benjamin, 892.
Confederation, articles of, plan of, 425; committee, 431, 433, 491; draft reported, 546; printed, 555, 674, 689, 1123, 1124; considered, 600, 604, 608, 609, 611, 612, 615, 616, 621, 624, 628, 635, 636, 639; debates, 1076, 1098; Franklin on, 554n. Contents: I, Police internal, 547, 675; foreign relations, 547, 675; rights of colonies reserved, 547, 676; imposts and

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duties, 547, 676; army and militia, 548, 582, 677; quotas of expenses, 548, 677; war, restrictions, 549, 679; Indian relations, 549, 679; boundaries, 549, 680; Congress, constitution of, 549, 680; vote in Congress, 550, 681; powers of, 550, 681; restrictions on, 552, 685; journals, 552, 686; council of state, 553, 686; Canada, 554, 688; how approved, 554, 689.
Conference, committee of, 383, 387, 391, 394, 399, 406, 407, 410, 480.
Confiscation of British goods, 572, 591, 605.
Congress, of 1774, 138; rule of adjournment, 628; adjournment to Baltimore, 1015, 1023, 1027, 1031; chaplains, 1033, 1034; under confederation, 549, 680; members as Indian commissioners, 97; limitation on office holding, 125n; representation, 837; rules of debate, 468, 532, 1010; secretary's clerk, 556; threatened, 528n; wagons for, 901.
Congress, sloop, 250, 423, 861, 958.
Conklin, Nathaniel, 481.
Connecticut, credentials of delegates, 57; battalions, 40, 71, 360, 380, 447, 1021; commissions, 317; dispute with Pennsylvania, 283, 698; light horse, 564; loan office, 928; militia for New York, 207, 272, 400, 412; for north, 399, 410, 447, 479; money, 188, 272; powder, 310; regiment for Canada, 99; troops for Ticonderoga, 1038.
Connolly, John, 29, 31, 34, 65, 120, 155, 239, 242, 246, 261, 266, 350, 408, 931, 990, 1025.
Connolly, Michael, 41, 152, 162.
Connolly, Susannah, 350, 366, 429, 525, 545, 748n.
Connor, Morgan, 192.
Contraband, treatment of, 581; defined, 585, 775.
Conyers, Samuel, 345.
Cook, Thomas, 759.
Cooke, Nicholas, 282, 322, 354, 519, 601, 621, 897, 950, 1040.
Cooke, William, colonel, 976.
Coombe, Thomas, 194.
Cooper, Samuel, lieutenant, 84.
Cooper, Isaac, 610, 642.
Cooper, John, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 161.
Cooper, Samuel, 469.
Copper at New London, 694; for artillery, 999.
Coquataginta (Captain White Eyes), 208, 243, 267, 268, 269, 273.
Corbett, Thomas, 905.
Cornell, Thomas, 28.
Corren, Isaac, 1007.
Correspondence committee, money, 93.
Corse, John, 308.
Cotton, 224, 1072 [wool?].
Council of State, under confederation, 553, 686.
Counterfeiting bills of credit, 49, 321, 426, 476, 849; lottery tickets, 986.
Courtlandt, Philip, lieutenant-colonel, 190.
Courtney, Hercules, 1040.
Courts-martial, resigning officers, 472; offenses for, 797; constitution of, 800; records, 806.
Cow Neck, N. Y., 28.
Cowden, --, captain, 717.
Cowell, David, 326.
Cowperthwaite, Joseph, 42.
Cox, Isaac, 958.
Cox, John, 540, 977.
Coxe, Tench, 936.
Coxe, William, 700.
Coxe and Furman, 117, 541, 893.
Craig, Thomas, lieutenant-colonel, 120, 379, 746.
Cramer (Cremer), Jacob, 590, 826.
Crane, Stephen a delegate from New Jersey. Committee: On Heard, 113.
Crawford, John, 759.
Crawford John, captain, 518.
Crawford, Valentine, 668, 868, 934.
Crawford, William, 132, 863.
Creeks, 670.
Cremer, Jacob, 590, 826.

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Cresap, Daniel, 590.
Cresap, Michael, Captain, 48, 160, 242, 292.
Cromwell, Richard, 1046.
Cronstedt, --, 904.
Crosby, Aaron, 984.
Crowlle,--, 639.
Crown Point, 77, 84, 96, 260, 451.
Cruises in English channel, 846.
Crummet, Jacob, 826.
Cumberland county, Pa., 29, 280, 575, 603, 622.
Cunningham, Robert, 824.
Currie, Ross, 1012.
Currie, William, 323, 996.
Curtis Israel, major, 615.
Cushing, Thomas, a delegate from the Massachusetts Bay. Leave of absence, 23. Mentioned, 107, 341, 906, 921, 984.
Curtis, Edmund, 197, 210, 211, 213.
Dade, Robert, 864.
Dallam, Richard, 571, 620, 715, 740, 780, 879, 889, 934, 937, 940, 949, 951, 969, 975, 978, 981, 1024, 1042.
Dalton, Peter Roe, 386.
Dandridge, Spotswood, captain, 995.
Danielson, Timothy, 936, 940, 944.
Dantermond, 149n.
Dartmouth college, 267, 787.
Dashwood, Francis, 841, 933.
Dashwood, Samuel, 370.
Davenport, Joseph, captain, 228.
Davidson, James, 403.
Davidson, William, major, 332.
Davies, William, 783, 849, 876.
Davis, Benjamin, captain, 32.
Davis, James, 649.
Davis, John, 304, 655.
Davis, Richard, 540.
Davis, Robert, 386.
Davis, Seth, 345.
Davis, Thomas, 174.
Davis, William, major, 332.
Dawson, Levi, major, 332, 839, 842.
Dawson, Samuel, 565.
Day of fasting, 201, 208, 1014, 1022.
Daymon, Francis, 7, 168.
Dayton, Elias, colonel, 123, 129, 150, 212, 220, 701.
Dayton, Jonathan, 701.
Dealing, --, 118.
Dean, --, 30n.
Deane, Benjamin, 478.
Deane, James, 184, 309.
Deane, Joseph, 427, 956.
Deane, Silas, a delegate from Connecticut. Committees: Canada battalion, 40; claims, 66. Mentioned, 78, 210n, 336. Commissioner to France, 827, 884, 1030, 1035.
Deane, William, 518, 761.
Dearborn, Henry, captain, 665.
Debate, rules of, 572, 1010.
Debtors and soldiers, 17, 96, 103.
Decatur, Stephen, 193.
Decker, Moses, 101, 102.
Declaration on armed vessels, 214, 225, 227, 229.
Declaration of Independence. See Independence.
Deering, Henry, 892.Deer skins, 712.
De Haas, John Philip, colonel, 78, 876.
De Hart, Cyrus, 246.
De Hart, William, 227.
Delaplace, William, 334, 354.
De Iaunay, captain, 438.
Delaware, credentials of delegates, 1000; battalions, 69, 80, 631, 640; convention, 808; militia, 400, 413, 1015; money, 130, 226, 325, 440, 644; muster, 132; powder, 349, 436.
Delaware, Indians, 267, 301, 1011.
Delaware river, defense, 436, 443, 951.
Delaware, frigate, 423, 711, 861.
Delucena, Samuel, 396.
Demauraux [Du Masseaux?], lieutenant, 755.
Denet, Thomas, 983.
Dennet, Mark, 423.
Denning, William, 593.
Dennis, Isaac, 918.
Dennis, John, 745.
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Department, middle, 133, 157, 174; southern, 133, 157, 174, 194, 235.
Depreciation, bills of credit, 49.
Deputy commissary-general, petition, 710.
Derby, Richard, 1060.
Deschambault, 241, 394, 395, 866, 935.
Deserters, 792, 831, 933.
Despatches, stolen, 907, 914, 930, 968.
Detroit, reduction of, 268, 301, 318, 324, 373, 395.
Devourouy, 809, 825.
Dewees, Thomas, 72, 242, 610.
De Witt, Isaac, 481.
Dewson, Henry, 50.
Diamond, John, 646.
Dick, Archibald, 80.
Dick, John, 824.
Dickinson, John, a delegate from Delaware. Credentials, 1000. Committees: Address to colonies, 87; Washington's letter, 323; confederation, 433, 546; treaties, 433. Debates, 1087.
Dickinson, Philemon, colonel, 133, 647, 903.
Dicthery, Peter, 723.
Digges, --, 167.
Dirks, Jacob Gerhard, captain, 857.
Disability, discharge for, 836.
Disaffected, proceedings against, 464.
Discharge, manner of, 103.
Disciplinarian, New York army, 859.
Doble, Joseph, 423.
Docaisor, 341.
Dod, Timothy, 907, 915, 1026.
Dod, William, 1004.
Dodge, Henry, 481.
Dollar, Spanish-milled, 382, 725.
Dolphin, sloop, 130.
Donaldson, Joseph, 359, 378, 483, 865, 906.
Donnellan, Thomas, 1046.
Dorre, Marie Fidel, 614, 785, 890.
Dorsey, Richard, 764.
Dougherty, Bernard, 904.
Dougherty, John, 824.
Douglas, George, 194.
Douglass, Ephraim, 753.
Douglass, John, captain, 748, 831, 998.
Douglass, William, 111, 237, 322.
Douw, Volkert P., 50, 96.
Dover, Del., 917.
Dowdle, --, captain, 378.
Doyle, John, captain, 540, 564, 571, 736, 834, 998.
Dragon, sloop, 958.
Draper, John, 399, 460n.
Drayton, William Henry, 274.
Drinkhouse, Adam, 744.
Droit, d'Aubaine, 580, 771.
Druit, John, 892.
Druggist, 673.
Drummond, Lord, 178, 180, 185, 696n, 710, 767n.
Drummond, Walter, 350.
Duane, James, a delegate from New York. Committees: State of colonies, 61; address to colonies, 87; Indian affairs, 95; journals, 117; subsistence N. Y. troops, 133; treasury, 156; trade permits, 173; ways and means, 200; war office, 215; Hewes, 273; Easton, 275; coins, 294; Philadelphia, 303; eastern department, 311; North Carolina, 315; counterfeit bills, 321; money (1776), 330; letters, 331; Hopkins, 337; Indians, 359; Canada, 363. Reports, 387, 408, 435. Debates, 1074. Mentioned, 51, 95, 167n, 377n, 382n.
Du Bois, 906.
Dubois, David, 481.
Dubois, Henry, 481.
Dubois, Lewis, major, 440, 471, 479, 481, 602, 625.
Du Calvet, Pierre, 646, 748.
Duché, Jacob, 530, 886, 887, 911.
Duchemin, Daniel, 247, 941.
Duchené, 755.
Duclos, Alexander, 646.
Duclos, Francis, 852.
Dueling prohibited, 793.
Dufee, --, colonel, 217.
Dugan, --, 174.
Dugan, Jeremiah, colonel, 234, 238, 239, 642, 658, 672, 978.
Dugar, 174n.
Duguid, John, 438.
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Dulhunt, --, 265.
Du Masseaux, 297. See Demauraux.
Dumond, Egbert, 16.
Du Montesson, 297.
Dunahoo, Thomas, 906.
Dunbar, --, major, 642.
Duncan, David, 194.
Dundas, Thomas, 544, 631.
Dundee, Peter, captain, 471, 596.
Dunham, Azariah, 118, 181n, 944, 952.
Dunham, Lewis F., 165.
Dunlap, John, 900, 956, 991, 1030.
Dunlap, --, 904.
Dunlop, James, major, 47.
Dunmore, Lord, 574, 592.
Dunn, John, 300.
Du Pres, St. George, major, 218.
Durant, Thomas, 386.
Durkee, John, colonel, 644, 667, 843.
Durkee, Robert, 701.
Durry, John, 346.
Du Simitière, Pierre Eugène, 234n, 690n, 991.
Duties (import) under confederation, 547, 676.
Duvall, G., 504, 574, 962.
Du Vidal, Jean Baptiste, 646.
Dyer, Eliphalet, a delegate from Connecticut. Committees: Conduct of prisioners, 42; recruiting, 49, 58; N. Y. letter, 53; qualifications, 61. Mentioned, 272.
Dyer, Thomas, 667.
Eastern department, state of, 311, 344, 347.
Easton, James, colonel, 44, 275, 312, 317, 338, 489, 618, 619, 623, 624, 626, 889.
Easton, Pa., 540.
Ebert, John, 826.
Eccle, Adam, 948.
Eden, Robert, 285.
Eden, William, 574, 592.
Eddy, --, 314.
Edwards, Evan, captain, 228.
Edwards, Thomas, 1010.
Effingham, 423, 861.
Egg Harbor, N. J., 476.
Ekel, Adam, 80.
Elizabeth, brigantine, 751, 835, 848, 870.
Elizabethtown, 147.
Ellery, William, a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 353. Committees: Expenses, 419; wounded, 469; treasury, 810; blankets, 822; marine, 869; treasury board, 1038. Letters, 746n, 844n, 886n, 945n.
Elliott, Thomas, colonel, 132, 863.
Ellis, Joseph, 355.
Ellis, Richard, 301, 567.
Elmer, Jonathan, a delegate from New Jersey.Credentials, 1002.
Elmore, Samuel, colonel, 615, 932, 942.
Embargo, 441, 1054, 1127.
Embassy, secretary of, 834.
Embezzlement in army, 796.
Emerson, Moses, 387.
Emery, Count d', 866.
Endeavor, sloop, 424, 545.
Enemy, internal, 915, 934; motions, 1020; intelligence, 939, 1022.
Engineer, Ticonderoga, 155; southern department, 239, 241; pay, 62, 364, 401, 816.
England, letters from, 653.
Enlistments, 63, 341, 344, 617.
Eppes, Frank, lieutenant-colonel, 132, 212.
Erskine, William, 427.
Erwin, Robert, 25, 80, 189, 242, 259, 276, 300, 319, 350, 351, 379, 403, 445, 468, 486, 672, 729, 745, 779, 874, 969, 980, 993.
Eshenbuth (Eschenbach?), John, 656.
Esopus, N. Y., 95.
Esperance, l', schooner, 193.
Essex, N. J., 199.
Evans, Elijah, 764.
Evans, George, 321, 440, 528.
Evans, Joel, 194.
Evans, John, a delegate from Delaware. Credentials, 1000.
Evans, Robert, 194.
Evans, Samuel, captain, 759.
Evans, Simon, lieutenant, 744, 911.
Eve, Oswald, 325, 425, 440, 697.
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Exchange of prisoners, 362, 665, 708, 829, 870; cartel, 530, 594, 598; Hessians, 955; Canadian, 862, 1009; seamen, 340, 345.
Exports prohibited, 1054, 1127; to British possessions, 172, 183; salted provisions, 437, 441; staves, 1059.
Expresses, 107, 419, 522, 916, 926, 996.
Eyre, Benjamin, 902, 927, 949.
Fackler, Michael, 349.
Fairfield, Conn., 13.
Fairlamb, Samuel, 134, 199, 240, 300, 898, 910.
Falconer, Nathaniel, 389.
Falconer, Ralph, 900, 948.
Falkner, --, captain, 894.
Falmouth, Mass., 179.
Falmouth, England, 124.
False Cape, Del., 322.
Faneuil, 950n, 1042.
Fanny, brig, 561.
Farmer, Lewis, captain, 1008.
Farnsworth, Joseph, 387.
Fassett, John, jr., 518, 761.
Fast day, 201, 208, 1014, 1022, 1119, 1127.
Faulkner, William, 862, 865.
Fay, Jonas, 618.
Febiger, Christian, 887, 899.
Fegan, Lawrence, 271.
Fellows, John, colonel, 155.
Feltham, Jocelyn, lieutenant, 172.
Fermoy, Mathieu Alexis Roche de, 898, 919, 927, 980.
Fernauer, Joseph, 465.
Ferries over Passaic and Hackensack, 634; guarding, 1027n.
Fessenden, Josiah, 614, 717.
Findly, John, 759.
Fineur, Joseph, 206.
Finley, Samuel, 529.
Finnie, William, 239, 701.
Fire rafts, 401, 406.
Fischer, Adam, 34.
Fishbourne, Benjamin, 840.
Fisher, Henry, 251, 322.
Fisheries, American, 771, 1055.
Fisseul, James, 645.
Fister, Henry, 825.
Fitzgerald, Michael, 723.
Flax, 224, 1072.
Fleet, British, 90, 950.
Fleming, Thomas, 466, 470.
Fleurimont, 935.
Flints, 30, 76, 509, 516, 640, 890; in Orange county, N. Y., 517; manufacture, 517, 566.
Flour, 459, 1040.
Flower, Benjamin, 540, 835.
Flower, Daniel, 160.
Flower, Nicholas, 160.
Floyd, William, a delegate from New York. Committees: Canada battalion, 40; conduct of prisoners, 42; Stirling's letter, 55; seamen, South Carolina, 60; claims, 66; Eve's petition, 325; South Carolina, 368; sulphur, 502; Canada, 524; blankets, 822; Livingston, 848; cavalry, 992. Mentioned, 482n.
Flushing, N. Y., loyalists, 28.
Fly, 861.
Flying camp, command of, 418; tents, 531; supplies, 540; troops, 541, 558, 561, 597, 614; lead, 564; physician, 562; arms, 627; muster master, 876, 881.
Folmer, Thomas, 429, 482.
Fooks, Paul, 861.
Ford, Charles, 755.
Ford, Jacob, 355, 563.
Foreign assistance, 1039, 1049, 1054.
Forrest, James, 768.
Forrest, Uriah, 893.
Forster, George, 420, 446, 454, 468, 475, 534, 601.
Fort Ann, 44, 988.
Fort Edward, 450.
Fort George, 111.
Fort Halifax, 387.
Fort Montgomery, 810.
Fort Pitt, 318, 329, 347, 396.
Fort Stanwix, 318, 442, 1048.
Fortescue, --, 346.
Fortney, Henry, 571.
Fowler, Jacob, 111, 711, 1021.
Fowler, John, 785.
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Fraesh, --, 608.
France, commissioners to, appointed, 827; instructions, 813, 1035; designs in West Indies, 366; supplies from, 815, 1044, 1055; to recognize independence, 884; ships from, 895; treaty with, 576, 768, 813; interests of, 1073.
Franchessin, Jaque Antoine, de, 595, 609.
Francis, Turbott, 50, 397, 415, 458.
Franklin, Benjamin, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 596; posts and expresses, 107; on confederation, 57n, 554n; answer to Howe, 597; appointed commissioner to France, 827; expenses, 543, 556. Committees: Montgomery, 78, 90; War Office, 85; Canada, 152, 219; New Hampshire, 179; Wrixon, 219; expresses, 419; Declaration of Independence, 431; treaties, 433; seal, 517; Hessians, 655; Washington letter, 672; pirates, 692; Wilson, 705; to Howe, 738. Reports: Prisoners, 87; Canada, 148; letters of marque, 230n. Debates, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1102. Letters, 708n. Mentioned, 7, 117, 206, 415, 493n, 495n, 496n, 499n, 500, 509, 517, 691, 715, 884, 964, 968.
Franklin, Robert, 835.
Franklin, William, 41, 465, 473, 574, 592, 977, 1004.
Franklin, William Temple, 555n.
Franklin, schooner, 393.
Franks, David S., 116, 175, 371, 483, 590, 742, 895, 901.
Franks, Jacob, 294n.
Frantz, Jacob, 294.
Frazer, Alexander, 958.
Frazer, John G., 330.
Frazer, Persifor, captain, 842.
Frazier, --, captain, 818, 1021.
Frederick county, Md., 29, 31, 48, 65, 160, 286, 953, 1006, 1016, 1030, 1033.
Frederick county, Va., 349, 1042.
Freeland, Joseph, 824.
Freeman, sloop, 721.
French, Christopher, 665.
French, Joseph, 27, 114.
Fricker, Anthony, 411.
Frigates, officers, 289.
Fry, Israel, 729.
Frye, James, colonel, 291.
Frye, Joseph, brigadier-general, 47, 300.
Fullerton, --, 721.
Furman & Cox, 117, 541, 893.
Furman & Hunt, 30, 48, 305, 610.
Gadsden, Christopher, a delegate from South Carolina. Committee: Claims, 66. Brigadier-general, 761. Mentioned, 54, 336, 462.
Gage, Thomas, 871.
Gaol, Philadelphia, 239; transfer, 594.
Galbraith, --, colonel, 638.
Gale, Moses, 118.
Gallagher, Michael, 271.
Gallies, 280, 401, 406, 450, 521, 542.
Galphin, --, 670.
Gamble, Thomas, captain, 261, 264, 567, 655, 722, 947.
Gamecock, privateer, 943.
Gamelin, Pierre, 297, 911.
Gamilli, --, 265.
Gano, Daniel, 481.
Gansevoort, Leonard, jr., 824.
Gansevoort, Peter, major, 43.
Gardiner, Archibald, 934.
Gardner, Caleb, lieutenant-colonel, 742.
Gardner, Joseph, captain, 759.
Gardner, --, Mrs. 442.
Garrigues, Jacob, 265.
Garrison, John, 518.
Garrison, Nicholas, 194.
Gartner, Adam, 877.
Gaskins, Thomas, 930.
Gaspé, 903.
Gaspee, 744.
Gates, Horatio, major-general, 359; conference with, 383, 388, 391, 394, 399, 406; command in Canada, 448, 526. Letters, 613, 638, 659, 723, 739, 760, 839, 869, 890, 944, 951, 1008, 1012. Mentioned, 485, 694, 758, 780, 821, 876, 967.
General Lee, privateer, 839.
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Georgia, credentials, 367, 1028; defense of, 15, 400; State of, 444, 521; money for, 528, 639, 711, 761, 917, 1017; rangers, 607.
German battalion, instituted, 362, 392, 395n, 571; raising, 454, 487; officers, 562, 571, 590; arms, 716; to go to New York, 734; rank, 783, 825; to join Washington, 810, 980, 986, 997.
German Flats, Indian treaty, 700, 739.
Germany, Emperor of, 1055.
Gerock, Samuel, 825.
Gerry, Elbridge, a delegate from the Massachusetts Bay. Credentials, 122. Committees: Treasury, 157; brig nancy, 169; Canadian army, 192; ways and means, 290; money, 1776, 330; Kirkland, 337; price of salt, 365; Miller, 384; Champlin, 502; army at New York, 808, 844n; Mifflin, 838; treasury board, 886; monopolizers, 906; sutlers, 935, 939n; foreign aid, 1039, 1049; executive boards, 1042. Reports, 394, 939, 1049. Mentioned, 232n, 293, 516n, 829n, 904.
Giasson, 297, 331, 636, 941.
Gibson, George, 936.
Gibson, John, 129, 264, 304, 892, 930, 1021.
Gibson and Aston, 663.
Gill, James, 597, 911.
Gillespie, George, 246, 256.
Gilmore, Robert, 695.
Gilmore, William, 478.
Ginn, W., 315.
Girty, --, 1005.
Glover, John, colonel, 291.
Glover, Jonathan, 758.
Goddard, William, 477n.
Godet, Henricus, 1042.
Goforth, William, major, 481.
Gold, James, 519.
Gold coins, value, 293, 381, 608, 724.
Golden, Joseph, 848.
Goldsborough, Robert, a delegate from Maryland. Committee: Washington's letter, 316. Mentioned, 127.
Gondolas for Canada, 376.
Goodrichs, 1030.
Goodwin, William, 992.
Gordon, Andrew, captain, 146.
Gordon, Lewis, 379.
Government, instituting state, 342, 351, 357.
Govert, Jacque Paul, 723, 780, 819.
Govert, William, 620, 1015, 1046.
Graaf, --, 756.
Græme, --, 227.
Graham, John, captain, 671.
Graham, Richard, 504.
Grant, Abi, Mrs., 385.
Grant, John, 518, 761.
Gratz, Bernard, 268.
Gratz, Michael, 268, 643.
Gravel Hill, N. Y., 152.
Graves, Thomas, admiral, 109.
Gray, George, jr., 194.
Gray, Samuel, 387.
Gray, --, major, 218.
Graybill, Philip, 825, 829.
Graydon, Alexander, 438, 639.
Great Britain, commissioners from, 328, 368; confiscation of property, 572, 591, 605.
Great Egg Harbor, 35.
Great Kanhawa, fort on, 542.
Green, Griffin, 386.
Green, John, major, 212, 649.
Green, John, 636.
Green, T., 524.
Green, William, 764.
Green, --, 718.
Greene, Nathanael, major-general, 641. Letters, 755, 819, 875, 890, 914, 951, 1040.
Greenway, Joseph, 76, 711, 865.
Greenwich, N. J., 417.
Gregg, James, 481.
Gregory, George, 422.
Grenell, John, 31n.
Grennell, Thomas, 444, 861.
Grenvold, Joseph, 992.
Gridley, Richard, colonel, 61, 283n.
Grier, James, captain, 287, 378, 433, 438, 469, 663, 743, 764, 828, 865, 948, 978.
Griffin, Samuel, 592.
Griffith, Benjamin, 1029, 1031, 1035.
Griffith, David, 602.
Griffith, John, 604, 1046, 1047.

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Griffith, Philemon, 540.
Grigson, --, 756.
Grisler, Elisha, 392, 408.
Grosets, Peter, 603.
Grossman, Michael, 729.
Grubb, Curtis, 1010.
Grubb, Peter, colonel, 755.
Guillot, Francis, 724, 832.
Guines, Conte de, 7.
Gunlocks, makers, 530.
Gunsmiths, prisoners, 163.
Gurney, Francis, 30n, 609.
Guthry, James, 759.
Gwinnett, Button, a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 367, 1028; absence, 628. Committees: Expresses, 419; letters, 421; confederation, 433; prisoners' plot, 543. Debates, 1077.
Haas, George, 603, 722, 887.
Hackensack river ferries, 634.
Hacker, Hoysted, 715, 861.
Hage, James, 346.
Haight, Cornelius, 898n.
Haight, Joseph, 471, 643, 673.
Hales, John, 271.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 155.
Hall, Carvill, 1047.
Hall, David, and Sellers, 189.
Hall, John, a delegate from Maryland, 127, 893
Hall, Lyman, a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 367, 1028. Committees: Conference, 391; medicines, 463; wounded, 469; Canada, 474; Lee, 608; Leonard, 652; northern army, 812; blankets, 822; treasury, 874. Debates, 1077.
Haller, Henry, colonel, 116, 276, 483, 663.
Hallet, Samuel, 28, 114.
Halliday, John, 823.
Hallock, William, 293, 861.
Halsey, Jeremiah, lieutenant, 43, 736, 745.
Halstead, John, 158.
Hamar, Ibbetson, lieutenant, 62, 87, 379, 597, 941.
Hamilton, Archibald, 671, 809.
Hampden, brig, 715, 861.
Hamtranck, John, 646.
Hanau, Count of, 369.
Hancock, Ebenezer, 432, 525, 661.
Hancock, John, a delegate from the Massachusetts bar. Credentials, 122; Indian name, 430. Letters, 67, 68, 181n, 208n, 254n. Mentioned, 377n, 394n, 395n, 401n, 405n, 413n, 422, 432, 441n, 573n, 606n, 613n, 696n, 813n, 838n, 858n, 1004n, 1053.
Hancock, frigate, 423, 835, 861, 870, 882.
Hancock, privateer, 427.
Hancock and Adams, 943, 950, 952.
Hand, Edward, colonel, 188, 326, 393, 432, 640, 656, 823, 862.
Hankanson, Kenneth, 889.
Hannum, John, 562.
Hanson, Alexander Contee, 351.
Hanson, John, 840.
Hanson, Peter Contee, 764.
Hanson, --, 483.
Happy Return, cargo, 878.
Harbeson, Benjamin, 956.
Harbors, fortifications, 476.
Hardman, Henry, 540, 764.
Hardman, John, 540.
Hardy, Joseph, 478.
Harkness, John, 273.
Harman, --, captain, 171, 697.
Harmar, Josiah, captain, 171.
Harnet, Cornelius, 301.
Harper, John, 319.
Harris, John, 404.
Harris, Robert, 932.
Harrison, Benjamin, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 922. Committees; Recruiting instructions, 49; church, 62; trade, 63; war office, 85; to New York, 92n, 94; allowance to troops, 93; military departments, 133; Schuyler's letters, 164, 223, 240, 282; marine, 186; journals, 224; fortifying ports, 233; Dugan, 234; eastern department, 311; Washington's letter, 316; Hopkins, 337; Woodward, 337; conference, 384, 391; Francis, 415; treaties, 433; board of

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war, 438, 751, 923; Georgia, 444; cartel, 530; confiscation, 572; North Carolina, 617; northern army, 985; Sullivan, 990; letters, 1029; Kennon, 1059. Report, 388. Debates, 1071, 1082, 1100. Mentioned, 23n, 164n, 168, 185, 207, 210, 211, 213, 256, 265, 307, 309, 329n, 330, 338, 340, 345, 349, 356, 368, 406, 412, 416, 426n, 427, 428, 436, 439, 446, 453n, 504, 507, 509, 510, 600, 604, 608, 609, 948, 1041, 1049.
Harrison, Benjamin, jr., 151, 503, 723, 964.
Harrison, Charles, colonel, 995.
Harrison, Richard, 478.
Harrison, Robert Hanson, 410n, 418, 715, 757, 889, 890, 902, 914, 920, 923, 928, 950.
Harrison, Thomas, 1046.
Harrison, --,lieutenant, 642.
Hart, Jacob, 1046.
Hart, John de, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 161, 489; resigns, 439n. Committees: McKnight, 246; McDonald, 246; price of salt, 365; Irwin, 903; New York convention, 927. Mentioned, 255, 809.
Hart, Richard, 870.
Hartford, Conn., 331, 409.
Hartley, Thomas, lieutenant-colonel, 30n, 47, 279, 422.
Hartman, Jacob, 893.
Harvie, John, 348, 922n, 1005.
Harvey, Thomas, 466.
Haslet, John, colonel, 69, 263, 274, 325, 520, 596, 642.
Haslet, Thomas, captain, 639.
Hats and caps, 998.
Hausegger, Nicholas, colonel, 30n, 31, 379, 571, 842, 887, 910, 949, 980, 1013.
Hausman, Martin, 744, 844.
Hawbecker, George, 590, 825.
Hawes, George, 483.
Hay, Samuel, colonel, 655, 1014.
Haynes, Hannah, 903.
Haywood, Price and, 250, 274, 288, 297, 299, 612, 632, 643, 650.
Hazard, Ebenezer, 958.
Hazard, John, 407.
Hazen, Moses, colonel, parole, 78; losses, 73, 95, 192, 198, 900; conduct, 619, 780, 811; money for, 87, 903, 918, 1021, 1058; letters and memorials, 503, 730, 836, 889, 910, 1013; mentioned, 78, 301, 561, 716, 853, 1016.
Hazlehurst, Isaac, 194.
Hazlehurst, Robert, 194.
Hazlewood, John, captain, 865.
Heard, Nathaniel, colonel, 27, 47, 53, 112, 114, 150, 220, 229, 241, 300.
Heath, William, major-general, 261, 641, 1016.
Hederich, von, lieutenant, 898.
Heisler, --, colonel, 639.
Heiter, Gabriel, 894.
Heiter, Joseph, 894.
Hell Gate, fortifications, 94.
Helm, Christian, 590, 826.
Helm, John, 338.
Hemp, 224, 1072.
Hempstead, N. Y., loyalists, 28.
Hencher, William, 205.
Henderson, Alexander, 839.
Henderson, Daniel, 478.
Henderson, James, 934.
Henderson, Matthew, captain, 1015.
Hendricks, James, lieutenant-colonel, 132, 863.
Hendricks, William, captain, 221, 305, 878, 893, 948.
Henkels, Jacob, 819.
Henry, John, 191.
Henry, Patrick, colonel, 132, 211, 561, 980.
Henry, William, & Co., 240.
Henry Brothers, 785.
Henry, Simons and, 826.
Hepburn, Stacey, 125, 130.
Heron, James, 786.
Hertel, 636, 941.
Hervieux, 297, 744.
Hesketh, Thomas, captain, 597, 887.
Hesse Cassel, Landgrave of, 369.
Hessians, drawn from British service, 640, 653, 705n, 707; hiring of, 369, 984, 1055; exchange of prisoners, 955.

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Hester, Daniel, 48.
Heurimont, 744.
Hewen, Rachel, 487.
Hewes, James, major, 81, 246.
Hewes, Joseph, a delegate from North Carolina. Committees: Secret correspondence, 59; naval stores, 115; Northumberland-Pittsburg, 161; powder, 171; Mease, 180; ways and means, 200; fortifying ports, 233; coins, 294; Philadelphia committee, 303; Washington letter, 307; money, 1776, 330; Woodward, 337; exchange of seamen, 340; conference, 391; Francis, 415; expresses, 419; secretary, 429; confederation, 433; treasury, 460; Canada, 474; Hopkins's vessel, 516; blankets, 822. Letters, 222n, 259n, 333n, 528n. Mentioned, 287, 336, 470n, 544, 736, 745, 756, 782.
Hewes, Josiah, 194.
Hewes, --, 273.
Hewlet, John, 28.
Hewlet, Richard, 28.
Heyleger, John, 854.
Heyward, Thomas, jr., a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 305; absence, 734n. Committees: Medicines, 463; Vidal, 572; cannon, 590; Mrs. Temple, 699; journals, 710; posts, 718; northern army, 1037; Kennon, 1059. Debates, 1077.
Hickman, Ezekiel, 759.
Hicks, Charles, 28, 114.
Hide, Ebenezer, 519.
Hides, waste of, 973.
Higgins, John, 852.
Higgins, Thomas, 315.
Highland, passage of, 720.
Hillegas, Michael, 165, 484, 697, 1038, 1046.
Hillegas, Samuel, 194, 466, 1046.
Hilzheimer, Jacob, 56, 292, 389, 721.
Hindman, Jacob, 729.
Hinman, Elisha, colonel, 445, 649, 861.
Hinzey, Joseph, 663.
Hispaniola, 131, 193.
Hite, Matthias, 851.
Hodge, Hugh, 379, 445.
Hodge, John, 697, 861.
Hodgkin, --, 904.
Holland, Francis, 932.
Holland, Thomas, 307, 308.
Holler. See Haller.
Hollingsworth, Levi, 399, 756, 892, 895.
Hollomback, Matthew, 701.
Holmer, Christian, major, 995.
Holt, Michael, 842.
Holt, --, 712.
Holton, William, 485, 698.
Hoop, Nathaniel, 745.
Hooper, William, a delegate from North Carolina. Committees: Church, 62; Sparling, 77; Montgomery, 78; address to colonies, 87; Washington letter, 672; Mrs. Temple, 699; journals, 710; battle Long Island, 728; post-office, 732; J. Trumbull, 750; treasury, 810;New York, 831; military academy, 838;secret committee, 867; Bache, 921; Betsey, 932; prisoners, 958; Vulcan, 986; captures, 986; chaplains, 1034; Kennon, 1059. Letters, 945n, 957n. Debates, 1080. Mentioned, 1034.
Hoops, Adam, 1016.
Hopkins, Benjamin, 761.
Hopkins, Esek, commodore, captures at New Providence, 285, 289, 333, 486, 847; instructions, 327, 335, 375; trial, 439, 545, 628, 641, 648; condemned, 658, 661; letters, 407, 424, 630, 667; mentioned, 312, 516, 1060.
Hopkins, John, 422, 861.
Hopkins, Joseph, 153.
Hopkins, Stephen, a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 358; absence, 869. Committees: Cannon, 55; seamen, S. C., 60; powder, 171; Washington medal, 234; Ward's funeral, 237; conference, 391; confederation, 433; Georgia, 444; Canada, 474. Debates, 1082, 1105. Mentioned, 336, 544, 746.
Hopkins, Wait, 518, 751, 758.
Hopkinson, Francis, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 489. Committees: Confederation, 491; marine, 556; journals, 572; Washington letter, 830; treasury, 836; Roberts, 882; intelligence,

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886; treasury board, 885; stolen dispatches, 907; New York convention, 927. Debates, 1077. Mentioned, 662n, 930. Naval agent, 958.
Horlock, Samuel, 901.
Horn, John, captain, 38.
Hornet, sloop, 41, 293, 355, 1024.
Horses, 201, 206, 922, 992.
Hortzeg, Andrew, 877.
Hoskins, William, 387.
Hosmer, Titus, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 57.
Hospitals, northern, 38, 823, 990; captured, 88; Virginia, 364; mates, 406; regulation, 568, 857; Pennsylvania, 1006.
Hostages, Scotch, 275, 411.
House, John, 992.
House, --, Mrs., 237n.
House, --,lieutenant, 618.
House of Commons, powers, 135.
Housman, Martin, 744, 844.
Houston, John, a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 367, 1028.
Howard, George, 964.
Howard, John, 194.
Howe, Baxter, 824.
Howe, Richard, Lord, intercepted letters, 574, 592; message by Sullivan, 723, 728, 730, 737, 738, 743, 765, 1107; mentioned, 698, 926.
Howe, Sir William, declaration, 22; exchange of prisoners, 708, 862; Lee's treatment, 1029; letters, 23, 633, 957;mentioned, 32, 109, 262, 370, 539, 567, 871, 975.
Howell, Isaac, 194.
Howell, Richard, 162, 246.
Hower, Daniel, 160.
Hower, Nicholas, 160, 953.
Howitzers, 280.
Hubley, Adam, 194, 392, 408, 948.
Hubley, Bernard, 648n, 657, 825.
Hubley, George, 526, 825.
Huddleston, Richard, doctor, 87, 379, 643.
Hudson, Jonathan, 1046.
Hudson river, defences, 34, 94, 401, 406.
Hufnagel, George, 629, 672, 892.
Hufnagel, Michael, 220, 741.
Hughes, Charles, 908.
Hughes, Daniel and Samuel, 55n, 593, 599, 835, 943, 1008.
Hughes, James, 280, 642.
Hughes, John, 645, 948.
Hughes, --, 1060.
Hugomene, John Babtisto, 193.
Humphreys, Charles, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Committee on powder, 171.
Humphreys, John, lieutenant, 84.
Humpton, Richard, 565, 839, 842.
Hunt, Abraham, 221.
Hunt, Furman and, 30, 48, 305, 610.
Hunter, James, 274.
Hunter, Moses, 205.
Hunter, sloop, 744.
Huntington, Samuel, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 57. Committees: Seamen, South Carolina, 60; muskets, 169; Nancy, 169; powder, 171; marine, 186; Hewes, 273; Hand's letter, 326; exchange seamen, 340; Indian affairs, 524; post-office, 732; Thistle, 747; Elizabeth, 835; carriages, 840; negroes, 874; Keppele, 885; prizes, 885. Debates, 1083.
Huston, doctor, 487.
Ile au Noix, 376.
Imbert, Jean Louis, 783, 968.
Imports by secret committee, 592; under confederation, 547, 676.
Impressment of wagons, 862.
Independence, idea of, 57, 141; resolutions, 425, 427, 428; committee on declaration, 431; first forms, 491, 1093; in committee of the whole, 504, 507, 509, 510; resolution, 507; final form, 510; ordered to be printed, 516; engrossed and signed, 590, 626; bibliography, 1121; debates, 1087; Pennsylvania accedes, 478; Maryland's action, 504, 505n, New York, 505n, 560.
Independence, 861.
Indians, committee on, 317, 524, 1065; goods for, 50, 97, 260, 329, 330, 347, 695; presents, 378, 410; trade, 182, 200, 219,

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318, 1077; engagement of, 191, 394, 395, 411n, 412, 421, 452, 527; for Canada, 399, 412, 421; speeches, 421, 430, 471, 786, 1003, 1006, 1010, 1013; treaties, 325, 330, 348; Albany, 240; German Flats, 700, 739; Massachusetts, 651; Fort Pitt, 226, 267, 517, 595, 668; relations with, 111, 177, 282, 785, 825; middle department, 93, 95, 517, 994, 998; southern department, 68, 486, 507, 520; under confederation, 549, 679; Governor Penn, 308; Delaware, 267; Mohecan, 473, 983; Nanticoke, 933; Six Nations, 392, 396; Stockbridge, 473, 627.
Inlistment of prisoners, 105; bounties, 483, 620, 762, 932, 944, 947; encouragement, 920, 970, 973.
Innis, James, major, 649.
Inspectors of press, 165.
Instructions, recruiting, 49, 58, 63; foreign agents, 779, 813.
Intelligence from England, 405; to enemy, 417; committee, 886, 1065.
Invalids, corps of, 705.
Iron, sheet, 443.
Irvine, Andrew, 228.
Irvine, John, 76.
Irvine, William, colonel, 30n, 47, 156, 280, 632, 655, 893, 904, 1004.
Irwin, Henry, lieutenant-colonel, 332.
Irwin, Matthew, 460, 839, 906, 956, 974.
Jack, Matthew, 759.
Jack, Peter, 934.
Jackson, Charles, 319.
Jackson, David, 982.
Jackson, James, 870.
Jackson, Hall, 197, 291, 293.
Jacobs, Benjamin, 194.
Jacobs, John, 347, 785.
Jacobs, Richard, 271.
Jamaica, N. Y., loyalists, 27.
Jameson, David, 977.
Jansen, Cornelius T., 481.
Jarlais, Joseph de, 894.
Jay, John, a delegate from New York. Committees: Powder, 40; qualifications, 61; southern department, 194; letters of marque, 214; Secord, 225; Washington medal, 234; Washington letters, 250, 301; tea, 259; Tryon's, 273; British captures, 284; West Augusta, 298. Mentioned, 316n, 403, 559.
Jefferson, Thomas, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 712; absence, 734; declaration, 491, 533n; appointed to France, 827, 897. Committees: Declaration to Howe, 22; Washington letters, 352, 672; letters, 359; Hessians, 370, 640; address to people, 402; aid to enemy, 417; declaration of independence, 431; Cedars cartel, 446; rules of debate, 468; Canada, 474; seal, 517; Indian affairs, 524; prisoners' plot, 543; flying camp, 562; journals, 572; intercepted letters, 575; coins, 608, 728; Parsons, 609; pirates, 692; prizes, 694; Wilson, 705; posts, 718; battle Long Island, 728. Reports, 448, 458, 728. Notes of Debates, 1085. Debates, 1076; 1077, 1083. Mentioned, 674n, 691n, 879, 884, 922.
Jenifer, Daniel, of St. Thomas, 968.
Jenkins, George, 69.
Jenkins, William, 739, 868.
Jervis, John, 80, 465, 964.
Jewell, Robert, 594, 664, 697, 722, 911, 915, 919, 967, 998.
Johnson, Joseph, 111.
Johnson, Martin, 664.
Johnson, Robert, 311, 605.
Johnson, Samuel, 315, 629, 818.
Johnson, Thomas, jr., a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 574, 962. Committees: Claims, 66; southern department, 194; ways and means, 200; war office, 215; Dugan, 234; Washington letter, 250; coins, 294; West Augusta, 298; eastern department, 311; northern army, 812. Mentioned, 175n, 222, 286n, 292.
Johnston, Francis, 24n, 30, 72.
Johnston, George, major, 864.
Johnston, James, 194.
Jones, David, 717.
Jones, Jesse, 118, 977.

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Jones, John Paul, 641, 861.
Jones, Willie, 530, 930.
Jones, --, captain, 469.
Josiah, James, 636, 861.
Journals, inspection of, 117; motions omitted, 159n; printing of, 224, 829, 1127, 1128; committee, 572, 710; under confederation, 552, 686; index to, 605; sale, 822.
Joy, --, captain, 600.
Joynes, Levin, 986.
Judd, William, major, 750.
Jugé, 59, 95.
Kachlein, --, 168.
Kaighn, John, 194.
Karanduawan (Hancock), 430.
Karcher, Ludwig, 531, 626, 651, 845.
Kearney, Michael, jr., 214, 266.
Keasby, Edward, 358.
Keesport, George, 825.
Keith, Isham, 864.
Kelly, William, 529.
Kelsay, William, 524.
Kelso, James, 1046.
Kempe, John Tabor, 936.
Kemper, Jacob, jr., 246.
Kendricks, --, captain, 84.
Kennedy, George, 114, 638.
Kennedy, Robert, 292.
Kennedy, Samuel, 379.
Kennon, William, 1059.
Keppelar, Bernard, 745.
Keppele, Henry, 96, 108, 884.
Kerlin, John, 271, 610, 818.
Kerr, Joseph, 656, 759.
Key, Richard, 259.
Keyser, William, 825, 934.
Killgore, David, captain, 759.
Kimmel, Adam, 169, 242, 379, 828.
King, Hugh, 407.
King, John, 1005.
Kingston, N. Y., 81, 95.
Kinsey, Philip, 194.
Kirkland, Moses, 239, 242, 246, 265, 284, 337, 346, 964.
Kirkland, Samuel, 124, 440, 984.
Kirmovan, Chevalier de, 480n, 490, 565, 590, 613.
Kissam, Daniel, 28, 114.
Kittanning, Pa., 542, 562.
Kitts, George, 605.
Kling, --, captain, 656.
Knolton, Thomas, major, 644.
Knox, Henry, brigadier-general, 84, 283n, 607, 694, 844n, 1043.
Koop, Matthias, 745.
Kosciuszko, Thaddeus, 719, 888, 1006.
Kotz, Jacob, 825.
Kuhn, Ludowick, 266.
Kull, Federick, 194.
Kuntz, Eliza, 877.
Kuntz, John, 422.
Kyser, Daniel, 877.
Labat, Ignace, 366.
La Berthaudure, Caunier de, 348.
Laboratory, 860, 1051.
Laboulbine, Binnal de, 1042n.
La Corne, St. Luke, 287, 818, 865, 1021.
La Cossade, Stephen Patre de, 751.
Lady Catherine, 930.
La Falconniere, Parmetier de, 747.
La Fontaine, Charles Robert de, 256, 619.
La Garde, Coppin de, 1042n.
La Jeunesse, Prudent (Prudhomme), 429 148, 163, 646, 692.
Lake Champlain, shipwrights, 508.
Lake Erie, naval force, 542.
Lake Ontario, gallies, 542.
Lakes, navigation, 862.
La Magdalame, 636, 941, 947.
La Marque, 297, 744, 947.
La Marquisie, Bernard Mousac de, 630n, 715, 747.
Lamb, Gideon, major, 333.
Lamb, John, major, 43, 83, 990, 996.
Lambert, Marquis de, 6.
Lancaster, Pa., committee, 35, 66, 87, 298, 559, 563, 600, 603, 635, 724, 826, 849; firearm factory, 384; militia, 1010; prisoners, 88, 105, 164, 531.

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Lands, western, right to, 978; common fund, 505n; for soldiers, 763, 781, 788, 912, 946n, 947n; for deserting Hessians, 654.
Landenburger, John, 590, 825, 826.
Landers, George, 764.
Landrum, --, 30n.
Langdon, John, a delegate from New Hampshire. Credentials, 177; absent, 23. Mentioned, 366, 369, 478.
Langdon, Samuel, 291, 296.
Langeay (Laugeay), Jean, 710.
Langworthy, Edward, 367, 1028.
La Rose, Françcois Cuillot de, 619.
Laudermilk, Jacob, 964.
Laugeay, Jean, 710, 749.
La Vallière, 836.
Lawrence, John, 928.
Lawrence, T., 935.
Lawrence, William, 651.
Lawson, Robert, colonel, 132, 649, 929, 996.
Lead, 522, 408, 413; for flying camp, 558; for privateers, 839; New Canaan, 153; Massachusetts, 186; Ticonderoga, 246; North Carolina, 658; Virginia, 392, 890.
Leaming, Thomas, jr., 284, 291.
Leary, John, jr., 607.
Le Boeuf, 542, 562.
Lee, Arthur, 897.
Lee, Charles, major-general, ordered to Canada, 157, 175; southern department, 180; oath to tories, 195n; confer on New York, 196, 201; ordered to south, 206; artillery for Virginia, 212; Eden incident, 286n; South Carolina, 608, 741; ordered to Philadelphia, 638, 850, 851; bond, 857; situation, 1000; treatment, 1029; money, 1029. Letters, 92, 127, 151, 157, 161, 172, 182, 183, 190, 192, 292, 316, 329, 333, 343, 355, 360, 363, 368, 373, 485, 593, 716, 759, 818, 869, 875, 968, 1016. Mentioned, 211, 266, 403, 930, 1020, 1059.
Lee, Francis, 222, 818.
Lee, Francis Lightfoot, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 712. Committees: Miller, 384; letters; 421; wounded, 169; Canada, 741; board of war, 751; Roberts, 882; prisoners, 1014; Eyre, 902.
Lee, Richard Henry, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 712; absence, 728n. Committees: New York, 104; Murray, 117; musket, 169; New York defenses, 196; White Eyes, 208; secret, 215, 867; war office, 215; West Augusta, 298; Washington, 307, 337, 362; money, 1776, 330; Mrs. Bellew, 339; preamble on government, 342; Jacobs, 347; Canada affairs, 363; Lee's letter, 368; Hessians, 370, 985; conference, 384, 391; instructions, 709, 710, 817; battle Long Island, 728; Lee, 742; J. Trumbull, 750; clothing, 810; letter of credence, 827; Mifflin, 838; treasury, 874; negroes, 874; intelligence, 886; Navy officers, 914; internal enemies, 915; artillery yard, 988; cavalry, 992; northern army, 1013; fast day, 1014; letters, 1029; foreign aid, 1039; army, 1041; Washington's powers, 1047. Reports, 362, 373, 401. Motion on independence, 425. Debates, 1076. Mentioned, 206, 236n, 738n, 1058n.
Lee, Thomas Ludwell, 167.
Lee, 835, 870.
Lee, privateer, 736.
Leech, Thomas, 194.
Le F., 331.
Le Fargue, Pierre, 117, 119
Lefferty, Bryan, 597.
Lefferty, Dennis, 603.
Leffingwell, Christopher, 169, 174.
Leightner, Michael, 948.
Lenox, David, 403, 610.
Leonard, Abiel, 652, 661.
Leslie, John, 643.
Letter of credence, commissioners to France, 827, 833.
Letters from England, 653; intercepted, 15, 575, 592; Latin, 613, 614.
Letters of marque, 214, 222n, 229, 247, 251, 252, 253, 606, 1119.
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Levy, Christian, 379.
Levy, Heyman, 598, 1001, 1012.
Lewes, Del., 251, 274, 323, 325.
Lewis, Andrew, brigadier-general, 181; letters, 292, 485, 503, 648, 696, 761, 768, 875, 905, 951, 958, 1050; mentioned, 522, 595, 597.
Lewis, Fielding, 558.
Lewis, Francis, a delegate from New York. Committees: Powder, 40; claims, 66, 181; clothing, 103; naval stores, 115; rations, 118; expresses, 419; wounded, 469; army at New York, 808; eyre, 902; cannon, 1039. Mentioned, 58, 62, 112, 163, 182, 196, 304, 328, 482n, 632, 918, 724, 905n.
Lewis, Francis, jr., 885, 981.
Lewis, Mordecai, 194.
Lewis, Morgan, 753.
Lewis, Mrs., 936, 1003.
Lexington, brig, 213, 561.
Liability for aiding enemy, 329.
Licenses, Indian traders, 97.
Light horse, 333.
Lightbody, --, 346.
Lillington, Alexander, colonel, 333.
Lincoln county, 390.
Lindsay, Robert, 250.
Lindsay, William, 249.
Lingan, James, 764.
Linkensdorff, Lewis de, 632, 641, 648, 658.
Lippitt, Christopher, colonel, 742.
Lisle, Noel Romand de, 940, 943, 952, 1006, 1014.
Little, --, captain, 168.
Little, Thomas, 324, 440.
Little Polly, brig, 176.
Live stock in New Jersey, 571.
Liverpool, man-of-war, 340, 403, 416.
Livingston, Abraham, 260, 338, 346, 985.
Livingston, Henry Brockholst, 824.
Livingston, James, colonel, 39, 75, 82, 613, 614, 645, 647, 657, 932, 940, 942, 964.
Livingston, John, captain, 41, 854.
Livingston, J. R., 128.
Livingston, Muscoe, 959.
Livingston, Philip, a delegate from New York. Committees: Powder, 40; Indian affairs, 524; treasury, 561; treasury board, 886; Bache, 908; northern army, 985. Mentioned, 62, 163, 905n.
Livingston, Robert. Founder, 988, 1035, 1050.
Livingston, Robert R., a delegate from New York. Committees: Canada, 363; price of salt, 365; conference, 388, 391; Francis, 415; aid to enemy, 417; finance, 423; powder, 425; declaration of independence, 431; confederation, 433. Reports, 374, 398. Debates, 1087. Mentioned, 304, 426n, 563, 879.
Livingston, Milton, 750, 756, 758.
Livingston, William, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 161; moves a fast day, 201, 201, 208. Committees: Conduct of prisoners, 42; New York letter, 53; Stirling's letter, 55; Sparling, 77; Montgomery, 78; letter to Canadians, 79; Maxwell, 105; 1015; Northumberland-Pittsburg, 162; cannon, 162; trade permits, 173; Falmouth petition, 179; Indian trade, 182; James Deane, 184; counterfeit bills of credit, 221; Washington letters, 323, 352, 362; Hopkins 337; letters, 359; South Carolina, 368; Hessians, 370; conference, 371; Francis, 415; expresses, 419. Reports, 81, 426. Governor of New Jersey, 808, 825, 848, 881, 910, 919, 925, 951.
Livingston, W., 440.
Livingston, --, 901.
Loan office, and loan of five millions, 782, 845, 850, 955, 949, 1126; for marine committee, 1026; in France, 1036.
Lockhard, Samuel, major, 332.
Lockwood, Samuel, 952, 967, 971.
Logan, speech of, 669.
Long, Gabriel, 271, 970, 977.
Long, James, 1035.
Long, Nicholas, 332.
Long, Peter, 664.
Long Island, loyalists, 229; battle of, 715, 723, 728, 730; prisoners, 830.

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Longeay (Laugeay), Jean, 749.
Longeuil, --, major, 184.
Lorah, John, 825.
Lotbinière, Chartier de, captain, 184, 934.
Lotbinière, Louis, 645, 892, 941.
Lottery, continental, plan, 917, 957; regulation of prizes, 959, 963, 993, 1126; managers, 968, 973, 981; agents, 994; counterfeiting, 986; time for drawing, 1007.
Loudon, George, 350.
Love, David, 478.
Lovell, James, 32, 607, 690n.
Lowdon, John, 403.
Lowell, John, 122.
Lower Penns Neck, N. J., 308.
Lowry, Thomas, 17, 46, 89, 95, 105, 150, 228, 297, 325, 825, 869, 946, 952.
Loyalists, 20, 203, 205, 271.
Luckett, Thomas Hussey, 540.
Loudlow, Gabriel G., 28, 114.
Ludwig, Charles, 956, 972, 974.
Ludwig, --, captain, 639.
Lumsden, R, 892.
Lux, George, 1046.
Lux, William, 301, 1046.
Lynch, Thomas, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 305. Committees: State of colonies, 48; New York letter, 53; trade, 63; Schuyler's letter, 65; letter to Canadians, 79; war office, 85; to New York, 92n, 94; military departments, 133. Mentioned, 91, 94, 168.
Lynch, Thomas, jr., a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 306. Committees: Hopkins, 337; Kirkland, 337; Woodward, 337; Francis, 415; expresses, 419; journals, 572; North Carolina, 617; military academy, 838; Livingston, 848, 910. Debates, 1077, 1078, 1080. Mentioned, 756.
Lynch, 835, 870.
Lynn, --, 852.
Lyon, Benjamin, 824.
Lyon, Samuel, 336.
McCabe, George, 831.
McCallister, --, colonel, 658.
McCandless, James, captain, 639.
McCarroll, William, 663.
McCarty, William, 259.
McClean, Neil, 629.
McClean, --, 311.
McClean, --, 886, 958.
McCleland, John, lieutenant, 878.
McCleland, William, 228.
McClenaghan, Hugh, 100.
McClenachan, --,756.
McClene, James, 437.
McClery, James, 315.
McClure, David, 753.
McClure, James, 478.
McClure, John, 1046.
McCoon, --, 761.
McComber, Matthew, 836.
McConnaugh, James, 943.
McCree, James, 828.
McCue, William, 831, 832.
McCulloch, Alexander, 992.
McCulloch, George, 220.
McDonald, Alexander, colonel, 190, 246, 256, 562, 743, 819, 892, 1010.
McDonald, Allan, sr., 743, 892, 1010.
McDonald, Allan, jr., 261, 743, 892, 1010.
McDonald, Allan (of Kingsborough), 240, 264, 287, 373, 530, 819.
McDonald, Angus, 743.
McDonald, Archibald, 743, 1010.
McDonald, Donald, brigadier-general, 728, 735, 736, 742, 818, 836, 844, 904.
McDonald, Duncan, 305.
McDonald, George, 743.
McDonald, Kenneth, 1040.
McDonald, Rennel, 743, 892, 1010.
McDonald, --, lieutenant, 79, 642.
McDonnell, James, 334.
McDonough, James, 308.
McDonough, Thomas, 226.
McDougall, Alexander, brigadier-general, 641, 824.
McDowell, James, captain, 759.
McDowell, James, 759.
McDowell, John, captain, 759.
McDowell, William, 271.
McEnry, Thomas, 152.
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McGee, Alexander, 308, 317.
McGill, William, 643.
McHenry, James, 698, 705.
McHenry, John, 1046.
McIntosh, Lachlan, brigadier-general, 761.
McKay, Æneas, 268, 596, 752, 753, 759, 885, 976, 1013, 1033, 1036.
McKay, William, 863.
McKean, Thomas, a delegate from Delaware. Committees: Canada battalion, 40; Stirling's letter, 55; recruiting instructions, 58; qualifications, 61; claims, 65; apprentices, 96; Schuyler, 108; prisoners, 109, 116, 262; Heard, 113; Hepburn, 125; Washington's letter, 172; Philadelphia jail, 246; McKnight, 246; McDonald, 246; Tea, 259; Hewes, 273; counterfeit bills, 321; Simons, 324; Hopkins, 337; Kirkland, 337; Livingston contract, 338; McPherson, 415; confederation, 433; treasury, 460; blankets, 822; New York, 831. Report, 545n. Debates, 1075. Mentioned, 119, 133, 228, 309, 360n, 411, 436, 444, 520n.
McKellup, Joseph, 819.
McKenzie, George, 744.
McKenzie, John, captain, 781, 886, 892.
McKenzie, John (N. C.), 892.
McKenzie, Samuel, 1012, 1058.
McKesson, John, 14.
McKinley, John, 1000.
McKnight, James, 246, 256, 374, 384, 390.
McLeod, Alexander, 1040.
McLeod, Donald, 1040.
McLeod, William, 597, 941.
McMurray, William, 571, 737.
McNair, Andrew, 349, 471, 949.
McNeill, Hector, 444, 861.
McPherson, Daniel, 334.
McPherson, John, captain, 30n, 44, 83.
McPherson, John, major, 199, 226, 241, 415, 544.
McPherson, Robert, 378.
McWhorter, Alexander, 899.
Madison, James, 146n.
Magaw, Robert, colonel, 24, 215, 224, 431, 433, 732, 988.
Magazines, 401, 414, 966, 1031, 1033, 1039; Carlisle, 1044; Brookfield. 1044.
Mails, opening of, 288.
Major-generals, to be appointed, 356, 359; aid majors, 994.
Malmedy, 783, 809.
Maltby, Jonathan, 697.
Manes, Isaac, 601.
Manley, John, captain, 290, 343, 454, 835, 861, 870.
Mann, Andrew, captain, 759.
Mansfield, Peleg, 919.
Manufactures,societies of, 224, 1072.
Marc Anthony, 193.
Marec, 1042n.
Marine, committee,membership, 1065, 186, 214, 369, 463, 556, 628, 869; form of, 90n; sell coal, 227; purchase vessels, 201, 238, 592; build vessels, 251, 280, 476, 700; shipwrights, 466, 508; recommendation, 444; examine Whipple and Saltonstal, 507; inquire into Hopkins, 545; stores, 652, 659; money, 711; frigates, 867; prize money, 883; aid, 906.
Marine affairs, 1127.
Marines, arms, 697; at Fort Montgomery, 811; officers, 913, 954; prize money, 913; sick, 921.
Markham, John, major, 864.
Marmajou, Anthony, 176.
Marquis of Kildare, 896.
Marselis, Gysbert, 110.
Marshall, Benjamin, and brother, 317, 811, 881.
Marshall, Thomas, lieutenant-colonel, 132, 649.
Marsteller, Philip, 1010.
Martin, Alexander, colonel, 332.
Martin, James, 836.
Martin, Jonathan, lieutenant, 667.
Martin, Josiah, 574, 592.
Martin, Samuel, 28, 114.
Martin, William, 346.
Martindale, Sion, captain, 758, 867, 883.
Martinique, 120, 176, 193.

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Martler's Rock, 34, 152.
Mary, sloop, 919.
Maryland, credentials of delegates, 574, 962; on office holding, 125n; committee or council of safety, 40, 286, 298, 299, 316, 440, 696, 980, 1029; powder, 272; convention, 389; militia for flying camp, 400, 413, 526; German battalion, 488; favors independence, 504; supplies for troops, 596, 650, 756, 759, 1003; battalions, 666, 898; bounties, 912; new levies, 947, 1058; militia, 1003, 1006, 1015.
Maskell, Daniel, 343.
Mason, George, 712, 920.
Massachusetts Bay, credentials of delegates, 122; payment of troops, 54n; regiment for Canada, 99; accounts against continent, 180; lead, 186; general officer, 345, 356; battalions, 355, 360, 380; supplies, 394; tents, 474; militia for Canada, 399, 410, 479; for New York, 400, 412; militia supplies, 623, 657; treaties with Indians, 651; battalion for Rhode Island, 734; bounties, 944; money, 973; troops for Ticonderoga, 1038; assembly, 787; council, 506, 613, 621.
Massenbach, 241.
Massey, Samuel, 194.
Masters, William, 194.
Mates, surgeon's, 466.
Mathers, Peter, 818.
Matlack, Timothy, 76, 80, 119, 226, 309, 320, 443, 487, 540, 544, 603.
Mattresses for Canada, 74; in Massachusetts, 99.
Matthews, Thomas, 54, 56.
Matthewson, John, 1060.
Matthias, --,captain, 893.
Maxwell, William brigadier-general, 39, 46, 70, 76, 89, 105, 106, 150, 162, 739, 898.
Mayberry, Thomas, 443, 489.
Mayot, John, 392, 408.
Mead, Israel, 387.
Meade, George & Co., 119, 747.
Meads, Stephen, 601.
Measam, George, 636, 700, 706, 717, 841, 852, 864, 880.
Mease, James, 70, 91, 99, 103, 108, 116, 130, 156, 176, 180, 197, 211, 214, 239, 243, 255, 276, 279, 322, 390, 453, 473, 524, 525, 528, 531, 543, 566, 603, 622, 635, 640, 650, 652, 658, 666, 700, 717, 719, 728, 734, 735, 742, 748, 749, 750, 751, 753, 754, 810, 820, 821, 823, 834, 837, 842, 856, 860, 867, 886, 887, 908, 967, 982, 990, 998, 999, 1001, 1003, 1006, 1008, 1012, 1013, 1014, 1015, 1026, 1032.
Mease, John, 117, 194.
Mease and Caldwell, 656, 673, 712.
Mecklin, Devalt, 759.
Medal, Boston, 234, 991.
Medford, Mass., 387.
Medicines, committee, 463, 636, 1065; purchase, 180, 661; chests, 188, 197; Virginia, 348; Canada, 453, 622, 781, 812, 822; militia, 528; southern department, 622; hospitals, 633; import, 717; abuses, 983; continental, 1024.
Mediterranean passes, 814.
Meigs, Return Jonathan, 658, 665.
Melchior, Isaac, 188, 190, 287, 540.
Melchior, Leonard, 287.
Mellen, James, major, 824.
Meng, Jacob, 292.
Meng, Melchior, 118, 421, 721, 818.
Meng, Wollore, 189, 948.
Menson, Henry, 743.
Mentges, Francis, 557n, 566, 869.
Mercer, Alexander, 993.
Mercer, Hugh, brigadier-general, 420, 424; colonel, 132; to flying camp, 597. Letters, 575, 601, 613, 616, 620, 624, 633, 647, 652, 705, 715, 739, 839, 842, 869, 889, 939, 971. Mentioned, 503, 634, 649, 656, 662, 666, 810, 875, 896, 903.
Mercer, James, 663.
Meredith, Jonathan, 637.
Merkle, Johann Philip, 403.
Merryman, John, jr., 1046.
Mertlet, Hardouin, 672, 716.
Mesplet, Fleury, 168, 173.
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Metopsica, Indian, 669.
Meyers, Christian, 825.
Michael, Eberhart, 910.
Micmac Indians, 651.
Middleton, Alexander, 912.
Middleton, Arthur, a delegate from South Carolina; credentials, 305; declines, 306. Committees: Lee's letter, 368; marine, 369; conference, 391; Cedars cartel,446; Canada, 474; blankets, 822; artillery yard, 988; cavalry, 992. Mentioned, 659n, 1081.
Middleton, Henry, a delegate from South Carolina, 15.
Miers, David, 663.
Miers, Eliezer, captain, 759.
Mifflin, John, 732.
Mifflin, Thomas, brigadier-general, 238, 359, 383, 388, 391, 394, 399, 406, 407, 732, 838, 839, 844n, 878, 880, 894, 897, 940, 953, 972, 979, 980, 1017, 1027, 1038.
Miles, Samuel, colonel, 483, 544n, 933, 993, 1008.
Military academy, 860.
Militia, imprisoned in Canada, 191; muster rolls, 312; pay, 327, 400, 412, 1034; accoutred, 415; regulations, 418; New York, 452; allowance to officers, 757; court martial, 805; for Schuyler, 895; Washington, 921; accounts, 1036, 1127.
Millenberger, Michael, 756.
Miller, Alexander, 729.
Miller, Caspar, 544.
Miller, Charles, 384, 386, 393.
Miller, Christopher, 423.
Miller, Finley, 597.
Miller, Jacob, 785.
Miller, Mary, 294.
Miller, Robert, 309.
Miller, Samuel, captain, 656, 759.
Miller, Sebastian, 930.
Milligan, James, 194, 612.
Mills, Abraham, 469.
Minerva, 871.
Mirtle, --, 592.
Mitchell, John, 904.
Moale, John, 1046.
Moeballe, 667.
Mohegan Indians, 111, 473, 983n.
Molasses duty, 580, 771.
Molly, sloop, 238, 958.
Money, accounts, 32; weekly returns, 628.
Monmouth county, N. J., 283, 288, 396, 508.
Monopolizers, 906, 916, 980.
Montague, N. J., 251, 276, 282.
Montauk Indians, 111.
Montgomery, Hugh, 478.
Montgomery, James, captain, 998.
Montgomery, John, 242, 517, 922n, 1005, 1021.
Montgomery, Richard, brigadier-general, letters, 37; death, 64, 78, 82; memorial, 89; orations on, 122, 160, 200, 1117; accounts, 524. Mentioned, 40, 44, 91, 308, 313, 619, 657, 746, 756, 928, 942.
Montgomery, frigate, 423, 444, 697, 891.
Montreal, 182, 200, 219, 330, 611.
Montresor Island, 201.
Moody, Walker, 646.
Moore, James, brigadier-general, 181, 315, 733, 762, 849, 956.
Moore, John, sr., 27.
Moore, John, jr., 28.
Moore, Joseph, colonel, 31, 639, 643.
Moore, Nathaniel, 27, 114.
Moore, P., 250, 331.
Moore, Robert, 487.
Moore, William, 901.
Moore, --,captain, 910.
Morgan, Abel, 478.
Morgan, Daniel, 114, 168, 292, 405, 663, 860, 868.
Morgan, George, 268, 269, 292, 294, 318, 346, 350, 359, 396, 437, 509, 652, 664, 671, 695, 739, 752, 786, 980, 1005, 1012.
Morgan, John, Dr., 460, 556, 568, 595, 673, 857, 869, 903, 989.
Morgan, John, lieutenant, 54, 84.
Morris, Abel, 220.
Morris, Anthony, 194.
Morris, Jacob, 930.
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Morris, Lewis, a delegate from New York. Committees: Seamen, South Carolina, 60; clothing, 103; muskets, 169; powder, 171; Washington letter, 172; Indian trade, 182; Canada army, 192; White Eyes, 208; Indian affairs, 319. Mentioned, 164n, 396, 437.
Morris, Robert, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 596; statement, 469n. Committees: Trade, 63; war office, 85; secret committee, 104; ways and means, 200; fortifying ports, 233; McKnight, 246; McDonald, 246; tea, 259; money, 330, 1776; Mrs. Bellew, 339; exchange seamen, 340; Canada affairs, 363; price of salt, 365; treaties, 433, Champlin, 502; Hopkins's vessel, 516; prisoners' plot, 543; confiscation, 572; Mease and Caldwell, 673; pirates, 692; prizes, 694; posts, 718; clothing, 810; letter of credence, 827; wharf builder, 894; navy officers, 914; executive committee, 1032; executive boards, 1042. Letters, 1028, 1037, 1042, 1050, 1058. Mentioned, 284, 303, 390, 851, 995, 1026, 1029.
Morris, Samuel, 194, 615, 616.
Morris, Samuel C., 194.
Morris, Thomas, 194.
Morris, Willing & Co., 60, 943.
Morrison, Samuel, 716.
Morton, John, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 596. Committees: Nelson, 101; rations, 118; South Carolina, 368; flying camp, 562. Mentioned, 226, 482, 612, 615, 622, 624, 625, 628, 635, 636, 639, 674.
Morton, Perez, 122.
Mosengeil, Anthony, 502, 729.
Mosley, Robert, 759.
Mott, Gershom, 942.
Mott, Jacob, 28, 114.
Motte, Edward, 17, 25.
Moultrie, William, brigadier-general, 462, 593, 761.
Mount, Independence, 990, 1048.
Mountz, William, 759.
Mouse, Philip, 656.
Mowatt, Henry, 179.
Moylan, Stephen, quartermaster-general, 419, 428, 566, 838, 839, 844n, 865.
Mullin, Robert, 478.
Murray, James, captain, 717.
Murray, John, 228.
Murray, William, captain, 995.
Murray, Sansom & Co., 117, 120, 124.
Muskets, committee, 169, 192, 212, 223; from West Indies, 366; bounty, 478.
Musquito, 861.
Muster regulations, 791; marks for flying camp, 876; infantry, 881, 993; militia rolls, 312.
Mutiny, punishment of, 789.
Mygat, Epaphras, 721.
Myé Jacob, 910.
Naeff, Daniel, 949.
Nagle, George, 30n, 31.
Nancy, brig, 169, 174.
Nanticoke Indians, 670, 933.
Nash, Francis, colonel, 332.
Naval stores, export, 115, 131.
Navy, committee, 90, 1065; money for, 116; rank of officers, 290; expenditures, 782; continental captains, 861; oath, 861, 868; pay and rank of officers, 914; agents, 929, 933, 946, 958; increase, 970.
Nebbinger, Andrew, 877.
Necessaries for army, 810, 820.
Neely, Benjamin, 759.
Neeper, William, 228.
Nefeu, --,colonel, 217.
Neff, John Melchior, 861.
Neff, Thomas de, 1014.
Negroes, enlistment of free, 60; captured, 874; voting influence, 1079, 1099.
Neilson, William, 864.
Nelson, John, captain, 101, 102, 207, 238, 250, 263, 271, 276, 294, 349, 378, 379, 380, 482, 483, 663, 723, 764, 888, 978.
Nelson, John, 72.
Nelson, Thomas, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 712. Committees: Murray, 117; Hepburn, 125; treasury, 157; confederation, 433; cavalry, 992; treasury board, 1038; executive boards,

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1042. Mentioned, 168, 544, 696, 709, 733, 751, 754, 756, 762, 979, 982, 1008.
Nesbit, John Maxwell, 301, 478.
Nevill, Thomas, 643.
Neville, John, 129, 268.
Nevilling, John, 903.
New Brunswick, N. J., 30.
New Canaan, Conn., lead mine, 153.
New England, defence of, 400, 412, 1009.
New Hampshire, credentials of delegates, 177, 920; battalions, 40, 71, 357, 380; regiment for Canada, 99, 399, 411, 479; committee of safety, 179, 188, 189, 609, 848; convention, 183, 503; grants, 335, 405, 416; money, 637; troops for Ticonderoga, 1038.
New Jersey, credentials of delegates, 161, 489, 1002; battalions, 39, 47, 81, 113, 181n, 227, 228, 325; allowance for, 93, 150, 874; field officers, 123, 150; militia, 127, 166, 207, 238, 272, 400, 412, 597, 634, 635; powder and supplies, 150, 448, 787; defence of, 516, 519, 541, 1123; live stock, 571; convention, 123n, 129, 150, 173, 175, 212, 464, 468, 471, 473, 503, 507, 523, 539, 541, 545, 598, 613, 634, 662; assembly, 729, 809; committee of safety, 234, 241; money for delegates, 1013.
New London, Conn., cannon, 327, 406, 595; fortification, 476.
New Providence, 60, 285, 289, 295, 333, 337, 375, 847, 958.
New Windsor, N. Y., 810.
New York, powers to delegates, 14; State of, 17, 25, 31, 34; arms for New Jersey, 18; salt, 39; fortifying Narrows, 45; militia, 42, 207, 238, 272, 399, 400, 411, 412, 452, 754; battalions, 40, 69, 71, 120, 994; Lee, 92n, 96, 201; defence, 127, 542; Canada regiments, 110, 158, 471, 481; rations for troops, 133, 150, 159, 160; field officers, 181, 189; enemy's force, 399; troops at, 344, 749, 808, 842; artillery regiment, 325; disaffected, 441; salted provisions, 437; on independence, 505n, 560; accounts, 593; money, 807, 830; damage to, 733; communication with, 939; government, 1074; convention, 182, 196, 206, 428, 437, 441, 602, 647, 720, 810, 830, 831, 841, 854, 891, 905, 927, 973; committee of safety, 53, 55, 104, 112, 152, 159, 322, 326, 808, 993.
Newbury, Conn., 342.
Newburyport, Mass., 393.
Newfoundland, 1056.
Newkirk, Isaac, 101, 102.
Newport, R. I., 35, 36, 357, 406.
Newtown, N. Y., 27.
Niagara, N. Y., reduction of, 373, 394.
Nice, John, 892.
Nichols, Francis, lieutenant, 860, 877, 893.
Nichols, Samuel, 478.
Nichols, Thomas, 1038.
Nichols, --,major, 697.
Nicholson, George, 613, 614, 739, 753, 852, 861.
Nicholson, James, 423.
Nicholson, John, 190, 471, 697, 995.
Nicholson, --,colonel, 611, 623.
Nicola, Lewis, 265.
Niger, 872.
Nixon, John, 301, 641, 946.
Nixon, John, jr., 373.
Noble, Caleb, 824.
Noble, Peter, 445.
Nolan, Philip, 610.
North Carolina, officers' commissions, 14; defence, 15, 17, 957; powder and supplies, 48, 124, 331, 333n, 633, 647, 736, 881; battalions, 59, 237, 331, 733, 761; money, 91, 702, 889; naval stores, 131; bills paid, 200; prisoners, 273, 322, 389, 391, 483, 616, 885, 1029, 1034; letters, 314, 323, 331; instructions to delegates, 397; State of, 617, 623; rangers, 624; lead, 658; fortifying Cape Fear River, 908; money to delegates, 963; troops for Washington, 1044; council of safety, 842.
North River, 34, 866.
Northampton, Conn., 409; county, Pa., 603, 977; militia, 31, 40, 41, 197, 200, 210, 211, 213, 237.
Northumberland, Pa., 161, 184.
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Nourse, James, 1042.
Nourse, John, 948, 1054.
Nova Scotia, expedition against, 155, 1056; petition, 307; Indians, 527.
Nubile, 667.
Nurses, wages, 858.
Oaths, inspectors of press, 165; test prohibited, 195; Tryon, 273, 316n; secretary board of war, 435; army and navy, 781, 790, 861, 868, 893; courts-martial, 801; committee of treasury, 980.
Obrian, --, 155.
Occum, Sampson, 109, 111.
Office holding, Maryland resolves, 125n.
Officers, rank, 29, 226, 290, 913, 954; disobedient, 33; prisoners, 31, 42, 51, 66, 88, 105, 464; promotion, 342; general, 401, 413, 414; courts-martial, 472; serving in Canada, 445, 471, 479, 518, 602, 609; French, 753, 757; militia allowance, 757; state appointments, 763; double commissions, 781, 784; effects of dead, 804; pay, 853, 1033; quality, 856; allowance, 855, 873, 891; oath, 893; prize money, 913.
Ogden, Matthias, lieutenant-colonel, 188, 324.
Ogden, Robert, 951, 952.
O'Hara, James, 220.
O'Hara, William, 948.
Ohio, garrisons on, 634.
Olney, Joseph, 861.
Orange County, N. Y., 42, 517.
Ord, George, 930.
Ord, John, 194.
Ordnance to Cambridge, 38.
Orne, --, 232n.
Osborne, George Jerry, 601.
Osborne, John, 482.
Osgood, James, captain, 537.
Oswald, Eleazar, 952, 967.
Oswego, fort at, 542.
Ott, Adam, 101, 102.
Ottendorf, Nicholas Dietrich, 935, 937, 1007, 1026.
Oury, Wendal, captain, 759.
Owen, Robert, jr., 603.
Oxford, 850.
Oyster Bay, N. Y., 28.
Paca, William, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 574, 962. Committees: Church, 62; New York, 104; Northumberland-Pittsburg, 162; powder, 171; Falmouth petition, 179; Canada, 474; Vidal, 572; blankets, 822; camp, 973. Mentioned, 55n, 127, 160, 163, 986.
Packet, capture of Amboy, 188, 214.
Paddock, Seth, 17.
Page, Joseph, 265.
Paine, Robert Treat, a delegate from the Massachusetts Bay. Credentials, 122. Committees: Schuyler's letter, 35; New York letter, 53; cannon, 55; seamen, South Carolina, 60; Indian affairs, 95; apprentices, 96; New York, 104; naval stores, 115; muskets, 169; powder, 171, 425; Mease, 180; Philadelphia jail, 246; Washington's letter, 316; Lee's letter, 368; Cedars cartel, 446; rules of order, 468; wounded, 469; Canada, 474; sulphur, 502; intercepted letters, 575; Mease and Caldwell, 673; Thistle, 747; New York, 808; blankets, 822; Elizabeth, 835; oath, 861; Keppele, 885; prizes, 885; Maryland battalions, 898; Eyre, 902; Bache, 908; Betsey, 932; Vulcan, 986; artillery yard, 988; cavalry, 992. Report, 533n. Debates, 1101. Mentioned, 164n, 693.
Painter, Elisha, 477n, 518, 754.
Painter, Gamaliel, 519.
Palfrey, William, 315, 334, 369, 398, 415, 458, 459, 506, 529, 733, 930.
Palmer, J., 185.
Palmer, Thomas, 31n.
Palmer, --,captain, 896.
Palmes, Richard, 604.
Paper makers in militia, 593.
Park, Joseph, lieutenant-colonel, 643.
Parke, William, 729.
Parker, Joseph, 194.
Parker, Josiah, lieutenant-colonel, 132, 863.
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Parker, Samuel, 893.
Parker, Hyde, captain, 214.
Parliament, trade acts, 222n, 229, 274.
Parole of prisoners, 107, 115, 119, 220, 371.
Parry, Caleb, 30n, 785.
Parsons, Samuel Holden, brigadier-general, 609, 641, 644, 692, 928.
Parsons, Thomas, 1044.
Parsons, --, 35, 661.
Partisans, employment, 395.
Partridge, Samuel, 370.
Paschal, Stephen, 165, 697, 702.
Passaic River ferries, 634.
Passes, Mediterranean, 814.
Paterson, William, 161, 490, 662.
Patterson, John, 14, 612.
Patterson, Samuel, 76, 411.
Patton, John, 331, 332.
Patton, Robert, 379, 1018, 1035.
Patton, William, 862.
Paulding, William, 260.
Pawling, Albert, 481.
Pay of troops, 47, 60; assistant engineers and chaplains, 61; Pennsylvania battalions, 133; seamen on prizes, 214; militia at Cambridge, 327; soldiers, New York, 344; engineers, 401; assistant quartermaster-general, 419; regimental surgeons, 419; troops middle department, 428; secretary board of war, 438; secretary of Congress, 429, 442; surgeons, 570; stoppage, 619; disabilities, 702; adjutants, 787; marines, 954; officers, 1033.
Paymaster-general, deputy, 44, 627; bills, 60, 714; regimental, 418, 479.
Peace commissioners, 328, 368; propositions from Howe, 731, 737; committee to receive, 738, 755, 765.
Peachy, William, colonel, 132, 333, 649.
Peacock, --, lieutenant, 996.
Pearson, Isaac, 194.
Peeble, William, 904.
Pelieur, James, 721.
Pelissier, Christopher, 594, 615, 626.
Pell, Samuel Tredwell, 559.
Pellawa, 786.
Penalties for aiding captives, 284.
Pendleton, Edmund, 351, 505n, 879.
Pendleton, James Yancey, 387.
Pendleton, --, lieutenant, 828.
Penet, P., 16, 869.
Penobscot Indians, 527.
Penn, John, a delegate from North Carolina. Committees: Washington's letter, 123; Hepburn, 125; military departments, 133; Secord, 225; Canada, 741; clothing, 865.
Penn, John, governor, 574, 592,
Pennsylvania, credentials of delegates, 506; field officers, 23; battalions, 29, 50, 53, 58, 390, 430; first battalion, 39, 62, 76, 77, 85, 87; recruiting, 64; money for troops, 72, 93, 116, 130, 156, 239, 240, 255, 271, 276, 319, 322, 445; powder, 124; tea, 133; complaint, 184; Connecticut lands, 283, 698; governor and Indians, 309; militia for New York, 400; for flying camp, 400, 413, 469n, 598; for Delaware, 436; riflemen, 452; accedes to independence, 478; German battalions, 488, 590; militia pay, 531, 819; conference, 572; associations, 543, 591; western frontiers, 590, 699, 902; deserters, 831; money, 834; hospital, 948, 1006; defence, 516, 519, 1123; convention, 630, 701; assembly, 995; committee of safety, 120, 164, 176, 184, 272, 315, 333, 431, 439, 443, 460, 502, 509, 755, 840, 1009; council of safety, 631, 637, 657, 863, 901, 957, 979, 994, 1000, 1024, 1037, 1040.
Penrose, Joseph lieutenant-colonel, 30, 50n, 988.
Pensacola, 1057.
Pensions for disabled, 702.
Pepin, André, 646, 721, 748.
Perkins, William, 892.
Perry, Ebenezer, 386.
Peterman, Jacob, 826.
Peters, Richard, secretary board of war, 438, 444, 485n, 692n, 743, 781n, 818, 848, 876n, 892, 951, 956, 981, 1033.
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Petition to King, 21.
Pettit, Charles, 1002.
Pettus, Sir John, 995.
Pews, Samuel, 818.
Phelps, Noah, 293, 308.
Philadelphia, committee of inspection, 30, 303, 320, 390, 392; associations, 151, 348, 256; traders petition, 180, 200, 210, 211, 213; jail, 239; barracks, 272, 971; cannon, 333, 406, 445; militia, 508, 523; quarters for troops, 559, 637, 863; defence, 940, 951, 1015, 1026; house of employment, 990.
Phile, Frederick, 487.
Philips, Michael, 611.
Philips, Peter, 386.
Phipps, David, 697.
Phips, Aaron, 482.
Phoenix, 214, 227; sloop, 919.
Physicians, prisoners, 88.
Pickering, Timothy, 807n.
Pierce, John, jr., 880.
Pierce, Timothy, 943, 950.
Pierce, William, captain, 995.
Piercy, Jonathan, 481.
Piggot, James, captain, 759.
Pikes, 215, 224.
Pilem, Jacques, 748.
Piling, John, 610.
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 306n.
Piper, John, lieutenant colonel, 663, 933.
Pirates, countenanced by Great Britain, 692.
Pittsburg, Pa., petition, 161, 184; meeting of Indians, 267; treaty, 348, 517, 595, 695; powder, 437; garrison, 505n; fort, 542; Indian commissioners, 740, 749, 752; attack 922n.
Places of profit, 419.
Platt, Richard, 481.
Pliarne, de, 16.
Pluckrose, John, 826.
Plunder, 158.
Point au Fer, 449.
Point Levi, 623.
Polhemus, Johannes, 27, 114.
Polk, Thomas, colonel, 332.
Pollard, William, 893.
Pollock, John, 622.
Poole, William, 489, 530.
Pooplopen's kill, 34, 153.
Poor, Enoch, colonel, 780.
Population of colonies, 156.
Pork for Canadian army, 296, 303.
Porter, Andrew, 478.
Porter, Jabez, 387.
Porter, Robert, 422.
Ports, opening, 59, 62, 159n; fortifying, 233, 283, 476.
Portsmouth, 393.
Portugal, 1035, 1057.
Post-office, committee, 107, 717, 719, 732; postage, 43; 155, 294; Philadelphia to Ticonderoga, 732; militia service, 526, 638; at headquarters, 927.
Posts, frontier, 388, 394.
Potter, David, 343.
Potts, Jonathan, 229, 271, 317, 344, 424, 449n.
Powder, committee, 171, 634; mills, 13, 120, 170; privateers, 331, 427, 478, 839; sale, 390; quality and inspection, 425, 440, 713, 729, 1125; flying camp, 662; rifle companies, 620; proving cannon, 781.
Powers of Washington enlarged, 1045, 1047, 1053.
Pownal, Thomas, 478.
Prahl, Lewis, 698.
Prejent, V. de Coetry, 764.
Prentice, Samuel, major, 644.
Prescott, Richard, brigadier-general, 16, 23, 78, 88, 89, 91, 101, 105, 107, 112, 118, 146, 205, 261, 265, 313, 389, 618, 633, 735, 736, 818, 844, 904.
Prescott, --, colonel, 291.
President of Congress, secretary, 77, 517.
Presque Isle, 542, 562.
Press, inspectors of, 165.
Preston, Charles, major, 31, 67, 741.
Price, James, 44, 64n, 78, 208, 240, 274, 284, 288, 297, 299, 303, 319, 375, 518.
Price, Thomas, captain, 48, 168, 918, 1031.
Price and Haywood, 250, 612, 632, 643, 650.
Prices, 320, 591.
Princeton College tutors, 653.

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Prisoners, committee on, 261, 854, 958, 1014, 1023, 1066; St. John's, 17, 25, 68, 95; treatment, 22, 66, 361, 370; allowance to officers, 31; conduct, 42, 51; bills of exchange, 52; Kingston, 81, 95; Trenton, 81, 115, 213, 220, 422; Lancaster, 88, 164, 531; enlistment, 105, 372, 392, 630, 1009; parole, 107, 220; lists, 109, 115, 262, 264, 632; Reading, 113, 116, 531; capitulations, 115, 119; expenses, 152, 273; Canadian, 162, 848, 862, 865; subsistence, 175; distribution, 176; North Carolina, 322, 389, 391, 411, 483, 616, 885, 1029, 1034; plots to liberate, 239, 543, 967; prizes, 254; in colonies, 275; resolutions, 298, 1120; rewards, 394, 452; Hartford, 331; exchange, 362, 453, 460, 530, 594, 598, 665, 708, 829, 870; board of war, 435; escape, 464, 1052; York, 523; officers, 540; destination, 559, 561; correspondence, 633; Burlington, 673; Carlisle, 696, 732; Philadelphia jail, 848, 895; commissary, 850; petition, 854; accounts, 870; condition, 873, 881; Bristol, 915, 1002; exemption, 1004; recruiting for Howe, 1006, 1016; Baltimore, 1030.
Privateers, rules, 229; commission, 247; instructions and commissions, 247; bond, 252, 606, 1119; Philadelphia, 445; treaty with France, 584, 774.
Prizes, committee, 885; distribution, 36, 882; pay of seamen, 214; captures, 229, 897; agents, 289, 300; sale, 343; refuge, 694; cargo, 905.
Prizes in lottery, 959.
Produce, exports, 414.
Promotion, rules of, 342, 1043.
Prospect Hill, commissary, 387.
Providence, R. I. 393.
Providence, sloop, 407, 423, 861.
Provisions, removal, 401, 413; salted, 437, 825; northern army, 812, 822.
Prussia, commissioner, 1054.
Pugh, Samuel, 964.
Purviance, John, 194, 968.
Purviance, Samuel, 286n, 990.
Purviance, Samuel, jr., 38n, 287.
Putnam, Israel, major-general, 270, 291, 417, 661, 1017, 1022, 1025.
Putnam, Rufus, colonel, 630.
Putnam, privateer, 736.
Pyle, William, 741.
Qualifications, committee on, 61, 214, 438, 1066.
Quartermaster-general, 401, 419, 527, 627.
Quarters for troops regulated, 63.
Quebec, failure, 64, 79, 82, 149, 157; letter to inhabitants, 168; reduction, 236, 302.
Queens County, N. Y., loyalists, 25, 34.
Queda (Peter Richman), 621.
Quotas under confederation, 548, 677.
Raleigh, 423, 601, 861, 896.
Ramsay, Peter, 870.
Randolph, Edmund, 236, 311, 315.
Randolph, Peyton, 167, 544.
Randolph, 423, 861, 999, 1024.
Rangers for Canada, 223, 239; South Carolina, 606; Georgia, 607; North Carolina, 624.
Rank of officers, 29, 34, 226; marine, 913, 954.
Ransom, Samuel, 701.
Ransom, Thomas, 761.
Rapalje, Jeromus, 28.
Raser, George, 729.
Rations for Canada battalions, 46; contract, 118; prisoners, 191; price, 235, 477, 780; staff officers, 891; return of issues, 965.
Rawlins, Moses, 486, 663.
Ray, --, 670.
Read, Andrew, 745.
Read, Charles, colonel, 740, 864.
Read, George, a delegate from Delaware, Credentials, 1000. Committees: Murray, 157; powder, 171; Falmouth, 179; Warren, 291; supply of troops, 315; Hand's letter, 326; conference, 391; McPherson, 415; Treasury, 561; flying camp, 562. Mentioned, 168.
Read, James, brigadier-general, 641.
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Read (Reed), Thomas, 423, 649, 695, 861, 995.
Read, --, captain, 892.
Reade, Isaac, colonel, 132, 649.
Reading Pa., 102, 113, 116, 531, 559.
Rebecca and Mary, 30.
Rebecca and Frances, 56.
Recruiting instructions, 49, 58, 63; allowance, 113.
Redman, Joseph, 194.
Reed, Franklin, 478.
Reed, Joseph, 180, 339, 409, 419, 613, 1001.
Regonville (Reganville), major, 64, 173, 379, 755.
Regiment, appointments, 563.
Reinhart, George, 466.
Representation in Congress, 837.
Reprisal, 757, 861.
Resentment, 1074.
Retaliation, 21, 26, 539.
Returns, 342, 418, 792, 858.
Rhinelander, Frederick, 117, 120, 124.
Rhode Island, credentials of delegates, 353; battalions, 347, 734, 742; assembly memorial, 399; ship carpenters, 519; money, 728.
Rhorbeck, Christian, 169.
Rice, Alpheus, 715.
Rice, Benjamin, 76.
Rice, Patrick, 902.
Rice, William, 590, 825.
Rice, imports, 989.
Richards, William, 468.
Richardson, James, 386.
Richardson, Thomas, 399.
Richardson, William, 987, 1031, 1033.
Richman, Peter, (Queda), 621.
Richmond, William, colonel, 742.
Richmond county, N. Y., 121.
Rickman, William, 364, 761.
Rifleman, 29, 452, 474, 486.
Rifles, purchase, 432.
Rigg, William, 901.
Rippey, --, captain, 1004.
Risberg, Gustavus, 665, 715, 742, 755, 764, 818, 888, 889, 934, 1013, 1024.
Risk, Charles, 930.
Rittenhouse, David, 163, 863n.
Ritter, William, 825.
Ritzema, Rudolphus, colonel, 151, 234, 238.
Roberdeau, Daniel, brigadier-general, 91, 391, 432, 624.
Roberts, Charles, 741, 807, 827, 882, 897.
Roberts, Robert, 194.
Robertson, Daniel, 352, 361, 392, 408.
Robertson, James, general, 178, 185.
Robison, Andrew, 632.
Robinson, Daniel, 210, 211, 213.
Robinson, Elizabeth, 877, 948.
Robinson, Isaiah, 861.
Robinson, James, 861.
Roche, John, 861.
Roche, John, 881.
Rockaway, N. Y., 28.
Rodgers, Philip, 759.
Rodney, Cæsar, a Delegate from Delaware Committees: Qualifications, 61; claims, 66; New York, 104; supply of troops, 315; Washington letter, 316, 337; Woodward, 337; expresses, 419; Canada, 524.
Roebuck, 274, 345.
Rogers, John a Delegate from Maryland. Committees: Cannon, 55; qualifications, 61; claims, 66; Indian Affairs, 95; expresses, 419; marine, 463. Mentioned, 127, 175n.
Rogers, Robert, major, 503, 523.
Romans, Bernard, 53, 63, 133, 243, 257, 266, 892.
Romboiet precinct, N. Y., 80.
Ross, Alexander, 286, 316, 317, 343, 344, 347, 360, 652, 740.
Ross, George, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 596. Committees: Blankets, 822; Livingston, 848, 910; wharf builders, 894; internal enemies, 915; M. Livingston, 959; camp, 973. Mentioned, 220, 403, 986, 992.
Ross, Hugh, 934.
Ross, James, major, 30n, 50, 152, 319, 561, 823, 826.
Ross, Perin, 701.
Ross, William, 655, 701, 892.
Roughhead, William, 392, 408.

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Rouville, J. B. H. de, 894.
Rouville, René O. H. de, 743, 805, 894, 900.
Rowe, John, 370, 835.
Rowlwagen, Frederick, 590, 825.
Roxbury, Mass., 386, 387.
Royal Exchange, 939.
Royall, Marcus Lucullus, 744, 911.
Rozière, Lewis Lhuilier de, 35.
Rudolph, Tobias, 639.
Rules of war, 302, 442; debate, 468, 532, 572, 1010.
Rummel, Frederick, 877.
Rumsey, Benjamin, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 962. Mentioned, 947n, 973.
Rush, Benjamin, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 596. Committees: Vidal, 572; powder, 634; medicines, 636; northern army, 812; prisoners, 854, 919; intelligence, 886; Livingston, 910. Debates, 1081, 1104. Mentioned, 120, 863n, 921, 941.
Russe, Louis, 646.
Russel, Thomas, 1046.
Rutherford, Alexander, 900.
Rutherford, Thomas, 868.
Rutledge, Edward, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 305. Committees: State of colonies, 48; claims, 66; war office, 85; Schuyler, 108; Heard, 113; Stirling's letter, 115; journals, 117; Washington's letter, 123, 316; Northumberland-Pittsburg, 162; powder, 171; Mease, 180; James Drane, 184; marine, 186, 369; New York defenses, 196; Secord, 225; eastern department, 311; Indian affairs, 319; money, 1776, 330; preamble, 342; conference report, 344n; Jacobs, 347; Canada, 363; conference, 384; address to people, 402; aid to enemy, 407; secretary, 429; confederation, 433; board, of war, 438; rules of debate, 468; Lee, 608; Washington's letter, 672, 830; Howe, 738; New York, 831; prizes, 885; Maryland battalions, 898; monopolizers, 906; Betsey 932, 964; enlistments, 937. Reports, 309, 395. Debates, 1077, 1078, 1080, 1087. Mentioned, 470, 670n, 809, 869n, 870n, 964.
Rutledge, John, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 305; declines, 306n. Mentioned, 15, 485, 544.
Ryan, Michael, 326.
Sachem, 861.
Safford, Samuel, 518, 761.
Sailors prisoners, 919. 1009.
St. Augustine, 15, 367n.
St. Aulaire, Chevalier, de, 223, 257.
St. Clair, Arthur, brigadier-general, 24, 50n, 104, 120, 154, 220, 257, 641.
St. Eustatia, 721.
St. Johns, 68, 95, 394, 395; Indians, 527, 651.
St. Lawrence river, 38, 110.
St. Martin, 602, 624.
St. Ours, 744, 935.
Salady, Melchior, 1008.
Salem county, N. J., 358, 491.
Salisbury furnace, 807, 988, 1035, 1050.
Sally, sloop, 35, 256, 257, 374, 384, 919.
Salt, 39, 290, 825, 831, 849, 859, 880, 906, 914, 935, 950, 952; price, 365, 397, 404, 1014; bounty, 398; works, Toms river, 925.
Salter, John, 194.
Saltonstal, Dudley, 439, 507, 542, 649, 696, 861.
Saltpeter, 53, 124, 128, 170, 171, 566, 879.
Sample, Samuel 250n.
Sanders, J. F. W., 246, 256.
Sandystone, N. J., 276, 282.
Sansom & Co., Murray, 117, 120, 124.
Santon, John, 392, 408.
Sarringhause, William, 949.
Satterlee, William, 942.
Saurelle, Chevalier, 718.
Savage, William, 905.
Savannah, port, 521.
Schaeffer, George, 590, 825.
Schalch, Jacob, 911.
Schenectady, N. Y., 990.
Schlemmer, Peter, 877.

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Schoon creek, 450.
Schott, John Paul, 736, 740.
Schrauder, Philip, 648, 825.
Schuyler, Peter, 110.
Schuyler, Philip, major-general, supplies, 38; directions, 109, 450; ordered to New York, 157; at Albany, 187; provisions for Canada, 236, 304; commended, 297; relations with Gates, 526; desired to remain in service, 841; flints, 890; laboratory, 1051; powder, 1059. Letters, 37, 43, 64, 76, 77, 79, 107, 123, 147, 151, 154, 157, 164, 177, 184, 187, 190, 206, 222, 234, 240, 260, 264, 282, 297, 298, 301, 326, 352, 358, 361, 388, 392, 408, 420, 428, 435, 440, 442, 444, 450, 459, 466, 477, 503, 524, 566, 575, 613, 625, 638, 659, 695, 700, 722, 756, 760, 809, 847, 857, 875, 875, 890, 891, 905, 920, 928, 951, 957, 989, 1009, 1037, 1042. Mentioned, 88, 91, 113, 148, 162, 243, 246, 308, 309, 317, 322, 361, 375, 597, 618, 621, 633, 646, 701, 732, 738, 757, 784, 821, 823, 824, 825, 831, 862, 865, 932, 1048, 1050.
Scollay, John, 370.
Scotch hostages, 275.
Scott, Charles, colonel, 132, 334, 649, 852, 910, 996.
Scott, John B., 118.
Scott, Joseph, 995.
Scott, Thomas, 227.
Scull, Nicholas, 76.
Scull, Peter, major, 228.
Sea Nymph, 210.
Seal for United States, 517, 689.
Seamen for South Carolina, 59, 64, 67; bounty 289; exchange of prisoners, 340; 345; 460; enlistment of prisoners, 630; provision for disabled, 702.
Searle, James, 950n, 968.
Seayres, John, major, 864.
Secord, John, 221, 225, 273, 283.
Secrecy imposed, 827.
Secret correspondence committee, 345, 365, 529, 1067.
Secret committee, 867, 968, 1067; purchase saltpeter, 40, 53; import of goods, 97, 856; export produce, 169, 834; vessels, 290, 846; arms, 831.
Secret service money, 985.
Secretary of Congress, 429, 442, 556; to President, 77, 517; to board of war, 435, 435, 438; of embassy, 834.
Seeger, Frederick, 747, 861.
Seelim, Antoine, 1021.
Seely Abner, 518.
Selleck, Simeon, 13.
Sellers, John, 194.
Sellers, Nathan, 194, 702, 895.
Sellers, Samuel, 194.
Sellers, Thomas, 1046.
Sellers and Hall, 189.
Semple, Samuel, 309.
Senter, --, 595.
Sergeant, John, 983.
Sergeant, Jonathan Dickinson, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 161, 1002. Committees: Powder, 171; marine, 186; southern department, 194; Eve's petition, 325; Hand's letter, 326. Letters, 421.
Servants, indented, 56.
Sewell, Robert, 893.
Shaaff, Casper, 163.
Shackford, Josiah, 601.
Shad, William, 48.
Shalets, Jacob, 597.
Shallus, Jacob, 70, 162, 163, 469, 643.
Shalor, Timothy, 293.
Shaw, John, jr., 194.
Shaw, Nathaniel, jr., 301, 327.
Shaw, Samuel, 478.
Shawanese Indians, 270, 786, 1011.
Sheafe, Jacob, 836, 848, 873n.
Shee, John, colonel, 24, 50n, 384, 415, 431, 651, 830, 948.
Shee, Walter, 194, 668.
Sheerer, Joseph, 717, 892.
Sheeting, 652.
Sheldon, Elisha, 1025.
Sheldon, Samuel, 824.
Shemit, --, 297.
Sheppard, Abraham, captain, 529, 867.
Sheppard, William, 266, 403, 839.
Sherburne, Henry, major, 455, 534, 561, 617, 990.
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Sherman, Roger, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 57. Committees: Trade, 63; Schuyler's letter, 65; Prescott, 89; Washington letter, 94; 323; Nelson, 101; subsistence New York troops, 133; Canada instructions, 159; Hazen, 192; southern department, 194; coins, 294; North Carolina papers, 315; counterfeit bills, 321; Eve's petition, 325; money, 330, 1776; Hopkins's case, 337; South Carolina, 368; Hessians, 370; conference, 391; letters, 421; declaration of independence, 431; confederation, 433; board of war, 438; Canada, 474, 853; Parsons, 609; J. Trumbull, 750; Army at New York, 808; Mifflin, 838. Reports, 199n, 441n. Debates, 1071, 1078, 1081, 1082. Mentioned, 196, 304, 382n, 383n, 453n, 904.
Sherman, William, jr., 523.
Ship joiners, petition, 917.
Shippen, William, jr., 101, 104, 225, 562, 612, 818, 857, 940, 989.
Shippensburg, 437.
Ships, under construction, 393; from France, 895; salute to continental, 909; warned, 1025.
Shipwrights for Lake Champlain, 38, 110, 508; Rhode Island, 519.
Shitz, Henry, 169.
Shizens, Jacob, 828.
Shoals, John, 28, 114.
Shoes, 159, 296, 411, 637, 984.
Shores, Peter, 601.
Shrewsbury, N. J., 324.
Shugart, Martin, 826.
Shuldham, Molineux, admiral, 871.
Shultz, John, 828.
Shuttleworth, --, lieutenant, 642.
Shylock, Henry, 72.
Sick, returns of, 965; accommodation, 998, 1006.
Siddens, Deborah, 80.
Signals, paper on, 124.
Sill, --, 519.
Silver coins, value, 293, 381, 608, 724.
Simms, Charles, 152, 1002.
Simms, John, 759.
Simon, Peter, 324, 374.
Simon and Campbell, 652.
Simons and Henry, 826.
Simrall, Alexander, 759.
Sinclair, Patrick, 196.
Six Nations, 111, 270, 309, 392, 442, 621, 668, 1011.
Skene, Philip, 33, 607.
Skenesborough, 44, 450.
Skinner, Cortlandt, 41, 42.
Slater, Thomas, 1040.
Slaves, importation, 258.
Slaydon, Elizabeth, 487, 610.
Sleds, pay, 158.
Slough, Matthias, 226, 242, 266, 826.
Smallpox, 564, 617.
Smallwood, William, brigadier-general, 571, 898, 1032, 1058.
Smith, Adam, 825.
Smith, Alexander Lawson, 932.
Smith, Andrew, 892.
Smith, Benjamin, 422.
Smith, Daniel, 389, 642, 655.
Smith, Hendrick, 900.
Smith, James, a delegate from Pennsylvania, Committees: Elizabeth, 835; carriages, 840; treasury, 878; Keppele, 885; reenforcements, 975. Mentioned, 977.
Smith, John, 1046.
Smith, Johnston, 290.
Smith, Jonathan Bayard, 194, 529, 830, 849, 968.
Smith, Margaret, 305.
Smith, Matthew, captain, 473, 487, 860, 887, 948, 949, 987, 995.
Smith, Meriwether, 923.
Smith, Richard, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 161; resigns, 436n. Committees: Prisoners, 109, 116; journals, 117; New Jersey, 130; treasury, 157. Mentioned, 31n, 152, 164n.
Smith, Robert, 301, 930.
Smith, Samuel, 759, 943.
Smith, Simeon, 518.
Smith, Thomas, 28, 114, 194, 593, 941, 1010.

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Smith, Thorowgood, 225.
Smith, William, 90, 122, 160, 293, 673, 748, 1036, 1046, 1117.
Smith, --, 364.
Smith, --, lieutenant, 969.
Smith, --, lieutenant (prisoner), 755.
Smyth, John F. D., 31, 65, 72, 212, 239, 242, 246, 261, 319, 350, 408.
Sneeden, Dennis, 118.
Snickers, Edward, 867, 977.
Snow, Jonas, 824.
Societies for improving arts, 224, 1072.
Soldiers, arrest for debt, 17; provision for disabled, 702; sick, 742; effects of dead, 804; discharged for disability, 836; clothing 855, 896.
Somerset jail, prisoners, 881.
Sorel, prizes, 928.
Sorrel, Isaac, 483.
South Carolina, credentials of delegates, 305; delegates continued, 54; defense, 15, 400, 956; seamen, 59, 64, 67; battalions, 235, 368, 393, 425, 461, 470, 760; powder, 444, 595; delegates' letter, 463n.; rangers, 606; Lee, 608, 741; Cherokee outbreak, 616; supplies, 952, 989.
South Sea, claims to, 1076, 1082.
Spain, assurances to, 816; commissioner to, 1054; interests in America, 1057.
Spalding, Simon, 701.
Spanborough, Adonijah, 656, 671.
Spangler, Baltzar, 877.
Sparhawk, John, 743, 844, 892.
Sparling, John, 77.
Spears, 215, 224.
Specie, exchange for notes, 173, 192, 228; for Canada, 73, 113, 191, 155, 156, 229, 365, 366, 375, 376, 397, 617, in treasury, 211; Virginia, 262, 310; New England, 318; on privateers, 432; for secret service, 985.
Spencer, Elihu, 898.
Spencer, Joseph, major-general, 641.
Spies, 401, 442, 616, 693.
Spotswood, Alexander, lieutenant-colonel, 132, 334, 649.
Spring, --, captain, 992.
Sproat, David, 610, 1025.
Spur, Joseph, 643.
Staddleman, Michael, 422, 629.
Staddleman, William, 271.
Stadler, John, 241.
Stahl, George, 877.
Stainforth, --, 62.
Stalker, Andrew, 910.
Stanhope, Henry Edwin, 422, 429.
Stanton, Joshua, 518.
Stark, John, 809.
Starke, --, 922.
Startin, Charles, 811, 844.
State of colonies, 48, 59.
State governments, 342, 351, 357, 1120; rights to lands, 978.
Staves, exports, 1059.
Stayner, Roger, 69.
Steddiford, Garret, 228.
Steel, Archibald, lieutenant, 860, 887, 899.
Steel, 177, 224.
Steinmenz, John, 96, 108.
Stephen, Adam, brigadier-general, 132, 733, 734, 917, 929, 957.
Stephenson, Hugh, colonel, 119, 169, 205, 226, 334, 378, 486, 529, 540, 741, 745, 867, 907, 932, 934, 970, 987.
Stevenson, James, 593, 1020.
Stevenson, John, 281.
Stewart, Charles, 223.
Stewart, John, 478.
Stewart, Walter, colonel, 403, 438, 966, 1000.
Stewart, --, captain, 487.
Steyer, George, 888.
Stiles, Reuben, 387.
Stille, Isaac, 273.
Stille, Rachel, 45, 52, 205, 351.
Stillman, Samuel, 237, 1119.
Stirling, James, captain, 729.
Stirling, William, Earl of, brigadier-general, 181; to seize arms, 18; to arrest Skinner, 42; troops for Heard, 47; commended, 100; exchange, 735. Letters: 14, 17, 54, 77, 95, 99, 104, 106, 115, 188, 196, 206, 207, 214, 215, 225, 227, 234, 303, 324, 608, 715, 967.
Stockbridge Indians, 473, 627.
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Stockton, Richard, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 489, 1002. Committees: Prisoner's plot, 543; flying camp, 562; Hessians, 640; Canada, 741; Thistle, 747; New York, 808; northern army, 812; blankets, 822; Ticonderoga, 828; reinforcements, 975. Mentioned, 738n, 920, 957.
Stone, Thomas, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 574, 962. Committees: 433; flying camp, 562; hospitals, 571; Miss Temple, 699; Canada, 741; Thistle, 747; Washington, letter, 830; Elizabeth, 835; oath, 861; clothing, 865. Debates, 1079, 1083. Mentioned, 175n, 299n, 470n.
Stoneburner, Leonard, 469.
Stopford, --, 642.
Stores, public, 39, 393, 628, 1014, 1026.
Stout, Harman, 438.
Streper, John, 892.
Stretch, Peter, 194.
Stretch, --, 911.
Stricker, George, 571, 785, 829, 888.
Stringer, Samuel, 344, 358, 378, 424, 661, 673.
Strobach, Martin, 355.
Stroud, Jacob, colonel, 642.
Struylys, George, 664.
Stuart, David, 1046.
Stuart, Francis, 643.
Stultz, George, 941.
Sturgent, Zacharias, 877.
Sturges, Thaddeus, 628.
Styner and Cist, 996.
Sullivan, James, 459, 477, 936.
Sullivan, John, major-general, 641; resignation, 612, 613; and Lord Howe, 723, 728, 730, 737, 738, 743, 765; mentioned, 431, 465, 503, 524, 563, 735, 990, 1028.
Summer, Jethro, colonel, 332.
Sulphur, 171, 502, 879.
Sunbury, fort, 521.
Suppression, internal enemies, 915, 934.
Surgeons captured, 88; mates, 242, 836; regimental, 330, 419; pay, 570.
Sussex, Del., 528; New Jersey, 276, 282.
Sutlers, for Canada, 113, 158; officers, 449; regulation, 794, 935, 937; proposed, 1039.
Swan, Matthew, 319.
Swan, Rowland, 470.
Swan, --, captain, 941.
Swartz, Christopher Godfried, 590, 826.
Swearing, penalty for, 789.
Swift, Elisha, 656, 671.
Swift, Heman, 701.
Swift, John White, 828
Swift, Joseph, jr., 415.
Symes, J., lieutenant, 379, 632, 892.
Talbot, --, captain, 334.
Taliaferro, William, major, 864.
Tallman, Benjamin, major, 742.
Tallow, 973.
Tannehill, Adamson, 540.
Tannehill, Nieman, 540.
Taylor, George, a delegate from Pennsylvania, Credentials, 596.
Taylor, Henry, 948.
Taylor, John, 330, 864.
Taylor, John Noble, 996.
Taylor, William, lieutenant-colonel, 333.
Tazewell, Henry, 712.
Tazewell, John, 168, 301, 712, 923.
Tea, sale of, 123n, 277; Maryland, 104n; Pennsylvania, 133; East India, 258, 259; South Carolina, 278n; price, 320.
Telfer, Alexander, 930.
Temple, Harriot, 699, 713.
Temple, Robert, 222n, 713.
Ten Eyck, Barent J., captain 671.
Tender for fleet, 60.
Teney, John, 828.
Tent cloth, 102, 238, 453, 735, 1059; tents, 474, 531, 718, 896.
Tew, James, major, 742.
Thacher, John, 722.
Thackston, James, lieutenant-colonel, 332.
Thistle, schooner, 631, 647, 702, 741, 747, 807, 827, 908.
Thomas, John, major-general, 186, 285, 420.
Thomas, John, 387.
Thomas, Mary, 466.
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Thompson, Benjamin, 604, 629.
Thompson, E., 178, 920.
Thompson, Thomas, 422, 489, 861.
Thompson, William, brigadier-general, 129, 181, 420, 481n, 633, 942, 977, 1004, 1012.
Thompson, William, colonel, 593, 760.
Thompson, William, lieutenant, 759.
Thompson, William, 877.
Thompson, --, 155.
Thompson, Charles, prepare account of Quebec, 79, 82; naval committee, 90n; pay, 429, 442; mentioned, 126, 181n, 270n, 382, 418, 419, 426n, 429, 442, 474n, 507n, 632, 729n, 972n, 987, 1037n, 1051n, 1054n.
Thompson, --, captain, 992.
Thornton, Matthew, a delegate from New Hampshire, Credentials, 920. Letters, 1027n, 1039n.
Three Friends, brigantine, 910.
Thwing Nathaniel, 601.
Ticonderoga, 77, 260, 451, 602; return of cannon, 84; fortifications, 91; engineer, 155; lead, 246; road, 376; troops, 522, 1032, 1038; post to Philadelphia, 732; committee, 822, 828; goods, 876; carpenters, 937; cannon, 988; letters, 1040.
Tilghman, Matthew, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 574, 962. Committees: Indian trade, 182; conference, 391; finance, 423, Mentioned, 175n, 749, 947.
Tilghman, Tench, 108, 118, 194.
Tilley, Edward, 49.
Tillinghast, Daniel, 301.
Tillman, John, 910.
Tilton, William, 228.
Timothy, Peter, 54, 305.
Tod, Alexander, 695, 844.
Todd, Ann, 222.
Tokely, William, captain, 561.
Tolbert, Robert, 819.
Tomkins, John, 639.
Tomkins, Samuel, 422.
Toms run, N. J., 925.
Tonancour, 935.
Torrence, Robert, 761.
Tory, 464, 1117.
Towers, Robert, 714, 756, 937, 992, 1026.
Towne, Benjamin, 197, 421.
Townsend, John, 28, 114.
Tracey, Jared, 189.
Trade, restrictions, 62, 148, 153, 154, 159; permits, 96, 108, 120, 124, 130, 172, 176, 193; committee, 113, 172, 183; Indian, 97, 182, 200, 219, 318, resolves, 256, 273; bonds, 258; debate, 1071.
Traverses, Joseph, 926.
Traxler, Jeremiah, 168.
Treason against colonies, 475.
Treasurers, continental, 634, 635.
Treasury committee, 156, 243, 460, 836, 810, 878, 1068; oaths, 940; board, 1038, 561, 603; regulation, 886; claims and accounts, 620; clerks, 170; specie, 211; weekly accounts, 917; supply, 874, 917, 1007, 1008; removal, 1031.
Treat, Samuel, 292.
Treaties, Indian, 267, 325, 330, 348, 517, 595, 621, 668; plan of, 431, 435, 575, 594, 696, 709, 768, 1124; instructions, 710, 718, 813, 828; with Great Britain, 815; commerce, 884, 1057.
Trenton, 77, 82, 87, 89, 95, 99, 104, 384; prisoners, 52, 213, 220, 422.
Tricker, Anthony, 287.
Trickett, William, 242, 544, 610.
Troxsell, George, 785.
Trumbull, John, 753.
Trumbull, Jonathan, governor, 13, 54, 65, 98, 123, 152, 192, 281, 283, 289, 293, 327, 409, 424, 444, 445, 447, 473, 485, 506, 541, 590, 595, 609, 613, 637, 658, 718, 718, 719, 721, 807, 834, 928, 988, 1012n, 1021, 1052.
Trumbull, Jonathan, jr., 56, 407, 627, 659, 724, 880, 889, 916, 928, 974n, 985, 1042.
Trumbull, Joseph, 303, 365, 384, 385, 459, 750, 752, 808, 825, 830, 869, 875, 879, 946, 958, 974, 1040, 1042.
Trumbull frigate, 423, 696, 861.
Tryal, sloop, 108.
Tryon, David, 764.
Tryon, William, 273, 316n.
Tryon, county, N. Y., 107, 109.
Tucker, Benjamin, 417.
Tucker, Samuel, 81, 123n, 212, 238, 490, 503.
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Tudor, George, 438.
Tudor, William, colonel, 645, 670n, 788n.
Turbutt, Thomas, captain, 655.
Turks Island, 935.
Turner, Isaac, 423.
Turner, Moses, 883.
Turner, --, lieutenant, 758.
Tuscany, 1054.
Tuthill, Barnabas, 326.
Tybout, Andrew, 194.
Tyler, John, 644, 667, 941.
Ulster, Conrad, 222.
Ulster county, N. Y., 42.
Ummensetter, Jacob, 424.
"United States," adopted in commissions, 747.
Upper Penns Neck, 338.
Upright, Peter, 892.
Upright, Philip, 828.
Vacancies in Army, 361, 451, 486, 625n, 644.
Value of coins, 293, 381, 608, 724.
Van Banschoten, Elias, 481.
Van Brunt, Hendrick, 324.
Van Camp, --, 81.
Vandenburg, Henry, 481.
Vanderheyden, --, captain, 671.
Vandine, Elizabeth, 426.
Vandine, Henry, 426.
Van Heer, Bartholomew, 839, 852, 892, 918.
Vanholt, Valentine, 892.
Vanhorn, Abraham, 294.
Van Renssalaer, Philip, 110.
Van Renssalaer, --, captain, 158.
Van Schaick, Goose, colonel, 43, 809, 824.
Van Swearingen, --, captain, 759.
Van Wageman, Garret, 481.
Van Wyck, Gilbert, 28, 114.
Van Zant, Jacobus, 301, 482.
Varick, Richard, 808, 824.
Vaughan, Thomas, 649.
Veisgar, John, 671.
Veltner, --, major, 829.
Vermonet, Jean Artur, 480n, 614, 632, 781, 783.
Vernejous, Jean Luis de 784, 809.
Vessels, purchase, 201, 529; on continental service, 290, 631; British at Boston, 320, 343; construction, 422, 700; prize, 453; arms, 645; piratical seizures, 692; burning, 1025.
Vidal, Jean Baptiste de, 572.
Vienna, commissioner to, 1054.
Vienne, John, 747.
Virginia, credentials of delegates, 712, 922; instructions to delegates, 397; defence, 16; field officers, 132; battalions, pay, 131, 133, 234, 235, 310, 391, 734; arms, 290, 1049; powder, 150, 296, 444; surgeons, 330; clothing, 706, 716, 751; eighth, 648; ninth, 466; march, 711, 733, 835, 874, 901, 917; petition, 728; commissions for sixth, 929; brass cannon, 147, 943; specie, 262, 310; prisoners, 273; medicines, 348; galleys, 363; hospital, 364; lead, 392, 890; rifle battalion, 452; paymaster, 596; public accounts, 761, 930; rations, 891, 1033; eastern shore, 974; light horse, 980; artillery regiment, 981, 983, 993; money to delegates, 999; flour, 1041; troops for Washington, 1044; council, 614, 630, 648, 920; committee of safety 444.
Virginia, 423, 861.
Visscher, John, major, 190, 471, 671.
Vogt, Christian, 672.
Voir, Juet à, 646.
Volunteers, 979, 1124.
Vosborough, Jacob, 518, 761.
Votes of colonies under confederation, 550, 681, 1079, 1099.
Vulcan, sloop, 986.
Wadden, Bernard &, 620, 852.
Wade, F., 710.
Wadman, Arthur, 597.
Wagons, 840, 862, 901, 994, 995, 1001, 1012, 1051.
Walbridge, Ebenezer, 518.
Walbroon, --, 76.
Walker, Charles, 424, 516, 545.
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Walker, Thomas, 233, 238, 261, 922n.
Wallace, Benjamin, captain, 639, 930.
Wallpack, N. Y., 276, 282.
Walton, George, a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 367, 1028; attends, 1025. Committees: Vidal, 572; marine, 628; Mease and Caldwell, 673; journals, 710; Canada, 741; Lee, 742; Roberts, 882; executive, 1032. Debates, 1078.
Wampum, 265.
War office, 85, 215, 293; rules of, 302, 636, 652, 670; board of, 434, 438, 575, 751, 923, 1068; power under confederation, 548, 679; clerk, 632; operations of campaign, 729; correspondence free, 745; care for arms, 831; directions to, 835.
Ward, Artemas, major-general, 300, 459, 503, 506, 694, 931, 1012.
Ward, Henry, 354.
Ward, Nahum, 824.
Ward, Samuel, a delegate from Rhode Island. Death, 236; sermon on, 1119. Committees: Stirling's letter, 55; Schuyler's letter, 65; war office, 85; Prescott, 89; allowance to troops, 93; Washington's letter, 94; Keppele and Steinmetz, 96; New York, 104; naval stores, 115; Hazen, 192; ways and means, 200. Mentioned, 53, 56, 62, 148, 154, 166, 200.
Ward, Andrew, colonel, 614.
Ware, John, 147.
Warner, Elisha, 861.
Warner, Seth, colonel, 177, 385, 518, 523, 749, 751, 754, 761, 875.
Warren, Gideon, 334.
Warren, James, 117, 122, 129, 232n, 291, 296, 315.
Warren, James, jr., 525.
Warren, 423, 861, 873.
Washington, George, to provide for Lovell, 33; authorized to draw, 60; directions to, 70; general officer for Canada, 73; commended, 99; troops without arms, 223; medal, 234, 248, 991; troops for Canada, 236, 302; camp equipage, 339; visit to Philadelphia, 359, 385, 389, 391; vacancies in army, 361, 625n; clerk to secretary, 380; powers, 527, 602; not to damage New York, 733; peace commissioners, 737; reinforcements, 975; dictatorial powers, 1027, 1045; treatment of Lee, 1029. Letters, 23, 32, 53, 54, 77, 90, 94, 99, 102, 105, 123, 154, 166, 171, 178, 180, 185, 186, 187, 200, 206, 214, 225, 234, 247, 250, 260, 266, 276, 282, 291, 295, 297, 298, 301, 307, 311, 316, 318, 320, 322, 323, 325, 327, 328, 330, 334, 341, 343, 350, 352, 354, 358, 360, 362, 369, 374, 375, 391, 393, 411, 427, 428, 440, 441, 442, 444, 446, 459, 465, 468, 473, 477, 480, 484, 486, 503, 504, 506, 516, 522, 523, 525, 541, 558, 560, 563, 565, 567, 574, 575, 595, 601, 608, 609, 613, 614, 615, 621, 625, 630, 633, 638, 647, 653, 659, 660, 662, 667, 672, 691, 694, 695, 696, 698, 700, 710, 718, 723, 731, 733, 738, 747, 755, 760, 779, 787, 808, 810, 819, 830, 834, 836, 838, 847, 853, 854, 866, 869, 875, 889, 939, 944, 951, 957, 963, 975, 979, 993, 997, 998, 999, 1001, 1004, 1006, 1008, 1009, 1012, 1016, 1023, 1024, 1028, 1040, 1058. Mentioned, 88, 91, 117, 238, 283, 345, 359, 383, 399, 470, 472, 480, 483, 528, 571, 607, 636, 665, 749, 829, 890, 907, 933, 973, 980, 997.
Washington, Samuel, 1040.
Washington, brig, 423, 649, 697, 861, 867.
Wasp, 41, 293.
Waterbury, David, colonel, 27, 47, 93n, 317, 444.
Waters, Daniel, 835, 870.
Waters, William, captain, 995.
Watkins, Joseph, 194.
Watkins, --, captain, 754.
Watson, Jacob, 114, 120, 124.
Watson, --, captain, 445.
Wages of shipwrights, 508.
Way, Nicholas, 953, 1024.
Wayne, Anthony, colonel, 24, 50n, 108, 118, 129, 134, 163, 167, 187, 188, 300, 839, 842, 1040.
Ways and means committee, 200, 508, 562, 599.
Weaver, Adam, 729.
Weaver, Jacob, 300.
Weaver, Valentine, 759.
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Webb, William, 194, 288, 638.
Webbers, Peter, 115.
Webster, Pelatiah, 35, 288, 706, 712, 912.
Weedon, George, colonel, 132, 649.
Weeks, George, 28, 114.
Weibert, Antoine Felix, 477, 480, 656.
Widman, John, 590, 826.
Weiser, Benjamin, 526, 825.
Weissenfels, Frederick, lieutenant-colonel, 190.
Weitzel, John, 723.
Welles, James, 701.
Wells, John, 612.
Welsh, George, 1046.
Welsh, Richard, 743.
Welte, Anthony, 482.
Weltner, Ludocorck, 571.
Wenthessica, 786.
Wentworth, Joshua, 751, 870.
West, Jabez, 280.
West, William, captain, 421, 749.
West Augusta, Va., 298, 317, 396.
West Indies, France in, 366, 814, 817, 1055.
Westcoat, Joel, 274.
Westmoreland, Pa., 197, 200, 211, 213, 396, 562, 590, 698, 750, 759, 914, 1024.
Weyman, William, 28, 114.
Wharf builders, 894, 901, 905.
Wharton, Carpenter, 87, 172, 210, 271, 430, 433, 468, 477, 523, 567, 880, 885, 999, 1014.
Wharton, John, 946, 952.
Wheeler, Israel, 194.
Wheeling river, 542.
Wheelock, Eleazer, 45, 100, 787.
Wheelock, John, 787n.
Wheelwright, John, 601.
Whely, --, captain, 892.
Wherry, David, 759.
Wherry, Evans, 481.
Whipple, Abraham, captain, 407, 439, 507, 542, 861.
Whipple, William, a delegate from New Hampshire. Credentials, 177; absence, 648n. Committees: Claims, 182; defenses of New York, 196; marine, 214; qualifications, 214; fortifying ports, 233, cannon, 272; coins, 294; Washington letter, 337; Miller, 384; conference, 391; Canada, 474; Irwin, 903; navy officers, 914; New York convention, 927; salt, 950; secret, 968; northern army, 1037; executive boards, 1042. Reports, 204n. Mentioned, 178n, 429n, 1027n.
Whitbeck, Thomas, 629.
Whitcomb, John, brigadier-general, 420.
Whitcomb, Elisha, lieutenant, 876.
White, Anthony Walton, lieutenant-colonel, 123.
White, Aquilla, 759.
White, David, 719.
White, John, major, 332.
White, P., 178, 920.
White, Robert, 228.
White, William, 603, 1034.
White Eyes, captain, 208, 243, 267, 268, 269, 273.
Whitehead, Benjamin, 27, 114.
Whitehead, James, 30.
Whitely, William, 987.
Whiting, Israel, 824.
Whiting, William, 484, 642, 755, 826.
Whitman, Michael, 379.
Wickes, Lambert, 757, 861.
Wiggins, Thomas, 892.
Wilcocks, John, 390, 820.
Wild, William, 741.
Wilkins, --, 969.
Wilkinson, William, 1046.
Will, --, captain, 656.
Willet, John, 28, 114.
Willet, Augustus, captain, 697.
Williams, David, 324.
Williams, John, 194.
Williams, Otho Holland, 486.
Williams, Richard, 919.
Williams, William, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 57. Committees: Journals, 710; blankets, 822; military academy, 838.
Williams, --, captain, 469.
Williams, --, lieutenant-colonel, 716.
Williamson, David, 468.

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Willing, Thomas, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Committees: Treasury, 157; enlisted servants, 171.
Willing and Morris, 60, 943.
Wilmington, Del., 520.
Wilmore, --, 635.
Wilson, Alexander, 1016.
Wilson, George, 596.
Wilson, James, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 596; address to colonies, 146n. Committees: State of colonies, 48; recruiting instructions, 49; Washington letter, 54; letter to Canadians, 79; address to colonies, 87; Indian affairs, 95, 319; Maxwell, 105; support of prisoners, 113; prisoners, 116; rations, 118; military departments, 133; subsistence New York troops, 133; muskets, 169; enlisted servants, 171; trade permits, 173; Indian trade, 182; White Eyes, 208; letters of marque, 214; journals, 224; Washington letter, 250; Tryon's oath, 273; Lee's letters, 368; conference, 384, 391; Hand, 393; aid to enemy, 417; board of war, 438; Canada, 474; cartel, 530; prisoners' plot, 543; Parsons, 609; Hessians, 640; instructions, 710, 817; Thistle, 747; Treasury, 874; negroes, 874; Keppele, 885; wharf builder, 894; Maryland battalions, 898; stolen dispatches, 907; internal enemies, 915; Betsey, 932; enlistments, 937; M. Livingston, 959; reinforcements, 975; Hessians, 985; Vulcan, 986; captures, 986; letters, 1029; army, 1041; executive boards, 1042; Washington's powers, 1047. Report, 442. Debates, 1071, 1075, 1077, 1078, 1079, 1080, 1087, 1100, 1105. Mentioned, 164n, 250n, 474n, 509, 517, 576n, 595, 705, 707, 930, 1027.
Wilson, J., colonel, 645, 651, 655, 1005.
Wilson, Jacob, 346.
Wilson, --, 697.
Wilson, Robert, 228.
Wilson, Samuel, 948.
Wilson, William, 825, 905.
Wilson, James Armstrong, captain, 280.
Wilson, --, lieutenant-colonel, 1013.
Wimple, W. V., 852.
Winds, William, colonel, 188, 390.
Winslow, John, 605.
Winthrop, William, 525.
Wisner, Henry, a delegate from New York. Committees: Cannon, 55; Nelson, 101; prisoners, 109; powder, 425; sulphur, 502. Mentioned, 118, 282, 304, 469, 482n, 517, 563, 566, 610, 879.
Wistar, William, 544n, 933.
Witherspoon, John, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 489, 1002; speech, 1107. Committees: Wagons, 840; clothing, 865; secret, 867; camp, 973; fast day, 1014; prisoners, New Jersey, 1014; chaplains, 1034; foreign aid, 1039. Debates, 1078, 1079, 1082, 1101, 1103. Mentioned, 737n, 934, 986.
Withington, Peter, 30n.
Wives, soldiers', pay for, 84.
Woedtke, Fred. William, brigadier-general, 209, 226, 294.
Woelper, John David, captain, 571, 661, 783, 825, 949.
Wolcott, Oliver, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 57. Committees: Qualifications, 61; Romans, 63; claims, 66; support of prisoners, 113; prisoners, 116; Canada army, 192; Ward's funeral, 237; Indian affairs, 319; Lee's letter, 368; Hand's letter, 393; expenses, 419; sutlers, 935. Mentioned, 271.
Wood, Abiel, 706.
Wood, Joseph, colonel, 30n, 50n, 615, 746, 840, 1040.
Wood, Sacheveral, 242, 465.
Wood creek, 44, 450.
Woodford, William, colonel, 132.
Woodgate, John, captain, 900.
Woodhouse, William, 941.
Woodward, Joseph, 334, 337, 405.
Woolbridge, --, 761.
Wool, Isaac, 481.
Wool, 224, 1072.
Woolens and blankets, 821.

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Woolverton, --, captain, 212, 223.
Wooster, David, brigadier-general, 37, 64, 74, 110, 147, 148, 151, 157, 182, 184, 191, 233, 251, 264, 326, 398, 420, 421, 441, 470, 480, 545, 567, 590, 605, 611, 664, 665, 667, 732, 812, 828, 958, 1028.
Wounded, provision for, 469.
Wright, Elihu, 824.
Wright, James, Sir, 574, 592.
Wrixon, Elias, 219, 242, 275, 316.
Wyandots, 269.
Wyllys, George, 58.
Wyncoop, Cornelius, colonel, 81, 95, 190.
Wyncoop, Jacobus, 111, 271, 322, 739.
Wyoming, petition, 656.
Wythe, George, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 712. Committees: New York letter, 53; Washington letter, 54, 94, 123, 337, 830; Schuyler letters, 65, 108, 147, 164, 223, 240, 282; Indian affairs, 95; Keeppele and Stinemetz, 96; apprentices, 96; Stirling's letter, 115; Canada instructions, 159; Nancy, 169; enlisted servants, 171; trade permits, 173; New Hampshire, 179; James Deane, 184; Ways and Means, 200; Hazen, 192; letters of marque, 214; Tryon's oath, 273; British captives, 284; coins, 294; eastern department, 311; Indian affairs, 319; Simon's petition, 324; Livingston contract, 338; address to people, 402; Francis, 415; letters, 421; clothing, 810; blankets, 822; letters of credence, 827; Elizabeth, 835; military academy, 838; oath, 861; treasury, 878; instructions, 884; Keppele, 885; prizes, 885; monopolizers, 906; Bache, 908; internal enemies, 915; Betsey, 931; sutlers, 935; enlistments, 937; M. Livingston, 959; northern army, 985, 989n, 991, 1049; Vulcan, 986; Sullivan, 990. Reports, 198, 260, 297, 383, 405, 430, 708n, 815, 922, 943n, 984, 991. Debates, 1071. Mentioned, 57n, 126, 164n, 210n.
Yard, artillery, 987.
Yates, John, 640.
Yates, Peter, lieutenant-colonel, 43.
Yates, Robert, 260.
Yates, William, 315.
Yeates, Jasper, 66n, 517, 922n, 1005, 1021.
Yeiser, Frederick, 590, 825.
Yorktown, Pa., 523, 1033; county, 603.
York, 188, 214, 266.
Young, Hamilton, 689, 831.
Young, James, 227.
Young, John, 227, 861.
Young, John, jr., 290.
Young, Thomas, 120.
Young, --, captain, 328.
Younkmans, Charles, 404.
Zabriskie, Peter, 191, 903.
Zanch, Jacob, 824.
Zane, Joel, 941.
Zantzinger, Adam, 764, 888.
Zedwitz, Herman, lieutenant-colonel, 190, 263, 271.
Zedwitz, Juliana, 958, 972.
Zeigler, David, 904.
Zigel, Godlup, 877.

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