for the immediate defence of
the colony, p. 412-pufh their
preparations for hoftile oppofi-
tion, p. 416-fend a circular
letter to the minifters of the
gofpel, p. 417-a picture of
the Mafiachusetts colony, p.
427-a new provincial congrefs
meet, p. 469-their proceed-
ings, p. 472-the inhabitants
in arms, p. 486-their unpre-
paredness for an hoftile conteft
with Great Britain, p. 492-
the provincial congrefs write
a circular letter to the feveral
towns of the colony, vol. ii.
p. 17-borrow money, and for-
ward difpatches to the general
congrefs, p. 19-apply to Con-
necticut and Rhode Island for af-
fittance, p. 20-order the mi-
litia to Roxbury, p. 21-refolve
upon writing to the eastern
tribe of Indians, p. 22-iffue
notes, p. 27-the Maffachusetts
reprefentatives meet, and take
up their old form of govern-
ment, p. 96-the public fchools
of the colony, p. 125-the af
fembly refolve to fit out armed
veffels, p. 144-the Maffachu-
fetts delegates at congrefs con-
ducted with great policy, p.
296-the state agrees upon a
conftitution for the common-
wealth, vol. iii. p. 396-incor-
porates The American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, p. 398-
the laft act before entering on
the new conftitution, p. 497-
the first general court upon the
new conftitution, p. 498-the
conftitution violated by the ge-
neral court, vol. iv. p. 398.
Maffacre of the Moravian Indians,
vol. iv. p. 308.
Matthew, general, makes a de-
fcent on Virginia, vol. iii. p.

260.

Marwhood, lieut. colonel, attacked
at Princeton, vol. ii. p. 401,

Mayhew, Dr. his letter to judge
Hutchinfon, vol. i. p. 178.
Measures taken at Philadelphia for
relieving the army under gene-
ral Washington, vol. iii. p.

375.

Medical department, defects in the
American, occafion the lofs of
many fick, vol. iii. p. 70.
Meeting houfe, the old fouth, turn-
ed into a riding-fchool for the
British dragoons, vol. ii. p. 139.
Meigs, colonel, his expedition to
Sagg harbour, vol. ii. p. 468.
Mercenaries, foreign, fail for A-
merica, vol. ii. p. 245.
Militia, American, complained of,

vol. ii. p. 317, 323, 333.
Minorca attacked by the Spaniards,
aided by the French, vol. iv.
P. 157-the garrifon at fort St.
Philip clofely invested, and
at length obliged to furrender,
P. 226.

Minute-men inftituted, vol. i. p.

412.

Mobs at Bofton, vol. i. p. 175-
attack judge Hutchinson's houfe,
P. 177 at Rhode Island, p.
183-at New York, p. 185—
at Bofton, on account of the
feizure of Mr. Hancock's floop
Liberty, p. 231.

Monmouth court-house action, vol.
iii. p. 141.
Montgomery, general, is fent on
with troops to Canada, and be-
fieges St. John's, vol. ii. p.
157-the place furrenders, p.
162-he takes Montreal, p. 163

appears before Quebec, p.
167 his whole force little more
than half the garrifon, p. 181
-he attempts carrying the city
by a coup de main, and is kil-

led, p. 183.

Montreal taken, vol. ii. p. 163.
Montferrat furrenders, vol. iv. p.

239.

Morgan, general, attacked by a
fuperior force under col. Tarle-
Hh 2

ton,

Natches, the British fettlements
there reduced by captain Wil-
ling, vol. iii. p. 88.
New-England, the people there are
alarmed with the reports of an
American epifcopacy, vol. i.
P. 117 with the apprehenfion
of defigns on the part of the
British miniftry against their
forms of government, p. 142-.
the fuppofed plan of ministry,
p. 144.

New-Hampshire colony fettled, vol.
i. p. 38-the people make their
firit hoftile movement, p. 421

-their delegates receive in-
ftructions which they lay before
congrefs, vol. ii. p. 149-the
provincial congrefs proceed to,
take up civil government, p.
16-feveral of the reprefenta-
tives proteft again't it, p. 169
-feveral of the towns petition
against it, p. 170—a return of
the inhabitants, p. 263.
New-Haven colony fettled, vol. i.
P. 33 made a part of Connec-
ticut, P. 34.

town attacked by ge-
neral Tryon, vol. iii. p. 265.
New-Jersey fettled, vol. i. p. 46

-the quaker inhabitants com-
plain of the duties impofed upon

New York fettled, vol. i. P. 44-
the affembly pass an act declar-
ing the rights of the people, p.
97-the powers of legiflation
taken from the province, till
there is a compliance with a
British act of parliament, p. 216

-the New Yorkers the firft who
adopted the non-importation
agreement, p. 194—they defift
from the fame, p. 278-a quar-
rel between them and the fol-
diers, p. 300-they agree upon
a new congrefs, p. 362-the
affembly renounce all concern
with the preceding congrefs, p.
471-a battle between the whigs
and tories, on the points, con-
grefs, or no congress, p. 472—
the New Yorkers ftop the veffels
bound to Quebec and elsewhere,
vol. ii. p. 3-the measures of
the citizens on hearing of hof-
tilities in the Massachusetts, p.
4-the cannon removed from
the battery, and the Afia man
of war fires on the city, p. 117
-the New Yorkers fufpected,
p. 120-the city evacuated by
the Americans, p. 328—a ter-
rible fire there, p. 330——the
New York ftate eftablish their
independent conftitution, p.
528-the city evacuated by the
British, vol. iv. p. 382.
Nevis furrenders, vol. iv. p. 239.
Neutrality, the armed, vol. iii. p.
402.

Ner

1

Newfoundland, the storm on the coafts of it, vol. ii. p. 222. Newport, poffeffed by the Britif, vol. ii. p. 359- -an expedition againit it, p. 583-evacuated by the British, vol. iii. p. 333. Non-importation agreement adopted firft by the New York merchants, and then by others, vol. i. p. 194-a fresh non-importation agreciment begun at Boston, and afterward adopted elsewhere, p. 218-declined for the present by the Pennsylvania merchants, p. 241-adopted by them, and notice thereof fent to the committee of merchants at London, p. 250-given up by the New Yorkers, p. 278.

Norfolk action, in which captain Fordyce fell, vol. ii. p. 112-the town is fired by parties of failors and marines from lord Dunmore's fleet, and destroyed, p. 206. North Carolina, general affembly

meet and refolve to unite with the other colonies, vol. ii. p. 1 -the movements of the inhabitants occafion the governor's quitting the colony, p. 84the convention folemnly declare it to be their wish, that they may be reftored to the ftate in which they were before 1763, p. 107-establish their independent form of government, p. 390.

Norwalk burnt by the British, vol. iii. p. 267.

Nova Scotia, the representatives thereof, prefent an addrefs, petition and memorial to the king and parliament, vol. ii. p. 234. 0.

Obfervations on the Boston port-bill, vol, i. p. 375 Officers, the American, petition congrefs, vol. iv. p. 353. Ohio company, vol. i. p. 119

the French build a fort on the Ohio, p. 121.

Omoa, fort, taken by the British, vol. iii. p. 401. Operations of the troops under generals Phillips and Arnold in Virginia, vol. iv. p. 107. Order of the British king in council for fufpending provifionally all the particular ftipulations refpecting the fubjects of the States General, contained in the feveral treaties, vol. iii. p. 404. Ordnance fhip from Woolwich taken by captain Manley, vol. ii. p. 144.

Orvilliers, count de, fails from Breft to join the Spanish fleet, vol. iii. p. 288-fails with the combined fleet for Plymouth, p. 291.

Otis, Mr. James, junior, threatens governor Bernard, vol. i. p. 141-his pamphlet, The Rights of the British Colonies, alarms the people, p. 152-his fpeech against refcinding, p. 228-an affray between him and Mr. Robinfon, p. 271..

P.

Painter, John the, alias James
Aitken, vol. ii. p. 445.
Pallifer, Sir Hugh, tried, vol. iii.

P. 241.

Paper-money firft emitted by con-. grefs, vol. ii. p. 60--the particular mifchievous effects of it, vol. iv. p. 144-its ceafing to circulate, occafions no convulfion, p. 145.

Papifis relieved by act of parliament, vol. iii. p. 113. Parker, admiral Hyde, engages admiral Zoutman on Dogger Bank, vol. iv. p. 152.

Sir Peter, and lord Cornwallis, fail from Portsmouth to Cork, vol. ii. p. 239-from Cork for America with troops, p. 240-arrive at Cape Fear, and meet with general Clinton, Hh 3 P. 279

P. 279 proceed to attack Charlestown in South Carolina, P. 280.

Parliament, the feffion of it opened in 1775, vol. ii. p. 224—the debates, p. 225-a motion relative to the employing of Hanoverian troops without the confent of parliament, p. 228 -the houses informed of the French refcript, notifying the treaty with America, vol. iii. p. 108-the parliament unexpectedly diffolved, vol. iv. p. 4

-the new parliament meets, p. 10-the king's fpeech and debates on the addrefs, p. 11. Peace neceffary for the United

States, vol. iv. p. 291-negotiations between the American and British commiffioners, p. 332-340-provifional articles, p. 360-definitive treaty, P. 391.

Pearfon, captain, engages Paul Jones, vol. iii. p. 297. Peek's-kill, ftores there deftroyed, vol. ii. p. 423. Pendleton, juftice, his reafons for leaving Charlestown, vol. iii.

P. 393.

Penn, governor, an account of his having delivered the fecond petition of congrefs to the king, vol. ii. p. 152-examined before the houfe of lords, p. 231. Pennsylvania fettled, vol. i. p. 81

a charter of privileges granted to the inhabitants, p. 88-the refolutions of the affembly against taxation, except by the reprefentatives of the people, p. 193-they ratify the acts of congrefs, p. 421. decline adopting the conciliatory plan, vol. ii. p. 6-inftruct their delegates to reject any propofition in congrefs that may lead to a feparation from the mother country, p. 116-fettle their independent conftitution, p. 368

-numbers diffatisfied, p. 369 -the Pennsylvania act relating to flavery, vol. iii. p. 377

line of troops revolt,

vol. iv. p. 16-fee Revolt. Penobscot, expedition against it, by the Maffachusetts, vol. iii. p. 305.

Peterham, in the county of Worcefter, Maffachusetts Bay, the refolutions of the town, vol. i. p. 316. Petitions to the house of commons on American affairs, vol. i. p. 450-petitions and counterpetitions, p. 496-to both houses from the British inhabitants in the province of Quebec, P. 500-petitions and counterpetitions, vol. ii. p. 223-petitions from the counties for a public reform, vol. iii. p. 413 -confidered by the house of commons, and the refolutions of the house in favor of them, p. 415-all hopes of obtaining redrefs from that houfe at an end, p. 416—a fresh petition prefented, vol. iv. p. 151. Philadelphia merchants exprefs their minds fully to the committee in London on the revenue acts and grievances, vol. i. p. 266-the committee ftop the failing of veffels to Quebec and elfewhere, vol. ii. p. 4-the zeal of the citizens in hoftile preparations, p. 61-they provide for the fafety of the city, p. 93-it is poffeffed by the royal army, p. 518-it is evacuated by the British, vol. iii. p. 131. Pickens, colonel, defeats the South

Carolina tories, vol. iii. p.231 -enters the Indian country, and destroys their corn, p. 313 -aided by Lee's legion, reduces the fort at Augufta, vol. iv. p. 91-chaftifes the Cherokees for breaking their engagements, p. 177

Piquet,

Piquet, Mr. de la Motte, faves feveral merchant fhips, and engages fome British men of war, vol. iii. p. 405, 406-captures a number of fhips laden with the spoils of Statia, vol. iv. p. 146. Pitt, Mr. defigns to tax the colonies, vol. i. p. 136. Pondicherry taken by general Munro, vol. iii. p. 252. Poule, the Belle, and Arethusa, engage, vol. iii. p. 118- --the Belle Poule is taken, p. 425. Powder, the quantity thereof in the Maffachusetts, vol. ii. p. 23 -the extreme want of it at camp, p. 67-a large supply obtained by the capture of the Hope, p. 264.

Pratt, Mr. converfes with Dr. Franklin about the Americans, vol. i. p. 136. Predatory war against the Americans determined upon, vol. iii. P. 264.

Prefcot, general, furrenders with the foldiers, failors, and eleven veffels, vol. ii. p. 164-is furprifed on Rhode Island, and carried off by lieut. col. Barton, p. 491. Prevaft, general, enters South Carolina, and marches toward Charlestown, vol. iii. p. 254defends Savannah, and repulfes the allied troops under D'EStaing and Lincoln, P. 327. Princeton action, vol. ii. p. 401. Prifaners, American, the treatment they met with, vol. ii. p. 427-vol. iii. p. 15-collections for the relief of those in England, p. 99.

British, the treatment they met with from the Ame

ricans, vol. iv. p. 210, Privateers, American, their fuccefs, vol. ii. p. 433-vol. iii. p. 285. Proceedings on the meeting of the

new parliament in 1774, vol. i. p. 429-the feffion closes, p. 502.

Proclamation, lord and general Howe's, the benefit of it claimed by numbers in the Jerseys, vol, ii. p. 357.

Proposals for building men of war for the ufe of the British government by private fubfcriptions, vol. iv. p. 341. Proteft of feveral lords against the bill for regulating the govern ment of the Mafjachusetts Bay, vol. i. p. 355-against the bill for the impartial administration of juftice there, p. 357

of the Maffachusetts reprefentatives, vol. iv. p. 399. Providence plantations fettled, vol. i. p. 36-united with Rhode Ifland, P. 37.

Publications relative to the Ameri can war, vol. ii. p. 247. Pulaski, count, at Charlestown, vol. iii. p. 256—mortally wounded, p. 330-congress refolve to erect a monument to his memory, p. 332. Puritans, the rife of them, vol. I. p. 2-provide a retreat from perfecution in the Maffachusetts Bay, p. 16-people the Maffachusetts, Connecticut, and New Haven colonies, p. 35. Putnam, general, haftens with troops to the Massachusetts, vol. ii. p. 2-efcapes with 3500 men from New York, p. 328. Q Quakers, a deputation from their yearly meeting wait upon congrefs, vol. iv. p. 377.

a report of a committee of congrefs refpecting them, vol. ii. p. 505.

in Weft Jersey, complain of duties laid upon them, vol. i. p. 48-of Pennsylvania, throw George Keith into prison,

P. 91.