The Glorious Cause, page 88
and “conspiracy,” 131, 143
and customs officials, 194
Franklin on, 66–67
Indian policy of, 57–58
in Parliament, 113, 114–17, 119–21, 156
and Stamp Act, 74, 76, 79, 80
on taxing America, 62, 74, 155
Grenville ministry, 145, 152
collapse of, 111
and financial problems, 60–61
policies of, 60, 64–65, 78
Grey, Maj. Gen. Charles, 443
Grey, Maj. Gen. James, 396
Gridley, Jeremiah, 90
Gridley, John, 206
Gridley, Col. Richard, 290
Gridley, Capt. Samuel, 289
Groix Roadstead, 540
Groton, Conn., 545
Guadeloupe, W.I., 9, 414
Guilford Court House, N.C., battle of, 483–84, 485–86, 487 (map), 504, 505, 507, 511
Gum Swamp, Camp, S.C., 553
Gunby, Col. John, 496
Guy Fawkes Day, 93, 163, 195
Hackensack, N.J., 361, 369
Hackensack River (N.J.), 361
Haddonfield, N.J., 426
Hague, The, 593
Halifax, George Montagu Dunk, 2d Earl of, 27–28
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 179, 194, 203, 412, 590
Hall, Lyman, 284
Hallowell, Benjamin, 96, 172
Hamilton, Alexander, 258, 606, 619, 621, 622, 659
as army officer, 366, 424, 429, 587, 589–90, 604
at Constitutional Convention, 646, 648, 654, 668, 683
and The Federalist, 679
at Yorktown, 587–89
Hamilton, Brig. Gen. James, 385, 387
Hamilton, William, 543
Hampshire Co., Mass., 259–60
Hampton, Wade, 499
Hancock, John, 178, 192, 238, 273, 284, 364, 682
on British government, 243–44
John Mein on, 206
and the Liberty, 172–73
and the Lydia, 170–72
Hanger, Maj. George, 465
Hanging Rock, S.C., 458–60
Hannah, 535
Harlem Heights, N.Y, battle of, 356–57, 509, 511
Harrington, James, 136
Harrison, Benjamin, 263, 404
Harrison, Joseph, 103, 172, 232
Harrison, Peter, 102
Harrison, Richard, 232
Haslet, Col. John, 351
Haverstock, Billy, 529
Hawke, Sir Edward, 9
Hawkins, Sgt. Maj. John, 395
Hawley, Joseph, 259
Haw River, N.C., 485
Hay, Anthony, 189
Heath, Brig. Gen. William, 361, 363
Heister, Gen. Philip von, 348, 351
Hell Gate, N.Y., 357
Henderson, John, 499
Henry, Patrick, 86, 239, 466
as Antifederalist, 711
in Burgesses, 84–85
on church establishment, 634–35
and Committee of Correspondence, 221
as congressional delegate, 247, 248, 251, 327
on Declaration of Independence, 329
and Parson’s Cause, 81, 83
sketch of, 81
and Virginia Resolves, 81, 83. See also Virginia Resolves
Hessians, 357, 361, 362, 364, 365, 366–67, 441
and civilians, 552
on Long Island, 347–50
at Monmouth Court House, 428
Hewes, Joseph, 539
Hicks, William: Nature and Extent of Parliamentary Power Considered (1768), 241
Highlanders, 477, 480, 489, 491–92. See also Army, British, 71st Regiment
Hillsboro, N.C., 460, 463, 464, 468, 472, 482, 485
Hillsborough, Wills Hill, 1st Earl of, 177, 182, 184, 185, 187
and Circular Letter, 175, 181, 259
Hingham, Mass., 449
Hinrichs, Johann, 444
Hoadley, Benjamin, 136–38
Hobbes, Thomas, 15–16
Hobkirk’s Hill, N.C., battle of, 495–96, 498 (map), 502
Hodgkins, Joseph, 545–47
Hodgkins, Sarah, 545–47, 549, 561
Hogarth, William, 12, 15
Hollis, Thomas, 130
Hollis Street Church (Boston), 555
Hooper, William, 328
Hopewell, N.J., 427, 428
Hopkins, Stephen, 71, 103, 129
Rights of the Colonies Examined (1764), 103
Hopkins faction, 182
Hortalez, Roderigue and Company, 405
Hosmer, Joseph, 277
House of Commons, 111, 115, 153, 156, 235–36
and Boston Port bill, 235–36
and Declaratory bill, 121
and Quartering Act, 237
and Stamp Act, 78–80, 113, 114–21. See also Parliament
House of Lords, 153
and Boston Port Act, 235–36
and Quartering Act, 237
and Stamp Act repeal, 121. See also Parliament
Houston, William, 98
How, Pvt. David, 512
Howard, Gen. John Eager, 479
Howard, Martin, Jr., 104–6, 148
A Defense of the Letter from a Gentleman at Halifax (1765), 103
A Letter from a Gentleman at Halifax (1765), 103
and Tory Junto, 101–4
Howe, Adm. Lord Richard, 341, 351, 416, 434–38
as commander-in-chief in America, 344, 345
at Kip’s Bay, 355
on Long Island, 347, 353
and Philadelphia evacuation, 426
Howe, Robert, 441, 449, 469
Howe, Gen. William, 269, 287, 302, 340, 343–58, 359, 361–62, 364–65, 370–77 passim, 391, 402, 410, 413, 426, 429, 441, 456, 511, 623, 642
as an officer, 597
and Boston evacuation, 314–16
and British Strategy, 345–46
at Bunker Hill, 293–97
commands British army, 345
and Loyalists in South, 440
and marauders, 553
in New York, 557, 559, 560
and northern expedition, 411–12
and Parliamentary inquiry, 442–53
in winter quarters, 361–62, 370. See also Army, British
names of individual battles; Revolutionary War, battles of
Howe family, 344, 377
Huck, Capt. Christian, 458
Hudson River (N.Y.), 370, 374, 381, 383, 384–85, 389, 391, 469, 600
Hudson River Valley, 39, 41–42, 150, 371, 375, 408, 559, 565, 568
Huger, Gen. Isaac, 482, 483–84, 488, 495
Hughes, John, 139
Hulton, Henry, 171, 195, 197
Hume, David, 673
Huntington, Lt. Col. Ebenezer, 517
Hutchinson, Anne, 89
Hutchinson, Eliakim, 217
Hutchinson, Elisha, 230
Hutchinson, Elizabeth, 217
Hutchinson, Thomas, 32, 67, 89, 106, 127, 134, 141, 149, 169, 179, 200, 207, 222, 238, 259, 267, 268
and Adams faction, 230
and “Boston Pamphlet,” 223–24
and Boston Tea Party, 231–33
letters published, 224–25, 234
on mobs, 174
and Otis-Hutchinson feud, 87–92
on Parliamentary taxation, 569
petition for removal, 225, 233
property confiscated, 581
salary of, 221
and Stamp Act crisis, 94–97, 100, 146–47. See also Otis-Hutchinson feud
Hutchinson, Thomas (son of governor), 230
Ideology of the American Revolution, 514–15, 520–21, 602, 606, 665, 675
and the army, 510, 514–15, 605–6
British response to, 145
and Constitutional Convention, 657
John Paul Jones on, 539
Lafayette on, 426
and Radical Whig ideology, 51–52
and religion, 49–52, 107, 216–18
and state government, 627
Washington on, 419. See also Commonwealthmen; Property; Representation; Republicanism; Whig ideology
Île aux Noix, Canada, 347
Illinois, 576
Illinois Company, 154
Illinois-Wabash Company, 609
Immigration, 32–35, 48. See also French; Germans
Impartial Administration of Justice Act. See Intolerable Acts
Imposts of 1781 and 1783, 606
Impressment, 104
Incorporated Guardians of the Poor, 21–22
Independence: American sentiments on, 220, 320–22, 326, 328, 333
“Clerics Americans” on, 177
and Continental Congress, 318–20, 322, 330, 333, 406
Dickinson on, 285
Galloway on, 257
New York assembly on, 127
state declarations, 333–34
Thomas Paine on, 3–4, 325–26. See also Declaration of Independence; Jefferson, Thomas; Paine, Thomas
Independent Reflector (New York), 216–17
Independent Whig (New York), 216
Indiana Company, 637
Indians, 33, 55–59, 154, 216, 282, 581, 611, 641, 647, 675–76
circumstances of, before and during the Revolution, 572–78. See also Pontiac’s Rebellion
individual tribes: Catawba, Cherokee, Delaware, Iroquois, Mohawk
Ingersoll, Jared, 77, 108–11, 140
Reasons Why the British Colonies Should Not Be Charged with Internal Taxes (1764), 128
and Sons of Liberty, 147
and Stamp Act, 76–77, 109–11
on taxation, 132–33
Intolerable Acts, 235–37, 266–67
Administration of Justice Act, 236, 245
American response to, 237, 248, 250–51, 252–56, 260
Boston Port Act, 235–36, 245, 267–68, 607–8
Massachusetts Government Act, 245, 252, 260
Quartering Act, 237
Quebec Act, 237, 244, 286
Suffolk Resolves on, 252. See also Continental Congress, First
Ipswich, Mass., 545, 546
Ireland: Scotch-Irish, 33
volunteers, 461
“Irish Buffs,” British army (3rd Regiment), 499
Iroquois, the, 9, 60, 564, 576
Irregulars. See Army, Continental, Militia
Irwin’s Ferry, 484
Jackson, Richard, 66, 77–78, 80, 91
Jackson, William, 676
Jaeger Corps, 444
Jamaica, W.I., 414
Jamaica Pass (N.Y.), 349, 350, 351
James, Maj. Thomas, 150, 468
James and Drinker, 228
James Island, S.C., 446
James River, Va., 508, 582, 588
Jay, John: and commercial treaty, 608
and Committee of Correspondence with Foreign Powers, 404
as congressional delegate, 248, 250, 251
and The Federalist, 679
and peace commission, 591, 593
as Secretary of Foreign Affairs, 607
Jefferson, Martha Wayles Skelton, 333
Jefferson, Thomas, 124, 239, 281, 408, 409, 469, 561, 581, 591, 605, 619–20, 628, 636, 643
on aristocratic threat to liberty, 629–30
“Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom,” 634–35
and Committee of Correspondence with Foreign Powers, 404
as congressional delegate, 284, 320, 332–33
and Declaration of Independence, 30, 628
on entail and primogeniture, 630
on equality, 572
and freedom, 633–36
on government, 629
and intercolonial committee of correspondence, 221
and John Adams, 245–46
Notes on the State of Virginia, 338, 629, 635–36
on the poor, 633
on public education, 632–33
on religion, 52, 634–35
on the Senate, 638
sketch of, 331–33
and slavery, 338–39, 631–32
A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774), 242
and territorial ordinance, 610
and Virginia constitution, 628–37
Jeffries’ Ford, Pa., 393
“Jew Bill” (1753), 14
Jews: in American colonies, 35, 48
in England, 14. See also“Jew Bill”
Johns Island, S.C., 446
Johnson, Dr. Samuel (Amer.), 217
Johnson, Samuel, 3, 12
Johnson, Stephen, 130
Johnson, Sir William, 9, 59, 60
Johnson, William Samuel, 656
Johnston, Augustus, 102, 104–6
Jones, Dr. John: Plain, Concise, Practical Remarks on the Treatment of Wounds and Fractures, 530
Jones, John Paul, 538–43
Jones, Thomas, 456, 547
Journal of the House of Burgesses, 84, 85
“Journal of the Times” (Boston), 202–3
Kelpius, Johann, 34
Kennebec River (Mc.), 310–11
Kentucky, 466, 635
Keppel, Adm. Augustus, 415–16, 438–39, 625
King, Rufus, 608, 665
at Constitutional Convention, 631, 646, 660
King’s Chapel (Boston), 217
King’s College (New York), 216–17, 530
King’s Friends and Chatham ministry, 153
King’s Mountain, S.C., battle of, 467–68, 478 (map)
King’s Own (British regiment), 503
Kingston, Jamaica, W.I., 538
Kingston, N.J., 428
Kip’s Bay (N.Y.), battle of, 355, 502, 601
Kirk, Thomas, 172–73
Knowlton, Thomas: at Bunker Hill, 289, 294, 298
at Harlem Heights, 356
Knox, Henry, 314, 355, 366, 471, 643
Knyphausen, Gen. William, 361, 393–95, 428, 430
Kosciuszko, Col. Thaddeus, 385, 474, 483
Laborers, 40
Labrador, 622
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de, 425–26, 427–28, 429, 436–37, 581
Lake Champlain, 373, 374, 380, 381, 384
Lake George, N.Y, 381
La Luzerne, Chevalier Anne-César de, 591
Lamb, John, 229
Lamb, Sgt. Roger, 415, 489–90
Landais, Capt. Pierre, 541, 543
Lansing, John, Jr., 646, 661
Laurens, Henry, 591, 593
Laurens, John, 424, 435, 512, 593
Lawson, Brig. Gen. Robert, 486
Learned, Brig. Gen. Ebenezer, 387
Lebanon, Conn., 576
Lechmere Point, Mass., 274
Leckie, Alexander, 263–64
Lee, 535–36
Lee, Arthur, 257, 404–5, 409–10
Lee, Gen. Charles, 361, 427, 429, 440
court-martial of, 432, 435; at
Lee, Gen. Charles (continued) Monmouth Court House, 430, 433
and Washington, 356, 362–63
Lee, Henry, 423, 489, 491, 494, 496. See also Lee’s Legion
Lee, Richard Henry, 239, 306, 404, 407, 634, 680
as congressional delegate, 247, 250–53, 330–31
and intercolonial committee of correspondence, 221
Lee-Adams junto, 253, 285, 326–27
Lee’s Legion, 484, 486, 497. See also Lee, Henry
Leeward Islands, W.I., 414
Legislatures, colonial. See names of individual colonies
Leith, Scotland, 541
Leonard, Daniel, 258, 261
Leslie, Gen. Alexander, 364, 476, 481, 488–90
Lesser Antilles, W.I., 414
A Letter from a Gentleman at Halifax. See Howard, Martin, Jr.
Lewis, Francis, 537
Lexington, Mass., 5, 274–76, 280, 411, 509, 534
Lexington and Concord, battles of, 273–81, 285, 292 (map), 321
Liberty, 510, 514–15
and the American Constitution, 641, 679
and British constitution, 6, 117
commonwealth-men on, 137 (see also Conspiracy)
Radical Whig theory on, 51
and structure of English government, 18, 21, 126. See also Property
Liberty, 172–73, 181, 192, 232
Liberty pole, 199
Liberty tree: in Boston, 174, 230
in Charleston, 183
in Roxbury, 177
Lillie, Theophilus, 207–8
Lincoln, Benjamin, 448–49, 454, 455, 469, 584
Little Broad River (S.C.), 481
Little Catawba River (S.C.), 481
Lively, 290
Livingston, Robert R., 184, 284, 331
Livingston, William, 216–17, 250
Livingston family, 184, 198, 596
Lloyd, Henry, 191
“Local Acts,” 21
Locke, John, 122–24, 129, 136, 335
Two Treatises of Government, 123. See also Property; Rights of Englishmen
“Locking,” 305
London, 12–14, 31, 55, 57, 403, 518
Long Island, N.Y., 347, 348, 350, 352 (map), 353–55, 370, 372, 408, 517, 559
battle of, 340, 347–53
Louisbourg, Canada, 9
Louisiana, 413
Louis XV, 402
Louis XVI, 403, 405, 409, 623
Loyalism, Washington on, 364
Loyalist(s), 281, 423, 450, 455–58, 485, 499–501, 557–69 passim, 676
and British army, 412, 434
and Congress, 622
measures against, 565–67
and merchants, 557, 561
in middle colonies, 564
militia, 461, 466–68, 475
in New York City, 558–59
in Pennsylvania, 375, 426
in the South, 440–41, 464, 473, 493
weakness of, 564–69
Loyal Nine, 92–93, 97
Lutherans, 34, 35, 48, 49, 217
Luxury, 137, 140, 186, 191. See also Commonwealthmen; Nonconsumption; Puritan ethic
Lydia, 170–72. See also Customs Commissioners, American Board of; Hancock, John
Lynde, Benjamin, 88–89, 147
McCarthy, Sgt. Thomas, 512
Macclesfield, George Parka, 2d Earl of, 14
McClure, Capt. James, 458
McClurg, John, 643
McDougall, Alexander, 229, 399
McDowell, Col. Joseph, 466
Machias, Me., 534
MacIntosh, Ebenezer, 93–94
McIvers, James, 98–99
MacKenzie, Frederick, 356
MacKenzie, Roderick, 481
Mackesy, Piers, 595
Madison, James, 265–66, 561, 606, 619–20, 621, 622, 631, 632
at Constitutional Convention, 642–73 passim
on executive powers, 662
and factionalism, 671
on federalism, 657–58
The Federalist No. 10, 678–79
and Great Compromise, 631
“Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments,” 635
on slave trade, 666
and small states, 655–658
and western lands, 648
Madison, James, Sr., 263, 266
