Book of Ages (75 page)

religious faith of,
13.1
,
13.2
,
18.1
,
19.1
,
25.1

Sparks’s editing of,
41.1
,
app5.1

walking of,
32.1
,
35.1

wartime flights of,
26.1
,
27.1
,
29.1
,
29.2
,
30.1
,
nts.1
n

will and estate of,
39.1
,
39.2
,
app1.1
,
app1.2
,
app6.1
,
nts.1
n
,
nts.2
n
,
nts.3
n

writing of,
7.1
,
10.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
14.1
,
16.1
,
16.2
,
16.3
,
17.1
,
17.2
,
32.1
,
34.1
,
34.2
,
39.1
,
nts.1
n
,
nts.2
n
,
nts.3
n
,
nts.4
n

Mecom, Jenny (Neddy’s daughter),
19.1
,
19.2
,
19.3

Mecom, John,
14.1
,
14.2
,
15.1
,
24.1
,
27.1
,
nts.1
n
,
nts.2
n
,
nts.3
n

apprenticeships of,
15.1
,
20.1
,
nts.1
n

birth of,
12.1
,
nts.1
n

death of,
24.1
,
nts.1
n

Mecom, John Ross,
n

Mecom, Josiah (JFM’s son;
first use of name
),
10.1
,
14.1
,
14.2
,
nts.1
n

death of,
10.1
,
11.1
,
11.2

Mecom, Josiah (JFM’s son;
second use of name
),
15.1
,
24.1
,
27.1

birth of,
13.1
,
nts.1
n

death of,
27.1
,
29.1
,
nts.1
n

Mecom, Mary (JFM’s granddaughter),
see
Carr, Mary Mecom

Mecom, Mary (JFM’s sister-in-law)

Mecom, Mary Hoar (JFM’s mother-in-law)

Mecom, Mary “Polly” (JFM’s daughter),
15.1
,
19.1
,
19.2
,
22.1
,
22.2
,
22.3

birth of,
14.1
,
nts.1
n

death of,
23.1
,
41.1

Mecom, Peter Franklin,
14.1
,
14.2
,
15.1
,
19.1
,
nts.1
n
,
nts.2
n

birth of,
12.1
,
nts.1
n

death of,
29.1
,
32.1
,
nts.1
n

insanity of,
19.1
,
19.2
,
20.1
,
22.1
,
27.1
,
29.1
,
32.1

in soap business,
15.1
,
16.1
,
nts.1
n

Mecom, Rebecca

Mecom, Sarah (Benny’s daughter),
see
Smith, Sarah Mecom

Mecom, Sarah “Sally” (JFM’s daughter),
see
Flagg, Sarah Mecom “Sally”

Mecom, Susannah Hiller,
nts.1
n
,
nts.2
n

Melville, Herman

Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin, Écrits par Lui-même, et Adressés a Son Fils

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin

mental problems,
19.1
,
32.1
,
app6.1
,
nts.1
n
,
nts.2
n

of Benny Mecom,
15.1
,
15.2
,
19.1
,
21.1
,
24.1
,
27.1
,
28.1
,
29.1
,
29.2
,
app1.1

of Peter Mecom,
19.1
,
19.2
,
20.1
,
22.1
,
27.1
,
29.1
,
32.1

merchants,
12.1
,
14.1
,
14.2
,
23.1
,
24.1

Metacom

millinery,
22.1
,
23.1
,
23.2
,
25.1
,
25.2
,
26.1
,
29.1

Milton, John

minutemen,
25.1
,
26.1
,
nts.1
n

mistresses,
11.1
,
14.1
,
nts.1
n

mob,
21.1
,
21.2
,
35.1

Moby-Dick
(Melville)

Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper-Currency, A
(B. Franklin)

money

printing of,
12.1
,
27.1

women’s earning of,
12.1
,
21.1

Montesquieu,
32.1
,
app6.1

Moore, Milcah Martha,
n

Morrill, Mary,
see
Folger, Mary Morrill

Motley, Ann Lathrop,
42.1
,
app1.1

Motley, Elizabeth Cabot,
see
Harcourt, Lady

Motley, John Lothrop

Mount Vernon,
41.1
,
41.2
,
nts.1
n

mourning rings,
10.1
,
25.1
,
43.1
,
app1.1
,
app1.2
,
nts.1
n
,
nts.2
n

“Mrs. Turell’s Remains” (Jane Colman Turell)

Murray, Judith Sargent,
36.1
,
nts.1
n

music,
19.1
,
24.1

see also
singing, songs

names, note about

Nantucket,
3.1
,
7.1
,
19.1
,
23.1
,
26.1
,
36.1
,
nts.1
n
,
nts.2
n
,
nts.3
n
,
nts.4
n

Nashauanittue Meninnunk wutch Mukkiesog

natural law, natural rights,
28.1
,
32.1

nature,
13.1
,
13.2
,
19.1
,
28.1

BF as philosopher of,
14.1
,
19.1

needlework, writing in,
6.1
,
43.1
,
nts.1
n

New American Magazine

New Brunswick, N.J.,
20.1
,
24.1
,
24.2
,
nts.1
n

New England,
3.1
,
6.1
,
13.1
,
25.1
,
30.1
,
nts.1
n

BF’s tour of

tuberculosis in,
19.1
,
19.2

wealth inequality in

New-England Courant
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
16.1
,
app6.1
,
nts.1
n
,
nts.2
n

New England Historic Genealogical Society,
40.1
,
40.2
,
app1.1

New-England Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure
,
20.1
,
20.2
,
app6.1
,
nts.1
n
,
nts.2
n

New-England Primer
,
14.1
,
nts.1
n

New England Psalter

New-Hampshire Gazette
,
21.1
,
app6.1

New Haven, Conn.,
20.1
,
20.2
,
21.1
,
nts.1
n
,
nts.2
n

New Jersey,
12.1
,
26.1
,
nts.1
n

William Franklin as governor of

New Jersey General Assembly,
21.1
,
26.1
,
27.1
,
28.1

New Jersey Provincial Congress

Newport, R.I.,
10.1
,
14.1
,
27.1
,
39.1
,
nts.1
n
,
nts.2
n
,
nts.3
n

newspapers,
8.1
,
8.2
,
17.1
,
25.1
,
25.2
,
nts.1
n

in Antigua,
15.1
,
15.2

in Philadelphia

Stamp Act and,
21.1
,
21.2
,
22.1

Newton, Sir Isaac,
9.1
,
13.1
,
19.1
,
23.1
,
32.1
,
app6.1

New York,
25.1
,
29.1
,
35.1

New York, N.Y.,
8.1
,
9.1
,
12.1
,
31.1
,
39.1
,
41.1
,
nts.1
n
,
nts.2
n

BF in,
15.1
,
15.2
,
nts.1
n

printing in,
15.1
,
20.1
,
22.1

Trinity Churchyard in,
n

Wright in,
25.1
,
nts.1
n

New York Evening Post

New York Pacquet
,
20.1
,
nts.1
n

North American Review
,
41.1
,
app1.1
,
app5.1
,
nts.1
n

North American Women’s Letters and Diaries

Northanger Abbey
(Austen)

Nova Scotia

novels,
38.1
,
39.1
,
app1.1
,
app1.2
,
nts.1
n

historical,
app1.1
,
nts.1
n

learning to write from

obscurity,
24.1
,
42.1

of Edward Mecom Sr.,
n

history and,
38.1
,
38.2

of JFM,
prf.1
,
41.1
,
app1.1

“Observations concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries” (B. Franklin)

“Observations on my Reading History in Library” (B. Franklin)

Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution
(Price)

Observations on “Thoughts on Executive Justice”
(Romilly)

“Occasional Letter on the Female Sex, An” (Paine)

“Of History and Romance” (Godwin)

“Of the Diseases & casualtys incident to Mankind” (Perkins)

“Of the Stilling of Waves by means of Oil. Extracted from Sundry Letters between Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D.F.R.S. William Brownrigg, M.D.F.R.S. and the Reverend Mr. Farish” (Lelyveld)

“On Smuggling” (B. Franklin)

“On the Equality of the Sexes” (Murray),
36.1
,
nts.1
n

Opticks
(Newton)

Orlando
(Woolf),
42.1
,
nts.1
n

Otis, James, Jr.,
20.1
,
22.1

Overseers of the Poor,
21.1
,
22.1

Page, Jane Franklin

Page, Robert

Paine, Thomas,
28.1
,
app6.1

paint,
22.1
,
22.2

Pamela
(Richardson),
16.1
,
16.2
,
38.1
,
app1.1
,
nts.1
n

paper, paper mills,
12.1
,
22.1
,
22.2
,
nts.1
n

paper credit,
12.1
,
12.2

paper money,
12.1
,
12.2
,
27.1
,
nts.1
n

Papers of Benjamin Franklin
,
app1.1
,
app1.2

Paris,
37.1
,
41.1

BF in,
17.1
,
30.1
,
31.1
,
32.1

Paris, Treaty of,
31.1
,
app1.1
,
nts.1
n

parish registers,
1.1
,
10.1
,
nts.1
n

of Brattle Street Church,
10.1
,
21.1
,
nts.1
n

in Ecton,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
nts.1
n

Parker, James,
15.1
,
15.2
,
20.1
,
20.2
,
21.1
,
21.2
,
22.1
,
nts.1
n
,
nts.2
n

Benny Mecom’s debt to,
24.1
,
nts.1
n
,
nts.2
n
,
nts.3
n

Parliament, British,
17.1
,
22.1
,
25.1
,
25.2
,
25.3
,
25.4
,
26.1

Intolerable Acts and

taxes and,
21.1
,
21.2
,
22.1
,
22.2
,
22.3
,
22.4
,
23.1
,
25.1
,
nts.1
n

Partridge, Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbart,
16.1
,
nts.1
n

“Paul Revere’s Ride” (Longfellow),
41.1
,
42.1
,
nts.1
n