Index: Papers of John Adams, Volume 16, L
- La Baussaie, Mr. (French agent)
- Lafayette, Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de
- Lafayette, Maj. Gen. Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de
- La Lande & Fynje, de (Amsterdam banking firm)
- La Luzerne, Anne César, Chevalier de (French minister to U.S.)
- Lamb, Capt. John (of Norwich, Conn.)
- Lamberton (now part of Trenton), N.J.
- Landais, Capt. Pierre (of the Alliance)
- Lane, Son & Frazer (London mercantile firm)
- La Rochefoucauld d’Anville, Louis Alexandre, Duc de (French writer)
- La Rochelle, France
- Latin language
- Laurens, Henry (of S.C.)
- Laurens, Henry, Jr. (son of Henry)
- Laurens, Col. John (son of Henry)
- La Vauguyon, Marie Antoinette Rosalie de Pons de Roquefort, Duchesse de
- La Vauguyon, Paul François de Quélen de Stuer de Causade, Duc de (former French ambassador to the Netherlands)
- Law of nations
- Lawyers
- Le Couteulx & Co. (Paris banking firm)
- Lee, Arthur (Va. member of Congress)
- Lee, Maj. Gen. Charles (U.S.)
- Lee, Francis Lightfoot (brother of Arthur)
- Lee, Richard Henry (brother of Arthur, Va. member of Congress)
- Lee, Richard Henry (grandnephew of Arthur)
- Lee, Thomas
- Lee, William (brother of Arthur)
- Leeuwarden, Société Bourgeoise of
- Leghorn
- Le Jeune, A. (inventor)
- L’Enfant, Pierre Charles (French engineer)
- Leopold I, Grand Duke of Tuscany (later Leopold II, German Emperor)
- L’Epée, Charles Michel, Abbé de (French teacher of the deaf)
- Létombe, Philippe André Joseph de (French consul at Boston)
- Levant
- Leyden, Netherlands
- Liberty
- Liefkenshoek, fortress of, Belgium
- Liège, Belgium
- Lillo, fortress of, Belgium
- Linckh, Jean Godefroi (Silesian textile manufacturer)
- Lincoln, Gen. Benjamin (U.S.)
- Lincoln County, Maine
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Liverpool, England
- Livingston, Robert R. (U.S. secy. for foreign affairs)
- Livingston, Walter (N.Y. member of Congress)
- Livingston, William (gov. of N.J.)
- Livorno, Italy
- Loan consortium (Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje)
- Loans, American states
- Loans, Dutch-American (1778, commissioners)
- Loans, Dutch-American (1781, Neufville)
- Loans, Dutch-American (1782, consortium)
- Loans, Dutch-American (1784, consortium)
- Loans, European
- Loans, Franco-American
- Logroño, Spain
- London, England
- London Chronicle
- Long, Edward (Jamaican planter)
- Longchamps, Charles Julian de
- Loosjes, Adriaan Pieterszoon (Dutch writer)
- Lorient, France
- Lotter, Christian (servant)
- Louis XV, King of France
- Louis XVI, King of France
- Louis Charles (later Louis XVII of France)
- Louis (Austrian brig)
- Lovell, James (Boston port collector)
- Lovell, James, Jr. (son of James)
- Lovell, Mary Middleton (wife of James)
- Lowell, John (Mass. judge)
- Lowestoft, England
- Lowth, Rev. Robert (bishop of London)
- Loyalists
- Lumber
- Luther, Martin
- Lutheran Church
- Luzac, Jean (editor of Gazette de Leyde)
- Lyde, Capt. Nathaniel Byfield (of the Active)
- Lynden van Blitterswyck, Baron Dirk Wolter (Dutch minister to Britain)
- Lynden van Hemmen, Willem Frans Godard, Baron van (Gelderland deputy to States General)
- Lynden van Hemmen, Mr. (brother of Willem)