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The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1757-1790)

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by Benjamin Franklin


  Buffon, Comte de

  building

  Bull, John

  Bunker’s Hill, Battle of

  Bureau de la Guerre (France)

  Burgoyne, John

  Burke, Edmund

  Byles, Mather

  Cabanis, Pierre-Georges

  Caisse d’Escompte

  Calais, France

  Cambridge, England

  Camden, Lord

  Canada; American Revolution and; Franklin, Benjamin, mission to; Treaty of Paris and; U.S. currency and

  Caritat, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas. See Condorcet, Marquis de

  Carmichael, William

  Carroll, Charles

  Catechism

  Catholicism. See Roman Catholicism

  Chamberlain, Mason

  character: enemies and; idleness and; prudence and; public

  charitable institutions, mismanagement of

  charity

  Charlestown, Mass.

  Chase, Samuel

  Chatham, Lord

  Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de

  chess

  Chester

  chevaux de frise

  Child, Ann

  Childs, Francis

  Chinese

  Cholmondly, Lord

  Christian VII,

  Church of Notre Dame

  circles, magic

  Civil Usage

  Clarke, General

  Club of Honest Whigs

  Cocke, William

  Cockpit

  Coder, Mons.

  Coffyn, Francis

  Colbert, Jean Baptiste

  Collinson, Peter

  colonies: Albany Plan and; British taxation of; England and; quartering of soldiers in; reconciliation between England and; Stamp Act and; union of. See also America; American Revolution; United States

  commerce: American Revolution and; currency and; currency depreciation and; external; free; government interference in; universal; war and

  Committee of Safety, Pennsylvania Assembly

  Committee of Secret Correspondence, Second Continental Congress

  Common Sense (Paine)

  Compleated Autobiography (Franklin)

  Concord, Battle of

  Condorcet, Marquis de

  conduct, modes of

  Conestogoe Manor, Pa.

  Connecticut

  Connecticut Compromise

  Constitution, U.S.: Franklin, Benjamin and; opposition to; ratification of

  Constitutional Convention (1787); Articles of Confederation and; Connecticut Compromise and; executive salaries and; Franklin, Benjamin, speech before; God and; legislature, single vs. dual, and; Pennsylvania and; representation and

  Continental Congress: American Revolution and; Articles of Confederation and; Committee of Secret Correspondence of; Declaration of Independence and; Franklin, Benjamin, as member of

  Cook, James

  Cooper, Samuel

  Copley, John Singleton

  Cornwallis, Charles

  Court of France. See France

  Craven Street home

  currency: copper coins and; depreciation of; French; trade and

  Cushing, Thomas

  Dalibard, Mrs.

  Dante

  d’Arlandes, Marquis

  Dartmouth, Lord William

  Davenport, Sarah (sister)

  Day, Luke

  Dean, Joseph

  Deane, Silas; Franklin-Lee conflict and; French financial and military aid and; as minister to France; political letter of; recall of; Treaty of Alliance with France and

  death; certainty of; God and; as punishment for an offense

  debauchery

  debt. See national debt

  Decalogue

  Declaration of Independence; American Revolution and; approval of; celebration of; drafting of; Franklin, Benjamin and; signing of

  Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon)

  De Grasse, M.

  De La Roche, Abbe

  Denmark

  de Raynevall, Mr.

  d’Estaing, Charles-Henri, Comte

  d’Houdetot, Countess

  Dialogue entre la Goutte et M. Franklin (Franklin)

  Dick, Janet

  Dickinson, John

  Diderot, Denis

  Diede, Baron

  Digges, Thomas

  Dissertations on the English Language (Webster)

  Dorcet, Monsr.

  Drake

  Draper, Sir W.

  Duffield, Edward

  du Motier, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roche-Gilbert. See Lafayette, Marquis de

  Dunkirk, France

  du Pont de Nemours, Pierre-Samuel

  Du Tartre, Mademoiselle

  eagle, as symbol of United States

  East Indies

  economy, revenue and

  Ecton, England

  An Edict of the King of Prussia (Franklin)

  Edinburgh, England

  education; Catechism and; importance of; Negro; of orphans; poverty and; virtue and

  Egypt

  electricity; Electrophorus perpetuus and; Experiments and Observations on Electricity; Franklin, Benjamin, experiments with

  Electrophorus perpetuus

  “The Elysian Fields,”

  Elysium

  Empereur

  Encyclopedie

  enemies: benefits of; character and

  England: alehouses in; colonies and; Franklin, Benjamin, as colonial agent in; French and Indian War and; poverty in; reconciliation between colonies and; slavery in; taxation of colonies and; Treaty of Paris and. See also American Revolution

  Enlightenment

  envy

  Epictetus

  “E Pluribus Unum,”

  Eripuit celo fulmen sceptrimque tyrannis (He snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from tyrants)

  Essays to Do Good (Mather)

  Europe: American Revolution and; gulf stream in; poverty in

  Eurydice

  evaporation, cooling bodies by

  Executive: salaries for; term limits for

  exercise

  Experiment

  Experiments and Observations on Electricity (Franklin)

  faction

  Fair American

  faith

  Fall of Man

  family; Franklin, Benjamin, absence from; Franklin, Benjamin and

  Farmer General

  “Father Abraham’s Speech,”

  The Federal Gazette and Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

  Federalists and anti-federalists

  fireplace, Pennsylvania

  Fisher, Edward

  fishing

  Fitz-Herbert, Alleyne

  Flanders, Netherlands

  Florida

  Folger, Captain

  Forbach, Madame de

  foreign officers

  fortitude

  Forton Prison

  Fortune

  Fothergill, Dr.

  Founding Fathers

  Fox, Charles James

  franc

  France; ambassador’s life in; American independence and; American Revolution and; American treaties of peace and commerce with; Articles of Confederation and; character of; cleanliness in; currency in; financial and military aid of; Franklin, Benjamin, as minister to; Franklin, Benjamin, love of; French and Indian War and; politeness in; slavery in; Treaty of Alliance with; Treaty of Commerce with; Treaty of Paris and; U.S. national debt and; U.S. trade with; women in

  Frankland

  Franklin, Abiah Folger (mother)

  Franklin, Benjamin: American Philosophical Society and; Articles of Confederation and; Autobiography of; birth of; as colonial agent in London, England; Constitution, U.S. and; Constitutional Convention and; death of; Declaration of Independence and; as entrepreneur; as essayist,; family and; family background of; final years of; financial matters and; as Founding Father; health of ; honorary degrees of; as inventor; libel against; marriage of; memoirs of; as minister to Fra
nce; as minister to France (1776-78); as minister to France (1778-79); as minister to France (1779-81); as minister to France (1781-83); as minister to France (1783-85); pennames of; Pennsylvania Assembly and; philandering, rumors of; as philosopher-wit; as plenipotentiary in France; politics of; portraits of; as postmaster; as president of Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania; as printer; as publisher; religion and; religion of; as scientist; Second Continental Congress and; slavery and; Treaty of Paris and; will of

  Franklin, Deborah Rogers (wife); death of; Franklin, Benjamin, absence from; Franklin, Benjamin, correspondence with; marriage of

  Franklin, Francis Folger (son)

  Franklin, James (brother)

  Franklin, Jane (sister). See Mecom, Jane Franklin (sister)

  Franklin, John (brother)

  Franklin, Josiah (father)

  Franklin, Sally

  Franklin, Samuel

  Franklin, Thomas

  Franklin, William (son); arrest of; Franklin, Benjamin, as colonial agent,and; Franklin, Benjamin, as colonial agent, and; Franklin, Benjamin, estrangement from; Franklin, Benjamin, will of, and; Franklin, Deborah Rogers, death of, and; as loyalist; marriage of; as New Jersey governor

  Franklin, William Temple (grandson); education and; Franklin, Benjamin, as minister to France, and; Franklin, Benjamin, will of, and; marriage for

  Franklin House

  “Franklin Papers Reader,”

  Franklin stove

  Frederick II,

  free trade. See commerce

  French and Indian War (1754-1760)

  French language

  French Revolution

  friendship; correspondence and; death and; Junto and; wealth and

  frugality

  Gage, Thomas

  Galloway, Joseph

  Galloway, Mrs. Joseph

  Gates, Horatio

  Gentleman’s Magazine

  George II,

  George III,. See also American Revolution

  Georgia

  Gérard, Conrad-Alexandre

  Gerard, M.

  Germany

  Gibbon, Edward

  Gillon, Mr.

  glasses, reading

  gluttony

  Goddard, William

  good works

  Gordon, Lord George

  Grace, Robert

  Grammont, M.

  Grand, Radolphe-Ferdinand

  Grand, Sir George

  Grand Ohio Company

  Grantham, Lord

  Great Britain. See England

  Greek orators

  Greene, Catherine Ray

  Greene, William

  Greene, Nathanael

  Grenada

  Grenville, George

  Grenville, Thomas

  Guillotin, Joseph Ignace

  Gulf of St. Lawrence

  Hadley, John

  Hall, David

  Hancock, John

  The Handsome and Deformed Leg (Franklin)

  harpsichord

  Harris, Anne (sister)

  Hart, Michael H.

  Hartley, David

  Hazard, Mr.

  Heaven

  Hell-Fire Club

  Helvétius, Anne-Catherine de Ligniville d’Autricourt

  Helvétius, Claude-Adrien

  Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.

  Henry VIII,

  Herbert, Eugenia W.

  Hercules

  heresy, virtue and

  Herschel, Sir William

  Hessian mercenaries

  Hewson, Elizabeth

  Hewson, Mary Stevenson “Polly,” ; Franklin, Benjamin, will of, and; Stevenson, Margaret, death of, and

  Hewson, Thomas

  Hewson, William

  Hill, Henry

  Hillsborough, Lord

  Hillsborough, Mr.

  Hints for Conversation (Barclay)

  An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania (Jackson)

  Hodgson, William

  Holland

  Home, Henry. See Kames, Lord

  honesty

  hope

  Hopkinson, Francis

  Hortalez & Co.

  hot air balloons

  Houdetot, Claude-Constance-Cesar, Comte d’

  Houdetot, Countess d’

  Houdon, Jean-Antointe

  House of Commons; Committee of the Whole of; Stamp Act and

  House of Fizeaux & Grand

  House of Hornica Fizeaux & Co.

  House of Lords

  Howe, Caroline

  Howe, John

  Howe, Lord Richard

  Howe, William

  Hubbart, Elizabeth

  Huey, Joseph

  Hume, David

  Humphreys, David

  Hutchinson, Thomas

  Hutchinson Letters scandal

  Hutton, James

  Hyde, Lord

  Idea of an English School (Franklin)

  idleness

  immigration

  India

  Indiana

  Indian Massacres

  Indians; cruelty to; Ohio land grant and

  industry

  inflation

  Information for those who would remove to America (Franklin)

  Ingenhousz, Jan

  Intolerable Acts

  inventions: double spectacles; Franklin stove; lightning rod; long arm; steam engines

  Ireland; poverty in; wretched situation in

  Israel

  Italy

  Izard, Ralph

  Jackson, Richard

  Jacob’s Ladder

  James, Abel

  Jardin du Roi, France

  Jay, John; Franklin, Benjamin, will of, and; national debt and; as Secretary of Foreign Affairs; Spanish aid to American Revolution and; Treaty of Paris and

  jealousy

  Jefferson, Thomas; as ambassador to France; Declaration of Independence and; Treaty of Paris and; United States seal and

  Jennings, Captain

  Jesuits

  Jesus

  John, King

  Johnson, Samuel

  Johonnot, Samuel Cooper

  Jones, John

  Jones, John Paul

  Jourdain, M.

  “Journal of Negotiations in London” (Franklin)

  Journal of the Negotiation for Peace with Great Britain (Franklin)

  Junto

  Kames, Lord

  Keimer, Samuel

  Keith, George

  King’s Bridge, New York

  King (servant)

  “La Belle et la Mauvaise Jambe” (Franklin)

  Lafayette, Marquis de; American Revolution and; character of; Franklin, Benjamin, friendship with; French financial and military aid and; Treaty of Paris and

  la Goutte, Madame

  laissez faire

  Lancaster, Pa.

  land grants

  Landais, P.

  Lang, Thomas

  Lange, Mr.

  language

  Laurens, Henry; French financial and military aid and; health of; imprisonment of; national debt and; Treaty of Paris and

  Laurens, John

  Lauzun, Duke de

  Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent

  Lay, Benjamin

  Leclerc, Georges-Louis. See Buffon, Comte de

  Le Despencer, Lord

  Lee, Arthur; Franklin, Benjamin, conflict with; French financial and military aid and; Spain and American Revolution and; Treaty of Alliance with France and

  Lee, Charles

  Lee, William

  Leeds, England

  Legge, William. See Dartmouth, Lord William

  Le Roy, Jean-Baptiste

  Le Sage et la Goutte

  Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer (Dickinson)

  Le Veillard, Louis-Guillaume

  Lexington, Battle of

  liberty of the press

  Library Company

  Life of Johnson (Boswell)

  lightning rod

&
nbsp; Livingston, Robert

  livre

  London, England: Franklin, Benjamin, as colonial agent in; Franklin, Benjamin, as printer in; friendship in; as “great smoky house,” riots in; silk in

  London Chronicle

  London Gazette

  Long Island, N.Y.

  Lopez, Claude-Anne

  Lords of the Admiralty

  L’Orient, France

  Louisiana

  Louis XV,

  Louis XVI,

  love

  Lovell, James

  loyalists

  lust

  Madeira, Portugal

  Magnetisme Animale

  malice

  Manchester, England

  Manners (Whitehead)

  Mansfield, Earl of. See Stormont, David Murray

  Marie Antoinette, Queen

  Marmontel

  Marquis de Lafayette

  marriage

  “The Marriage of Figaro” (Beaumarchais)

  Martinet, Francois

  Maryland

  Massachusetts Bay

  The Massachusetts Magazine

  Mather, Cotton

  Mather, Increase

  Mather, Samuel

  Mauduit, solicitor

  Mecom, Jane Franklin (sister)

  medicine

  Medius. See Franklin, Benjamin

  “Memoir concerning the present State of the late British Colonies in North America” (Franklin)

  Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin

  mentally ill,

  Mesmer, Franz Anton

  mesmerism

  Mexico

  minimum wage laws

  misfortune, wisdom and

  Montagu, John. See Sandwich, Lord

  Montgolfier, Mr.

  Moore, George

  Moore, Robert W.

  morality

  The Morals of Chess (Franklin)

  Morellet, Abbe Andre

  Moreton, Lord

  Morris, Robert; as Finance Secretary; Treaty of Paris and

  Moses

  Moulin Joli

  music

  A Narrative of the Late Massacres in Lancaster County, of a Number of Indians, Friends of This Province (Franklin)

  national debt: American independence and; payment of; taxation and

  natural philosophy

  natural rights

  Navigation Acts

  Necker, Jacques

  Negroes: Franklin, Benjamin, opinion of. See also slavery

  Netherlands. See Holland

  Neufville, Messr. de

  Newfoundland

  Newgate prison

  New Jersey

  New York

  New York, N.Y.

  Nollet, Abbe

  None but Christ

  Nord, Comte du

  Norris, Isaac

  North, Lord Frederick; American Revolution and; British-colonial reconciliation and; prisoners of war and

 

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