trade and friendship treaty in
Wentworth’s secret mission and
Parker, James
Parliament, British,
colonial representation in
Scotland in
taxation power of
see also House of Commons, British; House of Lords, British
Parliament, Irish
Parrington, Vernon
Parsons, William
Partridge, Elizabeth
Paterson, William
“Paul Revere’s Ride” (Longfellow)
Paxton Boys
peace negotiations, see Anglo-American peace negotiations of 1782
Peale, Charles Willson
Pemberton, Israel
Penn, John
Penn, Richard
Penn, Thomas
BF on
BF’s conflict with
Penn, William
royal charter of
pen names
see also Busy-Body Essays; “Dogood, Silence”; Poor Richard’s Almanack
Penn family
Pennsylvania
BF elected president of
BF’s efforts to change colonial status of
BF’s militia proposal for
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, Herb
ert
“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
Tourtellot, Arthur
Townshend, Charles
Townshend duties
BF’s essay on
transcendentalists
Treatise of Human Nature, A (Hume)
Trevose summit
True Conduct of Persons of Quality, The
Truman, Harry
Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques
Turner, Frederick Jackson
Twain, Mark
typeface
Under God (Wills)
Union Fire Company
United States
bald eagle as national symbol of
Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences, and Pennsylvania Gazette, The
Updike, John
on BF’s Autobiography
on BF’s transformation of Puritanism
urinary catheter
Van Doren, Carl
Vaughan, Benjamin
vegetarianism
Veillard, Louis-Guillaume le
Vergennes, Comte de
Adams and
Anglo-American peace negotiations and
BF’s first meeting with
Virgil
Virginia
BF’s postal inspection trips to
constitution of
Stamp Act crisis in
Virginia, University of
Virginia House of Burgesses
virtues, BF’s definitions of
Voltaire
“Walking Purchase,”
Wall, Samuel
Walpole, Richard
Walpole, Robert
Walpole, Thomas
Walpole Company
Walter, Thomas
Walters, Kerry
War of Austrian Succession
War of Jenkins Ear
Washington, George
BF and
BF’s correspondence with
Cincinnati Society and
at Constitutional Convention
in Ohio Valley missions
at Yorktown
Watson, Joseph
Watt, James
Watts, John
Way to Wealth, The (Franklin)
Wealth of Nations, The (A. Smith)
weather forecasting
Webb, George
Webbe, John
Weber, Max
Webster, Noah
Wedderburn, Alexander
welfare
Wentworth, Paul
West, Benjamin
Wharton, Samuel
Whigs
Whitefield, George,
White Oak Boys
Willard, Samuel
William & Mary
Williams, Jonathan
Williams, William Carlos
Wills, Garry
Wilson, Benjamin
Wilson, James
Winchester School
Winkler, Johann Heinrich
Winthrop, John
“Witch Trial at Mount Holly, A” (Franklin)
Wollaston, William
Wood, Gordon
Wygate (printer)
Yale University
Yankees at the Court (Alsop)
Yardley, Jonathan
Yorktown, Battle of
Young, Michael
Young Men Associated clubs
Zall, P. M.
Zenger, John Peter
About the Author
Walter Isaacson is the president of the Aspen Institute. He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Kissinger: A Biography and the coauthor, with Evan Thomas, of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives with his wife and daughter in Washington, D.C.
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