on bill of 1751 for control of R.I. public 
credit, 603 [403] 
on statute 24 Geo. 11, c. 53 (1751), 603 
Bontein, Thomas, naval officer, 356 
Boone, Thomas, Governor of South Carolina 
puzzled by instructions of 1753, 386-90 
Booth, counsel, 549 [126] 
Borden, Samuel, 247 [167] 
Bordley, Stephen 
on extension of acts of Parliament to Maryland, 
483 [70] 
Bordley, Thomas, 229 [75] 
Boreland, John, 639 [579] 
Borough English tenure, 565 
Bosanquet, John Bernard, Justice of the Common 
Pleas, 203 [408] 
Boston (Massachusetts) 
regional vice-admiralty court established, 
191 
Boundary disputes, intercolonial, 52, 55, 121- 
27, 165, 206, 234, 244, 250 [196], 261, 
294, 311-12, 318, 322-23, 326-27, 348, 418- 
22, 442-63 
jurisdiction of Court of Chancery, 420 
jurisdiction of common law courts, absence 
of, 420 
jurisdiction of Privy Council, basis of, 418- 
22 
opinion of Blackstone, 420 
opinion of Colden, 421-22 
opinion of Delancey, 421 [16] 
opinion of Hardwicke, 420 
opinion of Mansfield, 420-21 
opinions of Paris, 421, 454, 455 [234]. 457 
[239], 462 [277] 
opinion of Wearg and Willes, 420 [8] 
opinion of Yorke (P.), 419-20 
possible ways of adjudicating, 418-19 
precedent of Welsh lords marchers, 420-21 
prerogative in settlement of, 422 
settlement by appeal from colonial adjudica- 
tion, 419, 422 
settlement by appointment of one governor 
for both colonies, 457 [238] 
settlement by colonial legislation attempted, 
449. 45i» 454-58 
settlement by original proceedings in Privy 
Council, 418, 420-21, 422 
settlement by royal commission in colonies, 
55, 121-22, 124-25, 311-12, 322, 348, 418- 
22, 442-63 
settlement by royal commission in England, 
457 [239]. 458 
Bow (New Hampshire), proprietors of, 234, 
449 
Bowdoin, James 
on right of appeal in Mass., 164-65 
Boydell, John, register of Mass. Court of Probates, 
569 [253] 
Bradford, William, 451 
Bray, James, 504 
Bray, Thomas, 504-5 
Brenton, Ebenezer, 200 
Brenton, Jahleel, Collector and Surveyor of 
N. England 
appeals of, 93, 105 [187], no [223], 137 
[37], 148 [86], 308 
enforces Navigation Acts in Mass., 138-39 
hostility to nonroyal colonial governments, 
146 
Brewster, Captain Edward, 42 
Bridges, John, 303-4 
Bridgewater, Earl of, 65 [417, 422], 367 [66] 
Brislane, Michael, 242 
Bristol merchants 
petition for extension of English law to 
Jamaica, 478 [39] 
Brooks, Caesar, 307 
Brougham, Henry, Lord, Lord Chancellor 
on rehearings by Privy Council, 318 [290] 
Broughton, Sampson Shelton, Attorney General 
of New York, 298, 299, 300 [184], 
302-4 
Brown, Jeremiah, 204 
Brown, John, counsel, 564 [225] 
Brown, William, 193 
Browne, J., counsel, 448 [192] 
Buchanan, George, 490 
Buchanan, Neil, 490 
Buck, Enock, 76 
Buckingham, Duke of, 64 [417] 
Bulkeley, Gershom 
on distribution of intestate estates in Conn., 
538 [66] 
on gavelkind in Conn., 541 [83], 566 [234] 
Bulkley, John 
on Mohegan claims in Conn., 435 [109] 
Bunyan, Arthur, 148 [86] 
Burd, Edward 
on extension of acts of Parliament to Pennsylvania, 
521 
Burdett, Rev. George, 50 
Burnet, John, 204 
Burnet, William, Governor of Massachusetts, 
556 [173] 
Burnet, William, Governor of New Jersey 
on membership of Assembly, 598-99 
Burnet, William, Governor of New York, 239 
["5] 
Burton, Thomas, 45 [291] 
.Burwell, Frances Bray, 505 
Burwell, Lewis, 348 [495], 505 
Butler, James, 148 [86], 308 [245] 
Butler, Rebecca, 272 [2]