B

Backus, Isaac, 169

Bacon’s Rebellion, 187

Bainbridge, Edmund, 49

Bainbridge, John, Jr., 49, 51

Baldwin, Nehemiah, 48

Baldwin, Samuel, 48

Baltimore, Lord, 83

banking:

commercial, 124;

deposit, 124;

government, 124;

merchant, 124

banks:

fund, 129;

land, 129, 130, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 138, 139, 140;

loan, 129, 133, 134, 138;

silver, 136

Banyar, Goldsbrow, 41

Baptists, 21, 25, 26, 154, 164–165, 166, 168;

General, 164–165;

Particular, 165;

Regular, 165;

Separate, 165, 168–169

Barnwell, John, 89–90

Bayard, William, 251

Beckford, William, 217, 256, 258, 262

Bedford, Duke of, 51, 219, 224, 226, 227, 230, 256, 257, 258, 259, 261, 262

Belcher, Jonathan, 32, 50, 51, 52, 133, 135, 136, 210, 211, 243

Belcher, Jonathan, Jr., 242, 244

Bellomont, Lord, 22, 27

Benezet, Anthony, 177

Bernard, Francis, 250

Beverly, William, 78, 228

Blackwell, John, 130

Bladen, Martin, 208

Blake, Daniel, 212

Blake family, 105, 106

Blathwayt, William, 76–77

Bloody Marsh, Battle of, 117

Blunt, Tom, 89, 90

Board of Proprietors (S.C.), 102

Board of Trade (British), 51, 52, 70, 87, 104, 105, 106, 206, 207, 208, 210, 212, 223, 224, 227, 234, 238, 239, 241

Bollan, Thomas, 151

Bollan, William, 219, 220

Bond, Phineas, 153

bondservants. Seeindentured servants

Boone, Thomas, 119

Boston Evening Post,146

Boston Gazette,144

Boston Independent Advertiser,222

Boston News-Letter,144

Boston Public Occurrences,144

boundary disputes, 32, 34, 40, 41, 47–52, 75, 119, 135, 227

Braddock, Edward, 68, 69, 234, 235, 236, 248

Bradford, Andrew, 65, 66, 151–152

Bradford, William, 65, 147, 151

Bradstreet, John, 247

Bradstreet, Simon, 29

Brattle, Thomas, 21

Brattle, William, 21, 22

Brattle Street Church, 21–22, 23

Bray, Thomas, 111, 181

Brian, Hugh, 100

Brian, Jonathan, 100

Briant, Lemuel, 170–171

Bridger, John, 210

Brown University. SeeRhode Island College

Burke, William, 257, 264

Burling, William, 175

Burr, Aaron, 169, 197

Burrington, George, 92

Burton, Mary, 46

Bute, Earl of, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262

Byrd, William, II, 78