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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