buys some rolls, 113.
  sees Miss Read, 113.
  goes to a Quaker meeting, 113.
  gets work in a printing-office, 114.
  goes to Boston on a visit, 114.
  learns to stoop, 114.
  returns to Philadelphia, 115.
  goes to London, 115.
  called the “Water American,” 115.
  returns to Philadelphia, 116.
  sets up a newspaper, 110, 116.
  his “sawdust pudding,” 116.
  his almanac, 110.
  his sayings, 110.
  his plan of life, 117.
  what he did for Philadelphia, 109, 117.
  experiments with electricity, 118, 119.
  his electrical picture, 118.
  his electrical kite, 119.
  his discoveries in electricity, 119.
  invents the lightning-rod, 120.
  receives title of Doctor, 120.
  services in the Revolution, 121.
  thinks we must fight with bows and arrows, 136.
  gets help for us from France, 121.
  his funeral, 121.
  counties named for him, 121.
  summary of, 122.

Friends (or Quakers), religion of, 97.
  persecuted in England, 97.
  go to Pennsylvania, 98.
  friendly relations with the Indians, 99. 
  See William Penn.

Fulton, Robert, birth and boyhood of, 193.
  his paddle-wheel scow, 193.
  care of his mother, 193.
  goes to England and France, 194.
  builds iron bridges, 194.
  his diving-boat, 194.
  torpedo experiments in France, 194.
  torpedo experiments in England, 195. 
  England’s offer of money, 195.
  his reply, 195.
  builds his first steamboat, 196.
  returns to America, 197.
  builds steamboat here, 197.
  trip up the Hudson, 197.
  builds steamboat for the West, 198.
  what he did for Western emigration, 199.
  his grave, 199.
  summary of, 200.

Gadsden Purchase, the, 240.

Gage, General, in Boston, 133, 134.
  his nose, 136.
  leaves Boston, 136.

Genoa (Jen’o-ah) (note), 1.

George II. and Georgia, 102.

George III., resolves to tax Americans, 131.
  sends over taxed tea, 132.
  closes port of Boston, 133.
  hires German soldiers, 134.
  his statue pulled down, 137.
  his character, 161.

Georgia, name of, 102.
  settlement of, 102. 
  Savannah, 104. 
  Ebenezer, 105.
  silk raised in, 106.
  keeps out Spaniards, 107.
  in the Revolution, 107.
  summary of, 108.

Gibault (Zhe-bo’), Father, 164.

Gin, the cotton, 180, 181.
  name of (note), 180.

Goffe, Colonel, at Hadley, 91, and note in A Short List of Books.

Gold, discovered in California, 237.
  tested by Sutter, 238.
  carried to San Francisco, 239.
  excitement over, 239.
  effect of discovery of, 239.

Grant, General, 260.

Gray, Captain, voyage to the Pacific, 233.
  carries American flag around the world, 233.
  names the Columbia River, 234.
  helps us to get Oregon, 234.
  summary of, 235.