N

Narrative Committee, 19

national debt, 395, 397

Navigation Acts, 101, 109, 122

Negro slaves, 67, 69, 78, 82, 84, 85, 86, 179, 310, 355, 435–38, 444;

Ethiopian Regiment, 83;

free voters, 129;

freedom through enlistment, 437–38;

“maroons,” 437;

slavery proviso, 414–15

Nelson, Thomas, 157, 387

Nelson, William H. (The American Tory),68, 163, 165, 459

Netherlands and the American Revolution, 447, 448–49, 454

Nettels, Curtis (George Washington and American Independence),116, 458;

(“Review of William B. Willcox, Portrait of a General: Sir Henry Clinton and the War of Independence”),311, 457

Nevins, Allan (The American States During and After the Revolution 1775–1789),457

New Hampshire Grant Lands, 182–83, 267

New Hampshire Provincial Congress, 104, 131–32, 256;

constitution, 272, 436;

Council, 131–32;

General Court, 210,

House of Representatives, 131–32

New Jersey Historical Society, 67, 457

New Jersey Provincial Congress, 171, 256;

Assembly, 78,

Committee of Safety, 105, 170;

convention, 170;

Council of Safety, 425

New York Historical Society Quarterly,206, 457

New York Journal,20

New York Provincial Congress, 29, 46, 47, 57, 60, 61, 66, 76, 176, 181, 182, 273, 404;

Assembly of 1779, 430–31, 432;

Committee of Safety, 60, 70;

Committee of Seven, 181;

confiscation law of 1784, 181, 197;

constitution, 274;

Council of Revision, 436

Nicholas, Robert Carter, 154, 155, 158

Nisbet, Robert A. (The Social Impact of the Revolution),435, 461

North, British Prime Minister Lord, 31, 36, 80, 117, 119, 120, 207, 234, 236, 238, 239, 304, 352, 353, 354, 363;

Plan of Conciliation, 120

North Carolina Provincial Congress, 85, 86, 152, 255–56, 270, 412;

constitution, 269–70

Norton, Mary Beth (The British Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774–1789),459