J Jay, John, 133, 163 Jay, Maria 163 Jefferson, Thomas, 124, 138, 141, 174, 175, 185-86 Johnson, Samuel, 101 Johnson, Thomas, 133 Jones, John Paul, 160-61 Junto, the, 30-31, 34, 43, 46, 52, 88, 123 K Kames, Lord Henry Home, 79, 89, 95, 102 Keimer, Samuel, 19-20, 21, 22, 24, 29, 33 Keith, Sir William, 21-22, 23, 24, 31, 71 _King of Prussia_, ship, 91 Kinnersley, Ebenezer, 52-53 Kleist, E. C. von, 50 Knox, Henry, 126 L _Lady Catherine_, ship, 127, 128 Lafayette, Marquis de, 150, 162 Laurens, Henry, 162 Laurens, Colonel John, 162 Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent, 171, 174 Le Despencer, Lord, 108, 114, 117 Lee, Arthur, 141, 145, 153, 155, 183 Lee, “Light-Horse Harry,” 162 Lee, Richard Henry, 137 _Letters on Philosophical Subjects_, 110 Lexington, Battle of, 123 Leyden jar, 50-51, 81, 171 _Lighthouse Tragedy, The_, 13 Lightning rods, 55-56, 58, 60, 90, 150-51 Linnaeus, 182 Livingston, Robert, 138 London, England, 24-26, 74 London _Journal_, 16 London _Spectator_, 14 Lorraine, Prince of, 81 Loudon, Lord, 71 Louis XV, King, 51, 59, 103-04, 105 Louis XVI, King, 146, 153, 154, 173, 175, 185 Lynch, Thomas, 130 M Marchant, Captain Stephen, 159 Marie Antoinette, Queen, 81, 154 Marion, Francis, 162 Massachusetts Assembly, 104, 112, 113, 117, 118 Massachusetts Committee of Safety, 123 Mather, Cotton, 12 Mecom, Edward, 40 Mecom, Jane Franklin (Benjamin’s daughter), 9, 10, 40, 130-31, 183, 187 Meredith, Hugh, 29-30, 31-32 Mesmer, Dr., 174 Mifflin, Thomas, 183 Militia, Pennsylvania, 47, 68-71, 88, 125 Minutemen, 123-24 Mirabeau, Count de, 187 Montgomery, General Richard, 136 Montreal, Canada, 136, 137 Moravians, 68, 69, 86 Morgan, Daniel, 162 Morris, Robert, 128-29 Morris, Robert Hunter, 68, 70-71 Mozart, Wolfgang, 81 Musschenbroek, Pieter van, 50, 81 N Nairne, Edward, 171 Nantes, France, 143-44 “Narrative of the Late Massacres in Lancaster County,” 87 “Nature and Necessity of Paper Money, The,” 32 New Castle, Pennsylvania, 47 _New England Courant_, 13, 15, 16 Newport, Rhode Island, 40, 53 Newton, Sir Isaac, 25 New York City, 17, 71, 137, 186-87 Nollet, Abbé Jean-Antoine, 51 North, Lord, 104, 125 Northwest Passage, search for, 57 O Oliver, Andrew, 112, 113, 116 “On the Slave Trade,” 185 Oxford University, 81