INDEX Abott, William, 329 American Art, 229-301, 483; history of Abraham, Enoch, 459 American sculpture, 483. See also Rush, Account of Province of Carolina . . . , by William; Stuart, Gilbert; West, Benjamin. Samuel Wilson, 111 American Commission in Paris, 62,6^, 66,70, Adams, Abigail (Mrs. John), arrival in 72, 74, 76; protest number of drafts made Europe, 290; associations with and com- upon them, 73; refusal to honor draft of ments on the Binghams, 290-293, 307, William Bingham, 76; sending of supplies 308, 316; death of, 161; letters, 293; men- to U. S. by, 59, 60 tioned in correspondence of John Adams American Commonwealth, by Viscount Bryce, and Richard Rush, 29-30, 139, 143, 145, 2,14,483; appearance greeted with acclaim 152, * 53,} 59, 160 14; number of editions, 17; reproduction of Adams, Abigail (1765-1813), comments on title page, 16 the Binghams, 290-293, 387; extracts from American Constitutional Crisis, by Brogan, 20 journal of, 290-291, 292; interest in Wil- American democracy, dangers of, pointed liam Jackson, 291; letters of, 491 out by Tocqueville, 12; European inter- Adams, Henry, 483 preters of, 1-25 Adams, James Truslow, Epic of America, 24 as influenced by: Adams, John, 6^, 394; appointment of capitalization of industry, 25; immigra- "midnight judges," 194; attitude toward tion, 22-24; passing of the frontier, 24; certain Republicans, 30; correspondence relative birth rates of native born and with Richard Rush, 26-53, 137-164; death immigrant stock, 23 of wife, 161; disagreement with Hamilton, American Democracy and the Work of Tocque- 395; in England, 290, 291; prayer for New ville, by Gottfried Duden, 13 England, 47; sad state of country mourned by, 53; War of 1812 discussed by Richard American Experiment, by Hugh-Jones and Rush and, 28-31, 34-36, 42, 45, 46, 53 Radice, 20 Adams, John Quincy, 5, 13; correspondence, American history, history of, 482-483 43,44,139; discussed by Richard Rush, ^3, American journalism, dynamics of, 435, 445. 46, 137, 138, 140, 141, 142; Minister to See also Newspapers England, 141; Minister to Russia, 38, 41- American Letters, by Alexander von Hum- 42 boldt, 3 Addison, Judge Alexander, impeached, 114, American literature. See under literature 118 American Revolution. See Revolution, Ameri- Address and Petition to King Jesus, by can Samuel Keimer, 358, 361 Ames, Fisher, 86 Adlum, John, surveyor, 412 Andrew Doria, ship, 59 Agriculture, in Colonial America, 351 Andrews, Charles M., The Colonial Period of Alexander, Emperor of Russia, discussed by American History . . . , reviewed, 331-335 John Adams and Richard Rush, 42, 49, 50, Andrews, J. Cutler, Pittsburgh's Post-Ga- X37,138> J39J British agents hostile to, 147, zette . . . , reviewed, 344-345 148 Annals of Congress, 394 Allen, Ann Penn, 305 Anthony, Joseph, 423 Allen, Frederick Lewis, 483 Archivists, problems of American, 233 Allen, Chief Justice William, manuscripts of, Argout, Count d', transferred to St. Domingo, 356 67; his value to the American cause, 68, 69 Allman, Isaac, defendant in suit brought by Armes, Ethel, Nancy Shippen . . . , edited the Penns, 194 by, reviewed, 481-482 Allston family, 491 Armesto, Andr6s L6pez de, Spanish official Almanack, Leeds, 378, 379, 379«, 384«; Tay- in New Orleans, 249, 252 lor, 378, 379 Armstrong, General John, mentioned by America, agriculture in Colonial, 351; barber- John Adams, 30 surgeons in Colonial, 106; books on, in, Army, U. S., in War of 1812, discussed by 11I,353> democracy in, European views of, John Adams and Richard Rush, 28-31, 1-25; French aid to, 54; life in, as seen by 34-35, 45, 53 Europeans, 3, 6, 14, 177-178 Arnold, Benedict, 417 America Comes of Age, by Andre Siegfried, Art, American. See American Art 20, 22, 23 Articles of Confederation, convention to re- American Anti-Slavery Society, 227 vise, 389 493 494 INDEX Articles and publications, notes on, 103-110, Bathurst, Lawrence, 446 227-234, 349"355> 484-490 Baton Rouge, 250 Asia, snip, 401 Bayard, James A., lawyer for State of Dela- Auge, Moses, biographer of Jonathan ware in suits brought by Penns, 194, 195, Roberts, 451 198, 202 Aurora, French frigate, 78 Bayard, Miss Mabel, gift to Society, 112 Aurora, newspaper, joins in the attack on the Bayard Taylor: Laureate of the Gilded Age, judiciary, 125, 127, 129, 131; champions by Richmond Croom Beatty, reviewed, shoemaker's strike, 134 339-342 Austin, Moses, 239 Bayard, Hon. Thomas F., 201 Autobiography, Franklin's, new text of, 349; Bayard and Pettit, Philadelphia under- Samuel Keimer discussed in, 370 writers, 119 Beale, Henry, 329 Babylon to Bethel, by Stephen Crisp, 374 Beale, Joshua, 230 Backhouse, Jonas, dry goods merchant, 177 Beale, William, 130 Bailey, Margaret L., reviews by, ICO-IOI; Bear, George, 329 222-223; 481-482 Beard, Charles A. 262 Baird, Henry C, no Beatty, Richmond Croom, Bayard Taylor Baker, William Spohn, Bibliotheca Washing- . . ., reviewed, 339~342 toniana, 476 Beaujolais, Duke de, 311 Ball, description of one given by Mrs. Wil- Beaumetz, French e*migre", 311 liam Bingham, 317 Beaumont, Gustave de, 10; report on Ameri- Ball, Joseph, Philadelphia capitalist, 247, can prisons, 4, 7, 489 254, 256 Beauvois, Baron Palisot de, botanical collec- Ball, Thomas, 329 tions of, 351-352 Baltimores, the, 334 Bedford, Judge Gunning, 195, 198 Bancker, Gerard, Treasurer of State of New Beere, George, 330 York, 282 Beers, Henry Putney, review by, 224-225 Bancroft, George, 221, 483 Belknap, Jeremy, 482 Bank of North America, 404, 405; incorpo- Bell, Nicholas, 328 rated (1780,403 Bell, Robert, stationer, 171 Bank of the United States: first, (1791-1811), "Bellevue," summer home of William Bing- 258, 263, 405, 408; branches, 277-278; ham at Black Point, New Jersey, 307 charter, 264, 273, 279-280; connection Bellows, John, 330 with government, 264, 270-272; loans to Benezet, Anthony, Quaker philanthropist, Thomas Jefferson, 281; statements and re- life of, 338-339 ports of, 264-265, 267, 268, 270, 283, 284; Benezet, Hannah Bingham (Mrs. John), 288 stockholders, 269, 274, 279, 404; second, Benezet, John, agent of William Bingham in 263, 278 Philadelphia, 79; lost at sea, 288 Banks, control over press, 443; rise of private, Benjamin Miller and Company, tobacconists 218 and snuff makers, 173 Baptismon Didaches, by William Dell, 374 Berckel, Mme. van. See Leval, Mme. de Barbados, Samuel Keimer in, 385-386; Berkeley, Lord, 88 political institutions of, 332, 334 Bermuda and the American Revolution: 1760- Barbados Gazette, first newspaper in Barbados I783> by Wilfred Brenton Kerr, reviewed, 3*5, 386 477-479 Barber-surgeons, in Colonial America, 106 Berthold, Arthur B., review by, 480-481 Barclay, Gilbert, flees Philadelphia during Betsy, ship, 65, 255 British occupation, 167 Betsy and Hannah, ship, 255 Barclet, Benjamin, 328 Bezanson, Anne, review by, 217-219 Baring, Alexander, 275, 323; at home of Wil- Bezanson, Anne, Robert D. Gray and Miriam liam Bingham, 310, 313; investment in Hussey, Wholesale prices in Philadelphia, American lands, 310, 421-426; marriage to 1784-1861, reviewed, 214-217 Ann Louisa Bingham, 318; settlement of Biddle, Ann. See Wilkinson, Ann Biddle Maine boundary dispute, 319; trustee un- Biddle, Clement, 239; failure of in 1785, 245 der will of William Bingham, 323,434. Biddle, John, tavern keeper, 180 Baring, Sir Francis, 323, 419, 421 Biddle, Nicholas, 5, 276, 338 Baring, Henry, 313; trustee under will of Wil- Bidwell, Barnabas, referred to by John liam Bingham, 323, 434 Adams, 30 Bartlet, Benjamin, 329, 330 Billmeyer, Michael, 356 Bass, Robert, offers reward for return of lost Bingham, Ann Louisa, daughter of William colored boy, 178 Bingham, 288; marriage to Alexander Bate, William, 328 Baring, 318; mentioned in father's will, 434 INDEX 495 Bingham, Ann Willing, (Mrs. William): an- Birth rate, comparative, of native stock and cestry, 287; appearance, 287, 293, 307, immigrants as influencing American 308, 316; ball given by, 317; costume, 294; democracy, 23 death of, 321, 395; letter to Thomas Jef- Bissing, Friederich, The Constitution of the ferson comparing French and American United States According to James Kent, 13 women, 295-296; marriage, 286; reproduc- Black, Colonel, 432 tion of portraits of, 288, 314 (inserts); Blackwells, the, 298 use of cosmetics, 316 Blaine, Thomas, preemption of deserted shop Bingham, Hannah. See Benezet, Hannah by during British occupation of Phila- Bingham delphia, 167 Bingham, James (1st), 286 Blockade, British, of American Colonies, 72, Bingham, James (2nd), 286 73, 241; Continental, of Philadelphia, 170 Bingham, John, 286 Boileau, Nathaniel B., 116, 117; favors im- Bingham, Maria Matilda, marriages of, 319- peachment proceedings against judiciary, 320; share in father's estate, 434 126 Bingham, Mary Stamper (Mrs. William 1st), Boker, George H., autograph letters of, 491 286 Bonaparte, Napoleon. See Napoleon Bingham, William (—1769), 286, 287 Bond, Phineas, Consul General of England Bingham, William (1752-1804) Agent of to Philadelphia, 193, 199, 244 Continental Congress in Martinique, 55, Bond, Dr. Thomas, Jr., advertises for $6, 388; ambition for office, 291, 387, 388; "humane industrious women" as nurses, ancestry, 286; appearance, 55, 293, 315, 180-181 387, children, 288, 289, 314, 321; death, Book reviews, 93-102, 214-226, 332-348, 475-483 323; death of wife and removal to England, Books, on America, 3^3; eighteenth century 321, 322, 395; debt owed to, by Congress, autobiographical, 361; history of printing 61-62, 72, 74, 82-83; delegate to Continen- and publishing in the United States, 480- tal Congress, 389; Description of Land in 481; published in Colonial Pennsylvania, Maine and Massachusetts, pamphlet, 417; 370-386 Director of Bank of U. S., 276-277, dispute Booksellers, London, eighteenth century, with the Willinks, 407-409; efforts to 36277 provoke break between France and Eng- Booth, James, 186 land, 68, 69, 70; Federalist sympathies, Boreham, W., printer and bookseller, 361 392; homes, 296-297, 301-304, 306, 308, Borrenstein, David A., printer and publisher, 309, 425; land speculations of, 395-396, 108-109 409-434; lawsuit over seizure of ship Hope Botanical Journal of North America, by 83-87; letters, 62, 70, 72, 74, 81, 312; love Andr6 Michaud, 3 of money criticized by Mrs. John Adams, Bouill6, Marquis de, governor of Martinique: 316; marriage to Ann Willing, 286; pre- 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 83, 84; travel in Europe sented at court, 291; private operations in with the Binghams, 294 Martinique, 64; reports to Congressional Bouquet, Colonel Henry, papers of in British Committee, 61, 69, 72; reproductions of Museum and elsewhere, 204; Washington portraits of, 294, 394; Restraining Proc- criticized by, 212 lamation . . . , pamphlet, 289, 398; Secre- Boyd, General John Parker, 31 tary of Committee of Secret Correspond- Boyd, Julian P., reviews by, 223-224; 477- ence, ^6; trustee of College of Philadelphia 479 and Dickinson College, 299; will of, 323- Brackenridge, Henry M., letters, no 324, 434 Brackenridge, Judge Hugh Henry, approves Bingham, William Jr. (1800-?), birth, 321; decision of his colleagues in the Passmore removal to England, 324; willed two-fifths case, 125 of father's estate, 434 Braddock, General Edward, 208, 211, 336 Bingham-Gilmor correspondence, lost or de- Bradenham, Robert, an alleged pirate, in stroyed, 397 custody of William Penn, 202-203 Bingham, Inglis & Gilmor, 396 Bradford, Andrew, Philadelphia printer: 377, Bingham ton, N. Y., named for William Bing- 378, 383; Mercury of, 372, 378, 380, 381 ham, 434 Bradford, William, printer, 379», 482 Binns, John, editor, Democratic Press, 448; Bradley, Captain Daniel, journal of, 231 Republican Argus, 122 Braman, John, 330 Birch, William Russell, letter of introduction Branch, E. Douglas, "An Unpublished Wash- from Benjamin West to William Bingham, ington Document from the Bouquet 229; sketch of "Lansdowne" by, 306 Papers," 204-213 Bird, Henry, proprietor of Bird's London Brand Plucked from the Burning, by Samuel store, 178 Keimer, 361, 363, 364, 365, 3&7> 3^8, 369 496 INDEX Brander, John, preemption of deserted shop Burd, Mrs. Edward Shippen, account books by during British occupation of Phila- of, 356 delphia, 167 Burgoyne, General, surrender at Saratoga, 70 Brattle, Thomas, 476 Burke, Edmund, comment upon by Grattan, Breck, Samuel, director of Bank of U. S., 146 277; extracts from letter of, 312 Burr, Aaron, conspiracy, 107; reference to by Brewster, Benjamin H., summary of career John Adams, 30 and legal opinions, 352 Burrowes, Samuel, Quaker, given 100 acres Brewster, John, Quaker, given 200 acres of of land by Edward Byllynge, 89 land by Edward Byllynge, 89 Bushby, Eliza Hite. See Eliza Hite Bushby Bridenbaugh, Carl, review by, 331-335 under Roberts family Brissot de Warville, 1; letter of, 298 Business, in Philadelphia during British oc- British Empire before the American Revolu- cupation, 165-181 tion . . . , by Lawrence Henry Gipson, re- Buss, J. G., The Constitution of the United viewed, 97-1op States after Story*s Commentaries, 13 British occupation of Philadelphia, 1777- Busybody Papers, Franklin's, 382 78, business during, 165-181 Byllynge, Edward, death of, 89; title to cer- British Regime in Wisconsin and the North- tain lands in New Jersey, 88, 325-327; west, by Louise Phelps Kellogg, reviewed, offer of free land to Quakers by, 89; repro- 224-225 duction of leaflet of, 88 (insert); Thomas Brogan, American Constitutional Crisis, 20 Budd's account of the disposal of 100 pro- Brookes, George S., Friend Anthony Benezet, prieties of, 328-331 reviewed, 33%~339 Byrd, William, 482 Brounne, T., the Constitution of the United Byrd, Mrs. William, aunt of Mrs. William States compared with other constitutions, Bingham, 287 Brown, Honorable Charles L., gift to Society, Cabot et al. vs. Bingham, law suit, 80, 83-87 491 Cadiz, Spanish American trade concentrated Brown, Henry Armitt, Philadelphia orator, in, 238 3S5 Calamy, Edmund, 358 Brown, Margaret L., "Mr. and Mrs. William Calder, Isabel MacBeath, The New Haven Bingham of Philadelphia," 286-324; "Wil- Colony, reviewed, 345-348 liam Bingham, Agent of the Continental Calhoun, John C, 11, 443 Congress in Martinique," 54-87; "William Calvert, Mrs. Philip Powell, gift to Society, Bingham, Eighteenth Century Magnate," in 387-434 Calvinism, as basis of modern capitalism, 21 Brown, Moses, 339 Cameron, Simon, 450 Brown, Robert, Northampton County, Penn- Cannon, John, 247^ sylvania, 448 Canton, ship, 402 Browne, Peter A., gift to Society, 491 Capitalism, Calvinism as basis for, 21 Brownell, E. E., gift to Society, 89 (insert) Carey, Henry C, political correspondence, Bruere, Governor George, 478, 479 no Bryce, Lord, American Commonwealth, 2, 14; Carey, Mathew, publisher and economist, 13, background and training, 14,15; compared no, 268«, 355 with Tocqueville, 15-17; expose* of Ameri- Carleton, Osgood, map by, 428 can politics, 18; great prestige in United Carlisle, 204 States, 14; as interpreter of American Carlson, C. Lennart, "Samuel Keimer," 357- democracy, 17 386 Brymner, Douglas, 204 Carpenters' Hall, poor housed in, during Buchanan, James, his home "Wheatland British occupation of Philadelphia, 168 near Lancaster," 220; letters of, 491 Carroll, Charles, 5; letters of, 351 Buckingham, James Silk, comments upon Carteret, Sir George, 88 American newspapers, 442 Cartoons, political, collection of, no Budd, Thomas, 89, 325, 326, 327; Good Order Cartography, rare specimens of, in archives Established in Pennsylvania and New Jer- of Society, in sey, 1685, 325, 327; A True and Perfect Carver, Jonathan, attempts to discover Account of Byllynge's Proprieties. . . , 325, Northwest Passage, 224 Castlereagh, Lord, discussed by John Adams 327-331 and Richard Rush, 35, 36, 39, 48 Bulkeley, Peter, 343 Castries, Marechal de, 83 Bunch of Grapes Tavern, 173 Cathcart, Lord, 48 Bunyan, John, Pilgrim* s Progress, 369, 375 Burd, Edward, manuscripts of, 356 Cave, Edward, owner of Gentleman's Maga- Burd, Edward Shippen, manuscripts of, 356 zine, 386 INDEX 497 Caverly, Peter, 195 Coles, Samuel, 328 Cazenove, Theophile, 412, 418 Collard, Royer, 7 Ceracchi, Italian sculptor, 299 Colleges, American, in 19th century, 227; Chalkley, Thomas, Letter to a Friend\ 373 medical, in Colonial America, 107-108. See Chamber's Dictionary, 381, 382 also Harvard University Channing, William C., 5 Collin, Nicholas, journal and biography, 337- Charles II, grant of land to Duke of York, 182, 192, 194, 198, 199 Collins, Francis, 330 Chase, Salmon P., comment on the press in Colonial Period of American History: The Pennsylvania, 443 Settlements, II, by Charles M. Andrews, Chase, Judge Samuel, 118, 195, 198; attempt reviewed, 33*~33S at impeachment of, 114, 127 Commerce. See Trade. Chastellux, Marquis de, 111; impressed by Commerce . . . of the American States with Mrs. William Bingham, 288; letter of, 109; Europe, 289 visit to America, 288 Commercial revolution in Spanish America, Chauncy, Charles, second president of 238 Harvard, 343, 476 Compleat Ephemeris for . . . 1726, by Jacob Chester, Pa., records of, 94 Taylor, 378, 379 Chester County, Pa., documents of, 232; Concerning Persecutions in All Ages to This historical markers in, 233; Bayard Taylor, Bay, by George Fox, 111 as resident of, 340 Confederacy, American frigate, disabled Chevalier [Michael], comments upon Colonial while carrying John Jay and G6rard to America, 3 France, puts in at Martinique for repairs, Chew, Joseph, letter to Washington, 211 77> 78, 79 Chew, and Relf, New Orleans firm, 260 Congress, debts owed to William Bingham by, Chews, the, 298 61-62, 72, 74, 82-83; printing bills of Childs, George W., publisher, 444 (1831-49), 436-437. See also Continen- Chinard, Gilbert, Thomas Jefferson, The tal Congress Apostle of Americanism, 11 Congress, ship, 261 Chisolm v. Georgia, 191 Connecticut, charter of, 346; early develop- Christian Experiences . . . of Edward Perry, ment of, 332; struggle with New Haven, 346 autobiography, 374 Connecticut Historical Society, Oliver Wol- Christian Hero, by Richard Steele, 359, 375 cott Papers in, 265 City Vendue-Store, disposes of military sup- Conococheague, 204 plies for British forces, 178 Constitution of the United States: books on, Clark, Mr— (fl. 1816), 153 13, 14, 2ow; compared with others, 14; Clark, Daniel, Jr., U. S. consular agent at defense of John Adams, 150; discussed by New Orleans, 239, 247, 252, 256, 260, 262 Richard Rush, 162; Eleventh Amendment Clark, George Rogers, 255 to, 191-192; first printing of, 484; modern Clark, James, cleaner and dyer, 179-180 forces as affecting, 20; 150th anniversary Clark, John, 330 of birth of, 2, meeting of Society com- Clark, William, 328 memorating,484;signersof,exhibitof books Clayton, Joshua, President of Delaware, 187 and papers pertaining 10,484; Tocqueville's Clayton, Richard, 328 interpretation of, 11 Cleopatra, ship, 402 Constitution of the United States, According to Clifton, William, blacksmith, 458 James Kent, by Friederich Bissing, 13 Clinton, DeWitt, 467 Constitution of the United States after Story's Clymer, George, 80 Commentaries, by J. G. Buss, 13 Clymer, Henry, 311, 323 Constitutional History of the United States, Clymer, Mary Willing (Mrs. Henry), 311 by Hermann Eduard von Hoist, 14 Coates, John R., representative of the Penns, Continental Congress, 165; decree against 194, 195, 199, 201, 203 bringing supplies into Philadelphia, 168; Cobb, David, agent of William Bingham, 86, petitioned by William Bingham to pay its 310, 421-422, 428, 430; elected to Maine debts, 61-62, 72, 74, 82-83; privateering Legislature, 429 commissions issued by, 54, 6$; representa- Cochran, Robert, New Orleans agent for tives sent to France and Martinique, $5 Reed and Forde, 259 Continental currency, depreciation of in Cochran 'and Rhea, 260 1777-78, 166, 167, 176, 177; speculations Cocks, Isaac, 329 in, 391 Codmans, the, 421 Cony, Dr. (fl. 1800), 430 Cogswell, Joseph G., 221 Cook, John,331 Colden, Cadwallader, 482 Cooke, Jay, business methods of, 217-219; Cole, Arthur H., gift to Society, 491 444-445 498 INDEX

Cooper, James Fenimore, 437 Das Amerikanische Buchwesen, by Hellmut Cooper, Professor Thomas, The Adjustment Lehmann-Haupt and Ruth S. Granniss Bill, 122-123; discussed by Richard Rush, and Lawrence C. Wroth, reviewed, 480-481 150; life of, 487 Davenport, John, and the founding of New Cope, Margaret, letters and documents, 356 Haven, 345; Civil Government. . . pam- Cornelia and Molly, brigantine, 65 phlet attributed to, 348 Cornwallis, Lord" Charles, occupation of David, Benjamin, testimony in Pennington Philadelphia by, 165 case, 199, 200 Cotton code, its part in forming New Haven Davis, John, District Attorney for Massa- law, 346-347 chusetts, 85, 86 Cotton, John, the influence of his code upon Davis, Mrs. Marion B., gift to Society, 491 law in New England, 346-347 Davis, Thomas, 330 Cottons, the, 476 Deane, ship refitted at Martinique, 74,75, 77, Courts: 78,82 Pennsylvania Supreme, attack on, 114 Deane, Silas, 59, 60, 61, 63, 479; report of, Small claims, efforts to extend in Pennsyl- on damage to British snipping by American vania, 115-118,121-124,128-132, 135 privateers, 67; sent to France to negotiate U. S. Supreme, 190, 193; attacked by Jef- for supplies, 5$ fersonian Republicans, 113-115 Declaration of Independence, notes on signers Cox, Daniel, 330 of, by Dr. Benjamin Rush, 152-153 Cox, Isaac, flees Philadelphia during British Deeds, to land in: occupation, 167 Delaware, Charles II to Duke of York, Coxe, Dr. Daniel, early governor of New 182, 192, 193, 198-199; Duke of York to Jersey, 89 William Penn, 182, 192 Coxe, Daniel W., 239, 247, 254, 255, 256, New Jersey, 88, 89, 3*5~33^ 260 New York-New Jersey, Charles II to Duke Coxe, Tench, 239 of York, 182 Coxe, Mrs. Tench, aunt of Mrs. William Pennsylvania (1774-1859), 235 Bingham, 287 Defoe, Daniel, 362, 364, 368, 369; History of Craig, Neville B., editor of Pittsburgh Gazette the Wars of Charles XII, 375; Religious (1829), 344,345 Courtship, 375, 382 Crawford, William Harris, Minister to De la dSmocratie en Amirique, by Alexis de France, 450; discussed by John Adams and Tocqueville, 2; awarded prize by French Richard Rush, 48-49, 50, 146, 147 Academy, 10; publisher of, 7; recognized Creek Indians, 212 authority on subject, 4, 12-13, reproduc- Crisis, by Richard Steele, 375 tion of Mss. pages, 8, 9; John C. Spencer Crisp, Stephen . . . , From Babylon to Bethel, translator of, 5 374 Delaplaine [Joseph?], 152 Crouch, Thomas, 330 Delaware, end of Penns' claim to, 182-203; Cruger, Henry, 251. See also Cruger, Ledyard, Land Office, 190-191, 196; penetration of and Mullett. English into, 93; records of land in, 93-94; Cruger, Ledyard, and Mullett, 243, 248, 250, trade with Philadelphia curtailed during 251 British occupancy, 169. See also Newcastle Culpepper [Co., Va.], 207, 208 Delaware, frigate, 174 Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke of, Delaware Indians, 208 private papers dealing with military affairs Delaware River, claims to, 182, 193, 196 in Colonies, 335-337 Delaware and Schuylkill Canal, 254 Cunningham, Captain James, letter of Wash- Dell, William, Baptismon Didaches, 374 ington to, 211 Democracy, American. See American Democ- Currency, prior to Civil War, 218; in 1869, racy 218. See also Continental Currency Democratic Press, 448 Cutler, Manasseh, agent of Ohio Land Co., Dennis, John, 330 39O Dennis, Samuel, 330 Denniston, Miss Anna H., gift to Society, 90 Dale, Samuel, introduction of bill to abolish Denny, Governor of Pennsylvania, 210 English common law in Pennsylvania, 117 Denton, Daniel, A Brief Description of New Dallas, George M., experiences in London, York, reviewed, 222-223 T37> l3$> J395 pamphlet of, discussed by Depression, business, following American Richard Rush, 142; the Philadelphia of, 338 Revolution, 242 Damas, Comte de, 288 Der Amerikamude, by Ferdinand Kurnberger, Daniel Denton. A Brief Description of New 14 York, bibliographical note by Victor Hugo Derby, Eli as Hasket, 491 Paltsits, reviewed, 222-223 D'Estaing, Count, French Admiral, 73,74,181 INDEX 499 Devine, Mrs. , flees Philadelphia during Eight First Biographies of William Penn in British occupation, 167 Seven Languages and Seven Lands, by Wil- Dexter, Samuel, Secretary of Treasury: 266; liam I. Hull, reviewed, 475-476 discussed by Richard Rush and John Ejectment suits, brought by the Penns Adams, 42, 43, 44, 151 against State of Delaware, 192-201 Dickinson, Jonathan, papers of estate of, 356 Elegy on Death of Aquila Rose, by Samuel Dictionary, Webster's, 231-232 Keimer, 37I-37* Dillwyn, George, 230, 339 Elliot, James, 241 n Dinwiddie, Robert, Governor of Virginia, English law: and Colonial America, 96; op- 208, 209, 210 position of radical Pennsylvania Republi- Dissertation on the Nature and Extent of the cans to, 116, 117, 132, 135 Jurisdiction of the Courts of The United Epic of America, by James Truslow Adams, 24 States, by Peter S. Du Ponceau, 2 Epictetus, Morals, published in Colonial "Divesting Act," of Pennsylvania, 183, 203 Pennsylvania, 375 Dobbs, Governor, of North Carolina, 210, Erskine, Lord, declares Americans to be in 212 the right, 137 Doctrine of Absolute Reprobation . . . Refuted,Erskine, William, agent for William Bing- by Benjamin Eastburn, 373 ham, 84 Documents. See Notes and documents Europe, conditions in, discussed by John Donaldson, Robert, preemption of deserted Adams & Richard Rush, 28-29, 38-42, warehouse by during British occupation of 43, 46, 48-49, 50, 51, 137-138, 146-148, Philadelphia, 167 162-163, 164 Doncker, Hendrick, chart, in Evans, Mr. , an alleged pirate, in cus- Donnel, Charles G., papers of, pertaining to tody of William Penn, 202 Pennsylvania, 234-235 Evans, Mr. , of Chester County, 447 Donnel, Henry, papers of, concerning Penn- Everett, Edward, comment upon newspapers, sylvania lands, 234, 235 438; Harvard scholar, 221 Doolittle, Mr. , preacher, 358, 359W Everett, Reverend Mr., 140 Dorman, Thomas, 329 Exmouth, Lord, 155 "Dover Document," 199 Experiment, privateer, 255 Drake, Thomas E., review by, 475-476 Drinker, Mrs. Henry, notes high prices pre- Factory system, inauguration of, in North- vailing in Philadelphia during British occu- west, 225 pation, 168 Fairfax, [Farfax], 207, 208 Duane, William, libel suit against by Gov- Fame, ship, Captain Graisbury, idon ernor McKean, 134; Sampson Against the Philistines, pamphlet, 128; urges radical Farrand, Dr. Max, 349 changes in legal procedure, 115-116 Farris, Edward, 447 Duden, Gottfried, American Democracy and Fay, Bernard, Franklin: The Apostle of the Work of Tocqueville, 13 Modern Times, 21 Duer, William 423; business failure of, 387, Febiger, Christian, 417 405-406; lands taken over by William Federal Convention of 1787: 389, 390; exhi- Bingham, 414-417 bition of books, pamphlets, documents and Dunaway, W. F., review by, 101-102 memorabilia connected with, 484 Dunbar, Professor Charles F., 264 Federal Government: established in Wash- Dunbar, Colonel Thomas, 336 ington (1800), 395; Philadelphia as seat of, Dunster, Henry, first president of Harvard, 306-307 343,476,477 Federalist Party: appointment of "midnight Du Ponceau Peter S., 1, 2 judges," 194; and Bank of U. S., 267; du Pont de Nemours, M., and Library Com- Bank of U. S. as issue between Republicans pany of Philadelphia, 223 and, 263; defeat of (1800), 395; drawn from professional classes, 115; Judiciary Eames, Dr. Wilberforce, 353 Act of, 194; lack of harmony in party Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration (1796), 395; newspapers, 436, 437; not by Walter Allen Knittle, reviewed, 101-102 sympathetic to France, 393; opposed by East, Robert A., review by, 214-217 Jefferson, 113; opposed to retaliatory Eastburn, Benjamin, Doctrine of Absolute measures against England, 392, 394, 448; Reprobation . . . Refuted, 373 in Pennsylvania, 113, 114, 126, 129; pre- Eaton, Nathaniel, 343 dominant in first Congress, 273; prominent Eaton, Samuel, 346-347 members of, 198, 355, 392, 393; removal of Education: in Colonial Times, 333; stereo- judges of, 125 typed classical (1825-55), 227. See also Fenwick, Major John, partner of Edward Colleges, School Byllynge, 88 500 INDEX

Fighting Sailor Turned. . . Christian, auto- of Library Company of Philadelphia, 299, biography of Thomas Lurting, 374 324; validity of reputed speech against Findley, William, member of Pennsylvania Jews, 233-234; value of privateers to legislature, 116, 117, 121, 130, 131 American cause pointed out by, 67; views First American Library. A Short Account of on enlistment of indentured servants, 337; the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1731- wagons supplied to Braddock by, 336-33J. 1931, by Austin K. Gray, reviewed, 223-224 Franklin, William, Governor of New Jersey, Fisher, James, 276 92 Fishing rights, discussion with Great Britain Frazer, James, 329 over, 143-144 Free trade, discussed by Richard Rush, 43,44 Fitzroy, Herbert William Keith, review by, French, Allen, 483 French Prophets. See Prophets, French. 93-94 Friend Anthony Benezet, by George S. Fitzsimons, Thomas, 252, 390, 392, 398 Brookes, reviewed, 33^-339 Fletcher, Charles, surgeon on British warship, Friends, Society of. See Society of Friends 172 Frontier(s): influence of eastern capital on Flint, Royal, 414 development of, 260-261; life of 3$$; pass- Fogelkou, Emelia, William Penn, reviewed ing of, as influencing American Democracy, 219-220 24, 25; spirit of, 241; of Virginia, map Forbes Expedition, against Fort Duquesne, sketched by Washington, 206 204-209, 211, 212, 213 Forde, Standish, Philadelphia merchant: 239, Fruits of Retirement, Mary Molineux, 375 letter of, 246; sends token of regard to Fundamental Law and the American Revolu- Spanish officials, 247, 249. See also Reed tion, 1760-1776, by Charles F. Mullett, and Forde. reviewed, 95-97 Forster, Elizabeth, 330 Furness, Howard, 224 Fort Cumberland, importance in campaign against Fort Duquesne, 204, 206, 207, 211 Gage, General Thomas, correspondence of, Fort Duquesne, Braddock's expedition 479. against 336; Forbes expedition against, Gallatin, Albert, Secretary of Treasury, 5, 204, 211, 213; Washington's plan of cam- 263, 264, 449; dealings with first Bank of paign against, 205-208, 210-212 the United States, 266, 267, 272, 282 Fort Frederick, 204 Galloway, John, 180 Fort Niagara, in War of 1812, 228-229 Galloway, Joseph, appointed superintend- Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh), 241 ent-general of Philadelphia by Sir William Fort Ticonderoga, credit for capture of, 351 Howe, 169; orders licensing of vehicles, Fothergill, Dr. John, 339 draymen, and porters, 170; volunteers to Founding of Harvard College', by Samuel Eliot accept Continental money at par, 176 Morison, reviewed, 342-344 Gambier, Lord [James?], 202 Fourth Street Meeting House, poor housed in Gambrell, Herbert, review by, 225-226 during British occupation of Philadelphia, Gardiner, Edward Carey, gift to Society, no Gardoqui, Diego de, Spanish envoy to U. S., 168 # Fox, Dixon Ryan, 101 247, 252 Fox, George, To All Kings, Princes, Rulers, Gayos0, ship, 25in, 254 and Concerning Persecutions in All AgesGeneral Advertiser, 116 to This Day, pamphlets, 111 General Benjamin Franklin: the Military Fox, John, farrier, 172 Career of a Philosopher, by J. Bennett Francis, Dorothy Willing (Mrs. Thomas Nolan, reviewed, 100-101 Willing), 311 General Gates, ship, refitted at Martinique, Francis, Mrs. Tench, Jr., aunt of Mrs. William 74, 75, 77, 82 Bingham, 287 Gen6t, Citizen, 254, 255 Francis, Thomas Willing, 311 Gentleman's Magazine, 386 Franklin: The Apostle of Modern Times, by Georgia, 191 Bernard Fa^, 21 Ge*rard, French Minister in America, re- Franklin, Benjamin: 357, 380; American quests supplies for French troops in West Commissioner in Paris, 59, 62, 64, 76, 82; Indies, 73; ship disabled on way to France, Autobiography, 349, 370; Busybody Papers, 382; chart of Gulf Stream by, 105; com- Germans. See Hessians; Palatines; Pennsyl- ments on Samuel Keimer, 357, 372, 375; vania Germans as disciple of Calvinism, 21; grandson of, Gerry, Elbridge, 394 489; letters, 337, 339, military activities of, Ghent, Treaty of, discussed by John Adams 100-101; press of, 377, 381, 385; report on and Richard Rush, 137,138,140, 142,143- damage to British snipping by American 144 privateers, 67; statue placed over doorway Gibbes, William, gift to Society, 491 INDEX 501

Gibbes family, 491 Haldimand, General [Sir Frederick], papers Gibbs, William (fl. 1785), 242^ of, 204 Gibson Northumberland Papers, acquired by Hale, Sir Matthew, Necessary and Important Society, 234-235 Considerations, 375 Gilbert, Francis, appointed warden of port of Hall, Joseph, one of the founders of Pitts- Philadelphia, 169 burgh Gazette, 344 Gillingham, Harrold E., gift to Society in, Hamilton, Miss , of Philadelphia, men- tioned by Mrs. John Adams, 293 Gilmor, Robert, business activities, 399, 400, Hamilton, Alexander, 85, 191, 239, 240, 274, 404, 40c, 406, 407, 408, 428; establish- 395, 4355 and Bank of U. S., 263, 269, 272 ment or Bingham, Inglis & Gilmor, 396; 273, 275, 277, 280; papers of, 265 letter of credit of, 311; partner of William Hamilton, Andrew, document of, 356 Bingham, 312, 322, 428; trustee under will Hamilton, Lady, 29 of William Bingham, 323, 434. See also Hamilton, William, letter about William Robert Gilmor and Company; Robert Gil- Bingham, 294 mor and Sons Hamilton and Hood, Philadelphia merchants, Gilmor, Robert, Jr., 55; description of Wil- manuscripts of, 356 liam Bingham by, 55, 387; entertained by Hampton, General Wade, discussed by John Binghams at "Lansdowne," 306, 312,313; Adams and Richard Rush, 30, 31 extracts from letters of, 314, 315 Hanlon, Edward, wine cooper, 170 Gilpin, Thomas, flees Philadelphia during Harbeson, Benjamin, coppersmith, 180 British occupation, 167 Hardwicke (Hardwick), Philip Yorke, Earl of, Gipson, Lawrence Henry, The British Empire 192 before the American Revolution ..., re- Hare, Andrew, 247n, 248 n viewed, 97-100 Hare, Charles Willing, representative of Wil- Girard, Stephen, 252 liam Bingham, 322,431; trustee under will Givens, J. Harcourt, review by, 344-345 of William Bingham, 323, 434 Gloucester County, N. J., old documents re- Hare, Mr. and Mrs. Robert, accompany the lating to, 103 Binghams to Europe, 289 Godfrey, Thomas, poet of Colonial Penn- Hare, Mrs. Robert, aunt of Mrs. William sylvania, 354 Bingham, 287 Goedown, Abraham, 330 Harlow, Alvin, 483 Goodchild, John, 330 Harmony, ship, 399, 400 Goodman, Nathan G., review by, 482-483 Harris, Mr. , charge* d'affaires, at St. Gordon, Harry, 336 Petersburg, extract from letter of, 147-148 Gordon, H. W., 26 Harrison, George, failure to pay note owing Gordon, T., Independent Whig, 376 to William Bingham, 427 Gore, Christopher, District Attorney for Harrison, John, account books of (1800-03), Massachusetts, 85, 415 356 Goshen Baptist burial ground, 352 Harrison, Richard, agent of State of Vir- Gosselin, 7 ginia in Martinque, 58, 64; privateers Government Printing Office, 438-439 financed by, 66 Grand, M., agent of Robert Morris, 82 Harrison, William Henry, discussed by John Granniss, Ruth S. See Lehmann-Haupt, Hell- Adams and Richard Rush, 26, 31; por- mut trait of, 491 Grasse, Count de, daughters of, mentioned in a letter of Robert Gilmor, Jr., 314 Harry, David, printer: successor to Samuel Gratz, Simon, autograph letters, no Keimer, 379W, 384, 385 Graves, Thomas, 343 Hart, George M., gift to Society, 111 Gray, Austin K., The First American Li- Harvard, John, 343 brary . . . , reviewed, 223-224 Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century, Gray, Robert D. See Bezanson, Anne by Samuel E. Morison, reviewed, 476-477 Gray, Senator, 5 Harvard University, books on history of, Great Lakes, in War of 1812, 30, 31, 42, 220-221, 342-344, 476-477; stockholder in 46 Bank of U. S., 274 Greeley, Horace, 437 Hasell family, 491 Green, Samuel, of Boston, first American Haverford College, in 1842-43, 488 edition of Pilgrim!s Progress issued by, 375 Hay, George, 38; his pamphlet upon expatria- Greenleaf, James, partner of Robert Morris tion discussed by Richard Rush and John 306; fails in business and sells "Lans- Adams, 37 downe" to William Bingham, 425 Hayes Mechanics Home, 352 Hayles, Peter, 328 Haige, William, 328 Heckewelder, Reverend [John], 112 502 INDEX

Hegins, Charles W., papers of, pertaining to Hoist, Hermann Eduard von, Constitutional Pennsylvania, 234-235 History of the United States, 14 Heinrichs, Captain Johann, notations by, on Holy Roman Empire, by Lord Bryce, 15 the state of Philadelphia during the British Hooe and Harrison, Alexandria firm, 64 occupation, 167, 177-178 Hooe Stone and Co., Alexandria firm, 64 Helby, Joseph, 331 Hooker, Reverend Thomas, 333 Henderson, Elizabeth K., "The Attack on Hooper, Robert Lettis, 432 the Judiciary in Pennsylvania, 1800-1810," Hoopes, Alban W., reviews by, 220-221; 113-136 342-344; 476-477 Henderson, John, appointed warden of port Hooton, Thomas, 329 of Philadelphia, 169 Hope, ship, 83, 84, 87 Henry, James Buchanan, gift to Society by Hopkinson, Francis, 491 sons of, 491 Hornet, sloop, 56, 61 Henry, Matthew, 359 Houses, old Philadelphia, 233; shortage of, Henry, Patrick, Governor of Virginia: grantof during British occupation of Philadelphia, land to Reed and Forde by, 242^ 170 Henry Hope and Company, of Holland, 310, Howe, Sir William, in Philadelphia: 165, 179; 396, 402 orders cleaning of streets, 174; regulates Hessian(s), comments upon mercenary quali- business, 169 ties of colonists, 177-178; entry into Hudson, Frederic, journalist, 437 Philadelphia, 165; diary of a, 229; treated Hugh-Jones and Radice, The American Ex- kindly by Quakers, 230 periment, 20 Heth, William of Virginia, 280 Hughes, John, 468, 469, 470 Heurtin, William, of New York, 38 m Huidekoper* s lessee vs. Douglas, 127 Hewison, Ann, sends diary of William Lang- Hulings, William E., U. S. consul at New borm to Richard Rush, 159 Orleans, 252 Hiester, Daniel, first Congressman of Berks Hull, William, referred to by John Adams, 31 County, 229 Hull, William I., Eight First Biographies of Higgins, Jesse, of Delaware, pamphlet by, William Penn . . . , reviewed, 475-476 129 Hum bold t, Alexander von, American Letters, 3 Hillard, George Stillman, 232 Humphreys, James Jr., printer, 173; letter of Hilles, Mrs. William, 198 regarding British occupation of Philadel- Hiltzheimer, Jacob, 304 phia, 166 Hind,John,330 Humphreys, Whitehead, return to Philadel- Hineman, Henry, staymaker, 180 phia after British occupation of, 172 Historical Society of Pennsylvania Hunter, Thomas, 328 Accessions, 110-112, 234-235, 355-356, Hussey, Miriam. See Bezanson, Anne 490-491 Hutchinson, Thomas, 482 Collections: books on America, in; com- mercial papers, 349; Gibson Northum- Immigration, as affecting American democ- berland Papers, 234-235; Hollingsworth racy, 22, 23; encouragement of in Colonial Papers, 247; manuscript, 234, 325, 491; U. S., 230 minutes of board of directors of Bank Impeachment proceedings: against Judge of U. S., 270; political cartoons, no; Addison, 114; against Pennsylvania ju- prints, no; Shaler Papers, no diciary, 114, 125-126; against Judge Exhibit: books, pamphlets, documents, Pickering, 114; against Justice Chase, 114 and memorabilia connected with the Indemnity Controversy, ion Federal Convention of 1787 and the Indentured servants, Franklin on, 337; Pala- signers of the Constitution, 484 tines as, 102 Gifts to, 110-112, 355-356, 49°-49x Independence, ship, 61 Meetings, commemorating 150th anniver- Independent Whig, reprint, first periodical sary of formation of Constitution, 484 other than newspaper to be published in News and accessions, 103-112, 227-235, the American colonies, 376 349-356, 484-491 India, ship, 313 History of American History, by Michael Indian Rights Association, 356 Kraus, reviewed, 482-483 "Indian King," tavern, 180 History of Diodorus Siculus, 375 Indians, documents pertaining to, 356; expe- History museums, manual for, reviewed, ditions against, 209, 212; interest of Eng- 225-226 land in lands of, 138; in Pennsylvania, 100; History of the Wars of Charles XII, by Daniel as seen by Judge Kent, 355; trade with, in Defoe, 375 Northwest, 224 Hollingsworth, Levi, papers of, 247W Ingersoll, Jared, attorney for the Penns, 193, Hollingsworth, Paschall, 285 194 INDEX 5O3 Ingham, Samuel D., 450 Judiciary: Federalist, opposed by Jefferson, Inglis, Samuel, 66; member of Willing, Mor- 113-11$; Pennsylvania, attack on (1800- ris & Co., 396 10),113-136 Insurance, rate for ships in 1796, 257W Jusserand, M., autograph letters, no Insurance Company of North America, 258 Intellectual movement, American Revolution Keimer, Samuel, printer: Address and Peti- as, 95 tion to King Jesus, 358,360; Brand Plucked Irvine, William, 391 from the Burning, 361, 363, 364, 365, 367, 368, 369; death, 386; early life, 361-363; Jackson, Andrew, 5, u, 239; investigation of, Elegy on Death . . . of Aquila Rose, 371- 449, 451; opposed by Jonathan Roberts, 372; London Post, started by, 362-363; 448,450,472 Parable, 372; Platonick Courtship, 368,369; Jackson, Elizabeth Willing (Mrs.William),3i 1 quotations from works of, 359, 360, 379W; Jackson, General Henry, 414 religious struggles of, 358-360, 364, 369; Jackson, Thomas, 193 Search After Religion, 358, 360, 361, 362, Jackson, William, agent for William Bingham, 3&3>366 418-420; marriage to Elizabeth Willing, Keith [Sir William], Governor of Pennsyl- 311; mentioned by Abigail Adams, 291 vania, Proclamation, 377 James, Duke of York. See York, James, Duke Kellogg, Louise Phelps, The British Regime in of Wisconsin and the Northwest, reviewed, James, William, 365-366 224-225 Jay Cooke, Private Banker, by Henrietta M. Kemp, William, 330 Larson, reviewed, 217-219 Kent, Chancellor James, 355 Jay, John, 77, 80; Congress urged to pay Keppel, Admiral [Augustus, first Viscount debts by, 78,79; marriage of William Bing- Keppel?]. 336 ham approved by, 286; special minister to Kerr, Wilfred Brenton, Bermuda and the England, 393 American Revolution, reviewed, 477-479 Jay Treaty, 258 King, Charles, 458, 459 Jefferson, Thomas, 194,387,435; attitude to- King, Rufus, 275; American Minister in Lon- ward Bank of U. S., 266, 267, 280, 281; don, 300,312; director of Bank of U. S., 277 borrows from Bank of U. S. 281; discussed Kinsey, John, 328 by John Adams and Richard Rush, 30,153, Kipling, John, 199 154, 158; entertains the Binghams, 290; Klein, Philip S., "Memoirs of a Senator from letters, 267, 280, 295; opposition to Fed- Pennsylvania: Jonathan Roberts, 1771- eralist judiciary, 113-115; opposition to 1854," 446-452; The Story of Wheatland, "$1500 Bill," 449; as President, 113, 195, reviewed, 220 262, 264; as seen by Tocqueville, 11 Knittle, Walter Allen, Early Eighteenth Cen- Jefferys, Samuel, watchmaker, 170 tury Palatine Emigration, reviewed, 101-102 Jenifer and Hooe, Alexandria firm, 64, 65 Knox, General Henry, Secretary of War: Jenkins, Charles F., gift to Society, 356 stockholder in Bank of U. S., 274; land Jenkins, Howard M., manuscript collection deals with William Bingham, 85, 86, 414- of,356 433 Jennings, Samuel, 89,325,326,327; The Case Kocherthal, Joshua, leader of Palatines, 101 Put and Decided, 89-90 Kollock, Shepard, printer, 355 John, ship, captured by privateer, 255, 258 Kraus, Michael, A History of American His- John and Francis Baring Co., 310, 396 tory, reviewed, 482-483 Johns, Kensey, 186 Kurnberger, Ferdinand, Der Amerikamude, Johnson, Amandus, The Journal and Biog- raphy of Nicholas Collin, reviewed, 337-338 14 Johnson, Herbert, gift to Society, 491 Lacock, Abner, 130,133,449 Johnson, Nicholas, 329 Lady Catherine, ship, 479 Johnson, Victor L., 247^ Lafayette, Marquis de, 146; journey from Johnston, Josiah S., letters, no Chadd's Ford to Bethlehem, 232; men- Jones, Hannah, letters and documents, 356 tioned by Richard Rush, 146 Jones, Paul, no La Forest, Count, 48 Jordan, A. W., gift to Society, 112 Lake Ontario, in War of 1812, 30, 42 Journal, published by Samuel Keimer, 377 Lambert, Rule of the Judges and the Struggle Journal and Biography of Nicholas Collin, against Social Legislation in the United 1746-18JI, by Amandus Johnson, with in- States, 19 troduction by Frank H. Stewart, reviewed, Lancaster, Joseph, and the Philadelphia _ 337-338 schools, 228 Journalism, American, from 1787-1865, 435- Lancaster, home of James Buchanan near, 445 220 504 INDEX Lancaster Road, surveyed and improved, Lewis, ship, 61 410-411 Lewis, Andrew, 208 Land(s): as a basis for colonization, 333-334; Lewis, Evan, Quaker, 470 development of in Mississippi Valley, Lewis, John, responsibility for connection be- 409-410; in Delaware, 93; the Penns' claim tween Reed and Forde, and General to, 182-203; in Maine, development of by Wilkinson, 246 William Bingham, 414-432; in New Jersey, Lewis, John Frederick, Jr., review by,339~342 325-331; offered free to Quakers (1681), Lewis, Mordecai, partner of William Bingham, 89, 91; title of Edward Byllynge to, 88-90, 400,403,406 325; in New York, 432-434; in Northwest, Lewis, William, 85, 409, 415 cession to U. S. by England, 224; in Penn- Ley burn, George, preemption of deserted sylvania, development of, 412-414; "Di- shop by during British occupation of Phila- vesting Act" regarding, 183, 203; papers delphia, 167 pertaining to, 235; in Virginia, owned by Liberalism, 11, 13, 22; in U. S., as viewed by Reed and Forde, 242^. See also Land Com- Europeans, 3-4 panies; Deeds Library, the first American, 223-224 Land Companies, 127,390,417,430 Library Company of Philadelphia, history of, Lane, Mrs. Thomas W., gift to Society, 111 223-224; statue of Franklin placed over Langborm, William, diary of, 159 doorway (1792), 299,324 "Lansdowne," country home of Penns and Library of Congress, photostats of Bouquet Binghams, 305.306,313,425; reproduction Papers in, 204 of engraving of, 306 (insert) Library of Princeton University, gift to So- Lansdowne, Marquis of. See Shelburne, Lord ciety, 356 Larson, Henrietta, M., Jay Cooke, Private Lincoln, Abraham, portrait, no Banker, reviewed, 217-219 Lincoln, General Benjamin, an account of the Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, letter regarding State of Maine, 417-418 Mrs. William Bingham, 321 Lingelbach, William E., "American Democ- Law: common, Judge Kent's administration racy and European Interpreters," 1-25 °f> 3SSi on conspiracy, 134; fundamental List, Professor Frederick, German economist, or natural, as influencing American Colo- interested in the American experiment, 13 nial government, 95-97; influence of John Literature: in Colonial Pennsylvania, 375- Cotton's code upon New England, 348; 377, 381-382; early American, 353-3$^ price-fixing, in Early Pennsylvania, 487 18th century English, 361; Thomas God- Lawrence, Richard, 330 frey, poet of Colonial Pennsylvania, 354 Lawrie (Lawry), Gawen, 326, 330; trustee Little Democrat, privateer, 254 for Edward Byllynge, 88 Livingston, Henry Beekman, husband of Lay, Benjamin, 350 Nancy Shippen, 481, 482 Lazzarini, Francois, statue of Franklin by, 299 Livingston, Nancy Shippen (Mrs. Henry Lea, Henry Charles, and Library Company Beekman), journal of, 481-482 of Philadelphia, 224 Livingston, Robert R., appointed minister Learny, John, Philadelphia merchant, 251 for Foreign Affairs, 388 Leeds' Almanack, 378,379,379W, 384;* Livingstone, Edward, reference to by John Leeds, Felix, Almanack, 3Jgn Adams, 30 Leeds, Titan, Almanack, 378, 379, 379?/ Lloyd William, 302 Legal papers, of "back counties" of Pennsyl- Locke, John, philosophy of, 485 vania, 234-235; of Upper Ohio Valley, 354 Lodowick, Christian, 350-351 Legal procedure, simplified form of sought, Logan, Dr. George, 448 115-118,121-124,128-132,135 Logan, James, founder of Loganian Library, Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut, Ruth S. Granniss 223 and Lawrence C. Wroth, Das Ameri- London Post, 362-363 kanische Buchwesen, reviewed, 480-481 Longstreth, Collins and Company, cash book, Leib, Dr. Michael, 115, 133, 449 491 Lemos, Manuel Gayoso de, Spanish governor Loudoun, Lord, 209, 210, 212; correspond- of Natchez, 249, 251 ence with Duke of Cumberland, 336; Lenthall, Robert, Newport schoolmaster,333 "Memorial" addressed to, by Washington, Leonard, Gilberto, gift of Reed and Forde to, 206,211 249 Louisa, ship, 400 Le Roy, Bayard & McEvers, 409 Louisiana, 241, 354; commerce as promoting Lesslie, Sarah Thomas, 462 acquisition of by U. S., 239, 262; granted Letter to a Friend, by Thomas Chalkley, 373 right to trade with St. Domingue, 244. See Leval, Mme. de, plan for French settlement also New Orleans in Maine, 416 Lovell, James, correspondence with William Levy, Moses, attorney for the Penns, 194,195 Bingham, 62, 63, 74, 77, 80, 81, 82 INDEX 505 Low, Nicholas, 302, 303, 304, 406, 407 Marshall, John, Chief Justice of Supreme Lucas, Edward, 328 Court: attempt to impeach, 114; policy to- Lucas, Nicholas, 328; trustee for Edward ward state sovereignty, 191 Byllynge, 88 Martin, Elizabeth, 179 Lurting, Thomas, Fighting Sailor Turned . . . Martin, James, will not be responsible for Christian, 374 debts of wife, 178-179 Lyttleton, William Henry, Governor of South Martin, Thomas, 328 Carolina, 210, 212 Martinique: William Bingham as Agent of Continental Congress in, 54-87, 286, 291, McAnear, Beverly, review by, 345-348 388; friendliness of officials to American McCall, Ann, married to Thomas Willing, cause, 57, 68-69,70; as haven for American 287 privateers, 65-66, 68, 69, 70, 71; packet McCall, Archibald, director of Bank of U. S., ships plying between American continent 276 and, 57; as refitting point for Continental McCalls, the, 298 armed vessels, 74-75, 77-79; as source of McClain, Justice of the Supreme Court, 5 military supplies for American Colonies, Maclay, Samuel, member of Pennsylvania 57, 70; trade with American Colonies, 54, State Senate, 122 58, 64, 6t;, 73; as trans-shipping base for Maclay, William, Senator from Pennsyl- Franco-American commerce, 59, 60 vania,387;opinionof William Bingham,3o8 Maryland, feudal proprietary government in, M'Culla, John, flees Philadelphia during 334; iron industry in, 351; revolution or British occupation of, 167 1689 in, 334^ McDowell, James, preemption of deserted Mass production, as influencing American shop by during British occupation of Phila- democracy, 25 delphia, 167 Mather, Cotton, 482; dispute about author- Macedonian, 261 ship of Civil Government. . . pamphlet, 348 McElderry, Hugh, 3 56 McKean, Joseph B., attorney for the Penns, Mather, Increase, 477, 482 194 Mathers, the, 476 McKean, Thomas, Governor of Pennsyl- Matlack, Colonel Timothy, 465 vania: 36, 125, 129; activities on behalf of May, Thomas, 465 the Penns' claim to Delaware, 184, 186, Mease, Dr. (fl. 1816), 154, 155 190, 191, 192, 193, 203; legislation attack- Meason, Isaac, Pennsylvania ironmaster, 488 ing judiciary vetoed by, 120, 121-123; let- Medicine, in Colonial America, 107-108 ter to Joshua Clayton, President of Dela- Mediterranean, pirates in, 254 ware, 187, 188; reproduction of handbill Mendelson, Dr. Walter, gift to Society, 491 by, 189; succeeded by Snyder, 116,133-134 Mennonites, attitude toward military serv- MacKellar, Patrick, journal of, 336 ice, 229 McKnight, Dr. Charles, in Revolutionary Mentz, William, bookbinder, 180 War, 228 Mercer, George, 208 Madg, Humphry, 329 Merchants' Coffee House, Philadelphia, 119 Madison, James, letter of Jefferson to, 280; Mercury, published by Andrew Bradford, mentioned in letter of Richard Rush, 153; notes general sentiment regarding Union, Meredith [Hugh], publisher in Colonial Phila- 389; policy toward state sovereignty, 191; delphia, 377 retaliatory measures against England Meredith, William, letter book, 3$$ urged by, 392 Merediths, the, 298 Maine, development of lands in, 414-431 Merriam, Charles, 483 Maitland, Sir Arthur Steel, The New America, Meuros, Allen, haberdasher, 173 20 Mew, Richard, 328, 330 Mangies, Ninian, preemption of deserted Michaud, Andr6, Botanical Journal of North shop by during British occupation of Phila- America, 3 delphia, 167 Mifflin [Thomas], Governor of Pennsylvania, Manual for History Museums, by Arthur C. 239 Parker, reviewed, 225-226 Military Affairs in North America, 1748- Map, of Braddock's expedition against Fort 1765, edited by Stanley M. Pargellis, re- Duquesne, 336; "Frontiers of Virginia," viewed, 335-337 sketched by Washington, 206 Military supplies, purchase of during Revolu- Marbois, Monsieur, 48 tion, 235 March, Henry, 329 Miller, Henry, 179 Marchinton, Philip, custom tailor, 173 Milson, Charles, 329 Maryborough, speech to Tallard discussed by Minard, Duane E., Assistant Attorney Gen- Richard Rush, 28 eral of New Jersey, 193 $o6 INDEX

Miro [Esteban Rodriguez], Governor of Mullett, Thomas, 251. See also Cruger, Louisiana, 239, 247??, 250; gifts of Reed Ledyard, and Mullett and Forde to, 249 Museums, history, manual for, reviewed, Mishoff, Willard O., "Business in Philadel- 225-226 phia During the British Occupation, 1777- Myers, Albert Cook, Records of Court of New 1778," 165-181 Castle on Delaware, edited by, reviewed, Mississippi River, commerce on, 248, 250, 93-94 260, 262; as outlet for western produce, 242; Spanish monopoly of, 242; Wilkin- Nancy Shippen Her Journal Book . . . and son's descent of, 243 Letters . . . , edited by Ethel Armes, re- Mitchell, James T., 491 viewed, 481-482 Mitchell, John, flees Philadelphia during Napier, Robert, secretary to the Duke of British occupation of, 167 Cumberland, 336 Mitchell, Dr. Weir, and Library Company of Napoleon, discussed by John Adams and Philadelphia, 224 Richard Rush, 30, 38, 39, 146 Molineux, Mary, Fruits of Retirement, 375 Natchez [Mississippi?], 249, 250, 259 Molly, ship, 255 Natural law, and the American Revolution, Money. See Continental currency 95-97 Monroe, James, 449; mentioned in letters of Naval Board, U. S., during Revolution, 74 Richard Rush, 36, 142, 143, 145, 153, 159; 75,84 as minister to France, 393 Navy, U. S.: in Revolutionary War, outfit- Montelius, Mr. , agent for Dr. Keyser's ting of ships in Martinique, 74-75, 77~79; pills, 173 in War of 1812,35,42 Montesquieu, 11 Necessary and Important Considerations, by Montgomery, Charles B., appointed Curator Sir Matthew Hale, 375 of Business Manuscripts for the Society, Neltrup, Edward, 330 349; gift to Society, 491 New America, by Sir Arthur Steel Maitland, 20 Montpensier, Duke de, 311 New England, 33, 142; and fisheries' dispute Montresor, Captain John, 165, 170 with England, 144; kinship with England, Moores, the, 298 44; most early writers found in, 26; prayer Morals, of Epictetus, published in Colonial by John Adams for, 47; and the War of Pennsylvania, 375 1812, 44-45, 47 Moravians, in Pennsylvania, 100,104 New Haven Colony, early development of, Morison, Professor Samuel E., delivers ad- 33*1, 333; economic life of, 345; founding of, dress and is elected honorary member of 345; law and government, 346, 347; strug- the Society, 103; Three Centuries of Har- gle with Connecticut over charter, 346 vard, 1630-1930, reviewed, 220-221; The New Haven Colony, by Isabel MacBeath Founding of Harvard College, reviewed, Calder, reviewed, 345-348 342-344; Harvard College in the SeventeenthNew Jersey, development of Atlantic coast of Century, reviewed, 476-477 (18th cent.), 301; finances of during Revo- Morris, Apollo, 330 lution, 490; 0I4 documents of Gloucester Morris Canal, 489 County, 103; Province of West: 88-92; Morris, Deborah, account book of, 491 Proprieties of, 325-331; Samuel Keimer Morris, Gouverneur, 37 printer for, 377 Morris, Lawrence J., gift to Society, 356 New Jersey v. Delaware, 193 Morris, Robert, 80, 81, 239; attitude toward New Orleans (Spanish), 239; development of privateering, 66-67; exhorts Congress to trade with Philadelphia, 241, 244-257, pay its debts, 63; failure of, 257, 25$, 322, 259-261* Spanish officials in, 249-250, 252, 387, 414; financial ventures, 66, 172, 252; 254; trade with U. S. forbidden by Spain, flees Philadelphia during British occupa- 242 tion, 171; member of Committee of Secret New York, anti-rent wars in Colonial, 3^3; Correspondence, 6$, 82; partner of Thomas description of in 1670, 222-223; expenses of Willing, 171, 287; sends three ships to Wil- living in (1789), 229; life in Colonial, 3^3; liam Bingham in Martinique, 61. See also settlement of Palatines in, 101-102; settle- Willing, Morris & Co. ment of Western, 48 5 Morris, William, 417-418 New York Historical Society, Albert Gallatin Morse, Jedidiah, 482 Papers in, 266 Morton, Robert, extract from letter of, 176 Newcastle, Delaware, 186, 187, 195; Records Mott, Lucretia, 227 of Court from 1681 to logo . . . , book, re- Muhlenberg, John Peter Gabriel, 448 viewed, 93-94; transferred to William Penn Mullett, Charles F., Fundamental Law and by James, Duke of York, 182; Trustees of, the American Revolution, 1760-1776, re- 185 viewed, 95-97 Newman, Mr. , preacher, 359 INDEX 507 Newport, Rhode Island; effect of Quakers on Owen, Elizabeth. See Elizabeth Owen under life in, 333; establishment of first American Roberts family school in, 333 Newspaper(s), control of by business, 442, Palatines, emigration of to America (1708- 443-445; establishment of by Samuel 10), 101-102 Keimer, 382; exempt from libel laws when Paltsits, Victor Hugo, bibliographical note to investigating government agencies, 134; Daniel Denton, 222-223; "Note Book" oldest existing Pennsylvania, 344-345; as memoranda discovered by, 206 party organs, 435-442; from 1787 to 1865, Parable, by Samuel Keimer, 372 435-445; of South Carolina, 106 Pargellis, Stanley M., Military Affairs in Newton, Henry, of Newcastle, 38 m North America, 1748-1765, reviewed, 33$- Nichols, Roy F., review by, 220 337 Nicholson, Captain, ship Deane, 74,75 Parish and Parish Officers, 6 Nicholson, John, failure of, 257, 414 Parke, Roger, Quaker, given 200 acres of land Nicholson, Joseph, member of Congress, 114 by Edward Byllynge, 89 Nicklin and Griffith, 402 Parke, Dr. Thomas, letters and papers, in Noailles, Vicomte de, 288, 314, 424 Parker, Arthur C, A Manual j or History Mu- Noble, Abel, 462 seums, reviewed, 225-226 Noble, Anna (Mrs. David Thomas), 462 Parsons Allston & Co., St. Pierre, 79 Noble, Job, 462 Passmore, Thomas, charges supreme court Nolan, J. Bennett, General Benjamin Frank- judges with unconstitutional conduct, 119, lin . . . , reviewed, 100-101 125 Nolan, Philip, 239, 249 Paul, William, Catholic priest, 363n Nordhoff, Mrs. Walter, gift to Society, 356 Pauley, John, 329 Norris, Samuel, 330 Paxson, Professor Frederic L., on the disap- Northumberland County (Pa.), old docu- pearance of industrial frontier in America, ments of, 235 25 Northwest, the (1760-1815): British influ- Peace, Penn's hope of an international or- ence in, 224; factory system in, 225; ganization to preserve, 475 Indians in, 224; regulation of trade in, 224; Peachy, William, 329 and the Revolution, 224; and War of 1812, Peckitt, Mrs. R. G., gift to Society, 111 224 Pelts, snipped from New Orleans to Philadel- Northwest Passage, attempts to discover, 224 phia, 250, 251-252 "Note Book" memoranda of 1757, 206 Penn, John, as affected by Divesting Act, Notes and documents, 88-92, 204-213, 325- 203; death of, 193, 305; litigation over 331,446-474 claim to Delaware, 186, 187, 188, 192, 195; Nourse, Mr., 34, 35 owner of "Lansdowne," 305, 425 Novels, reprints of early American, 3^3 Penn, Richard, 193 Nuttall, Thomas, travels and scientific col- Penn, Thomas, correspondence with Duke of lections, 486 Cumberland, 337 Penn, William, biographies of, 219-220, 475- O'Bannon, John, agent of Reed and Forde 476; efforts of heirs to establish claim to in Ohio Valley, 251 Delaware, 18^-203; letters of, 202-403; Observations on the Government of Towns in patent for Pennsylvania received by, 182; Massachusetts, by Jared Sparks, a basis for survey of land of, i8f; title to "Three parts of Tocqueville's treatise, 6 Lower Counties," 182, 187, 192,196, 197, X r Ogle, William, 328 9B} 199, "2O2 , trustee for Edward Byllynge, Ohio River, packet lines operating on, 231 88; verses in praise of, 379 Ohio Valley, development of commerce in, Penn-Baltimore litigation, 192 231, 241, 242, 244, 252, 486; old legal docu- Pennington, James, defendant in suits ments relating to, 354 brought by the Penns, 194, 200 Olive, Thomas, 89; 330 Penn's lessees v. Pennington, 195 Oliver, George T., editor of the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania # Post-Gazette, 345 attack on judiciary in (1800-10), 113- Ord, Captain George, privateer, 66, 67, 479 136; "back counties" of, papers relating Orleans, Duke of, paints portrait of Abby to, 234-235; business regulation in early, Willing, 311 487; Chester County historical markers Orme, Sir Robert, aide-de-camp of General and manuscripts, 232-233; courts in, Braddock, 336 113-136, 235; glass industry in, 231; iron Otis, Bass, portrait of William Henry Har- industry in, 488; land in, documents re- rison by, 491 lating to, 234-235; Moravians in, 104; Otis, Harrison Gray, 431 oil industry in, 231; old records or, 235; Otto, Louis Guillaume, 481 politics in, 104; potteries of Berks 508 INDEX Pennsylvania (cont.) Pinckney, Thomas, recommends French County, 230; transfer of English culture 6migr6s to the "good offices" of William to> 357-385; transportation in, docu- Bingham, 310 ments relating to, 235; travel through in Piper, Michael, 3jon 1794, 227; Western, history of, 231 Pittsburgh, building of railroad to Philadel- Colonial: Catholic Church in, 228; decree phia from, 3$5; as center of Ohio Valley of Assembly against bringing supplies trade, 241, 486; settlement of, 486. See also into Philadelphia, 168; encouragement Fort Pitt, Fort Duquesne of immigration in, 230; religious diver- Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Lines si ty in, 48 8; Thomas Godfrey, poet of, 354 (1851-53), 231 Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland Pittsburgh's Post Gazette, The First News- Steam Navigation Company, papers relat- paper West of the Alleghenies, by J. Cutler ing to, 356 Andrews, reviewed, 344-345 Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, re- Plantations, Southern, 98 viewed, 97 Platonick Courtship, by Samuel Keimer, 368, Pennsylvania Germans, exhibits of arts of, 369 97; and Benjamin Franklin, 100-101; Pleasants, Mrs. Charles Pemberton, gift to poetry of Charles Calvin Ziegler, 97 Society, 112 Pennsylvania Railroad, use of newspapers Pleasants, Dr. Henry, Jr., gift to Society, 103 by, 443 Pleasants, Samuel, land speculations of, 235; Penrose, Boies, reviews by, 337~338; 338~339 letters of, 235 Periodical, first, other than newspapers, to Poetry, in Colonial Pennsylvania, 354; of the be issued in American colonies, 376 Pennsylvania Germans, 97; of Bayard Perry, Edward, Christian Experiences . . . , Taylor, 339~44^ autobiography, 374 Poinsett, Joel, Ambassador to Mexico, 5 Peters, Richard, letters and papers, 111 Political parties, organization of on national Peters, Richard, Jr., 103 scale, 435; use of press by, 435-442. See Peuchet, M., 237,238 Federalist Party; Republican Party; Whigs Philadelphia, British entry into (1777), 165; Politics business in, during the British occupancy American: discussed by Viscount Bryce, of 1777-78, 165-181; Colonial, social life 15; discussed by D. W. Brogan, i8» in, 481; comment on people of, 177-178, European: discussed by John Adams and 488; conditions in after British evacuation, Richard Rush, 28-29, 38-42, 43, 46, 48- 179; effect of British occupation upon eco- 51, 137-138, 146-148, 162-164 nomic life of, 167-170, 174-177, 179, 181; Pollock, Oliver, 247 interest in Spanish America (18th cent.), Pomfret, Mr. (fl. 1718), preacher, 358 238-239; Library Company of, 223-224, Pomfret, J. E., "Edward Byllynge's Proposed 299; preeminence in medicine (18th cent.), Gift of Land to Indigent Friends," 88-90; 107-108; as seat of Federal government, "Thomas Budd's True and Perfect Ac- 306-307; trade with Spanish America count' of Byllynge's Proprieties in West (1787-1803), 238-262; "the London of New Jersey," 3*5-33* America," 307; social life in after Revolu- Ponte, Lorenzo da, and Library Company of tion, 288, 306; theatre in, (early 19th Philadelphia, 223 cent.), 2SS\ wholesale prices in (1784- Porteous, Constable & Co., 178 1861), 214-217; yellow fever in (1798), 314, Potter, John, 362, 369 318 Potteries, of Berks County, Pa., 230 Phillips, Eleazar, of Charleston, 381W Potts, John Morris, 491 Phillips, Jonas, dealer in general merchan- Powel, Mrs. Samuel, aunt of Mrs. William dise, 173 Bingham, 287, 315 Physick, Edmund, agent for Proprietors of Powell, J. H.: "Some Unpublished Corre- Pennsylvania, 183; activity on behalf of spondence of John Adams and Richard Penns' claim to Delaware, 184, 185, 186- Rush, 1811-22," 26-53, I37~I64; book re- 188, 189, 192, 193, 203; Appeal to the view by, 95-97 People of . . . Delaware, pamphlet, 190; Powell, Sarah, 491 death, 198; letter to, by John R. Coates, Press. See Newspapers 194; reproduction of handbill by, 189 Prevost, Sir George, attempt to arrange Pickering, Judge John, impeachment of, 114 armistice in 1814, 45 Pickering, Timothy, 86 Price, Eli Kirk, manuscripts of, 2>$6 Pilgrim, ship, 80, 83, 84, 85, 87, 431 Price-fixing, in Pennsylvania, 487 Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan, 374; Prices: in Philadelphia during Revolution, first American edition, 375 166, 168, 170; wholesale, in Philadelphia Pinckney, C. C, 30 (1784-1861), 214-217 Pinckney, Charles, 234 Priestley (Priestly), Dr. Joseph, 150 INDEX 509 Prince William, [County, Va.], 207, 208 ton, 258; trade with New Orleans, 241, Printing, history of in the United States, 246-261 book, reviewed, 480-481 Reese, Charles L., Jr., review by, 33S~331 Prison system, American, report of Beau- Religious Courtship, by Daniel Defoe, 375,382 mont and Tocqueville on, 4, 7, 489 Reprisal, frigate, 57, 58 Privateers, American: afforded protection in Republican Argus, newspaper, 122 French West Indies, 6$-66, 68, 69, 70, 71; Republican Party, 113, 118, 129, 136, 195; commissions issued by Continental Con- attack on judiciary, 115,116,117,135,136; gress, 54, 6$; damage to British shipping Bank of U. S. as issue between Federalists by, 66,67; value to American cause in Rev- and, 263; drawn from farm and frontier, olution, 67; English: 253, 255, 478 115; formative stage, 116; newspapers, 116, Profiteering, prohibited by British during 120, 122, 125, 127, 129, 131, 437; radical occupation of Philadelphia, 170 wing, 122,131; rift in, 127 Propaganda, use of press for: by banks, 443; Revolution by business, 442, 443, 444; by Pennsyl- American: Fundamental law and, 95-97; vania Railroad, 443; by political parties, as an intellectual movement, 95; under- 43 5~44^ lying causes of, 99, 33 5 Prophets, French, religious sect, 359, 361, Commercial: in Spanish America, 238 362, 363, 364^365,366> 368, 369 . Reynolds, Mr. , preacher, 359 Prospectus, published by Samuel Keimer, 382 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, discussed by Richard Protestantism, eighteenth-century, 358-359, Rush, 163 364-366, 367; nineteenth-century, 6 Rhode Island, founding and early develop- Proud, Robert, 482 ment of, 332. See also Newport Purdie, Samuel, 475 Richards, William, apothecary, 180 Richardson, Mary. See Thomas, Mary Quakers. See Society of Friends Richardson Riche*, George Inman, gift to Society, 491 Radio, history of in Michigan, 232 Ridges, John, 329 Railroad, from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, Ritner, Governor Joseph, of Pennsylvania, building of, 355 450 Rambler, schooner, 60 Robarts, Richard, 328 Ramsay, David, 482 Robb, William, preemption of deserted shop Randolph, Edmund, 239, 240 by during British occupation of Philadel- Randolph, John, attempt to impeach Judge phia, 167 Chase, 114 Robert Gilmor & Co., 396, 399, 401, 408, 413 Rattlesnake, ship, 67 Robert Gilmor and Sons, 397, 402 Rauthwell, Robert, dry goods merchant, 177 Roberts, Jonathan (1771-1854), Senator Raynal, Abbe", 237-238 from Pennsylvania: ancestry, 446; Collec- Read, George, 184, 186; lawyer for State of tor of Port of Philadelphia, 451; as Con- Delaware in suits brought by the Penns, gressman, 448-449; death, 451; early life, 194, 195, 201 446-447; marriage, 449; Memoirs, 451- Read, George, Jr., 186 474; opposition to Tyler, 448, 451; in State Read, Jacob, sends two fawns to William legislature, 117, 447-448, 450; as U. S. Bingham, 297 Senator, 449-450 Reading, John, 329 Roberts family: Records of the Court of New Castle on Dela- Anna (2nd), 446, 464, 469 ware, Vol. II. 1681-99, edited by Albert Anna Thomas (Mrs. Jonathan Roberts, Cook Myers, reviewed, 93-94 Sr.), 446,460-463 Redwood, William, flees Philadelphia during Ebenezer, 464 British occupation, 167 Eliza Hite Bushby (Mrs. Jonathan Rob- Reed, John, Philadelphia merchant, 239; trip erts, Jr.), 449 down Mississippi to New Orleans, 248-250. Elizabeth Owen (Mrs. John Roberts See also Reed and Forde (1682)), 456 Reed, John, Jr., 261, 261 n Jesse, 456,458,459 Reed, Nelson P., editor of Pittsburgh Gazetet John (1682), 446,454, 456 (1866), 345 John,2nd, 456 Reed and Forde, Philadelphia merchants: John,3rd, 455, 456, 465 backed by Joseph Ball, 247-248; corre- John,4th, 446, 464 spondence, 239, 249, 246^-262^,- develop- Jonathan, Jr. See Roberts, Jonathan ment of Mississippi trade, 242, 246, 262; (1771-1854) financial troubles, 243, 248, 250-251, 257; Jonathan, Sr., 446, 457, 458, 459, 460-462, pioneers in Spanish American trade, 261; 465,468-474 sale of Columbia Bank stock to Washing- Lydia, 457,459 5io INDEX Roberts family (cont.) visit to Virginia, 153; War of 1812 dis- Mary, 446,464,465 cussed by John Adams and, 28-31, 34-36, Mathew (ist),456 42,45,4.6, 53 Mathew (2nd), 446,456,457,461 Rush, William, account of life and work of, Mathew (3rd), 446, 447, 450, 456, 459,464, 484-485 471,473 Russell, Thomas, agent for William Bingham, Nathan, 456,457 84 Ruth, 456-457,459 Samuel, 457 Sabin, Joseph, Dictionary of Books Relating to Sarah, 446,458,464 America, 3 S3 Sarah Walter (Mrs. Mathew Roberts, 2nd) Sachem, ship, 59 456,457,458,459 Sadler, Thomas, 330 Robinson, Andrew, 329 St. Clair, Sir John, 336 Robinson, Elwyn Burns, "The Dynamics of St. Domingue, French, trade with, 244, 245, American Journalism from 1787 to 1865," 251 St. Eustatius, 58, 59 435-445 St. Mery, Moreau de, and Library Company Robinson, John, 209 of Philadelphia, 223 Roche, M. de la, 416 Samuel Inglis & Co., 396 Rochefoucault-Liancourt, Duke de la, criti- Samuel Kerr & Co., preemption of deserted cizes Philadelphians for their lack of cul- shop by during British occupation of ture, 311-312 Philadelphia, 167 Roderigue Hortalez & Cie, French firm, 58 San Lorenzo, treaty of, U. S. granted use of Rodman, Gilbert, 468 Mississippi for trade, 244 Rodman, William, Bucks County, Pennsyl- Satterthwaite, Mr. —, 193 vania, 448 Sause, Richard, preemption of deserted shop Rodney, Caesar A., lawyer for State of Dela- by during the British occupation of Phila- ware in suits brought by the Penns, 12772, delphia, 167 194,195 School, establishment in Rhode Island of Rodney, Richard S., "The End of the Penns' first American, 333 Claim to Delaware, 1789-1814," 182-203 Scot, John, 331 Roebuck,^. M. S., 172 Scull, John, first editor of Pittsburgh Gazette, Rogers, Robert, attempts to discover North- west Passage, 224 344 Rollins, Philip Ashton, 483 Seaford,H.M.S.,6o Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, quotation from Seagrove, James, announces closing of his Looking Forward, 24 business, 178 Roosevelt, Theodore, 25 Search After Religion, by Samuel Keimer, Rose, Aquila, Elegy on death of, by Samuel 3S%, 360, 361, 362, 363, 366 I Seine, ship, 59, 60 Keimer, 37 ~372 Semple, Robert, wholesaler, 173 Rosenthal, Albert, gift to Society, 110 Shaler, Captain Nathaniel, letters and docu- Rosenthal, Max, mezzotints of, 110 ments, no Royal George, H. M. S., loss of, 352 Shaler, William, letters, journal, and docu- Rudyard, Thomas, 329 ments, no Rule of the Judges and the Struggle Against Shark, sloop, 57 Social Legislation in the United States, by Sharp, Anthony, 328 Lambert, 19 Sharp, GranviUe, 339 Rumsey, James, letters of, 354 Sharpe [Horatio], Governor of Maryland, 210 Rush, Dr. Benjamin, discussed by John Sheffield, Earl of, Commerce of the American Adams, 30, 47; essays of, as sources for States with Europe . . . , 289, 397, 398 social historian, 107; letters of, 154, 155; Shelburne, Lord, later Marquis of Lans- meeting with Washington and other Gen- downe: friendly to William Bingham, 289- erals, 47; notations on signers of Declara- 290; letters of William Bingham to, 389, tion of Independence by, 152-153 393, 398; sends French 6migres to William Rush, Catherine Murray (Mrs. Richard), 26, Bingham, 310; son of, 309; Stuart portrait 29,138,141,143,154 of Washington presented to, 300 Rush, Richard, appointment as Attorney Shippen, Anne. See Willing, Anne Shippen General of U. S., 40, 41; correspondence Shippen, Edward, Justice of Supreme Court with John Adams, 26-53, 137-164; law of Pennsylvania, 199 studies, 46, 149; pamphlet by, 149; tablet Shippen, Joseph, 287 in memory of burning of Washington pro- Shippen, Nancy. See Livingston, Nancy posed by, 155-157; urges fighting to the Shippen end, 45; various comments on John Quincy Shippen, Dr. and Mrs. [William], 481 Adams, 33,46,137,138,139,140,141,142; INDEX 511 Shippen, Dr. William, Jr., 228 Sower, Christopher, printer to General Howe, Ships, 56-61, 251, 254-256, 258, 261; coming 179 to North America in 1607-1825, 487; num- Spain, loss of .control over American colo- ber necessary to England in War of 1812, nies, 237-239; war with England, 241; 40, 51; outfitted at Martinique during monopoly of trade with Spanish America, Revolution, 74-75,77-79 238,242 Shirley, General William, 211 Spangenberg, August, holograph letter, 112 Shoemaker, Abraham, conveyancer, 179 Spanish America, breaking away from Spain, Shoemaker, Miss Mary W., gift to Society, 237-238; closed to U. S. trade, 238, 242, 3& 261; Spanish monopoly of trade of, 238, Short-Hand Book, published by Samuel 242. See also New Orleans (Spanish) Keimer, 384 "Spanish conspiracy," 243,245 Shortyng, Dr. Matthew, 361 Sparks, Jared, 5, 10; Observations on the Shulze [John Andrew], Governor of Pennsyl- Government of Towns in Massachusetts, 6 vania, 450 Spencer, John C, translator of Democracy in Siegfried, Andre*, America Comes of Age, 20, America, 5, 10 . 22, 23 Squib, Robert, 329 Simon, Sir John, autograph fetters, no Squib, Robert, Jr., 331 Simpson, George, cashier of Bank of U. S., 277 Stamper, John, 286, 288 Sioussat, St. George L., review by, 97-100 Stamper, Joseph, 287 Skene, John, 89 Stamper, Mary. See Bingham, Mary Stamper Skinner, Mr. , reference of John Stansbury, Joseph, crockery store of, 170 Adams to, 30 Stansfield, Mrs. William, gift to Society, 491 Sleigh, Joseph, 328 Staphorst, Nicholas and Jacob van, 269 Smith, Catherine (1802-52), letters and pa- Staples, Philip C, addresses meeting of So- pers, in ciety, 484 Smith, Frederick (1796-1861), letters and Starkey, Mr. , 328 papers, in Statute of Limitations, as applying to Penns' Smith, John, 330 claim to Delaware, 198 Smith, Robert, director of Bank of U. S., 276 Steel, William, 330 Smith, William, Provost of University of Steele, Richard, Christian Hero, 359, 375; Pennsylvania: 354, 482; educational poli- Crisis, 375 cies, 227; sale of land to John Penn, 305 Stephen, Adam, 208 Smith, Dr. William Drewet, 170 Stewardson, Miss Mary M., gift to Society, Smith and Stapler, removal of during British in occupation of Philadelphia, 167 Stewart, Frank H., 337 Smyth, William, letter book, 3s5 Stirredge, Elizabeth, Strength and Weakness, Snyder, Simon, active in attack on the ju- diciary, 122, 129; succeeds McKean as Stoddert, Mrs. Benjamin, description of Mrs. Governor of Pennsylvania, 134 William Bingham in letters of, 316-318 Society of Friends, disapproval of house of Stormont, Lord, British Minister, 66,6g; pro- William Bingham, 296; in Germany, 230; test against American privateering, 67, 68, Irish Society petitioned for aid, 168; kind 71 treatment of Hessians, 230; letters of, 350; Story of Wheatland, by Philip Shriver Klein, offered free land in New Jersey, 89; in reviewed, 220 Pennsylvania politics, 229; position in Stoudt, J. J., review by, 97 Philadelphia, (1722), 369-370; prominent Strength and Weakness, autobiography of members of, 338-339; rise of in Holland, Elizabeth Stirredge, 374 475; in Russia, 230-231; Samuel Keimer Strickland, William, architectural drawings a of, in o ^, 3S?,363, 367, 369, 37o, 372, 373, 376 Society of the Friends of the People, organ- Strike, shoemakers', punished by the courts, ized in 1805, 129 134 Society for Improvement of Roads and Strong [Caleb], Governor of Massachusetts, Navigation, 410 S3 Society news and accessions, 103-112, 227- Stuart, Gilbert, dispute with William Bing- *3S, 349-356, 484-491 ham, 300-301; Lansdowne portrait of Solomon, Barnard, reward for apprehension Washington, 300; painting of Bingham of, 169 family by, 289; reproductions of portraits Sooley, Robert, 330 of William Bingham, 294 and 394 (inserts) South Carolina, settlement of, in Sullivan, Judge John, of Massachusetts, 415 Southerland, Mr. , 193 Sullivan, Mark, 483 Southwark theatre, plays given in, by British Sully, Thomas, completes unfinished Stuart officers, 175 canvas of Bingham family, 289 512 INDEX

Sumner, Colonel (fl. 1817), mentioned Tocqueville, Alexis de, compared with Bryce, by Richard Rush, 158 15-18; De la democratic en Amerique, 2; Sumner, Miss (fl. 1817), mentioned Diary, 5; elected to Academy of Moral and by Richard Rush, 158 Political Sciences, 10; elected to American Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. See under Philosophical Society, 10; influence in Courts America, 10; as interpreter of Constitution, Supreme Court of the United States. See un- 11; qualifications as analyst of American der Courts scene, 4; sources of his information, 6, 7; Swallow, ship, 256 views on States Rights, 11; visit to United Swanwick, Mr. , 252, 396 States, 4-5 Swedish colonists, in New Jersey, 337 Tocqueville, Countess de, 5 Tookey, Robert, printer, 361 Taft, Lorado, 483 Towle, Percival, 328 Tailor, Robert, 330 Trade, attitude of Russia toward British, Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, 223, 311 148; as contributing to territorial expan- Talon, Omer, Frenchman, purchaser of land sion of U. S., 239, 261, 262; development in Pennsylvania, 413-414 of, in Ohio Valley, 241, 242, 244, 252, 486; Tamerlane and Other Poems, 204 Franco-American treaty of, 71, 72; loss of Tarbell, Ida, 483 monopoly of Spain in Spanish America, Taylor, Bayard, Ambassador to Germany, 237~238, 241; on Mississippi, 240-244, 253, 340; compared with the English poets, 340- 259-262; in Northwest, 224; resumption of 341; effect of his age upon, 340; novels of, Anglo-American, after American Revolu- 342; poetry of, 342; as resident of Chester tion, 241; state of in America after Revolu- County, Pa., 340; translations by, 342; tion, 394-402; wholesale prices in Philadel- travels, 341 phia (1784-1861), 214-217 Taylor, Jacob, Complete Ephemeris for . . . American Colonial 77^,378,379 t during Revolution, 54, 64-65; effect of Tench, John, preemption of deserted ware- British occupation of Philadelphia on, house by during British occupation of 166, 168, 170; effect of Seven Years War Philadelphia, 167 upon, 351; with England (1783), 397- Thomas, Abel, 462 398; with Far East, 399; interference of Thomas, Anna (Mrs. Jonathan Roberts, Sr.). France with, 393, 394, 395; with Mar- See Anna Thomas under Roberts family tinique, 54, 57,64,65; with New Orleans, Thomas, Caleb, 462 239,241,243-245, 248-262; protected by Thomas, David, 460, 462, 465, 466 French warships, 54; with South Amer- Thomas, David, Jr., 462, 466-467 ica, 402; with Spanish America, 238-239, Thomas, Joshua, 462 261 Thomas, Josiah, 329 Transportation, history of, in Pennsylvania Thomas, Mary, 462 (1831-58), 235 Thomas, Mary Richardson (Mrs. David), Trant, Morris, 330 465,466 Travel, methods of, in Colonial times, 303, Thomas, Sarah, 466 304; through Pennsylvania (1794), 227 'Thomas Budd's 'True and Perfect Account' Trenchard, J., Independent Whig, 376 of Byllynge's Proprieties in West New Tristram, ship, 254, 255, 256 Jersey, 1685," by John E.Pomfret,325-331 Trollope, Anthony, comments upon Ameri- Thomson, Charles, secretary of Continental can journalism, 440 Congress, 389 Trumbull, Benjamin, 482 Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936, by Tucker, Colonel Henry, 479 Samuel Eliot Morison, reviewed, 220-221 Tucker, James, 479 Three Lower Counties. See Delaware Tucker, St. George, 27, 28, 479 Throop [Enos Thompson], Governor of New Tudor, George, surveyor, i\in York, 5 Tudor, William, 84 Ticknor, George, 221 Turner, Professor [Frederick Jackson], fron- Tileston, John B., autograph letters of, 491 tier environment influencing American Tilghman, Francis, flees Philadelphia during democracy, 24-25 British occupation of, 167 Turner, Robert, 328 Tilghman, William, attorney for the Penns, Twining, Thomas, visit to William Bingham, 194; letters and papers, m 3*3 To All Kings, Princes, Rulers, by George Fox, Tyler, John, re-election campaign, 448, 449- in 451 Tobacco, in agriculture, in manufacture, and in commerce, 98; shipped from New Unions, conspiracy laws as affecting (1809), Orleans to Philadelphia, 250, 251-252 134 INDEX 513 United States, commerce as contributing to Washingtoniana, in Bouquet Papers, 204- territorial expansion of, 239, 261, 262; 213; reproduction of page of ms., 205 growth of, 17/z Watch Box, 230 Universal Instructor, 372, 375, 377, 380, 381, Water-Divers, religious sect, 359 382,383,384 Waters, Captain, ship General Gates, 74, 75 Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleas- Wayne, General Anthony, 420 ure, (1747-89), acquired by Society, 112 Webb, Dr. (fl. 1816), 153 University of Amsterdam, Van Eeghen Col- Webb, Mrs. Willoughby, gift to Society, no lection in Library of, 270 Weber, Max, 21 Webster, Noah, dictionary of, 231-232 Vail, R. W. G., 353 Weems, Mason Locke, 475, 482 Valley Forge, 165 Weiser, Conrad, journal, 112 Van Buren, Martin, 452 Welch, William, 330 Vanderen, John, surveyor, 242W Weld, Isaac, 310 Van Dyke, Nicholas, attorney for State of Welsh, Herbert, gift to Society, 356 Delaware in suits brought by the Penns, West, Benjamin, 299 194 West, Henry, 329 Van Eeghen Collection, Bank of U. S. docu- West Indies, French, American privateers ments in, 270 afforded haven in, 6$-66, 69, 70. See also Vansandt, Abraham, defendant in suit Martinique brought by the Penns, 194 West New Jersey. See New Jersey, West Vaughan,John,252 Western lands. See Northwest Vaughan, Samuel, 300 Westray, Juliana, early American actress, 3 s5 Vergennes, French Minister of Foreign Af- Wettereau, James O., "New Light on the fairs, 66, 67, 69, 71 First Bank of the United States," 263-285 Vernon [James], Secretary, 202 Wharton, Mrs. Henry, gift to Society, 491 Vincent, Nathaniel, 358, 35977 Wharton, Isaac, Director of Bank of U. S., Virginia, Frontiers of, map sketched by 277 Washington, 206; lands in, 242/? Wharton, John, counting house of, 55 Whartons, the, 298 Wait, Daniel, 329 Whigs, 228, 441; Philadelphia, exodus from Waline, Helga O., review by, 220 city due to British occupation, 170; num- Walker, Benjamin, 416 ber remaining during British occupation, Wallace, Hugh, New York merchant, 171 177; state of property of after British Walter [Waters], Sarah. See Sarah Walter evacuation, 179 under Roberts family Whitaker, Arthur P., "Reed and Forde: Wansey, Mr. , English traveller: dines Merchant Adventurers of Philadelphia," with William Bingham, 309, 310; Philadel- 237-262 phia and London compared by, 306, 307 White, David N., editor of Pittsburgh Gazette War of 1812, management of criticized by (i84i),345 John Adams and Richard Rush, 28-31,34- White, Gilbert, 338 36,42, 45,46, 53; side-lights upon, 228-229 White, Bishop William, 355 Warder, Ann, English Quakeress: disap- Whitehead, William, tavern keeper, 180 proval of William Bingham's elaborate Whitney, Joshua, 433 house, 296-297 Whitney, Joshua, Jr., agent for William Warren, Admiral, 35 Bingham, 433 Warville, Brissot de. See Brissot de Warville Wholesale Prices in Philadelphia, 1784-1861, Washington (city), as regarded by Richard by Anne Bezanson, Robert D. Gray, and Rush, 52, 149; removal of government to Miriam Hussey, reviewed, 214-217 (1800), 395; tablet condemning burning of, Wickes, Lambert, commander of frigate proposed by Richard Rush, 155-157 Reprisal, 57 Washington, George, 239; bookplate of, 481; Wiederhold, Captain Andreas, diary, 229-230 causes jealousy, 315, 316; criticism of by Wilkinson, Ann Biddle (Mrs. James), 245 Colonel Bouquet, 212; discovery of un- Wilkinson, General James, 239; discussed by published document of, 204-213; efforts to John Adams and Richard Rush, 28-30, 31, cut supplies of British in Philadelphia, 33; part in "Spanish Conspiracy," 107, 168-169; "Frontiers of Virginia," map 243-245; trading ventures, 246-250; wife sketched by, 206; handwriting discussed, of, 245 206; holographs, 204; letters, 204; plan Willard, Josiah, 242n of campaign against Fort Duquesne, 206- Willard, Samuel, 476 208; purchase of bank stock, 240, 258; Willets, Mrs. I. Pearson, gift to Society, 356 reproduction of page of ms., 205; Stuart William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. See portrait of, 300 Cumberland, William Augustus Duke of 5*4 INDEX William Penn, by Emelia Fogelkou, re- Wilmington, Delaware, dismantling of mills viewed, 219-220 in vicinity of, during Revolution, 168 Williams, Mr. , preacher, 359 Wilson, Benjamin, document of, in; estate Williams, Roger, 332 Williams, Thomas, 330 , Wilson, James, 388,432 Willing, Abby, 424; mentioned in will of Wilson, Lieutenant John, report on Bahama William Bingham, 323; romance with Duke Islands (1783), 490-491 d'Orleans broken off, 311 Wilson, Mayor S. Davis, of Philadelphia, ad- Willing, Ann. See Bingham, Ann Willing dresses meeting of Society, 484; gift to So- Willing, Anne Shippen (Mrs. Charles), 287 ciety by, 491 Willing, Charles, 287 Wilson, Samuel, Account of Province of Caro- Willing, Dorothy. See Francis, Dorothy lina . . . , 111 Willing Wilson, Thomas, 329 Willing, Elizabeth. See Jackson, Elizabeth Wilson, Woodrow, ancestry, 228 Willing Wilson family, 491 Willing, Mary. See Clymer, Mary Willing Wiltshire, Indian Reservation in, 352 Willing, Richard, 401-402 Winthrop, Governor John, 343, 476, 482 Willing, Thomas, 252, 396; ancestry, 287; Wisconsin, British regime in, 224-225 financing of privateers, 66; letter to Wil- Wolcott, Oliver, Comptroller of the Treasury, liam Bingham, 294; marriage to Ann Mc- 277; papers of, 265, 266 Call, 287; notebook entry on death of Wolfe, General James, letters of, 352 daughter, 321; opposition to Declaration Women, of France and America, compared of Independence, 287; partner of Robert by Thomas Jefferson and Mrs. William Morris, 171, 287; in Philadelphia during Bingham, 295-296 British occupation, 171, 172; President of Wood, William B., 110 first Bank of U. S., 276; refusal to swear Woodbridge, Benjamin, first Harvard gradu- allegiance to King George, 172. See also ate (1642), 343 Willing, Morris & Co. Woods, Joseph, of Billingsgate, 223 Willing, Thomas Mayne, extract of letter Wroth, Lawrence C. See Lehmann-Haupt, from William Bingham to, 403; purchase of Hellmut Pennsylvania lands, 413, 414; trustee un- Wycombe, Lord, 309 der will of William Bingham, 323, 434 Wynne, Thomas, 454-455, 456 Willing, Morris & Co., Philadelphia firm: Wy the, George, 153 64, 66; factor in financing Revolution, 287; Yazoo companies, 127 name changed to Samuel Inglis & Co., 396; Yellow fever, in Philadelphia, 314, 318, 337, in operation during British occupation of 338 Philadelphia, 171, 172, 178 York, James, Duke of, 88, 326; grant of land Willings and Francis, 322, 401, 402 to, by Charles II, 182, 192, 193, 194, 198- Willink, Wilhelm and Jan, 396, 405, 406; dis- 199; transfer of land to William Penn by, pute with William Bingham, 407-409; 182, 192 handling of loan for Bank of U. S., 269W Young, John Russell, editor of the Philadel- Willis, John, 329 phia Press, 444 Wills, Daniel, 330 Wilmer, Lambert A., newspapers as party Zeisberger, David, letter, 112 organs discussed by, 439-440, 442 Ziegler, Charles Calvin, dialect poetry of, 97