non-importation, 139-140; London merchants petition Parliament, 141; effects of non-importation agreement, 143-147. Conciliation, Galloway's plan, 216; Pitt's plan, 221-222; North's plan, 223-224; 231; Dickinson advises petition, 233-235; Great Britain to make concessions, 239. Concord (Mass.), battle, 229-230. Continental Congress, first, Mass. delegates, 201; reasons for calling, 201-208; non-importation question, 213-215; question of authority, 214; "Suffolk Resolves," 215-216, 217; conciliation plan rejected, 216; dissensions in, 217; Declaration of Rights, 218; Association, 219-220; accomplishments, 220; adjourns, 220. Continental Congress, second, meets, 225; moderate men in, 231; Dickinson's petition, 233-235; raises army, 235; Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, 235-236; question of war or reconciliation, 237 et seq.; opens ports, 243-244; idea of independence, 245-246. Conway, H. S., presents bill for repeal of Stamp Act, 108. Curling, Captain, 205. Cushing, Thomas, 200. Customs, colonial duties, 24 et seq.; Townshend duties, 123; Board of Commissioners, 124; Liberty sloop riot, 124-126; protest against Townshend duties, 131 et seq.; duties repealed except on tea, 142-143, 148-149. D Dartmouth, Earl of, opinion of first Continental Congress, 220; petition presented to, 242. Dawes, William, 229. De Berdt, Dennys, 134. Declaration of Independence, 245, 253-256. Declaration of Rights, 218. Declaratory Act, 114. Delaware, on question of independence, 252, 253. Dickinson, John, quoted, 98; Farmer's Letters, 131-134; on conduct of East India Company, 204-205; advises conciliation petition to King, 233-235; for conciliation, 243; attitude toward independence, 252, 253. Dowdeswell, William, 120. Duane, James, 211, 214, 232. Dulaney, Daniel, Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes on the British Colonies, 108 (note), 113-114. E East Indian Company, Government suggests taking over possessions, 117; sends tea to colonies, 199, 202-206. England, of Franklin's day, 4-5, 7; sinecures in, 12 et seq. F Finance, revenues from America, 16; debt of England, 18, 23; taxes, 23-24; colonial customs, 24 et seq.; Stamp Tax, 39 et seq.; plan to take over possessions of East India Company, 117; land tax, 120; Townshend duties, 123-124; Dickinson distinguishes between kinds of duties, 131-134; reasons for decay of business in New York, 144-146; see also Customs, Taxation. Fleming, John, 70. Fox, C. J., quoted, 208. France cedes possessions to England, 30. Franklin, Benjamin, commissioned to London by Assembly of Pa. (1757), 1-2; delays going to accommodate Loudoun, 2-3; journeys to London, 4; pamphlet urging retention of Canada, 5; opinion of colonial loyalty, 5; life in England, 6-7; returns to Philadelphia, 8; desired to return to England, 8-10; opinion as to relations between Britain and colonies, 10-11; Plan of Union rejected, 37; description of American attitude toward defense, 38; as colonial