storage battery
stove
street lamp design
swimming pads
typeface
urinary catheter
Scientific Interests
air currents
assessment of
BF’s writing style and
color
common cold
electricity, see electricity
evaporation
Gulf Stream
heat
hull design
importance and significance of
lead poisoning
magnetism
maritime topics
meteorology
mock essays on
population growth
pragmatism of
refrigeration
saltiness of oceans
ship speeds in canals
smoky chimneys
study of exercise
weather forecasting
Franklin, Benjamin (BF’s uncle)
Franklin, Deborah Read (BF’s wife)
BF on
BF’s common-law marriage with
BF’s correspondence with
BF’s flirtations and
BF’s relationship with
children of; see also specific children
death of
home defended by
personality of
Strahan’s letters to
stroke suffered by
Franklin, Ebenezer (BF’s brother)
Franklin, Elizabeth Downes (BF’s daughter-in-law)
Franklin, Ellen (BF’s granddaughter)
Franklin, Francis Folger (Franky) (BF’s son)
Franklin, Henry (BF’s great-grandfather)
Franklin, James (BF’s brother)
BF’s break with
BF’s reconciliation with
Franklin, Jane (BF’s sister)
BF’s correspondence with
Franklin, John (BF’s brother)
Franklin, John (BF’s uncle)
Franklin, Josiah (BF’s father)
BF’s description of
BF’s education and
BF’s printing venture and
in chandler trade
character of
children of
first marriage of
library of
in migration to America
second marriage of
Franklin, Josiah, Jr. (BF’s half-brother)
Franklin, Mary (BF’s sister)
Franklin, Peter (BF’s brother)
Franklin, Sally (BF’s cousin)
Franklin, Samuel (BF’s cousin)
Franklin, Sarah (BF’s sister)
Franklin, Sarah “Sally,” see Bache, Sarah Franklin “Sally”
Franklin, Theodore (BF’s great-grandson)
Franklin, Thomas (BF’s great-great-grandfather)
Franklin, Thomas, II (BF’s grandfather)
Franklin, Thomas, III (BF’s uncle)
Franklin, William (BF’s son)
age of
appointed governor of New Jersey
Asgill affair and
BF’s correspondence with
BF’s relationship with
in BF’s will
in Braddock expedition
death of
in flight to England
Graeme courtship and
illegitimate children of
kite experiment and
in London mission
loyalist outlook of
marriage of
in Scotland
Shelburne’s meeting with
Temple Franklin’s relationship with
in Trevose meeting
trial of
Franklin, William Temple (BF’s grandson)
appointed to peace delegation
BF’s relationship with
birth of
dandyish behavior of
illegitimate son of
Lee-BF feud and
in Paris mission
peace negotiations and
Polly Stevenson and
in visit to England
William Franklin’s relationship with
Franklin, The (barge)
“Franklin Covey Organizers,”
Franklin Drawing Electricity From the Sky (West)
Franklin family:
derivation of name
dissenting streak of
genealogical records of
in migration to America
religion and
traits of
Franklin Gothic (typeface)
Franklin Institute
Franklin Union
Frederick II, King of Prussia
Freemasons
free press
free speech
free will
Freke, John
French and Indian War
French Revolution
BF’s perception of
“Friendly Societies” (Defoe)
Gadsen, Christopher
Gage, Thomas
Galileo Galilee
Galloway, Joseph
Garrick, David
Gazette (Amiens)
Gazetteer
General Magazine
Gentleman’s Magazine
George II, King of England
George III, King of England
Georgia
Germany
Gerry, Elbridge
Gibraltar
Gilded Age
“God and Liberty” benediction
Godfrey, Mrs. Thomas
Godfrey, Thomas
Goode, Wilson
Grace, Robert
Graeme, Elizabeth
Graeme, Thomas
Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons
Grand Ohio Company
Granville, Lord
Great Awakening
Great Britain
BF’s effort to join government of
BF’s Paris mission and
in peace negotiations see Anglo-American peace negotiations of 1782
Staten Island summit and
Great Depression
Great Seal
Greene, Catherine Ray
Greene, William
Grenville, George
Grenville, Thomas
Griswold, A. Whitney
Guillotin, Joseph-Ignace
Gulf Stream
Hadley, John
Hall, David
Hamilton, Alexander
Hamilton, Andrew
Hamilton, James
Hancock, John
Harper’s
Hartley, David
Harvard College
Hauksbee, Francis
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
“Heads of Complaint” (Franklin)
Hell-Fire Club
Helvétius, Anne-Catherine
Helvétius, Claude-Adrien
Hemphill, Samuel
Henry, Patrick
Henry VIII, King of England
Herbert, Eugenia
Herbert of Cherbury, Lord
Herschbach, Dudley
Hewson, Elizabeth
Hewson, Mary Stevenson “Polly,”
BF’s correspondence with
death of
marriage of
Temple Franklin and
Hewson, Tom
Hewson, William (father)
Hewson, William (son)
Hillsborough, Lord
“Hints for a Conversation” (Franklin)
History and Present State of Electricity, The (Priestley)
History of England (Berkeley)
Homer
Honest Whigs
hospitals
hot-air balloons
Houdon, Jean-Antoine
House of Burgesses, Virginia
House of Commons, British
House of Lords, British
House of Representatives Massachusetts
House of Representatives, U.S.
Howe, Caroline
Howe, Richard
BF’s Staten Island summit with
Howe, William
Howells, William Dean
How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie)
“Hue and Cry after the Busy-Body” (Keimer)
Hughes, John
hull design
Hume, David
“Hume’s fork,”
Hunt, Leigh
Hunter, William
Hutchinson, Thomas
purloined letters of
Stamp Act crisis and
Hutton, James
Hyde, Lord
Illinois Company
Indiana Company
Indians
Albany Plan and
in Carlyle conference
Paxton Boys uprising and
Proprietors and
see also specific tribes
Industrial Revolution
“Information to Those Who Would Remove to America” (Franklin)
Ingenhousz, Jan
insurance associations
“Interest of Great Britain Considered with Regard to Her Colonies” (Franklin)
Ireland
Iroquois confederacy
Israel Potter (Melville)
Izard, Ralph
Jackson, James
Jackson, Richard
Jay, John
Jefferson, Thomas
Declaration of Independence written by
Great Seal and
in Paris mission
Jeffrey, Francis, Lord
Jenkins Ear, War of
Jerman, John
Jews
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Johonnot, Samuel
Jones, John Paul
background of
Lafayette’s proposed attack and
rape incident and
in Serapis fight
Johnson, Samuel (convention delegate)
Johnson, Samuel (writer)
Junto (Leather Apron Club)
BF’s religious talk to
debating style of
members of
models for
as reflection of BF’s persona
subscription library of
topics guide of
Jupin, Mademoiselle
Kames, Henry Home, Lord
Kant, Immanuel
Keats, John
Keillor, Garrison
Keimer, Samuel
Keith, William
King (BF’s slave)
King George’s War
King Philip’s War
Kinnersley, Ebenezer
Kissinger, Henry A.
Lafayette, Marquis de
laissez-faire, doctrine of
Landais, Pierre
La Rochefoucauld, François de
“Late Benjamin Franklin, The” (Twain)
Laud, William
Laurens, Henry
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent
Lawrence, D. H.
lead poisoning
Leather Apron Club, see Junto (Leather Apron Club)
Le Despencer, Francis Dashwood, Lord
Lee, Arthur
Bancroft suspected of spying by
BF’s conflicts with
Lee, Charles
Lee, Francis Lightfoot
Lee, Richard Henry
Lee, William
Leeds, Titan
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Lemay, J. A. Leo
Le Roy, Jean-Baptiste
“Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania” (Dickinson)
“Letters on England” (Voltaire)
Leverett, John
Lewis, Sinclair
Lexington, Battle of
Leyden jar
Liberty Tree
libraries
Library Company of Philadelphia
lightning rod
Literary History of the American People (Angoff)
Little Revenge, A (Randall)
Lives (Plutarch)
Livingston, Robert
Locke, John
Lodge of the Nine Sisters
Logan, James
London
London Board of Trade
London Chronicle
London Evening Post
London mission of
BF-Deborah Franklin correspondence in
BF-Penn confrontations in
BF’s circle of friends in
BF’s departure for
BF’s genealogical excursion in
BF’s Scotland trip in
BF’s surrogate family in
BF’s travels through England in
BF’s trip to continent in
Canada retention as issue in
results of
royal charter debate in
taxation as issue in
William Franklin in
London mission of
Bache-Sally Franklin romance in
Bache’s visit in
BF as colonial spokesman in
BF-Deborah Franklin correspondence in
BF’s cockpit ordeal in
BF’s invention interests in
BF’s motives in
BF’s scientific experiments in
BF’s social outlook and
BF’s surrogate family in
BF’s vacation in France in
BF’s vacation of 1771 in
BF-William Franklin rift in
Deborah Franklin’s death and
Hillsborough-BF confrontations in
Howe-Chatham secret talks in
Hutchinson letters affair in
Stamp Act crisis in
Stamp Act repeal battle in
Townshend duties controversy in
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Lopez, Claude-Anne
Louis XV, King of France
Louis XVI, King of France
McCullough, David
McHenry, James
Madison, James
“magazine,”
magnetism
Maier, Paul
Main Currents in American Thought (Parrington)
Malthus, Thomas
Mansfield, William Murray, Lord
“Marche des Insurgents” (Brillon)
Mareschal, Lord
Marie, Queen of France
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
Marignac, Gabriel Louis de
Markoe, Margaret
Marriage of Figaro, The (Beaumarchais)
Marshall Plan
Martin, Luther
Mary I, Queen of England
Maryland
Mason, George
Mason & Dixon (Pynchon)
Massachusetts
anti-tax rebellion in
Stamp Act crisis in
Massachusetts Assembly
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Massachusetts Committee on Correspondence
Massachusetts House of Representatives
matching grant, concept of
Mather, Cotton
library of
smallpox controversy and
Mather, Increase
Mather, Samuel
May, Henry
mechanical arm
Mecom, Jane, see Franklin, Jane
Mellon, Thomas
Melville, Herman
BF assessed by
Meredith, Hugh
“meritocracy,”
Mesmer, Friedrich Anton
meteorology
Methodism
Metternich, Klemens von
middle class
values of
Middlekauff, Robert
militia
Militia Association
Miller, Perry
“minutemen,”
Mississippi River
“Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency, A” (Franklin)
“Modest Proposal, A” (Swift)
Mohawk Indians
Monroe Doctrine
Montesquieu, Baron
de la Brède et de
Montgolfier, Etienne
Montgolfier, Joseph
moral perfection project
“Morals of Chess, The” (Franklin)
Morellet, André
Morgan, Edmund,
Morrill, Mary, see Folger, Mary Morrill
Morris, Gouverneur
Morris, Lewis
Morris, Richard
Morris, Robert
Morris, Robert Hunter
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Musschenbroek, Pieter van
“Narrative of the Late Massacres in
Lancaster County, A” (Franklin)
Nation
Native Americans, see Indians
natural rights, concept of
Netherlands
New England Courant
“Silence Dogood” essays in
smallpox dispute in
Newfoundland
New Jersey
William Franklin appointed
governor of
New Jersey Gazette
Newton, Isaac
New York
Nine Sisters, Lodge of
Nini, Giovanni Battista
Nollet, Abbé
Norris, Isaac
North, Lord
North Carolina
Oberg, Barbara
“Observations on the Increase of Mankind” (Franklin)
Ohio valley
Olive Branch Petition
“On Conciliation with America” (Burke)
“On Conversation” (Franklin)
“On Infidelity” (Bradford)
“On the Laboring Poor” (Franklin)
“On the Providence of God in the Government of the World” (Franklin)
Osborne, Charles
Oswald, Richard
Ottawa Indians
Oxford University
Paine, Thomas,
Palmer, Samuel
Pamela (Richardson)
paper currency
Paris
Paris, Ferdinand John
Paris, Treaty of (1763)
Paris mission of 1776–1785:
Adams-BF rift and
Adams in,
Adams’s return to
American commissioners in
balloon fad in
Bancroft’s spying activities in
BF appointed minister plenipotentiary in
BF’s appointment to
and BF’s arrival in France
BF’s attempted resignation from
BF’s bagatelles in
BF’s departure from
BF’s diplomatic style in
BF’s flirtatious relationships in
BF’s household in
BF’s mock scientific essays in
BF’s public relations campaign in
BF’s resignation from
BF’s writing of Autobiography in
commission-seeking supplicants in
French loans in
French policy in
Jefferson in
Lee-BF feud in
Lodge of Nine Sisters controversy in
Mesmer commission investigation in
military alliance treaty in
new European treaties in
peace negotiations in, see Anglo-American peace negotiations of 1782
planned attack on Britain in
proposed Franco-American alliance in
realism and idealism in
Spain’s rejection of treaty in
Temple Franklin in
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