Narrows, the, fort at, 243.
Nash, Francis, General, 299.
Negroes, conspiracy of in Boston, 41.
New England, 120, 265.
New Englanders, 207.
Inaction of, 245.
New York, City of, arms and ammunition seized by people of, 50.
Appoints Provincial Congress, 51.
New York, ports of, closed, 51.
New York, troops collecting at, attack on expected, 194, 205, 260.
Niles, Captain, 344.
Noailles, Comte de, returns to France, 398.
Non-consumption agreement, 12.
Nook's Hill, engagement at, 140.
Norton, Rev. John, ix.
Officers, 248, 276, 305.
Officers, French, visit of to Boston, 342.
Offices, public, unfaithfulness in, 228.
Oliver, Andrew, Chief Justice, 24, 29.
Paine, Eunice, notice of, 36.
Paine, R. T. delegate to Philadelphia, 5.
Paine, Thomas, author of "Common Sense" and "The Forester," 167.
Palmer, Joseph, 43, 81.
Paper, high price of, 362.
Parliament, act of, to enable prisoners to be sent to England, 268.
Party spirit, American, in France, 354.
Paulus Hook, 232.
Peabody, Rev. Mr., xiv.
Peace, no hopes of, 396.
Peace treaty of, agreed upon, 405.
Preliminary articles of signed, 413, xxiii.
Peale, Mr., 215, 216.
Pennsylvania, divided state of political opinion in, 231.
Constitution of, opposition to, 280.
German inhabitants of, their torpor and awkwardness, 323.
Philadelphia, meeting of Congress at, 5, 39.
Removal of inhabitants from, 249.
Rumors of Howe's advance on, 268, 291.
Lethargic state of, 280.
Description of country around, 278.
Pins, scarcity of, 82.
Plot, a, to conduct the British fleet up the Delaware River, 252.
Politics, American, extraordinary state of in France, 356.
Portia, assumed name of A. A., 53.
Ports, of New York, 51. Of Philadelphia, 153.
Southern, precautions for defense of, 147.
Potter's Field, two thousand soldiers buried in, 259.
Powder, arrival of from South Carolina, etc., 90.
Precious stones, Duke of Orleans' collection of, 380.
Press, the, necessity of regulating, 11.
Prevost, General, 362.
Prices, high, 182.
Congress legislates upon, 240, 261.
Prices current, 301, 387.
Prisoners, of Brig _Essex_, treatment of, 74.
Exchange of, 257, 302.
Privateers, 153, 220.
Success of, 270.
Privateering, act of Provincial Congress authorizing, 124.
Rage for, in Boston, 230.
Prizes, two taken in Massachusetts Bay, 170, 175.
Proclamation for Independence read and proclaimed in Boston, 204.
Produce, West India, High prices of, 130.
Prospect Hill, 92.
Provinces, United, Alliance with, 393.
Provisions, scarcity of in Boston, 79.
Purviance, Mr., dinner party at house of, 248.
Putnam, Israel, General, 233.
Quakers, armed in Philadelphia, 60, 314.
Quincy, Elizabeth, mother of A. A., ix.
Quincy, John, ix., xii.
Quincy, Col. Josiah, 34.
Quincy, Josiah, Jr., accompanies J. A. to Falmouth, 10.
Departs for Europe, 49.
Death of, 50.
Memoir of, 53.
Quincy, Mrs. Josiah, visit of A. A., to, 53.
Quincy, Norton, notice of, 27, 117.
Quincy, Samuel, notice of, 10, 11, 21, 154.
Randolph, Peyton, 37, 88.
Red Bank, engagement at, 322.
Refugees, in England, mischievous writings of, 404.
Rents, House, low rates of in Boston, 220.
Representatives, delay in election of, in Pennsylvania, 231.
Resolves, Suffolk, by whom passed, 33.
Revolution, The, memorials of, v.
Influence of private individuals in forming, vi.
Female influence, vii.
Rhode Island, 234, 261, 345.
Rice, Nathan, 24, 35, 52.
Richardson, Ebenezer, engaged in a mob in Boston, 15.
Richmond, Duke of, 332.
Riviere, Monsieur, 342.
Roberdeau, General Daniel, 174.
Mr. Adams lodges at house of, 315.
Rousseau, J. J., 349.
Russell, Mr., bearer of petition from Charlestown to Congress, 273.
Rutledge, John, Governor of South Carolina, 198, 223.
Sachems, Indian, visit of, to Cambridge, 131.
Salt, made by women and children, 301.
Saltpetre, private manufacture of, 150.
Sapling, Simple, 80.
Saratoga, Blockade of. Drama written by Burgoyne, 321.
Sartine, M. de, 347.
Savannah, Siege of, 370.
Saville, Sir George, destruction of his house by mob, 382.
Sayward, Dr., 5, 9.
Schuyler, General Philip, 295.
_Sensible_, Frigate, Mr. Adams embarks in, 364, 367.
Springs aleak, 370.
Service, Postal, 279.
Sewall, David, notice of, 3.
Shaw, Rev. John, xiv.
Shepard, Rev. Thomas, ix.
Son of, ix.
Shipley, Dr. Jonathan, Bishop of St. Asaph, 35.
Ships, merchant, fleet of, arrival of, from England, 1.
Ships, merchant, chased by men-of-war, 270.
Sickness, abatement of, in Braintree, 111.
Simitiere, M. du, designs for government. Medal and seal, 210.
Skene, Major Philip, commissioned governor of Ticonderoga,
imprisonment of, 61.
Sloops, Eastern, arrival of, in Boston, 152.
Small-pox, prevalence of, in Canada, 189;
in Boston, 204.