Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (86 page)

Read Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Online

Authors: Walter Isaacson

Tags: #Azizex666, #General, #United States, #Historical, #Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), #Biography & Autobiography, #History

BOOK: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

9.03Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

Read Book Download Book

colonial defense as issue in
constitution of
Continental Congress and
independence question and
Indians’ relations with
Paxton Boys uprising in
royal charter of
unicameral legislature of

Pennsylvania, University of

Pennsylvania Assembly

BF as clerk of
BF elected speaker of
BF elected to
BF’s militia proposal and
Braddock’s Ohio campaign and
“Charter of Privileges” of
colonial status as issue in
defense issues and
election of 1733 and
election of 1764 and
hospital scheme and
Quakers in
taxation of Proprietors and

Pennsylvania Chronicle

Pennsylvania Executive Council

Pennsylvania Fireplaces

Pennsylvania Gazette

“Apology for Printers” in
first political cartoon in
gossip in
humor in
lightning experiments in
Poor Richard’s Almanack
advertisements in
postal service dispute and
readers’ essays and letters in
sexual references in
Whitefield in

Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery

Peter (BF’s slave)

Peters, Richard

“Petition of the Letter Z, Commonly Called Ezzard, Zed, or Izard” (Franklin)

Philadelphia, Pa.

BF’s 1723 arrival in
BF’s 1785 arrival in
in BF’s will
British capture of
Freemasons in
Great Awakening in
lightning rods erected in
population of
slavery in

Philadelphia Academies

Philadelphia Academy,
see
Pennsylvania, University of

Philadelphia Inquirer

philosophes

Philosophical Transactions
(Royal Society of London)

phonetic alphabet

physiocrats

Pierce, William

Pilgrim’s Progress
(Bunyan)

Pinckney, Charles

Pitt, William (the Elder)

“Plain Truth” (Franklin)

“Plan for Future Conduct” (Franklin)

Pliny the Elder

Plutarch

Poe, Edgar Allan

police patrols

Polignac, Diane de

“Polly Baker” (Franklin)

polytheism

Pontiac (Ottawa chief)

Poor Richard’s Almanack

BF’s motive for
final edition of
format and style of
lightning rod ad in
maxims and sayings in
sly wit of
success of

Poor Robin’s Almanack

Pope, Alexander

population growth

postal system

BF as postmaster of
BF-Bradford access dispute and
BF’s inspection tours of
BF’s reforms of
dead letter office of
home delivery system of

Powel, Mrs.

Pownall, John

pragmatism

Presbyterians

Paxton Boys uprising and

Priestley, Joseph,

Princeton University

Pringle, John

Privy Council, British

BF’s Cockpit ordeal in

progressive taxation

“Proposal for Promoting Useful

Knowledge Among the British
Plantations in America, A” (Franklin)

“Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania” (Franklin)

Proprietors

BF’s colonial status dispute with
Indians and
taxation as issue and

Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The
(Weber)

Prussia

Pulaski, Casimir

Puritan Mind, The
(Schneider)

Puritans, Puritanism

BF’s rejection of
in Boston
in migration to America
Protestant ethic of
special providence dogma of

Pynchon, Thomas

Quakers

Paxton Boys uprising and
in Pennsylvania Assembly

Quincy, Josiah, Jr.

race

Radicalism of the American Revolution, The
(Wood)

Ralph, James,

Randall, Willard Sterne

Randolph, Edmund

Ranger

Rawls, John

Ray, Catherine,
see
Greene, Catherine Ray

Raynal, Abbé

Read, Deborah,
see
Franklin, Deborah Read

Read, John

Reagan, Ronald

Rees, Daniel

Reforming Societies for the Suppression of Disorders

refrigeration

religion

BF on
divine providence in
Great Awakening and
Junto talk on
Supreme Being in
see also
deism; Puritans, Puritanism

Religion of Nature Delineated, The
(Wollaston)

Reprisal

Revere, Paul

Revolutionary War,
see
American Revolution

Richardson, Samuel

Richelieu, Cardinal

Ridley, Matthew

Roberts, George

Rockingham, Lord

Rogers, John

Rogers, Will

Roman Catholic Church

Romantic era, romanticism

Ross, Margaret

Rossiter, Clinton

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Royal Academy, French

Royal Academy of Brussels

Royal Society of London

BF elected to
BF honored by

“Rules and Maxims for Promoting Matrimonial Happiness” (Franklin)

“Rules by Which a Great Empire May be Reduced to a Small One” (Franklin)

“Rules of a Society which Met Once a Week for the Improvement of Useful Knowledge” (Locke)

Rush, Benjamin

Rutledge, Edward

“Sage et la Goutte, Le” (Brillon)

St. Andrews, University of

Sandwich, Lord

Saratoga, Battle of

Sartine, Antoine de

Saxony

Scaroyady (Iroquois chief)

Schneider, Herbert

“Scolding Wife, A” (Franklin)

Scotland

Seahorse,
HMS

Second Treatise on Government
(Locke)

Secret Service, British

self-help movement

Senate, U.S.

Seneca Indians

Serapis,
HMS

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, The
(Covey)

1776 (Edwards and Stone)

Seven Years’ War

Sewall, Samuel

Shaftesbury, Lord

Shays, Daniel

Shelburne, Lord

Sherman, Roger

Shipley, Jonathan

Shipley, Kitty

BF’s “pleasant dreams” letter to

Shipley, Mrs. Jonathan

Shirley, William

“Short Hints towards a Scheme for Uniting the Northern Colonies” (Franklin)

“Silentiarius: The Silent Sufferer” (C. Mather)

silk industry

single-fluid theory

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (Edwards)

Six Nations

Skemp, Sheila

“Sketch of Propositions for Peace” (Franklin)

slavery

and BF as slave owner
BF’s “Conversation” on
in Constitutional Convention
in Declaration of Independence
representation question and

Sloane, Hans

smallpox

Smith, Adam

Smith, William

Smyth, Albert

Société Apollonienne

Society for Political Inquiries

Society of the Cincinnati

Socrates

Socratic method

Solon

“Somerset Case and the Slave Trade The” (Franklin)

Sons of Liberty

South Carolina

Spain

Franco-American treaty rejected by

Sparks, Jared

Spectator

Spencer, Archibald

Spotswood, Alexander

Stamp Act,

repeal of

states’ rights

Steele, Richard

Steuben, Friedrich von, Baron

Stevenson, Margaret

Stevenson, Mary “Polly,”
see
Hewson, Mary Stevenson “Polly”

Stiles, Ezra

storage battery

Stormont, Lord

Stourzh, Gerald

stove design

Strachey, Henry

Strahan, Billy

Strahan, William

BF’s correspondence with
BF’s “you are my enemy” letter to
Deborah Franklin’s correspondence with

Stuart, Gilbert

Swift, Jonathan

swimming pads

synthetic truths

Tanford, Charles

Tatler

taxes, taxation:

in Constitutional Convention
exterior-interior distinction of
progressive
property
of Proprietors
representation and
Shays’ rebellion and
Townshend duties and

Taylor, Alan

Temple, William,
see
Franklin, William Temple

Tennessee

Themistocles

Thevenot, Melchisedec

Thompson, J. J.

Thomson, Charles

Thoreau, Henry David

Tiyanoga (Hendrick Peters)

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Tonnerre, Marquis de

Tour de Sol