Index: Papers of John Adams, Volume 17, B

• Baker, Thomas (London broker)
• Ballooning
• Baltic Sea
• Baltimore, Md.
• Bancroft, Dr. Edward (Brit. spy)
• Banff, Alexander Ogilvy, 7th Lord (of Edinburgh, Scotland)
• Banff, Jean Nisbet, Lady (wife of Alexander)
• Banff, William Ogilvy, 8th Lord (son of Alexander)
• Banff County, Scotland
• Bank of England
• Bankruptcy
• Baptists
• Barbary States
• Barbé-Marbois, François de (secy. to La Luzerne)
• Barcelona, Spain
• Barclay, Mary Hoops (wife of Thomas)
• Barclay, Thomas (U.S. consul to France)
• Baring, Francis (M.P.)
• Barrett, Nathaniel (Amer. merchant)
• Bartel, John (of London)
• Bavaria
• Bayonne, France
• Bays, Edmé de
• Beaufoy, Henry Hanbury (M.P.)
• Beaugency, France
• Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (French playwright)
• Bell, Capt. Thomas (of the United States)
• Bellingham, Mass.
• Berckel, Engelbert François van (pensionary of Amsterdam)
• Berckel, Pieter Johan van (Dutch minister to U.S.)
• Bergen, Norway
• Berlin, Prussia
• Berwickshire, Scotland
• Betsey (Amer. merchant ship)
• Betsy (Amer. merchant ship)
• Bible
• Bills of exchange
• Bingham, Anne Willing (wife of William)
• Bingham, William (Phila. banker)
• Birmingham, England
• Births
• Blair, Tony (Brit. prime minister)
• Blake, William O.
• Bleiswyck, Pieter van (Grand Pensionary of Holland)
• Blount, Webster (Dutch consul general to Morocco)
• Blowers, Sampson Salter (loyalist, lawyer)
• Board of Treasury (U.S.)
• Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, 1st Viscount
• Bollan, William (Mass. agent in London)
• Bombay, India
• Bondfield, John (U.S. agent at Bordeaux)
• Bonhomme Richard (Continental ship, formerly Duc de Duras)
• Bordeaux, France
• Boston, Mass.
• Boston (Continental frigate)
• Boston Gazette
• Boston Magazine
• Boston Massacre
• Boston Neck
• Boston Patriot
• Boston Public Library
• Boston Tea Party
• Boundaries
• Bounties
• Bourdieu, James (London merchant)
• Bourdieu, Chollet & Bourdieu (London mercantile firm)
• Bowdoin, Elizabeth Erving (wife of James)
• Bowdoin, James (gov. of Mass.)
• Bowen, Jabez (deputy gov. of R.I.)
• Bowles, Thomas, III (Brit. artist)
• Boyer, Gazaigner de (Gaillac wine merchant)
• Boylston, John (1709–1795, 1st cousin of JA’s mother)
• Boylston, Thomas (1721–1798, 1st cousin of JA’s mother)
• Boylston, Ward Nicholas (1747–1828, 2d cousin of JA)
• Bradbury, Theophilus (Newburyport, Mass., lawyer)
• Braintree, Mass.
• Brandenburg, Prussia
• Brazil
• Bread
• Breck, Samuel, Sr. (Boston merchant)
• Bremen, Germany
• Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), Prussia
• Bridgen, Edward (London merchant)
• Bridgewater, Mass.
• Bristol, England
• Britannia (Brit. merchant ship)
• British Army
• British Empire
• British Navy
• Brown, Alexander (Scottish merchant)
• Brown, Elizabeth Otis (of Sleaford, Lincolnshire)
• Brown, Samuel (Boston merchant)
• Brown, Walter
• Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Louis Ernst, Duke of (chief advisor to William V)
• Brush, Eliphalet (N.Y. merchant)
• Buckingham, George Nugent-Temple, 1st Marquis of (Brit. politician)
• Bunker Hill, Battle of
• Burke, Capt. William (of the Resistance)
• Butler, Samuel
• Byles, Rev. Mather, Jr. (loyalist)
• Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron (Brit. poet)
• Byron, Vice Adm. John (Brit.)