Index: Papers of John Adams, Volume 17, R
- Ramsay, David (S.C. member of Congress)
- Randall, Paul R. (N.Y. lawyer)
- Randolph, Edmund (of Va.)
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (grandson of Thomas Jefferson)
- Raynal, Guillaume Thomas François, Abbé (French historian)
- Rayneval, Joseph Mathias Gérard de (secy. to Vergennes)
- Rechteren, Count Jacob Godefroy van (Dutch ambassador to Spain)
- Religion
- Republicanism
- Resistance (Continental brigantine)
- Reventlow, Frederik, Count von (Danish envoy to Britain)
- Revolution Society (London)
- Rexv. Corbet
- Reynolds, Sir Joshua (Brit. artist)
- Rhode Island
- Rice
- Richmond, Va.
- Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of (Brit. politician)
- Rittenhouse, David (astronomer and mathematician)
- Robinson, Rev. John (Brit. negotiator)
- Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2d Marquis of (Brit. prime minister)
- Rodgers, Rev. John (of N.Y.)
- Rodgers, Dr. John Richardson Bayard (son of Rev. John)
- Rohan, Louis René Edouard, Cardinal de (French cleric)
- Roman Catholic Church
- Rome, Italy
- Roscoff, France
- Rose, George (senior secy. to the Brit. treasury)
- Rose (Brit. frigate)
- Rosewell, Sir Henry (Plymouth, Mass., grantee)
- Rotch, Francis (of Nantucket, Mass.)
- Rotch, William (of Nantucket, Mass.)
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Rouen, France
- Roxbury, Mass.
- Royal Academy of Arts, London
- Royal Bell Ringers
- Rozier, Jean François Pilâtre de (French balloonist)
- Rucker, Jane (Janet) Marshall (wife of John)
- Rucker, John (merchant)
- Rush, Dr. Benjamin (of Phila.)
- Russell, James (Md. trustee)
- Russia
- Rutledge, Edward (of S.C.)
- Rutledge, John (of S.C.)