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  • Frankford Town, 4, 195.
  • Frankfort (Kentucky), early steamboat building at, 9, 138.
  • Franklin, Benjamin: Braddock's dependence on, 4, 68; doubts Braddock's ability to capture Fort Duquesne, 119; advice to sleep with open window followed by pioneers, 12, 86; letter regarding S. Rhoads, on American canal building, 13, 25–26; 14, 207.
  • Franklin House, 10, 159.
  • Frazer (guide), in Forbes's army, 5, 100.
  • Frazier, Washington visits, 3, 98.
  • Frederick the Great: in Seven Years' War, 5, 67; opinion concerning Pitt, 70.
  • Fredericksburg (Maryland), Francis Baily (1796) describes, 11, 121–122.
  • Freeman: acts as spy, 8, 170; murdered, 171.
  • Freeman, Journal, cited, 14, 165.
  • Freighters: how built, 10, 129–130; great loads carried by, 131–132.
  • Freight rate: on pack-horse routes, 11, 61; from Marietta, Ohio, to Philadelphia, 12, 54; Alexandria, Virginia, to Morgantown, Virginia, (1796), 66.
  • French Creek, in Washington's plan of communication, 13, 38, 45.