Index: Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 12, B
- Bache, Benjamin Franklin (Phila. printer)
- Baker, Hilary (Phila. mayor)
- Baltimore, Md.
- Bancks, John
- Bank of England
- Bank of New York
- Bank of the United States
- Barbary States
- Barbé-Marbois, François de (French politician and diplomat)
- Barbou (Paris publishing firm)
- Barras, Paul (president of French Directory)
- Barthélemy, François (member of French Directory)
- Bartlett, Bailey (Mass. representative)
- Bartlett, Peggy White (wife of Bailey)
- Bass, Ann Adams (Nancy, 1773–1818, niece of JA)
- Bass, Deacon Benjamin (of Braintree)
- Bass, Deacon Jonathan (of Quincy)
- Bass, Joseph (of Braintree)
- Batavian Republic
- Bath, England
- Baxter, Anna Whitman (wife of Thompson)
- Baxter, Edward Willard (son of Seth)
- Baxter, Eleanor Allen (wife of Seth)
- Baxter, Lt. Jonathan (1743–1821, of Quincy)
- Baxter, Jonathan, Jr. (1773–1845, son of Lt. Jonathan)
- Baxter, Capt. Joseph (of Quincy)
- Baxter, Polly Doble Howard (wife of Jonathan, Jr.)
- Baxter, Seth (of Braintree)
- Baxter, Susanna Field (wife of Lt. Jonathan)
- Baxter, Capt. Thompson (Tompson, of Quincy)
- Bayard, Peter (son of Samuel)
- Bayard, Capt. Samuel (of N.Y.)
- Beale, Ann Copeland (1745–1814, wife of Benjamin, Jr.)
- Beale, Ann Copeland (daughter of Richard)
- Beale, Capt. Benjamin, Jr. (1741–1825, of Quincy)
- Beale, Benjamin, III (1768–1826, son of Benjamin, Jr.)
- Beale, Jonathan (brother of Benjamin, Jr.)
- Beale, Joseph (of Quincy)
- Beale, Maria Ann Sellon (wife of Richard)
- Beale, Peter (son of Jonathan)
- Beale, Capt. Richard Copeland (son of Benjamin, Jr.)
- Beckley, John (clerk of the House of Representatives)
- Belcher, Moses, Jr. (of Braintree)
- Belfast, Ireland
- Belknap, Abigail (sister of Jeremy)
- Belknap, Rev. Jeremy (of Boston)
- Belknap, Ruth Eliot (wife of Jeremy)
- Bell, Daniel (husband of Mary)
- Bell, Mary Greenleaf (daughter of William Greenleaf)
- Bellamy, Pierre (French agent “Y”)
- Bénard, Abraham Joseph (French actor)
- Bengal, India
- Berlin
- Bern, Switzerland
- Bernstorff, Count Andreas Peter (Danish diplomat)
- Berwick, Maine
- Betsey (schooner)
- Bible
- Bielfeld, Baron von (Prussian diplomat)
- Billinge, Charles
- Billings, Col. Edmund (of Quincy)
- Billings, Mr. (Adams farmhand)
- Bingham, William (Penn. senator)
- Births
- Black, Esther Duncan (wife of Moses)
- Black, Moses (of Quincy)
- Black, William (brother of Moses)
- “Black Tom”
- Blackwell, Jacob (State Department clerk)
- Blair, Rev. Samuel (chaplain of Congress)
- Blake, George (Boston lawyer)
- Blake, Joseph, Jr. (of Boston)
- Blake, Rosanna Black (wife of Joseph, Jr.)
- Blodget, Samuel, Jr. (Phila. architect)
- Bloodworth, Timothy (N.C. senator)
- Blount, Thomas (Tenn. representative)
- Blount, William (Tenn. senator)
- Bogaërt, Miss
- Boies, Sarah Hanson Clark (of Milton)
- Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, 1st Viscount
- Bonaparte, Marie Josèphe Rose de Tascher de La Pagerie (Josephine, wife of Napoleon)
- Bonaparte, Napoleon
- Bond, Hannah Cranch (niece of Richard Cranch)
- Bond, Thomazine Elizabeth Fielder (Eliza, daughter of Hannah)
- Bond, William (husband of Hannah)
- Bonn, Germany
- Books and pamphlets
- Bordeaux, France
- Borland, Leonard Vassall (of Braintree)
- Bosset de la Rochette, Baron Georges François (envoy from German states to Netherlands)
- Boston, Mass.
- Boston Gazette
- Boston Price-Current
- Boston Public Library
- Botany
- Bourbon, House of
- Bourne, Sylvanus (U.S. consul at Amsterdam)
- Bowdoin, Elizabeth Erving (wife of James)
- Bowdoin, James (gov. of Mass.)
- Boylston, Nicholas (1716–1771, cousin of JA’s mother)
- Boylston, Dr. Zabdiel (1679–1766, great uncle of JA)
- Boylston family
- Brabant, Belgium
- Brackett, Elizabeth Odiorne (Betsey, wife of Capt. James)
- Brackett, James (Quincy tavern keeper)
- Brackett, Capt. James (son of James)
- Brackett, John (Adams farmhand)
- Brackett, Capt. Joseph (of Quincy)
- Brackett, Moses (father of Peter)
- Brackett, Peter (of Quincy)
- Brackett, Rachel Marsh (wife of Capt. Joseph)
- Brackett, Samuel (father of John)
- Brackett, Sarah Jones (wife of Moses)
- Bradford, Capt. Joshua (of the Mary and Sally)
- Bradford, Lt. Col. Samuel (U.S. marshal for Mass.)
- Bradford, Mass.
- Braintree, Mass.
- Brant, Joseph (Mohawk chief)
- Brazil
- Breck, Hannah (daughter of Samuel, Sr.)
- Breck, Hannah Andrews (wife of Samuel, Sr.)
- Breck, Lucy (daughter of Samuel, Sr.)
- Breck, Samuel, Sr. (of Phila.)
- Bremen, Germany
- Brent, Richard (Va. representative)
- Brest, France
- Bridgewater, Mass.
- Briesler, Elizabeth (daughter of John, Sr.)
- Briesler, Esther Field (wife of John, Sr.)
- Briesler, John, Sr. (1756–1836, Adams family servant)
- Briesler, John, Jr. (1794–1877, son of John, Sr.)
- Briesler, John Adam (brother of John, Sr.)
- Briggs, Dr. Richard (of Abington, Mass.)
- Bristol, Penn.
- Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, England
- British Army
- British Navy
- Brito, Francisco José Maria de (Portuguese diplomat)
- Brooke, Frances
- Brookfield, Mass.
- Brookline, Mass.
- Brooks, Mr.
- Brown, Andrew, Sr. (1744–1797, Phila. printer)
- Brown, Andrew, Jr. (1774–1847, Phila. printer)
- Brown, Dr. Charles (in Berlin)
- Brown, Jabez (of R.I.)
- Brown, John (Ky. senator)
- Brown, Samuel (Boston merchant)
- Brown, Dr. Samuel (of Ky.)
- Brown, Capt.
- Brunswick, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of
- Brussels, Belgium
- Buchhorn, Germany
- Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de (French writer and naturalist)
- Bugsby’s Hole, England
- Bulfinch, Charles (Boston architect)
- Bulkeley, Ann Frances
- Burgoyne, Gen. John (Brit.)
- Burk, John Daly (Boston printer)
- Burke, Edmund (M.P.)
- Burling, Walter (Mass. merchant)
- Burney, Fanny
- Burr, Aaron (N.Y. politician)
- Burrell, Mary Dunbar (wife of Peter)
- Burrell, Peter (Adams family tenant)
- Burrows, William Ward (of Penn.)
- Butler, Samuel
- Byrom, John
- Byron, N.Y.