Index: Papers of John Adams, Volume 21, B
- Babcock, Elisha (Hartford, Conn., printer)
- Babeuf, François Noël (French revolutionary)
- Bache, Benjamin Franklin (Phila. printer)
- Bacon, Sir Francis
- Bacot, Thomas Wright (Charleston, S.C., postmaster)
- Bacry, House of (brokerage firm in Algiers)
- Baden, Frederick, Margrave of
- Baden, Karl Ludwig Friedrich, Margrave of
- Baden, Margraviate of
- Bailly, Jean Sylvain (former mayor of Paris)
- Balch, Hezekiah (Presbyterian clergyman)
- Balch, Nathaniel (Boston hatter)
- Baldwin, Col. Loammi (Woburn, Mass., surveyor)
- Baltic Sea
- Baltimore, Md.
- Bancroft, Dr. Edward (Brit. spy and U.S. speculator)
- Bank of France
- Bank of New York
- Bank of the United States
- Banks, Sir Joseph (pres. of Royal Society)
- Baptists
- Barbados
- Barbar, Capt. Thomas (of N.Y.)
- Barbary States
- Barcelona, Spain
- Barclay, John (Phila. politician)
- Barclay, Thomas (former U.S. agent in Morocco)
- Barneveld (pseudonym)
- Barras, Paul (pres. of French Directory)
- Barrell, Joseph (Boston merchant)
- Bartlett, Bailey (of Haverhill, Mass.)
- Bartolozzi, Francesco (Italian engraver)
- Barton, Dr. Benjamin Smith (Penn. naturalist)
- Bastia, France
- Batavia, Dutch East Indies
- Batavian Republic
- Bath, England
- Bavaria
- Baxter, John (Brit. political reformer)
- Bayard, William (N.Y. merchant)
- Bayonne, France
- Beale, Ann Copeland (wife of Benjamin, Jr.)
- Beale, Capt. Benjamin, Sr. (1702–1793, father of Benjamin, Jr.)
- Beale, Capt. Benjamin, Jr. (1741–1825, of Quincy)
- Beale, Benjamin, III (1768–1826, son of Benjamin, Jr.)
- Beale, Hannah Baxter (2d wife of Benjamin, Sr.)
- Beauclerk, Topham
- Beaumez, Bon Albert Briois de (French merchant)
- Beaver, Penn.
- Beckley, John (clerk of the House of Representatives)
- Bedford, Francis Russell, 5th Duke of (M.P.)
- Bedford, Gunning, Jr. (Del. judge)
- Belknap, Rev. Jeremy (of Boston)
- Bellamy, George Anne (Irish actress)
- Benchellon, Suliman (Algerian diplomat)
- Bentinck, Berend Hendrik (Dutch)
- Berckel, Franco Petrus van (Dutch minister to U.S.)
- Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands
- Berkshire County, Mass.
- Berlin
- Bermuda
- Bermuda Hundred, Va.
- Bern, Switzerland
- Bernard, Jean Baptiste (of the Sans Pareille)
- Bible
- Bicker, Henric (son of Jan)
- Bicker, Jan Bernd (Dutch merchant)
- Bidwell, Barnabas (Mass. lawyer)
- Bilbao, Spain
- Billings, Thomas Gregory (Amer. sailor)
- Billings, Capt. William (of the Apollo)
- Bingham, Jabez (Penn. speculator)
- Bingham, William (Penn. politician)
- Bird, Henry (brother of Robert)
- Bird, Robert (London merchant)
- Bird, Savage, & Bird (London banking firm)
- Birmingham, England
- Births
- Blaauw, Jacob (Dutch diplomat)
- Black Sea
- Blanck, John (Phila. inventor)
- Blaney, David (of Va.)
- Bleakeley, John (of Phila.)
- Bligh, Capt. Richard Rodney (of the Alexander)
- Block Island, R.I.
- Bloodworth, Timothy (N.C. senator)
- Bloomfield, Joseph (Woodbridge, N.J., lawyer)
- Blount, William (Tenn. senator)
- Blussé, Abraham
- Board of Sinking Fund (U.S.)
- Board of Treasury (U.S.)
- Boerhaave, Dr. Hermann (Dutch physician)
- Boissy d’Anglas, François Antoine, Comte de (French revolutionary)
- Bomare, Valmont de
- Bonaparte, Napoleon
- Bond, Phineas (Brit. chargé d’affaires in Phila.)
- Bondfield, John (U.S. agent at Bordeaux)
- Bonner, Capt. George (of the Camden)
- Bonney, Augustus (Brit. political reformer)
- Bordeaux, France
- Bordley, John Beale (Md. judge)
- Bosset de la Rochette, Georges François, Baron (envoy from German states to the Netherlands)
- Boston, Mass.
- Boston (Continental frigate)
- Boston Athenæum
- Boston Marine Society
- Boston Public Library
- Botany Bay
- Boudinot, Elias (N.J. representative)
- Bougon, Joseph Michel Félicité Vincent Robineau de (French politician)
- Boundaries
- Bourbon, House of
- Bouteille, Capt. Jean (of the Sans Pareille)
- Brabant, Belgium
- Bradford, David (Penn. lawyer)
- Bradford, Rev. Ebenezer
- Bradford, Capt. John (Mass. Continental agent)
- Bradford, William (U.S. attorney general)
- Bradley, Abraham, Jr. (Amer. mapmaker)
- Braintree, Mass.
- Brant, Joseph (Thayendanegea, Mohawk chief)
- Brantsen, Gerard (Dutch envoy)
- Brattle, Maj. Gen. William (of Cambridge)
- Breda, Netherlands
- Bremen, Germany
- Brest, France
- Bridgend, Wales
- Bridgewater, Mass.
- Briesler, Abigail (daughter of John, Sr.)
- Briesler, Elizabeth (daughter of John, Sr.)
- Briesler, Esther Field (wife of John, Sr.)
- Briesler, John, Sr. (Adams family servant)
- Bright, John (Boston upholsterer)
- Brissot de Warville, Jacques Pierre (French revolutionary)
- Bristol (packet)
- British Army
- British Navy
- Brittany, France
- Bromfield, Henry, Jr. (London merchant)
- Bromley, William (Brit. engraver)
- Broome, Samuel (New Haven merchant)
- Brown, Jacob Roberts (of S.C.)
- Brown, John (Ky. senator)
- Brown, Joseph, Jr. (Charleston, S.C., merchant)
- Brunswick, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of
- Brunswick County, Va.
- Brussels, Belgium
- Buckinghamshire, John Hobart, 2d Earl (lord lieutenant of Ireland)
- Buckley, Capt. (of the John)
- Buffon, George Louis Leclerc, Comte de (French writer and naturalist)
- Bulkeley, John (Lisbon merchant)
- Bull, David (of Hartford, Conn.)
- Bull, Capt. Frederick (Hartford, Conn., tavernkeeper)
- Bunbury, Capt. Joseph (Brit.)
- Burke, Edmund (M.P.)
- Burr, Aaron (N.Y. politician)
- Bush, John (of S.C.)
- Bush Hill (Phila. estate)
- Bute, John Stuart, 1st Marquess of (Brit. ambassador to Spain)
- Butler, Pierce (S.C. senator)
- Butler, Samuel (Brit. poet)
- Byrne, John
- Byzantinæ historiæ scriptores