Dana, Francis,144,367371,397.Danbury, engagement at,269,280.Deane, Silas,111.Address,354,362.Defence, Brig,186,187.Delaware River, battle in,172.Delaware, Frigate,257.Delegates, reception of, in New York,54.Denis, St., visit of Mr. Adams to,360.Denmark, Court of, prizes restored to England by,379.D'Enville, Duchesse, Mr. Adams dines with,353.D'Enville, Duc, expedition commanded by,353.Derby, Capt. John,88.Deserters, arrival of,91.D'Estaing, Comte, his fleet,337.Arrives in Boston,342.Failure of his expedition against Rhode Island,345.Entertains Mr. Adams,376.Devices for Medal and Seal,210.Dickinson, John, author of "The Farmer,"11,45,59,84,133,256.Dilly, Edward, notice of,59.Documents, Congressional, removal of,314.Donop, Count,322.Dorchester Heights, American troops get possession of,138.Drafting, for Continental army,230.Duché, Rev. Mr.,37,320.Duffield, Rev. Mr.,65,90,298,320.Education, Female,339,x.Elections, favorable to American cause,45.Elk River, Howe's army lands at,299.Enemy, efforts of, to sever communications between colonies,226,229.In possession of New York,229.Barbarities,247.Mysterious movements of,281,282.Advantages gained by,366.England, emissaries of, in France,346.Enlistment, term of, expiration of,232.Essays of J. A. on Canon and Feudal Law,xvi.Novanglus,xvi.Essex, Privateer, capture of,400.Crew of, sent to Plymouth jail,400.Estimates, British army,403.Exchange of prisoners offered,245.Expedition, private, to Newport,315,324.Expenses of living in Paris,382.Expresses, stopped by Tories,269.Falmouth, ancient name of Portland, Me.,14.The British demand neutrality of, resistance of, cannonade of,115."Farmer, The," see J. Dickinson.Farrington, Colonel,270.Fast, day of, at Philadelphia,84.Government appoints,238.Fell's Point, fortifications at,243.Ferrol, Mr. Adams lands at,370.Description of,370.Fevers, prevalence of, at the Hague,404.Fine, for refusing draft,230.Fleet, enemy's, in Boston harbor,142,378.Arrival of, at Halifax, distress of,162.Driven out of Boston harbor,186.Arrival of, at New York,194.Seen off Cape Delaware,289.Off Chesapeake Bay,294.Arrives at head of Chesapeake Bay,295.Byron's and D'Estaing's,337.Of allies, arrival of,384.British powerful, collected on American coast,387,xxi.Fleets, French and Spanish, capture sixty vessels,386.Fort Hill, fortifying of,156.France, dispatches from, to Congress,260.Mr. Adams appointed Minister to,326.Treaty with,337.Franklin, Dr. Benjamin, return of, from England,56.Attends Congress,83.Chosen on committee for army,113.On Canada committee,135.Device for government seal,210,211.Portrait of,216.On committee to confer with Lord Howe,223.Arrival in France,245.Rumor of his assassination,327,346,354,356.Friends, Society of,306.Frigates, French, arrival of,263.Continental, wind-bound,269.Fuel, scarcity of, in Boston,112.Gage, Thomas, General, arrives in Boston, 13th May,1,19,48.Offers to send away the poor of Boston,86,xviii.Gardoqui and Sons, Messrs., transmit goods to Mrs. Adams,374,375.Gates, Horatio, General, sent to New England,289,311,314,320,323.Generals, foreign, employment of,286.Removal of,289.George's Island, enemy fortifying,172.Georgia, movements against,362.Germans, their vindictiveness,267.Germany, threatened with war,337.Gerry, Elbridge,132.Returns to Boston,202.Gibraltar,372.Gillon, Alexander,399.Goods, West India, scarcity of,82.Foreign, high prices of,220.Gordon, Dr.,348.Gordon, Lord George, committed to the Tower,383.Gorham, Nathaniel, agent to Congress, from Charlestown,273.Grain, scarcity of, in New England,362.Grand Madame,341.Grape Island, attack upon persons engaged at,56,69.Great Britain, malicious policy of,345.Greene, Nathanael, Colonel, repulses the enemy,322.His bravery,323.Griffin, killed at attack on Lighthouse,92.Death and burial of,92.Guard, Coast, expedition of to Nantasket Light,86.Guild, Mr.,400.Gunpowder, seizure of, at Charlestown,29.At Braintree,34.Hamilton, Alexander,314.Hancock, John, President of Congress,58,88,367,xviii.Hancock, Mrs. John, presentation of colors to,121.Haskins, imprisonment and escape of,111-12.Hazelwood, John, Commodore,320.Head of Elk, enemy in possession of,301.Hemmenway, Rev. Moses, visit of J. A. to,8,10.Henley, Thomas, Major, death of,232.Henry, Patrick,198.Hesse Cassel, Prince of,374.Hessians,283.Hewes, Hon. Joseph,282.Hichborn, Benjamin, escape of,115.Hill, Dorchester, American troops gain possession of,138.Hill, Nook's, engagement at,140.Prospect,92.Holland, common schools in,388.Hopkins, Admiral Ezekiel, commands fleet off Rhode Island,152,166.Hopkinson, Francis,216.Hospital, small-pox, to be established in Boston,187.Hospitals, system of officers for,257.House of J. A. in Boston, occupied by British,149.Houston, John, Georgia delegate,99.Howe, Sir William, supersedes Gage,107.Releases prisoners,107,115,142.March through the Jerseys,234.Prepares to attack New York,294.Advances on Philadelphia,296,323.Howe, Richard, Lord, Letter and proclamation of,203.Desires conference with members of Congress,223.Howes, the two brothers, rise and reputation of,258.Hutchinson, Foster, notice of,17.Hutchinson, Thomas, Governor, on Salem as the seat of government, opinion of,8.Departure of, forEngland,19.Letters of, discovered,52.Death of,382-383,xv.,xvi.Huston, Mrs., anecdote of,18.Independence, declaration of, resolution of, passed in Congress,191,202.Read from pulpits in New England,212,xxiv.Island, Long, expedition to, successful; cattle captured,80.Island, Staten, inhabitants of, receive the enemy,199.Izard, Ralph,354.Return of,376.Jardin du Roi, visit of Mr. Adams to,379.Description of,379.Jefferson, Thomas, proposes device for government seal,211.Johnson, family of,292.Johnson, Sir John,294.Johnson, Thomas, Governor,296.Joice, Junior, carts tories out of Boston,262.Jurors, refusal of, to serve,165.Justice, Chief, appointment of J. A. to office of,93.Jealousy caused by,215.King, the, prayed for in the Boston church,230.King and Queen of France, popularity of,350.King, Richard, of Scarborough, cause of, notice of,20.King's Bench Prison, burned by mob,382.Knowlton, Colonel, killed in battle,232.Labor, price of, in New England,365.Lafayette, Marquis de, return of,398.Lagoanere, M.,374.Landais, Peter, Captain,387.Languedoc, French frigate,342.Laurens, Henry,292.Appointment of,370.Laurens, John, Colonel,390.Lee, General, letter of,87.Appointment of,78,133.Action at Sullivan's Island,203.A prisoner,245.Lee, Arthur,354,356,376.Lead, scarcity of, in Boston,220.Lechmere's Point, skirmish at,124.Legation, Secretary of, Francis Dana appointed,367.Leger, St.,304.Letters, of J. A. intercepted,98,116,146.Caution to be used in transmission of,103,108.Loss of,348,380.Letter-writing, as mental exercise,xiii.Lighthouse, burning of, at Nantasket,86.Second attack on,92.Lincoln, Benjamin, General,248,295,390.Liquors, excise on, recommended,129.London, mobs in,382.Long Island, defeat on, panic caused by,223.Lovell, James,74,80,112,157,308,375.Lowell John, splendid house of, in Newburyport.Notice of,4.Manly, Captain, capture of English schooner by,151,157.Mansfield, Lord, house of, burned by mob,382.Maria, Theresa Charlotte, Princess, illumination in honor of,349.Martin, Joseph, Governor of North Carolina,50.Maryland, State of, excellent farms in,238.Passes law for enlistment of servants and apprentices,257.Massachusetts, Province of, terrible sickness prevails throughout,95,102.Soldiers of, ill-conduct of,232.Constitution of,369.Men-of-war, lying in Boston Harbor,180.Men-of-war, blown up,322.Merchant vessels, chased by men-of-war,270.Capture of,347.Mercury, ship, arrival of, with military stores, from France,253.Mifflin, Fort, defence of,320,322.Mifflin, Thomas, Major,45,59,70.Mifflin, Mrs.,45.Miles, Colonel,283.Militia, in arms,54,138.March to defense of New York,199,232.Militia, Jersey,233.Of Virginia, Maryland, etc.,296,300.Mission, American, to France,346.Mob, female, seize coffee, and chastise a merchant of Boston,286.Mobs, in Boston and elsewhere,15,19.The Gordon, in London,382.Molasses, made from cornstalks,313.Molesworth, James, a spy, his execution,252.Money market, state of,361,388.Montgomery, Richard, General, oration in memory of,132,143.Montresor's Island, skirmish at,232.Moody, Rev. Samuel, minister of York, Me. Notice of,5.Moravians, settlement of, at Bethlehem, Penn.,236.Description of,241.Morris, ship, falls into the hands of the British,260.Morton, Joseph, Mr., funeral oration on Gen. Warren, delivered by,151.Mugford, Captain, captures prize, is killed in naval engagement,180Nancy, brig, capture of,129.Nantasket, dismissal of troops at,254Narrows, 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 BrigEssex, 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.