Act, limiting prices,239,243,262,307.Act, Tender, repeal of,390.Adams, Abigail.Illness of,1.Apprehensions of war,25,xviii.Read Rollin's Ancient History,25.Visit to Colonel Quincy's,34.Visit to her brother,41.Visit to Boston Garrison,41.Opinion of slavery,41.Portia, assumed name of,53.Hospitality to soldiers,57.Her house in Boston deserted,63.Impressions of Generals Washington and Lee,79.Illness of friends,94.Her own illness,95.Death of her mother,102.Loss of relatives,106.Dines at Major Mifflin's with Generals Gates and Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Dr. McHenry, etc.,128.Describes events preceding the evacuation of Boston,137-141.Appointed on Ladies' Committee,163.Visits Roxbury,180.Visit to Plymouth,185.Goes on board the brigDefence,186.Visits Boston with her family to be inoculated for the small-pox,200.Reflections on Declaration of Independence,201.Visit to Mrs. Samuel Adams,225.Entertains judges of the Superior Court,227.Brother of, sails in theDarter,269.Success in farming,272.Fears another invasion,274.Disapproves retaliatory spirit towards the enemy,275.Removes from Boston,287.Visits Boston on occasion of Burgoyne's surrender,321.Anniversary of her marriage,322,xxi.Letters to her son, John Quincy Adams,334,395.Entertains French officers,342.Dines on board French frigate,342.Ill health of her father,384.Applied to in behalf of prisoners,400.Receives goods from Paris,401.Joins her husband in Europe,xxiii.Life at Court,xxiv.Returns to America,xxv.Letter on occasion of her husband's election to the Presidency,xxvi.Declining years,xxviii.Death of her daughter,xxix.Obsequies,xxix.Letters desired for publication,xxxi.Adams, John.Indisposition of,1.Habits of daily exercise,1.Compares his own success with that of friends,3.Chosen delegate to Philadelphia,5,xvii.Independent of party contest,7.Visit to Wells,10.Arrival at Falmouth,11.Engaged in the case of Richard King, of Scarborough,19.Dines with Mr. Collector Waldo,20.Despondency,21.Starts for Philadelphia,23,xvi.Thoughts of, on the education of his children,28.Attends meeting of Dr. Allison,46.Visits Roman chapel,46.Leaves Philadelphia,47.Leaves home on his second mission to Congress,50,xvii.Reception at New York,54.Accident,55.Ill state of eyes,58.Difficult labors,61.Letters intercepted by the British,85.Appointment as chief justice,93.Arrival in Philadelphia,99.Illness of his family,100,xix.Present crisis foreseen,105.Death of his wife's mother,108.One of committee to collect account of hostilities, etc.,110.Visit to Colonel Mifflin's, dines with Indian sachems,131.Starts on third mission to Congress,131.Arrival in Philadelphia,132.Injurious stories concerning,136.Letter written entitled "Thoughts on Government,"158.Urges fortification of Boston Harbor,167,172.Offers resolve in Congress for adoption of independent government,174.Appointed on committee thereon,174.Desires to move his family to Philadelphia,175.Appointment as President of Board of War and Ordnance,189.Prophecies of the anniversary of American Independence,193.Health affected by attention to business,200.Urges sending troops from Massachusetts,203.Requests leave of absence,209.Suggests Gribelin's Hercules as device for government seal,211.Desires to resign the office of chief justice,215.Report that he is poisoned,222.Chosen on committee to confer with Lord Howe,223.Rumor of his death,225.Returns home,233.Sets out for Baltimore,233.Accepts hospitality of Dr. Sprague,233.Incidents of journey,234-237.Route followed,234.Resigns his office of chief justice,244.Approves of annual election of General officers,248.Observations upon the conduct of Lord Howe and his brother,258.Visits Mrs. Wells's exhibition of wax-work,271.Troubled with severe cold,272.Maintains the duty of forgiveness of enemies,279.His "Thoughts on Government," factious use made of,280.His part in establishing the American navy,282.Letter to John Quincy Adams,284.Exhorts New Englanders to exertion,289.Anticipations of Howe's invasion,291.His admiration of South Carolina,292.His views on the advance of Howe upon Philadelphia,297-302.His meanness of living,304.Impatience for action,304.His views on the result of a battle,305.Precarious state of private affairs,310.Does not mourn the loss of Philadelphia,315.Arrival in Portsmouth, N. H.,325.Engaged in admiralty cause,326.Is commissioned to go to France,326,xxi.Departs for France,326,xxi.Arrival at Passy,329.First impressions of France,329.Sends goods to his wife,333,344.Condemns luxury,334.News of arrival, brought in a prize,337.Letters destroyed by Capt. Welch,338.Good health,345.Witnesses illumination at Paris,349.Complains of neglect of Congress,356.Announces intention of returning to America,359.Visits St. Denis and Montmartre,360.Leaves Paris,363.By invitation of the King takes passage in theSensible,364.Reaches home,367.Again ordered abroad,367.Vessel springs a leak,370.Lands in Spain,370.Travels by land to Paris,370.Dines with Lieutenant-general Don Joseph Saint Vincent,370.With French officers,371.Studies Spanish,372.Arrival at Corunna,372.Visits the governors of the province and town,373.Arrives at Bilbao,373.Hardships of the journey,374.Arrival in Paris,374.The Prince of Hesse Cassel,374.Expenses of journey, etc.,375.Visit to Abbés Chalut and Arnoux with his children,376.Visit to the Jardin du Roi,379.Visits the Palais Royal, Tuileries, etc.,381.Exorbitant expense of living,382.Arrival in Amsterdam,386.Sends his sons to Leyden,388.Illness,396.Transmits money for release of crew of theEssex,404.Sends his resignation to Congress,410.Appointed minister to England,xxiii.Is joined by Mrs. Adams,xxiii.Return to America,xxv.Becomes Vice-President,xxv.President of the United States,xxv.Adams, John Quincy, placed under tutors,35.Letters of,49,128.Accompanies his father to France,327.Returns home,364.Again visits Europe,367.Enters University of Leyden,388.Residence at St. Petersburg,397.Adams, Charles, son of John Adams, accompanies his father to the Hague,367,370.Enters academy in Paris,374;Leyden University,388.Health of,396.Return to America,399.Adams, Elihu, notice of,94.Adams, Nabby, daughter of John Adams,27,40,100,128.Illness of,163.Adams, Samuel,5,28,208,315,xv.,xviii.Adams, Mrs. Samuel,31,89,222,225.Adams, Thomas B., son of John Adams. Illness of,95,100,397.Admiralty Cause,326.Allen, Mr.,371.Allison, Francis, DD., notice of,46,238.Alliance, Frigate,340,356,362,376,379,387.Alliance, Triple, of France, Spain, and America,372.Angier, Oakes,24,36,183.Archives, American,30.Arms, and Ordnance, arrival of, at Portsmouth,268.The King's, taken from Boston State House,204.Army, Continental, Committee for continuing,113.At Crown Point, wretched condition of,195.Marches through Philadelphia,298,323,393.Army, Howe's, landing of,299.Advance of,307,314.Occupies Philadelphia,320.Army, regular, plan for forming,228.Arnold, Benedict, General,276,294,391.Assembly, Colonial, at Hartford,50.Baltimore, City of, description of,237.Congress assembles in,238.Barrell, William,77,217.Battery, floating, assault on Boston by,112.Bays, Chesapeake and Delaware, description of,295.Bennington, battle of,295.Bergen, Point,232.Bernard, Governor,383.Bethlehem, Penn., manufactories at,240.Description of town,240.Biddle, Edward, Speaker, illness of,84.Biddle, Nicholas, Captain, Prizes taken by,315.Bilbao,373.Boston, city of, rumored bombardment of,31.Fortifications in,33.Melancholy condition of,51,54,112.Fire,57.Martial law established,80,112.Evacuation of,141,149,156.Small-pox,227.Troops dismissed,254.Invasion feared,287.Boston Harbor, fortifications of,171.Boston, Frigate, Mr. Adams sails in,326.Reported taken,336,338.Bounties,229,333.Bowdoin, James,5,204.Boylston, Thomas,286.Brackett, Dr. Joshua,325.Bradbury, Theophilus, notice of,3.Braintree, town of, political meeting in,30,41,179.Seizure of powder,34.Mortality in,95,xix.Brandywine, battle of,312.Brattle, William, Colonel, plot of,29.His flight,29.Brigantine, French, arrival of, at Philadelphia,208.British, the cruelties of,266.British soldiers, abuses of,13,87.Bullock, Archibald, Governor of Georgia,198.Bunker's Hill, battle of,67,71,142.Burgoyne, John, General,87,157,299,311.Surrender of,319,321,325,xxii.Burne, the barber,164,264.Byles, Mather, Dr., anecdote of,218.Campbell, Colonel,245.Canada, Continental troops in,189.Cannonade, by American troops, on Boston,137.Cannon, destruction of, at Boston,156.Carlisle, Lord, arrival of, in England,352.Carroll, Charles, commissioner to Canada,135.Carroll, John, accompanies committees to Canada,135.Cathcart, Captain of PrivateerEssex,400.Escape of,401.Chaplains, appointed by Congress,320.Charlestown, seizure of powder at,33.Burning of,67.People of, petition Congress,273.Chelsea, battle at,62,69.Chesapeake Bay, Howe's fleetenters,294.Church, Benjamin, Dr.,59,62,78,108,113,117.Church, Dutch, at Easton,236.Clergy, of Massachusetts, their power,ix.Clinton, Sir Henry,87.Proclamation of,391.Coffee and sugar secreted by merchants,286.College, Harvard, neglected state of,212,x.College, Nassau Hall, visit of J. A. to,26.Colonies, raising of troops by,51.Separation from Great Britain,173.Independence of declared,191.Colonies, Southern,132,198.Commissioners to Congress,143,154,158.Committee of Congress, to Hartford,50.To Canada,135,139.Of Safety,62,111.Of Ladies,163.Committee chosen to wait on Lord Howe,223."Common Sense," Pamphlet entitled,134.Comments on,146.See Paine.Confederation, plan of,320.Congress, assembles at Philadelphia,31,xvii.Opening of,37,39.Adjourns,47.Members enter the army,59.Appoints George Washington to be Commander-in-Chief,65.Address of,88.Meeting of,99,xvii.Passes resolution of Independence,173.Meets at Baltimore,239.Removes to Philadelphia,249.Instructions to General Washington,255.Prosperity of,281.Financial measures,293.Removal to Yorktown,314,320.Appoints a day of Thanksgiving,322.Chooses Minister to France,356,366.Congress, Suffolk County resolves,33.Congress, Provincial, assembled at New York,51.Constitution of Massachusetts,369,378.Convention, State of Pennsylvania,231.Cooper, Dr. Myles, flight of, notice of,51.Cooper, Dr. Samuel,37,151,348.Corn, Enormous price of,365,388.Cornwallis, Lord, at Brunswick,236.Arrival of, in England,352.Corunna, arrival of Mr. Adams at,372.Councillors nominated by mandamus,32,54.Courts, people prevent the sitting of,36.Court, assembled In Boston,227.Court, General Committee of,160.Of Sessions,160.Cranch, Richard,43,48,69,213,394,xiv.Cranch, William,xiv.Curiosities, American, sent to English ladies,272.Currency, Continental, counterfeit,278.Depreciation of,343,366.Rejection of,394.Currency, Hampshire, counterfeit,269.Cushing, Thomas, Speaker, delegate to Congress,28.Cushing, William, Judge, delegate to Congress,5.Visit of, to Mrs. Adams,171.