Benjamin Franklin

P

Paine, Thomas, 119, 135-36, 138, 147, 162, 164, 178

Palmer (London printer), 25

Paper currency, 32

Paris, Ferdinand John, 77

Paris, France, 144, 161, 165

Paris, Treaty of (1763), 86

Paris, Treaty of (1783), 163

Passy, France, 151, 152, 155, 162, 163, 165, 167-69, 172, 175-76

Paxton Boys, 86-87, 88-89

Peabody, Mrs., 14

Penal code revision, 178

Penn, John, 76, 87, 88, 89, 90

Penn, Richard, 76

Penn, Thomas, 61, 62, 68, 70, 76-77, 89

Penn, William, 20, 21, 61, 62, 76, 87, 110

Pennsylvania Academy, 46, 79, 139

Pennsylvania Assembly, 32, 41, 47, 56, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 76, 79, 80, 85, 87, 89, 99, 125, 177, 178

Pennsylvania Gazette, 33, 35-36, 41, 42, 60, 64

Pennsylvania Hospital, 57

Pennsylvania Magazine, 135

Pennsylvania Packet, ship, 121

Perth Amboy, New Jersey, 19

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 18, 19, 20-21, 26, 27, 32, 46-47, 87, 110, 123, 125, 177, 179, 186

Philadelphia City Council, 56

Philadelphia Gazette, 56

Pilgrim’s Progress, 10

Pinel, Philippe, 168

Pitt, William (Lord Chatham), 80, 101-02, 104, 120

“Plain Truth,” 47

Plutarch’s Lives, 10

Police force, Philadelphia, 46

Poor Richard’ s Almanack, 36-37, 42, 56, 60, 73-74

Portsmouth, England, 109

Pratt, Charles, 77, 80

Priestley, Joseph, 100, 117, 118, 121, 131, 171, 173

Pringle, Sir John, 78, 100-01, 103-04, 150, 151

Privateers, 159-61

“Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge Among British Plantations in North America,” 44-45

“Proposal Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania,” 45-46

Public Advertiser, London, 113, 116

Puysegur, Marquis de, 174

Pyrmont, Germany, 101

Q

Quebec, Canada, 136

Queensberry, Duke of, 117

Quincy, Josiah, 136, 163-64

R

Ralph, James, 21, 24, 25

Rancocas, New Jersey, 178

Ranger, privateer, 160

Raspe, Rudolf Erich, 101

Ray, Catherine, see Greene, Catherine Ray

Read, Deborah, see Franklin, Deborah Read

“Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America,” 170

Reprisal, sloop, 142, 143

Revere, Paul, 123

Revolutionary War, 123-31, 132-42, 147, 148, 149-50, 151-52, 157, 158-63

Rochambeau, General, 162

Rockingham, Marquis of, 94, 96, 101, 150

Rozier, Pilâtre de, 165

“Rules by Which a Great Empire may be Reduced to a Small One,” 113-14, 115

Rush, Dr. Benjamin, 57

Rutledge, Edward, 140

Ryan, Luke, 159

S

St. Andrews University, 79

St. Eustatius, West Indies, 129, 161

St. George, Bermuda, 127

Sandwich, Earl of, 117

Saratoga, Battle of, 152

Savannah Pacquet, ship, 127, 128

Scotland, 79

Scotosh, Chief, 178

Second Continental Congress, 124-30, 132-41, 151, 157-58, 161, 163, 166, 174, 175, 178, 179, 183, 185

Serapis, H.M.S., 161

Shelburne, Earl of, 103, 104, 108, 175

Sherman, Roger, 138

Shipley, Jonathan, 107-08

Shipley, Kitty, 111

Shirley, Governor, 67

Six Nations, 62, 64, 87

Slaves and slavery, 9, 16, 36, 75, 138, 185

Sloane, Sir Hans, 25

Smallpox epidemics, 13, 41, 86

Smith, Adam, 79

Smith, William, 79, 84, 187

Socrates, 14-15, 20

Sons of Liberty, 94

Soulavie, Abbé, 172

Southampton, England, 176

Spain, 47, 126, 152

Spencer, Dr. Adam, 49

Stamp Act, 92-99, 102

Steele, Richard, 14

Steuben, Baron von, 150

Stevenson, Margaret, 75, 77, 91, 99, 107, 174

Stevenson, Polly, see Hewson, Polly Stevenson

Storage battery, 52-53

Stormont, Lord, 147, 148, 158

Strahan, William, 74, 132-33

Sullivan, General John, 140

Swaine, Captain Charles, 57

Swift, Jonathan, 26

Synge, Philip, 52

T

Temple, John, 115-16, 117

Townshend, Charles, 102, 104

Townshend Acts, 102, 104

Trenton, Battle of, 148

Tryon, Mr., 14, 18

Tucker, Colonel Henry, 127

Turgot, Baron, 157, 168

U

Union Fire Company of Philadelphia, 47

Universal Instructor in All Arts and Science, and Pennsylvania Gazette, 33

V

Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 150

Vergennes, Count Charles Gravier de, 134, 135, 145, 146, 151, 152, 153, 154

Versailles, France, 104, 145, 154

Virginia Resolves, 94

Voltaire, 157, 168

W

Walking Purchase, the, 61-62

Warwick, Rhode Island, 130

Washington, General George, 64, 65, 66, 71, 124, 126, 130, 135, 137, 139, 148, 150, 162, 178, 179, 183, 185

Watt (London printer), 25

“Way to Wealth, The,” 74, 110, 147

Wedderburn, Alexander, 117-18

Wentworth, Paul, 152-53

Whately, William, 115, 116, 117

Whig Club, 80

“Whistle, The,” 171

Whitehead, Paul, 114-15

William and Mary College, 45, 60

Williamsburg, Virginia, 45, 94

Wilson, Benjamin, 150, 162

Wilson, James, 180

Wygate (Benjamin’s London friend), 25-26

Wyndham, Sir William, 26

X

Xenophon’s Memorabilia, 14

Y

Yale College, 45, 60

Yorke, Charles, 77, 80

Yorktown, Battle of, 162

Z

Zenger, Peter, 17

THE Lives to Remember SERIES

Lives To Remember is a series of concise biographies introducing the world’s great men and women.

Recent titles in the LIVES TO REMEMBER series include:

THE AUTHOR

Robin McKown was born in Denver and attended the University of Colorado, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois. She sold her first one-act play to a literary magazine while she was still in college, and later won a drama prize at the University of Colorado. She has worked in public relations, with a literary agency, and prepared radio scripts. Mrs. McKown is the author of Thomas Paine and Marie Curie, both in the Lives to Remember series, as well as Publicity Girl and Foreign Service Girl. She makes her home in New York City.

Other Books by Robin McKown

THOMAS PAINE

MARIE CURIE

FOREIGN SERVICE GIRL

PUBLICITY GIRL

ROOSEVELT’S AMERICA

WASHINGTON’S AMERICA

THE FABULOUS ISOTOPES

GIANT OF THE ATOM: Ernest Rutherford

SHE LIVED FOR SCIENCE: Irène Joliot-Curie

JANINE

THE ORDEAL OF ANNE DEVLIN

AUTHOR’S AGENT

PAINTER OF THE WILD WEST: Frederick Remington

PIONEERS IN MENTAL HEALTH

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Few men have more claims to greatness than Benjamin Franklin. He was in his long lifetime, writer, editor and publisher, scientist and inventor, propagandist for the cause of the American colonies, statesman, diplomat. He was a wit and a humorist, a loyal friend and a good family man. From his birth in Boston as the son of a poor candlemaker to his election by Congress as America’s first ambassador to France and his subsequent return to the United States, the author traces the fascinating development of an impetuous and saucy youth who became a beloved man both on his native soil and throughout the world.

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