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by Douglas Southall Freeman


  Washington, Martha Dandridge Custis, compassion of, 195, 495, 639, 693, 752;

  family of, 119, 140, 149, 171–73, 195, 199, 495, 711;

  illnesses of, 465, 504, 586, 710, 715, 718, 740, 745–46;

  hospitality of, 146, 153, 180, 194, 337, 715, 748;

  marriage of, 142, 223;

  at Mount Vernon, 139, 146, 148, 215, 278, 508, 510, 638, 709;

  social life of, 519, 568, 570, 574, 579, 591, 644, 706, 748;

  visits to: Baltimore, 610, Berkeley Springs, 168, 177, Cambridge, 249, Eltham, 189, Fredericksburg, 182, Hartford, 266, New Windsor, 452, Philadelphia, 273, 414–15, Williamsburg, 166, 178, 185, 196;

  and Washington: joins at military camps, 249, 269, 375, 452, letters, to, 218, marriage to, 118–20, 142, 223, tends to in illness and death, 582, 749–52, 754, in will of, 741–42, 744;

  wealth of, 167, 188, 195, 525, 531

  Washington, Mary Ball (mother of George), 4, 8, 15–17, 24, 26, 187, 495, 499, 538;

  death of, 574

  Washington, Mildred (sister of George), 2–4, 742

  Washington, Nancy (Mrs. Lawrence), 22–23, 28–31

  Washington, Samuel (brother of George), 4, 8, 499, 531, 738, 742–44

  Washington, Sarah (daughter of Lawrence and Nancy), 28, 31

  Washington, Thornton, 742

  Washington, Mrs. Warner, 177

  Washington, Col. William, 321, 594–95

  Washington, William Augustine, 742, 744

  Washington family, land acquisitions of, 1, 3, 8

  Washington, Fort, 291, 297–301, 303–4, 306–7, 315–16, 354, 510, 538, 585

  Waterways, 525–26

  Watson, Elkanah, 526

  Wayne, Gen. Anthony, 334, 352, 354, 357–58, 364, 393–95, 399, 401–2, 417, 419–21, 426, 452–53, 457, 470, 472, 476, 510, 602, 615, 623, 640, 643, 645, 648, 653, 658–59, 661, 663, 681

  Webb, Joseph, 466

  Webb, Samuel, 333

  Weedon, Gen. George, 294, 334

  Weehawken, 423

  Welch, James, 738

  West, Hugh, 24, 123–24

  West, John, 173, 202

  “West India Article” of Jay’s Treaty, 665

  West Indies, 183, 189, 413–14, 422, 426, 438, 441–42, 460, 467, 469, 519, 577, 633, 705;

  British, 662;

  and Cartegena expedition, 6;

  French, 598, 618, 624, 627, 637, 645–46;

  Spanish, 599;

  trade in, 30;

  trade with, 13

  West Point, 412, 414, 418, 420–22, 426, 431, 437, 440–42, 445–46, 450, 452, 454, 472, 478, 496, 505–6

  Westmoreland County, 3, 6, 8, 10–11, 142, 147

  Westover, 121

  Wethersfield, 466, 468–69

  Wharton, Carpenter, 342–43

  Wheat, 149, 152, 155–56, 160, 166–68, 170, 172, 185–86, 199

  Whiskey Rebellion, 658

  White, Bishop William, 641

  White House, plantation, 118–20

  White Marsh, plantation, 362, 372

  White Plains, 299–302, 306–7, 309, 406, 409, 411, 418, 429

  Whiting, Anthony, 600, 605, 610, 623;

  death of, 631, 638

  Wilkinson, Lt. Col. James, 364, 366, 368, 378, 464, 616

  Willett, Col. Marinus, 585

  William, 630

  William and Mary, College of, 12, 24, 30, 49, 72, 140, 179, 186

  William Henry, Fort, 120

  Williams, Gen. Otho, 602

  Williamsburg, 12, 14, 23, 30, 32, 35, 39, 43, 45, 47–48, 51, 63–64, 66–68, 71–72, 90–91, 98, 104–5, 108 111–13, 116, 118–20, 134–35, 140, 142–47, 149, 153, 155–56, 159–61, 166–67, 172, 175, 180–81, 185, 188–92, 195–96, 199, 201–2, 212, 214, 216, 476, 478, 495

  Williamsburg Agreement, 177

  Wills Creek, 26, 36, 47, 50, 56, 62, 64–66, 68, 71–74, 76–77, 92, 94–95, 103–4, 109, 112, 123, 125, 182

  Wilmington, 494

  Wilson, James, 541, 548, 576, 635–36, 652

  Winchester, 50–52, 55, 59, 64, 72, 75, 77, 92–93, 96, 99–100, 102, 104, 106–7, 109, 111–13, 116, 120–21, 123–24, 135, 142, 185

  Winter quarters, 236, 371–73, 417, 426, 452

  Wolcott, Oliver, 660–61, 666, 671–72, 674, 677–78, 682–83, 686–87, 690–92, 699, 713, 729–30, 739, 747

  Wolfe, Gen. James, 144

  Wood, James, 124, 193

  Woodford, Col. (later Gen.) William, 235, 334, 400, 427

  Wooster, Gen. David, 225, 267, 271–74, 334, 337

  Wythe, George, 140, 155

  XYZ Affair, 720–21, 730

  Yazoo Company, 593, 599

  Yazoo River, 616

  Yeates, Jaspar, 651

  Yellow fever, scourge of, 637, 639, 732, 740

  York River, 13, 32, 144–45, 147, 149, 188, 476, 478–79, 490

  Yorktown, 22, 27, 29;

  victory at, 460, 473, 478–79, 487, 489–90, 496, 569, 624

  Youghiogheny River, 37, 80, 126, 169, 184, 191, 194

 

 

 


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