Dean, Joseph, x, 509.
Dean, Sir Robert, iv, 405 n.
Deane (the Six Clerk), x, 487.
Deane, Barnabas, vii, 257_n.
Deane, Silas, story of Polly Baker,
i, 172; his secret correspondence,
201 n.; knowledge of French, 216;
X, 428; employment of French
officers, vii, 66 77; x, 321, 325, 326;
recalled by Congress, vii, 128 and
n., 129, 130, 132; quarrel with
A. Lee, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137,
149, 247, 335, 401, 402 n.; viii, 204;
X, 323, 336; succeeded by John
Adams, vii, 139; x, 330; departure
for America, vii, 146, 147, 148;
B. F.'s opinion of, 174, 175;
settlement with Beaumarchais, 181,
265; recommends General Con-
way, 266 n.; return to Europe
(1780), viii, 74, 75, 126; introduced
to Dumas, 196; goes to Holland, 201;
his accounts, 204, 223; his change of
character, 393, 394 and n., 404, 640;
ix, 77; first visit to Paris, 554 and
n.; x, 294, 300, 301 and n.; anec-
dote of B. F., 271, 272 and n.,
303 n.; his lodgings in Paris, 305,
310; criticised by Carmichael,
311 n.; his expenses in France,
320; affair of the Amphitrite, 328
n.; instructions by Congress, vi, 470,
472, 474, 475; vii, 9, 20, 21, 23, 31
n., 32, 33, 35, 38, 46, 78, 105, 106,
154 n., 155, 218, 219, 257 n.; viii,
26, 434, 587; ix, 49, 64; x, 307, 308,
322, 339, 342, 365.

Deane, Simeon, vii, 197 n., 257.
Deane, Mrs. (of Ireland), ix, 14.
Dearborn, Gen. Henry A. S., i, 236 n.
De Beaufort, W. H., x, 325 n.
De Berdt, Dennis, Massachusetts agent
in London, v, 284, 294, 302.
De Bory, Dr., i, 121.

Decow, Isaac (surveyor-general), i, 295;

Delancey, Mr., v, 114.
Delany, Mrs., vi, 143 n.
Delap, J. H., commercial agent at
Bordeaux, vii, 405 and n.

Delap, Samuel, commercial agent at
Bordeaux, vii, 405.

Delaresse, iii, 142, 165.

Demosthenes, anecdote of, x, 358.
Denbigh, Lord, x, 335-
Denham, Mr., ix, 267.
Denham, Mr. (of Philadelphia), i, 274,
275, 276, 285, 286, 289; ii, 54; offers
B. F. employment, x, 155.
Dennie, William, vii, 257, 258.
Dennison, Major, v, 360 n.
Denny, John, ii, 298.

Denny, Gov. William (of Pennsyl-
vania), i, 391, 417, 421, 426, 437,
439; iii, 399, 400, 442; iv, 316,
319, 321, 322, 323, 334; X, 185 D.,
193.

De Normandie, Dr. John A., v, 459.
461; vi, 20 and n.

De Renne, Mr. W. J., i, xviii; letter
from, vi, 401.
Derry, Bishop of, ix, 239.
Desaguliers, John T., LL.D., i, 53; ii,

269.

Desmarets, Nicholas, ix, 195 and n.
Dessin, M., innkeeper at Calais, v,
320.
the

Deudon, M., improves upon
Armonica, i, 212.
Deuxponts, Prince des, viii, 456 n.;
ix, 51 n., 52 n., 70 and n.; X, 406.
Devonshire, Duchess of, ix, 160 n.
Dewitt, John, murdered, ix, 604; quoted,
vii, 152.

Dexter, Dr. F. B., Librarian of Yale
University, i, xv; x, 147 n., 204 n.
Dexter, Timothy, quoted, ix, 85 n.
Dibden, Thomas F., vi, 436 n.
Dick, Sir Alexander, i, 128, 132 n.

iv, 1 n., 155, 157; v, 109, 380; 1,
202, 254.

Dick, Lady Sarah, iv, 1 and n., 210,
373; V, 347, 380.
Dickinson, John, Galloway's answer to,
iv, 315, 316, 343; character of Will-
iam Penn, 345; his protest, 357,
358; his "Letters from a Farmer,"
V, 114 n., 192, 231 n.; x, 243; Com-
mittee of Secret Correspondence, vii,
9 n.; x, 293, 294 n.; champion of
Pennsylvania Assembly, 216, 217,
218, 297.

Diderot, Denis, i, 212; x, 357-
Didot, François, i, 215; ix, 537; X, 445 n.
Didot, François-Ambroise, le jeune,
viii, 336 and n.

Dieskau, General, commanding French
troops in Canada, v, 210.

Digges, Thomas, i, 9; viii, 231 and n.,
407 and n., 408; his dishonesty, 413,
429, 474, 477, 478, 551; I, 346,
372.

Dillwyn, Mr., vi, 234, 242.

210; iv, 165 and n.; vi, 142.

235; ix, 550 and n., 551; x, 97 n.

Barwell, Miss, v, 268, 275; vii, 15.
Barwell, Mrs., vi, 429.
Baskerville, John, i, 215; his edition of
Virgil, iii, 437 n.; iv, 86; his edition
of Milton, iii, 454 and n.; iv, 87 n.;
vi, 126.

Baskett, John (the king's printer), i,
275.

Bateman, Charles, ii, 246 n.
Bath, Lord, v, 22.

Bathurst, Lord and Lady, v, 97 and n.;
X, 276.

Baudeau, Nicolas (physiocrat), v, 409.
Baxter, Andrew, ii, 317 n., 322.
Bayard, John, x, 472.

Bayard, M., ix, 99.

Baynton, Wharton and Morgan
Philadelphia), viii, 15 n., 94 n.

Bays, M. de, x, 407.

Bazeley, Lieutenant, vii, 60 n.
Beach, Zerah, ix, 611.

(of

Beardsley, E. Edwards, iii, 12 n., 19 n.,
61 n., 91 n.

Beatty, Mr. (chaplain), i, 411; iii,
328; iv, 23, 151.
Beaudoin, M., viii, 348.
Beaufremont (or Bauffremont] (ad-
miral), iii, 398.
Beaugeard, M., x, 406.
Beaumann, Messrs. (of Bordeaux),
vii, 121.

Beaumarchais, Caron de, i, 3, 216;
vii, 175, 181, 265, 383, 391; viii, 129,
253, 386, 404, 409, 431, 479, 581;
his "Figaro," ix, 305; the lost mill-
ion, 554, 555 n.; x, 303 n., 305, 321;
the Amphitrite, 325, 326 and n.; 327,
328 and n., 388, 428.

Beaumont, M., i, 225; v, 230 and n.,

254, 255.

Beaumont, M. (an advocate), ix, 159.
Beccaria, Giambatista, i, 22, 199, 210;
iii, 269; his experiments, iv, 141, 146,
457 n.; v, 165 n.

Becket, T. (bookseller), iv, 32, 258;
viii, 335

Beckford, William, M.P., v, 100.
Beckwith, Maj.-Gen. John, iv, 212; vii,
315 n.

Beckwith, Sir Thomas Sydney, vii,
315 n.

Bedford, Mrs. Jenny (daughter of
James Parker), letter to B. F., vi,
35 and n., 36.
Bedford, Duke of, iv, 82; v, 41, 73
and n., 89, 90, 143, 149, 252; X, 197,
244.

Bègue de Presle, Achille-Guillaume Le,
viii, 312; ix, 43 and n., 315.
Belcher, Governor (of N.Y.), iv, 105.
Bell, John (of Antermony), his travels,
iv, 302.

Belt, Captain, ix, 153.

Belton, Joseph (inventor), vi, 450.
Benezet, Anthony, i, 199, 357 and n.;
V, 431 D.; x, 287.
Benger, Elliot (postmaster), iii, 49, 50;
X, 172, 173.

Benham, Daniel, vii, 98 n.
Beniousky, Mme., ix, 502.
Benjamin, W. R., iii, 5 n.
Benoit, M., x, 465.

"Benson, M." (see Silas Deane), i, 201
n.; x, 311.

Bentham, Jeremy, x, 267, 269.
Bentinck, Hon. Captain, vi, 161, 162,
165.

Bentinck, Count (of Holland), i, 64;
vi, 161.

Bentley, Richard (partner of Wedg-
wood), i, xviii.

Berkeley, George (bishop of Cloyne),
iii, 12 and n., 16 n., 20 n.
Berkenrode, M. de, viii, 424, 514.
Bernard, Dom (Benedictine), i, 208.
Bernard, Sir Francis (governor of Mass.),
iv, 105, 214 n., 355; v, 66, 223 n.,

252, 300, 352 n., 353; vi, 51, 80,
88, 148 and n.; x, 250.
Bernier, Francis ("Travels in India"),
iii, 447; iv, 192.

Bernouilli, John, propulsion of ships,
ix, 388.

Bernstorff, Andres Peder, Count, vii,
420 n.; viii, 384 n.
Berthier, Joseph Etienne (F.R.S.), i,
196; v, 93 n.

Bertin, Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste,
viii, 561 and n.

Bessborough, William, Lord, iv, 100;
X, 177.

Besse, Jacques, i, 215.

Bettesworth, Richard (of Petsworth),
ix, 13 n.

Beuchot, C. V. (editor of Voltaire), iv,
268 n.

Bevan, Paul, iv, 5 n.

Bevan, Sylvanus, iv, 5 and n., 6.
Bevis, Dr. J., iii, 264 n., 269 n.
Biddle, Alexander, i, xiv.
Biddle, Charles, ix, 545 n.
Biddle, Louis A., i, xiv, 83 n.; v, 311 n.;
vi, 428 n.; vii, 21 n., 113 n.; ix, 324
n., 329 n., 360 n., 480 n., 486 n., 487;
X, 44.

Biddle, Nicholas, ix, 545 n.
Biddle and Bayley (astronomical ob-
servations), v, 226, 271.

Bigelow, John, i, vii, viii, x, 30, 32, 33.
83, 164, 165, 171, 226 n., 434 n.;
ii, v, 237 n., 241 n., 377 n., 397 n.;
iii, 5 n., 40 n., 45 n., 103 n., 142 n.,
165 n., 286 n., 302 n., 337 n., 340 n.;
257 n.; V, 34 n., 155 n., 357 n.; iv, 15a

n., 159 n., 172 n., 173 n., 179 n., |
196 n., 200 n., 203 n., 206 n., 214 n.,
221 n., 225 n., 245 n., 344 n., 447 n.;
vi, 195 n., 219 n., 425 n., 458 n.;
vii, 43 n., 45 n., 47 n., 78 n., 340 n.,
343 n., 351; viii, 115, 137 n., 356 n.,
409 n., 419 n., 447 n.; ix, 15 n., 57 n.,
174 n., 283 n., 290 n., 307 n., 340
n., 353, 371 n., 468 n., 469 n., 572
n.; x, I n., 116 n., 131 n.
Biheron, Mlle., v, 465; vii, 10 and n.
Billings, Mrs., iii, 57-

Bingham, William (U.S. commercial
agent at Martinique), vii, 173 and n.,
181, 322, 330; viii, 55, 73 and n.,
396; ix, 99 and n., 250, 328, 513;
X, 379, 489.

Bird, John (instrument maker), i, 50,
71; iii, 266 and n.; v, 136, 198.
Bisset, Rev. Mr., i, 117.

Black, Dr. Joseph (chemist), iv, 121 n.;
v, 380; x, 204 n., 254.
Blackburn, John, iv, 333.
Blackburne, Francis, Life of Hollis,"
ix, 103 n.

Blacker, Mrs. (née Martin), vi, 39, 40.
Blacklock, Thomas, x, 276.
Blackmore, Sir Richard, ii, 95.
Blackrie, Alexander, ix, 329 and n.,
330.

Blackstone, Sir William, ix, 253, 305.
Blackwall, Anthony, iii, 30 n.
Blagden, Sir Charles, vi, 165; ix, 73
and n., 75:

Blair, Rev. James, ix, 240.

Blair, Dr. John, iii, 264.
Blake, Daniel, vii, 223 n.
Blake, W., vii, 223 n.

Bland, Rev. Mr., ix, 355, 356.
Blome, Baron de, vii, 424.
Blount, Dorothea, iv, 193 and n., 201,
217; V, 226, 268, 275; vi, 412, 429;
vii, 15 and n.; ix, 36, 371, 511, 513.
Blount, William, ix, 534 n.
Boerhaave, Hermann, i, 114; ii, 253 n.,

281.

Boeris, M. (agent of the Dutch East
India Company), viii, 514, 529, 540.
Boers, Mrs., viii, 448.
Bohlen, Mme. de, viii, 329 n.; x, 143
and n.

Boldsworth, Jonathan, x, 105 and n.
Bolingbroke, Lord, i, 17, 287 n.; x, 333.
Bollan, William, Massachusetts agent
in London, v, 284, 295, 297, 317, 350,
391; vi, 114, 182, 183, 187, 303, 342,
378, 379; ix, 693, 695; x, 263, 264,
283.

Bond, John, ii, 298.

Bond, Dr. Phineas, i, 405; ii, 277.
Bond, Richard (son of Dr. Thomas
Bond), v, 385.

Bordley, J., ii, 298.

Borre, Major (French officer), vii, 389.
Boscawen, Edward (admiral), iii, 273.
Boscovich, Roger-Joseph [Père), iii,
111, 112; vi, 143.

Bossu, N. ("Travels through Louisi-
ana"), v, 387 n.

Boswell, James, vi, 146 n.; ix, 550 n.
Botetourt, Lord, v, 359, 487, 488.
Boudinot, Elias, iii, 422; viii, 267 n.;
X, 397.

Boufflers, Mme. de, x, 428.
Boulainvilliers, Mme. de, x, 453.
Boulton, Matthew, i, 64; iv, 133.
Boulton, Richard, ii, 279 and n.
Bouquet, Col. Henry, iv, 252 n.,
255, 285, 359, 363, 440; V, 217;
testifies to F.'s public services, x,

182 n.

Bourbon, Don Gabriel de, vi, 436 and
n.; vii, 32 and n.; x, 294.
Bourdieu, M., ix, 198.
Boutineau, Mr., iii, 163.
Bowdoin, James, i, 70, 71, 132 n.,
435 n.; iii, 32, 33, 164, 369; iv,
219 n.; v, 197, 199, 255, 298, 360 n.;
vi, 310, 446; viii, 182 n., 183; ix,
443, 480, 481, 483 n., 486.
Bowdoin, Mrs. James, iii, 163; vi, 310;
ix, 480.

Bowen, Mr., v. 333, 370; viii, 330.
Bower, Archibald ("History of the
Popes"), iii, 95 and n., 142, 165, 170.
Bowie, Mr., ix, 501 n.

Boydell, Mr. (ship-broker), v, 388.
Boyer, Abel, v, 464.

Boyeted, M. (French consul in Spain),
viii, 367 and n.
Boyle, Robert, i, 196, 295; ii, 271 n.,

279 and n., 280 n.; iii, 170; x, 285.
Boxhorn, Mark Zuirius, vii, 169 n.
Brabanzon, M., ix, 562.
Braddock, General, I, 154; assisted by
B. F., 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 224,
393, 395, 398, 400 and n., 406, 416,
428, 429; iii, 57 n., 260, 262 n., 278,
289 n., 297 n., 376, 398, 399; iv, 253,
439; V, 211, 482, 483; x, 181, 182 and
n., 190.

292.

Bradford, Andrew, i, 256, 257, 258,
293, 301, 302, 303, 308, 309; ii, 100;
iii, 88; x, 152, 153, 164; rivalry with
F., 165; post-office accounts, 168,
169 n., 170.

Bradford, T. Hewson, i, xv.
Bradford, Thomas, vi, 402 n.

mended by F., vi, 193; x, 277.
Brown and Collinson (bankers), v, 442;
vi, 104, 406, 411.

Browne, Joseph (vice-chancellor of Ox-
ford), x, 205.

Browne, Thomas, of Hull, viii, 6 and n.
Brownell, George, i, 233; X, 147 and n.
Brownell, John (master's mate), viii, 2.

234 n.; x, 152.

Bradley, James, iii, 266 n.
Bradshaw, Thomas, letter from
Anthony Todd, x, 178.
Bradstreet, Colonel, iv, 255, 256, 257,
267, 285.

Brand, Thomas, see Thomas Brand
Hollis.

Brandlight and Sons (merchants of
Amsterdam), viii, 306 and n.
Branscombe, Captain, iii, 125.
Bray, Dr. Thomas, i, 199; formation
of "Dr. Bray's associates," iv, 23 n.,
463 and n.; v, 308.
Breintnal, Joseph, member of "Junto,"

299, 300, 302, 307; author of
"Busy-body," ii, 100 n., 119 n.,

128 n.

Bridgen, Edward, viii, 339, 340, 573,
574, 646; x, 350.
Brillon, M., i, 185, 186, 189, 190, 211;
vii, 414; viii, 159, 160; ix, 274, 498;
X, 408, 417, 418, 419, 420, 436,
464.
Brillon, Mme., i, 182, 184, 185, 186,
210, 216; dedication of "Ephemera,"
vii, 206; viii, 99; her gardens, 159,
160; meets Lord Cholmondely, 460,
544; ix, 271, 274, 561; x, 328 n.,
340, 406, 407, 408, 409, 415, 416, 417,
420, 421, 423, 424, 425, 426, 427, 429,
436, 437, 438, 439, 464.
Brillon, Mlle. de, ix, 496 and n.; x,

417, 420.

Brindley, J., iii, 56.

Brisson, Mathurin-Jacques, vii, 30
and n.; x, 406.
Brockden, Charles, i, 269, 312, 321, 322.
Broglie, Prince Victor Claude de, viii,

411 n., 419 and n., 421, 423.
Bromfield, see Ingraham and Bromfield.
Brooke, Lawrence, letter to, vii, 223 n.
Brooke, Dr. R., iii, 264 and n.
Brougham, Lord, i, 49, 50 and n.
Broughton, Sarah, x, 158.

Broussonet, Dr. Pierre-Marie-Auguste,
viii, 502 and n.

Brown, Dr. (innkeeper), i, 252.
Brown, Mr. (of S.C.), viii, 18.

Brown, Mr. (adopted son of Mary,

widow of Peter Franklin), iv, 461.
Brown, Captain, ii, 346 n.

upon water, i, 63, 64 n.; iii, 163;
vi, 153_n.; *, 252.

Brunswick, Duke of, ix, 604.
"Brutus" (pseudonym), see Sir Edward
Newenham.

Bryan, George, burgess of Philadelphia,
X, 217.

Bryant, Captain, iii, 195.

Buchan, Earl of, healed by F., i, 124;
ix, 20 n.

Buckingham, J. T., ii, 1.
Budden, Captain, iii, 39, 48, 423, 432;
iv, 22.

Buffon, Comte de, causes F.'s works to
be translated, i, 16, 84, 98, 418,
iii, 270; Nogaret dedicates to him,
viii, 215 n.; his illness, ix, 566 n.,
572; his "Natural History of Birds,"
vi, 236.

Buisson (publisher of F.'s "Memoirs"),
i, 23, 24, 25.
Bull, Colonel, iv, 307.
Bullen, Mrs., taken by Black Prince,
vii, 409 n.

Bunyan, John, i, 36, 238, 251; i, 119;
X, 148, 149.
Burch, William, v, 66 n.
Bürger, Gottfried August (translator of
F.'s "Memoirs"), i, 25 and n.
Burgh, James, iv, 220; viii, 457 and n.
Burgoyne, General, i, 9; polite maca-

roni, 175 n.; vii, 54; surrender of,
110 n., 140; viii, 27 and n., 83; x,
328, 329 n., 374; parole and ex-
change of, viii, 317, 318, 319, 320,
321 n., 322, 340, 353, 463, 536, 537.
540, 556.

Burke, Ædanus, x, 354 and n.
Burke, Edmund, i, 9, 136, 196; v,
239 n.; characterization of F., x, 303,
304; exchange of Burgoyne, viii,
317, 318, 319, 322, 340, 353; account
of his examination, x, 229, 247, 206;
account of the scene in the Cockpit,
267, 268, 270, 275; tries to release
Colonel Laurens, viii, 166 n.; x, 374;
agent for New York, vi, 303 and a.,

342.

Burkett, Mr., iii, 422.

Burkmaster, "Cousin," iii, 440.
Burnaby, Rev. Andrew ("Travels in
North America"), iii, 2 n.