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Weather-gage, Meaning of the phrase, i., 649.
WEAVER, THOMAS, Lieutenant in the United States navy in
1775, ii., 638.

cophagus of, ii., 212. Woolaston's portrait of, ii., 206. Por- | WEARE, MESHECK, President of New Hampshire, i., 303; ii.,
trait, Autograph, and Biographical Sketch of, ii., 634.
WASHINGTON, MARY, Mrs., mother of General, honored and
reverenced by him; Mrs. General Hamilton's anecdote of
her and Washington, ii., 220. Her last interview with him;
her death; her monument, ii., 221, 222. Her residence in
Fredericksburg, ii., 220. Her grave, ii., 217, 221.
WASHINGTON, MILDRED, daughter of Lawrence, and grand- WEBB, General, Perfidy and cowardice of, at Fort William
daughter of Colonel John, ii., 218.
WASHINGTON, WILLIAM, de Hertburne, ii., 217.

WASHINGTON, SIR WILLIAM, son of Lawrence, of Sulgrave,
marries the half-sister of George Villiers, duke of Bucking-
ham, ii., 218.

WASHINGTON, WILLIAM AUGUSTINE, son of Baily, ii., 435.
At the Battle of Trenton, ii., 20. At the siege of Charleston
in 1780, ii., 560. At the Battle of Rugeley's Mill, ii., 460.
In the Southern Campaign in 1781, ii., 396, 399. At the bat-
tles of Cowpens, ii., 431; Guilford, ii., 402, 404; and Hob-
kirk's Hill, ii., 473. Joins Lee, ii., 489. In skirmishes on
the Wateree, i., 491. Wounded and captured at Eutaw
Springs in 1781, ii., 494, 496. Silver medal awarded to;
Portrait, Autograph, and Biographical Sketch of, ii., 435.
Washington City, District of Columbia, History and descrip-
tion of; the Capitol; library of Congress burned by the
British in 1814, ii., 199. National Institute; memorials of
General Washington; relics of the Revolution, ii., 200, 201,
202. Franklin's printing-press, ii., 203. Greenough's stat-
ue of Washington; statuary and paintings in the Capitol, ii.,
204-208.

Washington Elm, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, Picture of
the, i., 558, 564

Washington Square, New Windsor, New York, i., 683. At
Philadelphia, ii., 101, 102.

Washington's Rock, New Jersey, Picture of, i., 333, 334.
Water Gap, Pennsylvania, i., 338.

WATERBERY, DAVID, Colonel, afterward General, i., 164, 165.
His regiment of Connecticut troops, i., 402. Autograph of,
ii., 626.

WATERBURY, Governor Clinton's messenger to Putnam; his
treachery, i., 735.

Wateree Ford, Battle of, ii., 454.

Wateree River described; associations of, ii., 424.
Wateree Swamp, Picture and description of, ii., 476.
Waterford, or Half-moon Point, i., 36, 41, 43.
Water-guards, American, Account of the, i., 762.
WATERHOUSE, DR. BENJAMIN, his account of Rhode Island
as it was before the Revolution, i., 639.
Waterman, Anecdote of a, at Troy, New York, i., 35.
WATERS, DANIEL, Captain in the United States navy in 1777,
ii., 638.

WATERS, JOSIAH, Captain, engineer, Military works at Bos-
ton constructed by, i., 593.

Watertown, Massachusetts, British prisoners at, in 1775, ii.,
637. Massachusetts Provincial Congress meets at, in 1775,
i., 531, 564. Washington at, in 1775, i., 564. Commemo-
ration at, in 1786, of the " Boston Massacre," i., 580.
WATSON, ABRAHAM, on the Massachusetts Committee of
Safety, i., 536.

WATSON, JOHN F., author of Annals of Philadelphia, quoted or
cited, ii., 44, 49, 52, 61, 66, 95, 97, 98, 100, 102, 107, 125, 656.
Erects, at Germantown, a marble slab to the memory of Gen-
eral Agnew, Colonel Bird, Captain Turner, Major Irvine, and
six American soldiers, ii., 113, 114, 115.
WATSON, Colonel (British), ii., 500, 565. Joins Rawdon at
Camden, ii., 474. His conflicts with Marion, ii., 566. At
the Santee and the Congaree in 1781, ii., 472, 475, 479, 501.
WATSON, Captain, with Putnam at West Greenwich, i., 412.
WATSON, Captain (British), at the Mischianza, ii., 99.
WATT and BOLTON, construct the engine of Fulton's first
steamer, i., 35.

WATTS, Major, at the siege of Fort Schuyler in 1777, i., 244.
Wounded, i., 247.

WATTS, of London, Dr. Franklin visits the printing-office of,
ii., 203.

WAUGH, DOROTHY, imprisoned, whipped, and banished, i.,
449.

Wawarsing, New York, i., 669.

Waxhaw River, Battle at the, in 1780, ii., 458.

WAYLES, JOHN, eminent lawyer of Virginia, father of the wife
of Thomas Jefferson, ii., 236.

WAYNE, ANTHONY, General, ii., 34. Visits Fort Montgomery
in 1777, i., 732. His bravery at the Battle of Brandywine,
ti., 178. Encamps near Paoli in 1777, ii., 164. At the Battle
of Monmouth in 1778, ii., 148, 150, 151. At Valley Forge, ii.,
128. Storms Stony Point in 1779, i., 744, 746; wounded;
his bravery; his laconic dispatch, i., 747. Gold medal award-
ed to, i., 748. His exploit at Block-house Point, ii., 622.
In command of Pennsylvania troops in 1781; his policy and
success, i., 312. Encamps at Green Spring Plantation, ii.,
240.

At the battle near Jamestown Ford, ii., 260; his great
bravery, ii., 261. Acts with La Fayette in 1781, ii., 342. At
Ebenezer in 1782, ii., 534. Termed "Mad Anthony," ii., 260.
Desolates the Indian country in Kentucky in 1794, ii, 295.
Picture of his residence, ii., 167. Portrait and Autograph
of, i., 745, 747. Biographical Sketch of; monument to, ii.,

117.

WEBB, GEORGE, Virginia Commissioner of Admiralty in 1776,
ii., 300.

Henry in 1757, i., 110.

WEBB, Colonel, at the Battle of Springfield in 1780, i., 324.
WEBB, Dr., of the Massachusetts Historical Society, i., 562,
634. His antiquarian correspondence with Rafn, i., 634.
Webb House, Picture and account of the, i., 436.
WEBSTER, DANIEL, his orations at Bunker Hill monument in
1825 and 1843, i., 559. His treaty with Ashburton, i., 167.
Remarks of, on the Battle of Bunker Hill, i., 547.
WEBSTER, NOAH, the house at Goshen in which he taught
school, i., 671.
WEBSTER, Lieutenant-colonel (British), at Crosswicks in
1778, ii., 11. In corumand of the garrison at Verplanck's
Point in 1779, i., 744, 748. Bombards Fort La Fayette, i.,
748. On the Catawba, ii., 392, 394. At the Battle of Guil-
ford, ii., 403, 404. His remarkable escape from death in the
skirmish near Reedy Fork, ii., 399.
WEDDERBURNE, Solicitor General, his charges against Dr.
Franklin, i., 495. His measures to quiet the Dissenters
when excited by Franklin, i., 517.
WEED, DAVID, of Danbury, i., 402.
WEEDEN, Mr., of Providence, i., 631.
WEEDON, GEORGE, General, ii., 34. Innkeeper, ii., 176. At
the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Yorktown, ii.,
176, 308. At Valley Forge, i., 696. Biographical Sketch of,
ii., 176.

WEEKES, Mr., Sufferings of, in Wyoming Valley, i., 362.
WEEMES, MASON L., Reverend, pastor and biographer of Wash-
ington; portrait of, ii., 419, 420.

WEIR, ROBERT W., painter, his picture of the embarkation of
the Pilgrims, ii., 205.

WELCH, NICHOLAS, Major in the battle at Ramsour's Mills in
1780, ii., 391.

Well at Crown Point, Picture and account of the, i., 151, 153.
WELLES, SAMUEL, of Massachusetts, i., 303.

WELLS, CHARLES F., his ode on the Wyoming Monument, i.,
365.

WELLS, ELEAZAR, of Johnstown, proprietor of Johnson Hall,
i., 286.

WELLS, ROBERT, Judge; his family massacred, i., 268, 269.
WELSH, ELIZABETH, Mrs., her stone house; her anecdote of
Monroe and Hardy, ii., 233.

Welsh's Tavern, near Kennet Square, ii., 171.
WEMPLE, Colonel, his tardiness at Fort Plain, i., 263.
WEMYSS, Major (British), defeated and wounded by Sumter at
Fish Dam Ford, ii., 445, 446. Pursues Marion, ii., 564.
WENTWORTH, BENNING, Governor of New Hampshire, i., 123.
Flees to Boston in 1775, i., 568.

Werowocomoco, the place where Captain Smith was saved by
Pocahontas, ii., 248.

WESLEY, JOHN, Notice of, i., 336; ii., 516. His brother Charles,
ii., 516.
WESSON, Colonel, at the siege of Fort Schuyler. i., 242. At
the battles of Stillwater, i., 51, 63; and Monmouth; Auto-
graph of, ii.,, 152.

WEST, BENJAMIN, painter, Portrait of Silas Talbot by, ii., 643.
His picture of the Reception of the Loyalists, ii., 667.
WEST, JOSEPH, Governor of South Carolina, succeeds Yea-
mans in 1674, ii., 539.

WEST, notorious Pine robber; executed; his body hung up to
be devoured by birds, ii., 162.

WEST, Captain, his settlement at the Falls of the James River,
ii., 226.

West Bridge and Melford Hill, Picture of, i., 423.
West Cambridge, Skirmish at, i., 529.

West Canada Creek, Fight on, in 1781, i., 291.
West Greenwich, Anecdote of Putnam at, i., 411.
West Indies, Aid in making conquest of the, offered by the
United States to France in 1776, ii., 648.

West Point, New York, Scenery of, i., 698, 699. Topography
of, i., 701, 703, 704, 705, 707, 734. Construction of forts at,
in 1776, i., 703. Fort Arnold, i., 701; Fort Constitution, i.,
703; Fort Putnam, i., 701, 702, 703. Importance of, as a
military station, i., 706. Washington's army at, in 1778, i.,
332. Washington's head-quarters at, in 1783, i., 668. Ap-
pearance of, in 1780, i., 704. Arnold in command of, in 1780,
i., 713. Estimate of forces at, in 1780, by Villefranche, i.,
721. Return of ordnance of the forts; Arnold's description
of the works, i., 722. Washington's return from Hartford
to, i., 727. Andrè at, i., 729. Military academy at, proposed
by Washington in 1793, i., 706; established at, in 1802; Forts
Webb and Willis; Constitution Island, i., 706, 707. Wood's
Monument, i., 699. Kosciusko's Monument and garden, i.,
701, 705. Picture of, in 1780, i., 704.
Westchester, Pennsylvania, ii., 167.
Western Reserve, Ohio, Account of the, i., 611.
Westmoreland County, Virginia, Notable men of; the birth-
place of Washington, ii., 217. Monumental stone at, ii., 218.
Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, i., 348, 349.

WESTON: See WESSON.

Westover, Virginia, ii., 235.

WETHERBY, Mr., his house at Quintan's Bridge, ii., 138.
Wethersfield, Connecticut, i., 435, 436, 439.
WETMORE, PROSPER M., his poems quoted, ii., 335.
WEYMOUTH, navigator, sails to America, ii., 245.
Weymouth, Massachusetts, Settlement of, in 1622, i., 445. De-
stroyed by Indians in 1676, i., 662.

Whale-boat warfare, Account of, in 1776-1781, i., 328; ii., 645,

646.

WHALLEY, General, regicide, concealed at New Haven, i., 419.
WHARTON, JOHN, member of the first Marine Committee of
Congress in 1776, ii., 637.

WHARTON, THOMAS, Quaker, banished to Virginia, ii., 56.
Wharton House, Fishkill, Picture of the, i., 690.

Wharton's Mansion House, Philadelphia, in 1778, ii., 97. Grand
fête at, in 1778, ii., 97, 98.

WHATELY, THOMAS, Hutchinson's letter to, i., 494.
Wheatley's slave: see PHILLIS.

WHEATON, EPHRAIM, Captain, his commission, i., 624.
WHEATON, JOSEPH, of New York, his exploit at Machias in
the first naval engagement of the Revolution in 1775, ii.,
637.
WHEELER, JOHN H., his Historical Sketches of North Caro-
lina, ii., 413.

WHEELER, Judge, of Skenesborough, i., 137.
WHEELOCK, Dr., of Lebanon Crank, Connecticut, i., 257.
WHEELOCK, Lieutenant-colonel, in the Council of War held
by General Ward in 1775, i., 534.

WHEELWRIGHT, Reverend Mr., adherent of Mrs. Hutchinson
in 1637, i., 637. Religious persecution of, i., 638.
WHEELWRIGHT, JOHN, Lieutenant in the United States navy
in 1776, ii., 638.

Whigs, Contests of, with Loyalists, ii., 383, 667, 668. Op-
pressed by Prescott at Rhode Island, i., 637. Meeting of, at
Cherry Valley, i., 233. Origin of the terms "Whig" and
"Tory," i., 71. Revival of the terms, i., 486.
Whipping-post at Oxford, North Carolina, Account of the, ii.,
351.

WHIPPLE, ABRAHAM, Captain in the United States navy, ii.,
638, 639 His exploits, i., 629; ii., 639, 641. In the expe-
dition against the Gaspee, i., 629, 630. At Charleston in
1780, ii., 558.

WHIPPLE, WILLIAM, General, of New Hampshire, at the bat-
tles of Bennington and Stillwater, i., 49, 393. Signs the pro-
test sent to D'Estaing, i., 650. Portrait of, ii., frontispiece.
Autograph of, ii., 80. Signer of the Declaration of Independ-
ence; Biographical Sketch of, ii., 662.

Whisky Insurrection, Herman Husband engaged in the, ii.,
372.

Whitall's House, Picture of; anecdote of Mrs. Whitall, ii.,
84, 85.

WHITCOMBE, General, at Boston before the Battle of Bunker
Hill, i., 534.

WHITE, ANTHONY WALTON, Colonel, surprised by Tarleton,
ii., 559.

WHITE, BENJAMIN, on the Committee of Safety in 1775, i.,
536.

WHITE, JOHN, Governor of Virginia, appointed by Raleigh in
1586; his grandchild one of the first two children of English
parents born in the New World, ii., 244. See DARE.
WHITE, PEREGRINE, the first English child born in New En-
gland, i., 437.

WHITE, PHILIP, Tory, Captain Huddy falsely charged with
the death of, ii., 160.

WHITE, WILLIAM, signer of the Pilgrim Covenant; father of
the first English child born in New England, i., 437.
WHITE, WILLIAM, Reverend, afterward Bishop of Pennsyl-
vania, ii., 44. Ordained by the Bishop of London, ii., 177.
Chaplain to the Continental Congress in 1776, ii., 61, 187.
His remark on Washington's posture in prayer, ii., 62.
WHITE, Dr., of Fishkill, his testimony respecting Crosby, i.,
690.

WHITE, Major, Aid of General Sullivan, killed at the Battle of
Germantown in 1777, ii., 111, 114.

WHITE, Mrs., General Lee captured at the house of; picture
of the house, ii., 15.

WHITE EYES, Captain, Delaware Indian Chief, fast friend of
the Americans, i., 264; ii., 44. Captain Pipe the rival of, i.,
264. Biographical Sketch of, ii., 44.

White Hall, Trenton, New Jersey, Picture and account of;
used for barracks by the Hessians in 1776, ii., 37.
White Plains, New York, Battle of, in 1776, ii., 616, 617. Plan
of the battle, ii., 618. Mr. Howland's account of an incident
during the retreat, i., 631. Picture of the place where the
British crossed the Bronx, ii., 616. Picture and description
of Chatterton's Hill; anecdote of the capture of a British
grenadier by a boy, ii., 617. Provincial Congress of New
York meet at, in 1777, i., 386. Picture of Washington's
head-quarters at, ii., 615.

WHITE THUNDER, Indian Chief, accompanies Washington to
Fort Le Bouf in 1753, ii., 268.
WHITECAR, SILAS, member of the New Jersey Tea-party, ii.,

459. At Nazareth, i., 337, One of his places of preaching
when at Philadelphia, ii., 95; at Freehold, ii., 153. Parlor
where he preached in the Birdsall House, i., 738. Estab-
lishes his Orphan-house at Savannah, ii., 516. Biographical
Sketch of, i., 336.

Whitehall, or old Skenesborough, i., 137, 138, 139, 142, 144.
See Skenesborough.

Whitemarsh Village, ii., 114. Picture and description of Wash-
ington's head-quarters near, in 1777; skirmish at; departure
of the American army from, ii., 115, 116.
Whitesborough, New York, i., 253.

WHITING, THOMAS, Virginia commissioner of Admiralty in
1776, ii., 300.

WHITING, Colonel, succeeds Colonel Ephraim Williams; his
judicious retreat at Lake George, i., 107.

WHITMAN, SARAH HELEN, her poems quoted, ii., 198.
WHITNEY, ELI, inventor of the cotton gin, i., 417.
WHITNEY, Lieutenant-colonel, in the Council of War held by
General Ward in 1775, i., 539.

WHITON, STEPHEN, Notice of, and of his wife, i., 360.
WHITTIER, JOHN G., his poems quoted, i., 150, 432, 643.
WHITTLESY, CHARLES, his Historical Discourse, ií., 283.
WIBIRD, RICHARD, of New Hampshire, i., 303.
WICKES, LAMBERT, Captain in the United States navy in
1776, ii., 638. His exploits; his death by shipwreck, ii.,
639.

Wilbur's Basin, Burgoyne's army at, in 1777, i., 50, 57, 58, 67.
WILCOX, CARLOS, his poems quoted, i., 253, 305, 306.
Wild Boar Hill, near Yonkers, New York, i., 384.
WILDE, RICHARD HENRY, his poems quoted, ii., 492.
WILEY, WILLIAM, on the New York Committee of Corre-
spondence respecting the Stamp Act, ii., 581.
WILFORD, Captain, hanged by Governor Berkeley, ii., 256.
WILFORD, Lieutenant, Aid to Burgoyne, i., 80.
WILIE, WALTER, his ballad on the destruction of Schenectady,
i., 302.
WILKES, JOHN, Lord Mayor of London, i., 584. Opposed by
Grenville in 1763, i., 460. Member of Parliament in 1768;
his speech in Parliament, i., 520, 530, 599. His violent ad-
dresses to the King in 1776, i., 584. Refuses to read the
proclamation for suppressing rebellion, i., 585. His duel
with Samuel Martin, ii., 383. Portrait and Biographical
Sketch of, i., 520.

Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, i., 340, 348.
Wilkesbarre Fort, i., 357, 372.
Wilkesbarre Mountains, i., 339.
WILKINSON, JAMES, General, at the Battle of Stillwater, i., 56.
His speech in Congress, i, 84. Quarrels with Gates, ii.,
132. Biographical Sketch of, i., 84. His Memoirs, i., 55,
80, 81; ii., 15.

WILLARD, counselor, at the Battle of Bunker Hill; anecdote
of him and Gage, i., 541.

Willard's Mountain, on the Hudson, Picture and description
of, i., 45, 46, 47.

WILLET, Dr., in charge of wounded Americans at the Battle
of Brandywine, ii., 179.

WILLETT, MARINUS, Colonel, Son of Liberty, ii., 581. In
Bradstreet's expedition in 1758, i., 215. His patriotic efforts
at New York in 1775, ii., 588. At Peekskill in 1777, i., 741;
at Fort Schuyler, i., 40, 242, 244, 249, 250, 252; visits Gen-
eral Herkimer, i., 261. In Mohawk Valley in 1781, i., 283,
290; at Fort Plain, i., 294; at Fort Hunter; at the Battle
of Johnstown, i., 290. At Oswego, i., 220. Portrait, Auto-
graph, and Biographical Sketch of, i., 244.
WILLIAM IV., of England, in America, ii., 622; at New York,
ii., 629.

William and Mary College, Virginia, ii., 262.
WILLIAMS, ABRAHAM, companion of the captors of Andrè. i.,

755.

WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN, brother of General James, dies in a
British prison-ship, i., 609.

WILLIAMS, DAVID, captor of Andrè; Biographical Sketch of,
i., 755, 773.

WILLIAMS, EDWIN, i., 604, 608; author of the Statesman's
Manual, í., 596. Son of General Joseph, i., 608. His sketch
of the public life of Judge Lawrence, i., 765.
WILLIAMS, ELISHA, of Connecticut, i., 303.
WILLIAMS, EPHRAIM, Colonel; Biographical Sketch of, i., 106,
107.
WILLIAMS, FREDERICK, brother of General James; his grave,
i., 609.

WILLIAMS, ISAAC, brother of General Joseph, i., 609.
WILLIAMS, JAMES, Colonel, in the Southern Campaign in 1780,
ii., 426, 427. At the Battle of Musgrove's Mill, ii., 444.
Killed at the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780, ii., 428.
Biographical Sketch of, ii., 426.

WILLIAMS, J. F., Captain in the United States navy; his ex-
ploits, ii., 643.

WILLIAMS, JOSEPH, General, Biographical Sketch of, i., 608,
609.

WILLIAMS, JOSEPH, son of General Joseph, i., 608.
WILLIAMS, Отно H., General, i., 565; ii., 485. In the South-
ern Campaign in 1780, ii., 391, 396, 397, 463. At the Battle
54.
of Camden, ii., 466. In skirmishes near the Dan, ii., 397,
WHITEFIELD, GEORGE, Reverend, acquaints Dr. Langdon 399; and the Ilaw, ii., 400. At the Battle of Guilford in
with the proposal to establish episcopacy in America, i., 1781, ii., 402; and lobkirk's Hill, ii., 473. At the siege of
3 C

Augusta, ii., 511. At the Battle of Eutaw Springs, ii., 494,
495, 496. Wounded, ii., 497. His description of Marion
and his men, ii., 479. Portrait, Autograph, and Biograph-
ical Sketch of, ii., 396.

WILLIAMS, ROGER, Reverend, lands on the Seekonk in 1631;
character of, i., 620, 621. Picture of his landing-place; his
congregation at Salem; discusses points of faith with the
Reverend Thomas Hooker; arraigned for treason in 1634;
banished; his letter to Mason; his new settlement, i., 620,
621, 622. His negotiations with Indians; founds Provi-
dence in 1636; Indian grants of land to, in 1636, i., 622, 623.
Obtains an Indian grant of land for friends of Mrs. Hutchin-
son in 1638, i., 638. Visits England in 1643; his Charter,
i., 623. Sent to England in 1651, on the subject of Codding-
ton's appointment, i., 639. Autograph and Biographical
Sketch of, i., 623. Roger Williams's Spring, i., 625.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS, signer of the Pilgrim Covenant, i., 437.
WILLIAMS, T. C., and Co., of Annapolis, consignees of the
tea-ship Peggy in 1774, ii., 195.

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, of Connecticut, signer of the Declara-
tion of Independence; picture of his residence; Biograph-
ical Sketch of, i., 603, 604; ii., 663. Portrait of, ii., frontis-
piece. Autograph of, ii., 80.

WILLIAMS, Major, killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, i., 546.
WILLIAMS, Major, at the Battle of Stillwater; captured, i.,
60, 61.

WILLIAMS, Reverend Mr., of Deerfield, i., 210.

WILLIAMS, marauding Tory, famous Pine Robber, ii., 162.
Williams's College, Origin of, i., 107.

Williams's Rock, Picture and account of Colonel, i., 106. Pic-
ture and account of Roger, i. 620.
Williams's Spring at Newport, i., 625.

Williamsburg, Virginia, Topography and description of, ii.,
264. Seat of government in 1698, ii., 265. Ammunition re-
moved from the magazine at, in 1775, ii., 297. Taken by
Simcoe in 1781, i., 337. William and Mary College at;
statue of Lord Botetourt, ii., 262. Dunmore's palace; Bren-
ton Church, ii., 263. Old magazine; old Capitol, ii., 264.
Apollo Room, ii., 278.

WILLIAMSON, ANDREW, Colonel, afterward General, of South
Carolina, his skirmish with the Cherokees; desolates their
country, ii., 441, 442. His skirmish with Tories respecting
their seizure of powder, ii., 443. At Brier Creek, ii., 506.
A traitor, ii., 507; captured by Colonel Hayne, ii., 568. Bio-
graphical Sketch of, ii., 506.

WILLIAMSON, HUGH, M.D., Doctor Hosack's Memoir of, i.,
494.

WILLIAMSON, JAMES, his plantation, now Brattonville, ii., 453.
WILLIE, WALTER, his ballad quoted, i., 302.

WILLING, THOMAS, of Philadelphia, Chairman of the revolu-
tionary meeting there in 1774, ii., 54.

WILLIS, Major, at the Battle of Spencer's Ordinary and James-
town Island, ii., 258, 260.

WILLIS, JOHN, his letter to Colonel Washington, ii., 175.
WILLIS, NATHANIEL P., his poems quoted, i., 113, 770.
WILLS, HENRY, one of the Boston Sons of Liberty, i., 466.
Wilmington, Delaware, Topography of, ii., 182. Washing-
ton's head-quarters at, ii., 169. Swedish settlement at, in
1638, ii., 46.

Wilmington, North Carolina, Seat of Government removed to,
ii., 357. Revolutionary proceedings at, in 1765, ii., 362.
Taken by Major Craig in 1781, ii., 575.

WILMOT, Captain, killed in the ambuscade near John's Island
in 1782, ii, 573.

WILMOT, associate of Richardson at Boston, i., 489.
WILMOUSKI, Captain (Hessian), wounded in the Battle of
Guilford, ii., 405.

WILSON, ALEXANDER, Ornithologist, Grave of, ii., 97.
WILSON, J. M., Reverend, ii., 459.

WILSON, JAMES, of Pennsylvania, on the Committee of Con-
gress to print Continental Bills, i., 317; and the Committee
on National Treaties, ii., 648. Member of the Board of War
in 1776, ii., 661. Mobbed at Philadelphia, i., 321. Portrait
of, ii., frontispiece. Autograph of, ii., 81. Signer of the Dec-
laration of Independence; Biographical Sketch of, ii., 665.
WILSON, JAMES, Reverend Dr., of Hillsborough, North Caro-
lina, ii., 352, 383, 384.

WILSON, JAMES GREGG, proprietor of the "Brother Jonathan"
newspaper; son of Ensign Robert, ii., 320.
WILSON, JAMES R., Reverend, of Newburgh, his oration at the
laying of the corner-stone of the Goshen monument in 1822,
i., 671.

WILSON, JOHN E., owner of Washington's birth-place, ii., 217.
WILSON, JONATHAN, Captain, killed at the Battle of Concord,
i., 530.

WILSON, ROBERT, Ensign, at the siege of Yorktown in 1781;
Biographical Sketch of, ii., 318.
WILSON, ROBERT, of North Carolina, his patriotic wife and
family; anecdote of his wife and Cornwallis, ii., 412.
WILSON, WILLIAM, member of the Mecklenburg Committee,
ii., 412.

WILSON, ZACHEUS, Senior, member of the Mecklenburg Com-
mittee, ii., 412.

WILSON, Lieutenant, in the United States navy in 1776, ii.,
638.

WILSON, Mr., of Westmoreland, cruelly treated by Indians in

1776; speech of Indian messenger John on the occasion, i.,
349, 350.

Wilson Family, Notice of the, ii., 412.
Wind Gap, Pennsylvania, Anecdote of an old Indian at, i., 338.
Wind-mill at Newport, Rhode Island, i., 633, 634.
Wind-mill Point, i., 163. Battle at, in 1838, i., 210, 211. Pic-
ture of, i., 211.

Windsor, Connecticut, described, i., 436.
WINDT, JOHN DE, of Tappan, New York, i., 765.
Wine, Seizure of, at Boston in 1767, i., 478. A pipe of Madeira,
given to the people of Boston by Hancock on occasion of the
repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766, i., 473.

WINGFIELD, EDWARD M., President of Jamestown Colony in
1607; character of, ii., 245, 246.
WINKOOP, GITTY, Signature of, i., 683.
WINN, RICHARD, Colonel, with Sumter at Blackstock's, ii.
447. Wounded at the Battle of Hanging Rock, ii., 457. Sur
renders Fort M'Intosh, il., 522.

Winnsborough, Cornwallis's head-quarters at, ii., 420, 429.
WINSHIP, JASON, killed in the skirmish at West Cambridge,
i., 531.

WINSHIP, THOMAS J., Camp Charlotte on the farm of, ii., 283.
WINSLOW, EDWARD, Governor of Plymouth Colony in 1633,
i., 445. Claims Seekonk as part of the Plymouth domain, i.,
622. Signs the Pilgrim Covenant, i., 437. His chair; Por-
trait of, by Vandyke, i., 562. Autograph of, i., 438. Bio-
graphical Sketch of, i., 445.

WINSLOW, GILBERT, signer of the Pilgrim Covenant, i., 437.
WINSLOW, General, with his army at Albany in 1756, i., 218.
WINSTON, JOSEPH, Major, at the Battle of King's Mountain in
1780; Autograph and Biographical Sketch of, ii., 427.
WINSTON, Judge, of Virginia, marries the widow of Patrick
Henry, ii., 234.

WINTER, Mr., painter, his portrait of Frances Slocum, i., 369.
Winter, Severity of the, in 1779-1780, i., 85, 310, 311, 653.
Wintermoot Family in Wyoming Valley, i., 350, 351.
Wintermoot's Fort, Picture and associations of, i., 351, 353.
WINTHROP, FITZ JOHN, General, Governor of Connecticut ;
his expedition to Montreal, i., 451.
WINTHROP, JOHN, Governor of Massachusetts, Arrival of, in
New England in 1630, i., 446. Builds his house at Cam-
bridge, i., 555.

WINTHROP, Mrs., wife of Dr., her letter to Mrs. Warren, i.,
82, 593.

WIRT, WILLIAM, eulogizes Patrick Henry, ii., 224, 234. His
account of the case of John Hook, ii., 234. His account of
Henry's prediction, ii., 67. Musings of, at the Old Church,
Jamestown, ii., 241, 242. Quoted or cited, ii., 234, 242, 277,
296, 341, 402.

WISE, Captain, brings the good news of the repeal of the Stamp
Act; gold-laced hat given to him, ii., 53.

WISNER, HENRY, of New York, delegate to the first Conti-
nental Congress in 1774, ii., 59, 587. On the Committee to
draft the Constitution of New York in 1776, i., 386. His sur-
vey of the Hudson River, i., 682.

WISTAR, Dr., of Philadelphia, ii., 34.
WITAMO, Squaw Sachem of Pocasset, i., 663.
Witchcraft in New England, i., 447.
WITH, painter, sails to America with Grenville and Lane in
1584; his Sketches, ii., 243.

Withers's Chronicles of Border Warfare, ii., 281.
WITHERSPOON, JOHN, Reverend Dr., of New Jersey, Presi-
dent of Nassau Hall, College of New Jersey; his character
and influence, ii., 37. One of the chief speakers in Con-
gress in favor of national independence, ii., 74. Portrait of,
ii., frontispiece. Autograph of, ii., 80. Signer of the Dec-
laration of Independence; Biographical Sketch of, ii., 664.
WITHERSPOON, Major, son of Reverend John, killed at the
Battle of Germantown, ii., 469.

Woburn, Massachusetts, Samuel Adams retires to, for safety.
i., 523.
Wocoken Island explored by Barlow and Amidas in 1584, ii.,
243.
WOEDTKE, Baron DE, Biographical Sketch of, ii., 123.
WOLCOTT, OLIVER, of Connecticut, Portrait of, i., frontis
piece. Autograph of, ii., 80. Signer of the Declaration of
Independence; Biographical Sketch of, ii., 663.
WOLCOTT, ROGER, of Connecticut, i., 303.
WOLCOTT, Colonel, at the Battle of Bemis's Heights, i., 50.
WOLFE, JAMES, General, Appointment of, in 1758, i., 120. His
approach to Quebec, i., 184; disheartened, i., 186; bravery
and death of, i., 188. Putnam's tavern-sign of, i., 439. Por-
trait and Biographical Sketch of, i., 188. Monuments to, i.,
189.

Wolfe's Cove below Sillery, Canada, i., 186.
Wolfe's Ravine, i., 205; picture and description of, i., 187.
Wolfert's Roost, Associations of, i., 761, 762.
Wolves alarm Lee's legion near Black River in 1781, ii., 471.
Women, American, Patriotism of, before and during the Rev-
olution, i., 352, 481, 482, 488, 512, 626; ii., 105, 106, 188,
406, 420, 447, 488. Sufferings of, west of the Broad Riv-
er, ii., 447; and at Savannah in 1779, ii., 533. Pledge en-
tered into by the young ladies of Mecklenburg and Rowan,
ii., 420. American soldiers treat them with great respect,
i., 77. In Arnold's expedition to Canada, i., 194. Dr. Clarke's
assertion on the influence of women; Judge Halliburton's,

INDEX.

i., 366. First white woman at Jamestown in 1608, ii., 249.
Ninety women arrive at Jamestown in 1620, ii., 251.
WONCKOMPAWHAN, one of King Philip's chief captains; his
sign-manual, i., 659.

WOOD, E. D., Colonel, his monument at West Point, i., 699.
WOOD, JAMES, Colonel, in command of the captive army of
Burgoyne in 1781, ii., 345.

WOOD, SIND, physician (British), captured at Saratoga, ii.,

684.

WOOD, Major, of Goshen, at the Battle of Minisink; saved by
means of the masonic sign, i., 671.

Wood Creek described; historical errors respecting it correct-
ed, i., 137.

WOODBRIDGE, Major, attacks Loyalists in 1782, ii., 624.
WOODFORD, WILLIAM, General, ii., 34, 157, 326, 328, 330. Re-
pulses Dunmore at Hampton and Norfolk in 1775, ii., 325,
326, 328. At the Battle of Great Bridge, ii., 328. Takes pos-
At the Battle of Germantown,
session of Norfolk, ii., 330.

ii., 110; and Monmouth, ii., 157. At Valley Forge, ii., 128.
At the siege of Charleston in 1780, ii., 558. Autograph and
Biographical Sketch of, ii., 157.

WOODHULL, JOHN, Reverend Dr.; his monument, ii., 153, 159,
160.

WOODHULL, JOHN, M.D., son of the Reverend Dr., ii., 159.
WOODHULL, NATHANIEL, General, President of the Provincial
Council of New York, ii., 587. In Bradstreet's expedition,
i., 215. Mortally wounded on Long Island, i., 215; ii., 600,
605. Death of; picture of the house in which he died; Au-
tograph and Biographical Sketch of, ii., 605.
WOODRUFF, SAMUEL, his visit to Bemis's Heights, i., 62.
Carries Arnold wounded from the field, i., 64.
WOODWARD, Judge Advocate in the trial of spy Taylor, i.,

685.

WOODWORTH, EPHRAIM, Captain, Gates's quarters at the
house of; at the Battle of Stillwater, i., 58. Picture of his
house, i., 46.

WOODWORTH, SOLOMON, Captain, his skirmish with Indians
at German Flats; fate of him and his Rangers, i., 298.
WOOL, General, a Captain in the war of 1812, at Queenston,
Canada, i., 226.

Wool, staple product of Hoosic Valley, i., 400.

WOOLASTON, painter, Portrait of Mrs. Mary Washington by,
ii., 206.

WOOLSEY, Major, at Middle Fort, Schoharie, his cowardice,
i., 279.

WOOLSEY, Captain in the United States navy, i., 220.
At Quebec, i., 202.
WOOSTER, DAVID, General, i., 162, 190.
Member of the Connecticut Provincial Assembly in 1775, i.,
123. Commissioned in 1775, i., 522. Commands Connecti-
In
cut troops at Hartford; invited by the New York Provincial
Council to defend the city of New York in 1775, ii., 589.
the expedition to Danbury, i., 402, 406. Death of, i., 408.
Congress votes him a monument, i., 406. Picture of the
place where he fell, i., 410. Portrait, Autograph, and Bio-
graphical Sketch of, i., 408.

WORMWOOD, Lieutenant, sent to Cherry Valley, i., 297.
WORTH, General, commissioned to maintain neutrality on the
At Goshen, at the laying of
Canada border in 1837, i., 211.
the corner-stone of the monument there, in 1822, i., 671.
Worth's Mills, Skirmish at, ii., 27, 28. Bridge at, ii., 31.
WORTHINGTON, JOHN, of Massachusetts, i., 303.
WRAXALL, SIR N. W., his Historical Memoir; his anecdote
of Lord North, ii., 322.

WRIGHT, DANIEL, Captain in Bradstreet's expedition, i., 215.
WRIGHT, SIR JAMES, last Royal Governor of Georgia, ii., 417,
504, 517. Seized and imprisoned by Habersham in 1776, ii.,
520. Removes to Charleston, ii., 535.
WRIGHT, SUKEY, Longevity of, ii., 184.
WRIGHT, Major, at the siege of Savannah, ii., 530.

WRIGHT, Sergeant, at the Battle of Spencer's Ordinary in
1781, ii., 258.

Writing, Cipher, by Loyalists, i., 320.

Writs, Quo Warranto, i., 434. Writs of Assistance, i., 459.
WROTTLESLY, SIR JOHN, Manager of the Mischianza; like-
ness of, ii., 97.

Wyandot Indians, Moravian mission to the, i., 264.
WYATT, SIR FRANCIS, Governor of Virginia in 1639, ii., 253.
Brings to Jamestown the first written Constitution of the
Colony, ii., 251.

WYATT, Professor, his Memoirs of American Generals, i.,
750.

WYLIE, Dr. RICHARD E., of Lancaster, his ballad, ii., 457.
WYLLYS, SAMUEL, of Hartford, Connecticut, owner of the
Charter Oak, i., 435.

WYLLYS, Colonel, at the Hudson Highlands in 1777, i., 735.
WYMAN, JABEZ, killed in the skirmish at West Cambridge, i.,

531.

WYNKOOP, Colonel of a patriot regiment at New York in 1775,

ii., 588.

WYNYARD, Lieutenant, at the Mischianza, ii., 99.
Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Description of, i., 340, 341. Ancient
beauty and fertility; first Indian tribes in the valley; Camp-
bell's "Gertrude of Wyoming," i., 341. Purchase of, from
Indians, in 1754, i.. 344. Civil war in 1769 to 1771, i., 345.
Under the protection of Connecticut in 1771; hostilities re-
newed in 1775, i., 348. Action of Congress on the subject,

i., 348, 349. Alarm of, in 1778; patriotic women, i., 352.
Approach of Indians and Tories, i., 353. Decision of the
people; Campbell's injustice to Brant, i., 354. Speech of
Colonel Butler; attack, i., 355. Battle of; Americans re-
treat; sanguinary scenes at Monocasy Island, i., 356. But-
ler and Denison escape; Indian cruelties; scene at Esther's
Rock, i., 357, 358. Scenes at Forty Fort, i., 358. Surrender
of the fort; Treaty Table; conduct of Tories; bad faith of
Indians, i., 359. Flight of the people over the Pocono; pres-
ervation of papers, i., 360. Picture of the flight; bad faith
of the invaders, i., 361. Their departure; Indian cruelties;
arrival of succor; expedition against the Indians, i., 362.
Return of settlers; continued alarm; murder of Slocum;
Sullivan's expedition; situation of the valley, i.. 363. Ef-
forts to erect a monument, i., 365, 366. Residence and grave
of Colonel Butler; history of the Slocum family; abduction
of Frances Slocum, i., 367, 368. Her interview with her
white kindred; her children, i., 369. Life of Mrs. Myers, i.,
370. Revival of the civil war in 1782; the Decree of Tren-
ton, i., 371. Great deluge, i., 372. Renewal of hostilities,
i., 372. Armstrong's expedition; change of public opinion;
appeal for relief, i., 373. Organization of Luzerne County;
new difficulties; arrest of John Franklin, i., 375. Pickering
escapes to Philadelphia; his return to the valley; his ab-
duction; cessation of difficulties; the valley a picture of re-
pose and prosperity, i,, 376.

Wyoming, Authors on: Campbell, i.. 341, 364. Chapman, i.,
376. Gordon, i., 376. Mallory, i., 365. Minor, i., 340, 341,
350, 352, 357, 361, 362, 363, 365, 367, 376. Silliman, i., 365.
Stone, i., 350, 354, 376.

Wyoming Indians, i., 341. Moravian mission among, i., 341.
Wyoming, Gertrude of: see CAMPBELL, THOMAS.
WYTHE, GEORGE, of Virginia, Chancellor, opposes Patrick
Member of the Virginia
Henry's five resolutions, ii., 273.
Constitutional Convention, ii., 232. Portrait of, ii., frontis-
piece. Autograph of, ii., 81. Signer of the Declaration of
Independence; Biographical Sketch of, ii., 665.

lumbus's letter to, i., 25.
XANSIS, DON RAPHAEL, Treasurer of the King of Spain, Co-

XERIF AL EDRISI, Arabian author, his observations on the
Atlantic ocean, í., 17.

Yadkin River, ii., 394, 395, 409. General Waddell crosses it
in 1771, ii., 370. Cornwallis's passage of the, in 1781, ii.,
395.
Yagers, German, i., 611, 612. At West Chester, New York,
in 1778, ii., 625. At the battles of Spencer's Ordinary and
Jamestown Island, ii., 258, 261.

YALE, ELIHU, his gifts to Yale College, i., 431.
Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut: see Colleges.
Yamderaws, Tomo Chichi, Chief of the, ii., 515.
Yankee Chronology, a poem, quoted, ii., 598.
Yankee Doodle, National "Song of the Revolution," ii., 683
Origin of, i., 81, 480, 683. The air played at the surrender
of Burgoyne, i., 81; and in Lord Percy's regiment at Rox-
bury, i., 528.

Yankee Lumberman, Anecdote of a, i., 377.
Yankee Overseer, ii., 349; and ii., 555.
Yankee Peddler, Anecdote of a, i., 292.

Yankee Schoolmaster; his school-house, ii., 491, 492.
Yankees and Pennymites, Hostilities between, i., 345, 346, 371.
Yantic Falls, Destruction of the, i., 604.

YATES, ABRAHAM and ROBERT, on the Committee to draft
the Constitution of New York in 1776. i., 386.
YATES, GILES F., of Schenectady, i., 256; his antiquarian re-
searches, i., 280.

YATES, PETER, Captain in Bradstreet's expedition, i., 215.
YATES, ROBERT, Judge of the Supreme Court of New York,
i., 387.

YEAMANS, SIR JOHN, ii., 353. Governor of South Carolina;
succeeded by Joseph West in 1674, ii., 537, 539. Causes
African slaves to be brought from Barbadoes, ii., 537.
in 1627, ii., 252.
YEARDLY, GEORGE, Governor of Virginia, ii., 251. Death of,

Yellow Creek, Expedition to, ii., 283.

Yeoman House, Picture and account of the, i., 388.
YERKS, JOHN, companion of the captors of Andrè, i., 755.
YERRY: see HAN YERRY.

YEST, FRANÇOIS, Portrait and Biographical Sketch of, i., 175.
Yonkers, New York, Associations of; picture of the Phillipse
Manor-house at, ii., 626.

Congress holds its sessions at,

YORK, Duke of, assents to Penn's Charter in 1681, ii., 47.
Territory of New Netherlands granted to, by Charles II., in
1664, i., 123; ii., 46, 578.
York, Pennsylvania. ii., 133.
in 1777, ii., 109, 133.
York County, Virginia, ii., 301.
YORKE, Lieutenant (British), at the battle on Jamestown Isl-
and in 1781. ii., 261.

YORKE, SIR JOSEPH, British Minister at the Hague, ii., 642.
YORKE, schoolmaster, the terror of Loyalists; appointed Clerk
of a mock court; Autograph of; his daring leap at Deep
River, ii., 368, 369.

Yorktown, Virginia, Early history of. ii., 301. Cornwallis's
Cave, ii., 302. Topography of, ii., 303, 309, 312, 313. Pic-

ture of British works at, ii., 303. Siege of, in 1781, ii., 307-
315. Bombardment of, i., 311. Capitulation of, ii., 316,
318. Fac-simile of the last article of the Capitulation, ii.,
317. Old church and cemetery at, ii., 302.
Yorkville, South Carolina, ii., 449.

YOUNG, JOHN, Captain in the United States navy in 1776; his
exploits, ii., 644.

YOUNG, LAZARUS, Yankee, in Wyoming Valley, i., 346.
YOUNG, Lieutenant-colonel, at the Battle of Brier Creek, ii.,
507.

ZANE, EBENEZER, founder of Zanesville, Ohio; at the siege
of Fort Henry in 1777, ii., 292.

ZANE, ELIZABETH, Bravery of, at Fort Henry; Biographical
Sketch of, ii., 292.

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ZANE, SILAS, brother of Ebenezer, at the siege of Fort Henry
in 1777, ii., 292.
ZANESVILLE, Ohio, founded by Ebenezer Zane, ii., 292.
ZEDWITZ, HERMAN, Major; cashiered, ii., 588.
ZENGER, JOHN PETER, editor at New York; opposes the Gov-
ernor; imprisoned, ii., 580.

ZINZENDORF, NICOLAS LEWIS, Count, first European explorer
of the Valley of Wyoming; adventures of, with Indians,
picture of his camp-ground; Gnadenhutten destroyed; Por-
trait and Biographical Sketch of, i., 342, 343.
Zipango, or Cipangi, Accounts of, by Marco Polo and Mande-
ville, i., 19.

ZUBLEY, JOHN JOACHIM, delegate from Georgia to the first
Continental Congress; a traitor, îi., 520.

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