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Pennsylvania — Revolution
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Quincy, Josiah, Memoir of Josiah Quincy, Jr., 20.
Quincy, Josiah, Jr., The Hutchinson Riot, 397-400; Diary, 400.
Quincy, Samuel, A New England Man in Georgia, 116-117.
R.H., A Tory's Recantation, 470-472.
Ramsay, David, History of the American Revolution, 16, 632; History of South Carolina, 16; The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Revolution,629-632.
Randolph, Edward, mission to America, 30; Report of an Investigating Agent in Carolina, 94-98. — See also Vol. I.
Raynal, Abbé, on the American colonies, 541, 584.
Read, Charles, Minutes of a Colonial Council, 175-179.
Readers, use of sources by, 26, 28, 29.
Reconciliation, or independence, 530-534.
Record Commission, of Boston, Reports, 17; Records of Providence, 219.
Records, colonial, value, 2, 5-6 ; lists, 14-21.
Records of Salem Witchcraft, 48.
Recruiting, difficulties attending, 481-483, 586. — See also Army.
Reed, Esther, Woman's Work for the Soldiers, 467-469.
Reed, William B., Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed, 172, 469, 612.
Refugees, life of, 473, 477-480 ; pensions for, 478-480 ; article in treaty, 624.
Regulators, in North Carolina, 426-428.
Religion, in New England, 54; in the Jerseys, 276-279; in Pennsylvania, 278; Quakers and Orthodox ministers, 279-282; Wesley in Georgia, 283-287; converts from Romish church, 286; Governor Belcher's letter, 287-289; plan for American bishops, 289-290, 418-420. — See also Quakers.
Reminiscence, caution on, 1 ; value of, 7-8 ; list of books, 18.
Representation, of colonies, 395-396; unequal, 542. — See also Colonies, Congress, Election, Government.
Revenue, a governor's, 162; colonial, 166, 173. 179; local, 205, 208, 214; protective duties, 247; Grenville's scheme, 381; a colonist's defence, 394; Pitt's protest, 404; repeal of Stamp Act, 411; revenue controversy, 413-433 ; discussions in Congress, 525; Revolutionary, 594, 601. — See also Finances.
Revolution, sources classified, 4; works illustrative, 7; predictions, 352; causes, 373-453; writs of assistance, 374; arbitrary power in England, 378; Grenville's scheme, 381 ; Stamp Act controversy, 394-412; Hutchinson riot, 397; taxation opposed by Cambridge, 401; by Stamp Act Congress, 402; by Pitt, 404; by Franklin, 407; by Dickinson, 423; by Drayton, 449; taxation defended by Howard, 394; by Conway, 411; by Townshend, 413; by Johnson, 445; question of trade, 415; question of episcopacy, 418; troops in Boston, 420; "Sons of Liberty," 420; regulators, 426 ; Boston "massacre," 429; "tea-party,"431; patriot arguments, 401, 402, 407, 415, 423, 442, 449, 454; loyalist arguments, 394, 420, 439, 445, 472, 477; English feeling, 404, 445; character of George III, 373, 449; revenue controversy, 413-433; issue of coercion, 434-453; First Continental Congress, 434; "Association," 439; Second Continental Congress, 442, 525; charges of tyranny, 449; attitude of George III, 451; conditions of the Revolution, 454-518; the patriots, 454-469; public sentiment, 454, 455, 458, 465; mobs, 458; arrests, 458, 472; soldiers, 461, 467, 481, 484; prices, 463; woman's work, 467, 550; Washington, 467, 490, 495; loyalists, 470-480; popular hatred, 470, 474; refugees, 477; American forces, 481-499; recruits, 481; Nathan Hale, 484 ; French aid, 485, 495; negroes, 488; militia, 490; punishments, 493; privateering, 497 ; British forces, 500-518; Hessians, 500-507; prisons, 508; loyalist corps, 511; navy, 514, 556, 587; André, 515; progress of the Revolution, 519-632; union and independence, 519-545; Revolutionary conventions, 519; in Congress, 525, 543; call for independence, 530; state constitutions, 534; Declaration of Independence, 537; Articles of Con-