B

Bailyn, Bernard, 355–6

Baker, Remember, 343, 345–6

Baker, William, 145, 148, 177

Barons, Benjamin, 46

Barre, Isaac, 84, 93, 109, 152, 179, 274–6

Barrington, Lord, 326

Bass, Henry, 104, 267, 301

Bassett, John S., 234

Battle of Alamance, 244

Battle of Golden Hill, 204, 218, 223

Beard, Charles, 354

Becker, Carl, 354

Beckford, William, 93, 148, 151, 156, 177

Bedford, Duke of, 19, 24, 28, 71, 147, 153, 160–1, 172, 178, 212–3, 273

Beekman, James, 219

Bengal famine, 263

Bernard, Francis, 38, 63, 90, 102–3, 105–6, 108–9, 127, 130, 136, 139, 172–3, 181–2, 198, 274

Beverly, Robert, 308

“Black Boys of Cabarrus,” 243

“Black Regiment,” 39

Blackstone, William, 335–6

Bland, Richard, Jr., 60, 76, 78, 99, 184, 323

“Bloody Law,” 346

Board of Commissioners of the Customs, 167, 173, 181

Board of Trade, 24–5, 30, 32, 41, 56, 172, 340

Boorstin, Daniel, 355

Boston Caucus Club, 39

Boston Chronicle,193, 195

Boston Gazette,39, 103–5, 131, 136, 155, 194, 197, 199, 201, 209, 218, 255, 315

Boston Masonic Society, 39

Boston Massacre, 199, 200, 202, 204, 214, 250, 254, 322

Boston Port Act, 273–4, 279–80, 282, 287, 290

Boston Resolves, 256–7

Boston Tea Party, 267–70, 272–3, 279, 283

Boucher, Jonathan, 316

Boulainvilliers, Comte de, 337

Bouquet, Henry, 19, 21–3

Bowdoin, James, 155, 197

Braddock, General, 32

Bradford, William, 121

Bradstreet, John, 23

Breakenridge, James, 341–2, 346

Brief Narrative (Allen), 344

Brief Remarks (Otis), 52

British Constitution, 356

British Currency Act of 1764, 67, 92

Brown brothers, 53

Brown, John, 253

Brown, Moses, 126, 258

Brown, Nicholas, 43, 51

Brown, Richard M., 229

Buchanan, George, 333

Bull, Alderman, 273

Bull, William, 62, 122, 133, 137, 230

Burch, William, 193

Burke, Edmund, 84, 147, 150, 166, 207, 214, 264, 274–6, 278, 294, 312, 334

Burke, Richard, 147

Burke, William, 146–7, 150

Burlamaqui, Jean Jacques, 289

Bute, Earl of, 24, 28, 30, 32, 80, 83, 105, 143, 147, 149, 153, 178

Butler, William, 236–8, 240–1, 244

Byrd family, 76