Sandy Point oak moved to, 94
Fredericksburg Circuit Court, 256
Freeman, Douglas Southall, 6–7, 9, 70, 75, 88, 121, 124, 148, 152, 208–9, 219, 283, 289
French, Hugh, 100
French, Penelope, 236
French and Indian War, 124, 127, 140–50, 160, 167–68, 177, 191, 195
Fuller, Melville, 287
Gaillard, Alexander, 234
Gale, George (Mildred Warner Washington’s second husband), 66, 74
Gale, Mildred (daughter), 66
Galke, Laura J., 153–54
Gano, John, 93
Garnett, Muscoe, 12, 181
Gazette of the United States, 91, 269, 271
George II, King of England, 97, 167
George III, 9, 97, 167–69, 172, 181, 200, 228
Olive Branch Petition and, 195–96
George III, King of England, 1
George Washington Atlas, The, 159
George Washington Bicentennial Commission, 159
George Washington Slept Here (film), 282
Georgia, 256
German mercenaries, 202
Gerry, Elbridge, 254
Gist, Jon, 157
Goddard, Mary Katherine, 204
Goethe, Johan W. von, 119
Gooch, William, 128
Grasse, Admiral de, 230
Graves, Richard, 226
Gray, Samuel, 175
Great Awakening, 21
Great Britain. See also British Parliament; England; English Civil War
American colonies resistance vs., 165–66
changes from Julian to Gregorian calendar, 77
culture of, vs. colonies, 83
early 1700s and, 61
Empire and, 167
Jacobite insurrection and, 121–22
Press Gangs in, 59
Seven Years War and, 150
slave trade and, 18, 201
War of Austrian Succession and, 121
Great Compromise, 253
Great Dismal Swamp, 235–36
Greek language, 123
Green, Charles, 96–97, 128
Greenough, Horatio, sculpture of George Washington, 80, 281–82
Greer, George, 31
Gregorian calendar, 76–77
Gregory XIII, Pope, 76, 77
Gregory XVI, Pope, 281
Grenville, George, 168, 170
Grove family cemetery, 94
Hale, Matthew, 91–92, 126, 246–47, 256, 258, 267
Hale, Nathan, 212
Halket, Sir Peter, 146
Hall, Elisha, 265, 266, 274
Hamilton, Alexander, 249, 251–53, 261
Sharples portraits of, 57
Hamilton, Michelle, 65, 117, 152, 156–57, 195, 208–10, 243, 273
Hancock, John, 189,-90, 276
Hanger, George, 202
Hanover dynasty, 61
Happy Retreat, 156–57
Hardesty, Benjamin, 221
Harding, Warren G., 42
Harland, Marion. See Terhune, Mary
Harrison, Benjamin, 196, 216, 227, 276
Harrower, John, 179
Harry (slave), 152–53
Hart, Charles Henry, 65
Hart, Karen, 65
Hatch, Charles, 69
Hawk, HMS (ship), 197
Hay, Anthony, 173
Hayden, Horace, 34, 36–38, 49–51
Hayes, James, 233
Hebrew congregations, 91
Heck, Earl Leon Werley, 26, 30, 32, 35
Hempstead, Joshua, 78
Henderson, Richard, 259
Henriques, Peter, 128
Henry, Patrick, 171–72, 181, 183–85, 190, 196, 257
Henry VIII, King of England, 22, 43, 239
Hertburn, William de (later William Wessyngton), 27–28
Hervey, James, 91
Hessians, 202, 210
Hetzel, Margaret, 287
Hill, Rufus, 286
History and Present State of Virginia, The (Beverley), 151
History Land Highway (Virginia), 51
Hobby, Sexton, 122
Holyoke, Mary Vial, 86
Holy Roman Empire, 150
Home Farm. See Ferry Farm
Homer, 171
Horn, James, 33
hornbooks, 56–57
Hues, Mary Johnson Ball (Mary’s mother). See Ball, Mary Johnson
Hues, Richard (Mary’s stepfather), 53–54
Hughes, Rupert, 214–15
Humphreys, David, 83–84, 111, 123, 145, 225
Hunter, James, 162
Hunter’s Iron Works, 162
Hutchinson, Thomas, 178
indentured servants, 18, 33, 197
Indian Queen Tavern, 161
influenza, 16
Intolerable Acts (1774), 179
Irish immigrants, 33
iron mining, 69–70, 107
Iroquois, 141–42
Irving, Washington, 27–28, 92, 289
Jackson, Andrew, 284–86
Jackson, Richard, 169
Jackson, Robert, 130, 147, 149
Jacobites, 121–22, 210
Jamestown, Virginia, 13, 46, 165
Jay, John, 245, 261
Jefferson, Jane Randolph, 4, 85
Jefferson, Peter, 85, 115
Jefferson, Thomas, 4, 16, 84–85, 110, 115, 171, 174, 182, 196, 238, 242, 261
Sharples portraits of, 57
Jenny (slave), 19
Jesuits, 23, 125
Johnson, Thomas, 189
Johnston, George, 172
Jones, Edward, 163
Jones, John Paul, 193
Jones, Joseph, 186
Jones, Walter, 73
Jo (slave), 116
judiciary branch, 251
Julian calendar, 76–77
Jumonville, Joseph Coulon de, 141–42
Jumonville Geln, Battle of, 141
Kemp, Reverend, 55
Kemp’s Landing, Battle of, 196–97
Kenmore plantation, 162, 232, 236, 273, 286
Kentucky, 276
Kerr, John, 107
Kibble, Richard, 97
Kilmarnock, Virginia, 51
King, Katie, 157
King George’s War, 127, 140
King’s Highway, 106–7
King William’s War, 140
Kirk, James, 264
Knowles, Sara, 14
Knox, Henry, 1, 77, 156, 201, 223, 226, 248, 259
Lady of the Lake (schooner), 76
Lafayette, George Washington, 218
Lafayette, Marie-Adrienne, Marquise de, 237
Lafayette, Marquis de, 217–18, 232–33, 237–38, 245, 261
La Luzerne, Anne-César de, 228
Lancaster County, Virginia, 11–12, 24, 32–34, 51, 64
Lancaster County militia, 34
Langdon, John, 261
Latin, 123
Lee, Anne Fairfax Washington, 139
Lee, Billy, 181, 236
Lee, Charles, 192
Lee, George (second husband of Anne Fairfax Washington), 139
Lee, Henry “Light Horse,” 178, 282
Lee, Richard Henry, 174, 183, 196
Lee, Robert E., 282
Lee family, 12, 59
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (Irving), 27
legislature, Constitutional Convention and, 250–52
Leonard, Abiel, 239
Levy, Philip, 95, 108, 111
Lewis, Catherine Washington (Fielding’s first wife), 155
Lewis, Elizabeth “Betty” Washington (Mary’s daughter, Fielding’s second wife), 8, 66, 80, 105, 147, 155, 158, 160–61, 163–64, 177, 182, 187, 193, 215, 217, 219–20, 222, 232, 235–36, 243, 245, 248, 258, 266–68, 271–72, 286
death of, 279
Mary’s will and, 269, 274–75
Lewis, Fielding, Jr. (Mary’s grandson), 226
Lewis, Fielding (Mary’s son-in-law), 4, 66, 80, 105, 107, 147, 149, 155, 157–59, 161–62, 177, 182, 187, 193, 194, 215, 217, 219, 220, 286
death of, 221–22, 247
Lewis, George (Mary’s grandson), 93, 193
Lewis, Howell (Mary’s grandson), 160
Lewis, John (Betty’s stepson), 155
Lewis, Lawrence (Mary’s grandson), 66, 91, 230, 274
Lewis, Nellie Parke Custis, 66, 230, 230
Lewis, Robert (Mary’s grandson), 91–92, 193, 264, 270
Lewis, Samuel, 76
Lexington, battle of, 187–88, 204
Library of Congress, 128
Lisbon Sun, 287
Little Falls Quarter plantation, 244
Little Hunting Creek plantation (later Mount Vernon), 47, 85, 95–101, 103, 114, 121
renamed Mount Vernon, 128
Lively, Virginia, 51
Livingston, Nancy Shippen, 86–87
Livingston, Peggy, 87
Lloyd, Richard, 78
Locke, John, 21, 86, 135
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 45
Lollards, 28–29
Lomax, John Tayloe, 259
London Board of Trade, 166, 173
London Chronicle, 206
Lossing, Benson John, 29, 49–50, 55, 57, 64, 79, 114, 133, 210, 283
Louis XVI, King of France, 232
Loyalists, 124, 197–98, 201–3, 208–11, 222
Machodoc, Virginia, 59
Madison, James, 245, 249–52, 257, 259, 261
Manifest Destiny, 282
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 121–22
Marston Moor, Battle of, 30
Martha Washington: An American Life (Brady), 2
Martin, Sir George, 133
Martin Richard, 97
Mary, Queen of England, 43
Mary Ball, SS (Liberty ship), 289
Mary Ball Road, 51, 289
Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library, 51, 65, 289
Marye, James, 122–23, 125
Marye, Letitia Staige, 122
Maryland, 23, 45, 257
Mary Washington College (later University of Mary Washington), 289
Mary Washington House, 65, 117, 152, 195, 208, 246, 273
Mason, George, 174, 249, 254
Masonic Society of Fredericksburg Lodge no. 4, 161–62
Massachusetts, Constitution ratified by, 256
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 17, 23–24, 39, 84
Matteson, David, 229
Matthews, Samuel, 33
Maverick, Samuel, 175
McCarty, Captain, 97
McDaniel, Mary, 153
McGuire, Edward Charles, 91–92
McWilliams, William, 231
Meade, William, 123
Meditation Rock, 212–13, 273
Meditations and Contemplations (Hervey), 91
mercantilism, 14
Mercer, George, 237
Mercer, Hugh, 122, 159–61, 163, 177, 193, 211, 247, 258, 280–81
Mercer, James, 193, 258
militias, 201–2
Millenbeck estate, 33, 36
Minute Men, 188
Molasses Act, 169
Monk, Christopher, 176
Monmouth, Battle of, 201, 204, 207
Monroe, James, 210, 255
Montacute, Drogo de, 26, 37
Montague family, 37
Moore, Charles, 26, 129
Morgan, Mary, 72
Morris, Captain, 146
Morristown, New Jersey, 203–4, 214
Mortimer, Charles, 160, 177, 265, 274
Morton, Captain, 175
Mother of Washington and Her Times, The, 7
Mottby, John, 35
Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary, 23
Mount Vernon, 65, 91, 143, 213, 225. See also Little Hunting Creek plantation
Constitutional Convention and, 252–53
crop failures and, 244–45
death and burial of George Washington at, 279–80
death and will of Lawrence Washington and, 138–39
expansion of, 227
George fails to invite Mary to live at, 5
George returns to, after Revolutionary War, 1, 224–29, 233, 234–38
George returns to, as president, 261–62
George’s childhood move to future, 95
George visits Lawrence at, 135
George rents, from Lawrence’s widow Anne, 139
John Augustine Washington cares for, during French and Indian War, 143–44, 147
John Washington bequeaths, to son Lawrence, 47
Lawrence Washington settles at, and names “Epsewasson,” 3
Lund Washington as caretaker of, 226
Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association purchases, 95
Revolutionary War and, 181, 187, 215
Sharples visit to, 57
Thompson as historian at, 22
National Defense Reserve Fleet, 289
National Executive, Constitutional Convention and, 250–51
National Gazette, 283
National Mary Washington Memorial Association, 286–87
National Museum of American History, 80, 92
National Register of Historic Places, 70
Native Americans, 12–13, 15, 33, 51
farm work by, 18
French and Indian War and, 141
John Washington and, 1675–76, 46
land on Rappahannock and, 33
land west of Appalachians preserved for, 168–69
mosquitos and, 16
pushed out of Virginia, 33
smallpox and, 134
treaties of 1768 and, 169
U.S. claims lands of, 240
William Ball’s treaty with, 32
New England, 31, 88
New Hampshire, 257
New Jersey, 256
New Jersey (Paterson) Plan, 251
New Pocket Dictionary of the French & English Language (Nugent), 234
Newton, Isaac, 21
New York State, 56, 259, 271
New York Times, 28
Normandy, 26
Norman French, 26, 28
North, Frederick, 176
Northern Neck, Virginia, 12, 51, 54, 59
Northumberland County, Virginia 32, 55, 58
Northwest Territory, 240
Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson), 16
Nugent, Thomas, 234
Odin (Norse god), 41
Ohio Valley, 140–42, 144, 149, 240
Olive Branch Petition, 195–96
Orme, Captain, 146
Ormsby, Edward, 98
Orne, Robert, 143
Ovid, 40
Page, Mann, 288
Paine, Robert, 182
Paine, Thomas, 17, 198–99, 239
Paris, Treaty of (1783), 222, 223
Parker, David, 176
Pasteur, Louis, 16
Paterson, William, 251
Patterson, Robert, 176
Peace Ball, 229–31, 234
Peasant’s Revolt of 1381, 28–29
Pecoraro, Luke, 95
Pedigree and History of the Washington Family, The (Welles), 41
penal laws, repeal of (1776), 23
Pendleton, Edmund, 181, 196
Pennsylvania, 56, 256
Peyrouny, Captain, 146
Phebe (slave), 162–63
Phelps, Susan, 14
Philadelphia, Continental Congresses and, 181–82, 188–89
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), 84
Pine, Robert Edge
Congress Voting Independence, 65
portrait of elderly woman, 65–66
portrait of George Washington, 65
Pitcher, Molly, 204
Plantagenet dynasty, 43
plantations, 20–21
Pohick Church (Lorton, Virginia), 97, 240
Political Arena, 284
Polson, Captain, 146
Pontiac Rebellion, 168
Pope, Nathaniel, 45
Popes Creek, 45, 47, 67–69, 79–80, 103
burns down, 79
George’s birth and childhood at, 75–76, 79�
�80, 94
Mary and family move to Little Hunting Creek from, 95–96, 99, 106
Mary’s life at, 74–80
Porter, William, 184
Potomac River, 54, 58, 60, 79–80, 106
Powel, Elizabeth Willing, 77
Press Gangs, 59
Preston, Thomas, 175
Price, Richard, 227
Priest, Claire, 171
Princess Anne County militia, 197
Princeton, Battle of, 201, 211, 214, 281
Prince William County, Virginia, 12, 95, 99, 103
Principio Iron Works, 69–70, 95–96, 103
Proverbs, Book of, 247
Pryor, Sara, 37, 46, 54, 59, 79, 151, 208, 283, 289
Puritans, 23–24, 30–31, 43–44, 84, 88
Putnam, Israel, 192
Quakers, 19, 31
Queen Anne’s War, 140
Queenstown, Virginia, 33
Raleigh Tavern, 173
Randall, Willard Sterne, 56–57, 61
Randolph, Edmund, 245, 249–51, 253–54
Rappahannock Indians, 33
Rappahannock River, 12, 33–35, 45, 60, 162, 281
Epping Forest and, 38
Ferry Farm and, 103, 105–6
Read, Jacob, 229
Reed, Esther, 205
religious freedom, 238
Restoration (ship), 107
Revenue Act (1762), 169
Revere, Paul, 17, 175
Revolutionary War (War of Independence), 9, 11, 77, 96, 156, 187–224, 281, 282, 289
begun, 187–88
Crown as spiritual leader and, 239
ended, 222
Epping Forest and, 38
George’s correspondence with Mary and, 6
George’s return to normal life after, 1, 225–26
smallpox and, 134
tax acts and, 169–71
women’s roles in, 204–6
Reynolds, Joshua, 58
Rhode Island, 249, 276
Richard II, King of England, 29
Richard III, King of England, 273–74
Richardson, Helen, 93
Richmond, Virginia, 24, 235, 237, 257
capital moved to, 206
Richmond Visitor and Telegraph, 283
Rising Sun Tavern, 157
Ritchie, Archibald, 163
Rivington, James, 222
Robinson, Michael, 161
Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de, 77
Rochambeau, Marshal, 230
Rock, George, 12
Rodgers, John, 91
Rome, ancient, 1
Roundheads, 30
Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, 32
Rules of Civility, 125
Rush, Benjamin, 227, 265–66
Russia, 234, 245
Rutledge, John, 183, 253
Saint George’s Church (Fredericksburg), 92, 122–23, 240, 247, 259, 267, 273
Saint James Northam Parish, (Goochland County), 85
Saint John the Evangelist Church (Frederick, Maryland), 23
Saint Mary’s Parish (Barnstown, Maryland), 23
Saint Mary’s Whitechapel Church (Lancaster), Ball family graves at, 36
Saint Nicholas, Chapel of (Whitehaven, England), 67
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