INDEX
Abenakis, 108, 223. See also Native Americans
Abercromby, James, 11, 12, 54, 72–73, 137, 138n, 140
identified, 41
letters to, 519, 520, 521, 522
Acadian refugees, 49, 71, 146n, 163, 164n
“Account and Defense of Conduct” (1775). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of
An Act for Ascertaining the Rates of Foreign Coin in Her Majesty’s Plantations in America, 351n
An Act for the Better Enabling the Officers of His Majesty’s Customs to Carry the Acts of Trade into Execution (1762), 158, 159n
An Act for the Better Securing the Dependency of His Majesty’s Dominions in America upon the Crown and Parliament of Great Britain (1766). See Declaratory Act
An Act for the Better Securing & Encouraging the Trade of His Majesty’s Sugar Colonies in America (1733). See Molasses Act
An Act for Drawing in the Bills of Credit of the Several Denominations Which Have at Any Time Been Issued by This Government and Are Still Outstanding, and for Ascertaining the Rate of Coin’d Silver in This Province for the Future (1748/49), 104n, 105–06
An Act for the Further Improvement of His Majesty’s Revenue of Customs; and for the Encouragement of Officers Making Seizures; and for the Prevention of the Clandestine Running of Goods into Any Part of His Majesty’s Dominions (1763), 177, 181n, 182, 183
An Act for Granting Certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America (1765). See Stamp Act
An Act for Granting unto His Majesty Several Rates and Dutys of Impost and Tunnage of Shipping (1734, 1764), 246n
An Act for Incorporating a Society for the Founding and Regulating an Academy in the Western Parts of the Province (1762), 161n
An Act for Making Several Species of Foreign Gold Coin a Lawful Tender, and for More Effectual Preventing the Forging and Counterfeiting of Money (1761), 156n
An Act Providing for the Reception and Accommodation of His Majesty’s Forces within This Province (1758), 350n
Act of Union (England and Scotland, 1707), 28, 207–08, 217n, 397n
Acts of Trade. See Navigation Acts
Adams, John, 16, 28, 37, 44, 46
identified, 41
on opening the courts, 359n, 424n
papers of, xxxvii
Adams, Phinehas, 170n
Adams, Samuel, 2, 7, 26–27, 28, 37, 46, 51, 57, 83
and Boston Massacre, 25
identified, 41
and Stamp Act, 17, 78, 81, 345, 465, 466n
and Tea Party, 32–33
writings of,
Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders . . . of . . . Boston (1772), 27
Adamson, Benjamin
letter from, 534
letter to, 534
Addison, Joseph, 419
Administration of the Colonies (1764 and subsequent editions). See Pownall, Thomas: writings of
Aeneid, 155n
Aesop’s Fables, 258, 259n, 299
agents, provincial, 174, 264n. See also under individual agents’ names
Connecticut, 54, 80, 184, 185n, 256n, 486n
Massachusetts, 11, 47, 54, 97n–98n, 99, 262, 476, 477n
choice of agents, 26, 43, 55, 67, 76, 165, 166n, 178–79, 184, 185n, 256, 258, 259n, 471–72, 484, 485n, 487, 492
and the Stamp Act, 17, 78, 83, 233, 236–37, 248, 249, 341, 342, 345
TH as possible agent (1758–1759), 139
TH as possible agent (1764), 61, 187–96, 197–98, 202, 204
TH as possible agent (1766), 486n
New Hampshire, 486n
South Carolina, 80
Aix-la-Chappelle, Treaty of (1748), 69, 108, 110, 112n, 213, 217n, 346, 347n
Akers, Charles, 286n
Alamance, battle of, 62
Albany Conference (1754), xxiv, 70. See also Native Americans
attendees, 10, 48, 52, 58, 64, 130, 313n, 346, 435n
proceedings, 106–22
Albany Plan of Union (1754), 107, 115, 117, 118n
alternative plans, 107, 119–22
rejected by General Court, 70, 107, 118n, 121n
report of commissioners, 113–18
Alford, England, 487
Allen, James, 9, 69, 93, 157, 158n, 470, 471n
identified, 97n
Alexander the Great, 1
Almon, John, xx
American Board of Customs Commissioners, 22, 24, 44, 51, 52, 58, 59, 62, 437n, 458n. See also customs service; Liberty riot
American colonial union, 113–22, 258
American independence, 27, 29, 377, 403
America’s Burke (1982). See Pencak, William
America Painted to the Life (1659). See Gorges, Ferdinando
Amherst, Jeffery, 12, 49, 138, 139n, 174
Abercromby, replacement of, 73, 138n, 140, 141n
Acadian refugees, 164n
identified, 42
letters from, 141, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 530, 531, 532, 533
letters to, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 529, 530, 531, 532, 535
Louisbourg, capture of, 42, 72, 141
Pontiac’s Rebellion, 42, 179, 186
portrait, 142
and Thomas Pownall, 137n, 141n, 143
Ticonderoga and Crown Point, capture of, 73
amnesty, for Stamp Act rioters, 20, 87, 426, 462, 465–70, 476–78, 481, 484, 487. See also Berkshire rioters
Andros, Edmund, 217n, 269, 274, 366
identified, 270n
Anglicanism. See Church of England
Anglo-Dutch wars (1652–1674), 217n
Aniello, Tommaso (“Massianello”), 358, 406, 488
identified, 359n
Annapolis Royal, 146
Antinomian Controversy, 3, 253n
Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, 357
identified, 358n
Anville, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld de Roye, Duc d’, 109, 125
identified, 112n
Appalachian Mountains, 77
identified, 157n
Apthorp, East, 55, 242, 243, 310n
identified, 42
Arbuthnot, William, 145
identified, 146n
letter to, 529
Aristides, 301
identified, 303n
Aristotle, 365n
Armstrong, Freeborn. See Otis, James, Jr.
Articles of Confederation, 41
Atkinson, Theodore, 106–07, 124
identified, 127n
letter to, 518
identified, 349n
letter to, 577
Austrian Succession, War of. See King George’s War
identified, 97n
Avery, John, 46
Bailyn, Bernard, xvii–xviii, 2n, 26n, 27, 30–31, 33, 36
Baker, William, 96
identified, 98n
Bank of England, 350
bankruptcies, 56, 80, 481n. See also Scollay, John; Wheelwright, Nathaniel
Barbados, 224, 253n, 448, 449n
Barnard, John, 417
identified, 418n
Barnard, Jonathan
letter to, 572
Barons, Benjamin, 13, 73, 134, 152, 154, 299n, 357n, 409n
identified, 42
identified, 157n
letter to, 535
Barrington, William Wildman Shute Barrington, 2nd Viscount, 12, 42, 152n
Baumgarten, Linda, xviii
Bayard, William, 239, 302, 404
identified, 240n
Bayle & Game
letter from, 513
Beckford, William, 163
identified, 164n
Bedford, John Russell, 4th Duke of, 163
identified, 164n
Belcher, Jonathan, xix, 6, 39, 65–67, 72, 91
identified, 42
land holdings in New Hampshire, 7–8, 96, 98n
letters from, 92, 93, 95–98, 496, 497, 507, 510
letter to, 496
portrait, 94
and William Shirley, 8, 12, 99
Belcher, Jonathan, Jr., 95, 97n
identified, 92n
Bennington (Vermont), 275–76
Berkshire rioters (1765), 51, 86, 464, 466n, 468, 475–78, 485, 490
Bernard, Amelia Offley, 12, 42, 152
identified, 152n
Bernard, Francis, 39, 52, 143, 220, 234, 436, 446–47. See also Castle William; Temple-Bernard affair
TH, 17, 187, 189, 190–93, 257n
Richard Jackson, 47, 80, 162n, 256–58, 271, 275, 474–75
arrival, 12, 73, 140, 141, 143n, 145n, 149, 151–52, 218
Council purge (1766), 21, 86, 433–35, 440–42, 470, 471n
currency, 76, 155–57, 162, 163n
customs service, 19, 42, 44, 75, 154, 155n, 158, 159n, 177, 184, 219, 266–68, 375, 492, 493n
John Temple, 23, 75, 219n, 220, 257n, 266–68
departure as governor, 24
applies for leave, 341, 386, 387n, 391, 392n, 394, 397n, 398n, 413, 447, 448n, 453, 457, 460, 471, 472n, 492, 493n
impeachment efforts, 484–87, 490–91
publication of his letters, 23–24, 43
General Court, 170n, 358, 359n, 380, 385–86, 406–07, 409n, 470, 471n, 484, 487, 490–91
Harvard College fire, 195
militia, 356
Mount Desert Island, 76, 79, 180, 181n, 182, 183n, 207, 264, 265n, 338n
Parliament, 84, 401, 441, 442n
political allies and enemies, 13, 31, 43, 45, 57, 60, 151, 393
Thomas Clap, 45, 46, 372–73, 385, 386n
Superior Court appointments, 12–13, 57, 74, 149, 154n, 185n
suspending clause, 261
compensation, 20, 83, 84, 86, 305–07, 309n, 316n, 317, 338, 351, 356, 434, 435n, 438, 443, 444, 446–47, 449n, 451–54, 457, 458n, 461–66, 468–69, 470, 471n, 478, 492
petition, 231n
riots, 19, 82, 279–81, 290, 296, 297n, 302, 303n, 306, 337, 355, 357n
opening of the courts, 84, 358–63, 372, 373n, 377–80, 384n, 386, 390, 436, 441, 442n
stamped paper, 82, 278, 282, 303n, 304n, 341n, 356
Virginia Resolves, 277n
western Mass. college, 160, 161n
identified, 42–43
personal affairs
portrait, 150
writings of
The Principles of Law and Polity (1764), 203
Bernard, John
identified, 43
Berry, Thomas
letter from, 503
Billingsgate Fish Market (London), 384
Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time (1723–1724). See Burnet, Gilbert: writings of
Blackstone, William, 236n
Bladen, Martin, 99
identified, 100n
Blanchard, Joseph, 95
identified, 97n
Board of Trade (or Lords of Trade), 34–35, 157, 161n. See also Hutchinson, Thomas: as a representative of the province
administration and bureaucracy of, 50, 51, 54, 58, 260–61, 459, 460n
customs service, 77, 160, 161n
letters to, 338–39
New Hampshire division from Massachusetts, 7–8, 67, 91, 93, 96, 101–02
Bollan, Frances, 296–97
identified, 298n
Bollan, William, 8, 24, 48, 104, 165, 172n, 176, 194n, 218, 251n, 261, 447–49
as Massachusetts agent, 134, 139, 157n, 204, 205n, 219n, 258, 471
accounts, dispute with General Court, 162n, 219n, 236–37, 249, 257, 258n, 417, 478, 480n
attempts to remove, 139
disliked by Thomas Pownall, 11, 139, 218
first resignation as agent, 178, 180n
removal from agency (1762), 17, 76, 151, 160–62, 167–68, 184, 218
Louisbourg expedition reimbursement, 8–9, 122, 155–57, 259n
and the Marquis of Rockingham, 311–12, 381, 429, 454
Stamp Act
compensation for TH, 311, 312n, 361, 420, 421n, 423, 424n, 426, 430, 447, 458n
TH Jr.’s trip to London, 417, 436–37, 442–44, 447, 449, 453, 462
Revenue and Stamp Acts, 248–49
Stamp Act Congress, 342
identified, 43
letters from, 248–49, 311, 361–62, 381, 399, 420, 426, 429–30, 459, 534, 536, 541, 552, 557, 558, 565, 568, 569, 571, 573, 574, 577
letters to, 155–56, 157, 158–59, 159–60, 161, 162, 165–66, 172, 174, 176, 192, 218–19, 236–37, 257–58, 283–84, 296–97, 304, 342–43, 359, 362–63, 364–65, 375–76, 382, 397–98, 414, 433, 439, 451–52, 461, 462–63, 477–80, 492, 508, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537, 538, 540, 544, 545, 546, 547, 550, 555, 557, 558, 560, 563, 564, 566, 567, 568, 569, 571, 572, 574, 575, 576, 578, 579, 581
writings of
Freedom of Speech and the Writing upon Public Affairs Considered (1766), 429–30, 444, 446n, 451, 452n, 478–79, 480n
Succinct View of the Origin of Our Colonies (1766), 430n
writs of assistance, 16, 16n, 74, 267n, 307n
Bollingbroke, Henry St. John, 1st Viscount, 36
Bonham’s case, 301n
Boston Chronicle (newspaper), 56
Boston Customs House
and Stamp Act, 21, 84, 359n, 360, 361n, 372, 373n, 374, 376, 406
and Tea Party, 32
Boston Evening-Post (newspaper), 59, 81, 157, 158n, 187n, 250n, 284n, 436, 437n, 490, 491n
Boston Gazette (newspaper), 18, 23, 47, 56, 81, 207n, 284, 308, 309n, 365n, 385, 435n, 483n
criticism of TH, 157, 158n, 172, 176n, 192n, 384n, 386n, 390, 391n, 392, 398, 407, 409n
publications of TH’s letters, xx, 31, 239
Boston Massacre (1770), 25, 33, 41, 47, 55, 59, 62
Boston merchants. See merchants: Boston
Boston News-Letter (newspaper), 31n, 187n
Boston Port Act (1774), 34
Boston Society for Encouraging Trade and Commerce, 17, 77, 87, 178
Boston Tea Party (1773), 1, 2, 32–34, 37, 41, 45, 47, 49, 56, 378n, 409n
Boston town meeting, 2, 7, 22, 24, 30, 35, 41, 176n, 356, 406, 427, 431
correspondence with other colonies, 85, 441, 442n
Revenue Act (1764), 79
Stamp Act, 17, 21, 78, 81, 143
compensation by town, 87, 352, 461n, 462, 467, 468, 477, 486, 493
condemns riots, 82, 294n, 305, 357n, 438
opening of the courts, 21, 84, 358, 359n, 363, 372–74, 378, 380, 391n, 406
boundary disputes, between Massachusetts and
Connecticut, 69, 138n, 175, 184, 185n, 256
New Hampshire
western boundary of, 221–26, 239, 241, 481, 482, 485, 486n
New York, 184, 185n, 190, 191n, 226n, 275–76, 456–57, 471, 481, 482
Nova Scotia, 76, 138n, 140, 168, 169n
identified, 466n
Bowdoin, James, 44, 46, 139, 155–57, 232, 449
family relations, 23, 30, 34, 48, 61, 348n, 435n
identified, 43
leadership role on Council, 21, 28, 389
Bowers, Jerathmiel, 258n, 410, 433, 434, 464–66n
identified, 411n
boycott, of British goods, 22, 79, 81, 84. See also non-consumption agreement; nonimportation agreements
Bradbury, John, 407, 410, 411n, 444
identified, 409n
identified, 138n
Bradford, Alden, xx
Bradford, Robert, 357
identified, 358n
Bradford, William, 223
Bradley, Richard, xvii
Brattle Street Church (Boston, Mass.), 46
Brattle, William, 151, 152n, 161, 162n, 169, 289n, 407, 410, 411n
identified, 44
Bray, John, 97n
Bridgetown, Barbados, 448n
Briefe Narration of the Originall Undertakings of the Advancement of Plantations into the Parts of America. Especially, Shewing the Begining, Progress and Continuance of That of New-England (1658). See Gorges, Ferdinando: writings of
[A Brief State of the Claim of the Colonies and the Interest of the Nation with Respect to Them] (1764). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of
“A Brief State of the Title of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay to the Country between the Rivers Kennebeck and St. Croix” (1762). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of
British army, 17, 49, 50, 59, 247, 302, 303n, 350n, 447. See also Quartering Act
troops in Boston, 10, 23, 24–25, 30, 43, 47, 52
Brintnall, Bassett, 181
British navy, 16–17, 49, 52, 181, 182n, 215, 227n
officers to act as customs agents, 77, 177, 182–83, 363n
Brooke, Nathaniel, 272n
Browne, Benjamin, 99
identified, 100n
identified, 466n
Bubble Act (1720), 7, 67, 69, 91, 97n
Burn, Richard
writings of
Ecclesiastical Law (1763), 235, 236n
Burke, Edmund, 454
identified, 454n
Burnet, Gilbert
writings of
Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time (1723–1724), 170, 170n
Burch, William, 458n
identified, 44
Bute, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of, 18, 40, 45, 50, 76, 77, 81, 177, 459, 460n
identified, 44
Byng, Admiral John, 134
identified, 135n
Cabot, John
identified, 111n
Cabot, Sebastian, 107
identified, 111n
Cæsar, Augustus, 419
Cæsar, Julius, 1, 104n, 210–11, 419
Canada (New France), 107–111, 365n. See also Acadia; Nova Scotia
as British colony, 177, 218n, 360
as French colony, 73, 108, 109, 126
Cape Bretton Island, 107, 109, 112, 133, 213, 217n, 259n
Carr, Ralph
letters from, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 512, 513, 515, 546
Carroll, Charles
letters from, 499, 500, 501, 504, 506
Carter, Richard, 97n
Carter, Timothy
letter to, 551
Case of Ireland’s Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated (1698). See Molyneux, William: writings of
Castle William, 2, 26, 32, 147n
garrison of, 47, 130, 147, 148
and Stamp Act repeal, 426n
and stamped paper, 21, 82, 83, 278, 282, 303n, 304n, 341n, 356
as place of refuge, 23, 44, 45, 52, 53, 56, 59, 341n
removal of troops to, 25, 33, 47
as summer residence, 151–52
Catalina, Lucius Sergius, 358
identified, 359n
Catanzariti, John, xviii
Cataraqui River, 109
Caucus, The, 41
Caughnawaga Indians, 116, 118n
Chambers, John, 115
identified, 117n
Champlain, Lake, 108, 112n, 121, 123, 124n, 138n
Chandler, John, II, 131
identified, 133n
Chandler, John, III, 491
identified, 492n
letter from, 519
Chardon, Peter, 448
identified, 449n
letter from, 575
Charles I, King, 4, 28, 49, 213
charters, colonial, 107, 111, 208–09, 212, 405, 435n, 474
Chase, Samuel, 302–03
identified, 303n
Chatham, William Pitt, 1st Earl of, 11, 40, 50, 63, 164n, 184
first ministry, 40, 45, 72, 76, 138n, 185n, 493n
identified, 45
relations with George III, 59
relations with the Marquis of Rockingham, 362, 426
second ministry, 40, 22, 45, 49, 60, 62, 86, 362, 454, 455n, 459, 461n, 472
smuggling, circular letter against, 15, 73
Stamp Act repeal, 45, 84, 362, 427n, 440n
Chesebrough, David, 196, 270, 274
identified, 45
letters from, 567, 569, 574, 577, 578
letters to, 172–73, 195–96, 259–60, 544, 545, 546, 548, 549, 550, 551, 553, 554, 556, 560, 567
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of, 399
identified, 399n
Chignecto, Isthmus of, 149n
identified, 170n
letter from, 507
Christ Church (Cambridge, Mass.), 42
identified, 146n
Chronological History of New England in the Form of Annals (1736–1755). See Prince, Thomas: writings of
Church, Benjamin
writings of
Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip’s War (1716), 4
Church of England, 42, 55, 97n, 256n
American bishopric, 48, 55, 310n
Cicero, 98n, 122n, 210–11, 217n, 359n, 408n, 419
circular letters
from Crown authorities, 177, 180–81, 182, 183n
from Massachusetts House of Representatives, 41
Clap, Thomas, 372–73, 385, 386n, 483, 490–91. See also Cushing, John
identified, 45
letter from, 571
Clark, George, 352
identified, 353n
Clark & Lane Company, 227n, 458n
Clarke, Richard, 45, 51, 54, 359n
identified, 98n
Clements Library, University of Michigan, xxii
Clodius, 406
identified, 408n
Cockle, James, 75, 219n, 268. See also Temple-Bernard affair
Coercive Acts (1774), 2, 34, 35, 49, 56
Coggeshall, John, 252
identified, 253n
identified, 301n
Colden, Cadwallader, 62, 302, 303n, 345
identified, 46
Collection of Original Papers Relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay (1769). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of
Colman, John, 7
Colonial Office, 30
Colonial Society of Massachusetts, xvi, xvii
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, xviii
Colville, Alexander, 7th Baron Culross, 364
identified, 365n
Comines, Philippe de
identified, 180n
writings of
Memoirs of Philip de Comines (1524–1525), 179, 180n
Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765). See Blackstone, William: writings of
committees of correspondence, 27, 41, 85, 407, 409n, 441, 442n
Condy, Jeremiah, 242–44, 246, 250, 255, 272
identified, 242n
Confucius, 201
Congregationalism, 42, 48, 161n
Connecticut, 54, 61, 82, 107, 111n, 113–19, 362, 364, 379, 407. See also agents, provincial; boundary disputes; Stamp Act: riots
Connecticut Gazette (newspaper), 379n
Connecticut River, 63, 108, 127n
Considerations on Lowering the Value of Gold Coins, Within the Province of Massachusetts-Bay (1762). See Thacher, Oxenbridge: writings of
Considerations on a Paper Currency (1765). See Pownall, Thomas: writings of
Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies: For the Purpose of Raising Revenue by Act of Parliament (1765). See Dulany, Daniel: writings of
Continental Congress
First, 41
Conway, Henry Seymour, 40, 50, 400, 413, 437, 459, 492, 493n
identified, 46
letters to, 305–07, 335, 360–61, 565, 568
and Stamp Act, 86, 304, 305n, 308, 309n, 310, 313, 315, 316, 335–340, 342–44, 351–53, 357n, 360, 361n, 363, 364n, 393, 394, 397n, 423, 434, 435n, 438, 439, 448n, 458n
identified, 97n
Cooper, Samuel
identified, 46
Copley, John Singleton
family of, 45
portrait by, 150
A Copy of Letters Sent to Great-Britain, by his Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, the Hon. Andrew Oliver, and Several Other Persons, Born and Educated Among Us (1773), xxvii, xxxii, xxxiii, 31, 63
identified, 253n
Council (Mass.), 9, 23, 26, 34, 43, 78, 148, 225, 265–67, 492. See also General Court; House of Representatives (Mass.)
Albany Conference and Plan, 121n
and the Boston Gazette, 398, 407, 409n
college in western Mass., 160, 161n
currency, 9, 103, 105–06, 155, 157
leadership of, 123, 161, 162n, 485n
objections to judges as members, 75–76, 390, 391n
purges or attempted purges
May 1766, 21, 43, 44, 46, 63, 86, 432–35, 438, 439–41, 467n, 470, 471n, 485n
compensation for riots, 82, 306, 307n, 310, 316, 332, 356, 443n, 457, 485, 486
opening of the courts, 21, 84, 358, 359n, 362–64, 372, 373n, 378, 379, 382–84, 387–90, 392, 406–07
petition, 17–18, 80, 228–32 (text), 232–34
riots, 19, 30, 82, 279, 281n, 302, 303n, 355–56, 442n
Cowas (Upper Coos, NH), 108, 112n
crowd action, 25, 50, 52, 53, 56, 372, 379, 393, 398, 406–07, 411, 412n, 456, 457n, 474, 475n. See also Pope’s Day; Stamp Act: riots
Crown Point, 71, 73, 108, 112n, 123, 124n, 127n, 137, 159
Croydon, England, 42
Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke of, 447
identified, 448n
currency, 96, 350, 474. See also hard money; gold, as legal tender; Land Bank; silver, as legal tender
Massachusetts, 7, 9, 57, 62, 66, 91, 95–96, 99–100, 162, 305, 306, 337, 363, 365
depreciation of, 166–68, 204, 205n
parliamentary restrictions, 69, 428
identified, 340n
Cushing, John, 85, 191, 251, 482
identified, 46
on opening the Superior Court, 85, 86, 284, 384, 385, 387, 390, 479
feud with Thomas Clap, 45, 372, 482, 490–91
letters from, 372–73, 385, 390, 483, 490–91, 541, 568, 570, 580, 581
letters to, 169, 188, 284, 379–80, 542, 550, 563, 569
Cushing, Thomas, 163n, 178, 193, 194n, 204, 205n, 258n, 465, 466n
identified, 46
as Speaker of the House, 21, 29, 86, 399n, 452n, 476, 477n, 485n, 486n
Cushing, William
letter from, 570
Cust, John, 401
identified, 401n
customs house. See Boston Customs House
customs service, 16, 21, 23, 42, 58, 77, 149, 154n, 158–60, 177–78, 180n, 181n, 271, 455. See also American Board of Customs; Daniel Malcom affair; Liberty riot; merchants: Boston; nonimportation agreements; smuggling; writs of assistance
legal campaign by merchants against, 13, 57, 73, 154
informants, 13, 15, 21, 74, 152, 154, 268, 348
naval officers to act as agents, 52, 77, 182, 183
seizures, 13, 23, 48, 154n, 184, 219, 235, 236n, 266, 268, 375, 405, 408, 431–32, 456, 458n
Dalrymple, William, 25
identified, 47
Dana, Richard, 372
identified, 373n
Dartmouth (ship), 32
Dartmouth, William Legge, 2nd Earl of, 29, 33–34, 35, 40, 46, 56, 58, 437
identified, 47
Davenport, John, 252
identified, 253n
Davis, Solomon (Solomon Davy), 19n, 406
identified, 409n
Dawes, Thomas, 406
identified, 408n
DeBerdt, Dennys, 55, 83, 342, 345, 463n, 465, 470–71, 484–86
identified, 47
Declaration of Independence (1776), 35, 52
Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1765), 83
Declaratory Act (1766), 22, 27, 59, 60, 85, 400, 401n, 424, 427–29, 442, 443n, 449, 450
Defense of the New-England Charters (1721). See Dummer, Jeremiah: writings of
DeLancey, James, 115, 117n, 118n
identified, 112n
letter from, 531
letter to, 527
Detroit, 186
Devonshire & Reeve
letter to, 547
Dexter, Samuel, xx, 389, 410, 411n, 433, 434, 446n
identified, 389n
Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson (1883–1886). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of
Dickinson, John, 409
identified, 410n
writings of
Late Regulations Respecting the British Colonies . . . Considered (1765), 410n
Dissenting Deputies, 52, 55, 97n, 99, 199
letter to, 538
Dorr, Harbottle, 365n
identified, 365n
Dowdeswell, William, 40, 401, 492, 493n
identified, 401n
Drusus, Marcus Livius, 211
identified, 217n
Dulany, Daniel, 409
identified, 410n
writings of
Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies: For the Purpose of Raising Revenue by Act of Parliament (1765), 410n
Dummer, Jeremiah, 200
identified, 201n
writings of
Defense of the New-England Charters (1721), 201n
Durkee, John, 308
identified, 309n
Dwight, Joseph
letter to, 526
Dwight, Josiah, 465
identified, 466n
East India Company, 32–34, 45, 52–53, 56
Eastward or Eastern Country. See Maine: district of
Eaton, Theophilus, 252
identified, 253n
Ecclesiastical Law (1763). See Burn, Richard: writings of
Edes, Benjamin, 31, 308, 309n, 385, 409n. See also Boston Gazette
identified, 47
Edgcumbe, George, 1st Earl of, 223, 308, 350, 394, 397n, 492, 493n
effigies, 18, 31, 81, 278, 279, 283, 296, 298, 314, 340, 345, 354, 364, 406. See also crowd action; Liberty Tree
Egremont, Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of, 40, 77, 159, 163–64, 182, 183n
identified, 160n
identified, 48
letter from, 552
Ellery, William, 274
identified, 274n
embargoes. See French and Indian War; nonimportation agreements
Endecott, John, 253
identified, 253n
English liberties, 16, 30, 32, 200, 209, 229, 258, 277n, 281, 295, 299, 300, 306, 337, 343n, 356, 377, 403
Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip’s War (1716). See Church, Benjamin: writings of
Epictetus, 357
identified, 358n
Erasmus, Desiderius, 419
Erie, Lake, 108
Erving, George, 34
Erving, John, 43, 73, 157, 407, 411n
identified, 48
Essay on the Original and Nature of Government (1680). See Temple, William: writings of
An Essay on the Trade of the Northern Colonies (1764). See Hopkins, Stephen: writings of
An Essay upon Money and Coins (1757–1758). See Harris, Joseph: writings of
Euclid, 248
Euston, George Fitzroy, Earl of, 98
identified, 100n
external taxes, 211, 217n, 237–38
Fearnes, James
letter from, 551
letters to, 539, 541, 542, 543, 548, 552
fifteenth resolution, 404, 408n
First Church (Boston, Mass.), 253n
First Church (Cambridge, Mass.), 253n
First Church (Hadley, Mass.), 370n
“First Fifty Years” (1958). See Freiberg, Malcolm: writings of
fisheries, 129, 178, 182, 214, 229, 411
Fitch, Thomas, 137
identified, 138n
writings of
Reasons Why the British Colonies, in America, Should Not Be Charged with Internal Taxes, by Authority of Parliament; Humbly Offered, for Consideration, in Behalf of the Colony of Connecticut (1764), 237, 239n
Five Nations. See Iroquois Indians
Fleet, John and Thomas, 250, 436, 437n, 490, 491n
identified, 250n
Fleming, John, 56
Flucker, Thomas, 39, 139, 307n, 347, 348
identified, 48
forts. See also Crown Point; French and Indian War; Penobscot expedition
Beauséjour, 149n
De Chartres, 180n
De La Présentation, 112n
Frederick, 145, 146n, 147, 148, 149n
George, 72, 135, 138, 139n, 302, 303n, 345
Lawrence, 149n
Oswego, 72
Pownall, 49
St. Frederic, 112n
St. Jean, 112n
Ticonderoga, 41, 72, 73, 124n, 137, 138n, 139n
William Henry, 72, 138n, 186, 187n, 222, 226n
Fort Hill, 18, 279, 281n, 283, 355
identified, 278n
France, 95, 107–113, 116, 163, 209, 211, 215–18. See also Albany Conference; Native Americans
Frankland, Harry, 98, 131, 133n, 250, 401
identified, 100n
Franklin, Benjamin, 31, 46, 49, 80, 336, 349, 350, 361n
identified, 48
and Albany Conference, 10, 48, 106, 118n, 122n, 346, 347n
and TH letter affair (1773), 30–31, 47
letter from, 563
letters to, 244, 336, 346–47, 377, 414, 514, 558, 565, 566, 568, 572
Franklin, William
identified, 49
Franklyn, George, 195, 259, 260n
identified, 196n
letters to, 549, 553, 556, 561
Free Port Act (1766), 85
Freedom of Speech and the Writing upon Public Affairs Considered (1766). See Bollan, William: writings of
Freiberg, Malcolm, xvi–xviii, xxi, xxvii–viii, xix, xxxvii, 2n, 3, 118n, 216n
writings of
“The First Fifty Years” (1958), 2
Prelude to Purgatory (1950), 2
French, David, 97n
French and Indian War (1754–1763), 10, 41, 42, 44, 45, 50, 52, 54, 58, 70, 106, 123–29, 137, 149n, 164n. See also Crown Point; forts; Louisburg; Montreal; Paris, Treaty of; Quebec; and under individual commanders’ names
economic impact of, 16, 50, 80, 177, 230, 247
commanders-in-chief, 10, 41, 42, 54, 61, 72–73, 125–27, 137, 138n, 171
French neutrals. See Acadians.
Frothingham, Richard, 33
Frye, Joseph, 226
identified, 226n
Fuller, Rose, 426
identified, 427n
Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669). See Locke, John: writings of
Gage, Margaret Kemble, 49
Gage, Thomas, 24, 25, 39, 43, 60, 186, 187n
as governor of Massachusetts, 34, 35, 40
identified, 49
and Stamp Act riots, 302, 303n
Gambier, James, 28
identified, 49
Gardiner, Sylvester, 456
identified, 458n
Garth, Charles, 80
Gathom & Graham
letter to, 552
Gay, John, 419
identified, 419n
writings of
The Beggar’s Opera (1728), 419n
General Abridgement of Law and Equity (1741–1751). See Viner, Charles: writings of
General Court, 23, 27–29, 31, 33, 35, 58, 133, 226n, 346–47, 373, 391. See also agents, provincial; boundary disputes; Council (Mass.); House of Representatives (Mass.)
William Bollan, 155, 157n, 161, 237n
Dennys DeBerdt, 83, 341, 342, 345
TH, 78, 91, 187–93, 196–98, 238
Richard Jackson, 256, 342, 345
Albany Conference and Plan, 70, 107, 113, 117n, 118n
Cambridge, convening in, 26, 27, 78, 190, 192, 193
currency, 91, 155, 157n, 158, 162
customs seizures, 154, 155n, 158, 159n
elections, 29, 81, 85–86, 162, 270n, 432
Harvard College fire, 198, 199n
Stamp Act
compensation, 20, 83, 87, 304n, 315, 335, 338, 339, 343, 351, 426, 442, 448, 450–51, 460
petition, 15, 17, 18, 80, 228–232 (text), 233–36, 238, 306, 314, 344, 404
troops, raising and quartering, 130, 141, 145, 146, 159, 160n, 350n
Genoa, 211
George I, King, 397n
George II, King, 74, 102, 133n, 176n, 205n
George III, King, 50, 56, 63, 78, 419, 448n
ministers and advisers of, 18, 22, 42, 44, 45, 50, 56, 59, 81, 185n, 459, 460n, 487
Gerrish, Joseph, 410, 433n, 434
identified, 411n
Gibbon, Edward, 35
Gibbs, Henry
identified, 176n
Gibbs, Katherine Willard, 175
identified, 176n
Gill, John, 30, 56.See also Boston Gazette
identified, 47
Gipson, Lawrence Henry, 10n, 118n
Glorious Revolution (1688–1689), 217n, 269, 270, 274, 366, 370, 494
Goffe. See Edmund Trowbridge.
Goffe, Edmund, 62
Goffe, Frances Whalley, 275n, 369n
Goffe, William, 63, 175, 176n, 274, 275n, 366, 369n, 370, 371
identified, 49
gold, as legal tender, 75–76, 151, 155–56, 157, 158, 162, 163n, 166–68, 178. See also currency; gold, as legal tender; hard money; silver, as legal tender
Goldthwait, Thomas, 66
identified, 49
letters from, 499, 504, 506, 533
letters to, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506
Gonsales, Antonio Manuel
letter to, 539
Goodwin, Ichabod
letter from, 534
identified, 340n
Gordon, William, xx, xxxiii, 36
Gorges, Ferdinando, 213, 217n, 220, 226n, 271, 272n
identified, 217n
writings of
America Painted to the Life (1659), 272n
Briefe Narration of the Originall Undertakings of the Advancement of Plantations into the Parts of America. Especially, Shewing the Begining, Progress and Continuance of That of New-England (1658), 217n
Gorges, Ferdinando (grandson), 272n
Gracchus, Gaius, 211
identified, 217n
Gracchus, Tiberius, 211
identified, 303n
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of, 98
identified, 100n
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of, 40, 45, 86, 440n, 455n, 460n
identified, 49
“Grand Court of the Five United British Colonies” (1754), 121n
Granville, John Carteret, 2nd Earl of, 175
identified, 176n
Gray, Charles, 426
identified, 427n
Gray, Harrison, 184, 185n, 307n, 407, 410, 411n
identified, 155n
and legal challenge against customs service, 39, 74, 75, 154–56, 159n
Gray, Thomas
identified, 258n
Gray v. Paxton (1761), 74–75, 155n, 158, 159n
Great Lakes, 10, 108, 130, 177
Green, Benjamin, 348
Greenleaf, Stephen, 279–81, 283, 296, 297n, 314–15, 354–56, 376, 460n
identified, 50
Greenwich hospital duty, 404, 408n
Grenville, George, 22, 44, 51, 59, 77, 82, 250, 349, 350n, 364
family connections of, 61, 160n, 454n
identified, 50
private secretaries to, 29, 47, 48, 54, 63
revenue program, 52, 54, 77, 177, 184, 185n, 408n
parliamentary opposition to, 60, 362
proposed stamp duty, 17, 78, 184, 185n, 217n, 264n, 404
Revenue Act of 1764 (Sugar Act), 16
Stamp Act (1765), 18, 80, 272n, 273n, 311, 312n
Gridley, Jeremiah, 12–13, 359, 390
identified, 391n
Groton School, xviii
Hadley, Mass., 49, 62, 175, 176n, 269–70, 274, 370
Haldane, George
identified, 143n
identified, 50
letter from, 511
letters to, 122, 511, 515, 527, 528
Hale, Roger, 299
identified, 299n
Halifax, George Montagu Dunk, 2nd Earl of, 11, 40, 79, 145, 155, 171, 195, 221, 234n, 243
identified, 50
letters to, 189, 290, 550, 564
Stamp Act, 231n, 290, 295, 305, 351
TH’s leave of absence (1764), 17, 187, 190–98, 202n, 205n, 257n, 221n, 239n, 277
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 44, 47, 112, 145, 159, 212
as location of vice-admiralty court, 17, 235, 236n, 364, 365n
Hall, Stephen, Jr., 444
identified, 446n
Hallowell, Benjamin, 133, 135, 348, 349n, 357n
identified, 50
and Stamp Act riots, 19, 82, 285, 291, 293n, 295, 300, 301n
compensation, 463n, 464–65, 466n, 487, 493
Halsey & Hanbury, 417
“Hampden letters.” See Otis, James, Jr.
Hancock, John, 26–27, 37, 41, 46, 403, 408n, 409, 446n, 465, 466n. See also Liberty riot
identified, 51
identified, 147n
hard money, 6, 50, 56, 61, 66, 103–06, 305. See also currency; gold, as legal tender; silver, as legal tender
Hardwick, Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of, 37
Harris, Joseph, 167, 206, 207n
identified, 168n
writings of
An Essay upon Money and Coins (1757–1758), 168n
Harris, Samuel
letter to, 546
Harris, William, 254
identified, 255n
writings of
Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Oliver Cromwell (1762), 254, 255n
Harrison, Joseph, 436, 465, 466n
identified, 437n
Hartford, Conn., 252, 254, 255n, 309n
Harvard College, 3, 4, 65, 160, 161n, 273
Board of Overseers, 43, 44, 48, 58
donations for library, 52, 198–99, 261, 262n
fire (1764), 48, 52, 58, 78, 188, 195, 198–99
Hatch, Nathaniel, 162
identified, 51
Hawley, Gideon
identified, 313n
Hawley, Joseph, 479. See also Berkshire rioters; Stamp Act: compensation
identified, 51
compensation, 28, 464–65, 466n, 468, 469, 471, 472n, 477–78, 481, 482, 485, 490, 491n
Hayley, George (also spelled Healey), 417
identified, 418n
identified, 416n
Henshaw, Samuel, xix
Hillsborough, Wills Hill, 1st Earl of, 23, 25–26, 40, 58, 60, 63, 239, 243, 401
identified, 51
Hispaniola, 163
Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Oliver Cromwell (1762). See Harris, William: writings of
History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI (1759). See Robertson, William: writings of
History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, vol. 1 (1764). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of
History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, vol. 2 (1767). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of
History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, vol. 3 (1828). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of
History of Three of the Judges of King Charles I (1794). See Stiles, Ezra: writings of
identified, 52
Hood, Samuel, 1st Viscount
identified, 52
Hood, Zachariah, 302–03
identified, 303n
Hopkins, Samuel, 370
identified, 370n
Hopkins, Stephen, 106–07, 395, 409
identified, 52
letter to, 531
writings of
An Essay on the Trade of the Northern Colonies (1764), 52
Horace, 138n, 166n, 184–85, 185n, 419
House of Commons, 45, 98, 100n. See also Parliament
Stamp Act, 264n, 400, 401n, 424, 459, 492n
House of Lords. See also Parliament
Stamp Act, 264n, 399, 400n, 420
House of Representatives (Mass.). See also agents, provincial; Council (Mass.); General Court
Acadian refugees, 163
William Bollan, 161, 162n, 218, 219n, 236, 237n, 257, 258n
TH, 17, 78, 189, 192, 193, 195, 197–98, 202, 204
Richard Jackson, 491
Jasper Mauduit, 204, 205n, 398, 399n
Francis Wilks, 67
Albany Conference and Plan of Union, 70, 107, 117n, 118n, 121n
currency, 9, 103, 106n, 155, 156n, 157, 158n
customs service, legal challenge to, 74, 76, 155n
TH as governor, relationship with, 27–29, 31, 48, 147, 148n
Massachusetts Resolves, 83
Revenue Act (1764), 404
Shelburne, correspondence with, 492, 493n
compensation to sufferers, 20, 84, 86, 87, 304–05, 306–07, 308, 309n, 310, 315, 316n, 317, 336, 337, 338, 339, 351, 353, 356, 424, 426, 438, 442, 443, 444, 446n, 448, 449n, 451, 452, 453, 454n, 455, 456, 457, 460, 461, 462, 463–65, 466n, 467, 468–69, 470, 471, 476, 477–78, 481, 483n, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 492, 493–94
opening of the courts, 85, 382, 383n, 386n, 389, 391n, 407
petition, 228–232 (text), 233, 236
repeal, 439
Stamp Act Congress, 59, 81, 392, 398
Superior Court
objections to judges as members, 75, 76, 161
salaries of Superior Court justices, 75, 251, 271, 272n
western Mass., 103–104, 160, 171, 175, 176n, 481, 485
Howard, Sir Charles, 492n
Howard, Martin, Jr., 434
identified, 435n
Howe, George Augustus, 3rd Viscount, 138
identified, 139n
Howe, Richard, 138
identified, 139n
identified, 52
letter from, 552
letter to, 506
Hudson Bay, 112n
Hudson River valley, 42
identified, 52
Hume, David, 36
Huntington Library, xxii
Hutchinson & Goldthwait, 49, 66, 417, 418n
letters to, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506
Hutchinson, Anne (great-great-grandmother), 3, 202, 253n
identified, 202n
Hutchinson, Edward (great-grandfather), 3, 240n
Hutchinson, Edward (uncle), 7
Hutchinson, Elisha (grandfather), 3
Hutchinson, Elisha (son), xxxvii, 6, 34, 54, 67, 296, 298n, 330, 443
as TH’s secretary, xxv
identified, 52–53
mercantile business, 54, 446, 448
nonimportation agreement, 23, 43, 54
Hutchinson, Foster (brother), 15, 62, 263, 264n
identified, 53
letter to, 513
Suffolk County Probate Court appointment, 21, 84, 341n, 359, 360n, 363, 364, 378n, 379–80, 453, 489, 490n
“Hutchinson in America” (1778). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of
Hutchinson, Margaret Sanford (wife), 4, 6, 8, 60, 65, 70, 93, 173
identified, 53
letters to, 92–93, 495, 496, 497
Hutchinson, Margaret (Peggy) (daughter), xxxviii, 6, 34, 37, 41, 54, 70, 196, 418, 419n, 423, 424n, 442, 443n, 453
identified, 53
as secretary, xxii
and Stamp Act riot, 280, 282n, 290, 291, 296, 300, 309, 315, 328
Hutchinson-Oliver family connection, 6, 53, 56, 133n
Hutchinson, Peter Orlando (descendant), xix
Hutchinson, Sarah (Sally) (daughter), xxxviii, 6, 37, 68, 418, 419n, 423, 424n, 442, 443n, 446, 447n
identified, 53
Stamp Act riot, 280, 282, 290, 291, 293n, 296, 297n, 300, 309, 315, 328, 380
Hutchinson, Sarah Foster (mother), 4, 57, 65
identified, 278n
Hutchinson, Thomas, 39
as Boston Selectman, 66
apparel of justices, 20
appointment, 12–13, 14–15, 44, 57, 73, 149, 152
background and experience, 13, 151, 375
Berkshire rioters, 51, 86, 464, 477–78
contemplates resignation, 375, 377
exclusion of justices from General Court, 14
Superior Court during the Stamp Act, 342n, 378n, 380, 387
appearance after the riots, 20, 82, 287–88, 355
Boston memorial, response to, 372, 374
closing the courts in response to Stamp Act, 21, 22, 341, 486
Council, no direction provided by, 21, 364
delays opening court, 21, 363, 364n
open but no business requiring stamps, 85, 423–24
opening of the customs house, 348–49, 374
petition of the House, response to, 382n, 387, 388n
plural office-holding, 22, 151, 192, 384n
putative role in suppression of smuggling, 19n, 21–22, 62, 357n
salary, 14, 27, 75, 159n, 251, 271, 272n
writs of assistance, 13–16, 16n, 21, 74, 75, 151, 158, 159n, 183, 266, 267n, 300, 305–06, 337, 338, 388
on the Council, 69
Acadian refugees, 71, 163, 164n
French and Indian War, 10, 71, 123–29
Lord Loudoun, interaction with, 10–11
Spencer Phips, death of, 10–11, 71–72
purge (1766), 21, 43, 44, 63, 69, 86, 432–35, 440–41
attendance after purge, 21, 441, 483, 485n
Stamp Act, 17–18, 19, 21, 22, 80
petition to the House of Commons (1764), 17–18, 22, 80, 205–28, 228–32 (text), 232–33, 306, 314, 344, 404
in exile, 34–37
as governor
affair of the letters (1773), 24, 29–32, 44, 47, 48, 51, 55, 61, 63
burned in effigy, 31
debate with General Court, 27–29, 47
efforts to conciliate the opposition, 24, 26–27, 35, 51
granted leave to go to England, 33–34
instructions, 26
reluctant to seek appointment, 457
reproved by Lord Dartmouth, 29, 47
requires General Court to meet in Cambridge, 27
salaries of Crown officials, 27, 33
successor, 49
support of the customs service, 44
and Harvard College
fire, 43, 48, 52, 58, 188, 195, 198–99
as a historian, 3, 35–37, 48, 49, 61, 63, 76, 168, 175, 201, 202, 208–11, 213–14, 220, 221–23, 242, 244, 246, 252–54, 254–55, 269–70, 274, 275n, 310n, 393, 404, 478. See also writings of
as judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas (Suffolk County), 13, 69, 72
as judge of the Probate Court (Suffolk County), 13, 14, 69, 169, 170n, 235, 236n, 488
resignation, 21, 53, 62, 84, 341n, 359, 363, 364, 374–77, 378, 379
as justice of the peace (Suffolk County), 66
as lieutenant governor, 39
under Thomas Pownall, 134, 151, 152n
acting governor, 12, 73, 145–49, 218, 338n
appointment as lieutenant governor, 11, 58, 72, 133
apprehension of deserters, 73, 135, 138n
French and Indian War, 137, 140–49
Penobscot expedition, 12, 59, 73, 135, 140, 143
relationship with Pownall, 2, 10–12, 37, 58, 130, 135, 140, 143, 144, 233, 275, 417
and William Bollan, 11–12, 139, 218, 233
under Francis Bernard, 204, 155–56
acting governor, 180–81
before Bernard’s arrival, 12, 140, 338n
and Boston Massacre (1770), 25
agency
William Bollan, 17, 43, 151, 160, 161, 165, 174, 184, 218, 233–236, 257, 342, 417, 447, 451–52
Richard Jackson, 178, 184, 218, 256, 257n, 258, 262, 271, 277, 345, 434
and Bernard, 17, 24, 42–43, 47, 151, 234, 237, 256, 257n, 258, 266, 268, 413, 441, 470
British troops in Boston, 23, 24–25, 33
gold, as legal tender, 61–62, 151, 155, 157, 158, 162, 166–67, 168n, 178
leave to go to England as agent (1764), 17, 184, 187, 189, 190, 192, 257n, 277, 361, 406–07, 476
Maine, 220, 221–27, 346–47, 441, 456–57
nonimportation, 23, 405, 408n, 413
and James Otis Jr., 13–15, 57, 149, 152, 160n, 172, 173n, 175, 184, 202, 206, 406–07, 476
Stamp Act, 265, 271, 273, 277, 354–56, 360
early knowledge of and suspected of favoring, 19–20, 21, 184, 238, 265, 278, 280, 283, 285, 295–97, 300, 304, 306, 336–38, 344, 465
execution of, 295, 304, 306, 308, 313, 341–43, 359, 376, 391–92, 395, 396, 404–05, 431
opposition to, 20, 298–99, 339–40, 414
riots
(14–15 August 1765), 19, 278–84, 314–15, 354–55
(26 August 1765)
destruction of his house, 18–19, 50, 82, 285–91, 292–97, 300, 309–10, 315, 317, 344, 355
condolences for, 298, 301–02, 311, 312, 313, 343, 366, 370, 373, 388
inventory of items lost from his home, 318–35
manuscripts lost, 48, 202n, 300, 317, 344, 366, 369n
perpetrators of, 19–20, 299, 356
reasons for attack, 10, 18–19, 45, 55, 300, 305–06, 314, 337–38, 338–39, 465
repeal, 346, 394, 396, 397–98, 405, 409–10, 421, 424, 427
TH’s application for compensation
in England
by patronage jobs, 363, 375, 453, 457, 488
by royal grant
petition to king, 304–08, 313, 316–35, 336–37, 351, 353, 360, 363, 378, 381, 382, 391, 434, 446, 455
contemplates soliciting in person, 347, 352, 378, 387n, 388n, 391, 394, 397, 410, 414, 421
recommended by Parliament, 400, 431, 443, 446, 457, 467
seeks assistance with compensation, 20, 46, 285, 336–38, 338–39, 336–38, 344, 375, 388, 394, 421, 457, 476
sends TH Jr. to London, 20, 85, 87, 391, 394, 410, 412–16, 420
instructions to TH Jr., 416–17
in Massachusetts
compensated by a tax, 426, 439, 440, 443, 464, 481
compensated by Boston alone, 351, 461
compensated by private charity, 352, 358
compensation recommended by Parliament, 438, 440, 443, 468, 476, 477
compensation required by Parliament, 343, 456
inaction of General Court (1766), 434, 448, 451–52, 457, 462–69
initial attempt for compensation by province, 20, 300, 305, 313, 315, 335, 336, 343, 344, 351, 412, 424
Council estimates loss, 305, 310, 315, 316, 439
General Court fails to act, 316–17, 336, 338, 339
linked to amnesty, 20, 462, 465, 467, 469, 470, 477–78
related proceedings of General Court printed, 462, 465
TH’s claim separated from other victims, 463, 464
urged to flee Boston, 365, 379
as a member of House of Representatives, 6–7, 8, 66–68, 71
currency, 6–7, 8–9, 57, 66, 68, 69, 96, 98n, 103–06, 155, 204, 305, 337, 363, 465
as Speaker of the House, 8–9, 68–69, 103, 305
as a merchant, 6, 58, 67, 263, 264
Hutchinson & Goldthwait, 49, 66
importer of tea, 181, 186, 271
personal affairs
family, 6, 15, 23, 34, 42, 52–54, 56, 57, 59, 60, 62, 65, 66–68, 70, 82, 93, 181, 182n, 380, 453
finances, 4, 6, 20, 22, 24, 197, 394, 416–17, 423, 457, 462
homes
Garden Court St. home, 4, 9, 19, 45, 69, 82, 87, 278, 280, 283
illustration of, 292
illustration of ruins, 299
Milton home, xix, 6, 9, 19, 33, 53, 67, 82, 280, 282n, 291, 293, 341, 345, 365, 423, 457
illustration of, 425
portrait, frontispiece
Rhode Island property, 45, 173, 195, 259–60
as a representative of the province
agency in London (1740–1741), 7–8, 42, 62, 64, 67, 91–96, 98n, 101–02, 124, 127n
Albany Conference (1754), xxiv, 70, 106–22, 346, 347n, 377
boundary disputes with other colonies, 7–8, 10, 10n, 48, 58, 62, 64, 69, 76, 91, 101, 124, 239, 240, 241
Native American affairs, 8, 68
possible agent (1756), 178
possible agent (1758–1759), 134, 139
possible agent (1764), 17, 78, 187–95, 197–98, 202, 204–05, 233, 238, 256, 277
possible agent (1766), 471, 481, 485
reputation and character, 1–2, 3, 8, 9, 14, 21–22, 23–24, 25, 27, 28, 31, 32–33, 36–38, 154, 158, 160, 314, 382, 470
views on
distinction between internal and external taxes, 237–38, 263, 404
imperial reform, 30, 34–35, 54, 63, 137
hard money, 6, 50, 66, 75, 157, 204, 259
instructions to representatives, 462, 464, 478
natural rights, 16, 17–18, 204–05, 208
regulation of trade, 130, 179, 182–83, 184, 204–05, 214–16, 211, 220, 235, 238, 244, 246–47, 263, 266, 271, 338–39, 413
sovereignty of Parliament, 14, 18, 23, 27–29, 208, 300, 338, 395–96, 428–29, 450
taxation without representation, 18, 179, 208, 209
writings of
history of papers, xvi–xviii, xix–xxii, 19
epistolary habits, xxii, xxvi–xxxi
handwriting, xxii, xiii, xxvi, xxxvi
letterbooks, xvi–xvii, xix–xxiii, xxiv–xxviii, 203, 239, 403, 489n
cipher, xxii, xxix–xxxi, 244, 346, 347n
works
“Account and Defense of Conduct” (1775), 35
[A Brief State of the Claim of the Colonies and the Interest of the Nation with Respect to Them] (1764), 203, 206, 207, 208–18 (text), 220, 221n, 262, 400, 401n
“A Brief State of the Title of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay to the Country between the Rivers Kennebeck and St. Croix” (1762), 169n
Collection of Original Papers Relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay (1769), 202
Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson (1883–1886), xix, 4, 11, 14
History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, vol. 1 (1764), xix, xx, xxiv, 19, 47–48, 76, 78, 175, 271, 194
dedication to Halifax, 195, 221
distribution of, 241–44, 246, 250, 401
publication of, in America, 80, 196–97, 198, 221, 250, 369n, 478
publication of, in England, 80, 194–95, 250, 255, 272, 273, 400–01, 451, 478
reaction to, 252–54, 260, 261n, 265, 309, 310n, 313, 407–08, 409n
History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, vol. 2 (1767), xx, 81, 82, 100n, 202n, 242n, 250, 272, 366, 494
History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, vol. 3 (1828), 35, 37, 170
“Hutchinson in America” (1778), 37
A Letter to a Member of the Honourable House of Representatives on the Present State of the Bills of Credit (1736), 6, 66
Petition to the House of Commons (1764), 80, 228–32 (text)
Protest of Andrew Oliver and Thomas Hutchinson (1751), 105–06 (text)
Representation of the Present State of the Colonies (1754), 10, 107–113 (text), 116
Speeches of His Excellency Governor Hutchinson, to the General Assembly of the Massachusetts-Bay . . . with the Answers (1773), 28
[A State of Trade of the Colonies] (1764), 244, 246–47 (text)
Strictures upon the Declaration of Congress at Philadelphia (1776), 35
[A Summary of the Disorders in the Massachusetts Province] ([1765]), 354–56 (text)
Hutchinson, Thomas, Jr. (son), xix, xxxviii, 6, 52, 67, 329
identified, 53–54
letters from, 436–37, 442, 446–47, 449–50, 453–54, 455, 456, 574, 575, 576, 577
letters to, 416–18, 423, 424, 431, 434–35, 438, 443–44, 448–49, 453, 455, 572, 573, 574, 575, 576, 577
mercantile business, 263, 264n, 296, 298n, 416
and nonimportation, 23, 43, 52
as secretary to TH, xxii, xxv,
trip to England (1766), 414–21, 423, 424, 431, 434, 436, 442, 445–46, 448–49, 462–64, 467, 484, 487
to lobby on behalf of TH, 20, 85, 87, 391, 392n, 394, 397n, 410–13
power of attorney, 417
Hutchinson, Colonel Thomas (father), 3, 4, 65, 66, 277
identified, 278n
Hutchinson, William Sanford (Billy) (son), 6, 34, 37, 42, 70, 196, 453
identified, 54
as secretary to TH, xxii, xxv, xxxviii, 403
and Stamp Act riot, 280, 282n, 290, 291, 293n, 296, 300, 309, 315, 330
illicit trade. See smuggling
impressments, 181, 182n. See also Knowles impressment riot
Independent Chronicle (London), 37
Ingersoll, Jared,
identified, 54
and Stamp Act, 80, 82, 237, 239n, 277, 278n, 308, 309n, 354, 379
Institute of the Laws of England: or, the Laws of England in their Natural Order, According to Common Use (1763). See Wood, Thomas: writings of
internal taxes, 211–12, 217n, 230–31, 237–38, 295, 404, 431, 444
Ireland, 368, 400, 401n, 428, 431
Iroquois Indians (Five Nations), 107–110, 112n, 179, 180n
Jackson, Joseph, 279
identified, 281n
Jackson, Richard, 47, 206, 238, 239n, 275, 361n, 378, 450, 458n, 472
Harvard College fire, 199
identified, 54
on imperial reform, 472–73
on internal taxes, 217, 237, 239n
letters from, 400–01, 472–75, 552, 554, 566, 568, 571, 579
letters to, 166–68, 168, 178–79, 182–83, 190, 194, 194–95, 204–05, 206, 207, 220–21, 221–25, 232–34, 235, 239–40, 241, 241–42, 243, 250, 256, 262, 266, 268, 271–72, 273, 277, 279–81, 291–94, 298–99, 341, 345, 378–79, 394–96, 413, 427–29, 440–41, 450–51, 463–64, 470–71, 484, 540, 541, 547, 548, 550, 551, 553, 554, 555, 556, 557, 558, 559, 560, 561, 563, 564, 566, 568, 570, 571, 573, 575, 576, 578, 580, 581
as Massachusetts agent, 18, 47, 80, 162n, 178, 184, 185n, 256–58, 262, 271–73, 277, 345, 434, 484–87, 492
Stamp Act, 231n
and TH’s writings, 203, 206, 207, 241–44, 246, 250, 401
and TH Jr., 413, 417, 436–38, 442, 446–47, 449, 453, 454, 463, 474, 475n
Jacobites, 448n
James & Dickinson
letter to, 576
James, Thomas, 302, 303n, 345, 375
identified, 303n
James, William
Jefferson, Thomas, 35
papers of, xxxvii
“Jemmibullero” (by Samuel Waterhouse, 1765), 81
Jenyns, Soames, 447
identified, 448n
Johnson, Edward, 271
identified, 272n
writings of
Wonder-Working Providence of Sion’s Savior (1654), 272n
Johnson, William, 71, 115, 117n, 312, 313n, 485
identified, 486n
letter from, 514
letter to, 514
Juvenal, 239n
Kennebec Proprietors, 226n, 294n, 458n
Kennebec River, 108, 112n, 169n, 226n, 222, 294n
Kennedy, Archibald, 364
identified, 365n
Kentish privileges of Gavelkind, 208
Kilby, Christopher, 96–97
identified, 98n
King George (ship), 50, 147, 148, 324
King George’s War (1744–1748), 8, 43, 50, 57, 69, 97, 105n, 112n, 122n, 217n, 347
King Philip’s War (1675–1676), 4, 49, 226n
Kinnoull, Thomas Hay, 8th Earl of, 250, 394, 397n, 401
identified, 250n
letters to, 336–37, 538, 559, 565
Knowles impressment riot (1747), 68
Knollenberg, Bernhard, 216, 217n, 218n
Lamar Hill & Bisset
letter from, 538
Land Bank, 7, 8, 42, 50, 51, 66–67, 91, 95–97, 99, 434, 435n
land speculation, 91–92, 110, 115–16, 180n
Lane & Booth
letter to, 556
identified, 418n
letter to, 572
Late Regulations Respecting the British Colonies . . . Considered (1765). See Dickinson, John: writings of
Lawrence, Charles, 71, 145, 146n, 148
identified, 46
letters to, 531
Lechmere, Thomas, 75
Lee, Joseph, 257, 258n, 363, 365, 430, 480
identified, 54
Leitch, Peter, 419
identified, 419n
letters to, 537, 543, 553, 554, 557, 573
Lemonier, Philip, 174
identified, 174n
Leonard, George, 434
identified, 435n
Letter from a Gentleman at Halifax to His Friend in Rhode Island (1765). See Howard Jr., Martin: writings of
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies (1768). See Dickinson, John: writings of
Leverett, John, 4
Lewis, Andrew, xvii
Lexington and Concord, battles of, xix, 2, 35
Liberty Tree, 18, 278–79, 281n, 283, 354, 360n, 406, 426n
Life of Thomas Hutchinson (1896). See Hosmer, James K.
Lincoln, Benjamin
identified, 489n
linen manufactory, 56
Lisbon, Portugal, 174, 218, 219n
Livingston, Robert, 275
identified, 276n
Lloyd, Edward
Lloyd & James
letter to, 551
identified, 270n
writings of
Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669), 270n
Lords of Trade. See Board of Trade
Loudoun, John Campbell, 4th Earl of, 10, 137, 138n, 350, 394, 397n
French and Indian War, 10, 41, 71, 72, 123, 129n, 130
identified, 54
letters to, 124–27, 127–29, 344, 515, 516, 517, 518, 566
portrait, 128
campaign of 1745, 8–9, 43, 50, 57, 68, 133, 217n
campaign of 1758, 41, 42, 49, 72, 134, 141, 146–48, 217n
reimbursement from 1758 expedition, 43, 68, 69, 103, 122n, 184, 185n, 257, 259n. See also Bollan, William: as Massachusetts agent
Louis XV, King, 334n
Louisiana, 109
Loyalists exiles, 43, 44, 48, 51, 52, 53–54, 57, 58
Loyal Nine, 46, 47, 294n, 386n
Luther, Heinrich Eberfrud, 346–47
identified, 347n
identified, 270n
Lydius, John
letter from, 562
letter to, 508
Lynde, Benjamin, Jr., 13, 56, 85, 100n, 251n, 384, 392, 434, 435n, 479
identified, 55
letters from, 387, 389, 480, 570, 580
letter to, 579
Lynde, Benjamin, Sr.
identified, 100n
letter from, 496
Mackintosh, Ebenezer, 19–20, 44, 282n, 294n, 345, 356, 406, 438
identified, 55
Maier, Pauline, xviii
Maine, district of, 108, 112n, 294n, 456–57, 458n. See also Kennebec Proprietors; Kennebec River; Penobscot expedition; Penobscot Region; Penobscot River; Sagadohoc
boundaries, 76, 138n, 168, 169n, 222
exchange for New Hampshire, 220, 222–27, 232, 239, 240n
importation of foreign Protestants to, 346, 347n
Malcom, Daniel, 50, 86, 87, 460
identified, 460n
Marchant, Abigail Hutchinson (sister)
identified, 453n
Marchant, William
identified, 453n
Marmora Arundelia (1628–1629). See Seldon, John: writings of
mandamus council, 35, 48, 51, 53, 54, 57, 59, 64, 348n, 435n
Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl of, 40, 401
identified, 401n
identified, 173n
Mary II, Queen, 274n
Mary, Queen of Scots, 255
Maryland, 107, 111, 113–19, 129n, 215, 303n, 360n, 410n
Mason, John, 222
identified, 226n
Mason, John Tufton, 222
identified, 226n
Mason, Robert Tufton, 222
identified, 226n
Masonian Proprietors, 222, 226n
Massachusetts charter (1692), 30, 35, 196, 225, 254n, 262n
Massachusetts, early history of, 27, 48, 49, 61, 63, 168, 200–01, 213, 224, 242, 252–55, 260, 262n, 269–70, 274, 310n, 366. See also Goffe, William; Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of; Whalley, Edward
Massachusetts Archives, xvi–xvii, xix–xxi, xxvi–xxviii
Massachusetts Circular Letter (1768), 23, 41
Massachusetts Government Act (1774), 35
Massachusetts Historical Society, xvi, xx, xxi, xxii
Massachusetts Resolves, 83
Massachusetts Spy (newspaper), xx
Massianello. See Aniello, Tommaso
Mather, Cotton, 4
Mather, Hannah Hutchinson (sister), 181, 282, 296, 297n, 453n
identified, 182n
Mather, Increase (nephew), 181
identified, 182n
Mather, Samuel, 291, 293n, 296, 297n, 453n
identified, 182n
Mauduit, Israel, 218, 256, 258, 476. See also agents, provincial
identified, 55
Massachusetts agency, 76, 165, 166n, 174, 237n
letter from, 569
letters to, 420–21, 493–94, 573, 582
Mauduit, Jasper, 46, 76, 79, 80, 166, 168, 176, 178, 179n, 256, 258, 259n, 423, 424n
identified, 55
Massachusetts agency, 218–19
accounts with General Court, 398, 399n, 470–71, 478–79, 480n
appointed agent, 43, 76, 161, 162n, 165, 184, 185n, 218
Harvard College fire, 199
instructions to
on molasses duty, 178
on Stamp Act, 17, 79, 204, 205n, 206, 207n, 262
parliamentary reimbursements, 174
Stamp Act petition, 17, 231n, 233, 234n, 236, 237n
Maximus, Valerius, 303n
Mayhew, Jonathan, 42, 45, 82, 285–86, 294, 309, 310n
identified, 55
Mayo, Catherine Barton, xvi–xvii, xxi, xxvii–xxviii
identified, 56
Memoirs of Philip de Comines (1524–1525). See Comines, Philippe de: writings of
merchants
Boston, 130, 145, 146n, 406, 431, 492, 493n. See also customs service; nonimportation agreements; smuggling
legal campaign against the customs service, 13–14, 74, 149, 151, 152, 154, 155n, 159n
opposition to Grenville program, 17, 77, 178, 179
London, 84, 85, 246–47, 422, 430, 462
Merchants and Traders of Boston, 22
Middleborough, Mass., 53, 411, 412n
Massachusetts, 19–20, 43, 44, 45, 50, 82, 135, 146, 372, 373n
Stamp Act riots, 279, 281n, 356
Milton, Mass., xix. See also Hutchinson, Thomas: personal affairs: homes
Milton, John, 419
Minerva (ship), 34
Miquelon Island, 182n
Mississippi River, 109
mobs. See crowd action
Moffat, Thomas, 29n
Mohawk Indians, 112n. See also Native Americans
Mohegan Indians, 252. See also Native Americans
Molasses Act (1733), 73, 77, 177–80, 228–29, 375, 376n, 404, 408n
Molineux, William, 406
identified, 56
Molyneux, William, 368
identified, 369n
writings of
Case of Ireland’s Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated (1698), 368n
Monckton, Robert, 135
identified, 138n
letter to, 520
Montcalm, Marquis de, 71–73, 186, 187n, 222
Montreal, 42, 49, 186. See also French and Indian War
Morgan, Edmund S., 216
Morris, Charles
letter to, 562
Morton, Nathaniel, 4
writings of
New England Memorial (1669), 4
Mosely (or Moseley), Reverend Eleazer, 313
identified, 313n
Moulton, Daniel
letter from, 571
letter to, 570
Mourgue v. Buissiers (1755), 235, 236n
Mount Desert Island, Maine. See Bernard, Francis
identified, 148n
letter from, 530
Murray, Joseph, 115
identified, 117n
Muscongus Patent, 348n
Mutiny Act (enacted by Parliament annually), 130
Myers, Warren, xviii
Namier, Lewis, 12
Narragansett Grants, 222, 226n
Narragansett Indians, 269. See also Native Americans
National Historical Publications Commission, xvi
National Archives of the United Kingdom (formerly the Public Record Office [PRO]), xxi–xxii
Native Americans, 63, 252, 312–13. See also names of individual tribes
at Albany Conference, 107–16, 179, 180n
diplomatic presents, 112n, 116–17, 118n
English superintendency of, 110, 116, 313n
fraudulent land purchases, 110, 114–15, 179, 180n
French influence among, 114
fur trade, 112
Massachusetts relations with, 8, 64, 68, 215, 227n
and rum trade, 110–11, 112n, 115–16, 120
natural rights, 15–18, 204–05, 208, 211, 354, 356, 366, 390, 396, 403, 405, 406, 428
Navigation Acts, 13, 177, 179, 187, 263, 271, 272n, 351n, 405. See also customs service; smuggling
Nemasket River, 412n
Netherlands, 41
New Brick Church (Boston, Mass.), 58
New Brunswick (Canada), 112n
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham–Holles, 1st Duke of, 40, 72, 76, 492
identified, 493n
New England, Dominion of, 217n, 270n
New England Company, 55
New England Chronicle (newspaper), xx
New England Memorial (1669). See Morton, Nathaniel: writings of
Newfoundland, 111, 112n, 163, 182
New France. See Canada
New Hampshire, 61, 62, 108, 113–19, 375–76. See also boundary disputes
division from Massachusetts, 7, 42, 67, 91–92, 96–98, 100n, 101–02, 124, 260, 261n
exchange for Maine, 220, 222–27, 232, 239, 240n
New Hampshire grants (Vermont), 221, 226n, 275–76
New Haven, Conn., 49, 63, 252, 253n, 254, 255n, 370
New Jersey, 42, 49, 58, 118n, 119, 130, 143, 149, 190, 217n, 347n, 407
New London Gazette (newspaper), 379n
New Netherlands, 185n
New North Church (Boston, Mass.), 48
New Plymouth (Plimoth), Maine, 223, 226n
New York City, 22, 61, 350n, 353n, 409
and Stamp Act, 46, 84, 298, 302, 303n, 345, 346, 362–64, 376, 423
New York (province), 6, 33, 62, 86, 113–19, 224, 407. See also boundary disputes
boundary dispute with New Hampshire, 275–76
and Stamp Act, 18, 228, 239–40, 404, 408n, 424, 454, 455
Newport, R.I., 45, 59, 61, 298, 299n, 364
Niantic Indians, 252. See also Native Americans
Nicolson, Colin, xviii
Nivernais, Louis Mancini, Duc de, 163
identified, 164n
non-consumption movement, 22, 405, 408n
nonimportation agreements, 44, 59
first (1765), 79, 83, 84, 405, 408n, 413
second (1768), 22–23, 24–25, 43, 45, 46, 52, 53, 55, 56
Norris, Isaac
letter from, 495
North Briton No. 45 (1763). See Wilkes, John: writings of
North Carolina, 62, 119, 264n, 423, 435n
North End crowd, 55, 80, 345n, 346. See also crowd action; Pope’s Day
Northington, Robert Henley, 1st Earl of, 399
identified, 400n
North, Lord Frederick, 2nd Earl of Guilford, 31n, 34, 40, 43, 47, 50, 60, 61
identified, 56
Norwich, Conn., 309n
Nova Scotia, 209, 360. See also Acadia
boundary dispute with Massachusetts, 76, 138n, 140, 168, 169n
disputed with New France, 107–08, 112n, 125–26, 146n, 164n
Nugent, Robert Craggs-Nugent, 1st Earl, 40
Number Four, N.H. See forts
Ogden, Robert, 346
identified, 347n
Old South Church (Boston, Mass.), 57
Oliver, Andrew, 6, 32, 34, 39, 53, 131, 133n, 134, 157, 161, 199, 383, 393, 451, 452n, 453n
Council purge (1766), 21, 432–34, 439–41
identified, 56
letters from, 444, 507, 552, 575
letters to, 189, 387, 550, 553, 562, 570
portrait, 5
“Protest” of, 103, 105–06 (text), 157
publication of his letters, 29, 47
as province secretary, 48, 231, 236, 237n, 256, 258, 430, 450, 451n
and Stamp Act, 278–79, 281n, 283, 284n, 294n, 296, 299, 314–15
compensation, 426, 462, 463n, 464–65, 466n, 487, 493
as stamp distributor, 343, 354–55, 357n
resignations, 18–19, 81–84, 283, 284n, 295, 296, 315, 341n, 343, 344, 355, 360n, 372, 373n, 406, 408n, 426n
Oliver, Andrew, Jr., 465, 466n, 479
identified, 284n
identified, 393n
portrait, 5
Oliver, Mary (Clarke), 358, 402
identified, 359n
Oliver, Peter, 53
identified, 56–57
letters from, 357–58, 383, 384, 387, 392–93, 402, 411, 422, 475, 488, 567, 569, 570, 571, 573, 579, 580
on the Council, 21, 175, 176n, 383n
Council purge (1766), 432–34, 440n, 441
on the Superior Court, 33, 84, 86, 251, 383n, 385, 402, 411, 422, 479–81
portrait, 5
writings of
“Origin and Progress of the American War to 1776” (1781), 57
Oliver, Peter, Jr., 53
Oliver, William, 422
identified, 422n
Oneida Indians, 313n. See also Native Americans
Onohoquaja, 312–13. See also Native Americans
Onondaga Indians, 109. See also Native Americans
Ontario, Lake, 108
Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1974). See Bailyn, Bernard
“Origin and Progress of the American War to 1776” (1781). See Oliver, Peter: writings of
Osborn, Danvers, 130
identified, 118n
Osborne, John (stepfather), 131, 133n
identified, 57
Oswegatchie, 109
Otis, James, Jr., 2, 37, 41, 62, 81, 377, 391n, 434
advocate general of admiralty, 13, 73–74, 149
and agents, 193, 194n, 204, 205n, 447, 448n, 476, 477n, 478, 480n
William Bollan, 160–62, 219n, 237
Richard Jackson, 256n, 484, 486
and Francis Bernard, 169, 170n, 470, 471n, 487
as Boston representative, 86, 163n, 175, 193, 194n
character and reputation of, 169, 175
maligned in letters to England, 449, 450n, 470, 471n, 483
Council purge (1766), 21, 433, 434, 435n, 439, 440
customs service
fight with John Robinson, 59
legal challenge to, 74, 149–50, 154, 357n
writs of assistance, 15–16, 301n
Declaratory Act, 424, 426n, 427, 429n
gold as legal tender, 157, 158n
identified, 57
leadership of popular party, 46, 206, 232, 234n, 256n, 373n, 391–92, 434
political influence of, 409n, 436, 478, 490
mental instability, 14–15, 59, 414, 439
plural office-holding, 14, 22, 75, 384n
portrait, 153
Stamp Act, 17, 79, 204, 205n, 206, 236, 237, 354, 357n
on opening the courts, 359n, 363, 364n, 365, 389, 391–92, 406, 423–24, 457, 458n, 465, 466n, 470, 471, 472, 486
repeal, 42
Superior Court, 384
TH as chief justice, 13–14, 15, 149, 151, 152, 154, 206
justices’ salaries, 251n
and TH, 8, 26–27, 172, 173n, 175, 176n, 184, 202, 363, 398, 407–08, 434, 449, 470, 471n, 484, 485n
writings of
“Freeborn Armstrong,” 384n, 385, 386n, 390, 391n, 407
“Hampden” letters, 365, 398, 483n
Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764), 17, 79, 203, 205n, 206, 207n
Vindication of the Conduct of the House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay (1762), 76, 169, 170n
Vindication of the Rights of the British Colonies: against the Aspersions of the Halifax Gentleman, in a letter to a Rhode Island Friend (1765), 80
Otis, James, Sr., 39, 45, 151, 161, 162n, 175, 176n, 184, 185n
as attorney general, 235, 236n
on Council, 407, 410, 411n, 433
identified, 57
as judge, 386
letter to, 520
on Superior Court, 13, 149, 154n
Ottaway Indians, 186. See also Native Americans
Paine, Robert Treat
Palmer, Charlton, 301n, 415, 417, 418n, 447, 448
identified, 58
letters to, 300–01, 415, 535, 536, 539, 542, 545, 547, 563, 564, 567, 572, 575
identified, 100n
Palmer, Thomas, & Co., 58
paper money. See currency
Paris, Treaty of (1763), 44, 77, 160n, 163–64, 168, 174, 177, 179, 180n, 182, 218n
Paris, Treaty of (1783), 60
Parker, William, 479
identified, 261n
Parliament (Great Britain), 32, 33, 44, 177, 179, 209, 212, 259n, 367–68, 395, 444, 446n, 476. See also Declaratory Act; House of Commons; House of Lords; Land Bank; Revenue Act (1764); Stamp Act; taxation without representation
right to regulate trade, 182, 211, 215–16, 237, 431
right to tax, 1, 29, 59, 62, 208–19, 212, 215, 234n, 237–38, 263, 350, 404, 408, 427, 472–73
sovereignty of, 2, 14, 16, 17–18, 27–29, 30, 33, 35, 47, 59, 85, 95, 204–05, 208–10, 215, 232n, 237, 271, 272n, 275, 300, 306, 314, 336, 338, 362, 367, 370–71, 377, 395, 403–04, 413, 428–29, 449, 450, 471–72, 492
Stamp Act, 264n, 228–33, 235, 236, 238
compensation, 20, 343, 352, 381n, 400, 401n, 420, 426, 431, 436, 443n, 445–46, 448n, 450, 453, 455, 457, 465, 476, 477, 484, 494
repeal, 21, 59, 84, 85, 397n, 399, 400, 401n, 424
letters from, 540
Partridge, Oliver, 104, 117, 137, 138n, 143, 171, 342n, 479, 481
identified, 58
letter from, 521
Partridge, Richard, 92, 96, 98n, 99, 100n
identified, 92n
Paxton, Charles, 29, 44, 154, 244, 431–32, 474, 475n
identified, 58
legal challenge by merchants, 74–76, 152, 158, 159n
letters to, 456–58, 460, 486, 577, 580
portrait, 245
Stamp Act riots, 82, 279, 283, 285, 291, 293n, 314–15
trip to England, 86, 451–53, 455
Peas, Simon, 269–70
identified, 270n
identified, 58
Pennsylvania, 33, 54, 106, 113–19, 179, 180n, 264n, 410n
Penobscot Bay, 139
Penobscot expedition (1759), 12, 73, 138n, 140, 144
Penobscot Region (territory disputed with Nova Scotia), 138, 139n, 143n, 168
Penobscot River, 49, 138, 139n, 223, 224
Pepperell, William, 11, 68, 72, 131
identified, 133n
portrait, 132
Pequot War (1634–1638), 252, 254, 255n
Phaedrus, 299
Philadelphia, Penn., 22, 32, 35, 83, 92, 119, 298, 409, 410n
“Philalethes.” See Jonathan Sewall
“Philanthrop.” See Jonathan Sewall
Phillips, John
identified, 163n
Phips, Spencer, 10, 39, 71, 72, 104, 123, 346, 347n
identified, 105n
Pickering, John, 480
identified, 481n
Pickman, Benjamin
identified, 340n
Piscataqua River, 222
Pitkin, William, 106–07
Pitt, William. See Chatham, William Pitt, 1st Earl of
Pitts, James, 434
identified, 435n
“Plan of Union,” 119–22. See also Albany Conference; Albany Plan of Union
Plantation Trade Act (1741), 93, 95, 97n
Plato, 264
Pliny the Younger, 419
Plumb, J. H., 36
plural office-holding, 14, 22, 75, 151, 192n, 384n, 391n
Plutarch, 211
Plymouth Colony, 223, 226n, 252
Plymouth, Mass., 45, 53, 309n, 313n, 358n, 373n
Pompadour, Madame de, 334n
Pompilius, Numa, 252
identified, 253n
Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763), 42, 77, 177, 179, 180n, 182, 183n, 186
Pope, Alexander, 419
Pope’s Day, 44, 55, 80, 83, 345, 346. See also North End crowd; South End crowd
Potts, William
letter from, 521
Poulett, Vere, 3rd Earl of, 492, 493n
Powell, Jeremiah Dummer, 434
identified, 435n
Powell, John, 465
identified, 466n
letter to, 562
Powers, Peter
identified, 112n
Pownall, Vermont, 275
Pownall, John, 10, 34–35, 50, 130, 134, 135n, 160, 161n, 194, 243, 277n, 447
identified, 58
Pownall, Thomas, 2, 31, 39, 130, 349, 419, 487
Albany Conference, 10, 58, 130, 233
and Francis Bernard, 141, 143, 151, 152n
and TH, 2, 11–12, 37, 58, 130, 135, 137n, 138–39, 145, 155, 156n, 160, 233, 234n, 243, 381
displeasure with TH as acting governor, 140, 141, 143, 144, 233
TH letter affair (1773), 31, 31n
recommends TH as lieutenant governor, 11, 72, 233, 234n
identified, 58–59
letters from, 349–50, 524, 525, 529, 560, 567, 569
letters to, 123–24, 275–76, 295, 308, 342, 403–08, 409–10, 431–432, 487, 515, 562, 564, 565, 566, 571, 574, 580
as Massachusetts governor, 11–12, 72, 133, 138n, 146, 148, 152n, 219n, 260, 262n, 338n
and William Bollan, 11–12, 43, 161n, 165, 166n, 218, 219n, 233
French and Indian War, 11–12, 58, 130, 137
and James Abercrombie, 12, 135, 137n
and Jeffery Amherst, 12, 140–41, 143
quarrel with Lord Loudoun, 11
Penobscot expedition, 12, 73, 135, 138, 139n, 140, 143, 144
political allies of, 11, 46, 57, 61, 130, 135n, 149
and William Shirley, 11, 58, 61, 130
vice-admiralty courts, 350, 351n
portrait, 136
as South Carolina governor, 12, 73, 143n
writings of
Administration of the Colonies (1764 and subsequent editions), 59, 77, 275, 276n, 350, 351n
Considerations on a Paper Currency (1765), 350n
Pratt, Benjamin, 134
identified, 135n
Prelude to Purgatory (1950). See Freiberg, Malcolm: writings of
identified, 466n
Prescott, James, 465
identified, 466n
Prescott, Jonas, 465
identified, 466n
Preston, Thomas
identified, 59
Prince, Thomas
writings of
Chronological History of New England in the Form of Annals (1736–1755), 170
The Principles of Law and Polity (1764). See Bernard, Francis: writings of
Pringle, Robert
letters from, 497, 498, 499, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505
letters to, 497, 498, 499, 501, 502, 504, 505
Privy Council, 31, 48, 55n, 93, 101, 175, 368, 458n
PRO (Public Record Office). See National Archives of the United Kingdom
Proceedings of the Governor, Council, and House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, Concerning an Indemnification for the Sufferers by the Rioters in Boston, from August 27, 1765 to June 28, 1766 (1766), 452
Proclamation of 1765, 77
Protectorate (Oliver Cromwell), 253
Protest of Andrew Oliver and Thomas Hutchinson (1751). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of; Oliver, Andrew: writings of
Province of Massachusetts Bay v. Paxton (1762), 75–76, 154, 155n, 158, 159n. See also merchants: Boston
Provincial Congress (Mass.), xx
Prudden, Peter, 254
identified, 255n
Quartering Act (1758), 350n
Quartering Act (1765), 81, 349, 350n
Quebec, 73, 125, 141n, 144n, 147, 148n
Quebec Act (1774), 365n
Queen Anne’s War (1702–1713), 112n
Quincy, Josiah, Jr., 32, 287, 288n
Rands, Joshua, 187n
Reasons Why the British Colonies, in America, Should Not Be Charged with Internal Taxes, by Authority of Parliament; Humbly Offered, for Consideration, in Behalf of the Colony of Connecticut (1764). See Fitch, Thomas: writings of
regicides, 49, 63, 176. See also Goffe, William; Whalley, Edward
Regulator movement, 62
religion. See under specific denominations and faiths
Remembrancer (by John Almon), xx, xxxii
Remington, Gershom, 196
identified, 196n
letters to, 542, 545, 553, 568
Remington, Stephen
letter from, 551
[Representation of the Present State of the Colonies] (1754). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of
revenue, American, 184, 185n, 214–16, 217n, 404
Revenue Act (1764) (also known as the Sugar Act), 16–17, 50, 77, 184, 185n, 186, 228, 238, 239n, 311, 404, 408n, 430n. See also customs service; smuggling
colonial response to, 22, 54, 78, 79, 187, 203–05, 217n, 277n, 300, 343n
Revenue Act (1766), 22, 50, 85, 87, 211, 217n, 430
Reyes, Andres, xviii
Rhode Island, 52, 53, 61, 63, 113–19, 201, 259, 428
Massachusetts border with, 99, 100n
customs enforcement in, 59, 267n
Richardson, Ebenezer, 55
Richardson, J., 250, 272, 273, 401n, 450
identified, 250n
Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of, 40
identified, 437n
Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764). See Otis, James, Jr.: writings of
The Rights of the Colonies Examined (1764). See Hopkins, Stephen: writings of
Roberts, John, 447
identified, 448n
Robertson, William, 255
identified, 255n
writings of
History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI (1759), 255
Robinson, John, 57, 267, 275, 276n
identified, 59
Robinson, Samuel, 275–76
identified, 276n
Rockingham, Charles Watson–Wentworth, 2nd Marquis of, 22, 40, 49, 60, 61, 82, 85, 86, 350, 401, 436, 454, 455
identified, 59
Stamp Act
compensation, 311, 312n, 381, 420, 421, 429, 447
repeal, 22, 84, 311, 362, 399, 421
and TH Jr., 421, 436, 449, 454, 484, 485n
Rogers, George, 59
Rogers, Lydia Hutchinson (sister), 59
Rogers, Nathaniel (nephew), 29, 165, 166, 168, 202, 437, 443
identified, 59
letters from, 301–303, 564, 579
Rome, 210–211, 212, 217n, 368, 369n
Rome, George, 29n
Romney (ship), 52
Ropes, Nathaniel, 380
identified, 381n
identified, 408n
Royal Navy. See British navy
Royall, Isaac, Jr., 134, 407, 410, 411n
identified, 135n
Ruggles, Timothy, 446n, 465, 466n, 479
identified, 59
and Stamp Act Congress, 81, 342n, 343n, 346, 347n, 398
reproved by General Court, 392, 393
Rullus, Publius Servilius, 210–11, 217n
rum trade, 110, 112n, 116, 178. See also Native Americans
Russell, Chambers, 85, 251n, 257, 376n, 380
identified, 60
letter to, 580
travels to England, 87, 389, 393, 460, 461, 479
Russell, Joseph, 428
identified, 429n
Russell, John, 175
identified, 176n
Sagadohoc, 220, 433, 434, 439, 440n. See also Maine, district of
salaries of provincial officials, 22, 27, 33. See also House of Representatives (Mass.)
Salem, Mass., 172n, 219n, 268n, 270n, 479, 480
Saltonstall, Richard, III, 465, 479
identified, 466n
Sanford, Grizell (sister-in-law), 196n, 259, 260, 296, 298n, 326–27, 431, 437, 444, 446, 447n
identified, 60
identified, 433n
Savile, George, 311, 492n, 493
identified, 312n
identified, 198n
Scipio Nasca Serapio, Publius Cornelius, 301
identified, 303n
Scott, Christopher
letter to, 543
Scy, Peter Bours
letter to, 514
seamen’s tickets, 454
Second Continental Congress. See Continental Congress
Second Church (Boston, Mass.), 4
identified, 191n
Seldon, John, 200
identified, 201n
writings of
Marmora Arundelia (1628–1629), 201n
The Selling of Joseph (1700). See Sewall, Samuel: writings of
identified, 303n
Seneca Indians, 109. See also Native Americans
Sentiments of a British American (1764). See Thacher, Oxenbridge: writings of
September Bill. See Land Bank
Seven Years’ War. See French and Indian War
Sewall, David
letter from, 563
identified, 60
Sewall, Joseph, 199
identified, 199n
identified, 270n
writings of
The Selling of Joseph (1700), 270n
Sewall, Stephen, 12, 46, 60, 73, 149
Shakespeare, William, 418
Sharpe, John, 178
identified, 180n
Sheaffe, Edward, 251n, 389, 444, 446n, 479
identified, 389n
Sheaffe, William, 348
identified, 349n
Shelburne, William Petty, 2nd Earl of, 21, 23, 40, 87, 437, 459, 469, 484, 485n, 486n, 492, 493n
identified, 60
letters to, 468–69, 488, 578, 581
identified, 253n
Shipton, Clifford K., xvi, 2n, 3, 36, 70
Shirley, William, 8, 11–12, 15, 39, 42, 43, 57, 64, 67, 68, 71, 105n, 149
French and Indian War, 10, 63, 71, 112, 124n, 129n, 137, 138n
Louisbourg expedition and reimbursement, 50, 57, 122n
identified, 61
letter to, 504
loan to Massachusetts, 155–56
portrait, 114
and James Otis Sr., 13, 57, 149
identified, 61
Silliman, Gold Selleck, 237
identified, 238n
silver, as legal tender, 6–7, 103, 105–06, 350, 351n. See also currency; gold, as legal tender; hard money
Silver Bank, 7
Six Nations. See Iroquois Indians; Native Americans
smallpox, 62, 78, 93, 152, 188, 190–93, 196
Smith, Richard
identified, 117n
letter from, 569
letter to, 569
smuggling, 13, 15, 16, 32, 42, 61, 70, 73, 177, 181–82, 186, 197, 246, 271, 272n, 300, 351n. See also Malcom, Daniel; merchants, Boston; tea; Temple-Bernard affair; vice-admiralty courts; writs of assistance
TH takes depositions against, 19, 19n, 294n, 338–39, 355, 357n
and Stamp Act riots, 21–22, 306
Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, 261, 262n
Solemn League and Covenant, 35
Sons of Liberty, 44, 46, 47, 56, 294n, 361–62, 391, 397, 451–52, 409n, 461, 483
in other colonies, 62, 379n, 414, 457
and Stamp Act
repeal, 85, 395, 423, 424, 427, 432
South Carolina, 33, 73, 119, 141
South End crowd, 55, 80, 345n, 346. See also crowd action; Pope’s Day
South Sea Company, 54
South Sea (Pacific Ocean), 107, 111
South Sea Bubble Crisis (1720), 97n
Spain, 45, 134, 163, 171, 185n, 211, 216
Sparhawk, Nathaniel, 407, 410, 411n, 433
identified, 409n
letter to, 183
Sparta, 473
Spear, Nathaniel, 97n
Speeches of His Excellency Governor Hutchinson, to the General Assembly of the Massachusetts-Bay . . . with the Answers (1773), 28
Spry, William, 235
identified, 236n
Stamp Act (1765), 20–21, 45, 47, 51, 59, 79, 211, 228, 272n, 397n, 409. See also agents, provincial; amnesty; Berkshire riots; natural rights; nonimportation agreements
arrival of news of, 81, 264n, 271, 272n, 273, 276, 281, 295, 354, 357n, 404
British attitudes toward, 45, 46, 60
compensation for victims, 20, 53, 83–87, 293, 300, 304–06, 308, 309n, 316–40, 341, 343, 347, 351–53, 357, 358, 361–63, 375, 378, 381n, 382, 388n, 391, 394, 397, 400, 401n, 410, 412–17, 420, 421, 423, 424, 426, 430, 431, 434–36, 438–40, 442–44, 446, 448, 449n, 451, 452, 454–58, 460, 461, 463–71, 475–78, 480, 481, 483–89, 492–94
drafting of, 18, 50, 54, 63, 80, 264n
enforcement of, 271, 273, 277, 281, 293, 298–99, 300, 303n, 304, 307n, 308, 310, 313, 341, 342, 343, 359, 360, 362, 364, 374, 379, 394–98, 404–05, 409n, 410, 414–16, 431, 446, 488
opening of the customs house, 21, 84, 348, 358, 359n, 360, 361n, 372, 373n, 374, 376, 378
opening of courts, 21, 22, 53, 84–85, 341n, 358, 359, 361n, 362–65, 372, 374, 376–79, 382–90, 392, 393, 402, 406–07, 486
petitions against
British response to petitions, 258, 264n
Massachusetts, 15, 17–18, 22, 79–80, 228–32 (text), 233, 234n, 235, 236, 238, 251n, 263, 276, 314, 344, 404, 408n, 409n
other colonies, 258, 259n, 264n
New York, 17, 45, 84, 404, 408n
Virginia, 18, 81, 276, 277n, 354, 357n, 405, 408n
proposed, 78, 184, 185n, 203, 205n, 230, 265, 272n, 377, 404
repeal, 47, 59, 312n, 343, 362, 381, 385, 391, 394–97, 399, 400, 401n, 405, 409–10, 415, 423, 431, 447
colonial confidence in repeal, 341, 346, 358, 372, 374, 378n, 380, 391, 409–10, 414, 416, 421
concern over accompanying resolutions, 402, 424, 426n, 427, 442, 449
passage through Parliament, 22, 85, 362, 396n, 401n
riots and resistance, 15, 45, 50, 55, 299n, 360n, 378, 402, 414, 431, 473
(14–15 August 1765), 18–19, 81–82, 278–84, 293n, 294n, 296, 299, 311, 312n, 314–15, 344, 354–55
(26 August 1765), xxi, 19–20, 48, 50, 82, 285–301, 309–10, 311–35, 337–39, 344, 351, 355, 366, 467
Charleston, S.C., 83
Connecticut, 278n, 298, 308, 309n
Halifax, Mass., 402n
Marshfield, Mass., 372
Newbury, Mass., 339–40
New York, 46, 298, 302, 303n, 345, 346, 362, 363n, 364
Philadelphia, 83
rioters, 20, 29, 82, 83, 293, 294n, 299, 355–57, 360, 361n, 444, 446n
Stamp Act Congress (1765), 64, 81, 83, 240n, 302, 303n, 341–43, 346, 347n, 377, 392n, 398. See also Ruggles, Timothy
stamp distributors
Massachusetts, 21, 56, 81, 84, 343, 354, 360n, 372, 373n
Maryland, 360n
New York, 360n
stamped paper, 21, 82, 83, 272n, 278, 282, 303n, 304, 341n, 345, 348, 349n, 356, 359, 360, 363n, 364n, 373n, 378, 398, 424n
Stanhope, James Stanhope, 1st Earl of, 383
identified, 383n
Stanly, Captain
letters from, 510
Stark, John
identified, 112n
[A State of Trade of the Colonies] (1764). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of
“State of Trade” (1763). See Boston Society for Encouraging Trade and Commerce
identified, 61
letters from, 200–01, 252–53, 269–70, 366–69, 370, 370–71, 552, 559, 561, 568
letters to, 196–97, 202, 254–55, 274–75, 551, 553, 559, 561
and TH’s History, 200, 252, 269, 274, 366, 370
writings of
History of Three of the Judges of King Charles I (1794), 270n, 275n
St. Croix River, 169n
St. Eustatius, 431
St. Francis River, 108
St. Johns River, 108, 109, 139n
St. Lawrence River, 8, 107, 108, 112n, 124, 125, 134
St. Pierre Island, 182n
Stoddard, John
letter from, 506
letter to, 503
Stoddard, William, 444
identified, 445n
Storke, Samuel, Jr., 417
identified, 418n
letter to, 543
Story, William
Stamp Act
compensation, 463n, 464–66, 486, 487, 493
riots, 19, 82, 285, 293n, 300, 301n
Strictures upon the Declaration of Congress at Philadelphia (1776). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of
Succinct View of the Origin of Our Colonies (1766). See Bollan, William: writings of
Suetonius, 104n
Suffolk County, Mass.
Inferior Court of Common Pleas, 53, 70, 159n, 363n, 374, 406
Probate Court, 21, 53, 70, 84, 169, 170n
operating without stamps, 359, 360n, 361n, 363, 364, 374–80, 440, 442n, 489, 490n
sugar, 16, 179, 219n, 220, 404, 408n, 427n
Sugar Act. See Revenue Act of 1764
[A Summary of the Disorders in the Massachusetts Province] ([1765]). See Hutchinson, Thomas: writings of
Superior Court, Mass., 188, 191, 204, 205n, 461, 480, 483n, 490. See also Berkshire rioters
apparel, 173
chief justiceship, 12–13, 15, 20, 44, 55, 74, 149, 151, 152, 154n
exclusion of justices from General Court, 14, 161, 162n
letter to, 183
salaries of justices, 27, 44, 75, 158–59, 159n, 251, 271, 272n, 411
Stamp Act,
TH’s appearance after riots, 20, 284, 285, 287–88
urged to open in defiance of, 21, 84, 85, 341, 342, 363–65, 372–75, 378n, 382n, 383–90, 392n, 393, 402, 406–07, 409n, 411, 422–24, 431
writs of assistance, 15–16, 76, 158, 159n, 183, 266, 267n, 300, 301n, 305–07, 337
Survey of Trade in Four Parts . . . Together with Considerations on our Money and Bullion, Its Exportation Discuss’d, Scarcity of Silver Coin Accounted for, the Means of Procuring a Plenty and Free Circulation of Both Species (1718). See Wood, William: writings of
suspending clause, 162, 260–61, 262n
Susquehannah Company, 180n
Susquehannah River, 313n
Swift, Samuel, 345
Sylvester, Margaret, 260
identified, 260n
Tasker, Benjamin, 106–07
Tasker, John
identified, 340n
Taunton, Mass., 267n
Taylor, Ezra, 465
identified, 466n
Taylor, Israel, 465
identified, 466n
Taylor, Mary, 270
identified, 270n
taxation without representation, 18, 179, 208–09, 212, 230, 232n, 234n, 277n, 367–68, 377, 395, 427–28, 444
tea, 22, 271, 272n, 416, 448. See also Boston Tea Party; Hutchinson, Thomas: as merchant; smuggling
consignees, 45, 51, 52, 53, 54
Temple-Bernard affair (1764), 219, 220, 221n, 257n, 266–68. See also Bernard, Francis; Cockle, James; Temple, John
Temple, John, 2, 23, 43, 51, 75, 77, 156, 160, 161n, 348, 349n. See also Temple-Bernard affair
TH letters affair (1773), 30–31, 63
identified, 61
writs of assistance, 183
Temple, Richard Grenville, 2nd Earl of, 61, 454
identified, 454n
Temple, William, 184
identified, 185n
writings of
Essay on the Original and Nature of Government (1680), 185n
Test Acts, 97n
Thacher, Oxenbridge, 79, 83, 193, 205n, 234n, 236, 237n, 258n, 391n
identified, 62–63
writings of
Considerations on Lowering the Value of Gold Coins, Within the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay (1762), 75
Sentiments of a British American (1764), 79, 203, 207
Theobald, James
letter from, 512
letter to, 512
Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution (1999). See Walmsley, Andrew
Thomas, John, xx
Thomlinson, John, Sr., 102
identified, 102n
Ticonderoga. See Fort Ticonderoga
Tillotson, John, 419
identified, 419n
Town House (Old State House, Boston, Mass.), 18, 25, 279, 281n
Townshend, Charles, 4th Viscount, 22, 40, 60, 250, 460, 474, 475n. See also Townshend Act
identified, 62
Townshend Act (1767), 22, 23, 27, 32, 50, 60, 62, 475n
Townshend, Susannah, 331
Trecothick, Barlow, 243
identified, 243n
Trowbridge, Edmund (also known as Goffe), 15, 39, 235, 236n, 257–59, 299, 389, 479
Council purge (1766), 21, 432–34, 440n, 441
identified, 62
letters to, 560
urges TH to flee, 363, 364n, 365
Trumbull, Jonathan
letters to, 519
Tryon, William
identified, 62
Tulling, Richard
letter to, 542
Turner, John, 172
identified, 172n
letter to, 544
Tyler, Royall, 194n, 307n, 389, 407, 410, 411n
identified, 163n
letter to, 553
Tyng, John, 134, 139, 151, 152n
identified, 135n
Union Feast, 345, 346. See also Pope’s Day
Utrecht, Treaty of (1713), 107–09, 112n
identified, 253n
Vassall, William, 253
identified, 253n
vice-admiralty courts, 62, 235, 236n, 350, 351n, 380, 459n
in Boston, 57, 60, 73, 158, 159n, 375, 377, 378n
in Halifax, 17, 229, 232n, 364, 365n
Villiers, Pierre Joseph Neyon de, 179
identified, 180n
Vindication of the Rights of the British Colonies: against the Aspersions of the Halifax Gentleman, in a letter to a Rhode Island Friend (1765). See Otis, James, Jr.: writings of
Vindication of the Conduct of the House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay (1762). See Otis, James, Jr.: writings of
Viner, Charles, 448
identified, 449n
writings of
General Abridgement of Law and Equity (1741–1751), 447
Virginia, 63, 107, 118n, 119, 129n, 212–13, 370
Virginia Resolves (1765), 18, 81, 276, 277n, 354, 357n, 405, 408n
virtual representation, 212, 367–68, 395, 477
Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet, 36
Vose, Moses, 331
Vossius, Gerald John, 200
identified, 201n
Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders . . . of . . . Boston (1772), 27
Waldo, Francis, 456
identified, 458n
Waldo Patent, 227n
identified, 348n
letter from, 511
letter to, 512
Waldron, Richard
letter to, 498
Walmsley, Andrew, 2
identified, 159n
Walsingham, William de Grey, 1st Baron, 401
identified, 401n
Ward, Artemas, 491
identified, 491n
Ward, Samuel
letter from, 536
letter to, 536
War of Austrian Succession. See King George’s War
Waterhouse, Samuel, 81
Waterman, Benony
letters to, 540, 546, 565, 581
Watson, George, 53
Watson, Mary (Polly), 53
Watts, Samuel, Sr., 131
identified, 133n
Wedderburn, Alexander, 31
Welles (or Wells), Samuel, 117, 121
identified, 118n
letter to, 513
Welsteed, Sarah Hutchinson (sister)
identified, 453
Welsteed, William
identified, 453n
Wendell, Jacob, 131
identified, 133n
letter from, 503
Wendell, John
letter to, 544
boundaries of NH, 226n, 275, 276n
as governor of NH, 98, 100n, 101–02, 221, 260–62
identified, 62
letter to, 554
as surveyor of the king’s woods, 225, 227n, 375–76
Wentworth, John, 261n, 262n, 376n
West Church (Boston, Mass.), 45, 55, 82
West Indies, 6, 97n, 177, 178, 179, 265, 427n
West, James, 426
identified, 427n
Western Islands. See Azores
Westminster, Treaty of (1674), 217n
Whalley, Edward, 49, 175, 176n, 269, 270n, 274, 275n, 366, 370, 371
identified, 63
identified, 270n
Whately, Thomas, 54, 80, 264n. See also Grenville, George; Stamp Act: proposed
correspondence with TH, 29–30, 44, 47, 48, 61
identified, 63
Whately, William, 30–31
Wheelock, Captain
letter from, 526
letter to, 526
identified, 253n
Wheelwright, Nathaniel, 56, 80, 141, 481n, 486
White, Samuel, 204, 231, 237n, 434, 435n
identified, 205n
Whitefield, George, 63
Whitmore, Rebeckah, 330–31
Whittelsey, Chauncey, 370
identified, 371n
Whitworth, Miles, 176
identified, 176n
Wilbraham, Randle (or Randall), 165
identified, 166n
Wilkes, John, 46, 50, 160n, 179, 180n, 181–82, 418n
identified, 63
writings of
North Briton No. 45 (1763), 63, 180n
Wilks, Francis, 67, 95–96, 99, 100n, 398, 415
identified, 97n
Willard, Josiah, 39, 96, 175, 176n
identified, 63
letters to, 101–02, 497, 507, 509
Willet, Andrew, 270
identified, 270n
Willet, Francis, 173, 269–70, 274, 275n, 371
identified, 173n
Willet, Martha, 269
identified, 270n
William III, King, 274n
Williams, Israel, 11, 36, 51, 58, 104, 105n, 264, 361n
attendance at the General Court, 103, 104n, 171, 175, 481
college in western Mass., 161n
identified, 63–64
letters from, 481–82, 507, 509, 524, 526, 527, 528, 532, 533, 560, 580
letters to, 103–04, 104–05, 131–33, 135, 136–137, 138–39, 141–43, 151–52, 152–54, 171, 175, 184–85, 264–65, 391–92, 471–72, 485, 507, 508, 509, 512, 513, 518, 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 527, 528, 529, 532, 533, 542, 545, 549, 556, 561, 570, 578, 580
on Stamp Act compensation and amnesty, 481
Wilmington, Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of, 95, 98–99, 100n, 101, 102n
identified, 97n
Wilsonn, Robert, 156, 206, 236n, 416
identified, 64
letters to, 181–82, 186, 197–98, 537, 539, 540, 542, 546, 547, 548, 549, 551, 554, 555, 557, 558, 559, 562, 563, 565, 572
Wiltshire, Richard
letters to, 547, 549, 555, 559, 562, 576, 581
Winchilsea, Daniel Fitch, 8th Earl of, 311
identified, 312n
Winslow, Edward, 95
identified, 97n
Winslow, Isaac, 347
identified, 348n
Winslow, John
letter to, 581
Winthrop, John, 252
identified, 253n
Witt, Samuel, 410
identified, 411n
Wolfe, James, 72, 73, 141, 148n
identified, 141n
Wonder-Working Providence of Sion’s Savior (1654). See Johnson, Edward: writings of
Wood, Thomas, 235
writings of
Institute of the Laws of England: or, the Laws of England in their Natural Order, According to Common Use (1763), 236n
Wood, William, 243
identified, 243n
writings of
Survey of Trade in Four Parts . . . Together with Considerations on our Money and Bullion, Its Exportation Discuss’d, Scarcity of Silver Coin Accounted for, the Means of Procuring a Plenty and Free Circulation of Both Species (1718), 243n
Woodward, Hobson, xviii
Works Projects Administration, xxi
Worthington, John, 81, 117, 152, 479, 481, 490
identified, 64
letters from, 513
writs of assistance. See also customs service; merchants: Boston; smuggling
court case, 14–16, 21, 57, 61, 62, 74–76, 135n, 149, 151, 158, 159n, 305–07, 336–39, 391n
involvement of William Bollan, 16, 74, 307n
issuance of, 70, 183, 266, 267n, 271
and Stamp Act riots, 300, 301n, 305–07
Wyllys, George, 237
identified, 239n
York, James Stuart, Duke of. See James II, King
Yorke, Charles, 401
identified, 401n