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ches towards Boston, i. 407. commands a body of troops in an expedition to Canada, and arrives at Point Levi, 408. looses the opportunity of surprising Quebec, 409. joins general Montgomery, 430. takes the command of the whole force on Montgomery's death, ii. 23. retreats from Montreal, 68. is appointed by general Gates to command the American fleet on Lake Champlain, 143. is defeated by the British fleet, 146. bravely opposes the British troops under general Tryon, 196. relieves Fort Schuyler, (attacked by St. Leger and Johnson) 239. storms the German intrenchments, and is wounded, 257. negociates for delivering West Point into the hands of Sir H. Clinton, iii. 129. sails for the Chesapeak and lands in Virginia, 177. returns to NewYork, 210. goes against NewLondon, 249.

Articles of peace, the provisional, iii. 362.

people in England and Ireland to the American war, ii. 43.

B.

Balfour, colonel, sends a force to take Wilmington in North-Carolina, iii. 169. sends a written answer to general Greene's demand of the reasons for the execution of colonel Hayne, 241.

Balloons, the air, iii. 356. Baltimore, the inhabitants of, seize the provincial magazine, ii. 330.

Bandole, Mr. de, chaplain to the French embassy, delivers a discourse before congress, on account of the capture of the army under lord Cornwallis, iii. 264.

Bank of North America incorporated, iii. 268. opens and is of eminent service to the financier, 294.

Barras, Mr. de, the French admiral, sails from Rhode-Island,. iii. 251. arrives in the Chesapeak.. 253.

Barre, colonel, his speech in the debate on the stamp-act, i. 112. gives rise to the title of Sons of Liberty, 117, his declarations on the resolutions and address of parliament concerning the Massa

Asgill, captain, designated for ́retaliation and sent forward, iii. 316. allowed his parole and other indulgences, 304. receives the resolves of congress for setting him at liberty, and a passport for go- chusetts assembly and town of ing into New-York, together with a polite letter from general Washington, 319.

Ashe, general, defeated by lieut. col. Provost, ii. 415, 416.

Associations against the consumption of British manufactures, i. 110. An association between the New-York and Connecticut sons of liberty, 134. The Virgi nians and North-Carolinians enter into associations against importing, 172.

Boston, 170. his speech against the bill for the administration of justice in Massachusetts, 232.

Barrington, admiral, his successful cruise in the bay of Biscay, iii. 304.

Barton, lieutenant colonel, surprises and carries off general Prescot from Rhode-Island, ii. 213.

Battle of Breed's hill, erroneously called Bunker's hill, i. 350, 351, 352. on Long-Island, ii. 98. at White Plains, 118. at TrenAttempts to sow discord between ton, 152, 153. at Princeton, 156.. the civil and military powers of at the Brandywine, 223. at Gerthe United States, iii. 358. mantown, 232. between general Aversion of the lower class of Herkimer and Sir John Johnson,

237. at Bennington, 243. be- ed, 30. The sufferings of the Bostween the armies under generals, tonions during the siege, 33, 34. Gates and Burgoyne, 248, 254. Bouille, the marquis de, takes at Monmouth, 357. at Stoney Dominica, ii. 418. his humanity Ferry, 438. between lord Corn- to the shipwrecked British sailors, wallis and Gates, iii. 102. at iii. 146. He goes against and King's Mountain, between major takes Tobago, 221. surprises St. Ferguson and the Americans, 118. Eustatia, 275. takes St. Kitt's, between general Morgan, and 283. lieutenant colonel Tarleton, 160. at Guilford court-house, between cruits in the Massachusetts, iii. lord Cornwallis and general 334. Greene, 173. between lord Rawdon and Greene, 189. at Eutaw, between Greene and lieut. colonel Stewart, 243.

95.

Bounties, excessive, paid to re

Braddock, general, defeated, i.

Bristol near Rhode-Island, fired upon by the British shipping,

Baylor, lieutenant colonel, his i. 402, 403. horse surprised, ii. 391.

Bedford, British expedition against, in the Massachusetts, ii.

376.

British troops under general Knyphausen make an excursion: from Staten-Island to Elizabethtown, iii. 58. fire Spring-field, 60. return to Staten-Island, 61.

Berckel, Mr. Van, pensionary of Amsterdam, directs the sign- Brownists, the rise of them, i. ing of an eventual treaty between 15. they are persecuted, 16. flee Holland and the United States of to Holland, 17. sail for North America, iii. 94. Mr. Peter Van America, 18. fix at New PlyBerckel, the Dutch ambassador, mouth, 19. their civil principles, has a public audience of congress, 20. in church government become congregationalists or independBermuda, powder taken out of ents, 21. their religious sentithe magazine at, i. 409. ments, 22.

374.

Bernard, governor, his administration in the Massachusetts, i. 99. offends Mr. Otis, 100. is recalled, 182.

Bills for regulating the Massachusetts government, and the impartial administration of justice, excite the utmost resentrent in the colonies, i. 247.

Boston port-bill, produced universal indignation in America, i. 237. the day for shutting up the port observed as a day of fasting at Williamsburgh, at Philadelphia, and other places, 239. The distress of the inhabitants of Boston, 415. many of their houses and stores plundered by the soldiers, ii. 29. The town evacuat

Burgoyne, general, commands the royal northern army, ii. 203. issues out an uncommon proclamation, 205. appears before Tyconderoga, 206. pursues the Americans by water to Skeensborough, 208. arrives at fort Edward, 210. sends a detachment towards Bennington, 242. his letter to general Gates, 245. He passes the Hudson's river, and encamps at Saratoga, 248. engages the Americans, ibid. his army in the utmost distress, 258. retreats to Saratoga, 260. has his retreat to fort Edward cut off, 263. concludes a convention with general Gates, 265.

Burial of gen. Frazer, ii. 259.

Burke, Mr. his reforms, iii. 302.. cans, settled by generals Philips
Butler, American colonel, his and Lincoln, iii. 135.
expedition against the Indians and
tories, ii. 398.

C.

Caldwell, Mrs. killed by the
royal troops, iii. 58.

Campbell, Archibald, lieut. col.
ordered into close confinement, ii.
162. set against Georgia, beats
the American general Howe, and
subdues the state, 403.

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Caueus and caucusing, the
meaning of these words, often
used at Boston, i. 240.

Cedars, the Americans there,
surrendered the fort, ii. 65. Major
Sherburne is defeated in attempt-
ing to relieve the place, ibid. Ġe-
neral Arnold concludes a cartel
for the exchange of the prisoners,
66.

Chamblee taken, i. 426.

Charlestown, opposite to Bos-
ton, fired by order of general
Gage and destroyed, i. 352.
in South Carolina

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Canada, the emancipation of it
laid aside by congress, ii. 401.
Canadians, they decline acting
against the colonists, i. 423. are
alienated by the bad conduct of founded, i. 59. the first English.
the American troops, ii. 62. collector established there, 60.
Carleton, Sir Guy, plans a the general committee of the
scheme for recovering Tyconde place call a provincial congress,
roga and Crown Point, i. 423. is 277. the inhabitants determine
defeated, 427. escapes to Quebec, upon resisting the measures of
428. turns all the suspected out ministry, 332. the town the ob-
of the city, 430. his humane treat- ject of Sir Peter Parker's and ge-
ment of the American prisoners, neral Clinton's offensive opera-
ií. 61. marches out to attack the tions, ii. 80. the fort on Sulli-
Americans, 62. exercises fresh van's island attacked, 82. Charles-
humanity towards his prisoners, ton taken by Sir H. Clinton, iii.
66. defeats the American fleet on 52. evacuated by the British, 328.
Lake Champlain, 146. is preven- - frigate taken, iii. 334.
ted advancing immediately to Ty- Chatham, lord, his speech, Jan.
conderoga, 146. withdraws from 1775, i. 286. May, 1777, ii.
Crown Point and returns to Ca- 188. his fainting in the house of
nada, 148. arrives at New-York lords, and subsequent death, 340.
to command the royal forces in Cherry Valley attacked by the
America, iii. 293. breaks up the Indians and tories, ii. 400.
board of associated loyalists, 319. Chester, the county palatine
has an interview with general and city of, have representatives
Washington, 367. sends word to allowed them, i. 44.
the president of congress that he
should lose no time in evacuating
New-York, 375.

Carolina settled, i. 55. an in-
surrection in the colony, for
which Culpeper, is tried by virtue
of the statute of Henry VIII. 60.
Carolina is divided in North and
South, 63.

Chevaux de Frise of Philadel-
phia, ii. 231.

Church, doctor, his correspon-
dence with a British officer in
Boston detected, i. 410.

Cincinnati, the society of, iii.
383.

Clair, St. general, his force at
Tyconderoga, ii. 205. he con-

Cartel for British and Ameri- cludes on evacuating that and

Mount Independence, 206. the land, i. 38. the colonies not set-
rear of his troops attacked by ge- tled at the expence of the En-
neral Frazer, 208. he joins gene- glish government, Georgia ex-
ral Schuyler, 210.
cepted, 72. Jealousies of their

Clarke, colonel, his expedition aiming at independence, 79. Mo.
into the Indian country, ii. 390. nies granted them by the British
against the lieutenant governor parliament to assist their extraor
of Detroit, col. Hamilton, 435. dinary exertions in the war with
Clark, colonel, marches to Au- France, 98. they early deny the
gusta, and attacks lieutenant col. parliamentary right of taxation,
Brown, but is obliged to retreat, 110.
iii. 115, 116.

Clergy of New England, i.

273.

Commissioners, the American
board of, established, i. 147. they
retire to Castle William, 158.
the British, send a

Clinton, Sir H. his expedition
against forts Montgomery and letter, &c. to congress, ii. 351.
Clinton, ii. 252. He arrives at their negociations, 377. they ap
Philadelphia to take the command peal to the people at large, 379.
of the British troops, 326. eva- publish a valedictory manifesto,
cuates Philadelphia, 332. engages ibid.

the Americans near Monmouth Committees of correspondence
court-house, 361. his design between Boston and the other
against Georgia, 402. takes Sto- towns of the Massachusetts, pro-
ny-point, 434. his expedition to posed by Mr. James Warren, and
South Carolina, iii. 44. takes established, i. 241.

Charleston, 51. issues out procla- Committee, the, appointed by
mations before his return to New congress to inquire into the con-
York, 67. prepares to attack the duct of the British and Hessian
French at Rhode Island, 65. sends generals and officers towards the
general Leslie with 3000 troops Americans, make their report, ii.
to Virginia, 135. sends agents 191.

to treat with the Pennsylvania Common Sense, Mr. Paine's
revolters, 152. sends Arnold to pamphlet so entitled, promotes
Virginia, 177. forwards thither the spirit of independency, i. 78.
2000 more troops under general Complaints against the Ameri-
Philips, 178.
can officers and soldiers, ii. 104.
Clinton, the American gover- that there are many bad officers
nor, by a spirited exertion, pre- among them, no cause of surprise,
vents the disbandment of Wash- 115.
ington's army through the want
of bread, iii. 137.

Coin, French, found early in
the Massachusetts, i. 28.

Collier, Sir George, takes the
American frigate Hancock, ii.
304. destroys the American fleet
at Penobscot. iii. 17.

Colonies, the sentiments of the
New England with respect to the
parliamentary acts of Old Eng-

Conciliatory motion of lord
North in regard to America, i.
301. his conciliatory propositions,
ii. 336.

Confederation, the articles of,
ii. 286. the confederation com-
pleted, iii. 180.

Congregationalists, or indepen-
dents, settle at New Plymouth in
America, i. 19. their civil and
religious principles, 20, 22.

Congregational church in the on, 401. recommended to New
Massachusetts, the first formed at Hampshire the establishing of a
Salem, i. 25.
form of government, 419.. the
Congress, American, the first, same to South Carolina, 420.
i. 77. the Congress at Albany, in likewise to Virginia, ibid. they
1754, form a plan of union of all conclude upon the number of men
the colonies, 90. the plan not to form the new army, 421. de-
approved of by the British minis- clare against any particular colc-
try, and another substituted by ny's petitioning the king, 422.
them, ibid. Dr. Franklin's re- threaten retaliation, and deter-
marks upon the ministerial plan, mine upon building thirteen fri-
91. the congress of 1765 meet, gates, 423. permit the inhabi-
120. measures taken for a new tants of the united colonies to fit
congress by the Massachusetts, out armed vessels, and resolve
240. by Maryland, 241. by South that no slaves be imported into
Carolina, 242. by Connecticut, any of the colonies, ii. 39. order
ibid. by Pennsylvania and Virgi- the secret committee to endeavor
nia, 243. by Rhode Island, 244. to discover whether the French
the congress meet and write to mean to act for or against Ame-
general Gage, 258, 259. make a rica, 76. they conclude upon a
declaration of rights, ibid. enter declaration of independence, 87.
into an association, 261. address adopt a new code for the govern-
the people of Great Britain, 262. ment of the army, 113. appoint
draw up a memorial to the inha- commissioners to the court of
bitants of British America, 263. France, 138. refuse to ratify ge-
address his majesty, 264. address neral Arnold's cartel with capt.
the inhabitants of Canada, 266. Forster, 140. adjourn to Balti-
dissolve themselves, 267.
more, 142. they vest general
Washington with full powers for
six months, 159. resolve on send-

a new one, meet, i.
335. wish to keep the door open
for an accommodation, 336. their ing commissioners to Vienna,
proceedings, 345. agree upon a Spain, Prussia, and Tuscany, 160.
second petition to the king, 346. advise making their bills of cre-
stile the colonies The Twelve dit a legal tender, 163. approve
United Colonies, and advise the Washington's conduct as to a
Massachusetts to take up govern- cartel, 215. resolve what shall
ment, 346. they resolve to emit be the flag of the Thirteen Uni-
bills of credit for the defence of ted States, 216. the opinion of
America, 363. agree on a decla- congress concerning Mr. Deane's
ration, setting forth the causes agreement with Mr. Coudray and
of their taking up arms, 369. other French gentlemen, 217.
sign the petition to the king, and they confer on the marquis de la
address the inhabitants of Great Fayette the rank and commission
Britain, 370. are joined by Geor- of major general in the American
gia, 371. address the people of army, 218. make regulations,
Ireland, 374. express their opi- which oblige the commissary ge-
nion on lord North's conciliatory neral, Mr. Joseph Trumbull, to
plan, ibid. adjourn, 377. the re- resign his commission, 220. acts
solution of congress with a view of congress, 284, 293. they recal
to the securing of governor Try- Mr. Silas Deane from Paris, 295.

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