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Dabster (dog), 9:68, 69

Dade, Baldwin, 7:490; 10:65

Dade, Francis, 7:379, 441, 442, 465

Dade, Parthenia Alexander Massey, 9:191; 10:187

Dade, Townshend, 7:379; 8:146; 9:190

Dade, Townshend, Jr. (born c.1740), 9:191; 10:128; letters to: from GW, 10:187

Dade, Townshend (d. 1781), 7:361, 384; 9:189, 190, 191, 230; 10:187

Dagge, Henry, 7:349

Dagworthy, Ely, 2:227, 228-29

Dagworthy, John, 2:54, 211, 228, 246; 4:9; 5:7, 38, 283; 6:92; appointments and commissions, 1:224-25; 4:49; 5:456; 6:102, 112, 117, 119, 153, 156; company of, 2:39, 54, 62, 307; 5:233, 454-55, 456; 6:119; at Fort Cumberland, 2:40, 50, 75; 5:60, 249, 345; conflict with Adam Stephen, 2:63, 72, 74-75; id., 2:63, 74; 3:210; 4:49; and controversy over rank, 2:173, 178, 200, 202, 210-11, 213, 218-19, 238, 270-71, 280, 283-84, 285, 291, 292, 294-95, 296, 303, 304, 311, 323, 324-25, 328; 5:406; and supplies, 2:210, 283; 5:282, 292; criticism of, 2:283; and dispute over command at Fort Cumberland, 2:289; 3:14, 15, 16, 17, 319-20; provisioning of his troops by Virginia, 2:291; and influence over Governor Sharpe, 2:325, 326; takeover of Fort Cumberland, 4:127, 128, 130, 131, 135, 197, 204, 345; and Indian alarm, 4:191, 211-12, 213-15, 218, 219, 221, 226, 228, 229, 236, 237, 240, 245, 246, 247, 251, 258, 260, 288, 299, 300, 305, 318; and dispute over provisions, 4:198, 255, 304, 428, 429; GW's relations with, 4:222; lacks interpreter, 4:246; keeps captured French orders, 5:26; and road construction, 5:268, 269, 273, 287, 296-97; 6:132; military service, 5:347-49; 6:1, 3; orders to, 6:92, 149; his return of guards at Loyalhanna, 6:113; letters from: to GW, 4:212-13, 226, 294-95; to Horatio Sharpe, 4:213; letters to: from Henry Woodward, 2:234; from Adam Stephen, 4:49-50; from Horatio Sharpe, 4:128; from GW, 4:222, 300-301; 5:284

Dagworthy, John, Sr., 2:63

Daingerfield, Mary Willis, 2:162

Daingerfield, William, 7:110, 209, 211, 299

Daingerfield, William (d. 1781; of Coventry), 3:447; 4:346; 6:95; 7:434; orders to, 2:14; 3:157; appointments and commissions, 2:40, 42, 261; 3:251; id., 2:162; 7:434; military service, 3:162, 429; 4:166, 167, 205, 206, 340, 406-7, 432; 5:135; address to GW, 6:178-81; and bounty lands, 9:94-95; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22; letters to: from George Mercer, 2:162

Dale, Abraham, 2:240, 256, 258, 269

Dale, Jane, 8:47

Dale, Thomas, 7:127

Dale Parish, 5:91-92

Dalgleish, ---- (doctor), 7:262

Dalgleish, Alexander, 7:263

Dalgleish, John, 7:263

Dalooch, Michael, 4:42

Dalton, John, 1:229, 234, 274, 291, 323, 328; 2:214; 5:367, 380, 435; 6:382, 481; 7:361, 379, 439; 8:145, 168; id., 1:229, 293; 2:203; 4:227; 5:288, 408; 7:358; supplies troops, 2:201, 204; 4:290, 413; and militia, 3:67, 68-69, 70, 80, 88, 90, 96, 99, 106, 107, 108; 4:226; partnership with John Carlyle, 7:146; and GW's election expenses, 7:357; elected to Fairfax vestry, 7:361, 384; and venture to West Indies, 9:71; buys pew, 9:182; and the bloomery, 9:447, 449; 10:25, 132, 284; and Fairfax Committee, 10:128, 150; and Boston Port Bill, 10:144; and the election ball, 10:177; and Potomac navigation, 10:243; letters from: to Peyton Randolph, 8:487-89; to GW, 10:156-57; letters to: from GW, 3:91; 9:180-83; 10:154

Dalton, Michael, 6:284

Dalton, Robert, 7:361

Dalyell, David, 8:253-54

Dalyell, Oswald & Co., 8:253-54

Damon (horse), 10:23

Dampier, William, 6:286

Damsal, Richard, 8:158

Dandridge, Alexander Spotswood, 9:512; 10:70, 71

Dandridge, Ann (wife of Thomas Dansie), 6:260

Dandridge, Anne (Bartholomew Dandridge's daughter), 9:473, 480, 481

Dandridge, Anne Stephen, 10:71

Dandridge, Bartholomew, 8:580, 586; and Custis estate, 6:252, 256, 260, 261, 276; 7:90, 301, 303, 304; 8:82, 202, 203, 204, 205, 459, 463; 9:368-73; purchases entailed land, 6:475; and dispute over slave, 7:133; and John Dandridge's will, 7:134; account with, 7:268, 478, 479; id., 8:579; and New Kent County land suit, 9:286; and William Black's lands, 9:377, 400, 402, 427, 429, 435, 472; and slaves given to Martha Washington's sisters, 9:433-34; family, 9:474, 481; and GW's bounty lands, 10:42, 343; letters from: to GW, 6:283; 8:578-79, 581-82; 9:423-29, 478-81; 10:22; letters to: from GW, 6:283; 9:401-2, 471-74; from George Brooke, 9:399; from Joseph Davenport, 9:425; from William Black, 9:480

Dandridge, Bartholomew, Jr., 9:480, 481

Dandridge, Dorothea Spotswood, 10:71

Dandridge, Elizabeth (b. 1749), 7:133, 134, 495; 8:143, 144, 217; 9:244

Dandridge, Elizabeth (wife of Francis Dandridge), 7:396

Dandridge, Elizabeth Macon, 9:481

Dandridge, Fielder, 7:409-10

Dandridge, Frances Jones, 6:321, 417, 451; 7:133; 8:217; 9:172, 300, 425, 434; id., 6:321-22; goods for, 6:352, 375, 376, 449; 7:63, 76, 79, 130, 251, 252, 256, 295, 321, 328, 409, 446, 450, 509; annuity for, 6:418; and John Dandridge's will, 7:134; inherits bank stock, 7:396; GW asks her to live at Mount Vernon, 9:244

Dandridge, Francis (d. 1765; of London), 7:402; letters to: from GW, 7:395-96

Dandridge, John (1700-1756), 6:321; 7:133, 134, 396; 9:233, 434

Dandridge, John (Bartholomew Dandridge's son), 9:480, 481

Dandridge, Mary (1756-1763), 7:133, 134; 9:434

Dandridge, Mary Burbidge, 9:425, 473, 474, 480; 10:22

Dandridge, Nathaniel West, 3:170; 6:255; 7:91; 8:205, 463; 9:371; 10:71

Dandridge, William, 7:34, 337

Dandridge, William, Jr., 9:46

Dandridge, William, Sr., 9:46

Dandridge, William (1734-1776; Martha Washington's brother), 9:429; and Custis estate, 6:226, 256, 260, 261, 276, 277, 416; 7:90, 91, 303; 8:82, 191, 200, 204, 205, 346, 453, 462, 463; 9:371, 372, 373; account with, 7:1, 190, 209, 366, 371, 437, 501, 507; 9:34, 231; 10:75; and dispute over slave, 7:133; id., 7:133; and John Dandridge's estate, 7:134; 9:434; bond to Martha Parke Custis, 9:232; letters to: from GW, 7:133-34

Dandridge, William (Bartholomew Dandridge's son), 9:480, 481

Dandridge, William (of Elsing Green), 8:574

Dandridge, William (of Huntington), 9:393; 10:35; letters from: to GW, 8:574-75

Danforth, James, 6:328, 329

Daniel, James, 3:432-33, 435

Daniel (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220

Daniel (slave; Anthony Bacon's and Fielding Lewis's), 7:315

Daniel (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589

Daniel (slave; Northampton County), 6:230

Daniel (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588

Daniel (slave; York County), 6:229

Dansey, Joseph, 6:47

Dansie, Thomas, 2:12; 3:377; his ordinary, 2:12; 3:94, 95; 6:365, 406; 7:261; his ferry, 3:94-95; 6:356, 406; 7:108; and Custis estate, 6:255, 260, 276; 7:91, 215; marriage, 6:260; id., 6:365; account with, 7:1, 190, 210, 309

Dansie's ferry. See Dansie, Thomas

Dansie's ordinary. See Dansie, Thomas

Daphne, Old (dower slave; Bridge Quarter), 6:312; 7:463, 464

Daphne, Old (dower slave; York County), 6:218

Daphne, Young (dower slave; Bridge Quarter), 6:312

Daphne, Young (dower slave; York County), 6:218

Daphne (dower slave): brought to Mount Vernon, 8:401; at Ferry farm, 8:402

Daphne (slave), 9:432

Daphne (slave; Ferry farm): tithable, 8:479; 9:54, 238; 10:137; sent from dower plantations, 8:480

Daphne (slave; Home farm), 9:54, 55, 238; 10:137

Daphne (slave; River farm), 7:377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 357, 479, 557; 9:55, 239; 10:137

Daphne (slave; York County, 1), 6:229

Daphne (slave; York County, 2), 6:229

Daran, Thomas, 6:47

Darby, Darby, 4:389

Darby & Morgan, 8:561, 565; 9:2, 104

Darcy, Daniel, 6:326

Dare, William, 4:41

Darnes, Henry, 7:379; 8:147, 148

Darnes, William, 7:379

Darnforth, James, 6:252, 253, 263

Darrell, Augustus, 8:145, 146, 323, 355, 356, 383; 9:11

Darrell, Mary, 6:368

Darrell, Sampson (d. 1777), 6:331, 406; 7:379; 8:41, 51, 146, 147; id., 3:168; land bought from, 5:74-75, 78-79, 416; 6:183, 332, 339-40, 383, 384, 407, 425, 427, 444; 7:103, 174, 278, 350; 8:283, 315; 9:431; account with, 6:429; 7:104, 319, 351; 8:521; and vestry election, 7:362, 384; sheriff, 8:42, 53; boundary dispute with George Mason, 8:79-80, 260-61, 421; letters from: to GW, 5:74-75; 6:367-68

Darrell, Sampson (Senior), 5:74, 75; 6:367, 368; 8:261

Darrell, Sarah McCarty Johnston: letters to: from GW, 8:383

Darrell, William, 6:289

Dartmouth, William Legge, second earl of, 7:108; letters to: from Lord Dunmore, 9:179

d'Aubarède, Guillaume-Claude, comte de Laval and baron de Chamousset, 10:76, 79

d'Aubeuf, René-Aubert de Vertot, 6:288

Daugherty, James, 8:22, 24

Daun, Leopold Joseph Marie, Count von, 6:80, 81

Davenport, ----: paid by GW, 6:370

Davenport, ---- (Miss): and Custis estate, 8:460; account with, 8:486

Davenport, ---- (Mrs.): dressmaker, 8:487

Davenport, Elizabeth, 7:496

Davenport, George, 6:371

Davenport, James (overseer), 7:313, 333, 366, 375, 417; 8:170, 171, 267, 269

Davenport, James (secretary to Edmond Atkin), 4:233, 234, 235

Davenport, James (son of Joseph Davenport of Williamsburg), 6:371

Davenport, Joseph (d. 1761), 6:371; 7:300

Davenport, Joseph (miller), 7:407

Davenport, Joseph (overseer), 7:367; 9:139, 402; 10:78; id., 7:67, 407; 8:106, 582; 9:258; overseer, 7:405-6, 408, 427; 8:516; 9:140; account with, 7:427, 438; his crops, 8:115, 119, 126, 515-16; 9:255; his list of slaves and livestock, 8:582, 583-84; and sick slave, 9:73; dispute over his share, 9:255; and William Black's land, 9:401, 424; letters from: to Lund Washington, 7:405-7, 408, 414-15; to GW, 8:582-84; 9:393; to Bartholomew Dandridge, 9:425

Davenport, Joseph (son of Joseph Davenport of Williamsburg), 6:371

Davenport, Mary, 9:29, 31, 190, 259, 370, 371; 10:77, 105

Davenport, Matthew, 6:371

Davenport, Molley, 8:88, 89

Davenport, P., 8:267, 269

Davenport (Devenport), ---- (Mrs. Joseph), 7:300, 342

David (dower slave; King William County), 6:218

David (Indian), 2:317

David (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589

David (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 6:311; 8:583, 590

David (slave; King William County), 6:225

Davidson, James, 9:61, 104, 109; letters from: to GW, 9:102-3; letters to: from GW, 9:269

Davidson, John, 10:9

Davidson, John & Dennis, 6:397, 403

Davidson & Dennis, 7:26, 30, 126, 291-92, 354, 419-20, 474

Davies (Davis), Thomas, 10:316, 319, 331

Davis, ---- (Thomas Davis's mother), 9:224

Davis, ---- (Thomas Davis's sister), 9:224

Davis, David (of Adam Stephen's detachment), 6:4, 5, 26, 64, 99, 134, 135

Davis, David (of Joshua Lewis's company), 6:5

Davis, David (of Robert Stewart's company), 6:5

Davis, David (of Thomas Bullitt's company), 6:5

Davis, Edward, 7:379; 8:145, 146

Davis, George, 6:47

Davis, Isaac, 7:379; 8:145

Davis, James (of England), 8:398, 400, 563

Davis, James (soldier), 3:306-7

Davis, John, 6:47

Davis, Michael, 8:24

Davis, Richard, 3:9, 253, 259; 4:336-37, 338-39

Davis, Robert, 8:145

Davis, Thomas (soldier), 6:95

Davis, Thomas (weaver), 4:347; 6:96; 7:442, 515; 8:104, 220, 356; his weaving account, 7:508; 8:193; illness, 8:18; account with, 8:22, 531, 557; 9:91, 111, 132, 227, 370; petition for land grant, 8:31; passage paid for his family, 9:224

Davis, Thompson, 7:168

Davis, William (of Frederick County), 1:25, 29, 36, 37

Davis, William (soldier), 3:239, 241

Davison (Davidson), John (Indian trader), 1:93, 105, 106

Davison, Adam, 6:36

Daviss, ----, 10:331, 346, 347

Davy (Davie), Little (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 591

Davy (dower slave; Hanover County), 6:218

Davy (slave), 8:557

Davy (slave, boy; New Kent County, 1), 6:220

Davy (slave, boy; New Kent County, 2), 6:220

Davy (slave; Hanover County), 6:231

Davy (slave; Home farm), 7:139, 313; 10:137, 138

Davy (slave; house servant), 7:133, 227

Davy (slave; in Custis estate), 7:133

Davy (slave; John Robinson's), 7:315

Davy (slave; Mill farm), 7:377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 356, 479; 9:55, 152, 238, 396, 398; 10:137

Davy (slave of A. Barnes), 6:405, 406

Davy (slave; tradesman), 7:515; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:137

Dawson, ---- (ship captain), 7:287

Dawson, Benjamin, 7:334, 335

Dawson, Elizabeth, 9:22, 23, 24

Dawson, Elizabeth Churchill Bassett, 8:83; 9:166; 10:76

Dawson, Isaac, 1:23, 30

Dawson, Thomas (commissary of Anglican church), 6:388; id., 3:426; 4:33; 6:389; 7:60; and appointment of chaplain for Virginia Regiment, 4:6, 9, 26, 31; and applications for surveyorship, 6:387; death, 7:58

Dawson, William (commissary of Anglican church), 1:33; 3:426; 8:83; 9:166

Dawson, William (overseer), 10:178, 179, 195, 202, 203, 205

Dean, William, 3:174; 4:277

Deane, Elkanah, 9:355, 356

Deane, Silas: letters from: to Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 10:359

Deane (Dean), John: orders to, 2:14, 15, 289, 311; appointments and commissions, 2:40, 42, 261; 3:209, 252, 341; 4:166, 190, 203, 255; criticism of, 2:106; id., 2:108; 4:204; military service, 2:281, 283, 318; 3:114, 177, 209, 211-12, 333, 335, 341, 342, 429; and Rawley embezzlement, 2:315; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22, 151; letters to: from George Mercer, 2:162; from GW, 2:313-14; 3:346

Debates in Parliament from 1660 to 1741, 6:287

De Berdt, Dennis, Jr., 8:294; letters from: to GW, 8:299-300

De Berdt, Dennys, 8:294; letters from: to GW, 8:299-300

De Berdt, Lee, & Sayre, 8:369; letters from: to GW, 8:299-300

The declamations of Quintilian, 6:290

Dederick (Deadrick, Dietrich), David, 1:23, 30; 5:337. See also Didrick, David

Deep Run quarter, 1:6, 7, 313; 7:331; 8:430-31. See also Errata

Deermont (Dearmon), James, 10:20, 281

A Defence of Reveal'd Religion, 9:344, 345

A defense of the people of England, 6:289

Defever, John, 2:97; and king's stores, 2:41, 42; 3:160, 173, 255; 4:66, 168; id., 2:52; 3:163; 4:169; criticized, 2:211; acts in play, 2:234; letters from: to GW, 2:51-53, 69

Defoe, Daniel, 6:287, 290, 293; 7:345

de Haas, John Philip (adjutant of 1st Pennsylvania Battalion), 6:94, 100, 120

Dehay, David, 4:277

Deighan, John H., 9:438

De Jure Belli au Paces, 9:344, 345

De Keyser, Lehaynsius, 2:43, 192, 243, 252; 4:166; misconduct and dismissal, 2:35, 253, 254-57, 279, 291, 311, 315; appointments and commissions, 2:40-41, 42; recruiting, 2:71, 190, 240

De Lancey, James, Jr., 5:294, 295

De Lancey, James (1703-1760), 1:247-48, 259; 4:217, 225, 367, 368; 5:294; 6:9, 10, 197; letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:96

Delany, Mary Granville: letters from: to Ann Granville Dewes, 2:322

Delaune, Thomas, 6:292

Delaware (Indians), 10:184; raiding parties, 2:157; 3:233; treaties and conferences, 3:232, 233; 5:164-66; 6:364; and French, 3:308; 5:319; and Cherokee, 5:27, 108; speeches, 5:107, 108, 116; attempts to enlist aid of, 5:108; in Philadelphia, 5:108; prisoners of, 5:319; 10:74, 136; sue for peace, 5:319; 6:159; rumored to join GW, 5:346, 348; intelligence from, 5:440; 6:177-78; 10:182; at war with Creek nation, 6:361; incensed against GW, 6:361; more numerous than supposed, 6:361; their losses heavy, 6:361; on scout, 6:467; and Dunmore's War, 10:44, 72, 73-74, 94; claim they were not paid for land, 10:55; and Pontiac's War, 10:74; taken hostage, 10:74. See also Indians

Delaware (Lower Counties). See individual volumes

Delaware George (Indian), 1:201, 202; 6:178

Delaware lottery, 9:160, 230, 231; 10:175-76, 239-40, 313

Deliverance (ship): and Custis estate, 6:269, 270; tobacco shipped in, 6:373, 374; 7:31; lost at sea, 6:411, 447; loss of tobacco in, 7:20, 31, 32, 53, 74, 75, 134, 141-42, 189, 199-200, 202, 394

Demeré, ----, 1:225

Demeré, Paul, 1:145, 227, 266, 295; 5:41, 42; letters from: to William Henry Lyttelton, 5:82

Demeré, Raymond, 1:227; 4:375; 5:42; letters from: to William Henry Lyttelton, 3:446; 4:8, 355; letters to: from Andrew Lewis, 3:371-72

De morbis cutaneis, 6:287

Demoss, William, 1:31

Deneale, James, 7:379; 8:147

Dennis, Adam, 6:337; 8:565

Dennis, Ann, 6:334, 337; 7:293; 8:45, 504, 507

Dennis, John, 6:289

Dennis & Woodward, 8:46-47, 50, 133, 559; 9:105

Denny, Richard, 2:344, 347

Denny, William, 3:352; 4:298, 416; 5:116; and Indians, 4:189, 196; 5:23, 106-9; 6:88, 106; and alarm at Fort Cumberland, 4:217, 224-25; id., 5:13; signs military bill, 6:88; letters from: to Robert Dinwiddie, 3:426; to John Stanwix, 4:299; to GW, 5:13, 106-10; letters to: from Adam Stephen, 2:73; from John Stanwix, 4:229; from John Armstrong, 4:271; from William Johnson, 5:14; from GW, 5:22-23; from Thomas Bullitt, 5:109, 109-10, 111; from John Forbes, 6:163

Dent, ----, 5:372

Dent, Arthur, 3:306-7; 4:389

Dent, Elizabeth, 1:261, 262; 5:372, 373; 6:331, 332, 457-48; letters from: to GW, 1:346

Dent, Peter, 8:512

Dent, Peter (1694-1757), 1:262

Dent, Thomas (at Belvoir), 6:332; 7:108, 239, 240

Dent, Thomas (shipmaster), 8:68, 121

Dent, Warren, 8:208

Denton, Abraham, 4:404

Denton, James, 1:14

Denton, Robert, 1:20, 23, 31

Denzil, Baron Holles, 6:289

De Rebus gestis, Alexandri Magni, 3:126

De recta sanguinis missione, 6:288

Derham, William, 6:300

Derrick, Thomas, 7:412

Desertion in wartime, 2:206, 212, 225, 230, 258, 269, 328; 4:212; in Braddock campaign, 2:11; pardons for, 2:11-12, 162, 202; 6:37-38; apprehension of deserters, 2:38, 111, 172, 188, 189, 190, 194, 197, 202, 216-17, 219-20, 229, 230, 231, 243, 256, 258, 269, 271, 300, 302; 4:5, 16, 40-41, 48, 49, 57, 77, 85, 111, 295, 306, 320, 328, 343-44, 358, 392, 415, 416, 424; 5:10, 24, 104; 6:4, 25-26, 176; prevention of, 2:103, 190, 195, 197; 3:144, 175, 350, 399; of Light Horse, 2:175, 344; 3:207, 209, 235; punishment for, 2:186, 212, 230, 233, 236, 279, 288, 289-90, 300, 310, 311; 3:154, 158, 171-72, 178-79, 180, 239, 294; 4:6, 9, 18, 48, 52-53, 64, 230-31, 254-55, 295, 297, 306, 321, 329-53, 406, 421; 6:36-37, 50; from British regiments, 2:203; charges and rewards for apprehending deserters, 2:220; 3:228, 271, 272, 326-27, 332; for Christmas holidays, 2:227, 229; in rangers, 2:243; 3:421; of militia, 3:97, 122, 137, 145-46, 150, 151, 171, 178, 234, 236; instructions regarding, 3:138; 4:81, 328, 343-44; 5:238; court-martials of deserters, 3:151-53, 230, 238; 6:34, 36-37; of soldiers, 3:171, 277, 350, 373; 4:9, 18, 175-76, 235, 280, 281, 285, 287, 288-89, 292, 295, 306, 396, 398, 405-6, 421; 5:9; protection of deserters, 3:231, 399, 417, 425; 4:81, 85, 194, 295, 297, 309, 318-19, 336-37, 339; from scouts, 3:301; deserters join Royal American Regiment, 3:354; 4:40; advertisements for deserters, 3:373; 4:297, 298, 312; 6:25; in Royal American Regiment, 4:40-41, 45, 48, 52-53, 54, 86, 414, 415, 424; rewards for apprehension of deserters, 4:49, 85, 145, 293, 298; 5:29, 47, 59-60, 62, 394; 6:25; bill to draft deserters, 4:184; of quartermaster, 5:3, 8; of Maryland troops, 5:273; deserters go with Cherokee, 5:392; to North Carolina detachment, 5:393; reinlistment of deserters, 5:423; 6:3-4; of pardoned deserter, 5:424; 6:26; of Pennsylvania light horseman, 5:428, 430-31; in Fort Necessity campaign, 6:3-4; law dealing with, 6:27; exhortations against, 6:51; provision for court-martials of, 6:62; of Lower Counties troops, 6:130; of Cherokee, 6:146; fear of desertion, 6:163, 171; for lack of clothing and provisions, 6:175; of recruits, 6:412-13

Desire (ship), 6:195, 196, 358, 359

The desolution of France demonstrated, 6:288; 7:347

de Souligné, ----, 6:288

Detroit, 5:100. See also Fort Detroit

Dettingen Parish, 8:383; 9:75

Devenport, ---- (Mrs.), 7:298, 300. See also Davenport

Devil's Backbone, 3:52

Devonshire, William Cavendish, duke of, 4:101

Devotions in the ancient way of offices, 7:348

Dew, Thomas, 4:42

Dewes, Ann Granville: letters to: from Mary Granville Delany, 2:322

Diana (ship), 8:160

Dick, ---- (captain), 5:105, 112

Dick, Charles, 1:304; 2:20, 113, 116, 130, 155, 181, 182, 186, 188, 197, 205, 222, 251; 3:160, 173; 4:357; 5:280, 334; 8:67, 258; ferry of, 1:8; id., 1:305; 2:8; 3:162-63; 4:358; 5:210, 328; 9:169; resignation as commissary, 2:1, 6, 7, 43-44, 164, 165, 168; activities as commissary, 2:16-17, 22, 30, 33, 43, 45, 72, 79-80, 81, 121, 122, 131, 139, 145, 158, 194; accounts, 2:44; 3:376, 377; criticism of, 2:106, 121, 220; agreement for North Carolina cattle, 2:160, 168, 193; storekeeper, 3:273; commissary in Braddock expedition, 4:33; returns of, 4:54; and GW's election, 5:263, 343; Henry Woodward's debt to, 5:327-28; and lottery, 8:54; land in Shenandoah Valley, 9:168-69; and George Mercer's affairs, 10:188, 195, 326, 327, 328-29; letters from: to GW, 2:25-26; 5:327-28; letters to: from GW, 2:21-22, 22-23, 55-56, 131, 148, 187; from Robert Dinwiddie, 2:26, 32, 128

Dick, William, 4:376

Dick (slave, Eve's child; New Kent County), 6:220

Dick (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589

Dick (slave; Dogue Run), 10:137, 138

Dick (slave; Home farm), 10:138

Dick (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588

Dick (slave; New Kent County), 6:220

Dick (slave; River farm), 9:55, 238; 10:138

Dick (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588

Dick (slave; Samuel Washington's), 7:173

Dickey (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220

Dickinson, Adam, 2:111; 5:90

Dickinson, John (of Augusta County), 2:111; 3:321-23; 4:4, 346-48, 350-51, 393, 394, 395; 5:21, 90

Dickinson, John (of Pennsylvania), 8:194; 10:160; letters from: to GW, 10:325; letters to: from GW, 10:337

Dickinson's fort (on Cowpasture River), 2:111; 4:348

Dickinson's fort (on Jackson River; Fort Young), 3:323; 4:394; 5:1; Indian attack on, 4:2, 13, 88, 92; needs improvement, 4:4, 15; proposals for, 4:10, 128, 154; strategic location of, 4:11; Andrew Lewis's command at, 4:347, 348, 360; id., 5:15; troops at, 5:67

Dictionarium rusticum, urbanicum & botanicum, 6:289; 7:345

Didrick, David, 3:401. See also Dederick, David

Didsbury, John, 7:267, 357; 8:102; 9:64; goods from, 5:112; 6:318, 333, 397, 461, 464; 7:29, 76, 79, 129, 165, 199, 250-51, 252, 255, 293, 321, 328, 356, 403-4, 421, 449, 474, 476; 8:7-8, 13, 48, 132, 306, 501, 509, 564; 9:61, 107; id., 5:113; accounts with, 7:369, 370-71; 8:201; complaint against, 7:456; has GW's shoe measure, 9:273; letters to: from GW, 6:374; 7:76, 250-51, 266, 321, 444; 8:7-8, 97-98, 500-501; 9:61, 270

Dieskau, Baron Ludwig August, 2:64; 5:174

Difficult Bridge, 7:70

Difficult Run, 1:18, 180; 5:415; 7:70, 211-12, 279, 351

Difficult Run tract, 7:211, 279, 351; 8:262

Digges, ----: and Clifton affair, 6:409; paid, 7:263

Digges, Charles: manager of race, 7:11; account with, 7:87, 104, 105, 261, 366, 367; id., 7:108, 225; and Mississippi Company, 7:224, 246, 249, 253, 416, 512; 8:63

Digges, Dudley, Jr., 6:259; 7:253

Digges, Dudley (1718-1790), 3:378, 379; 4:284; 9:20, 21; 10:150

Digges, George, 8:573; 9:204, 463; letters from: to GW, 10:332

Digges, Ignatius, 6:410, 422, 425, 433-34; 9:50, 52, 91, 92

Digges, Joseph, 8:573; 10:178, 179

Digges, Mary Carroll, 6:410

Digges, Thomas Attwood, 7:295, 296

Digges, William, 8:361; 9:77; and Clifton affair, 6:409, 410, 423, 425, 437-38, 443, 444, 450; GW buys hay from, 6:430; id., 6:434; 7:108, 512; 9:51; account with, 7:63, 105, 298, 373, 481; 10:177, 178, 319; breeding horses, 7:109; his home, 7:159; family, 7:296; 10:179, 332; and Mississippi Company, 7:512; GW visits, 8:573; 9:203; Robert Eden visits, 9:50, 51; at Mount Vernon, 9:204; letters from: to GW, 6:433-34

Diggs, Judy (Miss Dudy), 7:147, 148

Dillons Run, 1:30, 31

Dilouza, James, 1:23

Dinah, Little (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588

Dinah (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 591

Dinah (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587

Dinah (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587

Dinah (slave; New Kent County), 6:220

Dinah (slave; York County), 6:229

Dinwiddie, Robert, 1:70, 187, 188, 196, 201, 212, 215, 217, 249, 283, 286; 2:9, 34, 68, 132, 184, 351; 3:79, 94, 161, 208, 272, 325, 335, 376, 422, 438; 4:45, 54-55, 120, 122, 182, 235, 271, 309, 318, 342, 357, 393; 5:22, 85, 99, 103, 158, 181, 203-4, 231; 6:168; and adjutancy of colony, 1:18, 53, 356; arrives in Virginia, 1:45; id., 1:50-51; his commission to GW, 1:56-60, 181; and the French advance, 1:56-67, 58; letter from French commandant, 1:58; and Ohio Company, 1:59; instructions for GW's journey to French commandant, 1:60-61; and passport for GW, 1:62; frontier defense, 1:63, 68; 2:18, 19, 90, 92; 3:157, 321; 5:5, 21, 43, 91, 115, 135, 140; and intercolonial cooperation, 1:64, 92, 211, 217, 224; 2:132, 133; and troops, 1:64, 104, 126, 139, 174, 223, 224, 225, 345; 3:162, 175, 189, 192; 4:14, 15, 43-44; and Virginia General Assembly, 1:64, 73, 203, 293, 359; his Proclamation of 1754, 1:65, 67; 6:343, 345-46; 7:44, 117-19; 8:30, 31, 64, 268, 269, 272, 275, 277-79, 280, 362, 389, 391, 393, 419, 429, 452, 483, 534-35, 540, 542, 553, 555; 9:121, 122, 123, 128, 130, 143, 191, 323, 327, 358, 364, 365, 382, 392, 405, 421, 454, 503, 516; 10:3, 193, 320; and funds for military, 1:74, 174, 182-83, 222, 224; 2:44, 127, 213; 3:12; 4:99, 191, 249, 273, 316; appoints GW to command expedition, 1:77; and Fort Necessity campaign, 1:77, 81, 120; his courier service, 1:83; 6:23; and Indians, 1:85, 91, 98, 99, 101, 106, 121-22, 123, 146; 2:116, 159, 160-61, 195, 214-15, 305, 356; 3:43, 376, 445; 4:118, 120, 139-40, 141, 142-43, 174, 190, 357; 5:161, 175-76, 178; and French prisoners, 1:118, 119; medal for, 1:121; Indian godson of, 1:125; criticizes George Croghan, 1:140-41; and military supplies, 1:178; 2:43-44, 127-28, 138-39, 172, 213-16, 215, 237, 269, 273, 290-92, 300, 302; 3:193-94, 277, 367; 4:185, 202, 216, 290; and pistole fee, 1:200-201; and appointments of officers, 1:204, 208; 2:1, 7, 213, 246, 292, 294, 311; 3:8; 4:310-11, 323, 340, 364; 5:6, 130, 180; reduces Virginia Regiment to independent companies, 1:224, 354; and Braddock campaign, 1:245, 270; and Alexandria conference, 1:247-48, 259; speech of, 1:269; decides salary of GW's assistant adjutant, 1:356; letter books of, 2:1; appoints GW as colonel of Virginia Regiment, 2:1-8; and appointment of GW's military staff, 2:2, 6, 8, 214, 216, 352; and dates of rank in Virginia Regiment, 2:2; and military discipline, 2:12, 123, 127, 138, 174, 203, 213, 291, 340-41, 343-44; 3:56-57, 105-6, 109, 125, 129, 154, 158, 188, 189, 234, 263, 267, 273-74, 337, 346, 381; 4:258, 260, 263, 313-15, 321, 335, 336, 338, 353, 361, 393; 5:59, 62; and commissaries, 2:26, 33, 138, 213; illness of, 2:113; 3:444; 4:393; and support of Maryland and North Carolina troops, 2:172, 211, 283, 291; dissolves General Assembly, 2:192; and Dagworthy controversy, 2:213, 238, 285, 286, 291-92, 294-95, 303, 304, 323; and Virginia paper money, 2:213, 214; on pay for troops, 2:214; 5:40, 42; relations with GW, 2:214; 4:25, 199, 289, 382, 386, 397, 422; 5:3, 6, 62, 172; 6:187; and Sandy Creek expedition, 2:214-15, 216, 291; approves officer's suspension, 2:257, 258, 311; gives GW permission to go to Boston, 2:292, 310, 314; and Gentlemen Associators, 3:86-87; appointed lieutenant governor, 3:127; unfamiliar with military matters, 3:167-68; reduces number of captains, 3:275; and enlistment of servants, 3:319, 392, 395, 453; and Fort Cumberland, 3:324, 366, 440-41, 450; 4:26, 38-39, 50, 128, 131, 190, 259, 345, 399; and discrepancies in pay, 3:335-36; and supervisory committee, 3:353; and declaration of war, 3:354; and leave for GW, 3:375-76; 4:72; 5:21, 33; and Butts Roberts, 3:378; and libel suit, 3:388; and court of oyer and terminer, 3:394; and Virginia-Centinel No. X, 3:412; 4:19, 22-23; prorogues assembly, 3:423; and ranger companies, 3:442; and payment for scalps, 4:16, 249; at governor's conference in Philadelphia, 4:29, 118-19; orders from, 4:59, 69, 77, 223, 344, 345; and placing Virginia Regiment on British establishment, 4:89; and Robert McKenzie, 4:109, 110; his clerk, 4:166-67; memoranda concerning, 4:220-21, 256-57, 269, 273, 283, 284, 286, 340, 357, 403-4; and Royal American Regiment, 4:337-38; and William Peachey, 4:383, 415; 5:55; and Fort Lyttelton, 4:392-93; criticizes officers, 4:394; contract with William Ramsay to provision troops, 5:5, 30-32; his successor, 5:15; supports offensive war, 5:39-40, 43; leaves Virginia, 5:44, 60, 79, 82, 83, 92; estimate of Atkin's Indian goods, 5:89, 90; and chaplain for Virginia Regiment, 5:130; discontinues allowance for officers, 5:200; and La Force, 6:197; provisions of Proclamation of 1754, 8:276, 391-92; letters from: to Lord Fairfax, 1:33, 67, 266; 3:320; to James Hamilton, 1:56-57, 95, 96, 208; to Board of Trade, 1:57, 63, 64, 114-15, 224, 357; to Holderness, 1:63, 64-65; to GW, 1:63-67, 65-66, 75-77, 91-93, 102-4, 119-20, 120, 121-22, 126-28, 146-47, 148-49, 150-51, 180-81, 182-83, 183, 206-9, 235, 344-45; 2:43-44, 127-28, 138-39, 213-16, 290-95, 343-44, 355-56; 3:41-44, 55, 65-67, 85-87, 102-5, 178-82, 190, 199-202, 205-6, 232-34, 259-61, 358-63, 371-72, 372-73, 404-6, 424-26, 443-44; 4:24-27, 50-54, 57-58, 70-73, 103-5, 107, 128-30, 130-32, 153-56, 156, 157-59, 175-77, 183-84, 225, 243-45, 254-56, 267-68, 303-5, 311-13, 366-67, 368-69, 392, 396-98, 421-23, 423; 5:19-22, 29-30, 39-40, 52-53; to governors, 1:64; to Joshua Fry, 1:77, 92-93, 93, 98, 104; to Horatio Sharpe, 1:96, 148, 149, 205, 206, 208; 2:285; 3:181; 4:131, 197-98, 198; to James De Lancey, 1:96; to George Muse, 1:122; to James Innes, 1:127, 150-51, 181, 181, 208, 214; to John Carlyle, 1:144; to Julian Legge, 1:155; to Henry Fox, 1:175; 3:104, 105; to Sir Thomas Robinson, 1:175, 224; 2:286; to Thomas Clarke, 1:175; to John Robinson, 1:195; to Halifax, 1:213-14, 224, 351; to Andrew Lewis, 1:223; 3:371; 4:26-27, 54, 73, 395, 398; 5:21; to Adam Stephen, 1:236; 4:129-30; to Arthur Dobbs, 1:270; 2:128, 160-61; 3:43, 57; to Edward Braddock, 1:272, 288; to William Shirley, 1:363; 2:173, 280, 286, 293, 294-95, 304; 3:43, 57; to Charles Dick, 2:22, 26, 32, 128; to Robert Hunter Morris, 2:293; to James Abercromby, 3:32, 181; to Peter Hog, 3:363, 434; to John Buchanan, 3:406; 4:367; to sieur de Saint-Pierre, 3:437; to earl of Loudoun, 3:444; 4:53-54, 107; to Thomas Walker, 4:27, 58, 66, 73; to Denis McCarty, 4:54, 58; to John McNeill, 4:54; to William Fairfax, 4:58; to William Henry Lyttelton, 4:130; to George Mercer, 4:142; to Christopher Gist, 4:175; 5:53; to Edmond Atkin, 4:251, 256, 261; to Clement Read, 4:313, 367; 5:91; to Robert Stewart, 5:62-63, 63; letters to: from GW, 1:50-51, 71, 71-73, 73-75, 78-80, 87-91, 93-96, 96-98, 98-100, 104-6, 107-15, 115-16, 116-17, 122-26, 129-40, 143, 179, 183, 189-92, 192-94, 198-99, 339-42; 2:29-32, 83, 83-85, 101-8, 120-21, 200-203, 278-81, 283-86, 314-16, 332-36; 3:1-6, 13-15, 20-21, 33-35, 44-47, 58-62, 81-85, 171-74, 174, 222-25, 225-26, 312-23, 349-52, 396-401, 414-18, 420-22, 430-35; 4:1-11, 29-33, 34-37, 40-41, 47, 48-50, 62-67, 93-95, 95, 112-15, 126-28, 135-36, 144-49, 161-64, 170-71, 171-73, 192-98, 203-8, 208-10, 217-18, 247, 264-67, 291-94, 295-98, 299-300, 359-62, 384-87, 405-10, 411-12, 416, 419-21; 5:1-7, 10-13, 25-28, 44-46; from Holderness, 1:57, 59; from Horatio Sharpe, 1:64, 214; 2:36, 357-58; 3:269; 4:131, 197; from Joshua Fry, 1:93; 2:35; from Adam Stephen, 1:236; from Thomas Dunbar, 1:342; from James Innes, 1:351; from George William Fairfax, 2:32; 3:108; from Robert Hunter Morris, 2:293; from John Thornton, 3:117; from John Spotswood, 3:118; from William Denny, 3:426; from John McNeill, 4:44-45; from Clement Read, 4:141; 5:91; from Andrew Lewis, 4:366; from Robert Stewart, 5:46-47; from Christopher Gist, 5:53

Dinwiddie (Indian), 1:124, 125, 146, 174, 175, 177

Dinwiddie County, 4:290

Directions for a Devout and Decent Behaviour in the Public Worship of God, 7:350

A discourse concerning gleets, 6:289

Dismal Swamp Company, 1:218; 7:390; GW's trips to swamp, 7:209, 211, 262, 271, 434, 496; petitions for land, 7:211, 271-73; meetings, 7:263, 271, 274-75, 342; surveying and apportioning land, 7:268, 275-76; articles of agreement forming, 7:269-71; proprietors of, 7:270-74; GW sells shares in, 7:271; managers of, 7:271; 10:285; slaves for, 7:275, 276, 300, 314-15, 336; payments for, 7:298, 342, 438, 440, 477; resident manager in Dismal Swamp, 7:418; 8:137; purchase of land for, 7:476-77, 496; location of, 8:26; John Robinson's shares surrendered, 8:455

Disney, Daniel, 2:156

Dispatch (ship), 6:448

The dispensary, 6:291; 7:348

Dissertations on the Mosaical creation, deluge, building of Babel, and confusion on tongues, 7:346

Dite (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589

Divine Poems (Quarles), 6:296

Dixon, Edward, 8:90, 227

Dixon, Haldenby, 8:354

Dixon, Jeremiah, 8:31, 33; 10:93

Dixon, John (printer), 9:260

Dixon, John (of England), 8:223; 9:10, 15, 83-84, 101

Dixon & Littledale: letters to: from Harry Piper, 7:504, 504-5; 8:524. See also Dixon, John, and Littledale, Isaac

Dixon, Roger, 7:385; flaxseed for, 7:385; id., 7:385; 8:311; account with, 7:481; his ferry, 7:481; and elections, 8:245, 246, 571; and aid for Mary Campbell, 8:309; leaves heavy debts, 9:267; death of, 9:269

Dixon, Thomas, 6:252

Dixon's ferry, 7:481

Dixon's warehouse, 6:332

Dobb, Thomas, 9:104, 109

Dobbs, Arthur, 1:215, 227; 2:8, 9; 4:124; and intercolonial cooperation, 1:201, 211, 217, 224; id., 1:203; 4:125; arrival of, 1:224; and North Carolina troops, 1:270; 2:139, 352; 5:234; appoints son, 1:271; and Carolina cattle, 2:44, 131, 139, 158, 160; and Thomas McManus, 2:54; letters from: to William Pitt, 3:288; letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:270; 2:128, 160-61; 3:43, 57

Dobbs, Edward Brice, 1:271; 2:8, 9, 39, 40, 211, 301, 303, 351, 352; 3:287, 288-89

Dobbs, Richard, 2:54

Dobing (Dobbin; horse), 8:583

Dobson, Robert, 1:338, 347, 348

Dod, ---- (old): cow left at his place, 7:406

Dodd, Edward, 5:337

Dodsley, R. & J., 7:166, 344

Dodsley, Robert, 7:166, 167-68, 195

Dodsley's Annual Register, 6:283; 7:167, 195, 344

Doe, Thomas, 10:366

Dog Run (Frederick County), 1:26

Dogue Run farm: overseers, 6:321, 341, 428; 7:9, 45, 68, 139, 148, 228, 313, 376, 443, 515; 8:18, 269; 9:398; slaves at, 6:428; 7:45, 139, 228, 313, 376-77, 443, 515-16; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54-55, 238; 10:137; runaway slaves from, 7:65-68; id., 7:67

Dogue's Neck (Mason's Neck), 1:53; 3:203

Doguet, Miller, 4:43

Doll (dower slave), 8:401, 402

Doll (dower slave, Doll's child; New Kent County), 6:217

Doll (dower slave; house servant), 6:217

Doll (dower slave; York County), 6:218

Doll (slave), 7:515; 9:1

Doll (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220

Doll (slave; Augustine Washington's), 7:172, 174

Doll (slave; cook), 6:282

Doll (slave; Ferry farm), 8:479, 480; 9:2, 54, 238; 10:20, 137

Doll (slave; house servant), 6:428; 7:45, 139, 227, 313, 376, 442, 515; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:2, 54, 238; 10:137

Doll (slave; New Kent County), 6:220

Doll (slave; Northampton County), 6:230

Doll (slave; River farm), 7:45, 139, 228, 313, 377, 443, 515, 516; 8:104, 221, 357, 479; 9:2, 55, 239; 10:137

Doll (slave; York County), 6:229

Dolly (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589

Donald, ----, 4:171

Donald, Robert, 4:173

Donald, Thomas, 4:173

Donaldson, James (in Virginia Regiment), 7:430

Donaldson, James (of Fairfax), 7:362, 379, 430

Donaldson, John (English officer), 5:294, 295; 10:194

Donaldson, Robert, 8:51, 53, 127; 10:317

Donaldson, William, 7:379; 8:176, 556, 557; 10:19, 20, 281

Donally, Mark, 4:347

Doncastle, Thomas, 6:198, 199

Doncastle's tavern, 6:199

Donelson, John, 10:71, 99-100

Donelson boundary line, 10:71

Don Quixote, 6:290, 298; 7:345

Doram (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588

Doran, Matthew, 9:122, 145

Dossie, Robert, 7:450

Doster, Thomas, 5:338

Doudle, Thomas, 7:379; 8:145

Dougherty, Henry, 9:352

Dougherty, Henry, & Co., 9:353, 408

Douglas, ----: carries letter, 7:68; loses horses, 7:69

Douglas, James (merchant), 7:225, 416, 512

Douglas, James (surveyor), 9:510, 511, 512; 10:152

Douglas, Robert (British officer), 6:454, 455

Douglas (Douglass), Thomas, 7:379; 8:144

Douglas (Douglass), William (captain), 7:70, 379

Douglas (play), 8:128

Douglass, Robert (of Fairfax County), 7:379

Douglass, William (of Virginia), 8:31

Douville, Alexandre d'Agneau, 2:334, 345, 351; 3:12, 116; letters to: from Jean-Daniel Dumas, 2:336-37

Dover, Thomas, 6:289

Dow, James (quartermaster), 5:322; 6:439, 440

Dow, John (merchant), 2:119; 5:300, 322, 339

Dow (Duer), ----, 5:344; and grass guard, 5:321; and slaughtering of cattle, 5:325

Dowley, William, 3:185

Downe, Henry Pleydell Dawnay, third Viscount, 7:99, 100

Downs, ---- (ship captain), 6:447, 453, 454; 7:405

Doyle, John, 6:36-37, 50-51

Drake, Ephraim, 10:71

Drake, James, 6:286, 288, 297

The dramatick works of Mr. Nathaniel Lee, 6:285, 297

Draper, Betty Robinson, 5:277

Draper, John, 5:276-77

Draper's Meadow, 8:157

Drinkwater, John, 6:397, 404; 7:23

Driver, William, 4:333

Drouillon (Druillon), Pierre Jacques de Macé, 1:110, 112, 114, 115, 118, 120

Drounding Creek. See Quemahoning Creek

Drucour, Augustine de Boschenry de, 5:319, 320

Drucour, Marie Anne Aubert de Courserac, 5:319, 320

Drury, Charles, 7:436

Dryden, John, 6:286, 296, 297, 400

Dry Marsh Run, 1:28

Drysdale Parish, 10:198, 206

Dublin (slave; Charles Washington's), 7:172

Dublin (slave; John Augustine Washington's), 7:173

Dublin (slave; Muddy Hole), 6:428; 7:45

Dubourdieu, Jean, 6:294

Dubts, Jost, 4:183

Duché, Jacob, 6:440-41

Duckett, John, 9:31, 43

Duckworth, William, 5:342

Dudgeon, Richard, 6:115

Dudy, Miss. See Diggs, Judy

Duer, William, 10:240

Duff, James (brigade major), 6:151, 152

Duffy (slave; at Youghiogheny), 9:342

Duglass, James, 6:47

Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis, 7:344

Duke (dower slave; New Kent County), 6:217

Duke (slave; New Kent County), 6:220

Dulan (Dulin), Edward, 7:362, 379, 384; 8:145

Dulan (Dulin), John, 7:379, 507, 508; 8:146

Dulan (Dulin), William, 9:505

Dulany, ----, 9:412; visits Boucher, 9:213

Dulany, Benjamin Tasker, 9:171, 178, 179, 412

Dulany, Daniel (Jr.), 8:490, 493

Dulany, Daniel (the elder), 8:95

Dulany, Daniel (the younger), 2:11; 8:490, 493, 494, 523, 526; 9:171, 179

Dulany, Grafton, 9:163, 165

Dulany, Lloyd, 8:493, 494, 497, 523, 526; 9:204

Dulany, Mary Grafton, 9:163, 165

Dulany, Walter, 9:163, 165

Dulany family, 9:165

Dumas, Jean-Daniel, 2:335; letters from: to Alexandre d'Agneau Douville, 2:336-37

Dumfries, Va., 3:97; 6:199; 7:191

Dumont, Jean, baron de Carlscroon, 6:288

Dunbar, Ann, 1:20

Dunbar, David, 1:23

Dunbar, James, 2:244

Dunbar, John (grandson of Thomas Dunbar), 8:497

Dunbar, John (of Hampshire County), 1:14, 20, 31, 36

Dunbar, Joseph, 8:497

Dunbar, Thomas (colonel), 1:262, 292, 294, 315, 316, 321, 322, 329, 332; 2:63; 3:116; 4:80; id., 1:264; on Braddock expedition, 1:296, 297, 325, 328, 353; goes into winter quarters, 1:340, 342, 344, 346; criticizes Edward Braddock, 2:9, 10; disputes with Robert Orme, 2:10; marches troops northward, 2:52, 114-15, 156, 180, 203; career of, 2:115; letters from: to Robert Dinwiddie, 1:342; to Robert Napier, 2:115

Dunbar, Thomas (of Antigua), 6:212; 7:190, 213, 215; 8:497. See also Dunbar suit

Dunbar suit, 6:203, 212-13, 214, 215, 274, 322-23, 324, 436-37; legal fees in, 7:190, 213, 215; 8:456, 531; 9:355; renewal of, 8:495, 497, 526; 9:90-91; papers prepared for, 9:312; lawyers acting in, 9:313; and Custis estate, 9:366. See also Dunbar, Thomas

Duncan, Andrew, 4:347

Duncan, Blanch Flower, 7:379, 434, 435

Duncan, Leonard, 7:267

Duncan, Patrick, 5:340

Duncanson, James, 5:162-63, 170-71, 215; recommendation for, 2:212, 245-46; id., 2:213; appointments and commissions, 2:246; 3:251; 4:205, 206, 432; 5:159; military service, 3:101, 250, 255, 429; 5:161; wounded, 6:91; address to GW, 6:178-81; and bounty lands, 9:94-95; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22

Duncanson, Robert, 6:91; letters from: to GW, 2:245-46

Dundee (slave; Muddy Hole), 9:238; 10:137

Duning, Alexander, 8:130, 136

Dunkard Creek, 10:91, 93

Dunkard's Bottom, 2:302

Dunkers (Dunkards), 2:302; 3:421; 4:366; 5:4, 6, 20, 29, 47, 59, 61

Dunlap, William, 4:388, 400

Dunlop, Colin, Esq., & Son, 9:19, 29, 110

Dunlop, James, 3:133-34; 5:160

Dunlop (Dunlap), ----, 3:131

Dunlop's (Goshen) Pass, 7:116

Dunlop's Greek Grammar, 7:168

Dunmore, Charlotte Stewart Murray, countess of, 9:469, 486, 487; 10:42

Dunmore, John Murray, fourth earl of, 1:23; 9:206, 345, 447; 10:69, 72, 87, 89, 175, 241, 247, 312, 366; and bounty lands, 8:396; 9:143, 148, 199, 204, 328-30, 381, 391, 415, 477, 516; 10:70, 165; calls new election, 8:557; dissolves Burgesses, 8:571; 9:36, 470; 10:50, 96, 99, 158; and John Ballendine, 9:41; and petitions for bounty land, 9:95, 118-23; and counterfeiters, 9:179; and trip to Mount Vernon, 9:218, 259, 324; makes only two grants under 1763 proclamation, 9:251, 510, 511; and land for Pennsylvania officers, 9:307, 416; his trip to frontier, 9:314-15, 322-23; refuses to grant patents to officers, 9:327; orders Thomas Bullitt to stop surveys, 9:331; coach made for, 9:356; and Society for Advancement of Useful Knowledge, 9:356; appoints commission of peace from Fort Pitt area, 9:414; and Virginia-Pennsylvania boundary dispute, 9:414, 464; 10:43; lays down rules for granting bounty lands, 9:417, 460, 479; aids William Crawford as surveyor, 9:420, 444; and George Croghan's land grant, 9:444; 10:88; may suspend granting of bounty lands, 9:483; and Lord Hillsborough's opinion on bounty land, 9:501; informed of Indian attacks, 9:514; and William Crawford, 10:1; list of patents granted, 10:2, 71; family of, 10:42; and Dunmore's War, 10:44, 133, 169, 182-84, 259-60; and Indians, 10:74, 163, 170, 224, 273, 366; and a new county, 10:94; and rental of Belvoir, 10:95; acquires land in Virginia, 10:95-96, 98; and William Hughes, 10:101; orders new elections, 10:108; disallows surveys, 10:162; to take charge of New Purchase, 10:163; orders Fort Blair abandoned, 10:261, 362; and Transylvania Company, 10:333; removes gunpowder from magazine, 10:340, 341, 349; letters from: to Dartmouth, 9:179; to GW, 9:258-59, 327-28; 10:337-38; to John Connolly, 10:135; letters to, 9:406; from GW, 9:55-57, 75, 217-19, 244, 322-24, 356-58, 358-66, 469; 10:320-22

Dunmore (Shenandoah) County, 8:191; 9:38

Dunmore's War, 10:44, 133, 169, 181-84, 259-60

Dunn, Richard, 3:67

Dunnahough (Dunchow), Thomas, 3:343

Dunton, John, 6:300

Dunwicke, William, 10:270, 271

Du Plessis (Duplessis), Louis Victor, 6:467, 470

Duquesne, Ange de Menneville, marquis de, 1:56; letters from: to Contrecoeur, 1:139; letters to: from Contrecoeur, 1:114

Dusablé, ----, 1:114, 120, 166, 167

Dutch George's Tract, 1:27, 47

Dyall, James, 7:379

Dyer, John (of Frederick County), 5:337

Dyer, John (tenant), 8:176; 9:58; 10:19, 20, 281

Dyner (slave; King William County), 6:225


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