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Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 6 (of 8), Part I

INDEX. (continued 3)

Reading edition

his conduct criticised, 598;

defended by T. C. Amory, 598;

his orders, 598;

letters, 598;

effect on the country, 601;

his proclamation, 653;

journals of his Indian exped., 671, 681;

lists them, 681;

all published by the State of New York, 681;

the army's route, 681;

losses in his campaign (1779), 642;

maps of his marches, 642;

portrait, 637;

autog., 637;

his house, 637;

his family, 637;

commands exped. against the Indians, 638;

exped. against the Indians, 666;

acc. by Gordon, 666;

life, by Amory, 666;

by Peabody, 667, 670;

his force (1779), 667;

not intending to attack Niagara, 669;

brigade book, siege of Boston, 204;

captured at Brooklyn, 279, 280;

in command in Canada, 226;

letters, 226;

the battle of Long Island, 327.

Sullivan's Island (1776), 169, 170;

view of fort, 228;

attack, 229;

authorities, 229;

the news in Philadelphia, 229;

contemp. accounts, 229;

plan of the attack, 229;

general American accounts, 229;

British accounts, 229, 230.

Sulte, B., Canadiens Français, 164.

Sumner, Geo., Oration (1859), 592, 738.

Sumner, Wm. H., 123;

on Gen. Warren, 194;

on Hancock, 271.

Sumter, Gen., 475;

in the South, 477;

attacked by Tarleton, 478, 480;

threatens to resign, 490;

harasses Greene, 492;

at Fishdam Ford, 532;

portraits, 532;

on Weemys's attack, 536;

his differences with Morgan, 537.

Sunbury, Georgia, 519.

Susquehanna Company of Connecticut, 680.

Sutherland, Capt. of the "Vulture", 461.

Sutton, Sir Richard, 232.

Sutton (Mass.) men at Lexington, 182.

Swain, D. L., on invasion of N. Carolina, 168;

Indian War of 1776, 678.

Sweat, Samuel, letters (Winter Hill), 203.

Swedes' Ford, 425.

Swett, Col. Samuel, papers on Bunker Hill, 189, 191;

plan of Bunker Hill, 202;

acc. of, 191;

autog., 191.

Sylvester, R. B., Saratoga, etc., 366.

Sylvester, Richard, 83.

Talbot, Major, wounded at Fort Mifflin, 389.

Talbot, Silas, in Rhode Island, 602;

lives of, 603.

Tallmadge, B., 464;

his letters, etc., on André, 466;

his estimate of the captors of André, 466;

portraits and autog., 457;

Memoir, 457;

and André, 458, 460.

Tappan, N. Y., André at, 460;

De Wint House, 460;

Seventy-Six Stone House, 460.

Tarbox, Increase N., his views on the question of the command at Bunker Hill, 191;

Life of Putnam, 191.

Tardieu, P. F., Carte des Etats Unis, 675.

Tarleton, Col., at the siege of Charlestown, S. C., 473;

defeats Buford, 475;

at Black-Stocks, 536;

at the Cowpens, 481, 538;

at Poundridge, 557;

raid in Va., 497, 515;

Campaign of 1780 and 1781, 517;

his losses, 517;

his career, 517;

portrait, 517;

Mackenzie's Strictures, 517;

at Camden, 530;

attacks Sumter, 478;

pursues Marion, 480;

pursues Morgan, 481;

at Guilford, 486;

at the Waxhaws, 527;

at Fishdam Ford, 532.

Tarrytown, N. Y., monument at, 466.

Tate, W., 223.

Taxation of the colonies, ministerial view, 17;

colonial view, 17;

right of, 63;

denied, 24;

internal and external, 50;

first movement against, 68;

Reasons why the British colonies should not be charged with internal taxes, 70;

the government view in the Protest of the Lords against repeal of Stamp Act, 74;

History of Amer. Taxation, 1763-1775, 75;

pro and con arguments in Read's George Read, 75;

Soame Jenyns's Objections, 75;

James Otis's Considerations, 75;

Regulations lately made, 75;

tracts on, 75;

Letter to a Member, 75;

Objections to the taxation, etc., 75;

Good Humour, 85;

Inquiry into the nature of the present disputes, 85;

True constitutional way of putting an end to the disputes, 85;

Johnson's Taxation no tyranny, 109;

Defence of the American Congress, 109;

Letter to Dr. Price, 109.

Taylor, Eldad, 205.

Taylor, Geo., autog., 265;

life, 266.

Taylor, Janette, 590.

Taylor, John, life of John Penn, 265.

Taylor, John, Inquiry, etc., 272.

Taylor, J. W., Ohio, 708.

Taylor, R., on Geo. Mason, 272.

Tea, destroyed, 46, 91;

duty on, 46;

importation of it arouses Philadelphia, 57;

and the other colonies, 57;

in Boston, 91;

in N. H., 92;

in Connecticut, 93;

in New York, 93;

in Pennsylvania, 93;

fac-simile of broadside, 93;

in N. Carolina, 93;

tax on, to remain, 51.

Teller, Ridgefield, Conn., 348.

Temple, John, duel with Whateley, 93.

Tennessee, 708;

Haywood's hist. of, 678.

Ternant, Gen., 513.

Ternay, Chev. de, 499;

at Newport, 499, 560;

dies, 499;

his tomb, 499;

autog., 500.

Tetard Hill (N. Y.), 287, 338, 339.

Thacher, B. B., 91.

Thacher, Dr. James, 464;

Military Journal, 189, 202, 660.

Thacher, Oxenbridge, 13;

Sentiments of a British American, 70;

dies, 70.

Thacher, Peter, oration on Boston Massacre, 88;

his account of Bunker Hill, 186.

Thaxter, Jos., 178.

Thayendanegea. See Brant, Joseph.

Thayer, Capt. Simeon, Journal, 219;

at Fort Mifflin, 388.

Thomas, E. S., Reminiscences, 184, 412.

Thomas, Gen. John, 108;

second in command under Ward, 134;

at Roxbury, 134;

at Dorchester Heights, 156;

his headquarters in Roxbury, 156;

at Quebec, 225;

letters, 225;

made general, 119, 165;

in command at Roxbury, 130;

ordered to Canada, 165;

retreats from Quebec, 166;

dies, 167;

portrait, 167;

Memoir, 167;

affronted at Congress, 167.

Thomas, Isaiah, 122;

Narrative of Lexington, etc., 175;

Mass. Kalendar, 47.

Thomas, Lieut. John, on Louisiana, 737.

Thomas, W. H. B., 214.

Thompson, Benj., Count Rumford, 507;

in Boston, 128;

in S. Carolina, 545;

lives of, 546.

Thompson, Eben, Memoir, by Mary P. Thompson, 117.

Thompson, Gen., on Canada exped., 225;

acc. of, 225.

Thompson, Wm., 203.

Thomson, Chas., letter on taxation, 75;

letter to Wm. Drayton, 96;

on Bunker Hill, 189;

portrait, 272;

his house, 272;

autog., 450.

Thornton, J. W., Pulpit of the Rev., 244;

his sale, 467.

Thornton, Matthew, autog., 263;

life, 265;

signed the Decl. of Indep., 268.

Three County troop in Massachusetts, 184.

Three Rivers (1775), 216;

attack (1776), 167, 225, 227.

Throckmorton, B. W., on Benedict Arnold, 357.

Throg's Neck, 285.

Thwaites, R. G., on L. C. Draper, 727.

Tickle, Robt., Present state of the Nation, 85;

Considerations in reply, 85.

Ticonderoga, capture planned, 613;

taken (1775), 129;

view of ruins, 129;

papers on capture, 130;

cannon taken to Cambridge, 156;

authorities on its capture (1775), 213;

disputes over the origination of the expedition, 213;

trophies, 214;

Arnold's report, 214;

current reports, 214;

ruins of, 214;

diary (1775) at, 215;

its condition after capture, 215;

apprehension at, after fall of Quebec, 227;

Gates at, 291;

St. Clair at (1777), 348;

attacked by Burgoyne, 296;

evacuation, 296, 349;

authorities, 349;

effect of it, 350;

works, 314, 353, 354;

maps (1777), 350;

Trumbull's, 350, 352;

that used at St. Clair's trial, 350, 353;

recaptured, 304.

Tiddeman, Mark, map of N. Y. harbor, 326.

Tiffany, Osmond, Life of O. H. Williams, 537.

Tilghman, James, 709.

Tilghman, Col. Tench, 334;

Memoirs, 407;

Diary of Yorktown, 554.

Tilton, James, 337.

Tinicum Island, 429, 437.

Tioga (Tiaoga), 609;

attacked, 636;

plan of, 681.

Tioga Valley, 641.

Tiverton, R. I., 600.

Tobacco trade restricted, 8, 9.

Todd, C. B., Redding, Conn., 348;

on Col. Ledyard, 562;

Joel Barlow, 467.

Todd, Col. John, 723;

on Kaskaskia, 729;

his Record Book, 730.

Tomahawk improvements (squatter rights), 611.

Tom's River, 744.

Tonicas Indians, 702.

Tonyn, Gov., 522.

Topham, John, 219.

Tories, acc. of, by T. B. Myers, 351;

at Wyoming, 635.

See Loyalists.

Totowa, 404.

Towle, N. C., Constitution of the U. S., 74, 274.

Town, Ithiel, Particular Services, 341, 546, 589.

Town and County Mag., 209.

Townshend, Chas., 21, 23, 38;

died, 39;

in the Stamp Act debates, 72.

Townshend, C. H., Invasion of Conn., 557.

Townshend, Jos., on Brandywine, 419.

Townshend, M. I., on Burgoyne's exped., 366.

Townshend acts, 20, 38;

resisted, 42;

misunderstood by Bancroft, 64;

attempt to repeal, 51;

repealed (except on tea), 52.

Trade monopolized by English merchants, 5.

Transylvania (Kentucky), 716.

Treaty of Paris (1783), 747.

See Paris.

Trecothic, alderman, 51.

Tremain, Grenville, 466.

Trenton, N. J., surprise at, 374;

authorities, 407;

maps, 408-412;

court-martial of the Hessian officers, 412;

picture by Trumbull, 412;

current verses, 412;

flag captured, 412.

Troup, Col. Robert, on the Conway Cabal, 447.

Trout, Rev. Jacob, 418.

Trowbridge, Edmund, autog., 50.

Trudruffrin. See Paoli, 423.

Trumbull, Henry, Indian Wars, bibliog. of, 651;

its various titles, 651;

reprinted by Pritts, 651.

Trumbull, Col. John, painted Moultrie, 172;

his picture of Bunker Hill, 190, 197;

plan of the siege of Boston, 207;

his painting of Death of Montgomery, 220;

paints John Adams, 36;

autobiog., 189;

portrait of Putnam, 193;

plan of Boston Neck lines, 211;

paints St. Clair, 297;

Schuyler, 298;

map of Ticonderoga, 350;

paints Col. Tallmadge, 457;

arrested in London, 463;

his picture of Yorktown, 506;

of Trenton, 412;

his portrait of Gen. Greene, 510;

of Morgan, 511;

on the Rhode Island campaign, 597.

Trumbull, Col. Jonathan, diary at Yorktown, 554.

Trumbull, Gov. Jonathan, his letter to Gage, 181.

Trumbull, Jos., 203.

Trumbull, James H., on "Sons of Liberty", 72;

edits Mott's journal, 213;

on the origin of the Ticonderoga expedition (1775), 213;

on the Indian Wars of H. Trumbull, 651.

Trumbull MSS., 681.

Tryon, Gov., seeks safety on a man-of-war, 107;

his seal and autog., 140;

his proclamation (1776), 325;

the Hickey Plot, 326;

orders a map of N. Y. province made, 341;

report on the province, 341;

his address to the people of Conn., 557;

Address on his late expedition, 557;

invades Connecticut, 557.

Tryon County, N. Y., 645, 659.

Tucker, Dr. Josiah, Dean of Gloucester, 75;

and Franklin, 74;

on the Amer. Rev., 254;

tracts, 75;

Letter from a merchant, 75;

Series of answers, 75;

Humble Address, 75.

Tucker, Sam., of New Jersey, joins the enemy, 370.

Tucker, Com. Samuel, at siege of Charleston, 524;

orders to command the "Boston" in fac-simile, 566;

his career, 567;

takes John Adams to France, 567;

his log-book, 567;

his papers, 567;

lives of, 567;

in the "Boston", 583;

his parole in fac-simile, 583.

Tucker, St. George, on Guildford, 541.

Tuckerman, H. T., America and her Commentators, 560;

Silas Talbot, 603;

on Daniel Boone, 708.

Tudor, Wm., letters to, 7, 9, 88, 187;

his Otis, 70;

his Massacre oration, 446.

Tugaloo River, 676.

Tupper, Benj., 325.

Turkey Hill (R. I.), 596, 598, 602.

Turner, H. E., Greenes of Warwick, 510.

Turner, O., Phelps and Gorham Purchase, 670.

Turtle Bay (N. Y.), 333, 335.

Tuscaroras, Col. Butler among the, 619;

their lands, 610;

mostly took the American side, 623.

Tuttle, J. F., Hibernia Furnace, 108;

Morris County, 407;

Rev. Forefathers, 407;

Washington in Morris County, 407;

Washington at Morristown, 417;

on the camp at Morristown, 559.

Twightwees, 610.

Two-penny Act, 24.

Tyler, Albert, Bennington, 301, 356.

Tyler, John, Address at Jamestown, 107.

Tyler, Moses Coit, on Patrick Henry, 107;

his Patrick Henry, 723.

Tyng, D. A., 746.

"Tyrannicide", her log, 582;

takes the "Revenge", 586.

Uhlhorn, J. F., 712.

Ulloa at New Orleans (1766), 737.

Unadilla destroyed, 636, 653.

Union, growth of, in the colonies, 79;

symbol of disjointed snake, 79.

United States, independence of, growth of the sentiment, 231;

Public Land Laws, 247.

See Congress, Independence, etc.

Universal Asylum, 207.

Universal Magazine, 463.

Upham, W. P., 205;

Life of Gen. Glover, 325.

Urquhart, James, 209.

Valcour Island, fight at, 292, 346;

map of, 347.

Valentine, N. Y. City Manual, 331.

Vallancey, Capt. C., 543.

Valley Forge, 416;

Committee of Congress at, 393;

Baron Steuben at, 393;

condition of army, 436;

encampment, 389;

French alliance celebrated, 439;

life at, 437;

plan of camp, 439;

Washington's H. Q., 439.

Van Cortlandt, Philip, autobiography, 670.

Van Dyk, Col., 467.

Van Schaick, Col., attacks the Onondagas, 639;

marches to Cherry Valley, 626.

Van Schaick's Island, 298.

Van Wart, Isaac, 456.

Vandalia, 708.

Varick, Col. Richard, at Freeman's Farm, 316;

on the Saratoga campaign, 356;

aide to Arnold, 460;

his papers, 460.

Varnum, Gen., abandons Fort Mercer, 389.

Vaughan, Benj., his ed. of Franklin's Pieces, 653.

Vaughan, David, 341.

Vaughan, Samuel, his journal, 506.

Vermont, constitutional movements in, 274;

Documents relating to the resistance to Burgoyne, 354;

proclamations issued by Burgoyne and Schuyler, 350;

signs of defection in, 646.

Vermont Quart. Mag., 356.

Vernon, Wm., autograph, 566.

Verplanck House, 746.

Verplanck's Point, 455, 465;

plan, 557, 558.

Verreau, Invasion du Canada, 216.

Vigo, Col. F., 724.

Villefranche, his maps of the Hudson, 456, 462.

Vincennes (Indiana), 704;

captured, 718, 719;

fort at, 719;

evacuated by the British, 722;

taken by Hamilton, 724;

authorities, 729.

Vinton, J. A., 191.

Viomenil, 504, 745.

Virginia, action for a congress (1774), 99;

address to the king (1769), 83;

Address to the Convention, 272;

British in (1779-80), 546;

Calendar of State Papers, 515, 649;

commerce of (1671), 64;

(1770, etc.), 64;

com. of correspondence, 90;

Constitution of, written by George Mason and Thomas Jefferson, 261;

adopts a constitution, 272;

Declaration of Rights, 272;

in the Cont. Congress, 234;

Dunmore in (1775), 122;

disputes of bounds with Penna., 248;

over Ohio lands, 709;

influence in the Ohio country, 715;

early naval movements, 565;

effect of Boston Port Bill, 96;

establishes intercolonial com. of corresp., 54, 56;

fight at the Great Bridge, 168;

Norfolk destroyed, 168;

maps of, 538;

militia, 485;

at Camden, 533;

military ardor in (1774), 116;

movements (1774), 98, 117;

(1775), 107;

planting wheat instead of tobacco (1775), 121;

plundering expeditions to, 495;

Arnold in, 495;

and the Stamp Act, 29, 73;

Steuben in, 515;

sympathy for Boston (1769), 46, 113;

non-importation agreement, 47;

Ohio country a county, 729.

Von Holst, Const. Hist. U. S., 274.

Von Mirbach, 329.

Von Stern, 329.

Wabash Indians, 739;

treaty with, 724.

See Ouabache.

Wabash Land Company, 650.

Wabasha, a Sioux, 737, 738.

Waddell, A. W., on the Regulators, 80.

Wade, Col. Nath., 460.

Wadsworth, Gen. Peleg, in the Penobscot expedition, 603;

letters, 603.

Wadsworth, Jas., on the Danbury exped., 348.

Wager, D. E., 626.

Wakefield, Ebenezer, 357.

Waldo, J. & D., 47.

Waldo, Sergt., diary at Valley Forge, 436.

Walker, B., Life of Paul Jones, 590.

Walker, C. I., Northwest during the Rev., 733.

Walker, Dr., in Kentucky, 715.

Walker, James, 421.

Walker, Mrs. Thomas, 222.

Walker, Statesmen's Manual, 274.

Wallabout Bay, 328.

Wallace, Sir James, 471.

Waller, Adj., letter, 194;

orderly-book, 205.

Walmscook, 356.

Waln, Robert, life of James Wilson, John Morton, Stephen Hopkins, Thomas McKean, 265;

Josiah Bartlett, William Williams, Samuel Huntington, Geo. Rymer, Matthew Thornton, William Whipple, Robert Morris, Abraham Clark, 265;

John Hart, 266;

of Francis L. Lee, 266.

Walpole, Horace, 175;

and the American war, 112;

his George the Third, 112;

his Last Journals, 112.

Walpole Grant on the Ohio, 687, 708.

Walton, Geo., life, 265;

autog., 266.

Walworth, Mrs. Ellen H., Burgoyne and the Northern Campaign, 315;

on Burgoyne's surrender, 358.

Wangenheim, map of movements in Jersey, 409;

surveys of Forts Clinton, etc., 364.

Ward, Andrew H., Ward family, 192;

Shrewsbury, 192.

Ward, Artemas, made general, 116;

commander-in-chief, 131, 134;

made second to Washington, 142;

commissions Mugford, 567;

on the Penobscot exped., 603, 604;

sluggish, 133;

left in Boston, 159, 205;

his papers, 159;

resigned, 159;

portrait, 159, 192;

supposed to be older than he was, 189;

notices, 191;

autog., 192;

letters from Cambridge, 203.

Ward, Geo. A., finds Paul Jones' papers, 590.

Ward, Col. Jos., 138, 203;

his order on the field at Bunker Hill, 138.

Ward, R. D., Lafayette's visit to Va., 555.

Ward, Gov. Samuel, 220, 222, 565;

his journal, 565.

Ward, Samuel, on Long Island battle, 329;

Battle of Long Island, 331.

Ward, Townsend, 423.

Ware, Joseph, Journal, 219.

Warner, Col. Seth, at Crown Point, 129;

acc. of, 129;

at Bennington, 301;

letters, 350;

notices by G. F. Houghton, 356;

by Highland Hall, 356;

by Chipman, 356.

Warren, Benjamin, at Cherry Valley, 666;

diary, 360.

Warren, Edw., John Warren, 194.

Warren, G. W., Bunker Hill Mt. Asso., 191.

Warren, Isaac, Almanac, 342.

Warren, Gen. James, autog., 566;

committee of correspondence, 89;

on Bunker Hill, 187;

letters, 203.

Warren, Dr. John, 188.

Warren, John C., 193.

Warren, Gen. Jos., 60;

his circular letter (1773), 57;

writes call for the tea-ships meeting in Boston, 91;

his attack on Bernard, 83;

draws up Suffolk Resolves, 100;

quells disturbance at Cambridge, 115;

his address on Boston Massacre, 88, 119;

the MS., 120;

on Lexington day, 125;

his last note, 132;

made general, 133;

Bunker Hill, 137;

portrait, 54;

by Norman, 193;

by Copley, 193, 194;

by Trumbull, 197;

letter on capture of Ticonderoga, 214;

on independence, 258;

purposes of Congress on his death, 194;

memorials of, 194;

statue of, 194;

accounts, 194;

remonstrates with Connecticut for sending messenger to Gage, 128;

killed, 139.

Warren, Mercy, The parody parodized, 86;

letters, 203.

Warren Genealogy, 194.

Warren (R. I.), 600.

Warwick (R. I.), 600.

Washington, George, in the Congress of 1774, 237;

would march 1,000 men to Boston, 114;

active in Virginia (1775), 131;

made commander-in-chief, 108, 133;

references, 133;

commission and instructions, 133;

his first letter from Cambridge, 141;

fac-simile of its heads, 141;

reaches Cambridge, 142;

assumes command of the army, 142;

holds council of war, 142;

his headquarters in Cambridge, 142;

disappointed in the N. E. troops, 144;

deficient in powder, 145;

commissions a navy, 152, 564;

Proclamation of repossessing Boston, 159;

moves his army to New York, 160;

sends Sullivan to Canada, 166;

letters on the siege of Boston, 173, 203;

their condition and repositories, 173;

entertains Caghnawaga Indians, 203;

medal for the siege of Boston, 206;

instruction for the Kennebec expedition, 217;

in New York, 275, 325;

his army, 275;

headquarters on Richmond Hill, 276;

his other headquarters in N. Y., 276;

retreats from Brooklyn to N. Y., 281;

condition of his army, 281;

urges enlistments for the war, 282;

calls for better officers, 282;

proposes to burn New York, 283, 334;

not wishing independence (1775), 255;

headquarters at Harlem, 284;

his army along the Bronx, 285;

at White Plains, 286;

at New Castle, 286;

rude cut of, 311;

on the battle of Brooklyn, 326;

plot to assassinate, in N. York, 326;

retreats from Long Island, 330;

the question of a fog, 330;

evacuates New York, 333;

at Harlem, 334;

movements above N. Y. (1776), 337;

orders the evacuation of Fort Lee, 367;

retreats through the Jerseys, 368;

given dictatorial powers, 373, 376;

attacks Trenton, 374;

at Princeton, 378;

his letters on the campaign of 1776, near N. York, 344;

in winter-quarters at Morristown, 379;

at Middlebrook, 379;

marches through Philad., 380;

at Brandywine, 381;

retreats to Chester, 382;

to Philadelphia, 382;

at Germantown, 385;

at Whitemarsh, 389;

at Valley Forge, 389;

proclamation about grain, 390;

distrusted in Congress (1777), 391;

the Conway Cabal, 392;

watches Clinton's withdrawal from Philad., 397;

pursues Clinton, 398;

at Monmouth, 399;

authorities on these campaigns, 403;

criticised by Jos. Reed, 403;

as dictator, 407;

in the campaign of 1777, 416;

at Morristown, 417;

at Middlebrook, 417;

marches through Philad., 418;

H. Q. at Brandywine, 419;

falsely informed at Brandywine, 419;

his Brandywine map, 420;

letter from Duché 437;

H. Q. at Stenton, 429;

on the defence of the Delaware, 431;

H. Q. in Philad., 436;

at Whitemarsh, 442;

at Monmouth, 445;

censures Lee, 446;

the Conway Cabal, 446;

his Fabian policy, 446;

reprimands Arnold, 451;

goes to Hartford to confer with Rochambeau, 454, 458;

returned before he was expected, 458;

receives letter from Arnold, 460;

prepares for any emergency, 460;

H. Q. at Tappan, 460;

orders André to be hanged, 460;

his correspondence with Clinton respecting the execution, 461;

his letters on the plot, 461;

H. Q. at Newburgh, 465;

his account of Arnold's conspiracy, 466;

Domestic Life, by Richard Rush, 466;

traduced for executing André, 467, 468;

his justification, 467;

later English authorities approve, 468;

countenanced the exchange of André for Arnold, 468;

encouraged Champe to abduct Arnold, 468;

meets Rochambeau at Weathersfield, 499;

attempts to surprise N. Y. forts, 499;

marches to Virginia, 500;

headquarters at Williamsburg, 506;

his opinion of Henry Lee, 510;

papers on the Yorktown campaign, 515;

on the Yorktown campaign, 549;

thanked by Congress, 549;

his epaulettes, 549;

his journals and orderly-books, 553;

Middlebrook, 556;

at Morristown, 559;

his H. Q., 559;

communications with Rochambeau, 560, 561;

at Totowa and Preakness, 561;

proposed attack with the French on New York forts, 561;

marches to Virginia (1781), 561;

at Livingston Mansion, 562;

was he a marshal of France? 562;

steps leading to his naval authority (1775), 565;

ceased supervision (1776), 567;

suggestions as to privateers, 591;

portrait of, 575;

takes command of the army, 612;

his instructions, 612;

authorized to use Indians, 616, 617, 633;

visited by Indians at Cambridge, 622;

his interest in Western lands, 649;

selects land for soldiers of the French war, 649;

on the Sullivan exped. (1779), 667, 669;

on Brodhead's exped., 671;

sends Arnold up the Kennebec, 673;

sends letter to the Eastern Indians, 674;

his journal in the Ohio region, 709;

his opinion of Clark's project for attacking Detroit, 731;

moves his army to the Hudson (1781), 744;

at Newburgh, 744;

Nicola's letter, 745;

Newburgh addresses, 746;

authorizes Collection of Papers, 746;

cessation of hostilities, 746;

farewell address, 746;

last circular to the States, 746;

at Rocky Hill, 746;

enters New York at the close of the war, 746;

parts with his officers, 747;

goes to Annapolis, 747;

resigns his commission, 747;

at Mount Vernon, 747;

message against Genet, 734.

Washington, Col. William, 481, 537;

at Trenton, 376;

charges at Cowpens, 482;

medal, 539.

Watauga besieged, 478, 676, 679.

Watauga Association, 678, 708.

Waterbury, Col. David, 325;

on Arnold's fight on Lake Champlain, 346.

Wateree River, 475.

Waterloo, N. Y., Library and Hist. Soc. Proc., 681.

Watertown, Mass., Prov. Congress at, 203.

Watrin, Father, Missions of Louisiana, 720.

Watson, Benj. Marston, loyalist, 253.

Watson, Elkanah, Memoirs or Men and Times, 203, 253.

Watson, H. C., Old Bell of Independence or Noble Deeds of our Forefathers, 259.

Watson, John Lee, Paul Revere's Signals, 174.

Watson, W. C., on Arnold's fight at Valcour Island, 377;

Essex County, N. Y., 214.

Wawarsing destroyed, 646.

Waxhaw Creek, Buford's defeat at, 475, 527.

Wayne, Anthony, 445;

at Paoli, 383;

court-martialled, 419;

on Germantown, 386, 421;

orderly-book, 437;

at Brandywine, 381;

on Arnold's treason, 466;

on the Northern campaign (1776), 346;

lives of, 514;

portraits, 385;

account of, by De Peyster, 385;

his house, 385;

at Monmouth, 400, 446;

surprised in Georgia by Indians, 677;

in Virginia, 497, 547;

in the Yorktown campaign, 501;

in Georgia, 507;

attacks Stony Point, 558;

at Bull's Ferry, 560;

hero of the Cow Chace, 560;

at Morristown, 561.

Weare, Mechech, his papers, 598.

Weathersfield, Conn., Washington and Rochambeau at, 561;

Webb House in, 561.

Webb, S. B., 187, 203.

Webber, C. W., Hist. and Rev. Incidents, 708.

Webster, Daniel, his correct estimate of the causes of the Revolution, 63;

Address to N. Y. Hist. Soc., 99;

on the Bunker Hill controversy, 190;

orations at Bunker Hill, 194.

Wedderburn, his attack on Franklin, 95.

Weedon, Gen., at Brandywine, 382.

Weems, Mason L., Life of Marion, 512.

Welling, J. C., on the Mecklenburg Resolutions, 257.

Wells, J. C., 729.

Welsh, Thomas, 88.

Wemms, William, 86.

Wemple, Edw., 366.

Wemys, Maj. James, his opinions of generals, 330;

criticises Howe, 330;

his papers, 518;

attacks Sumter, 480, 536.

Wesley, John, protects against the war, 111.

West, Benjamin, 463;

paints Bouquet's likeness, 692;

his sketches of Bouquet's campaigns, 699.

West Cambridge (Mass.) men at Lexington, 184.

West Point, 325, 455, 456, 556;

Moses Greenleaf plan, 451;

other plans, 459, 462, 465;

views, 463;

history of, by Boynton, 464;

fortified, 557.

Westchester County (N. Y.), history of, 325, 340.

Westchester Farmer (see Seabury, Samuel, and Wilkins, Isaac), 104;

Free Thoughts, 104;

Congress canvassed, 104;

Hamilton's reply, 104;

A View of the Controversy, 104;

authorship in dispute, 104.

Westcott, Henry, Centennial Sermons, 184.

Western, Fort (Augusta, Me.), 163.

Westminster (Vt.) massacre, 172.

Westmoreland Papers, 516.

Westmoreland, Pa., 680.

Weston, Hannah, 564.

Weston, Thomas, Jr., Peter Oliver, 95.

Weymouth, Earl of, 43.

Whaleboat warfare, 591.

Wharton, Anna H., on Thomas Wharton, 272, 405;

Wharton Genealogy, 436.

Wharton, Chas. P., Poetical Epistle to Washington, 575.

Wharton, Samuel, 708;

on Indian lands, 650.

Wharton, Gov. Thomas, 272.

Wharton, Thomas, Jr., 405;

death of, 401.

Wharton family, 436;

their house, 436.

Whately, Thomas, 56.

Wheatley, Phillis, 146.

Wheeler, No. Carolina, 514, 678.

Wheeling, Va., 716.

Wheelock, Col., in the Northern campaign (1776), 346.

Wheelock, Rev. Eleazer, 655;

instructs Brant, 626.

Wheildon, W. W., Siege of Boston, 173;

Revere's Signal Lanterns, 175;

Concord Fight, 184;

Bunker Hill, 191;

Solomon Willard, 194.

Whipple, Abraham, cruising, 565;

sails to Bermuda, 567;

acc. of, 567;

portraits, 567;

letters, 567;

in the "Providence", 582, 583;

his captures, 584;

at Charleston (1780), 524;

autograph order, 472.

Whipple, Christopher, 565.

Whipple, Wm., autog., 263;

life, 265;

on Burgoyne's surrender, 358;

on privateering, 591.

White, Joseph, Battle of Trenton, 406.

White, Philip, 744.

Whitechurch, Robt., 510.

White Clay Creek, Pa., 421.

Whitemarsh, 416, 442;

Washington at, 389.

White Plains, 340;

Washington at, 286;

lines of corn-stalks, 286;

evacuated, 286;

Howe's blunders at, 291;

American position at, 336, 337;

references, 337;

Col. Hazlett's letter, 337.

Whitney, James L., Lit. of Nineteenth April, 185.

Whitney, Josiah, on Putnam's death, 190.

Whitney, Miss, statue of S. Adams, 41.

Whittier, J. G., "Great Ipswich fight", 128.

Whittlesey, Col. Chas., Expedition of Dunmore, 714;

Fugitive Essays, 649, 714.

Whittlesey, Capt. Ezra, 613.

Whittlesey, E. D., on Marshall's acc. of Danbury exped., 348.

Whyte, Robert, 425.

Wickes, Lambert, capt. in the navy, 370;

carried the first national vessel across the ocean, 571;

takes Franklin over, 571;

cruises around Ireland, 572;

difficulties in French ports, 572;

lost at sea, 573.

Wiederhold, plan of Trenton attack, 511.

Wilbur's Basin, 309.

Wild, Ebenezer, 220.

Wilkes, John, 11;

and the "Sons of Liberty", 72;

his efforts and speeches, 110, 121;

his comments on Burgoyne's speeches, 365;

"Wilkes and Liberty", 28.

Wilkesbarré, 606.

Wilkins, Isaac, his tracts, 104.

Wilkinson, Eliza, Letters, 520, 527.

Wilkinson, Gen. James, on Freeman's Farm, 356;

in Canada, 222;

plan of Trenton, 412;

of Princeton, 413;

Memoirs, 189;

carries news of Burgoyne's surrender to Congress, 358.

Wilkinson, J. B., Binghamton, 670.

Wilkinson, W. C., 361.

Willers, Diedrich, Jr., Sullivan's Campaign, 670.

Willet, Col. Marinus, at Fort Stanwix, 299, 350, 628;

attacks St. Leger's camp, 631;

Narrative, 350, 631;

in command on the Mohawk, 645;

threatens Oswego, 646.

Willett, W. M., Marinus Willett, 350, 670.

William and Mary, their charter for Mass. destroyed, 114.

Williams, Capt., 728.

Williams, Col., 475.

Williams, Mrs. C. R., Biog. of Rev. Heroes, 404.

Williams, David, 456, 466.

Williams, J. F., in the "Hazard", 582;

in the "Protector", 582;

engages the "Duff", 582;

her log, 582;

commands the Massachusetts fleet, 582.

Williams, Lieut., 148.

Williams, O. H., under Greene, 484;

at Guildford, 485;

accounts of, 537;

on Hobkirk's Hill, 542;

at Ninety-Six, 544;

at Eutaws, 545;

Campaign of 1780, 530;

in the South, 476.

Williams, Richard, plan of American lines round Boston, 212.

Williams, Wm., 187;

autog., 263;

life of, 265.

Williamsburg, Va., Wayne at, 501;

American army at, 501;

Washington's headquarters at, 506;

maps of, 553.

Williamson, Col. Andrew, map of his marches, 675;

invades Indian territory, 676.

Williamson, Col. David, 735, 736;

murders Indians, 736.

Williamson, Hugh, on the tea-ship commotions, 91;

on North Carolina Revolutionary history, 514.

Willing, Anne, 693.

Willing, Thos., 383.

Wilmington, Del., 421.

Wilmington, N. C., occupied by the British, 487;

map, 542.

Wilson, Chas., Burgoyne's Campaign, 361.

Wilson, D., Jane McCrea, 627.

Wilson, James, Considerations, etc., 106;

autog., 265;

life, 265.

Wilson, L., 461.

Wilson, R., 545.

Wilson, Thos., Biog. of the Principal American Heroes, 530.

Wilson, Memoir of Bishop White, 438.

Winnebagoes, 739.

Winsor, Justin, "Notes on the Causes of the Revolution", 68;

"The Conflict Precipitated", 113;

references on the siege of Boston, 172;

bibliography of Bunker Hill, 185;

edits Ware's journal, 219;

notes on the campaign round N. Y. (1776), 323;

notes on the authorities for the campaigns of 1777-1778, 403;

"The Treason of Arnold", 447;

"Events in the North, 1779-1781", 555;

on the extent of the Continental army, 588.

Winstanley paints John Adams, 36.

Winter Hill (near Boston), 206;

lines at, 207;

camp at, 202, 203, 204.

Winthrop, Hannah, 318.

Winthrop, James, at Bunker Hill, 202.

Winthrop, Prof. John, 187, 205.

Winthrop, Madam, 180.

Winthrop, R. C., on Charles Hudson, 184;

on R. Frothingham, 186;

Address on unveiling Prescott's Statue, 194;

Oration at Yorktown, 555;

address on Fort Griswold, 562.

Winthrop, Sam., autog., 50.

Wister, Sally, diary, 436.

Withers, Alex. S., Chronicles of Border Warfare, 248, 711.

Witherspoon, John, in Congress, 244;

autog., 264;

life, 265.

Withington, L., 219.

Woedtke, Baron de, letters, 225.

Wolcott, Oliver, autog., 263;

life of, 265;

on Bemis's Heights, 357.

Wolcott, Oliver, Jr., life of O. Wolcott, 265.

Wood, Sylvanus, 183.

Wood Creek (N. Y.), 298, 351.

Woodbridge, Col. Ruggles, 346.

Woodbridge, N. J., 372.

Woodbury, James T., 184.

Woodd, Lieut., 148.

Woodford, Gen., at Germantown, 385;

and his Virginians, 525.

Woodhull, Gen., captured, 280;

death of, 330.

Woodruff, Samuel, 357.

Woodstock, N. Y., 639.

Woolsey, Theodore, 464.

Woolson, C. F., "Up the Ashley", 471.

Wooster, Gen. David, killed, 348;

monuments to, 348;

near N. Y. (1776), 153;

differences with Schuyler, 161;

and Montgomery, 162;

in the Canada expedition, 220;

his character, 220;

letters of, 220, 221;

portrait, 225;

autog., 225;

at Montreal, 165;

at Quebec, 166;

recalled from Canada, 167.

Worcester, S. T., Hollis, 190.

Wragg, Wm., 79.

Wraxall, Hist. Memoirs, 112.

Wright, Aaron, 203.

Wright, Gov. Sir James, of Georgia, 611;

letters to Dartmouth, 90;

on the number of Indians, 651;

correspondence, 675.

Wright, Joshua G., Address, 168.

Wright, W. E., translates Rochambeau's Memoirs, 516.

Writs of Assistance, 68;

opposed by Otis, 11;

explained, 11;

legalized, 39;

references, 65;

enforced by Bernard, 65.

Wrottesley, Sir John, 330.

Wyandots, 610;

their home, 735.

Wyatt, Thos., Generals presented with Medals, 537.

Wyoming, 606;

Moravian Indians at, 606;

attacked, 634;

population of the valley, 634;

fortified, 634;

Forty Fort, 634;

defeat of Col. Butler, and massacre, 635;

losses, 635;

retreat of the invaders, 636;

account of massacre, 653;

early accounts, 662;

general accounts, 665;

bibliog., 665.

Wyoming Valley invaded by Pennsylvanians to dispossess the Connecticut settlers, 680.

Wythe, Geo., 716;

autog., 265.

Yale Book, 189.

Yonge, C. D., British Navy, 589;

Constitutional Hist. of England, 75.

York, Pa., Congress at, 391, 419.

Yorke, Sir Joseph, his correspondence, 592.

Yorktown, campaign of, 547;

evidence on the responsibility of Cornwallis of Clinton, 548, 549;

correspondence of the surrender, 549;

news received in London, 549;

prisoners taken, 549;

maps of, 550, 551, 552, 553;

inquiry into the campaign in England, 516;

debates in Parliament, 516;

news received in England, 555;

acc. of centennial of, 555;

responsibility for the surrender, 516;

siege of, 501;

surrendered, 504;

forces engaged, 504;

fac-simile of articles of capitulation, 505;

Nelson House, 506;

Moore House, 506;

view of the capitulation field, 506;

medals, 506;

Trumbull's picture, 506.

Young, Arthur, Observations, 709.

Young, J., assigned to the "Saratoga", 583.

Young, Thomas, 88.

Young, Sergeant Wm., 406.

Younglove, Moses, 683;

his captivity, 659.

Zane, Elizabeth, 716.

Zeigler, W. B., Heart of the Alleghanies, 536.

Zeisberger, David, 734;

diary edited by Bliss, 736.

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