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285 “by exposing”: The Citizen, Sept. 23, 1757, PBF, 7:255n.
285–86 “The first thing”: to Pringle, Dec. 21, 1757.
286 “From this experiment”: to John Lining, June 17, 1758.
287 “My vanity”: to DF, Sept. 6, 1758.
287 “The ingenuous”: citation accompanying diploma, PBF, 8:279n.
287–88 “You may think”: to DF, Jan. 21, 1758.
288 “I thank you”: to DF, Nov. 22, 1757.
288 “We have four rooms”: to DF, Jan. 1758.
288–89 “The hackney coaches”: to DF, Feb. 19, 1758.
289 “Tell her”: Strahan to Hall, June 10, 1758, PBF, 8:93n.
13. IMPERIALIST: 1759–60
291 “a province … their country”: W. A. Speck, Stability and Strife: England, 1714–1760 (Cambridge, Mass., 1977), 243–44.
291 “I am sure”: John B. Owen, The Eighteenth Century, 1714–1815 (Totowa, N.J., 1975), 84.
291 “The enemy have passed”: Francis Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe (Boston, 1903), 2:216.
292 “Everything proves”: ibid., 286.
293 “Vive le roil”: Howard Peckham, The Colonial Wars, 190.
293 “Now, God be praised”: Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe, 2:309.
295 “that unmannerly sect”: to the London Chronicle, Dec. 27, 1759.
295 The Interest of Great Britain Considered, PBF, 9:59–100.
299–300 “She is a … Birmingham eyes”: to DF, Sept. 6, 1758.
300 “Odd characters”: to Roberts, Sept. 16, 1758.
301 “That”: to Norris, Jan. 14, 1758.
302 “a most impudent”: Penn to Peters, July 5, 1758, HSP.
302 “I still see”: to Galloway, Apr. 7, 1759.
302–3 “that harmony … and assent”: “Answer to Heads of Complaint,” Nov. 27, 1758.
303 “disrespect”: Penns to House of Representatives, Nov. 28, 1758, PBF.
303 “I need not”: to Norris, Jan. 19, 1759.
304 “The infinite variety”: WF to Graeme, Dec. 9, 1757.
305–6 “7. And the man”: PBF, 6:122–24.
306 “We could have”: to Kames, Jan. 3, 1760.
14. BRITON: 1760–62
308 “I glory”: John Brooke, King George III (New York, 1972), 88, 390–91.
309 “My dear … impertinence”: ibid., 15.
310 “If you should … come to pass”: J. Steven Watson, The Reign of George III, 1760–1815 (Oxford, UK, 1960), 5–7.
310 “her want … going off”: Stanley Ayling, George the Third (New York, 1972), 83–84.
311 “The conduct … in the grass”: Watson, Reign of George III, 4.
311 “the man who”: R. J. White, The Age of George III (New York, 1968), 58.
311 “I am happy”: Brooke, King George III, 89.
311 “My Lord … to ruin”: ibid., 78.
311 “bloody and expensive”: Ayling, George III, 65.
311 “Oh, that foolishest”: ibid., 90.
312–13 “deceit and circumvention … jockeyship”: to King in Council, Feb. 2, 1759.
314 “almost rebellious”: PBF, 9:128.
314 “not only against”: Report to the Lords of the Committee of Council, June 24, 1760.
315 “Lord Mansfield”: ABF, 265–66.
316 “A more unlucky”: to the Trustees of the Loan Office, Feb. 13, 1762.
316–17 “a little work … universal use”: to Kames, May 3, 1760.
318 “I never saw”: to Kames, Oct. 21, 1761.
318 “I imagine”: to Kames, May 3, 1760.
319 “whatever occurs”: to Mary Stevenson, May 1, 1760.
319 “to warm”: to Stevenson, Sept. 13, 1760.
319 “No one catches cold”: to Stevenson, Aug. 10, 1761.
319 “Why will you”: to Stevenson, May 1, 1760.
320 “The knowledge”: to Stevenson, June 11, 1760.
320 “I cannot but wish”: to Hume, Sept. 27, 1760.
321 “The Church”: to Hume, May 10, 1762.
322 “But this opinion … earthquakes”: to [Peter Franklin], May 7, 1760.
322 “Suppose a long canal”: to Alexander Small, May 12, 1760.
323–24 “Entertainment … objectionable”: to Pringle, May 27, 1762.
325 “Being charmed”: to Beccaria, July 13, 1762.
326 “We saw all”: WF to Sarah Franklin, Oct. 10, 1751.
327 “When I travelled”: to Ingersoll, Dec. 11, 1762.
327 “ransacted”: Sheila Skemp, William Franklin, 40.
328 “The lady”: to Mecom, Nov. 25, 1762.
329 “in opposition”: to Strahan, July 23, 1762.
329 “I am now”: to Kames, Aug. 17, 1762.
329 “I am very sorry”: from Hume, May 10, 1762.
329 “This will be brought”: Strahan to Hall, Aug. 10, 1762, PBF.
15. RISING IN THE WEST: 1762–64
331 “I shall probably”: to Strahan, Aug. 23, 1762.
332 “Of all”: to Mary Stevenson, Mar. 25, 1763.
332 “It produces”: to Richard Jackson, Dec. 6, 1762.
332–33 “I arrived”: to Jackson, Dec. 2, 1762.
333 “I find”: to Jackson, Mar. 8, 1763.
333 “a conquest”: to Caleb Whiteford, Dec. 9, 1762.
334 “glorious peace”: to Philip Ludwell, Feb. 22, 1763.
334 “Throughout this continent”: to Strahan, May 9, 1763.
334 “The glory … were dead”: to John Whitehurst, June 27, 1763.
335 “Grumblers”: to Strahan, May 9, 1763.
335 “Here in America”: to John Whitehurst, June 27, 1763.
335 “many thousands”: Plan for Settling Two Western Colonies, PBF, 5:457ff.
336 “I know not”: to Jackson, Mar. 8, 1763 (with postscripts of Mar. 22 and 29).
337 “I have assured … iron is hot”: to Jackson, Apr. 17, 1763.
338 “under the influence”: Sheila Skemp, William Franklin, 48.
338 “I am just returned”: to Strahan, Mar. 28, 1763.
339 “Notwithstanding”: to Bessborough, [Oct. 1761].
340 “I am not yet”: to Catharine Ray Greene, Sept. 5, 1763.
340 “I am otherwise”: to Jane Mecom, Dec. 15, 1763.
340 “Now I am”: to Strahan, Dec. 19, 1763.
341 “My mother”: WF to Strahan, Apr. 25, 1763, PBF, 10:237n.
342 “I expected”: to Strahan, June 28, 1763.
342 “Not an hour”: from Strahan, Aug. 18, 1763.
342 “talk away”: R. J. White, The Age of George III, 64.
342 “inexhaustible spirits … nothing can crush”: John Brooke, King George III, 145.
343 “Naturally”: J. Steven Watson, The Reign of George III, 98.
343 “That depends”: Horace Bleackley, Life of John Wilkes (London, 1917), 69.
343 “It is certainly”: White, Age of George III, 61.
343 “proud, pompous”: Paul Langford, A Polite and Commercial People, 354.
343 “I do not know”: Stanley Ayling, George the Third, 100.
343 “The King’s speech”: White, Age of George III, 66.
344 “Satan preaching … gentleman”: Ayling, George the Third, 116–17.
345 “pleased to find”: to Jackson, Feb. 11, 1764.
345 “I am sorry”: from Strahan, Aug. 18, 1763.
345 “Surely you would not”: to Strahan, Aug. 8, 1763.
346 “I fear something”: from Jackson, Nov. 12, 1763.
347 “A moderate duty”: to Jackson, Feb. 11, 1764.
347 “I am not much”: to Jackson, Jan. 16, 1764.
348 “Why do you suffer”: Joseph Kelley, Pennsylvania, 463.
349 “The Indians”: to Jackson, June 27, 1763.
350 “I only fear”: to Peter Collinson, Dec. 19, 1763.
351 A Narrative of the Late Massacres, PBF, 11:47–69.
353 “It would perhaps be … of days”: to Jackson, Feb. 11, 1764.
353–54 “I chose … few w
eeks”: to John Fothergill, Mar. 14, 1764.
354 “The Negroes”: Narrative of the Late Massacres, PBF, 11:62.
355 “They appeared”: to John Waring, Dec. 17, 1763.
356 “He is civil”: to Collinson, Dec. 19, 1763.
356 “rank abuse”: John Penn to Thomas Penn, May 5, 1764, HSP.
356 “necklace of resolves”: to Strahan, Mar. 30, 1764.
357 “high presumption … the Crown”: Resolves, Mar. 24, 1764.
357 “dirty piece”: John Penn to Thomas Penn, May 5, 1764, HSP.
357 Cool Thoughts, Apr. 12, 1764.
358 “God has blessed”: to Henry Bouquet, Aug. 16, 1764.
358 “O! fatal mistake”: Kelley, Pennsylvania, 526.
16. STAMPS AND STATESMANSHIP: 1764–66
359 “Mr. Franklin died”: Joseph Kelley, Pennsylvania, 526.
359 “Boers herding … laughing matter”: to Jackson, Oct. 11, 1764.
360 “Confound”: PBF, 11:448.
360 “most cordial”: to DF, Dec. 27, 1764.
360 “Mr. Grenville … told him no”: Edmund S. Morgan and Helen M. Morgan, The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution (New York, 1962), 89–91.
361 “It will operate”: PBF, 12:51–60.
362 “besotted”: to Joseph Galloway, Oct. 11, 1766.
362 “Will these Americans … emolument”: Morgan and Morgan, Stamp Act Crisis, 93.
362 “I think it will”: to Hall, Feb. 14, 1765.
363 “I hope you will”: to Hall, Aug. 9, 1765.
363 “grand incendiary”: Allen to Thomas Penn, Oct. 21, 1764, HSP.
363 “tomahawk”: from Evans, Mar. 15, 1765.
364 “dying liberty … single vote”: Morgan and Morgan, Stamp Act Crisis, 123–25.
366 “You are now … Thank God.”: from Hughes, Sept. 8–17, 1765.
367 “In the evening”: from Wharton, Oct. 13, 1765.
367 “Cousin [Josiah] Davenport”: from DF, Sept. 22, 1765.
368 “I honour much”: to DF, Nov. 9, 1765.
368 “I thank him”: to DF, Nov. 9, 1765.
369 “It is not safe”: from Hutchinson, Nov. 18, 1765.
369 “It is difficult”: from Galloway, c. Nov. 20, 1765.
370 “We might as well”: to Charles Thomson, July 11, 1765.
371 “If it continues”: to Hughes, Aug. 9, 1765.
371 “The disturbances”: to Hall, Nov. 9, 1765.
372 “I strongly recommended”: to WF, Nov. 9, 1765.
372 “the violent temper”: from Galloway, Jan. 13, 1766.
373 “Can it be”: Morgan and Morgan, Stamp Act Crisis, 338.
373 “on which I have”: to David Hall, Feb. 24, 1766.
373 “The moral is”: to Jane Mecom, Mar. 1, 1766.
374–76 “Many, and very heavy … make one”: testimony to House of Commons, Feb. 13, 1766.
376 “The Marquis of Rockingham”: Strahan to David Hall, May 10, 1766, PMHB 10 (1886), 220–21.
377 “They never have”: testimony to House of Commons, Feb. 13, 1766.
377 “in all cases”: Morgan and Morgan, Stamp Act Crisis, 348.
377 “Pray Monsieur Anglais”: PBF, 13:183–84.
17. DUTIES AND PLEASURES: 1766–67
378 “My Dear Child”: to DF, Apr. 6, 1766.
379 “The Assembly”: from Galloway, June 7, 1766.
379 “They are daily”: from Galloway, May 23, 1766.
379 “As to the reports”: to Jane Mecom, Mar. 1, 1766.
380 “’tis now perhaps”: to Roberts, July 7, 1765.
380 “Your frequently” to Whitefield, June 19, 1764.
380 “The malice”: to Samuel Rhoads, July 8, 1765.
381 “This I will never”: from Hall, Jan. 27, 1767.
382 “It was set”: to Hall, Apr. 14, 1767.
383 “So you see … well pleased”: from DF, Jan. 12, 1766.
384 “I have mentioned”: to WF, Sept. 27, 1766.
384 “I was again”: to WF, Oct. 11, 1766.
384 “certainly well framed”: The New Regime, 1765–1767, ed. Clarence Walworth Alvord and Clarence Edwin Carter (Springfield, Ill., 1916), 426.
384 “The Secretaries”: to WF, Aug. 28, 1767.
385 “George the Third … ministers”: Paul Langford, A Polite and Commercial People, 363–64.
386 “I rejoice”: The Debate on the American Revolution, 1761–1783, ed. Max Beloff (London, 1960), 100.
386 “The confusion”: to Galloway, Aug. 8, 1767.
387 “It gave me”: report of debate in House of Lords, Apr. 11, 1767, PBF.
387 “A Friend to Both Countries”: to London Chronicle, Apr. 9, 1767.
387 “Benevolus”: to London Chronicle, Apr. 11, 1767.
390 “beach”: to John Adams, May 18, 1787, Yale.
390 “Sally has friends”: from DF, Apr. 20–25, 1767.
390 “I would not”: to DF, May 23, 1767.
391 “I know very little”: to DF, June 22, 1767.
391 “that Mr. B.”: from WF, May [?], 1767.
392 “I received yours”: to Richard Bache, Aug. 5, 1767.
393 “Though I was not”: to DF, June 13, 1766.
393 “I found”: to Daniel Wister, Sept. 27, 1766.
394 “Every colony”: “Some Observations on North America”: PBF, 13:346–77.
394 “well and hearty”: to the Speaker et al., Aug. 22, 1766.
394 “I have stayed”: to DF, Aug. 28, 1767.
394 “made him very uneasy”: Margaret Stevenson to DF, Sept. 18, 1767, PBF, 14:242n.
394–97 “I was engaged … my friend’s wife”: to Mary Stevenson, Sept. 14, 1767.
397 “I have been”: to DF, Nov. 2, 1799.
18. REASON AND RIOT: 1768–69
399 “Instead of raving”: to the Gazetteer, Jan. 6, 1768.
399–401 “The waves … their senses”: to the London Chronicle, Jan. 5–7, 1768.
402–4 “My Lord H…. widely different”: to WF, Mar. 13, 1768.
405–6 “that no insult … running riot”: Stanley Ayling, George the Third, 155–57.
406 “The scenes”: to WF, Apr. 16, 1768.
406–7 “This capital”: to John Ross, May 14, 1768.
407 “All respect”: to Joseph Galloway, May 14, 1768.
407 “There have been”: to WF, Apr. 16, 1768.
407 “’tis thought”: to Joseph Galloway, Mar. 13, 1768.
407 “I have urged”: to John Ross, May 14, 1768.
408 “If this”: to Galloway, July 2, 1768.
408 “It is a settled”: to WF, Jan. 9, 1768.
409–10 “my fast friend … divine which”: to WF, July 2, 1768.
411 “I have found”: to Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, July 28, 1768.
411 “I reckon”: to Kames, Feb. 28, 1768.
412 “From the matches”: to John Alleyne, Aug. 9, 1768.
412 “I cannot be”: to Oliver Neave, PBF, 15:295–98.
413 “I have long been”: to Evans, Feb. 20, 1768.
414 “Diir Pali”: to Stevenson, July 20, 1768.
414 “Heavenly Father”: PBF, 15:301–3.
416 “An application”: to Cooper, July 11, 1769.
416 “very rash”: to Bache, Aug. 13, 1768.
417 “touch of the gout”: to DF, Dec. 21, 1768.
417 “He might then”: from WF, Jan. 2, 1769.
417 “Every body says”: from DF, Oct. 4, 1769.
418 “her constitution”: from Bond, June 7, 1769.
419 “It is well known”: to the Public Advertiser, Aug. 25, 1768.
419 “Allow me”: to the Public Advertiser, Oct. 21, 1768.
419 “You English”: Public Advertiser, Jan. 17, 1769, PBF.
420 “I am under”: to Whitefield, undated, PBF, 16:192.
420 “I hope”: to Cooper, Apr. 27, 1769.
421 “What are you doing”: to Joseph Galloway, Feb. 7, 1769.
421 “It is very uncertain”: to WF, Oct. 7, 1769.
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423–24 “IMPORTER … Horrid Massacre”: Hiller B. Zobel, The Boston Massacre (New York, 1970), 172–211.
424 “Bloody Massacre”: Revere print reproduced in The Boisterous Sea of Liberty, ed. David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz (New York, 1998), 140.
424 “Those detestable murderers”: to Samuel Cooper, June 8, 1770.
425 “The Grenvillenians”: to the Gazetteer, Feb. 7, 1770.
426 “This party … to use it”: to Charles Thomson, Mar. 18, 1770.
426–27 “I am assured … totally lost”: to Galloway, Mar. 21, 1770.
428 “Being born”: to “Dear Sir,” Nov. 28, 1768.
428 “I am much obliged”: from Galloway, June 21, 1770.
429 “our friends”: from Thomas Cushing et al., July 13, 1770.
429 “entirely relying”: PBF, 17:258.
429 “greatly confided”: from Cushing, Nov. 6, 1770.
429 “I have enemies”: to Despencer, July 26, 1770.
430 “In this”: to Jane Mecom, Dec. 30, 1770.
430 “I do not think”: to Galloway, Jan. 9, 1768.
430 “His inclinations”: to Galloway, July 2, 1768.
431–33 “I was pleased … farther trouble”: notes of interview, Jan. 16, 1771.
433–34 “I have since … variance with me”: to Cooper, Feb. 5, 1771.
434–35 “are justly tenacious”: from Cushing et al., Dec. 17, 1770.
435–36 “The doctrine … public ministers”: to Cushing, Feb. 5, 1771.
436–37 “It is looked on … among us”: to Cushing, June 10, 1771.
437–38 “I have read”: Lee to Adams, June 10, 1771, in Richard Henry Lee, Life of Arthur Lee (Boston, 1829), 1:215ff.
438 “It will make”: from Cooper, Aug. 25, 1771.
438 “I imagine”: to Galloway, Feb. 6, 1772.
438–39 “It appeared”: Jonathan Williams’s journal, PBF, 18:114–16.
439 “Hadn’t you better”: to Anna Mordaunt Shipley, Aug. 13, 1771.
440 “Can the farmers”: PBF, 18:222–23.
440 “Ireland itself”: to Cushing, Jan. 13, 1772.
441 “I thought often”: to Joshua Babcock, Jan. 13, 1772.
441 “I esteemed it”: to Cushing, Jan. 13, 1772.
442 “They are all”: to Galloway, Feb. 6, 1772.
442 “in an elegant” Henry Marchant’s journal, Oct. 30–Nov. 2, 1771, APS.
