R

Randolph, Edmund, 403

Rankin, James, 167

Rawdon, Lord, 315, 317, 322, 332, 338–39, 340

Read, George, 168, 271

Reed, Joseph, 162, 165, 167, 190, 192, 262, 283, 387

Reubens, Beatrice E. (“Preemptive Rights in the Disposition of a Confiscated Estate: Philipsburg Manor, New York”), 432–33, 458

Reynolds, Donald E. (“Ammunition Supply in Revolutionary Virginia”), 343, 357

Rhode Island General Assembly, 66, 71, 72, 133;

prohibition of slavery, 436

Ritcheson, Charles R. (British Politics and the American Revolution),120, 461

Rittenhouse, David, 165, 257, 261, 359

Robbins, Caroline (The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman),149, 238, 442

Roberdeau, Col. Daniel, 165, 167, 377

Robinson, Beverly, 275, 429, 432

Robson, Eric (The American Revolution in Its Political and Military Aspects).42, 457

Rochambeau, Comte de, 280, 345–46, 347

Rockingham, Marquis of, 117, 354, 361

Rodney, Ceasar, 168–69, 177, 271

Rodney, Adm. Sir George, 286–87, 346, 361

Roman Catholics, 171, 259, 274, 440, 451

Roseman, Kenneth R. (Thomas Mifflin and the Politics of the American Revolution),459

Rousseau, Jean Jacques 121

Royal Foresters, 81

Rudé, George (Wilkes and Liberty),118, 461

Rush, Dr. Benjamin, 168, 223, 225, 230, 245, 247, 260, 378

Rutland, Robert A. (George Mason: Reluctant Statesman),159, 458

Rutledge, Edward, 176, 177, 268

Rutledge, President John, 92–93, 116, 153, 268, 269, 310, 413, 438