Index 



Abbott, Katherine M., 98 



Adams, Augustus, 99 



Adams, George, 131, 134, 136 



Allen, John Johnson, 148 



almanac, 22, 24, 25 



American Antiquarian Society, 38, 112 



American Philosophical Society, 11, 12, 

 16,21,22,24 



Amherst College, 26 



Annals of Salem, 43 



Antiques, 43, 45 



apparatus, scientific teaching, 3 



astronomical observatory, 15, 24 



Atwell, George, 10 



backstaff, 58, 96, 139 



Backus, Ebenezer, 120 



Bailey, Calvin, 39 



Bailey, John, 39, 51, 155, 162, 169, 170 

 John 11,39, 155, 161, 170 

 Lebbeus, 39 



Baily, Joel, 21,22,24, 155, 164 



Baldwin, Jabes, 123 



Jedidiah, 123, 124, 154, 155, 160, 



162, 170 

 Jeduthan, 94 



Ballard, Mehitable, 109, 110 

 Samuel, 109 

 William, 109, 110 



Baltimore American & Commercial Ad- 

 vertiser, 110 



Banks, Sir Joseph, 140 



Banneker, Benjamin, 22, 23, 24, 25, 155, 

 160 



Barclay, Thomas, 146 



Bardin, W. & T. M., 131, 141, 142, 143 



barometer, 31, 32, 33 



Bassett, Preston R., 74, 75, 153 



Bedini, Silvio A., 29, 113 



Banneker s . . . Almanac and Ephert?teris, 

 For . . . 1792, 24, 25 



Bennet, N., 131 



Benson, John, 28, 155, 169 



Bentley, William, 36, 37 



Bethune, Nathaniel, 87 



Biddle, Owen, 21, 22, 24, 155, 163 



Biggs, Thomas, 59, 155, 162, 163, 170 



Bion, Nicolas, 10 



Blakslee, Ziba, 47, 155, 160, 170 



Blundy, Charles, 29, 155, 165, 166 



Boston Annual Advertiser, 99 



Boston Evening Post, 27 



Boston Gazette, The, 6, 27, 38, 39, 40, 82, 



87, 95, 105 

 Bostonian Society, 42, 77, 78, 79, 99, 



100, 101, 105, 153 

 Bouchette, Col., 146, 148 

 boundsgoer, 7 

 Bowdoin, James, 81, 86 

 Bowles, Hannah, 124 

 Samuel, 124 

 Thomas Salter, 75, 124, 125, 126, 



127, 129, 153, 154, 155, 162, 170 

 Braddock, Gen., 149 

 Bradley, Abiah Emerly, 125 

 Brainard, Newton C, 5, 6 

 Breed, Aaron, 75, 107, 153, 155, 160, 170 

 Brewington, M. V., 85 

 Brewster, Charles W., 125 

 Bridenbaugh, Carl, 29, 53 

 Brigham, Clarence S., 38, 97 

 Brighton, Ray, 124 

 Brokaw, Isaac, 53, 155, 163 

 Brown, Benjamin, 94, 96 



Sam, 102, 104 

 Brown University, 26 

 Bucks County Historical Society, 90, 



153 

 Bulmain & Dennies, 51, 155, 162, 168 

 Burges, Bartholomew, 40, 155, 160 

 Burnap, Daniel, 69, 117, 118, 119, 155. 



160, 166, 170 

 Cabot, Mrs. H. Ropes, ix 

 camera obscura, 28 

 Campbell, Colin, 146 



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