Secret Committee, 338–339
Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), 13
Sherman, Roger, 7–8, 56, 58, 59, 109, 142, 284, 354, 389–390
Shippen, William, 50
Shirley, William, 17
Slave trade, 157–159, 340, 404, 409
Slavery, 43–44, 46, 47, 50, 52, 55, 93, 99, 136, 159, 396, 402, 404
Slaves
indentured servants, offer of freedom by Lord Dunmore, 291–293
Small, William, 246
Smith, Daniel, 48
Smith, Richard, 56, 302
Smith, William, 68
Smuggling, 14, 22, 71, 143, 212, 213, 214
Society of Friends, 35, 75, 197
Solemn League and Covenant, 32, 110
Sons of Liberty, 18–19, 23, 42, 214
South Carolina
attitude of toward independence, 356
committees of correspondence, formation, 22
delegation to first congress, 43–45
division of delegation regarding independence, 375
establishment of new government, 285–286
slave trade and, 409
slavery in, 158
vote against independence, 374
vote for independence, 377
South Carolina Gazette, 44
South End Mob, 19
St. John, Henry, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, 272
Stamp Act (1765), 14, 18, 19
Stamp Act Congress, delegates at, 60–61
Stiles, Ezra, 380
Stockton, Richard, 373
Suffolk Resolves, 112–115
Sugar Act (1764), 14
See also Molasses Act
Sullivan, John, 48, 56, 59, 109, 121, 260, 283
A Summary View of the Rights of British America (Jefferson), 90–91, 245, 246–247, 313
Sutton, Massachusetts, 187
Tax policy, British, 14
Taxation, American opposition to, 14–15, 19–22
Tea Act (1773), 22, 31, 217
Terrible (ship), 306
Thatcher, Oxenbridge, 66
Thomson, Charles, 77, 91, 101, 133, 148, 190, 227, 256, 325, 415
background, 85–86
election as secretary of Congress, 85, 199
plan to inspire support for Boston, 35–37
record-keeping, poor performance in, 87, 118, 131, 151, 242, 376, 388–389, 407, 408
as “Sam Adams” of Pennsylvania, 5, 86
Thornton, Matthew, 416
Thoughts on Government (John Adams), 322–323
Ticonderoga, Fort, 201, 221–222, 223, 334
Townshend Duties (1767), 35, 73, 74, 86, 155, 160
Trumbull, John, 414
Trumbull, Joseph, 258
Tudor, William, 146
USS Alfred (ship), 268
Van, Charles, 439–440n23
Vengeance (ship), 306
Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Compte de, 339
Virginia
committees of correspondence, formation, 22
delegates to first congress, 45–47, 49–51, 165
delegates to second congress, 197–198, 242, 260
Dunmore’s Proclamation, 291–292
Dunmore’s War, 292
House of Burgesses, dissolution, 39
Norfolk, British attack on, 297
slavery in, 158
Stamp Act, protest against, 31–32
support for independence, 344
voices of dissent toward independence in, 357
Virginia Convention
Constitution of, 396, 399, 402
Declaration of Rights, comparison of to Declaration of Independence, 396–397, 399, 402–403
importation resolution, 337
instructions to delegates, 89, 91, 120
North’s proposals, response to, 257
resolutions proposing independence, 351
support of boycott of British trade, 9, 39
writing of new constitution, 386–387
“Virginia Resolves” (Henry), 49
Walton, George, 356
Ward, Artemas, 229, 231, 233–234, 239
Ward, Deborah, 288
Ward, Henry, 288
Ward, Samuel, 56, 57, 109, 118, 131, 137, 284
criticism of Parliament, 150–151
on independence, 288–289
on king’s rejection of peace overtures, 288, 301
on proportional representation, 100
Warren, James, 251, 253, 254, 265, 289, 321, 338, 358
Warren, Joseph, 112–114, 136, 144, 192, 240, 241
Washington, George, 5, 8, 165, 201, 218
appointment as continental army commander-in-chief, 227–228, 230–231
arrival in New York City, 365
Declaration of Independence, readings of to troops, 418
departure for New England battle scene, 236–238
dismay at lack of discipline in army, 261–262
humility, 232–233
leadership qualities, 235
as militia commander, 13
at Mount Vernon, 45–46
occupation of Dorchester Heights, Boston, 334–335
on peace commission, 333–334
in Philadelphia, 49–50
refusal to supply troops to Canadian front, 300
request for munitions by, 241
set of resolutions by, 156
as slave owner, 159, 451n16
support for Patrick Henry, 46
Washington, Lund, 262
Washington, Martha, 46, 188, 233, 236, 237
Wedderburn, Alexander (1st Earl of Rosslyn), 26–27, 243
Wells, Elizabeth, 18
Wentworth, John, 282–283
Wharton, Thomas, 37, 138, 190
Whately, Thomas, 217
Whipple, William, 332, 359
Willing, Thomas, 375, 378
Wilson, James, 7, 198, 224, 302, 313, 329, 346, 347, 352, 375, 378–379
Wisner, Henry, 321
Witherspoon, John, 373
Wolcott, Oliver, 330–331, 332, 333
Woodford, William, 292
Woolley, Edmund, 53
Wright, James, 189
Wyeth, Joshua, 11
Wythe, George, 93–94, 246, 260, 288, 290, 337, 386
Yard, Sarah, 1, 49
York County, Maine, 174
Zubly, John, 259, 329, 464n14
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