signing of treaty in
Spain and
status of Canada in
Temple Franklin and
Thomas Grenville-BF talks in
Vaughan’s secret mission and
western boundary in
Yorktown Battle and
Angoff, Charles
“Anti-Courant, The” (Walter)
“Apology for Printers” (Franklin)
Aquinas, Saint Thomas
Arabella
Aristotle
armonica
Arnold, Benedict
“Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion” (Franklin)
Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union
“Art of Procuring Pleasant Dreams, The” (Franklin)
Art of Swimming, The (Thevenot)
Asgill, Charles
Associated Families
Associates of Dr. Bray
Augustine, Saint
Austria
Austrian Succession, War of
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (Franklin)
Updike on
writing of
Babbitt (Lewis)
Bache, Benjamin Franklin
death of
described
education of
personality of
in return to Passy
in training as printer
Voltaire’s blessing of
Bache, Deborah
Bache, Elizabeth
Bache, Louis
Bache, Mary
Bache, Richard (father)
Bache, Richard (son)
Bache, Sarah (BF’s granddaughter)
Bache, Sarah Franklin “Sally” (BF’s daughter)
BF’s correspondence with
BF’s “luxury” letter to
in BF’s will
birth of
marriage of
Bache, William
bagatelles
Bailyn, Bernard
balloon fad
Bancroft, Edward
Banks, Joseph
Barber of Seville, The (Beaumarchais)
Barclay, David
Bartram, John
Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de
Becker, Carl
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Benezet, Anthony
Ben Franklin in Paris (Sandrich and Michaels)
Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves (Tanford)
Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies (Middlekauff)
Benjamin Franklin and His Gods (Walters)
Benjamin Franklin and Nature’s God (Aldridge)
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
Bentham, Jeremy
Berkeley, George
bifocal glasses
Board of Associated Loyalists
Board of Trade, London
Bob (Bache family slave)
Bonhomme Richard,
Bonifacius: Essays to Do Good (C. Mather)
Bonvouloir, Julien de
Boston, Mass..
in BF’s will
British blockade of
in eighteenth century
libraries of
Puritan hierarchy of
smallpox epidemic in
Boston Evening Post
Boston Gazette
Boston Latin School
Boston Massacre
Boston News Ledger
Boston News-Letter
Boston Tea Party
Boswell, James
Bourbon, Duchess of
Boyle, Robert
Braddock, Edward
Bradford, Andrew
BF’s rivalry with
Bradford, William (father)
Bradford, William (son)
Bradstreet, Simon
Brands, H. W.
Breintnall, Joseph
Bridgewater, Duke of
Brillon de Jouy, Anne-Louise
Brillon de Jouy, Cunégonde
Brillon de Jouy, Monsieur
Broglio, Count
Brooker, William
Brooks, David
Brooks, Van Wyck
Brownell, George
Buffon, Comte de
Bunker Hill, Battle of
Bunyan, John
Burgoyne, John
Burke, Edmund
Burnet, Gilbert
“Business Man, The” (Poe)
Busy-Body Essays,
Bute, Lord
Cabanis, Pierre-Jean-Georges
Cabinet, U.S.
Caillot, Blanchette
Calvin, John
Calvinism
Cambridge mission
Cambridge University
Campan, Henriette de
Campbell, James
Campbell, John
Canada
in Anglo-American peace negotiations
Britain’s retention of
Quebec expedition and
Carlyle, Thomas
Carlyle conference
Carnegie, Andrew
Carnegie, Dale
Caslon, William
“Casuist, The” (BF pen name)
“Causes of the American Discontents” (Franklin)
Cellini, Benvenuto
Cervantes, Miguel de
Channel Islands
Charles, Jacques
Charles, Prince of Lorrains
Charles I, King of England
Charles II, King of England
Charleston, S.C.
Chatham, Lord, see Pitt, William
Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Leray de,
Chaumont, Madame de
Checkley, John
chess
Chesterfield, Earl of
Child, Anne, see Franklin, Anne Child
Cholmondeley, Lord
“Christian at His Calling, A” (C. Mather)
Cincinnati, Society of
Civil War, U.S.
Clinton, George
Clinton, Henry
Cohen, I. Bernard
Colden, Cadwallader
Coleman, William
colleges
Collins, John
Collinson, Peter
BF’s correspondence with
Collyer, Hannah
Commager, Henry Steele
Committee on Correspondence Massachusetts
common cold
Common Sense (Paine)
community associations
Concord, Battle of
Condorcet, Marie-Jean Caritat, Marquis de
Confessions (Rousseau)
Confessions (St. Augustine)
Congregation Mikveh Israel
Congress, U.S.
see alse House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
Connecticut
Connecticut Compromise
Constitution, U.S.
Constitutional Convention of
BF’s closing address to
BF’s role in
BF’s speeches in
bicameral legislature as issue in
colonial discord and
Connecticut Compromise in
delegates to
election of judges as issue in
executive powers debated in
impeachment powers in
payment of legislators debated in
prayer as issue in
property requirements debated in
representation debated in
signing of Constitution in
slavery as issue in
states’ rights in
two-headed snake fable and
Virginia plan in
Washington in
“Conte” (Franklin)
Continental Congress (1774)
Continental Congress (1775)
and Articles of Confederation
BF’s assignments for
BF selected as delegate to
BF’s Paris mission and
Cambridge mission and
Committee of Secret Correspondence of
Declaration of Independence edited in
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financial problems of
Franco-American treaty ratified by
Great Seal adopted by
peace negotiations and
Quebec expedition and
representation question in
roots of federal system in
royal congresses removed by
Staten Island summit and
vote for independence in
“Conversation on Slavery” (Franklin)
“Cool Thoughts on the Present Situation” (Franklin)
Cooper, Grey
Cooper, Samuel
Copley Medal
copperplate press
Cornwallis, Charles, Lord
Covey, Stephen
Cramer, Catherine
Cramer, Philibert
Craven, Wayne
Craven Street Gazette
Crockett, Davy
Cromwell, Oliver
Cushing, Thomas
Cutler, Manasseh
D’Alibard, Thomas-François
Dallett, Francis James
Dartmouth, William Legge, Lord
BF’s secret correspondence with
Davenport, Josiah
Davis, William Morris
Davy, Humphry
Dawes, William
Dayton, Jonathan
Deane, Silas
“Death of Infants, The” (Franklin)
Declaration of Independence
Adams and
BF’s editing of
BF’s influence on
congressional editing of
official signing of
“self-evident truths” phrase in
slave trade in
writing of
Declaration of Rights
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms
Declaratory Act
Deffand, Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du
Defoe, Daniel
deism
BF’s interpretation of
“general providence” concept in
DeLancey, James
de la Roche, Martin Lefebvre
Delaware
Delaware Indians
De l’Esprit (C.-A. Helvétius)
democracy
Denham, Thomas
Denny, William
Descartes, René
D’Evelyn, Mary
“Dialogue Between the Gout and Mr. Franklin, The” (Franklin)
Dick, Alexander
Dickinson, John,
Dictionary of American Biography
Diderot, Denis
Didot, François
“Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity Pleasure and Pain, A” (Franklin)
Dissertations on the English Language (Webster)
divine providence
“Dogood, Silence” (pen name)
“Don’t Tread on Me” flag
Douglass, William
Downes, Elizabeth, see Franklin, Elizabeth Downes
“Dr. Franklin’s In-Laws” (Dallett)
“Drinker’s Dictionary” (Franklin)
Duane, William
Dudley, Thomas
Dull, Jonathan
“Dulman, Jack” (pseudonym)
Duplessis, Joseph-Siffrèd
Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre-Samuel
Duras
East India Company
Eden, William
“Edict by the King of Prussia, An” (Franklin)
Edinburgh Review
Edwards, Jonathan
electricity
BF’s importance to field of
BF’s kite experiments in
and coinage of new terms
criticism of BF and
French experiments in
lightning and
single-fluid theory of
Spencer’s experiments in
storage of
Eliot, Jared
Elizabeth I, Queen of England
“Elysian Fields, The” (Franklin)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
BF assessed by
enclosure practice
Encyclopédie
Enlightenment
Age of Reason in
BF as exemplar of
BF’s creed of
free press and
Enlightenment in America, The (May)
Ephemera, The (Franklin)
Essays Concerning Human Understanding (Hume)
Essay Upon Projects, An (Defoe)
Estaing, Jean-Baptiste, Comte d’
exercise
Farmers General
federalism, concept of
Feke, Robert
Fielding, Henry
fire corps
First American, The (Brands)
Fisher, Mary Franklin
Flaubert, Gustave
“Flies, The” (Franklin)
Folger, Abiah, see Franklin, Abiah Folger
Folger, John
Folger, Mary Morrill
Folger, Peter
Folger, Timothy
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de
Fothergill, John
Fox, Charles
Foxcroft, John
France
adoration of BF in
BF’s mission to, see Paris mission of 1776–1785
BF’s vacation in
electricity experiments in
freemasonry in
peace negotiations and, see Anglo-American peace negotiations of
Franklin, Abiah Folger (BF’s mother)
Franklin, Anne (BF’s half-sister)
Franklin, Anne (BF’s sister-in-law)
Franklin, Anne Child
Franklin, Benjamin:
abolitionist views of
air baths of
America as viewed by
appearance as a concern of
appointed postmaster general
on bald eagle as national symbol
birth of
books as passion of
in Cambridge mission
in Canada mission
character of
chess loved by
childhood of
colonial unity as theme of
conservatism of
curiosity of
death of
as debater
decision-making method of
and decision to run away
as deist
demeanor of
described
diplomatic style of
domesticity of
eccentricities of
education of
elected assembly speaker
elected militia colonel
epitaph of
as essayist
eulogy for
fame of
family background of
family history as interest of
federalism concept of
final letter of
first London sojourn of
first published prose of
flirtatious relationships of
foreign missions of, see London mission of 1757–1762; London mission of 1765–1775; Paris mission of 1776–1785
as Freemason
on free press
on free speech
as freethinker
as frontier commander
frugality of
funeral of
as gossip columnist
health of
Hemphill affair and
honorary degrees of
house renovated by
humor of
illegitimate son of, see Franklin, William
income and wealth of
independence favored by
Keith as patron of
land grant sought by
languages as interest of
laudanum used by
lecherous reputation of
library of
liturgy composed by
as lowbrow
as loyalist
on luxury
magazine started by<
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making mistakes and amends as theme of
on marriage
maxims of
and method for winning over opponents
middle class values of
mistakes-amends theme of
moral beliefs of
national identity of
nepotism of
as networker
new American archetype created by
new house of
new words coined by
as observer of human nature
onset of political career of
pen names used by; see also Busy-Body Essays; “Dogood, Silence”; Poor Richard’s Almanack
personality of
personal magnetism of
as philosopher
poetry of
political cartoon produced by
political philosophy of
in popular imagination
portraits of
practical advice and exhortations of
pragmatism of
pride of
print shop of
progress as theme of
public persona of
as public speaker
racism of
Rees scandal and
religious beliefs of
in retirement from printing trade
as royalist
in runaway journey
scientific paraphernalia of
self-deprecation of
self-help movement and
self-improvement theme of
sexual appetite of
sexuality in writings of
slaves owned by
small family of
social philosophy of
Socratic method used by
Supreme Being as viewed by
surname of
swimming as interest of
and taste for finery
temperance of
tolerance as creed of
vanity of
as vegetarian
virtues as defined and practiced by
as “Water American,”
whistle incident and
will of
women and
work habits of
writing influences on
writing style of
young people and
Assessments
by academic world
by Adams
by Emerson
by intellectuals
Marxist
by Melville
of personal life
in popular imagination
in post-Civil War era
by romanticists
as scientist
by transcendentalists
in twentieth century
Civic Activities
BF on
colleges
community associations
fire brigade
fund-raising
hospitals
insurance association
Junto, see Junto (Leather Apron Club)
libraries
militia
moral perfection project
police patrols
post office reform
self-improvement and
street maintenance
welfare
Inventions
bifocal glasses
copperplate press design
copy machine design
daylight savings idea
hot water system design
light globe model
lightning rod
mechanical arm
musical instrument
new words
phonetic alphabet
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