treat with Indians at Carlisle and at Easton. Project and establish Academy. Pamphlet on it. Journey to Boston. At Albany. Plan of union of the colonies. Copy of it. Remarks upon it. It fails, and how. Journey to Boston in 1754. Disputes about it in our Assembly. My part in them. New Governor. Disputes with him. His character and sayings to me. Chosen Alderman. Project of Hospital. My share in it. Its success. Boxes. Made a Commissioner of the Treasury. My commission to defend the frontier counties. Raise Men and build Forts. Militia Law of my drawing. Made Colonel. Parade of my Officers. Offence to Proprietor. Assistance to Boston Ambassadors. Journey with Shirley, &c. Meet with Braddock. Assistance to him. To the Officers of his Army. Furnish him with Forage. His concessions to me and character of me. Success of my Electrical Experiments. Medal sent me. Present Royal Society, and Speech of President. Denny's Arrival and Courtship to me. His character. My service to the Army in the affair of Quarters. Disputes about the Proprietor's Taxes continued. Project for paving the City. I am sent to England. Negotiation there. Canada delenda est. My Pamphlet. Its reception and effect. Projects drawn from me concerning the Conquest. Acquaintance made and their services to me - Mrs. S. M. Small, Sir John P., Mr. Wood, Sargent Strahan, and others. Their characters. Doctorate from Edinburgh, St. Andrew's. Doctorate from Oxford. Journey to Scotland. Lord Leicester, Mr. Prat. De Grey. Jackson. State of Affairs in England. Delays. Eventful Journey into Holland and Flanders. Agency from Maryland. Son's appointment. My Return. Allowance and thanks. Journey to Boston. John Penn, Governor. My conduct toward him. The Paxton Murders. My Pamphlet. Rioters march to Philadel phia. Governor retires to my House. My conduct. Sent out to the Insurgents. Turn them back. Little thanks. Disputes revived. Resolutions against continuing under Proprietary Government. Another Pamphlet. Cool thoughts. Sent again to England with Petition. Negotiation there.
Lord H. His character. Agencies from New Jersey, Georgia, Massachusetts. Journey into Germany, 1766. Civilities received there. Göttingen Observations. Ditto into France in 1767. Ditto in 1769. Entertainment there at the Academy. Introduced to the King and the Mesdames, Mad. Victoria and Mrs.
Lamagnon. Duc de Chaulnes, M. Beaumont, Le Roy, D'Alibard, Nollet. See Journals. Holland. Reprint my papers and add many. Books presented to me from many authors. My Book translated into French. Lightning Kite. Various Discoveries. My manner of prosecuting that Study. King of Denmark invites me to dinner. Recollect my Father's Proverb. Stamp Act. My opposition to it. Recommendation of J. Hughes. Amendment of it. Examination in Parliament. Reputation it gave me. Caressed by Ministry. Charles Townsend's Act. Opposition to it. Stoves and chimney-plates. Armonica. Acquaintance with Ambassadors. Russian Intimation. Writing in newspapers. Glasses from Germany. Grant of Land in Nova Scotia. Sicknesses. Letters to America returned hither. The consequences. Insurance Office. My character. Costs me nothing to be civil to inferiors; a good deal to be submissive to superiors, &c., &c. Farce of Perpetual Motion. Writing for Jersey Assembly. Hutchinson's letters. Temple. Suit in Chancery. Abuse before the Privy Council. Lord Hillsborough's character and conduct. Lord Dartmouth. Negotiation to prevent the War. Return to America. Bishop of St. Asaph. Congress. Assembly. Committee of Safety. Chevaux-de-frise. Sent to Boston, to the Camp. To Canada, to Lord Howe. To France. Treaty, &c.
ACADEMY, founding an, 149-152.
Adams, Matthew, 20.
Alexander, James, 166.
Allen, Judge, of New Jersey, 77.
Allen, William, 140.
Amboy, 32, 33.
American Philosophical Society, the, 138
and note.
Amherst, Lord, 209.
Argument, 21, 25, 26, 49.
Cincinnati, the order of the, 243 and
note.
Clapham, Colonel, 193.
Clifton, John, 160.
Clinton, Governor, 140.
Coleman, William, 82; his kindness to
Franklin, 87.
Collins, John, 21, 30, 39, 43, 45-47, 78.
Collinson, Peter, 199, 200, 217.
Cooper, Joseph, 77.
Art of Virtue, The, a proposed book, 111, Craven Street, London, 162.
112, 234.
Bethlehem, Pa., 189, 190, 193–195.
Bible, concealment of a, 11, 12.
Bond, the two Doctors, 185, 186.
Bond, Dr. Thomas, establishes a hospital
in Philadelphia with Franklin's help,
154-157.
Bonnell, Captain, 209, 210.
Boston, Franklin's life in, 12-30; a short
visit to, 41-43; 199.
Braddock, General Edward, 173–184.
Bradford, Andrew, 37, 38, 83, 84, 86, 91,
127.
Bradford, William, 31, 37, 38.
Breintnal, Joseph, 81, 82, 84, 90.
Brockden, Charles, 94, 96.
Brown, Dr., 33.
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Count de,
Bunyan, John, 19, 31, 32.
Burlington, N. J., 33, 34, 76, 77.
Burnet, Governor, 45.
Bustill, Samuel, 77.
Cambridge, England, 227.
Canada, its importance to Great Britain,
223, 228, 229; commissioners sent to,
238.
Canton, John, 203.
Carlisle, Pa., 153, 154.
Cave, publisher of The Gentleman's Mag-
azine, 200.
Charles, Mr., London Agent for the
Province of Pennsylvania, 217, 221.
Croghan, George, 180.
Dalibard, Thomas François, translates
Franklin's papers on electricity, 201;
proves the truth of Franklin's theory
as to lightning, 202.
Declaration of Independence, the, 238,
239.
Decow, Isaac, 77.
Deism, 77, 78.
Denham, Mr., a Quaker merchant of Phil-
adelphia, 55-57, 66; employs Franklin
as a clerk, 67; 70; dies, 71.
Denny, Captain William, Governor of
Pennsylvania, 171, 198; his first inter-
course with Franklin, 203-205; 206,
208; passes an act of the Assembly
taxing the proprietary estate, 220; is
removed from office, 222.
Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity
Pleasure and Pain, A, 59.
Dunbar, Colonel, 179, 182, 184, 185, 197,
198.
Dunkers, the, 146.
Eagle, bald, 242, 243.
Ecton, Northamptonshire, 9, 227, 228.
Electricity, 199–203.
Falmouth, 216.
Fawkener, Sir Everard, 197.
Fire department, the foundation of ag
129, 130; 142, 143.
Fireplace, the Pennsylvania, 147, 148.
Folger, Peter, grandfather of Franklin,
12, 13.
Fort Duquesne, Battle of, 181-183.
Fort George, 209.
Fothergill, Dr. John, 161, 200, 217, 218.
France, Franklin in, 240-243.
Francis, Mr., attorney-general, 149.
Franklin, Benjamin, uncle of Benjamin,
Franklin, Abiah (Folger), mother of Ben-
jamin, 12, 17.
Franklin, Benjamin, ancestry and pa-
rentage, 9-13; birth, 12 and note;
schooling, 13, 14; learning his father's
trade of tallow-chandler, 14-18; an
early instance of misdirected public
spirit, 15; his indifference in regard to
his food, 16, 17; fondness for reading,
19, 20; becomes an apprentice in his
brother James's printing-office, 19, 20;
writes and sells ballads, 20; practices
prose-writing, 20-23; becomes a vege-
tarian, 23, 24; his studies, 24, 25;
writes for the New England Courant,
27, 28; his disputes with his brother
James, 28-30; a new arrangement
with his brother, 29; asserts his free-
dom and goes to New York, 29, 30; the
journey from New York to Philadel-
phia, 31-35; first day in Philadelphia,
35-37; finds employment and lodgings,
37-39; urged by the governor to set
up a printing business in Philadelphia,
40, 41; goes home with a letter from
the governor to his father, 41, 42; his
father refusing, on account of his
youth, to set him up in business, he
returns to Philadelphia, 42-45; rela-
tions with Collins, 46, 47; promises of
assistance from the governor, 47, 48;
vegetarianism and argument, 48-51; be-
comes attached to Miss Deborah Read,
50; his acquaintances in Philadelphia,
50-53; on the governor's assurances of
financial assistance he sails for London
to buy an outfit for his printing-office,
53-55; arrival in London and disclos-
ure of Governor Keith's faithlessness,
56, 57; finds employment at Palmer's
printing-house, 58, 59; makes acquain-
tances, 59, 60; breaks with his friend
James Ralph, 61; enters Watts's print-
ing-house, 61; his temperate habits,
31-63; his lodgings, 63-65; his swim-
ming powers, 65-68; enters the em-
ployment of Mr. Denham, a Philadel-
phia merchant, and sails for America,
67, 68; as a merchant's clerk in Phila-
delphia, 70; very ill of pleurisy, 71; by
the death of Mr. Denham he is thrown
out of his situation, and he again
enters the printing-house of his old em-
ployer, Keimer, 71; is discharged by
Keimer without cause, but is after-
wards reëngaged, 74-76; agrees to a
partnership with Hugh Meredith in
a printing business, 75; makes friends
in New Jersey, 76, 77; morality and
religion, 77-79; leaves Keimer and
starts business with Meredith, 79, 80;
forms a debating club called the Junto,
80-82; industry in business, 82, 83;
starts a newspaper, The Pennsylvania
Gazette, 83, 84; increasing business,
85, 86; his partnership with Meredith
is dissolved, and with the assistance of
friends he continues the business alone,
86-88; advocates an increase of the pa-
per currency, 88, 89; growing business,
89-91; courtship and marriage, 92-94;
establishes the first subscription library
in America, 94-98; assisted by the in-
dustry and frugality of his wife, 99;
his religious beliefs, 99-101; his plan of
moral improvement, 101-114; his pro-
ject of founding an international so-
ciety or sect for the practice of virtue,
115-117; publication and success of
Poor Richard's Almanac, 118-119; his
manner of conducting his newspaper,
119; sends one of his journeymen to
South Carolina under a partnership
arrangement, 120; his relations with
Rev. Mr. Hemphill, 121; learning lan-
guages, 122, 123; visits Boston and
Newport, 124; loses his little boy, 124;
brings about the enlargement of the
Junto's usefulness by the formation of
subordinate clubs, 125, 126; chosen
clerk of the General Assembly of
Pennsylvania, 126; turns an enemy
into a friend, 126, 127; is made post-
master at Philadelphia, 127; accom-
plishes the reform of the city watch,
128; through his instrumentality a fire
department is organized, 129, 130; his
acquaintance with the Rev. George
Whitefield, 133, 134; increasing pros-
perity, 136; forms partnerships in other
colonies, 137; starts a movement for an
academy, 138; establishes the Ameri-
can Philosophical Society, 138; his
successful efforts in behalf of the pub-
lic defence, 138-145; his rule as to
public office, 141; invents the Frank-
lin stove, or Pennsylvania fireplace,
147, 148; founds an academy, which
afterwards became the University of
Philadelphia and finally the University
of Pennsylvania, 149-152; takes Mr.
David Hall into partnership to man-
age his business, 151; elected to mem-
bership in the Assembly and other
offices, 152, 153; furthers Dr. Thomas
Bond's plans for a hospital in Phila-
delphia, 154-157; advice to a solicitor
of subscriptions, 157, 158; his share in
bringing about the paving, cleaning,
and lighting of Philadelphia streets,
159-161; his project for the clean-
ing of London streets, 161-164; post-
master-general for America jointly
with Mr. William Hunter, 165; takes
a journey to New England, where he
receives the degree of Master of Arts
from Harvard College, 165, 166; ap-
pointed one of the commissioners
to arrange an alliance with the Six
Nations, 166; his plan for a union of
the colonies, 166-168; his pleasant re-
lations with Governor Morris, 169, 170;
his services in procuring money from
the Assembly to be used by the gov-
ernment of Massachusetts in an attack
upon the French, 172, 173; procures
transport wagons and supplies for Gen-
eral Braddock's expedition against
Fort Duquesne, 173-180; his unheeded
warning to Braddock, 180, 181; recom-
mendatory letters from Braddock,
184; partially successful efforts to se-
cure the return of servants which had
been enlisted in the army, 184; diffi-
culties with the owners of transport
wagons, 185; forebodings as to the
outcome of the expedition, 185, 186;
appointed on a commission to spend an
appropriation for the defence of the
Province, 188; promotes the formation
of a militia, 188, 195; raises troops
and commands an expedition to build
a line of forts against the Indians, 188-
193; colonel in the militia, 195, 196;
incurs the enmity of the proprietor of
the Province, 196, 197; his relations
with Governor Morris, 197, 198; his
electrical experiments and discoveries,
199-203; chosen a member of the
Royal Society, 203; receives a medal
from the Royal Society, 203; his first
meeting and subsequent relations with
Governor Denny, 203-205; appointed
agent of the Province of Pennsylvania
to present and support its petition to
the crown against the Penn family,
205; his relations with General Lord
Loudoun, 206-212; delayed in starting
for London and on the voyage by Lord
Loudoun's indecision and procrastina-
tion, 207-209; unsuccessful efforts to
secure reimbursement for money ad-
vanced to buy provisions, etc., for the
army, 211, 212; events of the voyage,
212-216; lands at Falmouth_and pro-
ceeds to London, 216; visits Dr. Foth-
ergill and Mr. Peter Collinson, 217;
his conversation with Lord Granville,
217, 218; his negotiations with the
proprietaries, 218-223; his stay in
England, 223-231; makes purchases
for his wife, 224-226; makes friends
in England, 227; visits his ancestral
home, 227, 228; his ideas as to the im-
portance of America to England, 228,
229; advice to Mary Stevenson as to
reading, 229, 230; returns to America,
231, 232; makes a tour through the
northern colonies to inspect and regu-
late the postal system, 232; his services
during the riots of the "Paxton Boys"
against the converted Indians, 233;
a short period of unpopularity, 234;
again sent to England as agent for the
Province, 234; his services to the col-
onies, 234-237; makes purchases for
his wife, 235, 236; returns to America,
237; unanimously chosen a delegate to
the Continental Congress, 237; letter
to Mr. William Strahan, 237; letter to
another English acquaintance, 237;
goes to Canada as one of three commis
sioners to solicit assistance, 238; takes
part in the discussions leading to the
Declaration of Independence, 238, 239;
represents the United States in France,
240-242; his personal appearance at
this time, 241; one of the peace com-
mission, 241, 242; a letter to Mrs.
Hewson, 241; a letter to his daughter,
242; returns to America and is made
president of the State of Pennsylvania,
243; last years, 243; death, 244; his
epitaph, 244.
Franklin, Mrs. Benjamin, her married
life, 94; her death, 94 n., 241; her in-
dustry and frugality, 99; 223; Frank-
lin's letters to, 224, 227, 235; 232. See
Read, Miss Deborah.
Franklin, James, brother of Benjamin,
19, 23, 24; publishes the New England
Courant, 26, 27; his treatment of his
brother Benjamin, 28; trouble with
the authorities, 28, 29; makes another
arrangement with Benjamin, 29; Ben-
jamin leaves him, 30; 42; reconcilia-
tion with Benjamin, 124.
Franklin, John, brother of Benjamin,
18, 43.
Franklin, John, uncle of Benjamin,
9, 10.
Franklin, Josiah, father of Benjamin,
10, 11; emigrates to New England, 12;
his family, 12; 13-15; his person and
character, 15, 16; his grave, 17; 18-
23, 28, 30, 42, 43.
Franklin, Samuel, first cousin of Benja-
min, 18.
Franklin, Samuel, second cousin of Ben-
jamin, 10.
Franklin, Sarah, daughter of Renjamin,
226, 227, 232, 236; a letter from her
father, 242.
Franklin, Thomas, grandfather of Benja-
min, 9, 10.
Franklin, Thomas, uncle of Benjamin,
10, 227, 228.
Franklin, William, son of Benjamin, ap-
pointed clerk to the General Assembly
of Pennsylvania, 153; 176, 188, 216,
223-225; his marriage and appointment
as governor of New Jersey, 232 n.
Franklin family, the, 9-12.
Franklin stove, the, 147, 148.
French, Colonel, of Newcastle, 40, 55.
Georgia, settlement of, 132, 133.
Gnadenhut, 188-194.
Godfrey, Thomas, 79, 81, 92, 93.
Godfrey, Mrs. Thomas, 92, 93.
Gordon, Major, Governor of Pennsyl
vania, 70.
Grace, Robert, 82; his kindness to
Franklin, 87; manufactures the Frank-
lin stove, 147.
Granville, Lord, 217, 218.
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