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Abigail, brigantine, 567.
Abuses in civil departments, 99.
Accomac county, Va., 212
Accounts, auditors of, 17, 22, 38, 132, 293, 466, 1281; agent to, 135; pay of commissioners, 124; recruiting, 132; Board of War, 154; prisoners, state, 197; northern district, 293, 613, 625, 1078; "great public servants," 511; American prisoners, 934.
Accounts, chamber of, 915, 921, 956, 967, 1243.
Accounts, commissioners of, to settle, 1014, 1077.
Active, sloop, 1168.
Adams, Andrew,a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 171, 1219; attends, 676; money, 907.Committees: commerce, 690; confederal fund, 915; marine, 947.Votes: 693, 703, 711, 715, 718, 736, 741, 742, 748, 763, 764, 766, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 799, 800, 808, 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 860, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 885, 886, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 940, 943, 944.Mentioned: 944.
Adams, John,a delegate from Massachusetts Bay. Credentials, 10; powers, 26.Letters, 64, 1084, 1165, 1192, 1198, 1214.Mentioned: 461, 629n, 675, 984.
Adams, Samuel,a delegate from Massachusetts Bay. Credentials, 10; powers, 26; attends, 517; money, 689.Committees: prisoner officers, 536; marine, 537; post office, 550; Howe and Clinton's letters, 573; Washington's letter, 579; Gates's letter, 579; correspondence with enemy, 608; British peace commission, 610; Sullivan's letter, 630; Hazard, 682; public audience, 688; Gérard's audience, 733; clothier general, 768; letter Board of War, 839; cannon, 858; Rhode Island, 880; Arnold's letter, 886; Estaing's letter, 892; Estaing's operations, 897; Franklin's instructions, 908; motions of enemy, 945; Lafayette's letter, 1004; Trumbull's letter, 1011; purchased paroles, 1065; Du Plessis, 1078; quartermaster general's department, 1083; Johnson-Lee, 1090; Beatty's letter, 1103; dispute with Great Britain, 1129; Gérard's letter, 1198; Washington's letter, 1227.Votes: 528, 529, 591, 609, 614, 617, 618, 619, 620, 632n, 635, 637, 703, 711, 718, 736, 741, 742, 748, 764, 766, 794, 795, 796, 799, 800, 808, 817, 818, 853, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 885, 886, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 914, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 977, 985, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1019, 1036, 1037, 1076, 1093, 1135, 1150, 1151, 1169, 1185, 1195, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1248, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.Mentioned: 156n, 620, 753n, 799, 813n, 875, 1010n, 1085, 1086, 1139n.
Adams, Thomas,a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 811; attends, 358; leave of absence, 849.Committees: commerce, 360; clothing department, 366; Indian affairs, 403; marine, 404; Lowndes's letter, 497; convention troops, 776; Sweers-Flowers, 792; Tayler, 1227.Votes, 360, 363, 370, 373, 374, 382, 392, 394, 395, 896, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 482, 483, 489, 496, 500, 503, 592, 610, 614, 618, 619, 620, 632n, 635, 637, 693, 694, 703, 712,715, 736,742,743,748, 763,764, 767, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 797, 800, 808, 817, 818, 828.Mentioned: 456n.
Adcock, William, 765.
Address to people, 471, 474, 1209, 1284.

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Adjutant General, election, 21; rank, 543, 1269; deputy, northern department, 496, 560; southern, 1137; regimental, 542.
Advances of money, 52.
Adventurer, 1122.
Agent to auditors of accounts, 135; commercial agents in Europe, 139.
Aids de camp, authorized, 15; Lafayette's, 84; Gates, 398; major general, 542, 1269; pay, 542, 1270; brigadiers, 821.
Aitken, Robert, 416.
Albany, N. Y., 276, 588.
Albright, Philip, 474.
Alden, Ichabod, colonel, 1149.
Alexander, Charles, 963.
Alfred, 1102.
Algiers, Africa, 426.
All, Isaac, 790.
Allen, Ethan, 95, 213, 295, 332, 496, 505, 626, 676n, 947.
Allen, Samuel, 192, 195.
Allen, Hewes, Smith and, 690, 702, 955, 972.
Alliance, frigate, 555, 625.
Allison, William, 789.
Ambassadors, reception of, 698; form of address, 700.
Amboy, meeting of commissioners, 1240.
Amsterdam, classis of, 1192.
Andover, steel works, 56.
Anderson, James, 855.
André, George, 1122.
Andrews,--278, 464, 517, 524, 531, 696, 717, 811, 842, 844, 984.
Anmours, d', 1066.
Anible, Cornelius, 549.
Anna Maria, 1022.
Ansell, Caleb, 1088.
Anstruther, -- lieutenant colonel, 196, 213, 295.
Antis, Henry, captain, 1218.
Appeals, committee on, members, 177, 724, 947, 1064.
Appleton, Nathaniel, 14, 52, 109, 121, 245, 264, 308, 493, 558, 745, 1030, 1170.
Apportionment of taxes among States, 638, 649.
Arell, Copper & Arell, 231.
Arendt, Baron d', 808, 826n, 857, 908, 914.
Arkansas, 184.
Armand de la Rouerie, Chevalier, 12, 56, 112, 642, 644, 862, 1201, 1222, 1239.
Armistead, William, 243, 338, 405, 899.
Armitage, Benjamin, 937, 1144.
Armorers, continental, 145; investigation of, 366, 380.
Arms, under convention of Saratoga, 30; allowance for militia drafts, 202.
Armstrong, Andrew, 580.
Armstrong, James Francis, 698.
Armstrong, John, brigadier general,a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 1160.Letters, 301, 737, 970n, 998.
Army, continental, extraordinary pay, 8; clothing, 10; wants, 18; committee to, 18, 22, 24, 37, 39, 41, 67, 87, 88, 103, 121, 131, 172, 185, 186, 194, 196, 203, 207n, 219, 220, 227; printing press, 20; reduction of regiments, 40; provisions for, 22, 53, 159, 189, 219, 642; battalions, 199, 270, 1160, 1176, 1186; deficiencies, 202; committee of arrangement, 507, 514, 517, 536; printed, 538, 1286; considered, 550; sent to Washington, 570; under confederation, 640, 649; second committee, 676; members, 769; letters, 887, 896, 921; report, 995, 1004, 1154; action, 1158; auditor, 839, 864; reenlisting, 1034; expenses, 1235.
Arnold, Benedict, major general, secret expedition, 885, 905; money, 1071.Letters, 74, 139, 656, 678, 714, 744, 748, 750, 765, 797, 816, 851, 865, 885, 1131.Mentioned: 571n, 769, 779, 1032, 1038.
Arnold, Samuel, 969.
Arrangement, committee of.See Army, continental.
Artificers, artillery, 147, 149; guard at Carlisle, 560.
Artillery corps, northern department, 150; Harrison's regiment, 253; arrangement, 540,768; Pennsylvania regiment, 768, 865.

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Ashe, John, 16, 234, 259, 282, 360, 494, 580, 630, 690, 709, 900.
Ashe, Samuel, captain, 661, 868, 1193.
Asheton, Nicholas, 792.
Atlas, 983.
Atlee, Samuel,a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 1161; attends, 1250.Committees: Pennsylvania brigadier, 1260.Votes: 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.
Atlee, William, 567,570.
Atlee, William Augustus, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1164, 1199, 1200, 1251.
Aubaine, droit d', 429.
Auditor of Treasury, 782, 957, 1014, 1077, 1095.
Auditors of accounts, 17, 22, 38, 132, 293, 571, 864, 957; pay, 124, 466, 467; agent to, 135; Board of War, 154; money, 287; northern district, 293; clerks, 315; Treasury, 350.
Authentication of papers, 1183.
Avery, David, 810.
Avery, Elisha, 593, 601.
Avery, John, 10, 26, 629n.
Aylett, William, 49, 121, 144, 156, 158, 233, 257, 341, 348, 487, 530, 606, 630.
Babcock, Adam, 567.
Babcock, Phinehas, 834.
Bache, Richard, 360, 770.
Backhouse, Stephen, captain, 792.
Backhouse, William, 792.
Baddely, John, 855.
Bailey, John, colonel, 85, 810, 1171.
Bailey, William, 1005.
Baily, Thomas, 1143.
Baker, Henry, 832.
Bakers, 206, 749.
Balcarras, Lord, 1033, 1065.
Baldwin, John, 802.
Baldwin, William, 802.
Baldesqui, Joseph, captain, 1199.
Balmain, Alexander, 523.
Baltimore, deputy paymaster, 187.
Bancker, Abraham B., 502n.
Bancroft, Edward, Dr., 686.
Banister, John,a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 811; attends, 258; leave of absence, 948.Committees: New England convention, 260; treasury, 264; Lafayette's letter, 269; Wadsworth, 302; Shippen, 303, 568; militia duties, 315; Rhode Island failure, 322; Carson, 363; Delaware disaffection, 384; military commissions, 531; Beaumarchais, 576; Matlack; 687; arrangement of army, 769.Votes: 267, 283, 302, 327, 360, 363, 370, 373, 374, 382, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 528, 529, 592, 610, 614, 618, 619, 620, 632n, 635, 637, 693, 694, 703, 712, 715, 718, 736, 742, 743, 748, 763, 764, 767, 794, 795, 796, 797, 800, 943, 944, 945.Mentioned: 581, 591n, 982, 1079.
Banks, State, 930, 1074.
Barbarities of enemy, 613, 621.
Barbary, coast of, in French treaty, 426.
Barge, Jacob, 792, 1100n.
Barracks, continental. Massachusetts, 185; money, 247; inquiry, 504; Charlotteville, 1018, 1021, 1177, 1221.
Barrell, Maria, 801.
Barrell, Theodorus, 846.
Barrell, Timothy, 804, 844.
Barron, John, lieutenant, 1165.
Barry, John, captain, 44, 99, 189, 246, 258, 1119, 1184.
Barry, Lavellin, 65, 839, 1115.
Bartlett, Josiah,a delegate from New Hampshire. Credentials, 519, 1087; attends, 519; money, 893; leave of absence, 1087.Committees: Marine, 537, 1106; McNutt, 965; Trumbull's letter, 1011; surgeons, 1038; medical, 1064.Votes: 528, 529, 591, 609, 614, 617, 618, 619, 620, 632n, 635, 637, 693, 703, 711, 715, 718, 736, 741, 742, 748, 763, 764, 766, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 799, 800, 808, 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 885, 886, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 920, 940, 943, 944, 977, 985, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1036, 1037, 1076.

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Bass, Robert, 775.
Battalions, arrangement of, 514, 538; lists, 1160, 1176, 1186.
Bates, John, 1144.
Batwell, Daniel, 18.
Baugh, Alexander, 951.
Baxter, Barnard, 516.
Bayard, John, 564, 668.
Baylor, George, colonel, 36, 239, 243, 397, 405, 899, 987, 991, 1062, 1148, 1228.
Baynton, John, 28, 36, 280, 282, 467, 493, 679, 680, 810, 986, 1182, 1217.
Beatty, John, major, commissary of prisoners, 546, 725, 734, 750, 909, 927, 928, 949, 980, 995, 1033, 1102, 1103, 1109, 1113, 1125, 1134, 1164, 1200, 1258.
Beaumarchais, Caron de, 108, 281, 316, 320, 356, 576, 584, 801, 826.
Bedaulx, Charles Frederick, 110, 142, 1062, 1136, 1161, 1210, 1227.
Bedel, Timothy, colonel, 74, 1166.
Bedford, Emory, 775.
Bedford, Gunning, Jun., 778.
Bedford, Penn., 506, 507, 633, 679, 1218, 1220.
Bedlow, William, 45, 52, 284, 839, 1086.
Bedwell, Thomas, 265.
Bee, Thomas, 670.
Beef, North Carolina, 156; price in Connecticut, 235; Virginia, 348.
Beekman, Gerardus, 43, 904, 1130.
Bell, William, 264, 292.
Belt, Middleton, 1087.
Benezet, John, 234, 237, 268, 293.
Bennington, 722.
Benson, Egbert, 93, 271.
Benson, Robert, 1144.
Bergé, Charles, 735.
Berkenhout, John, 883.
Berks county, Penn., militia, 686.
Berlin, commissioner's instructions, 505, 546; commissions, 547.
Bermudas, 450, 1165.
Bernardo, sloop, 709.
Berry, Thomas (?) captain, 843.
Berwick, James, lieutenant, 280, 289, 294, 304.
Bethlehem, Penn., flour, 54, 166, 269.
Bibby, Thomas, lieutenant, 218.
Bicking, Frederick, 1004.
Biddle, Clement, 353.
Biddle, Edward,a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 1160.
Biddle, John, 717, 724, 1173.
Biddle, Owen, 968.
Bigelow, John, major, 810, 844, 847.
Bills of credit, issues, 28, 82, 174, 223, 309, 337, 365, 524, 627, 731, 884, 962, 1100, 1218; signers, 765, 775, 778, 790; pay of signers, 192; circulation of certain issues, 322, 1224, 1231, 1256, 1264; cancellation, 323, 480, 1258; to be destroyed, 929, 1073; at loan offices, 1147, 1235, 1237; redemption pledged, 1261.
Bills of exchange on France, 96, 109, 121, 323, 356, 513, 628; form, 683; paper for, 415, 561, 710, 719, 735, 765n, 766, 937; engraving of plates, 1073.
Bingham, William, 356, 837, 841, 879, 965, 1123, 1213.
Bird, Mark, colonel, 244, 471n, 473, 1148.
Bissell, Hezekiah, colonel, 1077.
Black, Moses, 464, 533.
Black, Henry, captain, 1103, 1218.
Blackden, Samuel, lieutenant colonel, 1179.
Blackledge, Richard, 863.
Blackwell, Robert, 519, 908.
Blaine, Ephraim, 22, 37, 48, 50, 232, 298, 532, 570, 586, 686, 734, 831, 889, 898, 900, 906, 909, 948, 963, 969, 974, 1241.
Blake, Edward, 497, 516.
Blakely, John, 789.
Blanchard, Andrew, 923.
Blanchard, Elias, 969.
Bland, Theodorick, colonel, 315, 494, 744, 946, 1194.
Blankets, 23, 679, 919, 1062.
Blount, Reading, captain, 551, 562.
Blount, William, 1026.
Boards, executive, to be ready to move, 626.
Boats, armed, on Ohio river, 325; on Susquehannah, 329.
Boichard, 118, 119.
Bois, Pierre François de, major, 299, 404, 491, 508.

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Bond, George, 1153.
Bond, Thomas, jun., 504.
Bondfield, John, 1198.
Bonds, public officers, 253; commissaries, 357.
Booty, 215.
Borden, Joseph, 89, 183, 184,243,329, 384, 680.
Bose, --, baron, 497, 533.
Bosley, John, 704.
Boston, fortifying, 1265.
Boston, 619.
Bouchet, Dennis John de, 8.
Boudinot, Elias,a delegate from New Jersey. Attends, 672.Committees: Marsh's certificate, 674; prisoner officers, 679; Estaing's arrival, 683; appeals, 724; Washington's letter, 737.Votes: 693, 736, 742, 748,763,773,774, 808,817,818.Mentioned: 74, 259, 263,314, 334, 367, 370, 490, 731, 736, 1162, 1199.
Bouilley, Marquis de, 499, 1121.
Bounties to seamen, 29; to militia drafts, 202; Pulaski's corps, 312; clothing, 573; Armand's corps, 644; additional, 889; gallies, 1119.
Bowdoin, James, 1186.
Bowley, William, 506.
Boyd, Adam, 810, 1214.
Boyer, Peter, 293, 536.
Bradford, John, 614, 842, 909, 933, 946.
Bradford, Thomas, 1148.
Bradish, Charles, 921.
Bradley, John, 282.
Brahm, Ferdinand Joseph Sebastian de, major, 63, 150.
Braxton, Carter, 740n, 1216.
Braxton, 739, 926.
Bray, Wallace, 1088.
Brenise, Martin, 241, 565, 659.
Brevets, rank of, 410, 1158.
Brewer, Jonathan, captain lieuteuant, 949, 982, 1072.
Brice, Francis, 16, 259.
Brice, John, lieutenant colonel, 1069.
Brice, John, major, 1283.
Brigade Inspector, 821.
Brigade Major, 542, 821, 1269.
Brigades, continental, 1160, 1176, 1186.
Brigadiers general, cavalry,366,1158, 1260.
Bright, George, 719n, 765n, 766, 1029.
Briscoe, Reuben, captain, 706.
Britigny, Marquis de, 808, 837, 940, 1107, 1134, 1140, 1183, 1214, 1240.
Brodhead, Daniel, colonel, 706.
Bronville, James de, 1056.
Brooks, David, 886.
Brown, Frederick, 811.
Brown, John, ensign, 690, 704, 1053, 1174, 1184.
Brown, John, 16, 621.
Brown, John, 360, 658.
Brown, Patrick, captain, 614.
Brown, Richard, lieutenant, 672.
Brown, William, doctor, 93, 131, 186.
Brown, William, captain, 191.
Brown, Hodgson and, 830.
Brownson, Nathan,a delegate from Georgia, 231.
Bryan, George, 680, 735, 1080.
Bryson, James, 360.
Buchanan, William, 15, 22, 37, 48, 50, 62, 68, 83, 84, 85, 89, 91, 94, 121, 144, 209, 217,226,233,240, 243,244, 246, 247, 271, 279, 305, 310, 326,328, 355, 365, 464, 493, 494, 524, 586, 607, 696, 835, 1030.
Bucklin, Daniel, 1022.
Budden, James, 791.
Budden, William, captain, 791.
Buford, William, 661, 869.
Buisson, [Buysson?], lieutenant colonel, 142.
Bull, John, colonel, 965.
Bullock, Joseph, 410, 765.
Bunch, John, 803.
Burgoyne, John, major general, conduct of, 13, 32, 44, 184; to communicate with Howe, 213; to embark, 218; parole, 390, 1146; colors, 945.Letters: 16, 29, 42, 82, 179, 196, 210, 212, 216, 218.Mentioned: 207, 209, 282, 776, 855,876, 880, 1176.
Burke, Thomas,a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials, 856; attends,

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1215; money, 305; retires from session, 334, 336, 339, 385, 386, 390 leave of absence, 363; question on representation, 399.Committees: bonds, 253; letter to Lafayette, 278; militia duties, 315; Massachusetts letter, 322; Washington's letter, 1227; habeas corpus resisted, 1255; Pennsylvania brigadier, 1260.Votes: 250, 251, 256, 267, 268, 283, 301, 302, 306, 319, 320, 327, 331, 333, 336, 343, 352, 357, 358, 360, 363, 370, 373, 374, 382, 392, 394, 395, 396, 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1234, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1249, 1257, 1258, 1262, 1263, 1266.Mentioned: 1224, 1233, 1236, 1257, 1266.
Burke, William, captain, 412, 621, 963.
Burt, --, 1213.
Butler, Anthony, 123, 220, 222, 971.
Butler, Thomas, 181,380.
Butler, William, colonel, 341, 675.
Butler, William, lieutenant colonel, 1070.
Butler, --, 587.
Byers, James, 150.
Byers, John, colonel, 152.
Cabell, W., 1216.
Cabolt, A., 717.
Cadwallader, John, 897, 941.
Caesar, 1140.
Caither, Robert, 765.
Calderwood, James, captain, 1225.
Caldwell, Andrew, 16, 546.
Caldwell, James, 16, 21, 546, 750, 921.
Caldwell, Samuel, 103.
Calhone, William, 1221.
Call, Richard, captain, 1171.
Cambray, --, de, 567, 604, 1032.
Cambridge, Mass., 184.
Camp, committee to.See Army, continental.
Cameron, Allan, 1125.
Camp, Caleb, 1163.
Campaign, plan of, 364, 369,397; vigorous, in cooperation, 1060; committee on, 1250.
Campbell, Archibald, lieutenant colonel, 43, 58, 213, 295, 332.
Campbell, Donald, 124.
Campbell, George, 349.
Campbell, John, 195.
Campbell, John, 823.
Campbell, Simon and, 195.
Canada, irruption into, 84, 172, 190, 193, 197,216, 253, 1190, 1230; officers to command, 87, 107; money, 96; convention troops, 218; magazines of provisions, 919; plan for reducing, 1042; Estaing's address, 1190.
Cannon, Ticonderoga, 95, 221; casting brass, 118, 123; Byers's contract, 150; Hughes contract, 306, 967; Bird's allowance, 473; from Cadiz, 835, 858, 962, 968.
Cape Lookout, 604.
Capitaine, Pierre, 356, 1069, 1097, 1105.
Captain lieutenant, 539.
Captains, navy, foreign, 485.
Captures at sea, proclamation, 486.
Carberry, Henry, lieutenant, 1109.
Carleton, Guy, Sir, 31.
Carlisle, Earl of, 585, 605, 701, 855, 876, 880.
Carlisle, Penn., stores, 108, 404, 560, 688; gaol, 525; laboratory, 1209.
Carmichael, William,a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 1141; attends, 1142; charges against Deane, 927, 941, 955, 964, 968, 970, 983, 984, 1010.Committees: breach of Saratoga convention, 1175; Armand's letter, 1239.Votes: 1151, 1152, 1169, 1185, 1195, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1234, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1252, 1253, 1254,1255,1257, 1261,1262.Mentioned, 617, 1168n.
Carrington, Edward, lieutenant colonel, 527, 531, 1092.
Carroll, Charles,a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 59; attends, 354Committees: to camp, 67; Carson, 363; Smallwood's letter, 368; Delaware disaffection, 384; Board of War letter, 471; Hay's letter, 490; exchange of prisoners, 492; Laneuville, 492; Penn-Chew 497; United Brethren, 498; Mifflin's letter, 503; Board of War letter, 506;

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Massachusetts-Gardoqui letter, 507; Wadsworth's letter, 563; extracts from Journals, 566.Votes: 362, 370, 373, 374, 382, 392, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 482, 483, 489, 496, 500, 503, 515, 528, 529, 592, 610, 614, 618, 819, 620, 635, 637.Mentioned: 156n, 498n, 581, 613.
Carroll, Thomas, 971.
Carson, Joseph, 363, 591.
Carter, John, 259, 380, 674, 1190.
Carter, Robert, 113, 114.
Cartridge-boxes, 270.
Cary, Archibald, 121, 669, 811.
Caswell, Richard, 42, 151, 178, 190, 231, 259, 282, 367, 506, 524, 530, 550, 551, 558, 562, 567, 630, 695, 855, 856, 883, 900,923,950, 1021.
Catherwood.See Calderwood.
Cattle, 55, 236, 253n, 348,857, 1063.
Cavalry, light, 213; allowance to brigadier, 366; arrangement, 540; from Virginia, 766; allowance for equipment, 852,1067; support of, 903; to command, 1158.
Cayugas, 587.
Cedars, affair of the, 970.
Celebration, July 4, 1029.
Census, periodical, of population, 651.
Century, arrangement of, 514.
Ceremonies, master of, 733.
Ceronio, Stephen, 567, 810.
Certificates, quartermaster general's, 1099.
Chaloner, White and, 713.
Chamber of accounts, 915,921, 956.
Chambers, John, 1080.
Chambers, Stephen, captain, 1108, 1218.
Champion, Henry, 91, 191, 233, 235, 243, 244, 253n, 258, 607.
Chandler, James, 916.
Chandler, John, colonel, 143.
Chaplain, 1270; hospitals, 142; pay of brigade, 864; to Highlands, 1091.
Chapman, Nathaniel, 472.
Characters, suspicious, 141, 277.
Charleston, S. C., 1107.
Charlotte, 830.
Charlottesville, Va., convention troops, 1016.
Chase, Samuel,a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 59; attends, 280, motion, 392, 395.Committees: flour, 284; letter Board of War, 285; cartel on exchange of prisoners, 294; Cottineau's letter, 298; Washington-Boudinot papers, 314; Massachusetts letter, 322; arrest of White, 328; Buchanan, 338; Washington's letter, 341; foreign officers and soldiers, 353; Smallwood's letter, 368; Burke's conduct, 386; Washington's letter, 418; address to people, 471; Matlack, 687; Wharton, 687; Holker, 713; Washington's letter, 737; convention troops, 776; Pulaski's corps, 776; Towson, 789; Britigny, 808; Phillips's letter, 824; Bingham, 837; Harper, 838; Sweers, 857; Arnold's letter, 886; Gérard, 905; Franklin's instructions, 908; chamber of accounts, 921.Votes: 283, 301, 302, 306, 319, 320, 327, 331, 333, 336, 343, 352, 357, 358,359, 362, 370, 373, 374, 382, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 482, 483, 693, 703, 712, 715, 718, 736, 742, 748, 763, 764, 767, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 797, 800, 808, 817, 828, 853, 859, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 885, 886, 890, 895, 896, 920, 940, 943, 944, 945, 985, 988, 989.Mentioned: 328n, 393n, 466n, 736, 742, 773, 796, 800, 828, 874, 885, 890, 920, 943.
Chase, ship, 493, 841, 905, 941.
Chasseurs, free and independent, 643.
Chemung, 1006, 1084.
Cherokee Indians, 240.
Cherry Valley, 1175.
Chevalier, Peter, 143.
Chevallie, --, 576, 584.
Chew, Benjamin, 238, 260, 497, 503.
Chilborn, Abraham, 1141.
Child, Francis, 494.
Chimère, frigate, 727, 812.
Chinn, Edward, 613, 625, 1078n.
Chippewas, 587.

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Chittenden, Thomas, 1161.
Christian, William, 241.
Chuin, de, 684.
Church's Island, 1088.
Cist, Charles, 157, 484, 565, 798n, 804.
Citizens, prisoners, 81; exemption from capture, 295.
Claims, chamber of, 782; commissioner of, 839, 1243; clerks, 1060.
Clams, dried, 326.
Clark, Abraham,a delegate from New Jersey. Committees: Blaine's letter, 22; commissariate, 51; treasury, 60, 293; navy pay, 68; Zane, &c., 85; Johnstown treaty, 106; Washington's letter, 155; Board of War's letter, 156; Hooper, 174; northern department, 197; Board of War's letter, 207; Board of War report, 208; provisions for army, 219; Morris's memorial, 227; Parsons's letter, 233; Livingston's letter, 238; Pennsylvania representation, 239; provisions, 245; Penn and Chew, 260; Forster, &c., 264; Ebenezer Sullivan, 289; Wadsworth, 293; Board of War report, 305.Votes: 14, 17, 34, 54, 104, 115, 119, 169, 170, 177, 205, 250, 251, 256, 267, 283, 300, 301, 302, 306, 319.Mentioned: 73, 140n, 153n, 160n, 237n, 242n, 252n, 274n, 1162, 1255.
Clark, John, major, 38, 89, 137,143, 265, 287,290, 310, 887,908, 980, 1028.
Clark, Joseph, 109,311,415, 532,659, 745.
Clark, Thomas, colonel, 142, 810, 1260.
Clark, J., 1145.
Clarkson, Livinus, 311.
Clarkson, Matthew, 38, 121, 137, 290, 410, 491, 758, 1026.
Clarkson, Gerardus, Doctor, 769.
Clay, Joseph,a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 685.Mentioned: 265, 938, 1009, 1136.
Claypoole, James, 484, 565.
Clifton, Thomas, 723, 738.
Clingan, William,a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 1160; attends, 1161.Committees: Blaine's letter, 22; Wharton's letter, 180.Votes: 14, 17, 35, 54, 104, 115, 119, 169, 170, 177, 205, 250, 251, 256, 267, 283, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 460, 482, 483, 489, 495, 500, 503, 515, 610, 614, 618, 619, 620, 635, 637, 911, 912, 913, 920, 940, 943, 944, 945, 977, 985, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1037, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1098, 1135, 1151, 1169, 1185.Mentioned: 668.
Clinton, George, 18, 26, 63, 111, 174, 180, 192, 221, 258, 275, 278, 367, 369, 501, 516, 613, 667, 668, 927, 936, 1084, 1197, 1260.
Clinton, Henry, Sir, 572, 574, 585, 617, 673, 701, 855, 861, 876, 880, 902, 910, 964, 1016, 1033, 1140, 1145, 1198, 1240.
Clinton, James, brigadier general, 809.
Clinton, Fort, 1260.
Clothier general, to account, 925; department, 925.
Clothing, report on, 10, 996; department at Lancaster, 57; for prisoners, 77, 101; for troops on North River, 221; committee on department, 366; state agents, 11, 517, 1006; to stop purchases, 531, 545; to be forwarded to army, 548; manner of distributing, 549; purchased in Philadelphia, 564, 702; Pennsylvania troops 612, 642, 887; New Jersey brigade, 674; purchases of, 675; South Carolina, 682; account of money, 746, 749; committee on, 768, 812; imported, 811; account of issues, 812; for convention troops, 824; Connecticut troops, 844; transportation, 891; inquiry, 937, 973, 995, 1176; returns, 983; Rhode Island, 1006; officers, 1176.
Cluggage, Thomas, 1103, 1218.
Clymer, George, 275, 314, 839.
Cochran, John, 549.
Cochran, William, 585.
Codman and Smith, 717.
Cohen, Minnis and, 850.
College Hall, session in, 679.
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1094; leave of absence, 730.Committees: Gridley, 1094; Taylor, 1227.Votes: 635, 637, 715, 718, 1098, 1150, 1151, 1169, 1185, 1195, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.Mentioned: 413.
Collins, Stephen, 775.
Colonels, appointment of, 543, 1271.
Colours, regiment, 514; captured, 633.
Colt, Peter, 15, 94, 246, 253n, 365, 696, 835, 988, 1030, 1112.
Colvin, Patrick, 789.
Commerce, committee of, money, 26, 121, 199, 311, 349, 467, 493, 504, 522, 689, 702, 798, 823, 1130; members, 60, 185, 337, 360, 366, 690, 1064, 1123; Beaumarchais' contract, 356; to import from France, 414; Secretary, 611; purchases of tobacco, 687, 1067; debts and contracts, 878; instruction to, 1068, 1123; clerk, 1123; new committee, 1216.
Commerce, brigantine, 973, 1057.
Commissary department, need of organizing, 50, 92; organization, 344, 356.
Commissary for horses and wagons, 126.
Commissary general of military stores, 141, 144; account of money, 745, 749.
Commissary general of prisoners, 367,490, 519; Beatty elected, 546.
Commissary general of purchases, committee, 39; deputy, 50; deficiencies, 141; report, 192, 193, 207, 235, 241,247; adopted, 248; allowances, 248; new committee, 271; Wadsworth chosen, 327; powers, 344, 356; accounts, 745, 749; salaries of deputies, 1031; committee to superintend, 1115; interference, 1122.
Commissary of Prisoners, 48; British, 50n, 76.
Commission, British peace, 374, 585, 605, 608, 609, 611, 614, 678, 694, 701; reply of Congress, 615; extract from journals, 615, 617; declaration, 770, 776, 855, 1013, 1015; requisition, 855, 876, 880.
Commissioner of Pensions, 20.
Commissioners to foreign courts, 372; instructions, 414, 546, 559, 563; manner of living, 473; dissentions, 942; harmony 1053.
Commissioner to westward, 9, 38.
Commissions, military, sale of, 19, 286; copies, 531; secretary of congress to attest, 547; exchange of 1156; form, 1211.
Company, arrangement of, 514.
Comptroller of Treasury, duties of, 780, 828, 956, 958, 1077, 1096.
Conestoga creek, 342.
Confederacy, frigate, 951.
Confederation, articles of, objections and amendments called for, 485, 628; North Carolina, 507, 656, 669, 709; considered, 556, 625, 631; Maryland, 631, 636; New Hampshire, 637, 662; Massachusetts, 638, 663; Rhode Island, 638, 663; Connecticut, 639, 665; New York, 640, 665; New Jersey, 640, 647, 1161, 1164; Pennsylvania, 652, 668; Virginia, 652, 669; South Carolina, 652, 670; Georgia, 656, 670, 712, 716; form of ratification, 656, 657; engrossed, 662; signing, 677; modified, 677; circular letter, 678, 681; urgency, 933; valuation under, 1023.
Congress, sessions, 90, 282, 405, 558, 777, 840, 870, 925, 1032, 1161; protection from suspicious characters, 141, 277; rules of procedure, 165, 268, 343, 523, 534, 711, 1018, 1076; attendance of members, 245; proposed removal from York, 325; stables, 335; State police, 352; members must vote, 359; on voting on a question, 370, 393n; reply to act of Parliament, 374; thanks King of France, 458; interpreter, 562; letter to States, 583; representation of States, 639; adjourns to Philadelphia, 641, 671; test oath of members, 648; meet in College Hall, 679; style of, 700, 708; refuses to reply to peace commission, 701; vote of Georgia questioned, 714, 715; representation of North Carolina, 715; allowance to president, 733; criminal

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laws in States, 738; bribery, 772; order of business, 776, 787; secrecy on foreign affairs, 793; supplies to members, 806.
Connecticut, stores in, 91; money, 94, 95, 304, 647, 660, 907; credentials of delegates, 171, 1219; price of beef, 235, 244, 253n; objections to confederation, 639; militia, 645; continental tax, 659; clothing for troops, 844.
Connolly, John, 512, 525, 848, 909, 928, 949, 995, 1102, 1109, 1125, 1130, 1136, 1183, 1188, 1207.
Constitution, Fort, 1260.
Consuls, in French treaty, 443, 948, 1066, 1098.
Contraband, 430, 439.
Contracts of United States, 878.
Convalescents, clothing for, 23.
Convention, New England, 55,172, 260.
Convention, troops of.See Saratoga.
Convicts, enlistment, 203n.
Conway, Thomas, brigadier general, 27, 63, 87, 93, 257, 280, 380, 399, 499, 536, 560, 567, 573, 586, 623, 628, 728, 1020, 1122.
Conyngham, Gustavus, captain, 1256.
Cook, William, colonel, 228.
Cooke, John, 549.
Cooke, Nicholas, 663.Letters, 91, 367, 414, 415.
Cooper, William, 735.
Cope, Charles, 951.
Cope, Lewis, 951.
Copper, Arell &, 231.
Copperthwait, Joseph, colonel, 765.
Cord, --, 97.
Corren, Isaac, captain, 119.
Correspondence with enemy, prevention of, 608, 616.
Cottineau de Kloguene, Denis Nicolas, 298, 333, 524, 604.
Cottnam, George, 896.
Coughran, Robert, 630.
Couloux, --, 1059.
Courter, Harmon, captain, 515, 557, 562, 564.
Courts martial, neglect of duty, 72; on general officers, 125; Board of War, 362; navy officers, 469, 620, 814.
Cowper, John, 1057.
Cox, John, assistant quartermaster general, 210, 325, 326, 335, 745, 899, 1171, 1172.
Craig, Isaac, captain, 1209.
Craig, Peter, 1099.
Craik, Thomas, 690, 709.
Crawford, William, colonel, 195.
Creek, rupture of Indians, 1116.
Crenis, Chevalier de, 138, 1109, 1115, 1143.
Cross, William, 682.
Crurati, Francis, 275.
Cumberland, N. J., 355.
Cummings, William, 1089.
Currency, Deane's scheme of, 1132.
Curson, Samuel, 770, 1215, 1229.
Cushing, Thomas, 7, 16, 172, 322.
Cuthbert, George, 670, 671, 685.
Cutter, Ammi Ruhamah, 235.
Dallam, Richard, 49.
Dally, Gifford, 504, 814.
Dalrymple, William, captain, 282.
Dana, Francis,a delegate from Massachusetts Bay. Credentials, 10; powers, 26; leave of absence, 763; on Folger, 41; amendment, 50n; motion on bali pay, 393n, 395n; money, 689.Committees: Medical department, 9; to camp, 41; letter Board of War, 285; cartel for exchange of prisoners, 294; Pulaski's corps, 308; Washington-Boudinot letters, 314; Massachusetts letter, 322; New Jersey representation, 322; Wadsworth, 324; Buchanan, 328; Washington's letter, 341; foreign officers and soldiers, 353; instructions to Gates, 355; cartel, 367; Burke's conduct, 386; Washington's letter, 389; evacuation of Ticonderoga, 403; ratification of French

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treaty, 458; Hay's letter, 490; Mifflin's letter, 503; Livingston's report, 504; Massachusetts, 517; military commissions, 531; marine, 537; lottery, 556; clothing in Philadelphia, 565; Wadsworth's letter, 572; Beaumarchais, 576; foreign despatches, 622; Aylett's letter, 606; Brown's letter, 622; ratification of confederation, 656, 678; Board of War letter, 661; Matlack, 687; Massachusetts, 709; Marven-Shaw, 713; Flower, 724; reply to Gérard's speech, 730; Gérard's reception, 733; criminal laws, 738.Votes: 14, 17, 34, 53, 283, 300, 301, 302, 306,319, 327,331, 333, 335,343, 352,357, 358, 359, 362, 370, 373, 382,392, 394, 395, 396,399,400, 401,409, 460, 482,483,489, 495, 499, 503, 515,528, 529,591, 609, 614, 617, 618, 619, 620, 632n, 635, 637, 693, 703,711,715, 718, 736,741, 742, 748, 763, 764, 766, 773, 774.Mentioned: 24n, 66, 156n, 203n, 286n, 289, 328n, 355n, 366n, 409n, 468, 486n, 498n, 542n, 549n, 551n, 554n, 570, 614, 661n, 694, 702, 703, 719, 769, 775, 992n, 1271n.
Dark, William, major, 951.
Dart, John Sandford, 553, 819, 925.
Davidson, James, 1170.
Davies, William, colonel, 1025.
Davis, John, colonel, 310, 381.
Davis, Samuel, 1182.
Dawkins, Thomas, 743n, 809.
Dayton, Jonathan, 325, 1170.
Deane, James, 456, 674, 1023, 1136.
Deane, Joseph, colonel 1148.
Deane, Silas, attends Congress, 787, 799, 801, 822, 813, 826, 920, 942, 955, 968, 1246, 1247, 1249, 1258, 1265; to report in writing, 1200.Letters: 683, 726, 891,908, 909, 920, 927, 941, 949, 987, 1010, 1132, 1148, 1181, 1192, 1239, 1264.Mentioned: 109, 122, 188, 316, 321, 417, 422, 444,453, 455, 457, 462, 484, 545, 624, 689, 980, 1203, 1210.
Deane, Simeon, 417, 481, 495.
DeBerdt, Dennis, 701.
Debois.See Bois.
Debtors of the United States, 783, 959.
Debts, commercial, due United States, 112, 114; collection of, 136, 140; chamber of, 783; of United States, 878.
Defence, 905.
Delamater, John, 775.
Delancey, Oliver, 1032.
Delaware, credentials of delegates, 100; money, 128, 260; disaffected, 285, 328, 342, 351, 383, 519; and the confederation, 656; Indians, 537, 568, 587, 588, 986.
Delaware river, captures, 66, 88; defenses, 380, 825; destruction of frigates, 496; British fleet in, 812.
Demeré, Raymond, 473,770, 819,, 850, 855.
Denning, William, 113, 114, 293, 501.
Dennison, Colonel, 636.
Departments, civil, abuses in, 99.
Depui, Nicholas, 1080.
Derford.See Du Portail.
Des Epiniers, Auguste, 108, 1187.
Deserters, money due, 135; Georgia, 163; enlistment, 203, 248, 291, 643, 1159; premium for apprehending, 208, 225; exemption from militia duties, 522, 1286; German volunteers, 866; Pulaski's legion, 939.
Detroit, 588, 720, 1043.
Dewees, Joseph, 504.
Diam, J., 723.
Dias dos Santos, Antonio, 487.
Dick, James, 1103.
Dickinson, John, 839n, 878.
Dickinson, Thomas, 743n.
Dircks, Jacob Gerhard, 481, 507, 509, 1106, 1246.
Disaffected, in public office, 68, 98, 114; in Delaware, 285.
Doane, Elisha, 992.
Dodd, William, 65, 899, 986, 1115, 1143.
Dodge, John, 1183.
Doerner, John James, Jun., 525.
Dolliver, Peter, captain, 175, 234.
Donaho, Thomas, 710.
Donald, Nathaniel, 765.
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Dorré, Fidel, 365, 580.
Dorsey, Richard, captain, 191.
Downe, Samuel, 279, 1153, 1207.
Downingstown, Penn., flour, 54, 166.
Downman, Raleigh, captain, 1008, 1142, 1143, 1171, 1175, 1220, 1244.
Doyle, John, captain, 1225.
Doyle, Thomas, 233, 247.
Drafts, militia, 200; enlistment, 768, 853.
Dragoons, light, Lee's corps, 545.
Drayton, Stephen, 1138.
Drayton, William Henry,a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 294; attends, 294.Committees: Wadsworth, 302; Shippen, 303, 568; Pulaski's corps, 308; Rhode Island failure, 322; White's arrest, 328; Henry's letter, 335; commerce, 337; Aylett's letter, 341; violation of flag, 344; clothing department, 366; cartel, 367; Burke's conduct, 386; Washington's letter, 389; Indian affairs, 403; evacuation of Ticonderoga, 403; Washington's letter, 418; ratification of French treaty, 458; recruiting, 532; New Jersey militia, 533; Vance, 537; marine, 537; post office, 550; instructions to foreign commissioners, 559; Howe and Clinton's letters, 573; Gates's letter, 579; correspondence with enemy, 608; British peace commission, 610; extracts from journals, 615; Georgia letters, 622; foreign despatches, 622; reception of Gérard, 685; Wharton, 687; Brown, 704; Marven-Shaw, 713; Philadelphia merchants, 713; Gates's letter, 723; Flower, 724; appeals, 724; criminal laws, 738; OEllers-Horn, 744; convention troops, 776; Britigny, 808; Howe's letter, 816; Bingham, 837; Caswell's letter, 856; Sweers, 857; Estaing's operations, 897; Arnold's expedition, 905; Franklin's instructions, 908; Morgan, 925; motions of enemy, 945; Delaware treaty, 986; Houston-Howe, 987; Lafayette's letter, 1005; James Deane, 1023; Franks, 1026; brigCommerce, 1059; Bedaulx, 1063; papers on dispute, 1063; Du Plessis, 1078; Johnson-Lee, 1090; Howe's letter, 1091; Beatty's letter, 1103; Britigny, 1140; Francy, 1168; Lafayette's letter, 1189; Estaing's Canada address, 1190; Géard's letter, 1198; president's allowance, 1213; suspicious characters, 1216.Votes: 301,302, 306, 319, 320, 327, 331, 333, 336, 344, 352, 357, 358, 360, 363, 370, 373, 374, 383, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 528, 529, 592, 610, 615, 618, 619, 620, 632n, 635, 637, 703, 712, 715, 718, 736, 742, 743, 748, 763, 764, 767, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 797, 800, 801, 808, 817, 818, 828, 854, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 876, 881, 882, 885, 886, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 920, 940, 943, 944, 945, 977, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1019, 1020, 1037, 1038, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1098, 1135, 1151, 1152, 1169, 1185, 1195, 1224, 1232, 1233, 1234, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1249, 1254, 1255, 1262, 1263, 1266.Mentioned: 328n, 348n, 356, 393n, 581, 603n, 609, 616n, 660n, 764,766,794,796, 834n, 842n, 859, 871, 950n, 972n, 1010n, 1062n, 1168n, 1184n, 1185, 1195, 1261, 1262.
Droit d'Aubaine, 429.
Duane, James,a delegate from New York. Credentials, 1144; attends, 1144.Committees: breach of Saratoga convention, 1175; Oswald, 1211; president's allowance, 1213; suspicious characters, 1216; army expenses, 1235; Armand's letter, 1239; campaign, 1250; habeas corpus resisted, 1255.Votes: 1169, 1185, 1195, 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1234, 1248, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.Mentioned: 8, 74, 233, 291, 418, 1168n, 1199n, 1223n, 1252.
Duchesse de Grammont, 986, 1011.
Duck Creek, packet, 971.
Duckett, J., 1141.
Du Coudray, Phillippe Charles Jean Baptiste Tronson, 109, 119, 122, 705, 804, 1209.
Dudley, John, 520, 662, 1087.

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Duer William,a delegate from New York.Committees: Mease, 103; Lafayette's letter, 287; Eben. Sullivan, 289; cartel for exchange, 294; Cottineau's letter, 298; Pulaski's corps, 308; Washington-Boudinot letters, 314; Rhode Island failure, 322; commerce, 337; Washington's letter, 341; violation of flag, 344; instructions to Gates, 355; Smallwood's letter, 368; Delaware disaffection, 384; exchange of prisoners, 492; Laneuville, 492; recruiting, 532; prisoner officers, 536; instructions to foreign commissioners, 559; Livingston's funeral, 593; Georgia letters, 622; independence anniversary, 641; Marsh's certificate, 674; Hazard, 682; Estaing's arrival, 683; reception of Gérard, 685; Holker, 713; Philadelphia merchants, 713, 734; Gates's letter, 723; Britigny, 808; Phillips's letter, 824; defence of Delaware river, 825; De Kalb, 827; Harper, 838; Arnold's letter, 886; letters on supplies, 889; Tetard, 891; Estaing's operations, 897; confederal fund, 915; Warren monument, 917; Beatty's letter, 927; Heath's letter, 936; motions of enemy, 945; Howe-Lowndes, 965; convention troops, 970; Board of War letter, 974; repelling enemy, 981; clothing, 996; Knight, 1005; peace commission, 1013; Franks, 1026; reenforcements, 1034; brigCommerce, 1059; instructions to Franklin, 1061; Wyoming settlers, 1070; Howe's letters, 1091; Oswald, 1112.Votes: 14, 17, 34, 53, 104, 300, 301, 302, 306, 319, 327, 331, 333, 335, 343, 352, 357, 358, 359, 362, 370, 373, 382, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 495, 499, 503, 515, 528, 529, 614, 619, 620, 635, 693, 711, 715, 718, 736, 741, 742, 748, 764, 766, 794, 795, 796, 799, 800, 808, 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 860, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 977, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1017, 1019, 1036, 1037, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1098, 1135.Reports: 80n, 215n, 297n, 308n, 331n, 333n, 348, 371n, 385n, 407n, 521n, 644n.War board: 47n, 57n, 63n, 108n, 642, 829, 838n, 854n, 867, 868, 869, 954n, 1012, 1056, 1131, 1238.Mentioned: 9, 24n, 98, 156n, 189, 339, 356, 387, 388, 498n, 581, 591n, 613, 622, 634, 718, 741, 751, 794, 807,817, 847n, 852n, 872, 877n, 881,889, 895, 903n, 906n, 911, 912, 915, 919n, 922n, 988, 989, 994, 999, 1017, 1018, 1019, 1033n, 1077, 1086, 1093, 1121, 1129n, 1134, 1271n.
Duffield, George, 561, 593.
Dugan, Cumberland, 567, 1123.
Dulany, Sharp, colonel, 965.
Dulhauer, Henry, 811.
Dunham, Azariah, 861.
Dunlap, John, 158, 416.
Dunscomb, Thomas, 803.
Du Plessis, Mauduit, Chevalier, 64, 113, 1078, 1096, 1104, 1142.
Du Portail, Louis Le Bègue, Chevalier Derford, 7, 231, 605, 862, 900, 1149, 1183, 1246, 1265.
Durkee, Robert, captain, 60, 634.
Duties on imports, 929.
Duvall, Gabriel, 59.
Dyer, Eliphalet,a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 171, 1219; attends, 1219; excused from treasury, 293; leave of absence, 305; money, 304.Committees: Georgia, 53; camp committee, 87; brass cannon, 118; Washington's letter, 155; provisions for army, 219; courts martial, 226; Forster, &c., 264; Wadsworth, 293; Taylor, 1227.Votes: 14, 17, 34, 53, 104, 115, 119, 169, 170, 177, 205, 250, 251, 256, 267, 283, 300, 301, 302, 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1234, 1235, 1236, 1248, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1257, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.Mentioned: 24n, 49, 95, 236n.
Dyer, Thomas, lieutenant colonel, 98, 127, 150n, 337.

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East Florida, reduction of, 163, 671, 1901, 1116.
Easton, Penn., 201, 269, 900.
Economy in departments, 746.
Eden, William, 585, 605, 701, 855, 876, 880.
Edison, Thomas, 648n, 658n, 789, 823n, 903n, 916n, 953n, 1113, 1153, 1241n
Edwards, Timothy, 264, 279.
Little Egg Harbour, 981, 984.
Elbert, Samuel, colonel, 163, 727, 939, 1136.
Elizabeth, 173.
Ellery, William,a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 575; leave of absence, 677; attends, 1122; motion on half pay, 393n.Committees: Blaine's letter, 22; Zane, &c., 85; camp committee, 87; Johnstown treaty, 106; brass cannon, 118; flour, 126; Washington's letter, 155; convention prisoners, 173; Washington's letter, 179; Canada, 191; Board of War report, 208; courts-martial, 226; Morris's memorial, 227; Livingston's letter, 238; bonds, 253; Lafayette's letter, 269; flour, 284; United Brethren, 498; Livingston's report, 504; Massachusetts, 517; Brown's letter, 622; Sullivan's letter, 630; commerce, 1123; Britigny, 1140; Francy, 1168; Board of War letter, 1201; Bingham's letter, 1213; Armand's letter, 1239.Votes: 14, 17, 34, 53, 104, 115, 119, 169, 170, 177, 205, 250, 251, 256, 267, 283, 300, 301, 302, 306, 319, 327, 331, 333, 335, 343, 352, 357, 358, 359, 362, 370, 373, 382, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 482, 483, 489, 495, 499, 503, 515, 528, 529, 591, 609, 614, 617, 618, 619, 620, 632n, 635, 637, 1135, 1150, 1151, 1169, 1224, 1232, 1233, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.Reports: 48, 53n, 62, 96n, 134n, 292n, 298n, 308n, 326n, 646n, 761n.Mentioned: 156n, 330n, 354, 356, 416n, 498n, 664, 1150, 1236, 1248, 1263.
Elliott, Benjamin, 632.
Ellis, James, 558.
Ellis, Joseph H., 765.
Ellis, Richard, 558, 840.
Ellsworth, Oliver,a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 171, 1219; attends, 988.Committees: marine, 992; Trum, bull's letter, 1011; property of enemy 1055; appeals, 1064; treasury, 1130; army expenses, 1235.Votes: 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1036, 1037, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1098, 1135, 1150, 1151, 1169, 1185, 1195, 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248,1251, 1252,1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.Letters: 245, 321.Mentioned: 1092n, 1199n.
Elmer, Jonathan,a delegate from New Jersey. Attends, 534; money, 907, 1028.Votes: 592, 609, 614, 618, 619, 620, 635, 637, 693, 703, 712, 715, 718, 808, 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 860, 862, 920, 985, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1001, 1002, 1019.Mentioned: 970n.
Embargo, North Carolina, 156; on exports, 569, 578, 583, 788, 815, 1287; relaxation, 861; evasion, 903, 976; on rice, 1121.
Embezzlement of public stores, 72.
Emerson, Moses, 114, 299, 1153, 1208.
Enemy, movements of, committee, 945, 948, 981.
Engineers, corps of, 227; arrangement, 541.
Enlistment of convicts, 203n; of draughts, 768, 853; bounties, 889.
Ensign major, 514.
Envoys, reception of, 699, 707; form of address, 700.
Erkelens, Gosuinus, 1062, 1106, 1246.
Essich, Henry, Baron, 776.
Estaing, Count d', arrives in Delaware Bay, 683; at Rhode Island, 848; supplies, 888; operations, 897; thanked, 1021; address to Canada, 1190.Letters: 684,690, 691,892, 897, 1010, 1021.Mentioned: 722, 730, 791,814, 830, 848,948n, 1039.
Etting, Elijah, 112.

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Ettwein, John, 1206n.
Evans, Israel, 18.
Evans, John, 1148.
Eveleigh, Nicholas, 178.
Ewing, George, 471n, 489.
Ewing, James, general, 152.
Ewing, Samuel, 372.
Ewing, Thomas, 815.
Ewing, --, major, 36.
Expeditions, distant, propriety of, 554.
Expresses, continental, 550, 660, 683, 1143.
Eyres, Richard, 963.
Eyres, --, 544.
Fabricius, C. A., 725.
Failly, Chevalier de, 123, 677, 707, 1068.
Falconer, Nathaniel, 176, 189, 813, 887, 905, 1085, 1173.
Fancy, sloop, 1024.
Farmer, Lewis, colonel, 765.
Farmer, Titus, 804.
Fast day, 207, 229.
Fayolle, Chevalier de, 898.
Feager, Paul, 735, 993.
Fell, John,a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 1189; attends, 1189.Committees: Board of War letter, 1201; commerce, 1217; habeas corpus resisted, 1255.Votes: 1195, 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1234, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.Mentioned: 1179.
Ferdinand, ship, 298.
Ferguson, Adam, 585, 616, 776, 855, 897, 1084.
Ferguson, Hugh, 76.
Fermoy, Mathieu Alexis Roche de, brigadier general, 12, 97, 101, 105, 151, 174, 188.
Fez, Africa, 426.
Fier Roderique, 576, 584, 678, 686.
Finance, committee on, 843; report considered, 928, 969, 986, 987, 990, 994, 1007, 1116, 1122, 1129, 1131, 1133, 1139, 1142, 1149, 1150, 1163, 1164, 1167, 1178, 1181, 1184, 1187, 1194, 1202, 1212, 1215, 1231, 1235, 1256, 1260, 1266; printed, 1073, 1287; motions, 1134; observations, 1048.
Finnie, William, 268, 744.
Fire hoods, 1144.
Fire locks, 417, 611.
Fish, for army, 236; in French treaty, 427; Newfoundland, 1041.
Fisher, John, 659.
Fish Kill, N. Y., 201.
Fitzsimons, Thomas, 899.
Flag, violation of, 258, 344, 1114, 1168.
Flamand, 199, 484.
Fleury, Louis, lieutenant colonel, 127, 137, 143, 1180, 1198, 1208, 1227, 1246.
Florida.See East Florida.
Floridians, invade Georgia, 938.
Flour, 48, 52, 53, 54, 113, 126, 152, 176, 272, 338, 361, 467, 546, 579, 642; committee on, 284; transportation, 831; purchases, 831, 974; for French, 1122; seizure, 1123.
Flower, Benjamin, colonel, 56, 65, 89, 120, 149, 181, 411, 412, 472, 608, 623, 627, 723, 741, 748, 750, 751, 762, 769, 791, 809, 815, 827, 831, 995, 1172.
Flowers, David, 1079, 1170.
Floyd, William,a delegate from New York. Credentials, 1145.
Folger, John, captain, 41, 190, 482, 544.
Folsom, Nathaniel,a delegate from New Hampshire. Committees: Pennsylvania, 18; to camp, 41; letter Board of War, 285.Votes: 14, 17, 53, 283, 300, 301.Mentioned: 57, 289, 296.
Fontevieux, Chevalier de, 1211.
Fooks, Paul, 562, 1148, 1208.
Forage, Commissary of, 102, 126, 906, 1112, 1188; wheat as, 1064; price, 1177.
Forbes, James,a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 59, 1141; leave of absence, 363; money, 355; attends, 685.Committees: marine, 60; treasury, 60; salt, 86; Gates's letter, 106; Board of War's letter, 156; army, 186; Johnson's letter, 222; Morris's memorial, 227; provisions, 245; Demeré, 819.Votes: 115, 119,

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169, 170, 177, 205, 250, 251, 256, 267, 283, 301, 302, 306, 319, 320, 327, 331, 333, 336, 343, 357, 359, 362, 693, 703, 712, 715, 718, 736, 742, 748, 763, 764, 767, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 797, 800, 808, 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 885, 886, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 943, 944, 945, 977.Mentioned: 356.
Foreign affairs, considered, 372, 411,414, 787, 792, 1181; secrecy enjoined, 793; members of committee, 559.
Forman, David, brigadier general, 111, 183.
Forman, Samuel, colonel, 629.
Forster, Alexander, 264, 277.
Forster, Isaac, 243,532, 580, 607,775, 887, 1170.
Fortification, system of, Du Portail, 1149.
Fortune, sloop, 1004.
Foubonne, 744.
Foulke, Amos, 792.
Founderies, 123.
Fouquet, Mark, 57, 122.
Fouquet, Nicholas, 57, 109, 122.
Fox, Edward, 765, 1086, 1200.
France, bills of exchange on, 96, 109, 121; commercial agents, 139, 164; remittances from Georgia, 164; military supplies from, 316, 414, 505; packet boats, 414; treaties, 417, 1101; powers, 419, 446; amity and commerce, 421; alliance, 448; secret act, 454; ratified, 457; excepted articles, 459, 1040; ratification, 462; publication on treaty, 467, 468, 1149; reflections on King, 605, 609, 615; vessels of war from, 675; provisions for fleet, 687,695, 979; fleet signals, 691; remittances to, 739; minister plenipotentiary, 901, 908; invalids for return, 1140.
France, commissioners to, on Beaumarchais, 342; instructions, 414.
Francy, Jean Baptiste Lazarus Thevenot de, 185, 192, 281,316, 320, 342, 356, 473, 484, 505, 604, 716, 738, 841, 1123, 1168, 1240.
Franklin, Benjamin, minister plenipotentiary to France, 908; instructions, 908, 1005, 1036, 1039, 1060, 1064; letter of credence, 1035.Mentioned: 421n, 422, 444, 447n, 453, 455, 457, 461, 462, 604, 622, 668, 675, 868, 927, 936, 984, 1011, 1210, 1247.
Franklin, Thomas, 258, 923.
Franklin, William, 769, 816, 817,818, 909.
Franklin, William Temple, 444n, 447n, 453n, 455n.
Franks, David, 75, 934, 1026, 1032, 1038, 1070, 1076, 1108, 1110, 1111.
Franks, Moses, 1026, 1032, 1076, 1110.
Frauds in public service, 732.
Frazer, John, 802.
Frazier, William, lieutenant, 260.
Frederick, Fort, Md., prisoners, 180, 1017.
Freeman, Samuel, 621.
Freeman, --, 97.
Frelinghuysen, Frederick,a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 1189.Mentioned: 1179.
"Free ships, free goods," 438.
French, Isaac Harrison, 1173.
Frey, Godfrey, 1125.
Frey, --, Baron de, 107, 138.
Freylinghauss, Peter Caspar, 1193n.
Friends, Society of, 96.
Frigates, destruction, in Delaware river, 496.
Frontier, western, petition of inhabitants, 66.
Frost, George,a delegate from New Hampshire. Credentials, 1087; attends, 1164.Votes: 14, 53, 104, 115, 119, 169, 170, 177, 205, 250, 251, 256, 267, 283, 1169, 1195, 1224, 1232, 1233, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1257, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.Mentioned: 235, 239.
Führer, Carl Friedrich, captain, 809, 866, 1099, 1192.
Fuller, Benjamin, 1085.
Fullerton, --, 565.
Fulton, John, 1208.
Fund, confederal, 915, 929.
Fund, sinking, 929, 1073.
Funk, Joseph, or Jacob, 413, 658.
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Furedge, --, 864.
Furloughs, 230.
Galatheau, William de, 744.
Galbreath, Thomas, 1166, 1182.
Gallagher, James, 264, 292.
Gallard, John, 1214.
Gallies, row, Georgia, 161, 1009; Rhode Island, 646; Delaware, 788; against East Florida, 1118.
Galvan, --, 860.
Galvez, Bernardo de, 275, 709, 769, 1083.
Gambell, Edmund, 580.
Gambier, James, admiral, 730, 1114, 1163, 1168, 1187.
Gaming, discouraged, 1001.
Gandy, Jacob, 744.
Gano, John, 809.
Gansevoort, Peter, colonel, 281,285.
Gardiner, William, 845, 982.
Gardoqui, Joseph, & Sons, 507, 852, 1142.
Gascey, Chevalier do, 91.
Gates, Horatio, major general, on camp committee, 41, 65, 66, 67; money, 144, 281; ordered to Fishkill, 354, 368; on plan of campaign, 364; instructions, 368, 456; aids, 398; inspector, 466; to go to Boston, 1038.War board: 102, 105, 108n, 120n, 149n, 150n, 220, 257n, 276n, 288, 291n, 341, 401, 967n.Letters: 91, 92, 93, 106, 110, 144, 197, 496, 560, 579, 581, 607, 632, 674, 689, 722, 724, 728, 844, 1065, 1112, 1264, 1265.Mentioned: 8, 16, 29, 42, 101, 123, 209, 212, 259, 360, 418, 500, 589, 625, 633, 845, 876.
Geddes, William, 1086, 1096, 1243.
General Gales, brig, 909, 946.
Gentille, 1122.
George, snow, 493.
George, sloop, 1200.
Georgia, credentials of delegates, 685; committee on, 53,120, 159,179; money, 143, 161, 187, 265, 414, 498, 630, 1008; unsettled accounts, 162; rice and lumber, 164; resolves of assembly, 530; relief, 554; on articles of confederation, 656, 712, 716; application for loan, 660; vote of, 714, 715; situation of, 938; defense, 949, 1021, 1026, 1091; army expenditures, 1009; judge advocate in, 1131.
Gérard, Conrad Alexandre, house for, 685, 839n, 878; reception and audience, 685, 688, 696, 698, 703,707,722,726,730, 733, 751,753, 767, 864; arrival, 688; on prisoners, 690; horses and forage, 726; speech to Congress, 754; confer on Estaing's operations, 897; consuls, 948, 1066, 1098; conference, 1090; authentication of papers, 1183; intercepting masts, 1198, 1259.Letters: 689, 727, 730, 790, 819, 1010, 1122, 1140, 1149, 1197, 1210, 1216, 1221, 1224.Mentioned: 1053, 1190.
Germaine, George, Lord, 964.
German battalion, 200; volunteers, 866, 1192.
Germans, settlements of, 407; inducement to desert, 893.
Gerry, Elbridge,a delegate from Massachusetts Bay. Credentials, 10; powers, 26; money, 689, 901.Committees: commissariat, 51; hospitals, 94; brass cannon, 118; New England convention, 172; convention prisoners, 173; Washington's letter, 179; commerce, 185; Heath's letter, 196; Burgoyne's letter, 196; Board of War's letter, 207; Johnson's letter, 222; Livingston's letter, 238; Pennsylvania representation, 239; Wadsworth, 293; Massachusetts-Gardoqui letter, 507; Holker, 713; new treasury board, 731; Howe's letter, 816; money and finance, 843; confederal fund, 915; Heath's letter, 936; Stoakes, 949; convention troops, 970; clothing, 983; Colt's letter, 988; finance, 1008; peace commission, 1013; president's allowance, 1213; army expenses, 1235.Votes: 14, 17, 53, 104, 115, 119, 169, 170, 205, 250, 251,256,267,283,300, 301,302, 319, 327,331,333,335, 343,357,358, 359, 373, 382, 392,394,395, 396, 399,400, 401,

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409, 482,483, 495, 499, 503,515, 528, 529, 591, 609, 614, 618, 619, 620, 632n, 635, 637, 693, 703,711,715, 718, 763, 766, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796,799,800, 808, 817, 818, 828, 859, 860, 862, 871,872, 873, 874, 875, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 940, 943,944, 985, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1036, 1037, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1098, 1135, 1150, 1151, 1169, 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1257, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.Reports: 12n, 19n, 21n, 59n, 124n, 157n, 249n, 252n, 324n.Mentioned: 24n, 49, 185n, 237n, 328n, 351n, 493, 522n, 591, 717, 719n, 818, 861n, 970n, 990, 991, 1026, 1036, 1075n, 1085, 1086, 1141.
Gervais, John Lewis, 1027.
Gibbes, William, 497, 516.
Gibbs, Caleb, major, 722, 730, 836.
Gibbs, John Waiters, 855.
Gibson, George, colonel, 86.
Gibson, John, 39, 143, 181, 255, 353, 531, 659, 680, 683, 686, 689, 690, 696, 698, 702, 706, 709, 717, 725, 982, 1108, 1133; auditor, 1085, 1096.
Gibson, John, colonel, 576.
Gibson, --, 1059.
Gilbert, Samuel, captain, 980.
Gillingham, James, 804.
Gillon, Alexander, 294, 298.
Gilman, Nicholas, 309, 311, 981.
Gimat, --, 107, 113, 1068, 1097, 1100, 1105.
Girard, --, lieutenant, 868, 1070.
Girardeau, John B., 1069.
Gist, Nathaniel, colonel, 228, 240, 254.
Glasgow, J., 695, 856.
Glover, John, brigadier general, 87n, 532.
Godwin, Thomas, 1004.
Gold, prices, 990, 1288.
Gollen, Samuel, 767n.
Goodrich, --, 1087.
Gordon, Charles, 285,328, 342, 351, 353.
Gordon & Patton, 36.
Gould, James, 802.
Gourge, P., 696.
Gouverneur, Curson and, 1229.
Governor Johnston, 739.
Govett, William, 159, 1086, 1096.
Goy, 118, 119.
Graff, Jacob, 1100n.
Graham, James, 830.
Grand, Ferdinand, 941.
Gray, James, 1023.
Gray, William, 765, 1100.
Grayson, William, colonel, 370, 1200, 1201, 1246.
Great Britain, papers relating to dispute with, 1063, 1071, 1129.
Greaton, John, colonel, 690. Green, James, jun., 243, 265, 824. Green, John, 778, 790.
Greene, Christopher, colonel, 97, 1238.
Greene, Griffin, & Co., 1026, 1060, 1064.
Greene, Nathanael, major general, quartermaster general, 210; money, 325,465.Letters, 63, 299, 321, 384, 418, 458, 554, 567, 609, 768, 1114.Mentioned, 311, 326, 623, 745, 848, 900, 970, 1171. Greene, William, 537, 630, 645, 887, 1136.
Gridley, Richard, colonel, 1094.
Grief, John, lieutenant, 474.
Griffin, Cyrus,a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 811, attends, 811.Votes 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 885, 886, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 945, 977, 985, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1002, 1003, 1019, 1037, 1248, 1249, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1258, 1266. Mentioned: 1023n, 1025n.
Griffin, --, 1200.
Griffith, David, Dr., 1062.
Grimké, John, 1137.
Gunnison, --, 739.
Habeas corpus writ resisted, 1255.
Hageman, John, 1182.
Half pay to officers, 285, 289, 299, 300, 302, 357, 362, 372, 373, 382, 391, 392, 394, 395, 396, 398, 482, 485, 491, 495; resolutions, 502.
Halifax, N. S. 1041.

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Hall, Lott, 87.
Hall, Lyman,a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 685.
Hall, David, 993.
Hambright, John, 679.
Hamilton, Alexander, lieutenant colonel, 370.
Hamilton, Henry, colonel, 587.
Hamilton, James, brigadier general, 1142, 1152.
Hancock, Ebenezer, 51, 82, 85, 109, 159, 398, 411, 532, 660, 719, 760, 924, 1100.
Hancock, George, 1142, 1175.
Hancock, John,a delegate from Massachusetts Bay. Credentials, 10; powers, 26; attends, 621; leave of absence, 677; allowance, 1222.Committees: Sullivan's letter, 630; independence anniversary, 641; reception of Gérard, 685.Votes: 635, 637.Mentioned: 232, 255, 683, 923, 928, 986, 1133.
Hancock, 619, 749.
Hancock's Bridge, N.J., 613.
Hand, Edward, brigadier general, 325, 417, 510, 870, 1084.Letters, 38, 101, 184, 1070, 1149.
Handen, William, 173.
Hanna's town, Penn., 510.
Hanson, Alexander Contee, 59.
Hardie, Robert, 1214.
Harding, Seth, 949, 951, 1136.
Hardy, William, 765.
Harlequin, schooner, 533.
Harnage, Henry, major, 1109, 1114.
Harnott, Cornelius,a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials, 695; leave of absence, 384, 1222; attends, 767; money, 259, 361, 982, 1079, 1223.Committees: medical department, 9; Blaine's letter, 22; Georgia, 53; Norris, 276; Howe's letter 816.Votes: 14, 17, 35, 54, 256, 267, 268, 283, 331, 336, 352, 363, 370, 373, 374, 382, 392, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 797, 800, 808, 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 876, 881, 882, 885, 886, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 945, 977, 985, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1020, 1037, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1098, 1135, 1151, 1152, 1169, 1185, 1195.Mentioned: 341, 856.
Harper, John, and Co., 837, 904, 907, 1087.
Harper, John, Jr., 1087.
Harper, Joseph, 1087.
Harris, John, 688.
Harris, R., 217.
Harrison, Benjamin, 811.
Harrison, Benjamin, Jun., 82, 158, 190, 241, 259, 268, 380, 487, 606, 726, 835, 1026, 1039, 1265.
Harrison, Charles, colonel, 226, 253, 531, 1092.
Harrison, Robert Hanson, 370, 769, 1077, 1086, 1147, 1198, 1200, 1201.
Hart, John, 158, 789, 1179.
Hart, Joseph, 735.
Hartley, Thomas, colonel, 151, 235, 288, 296, 308, 310, 343, 581, 608, 641n, 721, 1005, 1095, 1108, 1132, 1149, 1165, 1221, 1225.
Hartman, John, 923.
Harvey, Michael, 288.
Harvie, John,a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 811; attends, 685.Committees: medical department, 9; to camp, 41, 271; navy pay, 68; Board of War's letter, 207; Board of War report, 208; provisions for army, 219; Johnson's letter, 222; Champion's letter, 233; provisions, 245; commerce, 690; Henry's letter, 710; Philadelphia merchants, 713; Gates's letter, 723. Sweers-Flower, 792; Wallace-Love, 798; Caswell's letter, 856; Tetard, 891; Morgan, 925, 1259; Heath's letter, 936; Stoakes, 949; Delaware treaty, 986; Pickering, 998; Rice, 1014.Votes: 14, 17, 35, 54, 205, 250, 251, 256, 267, 693, 694, 703, 712, 718, 736, 742, 743, 748, 763, 764, 767, 773, 774, 794, 795, 797, 800, 808, 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 885, 886, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 945, 977, 985, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1002,

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1003, 1017.War board: 47n, 57n, 63n, 1238.Mentioned: 219, 220, 237n, 263, 970n, 1023n, 1025n.
Harwood, Thomas, 26, 36, 89, 834, 1217.
Hatfield, Richard, 668.
Havanna, governor of, 713, 1061, 1068.
Hawke, sloop, 1005, 1064.
Hawker, James, 743, 747, 840, 1114.
Hawkins, --, 335, 348.
Hay, Henry, 95.
Hay, Michael, 1144.
Hay, Udney, 490, 554, 607.
Hazard, Ebenezer, 682, 705.
Hazen, Moses, colonel, 254, 1159.
Heath, William, major general, 16, 20, 29, 42, 51, 52, 185, 218, 219, 227, 304, 398, 532, 640, 877, 902, 984.Letters, 44, 82, 127, 171, 179, 196, 213, 216, 282, 306, 390, 403, 419, 492, 523, 530, 607, 621, 629, 672, 675, 679, 704, 758, 858, 888, 905, 914, 936, 970, 992, 1016, 1025, 1053, 1084, 1109, 1114, 1142, 1152, 1174, 1184, 1185.
Hele, Christopher, 1025, 1062, 1090, 1163, 1214.
Henderson, Joseph, 114, 287.
Henderson, William, captain, 973.
Hennessy, --, lieutenant, 15.
Henry, John, Jun.,a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 59, 1141; attended, 65, 849, 1142; money, 538; leave of absence, 556.Committees: Zane, &c., 85; flour, 126, 153n; intelligence, 127; appeals, 177; bonds, 253; violation of flag, 258; Penn and Chew, 260; Lafayette's letters, 269; Board of War report, 305; Rhode Island failure, 322; Lowndes' letter, 497; Board of War letter, 971; marine, 974; Lafayette's letter, 1020; Britigny, 1140. Votes: 104, 115, 119, 169, 170, 177, 205, 250, 251, 256, 267, 283, 301, 302, 306, 319, 320, 327, 331, 333, 336, 352, 357, 358, 359, 370, 373, 374, 382, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 482, 483, 489, 496, 500, 503, 515, 528, 529, 853, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 885, 886, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 945, 977, 985, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1037, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1135, 1151, 1152, 1169, 1185, 1195, 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1234, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1261, 1266.Mentioned: 970n, 1023n.
Henry, Malcolm, 1063.
Henry, Patrick, 38, 110, 138, 191, 212, 313, 329, 335, 341, 348, 487, 528, 530, 584, 606, 656, 686, 704, 710, 711, 720, 826, 950, 1021, 1140, 1167, 1188, 1201, 1221.
Henry, William, 372, 380, 892.
Henry, --, Dr., 525.
Hessians, disposition of prisoners, 556.
Heureux, 484.
Hewes, Joseph, 99, 121, 419, 467, 487, 690, 702, 900, 955, 972, 1057.
Heyward, Thomas,a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 294; attends, 572.Committees: treasury, 580; foreign despatches, 622; Holker, 713. Votes: 592, 610, 615, 618, 619, 620, 632n, 635, 637, 693, 694, 703, 712, 715, 718, 736, 742, 743, 748, 763, 764, 767, 773, 774, 795, 797, 800, 801, 808, 817, 818.
Hides, 371, 490, 545, 858.
Higgins, John Sackville, 492.
Highlands, forts in, court of inquiry, 629, 803; chaplain, 1091.
Hilborn, Joseph, 863.
Hill, Whitmill,a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials, 856; attends, 1215. Votes: 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1234, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1249, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1258, 1262, 1263, 1266.
Hillegas, Michael, 28, 59, 83, 175, 224, 255, 309, 338, 365, 524, 627, 806, 966, 1108; treasurer, 1085, 1096.
Hillegas, Samuel, 59, 466, 806, 1079.
Hinchinbroke, brig, 818.
Hinman, E., 1102.
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Hite, Thomas, 274.
Hoadges, John, captain, 1141.
Hodgkins, Thomas Brook, 1086.
Hodgson and Brown, 830.
Hoffman, William, 472.
Hogan, James, colonel, 1219.
Hoge, Jonathan, 735.
Hoggard, Thurmer, 313, 326.
Holker, John, 618, 661, 679, 858, 968; agent of the marine of France, 696; consul, &c., 713.
Hollenbach, Matthew, 1182.
Hollingsworth, Henry, colonel, 279, 775, 883, 889, 898, 901, 906, 909, 948, 963, 969, 974.
Holmes, Lemuel, captain, 980.
Holten, Samuel,a delegate from Massachusetts Bay. Credentials, 629n; attends, 629; money, 689, 1099.Committees: Philadelphia merchants, 713; Wadsworth's letter, 734; medical, 946; surgeons, 1038; Gridley, 1094; lottery managers, 1102; journals, 1121.Votes: 632n, 635, 637, 693, 703, 715, 718, 736, 741, 742, 748, 763, 764, 766, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 799, 800, 808, 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 885, 886, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 977, 985, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1036, 1037, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1098, 1135, 1150, 1151, 1169, 1185, 1195, 1226, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.
Holtzendorf, Lewis Casimir, Baron de, 7, 105, 188, 208, 235.
Holzapple, Baron, 240.
Hooper, John, 916.
Hooper, Robert Lettis, 172, 173, 176, 189, 194, 325, 680, 1245.
Hooper, Stephen, 94.
Hope, schooner, 886.
Hopkins, Esek, 13, 732.
Hopkins, Stephen,a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 575.Mentioned, 664.
Hopkinson, Francis, 99, 189, 412, 493, 607, 715, 806, 842, 1080, 1227; treasurer of loans, 724; index to journals, 923.
Horn, Henry, 744, 971.
Hornet, 687.
Horse, regimental paymasters, 20; commissary, 126; body of, 213; allowance for killed, 215, 777, 1238; purchase of equipment, 239, 243, 1244; purchase in Pennsylvania, 296, 353, 1108; Delaware, 401; New Jersey, 505; commander of, 768, 897, 941; and ex teams, 906; Virginia, 1228; North Carolina, 1244.
Hortalez, Roderique, & Co., 245, 261, 262, 274, 281, 313, 320, 342, 484, 505, 740; contract, 316, 356.
Hoskins, William, 1011, 1091.
Hosmer, Titus,a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 171, 1219; attends, 632; leave of absence, 898.Committees: Washington's letter, 743; OEllers-Horn, 744; Bingham, 837; Rhode Island, 880.Votes: 632n, 635, 637, 693, 703, 711, 736, 741, 742, 748, 763, 764, 766, 794, 795, 796, 799, 800, 808, 817, 818, 853, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881.Mentioned: 722, 804, 899.
Hospitals, supplies, 23; visiting member, 23; regulation of, 128, 1282; chaplain, 142; Princeton, 157; secretary and paymaster, 186; eastern department, 581, 787; South Carolina, 1113; Philadelphia, 1174.
Hotham, 1168.
House, Mary, 804.
Houston, John, 49, 530, 553, 554, 622, 673, 986.
Houston, Thomas, 1168.
Howe, Richard, Lord, 572, 574.
Howe, Robert, brigadier general, ordered to headquarters, 951.Letters: 178, 533, 551, 553, 622, 629n, 673, 816, 937, 941, 946, 965, 987, 998, 1055, 1091, 1095, 1107, 1116, 1137, 1239.Mentioned: 163, 673, 680, 1069, 1072, 1120, 1143, 1171, 1220, 1244.

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Howe, William, Sir, 45, 50n, 76, 179, 194, 197, 213, 218, 258, 266, 295, 330, 332, 344, 370, 492, 520, 877, 901, 1112.
Howell, Isaac, 710, 717, 724, 1173.
Howell, Samuel, 564.
Hubley, Adam, colonel, 280, 289.
Hubley, Joseph, 765.
Hudson, Ananias, 234.
Hudson, Jonathan, 60, 156, 188.
Hudson River, obstructions, 180, 217, 221, 275; defenses, 275, 278, 354; forts, surrender, 936.
Hugex, Isaac, colonel, 553, 1138, 1260.
Hugg, Joseph, 861.
Hughes, Daniel, 306, 967.
Hughes, Hugh, 219, 220, 224.
Hughes, Peter, 845.
Hughes, Samuel, 306, 967.
Hughes, Thomas, 183. Humphreys, Richard, 765.
Humphreys, Whitehead, 56, 65. Hunt, John, 803.
Hunt, Thomas, lieutenant, 234.
Hunter, Adam, 689, 823, 1130.
Hunter, Andrew, 749.
Hunter, James, 689, 823, 1130.
Hunter, Samuel, 508, 679, 686.
Huntington, Jedediah, brigadier general, 63.
Huntington, Joshua, 1062.
Huntington, Samuel,a delegate from Connecticut. Attends, 170; credentials, 171, 1219; leave of absence, 673.Committees: Appeals, 177; fast day, 207; marine, 217; Morris's memorial, 227; violation of flag, 258; New England convention, 260; Lafayette's letter, 287; Shippen, 303, 568; Carson, 363; Clinton's letter, 367; Board of War's letter, 471; Massachusetts, 517; Vance, 537; Wadsworth's letter, 563.Votes: 177, 205, 256, 267, 300, 301, 302, 306, 319, 327, 331, 333, 335, 343, 352, 357, 358, 359, 362, 370, 373, 382, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 489, 495, 499, 503, 515, 528, 529, 591, 609, 614, 617, 618, 632n, 637.Mentioned; 156n, 647, 787.
Hurrie, William, 993, 1265.
Hurt, John, 810, 850.
Hutson, Richard,a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 294; attends, 343.Committees: Commerce, 366; Aylett's letter, 606; treasury, 1130.Votes: 352, 357, 358, 360, 363, 370, 373, 374, 383, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 460, 482, 483, 459, 496, 500, 503, 515, 528, 529, 592, 610, 615, 618, 619, 620, 635, 637, 1037, 1038, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1098, 1135, 1151, 1152, 1169, 1185, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1234, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1249, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255.Mentioned: 498n, 1199n.
Hyrne, Edmund, captain, 1137.
Icard, Claude, captain, 879.
Ilsley, Enoch, 558.
Impressments, 273.
Ires Inars,--des, 1211.
Independence, anniversary, 641; to be maintained, 1040.
Indian affairs, committee on, members, 403; mentioned, 490, 497, 537.
Indians, treaty at Johnstown, N. Y., 105, 110, 291; employment of, 220, 221, 228, 254, 1270; Gist's instructions, 228; Cherokee, 240; Westmoreland, 261; Six Nations, 456; intelligence, 536; conference at Fort Pitt, 568, 588, 626; Northumberland county, 577; outbreaks, 587, 641, 688; expedition against, 589, 614, 720, 827, 829, 868; northern, 852, 868, 869; entertained, 923; invasion of Georgia, 938; Hartley's incursion, 1005; clothing, 1077; lands purchased, 1180; eastern, 1189.
Infantry, battalion, composition of, 538.
Ingersoll, Samuel, 1065.
Inglis, Samuel, 1220.
Ink pot, 1029n.
Inspector general, 465, 737, 1153; report on, 819, 914; officers, 952.
Intelligence, committee of, 127; from enemy, 1061.

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Interest, paid in bills of exchange, 513; to be paid by Europe, 931; fund, 994. Interpreter to Congress, 562.
Invalids, corps of, 816, 825, 898, 954, 993, 1079, 1113.
Iron, 338, 467, 546.
Irvine, William, colonel, 474.
Irwin, Matthew, 235, 240, 483, 861, 1008.
Irwine,--, 1057.
Izard, A., 936.
Izard, Ralph, 622, 936, 949, 1010, 1011, 1197, 1198.
Jackson, Henry, colonel, 234.
Jackson, Jonathan, 90.
Jackson, William, 85, 96.
Jacques.See Jaquis.
James,--, 739.
Jancey, James, 593, 601.
Janney, Joseph, 85, 96.
Jaquis, Martin, 804.
Jarvis, Leonard, 22.
Jarvis,--, captain, 1088.
Jay, James, Sir, 687, 811.
Jay, John,a delegate from New York. Credentials, 1196; attends, 1196; elected president, 1206.Committees: Gérard's letter, 1198.Votes: 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1224, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.Mentioned: 599, 603, 1237.
Jeffers, John, 491.
Jenifer, Daniel, of St. Thomas,a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 1141.
Jenkins, Fort, 1149.
Jenks, Charles, 1024.
Jewell, Robert, 1062.
John and Sally, 1055.
Johnson, Francis, colonel, 490, 515, 518, 525.
Johnson, Henry, captain, 687.
Johnson, Isaiah, captain, 1170.
Johnson, Thomas.Letters: 58, 82, 84, 85, 87, 222, 241, 280, 578, 630, 769, 826, 947, 1090, 1216.Mentioned: 89, 233, 259, 1123.
Johnston, Francis, 923.
Johnston, George, 398n, 530.
Johnston, Henry, captain, 971.
Johnston, James, 864, 908.
Johnston, Samuel, 824, 863.
Johnston,--, Dr., 863.
Johnstone, George, 585, 605, 678, 694, 701, 702, 770, 855.
Johnstown, N. Y., Indian treaty, 105, 110, 291.
Jones, Cadwalader, captain, 1214.
Jones, David, 530.
Jones, Francis, 178, 240.
Jones, Gabriel, 38, 191.
Jones, Joseph, 49, 1238.
Jones, Owen, jun., 8.
Jones, Parson, 558.
Jones, Lee and, 717.
Jordan, John, captain, 472.
Journals, committee on, 58, 1121; original manuscript missing, 268n; Dunlap to print, 416; extracts from, 566, 571, 615, 617; index, 607, 923, 1115; alteration, 758; printed, 1289.
Joy, Benjamin, 702.
Joy, Daniel, 465.
Judge Advocate in South Carolina, 1131.
Juliat, Charles, lieutenant, 867, 1193n.
Kalb, Baron de., to Canada, 107, 253.Letters: 7, 827, 837, 1078, 1161.Mentioned: 188, 867, 1210.
Kellogg, Daniel, 607.
Kelsey, Enos, 157.
Kenley, William, 765.
Kennedy, David, colonel, 592, 777.
Kennedy, George, 1241.
Kennedy, Thomas, 1101.
Kennedy,--, captain, 904.
Kennon, John, 1220.
Kennon, William, colonel, 232, 255, 1071, 1079, 1110, 1170.
Kent,--, captain, 739.
Keppele, John, 765.
Kercher, Ludwig, 702.
Kermovan, Jean de, colonel, 91, 101, 138, 151, 211, 222.
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Kidnapping loyal citizens, 204.
Killen, William, 1090.
King, John, 592.
King of Prussia, ship, 522.
Kingsbury, John, captain, 304.
Kingston,--, lieutenant colonel, 218.
Kinnan, William, 893.
Kirkland, Samuel, 536.
Kirwin, Peter, 1087.
Klein, Henry, 658, 662.
Klein, William, major, 867, 914, 1192n, 1210.
Kleinschmit, Carl Wilhelm, 809, 866, 1099, 1192.
Knight, John, 689.
Knight, John Leach, 1005.
Knoblauch, B. de, colonel, 725, 764, 778, 809, 850.
Knox, Henry, brigadier general, 63, 150, 768, 1209.
Knox, James, 366, 842.
Kolhowsky, count, 1161, 1210.
Kowatz, Michael de, 364, 937.
Krever, Henry, 1125.
La Balme, Mottin de, 43, 92, 157, 809.
La Ceres, 879.
La Colombo, 1069, 1097, 1105.
Lafayette, Marie Jean Paul Joseph Roche Yves Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de, on Canada expedition, 87, 96, 107, 137, 193, 217, 253; thanked by Congress, 894, 1035, 1227; to France, 1034, 1054; letter to King, 1054; sword, 1035; money, 1110.Letters: 269, 278, 287, 580, 679, 980, 1004, 1020, 1026, 1034, 1066, 1068, 1078, 1096, 1104, 1189, 1211.Mentioned: 84, 113, 499, 1048, 1052, 1147, 1191. Laird, David, 506.
La Jeunesse, Prudent, 1099, 1124
Lamb, John, colonel, 97, 1025, 1092, 1213.
Lancaster, flour, 54, 166; clothing department, 57; prisoners, 344; flag stopped, 258, 344; convention troops, 1017.
Land, for British deserters, 406, 1283; western, under confederation, 632, 639, 649; cession of uncultivated, 931; bounty for service, 1117; Ohio, 1180.
Landais, Pierre, captain, 484, 555, 625.
La Neuville, Chevalier de, 724, 728, 1010.
La Neuville, Noirmont de, 18, 93, 110, 466, 491, 492, 498, 499, 508, 580, 724, 728, 928, 1069, 1097, 1186, 1187.
Langdon, John, 91, 94, 986, 1164, 1207.
Languedoc, 683, 685.
Langworthy, Edward,a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 685; retires from session, 334, 385; money, 414, 498, 630, 1199.Committees: Board of War, 47; treasury, 60; Forster, &c., 264; Norris, 276; marine, 303.Votes: 14, 17, 35, 54, 115, 119, 169, 170, 177, 205, 256, 267, 268, 283, 301, 302, 306, 319, 320, 327, 331, 333, 336, 344, 352, 357, 358, 360, 363, 370, 373, 374, 383, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 482, 483, 489, 496, 500, 503, 515, 528, 529, 592, 610, 615, 618, 619, 620, 632n, 635, 637, 794, 795, 796, 797, 800, 801, 808, 817, 818, 828, 854, 859, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 876, 881, 882, 885, 836, 888, 911, 912, 913, 940, 943, 944, 945, 985, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1020, 1037, 1038, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1098, 1135, 1195, 1224, 1226, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1249, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1258.War board: 63n.Mentioned: 24n, 277n, 339, 1226.
La Radière, Bailleul, colonel, 43,93,808.
Lardner, John, 765.
Lark, sloop, 1061.
Lasserre,--, 1109.
Laurens, Henry,a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 294; submits letters, 935, 1197, 1240; on Izard's letter, 1011; money, 1079; resigns, 1202; thanked, 1221, 1222; allowance, 1222.Committees: commerce, 185, 1217; marine, 537; reply to Gérard, 756; Washington's letter, 1227; army expenses, 1235; campaign, 1250.Votes: 14, 17, 35, 54, 104, 115, 119, 169, 170, 177, 205, 250, 251, 256, 267, 268, 283, 301, 302, 306, 319, 320, 327, 331, 333, 336,

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344, 352, 357, 358, 360, 363, 370, 373, 374, 383, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 482, 483, 489, 496, 500, 503, 515, 528, 529, 592, 610, 615, 618, 619, 620, 632n, 635, 637, 693, 694, 703, 712, 715, 718, 736, 742, 743, 748, 763, 764, 767, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 797, 800, 801, 808, 817, 818, 828, 854, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 876, 881, 882, 885, 886, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 945, 977, 985, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1020, 1037, 1038, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1098, 1135, 1151, 1152, 1169, 1185, 1195, 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1234, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1249, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1258.Mentioned: 16, 21n, 61n, 125n, 132n, 135, 160n, 196, 200n, 224, 231, 273n, 286n, 338n, 368n, 392n, 393n, 417n, 466n, 471n, 500n, 546n, 562n, 569n, 570n, 605, 624n, 646n, 660, 668, 683, 700, 719n, 761n, 780n, 836n, 860, 873, 907n, 958n, 975n, 985, 1025n, 1033, 1097, 1117n, 1119n, 1162, 1165n, 1169, 1174n, 1192n, 1193n, 1230n, 1251, 1254, 1256, 1281.
Laurens, John, lieutenant colonel, 704, 768, 1105, 1106, 1190n.
Law, Richard,a delegate from Connecticut, 537n.
Lawrance, John, 233, 290.
Lawrence, John, 94, 207, 224, 264, 308, 523, 696, 719, 745, 835, 1030, 1170, 1207.
Lawrence, Thomas, 966, 1202.
Lawson, Robert, colonel, 768, 770, 775.
Lea, John, 916.
Lead, 21, 1063; mines, 998.
Learning, Thomas, 227, 232.
Learned, Ebenezer, brigadier general, 281, 810.
Leather, 282.
Leavenworth, Jesse, 594, 601.
Le Brun, Belle tour, 109, 122.
Lee, Arthur, 422, 444, 453, 455, 457, 461, 462, 622, 852, 927, 980, 984, 1010, 1090, 1141, 1183.
Lee, Charles, major general, 158, 295, 332, 492, 1018, 1082, 1171; court martial, 824, 825, 826, 887, 992, 1030, 1059, 1175, 1184, 1188, 1195, 1229, 1234, 1235, 1239, 1287.
Lee, Francis Lightfoot,a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 811; leave of absence, 556; attends, 1112.Committees: Georgia, 53; Mease, 103; Aylett, 144; Board of War's letter, 156; New England convention, 172; Caswell's letter, 179; Canada, 191; Burgoyne's letter, 196; Parsons's letter, 233; violation of flag, 258; commissary department, 271; letter to Lafayette, 278; Lafayette's letter, 287; Wadsworth, 293; Cottineau's letter, 298; Fort Pitt, 314; Henry's letter, 335; Aylett's letter, 341; Clinton's letter, 367; Nova Scotia, 498; clothing, 531; treasury, 1130, 1134; Board of War, 1134; Penet, 1167.Votes: 14, 17, 35, 54, 104, 115, 119, 169, 177, 205, 250, 251, 256, 267, 283, 301, 302, 319, 320, 331, 333, 336, 352, 360, 363, 370, 373, 374, 382, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 482, 483, 489, 496, 500, 503, 515, 528, 529, 1135, 1151, 1152, 1169, 1185, 1195, 1224, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1249, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1261, 1262, 1263.War Board, 47n, 57n, 63n, 108n, 1152n, 1153n, 1182, 1194n, 1209, 1213, 1238.Mentioned: 37, 55n, 156n, 159n, 174, 189, 259, 274, 289, 290, 292, 293, 298, 299, 348, 417, 498n, 581, 1149, 1150, 1163, 1164, 1167, 1168n, 1178, 1181, 1184, 1187, 1194, 1202, 1212, 1215, 1253.
Lee, Henry, major, promoted, 314, 367; instructions on horses, 401; corps, 545.Letters: 397, 768.Mentioned: 630, 717, 777.
Lee, Richard Henry,a delegate from Virginia. Attends, 413; credentials, 811; leave of absence, 1087; charges against Deane, 927.Committees: instructions to foreign commissioners, 414; Washington's letter, 418; ratification of French treaty, 458; address to people, 471; exchange of prisoners, 492; Nova

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Scotia, 498; intercepted letters, 506; prisoner officers, 536; post office, 550; lottery, 556; clothing in Philadelphia, 565; Wadsworth's letter, 572; Howe and Clinton's letters, 573; Washington's letter, 579; Gates's letter, 579; correspondence with enemy, 608; British peace commission, 610; extracts from journals, 615; Brown's letter, 622; ratification of confederation, 656, 678; Marsh's certificate, 674; Hazard, 682; reception of Gérard, 685; public audience, 688; Gérard's speech, 695; Knoblauch, 725; new treasury board, 731; Gérard's audience, 733; Washington's letter, 743; OEllers-Horn, 744; Phillips's letter, 824; defence of Delaware river, 825; De Kalb, 827; money and finance, 843; Rhode Island, 880; Arnold's letter, 886; letters on supplies, 889; Estaing's letter, 892; Estaing's operations, 897; Franklin's instructions, 908; Warren monument, 917; chamber of accounts, 921; motions of enemy, 945; seals, 961; repelling enemy, 981; Lafayette's letter, 1005; finance, 1008; Estaing's letter, 1011; Trumbull's letter, 1011; peace commission 1013; Wadsworth, 1024; reenforcements, 1034; Penet and Couloux, 1059; papers on dispute, 1063. Votes: 460, 482, 483, 489, 496, 500, 503, 515, 528, 529, 592, 610, 614, 618, 619, 620, 632n, 635, 637, 693, 694, 703, 712, 715, 742, 743, 748, 763, 764, 767, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 797, 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 886, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 945, 977, 985, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1037, 1076.Mentioned: 351n, 498n, 618, 619, 706n, 753n, 802, 968n, 1062n, 1090, 1216, 1217.
Lee, Thomas, captain, 160.
Lee, William, 576, 585, 689.
Lee, William, colonel, 640.
Lee and Jones, 717.
Leech, Joseph, 900.
Lefever, Jacob, 279.
Lefferty, Bryan, 726, 729, 798.
Leger, Edward, 1216.
L'Eglise, Dominique, 992, 1056, 1099, 1124.
Leiper, Thomas, 765.
Letter of marque, in French treaty, 436; for South Carolina, 552; of Congress to States, 583.
Letters, intercepted, 506.
Levers, Robert, 680.
Lewis, Andrew, 810, 986.
Lewis, Charles, colonel, 292.
Lewis, Francis,a delegate from New York. Credentials, 1145; leave of absence. 67.Committees: medical department, 9; Blaine's letter, 22; northern department, 197; Livingston's funeral, 593; Aylett's letter, 606; Greene & Co., 1026; commerce, 1217. Votes: 14, 17, 34, 53, 169, 205, 267, 283, 300, 301, 302, 306, 592, 609, 614, 618, 619, 620, 632n, 635, 637, 736, 748, 763, 766, 794, 795, 796, 799, 800, 808, 817, 818, 853, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 885, 886, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 977, 985, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1135, 1151, 1185, 1195, 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1234, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1266,Mentioned: 24n, 179, 633, 835n, 941, 1168n.
Lewis, Francis, Jr., 790.
Lewis, Thomas, 810, 986.
Lexington, brig, 687.
Liberty, schooner, 264, 837, 1087.
Lieutenants, supernumerary, 543.
Lightbourn, John, captain, 1165.
Ligonier, Penn., 510, 1182.
Lincoln, Benjamin, major general, to command in South, 951; money, 1057.Letters, 1148.Mentioned: 1091, 1116, 1120, 1194.
Lindawood, Michael, colonel, 686.
Lindsey, Benjamin, 504.
Lindsey, William, lieutenant, 315.
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Lingrington, John, 775.
Lion, 694.
Lipscomb, Reuben, captain, 154.
Lisle, Romand de, 676, 1136.
List, Friedrich Wilhelm yon de, 969.
Little, James, 790.
Livingston, Abraham, 114, 311, 505, 522, 770, 810, 1095.
Livingston, Henry Beekman, colonel, 1148.
Livingston, Henry P., 1188.
Livingston, James, colonel, 158, 278, 495, 899, 1004, 1124, 1219.
Livingston, Philip,a delegate from New York. Attends, 459; death, 592.Committee: marine, 537. Votes, 460.
Livingston, Robert R., 919n.
Livingston, Walter, 667, 1145.
Livingston, William, money, 208.Letters: 9, 23, 63, 65, 93, 139, 206, 238, 242, 284, 355, 501, 504, 505, 537, 559, 613, 621, 626, 674, 702, 836, 963, 969, 1005, 1062, 1161, 1165, 1180, 1186, 1192.Mentioned: 987.
Loan, confederal, 782.
Loan, foreign, 929, 931; from Tuscany, 120; treasurer of, 692, 724; to Georgia, 660; interest fund, 994; Erkelens, 1106.
Loan office certificates, issue (10,000,000), 59; bills to be borrowed, 322, 472; interest on lottery issues, 415; plate, 659; South Carolina, 682; paper, 710, 719, 735, 937; dating, 784; order on certain issues, 806; issue and accounting, 915; antedating, 1242.
Loan offices, allowance to commissioners, 966.
Lockhart, Patrick, 589, 720, 1060, 1228.
Lomagne,--de, 107.
Long, Nicholas, colonel, 544, 562.
Lord Camden, ship, 522.
Lord Howe, 730, 791.
Loring, Joshua, 1033, 1108, 1111, 1113, 1125, 1134.
Lotbinier, Louis, 39, 158, 175, 241, 419, 495, 607, 706, 790, 899, 1004, 1124, 1219.
Lottery, 24, 161, 372; managers, 349, 410, 556, 966, 1200, 1202; payment of prizes, 415, 568; lists of prizes, 564; State, 930, 1074; prize payments, 967, 1286; allowance to managers, 1102, 1172; drawing, 1172, 1230, 1231, 1283.
Longhead, James, 765.
Louis XVI, King of France, 419, 421, 446, 447, 458, 688, 753, 1035, 1054.
Love, Henry, 797, 851.
Lowell, James,a delegate from Massachusetts Bay. Credentials, 10; powers, 26; money, 689, 1078.Committees: Ticonderoga, 66; hospitals, 94; Mease, 103; brass cannon, 118; intelligence, 127; Aylett, 144; Congress rules, 165; New England convention, 172; Caswell's letter, 179; Heath's letter, 196; Burgoyne's letter, 196; courts martial, 226; Morris's memorial, 227; Pennsylvania representation, 239; Laneuville, 492; intercepted letters, 506; Knoblauch, 725; Britigny, 808; De Kalb, 827; Tetard, 891; Estaing's letter, 892; Pulaski's legion, 940; McNutt, 965; Pickering, 998; Duplessis, 1098; Heath's letter, 1109; Lafayette's letter, 1189; Estaing's Canada address, 1190; McNutt, 1222.Votes: 14, 17, 34, 53, 104, 115, 119, 169, 170, 177, 205, 256, 267, 283, 300, 301, 302, 306, 319, 327, 331, 333, 335, 343, 352, 358, 359, 362, 370, 373, 382, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 482, 483, 489, 495, 499, 503, 515, 528, 529, 591, 609, 614, 617, 618, 619, 620, 632n, 635, 637, 693, 711, 715, 718, 736, 741, 742, 763, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 799, 800, 808, 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 860, 862, 881, 882, 885, 886, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 943, 944, 977, 985, 988, 989, 990, 991, 999, 1036, 1037, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1098, 1135, 1150, 1151, 1169, 1185, 1195, 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257.Mentioned: 122n, 123n, 216n, 340, 622, 722, 970n, 986, 1071n, 1105n, 1226n.
Lovely Nancy, sloop, 1065.
Lowndes, Rawlins, 497, 533, 551, 552, 681, 716, 965, 1137.

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Loyal, Maxwell and, 313, 326, 338, 893.
Loyalists, employment of, 68, 98, 114; resolution, 204, 1282.
Lucas, John, 517.
Lucena, Samuel, 775.
Lademan, J. W., 1193n.
Ludwig, Christopher, 288, 296.
Lumber, Georgia, 164.
Lush, Daniel, 15.
Lutterloh, Henry Emanuel, 195, 965, 1100n.
Lyon, Samuel, 21, 963.
McClane, Moses, captain, 97.
McClelland, James, 325.
McClenachan, Alexander, colonel, 491.
McClenachan, Blair, 21, 264, 494.
McClosky, Patrick, 986, 1080, 1115.
McDonald, Alexander, 271.
McDonald, Allen, 271.
McDonald, Allen, jr., 271.
McDonald, Archibald, 271.
McDonald, John, captain, 1103, 1218.
McDonald, Ronald, 271.
McDougall, Alexander, 87n, 107, 278, 280, 341, 398.
McDowell, Samuel, colonel, 191, 314, 839.
McFarlain, Andrew, 719, 720.
McFedging, Edward, 1202, 1209.
Mcintosh, Lachlan, brigadier general, 559, 561, 572, 573, 589, 720, 1059, 1193.Letters: 63, 1178.
McKean, Thomas,a delegate from Delaware. Credentials, 100; attends, 795; Thompson affair, 1146.Committees: Camp committee, 103; Johnstown treaty, 106; Gates's letter, 106; flour, 126; Congress rules, 165; New England convention, 172, 260; Hooper, 174; Appeals, 177; Washington's letter, 179; Wharton's letter, 180; Canada, 191; Burgoyne's letter, 196; Board of War report, 208; provisions for army, 219; Norris, 276; letter to Lafayette, 278; letter Board of War, 285; Lafayette's letter, 287; Penn-Chew, 497; United Brethren, 498; Vance, 537; Washington's letter, 562; Lafayette's letter, 580; Holker's letter, 619: Georgia letters, 622; Knight, 1005; suspicious characters, 1216. Pennsylvania brigadier, 1260;Votes: 104, 115. 119, 169, 170, 177, 205, 283, 300, 301, 374, 392, 394, 395, 396, 489, 495, 500, 503, 515, 528, 529, 592, 610, 614, 618, 619, 620, 635, 637, 796, 797, 800, 828, 853, 859, 860, 881, 882, 911, 912, 913, 1002, 1003, 1096, 1098, 1151, 1152, 1224, 1232, 1233, 1234, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1249, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.Mentioned: 137n, 140n, 246, 498n, 509, 519, 565n, 974, 1086.
McKey, Isaac, 549.
McKinley, John, 769, 816, 818, 898, 909, 1090.
McKnight, Charles, 186.
McLane, Allan, captain, 1225.
McLeod, Donald, lieutenant, 1131.
McMullen, Patrick, 778, 797, 851.
McMurtrie, William, 793.
McNeil, Hector, 727.
McNutt, Alexander, 965, 1071, 1222.
McPherson, J., 269, 604.
McRee, --, captain, 494.
Magazines of Provisions, in Pennsylvania, 54, 126, 152, 166, 272; guards, 269; east of Hudson's river, 889, 902; for Canada expedition, 919; at Fort Pitt, 1060.
Magee, --, 587.
Magruder, Nathaniel, 1149n.
Malbone, Evan, sen., 1229.
Malbone, Evan, jun., 1229.
Malcolm, William, colonel, 560, 575, 625, 1091, 1260.
Mallet, Daniel, 631.
Mallet, Peter, 631.
Manfort. de, 321.
Manifesto, British peace commission, 1013, 1015; of Congress, 1080.
Manley, John, captain, 724, 749.
Mansfield, Samuel, captain, 1112.

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Marauders, 205.
Marbury, --, colonel, 680, 1118.
Marchant, Henry,a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 575; attends, 575; leave of absence, 1133.Committees: Washington's letter, 579; treasury, 580; Brown, 704; Philadelphia merchants, 734; Pulaski's corps, 776; Towson, 789; Sweers-Flower, 792; Wallace-Love, 798; Britigny, 808; letter Board of War, 839; Caswell's letter, 856; letters on supplies, 889; Beatty's letter, 927; appeals, 947; Stoakes, 949; McNutt, 965; Board of War letter, 971; Houston-Howe, 987; Wadsworth, 1024; purchased paroles, 1065; lottery managers, 1102; Heath's letters, 1109; Oswald, 1112.Votes: 591, 609, 614, 617, 618, 619, 620, 632n, 635, 637, 693, 703, 711, 715, 718, 736, 741, 742, 748, 763, 764, 766, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 799, 800, 808, 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 885, 886, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 977, 985, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1036, 1037, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1098, 1135.Mentioned: 139, 245, 321, 637, 664, 693, 747, 763, 851n, 970n, 1007n, 1037, 1077, 1086, 1095, 1098.
Marine Committee, members, 60, 217, 303, 404, 537, 698, 947, 974, 992, 1106, 1147, 1150; money, 16, 51, 207, 240, 283, 308, 338, 467, 484, 529, 546, 689, 696, 1085, 1095, 1143, 1207, 1244; allowance to clerks, 223, 611; secretary, 952; report, 738.
Marines, memorial, 1165.
Marinaion, --, 841.
Marsh, Ephraim, 674.
Marsh, Joseph, 1174.
Marshall, William, 775, 790.
Marshall, --, 717.
Martin, Robert, 682.
Marven, Richard, 713, 732.
Mary, 904, 1130.
Maryland, credentials of delegates, 59, 1141; money, 89, 225, 280, 355, 385, 402; armed galleys, 385; troops, 578; objections to articles of confederation, 631, 636.
Mason, David, colonel, 112, 138, 241, 299, 744.
Mason, John, 1091.
Massachusetts Bay, credentials of delegates, 10, 629n; powers of, 26; money for board of war, 52, 734n; council, 281, 284, 390, 517, 518, 556, 704, 709, 743, 767, 852, 917, 1186, 1189; money, 94, 689, 717, 718, 750, 775; war office, 321, 507; to sell snowOur Lady, 488; expense of prisoners, 518; Nova Scotia, 518; objections to articles of confederation, 638; militia for Rhode Island, 645; power to sign confederation, 663; clothing troops, 767.
Master of ceremonies, 733.
Masts, intercepting, 1198, 1211; sinking, 1259.
Mathews, John,a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 294; attends, 374; leave of absence, 1129.Committees: Lowndes's letter, 497; extracts from journals, 566; independence anniversary, 641; cannon, 858; appeals, 947; Howe-Lowndes, 965; Board of War letters, 971, 974; Delaware treaty, 986; peace commission, 1013; Rice, 1014; Greene & Co., 1026; War, 1101, 1134. Fetes: 383, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 482, 483, 489, 496, 500, 503, 515, 528, 529, 592, 610, 615, 618, 619, 620, 635, 637, 693, 694, 703, 712, 718, 736, 742, 743, 748, 763, 764, 767, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 797, 854, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 886, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 943, 944, 945, 977, 985, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1020, 1038, 1096, 1098.War board: 1137, 1177n, 1178n.Mentioned: 498n, 581, 968n, 970n, 1029, 1138.
Matthews, George, colonel, 1142, 1153.
Matthews, Sampson, 191, 314, 839.
Matlack, Timothy, 686.

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Maxwell, William, brigadier general, 63, 325, 749, 776, 1026, 1255.
Maxwell and Loyal, 313, 326, 338, 893.
Maybury, Thomas, 815.
Measam, George, 845.
Mease, James, 43, 82, 83, 90, 95, 103, 109, 181, 311, 365, 410, 464, 473, 517, 531, 612, 696, 717, 806, 811, 812, 842, 844, 847, 850, 855, 863, 928, 982, 996, 1027; resigns, 937.
Mease, John, 765.
Medal for Captain White Eyes, 537.
Medical department, to be investigated, 9; motion, 1101; committee, members, 158, 366, 946, 1064.
Medici, Cosmo, 710, 1028, 1188, 1193, 1244.
Medicines from Martinico, 546.
Melcher, Isaac, 504, 805, 1134, 1145, 1172, 1217.
Meng, Wollory, captain, 150.
Mercer, Archibald, 493.
Mercer, Hugh, brigadier general, 49.
Merlet, --, 499.
Mermaid, 743, 747, 809, 840, 889, 916, 964.
Mersereau, Joshua, 1199.
Mey, Florean Charles, 1072.
Michel, John, captain, 694.
Middleton, Henry, 1222.
Mifflin, Benjamin, 240.
Mifflin, Jonathan, Jun., 176, 189.
Mifflin, Thomas, major general, on camp committee, 41, 67; money, 124; to attend Board of Wax, 182; statement as quartermaster general, 211; plan of campaign, 364; to join main army, 520; to command Seneca expedition, 590; resigns, 802; to account, 921. War board, 102, 288, 341, 401, 967n. Letters: 176, 181, 503, 511, 770, 776, 802, 1241, 1245.Mentioned: 206, 219, 220, 224, 225, 244, 268, 273, 591, 748, 971, 1099, 1154n, 1169.
Militia, drafts from, 200; duties, exemption of industrials, 315, 346, 412; disadvantages, 368; exemption of British deserters, 522, 1286; under the confederation, 654; defense of eastern states, 907.
Millar, John, 1220, 1244.
Miller, Heinrich, 893.
Miller, Henry, 507.
Miller, --, 864.
Milligan, James, 113, 114, 262, 531, 544, 557, 814, 1086, 1096.
Mills, Benjamin, 661, 868.
Mingoes, 587.
Minis, Philip, 1071.
Minisinks, 1188.
Minnis and Cohen, 850.
Ministers and civil office, 718.
Ministers plenipotentiary, reception of, 698, 699, 707, 751; form of address, 700.
Miralles, Juan de, 850.
Mississippi river, 632, 1083.
Mitchell, John, 690, 696, 735, 841, 948.
Moffet, --, 1218. Molasses, duty on, 428, 459.
Momet, --, 321.
Mondret, --, 355.
Money, regulation of advances, 52; reduction of circulation, 120; hard, forwarding from Boston, 398; and finance committee, 843.
Monmouth Court House, battle of, 673.
Montague, brig, 909.
Montfort, Julius de, count, 364, 1180, 1210.
Montgomery, Joseph, 391, 397.
Montgomery, Richard, brigadier general, 725.
Montgomery, schooner, 1022.
Montgomery, Port, rations, 26.
Monthieu, --, 316. Montroy, Vicomte de, 1068.
Moore, John, 257, 712.
Moore, Nathaniel, 549.
Moore, Philip, 464, 493.
Moore, Thomas, captain, 1032.
Moore, --, Mrs., 386.
Moore, 493.
Moorehead, Samuel, captain, 719.
Morain, J., 709.
Mordret, Pierre, captain, 826.
Morgan, Daniel, colonel, 97, 843, 1025.
Morgan, George, colonel, certificate in favor, 313; report of Board of War, 869,

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1059.Letters: 275, 313, 490, 537, 584, 626, 656, 955, 1003, 1178, 1180.Mentioned: 195, 325, 341, 493, 839, 1063, 1181.
Morgan, John, 925, 1259.
Morocco, Africa, 426.
Morris, Gouverneur,a delegate from New York. Credentials, 1145; attends, 65; letters, 95, 310; money, 706;Committees: to camp, 67; navy pay, 68; treatment of prisoners, 82; foreign officers and soldiers, 353; instructions to Gates, 355; New Jersey memorial, 356; clothing department, 366; medical committee, 366; cartel, 367; Washington's letter, 389; instructions to foreign commissioners, 414; ratification of treaty with France, 467; address to people, 471; Hay's letter, 490; Nova Scotia, 498; Mifflin's letter, 503, Livingston's report, 504; Board of War letter, 506; Massachusetts-Gardoqui letters, 507; military commissions, 531; recruiting, 532; New Jersey militia, 533; marine, 537; Wadsworth's letter, 563; Howe and Clinton's letters, 573; Beaumarchais, 576; Livingston's funeral, 593; British peace commission, 610; extracts from journals, 615; Holker's letter, 619; foreign despatches, 622; ratification of confederation, 656, 678; Board of War letter, 661; Matlack, 687; public audience, 688; Gérard's speech, 695; Maryen-Shaw, 713; Knoblauch, 725; new treasury board, 731; Gérard's reception, 733; Wadsworth letter, 734; convention troops, 776; Mifflin's resignation, 802; money and finance, 843; Sweers, 857; Estaing's letter, 802; Franklin's instructions, 908; chamber of accounts, 921; enemy's property, 956; seals, 961; clothing, 983; Lafayette's letter, 1005; Estaing's letter, 1011; peace commission, 1013; Lafayette's letter, 1020; James Deane, 1023; New Jersey, 1034; Bedaulx, 1063; papers on dispute, 1063; Warner's officers, 1067; Du Plessis, 1078, 1098; reinforcements, 1084; Johnson-Lee, 1090; Washington's letter, 1102; commissary-quartermaster, 1115; breach of Saratoga convention, 1175; Lafayette's letter, 1189; Estaing's Canada address, 1190; Gérard's letter, 1198; Bingham's letters, 1213; Washington's letter, 1227; campaign, 1250.Votes: 352, 357, 358, 359, 362, 370, 373, 382, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 489, 495, 499, 503, 515, 592, 609, 614, 618, 632n, 635, 637, 703, 711, 715, 718, 741, 742, 763, 764, 766, 773, 774, 794, 796, 799, 800, 808, 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 885, 886, 888, 912, 913, 920, 943, 944, 1002, 1003, 1036, 1037, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1098, 1185, 1195, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1261, 1262, 1263.Reports: 73n, 369n, 371n, 511n, 542n, 546n, 701n, 779n, 786n, 803n, 831n.Mentioned: 156n, 235, 351n, 361n, 468, 498n, 569n, 570n, 581, 615, 711, 774, 861, 871, 873, 933n, 942n, 944, 1002, 1003, 1036, 1052, 1061, 1069n, 1076, 1086, 1097, 1168n, 1192n, 1200.
Morris, John, 1161.
Morris, Jonathan F., lieutenant, 1174.
Morris, Lewis, Jun., 894.
Morris, Robert,a delegate from Pennsylvania. Memorial, 227, 489; tobacco purchases, 739; letter of Johnstone, 771. Letters: 321, 349.Committees: Holker, 713; Wadsworth's letter, 734; Letter Board of War, 839; money and finance, 843; Arnold's letter, 886; letters on supplies, 889; Estaing's operations, 897; chamber of accounts, 921; repelling enemy, 981; brigCommerce, 1059; Penet and Couloux, 1059; Greene & Co., 1060.Votes: 495, 500, 503, 693, 715, 742, 748, 763, 794, 795, 796, 797, 800, 859, 860, 885, 886, 888, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 943, 944, 945, 990, 991, 1002, 1003, 1019.Mentioned: 192, 360, 398n, 668, 678, 702, 709, 723, 734n, 837, 879, 961n, 1288.
Morris, Thomas, captain, 160.
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Morris, brigantine, 739, 823.
Morrison, John, 492, 523.
Morrow, Robert, lieutenant, 405.
Morton, --, 211.
Moseley, David, 698, 863, 1124, 1170.
Motions, procedure on, 534.
Mott, Gershom, captain, 1025, 1213.
Moulder, Joseph, 717.
Moultrie, William, brigadier general, 497, 533, 551, 830.
Mount Independence, evacuation enquiry, 66, 92, 93, 125, 239, 403; report, 593; trial of officers ordered, 628; works to be demolished, 287.
Mountjoy, William, 211.
Moylan, Stephen, colonel, 1147.
Muhlenberg, Peter, brigadier general, 269, 367, 523.
Mullens, Thomas, major, 257, 586, 624, 628, 870, 893.
Mumford, Thomas, 1241.
Murfree, Hardy, major, 282.
Murphy, Daniel, 1005.
Murray, I., 879.
Murray, James, 916.
Murray, --, 1084.
Musters, abuses, 324.
Nabinger, Andrew, 158.
Napier, Francis, lord, 196, 213, 219.
Navarro, Diego Joseph, 713, 1061, 1068.
Navy, commissioners, 29; pay of officers, 61, 65, 68, 73, 272; no foreign officers, 485; fund for constructing, 648; memorial of officers, 676, 1165; to cooperate with Estaing, 685; seamen for, 730; courts martial, 469, 620, 814; list of officers, 914; Deane on, 1132.
Navy Board, continental, members, eastern district, 484, 747, 813, 1102; money, 726, 884, 1085.Letters: 15, 28, 29, 303, 1011.
Neglect of duty, 72.
Neilson, John,a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 1189.Mentioned: 1179.
Nelson, John, jr., brigadier general, 766, 770.
Nesbit, Alexander, 765.
New England Convention.See New Haven.
Neville, Presley, lieutenant colonel, 1069.
Newfoundland, fishing rights, 428, 1045.
New Hampshire, credentials of delegates, 519, 1086; clothing for troops, 57; money, 86, 824, 893, 981; agrees to confederation, 637, 662; militia for Rhode Island, 645; council, 916; on delegates in Congress, 1164.
New Hampshire grants, 916.
New Haven, Conn., convention on prices, 55, 172, 260, 322, 472, 843.
New Jersey, credentials of delegates, 1189; money, 89, 208, 329, 414, 676, 680, 805, 907; council and assembly, 322, 355, 361, 1090; regiments, 361; quartermaster and commissary charges, 504; militia payment, 533; on articles of confederation, 640, 647, 1161, 1164; clothing for brigade, 674; representation, 1034; Dutch Synod, 1192.
New Orleans, 1219.
New Providence, 803.
New York, council letters, 24, 59; militia, 88; money, 98, 627, 630; prisoners' account, 179; command of troops, 275; ratifies articles of confederation, 640; passes into, 779; credentials of delegates, 1144, 1196; after evacuation, 1061; Dutch Synod, 1192.
Niagara, 1043, 1191.
Nicholas, Samuel, 1176.
Nichols, Francis, major, 97.
Nichols, George, 498n.
Nichols, Samuel, 765.
Nichols, William, captain, 235, 245.
Nicholson, Sames, captain, 328, 364.
Nicholson, John, captain, 687.
Nicola, Lewis, colonel, 898, 993, 1079, 1113.
Nicolai, Abbé, 1197.
Nivard, 118, 119.
Nixon, John, 484, 810.
Noarth, George, colonel, 1251, 1253.
Noirmont, --.See La Neuville
Nominations to office, 1077.

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Norman, John, 1000n, 1113, 1130.
Norris, James, 276, 280.
Northampton County, Va., petition of justices and field officers, 208; 212.
North Carolina, money 16, 39, 52, 209, 259, 265, 305, 360, 361, 494, 530, 631, 689, 710, 790, 883, 981; transportation of provisions, 62; pay of troops, 86; nomination of brigadiers, 142; resolutions, 151, 322, 472; embargo, 156; form of delegation, 399; memorial of battalion, 537; battalion, 550; and articles of confederation, 656, 709; credentials, 695, 856; light dragoons, 661, 1193; representation and vote in Congress, 715; to aid South Carolina, 950; clothes for battalion, 1219; brigadiers, 1260.
Northumberland County, Pa., 573, 576.
Norton, Beniah, colonel, 1067.
Norwich, Conn., 951.
Nourse, Joseph, 154, 157, 159, 173, 181, 182, 287, 217, 219, 224, 234, 243, 254, 265, 268, 295, 296, 304, 329, 381, 397, 410, 411, 412, 489, 494, 521, 531, 538, 567, 572, 608, 609, 623, 642, 647, 659, 690, 697, 706, 717, 745, 749, 750, 775, 777, 805, 812, 815, 824, 827, 837, 890, 924, 995; resigns, 879, 916.
Nova Scotia, inhabitants of, memorial, 498, 518; attempt against Nova Scotia, 518.
Oath of paymasters, 12; public officers, 69, 116; allegiance, 98, 114, 1281; treasury, 351, 784, 959; naval courts-martial, 620; members of Congress, 648; on Deane, 942, 943.
O'Bryen, William, 498n.
Octorara creek, 342.
OEllers, James, 744, 971.
Office, civil, and ministers, 718.
Officers, executive, suspension of, 139.
Officers, British, exchanged at Saratoga, 209; detained, 324.
Officers, continental, clothing allowance, 11; half pay to unattached, 19; may dispose of commissions, 19; widows' allowance, 19, 286; prisoner's allowances, 61; in light cavalry, 214; on parole, 511; prisoners on Long Island, 536, 687, 714, 716, 736; rank of staff, 543, 555; rise in regimental line, 552; subsistence allowance, 560, 573; in new army, 570; supernumerary, under Gates, 633; allowance for absence, 878; resignation, 969; disabled, 1031, 1287; appointments, 1137; supernumerary, 1156, 1208; resolves of Congress, 1159; pay, 1166.See Half pay.
Officers, French, 122, 138, 157, 1159; leave to be extended, 177; leaving service of King, 353, 391, 405, 1283; and half pay, 482.
Officers, general, letters of, 58; navy, pay, 61, 65, 68, 73; trial, 469; board of, 1092.
Officers, German, in continental service, 507.
Ohio river, armed boats, 325; loss of boats, 491; lands on, 1180.
Oliphant, David, 830.
Oliveria Pereira, Juan Ignatius de, 487.
Oncoghquaga, 1043, 1070.
Oneida Indians, 456, 563, 588, 1178.
Onions, for army, 236.
Onondagas, 587.
Ordnance, secretary of, 153.
Oster, Martin, 948.
Oswald, Eleazer, lieutenant, 1092, 1112, 1211.
Oswego, 588, 589.
Otis, Samuel Alleyne, 27, 66, 90, 95, 109, 194, 278, 464, 517, 524, 531, 696, 717, 811, 842, 844, 984.
Ottawas, 587.
Ottendorf, Nicholas Dietrich, major, 642.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Anthony, snow, 487, 622, 716.
Outen, John, 802.
Ox teams, 906.
Ozeas, Peter, 247.
Paca, William,a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 1141; attends, 1142.Committees:

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Gérard's letter, 1198; Bingham's letter, 1213.Votes: 1151, 1152, 1185.Mentioned: 1152.
Packet boats, West Indies, France and Spain, 414.
Paine, Robert Treat,a delegate from Massachusetts Bay. Credentials, 10; powers, 26.Letters: 245, 321.
Paine, Thomas, 227, 983.
Palfrey, William, 39, 45, 52, 124, 128, 175, 183, 187, 191, 195, 211, 224, 234, 254, 260, 276, 296, 353, 372, 381, 391, 466, 471, 522, 538, 574, 727, 745, 802, 839, 854, 890, 951, 973, 1014, 1028, 1070, 1078, 1135, 1166, 1170.Letters: 38, 85, 271, 801, 947, 1115.
Pancoast, David, captain, 472.
Paper mould, 415.
Pardons, 381, 1282.
Paris, treaty of, 428, 450.
Park, Theophilus, lieutenant, 472.
Park, --, Dr., 211.
Parker, William, 497, 516.
Parker, --, 231.
Parks, 1144.
Parliament, bill for taxing colonies, 374; commission of peace, 572, 574.
Parole, exchanges on, 343, 521; officers on, 511, 1134; resolution on, 1065, 1146.
Parrish, John, 85, 96.
Parrison, --, 118, 119.
Parsons, Samuel Holden, brigadier general, 844.Letters: 193, 233, 247, 275, 722, 724, 728, 844.
Partridge, George, 769.
Pasky (Paschka?), Christopher, 195.
Passern, William de, 888, 1142.
Passes into New York, 779, 825.
Passports, for vessels, in French treaty, 441, 445; provision vessels, 861, 877, 901, 1016.
Paterson, John, brigadier general 63, 179, 840; trial, 292.
Patterson, William, 125, 238, 292.
Patton, Robert; 113, 387, 633, 1029, 1225, 1265.
Patton, --, colonel, 765.
Patton, Gordon &, 36.
Paul, Andrew, 1219.
Paupers, State support of, 631.
Pay, extraordinary, 8, 178; half pay for unattached officers, 19; paymaster's office, 45; officers in navy, 61, 65, 68, 73; rolls, regimental, 124; commissary of military stores, 146; artillery artificers, 149; signers' bills of credit, 192; officers on parole, 512; in new army, 539.
Paymaster general, assistant, 45; in Rhode Island, 51.
Paymasters, deputy, 21n; Board of War, 153; hospital, 186; Baltimore, 187.
Paymasters, regimental horse, 20; election, 542, 1269; regulation, 924; pay, 1158.
Payneville, James, 360.
Payson, --, 917.
Peace Commission, British.See Commission.
Peale, James, 311.
Pease, for army, 236.
Peck, William, 761.
Peers, John, 889.
Peery, William, captain, 1022.
Peggy, 789.
Peirs, John P., 743n.
Pemberton, Israel, 8.
Pemberton, James, 211.
Penet, Pierre, 1059, 1167, 1185n.
Penhallow, John, 992.
Penitents, return of, 381.
Penn, Gabriel, 1216.
Penn, John,a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials, 695; attends, 695; to visit hospitals, 23; money, 209, 790.Committees: hospitals, 94; Georgia, 120; Aylett, 144; army, 186; marine, 698; Pulaski's corps, 776; Towson, 789.Votes: 35, 54, 104, 115, 119, 169, 170, 177, 205, 251, 256, 267, 268, 703, 712, 718, 736, 742, 743, 748, 763, 764, 767, 794, 795, 796, 797, 800, 808, 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 876, 881, 882, 885, 886, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 945, 977, 989, 990, 991, 994, 1000, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1020, 1037, 1076,

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1093, 1094, 1096, 1098, 1135, 1151, 1152, 1169, 1185, 1195, 1248, 1249, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1258, 1262, 1263.Mentioned: 39, 143, 156n, 709, 836n, 855, 856, 883, 885, 1086.
Penn, John, 288, 260, 497, 503.
Pennell, Joseph, 717, 765.
Pennington, Catharine, 914.
Pennington, Ephraim, captain, 49, 61, 1208.
Pennington, Miles, 914.
Pennsylvania, credentials of delegates, 100, 1160; council letters, 10, 18, 25, 36, 95, 123, 125, 151, 170, 172, 232, 239, 272, 287, 418, 497, 508, 573, 574, 641, 686, 825, 848, 1004; project of attack, 36, 58; magazines of provisions, 55, 152, 166, 189, 194, 272, 361; money, 155, 243, 642, 659, 900, 922; prisoners in Virginia, 238, 260; protection against disaffected, 270; flour purchases, 284; bounty to Hartley's regiment 288, 343; horses, 296, 353; united brethern, 498; defense of frontiers, 507, 510, 518, 1132; militia, 416, 611, 1103; clothing for troops, 612, 887; assembly letter, 518; objections to confederation, 652; memorial of officers, 676; lead mines, 998; frontiers, 1103; return of troops, 1199; brigadier, 1260.
Pennsylvania Farmer, 42.
Penrose, Isaac, 798.
Penrose, Samuel, 798.
Pensions, office of, 19; for disability, 953, 956.
Pentz, George, 279.
Pequea creek, 342.
Peters, Richard, leave of absence, 555; salary, 1014.War Board, 102, 105, 108n, 120n, 149n, 150n, 220, 257n, 276n, 288, 291n, 341, 401, 642, 790, 829, 838n, 854n, 865, 866, 867, 868, 869, 934, 954n, 967n, 1012, 1056, 1131, 1137, 1152n, 1153n, 1177n, 1178n, 1182, 1194n, 1209, 1213.Mentioned: 103n, 120n, 149n, 150n, 173, 199n, 212n, 270n, 313n, 509n, 527, 545n, 560n, 729n, 730n, 762, 764, 858n, 868n, 907n, 926n, 952n, 970n, 981n, 993n, 1030n, 1057n, 1066, 1084n, 1104n, 1131, 1134, 1153n, 1176n, 1193n, 1201, 1228n.
Peters, T., 525.
Petersburgh, Va., 202.
Pettit, Charles, assistant quartermaster general, 210, 623.
Peyton, Henry, cornet, 315.
Pfifer, Martin, captain, 413.
Philadelphia, Penn., insult to inhabitants, 571; evacuation, 571; Congress adjourns to, 641, 671; supplies purchased by clothier, 702; merchants' petition, 713, 735, 1202, 1223; property of enemy, 714, 792, 892, 904, 955, 1055, 1202, 1223; militia required, 865; confederal troops, 922; seizures and contracts, 1055; overseers of poor, 1174; suspicious characters, 1216.
Phile, Frederick, 765.
Philips, Peter, 1086, 1096.
Phillips, William, major general, 197, 672, 679, 824, 970, 1264.
Phillips, William, 298, 326.
Phoeenix, 227.
Pickering, Timothy, on camp committee, 41, 67; disciplined for letter, 747, 761, 764; salary, 1014; leave of absence, 1015.War board: 220, 257n, 276n, 288, 291n, 341, 401, 642, 790, 829, 838n, 854n, 865, 866, 867, 868, 869, 934, 954n, 967n, 1012, 1056, 1131.Mentioned: 21, 151n, 199n, 206n, 381, 525, 533n, 568n, 576n, 611n, 613, 634n, 636n, 644, 645n, 697n, 737n, 765, 865n, 867n, 998, 1128.
Pickerton, (or Pinkerton), John, 719, 839.
Pierce, Phinehas, lieutenant, 634, 1115.
Pierce, Timothy, lieutenant, 60, 634.
Pierre, --, 118, 119.
Pigot, Robert, 33, 523.
Pigot, schooner, 1132.
Pilots for French ships, 676, 683.
Pinkerton (or Pickerton), John, 719, 839.
Pintard, John, 461n.
Piper, John, colonel, 679, 680.
Pirates, 433.

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Pitt, Fort, 191, 313, 341, 467, 568, 869, 1193; regiments for, 416; bounty dothing, 573; Indian conference, 568, 588, 626; magazines, 1060; damaged provisions, 1178.
Pittsylvania Court House, Va., 202.
Plater, George,a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 59, 1141; attends, 363.Committees: Marine, 404.Votes: 370, 373 374, 382, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 482, 483, 489, 496, 500, 503, 515, 528, 529, 592, 610, 614, 618, 619, 620. 635, 637, 712, 718, 736, 742, 748, 763 764, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 797, 800, 808, 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 885 886, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 945.Mentioned: 498n, 581.
Plombard, --, 1098.
Poll tax, 929.
Pollock, Coshman [Cushman?], 850.
Pollock, Oliver, 709, 769, 1000, 1083.
Polly, 909, 1024.
Ponceaux, --de, 180.
Pontgibaud, -- de, 107, 1097, 1105.
Pontière, de, 180.
Poor, Enoch, brigadier general, 18, 63, 179; trial, 292.
Pork, North Carolina, 156; for army, 236; damaged, 487.
Ports, free, in French treaty, 443.
Portugal, representations on snowOur Lady, 488.
Post office, committee on, 550, 770; under confederation, 652; revenue from, 930.
Postlethwaite, Samuel, captain, 404, 647.
Potts, Jonathan, 100, 131, 191, 361, 504, 581, 746, 863, 1101, 1124.
Potts grove, Penn., flour, 54, 166.
Pourein, John, 1072.
Powell, Jeremiah, 663.
Prescott, Richard, major general, 295, 333.
President of Congress, allowance to, 733, 1213, 1214, 1222.
Press, printing, for army, 20.
Preston, Elizabeth, 1241.
Prevost, Augustine, brigadier, 458.
Prevost, --, Mrs., 458.
Price, Richard, 984.
Prices, flour, 55; limitation of prices, 569, 990, 1288; New Haven convention, see New Haven.
Prices, New England convention, 55, 172, 260, 322, 472.
Prichard, Joseph, 792.
Priest, for Indians, 1189.
Prince of Wales, prison ship, 963.
Princeton, N. J., hospital, 157; quartermasters, 238, 242.
Prisoners, list of convention, 30; allowance to officers, 61, 511; treatment of American, 74, 193, 203, 521, 558, 723, 905, 1281; citizen, 81; manifesto on treatment, 81; at Winchester, 98; clothing, 101; money due, 135; New York account, 179; Port Frederick, 180; Port Washington, 255; exchange, 194, 197, 219, 262, 266, 329, 367, 492, 520, 617, 848, 1033, 1146, 1213, 1240; enlistment, 203, 966, 1159; navy, 272; accounts, 258, 266; committee on cartel, 294, 370; suppiles, 330, 861, 934, 1111; commissary general, 367; taken by French, 690, 751; retaliation, 723; condition of exchanged, 746; French, 909, 1010; taken at sea, 933; exchanged officers, 1095; recall of paroled, 1134.
Privateers, instructions to captains, 196, 225; in French treaty, 436; proclamation, 486, 1285; encouragement to, 691.
Prizes, regulation, 88, 112; for Georgia ports, 165; in French treaty, 434; purchase of French, 814; appeal law of Massachusetts, 1022; distribution of money, 1133; references, 298, 326, 939.
Proctor, Francis, captain, 1209.
Proctor, Thomas, colonel, 366n, 827, 865, 1072, 1174.
Profanity, 1001.
Promotions, rule of, 1157, 1269.
Providence, R. I., convention, 759.
Providence, 29.
Provisions, for army, committee on, 22, 53; transportation of, 62, 385; purchase,

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94, 181, 194, 219, 236, 244; supply and returns, 245; unwholesome, 249; Head of Elk, 569.
Provisions, salted, to be appropriated, 51; purchase, 55; in Virginia, 458.
Provost, arrangement of, 541; men for, 729.
Prownal, Joseph, 719.
Prudence, brig, 841.
Pulaski, corps, 291, 294, 308, 312, 364, 643, 776, 916, 981, 983, 1124, 1192n, 1199, 1210, 1282; money, 300, 489, 538, 824, 1028; deserters, 939, 965; to march to South Carolina, 951; to Princeton, 969; resisted State, 974.Letters: 291, 566, 809, 867, 904, 922, 973, 979, 1020, 1056, 1061, 1065, 1090, 1099, 1161n, 1180, 1184, 1188, 1206, 1215,
Purcell, Henry, 178. Pursers, 1133.
Purviance, John, 151, 1148.
Purviance, Samuel & Robert, 41, 51, 89, 337, 349, 493.
Putnam, Israel, major general, 743, 803, 845.Letters: 204, 225, 275, 341, 673.
Pynchon, William, 1027, 1063.
Quartermaster general, Board of War on, 102, 103; need of appointing, 103; report on, 126; officers, 138, 185, 186, 210; accounts, 182; arrangement, 210; removal of Princeton officers, 238, 242; regimental, 542; to be investigated, 591; account of money, 745, 749; salaries of deputies, 1031; frauds charged, 1083; committee to superintend, 1115, 1245.
Quebec, 1041, 1042, 1191.
Queen of France, 740.
Question, previous, 1018.
Quotas of states, 638, 649, 1023, 1266.
Racing, horse, 1001.
Raden, Fanny, 801, 825.
Rac, James, 951.
Raleigh, 749.
Randolph, Benjamin, 735, 765, 827.
Randolph, Peyton, 1222.
Randolph, Fort, 869, 1181.
Rank, 542, 1270, 1289; commissary of military stores, 146; for particular service, 156n; of those leaving the king's service, 407; of brevet commissions, 410; questions of, 1092; regulation, 1154.
Ransom, --, captain, 634.
Rathbun, John Peck, 297.
Rations, 252, 550, 560, 581, 838; settlement for back, 863; prisoner, 1111.
Rawlings, Moses, colonel, 329, 836, 993, 1149n.
Raymondis, Chevalier de, 1140.
Read, George, 68, 128, 246, 260.
Read, James, 1085, 1102.
Reading, Penn., flour, 166, 269.
Recruiting, accounts for, 132; for army, 179; for war, 532.
Reed, Bowes, 1163, 1189.
Reed, James, 258, 998.
Reed, Joseph,a delegate from Pennsylvania. Attended, 310, 688; leave of absence, 335; letter from Johnstone, 701; attempt to bribe, 771.Committees: to camp, 41; Rhode Island failure, 322; New Jersey representation, 322; Wadsworth, 324; White's arrest, 328; Massachusetts, 709; Henry's letter, 710; Gates's letter, 723; Flower, 724; appeals, 724; reply to Gérard's speech, 730; Gérard's reception, 733; Washington's letter, 737; criminal laws, 738; Mifflin's resignation, 802; Pulaski's legion, 940; motions of enemy, 945; enemy's property, 956; Board of War letters, 971; repelling enemy, 981; clothing, 996; Lafayette's letter, 1020.Votes: 319, 327, 336, 693, 703, 712, 715, 718, 736, 748, 794, 795, 796, 797, 800, 915, 940, 977, 988, 989, 990, 991, 999, 1000, 1003.Letters: 310, 921, 1196, 1229.Mentioned: 328n, 330n, 570, 668, 717, 735, 939, 966n, 970n, 977, 998n, 1079.
Reed, Thomas, 311, 353, 372, 574.
Regiments, reduction of, 40; arrangement of, 514.

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Reiger, Gotleib, 240.
Reinforcements, 1034, 1084, 1091.
Reinhold, G., 1200.
Religion and morals, 1001.
Reprisal, 914.
Residents, reception of, 698, 700; form of address, 700.
Resignation of officers, 969.
Retaliation, 1082, 1129.
Returns, army, 8.
Revenge, cutter, 1022, 1256.
Reynold, John, 1006.
Reynolds, Mrs., 1114.
Rhoads, Jacob, 744.
Rhode Island, credentials of delegates, 575; defense of, 46; officers, 46, 51, 94, 188; inquiry, 93, 290, 322; money, 414, 415, 646, 659, resolution of Assembly, 585; troops for defense, 605, 645, 758; objections to articles of confederation 638; council of war, 642, 880, 1006; gallies, 646; Estaing at, 848; affair, 894; clothing, 1006.
Rice, George, captain, 1014, 1173, 1170, 1221.
Rice, imports, 52; Georgia, 164; exports, 199; exemption from embargo, 815; embargo on, 1121; purchase of, 1221, 1225.
Richardson, William, 1209.
Rickman, William, 230.
Ridgely, R., 1141.
Ritchie, Robert, 1072.
Rittenhouse, David, 1028.
Roberdeau, Daniel,a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 1160; leave of absence, 337, 763; attends, 534, 1161; excused from treasury, 244.Committees: New York, 24; treasury, 60; commissary department, 92; hospitals, 94; Wharton's letter, 180; army, 186; fast day, 207; reception of Gérard, 685; Franks, 1026; lottery managers, 1102; marine, 1150.Votes: 14, 17, 35, 104, 115, 119, 169, 170, 177, 205, 250, 251, 256, 267, 283, 302, 306, 319, 336, 592, 610, 614, 632n, 635, 637, 763, 773, 774, 808, 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 885, 886, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 945, 985, 999, 1000, 1002, 1003, 1019, 1037, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1098, 1135, 1151, 1169, 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1248, 1249, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.Mentioned: 67, 303, 581, 632, 633, 641, 668, 970n, 1001, 1165n.
Roberdeau Fort, 1103.
Roberts, Robert, 778.
Roberts, Robert, jun., 775.
Rochefoucauld, Duke de, 604.
Roche Fontaine, Bechet de, 926.
Rodney, Cæsar,a delegate from Delaware. Credentials, 100.Letters: 246, 403, 519, 904, 1027, 1090, 1107, 1122, 1143, 1161, 1241.Mentioned: 509.
Rogers, Nicholas, major, 150, 1161, 1209.
Rogers, William, 586.
Rolls, pay, 124; of militia drafts, 200.
Root, Jesse,a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 1219; attends, 1219.Committees: Board of War, 1241; campaign, 1250.Votes: 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.Mentioned: 99n, 1077.
Rose, Alexander, 90, 234.
Ross, John, 739.
Ross, Richard, 814, 1115.
Rowan, James, 790.
Royson, James, 790.
Rudisell, John, 1125.
Rum, 48, 277, 491.
Rush, Benjamin, resignation, 101, 131; health of soldiers, 1289. Letters, 9, 23, 92, 93, 128, 303, 568.
Rush, Jacob, 94n, 95, 96, 108.
Rush, William, 778.
Rush, William, 775.
Russel, Thomas, 717.
Russell, Nathaniel, 114.
Russell, William, colonel, 247.
Rutland, 556. Rutledge, Hugh, 670.
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Sadler, Matthias, captain, 1215n.
St. Augustine, 837n.
St. Clair, Arthur, major general, trial, 292; conduct at Ticonderoga, 593, 600, 987, 988, 1175, 1187, 1225, 1288.
St. John's, capitulation of, 30.
Sally, 799.
Salomon, Haym, 840.
Salt, 29, 41, 42, 48, 84, 85, 87, 277; works, 111; taken from Learning, 232; Wilcocks, 793.
Saltpetre, 21.
Sandford, Thomas, 258.
Saratoga, convention of alleged breach of, 13, 30, 501, 876, 964, 1175; officers exchanged, 209, 1084, 1145; exchange regulation, 520, 1140; supplies, 45, 492, 523, 532, 672, 861, 1016; disposition of in Massachusetts, 32, 42, 44, 172, 184, 213, 216, 556; release demanded, 776, 880; clothing, 824; removal of troops, 876, 901, 992, 1016; embarkation, 16, 33, 880; ratification, 880; accounts, 970; officers going to New York, 984; paroles, 1065; quartering of officers, 1175; guards, 1196; exchange proposed, 1264.
Saunders, Robert Hyde, lieutenant, 86.
Savage, S. P., 717.
Saverit, Pierre, 735.
Sayre, Stephen, 725.
Scammell, Alexander, 21, 56.
Schentz, Peter, 1209.
Schultz, Peter, 178, 240.
Schuyler, Philip,a delegate from New York. Credentials, 1145; at Indian treaty, 106, 111; trial, 292; Ticonderoga inquiry, 595, 601, 1001, 1175, 1186, 1195, 1289.Letters: 66, 74, 171, 203, 291, 402, 403, 456, 536, 563, 579, 587, 613, 674, 679, 723, 992, 1018, 1109, 1136, 1177, 1198.Mentioned: 697, 798, 1056, 1084.
Schuyler, Fort, 456, 1043, 1044, 1177.
Schweighauser, John D., 810.
Scott, Charles, brigadier general, 63, 254, 269, 850.
Scott, John Morin, 1197.
Scott, William, captain, 39, 287, 288, 308, 310.
Scott, --, 1057.
Scriber, Peter, 561.
Scudder, Nathaniel,a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 1189; attends, 133, 621, 985, 1259; leave of absence, 529, 673.Committees: medical, 158; Hooper 174; army, 186; fast day, 207; letter Board of War, 285; Treasury, 293; Wadsworth, 302; New Jersey representation, 322; Buchanan, 328; Henry'sletter, 335; Aylett's letter, 341; marine, 404; Washington's letter, 743; clothier general, 768; Howe's letter, 816; defence of Delaware river, 825; Pickering, 998; Rice, 1014; New Jersey, 1034; surgeons, 1038; Bedaulx, 1063; purchased paroles, 1065; Wyoming settlers, 1070; quartermaster general's department, 1083; Gridley, 1094; Washington's letter, 1102; Heath's letters, 1109; commissary-quartermaster. 1115.Votes: 169, 170, 177, 205, 250, 251, 256, 267, 283, 300, 301, 302, 319, 327, 331, 333, 336, 343, 352, 357, 358, 359, 362, 370, 373, 382, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 482, 483, 489, 495, 500, 503, 515, 632n, 635, 637, 715, 718, 736, 742, 748, 763, 764, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 797, 799, 800, 808, 817, 818, 853, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1037, 1096, 1098, 1135, 1151, 1169, 1185, 1195, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.Mentioned: 156n: 177n, 328n, 498n, 629, 1095, 1162, 1179.
Scull, Peter, major, 1077, 1101, 1107.
Sea letters in French treaty, 441, 445.
Seagrove, James, 1141.
Seals for Treasury and navy, 961.
Seamen, bounties to, 29, 1119, 1133; captured by France, 1040.
Search, right of, in French treaty, 442.
Searle, James,a delegate from Pennsylvania, credentials, 1161; attends, 1161.Committees: Penet, 1167; clothing, 1176; Board of Wax letters, 1201; commerce, 1217.Votes: 1169, 1185, 1195, 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1234, 1236, 1237,

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1238, 1261, 1262, 1263.Mentioned: 813, 963, 966, 967, 1168n, 1239.
Sears, Isaac, 90.
Secret committee, accounts of, 878, 1216. Secretary of Congress, allowance to clerks, 223, 611.
Secretary of ordnance, 153; to major general, pay, 402; brigadier, 574.
Sellers, Nathan, 415.
Sellers, William, 993.
Senecas, 587, 589, 721, 829, 868, 1181; chiefs, 675, 697.
Senf, Christian, captain, 945.
Sergeant, Jonathan Dickinson, 125, 367.
Shallus, George, 1125.
Shalor, Timothy, 940.
Shaw, Nathaniel, 207, 689, 690, 1101.
Shaw, Samuel, 713, 732.
Shawanese, 568, 587.
Sheaffe, William, 765.
Shearman, John, 536, 557.
Shoe, John, 790, 1100n.
Sheftall, Mordecai, 1069, 1070.
Sheldon, Elisha, colonel, 1179.
Shelton, --, 1059.
Sheppard, Abraham, colonel, 85, 304.
Sheppard's town, Va., 202.
Sherburne, Henry, major, 304.
Sherman, Roger,a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 171, 1219; attends, 389, 970; leave of absence, 1222; money, 660.Committees: evacuation of Ticonderoga, 403; instructions to foreign courts, 414; Board of War letter, 471; clothing, 531; lottery, 556; Lafayette's letter, 580; treasury, 580; Sullivan's letter, 630; Wharton, 687; Brown, 704; Massachusetts, 709; clothier general, 768; arrangement of army, 769; Board of War letter, 971; clothing, 983; Celt's letter, 988; finance, 1008; Wadsworth, 1024; reenforcements, 1034; Penet and Couloux, 1059; purchased paroles, 1065; Warner's officers, 1067; quartermaster general's department, 1083; war, 1101, 1241; Oswald, 1112.Votes: 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 482, 483, 489, 495, 499, 503, 515, 528, 529, 591, 609, 614, 617, 618, 619, 620, 632n, 635, 637, 693, 703, 711, 715, 718, 736, 741, 742, 748, 763, 764, 766, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 799, 800, 977, 985, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1036, 1037, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1098, 1135, 1150, 1151, 1169, 1185, 1195, 1224, 1226.War board: 1137, 1152n, 1153n, 1177n, 1178n, 1182, 1194n, 1209, 1213.Mentioned: 156, 498n, 546n, 717, 970n, 1025n, 1075n, 1077, 1079, 1085, 1159n, 1168n, 1174n, 1185n, 1199, 1208.
Shippen, William,a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials 1161.
Shippen, William, jun., 60, 93, 128, 186, 187, 303, 365, 527, 568, 997, 1130.
Shoemaker, Henry, colonel, 686.
Shoes, 679, 995.
Shott, John Paul, 1038.
Shreve, Israel, colonel, 341, 1026.
Shultz, Peter, 178, 240.
Shultz, --, 864.
Shute, William, 765.
Signals, French fleet, 691.
Sigonie, --, 107.
Silver, prices, 990, 1288.
Simon, Joseph, 112, 190, 1108, 1111.
Simon and Campbell, 195.
Simonet de Valcour, John, captain, 1179.
Simpson, Southy, 190.
Sitgreaves, J., 669.
Six Nations, 456, 587.
Skimmer, --, captain, 909, 946.
Skinner, William, 282.
Slops, 1133.
Smallwood, William, brigadier general, 66, 88, 279, 328, 342, 351, 352, 368, 383, 384, 391, 397.
Smith, Belcher Peartree, 95n, 157, 223, 254n, 893, 955n, 1089n, 1108n, 1153, 1256.
Smith, Francis Joseph, 730.
Smith, Hezekiah, 810.
Smith, Isaac, 298, 326.
Smith, Jahleel, 234.

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Smith, James,a delegate from Pennsylvania.Committees: New York, 24; camp committee, 87; Ticonderoga, 93; Gates's letter, 106; appeals, 177; Wharton's letter, 180; Burgoyne's letter, 196; courts-martial, 226; Parsons's letter, 233; Champion's letter, 233; Penn and Chew, 260; flour, 284; Ebenezer Sullivan, 289; Board of War report, 305; Penn-Chew, 497; instructions to foreign commissioners, 559; Washington's letter, 562; Wallace-Love, 798; Harper, 838; enemy's property, 956.Votes: 14, 17, 35, 54, 104, 119, 169, 170, 177, 205, 250, 251, 256, 267, 283, 300, 301, 302, 306, 331, 333, 343, 352, 357, 358, 359, 862, 370, 373, 460, 482, 483, 489, 495, 500, 503, 515, 528, 529, 635, 637, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 797, 800, 817, 818, 853, 859, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 888, 890, 895, 896, 943, 944, 945, 977, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1002, 1003, 1135.Mentioned: 137n, 240, 507, 659, 668, 704, 723, 889, 970n, 1008, 1088n.
Smith, Jonathan Bayard,a delegate from Pennsylvania. Money, 143.Committees: Pennsylvania, 18; Blaine's letter, 22; Board of War, 47; commissariat, 51; journals, 58; treasury, 60; treatment of prisoners, 82; salt, 86; intelligence, 127; provisions for army, 219; treasury, 244; Fort Pitt, 314; militia duties, 315; violation of flag, 344; Clinton's letters, 367; Indian affairs, 403; Board of War letters, 506, 661; Estaing's arrival, 683.Votes: 14, 17, 35, 54, 104, 115, 119, 205, 250, 251, 256, 267, 319, 327, 331, 333, 335, 343, 352, 357, 358, 359, 362, 370, 373, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 482, 483, 489, 500, 503, 515, 610, 614, 618, 619, 620, 632n. War board: 63n.Mentioned: 37n, 156n, 498n, 668, 1289.
Smith, Josiah, 114, 1256.
Smith, Matthew, lieutenant colonel, 190.
Smith, Meriwether,a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 811; attends, 963.Committees: Convention troops, 970; Knight, 1005; finance, 1008; Estaing's letter, 1011; Greene & Co., 1026; property of enemy, 1055; commerce, 1064; Warner's officers, 1067; Wyoming settlers, 1070; Britigny, 1140; marine, 1147; Francy, 1168; Oswald, 1211; commerce, 1217; Washington's letter, 1227; army expenses, 1235; campaign, 1250; Morgan, 1259.Votes: 977, 985, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1037, 1093, 1096, 1098, 1135, 1151, 1152, 1169, 1195, 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1234, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1249, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1258, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1266.Mentioned: 1065n, 1075, 1232.
Smith, Resolve, 566, 905, 967, 1086, 1096.
Smith, Robert, captain, secretary to Board of War, 546, 641.
Smith, Samuel, jun., 1239.
Smith, Thomas, 22, 182, 183, 187, 247, 263, 296, 311, 325, 353, 361, 372, 494, 522, 623, 777, 798, 805, 892, 899, 900, 966, 967, 1020, 1027, 1063, 1101, 1130, 1169, 1171, 1172, 1217.
Smith, Thomas, 507, 815, 824, 834.
Smith, William, lieutenant colonel, 176.
Smith, William, 338, 364, 467.
Smith, William, 484, 546, 709, 710, 1123.
Smith, Codman and, 717.
Smith, Hewes and, 99, 121, 419, 467, 690, 702, 955, 972, 1057.
Smyth, John F. D., 1125.
Snowden, Isaac, 717, 724, 1173.
Snowden, Joseph, 765.
Snowden, Jedediah, 765.
Soldiers, continental, clothing 11; venereal disease, 23; sick and wounded, 284; provision for disabled, 953, 1031, 1287; leaving service of king, 353; health of, 1289.
South Carolina, credentials of delegates, 294; money, 224, 939, 946; navy, 298; accounts, 498, 551; loan officers, 497, 516; continental stores, 551; military chest, 553; on articles of confederation,

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652; clothiers and loan office certificates, 682; defense, 949, 1021, 1025, 1091; assembly, 1095, 1116; hospital, 1113; military establishment, 1137; brigadier, 1260.
Spain, packet boats, 414; in French treaty, 454.
Spanganberg, 864.
Spangler, George, 763.
Spangler, John, 279.
Spaulding, Simon, lieutenant, 60, 634, 1115.
Specie, 530, 851, 1142.
Speedwell, snow, 739.
Speedwell, sloop, 940.
Spencer, Oliver, colonel, 586.
Spencer, Joseph, major general, resignation, 47, 94, 188, 760; letters, 25, 46.
Spencer; Robert, 1135.
Springfield, Mass., convention, 760.
Sproat, James, 142.
Stables, Congress, 335.
Standard, regiment, 514; captured, 633.
Stanton, William, 276.
Stanwix, Fort, 1043.
Stark, Caleb, 509.
Stark, John, brigadier general, on Canada expedition, 87; under Gates, 360; for Seneca expedition, 590.Mentioned: 491, 509, 516, 580, 1020, 1078.
States, action on Congress resolutions, 260; laws to be observed, 273; police and Congress, 352; to lay off lands for foreign deserters, 409; clothing of quotas, 545, 812, 996; battalions to be raised, 634; boundaries, 649; laws conferring criminal jurisdiction in Congress, 738; money from, 826; bills of credit, 930, 982; new, 931.
Steddiford, Garret, 836.
Stedman, Benjamin, captain, 234.
Steel, Archibald, 101, 199, 206.
Steel, 56, 65.
Steele, John, captain, 1225.
Stelle, Benjamin; 660, 924, 1100.
Stephens, David, 1055.
Stephenson, Hugh, captain, 412.
Steuben, Baron de, services accepted, 50; inspector general, 465, 819, 914, 1153; horses for, 533; sent to Rhode Island, 849.Letters, 43, 367, 484, 516, 904, 952, 1165, 1180.Mentioned: 180, 633, 683, 866.
Stevens, Ebenezer, major, 150, 410, 1158.
Stevens, Edward, 101, 105.
Stevenson, James, 523, 1153, 1207.
Stevenson, William, 1086.
Steward, Stephen, 26, 364, 841, 889, 905, 948.
Steward to President, 1223.
Stewart, Charles, colonel, 288, 464, 805, 1023.
Stewart, Duncan, 674.
Stiles, Joseph, 1085.
Stirling, Lord, major general, 458, 1013, 1021, 1023, 1056, 1062, 1067, 1099, 1112, 1134, 1188, 1198.
Stoakes, Hezekiah, 949.
Stockings, 1229.
Stockton, Thomas, 284.
Stockton, Richard, major, 525.
Stoddard, Josiah, captain, 641n, 1179.
Stoddard, Daniel.See Stodder, David.
Stoddard, John, 743n, 921, 964.
Stoddard, Josiah, captain, 724, 758, 819, 827, 851, 1066, 1095, 1221.
Stodder, David, 326, 338.
Stone, Thomas,a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 59; attends, 948.Committees: Board of War letter, 974.Votes: 977, 985, 988, 989.
Stoneburner, Leonard, 1100.
Storer, Ebenezer, 298, 326.
Stores, military, commissionary general, 141, 144.
Storey, William, 735, 747.
Straker, William, 730, 790.
Strangers, surveillance of, 277.
Strangeways, Sephen D., captain, 1033.
Strape, Henry, lieutenant, 472.
Stretch, Peter, 765.
Strettle, Amos, 1130.
Stroud, Jacob, 680.
Stuart, Thomas 282.
Subsistence money, 1158.

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Sullivan, Ebenezer, captain, 280, 288, 296, 304, 970.
Sullivan, John, major general, thanked, 894.Letters, 121, 516, 563, 576, 579, 585, 630, 645, 769, 801, 812, 825, 836, 843, 848, 880, 884, 898, 907, 913, 963, 969, 970, 980, 1062, 1109, 1112, 1161, 1177.Mentioned: 296, 605, 1006.
Sullivan, Samuel H., 748.
Sulphur, 21.
Sumner, Jethro, colonel, 142, 1260.
Sumner, John, colonel, 1238.
Surgeons, regimental, 1038, 1159, 1192.
Susannah, brig, 992.
Susquehannah River, guard at ferries, 277; boats, 329, 342.
Sutherland, Nicholas, lieutenant colonel, 282.
Sutton, John, captain, 1220, 1243.
Swaine, Thomas, 585.
Swanwick, John, 349.
Swasey, Joseph, major, 640.
Sweeps, Cornelius, 65, 89, 182, 628, 656, 661, 698, 737, 741, 750, 752, 791, 809, 827, 831, 837, 857.
Sweeps, Hannah, 827.
Swoope, Michael, 181, 661, 735, 1212.
Swoope, E., Mrs., 633.
Tabby, schooner, 919, 1141.
Talbot, Silas, major, 1109, 1132.
Talbut, Thomas, 326.
Tallemon, --, 608.
Tallmadge, Benjamin, major, 1179.
Tallow, 858.
Tartanson, Francis, captain, 971, 1012.
Tassis, Joseph, 1122.
Taxes, apportionment, 638; continental, 659, 1073, 1223; poll, 929.
Taylor, Amelia, 804.
Taylor, Claver, 1227, 1229.
Taylor, Hynman, 864.
Taylor, Yelverton, 1024, 1061.
Tazewell, John, 259.
Telfair, Edward,a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 685; attends, 685; leave of absence, 1129.Committees: commerce, 690; new treasury board, 731; Howe's letter, 816; Britigny, 940; Howe Lowndes, 965; Houston-Howe, 987; Howe's letter, 1091.Votes:693, 694, 703, 712, 715, 718, 736, 742, 743, 748, 763, 764, 767, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 797, 800, 801, 808, 817, 818, 828, 854, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 876, 881, 882, 885, 886, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 945, 977, 985, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1020, 1037, 1038, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1098.Mentioned: 351n, 939n.
Temple, Benjamin, colonel, 494, 1152, 1154, 1171.
Temple, John, 858, 1186, 1201.
Ten Broek, Derck, 224, 290, 411, 745, 1124.
Tench, Watkin, 743n.
Tender laws, repeal recommended, 1073.
Tents for army, 20, 24; agent for purchasing, 126.
Ternant, John, lieutenant colonel, 952, 965, 973.
Tetard, John Peter, 891.
Tew, David, 1073.
Thanks, service of, 641; thanksgiving, 1110, 1135, 1188, 1288.
Thaxter, John, 223, 474, 658, 993, 995.
Theater discouraged, 1001, 1018.
Thompson, Eben, 520, 662, 1087, 1164.
Thompson, George, 258.
Thompson, Thomas, captain, 749.
Thompson, William, brigadier general, 97, 912, 1146, 1148, 1150, 1153, 1161, 1199, 1200, 1227, 1239, 1249, 1250.
Thomson, Charles, 21n, 53, 94n, 97n, 98n, 99, 122, 125n, 156n, 177n, 200n, 206n, 244, 255n, 312, 328n, 331n, 333n, 334, 389, 393n, 398n, 409n, 502n, 543n, 615n, 648n, 678n, 757n, 886n, 907n, 919n, 933n, 935n, 1008n, 1042, 1062n, 1192, 1249n; allowance, 159; to attest military commissions, 547; sickness, 1013n.
Thomson, Peter, 717, 724, 1173.
Thorne, William, 765.

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Thruston, --, colonel, 39, 288.
Thuliers, Randerode de, Baron, 1034, 1141, 1183, 1214.
Ticonderoga, evacuation inquiry, 66, 92, 93, 125, 239, 403; report, 593; trial of officers ordered, 628; cannon at, 95, 221; court martial of officers, 226; works to be demolished, 287.
Tillinghast, Daniel, 21.
Tisdale, William, 549.
Tiverton, R. I., 585.
Tobacco, purchased by commercial committee, 687, 738, 941; onChase, 841; onBraxton, 926; to pay debts, 1067.
Tonnage tax, in France, 424.
Tousard, Louis, captain, 566, 580.
Touzard, --, Mons., 1068.
Towne, Benjamin, 1209.
Towson, Thomas, 691, 694, 789, 802.
Tracey, John, 90.
Tracy, Frederick, 623, 712.
Trade, regulation of foreign, 648; with enemy, 1005.
Treadwell, Jacob, 992.
Treasury, Board of, members, 60, 244, 264, 293, 580, 1130, 1134; allowance to clerks, 223, 611; new board, 349, 731; office for, 538; days for considering, 776, 787; organization, 779; debate, 828, 836, 884, 891, 897, 898, 915, 921, 956, 1008, 1287; attendance at, 891; salaries, 1077.
Treasurer of loans, 692, 724.
Treasurer, duties of, 782, 956, 958, 1077.
Treaties with France: powers, 419, 446; amity and commerce, 421; alliance, 448; secret act, 454; received, 417; ratified, 457; excepted articles, 459; ratification, 462; publication on, 467, 468, 1149; printing, 1101, 1283; information, 1283.
Tredwell, Jonathan, 1064.
Trenton ferry, 789.
Treusson, Chevalier de, 1211.
Trial, sloop, 549.
Trials of navy officers, 469.
Tripoli, Africa, 426.
Troup, Robert, lieutenant colonel, 496, 560.
Trumbull, Jonathan, Governor. Letters, 91, 92, 171, 337, 501, 560, 563, 630, 674, 835, 852, 897, 1011, 1062, 1091, 1094, 1106, 1112, 1186.Mentioned: 278, 645, 844, 910, 1101.
Trumbull, Jonathan, Jun. Money, 16, 110, 174, 217, 280, 290, 411, 609, 726; comptroller, 1085, 1096.Letters, 14, 91, 95, 171, 233, 245, 501, 980, 1011, 1220.Mentioned: 45, 82, 456.
Trumbull, Joseph, 29, 171, 240, 245, 337, 353, 363, 501, 509, 844, 852, 1008, 1091.
Tryon, William, 563.
Tucker, Henry, 1058.
Tunis, Africa, 426.
Tupper, Benjamin, colonel, 85, 297, 326.
Turnbull, William, 506, 544, 815, 832.
Turquand, Paul, 233, 257.
Tuscany, loan from, 120; commissioners' instructions, 505, 547; co missions, 546.
Tuscarora Indians, 456, 563, 588.
Two Friends, 493.
Unandilla, 1070.
United Brethren of Pennsylvania, 498.
Utrecht, treaty of, 428.
Vacancies in line, 1157.
Van Camp, Benjamin, 1080.
Vance, John, captain, 537, 556.
Van Cortlandt, Pierre, 667, 1145.
Van Dyke, Nicholas,a delegate from Delaware. Credentials, 100; attends, 861, 1154.Votes: 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 885, 886, 888, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920.
Vanest, Isaac, 923.
Van Heer, Bartholomew, captain, 729.
Van Schaick, Goose, colonel, 278.
Vantassels, -- 193.
Varick, Richard, 324, 601.
Varnum, James Mitchell, brigadier general, 63, 1215.

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Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Comte de, 421, 447, 462, 688, 689, 754, 1197.
Vermont, 917.
Verner, Frederick, 797, 848, 1198.
Vessels, armed, construction in Massachusetts, 16; purchase of Barry's prize, 246; in Virginia, 326, 338, 893; captured in West Indies, 837; employment as transports, 1064.
Vienne, Marquis de, 692, 1066.
Vienna, commissioner's instructions, 505, 546; commissions, 547.
Vigors, --, captain, 218.
Villefranche, Chevalier de, 7.
Vinegar, 686.
Vining, Benjamin, 100.
Virginia, credentials of delegates, 811; troops, 226, 253, 260, 416, 611, 721; Pennsylvania prisoners in, 238, 260; meat and wagons, 265; armed vessels constructing, 326, 338, 893; money, 329, 609; armed galleys, 385; militia officers, 417, 465; provisions in, 458; on articles of confederation, 652; cargo ofFier Roderique, 584, 678; to aid South Carolina, 950; arrears to militia, 1038.
Virginia, frigate, 328, 363.
Virginia, ship, 740.
Visits, rules for foreign representatives, 700.
Visscher, Matthew, 852.
Votes, members of Congress, 359; of State, 534.
Vouchers, loss of, 137.
Vrigny, -- de, 107, 1033, 1059, 1061, 1071.
Vrooman, --, 1145.
Wadsworth, Jeremiah, commissary general of purchases, 327; money, 361, 623, 900, 1063, 1217; resigns, 1024.Letters: 220, 563, 569, 572, 578, 692, 734, 744, 831, 857, 909, 968, 1009, 1013, 1024.Mentioned: 141, 225, 258, 293, 302, 303, 305, 324, 327, 328, 344, 348, 686, 834, 1060, 1100, 1101.
Wagons, commissary of, 126; Virginia, 265; wages of wagoners, 273; for southward, 302.
Wales, Eleazer, 114, 245, 1078n.
Walker, Jacob, captain, 1213.
Walker, John, 9, 38.
Walker, Robert, 1025.
Wallace, Hugh, 910.
Wallace, --, adjutant, 797, 851.
Walter, Joseph, 765.
Walton, George,a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 685.Mentioned: 1070.
Walton, John,a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 685; attends, 712.Votes: 715, 718, 736, 748, 854, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 876, 881, 882, 885, 886, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 943, 944, 945, 977, 985, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1020, 1037, 1038, 1096.
War, Board of, secretary, 21, 23, 342, 410, 466, 611, 641, 1077, 1095, 1101; on Folger, 41; members, 47, 1101, 1134, 1241; on quartermaster general, 102, 103; money, 60, 86, 92, 157, 181, 284, 623, 647, 924, 1175, 1207; paymaster, 153; auditor of accounts, 154; foreign officers, 155; allowance to clerks, 223, 611; accounts, 279; courts martial, 362; administrationpro tem., 371; Smith, secretary, 546; composition of, 1076; commissioner, 1077.
Ward, Joseph, 1004.
Ward master, hospital, 130.
Ward, Henry, 575, 663, 665.
Warner, Elisha, 193.
Warner, Seth, colonel, 1067, 1166.
Warren, James, 27, 121, 746, 768, 919.
Warren, John, Dr., 918.
Warren, Joseph, major general, 917.
Warren, schooner, 412.
Warren, frigate, 608.
Washington, George, general, aids de camp, 15; to aid commissaries, 55; to appoint court martial on Ticonderoga,

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125; to name officers for quartermaster general's department, 138; to send general to Rhode Island, 188; to limit parties, 205; to employ Indiana, 221; authorized to call out militia, 309; reply to complaints of, 329, 333, 342, 343; powers of, 384; form plan of campaign, 364, 369, 397, to appoint officer to command at Fort Pitt, 417; to consider proposed arrangement of army, 570; and Ferguson, 616, to try officers on Ticonderoga, 628; to cooperate with Estaing, 684; to report on inspectorship, 823; specie for, 851; to command Gates, 1038; officers convention troops, 1152; to appoint cavalry general, 1158; on Canada expedition, 1190, to attend Congress, 1230; committee of conference, 1235, 1250.Letters: 10, 18, 27, 38, 44, 64, 66, 88, 93, 101, 111, 126, 155, 178, 179, 189, 192, 194, 197, 225, 226, 258, 262, 264, 265, 266, 269, 272, 274, 275, 278, 279, 290, 292, 300, 303, 310, 314, 334, 341, 348, 354, 357, 367, 369, 374, 380, 389, 396, 403, 418, 458, 465, 492, 496, 509, 516, 520, 537, 547, 559, 560, 562, 563, 564, 566, 571, 572, 576, 579, 585, 593, 605, 617, 626, 629, 632, 642, 672, 676, 688, 697, 722, 737, 743, 767, 768, 770, 787, 801, 802, 803, 809, 812, 819, 824, 825, 829, 836, 843, 848, 853, 862, 880, 884, 889, 896, 913, 914, 919, 922, 963, 980, 987, 1004, 1025, 1053, 1070, 1078, 1084, 1102, 1115, 1132, 1140, 1142, 1145, 1147, 1149, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1166, 1175, 1176, 1183, 1185, 1186, 1190, 1198, 1214, 1227, 1230, 1240, 1246.Mentioned: 8, 20, 24, 36, 42, 49, 58, 76, 107, 119, 127, 137, 149, 154, 186, 187, 218, 220, 228, 237, 240, 253, 254, 257, 258, 270, 278, 290, 291, 294, 326, 353, 361, 364, 368, 370, 410, 481, 498, 507, 516, 545, 591, 604, 643, 759, 771, 779, 861, 868, 902, 906, 910, 969, 1005, 1016, 1033, 1034, 1052, 1062, 1077, 1080, 1090, 1092, 1105, 1112, 1126, 1136, 1154, 1171, 1180, 1213, 1226.
Washington, Samuel, colonel, 9, 191.
Washington, W. A., major, 1147.
Washington, Fort, 255.
Waterbury, David, 1066.
Watts, Henry, 570.
Wayne, Anthony, brigadier general, 84, 108, 404, 516, 519, 647, 908.
Weare, Meshech, 520, 662, 674, 835, 981, 1011, 1182, 1201.
Weaver, William, A., 1159n.
Webb, Charles, colonel, 278.
Webb, Samuel Blatchley, colonel, 247.
Webb, Thomas, 67.
Weedon, William, brigadier general, 15, 63, 187, 269, 544, 810, 850; rank, 807.
Welles, James, 1086, 1096.
Welles, John, 1078n.
Wentworth, John, Jun.,a delegate from New Hampshire. Credentials, 519, 1087; attends, 555; money 824.Committees: extracts from journals, 566; treasury, 580; Sullivan's letter, 630.Votes: 591, 609, 614, 617.
Wereat, John, 727, 818, 1000.
Wefts, Mary, 1214.
West, Samuel, 100.
West, William, major, 391, 508.
Westcot, Richard, 688.
West Florida, 671.
West Indies, packet boats, 414; captured vessels, 837; expedition to, 1046.
Westmoreland, Penn., 247, 261, 263, 344, 509, 634, 635.
Wharton, Carpenter, 687.
Wharton, Isaac, 713.
Wharton, John, 412, 493, 715, 842, 956, 1085, 1102.
Wharton, Thomas, 713.
Wharton, Thomas, Jun., 55, 497.Letters: 10, 180, 194.
Wheat, Clifton, lieutenant, 218.
Wheat, 906, 1064.
Wheelock, Eleazer, 73, 106, 1166, 1230.
Wheelock, --, lieutenant colonel, 1174n, 1230.
Whetcomb, Benjamin, major, 1175.
Whipple, Abraham, 1165.

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Whipple, William,a delegate from New Hampshire. Credentials, 1087; attends 1102.Committees: Washington's letter 1102; marine, 1106; commissary-quartermaster, 1115; commerce, 1123; McNutt, 1222.Votes: 1135, 1150, 1151, 1169 1185, 1195, 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1236 1237, 1238, 1248, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1261, 1262, 1266.Mentioned: 85, 1168n.
Whiskey, 57.
White, James, 586.
White, John, colonel, 1239.
White, Joseph, 177.
White, Thomas, 285, 328, 342, 351, 352, 519.
White and Chaloner, 713.
White, --, colonel, 727.
White, --, 1029.
White, in articles of confederation, 650, 652.
White Eyes, captain, 537, 588.
Whitefield, James, 622, 630, 670.
Whitesides, Peter, & Co., 738, 837.
Whitney, Ephraim, 1182.
Widdifield, William, 719.
Widows, officers', allowance, 19, 286.
Wilcocks, Alexander, 793, 852, 892, 955.
Wilcocks, John, 143, 793, 852, 892, 955.
Wilkins, John, captain, 1225.
Wille, August, 680.
Wileman, Thomas, 258.
Wilford, Richard R., 207, 209, 218.
Wilkinson, James, brigadier general, secretary Board of War, 21, 24; resigns, 297; relinquishes rank of brigadier, 226.Letters: 171, 190. Williams, Benjamin, captain, 86, 96, 690.
Williams, John,a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials, 695; attends, 743; leave of absence, 1222; money, 924, 1110, 1223.Committee: Britigny, 940, 1140.Votes: 748, 763, 767, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 797, 800, 808, 817, 818, 828, 853, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 876, 881, 882, 885, 880, 890, 895, 896, 911, 912, 913, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 945, 977, 985, 989, 990, 991, 994, 999, 1000, 1002, 1003, 1017, 1019, 1020, 1038, 1076, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1098, 1135, 1151, 1152, 1169, 1185, 1195, 1248, 1249, 1257, 1258.Mentioned: 669, 856.
Williams, John, colonel, 86, 90.
Williams, Jonathan, 805, 1148, 1249.
Williams, Otho H., 1025.
Williams, Robert, 710.
Williams, John, ensign, 234.
Willing, James, captain, 106, 184, 1000, 1083, 1219.
Willoe, Samuel, captain, 218.
Willson, William, 869.
Wilson, James, 192.
Wilson, James [or Joseph], 765, 790.
Wilson, James Armstrong, major, 108, 404, 525, 560, 647.
Wilson, --, Mrs., 791, 801.
Winchester, Va., prisoners at, 98.
Winder, William, 1085, 1102.
Windermeyer, Philip, 240.
Winds, William, brigadier general, 390.
Winey, Jacob, 522.
Witherspoon, John,a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 1189; attends, 1161; money, 157, 805, 1108.Committees: medical department, 9; Pennsylvania, 18; treatment of prisoners, 81; salt, 86; commissary department, 92; hospitals, 94; Congress rules, 165; New England convention, 172, 260; intercepted letters, 506; Massachusetts, 517; clothing, 531; New Jersey militia, 533; post office, 550; Washington's letter, 562; Howe and Clinton's letters, 573; Lafayette's letter, 580; British peace commission, 610; Holker's letter, 619; foreign despatches, 622; Gérard's speech, 695; reply to Gérard's speech, 730; new treasury board, 731; convention troops, 776; Mifflin's resignation, 802; money and finance, 843; cannon, 858; Warren monument, 917; chamber of accounts, 921; Morgan, 925; Beatty's letter, 927; Pulaski's legion, 940; seals, 961; James Deane, 1023; Colt's letter, 988; Lafayette's letter, 1005; instructions to

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Franklin, 1005; finance, 1008; New Jersey, 1034; Beatty's letter, 1103; McNutt, 1222.Votes: 14, 17, 34, 54, 104, 115, 119, 169, 170, 177, 528, 529, 592, 609, 614, 618, 619, 620, 635, 637, 693, 712, 715, 718, 763, 764, 767, 773, 774, 794, 795, 796, 797, 799, 800, 853, 859, 860, 862, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 881, 882, 915, 920, 940, 943, 944, 988, 989, 990, 991, 994, 1000, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1019, 1037, 1093, 1224, 1226, 1232, 1233, 1234, 1236, 1237, 1238, 1248, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1257, 1261, 1266.Mentioned: 351n, 561, 617, 694, 1010n, 1114n, 1162, 1179, 1246n.
Wolcott, Oliver,a delegate from Connecticut. Attends, 170; credentials, 171; leave of absence, 673.Committees: convention prisoners, 173; army, 186; Canada, 191; Heath's letter, 196; northern department, 197; Champion's letter, 233; treasury, 293; Fort Pitt, 314; commerce, 337.Votes: 205, 250, 251, 256, 283, 300, 301, 302, 306, 319, 327, 335, 352, 357, 358, 359, 362, 370, 373, 382, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 400, 401, 409, 460, 482, 483, 489, 495, 499, 503, 515, 528, 529, 591, 609, 614, 632n, 635, 637.Mentioned: 213n, 235, 413, 647.
Wolf, Peter, 279.
Wood, Joseph,a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 685. Committee: New York, 24.Votes: 14, 17, 35, 54, 104, 115, 119, 169, 170, 177, 205.
Wood, Vincent, doctor, 218.
Woodford, William, brigadier general, 155, 269; rank, 807.
Woodhouse, William, 1029.
Wooldridge, Robert, 914.
Woolsey, William, 533.
Wrecks, in French treaty, 434.
Wright, Benjamin, 85, 96.
Wright, Elizabeth, 1214.
Wright, Joseph, 85, 96.
Wurmser, Dagobert Sigismond, comte, de, 499.
Wyandots, 587.
Wylie, Thomas, captain, 150.
Wyllys, George, 171, 665, 1220.
Wynkoop, Jacobus, 1207.
Wyoming, Indian incursion, 721, 1043, 1070.
Wythe, George, 121, 259.
Yard, --, Mrs., 1021.
Yauncey, Robert, 1172.
Yeasel, Michael, 240.
York, Penn., town major, 277; removal of Congress, 325, 641, 671; gaol, 526; petition, 592; convention prisoners, 1017.
York county, Penn., militia, 49, 61.
Yorke, Margaret, 1214.
Young, John, 706.
Young, John, jr., 765.
Young, Moses, 219, 329, 1206n.
Zane, Isaac, 85, 96, 98.
Zantzinger, Paul, 84.
Zedwitz, Harman, 297.
Ziegler, Gottlieb, 173.
Zielinske, John de, 364.
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