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Volume 1: 1748 to August 1755
Volume 2: August 1755 to April 1756
Volume 3: April 1756 to November 1756
Volume 4: November 1756 to October 1757
Volume 5: October 1757 to September 1758
Volume 6: September 1758 to December 1760
Volume 7: January 1761 to June 1767
Volume 8: June 1767 to December 1771
Volume 9: January 1772 to March 1774
Volume 10: March 1774 to June 1775
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----, Bridget: and GW's election expenses, 7:375
----, Catherine. See Catherine
----, Cornelius: to stack tobacco, 6:445
----, Thomas: pays rent, 7:90
----, William: and Custis estate, 7:215, 368
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Abbey (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Abby (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Abel (slave; Burwell Bassett's), 9:276, 300
Abercromby, James (1706-1781), 2:66-67; 3:57; 4:310, 364; 5:17, 119,
431, 435; 6:62; id., 3:44; 4:365; 5:118; appointments, 3:56, 104, 288;
5:99, 118; arrival in America, 3:109, 116-17, 248; GW recommended to,
3:180; and New England forces, 3:347; and Indians, 5:109, 134; and New
York campaign, 5:126, 243, 272, 294, 295, 302; at Fort William Henry,
5:411; replaced as commander, 6:364; letters from: to John Forbes,
5:231; letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 3:32, 181; from John
Forbes, 5:63, 120, 137, 161, 165-66, 316, 381; 6:121, 145-46, 158; from
GW, 6:190
Abercromby, James (1707-1775), 3:56, 57
Abercromby, James (captain), 6:454, 455
Abernethy & Livie, 7:312
Abernithy &ca, 7:312
Abram (slave; Burwell Bassett's), 6:339, 340; 9:470
Abram (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Abram (slave; Harlow's plantation; child), 8:590
Abram (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Abram (slave; River farm), 7:434, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 357, 479; 9:55,
238; 10:137
An abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's history of the world, 6:293
Abridgement of the Gardener's Dictionary, 6:297; 7:346
An abridgement of the public laws of Virginia, 6:215, 296
The academie of eloquence, 6:295; 7:347
Acadians, 2:228
Accokeek ironworks, 6:20
Accomack County, 4:290; 8:444-45
The accomplisht midwife, 6:289
Accotink, 8:128
Accotink Creek, 8:128
An acct of the Plague in London, 6:293
Acha (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Acre (slave; York County), 6:229
Acres, William, 8:222
Acts of assembly passed in the colony of Virginia, 6:284, 300;
7:344
Adair, Dr. ----, 1:325
Adair, Robert, 8:212, 215, 216
Adam, ----: GW tries to buy his slave, 7:493
Adam, James, 7:377; 8:146, 147, 527, 528; 9:81
Adam, Robert, 7:493; 8:146-47; 10:219; account with, 6:457; 7:3, 105,
298, 299, 465, 495; 8:136, 207, 266, 405, 425, 473; 9:367, 370, 372, 373,
432; 10:19, 317; id., 6:458; 7:8, 376; 8:168; his partners, 7:360; 9:81;
wheat and flour sold to, 7:442, 493; 8:468; and dispute over wheat, 7:482-91;
9:80-81; and GW's bond to Charles Green, 7:514; debt to GW, 8:167; on
committee of merchants, 8:354; agent for, 8:439; fish sold to, 8:467,
468; his ship, 8:485; and a gardener for GW, 8:552; 9:64; goods ordered
from, 8:552, 554; 9:2; and purchase of bounty land for GW, 8:555; and
Thomas Hodge, 9:126, 127, 132; as justice, 9:169; and George William Fairfax,
9:448, 449; 10:96, 132, 156-57, 284; and William Ramsay's taxes, 10:27;
praised, 10:111; appointed to committee, 10:128; his mortgage to GW, 10:226-27;
contract with GW, 10:227-30; borrows from Martha Parke Custis, 10:229;
settles account with paper money, 10:230; and land on Four Mile Run, 10:263;
sells slave, 10:319; letters from: to GW, 8:484-85; 9:325, 440-41,
450-51, 452-53, 453, 475-77; 10:60-64, 64-65, 136, 226-30; to John West,
10:60-64; letters to: from GW, 8:550-54; 9:451; from John Ross,
9:520. See also Adam, Robert, & Co.; Carlyle & Adam
Adam, Robert, & Co., 10:318; and sale of GW's fish, flour, and biscuit,
8:407-8, 473, 474; 9:406; 10:56; accounts with, 8:469, 527, 530; 9:58,
111, 367, 369, 371; 10:180, 315, 316; partners in, 8:528; 9:81; slaves
purchased from, 9:35; and Daniel Jenifer Adams affair, 9:158; sundries
purchased from, 9:187; and bolting cloth for mill, 9:352. See also
Adam, Robert
Adam, Thomas, 8:485
Adam (slave; at Bullskin), 5:452, 453; 6:25
Adam (slave; from estate of John Lee), 8:83
Adam (slave; GW's), 7:173
Adam (slave; Muddy Hole), 7:443, 516; 8:104, 221, 356, 479; 9:54, 238;
10:137
Adam and Eve stript of their furbelows, 6:289
Adams, ----: his muster, 7:375
Adams, Abednego, 5:217, 218, 222-23; 7:104, 107, 478, 515; 9:152; 10:193,
194
Adams, Anna, 9:493; 10:253, 274, 295, 296, 302, 303
Adams, Benjamin, 7:377
Adams, Daniel Jenifer, 8:108; 9:283; 10:210, 275; trading venture with
GW, 9:70-71, 71-72; legal action against, 9:71, 174-75, 176-77, 177, 188-89,
208, 240, 387-88, 396, 492, 493; 10:276, 296; sails for Honduras, 9:123;
GW's misgivings about, 9:156-57, 158-59, 268; buys brig, 9:158; his attempts
to defraud GW, 10:55-58; delays brig's return from Indies, 10:226; his
attorney, 10:254; cuts timber on land, 10:274; his debts, 10:295, 296;
his land in Maryland, 10:303-4; letters from: to GW, 9:113; 10:253-54,
302-4; letters to: from GW, 9:69-71, 157; 10:294-95
Adams, Elizabeth Mason, 9:493; 10:253, 274, 295, 296, 302, 303, 304
Adams, Francis, 4:347
Adams, Gabriel, 9:410; 10:201, 203-4, 211, 212, 214
Adams, John (corporal), 3:253, 259
Adams, John (private), 4:389
Adams, John (wagoner), 5:253, 366-67, 373, 418, 419; 6:25, 27, 134, 135,
182, 443, 444
Adams, Josias, 9:493; 10:274, 294, 295, 296-97, 302, 304
Adams, Richard, 10:99-100
Adams, Silvester, 7:377
Adams, Thomas, 10:353
Adams, Sir Thomas, 8:354, 355
Adams, Thomas (1730-1788), 1:50
Adams, Thomas (drummer), 4:356, 357
Adams, William, 7:361, 376, 377, 384; 8:306, 355, 356
Adam's Luxury and Eve's Cookery, 6:297
Adams's Outlet (Maryland), 10:304
Adams's Retirement (Maryland), 10:304
Addenbrooke, ---- (mother of Thomas Addenbrooke), 8:576-77; 9:290
Addenbrooke, Thomas: letters from: to GW, 8:576-78; 9:289-90;
letters to: from GW, 8:577
Addison, ----, 9:7
Addison, Daniel Dulany, 9:163, 165
Addison, Eleanor. See Boucher, Eleanor Addison
Addison, Henry, 8:96, 125, 127, 129, 167, 184, 361; and Mississippi Company,
7:416, 417, 512; 8:153; and Jonathan Boucher, 8:95, 310, 325; 9:49; family
seat of, 8:121; at Mount Vernon, 8:185; and King's College, 9:163; family,
9:165
Addison, John, 6:409, 410, 423, 425, 434, 437-38, 443, 444, 450; 7:63
Addison, Joseph, 6:43, 290, 291, 293, 400; 7:345
Addison, Rachel Dulany, 9:163
Addison, Thomas (c.1714-1770), 7:416, 417, 511; 8:63
Addison, Thomas (d. 1774), 10:358
An Address from the Clergy of New-York and New-Jersey, 9:24, 25
Adeneyachea (Indian), 5:432
Adventure (ship; Robert Necks, master), 6:375, 376
Adventure (ship; Thomas Adams, master), 8:484, 485
The adventures of Peregrine Pickle, 7:345
The adventures of Telamachus, the son of Ulysses, 7:346
Advice to a Son, 6:300; 7:347
Advice to the People in General, 7:348; 8:511, 563
Aeneas, 6:399
Aesop (play), 2:234
Aesop's Fables, 6:284, 296; 7:344, 349
Agar, Edward, 7:164, 204
Aggy (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Aggy (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587
Agincourt, Battle of, 4:242
Aitcheson, William, 6:407; 10:161, 162
Aitchison (Aitcheson) & Parker, 6:406, 407; 7:7; 10:162
Albemarle, George Keppel, third earl of, 7:158; letters to: from
Thomas Gage, 1:326
Albemarle, William Anne Keppel, second earl of, 3:127
Albemarle County, 3:55, 432-33, 438; 4:290
Albemarle Independent Company: letters from: to GW, 10:349-50;
letters to: from GW, 10:350
Albery (Alsberry), Charles, 6:5
Albery (Alsberry), Thomas, 4:49; 5:394; 6:5
Alce (dower slave, Doll's child; New Kent County), 6:217
Alce (dower slave; Hanover County), 6:218
Alce (dower slave; house servant), 8:401, 402, 479; 9:55
Alce (slave), 8:557
Alce (slave, girl; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Alce (slave, girl; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Alce (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Alderson, John, 5:341
Alexander, ----: his deed, 9:467
Alexander, ---- (of Edinburgh), 5:113; 6:319
Alexander, Charles (of Fairfax County), 7:361, 377, 384; 8:146, 148;
9:505; 10:65, 128, 193, 263
Alexander, Charles (of Gloucester County), 9:468
Alexander, Frances, 1:47
Alexander, Garrard (Gerard; d. 1761), 1:27, 290, 293; 6:329; 8:244, 568,
570
Alexander, George Dent, 8:321, 322
Alexander, John, Sr., 7:377, 490
Alexander, John, Jr. (1735-1775), 7:486, 490-91; 8:153, 569, 571; 10:61-62,
65
Alexander, John (of King William County), 4:43
Alexander, Mariamne Stoddert, 8:218-20
Alexander, Lady Mary, 10:240
Alexander, Morgan, 10:196, 245
Alexander, Philip, 7:377; 8:146, 147, 186; 9:433; 10:128
Alexander, Robert, 7:377, 417; 8:146, 147; and breeding of horses, 6:328;
id., 6:329; 8:244-45; purchases horse, 7:104, 108, 186; and vestry election,
7:384; account with, 7:428; 8:143, 169, 170; and proposed land swap, 8:218-20,
250, 268, 269, 311-12, 313, 314, 317, 318, 319, 320, 380-81, 384-85; and
his sister's fortune, 8:244-45; hunts, 8:307; 9:184; family, 8:322; and
Fairfax Independent Company, 10:345; letters from: to GW, 8:245
Alexander, Sarah, 7:305
Alexander, Lady Sarah, 10:240
Alexander, William, & Co., 6:319
Alexander & Lochard, 5:300
Alexander & Shrimpton, 6:401, 404
Alexander the Great, 6:226, 305, 355, 358, 400
Alexandria: plat drawn by GW, 1:33; Braddock's troops rendezvous at,
1:245; conference at, 1:258; called Belhaven, 1:113; 2:85, 108; 4:358;
lottery of, 6:481; races at, 7:5, 11, 107, 111; expansion of, 7:490; GW
buys lots in, 7:490; ball at, 8:137; 10:177; work done on GW's house in,
8:290, 291, 323, 364, 424-25, 512; church at, 9:180-83; 10:187; plan for
enlargement of, 10:60-61, 64-65; petitions from, 10:62-63, 64-65; independent
company at, 10:345; ferry at, 10:358
Alexandria (ship; James Mackie, master), 4:358, 401, 402; 5:74
Alexandria (ship; John Crawford, master), 7:138, 141
Alexandria (ship; John Montgomerie, master), 7:458, 459; 8:69
Alexandria citizens: letters from: to GW, 10:63; to John West,
10:63
Alexon, Thomas, 8:146
Aley (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Alford (Alfred), Thomas, 9:395, 397, 463; 10:141, 196, 317
Alice (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Alice (slave; Hanover County), 6:231
Alice (slave; house servant), 9:54, 55; 10:196
Alice (slave; house servant, 1), 9:238; 10:137
Alice (slave; house servant, 2), 9:238; 10:137
Alice (slave; John Custis's), 9:233
Alice (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Alice (slave; York County, 1), 6:229
Alice (slave; York County, 2), 6:229
Allan, ---- (of Dumfries), 6:378; 7:229, 230, 261, 279, 342, 367
Allan, Andrew, 8:145
Allan, James (of Fredericksburg), 1:311, 313; 2:205; 6:365, 377; 9:395,
397
Allan, John (of Frederick County), 5:336, 343
Allan, John (of Fredericksburg), 6:365
Allan, Richard, 6:256
Allan, Robert, 5:336
Allan (Allen), Francis, 7:171
Allanby, William, 7:283; 8:163
Allan's ordinary, 7:230, 261
"Allegany Indians," 3:361
Allegheny Mountain, 5:397, 405, 406
Allegheny River, 6:16
Allen, ----, 2:301
Allen, ---- (of Pennsylvania), 10:49-50
Allen, Andrew (of Pennsylvania), 10:50
Allen, Bennett, 8:95, 165-66; 9:418
Allen, James (ensign), 2:303
Allen, James (of Pennsylvania), 10:50
Allen, John (ensign), 3:446; 4:392, 394; 5:159, 161, 194, 249, 409, 412,
417; 6:46
Allen, William (of Pennsylvania), 1:174, 175; 3:314, 320; 10:50
Allen (Allan), ---- (gardener), 6:418, 419, 431; 7:169, 171
Allestree, Richard, 6:288, 289, 296
Alligood (Allegood), James, 7:2, 7
Alliquippa (Allaquippa), Queen, 1:135, 140
Allison, Thomas, 10:317, 342
Allison (Alliston), ----: carries money, 7:310
Allison (Alliston), Bryan (Bryant), 7:377; 8:147, 148; account with,
6:378, 444; 7:2, 106, 219, 236, 298, 309, 310, 499; 8:41, 67, 424; 9:253,
462; id., 6:379; 7:7; and Custis estate, 7:86, 213, 301; 8:457; and George
William Fairfax's accounts, 10:282
Allison (Alliston), John, 8:145, 146; 10:104
All Saints Parish (Maryland), 8:166
Allsbery, ----: pay for, 6:4
Allsbery (Albery), Charles, 5:393
Allumapees (Indian), 2:55
Alsop, ----, 3:303
Alston, Philip, 5:434; 6:341; 7:436
Alton, John, 1:324; 3:418; 4:430-31; 5:436; 8:26; 9:55; 10:109, 110;
id., 1:259; 3:419; 6:200; 7:10, 139; 8:19, 357; and GW's horses, 5:367,
418, 419, 422; 6:328; account with, 6:182, 198, 199, 416, 417, 457; 7:4,
106, 268, 304, 332, 342, 375, 417, 478, 515; 8:60, 78, 136, 177, 222,
290, 355, 424, 527; 9:30, 76, 208, 293, 462; 10:140; tithable, 6:428;
7:139, 227, 313, 377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 356, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:137;
his crops, 8:18, 19, 25, 528; illness of, 8:20; petition for land grant,
8:31; overseer of Muddy Hole, 10:138; letters to: from GW, 6:200
Ambler, ----: and Robert Adam's debt, 10:227
Ambler, Edward, 1:41; 2:133; 5:437, 438
Ambler, Jacquelin, 10:141
Ambler, Mary Cary, 1:41; 2:132, 133; 5:438
Ambrose, ----, 2:69
Amelia (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Amelia County, 4:290
America (ship), 7:21, 143, 151, 189, 238-39, 316, 341, 498
American Company of Comedians, 8:417, 425, 487, 528
American Magazine, or Monthly Chronicle for the British Colonies,
5:48-49, 59
Amey (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Amey (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:482, 589
Amey (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Amey (slave; York County), 6:229
Amherst, Jeffery, 1:202; 2:36, 71; 3:44; 6:191, 440; and Virginia Regiment
officers, 2:47, 77, 167; 6:362, 420, 454, 479; 7:16, 35, 114, 115, 180,
237, 240-41; 10:161, 162; and Probart Howarth, 4:375; captures Louisburg,
5:302, 426; 6:43; and Pennsylvania military bill, 6:88; and plans for
new campaign, 6:189; appointments and promotions, 6:364, 455; 7:46; and
surrender of Vaudreuil, 6:467, 470; and expedition against Cherokee, 6:470;
requests Virginia raise troops, 7:36; and Robert Monckton, 7:48; meets
with Governor Fauquier, 7:72; opposes dissolution of Virginia Regiment,
7:113, 115, 121; and plan to put Virginia Regiment on British establishment,
7:161; never visits Virginia, 7:188-89; returns to England, 7:226, 227,
284; and Pontiac's War, 7:238, 242; criticized, 7:282; letters from:
to William Byrd, 6:455; to Francis Fauquier, 7:72; to William Johnson,
7:227; letters to: from Henry Bouquet, 6:185; from Francis Fauquier,
6:190, 197; 7:72, 122; from William Byrd, 7:58
Amhurst, Nicholas, 6:290
Ammunition. See Ordnance
Amos (slave; John Robinson's), 7:315
Ampthill, 10:151
Amson, John, 5:102; 6:252, 264, 271, 370
Amy (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
"Anacreon," 7:168
The anatomy of the humane body abridged, 6:292
Anchises, 6:399
The ancient physician's legacy to his country, 6:289
Anderson, ----: property owner, 1:27, 28; his sale, 6:445
Anderson, Capt. ----, 2:280, 281, 293, 295, 315, 316
Anderson, Bartholomew, 1:26, 27, 28, 35; 6:446
Anderson, Edward: letters from: to GW, 9:305-6; letters to:
from GW, 9:321
Anderson, George, 6:54
Anderson, Harriot Rebecca, 9:305, 306, 321
Anderson, Isaac, 4:43
Anderson, Jacob, 5:184
Anderson, John (of Fairfax County), 7:377; 8:147
Anderson, John (of Frederick County), 1:26; 5:335
Anderson, John (ship captain), 7:392; 8:17, 60
Anderson, John (soldier), 6:46
Anderson, Rebecca, 9:305, 321
Anderson, Robert (of Louisa County), 3:128, 130
Anderson, Robert (of Williamsburg), 8:453, 454; 9:20, 117, 351; 10:76,
77
Anderson, Thomas, 2:244
Anderson, William, 9:305
Anderson's tavern, 8:454; 9:351
Andrews, John, 7:429
Andrews & Middleditch, 7:356, 357, 420, 472; 8:46
Angliae Notitia, or the present state of England, 6:291
Anna (ship), 6:268, 270, 322, 324, 366, 411; 7:21
The annals of King George, 6:286; 7:345
Annapolis, Md., 8:523
Annapolis (ship), 9:193, 194, 352
Annapolis merchants: letters from: to Philadelphia merchants,
8:183-84
Anne (ship), 8:487
Annual Register, 7:166, 167, 195, 344, 348, 349
Ansdale, Daniel, 8:329
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 4:99, 101; 7:345, 349; letters to:
from Francis Fauquier, 2:66, 67
Anthony (dower slave, husband of Betty; New Kent County), 6:217
Anthony (slave; carpenter), 6:282; 7:45, 139, 227, 233, 235
Anthony (slave; David Meade's), 7:315
Anthony (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Anthony (slave; Home farm), 9:35, 36, 54, 55
Anthony (slave; mill), 6:428
Anthony (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Anthony (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Anthony (slave; tradesman), 9:238; 10:137
Anthropologia nova, 6:286, 297
Antietam (Frederick) ironworks (Maryland), 8:290, 294
Antigua, 6:436-37
The aphorisms of Hippocrates, 6:288
Apollo Room, 8:181
An apology for the discourse of humane reason, 6:295; 7:347
An apology for the true Christian divinity, 6:286, 297
The Appeal Farther Defended, 9:24, 25
Appleton, James, 8:144
Aquia Creek, 1:270-71
Arbah (Arba; slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:584, 591
Arber (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Arber (slave; York County), 6:229. See also Harbour
Arbor (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Arbor (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Arbuthnot, Margaret, 6:342
Archelogia philosophica nova, 6:285
Archer, J., 8:50
Arell, David, 9:263
Arell (Arrol), Richard, 8:320; account with, 7:309, 357, 367, 373, 375,
439, 441, 452, 482, 515; 8:67, 70, 78, 91, 121, 201, 222, 556; 9:31; 10:104,
177, 194, 195; id., 7:310; voter, 7:377; 8:147, 148; and GW's election,
8:143; his tavern, 8:557; 9:1
Arell's (Arrol's) tavern, 7:310; 8:557
Argo (ship), 6:473; 7:35, 53, 54, 64, 86, 89, 155
The arguments of the books and chapters of the Old and New Testament,
6:287
Argyle (slave; at Claiborne's), 6:311
Ariel (horse), 7:109, 159
Ariss, John, 8:169, 170; 9:93
Aristotle, 6:400
Arlington (dower slave; York County), 6:218
Arlington (slave, boy; at Bridge Quarter), 6:312
Arlington (slave; Home farm), 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54
Arlington (slave; River farm), 9:238; 10:137
Arlington (slave; York County, 1), 6:229
Arlington (slave; York County, 2), 6:229
Arlington plantation (Eastern Shore plantation), 6:218, 230, 253, 268,
273, 320; 8:156, 482, 591; 9:1, 285-87
Armat, Thomas, 10:40, 42, 104, 105, 317
Armat & Watson, 10:42
Armistead, ----: and Custis estate, 6:266
Armistead, Gill, 7:386
Armistead, Henry, 6:254
Armistead, John, 6:269; 9:33, 221, 229, 234, 235; 10:351, 352
Armistead, William: and Custis estate, 6:254, 259, 269; bills of credit,
7:326; account with, 7:366; id., 8:581; his estate, 9:33, 34, 127, 131,
133, 221, 223, 225, 235; 10:351, 352, 353; letters from: to GW,
8:581
Armstrong, George, 5:312, 365, 409, 412; 6:55, 56, 121, 156; letters
from: to Henry Bouquet, 5:396
Armstrong, James, 8:321-22; 9:309, 416-17
Armstrong, John (of Frederick County), 5:339
Armstrong, John (of Pennsylvania), 3:426; 4:228; 5:411; 6:92, 119, 129,
135, 138, 145; 8:73; Kittanning expedition, 2:162, 309; and conference
with Indians, 4:196; id., 4:229; 8:33; 9:308; appointments, 6:56, 150,
155; movements of, 6:80, 141; orders to, 6:121, 136, 137; his camps, 6:123,
130, 132-33, 137, 138-39, 140; supplies and tools, 6:130, 133; and land
for GW, 8:27, 39; family, 8:33, 321-22; letters from: to William
Denny, 4:271; to GW, 8:55-58, 299; 9:307-9, 415-17; letters to:
from Richard Pearis, 4:195-96; from George Croghan, 4:246, 266; from GW,
8:32-33, 240-41, 241-43, 321-22; 9:337, 345-46
Armstrong, Joseph, 6:92
Armstrong, Rebecca Lyon, 8:33, 57, 58, 241
Armstrong, Robert, 3:131, 133
Armstrong, William, 3:425, 426
Armstrong's New Camp (New Camp, Three Redoubts Camp), 6:30, 133, 134,
137, 138, 140-41, 143, 144
Arnold, Andrew, 1:23
Arnold, John, 1:29; 5:339
Arnold, Jonathan, 1:23
Arnold, Josiah, 1:23
Arnold, Richard, Sr., 1:22
Arnold (ship), 5:105-6, 219, 448, 449; 6:453
Aroas (Silver Heels; Indian), 2:309, 317
Arrans, Jacob, 1:221
Art of contentment, 6:289; 7:347
Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, 8:509, 511, 563
Asbury, Thomas, 7:377
Ascanius, 6:399
Ash, Thomas, 10:200
Ashbrook, Aaron, 1:30
Ashbrook, Elizabeth, 1:22
Ashbrook, John, 1:30
Ashburner, John, 7:372, 397
Ashburner & Plaes, 10:249
Ashby, ---- (son of Robert Ashby), 8:170
Ashby, Benjamin, 10:248, 249
Ashby, Jean (Jane) Combs, 2:241, 242
Ashby, John, 2:243, 288; 3:141; 4:206; 5:340; company of, 2:75, 90-92,
94, 99, 134, 137, 141, 142, 147, 244, 282, 344; 3:161, 202, 266, 295,
320, 389, 418, 423; 5:393-94; id., 2:92; his fort, 2:135, 138; 3:11, 142,
244; his returns, 2:142; and deserters, 2:227, 328; company size roll,
3:163; furlough, 3:317; accounts, 3:365, 369, 371; letters from:
to GW, 2:104, 107; to Henry Van Meter, 3:23-24; to Thomas Waggener, 3:23-24;
letters to: from GW, 2:111-12, 134, 141-42, 241-42, 243; 3:34,
120
Ashby, Nimrod, 1:26
Ashby, Robert, 1:26; 5:334, 343; 8:55, 170; 9:36, 505; 10:248, 249
Ashby, Stephen, 5:341
Ashby, Thomas, 5:335
Ashby's ferry, 2:77
Ashby's fort, 2:137, 223-24, 269, 278, 280, 288; 3:265, 310, 391; construction
of, 2:137; besieged by Indians, 3:23-24; proposals for, 3:127, 137, 146,
159; 4:10; on GW's map, 5:207
Ashby's Gap, 2:77; 3:69
Ashford, Butler, 7:377; 9:35
Ashford, George, 7:106, 110, 151, 174, 228, 278, 309, 350; 8:144, 283;
9:431
Ashford, John, 7:9, 110, 228; 8:144; 9:432
Ashford, Michael, 7:110, 377
Ashford, William, 7:4, 174, 278, 350; 8:283; 9:431, 432
Ashford's quarter, 7:148
Ashton (Aston), George, Jr., 6:58
Ashwell, John, 6:246, 273
Askew, ---- (Mrs.), 6:341
Askew, John, 6:457, 481; 7:342, 364; GW's indenture with, 6:340-41; id.,
6:341; account with, 6:377, 390, 416, 429, 441; 7:304, 309, 332, 439,
452, 458, 481; tithable, 6:428; 7:45, 443; agreement with GW, 7:93-94;
list of his tools, 7:94; GW's poor opinion of, 7:233-34; record of days
worked, 7:235; and GW's schooner, 7:418
Askins, Philip, 4:390
Askins (Askin), John, 4:390; 7:377; 8:145, 149
Association of Gentlemen. See Gentlemen Associators
Astell, Mary, 6:292
Astro-Theology, 6:300
Astry, James, 6:300
Athawes, Edward, 5:69; 7:137, 138, 203; 9:328
Athawes, Samuel, 9:449; 10:98, 351, 352; letters from: to GW,
9:474-75; 10:25, 113-14, 286-87; letters to: from GW, 9:328, 347;
10:80-81
Athawes, Samuel, & Co., 8:51, 52
Athol, duke of, 9:23
Atkin, Edmond, 4:141, 192, 216, 268, 279, 285, 298-99, 306, 318, 336,
357, 366, 397, 398; 5:2; disagreement with Nathaniel Thompson, 2:230;
and Richard Smith, 4:144; appointed superintendent of Indian affairs,
4:148, 154, 156, 157; 5:177; deputies of, 4:153, 157, 174, 175, 183-84,
209-10, 288, 290, 292-93; 5:6, 123, 134; id., 4:156; 5:6; and Richard
Pearis, 4:157, 193; and Indians, 4:158, 163, 170, 178, 179, 196, 206,
229, 254, 261, 271, 386, 403; 5:20, 29, 52-53, 81-82, 176, 182; complaints
against, 4:171, 198-99, 239, 309, 426; and Indian goods, 4:196, 297, 304-5;
5:82, 89; and French prisoner, 4:209, 215, 240; and Alexander Finnie,
4:235; and payment for scalps, 4:244, 249; arrest of Indians, 4:306-7,
353-56, 365; accounts, 5:20, 22; instructions to deputy, 5:20; and recruitment
of Cherokee, 5:99, 114; and "French Negro," 5:214; letters from:
to George Croghan, 4:158-59, 169, 170, 173; to GW, 4:232-35, 321-22; to
commander of Fort Prince George, 4:307-8, 317, 354; to commander of Fort
Loudoun, 4:354; letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 4:251, 256,
261
Attakullaculla. See Little Carpenter
Atticus, 8:183
Aubry, George, 10:363
Aughwick, 1:69
Augsburg, Congress of, 7:37, 55
Augusta, Princess (George III's mother), 1:318
Augusta, Princess (George III's sister), 7:37, 39, 282-83
Augusta County: county lieutenant of, 1:67; 4:7; 10:246; formation of,
1:207-8; courthouse fortified, 3:44; date of court in, 3:135; Indian depredations
in, 3:260-61, 431, 432, 435; 4:88, 354, 360, 366-67, 393, 395, 396; 5:155,
156, 160, 168; troops from, 3:260-61, 274, 425, 431-32, 434; 4:1-4, 12-14,
18, 27, 30, 46, 392-94, 422-23; line of forts proposed for, 3:321-23,
361, 363; criticism of people in, 3:361; regulation of militia, 4:4, 8,
12-13, 25, 394; council held in, 4:7, 395; surveyor of, 4:222; 8:279;
9:418, 483; in Pontiac's War, 7:237; clerk of, 9:487
Augusta Court House, 2:182; 3:321-23. See also Staunton
Augusta Springs. See Hot Springs
Augusta County freeholders: letters from: to GW and others, 10:000;
letters to: from GW and others, 10:000
Austin, Benjamin, 6:47
Austin, John, 7:348
Austin (dower slave; Betty's child; New Kent County), 6:217, 220; 10:41
Austin (Ostin), Francis (John), 3:252, 257; 4:277; 6:176, 178
Austin (slave), 10:40
Austin (slave; mulatto), 10:41
Austin (slave; waiter), 10:41
Austria, 6:81
Autemy (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
An authentic narrative of the success of tar water, 7:348
Avera, Thomas, 9:172, 174
Avery, William, 6:47
Awbrey, ----: and Custis estate, 8:460
Aylett, Elizabeth Dandridge, 9:425, 426; 10:277, 288
Aylett, John, 9:244, 479, 481; letters from: to GW, 9:433-34;
letters to: from GW, 9:434
Aylett, William, 9:201; letters from: to GW, 10:276-77; letters
to: from GW, 10:288
Aylett's warehouse, 10:277
Ayres, ---- (of London), 7:30
Ayres, Captain (Indian), 4:170-71
Ayres, James, 7:23, 30; 8:561
Ayscough, Anne, 8:192, 194
Ayscough, Christopher, 8:192, 194
Ayscough, Martha, 7:24, 30
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B----, Young (dower slave; York County), 6:217
Bab (slave; Anthony Bacon's and Fielding Lewis's), 7:315
Babb, Joseph, 5:341
Babb, Peter, 5:341
Babb, Philip, 2:119; 4:425; 5:337; 7:5, 11
Babb, Thomas, 5:336
Babb, Thomas, Jr., 5:341
Babb, Thomas (son of Philip), 5:340
Bacchus, 6:399
Bacchus (dower slave; York County), 6:217
Bacchus (slave; at Bridge Quarter), 6:312
Bacchus (slave; Home farm), 9:54, 55, 238; 10:137
Bachus (slave; York County), 6:229
Back Creek (of Cacapon River), 3:40
Back Creek (of Potomac River), 2:160; 3:77, 246; 4:262; 5:393
Backhouse, Jane, 6:248, 334, 337, 395
Backhouse, John, 7:65, 140, 216, 217
Back River (of Jackson River), 3:133
Bacon, Anthony: and invoice of goods, 1:217-19; id., 1:218-19; 2:207;
7:274; accounts, 2:207; 5:74; and GW's tobacco, 4:39, 401; his ship, 7:50;
and Dismal Swamp Company, 7:315; letters to: from GW, 2:206-7
Bacon, Anthony, & Co., 4:402; 6:319; 7:271, 273; letters to: from
GW, 4:400-401
Bacon, E., 6:307
Bacon, Edmond, 6:225
Bacon, Francis, 6:288
Bacon, John, 2:35, 73, 75, 139-40, 141, 142, 255; letters to:
from GW, 2:137, 146
Bacon, Richard, 2:75
Bacon, Thomas, 7:177
Bagent, William, 4:389
Baglivus, Georgius, 6:288
Bailey, Henry, 9:122, 145
Bailey, Mary, 2:140, 259
Bailey, Thomas, 8:145, 146
Bailey, William (soldier), 8:481, 482; 9:122, 145
Bailey (Bayly), John (officer), 5:307, 308
Bailey's ordinary, 8:482
Bain, Gilbert, 7:50
Baker, ----: his quarter, 8:529
Baker, Benjamin, 4:67
Baker, Charles (of Frederick County), 5:336
Baker, Charles (slave; New Kent County), 6:220; 8:589
Baker, Francis, 8:472; 9:301; letters from: to GW, 9:140-41; 10:9
Baker, Frederick, 10:366
Baker, James (landowner), 1:31
Baker, James (officer), 2:14; 3:43, 151, 240, 346, 447; 4:194, 242, 263;
appointments and commissions, 2:40, 42, 261; 3:252; 5:180, 201, 204; pay
for, 2:191; 5:214; id., 3:43; 4:67; orders to, 3:153, 427; family, 3:190;
and Indians, 3:325; 4:65, 72, 77, 124, 125, 213; accounts, 3:369; military
service, 3:429; 4:166, 205, 206, 275, 334, 346, 432; 5:67, 272; skirmishes,
4:199, 208-9, 215-16, 240, 261; 5:180-81; dispute with Edmond Atkin, 4:233,
239; death, 5:181; 6:47, 86, 87; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22,
200; 5:120-21; letters to: from GW, 4:210-11
Baker, John (dentist), 9:29, 31-32, 190, 340, 341, 355; 10:76, 139
Baker, John (soldier), 1:221
Baker, John Nicholas, 3:282
Baker, Joshua, 4:292, 294; 5:178, 179, 342; 6:456, 457
Baker, Josias, 2:319; 3:229, 256; 4:277
Baker, Richard, 3:190
Baker, Samuel, 1:20, 34
Baker, Thomas, 7:73, 74
Baker, William (merchant), 8:400
Baker, William (of Hampshire County), 1:20, 36
Baker, William (sergeant), 3:253, 258
Baker's ordinary, 3:282
Baldin (Baldwin), Reginald, 5:336
Baldock, Richard, 4:42
Baldwin, Samuel, 5:339
Baldwin, William, 5:339
Baldwin's fort, 5:67
Baley, John (servant), 10:365
Balfour, James, 1:283, 284, 288; 2:295; 3:364; 7:431, 432; 8:342; 10:209,
210, 336; letters from: to GW, 9:42-43; 10:309-10; letters to:
from GW, 1:285-86
Balfour & Barraud, 1:284; 7:432; 10:319, 350, 353; letters from:
to GW, 10:210-11
Ball, James, 8:271, 272
Ball, John (author), 7:344
Ball, John (of Fairfax), 7:378, 384; 8:363, 405, 431
Ball, Joseph (GW's uncle), 1:7, 8, 54; letters from: to GW, 2:15-16
Ball, Joseph (c.1649-c.1712), 1:7, 8
Ball, Mary Johnson, 1:7
Ball, Moses, 7:378; 8:146
Ball, William, 4:185; letters from: to GW, 4:164-65
Ballamy, Samuel, 7:127-28, 130, 287-88, 300; 8:48, 130
Ballendine, John, 8:138; 9:43, 303; id., 5:133; and building materials
for GW, 5:299-300, 390, 437, 438, 449; criticism of, 6:377, 382-84, 476;
7:48; 9:42; suits against, 7:49; sells Occoquan furnace and mills, 7:180;
8:293; builds mercantile complex at Little Falls, 8:139-40, 285, 290;
his dam, 8:288; imprisoned for debt, 8:290; and Potomac navigation, 8:352;
10:194, 196, 242-44, 275, 299, 345; in England, 9:40-42, 305; and George
Mercer's affairs, 10:282; recommends Dennis Stephens, 10:325; letters
from: to GW, 6:476-78, 478-79; letters to: from GW, 5:132-33
Ballenger, James (of Frederick County), 5:335
Ballenger, Josiah, 5:335
Ballinger, Edward, 8:172
Ballinger, Frances, 8:172
Ballinger, Francis, 8:171-76
Ballinger (Ballenger), James (of Fauquier County), 8:176
Ballinger (Ballenger), William, 7:378; 8:147, 148
Ballman, ----: his draft, 7:33
Balmain, William, 8:222, 223, 268, 270, 455, 456, 487-88, 489; 9:237
Baltice, Leonard, 7:98
Baltimore, Charles Calvert, fifth Baron, 8:493; 9:24
Baltimore, Christopher, 5:369
Baltimore, Frederick Calvert, sixth Baron, 5:236; 8:95; 9:6-7, 18, 22-25;
letters to: from Horatio Sharpe, 1:195; 3:382; 4:9
Baltimore, George Calvert, first Baron, 9:465
Baltimore County, Md., 3:382
Banister, John, 9:45, 46, 126, 127, 221, 224, 225, 229, 355
Bank of England stock, 6:276, 451-52; 7:82, 90, 112, 136; 8:205, 463;
9:379-80; 10:82, 84-85
Banks, Gerrard (Girard; 1709-1768), 7:441
Banks, Gerrard (Girard; d. 1787), 7:441
Banks, Henry, 2:224
Banks, John, 6:286
Banyer, Henry, 6:291; 7:346
Barbados, 1:12, 49
Barber, Richard, 5:336
Barbery (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Barclay, John, 5:297, 298
Barclay, Robert, 6:286, 297; 7:344
Bare, John, 1:23
Barker, ---- (soldier), 2:12
Barker, Moses, 8:145, 146
Barker, William, 7:378; 8:145, 146
Barkley, Edward, 8:347, 348
Barnes, Abraham (Abram; of Fairfax County), 1:179, 180; 4:308-9; 6:405,
406, 407; 7:235, 236, 378, 491
Barnes, Abraham (of Maryland), 9:40, 111
Barnes, Charles, 5:339
Barnes, John, 9:40, 111
Barnes, Richard, 1:9, 20, 34, 35
Barnes, Sarah Ball McCarty, 1:180; 4:309
Barnet, ----, 2:306
Barr, Hans, 6:81, 82
Barradale, Henry, 4:284
Barrat (Barrett), Jacob, 5:341
Barrat (Barrett), James, 5:340
Barrat (Barrett), William, 5:340
Barrataria (Vandalia), 9:415
Barraud, Daniel, 1:284; 10:210, 309
Barrell, ----: account with, 10:167
Bar Reports, 8:326
Barret, ----: paid for goods, 7:1
Barrett, Benjamin, 3:252, 257
Barrett, Charles, 3:127, 128, 130, 146-47
Barrett, Edward, 7:6, 107
Barrett, John, 3:253, 259
Barrett, Nathaniel, 8:540; 9:122, 145
Barringer, Isaac, 3:252, 256
Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, second Viscount, 6:454, 455
Barry, Eleanor Wade, 5:218; 8:19, 25, 145, 316, 418
Barry, John, 7:378; 8:145, 146; carpentry work done for, 5:217; 6:365;
id., 5:218; 6:365; clerk of vestry, 7:429; 8:247; tobacco inspector, 8:141;
water rights, 8:325-26; GW buys land from, 8:315, 316, 418, 437, 438;
9:3, 4, 76
Barry, William, 8:316, 438; 9:3, 4, 76, 92
Bartlett, William, 9:74, 505
Bartley, John, 6:253, 280
Barton, William, 4:42
Barwick, James, 7:435
Barzey, Wilkinson, 10:309
Basenton, ----, 1:141, 144
Basque Roads, 5:426
Basset, Thomas, 6:107, 128, 129, 130, 140, 148, 151, 157; letters
from: to GW, 5:149-50; letters to: from GW, 5:154
Bassett, Anna Maria (Nancy; 1763-1773), 9:46, 300
Bassett, Anna Maria Dandridge, 6:380; 8:193, 217, 268, 378, 442, 531,
580; 9:178, 244, 300, 390, 425, 436, 470; 10:236; id., 6:340; illness,
9:45, 300; at Mount Vernon, 9:46, 471; family, 9:219-20, 342, 434; letters
to: from Martha Washington, 6:420
Bassett, Burwell, 6:309, 340, 380, 406; 8:170, 267, 453, 460, 480, 519;
9:29, 31, 88, 118, 399, 426, 437, 479; 10:22, 77, 102, 316; commissioner
of Custis estate, 6:209, 215-17; id., 6:217; and Custis estate, 6:256,
260, 261, 276, 277, 425, 437; 8:82, 200, 203, 204, 205, 463, 585; 9:52,
366, 370, 371, 372, 373; and horses, 6:338; 8:83, 454; GW visits, 6:415;
8:442; 9:376; and George Purdie, 8:50, 52; GW's agent, 9:33, 46, 473,
511; at Mount Vernon, 9:38; family, 9:48, 166, 219-20, 300, 342, 434;
10:236; illness, 9:178; intends to go down Ohio with GW, 9:444-45; Mrs.
Black visits, 9:455; letters from: to GW, 8:579-80, 581, 586; 9:45-46,
171; letters to: from GW, 8:217, 378, 575; 9:178-79, 219-20, 243-44,
276, 300, 470-71; 10:236
Bassett, C., 10:370
Bassett, Elizabeth (Betcy; 1758-1773), 9:45, 46, 219-20, 300
Bassett, Frances, 9:46, 471
Bassett, Robert, 6:47
Bassett, William (Billy), 8:79; 9:341, 342, 471; 10:236
Bastford, Alexander, 4:43
Bat (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Bate, George, 6:288
Bateman, Philip, 9:190, 202, 222, 224, 227, 238, 239, 289; 10:137
Bater, Philip, 9:202
Bates, Edward, 8:146, 147
Bates, William, 6:271
Bath (slave; Dogue Run), 8:356, 357, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:138
Bath (slave; River farm), 10:137, 138
Bath and Wells, bishop of. See Kidder, Richard, bishop of Bath
and Wells
Batson, Mordecai, 9:512
Batt (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Batten, Thomas, 3:20
Bawn, William, 8:468, 531
Baxter's Bay, 3:203
Bayley, William (of England), 9:65-66, 67
Baylis, Capt. ----, 2:252
Baylis, John, 1:37; 2:230, 252; 3:120, 267, 278; 5:86, 95-96, 97, 342;
8:110; letters from: to GW, 5:83-85
Baylis, William (of Prince William County), 2:252; 3:120, 266, 267; letters
to: from GW, 3:277-78
Bayliss, Thomas, 8:486, 527
Baylist (Baylest), William (of Fairfax County), 4:391; 6:47
Baylor, George, 10:198, 205-6, 208, 250, 251
Baylor, John, 2:132; 6:182, 377; id., 2:83; 3:199; 4:243; 5:113; 6:182;
8:347; residence of, 2:83; county lieutenant of Caroline, 3:111; and council
of war, 3:129-31; and GW's shoes, 5:112; 6:318, 374; horse racing, 8:42,
346; and Mississippi Company, 8:63, 153; account with, 8:199; 9:225, 234-35,
373; 10:353; and Bernard Moore's estate, 9:44, 221, 235; family of, 10:206;
his debt, 10:351; letters from: to GW, 3:199; 4:242-43; letters
to: from GW, 4:191
Bayly, Peirce, 8:121, 122, 208, 270-71, 474, 522; 9:53
Bayly (Bailey, Baily), William, 6:321
Bayne, John (of Virginia), 4:102
Baynes, John (of Maryland), 8:128; 9:9, 35, 68, 153, 340, 364, 365, 462;
letters from: to GW, 9:124
Bazell, Hosea, 6:430, 431, 457
Be-- (slave; York County), 6:229
Beach, Thomas, 8:145, 147
Beale, William, Jr., 8:63
Beall, ---- (lieutenant), 6:119
Beall, Alexander, 3:210; 4:228, 229, 270; 6:119, 138; letters from:
to GW, 4:235-36; to John Stanwix, 4:251; letters to: from GW, 4:239-40
Beall, George, 4:324, 325; letters to: from GW, 3:193-94
Beall, Joshua, 5:296, 368, 403, 404; 6:119; letters from: to GW,
5:35; letters to: from GW, 5:37-38
Beall, Levin, 6:119
Beall, Mary Stevens, 5:245-46
Beall, Ninian, 3:194
Beall, Rezin, 6:119; 9:478
Beam, Samuel, 5:336
Beamer, James, 4:5, 8
Bear Camp (Maryland), 3:182, 183; 4:214
Beard, John, 2:225; 3:79
Bear-grass Creek, 9:247
Beasly, Gawen, 6:47
Beatly, William, 4:331
Beattie, James, 9:344
Beatty, Charles, 9:493
Beaufremont, marquis de, 4:282
Beaujeu, Daniel Hyacinthe Marie, Lienard de. See Lienard de Beaujeu,
Daniel Hyacinthe Marie
Beaumont, ----, 2:177
Beaumont, Francis, 6:400
Beaver, Samuel, 5:294, 295
Beck, Little (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:589
Beck (dower slave; house servant), 6:217
Beck (slave, girl; James City County), 6:228
Beck (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Beck (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Beck (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Beck (slave; scullion), 6:282
Beck (slave; York County), 6:229
Beckett, John, 5:340
Beckford Parish, 8:190-91
Beckwith, John, 5:395, 396
Beckwith, Marmaduke, 8:142
Bedford, John Russell, fourth duke of, 2:326; 8:7
Bedford County, 3:435; fort to be built in, 3:361; troops from, 3:431;
4:290; formation of, 3:435; Indian depredations in, 4:366; 5:141, 184,
195, 196, 197; county lieutenant of, 5:197; inhabitants enrage Indians,
6:81-82
Bedgood, Joseph, 4:42
Beedy, John, 8:170
Beeler, Christopher, 1:29, 31, 35, 37; 4:405; 5:310, 338
Beeler, Joseph, 2:233, 234; 5:310
Beeler (Beilor), ---- (of Frederick County): and corn for horses, 5:310
Beevers, Joseph: letters from: to GW, 10:352
The Beggar's Opera, 8:347
Behn, Aphra, 6:290, 294
Belestre, François-Marie Picot de, 3:260
Belestre, Picot de, 4:200, 215-17, 232-34, 239-40, 244, 247, 252, 261,
267
Belford (Belfour), Jane, 3:379
Belford (Belfour), John, 3:252, 256, 306-7, 379, 380
Belhaven, 1:113; 2:85. See also Alexandria
Bell, Bob, 8:406
Bell, David, 2:25, 181, 243, 260, 299, 301; 3:113, 341; 4:203, 207, 232,
271, 358; 5:41-42; assignments, 2:14, 143, 230, 272, 288, 302; 3:235,
334; id., 2:38; 4:198; commissions and appointments, 2:40, 42, 232, 261;
3:242-46, 252; 4:136, 155, 166; orders to, 2:56; 3:177, 191, 192, 333,
334-35, 336, 337; company of, 2:105, 108, 109, 229, 251, 271; 3:157, 240,
253, 258, 311, 429; 4:77; criticism of, 2:106, 144; 4:195; 5:41, 42; provisions
for, 2:225; commands troops at Winchester, 2:229; accounts, 2:237; 3:402-3;
4:357; apprehension of deserters, 2:269, 271; company payrolls and returns,
3:81, 100-101, 156, 193, 209, 336, 341; company size rolls, 3:114, 212,
263; and construction of Fort Loudoun, 3:161; and William Fleming, 3:276-77;
letters from: to GW, 3:354, 375; 4:151; letters to: from
GW, 2:38, 71, 144, 271, 342-43, 347, 348-49, 350; 3:35-36, 52-53, 394-95
Bell, Henry, 8:31
Bell, Jacob, 4:41
Bell, John: letters to: from GW, 4:258-59
Bell, Joseph, 3:278
Bell, Nathaniel, 4:363
Bell, Philip, 6:249, 334, 337, 399-400
Bell, Southy, 10:18
Bella (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Bella (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588; 9:258
Belle Air (Prince William County), 6:370
Beller (slave; spinner), 9:257, 258
Belleview (Stafford County), 5:288
Bell's fort, 4:363; 5:67, 120, 121
Belmont (North Carolina), 5:23
Belt of Wampum (Tohashwughtonionty; Indian), 1:87, 91; 2:120-21, 125,
309
Belvale, 5:78
Belvoir, 10:193; land office at, 1:48; id., 7:40; rental of, 9:298, 299,
412, 446, 447; 10:86, 94-95, 198, 209, 281-82; sale of furnishings, 9:306-7,
321, 322; 10:86-87, 100, 198-99; fisheries at, 9:447; caretaker at, 10:60;
and Lord Fairfax, 10:179; new roof for, 10:282
Ben (dower slave; York County), 6:217
Ben (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Ben (slave; Bridge Quarter), 6:312
Ben (slave; Dogue Run), 8:104, 220, 357
Ben (slave; Home farm), 8:104, 220, 357
Ben (slave; Mill farm), 9:238; 10:137
Ben (slave; River farm), 8:104, 221, 357, 479; 9:55, 238; 10:137
Bendick, ---- (of Frederick County), 3:244, 246
Benedict, Md., 6:444
Benge, James, 4:42
Bennet (Bennett), Sarah, 8:48
Bennett, Joseph, 8:145
Bennett, William, 6:402, 404
Bentley, ---- (officer), 1:78
Bentley, Amos, 3:222
Bentley, John, 5:336
Bentley, Thomas, 1:53, 80
Berkeley, Edmund, 8:31; 10:99-100
Berkeley, Edward, 9:201
Berkeley, William, 1:71
Berkeley (Virginia), 6:466
Berkeley County, 8:191; 9:38, 431, 432, 453; 10:22, 62
Berkeley Springs, W.Va., 5:58
Bernard, Sarah Savin, 8:65-66; 9:36, 262
Bernard, William, 8:65-66; 9:36
Berrie, James and Robert, 6:276, 319
Berry, Benjamin, 10:193, 195, 202, 205
Berry, John, 2:253, 275; 5:159, 161
Berry, John, Jr., 5:161
Berry, Joseph, 8:176, 436
Berry, Thomas, 10:195
Berry's ferry, 1:40
Berwick, Thomas, 3:246, 284, 289
Best, Richard, 3:98
Betcy (ship; John Thompson's), 9:175
Bethel Congregation, 3:196
Betsey (Betsy; ship; John Sanderson's), 8:295-99, 371,
507
Betty, Mill (slave; York County), 6:229
Betty (Bettey; dower slave), 8:401, 402
Betty (Bettey; slave; Ferry farm), 8:479, 480
Betty (dower slave; house servant), 6:217
Betty (dower slave; New Kent County), 10:41
Betty (dower slave; wife of Anthony; New Kent County), 6:217
Betty (ship), 8:160
Betty (slave), 8:527
Betty (slave, girl; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Betty (slave, girl; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Betty (slave; at Ship Landing), 6:312
Betty (slave; Dogue Run), 6:428; 8:104, 221, 356, 479; 9:55, 238; 10:137
Betty (slave; Ferry farm), 9:54, 238; 10:39. 137
Betty (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Betty (slave; house servant), 6:428; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54, 238;
10:20, 137
Betty (slave; mill), 6:428
Betty (slave; Muddy Hole), 6:428
Betty (slave; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Betty (slave; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Betty (slave; New Kent County, 3), 6:220
Betty (slave; Old Quarter, 1), 8:590
Betty (slave; Old Quarter, 2), 8:590
Betty (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:589
Betty (slave; seamstress), 6:282
Betty (slave; York County, 1), 6:229
Betty (slave; York County, 2), 6:229
Bevan, Timothy, & Son, 8:45, 134-35, 297, 398, 560-61; 9:106
Bevans, Daniel, 3:374, 375
Beven, Peter, 4:41
Beverley, Robert, 8:102, 132
Beverley, William, 3:32
Bey, Andrew, 5:348; 6:15, 46
Bibb, Thomas, 3:137, 145, 150
Biber, Henry, 5:337
Bibles, 6:296, 299, 300
Bickley, Sir William, 2:128, 206, 243, 280
Big (Great) Sandy Creek, 10:1-2
Big Bone Lick, 9:96, 99
Biggs, James, 9:259; account with, 6:253, 266, 268, 273; 9:19; and crops,
8:106; 9:139, 284; dispute with John Stratton, 8:481; 9:86; overseer on
Eastern Shore, 8:482; agreement regarding Mockhorn Island, 9:89; James
Hill wants to replace him, 9:285; death, 9:287; letters from: to
GW, 6:320
Biggs, William, 9:89
Bigham (Bingham), Samuel, 3:210
Bigham (Bingham's) fort (Pennsylvania), 3:210
Big Kettle (Canajachrera, Broken Kettle), 1:123, 125
Big Sandy (Tatteroy) Creek (River), 8:279
Bil (dower slave; King William County), 6:218
Billey (dower slave; child), 8:401
Billey (slave), 9:286
Billy (slave, boy; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Billy (slave, boy; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Billy (slave, boy; New Kent County, 3), 6:220
Billy (slave; carpenter), 6:428
Billy (slave; Home farm), 6:428
Billy (slave; house servant), 8:104, 356, 479
Billy (William Lee, Mulatto Will; slave), 8:104, 220, 356, 479, 529,
585, 586; 9:208, 287; id., 8:83, 104; clothing for, 8:127, 329, 522; 9:1,
117; 10:39, 160, 370; his tooth drawn, 8:528
Binks, Charles, 10:370
Bishop, John, 9:122, 146
Bishop, Susanna: acts as midwife, 8:5, 70, 169, 222, 250, 521, 527, 557;
9:53, 58; 10:20, 39, 168, 196; account with, 8:60, 431; 9:1; 10:19, 194;
knits, 8:329
Bishop, Thomas, 6:388; 8:70, 104, 221, 305, 329, 356, 377, 479; 9:54,
155, 238, 294; 10:39, 137, 168, 194, 221, 318; id., 4:168; 5:308, 376;
6:182; and GW's hanger, 5:306; acts for GW, 5:373-74, 453; GW gives money
to, 6:182, 321, 329, 365; borrows money, 6:184; 8:207, 250, 290; returns
to Mount Vernon from army, 6:389, 412, 436, 437; overseer, 8:5, 18, 357;
his wife, 8:5, 60, 521, 527; his crops, 8:18, 19, 25; illness of, 8:20;
petition for land grant, 8:31; account with, 8:112, 143, 329, 376, 424,
441, 474, 557; 9:29, 30, 53, 92, 238, 367, 395; 10:104, 178, 316, 317;
his inventory of goods in New Kent County, 8:585; and Custis plantations,
8:586; and William Skilling, 10:356
Bishop, William, 4:103
Black, Anne Dent, 9:384
Black, ---- Dent, 9:384
Black, Frances: and land sold to GW, 9:376-78, 386, 400, 423-26, 458-59,
472-73, 479, 480, 481; 10:22; and lawsuit over William Black's land, 9:384;
GW takes her to Burwell Bassett's, 9:426, 455, 458; her reluctance to
leave Pleasant Hill, 9:455-58; 10:33-35
Black, Frances Taylor, 9:384, 424
Black, Martin, 5:337
Black, William: buys Falls plantation, 9:376-77, 400; GW buys lands from,
9:376-79, 385-86, 394, 396, 397, 399, 401, 402 423-26, 427, 428; 10:84;
lives at Pleasant Hill, 9:378; 10:35; id., 9:384; GW's penalty bond to,
9:389-90; buys Gooches, 9:393; refuses to move from Pleasant Hill, 9:424-25,
435, 457, 458-59; 10:33-35; delays in transferring land, 9:426, 478-81;
mills on his land, 9:429, 456, 458; his bond, 9:470, 471-73; gives up
possession of land, 10:22; his lands, 10:41; letters from: to GW,
9:383-84; 10:33-35; to Bartholomew Dandridge, 9:480; letters to:
from GW, 9:385, 400-401, 455-58
Black, William, Jr., 9:376, 383, 384; 10:33
Black, William (laborer), 8:5, 112
Black Boys, 8:243
Blackburn, Andrew, 5:335
Blackburn, Benjamin, 5:339
Blackburn, Edward, 8:146, 147
Blackburn, Samuel, 5:335
Blackburn, Thomas, 10:99-100, 215
Black Creek, 6:426
Blacks, 2:104, 188, 189, 236, 300; 10:182, 231-32, 291. See also
Slaves
Black's Grove, 9:384
Blacksmiths. See Smiths
Blackstone, Sir William, 8:326
Blackwater River, 4:10
Blackwater River fort. See Terry's fort
Blackwell, William, 10:20
Blagg, John, 2:45, 191, 355; 3:18, 74, 301, 384; commissions and appointments,
2:40, 42, 53, 260; 3:76, 77-79, 251; 4:166, 205, 206, 432; 6:95; id.,
2:46; 6:96; military service, 2:136, 149, 307; 3:428; 5:144, 179; 6:146;
orders to, 2:192, 289, 313, 331; 3:22, 281, 343; 4:128; and skirmish with
enemy, 3:78; and theft of stores, 3:211-12; pay for, 5:214, 364; account,
5:300-301; address to GW, 6:178-81; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22;
5:179; letters to: from GW, 2:313, 332; from George Mercer, 2:342
Blair, Alexander, 8:363; 10:201, 203, 204, 212
Blair, James (author), 6:286
Blair, James (of Frederick County), 5:336
Blair, John, 2:186; 4:27; 5:88, 100, 128, 132, 136, 198, 220, 241; 8:106;
id., 5:82; illness, 5:116; instructions from, 5:122, 141-44, 148; and
recruiting, 5:135, 144, 145, 146-47, 170; and rangers, 5:141; urges exchange
of officers between Virginia regiments, 5:142; and militia, 5:142-43,
151-52, 229, 230; and French Mason, 5:153, 167; sends commissions, 5:153-54;
and conference in Winchester, 5:169, 170, 181; and Maryland troops, 5:182-83;
criticism of, 5:192-93, 203; and goods for troops, 5:204, 221-22, 239;
and military bill, 6:178; and Custis estate, 6:246, 253, 254, 258, 259,
268; 9:370, 372; and William Black's penalty bond, 9:481; letters from:
to GW, 5:81-82, 89-92, 103, 103-4, 116, 133, 153, 153-54, 180-81, 181-83,
194-97; to John Forbes, 5:109, 143; to Abraham Bosomworth, 5:139; to John
St. Clair, 5:169, 182, 182-83, 203, 211, 212; to Henry Lee, 5:185; to
George Mercer, 5:187; letters to: from GW, 4:375; 5:82-83, 86-87,
95, 110-11, 113-15, 129-31, 139-41, 146, 156-62, 199-204; 8:87-88; from
John Forbes, 5:104-5, 138-39, 139, 143, 169, 182; from William Pitt, 5:115;
from Clement Read, 5:141; from Peter Hog, 5:160; from William Nelson,
5:180; from John St. Clair, 5:192-93, 197, 203, 211; from Horatio Sharpe,
5:194-95, 196
Blair, John, Jr., 9:140; and Custis estate, 6:228, 229; 8:197; account
with, 6:254; 9:117; clerk of council, 8:279, 390; and the Walpole Company,
8:380, 388; and bounty lands, 9:122, 147-48; council minutes, 9:364; letters
from: to GW, 9:364-65, 365; letters to: from GW, 9:137
Blakeney, William, 3:229, 249, 347
Bland, Humphrey, 2:209, 257, 258; 3:229
Bland, John, 8:140, 141, 507
Bland, Richard, 3:437; 6:82; 10:000, 000; letters from: to GW,
4:187-89; 10:174
Bland, Theodorick (1742-1790), 8:529
Bland, Theodorick (of Cawsons), 8:140, 141, 507, 527, 529
Bland, William, 9:39
Bland (ship), 6:473
Bland (slave), 5:452, 453
Bland's warehouse, 8:504, 507
Blane (Blaine), Archibald, 6:188, 190
Blare (Blair), James (of Frederick County), 5:339
Blassingame (Blasingham), William, 9:48
Blecker, Abraham, 6:46
Bledsoe, Joseph, 3:253, 258; 4:276-77
Bleekny, ----. See Blakeney, William
Blenheim (Charles County, Md.), 9:505
Blenheim (Prince George's County, Md.), 9:39
Blinking Woman (Indian), 9:248
Bloomery, 9:447, 449-50; 10:25, 97, 132, 156-57, 284, 286
Blount, Thomas, 6:295
Blount (Blunt), Tom (Indian), 4:125; letters to: from GW, 3:308-9
Blues (Virginia troops): in Braddock campaign, 2:12
Bluncall, William, 4:49
Board of Trade, 1:175; letters from: to Robert Dinwiddie, 1:64;
letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:57, 63, 114-15, 224, 357;
from Francis Fauquier, 6:314
Bob, Little (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Bob, Old (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Bob, Prince (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Bob (dower slave; Hanover County), 6:218
Bob (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Bob (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 591
Bob (slave; Dogue Run), 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Bob (slave; Hanover County), 6:231
Bob (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587
Bob (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Bob (slave; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Bob (slave; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Bodenham, John, 6:294
Bodker, Henry, 6:334, 337
Bodmore, Phill, 2:306, 307
Boerhaave, Herman, 6:285, 297
Boggess, Robert, 5:167, 168; 6:428; 8:52, 55
Bog houses, 3:239, 241
Bolar Run (Wilson's Mill Run), 3:133
Bolling, John, 8:31; letters from: to Robert Bolling, 1:341; 2:12
Bolling, Robert: letters to: from John Bolling, 1:341; 2:12
Bolton (Boltan), Richard, 5:392-94; 6:4, 5; 9:122, 146
Bombgardner, Christian, 9:122, 145
Bomford, Isaac, 9:77, 78, 100, 336; 10:158; letters to: from GW,
9:413
Bomford, Sarah, 9:101; 10:186; letters from: to GW, 9:335-36;
10:67-68; letters to: from GW, 9:99-100, 412-14; 10:157-59
Bompar (Bourparr), ----, 4:301-2
Bond, Matthew, 3:35-36, 195
Bond, William, 2:344
Bonet, Theophile, 6:284
Bonnell, Alexander, 4:423, 425
Bonny, Alexander, 9:359, 360, 364, 365, 422
Book lists, 6:283-300; 7:343-50
Boone, Daniel, 10:312
Boonesborough (Kentucky), 10:312
Booth, John Cooke, 8:579, 580
Booth, William, 8:153
Bording, John, 8:481, 482
Boscawen, Edward, 1:317, 318; 2:66; 5:42, 43, 173-74
Bosman, John, 4:42
Bosomworth, Abraham, 5:288; id., 4:46; 5:383; and Indians, 5:124, 138,
139, 176, 177-78, 383; 6:104; movements of, 5:283, 291; appointments,
5:443; 6:157; letters from: to GW, 5:260-61, 270-71, 278, 301-2,
319-20, 382-83, 410-11; to John Forbes, 5:283, 293, 302; to Henry Bouquet,
5:304-5; letters to: from GW, 4:45-46; 5:261; from John Blair,
5:139
Bosomworth, Mary Musgrove, 4:46
Bosomworth, Thomas, 4:46
Boson (slave; Charles Green's), 6:339
Boson (slave; Home House), 10:137, 138
Boson (slave; John Augustine Washington's), 7:172, 174
Boson (slave; Williamson's farm), 6:405, 406, 428, 444
Bossu, Jean Bernard, 7:348; 9:116, 118
Boston, 6:430, 431; 10:127, 170
Boston (frigate), 8:355, 356, 526
Boston Port Bill, 10:95, 96, 99, 102, 144, 145
Boswell, Alexander, 9:395
Boswell, Pangranparobo, 9:398
Boswell, William, 9:132
Bosworth, Samuel, & Griffiths, 6:259, 451; 7:63, 229, 253
Botanologia. The English herbal or history of plants, 6:284
Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, baron de: and petition for Powells River
land, 8:31; issues writs of election, 8:144; dissolves Burgesses, 8:181,
246, 275; and GW's petition to rent dower lands, 8:195-97; and ball given
by Burgesses, 8:269; and list of petitions for land, 8:275-76, 300, 303;
and bounty lands, 8:277-79, 280, 483, 533-41; 9:195; sends message to
settlers on Monongahela not to settle lands, 8:308; ordered not to make
grants in west, 8:308-9; death, 8:380, 393; and Walpole Company, 8:380;
GW buys his horses, 8:453; his estate, 9:33; letters to: from GW,
8:272-77, 378-80, 388-93
Botetourt County, 8:281; 9:418, 502, 512, 516; 10:164, 291, 311, 363
Botner, Elias, 10:370, 371
Boucher, Charles, 8:50. See also Bouchier & Co.
Boucher, Eleanor Addison, 9:49, 82, 113, 141, 154, 164, 295, 297, 478
Boucher, Jane (Jenny), 8:128, 184, 226, 251, 259; 9:39, 49, 113, 141,
154, 295, 297, 478; comes to Virginia, 8:125, 467; illness, 8:129; refuses
to go to springs, 8:227, 238; at Fielding Lewis's, 8:365; moves to Annapolis,
8:387; invited to Mount Vernon, 8:426
Boucher, John Thomas, 9:347, 348, 475, 489; 10:74
Boucher, Jonathan, 8:137, 360, 375, 376, 380; 9:91, 220; correspondence
with GW, 8:90; id., 8:90; has little formal training in classics, 8:97;
GW asks for special care of John Parke Custis, 8:120; his school, 8:125;
9:179; his opinion of Walter Magowan, 8:167; account with, 8:201, 222,
347, 348, 456, 457, 473; 9:14, 15, 27, 29, 31, 227, 297, 298, 366, 367;
comes to America, 8:227; supports American cause, 8:227-28; and Mrs. Campbell's
misfortunes, 8:309-11; and a European tour for John Parke Custis, 8:332-41,
348-49, 432, 466, 467-77, 489-92, 494-97; 9:164; and Potomac navigation,
8:349; moves to Annapolis, 8:387; his lodgings, 8:417; angry with John
Parke Custis, 8:463-64; GW visits, 8:519, 523; 9:215; 10:223; defends
his education of John Parke Custis, 8:548-50, 571-72; recommends John
Parke Custis not go to Princeton, 8:550; made rector of Queen Anne's Parish,
8:572; supports American episcopacy, 9:38-39, 164-65; marriage, 9:49;
and sheep, 9:51; seeks medical attention, 9:164; and controversy over
clergymen's salaries, 9:165; political activities, 9:194; and John Parke
Custis's engagement, 9:211-13; Robert Eden visits, 9:216; letters from:
to GW, 8:94-95, 96-97, 116, 122-25, 129, 159, 184, 226-28, 309-11, 324-25,
332-33, 336-41, 364, 367-68, 386-87, 413-17, 443-45, 446-48, 463-64, 464-67,
489-94, 548-50, 571-73; 9:4-8, 16-19, 22-25, 50-51, 161-65, 211-15, 294-95,
468; to John James, 8:167, 228, 341; letters to: from GW, 8:89-91,
120-21, 127, 128-29, 138, 166-67, 184-85, 226, 237-38, 250-51, 258-59,
270, 305-6, 333-35, 348-49, 361-62, 365, 411-12, 425-26, 432-33, 435-36,
442-43, 448-49, 469, 476-78, 494-98; 9:38-39, 40-42, 49-50, 51-52, 82,
113, 141-42, 154-55, 295-96, 297, 478; from Myles Cooper, 9:213-14
Boucherville, ----: id., 1:114; prisoner, 1:120; mentioned in articles
of capitulation, 1:166, 167
Bouchier & Co., 8:49. See also Boucher, Charles
Bouquet, Henry, 2:77; 5:92, 212, 224, 236, 249, 295, 387, 391, 409; 6:6-7,
12, 22, 23, 41, 59, 62-63, 97, 119-120, 135, 139, 144, 145, 153, 175,
437; 7:227, 242; 9:469; and Muskingum expedition, 2:182; 10:73, 74; takes
troops to South Carolina, 4:129-30, 177; and dispute over batmen, 4:176,
193; and Virginia troops, 5:41; letters, 5:42-43, 258, 321, 378, 396;
appointments and promotions, 5:119, 443; 6:125, 148, 155; id., 5:119,
377; John St. Clair disobeys, 5:198-99; 6:6-7; meets with GW, 5:208, 220,
252, 325, 326, 347, 348, 350, 370, 441; arrives at Raystown, 5:246-47;
and route to Fort Duquesne, 5:247, 319, 344-45, 346, 360-61, 364-65, 371,
405; and fortifications at Raystown, 5:248, 298; builds roads, 5:252;
6:34, 35, 133; and Indians, 5:261, 270, 303; 6:160; and leave for GW,
5:264, 296-97, 300, 312; returns of troops, 5:266; and Indian garb for
troops, 5:278, 279, 290; and military supplies, 5:284, 310, 444; 6:14,
15, 21, 23, 133, 142; praised, 5:298; appoints brigade major, 5:309; movements
of, 6:3, 10, 30, 31, 32, 79, 80, 101, 103, 137, 149, 150, 152; and Stephen-St.
Clair dispute, 6:17; his general orders, 6:27-31, 96; and James Grant's
expedition, 6:40, 44, 52; meets with John Forbes, 6:60; his opinion of
American officers, 6:92-93; his brigade, 6:126, 127, 150, 152; his division,
6:127; and James Riley, 6:143; relations with GW, 6:187; his battalion,
6:190; and Robert Stewart, 6:413, 468; refortifies Presque Isle, 6:454-55;
and Battle of Bushy Run, 7:237, 238; letters from: to Lord Loudoun,
4:46; to John Stanwix, 4:374; to GW, 5:208-10, 246-47, 251-52, 261, 271-73,
279, 286-88, 297, 302, 318-19, 320-22, 344-46, 360, 364-65, 367, 384-86,
394-96, 406-7, 412, 421-22, 427-30, 430; to John Forbes, 5:234, 247, 261,
266-67, 269, 270-71, 278, 316, 321, 346, 364, 365, 369, 378, 379, 383,
405, 422, 431, 432; 6:3, 6, 45, 46, 92, 92-93, 96, 100, 103-4; to John
St. Clair, 5:411, 455; to Adam Stephen, 5:455; to Hugh Mercer, 6:6, 21;
to Hance Hamilton, 6:17-18; to James Burd, 6:100; to Jeffery Amherst,
6:185; letters to: from John Forbes, 5:120, 252, 258, 259, 266,
296-97, 299, 321, 377, 396, 429, 455, 456; 6:3, 24, 72, 88, 91, 94, 101,
110-11, 115, 145, 146, 150, 154; from Adam Stephen, 5:193, 455; from John
St. Clair, 5:204, 272, 455; from GW, 5:207-8, 256-59, 260, 267-69, 273,
281-82, 282-83, 291-93, 296-97, 311-12, 324-26, 347-49, 353-60, 376-78,
378-79, 389-90, 397-99, 403-4, 405-6, 416-18, 424-26, 445-47; 6:115-16,
137-38, 160-61; from James Sinclair, 5:299; 6:21, 35, 74; from Abraham
Bosomworth, 5:304-5; from George Armstrong, 5:396; from James Burd, 5:432,
455-56; 6:78, 92; from François-Marie Le Marchand, sieur de Ligneris,
6:53; from Hance Hamilton, 6:92; from Hugh Mercer, 6:178; from Adam Hoops,
6:185; from Edward Hubbard, 6:314; from George Mercer, 6:347, 389; from
John Joseph Schlosser, 6:413; from William Byrd, 6:413; from Robert Stewart,
6:470
Bouquetsburgh, Pa. See Raystown
Bouquet's Camp (Pennsylvania), 6:31, 134, 149, 150, 154, 156
Boutwell (ship), 3:55
Bow, Dennis, 5:337
Bowdoin, John, 8:482
Bowdoin, Preston, 9:449
Bowdon (Bowden), George, 4:97, 98; letters from: to GW, 7:21-22.
See also Errata
Bowen, ----, 3:185
Bowen, Henry, 5:341
Bower, George, 5:336
Bowie, Fielder, 10:336
Bowie, James, 1:290, 292
Bowie, John, 1:292
Bowler, ----: GW at his home, 7:285
Bowler, William, 6:255, 259; 7:190, 191
Bowles, Doctor, 4:275, 276
Bowling, Edmond, 4:282
Bowling, John, 7:378
Bowling (Bolling), Gerrard (Garrard), 6:456, 457; 7:186, 235, 319, 378,
385
Bowman, ---- (ship captain), 7:81
Bowman, George, 5:338
Bowman, Jacob, 5:336; 7:98
Bowyer, Matthew, 3:109, 110, 125
Bowyer, William: letters to: from William Preston, 10:246
Box, Edward, 6:402, 404
Box, John, 6:402, 404
Boyce, Roger, 4:337, 338
Boyd, ----: express from, 7:5
Boyd, Alexander, 2:139, 169, 185, 205, 239, 312, 318; 3:135, 140, 161,
237, 377; 4:185, 204, 225, 238, 268, 273, 384, 422; 5:94, 290, 300, 309;
6:170, 172, 173, 187, 193, 468; id., 1:333; 2:140; 3:205; 5:13; 7:11;
movements of, 2:175, 312; 5:291; 6:168; illness of, 2:189, 190; funds
for Virginia forces, 2:192; 3:158; 4:244, 249, 266, 274, 288, 357, 408;
6:22-23; pay for troops, 2:195, 223-24, 254; 3:123, 192, 334; 4:157, 184,
244, 249, 274, 288, 304, 316, 383, 386, 396-97, 415; 5:55, 59, 147, 150,
392; 6:26, 99, 112; and stoppages from pay, 2:315; 3:42, 81, 154, 180;
accounts, 2:327, 328-29; 3:324, 331, 332, 366, 376, 387-88, 402; 4:45,
47, 190, 210, 325; 5:285; 6:184, 193, 406; orders to, 3:154, 242; and
discrepancies in pay, 3:336, 337; appointments, 3:368; 4:305; 5:393; his
subsistence, 3:429; pay for workmen, 4:101; pay for construction of Pearsal's
fort, 4:340; and payment for scalps, 5:12; and pay for Indian agent, 5:53;
pays settlers' losses, 5:53; and pay for recruits, 5:146; and payment
for imprisoned soldiers, 6:466; letters from: to GW, 5:68; letters
to: from GW, 2:152-53, 171, 196-97, 274; 3:155-57
Boyd, Catherine, 7:508; 8:19. See also Catherine
Boyd, Samuel, 2:244
Boyd (Boyls), James, 8:527, 528; 9:111; 10:141, 317
Boyd's Hole, 7:286
Boyer, Abel, 6:287, 292
Boyes, John, 7:253, 385; his ship, 6:414; 7:35, 312; tobacco carried
in his ship, 7:34, 50, 53, 63, 64, 89, 136, 142-43, 152, 250, 252, 306,
325, 400, 415, 445, 447, 464, 509; 8:10, 44; id., 7:54; goods carried
in his ship, 7:86, 130, 198, 287, 323, 326, 353, 497, 498, 509; refuses
GW's tobacco, 7:153-54; ship delayed, 7:231; persuades Robert Cary to
employ old ship, 7:311; tobacco damaged in his ship, 8:9
Boyle, James (died c.1758), 3:284
Boyle, James (of Fairfax County), 8:22
Boyle, James (of Frederick County), 7:434
Boyle, Robert, 6:294
Boyle, Roger, 6:293
Boylston, William, 7:378
Boyse, Samuel, 7:350
Bracey, Thomas, 4:42
Bracken, Henry, 6:300; 7:346
Bradbeary, James, 6:47
Braddock, Edward, 1:83, 115, 144, 258, 262, 286, 317, 352; 2:155, 156,
174, 198, 214, 301, 325, 343; 3:15; 4:80, 103, 112, 215, 223, 303; 5:231;
8:284; arrives in Virginia, 1:120, 244; 7:176; and GW's appointment, 1:241,
243-44, 246, 249, 250, 253, 255-56, 278, 279; id., 1:242; illness of,
1:246; headquarters of, 1:247; leaves Alexandria, 1:259; criticizes colonists,
1:264, 298-99, 316; and marches, 1:264, 310, 315; relations with GW, 1:267,
268, 272; GW joins, 1:274; and funds from John Hunter, 1:281-82, 284,
285, 287; and contribution of horses, 1:298; GW's opinion of, 1:300; relations
with Pennsylvania, 1:301; criticism of, 1:316, 361; 2:9-11, 15, 165-66,
320; 5:431; and GW's illness, 1:319; requests GW's opinion, 1:321; death
of, 1:332, 334, 335, 336, 340, 344, 345; orders to Virginia troops, 1:341;
defended, 2:9-11, 165-66, 321; appoints James Innes, 2:74, 291, 294; 4:54;
and John Dagworthy's rank, 2:284; his bedstead, 3:161; opinion of GW,
3:181; and establishment of Winchester-Philadelphia post, 3:364; and GW,
4:89; allowance of batmen, 4:193; attitude toward Virginia officers, 4:372;
his defeat, 5:48, 125; officers under, 5:129; plan of march, 5:227; and
John St. Clair, 5:316; and Robert Stewart's troop of light horse, 5:362;
his campaign, 6:130; 8:274, 484; 9:169; letters from: to Robert
Napier, 1:259, 272, 275, 301, 314; to Sir Thomas Robinson, 1:260, 264,
300; to GW, 1:281-82; to Robert Hunter Morris, 1:301; letters to:
from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:272, 288; from Sir John St. Clair, 1:273. See
also Braddock campaign and Braddock Road
Braddock campaign, 2:11; 4:32, 39; 5:123, 126, 210, 248; GW's letter
book for, 1:xvii-xix, 236-40, 348; casualties, 1:79, 248, 251, 297, 326,
327, 328, 332, 334, 335, 336, 337, 339, 340, 341, 342; 2:54; organization
of, 1:241, 245, 302, 314; colonial officers' rank in, 1:242; disposition
and movement of troops, 1:245, 248, 272, 294, 295, 298, 306, 320, 321;
Alexandria conference, 1:247-48, 257, 259-60; armament, 1:259, 274, 277,
321, 322, 327; marches, 1:259, 262, 263, 264, 266, 271, 272, 274, 275-76,
294, 295, 296, 297, 301, 304, 311, 313, 314, 322-23, 325, 326, 327, 332,
334; seamen in, 1:259, 295-96, 326; servants on, 1:259; transport, 1:259,
262, 274, 277, 298, 303, 312, 314, 320, 321, 322, 325, 327; strategy and
tactics, 1:260, 321; horses, 1:261, 265, 294, 298, 302, 313, 321, 323,
334; Indians, 1:263, 325, 338, 342; roads, 1:263, 264, 275, 293, 296,
301, 307, 327; supply, 1:263-64, 272, 275, 299, 305, 328; impressment,
1:264, 303, 314, 346, 363; intelligence, 1:272, 299, 302, 321; northern
campaign, 1:276; review of troops, 1:278, 280; uniforms, 1:278; funds
for, 1:281, 283, 284, 285, 286-87, 288, 292; GW used as courier, 1:282;
memoranda on, 1:282-83, 293-94, 331; weather, 1:287, 289, 321, 326; councils
of war, 1:294, 297, 320, 325; provisions, 1:298, 299, 305, 335; 3:47;
illness, 1:299, 301, 310; comments on, 1:314; articles of war, 1:317;
women on, 1:321, 327; physicians on, 1:325; "Old Standers," 1:326-27;
pay, 1:333; prospects for army's recovery after, 1:353; reports concerning,
2:10-11, 15; Virginians in, 2:12, 15, 16, 173, 178, 179; ordnance, 2:52;
3:86; 4:169; hospital for, 2:57; orderly books for, 2:155, 156; Virginia
recruits for Irish regiments, 2:203; payment to civilians for military
purchases, 2:280; commissaries on, 3:162; bounty for service in, 3:240.
See also Braddock, Edward; Washington, George: and Braddock campaign
- Battle of the Monongahela, 1:332, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339,
341; 7:159; Virginians in, 1:339, 341; comments on, 1:344, 345, 347,
348, 350, 351, 353; James Innes's circular on, 1:345, 346, 351; loss
of artillery, 1:351, 353, 354; bounty for service in, 3:241-42, 332;
Francis Halkett comments on, 5:125
- camps: Grove (Spendelow's) Camp, 1:296, 325; Bear Camp, 1:313,
325, 327; Martin's plantation, 1:313, 324; camp east of Great Meadows,
1:314, 316; Squaw's fort, 1:314, 324, 329, 330; Jacob's Cabin, 1:325;
Stewart's Crossing, 1:327; Scalping Camp, 1:328, 330; beyond Great Meadows,
1:330; Gist's Settlement, 1:330; 3:166; Sugar Run, 1:331; Dunbar's camp,
1:332
Braddock Road, 1:91; 3:163, 246; 5:210, 354, 386-87, 394, 396; 6:364;
8:406; building of, 1:264, 275, 293, 296, 301, 307, 327; reopening and
repairing of, 5:119, 120; 6:364, 432; 8:87-88; GW to march by, 5:427;
6:3, 45; too dangerous to travel, 10:92
Bradford, William, 5:49
Bradley, William, 9:94-95
Bradshaw, John, 9:61
Bradshaw, John, & James Davidson, 8:46, 50, 131, 297, 399, 559; 9:61,
64, 275; letters to: from GW, 9:60-61
Bradstreet, John, 3:286, 288; 5:411; 6:9, 102
Bradstreet, Lyonel, 10:336, 356, 367
Brady, Nicholas, the Elder, 6:285; 7:344; 8:511
Brady, Nicholas, the Younger, 6:297
Brady, Owen, 7:378
Brafferton, The, 9:487
Braford (slave; Robert Tucker's), 7:315
Bragg, Philip, 5:136, 137
Braisse, ---- (ship captain), 7:257
Bramley, William, 6:47
Branch, Matthew, 8:31
Brandon, 9:473
Brasenton (Brazington), ---- (Mrs. Samuel), 6:329; 7:7, 179, 190, 276,
308, 352
Brasenton (Brazington), Samuel, 6:328, 329; 7:3, 7, 105, 106, 352
Braser, W. (servant), 10:365
Brawner, John, 7:378
Braxton, Carter, 3:401; GW buys chair from, 6:198; id., 6:199-200; 7:319;
and Custis estate, 6:256, 261; 7:91; 8:462, 463, 530; 9:116, 371, 372,
373; 10:75; elected burgess, 7:59, 60; and subscription to races, 7:107,
111; tobacco sold to, 7:318; and Thomas Moore's bond, 7:469; 8:81-82,
532; and GW's petition to rent dower lands, 8:197; GW's memo to, 8:430;
recommends James Hill, 8:574; and Bernard Moore's estate, 9:221, 429;
and William Black's lands, 9:386, 428; letters from: to GW, 8:575
Braxton, George, Jr., 3:398, 401; 6:381
Braxton, George (d. 1748), 3:401
Braxton, Judith Robinson, 6:199, 200
Brazier, Francis, 8:297, 299; 9:107
Brazier, John, 7:472, 476
Brazier, William, 8:111
Brazil, William, 4:43
Breckenridge, Robert, 3:321-23, 453-54
Breckenridge's fort, 3:323; 4:10
Breechy (dower slave; house servant), 6:217, 428; 7:45, 139, 227, 313,
376, 442, 515; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54, 238; medical expenses, 7:268;
runs away, 7:268; buckles for, 7:332; leather breeches for, 7:352
Breechy (slave; house servant), 10:137
Breechy (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Breechy (slave; waiter), 6:282
Bremo, 1:50
Brémond, Sébastien de, 6:295
Brent, ----: account with, 7:434
Brent, Anne Carroll, 7:513
Brent, George (1703-1778): and Custis estate, 6:277; id., 6:339; his
slaves, 6:339; land transactions, 6:451, 455-56, 466; 7:65, 228, 278,
350; 8:283; 9:431; and bill of exchange, 6:471; 7:61, 64
Brent, George (c.1640-1700), 6:451, 456
Brent, Henry (1709-1769), 6:409, 410
Brent, Robert (1670-1722), 6:450, 451
Brent, Robert (of Woodstock), 6:465, 466; 7:219-22, 224, 225, 512, 513;
8:63; 9:343; 10:41; letters from: to GW, 9:487-89
Brent, William (of Richland): and Ignatius Edwards, 4:330, 334-35; his
horses, 7:109, 159; id., 7:225, 300; 9:489; and Mississippi Company, 7:225,
512; 8:63, 153; and Williamsburg purse, 7:298; and James Mercer, 9:167,
303, 305, 462; 10:203, 351, 353; letters to, 9:487-88
Brereton, Thomas: letters from: to GW, 7:503
Brett, Anne Gerrard Broadhurst, 9:289
Brett, George, 6:252
Brewster, ---- (widow), 8:285, 288
Brickay, John, 9:294
Brick House (Williamsburg), 8:61, 62; 9:435, 436
Brick House ferry, 7:299
Brick House plantation, 7:427; 8:585, 590; 9:89
Brickner, Rudolph, 8:539; 9:122, 145
Bridge, John, 4:390
Bridge, Joshua, 4:333
Bridge Quarter: id., 6:217, 219; 8:126, 196; stock at, 6:218; overseer,
6:219; 7:109, 313; 9:48; slaves at, 6:312; 7:67, 463, 464; advertised
for sale, 7:497; rental to John Parke Custis, 8:195-97, 401; combined
with John Parke Custis's lands, 8:591-92
Bridger, Robert, 2:181; 3:132-33, 134, 194
Bridge's Creek, 1:6, 7
Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, third duke of, 9:40-42
A brief account of some travels (Browne), 6:285
Briggs, D., 7:439
Briggs, David, 8:362, 363, 461
Briggs, Gray, 3:170
Briggs, Howell, 3:170
Briggs, James, 7:308, 309
Briggs, Joseph (Josiah, Joshua), 3:306-7; 4:389
Briggs, Lucy Gray, 3:170
Brilliant (ship), 8:482, 507
Brindley, James, 9:41-42
Brinker, ----: as courier, 5:43
Brinker, Henry, 3:338, 340, 380; 4:235, 423; 5:44, 53, 332, 339
Brinker's ordinary, 3:338, 340; 4:234, 235
Briscoe, John, 1:27; 5:340; 8:514; 9:136, 330, 334, 335; 10:47; letters
to: from GW, 9:135
Bristol, Augustus John Hervey, third earl of, 7:99, 100
Bristol (slave; Home farm), 10:137, 138
Bristol (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Bristol (slave; Old Quarter), 8:590
Bristow, Dyer, 6:256
Britain (Briton), Joseph, 1:30
Britaine, William de, 6:294
Britannicus (horse), 8:42
British establishment, 3:110
British King (ship), 7:284, 306
Broad, John, 9:314, 462; 10:137, 138
Broadhurst (Broddhurst, Broaddus), Gerrard, 8:577; 9:290
Broadhurst (Broddhurst, Broaddus), Walter, Jr., 8:576-78; 9:289, 290
Broadhurst (Broddhurst, Broaddus), Walter (d. 1659), 8:577, 578; 9:289
Broadneck plantation, 8:580
Broad River, 7:57
Broad Run, 1:37
Broadwater, Charles, 3:70; 7:378; 8:146, 147; 10:316; and militia, 3:67,
68-69; and Fairfax County elections, 5:265; 10:105, 108; id., 5:265; 7:373;
and Fairfax Parish, 7:361, 384; 8:53; 9:182; account with, 7:373; and
Truro Parish, 8:51; criticism of, 10:109; elected to Convention, 10:127;
appointed to committee, 10:128; and money raised for delegates, 10:280;
and Fairfax Independent Company, 10:345
Broadwater, Charles, Sr., 3:69
Broadwater, Guy, 3:69; 8:144
Broadway (Broadaway), Joseph, 1:210, 211
Brockenbrough, Austin, 2:15, 17, 67, 82, 191, 192, 224; 3:161, 206; recruiting,
2:14; commissions and appointments, 2:40, 42, 261; 3:251, 341; 4:166;
commended to GW, 2:65-66; id., 2:66; 3:163; enlistment of, 2:68; and play
at Fort Cumberland, 2:234; oath, 2:243; impresses horses, 2:258; his company,
3:253, 257, 428; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22; letters to:
from GW, 2:170
Brockenbrough, William, 2:68; 7:219-23, 224, 512; 8:153; letters from:
to GW, 2:65-67
Brodie, Samuel, 9:58, 70, 71, 72, 79, 82, 156, 158, 188, 239
Brodrick, Thomas, 5:43
Bromley, Henry, 1:311
Bromwich, Thomas, 7:293
Bronaugh, John, 7:378
Bronaugh, John W., 10:239
Bronaugh, William, 2:25, 41, 196, 211, 232, 289; 4:66, 136; 7:378; appointments
and commissions, 1:208; 2:42, 43, 45, 47, 99, 191, 260; commended, 1:209;
id., 1:210; 2:46; company of, 2:53, 123, 128, 136, 226, 261, 305, 347;
4:77, 327, 349, 350; military service, 2:149, 229, 244, 306, 306-7; 4:60,
155, 166, 350, 362; oath, 2:243; and De Keyser's court of inquiry, 2:255;
and camp kettles, 4:351; GW buys land from, 8:364; 9:455; 10:78, 80, 193;
on 1754 roll of soldiers, 8:451; bounty lands, 9:359, 360, 364, 366; 10:225;
and sale of Mercer land, 10:29; deed to Leven Powell, 10:239; letters
from: to GW, 4:18-22; letters to: from GW, 2:192-93; 4:59-60;
10:238-39
Broocke (Brookes), Bibby, 3:253, 258, 353; 4:277
Brooke, ----, 8:362, 417
Brooke, Baker, 10:138
Brooke, George, 8:346, 347; 9:45, 46; 10:75; letters from: to
Bartholomew Dandridge, 9:399
Brooke, Richard, 3:353; 5:102; 8:363, 417; 9:447, 449
Brooke, Robert, 8:261
Brooke, Walter, 9:2, 115
Brooke, Zebulon, 10:319
Brookes, ----, 3:352; 4:98
Brookes (horse), 8:83
Brooks, Francis, 4:281-82
Brooks, William, 8:406, 445-46
Brothers, Francis, 4:338-39
Brothers (ship), 7:309
Brotherton, James, 7:473, 476; 8:132
Brough, Mary, 7:210, 212
Brough's tavern, 7:212
Broughton, ----: supports GW's election, 7:46
Broughton, William, 2:139-40, 169, 229, 230; 3:252, 257; 4:277; 7:47;
9:122, 145
Brounly (Brownley), Thomas, 8:145, 146
Brown, ---- (bathman), 8:21
Brown, ---- (express rider), 10:133
Brown, ---- (ship captain), 3:377
Brown, Basil, & Righton, 8:400
Brown, Charles, 6:397, 403; 7:127, 194, 291, 354, 422, 474; 8:131, 296
Brown, Edward (soldier), 4:391
Brown, Eleanor, 8:399, 559; 9:106
Brown, Gustavus, 5:64-65, 220, 221; 9:75
Brown, James, 8:303, 304; 10:194
Brown, John (1744-1780; of Massachusetts), 10:357, 358-59
Brown, John (author), 9:344, 345
Brown, John (died c.1744; of Fairfax County), 8:210, 316
Brown, John (of Augusta County), 3:321-23
Brown, John (of Isle of Wight County), 4:42
Brown, Sarah, 9:75
Brown, Thomas (of Shifnal), 7:347
Brown, Thomas (soldier), 3:306-7; 4:230-32, 389
Brown, William, 10:128
Brown & Tinley, 9:395
Browne, Edward (author), 6:285
Browne, Judith Carter, 9:439
Browne, Richard, 6:295
Browne, Sir Thomas, 6:285, 291, 292, 293, 298
Browne, William Burnet, 9:438, 439
Browning, John, 9:25
Browning, Louisa, 9:22-25
Brownley (Bromley, Brumley), Thomas, 6:182; 7:4, 10, 107, 378
Brownsville, Pa., 6:163
Bruce, George, 5:341
Bruce, Normand, 10:237-38, 359
Bruin, Bryan, 1:30; 5:238, 239, 341; 7:296; 8:24, 238, 239
Bruin's ordinary, 7:296
Brummit, Jesse, 10:137, 138, 318
Brummitt, William, 8:244; 9:395
Bruner, John, 2:344
Brunswick, Old (dower slave), 8:401
Brunswick (dower slave), 8:401, 402
Brunswick (dower slave; Ship Landing), 6:312; 7:318, 319, 320, 463, 464
Brunswick (dower slave; York County), 6:218
Brunswick (ship), 7:143, 152, 153
Brunswick (slave, Moll's child; York County), 6:229
Brunswick (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Brunswick County, 4:290
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of,
7:37, 39, 282-83
Bruton Parish Church, 8:281; 9:260
Bryan, Thomas, 7:378
Bryan, William, 4:10; 6:412, 413
Bryant, James, 4:42; 7:239; 8:47, 50, 132
Bryant, LeRoy, 4:334
Buchanan, ---- (Messrs.): and bills of exchange, 8:453
Buchanan, George, 8:376
Buchanan, James, 4:107, 108
Buchanan, John, 3:232, 233, 260, 321-23, 363, 431-32, 433, 434; 4:1,
7, 13, 30; letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 3:406; 4:367; from
Francis Fauquier, 6:165
Buchanan, Thomas, 7:106, 110
Buchanan, William, 2:151, 152
Buck, Charles, 5:342; 7:98
Buck, The, 1:91
Buckler, Benjamin, 8:437, 438, 441, 474, 486, 522, 527, 556; 9:58
Buckles, Robert, 5:338
Buckley, John, 5:341
Buck Marsh Run, 7:8
Buckner, ----: Jane Boucher lodges with, 8:467
Buckner, ---- (captain), 9:387
Buckner, ---- (Mrs.), 8:465, 467
Buckner, Baldwin, 9:133, 134, 229
Buckner, Baldwin & John, 9:134, 221, 223-24, 225, 235
Buckner, John, 9:134
Buckner, Mary Timson, 4:107-8; 8:467
Buckner, Mordecai, 2:41, 47, 54, 275; 3:342, 447; 4:219, 220, 345, 391,
392; 5:109, 142, 162-63, 170-71; 6:95; appointments and commissions, 2:40,
42, 49, 261; 3:251; 4:166, 202, 205, 206, 432; 6:470; id., 2:45-46, 253;
recruiting, 2:191; activities as quartermaster, 2:244-45, 253, 264, 266;
3:239; purchases house, 2:306; and Rawley embezzlement, 2:315; military
service, 3:162, 250-51, 255, 428; 5:143; 9:387; at Harness's fort, 3:341;
accuses Griffin Pert, 4:202; and John Hamilton's embezzlement, 4:424,
426; and leave of absence, 6:176; and address to GW, 6:178-81; his family,
8:467; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22; letters to: from GW,
2:217; from George Mercer, 2:282-83
Buckner, Richard, 8:547
Buckner, Samuel, 4:108; 7:304-5; 8:467
Buckner, Thomas, 4:108; 8:467
Buckner, William, 1:313; 9:94-95
Buckner, William (of Port Royal), 9:189, 191
Buckner's tavern, 9:191
Bucktrout, Benjamin, 8:267, 269
Buddicum (Buddecome), William, 7:387; 8:100, 105, 115; 10:103, 105, 177
Buffington, William, 7:229, 230; 8:394; 10:2
Bull, Edward, 3:222
Bull, William, 6:419
Bullen, Captain Jimmy (Indian), 4:117, 118, 170, 172-73, 175, 184, 323;
5:417, 418, 421, 435, 442
Bullfinch, 9:371
Bull Hall, 3:187
Bullitt, Benjamin (1700-1766), 2:118, 127
Bullitt, Benjamin (d. 1757), 2:126, 127; 4:123-24, 205, 206, 415; 5:54
Bullitt, Cuthbert, 8:153; 9:502; 10:7, 160, 215, 241
Bullitt, Elizabeth Harrison, 2:118
Bullitt, Thomas, 2:191, 192, 221, 232; 3:72, 76, 77-79, 157, 206, 257,
285, 402-3, 438; 4:357, 358; 5:116, 131, 142, 161, 184, 214; 6:343-44,
359; 9:331, 404; appointments and commissions, 1:208; 2:40, 42, 260; 3:251;
5:85, 108, 129, 159, 180, 201, 204; 6:146; 8:451; accounts, 1:222; 4:46,
185, 273, 274, 347, 404; military service, 2:18, 117, 122, 259; 3:151,
153, 169, 191, 271, 274, 282, 314, 321, 428; 4:3, 7, 166, 205, 206, 326,
346, 347, 392, 406, 432; 5:85, 143; 7:171-72; id., 2:117-18; 3:153; 7:44,
225; supplies for, 3:281; conflict with Peter Hog, 3:319; 4:326; and Baylis-Wodrow
quarrel, 5:84; and Indians, 5:109, 111, 123; company of, 5:266; 6:5, 47,
102; and Grant's defeat, 6:38-39, 42, 44, 46, 52; praised, 6:42; and skirmish
at Loyalhanna, 6:121, 123; and address to GW, 6:178-81; criticized, 6:343-44;
9:315, 486; his defeat, 6:346-47, 360, 363; his court of inquiry, 6:347,
360; as surveyor, 6:387-88, 389; 7:44; 9:250, 251, 307-8, 309, 323, 327,
328, 329, 330, 331-32, 346, 392, 417, 502, 510, 511; 10:162; and officers'
address to king, 7:170; and Mississippi Company, 7:219-22, 416, 512; and
Hot Springs scheme, 8:53-54, 433; family, 8:153; petitions council on
unfair land distribution, 8:280; and bounty lands, 9:94-95, 359, 360,
364, 366; GW gives offense to, 9:332; promises William Crawford a surveying
district, 9:381; recalled by governor, 9:391; Wilper accompanies on survey
trip, 9:392; letters from: to GW, 2:126-27; 4:110-11, 122-23, 123-24;
5:14-15, 189-90; 8:433; to William Denny, 5:109, 109-10, 111; to Archibald
Cary, 8:433; to Fielding Lewis, 8:433; to Gabriel Jones, 8:433; letters
to: from GW, 4:78, 327-29; from John St. Clair, 5:127-28
Bullitt, Thomas Walker, 6:123
Bullitt, William Marshall, 6:123
Bullock camp, 6:30, 138
Bullpasture River, 3:133
Bull Run tract, 9:302, 439, 471, 507-8
Bullskin plantation (quarter), 2:352; 4:358; 5:410; crops, 1:145; 6:319,
352, 430, 445; id., 5:219; GW's campaign luggage arrives at, 6:166-67;
taxes on, 6:183, 417, 429; tithes for, 6:314, 457; overseers at, 6:380,
386, 420-21; 7:9, 10, 67, 143, 146, 185, 240, 407; 8:582; 9:93; stock
at, 6:380, 386, 390, 420, 445, 457; smallpox at, 6:415, 417, 420-21, 470;
quitrents on, 6:417-18, 427; quarters at, 6:421; slaves at, 7:67, 174
Bullskin Run (Creek), 3:53; 4:414; 7:43
Bull Swamp mill, 9:429
Bulstrode, Richard, 6:286; 7:345
Bulwer, John, 6:295
Bumgardner, John, 5:335
Bunker Hill, Battle of, 10:368
Burbidge, ----: and Custis estate, 6:252
Burbidge, Julius King, 8:203, 580, 581, 586; 9:473, 474; letters from:
to GW, 8:581-82
Burch, ---- (sea captain), 8:222, 223
Burck (Buck, Burk), Holferd, 7:332, 333, 334, 376
Burd, James, 5:430-31; 6:85, 119; describes Fort Necessity, 1:126; builds
road, 2:17, 18, 309; military service, 2:308; 5:411; 6:127, 145; id.,
2:309; 5:360; and route to Fort Duquesne, 5:355, 360, 365; letters
from: to Henry Bouquet, 5:432, 455-56; 6:78, 92; letters to:
from William Trent, 2:73; from Henry Bouquet, 6:100; from John Forbes,
6:146, 160
Burden (Borden), Benjamin, 1:27
Burden (Borden), John, 5:338
Burden (Borden), Joseph, 5:339
Burgess Glover & Strothoff. See Glover & Strothoff
Burk, John, 6:47
Burk, Tobias, 5:334
Burk, William, 8:145
Burkitt, William, 7:350
Burk's Bridge, 10:280
Burn, Edward, 7:146
Burn, Edward, & Sons: letters from: to GW, 7:371, 375
Burn, Richard, 7:348; 8:509, 511, 563
Burnaby, Andrew, 9:475; 10:81, 114; letters from: to GW, 6:380-81,
439-41; 7:37-39, 98-100, 276-78, 364-66; letters to: from GW, 7:58-60,
238, 320
Burnaby, Anna Edwyn, 10:114
Burne, James, 5:337
Burner, Jacob, 5:335
Burnet, Gilbert, bishop of Sarum, 6:285-86, 295; 7:409, 410
Burnet, Thomas, 6:285
Burney, Thomas, 1:107, 113, 119
Burning Spring tract, 10:310, 311
Burns, John, 4:391
Burns's tavern (Philadelphia), 10:371
Burris (Burrus, Bhurras), Thomas, 4:424; 5:392, 393, 435, 436, 437, 449;
6:13, 20, 26; wounded, 2:62; id., 2:63; 4:426; 5:278, 376; accused of
robbery, 3:358; misconduct of, 3:389; 6:19; military service, 3:391; 5:277;
and GW's horses, 6:4, 5, 25, 27, 75, 77
Burroughs, Newburgh, 10:159; letters to: from GW, 7:505
Burton, Jacob, 4:43
Burton, Ralph, 1:294, 296-298, 321, 334, 335, 340, 341, 347; 2:10; 3:287-88
Burton, Samuel, 4:42
Burwell, ----: and Dunbar suit, 6:436
Burwell, Carter, 1:252-54, 256; 3:32; 6:254, 259, 381
Burwell, Lewis, 7:217, 440, 501; 8:194
Burwell, Lewis, Jr., 8:31
Burwell, Lewis (1710-1756; of Gloucester County), 3:32
Burwell, Lewis (1737-1779), 10:99-100
Burwell, Lewis (of Kingsmill; 1716-1784), 7:470; 9:20, 21, 33, 131, 133
Burwell, Lucy Grymes, 6:381
Burwell, Nathaniel, 6:259; 7:190
Burwell, Robert, 5:180; id., 5:181; 7:274; 9:113; and Dismal Swamp Company,
7:269-70, 272, 274-75, 315, 316; trustee of George Carter estate, 8:55;
bond assigned to, 10:193, 196
Burwell, Thacker, 9:21
Burwell, Thomas, 1:45
Bush, Charles, 10:366
Bush, Daniel, 7:304, 305
Bush, Philip, 1:22; 4:95; id., 4:96; 5:60, 179; 6:315; 7:8; and artillery
supplies, 5:59; his ordinary, 5:178, 179; account with, 6:314; 7:240;
8:436; and GW's election expenses, 7:3; buys land, 10:37
Bushby, William, 7:452; 8:424-25, 512; 10:104, 105, 220
Bushfield, 2:352; 4:108
Bushrod, ----: and George William Fairfax, 9:447
Bushrod, Hannah. See Washington, Hannah Bushrod
Bushrod, John, 4:108; 7:280
Bushrod, Mildred Washington, 7:280; 8:185
Bush's ordinary (Alexandria), 7:305
Bush's tavern (Winchester), 5:178, 179; 7:8, 240
Bushy Run, 6:30, 132, 135
Bushy Run, Battle of, 7:238, 241, 242
Bussy, François de, 7:99, 100
Buston, John, 6:280
Butcher, Richard, 10:188-89
Bute, John Stuart, third earl of, 7:38, 39, 161, 180
Butler, ----: carries letter, 2:16
Butler, James, 4:332
Butler, John, 3:28, 95
Butler, Richard, 6:113
Butler, Samuel, 6:292
Butler, Thomas, 6:113
Butler, William, 10:53
Buttermilk fort, 4:147, 149, 154, 221, 350
Buxey, John, 4:42
Buxton Wells, England, 7:40, 41
Byerly, ---- (Mrs. Andrew), 5:163
Byerly, Andrew, 5:162-63
Byng, John, 3:249-50, 377; 4:101
Bynkershoek, ----: his book ordered, 9:344
Byrd, ---- (children of William Byrd), 3:353
Byrd, Elizabeth Hill Carter, 3:353
Byrd, John, 9:365
Byrd, Lucy Parke, 8:43
Byrd, Mary Willing, 7:16
Byrd, The, 6:476
Byrd, William, III, 1:79, 80; 2:49, 232, 323, 333; 4:27, 294; 5:128,
214, 232, 240, 251, 261, 267, 287, 298, 317, 321, 369, 396, 399, 407,
411, 421, 429, 441; 6:22, 24, 82, 86, 87, 88, 98, 111, 119, 163, 347;
7:36, 46, 48, 447; 8:11, 453; 9:365; id., 1:251; 3:242, 353; invites GW
to Westover, 1:251; his regiment, 2:117, 128; 3:311; 4:374; 5:136, 166,
167, 186-87, 198, 204, 207, 208, 223, 244, 257, 275, 344, 382-83, 398;
6:13, 32, 87, 107; 8:396; 9:198, 477, 502, 518; 10:248; and Robert McKenzie,
2:167; 6:480; 7:36; and Indians, 2:172, 174, 195, 215; 3:43; 4:141, 171;
5:98, 99, 114, 115, 139, 209, 224, 267, 270, 283, 286, 293, 305, 311,
348; 7:56, 57; and lead mine, 3:58; and Henry Timberlake, 3:259, 260;
abandons wife, 3:352; goes as volunteer to New York, 5:17-18; appointments
and commissions, 5:118; 6:65, 72, 148, 153, 156, 175, 190, 314; 7:56;
surgeon of his regiment, 5:145; and commission for French Mason, 5:187;
his movements, 5:199, 267, 283; 6:3, 24, 27, 66, 93; 7:47, 51; orders
to, 5:211, 212, 231, 246-47, 443; 6:3, 103, 107, 121; supplies for troops,
5:211, 212-13, 221, 235, 244, 256, 260, 299, 347-49; and Indian garb for
troops, 5:259; returns of regiment, 5:268-69, 279, 326; 7:57; and route
to Fort Duquesne, 5:298, 361; 6:24; to command in GW's absence, 5:345;
illness, 5:425, 433, 443, 446; 6:2, 20, 23-24, 66; at Raystown conference,
5:429; and Robert Stewart, 5:442; 6:362, 384-85, 468; 7:14, 36, 162; company
of, 6:32; his slave, 6:313; his horse, 6:407; 7:479; 8:42; and Thomas
Bishop, 6:412; and half-pay scheme, 6:419; attempts to relieve Fort Loudoun
in Cherokee country, 6:420, 432, 433, 467, 470; his secretary, 6:420;
his second in command, 7:14, 44; his military accounts examined, 7:15;
consults with Jeffery Amherst, 7:16; marriage, 7:16; and Cherokee expedition,
7:35, 58, 59; builds Fort Chiswell, 7:52; resigns command, 7:58, 121,
122; and rental of Custis house, 7:190, 191, 298, 299, 426, 427, 437;
8:62; his debts, 7:480; his lottery, 8:192, 194; sale of his Falls plantation,
9:376-77, 384, 390, 400, 457, 458, 472-73, 479; his trustees, 9:377, 458-59;
and William Hughes, 10:66, 101; and Charles Lee, 10:221, 353; letters
from: to GW, 2:212-13; 3:242; to John Forbes, 5:115, 210, 236, 254,
259, 418, 434; to George Turner, 5:210; to Francis Fauquier, 5:443; 6:112,
164; 7:42; to Henry Bouquet, 6:413; to Jeffery Amherst, 7:58; letters
to: from GW, 1:249-51; 5:237; from George Turner, 5:210, 304, 305;
from Francis Fauquier, 5:314, 444; 6:175; 7:20; from John Forbes, 5:425-26;
from Jeffery Amherst, 6:455
Byrd, William, II, 8:43
Byrd (Bird), Thomas, 8:329, 330, 355
Byrn, James, 7:219
Byrne (Byrn, Bryn), George, 1:31, 36-37, 47, 48; 7:412, 413; 9:439
Byrnley, 1:48
Byron, John, 9:116, 118
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Cacapon River, 1:10, 45; 2:92; 3:11; 4:10
Cacapon Valley, 1:9
Cadell, J., 8:102
Cadell, Thomas, 8:102
Cadwalader, John, 10:189, 190
Caesar, Julius, 3:125; 6:305, 355, 358, 400
Caesar (dower slave), 8:401, 402
Caesar (dower slave; York County), 6:218
Caesar (slave, boy; at Bridge Quarter), 6:312
Caesar (slave; Dismal Swamp), 7:314
Caesar (slave; Dogue Run), 6:428; 7:45, 139, 228
Caesar (slave; Ferry farm), 8:479, 480; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Caesar (slave; Northampton County, 1), 6:230
Caesar (slave; Northampton County, 2), 6:230
Caesar (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:589
Caesar (slave; York County), 6:229
Cahoon (Colhoon), James, 1:31, 36; 7:239, 240
Cailliaux (Collieux), Charles, 1:222; 3:253, 258; 4:276, 277
Cairns, Harry. See Gaines, Henry
Calder, James, 2:227, 228
Call, ----, 10:178
Call, William, 10:178
Callaham, John, 4:41
Call & Henly, 10:106
Callaway (Calloway), Richard, 3:435
Callaway (Calloway), Thomas, 3:435
Callaway (Calloway), William, 3:435; 5:196; letters from: to GW,
5:183-84
Callender, Robert, 1:94, 95, 141; 2:159, 160; 6:100, 154; 8:58; letters
to: from GW, 2:129
Calloway, ---- (captain), 4:6
Calman, Matthew, 5:337
Calmes, Marquis, 1:26
Calmes, William, 1:26; 5:342
Calvert, ----: account with GW, 7:105
Calvert, Benedict, 9:91, 193, 219, 347, 491, 493; 10:19, 31, 38, 103,
275; and wine for GW, 7:298; 10:20, 41; id., 7:300, 513; and Mississippi
Company, 7:512; 8:153; visits GW, 8:573; 9:203-4, 210; and Jonathan Boucher,
9:6, 213, 294; family, 9:8; asks GW for sheep, 9:50, 51; member of Maryland
upper house, 9:216; the Washingtons visit, 9:295; 10:41; collector of
customs, 9:314; buys joiner for GW, 9:462; letters from: to GW,
9:215-16, 313-14; letters to: from GW, 9:209-11
Calvert, Cecilius: letters to: from Horatio Sharpe, 2:75, 161,
285; 3:210, 400; 5:6, 429
Calvert, Charles, 8:550; 9:6, 8
Calvert, Eleanor, 9:295, 394, 395; courtship and marriage, 8:550; 9:209-11,
219-20, 326, 467, 480, 485, 491; her character, 9:212, 442; her parents
approve marriage, 9:215-16; visits Mount Vernon, 9:314, 396; home to be
at Pleasant Hill, 9:378; Peale paints miniature of, 9:433. See also
Custis, Eleanor Calvert
Calvert, Eleanor Calvert, 9:210
Calvert, Elizabeth (daughter of Benedict Calvert), 9:211, 213
Calvert, John, 10:31
Calvert family, 7:109
Calvin, Andrew, 5:335
Calvin, Joseph, 5:338
Cam, Joseph, 6:289
Camden, Charles Pratt, first Earl, 9:465, 466; 10:160
Camden, William, 6:285
Cameron, 8:122, 195
Cameron, Alexander: letters from: to Aaron Penson, 9:207
Cameron, Allan, 6:14, 15
Cameron, John, 7:114, 116
Cameron Parish, 7:362
Camm, ---- (Mrs. John), 8:282
Camm, John, 7:298, 299; 8:282; 9:163, 164
Campbell, ---- (of Norfolk), 7:335, 336, 438
Campbell, ---- (ship captain), 8:160
Campbell, Alexander (major), 6:48, 58, 61, 71, 74, 118, 119, 120, 123,
148
Campbell, Alexander (merchant), 9:395, 397
Campbell, Allan, 7:227
Campbell, Archibald, 7:337
Campbell, Charles, 4:347
Campbell, Christiana: account with, 7:2, 106, 209, 210, 268, 280, 304,
342, 366, 438, 478, 496; 8:50, 51, 83, 141, 193, 266, 268, 347, 453, 454,
455, 456, 460, 486; 9:20, 21, 29, 30, 32, 190; 10:40, 77, 139; her tavern,
7:7; 8:455, 532
Campbell, Colin (adjutant), 1:193-94, 207, 208; letters to: from
GW, 1:355-56
Campbell, Colin (merchant), 9:7
Campbell, Daniel: letters from: to GW, 1:151-53; letters to:
from GW, 1:81
Campbell, Dougald, 3:253, 257
Campbell, Duncan, 7:74
Campbell, Henry: desertion of, 2:212, 229, 231, 233; id., 2:225; court-martialed,
3:151-54, 158, 171-72, 178-80, 189, 206, 222, 226; letters to:
from George Mercer, 2:212
Campbell, Hugh, 2:226; 3:253, 257
Campbell, James (captain), 3:322-23
Campbell, James (drummer), 3:262, 263, 279, 306-7; 4:389; 6:433; 7:337;
8:475
Campbell, James (of Augusta County), 4:102, 347, 348, 393, 395
Campbell, James (of Royal American Regiment), 4:102. See also
Campbell, Thomas
Campbell, John (Gist's company), 2:225, 240
Campbell, John (James; sergeant), 3:253, 259
Campbell, John (lieutenant), 2:144, 289, 348; 3:209, 276-77, 428; 4:201,
219, 220, 230, 329; 5:9, 109, 142, 162-63, 170-71, 214, 350-52; military
service, 2:14, 112, 114, 136, 174, 227, 288; 3:101, 114; 4:128, 166, 205,
206, 415-16, 424, 432; 5:10, 143, 161, 382; appointments and commissions,
2:40, 42, 261; 3:251; id., 2:109, 229, 349; 5:352; and tippling house,
3:214; accuses Griffin Pert, 4:202; his court of inquiry, 4:204, 207-8;
and search for route to Fort Duquesne, 5:272; killed, 5:383; 6:47, 86,
87; letters from: to GW, 3:454-56; 4:151
Campbell, John (of Fort Pitt), 9:416, 417, 419, 420
Campbell, John (of Jamaica), 6:13, 193, 198, 199, 371; 8:310-11
Campbell, Mary Dandridge Spotswood, 8:309-11. See also Spotswood,
Mary Dandridge
Campbell, Matthew, 8:146, 147; 10:96; account with, 8:78, 457; 9:462;
and Carlyle & Adam, 8:79, 439; id., 8:385; 9:81; and shipping of fish,
8:485; lends GW money, 9:35, 36; GW dissatisfied with his bargain, 9:80-81;
and the bloomery, 9:447, 449; 10:132, 156-57, 284; and George William
Fairfax's business, 9:448; and Robert Adam's mortgage, 10:227; letters
from: to GW, 8:439; 9:79; 10:132; letters to: from GW, 9:80-81
Campbell, Thomas, 4:58, 100, 102. See also Campbell, James (of
Royal American Regiment)
Campbell's tavern, 7:7
Camperlin, Jacob, 1:26
Camperlin, Samuel, 1:26
Camp Rea (Pennsylvania). See Raystown
Canachquasy (Captain New Castle; Indian), 1:135, 140, 175, 177
A Candid Examination of the Mutual Claims of Great-Britain, and
the Colonies, 10:294
A Candid Refutation of the Heresy Imputed by Ro. C. Nicholas Esquire
to the Reverend S. Henley, 10:76, 78
Candide, 8:341
Cannon, John, 7:441, 461, 499; 8:304, 362, 456; 9:252, 253
Canterbury, archbishop of, 10:84
Canterbury, Prerogative Court of, 10:82
Canute, Nicolas, 3:132
Cape Breton Island. See Louisburg
Cape Henry lighthouse, 9:38, 39
Capper, Michael, 1:31, 35
Captain, Old (dower slave; at Ship Landing), 6:218, 312; 7:463, 464
Carberry (Carbury), Philip, 8:486, 487
Care, Henry, 6:296
Carlane, William, 8:146, 148
Carlin, William, 8:149; account with, 7:319, 368, 438, 439, 440, 481,
499; 8:22, 136, 149, 201, 207, 355, 441, 455, 457, 460; 9:14, 92, 367;
id., 7:319-20
Carlisle, Pa., 2:152, 308, 309, 317; 4:160; 5:119, 164-66, 244, 356;
8:33
Carlos, ---- (Mrs.): and Custis estate, 6:253
Carlyle, Anne (John Carlyle's daughter), 8:254
Carlyle, George: letters to: from John Carlyle, 1:66, 306-7, 342,
348
Carlyle, John, 1:65, 78, 137, 147, 148, 174, 175, 178, 191, 193, 198,
199, 207, 212, 229, 231, 273, 277, 291, 346; 2:15, 17, 69, 81, 214, 277,
295; 3:69, 70, 109, 125, 127, 320, 367; 4:65, 212, 225, 226, 278, 279,
280, 309, 324, 376, 404; 5:52, 93, 331, 334, 418, 438, 449; 6:347, 371,
480; 7:155, 227, 234; 8:20, 331; 9:253, 325, 370, 446; land grant to,
1:25; and Ohio Company, 1:59; appointed commissary, 1:63; 4:31, 57, 58,
62, 100; id., 1:66, 293; 2:88; 3:413; 4:33; 5:219, 380; 7:7; his ships,
1:71; 5:448, 449; soldiers' pay, 1:74, 75, 95; supplies troops, 1:74,
82, 129, 131, 150, 150, 174, 177, 178, 180-81, 184, 187, 188, 206; 2:7,
27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 43, 107, 147, 201, 204, 214, 215, 216, 217, 275-77,
290-91; 3:68; contract with George Croghan, 1:122, 131, 143; and deputy
paymasters, 1:132, 139; his deputy commissaries, 1:138-39, 143, 144; at
Winchester council, 1:142; pay for workmen, 1:188; criticism of, 1:201;
and goods for GW, 1:217; accounts, 1:221, 222; 2:206; 3:204; 4:38, 283,
289, 290, 316; 5:112, 113, 327, 436; 6:331; 7:1, 332, 366, 367, 378, 469;
8:145; 9:238, 252, 397, 462; his partners, 1:229; 5:288; 7:146, 360; residence
of, 1:247; commissary accounts, 1:275; Robert Orme's baggage, 1:347, 348;
2:166; his returns, 2:31; and Rawley embezzlement, 2:315; buys slaves,
3:58; colonel of militia, 3:108; store in Alexandria, 3:110; purchases
goods for GW, 4:49, 72, 95, 99, 133, 189, 380, 402; 5:51; 6:134; ships
GW's wheat and tobacco, 4:133, 402; 5:217, 219; and Bryan Fairfax, 4:152;
buys shares in mine, 4:308; and Lawrence Washington's estate, 4:323; 6:415;
9:354; his servant, 4:365; and contract to supply troops, 4:413; family,
5:94, 408; 7:358; 9:317; and money for William Henry Fairfax, 5:137; and
GW's election, 5:263, 288, 329, 343; and Hannah Guley, 5:414; and horse
racing, 7:11; and suit over Belvoir, 7:40; and George William Fairfax,
7:138; 9:447; and Potomac navigation, 7:177; 10:243; agreement regarding
wheat, 7:359; dispute with GW over wheat, 7:482-91; his counting house,
8:19; at Mount Vernon, 8:254; on committee of merchants, 8:354; attempts
to get bounty lands, 8:366; on 1754 roll of soldiers, 8:451; paymaster
of troops, 8:451; and Daniel Jenifer Adams, 9:70, 157, 239; 10:57, 58;
acts as justice, 9:135; builds Alexandria church, 9:182; his Four Mile
Run land, 9:410; 10:204, 211; and the bloomery, 9:449; 10:25; and enlargement
of Alexandria, 10:65; appointed to committee, 10:128; and the Colvill
estate, 10:195; letters from: to George Carlyle, 1:66, 306-7, 342-7,
348; to GW, 1:140-45, 143, 153-55; 2:122-23, 269, 275-77; 4:37-39, 96-98;
5:288, 326-27, 367, 379-80, 407-8, 430, 434-36; 6:382, 441; 7:334; 8:360;
9:71-72; 10:219-20; to Lund Washington, 9:72; letters to: from
GW, 1:129, 131, 139, 274-76, 306; 2:70-71, 88, 118, 133; 3:207, 293; 4:33,
96; 5:235, 382, 405, 423; 8:366; from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:144. See
also Carlyle & Adam; Carlyle & Dalton
Carlyle, Sarah (John Carlyle's daughter), 8:254
Carlyle, Sarah Fairfax, 1:142, 229, 273, 274, 279, 306; 2:276; 3:127;
4:98, 226; 5:367, 380, 435; 6:347, 382; id., 1:66; 4:98; 5:408; marriage,
5:94; letters from: to GW, 1:145; letters to: from GW, 1:96,
276-77, 307-8
Carlyle, William, 7:357, 358
Carlyle, William (of Limekilns), 7:358
Carlyle & Adam, 7:493, 508, 514; dispute over wheat, 7:359-61; wheat
contract with GW, 7:360-61; 9:156; accounts, 7:495; 8:78, 79, 249, 405,
460; and bills of exchange, 8:141, 193; slave purchased from, 8:357; agent
for, 8:385; 9:81; fish sold to, 8:468; letters from: to GW, 7:482;
letters to: from GW, 7:359-61. See also Carlyle, John, and
Adam, Robert
Carlyle & Dalton, 3:368; 6:477; accounts, 5:223; 6:443; 7:7, 332, 368,
370; 8:67, 169, 556; 9:252; and mortgage of Hughes's tavern, 6:481; id.,
7:146; and Daniel Jenifer Adams, 9:70; and the bloomery, 9:449; letters
from: to GW, 5:408; 9:453; 10:60-64; to John West, 10:60-64; letters
to: from GW, 7:482-91. See also Carlyle, John
Carmichael, James, 3:253, 258
Carnan, John, 8:464
Carnan, Prudence, 8:464
Carnes, William, 9:122, 145-46
Carney, John, 6:378, 379, 480; 7:261, 262-63, 329-30, 331, 352, 414,
417, 418, 451
Carney, Thomas, 1:27; 5:339
Caroline County: militia, 3:55, 56-57, 111, 127, 137, 144, 146, 150,
236, 292, 300, 301, 313; 4:243; county lieutenant of, 10:251
Caroline Court House, 6:199
Carpenter, Solomon, 1:29, 35
Carr, Nathaniel, 5:337
Carr, Overton, 8:125, 550; 9:213, 214
Carr, William, 4:414; 9:59, 222, 224; 10:259; letters from: to
GW, 8:412-13; letters to: from GW, 8:408
Carrel, William, 5:341
Carren, Henry, 4:276
Carrier, Henry, 3:253, 258
Carrier, Thomas, 3:253, 258
Carrington, Paul, 10:99-100
Carrol, John, 4:391
Carroll, Charles (of Annapolis), 6:409, 410, 422-25; 8:523; 10:287, 288
Carroll, Charles (of Carrollton), 6:410; letters from: to GW,
10:287-88
Carroll, Daniel (1730-1796; of Rock Creek), 7:512, 513; letters from:
to GW, 9:318-19
Carroll, Joseph, 5:331, 334
Carroll (Carrol), Ann, 1:48-49
Carson, James, 3:258; 4:230-31, 232, 276, 277
Carson, Simon, 5:335
Cartagena campaign, 1:176, 224
Carter, ----: and George Mercer's lands, 10:202, 203
Carter, Charles, 3:170, 181
Carter, Charles (of Cleve; 1707-1764), 6:82, 379; id., 1:129, 198; 3:32,
38, 170; 4:280, 384; 6:380; service in House of Burgesses, 1:129; 3:353;
and GW's Potomac trip, 1:179; account with, 1:221; 9:394; county lieutenant,
4:280; Virginia Regiment at his plantation, 7:162; manager of Byrd lottery,
8:194; William Byrd's trustee, 9:377; and William Black's lands, 9:400;
family, 9:439; letters from: to GW, 1:128-29; 3:36-38, 64-65; letters
to: from GW, 1:196-98; 3:36; 4:280-81
Carter, Charles (of Corotoman and Shirley; 1732-1806), 3:170; 4:382,
384; 7:438, 439; 9:417; and meeting at Raleigh Tavern, 10:99-100
Carter, Charles, Jr. (of Nanzatico and Ludlow; 1733-1796), 3:170
Carter, George, 8:52, 55, 170, 171, 176, 195, 283, 284; 9:33
Carter, James, Jr., 5:341
Carter, James (doctor), 7:437; and medicines for James Craik, 6:173;
and Custis estate, 6:253, 255, 257, 260, 266, 271; 7:91, 92; 8:82, 191,
200, 204, 329, 452, 461, 462, 463; 9:74, 371, 372; accounts with, 7:105,
190; 8:193, 453; 9:34, 220, 226, 231; 10:39; id., 7:109; and Joanna McKenzie's
bond, 7:366, 507; rents Custis house, 8:225; buys corn, 9:259-60; letters
to: from GW, 9:33, 220
Carter, James (of Frederick County), 5:338
Carter, John (brother of Thomas Carter), 9:116, 132
Carter, John (farrier), 6:370
Carter, John (merchant), 6:253; 8:269, 453, 460, 461, 462, 531, 532;
10:139
Carter, John (of Corotoman; 1690-1743): id., 3:170-71; 4:384
Carter, John (soldier; enlisted in 1758), 5:103-4
Carter, John (soldier; of Prince William County), 4:42
Carter, Landon (c.1738-1801), 3:185, 187-88
Carter, Landon (of Sabine Hall; 1710-1778), 1:171; 2:66; 3:456; 5:161,
221; 6:82; 7:298, 299; 8:73; letters from: to GW, 2:61, 81-82,
319-20; 3:30-32, 185-88
Carter, Robert (King), 1:129; 3:32, 401; 8:546, 547; 9:121
Carter, Robert (of Nomini Hall), 1:59; 8:73, 453
Carter, Robert Wormeley, 8:569, 571; 9:121; 10:99-100
Carter, Thomas (ensign), 2:14, 211; 4:166; 9:117; appointments, 2:40,
42, 150, 261; death of, 2:113, 150; 3:18, 37, 74; id., 3:18; claim to
bounty land, 9:116
Carter, Thomas (sergeant), 1:222; 2:289; 3:252, 256
Carter, William, 6:271
Carteret, George, 7:437
Carter's Grove, 1:148, 253; 3:32
Carthew, Thomas, 8:326
Cartmell, Edward, 5:341
Cartmell, Nathaniel, 5:342
Cartony, Joseph & Sons, 6:247, 248, 397, 403; 7:126, 195, 354
Cartony, Robert, 7:422, 472; 8:46, 134
Carvin Creek, 4:395
Cary, ----: and the price of hemp, 7:414
Cary, Archibald, 4:185, 188, 189; 8:31, 54, 433; 10:151; letters from:
to GW, 4:271-72
Cary, Edward (b. 1737), 5:167, 171-72
Cary, Edward (d. 1750), 5:167
Cary, Elizabeth, 1:148, 174; 4:101; 5:372, 373, 415; 6:42, 43. See
also Fairfax, Elizabeth Cary
Cary, John, 7:177
Cary, Mary. See Ambler, Mary Cary
Cary, Mary Randolph, 4:272
Cary, Miles (1766-1774), 10:98, 100
Cary, Robert, 6:451-52
Cary, Robert, & Co., 2:208; 6:374, 404-5, 434, 458-59; 7:250-51; 8:17,
306; 9:269, 287, 346; 10:81; goods from, 6:196, 317-18, 327-28, 332-37,
352-58, 392-404, 461-65; 7:22-31, 77-80, 111-12, 124-30, 164-68, 191-98,
198-99, 201, 253-56, 266, 287-95, 300-301, 321, 322, 327-28, 341, 343,
349, 353-57, 402-4, 409, 418-23, 432-33, 444, 447-50, 457-58, 470-76;
8:11, 12-14, 44-50, 100-102, 130-36, 160, 231-32, 270, 295-99, 372-73,
397-400, 500, 508-11, 558-66; 9:2, 60-61, 62, 64-67, 103-10, 232-33, 273-76,
277, 289; and Custis estate, 6:247-49, 251, 254, 260, 267, 269, 271, 277,
315-18, 437; 7:84, 86, 301; 8:202, 203, 205, 459; 9:367, 369, 372, 374;
correspondence with Martha Custis, 6:316; goods for Custis children, 6:316;
7:92, 130, 197, 199, 295, 328-29, 400, 423; tobacco shipped to, 6:322;
7:32, 89, 142-43, 201, 415, 464; 8:43-44; 9:74, 173, 231, 256; principal
agent for the Custises, 6:323; 7:137; and tobacco duties, 6:351; GW transfers
patronage to, 6:442; accounts, 7:35, 62-65, 83, 88, 93, 152, 202-4, 205-7,
212, 213-16, 305-6, 369, 395; 8:7-8; 10:197; goods ordered for other people,
7:79, 119, 230; 8:363; and bank stock, 7:82; 8:463; 9:380; 10:84; GW opens
account for John Parke Custis with, 7:82; and goods for York River, 7:96-97,
167, 332-33; and wine for GW, 7:116, 146, 208, 285, 459; 8:68; and price
of tobacco, 7:123; GW sends Potomac tobacco to, 7:137; their ships, 7:158,
311; and bills of exchange, 7:262, 299; 8:51; 9:7, 33, 131, 133, 226,
236, 297, 377, 390, 394, 497; GW orders engine to uproot trees, 7:286-87;
complaints against, 7:323-24; 8:11, 502-3; all GW's tobacco consigned
to, 8:85, 423; and loan to Robert Stewart, 8:92; GW orders chariot from,
8:92-93; no ships available for tobacco, 8:401; Custis estate money in
their hands, 8:458; to pay for bounty land rights purchased in England,
8:551-52; and a gardener for GW, 8:554; drafts on, 9:128, 281, 397; Hanbury
pays Custis money to, 10:142, 199; letters from: to Martha Dandridge
Custis, 6:259, 323, 350, 351, 351-52; to GW, 6:332, 427, 441, 481-82;
7:45, 49, 65, 70, 72, 80, 111, 132, 137, 146, 147, 160, 168, 189, 287,
297, 353, 405, 412, 413, 425, 427, 433, 454, 461, 470, 482, 492; 8:65,
67-68, 77, 126, 171, 396, 526; 9:510; 10:269-70; letters to: from
Martha Dandridge Custis, 6:260; from GW, 6:315-18, 326-28, 330, 348-58,
373, 375-76, 414, 437-38, 448-52, 459-65, 471-73, 475-76; 7:33-35, 49-51,
53-54, 61-65, 73-74, 76-80, 96-97, 111-12, 119-20, 135-37, 138, 140-41,
152, 153-55, 157-58, 162-68, 202-5, 207, 228-29, 250, 251-57, 264, 267-68,
284-85, 286-87, 305-6, 323-28, 332-33, 334-35, 335, 337, 341, 398-404,
409-10, 411-12, 433, 444-50, 451, 456-58, 460, 497-98, 509, 514; 8:9-14,
59, 72-73, 85-86, 92-94, 99-102, 115, 159-60, 229-33, 368-73, 503-11,
516-17, 553-54; 9:2, 15-16, 27, 52, 63-67, 115-16, 127-28, 150-51, 237,
271-76, 276-77, 282, 289, 297-98, 343-45, 374-80, 400; 10:82-85, 199-200,
000; from Mr. Stevens, 10:84. See also Tobacco; Errata
Cary, Sarah (of Ceelys and Richneck), 2:133; 6:13; 9:299
Cary, Wilson (1703-1772; of Ceelys and Richneck), 1:40; 2:133; 4:355;
6:13, 43; 7:39, 40; 9:299
Cary, Wilson Miles, 7:217; 8:453, 454; 9:446; 10:98, 100, 286
Cary (ship), 6:349, 376; tobacco shipped in, 6:269, 270, 350,
352, 373, 375, 376, 448, 450, 459, 471; id., 6:316; tobacco lost in, 7:63,
158
Case, John, 6:252
Cash, Joseph, 7:385; 9:340, 341
Cash, William, 4:42; 7:378; 8:146, 148, 192; 9:167, 168
Castle Hill, 3:231; 4:9; 5:392; 7:113
Castle Magruder (Maryland), 8:572; 9:164
Castleman, ----, 1:141; 4:425-26
Castleman, Jacob, 1:144
Castleman, Lewis, 4:425
Castleman, Lodowick, 1:144
Castleman, William, 1:144
Castleman family, 1:144
Castle William (New York), 8:355
Caswell, Richard: letters from: to ----, 7:505
Catawba (Indians), 1:114, 263; attempts to enlist aid of, 2:115, 116;
3:43, 45, 59; 4:30, 63, 71; and French, 2:120; 4:73; entertained by Robert
Dinwiddie, 2:159; trade with Richard Pearis and Nathaniel Gist, 2:161;
commissioners to, 2:172, 174, 195, 215; aid Tuscarora, 3:308; aid from,
3:371, 388, 397, 445; 4:117, 118, 170-71, 172-73, 174-75, 184; movements
of, 3:376, 391; 4:17, 54, 71, 77, 93, 94, 95, 117, 118, 119, 124, 126-27;
5:164, 261, 275-76, 396, 405-6, 412, 417; 6:72, 144-46; provisions and
presents for, 3:406-8; 4:5, 18, 25, 36, 52, 104, 126, 140-41, 170, 274;
5:52; conference with, 3:444; hindered from giving aid, 4:4-5, 8; skirmishes,
4:8, 118, 135-36, 161-64; address to, 4:73; uselessness of, 4:168-69;
prisoners of, 5:164-65; and scalps, 5:165, 260-61, 276; false reports
of, 5:175; misbehavior of, 5:260-61, 275-76; ordered to take prisoners,
5:261; treatment of, 5:303; leaders killed, 5:417, 418, 421, 435, 442;
praised, 5:417, 421, 435, 442. See also Indians
Catawba Creek, 4:1, 6, 10
Catawba fort. See Fort William
Cate (slave; Charles Washington's, 1), 7:173
Cate (slave; Charles Washington's, 2), 7:173
Cate (slave; John Augustine Washington's), 7:173
Catesby, Mark, 6:284; 7:344
Cates Marsh, 1:28
Cat Fish Camp, 9:242
Catherine, 8:18, 222
Catlet, James, 5:341
Catlif, Jonathan, 7:320
Cato (play), 6:42, 43
Catoctin Creek (Virginia), 7:70
Catoctin tract, 10:107, 108, 174
Caton, ----: troops at house, 5:67
Caton, Thomas, 4:362; 5:339; id., 1:331; 2:161; 3:101; 4:363; 5:150;
information from, 2:159, 160; misconduct of, 3:207-8, 211, 214; unpopularity
of, 3:381, 384; and forage, 5:149
Cato's letters, 6:290; 7:345
Caudy, James, 1:22, 31, 35; 8:23
The causes of the decay of Christian piety, 6:288
Cave Gap, 8:31
Cavendish Square (London), 2:11
Caves warehouse, 5:435, 436
Cawsey, John, 6:441, 442
Cawsons, 8:529
Cazenove, John Henry, 10:203, 204
Cedar Creek (of Shenandoah River), 4:417-18; 5:205; 7:42
Cedar Run (Prince William County), 1:40
Ceelys (Virginia), 6:13
Céloron de Blainville, Pierre Joseph, 1:56, 140
Center, Pa., 6:134
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 6:290
Chamberlayne, ----: his servant, 6:329
Chamberlayne, Edward, 6:291
Chamberlayne, Edward Pye, 6:255, 259-60, 329; 7:85, 190, 191, 212, 214
Chamberlayne, Richard, 6:252, 329
Chamberlayne, Thomas, 8:43
Chamberlayne, Wilhelmina Byrd, 8:26, 42, 43
Chambers, ----: account with, 8:83
Chambers, Benjamin, 5:356, 360; 7:177
Chambers, Ephraim, 6:300
Chambers, John, 6:47
Chambers, Robert, 8:84
Chambers, Thomas, 4:42
Chambers, William, 5:342
Champe, Anne Carter, 9:468
Champe, John, 1:315; 2:66; 3:97, 98; 6:339, 379, 380; 7:173; letters
from: to GW, 2:67, 67-68; letters to: from John Tayloe, 2:67;
from William Jordan, 2:68
Champe, Lucy, 2:66
Champe and Hunter, 6:276, 338-39, 347
Chance, Old (slave; York County), 6:229
Chandler, Thomas Bradbury, 9:24, 25
Chantilly, 5:288
Chapel lands, 7:412-13; 8:210, 315-16; 9:142
Chaplain, George, 6:246, 273, 280, 281
Chaplin, William, 5:339
Chapman, Nathaniel (d. 1760), 1:5, 59; 3:408; 6:20
Chapman, Nathaniel (Nathan; soldier), 9:122, 145, 363
Chapman, Pearson, 10:64
Chapman, Russell, 1:293, 295, 299, 306, 321
The character of a trimmer, 6:295; 7:347
Charlemagne, 9:250
Charles (slave), 7:109
Charles (slave; Anthony Bacon's and Fielding Lewis's), 7:315
Charles (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Charles (slave; Harry Piper's), 8:556
Charles (slave; Home farm), 7:45, 139, 313, 376
Charles (slave; house servant), 7:227
Charles (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Charles (slave; Samuel Buckner's), 7:305
Charles (slave; Samuel Washington's), 7:172, 173, 174
Charles (slave; Williamson's farm), 6:428
Charles Baker. See Baker, Charles (slave)
Charles City County, 4:290
Charles County, Md., 8:250; 10:303-4
Charles I, 6:291
Charles II, 1:39; 9:465
Charleston, S.C., 4:159, 176, 370-73, 374; 5:40-43
Charlestown, Mass., 10:368
Charles Town, Va., 10:22
Charles XII (of Sweden), 6:355, 358, 400
Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenberg-Strelitz, 7:38-39
Charlton, ----: account with, 10:78
Charlton, ---- (of Maryland), 10:313
Charlton, Arthur, 10:313
Charlton, Edward: id., 8:454; and bills of exchange, 9:21, 33, 34, 224,
228, 400; account with, 9:29, 226, 229, 230, 267, 394; 10:77, 139; letters
from: to GW, 9:242
Charlton, Jane Hunter, 8:454; 9:20, 29, 30, 370, 395, 397; 10:77, 106
Charlton, John, 10:313
Charlton, Richard, 7:479; 8:52, 55, 82; 9:117, 190, 367, 370, 395; 10:76
Charlton's tavern, 7:479
Charming Molly (ship), 7:301, 326
Charming Nancy (ship), 10:368
Charming Polly (ship), 6:355, 392, 449; 7:63, 64, 300, 301, 326,
335, 407
Charming Sally (ship), 7:430
Charnock, ----: his draft, 7:33
Chartiers (Shurtees) Creek (Pennsylvania). See Millers Run
Chartiers Creek tract. See Millers Run tract
Chase, Samuel, 9:164, 165; 10:103
Chatham, Edward, 3:124
Chatsworth, 4:188; 6:407
Chatten, Edward, 2:350
Chattin, James, 1:171; 4:126
Chattins Run (Nutfield) tract, 9:9, 68-69, 78; 10:108, 248, 249
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 6:400
Cheat River, 7:339, 340; 8:40; 10:133
Cheeck, James, 6:47
Cheere, Sir Henry, 6:404
Cheere, John, 6:404
Cheere, William, 6:358, 399
Chelsea, 7:467, 480; 9:425
Chemokins (Port Holy), 6:476
Chenoweth, John, 1:25; 5:340
Chenoweth family, 5:332
Cherokee (Indians), 1:114; failure to send aid, 1:263; attempts to enlist
aid of, 2:115, 116; 3:42, 43, 45, 445, 446; 4:25, 141; 5:98-99, 114-15,
225; and French, 2:120, 214; 4:139, 267, 268; 5:2, 20, 225; and Governor
Dinwiddie, 2:159, 160-61; 4:141, 142-43; and Richard Pearis, 2:159; 4:27,
71, 105, 120, 141; 5:5, 7, 278; 6:119; and Sandy Creek expedition, 2:161,
215, 216, 235, 356; trade scheme with Richard Pearis and Nathaniel Gist,
2:161; treaties and conferences, 2:172, 174, 195, 215; 4:141, 189, 229;
5:14; 10:247, 312, 333; efforts to aid British, 2:214; 5:2, 44-45; movements
of, 3:37, 44, 56, 57, 66, 107, 371-72, 376, 391, 445; 4:54, 65, 117-18,
119-20, 124, 132, 142, 144, 157, 170, 186, 194, 195, 196, 199, 225, 229,
256, 261, 271, 285, 426; 5:2, 7, 13-14, 24, 26, 27, 53, 82, 89-90, 109-10,
175, 210, 270-71, 278, 301-2, 304-5, 379, 383, 440; 6:72, 103-4, 144-46;
fort to be built for, 3:42, 43, 338, 388, 446; skirmishes, 3:43; 4:163,
195-96, 197, 200, 208-9, 210-11, 213-17, 251, 261; 5:26, 45, 52, 180-81,
293, 301-2, 403; aid Tuscarora, 3:308; misconduct of, 3:318, 361; 4:141-42,
183, 209; 5:176, 178, 183-84, 189-90, 194-97, 195, 210, 254, 254; 6:146,
159, 163; to send aid, 3:371-72, 388, 397, 405, 406, 425-26, 430; provisions
and presents for, 3:406-8, 445; 4:52, 139-41, 142-43, 163, 173, 186, 196,
251; 5:14, 22-23, 24-25, 26, 40, 45, 52; 6:146; housing for, 4:61-62;
speeches to and by, 4:139-41, 141-42; 5:27-28; desire to send warriors
to England, 4:143; usefulness of, 4:169, 270; 5:44-45, 178, 224-25, 291-93;
prisoners of, 4:196, 215, 251; intelligence from, 4:212-16; 5:155, 403,
406-7, 411; and imprisoned Indians, 4:306-8, 317, 321-22, 353, 354-55;
and Christopher Gist, 5:2, 304-5; and Edmond Atkin, 5:2, 114; lack of
goods for, 5:2-3; anger of, 5:3, 45, 165; in Pennsylvania, 5:13, 40, 164-66,
175; and other tribes, 5:13, 14, 107-8, 418; 6:361; instructions regarding,
5:24, 164-66, 195, 293; escorts for, 5:24-25; 6:119; capture French orders,
5:26; and scalps, 5:26, 45, 52, 175, 176, 178, 270, 293, 301, 403; treatment
of, 5:44-45; 6:145-46; and negotiations with French Indians, 5:109; and
William Byrd, 5:114-15, 305; in Maryland, 5:175; and Abraham Bosomworth,
5:176-78, 383; difficulty of retaining, 5:178, 224; kill their own comrade,
5:189; scalped by whites, 5:197; 6:412; attacked by settlers, 5:227; at
war with British, 5:227; and John Forbes, 5:243; ordered to take prisoners,
5:270, 302; deserters go home with, 5:392; killed by settlers, 6:81; threaten
revenge against settlers, 6:81-82; seven-gun salute for, 6:103; and recovery
of supplies from deserting Indians, 6:146, 159; outbreak of war with,
6:364, 412, 413, 419, 433; capture Fort Loudoun, 6:419-20, 433, 467; Virginia
expedition against, 6:419-20, 431-33, 470; opinion of, 6:431-32; need
for extirpation of, 6:467-68; Grant's expedition against, 6:470; 7:46,
47-48, 51-52, 55-59; claim land, 10:70; sell land to Transylvania Company,
10:247, 312, 333. See also Indians
Cherokee fort (Virginia fort on Little Tennessee River), 3:42, 43, 338,
388, 446; 5:41; building of, 4:8, 225; proposals for, 4:52, 54, 128; troops
to garrison, 4:129, 155
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 8:293
Cheslyn, William, 6:332, 336
Chessher, Justanor, 6:47
Chester, Catherine, 6:212
Chester, David, 5:335
Chester, Lucy, 6:212
Chester, Peter, 9:206, 404, 483, 500; letters to: from GW, 9:204-5
Chester, Thomas, 5:336
Chesterfield (ship), 7:140-41, 155, 157
Chesterfield County, 4:271-72, 290
Chestertown, Md., 8:257
Chestnut Grove (New Kent County), 6:322
Chestnut Ridge (Chestnut Hill, Pa.), 5:396; 6:3, 30, 129, 131
Cheston, James, 8:212, 215, 417; 9:314
Chew, ----: money sent by, 5:137
Chew, ---- (ship captain): his ship carries letters, 6:411, 447
Chew, Colby (Coleby), 4:302, 346, 365, 370; 5:93, 98, 215, 294, 417;
6:9; id., 2:323; 5:409; commissions and appointments, 4:116, 205, 206,
360, 361, 368, 423, 432; 5:6; explores Kentucky territory, 4:116; and
Indians, 4:355; 5:261, 363; military service, 5:2, 20, 137, 173, 201,
407, 411; Cox-Lane incident, 5:120-21, 129, 130; killed, 5:130; 6:10,
47, 73, 74; 8:304; journal, 5:409; family, 5:413; and bounty lands, 9:516-18;
10:165, 166; letters from: to GW, 5:409
Chew, Grace Deshon, 5:173
Chew, Henry (Harry), 10:104, 105
Chew, John, 6:340
Chew, Joseph (of Alexandria), 2:237, 238, 301, 302-3; 7:7
Chew, Joseph (of New London, Conn.), 3:287; 5:98; 6:87, 94; letters
from: to GW, 2:322-23; 4:115-16, 301-3, 365-66, 369-70; 5:93, 187,
293-95, 330, 412-13; 6:9-10, 73-74; 9:516-18; letters to: from
GW, 5:172-74; 10:165-66; from Edmund Pendleton, 9:517-18
Chew, Larkin, 2:46, 323; 5:137, 173, 294; 6:346; 8:301, 304; 9:94-95
Chew, Martha Taylor, 2:323
Chew, Mercy, 2:238; 6:339, 340, 390, 430; 7:2, 7, 179
Chew, Thomas, 2:323
Chew's tavern, 6:340; 7:7
Cheyne, George, 6:288
Cheyn's tavern, 10:357
Chichester, Richard, 7:510; 8:270-71, 272
Chichester, Sarah McCarty, 8:271, 272
Chickasaw (Indians), 4:175. See also Indians
Childers, Josep (Joseph), 4:43
Childes, Edward, 6:47
Chilhowie, Tenn., 7:57
Chinowitz (Chenoweth), Samuel, 5:332
Chippewa (Indians), 1:84. See also Indians
Chisholm, William, 8:468, 469, 530
Chiswell, John, 3:56, 58, 353, 368; 6:182-83, 381
Chiswell, Susanna, 3:352, 353; 6:381
Chiswell's mines, 8:308
Chiswell's ordinary, 1:283, 284; 6:182-83, 184
Cholmley (Cholmondeley), Robert, 1:317, 319
Chopawamsic, 5:77
Chota (Echota; Indian town), 3:371; 4:268
Chota fort. See Cherokee fort
Chotank Creek, 7:219
Chotank neighborhood, 1:41; 7:219; 8:122
Chowning, ---- (widow), 8:22
Chowning, John, 7:313, 319, 438, 440
Chrisman (Crisman), Jacob, 1:23
Christ Church (Alexandria), 7:407; 9:180-83
Christian, David, 2:269
Christian, Francis, 8:323, 365, 375, 376, 456, 457, 461
Christian, Israel, 5:264; 7:97-98
Christian, William, 9:511, 512; 10:71, 280, 281, 311, 312
Christian (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Christian's (Christy's) fort, 4:10
Christmas, 1:251; 2:212, 227, 229, 233-34
Christy, William, 10:88, 91, 93
Church, ----: account with, 9:225
The Church Catechism Explained, 6:300; 7:347, 350
Churchill, ----: his sale, 7:363
Churchill, Armistead, 6:338
Churchill, Charles, 9:116, 118
Churchill, Henry, 6:451; 7:1, 34, 35, 63, 64, 326; letters to:
from GW, 6:338
Churchill, William, 6:313, 314, 338; 7:364
Cibber, Colley, 8:263
Cicero, 6:292, 400; 8:116, 120, 121, 417
Cincaid, John, 9:146, 363
Cincheloe, Daniel, 1:22
Citt (slave, girl; at Claiborne's), 6:312
Citt (slave; at Claiborne's), 6:311
City (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
The City and Country Builder's, and Workman's Treasury of Designs,
10:343
City Tavern (Philadelphia), 10:371
Clack (Clark), Christopher, 5:335
Claggett, ----, 7:240; paid for servant, 7:462
Claggett, Thomas, 10:39, 41
Claiborne, ----: and aid for Mary Campbell, 8:309, 324
Claiborne, Nathaniel, 1:283
Claiborne, Philip Whitehead, 6:198; 8:574, 575, 579; id., 6:199, 217;
commissioner in Custis estate, 6:209, 215-17; and Custis estate, 6:255,
256, 260, 261, 276, 277; 7:1, 90, 91, 104, 215, 304; 8:191, 200, 205,
346, 453, 462, 463; 9:371, 372, 373; account with, 7:190, 298, 366, 371,
437, 495, 501; 9:34; 10:75; and GW's petition to rent dower lands, 8:197;
and Mary Campbell, 8:311; and Bernard Moore's debts, 8:427; estate of,
9:46, 226, 231; death, 9:48; and Romancoke plantation, 9:378
Claiborne, Thomas (1680-1732), 9:426
Claiborne, Thomas (d. 1777), 6:198, 199; 7:304, 469, 491; 8:52, 115,
136; 9:426
Claiborne, Thomas (of Sweet Hall), 9:393
Claiborne, William, 6:219; 8:582; 9:427
Claiborne, William (d. 1746; the fourth), 9:378, 427
Claiborne, William (husband of Frances Black), 9:384
Claiborne, William (the fifth), 9:378-79, 427
Claiborne, William (the first), 9:426
Claiborne's ferry, 1:283; 6:199; 8:582; 9:426
Claiborne's plantation (quarter): stock at, 6:218; id., 6:219; 7:108;
9:140, 378, 402; overseers at, 6:219, 427; 7:108, 318, 427; 8:106, 516,
574, 582; 9:258; slaves at, 6:311-12; 7:67; inventories at, 8:583-84,
590-91
Clapham, ---- (of Annapolis), 10:302
Clapton, Abner, 7:1
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, first earl of, 6:285
Clark, ---- (sergeant): court-martialed, 6:95; id., 6:96
Clark, Binn, 5:82
Clark, Henry, 8:234
Clark, James (in Bell's company), 3:136, 253, 259
Clark, James (in McKenzie's company), 3:136
Clark, James (plaintiff), 3:123, 136
Clark, John (soldier), 3:253, 258; 6:96
Clark, Matthew, 5:294, 295
Clark, Michael, 8:468, 531
Clark (Clarke), George, 3:76, 253, 257; 6:96
Clarke, John (author), 7:213
Clarke, John (bookseller), 6:333, 336; 7:25
Clarke, John (of Baltimore County), 3:196
Clarke, John (of Salem), 4:99, 101
Clarke (Clark), Thomas, 1:148, 149, 154-55, 173, 174, 177, 182, 214,
292; letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:175
Clarkson, James, 6:252
Clay, Richard Lomax, 6:393, 403; 7:24, 30, 128-29, 192, 289-90
Clay Hill, 3:190
Claypole, William, 1:31
Clayton, Asher, 5:272; 6:63, 110-11
Clayton, John, 9:356; 10:79
Clayton, William, 6:264
Clear Fields (Pennsylvania), 6:85
Cleesh, 6:458
Cleeve, Richard, 6:333, 336; 7:28
Clemonds, John, 10:363
Clendennin (Clandinnon), Adam, 5:289
Clendennin (Clandinnon), John, 5:289
Cleo (slave), 1:312, 313
Cleve, 1:129
Cleveland, ---- (Mrs. James), 8:41, 42
Cleveland, Alexander, 7:376, 426; 8:70; 9:58, 238, 239, 411; 10:35-36,
78, 137, 317
Cleveland, Eli, 7:378
Cleveland, James, 7:342, 361, 377, 426, 443, 493, 494; 8:20, 25; 10:269,
307; id., 7:342, 434; 8:18, 42; account with, 7:439, 491, 508; 8:22, 24,
207, 356, 512, 521, 531, 532; 9:52, 53, 58, 111; 10:281; his share of
crops, 7:440; 8:512; and Christopher Shade, 8:425; replaced as overseer,
9:239; and GW's Ohio lands, 9:450, 451; 10:170, 220, 221, 256, 281, 290,
291, 292, 293; instructions regarding GW's western lands, 10:230-32; illness
of, 10:232, 258, 260-61, 262, 288; articles of agreement with, 10:233;
and valuation of improvements on GW's lands, 10:362-63; letters from:
to GW, 10:260-62, 262, 334-35, 359-63, 365-67, 371-73; letters to:
from GW, 10:230-33, 314-15
Clifton, 8:570
Clifton, Elizabeth Brent, 6:409; 9:397, 488
Clifton, William, 6:331, 332, 451; family, 6:339, 451; 9:397, 488; dispute
over his land, 6:407-11, 416, 422-25, 429, 430, 433-34, 436-38, 443, 450,
466; id., 6:409; value of his lands, 6:415; land transactions, 6:443;
7:9, 61, 64, 65, 102-3, 174, 228, 278, 350; 8:283; 9:294, 431; and bill
of exchange, 6:450, 460; land where he lives, 7:100, 102, 234; borrows
money, 7:107; his plantation to be rented, 9:296
Clifton's (Johnston's) ferry, 7:363; 9:296; 10:39, 141, 339
Clifton's (Johnston's) Spring, 9:296
Clifton's Neck: suit involving, 6:407-11, 416, 422-25, 429, 430, 433-34,
436-38, 466; id., 6:409; tenants on, 7:9, 102, 234, 262-63, 329
Clingan, ----: at Warm Springs, 8:240
Clingan, William, 8:241
Cloe (slave; dower; child), 8:401
Cloe (slave; River farm): tithable, 7:45, 139, 228, 377, 443, 516; 8:104,
221, 357, 479; 9:55, 239; 10:137; id., 7:434; prison fees paid, 7:434
Cloe (slave; at Williamson's farm), 6:428
Clopton, Abner, 6:255, 259-60, 268; 7:212, 214
Clopton, Robert, 6:252
Clopton, William, 6:321
Closter-Seven (Klosterzeven; Hanover), Battle of, 4:416
Clothing (military), 2:31, 64, 141, 275-76; 4:86, 181; 5:375, 381; instructions
concerning, 2:5, 43, 96, 117, 118, 136, 146, 153, 264, 281-82; 3:99, 305;
4:69-70, 284, 287, 342, 343; 5:21; 6:79; allowances for, 2:29, 32-33;
GW's plan for supplying, 2:29-30, 32-34; acquisition of, 2:30, 32-34,
43; need for, 2:30, 32, 81, 96, 136, 201, 204, 252, 330; 3:84, 103, 132,
184, 204, 228, 270, 314, 328; 4:49, 57, 65-66, 68, 72, 74-75, 80-81, 86-87,
289, 327-29, 392; 5:188, 191, 192, 200, 221-22, 442; 6:6, 15, 50, 60,
125, 134, 159, 162-63, 165, 167-68, 171, 175, 177; uniforms, 2:41, 76,
247; 3:126, 239, 241, 254, 314; 4:97, 98, 99, 284, 343; for recruits,
2:96, 130; 5:103, 134; transport of, 2:133, 136; 4:72, 96; 5:367, 385-86,
389, 435; 6:35; delivery of, 2:136; for rangers, 2:240-41, 242, 244, 281-82,
315; 5:2; issuance of, 2:264; returns of, 3:9; 5:5; stoppages of pay for,
3:42, 84, 99, 103, 180, 227, 272, 328, 329, 332, 359-60, 366, 369, 388,
391, 394; for Gentlemen Associators, 3:86; distributed, 3:89; prices of,
3:89; for Indians, 3:161, 403, 405, 406-8; 4:142, 143; 5:117, 127, 133,
169; sold to civilians, 3:177-78; 4:145; 5:7; rollers, 3:229; ordered,
3:239, 270; 4:97-98, 166; 5:193, 307; 6:90-91; shipment of, 3:270, 390-91;
high cost of, 3:328; accounts for, 3:367; to be given soldiers, 3:394,
402; requested by Cherokee for Richard Smith, 4:143; watch coats, 4:363;
theft of, 4:424-26; lost to enemy, 5:12-13; Indian garb for soldiers,
5:152, 193, 200, 257-59, 278-79, 282, 285-86, 290-91, 315; captured French
uniforms, 5:241; Indian clothes for soldiers, 5:285, 290; left at Fort
Cumberland, 5:285, 291; storage of, 6:7, 160; coats made from blankets,
6:15, 164; availability of, 6:87; return of needed items, 6:89-91, 99;
Andrew Lewis writes from prison for, 6:101; soldiers to be furnished out
of Indian goods, 6:163-64
Cloud, Henry, 5:337
Cloyd, David, 4:393, 395
Cloyd's fort, 4:395; 5:67
Cluney, ----: account with GW, 7:105
Clunie, Alexander, 7:108
Clunis, ---- (sergeant), 3:8
Clyman (Clymer), Deel, 8:176; 10:20
Coal (Cole) River tract, 9:500, 502-3, 510-11, 512, 515; 10:152, 245,
247, 280, 311
Coarts, William, 7:508; 8:144
Coats, ----: GW sells boat to, 7:507, 508
Cobbs, Samuel, 4:30, 32; letters from: to GW, 3:189-90
Cobbs, Thomas, 6:281
Cobourn, James, 10:216, 224, 241, 259
Cochener, Jacob, 5:336
Cochran, William, 5:334
Cochrane, Andrew, 1:52
Cockburn, ---- (Mrs. Thomas), 8:164
Cockburn, Ann Bronaugh, 8:166
Cockburn, James, 7:235; 8:164, 165, 166
Cockburn, Martin, 7:417, 418; 8:146, 166; 10:128, 345
Cockburn, Thomas (doctor), 7:378; attempts to obtain land, 7:234; 8:209-10,
316; id., 7:235; and Mississippi Company, 7:260, 261; his bills of exchange,
7:261, 262, 267; account with, 7:333; and vestry election, 7:362; death,
8:164; his family, 8:166
Cockburn, Thomas (son of Dr. Thomas Cockburn), 8:166
Cockburn, William, 6:287, 288
Cocke, Bowler, 1:50
Cocke, Catesby, 6:342; 7:502
Cocke, James, 5:194, 196; 7:15, 427; 8:51, 59, 202; 10:176, 240
Cocke, Thomas (d. 1750), 2:50
Cocke, Thomas (officer), 2:41, 243; 3:238, 239, 242-46, 342; company
of, 2:25, 39, 45, 46, 50, 65; 3:253, 257, 428; 4:76, 349; 5:38, 190, 268;
6:32, 137; 7:171; appointments and commissions, 2:42, 260; 3:251; 4:60,
155, 166, 350, 362; at Fort Cumberland, 2:47; id., 2:50-51; orders to,
2:54; 3:157, 262; 4:60; recruiting, 3:76; company payrolls and returns,
3:156, 341; company size rolls, 3:212, 263; and Nancy Gist, 6:43; letters
from: to GW, 4:18-22; letters to: from GW, 2:50-51; 3:266
Cocke, William, 6:102, 103, 178-81
Cocker's arithemetick, 6:295; 7:347
Cockrill, Joseph, 7:378
Cocks, William, 1:310, 323; 3:79, 155, 310, 368, 376; 4:365, 425; 5:339;
id., 1:311; 2:92; 5:7-8; his fort, 2:38; 3:11, 333, 334, 336, 341, 395;
company of, 2:75, 90, 94, 99, 134, 137, 244, 327-28; at Pearsal's, 2:135;
supplies for rangers, 2:138, 281-82; returns of, 2:142; 3:196; orders
to, 3:139-40; his rangers, 3:161, 202, 266, 320, 397, 404, 418, 423; 5:334;
leave of absence, 3:265, 317; retires, 3:364; accounts, 3:365; 4:238,
289; pay for ranger company, 4:9; and John Hamilton's embezzlement, 5:8;
letters to: from GW, 2:90-92, 133-34, 141-42, 240-41; 3:120, 196-97;
from George Mercer, 2:281-82
Cocks's fort, 3:265; called Fort Washington, 2:38; 3:395; location of,
2:134; construction of, 2:137, 141; troops at, 3:127, 137, 265-66; Indian
depredations near, 3:197; strategic value of, 3:326; needs improvement,
4:4, 15; proposals for, 4:10, 11, 128; on GW's map, 5:207
Codger (slave; Robert Tucker's), 7:315
Codley (Caudley), ----: account with, 8:393
Coe, William, 3:185
Coffee House, The (Williamsburg), 7:479; 8:55, 455
Coffer, Thomas Withers, 7:361, 378, 384, 428-29; 8:146, 148, 248
Coffland (Copland), William, 3:252, 256; 4:230, 231; 9:122, 145
Cofland, John, 4:390
Coil, William, 5:340
Coine (Conn), John, 3:355
Coke, Samuel, 4:43
Colchester, Va., 6:380; 7:211
Colchester warehouse, 10:27
Coldclough, Alexander, 9:134
Cole, August, 2:301
Cole, John, 3:257, 279, 280
Coleman, ----: account with, 8:329, 347
Coleman, Francis, 6:198, 199
Coleman, John, 6:417
Coleman, Jonathan, 9:66
Coleman, Mathew, 4:191
Coleman, Richard, 6:416, 417; 7:3, 8, 178, 179
Coleman, Robert, 1:33
Coleman, Susanna & Jonathan, 8:562, 566; 9:105
Coleman, Susannah, 7:293, 295, 472; 8:13, 47
Coleman, William, 9:122, 146
Coleman's ordinary (at Sugar Land Run), 2:35; 6:417; 7:8
Coleman's tavern (at Caroline Court House), 6:199
Coles, Elisha, 6:289
Coles (Cole), Abram (Abraham), 6:246, 257, 273
Colins, Henry, 10:340-41, 346
A collection of the Parliamentary debates, 6:287
A collection of voyages, 6:286
Collett, Moses, 9:171; 10:19
Collett, Thomas, 7:319
Colley, James, 3:98
Collier, Jeremy, 6:289
Collihall, John, 4:427
Collins, ----: and George Mercer's lands, 10:203
Collins, ---- (major), 9:248, 251
Collins, Francis, 4:426
Collins, John, 3:67, 111-12
Collins, Kellis, 4:42
Collins, Luke, 1:20, 36; 7:5, 339, 340
Collinson, Peter, 6:297
Collum, Henry, 7:378
Colson, Thomas, 5:340
Colson (Colston), John, 5:340
Colter, Thomas, 7:261
Colvill, Catharine, 8:71; 9:42
Colvill, Frances (Francina), 7:465, 466, 495, 496; 8:66, 71, 343; 9:261
Colvill, John, 8:65-66, 72, 381-82
Colvill, Thomas, 6:457; 7:487; commissioner for William Clifton's sale,
6:410; id., 6:458; voter, 7:378; sale of his slaves, 7:481; 9:239; estate
of, 8:65-66, 71-72, 266, 381-82, 465, 477, 493, 497; 9:1, 33, 34, 36,
42, 53, 59, 76-77, 110, 167, 225, 261-63, 293, 294, 305-6, 321; 10:195,
234; his will, 8:71; 9:54; and John Colvill's estate, 8:72; sells land
to John Semple, 8:293-94; 9:21; act passed for conveyance of his land,
9:28-29, 31; lived in Cecil County, 9:264
Comber, Thomas, 7:346
Combs, ----: and George Mercer's lands, 10:211
Combs, Joseph, 2:241, 242; 5:342; 6:313, 314
Combs & Hereford, 8:24
Combs's ferry, 6:314
Commack, James, 8:540; 9:122, 146
Commentari de bello Gallico, 3:126
Commentaries on the Laws of England, 8:326
Commissary of Anglican church. See Dawson, Thomas; Dawson, William
A comparison between the eloquence of Demosthenes and Cicero,
6:296; 7:347
A Compleat Body of Husbandry, 6:317-18, 327, 463, 472, 473; 7:344,
348
A compleat collection of remarkable tryals . . . in the Old Bailey,
6:293
The Compleat Farriar, 6:300
The Compleat Gamester, 7:348, 349
A compleat history of druggs, 6:285
A compleat history of the intrigues of priests and nuns, 6:291
A compleat history of the piratical states of Barbary, viz. Algiers,
etc., 7:347
The compleat horseman; or, perfect farrier, 7:344, 348
The compleat housewife, 6:291, 296, 298; 7:347
The complete English tradesman, 6:290
A Complete History of England, 7:166, 167, 195
Compton, Zebedee, 8:144
Concanen, Matthew, 6:286
Concannon & Jordan, 6:476; 7:63, 104, 108
Concord, Battle of, 10:368
Conductor of the train. See Defever, John
Cone, Barnaby, 3:167
Conemaugh River, 6:16
Confluence, Pa., 1:98
Congreve, William, 6:400
Conjugal lewdness, 6:293; 7:347
Conjurer, The (Indian), 4:117
Connel (Connell), Zachariah, 7:309, 310, 367, 393, 406, 407, 408, 414;
10:208
Connell, James, 7:378; 8:147, 148, 322, 323, 512; 9:76, 77, 237, 373
Connell, Thomas, 7:378
Connell, William, 7:378
Connelly, Patrick, 2:224; 6:280, 281
Conner, Timothy, 3:95-96, 195
Conner (Conners), John, 4:391; 6:47
Connolly, John, 9:410, 444; 10:183; visits Big Bone Lick, 9:96-98; GW
meets, 9:98; and West Florida lands, 9:206; and bounty lands, 9:250; surveys
for, 9:251, 315, 416, 417; his 2000-acre land grant, 9:329, 510, 513;
10:70, 71; appointed justice for West Augusta, 9:415; 10:44; and Pennsylvania-Virginia
dispute, 9:464-66; 10:260; appointed commandant in Pittsburgh area, 10:43;
criticized by William Crawford, 10:54-55; and Dunmore's War, 10:69, 74,
133, 135, 260; opposed by George Croghan, 10:88; his lieutenants, 10:91;
his Narrative, 10:260; his journal, 10:274; his servant, 10:292;
letters from: to GW, 9:95-99, 245-51, 314-15, 414-15, 464-66; 10:43-44,
72-74, 87-88, 259-60; letters to: from Lord Dunmore, 10:135; from
GW, 10:273-74
Connor, James, 3:135
Conococheague (Maryland), 2:340; 3:35; storehouses at, 2:37, 38, 158,
185; defenses strengthened at, 3:69; depredations at, 3:314; settlers
flee, 3:380; as rendezvous for troops, 5:119, 120, 131, 166; meeting at,
5:208, 252; commander at, 5:233. See also Maidstone; Watson's ferry
Conococheague Creek (Maryland), 3:210
Conotocarious (Caunotaucarius, "Town Taker"), 1:88, 91; 2:98
Conrad, Frederick, 5:341
Consaponakieso. See Bosomworth, Mary Musgrove
Constantine, Edward, 4:338, 339
Constantine, Patrick, 4:338, 339
Constant Matthew (ship), 7:74
Contee, Thomas, 10:33, 356, 358, 367, 368; letters from: to GW,
10:336
Contemplations moral and divine, 7:346
Contrecoeur, Claude Pierre Pécaudy, sieur de, 1:85, 86, 87, 98, 111,
117, 202, 214; letters from: to Duquesne, 1:114; letters to:
from Duquesne, 1:139
Convicts, 3:321, 359. See also Washington, George: and convict
servants
Conway, ---- (ship captain), 9:476; 10:177
Conway, Arthur, 3:195
Conway, George: letters to: from GW, 2:153-54
Conway, H. S., 5:43
Conway, John, 4:281
Conway, Richard, 9:245; 10:139, 140, 141, 193, 195, 196, 235, 248
Conway, Robert, 9:293
Conway, Thomas, 9:245, 271, 281, 462, 497; 10:18, 141
Conway, Timothy, 9:122, 145
Conway, Withers, 4:281
Conybeare, John, 9:344, 345
Cook, Edward (of Pennsylvania), 10:134, 136
Cook, John, 5:336; 6:434
Cook, Molly, 6:252
Cook, Sarah, 6:252
Cook (Cooke), Josias, 7:45, 139, 228, 313; id., 7:10, 45, 139; account
with, 7:106, 107, 190, 236, 276, 363, 385
Cooke (Cook), Giles, 10:76, 78
Coolidge, Judson, 6:460, 461; 7:34, 64
Cooper, ---- (Carlyle's deputy), 1:142, 144
Cooper, ---- (of Frederick County), 5:84, 410
Cooper, Charles, 10:9
Cooper, Jacob, 5:339
Cooper, James, 4:333
Cooper, Joel, 10:104, 105, 317
Cooper, John, & Sons, 8:516-17, 565
Cooper, Myles, 9:217, 219, 276; praised, 9:162-63; president of King's
College, 9:164; bills of exchange for, 9:237; 10:82, 185; and John Parke
Custis, 9:264, 266, 407-8; plans tour to southward, 9:265; and the American
episcopacy, 9:443; paid for college expenses, 10:37; his pamphlet, 10:189,
190; letters from: to Jonathan Boucher, 9:213-14; to GW, 9:253-54,
325-26, 441-43; to John Parke Custis, 9:443; letters to: from GW,
9:236, 406-7; 10:29-30
Cooper, Thomas, 5:85, 340, 410
Cope, James, 4:163
Copein (Copan), William, 9:348; 10:140
Copithorne (Copythorne), John, 2:276, 277; 4:38, 39; 5:73, 326, 327,
367, 379, 399, 402, 407; 6:442
Copland, James, 8:31
Copland (Coffland), William, 9:122
Corbett (Corbet), James, 6:276, 319
Corbin, Francis, 1:71
Corbin, Gawin, 7:336
Corbin, John, 7:433
Corbin, Lettice (Letitia) Lee, 7:508; letters from: to GW, 7:433;
10:000
Corbin, Martha, 10:000
Corbin, Richard, 1:121; 3:38; 4:355; 7:217; and Virginia Council committee,
1:57; id., 1:70-71; 4:384; and GW's commission, 1:71; and Winchester council,
1:106; appointed receiver general, 1:175; and mutiny bill, 2:201; criticism
of GW, 4:382-83, 414-15; letters from: to GW, 1:71; letters
to: from GW, 1:70-71. See also Errata
Corder, Edward, 5:337
Corderii Colloquiorum Centuria selecta, 7:213, 303
Cordery, Thomas, 5:340
Cornelia (Connelia; slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 584, 591
Cornelia (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Cornelia (slave; James City County), 6:228
Cornelia (slave; York County), 6:229
Cornelius, Josias, 9:432, 436
Cornish (Cornwish), Charles, 8:145
Cornstalk (Indian), 10:183, 365, 366, 371
Cornwall, Josep (Joseph), 4:43
Cornwall (ship), 6:377
Corotoman, 4:384
Correia de Sá, José, 8:77
Corrie, ---- (ship captain), 7:152
Cosiah (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Cotringer, John, 10:370
Cotton, Benjamin, 3:253, 259
Cotton, John, 7:378; 8:145, 147
Cotton, Ralph, 8:145, 147
Coulter, Thomas, 7:104, 107
Counterfeiting, 3:315, 320-21, 360, 397, 421, 453; 9:178-79
The country justice, 6:284
Country Magazine, 6:283; 7:328, 343, 354
The country school-master, 6:294
County lieutenants: for Amelia County, see Cobbs, Samuel; for
Augusta County, see Buchanan, John; Lewis, Andrew; Patton, James;
for Berkeley County, see Washington, Samuel; for Caroline County,
see Baylor, John; for Culpeper County, see Fairfax of Cameron,
Thomas Fairfax, sixth Baron; Slaughter, Robert; for Fairfax County, see
Fairfax, William; for Frederick County, see Fairfax of Cameron,
Thomas Fairfax, sixth Baron; Stephen, Adam; for Hampshire County, see
Martin, Thomas Bryan; Stephen, Adam; for Lunenburg County, see
Read, Clement; for Prince William County, see Lee, Henry; for Spotsylvania
County, see Spotswood, John; for Stafford County, see Fitzhugh,
Henry
Court, Christopher, & Co., 9:348
The court of St. Germain's, 6:295; 7:347
Coutts, Patrick, 8:433
Coutts, William, 8:159
The Covent Garden Magazine; or, Amorous Repository, 9:274, 275
Coventry, 7:434
Coverdale, Norrisson, 7:35, 50, 53, 54, 62, 64, 111, 112
Covington, Va., 5:15
Cowan, Alexander: letters from: to GW, 10:264
Cowan, David, 9:64, 155-56, 238, 239, 293, 294, 341, 343; 10:138
Cowdon, ----, 8:471
Cowles, ----: his ferry, 7:263
Cowles's ferry, 7:263
Cowley, Abraham, 6:285; 10:279, 280
Cowley's tavern, 10:280
Cowper, Dutch, 7:3
Cowper, John, 7:437
Cowper (Cooper), ----: and GW's election expenses, 7:3
Cowper (Cowpar), ----, 1:194; 5:410, 414
Cox, Elizabeth, 9:76, 370, 433
Cox, Friend, 1:25; 2:76, 77, 259; 3:11, 24, 41, 121; 5:127, 128, 149
Cox, James, 5:61-62, 120-21, 129, 130
Cox, John (of Amelia County), 4:42
Cox, John (of Lunenburg County), 4:369
Cox, John (ship captain), 9:352, 408; letters from: to GW, 9:287-88
Cox, Matthew, 9:122, 145
Cox, Presley, 7:378, 384; 8:145, 146; 9:76
Cox, William: letters to: from William Trent, 4:214-15
Coxe, Tench, 5:93
Coxe, William, 5:93, 98
Coxen, Adam, 7:325, 326
Craddock, John, 4:42
Crafish (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220. See also Craijo;
Crayger
The craft and frauds of physick expos'd, 6:288
The craftsman, 6:290; 7:345
Craig, ----: account with Martha Parke Custis, 7:370
Craig, Alexander, 9:481; 10:77; id., 6:321; 7:212; 8:53; account with,
7:210, 298, 470; 8:51, 192, 195, 267, 346, 455, 456, 486; 9:140, 189,
395; 10:139; GW recommends as agent, 8:483; as agent for soldiers' lands,
8:484; 9:116, 473, 480; 10:79, 333; and resolutions of officers, 9:128-31
Craig, Charles, 8:145, 146
Craig, David, 6:430
Craig, James, 6:321, 371, 406; 7:280, 301, 478; 8:267, 269, 346, 457,
461
Craig, Thomas, 6:280, 281
Craig (Craik), Charles, 6:197, 199
Craig Creek, 4:10, 395
Craig Creek fort (Johns Creek fort), 3:229, 323; 4:10, 395
Craighead, George, 5:272
Craijo (Crayger; slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 584, 591. See
also Crayger; Crafish
Craik, James, 2:62, 191, 295; 3:383, 439; 4:17, 352, 388; 5:96, 97, 190,
316, 326, 327, 334, 436; 6:83, 87, 194, 474; 7:7, 12; 9:76, 503; 10:170;
early land grant to, 1:22; and capitulation of Fort Necessity, 1:172,
193; promoted, 1:208; commended by colony, 1:209; id., 1:210; 2:168-69;
4:322; 5:65, 343, 454; 7:14; pay of, 2:164; 3:330-31, 332-33, 365, 369,
376; movements of, 2:172; 6:165; medical services, 3:98, 213, 239, 261,
295, 298, 302, 310, 337; 4:287, 347-48; called "Little Crocus," 3:296;
judge advocate, 3:379; listed on return, 3:428; treats Indian prisoners,
4:321; and GW's critical illness, 5:64-65; leave for, 5:65; and GW's elections,
5:263, 317, 329, 330, 343; 7:15, 45; birthplace, 5:453-54; GW's friendship,
6:171; resignation from regiment, 6:173; signs address to GW, 6:178-81;
and a gardener for Mount Vernon, 6:419; 7:96; account with, 7:2; 8:362,
436; 9:111, 371, 394, 396, 462; 10:178, 180; accompanies GW to the Ohio,
8:303, 378, 439; 9:335; and bounty lands, 8:437, 439, 440, 540; 9:116,
122, 128-31, 145, 197, 359, 360, 364, 366, 380, 382, 461, 516; 10:59,
193, 225, 238-39; on 1754 roll of soldiers, 8:451; buys carpet, 10:139;
letters from: to GW, 5:64-65; 6:169-71, 172-73; letters to:
from George Mercer, 2:168-69; from GW, 2:217-18
Crane, James: letters from: to GW, 10:21-22
Craven, Michael, 7:5
Crawford, ---- (ship captain), 6:448
Crawford, Andrew, 3:113, 301
Crawford, Archibald, 6:450
Crawford, Hannah Vance, 8:567; 9:331
Crawford, Hugh, 1:124, 125
Crawford, John (ship captain), 6:450; 7:138, 141
Crawford, John (son of William Crawford), 10:293
Crawford, Moses, 8:445, 446; 10:45, 51, 52-53, 58, 59, 69, 90, 183
Crawford, Robert, 6:256
Crawford, Valentine, 3:53; 5:339, 343; 6:405, 441, 481; 8:26, 156, 169,
266, 430, 487, 521, 522, 569, 573; 9:136, 148, 186, 454, 471, 505; 10:94,
258, 262, 293, 334; delivers hanger to Thomas Bishop, 5:306; id., 5:308;
6:380; borrows money, 6:379, 416, 417; 7:286; 8:193; 9:132; his wagoner,
6:420; oversees Bullskin farms, 6:421; brings butter and tobacco to Mount
Vernon, 7:6, 109; 8:6; accounts with, 7:106, 178, 351, 427, 428, 477;
8:20, 112, 240, 244, 394, 424, 436; 10:281; family, 8:6, 446; 9:93; finds
a spinner for GW, 8:6; as wagoner for GW, 8:30, 239; and surveys for GW,
8:257; 9:37; at Mount Vernon, 8:570; 9:137, 149, 483; 10:183; recommended
as guide, 9:218; and Lund Washington's western lands, 9:242; and GW's
Ohio lands, 9:441, 455, 478; 10:16-17, 45, 69, 362; and bounty lands,
9:469; his courtship, 9:478; 10:16; purchases servants for GW, 9:504,
519; and GW's white servants, 10:20, 51, 53, 233, 261; arrested, 10:38,
39; his fort, 10:51, 69, 93, 133, 307; sends GW deed to his own land,
10:52; someone prejudices GW against him, 10:163; and Nicholas Cresswell,
10:170; tools stored at his place, 10:231; purchases land on Chartiers
Creek, 10:233-34; fails to pay bills, 10:264; letters from: to
GW, 10:31, 36-37, 50-52, 52-53, 58-59, 69, 88-91, 91-92, 133-36, 169-70,
306-8; to James McCarmick, 10:133; to Richard Stephenson, Jr., 10:133;
letters to: from GW, 9:417-18; 10:12-18
Crawford, William, 2:243; 3:208, 236; 4:346; 8:242, 304, 530; 9:149,
186, 187, 291, 342, 436, 470, 473, 479, 490; 10:50, 90-91; id., 2:235;
3:53; 5:135; military appointments and commissions, 2:235, 240; 3:252;
4:205, 206, 340, 432; 9:481-82; military service, 2:254; 3:209, 429; 4:61,
207, 208, 219, 220, 230, 407; 5:134, 135, 161, 381, 382, 387; and deserters,
4:332, 333, 334; GW's friendship with, 6:417; family, 8:6, 158, 269, 567;
10:293; instructed to search for land for GW, 8:26-31, 33; moves to Pennsylvania,
8:29; stratagem used in obtaining GW's land, 8:58; accounts with, 8:78,
112, 169, 170, 171, 266, 306, 356, 404, 436, 437, 527; 9:117, 227, 363,
462, 463; 10:281; lands surveyed by, 8:79, 112-13, 206-7, 396, 428, 441,
533; 9:115, 118, 125, 135, 143-44, 148, 334, 335, 382, 405, 500, 501,
503, 510, 511, 512, 513, 516; 10:162, 163, 193, 201, 310; borrows money,
8:239, 306; appointments as surveyor, 8:279, 281, 282, 538; 9:118, 441,
486, 487; 10:1, 36, 46, 322; GW accompanies on surveying trip, 8:280,
533; GW buys surveying instruments for, 8:307; approval of him as surveyor,
8:308; and George Croghan's land, 8:403-4, 517; 9:420; recommended to
survey Vandalia lands, 8:404, 518; instructions for surveying soldiers'
lands, 8:438; instructed to survey Kanawha and Tygart Valley, 8:439-41;
list of surveys done by, 8:528; surveys land for Ohio Company, 9:126;
debt to the Hites, 9:133, 223, 225, 230; and Lund Washington's western
lands, 9:242; pays GW's land taxes, 9:293, 316; Lord Dunmore visits, 9:315;
builds cabins on GW's bounty lands, 9:380; his land claimed by George
Croghan, 9:421; at Mount Vernon, 9:469, 483; 10:16, 48, 91; goes to Williamsburg,
9:471; criticism of his surveys, 9:515; appointed major of militia, 10:44;
in Dunmore's War, 10:44, 59, 74, 133, 135, 169, 181-84, 260; and Round
Bottom tract, 10:47-48; and GW's white servants, 10:51, 53, 92, 134, 136,
232, 233, 262, 290, 315, 372; and Indian child, 10:52, 54; his fort, 10:93;
pays soldiers' land fees, 10:225; furnishes canoes, 10:230, 289, 359;
and settlement of GW's Ohio lands, 10:261, 334; surveys declared null,
10:320; letters from: to GW, 3:454-56; 5:14-15; 8:37-41, 156-59,
257-58, 330-32, 405-6, 445-46, 449-50, 513-15; 9:25-27, 37, 124-26, 136-37,
380-83, 418-21, 444-45, 454-55; 10:53-55, 93-94, 162-64, 181-85, 258,
292-94; to James Tilghman, 8:515; letters to: from GW, 4:320-21;
8:26, 26-32, 142, 441, 566-67; 9:290, 328-31, 331-32; 10:69, 271
Crawford (Crauford), William (of Alexandria), 7:441, 442
Crawley, Nathaniel, 9:258
Crayger (dower slave; King William County), 6:218. See also Crafish;
Craijo
Crayger (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Creagh, John, 8:486, 487, 540
Creagh (Cray, Creech), John (soldier), 3:252, 257; 4:277
Creech, Thomas, 6:290
Creek (Indians), 2:195; 4:172, 175, 267; 5:89-90; 6:81, 361, 364. See
also Indians
Creek farm (at Mount Vernon), 5:416; 7:10, 45, 67, 139, 228, 313
Crenshaw, Joseph, 6:46
Cresap, Daniel, 2:222
Cresap, Hannah, 3:209, 210
Cresap, Michael, 3:210; 8:514-15; 9:330; 10:46-48, 52-53, 54, 163, 183;
letters to: from GW, 9:334-35
Cresap, Thomas, 2:222, 259; 3:90, 304; 4:9; 5:302; and Ohio Company,
1:59; and fort at Forks of the Ohio, 1:76; id., 1:76; 3:183; 4:144; 8:494;
residences, 1:84, 266; 3:210; 5:368; and French prisoners, 1:119, 121;
GW's tent left at, 1:349; trading post of, 2:73, 76, 77; 5:368; troops
at his house, 2:158; 5:149, 325, 369; leads scouting party, 3:182, 184;
and flour, 3:209; Fort Frederick built on his land, 3:215; his fort, 4:149;
and ammunition, 5:378; and Potomac navigation, 7:177; account with, 8:393;
and Vandalia grant, 8:493, 555; and Fort Necessity campaign, 10:50; efforts
to keep court near Redstone, 10:256; his Indian purchase, 10:257; land
dispute with Augustine Washington, 10:306; letters from: to GW,
1:75; 10:306; to George Mercer, 4:143; to John St. Clair, 5:214, 231;
letters to: from GW, 1:82-83; 10:257-58
Cresap, Thomas, Jr., 3:183
Cresap's. See Old Town, Md.
Cresap's fort (Maryland), 1:84, 266; 3:183; 4:146
Cresswell, Nicholas, 10:105, 170, 184, 262
Creusa, 6:399
Cridon (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Crisp, ---- (ship carpenter), 3:399, 405
Crispin (Crispen; slave; tanner), 7:464
Crispin (dower slave; Ship Landing), 6:218, 312; 7:463, 464
Crispin (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587
Crispin (slave; tanner), 6:282
Crispin (slave; York County), 6:229
Crissopia (Indian), 2:307
Criticon febrium, 6:288
Crittenden (Crittendon, Crittenoon), Abraham, 2:133; 3:253, 258; letters
to: from GW, 2:131
"Crocus," 3:296
Crofts (Crafts), Thomas, 10:104, 105
Croghan, George, 1:84-85, 143, 221; 2:151; 4:241, 271; 6:433; 8:406;
10:46; warns of French aggression, 1:56; his partners, 1:66, 95; 2:129;
and Indians, 1:68, 120, 121, 122, 130, 133, 142, 153; 2:307, 308, 309;
4:229, 261; 6:106, 139, 144, 145, 150, 364, 432; 9:99, 218; 10:74; id.,
1:69; 2:309; 4:229; 8:58; Indian name, 1:91; as interpreter, 1:119, 120,
146; contract with John Carlyle, 1:131, 140, 143; at Fort Necessity, 1:147;
criticism of, 1:177, 185, 187; 4:196; 8:514; and Robert Stobo's letters,
1:202, 213; associated with Barnaby Currin, 2:74; commands Fort Shirley,
2:308; and Edmond Atkin, 4:196, 232, 233; and Walpole Company, 8:367,
368; attempts to sell land to GW, 8:402-4, 449-50, 514, 517, 530, 566;
9:26-27, 381, 382; his land claims, 8:513, 515; 9:25, 26, 37, 418-21,
444; 10:87-88; GW visits, 8:518; and "Pseudo Elephant" bones, 9:97; family,
9:98; justice of West Augusta, 10:44; instructs Indians to kill Virginians,
10:88; opposes John Connolly's Indian policy, 10:88; sides with Virginia
in boundary dispute, 10:88; letters from: to John Armstrong, 4:246,
266; to Thomas Wharton, 8:331; to GW, 8:517-18; letters to: from
Edmond Atkin, 4:158-59, 169, 170, 173; from GW, 8:403-4, 530
Croghan Hall, 8:403
Cromley, James, 5:340
Cromley, John, 5:338
Cromley, William, 5:338
Cromwell, William, 1:221; 5:88, 89, 116, 304
Crook, John, 5:146, 416; 7:106, 109, 272; 8:121, 207, 377
Crookbane, John, 4:391
Croos, Joseph, 9:316
Crosbie, John, 7:22, 359. See also Crosbies & Trafford
Crosbies & Trafford, 7:21, 22, 340, 341, 455; 8:7, 86, 140, 193; letters
from: to GW, 7:386-88; letters to: from GW, 7:358-59, 454.
See also Crosbie, John
Cross, William, 2:224, 272
Crossthwaite, William, 7:112
Crosswell, William, 6:47
Crouch, Henry, 7:346
Crouch, Jacob, 4:43
Croucher, ----, 3:295, 296
Croucher, Charles, 3:296
Crow Foot (Pennsylvania), 1:98
Crowley, Theodosia, & Co.: goods from, 6:392; 7:22-23, 124, 130, 287-88,
353, 419, 471; 8:296, 397, 558; 9:107; id., 6:403; 7:29
Crown and Cushion (Philadelphia), 5:153
Crown Point (New York), 2:180; 3:215, 286-87, 296; 5:98
Crozier, William, 7:473
Crozier & Waugh, 7:473, 476
Crump, ---- (father of Turner Crump), 7:230
Crump, Charles, 6:252
Crump, Goodrich, 10:40, 42
Crump, James, 10:104-5, 106
Crump, John, 7:378
Crump, Turner, 7:45, 139, 227, 230, 269, 313, 332; 8:320; account with,
7:4, 106, 190, 229, 261, 319, 333; id., 7:10, 231, 236, 334; agreement
with, 7:109; borrows money, 7:309; leases plantation from GW, 7:334
Crump, William, 7:219
Crupper, Robert, 1:30
Cryter, Martin, 5:335
Cu----, Edward (servant), 10:365
Cully (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 591
Culom, Jeremiah, 6:47
Culpeper County, 5:420; GW's survey in, 1:9; troops from, 3:27, 55, 56-57,
67-68, 69, 94, 95, 106, 111, 127, 137, 142-43, 146, 147-48, 159, 163,
166-67, 267, 340, 341, 344, 358-59, 373; 4:222-23, 243, 247, 248, 257-58,
262, 265, 278, 290, 291; 6:27, 75-76; officers from, 6:76
Culpeper County lieutenant: letters to: from GW, 4:222-23, 257-58
Culpeper of Thoreaway, Thomas Culpeper, second Baron, 5:70; 6:439
Culverhouse, Thomas Wilman, 7:378
Cumberland, William Augustus, duke of, 1:273, 296, 317, 318; 2:24, 321,
325; 4:416; 5:69, 70
Cumberland River, 9:251; 10:70, 71
Cumberland Town, Va., 6:371
Cumming, Thomas, 7:223-24, 415-16, 511-12; 8:64, 153; letters to:
from Mississippi Company, 7:246-50
Cummins, Eadward, 6:281
Cunégonde, 8:341
Cuningham, Walter, 6:102, 103, 178-81
Cuninghame, James, 3:385, 386; 4:90; 5:59, 70-71; letters from:
to GW, 4:111-12; 5:17-18; letters to: from GW, 4:105-7
Cunningham, ---- (millowner), 5:58
Cunningham, ---- (of Alexandria), 9:1
Cunningham, ---- (of Maryland), 7:299
Cunningham, Archibald, 9:1, 112
Cunningham, Robert, 4:267; 5:338; 6:430; 7:3, 8
Cunningham, William, 3:55; 5:214; 10:135; letters from: to GW,
5:213
Cunningham & Alexander, 9:92
Cunningham's fort, 3:47, 93; 4:264, 266
Cupid (dower slave), 8:401, 402
Cupid (dower slave; at Bridge Quarter), 6:312
Cupid (dower slave; York County), 6:218
Cupid (slave; Creek farm), 7:67, 139, 228, 313
Cupid (slave; Dogue Run), 6:428; 7:45, 66, 67-68; 8:402
Cupid (slave; Ferry farm), 8:479, 480; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Cupid (slave; River farm), 7:377, 443
Cupid (slave; York County), 6:229
Curran, Dennis, 9:111, 112
Currie, David, 3:228, 229
Currin, Barnaby, 1:62; 2:72, 74
Currioman Bay, 8:578
Curtis, George, 4:331, 333, 334
Curtis, Joseph, 4:391
Curtis, Philip, 10:77, 105, 194, 195, 196, 197, 209, 210, 318, 336
Curtius Rufus, Quintus, 3:126
Custis, Daniel Parke, 6:329; 7:316, 318, 453, 466; 8:195, 197, 266; buys
Philip Claiborne's plantation, 6:202, 219; 9:378; death, 6:202; his inheritance,
6:202; widow of, 6:202; lawyer for his estate, 6:211; 8:110; family, 6:212;
7:374; his portrait, 6:258; lists of his books, 6:283-300; 7:343-50; his
estate, 6:315, 320, 348; 7:5, 62-63, 93, 108, 123-24, 199-200, 201; 8:374,
499; 9:12, 90, 223; 10:84; his accounts, 6:323, 325, 326; 7:307; and Dunbar
suit, 6:323, 324; his tobacco, 6:324; 7:155, 317, 394, 413; GW appointed
guardian of his children, 7:84; adjusted account of his estate, 7:84-85;
and dispute over slave, 7:133; commissioners to settle estate, 7:467;
his steward, 8:575; memorandum of the estate in York and King William
counties, 8:585; home of, 9:89; courtship opposed, 9:233; suit against
the Moodys, 9:233; his bank stock, 9:379
Custis, Eleanor Calvert, 10:22, 24, 27, 174, 233, 236, 252, 270, 340;
courtship and marriage, 10:31, 38; not to move to Mount Pleasant, 10:33-34;
account with, 10:77, 106; portrait painted, 10:79; goods ordered for,
10:369. See also Calvert, Eleanor
Custis, Frances Parke (daughter of John Custis), 6:260
Custis, Frances Parke (Mrs. John), 6:212
Custis, George Washington Parke, 9:377
Custis, Hancock (died c.1729), 7:373-74
Custis, Hancock (grandson of Hancock Custis who died c.1729), 7:374
Custis, Henry, 7:374
Custis, John (1678-1749), 6:297; id., 6:202; size of his estate, 6:202;
his lawyer, 6:211; and Custis estate, 6:212, 254, 256, 261; and Dunbar
suit, 6:212, 436; residences of, 6:219; 8:197; and books, 6:283, 298,
299, 300, 301; bookplate, 6:297; money borrowed from, 6:379; 7:367; his
bank stock, 6:452; and will of John Custis of Hungars, 7:374; gives away
family silver, 9:233; and Eastern Shore land dispute, 9:285; family, 9:287;
and unadministered goods of his estate, 10:84
Custis, John (of Hungars; 1653-c.1714), 7:373-74; 9:285, 287
Custis, John (son of Hancock Custis who died c.1729), 7:374
Custis, John Parke, 6:426, 469; 7:107, 163, 191, 300, 367, 396, 411,
432, 480; 8:16, 18, 20, 25, 42, 79, 81, 82, 83, 91, 137, 143, 164, 166,
192, 193, 222, 240, 249, 250-51, 259, 396, 436, 467, 523, 573; 9:15, 28,
40, 41, 48, 51, 82, 178, 204, 210, 215, 227, 254, 261-62, 271, 295, 299,
387, 425, 434, 436, 448; 10:18, 22, 24, 27, 42, 137, 174, 233, 234, 236,
252, 340, 355, 370, 000; at Mount Vernon, 6:199; 8:386-87, 436; id., 6:202;
and Custis estate, 6:202-16, 219-20, 238-45, 247-52, 253, 260-61, 263-64,
267, 269, 270-75, 282, 320, 349, 351; 7:85; guardianship, 6:203, 208,
211-12, 213, 214, 265; 7:81-84; courtship and marriage, 6:209, 212; 8:550;
9:209-11, 215-16, 219-20, 396, 467, 470, 473, 478, 480, 485; 10:31; his
portraits, 6:258; 9:36, 37, 433, 443; 10:79; books owned by, 6:297, 298,
299, 300, 474; 7:168, 300, 336, 343-45, 348-49, 478; 8:121, 270, 361,
435; 9:343-45; invoices of goods for, 6:316; 8:11, 49-50, 102, 136, 229,
230, 299, 368, 371, 400, 480, 506, 511, 516, 565; 9:64, 89, 109, 115,
232-33, 273, 277; goods for, 6:352, 355, 472, 473; 7:29, 76, 79, 96, 97,
130, 167, 197, 199, 256, 267-68, 293, 295, 328, 332-33, 357, 409, 410,
423, 433, 450, 457, 458, 476, 498; 8:8, 51, 97-99, 115, 195, 237-38, 239,
291, 306, 439, 500, 501, 502-3, 552; 9:61, 62-63; 10:76, 210, 270, 317,
357; his plantations, 6:352; 7:427; 9:1; his tobacco, 6:373, 414, 448,
471, 473; 7:34, 35, 53, 55, 75, 124, 142-43, 151, 152, 153-54, 189, 200-201,
252, 284, 325, 340, 341, 352, 393, 397, 398-99, 443-44, 445, 455, 466,
509; 8:7, 9-10, 11, 15, 80-81, 84-86, 89, 99, 102, 105, 137, 140, 205-6,
230, 231, 233, 369, 373-74, 482, 507; 9:12, 74, 127, 200, 272, 276, 297-98;
10:82, 83, 199; called Jacky, 6:475; accounts, 7:2, 61, 64-65, 82-83,
203, 305-6, 307, 316, 319, 323-24, 394, 435, 439, 451, 453, 461, 469,
477, 481, 508; 8:22, 77, 103, 136, 139, 156, 207, 238, 268, 290, 304,
342, 348, 355, 362, 424, 441, 486, 512, 532; 9:12, 14, 15, 19, 20, 30,
35, 53, 54, 91, 111, 112, 116, 117, 128, 132, 133, 151, 152, 167, 189,
208, 228, 252, 253, 294, 297, 317, 348, 355, 394, 395, 519; 10:37, 40,
77, 104, 106, 139, 168, 194, 197, 220, 249, 318; his slaves, 7:11; 8:311,
320, 357, 583-92; 10:138; his tobacco marks, 7:54, 158; his tutors, 7:77,
163, 229, 230, 326, 433, 444, 496, 514; 8:72; GW's guardianship accounts
for, 7:81-83, 86-90, 212-14, 216, 301-2, 368-70, 499-501; 8:198-99, 200-203,
455-59; 9:366-70; GW's book of accounts with, 7:83; and dispute over slave,
7:133; comes to live at Mount Vernon, 7:207; clothing for, 7:250, 321,
328, 372, 440, 452; debts owed to, 7:284, 285, 337, 450, 451, 482; 8:353;
9:220, 395, 432; 10:19, 107, 195-96, 214, 351-52; and bills of exchange,
7:298, 299; 8:59, 141, 142, 499; 10:82, 142, 185; his overseers, 7:318;
8:574; 9:433; his dancing master, 7:333, 334; 8:184, 365; and will of
John Custis of Hungars, 7:374; his land adjoining governor's palace, 7:427;
his music master, 7:438; 8:244; and European tour, 8:332-41, 348-49, 432,
466, 476-77, 489-92, 494-97; 9:164; keeps large balances with Gildart
and Hanbury, 8:11; given money, 8:78, 112, 127, 136, 266, 305, 376, 386,
405, 437, 438, 473; and Jonathan Boucher, 8:89-90, 94-97, 120, 122-27,
339, 349, 413-17, 548-50, 571-72; 9:15, 212, 294, 294, 297; his health
and medical care, 8:116, 122, 127, 128-29, 159; schoolmate, 8:125, 415-16,
550; 9:179; amusements, 8:128, 522; dower lands rented to, 8:195-97, 267,
401; weights of tobacco and list of goods ordered, 8:225; his business
letters to be addressed to GW, 8:228; Jonathan Boucher asks to borrow
from, 8:309, 324-25; inoculation, 8:333, 335, 387, 442-44, 446-48, 464-65;
9:8; near ruin of his estate, 8:341; visits Samuel Galloway's home, 8:367;
invoice containing taxed goods, 8:372; GW fears bad influences on, 8:411-12;
at Annapolis, 8:417, 465; 9:4-6, 16-19, 20, 208; crops made on his plantations
from 1760 to 1770, 8:421-24; his studies, 8:425-26; not to consort with
"low, loose Company," 8:432; remains in Baltimore for wedding, 8:463-64;
deficiencies of his education, 8:467, 478, 492-93; apologizes for poor
letters, 8:518-19; his runaway slaves, 8:520; 9:58, 172-73; discussion
of colleges to attend, 8:550; 9:154, 161-64; GW's bounty land rights to
be paid out of his money in Robert Cary's hands, 8:553; his land managers,
8:576; 9:21; accounts with Joseph Valentine, 8:586; land purchased for,
8:591; 9:27, 52, 374-79, 383, 385, 390, 393, 397, 400, 401, 402, 423,
424, 428; 10:84; stock inventory, 8:591; and Dunbar suit, 9:90, 312, 313;
at King's College, 9:164, 218, 223, 236, 237, 253-54, 264-67, 295, 326,
406-8, 441-42; 10:29-30; extent of his estate, 9:210; Myles Cooper discusses,
9:213-14; and Martha Parke Custis's death, 9:243, 253, 265, 266; wine
ordered for, 9:281, 282, 284; family, 9:287; praised, 9:325-26; his share
of Martha Parke Custis's estate, 9:373, 379; his money lent to John Augustine
Washington, 9:395; will not move to Mount Pleasant, 10:33-34; GW continues
to act as guardian, 10:38, 81; regimentals made for, 10:174; buys horse,
10:178, 179; and Philip Mazzei, 10:178, 179, 353; and Robert Cary, 10:199-200;
his desk and bookcase, 10:209; letters from: to GW, 8:375-76, 518-19;
9:264-67, 491; 10:373; to Martha Washington, 9:266-67; letters to:
from Capel and Osgood Hanbury, 7:238-39, 392-93, 452-53, 498; 8:17, 60-61,
77, 103, 137-38, 206, 265, 342, 375, 434, 474-75, 500; from Osgood Hanbury
& Co., 9:13, 13, 201; from Myles Cooper, 9:443; from Hanburys & Lloyd,
10:8-9. See also Custis estate
Custis, Leven, 7:374
Custis, Martha Dandridge, 6:329, 405, 437; 10:142; courtship and marriage,
5:103; 6:11, 13, 184, 189, 202, 366; GW visits, 5:221; authenticity of
GW's letter to, 5:312; family, 6:13; and Custis estate, 6:202-8, 217-20,
232-36, 264, 325, 367, 435; correspondence with British merchants, 6:203,
322, 324, 325; and loans to family and friends, 6:203, 426; her portraits,
6:258; ships tobacco, 6:317, 324, 411; settles annuity on mother, 6:418;
and Dunbar suit, 6:437; letters from: to John Hanbury & Co., 6:260;
to Robert Cary & Co., 6:260; letters to: from GW, 5:301; from John
Mercer, 6:211-12, 212; from Robert Cary & Co., 6:259, 323, 350, 351-52;
from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 6:324, 447-48. See also Washington,
Martha
Custis, Martha Parke, 3:241; 6:426, 469; 7:396, 411; 8:18, 20, 25, 42,
127, 164, 227, 245, 260, 264, 270, 271, 316, 325, 333, 376, 378, 396,
444, 449, 467, 498, 531; 9:7, 46, 74, 76, 101, 110, 113, 154, 164, 178,
184, 194, 210, 271, 277; 10:80; comes to Mount Vernon, 6:199; 7:207; id.,
6:202; and Custis estate, 6:202-16, 247-52, 253, 260-61, 262, 264, 267,
269, 274, 275-76, 282, 349, 351; 7:85; guardianship, 6:203, 208, 211-12,
213, 214, 265; 7:81-84; death, 6:209, 212; 9:237, 243, 253-54, 258, 265-67,
268, 324, 396, 442; 10:68; goods for, 6:316, 352, 355, 474; 7:29, 76,
79, 106, 130, 155, 157, 167, 197, 199, 250, 252-53, 254, 256, 293, 295,
309, 321, 325, 328, 329, 357, 372, 423, 450, 476; 8:8, 11, 49, 97-98,
229, 230, 238, 249, 269, 362, 363, 368, 371, 453, 506, 511, 516; 9:45,
63, 64, 109, 117, 132, 233, 288; given money, 6:328; 8:60, 78, 127, 136,
222, 266, 299, 355, 371, 386, 400, 441, 521, 565; accounts, 6:331, 457;
7:61, 64-65, 111; 8:82, 207, 267, 268, 346, 347, 362, 454; 9:29, 30, 35,
54, 74, 111, 112, 116, 167, 190, 283; 10:78, 104; called Patcy, 6:475;
her health and medical care, 7:2, 92; 8:70, 79, 166, 168, 169, 322, 352,
360, 363, 365, 376, 424, 432, 435, 453, 465, 467, 496, 531, 532; 9:28;
10:195; her tutor, 7:77, 163, 229, 230, 326, 433, 444, 496, 514; 8:72;
her guardian accounts, 7:81-82, 90-93, 214-16, 302-4, 370-71, 501; 8:199-200,
203-5, 459-63; 9:370-74, 376; GW's book of accounts with, 7:82, 83; her
bank stock, 7:82, 90, 112, 136; 8:205, 463; 9:379-80; 10:84; size of her
foot, 7:158; debts owed to, 6:206, 260-61, 276; 7:205, 437, 467, 469;
8:525, 530; 9:232; 10:229; her dancing master, 7:333, 334; 8:323; her
music master, 7:438; 8:91, 244; sees play, 8:128; and Amelia Posey, 8:167;
travels, 8:217, 240, 250, 251, 362, 442; 9:81, 82; GW charges visit to
springs to her, 8:240; her family, 8:295; length of her illness, 8:360;
9:244; invoice containing taxed goods, 8:372; her portraits, 9:36, 37;
parrot for, 9:208; her estate, 9:375; black wax in her honor, 10:158.
See also Custis estate
Custis, Peggy. See Wilson, Peggy Custis
Custis estate: accounts, 6:193, 197-98, 313, 320, 328, 339, 370-71, 377;
7:32, 61-65, 75, 82-93, 134, 190, 202-3, 212-16, 229, 230, 300, 301-4,
305, 307, 316, 323-24, 326, 367, 368-72, 393-94, 439, 440, 467, 469, 499-502;
8:10, 11, 15, 16, 103, 105, 137-38, 198-205, 206, 228, 264-65, 342, 375,
433-34, 455-63, 458, 474-75; 9:4-7, 12, 13, 16-19, 27, 30, 223, 253, 442-43;
10:8, 22, 30, 37, 76, 81-82, 142, 168, 199-200; settlement of the Daniel
Parke Custis estate, 6:201-313; on Eastern Shore, 6:320; and Hanbury,
6:322-24, 347, 366-67, 411, 447; 7:20-21, 31, 34-35, 53, 82, 88-89, 93,
131, 134, 151, 189, 199-200, 202, 238-39, 316-17, 352, 392-94, 413, 431-32,
443, 444, 452-53, 466, 498; and James Gildart, 6:324-26, 348; 7:32, 82,
88, 92, 123-24, 151-52, 200-201, 202, 307, 340-41, 397, 435, 455-56; and
Robert Cary, 6:326-27, 330, 348-52, 373, 375-76; 7:34-35, 53-54, 61-65,
82, 84, 86, 88, 111, 130, 135, 137, 153-55, 157-58, 162-63, 167, 168,
197, 199, 202-5, 212-13, 215, 230, 251-53, 256, 267-68, 284, 293, 295,
301, 305-6, 323-25, 332-33, 337, 369, 398-400, 409-10, 423, 444-45, 509;
tobacco, 6:373-74, 459; 7:20, 21, 31, 53-54, 61, 63-64, 75, 123, 124,
131, 134, 135, 142-43, 151-52, 153-55, 163, 189, 199-205, 214, 238-39,
251-53, 262, 284, 306, 307, 316, 317-19, 320, 324-25, 340-41, 352, 392-94,
397, 398-99, 402, 413, 431-32, 435, 443, 444-45, 452-53, 455-56, 462-63,
464, 466, 498, 509; 8:6-7, 9-11, 15, 17, 43-44, 60, 77, 80-81, 84-86,
89, 99-100, 102-3, 105-6, 115, 118-19, 130, 137-40, 142, 203, 206, 225,
228, 230, 233, 264-65, 342, 369, 375, 401, 421-23, 434, 458-59, 475, 480,
482, 499-500, 506, 515-16, 519-20; 9:13, 27, 63-64, 72-73, 74, 84-85,
115-16, 127, 173, 200-201, 231, 243, 254-57, 272, 276-77, 284, 297-98,
366, 369, 374; 10:8-9, 82, 83, 199-200; money paid to, 6:405-6, 416; 7:1,
85, 104, 108, 190, 191, 209, 212, 214, 215, 262, 298, 299, 302-4, 326,
335, 336, 366, 367, 369, 370, 371, 410, 437-38, 467, 469, 495, 499, 500,
501, 507; 8:50, 51, 52, 59, 82, 115, 140, 143, 191, 200, 202, 204, 238,
267, 304, 306, 329, 346, 452-53, 458, 462, 486, 530, 532; 9:19, 33, 53,
74, 116, 133, 220, 232, 355, 368-69, 371-72; 10:78; plantations allotted
to GW and John Parke Custis, 6:448; 7:211, 313, 318, 497; bank stock,
6:451-52; 7:63, 90, 111, 112, 136, 214, 326; 8:205, 463; 9:372, 374, 375,
379-80; 10:82-83, 84-85; goods ordered for, 6:473; 7:62-65, 76, 79, 96,
97, 130, 157, 158, 162, 167, 168, 197, 199, 213, 250-51, 252-53, 256,
267-68, 293, 295, 321, 322-23, 325-26, 328-29, 332-33, 341, 357, 369,
370-71, 409-10, 423, 433, 450, 456, 457, 476, 498; 8:7-8, 11, 49-50, 97-99,
102, 115, 136, 225, 229, 230, 299, 368, 371, 400, 500-501, 516, 552, 554,
565; 9:61, 62-64, 88, 89, 109, 115, 232-33, 273, 277, 343-44; GW's guardianship
of Custis children, 7:81-93; steward's missing account book, 7:82; 8:584,
585-86; GW's postsettlement adjustment with heirs, 7:83; GW's guardian
accounts, 7:86-93, 212-16, 301-4, 368-72, 499-502; 8:198-205, 455-63;
9:366-74; and dispute over slave, 7:133; and quality of tobacco, 7:155;
GW's account with farm managers, 7:205, 209, 261, 262, 298, 335, 336,
366, 410, 437-38, 469; 8:50, 82, 140, 143, 200, 267, 269, 346, 453; 9:19,
116, 131, 224, 227, 230, 369, 432; 10:353; and John Didsbury, 7:250-51,
293, 321, 369, 370-71; Joseph Valentine's missing dower accounts, 7:262;
Joseph Valentine's account of tobacco weights, 7:319; and Charles Lawrence,
7:322-23, 341; debts owed to, 6:201-313; 7:336; 9:395; 10:351-52; lists
of books in, 6:283-300; 7:343-50; and will of John Custis of Hungars,
7:373-74; plantations advertised for rent, 7:497; property rented, 8:61-62,
89, 225, 346; 9:19, 435, 436; tobacco declining in quality, 8:81; overseers,
8:89, 106, 482, 516, 574, 582, 585; 9:48, 89, 90, 140, 257, 258, 285,
393; Custis plantations, 8:126, 156, 423, 591-92; 9:1, 48, 85, 89, 257,
258; GW's rental of his dower lands to John Parke Custis, 8:195-97; 9:48,
366; dower plantations, 8:196, 582; 9:85, 140, 258, 393; crops made on
the Custis plantations by Joseph Valentine from 1760 to 1770, 8:421-24;
Mockhorn Island, 8:482; 9:72, 74, 86, 89; pays for education of Ann Smith's
children, 8:482; commissioners to supervise GW's management of, 8:487;
death of farm manager, 8:573-76, 578-82; inventories of livestock made
after Joseph Valentine's death, 8:582-85; lists of slaves on Custis plantations,
8:582-85, 587-92, 590-91; inventory of furnishings, etc., in town, 8:585;
inventory of stores, etc., in New Kent County, 8:585; agreement with farm
manager, 9:21; land bought for, 9:33, 366, 367, 374-80, 383-86, 389-90,
393, 394, 397, 399-401, 423-29, 435, 455-59, 470-73, 478-81; 10:84; slaves
in, 9:47, 58, 73, 74, 85-86, 87-88, 89, 134, 139-40, 172-73, 174, 232,
233, 256, 257, 258, 286, 287, 367-68; 10:41, 138; lawsuits, 9:48-49, 233,
285; farm managers, 9:89, 115; mills on, 9:89-90, 458; 10:22; extent of,
9:210; Eastern Shore land dispute, 9:231-32, 285-86; New Kent County land
dispute, 9:231-32, 286; Martha Parke Custis's estate devolves on GW and
John Parke Custis, 9:375; appointment of administrator by archbishop of
Canterbury, 10:84; bond given against discovery of will of Daniel Parke
Custis, 10:84. See also Custis, Daniel Parke; Custis, John Parke;
Custis, Martha Parke; Dunbar suit; Dunbar, Thomas
Custis house (Williamsburg), 6:219
Cuszine (Cozine), John, 1:26
Cuz (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587
Cuzzens, William, 6:452, 453; 7:120, 135, 136, 137, 138, 152, 154
Cyclopaedia; or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences,
6:300
Cyprian Dame, 1:203, 204
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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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Eaby (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Eaby (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587
Eachard, John, 6:293
Eachard, Laurence, 6:285, 291, 298
Eagle (ship), 8:70
Earle, James, 10:9
Earl of Halifax (ship), 5:128
Earp, America, 7:379
Easley, Thomas, 3:189, 190, 278
Eastern Shore plantation. See Arlington plantation
Easton, Henry, 5:336
Easton, Pa., 6:88, 106
Easton, Treaty of, 6:105, 364
Eater (Easter), Fips (Phipps) Jackson, 8:591; 9:33, 46, 366, 367, 368
Eaton, Moses, 8:5
Eaton, Thomas, 4:42
Eayzer, Jacob, 2:258
Eby (slave; Old Quarter), 8:590
Echota. See Chota (Echota)
Eckerlin (Echerlin), Gabriel, 4:366; 5:29, 47, 61
Eckerlin (Echerlin), Israel, 4:366; 5:29, 47, 61
Eckerlin (Echerlin), Samuel, 4:366; 5:4, 6, 20, 22, 29, 47, 59, 61
Eckerlin (Echerlin) family, 2:302
Eden, Caroline, 9:22-24, 49, 50, 51
Eden, Robert, 9:75, 91, 296; and Jonathan Boucher, 8:466, 467, 490; 9:165,
213, 215, 294; and John Parke Custis's grand tour, 8:490, 492, 497; id.,
8:493; and North Carolina Regulators, 8:493; GW dines with, 8:523; visits
Mount Vernon, 8:572, 573; 9:49, 50, 51, 194, 203, 210, 297, 313, 314,
324; and Lord Baltimore's will, 9:6-7, 18, 22-24; procures whaleboat for
GW, 9:24; and Potomac navigation, 9:40-41, 43-44; visits Benedict Calvert,
9:216, 295; account with, 9:238, 397, 462; servant bought for, 9:395;
and William Hughes, 9:518; 10:101; letters from: to GW, 9:193-94
Eden, T., & Co., 9:194
Eden, Thomas, 9:193, 194; 10:197, 199, 269; letters to: from GW,
9:351-52
Eden, Thomas, & Co.: letters from: to GW, 9:489; 10:74-75
Edinburgh (Prince George County), 6:466
Edmonds, Sterling, 8:452
Edmondson, Thomas, 3:253, 258; 5:179
Edmondston, Charles, 8:406
Edmund's Swamp (Pennsylvania), 5:365, 395; 6:30, 79, 80
Edrington, ----, 2:177
Edwards, Arthur, 8:474, 531
Edwards, David, 1:20, 31, 37; 7:1, 6
Edwards, Ignatius, 4:329-31, 334, 335, 353, 355, 360, 368-69
Edwards, Isaac, 10:195, 244, 245
Edwards, Joseph, Jr., 5:338
Edwards, Joseph (of Frederick County), 1:22, 30, 84; 2:57, 169, 282,
331, 332, 335, 346, 349, 350, 354; 3:121, 334-35, 343; his fort, 2:50,
77, 92, 93, 94, 150; 3:10, 11, 21, 22, 311, 336; 4:47; 5:161, 420; residence
of, 2:91; 4:149; id., 2:92; 3:30; and supplies for troops, 3:29; skirmish
at his fort, 3:158; letters to: from GW, 3:30
Edwards, Joseph (soldier), 6:47
Edwards, Nathaniel, 6:254; 7:366, 367
Edwards, Philip, 4:42
Edwards, Thomas (of Cacapon River), 1:20, 37
Edwards, Thomas (soldier), 6:47
Edwards, William: letters to: from GW, 9:205
Edwards's fort, 1:84; 3:18, 40, 72-75, 77-80, 266; 4:48; proposals for,
4:146, 154, 220-21; troops at, 5:67, 158, 161, 208, 211, 269; on GW's
map, 5:207, 237; id., 5:420
Eggleston, Joseph, 8:579, 580
Egmont, John Perceval, second earl of, 7:283, 388, 391
Egremont, Charles Wyndham, second earl of, 7:161, 162
Eight chirurgical treatises, 6:286
18th Regiment, 5:126; 6:87; 9:98
80th Regiment, 5:126
Eilbeck, Ann. See Mason, Ann Eilbeck
Eilbeck, Sarah Edgar, 10:254, 255, 265, 300
Eldridge, Robert, 2:231
Eleh (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Elements of Moral Philosophy, 9:344, 345
Elibank, Patrick Murray, fifth earl of, 6:454, 455
Elizabeth (ship), 7:326; 10:366
Elizabeth (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Elizabeth City County, 4:290; 8:52
Elliot, ----, 3:211
Elliott, John, 8:91
Ellis, Francis, 7:41
Ellis, Henry, 5:42-43; 6:364; 7:365, 366
Ellis, Philip, 7:379
Ellis, Thomas, 5:337
Ellis, William, 8:31
Ellison, John, 3:225; 4:42
Ellison, Thomas, 7:379
Ellison, William, 3:225; 4:42
Elly (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:589
Ellyson, Joseph, 9:398
Ellzey (Elzey, Elsey), Lewis, 2:122, 123; 7:361, 379; 8:147, 148
Ellzey (Elzey, Elsey), Thomazin (Thomasin), 7:103, 106, 174, 229, 361,
363, 384, 507, 510; 8:67, 247
Ellzey (Elzey, Elsey), William, 9:503, 505; and House of Burgesses election,
2:227-28; and insult to GW, 2:227-28; id., 7:508; 8:252; and GW's legal
work, 8:36, 252-53, 437, 438; 9:4; account with, 9:76; 10:19; practices
law, 9:263; letters to: from GW, 8:251-52
Elmore, Mathias, 1:30
Elsing Green, 9:439
Elswick, John, 1:20, 29, 36
Eltham, 6:340; 7:115; 9:376
Ely, bishop of, 6:296
Elzey, ---- (ship captain), 6:275
Emanuel (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Emanuel (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Emblems, divine and moral, 6:294; 7:348
Emre, John, 2:269
Endeavour (ship), 4:39, 400, 401, 402; 7:50
English, Mrs. ----, 2:301
An English dictionary, 6:289, 296; 7:347
The English examiner, 6:295
English liberties, 6:296; 7:347
The English orator, 6:292; 7:348
The English parnassus, 6:290; 7:347
The English rogue, 6:293
Ennis, Anne: letters to: from GW, 7:503
Ennis (Innis), James (express rider), 5:22-23
Ennis (Innis), James (of West Augusta), 10:134, 136, 262
Enoch, Enoch, 1:30; 2:321, 322
Enoch, Henry, 1:23, 31; 2:259, 355; 3:90, 96; his plantation, 2:76, 77,
158; 3:343; 4:149; and chain of forts, 3:127. See also Enoch's
fort
Enoch's fort, 2:288, 332, 339, 340; 3:11, 21, 22, 24-25, 29, 39, 41,
84, 127, 137, 145, 243-44, 246; proposals for, 4:10, 128, 146,
149; troops at, 5:149, 154
Ephrata, Pa., 2:302
Epigrams of Martial, 6:290
Epistles for the ladies, 7:345
Epistolae Familiares, 8:116, 121
Eppes, Francis, 4:41
Eppes, Richard, 3:170, 181
Epsom, 1:8
"Erasmus," 7:300, 302
Errington, John, 7:335
Erwin, Thomas. See Irwin, Thomas
Eskridge, Charles, 5:414, 415
Eskridge, George, 8:546, 547
Eskridge, Samuel, 5:415
An essay concerning the body of man, 6:288
An essay of health and long life, 6:288
Essay on the Characteristics, 9:344, 345
An Essay on the Culture and Management of Hemp, 10:287, 288
Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, 9:344
Essay on the Origin of Evil, 9:344, 345
The essays (Bacon), 6:288
Essex (slave; David Meade's), 7:315
Essex (slave; Dogue Run), 7:228, 313, 366, 443, 515; 8:103, 220, 357
Essex (slave; Muddy Hole), 7:139
Essex (slave; River farm), 8:357, 479; 9:55, 238; 10:137
Essex County, 4:290
Esten, James, 7:74, 352, 431, 432, 453; 8:60, 77, 84, 85, 138, 229, 234,
265, 341, 474; 10:81, 84; his ship, 7:20, 21; his ship captured, 7:75,
189; his ship carries tobacco, 7:89, 200, 238, 316, 443, 466, 509; 8:15,
17, 89, 103, 106, 137-38, 206, 228, 233, 342, 374, 375, 433-34, 499-500;
9:11-12, 72, 84, 200, 256-57; 10:8, 82, 142, 199; tobacco lost in his
ship, 7:200; and samples of hemp, 7:413; receives none of GW's tobacco,
9:254; death of, 10:186
Esther (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Esther (slave; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Esther (slave; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Esther (slave; Old Quarter), 8:590
Estill (Astin), Wallas, 4:395
Estill's fort. See Fort George (on Bullpasture River)
Etherington, Joseph, 6:398; 7:27, 126, 129, 193, 404, 446, 447
Etherington, T., 9:53
Etmueller, Michael, 6:287
Eugene, Prince, 6:355, 358, 400
Eugene (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Eugene (slave; York County), 6:229
Eulin (slave; York County), 6:229
Eustace, Hancock, 2:50; 3:25-26, 38-39, 72, 76, 77-79; appointments and
promotions, 2:40, 42, 260; 3:251; id., 2:49; 3:53; 4:294; orders to, 2:54;
3:153; military service, 2:148, 288; 3:428; 4:166, 205, 206, 273, 293,
311; company of, 5:187, 268; 6:32; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22;
letters to: from GW, 2:49
Eustace, William, 2:49
Evans, Barnaby, 1:221
Evans, David, 4:103, 326, 390
Evans, Edward (servant), 3:195-96
Evans, Edward (soldier), 9:122, 146
Evans, Isaac, 5:335
Evans, John, Jr., 7:285, 286, 314; 8:41
Evans, John (soldier), 4:42
Evans, Joshua, 8:169, 204
Evans, Lewis, 3:52, 338; 8:388
Evans, William (draftee), 3:222
Evans, William (of Frederick County), 5:336
Evans, William (sergeant), 3:253, 258
Evans's fort, 5:28, 67
Evans's ordinary, 7:286, 314; 8:41
Eve (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Eve (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Eve (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:584, 591
Eve (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Eveard, ----: and ammunition, 6:126
Evelin (slave; York County), 6:229
Everard, Thomas, 9:140, 437; commissioner for Custis estate, 6:265; appointed
commissioner to settle Indian accounts, 7:15; and guardian accounts, 7:93,
216, 304, 501; 8:202, 205, 459, 463; 9:370, 372; account with, 7:105;
9:117, 190, 363; id., 7:109; and Harrison Manley's suit, 8:546; clerk
of General Court, 8:547; death date corrected, 8:547; and bounty lands,
9:118, 132, 171, 355; 10:140, 195, 197; letters from: to GW, 9:101.
See also Errata
Everton (ship), 6:268; 7:32, 33, 123
Evitts Run, 9:169
Ewell, Bertrand, 3:97; 8:110
Ewing, James (of 3d Pennsylvania Battalion), 6:36, 50, 57
Ewings, William, 5:339
An Exact Abridgement of All the Public Acts of Assembly of Virginia,
in Force and Use, January 1, 1758, 6:370, 371; 7:344
An exact inquiry into . . . the acute diseases of infants, 6:296
The excise-bill versify'd, 6:286
An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England,
7:349, 409, 410
Eyre, Littleton (d. 1768), 1:71, 73; 2:162, 163; 6:230, 267, 268, 276;
7:335; 9:19; letters from: to GW, 7:373-74; letters to:
from GW, 7:372
Eyre, William, 5:294, 295, 395, 396
Eyre Hall, 7:374
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Fabbey (slave; York County), 6:229
The fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists, 7:344
Fair, William, 4:42
Fair American (ship), 6:267, 269, 277, 330, 348, 349-50, 378,
448, 450; 7:63
Fairfax, ---- (Miss), 7:298
Fairfax, Ann. See Washington, Ann Fairfax
Fairfax, Bryan, 1:40, 229, 269, 309; 4:100, 102, 310; id., 1:148; 6:19;
military service, 3:109-10, 124-26, 168-69, 173, 235, 247-48, 251, 285,
348, 369, 371, 428; 4:77, 100, 124, 226, 236-37, 260, 263, 278, 279; and
plan of Fort Loudoun, 3:249; courtship and marriage, 4:98-99, 101, 153;
5:415; 6:43; 7:232; runs away from home, 4:100-101, 152; repays brother's
loan, 5:137; gossip about, 5:414; his poor health and depression, 6:18;
account with, 6:377; 7:186, 309; 8:146, 147, 156, 263, 368, 369, 432;
9:113; 10:177, 356; land transactions, 7:41, 209, 211, 279, 351; 9:8-9,
68-69, 134-35; 10:107; his homes, 7:70, 233; 8:118; family, 7:300; 9:69;
his sale, 7:441; goes to England, 7:442; and the Savage affair, 7:503-5;
8:107-10, 113, 114, 251, 406-7, 408-9, 410, 523-24; 9:4, 10, 101-2, 413;
10:31, 278; his dogs, 8:407; GW lends money to, 9:8-9, 151, 152; debt
to William Savage, 9:31, 32; hunting, 9:184; declines to run for Burgesses,
10:105, 107; letters from: to GW, 1:147-48; 4:18-22; 6:18-19; 8:117-18,
119, 261-63, 328, 406-7, 420-21; 9:8-9, 32, 68-69, 77-79, 134-35, 152-53,
183; 10:66-67, 106-9, 114-19, 143-50, 174-75; letters to: from
GW, 8:118, 119, 408-9; 10:109-10, 128-31, 154-56
Fairfax, Catherine, Lady, 1:39; 5:70
Fairfax, Deborah Clarke, 1:148, 262; 4:101
Fairfax, Elizabeth Cary, 7:232; 9:78, 134-35, 183; 10:108. See also
Cary, Elizabeth
Fairfax, George William, 1:10, 39, 41, 43, 144, 174, 199, 229, 231, 236,
263, 290, 292; 2:133; 3:94, 250; 4:6, 9, 100, 101, 152, 238, 422; 5:2,
5, 102, 342, 380; 6:12, 27, 182, 314, 382, 443, 447, 448, 474; 7:54, 55,
257, 309, 352, 379, 391, 404, 426, 478; 8:30, 58, 67, 144, 210; 9:1, 45,
75, 84, 136, 468; 10:42, 114, 154, 208; his lands, 1:26, 28, 35; 6:315;
8:6; 9:133, 142; id., 1:40; 2:107; 5:329; 7:40; and Ohio Company, 1:59;
sponsor for Indian, 1:125; illness of, 1:142, 174; 10:81; and map of Ohio,
1:178; and House of Burgesses, 1:264, 291, 293; 2:227; 5:265; and horses,
1:303, 316, 317, 323, 328, 346; 7:158-59; travels to Fort Cumberland,
1:303; offices held, 3:95; 5:69; 9:447, 449; offers to serve as officer
under GW, 3:108; and placement of forts, 3:125-26, 127; and funds for
rangers, 3:315, 320, 360; goods for, 4:99; 7:491; 9:475; goes to England,
4:429-30; 5:19, 68-70, 93, 329; 6:451, 452, 460; 7:37, 40-41; 9:299, 328,
446, 474; 10:286; in New York, 5:17, 18; family, 5:56, 373, 408, 438;
6:13, 19; 7:64; 8:432; his ship attacked, 5:69; and GW's election, 5:262,
263, 329, 343; and construction at Mount Vernon, 5:390-91, 450; 7:159;
and goods for GW, 5:449-50; marriage, 6:12; as agent for Lord Fairfax,
6:183, 418, 427; 7:103; has key to Mount Vernon, 6:200; and Thomas Dent,
6:332; 7:240; 8:68; and Maurice Pound, 6:369; and the races, 6:370, 406;
and Clifton suit, 6:410, 434; accounts with, 6:417; 7:373, 427, 428, 465,
469, 481; 8:20, 21, 41, 60; 9:13, 131, 252, 340, 341, 396, 412, 433, 467;
10:19, 21, 77, 78, 100, 180, 193; and ironworks, 6:458; 9:449; dispute
over Belvoir land, 7:40; and a gardener for Mount Vernon, 7:95; desires
Lord Fairfax to reside at Belvoir, 7:96; his tobacco, 7:137, 138, 203;
8:51; 10:286; his agents, 7:138; 9:185, 348, 350-51; his return to Virginia,
7:159, 232; renovation of his house, 7:233; and Mississippi Company, 7:260,
261; and Truro Parish, 7:296-97, 361, 384, 428-29; 8:247; 10:100, 140,
317, 319; his groom, 7:319; and Joseph Davenport, 7:406, 408; and the
Savage affair, 7:502-3, 506-7, 513, 514; at Warm Springs, 8:5, 18, 21,
240, 243; GW divides Warm Springs expenses with, 8:24; and bills of exchange,
8:51, 52; 10:185, 189; his servants, 8:143, 424; GW's debt to, 8:167;
at Mount Vernon, 8:168, 355; Mrs. Posey takes refuge with, 8:255; and
bounty lands for John Carlyle, 8:366; GW oversees his affairs, 9:160;
10:234, 316, 352; to buy mourning trinkets, 9:277; his gardener, 9:293;
10:19, 177; and rental of Belvoir, 9:298; 10:94-95, 281-82; and sale of
Belvoir land, 9:298; his chancery suit in England, 9:299, 448; list of
bonds due to, 9:299; gets discharge of quitrents from Lord Fairfax, 9:300;
sale and inventory of furnishings, 9:306-7, 321, 322; 10:139; his crops,
9:325; and the bloomery, 10:25, 132, 136, 156-57; his power of attorney
to Craven Peyton, 10:37; management of his affairs, 10:60; his rents,
10:76; blank bonds and bills for, 10:77, 79; his steward, 10:80; his tenants,
10:85-86, 368; and Delaware Lottery, 10:176; and George Mercer's affairs,
10:282; his ledger, 10:282-83; his executor, 10:286; his letters intercepted,
10:286; and John Syme, 10:351; and Robert Morris, 10:357; letters from:
to Robert Dinwiddie, 2:3, 32; 3:108; to GW, 3:107-9; 5:18-19, 68-70, 328-29,
371-73, 436-38, 438-39; 6:19-20; 7:39-41, 95-96, 412-13; 8:315-17; 9:142,
153, 165, 183-84, 298-300, 386-87, 445-50; 10:18, 103, 281-86; to Lord
Fairfax, 5:69; 7:96; to Sarah Cary Fairfax, 5:70, 93-94; to Charles Green,
7:39-41; to ----, 7:96; to William Savage, 7:506-7; letters to:
from GW, 1:302-4; 2:135-36; 5:407, 423; 6:10, 38-41, 481-82; 7:15, 32,
60, 61, 158-59, 231-32, 232-33, 233-35, 260-61; 8:353-55; 9:153, 159-60,
332, 347-48, 421; 10:59, 94-101, 101, 152, 186, 319, 331, 367-68; from
George Mason, 7:424-25; from William Savage, 7:506; from George Mercer,
9:304
Fairfax, Hannah, 1:174, 236, 261, 269, 309; 3:418; 4:100, 102, 310; 5:372;
7:233; id., 1:148, 262; 5:373; family, 5:408; and "Matrimonial Scheme,"
6:42; marriage, 6:43; visits England, 7:37, 40-41, 159. See also
Washington, Hannah Fairfax
Fairfax, Henry, 4:430
Fairfax, Robert, 5:69, 70; 8:190, 354, 355, 432
Fairfax, Sally Cary (b. 1760), 7:300; 9:68, 69; 10:108
Fairfax, Sarah. See Carlyle, Sarah Fairfax
Fairfax, Sarah Cary (Sally; c.1730-1811), 1:41, 142, 144, 148, 174, 200,
236, 260, 273, 276, 277, 307; 3:108; 4:100, 101, 310, 311; 5:372, 436;
6:20, 27; 7:96, 159, 233, 234, 412; 8:20, 58, 316, 353; 9:68, 84, 160,
299, 304, 347, 387, 446, 448; 10:368; id., 1:40, 144, 148; 3:250, 419;
4:102; 5:56; family, 1:41, 43; 5:373, 415; 6:20; 7:40; 10:98, 100; and
horse for GW, 1:283, 290; goes to Hampton, 2:132; and goods for the Washingtons,
4:405; 6:449; goes to England, 5:329; 6:451; 7:37, 40-41; 9:328, 474;
marriage, 6:12; and GW, 6:13; account with, 7:35; 8:329; 9:53; ill health,
7:39, 40, 260; 9:11, 142, 386; 10:81; goods for, 7:64, 256; at Warm Springs,
8:18, 243; Mrs. Posey takes refuge with, 8:255; never returns to America,
9:299; letters from: to GW, 1:346; 5:439; letters to: from
GW, 1:261-62, 279-80, 308-9; 3:418-19; 5:56-57, 93-94, 100; 6:10-13, 41-43;
from George William Fairfax, 5:70, 93-94
Fairfax, Sarah Walker (wife of William Fairfax), 1:40
Fairfax, William, 1:7, 40, 44, 52, 57, 66, 81, 107, 144, 148, 190, 199,
229, 234, 260, 262, 290, 292, 293, 303, 320; 2:195, 207, 215; 3:108; 4:409;
7:70; helps GW's career, 1:8-9, 10, 99; id., 1:40, 259; 2:351; 3:57; 4:100;
5:329; and frontier defense, 1:66; and council with Indians, 1:99, 100,
106, 142; on disparity of pay for different troops, 1:108, 109; medal
for, 1:121; illness and death, 1:142; and independent companies, 1:175;
and Robert Orme, 1:247, 249; and recommendations for military offices,
2:35; 4:58; on Denis McCarty, 2:123; 4:53, 63-64; clothing for troops,
2:290-91, 315; and militia, 3:68; county lieutenant of Fairfax County,
3:108; 4:237; and uniforms for officers, 4:98; president and acting commander
in chief, 4:118-19, 429; commission for son, 4:392, 397; illness and funeral,
4:392, 425, 430; 5:17, 27, 82; GW's esteem for, 4:408; GW's correspondence
with, 4:415; and Belvoir, 7:40-41; his book in Mount Vernon library, 7:344,
349; letters from: to GW, 1:106, 113, 173-74, 177-78, 201-3, 316-19,
345-46; 2:132-33, 351-52; 3:56-58, 94-95, 109-10, 124-27, 167-69, 234-35,
247-50, 284, 346-48, 386-87; 4:98-102, 118-20, 124-26, 152-53, 226-27,
236-37, 263, 278-80, 309-11, 323, 364-65; letters to: from Lawrence
Washington, 1:53; from GW, 1:113, 183-88, 187, 257-60, 262-64, 298-302;
3:28, 119, 213; 4:95, 112, 222-23, 260-61, 309, 339; from Robert Dinwiddie,
4:58
Fairfax, William Henry (Billy), 4:430; commissions, 4:310-11, 323, 364,
392, 397, 408-9, 422; 5:17, 71, 130, 136; 6:19, 43; death, 4:311; 5:137;
military service, 5:129; 6:42; GW lends money to, 5:137; his land, 9:9,
77, 78; letters from: to GW, 5:70-71; letters to: from GW,
5:136-37
Fairfax (Anne and Elizabeth, Farmer; ship), 9:406,
408; 10:77, 80, 180; carries flour and fish to West Indies, 9:70, 79,
123, 165, 174, 188; GW buys and renames, 9:71; 10:21, 42; insurance on,
9:82-83; purchased by Daniel Jenifer Adams, 9:157, 158; attached, 9:239;
bottomry bond on, 9:387; account with, 9:463; 10:104, 105, 106, 195, 196,
317; mate on, 10:19; and GW's sale of, 10:32-33, 56, 58, 336, 356; register
for, 10:40; expenses of, 10:194; yawl for, 10:197; sailors desert, 10:209;
sails for Lisbon, 10:210; delay in returning from Indies, 10:226; carries
salt, 10:318, 332
Fairfax (Indian). See Canachquasy
Fairfax (ship): John West's brig, 8:475
Fairfax County: division of, 1:291, 292, 293; elections in, 2:226, 227-28;
5:265; 7:377-84; 8:144-49, 246; 9:36; 10:105, 308; militia, 3:27, 28,
55, 56-57, 67-69, 71, 76, 80, 83, 88-89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 99, 106,
108, 127, 128, 137, 139, 146, 148, 150, 159, 234, 235, 248, 266, 267,
277-78, 284, 296, 346-47, 386; 4:222-23, 226, 227, 236-37, 243, 247, 253-54,
260, 263, 265, 267, 278, 279, 290, 291, 309, 363; volunteers from, 3:67-69,
71, 80, 91, 99, 106; county lieutenant of, 3:108; 4:237; new commission
of the peace for, 3:363; GW's land in, 6:183, 427, 429; 7:103, 174, 228,
278, 313, 350, 377, 516; 8:283; 9:431; court sets levy for, 6:428; old
courthouse, 7:179; poll sheets, 7:377-84; 8:144-49; sheriffs of, 8:42,
53, 122, 356, 474, 522; 10:39, 196; murders by slaves in, 8:215; clerks
of, 8:223; 9:188; 10:278; petitions from, 9:453; 10:62, 63; court dates,
9:488; 10:215; public tobacco warehouses in, 10:27; organization of militia,
10:254, 255; George Mason chosen as delegate to Convention, 10:364
Fairfax County Associators: letters from: to Peyton Randolph,
8:487-89
Fairfax County Committee, 10:127, 187, 200, 236-37; letters to:
from GW, 10:363-65
Fairfax County Resolves, 10:110, 112, 115, 118, 119-28, 127, 128-29
Fairfax family, 1:40, 267, 269, 289; 8:19
Fairfax Independent Company, 10:220, 221, 224, 237, 248, 308; items ordered
for, 10:240-41, 338; GW pays toward their expenses, 10:317; tithes collected
for weapons, 10:318; size roll, 10:345; letters from: to GW, 10:173-74,
344-45
Fairfax of Cameron, Thomas Fairfax, fifth Baron, 1:39
Fairfax of Cameron, Thomas Fairfax, sixth Baron, 1:18, 221, 262, 346;
2:89, 198, 252, 333, 335, 339, 340; 3:47, 108, 284, 364; 4:417, 429; 5:343,
344, 352, 444, 446; 6:26, 183; 7:240; 8:68, 144; 10:178; surveys for,
1:8, 9, 10, 27, 30, 35, 37, 40, 48; and land grants, 1:16, 35, 47; 8:52,
261, 437, 570; 9:170; quitrents for, 1:16; id., 1:39-40; 3:19; 5:343;
appointed justice, 1:40; county lieutenant of Frederick, 1:40, 67, 346;
2:75; 3:267; homes and offices, 1:40; 5:445; 7:95, 233; and militia, 1:41,
48; 2:63, 73, 87, 88, 101, 104, 161; 3:34, 59, 64, 362, 405; and 1748
surveying party, 1:265; loan to GW, 1:265; reports on Indian attacks,
2:90; and rangers, 2:92, 315; 3:315; 5:350, 351; acting county lieutenant
of Culpeper, 3:27; and South Branch Manor, 3:52; and Thomas Caton, 3:100;
and John Baylis, 3:120; and tippling houses, 3:208, 361; and Lord Loudoun,
3:347; and William Ramsay, 4:355; subscriber to American Magazine,
5:49; inheritance, 5:70; abuse of by soldiers, 5:84; account with GW,
5:112; 7:105, 109; family of, 5:263; 6:43; 7:44; 8:432; proprietor of
Northern Neck, 6:427; Bryan Martin a bad influence on, 7:95; his agents,
7:103, 461; 9:440; and land dispute with Hite family, 8:383-84; his proprietary
line, 8:388; and George William Fairfax's business, 9:300, 436; and rental
of Belvoir, 10:179; letters from: to GW, 3:267, 384-85; 8:190-91;
letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:33, 67, 266; 3:320; from GW,
1:39-40, 265-66; 3:19-20, 27, 380-82; 9:168-69; from George William Fairfax,
5:69; 7:96
Fairfax Parish: vestry elections, 7:361-63, 384-85; created, 7:362-63;
GW's tithables in, 7:377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 357, 479; 9:55, 238-39;
10:137; GW designates voters from parish on poll list, 7:383-84; collector
of levies for, 8:356; churches in, 9:180-83; 10:187; rectors of, 9:191;
10:187
Fairfax Proprietary. See Northern Neck of Virginia
Fairfield, 8:570
Fairley, George, 4:42
Falconer, John, 6:36
Fall Hill, 2:175
Falling Springs, 4:183
Falling Waters, 4:183
Falls Church, 7:296-97; 8:53, 306; 9:181; 10:187
Falls of Potomac warehouse, 10:27
Falls of the Ohio, 1:70; 9:246-48, 251
Falls plantation, 9:376-77, 384, 390, 400, 458-59, 481
Falls warehouse, 9:189
Falman, Henry. See Talman, Henry
Falmouth, Va., 1:153; 3:55; 6:332
Familiar letters (Rochester's), 6:292
The family-dictionary, 6:287
The family physician, 6:295; 7:347
The famous and pleasant history of Parismus, 6:293
Fanney (dower slave), 8:401
Fanny (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Fanny (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Fanny (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Fanny (slave; York County), 6:229
Fanny Murray (horse), 8:193
Farell, Joseph, 6:442, 449
Farell & Jones, 7:104, 108; 8:86; letters to: from GW, 6:441-42,
475
Faret, Nicholas, 6:296
Fargie (Forgie), Winter, 2:40, 41
Farley, Francis, 7:271, 273; 8:50
Farmer, Francis, 4:390
Farmer (ship). See Fairfax (Anne and Elizabeth,
Farmer; ship)
The farmer's compleat guide, 7:344, 348
Farrar, George, 5:341
Farrar (Farrer), Richard, 8:46
Farrar (Farrer), Richard, & Co., 6:248, 336, 337, 402; 7:28-29, 124,
198, 353-54, 422-23, 432, 475
Farrar & Garrett, 8:297-98, 398, 560, 565; 9:104
Farrers & Parrett, 8:565
The Farrier's Dispensatory, 6:300
Farriery Improved, 6:300
Farrington, Samuel, 1:29
Fatimer, Little (slave; Mill farm), 10:137, 138
Fatimer (slave; Mill farm), 10:137, 138
Fauntleroy, Apphia Bushrod, 1:50
Fauntleroy, Elizabeth (Betsy; 1736-1792), 1:49, 50
Fauntleroy, Elizabeth (wife of William Fauntleroy, 1713-1793), 1:49
Fauntleroy, Margaret Murdoch, 1:49, 50
Fauntleroy, Moore, 10:23
Fauntleroy, Moore, Jr., 3:187, 188
Fauntleroy, William (1684-1757), 1:49-50
Fauntleroy, William (1713-1793): letters to: from GW, 1:49-50
Fauquier, Catherine Dalston, 6:191, 192, 381
Fauquier, Francis (1703-1768), 3:111; 5:238, 239, 307, 352, 410; 6:26,
39, 41, 70, 88, 134, 160, 173, 182, 184-85, 196, 380-81, 454, 465; 7:58,
113, 171; and Robert Stewart, 2:36; 6:168, 169, 188, 468, 469; 7:71, 72,
161, 162; on Henry Woodward, 2:66; his courier, 2:186; 6:23; arrives in
Virginia, 5:60, 82, 213-14, 221; and election decree, 5:263; and Indians,
5:268; 6:82; and House of Burgesses, 5:329; 7:384, 386; and rangers, 5:350-51,
423; and construction at Fort Loudoun, 5:351, 373-74, 423; 6:76; and council,
5:443; funds requested from, 6:3; and military bill, 6:23, 49, 88, 124;
speech to assembly, 6:23, 371; well-regarded, 6:81; and commissions for
officers, 6:93, 94, 102; and pay for light horse, 6:171; and Adam Stephen,
6:174; 7:114, 115; and command of Virginia Regiment, 6:314; and continuation
of Virginia Regiment, 6:391-92, 419-20; and South Carolina Indian war,
6:419; and relief of Fort Loudoun (in Cherokee country), 6:432, 433; and
pay for captured soldiers, 6:466; approves officers, 6:470; and orders
for new elections, 7:14, 384; and Jacob Van Braam, 7:36-37; proclaims
George III king, 7:44; makes brevet appointments, 7:52; and petition of
Virginia Regiment, 7:119; and Virginia treasury notes, 7:217; and draft
of militia, 7:237; and militia accounts, 7:338; and Ohio Company, 8:32;
and the Proclamation of 1763, 9:94; letters from: to Baron Anson,
2:66, 67; to GW, 5:241-43, 303, 397; 6:22-23, 63, 63-65, 111-12, 154-55,
165, 191-92; to William Byrd, 5:314, 444; 6:175; 7:20; to John Forbes,
6:164, 166, 191; to John Buchanan, 6:165; to Jeffery Amherst, 6:190, 197;
7:72, 122; to Board of Trade, 6:314; letters to: from GW, 5:219-22,
229-30, 275-76, 369-71, 439-44; 6:44-47, 52-53, 98-100, 113-14, 158-60,
161-64, 165-66; from William Byrd, 5:443; 6:112, 164; 7:42; from John
Forbes, 6:163; from Adam Stephen, 7:52, 72; from Jeffery Amherst, 7:72;
from Truro Parish Vestry, 7:428-29
Fauquier, Francis (c.1731-c.1805), 6:191, 192
Fauquier (ship), 7:75, 131, 134, 142, 316, 352, 393, 413, 432,
444, 453, 466
Fauquier County, 5:185; 8:55, 283, 284, 384; 9:431; 10:20
Fauquier Independent Company, 10:263, 264
Faustina, 6:400
Faw, ----: brings beef from Goose Creek, 7:286
Faws, Andrew, 10:283
Fayling, ----: and Bank of England stock, 6:452
Feagin, Edward, 9:439
Fearnaught (horse), 4:243
Fee Bill, 10:97, 158
Fell, Robert, 4:426; military service, 4:296, 297, 298, 319, 336, 339,
340, 423, 432; 5:2; resignation, 5:6; and dispute with John Baylis, 5:97;
id., 5:97; letters to: from GW, 4:320
Felts, Aaron, 4:332
Female grievances debated, 6:295
Fendall, Benjamin, 7:62, 65, 209, 212
Fendall, John, 6:329
Fendall's ferry, 7:212
Fent (Feint), Joseph, 4:175, 244, 303, 311, 410; military service, 3:253;
4:277, 303, 305, 340, 359-60, 361, 368, 386, 407, 432; 6:346-47; id.,
3:258; acts as surgeon, 3:295, 296, 310; captured, 4:161-62, 163, 164,
170
Fenton, Arthur, 10:281, 301
Fenton, Richard, 7:267
Ferguson, Adam, 9:344, 345
Ferguson, Duncan, 2:145, 147; 9:404, 405
Ferguson, James, 4:42
Ferguson, John, 4:42
Ferguson, Joseph, 6:256
Ferguson, Joshua, 7:362, 379, 384
Ferguson, Thomas, 3:118, 253, 258; 4:276
Ferguson, William (of Amelia County), 4:42
Ferguson, William (of Fairfax County), 7:379; 8:145, 146
Ferries. See individual volumes
Ferry farm (Mount Vernon), 8:401, 402, 479; 9:54, 238
Ferry Farm (Upper Quarter; King George County), 1:129; 2:352; 3:4; 4:237;
9:30; deed for, 1:5, 7; id., 5:79; purchase of land at, 5:244; owned by
GW, 7:103, 331; Mary Washington moves from, 8:455; GW surveys, 8:522;
GW takes over management of, 8:522, 532; overseer, 9:138; William Fitzhugh
rents part of, 9:138; sale of, 9:150; 10:2-3, 23, 27-28; name of, 10:3,
349; valuation of stock at, 10:348-49
Field, George, 3:408
Field, John, 5:248, 249; his militia company, 3:106, 137, 267; id., 3:143;
5:233; 7:340; volunteers to remain on frontier, 3:340-41, 344, 351, 373;
his company in Forbes expedition, 5:193, 266, 268, 289, 367, 371; 6:32,
108, 127; in Forbes expedition, 5:215; 6:128, 129, 132, 133; complaint
against, 5:232-33; praised, 7:338; and settlement of militia accounts,
7:338-39; letters to: from GW, 3:142-43, 147-48
Field, William, 2:344, 347
Fielding, Henry, 7:345
Fife, John, 5:341
Fifteenmile Creek (Maryland), 1:45
58th Regiment, 6:455
55th Regiment, 5:98, 294, 295, 396
Fincastle County, 9:418, 502, 512; 10:71, 152, 280-81, 291, 363
Finch, Gascoigne, & Co., 7:430
Findley, William, 6:122-23
Finney, ----: and Custis estate, 6:266
Finnie, ---- (Alexander Finnie's son), 9:365
Finnie, Alexander, 1:204; 3:55; 5:203, 277; id., 1:205; 4:235; 5:182;
and adjutancy of militia, 1:207, 208; 6:384, 385; his accounts, 2:304;
3:324; and bounty money, 3:325, 331, 332, 376; and Edmond Atkin, 4:233;
5:22; and Forbes campaign, 5:182; 6:364; his taverns, 7:190, 191; and
bounty lands, 9:365
First Continental Congress, 10:143, 174, 000, 000
First Highland Battalion. See 77th Regiment
Fish, John, 8:295, 299
Fisher, George, 1:3
Fisher, John, 4:323-33, 390
Fisher, William, 4:152
Fithian, Philip, 8:73
Fitzgerald, John, 9:396, 399, 463; 10:173, 191, 248, 249; letters
to: from GW, 10:200-201
Fitzgerrald, James, 4:391
Fitzgerrald, William, 4:391
Fitzhugh, ----: and Strother land dispute, 7:308
Fitzhugh, Ann Frisby Rousby, 1:51
Fitzhugh, Daniel: letters to: from GW, 3:28
Fitzhugh, George, 1:51
Fitzhugh, Henry (1723-1783), 4:259; 10:255, 300; military service, 3:117,
129-31; county lieutenant of Stafford, 3:118; 4:281; and Strother land,
5:79; and Mississippi Company, 7:219-23, 224, 416, 512; 8:153; id., 7:224;
letters to: from GW, 4:258, 281-82
Fitzhugh, John, 3:28
Fitzhugh, William, 2:219-23, 224
Fitzhugh, William (1650-1701), 10:300
Fitzhugh, William (1721-1798; of Maryland), 2:1; 9:193, 194; and militia
adjutancy, 1:50, 51, 53, 55; id., 1:51; 2:239; 6:178; 7:65, 442; and Braddock
campaign, 1:270, 271; and expedition against Indians, 2:2; and Dagworthy
controversy, 2:238; suggested to command Virginia Regiment, 6:178; slaves
purchased from, 7:62; his skipper, 7:441; and GW's whaleboat, 9:25, 91;
letters from: to GW, 1:223-25; letters to: from GW, 1:225-27
Fitzhugh, William (captain; 1729-1785), 7:224, 513; 8:153
Fitzhugh, William, Sr. (of Marmion; 1725-1791), 7:224, 513; 8:153
Fitzhugh, William, Jr. (of Somerset and Chatham; 1741-1809), 10:292,
297; id., 7:224; 8:571; 9:312; and Mississippi Company, 7:416, 512; 8:63,
153; and Byrd lottery, 8:194; election, 8:569; rents Ferry Farm, 9:138,
149-50; 10:27; account with, 10:76, 352; his quarters in Fairfax County,
10:255, 300; letters to: from GW, 10:353
Fitzpatrick, ---- (widow), 4:426
Fitzpatrick, James, 4:333, 390
Fitzpatrick, John C., 1:4, 71
Flat Run, 1:9, 36
Fleecen, ---- (of Philadelphia), 10:190, 191
Fleeson, Plunket, 10:191
Fleet Prison (London), 7:337
Fleets Bay, 8:570
Fleming, ----: account with, 8:23
Fleming, ----s: petition for land grant, 8:31
Fleming, Thomas (officer), 5:268, 279, 289, 363, 364; 6:32; 8:31
Fleming, Thomas (shipwright), 7:379; 8:146, 147, 329, 377; 9:463; 10:77
Fleming, William, 2:182, 220, 272, 302, 330; 3:132, 134, 204, 362, 395,
397; 4:185, 327, 328, 358; 6:8, 95; 10:247; appointments and commissions,
2:3, 40, 42, 260; 3:251; military service, 2:14, 150, 181, 188, 224, 237,
271, 302; 3:114, 131, 428; 4:17, 122, 166, 167, 205-6, 329, 340, 346,
406, 432; 5:135; surgeon, 2:80, 143, 145, 319; 3:325; 4:17, 102-3, 287,
347-48; id., 2:143; 3:277; misconduct of, 2:144; accounts, 2:319; 3:369,
402-3; 4:273, 274; complaints against Peter Hog, 4:326; address to GW,
6:178-81; petition for land grant, 8:31; and western lands, 8:41; visits
GW, 8:573; petition for pension, 10:245-47, 311; letters from:
to GW, 2:181; 3:222; 5:14-15; letters to: from GW, 2:143-44; 3:276-77
Fletcher, John, 6:400
Fletcher, Philip, 7:107, 110
Fling, Matthew, 3:76, 195, 409
Flint, ----: GW buys horse from, 8:21
Flint, John, 8:23
Flint, Thomas, 8:23
Flood, William, 7:219-22, 224, 512; 8:153
Flora (slave; Dogue Run), 7:228, 313, 377, 443
Flora (slave; River farm), 7:139, 313
Flora (statue of), 6:399
Florence, Italy, 7:277
The florist's vade-mecum, 6:295, 299
Flougherty (Flairty), Patrick, 3:369, 371
Flowerdewe, Thomas, 5:172
Flowerdewe & Norton, 5:172
The flower garden display'd, 6:299
The flower Piece, 6:291
Flowing Springs, 7:415
Floyd, John, 9:511, 512; 10:320; surveys bounty lands, 10:70, 71, 151,
245, 280, 281, 311, 332-33; flees from Kentucky, 10:152; account against
GW, 10:247, 248; letters from: to William Preston, 10:88
Foley, James, 1:84
Foley, Richard, 5:335
Fonblanque, John & Anthony, 6:402, 404; 7:130
Fontaine, Peter, 4:367
Forbes, Duncan, 6:299
Forbes, John, 1:79; 2:167; 4:177, 196, 294; 5:110, 124, 133, 155, 158,
168, 181, 238, 242, 243, 264-65, 276, 279, 285, 289, 291, 295, 314, 318,
324, 347-48, 376, 385, 397, 398, 409, 421; 6:6-7, 17, 19, 37, 54, 58,
70, 75, 151, 153, 161, 162, 165, 174, 188, 194; and Fort Duquesne expedition,
2:36; 5:102, 115, 118; 6:30, 120, 123; 8:33, 73, 88, 92, 289, 304, 545;
9:308, 309; and commission for Robert Stewart, 5:63, 137, 380; opinion
of John Smith's scheme, 5:104; to replace Stanwix, 5:117; id., 5:118;
relations with GW, 5:118, 138, 148, 320; 6:24, 187; officers under, 5:119,
143, 377; and route to Fort Duquesne, 5:119, 247, 272, 345, 371, 375,
441; and Indians, 5:122, 127, 131, 134, 139, 164-66, 175, 241, 243, 303;
6:71, 103, 145, 158, 159; his brigade major, 5:125; and troops, 5:132,
136, 182, 236, 330, 344; 6:39, 44, 118-19, 160, 172; orders from, 5:142-43,
169, 197-98, 201, 231, 251, 287, 322, 364-65, 394, 427, 434; 6:1, 56,
78, 103, 108, 117, 132, 152; John Blair disobeys, 5:192; and allowance
for officers, 5:200; meetings, 5:203, 325, 446; 6:6, 24, 60; and supplies,
5:211, 299, 311; 6:45, 64, 82, 90, 99, 104, 105, 120, 152, 153; movements
of, 5:223, 304, 319, 321, 346, 382, 429; 6:6, 10, 21, 31, 35, 37, 93,
94, 99, 101, 103, 106, 107, 108, 112, 113, 137, 145, 152, 160, 189; plan
of march, 5:227; illness, 5:244, 347, 362, 370, 395, 406, 411, 416, 431,
441; 6:8-9, 14, 21, 161; road construction, 5:252; 6:104, 150; and Indian
garb for troops, 5:257-58, 259, 286, 290; and brigade major for Virginians,
5:309, 313, 362, 442; and returns, 5:374, 374, 407; 6:128, 140; appoints
commander of light horse, 5:382; disappearance of express to, 5:428, 431;
criticism of, 5:433, 442; 6:12; discovers "Scheme" in GW's unguarded letter,
5:434; and fortifications and camps, 6:1-2, 133; is medical doctor, 6:24;
his general orders, 6:27-31, 106-8, 152; and court-martials, 6:36, 37,
62-63, 92, 93, 105; releases all prisoners, 6:51; and skirmishes at Loyalhanna,
6:78, 122; his physician, 6:91; his levee, 6:105, 106; and council of
war, 6:119-20; and brigading of troops, 6:125-28; chimneys built for,
6:134, 142; strength of his army, 6:149-50; his aides-de-camp, 6:157;
sends GW with news of victory, 6:160; death, 6:185, 345, 440; and Treaty
of Easton, 6:364; and James Glen, 7:14; letters from: to James
Abercromby, 5:63, 120, 137, 161, 165-66, 316, 381; 6:121, 145-46, 158,
190; to John Blair, 5:104-5, 138-39, 139, 143, 169, 182; to Horatio Sharpe,
5:119, 182, 429; to William Pitt, 5:119, 227; to Henry Bouquet, 5:120,
252, 258, 259, 266, 296-97, 299, 321, 377, 396, 429, 455, 456; 6:3, 24,
72, 88, 91, 94, 101, 110-11, 115, 145, 146, 150, 154; to John St. Clair,
5:231-32, 234, 236; to William Byrd, 5:425-26; to GW, 6:23-24, 141, 144-46;
to James Burd, 6:146, 160; to Francis Fauquier, 6:163; to William Denny,
6:163; letters to: from John Blair, 5:109, 143; from William Byrd,
5:115, 210, 236, 254, 259, 418, 434; from John St. Clair, 5:123, 127-28,
132, 149, 169, 177, 179, 198, 213-14, 234; 6:169; from Robert Stewart,
5:126; 6:189; from GW, 5:138-39, 224-27; 6:14, 66-70, 129-30, 130-31,
135-37, 138-39, 141-43, 184-85; from James Abercromby, 5:231; from Henry
Bouquet, 5:234, 247, 261, 266-67, 269, 270-71, 278, 316, 321, 346, 360,
364, 365, 369, 378, 379, 383, 396, 405, 422, 431, 432; 6:3, 6, 45, 46,
92, 92-93, 96, 100, 103-4; from Abraham Bosomworth, 5:283, 293, 302; from
James Glen, 5:283, 298, 316, 361; from George Turner, 5:305; from James
Grant, 5:411; from Horatio Sharpe, 5:429; from Francis Fauquier, 6:164,
166, 191
Ford, James, 9:122, 145
Ford, John, 7:361, 379
Ford, Richard, & Co., 10:352
Ford, Thomas, 7:361, 379, 384, 428-29; 8:146, 148, 248
Ford, Worthington C., 1:71
Forde, Emanuel, 6:293
Fordyce, David, 9:344, 345
Foreman, George, 3:111
Forks of the James River, 4:395
Forks of the Ohio, 1:65, 68, 75, 83, 84-85, 98; 4:80; 7:242. See also
Fort Duquesne; Fort Pitt
Forks of the Road (Pennsylvania), 1:88, 91, 92
"The Forrest," 10:299
Fort Allen (Pennsylvania), 2:316, 317
Fort Ashby. See Ashby's fort
Fort Augusta (Pennsylvania), 2:152, 317; 4:242, 299
Fort Beauséjour (Nova Scotia), 5:71
Fort Bedford (Pennsylvania). See Raystown
Fort Blair, 10:88, 261, 262, 361, 362, 366
Fort Chartres (Illinois Country), 9:98
Fort Chiswell, 7:51, 52, 57
Fort Cocks. See Cocks's fort
Fort Cumberland (Maryland), 1:83, 173, 273, 299, 325; 2:285, 329; 3:210;
troops at, 2:39-40; 5:259, 269, 429; 6:32, 65, 99; ordnance at, 2:51-53,
69; orders concerning defense of, 2:56-57; hospital at, 2:57; controversy
over command at, 2:63, 72, 210-11, 213, 283-86, 291-92, 294-95, 323, 324-25;
3:14, 15, 16, 17, 165; reinforcing garrison at, 2:71, 78, 105; 4:63, 67,
94; conditions at, 2:72-73; GW's opposition to, 2:184, 186, 283; 3:349,
388; construction at, 2:194; Christmas at, 2:233-34; id., 3:3; 5:119,
312; GW concedes Dagworthy was in command, 3:16, 17; misconduct at, 3:42-43,
188; disadvantages of, 3:45, 49-50, 245, 314, 319-20, 326, 349, 366, 414-15,
422, 424, 440-41, 443, 447-53; stores at, 3:173; 4:50; expected attack
on, 3:350, 373; not to be abandoned, 3:359, 388; war proclaimed at, 3:397;
plot to capture, 3:449, 452; controversy over garrisoning of, 4:4, 7,
11, 17, 26, 28, 51, 55, 63, 67, 72, 74, 94, 127; council of war at, 4:5,
26, 136-38; spies taken at, 4:6; strategic importance of, 4:17; strengthening
works at, 4:21, 49-50, 64, 68, 71, 93, 99, 101, 107; inadvisability of
GW's residing at, 4:34-35; Indian goods at, 4:51, 54, 157; turned over
to Maryland troops, 4:101, 125, 128, 130, 131, 135, 137, 147, 149, 345;
controversy over provisions at, 4:131, 149, 190, 194-95, 197, 198, 255,
256, 259-60, 266, 304, 312, 360, 368, 385, 387, 396, 397, 399, 408, 422,
428-29; monument erected at, 4:163; alarm at, 4:191, 211-15, 218, 219,
221, 224, 228, 243, 251, 252, 294-95; returns of supplies at, 4:387, 408;
Cherokee at, 5:7; provisions at, 5:27, 60, 259, 269, 273; as base in Fort
Duquesne expedition, 5:119; roads to, 5:120, 161; assistant commissary
at, 5:174; returns of wagons at, 5:269; Indian attack near, 5:283, 317;
distances to, 5:357; explosion at, 6:64, 65, 99; commanders at, 6:65,
99; destruction of medicines at, 6:172, 173; fort major, see Livingston,
James; governors of, see Dagworthy, John; Innes, James. See
also Fort Mount Pleasant (Fort Innes); Stephen, Adam
Fort Defiance. See Waggener's Upper Fort
Fort de la Rivière au Boeuf. See Fort Le Boeuf
Fort Detroit, 6:177; 7:249. See also Detroit
Fort Dinwiddie (Hog's fort), 2:17, 19; 3:322-23, 349, 350; 4:394; description
of, 2:58; orders concerning, 2:60; report on conditions at, 2:79-80, 110-11,
154-55; proposal for, 4:10; companies stationed at, 4:76; troops at, 4:128;
5:67; Andrew Lewis given command of, 4:326. See also Hog, Peter
Fort Dobbs (Waddell's fort, North Carolina), 5:24
Fort Dudgeon (Pennsylvania), 6:85
Fort Dunmore, 10:43, 44, 169, 170. See also Fort Pitt; Fort Duquesne
Fort Duquesne, 1:115, 185; 3:352; 4:210; construction of, 1:98, 133;
strength of French garrison at, 5:6, 155, 433; Loudoun's proposed attack
on, 5:99; expedition against, 5:114, 118, 119; scouting near, 5:151, 155,
156, 409; distances to, 5:356-57; Colby Chew's journal of scout to, 5:409;
drawing of fort made by Indian, 5:432; Grant's defeat near, 6:3, 10, 38-39,
40, 41-42, 65, 73, 87, 110-11; 7:52; burned and abandoned, 6:27, 130,
158; forced march to, 6:70, 133; weak condition of, 6:123; British take
possession of, 6:157, 158, 163; need for strong British garrison, 6:159;
Virginia troops to garrison, 6:162, 163. See also Fort Dunmore;
Fort Duquesne; Forks of the Ohio; Fort Pitt; Pittsburgh
Fort Edward (New York), 2:180; 3:286; 4:368
Fort Edwards. See Edwards's fort
Fort Enoch. See Enoch's fort
Fort Fincastle, 10:44, 135
Fort Frederick (Maryland), 3:215, 237, 382; 4:196, 236; construction
of, 3:209, 210, 214, 224, 232, 233, 305; GW at, 3:269; as rendezvous for
troops, 5:118, 132, 158; location, 5:119; roads to, 5:119, 120, 149, 251;
distances to, 5:357; Governor Sharpe at, 5:429
Fort Frederick (on New River), 2:216, 235, 331
Fort Frontenac (on Lake Ontario), 6:9, 9-10, 102
Fort George (New York). See Fort William Henry
Fort George (on Bullpasture River), 4:395
Fort George (on James River), 3:52
Fort George (on Savannah River), 7:52
Fort George (on South Branch), 8:243
Fort George (Powers mill), 5:67, 162, 163
Fort Gower (on Ohio River), 10:44, 135, 163, 164, 169, 183
Fort Granville (Pennsylvania), 2:308, 309, 316; 3:305, 381
Fort Greenbrier, 2:188, 190
Fort Henry (Pennsylvania), 2:316, 317
Fort Holland (on South Branch), 4:350; 5:67. See also Errata
Fort Hopewell, 3:46, 47; 4:350; 5:150, 228
40th Regiment, 5:129
Fortin (slave; Bullskin plantation), 6:420-21, 445
Fort Johnson (New York), 3:233
Fort Johnson (South Carolina), 4:375
Fort Lebanon (Pennsylvania), 2:316, 317
Fort Le Boeuf (Pennsylvania), 1:61; 6:18, 343, 346, 433
Fort Lewis (on Patterson Creek), 2:288
Fort Lewis (on Roanoke River), 2:140; 4:395; 6:433; 7:116
Fort Ligonier (Pennsylvania), 1:125; 5:267, 386; 6:137-138, 346-47, 372.
See also Loyalhanna
Fort Loudoun (in Cherokee country), 5:41, 82; 6:419-20, 432, 433, 453,
467; 7:20
Fort Loudoun (in Cherokee country), commander of: letters to:
from Edmond Atkin, 4:354
Fort Loudoun (Pennsylvania), 4:236; 5:193, 209, 248, 356
Fort Loudoun (Virginia), 2:28; 4:7; reasons for building at Winchester,
3:60-61; construction of, 3:132, 138, 160, 168, 189, 190, 226, 291-92,
297, 335, 348, 379, 403, 422, 425, 443; 4:21, 24, 32, 41, 48, 55, 72,
77, 94, 99, 107, 166, 173, 179-80, 182, 184, 241, 244, 257, 260, 264-65,
279, 304, 334, 357, 421; 5:10, 21, 97, 131-32, 133, 157-58, 160, 201-2,
306-7, 373-74; 6:5, 167; overseer of workmen at, 3:198, 199; GW's plan
of, 3:235, 247, 249; called Fort Washington, 3:247, 249; troops at, 3:321;
4:55, 76; 5:67, 207, 208, 238, 239, 305, 308; 6:118, 135; declaration
of war at, 3:354; proposals for troops at, 4:10, 128, 154, 220-21; orders
concerning, 4:26, 50, 51, 55, 63; stores lodged in Frederick County courthouse,
4:34; GW protests abandonment of, 4:34-36; reinforcement of garrison,
4:55, 71, 94, 252, 300; 5:92, 155, 308; attack expected at, 4:218, 219,
223-24, 227; ordnance for, 4:266, 309, 420; list of artificers working
on fort, 4:276, 405; fortifications praised, 4:279; Indians jailed at,
4:365; misconduct of soldiers at, 5:7-8, 11-12; commanders at, 5:111;
6:364; GW resumes active command at, 5:127; as rendezvous for troops,
5:132, 161; well at, 5:253; 6:5, 76; returns of arms at, 5:352. See
also Winchester
Fort Lyttleton (Pennsylvania), 2:308, 309, 316; 5:209, 248, 356
Fort Lyttleton (Virginia). See Vause's fort
Fort Machault (Pennsylvania). See Venango (Fort Machault)
Fort Mount Pleasant (Fort Innes, Fort Cumberland; Maryland), 1:213, 214;
3:249. See also Fort Cumberland
Fort Necessity, 3:111, 332, 391; 4:29, 322; description of, 1:105, 125-26;
construction of, 1:113, 118, 158; capitulation of, 1:157, 177, 191, 202,
214, 215, 257, 270; 2:82; 6:163; 7:171; printing of documents regarding,
4:126; battle at, 5:251; Frenchmen captured near, 6:197; first gun fired
at, 10:339
Fort Necessity campaign, 1:75; pay, 1:66, 72, 75-76, 91, 95, 96, 99,
102-4, 107-9, 121, 153, 154; provisions, 1:66, 72, 73-74, 82, 121, 131,
138, 140, 141, 143, 149, 150, 155, 157, 174, 177; appointments, 1:67,
71, 74, 78, 79, 93, 120, 121, 126, 127, 128, 129, 139, 148, 149, 150-51;
funds for, 1:67, 74, 129; militia, 1:67; interpreters, 1:69, 120; recruiting,
1:71, 73, 80; Indians, 1:72, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 94, 96-97, 98, 101, 105,
106, 110, 112, 113, 114, 120, 121, 122-25, 130, 132-33, 143, 146, 155,
156, 185; uniforms, 1:72, 75, 96; reports on progress of, 1:73-76, 78,
81, 82, 83-84, 85-86, 87-90, 93-95, 96-97, 100-101, 102-4, 104-6, 110-13,
116-17, 118, 119, 121-25, 126-27, 129-38, 140-42, 146-49, 150, 153-54,
173-74, 177-78, 180-81; independent companies, 1:75, 91, 126-27, 144-45,
148, 152, 157, 158; marches, 1:76-77, 78, 82, 84, 86, 143, 144, 156, 157,
223; controversies over rank, 1:77, 130, 135, 136, 137, 148-49; horses,
1:82, 93, 131-32, 157; transport, 1:82-83, 88, 93, 97, 141; couriers,
1:83; surrender of fort at Forks of the Ohio, 1:83, 86, 87, 93; intelligence,
1:84, 86, 94, 96, 101, 102, 110, 156; roads, 1:86, 89, 90, 94, 97, 101,
137, 141, 150, 156, 157; councils of war, 1:87, 90, 155; armament, 1:89,
95; impressment, 1:91; court-martials, 1:93, 134, 151; weather, 1:98;
rations, 1:100; prisoners, 1:110, 111, 113, 115-17, 118, 119, 120, 121,
152, 201; Jumonville's defeat, 1:110-11, 113, 114, 116-17, 118; casualties,
1:111-12, 163, 164, 172, 173, 208-9; medals, 1:121, 130, 135; paymaster
for, 1:132; French deserters, 1:133, 139, 152, 153, 155; supply, 1:141,
154; officers commended, 1:219; accounts for, 1:221-23; John Fraser at,
10:49-50. See also Virginia military forces: Virginia regiments;
Virginia military forces: militia; Washington, George: and Fort Necessity
campaign
Fort Niagara (New York), 6:18
Fort Pearsal. See Pearsal's fort
Fort Pitt, 4:225; 10:43, 93, 234; construction of, 6:130, 360; 8:73;
conference of Indians at, 6:361; relief of, 7:238, 241; Indian disturbances
at, 8:241; ruins of, 9:249; bought by Ross and Thompson, 9:309; justices
appointed from area of fort, 9:414-15; John Connolly takes over, 9:466;
renamed Fort Dunmore, 9:466. See also Fort Dunmore; Fort Duquesne;
Pittsburgh
Fort Pleasant. See Waggener's Lower Fort
Fort Prince George (in Cherokee country), commander of: letters to:
from Edmond Atkin, 4:307-8, 317, 354
Forts, 2:75; chain of, 2:18, 334; 3:38, 48-51, 62-63, 84, 102, 105, 125-27,
172, 222-23, 228, 232, 243-45, 264, 273, 299, 309, 311, 312, 321-23, 333,
334, 342, 349-50, 358, 415-16, 421, 435; 4:10, 15; on Patterson Creek,
2:137, 146, 278, 287, 289; 3:34-35; 4:10; GW's proposal for fort on Virginia
side of Potomac, 2:194, 196, 223, 224, 263, 265, 270-71; on South Branch
of Potomac River, 2:263, 264, 265-66, 280; 3:47; 4:10, 350; 5:58, 150,
160, 163, 185, 387; in Pennsylvania, 2:308, 309; 3:210, 305, 332, 352;
4:160, 210, 236, 242, 299; 5:193, 199, 209; on Tonoloway Creek, 2:309;
GW's opinion on chain of, 2:334; in Maryland, 3:3, 210, 215, 249; 4:236;
5:37-38; of rangers, 3:11, 295; on Little Cacapon River, 3:24, 120, 121;
fortified houses, 3:47; money for construction of, 3:105; construction
of, 3:120, 121, 144, 149, 223-24, 228, 232, 233, 243-45, 263, 264, 273-74,
278-80, 282-83, 289, 299, 322, 338, 344, 349, 358-59, 371, 395, 422, 431,
434, 435, 441; plans of, 3:121, 247, 249, 273-74, 278-80, 282, 289, 291,
297, 322; in New York, 3:215, 233, 286; in Augusta County, 3:321-23; in
Halifax County, 3:435; on Blackwater River, 3:435; 4:10; on Mayo River,
3:435; 4:10; on Smith River, 3:435; 4:10; on Cacapon River, 4:10; 5:420;
on Catawba River, 4:10, 395; on Craig Creek, 4:10, 395; on Jackson River,
4:10, 395; 5:15; on Potomac River, 4:10; 5:119, 130; on Roanoke River,
4:10; 5:194; to be retained, 4:127; at Johns Creek, 4:395; on Bullpasture
River, 4:395; on Carvin Creek, 4:395; on Rentfroe Creek, 4:395; on Cedar
Creek, 4:416-17; in North Carolina, 5:24; in Cherokee country, 5:41, 82;
at Wills Creek, 5:119; on Ohio River, 5:119; 10:44, 88; at Winchester,
5:160; on Wagon Road, 5:161; in Halifax (Nova Scotia) harbor, 5:174; on
Shenandoah River, 5:205-6; at Loyalhanna, 5:386, 439. See also individual
fort names
Fort Seybert, 5:160
Fort Shirley (Pennsylvania), 2:308, 309, 316
Fort Stanwix, Treaty of, 10:298, 299
Fort Stanwix (Pennsylvania), 5:81; 8:30, 276
Fort Stephens. See Stephens's fort
Fort St. Joseph (Michigan), 7:227
Fort Ticonderoga (Fort Carillon; New York), 3:44; 5:98, 294-95, 302,
319, 411; 10:358-59
Fort Trial (Galloway's fort, Smith River fort), 3:432, 435; 4:10
Fort Triall (Pennsylvania), 10:45, 153
Fortune (slave; GW's), 7:173
Fort Venango. See Venango
Fort Washington. See Cocks's fort; Fort Loudoun (Virginia)
Fort William (Preston's fort, Catawba fort), 3:321-23, 434-35; 4:1, 6-7,
10, 395
Fort William Henry (Fort George; New York), 2:180; 3:215, 287; 4:367-68,
369-70, 416; 5:19, 295
48th Regiment of Foot, 3:286, 287, 296
45th Regiment, 5:17; 6:420
44th Regiment, 3:287, 297; 5:16, 71, 94, 125, 231, 294, 295, 396; 6:87
Fort Young. See Dickinson's fort (on Jackson River)
42d Regiment, 3:286, 288; 5:396
46th Regiment, 5:294, 295
43d Regiment, 6:455
Fosset, John, 5:336, 342
Fosset, Richard, 5:339
Foster, Francis: and Custis estate, 6:225, 255, 260, 263, 264, 276, 371,
474; 8:82, 191, 202, 203, 267, 346, 453, 458, 459; 9:189, 368, 369; account
with, 7:1, 190, 366, 369, 438, 495, 500; 9:34, 46, 138, 226, 231
Foster, Isaac, 1:26, 30; 5:341
Foster, James, 6:296
Foster, John, 6:341, 377, 382, 386, 428; 7:4, 9, 45, 68
Foster, Richard, 3:253, 258
Fourcroy, abbé de, 6:294
Four discourses on the four last things, 6:296
Four Mile Run, 10:263
Four Mile Run tract, 9:409-11; 10:201-4, 211-12
Fout, George, 1:31
Fowey (ship), 10:341
Fowler, Andrew, 9:359, 360, 364, 365, 421
Fowler, George, 10:307, 308; letters from: to GW, 10:38-39
Fowler, John & George, 9:110; 10:39, 78, 317
Fox, Henry, 3:116; 4:101, 350; letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie,
1:175; 3:104, 105; from William Shirley, 3:288
Fox, John, 9:360, 364, 365, 422
Fox, Joseph (of King William County), 9:172, 174
Fox, Joseph (of Louisa County), 2:110, 111; 3:145
Fox, Joseph (of Pennsylvania), 2:309
Fox, Robert, 1:26
Fox, Thomas, 6:226
Fox, William, 7:466
Foxcroft, John, 9:318, 319
Foxworthy, Thomas, 7:379
Foy, Edward, 9:160
Frame, Thomas, 6:253
France. See individual volumes
Francis (ship), 7:372, 397
Frank (dower slave; King William County), 6:218
Frank (dower slave, woman; York County), 6:218
Frank ("French Negro"), 5:213, 214
Frank (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Frank (slave, woman; at Bridge Quarter), 6:312
Frank (slave; bought from T. Moore), 8:347
Frank (slave; from estate of John Lee), 8:83
Frank (slave, girl; Great House plantation), 8:587
Frank (slave; GW's), 7:173
Frank (slave; Home farm), 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54; 10:137, 138
Frank (slave; house servant), 7:442, 515; 9:53, 54, 55, 238; 10:137
Frank (slave; house servant, 1), 8:479
Frank (slave; house servant, 2), 8:479
Frank (slave; King William County), 6:225
Frank (slave; River farm), 9:239; 10:137
Frank (slave; tradesman), 9:54, 238; 10:138
Frank (slave, woman; York County), 6:229
Frankey (Franky; slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:584, 591
Frankie (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Franklin, Benjamin, 1:264, 275, 301; 2:115-16; 3:297; 4:388, 400; 7:367;
8:368; 9:99, 415; letters from: to GW, 3:363-64; to Deborah Franklin,
3:364; letters to: from GW, 3:285, 312
Franklin, Deborah: letters to: from Benjamin Franklin, 3:364
Franklin, John, 9:122, 146
Franklin, Sampson, 3:253, 258
Franks, David: letters from: to GW, 5:247-48; letters to:
from GW, 5:152-53, 223
Franks (Frank), Andrew, 6:253, 271-72, 280-81
Frankstown (Pennsylvania), 6:35
Fraser, ----: and adjutancy, 1:191
Fraser, George, 2:327, 328; 4:166; resignation of, 2:18, 50, 273, 299;
3:272, 314, 319; appointments and commissions, 2:40, 42, 150, 260; id.,
2:150; sent to Fort Dinwiddie, 2:273; declines to serve under Peter Hog,
2:299; letters to: from GW, 2:170, 175, 204-5, 298-99
Fraser, Jane (Jenny) McLane. See McLane, Jane (Jenny)
Fraser, Simon, 1:192; 3:229
Fraser (Frazier), John, 1:207; 2:138, 307; 4:210; 5:273, 318; conduct
criticized, 1:92, 93; appointments and commissions, 1:93; 5:247, 422;
id., 1:93; 2:73; 5:272; and surrender of fort at Forks of the Ohio, 1:93,
192; to be court-martialed, 1:134-35, 150, 151; and Indians, 2:72, 305;
his list of guides, 5:247, 326; and the route to Fort Duquesne, 5:272,
355; movements of, 5:421, 425; claim against Virginia, 10:48-50
Frazer, John Gizzage (Grizzage), 9:48; 10:276-77, 288; letters from:
to GW, 9:201-2
Frazer's warehouse, 9:174
Frazier, Joshua, 8:417; 9:4-5, 7, 17, 19
Frazier, Thomas, 4:419
Frazier, William, 8:41, 83, 454
Frazier's ferry, 8:41, 42
Freake, H., 6:403
Frederick, John, 5:342
Frederick, Md., 1:267-68
Frederick (slave), 7:110
Frederick (slave; River farm), 7:443, 516; 8:104, 221, 357, 479; 9:55,
238; 10:137
Frederick County, 4:7; county lieutenants, 1:40; 3:267; 7:338; divisions
of, 1:67; 8:190-91; 9:38, 432; courthouse, 2:39; 3:44, 281, 409; 4:34;
first court meets, 2:39; Indian depredations in, 3:3, 45, 47, 53, 54,
304; 4:183, 264, 266, 417, 419; 5:9, 12-13, 43-44, 45; depredations by
whites, 3:47; deplorable state of, 3:48, 50-51, 59, 63-64; troops from,
3:55, 59, 362, 380-81, 382, 384, 405; 4:13, 18, 38, 243, 267, 291, 422,
423; 6:164-65; new commission of the peace for, 3:361, 397; criticism
of settlers, 3:397; petition from, 4:53; troops in, 5:5, 6, 19, 141; removal
of court records, 5:6; contractor for troops in, 5:29, 30-32; Burgesses
elections in, 5:60, 262-63, 322-23, 334-44; 7:12-13, 14; clerk of, 5:96;
8:570; sheriff of, 5:114; 6:314; 9:440; GW's lands in, 6:183, 427, 429;
7:103, 174, 278, 313, 350, 377, 516; 8:283; GW's taxes and levies for,
6:314; map by Moffett, 8:190; GW's Frederick County lands now in Berkeley
County, 9:432
Frederick Parish (Frederick County), 2:244; 4:336; 5:436; 7:451; 8:190-91;
9:198
Fredericksburg, 5:309; fair at, 1:43, 49; 7:3; draftees rendezvous at,
3:102, 158, 174; 4:244, 255, 265, 277, 288, 361, 394; court days, 7:308;
horse races at, 10:23; town clerk of, 10:59
Frederick the Great, 4:374; 5:69, 98, 99; 6:80, 81, 355, 358, 400, 453;
8:492-93
Freehold, Abraham, 6:36
The free-holder, 6:291; 7:346
Freeman, Douglas Southall, 5:301; 7:148
Freeman, Samuel, 7:28, 31
Freeport, Pa., 6:143
The free-thinker, 6:291; 7:345
French, ----: buys GW's slaves, 7:492
French, Captain (Indian), 4:117, 118; 5:417, 442
French, Daniel, 6:379; land transactions, 6:341, 342, 438, 439; 8:37,
216, 246, 313; and Maurice Pound, 6:369; id., 6:370, 379; 7:9; account
with, 6:378; 7:4, 178, 263, 308-9; 9:191; elected to Fairfax vestry, 7:361,
384; to build new Pohick Church, 8:246-48; executor of, 8:528; death,
9:11; family, 9:179
French, Elizabeth, 9:170-71, 178, 179, 412
French, James, 1:30
French, Penelope Manley, 8:546; 9:341, 468
French, Samuel, 3:252, 257
French Broad River, 2:59; 7:58
"The French Memorial," 5:49
French Warrior. See French, Captain
Friend, Nicholas, 1:23
A Friendly Address to All Reasonable Americans, 10:189, 190
Friendship (ship), 4:99; 7:460, 462
Frogg, Elizabeth, 8:78
Frogg, John, 8:78
Frontier. See individual volumes
Frost, William, 5:340
Frouman, Paul, 5:334
Fry, Abraham, 5:335
Fry, Benjamin, 4:418; 5:335
Fry, Henry, 8:436; 9:191, 192
Fry, Jacob, 5:335; 9:170, 171, 189
Fry, John, 9:221, 225, 229; 10:353; letters to: from GW, 9:191-93
Fry, Joseph, 5:335
Fry, Joshua, 1:79, 91, 97, 106, 108, 119, 121, 144, 147, 149, 153, 154,
207, 221, 254; 9:197; id., 1:74; 3:58; and Fort Necessity campaign, 1:75,
76, 81, 84, 86, 94, 106, 112; death of, 1:77, 127; 3:15; and Trent and
Fraser court-martials, 1:92, 134; pay and perquisites, 1:95, 103; medal
for, 1:121; as paymaster, 1:132; his copper mine, 3:56; date of commission,
8:451; and bounty lands, 8:539; 9:122, 145, 191, 192, 196, 358, 360, 364,
366, 392; letters from: to Robert Dinwiddie, 1:93; 2:35; to GW,
1:98; letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:77, 92, 92-93, 93, 98,
104; from GW, 1:100-102, 117-18
Fry, Samuel, 5:205, 336
Fry (dog), 8:262
Fryer, Alexander, 8:436, 437; 9:189, 503, 504
Fryer, Jacob, 9:74
Fryer (ship), 7:454, 455, 456, 460; 8:69-70, 105
Fry-Jefferson map, 3:52; 5:91
Fry's fort, 4:417
Fugate, John, 4:281
Fulgin, John, 4:41
Fuller, Thomas, 6:284, 287, 291, 344
Fullin, Levin, 9:504
Fulton, ----: carries letter, 8:241
Fulton, David, 8:243
Fulton, Richard, 8:243
Fulton, William, 3:301
The funeral, 6:294
Funk, Henry, 5:335
Funk, John, 5:49, 332-33, 342; 7:98; 8:190-91
Funk, Joseph, 5:337
Funk, Martin (1), 5:342
Funk, Martin (2), 5:336
Funk, Mathias, 5:340
Funkhouser, Jacob, 2:253, 275
Funkhouser, John, 5:338
Furber, Robert, 6:299
Furman, Moore, 5:93
Fury, Henry, 3:195
Fushee, Nathaniel, 4:42
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Gaddes, Alexander, 4:335
Gaddis, William, 1:30; 5:338
Gage, Thomas, 1:347; 2:47; 3:237, 257, 347; 4:151; 5:136; 7:162; 10:150,
156, 161, 169, 367; and Braddock's expedition, 1:321, 326; 5:126; id.,
1:326; 3:215; 5:16; Robert Orme on, 2:11; regiments of, 2:116-17, 179,
252, 279; 5:126; 7:314; and Crown Point expedition, 3:287-88; opinion
of GW, 5:16; at Ticonderoga, 5:294, 295; commander in America, 7:284;
8:58; and request for stages along Braddock Road, 8:87-88; and Vandalia,
9:415; criticized, 10:130; and insurrection in Boston, 10:364; letters
from: to Albemarle, 1:326; to GW, 2:179-80, 346-47; 3:115-17, 296-97;
5:15-16; to John Hall, 5:94; letters to: from GW, 2:122; 5:126
Gaine (Gaines), Hugh, 9:227, 297
Gaines (Cairns), Henry (Harry), 6:257; 7:59, 60, 104, 108
Galbraith, Joseph, 5:260, 269
Gale, John, 3:222; 4:390
Gale (Gall), Richard (John), 3:253, 258
Galen, 6:400
Gallemore, James, 5:244
Galloway, ---- (captain), 3:435; 4:6
Galloway, Anne, 8:415-16, 417
Galloway, Benjamin, 8:367, 415-16, 417
Galloway, John, 8:367; 10:370, 371
Galloway, Joseph, 10:294
Galloway, Patrick, 8:540; 9:122, 145
Galloway, Samuel (1720-1785), 10:19; id., 7:146; 8:367; his ships, 7:146,
208; and John Parke Custis, 8:367, 415-16, 417; account with, 9:35, 111;
sends wine, 9:50, 51; letters to: from GW, 9:40
Galloway, Samuel (b. 1751), 8:367
Galloway (Scotland), 5:453-54
Galloway's fort. See Fort Trial
Galt, Gabriel, 10:279, 280
Galt, Samuel, 6:198, 200
Galt's tavern, 10:280
Game law, 6:295; 7:347
Gap, The (Hillsboro, Va.), 3:69
Gardiner, Thomas, 4:43
Gardner, Joseph, 6:418, 443, 444, 480, 481
Gardner, William, 6:416; 7:379; id., 6:418; 7:9; accounts with, 7:4,
357, 375, 407, 427; 8:322, 323; his ordinary, 7:358; and Truro Parish,
7:361, 384, 428-29, 510-11; 8:53, 247
Gardner's ordinary, 7:358
Garland, ----, 4:180
Garland, John, 3:8, 13
Garland spring, 4:183
Garner, ----: his expenses, 6:416
Garrard, Joseph, 6:333, 336
Garrett (Garret), Nicholas, 7:379; 8:145, 146
Garth, Sir Samuel, 6:291
Garvey, Lucas, 7:379
Gaskins, John, 3:253, 258
Gassaway, Henry, 9:7, 17
Gates, Horatio, 1:294, 297, 326; 6:385, 455; letters from: to
GW, 9:43; letters to: from GW, 9:59
Gates, Isaac, 7:107, 110, 412, 413
Gates, William, 5:415-16, 449
Gatewood, Joseph, 9:122, 145
Gatewood, Philip, 9:122, 146
Gauley River, 8:279
Gaullatt, Peter. See Gollatt, Peter
Gawin, Moses, 4:347
Gawith, John, 7:124, 307
Gay, John, 8:347
Gay, Nicholas Ruxton, 4:338-39
The gazetteer's, or, news-man's interpreter, 6:291
Geddy, James, 7:478, 479
Gender, John, 3:253, 258; 4:276, 277
A General Charge to All Grand Juries and Other Juries, 6:300
A General Introduction to Trade and Business, 8:13, 14
Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles,
10:149, 150
General Map of the Middle British Colonies, in America, 3:52
A general treatise of the diseases of infants and children, 6:295
General Washington (ship), 10:106
The gentleman instructed, 6:289; 7:345
The gentleman's calling, 6:289; 7:347
The gentleman's journal, 6:285, 344
Gentleman's New Memorandum Book, 7:166, 167-68, 195
Gentlemen Associators (Patriot Blues), 3:86-87, 94, 102, 109, 157, 160,
170, 171, 179, 181, 185, 192, 193, 202, 242, 260; 4:86; 5:253
The genuine works, in verse and prose, 7:346
Genusa (the Judge; Indian), 10:184
Geographia classica, 7:344
Geography anatomiz'd; or, the geographical grammar, 7:346
George, Jesse, 10:319
George, Sidney, 9:260, 264
George (dower slave, Doll's child; New Kent County), 6:217
George (dower slave; King William County), 6:425, 426
George (dower slave; King William County, 1), 6:218
George (dower slave; King William County, 2), 6:218
George (dower slave; York County), 6:218
George (Seneca Indian), 5:13
George (ship), 6:375, 411; 8:68
George (slave, boy; at Bridge Quarter), 6:312
George (slave, boy; Claiborne's plantation), 6:312
George (slave, boy; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
George (slave, boy; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
George (slave, boy; New Kent County, 3), 6:220
George (slave, boy; New Kent County, 4), 6:220
George (slave; carpenter), 6:428; 7:45, 139, 227
George (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 6:311; 8:583, 591
George (slave), 7:172, 173
George (slave; Home farm), 6:428; 7:45; 8:104, 221
George (slave; King William County), 6:225
George (slave; Letitia Corbin's), 10:000, 000
George (slave; miller), 7:139
George (slave; miller; Mill farm), 7:377, 516
George (slave; miller; tradesman), 7:376, 443
George (slave; Mill quarter), 8:588
George (slave; Northampton County), 6:230
George (slave; River farm), 7:45, 139, 228, 313, 377; 8:221, 357, 479;
9:55
George (slave; River farm, 1), 9:238; 10:137
George (slave; River farm, 2), 9:238; 10:137
George (slave; Thomas Nelson's), 7:314
George (slave; tradesman), 7:227, 376, 443, 515
George (slave; tradesman, 1), 7:313; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54, 238;
10:137
George (slave; tradesman, 2), 7:313; 8:104, 220, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:137
George (slave; William Nelson's), 7:314
George (slave; York County), 6:229
George and Charlotte (ship), 10:309
George II, 1:76, 201, 317, 318; 2:16, 172, 173; 5:18; 6:118; 7:14, 59;
and "whistling bullet" statement by GW, 1:119
George III, 1:318; 7:14, 37, 38-39, 44, 98, 242-46, 388, 432; Virginia
Regiment's petition to, 7:117-19
Georges Creek (Maryland), 5:27, 312
Georgetown, Md., 1:208; 3:194; 8:139
German Flatts (on the Mohawk River), 3:288
Gerram, William, 4:391
Gholson, Anthony, 8:568, 570; 9:110, 503, 504
Gholson, John, 8:452, 454, 540; 9:122, 146
Gibbs, Will, 8:431
Giberne, Isaac William, 6:379, 380; 8:90
Gibson, Jacob, 5:338
Gibson, James, 7:366; 8:192, 195, 268; borrows money, 7:285; account
with, 7:298, 470; 8:140; and bills of exchange, 7:299, 305; 8:51, 52,
59, 103, 140, 141, 142, 191, 202, 205; partnership of, 8:53; and Warm
Springs lottery, 8:54; and Norfleet land, 8:266
Gibson, John, 7:481, 496; 10:36, 252, 316, 318
Gibson, John and Thomas, 8:502
Gibson, Robert, 7:253
Gibson, Thomas, 8:563; 9:64, 108, 275; letters to: from GW, 8:501-2;
9:62-63, 270
Gibson, William, 6:300, 318, 333; 7:349
Gibson & Granbery, 8:51; 9:132
Gibson & Winter, 8:566
"Gibson on Farriery," 6:318
Gift (horse). See Gist (horse)
Gilbert, Felix, 3:132, 134
Gilbert, Francis, 9:288, 352
Gilbert, Henry, Jr., 8:585; 9:258
Gilbert, Samuel, 6:295
Gilbert (Gilberd), Edward, 7:354, 357, 421; 8:46, 399, 563, 565; 9:106
Gildart, James: and Custis estate, 6:249-50, 251, 254, 255, 260, 267,
268, 269, 271, 351, 352, 461; 7:86; 8:203, 459; 9:347, 368, 369; tobacco
shipped to, 6:317, 326, 330; 7:143, 151, 201, 202, 456; id., 6:325; 7:32;
goods and supplies from, 6:451; 7:310-11, 372; 8:138-39; and tobacco prices,
7:32-33; and John Parke Custis, 7:82; accounts with, 7:88, 92, 124, 214,
307, 465; 8:11; 9:9, 15; and quality of tobacco, 7:123; and damaged tobacco,
7:398, 460; to pay Crosbies & Trafford, 7:454; hemp and wheat sent to,
8:140; letters from: to GW, 6:476; 7:123-24, 307, 372, 417, 435;
8:6-7, 80-81, 138-40; letters to: from GW, 6:324-26, 348; 7:32-33,
151-52, 200-201, 310-11, 340-41, 397, 455-56, 464-65; 8:69-70, 104-5,
499; 9:11-12, 346-47
Gildart (ship), 6:325
Giles, ----, 2:180; purchases tobacco, 7:158
Giles, Nathaniel, 3:124
Giles (slave; Lund Washington's), 8:531, 532. See also Errata
Giles (slave; house servant), 8:532; as messenger, 7:405, 407, 408; 9:491;
id., 7:407; tithable, 7:515; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:137;
travel expenses, 9:132, 208, 317; carries money, 9:138; clothing for,
9:341, 355; 10:40. See also Errata
Gill, Edward, 4:391
Gillam (Killiam), Joseph, 8:393, 394
Gilleham, Clem, 3:304
Gillespie, Alexander, 3:131, 134
Gillett, Peter, 9:19, 368
Gilley, Griffen, 10:21
Gilliam, ---- (overseer), 7:317-18, 320
Gillis, ---- (ship captain), 8:75
Gilmer, George (d. 1757), 2:220, 221, 233, 234
Gilmer, George (d. 1796), 10:350
Gilmer, Lucy Walker, 10:350
Gilmor, Robert, 5:245
Gilpin, George, 8:472; 10:128, 317, 338-39, 344, 359
Gim (Jim; slave; John Augustine Washington's), 7:173
Gist, ----, 4:424; and lemons for GW, 5:302; escorts wagons to Fort Cumberland,
5:375-76; and western lands, 6:343; as messenger, 9:467
Gist, Ann (Mrs.), 6:331, 332, 339, 340, 368, 429
Gist, Ann (Nancy), 4:310, 311; 6:42, 43; 8:18, 19, 329
Gist, Christopher, 1:110, 119, 140, 142, 178; 2:155, 156, 210, 211, 340,
343; 3:98, 124, 235; 4:61, 152, 187, 208, 209, 250, 298; 5:53, 312; 6:12,
22, 39, 41, 64, 65, 76; and mission to French commandant, 1:57, 62, 348-49;
and Ohio Company, 1:59; 2:74; and fort at Forks of the Ohio, 1:68, 76;
id., 1:68; 2:328; 5:394; his plantation, 1:68; 3:166; 5:354; military
service, 1:105, 106; 2:42, 197, 327; 3:195-96, 242-46; 4:61, 152-53, 194,
203, 205, 206, 219-20, 249, 319, 320, 336, 362; and Indians, 1:125; 2:120-21,
140; 4:153, 172, 174, 175, 183-84, 188, 248-49, 288, 290, 292-93, 304,
404, 407, 421, 424, 426; 5:2, 20, 28, 29, 31, 40, 45, 52-53, 59, 82, 86-87,
90, 116, 122, 127-28, 133, 134, 148, 175-76, 195, 311, 393, 418; and wagons,
1:132; and Robert Callender, 1:141; and supplies, 1:141, 142, 153; 3:280;
6:17, 18, 163-64; and Thomas Rutherford, 2:94; 5:221; appointed to command
scouts, 2:98-99, 105; orders to, 2:121, 192, 348; 3:157, 192; employed
by Pennsylvania, 2:151, 154; receives funds, 2:209; company of, 2:230,
235, 240, 254, 328; 3:8, 9, 35, 81, 100-101, 113, 114-15, 156, 209, 212,
240, 252, 253, 259, 263, 291, 297, 298, 301, 429; 4:77, 189, 197, 276,
339, 345; 5:124, 131, 135, 442; accounts of, 3:161, 193, 315, 325, 360,
369; 5:88-89; his clerk, 3:303; and Fairfax family, 4:263, 310, 311; recruiting
practices, 4:319, 338; appointed deputy Indian superintendent, 5:6, 20,
22; family of, 5:148, 160, 304; 7:44; 8:19, 329; 9:207; and Captain Johnny's
deception, 5:260-61; criticism of, 5:305; death of, 6:43, 346; and western
lands, 6:346, 360; and Fort Necessity campaign, 10:50; letters from:
to GW, 1:67, 69-70, 76; 2:114-16, 154, 180; 3:301-2, 454-56; 5:88-89,
276-78, 304-5, 451; to Robert Dinwiddie, 5:53; to John St. Clair, 5:123-24;
letters to: from GW, 2:98-99, 125, 247-48; 5:87; from Robert Dinwiddie,
4:175; 5:53
Gist, John, 6:332, 340, 367, 368, 429, 430, 443, 444
Gist, Nathaniel, 3:25-26, 38-39, 152-53; 5:302; 6:413; id., 2:99, 210;
3:8; 5:160; 6:143, 178; 9:207; and Indian trade with Richard Pearis, 2:159,
161; military service, 2:209, 240; 3:252, 290, 429; 4:205, 206, 426, 432;
5:201, 381, 382; and skirmish, 3:182, 183, 184-85; on scout, 5:124, 150,
151, 154-55, 156; 6:142; injured, 5:154, 156; brings news, 6:176-77; address
to GW, 6:178-81; and western lands, 6:346; 7:44; 9:205; attacked by Indians,
6:412
Gist, Samuel, 7:269-70, 272, 274, 275, 315; letters from: to GW,
8:216-17
Gist, Thomas, 5:157; 10:92; military service, 4:205, 206, 426; 5:124,
146, 148, 249; 9:92; id., 5:148; 7:116; commission, 5:159-60, 302; 7:114;
and Indians, 5:178; captured, 6:40, 181; on casualty list, 6:47; his land,
8:513; account with, 9:92, 462-63; letters to: from GW, 5:147-48
Gist (Gift; horse), 1:267; 7:95, 96
Gist's quarter, 7:148
Gist's settlement, 1:68-69, 94, 156, 157
Givens, Samuel, 5:451-52, 453; 6:25, 75
Gladden, John, 6:379, 380
Gladding, William, 7:379
Gladdress, Richard, 4:42
Gladin, John, 5:328, 329
Gladwin, Henry, 7:249
Glascock (Glasscock), John, Jr., 8:176; 10:20
Glascock, Thomas: letters from: to GW, 9:310-11
Glascock, William, 9:310-11
Glasford, ---- (captain), 7:77
Glass, David, 5:336
Glass, Hugh, 5:195-96
Glass, Joseph, 5:338
Glass, Philip, 5:334
Glass, Robert, 5:338
Glasse, Hannah, 8:509, 511, 563
Glassell, John, 8:54
Glassford, John, & Co., 7:442, 492; 8:24, 475, 488, 531; 10:297
Glassford & Co., 9:499
Glazier, Beamsley, 6:188, 190
Glebe (near Osborns), 5:90-91
Glen, James, 5:287, 290, 312; 7:265; movements of, 5:231, 291, 293; and
Indians, 5:231-32, 277; id., 5:232; 7:266; and John Forbes, 5:232; 7:14;
and GW's election, 5:264; comments on GW, 5:298; and route to Fort Duquesne,
5:361; his "red Root," 7:13; letters from: to John Forbes, 5:283,
298, 316, 361; to GW, 5:297-98
Glen, Thomas, 5:431
Glen Burnie, 2:39, 352
Glenn, John, 5:335
Gloucester County, 4:278, 290
Glover, Burges, 7:125, 130
Glover, William, 5:338
Glover & Strothoff (Burgess Glover & Strothoff), 7:130, 353, 357; 8:397,
560; 9:104
Glym, John, 4:42
Gnadenhutten, Pa., 2:289, 317
Go--, John, 7:9; money paid to, 7:3
Goard, Mary, 10:319
Goart (Gourt, Goord), Joseph, 8:322, 323, 424, 474
Goddard, Anne Catharine, 10:106
Goddard, William, 10:105, 106, 136
Godden (Godding), David, 6:271; 7:317, 318
Godfrey, William, 7:478, 479, 496; 8:51, 83
Godfrey (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Godfrey (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587
Godfrey (slave; Old Quarter), 8:590
Goldney, Edward, 7:195, 198
Goldsborough, Robert, 10:103
Goldsmith, Walter, 8:31
Goliah (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Goliah (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Gollatt (Gullatt, Gaulat), Peter, 7:508; 8:320, 357, 512; 9:366; 10:75,
77
Gooch, William, 1:45, 51, 59; 2:74
Gooch, William, Jr., 10:355
Gooches (tract of land), 9:379, 393, 428, 429, 471-72
Goochland County, 4:290; 5:195
Good, Richard, 3:253, 258; 4:276, 277
Goode, Robert, 8:31
Gooding, Jacob, 8:376, 377; letters from: to GW, 10:262-63
Gooding, John, 10:263
Gooding (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Good-Intent (ship), 8:77
Goodman, John, 6:291
Goodrich, John, & Co., 9:112
Goodrich (Gutridge), ----: account with, 9:111
Goodrich (Gutridge), John, 8:521; 9:112, 132, 134, 367
Goodrich (Gutridge), John, Jr., 9:134
Good thoughts in bad times, 6:291
Goodwin, Edward, 9:122, 145
Goodwin (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Goose Creek, 7:286
Gordon, ----: reimbursed for losses, 5:53
Gordon, ---- (captain), 2:214
Gordon, George, 2:41, 175, 301; 3:368; 4:166; appointments, 2:35, 41,
42, 260; id., 2:36, 358; carries pay, 2:188, 189, 190; murdered, 2:324,
326, 343, 356, 357-58; 3:370; 5:53; letters to: from GW, 2:35-36,
36-37
Gordon, Harry, 6:129; 7:241; 8:73; military service, 2:214; 6:148, 151;
id., 2:215-16; 6:130; and construction of Armstrong's New Camp, 6:136,
140, 142; and construction of Fort Pitt, 6:363; in Battle of Bushy Run,
7:242; praises GW, 7:265; and "Pseudo Elephant" bones, 9:97; western exploration,
9:99; letters from: to ----, 1:327, 332
Gordon, James, 7:355, 421, 471-72; 8:45, 134, 357
Gordon, John (captain), 6:108
Gordon, John (minister), 2:244
Gordon, Patrick, 7:346
Gordon, Samuel, 6:466
Gordon, Thomas, 6:290
Gordon's ferry, 1:8
Gore, ---- (lieutenant), 7:339, 340
Gore, John, 8:5, 23
Gore, Joshua, 7:340
Gore, Thomas, 7:340
Gorman, David, 8:540; 9:122, 145
Gorrell (Gorrel), James, 6:119
Gorsnell (Gosling), Mordecai, 3:253, 259
Goshen Pass. See Dunlop's Pass
Gough, Harry Dorsey, 8:464
Gough, Prudence Carnan. See Carnan, Prudence
Gould, Robert, 6:290
The government of a wife, 6:290; 7:346
The government of the tongue, 6:289; 7:347
Gowin (Gour), Matthew, 7:379
Grable, Christian, 5:342
Grace, Patrick, 6:481-82
Grace (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Grace (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Grace (slave; Charles Washington's), 7:172
Grace (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Grace (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587
Grace (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Grace (slave; Muddy Hole), 6:428; 7:45
Grace (slave; York County, 1), 6:229
Grace (slave; York County, 2), 6:229
Grafford (Graffort), Thomas, 7:379; 8:145, 146
Graham, ----: John Parke Custis's debt to, 9:442, 443
Graham, Gordon, 5:395, 396
Graham, James, 6:321
Graham, John (of Dumfries), 3:252; 7:373; 8:110, 435; 10:215; letters
from: to GW, 6:341-42; letters to: from GW, 6:341
Graham, John (soldier), 3:256
Graham, Reginald, 8:521, 522
Graham, Richard, 7:342, 512; 8:63; 10:215
Graham, Robert, 10:215
Graham, William, 7:375
Grahame (Graham), Charles (c.1721-1779), 7:62, 65
Grainger, Caleb, 1:175, 176
Grainger, John, 6:280, 281, 311
Granbery, Josiah, 8:53
Grant, ---- (sergeant), 6:136
Grant, Andrew, 8:83, 84, 507; 9:356
Grant, Francis, 5:294
Grant, James, 1:140; 2:47, 118; 5:431; 6:97, 110-11; defeat at Fort Duquesne,
2:109, 349; 5:130, 148, 161, 242, 249, 383, 409, 411; 6:3, 6, 10, 15,
17, 38-39, 40, 41-42, 44-47, 52, 53, 73, 470; id., 6:40; criticism of,
6:41, 52; and Cherokee expedition, 6:470; 7:46, 47-48, 51, 52, 55, 56,
57, 58-59; and Andrew Lewis, 7:52; letters from: to John Forbes,
5:411
Grant, James (lieutenant), 6:90, 91
Grant, John (husband of Margaret Strother), 5:79; 6:421
Grant, John (in Joshua Lewis's company), 6:137
Grant, John (in Thomas Cocke's company), 3:95, 123; 6:137
Grant, John (recruited by Robert Stewart), 6:137
Grant, Margaret Strother, 5:79; 6:421
Grant, William, 3:252, 256
Grantswood, 10:29
Granville, John Carteret, first Earl, 5:69; 7:436, 437
Grass guard, 5:381
Gratter. See Gretter
Gravatt, Richard, 9:402, 403; 10:188, 195, 213, 326, 329-30
Grave Creek (Virginia), 9:37
Graves, ----: slaves kill his hogs, 9:232; id., 9:233
Graves, Elizabeth Valentine, 8:574
Graves, Henry, 9:233
Graves, Richard Croshor (Croshire), 8:579, 582; 9:90, 140; account with,
6:253; 9:19, 47; accused of planting oronoco tobacco, 7:317; id., 7:318;
8:574; 9:233; leaves Claiborne's, 7:426, 427; Joseph Valentine's executor,
8:574; 9:48; his ship, 9:88; letters from: to GW, 8:573-74, 584-86
Graves, William, 6:229, 252, 280; 9:255, 258
Gray, Ann, 10:202
Gray, Drakeford, 8:144
Gray, George, 10:296; letters from: to GW, 10:297; letters
to: from GW, 10:297
Gray, Henry, 4:41
Gray, James, 8:145
Gray, John (of Fairfax County), 7:379; 8:144
Gray, Stephen, 9:410; 10:202, 203-4, 211, 214
Gray, William, 9:75, 76
Graydon, Alexander, 7:71
Grayson, ---- (captain), 9:100-101
Grayson, Benjamin (d. 1757), 6:370
Grayson, Benjamin (d. 1768), 6:369, 370; 7:332, 333, 362, 379, 384
Grayson, James, 9:101
Grayson, Spence, 6:369, 370
Grayson, William, 10:150; and GW's legal work, 8:252, 382-83; Burgess
elections, 8:569, 571; 9:3; deputy king's attorney, 9:4; political opinion,
10:146; and Prince William Independent Company, 10:215, 216, 241, 346,
356; letters from: to GW, 8:382-84; 10:214-15, 259, 331; letters
to: from GW, 10:201, 319
Grayson's ordinary, 7:332
Great Alamance Creek, 8:494
Great Britain. See individual volumes
Great Cacapon River. See Cacapon River
Great Crossing of Youghiogheny River. See Youghiogheny, Great
Crossing of
Great Falls of the Potomac River, 1:179, 180; 7:177, 331, 332
Great Hockhocking River (Hocking River), 10:44, 87, 135, 163, 169, 170,
183
Greathouse, Daniel, 10:52-53, 54
Great House plantation (York County): id., 8:126; deficiency in dower
land to be taken from, 8:197; John Custis lives at, 8:197; inventories
at, 8:585; list of slaves at, 8:587
Great Island (Big Island; of Susquehanna River), 2:74
Great Kanawha River (Kanawha River), 2:59; 8:279, 393-94; 10:87, 88,
290-91
Great Knife (Indian name for GW), 6:361
Great Marsh (plantation), 2:119
Great Meadows, 1:106; 3:332; 5:358, 423; 8:405-6. See also Fort
Necessity
Great Meadows tract, 8:445-46, 566; 9:26, 37; 10:89
Great Muskingum River. See Muskingum River
Great Ridge, 3:52
Great Skygusta. See Skygusta
Great Spring (Virginia), 6:413
Great Tellico. See Tellico
Green, ----, 3:195
Green, Anne Catharine, 8:386, 531; 10:80, 288
Green, Charles, 1:291; 5:47; 6:339; 7:158, 311, 352; id., 1:293; 5:52;
7:70, 232; as GW's physician, 5:51-52, 56; 7:95; and Maurice Pound, 6:369;
commissioner for sale of Clifton lands, 6:410, 433-34; account with, 7:1,
6, 185, 295, 299, 319, 331; and GW's runaway slave, 7:6; land held by,
7:41; 9:439; and John Posey's debt, 7:263; 8:2; death, 7:297, 429; makes
surveys, 7:412, 413; his estate, 7:502-3, 507, 514; 8:108-9; his will,
7:502-3, 507; letters to: from GW, 5:51-52; 7:68-70; from George
William Fairfax, 7:39-41
Green, Frederick, 8:386; 10:80, 288
Green, Jonas, 7:352; 8:386
Green, Margaret. See Savage, Margaret
Green, Peter, 7:376, 434, 441
Green, Thomas, 6:296
Green, William (of Culpeper County), 3:106, 129-31
Green, William (of Fairfax County), 7:41
Green, William (of Frederick County), 4:426
Green, William (printer), 8:386
Greenaway, John, 4:390
Greenbrier Company, 9:503
Greenbrier River, 2:59; 3:134; 8:243
Greenfield, John, 3:321, 402-3; 6:313, 314-15
Green Hill, 7:232, 233; 8:118
Greenhow, John, 6:253, 280, 281, 303, 307, 310-11
Greenlaw, Peter, 6:198, 199
Greenough, Thomas, 6:318, 334
Green Spring (Virginia), 1:71
Green Spring furnace (Maryland), 8:352
Greenway Court, 1:40, 48; 3:19; 5:445; 7:95, 96, 233
Greenwood, James, 6:299
Gregory, Mary Cole Claiborne, 9:393
Gregory, Roger (of King William County), 9:393, 426
Gregory, Thomas, 4:42
Gregory (slave; Williamson's farm), 6:428
Greig, Archibald, 8:369, 371; 9:67, 233, 272
Grenville, George, 7:283
Gresham, A., 6:248, 396, 403; 7:28, 130; 9:273
Gresham, J., 7:126
Gresham, John, 9:65
Gretter (Gratter), John, 8:425
Gretter (Gratter), Michael, 7:5, 10-11, 276, 332; 8:146, 147, 425; 9:1
Grey, Gosh, 6:383
Grey, John (officer), 1:145
Griffin, ----, 7:210, 212
Griffin, LeRoy, 9:94-95
Griffith, David, 1:27
Griffith, Edward, 5:338
Griffith, Henry, 9:493
Griffith, Morris (Morrice), 5:276-77
Grig (slave; Muddy Hole), 7:45, 139, 227, 313, 332, 376
Grigg, Thomas, 9:505
Grimmit, Robert, 6:477, 478-79
Grimsley, James, 7:379; 8:144, 145
Grinnan (Grinner), John (of Frederick County), 5:342
Grinnen, James, 5:337
Grinnon, John (sergeant), 3:252, 257
Grinway, John, 6:47
Grisley, Jeffery, 9:377, 379, 385, 393, 401, 402, 429
Grotius, Hugo, 9:344, 345
The grounds and occasions of the contempt of the clergy, 6:293
Grub (Grubb), ----, 3:54
Grubb, Benjamin, 1:28; 4:425
Grubb, John, 1:28; 7:104, 108
Grubb, Samuel, 1:28; 7:108
Grubb, William, 1:28; 7:108
Grymes, Benjamin (1725-c.1776), 3:37; partnership, 1:218; id., 1:349;
3:38; 5:106; and GW's tobacco, 5:105; his ship, 5:105, 217, 219, 448,
449; 6:453; and horse races, 7:107, 111; and elections, 8:245, 246, 569,
571; letters to: from GW, 1:348-49
Grymes, John, 1:349; 3:38
Grymes, Philip, 7:379; 8:146, 148
Grymes, Philip (1721-c.1762), 1:175; 4:27; 7:3, 9
Guadeloupe, 6:194-95; 7:37, 38
The guardian, 6:290, 297; 7:345, 348
Guatruche, Pierre, 6:292
Gubner, ---- (Dominicus Gubner's wife), 8:377
Gubner (Hovenor), Dominicus: account with, 8:376, 405, 437, 473, 512,
527, 556; 9:1, 30, 76, 111, 112, 317, 341; articles of agreement, 8:377;
called "Hovenor," 9:2
A guide to the practical physician, 6:284
Guley, Hannah, 5:414, 415
Gulliver's travels, 6:285; 7:344
Gum Spring, 9:36
Gunn (Gun), James, 4:225, 264, 303; 10:304, 305
Gunnell, Henry, 7:362; 8:145; 9:183; 10:38, 39, 128
Gunnell, John, 10:196
Gunnell, William, 8:144, 145; 9:183
Gunnell (Gunnel), Henry, Sr., 7:379
Gunner (slave; Home farm), 10:137, 138
The gunpowder-treason, 6:290
Gunston Hall, 1:53; 3:203, 407; 5:154
Gurden, Benjamin, & Son, 8:565, 566
Gurshire (slave; Northampton County, 1), 6:230
Gurshire (slave; Northampton County, 2), 6:230
Gutridge. See Goodrich
Gutridge, James (soldier), 3:253, 258
Guy, Henry, 8:400, 401; 9:259, 260
Guy, Little (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 591
Guy, Old (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:584, 591
Guy (dower slave; King William County), 6:218; 7:463, 464
Guy (slave), 8:222, 223
Guy (slave; bricklayer; William Daingerfield's), 7:110, 209, 211, 299
Guy (slave; King William County), 6:225
Guy (slave; tradesman), 7:227
Guyasuta. See Kiashuta
Guyandot River, 10:362
Gwatkins, Thomas, 9:24, 25, 39
Gwin, James, 9:122, 146
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Hagan, John, 9:317, 340, 341, 395
Hagar (Hager), Jonathan, 7:177; 9:493
Hagler (Indian), 3:371, 372, 388; 4:117, 118, 170, 171; 6:72
Hagyeswiler, John, 4:161
Haims, Robert, 7:109, 139, 227, 228, 313, 376, 430, 439, 461, 478
Haines (Hains), Abraham, 8:573
Haines (Hains), Joshua, 8:573
Haines (Hains), Robert, 5:338
Hake, Abraham, & Co., 7:446, 447; 8:9, 11
Halbert, Thomas, 7:380; 8:146, 147
Haldimand, Frederick, 4:416
Hale, Sir Matthew, 7:346
Hale, Thomas, 6:317-18, 327, 463, 472, 473; 7:344, 348
Hales, Elizabeth. See Dawson, Elizabeth
Hales, Elizabeth (daughter), 9:22, 23, 24
Hales, Sophia, 9:22, 23, 24
Half-King (Indian), 1:60, 84, 106, 114-15, 131; id., 1:61; speeches by
and to, 1:83, 85, 87, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 105, 112; gives GW Indian name,
1:91; 2:98; and Indians, 1:92, 98, 112, 122-23, 124, 133, 146; and Winchester
council, 1:104, 105, 106, 119; intelligence from, 1:110, 111, 122-23,
133; and Jumonville's defeat, 1:110, 115; medal for, 1:121, 130; is named
Dinwiddie, 1:125, 135, 150, 175
Half-King's Rocks, 1:91
Halfpenny, Robert, 5:337
Halifax, George Montagu Dunk, second earl of, 7:38, 39; letters to:
from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:213-14, 224, 351
Halifax, George Savile, first marquis of, 6:295
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 4:298, 356; 5:173-74
Halifax County, 3:361, 363, 435; 4:6, 366; 5:141, 196
Halkerston, Robert, 1:151, 152; 3:325, 332; 5:206
Halkett, Francis, 2:155; 5:133, 143, 168, 312, 365, 387; 6:86, 87; military
service of, 1:338; 5:125; 6:188; id., 2:156; 3:215; 5:125; approval of
GW, 5:148; and Virginia forces, 5:313-14, 330, 380; and Forbes expedition,
6:10, 114, 136, 151, 152, 382; letters from: to GW, 5:164-66, 243-44,
273, 362; 6:152-53; letters to: from GW, 5:125, 175-77, 208, 282,
289-90, 313-14, 360-61
Halkett, James, 1:338; 2:228; 5:125
Halkett, Sir Peter, 1:278, 294, 306; 2:156; 5:231; march of, 1:294, 296,
299, 310, 321, 325; id., 1:296; killed, 1:336, 338, 340; 5:125
Hall, ----: account with, 9:433
Hall, David: letters from: to GW, 4:387-88, 399-400; letters
to: from GW, 5:35
Hall, Jacob, 8:145, 146
Hall, John (lieutenant), 2:43; 7:314; military service of, 2:14, 40,
148, 261, 288; 3:77, 153, 252, 360, 429; 4:128, 130, 149-51, 166; 5:16,
17, 94, 126; id., 2:116-17, 149; 6:87; councils of war, 3:25-26, 38-39;
and court-martials, 3:72, 152-53, 388, 397; praised, 5:16, 17; GW recommends,
5:94; letters from: to GW, 4:149-51, 177-78, 282-83; 5:94; 6:86-87;
letters to: from GW, 2:116-17; from Thomas Gage, 5:94
Hall, John (of Nansemond County), 7:107, 110
Hall, Jonathan, 8:470, 472
Hall, Michael, 7:380; 8:146
Hall, Ned (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Hall, William (of Frederick County), 5:306
Hall & Gilpin, 8:290, 291, 305, 456; 9:317
Hall & Sellars, 10:180
Halle, William (of Bedford County), 5:183
Haller, Henry, 6:53
Halley, Benjamin, 8:146, 147
Halley, Benoni, 7:380
Halley, James, 7:362, 380
Halley, James, Jr., 7:380; 8:146, 147
Halley, Samuel, 10:140
Halley (Haley), William, 7:380, 407, 408; 8:146, 148
Hallier, William, 7:196, 198, 291, 420; 8:46, 133, 564; 9:105
Hallop, William, 6:268
Hamilton, ----: and Custis estate, 8:363, 461
Hamilton, Alexander (doctor), 7:7; letters from: to Gavin Hamilton,
1:338, 341; 2:10, 11
Hamilton, B., 1:221
Hamilton, Gavin: letters to: from Alexander Hamilton, 1:338, 341;
2:10, 11
Hamilton, Hance, 2:308, 309; 6:91, 100, 105, 108; letters from:
to Henry Bouquet, 6:92; letters to: from Henry Bouquet, 6:17-18
Hamilton, Hugh, 10:141
Hamilton, Isaac, 9:96, 98, 247-48
Hamilton, James (c.1720-c.1775; of Loudoun and Fairfax counties), 4:279;
7:69; and militia, 3:67, 68, 69, 76, 88-89, 106, 137, 234, 248, 267, 277;
id., 3:235; 7:70; burgess, 5:315, 316; and Potomac navigation, 7:177;
letters to: from GW, 3:91-92, 150
Hamilton, James (landowner), 1:20, 31, 34
Hamilton, James (of Pennsylvania), 1:64, 89; 2:309; letters from:
to GW, 1:106; letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:56-57, 95, 96,
208; from GW, 1:83-85
Hamilton, John (doctor), 7:2, 7, 92, 95-96
Hamilton, John (in Cocke's company), 3:195
Hamilton, John (in GW's company), 4:391
Hamilton, John (lieutenant), 1:342; 3:257; 4:103
Hamilton, John (quartermaster and sergeant major), 3:321; 4:66, 77, 151,
230, 340, 412, 413; 5:27, 36, 174; military service of, 3:22, 292, 428;
5:9; appointed quartermaster, 3:250; 4:151; id., 3:255; orders to, 3:261-62,
281, 296, 300, 311, 378, 383, 409, 413, 443, 454; 4:24, 61, 138, 163;
returns of, 3:285; 4:66-67, 168, 196; and ordnance sent to John Stanwix,
4:168, 191, 227, 270; and Edmond Atkin, 4:232, 233, 234; misconduct of,
4:327, 414, 423-26; 5:3, 7-9, 10-11, 20, 22; accounts, 4:403, 405
Hamilton, John (sergeant), 8:540; 9:122, 144
Hamilton, John Garne, 10:249, 317
Hamilton, Stanislaus M., 5:245-46
Hammersley, Hugh, 9:22
Hammond, Jervis (Gervis), 7:380; 8:145, 146
Hammond, Nathan, 7:157, 158, 163, 164, 204, 251
Hammond, Thomas, 7:356-57
Hammond, William, 7:380
Hammond & Co., 9:108, 110
Hampshire (ship), 5:190
Hampshire County, 4:7; formation of, 1:67; Indian depredations in, 3:3,
11, 46, 340, 344, 350, 374, 391; 4:110, 360, 385; 7:339; state of, 3:45,
50-51; ranger company for, 4:422, 423; supplies for troops in, 5:1, 5,
6; GW's land in, 6:427; 7:103, 174, 182-85, 279, 313, 350, 377, 516; 8:283;
9:431, 439; county lieutenant, 7:338
Hampton, Andrew, 1:27
Hampton, George, 5:335
Hampton, Noah, 5:335
Hampton, Thomas, 5:337
Hampton, Va., 4:159, 345, 374; 5:436
Hanbury, Capel, 1:59, 284; 2:208; 8:206, 216, 233, 265
Hanbury, Capel & Osgood, 6:405; 7:21, 154, 432; 8:99; and Custis estate,
6:260, 270, 276, 316, 324; 8:141, 202, 203, 458, 459; tobacco shipped
to, 6:317, 376; 7:20, 89, 142-43, 201, 202; 8:9, 10, 89; and bills of
exchange, 6:320, 453; 8:51, 140; correspondence with Martha Custis, 6:322;
accounts with, 7:75, 88, 93, 131, 206, 214, 316; 8:10, 11; and John Parke
Custis, 7:82, 432; addresses John Parke Custis's letters to GW, 7:239;
letter from Joseph Valentine, 8:265; change of company name, 8:342; letters
from: to Martha Dandridge Custis, 6:324, 447-48; to GW, 6:366-67,
411, 458; 7:20-21, 74-75, 131, 141-42, 168, 189, 316-17, 352, 413-14,
431-32, 466; 8:43-44, 60-61, 77, 102-3, 137-38, 205-6, 233-34, 264-65,
341-42, 374-75, 433-34; to John Parke Custis, 7:238-39, 392-93, 452-53,
498; 8:17, 60-61, 77, 103, 137-38, 206, 265, 342, 375, 434, 474-75, 500;
letters to: from GW, 6:322-24, 338-39, 347, 373, 374, 447-48; 7:31-32,
52-53, 134, 151, 199-200, 393-94, 443-44, 450-51; 8:14-16, 59, 84-85,
142, 228-29, 353, 499-500, 552. See also Hanbury, John, & Co.;
Hanbury, Osgood, & Co.; Hanburys & Lloyd; Tobacco
Hanbury, John, 1:59; 6:322, 323
Hanbury, John, & Co., 6:267, 268, 323, 324; letters to: from Martha
Dandridge Custis, 6:260. See also Hanbury, Capel & Osgood
Hanbury, Osgood, 1:59, 284; 2:208; 10:309
Hanbury, Osgood, & Co., 9:272, 369, 519; 10:8, 9, 30, 44; letters
from: to GW, 9:12-13, 200-201; to John Parke Custis, 9:13, 201; letters
to: from GW, 9:348, 374; 10:37-38
Hanbury (ship), 7:392, 431; 8:233; 9:11-12, 200, 374; tobacco
shipped in, 7:189, 316, 352, 498; 8:11, 43, 60, 77, 102, 103, 137, 206,
228, 265, 342, 374, 375, 433-34, 475, 500; 10:8, 185; carries letters,
7:413, 466; 8:341, 474
Hanburys & Lloyd, 10:83, 269; letters from: to GW, 10:8-9, 185-86,
197-98; to John Parke Custis, 10:8-9; letters to: from GW, 10:81-82,
142, 199
Hanby, John, 9:86, 89
Hanby family, 9:89
Hand, Edward, 10:234
Handcock (Hancock), Joseph, 4:390; 5:369
Handly, Murty, 5:341
The Handmaid to the Arts and Sciences, 7:348, 448, 450, 473
Hands, Philip, 3:124
Hanks, John, 2:224
Hanna (Hannah), John, 6:36, 37
Hannabel (slave; Thomas Walker's), 7:315
Hannah (dower slave; Ferry farm), 8:401, 402, 479, 480; 9:54
Hannah (dower slave; York County), 6:218
Hannah (slave), 10:168
Hannah (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Hannah (slave; Anthony Bacon's and Fielding Lewis's), 7:315
Hannah (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Hannah (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 591
Hannah (slave; Dogue Run), 7:443, 516; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54, 238;
10:137
Hannah (slave; Hanover County), 6:231
Hannah (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587
Hannah (slave; married to Morris), 6:321
Hannah (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Hannah (slave; Muddy Hole), 7:45, 139, 228, 313, 376
Hannah (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Hannah (slave; River farm), 9:239; 10:137
Hannah (slave; Williamson's farm), 6:428
Hannah (slave; York County, 1), 6:229
Hannah (slave; York County, 2), 6:229
Hannastown, Pa., 6:133, 140; 10:43
Hannibal, 9:97
Hanover (Germany), 5:18
Hanover County, 4:290; 5:195; 6:218, 230-31, 246, 254, 266; 9:89
Hanover Court House, 10:280
Hanover Parish, 8:90
Hanshaw (Henshaw), Nicholas, 5:338
Hanson, Thomas (adjutant), 10:357, 359
Hanson, Thomas (surveyor), 9:512; 10:152, 311
Hanson, William: letters to: from GW, 10:296
Hany, Mary, 4:230
Harbour (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587. See also Arbah;
Arber
Hardenberg's patent (New York), 10:239
Hardin, George, 5:336
Hardin, Henry, 1:222
Hardin, John, 1:27, 37; 2:95, 105, 107, 108; 5:113, 114; 6:313, 314,
457; letters to: from GW, 2:100-101
Hardin, Martin, 2:77, 78-79, 116
Hardin (Harden), Thomas, 6:443; 7:104, 107; 8:145, 146
Hardin (Harden), William, 7:380; 8:145
Hardin's ordinary, 2:76
Hardwick, Christopher, 4:358; 6:3, 5, 25, 26, 135, 169, 380, 390, 430;
7:331, 515; id., 2:352; 5:253, 280, 410; 7:10, 146, 185; dispute over
flour, 5:252; supervised by Charles Smith, 5:253; funds for, 5:306, 308;
6:390, 416, 441, 457; and GW's horses, 5:367; 6:25; abuses John Adams,
6:27, 134; and GW's baggage, 6:364; criticized, 6:420-21; breaks leg,
6:421, 446; account with, 7:4, 240, 332; agreement with GW, 7:182-85;
judgment against, 8:169; letters from: to GW, 5:279-80, 366-67,
422, 451-53; 6:166-67, 420-21, 445-46; letters to: from GW, 5:284,
379, 423
Hardy, Sir Charles, 3:286; 4:177, 178; 5:128; 6:81
Hardy, Peter, 9:435, 436
Hardyman, Littlebury, 8:193
Hare (ship), 6:325, 326
Harewood, 8:432
Harford, Frances Mary, 9:22-23, 24
Harford, Henry, 9:22-24, 24
Hargiss, Abraham, 7:379
Hariett (ship), 7:267
Haring, John, 9:261
Harland, Moses, 4:183
Harland Spring, 4:183
Harle, Sarah, 7:342, 430, 440, 441, 451, 458, 461, 482, 491, 508; 8:91
Harle, William, 7:430
Harlee (Harllee), Peter, 7:104, 108
Harlow, Will (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Harlowin, Francis, 2:224, 272
Harlow's plantation, 7:331, 427; 8:585, 590; 9:257
Harness, Christian, 8:51, 53
Harness, Michael, Jr., 7:5
Harness, Michael, Sr., 3:141; 4:139
Harness's fort, 3:127, 137, 141, 146, 159, 341-42; 4:139, 147, 149, 220-21;
5:67
Harney, Selby, 9:152, 166
Haron, Edward, 6:47
Harper, ---- (spinner), 10:194
Harper, John, 9:228, 229, 477; 10:248, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 359
Harper, Joseph, 8:31
Harper, Mathew, 3:321-23
Harper, Robert (of Alexandria), 10:269
Harper, Robert (of Frederick County), 5:339
Harper & Hartshorne, 10:317
Harper's Ferry, 8:293
Harpur, Robert (of King's College), 9:442, 443
Harrel, William, 10:71
Harrell, Robert, 8:47, 132
Harries & Co, 10:281
Harriet (packet boat), 5:69
Harris, Ann, 7:256, 257, 290; 8:102, 133
Harris, Cornel, 3:225; 4:42
Harris, James, 3:230
Harris, John, 10:221
Harris, John (of England), 7:198
Harris, John (of Pennsylvania), 2:120-21, 154
Harris, John (soldier), 3:225, 330; 4:42
Harris, John Turner, 7:197
Harris, Reuben, 3:230
Harris, Samuel, 3:434, 435; 4:10
Harris, Walter, 6:296
Harrisburg, Pa., 2:121
Harrison, ----: and Colvill estate, 8:465
Harrison, ---- (of Fairfax County), 7:376
Harrison, Benjamin (c.1726-1791), 6:372, 466; 9:335; 10:79, 369, 370,
000, 000; letters from: to GW, 10:174
Harrison, Benjamin (d. 1745), 2:25
Harrison, Benjamin, Jr. (d. 1799), 10:76, 79
Harrison, Burr, 8:190-91
Harrison, Burr (b. 1699), 8:191
Harrison, Burr (son of Burr Harrison), 8:191
Harrison, Carter Henry, 2:43; 3:21; company of, 2:3, 14, 40, 42, 116,
149, 170, 230; id., 2:25; criticism of, 2:85, 106; illness of, 2:108,
128; resigns in favor of brother, 2:214, 216, 246
Harrison, George, 6:341-42, 439; 8:37, 185, 186, 187
Harrison, Henry, 3:41, 72, 76, 77-79, 242-46; 4:136, 182; succeeds his
brother, 2:25, 116, 214, 216, 246; company of, 2:43, 145, 230, 261, 265;
3:21, 23, 30, 34, 212, 240, 252, 253, 259, 263, 310, 369, 429; 4:77; criticism
of, 2:84; id., 2:216; commission, 4:155, 166; letters from: to
GW, 4:18-22; letters to: from GW, 3:21-22, 24, 29, 40, 53-54
Harrison, Lawrence, 8:156, 158, 257, 405-6, 445-46, 522; 9:26
Harrison, Matthew, 7:98
Harrison, Nathaniel, Jr. (1703-1791), 8:194; 9:473; 10:254, 255
Harrison, Nathaniel (of Fairfax), 7:376, 380
Harrison, Richard, 9:293; 10:140
Harrison, Robert Hanson, 8:320; 10:108, 150, 305; defends William Skilling,
8:208; legal fees of, 8:249, 322, 437; represents John Posey, 8:250, 470,
472; retained by Thomson Mason, 8:407; and suit against the Barrys, 8:438;
and the Savage affair, 9:10, 77, 413; 10:104, 106-7, 340; account with,
9:76, 317; and suit against Daniel Jenifer Adams, 9:176-77; and Colvill
estate, 9:261; and Fairfax Resolves, 10:119, 236; appointed to Committee,
10:128; political opinion, 10:146; and Fairfax Independent Company, 10:173,
191, 344; and Robert Adam's mortgage, 10:227; attorney for Ashburner &
, 10:249; letters from: to GW, 8:325-26; 9:2-4, 176-77,
319-20, 321-22; 10:278; letters to: from GW, 8:252-54; 10:271
Harrison (Harris), Robert, 1:210, 211
Harrison (Harris), William, 1:210, 211
Harris's ferry, 2:121, 154
Harris's fort (Mayo River fort), 3:435; 4:10
Harrom, John, 5:342
Harrow, John, 2:113
Harry, Negro, 7:415
Harry (slave, boy; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Harry (slave, boy; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Harry (slave; Anthony Bacon's and Fielding Lewis's), 7:315
Harry (slave; Bullskin plantation), 6:421
Harry (slave; child; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Harry (slave; Ferry farm), 8:479, 512; 9:54
Harry (slave; from Daniel Tebbs's estate), 7:300, 314
Harry (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Harry (slave; Home farm), 9:238; 10:138
Harry (slave; house servant), 7:442, 515; 8:104, 220, 356, 479, 480
Harry (slave; Michael Yates's; doctor), 9:398
Harry (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Harry (slave; Old Quarter), 8:590
Harry (slave; River farm), 10:137, 138
Harry (slave; William Nelson's), 7:314
Hart, John (lieutenant), 1:251
Hart, John (soldier), 3:272-73
Hart, Leven (Levin), 9:76, 395
Hart, Thomas, 5:339
Hartford, Conn., 5:98
Hartley, Thomas, 3:403
Hartlib, Samuel, 6:463, 472, 473
Hartshorne, William, 9:228, 229, 476, 477; 10:128, 299
Hartshorne & Harper, 9:477
Hartwell, David, 3:253, 259
Harvey, ----, 3:160
Harvey, Gideon, 6:285, 295
Harvey, John (ditcher), 8:363
Harvey, John (of North Carolina), 7:437
Harwood, William, 10:99-100
Harwood (Hamwood), John, 1:211; 3:258
Hasberger (Harbinger), John, 5:335
Hasell, James, 7:436
Haslow, ----: and plow, 7:331
Hasslett, Moses, 8:444
Hastenbeck, Battle of, 4:416
Hatfield, James, 3:253, 259
Hathaway, Francis, 4:42
Hathaway, Thomas, 8:176
Hattige: or the amours of the king of Tamaran, 6:295
Hatton, ---- (widow), 1:219
Hatton, Demsey, 9:406
Hatton, Edward, 6:285
Hatton, Lucy, 1:217
Hatton, Thomas, 1:219
Hatton, William, 6:252
Haviland, William, 5:411
Hawke, Sir Edward, 1:317, 318; 3:250; 5:18, 42, 43, 426, 427; 7:39-40
Hawkins, ---- (old): paid for "shewg a Line," 7:107
Hawkins, George Fraser, 10:332
Hawkins, Mary, 9:433; 10:104, 177, 194, 227, 229, 249, 317, 318, 356
Hawkins, Pinkethman, 5:183-84
Hawkins, William, 7:110, 380; 8:145
Hawkins's tavern, 10:229
Hawood, Martin, 9:382
Hawthorn, John, 1:251
Hay, ----: account with John Parke Custis, 7:87
Hay, Anthony, 8:181, 268; account with, 6:198; 7:496; 8:50, 51, 52, 192,
329, 346; id., 6:200; 7:496; and subscriptions to races, 8:41, 192; death
of, 8:454
Hay, Lord Charles, 5:18, 19
Hay, David, 6:55, 56, 94, 126
Hay, Elizabeth Davenport. See Davenport, Elizabeth
Hay, James, 5:272
Hay, Peter, 6:174, 175, 253; 7:2, 7, 92, 98
Haynes, Joshua, 1:27
Haynes, Noah, 1:26
Haynes family, 9:143
Haynie, William, 10:194
Hay's tavern, 7:496
Hayton, ----: assistant to William Ramsay, 5:249; 6:15, 81; id., 6:82
Haywood, ----: visits Benedict Calvert, 9:216
Haywood, Mrs. Eliza, 7:345
Haywood, William, 9:216
Hazard (ship), 7:326; 8:371
Hazel, Power, 2:89, 93, 94, 95, 104, 107
Hazlegrove, John, 6:253
Head, Richard, 6:293
Heald, George, 10:20
Heart, John, 4:347
Heartshorn, John, 7:380
Heath, ----: and letter to GW, 7:12
Heath, Andrew, 10:257
Heath, George, 6:263, 267, 328, 329
Heath, John, 4:43
Heath, Stephen, 7:125, 130, 194, 291, 432; 8:296, 562; 9:106-7
Heath, William (of Warm Spring), 8:22, 24
Heath, William (ship captain), 9:165
Heath, William (soldier), 3:253, 258; 7:14
"Heathen Gods," 7:213. See also New Pantheon; or, Fabulous History
of the Heathen Gods
Hector (dower slave; King William County), 6:218; 7:463, 464
Hector (slave; at Claiborne's plantation), 6:311
Hector (slave; King William County), 6:225
"Hederici (Hederich) Lexicon Manuale Graecum," 7:168
Hedgcock, Nancey, 4:42
Hedge (Hedges), Jonas, 5:337
Hedges, Joshua, 8:20, 22, 24, 238, 239, 240
Hedgman, ----, 3:360, 388
Hedgman, George, 3:293; 4:166; appointed ensign, 2:42; and recruits,
2:148; id., 2:149; 3:143-44, 363; appointed to 2d company, 2:260; resignation
of, 2:327; and militia, 3:137, 150; instructions to, 3:143; his accounts,
3:368, 369
Hedgman, John (brother of George Hedgman), 3:293
Hedgman, John (soldier), 3:292-93; 6:47
Hedgman, Peter, 2:149; 3:143, 363
Hedgman, William, 3:143, 363
Heineccius, Johann, 9:345
Heintz, John Christopher (Christian; miner), 5:97, 252, 253, 373-74,
423; 6:76
Helm, Meredith, 2:94, 95
Helms, Thomas, 5:340
Helms, William, 5:340
An Help and Guide to Christian Families, 6:300; 7:347, 350
Helphingston, Philip, 4:425-26
Hemmings, Benjamin, 10:370
Henby & Caldee, 10:178
Henderson, Alexander, 7:380, 428-29; 8:141, 142; 9:8, 9, 178, 219, 222-23,
229; 10:150, 305; elected to Truro vestry, 7:361, 384; account with, 7:491;
9:394; 10:316; id., 7:492; 9:179; and Pohick Church, 8:247, 248; 10:317,
319; and the Association, 8:487-89; buys land from Bryan Fairfax, 9:134-35;
as justice, 9:191; and Boston Port Bill, 10:144; and the bloomery, 10:284
Henderson, Richard (of Maryland), 7:457
Henderson, Richard (of North Carolina), 10:247, 298, 312, 333
Hendon, James, 6:47
Hendree, George, 1:28
Hendren, John, 3:187, 188
Hendricks, James, 10:104, 106, 344
Henley, David, 9:477
Henley, Leonard, 9:244
Henley, Samuel, 9:39, 356; 10:76, 78
Henley (slave), 8:34
Henly, ----: and molasses for GW, 9:476
Henly & Call, 10:177
Henrico County, 4:290
Henrietta Farthing (slave), 8:34
Henry, ---- (sergeant), 4:396
Henry, George, 5:338
Henry, John, 8:329, 330
Henry, Michael, 9:503
Henry, Patrick, 7:384, 386; 8:41; 9:364, 512; 10:151, 174, 309, 000,
000
Henry, William, 5:169, 213, 214, 236, 238, 239, 244-45, 307; letters
to: from GW, 5:240
Henry V, 4:242
Henry VIII, 9:4
Hensley, Christopher, 5:423; 6:3-4, 5, 26, 27
Hepburn, William, 10:104, 106
Herbert, George, 6:294
Herbert, Sarah Carlyle, 9:317
Herbert, William, 9:288, 316, 317, 352, 353, 394, 395, 396; 10:141, 339;
letters from: to GW, 10:159
Herculas (slave; Home farm; ferryman), 8:356, 357
Herculas (slave; house servant), 8:479; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Hercules (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Hereford, ----: account with, 8:238
Hereford, George, 7:380
Hereford, John, 7:380
Herndon, Benjamin, 7:470; 8:42
Hero (horse), 7:479
Hero (ship), 6:442
Herryford (Hereford), James, 7:412
Herryford and Mason tract, 9:142
Hervey, William, 3:163
Hesketh & Hawkes, 6:394, 403; 7:199
Heslop, Isaac, 8:362, 363
Heslop & Blair, 8:363, 461
Heth (Heath), Henry, 3:321, 338, 340; 4:141, 142, 235; 5:333, 337; 7:3,
8
Heth's (Heath's) ordinary, 3:338, 340; 4:232-33, 235; 7:8
Hewett, Jacob, 1:218, 219
Hewitt, Richard, 9:39
Hickes, George, 6:300; 7:348
Hickman, Barbara, 9:427
Hickman, John, 7:209, 211
Hickman, Thomas, 9:427, 428
Hickman, William, 7:211
Hickory Hill (Westmoreland County), 1:229; 8:153; 10:300
Hicks, Moses, 8:158
Hicks, Thomas, 3:135
Hicks, William, 5:74, 113
Hiet (Hyatt), Simeon, 5:336
Higgam, Thomas, 6:47
Higgins, Judiah (Jedidiah), 8:21, 22
Higgins, Timothy, 2:113
Highland, John, 4:390
Highland, Richard, 5:342
Highlanders. See 77th Regiment
Hilbourn, William, 1:29
Hilhouse, ----: suit against John Posey's wife, 8:212, 216
Hill, ----, 2:93
Hill, Ann Meredith, 9:245
Hill, George, 3:306-7; 4:389
Hill, Henry, 9:280; letters from: to GW, 9:244-45
Hill, James, 10:8, 75, 76, 83, 177, 353
Hill, James (from Brunswick County), 4:42
Hill, James (manager), 8:429; as manager of Custis estate, 8:574, 586;
9:33, 63, 115, 271, 276, 281, 282, 284, 306, 355, 368, 369, 426; id.,
8:574; account with, 9:19, 45, 116, 126, 131, 133, 202, 220, 222, 225,
227, 229, 230, 394, 432, 436; agreement as manager of Custis estate, 9:21;
dispute with John Stratton, 9:86; mistake in sending tobacco, 9:200, 243,
254, 255-57; and damaged goods, 9:272, 277; and William Black, 9:424,
425, 455-59, 471-72, 478-79; letters from: to GW, 8:574-75; 9:46-49,
72-74, 84-90, 138-40, 171-74, 231-33, 243, 254-58, 259-60, 285-87, 434-36,
450; letters to: from GW, 9:79, 143, 157, 458
Hill, James (sergeant), 4:276, 277
Hill, John, 3:285, 306-7
Hill, Lamar & Hill, 7:64, 136, 140, 157; letters from: to GW,
6:404-5; 7:116
Hill, William, 6:397, 403
Hillsboro, 1:82
Hillsborough, Wills Hill, second earl of, 7:388; and scheme to settle
St. John's Island, 7:391; and Mississippi Company, 8:152; orders no transmontane
land grants, 8:308-9; and Walpole Company, 8:368, 380; 9:304; and bounty
lands, 9:483, 490, 500-501; letters to: from William Nelson, 8:393
Hiltzheimer, Jacob, 10:370, 371
Hinch, Mary, 4:230-31
Hindren, John, 4:42
Hinson, Imrod, 4:42
Hintch, ----, 3:11
Hinton, Alley, 4:41
Hinton, Christopher, 4:41
Hinton, Henry, 8:22
Hio (slave; Anthony Bacon's and Fielding Lewis's), 7:315
Hippisley, Edward, 6:393, 403; 7:124, 129, 191, 288-89, 354-55, 423
Hippisley & Hunt, 7:354-55, 423
Hippocrates, 6:288
Historia Anglo-Scotica, 6:288
An historical dissertation on the Thebean legion, 6:294
The History and Present State of Virginia, 8:102, 132
The History of Col. Parke's Administration, 6:300
History of England (Smollett's), 6:283; 7:343, 344, 349
The history of Prince Erastus, 6:293
The history of the bucaniers of America, 6:289
History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia, 10:146,
150
The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, 6:285
The history of the revolution in Sweden, 6:288
The history of Tom Jones, a foundling, 7:345
The history or annals of England, during the . . . reign of Elizabeth,
6:285
Hite, ----, 2:341
Hite, Abraham, 2:94, 342; 7:177
Hite, Abraham, Jr., 9:126, 133
Hite, Isaac, 1:31; 5:342; 7:45, 98; 9:512; 10:152
Hite, Jacob, 4:183; 5:342; 7:3, 8, 15, 16, 177; 8:405, 406, 522; 9:125,
126; letters from: to GW, 5:250
Hite, Jacob, & Son, 9:126, 136
Hite, John, 3:384; 4:419; 5:160, 262, 338; 6:135; id., 2:47, 342; 3:53;
5:161, 254; 6:82; 7:296; house of, 3:385; 7:296; military service, 5:160-62;
and GW's election, 5:307, 373-74; and supplies for troops, 6:14-15, 81;
and Potomac navigation, 7:177; and Mississippi Company, 8:63; letters
from: to GW, 5:254
Hite, John, Jr., 8:376, 378, 522; 9:126, 133, 223, 225, 230, 454
Hite, Jost, 2:342; 3:53; 5:161, 250, 254; 7:16; 8:3, 4, 383-84; 9:126,
169
Hite, Thomas, 8:383
Hiver, Daniel, 3:44
Hixa-Uraw (Indian), 4:170, 171
Hoadly, Benjamin, 6:286
Hobday, Isaac, 10:140, 141
Hobday, John, 10:79, 141
Hochkirk, Battle of, 6:81
Hockaday, James (New Kent County), 8:580, 581-82, 586
Hockerday, James (Charles City County), 4:42
Hocking River. See Great Hockhocking River
Hodder, James, 6:295
Hodge, ----, 6:436; 8:136
Hodge, Thomas, 6:437; 7:438, 440; 9:126, 127, 132, 202, 203, 222, 225,
227, 230
Hodges, Nathaniel, 6:293, 298-99
Hodges, Tyzack, & Co., 8:561, 565
Hodgzard, William, 10:319, 351
Hog, James, 2:299
Hog, Peter (officer), 1:142; 2:20, 40, 41, 185, 197; 3:153, 282, 284,
349, 377, 395, 397, 438; 4:158, 274; 10:46; and Fort Necessity campaign,
1:76; id., 1:144, 209-10; 2:299; military service, 1:208; 2:2, 17-18,
260, 327; 3:433; commended, 1:209; accounts of, 1:222; 2:291; 4:273, 347;
8:362, 436; 9:207; company returns, 2:7, 59, 111, 155, 182, 187, 189,
220, 237, 302; 3:134, 135, 156-57, 204, 212, 402; 4:327, 346; and Andrew
Lewis, 2:29; 5:114, 115; company of, 2:39, 45, 117, 143, 144, 146, 147,
148, 150, 152, 153, 155, 171, 196, 214, 235, 261, 298; 3:223, 251, 252,
256, 325, 428; 4:7, 17, 76, 77, 155, 166, 184-85, 186, 187, 193, 276-77,
287, 326, 327, 328, 345, 348, 362, 394, 406, 422; 5:1, 5, 15, 85, 155-56;
appointed captain, 2:42; at Fort Cumberland, 2:47; complaints against,
2:50; 3:314, 319; 4:30, 111, 122-23, 351; and Fort Dinwiddie, 2:59; 3:264,
300, 321-23; supplies, 2:171, 187, 198, 199, 215, 216, 279, 300; and Sandy
Creek expedition, 2:299; and trough, 2:300, 302; and Joseph Chew's servant,
2:301, 302; and forts, 3:232, 245, 279, 361, 372, 431, 432-33; 4:11, 123,
348, 351; and mulatto soldier, 3:276; funds for, 3:434; memoranda concerning,
4:286-87; illness, 5:1; and rangers, 5:19, 21, 26, 115, 141, 155, 160;
GW's opinion of, 5:26; and bounty land, 8:439, 440, 540; 9:122, 130, 131,
144, 359, 361, 364, 366, 405; on 1754 roll of soldiers, 8:451; family
of, 10:71; letters from: to GW, 2:57-59, 79-80, 110-11, 154-55,
181-82, 188-90, 219-21, 299-303, 318-19, 330-31; 3:131-35, 151, 203-5,
226, 227-29, 303, 401-3; 4:46-47, 78; 9:403-5; to John Blair, 5:160, 196;
letters to: from GW, 2:17-18, 18-19, 60-61, 145, 186-87, 236-38,
272-73; 3:194-95, 269-73, 273-75, 401; 4:24, 45, 102-3, 185, 325-27; 10:1-2;
from Robert Dinwiddie, 3:363, 434
Hog, Peter (son of Peter Hog), 2:299
Hog, Thomas (brother of Peter Hog), 2:18; 10:70, 71, 151
Hog, Thomas (son of Peter Hog), 2:299
Hog, Walter, 2:18
Hogan, Edward, 1:20, 34, 36
Hogan, William, 9:122, 146
Hogan (Hoggan), John, 2:344; 3:222
Hogarth, William, 7:179
Hoge, James, 5:340
Hoge, James, Jr., 5:337
Hoge, John, 5:336; 10:245
Hog Island, 7:470
Hog's fort. See Fort Dinwiddie; Vause's fort
Holburne, Francis, 4:282, 298, 302
Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, fourth earl of, 1:95; letters from:
to Robert Dinwiddie, 1:57, 59; letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie,
1:63, 64-65
Holland, Samuel, 7:388-89, 392; 8:163
Hollars, Samuel, 6:272
Holles Street (London), 2:11
Holliday (Halliday), ----: suit against Custis estate, 8:266, 456, 461
Hollingsbury, Isabelle, 9:53, 54
Hollinsberry (Hollansberry), Richard, 8:146
Hollis, ---- (of Fairfax County), 8:247
Hollis, John (d. 1768; of Fairfax County), 7:3, 8
Hollis, Mark, 3:252, 257, 279; 8:540; 9:122, 144
Hollis's ordinary, 7:3, 8
Holloway, ----, 5:103
Holloway, James, 5:103, 104
Holloway, John, 5:103, 104
Hollowell, Thomas, 1:29
Hollows (Hollis), John (of Westmoreland County), 8:546, 547
Hollows (Hollis), Samuel, 8:547
Hollyday, Henry, 9:305
Holman, Daniel, 5:206
Holmans Creek, 5:205-6
Holman's fort, 5:205-6
Holmes, James, 5:304
Holmes, Robert, 4:398, 409
Holston River, 2:59; 8:243
Holston River, Long (Large, Big) Island of. See Long (Large, Big)
Island of Holston River
Holt, Ned (slave; at Ship Landing), 6:312
Holt, Ned (slave; Home farm), 7:45
Holt, Thomas, 7:89
Holt, William, 6:276, 281, 377
Holt's (New Kent County), 5:103, 104
Home, Francis, 6:333, 336-37
Home farm (Home House, Mansion House), 5:449; id., 6:390; slaves at,
6:428; 7:45, 67, 139, 305, 313, 376, 443, 515; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54,
238; 10:137; overseers, 7:132, 139, 305, 313, 376, 393, 440
Homer, 6:400
Homer's fort. See Horner's fort
Hominy Hall, 6:444
Hood, John, 6:465, 466
Hood, Zachariah, 9:23, 25
Hooe, John, 6:406, 407; 7:212, 218-19, 268, 304, 314, 438, 496; 8:52,
83
Hooe, Robert, & Co., 10:106, 177
Hooe, Robert Townsend, 9:293, 340, 341, 462; 10:111, 179
Hooe, Stone & Co., 10:179
Hooe & Harrison, 9:341
Hooe's ferry. See Hooe, John
Hoomes, John, 10:79
Hoomes, Stephen F., 6:252
Hoomes's tavern, 10:79-80
Hooper, Robert Lettis, 9:419, 420
Hooper, Roger, 7:323, 326
Hooper, Thomas (ship captain), 6:276, 377, 448, 451, 460; 7:63
Hooper, Thomas (surveyor), 8:80, 259, 261, 263
Hoop Petticoat Gap, 5:393, 394
Hoops, Adam, 5:179, 260, 424; supplies provisions, 2:152; 5:223, 256-57;
6:6; id., 5:223, 392; and Thomas Walker, 5:244; orders from, 5:324; and
cattle, 5:391, 422; and bateaux, 5:407; escort for, 5:421, 425, 430; and
bakers, 6:114; arrested, 6:185; letters from: to Henry Bouquet,
6:185
Hoops, David, 9:238
Hope, Charlotte, 9:24
Hope, Elizabeth, 9:24
Hope, John, 5:49, 342
Hope, Thomas, 3:8
Hope, Sir William, 7:344, 348
Hope (ship), 10:200
Hopewell (ship), 2:30, 31
Hopewell Meeting (Quakers), 3:96
Hopkins, John, 8:578-79, 581, 582
Hopkinson, Elizabeth, 6:440, 441
Hopkinson, Francis, 6:441
Horace, 6:290, 400; 8:339
Horn, William, 9:359, 360, 364, 365, 422
Hornbuckle, Thomas, 8:144
Horner, Ann Brown Claggett, 7:33
Horner, George, 1:30
Horner, Joseph, 5:336
Horner, Robert, 7:33, 72-73, 75
Horner, Stephen, 1:30
Horner, William, 1:30
Horner's (Homer's) fort, 3:24, 39, 40, 141
Hornsby, Thomas, 7:85; 8:199
Horrell, Joseph, 6:209
Horrocks, James, 8:536, 538; 9:75; letters from: to GW, 8:281-82,
282-83
Horse breeding, 4:242-43; 6:193, 328, 406; 7:95, 96, 107, 109, 110, 158-59
Horseman, William, 7:380; 8:146, 147
Horse Pool tract, 7:477
Horse racing, 1:55; 4:243; 6:193, 313, 328, 331, 370-71, 406, 407, 417,
445, 474; 7:5, 11, 104, 107, 110-11, 210, 212, 298, 336, 438, 440, 478-79;
9:111; 10:23
Horsley, Richard, 7:309, 310
Hot Springs, Va., 7:116; 8:52, 53-54, 433
Hotzenbella (Hazenbeler), Stephen, 1:29; 5:336
Hough, John, 7:380; 8:438; and Potomac navigation, 7:177; and quitrents,
7:279, 309, 351, 373, 425, 441, 480-81, 515; 8:66, 153, 208, 284, 363,
421, 474, 591-92; 9:53, 54, 151, 340, 432; and partition of Mercer land,
10:29; surveyor, 10:29, 326; and Four Mile Run land, 10:202, 204, 211
Houghton, Elijah, 8:5, 222
Houlsworth, John, 8:4, 16
Hounam, James, 4:183
House, John, 5:337
Houseman, John, 5:337
House of Burgesses: letters to: from GW, 1:220; from Officers
of the Virginia Regiment, 4:21-22. See also Virginia: House of
Burgesses
Houston (Houstoun), John, 9:122, 145
Houston (Huston), William, 7:229, 230, 239, 364, 465, 478
Hovenor, Dominicus. See Gubner, Dominicus
How, Joseph, 1:20, 29, 34, 36
Howard, N. P., 7:271
Howarth (Howorth, Howard), Probart (Robert), 4:373, 375
Howe, George Augustus, third Viscount, 5:98, 294, 295, 302, 311, 319
Howe, Sir William, 10:162
Howell, Abner, 8:5
Howell, Samuel, 10:4-5, 7
Howle, Epaphroditus, 6:252, 266, 376; 7:87, 317, 318, 320; 8:89, 126,
481, 482
Howle, ---- (Mrs. Epaphroditus), 8:482
Hoyle, Edmond, 7:348
Hubbard, Benjamin: his ordinary, 6:191, 365; 7:211; and Custis estate,
6:254, 255, 259, 276, 378, 379; account with, 7:209, 261, 309, 333, 342,
367, 478, 491; 8:53, 79, 136, 192, 268, 347, 442; 9:30; 10:77, 105
Hubbard, Edward, 2:355; 3:22, 152-53, 447; 5:162-63, 170-71; military
service, 2:14, 40, 42, 76, 86, 136, 332; 3:40, 98, 191, 252, 429; 4:166,
167, 205, 206, 207, 208, 225, 432; 5:171, 215, 295-96, 348, 371; appointments
and commissions, 2:40, 42, 261; 3:252; 5:295-96, 348; id., 2:77; 5:295-96;
letters from: to GW, 4:18-22; 5:295-96; to Henry Bouquet, 6:314;
letters to: from GW, 3:24-25, 29, 41
Hubbard, Jacob, 8:146, 147
Hubbard, James, 7:298, 300, 302, 370, 478, 501
Hubbard's ordinary, 6:191; 7:211
Hubburt, ----, 10:1
Huddle, George, 5:340
Hudibras, 6:292, 296, 298; 7:346, 347
Hudson, Cuthbert, 4:42
Hudson (ship), 7:158
Hue (slave, child; New Kent County), 6:220
Huff, Henry, 7:415
Huffman, John, 3:304
Huffman, Philip, 7:98
Huggins, William Q., 10:188
Hughes, Emery, 6:246, 257, 273; 7:89
Hughes, Hugh, 1:22, 33, 37
Hughes, Joseph, 4:332-33; 6:47
Hughes, Launder, 3:306-7
Hughes, Nathan, 6:481
Hughes, Rachel, 6:481
Hughes, Thomas, 1:22
Hughes, William, Jr., 1:22
Hughes, William, Sr., 1:22
Hughes, William (author), 6:299
Hughes, William (sergeant), 2:175, 253, 254, 341; 6:4; id., 2:176; 3:257;
6:5; 9:467; military service, 2:205, 206, 342; 3:81, 115, 192, 193, 195;
4:190, 204, 255, 276, 295, 331, 332, 352; 5:290, 347-49; 6:48, 55, 59,
63, 71, 91, 98, 108, 118, 174; and apprehension of deserters, 2:269; and
murder of George Gordon, 2:343; appointments and commissions, 3:35, 252;
5:348; 7:47; fights Rollins, 3:214; and John Hamilton's embezzlement,
4:424, 426; subscriber to American Magazine, 5:49; absent from
regiment, 5:326; address to GW, 6:178-81; breaks leg, 6:412; and House
of Burgesses election, 7:46, 47; member of William Byrd's military family,
7:46; and Edward Snickers, 9:467; in prison, 10:66, 101, 332; his bounty
lands, 10:101; letters from: to Robert Stewart, 3:211-12; to GW,
9:518
Hughes's ordinary, 6:481
Hughs, Aaron, 4:390
Hughs Run, 1:33
Huie, ---- (ship captain), 8:487
Huie, James, 8:489
Hulet, John James, 6:263
Hull, John, 8:376, 378
Humane prudence, 6:294; 7:347
Humbert, Godfrey, 5:337
Hume, James, 7:342
Humphrey (slave; Thomas Nelson's), 7:314
Humphreys, ---- (Mrs.), 1:40
Humphreys, David, 1:4, 173, 251; 6:122, 181, 187
Humphreys, Samuel, 7:346, 349
Humphreys, Walter, 8:46, 50, 131, 160, 296, 399
Humphreys (Humphery, Umphries), John, 3:135, 256
Humphreys & Co., 7:471, 476
Humphreys & Harris, 7:356, 357, 421
Humphries, ---- (doctor), 5:298
Hunt, ---- (captain), 3:432; 4:13
Hunt, Edward, & Son, 8:47, 50
Hunt, Memican, 3:435; 4:18
Hunt, William (ditcher), 8:16, 41
Hunt, William (soldier), 3:253, 257
Hunter, ---- (Mrs. John), 10:187
Hunter, ---- (Mrs.), 9:370
Hunter, Adam, 7:380; 8:347
Hunter, David, 7:477
Hunter, James, Jr., 7:229, 230; 9:30, 113; account with, 10:39, 40, 105,
139, 352; and George Mercer's affairs, 10:188, 195, 326, 327, 328-29
Hunter, James, Sr., 3:398; 8:364; 10:9; id., 3:401; 6:339; 7:97; and
Custis estate, 6:267, 269, 277, 377; equipment for mill, 8:347, 348, 362;
and Ferry Farm, 9:149-50; 10:2; his land, 10:23; and sale of Ferry Farm,
10:27-28. See also Errata
Hunter, John (doctor; of Alexandria), 6:457, 458, 474; 7:380; 8:147,
305
Hunter, John (doctor; of London), 9:99
Hunter, John (merchant; of Alexandria), 10:187
Hunter, John (of Hampton), 1:281, 283, 287; 2:8, 213, 238; 3:377; 7:216;
and funds for Braddock campaign, 1:282, 283-84, 286, 288; id., 1:282;
2:9, 215; 3:364; 5:132; 6:386; 7:217; 8:344; and supplies for Virginia
troops, 4:266, 267, 304; 5:241, 242; and bill of exchange, 5:112, 113;
and Robert Stewart, 6:385; and Colvill estate, 8:343; letters to:
from GW, 1:284-85
Hunter, Margaret, 8:453, 454; 9:370, 394, 400; 10:106
Hunter, William (doctor; of London), 9:97, 99
Hunter, William (English merchant): letters from: to GW, 7:430
Hunter, William (of Fredericksburg), 1:49; 3:401
Hunter, William (printer), 1:175, 176; 6:312; 7:105, 109
Hunter, William, & Co., 7:430
Hunter (Hunder), Adam, 5:334, 343
Hunter & Dick, 9:403, 430-31
Hunter's ferry, 7:229, 230
Hunting Creek, 1:82
Hunting Creek warehouse, 7:144; 9:169; 10:27
Huntington (King William County), 9:393
Hurling (Hurlong), ---- (ship captain), 7:152
Hurry, Samuel, 6:330
Hurst, George, 9:122, 146
Hurst, John, 7:380; 8:146, 147
Hutcheson, Francis, 9:343, 344
Hutchins, Thomas, 9:7, 8, 99
Hutchinson, Thomas (of Massachusetts), 10:145, 150
Hutchison, Mathew, 4:42
Hyatt, George, 1:20, 29
Hyghtor, Christian, 4:161
Hylton, John, 7:74, 75
Hylton (Stafford County), 1:42
Hymnus tabaci, 6:295
Hyndman, Michael, 9:498-99
Hytch, Thomas, 8:146, 147
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Ibbetson, Tasker, & Padgett, 7:290, 295
Île de St. Jean (Canada). See St. John's Island
Imcatewhawa (Black Wolf; Indian), 10:184
Impressment: of horses, 2:89, 93, 191-92, 247, 258, 269, 280; 3:65, 95,
161, 269, 278, 388-90, 393, 395, 423; 4:180-81, 341, 359; 5:398; press
warrant, 2:93; of wagons, 2:101-2, 123-24, 129, 205, 220, 280; 4:84; difficulties
of, 2:102; in Braddock campaign, 2:280; of cattle, 4:2, 12; of vagrants,
4:81; of carriages, 5:240
The Inconstant, or The Way to Win Him, 8:128
Independent companies: New York, 1:75-77, 91, 104, 142, 147-48, 149,
154, 158, 173, 175, 176, 214; North Carolina, 1:142; South Carolina, 1:75-77,
91, 103-4, 147, 157. See also Virginia military forces: independent
companies
Independent whig, 6:290; 7:345
Indian Creek, 10:92
Indian Creek Road, 10:92
Indian mounds, 9:248-50
Indians, 5:131-32, 395, 409; 6:148; and French, 1:61; 2:63, 120, 125,
151, 157, 159; 3:59; 4:80, 82, 133, 174; 5:101; 6:1, 364; and Fort Necessity
campaign, 1:68, 85, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 94, 98, 105, 112, 113, 114, 120,
122-25, 132-33, 155, 156, 185; 10:50; treaties and conferences with, 1:87,
91; 2:172, 174, 195, 215, 307-8, 309, 317; 3:350, 444; 4:144; 5:2, 45,
109, 138, 175-76, 303; 6:88, 343, 361; 8:30, 56, 58, 152, 276, 276, 303,
308, 390-91, 535; 9:357; 10:260; criticism of, 1:101; 2:159; 5:117, 168,
266; 6:455; supplies for, 1:119, 120, 121-22, 187; 2:6, 92, 140; 3:398,
401, 405-8; 4:25, 36-37, 51, 54, 63, 71, 127-28, 130, 135, 138, 145, 157,
170, 171-73, 192, 193-94, 196, 201, 293, 304-5, 321-22, 341, 359, 403-4,
407-8, 421; 5:20, 22, 29, 31, 32, 52-53, 59, 82, 86, 88, 89-90, 110, 111,
116, 117, 123, 127, 133, 134, 135, 169, 183, 225, 311, 396; 6:71-72, 164;
medals for, 1:121, 135; families of, 1:147, 177-78; and Braddock's campaign,
1:272, 325, 327-28, 332, 338, 342; 4:80; attacks by, 1:345; 2:61-63, 72-73,
75, 83, 91, 93, 98, 103-4, 105, 109, 110, 121, 125, 137, 140, 157, 158-59,
174, 175, 179, 188, 190, 197, 250, 288, 306, 332-36, 337-39, 339-40, 351,
356; 3:11, 23-24, 34, 45, 47, 53, 145, 183, 209, 210, 236, 243, 260-61,
302, 304, 305, 308, 337, 340, 344, 350, 361, 374, 380-82, 391, 432, 435,
440; 4:88, 110, 120, 137, 183, 260, 264, 266, 294, 354, 360, 366-67, 385,
393, 396, 408, 417, 420-21; 5:2, 3-4, 5, 9, 12, 19-20, 28, 33, 43, 54,
61, 99, 101, 116, 141, 155-57, 160, 174, 253, 254, 282-84, 286, 379, 382-83,
385, 399; 6:432, 455, 467, 470; 8:157-58, 159, 243; 9:308, 514, 516; 10:44,
70-71, 90, 152; attempts to enlist aid of, 2:54-55, 72, 97-98, 99, 105,
115, 120-21, 125, 141, 154, 159, 161, 172, 189, 195, 215, 305, 307-8,
309; 3:59, 398, 444; 4:192; 5:106-9, 122, 225-26; captives of, 2:62, 72,
73, 157, 290, 293, 354; 4:120, 169, 264, 366-67, 396; 5:12, 62, 99, 104,
282-83, 379; 6:15, 40, 121, 361, 372, 466; 10:90, 152, 169; intelligence
regarding, 2:63, 64, 103-4, 151, 157; 3:82, 283, 350; 8:58, 241; skirmishes
with, 2:64, 73, 104, 111, 157, 334-35, 336, 345, 347, 354-55; 3:11, 12,
17-18, 20, 30, 41, 46, 56, 72-74, 75, 77-78, 81-82, 84, 104, 115, 132,
182-83, 184-85, 197, 210, 237-38, 241, 288, 313, 337, 421, 422, 426; 5:9,
10, 12, 61-62, 184, 276-77, 291, 363, 368; 6:5, 15, 78, 121-23, 343-44,
346-47, 372, 467; 8:304; 10:45; illnesses of, 2:80; 4:321-22; white men
dressed as, 2:132; 5:120-21, 129, 130; and scalps, 2:158; 4:226, 294;
5:9, 12, 62, 151, 155-56, 190, 283, 379, 385; 6:15, 432, 467; and Richard
Pearis, 2:159, 161; 4:158-59; British destruction of Kittanning, 2:162;
Sandy Creek expedition against, 2:216; scalped by whites, 3:81; 10:52,
54; casualties of, 3:81-82, 445; 10:45, 52; movements of, 3:102, 350,
352; 4:77, 158, 298; 5:6, 81-82, 87, 88, 89-90, 113-14, 124, 210, 348,
379, 385-86, 395, 396, 411, 417; instructions regarding, 3:107, 444; 4:129,
130; 5:139, 156, 175-76, 209, 246, 270; and liquor, 3:107, 161-62, 444;
4:201, 359; 6:71; need for, 3:397-98; 5:33, 86, 117, 131, 148, 176-77,
224-26, 286-87, 291-93; 6:67, 136-37; and Dunkers, 3:421; 5:61; interpreters
for, 4:8, 72, 73, 144, 426; 5:2, 20, 29, 52-53, 109, 124, 139; 6:82, 175;
8:394, 395; and British, 4:82-83, 239-40; 5:108, 354, 361; 6:432; agents
for, 4:144-45, 152-53, 154-55, 156, 157, 158, 170, 171-72, 174, 175, 183-84,
198, 209, 248-49, 250, 290, 407; 5:53; 6:112; 8:58; 9:218; funds for,
4:155, 188-89, 210, 244-45, 249, 311, 359; 5:116; mismanagement of, 4:171-73,
321-22; 5:2-3, 44-45, 52, 86-87, 110; intelligence from, 4:226, 251; 5:81;
6:158, 177, 432, 466-67; and George Croghan, 4:229; 9:99, 419, 444; as
spies, 4:306-8, 317, 321-22, 323, 353, 354-55, 356; and Christopher Gist,
5:6, 20, 45, 89, 122, 123-24, 127-28, 394; and Edmond Atkin, 5:6, 20,
22, 52, 177; guides for, 5:23; tactics against, 5:43; and William Cromwell,
5:88-89; and Thomas Bullitt, 5:109; 9:308, 332; instructions to, 5:122,
124, 127, 131, 155, 270; returns of, 5:122, 124, 131; on scout, 5:124,
151, 154-55, 156, 270, 278, 409; and bounties for, 5:135; and Abraham
Bosomworth, 5:138, 139; and John Forbes, 5:224-27, 243; distinguishing
badges worn by, 5:270; 6:148; depredations of, 5:283; 10:45, 50-55, 70-71,
90, 151, 152, 169; and deserters, 5:393; and James Grant's defeat, 6:38-42,
44-47, 52-53, 73; as captives, 6:121-22; 8:329-30; 10:52, 54; and trade
and traders, 6:158-59, 162-63, 361; 8:40, 41, 58, 395; and lands, 8:28,
29-30, 38-39, 40, 56, 58, 535; 9:126, 357; and Mason-Dixon Line, 8:38-39;
and slaves, 8:157-58, 159; murder of, 8:242, 243; as servants, 8:329-30;
accompany GW down Ohio, 8:394, 395; and Nathaniel Gist, 9:207; home of
the Blinking Woman, 9:248; Indian mounds, 9:248-49; and Dunmore's War,
10:43, 44, 45, 50-55, 59, 69, 70-71, 87-94, 169, 181-84, 260; John Connolly's
contempt for, 10:44; whites at fault in skirmishes with, 10:45, 50; attacked,
10:52, 54; burn William Crawford at stake, 10:136; given money by GW,
10:168; Ohio River set as Indian boundary, 10:182; money given to, 10:370.
See also individual tribes
Industry (ship), 7:20, 310, 311, 334, 407
The infallibility of humane judgment, 6:292
The ingenious and diverting letters of the lady's travels into
Spain, 6:290
Ingles, Mary Draper, 2:293; 5:277
Ingles & Long, 10:281, 319, 351
Innes, James, 1:80, 132, 173, 180, 182, 194, 195, 197, 199, 323, 344,
352; 2:54, 285, 343, 352; 3:20, 25-26, 38-39, 67, 86, 122, 149, 150; and
Fort Necessity campaign, 1:77, 91, 119, 134, 136, 147, 148, 149, 174;
id., 1:92, 127-28; 3:15, 249; appointments of, 1:126, 138, 139, 148, 149,
150, 181, 184, 190, 192, 212, 223, 299, 302; 2:74, 291, 294; 4:54, 237;
at Falmouth, 1:152; troops of, 1:154; at Winchester, 1:177; 3:13, 19;
and situation at Wills Creek, 1:181, 205-6, 212; orders from Dinwiddie,
1:183; criticism of, 1:206; circular on Battle of the Monongahela, 1:345,
346, 351; instructions to burn Fort Cumberland, 2:57; and power to hold
court-martials, 3:14-15; and placement of forts, 3:126; at Fort Cumberland,
3:166, 172, 174, 179; and Indian goods, 4:51, 54, 63, 71; letters from:
to GW or James Mackay, 1:176-77; to GW, 1:188, 205-6, 212-14; to Robert
Dinwiddie, 1:351; letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:127, 150-51,
181, 188, 208, 214; from GW, 1:183, 189, 201, 330-31, 334-35; from Robert
Stobo, 1:202
Innes (Innis), Hugh, 8:561, 565; 9:66
Innis, O., 7:173
Inquiry into the Human Mind, 9:344, 345
Institutes of Moral Philosophy, 9:344, 345
Integrity (ship), 2:277; 4:39, 400, 401, 402; 5:74, 106; 6:452,
453
Intolerable Acts, 10:98, 122, 129-30, 131, 145, 172
Introduction to Moral Philosophy, 9:343, 344
Iroquois (Indians), 6:105-6, 139, 144, 157, 160. See also Indians
Irwin (Erwin), Thomas, 6:419, 420
Isaac, Samuel, 1:26, 28
Isaac (dower slave; carpenter), 6:282
Isaac (slave; bought from Robert Washington), 9:222, 224
Isaac (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Isaac (slave; Old Quarter), 8:590
Isaac (slave; Robert Tucker's and Mann Page's), 7:314
Isaac (slave; tradesman), 9:238, 239; 10:137
Isaac (slave; York County), 6:229
Isaacs, Samuel, 5:334
Isar-- (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Isham (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Isham (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Isle of Wight County, 4:290
Ithuriel, 8:493
Ives, ----: account with, 7:210
Ives, Timothy, 7:212
Ivy, Thomas, 6:257
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Jack, Captain (Indian), 4:124-25; letters to:
from GW, 3:308-9
Jack, Coachman (slave), 7:352
Jack, Cook (slave; Home farm), 7:67
Jack, Mulatto (dower slave), 7:331
Jack, Mulatto (dower slave; tradesman), 6:217, 282, 420-21, 425, 426;
7:319, 331
Jack, Mulatto (slave; house servant), 7:67
Jack (GW's "old Courier"), 8:162
Jack (slave), 7:262, 314; 8:25, 26, 142, 143
Jack (slave, boy; carpenter), 6:282
Jack (slave, boy; from estate of John Lee), 8:83
Jack (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 591
Jack (slave; Dogue Run), 6:428; 7:45, 65-67; 10:137, 138
Jack (slave; Ferry farm), 9:54, 55
Jack (slave; ferryman, 1), 8:479
Jack (slave; ferryman, 2), 8:479
Jack (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Jack (slave; Home farm), 7:67; 9:54, 55, 238; 10:137
Jack (slave; Home farm, 1), 6:428; 7:45, 139, 313, 376, 443, 515; 8:104,
220, 357
Jack (slave; Home farm, 2), 6:428; 7:45, 139, 313, 376, 443, 515; 8:104,
220
Jack (slave; Home farm, 3), 7:139
Jack (slave; Home farm; ferryman), 8:356, 357
Jack (slave; house servant), 6:428; 7:45, 139, 313, 376
Jack (slave; house servant, 1), 7:227
Jack (slave; house servant, 2), 7:227
Jack (slave; house servant, 3), 7:227
Jack (slave; house servant, 4), 7:227
Jack (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587
Jack (slave; John Augustine Washington's), 7:173
Jack (slave; John Posey's), 8:470, 472
Jack (slave; Mary Washington's; 1), 7:173
Jack (slave; Mary Washington's; 2), 7:173
Jack (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Jack (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Jack (slave; Robert Adam's), 10:319
Jack (slave; Robert Burwell's), 7:315
Jack (slave; Robert Tucker's and Mann Page's), 7:314
Jack (slave; tradesman), 9:238; 10:137
Jack (slave; York County), 6:229
Jack Palmer (slave). See Palmer, Jack (slave)
Jackson, ----: and runaway slave, 9:47
Jackson, Fips (Phipps), 8:591; 9:33. See also Eater, Fips Jackson
Jackson, Isaac, 7:465, 466
Jackson, James, 2:121
Jackson, Joseph, 6:47
Jackson, Robert, 1:337; 419, 430, 431; 6:328, 329; 7:366, 367; letters
from: to GW, 1:54, 351; to Lawrence Washington, 1:54; letters to:
from GW, 1:349-51; 4:165-66
Jackson, Samuel, 8:31
Jackson, Thomas, 4:390; 5:39
Jackson, William, 6:219, 266; 7:87, 105, 109; 9:48, 86, 89
Jackson River, 4:10; 5:15
Jackson's quarter, 8:580, 585, 587, 591; 9:27
Jacob, Captain (Indian), 8:31
Jacob, Giles, 6:295
Jacob (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Jacob (slave; John Posey's), 8:34
Jacob (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Jacob (slave; Samuel Gist's), 7:315
Jacobite riot, 1:210, 211
Jacobs, Joseph, Jr., 7:380
Jacob's Cabin, 8:31
Jacques, Lancelot, 8:352, 367, 368; 9:7, 17; 10:274, 276
Jager, Old (slave; York County), 6:229
James, Charles, 9:122, 145
James, John: letters to: from Jonathan Boucher, 8:167, 228, 341
James, Robert, 1:319, 324; 8:372, 373, 398
James, William, 6:397, 404; 7:25, 30, 126, 129
James (slave; bought from Robert Washington), 9:222, 224
James (slave; bought from Thomas Moore), 8:347
James (slave; Charles Washington's), 7:173
James (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
James (slave; Home farm), 7:139
James (slave; Mrs. Thornton's; carpenter), 6:200
James (slave; Muddy Hole), 6:428; 7:45
James (slave; Robert Tucker's), 7:315
James (slave; Samuel Washington's), 7:172, 358
James (slave; Thomas Walker's, 1), 7:315
James (slave; Thomas Walker's, 2), 7:315
James (slave; tradesman), 9:238, 239; 10:138
James (slave; tradesman, 1), 10:137
James (slave; tradesman, 2), 10:137
James & Drinker, 9:83
James City County, 4:278, 290; 6:226-28, 231, 235-36, 247, 254, 266
James I, 9:465
Jameson, Alexander, 5:65; 7:112, 113
Jameson, David, 6:55, 56, 92, 96, 125, 155; 9:356; 10:141
James's powders, 1:319, 324; 8:372, 373, 398
Jamestown, Va., 6:217, 246-47
Jamieson, Neil, 8:50, 160, 165, 531; letters to: from GW, 7:442;
8:475, 526
Jamieson, Neil, & Co., 8:253-54
Jamy (dower slave), 8:401
Jane (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 591
Jane (slave; Mary Washington's), 7:173
Janey (dower slave, child), 8:401
Janie (ship), 8:488
Janney, Jacob, 8:20
Janny (slave; Charles Washington's), 7:173
Jasper (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Javins, Joseph, 6:377, 378
Javins (Javings), John, 9:92, 317
Jefferson, Lucy, 10:350
Jefferson, Peter, 1:74
Jefferson, Thomas, 4:188; 9:192, 428, 429; 10:53, 99-100, 139, 140, 311,
350
Jefferys, Thomas, 8:330
Jemima (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Jemmy, Coach (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Jemmy (Jamey), Coachman (slave; Great House), 9:172-73, 174, 232
Jemmy, Great (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Jemmy, Miller (slave; York County), 6:229
Jemmy (slave), 6:271
Jemmy (slave, Daphne's child; York County), 6:229
Jemmy (slave; John Parke Custis's), 7:213
Jemmy (slave; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Jemmy (slave; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Jemy (dower slave, child; York County), 6:217
Jenifer, Daniel, 10:297; letters to: from GW, 10:295-96
Jenifer, Daniel of St. Thomas, 7:219; 8:523; 9:41, 313, 314; 10:253,
274, 276, 295
Jenifer & Hooe, 9:341, 462; 10:103, 178, 179
Jenings, Daniel (died c.1754; surveyor), 8:259, 261
Jenings (Jennings), Daniel (of Fairfax County), 4:263; 7:380; 8:145,
147
Jenkins, Aaron, 5:120, 121, 335
Jenkins, B., 10:195
Jenkins, Benjamin, 4:42
Jenkins, Bennet, 9:504, 506; 10:17, 178
Jenkins, Daniel, 8:145
Jenkins, Edward, 6:53
Jenkins, Ezekel. See Jickens, Ezekel
Jenkins, Francis, 10:195
Jenkins, James, 7:380
Jenkins, Jason, 9:506; 10:17
Jenkins, John (of Fairfax County), 7:380
Jenkins, John (soldier), 3:239, 241
Jenkins, Samuel, 8:146, 147
Jenkins, William (courier), 2:190, 295, 334, 355; 3:247, 406, 414, 424;
4:299, 340; 5:182; 7:110; and mission to French commandant, 1:62; and
Fort Necessity campaign, 1:82; id., 1:83; 2:185-86; 5:5; as courier, 1:106,
153; 2:184, 194, 246, 313; 4:32, 33, 50, 66, 68-69, 70, 105, 107, 264,
267, 289, 290, 291, 295, 303, 315, 316, 421; 5:1, 10, 19, 29, 44, 58,
62, 64, 87, 95, 140, 157, 181, 194, 196; 6:22, 23, 49, 87, 98, 154, 174,
189, 191; his pay, 1:221; 3:84, 104, 368-69, 398, 405, 417, 418, 425;
4:283, 293, 311; illness of, 4:405; carries commissions, 5:153; recruits
soldiers, 5:195; receives escort, 5:375-76
Jenkins, William (of Fairfax County), 7:107, 110
Jenkins, William (soldier), 9:122, 146
Jennings, James, 7:380
Jennings Gap, 8:55
Jenny, ----: carries letters, 8:19
Jenny, Little (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:589
Jenny (dower slave; Hanover County, 1), 6:218
Jenny (dower slave; Hanover County, 2), 6:218
Jenny (dower slave; washer), 6:217
Jenny (slave), 7:173
Jenny (slave; at Claiborne's), 6:311
Jenny (slave; Creek farm), 7:45, 139
Jenny (slave; Dinah's child; York County), 6:229
Jenny (slave; Hanover County, 1), 6:231
Jenny (slave; Hanover County, 2), 6:231
Jenny (slave; Home farm), 7:515
Jenny (slave; house servant), 6:217, 428; 7:45, 139, 227, 313, 376, 442,
515; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Jenny (slave; Mill farm), 8:104, 221, 356, 479; 9:55, 238; 10:137
Jenny (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Jenny (slave; Muddy Hole), 8:104, 221, 356, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Jenny (slave; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Jenny (slave; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Jenny (slave; River farm), 7:443
Jenny (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Jerdone, Francis, Jr., 8:31
Jerdone, John, 8:31
Jerdone, William, 8:31
Jerimy (slave; Charles Washington's), 7:173
Jerimy (slave; John Augustine Washington's), 7:173
Jerry (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Jerry (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Jerry (slave; Samuel Buckner's), 7:305
Jervais, ----, 1:330
Jickens (Jenkins), Ezekel, 8:176
The jilts, or female fortune-hunters, 7:345
Jim (Gim; slave; John Augustine Washington's), 7:173
Joe, Long (slave), 7:173
Joe, Short (slave; John Augustine Washington's), 7:173
Joe (Going Lanphier's servant), 10:317
Joe (slave), 6:457; 7:319; 8:328
Joe (slave; cradler), 6:458
Joe (slave; postilion), 6:458
Joe (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Joe (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Joe (slave; Burwell Bassett's), 7:210
Joe (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 591
Joe (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Joe (slave; Home farm), 7:515; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:55
Joe (slave; house servant), 10:137
Joe (slave; John Parke Custis's servant), 6:458; 8:311, 375, 435, 571,
572; 10:138; replaces Julius, 8:227; carries goods, 8:259, 310, 361, 417;
as messenger, 8:365; 9:50, 51, 491; inoculation of, 8:443, 447; duties
in New York, 9:266; wears mourning for Martha Parke Custis, 9:267
Joe (slave; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Joe (slave; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Joe (slave; New Kent County, 3), 6:220
Joe (slave; Old Quarter), 8:590
Joe (slave; Thomas Nelson's), 7:314
Joe (slave; William Waters's), 7:315
Joe (slave; York County), 6:229
"John": letter to: from GW, 1:42
John (dower slave; Hanover County), 6:218
John (Jack; slave; John Custis's), 9:233
John (slave, boy; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
John (slave, boy; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
John (slave, boy; New Kent County, 3), 6:220
John (slave; Hanover County), 6:231
Johnny, Captain (Indian), 4:8, 73, 117, 118, 161-62; 5:260-61, 275-76
Johns Creek fort. See Craig Creek fort
Johnson, ---- (Englishman), 6:121
Johnson, Aquila, 7:261, 263
Johnson, John (doctor; of Maryland): medicine for Martha Parke Custis,
8:351-52, 360, 361, 365, 465, 467, 477, 493, 572; 9:28; id., 8:353; account
with, 8:531; 9:225, 370; 10:195; treats Martha Parke Custis, 8:532; letters
from: to Martha Washington, 9:28
Johnson, John (soldier), 2:188, 189, 219, 221, 236, 272, 273, 300, 302;
4:332
Johnson, Josiah, 8:282; 9:163, 164; letters from: to GW, 8:281
Johnson, Peter, 3:215
Johnson, Richard, 9:386, 427, 428
Johnson, Stephen, 10:356
Johnson, Thomas: pursues runaway servant, 10:318, 342
Johnson, Thomas (merchant), 6:397; 8:44; 9:103
Johnson, Thomas, Jr. (of Maryland), 1:198; 6:404; 10:286; and exchange
of horses, 6:370; and Potomac navigation, 7:177-78; 8:349-52, 357-60,
367; 9:41; 10:243, 244, 266-67, 298-99, 300; erects iron furnace, 8:352;
id., 8:352; and Lancelot Jacques, 8:368; and medicine for Martha Parke
Custis, 8:572; attorney in Daniel Jenifer Adams affair, 9:177, 493; 10:276;
account with, 9:208, 293; and wagon road, 9:493; appointed to Continental
Congress, 10:103; retained by George William Fairfax, 10:283; letters
from: to GW, 8:349-53; 9:28-29, 43-44, 491-93; 10:102-3, 237-38, 242-44,
274-76; letters to: from GW, 8:357-60; 9:489; 10:142-43, 239, 251
Johnson, William: pursues runaway servant, 10:318, 342
Johnson, Sir William, 2:166, 288; 4:232, 298, 299; 5:22, 23; 8:58; and
northern campaign, 1:260, 276, 279; 2:179, 180, 223-24; battle at Lake
George, 2:64; 5:174; complaints concerning, 2:226; and Indians, 2:308,
309; 5:13; and William Trent, 4:143; id., 4:144; leads militia, 4:367,
368; and taking of Montreal, 6:389; and Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 8:30,
58, 276, 308; and western lands, 8:38, 56; and Joseph Chew, 9:517; 10:165;
letters from: to Peter Wraxall, 3:233; to William Denny, 5:14;
letters to: from Jeffery Amherst, 7:227
Johnson, William (mustermaster), 10:344-45, 356
Johnson, William (spy). See Marshall, William
Johnson (Johnston), Philip, 6:256, 260, 268, 425, 426, 475, 476; elected
burgess, 7:59, 60; account with, 7:63, 64, 104, 108, 326; 9:435
Johnson (Johnston), Thomas (merchant), 6:248, 249; 7:24, 128, 289, 354,
473
Johnson (Johnston), William (soldier), 9:122, 145
Johnson (Johnston), Wire (corporal), 9:122, 145
Johnson (Johnston; ship), 7:124, 151, 200, 341, 397, 435,
455, 456; 8:81-82, 139, 140
Johnson Hall (New York), 5:14
Johnson's ordinary, 7:263
Johnston, Andrew, 3:273
Johnston, Benjamin, 10:55, 59, 93
Johnston, Daniel, 5:337
Johnston, George, Jr., 8:570; 9:74, 110, 226, 237, 462, 503, 505
Johnston, George (d. 1766), 3:438; 4:414; 7:336, 380; 9:42; survey for,
1:10, 25, 28; GW purchases land from, 1:48; 6:427; 7:103, 174, 278, 308-9,
350, 508-9; 8:19, 283, 346, 383, 384; 9:431; id., 5:78; 6:383; and House
of Burgesses, 5:265, 315; 6:82; 7:363, 384; and Clifton suit, 6:410, 424,
425, 443; and parish vestries, 7:361, 362, 384; family of, 8:272; 9:11;
widow remarries, 8:323; letters from: to GW, 5:78-79; 6:382-84;
letters to: from GW, 5:78
Johnston, James, 4:288
Johnston, John (soldier), 6:47
Johnston, Mary (Frederick County landowner), 1:28
Johnston, Mary (mother of George Johnston), 8:271, 272
Johnston, Sarah McCarty, 8:250, 304, 305, 323; 9:11
Johnston, Stephen (of Fairfax County), 5:340
Johnston, William (brother of George Johnston), 9:110
Johnston, William (paymaster general), 1:281, 282, 284, 285; 2:8, 9
Johnston (Johnson), Hannah (daughter of Samuel Johnston), 9:296
Johnston (Johnson), Hannah (wife of Samuel Johnston), 7:101; 9:296
Johnston, John. See Errata
Johnston (Johnson), Robert, 1:31; 5:338
Johnston (Johnson), Robert (died c.1768), 4:413-14; 6:443, 444; 8:209,
210, 315, 316-17, 412. See also Errata
Johnston (Johnson), Robert (surgeon), 2:243; 4:273, 274; 5:164, 210,
281; 9:518; 10:101; id., 2:232; 3:311; 5:145, 282; military service, 2:280;
3:428; 5:289; letters to: from George Mercer, 2:232
Johnston (Johnson), Samuel, 8:148
Johnston (Johnson), Samuel, Jr., 7:45, 68, 139, 228, 236, 268, 309, 352,
453, 454
Johnston (Johnson), Samuel, Sr., 7:380, 407; account with, 6:378; 7:105,
178, 308, 417, 426, 515; id., 6:379; sells animals to GW, 6:480, 481;
land transactions of, 7:100-102, 234, 454; 9:296; and slave Tom, 7:453
Johnston (Johnson), Susannah (Suckey), 9:296
Johnston (Johnson), William (of Fairfax County), 7:380; 8:145, 149
Johnston (Johnson), William, Sr. (of Fairfax County), 8:145
Johnston's ferry. See Clifton's ferry
Johnston's fishery, 9:353
Johnstoun, John, 4:97; 6:461; 7:394, 402, 405, 444, 446, 447; 8:94, 368;
id., 4:98; 6:451; 8:371; GW recommends, 6:449; 7:76; conveys goods, 6:459,
472; 7:22, 29, 50, 61, 64, 65, 86, 191, 252, 418, 445, 470, 497, 498;
8:11, 44-50, 73, 130-36, 229; his ship, 7:29, 49-50, 54; carries letters,
8:10, 44, 60, 92-93; imports servants, 8:552, 554. See also Errata
Johny, Old (slave; York County), 6:229
Jolliffe, ---- (of Frederick County), 10:153, 154
Jolliffe, William, Jr., 5:341; 7:491, 492
Jolliffe, William, Sr., 7:492; 10:154
Jolly (slave; William Nelson's), 7:314
Jolys Neck, 7:374
Jonas, Jacob, 5:300
Joncaire, Philippe Thomas de, sieur de Chabert, 1:135, 140
Jone (slave), 10:168
Jone (slave; Dogue Run), 7:228, 313, 377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 356,
479; 9:55; 10:137, 138
Jone (slave; Home farm), 9:238; 10:138
Jones, ---- (sergeant), 4:424
Jones, Andrew, 8:112
Jones, Charles, 6:321
Jones, Edward (overseer), 9:30, 32; 10:347; letters from: to GW,
9:137-38; letters to: from GW, 9:137
Jones, Edward (soldier), 4:281
Jones, Emmanuel, 9:487
Jones, Emmanuel, Jr.: letters from: to GW, 9:486-87; letters
to: from GW, 9:459
Jones, Gabriel, 3:338, 400; 4:43, 45; 5:342, 349; 10:46; id., 3:194;
5:263; 7:11; 10:48; carries funds, 3:402; 4:47; 7:5, 11; and John Hamilton's
embezzlement, 5:7-8, 11; and GW's Burgess elections, 5:262-63, 271, 307,
343, 350; 7:13, 14-15; his election to Burgesses, 5:264, 350; and Strother
estate, 5:80; 7:307-8; 8:77-78, 84; and Hot Springs scheme, 8:54, 433;
and bounty lands, 10:2; letters from: to GW, 5:7-8, 262-64, 322;
8:77-78, 84; letters to: from GW, 5:350; 8:70
Jones, George, 6:246, 257, 273; 7:90
Jones, Jesse, 4:42
Jones, John (keeper of military stores), 2:36, 107, 117, 123, 199, 223;
letters from: to GW, 2:45; letters to: from GW, 2:37, 97,
129, 153-54; from George Mercer, 2:164-65
Jones, John (of Frederick County), 5:230
Jones, John (ranger), 4:425
Jones, John (workman), 6:457
Jones, John (writer), 6:287, 300
Jones, Joseph (of Frederick County), 5:340
Jones, Joseph (of King George County), 8:569, 571
Jones, Joseph (Suffolk landowner), 7:342, 366
Jones, Lain, 6:252, 256, 258
Jones, Margaret Strother, 8:78
Jones, Matthew, 9:122, 146
Jones, Peter, 3:190; 10:294
Jones, Robert (ship carpenter), 8:78, 306, 307
Jones, Robert (soldier), 9:122, 146
Jones, Robert (tenant), 10:20
Jones, Samuel, 8:250
Jones, Thena S., 10:3
Jones, Thomas (of Frederick County), 1:28
Jones, Thomas (soldier), 4:276, 277, 425
Jones, Will (slave). See Will Shag
Jones, William (English merchant), 6:442
Jones, William (landowner), 7:436
Jones, William (volunteer), 2:128
Jones, Wood, 3:189, 190
Jonson, Ben, 6:400
Joram, William, 6:47
Jordan, ---- (captain), 9:63, 80-81
Jordan, Gerard, Jr., 1:210, 211
Jordan, John Morton, 7:446, 447; 8:194
Jordan, Joshua (of Fairfax County), 7:380
Jordan, Joshua (soldier), 9:122, 146
Jordan, Peter, 5:335
Jordan, William: letters from: to John Champe, 2:68
Jordans Point, 4:188, 189
Joseph (ship), 7:20-21, 53, 75, 131, 134, 141-42, 189, 199, 202,
214, 316, 394
Josephus, Flavius, 6:287
Joshua (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Josias's Help (Maryland), 10:304
Jost, John, 8:306
Joyce, James, 3:124
Joyne, Reuben, 6:390
Juba (from Cato), 6:42, 43
Judah (slave; Dogue Run), 8:480
Judah (slave; Mill farm), 7:377; 8:479; 9:55
Judah (slave; River farm), 8:479; 9:55
Judey, Henry, 8:243
Judge, Andrew, 9:132, 134, 238, 239, 253; 10:137, 174
Judge's Friend (Judd's Friend). See Ostenaco, Otacite
Judith (dower slave, child of Frank; York County), 6:218, 229
Judith (slave; Northampton County), 6:230
Judy (slave), 8:481
Judy (slave; Fielding Lewis's), 7:110
Judy (slave; Gawin Corbin's), 7:336
Judy (slave; Home farm), 7:313
Judy (slave; Martha Washington's), 7:173
Judy (slave; Mill farm), 7:443, 516; 8:104, 221, 356, 480
Judy (slave; River farm), 7:443, 516; 8:104, 112, 221, 357; 9:432
Judy (slave; River farm, 1), 9:239; 10:137
Judy (slave; River farm, 2), 9:239; 10:137
Juggins, John, 4:390
Julian, Charles, 6:365; 7:2, 7, 261
Julian, Isaac, 2:100, 101, 103, 104
Julian, Phoebe Wilson, 7:7
Julian's tavern, 6:365; 7:7
Julius (slave), 8:320
Julius (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Julius (slave; house servant), 7:515; 8:104
Julius (slave; John Parke Custis's servant), 8:128, 220, 357; 10:80;
clothing for, 6:271; 7:5, 86, 87, 213, 368; 8:98, 456; on list of household
servants, 6:282; id., 7:11; accompanies John Parke Custis, 8:90; replaced
by Joe, 8:91, 227, 320; his levy and tax, 8:198, 455
Julius (slave; Old Quarter), 8:590
Jumonville, Joseph Coulon de Villiers, sieur de, 1:110, 113-14, 117-18,
120, 124, 146, 158, 166-68; 3:351
Jumonville's Rocks, 1:113
Jump, Isabella, 1:26
Juniata Crossing (Pennsylvania), 5:209, 248-49, 356; 6:21, 35
Jupiter (dower slave; York County), 6:218
Jupiter (slave; at Ship Landing), 6:312
Jupiter (slave; carpenter), 7:227
Jupiter (slave; Dogue Run), 7:515; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54
Jupiter (slave; Muddy Hole), 7:139; 9:238; 10:137
Jupiter (slave; Samuel Gist's), 7:315
Jupiter (slave; tradesman), 7:313, 376, 443, 515; 8:104, 220, 356
Jupiter (slave; William Nelson's), 7:314
Jupiter (slave; York County), 6:229
Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer, 8:509, 511, 563
The justice of the peace's pocket companion, 6:294
Justin's history of the world, 6:294
Juvenal, 6:286, 296, 297
The juvenile adventures of David Ranger, Esq., 7:346
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Kanawha River (Great Kanawha River). See Great
Kanawha River
Kate (slave), 7:172
Kate (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Kate (slave; Home farm), 6:428; 7:45
Kate (slave; house servant), 7:139, 227, 313, 376, 443, 515; 8:5, 104,
220, 357
Kate (slave; James Mercer's), 10:211
Kate (slave; Muddy Hole): tithable, 6:428; 7:45, 139, 227, 313, 376,
443, 516; 8:104, 221, 356, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:137; midwife for, 8:5, 222;
9:58; 10:168
Kate (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Kay, John, 7:450
Kay, Joshua, 9:190, 191; 10:178, 336
Keating, John (Stewart's company), 6:167, 169
Keating (Keaton), William, 10:178, 179, 195, 317
Keaton, John (Mercer's company), 3:348
Keen, William, 6:257
Keen (Kean), James, 7:380
Keen (Kean), Nicholas, 7:380
Keen (Keane), William (of Fairfax), 6:390; 7:380; 8:145, 146
Keene, John, 9:237
Keep Triste furnace, 8:290, 293
Keerarustikee. See Kieruptica
Keill, James, 6:292
Keith, James, 5:96; 7:177; 8:72, 568, 569, 570, 573
Keith (ship), 8:93, 94
Keller, George, 5:335
Kelly, David, 3:47
Kelly, Griffith, 10:18, 20
Kelly, Henry, 3:132, 134, 135, 194
Kelly, James, 3:222; 5:325, 326, 394, 396, 398
Kelly, Nelson, 7:148-51, 228, 296, 331, 352
Kelly (Kelley), Thomas, 7:33
Kelly family, 3:47
Kendal, John, 6:230
Kendall, Custis, 9:285, 287
Kendall, Sorrowful Margaret Custis, 9:287
Kendall, William, II (d. 1709), 9:287
Kendrick, Patrick, 1:312, 313
Kenmore, 10:343
Kennedy, David (sergeant), 5:285, 290; 6:388; 9:170; appointments and
assignments, 3:162, 252, 255, 391; 4:151, 152; 5:4, 20, 27, 174, 291;
6:147; 7:52; and supplies, 3:255; 4:360, 385; 5:238, 281, 307; id., 3:257,
291; 5:239; 6:389; 7:492; returns of, 4:183, 357, 387, 408, 422; subscriber
to American Magazine, 5:49; address to GW, 6:178-81; suit against,
7:52; 9:74, 136; rents land, 7:491; 8:294, 568, 570; 9:54; at iron furnace,
8:291; account with, 9:225, 226, 237, 462, 503
Kennedy, David (soldier), 2:269
Kennedy, William, 2:256, 258
Kennet, Basil, 6:293
"Kennet's Roman Antiquities," 7:168
Kennon, William, 7:107, 111
Kenny, Luke, 8:386
Kent, Benoni, 8:306, 307
Kent, Richard, 7:380
Kent, William, 7:380
Kenton, Benjamin: goods from, 6:394; 7:24, 127, 193, 197, 294, 356, 475;
8:44, 131; 9:66, 67, 103; id., 6:403
Kenton, Francis, 4:42
Kentucky River, 10:71
Keppel, Augustus, 1:245, 247-48, 249, 259, 345; letters to: from
Robert Orme, 1:335
Kerlin, Joseph, 9:74, 503, 505; 10:222
Kern, Jacob (adjutant of 2d Pennsylvania Battalion), 6:95, 102, 116,
123
Kerr, David, 9:141
Kerr, William, 7:200, 204, 208
Key, Edmund, 8:63, 64
Keyes, Gersham, 1:29, 31; 3:56, 58; 4:426; 10:189
Keyes, Humphrey, 10:189
Keyes (Keas), David, 10:20
Keyes's (Vestal's) ferry, 1:82; 4:424, 426; 6:458
Keyes's (Vestal's) Gap, 2:35, 169; 3:58, 69, 235; 8:54-55
Keywood, John, 5:338
Kiashuta (Guyasuta; Indian), 10:168
Kickenpauling's Old Town (Pennsylvania), 5:406; 6:80
Kidd, John: letters from: to GW, 5:233, 235
Kidder, Richard, bishop of Bath and Wells, 6:291
Kieruptica (Keerarustikee; Indian), 4:119, 140, 214, 261
Killiam, Joseph. See Gillam, Joseph
Kilpin, William, 7:473
Kimber, Edward, 7:346
Kincaid (Cincaid), John, 9:122, 146, 363
King, Benjamin, 7:380; 8:145
King, John (from Prince Edward County), 4:43
King, John (in GW's company), 4:391
King, John (lieutenant), 2:149; 3:25-26, 77-79, 342; 5:142, 170-71; 6:4,
25; military service, 2:14, 15, 40, 42, 148, 261, 288; 3:157, 251, 341,
429; 4:166, 201, 205, 206, 432; 5:67, 143, 161, 216; criticism of, 2:106;
id., 2:116; 6:5; court-martialed, 3:237-38, 241; and provisions, 4:360,
385, 387, 428; 5:216; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22; letters
to: from GW, 2:116-17
King, Joshua, 4:331, 333, 334
King, Miles, 7:275
King, William, 6:286; 9:344, 345
King and Queen County, 4:274-75, 278, 288, 290; 9:388
King Blount. See Blount (Blunt), Tom (Indian)
King George County: militia of, 3:97-98, 117, 119, 122, 123-24, 127,
137, 146, 159, 265, 267, 300, 301, 313; recruits from, 4:278, 280, 281,
290; GW's lands in, 6:427; 7:103, 174, 278, 313, 331, 350, 377, 516; 8:283;
9:431
King George's Parish (Broad Creek Parish; Md.), 8:95
King Hagler. See Hagler
King of Prussia (ship), 5:73, 206; 6:322, 324, 366; 7:77
King's Arms Tavern, 10:219
King's College (New York), 8:550; 9:161-62, 163, 164, 213-14
Kings Creek, 9:260
Kingsmill, 7:470; 9:21
King William County: recruits from, 4:290; and Custis estate, 6:202,
217, 218, 225-26, 231, 232, 235, 246, 254, 266; 8:591; clerk of, 9:201;
court days in, 9:258. See also Errata
Kinman, Samuel, 1:30
Kinnison (Kennison), Edward, Jr., 1:22
Kinsey, David, 8:112
Kirby (Kerbyes), Charles, 7:168
Kirk, James, 8:86, 91, 140, 191, 193, 425, 431, 527; 10:128, 313
Kirk, Julius, 4:107
Kirkcudbright (Scotland), 5:453-54
Kirke, John, 6:293
Kirkman, Francis, 6:293
Kirkpatrick, ----: account with, 6:379; 7:105, 372, 501
Kirkpatrick, John, 2:122, 301, 311; 3:36, 48, 117, 301, 309, 386; 4:38,
100, 141, 154-55, 158, 272, 273, 358; 5:258-59; 6:382; 7:383, 391; as
GW's secretary, 2:106; 4:164, 410; 5:415; id., 2:108; 3:12; 4:69; 5:37;
6:380; 7:266; 9:209; handwriting of, 2:280; and accounts, 2:312, 353;
3:14, 84, 205, 314, 319, 323-24, 331-32, 333, 368, 369, 370; 4:357; 7:209,
336, 385; 9:208; and funds for Virginia Regiment, 2:351, 352; 3:38; 4:75,
99, 101, 102; as judge advocate, 3:71, 75, 77, 237, 239; recommended for
posts, 3:206; 4:162-63, 205; criticizes John St. Clair, 5:314-15; GW borrows
his phrase, 5:434; visits Scotland, 6:16-17; and Richard Stephens, 6:329;
and Joseph Watson, 6:418; 7:52, 108; and racing, 7:107, 110-11; treasury
money for, 7:335; GW sells gloves to, 7:500; and Robert Stewart, 8:162;
his partner, 10:31; letters from: to GW, 3:352-53, 364-65, 375-78,
409-12; 4:237-39, 324-25, 412-14; 5:36-37, 264-65, 314-16, 413-15, 453-54;
6:16-17, 193-95; letters to: from GW, 2:318; 4:309; 5:280, 405;
6:9
Kirkpatrick, Thomas, 4:413, 414; 6:380, 382, 417; 7:108; 8:146, 354;
9:208-9
Kiscapoo (Kiskapocke, Kispoko; Indians), 10:74. See also Indians
Kiscapoo Town (Indian town), 10:74
Kishacoquillas Creek (Pennsylvania), 2:309
Kiskiminetas River, 6:16, 143
Kissity (Cassatee, Gishaty; Indian), 5:431, 432, 451
Kit (Kitt; slave; Mill farm), 7:377, 443, 516
Kit (slave), 5:447, 449
Kit (slave; Bullskin plantation), 6:421
Kitchen, William, 8:145, 146
Kitson, Thomas, 1:221
Kitt (dower slave, girl; King William County), 6:218
Kitt (dower slave; Hanover County), 6:218
Kitt (slave), 4:108; 9:53
Kitt (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 584, 591
Kitt (slave; Hanover County), 6:231
Kitt (slave; Home farm), 9:54, 55
Kitt (slave; house servant), 8:220, 221, 356, 479; 9:55
Kitt (slave; King William County), 6:225
Kitt (slave; River farm), 9:239; 10:137
Kittanning (Pennsylvania; Indian town), 2:161-62; 3:426
Kittanning expedition, 2:162, 309
Kitty (slave; Creek farm), 7:45, 139, 228, 313
Kitty (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Kloster Kampen, Battle of, 7:99, 100
Knap, James, 3:315, 320-21, 360, 375, 397, 421, 430, 453
Knight, Charles, 4:391
Knight, Humphrey, 5:274, 408, 434, 436, 437, 438; letters from:
to GW, 5:217-19, 284-85, 415-16, 418-19, 447-49
Knight, James, 5:339
Knight, John, 10:134, 136, 262, 334
Knot, Walter, 4:42
Knotts, Nicholas, 8:277, 278, 308
Knowland, Ann, 8:221
Knowland, Rose, 8:16
Knowles, Sir Charles, 5:42, 43
Knowles, John, 10:137-38
Knowles, Rachael (wife of John Knowles), 10:137-38
Knox, James, 9:512
Knox, Thomas: tobacco shipped to, 2:276; 4:402; 5:73, 88, 327; 6:319;
id., 2:277; 5:73; goods ordered from, 4:427-28; 5:72, 87-88, 105, 399-403;
accounts with, 5:74; 6:442, 449; letters from: to GW, 4:426; letters
to: from GW, 5:72-73, 75-76, 87-88, 105; 6:442-43
Knox & Baillie: letters from: to GW, 10:278; letters to:
from GW, 10:296-97
Kufer, Christian, 7:8
Kufer's inn, 7:8
Kuskuskies (in the Ohio country), 1:125
Kuykendal (Kirkendal), John, 3:88, 91, 92, 333, 335; 5:246
Kuykendal's (Kirkendal's) fort, 3:47, 146, 159, 265, 333, 335; 4:350
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Lacock, Joseph, 9:382
Laden, Patrick, 2:251
The ladies calling, 6:289; 7:347
Ladies New Memorandum Book, 7:166, 168, 195
Laetitia (ship), 7:64, 89, 154, 157, 158, 162, 164
Lafitau, Joseph-François, 8:337, 341
LaFong (Lafong), George, 8:192, 267, 269, 347, 531; 9:21, 370
La Force (Michel Pepin), 1:114; and Indians, 1:68; id., 1:69; 3:351;
6:197; and scouting, 1:94, 105; as a prisoner, 1:110, 112, 115, 118, 119,
120, 121; 3:349, 352, 372, 399, 405; 6:197; reputation of, 1:111, 201,
202; French deserters report on, 1:135; and articles of capitulation,
1:166, 167; letters from: to GW, 6:196-97
Lafort (Latort), James, 9:122, 146
La Gallissonière (La Galissonière), Roland Michel Barrin, marquis de,
3:250
La Grange (Fairfax County), 5:168; 8:55
Laidler, John, 7:314, 438, 496; 8:41; 9:189
Laidler's ferry, 7:314
Lain, Thomas, 3:273
Lake (Leake), Richard, 8:144, 208, 222, 290, 291, 304, 305, 364, 424-25;
letters from: to GW, 8:223
Lake Drummond, 7:477
Lake George, Battle of, 2:64
Lake George (New York), 5:173, 174
Laman, James, 6:397, 403; 7:24, 126
Lamar, Hill, Bisset, & Co., 9:245, 271; letters from: to GW, 9:324,
496-97; letters to: from GW, 9:280-82, 281
Lamb's Creek, 2:67
La Mothe, Marie Catherine, countess d'Aulnoy, 6:290
La Mothe-Fénelon, François de Salignac de, archbishop of Cambrai, 7:346
Lancaster, Benjamin, 7:290
Lancaster, Richard, & Co., 10:218
Lancaster County, 4:278, 290
Landlord's law, 6:295
Lane, ----, 9:447, 449
Lane, James, 8:149
Lane, James Hardidge (Hardage), 8:557
Lane, John (Jacob), 5:61-62, 120-21, 129, 130
Lane, Joseph, 7:427, 428; 8:41
Lane, William (of Westmoreland County), 7:428
Lane, William Carr, 8:149, 238, 239; 10:179
Langdon (Langden), Joseph, 5:277, 339
Langfit, John, 8:441, 442
Langfitt, Philip, 9:395, 397; 10:138
Langhorne, William, 10:99-100
Langley, Batty, 6:318, 333; 7:344, 348; 10:343
Langley, Robert, 8:112
Langston, Elizabeth, 6:252
Langston, W., 6:267
Lanphier (Lanphire), Going, 7:380; 8:145, 146; accounts with, 6:331;
7:373; 9:348-50; 10:103, 140, 194, 195, 196, 221, 317; id., 6:332; 7:373;
9:348-49; builds addition to Mount Vernon, 9:349; 10:20; legal matter,
10:249; letters from: to GW, 9:348-50
Lansdowne, George Granville, Baron, 7:346
Lany (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
La Péronie, William, 1:236; 2:40; 3:442; 8:451; appointments and assignments,
1:98, 126, 134, 139, 150, 193, 204, 207, 208, 326; 2:39, 45, 261; commended,
1:113, 126, 191, 192, 209; id., 1:115; and capitulation of Fort Necessity,
1:160, 163, 164, 191; requests compensation, 1:189-90; death of, 1:336,
339, 342; 2:302; and deserter, 2:189; and John Johnson, 2:300; letters
from: to GW, 1:203-5
"Larboratory--or School of Arts," 7:448, 473
Lardner & Baratty (Barraty), 6:247-49, 396, 403; 7:25, 30, 292-93, 354,
421; 8:48-49, 132, 399
Lare (Leary), Edward, 3:253, 258
Larew, Isaac, 5:342; 8:436, 540; 9:168-69, 170; 10:2
L'Argeau, ----, 9:6, 8
La Roche Guilhem, Mlle de, 6:294, 296
La Saussaye, Douville de, 4:200, 215, 217
Lathrum, Stephen, 4:332
Latin, Thomas, 4:49
Latin dictionary in four parts (Littleton), 6:300
Laubinger (Lawbinger), Michael, 4:62. See also Louwinger, George
Michael
Laubinger's (Lawbinger's) ordinary, 4:62
Laughrey, James, 6:63, 91-93, 105
Laurel Hill (Laurel Ridge, Laurel Mountain; Pennsylvania), 5:267; 6:30,
99, 103-4
Laurie (Lowrie), James, 8:147, 148; treats slaves, 6:390; accounts with,
6:417; 7:1, 2, 7, 105, 185, 351; treats Martha Washington, 6:420; and
racing, 7:110-11; death of, 8:321; drunk, 8:322
Lavender, Michael, 4:425
Lawrason, James, 10:338, 339
Lawrence, Charles, 7:357; 8:102; id., 6:318, 337; clothing from, 6:335,
397, 461, 464; 7:28, 81, 201-2, 204, 267, 294, 321-23, 328, 341, 356;
8:8, 14, 49, 133; complaints about, 8:502; letters to: from GW,
6:458-59; 7:201-2, 266-67, 321-23, 341; 8:8, 98-99
Lawrence, Daniel, 10:219
Lawrence and Jane (ship), 6:332, 336
Laws of Nations, 9:344, 345
Lawson, Gavin, 7:483, 490
Lawson, John, 8:293
Lawson, John (lieutenant): recommended by Landon Carter, 2:319-20; id.,
2:320; 3:456; appointments and assignments, 3:428, 447, 455; 4:205, 206,
432; 5:220, 221; pay for, 5:215, 249; illness of, 5:363, 370; address
to GW, 6:178-81; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22
Lawson, Matthew, 8:424
Lawson, Thomas (Landon Carter's overseer), 2:320
Lawson, Thomas (manager of iron furnace), 8:42; 9:225; accounts with,
7:4, 106; 8:51, 141, 556; 10:353; id., 7:9; 8:438; sells iron, 7:48-49;
manager of Neabsco furnace, 8:413; GW buys watch from, 8:437; and John
Price Posey, 8:470, 471, 472; and bloomery, 10:284; letters from:
to GW, 7:48-49
Lawson, William, 2:320
Laybrook (Lybrook, Librough), Palser (Balser), 10:152
Laybrook (Lybrook, Librough), Philip, 10:152
Layton's ferry, 6:199; 7:209, 212
Lea, Philip, 6:284, 297
Leak, John, 4:347
Leake, Richard. See Lake, Richard
Leake, Robert, 2:32, 71
Leake, William, 6:481-82
Lear, John, 4:42
Lear, Tobias, 8:72
Leary, Edward. See Lare, Edward
Le Boeuf Creek (Pennsylvania), 1:326
Leck (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Le Comte, Louis Daniel, 6:287
Lee, Ann Fairfax Washington, 6:199, 418; 7:6, 172-73, 433; 8:225; 9:353,
354. See also Washington, Ann Fairfax
Lee, Arthur, 7:224, 416; 8:63, 64, 79, 152-53, 199, 295, 322; 10:365;
letters from: to GW, 8:498-99
Lee, Charles, 10:190, 220, 221; his pamphlet, 10:189; his plan for organization
of troops, 10:243-44, 275; debt to GW, 10:353
Lee, Francis Lightfoot, 5:265, 288, 315, 316; 6:372; 7:219-22, 224, 416,
512; 8:63, 153, 569, 571; 10:99-100
Lee, George, 1:229, 231, 270; 7:433; and division of slaves, 1:227-31;
7:172; id., 1:227-31; 6:199; and lease of Mount Vernon, 1:232, 233, 234;
6:198, 199, 416, 418; 7:4, 9, 106; and Lawrence Washington's estate, 3:351,
352, 437, 438; 4:195, 198, 365; marriage of, 6:416; land surveyed in his
name, 8:568; and his estate, 9:353, 354
Lee, Hancock (1709-1762), 7:173
Lee, Hancock (1740-1819), 9:125-26
Lee, Hannah Philippa Ludwell, 8:295
Lee, Henry (1729-1787; of Leesylvania), 3:117; 8:138; id., 1:34; 2:88;
3:100; 5:185; 7:158; and Prince William militia, 2:252; 3:68, 99, 267;
4:236, 237; 5:229, 230; election challenged, 3:97; council of war, 3:129-31;
charters ship for tobacco, 7:157, 163; and Dismal Swamp Company, 7:271;
accounts with, 7:434, 495, 496; and the Savage affair, 7:502, 506, 513;
8:110-11; elected burgess, 8:569, 571; and meeting at Raleigh Tavern,
10:99-100; letters from: to GW, 4:272; 7:502-6; letters to:
from GW, 2:87-88; 3:28; 4:222-23, 257-58, 275-76; 5:184-85; from John
Blair, 5:185
Lee, Henry ("Light Horse Harry"), 2:88
Lee, Henry (surveyor), 1:10
Lee, John (captain), 8:82
Lee, John (colonel; d. 1767), 8:83; 9:35
Lee, John (of 44th Regiment), 1:296
Lee, John, Jr. (of Essex), 8:83
Lee, John (soldier), 1:221
Lee, Lucy Grymes, 7:496
Lee, Mary Smith Ball, 8:82, 83, 103
Lee, Nathaniel, 6:285, 297
Lee, Philip (of Maryland), 1:280
Lee, Philip Ludwell, 3:32; 7:209; 9:353, 354; and Ohio Company, 1:59;
and recruiting, 4:58, 100; id., 4:101-2; 5:154; 7:212; 8:571; on council,
4:124, 125-26; recommends French Mason, 5:153; casts illegal votes, 8:569;
and soldiers' bounty lands, 9:121; town laid out on his land, 9:340; death
of, 10:271
Lee, Philip Richard Francis, 10:35, 78, 215, 346; letters to:
from GW, 10:35-36
Lee, Philip Thomas, 8:63, 64
Lee, Richard, 1:59; 7:479
Lee, Richard (Squire; of Lee Hall): election, 5:288; 8:569; carries money,
7:299; account with, 8:221; and Samuel Washington, 8:521; at Mount Vernon,
8:223; id., 8:487, 571; 9:505; 10:27; his difficulties collecting duties,
10:26; confused with Richard Lee of Maryland, 10:197; and second Virginia
Convention, 10:308
Lee, Richard (Squire; of Maryland), 9:503, 505; 10:35, 42, 194, 197
Lee, Richard Henry, 7:336; 8:486; 9:183; 10:42; elected to House of Burgesses,
5:288; 8:569; and George Lee, 7:106; 9:354; and Mount Vernon rent, 7:106;
and Mississippi Company, 7:219-22, 224, 416, 512; 8:63, 153; id., 7:224;
8:571; and Potomac navigation, 8:289, 294; and the Association, 8:354;
account with, 10:41; delegate to Continental Congress, 10:174, 000, 000;
acts as justice on ship, 10:148; GW lends money to, 10:160; sends cherry
grafts to GW, 10:301; delegate to Virginia Convention, 10:309; accompanies
GW to Philadelphia, 10:358; letters from: to GW, 9:353-54; letters
to: from GW, 9:354; 10:150-51
Lee, Robert (ship captain), 4:99
Lee, Thomas, 1:45, 58, 59; 4:101; 5:265; 7:224; 8:547
Lee, Thomas Ludwell, 5:288; 7:219-22, 223, 224, 416, 512; 8:63, 153;
10:140, 141
Lee, William, 7:219-22, 224, 250, 416, 512; 8:63-64, 83, 152, 153; letters
from: to GW, 8:294-95, 299-300
Lee (Leigh), John (soldier), 3:239, 241
Leeds (ship), 7:392; 8:17
Leed's Castle (England), 1:39; 5:70; 8:190
Leedstown, 7:219, 223
Lee Hall, 5:288; 9:505
Leesburg, 3:69; 6:458; 7:8; 8:263; 10:29
Leesylvania, 1:34; 3:100; 4:237; 7:158; 8:138
Leet, Daniel, 9:330, 331; 10:93
Leeward Islands, 6:212
Legg, Leaver, 6:335, 337, 394; 7:294, 422; 8:49, 133, 399, 560
Legge (Legg) Julian: letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:155
Leghorn, Italy, 7:277
Lehman & Smith, 10:371
Leitch, Andrew, 8:453; 10:316, 319, 369
Leitch & Stewart, 10:317
Leith, John, 5:340
Lemart, Lewis, 9:167, 505
Lemen (Lemon), James, 2:94, 130, 256; 3:338, 340, 374, 375, 430; 5:334
Lemen (Lemon), John, 5:339
Lemen (Lemon), Nicholas, 5:341
Lemen (Lemon), Robert, 5:342
Lemen (Lemon), Thomas, 2:193; 3:266; 5:334; military career, 2:94, 107,
108, 195; 3:73-74, 77-78, 335; id., 3:18, 336; 5:334, 343; and GW's election,
5:333, 343; letters to: from GW, 2:100-101, 109
Lemen's ordinary, 3:338, 340
Le Mercier, François, 1:85, 163
Lemley (Lumley), Johannes (John), 4:425
Lenear, Clement, 4:42
Leopold I, grand duke of Tuscany, 7:365-66
L'Epreuve (ship), 6:196-97
Le Roy, Abraham, 1:334, 335
Lesley, James, 4:42
Leslie, Matthew, 1:275
Lester, Thomas, 8:146
L'Estrange, Roger, 6:284, 296; 7:344
Lett (slave; John Posey's), 8:34
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, 8:192, 194; 10:337
Letters of wit, politicks, and morality, 6:287
Letters writ by a Turkish spy, 6:290, 293, 297-98
A Letter to the Clergy of New York and New Jersey, 9:24, 25
Leuthen, Poland, 5:99
Levern & Stuart (Savern & Stuart), 7:181, 207, 391
Levingston, James. See Livingston, James
Levisa River, 10:71
Lewey (slave; Anthony Bacon's and Fielding Lewis's), 7:315
Lewis, ---- (1): his plantation, 7:169, 171
Lewis, ---- (2): buys bill of exchange, 7:261
Lewis, Andrew, 1:134, 141, 144, 154, 207, 210; 2:47, 57, 112, 138, 161,
198, 211, 223-24, 272, 273, 299, 301, 336; 3:134, 228, 295, 361, 455;
4:17, 103, 122, 255, 274, 297-98, 325, 326, 329, 358; 5:15, 90, 230; 8:451;
9:483; 10:1; id., 1:139-40; and construction of road, 1:143; and capitulation
of Fort Necessity, 1:156, 162; movements of, 1:206, 207, 223; 2:58, 76,
77, 90, 105, 107, 113; 4:132, 190, 191, 354, 361; 5:195, 197, 273, 279,
364, 383; 7:51, 56; commissions and appointments, 1:208; 2:7, 40, 119,
122, 124, 136, 147, 173, 286; 4:328, 362; 5:63, 91, 135, 140, 328; 6:470;
7:35, 52, 121; commended, 1:209; accounts of, 1:222; 4:357; and Peter
Hog, 2:17, 29, 59; 3:194; 5:114, 115; company of, 2:18, 19, 44, 113, 142,
177, 189; 3:133, 135, 203, 256, 269, 275-76, 313; 4:155, 277, 345, 346,
351, 392, 394-95, 406-7; 5:6, 15, 67, 124, 135, 161, 251, 258, 286, 290;
6:46-47, 146; and Sandy Creek expedition, 2:18, 214, 216, 235, 236, 278,
280, 299, 302, 319, 330, 334, 343; 3:110; 5:277; and supplies, 2:23, 110,
186, 187, 220, 300; 4:313, 397, 407; 5:285, 389; orders to, 2:25, 119;
3:44; 4:7, 77, 102, 105, 178, 184-85, 193, 241, 247, 248, 265, 268, 287,
303-4, 326, 345, 350-51, 360, 369; 7:57; orders from, 2:118; 4:395; and
pay, 2:189-90; builds forts, 2:190; 3:42, 43, 388; 10:305; wounded, 2:221;
and court of inquiry, 2:231, 232; and Indians, 3:56, 59, 66, 318, 388,
391, 401, 405, 406, 426, 428, 430; 4:5, 8, 25, 52, 105, 119-20, 124, 132,
139, 142, 144, 169, 194, 197, 199, 225, 229; 5:161; and Augusta militia,
3:233; 4:4, 8, 25, 30, 222, 394; illness of, 3:434; memoranda concerning,
4:272-73, 286-87; returns of, 5:4, 5, 66; 6:7; and rangers, 5:21, 91,
115; and Alexander Boyd, 5:68; military service, 5:85, 189, 300, 390,
456; and recruiting, 5:134; troops under, 5:135; captivity of, 5:161;
6:40, 46, 52, 53, 96, 101, 102, 127, 181, 470; admonished by GW, 5:189;
prisoner escapes from, 5:213; appraises wagons, 5:246; and Indian garb
for troops, 5:259, 278, 279; and dispute between John St. Clair and Adam
Stephen, 5:455; and James Grant's defeat, 6:38-39, 41-42, 44; reported
killed, 6:39, 40; and Indian war in South Carolina, 6:412; called Paddy,
6:413; 7:36; and Robert Stobo, 6:468; and Robert Stewart, 6:470; and petition
to king, 7:117-19; and Pontiac's War, 7:237; and Hot Springs scheme, 8:54;
as Indian commissioner, 8:276, 308; and bounty lands, 8:277, 451, 521,
540; 9:116, 122, 128-31, 144, 359, 361, 364, 366, 392, 482, 500, 505,
510, 511; 10:39, 311; and William Crawford as surveyor, 8:279; 9:481,
482; sent to protect frontier, 8:452; petitions for Greenbrier Company,
9:503; family of, 9:512; 10:164; moves home to Richfield, 9:515; and Dunmore's
War, 10:44, 164, 169, 183, 246; and Transylvania Company, 10:247; letters
from: to GW, 2:80; 3:445-46; 4:132, 392-96; 6:101-2; 8:307-9; 9:512-16;
to Raymond Demeré, 3:371-72; to Robert Dinwiddie, 4:367; to William Preston,
5:21; letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:223; 3:371; 4:26-27,
54, 73, 395; 5:21; from GW, 2:19-20, 20, 23-24, 86-87, 140-41, 235; 4:178,
179, 221-22, 277-78, 346-48; 5:134-35, 146-47, 188-89, 193-94; 8:281;
10:310-11; from George Mercer, 2:81, 123-24; from William Withers, 4:393-94
Lewis, Andrew, Jr.: letters to: from GW, 10:315
Lewis, Ann (Nancy) Alexander, 8:244-45
Lewis, Benjamin, 3:142
Lewis, Betty Washington, 1:337; 4:108; 9:397; residence of, 1:269; family
of, 1:333; 8:244, 528; 9:228; id., 2:352; ship named for, 7:285; GW spends
Christmas with, 8:270; Jane Boucher visits, 8:365
Lewis, Charles (captain), 2:41, 207, 211, 234; 3:72, 76, 77-79, 95, 152-53,
447; 4:136, 182; 5:206, 244; id., 1:358; 4:418; 5:39; commissions and
assignments, 2:14, 40, 42, 86, 136, 261, 288; 3:198; 4:155, 166; company
of, 2:77, 86, 307, 332; 3:212, 252, 253, 258, 263, 429; 4:77; 5:179; 6:103;
his journal, 2:78-79; describes Indian massacre, 2:137; at Ashby's fort,
2:288; and court of inquiry, 2:289, 297; orders to, 3:191, 253; letters
from: to GW, 1:357-58; 2:296-97; 4:18-22, 151, 418; 5:38-39; letters
to: from GW, 1:364; 2:297-98; 3:198-99; from William Taliaferro, 4:419
Lewis, Charles (of Albemarle County), 10:350
Lewis, Charles (of Augusta County), 3:134; 9:490
Lewis, Charles (of The Byrd), 6:475, 476
Lewis, Charles (son of Fielding Lewis), 8:527, 528; 9:227, 228, 229;
10:318
Lewis, David, Jr., 4:3; letters to: from GW, 3:438-39
Lewis, David (wagoner), 10:195
Lewis, Eleanor Bowles Gooch, 10:355
Lewis, Fielding, 1:218, 269, 333, 337, 357, 358; 3:95, 198; 4:284, 418,
431; 5:214, 334; 7:171, 208, 262, 276, 410, 441, 469; 8:64, 78, 96, 170,
364, 430, 531, 532; 9:48, 231, 243, 390, 479; 10:36, 151, 177, 279, 333;
survey for, 1:31, 36; and purchase of slaves for GW, 2:276; and GW's tobacco,
2:277; 4:133, 284; reports on Indians, 2:351; id., 2:352; and Gentlemen
Associators, 3:109; and goods for GW, 4:39, 269, 284, 430; 5:435; 6:473;
7:105, 140, 331; as GW's agent, 4:133, 380; 5:206; 6:331; 9:33, 36, 73,
79, 82, 126-27, 132, 192, 202, 219, 227, 232, 242; 10:80, 210, 345, 355;
and Strother estate, 5:79, 80; 7:308; 8:84; and bills of exchange, 5:106,
112, 113; 6:319; 7:299, 305; 9:224; accounts with, 5:244; 6:430; 7:229,
261, 298, 369, 418, 438, 477, 499, 500; 8:83, 140, 169, 192, 195, 266,
268, 453; 9:58, 225-26, 230; 10:76, 78; and GW's election, 5:263, 343;
and House of Burgesses, 5:308, 309; 7:44; family of, 5:436; 8:528; 9:228;
and ironworks, 6:457, 458; GW buys lots from, 7:4, 9-10; 8:258; sells
slaves, 7:106, 110; 8:112; GW orders chariot for, 7:119-20, 230; and Dismal
Swamp Company, 7:209, 211, 269-70, 271-72, 274-75, 298, 315, 342, 496,
496; 8:51, 454; and Walter Magowan, 7:235, 236; sells rum, 7:262; attorney
for Anthony Bacon, 7:271, 315; borrows money, 7:280, 285; his ship, 7:285;
and James Wright's land, 7:342, 440; shingles for, 7:417; and Marmaduke
Norfleet's land, 7:436-37; 8:51, 53, 137, 141, 266; 9:134; and Hot Springs
scheme, 8:51-52, 53-54, 433; trustee of George Carter estate, 8:55; lends
GW money, 8:191; and Custis estate, 8:203, 456, 458; land in Frederick
County, 8:244; GW visits, 8:270, 330; visits GW, 8:303; Jane Boucher visits,
8:365; medical expenses, 8:376, 454; criticized, 8:545; and sale of Ferry
Farm, 9:150; 10:10, 27-28; carries money, 10:75, 193; and George William
Fairfax's affairs, 10:98, 100, 101; and Philip Mazzei, 10:178, 179; scythes
bought for, 10:221; and Spotsylvania committee, 10:297; and plasterer
and painter for Kenmore, 10:343, 366; and Mary Washington, 10:347, 348;
and appraisal of livestock at Ferry Farm, 10:349; memorandum of moneys
to pay and receive, 10:350-54; power of attorney to pay GW's debts, 10:352;
letters from: to GW, 4:107-8; 5:206, 244; 8:245-46; 9:149-50, 229-30,
235, 267-69; 10:297, 343-44 letters to: from GW, 9:221-26
Lewis, Fielding, Jr., 8:246; letters from: to GW, 8:244-45
Lewis, Freeman, 1:126
Lewis, George, (of Loudoun County), 9:36
Lewis, George (soldier), 4:391
Lewis, George (son of Fielding Lewis), 8:527, 528; 9:227-29; 10:318
Lewis, Henry, 4:41
Lewis, Jacob, 6:145, 146
Lewis, Jane Strother, 8:78
Lewis, John (of Augusta County), 3:434
Lewis, John (ship captain), 7:21, 151, 200, 239, 316
Lewis, John (son of Fielding Lewis), 7:9, 10, 437
Lewis, John (son of Zachary Lewis), 3:142
Lewis, Johnston, 4:42
Lewis, Joshua, 2:232, 243, 289; 3:352; 4:60, 136, 230, 231, 232; 5:2,
5; promoted to captain, 2:40, 42; company of, 2:45, 49, 64, 116, 213,
261; 3:156, 212, 251, 253, 258, 263, 341, 429; 4:77, 93-95, 156, 201,
277, 346, 364, 409; 5:37-38, 66, 67, 103, 104, 124, 144, 159, 161, 181,
190, 201, 271, 394; 6:5, 96, 137; id., 2:48-49; military service, 2:54,
152, 243; 3:224, 225; 4:60, 128, 130, 153, 155, 166, 190, 345, 349, 432;
5:2, 130; resignation of, 2:117; 3:43; 5:129, 130, 180, 204, 216; pay
of, 2:191; scouting mission, 2:306; ambitions of, 2:327; and officers'
uniforms, 4:97; supplies for, 4:340; and Indians, 4:403; 5:9, 10, 12,
13, 21; and complaints about soldiers, 5:37-38; letters from: to
GW, 4:363; letters to: from GW, 2:48-49, 191-92; 4:179-83, 362-63,
363-64; 5:28, 38; from George Mercer, 3:227
Lewis, Lucy Taliaferro, 4:419
Lewis, Meriwether, 10:350
Lewis, Nathan, 3:18, 75-80, 84, 103, 105-6, 154, 158, 172
Lewis, Robert, 1:313; 8:431
Lewis, Samuel, 9:148, 418, 511-13, 515; 10:164, 197, 280, 310-11
Lewis, Sarah, 6:330
Lewis, Thomas (d. 1749), 6:330
Lewis, Thomas, Sr. (d. 1771), 6:330; 7:380; 8:145, 149
Lewis, Thomas (of Augusta County), 10:307, 308; and Strother estate,
5:80; 8:77-78, 84; and Hot Springs scheme, 8:54; id., 8:149; 9:483; as
county surveyor, 8:279; 9:418; and William Crawford, 9:483, 487; 10:1;
and GW's bounty lands, 10:36, 40, 48, 53-54, 55, 93, 310, 343; letters
from: to GW, 10:18; to Virginia delegates, 10:000; letters to:
from GW, 9:481-83; 10:46-48; from Virginia delegates, 10:000
Lewis, Thomas (of Fairfax County), 10:128
Lewis, Thomas (of Loudoun County), 8:145, 146, 149
Lewis, Thomas (son of S.), 8:145, 146, 149
Lewis, Thomas (son of Thomas Lewis, Sr.), 8:149
Lewis, Vincent, 8:253-54
Lewis, Waller, 3:142
Lewis, Warner, 1:364; 2:2; 3:198; 10:225; id., 1:358, 359; 3:95; 5:166;
and Gentlemen Associators, 3:94, 170; and Custis estate, 6:259; 8:456,
459, 530; 9:368, 369; and bill of exchange, 7:253; family of, 8:64; 10:355;
GW visits, 8:193; account with, 9:221, 224, 225, 226, 229; 10:353; letters
from: to GW, 1:358-59; 5:166, 166-67; letters to: from GW,
1:360-63; 10:355
Lewis, Warner, Jr., 8:31, 63, 64, 153
Lewis, Warner (son of Fielding Lewis), 1:333
Lewis, William, 4:347; 6:329, 330
Lewis, Zachary, Jr., 3:137, 148; letters to: from GW, 3:142
Lewis, Zachary, Sr. (1702-1765), 3:142; 5:308, 309
Lewis (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Lewis (slave; Home farm), 7:313, 376, 443, 515; 8:479; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Lewis (slave; Sarah Alexander's), 7:305
Lewis (slave; tradesman), 8:104, 220, 356
Leybourn, William, 1:3
Liberty (ship), 8:86, 89, 299, 300, 371, 397-400, 503; 9:165;
10:286
Lick Run, 1:29
Lienard de Beaujeu, Daniel Hyacinthe Marie, 2:337
The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe,
6:287
The life of Mr. Thomas Firmin, 6:291
Lightfoot, ----: and Bernard Moore's debt, 8:429
Lightfoot, Armistead, 8:430
Lightfoot, Philip, 8:430
Lightfoot, William (of Culpeper County), 4:248; letters to: from
GW, 4:262
Lightfoot, William (of York County), 8:430
Ligneris, François-Marie Le Marchand, sieur de, 4:215, 217; letters
from: to Henry Bouquet, 6:53
Ligonier, Sir John, 5:69, 70
Lilburn, Francis, 5:339
Lilly, Thomas, 8:50, 52
Limekilns (Scotland), 7:358
Lindo, Elias, 10:203, 204
Lindors, ----: account with, 8:24
Lindsay, Andrew, 6:246
Lindsay (Lindsey), ----: and GW's horses, 5:452; 6:4
Lindsay (Lindsey), Edmund, 5:334
Lindsay (Lindsey), James, 5:337, 453
Lindsay (Lindsey), John, 1:27, 30, 36; 4:424, 426; 5:7-8, 11, 343, 452,
453; 6:4, 75
Lindsay (Lindsey), Robert, 1:23; 8:21, 22, 145
Lindsey, Thomas, 1:28
Linn, ----: member of court-martial, 2:53
Linn, William, 2:54
Linton, ----: and iron for GW, 5:299
Linton (Lynton), William, 7:362, 384, 428-29, 478, 479; 8:248
Linton's tavern, 7:479
Lisle, Edward, 6:333, 337; 7:344, 348
Lithgow, John, 8:258
Little, Thomas, 4:42
Little, William (of Frederick County), 7:414, 415, 438, 440
Little Cacapon River, 1:10, 45; 3:120, 137
Little Carpenter (Attakullaculla; Indian): and his warriors, 5:115, 210,
304-5; 6:72, 145-46; saluted, 6:103; and John Forbes, 6:104, 160; misconduct
of, 6:146, 159, 163; delivers speech, 7:56, 57; GW's comments on, 7:56
Littledale, Isaac, 6:442
Little England (plantation), 1:282, 284; 10:210
Little Falls of the Potomac, 8:139, 290
Little Falls quarter, 8:522; 9:14, 112, 138; 10:348-49
Little Ferry, 7:219
Little Hunting Creek, 1:7
Littlejohn, Marcellus, 7:383; 8:147
Little Meadows (Maryland), 1:325; 5:358
Littlepage, ----: and Custis estate, 6:253
Littlepage, James, 4:276, 389
Littlepage's warehouse, 9:257
Littler, Mary Ross, 1:263
Littler, Samuel, 5:338
Littleton, Adam, 6:300
Littleton, Farrell, 7:319, 320; 8:121, 122
Little Warm Springs. See Hot Springs
The lively oracles, 6:296; 7:347
Liverpool (ship), 7:97
The lives of the twelve Caesars, 6:288; 7:347
Livings, Thomas, 3:98
Livingston, George, 3:53
Livingston, Peter Van Brugh, 10:240
Livingston, Philip, 10:240
Livingston (Levingston), James (adjutant), 2:325; 3:312; 4:34, 37, 40,
66, 200; 5:8; as fort major and adjutant, 2:41, 201, 214; 3:118, 163,
428; 4:429; 5:10, 348; id., 2:139-40, 326; 5:71, 322; to investigate deserters,
2:227; orders to, 2:310; 3:157, 281, 301, 383; 4:24; and marquee for GW,
3:160; and General Braddock's bedstead, 3:161; to read articles of war,
3:212; dispute with Robert Rutherford, 3:230; and alarm at Fort Cumberland,
4:218, 219, 221, 244; confers with Loudoun, 5:71; praises Virginia Regiment,
5:71; and extra rations, 5:321, 325; letters from: to GW, 4:213-15
Livy, 8:120, 121, 417
Lloyd, ----: carries letters, 10:337
Lloyd, Edward, III, 1:154
Lloyd, John, 4:43
Lloyd, Joseph, 1:145
Lloyd, Thomas (of Pennsylvania), 6:92, 118; and St. Clair-Stephen dispute,
5:454; at Loyalhanna, 5:456; appointments, 6:89, 98, 104, 116, 150, 153;
id., 6:90; and guards reports, 6:98, 102-3, 104; and bounty lands, 10:337;
letters from: to John Stanwix, 6:346, 346-47
Lobb, Theophilus, 6:287
Lochmiller, George, 5:340
Lock, Robert, 1:317, 319
Locke, John, 6:291, 400; 9:344, 345
Lockhart, Archibald, 4:390
Lockheart, Andrew, 3:185, 206, 239
Lodwick, William, 6:390
Loffman, Edward, 4:42
Loffman, John, 4:42
Loftin, Thomas, 1:26, 28, 36
Loftin, William, 1:28
Logan, Thomas, 9:208, 225, 226, 252, 253
Logan, William, 2:309
Logan (Indian), 10:53, 91
Logstown (on Ohio River), 1:59, 60, 61; 4:124, 197
Loimologia; or, an historical account of the plague in London,
6:293
Lomax, John, 8:556
Lomax, John Edward, 2:211; 3:18, 71-75, 77-79, 152-53, 341, 342, 373;
4:207, 231, 329, 346; appointments and assignments, 2:14, 40, 42, 76,
86, 261; 3:153, 157, 252; 4:179-80, 358, 407; id., 2:77; relieved, 2:265,
287, 289, 311, 313; and theft of stores, 3:211; military service, 3:429;
4:166, 182, 205, 206, 432; 5:135; court-martialed, 4:208; pay stoppages
from his company, 4:357; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22; 5:14-15
Lomax, Lunsford, 2:276, 277; 3:56, 58
"Londn Vocabularry," 7:300, 302
London, bishop of, 4:9, 26, 336; 7:60, 451; 8:72; letters to:
from Truro Parish vestry, 7:429
London (slave), 7:173
London (slave; blacksmith), 6:428; 7:45, 139
London (slave; Dogue Run), 7:228, 313, 366
London (slave; Home farm), 9:35, 36, 54, 55, 185, 186, 291, 293
The London practice of physick, 6:288
The London spy, 6:292; 7:344
Lonem, John, 1:12, 22, 34
Long, James, 5:383-84, 385, 388
Long, Solomon, 4:390
Long (Large, Big) Island of Holston River, 7:57
Longacres, Andrew, 5:339
Longdon, Ralph, 10:80
Longdon, Robert, 9:122, 145
Longdon, Thomas, 4:191
Longdon (Longden), Abel, 8:441, 442
Longman, ----: his land, 6:456
Long Marsh, 9:169
Long Meadows (Maryland), 3:210
Long roll, 3:353
Longueuil, Charles Le Moyne, second baron de, 1:56
Longworth (Langsworth), Samuel, 3:252, 256, 306-7; 4:389
Loo (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Looney (Luney), Peter, 3:260-61
Looney's (Luney's) ferry, 4:7, 431
Lord, Mary, 10:194
Lord Baltimore (ship), 8:52, 85
Lord Cambden (ship), 4:98; 7:470; 8:11, 44-50, 94, 130-36
Lorraine, Claude, 5:51
Lost Mountain, 9:505
Lost River, 1:10
Louden, Thomas, 5:336
Loudoun, John Campbell, fourth earl of, 1:282; 2:71, 116; 3:57, 88, 109,
168, 248, 260, 287, 353, 393, 397; 4:14-15, 26, 27, 29, 57, 71, 99, 116,
119, 267, 268, 279, 365; 5:34, 41, 55, 62-63, 100, 102, 103, 126; as commander
in chief, 1:357; 3:56, 104, 116, 126, 166; 4:29; 5:17; named governor
of Virginia, 3:44; aid sought by Virginia, 3:102-3; and GW, 3:110, 126,
180, 181, 347, 385, 436; 4:64-65, 68, 105-6, 111, 124, 132; and Robert
Stewart, 3:181; 5:47, 59, 137; 7:161, 281; movements of, 3:261, 288, 360,
386, 405; 5:190; and proposed expedition against French, 3:261, 317, 361;
and enlistment of servants, 3:319, 404; and Fort Cumberland, 3:359, 366,
388, 440-41, 443, 449-50; 4:51, 53, 72, 74, 99, 345; and fall of Oswego,
3:385; and Virginia-Centinel No. X, 3:410; and Royal American Regiment,
3:424; 4:55, 58, 159, 161; and Virginia troops, 3:425, 427; 4:19, 104-5,
114-15, 120-21, 127-28, 130, 131-32, 146, 168, 255, 303; 5:25, 42-43,
92; and northern campaigns, 4:101, 177, 178, 227, 251-52, 298, 301-2,
312, 323, 367, 415-16; 5:16, 18; and conference of governors, 4:107, 125,
126, 160; 5:36, 98; and John Hall, 4:150, 177; 5:94; and Edmond Atkin,
4:156, 309; 5:177; and allowance of batmen, 4:176, 193, 254; and British
establishment for Virginia troops, 4:303; and William Henry Fairfax, 4:310,
364; 5:70-71; 6:19; and Christopher Gist, 4:319; and South Carolina regiment,
4:373; recalled, 4:416; 5:19, 98, 104, 118; orders of, 5:18, 36; rumors
of return, 5:18; criticism of, 5:19; and Indians, 5:22, 90, 114, 139;
and plan of operations, 5:43; and John Young, 5:92; and Fort Duquesne,
5:99; and John Smith's scheme, 5:99, 104; letters to: from GW,
2:3; 3:293-94; 4:79-93; from Officers of Virginia Regiment, 3:364; from
Robert Dinwiddie, 3:444; 4:53-54, 107; from Henry Bouquet, 4:46
Loudoun County, 3:69; 5:316; id., 7:8; GW's land in, 7:279, 313, 350,
377, 516; 8:55, 283, 284; 9:431; county seat of, 8:263; court meetings
in, 8:263; petitions from, 9:453; 10:62; surveyor of, 10:29; orders gunpowder,
10:265; elects county committee, 10:267
Louisa Company, 10:312
Louisa County, 3:55, 127, 137, 145, 150
Louisa River, 10:70, 71
Louisburg (Cape Breton Island), 4:101, 178; 5:437; campaign against,
5:18, 19, 71, 128, 174; capture of, 5:128-29, 301-2, 304, 405, 406, 410,
412-13, 426, 427, 429, 431, 435, 438, 446, 455; 6:42, 43; id., 5:436
Louisville, Ky., 9:251
Louis XV, 5:18; 7:99
Louwinger, George Michael, 5:339. See also Laubinger, Michael
Love, Philip, 6:119
Lovell, Thomas, 3:118
The lover's watch, 6:294; 7:348
Lovet, Josiah, 4:405
Lovett, ----: sells GW supplies, 6:480-81
Lovett, Thomas, 3:118
Low, James (soldier), 3:185
Low (Lou), James (servant), 10:134, 136
Lowe, ---- (Mrs.), 10:105, 106
Lowe, Samuel, 7:294, 295
Lower Cedar Point, 7:428
Lower Church. See Pohick Church
Lower Counties of Delaware. See individual volumes
Lower Marlboro, Md., 2:277; 7:65
Lower Shawnee Town (on Ohio River), 1:69; 2:293
Lowery, James, 6:47
Lowes, James (ship captain), 7:310, 311
Lowndes, Christopher, 7:177; 9:38, 39
Lowry, Thomas, 10:198, 205-6, 208, 250, 251; letters from: to
Francis Willis, Jr., 10:199; to GW, 10:199, 206
Lowry, William (soldier), 9:122, 146
Lowry (Loury), John, 2:43; 3:25-26, 38-39, 76, 77-79, 152-53; appointments
and assignments, 2:14, 15, 40, 42, 119, 136, 260; 3:227, 252, 429, 454;
4:65, 67, 77, 166; id., 2:25; 3:191; enlists soldiers, 2:64; desires to
resign, 2:233; leave for, 4:72
Loxham, ---- (captain), 7:1, 6, 105
Loxham, Edward, 6:396, 403
Loxham, William, 1:218, 219
Loxham, William & Edward, 8:562
Loyal Company, 9:503
Loyalhanna (Pennsylvania), 1:125; 5:395, 404, 406; 6:78; encampment at,
5:365, 386; id., 5:368; skirmishes at, 5:368; 6:30, 78, 85, 121-23; forced
march from, 5:386; 6:70; as depot, 5:429, 441; distances from, 5:433;
fort at, 5:439; 6:137, 346; road from, 6:3; troops at, 6:7, 32, 80, 117-18,
127-28; GW at, 6:30; John Forbes arrives at, 6:101; council of war at,
6:119-20; Indians at, 6:146. See also Fort Ligonier
Loyalhanna Creek (Pennsylvania), 1:125; 6:16
Loyd, Henry, 5:342
Loyd, James, 5:339
Loyd, Thomas (of Fauquier County), 8:176
Lucas, ----: carries letter, 7:115
Lucas, Barton, 6:119; 7:116
Lucas, Edward, 5:338
Lucas, Theophilus, 6:294
Lucas, Thomas, 7:362, 380; 8:145, 147
Lucket, ---- (ferry keeper), 7:279
Luckett, ---- (adjutant of Maryland troops), 6:65
Luckett, ---- (captain), 8:21, 24
Luckett's ferry, 7:280
Lucretius, 6:289
Lucy (dower slave, Doll's child; New Kent County), 6:217
Lucy (dower slave; Ferry farm), 8:401, 402
Lucy (dower slave; King William County), 6:218
Lucy (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Lucy (slave; Dogue Run), 7:45, 139, 228, 313, 377, 443; 8:356, 479; 9:55,
238; 10:137
Lucy (slave; Ferry farm), 8:480; 9:238; 10:137, 138
Lucy (slave; Ferry farm, 1), 8:479; 9:54
Lucy (slave; Ferry farm, 2), 8:479; 9:54
Lucy (slave; house servant), 9:238; 10:138
Lucy (slave; King William County), 6:225
Lucy (slave; Mill farm), 7:377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 356
Lucy (slave; River farm), 8:221, 357
Lucy (slave; York County), 6:229
Ludlow, James, 9:122, 146, 363
Ludwell, Philip, 4:27; and Virginia Council, 1:57; id., 1:71, 357; 3:105;
7:39; and Winchester council, 1:106; medal for, 1:121; and Lord Loudoun,
3:103, 180, 294, 295, 348; poor health of, 7:37; his racehorse, 8:42;
family of, 8:295; letters from: to GW, 1:356-57
Luke, John, 10:104; letters from: to John West, Jr., 10:63-64
Luke, Peter, 9:504, 506; 10:77, 80, 105
Lukens, John, 10:94
Lumley, John. See Lemley (Lumley), Johannes (John)
Lunan, Alexander: letters from: to GW, 4:95-96
Lunenburg County: troops from, 3:432; 4:13, 290, 368, 369, 384, 396,
405-6, 421; partitioned, 3:435; Indian depredations in, 4:141; 5:184;
county lieutenant of, 5:197
Lunice (Luney's) Creek, 3:137, 246
Lunn and Lloyd (ship), 8:342, 374, 375, 433-34, 474; 9:12, 201
Lupton, Joseph, 5:335
Lupton, William, 5:337
Lusk, ----: sells blocks to GW, 6:441
Lutener, Middleton, 8:145, 147
Lux, William, & Bowly, 9:519
Lybrook, Palser. See Laybrook, Palser
Lybrook, Philip. See Laybrook, Philip
Lyde, Lyonel, 7:301, 302
Lyde, Lyonel and Samuel, 5:112, 113; 7:216, 217
Lyde & Cooper, 6:252
Lydia (dower slave; York County), 6:218
Lydia (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Lydia (slave; Home farm), 8:104, 112, 220, 356, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:138
Lydia (slave; Samuel Washington's), 7:172, 174
Lydia (slave; York County), 6:229
Lyle (Lile), James, 3:253, 258
Lynch, Patrick, 10:75
Lynch, Thomas, 9:20, 367
Lyne, William (lieutenant), 9:427
Lynn, Adam, 10:139
Lynn, Mary, 7:375
Lynn, William (ferry operator), 1:8; 2:54
Lynn's ferry, 1:8
Lynton, William. See Linton, William
Lyon, ----, 3:185
Lyon, Louis Charles, 1:212, 213, 214
Lyon, William, 6:117, 126
Lyons, J., 6:292
Lyons, Judith Bassett, 9:48
Lyons, Peter: and Custis estate, 6:253; id., 9:48; and John Gizzage Frazer,
9:201; 10:276-77, 288; John Robinson's trustee, 9:377, 378, 399, 481;
and William Black, 9:386, 402, 429, 479; 10:22; and Bernard Moore, 9:481
Lyttelton, William Henry, 4:5, 125, 129, 375; 5:23, 40, 195, 197; 6:81,
82; letters to: from Raymond Demeré, 3:446; 4:8, 355; from Robert
Dinwiddie, 4:130; from Paul Demeré, 5:82
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M----, ----: and Custis estate, 7:215
M---- (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
M---- (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:589
McAnulty, William, 9:359, 360, 364, 365, 422
Macbeth, 9:294
McBride, Francis, 1:20, 23, 31, 35
McBride, William, 1:20
McCabe, Henry, 7:295, 296, 358, 359, 386, 388, 430; letters from:
to GW, 10:312-13
McCarmack, John. See McCormack (McCarmick), John
McCarmesh, Joseph, 5:340
McCarmick (McCormick), ----, 7:406
McCarmick (McCormick), ---- (Mrs.), 7:408
McCarmick (McCormick), George, 7:407; 10:90, 91, 92
McCarmick (McCormick), James, 5:340; 7:309, 310, 407; 10:2, 135; letters
to: from Valentine Crawford, 10:133
McCarmick (McCormick), William, 7:407
McCarty, Con, 8:468, 527, 528
McCarty, Daniel (d. 1724), 8:270-71, 272
McCarty, Daniel (d. 1792), 7:381; 8:146, 147; and GW's candidacy, 1:291;
id., 1:293; 7:190; and tithable list, 7:139; account with, 7:190, 441;
8:527, 528; 10:279; and Truro Parish, 7:361, 384, 428-29, 510-11; 8:247,
248; and Bryan Fairfax's sale, 7:441; dock of entail on land, 8:270-72;
family of, 8:272, 323; 10:31; and John Posey's sale, 8:528; and Fairfax
Independent Company, 10:345; letters from: to GW, 8:270-72
McCarty, Darby, 5:341
McCarty, Denis (d. 1742), 1:180, 234; 2:123; 8:271
McCarty, Denis (d. 1757), 2:3, 126; 3:174, 175, 403; 4:92, 309; id.,
1:234; 3:18; appointments and assignments, 2:43, 243, 279, 280-81, 291,
311; 3:251, 428, 454; 4:52, 53, 63-64; and recruits, 2:122; 4:39; misconduct
in recruiting, 2:123, 176-77; 4:40-41, 48-49, 52-54, 57, 86, 100, 102,
338; and court-martials, 2:255; 3:72-73, 76, 152-53; resigns, 2:320; in
skirmish, 3:72-73; orders to, 3:164, 182, 191, 226; and Robert Pearis,
3:230; complaint against, 3:387; letters to: from GW, 2:176-77;
3:114-15; from George Mercer, 2:305; from Robert Dinwiddie, 4:54, 58
McCarty, Michael, 6:257
McCarty, Sarah Ball, 2:123
McCarty, Sinah (died c.1809), 10:31
McCarty, Sinah Ball, 8:270-71, 272; 10:31
McCarty family, 7:310
McChisney, Samuel, 8:355
McClain, Patrick, 4:391
McClanahan, Thomas, 5:185; letters to: from GW, 5:228
McClaughlin (McClaughlan), John, 7:381
McClean, ----, 9:25
McClean, Alexander, 8:405-6; 9:25, 26
McClean, Archibald, 10:93, 94
McClenachan (McClanahan), Robert, 2:152, 153; 3:453
McClochlin, John (of Fairfax), 8:146, 147
McCloud (McLeod), William, 3:230; 4:42
McCormack (McCarmick), John, 1:31; 5:340; 6:443, 444; 8:568, 570
McCoull, Neil, 10:201, 203, 204, 212
McCow, ----: paid for salt, 7:106
McCoy, John, 8:31
McCoy, Robert, 5:339
McCoy (McCay), James, 1:25
McCoy (McKoy, McRoy), Hugh, 9:122, 145, 363
McCrae, David, 8:355
McCraken (McCracken), James, 3:121; land bought from, 1:27, 37, 48; 6:427;
7:103, 174, 278, 350; 8:283; 9:431; id., 2:137; plantation of, 2:137,
142. See also Ashby's fort
McCrea (McCra), Roderick, 9:512; 10:152
McCrea & Mease, 8:208; 10:249, 265, 267, 317
McCulley (McCully), John, 3:229, 256; 4:277; and deserters, 2:111, 219,
220, 272, 318; 3:271; id., 2:221; 3:204-5, 446; 5:15; and receipts, 2:302;
at Fort Dinwiddie, 2:319; accounts of, 3:228; appointments and assignments,
3:252, 445; 5:14-15, 159-60, 161, 194; address to GW, 6:178-81
McCullough (McColloch), John, 5:246, 260, 419, 420; 10:134, 136, 261,
262
McCullough's Path, 8:40
McDaniel, Daniel, 8:6-7, 80, 138, 139
McDaniel, Mary, 1:48-49
McDaniel, Patrick, 5:342
McDaniel, William, 10:342, 356
McDonald, Angus, 1:152, 153; 3:252, 257; 9:122, 145; 10:2, 37, 43, 44,
133, 135, 184; letters from: to GW, 9:439-40; letters to:
from GW, 9:460
McDonald, John, 6:53
McDonald, Robert, 2:229, 230
McDonald, William, 6:40
McDowell, Joseph, 5:57, 58, 205, 337; letters to: from GW, 5:219
McDowell, Samuel: letters from: to Virginia Delegates, 10:000;
letters to: from Virginia Delegates, 10:000
McFarlin, John, 4:281
McGachen (McGachin), William, 7:62, 253, 260, 409, 411, 444, 447; 9:345;
acts for GW, 6:434; 9:519; his ship carries tobacco, 7:54, 110, 250, 251,
462; 8:74; id., 7:55; 9:346; and goods for GW, 7:73-74, 311, 312, 410;
GW recommends, 7:252, 264; commands convict ship, 7:264, 434; account
with, 7:357; 10:37, 81, 82, 185; and Mississippi Company, 8:63; sells
servants, 10:16; purchases servants for GW, 10:135; and Valentine Crawford,
10:264; letters from: to GW, 7:311-12; 9:519; letters to:
from GW, 10:44-45
McGaugh, William, 4:391
McGower, ----, 3:185
McGrath, ----: GW stops at his place, 6:406
McGuier, John (Indian trader), 1:62
McGuire, ----: account with, 8:436; survey costs paid by, 8:540
McGuire, John (soldier), 1:221
McHendry (McHandry), Barnaby, 1:20, 36
McHenry, William, 4:394-95
McIntire, John, 3:256
McIntire, William, 4:391
McIntosh, John, 7:381
McIntosh, Lachlan, 5:23
McIver, Darby. See McKeever, Darby
McJennet (McGennett), David, 3:195, 300, 301; 4:390
Mackay, James (of South Carolina), 1:119, 142, 147, 174; id., 1:77; and
Fort Necessity campaign, 1:92, 132, 135, 137-38, 143, 144-45, 147, 156,
158, 159, 161, 162, 167, 173; arrives in Winchester, 1:103; dispute over
rank, 1:129-30, 136-38, 214; appointment of, 1:148-49; and map of Ohio,
1:178; commended, 1:209; and account, 1:222; letters from: to GW,
1:194-95, 214-16; letters to: from James Innes, 1:176-77; from
GW, 1:189
McKay, James (soldier), 6:47
McKay, Robert, 8:384
McKay (Mackay), William, 7:333, 334, 368, 370, 411, 499, 500
McKee, Alexander, 10:74
McKee (McGee), William, 5:334
McKee's Rocks, 1:115
McKeever (McKeaver, McIver), Darby, 1:35; 3:47, 53; 8:91
McKeever (McKeaver, McIver), Darby, Jr., 1:22, 25; 3:54
McKeever (McKeaver, McIver), Darby, Sr., 1:22; 3:54
McKeever (McKeaver, McIver), Rachel, 8:91, 112, 121, 127, 169
Mackellar, Patrick, 1:338
McKenzie, Alexander, 6:119; 8:67, 78, 112, 177, 198, 201
McKenzie, Hugh, 6:53, 118, 119
McKenzie, Joanna: and Custis estate, 6:253, 255, 260, 276, 277, 406;
7:1, 91, 104, 215, 303, 304; 8:82, 191, 200, 204, 205, 329, 462; 9:34;
account with, 6:370; 7:4, 10, 190, 298, 366, 371, 437, 501, 507; 9:220
McKenzie, John, 5:375-76
McKenzie, Kenneth, 6:252
McKenzie, Robert, 3:75, 242-46, 295, 309, 395; 4:232, 300, 348-49, 354,
355, 407, 419, 421; 5:7, 79, 152, 156, 160, 381; 6:7, 83, 103, 469; military
service, 2:3, 14, 224, 306; 3:336-37, 393; 4:153, 154, 155, 166, 349,
362, 432; 5:2, 382, 398, 399, 417; 6:455; 7:36; appointments and assignments,
2:40, 42, 261; 3:296, 310, 394; 4:340; 6:146; 7:36; 9:518; criticism of,
2:106; company of, 2:149, 167; 3:156, 212, 252, 253, 259, 263, 311, 346,
429; 4:48, 77, 110, 277, 345, 346; 5:58, 66, 67, 124, 150, 216, 258, 408;
6:32; id., 2:167; and rangers, 3:321; accounts of, 3:325, 369; 5:150;
and Indians, 4:360; 5:5; intelligence from, 4:403, 404; and Dunkers, 5:47,
59, 61; his fort, 5:57, 150; and Peter Steenbergen, 5:162-64; illness
of, 5:174; movements of, 5:174, 199, 389, 403; merits promotion, 5:201;
tents for, 5:348; and guards, 6:128; address to GW, 6:178-81; and gardener
for GW, 6:418, 419, 431; 7:96; rejoins regiment, 7:35; and bounty lands,
10:162, 333; returns to Virginia, 10:162; and William Howe, 10:162; letters
from, to GW, 3:312, 340; 4:18-22, 109-10; 6:454-55; 10:161-62, 301-2;
to Robert Stewart, 5:61-62; letters to: from GW, 2:166-67, 216-17;
3:265-66, 323, 334-36, 345-46; 4:201-2, 222, 352-53; 6:479-80; 10:171-72
McKenzie, Roderick, 6:119
McKenzie's fort, 5:150
Mackie, James, 4:358, 401, 402; 5:74
McKinley, Robert, 1:325
McKittrick, James, 1:151, 153
McLain, Lauchlin, 4:389
McLane, Jane (Jenny), 2:73; 5:422; 10:48-50
McLaughlan (McClockland), John, 7:4, 10, 236, 304, 351, 385, 441, 442
McLean, Allan (commissary), 2:72, 138-39, 142, 147, 177, 194, 210, 239;
letters to: from GW, 2:137-38
MacLean, Sir Allan (of the 77th Regiment), 6:157, 158
McLean, Lachlan (soldier), 3:306-7
Macleane, Laughlin (Lachlan; doctor), 7:70; 8:164; and Andrew Burnaby,
6:439; id., 6:440; 7:71; account with, 7:211, 229; and Robert Stewart's
debt, 8:74-75, 93, 94, 229, 231, 371; appointments, 8:92; and the marquis
d'Aubarède, 10:79; letters to: from GW, 8:92
Macleane & Stuart, 7:211
McLeod, William. See McCloud, William
McLin, Thomas, 9:19, 368
McMachen (McMahan), Richard, 5:339
McMachen (McMahan), William, 5:338
McManus, Thomas, 2:53, 54, 139-40, 172, 186, 190, 197, 301, 303; letters
to: from GW, 2:185
McMechen (McMahon), James, 8:566, 567; 9:26, 27
McMickan, Robert, 9:166, 175, 251; fish shipped to, 8:485; goods sent
from, 8:485; given power of attorney, 9:70-71, 157, 158-59, 174-75, 176-77,
396; obtains bottomry bond, 9:387; accounts with, 9:394; 10:180; letters
from: to GW, 9:123-24, 205, 216; 10:103, 141, 150, 170; letters
to: from GW, 9:158, 158-59, 174-75, 188-89, 239-41, 283; 10:55-58,
225-26
McMickan, Robert, & Co., 9:69; letters from: to GW, 8:407-8, 473
McMillon, John, 3:169, 306-7; 4:390
McNabb, John, 7:498; 10:217, 218
McNeal, Neal, 3:321-23; 4:395
McNeil, Daniel, 6:371-72
McNeill, Hector, 1:342
McNeill, John, 2:41, 197, 199, 220, 300; 3:134, 204, 315, 360, 401, 409,
432; 4:136, 207, 219, 220, 326, 327, 329, 345, 391, 423; 5:134; 6:83,
469; 7:161; appointments and assignments, 2:42, 181, 198, 221, 260, 273;
3:251, 271, 282, 319, 340, 359, 428; 4:49, 62, 63-64, 71, 158, 164, 403;
6:131, 146-47, 185; at Fort Dinwiddie, 2:59; company of, 2:80, 111, 182,
302, 330; 4:277, 345; 5:66, 67, 91, 124, 135, 197, 258; 6:8, 32; id.,
2:182; 3:276; 6:132; military service, 2:188; 4:7, 13, 111, 166, 197,
203, 204, 205, 206, 296, 300, 311, 408, 422, 432; 5:2, 6, 20, 85, 135;
7:170; and provisions, 2:197, 198, 199, 236, 273; 5:189; and Sandy Creek
expedition, 2:319; and GW's size roll, 3:263; GW's opinion of, 3:314;
his pay, 3:402-3; tours frontier, 3:431; and Indians, 3:446; 4:52, 63,
71, 94, 104, 105, 129, 193; criticizes Griffin Pert, 4:202; and GW's election,
5:263, 317, 329, 330; 7:13, 15; tents for, 5:348; and address to GW, 6:177-81;
arrests Adam Hoops, 6:185; borrows from GW, 6:193; letters from:
to GW, 2:198; 3:230, 453-54; 4:18-22, 44, 151; 5:322-23; to Robert Dinwiddie,
4:44-45; letters to: from GW, 3:275-76, 343-44; 4:43-45; from Robert
Dinwiddie, 4:54
Macome, Hector, 10:318
Macon, William, 6:252, 257
Macon (slave; tanner), 6:282
McPherson, Archibald, 1:8
McPherson, Elizabeth, 10:134, 136
McPherson, Thomas, 10:134, 136
McPherson's ferry, 1:8
Macrae, ----: account with, 8:208
Macrae (McCrae), Allan, 1:200; 6:380; 7:229, 230, 301, 303, 333, 334;
8:435; letters from: to GW, 1:199-201, 269-71
McRoberts, Samuel, 1:292
McRoy, Hugh. See McCoy, Hugh
McSwaine, ----: intelligence from, 5:213
McSwane (McSwaine), George, 2:157, 158, 159, 160; 5:214
McWilliams, John, 3:253, 257
McWilliams, William, Sr., 1:151, 152
Madden, Francis, 2:225
Madden, John, 1:26, 28; 5:340
Madden, Richard, 3:138
Madden (Maddin), Mabrey (Mawbrey, Mayberry), 5:339; 9:504, 506; 10:77,
80, 105
Madeira Islands, 8:77
Madison, ----: and Joseph Chew, 10:165
Madison, Agatha Strother, 8:78
Madison, James, Sr., 9:517, 518
Madison, James (1749-1812), 9:486, 487
Madison, John, 5:80; 7:308; 8:77-78, 84; 9:487; 10:46, 48
Magdalen (ship), 10:340
Magill (McGill), James, 5:339; 7:3, 8, 42, 43
Magill's (McGill's) tavern, 7:8
Magnus, Peregrin, 8:146
Magowan, Walter, 7:184, 227, 313, 364, 376, 442, 515; 8:71, 74, 230;
account with, 7:77, 86, 92, 163, 213, 229, 326, 331, 433, 438, 439, 444,
514; 8:70, 143, 177, 199, 202, 204, 362; as tutor, 7:77, 168; 8:89, 478,
493; levy and tax for, 7:214, 499, 501; 8:198; his expenses paid, 7:230,
301, 303; and Fielding Lewis, 7:235, 236, 441; as rector, 8:72, 73, 159,
166; and Jonathan Boucher, 8:167; visits Mount Vernon, 8:185; gun ordered
for, 8:233; fox hunting, 8:263; John Parke Custis's visit to, 8:367; and
Delaware Lottery, 10:176, 240, 313; letters from: to GW, 9:230-31;
10:251-52; letters to: from GW, 10:220
Magruder, ----: Jonathan Boucher rents his house, 8:572
Magruder family, 9:164
Maid, John, 9:122, 145
Maidment, James, 7:293, 295
Maidstone (Virginia), 2:36; 3:35, 235; 4:37; 5:174; stores at, 2:36,
37, 158; 5:150; storehouse established at, 2:37; fortifications at, 3:101,
173, 236; proposals for, 4:10, 128, 154, 220-21; mass desertions at, 4:194,
295; troops at, 5:130. See also Conococheague; Watkins's ferry
Maile, William, 6:333, 336; 7:27, 128, 193, 195; 8:45, 561-62
Main, John, 4:390
"Mair's Book-keeping," 7:168
Malcomb, George, 9:122, 146
Man, Newberry, 4:42
Manby, Edward, 7:192, 197
Manchester, 8:194
Mandeville, Bernard de, 6:286
Mandeville, Sir John, 6:300; 7:348
Mangohick Dividend, 7:211
Mankiller of Estatoe (Sersweh; Indian), 7:57
Manley, Harrison, 7:104, 381; 8:145, 146, 356, 418; id., 7:108; 8:546;
mourning rings for, 8:267, 291; account with, 8:290, 306, 355; and land,
8:313, 314, 315, 317, 545-47; 9:90-91; hunting, 9:184; wife of, 9:397;
death of, 10:31; letters to: from GW, 8:545-47
Manley, John (died c.1751), 6:332, 341, 342; 8:546, 547
Manley, John (son of Restitute Whiston Manley), 8:547
Manley, Margaret, 9:395, 397; 10:279
Manley, Mary de la Rivière, 6:292
Manley, Restitute Whiston Steele. See Whiston (Whittstone), Restitute
Manley, Sarah Harrison, 6:331, 332, 438, 439; 7:108, 239, 240; 8:546
Manley, William, 8:545-47
Mann, Horace: letters to: from Horace Walpole, 1:324
Mann (Man), Hugh, 3:321-23
Mannsfield, 7:235; 8:153
Mansion House farm. See Home farm
Mantapike warehouse, 9:174
The Manual Exercise as Ordered by His Majesty in the Year 1764,
10:237, 270, 338
Maps, 3:52, 295, 337-38; 8:331
Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 6:290, 293
Marchington, Philip, 10:160, 167, 348
Marcia (in Cato), 6:43
Maria (slave), 7:172
Marie Louise of Spain, 7:365-66
Marin, Pierre Paul de La Malgue, sieur de, 1:56, 61
Mark Anthony (horse), 7:479; 8:193-94
Markham, Gervase, 6:300
Markham, William, 8:13, 14
Markhame, James, 8:110
Marks, John, 10:350
Marlboro, Md. See Upper Marlboro, Md.
Marlboro ironworks (Frederick County), 10:218
Marlborough, Charles Spencer, third duke of, 5:372
Marlborough, John Churchill, first duke of, 6:355, 358, 400
Marlborough (dower slave; King William County), 6:218
Marlborough (plantation), 7:109; 8:79; 9:343
Marlborough (ship), 7:140
Marlborough (slave; at Claiborne's), 6:311
Marlborough (slave; King William County), 6:225
Marman, Joseph, 10:104
Marmion, 3:28
Marney, Robert, 5:336
Marr, Andrew, 6:252
Marshall, ----: paint received from, 10:369
Marshall, James, 7:105, 108; 8:304, 305
Marshall, John (chief justice), 1:71; 6:259
Marshall, John (ship captain), 7:1, 6, 21, 22, 73, 74, 75
Marshall, Rebecca Dent, 8:327, 384-85
Marshall, Thomas (of Maryland), 6:342; 8:34, 37, 80, 186, 212, 254, 418
Marshall, Thomas (of Virginia), 8:383, 384; 10:263, 264
Marshall, Thomas Hanson, 4:236; 8:70; 10:295, 296; ferry to his home,
4:237; 8:386; land of, 6:368; 8:217-20, 250, 311-12, 315, 317-19, 380-81,
384-85; id., 6:438; 7:185; account with, 7:185, 186; 8:78, 177, 527, 531;
10:221; family of, 8:186, 327, 512; GW cuts his trees, 8:315, 532; letters
from: to GW, 6:438-39; 8:217-20, 311-12, 317-18, 326, 327, 380-81,
384-85, 529; letters to: from GW, 6:438; 8:312-15, 319-20
Marshall, William, 4:6, 9-10, 18
Marshall Hall (Maryland), 6:438; 7:185; 10:296
Marsh quarter, 8:580
Martha (ship), 8:55; 9:2, 115
Martial, ---- (blacksmith), 3:236
Martin, ----, 2:287; 4:256
Martin, ---- (ship captain), 2:30
Martin, Azel, 8:222
Martin, George (of Fairfax County), 7:381; 8:146, 148
Martin, George (of Frederick County), 1:27
Martin, Isaac, 2:31
Martin, James (of Fairfax County), 7:3, 105, 210, 381; 8:147, 148
Martin, James (of King George County), 4:281
Martin, John (minister), 4:256
Martin, John (of Frederick County), 7:381; 8:146, 148
Martin, John (of King William County): letters from: to GW, 2:11-12
Martin, Josiah, 2:31
Martin, Lewis Burwell, 6:405, 406
Martin, Little (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Martin, Thomas Bryan, 2:135, 136; 3:46, 94, 131; 6:431; id., 1:266; 3:47;
5:263; 6:433; 7:96; reports on Indian attacks, 2:90; recruiting, 2:101;
and clothing for rangers, 2:315; county lieutenant, 3:27, 47, 95, 128,
267; advises GW, 3:127; council of war, 3:129-31; and militia, 3:382;
and House of Burgesses, 5:60, 262, 263, 264, 322-23, 328, 329, 334-42,
343; 6:421; 7:14, 44, 59; accuses Hugh West, 5:262; family of, 6:43; criticism
of, 7:95-96; Lord Fairfax's agent, 7:461; signs land grant to GW, 8:437;
letters from: to GW, 2:252; letters to: from GW, 2:95
Martin (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Martin (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Martin (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Martinique, 6:195
Mary (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Marye, Peter, 8:245, 246
Maryland. See individual volumes
Maryland Association, 10:102, 103
Maryland Gazette, 7:352, 411; 8:78, 208, 386
Maryland Journal; and the Baltimore Advertiser, 10:106, 136
Maryland Resolutions, 10:237
Masen, James (at Bullskin plantation), 6:445
Mason, Abel, 3:306-7
Mason, Abraham, 4:389
Mason, Ann (tavern keeper), 6:481; 7:2, 7
Mason, Ann Eilbeck (1755-1814), 10:254, 255, 300
Mason, Ann Eilbeck (d. 1773), 5:77; 6:456; 8:183, 260, 264
Mason, Ann Thomson, 1:53
Mason, Benjamin, 8:468, 531
Mason, Charles (of Alexandria), 6:481
Mason, Charles (surveyor), 8:31, 33; 10:93
Mason, French, Jr. (d. 1769), 5:76, 77, 153, 154, 159, 167-68, 185-87;
7:381
Mason, George (1660-1716), 7:41, 412
Mason, George (1690-1735), 3:408; 6:368; 8:261
Mason, George, Jr. (1753-1796), 10:266, 299, 300; id., 9:411
Mason, George (of Gunston Hall), 1:59, 210; 2:46; 7:232, 381; 8:146,
147, 293; 9:303; id., 1:53, 291, 293; 3:203; 5:75, 154; and Ohio Company,
1:53; 5:77; 9:125-26, 191, 311, 313; and GW's appointment as colonel,
2:2; and ordnance, 2:89, 96; and guns for Indians, 3:371, 398; and Sampson
Darrell's land, 5:74; 6:367; 8:79-80; family of, 5:77; 8:149, 190; 10:255,
319; and French Mason, 5:153, 154, 185-86; elected to Burgesses, 5:265,
315; and Matthew Thompson's land, 6:368; and subscription for Maurice
Pound, 6:368-69; dispute with George William Fairfax, 7:40, 41; his ferry,
7:191; elected to Truro vestry, 7:361, 384; his scheme for replevying
goods, 7:424, 425; his indictment of slavery, 7:424-25; account with,
8:4, 5, 527; 9:29, 466; 10:19, 248, 316, 317; and John Posey's debt, 8:35-37,
211, 214, 234-37, 253-54; land sold to GW, 8:80, 250, 259-61, 263-64,
421; and the Association, 8:177-84, 187-90, 354; orders ear snaps, 8:187,
192; his slaves commit murders, 8:215; and the new church, 8:247, 248,
527; and Mrs. Savage, 8:328, 523; dancing master at his house, 8:375;
and Daniel French, 8:528; and Potomac navigation, 9:43; 10:244, 268, 275,
298-99, 300; and George Mercer, 9:302, 309, 402-3, 411, 430; 10:188, 213;
and Lawrence Washington, 9:353; urged to run for Burgesses, 10:109; and
Fairfax Resolves, 10:127; and Fairfax Committee, 10:128, 200; political
opinions, 10:148; and Fairfax militia association, 10:173; and Four Mile
Run land, 10:201; GW's bond to, 10:220, 221; and money collected for county
ammunition, 10:237, 267, 315, 318; his militia plan, 10:254; and money
raised for delegates, 10:279; sends cherry grafts to GW, 10:301; and Third
Virginia Convention, 10:364; letters from: to GW, 1:52-53; 2:8-9;
3:202-3, 406-8; 5:76-77, 167-68, 185-87; 6:455-56; 7:424-25; 8:79-80,
182-84, 187-90, 259-61, 263-64; 9:409-11; 10:254-55, 265-67, 267-69, 298-99,
300-301; to George William Fairfax, 7:424-25; to Peyton Randolph, 8:487-89;
letters to: from GW, 3:382; 5:170; 8:177-81
Mason, George, Jr. (of Pohick), 7:380; 8:145, 146, 149
Mason, James (guide), 3:371
Mason, John, 3:321-23; 8:293
Mason, Mary, 8:169
Mason, Mary Thomson, 5:76-77, 8:190
Mason, Sarah Eilbeck, 8:190
Mason, Thomas, 5:341
Mason, Thomson, 10:78; elected to House of Burgesses, 5:288; and Clifton
land, 6:407-11, 416, 423, 424-25, 465, 466; 7:9; slaves bought from, 7:4;
and Savage affair, 7:503, 505; 8:108-10, 114, 251, 407; 9:102; and Byrd
lottery, 8:194; and Harrison Manley's land, 9:90; and George Mercer, 9:403,
430, 437; letters from: to GW, 10:304-5
Mason, William (George Mason's son), 10:317, 319
Mason-Dixon Line, 8:40, 57; 10:94
Masons (Freemasons), 1:81, 151, 152-53
Mason's Neck. See Dogue's Neck
Mason's ordinary (tavern), 6:481; 7:7
Massachusetts, 1:260; 2:132, 133, 228
Massanutten, 5:254, 255, 262
Massey, Lee, 7:106, 110, 428-29, 450, 451, 466; 8:272; 9:237, 373; 10:128,
187
Massey, Mary Johnston, 8:272
Master & Raby, 7:196-97, 198
Mat (slave; Dogue Run), 7:366, 443
Mather, Thomas, 7:284, 306, 410
Mather, William, 1:4
Mathias Point, 7:171
Matt (dower slave; Hanover County), 6:218
Matt (Mat; slave; Dogue Run), 8:18, 19, 104, 220, 356, 479
Matt (slave; Moncock Hill), 6:312
Matt (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Matt (slave; Creek farm), 7:45, 139, 228, 313
Matt (slave; Dogue Run), 7:515; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Matt (slave; Hanover County), 6:231
Mattaponi River, 5:309
Matthew (ship), 7:335
Matthews, John (of Fairfax County), 5:74
Matthews, John (sergeant), 3:252, 257, 300, 301
Matthews, Patrick, 4:414; 6:443; 8:316, 317
Matty (ship), 7:466
Mauduit, Israel, 1:219
Mauduit, Jasper, 1:219
Mauduit, Wright, & Company, 1:219; 7:353; goods from, 1:218; 7:24, 125,
127, 192, 287-88; 8:134, 296, 561; 9:104; id., 7:30; complaint against,
8:369, 502-3, 504; letters from: to GW, 8:396; letters to:
from GW, 8:502-3
Mauriceau, François, 6:289
Maury, ----, 8:436
Maury, Abraham, 5:194-95, 196
Maury, James (merchant), 8:465, 467, 469
Maury, James (minister), 5:196
Maury River (North River), 4:395
Mauzey, Peter, 7:380; 8:146, 148
Maxey, John, 4:42
Maxwell, Arthur, 8:111
Maxwell, Robert, 7:344
May, ----: and appointment as surveyor, 8:281
May, David, 8:281
May, George, 8:281
May, Jesse, 9:359, 360, 364, 365, 422
May, John, 1:222
May, John (of Botetourt County), 8:281; 9:365, 516
May, Martin, 6:47
May, Richard, 8:281
May, William, 8:281
Maynard, George, 6:333, 336; 7:196
Mayne, Burn, & Mayne, 7:157; letters to: from GW, 7:146, 208
Mayne, John, 7:146
Mayne, William, 7:146
Mayo River, 4:10
Mayo River fort. See Harris's fort
Mays, Joseph, 5:197
Mays's ferry, 5:197
Mazzei, Philip, 10:178, 179, 248, 299, 300, 301, 351, 353
Mead, Edward, 7:107
Meade, David, 7:273, 315, 316
Meade, Richard Kidder, 8:194
Meade, William (bishop), 8:247
Meadow Creek, 3:133-34
Mease, Robert, 8:239, 240
A mechanical account of the non-naturals, 6:288
Mecklenburg (Sheperdstown, W.Va.), 3:31
Medcalfe (Mitcalfe), William, 2:231, 232
Medicina flagellata, 6:289
Meekins (Meakens), Christmas (Criemus), 7:268-69
Meherrin (Indians), 4:125. See also Indians
Meldrum, William, 5:334, 343, 434, 436; letters from: to GW, 4:335-36
Mello, Francisco Manuel de, 6:290
Melwood (Maryland), 9:92
Memey (slave), 9:257
Memoires (Denzil), 6:289
Memoires of the transactions in Savoy, 6:292
Memoirs of the lives . . . of the most famous gamesters . . . in
the reigns of Charles II, James II, William III, and Queen Anne,
6:287, 294
Memoirs of the most material transactions in England, 6:289
Memoirs of the noted Buckhorse, 7:346, 348
Memoirs of the transactions in Savoy, 6:292
Memorial Containing a Summary Account of Facts . . ., 4:126
Mendenhal, John, 3:119; 5:340; 7:43
Mendenhal, Martha, 3:119
Mendenhal's fort, 3:119, 127, 137, 146, 159, 237; 4:180, 182, 260; 5:67;
7:43
Mendenhal's mill, 7:42, 43
Menzie, Alexander, 6:346-47; 7:114, 116
Mercer, ----: owns Warm Springs house, 8:497, 498
Mercer, Ann Roy, 6:436, 437
Mercer, Catherine Mason, 6:437
Mercer, Charles Fenton, 9:438
Mercer, Edward, Jr., 5:341
Mercer, George, 1:79, 148, 152, 222; 2:41, 286, 295, 303, 304, 322, 349;
3:3, 5, 6, 10, 108, 117, 153, 161, 167, 169, 202, 257, 289, 292, 311,
347, 378, 385, 386, 403, 407, 423; 4:26, 34, 38, 57, 75, 78, 96, 100,
115-16, 126, 302, 391; 5:35, 98, 179, 195, 283, 288; 6:12, 23, 364, 436;
9:197, 267, 305, 411; 10:162, 185, 212, 297; and Fort Necessity campaign,
1:78; id., 1:79; 4:29; 6:13; and Ohio Company, 1:82; 3:408; 7:249; 8:32,
368; promotions, 1:133, 144, 208; 5:136, 161, 204, 309; commended, 1:209;
3:199; company of, 2:39, 45, 47, 63, 117, 123, 140, 149, 212, 344; 3:156,
157, 198, 212, 213, 251, 252, 257, 263, 318, 428, 454; 4:76, 77, 334;
5:43, 92, 114, 124-25, 136, 160, 162, 181, 201, 268; 6:32; 9:440; as aide-de-camp,
2:40, 75-77, 98, 106, 331; 3:3, 68, 201; appointments and commissions,
2:42, 260; 4:63, 70; 5:140; 6:20, 32, 49, 56, 60, 65, 118, 148, 153, 345,
347; 7:44, 390, 392; 8:162, 165; salary of, 2:202, 214; 3:370, 429; orders
of, 2:229-31; 3:11, 22; military service, 2:243; 3:25-26, 38-39, 242-46,
379, 387; 4:41, 48, 49, 52, 57, 153, 155, 166, 410, 432; sent to Williamsburg,
2:280; handwriting of, 2:285; accompanies GW to Boston, 2:311; orders
to, 2:349-50; 3:226, 316; 5:208, 211; 6:107, 121, 150; and counterfeiter,
3:321, 421, 430, 453; accounts of, 3:369; 4:190-91, 199, 238, 273, 275,
283, 288-89, 293, 316; 6:437; 8:362; 10:19, 197; and James Lemen's indictment,
3:375; horses of, 3:377; 4:404, 405; 6:191; general orders issued by,
4:24; South Carolina expedition, 4:29, 152, 345, 374; 5:40-41, 42-43,
92, 136; and reports on Fort Loudoun, 4:50, 71; and construction of fort,
4:72, 94, 104; and supplies, 4:97, 165; 5:292, 344; and enlistment of
servants, 4:104, 105; and Indians, 4:118, 163, 183-84, 209, 210; and Griffin
Pert, 4:202; illness of, 5:42, 280-81; and formation of light horse, 5:192;
works on road, 5:273, 279, 280-82, 287, 346; and artificers, 5:296-97;
skirmish at Loyalhanna, 6:121-22; 8:545; his description of GW, 6:192-93;
and western lands, 6:343, 346; 7:44; and Thomas Bishop, 6:436; and House
of Burgesses election, 7:3, 6, 8, 14, 16, 43, 44, 47, 59; and Potomac
navigation, 7:177; and Mississippi Company, 7:249; his return to Virginia,
7:392; 8:525; and Margaret Savage, 7:504; 8:411, 419; house at Warm Springs,
8:240; and bounty lands, 8:275, 439, 440, 540, 542; 9:122, 128-31, 144,
312, 359, 360, 364, 366, 437-38, 461, 462; governor of Vandalia, 8:367;
criticizes GW, 8:420, 545; early friendship with GW, 8:420; and James
Mercer, 8:420; on 1754 roll of soldiers, 8:451; and John Mercer's debt,
8:525; rumored as governor of Maryland, 9:23, 25; state of his affairs,
9:282, 409; sale of estate of, 9:302, 303, 309-10, 402-3, 430-31, 435-39;
10:10-12, 175, 177, 183, 191-92, 213, 236, 245, 282; and Walpole Company,
9:302-3; and Jacob Van Braam, 9:421; lost correspondence of, 9:439; and
his Bull Run tract, 9:471, 508; his wheat, 10:20, 178, 195, 244, 281,
301; and Robert McKenzie, 10:161; his sad fortune, 10:172; his overseer,
10:179; his power of attorney, 10:188; his affairs, 10:193, 234, 271;
sale of his estate, 10:195; and Four Mile Run land, 10:201, 203, 203-4,
263; manager of his Frederick plantations, 10:205; his mortgages, 10:328-30;
letters from: to Thomas Waggener, 2:68-69, 96; to Andrew Lewis,
2:81, 123-24; to storekeeper, 2:81; to John Carlyle, 2:96; to Robert Spotswood,
2:118; to John David Wilper, 2:149-50; to John Fenton Mercer, 2:152, 218,
354-55; to John Dean, 2:162; to William Daingerfield, 2:162; to John Savage,
2:162-63; to John Jones, 2:164-65; to James Craik, 2:168-69; to Henry
Campbell, 2:212; to Thomas Walker, 2:225, 229, 231; 3:136, 139; to Robert
Johnson, 2:232; to William Cocks, 2:281-82; to Robert Stewart, 2:282;
to Mordecai Buckner, 2:282-83; to Denis McCarty, 2:305; to Robert Rutherford,
2:341-42, 342, 350; 3:9; to John Blagg, 2:342; to Reuben Vass, 2:354;
to Joshua Lewis, 3:227; to GW, 4:139-42, 142-44, 151, 370-75; 5:40-43,
280-81, 346; 6:342-47, 387-90; 7:504; 8:322, 419-20; to Henry Bouquet,
6:347, 389; to James Mercer, 8:420, 545; to George William Fairfax, 9:304;
letters to: from Thomas Walker, 2:225-26; from GW, 4:69-70; 8:541-45,
555; 10:198, 326-28; from Robert Dinwiddie, 4:142; from John Blair, 5:187
Mercer, ---- (Mrs. George), 8:165
Mercer, Hugh, 8:243; 10:348; as colonel in Forbes campaign, 6:2, 34,
36, 49, 55, 58, 59, 74, 79, 88, 93, 94, 119, 160; 7:229; id., 6:3; 7:230;
apothecary and medical practice, 8:116, 322; treats John Parke Custis,
8:120, 122; account with, 8:168, 204, 363, 461; and James Armstrong, 8:321;
9:417; attends Martha Parke Custis, 8:365; and bounty lands, 9:94-95,
308, 415; buys Ferry Farm, 10:3, 9-10, 23, 27-28; and Spotsylvania Independent
Company, 10:346, 347; letters from: to GW, 6:8-9, 10, 21; 10:2-3,
23; to Henry Bouquet, 6:178; letters to: from GW, 6:6; 10:9-10,
27-28; from Henry Bouquet, 6:6, 21
Mercer, James (1716-1757), 3:289
Mercer, James (1736-1793), 2:284; 3:377; 8:532, 544; 9:92, 134; 10:175;
id., 2:286; 3:378; and Fredericksburg lots, 7:10; 8:258; and the House
of Burgesses election, 7:45; and house at Warm Springs, 8:240; and bounty
lands, 8:362, 436, 439, 440, 534, 541, 542; 9:128-31; and Dunbar suit,
8:497-98, 526; 9:313; accounts with, 8:531, 532; 9:167-68, 305, 343, 462;
sale of his slaves, 9:149-50; GW buys wheat from, 9:168; and John Mercer's
estate, 9:267, 313; 10:214; and Custis estate, 9:283, 366, 370, 371, 372,
373; and George Mercer's affairs, 9:303, 402-3, 431; 10:327; and George
Mason, 9:409; and Four Mile Run land, 9:410, 411; 10:203-4, 263; family
of, 9:438; 10:29; his lost correspondence, 9:439; and Bull Run tract,
9:471, 508; and meeting at Raleigh Tavern, 10:99-100; mortgages made by,
10:188; buys George Mercer's land, 10:205; and Spotsylvania County committee,
10:214; and William Brent, 10:353; letters from: to GW, 8:525-26;
9:302-5, 311-13, 433; 10:22, 205, 329; letters to: from George
Mercer, 8:420, 545; from GW, 9:282-83, 301, 430-31, 436-39; 10:10-12,
28-29, 201-5, 211-14
Mercer, James F. (d. 1756), 2:286; 3:288, 289
Mercer, John (1704-1768; of Marlborough), 1:82, 83, 210; 2:286; 3:377,
378; 6:465; id., 1:79, 82; 3:408; 6:211; and Lawrence Washington's estate,
3:438; and Custis estate, 6:203-4, 206-8, 210-16, 231, 232, 235-36, 251,
252, 255, 256, 257, 259, 260-61, 262, 263, 264, 267, 268, 269, 272, 274,
275-76, 279, 282, 309-11, 339; 7:91; 8:205, 463, 525; 9:371, 372, 373;
his abridgment of Virginia statutes, 6:215, 371; 7:344, 348, 349; and
Clifton dispute, 6:422, 430; legal fees of, 6:429; 7:213, 215; marriages
of, 6:437; his home, 7:109; and guardian accounts, 7:216, 304; and Savage
affair, 7:507; 8:107-8; brewery of, 8:78, 79, 156; and Daniel Parke Custis,
8:110; and Chapel Lands, 8:316; debts of, 8:525; 9:267, 282, 283, 305,
310, 313, 409, 411; 10:201, 214; lost correspondence of, 9:439; turns
over property to sons, 9:439; and Four Mile Run land, 10:202; note on
his account with GW, 10:204; letters from: to Martha Custis, 6:211-12,
212; to GW, 6:436-37; 7:368; letters to: from GW, 6:210-13
Mercer, John Fenton, 1:83; 2:25, 75, 255, 286, 289, 350; 3:20, 183, 257,
325; id., 1:79, 210; 2:349; 3:10, 18; appointments and assignments, 1:143,
208; 2:34, 40, 42, 243, 260; 3:11, 22; 4:166; commended, 1:209; death
of, 2:77, 113, 150; 3:18, 30, 37, 41, 56, 224, 332; 4:48, 208; and trip
to Williamsburg, 2:191, 200, 203, 213, 218, 238, 239; company of, 2:261,
305, 349; 3:256, 313; scouting mission, 2:306; 3:6, 14; in skirmish, 3:72,
77-79, 81-82; his guides, 3:371; and bounty lands, 8:451, 540, 542; 9:122,
144; letters from: to GW, 3:10-11, 11; letters to: from
George Mercer, 2:152, 218, 354-55; from GW, 2:349
Mercer, John Francis, 9:302, 303, 313, 439, 471, 508; 10:11, 12, 28,
29, 204
Mercer, Mary Neville, 9:411
Mercer, Richard, 5:339
Mercer correspondence, 9:438-39
The merchant's magazine, 6:285; 7:344
Mercie, James, 6:271
Mercier, ---- (French soldier), 1:172
Mercier, Peter, 1:145, 160-61, 164
Meredith, ---- (ship captain), 6:321; 7:64
Meredith, John, 6:321
Meredith, Ralph, 6:321
Meredith, Reese, 9:244, 245; letters from: to GW, 9:228-29; letters
to: from GW, 9:242
Meredith, Samuel (officer), 5:268; 6:32; 10:247, 248
Meredith, Samuel (of King and Queen County), 6:321
Meredith, Samuel (of Pennsylvania), 5:268; 9:229; 10:180
Meredith, William, 6:321
Meredith, William, Jr., 6:321
Meridith, Elisha, 6:231
Meriton, George, 6:295
Meriweather, Richard, 2:44
Meriwether, Mildred Thornton, 3:231
Meriwether, Nicholas, 3:231
Merrie, ---- (captain), 5:74
Merrie, Robert (ship captain), 1:229; 2:207; 5:288; 7:5, 11; 8:545
Merrie, Robert (of Fairfax County), 1:229; 2:208
Merriweather, ---- (lieutenant), 2:42, 43, 44
Merriwether, ---- (commissary), 2:44; 3:113
Merry, ----: carries letter, 10:206
Merry, Tom (Thomas; slave; Samuel Washington's), 7:173
Merryland (Maryland), 8:293-94, 382, 497; 9:21, 28-29, 31, 34
Mersie (Mercie), James, 7:87, 88
Messmore, John, 6:313
Messmore, Peter, 6:314
Mestrezat & Liotard, 7:278
Methodical System of Universal Law, 9:344, 345
Mi-- (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Miami (Indians), 1:104. See also Twightee (Indians); Indians
Michael (dower slave; tradesman), 6:217
Michael (slave; carpenter), 6:428; 7:45, 139, 227
Michael (slave; Ferry farm), 8:479; 9:54, 238; 10:138
Michael (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Michael (slave; tradesman), 7:313, 376, 443, 515; 8:104, 220, 356, 480;
10:137, 138
Middle District of Virginia: adjutancy of, 1:193, 194, 208
Middleditch, Joseph, 8:131, 297, 299, 398-99, 562, 566; 9:105
Middlesex County, 4:278
Middleton, ---- (Mr.; of Annapolis), 7:257, 405
Middleton, ---- (Mrs.): and GW's missing parcel, 7:257
Middleton, Samuel Horatio, 7:260
Middleton (ship), 8:234
Midleton, Ann, 10:203
Mifflin, Samuel, 9:83
Mike (Michael; slave; carpenter), 8:143, 144; 9:396, 398
Mike (slave), 8:557
Mike (slave; carpenter), 6:282
Mike (slave; Old Quarter), 8:590
Milbourne, Luke, 6:291
Milburn, John, 5:339
Milburn, Robert, 5:341
Miles (servant), 7:233
Military law. See individual volumes
A Military Treatise on the Appointments of the Army, 10:189, 190,
191
Milla (slave; Charles Washington's), 7:173
Milla (slave), 7:173
Milla (slave; Samuel Washington's), 7:173
Millan, John, 7:347
Mill Branch (of Cacapon River), 1:29, 30
Mill Creek (of Opequon River), 3:93; 5:393, 394; 7:8
Mill Creek (of Shenandoah River), 5:205; 7:8
Miller, ----, 4:266
Miller, Anthony, 1:31
Miller, David, 5:120, 121, 335
Miller, Jacob, 5:340
Miller, John, 3:131, 133, 321-23; 4:7
Miller, Peter, 10:134, 136
Miller, Philip, 6:297; 7:346
Miller, Robert, 7:298, 300
Miller, William, 1:23, 34, 35; 5:341; 7:98
Miller's fort, 3:439; 4:7
Millers Run (Chartiers, Shurtees; Pennsylvania), 8:38, 40, 450; 10:52
Millers Run (Chartiers Creek) tract, 10: 293; id., 8:514; GW purchases
certificate for, 9:112, 200; attempts to secure land, 9:125, 126; and
George Croghan's land claims, 9:419; 10:183; William Crawford's sketch
of, 9:420; patent for, 9:482, 483; plat of, 10:36, 53; warrants for, 10:42;
dispute over, 10:48; resurveyed, 10:55
Mill farm (Mount Vernon): slaves at, 6:428; 7:377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221,
356, 479; 9:55; 10:137; overseers at, 7:377, 443, 516; 8:19, 357; 9:398
Millie (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Mill Quarter (York County), 8:126, 585, 588, 591-92; 9:258
Mill Run (of Cacapon River), 1:33
Mills, 5:205; 6:247; 9:89-90, 114, 429, 458; 10:10-12, 252, 263
Mills, Daniel, 7:381; 8:144
Mills, James, 6:373, 374
Mills, John, 10:279, 280
Mills Gap, 3:47, 93; 4:266; 5:394
Mill tract (Mount Vernon), 5:274
Milly (slave), 7:173
Milly (slave, Bella's child; New Kent County), 6:220
Milly (slave; Charles Washington's), 7:173
Milly (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 591
Milly (slave; John Augustine Washington's), 7:172, 174
Milly (slave; King William County), 6:225
Milly (slave; River farm), 7:516; 8:104, 221, 357, 479; 9:55, 239; 10:137
Milly (slave; Samuel Washington's), 7:173
Milner, Isaac, 9:505
Milner, Nathaniel, 3:206, 266, 384; 4:339, 340; orders to, 2:14; 3:153;
appointments and assignments, 2:40, 42, 170, 260; 3:252, 429; 4:166, 205,
364, 407, 432; criticism of, 2:106; id., 2:108; 3:93, 310; and accounts,
2:327; illness and death, 4:206, 407; 5:129, 130; letters from:
to GW, 4:18-22; letters to: from GW, 3:93
Milnor, ---- (Mrs. William), 10:180, 224, 241
Milnor, William, 9:288; 10:75, 77, 166, 167, 168, 248, 364, 369; letters
from: to GW, 9:352-53; 10:180, 189-91, 216, 224, 270-71, 294, 338-39;
letters to: from GW, 9:408-9; 10:186, 220, 240-42
Milnor & Herbert, 10:339
Milsford, Leonard, 8:521; 9:58, 367
Milton, John, 6:289, 291, 296, 400
Mima (slave; ironer), 6:282
Mingo (Indians), 2:159; 4:306-8; 10:44, 52, 90-91, 182-84, 259-60, 273;
and Dunmore's War. See also Indians
Mingo (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Mingo Creek, 8:514
Mingo Junction, Ohio, 10:46
Mingo Town (Ohio country), 10:45-46
Mingo Will (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 591
Mingus, Peter, 4:390
Mining, 3:56, 58; 4:308-9, 324
"Ministerial Line," 9:357
Minne (slave; Robert Tucker's and Mann Page's), 7:314
Minor, John, 7:381
Minor, Nicholas, 4:262; id., 1:262; 4:254; 7:340; and militia, 3:67,
69, 76, 88-89, 91, 106, 137, 150, 234, 248, 267; 4:260, 263, 279; 7:339;
letters to: from GW, 3:92, 139-40, 148; 4:253-54
Minor, William, 8:472; 9:141, 301
Minorca, 3:249, 347, 377. See also Port Mahon
Minor's ordinary, 1:262
Miscellanea sacra, 6:294
Miscellaneous essays (Bulstrode), 6:286
Miscellaneous works of Dr. William Wagstaffe, 6:286
The miscellaneous works of . . . Francis Osborn, 6:297
Miscellanies (Swift), 6:293
A Miscellany of Poems by Sundry Hands, 6:298
Miscellany poems (Dryden), 6:286
Mississippi Company, 7:219-25, 239, 242-46, 263, 411, 415-16, 511-13;
8:31, 62-65, 83, 149-53; letters from: to Thomas Cumming, 7:246-50
Miss Sprightly (horse), 10:23
Mitchell, ---- (ship captain), 8:85
Mitchell, Ann, 8:527, 528
Mitchell, Burgis (Burgess), 7:106, 131-32, 139
Mitchell, David, 4:404
Mitchell, George (merchant), 8:362, 363, 457
Mitchell, George (soldier), 4:43
Mitchell, Henry, 8:54
Mitchell, James, 7:210, 212
Mitchell, Jedidiah, 7:452
Mitchell, Jeremiah, 6:430, 458
Mitchell, Richard, 9:417
Mitchell (Mitchel), Vincent (Viet), 8:564, 566; 9:108
Mixon (Nicholson), Salathial, 6:36, 37
Mobbs, Thomas, 6:328, 329
Mockhorn (Mockton) Island, 6:230; 8:482; 9:72, 74, 86
Mocon (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Moeurs des savages Ameriquains, 8:341
Moffett, J., 8:190
Moggy (horse), 7:95, 158-59
Mohawk (Indians), 6:389; 10:182. See also Indians
Molesworth, Richard Molesworth, third Viscount, 5:69, 70
Moll, Herman, 7:344
Moll (dower slave, 1), 8:401
Moll (dower slave, 2), 8:401
Moll (dower slave; Bridge Quarter), 7:464
Moll (dower slave; Ferry farm), 8:402
Moll (dower slave; Hanover County), 6:218
Moll (dower slave; Ship Landing), 7:464
Moll (dower slave; York County), 6:218
Moll (Molly; slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 584, 590
Moll (slave), 8:521
Moll (slave; Brick House plantation, 1), 8:589
Moll (slave; Brick House plantation, 2), 8:589
Moll (slave; Bridge Quarter), 6:312
Moll (slave; Dogue Run), 7:228, 313, 377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 356,
479; 9:55; 10:137, 138
Moll (slave; Ferry farm), 8:479, 480; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Moll (slave; Hanover County), 6:231
Moll (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Moll (slave; house servant), 6:428; 7:45, 139, 227, 313, 376, 443, 515;
8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Moll (slave; John Parke and Martha Parke Custis's maid), 7:86, 213, 302,
303, 499
Moll (slave; Martha Parke Custis's servant), 6:282
Moll (slave; Mill farm), 8:479, 480; 9:55; 10:137, 138
Moll (slave; Mill farm, 1), 9:238
Moll (slave; Mill farm, 2), 9:238
Moll (slave; Moncock Hill), 6:312
Moll (slave; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Moll (slave; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Moll (slave; Ship Landing), 6:312
Moll (slave; York County, 1), 6:229
Moll (slave; York County, 2), 6:229
Moll (slave; York River; wife of Brunswick), 7:463
Molleson, William, 8:371; 10:356, 367, 368
Molleson & Walker, 8:369
Molly (ship), 7:64, 65; 9:245, 281, 497
Molly (slave, child; Claiborne's plantation), 8:584, 591
Molly (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Molly (slave; Old Quarter), 8:590
Molly (slave; River farm), 7:443
Molly (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:589
Molly (slave; Samuel Gist's), 7:315
Monacatoocha (Scarouady, Scruniyatha), 1:125, 175, 202; 2:98; and mission
to French commandant, 1:60; id., 1:61, 91; speech of, 1:88, 90; and Winchester
council, 1:105; and Fort Necessity campaign, 1:110, 121, 155, 156, 162;
medal for, 1:121; and Indian tribes, 1:123, 132, 146; son of, 1:125; given
name of Washington, 1:174; and proposed expedition against Venango, 2:72;
and Six Nations, 2:154; letters from: to Robert Hunter Morris,
2:74
Monceau, ----, 1:114, 117, 125
Monckton, Robert, 6:190, 454; 7:114; and attack on Nova Scotia, 1:276;
and northern campaign, 1:279; 6:432; capture of Fort Beauséjour, 5:71;
and Robert Stewart, 6:190-91, 420, 468; 7:14, 71, 162, 180, 186-87, 241,
281; and command in America, 6:412, 413; 7:46, 48, 282, 283; and Virginia
Regiment, 6:433; his aide, 7:188; returns to England, 7:226, 227
Moncock Hill plantation, 6:312, 447; 7:211. See also Errata
Monmouth (ship), 5:195, 197
Monocacy River (Maryland), 2:74; 3:382
Monongahela, Battle of. See Braddock Campaign: Battle of the Monongahela
Monongahela River, 5:355; 8:40
Monongalia County, 10:257
Monro, George, 5:19
Monroe, Thomas, 8:21, 22, 147
Monroe (Munroe), John, 7:362, 381; 8:146, 147
Monsieur Rapin's reflections on Aristotle's treatise of poesie,
6:290
Montagu, Edward, 8:380, 499; 9:402-3, 430-31, 437; 10:175, 212, 213,
326, 327; letters from: to GW, 10:159; letters to: from
GW, 10:188, 328-30
Montague, Francis, 7:129, 196
Montcalm, Louis Joseph Gorzon de Saint-Véran, marquis de, 2:228; 3:288;
4:367-68, 370, 401; 5:19, 295, 411
Montesquieu, 9:344, 345
Montgomerie, John, 7:458, 459; 8:68-69; 9:16
Montgomerie, Moses, 8:252
Montgomerie, Thomas, 9:19, 46, 131, 267; and Savage affair, 7:504-5;
8:111, 251, 252, 328, 406-7, 408-9, 410-11, 420, 523, 524; 9:10, 15, 77,
83, 100-101; and Mississippi Company, 8:63; id., 8:64; and Colvill estate,
8:382; 9:1, 21, 261-63; account with, 8:424, 437, 442, 461; 9:127, 221,
225, 293; GW at his home, 8:439; and Bryan Fairfax's debt, 9:32; goods
for Martha Parke Custis, 9:45; and Matthew Whiting's debt, 9:223, 229,
235; letters from: to GW, 8:252
Montgomery, Archibald, 6:138, 142, 145; at Charleston, 5:41, 42; appointments
and assignments, 5:119, 243, 345; 6:15, 36, 37, 48, 50, 56, 59, 61, 70,
74, 107, 125, 126, 127, 133, 134, 140, 143, 145, 150, 152, 156, 190; arrives
in Philadelphia, 5:119; id., 5:119; military service, 6:93, 103, 107,
138, 139, 141, 144, 154; and council of war, 6:119; and supplies, 6:133,
136, 137-38; attempts to relieve Fort Loudoun, 6:453; letters to:
from GW, 6:139
Montgomery's Highlanders. See 77th Regiment
Montjoy, Thomas, 4:391
Montour, ---- (Mrs.; Indian), 2:55
Montour, Andrew (Indian), 1:177; 2:121; joins GW, 1:121, 125, 131; GW's
opinion of, 1:122, 185; id., 1:122; 2:55; 10:184; attempts to enlist aid
of, 1:124; 2:72, 99, 105, 120-21, 125, 140, 141, 163, 164; and Indians,
1:130, 133; interpreter for, 1:146; at Fort Necessity, 1:147; instructions
on treatment of, 2:56-57; at Great Island, 2:74; pay for, 2:163; family
of, 10:182; letters to: from GW, 2:54-55, 97-98
Montour, Catherine, 2:55
Montour, John (son of Andrew Montour; Indian), 10:182, 184
Montour, John (Stuttering John; Indian), 10:184
Montour, Madame, 1:122
Montour, Roland (Indian), 1:122
Montour, Sarah (Indian), 2:55
Montreal, 6:433
Moody, Anne, 9:233
Moody, Benjamin: letters from: to GW, 9:261-62, 263; letters
to: from GW, 9:262-63, 263-64
Moody, ---- (Mrs. Benjamin), 9:263
Moody, James, 9:262
Moody, Matthew, Sr., 9:232, 233
Moody, Thomas, 9:261
Moody, William, 4:42
Moon, Jacob, 5:336
Moor, James, 8:145, 146, 147
Moore, ---- (colonel), 9:46, 412, 479
Moore, ---- (of Maryland), 9:301
Moore, Andrew, 9:263
Moore, Anne Catherine Spotswood, 9:44, 399, 426
Moore, Anne Elizabeth Spotswood, 9:45
Moore, Augustine, 4:284; 5:104
Moore, Bernard, 9:235; and Gentlemen Associators, 3:94, 170; id., 3:95;
6:193, 217; 7:467; colt bought from, 6:193; and Custis estate, 6:209,
215-17, 255, 256, 260, 276, 280; 7:1, 91, 205, 215; 8:199, 200, 205, 463;
9:372, 373; 10:353; and John Spotswood's estate, 7:4, 10; elected burgess,
7:59, 60; accounts with, 7:326, 467; 8:26, 42-43; and John Robinson's
estate, 7:469, 480; 9:379; efforts to pay his debts, 7:479-80; and Mississippi
Company, 8:63, 153; his lottery, 8:346, 347; 9:46; and his trustees, 8:430;
9:31, 225, 229, 429, 479, 481; recommends steward, 8:574, 575, 576, 579;
loan to, 9:32, 33, 45-46; and John Baylor's estate, 9:221, 234; and Romancoke,
9:375-79, 378, 385-86, 399, 401, 402, 423, 427, 428; lives at Chelsea,
9:425; exchanges land, 9:429; letters from: to GW, 7:467, 479-80;
8:427-28, 575, 576; 9:44-45; letters to: from GW, 8:429-30; 9:34.
See also Errata
Moore, Bernard, Jr., 9:424, 426
Moore, Cassandra, 8:216
Moore, Cato, 9:351, 396
Moore, Charles, 1:3
Moore, Daniel, 7:312
Moore, Sir Henry, 8:166
Moore, Henry (of Colchester), 7:240; 9:179
Moore, Henry (of Frederick County), 5:341; 7:3, 8, 240
Moore, Isaac, 9:259, 260
Moore, James, 7:381
Moore, Lewis, 5:343
Moore, Sarah, 9:178, 179
Moore, Thomas, 9:425; id., 6:193; and Custis estate, 6:256, 260, 261,
267, 276, 411, 435, 474; 7:1, 91, 468-69; 8:205, 462; sale of his estate,
8:347; and Romancoke, 9:377, 386, 427, 428; 10:22; exchanges land with
brother, 9:429; letters from: to GW, 6:435; 7:468-69; 8:81-82,
86-87
Moore, William, 7:380; 8:216
Moorefield, 7:469
Moorfield, John, 9:505
Moory, John, 6:451-52; 7:116; letters from: to GW, 7:11; letters
to: from GW, 7:33, 72-73, 75
Moras, Peirenc de: letters to: from marquis de Vaudreuil, 4:217
Moravians, 2:316
Mordaunt, Sir John, 5:42, 43, 69, 70
Moreland, Francis, 2:264, 265; 3:253, 259; 4:276, 277; 6:139, 141
Moreton, Joseph, 6:255, 259, 277
Morgan, ---- (of Pennsylvania), 3:209
Morgan, ---- (of Virginia), 8:170, 239
Morgan, Daniel, 10:245
Morgan, David, 3:93; 5:338
Morgan, Jacob, 5:339
Morgan, John: letters to: from GW, 10:170
Morgan, Joseph, 7:347
Morgan, Morgan, 5:340
Morgan, Morgan, Jr., 5:337
Morgan, Morgan ap, 3:93
Morgan, Richard (of Frederick County), 5:340
Morgan, Richard (soldier), 4:111, 333
Morgan, Thomas, 2:227, 229
Morrell, James. See Norrell, James
Morris, Israel, 8:176
Morris, Joseph, 4:390
Morris, Lewis, 1:215
Morris, Mary Eliza Philipse. See Philipse, Mary Eliza
Morris, Mary White, 10:359
Morris, Richard, 8:452, 454, 540; 9:122, 146
Morris, Robert (lawyer), 9:22
Morris, Robert (of Frederick County), 1:33
Morris, Robert (of Pennsylvania), 9:83; 10:23-24, 357, 359
Morris, Robert Hunter, 2:154, 155, 308; arrival of, 1:214; id., 1:215;
7:189; and Alexandria conference, 1:247-48, 259; and Braddock campaign,
1:275, 334, 335; sends intelligence, 1:299-300, 302, 306; 3:373; and Indians,
2:151, 159; 3:350, 352; and spring campaign, 2:290, 292; and Carlisle
council, 2:309; and frontier forts, 2:309, 316; 3:305; rumor concerning,
7:188; letters from: to Robert Orme, 1:335; to GW, 2:151-52, 316-17;
to Robert Dinwiddie, 2:293; to Horatio Sharpe, 2:309; letters to:
from William Shirley, Jr., 1:241-42; from Edward Braddock, 1:301; from
Sir John St. Clair, 1:301; from Monacatoocha, 2:74; from GW, 2:249-50,
345-47; from Horatio Sharpe, 2:285; 3:381-82, 400; from Robert Dinwiddie,
2:293
Morris, Roger, 1:347; 2:10; 5:128; id., 1:287; 5:129; wounded, 1:334-36,
340; and letter books for Braddock campaign, 1:347, 348; and orderly books
for Braddock campaign, 2:155; marches to Philadelphia, 2:156; military
service, 4:112, 303; courtship and marriage, 4:302, 303; 7:156; letters
from: to GW, 1:315-16, 330; 2:155-56; letters to: from GW,
2:122, 155
Morris (dower slave; Hanover County), 6:218
Morris (dower slave; overseer), 6:321; 8:18, 19, 25, 60, 143, 290, 441,
442, 557
Morris (dower slave; tradesman), 6:217
Morris (Morrice; dower slave; carpenter), 6:282
Morris (slave; carpenter), 6:428; 7:45, 139, 227
Morris (slave; Dogue Run), 7:443, 515; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54, 396,
398; 10:137
Morris (slave; Dogue Run, 1), 9:238
Morris (slave; Dogue Run, 2), 9:238
Morris (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Morris (slave; Hanover County), 6:231
Morris (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Morris (slave; Muddy Hole), 8:221, 356, 479; 9:54
Morris (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Morris (slave; overseer; Dogue Run), 8:144
Morris (slave; tradesman), 7:313, 376
Morrison, William, 4:281
Morson, ----: butter from, 8:169
Mortimer, Charles, 8:122, 128, 129, 201
Morton, ----: and conveyance for sick, 6:117
Morton, Andrew, 10:86, 192-93, 198, 199, 225; letters from: to
GW, 10:175, 205-6, 206, 250-51, 252-53; letters to: from GW, 10:208-9,
251
Morton, Edward, 6:117
Morton, George, 6:106
Morton, Joshua, 6:406
Moseley, ---- (parson), 10:286, 287
Moseley, John, 6:393, 403; 7:28, 125, 194, 287-88
Mosely, Robert, 8:145
Moses (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Moses (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Moses the Song (Indian), 1:202
Moss, John, 7:339, 340; 8:393; 9:505
Moss, Thomas, 8:147, 148; 9:122, 146
Mossom, David, 6:252, 255, 267, 277, 416, 417, 425, 426; 7:212, 214
Moss's ordinary, 7:340; 8:393
Motteaux, John, 10:369
Motteux, Pierre-Antoine, 6:285
Moulds, Samuel, 8:512
Mounce, Providence, 9:382
Moundsville, W.Va., 9:37
Mountain quarter (Frederick County), 5:219
Mountain Road lottery, 8:54
Mount Air, 7:190
Mount Airy (Maryland), 7:300, 513; 9:216
Mount Airy (Richmond County), 2:67; 3:170; 4:243; 5:154, 328; 7:440
Mount & Page, 6:396, 403; 7:26, 125-26, 291, 473
Mount Charlotte, 10:98
Mount Eagle (Albemarle County), 10:350
Mount Johnston (Pennsylvania), 9:242
Mount Lubentia (Maryland), 8:572; 9:164
Mount Pleasant (King and Queen County), 2:304; 6:381; 9:424-25
Mount Pleasant (Westmoreland County), 1:270
Mount Pony, 1:9
Mount Vernon: naming of, 1:7; GW signs lease for, 1:232-34; manager of,
2:352; 3:127, 419; 5:218; 7:320, 334; construction at, 4:108; 5:50-51,
72, 217-19, 222-23, 284-85, 288, 328, 329, 371-73, 380, 390-91, 408, 418,
436-39, 447-50; 6:19-20, 39, 76-77, 199, 329-30, 331-32, 340-41, 386-87,
430, 458, 481; 7:159, 235, 309, 334, 373; 8:17-18, 20, 329-30, 376, 377,
378, 405, 468-69, 531; 9:53, 348-49, 395; 10:20, 106; descriptions of,
4:108; 6:381; furnishings, 4:133, 358, 377-80, 427, 431; 5:49-51, 80,
87-88, 105, 288, 326, 401; 6:12, 317, 327-28, 333-37, 353, 355, 358, 375,
377, 399-402, 460, 462-63, 481; 7:1, 2, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28-29, 62,
77, 78, 111, 124, 156, 165, 166, 167, 168, 192-93, 195, 196, 198, 255,
256, 287, 291, 292, 293, 294, 310-11, 327, 328, 353-54, 372, 397, 403,
404, 409, 420, 422, 423, 432, 441, 448, 473, 475, 491; 8:12, 14, 41, 46,
47, 101-2, 132, 232, 297-98, 373, 398, 510, 560, 562; 9:2, 65, 66, 67,
103, 104, 107, 108, 109, 274, 317; 10:140, 160, 178, 179, 220, 357, 370;
tools and implements, 4:376-77; 5:72, 76, 111-12, 400-401; 6:332, 334,
339, 353-54, 371, 392-93, 396-97, 400, 462, 464; 7:2, 22-23, 24, 25, 28,
78, 79, 93-94, 105, 111, 124, 125, 127-28, 130, 164, 165-66, 167, 194,
195, 196-97, 229, 234, 239, 254, 255, 288, 289, 292, 311, 327, 331, 353,
354, 372, 402-3, 407, 411, 419, 421, 427, 428, 432, 439, 448, 449, 451,
456, 457, 458, 460, 471, 472-73, 475, 487; 8:12, 16, 44, 45, 47, 48, 112,
130, 132, 232, 296, 297, 329, 355, 372, 373, 397, 399, 400, 437, 506,
508, 510, 516-17, 558, 563, 565; 9:1, 66, 103, 104, 105, 107, 109, 116,
208, 227, 272, 275, 289; 10:167, 357; surveys of, 5:74-75, 78-79; 6:367-68,
439, 455-56; 7:314, 412; 8:52, 80, 254, 259-61, 326, 327; 9:92; land added
to, 5:75, 78-79, 416; 6:183, 332, 339-40, 341-42, 368, 383-84, 407-10,
415, 416, 422-25, 427, 434, 439, 443-44, 450-51, 456, 466; 7:4, 9, 102,
103, 106, 108, 110, 151, 174, 179, 228, 262, 278, 350, 413; 8:37, 79-80,
143, 185-87, 210, 216, 220, 250, 259-61, 263-64, 283-84, 315, 316, 345,
346, 417-18, 421, 436, 437, 438, 499, 546-47; 9:3-4, 54, 132, 133, 142,
226, 397, 432, 488; 10:221; crops, 5:217-18, 219, 284-85, 372, 380, 408,
415, 418-19, 437, 447-49; 6:319, 352, 417, 430, 460, 482; 7:9, 34, 147,
148-50, 163, 185, 231, 234, 240, 267, 306, 309, 359-61, 385-86, 400-401,
426, 428, 440, 483, 487, 490, 491, 492-94; 8:17, 18, 19-20, 25, 41, 79,
139, 140, 141, 207, 222, 223, 243, 306, 322, 329, 377, 405, 441, 468,
486, 512, 527, 528; 9:29, 35, 52, 57, 58, 91, 283; 10:106, 113, 141, 222,
248, 249, 279 (see also Mount Vernon: tobacco); mill and millers,
5:217-18, 274-75, 415, 416, 418, 447; 6:377, 430-31, 457, 458, 481; 7:1,
23, 139, 164, 235, 333, 334, 366, 376, 377; 8:25, 323, 329-30, 347, 348,
362, 363, 376, 378, 395-96, 405, 431, 467-68, 516-17, 531, 565; 9:15-16,
58, 112, 156, 275, 352, 397, 408; stock at, 5:217-18, 274, 284, 306, 331,
367, 418-19, 447-48, 451-52; 6:193, 328, 339, 370, 377, 430, 480-81; 7:4,
10, 95, 96, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 148, 159, 231, 234, 239, 319,
332, 335, 336, 342, 352, 417, 439, 494, 496; 8:83, 168, 239, 268, 355,
356, 453, 454, 473, 486, 511, 522, 556; 9:36, 51, 53, 110, 111, 141, 167,
208, 227, 433; 10:77; tenants, 5:217-18, 274-75, 415-16; 6:199, 328, 331-32,
368, 379, 384, 418, 430, 443-44, 481; 7:9, 10, 100-103, 109, 234, 262-63,
329-30, 331, 454; 8:91, 141, 195, 438, 474, 557; 9:294, 296; 10:80, 140;
mansion house, 5:217-19, 222-23, 284-85, 288, 328, 329, 371-73, 380, 390-91,
418, 436-39, 447-50; 6:19-20, 39, 199, 200, 329-30, 331-32; 7:159, 235,
309, 373; 9:348-49; 10:20, 39, 106; overseers, 5:218; 8:5, 18, 19, 24,
42, 171, 269, 290, 291, 357, 442; 9:239, 341, 396, 398, 411, 451; 10:138;
farms, 5:219, 274, 416, 449; 6:199, 321, 377, 386, 390; 7:67-68, 109,
151, 393, 434, 440;; 8:5, 18, 19, 24, 250, 269, 357, 401, 442, 479-80;
9:398, 411, 451; tobacco, 5:380, 408, 415, 418, 437, 447-49; 7:361; outbuildings,
5:391, 439, 448, 450; 6:387; 7:334; 8:17-18, 20; 9:395; walls, 5:391;
fire at, 5:448-49; meadow, 5:449; blacksmiths, 6:4-5, 134; 7:1, 45, 104,
107, 139, 178, 186, 232, 233, 235, 240, 299, 308, 309, 333; 8:42, 169,
320, 346, 377, 453, 528, 556; 9:35, 91, 152, 252; taxes, 6:183, 417, 429;
7:45, 106, 110, 139, 219; 8:5, 122; Martha Washington's arrival at, 6:200,
203; books at, 6:300; 7:343-50; 7:25, 166, 167, 168, 195, 262, 328, 336,
343-50, 410, 432, 448, 450, 473; painters at, 6:329-30; 10:344; carpenters
and joiners, 6:331-32, 340; 7:10, 45, 109, 110, 139, 186, 227, 231, 233,
234, 235, 236, 240, 269, 309, 334, 373, 418, 439, 495; 8:20, 25, 113,
291, 522, 557; 9:239, 314, 348-49, 398, 462; 10:138; quitrents, 6:417-18,
427; 7:103, 106, 174, 229, 279, 309, 350-51, 373, 425, 441, 480-81, 515;
8:66, 153, 208, 283-84, 363, 421, 474, 592; 9:53, 54, 151, 340, 431-32;
tithables, 6:428; 7:45, 139, 227-28, 313, 376-77, 442-43, 515-16; 8:104,
220-21, 356-57, 479; 9:54-55, 238-39; 10:137; schoolhouse at, 6:481; building
supplies, 7:1, 4, 7, 22, 23, 48-49, 78, 127-28, 166, 179, 197, 240, 253-54,
284, 288, 293, 298, 299, 300, 333, 372, 373, 376, 404, 417, 419, 441,
449, 469, 471, 515; 8:12, 13, 22, 45, 48, 51, 101-2, 130, 141, 177, 323,
346, 363, 372, 397, 441, 442, 486, 504, 507, 508, 512, 522, 527, 558,
560; 9:76, 152, 167, 237, 293, 294, 317, 341, 343, 344, 348-50, 433; 10:19,
20, 39, 41, 113, 139, 168, 194, 196, 219, 279, 316, 317, 356; spinning
and weaving, 7:4, 10, 236, 299, 351, 385, 407, 442, 461, 477, 507, 508,
515; 8:4, 5, 6, 18, 21, 22, 59, 70, 91, 127, 128, 141, 154-55, 169, 192,
193, 244, 322, 323, 329, 376, 511, 512, 521, 528; 9:13, 91, 224; 10:138
(see also Mount Vernon: weaving account and Spinning and
Weaving Record); farm equipment, 7:23, 26, 79, 126, 153, 254-55, 290,
291-92, 327, 331, 354, 358, 359, 387, 403, 419-20, 449, 474, 508; 8:9,
12, 47, 400, 441, 474, 506, 508, 510-11, 516, 531, 558, 559, 561; 9:58,
63, 66, 272, 274; 10:140, 141; fishing equipment, 7:27-28, 193, 294, 356,
428, 441, 449, 473, 474; 8:12, 46, 101-2, 131, 222, 373, 510, 559; still,
7:78, 125; gardeners, 7:95, 169, 171, 240, 376; 9:155-56, 190, 202, 222,
227, 239, 289; 10:138, 273; orchards, 7:102; 10:300, 301; brickmakers,
7:107; 8:18, 19, 25; bricklayers and stonemasons, 7:110, 209, 211, 299,
319, 433, 508; 8:528; 10:106, 138, 000, 000; ditchers and ditching, 7:139,
332, 333, 334, 376; 8:16, 25, 41, 363; 9:75, 76, 111; 10:273; fencing,
7:234; GW orders machine to uproot trees, 7:286-87; branding iron, 7:404,
419; housekeepers, 7:430; 8:41, 91, 169; flour and bread made and sold,
7:442; 8:468-69, 474, 486, 528, 530; 9:53, 57, 69-70, 72, 79, 123, 134,
156-57, 158-59, 165-67, 174, 175, 188-89, 203, 223-24, 226, 237, 240,
245, 252, 253, 268, 270-71, 280-81, 283-84, 287, 343, 396, 405-6, 462,
496-97, 503; 10:19, 21, 31-33, 42, 56, 102, 106, 177, 180, 193, 194, 209,
210-11, 220, 228, 229, 230, 295, 316, 318, 319, 336; cradlers and cradling,
7:452; 8:5, 112, 222, 355; 10:104; combing wool, 7:461; well, 7:509; 8:527;
10:273; midwives, 8:5, 41, 70, 112, 169, 221, 250, 521, 527, 557; 9:1,
53, 228, 253, 432; 10:20, 39, 168, 196; hackling, 8:16; tailors, 8:22,
67, 112; 9:134, 239, 253; 10:273; cider, 8:25; hemp, 8:41, 51, 70, 140,
346; mowing, 8:112, 355; harvesting, 8:113, 222, 223, 355, 377; Spinning
and Weaving Record (1768), 8:154-55; fishing and fisheries, 8:177, 267,
290, 297, 322, 323, 385, 399, 405, 408, 441, 454, 467, 468-69, 473, 484,
527; 9:30, 35, 57, 60-61, 103, 104, 109, 123, 132, 157, 165-66, 175, 207,
252, 269, 274-75, 296, 316, 352-53, 396; 10:19, 75, 210, 222, 227-28,
229, 319, 332, 336; weaving account, 8:193; cobbler, 8:195, 438; legality
of GW's claim to, 8:223-25; sundial, 8:305; ship carpenter, 8:307, 329;
farrier, 8:346, 347; ferrymen, 8:357, 479; ferries, 8:386, 512; 9:296;
10:39; coopers, 8:395, 533; 9:397; 10:138; wagoner, 8:425, 479; shoemaker,
8:438; knitters, 9:1; wheat purchased for mill, 9:35, 93, 152, 167, 208,
253, 303, 305, 312, 317, 340, 341, 343, 397, 433; 10:19, 20, 36, 178,
194, 195, 221, 249, 281, 317, 331-32; boats and equipment, 9:53, 67, 109,
191; 10:20, 21, 32-33, 42, 105, 195; vehicles, 9:238; 10:196; advertisement
for rent of Clifton's plantation, 9:296; bell, 10:167. See also
Washington, George
Moxley, ----: account, 5:217
Moxley, James, 7:381
Moxley, John, 7:494
Moxley, Joseph, 7:381; 8:4, 144, 145
Moxley, Richard, 5:218
Moxley, Samuel, 5:218; 6:456; 7:186, 332, 333-34, 364
Moxley, Thomas, Jr., 5:218
Moxley, William, 5:218
Mr. Wingate's arithmetick, 6:293
Muccon (slave; York County), 6:229
Muddy Creek (of the Monongahela River), 10:92
Muddy Hole Branch, 6:439
Muddy Hole farm: id., 5:219, 449; 6:390; overseers at, 6:199, 428; 7:45,
139, 146, 227, 313, 376, 426, 443, 482, 516; 8:5, 18, 19, 357, 528; 10:138;
slaves at, 6:428; 7:45, 139, 227, 313, 376, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 356,
479; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Muddy Run Camp (Pennsylvania), 6:30, 80
Muir, John, 7:381; 8:146, 147; 10:356; account with, 6:480; 7:1, 235,
417; 8:5, 67, 143, 268, 376, 424, 456, 460; 9:133, 368; id., 6:481; 7:6,
236; 8:269; his fiddler, 8:156; Bryan Fairfax's debt to, 9:9, 68, 152,
153, 183
Mulattoes, 2:104, 189, 236
Mulatto Will. See Billy (William Lee, Mulatto Will; slave)
Mullican, Charles, 1:337
Mullican, Priscilla, 1:337
Mullin, Thomas, 1:16, 31, 35
Mullin, William, 1:29
Mulloy, John, 6:325; 7:123, 124, 151, 340-41, 397, 435, 455-56; 8:7,
140
Muncaster, James B., 10:304
Munday, William, 8:146
Mundell, Robert, 10:296; letters from: to GW, 10:297; letters
to: from GW, 10:297
Mungar (Munger), William, 2:113; 5:341
Munificence (ship), 7:394, 402, 418, 444, 447
Munster, Herbert, 5:395, 396
Murdoch, Jeremiah, 1:50
Murdoch, Robert, 1:315, 316, 329, 330
Murdock, Joseph, 3:97-98
Murphy, Benjamin, 6:36, 37
Murphy, Darby, 5:342
Murphy, Edward, 4:281
Murphy, Patrick (of King George County), 4:46, 281
Murphy, Patrick (of Pennsylvania), 4:45-46
Murphy (Murfey), ---- (of Pennsylvania), 10:52
Murphy (Murphey), Robert, 9:359, 360, 364, 365, 422
Murray, Charles, 7:447, 458; 8:68-69
Murray, James (general), 2:228; 6:467, 470
Murray, John, fourth earl of Dunmore. See Dunmore, John Murray,
fourth earl of
Murria (slave; River farm), 7:139, 228, 313, 377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221,
357, 479; 9:55, 239; 10:137
Muschett, John, 8:208
Muse, Battaile, 10:225
Muse, George, 1:142, 146, 147, 154; 3:129-31; and adjutancy, 1:51, 53,
193, 194, 207, 208; appointments and commissions, 1:75, 78, 126; and Fort
Necessity campaign, 1:77, 121, 127, 131, 133, 142, 143, 144, 146, 147;
id., 1:77; 3:111; resignation of, 1:80, 182; pay of, 1:95; accused of
cowardice, 1:161, 162, 183, 204, 209; 9:461; and accounts, 1:221; 9:454,
462; 10:76; at Mount Vernon, 8:67; and bounty lands, 8:364, 439, 440,
451, 539; 9:122, 128-31, 144, 145, 358, 359, 360, 364, 365, 366, 382,
404, 405, 455, 461-62; 10:80, 193, 225, 238-39; his impertinent letter,
9:460-61; letters from: to GW, 9:417; 10:192-93, 225; letters
to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:122; from GW, 9:460-62; 10:198
Muse, Hudson, 8:569, 571
Museum Rusticum et Commerciale, 7:348, 448, 450, 473; 8:13, 14
Musgrove, Edward, 1:25
Musick (dog), 9:78, 79
Muskingum (Indian village; Ohio country), 1:69, 126
Muskingum River (Ohio country), 1:126; 10:44, 362
Myers (Miers), ---- (widow), 8:394
Myme (Mime; slave; Rockahock), 9:258
Myrtilla (slave; Home farm), 10:137, 138
The mysteries of love & eloquence, 6:293
The mysteries of opium reveal'd, 6:287
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N---- (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Nace (Nase; slave; cooper), 9:397
Nace (Nase; slave; tradesman), 10:137, 138
Nalder, Francis, 6:394, 403; 7:26, 126, 195, 290, 355, 422, 472; 8:45,
131; 9:105
Nalder, Francis & John, 8:561
Nalder, Thomas, 7:26, 30, 126; 8:564
Nan, Little (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Nan (dower slave; King William County), 6:218
Nan (Nane; slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 591
Nan (slave, child; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Nan (slave, child; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Nan (slave; from Daniel Tebbs's estate), 7:300
Nan (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Nan (slave; John Augustine Washington's), 7:172, 173
Nan (slave; John Posey's), 8:34
Nan (slave; King William County), 6:225
Nan (slave; Muddy Hole), 7:443, 516; 8:104, 221, 356, 479; 9:54, 238;
10:137
Nan (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Nan (slave; River farm), 7:377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 357, 479; 9:55,
239; 10:137
Nan (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Nancy (Charming Nancy; ship), 9:208, 287, 288, 499
Nancy (George Wise's ship), 10:197
Nancy (Griffith Kelly's ship), 10:20
Nancy (ship), 2:113, 114, 128
Nancy (slave; Home farm), 9:186
Nancy (slave; Washington's Bottom), 9:185, 291
Nanjemoy, Md., 6:330; 10:296
Nanjemoy Creek, 8:122
Nanny, Old (slave; York County), 6:229
Nanny (slave, girl; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Nanny (slave, girl; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Nanny (slave, girl; New Kent County, 3), 6:220
Nanny (slave, Nanny's child; New Kent County), 6:220
Nanny (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589; 9:85-86, 89
Nanny (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587
Nanny (slave; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Nanny (slave; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Nansemond County, 4:290
Nanser (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Nantasket Road (Massachusetts), 2:166
Napier, James, 1:264, 325
Napier, Robert, 1:264; 2:321; letters to: from Edward Braddock,
1:259, 272, 275, 301, 314; from John St. Clair, 1:275; from Thomas Dunbar,
2:115
Napp, Thomas, 3:306-7; 9:359, 360, 364, 365, 421
Narcissus (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Narrationes Modernae, or Modern Reports, 8:326
A Narrative of the Transactions, Imprisonment ... of John Connolly,
10:260
Nash, John (colonel), 3:431, 435
Nash, John (sergeant), 3:253, 257; 4:66, 277
Nash, Robert, 3:306-7
Nash, William, 10:152
Nat (Natt; slave; River farm), 7:139, 228, 313, 377, 443, 516
Nat (Natt; slave; tradesman), 7:227, 313, 376, 443, 515; 8:104, 220,
320, 357; 10:137, 138
Nat (slave; Bullskin plantation), 6:420-21
Nat (slave; Home farm), 6:378, 379
Nat (slave; house servant), 6:428; 7:45
Natchez, 9:98
Nations (Nation), ---- (Mrs.), 6:429
Nations (Nation), William, 5:415, 416; 6:386, 430
Natt (slave), 7:173
Natt (slave; blacksmith apprentice), 8:357
Natt (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:584, 591
Natt (slave; River farm), 8:104, 221, 357, 479; 9:55, 238; 10:137
Naughty, John, 3:253, 257-58
Nautilus (ship), 7:228, 253, 312; goods brought in, 7:130, 198,
498; tobacco shipped in, 7:143, 152, 153, 205, 251, 284, 415, 447, 464,
509; 8:9, 11
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands,
6:284
The nature and cure of fluxes, 6:287
Naylor, William, 1:29
Naylors Hole Tract, 1:50
Ne-- (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Neabsco Creek, 7:9
Neabsco ironworks, 8:413, 438
Neal, John, 8:28, 31-32, 40
Neale, ----: and legal writ, 7:262, 263
Neale, Christopher, 1:290, 292
Neale, Edward, & Co., 6:335, 337; 7:27, 129
Neale, Joseph, 8:127, 128
Neale, Roswell, 10:3
Neale, William: letters from: to GW, 8:26; letters to:
from GW, 8:42-43
Nealis, Francis, 4:191
Neally's fort, 4:180, 182-83
Neavil, George, 1:26
Neawah (Indian), 10:184
Necks, Robert, 6:376; 7:431; 8:206, 342; carries letters and invoices,
6:375; 7:316, 394, 432, 452-53, 466; 8:15, 77, 374, 375, 474; 9:12, 201;
his ship carries tobacco, 7:393, 444; 8:341, 433
Ned, Carpenter (slave; Great House), 9:257, 258
Ned, Young (dower slave; York County), 6:218
Ned, Young (slave; at Bridge Quarter), 6:312
Ned, Young (slave; York County), 6:229
Ned (dower slave; York County), 6:218
Ned (slave), 5:418
Ned (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Ned (slave; carpenter), 7:139, 227
Ned (slave; carpenter, 32 years old), 6:282
Ned (slave; carpenter, 48 years old), 6:282
Ned (slave; Ferry farm), 10:137, 138
Ned (slave; from Colvill estate), 9:239
Ned (slave; Home farm), 7:139, 313
Ned (slave; house servant), 7:227
Ned (slave; miller; Great House plantation), 8:587
Ned (slave; Mill farm), 7:377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 356, 480
Ned (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Ned (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Ned (slave; owned by Mary Washington), 7:173
Ned (slave; owned by Mary Washington, 1), 7:173
Ned (slave; owned by Mary Washington, 2), 7:173
Ned (slave; River farm), 9:238, 239; 10:137
Ned (slave; tradesman), 7:313, 376, 443, 515; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54,
238; 10:138
Ned (slave; York County, 1), 6:229
Ned (slave; York County, 2), 6:229
Neely's (Mason) Creek, 4:395
"Negroe Harry," 7:415
Negroes. See Blacks
Neilands (Nealand), John, 2:56-57
Neill, Lewis, 4:404
Neilson, Henry, 4:42
Nell (slave, girl; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Nell (slave, girl; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Nell (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Nell (slave; house servant), 10:137, 138
Nell (slave; River farm), 9:239; 10:137
Nell (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Nelly (ship), 7:191, 197, 284
Nelly (slave; York County), 6:229
Nelson, Margaret Reade, 1:55
Nelson, Southy, 9:285-86, 287
Nelson, Thomas: and John Hobday, 10:141
Nelson, Thomas (1715-1787), 4:27, 50; id., 1:55; 4:53; 5:91; 7:273; and
instructions for GW, 5:89; account with John Parke Custis, 6:259; 7:368;
subscription to race, 7:210; and bill of exchange, 7:253; and Dismal Swamp
Company, 7:269-72, 274-75, 314; 8:50; family of, 7:274; deputy secretary
of Virginia, 8:547. See also Errata
Nelson, Thomas, Jr. (1738-1789), 9:475; 10:81, 99-100, 150
Nelson, Thomas (Scotch Tom), 1:55
Nelson, William, Jr., 8:31
Nelson, William (1711-1772), 8:390; id., 1:55; 5:91; 6:41; 7:273-74;
and instructions for GW, 5:89; and Indians, 5:90; and GW's goods, 6:39;
and Custis estate, 6:253; and Dismal Swamp Company, 7:211, 269-70, 271-72,
274-75; slaves, 7:314; 8:50; acting governor, 8:393; and Dunbar suit,
8:497; letters from: to John Blair, 5:180; to Hillsborough, 8:393;
letters to: from GW, 1:55
Nemacolin's Path, 1:296
Neptune (ship), 9:475
Neptune (slave; River farm), 7:45, 65-67, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 357,
479; 9:55, 238; 10:137
Neptune (slave; Williamson's farm), 6:428
Nescopeck (Niskebecon; Indian town; Pennsylvania), 2:317
Nevil, ----: sells horse, 8:393
Neville, Gabriel, 3:409
Neville, George (of Frederick County), 5:342
Neville, George (of Prince William County), 1:39, 40
Neville, Henry, 3:409
Neville, John, 10:233-34
Neville, Joseph, 2:77, 78-79; 8:395
Neville, Mary, 9:411
Neville, Thomas, 3:409
Neville's ordinary, 1:39, 40; 2:76
A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 7:450
A new and easy method to understand the Roman history, 6:294
The New Atalantis, 6:298
Newbery, Francis, 8:270, 563, 566; 9:107
Newbold, Purnell, 6:386
Newburn, Thomas, 3:268, 269
New Camp. See Armstrong's New Camp
Newcastle, Captain (Indian). See Canachquasy
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Hollis, duke of, 4:99, 101; 5:69
Newcastle (New Castle), 6:377
New Creek (of Potomac River), 3:394
Newel, Samuel, 4:417
New England, 3:115, 286-87, 296, 347; 5:173
Newgate (Eagle, Lane's, Triplett's) Tavern, 8:149; 9:316
Newgent, Thomas, 3:98, 122, 128-29, 137, 141, 265, 267, 301; letters
to: from GW, 3:123-24
Newingham, 8:272. See Errata
Newington (home of Richard Chichester). See Errata
New Jersey, 2:226; 6:102, 188, 190
New Kent County: troops from, 4:290; Custis estate in, 6:203-4, 217,
218, 220-25, 231, 235, 246-47, 254, 258, 264, 266, 283; 7:331, 427; 8:126,
588-90; 9:89; records destroyed, 6:204; sheriffs of, 6:258; 8:579; clerk
of, 6:264
Newkirk, Bennett, 4:262
Newkirk's fort, 4:262
Newlonsburg, Pa., 6:134
Newman, ---- (dancing master), 8:184
Newman Sterry & Co. See Sterry, Newman, & Co.
New Market (Caroline County), 2:83; 3:111; 4:243; 6:182; 10:206
A new method of chemistry, 6:285
Newnham, Shepley (Shipley), & Co., 6:247-49; 7:26, 30, 128
Newnham, Thomas, & Co., 6:401, 404; 7:289
New Pantheon; or, Fabulous History of the Heathen Gods, 7:213,
350
New Post (Spotsylvania County), 1:7; 10:347
A new practice of physic, 6:286
New Principles of Gardening, 6:318, 333; 7:344
New Providence Island, Bahamas, 3:348
New Quarter (quarter over the mill), 8:585; 9:258
New River (Woods River), 2:59; 3:58; 8:279
New Room, 9:349. See also Mount Vernon: construction at and
mansion house
"New Shawnees" road, 6:66
A New System of Agriculture, 6:333, 337; 7:348
New Tavern (Philadelphia), 10:371
Newton, Isaac, 6:400
Newton, John (author), 6:294
Newton, John (landowner), 1:23
Newton, Thomas, Jr., 10:279; and flour, 9:156, 281, 406; id., 9:156;
and Daniel Jenifer Adams affair, 9:174-75; and Madeira-bound ship, 9:282;
account with, 9:355, 394, 396; 10:138, 177, 281, 351, 353; flour and fish
sent to, 10:319; letters from: to GW, 9:156-57, 203, 251-52, 283-84,
306; 10:31-33, 101-2, 209-10, 336-37; letters to: from GW, 9:165-66,
166-67, 175-76, 241, 264, 270-71, 405-6; 10:21, 320
Newton, Willoughby, 9:439
New Town (Stephensburg, Stephens City), 7:8
A New Treatise on the Diseases of Horses, 6:318, 333; 7:349
A New Version of the Psalms of David, 8:509, 511, 563
A new voyage to the Levant, 6:288
"New Week's Preparation," 7:300
The New Whole Duty of Man, 7:342, 438
New York. See individual volumes
Nicholas, ----: carries money, 7:434
Nicholas, Anne Cary, 1:258, 260; 4:311
Nicholas, John, 9:221; letters to: from GW, 9:192-93
Nicholas, Robert Carter, 1:258; 4:310; 6:426; 7:435; 8:42, 82; 10:300;
id., 1:260; 2:296; 3:357; 4:311; 5:79; on supervising committee, 3:65;
and report of GW's death, 5:92; and bounty money, 5:194; signs treasury
notes, 5:196; and military bill, 6:82; and Custis estate, 6:252, 265;
7:93; 8:197, 497; and Clifton dispute, 6:410; fees of, 8:51; 9:189, 190;
GW at his home, 8:181; account with, 8:347; 9:230, 394; 10:249; recommends
steward, 8:579, 580; and Lord Botetourt's estate, 9:33; and counterfeiters,
9:179; and Samuel Henley, 10:78; and bond to archbishop of Canterbury,
10:84; and meeting at Raleigh Tavern, 10:99-100; and Philip Mazzei, 10:248,
301; and money raised for delegates, 10:279; and salt scheme, 10:351,
353, 354; and Willing & Morris, 10:358; letters from: to GW, 2:295-96;
3:356-57, 378-79; 5:79-80, 92; 6:422-25, 431; 10:26-27; letters to:
from GW, 6:422. See also Errata
Nichols, Elizabeth, 7:473; 8:132, 297
Nichols, John, 2:56-57; 5:246-47
Nichols, Solomon, 7:381; 8:144
Nichols (Nicholas), Thomas, 7:304, 305, 313, 331
Nicholson, ---- (ship captain), 5:50, 112, 113
Nicholson, John, 10:189, 190, 270
Nicholson, Joseph, 8:395; 9:98
Nicholson, Robert, 8:346, 453
Nicholson, Salathial. See Mixon, Salathial
Nickson, John, 4:42
Nimmo, Gershom, 7:275, 276
Nisbett (Nisbet), James, 7:452
Nisewanger, John, 5:342
Nisewanger, Mary, 1:29
Nixon, George, 1:22, 36
Noah, 7:147
Noble, ----: and George Mercer's lands, 10:202
Nokes, Tom (slave; Home farm), 9:112
Nomini Creek, 4:108; 8:84
Nomini Forest, 7:428
Nomini neighborhood, 8:84, 122
Nonpareil (horse), 8:193-94
Norborne Parish, 8:190-91
Norfleet, John, 7:437
Norfleet, Marmaduke, 7:436-37, 470; 8:53, 137, 141, 266, 268; 9:126-27,
132-34; 10:78, 000
Norfleet, Thomas, 7:436
Norfolk (packet ship), 9:288, 352, 353
Norfolk Borough, 4:361
Norfolk County, 4:290
Norrell (Morrell), James, 3:253, 259
Norris, John, 6:292
Norris, Joseph, 4:42
Norris, Thomas, 2:253, 254
North, John, 6:341
Northampton (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Northampton County, 4:290; 6:218, 230, 231, 246, 254, 320; 9:1
North Carolina. See individual volumes
Northern Neck of Virginia, 1:354, 355; 3:19, 27, 47, 52, 267; 7:225;
8:190
Northern Neck Proprietary, 1:8-37, 39, 48; 6:183, 427
North Mountain, 3:52
North Ridge, 3:52
North River (of Cacapon River), 1:10; 2:346; 3:10-11
North River (of James River). See Maury River (North River)
North's plantation, 6:341
Northumberland County, 4:278, 290
Norton, John, 8:300; 9:221, 224, 225, 230; letters from: to GW,
5:171-72
Notes on Dryden's Virgil, 6:291; 7:347
Notley Hall (Maryland), 6:481; 7:110, 417
Nottingham, James, 7:212
Nottoway (Indians): movements of, 3:42, 44, 56, 57, 161-62; 4:124, 125;
5:241-42, 304, 417; provisions and arms for, 3:161-62, 317, 321, 403;
and Maryland, 3:182; enlisting aid of, 3:308, 317, 360, 397, 404; 4:65,
72; id., 3:309; 5:242; conductor for, 3:325; rewards to, 4:170; 5:241;
at Grant's defeat, 5:242. See also Indians
Nourse, James, 10:188-89
Novarum . . . de febribus, intermittentibus, 6:300
Novum Testamentum, 7:344
"Novum Testamentum Graecum," 7:168
Nugent, John, 3:306-7; 4:389
Nugent Only (ship), 2:277; 4:39; 5:72, 73, 87, 327, 379, 399,
402; 6:442
Nutfield tract, 9:78
Nye, Stephen, 6:291
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Oak (ship), 8:6-7, 80, 138, 139
Oakley, Benjamin, 4:43
Observations in Husbandry, 6:333, 337; 7:344, 348
Occoquan Creek, 1:235; 7:48; 8:290, 293
Occoquan ferry, 6:199
Occoquan furnace, 7:180
Occoquan mills and ironworks, 7:180; 8:139, 290, 293
Ockney (slave; York County, 1), 6:229
Ockney (slave; York County, 2), 6:229
O'Conner, William, 4:41
O'Daniel, John, 7:362; 8:147, 148
The odes, satyrs, and epistles of Horace, 6:290
Odle, Samuel, 5:338
Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Regiment of 1754: letters to:
from GW, 9:143-48
Officers of the Virginia Regiment: letters from: to earl of Loudoun,
3:364; to House of Burgesses, 4:21-22; to Adam Stephen, 4:22-23; to GW,
6:178-81; letters to: from GW, 6:186-87
Officers of the Virginia Regiment of 1754: letters to: from GW,
8:428-29
Ogden, William, 9:253
Ogilvie, William, 1:173, 174, 175
Ogle, Edward, 1:217, 219
Ogleby, Alexander, 5:334
Oglesby, James, 6:198
Oglethorpe, James, 4:375
Ohio Company, 5:77, 354; formation of, 1:45, 56, 58-59; GW comments on,
1:64; and fort at Forks of Ohio, 1:66; storehouses of, 1:68, 83, 84, 85,
90; 2:37, 328; 4:143, 144; 6:163; and Indian goods, 3:408; treasurers,
3:408; and scheme to promote war, 4:79; members of, 6:20; agent for, 8:32;
petitions of, 8:32; and Walpole Company, 8:368; and George Mercer, 8:544;
meetings of, 9:30, 313; and Lawrence Washington, 9:191; lost documents
of, 9:439
Ohio County, 8:567; 10:59, 257
Ohio River, 8:393-94
Oldakers (Ouldakers), Henry, 1:29, 33
Old Belt (Indian). See Belt of Wampum
Old Captain. See Captain, Old (dower slave)
Oldham, John, 6:287
Old Hop (Indian), 4:256, 354; 5:160
Old Plantation (Old House) Tract (Richmond County), 1:50
Old Quarter (New Kent County), 7:427; 8:126, 590; 9:257. See also
Errata
"Old Shawnesse" road, 6:66
Old Town (Cresap's fort), Md., 5:269, 368, 369
Oliffe, John, 8:475
Oliphant, Obadiah, 9:167
Oliver, Thomas: letters from: to GW, 9:343
Onandaga (Indians), 5:431, 451. See also Indians
Onandaga (N.Y.), 3:233
"On Christmas Day" (poem), 1:2, 3
O'Neil (O'Neal), Michael, 3:403
O'Neill, John & Charles, 7:498
Ope, Thomas, 3:408
Opeckon (Christopher Gist's home), 1:69; 2:115
Opequon Creek, 3:53; 4:183
Oram, James, 8:91, 201; 10:42, 137, 138, 318
Oram, Richard W., 6:209
Orange (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Orange (slave; York County), 6:229
Orange County, 1:207-8; 3:55-57, 127, 137, 145-47, 150, 159, 243, 258;
4:290
Orange County lieutenant: letters to: from GW, 4:258
Ordnance, 2:127, 245, 259; 5:147; at Rock Creek, 2:35; storage of, 2:42,
51-52, 69; 3:86, 193-94, 409, 413; returns of, 2:51-53; 3:9; 4:67, 183,
210; 5:5, 307, 309, 351-52; 6:101, 157, 171; identification of, 2:52-53,
63, 69, 112; repair of, 2:57; 3:8, 143, 160, 261, 281, 355, 409; 4:292;
5:169, 178-79, 191, 208, 212-13, 229, 235, 239, 240, 275; 6:113, 175;
need for, 2:83, 96, 102, 314; 3:19, 21, 24, 27, 28, 34, 45, 46, 49, 60,
85, 105, 112, 151, 177, 283, 421; 4:226, 236, 237, 248, 266, 290, 324-25,
328, 387; 5:129, 192-93, 200, 202, 207, 212-13, 223, 229; 6:412; instructions
regarding, 2:86, 87, 89, 96, 97, 112, 137-38, 348; 3:18-19, 25, 80, 98,
139, 169, 177, 231, 261-62, 296, 392; 4:342; 5:191-92, 208-9, 216, 228,
238, 240, 251; 6:2, 33, 55, 72-73, 77, 78, 79, 87, 96-97, 108, 113-14,
123, 126, 128, 129, 147, 152, 155; transport of, 2:127, 168; 3:23, 28,
55, 57, 66, 86, 94, 193-94, 389, 395, 405, 454; 4:38, 53, 95, 96, 130,
159-61, 167, 168, 173, 227-28, 252, 270, 303; 5:211, 231, 233, 243, 256,
368-69, 375, 377-79, 382-83, 445; 6:35, 59, 70, 77, 84, 93-94, 106-7,
108, 145, 153, 157; and civilians, 2:140; 3:60; 4:185, 193, 254, 304;
5:7, 158, 161; for Fort Loudoun, 3:85, 193-94, 397; 4:266, 304; for Gentlemen
Associators, 3:86-87; for militia, 3:94, 111, 136, 137, 139, 267; 4:236,
237, 248, 265; 5:185, 191; king's stores, 3:105, 160, 173, 180, 181; 4:169;
5:129, 259; making of, 3:111-12; 6:98, 117; bought from soldiers, 3:177-78;
for light horse, 3:178, 283; 5:236; loss of, 3:339; 4:13, 424-26; 5:236,
270, 280-81; 6:64-65, 99, 107; at Fort Cumberland, 3:366, 449; and Indians,
3:371, 398, 406-8; 5:88, 111, 116, 117, 127, 133, 134, 169, 241; 6:146,
159; bought from deserters, 4:145; artillery, 4:214, 241, 266, 295, 304,
403; 5:59, 127, 365, 397, 421, 425-26, 440; 6:116, 158; swords, 4:402;
5:112; for rangers, 5:90, 238; for Clement Read's magazine, 5:90-91; from
governor's house, 5:204, 210-11; and Maryland, 5:207, 208, 210, 212, 236;
disposal of, 5:237; and North Carolina troops, 5:304, 307; and Maryland
troops, 5:352, 368; at Fort Duquesne, 5:411; horses for, 6:21; in plans
of march and battle, 6:66; accounts for, 6:76; amount of ammunition per
man, 6:113; inspection of, 6:147-49, 153, 156; at Pittsburgh, 6:176, 360;
French arms, 6:178
Orford (slave; Dogue Run), 7:228, 313, 366, 443
Organ, John, 4:390
Orme, ---- (Mrs. Robert), 2:322
Orme, Robert, 1:281, 283, 325, 326, 363; 2:155; 4:372; id., 1:241; relations
with GW, 1:242; inspects roads, 1:296; letters to GW, 1:328; wounded,
1:334-35, 336, 340; defends Edward Braddock, 2:11, 165-66; sails for England,
2:166; scandal concerning elopement of, 2:321-22; letters from:
to GW, 1:241-42, 249; 2:9-11, 165-66, 320-22; to Augustus Keppel, 1:335;
letters to: from GW, 1:242-45, 246-48, 286-87, 288, 329-30, 347-48;
from Robert Hunter Morris, 1:335
Ormiston, John, 6:281
Orr, Hugh, 6:321
Orr, John, 7:434; 8:143, 144; 9:317
Orre, William, 10:133, 134, 135, 141
Orson (slave; Gilbert Simpson's), 9:148, 149, 186, 241, 291
Osborne, Charles, 3:170
Osborne, Daniel, 1:33
Osborne, Francis, 6:297
Osborns (on James River), 5:90, 91-92
Osbourne (Osborn), Richard, 6:341, 342; 7:502, 503
Osling, Isaac, 6:312, 446, 447
Osling, Jacob, 6:376
Ostenaco, Otacite (Indian; Judge's Friend, Judd's Friend), 3:260, 446;
4:196, 225, 261, 263-64, 271, 279, 285, 307-8, 357-58; 7:266
Ostervald, ----, 6:287
Oswald, George, 8:253-54
Oswald, George and Richard, 6:250-51, 254, 259
Oswald, Richard, 7:189
Oswald, Richard, & Co., 7:188
Oswald & Denniston, 7:481; 10:252
Oswego, N.Y., 3:286-89, 296, 385, 386, 400; 4:101
Otacite of Estatoe, 4:317
Otacite of Tomatly. See Ostenaco, Otacite
Otis & Henley, 9:477
Ottawa (Indians), 1:84; 6:364. See also Indians
Otway, Charles, 3:288; 7:71
Ouchterlony, David, 4:124, 125
Ourry, Lewis, 6:96
Our Saviour's divine sermon on the mount . . . explained, 6:286
Outram, William, 8:85, 86, 89, 106; 10:286
Overton, Samuel, 2:90; 3:110, 406
Ovid, 6:289
Ovid's tristia, 6:296; 7:347
Ovid travistie, a burlesque upon Ovid's epistles, 6:289
Owen, John, 4:43
Owsley, Thomas, 9:439
Oxon Hill (Maryland), 8:121
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Paca, William, 9:164, 165; 10:103
Packet, William, 4:42
Packet, William Stuart, 2:65, 66; 3:252, 256, 306-7; 4:334, 335, 389
Packton (Paxton), ----, 2:64
Packwood, Samuel, 2:306, 307
Page, Bryan, 3:253, 259
Page, James, 8:511, 558-65; 9:16, 64, 103, 222, 224, 225, 227, 230, 233
Page, John (1720-1774), 10:81, 82, 142, 185; 351-52, 353
Page, John (of North End; d. 1780), 8:194, 456; 9:374, 377, 394, 400,
478; 10:8
Page, John (of Rosewell; 1743-1808), 9:356; 10:79, 141; letters from:
to GW, 9:477-78
Page, Mann, 3:375; 10:23, 297
Page, Mann, Jr. (c.1739-1803), 8:571; 10:99-100, 297
Page, Mann, II (c.1718-c.1781), 7:233, 235, 280, 314, 315; 8:50, 153;
10:297
Page's warehouse, 8:482
Pain, William, 10:343
Painceller, Nicholas, 5:335
Paine, John (captain), 5:234
Paine (Payne), John (of North Carolina), 6:37, 147
Painter, Edward, 6:47
Painter, John, 5:338
Palatines, 9:475-77, 485, 493-96, 506-7, 508-10, 520; 10:4-7, 15, 23-24
Palmer, ---- (Mrs.), 8:376, 377
Palmer, ---- (young), 8:222
Palmer, Cornelius, 8:355, 376, 377
Palmer, Edmund, 8:112
Palmer, George, 4:42
Palmer, Jack (slave; carpenter; New Kent County), 6:220, 282
Palmer, John, 2:164; 3:332, 369, 376-77; 4:283, 289-90; 5:68; 6:255,
263; 7:91
Palmer, Jonathan, 8:356, 479; 9:54, 55, 238; 10:104; cradling and mowing,
8:112; agreement with GW, 8:113; accounts with, 8:121, 222, 290, 306,
323, 376, 405, 431, 441, 522, 527; 9:1, 35, 58, 111, 133, 208, 293, 395;
borrows money, 8:244; id., 8:291; moves to John Posey's place, 8:377;
leaves Mount Vernon, 10:138
Palmer, Philip, John & Charles, 8:562, 566
Palmer, Thomas, 8:305
Palmer, Thomas (gunsmith), 10:189, 190, 224, 270, 357
Palmer & Fleetwood, 7:204, 205
Palmer & Son & Fleetwood, 6:247-49
Pamocra, 8:581
Paoli, Pasquale, 7:365
Paradise lost, 6:291, 296, 298; 7:345-46; 8:493
Paradise regain'd, 6:291; 7:346
Parismus, 6:293; 7:344
Parke, Daniel, 6:212-13, 300; 7:211; 9:233
Parke, Dunbar. See Dunbar, Thomas (of Antigua)
Parke, George, 1:22
Parke (Park), John, 1:20, 33
Parke, John, Jr., 1:20
Parke, John, Sr., 1:22
Parke, Roger, 1:29
Parker, ----, 3:197
Parker, ---- (George William Fairfax's tenant), 10:85
Parker, Dorcas, 9:253
Parker, George, 2:134, 137, 141; 3:11
Parker, Hugh, 1:59
Parker, James, 9:383, 384; 10:162
Parker, John (of Hampshire County), 1:25; 3:124, 197, 265; 4:10
Parker, John (of New Jersey), 6:188, 190
Parker, Lawson, 9:253; 10:194, 196
Parker, Richard, 7:219-22, 224, 512; 8:63, 153
Parker, Thomas, Sr., 1:22
Parker, William, 7:367; 8:136, 141, 266
Parker's fort. See Cocks's fort
Parker's ordinary, 7:367
Parkes, John (soldier), 6:47
Parkins. See Perkins
Parramore, ---- (colonel), 4:333
Parrell, John, 5:341
Parrell, Joseph, 5:340
Parros (dower slave; King William County), 6:218
Parros (Paros, Peros; slave; Dogue Run), 7:45, 65-67, 139, 228, 313
Parros (Peros, Pieras; dower slave), 7:67, 8:401, 402
Parros (Peros, Pieras; slave; Claiborne's plantation), 6:311; 8:583,
590
Parros (slave; King William County), 6:225
Parrott, Daniel, 6:47
Parson, ----: sells horse, 8:393
Parsons, James, 9:181-82
Parsons, Thomas, 8:395
Parthenissa, 6:293; 7:346
Participant in the Potomac River Enterprise: letters to: from
GW, 7:175-78
Partner (horse), 8:83
Pasley, Thomas, 6:252
Passavant (Passavent), ---- (Mrs.), 6:248; 7:325, 326
Passwater, William, 2:224, 272
Pasteur, William, 8:268-9, 460, 487; 9:30, 73, 117, 139, 355, 367, 368,
370
Patapsco River (Maryland), 10:358
Patcy (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Pate, Samuel, 4:332
Pate, Thomas (soldier), 4:332
Pate (Pait), Thomas, 6:267, 281
Paterson, Fleming, 8:145, 146
Pathomyotomia, 6:295
Patishall, William, 4:281
Patrick, John, 4:42
Patrick (dower slave; Hanover County), 6:218
Patrick (slave; Hanover County), 6:231
Patriot Blues. See Gentlemen Associators
Patt (dower slave; King William County), 6:218
Patt (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Patt (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 6:311; 8:583, 590
Patt (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Patt (slave; John Augustine Washington's), 7:173
Patt (slave; King William County), 6:225
Patt (slave; York County), 6:229
Patterson, James (of Pennsylvania), 2:308, 309; 6:36-37
Patterson, James (of Williamsburg), 7:496
Patterson, John (carpenter), 5:434; 7:381; and John Posey, 5:218; id.,
5:222-23; 7:109; and George William Fairfax, 5:328; and construction at
Mount Vernon, 5:371-72, 391, 407-8, 418, 436, 438, 448; 6:19, 198, 199;
account with, 7:105, 107; and Potomac navigation, 7:177; letters from:
to GW, 5:222-23, 390-91, 449-50
Patterson, Robert, 4:362, 363
Patterson, Thomas, 10:104, 105
Patterson, William (of Frederick County), 5:335
Patterson, William (of Pennsylvania), 6:92, 93
Patterson (Patterson's) Creek, 1:198; 2:73, 146; 3:35; 4:10, 138; 5:143
Patterson's fort (Frederick County), 4:180, 182, 260, 262, 362; 5:67,
103, 121, 129, 130
Patterson's fort (Pennsylvania), 2:309. See also Pomfret Castle
Pattie, ----: GW buys mare from, 8:522
Patton, James, 1:67, 80, 206, 208; 2:19, 90, 189, 293; 3:434, 435
Patuxent (ship), 8:488
Patuxent River (Maryland), 7:8; 9:347-48
Paul, Aaron, 3:123, 136
Paul, George, 5:335
Paul, Hugh, 9:122, 146
Paul, Little (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Paul (dower slave; Hanover County), 6:218
Paul (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Paul (slave; Dogue Run), 7:443, 516; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:55
Paul (slave; Hanover County), 6:231
Paul (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Paul (slave; Old Quarter), 8:590
Paul (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Paul (slave; William Waters's), 7:315
Paulin, Henry, 4:266
Pawlins, Henry, 5:356-57, 360
Paxton, Peter, 6:288
Payne, ----: his boat landing, 8:288
Payne, Daniel, 6:443, 444; 7:513; letters from: to GW, 7:502-6
Payne, Edward, 7:361, 381, 384, 428-29, 452, 508; 8:4-5, 147, 221, 247;
10:128
Payne, John (goldsmith), 6:247-49; 7:129, 131, 196, 291, 473; 8:554
Payne, William, 7:106, 110, 361, 384; 8:149, 182; 10:128
Payne, William, Jr., 7:381
Payne's church. See Upper Church
Peachey, Elizabeth Griffin, 5:55
Peachey, Le Roy, 5:56
Peachey, Million Glasscock, 5:55
Peachey, Samuel, 5:56
Peachey, Thomas Griffin, 5:55, 56
Peachey (Peachy), William, 2:211, 260, 298, 344, 347; 3:22, 25-26, 38-39,
65-66, 124, 152-53, 447; 4:22-23, 203; 6:469; companies of, 2:14, 61,
113, 126, 131, 148, 162, 271, 354; 3:156, 169-70, 187, 189, 198, 212,
213, 226, 253, 257, 258, 263, 348, 429; 4:77; 5:268; 6:32; id., 2:28,
341; 3:170; 5:55; 6:35; appointments and assignments, 2:40, 42, 100, 243,
261; 3:9, 252; 4:21, 155, 166, 334, 362, 405; 6:35, 53, 59, 63, 70, 72,
77, 118, 121, 123, 150, 470; 7:122; movements of, 2:82; 3:45, 51; illness
of, 2:223-24, 233; orders to, 2:350; 3:153, 191, 254; and misconduct of
officers, 3:37; and rumor concerning GW, 3:38; and Landon Carter, 3:185;
robbed, 3:328, 332, 368; 4:17; military service, 3:389; 5:287, 311, 318,
325; and criticism of GW, 4:382-83, 411; laments loss of commission, 5:54-55;
pay of, 5:56; 6:469; paymaster, 6:112; and provisions for brigade, 6:151;
adjutant of militia, 6:364, 384-85; and frontier battalion, 6:470; his
pretensions to rank, 7:121; and bounty lands, 8:276; resolution regarding
bounty lands, 9:94-95; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22, 381-84; 5:54-56;
letters to: from GW, 2:27-28, 117-18; 4:414-15
Peake, Ann (Nancy), 8:405, 474
Peake, Humphrey, 8:147; account with, 6:339, 378; 7:178, 438, 477; 8:67,
355, 473, 486, 487, 556; 9:152; 10:194; id., 6:340, 379; borrows money,
7:4, 9; 8:405, 474; 9:35; kitchen built for, 7:439; hunting, 9:184; shoes
ordered for, 9:270, 275; his home, 10:372
Peake, John (d. 1758), 6:339, 340
Peake, John (d. 1761), 6:378, 379
Peake, John (of Fauquier County), 10:372-73
Peake, William, 6:340; 7:297
Peale, Charles Willson, 9:36-37, 49, 50, 51, 367, 370, 433; 10:77, 79
Pearce, Thomas, 6:294
Peareth, William: letters from: to GW, 8:195, 343-44; letters
to: from GW, 8:381-82
Pearis, ----, 2:334, 345, 347
Pearis, Richard, 4:105; and Indians, 2:159; 3:391, 426, 445, 446; 4:27,
54, 62, 65, 71, 105, 119-20, 140, 141, 142, 144, 196, 236; 5:5, 7, 278;
id., 2:161, 336; 4:196-97; misconduct of, 4:157, 158-59, 196; military
service, 4:189, 193, 254; 5:7; 6:119; criticism of, 5:278; letters
from: to John Armstrong, 4:195-96
Pearis (Paris), Robert, 2:119, 336; 3:122-23, 230, 384; 4:262; 5:304-5,
341, 391-92; 7:69-70
Pearis's fort, 3:122-23
Pearsal, Job, 1:84; 2:142, 270; 3:96-97, 121, 343, 391; 4:47, 110, 349,
404; 6:26, 27; troops at his residence, 1:82; 4:211; id., 1:83; 2:94;
3:92; 4:149; aids in stationing troops, 3:88, 91; need for blockhouse
at his residence, 3:245; ordered to supply provisions, 3:335; wagons and
stores sent to his residence, 4:57, 138; mileages to his fort, 5:245
Pearsal's fort, 1:83, 84; 2:94; 3:265, 310; 4:48, 222; commanders at,
2:167; 6:8; skirmish at, 3:120; troops at, 3:127, 137, 146, 159; 4:77;
5:58, 67, 158, 161, 208, 211, 221, 246, 257, 258, 269, 378; 6:8, 118,
135; orders concerning, 3:147, 149, 150, 336; proposals for, 4:128, 146,
154, 220-21; repairs of, 4:340, 352; road to, 5:158; on GW's map, 5:207;
provisions for, 5:237; id., 5:386-87
Pearson, Milkey, 7:178, 179, 373
Pearson, Samuel, 5:337
Pearson, Simon, 7:381; 8:146; land transaction with, 7:104, 106, 108,
110, 139, 179, 210, 228, 278, 350, 373; 8:144, 283; 9:431
Pearson, Thomas, 7:381
Peavock, 8:312
Pechey, John, 6:295
Peck (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Peers, Valentine, 9:399; 10:200, 201
Peg (slave), 7:352
Peg (slave; Great House plantation, 1), 8:587
Peg (slave; Great House plantation, 2), 8:587
Peg (slave; Great House plantation, 3), 8:587
Peg (slave; River farm): tithable, 7:139, 228, 313, 377, 443, 516; 8:104,
221, 357, 479; 9:55, 238; 10:137; midwife for, 7:515; 8:557
Pegg (dower slave; York County), 6:218
Pegg (slave; Samuel Washington's), 7:173
Pegg (slave; York County, 1), 6:229
Pegg (slave; York County, 2), 6:229
Peggy (ship), 7:157, 163
Peggy (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Peggy and Elizabeth (ship), 5:49, 113, 436
Pelham, Peter, 9:260
Pemberton, George, 5:337
Pemberton, Josiah, 5:339
Pence, Lawrence, 5:335
Pendergrass, Derby, 6:478, 479
Pendergrass, Garret, 10:306
Pendergrass's Bottom, 10:306
Pendleton, ---- (brother of Edmund Pendleton), 10:233
Pendleton, B., 6:277
Pendleton, Benjamin, 3:118, 129-31
Pendleton, Edmund, 1:119; 3:438; 10:192-93; appointed justice, 2:296;
and military bill, 6:82; accounts with, 6:255, 259; 7:190, 213, 215; 8:140,
262, 266, 346, 456, 531, 532; 9:30, 127, 190, 191, 341, 355; 10:356; and
the Armistead estate, 7:366, 367; 9:127; 10:351; as John Robinson's trustee,
7:480; 9:44, 377, 399; and Bernard Moore, 8:26; and Posey-West land dispute,
8:185, 186; and GW's rights to Mount Vernon, 8:223-25; and Savage affair,
8:261; 10:278; and Bryan Fairfax, 8:262; and Daniel McCarty, 8:271; and
Dunbar suit, 8:498, 525, 526; 9:312, 313, 366; recommends steward, 8:575,
576, 579; and Eastern Shore suit, 9:232, 285; family of, 9:235, 400; and
GW's guardian accounts, 9:370, 372; and William Black's lands, 9:378,
386, 402, 429, 479; 10:22; and Four Mile Run land, 9:410; 10:202; and
GW's business, 9:437; and George Muse, 10:76; and meeting at Raleigh Tavern,
10:99-100; delegate to Continental Congress, 10:151, 174, 000, 000; and
Joseph Chew, 10:165, 166; and Andrew Morton, 10:250; letters from:
to GW, 8:223-25, 345, 576; 9:90-91, 142-43, 399-400; 10:233-34, 340-41;
to Joseph Chew, 9:517-18; letters to: from GW, 8:344-45
Pendleton, Edmund, Jr., 9:44, 221; letters from: to GW, 9:234-35
Pendleton, John, 8:579; 9:44, 235; letters from: to GW, 8:575-76
Pendleton, Philip, 8:573; 9:74, 143, 170, 171
Pendleton, Sarah Pollard, 9:399, 400
Penman, Thomas, 6:253
Penn, John, 8:55-56, 58, 207
Penn, Richard, 9:307
Penn, Thomas, 1:215
Penn, William, 6:439; 9:465
Pennington, ----: and Custis estate, 6:257
Pennington, Abraham, 1:28
Pennington, Isaac, 1:26
Penn's Creek (Pennsylvania), 2:121
Pennsylvania. See individual volumes
Pennsylvania Gazette, 4:388
Pennsylvania-Virginia boundary dispute, 8:30, 32, 39; 9:357, 415, 464-66;
10:43-44, 94, 260
Penny (slave; David Meade's), 7:315
Pennywit, John, 5:206
Pennywit's mill, 5:205
Pen Park, 10:350
Pensacola (West Florida), 10:362
Penson, ---- (father), 8:577; 9:290
Penson, ---- (son), 9:290
Penson, Aaron: letters to: from Henry Stuart and Alexander Cameron,
9:207
Pentecost, Dorsey, 9:419, 421
Pepperrell, William, 1:80, 248; 2:286
Percy, Hugh, 10:368
Perkins (Parkins), Charles, 5:335
Perkins (Parkins), Elisha, 4:231, 232
Perkins (Parkins), Isaac, 2:103, 107; 3:106; 5:252-53, 334, 343, 366-67,
373-74, 393
Perkins (Parkins), Jonathan, 5:343
Perkins's (Parkins's) mill, 5:252
Perquimans County, N.C., 9:134
Perrey (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587
Perry, Franklin, 8:146
Perry, Joseph (of North Carolina), 2:182, 183-84, 234, 235
Perry, Joseph (soldier), 3:338, 340
Perry, Peter, 5:342
Perry, Thomas, 5:342
Perry (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Perry (slave; Northampton County, 1), 6:230
Perry (slave; Northampton County, 2), 6:230
Perry Hall (Maryland), 8:464
Perryman, Robert, 4:42
Pert, Griffin, 3:250, 252, 254-55, 429, 447; 4:202, 205, 206, 293, 311;
letters from: to GW, 4:18-22
Peter, Robert, 3:239, 241; 7:177
Peter, Thomas, 3:241
Peter (dower slave, Doll's child; New Kent County), 6:217
Peter (slave; blacksmith), 8:20; and smith's accounts, 6:3, 75, 77, 134,
135, 164; illness, 6:4, 25, 135; at Mount Vernon, 6:5; tithable, 6:428;
7:45, 139; shoes for, 6:430; makes items for George William Fairfax, 7:232;
id., 7:233
Peter (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Peter (slave; Bullskin plantation; blacksmith), 5:366-67, 373-74
Peter (slave; carpenter), 6:282
Peter (slave; Charles Washington's), 7:173
Peter (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 591
Peter (slave; Ferry farm), 9:54, 55, 238; 10:137
Peter (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Peter (slave; Home farm), 8:220, 356; 9:54, 55, 238; 10:137
Peter (slave; Home farm, 1), 8:479
Peter (slave; Home farm, 2), 8:479
Peter (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Peter (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Peter (slave; tradesman), 7:227, 313, 376, 443, 515; 8:104, 220, 356
Peter (slave; York County, 1), 6:229
Peter (slave; York County, 2), 6:229
Peter (William Byrd's slave), 6:313
Peters, Richard, 1:300; 2:115-16; 4:217, 225; 5:108; 6:106; letters
to: from GW, 4:429-30
Peterson, Jacob, 3:321-22; 8:368, 371; 9:277; 10:82; carries goods, 8:159,
160, 511; 9:233, 272, 273; and shipments of tobacco, 8:230, 369, 480,
482, 506, 507; 9:27, 63-64, 72, 74, 85, 115, 127, 231, 243, 254, 255-56,
276-77, 284, 297; 10:85
Peterson, William, 9:74, 170, 171, 189, 504
Peter the Great, 5:375, 376
Petet (Pettit), ---- (widow), 10:86
Petit, Thomas, 6:430
Petsworth Parish, 9:487
Petticoat Gap. See Hoop Petticoat Gap
Pettit, Edward, 6:294
Pettyfore, Thomas, 3:112
Pewgh, Samuel, 6:47
Peyrouny. See La Péronie, William
Peyton, ----: expenses at his place, 8:436
Peyton, Craven, 9:185, 307, 340, 347, 348, 351, 448; 10:113; and George
William Fairfax's affairs, 10:19, 98, 100, 193, 281-84, 285, 316, 367;
George William Fairfax's power of attorney to, 10:37; and plat of Mercer
land, 10:203; and list of Fairfax's tenants, 10:368; letters from:
to GW, 9:499; 10:37, 188-89; letters to: from GW, 9:184-85
Peyton, Francis, 8:438; 10:19, 20, 193, 196, 211, 239, 326, 328, 358
Peyton, Henry, 3:97-98, 117, 119, 123-24, 128-29, 137, 148, 150; 10:340;
letters to: from GW, 3:121-22, 122, 141, 149, 197
Peyton, Valentine, 1:271
Peyton, William, 4:333
Peyton, Yelverton, 8:79, 192, 266, 438, 569, 571; 9:91; 10:80
Peyton's ordinary, 8:79, 192, 193, 438
Ph-- (slave; York County), 6:229
Phaedro, Georgius, 6:295
Pharmacopoeia bateana, 6:288
Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, 6:287
Pharmacopoeia officinalis & extemporanea, 6:296
Pharmacopoeia pauperum, 6:291
Pharmacopoeia Radcliffeana, 6:292-93, 296
Pheasant, The (Indian), 8:395
Phebe (slave, Alce's child; New Kent County), 6:220
Phebe (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Phelps, John, 2:90
Phil (slave, Esther's child; New Kent County), 6:220
Phil (slave, Eulin's child; York County), 6:229
Philadelphia, 4:400; 5:13, 36, 165; 6:439
Philadelphia, College of, 9:154, 161-62, 164; 10:170
Philadelphia merchants: letters to: from Annapolis merchants,
8:183-84
Philee, 9:340
Philips, Ambrose, 6:291
Philips, Edward, 6:293
Philips, Thomas, 10:195
Philipse, ---- (Mrs. Frederick), 7:156
Philipse, Mary Eliza (Polly), 1:287; 2:323; 4:116, 302, 303, 365; 5:128,
129; 7:156
Phill (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Phill (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Phill (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Phill (slave; Thomas Nelson's), 7:314
Phillips, John, 6:292
Phillis (dower slave; New Kent County), 6:217
Phillis (Phyllis; slave; house servant), 6:428; 7:45, 139, 443, 515;
8:104, 169, 220, 221, 356, 479
Phillis (slave; Augustine Washington's), 7:172
Phillis (slave; Bullskin plantation), 6:421
Phillis (slave; Home farm), 10:137, 138
Phillis (slave; Mary Washington's), 7:173
Phillis (slave; Muddy Hole), 7:228, 313, 376
Phillis (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Phillis (slave; spinner), 6:282
"Philo patria," 3:437
Phipps, Benjamin, 1:22
Phipps, Isaiah, 1:30
Phoebe (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Phoebe (slave; Home farm), 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Phoebe (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587
Phoebe (slave; Muddy Hole), 6:428; 7:45, 139, 228, 313, 376, 443, 516
Phoenix (ship), 7:3, 54, 55, 62
Phripp, Matthew, 7:366, 367; 9:282
Phripp & Newton: letters to: from GW, 9:281-82
Physicall and chymicall works, 6:295
Physico-Theology, 6:300
Pickawillany (Indian town), 3:104
Pickering, William, 5:336
Pickett, William, 2:77, 78-79
Pickett's ordinary, 2:76
Piggot, Benjamin, 6:266, 271
Pigman, Jesse, 10:91-92
Pike, Richard, 4:43
Pinchbeck, Christopher, 8:136
Pine Grove Farm. See Ferry Farm
Pinkney, Robert, 9:7
"Pioneers march," 4:48
Pipe Creek (Ohio country), 8:514; 10:53, 54
Piper, David, 3:203; 7:262, 263
Piper, Harry, 5:217, 448; 7:381; 8:145, 424; id., 5:218; 8:524; account
with, 5:284-85; 7:417, 418; 8:531; 9:111, 189, 190, 433; buys tobacco,
6:429, 430; sells rum, 6:443; sells guns, 7:304; and Margaret Savage,
7:504-5; 8:523; 9:10, 11, 12, 83-84, 101, 102; imports servants, 8:25,
112; his fiddler, 8:556; and the bloomery, 9:447, 449; 10:132, 156; letters
from: to Dixon & Littledale, 7:504, 504-5; to John Dixon, 7:504, 505;
to GW, 9:15; letters to: from GW, 9:9-10, 14
Piper, John, 3:203
Piper, Jonathan, 3:203
Piscataway, Md., 7:6; 8:24, 305; 9:499
Piscataway Creek (Maryland), 7:136
Piscataway Creek (Virginia), 7:286
Pitcher, James, 4:364, 365
Pitt, Robert, 6:288
Pitt, William, the elder, 4:416; 5:203; 6:195; 9:466; and attack on Louisburg,
4:101; 5:71, 328-29; recalls Loudoun, 4:101; 5:98; and John Smith's scheme,
5:105; and temporary rank for officers, 5:126; resigns, 7:39, 98; letters
from: to John Blair, 5:115; letters to: from Arthur Dobbs,
3:288; from John Forbes, 5:119, 227
Pitt (ship), 7:410
Pittsburgh (Fort Pitt), 6:160, 343, 361, 364. See also Fort Pitt
Pittsburgh (Loyalhanna), 6:137
Plackett, John, 4:391
A plain account of the nature and end of the sacrament of the
Lord's Supper, 6:286
Planters Friend (ship), 8:8
Plater, George, 8:63, 64
Plato, 6:400
Platoon, 2:24
Pleasant, Thomas, 10:76
Pleasant Hill, 9:375-79, 383, 385-86, 388-90, 401, 424-28, 458; 10:35,
84
Pliny's panegyrick, 6:290; 7:347
Plowman, Jonathan, 8:526
Pluche, Antoine Noel, 7:346
Plumers (Maryland), 2:76
Plummer, George, 3:301; 4:404, 405
Plummer, Thomas, 1:229
Plummitt, Thomas, 7:441, 451
Plutarch's lives, 6:285; 7:347
Plutarch's morals, 6:290; 7:345
Pocatellico Creek, 10:78
Poe, Samuel, 3:252, 257; 4:164-65, 277
Poems (Milton), 6:291
Poems (Tate), 6:289
Poems (Vaughan), 6:294
Poems (Waller), 6:288
Poems and discourses occasionally written (Norris), 6:292
Poems chiefly consisting of satyres and satyrical epistles (Gould),
6:290
Poems upon several occasions (Behn), 6:290
The poetical histories, 6:292
Poetry (in GW's letterbook), 1:46, 47
Pohick Church (Lower Church), 7:407; 8:246-48, 272, 527-28; 9:275, 349,
396, 463; 10:98, 140, 187, 317, 319
Pohick warehouse, 10:27
Poindexter, William, 6:252
Point Pleasant, 10:88
Point Pleasant, Battle of, 10:44, 164, 183-84, 366
Poker, Michael, 5:335
Poker, Philip, 5:342
Polhill, Edward, 7:293, 295
Pollard, Joshua, 7:454, 455, 464-65; 8:6, 69-70, 105; letters to:
from GW, 7:459-60
Pollard, Thomas, 10:128
Pollock, James, 6:92
Pollock, Thomas, 9:406, 408, 463; 10:56; letters to: from GW,
9:387-88
Polly (ship), 6:451, 460; 7:22, 29, 49-50
Polly (slave; Charles Washington's), 7:173
Polly (slave; Northampton County), 6:230
Polly Ogle (ship), 7:306, 334, 335
Polson, ----, 1:79
Polson, John, 2:41, 43, 291; id., 1:79; 2:47; 8:484; appointments and
assignments, 2:40, 42; 4:166; military service, 2:45, 47, 229, 232; receives
commission in British regiment, 2:227, 279; resignation of, 2:252-53;
and bounty lands, 9:116, 122, 128-31, 144, 189, 197; 10:79; letters
from: to GW, 8:409, 450; letters to: from GW, 8:483-84
Polson, John, Jr., 8:484
Polson, Rebecca, 1:79
Polson, William, 1:191, 198, 199; 2:40; 3:442; 4:103; and Fort Necessity
campaign, 1:78, 156, 162; id., 1:79; 8:484; promoted, 1:208; commended,
1:209; 8:483; and account, 1:222; company of, 1:326, 338; 2:39, 261, 300;
death of, 1:336, 338, 339, 342; 2:47; and bounty lands, 8:451; 10:79,
333
Polygraphice, 6:292
Pomet, Pierre, 6:285
Pomfret (Pomphret), Elizabeth, 7:375
Pomfret Castle, 2:308, 309, 316. See also Patterson's fort (Pennsylvania)
Pompey (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Pompey (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Pompey (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Pond, Joseph, 6:252
Pontiac's War, 7:227, 236-37, 238, 242, 338-40
Poo (Pow; Poe), John, 3:135; 10:40, 42
Poole, Joshua, 6:290
Poole, William, 5:418-19; 6:377, 378; 8:145; letters from: to
GW, 5:274-75
Poor, Jeremiah, 4:163
Pope, ---- (corporal), 4:231
Pope, Alexander, 3:410, 412; 6:293, 400; 7:345
Pope, Ephraim, 4:232
Pope, John, 3:252, 257; 4:232, 389
Pope, Walter, 6:291
Popejoy, Nathaniel, 7:381; 8:146, 147
Pope's Creek (Virginia), 1:7, 229; 6:20
Poplar Grove (New Kent County), 6:329
Port Conway, Va., 10:29
Porter, ---- (of Aquia), 10:103
Porter, Catey, 10:31
Port Mahon, Minorca, 3:248, 249-50, 377. See also Minorca
Port Royal, Va., 6:380; 7:268
Port Tobacco, Md., 6:386
Port Tobacco Parish (Maryland), 7:123
Posey, Amelia (Milly), 8:167, 323, 355, 396; 9:132, 288; 10:270
Posey, Elizabeth Adair, 8:212, 214-16, 235-36, 255, 257, 271-72, 470-71
Posey, Hanson, 8:167, 213, 216, 441, 471, 472
Posey, John, 6:414; 7:169; 8:51, 53, 377; 10:9, 103; accounts, 5:217;
6:331, 332, 429, 430; 7:104, 108, 185, 235; 8:59, 268, 323; 9:31; hires
GW's carpenter, 5:217-18, 222-23, 439; id., 5:218; company of, 5:258,
268, 287, 364, 383, 384; 6:32, 127; and sale of land to GW, 6:342, 438,
439; 8:187, 212-13, 254, 396, 401, 421, 591-92; 9:53, 54, 111, 112, 151,
199, 200, 205, 207, 431; 10:40, 42; his ferry, 6:407; 7:268, 286; 8:37,
70; GW's loans and gifts to, 7:4, 9, 229, 261, 263, 319, 340, 341, 514;
8:4, 215, 250, 252-54, 441, 486; 9:301, 317, 340; 10:19; pay of, 7:5,
11; his back pay as officer, 7:171; and Thomas Hanson Marshall's account,
7:186; and William Whiting's land, 7:304, 309, 310; elected to Fairfax
vestry, 7:361; and House of Burgesses elections, 7:376, 377-84, 384, 508;
8:144-48; elected to Truro vestry, 7:384; GW gives advice to, 8:1-4; and
George Mason, 8:35-37; sells slaves, 8:37, 357; dispute with John West,
8:185-87, 344-45; 9:2-4; 10:221; marriage of, 8:214-15, 248; multiple
births of slaves, 8:215; and Charles Washington, 8:216, 439; and sale
of his estate, 8:220, 249, 250, 254-57, 260, 262, 263, 272, 311, 313,
314, 317, 527, 528; and building of new church, 8:247, 248; dubious practices
of, 8:254-56; and Hector Ross, 8:269, 363; in jail, 8:467; 9:140; and
St. Lawrence Posey, 9:140-41; 10:177; at Mount Vernon, 10:20; his fishery
rented, 10:229; letters from: to GW, 7:516; 8:26, 33, 167, 233,
470-73; 9:301; letters to: from GW, 8:1-4, 34-37, 211-16, 234-37,
429
Posey, John Price, 8:211, 257, 341, 418, 432-33, 470-71, 72, 486; 10:177
Posey, Martha Price Harrison, 1:52; 6:342, 439; 8:37, 59, 167, 185, 186,
212, 470; 9:3
Posey, Richard, 3:253, 259
Posey, St. Lawrence, 8:471, 472; 9:140-41, 301; 10:9, 177
Posey's ferry, 6:407; 8:37, 386, 401, 512; 9:53, 54
Postal service, 3:363-64
Posten, ---- (of Pennsylvania), 10:334
Postgate, Thomas, 5:337
Posthumous works in prose and verse (Butler), 6:292
Potomac district of Maryland, 9:505
Potomack (ship), 7:53, 54, 397
Potomac River, 1:10; 4:10; 8:305, 435, 486, 512
Potomac River Company (Potomac Company), 1:180, 198; 10:244
Potomac River navigation, 10:196, 345; proposals for, 1:179, 196-98;
7:175-78; 8:284-90; and GW's role, 7:175-76, 177; 8:357-60; advertisement
for subscriptions, 7:176-77; and Proclamation of 1763, 7:177; documents
relating to, 8:289, 293; Maryland and Virginia bills for, 8:289, 290,
294, 352; and John Semple, 8:291-94; Jonathan Boucher's ideas on, 8:324-25;
and Thomas Johnson, 8:349-52; 10:266-67; meeting of trustees, 10:221;
Normand Bruce's scheme for, 10:238; John Ballendine's plans for, 10:242-44;
and Potomac River bill, 10:268; and George Mason, 10:275-76, 298-99. See
also Potomac River Company
Potowmack (George Rowe's ship), 10:180
Potowmack (Lyonel Bradstreet's ship), 10:336
Potter, ----: and St. Lawrence Posey, 9:301
Potter, Joseph, 10:9
Pottie (Pattie), George, 8:31
Potts, George, 1:30
Pound, Maurice (Moritz), 6:368-70, 417, 418
Pow, John. See Poo, John
Powell, Ambrose, 8:302, 304
Powell, Benjamin, 6:257
Powell, George, 6:257
Powell, Joseph (of Cacapon River), 1:22
Powell, Joseph (of Fairfax County), 8:146
Powell, Leven, 10:10-12, 29, 239
Powell, William, 9:112, 137, 138
Powells River, 8:31
Power, Jack, 9:428, 429, 479, 481; 10:22
Power, James, 3:436, 437; 5:79, 80
Powers, Machaa., 7:5
Powers mill, 4:220-21. See also Fort George (Powers mill)
Pownall, Thomas, 6:431; 9:304
Poyne (Poynes), ---- (sergeant), 6:15, 16, 27-30, 176
The Practical Builder, or, Workman's General Assistant, 10:343
The practical husbandman, 7:344
A practical treatise of husbandry, 7:299-300, 344, 349
The practice of physick, 6:288; 8:511
Prague, 4:374
Prather, Henry, 5:368-69; letters from: to GW, 5:368
Prather, Thomas, 7:177
Pratt, Marshall, 9:122, 145; 10:40, 42
Praxis medica, 6:287
"Prayer Book," 8:509, 563
"Preceptor," 7:298, 300, 302
Prentis, ----: and Custis estate, 6:253; 8:198, 199, 453; account with,
7:336
Prentis, John, 6:228; 7:337
Prentis, William, 2:291; 7:337; id., 2:113; 7:274; sends supplies, 2:113-14,
127, 128, 168, 294, 295; commissioner to settle Indian accounts, 7:15;
accounts with, 7:303; 8:486; 9:30, 367, 368, 370; letters from:
to GW, 2:113-14
Prentis, William, & Co., 6:321; 7:262, 263
Prescot, John, 10:19; accounts with, 7:3, 105, 240, 268, 276, 333, 393,
452, 508; 8:5, 41, 156, 199, 201, 437; 9:53, 252; id., 7:8; 8:438; death
of, 10:20
Prescot, Susanna, 10:19, 20
A present for the ladies, 6:291; 7:348
The present state of London, 6:292
Presque Isle (Pennsylvania), 6:343, 346, 433
Preston, Thomas, 8:399, 400
Preston, William, 3:260; 9:481; military activities of, 2:90; 4:393,
394; guide to GW, 3:431; id., 3:434; 4:395; and rangers, 5:21, 58; and
bounty lands, 9:148, 505, 510, 511-12, 513; 10:280; as county surveyor,
9:418; 10:152; and Crawford's survey, 9:503, 510; his deputy surveyor,
10:71; and scouting party, 10:71; builds fort, 10:152; letters from:
to GW, 9:510-12; 10:70-71, 151-52, 245-47, 247-48, 332-33; to William
Bowyer, 10:246; letters to: from Andrew Lewis, 5:21; from GW, 9:500-503;
10:214, 311-12; from John Floyd, 10:88
Prestonpans, Battle of, 1:296; 2:173, 174
Preston's fort. See Fort William
Prevost, James, 5:18, 19
Prevost, Richard, 9:22
Price, ---- (captain), 9:518
Price, James, 4:42
Price, Judith Ellridge, 2:149
Price, Leonard, 3:346; appointments and assignments, 2:14, 40, 42, 148,
261; 3:157, 252, 429; 4:166, 167, 205, 206, 432; 5:215; 7:46; id., 2:149;
3:413; 7:47; 9:518; pay of, 5:214; address to GW, 6:178-81; letters
from: to GW, 4:18-22
Price, M., 7:25
Price, Thomas (brickmaker), 2:149; 8:18, 19, 25, 143
Price, Thomas (of Maryland), 8:143, 144; 9:493, 504
Price, Thomas (of Middlesex County), 2:149
Price & Nalder, 7:291; 8:47, 132
Prideaux, Humphrey, 7:344
Priestley, John, 9:227
Primus (slave; Robert Tucker's and Mann Page's), 7:314
Prince (dower slave; New Kent County), 6:217
Prince (slave; Charles Washington's), 7:173
Prince (slave; Mary Washington's), 7:173
Prince (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Prince Bob (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Prince Edward County, 3:435
Prince Edward Island (Canada). See St. John's Island
Prince George County (Virginia), 4:290
Prince George's County (Maryland), 3:382; 5:38
Princess Ann County, 4:290
Princeton College, 8:168, 214
Prince William County: militia of, 3:27, 28, 55, 56-57, 67-68, 94, 95,
97-98, 99, 117, 119, 120, 121, 122, 127, 128, 137, 141, 146, 149, 159,
266, 267, 277-78, 358-59; 4:222-23, 236-37, 243, 257-58, 265, 267, 275,
276, 278, 290, 304; 5:152, 157, 202, 207, 216, 219, 228, 229; burgess
for, 5:185; county lieutenant of, 5:185, 230; clerks of, 8:435; 10:215
Prince William Independent Company, 10:214-15, 216, 240-41, 248, 259,
270, 316, 331, 338-39, 356, 357, 369; letters from: to GW, 10:345-46;
letters to: from Spotsylvania Independent Company, 10:345
The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation, 6:333, 336-37
Principles of Moral Philosophy, 9:344, 345
Prior, Matthew, 6:400; 9:6
Prior, Thomas, 7:348
Priscilla (slave; Mill farm), 9:238; 10:137. See also Silla
"Prisoners march," 4:48
Pritchard, ----: and GW's horses, 5:367, 452
Pritchard, Samuel, 5:342
Pritchard, Thomas, 3:301, 302; 5:453
Pritchard, William, 3:185, 206, 239; 5:453
Proby, James, 5:294, 295
Proby, Thomas, 5:294, 295
The proceedings and tryal in the case of . . . William Lord archbishop
of Canterbury, 6:293
Proclamation of 1754, 7:44; 8:275, 391-92, 541, 543
Proclamation of 1763, 7:177; 8:303, 308-9; 9:143
Prosser, Thomas, 9:34, 46, 226, 231, 370, 372, 373; 10:75
Provision and supply (military), 1:182, 186, 187, 189, 190, 206; 5:227;
instructions concerning, 2:5, 6, 22-23, 29, 33, 37, 55-56, 70-71, 87,
113, 119, 127, 129, 136, 138, 140-41, 145, 146-47, 148, 152-55, 162, 164-65,
167-68, 171, 187, 189, 193-94, 204-5, 216-17, 237, 239, 244-45, 275, 312,
341-42, 350; 3:138, 263, 311, 335, 393; 4:26, 56, 59, 60, 62-63, 70, 135,
180, 181, 211, 342, 349, 351, 357, 363; 5:30-32, 238; 6:1, 2, 18, 54,
64, 79, 83, 107-8, 110, 114-15, 117, 121, 126, 138, 140, 149, 152, 155,
157; for New York, 2:30, 31; from West Indian markets, 2:30, 33, 43; Irish
beef, 2:30, 32, 43, 71; 3:47, 66; Irish butter, 2:32; John Robinson on,
2:34; cattle, 2:44, 127-28, 131, 138, 139, 148, 158, 160, 168, 177, 182-84,
193, 194, 198, 199, 200, 204, 222, 234-35; 5:321, 325, 358, 378, 381,
386, 391, 416-17, 420-22, 425, 427; 6:2, 21, 23, 35, 55, 59, 79, 93-94,
105, 108, 126, 132, 136-37, 140-41, 142, 144, 157, 364; returns of, 2:45,
154-55, 171; 3:9, 35, 162, 230, 251, 255; 4:24, 54, 56, 63, 66-67, 135,
138, 183, 210, 325-27, 363-64, 387, 392, 394-95; 5:4, 179, 258-59, 267,
269; 6:80, 89-90, 99, 104, 114, 142-43, 151, 152, 171; scarcity of, 2:58,
64, 79, 83, 87, 106, 110, 115, 154-55, 201, 214, 287-88, 300; at Fort
Dinwiddie, 2:60, 300; from innkeepers, 2:78-79; preservation of, 2:79,
172; 3:240; 4:70, 194-95, 259, 360, 385; 5:403; purchases of, 2:79-80,
86, 102, 106, 129, 145, 148, 164, 167, 193-94, 196, 198-99, 204-5, 234,
270, 273, 279-80; 3:98, 151, 361, 404, 420; 4:38, 46, 93-94, 122; 5:153;
transport of, 2:113, 127, 225; 3:11, 35, 83, 94, 101, 111, 114, 139, 261-62,
374, 378, 387, 421; 4:35, 38, 39, 53, 57, 59, 60, 62-63, 69, 70, 95, 96,
98, 135, 138; 5:240, 244-45, 280, 310, 311-12, 360, 384-85, 388-89, 391-92,
395, 406, 416-17, 426, 427-28, 440, 444-46; 6:1-2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 14-15,
18, 21, 26, 27, 35, 45, 55, 74-75, 88, 93, 105, 106, 131, 144, 157, 346,
364, 432; need for, 2:115, 167, 183, 184, 204; 3:39, 45, 60, 82, 84, 228,
289, 342, 392, 421; 4:41, 143, 236-37, 393; 5:189, 221, 249, 277, 289,
313, 320, 345, 362, 377, 398; 6:3, 6, 14, 17, 21, 45, 53, 81, 130, 131,
136, 139, 140, 142, 161, 167, 169-71, 172-73, 175, 345; at Winchester,
2:129; 3:49; 4:77, 223-24; contracts for, 2:148; 3:270-71, 272; 4:51,
57, 70-71, 93-94, 96, 104, 122, 292; 5:1, 5, 27, 29-32, 149, 441-42; 6:15,
82; funds for, 2:199; 3:194, 324; 4:46, 57, 75, 249, 266, 304; 5:252;
6:75-76; trough, 2:215, 237, 300, 302; blankets, 3:9, 84, 177, 270, 343,
421, 443; 4:38, 66, 68, 72, 75, 96, 194, 255, 297, 363; 6:99; for settlers,
3:25, 54, 60, 85; for volunteers, 3:25; from settlers, 3:29, 30; storehouses
for, 3:34, 39, 40, 49, 66, 96, 100, 113, 161, 324, 326, 366, 415; 6:176;
for militia, 3:46, 66, 91, 121, 122, 137, 139; 4:2, 12-13, 87-88, 236-37,
253, 263, 265, 403; allowances of, 3:75, 196, 416; 5:19, 30, 39, 209,
211, 321, 325, 428; 6:120, 145, 151-52, 171, 185; for light horse, 3:100,
178; for Gentlemen Associators, 3:109; orders for, 3:193-94, 293; 4:165-66,
284; 5:247; 6:91; dissatisfaction with, 3:240; 6:23, 110, 142; kettles,
3:262; 4:340; grindstones, 3:302; 5:384, 388; for Pennsylvania forces,
3:318, 361, 397, 425; 5:203; guarding of, 3:326, 441; for forts, 3:420;
5:237; waste of, 4:2, 12-13, 56, 87-88; building materials, 4:35, 165-66;
for Indians, 4:51, 71, 130, 135, 143, 163, 255, 297, 359, 421; 5:24-26,
29, 32, 45, 52-53, 59, 82, 86, 88, 90, 110, 116, 225-26, 311, 321, 396,
399; 6:71-72; liquor, 4:70, 202, 359; 5:163-64, 246-47, 251-52, 253, 257,
268, 321, 331-33, 374; 6:1, 2, 15, 21, 35, 81, 105; in Fort Necessity
campaign, 4:80-81; 6:17-18; disputes over, 4:122-23, 128, 130, 131, 138,
149, 194-95, 197-98, 255, 259, 297, 304, 385, 399, 408; 5:58, 60, 260,
366, 373, 392; fraud in, 4:151, 424-26; 5:3, 9, 188; in Augusta County,
4:312, 397; for hospital, 4:403; sale of, 5:7, 10-11, 22; for Virginia
Regiment in South Carolina, 5:42, 90; for GW, 5:152, 350; 6:4, 82, 166;
camp equipage, 5:203; at Fort Loudoun, 5:204, 351, 394, 397-98; at Fort
Cumberland, 5:211, 394, 397-98; from Carlisle, 5:236-37; accounts, 5:248;
at Pearsal's, 5:250, 257; for Maryland forces, 5:256, 273, 279; 6:1; king's
stores, 5:256, 259, 279, 303, 325, 368; storage of, 5:275, 286, 427; 6:176;
stolen by Indians, 5:287; forage, 5:310, 419-20; 6:2, 26, 53, 55, 82,
107, 171; on Braddock Road, 5:355; loss of, 5:382; 6:172-73, 346; availability
of, 6:87; bakers, 6:114; at Fort Duquesne, 6:115, 123; for Pittsburgh,
6:159, 161; procurement of, 6:171. See also Carlyle, John; Clothing;
Dick, Charles; Ordnance; Virginia military forces; Walker, Thomas
The Provok'd Husband, 8:263
Prussia, 6:81
The Prussian Evolutions in Actual Engagements, 10:357, 359
Pseudodoxia epidemica, 6:285
Pucket, Daniel, 4:42
Pucket, Drury, 4:42, 271, 272
Puckett, Jeremiah, 4:389
Pugh, Azariah, 5:342
Pugh, Evan, 1:20
Pugh, Evan, Jr., 1:22
Pugh, Evan, Sr., 1:20
Pugh, Jacob, 1:22
Pugh, Jesse, 2:77, 259; 3:96; 5:336; 8:393
Pugh, Job, 5:335
Pugh, Robert, 1:22, 37
Pugh, Thomas, 5:341
Pugh, William, 7:437
Pugh's ordinary, 2:76
Pullett, Joseph, 7:438, 440
Pullett's tavern, 7:440
Punderson, Jonathan, 9:475; 10:81, 286
Purdie, Alexander, 8:223; 9:259, 260, 297
Purdie, George, 8:50, 52
Purdie and Dixon, 7:349; 8:121, 267, 280, 347, 486, 532; 9:24, 29-30,
355; 10:79
Purgatory Mountain, 4:395
Pursel (Pursley), John, 7:240; 8:222
Pursel (Pursley), Thomas, 7:240; 8:222, 355
Pursley, ----: sells spelts, 7:239
Pursley, Daniel, 1:30, 37
Purviance, Samuel, 1:143, 145
Putney (New Kent County), 9:90
Pyle, Edmund, 2:322
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Quadriennum annae postremum, 6:292
Quakers, 3:96, 119, 224, 225, 232, 315, 360, 397
Quales, Moses, 3:325, 331, 332, 376
Quarles, Francis, 6:294, 296
Quarles, James, 9:393
Quarles, John, 9:393
Quarter over the mill (York County), 9:258
Quebec, 5:19; 6:19, 440
Quebec Act, 10:156
Queen Anne's County, Md., 10:9
Queen Anne's Parish (Maryland), 8:467, 572
Queene (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Queen's College (Oxford), 9:214
Queens Creek, 6:219; 9:34
Queen's Head Tavern, 2:11
Queenstown, Md., 8:472
Quehan, Paul, 6:47
Quemahoning (Drounding) Creek (Pennsylvania), 5:412
Quincy, John, 6:296, 299
Quinn (Maryland), 4:338
Quinney, William, 7:140
Quintilian, 6:290
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R----, ----: Fairfax settles account with, 8:262
Raccoon Branch fishery (at Belvoir), 10:85, 95
Raccoon Creek tract (Pennsylvania), 10:48
Rachael (Rachel; slave; Claiborne's plantation), 6:311; 8:583, 590
Rachal (dower slave; child), 8:401
Rachel (dower slave; King William County), 6:218
Rachel (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Rachel (slave; King William County), 6:225
Rachel (slave; Thomas Nelson's), 7:314
Radcliffe, Alexander, 6:289, 291
Radcliffe, John, 6:292-93, 296, 298
Ragland, Sarah, 6:253
Raitcliff, James, 4:42
Rakestray, Richard, 8:144
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 6:293
Raleigh Tavern, 2:221; 3:58; proprietors of, 6:200; 7:7, 191, 496; 8:454;
9:207; burgesses at, 8:181; 10:96, 99; Association at, 8:330
Ralph (slave; Samuel Washington's), 7:173
The Ramble, 6:291; 7:347
Ramey, Sanford, 8:144, 145
Ramsay, ----, 2:72
Ramsay, ---- (widow): her tavern, 10:357
Ramsay, Andrew Michael, 7:346
Ramsay, John (of Fairfax County), 7:381; 8:147, 148
Ramsay, John (soldier), 9:122, 145
Ramsay, William, 3:411; 5:1, 37, 62, 415, 435; 7:181, 186; 8:146, 147,
375; 10:154; and GW's candidacy, 1:291; id., 1:293; 3:413; 4:33, 227;
7:7, 188; 8:376; and militia, 3:67, 68-69; 4:226; and Virginia-Centinel
No. X, 3:410; as commissary, 4:31, 57, 58, 62, 100, 413, 414; 5:5, 29,
30-32, 31, 39, 46-47, 163, 249, 276, 303, 325, 369-71, 397, 408; 6:15,
82; buys mine shares for GW, 4:324; subscriber to American Magazine,
5:49; and Peter Steenbergen, 5:162-64; and flour, 5:252, 253, 366-67;
accounts of, 5:275; 6:390, 416, 417; 7:1, 104, 319; 9:76, 126, 127, 226,
433; 10:194; and Henry Woodward, 5:328; and Hannah Guley, 5:414; journal,
5:426-27; borrows money, 6:371; and racing, 7:110-11; and Potomac navigation,
7:177; 10:243; and Charles Green, 7:502; as postmaster, 8:5, 208, 306,
512; 9:14; as justice, 9:135; his son's education, 9:227, 228; failure
to pay taxes, 10:26-27; and Fairfax Committee, 10:128; letters from:
to GW, 3:412-13; 4:308-9, 355-56, 398; 5:397, 404-5, 426-27, 430-32, 454-56;
6:14-15, 80-82; 9:453; 10:60-64; to John West, 10:60-64; letters to:
from GW, 5:447; 8:167-68
Ramsay, William, Jr., 8:167-68; 9:14, 227, 228
Rand, ---- (captain), 5:128
Randolph, ---- (colonel), 6:406
Randolph, Anne Harrison, 6:466
Randolph, Benjamin, 10:370, 371
Randolph, Edmund, 8:192; letters from: to GW, 7:505; letters
to: from GW, 8:194
Randolph, Elizabeth, 4:272
Randolph, Jane Bolling, 4:272
Randolph, John (c.1728-1784): and Custis estate, 6:255; buys horse from
GW, 6:416; id., 6:417; 9:4; family of, 8:194; and Dunbar suit, 8:497,
526, 531, 532; 9:90, 313; and Robert Hanson Harrison, 9:3; and George
Mercer's affairs, 10:29, 328, 329; account with, 10:75
Randolph, Peter, 2:333; 4:27; and Indians, 2:172, 174, 195, 215; 3:43,
353; 4:73, 118, 141, 171; id., 4:188-89; 6:407; and pay for Maryland forces,
5:182
Randolph, Peyton, 1:201; 2:213, 290, 314, 357-58; 4:104; 5:21, 112, 194,
433; 7:5, 10; 10:159, 166; and pistole fee, 1:200; and fee voted by Burgesses,
1:202-3; and Gentlemen Associators, 3:86, 94, 105, 109, 160, 187; id.,
3:87, 353; 4:105; 6:217; signs treasury notes, 3:368; 5:196; and drums,
3:396, 401; and John Hamilton's embezzlement, 5:11, 20, 22; and Custis
estate, 6:209, 215-17, 265, 267; 8:197, 374, 375, 457, 458, 459, 486,
487; 9:116, 368, 369; and Thomson Mason's suit, 6:465; account with, 6:466;
9:355, 394; and Custis guardian accounts, 7:84, 93, 216, 304, 371, 501;
8:202, 205, 459, 463; 9:370, 372; and races, 7:107, 111; and meeting at
Raleigh Tavern, 8:181; 10:99-100; and Byrd lottery, 8:192, 194; borrows
money, 8:353, 487; as William Byrd's trustee, 9:377, 473; and William
Black, 9:400, 458, 459, 472; and Savage affair, 10:33, 35; and bond to
Archbishop of Canterbury, 10:84; and Continental Congress, 10:151, 174,
000, 000; and Virginia conventions, 10:308; and George Mercer's affairs,
10:329; and Dunmore's removal of gunpowder, 10:340, 341; letters from:
to GW, 3:87; 10:174; letters to: from Fairfax County Associators,
8:487-89; from George Mason, 8:487-89; from GW, 8:487-89; from John Dalton,
8:487-89; from John West, 8:487-89; from Peter Wagener, 8:487-89
Randolph, Richard, 4:272; 8:194
Randolph, Thomas, 8:31
Randolph, Thomas Mann, 8:31, 353, 457; 10:304, 305
Randolph, William, 4:188, 189; 5:194, 196; 6:466
Randolph (ship), 6:349, 352; 7:189; 10:217, 218
Ranger (dog), 9:69
Ranger (ship), 7:81, 410, 432, 460
Rankin, Alexander, 6:47
Rankin, David, 9:110, 316, 317, 505
Rankin, James, 7:41
Rankins, Moses, 4:281
Ransom, Elizabeth, 5:416
Ransom, Joseph, 6:456, 457, 481; 8:263
Ransom, William, 6:444
Rapin, René, 6:290, 296
Raspberry Plain, 5:288
Ratcliff, John, 7:381
The Raven of Settico (Indian), 5:165, 166, 176, 177-79
Ravenscraft, Thomas, 4:42
Ravensworth tract, 10:300
Rawkins, Moses, 4:281
Rawley (ship), 2:169, 217, 281, 293, 294, 295, 316
Rawlings, ----: account with, 8:22, 23, 24
Rawlings, Stephen. See Rollins, Stephen
Rawlins & Barron, 8:554
Ray, John, 7:346
Ray, Joseph, 6:96, 190
Raymond, Sir Robert, 8:547
Raystown (Fort Bedford), Pa., 2:160; 4:246; roads to, 5:119, 209, 251;
6:34; depot at, 5:120; troops at, 5:166, 266, 285-86, 300, 348; 6:32,
117-18; distances to, 5:209, 249, 356; id., 5:210; commanders at, 5:244;
6:37, 87; fortifications at, 5:248, 297, 298; names for, 5:297; meeting
at, 6:60; Indians at, 6:145
Read, Clement, 3:435; 4:312; id., 4:118; and Indians, 4:141, 144; 5:81,
89-90, 184, 195, 197; and Richard Pearis, 4:159; and provisions for Augusta
County troops, 4:312, 393, 394, 397, 407; and draftees, 4:396, 421; and
ammunition for magazine, 5:90, 91; and Custis estate, 6:254; letters
from: to GW, 4:117-18; to Robert Dinwiddie, 4:141; 5:91; to John Blair,
5:141; letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 4:313, 367; 5:91
Read, Mary, 9:394, 396
Reade, Robert, 8:214
Reagan, John, 6:456
Reagan, Michael, 7:381; 8:145
Reagan, Nicholas, 7:381
Reamy, Sanford, 7:381
Reardon, William, 7:381
Reasmer (Reasner), Nicholas, 2:133, 134, 135, 138
Recovery (ship), 4:427; 5:87
Recruiting (military), 2:122, 149, 177; 3:70, 81, 113, 155, 184-85, 192,
265, 271, 272, 313-14, 325; 4:39; 6:175; instructions regarding, 2:5,
13-15, 16-17, 24, 27-28, 38-39, 48, 49, 50-51, 54, 69-70, 76, 89, 100,
109, 116, 117, 118, 129, 130-31, 142-43, 144, 152, 162, 166-67, 169, 170,
180, 191-92, 195, 216-17, 235, 240, 245, 262, 267-68, 271, 281, 341, 344;
5:134, 144-46; rendezvous for recruits, 2:5, 14-15, 16, 38, 55, 84, 89;
expenditures for, 2:13, 235, 236, 239, 240, 272; 3:369, 401, 417; 4:81,
111, 325-26, 328-29, 347; 5:89, 141, 147, 151, 159, 171, 172, 181-82,
394; 6:176; difficulties of, 2:30-31, 44, 65, 172, 174, 175, 201, 273,
278-79; 4:44, 78, 81; 5:119, 150, 158-59, 179, 182, 201; 6:171; malfeasance
in, 2:30-31, 32, 123, 176, 185, 244, 262, 279; 4:100, 102; of felons,
2:42; in Maryland, 2:48, 49; in Pennsylvania, 2:48; in Virginia, 2:48,
50-51; by act of assembly, 2:66; criticism of, 2:106, 126, 176; 5:140,
193; of rangers, 2:109; 3:337; 5:1-2, 39; reports on, 2:126, 177, 180,
181, 197, 201, 205-6; at elections and public meetings, 2:195; courts
of inquiry on, 2:231, 232, 240, 253; of scouts, 3:8, 184; 4:319, 336-39;
of Germans, 3:116; for Royal American Regiment, 3:319, 417, 424-25, 426;
of servants, 3:396, 400, 405; 4:111; in 1755, 4:123; bounties for, 4:147,
328-29; 5:119, 134-35, 144-46, 158-59, 179, 194-95, 200, 204; 6:178; in
South Carolina, 5:40-41; council of war on, 5:170-71; and Maryland troops,
5:182-83, 194-96; discontinued, 5:188; general assembly approves, 6:314;
desertion of recruits, 6:412-13. See also Virginia military forces
The Rector Detected; Being a Just Defence of the Twopenny Act,
7:299
Red Caps, 3:183
Redstone, 8:241
Redstone Creek, 1:59, 84, 85, 86, 92; 6:162, 163
Redstone Old Fort, 1:69; 10:256, 257
Reece, Henry, 5:340
Reece, Jacob, 5:338
Reece, Thomas, 5:337
Reed, ----: recommended as overseer, 10:245
Reed, John, 5:341
Reed (Reedy) Creek, 1:270; 7:52
Rees (Reece), Thomas, Sr., 1:25
Reeves, Christopher, 8:135, 136
Reeves, John, 3:403
Reflections upon ancient and modern learning, 6:288
Regulators, 8:493, 494
Rehnski"ld, Karl Gustaf, 5:375, 376
Reid, John (author), 6:299
Reid, John (of Fairfax County), 7:381; 8:144, 145
Reid, Thomas, 9:344-45
Reiley, John, 9:171, 503, 504
Reinsburg, John, 7:210
Relfe, John, 7:434, 437, 439, 447, 481, 488; 8:9, 11
Religio medici, 6:291; 7:346
Religion of Nature, 9:343, 344
Renalds, William (of Fairfax County), 5:339
Rennolds, ----: suit against Charles Lewis, 5:38, 39
Rennolds, Benjamin, 5:39
Rennolds, William (of Caroline County), 5:39
Rentfroe Creek, 4:395
Reports of Cases adjudged in the King's Bench, 8:326
Restoration (ship), 9:506
The Retreat, 7:110
A Review of the Rector Detected; or the Colonel Reconnoitred,
7:299
Revolution politicks, 6:285-6; 7:345
Reward (ship), 8:206
Reynolds, John, 3:253, 257
Reynolds, William (of Pennsylvania Regiment), 5:396
Rhodes, ---- (innkeeper), 7:262, 263
Rhodes, John, 7:381
Rhodes's ordinary, 7:263
Rhor (Rohr), Charles (engineer), 5:355, 360; 6:38
George, Ribright, 8:133, 136, 399
Rice, Edward, 5:338
Rice, George, 1:27; 5:338; 10:245
Rice, Patrick, 1:26, 27; 5:338; 6:457
Rice, Simeon, 1:145
Rich, Sir Robert, 5:69, 70
"Richard": letters to: from GW, 1:43-44
Richards, William (author), 6:292
Richards, William (of Fairfax County), 7:381; 8:147, 148
Richardson, ---- (captain), 6:375, 376; 9:344
Richardson, ---- (tenant), 7:89
Richardson, Daniel, 9:422; letters to: from GW, 9:423
Richardson, Ezekiel, 3:95-96, 147; 6:102, 103
Richardson, Henry, 6:266
Richardson, Holt, 9:94-95
Richardson, John, 8:31
Richardson, Miles, 5:300; 6:166-67, 182-83, 193, 200, 313-14, 364; 7:235;
10:140
Richardson, Thomas, 9:1
Richardson, William, 6:281
Richardson family, 8:71-72; 9:42
Richelieu, Louis Franois Armand de Vignerot Du Plessis, duc de, 3:249,
347; 5:18
Richeson, James, 6:226
Richfield, 9:515
Richland, 7:225, 300; 9:489
Richmond, John, 6:252, 263
Richmond County, 4:290
Richmond County Independent Company, 10:308; letters from: to
GW, 10:305
Richneck, 1:40; 7:40
Rickards, Samuel, 7:25, 30, 126
Rickards & Yerbury: goods from, 6:395; 7:290, 354, 421, 472; 8:46, 132,
399, 564; 9:106; id., 6:403; 7:357
Riddel, ----: account with, 8:22
Riddell, ----: and Custis estate, 8:304, 456
Riddell, Henry, 8:24, 305; letters from: to GW, 9:498-99, 508,
520; letters to: from GW, 9:493-96, 506-8, 509-10
Riddell (Riddle), John, 7:512, 513; 8:305
Riddick, Lemuel, 7:436; 10:99-100
Riddick, Mills (d. 1764), 7:210, 476-77, 496; 8:50, 51
Riddick, Mills (d. 1777), 7:436, 477
Riddick, Willis, 7:107, 110, 210; 8:140
Riddle, Cornelius. See Ruddle, Cornelius
Riddle, Isaac, 5:339
Rider, Cardanus, 7:347
Rider (Ryder), William, 6:53
Rider's British Merlin, 7:347
Ridout, John, 1:211; 2:358; 4:337, 339; 8:523; letters from: to
GW, 1:195-96, 217
Rigdon, Edward, 8:291, 363, 364, 425
Riley, Barnaby, 3:272
Riley, James, 6:142, 143
Riley, John, 8:144
Rind, Clementina, 9:363, 365; 10:42, 95, 106, 139, 140
Rind, William, 7:477; 9:8, 191; and subscription to his Maryland and
Virginia gazettes, 7:352, 411; 8:193; and payment for advertisements,
7:481; 8:280; account with, 8:83, 346, 531; 10:40; repair of his coach
house, 8:267; and Jonathan Boucher, 9:29, 297; and bounty lands, 9:143-48;
downplays Indian attacks, 9:516; wife succeeds him, 10:42
Ringgold, Thomas (c.1715-1772), 7:146, 208; 8:470, 472
Ringrose, Basil, 6:289
Ringwood (dog), 9:68, 69
Rinker, Casper (Jasper), 1:31; 8:394
Rinker, Henry, 5:133, 134, 148, 338
Rins, John, 2:229
Rise, Mary, 6:280
Rising Sun (ship), 9:115, 233, 273, 276, 297; 10:83, 85
Rispass, John, 6:273
Ritchie, Archibald, 6:321
Ritchie, James, & Co., 9:19
Ritson (Ritton), William, 10:104
River farm: overseers at, 7:45, 68, 139, 313, 342, 377, 434, 440, 443,
516; 8:17, 24, 42, 512; 9:239, 411, 451; slaves at, 7:45, 139, 305, 313,
377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 357, 479; 9:55, 238-39; 10:137
Rivington, James, 9:442, 443
Rivington's New-York Gazeteer, 9:443
Rixton, Josh, 7:197
Road, John, 5:336
Roads, 2:37, 287, 288, 309, 310, 353; Ohio Company's road, 1:76; 6:354;
Wills Creek to Monongahela, 1:83; 6:354; Indian trails, 1:85; 3:184, 243,
448; 4:11, 64; Braddock Road (new road), 2:17; 3:90, 96, 160, 163, 246,
254, 419; 4:17, 64, 146-47, 149, 241, 242; 5:119-20, 210, 247, 258, 267,
287, 292, 296, 298, 311, 316, 318-19, 324, 345-47, 350, 353-61, 370; 6:3,
160, 364, 432; from Conococheague Creek to Braddock Road, 2:17; by Ross's
mill, 2:311; wagon road from Winchester to Edwards's, 3:40; Vestal's Gap
road, 3:69; new road to Hogue Creek, 3:123; to be built from Enoch's to
Ashby's fort, 3:244, 246; only road suitable for artillery, 3:422; from
North Carolina, 4:6-7; wagon road from Winchester to Fort Cumberland,
4:48, 146-47, 149, 223-24; to Pennsylvania, 4:182; from Winchester to
Watkins's ferry, 4:183; from Shippensburg to Ohio country, 4:236; Indian
road said to be built near Fort Augusta, 4:251, 292; Raystown road, 4:257,
258, 260; Back Road from Colchester to Alexandria, 5:78; Forbes Road,
5:119-20, 199, 210, 247, 258-59, 266-67, 272, 297-98, 312, 315, 316, 319-22,
324, 354-61, 364-65, 370-71, 397, 404-6, 426; 6:3, 24, 30-31, 33, 34,
53, 59, 78, 79, 88, 94, 99, 100, 103-4, 129-30, 132-34, 135, 136-37, 138,
148-50, 152, 154; from Fort Frederick to Fort Cumberland, 5:119-20, 234,
247, 251-52, 268-69, 272-73, 287, 296; from Shippensburg to Raystown,
5:119-20, 426; from Philadelphia Road to Fort Frederick, 5:149; wagon
road from Winchester to South Branch, 5:158, 161, 245, 394; from Fort
Loudoun (Pennsylvania) to Raystown, 5:199, 247, 248-49, 344; 6:21; from
Fort Cumberland to Raystown, 5:209, 247, 251, 264, 267-68, 273, 280-82,
286-87, 296, 325-26, 344-47, 358, 370, 377; 6:3, 33; from Fort Loudoun
(Pennsylvania) to Fort Lyttleton (Pennsylvania), 5:209; from Fort Loudoun
(Virginia) to Pearsals, 5:235, 257; from Carlisle to Fort Frederick, 5:247,
252; from Carlisle to Fort Loudoun (Pennsylvania), 5:247; from Shippensburg
to Fort Loudoun (Pennsylvania), 5:248; from Fort Lyttleton (Pennsylvania)
to Raystown, 5:252; from Fort Frederick to Fort Loudoun (Pennsylvania),
5:344; from salt lick to Loyalhanna, 5:396, 429; trader's path from Raystown
to Forks of the Ohio, 5:396; from Carlisle to Raystown, 5:440; 6:35, 133;
from Braddock Road to salt lick, 6:3; Frankstown Path, 6:33; from Fort
Cumberland road to Shawnee Cabins road, 6:33; from Juniata road to Fort
Cumberland, 6:33; from Raystown to Frankstown, 6:33; great road leading
to Juniata, 6:33; Warrior's Path from Raystown to Frankstown, 6:33; from
Frankstown to Forks of the Ohio, 6:35; "New Shawnees" road, 6:66; "Old
Shawnesse" road, 6:66; Warrior's Path, 6:66; old trading path from Carlisle
to Ohio country, 6:133; old trading path from Carlisle to Forks of the
Ohio, 6:150; alternate trading path, 6:153; old trading path, 6:153; Carolina
Road, 6:182; Colchester Road, 6:182; junction of Carolina and Colchester
roads, 6:182; from Williamsburg to Fredericksburg, 6:182-83, 191; from
Mount Vernon to Fredericksburg, 6:199; Leesburg road, 6:417; from Alexandria
to the Shenandoah Valley, 6:458; Indian Creek Road, 10:92; old wagon road
from Winchester to Fort Cumberland, 3:92, 121, 163; from Wills Creek to
the Monongahela, 1:76
Roan, John, 6:426; and Custis estate, 6:219, 252, 256, 266, 311-12, 376,
427, 446; 7:108, 110; account with, 7:104
Roanoke Creek, 5:91
Roanoke River, 2:140; 3:229; 4:10; 5:194
Robert, Joseph, 6:46
Robert (Dunker), 5:61
Robert and James Donald, 4:173
Roberts, ---- (father of Butts Roberts), 3:379
Roberts, ---- (officer), 10:372, 373
Roberts, ---- (ordinary keeper), 7:210
Roberts, Abner, 8:112
Roberts, Butts, 3:356-57, 378-79
Roberts, Eliab, 8:112, 222
Roberts, Francis, 3:306-7; 4:389
Roberts, John, 8:222, 223, 363
Roberts, Joseph, 3:257; 5:341
Roberts, Lemuel, 7:212
Roberts, Mary, 9:253
Roberts, Owen, 7:105
Roberts, Owen (died c.1775), 7:109
Roberts, Owen (died c.1780), 7:109
Roberts, William, 5:340; 9:253; 10:279; agreement with Lund Washington,
8:395; id., 8:396; accounts with, 8:405, 431, 474, 522, 531, 556; 9:53,
58, 112, 132, 152, 167, 252, 316, 317, 395, 463; 10:40, 41, 140, 194,
317, 362; and millstones for Mount Vernon, 8:516-17; house built for,
8:557; hired as miller, 9:156; his apprentice, 9:397; 10:196; disagreement
with Edward Snickers, 10:331-32
Roberts, William, Jr., 5:340
Robertson, Andrew, 8:145
Robertson, James, 6:146, 147, 454, 455
Roberts's ordinary, 7:212
"Robin": letters to: from GW, 1:40-41
Robin (slave; Anthony Bacon's and Fielding Lewis's), 7:315
Robin (slave; Dogue Run), 7:366, 443, 516; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54,
238; 10:137
Robin (slave; Home farm), 7:305, 313
Robin (slave; Mill farm), 7:377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 356, 479; 9:55
Robin (slave; River farm), 7:139, 228, 305, 313; 9:238; 10:137
Robin (slave; Samuel Buckner's), 7:305
Robinson, ----: GW buys flat from, 7:385
Robinson, ---- (Mrs.), 7:105
Robinson, ---- (widow), 4:425, 426
Robinson, Andrew, 7:104, 107, 385; 8:78, 322, 323, 441; 9:132
Robinson, Archibald, 6:61
Robinson, Beverley, 4:370; 5:15, 137, 187, 294; 6:9; 7:188, 207, 216,
217-18, 225; and provisions, 2:7; id., 2:8, 323; 3:287; 5:16, 99; 6:10;
7:156; and meeting with GW, 2:304; GW visits, 4:116; 5:128; and Joseph
Chew, 4:116, 366; 5:93; marriage of, 5:99; purchases goods for GW, 7:156;
letters from: to GW, 3:285-89, 385-86; 4:367-68; 5:98-99, 128-29,
190 letters to: from GW, 3:199; 5:111, 113, 148; 7:155-56, 217-18.
See also Errata
Robinson, Christopher, 3:38; 4:382, 384
Robinson, James (builder), 9:395
Robinson, James (soldier), 3:253, 259; 4:277
Robinson, John (carpenter), 3:123, 306-7
Robinson, John (deserter), 3:123
Robinson, John (in Adam Stephen's company), 3:123
Robinson, John (killed at Vause's fort), 3:435
Robinson, John (of Fairfax), 7:381
Robinson, John, Jr. (planter), 3:123, 306-7
Robinson, John (sailor), 3:123
Robinson, John (thief), 3:136, 230
Robinson, John (treasurer), 1:74, 257, 303; 2:200, 201, 296, 323, 352;
3:46, 287, 375; 4:50, 384; 6:371; 7:122, 314, 435; 9:458; 10:35; id.,
1:113, 175-76, 257; 2:8; 3:8; 4:18, 390; 5:434; 7:274; as treasurer, 1:357;
2:7, 31, 203, 214; 3:103, 357, 376, 421; 4:66, 71, 72, 99, 149, 190, 236-37,
244, 268, 273, 283, 284, 293, 304, 311, 355, 368; 5:83; 7:11, 104, 335;
9:390; and appointment of commissary, 2:105; as speaker of the house,
3:38, 95, 353; 4:100, 147-48; 6:372; and lead mine, 3:58; and draftees,
3:201; and militia, 3:232; courtship of, 3:352; and supplies, 3:359-60,
361; and enlistment of servants, 3:404; and Virginia-Centinel No. X, 3:436,
437; and address from officers, 4:21-22; family of, 5:16; 7:156, 218;
relations with GW, 5:44, 172; 7:121; death of, 5:196; as guardian of Custis
children, 6:203, 208, 211-12, 213, 214; and Custis estate, 6:254, 255,
261, 274, 276, 379; 7:91; 8:200; marriage of, 6:381; and Philip Johnson,
6:426; 7:108; and Thomas Moore, 6:435, 474; and Dunbar suit, 6:436; appoints
GW to committee, 7:20; tobacco lost on ship, 7:141-42, 189; and Dismal
Swamp, 7:271, 272, 273, 315, 336; 8:50, 454, 455; slaves of, 7:305; lends
public funds to friends, 7:469, 480; and Bernard Moore, 8:26, 427; 9:44,
379; Martha Washington's debt to, 8:42-43; his plantation manager, 8:576;
his estate, 9:46, 399; and Pleasant Hill, 9:375-79, 385-86, 388, 426-27,
428, 481; and Romancoke land, 9:378, 402, 428; letters from: to
GW, 1:209-10; 2:34, 218-19, 303-4, 329; 3:12-13, 87-88, 365-71; 4:28-29,
62, 74-75, 248-51, 274-75, 315-16; 5:43-44; 6:124-25, 435; letters
to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:196; from GW, 1:219-20, 220, 254-57,
257; 2:32-34, 85-86, 203-4, 337-39; 3:6-8, 15-17, 48-52, 62-64, 323-33;
4:11-18, 67-69, 174-75, 198-99, 287-90; 5:33-34, 172, 432-34
Robinson, John Chiswell, 7:218
Robinson, Joseph (of Fairfax County), 7:381
Robinson, Mary (Polly), 7:218
Robinson, Michael, 7:9; 8:454, 455, 531
Robinson, Michael, Jr., 9:117, 118
Robinson, Nicholas, 1:22
Robinson, Peter, 7:59, 60, 156, 218
Robinson, Richard, 9:224
Robinson, Samuel, 3:253, 258; 4:276, 277
Robinson, Simon, 3:256, 306-7; 4:389; 6:89
Robinson, Susanna, 7:218
Robinson, Susanna Chiswell, 7:218
Robinson, Susannah Philipse, 4:116, 365; 5:98, 128, 187, 294; 6:9; 7:155;
id., 2:323; 5:99; 6:10; 7:156; marriage of, 5:129
Robinson, Sir Thomas: letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:175,
224; 2:286; from Horatio Sharpe, 1:227; 2:178-79; from Edward Braddock,
1:260, 264, 300; from William Shirley, 1:260
Robinson, William, 7:430
Robinson Crusoe, 6:287
Robson, William, 7:75, 77, 81, 124, 153, 155
Rochefort (France), 5:43, 69-70
Rochester, John Wilmot, second earl of, 6:292
Rockahock plantation, 6:218; 7:427; 8:126, 585, 588-89; 9:258
Rock Creek (Maryland), 2:35; 4:324-25; 7:513
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, second marquis of, 8:7
Rockwood (dog), 8:406, 407
Rocky Ridge, 8:194
Rodgers, Benjamin, 2:181
Rodgers, John, 10:357
Rodgers, Richard (of Amelia County), 4:42
Rodgers' tavern, 10:357
Roe, John, 2:154, 155; 3:133, 135, 270, 272
Roe (Rowe), Godfrey, 2:53, 54, 289, 306, 307; 3:289
Roger (slave; Augustine Washington's), 7:172
Roger (slave; Bullskin plantation), 6:421
Roger (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Roger (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Roger (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Roger (slave; York County), 6:229
Rogers, ----, 9:78, 79
Rogers, Edward, 5:341
Rogers, Owen, 1:30
Rogers, Richard (artificer), 3:189, 190
Rogers, Richard (clerk), 6:436, 437
Rogers, Robert, 3:286-87, 288; 4:177, 178
Rogers, William, 7:381; 8:144, 145
Rogers (ship), 7:124, 307, 455, 456; 8:6
Rohr, Charles. See Rhor, Charles
Rollins (Rawlings), Stephen, 3:207-8, 209, 211-12, 214
"Rollin's Ancient History," 7:168
Rollins's ordinary, 3:207-8, 209, 214
Romae antiquae notitiae, 6:293
Romaine (Romine), Peter, 9:505
Romancoke, 9:375-79, 383, 385-86, 389-90, 401-2, 426, 427-29, 458, 479,
481; 10:22, 84
The Roman history, 6:285
Rooke, Richard, 7:125
Rootes, John, 5:268, 283; 6:32; 9:477-78, 502
Rootes, Thomas Reade, 7:217
Rosa (slave; Samuel Washington's), 7:173
Rose, Alexander, 9:436; 10:28, 29
Rose, Charles, 5:75; 6:367, 368; 8:80
Rose, Hugh, 1:78, 80
Rose, John, 4:281
Rose (ship), 1:229; 2:208
Rose (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Rose (slave; Martha Parke Custis's maid), 6:282
Rose (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:589
Rosegill, 6:199; 7:286
Rose Hill (Fairfax County), 6:370, 379; 9:179, 412
Rosewell, 7:235, 280; 9:477
Ross, ---- (doctor), 6:434
Ross, ---- (Mrs.), 7:336
Ross, ---- (Mrs. Ross's daughter), 7:336
Ross, ---- (ship captain), 7:405; 10:186
Ross, ---- (upholsterer), 10:160
Ross, Alexander (of Maryland), 7:465-66
Ross, Alexander (Scotsman), 9:309
Ross, Charles, 6:36
Ross, David, 4:357; 8:528; and provisions for troops, 2:199; 3:290, 302;
4:198, 255, 256-57, 266, 297, 304, 397, 408, 422, 429; 5:13, 27, 40, 58,
60, 360; id., 2:200; 3:291; 4:399; 8:181; and Cherokee, 4:229; accounts,
5:21; 8:363; 9:225; and roads to Fort Duquesne, 5:356; and Potomac navigation,
7:177; servant bought from, 7:240, 462; and nonimportation, 8:177-78,
180, 182; and Antietam forge, 8:290, 291, 522; 9:441; and John Semple,
8:294, 425, 431, 442; and Vandalia, 8:367; and George Young, 9:440, 450-51,
452-53; letters from: to GW, 4:253, 428-29; letters to:
from GW, 4:259-60, 399
Ross, George, 4:399, 428; 5:338; 7:381
Ross, Hector, 7:381; 8:461; 10:270; accounts with, 7:1, 441, 452, 495;
8:140, 243, 266, 267, 362, 376, 436, 453, 456, 457, 460, 527, 528; 9:20,
35, 36, 126, 127, 132, 134, 231; 10:78, 168, 317; id., 7:7; and Daniel
Seaton, 7:219; and GW's parish levy, 7:452; his blacksmith, 7:478; tobacco
sold to, 8:50, 52, 141; and John Posey's debts, 8:211, 214, 216, 249,
252, 253-54, 269, 363, 470, 472; and John Augustine Washington, 8:454;
note from Philip Richard Francis Lee, 10:36; and Delaware lottery, 10:240,
252; and bloomery, 10:284; letters to: from GW, 8:254-57
Ross, John (of Maryland), 1:217
Ross, John (of Philadelphia), 10:316, 318, 369, 370; letters from:
to Robert Adam, 9:520
Ross, John (of Prince George County), 4:41
Rossbach (Saxony), 5:99
Ross's mill, 2:288; 3:244, 246
Rotherham plow, 7:358, 359, 387
Round Bottom tract (on Ohio River), 8:514; 9:135, 335, 482, 483; 10:36,
42, 46-48, 53-54, 55, 79, 93, 162, 183
Round Hill, 5:394
Rousby Hall (Maryland), 1:51; 7:442
Rouser (dog), 9:68-69
Rover's Delight, 5:439; 8:256-57; 9:53, 54
Rowan, Charles, 6:47
Rowe, George, 10:180
Rowe, Godfrey. See Roe, Godfrey
Rowe, N., 6:298
Rowell, Jacob, 4:332-33
Rowley, William, Jr., 4:280, 281
Roy, James, 4:207, 219, 220, 329, 345, 391; 5:109, 142, 162-63, 170-71;
6:118; id., 2:232; 5:24; appointments and assignments, 2:243, 280, 281,
305, 311; 3:157, 251, 389, 391, 428; 4:205, 206, 208, 432; 5:24, 144;
on courts of inquiry, 2:255; 4:207; 5:162-63; criticizes Griffin Pert,
4:202; and councils of war, 4:219, 220; 5:109, 142, 170-71; and Indians,
5:22, 23, 24-25, 26; pay for, 5:215; address to GW, 6:178-81; letters
from: to GW, 4:18-22, 151; letters to: from GW, 5:24-25
Roy, Mungo, 2:232; 6:437
Roy, Wiley, 10:40, 77, 79, 105, 139, 279, 280
Royal American Regiment (60th Regiment; 62d Regiment of Foot), 2:321;
4:416; 6:118; recruitment for, 3:285, 313-14, 319, 417, 424-25, 426; 4:40,
45-46, 48, 52, 54, 58, 100, 102, 114, 121, 336-38, 424; ordnance for,
4:159-61, 167, 168; 6:113; to serve in South Carolina, 4:161, 177, 372-74;
batmen in, 4:176; to aid Fort Loudoun, 4:228; desertions in, 4:415; officers
of, 5:5, 19, 36, 119, 123-24, 137, 149, 294, 295, 319, 377, 379, 381-82,
383, 396; 6:9, 96, 104, 143, 188-89, 364, 413, 470; and Virginia frontier,
5:43; paymaster of, 5:92; and Loudoun's proposed expedition, 5:99; and
Forbes campaign, 5:119; 6:89, 95, 100-101, 110, 120; at Ticonderoga, 5:295;
at Fort Frontenac, 6:9-10; on Grant's expedition, 6:15, 38-40, 41, 44;
casualties of, 6:40, 52-53, 96, 143; in Archibald Montgomery's brigade,
6:125; engineers with, 6:130; returns of, 6:143; to garrison Pittsburgh,
6:189, 360. See also individual names
Royal Artillery, 6:118; and Forbes campaign, 6:54, 59, 66, 70, 79-80,
83-84, 87, 93, 95, 101, 107, 126, 158; officers of, 6:54, 56; wagons of,
6:84, 106; and damage to roads, 6:94; orders to, 6:113, 126, 148; and
axes, 6:153; at Pittsburgh garrison, 6:360. See also individual names
Royal Engineers, 6:107, 115, 363, 467. See also individual names
The Royal English Grammar, 6:299
Royal Highland Regiment. See 42d Regiment of Foot
The royal mistresses of France, 6:290
Royal Welsh Volunteers, 6:88. See also individual names
Royal William (ship), 5:128
Royston, Ann, 1:31
Royston, Richard Wiatt, 1:31
Rozer, Eleanor Neale, 9:51
Rozer (Rozier), Henry, 6:480-81; 7:107, 110, 236, 416-17, 512; 8:146-47,
153; 9:50-51
Rubble (Ruble), Ulrich, 5:341
Ruby (ship), 1:217; 5:288
Ruddle, Stephen, 1:29
Ruddle (Riddle), Cornelius, 4:13, 18; 5:341
"Rudimans Grammer," 7:301
"Rudiman's Rudiments," 9:367
Ruffin, Robert: and ferry, 1:283; 8:582; account with, 8:192, 266, 329,
442; 9:19, 20, 21, 30, 45, 189; 10:40, 105; buys hogs, 8:582; buys Sweet
Hall, 8:582; 9:425, 426
Ruffin's ferry, 1:283; 8:329; 9:426
The rule and exercises of holy living, 6:287
"Rules . . . of Civility, & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation,"
1:2, 3, 4
Rumney, William: account with, 7:439, 440, 496, 499; 8:70, 169, 204,
376, 454, 461; 9:54, 367, 370; 10:104; fox hunting, 8:118; id., 8:121,
322; at Mount Vernon, 8:185; practices medicine, 8:321; and Colvill estate,
9:53; and Fairfax Committee, 10:128; and Fairfax Independent Company,
10:173, 191
Rush, Sarah, 7:28, 325, 326
Rusin, John, 7:381
Russe, ----: GW at his ferry, 8:41
Russel (ship), 6:450
Russell, ----: leads armed men, 8:514
Russell, Ann Lee, 6:451
Russell, Anthony, 8:210
Russell, George, 8:176
Russell, Henry, 4:207, 219, 220, 329; 5:142; 6:95; and militia, 3:91;
appointments and assignments, 3:250, 251, 254, 255, 428; 4:202, 205, 206,
208, 432; 5:124, 144; criticizes Griffin Pert, 4:202; pay for, 5:215;
address to GW, 6:178-81; letters from: to GW, 3:454-56
Russell, James, 6:449, 451; 7:65, 398; 8:11, 12, 209-10, 315-16, 412-13
Russell, William (captain; 1735-1793), 3:68-69, 99, 106-7; 9:514, 516;
10:71, 152, 261, 361-62, 365-66, 372
Russell, William (colonel; d. 1757), 3:69; 6:4, 5
Russell, William (of Frederick County), 5:334
Russell, William (of York County), 10:40, 42
Russell (Russel), William (doctor), 6:105, 106, 116
Russe's ferry, 8:41
Russia Merchant (ship), 6:269, 270, 414, 448, 450, 459, 472, 473;
7:63
Rust, Thomas, 7:28
Rust & Dowson, 7:31
Ruth (slave), 5:418
Ruth (slave; Muddy Hole), 6:428; 7:45, 139
Ruth (slave; River farm), 7:228, 313, 377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 357,
479; 9:55, 238; 10:137
Rutherford, ---- (captain), 5:319
Rutherford, Benjamin, 1:29
Rutherford, John, 1:149, 173, 175, 212, 214, 266, 295; 5:294, 295, 319
Rutherford, Robert, 2:234, 235; 3:43; 4:420; 5:336; 10:306-7, 308; id.,
2:37, 199-200; 3:9, 422; 7:296; military appointments and assignments,
2:199, 223; 3:230, 420; 5:5, 238; and military supplies, 2:222, 223; 3:285;
4:34, 37, 41, 51, 71, 104, 195, 357, 409, 422-23; 5:116; and survey for
fort, 2:287; and James Livingston, 3:230, 387, 391; funds for, 3:231;
as a commissary, 4:26, 27; 5:2; and his rangers, 4:27; 5:19, 26, 39, 40,
43, 58, 60, 140, 141, 157, 160, 202, 229, 242, 250, 253, 254, 306, 308,
350-52, 394, 445; 6:76; accounts with, 4:45, 47, 421; 7:295, 298; military
instructions to, 4:57, 71, 181, 211; and recruiting, 5:2; his returns,
5:4, 5; and John St. Clair, 5:150-51; illness of, 5:220, 221; criticized,
5:255; praises GW, 5:352-53; and deserters, 5:393; his mill, 7:415; borrows
money, 8:192, 363, 364; and sale of bloomery, 9:449; 10:97; and bounty
lands, 10:2; and meeting at Raleigh Tavern, 10:99-100; and James Stewart's
spinning machine, 10:218; and Potomac River navigation, 10:345, 353; letters
from: to GW, 5:57-58, 205-6, 255, 305-6, 330-31, 352-53; letters
to: from GW, 2:275; 5:239, 350; from George Mercer, 2:341-42, 342,
350; 3:9
Rutherford, Thomas, 2:199; 3:36, 41, 74; 5:133; 6:23, 24; land of, 1:27,
47; survey for, 1:28; id., 1:48; 2:94, 94-95; 3:43, 295, 338; 5:221; and
supplies, 2:244; and rangers, 3:38, 337; illness of, 3:294; and militia,
3:313, 359; military service, 4:205-6; and Indians, 4:206; agent for Christopher
Gist, 5:134; and brother's payroll, 5:220; account, 5:252; and wagons,
5:445; as a commissary, 6:14; and escort duty, 6:26, 27; GW recommends
as surveyor, 9:474, 487; letters to: from GW, 2:243
Rutherford, William, 9:486, 487
Rutherfurd, John, 2:284, 286
Ryan, Daniel, 4:41
Ryan, John (Crow), 8:243
Ryder, Richard, 6:481
Ryley, John, 4:280, 281
Ryley, Peter, 7:381
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S---- (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
S---- (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Sabbey, Jasea, 6:47
Sabine Hall, 3:187
Sackville, Lord George, 5:69, 70, 104
Sacry, John, 4:281
Sadd, William, 7:382
St. Anne's Parish (Maryland), 8:95, 341
St. Asaph, bishop of, 10:160
St. Clair, Arthur, 9:466; letters from: to Joseph Shippen, Jr.,
8:514; to GW, 10:48-50
St. Clair, Sir John, 1:242, 293, 323, 338; 4:38; 5:195, 201, 214, 239,
240, 303, 344, 347-49; 6:87; and trip down Potomac, 1:180; and Braddock
campaign, 1:264, 295, 296, 303; opinion of Fort Cumberland, 1:273; id.,
1:295; 3:229; 5:19, 123; and roads, 1:306, 307, 310, 326; 5:120, 158,
252, 421; wounded, 1:340, 341; criticizes Edward Braddock, 2:9, 10; and
supplies, 2:33; 4:39; 5:191-92, 230, 251, 256, 257, 275; 6:157; and Dagworthy
controversy, 2:284; bridge built by, 3:90; and Braddock's road, 3:160,
254; military service, 3:163; 5:379, 382; illness of, 5:18; and Robert
Stewart, 5:63, 137; and Indians, 5:90, 210; movements of, 5:91, 128, 151,
348, 363; 6:56; his title, 5:125; GW ordered to obey, 5:148; opinion of
GW, 5:148; orders from, 5:149, 193, 199-204, 231, 236, 237, 377, 385,
403; 6:107; and meeting at Winchester, 5:169; and pay for Maryland forces,
5:182; criticizes John Blair, 5:192-93; disobeys Henry Bouquet, 5:198-99;
and allowance for officers, 5:200; and meeting at Conococheague, 5:207-8,
220, 252; and arms, 5:208; and Forbes campaign, 5:229, 296-97; 6:15, 97,
105, 119, 149; commands at Fort Loudoun, 5:230; proclamation issued by,
5:230; and forage, 5:256, 258, 345, 419; and route to Fort Duquesne, 5:266,
316, 364, 365; criticism of, 5:314-15, 316; 6:6-7, 17; description of,
5:316; and salt lick, 5:427; his letter intercepted, 5:431; dispute with
Adam Stephen, 5:454, 455; and sutlers, 6:32; letters from: to Edward
Braddock, 1:273; to Robert Napier, 1:275; to Robert Hunter Morris, 1:301;
to Adam Stephen, 3:62; to GW, 5:113, 133-34, 168-70, 181, 197-99, 210-12,
223, 233-34, 383-84; to John Forbes, 5:123, 127-28, 132, 149, 169, 177,
179, 198, 213-14, 234; 6:169; to Thomas Bullitt, 5:127-28; to John Blair,
5:192-93, 197, 203, 204, 211; to Henry Bouquet, 5:204, 272, 455; to Horatio
Sharpe, 5:212; to William Shirley, 5:231; letters to: from GW,
5:122-25, 131-32, 148-49, 150-52, 154-56, 177-79, 212-14, 235-37, 244-45,
388; from Christopher Gist, 5:123-24; from John Blair, 5:169, 182, 182-83,
211, 212; from Horatio Sharpe, 5:212; from Thomas Cresap, 5:214, 231;
from John Forbes, 5:231-32, 234, 236; from Henry Bouquet, 5:411, 455
St. Clair, Peter, 8:59
St. Clair, R. W., 10:188
St. James's Parish (St. James Parish, Herring Bay Parish; Maryland),
8:73, 95, 166-67; 10:252
St. John's Island (Île de St. Jean, Prince Edward Island), 7:281-82,
283, 388-90, 392; 8:163
Saint-Malo (France), 5:426
St. Marys, Md., 8:140
St. Mary's Parish (Virginia), 8:90, 125, 159
St. Ours, ---- (ensign), 4:200, 215, 217
St. Philip's castle, siege of, 3:249-50
Saint-Pierre, Jacques Le Gardeur, sieur de, 6:381; letters from:
to Robert Dinwiddie, 1:57, 60, 61; letters to: from Robert Dinwiddie,
3:437
Sal (Sall; slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 591
Sal (Sall; slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Sale, John, 3:253, 258
Sall (slave, girl; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Sall (slave, girl; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Sall (slave, girl; New Kent County, 3), 6:220
Sall (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Sall (slave; house servant), 7:45, 139, 227, 313, 376, 443, 515; 8:104,
220, 356, 479; 9:53-54, 238; 10:137
Sall (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Sall (slave; York County), 6:229
Sallard, John, 4:389; id., 2:61, 66, 265; 3:74, 256, 306-7; military
service, 2:61, 65, 67, 264; 3:78, 252; 4:276; 5:160, 161; pay for, 5:215;
address to GW, 6:178-81
"Sally": letters to: from GW, 1:43
Sally (dower slave; house servant), 6:217
Sally (ship), 4:376
Sally (slave; Martha Washington's maid), 6:282
Salmon, George, 3:252, 257
Salmon, William, 6:284, 287, 292
"Salmon's Geography," 7:168
Salt lick, 5:359, 394, 396, 398, 427, 429, 430, 434; 6:3
Salt Lick Town (Seekonk; on Scioto River), 10:182, 184
Sam (dower slave; Hanover County), 6:218
Sam (dower slave; King William County), 6:218
Sam (dower slave; Prince William County), 7:464
Sam (slave), 8:142
Sam (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Sam (slave; Anthony Bacon's and Fielding Lewis's), 7:315
Sam (slave; carpenter), 6:428; 7:45, 110, 139, 227, 236, 495
Sam (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 6:311; 8:143
Sam (slave; Ferry farm), 8:402, 479, 480; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Sam (slave; Hanover County), 6:231
Sam (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Sam (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587
Sam (slave; King William County), 6:225; 7:463
Sam (slave; Mill farm), 8:479, 480; 9:55, 238; 10:137
Sam (slave; Muddy Hole), 7:45, 110, 139, 227, 236, 313, 376, 440, 443,
495, 516; 8:104, 221, 356, 479; 9:55
Sam (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Sam (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Sam (slave; runaway), 7:107, 235, 236, 439, 494, 495, 515
Sam (slave; tradesman), 7:313, 376, 440, 443, 515; 8:104, 220, 357
Sam (slave; York County), 6:229
Sambo (slave; John Robinson's), 7:315
Sam Cit (slave; at Claiborne's), 6:311
Sam Kit (dower slave), 8:401, 402
Sampson (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Sampson (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Sampson (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:589
Sampson (slave; Samuel Gist's), 7:315
Samuel, James, 9:122, 145
Samuel Hartlib His Legacy, 6:463, 472, 473
Sancroft, William, 6:293
Sanderson, John, 8:295-99, 368, 369, 371, 503-4, 507
Sands, James, 2:89, 93, 95, 104, 107
Sandusky campaign, 10:136
Sandwich, Edward Montagu, first earl of, 10:368
Sandy Creek, 5:276-77
Sandy Creek expedition, 2:161, 214-15, 216, 235, 273, 278, 280, 290,
319, 330-31, 334; 3:134, 204, 229, 434, 446; and Governor Dinwiddie, 2:214-15,
344; problem of command, 2:237; report on, 2:330
Sandys of Ombersley, Samuel, first Baron, 7:38, 39
Sanford, Daniel, 7:107, 110
Sanford, Lawrence, 8:267, 407; 9:237, 283; 10:31; letters to:
from GW, 8:249, 385
Sanford, Richard, 1:28, 37; 7:361, 382, 384; 8:145, 568; 9:168-69
Sanford (Sandford), Robert, 7:382; 8:128, 146
Sanitation, 3:239, 241; 6:31, 32, 96, 97, 353
Sá Pereira, ---- de (wife of governor), 8:76
Sá Pereira, JoÎo Antonio de, 8:76, 77
Saponi (Indians), 4:125. See also Indians
Sarah (dower slave; Hanover County), 6:218
Sarah (dower slave; King William County), 6:218
Sarah (ship), 6:473; 7:3, 35, 50-51, 53, 54, 62, 64, 112, 137
Sarah (slave), 8:70, 250
Sarah (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Sarah (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 6:311; 8:583, 590
Sarah (slave; Moncock Hill), 6:312
Sarah (slave; Dogue Run), 7:45, 139
Sarah (slave; Hanover County), 6:231
Sarah (slave; Home farm), 7:313, 376, 443, 515; 8:104, 220, 250, 356,
479; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Sarah (slave; house servant), 7:227, 313, 376, 443, 515; 8:104, 221,
356, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Sarah (slave; John Posey's), 8:34
Sarah (slave; King William County), 6:225
Sarah (slave; Mill farm), 8:221, 250
Sarah (slave; Mrs. Savage's), 9:84
Sarah (slave; Muddy Hole), 7:443, 516; 8:104, 221, 250, 356, 479; 9:54,
238; 10:137
Sarah (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Sarah (slave; Old Quarter, 1), 8:590
Sarah (slave; Old Quarter, 2), 8:590
Sarah (slave; River farm), 8:41, 42, 104, 221
Sarah (slave; Samuel Washington's), 7:173
Sarter, John, 7:382; 8:144
The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, 6:286, 296, 297
Satterfin, Robert, 3:135
Saunders, ---- (ferry owner), 8:121, 127
Saunders, John, 6:195, 196, 358, 359
Saunders, Lewis, 7:382; 8:145, 147
Saunders, Mary, 8:460
Saunders's ferry, 8:121
Savage, John, 2:47, 53, 314; 3:134; appointments and assignments, 1:208;
2:40, 42, 136, 163, 260; 3:157, 224, 225; 4:155, 166; commended, 1:209;
id., 1:210; 2:46; 8:386; company of, 2:45, 261, 332; 3:156, 256, 313;
and Indians, 2:56-57, 64; and bounty lands, 8:386, 451, 540; 9:122, 145,
196, 359, 360, 364, 366, 392; 10:1-2; letters to: from George Mercer,
2:162-63; from GW, 2:216-17
Savage, Littleton, 8:444-45, 447; 10:76
Savage, Margaret, 7:69, 232; 10:186; plans to leave Virginia, 7:40; family,
7:41; goods for, 7:367, 438; account with, 7:393; 10:104; and the Savage
affair, 7:502-6, 514; 8:107-11, 113, 114, 117, 119, 251-52, 261, 406-7,
408-9, 420; 9:4, 77, 100-101, 335-36, 412-14; 10:106-7, 340; mistreatment
of, 7:504; 8:419; 9:99-100; as executrix, 7:507; letter to Bryan Fairfax,
8:118; her powers of attorney, 8:328; 9:10, 102; GW urges "steady & resolute
behaviour," 8:524; GW advances money to, 9:9, 12, 15, 83, 84, 101; and
the Bomfords, 9:100; 10:67-68; signs deed of relinquishment, 10:66-67;
and judgment against William Savage, 10:157-58; her will, 10:158-59; her
affairs in GW's hands, 10:234; letters from: to GW, 8:353, 408,
529; 9:83-84; letters to: from GW, 8:107-11, 114, 410-11, 523-24;
9:10-11, 100-102; 10:30-31; from Martha Washington, 9:244
Savage, William, 10:106, 159; and the Savage affair, 7:502-6, 513, 514;
8:107-11, 114, 117, 119, 251-52, 408-9, 410-11; 9:3, 4, 9, 11, 15, 83-84,
100-101, 335; id., 7:503; in the Revolution, 7:506; legal actions of,
8:108-11, 328; 9:101-2, 413; 10:66-67; returns to Virginia, 8:252, 524;
9:10, 100; judgments against, 8:407; 9:101; and Thomson Mason, 8:407;
and Thomas Montgomerie, 8:524; and Bryan Fairfax, 9:8-9, 31, 32; treats
wife brutally, 9:99-100; GW purchases servant from, 9:132; legal actions
against, 10:30-31, 157-58, 278, 340; letters from: to George William
Fairfax, 7:506; to GW, 7:506, 513; 8:113-14; letters to: from George
William Fairfax, 7:506-7; from GW, 7:506-7, 514; 8:111
Savage (ship), 9:36
Savage River, 3:185
Savern & Stuart. See Levern & Stuart
Savin, Sarah. See Bernard, Sarah Savin
Sayers, Alexander, 6:470
Sayre, Stephen, 8:153, 294; letters from: to GW, 8:299-300
Scalps, 3:81, 102, 286-87; bounty for, 4:5, 8, 25, 31-32, 244, 249, 251;
taken, 4:120, 163, 164, 170, 208-9, 215, 226, 247, 261, 294; 5:9, 12,
26-27, 45, 52, 62, 151, 155-56, 190, 197, 270, 278, 283, 293, 301, 379,
381-82, 385, 403; dispute over, 5:176, 260-61, 276
Scarouady. See Monacatoocha
Scarron, Paul, 6:293
Sceene, John, 5:342
Scherzberg (Scherzburg), Jane, 7:199
Scherzberg (Scherzburg), John, 6:247-49, 394, 403; 7:25, 204, 205
Schlosser, John Joseph: letters from: to Henry Bouquet, 6:413
Schomberg (slave; Home farm), 8:479; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Schomberg (slave; house servant), 6:428; 7:45, 139, 227, 313, 376, 376,
442, 515; 8:104, 220, 356
Schomberg (slave; River farm), 7:377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 357, 479;
9:55, 238; 10:137. See also Scomberg; Shomberg
Schrack, Nicholas, 5:336
Schuyler, Peter, 6:101, 102
Sciagusta (Skyagusta; Indian), 8:329-30. See also Skyagusta
Scioto River (Ohio country), 1:85
Scioto River Valley (Ohio country), 9:251
Scipio (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Scipio (slave; River farm), 10:137, 138
Scomberg (dower slave; New Kent County), 6:217. See also Schomberg;
Shomberg
Scomberg (dower slave; shirtmaker), 6:282
Scomberg (dower slave; tradesman), 6:217
Scot, Roger, 4:42
Scott, ----: and GW's land dispute with Hite family, 8:382
Scott, ---- (doctor), 6:252
Scott, ---- (of Sinking Creek), 10:152
Scott, Charles, 3:253, 259; 4:276, 277; 5:403, 404, 417, 441, 446, 447,
455; 6:58, 118
Scott, Clement, 4:391; 6:47
Scott, James, Jr. (1742-1799), 8:383; letters from: to GW, 10:263-64
Scott, James (d. 1782), 7:429; 8:383; 9:75; 10:264
Scott, James (landowner), 1:20, 36
Scott, Jesse, 10:40, 42
Scott, M., 7:422, 473
Scott, Mary, & Son, 8:47, 133, 296, 562-63
Scott, Peter, 6:228, 246, 256, 257, 273
Scott, Pringle, Cheap, & Co., 7:446, 447; 8:72-73; letters from:
to GW, 7:458-59; letters to: from GW, 8:68-69
Scott, R., 6:331
Scott, Robert (of Prince William County), 6:332
Scott, Robert (sailor), 10:209
Scott, Robert (soldier), 10:40, 42
Scott, Sarah Brown, 9:75
Scott, Upton, 9:31, 43
Scott, William (of Fairfax County), 7:382; 8:147, 148
Scott, William (soldier), 1:222
Scratchfield, Samuel, 9:503, 505
Scrivener, Joseph, 6:321
Scruniyatha. See Monacatoocha
Scull, William, 8:330
Scully, Christopher, 2:252; 4:390
Scully, Michael, 5:363, 364; 9:122, 145
Scurlock, ----, 3:185
Scythe maker: letters to: from GW, 9:272
Seaford (ship), 2:174
Seal, Matthias, 7:227, 313
Seal, Thomas, 3:253, 259
Seal (Seale), John, 7:362, 382; 8:146, 147
Seamon, Jonathan, 5:337
Searle, John, 7:284; letters from: to GW, 7:238; letters to:
from GW, 7:285
Searle, John and James, 7:204; letters to: from GW, 7:208
Sears, William Bernard, 9:275-76
Seaton, Augustine, 8:424; 9:34, 46, 427, 429; letters to: from
GW, 8:429-30
Seaton, Daniel, 7:219
Seaton, George, 8:427
Sebastian, Benjamin, 7:362, 384; 8:146, 203, 238, 458, 459
Sebastian, Benjamin, Jr., 7:382, 450, 451, 452, 466, 482; 9:369
Second Continental Congress, 10:309, 000, 000
Second Yellow Bird (Indian), 4:120
The secret history of the reigns of K. Charles II and K. James II,
6:292, 295; 7:348
Secret memoires and manners of several persons of quality, 6:292
Sedgley, ----: suit against John Posey's wife, 8:212, 216
Seekonk. See Salt Lick Town
Seelys, 2:133
Selden, Mary Thomson Mason. See Mason, Mary Thomson
Selden, Samuel, 5:77
Select novels from the Spanish, 6:291
Select sermons (Brady), 6:285
Self, Francis, 1:222; 9:359, 360, 364, 365, 422
Self, Henry, 8:41, 42
Sellers, John, 2:318
Sellers (Sellars), Charles, 2:134, 135, 137, 138, 142; 3:310. See
also Ashby's fort
Semple, John: and ironworks, 7:179, 240; 8:139, 290; id., 7:180; 8:293;
account with, 7:333, 375, 376; and Potomac navigation, 8:284-90, 291-94,
352, 367; financial troubles, 8:293-94; and Colvill estate, 8:381-82,
497; 9:1, 21, 28-29, 34, 59; and David Ross, 8:425, 431, 442; letters
from: to GW, 8:291-94
Semple, Samuel, 8:394, 395
Semple's tavern, 8:395
Seneca, 6:400; 7:346
Seneca (Indians), 3:131; 5:13; 10:44, 184. See also Indians
Seneca Falls, 1:179, 180; 7:176
Seneca's Morals by way of abstract, 6:289; 7:346, 347, 349
Seplasium. The compleat English physician, 6:287
Sequeyra, John de, 7:469, 470; 8:268, 460
A serious proposal to the ladies, 6:292
"Sermons," 9:116, 118
Sermons (Foster), 6:296
The sermons of Mr. Yorrick, 7:346
Seroweh (Mankiller of Estatoe; Indian), 7:57
Servants (military): enlistment of, 2:124, 169, 170, 189, 191, 247, 253;
3:195-96, 313-14, 359, 388, 392, 395, 396, 400, 404, 405, 406, 417, 453;
4:102, 103, 104, 111, 142; runaways, 2:237, 238, 301, 302-3; 4:164-65;
liveried, 4:176; batmen, 5:68; cook, 5:300; GW's personal, 5:300, 376.
See also Washington, George: his personal servants; Washington,
George: his batman; Washington, George: and convict servants; Washington,
George: indentured servants
Seton, William, 9:377, 386, 428, 429, 479; 10:22
The seven champions of Christendom, 6:293; 7:347
17th Regiment, 5:118; 6:88
77th Regiment (First Highland Battalion; Montgomery's Highlanders): commander
of, 5:41-42, 119; 6:126; in Forbes expedition, 5:119; casualties, 6:15,
40, 52, 119; on Grant's expedition to Fort Duquesne, 6:15, 38-40, 41,
44; officers of, 6:15, 40, 48, 61, 70, 74, 91, 96, 104, 108, 119, 151-52,
158; on guard detail, 6:34, 48, 50-52, 54, 56-63, 65, 72-74, 77-78, 89,
110; court-martials, 6:36; adjutant of, 6:37, 53, 59, 61, 70, 74, 96,
104, 118; surgeon of, 6:91; movements of, 6:93, 106, 141, 145, 157; orders
to, 6:95, 97, 98, 103, 107, 120, 140; and king's birthday salute, 6:118;
in Archibald Montgomery's brigade, 6:125; cut road, 6:133-34; returns
of, 6:143; to garrison Pittsburgh, 6:189; officers who hold dual commissions,
6:190. See also individual names
Several discourses preached at the Temple Church, 6:296
Several Sermons, 6:297
Sew (dower slave; King William County), 6:218
Sew (slave; at Claiborne's), 6:311
Sewell, John (of England), 7:476
Sewell, John (of Frederick County), 5:338
Sewell, William, 7:382; 8:146, 147
Seybert (Siebert), Jacob (d. 1758), 5:160
Seybert (Siebert), Jacob (of Frederick County), 5:338
Seymour, Felix, 8:243
Seymour, Richard, 7:348, 349
Shaaff, Casper, 7:177
Shade, Charles, 10:279
Shade, George, 5:342
Shade (Sheldes), Christopher (Christian), 8:479; 9:54, 238; 10:137; account
with, 8:424, 431, 437, 474, 527, 556; 9:30, 133, 152, 293, 395, 396; 10:178,
195, 279; id., 8:425; letters from: to GW, 8:425; 10:198
Shakespear, John, 7:193, 198, 294
Shakespeare, William, 6:400
Shamokin (Indians), 6:15. See also Indians
Shamokin (Indian town), 2:152; 4:251, 299
Sharp, Edward, 10:71
Sharp, Thomas, 5:338
Sharpe, Horatio, 1:80, 89, 211, 212, 225, 226; 2:54, 325, 327; 5:410;
6:439; 9:41; as military commander, 1:128, 225; 2:184, 326, 346; 3:116;
4:127, 128, 130, 131; 5:405-6, 412, 428-29; 6:1, 65, 99; 7:123; and Potomac
trip, 1:180; id., 1:211, 227; 7:123; 8:417; raising Maryland troops, 1:213;
and intercolonial cooperation, 1:217, 224; 2:286; and GW's commission,
1:223; and Ohio campaign, 1:224; 2:352; and Alexandria conference, 1:247-48,
259; and Virginia forces, 1:354; 3:192, 214, 301; 7:123; and Braddock
campaign, 2:10; and Maryland militia, 2:178-79; and Dagworthy controversy,
2:213, 238, 283, 284, 285, 292, 294, 303, 304; 5:456; and fort on Tonoloway
Creek, 2:309; and murder of George Gordon, 2:326, 357; and Fort Frederick,
3:101, 209, 215, 224, 232, 236, 237, 305; and spy, 4:6, 9, 18; and military
supplies, 4:131, 147, 225, 304, 397; 5:203, 251, 257, 368-69; and Indians,
4:196; and Richard Pearis, 4:196, 254; 6:119; and alarm at Fort Cumberland,
4:213, 214, 218, 222, 236; receives intelligence reports, 5:6, 7; and
roads, 5:149, 252, 268; and meeting at Winchester, 5:169, 181; and pay
for Maryland forces, 5:182; proposes Maryland troops enlist in Virginia
regiments, 5:182; on frontier, 5:192; and meeting at Conococheague, 5:208,
252; and arms for troops, 5:210; and John Parke Custis, 8:415; letters
from: to Robert Dinwiddie, 1:64, 214; 2:36, 285, 357-58; 3:269; 4:131,
197; to GW, 1:106, 210-11, 215-16; 4:336-39; 5:230-31; to Lord Baltimore,
1:195; 3:382; 4:9; to Sir Thomas Robinson, 1:227; 2:178-79; to Cecilius
Calvert, 2:75, 161, 285; 3:210; 5:6, 429; to Robert Hunter Morris, 2:285;
3:381-82, 400; to William Shirley, 2:285, 346; to Adam Stephen, 2:326-27;
to John Sharpe, 3:210; to John Dagworthy, 4:128; to John Stanwix, 5:7;
to John Blair, 5:194-95, 196; to John St. Clair, 5:212; to John Forbes,
5:429; letters to: from GW, 1:85-87; 4:223-24, 318-20; 7:122-23;
from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:96, 148, 149, 205, 208; 2:285; 3:181; 4:131,
197-98, 198; from William Shirley, 2:133, 304, 324, 331; from Robert Hunter
Morris, 2:309; from Cecilius Calvert, 3:400; from Adam Stephen, 4:9; from
John Dagworthy, 4:213; from John Forbes, 5:119, 182, 429; from John St.
Clair, 5:212
Sharpe, John: letters to: from Horatio Sharpe, 3:210
Shaver (horse), 8:584
Shaw, Jane, 8:168, 169
Shaw, John, 1:115, 125-26, 157, 158, 162, 168
Shaw, Lachlan, 1:317, 318
Shaw, Peter, 6:286
Shaw, Thomas, 1:229
Shaw, Thomas (of Fairfax County), 7:382, 384; 8:145
Shaw, Timothy, 3:253, 259; 4:163
Shaw, William (of Alexandria), 8:556, 557; 9:208, 340; 10:104, 105, 106
Shaw, William (soldier), 2:148, 149; 3:252, 257; 4:163, 164
Shawnee (Indians), 5:183-84, 346, 348; intelligence concerning, 2:125;
prisoners of, 2:157; 4:162-64; 10:92, 182; entertained by Robert Dinwiddie,
2:159; treaties and conferences, 3:232, 233; 5:164-65; 6:105-6, 364; 10:184,
260; depredations of, 3:233; 10:44, 72, 87-88, 91, 93; and French, 3:308;
4:208, 209, 215, 268; engagement with Cherokee, 5:27; expedition against,
5:277; badges worn by, 6:105; join John Forbes, 6:105-6, 139; provisions
and presents for, 6:106; movements of, 6:144; password of, 6:157; at war
with Creek nation, 6:361; incensed against GW, 6:361; losses of, 6:361;
numbers of, 6:361; and Dunmore's War, 10:44, 69, 72-74, 87-88, 91-93,
133, 135, 181-84, 260; turn back surveyors, 10:54; claim they were not
paid for land, 10:55; criticized, 10:72; speeches of, 10:74; towns of,
10:74; attempt to stop settlers on Ohio, 10:88; George Croghan encourages
them to attack whites, 10:88; described, 10:184; aid in catching runaway
servants, 10:365, 371; intelligence from, 10:366; murdered, 10:366. See
also Indians; Sandy Creek expedition
Shawnee Cabins (Pennsylvania), 6:30, 34, 78, 79
Shawnee Old Town (Maryland), 2:73
Shawnee River, 9:251
Shelburne, William Petty, second earl of, 8:32, 92; 9:99; 10:79
Shelbury, ---- (Mrs.), 7:357, 403; 8:14; letters to: from Martha
Washington, 7:328-29
Shelbury & Lettice, 7:255-56, 287, 291, 328, 357, 442, 474
Shelby, Evan, 5:149-50; 6:100, 103, 129-30, 132, 135-36, 139, 142-43,
148, 152; 7:177
Shelton, ----, 3:321-23
Shenandoah Falls, 1:198; 7:175
Shenandoah River, 1:10
Shenandoah Valley, 1:9
Shepherd, ----: and William Dawson, 10:202
Shepherd, ---- (doctor), 3:325, 369
Shepherd, Andrew, 2:158, 160, 168, 182, 183, 193, 198, 222, 234, 235
Shepherd, David, 5:339; 10:58, 59
Shepherd, Thomas, 5:339
Sheperdstown, W.Va. See Mecklenberg
Shepley, James, & Co., 7:192, 197
Sheridine, Barberry (Barbara), 7:102; 8:140, 141, 250
Sheridine, John, Jr., 7:102, 263; 8:141
Sheridine, John, Sr., 7:382, 417; land of, 7:100, 102, 263; 8:141; 9:293,
294; account with, 7:105, 261, 333, 465; horse of, 7:352
Sheridine, Mary, 7:4, 10
Sherlock, Thomas, 6:296
Shermer, John, 8:579, 580
Sherwin, Samuel, 3:189, 190
Shieds, Christopher. See Shade (Sheldes), Christopher (Christian)
Shields, Matthew, 6:229
Shiller, William, 10:249
Shilton, John, 4:42
Shingas (Indian), 1:112, 115; 2:73
Ship Landing plantation: acreage of, 6:217; stock at, 6:218; id., 6:219;
8:126, 196; overseers of, 6:219; 8:106, 143; tenant at, 6:246; rental
of, 6:257; 8:195-97, 401, 591-92; slaves at, 6:312; 7:463, 464; advertised
for sale, 7:497
Shippen, Edward (1639-1712), 4:167
Shippen, Edward (1703-1781), 4:160; letters from: to GW, 4:227-28;
letters to: from GW, 4:167-68
Shippen, Edward (1729-1806), 4:167
Shippen, Elizabeth, 8:222
Shippen, Joseph, 5:362; 6:151, 152
Shippen, Joseph, Jr.: letters to: from Arthur St. Clair, 8:514
Shippensburg, Pa., 4:160; 5:119, 248, 356
Ship Point, 2:70
Shirding (Shadon; horse), 8:583
Shirley, Walter, 1:30
Shirley, William, 1:247; 2:115, 116, 185, 200, 202, 213, 226, 238, 290,
292, 310, 314, 324, 326; and Alexandria conference, 1:247-48, 259; and
Braddock campaign, 1:248; id., 1:248; GW's relations with, 1:258; 4:89,
116; 5:128, 406; 7:156; and northern campaign, 1:260, 274, 276, 278, 353;
2:156, 180, 223-24, 227, 351; and Dagworthy affair, 2:75, 284, 285, 286,
303, 304, 323-24; 3:319-20; and intercolonial conference, 2:132, 133,
286; and commissions, 2:172, 204; and Horatio Sharpe, 2:184; 3:192; and
councils of war, 2:228; 3:287; and southern Indians, 2:304, 308; and Ohio
campaign, 2:352; replaced, 3:104, 115-16; and cannon, 3:105, 181; and
John Winslow, 3:215; memorial of Virginia Regiment to, 3:438; letters
from: to Sir Thomas Robinson, 1:260; to Horatio Sharpe, 2:133, 304,
324, 331; to GW, 2:323-24; to Henry Fox, 3:288; letters to: from
Robert Dinwiddie, 1:363; 2:173, 280, 286, 293, 294-95, 304; 3:43, 57;
from Horatio Sharpe, 2:285, 346; from GW, 2:331; from John St. Clair,
5:231
Shirley, William, Jr.: letters from: to Robert Hunter Morris,
1:241-42, 248
Shirley (plantation), 4:384
Shockoe, Va., 8:194
Shoemaker, James, 10:370
Shomberg (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Shomberg (slave; New Kent County), 6:220. See also Schomberg;
Scomberg
Shooter's Hill (Middlesex County), 8:569
Short, Thomas, 4:331-32
A short account of the venereal disease, 6:289
Short discourses upon the whole common-prayer, 7:346
Short Hills, 3:69
A short review of the political life of Oliver Cromwell, 6:289
Shortridge, William, 7:382
A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English
stage, 6:289
A short way at once with venereal cures, 6:288
Shreve, Benjamin, 10:190-91
Shrieve & Butcher, 8:424, 457
Shryhawke, Michael, 9:36
Shurtees Creek. See Millers Run
Sibba (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
The sick man visited, 6:286, 297; 7:345, 349
Sidebottom, ----: paid for freight of chair, 10:249
Sideling Hill (Pennsylvania), 5:379
Siers, ---- (tavern keeper), 7:209, 218
Silk Stocking Company, 10:190
Silla (slave), 9:253. See also Priscilla
Silvia (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587. See also Sylvia
Silvy, John, 4:389
Sim, Joseph, 1:280
Sim (ship), 9:348, 489
Simmonds, Peter, 3:408
Simms, Charles, 9:302, 303, 311
Simms, William, 8:145
Simon (slave; at Washington's Bottom), 9:343
Simon (slave; Northampton County, 1), 6:230
Simon (slave; Northampton County, 2), 6:230
Simonds (Simmons), Thomas, 3:239, 241
Simons, ----, 5:407, 435
Simons (Simonds), Joel, 5:408
Simpson, ----, 10:167
Simpson, ---- (Mrs. Gilbert), 9:114, 217, 234, 291
Simpson, ---- (Mrs.), 7:515
Simpson, ---- (son of Gilbert Simpson, Jr.), 10:256
Simpson, Baxter, 7:382
Simpson, Elizabeth, 8:112, 557; 9:227, 228, 432
Simpson, George, 7:225, 362, 382, 384
Simpson, Gilbert, Jr., 6:378; 7:382; 8:70, 147, 148; 10:16, 293, 314;
id., 6:379; account with, 6:474, 480; 9:167, 293, 340, 504; 10:168; rents
farm from GW, 6:481; partnership with, 8:31; 9:114-15, 149, 184, 186,
234, 291-92, 412; slave sent to him, 9:36; and GW's white servants, 10:36,
90, 134, 307; and GW's carpenters, 10:51, 58, 89; and Indian raids, 10:52;
builds fort at Washington's Bottom, 10:69, 89; money sent to, 10:140,
178, 281; and GW's Ohio lands, 10:230-32, 288, 289, 334-35; supplies left
with, 10:261, 290, 291, 359, 372; James Cleveland at his place, 10:292;
letters from: to GW, 9:113-15, 148-49, 216-17, 234, 241-42, 290-93,
315-16, 342-43; 10:45-46, 153-54, 164-65, 181, 207-8, 256-57, 323-24;
letters to: from GW, 9:142, 185-87, 269
Simpson, Gilbert, Sr., 7:382; 8:145; rents land, 6:481; 7:100, 102-3;
8:91, 557; tobacco from, 7:4; id., 7:9; account with, 7:106; 8:376; 10:220,
221, 370; his wife, 7:515; money sent to, 10:179
Simpson, Moses, 7:381; 8:146, 148; 9:167
Simpson, Thomas, 8:153; 10:140, 141, 153, 154, 164, 178, 179, 181
Simpson, William, 7:382; 9:396
Simpson (plowman), 1:303, 317, 328
Sims, John, 9:202
Sims (Syms), Franklin, 9:190, 202
Sinclair, James, 5:234; 6:32, 55, 56, 74-75, 157; letters from:
to GW, 5:231-32, 299; to Henry Bouquet, 5:299; 6:21, 35, 74; to Thomas
Walker, 5:310
Singster, Richard, 4:390
Sinking Creek, 10:152
Six Nations (Indians): and Monacatoocha, 2:154; treaties and conferences,
3:232, 233; 5:14; 10:70; and Tuscarora, 3:308; and Cherokee, 5:14; provisions
and presents for, 5:14, 24, 26; instructions regarding, 5:24; and James
Roy, 5:24; movements of, 5:24, 26, 431; horses for, 5:26; and sketch of
Fort Duquesne, 5:432; depredations of, 5:451; suspected of spying, 5:451;
on scout, 6:467; claim land, 10:55; in Dunmore's War, 10:94. See also
Indians
60th Regiment. See Royal American Regiment
62d Regiment of Foot. See Royal American Regiment
Skelton, John, 6:47; 9:469
Skie Thorn tract (Maryland), 3:215
Skilling, William, 7:515; 8:103, 220, 356, 479; 10:137, 249; account
with, 7:508; 8:16, 52, 67, 78, 112, 136, 177, 207, 222, 250, 323, 329,
356, 531; 10:19, 104, 177, 194, 195, 356; digs well, 7:509; 8:527; petition
for land grant, 8:31; suit against, 8:208; pursues servant, 10:19, 342;
rehired, 10:137; sent to Ohio lands, 10:272-73, 360
Skinner, Cornelius, 9:309
Skinner, Nathaniel, 9:309
Skipton (Maryland), 10:306
Skyagusta (Sciagusta; Indian), 7:265, 266. See also Sciagusta
Slackum, George, 8:322, 323
Slater, Thomas, 10:20
Slaughter, Anne Clifton, 9:396, 397, 488, 489
Slaughter, Robert, 4:267; letters from: to GW, 4:245; letters
to: from GW, 4:248
Slaughter, Thomas, 9:397, 488, 489
Slaughter, Thomas (colonel), 3:95, 106, 111, 129-31, 146-47, 163, 166-67;
4:248; letters to: from GW, 3:167
Slaughter, William, 6:75, 76
Slaves, 3:58; Lawrence Washington's, 1:227-31, 234; 7:172-74; and Mount
Vernon lease, 1:232, 233; as seamstresses, 1:312; 6:282; 9:257; bought
and sold, 1:313; 2:276; 4:96-97, 98, 107-8; 6:198, 261, 313, 321, 338;
7:4, 9, 62, 68, 106, 109, 110, 182, 185, 299, 300, 304-5, 336, 442, 453-54,
469, 481, 493, 495, 515; 8:41, 82, 83, 112, 244-45, 254, 257, 309-311,
347, 427, 429-30, 430, 470, 532; 9:32, 35, 44, 45, 57, 70, 84, 134, 150,
185, 222, 224, 239, 310, 397, 505; 10:183, 191, 211, 269, 303, 319; hiring
of, 4:108; 5:75-77; 6:164, 165, 199, 200, 340; 7:9, 110, 209, 211, 299,
357, 358, 433, 508; 8:357, 472, 557; 9:172, 397; 10:35, 231-32, 348, 349,
000, 000; runaways, 4:164-65; 6:271, 405-6, 407, 444, 456; 7:6, 65-68,
107, 213, 235, 236, 268-69, 332, 434, 439, 441, 458, 494, 495; 8:19, 222,
401-2, 474, 512, 520-21, 529; 9:47, 58, 73, 74, 172, 174, 232, 367; 10:291,
317, 318; clothing and accessories for, 4:430; 6:224, 237, 250, 252, 271,
279, 307, 350, 353-54, 378, 393, 430, 464, 473; 7:5, 8, 86-87, 167, 168,
213, 293, 301, 320, 322, 327, 332, 333, 341, 352, 368, 403, 404; 8:46,
97, 101, 127, 131, 143, 159-60, 201, 232, 240, 249, 296, 373, 456, 508,
522, 528, 561; 9:1, 14, 35, 53, 87-88, 104, 112, 117, 139-40, 187, 256,
273, 277, 341, 355, 366; 10:19, 39, 40, 160, 370; as blacksmiths, 6:3,
134, 165, 428; 7:1, 6, 45, 104, 139, 178, 232, 233, 235, 240, 268, 299,
308, 309, 333, 352, 439; 8:20, 320, 357, 377; illnesses, 6:4-5, 25, 134-35,
417, 420-21, 426, 445; 7:67, 268, 276, 318, 320, 408, 458; 8:20, 25, 402,
583; 9:73, 139, 255, 286; as wagoners, 6:25; given money, 6:182, 184,
198, 321, 329, 339, 379, 456, 465-66, 474, 480; 7:3, 106, 178, 185, 190,
209, 210, 218, 219, 236, 239, 240, 261, 262, 268, 276, 279, 280, 285,
295, 296, 298, 309, 314, 319, 333, 336, 342, 366, 367, 373, 417, 426,
428, 434, 438, 441, 469, 470, 477, 478, 482, 491, 496; 8:41, 42, 52, 60,
67, 79, 83, 122, 127, 128, 136, 141, 143, 156, 170, 192, 193, 239, 266,
267, 268, 290, 291, 329, 347, 363, 393, 394, 405, 424, 431, 436, 437,
441, 442, 454, 557; 9:1, 30, 76, 91, 111, 117, 132, 152, 189, 190, 208,
252, 294, 341, 395, 396, 462; 10:40, 104, 105, 139, 168, 249, 279, 280,
357, 370; as carpenters, 6:200, 282, 428; 7:10, 45, 110, 139, 227, 233,
235, 236, 309, 418, 439, 463, 495; 8:144, 557, 587; 9:398; dower slaves,
6:202, 215, 217-20, 261, 311-12; 7:67, 81, 268, 318, 463, 464; 8:143,
213, 223, 318, 337, 401-2, 480, 582-84; 10:41; John Parke Custis's, 6:202-3,
205, 208, 219, 263; 7:318; 8:196; belonging to Custis estate, 6:204-5,
220, 224, 228, 229, 230, 231, 254, 258, 282; 7:11, 81, 86-87, 133, 213,
214, 301, 302, 303, 368, 499; 8:347, 582-84, 587-91; as house servants,
6:217, 282, 428; 7:45, 67, 133, 139, 227, 268, 313, 376, 407, 442-43,
482, 515; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:2, 54, 150, 238; 10:137, 138; as tradesmen,
6:217; 7:227, 313, 376, 443, 515; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:137,
138; appraisals of, 6:231, 254, 258; 7:172-74, 464; 9:186, 342-43; medical
care for, 6:252, 266, 272, 365, 390; 7:4, 7, 262, 268, 276, 318, 458;
8:20, 169, 322, 528; 9:73, 139; as shoemakers, 6:266; food for, 6:266;
7:144; liquor for, 6:266; as cooks, 6:282; as ironers, 6:282; as jobbers,
6:282; as scullions, 6:282; as shirtmakers, 6:282; as spinners, 6:282;
8:155; 9:85-86, 257; as tanners, 6:282; 7:464; as waiters, 6:282; as washers,
6:282; Martha Parke Custis's maid, 6:282; 7:303; and Martha Washington,
6:282; 9:85-86, 433-34; as overseers, 6:321; 7:133, 236; 8:18, 144; 9:241,
398; marriages of, 6:321; 8:255; as messengers, 6:420-21, 425-26; 7:67,
405, 408; 8:25, 83, 128, 142-43, 259, 361, 365, 417, 435, 571, 572, 584;
9:15, 50, 51, 137, 138, 276, 286, 438, 491; deaths of, 6:421; 8:584, 591;
9:73; 10:41; at Dogue Run, 6:428; 7:45, 65-66, 67, 139, 228, 313, 376-77,
443, 482, 515-16; 8:104, 144, 220-21, 356, 479; 9:54-55, 238; 10:137,
138; at Home farm, 6:428; 7:45, 67, 139, 305, 313, 336, 376, 443, 515;
8:104, 220, 479; 9:36, 53, 54, 112, 238; 10:20, 137, 138, 196; at Muddy
Hole, 6:428; 7:45, 110, 139, 227-28, 236, 313, 332, 376, 443, 495, 516;
8:104, 221, 356, 479; 9:54, 58, 238; 10:137, 138; at Williamson's farm,
6:428; 7:67; tithables, 6:428; 7:45, 110, 139, 227-28, 313, 376-77, 442-43,
515-16; 8:104, 220-21, 356-57, 479; 9:54-55, 238-39; 10:137; as cradlers,
6:457; as postilions, 6:457; levies and taxes on, 7:4, 9, 86-87, 213,
219, 302, 303, 351, 367, 425, 499; 8:5, 53, 122, 198, 199, 208, 221, 355,
455; as personal servants, 7:8, 11, 86-87, 301, 302, 368; 8:83, 90-91,
227; 10:138, 160; at Creek farm, 7:45, 67, 139, 228, 313; at River farm,
7:45, 67, 139, 228, 305, 313, 377, 434, 442, 443, 454, 515, 516; 8:221,
357, 479; 9:55, 238-39; 10:137, 138; descriptions of, 7:65-66, 174, 494;
8:520; 9:241; as plowmen, 7:67; at Bridge Quarter, 7:67, 464; 8:401-2;
at Claiborne's, 7:67, 464; 8:143, 223, 582-84, 590-91; in prison, 7:67,
434; as bricklayers, 7:110, 211, 299, 433, 508; 10:000, 000; as gardeners,
7:133; 9:150; disputes over, 7:133; 8:470; as millers, 7:139, 235, 334,
376, 377, 443; 8:587; 9:257, 258; and overseers, 7:143, 144, 145, 148;
8:582; 9:241, 285; as dairy maids, 7:145; at Ashford's quarter, 7:148;
at Gist's quarter, 7:148; visits by, 7:148; Augustine Washington's, 7:173-74;
at Bullskin, 7:174; midwives for, 7:179, 190, 276, 308, 352, 482, 515;
8:5, 70, 112, 169, 221, 222, 250, 521, 527, 557; 9:1, 53, 58, 228, 253,
432; 10:20, 39, 168, 196; for Hampshire County land, 7:182, 185; as ferrymen,
7:191; 8:356, 357, 472, 479; 9:55, 238; George William Fairfax's, 7:232,
319; 9:446; mortgages on, 7:263; 8:34, 37; 9:302; and "Negroe Doct[o]r,"
7:268, 276, 458; 8:169; 9:396, 398; for the Dismal Swamp Company, 7:275,
300, 314-15, 336; at Ship Landing, 7:318, 464; 8:401-2; poisoned, 7:318,
320; as grooms, 7:319; ferriages for, 7:319; 8:41, 70; at Mill farm, 7:377,
443, 516; 8:104, 221, 356, 479, 588; 9:55, 152, 238; 10:137; sell produce,
7:415; 9:287; as boat builder, 7:418; George Mason's indictment of slavery,
7:424-25; shipped to West Indies, 7:442, 453-54, 492; 8:521; 9:134, 367-68;
at York River, 7:463; in King William County, 7:463; 8:590-91; past labor,
7:463; costs of, 7:484, 490; 8:335; as weavers, 7:507, 508, 515; 8:155;
as security on debts, 8:2-3, 34, 470, 525; 9:282; in Fairfax Parish, 8:104,
221, 357, 479; 9:55, 238-39; in Truro Parish, 8:104, 220-21, 356, 479;
9:54-55, 238; testimony barred, 8:142-43; as fiddlers, 8:156, 556; killed
or carried off by Indians, 8:157, 158; execution of, 8:211, 215; conspiracy
of, 8:215; multiple births of, 8:215; reimbursement for execution of,
8:215; John Posey's, 8:255; charges for transporting of, 8:400; at Ferry
farm (Mount Vernon), 8:402, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:20, 39, 137, 138; inoculation
of, 8:443-44, 447; at Great House plantation, 8:520, 587; 9:174, 258,
287; at Old Quarter, 8:520, 590; pass as free men, 8:520; outlawing of,
8:520-21; at Jackson's quarter, 8:587; in York County, 8:587-88; 9:258,
287; at Rockahock, 8:588-89; 9:258; in New Kent County, 8:588-90; 9:258;
at Brick House, 8:589; 9:89; at Harlow's plantation, 8:590; on Eastern
Shore, 8:591; travel expenses of, 9:19, 30, 208, 367; 10:139; for western
lands, 9:36, 114, 148-49, 184, 185, 291, 315-16, 342-43; 10:231-32, 269,
272, 291; frostbitten, 9:36, 185, 291; taken by British, 9:36; refuse
to work, 9:85-86; raise poultry, 9:86; carry money, 9:138; as coachmen,
9:150, 172; as stud managers, 9:150; as ditchers, 9:172; iron spancels
used on, 9:173; refuse to leave area, 9:185; dogs used to catch, 9:232;
whipped, 9:232; John Custis's, 9:233; portrait of, 9:233; too young to
appear on tithable lists, 9:239; Gilbert Simpson's, 9:241; Lund Washington's,
9:241; at the White House (on Pamunkey River), 9:257; and their children,
9:257; in deep mourning, 9:267; value of, 9:282; as coopers, 9:397; 10:138;
from John Dandridge's estate, 9:434; sent to Berkeley County, 9:446; their
wives and children live elsewhere, 10:41; Thomas Claggett's, 10:41; removal
from Belvoir, 10:95; Resolves state no slaves to be imported, 10:125,
128; slave trade called "a wicked cruel and unnatural Trade," 10:125;
to be returned by Indians, 10:182; on Little Falls quarter, 10:279; used
in settlement of debts, 10:295, 296, 302-3; indulged, 10:303, 304; refuse
to leave wife and children, 10:303, 304; disturbances reported, 10:340.
See also Blacks; Custis estate: settlement of the Daniel Parke
Custis estate; and individual names
Sleepy Creek, 2:340; 3:137, 145, 246, 283, 289; 5:58
Slosser, Francis, 7:227
Slough, Matthias, 6:81, 82
Small, ---- (of Birmingham), 9:370
Small, John, 5:339
Small, William (doctor), 7:2, 7, 92, 98
"Smallets Hy of England." See "Smollets History of England"
Smallpox Conjurer. See Conjurer
Small's fort, 5:67
Smallsolfer, Lewis, 5:336
Smart, Joseph, 4:390
Smart (slave), 7:232, 233
Smith, ----, 4:430; account with, 8:24; carries letters, 10:66; and Robert
Adam's debt, 10:227
Smith, ---- (baker), 5:366-67, 373-74
Smith, ---- (captain), 4:395
Smith, ---- (deserter), 2:12
Smith, ---- (frontiersman), 5:276-77
Smith, ---- (of Frederick County), 5:299
Smith, Abraham, 4:73, 117, 118; 5:46
Smith, Adam, 9:344, 345
Smith, Alexander Hamilton, 9:230; letters from: to GW, 10:313
Smith, Ann, 6:252; 8:482
Smith, Ann Darrell, 5:75, 78-79; 6:339-40, 384; 7:407
Smith, Benjamin, 3:306-7; 4:391; 5:59, 60; 6:118
Smith, Catharine (Catherine), 8:71; 9:42
Smith, Charles (glover), 6:334, 337
Smith, Charles (lieutenant), 2:41, 45, 252; 3:279, 281, 341, 342, 447;
4:40; 5:109, 142, 162-63, 237, 303, 334, 352, 366-67; 6:20, 63, 65, 362;
9:460; accounts of, 1:222; 8:191; 10:193; appointments and assignments,
2:40, 42, 170, 192, 243, 260; 3:251, 280, 428; 4:24, 48, 166, 205, 206,
340, 432; 5:144; id., 2:46-47; at Fort Cumberland, 2:47; paid, 2:191;
and recruiting, 2:231; and deserters, 2:302; skirmish, 3:421, 422; and
construction of Fort Loudoun, 4:24; 5:97, 128, 133, 275; 6:5, 167; and
Griffin Pert, 4:202; and French prisoner, 4:210-11; attends to GW's affairs,
4:418; 5:253, 331, 367, 374, 408, 415, 434, 449, 451, 452, 453; kills
a man, 4:418, 419, 431; and John Baylis, 5:97; to build flats, 5:127,
131; at Fort Loudoun, 5:128, 202, 204, 240, 275, 393; 6:364; and rangers,
5:239; and returns, 5:251, 306, 331-32, 352, 369-71, 374, 423; 6:171;
and GW's election, 5:253, 263, 305-6, 307-8, 323, 332-33; family of, 5:254;
enlists soldier, 5:289; and money for expresses, 6:64, 99; and John Adams,
6:135; address to GW, 6:178-81; money paid GW, 6:181; goods from, 6:396;
rents GW's Winchester property, 8:193, 239; patent for land, 9:122, 145;
and bounty lands, 9:363; 10:2; at Mount Vernon, 9:461; letters from:
to GW, 4:18-22; 5:96-97, 252-54, 306-9, 323, 331-34, 350-52, 373-74, 392-94,
410, 423-24; 6:3-5, 25-27, 75-77, 134-35, 164-65; letters to: from
GW, 5:238-39, 276, 278, 286, 384, 405; 6:14, 100, 114
Smith, Christopher, 3:278
Smith, Daniel, 10:357, 370, 371
Smith, Eliza, 6:291, 296
Smith, Francis (officer), 10:367, 368
Smith, George (of Frederick County), 1:26
Smith, George (of Pennsylvania), 10:207
Smith, Huie, Alexander & Co., 8:489
Smith, James, 1:23
Smith, Jeremiah, 2:95, 101; 3:40; 5:339
Smith, John, 1:221
Smith, John, Jr., 3:260
Smith, John (1580-1631), 10:149, 150
Smith, John (corporal), 9:122, 145
Smith, John (of Augusta County), 2:90; 3:260-61; 5:100-101, 104-5, 277;
letters from: to GW, 5:99-100
Smith, John (of Frederick County), 5:334
Smith, John (of Gloucester County), 9:468
Smith, John (of Shooter's Hill), 8:567, 569-70
Smith, John (sailor), 10:19
Smith, John (servant), 9:519; 10:134, 135
Smith, John (ship captain), 8:94
Smith, John (soldier), 9:359, 360, 364, 365, 422, 515, 516
Smith, John (son of John Smith of Gloucester), 9:468
Smith, Joseph (painter), 10:343, 366
Smith, Joseph (son of John Smith of Augusta), 3:260-61
Smith, Lewis (Louis), 6:266, 271, 376, 425
Smith, Mary Jacquelin, 8:569
Smith, Nancy, 8:481, 482
Smith, Nathaniel, 3:368, 369
Smith, Ostin (Austin), 6:36
Smith, Peter, 7:382
Smith, Philip (baker), 5:366-67
Smith, Philip (of Westmoreland County), 10:308, 316
Smith, Rebecca Hite, 4:419
Smith, Richard (corporal), 8:452, 454, 540; 9:122, 145
Smith, Richard (interpreter), 4:397; 6:175, 178; and Indians, 4:73, 143,
178, 179, 229, 317; 5:20, 29, 304; 6:82; id., 4:144, 235; and French prisoner,
4:232, 233; and Edmond Atkin, 4:426; 5:2; sent to GW, 5:52; delay of,
5:53; as interpreter, 5:190
Smith, Richard (soldier), 4:333
Smith, Robert, 5:103, 104
Smith, Samuel, 8:145
Smith, Sylvanus, 1:25
Smith, Thomas (clergyman), 8:62, 225, 346
Smith, Thomas (of Fairfax County), 5:78-79; 6:339-40, 384
Smith, Thomas (of Pennsylvania), 10:52
Smith, Valentine, 7:98
Smith, William, 6:281
Smith, William (1727-1803; of Philadelphia), 5:59; 9:154, 155, 162, 164;
letters from: to GW, 5:48-49; letters to: from GW, 1:171;
4:126
Smith, William (Bryan Fairfax's agent), 9:8, 9
Smith, William (corporal), 3:135, 227, 228, 229, 252, 257, 269-70, 272,
281, 282
Smith, William (doctor; of Philadelphia), 10:49-50, 50, 369, 371
Smith, William (of Fairfax County), 7:382
Smith, William (of Loudoun County), 10:29
Smith, William (owner of servant), 4:191
Smith, William (soldier), 4:320-21, 334, 335, 353, 355, 360, 368-69
Smith family, 8:71-72
Smithfield (plantation), 1:349
Smith Island, 6:230, 246, 274, 320; 7:90; 9:19, 368
Smith River, 4:1, 6, 10
Smiths (Blacksmiths), 3:8, 112, 134, 226, 236, 297; 4:292
Smith's River fort. See Fort Trial
Smiths Run, 1:31
"Smollets History of England," 7:344, 348
Smollett, Tobias, 6:283; 7:166, 167, 195, 343, 344, 348, 349
Snake, The (Indian), 10:184
Snap, John, 5:335
Snap, John, Jr., 5:335
Snapp, Lawrence, 5:341; 8:190-91
Snead, William, 4:43
Sneed, John, 7:268, 304, 438, 496
Sneed's ordinary, 7:268
Snickers, Sarah, 10:196
Snickers, William, 10:98
Snickers (Sniggers), Edward, 3:369; 5:341; 8:240, 383; 9:170, 171; id.,
3:371; 5:299; 7:8; 9:467; and iron for GW, 5:299-300; and GW's horses,
5:451-52, 453; 6:4, 26; his home, 5:453; and GW's election, 7:3; and treasury
money, 7:5, 11; account with, 7:239; 8:59, 238, 239, 394, 436, 527; 9:36;
10:222; paid for millstones, 8:528; and bounty lands, 9:467, 518; and
Lord Dunmore's western land, 10:98; and George Mercer's affairs, 10:178,
202, 244, 281; family, 10:196, 245; letters from: to GW, 5:299-300;
9:466-67; 10:66, 244-45, 294, 331-32; letters to: from GW, 9:407;
10:101, 301
Snickers's (Sniggers's) ordinary, 5:299; 7:8; 8:240, 383; 10:196, 245
Snickers's (Williams's) Gap, 3:69; 5:299; 8:54-55
Snidow (Snyde), ---- (widow), 10:152
Snipes, Thomas, 4:390
Snodgrass, David, 5:335
Snodgrass, John, 5:336
Snow Creek (plantation), 4:418
Snowden, John, 7:427, 428, 438; 8:91
Snowden, Samuel, 7:299, 300
Snowden, Thomas, 7:299, 300
Soal, Joseph, 8:31, 193, 195, 437, 438, 455
Society for the Advancement of Useful Knowledge. See Virginia
Society for the Advancement of Useful Knowledge
Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactorys, and Commerce, 10:216,
217
Society Hill, 9:194
Solleysell, Jacques de, 7:344
Solomon (dower slave; King William County), 6:218
Solomon (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 6:311; 8:583, 584, 590
Solomon (slave; King William County), 6:225
Some passages of the life and death of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester,
6:295; 7:347
Some Thought concerning Religion, Natural and revealed, 6:299
Some thoughts concerning education, 6:291
Songs and Poems of Love and Drollery, 6:299
Sophia (ship), 9:344
Sophia Caroline Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, 7:37, 39
South, Robert, 6:292
Southall, James Barrett, 9:199, 205; 10:78; account with, 7:210, 262,
280; 8:453, 486; 9:30, 117, 367, 394; 10:40, 76; id., 7:212; 9:207; and
subscription to ball, 8:268; manages Raleigh Tavern, 8:454; GW's servants
eat at his tavern, 10:139
Southall's tavern, 7:212; 8:454
Southampton County, 4:290
South Branch Manor, 3:50, 52, 121
South Branch of Potomac River: forts on, 2:263, 264, 265-66, 280; 4:10,
221, 350; 5:33, 150, 163; mutiny on, 4:93, 103-4; commander on, 4:247;
5:145; Indians on, 4:264, 360, 385, 396, 408; 5:26, 27, 124; 8:242, 243;
troops on, 5:58, 143, 158, 174, 188
South Branch of Potomac River, commanding officer on: letters to:
from GW, 4:178, 178-79
South Carolina. See individual volumes
Southerd, Hannah, 1:26
Southern District of Virginia: adjutancy of, 1:193
Southern's (Southing's) ferry, 6:407
South Potomac naval district, 9:505
Southward, Benjamin, 7:381
Sowell, ----: and Custis estate, 6:253
Sowers, Jacob, 3:282; 5:89, 337
Sowers's ordinary, 3:282
Sparkes (Sparke, Sparks), William, 1:321, 326
Sparks, Edward, 6:47
Sparks, Jared, 1:1, 4, 126, 171; 3:17; 5:245
Sparks, John, 4:390
Speake, George, 3:454-56; 4:329, 345; 5:103; military service, 4:296,
297-98, 340, 406, 432; 5:135; 6:102-3; and deserters, 4:330, 331, 333,
358; his accounts, 4:357; address to GW, 6:178-81; letters from:
to GW, 5:14-15
Speake, Robert, 7:382; 8:146, 148
Speake, Thomas, 4:424, 425, 426; 5:7, 11, 342; 7:219
Speaker of the House of Burgesses. See Robinson, John; Randolph,
Peyton
Spear, Benjamin, 10:90, 91
Spear (Spears), Thomas, 10:318, 341-42, 366
Spearing, Ann, 1:262, 290, 292, 307; letters from: to GW, 1:346
Spearing, William, 1:292
Spectacle de la nature; or, nature display'd, 7:346
The spectator, 6:293; 7:345
The speculatist, 6:286; 7:345
Speedwell (ship), 1:63
Speier, James, 10:41
Speir, William, 10:90, 91
Speir (Spears), William (merchant), 6:88, 90
Speirs & Smith, 6:87, 90, 91
Spencer, Elizabeth, 8:418
Spencer, Frances, 5:75; 8:326
Spencer, Francis, 6:342
Spencer, Nicholas, 1:234; 5:74-75; 6:439; 8:326, 327, 418, 547, 578;
9:290
Spencer, Penelope, 6:342
Spencer, William, 5:75; 6:341, 342; 8:145, 186, 259, 418
Spencer-Washington grant, 8:327
Spencer-Washington line, 5:74-75
Spendelow, Charles, 1:293, 295, 296, 326
Spenser, Edmund, 6:400
Spicer (Spincer), John, 7:24-25, 30, 192, 422, 475; 8:47-48
Spies and traitors, 3:10, 11, 46, 47, 66, 132, 195, 449, 452; 4:6, 9-10,
18, 366; 5:4, 29, 47, 61, 430-31, 451
Spiltdorf, Carolus Gustavus de, 1:112, 115, 151, 152, 183, 186, 208,
213, 214, 342
Spinckes, Nathaniel, 6:286, 297
Spirit of the Laws, 9:344, 345
Spooner, ---- (dancing master), 8:184
Spore, John, 6:314, 315
The sportsman's dictionary, 6:297; 7:346
Spotswood, ---- (son of John Spotswood, 1), 6:13
Spotswood, ---- (son of John Spotswood, 2), 6:13
Spotswood, Alexander (1751-1818), 10:346, 347; letters from: to
GW, 10:355-56
Spotswood, Alexander (governor), 1:7; 2:24; 3:117, 165; 6:5; 10:347
Spotswood, Elizabeth Washington, 10:347
Spotswood, John, 4:259; and Fredericksburg ferry, 1:6; id., 1:7; 6:5;
as county lieutenant, 3:117; dispute with John Thornton, 3:117-18; council
of war, 3:129-31; and GW's horses, 5:452; 6:75; death of, 6:4; widow of,
6:13; 8:310-11; estate of, 7:4, 10; 8:427; family of, 10:347; letters
from: to Robert Dinwiddie, 3:117-18; letters to: from GW, 4:258
Spotswood, Mary Dandridge, 6:11, 13, 193; 10:347. See also Campbell,
Mary Dandridge Spotswood
Spotswood, Robert, 2:211, 289; 3:72, 76, 77-79, 152-153, 342, 379, 392,
447; 4:179-80, 231, 232, 358, 383; company of, 2:14, 77, 108; 3:156, 212,
253, 258, 263, 276, 341, 429; 4:77, 277, 300, 345, 346-47, 351, 408; 5:6,
91; id., 2:24; 3:165; appointments and assignments, 2:40, 42, 86, 261,
288; 3:153, 252, 374, 387; 4:153, 166, 194, 199, 212, 213-14, 219, 241,
362, 407, 432; death of, 2:182; 5:54, 85, 135; 6:5; and regimental funds,
3:156; and Dunkers, 3:421; and Indians, 4:25, 27, 77, 93-95; missing,
4:124, 182, 197, 214, 216, 255, 261, 263, 274-75, 279, 288, 296, 311,
316, 368, 409, 415; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22; letters to:
from GW, 2:24, 150; 3:164-65; from George Mercer, 2:118
Spotswood's ferry, 1:8
Spotsylvania County, 3:55, 56-57, 117-18, 127, 137, 142, 146, 159; 4:258,
290; 8:246
Spotsylvania County Committee, 10:214
Spotsylvania Independent Company, 10:297, 316; letters from: to
Prince William Independent Company, 10:345; to GW, 10:346-47
Spour (Spore), John, 4:95, 96, 161, 167-68, 227; 5:247-48
Spour (Spore), John, and Company, 4:227
The Spout, 7:175
Spout Run, 5:453
Sprigg, Joseph, 9:493
Sprigg, Osborne, 10:178, 179
Spriggs (Sprigg), ---- (captain), 6:65
Springer, Dennis, 5:340
Springfield (Fairfax County), 8:165-66
Springfield tract (Fauquier County), 9:505
Spring Gap Mountain, 5:375
Spring Garden (Pennsylvania), 8:158
Sprowle & Crooks, 8:531, 532
Spurling, Jeremiah, 7:107
Spy (ship), 5:195
Squire, Richard, 2:114
Squire, Thomas, 8:400, 562; 9:66, 107
Squire (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Squire (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Squire (slave; shirtmaker), 6:282
Stabler, John, 7:23-24, 30, 475; 8:134, 295, 397, 564-65; 9:108-9
Stackhouse, John, 1:23
Stadler, John, 8:226; as music teacher, 7:364; account with, 7:368, 370,
438, 496, 499, 501; 8:91, 244, 474; goods purchased for, 8:72; id., 8:73;
and Custis estate, 8:198, 199, 200, 203, 355, 456, 457, 460, 461; 9:370;
and bounty lands, 9:94-95
Stafford (slave; Dogue Run), 7:139, 228, 313, 366, 443
Stafford (slave; River farm), 10:137, 138
Stafford County: militia, 3:55-57, 117, 127, 137, 143, 145-47, 150, 159;
troops from, 4:243, 258, 278, 281-82, 290; elections in, 5:288; records
lost, 10:3
Stafford Court House, Va., 6:380; 7:223; 8:62, 64
Stalker, Peter, 2:301, 303; 5:259, 269, 273
Stalnaker, Samuel, 5:325, 326; 6:82, 83; 7:56, 57
Stamp Act, 7:384, 386, 390, 395-96, 401-2, 431-32, 457; 8:15, 44; 10:118
Stanley, Archelaus, 3:225; 4:42
Stanley, William, 4:42
Stanley, Zechariah, 3:225; 4:42
Stanstead (plantation), 7:162
Stanton, Richard, 10:71
Stanwix, John, 2:52, 77; 4:212, 220-21, 227, 240, 250, 256, 269, 279,
284, 304, 386, 396, 409, 422; 5:2, 35, 55, 59; 6:389, 412, 439; military
supplies for, 4:96, 161, 167, 173, 184, 257; and batmen, 4:176, 202, 216,
246, 254, 291, 312; orders from, 4:189, 194, 243-44, 255; and arms for
Virginia troops, 4:202, 210, 247, 266, 268; and alarm at Fort Cumberland,
4:213, 214, 218, 222, 224, 236, 243-44; and intelligence, 4:225, 235,
295, 300, 318, 360; movements of, 4:264; 5:36, 65, 81, 302; 6:347; and
GW, 4:285, 353-54; 5:34; and officers' allowances, 4:291, 312; 5:4, 7,
200; and beef at Fort Cumberland, 4:429; id., 5:5; troops of, 5:20, 119,
385; military service, 5:81, 118; and Robert Stewart, 5:85, 137; and John
Smith's scheme, 5:99; and proposed attack on Fort Duquesne, 5:99; and
Indians, 6:343, 364; and George Mercer, 6:344, 437; as commander, 6:345,
413, 440; and Thomas Bullitt, 6:347; and construction of Fort Pitt, 6:360,
363; letters from: to GW, 4:159-60, 161, 228-29, 251-52, 252-53,
298-99, 305, 317, 324, 356-57, 415-16; 5:80-81, 81, 104-5; to William
Denny, 4:229; letters to: from Lord Loudoun, 4:55; from GW, 4:168-69,
215-17, 224-25, 240-42, 245-46, 254, 269-71, 285, 306-8, 318, 353-55;
5:8-10, 100-103, 117-20; from Alexander Beall, 4:251; from John Dagworthy,
4:252; from William Denny, 4:299; from Henry Bouquet, 4:374; from Horatio
Sharpe, 5:7; from Robert Stewart, 5:63-64; from Thomas Lloyd, 6:346, 346-47;
from Adam Stephen, 6:347
Staples, Daniel, 9:122, 146
Stark, Mary Bolling, 2:50
Stark, William (father), 2:50
Stark, William (officer), 2:41; 3:20, 72, 77-79; 4:166; resignation of,
2:18, 327-28; returns of, 2:40; appointments and assignments, 2:42, 49,
260; 3:250, 272, 314, 319; id., 2:50; 3:18; memorandum regarding, 2:54;
and Dagworthy controversy, 2:289, 297, 298, 311; and transfer to Augusta
County, 2:327; and skirmish with Indians, 3:18; letters from: to
GW, 3:17-18, 22; letters to: from GW, 3:23-24, 98-99
Starke, ---- (ensign), 4:205, 206, 297, 332, 340, 407, 432; 5:67
Starke, Daniel, 7:452; 8:5
Starke, James, 7:452
Starke, Mary Bolling, 7:191; 8:61-62, 89
Starke, Richard, 7:191; 8:88-89, 106, 223, 346, 347; letters from:
to GW, 8:59; letters to: from GW, 8:61-62
The state of the Protestants in Ireland, 6:286
State of the Services of the Marquis d'Aubarède, 10:79
State-Poems, 6:290, 292, 298; 7:346
Staunton (Augusta Court House), 5:68, 147. See also Augusta Court
House
Stead, Benjamin, 5:42
Steane & Mander, 7:129, 131
Steel, Henry, 3:253, 258
Steele, Sir Richard, 6:290, 293, 294; 7:345
Steele, Thomas, Jr., 8:547
Steemson, Samuel, 6:400, 404; 7:194
Steenbergen, Peter, 3:447; 4:230, 329, 346; recruiting, 2:14, 136; appointments
and assignments, 2:40, 42, 86, 261; 3:157, 252; 4:128, 179-80; 5:162;
charges against, 2:86-87; 5:150, 162-64, 174, 187-88; id., 2:86-87; military
service, 3:162, 429; 4:130, 166, 175, 182, 204, 205, 206, 432; 5:67, 163;
criticizes Griffin Pert, 4:202; resignation, 5:201; letters from:
to GW, 4:18-22, 151
Steer, ----: horse bought from, 7:496
Stephen, Adam, 1:79, 152, 153, 205, 315, 328; 2:28, 71, 82, 84, 110,
127, 132, 144, 152, 175, 182, 183, 188, 199, 205, 216, 253, 254, 255,
260, 274, 296-97, 315, 335, 338; 3:1, 17, 237, 238, 269, 392, 415; 4:151,
231, 298, 332, 374; 5:139, 148, 162-63, 288, 312, 322, 324, 326, 377;
6:26; 9:136; and Fort Necessity campaign, 1:78, 82, 98, 101-2, 103, 156-57,
163, 164, 168, 176-77; id., 1:80, 316; 7:225; commissions and appointments,
1:134, 144, 182, 208, 236; 2:40, 42; 7:52, 115, 122; commended, 1:209;
wounded, 1:342; and recruitment, 2:7, 69, 70, 210, 262, 271; 3:155; 5:146;
returns of, 2:7, 149, 176, 178, 206, 211, 263, 328; 4:66; 5:156, 179,
300, 371; company of, 2:39, 45, 232, 261, 320; 3:212, 225, 251, 256, 257,
263, 313, 358, 428; 4:76, 155; 5:114, 124-25, 220, 266; 6:46-47, 146;
at Fort Cumberland, 2:47, 61-63, 250, 268; 3:35, 162, 184-85, 321, 450;
4:8, 49, 128, 131, 157-58, 159, 345; 5:249; conflict with John Dagworthy,
2:63, 72, 74-75, 270-71, 284, 285, 291, 294, 307; and Indians, 2:83, 85,
195, 196, 202; 4:71, 73, 172, 190-94, 297; 5:261; 8:243; orders to, 2:84,
106, 256, 265, 269; 3:253; 4:72, 135; 7:20; movements of, 2:85, 132; 5:42,
92, 136, 144, 193, 198-99, 246-47, 248, 311, 383; 6:32, 127, 175, 181,
363; 7:51, 56; and military payments, 2:153, 189; 3:203, 204; 4:6, 9;
5:40, 214, 215; 7:338; brevet commission requested for, 2:173, 286; and
supplies, 2:193, 199, 283; 3:173; 4:197-98, 408; 5:291, 313, 385, 386;
and Sandy Creek expedition, 2:214; and GW's warning to officers, 2:256;
on misconduct in Virginia Regiment, 2:287; and deserters, 2:289-90; 4:93-95;
and Charles Lewis, 2:297; and John Johnson, 2:300; commands at Fort Cumberland,
3:3; charges against, 3:59, 85; 7:115, 340; his coded letters, 3:61; councils
of war, 3:242-46, 447-53; 4:27, 136; 5:170-71; noncommissioned officers
of, 3:252, 256; and Virginia-Centinel No. X, 4:19; commands troops in
South Carolina, 4:130, 143, 150, 177, 206, 207-8, 345; criticism of, 4:163,
164, 175-76, 204, 255, 312, 352; 6:189, 192, 314, 412; 7:12-13, 42-43,
114-15; accounts, 4:244; 9:207; and command of regiment, 4:373; 5:191-92;
6:173-74, 188, 189, 190, 314, 432, 433; 7:46, 58, 115, 170; and Forbes
campaign, 5:348, 383; 6:4, 24; military service, 5:382, 384-85; commands
detachment in Pennsylvania, 5:390; dispute with John St. Clair, 5:454,
455; 6:6-7, 17; illness of, 6:128; 7:170; and Thomas Waggener, 6:363;
and Thomas Bullitt, 6:388; his plantation, 6:413; and House of Burgesses
election, 7:12-13, 14, 15, 42-43, 44, 47; and bounty lands, 7:44; 8:170,
386, 436, 439, 440, 451, 540; 9:122, 130, 131, 144, 359, 360, 363, 364,
366, 392, 403, 405; criticizes Robert Stewart, 7:71-72; scheme for raising
independent company, 7:114, 115, 121; and petition to king, 7:117-19;
and Mississippi Company, 7:219-22; 8:153; and Pontiac's War, 7:237, 238,
242, 339; as county lieutenant, 7:338; sells chairs, 8:171; debt to George
William Fairfax, 9:448; family of, 10:71; and spinning machine, 10:218;
letters from: to GW, 1:236; 2:61-63, 64-65, 72-75, 156-58, 158-62,
171-74, 177-79, 185, 190, 197-98, 210-11, 223-24, 226-29, 233-34, 238-40,
246, 286-90, 305-7, 324-27, 327-28, 328-29, 331; 3:165-66, 182-83, 184-85,
294-96, 309-11, 355, 375; 4:152, 375-76, 416-18; 5:136, 248-49, 266-67,
285-86, 300-301, 347, 363-64; 6:6-7, 15-16, 17-18; to Robert Dinwiddie,
1:236; to William Denny, 2:73; to Horatio Sharpe, 4:9; to John Dagworthy,
4:49-50; to Henry Bouquet, 5:193, 455; to John Stanwix, 6:347; to Francis
Fauquier, 7:52, 72; to Philemon Waters, Jr., 10:339; letters to:
from GW, 1:81; 2:27, 56-57, 130-31, 146-47, 184-85, 194-96, 263-65, 310-12,
324, 339-40; 3:54-55, 122, 157-63, 323, 336-38, 387-91, 422-23, 440-42;
4:138-39; 5:144, 191-93, 290-91; from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:236; 4:129-30;
from William Trent, 2:307-9; from Horatio Sharpe, 2:326-27; from John
St. Clair, 3:62; from Officers of the Virginia Regiment, 4:22-23; from
Henry Bouquet, 5:455; from Philemon Waters, Jr., 10:339
Stephen, Alexander, 2:42, 43, 227, 228; 4:166
Stephen (dower slave; King William County), 6:218, 426-27
Stephen (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Stephen (slave, child; Claiborne's plantation), 8:584, 591
Stephen (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 6:311; 8:583, 590
Stephen (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Stephen (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Stephens, Daniel, 5:342
Stephens, Dennis, 10:45, 51, 89, 89-90, 91, 181, 323-24; letters from:
to GW, 10:324-25
Stephens, Henry, 5:335
Stephens, James, 6:46
Stephens, Joseph, 6:456, 477; letters from: to GW, 6:476
Stephens, Lawrence, 5:336
Stephens, Nathaniel, 4:43
Stephens, Peter, 5:334
Stephens, Richard, 6:378, 428; account with, 6:198, 314; id., 6:199,
330; discharge from prison, 6:329; his crops, 6:418, 430; and John Ballendine,
6:476, 477
Stephens, Robert (b. 1688), 5:74, 75
Stephens, Robert (overseer), 6:428
Stephens, William (sergeant), 6:46
Stephens, William (soldier; Charles Lewis's company), 3:185
Stephens, William (soldier; GW's company), 4:390
Stephens (Steffen), Lewis (Ludwig), 5:67, 84, 85, 205, 219, 279, 280,
340; letters from: to GW, 4:416-18
Stephens mill, 5:205
Stephenson, Eleanor, 7:178, 179
Stephenson, Hugh, 3:53; 6:417; 8:171; 9:469, 471, 483; 10:16; letters
from: to GW, 8:5-6; 9:93-94; letters to: from GW, 9:54
Stephenson, James, 7:10
Stephenson, John, 3:53; 6:417; 8:157, 158, 394, 446; 9:94; 10:92, 133,
135
Stephenson, Marcus, 3:53; 6:417; 8:436, 438, 446
Stephenson, Onora Grimes Crawford, 9:93; 10:92
Stephenson, Polly, 10:136
Stephenson, Richard, Jr., 3:53; 6:417; letters to: from Valentine
Crawford, 10:133
Stephenson, Richard (d. 1765), 1:25, 26-27, 36; 3:53; 5:306, 341; 6:444;
id., 5:308; 7:10; and ironworks, 5:424; 6:417-18; accounts with, 6:416,
443; 7:4, 105, 109, 229, 230; 8:267, 269; GW surveys land for, 6:417;
family of, 7:178, 179; 8:6; estate of, 9:93, 125, 126; his land, 10:92
Stephenson, Robert, 6:253
Stephenson, William (of Maryland), 10:357
Stephenson (Stevenson), William (of Frederick County), 5:341
Stephenson's tavern (Maryland), 10:357
Stephens's fort, 4:77, 128, 417
Stepney (Maryland), 7:219
Steptoe, ---- (Mrs. James), 6:443
Steptoe, Anne, 6:444
Steptoe, George, 8:424, 425, 461
Steptoe, James, 6:444; 8:557
Sterling, Aaron, 9:294
Sterne, Laurence, 7:346
Sterry, Newman, & Co., 8:132, 136
Steuart, Anthony, 9:305, 321
Steuart, Charles, 4:72, 73; 5:219, 449; 7:230
Steuart, George, 8:523
Steuart (Stewart), Walter: and bounty lands; 2:45, 53, 254; 3:341, 342;
7:236; id., 1:203; 2:47; 7:237-38, 284; appointments and assignments,
1:208; 2:42, 62, 136, 149, 192, 243; 4:60; 5:42, 144, 162, 201, 204, 309-10,
314, 383; wounded, 1:342; 6:39; replaced, 2:136; pay for, 2:191; 5:214;
and James Duncanson, 2:246; company of, 2:260; 3:251; 5:266, 271; 6:47,
146; and list of road workers, 3:163, 377; military service, 3:428; 4:60,
166, 175, 205, 206, 432; 5:171, 248, 382; 6:88; and court of inquiry,
5:162-63; and council of war, 5:170-71; at Grant's defeat, 6:44-45; movements
of, 6:87, 96, 181; 7:283; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22; 5:248,
309-10
Stevens, ---- (of England): letters from: to Robert Cary & Co.,
10:84
Stevens, Charles, 10:365, 366
Stevens, John, 4:288
Stevens, Joseph, 3:111, 129-31, 199, 291-92, 369, 370, 439-40; 5:158,
160
Stevens, William, 9:504, 506; 10:220, 323, 362; hired, 10:17; and GW's
Ohio lands, 10:232, 281, 314-15, 324, 334-35, 360; and valuation of improvements
on GW's lands, 10:363; sent after runaway servants, 10:365; letters
to: from GW, 10:288-92
Stevenson, George, 2:151, 152
Stevenson (Stephenson), Henry, 8:387, 443-44, 446-47, 464-65, 476-78,
493; 9:6, 8
Steward (Stewart), Robert (1), 5:342
Steward (Stewart), Robert (2), 5:337
Steward (Stewart, Stuart), James, 1:30; 7:1, 6
Steward (Stewart) Henry, 1:62, 70, 73, 74, 78
Stewart, ----: carries letters, 10:242, 274
Stewart, Adam, 8:382; 9:21, 29, 110, 261-63
Stewart, Andrew, 8:293; 10:339
Stewart, Anthony, 7:219-22, 224-25, 512; 8:153, 367, 375
Stewart, David, 3:321-23, 361, 363, 431, 434, 453, 454; 4:394
Stewart, George, 10:276
Stewart, James: letters from: to GW, 10:216-19
Stewart, John (of Fredericksburg), 8:54
Stewart, John (of London), 7:74
Stewart, John (soldier), 2:53, 54
Stewart, John (tavernkeeper), 3:282, 358, 387
Stewart, Robert, 2:35, 41, 177, 185, 186, 211, 232, 240, 251, 258, 260,
289, 301, 322; 3:25-26, 36, 38-39, 71, 72, 75, 77-79, 95, 116, 377, 385,
386; 4:77, 116, 151, 193, 204, 207, 208, 219, 220, 231, 254, 297, 302,
357, 360, 416; 5:47, 59, 68, 80-81, 111, 136, 155, 170-71, 177, 235, 243,
263, 298, 360; 6:27, 74, 100; 7:14, 217-18; 10:161, 162; and troop of
light horse, 1:292; 2:37, 176, 291, 313; 3:202, 291, 298, 303, 313, 318,
319, 359, 428; 5:198, 204, 208, 235-36, 240, 330, 348, 369, 385; 6:131,
143; and Fort Necessity campaign, 1:297, 338, 342; company of, 2:36, 63,
64, 77, 109, 128, 140, 176, 230, 231, 251, 260, 299, 307, 358; 3:81, 114,
156, 193, 209, 212, 215, 237, 251, 252, 257, 263, 298; 4:76, 156, 189,
193-94, 277, 346, 363, 409, 410, 425; 5:10, 53, 66, 67, 124, 144, 171,
266, 352, 394; 6:5, 47, 102, 146, 372; id., 2:36; 3:13; appointments and
promotions, 2:40, 42, 243; 3:181; 5:47, 59, 60, 62-63, 85, 137, 236, 313-14,
330, 362, 380-82; 6:94, 151, 188, 190, 191, 362-64, 470; 7:35, 36, 72,
122, 160-62, 392; illness of, 2:44; 7:112, 114, 120; pay of, 2:202, 214;
4:197; 6:468-69; and James Duncanson, 2:212; orders to, 2:250-51, 269,
313; 3:44, 96, 173, 180; 5:211, 223, 389; and recruits, 2:259, 279, 318;
6:137; and supplies, 2:275; 3:178; 4:180; 5:256; 7:15, 16-17; movements
of, 2:311; 5:59, 63, 81, 199, 302; 6:127; 7:242, 280-81; and murder of
George Gordon, 2:324; and Peter Hog, 3:228; and deserters, 3:350, 373;
4:330; 5:59; military service, 4:46, 153, 154, 155, 166, 179-80, 182,
345, 362, 432; 5:130, 381; and Griffin Pert, 4:202; and William Hughes,
4:255; and John Hamilton, 5:7-8, 11; at Fort Loudoun, 5:47; and American
Magazine, 5:49, 59; and GW's illness, 5:58, 63, 102; criticism of,
5:236; and Edward Hubbard, 5:295; as brigade major, 5:309-10, 313, 314,
362, 442; relationship with GW, 6:13; and Forbes campaign, 6:127, 143,
176; and Francis Fauquier, 6:169, 188; and Adam Stephen, 6:173-74; and
address to GW, 6:178-81; and GW's resignation, 6:181; and GW's marriage,
6:189; description of, 6:190-91; and western lands, 6:346; 7:44; and Thomas
Bullitt's defeat, 6:347; borrows from GW, 6:385-86, 391-92; 7:187, 188,
205-7, 216-17, 225; 8:74-75, 92, 229-31, 371; at Venango, 6:433, 454;
and House of Burgesses election, 7:12-13, 15, 41, 46; and need for well-trained
and equipped troops, 7:16-19; and a gardener for Mount Vernon, 7:96, 169;
at Mount Vernon, 7:121-22; asks to be sent to see king, 7:160-61; plan
to raise battalion at own expense, 7:162, 180, 181; and settlement of
St. John's Island, 7:281-82, 283, 388-89, 391; 8:163; and Van Rensselaer,
8:163-64; news of, 10:172; has not answered GW's letters, 10:327-28; seeks
position in United States government, 10:328; letters from: to
GW, 2:175-76, 205-6; 3:175, 207-10, 214-15, 235-37, 280, 289-91, 302-3,
303-5, 454-56; 4:423-26; 5:58-60, 317, 329-30, 368-69, 375-76, 380-82;
6:82-83, 87-88, 90-91, 93-94, 167-69, 171-72, 173-75, 175-78, 187-91,
341, 359-64, 384-86, 391-92, 412-14, 418-20, 431-33, 466-70; 7:12-15,
15-16, 16-20, 35-37, 41-42, 46-48, 51-52, 56-58, 70-72, 112-13, 113-16,
120-22, 160-62, 168-72, 180-81, 186-89, 225-27, 240-42, 265-66, 280-84,
388-92; 8:74-77, 160-66; to Robert Dinwiddie, 5:46-47; to John Stanwix,
5:63-64; to John Forbes, 5:126; 6:189; to Henry Bouquet, 6:470; letters
to: from GW, 2:169, 209-10, 268; 3:71-72, 80-81, 94, 100-101, 112-13,
177, 191-93, 206, 213, 282-84, 297-98, 298; 4:61; 5:57, 316, 379, 387-88;
6:80, 85, 169, 186-87, 331, 390; 7:22, 205-7, 216-17, 236-38; 8:125, 142;
from George Mercer, 2:282; from William Hughes, 3:211-12; from Robert
McKenzie, 5:61-62; from Robert Dinwiddie, 5:62-63, 63. See also
Virginia military forces: light horse
Stewart, Robert (of Frederick County), 5:265
Stewart, Robert (soldier), 9:359, 360, 364, 365, 422
Stewart (Stuart), John (doctor), 1:203; 7:70, 71
Stewart (Stuart), William, 5:65
Stewart & Campbell, 7:55, 73, 74; letters from: to GW, 7:431;
letters to: from GW, 7:461-62; 8:74
Stewart's Crossing, 1:327; 8:29
Stewart's ordinary, 3:282
Stickley, John, 5:337
Stirling, Sarah Livingston Alexander, countess of, 10:240
Stirling, William Alexander, earl of, 9:158-59, 160, 230, 231, 486, 516,
517; 10:252, 313; letters from: to GW, 10:175-76; letters to:
from GW, 10:239-40
Stith, John, 8:262, 263
Stith, William, 10:146, 150
Stoakely, ----, 9:280
Stobo, Robert, 1:152, 201; as hostage, 1:98, 166, 167, 202, 213, 214;
6:102, 196, 197; troops of, 1:141; and wagons, 1:141; date of rank, 1:144;
id., 1:202; promoted, 1:208; 6:470; commended, 1:209; account, 1:221;
and Andrew Lewis, 6:101, 468; and bounty lands, 8:451, 542, 544, 550-51,
555; 9:196, 359, 360, 364, 365, 421, 423; 10:163; letters from:
to James Innes, 1:202; letters to: from GW, 8:552-53
Stockdale, John, 7:477
Stockstill (Stoxdale), William, 4:338, 339
Stoddert, Benjamin: letters from: to GW, 9:486
Stoddert, John, 8:219
Stoddert, Thomas, 2:309; 3:101; 9:486
Stoddert's fort (Maryland), 3:101, 113
Stogdon, Richard, 9:292, 293
Stogdon (Stogden, Stockden), Robert, 7:43
Stone, ---- (Daniel Jenifer Adams's attorney), 10:253, 274
Stone, Caleb, 9:238, 239, 294, 340, 341; 10:20, 104, 137, 177, 179; account
with, 10:40, 279, 318
Stone, Daniel, 9:347, 348, 447, 449; 10:60, 86, 249, 283-84
Stone, David, 10:254
Stone, Eli, 7:382; 8:144
Stone, Eusebius, 3:439-40
Stone, John Hoskins, 10:249, 254, 279, 280, 295, 296
Stone, Jonathan, 10:282, 283
Stone, Michael Jenifer, 10:254
Stone, Thomas, 10:254
Stone, William, 7:179, 382; 8:146, 147
Stoner, Ulrich, 5:337
Stoney Creek (Frederick County), 4:417-18; 5:193
Stony (Stoney) Creek (Pennsylvania), 6:30, 56, 78, 79, 80
Storrs, Joshua, 9:394; 10:339
Story, ----: and Pleasant Hill land, 9:388, 426, 427, 428
Story, Charles, 9:386, 388, 426-27, 428
Story, John, 9:388, 426, 428
Story, Joshua, 9:399, 428
Stott, Dulcibella, 8:343, 381
Stott, Magdalin, 9:42
Stott, Wills, Richardson, and Smith families, 8:382
Stott family, 8:71-72; 9:42
Stoughton, ---- (Mrs. Anthony), 7:24, 30
Stoughton, ---- (father of Anthony Stoughton), 7:30
Stoughton, ---- (widow), 9:105
Stoughton, Anthony, 7:24, 30
Stover, Daniel, 5:335
Stover, Jacob, 5:340
Stover (Stauffer), Peter, 5:340; letters to: from GW, 7:97-98
Stoystown, Pa., 6:30
Strachan, Elizabeth Johnson Bonum, 1:153
Strachan, James (of Fredericksburg), 1:151, 152-53; 5:206, 328
Strachan, William, 7:211
Strachen, William Scott, 7:209, 211
Strahan, ----, 5:328; and Henry Woodward's debt, 5:327; id., 5:328
Strain, William, 4:390
Straker, George, 9:519; 10:136
Strasburg (Staufferstadt, Stovertown), Va., 5:205; 7:97-98
Stratford Hall, 4:101; 5:154; 7:212; 8:547
Stratton, John, 8:481, 482; 9:72, 74, 86, 89
Street, Henry, 8:585
Street, John, 4:294-95, 300, 305, 312, 318, 360; 8:394
Street, Richard, 9:255, 257
Strephon (slave; purchased from R. Adam), 9:35, 36
Stretch, John, 4:374, 375; 7:301, 303
Strettell, Amos: letters from: to GW, 9:79, 82-83; letters
to: from GW, 9:81
Strickler, Benjamin, 5:335
Strickler, Jacob, 5:335
Strickler, Joseph, 5:338
Strictures upon a "Friendly Address to All Reasonable Americans,"
10:189, 190
Stringham, Charles, 4:276, 389
Stromatt, John, 10:253, 254, 295, 296, 302, 303
Strong, John, 4:42
Strong, William, 4:42
Strother, ----, 5:244
Strother, ---- (Mrs. William), 1:5
Strother, Anthony (1710-1765), 5:327; 10:3; id., 1:5, 314, 333; 5:214,
328; purchases Ferry Farm land, 1:5; land dispute with GW, 5:79-80; 7:307-8;
and "French Negro," 5:213, 214; his house rented as guardhouse, 5:244;
letters from: to GW, 1:333; 5:79; 6:421, 421-22; letters to:
from GW, 7:307-8
Strother, Anthony (1736-1790), 1:312, 314, 315, 333
Strother, Edward, 6:288, 297
Strother, John, 5:244
Strother, William, 1:5; 5:79, 244; 7:308; 8:77-78, 84; 10:3
Stroud (Strode), John, 5:28, 338
Stroud's fort, 5:28
Strutfield, William, 9:410; 10:204, 211
Stuart, ----: account with, 7:229
Stuart, ---- (doctor), 1:201, 203
Stuart, Henry: letters from: to Aaron Penson, 9:207
Stuart, John (superintendent of Indian affairs), 8:30, 308, 390
Stuart (Stewart), John (doctor), 10:161, 162
Stubblefield, George, 8:571
Sturgis (Sturges), Daniel, 7:515
Style, William, 8:326
Suckey (dower slave, child), 8:401
Suckey (dower slave; York County), 6:218
Suckey (slave, girl; Bridge Quarter), 6:312
Suckey (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Suckey (slave; River farm), 10:137
Sue (slave, man; King William County), 6:225
Sue (slave; Dogue Run), 7:45, 139, 228, 313, 377, 443, 516; 8:5, 104,
220, 356, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Sue (slave; Home farm), 9:54, 55
Sue (slave; house servant), 8:220, 221, 356, 479; 9:55
Sue (slave; John Augustine Washington's), 7:172, 174
Sue (slave; Mary Washington's), 6:198; 7:173
Sue (slave; River farm), 9:239; 10:137
Suetonius, 6:288
"Suffering Traders," 8:275, 276, 300, 331, 332, 368; 9:415
The sufficiency of a standing revelation in general, and of the
scripture revelation in particular, 7:346
Sugar Cabins (Pennsylvania), 2:309
Sugar Land Run, 7:8
Sugar Lands, 1:180; 4:309
Sukey (ship), 7:205, 251, 252, 253
Sukey (slave; River farm), 10:138
Sukey (slave; York County), 6:229
Suky (slave; Charles Washington's), 7:173
Sulivant (Sullivan), Denis (Dennis), 2:64-65
Sullivan, ----, 5:162-63, 164
Sullivan, ---- (soldier), 2:64
Sullivan, Timothy, 2:64
Sullivan (Sullivant), Daniel, 2:64
Sullivant, Patrick, 2:64
A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 10:139, 140
Summers, Daniel, 7:382; 8:145, 146
Summers, Francis, 8:145, 146
Summers, Francis, Sr., 8:145
Summers, Francis (1), 7:382
Summers, Francis (2), 7:382
Summers, John, 6:339, 340; 8:145
Summers, John, Jr., 7:382
Summers, John, Sr., 7:382; 8:145
Summers, William, 7:382; 8:145
Sumner, Jethro, 4:346; id., 2:128; 3:255; military service, 3:250, 251,
341, 342, 428; 4:205, 206, 407, 432; 5:135; letters from: to GW,
4:18-22
Supply. See Provisions and supply
Supply (ship), 6:269, 270, 447; 7:20, 21, 405
Surry County, 4:290
Surveying, 1:8-37; fees for, 1:8, 10, 16; commissions for, 1:9, 10, 33;
and field books, 1:12, 14; instruments for, 1:12, 34, 254; forms for,
1:12-14. See also Washington, George: surveying activities
Susannah (slave; Northampton County), 6:230
Sussex County, 4:290; 8:89
Sutherland, John, 5:102
Suttle, William, 9:35
Sutton, Edward, 4:390
Sutton, Jasper, 3:244
Swallow, John, 1:211
Swallow Warrior (Indian), 3:43; 4:317; criticizes Virginians, 4:139-40,
141; speech of, 4:142; leads Cherokee, 4:144; presents for, 4:173; death
of, 4:200, 208-9, 215, 216; family of, 4:200, 213; 7:56, 57; and scalps,
4:244, 251
Swan, John, 10:92
Swanger, Abraham, 9:74
Swan's and Van Meter's fort, 10:91, 92
Swan Tavern (Yorktown), 7:212
Swatara Gap (Pennsylvania), 2:317
Swearingen, Thomas, Jr., 5:57, 58, 60, 219; 6:75, 76
Swearingen, Thomas (d. 1760), 3:30; 4:37; reconnoitering expedition,
2:159, 160; id., 2:161; 3:31-32, 89; 5:22, 58; and House of Burgesses
election, 2:228; 5:263, 323, 334-42; and Virginia troops, 3:88, 91; 5:28,
58, 60; and Stephen Rollins, 3:208, 211; and Thomas Caton, 3:384; and
John Hamilton, 4:424, 426; 5:7-8, 11, 21, 22; family of, 7:43
Swearingen, Van, 10:2; letters to: from GW, 7:42-45
Swearingen's ferry, 1:263, 267; 2:161; 4:34, 37; 7:43
Sweeney (Swiney), Terence, 2:188, 189
Sweet Hall, 8:582; 9:425, 426
Sweig, Donald, 10:113
Sweim, Michael, 1:29, 37
Swift, Jonathan, 6:285, 293, 400
Swift, Theophilus, 7:122, 123
Swift (George Straker's ship), 10:136
Swift (ship), 5:448, 449; 7:454, 492; 8:249, 385, 407; 9:283,
519
Swinburn (Swinburne), John, 3:272; 6:47
Swinton, ---- (doctor), 1:325
Sword, Thomas, 3:195-96
Sycamore Point, 3:203
Sydenham, Thomas, 6:296
Syllaback, Jane, 8:21
Sylvia (slave; John Posey's), 8:34. See also Silvia
Syme, John (of Hanover County), 3:170; 6:257; 7:269-70, 271, 273, 274;
9:257; 10:76, 78, 351, 352
Syme, Nicholas, 6:253
Symes, Thomas, 7:195, 446, 447
Symes & Paillet, 7:195, 198, 293, 446
Symmes, John (of Gloucester County), 6:313, 314
Synopsis medicinae, 6:287
Syphax (slave), 9:397
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Tabb, ---- (colonel), 7:341
Tabb, John, 5:32; 7:341; 9:19, 21, 33, 34
Tabb, Thomas, 7:341; letters from: to GW, 3:189-90
Tabby (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587
Tableau de l'amour, 6:296
Tairy (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Tait, James, 10:353, 354
Talbot, ---- (of Fairfax County): expenses at his place, 8:437
Talbot, Benjamin, 7:362, 382; 8:145, 438
Talbot, Daniel, 7:382, 477, 478, 507; 8:145, 438
Talbot, John, 8:438
Talbot, Matthew, 5:184, 195, 197
Talbot, Samuel, 7:382; 8:145, 438
Talbot, William, 7:382
Talbott, Richard, 8:405
Taliaferro, Francis, 1:6, 8; 3:128
Taliaferro, John, 3:128; 4:418
Taliaferro, John, Jr., 3:128
Taliaferro, Martha, 1:49
Taliaferro, Thomas, 3:129-31
Taliaferro, Walker, 8:346, 347, 462; 9:223
Taliaferro, William, 3:127, 128, 146-47; 4:418; letters from:
to Charles Lewis, 4:419
Tally (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Talman, ---- (sergeant), 3:95
Talman (Falman), Henry, 6:269, 315, 316, 351, 352, 373, 375, 376, 448,
450, 459; 7:305
Tamerlane, 2:234
Tandy, Roger, 6:252, 266, 271; 9:47, 48, 139, 285, 287, 435
Tanner, Courtney, 4:281
Tarbro, ---- (lieutenant), 5:183-84
Tarpley, James, 6:253, 321; 7:105, 108
Tarpley & Knox, 6:267, 269, 321
Tarrant, Leonard, 10:210-11
Tasker, Benjamin, 6:409
Tate, ---- (captain), 2:295
Tate, Magnus, 5:337; 6:420; 8:436, 540
Tate, Nahum, 6:289, 291, 294; 8:511, 563
The tatler, 6:290
Taverns and ordinaries. See individual volumes
Tayler, Thomas, 8:469, 531
Tayloe, John, 2:66; 4:126; id., 2:67; 3:170; 5:154, 328; on council,
3:32; 4:124; and racehorses, 4:243; 7:336, 438, 440, 478, 479; 8:193;
and French Mason, 5:153; and Henry Woodward's debt, 5:327; and Custis
estate, 6:256; 7:91; his ironworks, 7:9; 8:438; and George Mercer, 9:302,
309, 430; 10:11, 12, 28-29, 192, 195, 213, 234, 282; and John Mercer,
9:439; letters from: to John Champe, 2:67; to GW, 3:169-71; 9:290;
10:186, 271; to Edward Montagu, 10:188; letters to, 6:49; from
GW, 9:309-10, 402-3; 10:175, 191-92
Tayloe, Rebecca Plater, 9:403; 10:192
Tayloe (ship), 3:377
Taylor, Bartholomew, 4:43
Taylor, Edward, 8:191, 193
Taylor, Emanuel, 6:281
Taylor, Francis, 3:111, 129-30
Taylor, George (of Fairfax County), 6:378, 379, 480, 481
Taylor, George (of Hanover County), 6:231, 252
Taylor, George (sea captain), 8:374, 433
Taylor, Hancock, 10:152
Taylor, Harison, 5:341
Taylor, Henry, 6:378-79; 7:4, 9, 268, 367, 382, 439; 8:31, 91, 146, 473,
556; 9:396
Taylor, James, 8:31
Taylor, James, Jr.: letters from: to GW, 10:251
Taylor, Jeremy, 6:287
Taylor, John, 5:338; 7:382; 8:145
Taylor, Samuel, 5:339
Taylor, Simon, 5:342
Taylor, William, 6:219, 231; 8:106, 142, 143
Teabolt, Michael, 3:391
Teabolt (Theobald, Thibauld, Thibault), ----, 2:287
Tebbs, Daniel (d. 1742), 5:185
Tebbs, Daniel (died c.1762), 7:105, 109, 299, 300
Tebbs, Foushee, 8:110-11, 569, 571
Tebbs, William, 5:185
Tebbs family, 7:109
Tebe (Tebey), 4:364, 365
Teedyuscung (Indian), 5:106-9, 116, 166, 319
Tellico (Cherokee town), 4:267, 268
The temple, 6:294, 299
Temple, Benjamin, 10:233-34
Templeman, ----, 8:445; carries letter, 8:444; and Ann Aylett Washington,
10:219
Tenants law, 6:294
The tender husband, 6:294
Ten Mile Creek, 8:158; 10:169
Tennessee River, 7:58
Tents (military), 3:100, 107, 112, 160, 161, 163, 240, 303; 5:129, 138,
198, 200, 203, 209, 215, 257, 297, 321-22, 325, 344-46, 347-49, 367, 377,
396, 409; bells of arms, 5:257, 321
Terence's comedies, 6:296
Terrett, William Henry, 4:226, 227; 10:31
Terry, Nathaniel, 2:90; 3:435; 4:10
Terry's fort (Blackwater River fort), 3:435; 4:10
Testoe of Keowee (Indian), 4:308
Tharp, Zebulon, 5:338
Theobald, ----, 3:389
Theobald (Tibbles), ---- (partner of Michael Cresap), 10:47
Theodolite, 1:254
Theodorick (ship), 7:267, 498
Theory of Moral Sentiments, 9:344, 345
The theory of the earth, 6:285; 7:344
Thévenot, Jean de, 6:284
35th Regiment, 3:286, 288; 5:19, 99
Thomas, ---- (ship captain), 9:506
Thomas, Aaron, 8:145
Thomas, Cornelius, 3:127, 137, 145, 148, 150
Thomas, David, 7:383; 8:144
Thomas, Edward, 5:341
Thomas, Ellis, 5:341
Thomas, Evan, 5:337
Thomas, George, 7:335
Thomas, James (corporal), 3:95, 151-54, 158, 171, 178-80, 189, 253, 257
Thomas, James (landowner), 1:23
Thomas, James (of Henrico County), 4:43
Thomas, James Bowman, 1:221
Thomas, John (captain), 6:256
Thomas, John (landowner), 1:30
Thomas, John (of Frederick County), 5:337
Thomas, Lewis, 8:383
Thomas, Mary, 7:1, 4
Thomas, Owen, 1:28; 5:338; 8:573
Thomas, Robert, 7:382
Thomas, Samuel, 3:355
Thomas (ship), 7:164, 204
Thomas and Richard (ship), 1:219
Thomlinson & Hanbury, 1:282, 285
Thompson, ----, 9:450
Thompson, ---- (ship captain), 2:276, 277
Thompson, Collin, 6:47
Thompson, Edward, 1:82, 221, 223
Thompson, Henry (of Andrew Lewis's company), 4:395
Thompson, Israel, 6:456, 457; 7:69, 70; 8:474; 10:65
Thompson, John (master of the Integrity), 4:37, 39, 400, 401,
402; 5:74, 106; 6:453; 7:405
Thompson, John (master of the Betsy), 9:175
Thompson, John (master of the King of Prussia), 5:206
Thompson (Thomson), John (master of the Potomack), 7:53, 397
Thompson, John (of Yorktown), 9:21
Thompson, Joseph (of Frederick County), 5:336; 7:309-10, 319, 491-92;
8:59, 169-70, 304, 305, 436-37
Thompson, Joseph (ship captain), 7:442, 491, 492; 8:16; letters to:
from GW, 7:453-54
Thompson, Joseph, & Co., 7:454
Thompson, Nathaniel, 2:231, 232; 3:309, 447; 4:207, 230, 336; 5:109,
142, 170-71; 6:92; recruiting, 2:14, 259; 5:161; appointments and assignments,
2:40, 42, 229, 261; 3:252, 310; 4:329, 331, 333, 334; provisions for,
2:225; id., 2:230; 6:93; orders to, 3:157; 4:179-80; military service,
3:429; 4:166, 182, 205, 206, 208, 340, 432; 5:143-44; and Edmond Atkin,
4:234; dispute with John Baylis, 5:95-96; pay for, 5:214; address to GW,
6:178-81; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22, 151; 5:95-96
Thompson, Richard, 10:196; letters from: to GW, 9:337-40; letters
to: from GW, 9:327
Thompson, Robert, 8:177; 9:167
Thompson, Samuel, 8:145
Thompson, Thomas (of Fairfax County), 8:145
Thompson, William, 7:279, 280
Thompson, William (of Charles City County), 4:42
Thompson, William (of Fauquier County), 9:505; 10:281
Thompson, William (of Pennsylvania), 5:431; 9:307-8, 309, 315, 329, 416,
419, 420
Thompson, William (ship captain), 6:330, 349, 351
Thompson (Thomson), Matthew, 5:74; 6:367, 368; 8:79-80, 259, 260-61,
264
Thompson patent, 8:79-80
Thompson Run (Pennsylvania), 6:150
Thomson, ----, 4:335-36
Thomson, Adam, 1:280
Thomson, Charles, 4:333; 10:369, 370
Thomson, Henry (soldier), 4:333
Thomson, Thomas (doctor), 7:508
Thorius, Raphael, 6:295
Thornton, ----, 1:39
Thornton, ---- (adjutant), 1:193
Thornton, Frances Gregory, 2:175; 4:430-31; 6:198, 200
Thornton, Francis (d. 1749), 2:175; 4:431; 6:200
Thornton, Francis (d. 1784; of Society Hill), 7:225, 512; 8:63, 153;
9:194
Thornton, Francis (died c.1795), 9:267
Thornton, George, 9:117, 118
Thornton, John (colonel; d. 1777), 1:151-52; 3:129-30; 7:366-67; 8:465,
467, 469; letters from: to Robert Dinwiddie, 3:117-18
Thornton, John (d. 1822), 1:52
Thornton, John (of Fairfax County), 7:362
Thornton, John, & Co., 7:29
Thornton, Mildred, 4:431
Thornton, Presley (1721-1769), 6:378; id., 3:170-71; 6:49; 7:224; and
Custis estate, 6:255, 256; 7:91; his skipper, 6:377; on council, 7:38,
39; and Mississippi Company, 7:219-22, 224, 512; 8:153; family of, 7:225;
and Byrd lottery, 8:194; and John Mercer's land, 9:439; letters from:
to GW, 6:48-49; letters to: from GW, 6:6. See also Errata
Thornton, Sarah Fitzhugh, 9:194
Thornton, William (of the Potomac Company), 1:59
Thornton (ship), 7:410, 411, 444, 447, 462; 8:74
Thorpe, Susanna, 8:134, 563-64, 566; 9:107; letters to: from Martha
Washington, 9:109-10
Thoyts, William, 7:125, 130
Three Forks (Pennsylvania), 1:98
Threlkeld, ----, 9:115; 10:107, 174; his land, 9:113
Threlkeld, Henry, 10:108
Thrift, Absolom, 8:147, 148
Thrift, Charles, 7:362, 383; 8:147, 148
Thrift, George, 7:382, 438, 439, 452, 507, 508; 8:207
Thruston, Charles Mynn: recommendations of, 5:166-67; 9:486; id., 5:167;
9:198, 487; recruiting, 5:171-72; and Buckner estate, 7:305; and bounty
lands, 8:290, 301, 302, 303-4; 9:148, 199, 200, 205, 207, 404, 412, 500,
502; account with, 9:221, 224, 225, 227; letters from: to GW, 9:187;
letters to: from GW, 9:194-98
Thruston, John, 7:305
Thunder-Ten-Tronckh, Baron, 8:338, 341
Thurston, Robert, 8:446
Tibbetson & Co. See Ibbetson, Tasker, & Padgett
Tickell, Joseph, 8:310
Tidmarsh, William, 7:195, 198, 421, 472
Tilghman, Edward, 9:31, 43
Tilghman, James, Jr., 9:395; 10:180, 216; letters from: to GW,
10:23-24; letters to: from GW, 9:57, 203-4, 333, 333, 484-85
Tilghman, James (1716-1793), 8:55, 242, 331, 513; 9:485; 10:24; letters
to: from GW, 8:206-7; from William Crawford, 8:515
Tilghman, Matthew, 10:103
Tilghman, Tench, 8:207; 10:336
Tillet, George, 7:382
Tillet, John, 7:382
Timberlake, Henry, 3:242, 259-61, 317, 360-61; 7:57
Timber Landing (Mount Vernon), 7:100
Tippell, William, 10:356, 367
Tissot, Samuel Auguste André David, 7:348; 8:511, 563
Tittle, ---- (of Maryland), 10:153
Tittle's tavern, 10:154
Titus Lucretius Carus, his six books of Epicurean philosophy,
6:289
Tobacco, 1:145; 4:133, 284; 5:72, 74, 87, 105-6, 217, 219, 326-27, 367,
379, 407, 449; shipment of, 2:276; 4:37, 39, 400-402; 5:72-74, 87, 106,
219, 326-27, 367, 379, 449; 6:203, 268, 270, 316, 317, 319, 322, 324,
325, 350-51; 7:135, 137, 154, 157, 163, 203, 251, 316, 456; 8:17, 43-44,
77, 84-85, 206; 9:85, 243, 254, 255-57, 268, 374, 489; 10:74; as payment,
3:327, 432; 5:274; 6:27, 264, 339-40; 7:4, 101, 439; 8:369-70; 9:173,
255, 284, 340, 367; 10:219; purchase of, 4:37; 7:107; 9:85, 231, 255,
340, 341; 10:80; loss of, 4:39; 6:324, 411, 447, 472-73; 7:21, 31, 63,
75, 131, 134, 141, 142, 158, 189; 8:6; 9:369; taxes and levies on, 4:101;
6:184, 252, 253, 258, 428; 7:301, 452, 499; 8:5, 199, 208, 369, 455; 9:366;
prices of, 5:315, 380, 407, 451; 6:315, 350; 7:74, 123, 135, 137, 138,
144, 149, 153, 205, 316, 398, 399, 431, 435, 445; 8:7, 9, 11, 81, 85,
99-100, 137, 139, 206, 233, 265, 342, 369, 374, 375, 434, 475; 9:12-13,
200, 231, 255; 10:8, 186; cultivation of, 5:366; 7:182, 317-18; 8:225;
damages to, 5:367; 6:446-47, 449; 7:136, 147, 153, 231, 445, 459, 463,
464-65; 8:6, 70, 105, 106, 115, 118-19, 126, 130, 225, 230, 401, 515,
519; 9:87; quality of, 5:371; 6:352, 366, 411, 445, 471; 7:76, 123, 136,
144, 149, 153, 163, 238, 251, 316, 317-18, 398, 445, 463; 8:9, 81, 99,
369, 375, 401; 9:13; production of, 5:391, 407; 6:4, 315, 319, 323, 325,
446-47, 449-50, 460, 471; 7:34, 140, 154, 284, 454, 455, 509; 8:7, 10,
12, 15, 84, 130, 228, 230; inspection of, 6:266, 456-57; 7:2-3, 107, 110,
143, 235, 236, 308, 309, 333, 407, 462; 8:89; 9:84-85; 10:60; overseer's
share of, 6:266; 7:87, 145, 150, 182, 440; 9:255; freight and charges,
6:267, 269, 330, 351, 378; 7:110, 407, 445-46, 447; 8:9-10, 11, 99, 230;
9:64; insurance on, 6:267, 268, 270, 330, 374-75, 411, 448, 471, 472;
7:20-21, 32, 33, 34, 50, 53, 75, 86, 89, 120, 131, 141, 151, 152, 153,
154, 157, 200, 250, 252, 310, 325, 334, 340, 394, 405, 443, 445, 466;
8:10, 85, 102, 103, 230, 499, 506; 9:12, 115, 127, 272, 276-77, 297-98;
10:82, 185; sale of in Virginia, 6:315, 429-30; 7:418; 8:50, 52, 141,
243; labels on, 6:327; 7:53-54, 157-58, 251, 466; 8:89; replacement of
as crop, 6:352; 7:185, 400-401, 462, 483-84; 8:85, 228, 230; accounts,
6:367; 7:32, 33, 34-35, 51, 61, 62-65, 74, 82, 88, 124, 134, 137, 152,
157, 201, 202-3, 250, 284, 306, 307, 316, 335, 359, 387, 394, 402, 415,
431, 447, 454, 466, 509; 8:6, 7, 11, 15, 44, 70, 89, 102, 103, 105, 137,
138, 139, 206, 228, 264-65, 342, 374, 375, 433, 474-75, 499; 9:12-13,
27, 200; 10:74, 81, 82; raised by overseers, 6:376; from Bullskin, 6:421;
7:109, 137, 143-44, 319, 325, 393, 406, 414, 490; bills of lading for,
6:441, 459; 7:31-32, 53, 141, 335, 386, 459; inspectors of, 6:456; act
regarding, 6:457; certificates of tobacco shipped, 7:5, 31, 53; transfer
tobacco, 7:107, 332, 452; 8:369; GW's instructions regarding, 7:149; yields
of, 7:306, 490; weights of, 7:319, 464; 8:89; bonded entry and paid entry
of tobacco, 8:11; consignment of, 8:74; poorest tobacco used to pay taxes
and levies, 8:370; table of crop yields, 8:422-24; storage of, 8:480;
lofting and prizing of, 9:137, 138; reprizing of light hogsheads, 9:255;
George William Fairfax's, 10:80-81, 286, 351; resolution that no tobacco
be planted, 10:112, 125. See also Washington, George: and British
merchants
Tobey (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Tobey (slave; York County), 6:229
Todd, George, 2:80; 6:182, 406; 7:393; 8:52, 79, 192, 193, 268, 329,
347. See also Errata
Todd, John, 2:110, 111
Todd, William (coachmaker), 10:168, 348, 370
Todd, William (tavernkeeper), 7:190, 191, 218, 261, 280, 304, 309, 367,
496. See also Errata
Todd's Bridge, 7:191
Todd's ferry, 7:191
Todd's ordinary (Caroline County), 2:80; 6:182
Todd's ordinary (King and Queen County), 7:191
Tolheo (Tolkeo, Tolehaio; Pennsylvania), 2:317
Tom, Brother. See Tom, Captain
Tom, Captain (Indian), 3:183, 308, 309, 317; 4:170; 5:304
Tom, Old (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Tom (dower slave; carpenter), 6:282, 428
Tom (dower slave; tradesman), 6:217
Tom (slave, boy; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Tom (slave, boy; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Tom (slave, boy; New Kent County, 3), 6:220
Tom (slave, child; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Tom (slave; Anthony Bacon's and Fielding Lewis's), 7:315
Tom (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Tom (slave; carpenter), 7:45, 139, 227
Tom (slave; Charles Washington's), 7:173
Tom (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Tom (slave; Muddy Hole), 6:428
Tom (slave; New Kent County, 1), 6:220
Tom (slave; New Kent County, 2), 6:220
Tom (slave; Old Quarter), 8:590
Tom (slave; River farm), 7:45, 139, 228, 313, 377, 441, 442, 453-54
Tom (slave; Samuel Gist's), 7:315
Tom (slave; tradesman), 7:313, 376, 443, 515; 8:220, 356, 479; 9:54,
238
Tom (slave; tradesman, 1), 10:137
Tom (slave; tradesman, 2), 10:137, 138
Tom (slave; York County), 6:229
Tom (soldier), 5:375-76, 381
Tom (Thomas; slave; bought from John Harper), 10:269
Tomatly (Indian town), 3:446
Tomkies, Charles, 5:166
Tom Nokes (slave). See Nokes, Tom (slave)
Toner, Joseph M., 5:246
Toney (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Toney (slave; from Daniel Tebbs's estate), 7:300, 314
Tonoloway Creek (Maryland), 2:160, 309; 3:101
Tony (Toney; slave; John Augustine Washington's), 7:173
Tool, ----: his bond, 8:267
Tool, Michael, 8:269
Toole, Matthew, 4:5, 8
Tools and implements, 2:52, 79, 110, 118, 141, 142, 158, 195, 224, 266,
300-301; 3:51, 101, 112, 120, 121, 160, 161, 162, 173, 188, 223, 264,
266, 271-72, 273, 275, 280, 281, 282, 289, 293, 297, 302, 395; 4:38, 49,
88, 93, 95, 105, 138, 183, 325-27; 5:72, 147, 207, 210, 231, 233, 235,
237, 251, 257, 268, 284, 287, 292, 296, 303, 367, 374, 388; 6:1, 55, 59,
79, 103, 107, 117, 121, 126, 128-30, 132-33, 136, 139-41, 148, 153, 155,
157, 364; 7:97, 167, 409, 463. See also Custis estate: settlement
of the Daniel Parke Custis estate and Mount Vernon: tools and implements
A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland
and North Carolina, 9:7, 8
Topping, Charles, 7:312
Topsom (slave; from Daniel Tebbs's estate), 7:300, 314
Toqua (Indian town), 7:57
T. Osborne & J. Shipton, 6:327
Tostee, Peter, 4:180, 183
Totness (ship), 7:435, 455; 8:6, 81, 139
Toulston (England), 4:430
A Tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, 7:345, 348
Towah (Indians), 5:293. See also Indians
Towers, James, 1:142; 9:36; and commission, 1:67; promoted, 1:133-34,
208; id., 1:144; 9:124; commended, 1:209; and account, 1:222; and bounty
lands, 8:451; 9:35, 124, 336, 340, 359, 360, 364, 365, 421, 462
Towers, John, 1:217, 219
Towers, Samuel, 1:218, 219
Towlston Grange, 5:415; 7:70; 8:118, 263
Town, Benjamin, 10:369, 371
Town Creek (Maryland), 2:73; 5:269
Town Fort, 3:341; 5:67
Townshend, Audrey, 2:321-22
Townshend, Charles (1725-1767), 7:180
Townshend, Charles, third Viscount (1700-1764), 2:321
Townshend Acts, 8:44, 180
Tracey, William, 10:365, 366
Tracts, consisting of observations about the saltness of the sea,
6:294
Tracy, Michael, 8:31, 112, 220, 221, 357
Trading path, alternate (Pennsylvania), 6:153, 163
Trading path, old (Pennsylvania), 6:150, 153
Trafford, William, 7:22, 359
Trafford, William, & Co., 7:22
Traitors. See Spies and traitors
Trammell, Gerard (Gerrard), 8:145
Trammell (Trammel), Gerrard (Garrard), Sr., 7:382
Trammell (Trammel), Sampson, 7:219, 229, 239, 319, 331
Transylvania Company, 10:312, 333
Traveller (horse), 7:110, 440
Traveller's Rest, 9:59
Travels into several remote nations of the world. By Captain Lemuel
Gulliver, 6:285
Travels of Cyrus, 7:346
The travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant, 6:284
Travels through . . . Louisiana, 9:116, 118
Travers, William, 7:412, 413; 8:210
Traverse, Edward, 7:438, 440
Travis, Edward Champion, 7:440
Treasurer of Virginia. See Robinson, John; Nicholas, Robert Carter
Treatise of military discipline, 7:345, 349
A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick diseases, 6:286
A treatise on dissolvents of the stone, 6:287
Treaty of Aughwick, 2:55
Treaty of Camp Charlotte, 10:184, 224
Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 8:308-9, 332; 10:70
Treaty of Hard Labor, 8:152, 308, 391
Treaty of Lancaster, 9:384; 10:70
Treaty of Lochaber, 8:390, 391; 10:71
Treaty of Logs Town, 10:70
Treaty of Paris, 7:188, 216
Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, 10:247, 312, 333
Treaty of Utrecht, 3:37
Trebell, William: account with, 6:198; 7:2, 209, 210, 262, 268, 280,
298, 304, 309, 314, 336, 342, 366, 438, 478; and Raleigh Tavern, 6:200;
7:496; id., 7:7; and Williamsburg purse, 7:210, 298
Trebell's tavern, 7:7
Trelawny, Sir William, 8:161, 165
Trenchard, John, 6:290
Trenn (Tren), Absolom, 7:310
Trenn (Tren), Henry, 7:310, 412, 413
Trent, Peterfield, 9:34, 370
Trent, William, 1:81, 83, 87; 2:306; and Fort Necessity campaign, 1:56,
63, 66, 68, 76, 77, 82, 85, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 108; and Ohio
Company, 1:59, 85; 5:77; id., 1:66; 4:144; 5:60; and George Croghan, 1:69;
his court-martial, 1:134-35, 150, 151; accounts, 1:221; 5:76; and Indians,
2:305; 4:143, 144, 229; 5:58-59, 412; 6:364; and GW, 5:412; in England,
8:331; lobbies for "Suffering Traders," 8:332; and the Walpole Company,
8:368, 517; letters from: to GW, 1:67-69, 75; to James Burd, 2:73;
to Adam Stephen, 2:307-9; to William Cox, 4:214-15
Trent (ship), 8:75
Trent's fort, 1:75, 84-85, 98
Trials at the Old Baily, 6:293
Trigg, Clement, 10:39, 41
Trigg, John, 3:306-7; 4:389; 5:59, 60
Trigg, Stephen, 10:247, 248
Trigg's ordinary, 10:248
Trimlett, Richard, 9:48, 49, 201
Trimley (ship), 8:511, 558-65; 9:16, 64, 103, 224, 233
Triplett, Elizabeth Hedgman, 2:70
Triplett, Francis, 2:126; 3:368, 369; letters to: from GW, 2:70
Triplett, Simon, 8:436; 9:316
Triplett, Thomas, 7:382; 8:145, 146; 9:184, 340, 341, 433; account with,
10:40, 77, 78, 80, 195; appointed to committee, 10:128
Triplett, William (of Fairfax County), 6:20; 8:147; id., 2:70; 5:329;
and construction at Mount Vernon, 5:328, 390, 391, 438-39, 449, 450; 6:19-20,
386, 387; account with, 7:308-9, 418; 8:91, 192; 9:20, 35; 10:77, 80;
hunting, 9:184
Triplett, William (of Ship Point), 2:70
Triplett's (Lane's, Newgate) ordinary, 8:436
Triton (ship), 1:147-48
Trotter, ----, 4:240
Trotter, John, 4:240
Trotter, Richard, 1:222; 3:253, 257; 4:277, 326-27; 6:4-5, 26; 9:122,
145
Trough, The, 2:136; 3:89; 4:222; 5:150
Troutback, John, 6:47
Trout Rock, 3:321-23; 4:10
Trout Run, 1:22
Trower, Samuel, 8:585; 9:254, 255, 257
Troy (slave; Dogue Run), 7:139
Troy (slave; Hampshire County), 7:185
"True Happiness" (poem), 1:2, 3
The true nature of imposture fully display'd in the life of Mahomet,
7:344
Trumble, Francis, 10:168
Trumbull, Jonathan, Sr.: letters to: from Silas Deane, 10:359
Truro Parish: vestry of, 1:53; 7:296-97, 361-63, 384-85, 429, 510; 8:183,
246-48, 272; tithables in, 7:45, 139, 227-28, 313, 376-77, 442-43, 515-16;
8:104, 220-21, 356-57, 479; 9:54-55, 238; 10:137; rectors of, 7:70, 110;
8:272; 10:187; and Falls Church, 7:296-97; 8:53; vestry elections, 7:361-62,
384-85; division of parish, 7:362-63; list of voters in, 7:383-84; and
appointment of new rector, 7:428-29, 451; sale of glebe and plate, 7:509,
510-11; levies for, 8:5, 122, 355, 356, 474; and Pohick Church, 8:272;
and church pews, 9:463-64; churches in, 10:187
Truro Parish vestry: letters from: to Francis Fauquier, 7:428-29;
to bishop of London, 7:429
Tryal (ship), 7:110, 205, 250, 251, 253, 260, 312, 434
Tryall (schooner), 6:196, 197
Tryal of the Seven Bishops, 6:298; 7:346
Tryon, William, 8:493, 494
Tuckahoe, 10:305
Tucker, Robert, 7:156, 208, 269-70, 272-76, 285, 298, 314-15, 336-37,
360-61, 438, 440
Tucker, St. George, 9:356
Tulip Hill (Maryland), 8:367
Tull & Bradshaw, 7:27-28, 31, 356
Tulleken, John, 4:372, 374-76; 5:294-95; letters from: to GW,
5:35-36; letters to: from GW, 4:153
Tulley, Peter, 3:256, 306-7
Tully's offices, 6:292; 7:348; 8:116, 120, 121
Tunnell, William, 7:383; 8:146
Tunstall, John, 9:388, 428
Tunstall, Richard: letters from: to GW, 9:388-89
Tunstall (Tunstell), Robert, 3:257; 8:487, 540; 9:122, 145
Turberville, George, 10:000, 000
Turberville, John, 1:229; 8:153; 10:255, 300
Turberville, Lettice Lee, 1:229
Turbeville, ---- (Miss), 4:98, 100
Turkey Foot (Pennsylvania), 1:98
Turkey Run, 1:27
Turkish spy, 6:293; 7:345, 348
Turley, James, 7:383
Turley, Paul, 7:382; 8:147, 148
Turley, Peter, 7:383; 8:147, 148
Turley, Sampson, 7:382; 8:146, 147
Turnbull, Charles, 8:194
Turnbull, George, 9:344, 345
Turnbull, Robert, 5:53
Turner, ----, 7:269
Turner, ---- (captain), 6:111-12, 134, 154
Turner, ---- (student), 8:226
Turner, Anthony, 5:341
Turner, Anthony, Jr., 5:341
Turner, Charles: account with, 8:156, 201, 305, 531; 9:111, 293, 370,
371, 463; opens ordinary, 8:156; makes sundial, 8:305; and Colvill estate,
9:294; repairs watch, 9:463
Turner, Daniel, 6:287, 289
Turner, George, 5:304; 6:112; letters from: to William Byrd, 5:210,
305; to John Forbes, 5:305; letters to: from William Byrd, 5:305
Turner, Harry, 8:227
Turner, James, 4:231, 232
Turner, Thomas (1751-1787), 8:227
Turner, Thomas (d. 1758), 6:380; 8:227
Turner's ordinary, 8:156
Turnley (Tunley), Francis, 7:393, 439, 440
Turpen & Gordon, 9:109
Turtle Creek, 1:93; 3:43; 4:208-10, 215; 6:31, 133-34, 139, 143-44, 149
Tuscarora (Indians), 4:170; attempts to enlist aid of, 3:308-9, 317,
360, 397, 404; 4:65, 72, 124; GW's speech to, 3:308-9; description of,
3:309; movements of, 4:77, 124, 125; 5:241-42, 304, 417; gorgets for,
5:241; at Grant's defeat, 5:242; id., 5:242. See also Indians
Tutt, Richard, 7:209, 211
Twelve sermons preach'd upon several occasions (bishop of Bath),
6:291, 292
Twelve sermons preached on several occasions (South), 6:292
28th Regiment, 5:71, 136, 137; 6:19, 42-43
Twentyman, Henry, 5:195, 197
22d Regiment, 5:231
Twightwee (Indians), 1:104; 2:305, 307; 3:102, 104, 361, 397; 6:177,
364. See also Indians
Twine, Daniel (slave; York County), 6:229
Two Penny Act, 7:299
Two Sisters (ship), 8:374, 433
Two Treatises of Government, 9:344, 345
Tygar, John, 3:135
Tygart Valley River, 8:514
Tyger (ship), 6:442
Tyler, Alice Strother, 8:78
Tyler, Ann Strother, 8:78
Tyler, Charles, 10:77, 80, 105, 139
Tyler, Francis, 8:78
Tyler, Henry, 8:78
Tyler's ordinary, 10:80
Tyrawley, James Charles O'Hara, second Baron, 7:99, 100
Tyrel, ---- (sea captain), 10:368
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Ucahula (Ocayula; Indian), 5:154-55, 156, 160, 165, 175
Underwood, Richard, 4:281
Unidentified county surveyor: letters to: from GW, 9:474
Unity (ship), 7:77, 81, 120, 124, 130, 135, 137-38, 140, 141,
152, 153, 155, 163, 203
Universal, Pa., 6:134
Upper Cedar Point, Md., 7:428
Upper Church (Payne's church), 7:429; 10:187
Upper Machodoc ferry, 7:212
Upper Marlboro, Md., 2:277; 7:8, 109; 8:435
Upper Shawnee towns, 10:44, 135, 163
Upper Tract, 3:349
Upper Tract fort, 3:262-64, 342; 4:10, 128, 138-39, 147, 149; 5:160,
174
Urbanna, Va., 7:286
The usefullness of the stage, 6:289
Usher, Thomas, 7:204, 205
Usrey, Richard, 6:252
Utzman, John, 4:161
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Valandingham, Michael, 8:144, 145
Valentine, Anne. See Vaughan, Anne Valentine
Valentine, Edward, 6:252, 256
Valentine, John, 6:266; 7:87; 9:89
Valentine, John, Sr., 7:87
Valentine, John (overseer), 9:89
Valentine, John (overseer; son of Joseph), 9:85, 89
Valentine, Joseph, 6:459; 7:76, 495; 8:230, 265, 457, 584; 9:21, 47,
63; and Custis estate, 6:203, 208, 253, 254, 255, 256, 258, 266, 268,
271, 272, 273, 276, 277, 280, 281, 282, 320, 371; 7:83, 85, 302, 373;
8:197, 198, 199, 200, 202; 9:368; id., 6:203; 7:6; residence of, 6:219;
goods for plantations, 6:348, 350, 414, 450, 472; 7:97, 130, 167, 199,
295, 326, 400, 409, 433, 458; 8:160; money paid by, 6:370, 465; 7:1, 370;
and tobacco, 6:373, 376, 460, 473; 7:35, 50, 53, 54, 123, 142-43, 154,
317-18, 509; 8:231, 369, 506; accounts, 7:82, 87, 89-90, 104, 190, 191,
209, 213-14, 261, 262, 298, 299, 304, 305, 319, 335, 336, 342, 366, 410,
438, 469, 500; 8:82, 140, 143, 191, 267, 346, 453, 530, 585-86; inadequacies
of, 7:82, 252; 8:575, 579; 9:27; instructions to, 7:153-54, 204; complains
of useless hoes, 7:252, 456; and slaves, 7:407; 8:480, 583-84, 587-92;
and overseers, 7:408; 8:481, 482; and sale of dower plantations, 7:497;
and William Dandridge's bond, 7:507; sells wheat, 8:50; and rental of
Custis house, 8:225; his table of crop yields, 8:421-23; denies he was
drinking, 8:481; and John Stratton, 8:482; 9:72, 74, 86, 89; death of,
8:573; 9:115, 367; estate of, 8:574, 583, 584, 591; 9:48; family of, 8:574,
586; successor of, 8:574-76, 578, 579, 581; sells hogs, 8:582; purchases
land for John Parke Custis, 9:33; bond with John Gizzage Frazer, 9:48;
agreement with John Valentine, 9:85; letters from: to GW, 6:425-26,
426-27, 446-47; 7:142-43, 317-19, 320, 426-27, 462-64; 8:88-89, 105-6,
115-16, 118-19, 126, 130, 142-43, 225, 400-402, 480-82, 515-16, 519-21,
529; letters to: from GW, 6:441; 7:317, 461; 8:104
Valentine, Mary, 8:585, 586; 9:368
Valiant (horse), 6:406, 407
Valiant Tryall (horse), 7:479; 8:42
Vallescure, Stephen, 8:554
Van Braam, Jacob, 1:152, 191; 3:147; 9:117; and Fort Necessity campaign,
1:62, 67, 76, 78, 113, 133, 160, 163, 164, 167, 168, 171, 209, 349; 2:82;
id., 1:80; as hostage, 1:166, 167, 202, 214; 6:102; Landon Carter comments
on, 2:82; and Andrew Lewis, 6:101; rank of, 7:35-36; thanked by Burgesses,
7:36; military service, 7:36-37; and bounty lands, 8:451, 542, 544, 550-51,
555; 9:196, 359, 360, 364, 365, 421; 10:163, 201; his letter sent to GW,
10:285; letters to: from GW, 8:552-53; 9:421-23
Van Brugh, Sir John, 8:263
Vance, Alexander, 1:29; 5:334, 343
Vance, Andrew, 5:336
Vance, David, 5:336
Vance, James, 5:336
Vance, John, 1:26; 5:339
Vance, Joseph, 5:341
Vance, Samuel (1), 5:340
Vance, Samuel (2), 5:336
Vance, William, 2:73, 75, 94, 174; 5:342; letters to: from GW,
2:93
Vandalia colony, 9:125, 311, 445; 10:166; formation of, 8:368; 9:26,
27, 37, 56, 126, 128, 319, 331; boundaries of, 8:380, 391; and William
Crawford, 8:404, 518; and George Mercer, 8:420; 9:303-4; George Croghan's
connection with, 8:517-18; GW's interest in, 8:555; 9:482; Hillsborough
disapproves of, 9:304; rumors regarding, 9:318, 404, 420, 438, 444; called
Barretaria, 9:415; and George Croghan's grant, 10:88. See also
Walpole (Grand Ohio) Company
Vanderpool, ----, 3:131, 133
Vanderpool, Abraham, 3:133
Vanderpool Gap, 3:133
Vanel, Claude, 6:290
Vanfagen (Vanfossin), John Frederick, 5:342
Vanlandingham (Valandigham), Michael, 7:383
Van Meter, Abraham, 5:337
Van Meter, Henry, 7:70
Van Meter, Henry (died c.1757), 2:73, 93, 265; 3:266; 5:341; and wagons,
1:141; id., 1:144, 176; 7:70; and supplies, 1:175; 2:133, 199; house of,
2:94; 3:140, 341; 7:69; troops at, 3:88, 92, 264; fort at his place, 3:141,
246; and militia, 3:146; orders to, 3:159, 393; 4:60, 62-63; as commissary,
3:299, 394; 4:60, 66; GW buys horse from, 4:404; letters to: from
GW, 2:134; from John Ashby, 3:23-24. See also Errata
Van Meter, Isaac, 2:94; 3:53; 8:384
Van Meter, Jacob, 5:339; 10:91, 92
Van Meter, John, 3:53; 5:337; 8:384
Van Meter's fort. See Waggener's Lower Fort
Van Rensselaer, John, 8:163-64, 165-66
Vardill, John, 9:442; letters from: to GW, 9:326-27; letters
to: from GW, 9:407-8
Vass, Reuben, 2:355; 3:11, 22, 253, 258; 4:276, 389; letters to:
from George Mercer, 2:354
Vattel, Emerich de, 9:344, 345
Vaudreuil, Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnal, marquis de, 3:352;
6:470; 7:56; letters from: to Peirenc de Moras, 4:217
Vaughan, Abraham, 4:117, 118
Vaughan, Andrew, 3:253, 258; 4:276, 277; 5:270, 271, 409
Vaughan, Anne Valentine, 8:585
Vaughan, Elizabeth, 6:264, 328, 329; 9:109
Vaughan, Gist, 3:253, 259, 301, 302
Vaughan, Henry, 6:294
Vaughan, James, 4:42
Vaughan, Robert, 4:117, 118
Vaughan, Stanhope, 8:580, 584, 585; 9:140, 258
Vaughan, William, 8:585
Vaughton (Vaughan), Mary, 7:24, 195, 289, 295, 432, 475; 8:560; 9:63
Vause, ----, 3:260
Vause, Ephraim, 3:260, 321-23; 4:4, 123, 348; 5:102
Vause's fort, 3:361; attacks on, 3:260-61; 4:2, 13, 88, 92; 5:99, 101,
102, 277; dimensions of, 3:321-23; rebuilding of, 3:431, 432; 4:7, 11,
46, 47, 77, 111, 123, 326, 327, 348, 351, 394; proposals for, 4:10, 128,
154, 220-21; troops at, 5:67, 135; id., 5:194
Velestre. See Belestre, Picot de
Venango (Fort Machault, Fort Venango; Pennsylvania), 1:84, 326; 2:74;
6:18, 343, 346, 433, 470; 7:14
Venette, Nicholas, 6:296
Ventris, Hezekiah, 4:333
Venus (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Venus (slave; Robert Burwell's), 7:315
Vernon, Edward, 1:7
Vernon, Richard: letters from: to GW, 5:310, 419-20
Vestal, John, 1:221; 5:339
Vestal, William, 5:423; 6:418
Vestal's ferry. See Keyes's ferry
Vestal's Gap. See Keyes's Gap
Vestal Virgin, 6:400
Vickers, Archibald, 4:42
Villiers, Louis Coulon de, 1:158-59, 163-65, 167-70, 172; 4:126; 5:49
Viney, Andrew, 1:20, 29, 36
Violet (Violette), Edward, 7:45, 139, 383; id., 5:75; 7:146; 9:93; account
with, 7:4, 106, 178, 219, 229, 268, 295, 319, 331, 376, 393, 407, 441;
as overseer, 7:45, 139; agreement with, 7:143-46; his wheat, 7:414
Violet (Violette), Elinor, 7:145, 268
Virgil, 6:400; 8:89
Virgin (slave; Samuel Washington's), 7:173
Virginia: and frontier defense, 1:51, 64, 356, 357; and French encroachment
in Ohio country, 1:56, 57, 58-67; and GW's journey to French commandant,
1:58; bounty lands, 1:65, 67; 6:343, 345-46; and Canadian expedition,
1:104; taxes to support military forces, 1:175; Cartagena campaign, 1:176;
pistole fee, 1:200-201; and intercolonial conferences, 1:217; 2:132, 133;
and Braddock campaign, 1:270, 275, 300, 317, 318, 341; and funds for defense,
2:22, 346; and supplies for troops of other colonies, 2:172, 210, 211,
283, 291; paper money, 2:183, 193, 194, 201, 214, 277; recruits for Irish
regiments in Braddock campaign, 2:203; and Acadians, 2:228; acting governor
of, 3:32; 5:82; agent in London, 3:57; new governor, 3:127; 4:29; and
postal service, 3:363-64; oyer and terminer court, 3:394; forces vacate
Fort Cumberland, 5:60; arrival of new lieutenant governor, 5:82, 213-14,
221; Colonel Young rumored to be new governor, 5:91-92; takes Maryland
forces into its pay, 5:182, 195-96, 207-8; conference at Conococheague,
5:207-8; treasury exhausted, 6:22; and payment of troops, 6:112; and construction
of blockhouse at Redstone Creek, 6:162-63; and Governor Dinwiddie's proclamation,
6:343, 345-46; need to develop trade with Indians, 6:361; governor orders
regiment to march against Cherokee, 7:20; and Cherokee campaign, 7:36;
rebuked by Board of Trade for paper emissions, 7:217; boundary disputes
with Pennsylvania, 8:30, 32, 39; 9:357, 415, 464-66; 10:43-44, 94, 260;
issuing of licenses to trade with Indians, 8:41; commissioners to negotiate
Indian treaties, 8:276, 308; petitions to governor for bounty lands under
1754 proclamation, 8:277-78, 533-40; 9:118-23; and nonimportation association,
8:330, 353, 489; appointment and duties of deputy king's attorney, 9:4; governor refuses to grant further patents, 9:327; and appointment of justices
for Fort Pitt area, 9:414; Pennsylvania officers solicit Dunmore for surveys
of bounty land, 9:416; attempts to reduce duty on rum, 9:453; only two
grants made under 1763 proclamation, 9:511; law regarding seating of land,
9:515; District of West Augusta formed, 10:44; Virginia Conventions, 10:60,
143, 267, 307-9, 327, 364; court actions stopped by lack of Fee Bill,
10:97; dissolution of Burgesses leaves no defense except militia, 10:97;
new elections ordered, 10:108; money voted for delegates to Continental
Congress, 10:160; delegates to First Continental Congress, 10:174
- Acts of assembly: military acts, 1:64, 66-67, 74, 182-83, 192,
224, 357; 2:7, 22, 32, 66, 163, 173-74, 189, 202, 203, 279, 290, 293,
346, 356; 3:3-4, 178, 435; 6:23, 154-55, 178, 413; militia act, 1:67;
for augmenting forces, 3:1; 5:115-16, 130-32, 135, 136, 196; for preventing
mutiny and desertion, 4:144, 148, 250-51; for raising ranger companies,
5:21; regarding unclaimed strays, 5:453; raising 2d Virginia regiment,
6:22; preventing regiment from serving outside colony, 6:111-12, 124;
to renew Virginia Regiment, 6:111-12, 124; to draft militia for frontier
forts, 6:164-65; to break Virginia Regiment into ranging companies,
6:168-69; abolishing lieutenant colonel of regiment, 6:173, 175; placing
tax on tobacco and land to finance war, 6:184; regarding wills and estates,
6:214-15; regarding prison bounds, 6:330; giving a year's pay to officers,
6:392; for relief of Fort Loudoun in Cherokee country, 6:420; raising
frontier battalion, 6:433; barring hogs from Winchester streets, 7:6,
20; establishing town of Woodstock, 7:6, 20; regarding tax on imported
slaves, 7:9; continuing regiment, 7:20; for establishing town of Strasburg,
7:97-98; for dissolution of regiment, 7:113; to raise a new regiment
in 1762, 7:115; Two Penny Act, 7:299; for division of Truro Parish,
7:362-63, 425; regarding naming of new ministers by parishes, 7:429;
to repair road from Warm Springs (Augusta) to Jennings Gap, 8:55; to
repair roads from Alexandria and Colchester to gaps in Blue Ridge, 8:55;
for opening road to Fort Pitt, 8:87; for division of Frederick Parish,
8:190-91; for compensating owners for executed slaves, 8:215; for docking
entail on Daniel McCarty's land, 8:271; for Potomac navigation, 8:289,
294, 352; 10:244, 298-99; concerning water mills, 8:326; for regulation
of ferries, 8:357; directing trial of slaves, 8:520-21; to enable William
Manley to sell entailed land, 8:547; for improving Potomac navigation,
9:38; for better regulation of vestries, 9:38-39; for erecting lighthouse
on Cape Henry, 9:38-39; for laying duties on liquor, 9:453; directing
duty of surveyors, 9:515; for regulating tobacco warehouses, 10:27;
regarding ships's registry and freedom, 10:42; to enlarge Alexandria,
10:62; to prevent hogs running loose in Alexandria, 10:62-63; Fee Bill,
10:158
- Council: appointment of members, 3:32; and chain of forts,
3:243-46; and Fort Cumberland, 4:67, 74; minutes of, 4:27-28, 54-55;
5:91-92; 6:163; and placement of troops, 4:50, 54-55, 244; and revenue
from tobacco tax, 4:99, 101; and meeting of southern governors, 4:124-25;
and supply bill, 4:175-76, 187; and peace with northern Indians, 5:109;
and call to raise troops, 5:115; and clothing for troops, 5:221, 241;
and writs of election, 5:263; 8:144; refuses to allow for brigade major,
5:443; and military bill, 6:80-82; orders clothing for soldiers, 6:163-64;
and petitions of officers, 6:186-87; 7:119; and GW's petitions for bounty
lands, 6:388-89; 8:278-79; 9:128, 364; and prohibition of grant of lands
in Indian territory, 7:119; recommends against calling assembly into
session, 7:238; and Dismal Swamp Company, 7:271-72, 273, 275; and grant
of land on Powells River, 8:31; offers reward for killers of Indians,
8:243; rebukes House of Burgesses, 8:271; rejects bill docking entail
on Daniel McCarty's land, 8:271; and list of all orders in council granting
lands, 8:275-76; and petition to include later recruits in 1754 bounty
grants, 8:276; and Thomas Bullitt's petition criticizing distribution
of bounty lands, 8:280; recommendation to prohibit settlement on Indian
lands, 8:308-9; confirms settlers beyond Allegheny Mountains do so at
own risk, 8:309; order in council confirms Proclamation of 1754, 8:391;
confirms limits on number of surveys under 1754 proclamation, 8:533-34,
541; settles amount of land to be allowed each rank under 1754 proclamation,
8:541, 552-53; disapproves vestry bill, 9:38-39; order in council regarding
surveys, 9:118-19, 121; and 1754 bounty lands, 9:121-23, 128, 358-66;
and 1763 bounty lands, 9:357; requires each soldier to apply personally
for 1763 bounty lands, 9:364; declares surveys void, 9:365; approves
appointment of justices in Fort Pitt area, 9:414; orders survey for
every 1,000 acres of 1763 bounty land, 9:500, 503; petitions from Greenbrier
and Loyal companies, 9:503
- General Assembly: and surrender of fort at Forks of the Ohio,
1:92; committee for supervising military expenditures, 1:128, 129; 2:7,
22, 34, 85, 105, 163-64, 172, 186, 200, 202, 226, 239, 245, 293, 303,
304, 329; 3:14, 64-65, 81, 84, 248, 323-33, 352, 353, 356, 357, 362,
364, 365-71, 374, 376, 377, 388, 398-99, 402, 407, 417; 4:38, 39, 62,
69, 75, 100, 147, 149, 156, 185, 201, 238, 249, 275, 284, 293; 5:68,
82; military plans, 1:183, 195; commendation of Fort Necessity officers,
1:209; increases military force, 1:357, 359; conscription from militia,
2:189; forbids conscription of servants, 2:189; dissolved, 2:192; 7:386;
and defense of colony, 3:42, 65, 84, 85, 105, 163, 181, 320, 357, 368;
and a chain of forts, 3:84; and military acts, 3:174; and refusal to
send troops out of colony, 3:192, 327, 332, 453; acts for raising ranger
companies, 3:320; and provision for the disabled soldiers, 3:329; 4:85-86;
5:394; and reward for apprehending deserters, 3:332; and signing of
treasury notes, 3:368; and raising money to recruit for Royal American
Regiment, 3:424-25, 426; extra pay for militia carpenters, 3:435; and
funds for defense of frontiers, 4:74, 80, 81, 156, 175-76, 184, 187-88;
and impressment of vagrants, 4:81, 91, 184; and duty on tobacco, 4:101;
and Dinwiddie's address to, 4:155; and the reorganization of the Virginia
Regiment, 4:155; and dispute over supply bill, 4:175-76, 187-88; and
Indian trade, 4:188; and bounty for enlisting, 4:236-37; and bounty
for scalps, 4:249, 251; new assembly prorogued, 5:242; and allowance
of brigade major, 5:444; and appointment of brigade major, 6:22-23;
governor's speech to, 6:22-23; and law regarding deserters, 6:27; to
renew Virginia Regiment, 6:111-12, 124; annual levy on tithables to
finance war, 6:184; and appointment of William Byrd to command regiment,
6:314; votes thanks to GW, 6:314; act giving a year's pay to officers,
6:392; 7:169; GW distributes money voted to private citizens, 7:11;
and list of necessaries for regiment, 7:15, 16-19; and supplies for
Cherokee campaign, 7:96; called into session, 7:113, 217; and memorial
of officers, 7:171; private bills take up most of session, 8:353; Ohio
Company petition to, 9:125-26
- General Court, 3:56, 375, 437; GW transfers Custis estate settlement
to, 6:204; records destroyed, 6:204; 7:83; and Custis estate, 6:204-8,
209, 213, 215, 257, 259, 265; 7:61, 82-84, 86-93, 190, 191, 212-16,
284, 301-4, 368-71, 499-502; makes GW guardian of Custis children, 6:206,
265; 7:84; and Dunbar suit, 6:212, 322-23; 8:497, 526; and Clifton suit,
6:410, 423-24, 437; dates of sessions, 6:415; 7:467; clerk of, 7:10;
and the Two Penny Act, 7:299; and the Savage affair, 7:505; 10:30; and
GW's petition to rent dower lands, 8:195-97, 216; and GW's guardian
accounts, 8:198-205, 455-63; and Fairfax-Hite land dispute, 8:383-84;
appoints commissioners to supervise property of Custis children, 8:487;
and Manley-Hollows land dispute, 8:547; trial of counterfeiters, 9:179;
and permission to sell slave, 9:232; and George Mercer's estate, 10:28
- House of Burgesses: votes money to soldiers who killed Frenchman,
3:12; memorials of officers to, 3:12-13; 6:391-92; address to king on
behalf of Virginia Regiment, 3:88, 188, 437-38; contested election,
3:97, 100; cut out GW's table allowance, 6:80; votes thanks to GW, 6:192;
travel allowance for members, 6:406; 7:6, 108, 211, 262; and address
to governor, 6:466; votes money for commissioners to settle militia
and Indian accounts, 7:11; dissolved, 7:14, 384; 8:181, 246, 275, 571;
9:36; 10:50, 63, 96; commissioners named to settle military accounts,
7:15; rebuttal of Board of Trade's rebuke, 7:217; and settlement of
accounts of militia, 7:337-40; and resolutions against Stamp Act, 7:384;
protests Townshend Acts, 8:180; denounces taking colonists to trial
in England, 8:181; meets at Raleigh Tavern, 8:181; 10:96; reasserts
sole right to lay taxes, 8:181; and Virginia Association, 8:181, 187-90;
10:96, 99; members illegally elected, 8:246; asks for list of all petitions
for land grants, 8:275-76; and negotiations for treaty with Indians,
8:390-91; prorogued, 8:571; expels member for fraud, 9:34; recommendation
on monitoring conduct of clergy, 9:38-39; and an American episcopacy,
9:39; disapproves governor's action against counterfeiters, 9:179; petitions
regarding duty on rum, 9:453; gives ball for Lady Dunmore, 10:42; petitions
presented to, 10:60-64, 64-65; call for day of fasting in support of
Boston, 10:98-99; call for First Convention, 10:99. See also
House of Burgesses: letters to
The Virginia Almanac, 6:312; 7:168; 8:511, 532
Virginia Association, 10:99, 131, 139, 140
Virginia-Centinel No. X, 3:410, 411-12, 413, 435-37; 4:9, 19-20, 21,
22-23, 29, 110, 189
Virginia Company charter, 10:146
Virginia delegates to Second Continental Congress: letters from:
to Thomas Lewis and Samuel McDowell, 10:000; letters to: from Thomas
Lewis and Samuel McDowell, 10:000
Virginia Gazette, 6:474; 7:109, 299-300, 349, 352; 8:193
Virginia Justice, 8:222, 223, 249, 290
Virginia military forces: independent companies, 1:224, 226, 227, 236,
292, 316, 326, 336, 338, 339, 342; 3:227-29; 7:114; Adam Stephen and independent
companies, 1:236; 7:115; commissaries, 1:312, 314; 5:1-2, 4, 6, 15, 162-63,
174, 210, 211, 420, 445; 6:14, 15, 27; contractors for, 5:1, 5, 29, 30-32,
46-47, 58, 397; 6:15; allowances for troops, 5:30; women accompanying,
5:30; 6:1; storehouses, 5:90-91, 150, 423, 445; and Forbes campaign, 5:102;
and act of legislature, 5:115, 130, 135; disposition of forces, 5:157-58;
6:1-2, 3, 6, 24, 27-31; armorers, 5:236, 238, 240; discipline in, 5:238;
horses in, 5:238-39; blacksmiths, 5:253; wagonmasters, 5:260; returns
of, 5:275-76, 308, 309, 331-32, 345-46, 351-52, 369; 6:26-27; illnesses
and medical services in, 5:307, 308, 331, 373; 6:1, 24, 167-68, 172-73;
dual commissions in, 5:330, 362; casualties, 5:331; 6:15, 20, 26, 167-68;
funds for, 5:373-74; 6:3, 25; orders and instructions to, 6:1, 6; liquor
in, 6:1-2, 15, 81; accounts, 6:3; GW's clerk, 6:16, 27-30; officers in,
6:16; Governor Fauquier's support for, 6:22; money for exhausted, 6:22;
work on fortifications, 6:25; extra working pay, 6:26; holding prisoners,
6:26; subsistence pay, 6:26; payrolls, 6:26-27; sutlers, 6:315 (see
also Wodrow, Alexander); act raising frontier battalion, 6:433; commissioners
to settle military accounts, 7:15; Virginia requested to raise more men
for the Cherokee campaign, 7:36; deputy quartermaster general for, 7:44;
troops not to be raised for Pontiac's War, 7:237, 238. See also
Gentlemen Associators
- light horse, 2:77, 212, 279, 282-83, 306; 5:207; movements
of, 1:292, 338; 5:199, 211, 216, 235, 283, 317, 325, 348, 363, 368-69,
375, 385, 389, 394; 6:93; orders to, 2:35, 36-37, 119, 169, 313; 3:71-72,
80-81, 94, 100-101, 112-13, 177, 191-92, 282-83, 297-98; 5:387; 6:55,
103, 108, 156-57; organization of, 2:36; misconduct in, 2:104; 3:207,
211-12, 214; recruiting, 2:169, 205-6; desertions in, 2:175, 344; 3:207,
209, 235; muster roll, 2:176; returns of, 2:176, 211; 3:81, 114, 193,
209, 237, 291, 297, 298; 5:330, 369; 6:130-31, 142-43; pay of, 2:202,
214; 3:80-81, 113, 263, 303, 359; 5:204; court-martials in, 3:80; mutiny
in, 3:80, 214, 235; accounts of, 3:81, 113; 6:171; illnesses in, 3:100,
113, 235, 290-91, 303; supplies for, 3:100, 177, 178, 298; 5:325; 6:142;
appointments and promotions in, 3:101, 251, 428; 4:208; 6:130-31; horses
for, 3:113, 117, 207, 236, 298; size rolls, 3:114, 212, 303; 4:346,
361, 409, 410; ordnance for, 3:177, 178, 283; serve on foot, 3:200,
202, 313, 319, 359; noncommissioned officers in, 3:252, 257; 4:277;
workmen in, 3:282; volunteers in, 4:426; formation of, 5:192, 198, 204,
236; carried on rolls of 2d Virginia Regiment, 5:198; as example to
Pennsylvanians, 5:223; clothing and accoutrements for, 5:236; estimate
of expense of, 5:236; arms for, 5:240; value of commission in, 5:248,
380; forage for, 5:256, 388; commander of, 5:313-14, 382; considered
a distinct corps, 5:362; training, 6:55; as messengers, 6:90; sent ahead
to take possession of Fort Duquesne, 6:157-58, 172; received no pay
or allowance, 6:171; casualties, 6:372; provision made for maimed and
wounded, 6:372; skirmishes, 6:372. See also Stewart, Robert
- militia, 4:250, 393; adjutancies of, 1:50, 51, 53, 55, 193,
194, 207, 208, 235; 2:28; 4:235; militia act, 1:67; drafts of, 2:30,
32, 44, 66, 122, 123, 174, 189, 355-56; 3:12, 43, 84, 104-5, 181, 202,
234, 362-63, 387; 4:81, 91, 148, 184, 203, 245; 5:139, 151-52; 6:164-65;
7:237; skirmishes with enemy, 2:73, 100-101, 174; 3:120, 313; 5:183,
194-97; 7:339; from Fairfax County, 2:83, 88, 101, 122, 123, 127, 161,
174, 250, 252; from Prince William County, 2:83, 87-88, 101, 174, 250,
252; regulation of, 2:84, 135, 138; 3:42, 431-34, 443; 4:4, 12-14, 24-25,
87-88, 147; orders to, 2:87-88, 93, 100-101, 105, 249, 250; 3:34, 80,
89, 91-92, 95, 109, 118, 121, 122, 123-24, 125, 135, 136, 138, 139-40,
141, 142-43, 144, 145, 147-48, 149, 150, 178, 197, 232, 260, 265, 277-78,
294-95, 386, 438; 4:244, 253-54, 262, 265, 268, 291, 395; 5:184-85,
191; 7:242, 338, 339; from Culpeper County, 2:88, 252; from Augusta
County, 2:93, 105, 174, 250; from Frederick County, 2:95, 105, 250;
ineffectiveness of, 2:101, 104, 211; discipline of, 2:102, 173-74; 3:1,
82; 4:262, 265, 306; from Louisa County, 2:110, 111; religious services
for, 2:111; need for, 2:135, 138; 3:318, 380-81; relations with Virginia
Regiment, 2:161, 250, 342; enlistment of, 2:172; from Maryland, 2:178-79;
3:382; 4:270; 5:428-29; misconduct of, 3:6, 12, 70, 96, 99, 108-9, 117-18,
228, 278, 294-95, 310, 313, 359, 405, 431-34; 4:265, 278, 304; 5:242;
supplies for, 3:45, 46, 66, 82, 107, 111, 121, 136, 137, 139, 300, 367;
4:2, 12-13, 87-88, 236-37, 253, 261, 265, 269, 291, 403; 5:207-8, 229-30;
memoranda respecting, 3:67-68, 71, 76, 88-89, 97, 99, 106, 111, 117,
119, 122, 127-28, 135, 137-38, 145-46, 151, 163, 166-67, 171; sent home,
3:84-85, 102, 104, 130, 165, 178, 232, 234, 263, 267, 278, 337, 339;
to work on and man forts, 3:85, 213, 273-74, 292, 361; 5:115-16, 141-43,
152, 158, 216, 228, 230; desertions of, 3:97, 122-23, 137, 138, 145,
146, 150, 151, 160, 171, 178, 225, 234, 236, 248, 284, 315-17, 346-47,
360; artificers (carpenters) with, 3:119, 137, 138, 145, 233, 435; discontent
of, 3:122, 225-26, 248; assignments of, 3:127, 137, 146, 159; 5:160;
6:75; council of war, 3:129-30; Quakers in, 3:225; pay of, 3:274, 275,
432, 433-34; 4:4, 7; 7:337-40; questionable drafts of, 3:315-17; punishment
of, 3:316; agree to remain on frontier, 3:341, 373; Andrew Lewis appointed
to regulate, 4:25, 26, 27; exemptions from draft, 4:81; not to serve
outside colony, 4:243-44; officers in, 5:21, 58, 85, 99, 159, 160, 161,
185, 197, 215, 253, 277; 6:76; 7:338-40; 10:44, 91-92, 362; military
service, 5:140, 147, 157, 184-85, 193, 195, 205, 219, 229, 444-45; militia
refused as escort, 6:26; accounts, 7:11; commanders of, 7:237, 338;
to be employed on frontier, 7:237, 242; used during Pontiac's Rebellion,
7:237, 242; use of in place of regiment, 7:242; and commissioners to
settle militia accounts, 7:335, 337-40; appointments and promotions,
7:338-40; commandant at Pittsburgh, 10:43; in Dunmore's War, 10:43-44,
59, 90-92, 133, 135, 169-70, 182-84, 362; GW's servants taken into,
10:92
- rangers, 2:101, 104; 5:21, 393; in Braddock campaign, 1:316,
326, 338; acts for raising ranger companies, 1:318, 344, 345; 5:21;
and Peter Hog, 2:18; 5:19, 22, 26; in Augusta County, 2:19; 3:315; forts
of, 2:75, 137; 3:266, 295; establishment of, 2:90, 92, 109, 344, 345;
3:28, 266, 320; 4:157, 204, 245, 249, 422, 423; 5:1-2, 19, 39, 57, 135;
instructions to, 2:90-92, 94, 100-101, 105, 107, 111-12, 133-34, 141-42,
240-42, 243; 3:34, 196, 335; 5:205, 238-39; military service, 2:92,
104, 133-34; 5:140-43, 157, 202, 205, 219, 239, 250-52, 254-55, 262,
306, 393, 445; 6:26-27, 75; misconduct in, 2:95, 241; 3:196; 4:254;
5:253; need for, 2:95, 105; 5:25, 43, 205; supplies for, 2:111-12, 133-34,
138, 142, 281-82; 3:75, 196, 416; 5:39, 91; on Patterson Creek, 2:135;
returns of, 2:142; 3:196, 336; 5:308; and Sandy Creek expedition, 2:214;
desertions in, 2:243; 3:418, 421; 5:393; casualties in, 3:11; 5:115,
155, 156, 160, 174; engagements with Indians, 3:23-24, 73-74, 77-78,
196, 197, 286; 5:99, 101; pay for, 3:75, 161, 315; 5:220, 229, 242;
and Virginia Regiment, 3:200, 265, 266, 317, 320, 337, 360, 388, 394,
397, 404; 6:168-69; funds for, 3:266, 425; 4:6, 9, 61, 216; terms of
enlistment, 3:295; 5:19, 21, 39, 57-58; criticism of, 3:360; 5:101;
disbanded, 3:395, 397; 4:425; regulation of, 4:3-4, 14, 61; commissions
in, 4:4, 14, 25; 5:8, 21, 22, 26, 39, 58, 91, 99, 156, 160, 205, 277,
334, 343; command of, 4:256; 5:91, 445; captured, 5:99; illnesses in,
5:305-6; plan to break Virginia Regiment into ranging companies, 6:168-69.
See also Ashby, John; Cocks, William; Dickinson, John (of Augusta
County); Hog, Peter; Preston, William; Rutherford, Robert; Smith, John
(of Augusta County)
- Scouts (of Virginia Regiment), 2:328, 350; 4:276; and Christopher
Gist, 2:98-99; organization of, 2:99; 3:252, 429; 4:152-53; 5:160; recruitment
of, 2:99, 125, 129, 180, 235, 247-48; 3:8; 4:319, 336-39; activities
of, 2:104; orders to, 2:125, 247-48; 3:35, 52, 297; returns, 2:154,
180; 3:209, 291, 297, 298; payrolls of, 3:156, 301; accounts, 3:161,
184, 301, 315, 325, 360; 4:421; soldiers in, 3:212, 263; 5:453; noncommissioned
officers, 3:253, 259; deserters, 3:301; appointments and promotions,
4:61, 208; rank same as in Virginia Regiment, 4:61; reduction of, 4:152-53,
345; volunteers in, 4:298. See also Gist, Christopher
- Virginia regiments (Virginia Regiment of 1754, 1st Virginia
Regiment, 2d Virginia Regiment): sutlers, 1:153; 3:157, 160,
245-46, 251, 256, 292; 4:181, 413; 6:32; hostages taken by French, 1:164,
167; 7:36; at Wills Creek, 1:181; orders and instructions to, 1:181,
206; 2:18, 19, 20, 24, 27-28, 36-37, 38-39, 40-42, 45-47, 48, 49-50,
53, 75-77, 78, 100, 112-13, 114, 118, 119, 122, 124, 130-31, 134-35,
136, 139-40, 142-44, 146-47, 148-50, 152-54, 162-63, 166-67, 168, 169,
170, 171-74, 175, 191, 223, 224, 225, 229-31, 233, 244-45, 247, 250-51,
252-53, 254, 256, 259-65, 269, 271, 281, 282, 283, 313-14, 331, 341,
344, 347, 348, 349-50, 354-55; 3:6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 18-19, 21, 22, 23,
24-25, 29, 34, 35, 40-41, 44, 52, 53-54, 65, 67, 70, 71, 73-74, 75,
76, 77, 79-81, 89, 90, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98-99, 100-101, 107, 111-14,
118, 119, 123, 124, 128, 135-38, 140, 147, 150, 151, 153-54, 157-62,
164-65, 167, 169, 173, 174, 175, 177-78, 182, 188-89, 191, 194, 195,
198, 206, 207, 212, 213, 222, 226, 227, 230-31, 237, 238-41, 242-43,
250-55, 261-66, 268-83, 285, 291-92, 296, 297-98, 299-301, 305, 309,
311, 333-40, 344-45, 346, 348, 353, 355, 358, 372, 373-74, 378, 379,
382-84, 387-91, 392-93, 394-95, 401-2, 403, 408-9, 413, 419-20, 422-23,
427, 439, 440-44, 446, 453, 454, 456; 4:23-24, 26, 33, 40, 43, 47-48,
55-57, 59, 61, 69-70, 138, 178-82, 186-87, 221-22, 277-78, 284, 320,
341-45, 346-52, 362-64, 5:24, 38, 47, 143-45, 147, 188-89, 191-92, 193-94,
197-98, 211, 216, 237, 238-39, 245, 250-51, 271-72, 286-87, 289-91,
344-45, 364, 378, 384-86, 394-96, 421, 427-29, 430; 6:31-38, 48-52,
53-62, 63, 65-66, 70-73, 77-80, 83-86, 89-90, 95-98, 100-101, 107-24,
125-29, 131-33, 144-45, 146-54, 155-58; 7:14, 20, 46; pay, 1:182, 190,
199; 2:5, 84, 130-31, 139, 152-53, 154-55, 163-64, 171, 181, 188, 189-90,
191, 196-97, 223-24, 236, 239, 245, 262, 274, 288, 311, 349; 3:5-6,
42, 80-81, 83, 99, 100, 103, 113, 123, 132, 133, 135, 140, 154, 155,
156, 158, 160, 161, 180, 192, 193, 194, 203-4, 205, 213, 227, 228, 237,
254, 268, 269, 274, 275, 277, 282, 301, 302-3, 323, 324, 327, 328, 332,
348, 359, 366, 369, 372, 374, 376, 378, 388, 391, 394, 402, 429, 432,
453; 4:46, 66, 68-69, 75, 86, 129, 145, 148, 157, 169, 172, 181, 184,
249, 260, 274, 304, 342, 369; 5:4, 20-21, 40, 55-56, 59, 68, 103, 147,
192-93, 201, 203, 214-15, 249, 285, 289, 290, 392, 393, 442, 454-55;
6:4, 8, 22-23, 81, 99, 112, 134, 163; misconduct in, 1:183, 186; 2:35,
53, 64, 84, 85, 86-87, 95, 102, 116, 123, 135, 144, 147, 171, 176, 211,
212, 225, 231, 240, 253, 254-58, 272, 287, 289, 291, 311, 315, 329,
343, 351; 3:8, 12, 13-14, 15-16, 59, 61-62, 64-65, 75, 76, 77-78, 84,
85, 96-97, 103, 123, 136, 151, 152-53, 160, 164, 207, 211-12, 214, 237,
238, 240, 255, 261, 269, 271, 279, 285, 300, 355, 358, 379, 387, 388-90,
393, 395, 417; 4:40-41, 163, 175-76, 181, 202, 203, 207-8, 230-31, 301,
334, 352, 418-19, 423-26; 5:3, 8, 11-12, 20, 37-38, 84, 162-64, 187-88,
201, 327, 410; 6:136, 185, 189, 192, 314, 343-44, 346-47, 359-60, 412;
7:17; and Indians, 1:185, 187; 5:23-24, 45, 46-47, 270, 403; 6:71, 105,
136, 137-38, 144-46, 148, 157, 159, 466-67; desertion, 1:186, 190, 191,
192, 196; 5:244; 7:17; funds for, 1:186; 2:84, 85, 163-64, 218-19, 303;
3:1, 12, 156, 158, 323, 365, 367, 388; 4:6, 47, 62, 69, 72, 75, 79,
101, 184-85, 216, 244, 249, 266, 288, 290, 292, 293, 304, 311, 316,
352, 396-97, 408, 422; 5:47, 68, 82-83, 221-22; 6:75-76, 81-82, 134,
176, 314, 391-92; build forts, 1:188; 6:162-63, 360; 7:14, 56, 57; returns,
1:188; 2:5, 20, 31, 39-40, 41, 47, 51-53, 55, 57, 59, 60, 79, 80, 110,
111, 112, 136, 142, 145, 176, 177-78, 180, 181, 211, 220, 221, 223,
224, 225, 230, 231, 237, 247, 328, 330-31, 349; 3:9, 70, 75, 81, 114-15,
132, 134, 138, 154, 160, 162, 175, 184, 188, 191, 195, 200, 203, 204,
205, 209, 214, 215, 228, 230, 234, 237, 240-41, 254, 255, 261, 265-66,
268, 281, 285, 291, 298, 302-3, 309, 311, 333-34, 335, 336, 337, 341,
344-45, 346, 374, 391, 392, 393, 395, 402, 427, 428-29; 4:24, 33, 34,
37, 56, 63, 66-67, 72, 76-78, 104-5, 135, 168, 182, 183, 196, 197, 203,
210, 253, 256, 286, 296, 325-27, 343, 350, 351, 360, 361, 362, 363-64,
385, 387, 392, 394-95, 396, 405-6, 408, 410; 5:1, 4-5, 6-7, 66, 113-14,
122, 124-25, 131-32, 140, 155-56, 165, 177, 179, 199, 216, 220-21, 256-59,
266, 267-69, 279, 285-86, 293, 298, 300, 313, 321-22, 325-26, 348, 370-71,
377-78, 394, 407, 423-24, 442, 445, 447; 6:5, 7-8, 31, 32, 76-77, 89-90,
97, 99, 114-15, 117-18, 123-24, 127, 128, 129, 130-31, 134-35, 139-43,
149, 157, 171, 189; 7:57; state of, 1:189; appointments and promotions,
1:190, 191, 208; 2:17, 35, 40-43, 45-47, 48, 75-77, 99, 106, 108; 2:204;
3:3, 12, 18, 35, 43, 44, 53, 74, 90, 100, 109, 118, 125, 145, 162, 168,
170, 172-73, 190, 204, 224, 250-53, 255, 256-59, 276, 279, 280, 285,
292, 311, 313, 314, 317, 319, 340, 348, 446, 455, 456; 4:7, 24, 60,
65, 67, 69, 77, 100, 123, 149-51, 164, 177, 203-6, 208, 225, 255, 264,
273, 293, 294, 296, 297-98, 299, 300, 303, 310-11, 323, 359, 361, 364,
368, 386, 392, 397, 407, 408-9, 422, 423, 426; 5:2, 6, 15, 20, 24, 27,
39, 42, 43, 55, 65, 66-67, 85, 129-30, 135, 137, 145, 148, 159, 160-62,
163, 166, 167, 171, 180, 201, 204, 215, 216, 220-21, 248, 251, 295-96,
302, 309-10, 313-14, 328, 378, 381-82, 383, 394, 442; 6:5, 45, 93-94,
99, 102-3, 151, 188, 190, 468-70; 7:35, 46, 47, 52, 122; illnesses and
medical services in, 1:191; 2:5, 13, 25, 44, 80, 107, 128, 139, 140,
143, 145, 164, 168-69, 217-18, 220, 223-24, 231, 232, 259, 272, 274,
275, 319, 327, 330; 3:100, 113, 132, 134, 190, 213, 235, 236, 261, 277,
278, 290-91, 293, 294, 295, 296, 298, 299-300, 303, 309, 310, 311, 325,
331, 332-33, 337, 365, 369, 376, 382-83, 391, 439; 4:17, 102-3, 280,
281-82, 287, 322, 347-48, 362; 5:7-8, 10-11, 42, 46, 59, 64-65, 103,
174, 190, 192-93, 201, 202, 204, 206, 250, 253, 257, 258, 267, 289,
363-64, 370, 384, 393-94, 395-96, 398-99, 424, 425, 428, 433-34, 446;
6:2, 4, 20, 23-24, 60, 66, 98, 105, 114, 116-17, 121, 127-28, 151-52,
164-65, 169-70, 315, 412; 7:14, 17, 56-57, 114, 120, 170; recruiting
and enlistments, 1:198; 2:169, 170, 189, 191, 247, 253; 3:14, 70, 151,
271, 272, 301, 313-14, 319, 324, 359, 388, 392, 395, 396, 397, 399,
400, 401, 404, 405, 406, 416, 417, 423, 453; 4:5, 15-16, 25-26, 43-45,
49, 52, 61-62, 63-64, 70, 71, 103, 104, 111, 141, 142; 5:40-41; 7:18,
56; disposition of troops, 1:206; 3:91-92, 93, 140, 141, 253-54, 265,
266, 310, 333, 334-35, 336-37, 341; 4:127-28, 131-32, 154-55; 5:2, 6-7,
9, 28, 47, 58, 61, 67, 91, 113-14, 122, 124-25, 135, 149-50, 155, 161,
192-93, 194, 198-99, 208-9, 211, 233, 235, 245, 257, 273, 275, 377,
379, 382-83, 384-85, 389-90, 398, 411, 429, 442, 446; 6:15, 32, 78,
80, 93, 98, 107, 117-18, 120, 127, 129, 133-34, 137-38, 146, 150-52;
7:41-42, 162, 169; provision for sick and wounded, 1:207; 3:329, 367;
4:85-86, 145-46, 164; 5:393-94; controversies over rank in, 1:212; 7:35-36,
37, 121; accounts, 1:221-23; 2:182; 3:14, 70, 81, 133, 155, 158, 228,
231, 276, 301, 315, 323-26, 331-32, 360, 362, 365-66, 368-71, 374, 376,
377, 388, 398-99, 401-2, 417, 425; 5:9, 53, 68, 82-83, 252, 285, 300-301;
6:76, 112, 134, 164, 165, 167, 176, 181-82, 193; 7:15, 171; reduced
to independent companies, 1:224, 226, 227; letter books for, 1:237;
paymasters, 1:254; 4:156; 5:13; 6:184, 470 (see also Boyd, Alexander;
Peachey, William; Washington, George); brevet commissions, 1:286; 3:166;
7:52; artificers (carpenters or workmen), 1:326; 2:163, 237; 3:36, 44,
64, 112, 118, 119, 138, 153, 157, 161, 188, 189, 190, 198, 213, 226,
233, 291-92, 348; 4:50, 192, 225, 260, 264, 334, 405; 5:192-93, 199,
209, 211, 218, 233, 235, 268, 275, 286, 364, 367, 377, 411, 426; 6:32,
98, 118, 127, 128, 131, 147, 360; appointment of GW as colonel of, 2:1-8;
military chest, 2:2, 6, 7, 44, 127, 163, 200, 202, 203, 213, 218, 280,
281, 303; organization of, 2:4-7, 40-43, 45-47, 259-63; allowances for
deceased soldiers, 2:5, 60, 303-4; fifers and drummers, 2:5, 76, 79,
114, 119, 145, 147, 148, 153, 251, 264; 3:5, 80, 107, 118, 263, 279,
315, 396, 401, 404, 409, 429, 439, 444; 4:34, 211; 5:41, 158, 266, 268,
286, 300; 6:7, 32, 58, 117, 127-28, 347; commissaries, 2:6, 7, 21-26,
37, 55-56, 97, 106, 121, 129, 148, 153-54, 163, 164-65, 167-68, 171,
187, 193-94, 200, 204, 213, 224, 269-71, 275, 312, 341-42, 350; 3:15,
54, 66, 84, 130, 139, 143, 144, 151, 154, 162-63, 175, 177-78, 196,
200, 204, 228, 230, 240, 255, 290, 291, 299, 301, 311, 324, 332, 335,
394, 404-5, 420, 422; 4:6, 9, 26, 27, 31, 32, 39, 41, 57-58, 60, 62,
63, 66, 71, 94, 101, 104, 116, 146, 149, 154, 156, 292, 358, 360, 399,
413; 6:104, 156 (see also Chew, Colby; Dick, Charles; Hayton,
----; Hite, John; Kennedy, David; McCulley, John; Rutherford, Robert;
Rutherford, Thomas; Steenbergen, Peter; Van Meter, Henry; Walker, Thomas);
discipline in, 2:6, 24, 60, 102, 124, 172, 173-74, 203; 3:83, 99, 172,
198, 281, 389, 393; 4:284, 343, 344; 5:251; 6:31, 32-33, 36-38, 71-72,
96, 105; GW's military staff, 2:6, 8, 75, 106, 108, 201, 214, 216, 351,
352; 3:3, 68; 4:410; 5:37, 42; memoranda, 2:7-8, 14-15, 16-17, 20, 22,
28, 34-35, 39, 49, 54, 108, 109, 258, 305; 3:54, 120, 143, 145, 195-96,
238, 267, 278, 430; 4:45, 60, 184-85, 189-91, 201, 202, 211, 212, 220-21,
225, 256-57, 269, 272-73, 276, 283-84, 286-87, 339-40, 357, 403-4; 5:7,
214-15, 236-37; training of, 2:23-24, 27, 39, 57, 134-35, 136, 147,
149, 213, 239, 242-43, 278, 290, 310-11; 3:167, 198, 240, 241, 389,
393, 394; 4:114, 181, 193, 272, 284, 342-43, 344; 5:134, 189; 6:412;
platoon exercising, 2:24; drafts for, 2:30, 32, 44, 66, 122, 123, 174,
189, 355-56; 3:2, 12, 37, 38, 42, 82, 84, 85, 102, 104-5, 129, 135,
136, 157-58, 174, 175, 178, 179, 181, 187, 188, 189-90, 192, 201, 202,
205, 212, 224, 226, 227, 232-33, 235, 241, 267, 312-13, 314, 318, 327,
356-57, 358-59, 362-63, 366, 378-79, 386-87, 396, 397, 404, 453; 4:5,
36, 145, 156, 184, 203-4, 274-76, 285, 288-89, 293, 304, 353, 359, 361,
368-69, 384, 405; court-martials, 2:35, 53, 59, 112, 116, 174, 257,
279, 293, 314, 340-41, 344; 3:8, 13, 25, 53, 67, 70, 71, 72-74, 75-76,
77-79, 80, 84, 95, 111, 118, 123, 135-36, 138, 151, 152-53, 167, 188-89,
195, 206, 213, 222, 230, 237, 238-39, 241, 254, 268, 285, 292, 300,
343, 355, 379, 384, 403, 409; 4:84-85, 93, 182, 208, 230-31, 295-97,
299, 311, 313-15, 329-34, 344, 360; 6:34, 36-37, 91-93, 95, 103, 105,
136; storehouses, 2:35, 36, 37, 38, 157, 158, 178, 185, 306; 4:32, 34,
53, 403; punishments in, 2:53, 64, 124, 135, 174, 231, 242, 310, 311,
347, 350; 3:70, 79-80, 84, 97, 103, 105-6, 153, 154, 158, 171-72, 178-79,
188-89, 206, 213, 222, 226, 232, 238, 239, 240, 279, 294, 305, 316,
337, 339, 382-83, 390; 4:6, 9, 18, 40-41, 48-49, 52-53, 57, 64, 93,
103-4, 182, 230-31, 254-55, 306, 360, 368-69, 385-86; 5:11, 40; 6:36-37,
103, 136; criticism of, 2:68, 121, 144, 171, 176, 178, 185, 197, 343-44;
3:12, 13-14, 15-17, 30-31, 33, 36-37, 38, 48, 59, 61-62, 64-65, 85,
185-86, 188, 199, 271, 387, 410; 4:163, 175-76, 255, 319, 336, 383;
5:54, 140, 185-86, 232, 247, 398-99; 6:7; regimental uniform, 2:76;
intelligence for, 2:89, 95, 104; 3:10, 304; 4:212-19, 241, 245-46, 257,
258, 264, 294-95; 5:154-56, 407, 409, 411, 412, 417, 433, 440-41; blacksmiths,
2:112-13, 237; 6:3, 4-5, 25; orderly books, 2:124, 149; 6:27-31, 176;
volunteers (cadets), 2:128, 279, 280, 319-20; 3:18, 205, 224, 391, 455,
456; 4:123-24, 162, 164, 191, 205-6, 208, 243, 296, 298, 300, 426; 5:24,
129, 145, 153, 159, 161, 168, 185-86, 221; 6:45, 102; "beat the general,"
2:135; grand rounds, 2:135; enlistment of apprentices, 2:169, 170, 191,
247; blacks in, 2:189; Indians in, 2:189; mulattoes in, 2:189; 3:276;
dispute over command, 2:204; 3:14, 15, 16, 17, 37; 6:173-74; terms of
discharge, 2:225; 4:102, 211, 318-19, 338; courts of inquiry, 2:231,
232, 240, 253, 254-56, 256-58, 289, 298, 328; 3:230, 374, 387; 4:204,
207-8, 424-26; 5:3, 10, 121, 162-64; 6:103, 343-44, 347, 360; play produced
at Fort Cumberland, 2:234; hatchetmen and camp colormen, 2:236; 5:249;
prisoners of, 2:242-43; 4:208-9, 215-16, 217, 232-34, 239-40; 6:121,
158 reorganization of, 2:260, 263, 264; 3:1-2, 4-5, 7, 50, 51, 56, 172-73,
179-80, 200, 201, 224, 225, 232; payrolls, 2:265, 319, 328; 3:156-57;
women accompanying, 2:270; 3:339; 4:176, 181, 342; 5:4, 300; 6:60, 128;
attempts to put on British establishment, 2:326; 3:166, 437-38; 4:89,
92-93, 303; 7:160-61, 162; augmentation of, 3:1, 12, 45; 4:187-88; 6:433;
skirmishes, 3:1, 12, 17-18, 20, 34, 46, 72-74, 81-82, 84, 182-83, 184-85,
197, 237-38, 241, 243, 351, 421, 422; 4:27, 48, 83, 114, 135-36, 162-63,
195-96, 200, 208-9, 215-16, 217, 288; 5:2, 9-10, 12, 151-52, 155-56,
180-81, 249, 282-83, 363, 383, 409; 6:5, 10, 38-42, 44, 121-23, 346-47,
412-13; batmen, 3:5, 6, 134, 253; 4:176; 5:249; 6:129, 149, 155, 167,
432; memorial of officers to House of Burgesses, 3:12, 13, 56; casualties,
3:18, 43, 74, 165, 182-83, 185, 255, 256, 358; 4:48, 60, 83, 121, 124,
135-56, 162-64, 208, 261, 288, 295; 5:53, 54, 85, 129-30, 161, 180-81,
189, 249, 282-83, 363, 383, 409; 6:5, 10, 39-41, 44, 45, 46-48, 52-53,
74, 87, 88, 91, 96, 101-2, 118, 122, 176, 344, 346-47, 412; 7:17, 52;
sergeant-majors, 3:22, 292, 321, 383; councils of war, 3:25-26, 38-39,
129-30, 243-46, 340, 342, 447-52; 4:135, 136-38, 219-20; 5:109, 111,
141-44, 170-71; 6:119-20; adjutants, 3:35, 118, 157, 212, 281, 301,
311, 312, 383, 428; 4:204, 429; 5:49, 258, 290, 348; 6:5, 32, 35, 50,
55, 56, 59, 60, 63, 65, 71, 72, 77, 91, 98, 113, 117, 118, 119, 412;
7:47 (see also Hubbard, Edward; Hughes, William); and chain of
forts, 3:48-51, 243-46, 309, 334, 342, 358, 415-16; 4:82; necessary
rolls, 3:75; 4:345-46; mutinies, 3:80, 214, 235; 4:93, 103-4, 254; terms
of service, 3:98, 111, 124, 132-33, 134, 190, 194, 195-96, 202-3, 222,
278, 348; 5:103, 186, 187, 441; resignations, 3:111, 143-44, 250, 255,
256, 272, 319; 5:6, 10-11, 94, 129-30, 201, 216, 296, 298; 6:170, 174-75,
177, 181, 189; size rolls, 3:114, 184, 212-13, 233, 242, 250, 256-59,
263, 298, 302-3, 306-7, 312, 313, 318, 335, 345, 374, 392; 4:278, 312,
345-46, 359, 361, 363-64, 368, 385, 389-91, 392, 394, 409, 410; 5:104;
armorers, 3:134; 4:292, 294; 5:178-79, 195-96; 6:113, 175; 7:19 (see
also Baker, Joshua); drum major, 3:147; masons, 3:157, 161, 198,
226, 292; officers of, 3:158, 293-94, 347, 385; 5:5, 14-15, 16, 17,
41, 49, 54-55, 63, 70-71, 77, 85, 91, 94, 109, 115, 124, 126, 135, 137,
153-54, 166-68, 171-72, 173, 186-87, 218; 6:5, 8, 13, 32, 35, 38-42,
44, 46-47, 74, 83, 87, 88, 91, 93, 96, 102-3, 118, 127-28, 132, 139-41,
142-43, 146, 150, 176, 180-81, 185, 190, 345-46, 364, 413, 468-69, 470;
7:14, 15, 35-37, 44, 47, 57, 116, 121, 122, 162, 171, 237, 314, 340;
10:1-2, 161 (see also individual names); muster master, 3:205-6,
242, 376; 4:305; allowances for, 3:240, 241-42, 332, 374; 4:16, 70,
147, 156, 176, 193, 197, 216, 245-46, 254, 291, 312; 5:200, 203-4, 209,
211, 272, 321, 325, 428; religion in, 3:295, 409, 417, 419-20, 425,
427, 446, 456; 4:6, 9, 16, 23, 26, 31, 204, 255, 335-36; 5:130, 258;
6:15, 55 (see also Virginia regiments: chaplains); questionable
enlistments of militia, 3:315-17; and declaration of war, 3:353-54,
362, 373; convicts in, 3:359; leaves of absence, 3:362, 374, 392; 4:65,
70, 150, 186, 206, 286, 343, 407; 5:47, 59, 62-63, 103; 6:176; 7:12,
46, 71, 112, 161, 180; reduction of, 3:366-67, 399; 4:110, 145, 153-55,
162, 167, 276, 359, 362, 368; 6:345, 470; liquor in, 3:383-84; 5:251,
253, 268, 321; 6:105; and Virginia-Centinel No. X, 3:410, 411-12, 412-13,
435-37; 4:18-23, 28-29, 110; billeting of, 3:414; 4:16, 84; celebrate
king's birthday, 3:456; 6:118; pay scale, 4:4, 7, 197; payment for enlistment
of servants, 4:5, 70, 158, 164-65, 347; reconstitution of, 4:7; settlement
of accounts, 4:30, 32, 37-38, 44, 46, 47, 69, 96, 102, 103, 145, 147-48,
155, 185, 199, 201, 238, 244, 273-75, 284, 289, 290, 316, 325-27, 329,
342, 347, 414; list of draftees discharged, 4:41-43; "Pioneers march,"
4:48; "Prisoners march," 4:48; disputes among officers, 4:61, 110-11,
122-23, 202; severity of duty in, 4:65; grievances stated to Lord Loudoun,
4:79-90; pay for Fort Necessity campaign, 4:80-81; prohibited from marching
out of colony, 4:81, 145, 148; 6:80, 111-12, 124; contractors for, 4:96,
311, 396-98, 409, 413, 414, 421 (see also Ramsay, William); 5:310;
extraordinary pay for soldiers working on public works, 4:99; incorporation
of Richard Pearis's men into, 4:105; petition of officers for redress
of grievances, 4:112-15, 120-21; differences from provincial troops,
4:114; sent to South Carolina, 4:127, 128-30, 158, 159, 163, 175, 176,
372-75; 5:40-43, 90, 92, 114, 122, 136, 148, 155-56, 158; disallowance
of GW's commission for settling and paying accounts, 4:148, 149, 156;
allowance for GW's table and expenses, 4:149, 156; 6:80, 166; quartermasters,
4:151, 152, 423-26; 5:3-4, 8-9, 49, 174, 237, 281; 6:32, 117, 127, 389
7:52; (see also Kennedy, David); John Stanwix as commanding officer,
4:160; monument erected to missing soldiers, 4:163; lists and ranking
of officers, 4:166-67, 203, 205, 297-98, 340, 432; strength of, 4:216,
220-21; quarrel between officers and Indian agent, 4:232-34, 239; bounty
for draftees and volunteers, 4:236-37, 267, 268, 274-75, 279, 281, 290,
304; martial law for draftees, 4:255, 304; draftees rendezvous at Fredericksburg,
4:265; need for more officers, 4:265; marking of names and company on
clothing, etc., 4:272; list of sergeants, 4:276-77; treatment of draftees
and volunteers, 4:277-78; Andrew Lewis to command troops on southern
frontier, 4:303-4; officers order Philadelphia newspapers, 4:388, 399-400;
fort majors, 5:10, 71, 204; post commanders, 5:46-47, 85, 111, 128,
145, 204; guides for, 5:61; 6:137, 149; kill James Cox and John Lane,
5:62, 120-21, 129-30; surgeons in, 5:65, 289, 298, 300; 6:32, 83, 117,
127, 165; 7:71; "A State of the Strength of Each Company & where Station'd,"
5:67; praised, 5:71, 198, 279; 6:105, 110; and quarrel with John Baylis,
5:83-85, 95-97; GW resumes command of, 5:102, 118; acts continuing regiments,
5:115-16, 135; 6:49, 65, 80-82, 87-88, 111-12, 124, 154-55, 418-20,
470; 7:20, 113, 115; replacement of, 5:115-16, 139, 141-42, 152, 157-58,
185, 193, 216, 219, 228-30; William Byrd commands, 5:118; 6:175, 190,
314; chaplains, 5:130-31, 130-31, 298; 6:32, 117, 127; acts raising,
5:135; 6:22, 22-23; 7:115; proposed exchange of officers, 5:140, 141;
sergeants made officers in Carolina regiment, 5:158; comparisons of
two regiments, 5:186, 200, 204; discharges in, 5:216, 392-93; use Maryland
arms, 5:236; work on roads, 5:247, 280-82, 296, 311, 318, 345, 346,
365; 6:103, 107, 128, 129, 131-33, 135-36, 138, 141, 150, 152-54; 7:57;
scouting parties, 5:291; brigade majors, 5:309-10, 313-14, 362, 442-44;
6:114, 151 (see also Steuart, Walter; Stewart, Robert); equipment,
5:382, 392; celebrations of, 5:429, 455; conflict between Adam Stephen
and John St. Clair, 5:454-55; 6:7, 17; soldiers in, 6:4-5, 26, 36-37,
46-47, 64, 96, 102-3, 118, 136, 167, 372; 7:14, 47, 171, 314; military
staff, 6:13, 32; act limits commissions in, 6:22; brigaded, 6:30, 125-27;
pardons in, 6:37; heroism in, 6:39, 42, 44-45, 46; GW's report on the
guards, 6:58; on scout, 6:58, 141-42; court-martial commission, 6:62;
staff officers disallowed, 6:80, 166, 173-75; effects of dead officers
sold, 6:97; number of noncommissioned officers allowed, 6:102; gunsmiths,
6:113; bakers for, 6:114; food rations, 6:120, 151, 152; Virginia troops
fire on each other, 6:121-23; staff officers, 6:127; 7:35, 44; brigade
subdivided, 6:129, 146-47, 149-50; scouts for, 6:140; subalterns to
march at rear of platoons, 6:147; platoons never to be separated, 6:151;
and king's commissary, 6:155-56; dogs to be disposed of, 6:156; orders
of march and battle, 6:156-57; at capture of Fort Duquesne, 6:158; poor
condition of, 6:159, 162-63, 165, 171, 175-76, 412; 7:16-17, 18-19;
to be supplied out of Indian goods, 6:163-64; to be broken up into ranger
companies, 6:168-69; dual commissions held by officers, 6:169, 188,
190, 468; 7:36, 71-72; GW's recruiting from 2d Virginia Regiment for
1st Virginia Regiment, 6:171; dislike of Adam Stephen, 6:174, 189; conditions
in regiment at end of 1758, 6:175-76; GW's clerk, 6:176; address of
officers to GW, 6:177-81; dispute with Adam Hoops, 6:185; address to
governor and council, 6:186-87; GW's reply to address of officers, 6:186-87;
Adam Stephen commands, 6:314, 433; 7:115; Thomas Waggener seeks promotion,
6:345, 363; memorial concerning land, 6:389; half-pay scheme for officers,
6:391-92, 419; take scalp, 6:412; part of regiment to remain on Virginia
frontier, 6:413, 433; expedition to Fort Loudoun (Cherokee fort), 6:420,
431-33, 467, 470; to repair Braddock Road, 6:432; act for augmentation
of forces, 6:433; frontier battalion, 6:433, 469, 470; refortify Venango,
6:433, 454, 470; officers seeks commissions in British army, 6:455;
officers paid salary for doing duty of missing officers, 6:468-70; allowed
to act with British forces outside Virginia, 6:470; campaign against
Cherokee, 7:20, 35, 36, 48, 56, 57; army to consist of raw recruits,
7:35; need for adjutant general, 7:35; movements of, 7:46, 47, 51, 56,
57, 237; William Byrd resigns from regiment, 7:58; Burgesses vote down
extension of, 7:112; Jeffery Amherst opposed to dissolution of, 7:113;
disbanded, 7:114, 115, 120, 170; raising of new regiment, 7:115; petition
to the king, 7:117-19, 169-70, 171; Jeffery Amherst requests new regiment,
7:121; and dispatch of representative to London, 7:160; "riot and Drunkenness"
of disbanded soldiers, 7:169; money voted for disbanded officers by
Burgesses, 7:169-70; roll of officers and soldiers in the Virginia Regiment
of 1754, 8:451-52. See also Clothing; Desertion; Impressment;
Military law; Ordnance; Provision and supply; Recruiting; Servants;
Tents
Virginian (ship), 7:21, 22, 74, 359, 386, 387, 388; 8:100
Virginia Society for the Advancement of Useful Knowledge, 9:355, 356;
10:76, 79, 141
The visions of purgatory, 6:294; 7:347
Vobe, Jane, 7:2, 7, 262, 314; 8:83, 453; 9:116, 117, 260; 10:76, 78,
219
Vobe's tavern, 7:7
Voltaire, 8:341
A Voyage Round the World, 6:300; 7:345, 349; 9:116, 118
Vulcan (slave; Thomas Walker's), 7:315
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W---- , Little (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Waddell, Hugh: id., 5:23; 6:93; military service, 5:24, 244; commands
North Carolina forces, 5:234; at Fort Loudoun, 5:308; and Forbes campaign,
6:92, 94, 104, 138, 140, 153, 157; on Cherokee expedition, 7:52; letters
to: from GW, 5:23, 240-41
Waddell, James, 10:312, 333
Waddell's fort. See Fort Dobbs
Waddy, Anthony, 6:264
Wade, ---- (Miss), 8:140
Wade, Eleanor. See Barry, Eleanor Wade
Wade, Sarah, 8:19, 25, 141, 418
Wade, Zephaniah, 6:341, 342; 8:418
Wade (Waid), ---- (Miss), 7:309, 370
Wade (Waid), Eleanor, 7:5, 10, 107, 310
Wade (Waid), Sarah, 7:5, 10, 107, 310
Wade (Waid), Valinda (Verlinda; wife of Zephaniah Wade), 7:5, 104, 107
Wade (Waid), Valinda (Verlinda; daughter of Zephaniah Wade), 7:5, 10,
107, 310; 8:19, 25, 141, 315, 417-18, 438; 9:4, 151, 226, 431
Wade. See also Waid
Wade's Addition (Maryland), 10:304
Wagener, Peter (1717-1774), 1:234-35; 6:342; 7:102, 361, 383-84; 8:147,
148, 222-23; 10:31
Wagener, Peter, Jr. (1742-1798), 9:188, 446, 448; 10:31, 278, 345; letters
from: to Peyton Randolph, 8:487-89; to GW, 9:91
Wager, William, 8:50, 51, 52, 82
Waggener, Andrew: and bounty lands, 8:436, 439-40; 9:122, 130-31, 144,
194-96, 198, 224, 227, 358, 360, 363-64, 366; at Mount Vernon, 9:461
Waggener, Edmund, 1:79, 122, 145, 342
Waggener, Thomas, 1:108, 338; 2:40, 41, 44, 70, 106, 126, 136, 211, 270,
289, 327; 3:255, 269, 284, 309, 310, 342, 422; 4:60, 136, 165, 191, 219,
220, 230, 231, 276, 329, 357, 387; 5:5, 7, 61, 152, 160, 246; 8:441; and
Fort Necessity campaign, 1:78, 209; id., 1:79-80; 3:47; wounded, 1:112,
117, 118; and construction of road, 1:143; establishes forts, 1:176; 2:94,
263, 265, 278; 3:92, 139, 141, 142, 244-45, 279; 4:55, 67; 5:63; appointments
and assignments, 1:208; 2:42, 112, 122, 239, 260; 3:47, 295; 6:345, 363;
company of, 1:326; 2:39, 45, 46, 47, 108, 112, 114, 119, 148, 149; 3:155,
156, 161, 212, 241-42, 251, 252, 257, 263, 280, 318, 334, 341, 374, 428;
4:76, 277, 346; 5:39, 66, 67, 124, 150, 216, 258, 281; 6:32, 37, 102,
178; and Braddock campaign, 1:342; movements of, 2:47, 177, 287; 3:46;
5:185, 199, 228, 378; 6:127, 181, 194, 347; orders to, 2:81, 100, 105,
126; 3:88, 143, 159, 337, 349, 388, 394-95; 4:62-63, 128, 273, 351, 352,
358; 5:62; and militia, 3:146, 148; indisposed, 3:266; bounties paid by,
3:374; orders from, 3:387; military service, 4:130, 153, 154, 155, 166,
179, 345, 352, 354, 355, 360-61, 362, 432; 5:2, 145, 378; skirmish with
Indians, 4:135, 136; and Indian attacks, 4:385; intelligence from, 5:5;
and Dunkers, 5:47; and Peter Steenbergen, 5:162-63; and Forbes campaign,
5:348; 6:90, 146; death of, 6:364; and bounty lands, 8:439, 451, 540;
his representative, 9:195, 198, 461; letters from: to GW, 3:340-42,
373-74; 4:18-22, 151, 239; 5:150, 156, 174-75, 188; letters to:
from George Mercer, 2:68-69, 96; from GW, 2:69-70, 87, 89, 265-66; 3:140-41,
262-63, 264-65, 278-80, 299-300, 323, 333-34, 344-45, 392-94; 4:56, 348-50;
5:145, 215-16, 228, 245-46; from John Ashby, 3:23-24
Waggener's Lower Fort (Fort Pleasant; Van Meter's fort), 1:141, 176;
2:94; 3:141, 246; 4:10, 76, 110, 128, 139, 220-21; 5:67
Waggener's Upper Fort (Fort Defiance), 3:127, 137, 141, 146, 159, 246;
4:10, 110, 139
Wagstaffe, William, 6:286
Waid (Wade), John, 5:189-90, 190
Wainewright, Jeremiah, 6:288
Waite, John, 1:29
Waite, William, 7:233, 235; 10:103, 105, 194, 196
Wakelin Welch & Co., 6:316
Waker, ---- (midshipman), 8:355
Waldin, Edward, 4:41
Waldron, John, 7:452
Wales, Andrew, 8:78, 79, 112, 156, 531, 533
Walford, Charles, 9:106, 109
Walke, Anthony (1692-1768), 7:7, 105, 279, 280
Walke, Anthony (1726-1782), 7:7
Walke, Anthony, & Son, 7:2
Walker, ---- (ship captain), 7:50; 8:70
Walker, Benjamin, 9:400
Walker, Elizabeth Moore, 9:45
Walker, Francis, 3:253, 259
Walker, George, 6:411, 447
Walker, James (ship captain), 8:294, 299, 300, 371, 397-400, 503; 9:16
Walker, John (at Vause's fort), 3:435
Walker, John (English merchant), 8:44, 132, 559
Walker, John (merchant), 9:103
Walker, John (of Albemarle County), 9:44, 45; 10:99-100
Walker, John (of Hampshire County), 2:307
Walker, John (soldier), 4:41
Walker, John (woodsman), 5:272, 273; 8:50
Walker, Mildred Thornton Meriwether, 7:274
Walker, Nathaniel, 4:424, 426
Walker, Robert, 6:352; 7:189; 10:218
Walker, Thomas, 1:348-49; 2:25, 45, 57, 95, 139, 148, 275, 302, 325;
3:94, 103, 130, 155, 167, 422; 4:27, 33, 51, 191, 316; 5:269, 294, 445;
7:112, 114, 120; as commissary, 1:305; 2:164, 181, 184, 186, 188, 203,
205, 224, 229, 230, 236, 244-45, 268, 273, 282, 300, 318; 3:15, 162, 324,
332; 4:116; id., 1:349; 2:8, 168, 328; 3:128, 231; 4:9; 5:210, 379; and
cattle, 2:160; 5:386, 389, 425; 6:23; orders to, 2:165, 167-68, 190, 239;
3:177, 178; replaces Charles Dick, 2:194; accounts, 2:237, 282, 327, 328,
353; 4:63, 102, 190; 7:477; 10:353; and impressed horses, 2:269; and provisions,
2:269-71; 3:55, 57, 66, 143, 175, 196; 4:190, 194-95, 259, 261; 5:211,
223, 237, 240-41, 246-47, 253, 256-57, 267, 273, 325; 6:14; makes survey
for fort, 2:287; owns Raleigh Tavern, 3:58; absence of, 3:84, 335, 420;
to supply Gentlemen Associators, 3:109; advises GW, 3:127; funds for,
3:151, 194; 4:69, 311; 5:392, 419; resignation of, 3:200, 404; 4:6, 9,
26, 31, 32, 57, 58, 62, 63, 71, 93-94, 100, 104, 146, 149, 198, 322; and
Peter Hog, 3:228; explores Kentucky, 4:116; 8:304; and Indian trade, 4:188;
burgess, 4:189; 5:264; and wagons, 5:1, 209, 446; his assistants, 5:6,
221, 310, 420; 6:14; and tents, 5:203; and convoys, 5:234, 244, 304, 378,
399; and forage, 5:256; and GW's election, 5:263; illness of, 5:391, 392;
house of, 5:392; 7:113; and Cherokee expedition, 7:51; and Dismal Swamp
Company, 7:209, 211, 268, 269-70, 271-72, 273, 274-75, 315; 8:50; family
of, 7:274; 9:45; 10:350; and land near Dismal Swamp, 7:342; and western
lands, 8:39, 41; and Mississippi Company, 8:63; and "Suffering Traders,"
8:275; as Indian commissioner, 8:276, 308; and survey books, 9:365; and
Romancoke land, 9:428; and Bernard Moore, 9:429; and Loyal Company, 9:503;
names Louisa River, 10:71; letters from: to GW, 2:182-84, 198-200,
222, 223, 234-35, 353; 3:231; 5:323-24, 391-92; to George Mercer, 2:225-26;
letters to: from GW, 2:167-68, 171, 193-94, 252, 269-71, 312; 5:386-87,
444-45; from George Mercer, 2:225, 229, 231; 3:136, 139; from Robert Dinwiddie,
4:27, 58, 66, 73; from James Sinclair, 5:310
Wall, Robert, 4:8
Wallace, ---- (bursar), 8:355, 356
Wallace, Charles, 10:9
Wallace, Davidson & Johnston, 10:9
Wallace, H., 6:474
Wallace, Oliver, 4:41
Wallace (Wallis), Humphrey, 6:475
Waller, ----: and Custis estate, 9:368
Waller, ---- (colonel), 4:419
Waller, Benjamin, 3:375; 6:253; id., 6:409; 7:10; 8:317; 9:89; makes
GW's will, 7:4; replaced as burgess, 7:59, 60; and Custis children, 7:84;
as clerk of General Court, 7:271; and dispute over Chapel Lands, 8:316;
and inspection of tobacco, 9:85; account with, 9:394; and George Mercer
estate, 9:402; and William Black's lands, 10:41; and inventory of goods
in Custis estate, 10:83; and Savage affair, 10:107; and power of attorney
for Fielding Lewis, 10:351; letters to: from GW, 6:407-11
Waller, Edmund, 6:288
Waller, John (lieutenant), 5:195, 197
Waller, John (minister), 10:251
Waller, William, 5:308, 309
Waller. See also Walter
Walley (slave; Dogue Run), 8:479, 480; 9:54
Walley (slave; River farm), 7:443, 516; 8:104, 221, 357
Wallis, Thomas, 9:296
Walpole, Horace: letters from: to Horace Mann, 1:324
Walpole, Robert, 6:298
Walpole, Thomas, 8:368, 380, 388, 389
Walpole (Grand Ohio) Company, 8:152-53, 368, 378-80, 388-89, 391, 419,
493, 517; 9:27, 56, 311, 319, 445; 10:88, 166. See also Vandalia
Walsingham (Virginia), 6:380; 8:227
Walter, Thomas, 1:29
Walter (Waller), John (bookseller), 7:432, 433
Walters, John (soldier), 2:181
Walters, Robert, 6:47
Walthoe, Nathaniel, 3:362; 4:28, 55; id., 2:335; clerk, 3:61, 95; 7:273;
his horse, 8:193; and bounty lands, 8:268, 269, 275-76, 277, 303, 307,
308
Walton, ---- (English), 7:199
Walton, Thomas & Bouchier, 7:199; 9:109, 110
Warburton Manor (Maryland), 6:434; 7:159; 9:51
Ward, ----, 8:527
Ward, ---- (Mrs. John), 8:127
Ward, Benjamin, 8:512
Ward, Edward (author), 6:289, 292, 295, 296
Ward, Edward (of Pennsylvania), 1:69, 85, 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 134; and
surrender of fort, 1:83, 85, 87, 93, 96, 98; 7:242; 9:420; id., 1:84-85,
143; movements of, 1:90, 92; appointed ensign, 1:93; and provisions, 1:140;
and account, 1:221; and route to Fort Duquesne, 5:272, 360; his journal,
5:321; and Forbes campaign, 6:92, 153; and George Croghan's land claims,
9:418-19, 421
Ward, ----h: petition for land grant, 8:31
Ward, James, 8:528
Ward, John, 7:298, 299, 308-9, 441, 477; 8:127; 9:207, 208
Ward, Mary, 7:299
Ward, Seth, Jr., 8:31
Warden, James, 1:23, 36
Warden, William, 1:20, 29, 31, 36, 37
Warder, Jeremiah, 8:17, 18, 20, 21, 24
Wardrop, James, 1:280
Wardrop, Letitia (Lettice) Lee, 1:279, 280
Ware, Francis, 5:368-69; 6:119
Warhatchie. See Wawhatchee
Warm Spring Mountain, 2:355; 3:14; 8:54-55
Warm Spring Run, 3:284; 5:58; 10:98
Warm Springs (Bath, Berkeley Springs), 3:11; 5:58; 7:70, 116; 8:21-24
Warm Springs (Little Hot Springs; Augusta County), 7:114, 116; 8:54
Warner, Jane, 6:443, 444
Warner, John, 7:412, 413
Warner, Samuel, 6:443, 444
Warner, Whitnell, 3:253, 259
Warner Hall, 1:358; 5:166; 8:64, 193
Warren, Albertus, 6:295
Warren, Joseph, 9:152
Warren, Robert, 9:368
Warrenstaff (Warmstoff), Charles, 9:510; 10:70, 71
Warrington, John, 6:246, 257, 273; 7:190, 191
Warrior of Estatoe, First. See Swallow Warrior
Warrior of Tallassee. See Youghtanno
Warrior's path, 6:66
Warth (Worth), Robert, 5:341
Warwick County, 4:290
Washington, ---- (GW's brother), 8:70, 427, 429, 430
Washington, ---- (John Augustine Washington's daughter), 8:303
Washington, ---- (Lawrence Washington of Chotank's daughter), 8:303
Washington, ---- (Mr.), 7:469
Washington, Anne Aylett, 1:229, 269, 272; 6:415; 7:260-61, 263, 470;
8:140-41, 442; 10:219
Washington, Anne Gerrard Broadhurst Brett, 8:576-77
Washington, Anne Pope, 8:577
Washington, Anne Steptoe Allerton, 8:569; 9:74, 136, 171
Washington, Ann Fairfax, 1:6, 8, 229, 269; 3:351; id., 1:7, 38; marriage
of, 1:40; memorandum to, 1:46; and slaves, 1:227-31; and Mount Vernon
lease, 1:232, 233, 234; residence of, 1:270; and Lawrence Washington's
will, 6:416; letters to: from GW, 1:37-39. See also Lee,
Ann Fairfax Washington
Washington, Augustine (1694-1743), 1:5, 34, 54; 5:79; will of, 1:7, 52,
234, 313, 333; family of, 1:229; his executor, 6:20; and Bryan Allison,
6:379; division of his slaves, 7:173-74; and Strother land, 7:308; GW's
claim to Mount Vernon under his will, 8:223-25; and Deep Run tract, 8:430-31;
buys Ferry Farm, 10:3
Washington, Augustine (1720-1762), 1:44, 229; 3:352; education of, 1:7;
id., 1:7, 45, 229, 272; 6:20; survey for, 1:25, 27, 36; and legal affairs,
1:44; and Ohio Company, 1:59; slaves, 1:231; 7:172-74; residence, 1:269;
and GW's military career, 1:353-4; and Virginia-Centinel No. X, 4:29;
and Lawrence Washington's estate, 4:365; journey to England, 6:20, 358;
death of, 6:359; 7:109, 137; family of, 7:261; 10:258, 347; account paid,
8:141; his claim to his father's lands, 8:223-25; widow of, 8:442; GW
assists with his estate, 10:234; land dispute with Thomas Cresap, 10:257-58,
306; letters from: to GW, 3:435-38; 6:414-16; letters to:
from GW, 1:271-73, 351-54
Washington, Bailey, 1:34
Washington, Betty. See Lewis, Betty Washington
Washington, Bushrod, 1:1, 4; 7:349
Washington, Catherine Washington, 9:203
Washington, Charles, 1:52; 3:389; 7:391; 9:136, 404; land grant to, 1:28;
and slaves, 1:231; his home, 1:269; 9:405; commission for, 3:3, 42; and
Ferry Farm, 3:4; 9:30; and Lawrence Washington's estate, 3:438; 4:365;
6:415-16; marriage, 4:430; id., 4:431; accounts, 6:182, 198, 339; 7:45,
185, 262, 276, 305, 331, 369, 438, 439, 481, 499, 507, 508; 8:5, 90, 207,
258, 364, 430; 9:14, 92, 221, 223, 229, 230; GW rents slaves from, 6:200,
340; his land on Mount Vernon Neck, 6:330, 438-39; 8:34, 37, 212, 216,
401; slaves of, 7:172-74; and Mississippi Company, 7:224; and John Posey,
7:263; family of, 7:274; 9:118; and Fredericksburg deeds, 7:331; rents
paid him, 7:439, 452; visits GW, 8:67, 303; judgment against Christopher
Hardwick, 8:169, 170; and Custis estate, 8:202, 203, 458, 459; 9:369;
land willed to, 8:224, 570; builds tavern, 8:304; rents to bad tenants,
8:568; moves to Frederick County, 8:570; land dispute with Isaac Larew,
9:168-69, 170; and George Lee's debt, 9:354; Charles Town built on his
land, 10:22; and GW's settlement with Mary Washington, 10:347-48, 353;
letters to: from GW, 7:329-31; 8:300-304, 430-31
Washington, Constantia (Constant) Terrett, 9:203
Washington, Edward, 7:362, 383, 384; 8:147, 148
Washington, Elizabeth (1750-1814), 7:260, 261
Washington, Elizabeth Dade, 8:569
Washington, Ferdinando, 8:84
Washington, George: his papers, 1:xiv-xix, 236-40, 347, 364; his letter
books, 1:xviii-xx, 236-40; 3:3, 17; 4:7, 90, 92, 107, 115, 134, 217, 222,
401, 402; 5:85, 100-102, 123, 151-52, 213, 245-46, 258, 260, 268, 293,
371, 389-90, 404, 425; 6:14, 70, 137, 183; education of, 1:1-4, 4; 3:203;
and school exercises, 1:1-4; his Deep Run land, 1:5, 7, 313, 314; 8:430-31;
land inherited by, 1:5, 7, 153, 313, 314, 333; 8:225; land transactions,
1:5, 16, 27, 29, 37, 47, 48, 49, 51-52; 4:413-14; 5:74-75, 78-79, 80,
244, 274, 416; 6:332, 339-40, 342, 343, 367-68, 379, 383-84, 407, 415-16,
418, 422-25, 433-34, 438-39, 443-44, 450-51, 455-56, 465-66; 7:4, 9, 43,
102, 103, 106, 108, 110, 139, 151, 174, 178, 179, 185, 209, 211-12, 262,
279, 310, 331, 342, 351, 366, 413, 418, 436-37, 440, 476-77, 496; 8:50,
51, 53, 55, 140, 141, 170, 197, 218-20, 250, 258, 266, 268, 269, 455,
532, 573; 9:9, 26, 27, 34, 69, 71, 77-79, 133-34, 134-35, 142-43, 170-71,
374-80, 383-86, 388-90, 393, 394, 396, 397, 399-402, 411, 423-29, 455-59,
471-73, 478-81; 10:2-3, 9-10, 22, 23, 27-28, 33-35, 107, 196, 201-4, 211-12,
214, 221 (see also Mount Vernon: land added to and Washington,
George: his western lands); and adjutancy of Northern Neck, 1:18, 50,
55, 193-94, 207, 235, 354, 355, 356; signatures of, 1:35; memoranda in
1748 diary, 1:37, 38; and "Low Land Beauty," 1:41, 42; amusements, 1:43,
49, 251, 292, 297, 510; 6:11, 42-43, 184, 191, 193, 313, 314-15, 339-40,
365, 370-71, 377, 379, 386, 387, 390, 396, 403, 405, 406, 417, 430, 439,
441, 456, 457, 465, 474, 480; 7:2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 26, 27, 42, 78, 104, 106,
107, 110-11, 126, 190, 209, 210, 229, 235, 240, 261, 276, 279, 286, 298,
304, 331, 336, 351, 366, 411, 430, 439, 441, 458, 477, 478, 496, 508,
515; 8:21, 41, 51, 58, 67, 82, 83, 117-18, 121, 122, 128, 136, 137, 140,
141, 143, 156, 169, 177, 191, 192, 193-94, 195, 244, 249, 262, 266, 267,
268, 269, 304, 306, 307, 329, 346, 347, 362, 424, 425, 452, 453, 454,
486, 487, 512, 521, 522, 523, 527, 528, 556, 557; 9:1, 20, 21, 29, 30,
53, 58, 76, 91, 92, 110, 111, 116, 117, 131, 132, 133, 151, 189, 190,
207, 208, 227, 294, 316, 317, 333, 395, 433, 462; 10:39, 40, 41, 75, 76,
77, 78, 139, 141, 166, 177, 222-24, 356, 357, 369; clothing and accessories,
1:45; 2:208-9; 3:418; 5:50, 76, 87-88, 105, 112-13, 152; 6:195-96, 198,
317-18, 333, 335, 336-37, 352-53, 370, 374-75, 394-98, 458-59, 461-62,
464; 7:5, 7, 23, 25, 26, 28, 29, 76, 78-79, 80-81, 105, 107, 126, 129,
165, 194-95, 196, 199, 201-2, 204, 210, 250-51, 254, 255, 256, 260, 266-67,
290, 291, 292-93, 294, 295, 296, 312, 319-20, 321, 322, 323, 327, 354,
355, 364, 403-4, 409, 421, 440, 444, 447-48, 449, 452, 465, 472, 473,
474, 482; 8:7-8, 13-14, 46, 47, 48, 49, 98, 101, 132, 133, 240, 399, 486,
500-502, 509, 510, 528, 563, 564; 9:20, 53, 61, 62, 64-68, 76, 92, 105,
106, 107, 108, 132, 227, 270, 271-72, 273-74, 340, 462; 10:40, 76, 167,
369, 370; and surveys for Ohio Company, 1:45; poetry, 1:46, 47; acrostic,
1:47; and theft of clothes, 1:48; plans to go to sea, 1:54; journey to
French commandant, 1:56-62, 63, 349; membership in Masons, 1:81, 153;
5:206; Indian names, 1:88, 91; 2:98; 6:361; and possibility of resigning
commission, 1:107-8; 2:345, 346; 3:16, 30-31, 410, 436; 4:28-29; 5:44,
102, 104, 139; his name given to Indian, 1:174; his maps of frontier,
1:178, 247, 248; 5:207; and Potomac River navigation, 1:179-80, 196-97,
198; 7:175-76, 177; 8:284-90, 291-94, 349-52, 357-60; 9:38, 40-42, 43-44;
10:194, 196-97, 221, 242-44, 266-67, 268, 275-76, 298, 299, 345; praised,
1:219-20, 344, 357; 2:61; 5:17, 35, 36-37, 44, 58, 64-65, 81, 139, 172,
264, 298, 315, 320, 330-31, 397; 6:14, 16-17, 22, 39, 86, 170, 172, 173,
177, 178-80; relations with Horatio Sharpe, 1:223, 225; and slaves inherited
from Lawrence Washington, 1:227-31; 7:172-73; and lease of Mount Vernon,
1:232-34 (see also Mount Vernon); and Christmas at Westover, 1:251;
his personal servants, 1:259, 324; 5:300, 376; 6:167, 182, 193, 200, 436-37;
7:10; 8:83; requests loan from Lord Fairfax, 1:265; family of, 1:269;
3:3, 42, 56, 57-58, 127, 168, 256, 420, 435-37; 4:98, 108, 237, 309, 430,
431; 5:56, 79, 106, 206, 219, 253; 6:20, 182, 197, 199, 200, 332, 358-59,
379, 380, 414-15, 444, 466; 7:6, 9, 45, 109, 115, 133, 134, 137, 148,
172-74, 260, 263, 280, 314, 320, 373-74, 396, 418, 433, 495; 8:170, 224-25,
244, 303, 430-31, 442, 570, 571, 576-77; 9:168-69, 202-3, 254, 289-90,
354, 505; 10:347; and brevet commissions, 1:286; 2:172, 173, 286, 292;
illness and medical care, 1:315, 319, 319-24, 328, 329, 331, 332, 337,
343, 353, 360; 4:405; 5:46-47, 51-52, 56-57, 58, 62, 63-65, 68, 77, 79,
80-83, 86, 94, 95, 96, 100-102, 104, 126, 263; 6:165, 170; 7:2, 7, 8,
54, 59, 69, 70-71, 72, 73, 80, 95-96, 97-98, 113; 8:70, 268, 376; 9:30,
54; rumors of his death, 1:343; 5:92, 92; and Dagworthy controversy, 2:72,
74-75, 173, 200, 204, 210-11, 238, 270-71, 283-86, 287, 292, 296, 297,
312, 323, 324; 3:319-20; and trip to Boston, 2:75, 284-85, 290, 292, 303,
304, 310, 311, 312, 314, 322, 323, 324, 326; comments on GW, 82, 115,
165, 219; and orderly books for Braddock campaign, 2:155, 156; authorization
for his allowance or military chest, 2:163; and commission in British
army, 2:180; and fort on Virginia side of Potomac, 2:194, 196, 223, 224,
263, 265, 270-71; wooden military chests made for, 2:205; describes livery
for servants, 2:209; orders military book, 2:209, 258; and altercation
at polls, 2:226, 227-28; insulted at election, 2:227-28; and elections
to House of Burgesses, 2:228; 5:60, 262-65, 271, 288, 296, 298, 299, 300,
305-6, 307-8, 311-12, 322-24, 326-27, 328-44, 349-50, 373, 374; 7:3, 6,
8, 12-13, 14-16, 41, 42-43, 44-47, 59, 357, 375, 376, 377-84, 386; 8:143,
144-49, 156, 169, 556, 557; 9:36; 10:105; his "extatick Paragraph," 2:295,
296; admonitions against vices, 2:298; 3:160, 164, 212, 240, 281-82, 338-39;
and alcohol, 2:298; 7:1, 2, 8, 24, 62, 64, 77, 105, 108, 116, 127, 130,
146, 157, 165, 166, 193, 197, 198, 204, 208, 255, 262, 284, 285, 294,
298, 308, 333, 342, 356, 372, 458-59, 475, 496; 8:22, 68, 72-73, 78, 249,
385, 408, 453, 533, 561; 9:40, 50, 51, 103, 111, 132, 208, 281-82, 497;
10:19, 20, 41, 76, 178, 179, 197; accused of criticizing Edward Braddock,
2:320; and court-martial commissions, 2:340-41, 343; 6:62-63; and request
for appointment under Horatio Sharpe, 2:348; criticism of, 2:351; 3:38;
4:24-25, 51, 55, 64-65, 68, 72, 368, 382-83, 386, 396, 411, 412, 414,
422; 5:20-21, 25, 33, 83-84, 377; 6:3, 24, 123; and management of his
property, 2:352; 3:127, 419; 4:98; 5:217-19, 222, 253, 274, 284, 408,
415-16, 418-19; scheme for reorganizing Virginia troops into two battalions,
3:1-2, 4-5, 7, 51, 200; takes command of reconstituted Virginia Regiment,
3:12; 4:7, 91; and petition to have Virginia Regiment put on British establishment,
3:12-13, 328-30, 436-38; 4:89, 112-15, 120-21; encourages troops to improve
behavior and attitude, 3:14, 15-17, 158, 382-83; purity of his motives
in public service, 3:15-17; concedes John Dagworthy commands at Fort Cumberland,
3:16; and councils of war, 3:25-27, 38-39, 129-30, 243-46, 447-52; 4:4,
136-38, 219-20; 5:141-44, 170-71; 6:119-20; his conduct and actions supported,
3:30-31, 36-37, 57, 64-65, 115, 125, 167-68, 181, 186, 410, 412-13, 436-37;
rival seeks command of regiment, 3:31-32; willingness to die to save settlers,
3:33-34; recommends fort and large storehouse be built at Winchester,
3:49, 60-62, 63-64, 181; his military memoranda book, 3:68; stages execution
as example to recruits, 3:154, 158, 171-72; camp furniture for, 3:160-61,
303; his journal regarding the militia, 3:171, 178; Robert Dinwiddie recommends
him to be promoted in British establishment, 3:181; and Horatio Sharpe's
right to command the Virginia troops, 3:192; his "old School-fellow,"
3:202, 203; birthplace, 3:204; his plans of forts, 3:223, 247, 249, 274,
278-80, 282-83, 289, 291, 297, 347; company of, 3:251-52, 256, 428; 4:76,
111, 230, 276, 345, 389-91, 409; 5:135, 265, 300, 389-90; 6:89, 132, 146;
redistributes Virginia forces, 3:295; his company size rolls, 3:306-7;
4:389-91; urges offensive war, 3:317; 4:4, 14, 82-83, 106, 133, 169, 420;
5:3-4, 10, 33-34; made commander of all the Virginia forces, 3:320; relations
with Robert Dinwiddie, 3:320; 4:25, 30, 412; 5:3, 6, 20-21, 25, 33, 62,
172, 200; 6:187; and Lawrence Washington's estate, 3:351, 352, 414, 437-38;
4:190, 195, 198, 255, 285, 297, 323; 5:218-19, 274; 6:415, 441; and declaration
of war, 3:353-54; his commission on funds handled, 3:367-68; 4:147-48,
149, 156, 289; and Virginia-Centinel No. X, 3:410-13, 436-37; 4:29; his
tour of southern frontiers, 3:430-34; tour of frontier forts, 4:1-3, 7,
11-14; proposes frontier inhabitants live in towns near forts, 4:4, 16;
and controversy over defense of Fort Cumberland, 4:5-6, 7, 11, 17, 26-28,
35-36, 64, 67-68; has right to appoint commissary, 4:32; upholds rank
of officers in scouts, 4:61; proposes trip to see Lord Loudoun, 4:65;
addresses to Indians, 4:73; 5:27-28; sends Lord Loudoun account of affairs
in Virginia, 4:79-90; reluctance to accept command, 4:89; bitterness over
treatment, 4:92; and Polly Philipse, 4:116, 302, 303, 365; 7:156; publication
of his 1754 journal, 4:126; on what terms he is to retain his commission,
4:147; office of paymaster taken from him, 4:156, 289; dispute over allowance
of batmen, 4:176, 177, 193, 202, 216, 254, 291, 312; his book of notes
and memoranda, 4:185; keeps no copies of personal letters, 4:261, 415;
6:12; 7:14; builds 40-foot gallows, 4:306; buys shares in mine, 4:308-9,
324, 355; lends money, 4:356; 5:137; 6:184, 193, 199, 330, 371, 379, 416,
417, 430, 481; 7:4, 9, 107, 187, 188, 205-7, 216, 217, 225, 229, 261,
262, 263, 280, 285, 304, 309, 319, 333, 364, 375, 390, 465, 496; 8:52,
59, 60, 67, 74-75, 92, 121, 161, 193, 207, 229-30, 239, 244, 250, 290,
306, 363, 364, 405, 427, 429-30, 474, 487, 522; 9:32, 35, 46, 396, 433;
10:76, 140, 220, 221, 351-52; recipe for small beer, 4:405; and loss of
secretary and aide, 4:410; called ungrateful, 4:422; and publication of
a history of the French war, 5:48-49; and the "French Memorial," 5:48,
49; accounts, 5:76, 80, 206, 217, 218, 223, 244, 252-53, 274-75, 284,
299-300, 306, 326-27, 331-33, 373, 374, 434-35, 448-49; his marriage,
5:103; 6:13, 175, 187-88, 202-3, 315, 322, 324, 338; 7:207; and Martha
Custis, 5:103, 221, 301, 312; 6:11, 13; and decision to serve in Forbes
campaign, 5:117, 118, 126, 133, 139; will not pursue army career, 5:117,
126, 148; and controversy over route to Fort Duquesne, 5:118-20, 158,
252, 266-67, 298, 316, 318-19, 321, 324-25, 344-47, 350, 353-61, 364-65,
366-67, 370, 376-77, 424-25, 439-43; 6:24, 53, 99, 131; orders camp gear,
5:152; orders Indian leggings for troops, 5:152, 193, 200-201; ordered
not to interfere in Indian affairs, 5:178; reports regarding army to president
and Council, 5:199-202; and "French Negro," 5:213; his carpenters, 5:217,
218, 222; 6:340-41 (see also Mount Vernon: carpenters and joiners);
8:291; his overseers, 5:217-18, 252-53, 279-80, 284-85, 306, 366-67, 418-19,
422, 437, 447-49, 451-52; 6:199, 200, 321, 341, 377, 378, 380, 386, 425,
427, 428; 7:9, 10, 45, 67, 68, 108, 109, 130-31, 133, 139, 143-46, 148-51,
185, 240, 305, 313, 318, 342, 393, 407, 426, 427, 434, 440, 516; 8:291;
9:32, 90, 93, 137-38, 140, 258 (see also Mount Vernon: overseers);
his farms and plantations, 5:219, 253, 280, 449; 6:380, 390, 421; 7:108,
318, 427, 497 (see also Mount Vernon: farms); precedence over Horatio
Sharpe, 5:405-6, 412; and iron-making venture, 5:424; 6:418, 457-58; keeps
cow for use in army, 6:8, 82, 88; his correspondence with Martha Washington
missing, 6:13; 7:495; his clerk, 6:16, 27-30; and Bryan Fairfax, 6:18-19;
conference with John Forbes, 6:24; his wagoner, 6:25, 27, 134, 135, 182,
444; 7:310; 10:77, 80, 195; his orderly book for Forbes campaign, 6:27-31,
106, 176; envies death with "Honour & Glorious memory," 6:42; his plan
of march and line of battle, 6:66-70; issues general orders, 6:78-79,
83-86, 102-3, 104, 128-29, 131-32, 138-41, 143, 144; his table allowance
taken away, 6:80, 166; and the skirmish at Loyalhanna, 6:121-23; his life
in jeopardy, 6:122; commands third brigade of Forbes's army, 6:125-27;
commands first division of Forbes's army, 6:126; his encampments between
Loyalhanna and Fort Duquesne, 6:129-34, 135-44, 146-58; and use of animal
hair for plaster, 6:134; sends news of fall of Fort Duquesne, 6:158, 160-61;
his circular letter to "back inhabitants" requesting provisions, 6:161;
his campaign baggage, 6:166-67; his batman, 6:167, 193; 7:235; resigns
his commission, 6:170, 174, 175, 177-81, 188-89; his successor as colonel,
6:174-75, 178-81, 189-90, 314; his ledgers, 6:181; lists of his Virginia
lands, 6:183-84, 429; 7:103, 174, 278-79, 443, 516; 8:283; 9:431; his
reasons for resigning from regiment, 6:186-87; his reply to the address
of officers, 6:186-87; is thanked by Burgesses, 6:192; description of,
6:192-93; buys a peacock, 6:198; his carriages, 6:198, 200, 370; 8:92-93,
135-36; 9:238, 355; 10:137; and lotteries, raffles, and subscriptions,
6:198, 321, 368-70, 406, 417-18, 474, 481; 7:104, 111, 179, 210, 229,
298, 336, 438, 478, 480; 8:41, 52, 54, 83, 192, 194, 222, 268, 346; 9:20,
21, 38, 46, 160, 230-31, 355, 486; 10:40, 76, 176, 179, 194, 196, 220,
239-40, 252, 313, 345, 353, 357; arrival at Mount Vernon with wife, 6:199,
200, 203; hires slaves, 6:200, 340; 7:110, 209, 357, 358, 433, 508; 9:397;
10:000, 000; as manager of wife's and stepchildren's property, 6:203-4,
208; and missing dower accounts, 6:206, 207; his guardian accounts, 6:206-9,
216; 7:82, 86-93, 212-16, 301-4, 368-71, 499-501; 8:198-205, 455-63; 9:366-74;
and dower slaves, 6:217-20, 282, 311-13, 321, 425-27, 428; 8:400-402;
and Martha Washington's assigned dower, 6:217-20, 261-62; his books, 6:283-84,
300; 7:343-50; and Custis books, 6:283-300; rental of his Winchester property,
6:315; 8:193, 238, 239; and convict servants, 6:329-30; 9:314, 519; 10:20,
104-5, 106, 135, 138, 342; charity, 6:339, 368-69, 370, 390, 406, 417,
430, 481; 7:4, 106, 190, 229, 236, 276, 280, 296, 304, 309, 393, 410,
430, 439, 452, 466, 470, 491, 515; 8:5, 41, 52, 83, 112, 121, 136, 156,
169, 177, 222, 239, 250, 266, 268, 305, 323, 329, 346, 355, 356, 363,
376, 405, 424, 431, 436, 437, 441, 453, 472, 473, 474, 486, 556, 557;
9:14, 20, 30, 53, 58, 76, 91, 92, 111, 116, 117, 132, 133, 190, 208, 227,
237, 253, 317, 340, 355, 395, 504; 10:19, 39, 41, 76, 77, 78, 104, 105,
140, 167, 194, 195, 279, 317, 318, 357, 370; indentured servants, 6:339;
7:109, 240, 438, 462, 508; 8:19, 112; 9:202, 504-6, 519; 10:135-36, 137-38,
341-42, 344, 365-66; and bounty lands, 6:345-46, 360-61, 387-89; 7:44,
117-19; 8:300-302, 303-4, 348, 362, 364, 386, 396, 428, 439-41, 452, 471,
483-84, 486, 521, 527, 528, 539-40, 543-44, 550-53, 555, 566-67; and scheme
for wine growing, 6:368-70; his mill and millers, 6:377, 430-31, 457-58;
7:1, 23, 235, 320, 333, 334, 366, 377, 407, 443; 8:25, 323, 329-30, 347,
348, 362, 363, 376, 378, 395-96, 405, 431, 467-68, 516-17, 531, 565; 9:58,
112, 156, 275, 352, 397, 408 (see also Mount Vernon: mill and millers);
buys a letter seal, 6:386; searches for gardeners, 6:418-19, 430; 7:35,
36, 95, 96; 8:552, 554; 9:64, 202; contributes to victims of Boston fire,
6:430-31; rents land in Frederick County, 6:443-44; tenants, 6:444; 7:492,
492; 8:59, 61-62, 89, 170, 171-77, 193, 225, 294, 305, 436, 437, 568,
570; 9:74, 110, 114, 167, 170-71, 189, 190, 226, 237, 296, 316, 317, 340,
462, 503, 504-5; 10:20, 39, 41, 78, 222, 281 (see also Mount Vernon);
and Custis bank stock, 6:448, 451-52; orders circumferenter, 6:464, 472;
his barbers, 7:1, 3, 105; 8:51, 83, 192, 269, 347, 531; 9:21, 395; his
Burgesses' wages, 7:1, 6, 104, 108, 211, 261, 262, 411; 8:51, 53, 346,
347; 9:31; and religion, 7:2, 147, 296-97, 361-63, 384-85, 428-29, 507,
509, 510-11; 8:5, 51, 53, 141, 142, 183, 246-48, 306, 527; 9:39, 180-83,
275-76, 396, 463-64; 10:140, 317, 319; his Fredericksburg property, 7:4,
9; 8:258, 455, 522, 532; makes will, 7:4; his cash accounts ledger, 7:5;
his estate managers, or stewards, 7:6, 262, 299, 320, 334; 8:16, 573,
581; 9:21, 89; and bill regarding hogs in Winchester, 7:20; and bill to
establish Woodstock, 7:20; buys books, 7:25, 166, 167-68, 195, 262, 298,
299, 300, 328, 342, 354, 409, 410, 432, 438, 450, 473, 491; 8:13, 192,
486, 509, 511, 531; 9:67, 116, 118, 341; 10:76, 139, 160, 189-91, 357,
370; and the "Ebbing and flowing well," 7:37-38, 59; and the Masonic cave,
7:39; his still, 7:78, 125; his measurements, 7:81, 201-2; guardianship
of Custis heirs, 7:81-93; and Joseph Valentine's missing account book,
7:82; 8:585-86; his adjusted account of estate of Daniel Parke Custis,
7:84-85; and bill to establish Strasburg, 7:97-98; his joiner and master
carpenter, 7:109; and petition to the king, 7:117-19; dispute over slave,
7:133; makes Robert Cary his principal agent, 7:137; his dairy, 7:145;
humorous letter, 7:147-48; and toupee iron, 7:167; slaves inherited from
his father, 7:173-74; partnership with Christopher Hardwick, 7:182-85;
rental of Williamsburg houses, 7:190, 191, 298, 299, 427; 8:61-62, 89,
106, 225; his tailors, 7:202; 8:8, 22, 49, 67, 99, 112, 133, 346; 9:14,
92; his boats, 7:229, 233, 408, 417, 418, 428, 430, 438, 439, 452, 465,
492, 507; 8:307, 329, 473, 474; 9:51, 53, 70-71, 91, 190; 10:42, 58, 195,
197, 336; orders engine for uprooting trees, 7:286-87; appointed churchwarden,
7:297, 510; his land in King George County, 7:331; 8:430-31; as commissioner
to settle militia accounts, 7:336, 337-40; and Rotherham plow, 7:358-59,
387; and vestry elections, 7:361-63, 384-85; his branding irons, 7:404,
419; 8:437; 9:1; his Alexandria lots, 7:417, 418, 486, 490-91; his English
bull, 7:417; his housekeepers, 7:430; 8:41, 91, 169; indulgence to debtors,
7:467, 468; 8:1-4, 82, 86, 229-30, 427; builds Alexandria house, 7:491;
8:290, 291, 363, 364, 424-25, 512; attempts to rent out dower plantations,
7:497; his expenses to Warm Springs, 8:20-24; gives William Crawford instructions
for finding western lands, 8:26-30; and land venture on Powells River,
8:31; and Augusta (Hot Springs) scheme, 8:51-52, 53-54, 433; and Mountain
Road lottery, 8:54; his Loudoun-Fauquier lands, 8:55; 10:248; and the
Colvill estate, 8:65-66, 71-72, 343, 381-82, 477, 497; 9:1, 21, 28-29,
31, 33, 34, 36, 42-43, 54, 59, 76-77, 110-11, 167, 260-64, 305-6; his
crest, 8:93, 94; his telescope, 8:101, 133; overseers of dower lands,
8:106, 516, 574; has leases printed, 8:140; lease for Fauquier County
land, 8:171-76; and division of Frederick County, 8:190-91; and petition
to General Court for rental of dower lands, 8:195-97; his legal right
to Mount Vernon, 8:223-25; and dispute over location of new Pohick Church,
8:247-48; and dogs, 8:262, 304, 406, 407; 9:68-69, 78-79; sees "Tyger,"
8:266; his ship carpenter, 8:329; and the Virginia Association, 8:330;
10:131, 139; orders protractor, 8:373, 399; buys sword, 8:377; his land
involved in dispute between the Hites and Lord Fairfax, 8:382-83; expenditures
on trip to Ohio, 8:393-94; moves slaves from dower lands to Mount Vernon,
8:400-402; rents dower lands to John Parke Custis, 8:401; his table of
crops grown on Custis plantations, 8:421-24; diaries written in almanacs,
8:511, 532; and petition to Maryland legislature to open road to Marshall's
land, 8:512; criticizes John Parke Custis's writing, 8:518-19; takes control
of Ferry Farm and Little Falls quarter, 8:522; 9:14; 10:349; aids merchant
whose ship was seized by British, 8:526; rift with George Mercer, 8:545;
orders gold-headed cane with coat of arms, 8:552, 554; orders plate with
arms engraved, 8:552, 554; begins new ledger book, 8:558; sale of his
Frederick County land, 8:568-69, 573; and dispute over Barry land, 9:3-4,
76; and education of sons of friends, 9:14, 140-41, 228, 301; 10:9, 177;
his dentists, 9:29, 31-32, 190, 340, 341, 355; has portrait painted, 9:36-37,
49, 51; breakup of his dower plantations, 9:48; has bows and arrows made,
9:57; his gardeners, 9:64, 155-56, 190, 202, 222, 227; 10:138; his Day
Books, 9:76; hires free mulatto, 9:76; offers to have council decide his
rights to bounty lands, 9:123, 128-29; makes Fielding Lewis his agent,
9:127; 10:350-54; and dispute over Round Bottom tract, 9:135, 330-31,
334-35; records trademark for his flour, 9:156; assumes oversight of George
William Fairfax's affairs, 9:160; 10:25, 37; no accounts found with lawyers,
9:190; and Eastern Shore land dispute, 9:231-33, 285-87; his lease forms
drawn up, 9:319-22; owns pall, 9:325; his overseer of slave carpenters,
9:341; and Society for Advancement of Useful Knowledge, 9:355, 356; 10:76;
hires George Young as agent, 9:440-41, 450-53; delegate to Continental
Congress, 9:471; considers importing Palatines to settle western lands,
9:475-77, 484-85, 493-96, 498-99, 506-10, 520; 10:4, 15, 23-24; his bricklayer
or mason, 9:504-6; 10:106, 138; and the Savage affair, 10:30-31, 66-68,
104, 106-7, 157-59, 278, 340 (see also Savage, Margaret; Savage,
William); resents arrest of Valentine Crawford at Mount Vernon, 10:38-39;
Augusta freeholders' approval of, 10:000; and the Virginia Conventions,
10:110, 143, 255, 297, 308-9, 364; and Fairfax Resolves, 10:112, 119-28;
and Fairfax Committee, 10:127, 187, 200-201, 220, 221, 236-37, 255; and
First Continental Congress, 10:142-43, 151, 159, 166, 174, 279; buys bell,
10:167; buys snuff, 10:167; his card-playing expenses, 1772-74, 10:222-24;
made guardian of John West's son, 10:235; unable to make large loan, 10:292;
and Second Continental Congress, 10:309, 341, 364; his painter, 10:344,
366; his account with Mary Washington, 10:347-49; and saltworks, 10:353;
appraisals of work done on his Ohio lands, 10:362-63; his woolcomber,
10:366. See also Mount Vernon
- appointments: surveyor of Culpeper County, 1:8-9, 33; adjutant
for Southern District, 1:53; adjutant of Northern Neck, 1:55; emissary
to French commandant, 1:57; lieutenant colonel, 1:71, 78, 79; commander
of expedition of 1754, 1:77; colonel of Virginia Regiment of 1754, 1:126-27,
129, 149, 181, 192, 224; 2:1-8; aide-de-camp to Edward Braddock, 1:241,
279; guardian of Custis children, 6:206-8, 212, 351; 7:82, 84; to vestry,
7:297; appointed commander in chief of the Continental army, 10:370
- and Braddock campaign: appointed aide-de-camp, 1:241, 243-45,
246, 247, 249, 250, 253, 255-56, 278, 279; rank in, 1:242, 250, 251;
motives for enlistment in, 1:256; reports on progress of, 1:257-58,
262-63, 265, 266-67, 268, 271, 276, 277-78, 279, 298-300, 306, 307,
310, 319-23; and Alexandria conference, 1:258; attended by servant,
1:259, 324; and horses, 1:261, 265, 267, 298, 302, 303; relations with
Edward Braddock, 1:267, 268, 272; 2:11; views on strategy of, 1:274;
acts as courier for funds, 1:281, 282, 284-85, 286-87, 288, 289, 292;
opinion requested by Edward Braddock, 1:321; and Braddock's defeat,
1:332, 334, 335, 347, 350, 353; 5:125; describes Battle of the Monongahela,
1:336, 339; death rumored, 1:343; behavior commended, 1:344, 357. See
also Braddock campaign
- and British merchants: goods ordered from, 4:37, 39, 133, 134,
358, 380, 402, 430, 431; 5:49-51, 72-74, 75-76, 80, 87, 111-13, 288,
326-27, 402; 6:196, 317-18, 326-28, 336, 348, 350, 352-58, 359, 373,
374-76, 414, 447-50, 458-60, 461-65, 472-73; 7:50, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65,
73, 76, 77-80, 80-81, 86, 96, 97, 111, 116, 119-20, 140, 146, 153, 155,
157, 158, 201-2, 204, 208, 228, 250-51, 252-53, 253-56, 266-67, 268,
284, 285, 286-87, 310-11, 321-22, 323, 326, 328-29, 332-33, 341, 349,
350, 358-59, 369, 370-71, 397, 400, 405, 409, 410, 411, 444, 446, 447,
451, 455, 456, 457, 458-59, 460, 497-98, 509; 8:6-7, 7-8, 11, 69, 70,
73, 92-94, 97-99, 100-102, 104-5, 115, 130-36, 138-39, 159-60, 225,
229, 230, 231-33, 295-99, 363, 368-70, 371, 372-73, 397-400, 500-511,
516-17, 552, 554, 558-71; 9:2, 15-16, 60-64, 67-68, 70-71, 72, 89, 110,
115, 232-33, 244, 256, 269-70, 271, 272-75, 277, 281-82, 283, 287-88,
289, 343-45, 370, 497; tobacco shipped to, 4:37, 39, 133, 400-402; 5:72-74,
87, 105-6, 217, 219, 327, 367, 379, 407; 6:319, 322, 325-27, 330, 348-52,
366, 373-76, 378, 411, 414, 441-42, 447-48, 450, 452-54, 459-60, 471-73;
7:20-21, 22, 33-34, 35, 53, 54, 63, 64, 75, 88-89, 111, 120, 124, 134,
135, 137, 138, 140, 142-43, 151-52, 153, 157, 163, 189, 200-201, 204,
205, 214, 238, 250, 251-52, 284, 306, 310-11, 316, 324-25, 334, 335,
340, 341, 358-59, 386, 393-94, 397, 398, 400, 413, 431, 432, 435, 443,
444, 445, 453, 455, 456, 459, 464-65, 466, 498, 509; 8:6, 7, 9-10, 11,
15, 17, 43-44, 60-61, 69, 70, 74, 77, 80-81, 84-86, 99-100, 102-3, 105-6,
137-40, 142, 206, 225, 228, 230, 231, 233, 265, 342, 374-75, 423, 434,
475, 480, 482, 499-500; 9:12-13, 27, 63-64, 72, 74, 84-85, 115-16, 127,
173, 231, 243, 254-55, 256-57, 272, 276-77, 284, 297, 351-52, 369, 374,
489; 10:8, 80-81, 83, 142, 199, 286; accounts with, 4:133; 5:72-74,
80, 105-6, 112-13, 326-27; 6:319, 323-27, 338-39, 347, 349-51, 358,
366-67, 411, 414, 437, 442, 447-54, 471, 475-76; 7:20-21, 31-32, 33,
35, 50-51, 61, 62-65, 74, 75, 111, 123-24, 131, 134, 136-37, 152, 199-200,
201, 202-3, 204, 206, 207, 213, 214, 215-16, 250, 301, 305-6, 307, 316,
323-24, 335, 369, 387, 393-94, 402, 405, 409-10, 413, 431, 435, 447,
452-53, 454, 455, 459, 465, 466, 498; 8:6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 16, 94, 103,
137-38, 139, 142, 206, 228, 264-65, 342, 375, 433, 499; 9:12-13, 200,
281, 346-47, 367, 369, 497; 10:8, 37, 74, 81-83, 142, 185-86, 200, 269;
invoices of goods, 4:134, 376-81, 427-28; 5:49-51, 399-403; 6:195-96,
325, 328, 332-37, 358, 392-404; 7:22-31, 124-31, 164-68, 191-99, 287-95,
300-301, 327-28, 353-57, 372, 387-88, 402-4, 418-23, 432-33, 447-50,
457, 470-76; 8:12-14, 44-50, 100-102, 130-36, 231-33, 295-99, 372-73,
397-400, 508-11, 554, 558-71; 9:64-67, 103-110, 273-76; criticism of,
5:72-73, 87, 111-12; 6:319, 322, 325, 348-50, 442, 448-49, 452, 458-60;
7:31-32, 34, 61-62, 134, 136-37, 153-54, 157, 162-63, 203, 252, 257,
306, 322, 323-24, 325, 398-400, 404-5, 409-10, 444, 445-46, 456, 459,
460; complaints against, 8:9-10, 11-12, 69, 97-100, 102, 104-5, 368-71,
500, 502-5; 9:60, 61, 62, 63, 67-68, 109-10, 231, 270, 272, 374; complaints
against (Madeira), 8:68; goods ordered from (Madeira), 8:68, 70; goods
ordered from (Jamaica), 8:407-8; 10:57, 226; accounts (Madeira), 8:473;
GW closes out account with, 7:404-5; 9:346-47; 10:142, 199-200; Custis
bank stock held by, 9:374, 375, 379-80; 10:82-85; complaints against
(Jamaica), 10:225-26
- and Fort Necessity campaign: given captain's pay, 1:65; holds
rank of major, 1:65; instructions from Robert Dinwiddie, 1:65-66; appointments
and promotions, 1:67, 139; solicits promotion, 1:70; recruiting, 1:71,
73, 78; marches, 1:76, 81, 82, 84, 86; describes surrender of fort at
Forks of the Ohio, 1:83, 85, 87; councils of war, 1:87, 90, 155; speech
to Indians, 1:87; recommendations on Indians, 1:89, 97, 101, 106; pay,
1:95; complaints on pay, 1:98-99, 100, 102, 107-9; threatens to resign,
1:107-8; and Jumonville's defeat, 1:110-12, 114-15, 116, 117, 118, 124;
conduct commended, 1:119, 128, 151; receives medal, 1:121, 130; Fort
Necessity described, 1:124, 125-26; as paymaster, 1:132, 252, 254, 256,
257; 3:204; and capitulation of Fort Necessity, 1:157-59; describes
attack on Fort Necessity, 1:159-61, 172; signs articles of capitulation,
1:160, 163, 164, 167, 172, 214; journal of, 1:168-71; returns to Wills
Creek, 1:181; commended by House of Burgesses, 1:209; behavior criticized,
1:216; accounts of expenditures, 1:221-23; claims compensation for losses
in, 1:252, 256, 257. See also Fort Necessity campaign
- surveying activities, 1:8-19; commission from William and Mary,
1:9, 33; field books, 1:12-14; accounts and fees, 1:16, 34; list of
surveys made by, 1:20-33; plat of Alexandria, 1:33; and town of Washington,
Va., 1:33; instruments, 1:34, 252-54; for Ohio Company, 1:45; loses
theodolite, 1:252-53; in 1748, 1:265; surveys made, 3:53, 54; 6:368,
417, 439, 444, 455-56, 457; 7:1, 6, 104, 108, 185, 239, 240, 461; 8:52,
170, 261, 326, 327, 522; 9:9, 54, 77, 142, 471; 10:3
- travels and places at: Ferry Farm, 1:1-4; 6:198-99, 380; 8:522;
9:30; Fredericksburg, 1:5, 48-49; 2:16-18, 19-21, 22-25, 29, 75, 78,
83, 85-89, 101, 169-71, 175, 200, 203; 3:209, 222; 5:82-87, 95; 6:182,
365, 379-80, 465, 474; 7:3, 9, 105, 108, 230, 231, 232, 235, 262, 276,
393, 434; 8:79, 112, 116, 137, 138, 169, 170, 244, 251, 270, 280, 330,
354, 487, 522, 528; 9:14, 91, 92, 127, 128-31, 354, 395; 10:41, 77,
150, 222, 223; Culpeper County, 1:9; Barbados, 1:12, 37-38, 49, 53;
Frederick County, 1:43-44, 45, 71; 6:314, 415-17, 421, 470; 7:3, 6,
14, 16, 42-43, 106, 109, 158, 175, 280, 515; 8:170, 257, 432, 438; 9:93,
490; 10:192, 222; Annapolis, 1:49; 4:125, 131; 8:519, 522, 523; 9:111,
112, 113, 208, 317, 333, 346; 10:159-60, 222, 223; King George County,
1:50; Williamsburg, 1:58, 181, 188, 223, 282-83, 285, 286, 288, 292,
293; 2:2, 12, 13, 14, 75, 80, 84, 91, 132, 164, 167, 173, 200, 203,
329, 331; 3:3, 166, 209, 364; 4:29, 131, 144-48, 155, 204; 5:95, 100-105,
109, 141, 198, 199, 204, 207, 220-21; 6:160, 167, 184, 192-93, 197,
199, 200, 203-4, 205, 206, 315-18, 346, 370, 371-72, 389, 406-7, 415,
465-66, 471, 474, 475-76; 7:3, 6, 8, 31-34, 42-45, 84, 96-98, 106, 109,
112, 113, 162-67, 171, 199-208, 216-18, 223, 234, 235, 263, 266-68,
269-76, 284-87, 305-6, 308, 337-41, 366, 443, 493, 496; 8:59, 64, 79,
83, 84-85, 137, 141, 142, 185, 192, 193, 195, 251, 257, 270, 275, 330,
353, 354, 364, 442, 454, 469, 487, 500-501, 527, 528, 532, 541; 9:14,
27, 31, 112, 117, 126-28, 179, 190, 191-92, 201, 207, 341, 351, 354,
374, 387, 394, 395, 400, 408, 470, 481, 490, 500; 10:40, 81-84, 94-101,
127, 139, 142, 222, 223; Fort Le Boeuf (Pennsylvania), 1:61; Alexandria,
1:71, 73, 78, 81, 181, 183, 188, 189, 192, 196, 198, 236; 2:27, 29,
32, 69-71, 184-86, 191-94, 196, 200, 203-4, 209, 216-17, 250, 278, 281-83,
310-14, 318; 3:352, 456; 4:22, 24, 29-32, 33, 39, 100, 125, 126-27,
380; 5:47, 51; 6:339, 380, 382, 387, 390, 405-7, 410, 430, 434, 443,
457-58, 480-81; 7:106, 268, 308; 8:137, 144, 177, 185, 193, 223, 244,
253, 263, 512, 557; 9:36, 53, 82; 10:105, 110, 119-28, 177, 200, 220,
221, 237, 267, 357; Great Meadows, 1:77, 104, 107, 115, 116, 117, 118,
122, 125, 129, 157-73; Fairfax County, 1:82; 7:100-102, 331, 442; Hillsboro,
1:82; Loudoun County, 1:82; 7:8; 8:171, 210, 438; 9:9, 38, 505; 10:192;
Vestal's ferry, 1:82; Winchester (Fort Loudoun), 1:82, 188, 213, 262,
263, 266, 268, 282, 283, 284, 285, 289, 292; 2:32, 34, 35-39, 83, 91,
93-94, 97-98, 101, 108-9, 111-12, 114, 116-21, 123-25, 129-31, 133,
223-24, 229, 231-32, 235-36, 238, 240-44, 247, 249, 250-51, 251-54,
256, 258-59, 263, 265, 267-69, 271-72, 274-75, 331, 332, 337, 339, 342,
345, 347-50, 354; 3:1-8, 10, 13-17, 18-19, 20-21, 22-30, 33-36, 38-41,
44-54, 58-64, 65, 67-84, 88-94, 95-101, 106-7, 111-14, 117-24, 127-30,
135-50, 151-65, 166-67, 169, 171-78, 182, 184, 188-89, 191-98, 206-7,
212-13, 222-26, 230-31, 268-84, 285, 291-94, 296, 297-301, 303, 305,
308-9, 311-40, 343-46, 348-51, 353-55, 358, 371, 372, 374-75, 378, 379-84,
385, 386, 387-402, 403, 420-23, 439-43, 444, 446, 453, 454-56; 4:1,
6, 11-18, 23-24, 33-37, 40-45, 47-49, 55-57, 59-70, 102-3, 105-6, 120,
126, 132-34, 161-63, 165-66, 167-75, 178-82, 184-87, 189-99, 201-12,
215-25, 230-31, 239-42, 245-48, 253-54, 256-59, 262, 264-66, 269-70,
272-73, 275-78, 280-81, 283-93, 295-97, 299-301, 306-7, 318-20, 325-35,
339-54, 357-64, 384-88, 399-412, 414-15, 419-21, 433; 5:1-46, 5, 111-94,
141, 204, 207-8, 212-41; 6:160, 165-66, 182; 7:42, 60, 308; 8:439; Wills
Creek (Maryland), 1:83, 84, 87, 93, 173, 181, 266; Cresap's fort (Maryland),
1:84, 266; Joseph Edwards's fort, 1:84; Pearsal's fort, 1:84; 2:133-35;
5:50; Little Meadows (Maryland), 1:93, 334; 8:393; Great Crossing of
the Youghiogheny, 1:96, 98, 319, 329; 8:394; trip down Potomac River,
1:179-80, 198; Bullskin plantation, 1:261; 6:421, 470; 7:42, 108; Frederick,
Md., 1:262, 266; 9:504; Leesburg, 1:262; 6:457-58; 7:3, 178, 219, 229,
239, 295, 319; 8:21, 23, 24, 393; 9:36; 10:193; Shepherdstown, 1:263;
Swearingen's ferry, 1:263; Fort Cumberland (Maryland), 1:271, 274, 277,
279, 292, 298, 302, 304, 306, 307, 308, 310, 334, 336, 339, 343; 2:32,
39, 48-50, 54-56, 59, 77, 106, 136-37, 142-46, 148-49; 3:225, 237-41,
242-46, 250-55, 261-67, 268, 295, 321, 456; 4:21, 22, 66, 69-70, 79-90,
93-94, 98, 101, 135-38; 5:275-445; 6:3, 6-27; Claiborne's ferry, 1:283,
286; 6:198-99; 7:304, 469, 491; 8:52, 136; King William Court House,
2:12; 7:268; 8:141, 266; 9:118, 201, 402; 10:105, 139; Todd's Bridge,
2:12; 7:268, 469, 491, 496; 8:136, 266, 442; 9:20, 30, 189; 10:40, 77,
139; Fort Dinwiddie, 2:32, 59-60, 80, 106, 187; 3:438-39; Rock Creek
(Maryland), 2:34-35; Vestal's Gap, 2:35; Boston, 2:75, 323; 3:3, 62,
166, 287, 319, 364, 386; 4:116, 374; 5:128; 9:517; Stafford Court House,
2:75; 6:378, 380; 7:239, 411, 415-17; 8:62; Caroline County, 2:82; 8:116;
Philadelphia, 2:311; 3:364; 4:29, 112-15, 118, 120-21, 125, 126, 303,
310, 388; 5:49; 9:227, 228; 10:159-60, 165-68, 171-72, 223, 358, 363,
367, 370; New London, Conn., 2:323; 9:517; New York, 2:323; 3:163, 287,
379-84, 386; 4:116, 374; 5:128; 7:156; 9:194, 223, 227, 228, 236-37,
238; Bullskin Run, 3:53; Conococheague (Maryland), 3:268; 5:207, 252;
Fort Frederick (Maryland), 3:269; Maidstone, 3:269; Fredericktown, Cecil
County, Md., 3:364; Augusta County, 3:423, 435; 4:1; Halifax County,
3:426, 430-34; 4:1, 6; Catawba River, 3:431; Looney's ferry, 3:431;
Fort Trial, 3:432; 4:1; Vause's fort, 3:432; Mayo River, 3:440; Augusta
Court House, 4:1, 7; Bedford County, 4:1; Fort William, 4:1; Jackson
River, 4:1; tour of southern frontier, 4:1; Fort Necessity, 4:60; 6:102;
New Kent County, 5:103; 6:186, 415; 8:79, 442, 469, 532; 9:207, 342,
355, 376, 385; North River, 5:244-46; Raystown, Pa., 6:6, 24, 27, 30,
31-78; Loyalhanna (Pennsylvania), 6:30, 89-129, 161-63; Shawnee Cabins
(Pennsylvania), 6:30, 78; White Oak Ridge (Pennsylvania), 6:85; Fort
Duquesne (Pittsburgh), 6:158-60; Dumfries, 6:198-99, 365, 379-80, 443,
474; 7:190, 191, 230, 239, 261, 276, 279, 309, 342, 372, 434, 465, 478;
8:268, 270, 329, 330, 363, 425, 439, 441; 9:14, 30; 10:40, 279, 316;
Layton's ferry, 6:198-99; Occoquan Creek, 6:198-99, 365, 379; Combs's
ferry, 6:313; Shenandoah River, 6:314; 10:191-92; West Point, Va., 6:321-22;
8:41, 346, 347; Nanjemoy, Md., 6:329-30; 8:122, 128; Maryland, 6:331,
443-44; 7:212, 219, 268, 280; 8:469; 10:41; Caroline Court House, 6:365,
465; 7:491; 8:268, 442; 9:14; Cumberland (New Kent County), 6:371; New
Castle (Hanover County), 6:377; Colchester, 6:378, 380, 417-18, 474;
7:209, 230, 239, 261, 276, 279, 298, 309, 342, 357, 373, 434; 8:52,
78, 364, 441; 9:14; Port Royal, 6:379-80, 406; 7:268, 280, 298, 304,
438, 496; 8:52, 193; 9:189; Cedar Point, Md., 6:405-7; 7:427; Southeron's
ferry, 6:405-7; Dansie's ferry, 6:406, 465, 474; 7:108, 209; Todd's
ferry, 6:406; 7:218, 280; 8:52; Hooe's ferry, 6:406-7; 7:171, 212, 218,
219, 223, 268, 304, 314, 438, 496; 8:52, 83, 128; Williams's ferry,
6:406-7; Chotank area, 6:407; 8:122, 263; Port Tobacco, Md., 6:407;
9:189; Posey's ferry, 6:407; 7:268, 286; Benedict, Md., 6:444; Keyes's
ferry, 6:457-58; York River, 6:471-73; 7:455; New Town (Stephensburg),
7:3; Upper Marlboro, Md., 7:3, 106, 109; 10:159-60, 357; Warm Springs
(Frederick County), 7:3, 8, 68-70; 8:16, 22-24, 238-40; Marlborough
(Virginia), 7:106, 109, 507; Westmoreland County, 7:106, 109, 512; 8:442;
Occoquan ferry, 7:108, 190, 229, 333, 478; Nansemond County, 7:110;
Suffolk, 7:110, 211, 470; Massachusetts, 7:156; Lower Cedar Point (Maryland),
7:171, 219; Mathias Point, 7:171, 219; Shenandoah Falls, 7:175; The
Spout, 7:175; Seneca Falls, 7:176; old Fairfax Court House, 7:178; Dismal
Swamp, 7:209, 210, 211, 223, 262, 271, 434, 496; 8:137; Machodoc ferry,
7:209; Hampton, 7:210; Norfolk, 7:210; Portsmouth, 7:210; Yorktown,
7:210, 268, 280; 8:192; 9:20; North Carolina, 7:211; 8:137; Fendall's
ferry, 7:212; Upper Machodoc Creek, 7:212, 279; Leedstown, 7:218, 223,
314; Little ferry, 7:218, 279, 285; Stafford County, 7:219; 8:469; Hunter's
ferry, 7:229; 9:30; 10:40, 105, 139; Snickers's ferry, 7:239; Lost River,
7:240; Luckett's ferry, 7:279; Capahosic, 7:280; Hobbs Hole, 7:285,
298, 314; 8:83, 454; Piscataway Creek (Virginia), 7:285; Urbanna, 7:285;
Boyd's Hole, 7:286; 8:83, 454; Brick House ferry, 7:298; Laidler's ferry,
7:314, 438, 496; 8:41; 9:189; Piscataway ferry (Virginia), 7:314; Great
Falls of Potomac, 7:331, 439; Falmouth, 7:357; 8:170; Upper Cedar Point
(Maryland), 7:427; Burwell's ferry, 7:470; Hog Island ferry, 7:470;
Dixon's ferry, 7:481; the Bloomery, 8:24; Frazier's ferry, 8:41, 83,
454; Nomini area, 8:41, 83, 122, 469; Russe's ferry, 8:41; Aquia, 8:79;
New Kent Court House, 8:83; Cameron, 8:121, 122, 185, 193, 195, 322,
323; Saunders's ferry, 8:121, 127; Accotink, 8:128; Hog Island, 8:136;
Fauquier County, 8:170; 9:38, 471, 505; Gloucester County, 8:193; 9:20;
Georgetown (Frederick County), Md., 8:306, 307; 10:178; Romney, 8:393;
Great Kanawha River, 8:393-95; Ohio River, 8:393-95; Cumberland, Md.,
8:394; Fort Pitt, 8:394, 395; Pittsburgh, 8:394; 9:98; Ruffin's ferry,
8:442; 9:20, 30, 189; 10:40, 105; Berkeley County, 9:38, 54, 463, 471,
504, 505; Chattins Run, 9:69; Pohick Creek, 9:69, 135; Chestertown,
Md., 9:194; 10:159-60; Prince George's County, Md., 9:203-4, 215, 295;
Princeton, N.J., 9:228; Ohio country, 9:242, 335; King William County,
9:401; Goose Creek ferry, 9:505; Bowling Green, 10:80; Newcastle, Del.,
10:159-60; Provence Island, (Pennsylvania), 10:159-60, 358; Queen Anne,
Md., 10:159-60; Rock Hall, Md., 10:159-60; Wilmington, Del., 10:159-60,
357; Burk's Bridge, 10:279; Hanover Court House, 10:279, 280; Richmond,
10:279, 280, 308-9, 310-11; Baltimore, 10:357; Charlestown, Md., 10:357;
Chester, Pa., 10:357; Christiana Bridge, Del., 10:357
- his views on: frontiersmen, 1:44; Indians, 1:72, 101, 123-24,
135; 2:120-21, 333-34, 338; 3:45, 59, 107, 317, 397-98; 4:14, 17-18,
31-32, 36, 145, 168-69, 192, 270; 5:44-45, 86-87, 110, 117-18, 131,
148, 175-78, 224-26, 292; 6:137, 159, 161-62; Forks of the Ohio, 1:98;
military service, 1:99, 352; 4:88-89; proposed 1754 campaign, 1:184;
state of Virginia Regiment after Fort Necessity campaign, 1:184; discrimination
in rank, 1:224-25; Edward Braddock, 1:274, 300; command of Virginia
Regiment, 1:356, 359, 361, 364; frontier inhabitants, 2:101-102; 3:6,
397; militia, 2:102-3; 3:6, 20, 59, 82, 99, 117, 119, 122, 313, 315-16,
397, 431-33, 438; 4:1-4, 12-14, 87-88, 147, 265, 306; 5:139-40, 157-58,
229-30; abandoning Fort Cumberland, 2:184, 186, 196; Sandy Creek expedition,
2:278, 334; liquor, 2:298; state of frontier, 2:337-39; 5:25-26, 33-34;
draftees, 3:2, 82, 224; 4:36, 145, 265, 306, 406; giving companies to
field officers, 3:7, 224, 225; a chain of forts, 3:48-51, 62-63, 415-16,
421; 4:4, 10-11, 15-16; uselessness of Fort Cumberland, 3:50, 61, 314,
319-20, 326, 349-50, 414-15, 441, 450-52; plundering by soldiers and
militia, 3:96-97, 269, 278, 355, 389-90, 393; appointments and promotions,
3:101, 109, 162, 260, 317, 456; enlisting servants, 3:313-14, 417; amnesty
for returning deserters, 3:396; recruiting, 3:396, 399; need of a chaplain,
3:417; 4:6, 16, 31, 204; 5:130; rangers, 4:3-4, 14; 5:157-58; Ohio Company,
4:79; cadets or volunteers, 4:359-60; holding public office, 4:412;
resigning his command, 5:102; route to Fort Duquesne, 5:118, 120, 158,
318-19, 324-25, 346, 353-61, 370-71, 376, 386-87, 389, 424-25, 440-41,
443; discrepancies between the two Virginia regiments, 5:135, 140, 186,
200-201; Forbes expedition, 5:361, 370, 432; 6:12, 39, 42, 45, 53, 99-101,
113-15; British leadership, 5:432-33, 434, 442-43; 6:12, 38-39, 41,
42, 44, 52, 187; probable failure to reduce Fort Duquesne, 5:432-34,
440; Virginia falling "Victim to the views of her Crafty Neighbours,"
5:433; line of march and order of battle, 6:66-70; intercolonial regulation
of Indian trade, 6:162; officers of Virginia Regiment, 6:186-87; visiting
England, 6:358, 453; 7:59; retirement, 6:359; peace, 7:55, 80, 96-97,
204; efficacy of Warm Springs, 7:68-69; giving advice, 7:135; religion,
7:147, 205; navigation of Potomac, 7:175-76; 8:358-60; administering
distant quarters of land, 7:330; Stamp Act, 7:395-96, 401-2, 456; 8:15;
settling western lands to recoup fortunes, 8:3-4; Proclamation of 1763
and settlement of western lands, 8:28-29; undesirability of slaves as
collateral, 8:34; desirability of keeping some settlers on Fort Cumberland-Pittsburgh
road, 8:87-88; Townshend Acts, 8:178, 180; use of arms in defense of
freedom, 8:178; nonimportation association, 8:178-81, 353, 361; difficulties
of reducing style of living, 8:179; superior rights of soldiers of 1754
to bounty lands, 8:273-74, 389-90, 392, 534-35; poor prospects of acquiring
lands under 1754 and 1763 proclamations, 8:300, 542, 551; conduct of
guardians, 8:334, 494-95; rights of soldiers to lands, 9:55-56, 119-21;
College of Philadelphia, 9:154; College of William and Mary, 9:154;
state of the paper currency, 9:178; plan of Fairfax vestry regarding
distribution of pews, 9:180-81; officers not paying their share for
bounty lands, 9:191-92, 361-62, 422; desirable bounty lands, 9:199,
205-6; John Parke Custis's engagement, 9:209-10, 219-20; Martha Washington's
mother at Mount Vernon, 9:243-44; fashion, 9:270; slaves as security,
9:282; chances of getting bounty lands, 9:346; the "Ministerial Line,"
9:357; Lord Hillsborough, 9:490, 500-501; importing settlers to seat
western lands, 9:495-96, 506-7, 509-10; administration of a trust, 10:10;
Parliament's treatment of the colonies, 10:96, 109-10, 129-31, 155,
171-72; inevitability of Indian war, 10:96-97; on supporting another
candidate when he himself runs for election, 10:109; payment of debts
to English merchants, 10:131; Hanbury's questioning his bills, 10:142;
requirements necessary to act as guardian to youth, 10:234; necessity
of peace with Indians, 10:273; intends to devote life and fortune to
American cause, 10:308; Dunmore's nullification of surveys granted under
1754 proclamation, 10:320-22; has no faith in sudden repentences, 10:364;
New York delegation to Congress, 10:364
- his western lands: Great Meadows, 9:25-26, 37; 10:53, 89; Millers
Run (Chartiers Creek), 9:25-26, 37, 112, 125, 200, 418-21, 444, 482-83;
10:36, 40, 42, 48, 53-54, 55, 183, 293; Washington's Bottom, 9:114-15,
148-49, 234, 241, 290-93, 316, 342; 10:36, 45, 51, 52-53, 58, 69, 89,
91, 134, 153-54, 164, 168, 179, 181, 207-8, 256-57, 293, 323-25; Ohio,
9:122, 145, 148, 200, 278-80, 358, 360, 364, 365, 380-81, 482-83, 500,
502-3, 512, 513, 515; 10:12-18, 36, 40, 42, 46-47, 48, 50-51, 52-54,
55, 69, 79, 80, 93, 133-34, 151-52, 162-64, 183, 197, 230-33, 247, 248,
261-62, 273, 280-81, 288-92, 293, 306-7, 310-11, 314-15, 334-35, 359-63,
365-66, 371-72; advertisement of Ohio lands, 9:278-80; 10:18
Washington, George (born c.1758), 10:257-58
Washington, George Corbin, 1:1, 4
Washington, Hannah Bushrod, 2:352; 3:57-58, 168; 4:108, 125; 5:56, 77,
93; 8:303, 569; 10:308
Washington, Hannah Fairfax, 8:53, 185; 9:68, 69, 447, 449. See also
Fairfax, Hannah
Washington, Henry, 1:42
Washington, Jane (born c.1752), 7:260, 261
Washington, Jane Butler, 1:7, 229
Washington, Jane Champe, 1:269, 315
Washington, John, 9:390
Washington, John (1632-1677), 1:91, 234; 5:75; 6:439; 8:326, 327, 418,
547, 576-77; 9:289
Washington, John (1730-1782; of Hylton), 1:41-42; 9:202, 203
Washington, John (d. 1742; of Chotank), 1:42
Washington, John (d. 1787; of Leedstown), 1:42; 9:202; 10:269; letters
from: to GW, 10:262; letters to: from GW, 10:292
Washington, John (GW's grandfather), 1:91
Washington, John (of King George County): letters to: from GW,
9:202-3
Washington, John (of Suffolk; 1740-1777), 7:437; 8:347, 527; id., 418;
and Dismal Swamp, 7:418, 438; 8:137; shingles purchased from, 7:464, 469;
8:51, 346; 10:285; accounts, 8:53, 140; 9:35, 36, 126, 127, 132, 134;
and Warm Springs lottery, 8:54
Washington, John Augustine, 1:52, 178, 259, 273, 280, 283, 324; 2:276;
3:126, 168, 406; 4:125; 5:56, 77, 93, 308, 419; 6:331-32; 7:1, 6, 224,
330, 391; 8:140, 300, 454, 577-78; 9:183; land grant to, 1:27; id., 1:119;
4:98; and slaves, 1:231; 7:172-74; manages GW's affairs, 1:248; 2:352;
3:127, 419; 4:98; 5:447; residence of, 1:269; 4:108; 8:122; and Deep Run
Tract, 1:313; marriage of, 2:351; 3:57, 58; and Lawrence Washington's
estate, 3:438; 4:365; 6:415-16; 8:224, 570; 9:169; as GW's agent, 4:96;
5:217, 218, 222, 274, 437; 6:416; 7:9, 299, 300; 8:141; accounts, 5:252,
284-85; 6:197; 7:4, 10, 427, 430, 441, 458, 477; 8:121, 122; 9:20, 253,
355; 10:19, 20, 316; his Frederick County land, 5:253; 8:568; sells flour,
5:253; and House of Burgesses elections, 5:263; 7:44; and GW's hanger,
5:306; and Mississippi Company, 7:219-22, 224, 416, 512; 8:63, 153; his
overseer, 7:320; and Custis estate, 7:369; 8:203, 306, 453, 458, 459;
9:53, 368, 369; 10:193, 195-96; borrows money, 8:59; 9:395; GW visits,
8:127, 442, 469; visits GW, 8:303, 569, 570-71; and John Lee's estate,
9:35; and George Lee's debt, 9:354; family of, 10:308; and the Richmond
County Independent Company, 10:308; letters from: to GW, 1:311;
10:111, 305; letters to: from GW, 1:118-19, 266-68, 277-79, 289-93,
310-11, 311-14, 319-28, 343; 10:111-13, 308-9
Washington, Lawrence (1659-1697), 8:326, 577-78; 9:290
Washington, Lawrence (1728-c.1809; of Chotank), 1:41, 313; 7:219; 8:303,
430-31, 569, 571; 9:203
Washington, Lawrence (c.1718-1752), 1:16, 42, 46, 48, 51, 66, 174; and
Ferry Farm deed, 1:5; illness of, 1:6; id., 1:7; marriage of, 1:7, 40;
movements of, 1:12, 37, 38, 39, 44, 49, 53; adjutant for Virginia, 1:18,
44, 51, 77; survey for, 1:25, 27, 28, 29, 36, 37; and Cartagena campaign,
1:51; and Fredericksburg lots, 1:51-52; death of, 1:52, 53; and Ohio Company,
1:59; 2:277; slaves of, 1:227-31; 7:172-73; inherits Mount Vernon, 1:234;
suit against Gersham Keyes, 3:56, 58; estate of, 3:351, 352, 414; 4:190,
195, 198, 255, 285, 297, 323, 354; 6:441; 9:353; 10:219; will of, 4:414;
5:218-19; 6:341, 415-16; 8:223-25, 570; 9:168-69, 190, 191; executors
of, 6:20; 9:354; family of, 6:199; 7:6; lawsuit by executors, 7:110; buys
Trenn land, 7:310; purchases Pendergrass's Bottom, 10:306; letters
from: to William Fairfax, 1:53; letters to: from GW, 1:6-8;
from Robert Jackson, 1:54
Washington, Lawrence (Lund Washington's brother; 1740-1799), 9:505
Washington, Lund, 7:359, 376, 442, 508, 515; 8:24, 104, 143, 170, 217,
220, 268, 356, 444, 448, 479; 9:72, 267, 315, 352, 411, 476; 10:17, 24,
65, 78, 210, 224, 229, 273, 285, 316, 318, 335, 344, 355; accounts, 7:239,
319, 333, 357, 363, 364, 367, 385, 434, 439, 458, 481; 8:16, 18, 20, 41,
59, 67, 121, 177, 185, 243, 260, 267, 306, 329, 355, 361, 377, 405, 418,
431, 441, 512, 573; 9:1, 29, 35, 52, 57, 58, 72, 92, 115, 127, 133, 169,
185, 227, 411, 432, 476; manager of Mount Vernon, 7:320, 334; and list
of books at Mount Vernon, 7:343, 349; as GW's agent, 7:358, 361, 459,
483, 486; 8:212, 214, 218, 220, 312, 313, 314, 485; 9:93, 156, 388, 463;
10:230; family of, 7:418; 9:224, 505; and Custis estate, 8:198; and GW's
western lands, 8:301, 302, 303; 9:278; and John Barry's water rights,
8:325; agreement with William Roberts, 8:395; repairs mill, 8:468; goods
ordered for, 8:500, 554; 9:270, 271, 275; 10:270; sells slave to GW, 8:531,
532; goes to Redstone, 9:92; his western lands, 9:241, 242, 419, 421;
10:90; and George William Fairfax's affairs, 9:347, 348; his slave, 9:397;
cash left with, 10:42, 80; his Mount Vernon account book, 10:105; regimentals
made for, 10:174; sells horse, 10:178, 179; and purchase of slave, 10:269;
and collection of tithes, 10:300; and Daniel Jenifer Adams's slave, 10:304;
and Fairfax Independent Company, 10:345; and GW's account with Mary Washington,
10:348; letters from: to GW, 7:492-93, 493-95; 8:17-19, 19-20,
25-26, 467-69; 9:202; letters to: from Joseph Davenport, 7:405-7,
408, 414-15; from GW, 8:17, 20; 10:85; from John Carlyle, 9:72
Washington, Martha, 6:191, 338, 345, 363, 380, 381, 385, 389, 391, 405,
413, 414-15, 432, 435, 436, 440, 453, 456, 469; 7:13, 38, 39, 41, 47,
48, 52, 57, 59, 69, 71, 95, 99, 113, 115, 121, 124, 155, 159, 170, 181,
188, 226, 232, 234, 237, 242, 260, 261, 265, 277, 278, 283, 311, 365,
391, 480, 482, 494; 8:20, 25, 33, 42, 57, 87, 120, 124, 125, 127, 128,
129, 138, 156, 164, 184, 226, 227, 241, 250, 252, 258, 259, 260, 264,
270, 271, 299, 316, 321, 325, 333, 354, 365, 376, 378, 411, 416, 419,
426, 435, 449, 466-67, 478, 498, 524, 544, 569, 580, 586; 9:7, 8, 11,
39, 44, 45-46, 49, 51, 74, 78, 84, 98, 101, 111, 113, 136, 141, 164, 178,
183, 184, 194, 202, 215-16, 219, 220, 294, 295, 296, 297, 299, 300, 326,
327, 347, 353, 399, 410, 412, 425, 437, 448, 467, 473, 478, 480, 487,
491; 10:22, 24, 31, 68, 77, 83, 108, 158, 174, 179, 219, 224, 233, 236,
252, 255, 264, 269, 270, 271, 288, 299, 340; id., 3:241; marriage, 6:175,
187-88, 315, 316, 322, 324; family of, 6:193, 321-22, 340, 380; 7:115,
130, 133, 134, 374, 395, 396, 402; 8:295, 311, 574, 579; 9:342, 393, 426;
money borrowed from, 6:199; 7:205, 467, 469; movements of, 6:199; 7:207;
8:18, 79, 240, 250, 251, 362, 432, 442; 9:81, 82, 295, 376; and Custis
estate, 6:210-16, 238-45, 247-52, 252-62, 267, 269, 271, 274, 276, 277,
282, 312-13, 315-18, 348-52; 7:85; no dower account found, 6:265; given
money, 6:313, 321, 329, 331, 365, 371, 378, 379, 390, 417, 430, 466, 474;
7:4, 179, 185, 186, 190, 209, 219, 261, 276, 336, 407, 417, 434, 439,
469, 481, 482, 508; 8:5, 16, 21, 60, 78, 83, 112, 141, 143, 221, 266,
290, 329, 347, 355, 362, 376, 377, 474, 531; 9:14, 112, 152, 253, 317,
355, 395; 10:40, 41, 104, 139, 168, 178, 194, 220, 317; clothing for,
6:329, 460; 7:30; 8:88, 97-98, 269, 486; 9:76, 433; 10:194; "an agreeable
consort," 6:359; illness of, 6:420; 7:168-69; and Bank of England stock,
6:451-52; 10:84; her dower, 7:81-82, 497; 8:195, 197; 9:378; goods ordered
for, 7:111, 204, 250, 287, 321, 325, 444; 9:65, 109, 132, 190, 233, 287,
352; and slaves, 7:133; 9:85-86, 257, 433-34; and her father's estate,
7:133-34; GW composes letter for, 7:329, 357; takes music lessons, 7:438;
only surviving letter to GW, 7:495; debts, 8:26, 42-43; sees play, 8:128;
and Amelia Posey, 8:167; and John Parke Custis, 8:238, 332, 335, 340-41,
349, 442, 443-44, 447, 448, 464, 492, 495-96; 9:154, 210; and Martha Parke
Custis, 8:360, 361; accounts, 8:454; 9:30, 395; and portraits, 9:36, 37,
367; lives at White House, 9:89; John Custis disapproves of, 9:233; her
daughter's death, 9:243, 258, 265, 268; and daughter's estate, 9:283,
379; present for, 9:288; and Dunbar suit, 9:312; and the Fairfaxes, 9:387;
appointed administratrix of Custis estate by archbishop, 10:84; purchases
for, 10:167; gives money to Going Lanphier, 10:196; inherits Robert Adam
debt, 10:229; sees Fairfaxes sail to England, 10:284; letters from:
to Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett, 6:420; to Mrs. Shelbury, 7:328-29; to
GW, 7:495; 10:373; to Susanna Thorpe, 9:109-10; to Margaret Green, 9:244;
letters to: from John Johnson, 9:28; from John Parke Custis, 9:266-67.
See also Custis, Martha Dandridge
Washington, Mary Ball, 1:8, 52; 2:16; 3:3; 4:125, 237; 9:30, 112; her
land, 1:6, 8; id., 1:7, 153; 8:547; and ferry landing, 1:8; and GW's seafaring
career, 1:54; dances, 1:151-52; at Ferry Farm, 1:269; 2:352; 3:4; 9:32;
and Strother land, 5:79; family of, 5:206; her slaves, 6:198; 10:279;
her home, 6:199, 380; given money, 6:329, 474; 7:190, 276, 333, 342, 372;
8:60, 169, 193, 268, 522; 10:19; and division of slaves, 7:173; GW visits,
8:270, 330, 354, 362; and Fredericksburg house, 8:455, 522, 532; 9:138;
10:2; accounts with, 8:522; 9:14, 91, 117, 132, 227, 341, 395, 397; 10:40,
139, 193, 353; her overseer, 9:112, 137; goods ordered for, 9:275; 10:167,
168, 249; her affairs wholly in GW's hands, 10:234; GW pays part of her
income, 10:280; her settlement with GW, 10:347-49; letters to:
from GW, 1:268-69, 304-5, 336-38, 359-60; 4:430-31
Washington, Mary Massey, 1:42
Washington, Mary Townshend, 8:303
Washington, Mary Whiting, 8:570
Washington, Mildred Thornton (wife of Charles), 7:274, 330
Washington, Mildred Thornton (wife of Samuel), 7:274
Washington, Richard, 5:106, 128, 190, 326, 436; 6:430; 7:207; account
with, 2:206-7; 5:74, 434; goods ordered from, 2:208-9; 4:39, 134, 358,
376-81, 380-81; 5:49-51, 51, 80, 105, 111-12, 288, 327, 436; 6:20, 195-96;
7:80-81, 257-60, 349; tobacco sent to, 4:37, 39; 5:72, 74, 219; 6:319;
and bill of exchange, 6:276, 313, 338-39, 347; GW buys "trifles" from,
7:206; GW breaks off business relations with, 7:404-5; visits Mount Vernon,
10:219-20; letters from: to GW, 4:400; 5:261; 6:7, 196, 373, 378,
404, 471; 7:11, 131, 198; letters to: from GW, 2:207-9; 4:132-35,
401-2, 431; 5:73-74, 80, 105-6, 111-13; 6:319-20, 358-59, 452-54; 7:54-56,
80-81, 138-39, 141, 257-60, 404-5
Washington, Robert (b. 1729), 9:222, 224, 225, 227, 230, 239, 355, 356,
504, 505
Washington, Robert (d. 1765), 1:42
Washington, Samuel, 1:52, 152, 178, 312; 2:66; 4:365; 6:331, 405; 7:1,
6, 391; 10:92, 189; inheritance of, 1:7; 3:438; 6:415-16; 7:172-74; 8:224,
570; 9:169; id., 1:178; 2:67; 6:332; and slaves, 1:231; 7:109; residence
of, 1:269; and Deep Run Tract, 1:313; 8:430-31; marriage of, 1:315; 6:444;
and William Withers, 2:113; plantation of, 6:407; 7:428; as county lieutenant,
7:43; and the House of Burgesses election, 7:44; account with, 7:106,
417, 428, 439, 499, 500; 8:306, 436, 486, 487, 521, 522; and Mississippi
Company, 7:224; 8:63, 153; family of, 7:274; rents slaves, 7:357; borrows
money, 7:482; 8:52, 121; GW visits, 8:122, 127, 128, 263, 432; 9:93; and
Custis estate, 8:198, 203, 304, 458, 459; 9:52, 369; with GW, 8:300, 303;
as GW's agent, 8:437, 570; 9:317, 503; and Richard Lee, 8:521; and inoculation,
8:569; buys land, 8:573; 9:143, 171; and George Lee's debt, 9:354; letters
from: to GW, 1:289; 8:555; letters to: from GW, 1:314-15; 8:567-71;
9:74, 136, 170-71. See also Errata
Washington, Sarah (1750-1754), 1:227-31, 234; 6:415; 7:172; 8:224-25
Washington, Sarah (daughter of John Washington of Leedstown), 10:269
Washington, Townshend (1705-c.1744), 1:41, 314
Washington, Townshend (b. 1736), 1:312, 314, 315
Washington, Va., 1:33, 33
Washington, Warner (1722-1790), 8:51; 10:20, 348; id., 1:262; 7:314;
marriage of, 6:43; 8:53; house of, 8:240; and GW's Frederick County land,
8:568-69; family of, 8:570; 9:449; at Mount Vernon, 9:69; GW visits, 9:93;
and Bryan Fairfax's land, 9:152; and George William Fairfax, 9:447
Washington, Warner, Jr. (1751-1789), 8:567, 570
Washington, William Augustine, 6:466; 10:318
Washington's Bottom tract, 8:30, 331; 9:114-15, 148-49, 382, 412; 10:53,
69, 89, 90, 134, 153, 154, 181
Washington's camp (on Turtle Creek), 6:31, 134, 144, 146, 149, 150, 153
Washington's Masonic Cave, 7:39
Washington Springs, 1:91
Waters, ---- (sergeant), 2:256; 3:13, 174-75
Waters, John, 2:256; 3:175
Waters, Philemon, Jr., 2:256; 3:13, 175, 252, 256, 389, 391; 10:339-40;
letters from: to Adam Stephen, 10:339; letters to: from
Adam Stephen, 10:339
Waters, Thomas, 2:230, 231; 5:338
Waters, William (d. 1769), 7:269-70, 273, 274-75, 315, 316
Waters, William (soldier), 2:256; 3:175
Wathing (Wathen), Edward, 9:91, 92
Watkins, ---- (surgeon), 10:246
Watkins, Benjamin, 8:31
Watkins, Evan, 2:37
Watkins, John, 9:202
Watkins, Moses, 1:22
Watkins's ferry, 2:37, 157, 158, 178, 185, 190, 289; 3:211; 4:183. See
also Conococheague; Maidstone
Watson, ----, 6:416; 7:235
Watson, Joseph, 4:413, 414; 6:418; 7:52, 177, 179-80, 236, 266, 357;
9:198, 325; 10:31
Watson, Robert, 7:300, 301, 323, 326
Watts, Arthur, 2:188, 189, 219; 9:359, 360, 363, 364, 365, 421
Watts, John (interpreter), 5:124
Watts, John (of London), 9:105, 109
Watts, Richard, 8:322, 323
Watts, Thomas (soldier), 4:277
Watts, Thomas (tavern keeper), 2:77, 78-79
Watts's ordinary, 2:76
Waugh, Tyler, 7:383; 8:146, 148
Wawhatchee (Warhatchie; Indian), 4:139, 142; id., 4:141; as leader of
Cherokee contingent, 4:142, 144, 158-59, 195-96, 229, 236; speech of,
4:142; brings in scalps and prisoner, 4:163, 251; GW criticizes, 4:163;
and Edmond Atkin, 4:170; gifts for, 4:173, 196; escorted to North Carolina,
4:186; and conference, 4:196, 199; and jailed Indians, 4:354
Wayles, Andrew, 9:132
Wayles, John, 6:442; 8:86, 194
Weale, Richard, 6:396; 7:25, 125, 195, 292, 354, 403
Weale, William, 7:26, 30, 291, 354, 422; 8:297, 562
Weathers, Thomas, 6:246, 257
Weathers, William, 6:47
Weatherson, John, 7:341
Weatherspoon, John (soldier), 6:47
Weatherspoon. See also Witherspoon
Weaver, Thomas, 6:299
Webb, ---- (Mrs.), 6:406
Webb, ---- (ordinary keeper), 8:83
Webb, Anne Bickerton, 6:407
Webb, Daniel, 3:115-16, 288, 296; 4:112, 217, 225, 227, 279, 303, 368;
5:18-19, 98
Webb, Foster, 9:88, 90
Webb, George (c.1729-1786), 8:197; 9:88, 90, 138
Webb, George (d. 1758), 6:407; 8:223
Webb, Isaac, 9:504, 505-6
Webb, Lewis, 6:225, 263
Webb, Luke, 7:432
Webb, Thomas (author), 10:189, 190, 191
Webb's ordinary, 8:84
Webster, James, 10:194
Webster, John, 6:47
Webster, William (convict servant), 9:519; 10:19, 20, 137, 138, 318,
341-42, 356
Webster, William (of London), 7:312
Webster & Son, 8:564; 9:105; letters to: from GW, 9:67-68
Wedgwood, Josiah, 8:233
Weedon, George, 3:206; 4:346; 7:161; 10:319; military service, 2:3, 14,
15, 86, 136, 288; 3:151, 341, 428; 4:166, 205, 206, 340, 349, 432; 5:215;
id., 2:25; 3:177; appointments and assignments, 2:41, 42, 119, 260; 3:251;
and Cox-Lane incident, 5:120; pay for, 5:214; address to GW, 6:178-81;
account with, 7:481; 8:169, 362; 9:13; 10:40, 279, 280; his tavern, 7:481;
8:165, 280; 9:354; and Robert Stewart, 8:162; sells tent, 8:363; and bounty
lands, 9:94-95; and Spotsylvania Independent Company, 10:346, 347; letters
from: to GW, 4:18-22
Weedon's tavern, 2:25; 7:481; 8:165, 280
Weiser, Conrad: and Mrs. Montour, 2:55; and Christopher Gist, 2:151,
154; id., 2:152; 4:251-52; 5:392; and Carlisle council, 2:309; intelligence
from, 4:270, 291-92, 298; inspects Pennsylvania forts, 4:299; and cattle,
5:391
Welch, Wakelin, 6:316-17
Welcome (ship), 7:112
Welden, ----: paid for a seal, 6:386
Welder, S.S., 3:301, 302, 303
Wells, ----: and GW's sheep, 8:519
Wells, Daniel, III, 8:519
Wells, John, 7:412
Wells, Richard, 6:36, 37, 87, 90
Welton, John, 1:34, 35; 7:340
Welton, William, 1:22
Welton's meadow, 7:339, 340
Welwood, James, 6:289
Wenham's great lot (New York), 10:239
Wentworth, ---- (ship captain), 7:373
Werden, John High, 4:275
West, Ann (Nancy), 3:418, 419
West, Ann Brown, 7:413; 8:210, 316
West, Catherine, 8:65
West, Charles: GW buys land from, 7:412, 413; 8:208-10; 9:131, 132, 133,
142, 397; 10:196; account with, 8:52, 59, 170, 238, 239, 394; 9:394; 10:193,
196; his ordinary, 8:171, 210; and dispute over Chapel Lands, 8:412-13;
family of, 9:167; letters to: from GW, 8:208-11
West, Christopher, 6:372
West, George (d. 1786), 7:383; claims servant, 2:124; id., 2:124; 7:413;
and division of Truro Parish, 7:363; surveys of, 7:412; 8:259; 9:262;
and Colvill estate, 9:76; and GW's dispute with Barry, 9:92
West, George (of the 55th Regiment), 5:395, 396
West, Hugh, 1:115; 2:228; 5:262, 263, 323, 334-42; 7:123, 383; 8:65
West, John, 10:64-65; as member of House of Burgesses, 1:293; 2:227;
5:265; 7:377-84, 384; 8:144-48, 246, 557, 571; 9:36; 10:108, 109; id.,
3:419; 4:227; 5:439; and Fairfax militia, 4:226; William Triplett works
for, 5:439, 450; taxes paid to, 6:183, 417, 443; as sheriff, 6:184, 418;
and Fairfax vestry, 7:361, 384; and division of Truro Parish, 7:362; account
with, 7:470; carries money, 7:470; family of, 8:149; 10:235; and Alexandria
church, 9:182; and delinquent tobacco inspectors, 10:27; appointed to
committee, 10:128; chooses GW as guardian to son, 10:235; Daniel Jenifer
Adams's debt to, 10:296; letters from: to Peyton Randolph, 8:487-89;
to GW, 10:230; letters to: from Carlyle & Dalton, 10:60-64; from
Robert Adam, 10:60-64; from William Ramsay, 10:60-64; from citizens of
Alexandria, 10:63; from GW, 10:234-35
West, John, Jr., 7:108, 383, 384, 487-88; 8:144, 149; 10:65; and Fort
Necessity campaign, 1:112, 116, 118, 121, 142, 191; id., 1:115, 144, 293;
3:419; 8:65; and GW's candidacy, 1:292; inherits land, 6:342; and Clifton
dispute, 6:410; as sheriff, 6:418; 7:10, 110; taxes paid to, 6:428, 429;
7:4; accounts with, 7:104; 9:11, 30, 208; and vestry election, 7:362;
land dispute with John Posey, 8:34, 37, 212, 214, 344-45, 346, 401, 470-71;
9:2-4; and Colvill estate, 8:65-66, 71, 343; 9:260-63; GW at his house,
8:177; GW purchases land from, 8:185-87, 196, 210, 499; 9:151, 431; 10:221;
his surveys, 8:235, 313, 314, 326-27; and bounty lands, 8:439, 440, 451,
540; 9:122, 128-31, 144, 197, 359, 360, 364, 366; 10:335, 359; sails and
rigging for, 8:475; and Neil Jamieson, 8:531; and Custis estate, 9:367,
368, 369; letters from: to GW, 8:185-87; letters to: from
GW, 8:65-66; 9:260-64; from John Luke, 10:63-64
West, John (of King William County), 10:35
West, Joseph, 5:74-75; 6:367
West, Roger, 10:234-35
West, Stephen, Jr., 7:416, 417
West, Sybil, 7:490
West, Thomas (of Loudoun County), 9:167, 463; 10:19, 281
West, Thomas (soldier), 4:390
West, William (of Fairfax County), 7:122, 123
West, William (of Loudoun County), 2:253, 275; 3:386; 4:226-27; 6:182;
7:3, 8, 296
West Augusta, District of, 10:44, 59, 257
Western lands: Washington's Bottom, 8:27, 30-31, 112-13, 156-57, 158,
170, 171, 257-58, 307, 330, 331; Millers Run, 8:37-38, 396, 449-50, 513,
514, 566; Ten Mile Creek, 8:157, 307, 330; Great Meadows, 8:158, 405-6,
445-46, 566; Ohio River, 8:304, 441, 513, 514-15, 533; on Great Kanawha
River, 8:304, 364, 441, 533; surveying of, 9:25-26, 37, 115, 118-22, 124-26,
128-30, 144-46, 242, 251, 307-8, 315, 323, 324, 327-32, 334-35, 380-83,
391-92, 417-18, 419-21, 444, 454, 500-503, 510-15; 10:40, 54, 70, 151,
162, 239, 258, 320, 322, 333, 338; George Croghan's land claims, 9:25-27,
37, 418-21; apportioning of soldiers' lands, 9:35, 95, 116, 122-23, 130-31,
143-48, 189, 194-98, 200, 207, 208, 227, 307, 336, 358-66, 382, 391-92,
403-5, 416, 421-23, 454-55, 462, 467, 469, 474, 481-83, 502-3; 10:1-2,
3-4, 7, 40, 66, 78, 101, 162, 225, 238-39; disputes over, 9:135-36, 334-35,
356-57, 380-81, 415, 418-21; 10:46-48, 163, 183; West Florida lands, 9:199,
204-7, 245-46, 323, 330, 404, 490, 500-501; and Dunmore, 9:251, 327, 345;
Dunmore refuses to grant, 10:70, 162, 165, 320-22, 337-38; Connolly and
Warrenstaff patents, 10:70-71. See also Croghan, George and
Washington, George: his western lands
West Mahontango Creek (Pennsylvania), 2:309
Westminster Parish (Maryland), 7:123
Westmoreland County, 4:290; 5:288; 8:578
Westmoreland County (Pennsylvania), 10:43
Westmoreland County Resolves, 10:113
Westmoreland Court House, 8:64
Weston, Edward, 6:337; 7:348
Weston, Thomas, 7:26, 30, 199
Westover, 1:251
West Point, Va., 6:322; 9:201
West Point (Belvoir) fishery, 9:447; 10:86
West's ordinary, 2:253; 3:387; 4:227; 6:182; 7:3, 8, 296; 8:171; 10:192
Wetherburn, Henry, 6:407, 474; 7:2, 7, 85, 212
Wetherburn's tavern, 6:407; 7:7; 8:454; 9:351
Wethers, Thomas, 6:273
Wetzel, Christopher, 7:5
Wharton, Samuel, 8:367, 368, 380
Wharton, Thomas: letters to: from George Croghan, 8:331
Wheatley, John, 6:253, 257
Wheeler, Drummond, 7:383; 8:145
Wheeling Creek, 9:37; 10:44, 135
Wheland, Hester, 9:23
Wheldon, John, 5:103, 104; 6:348, 350-51, 387
Whetcroft, William, 9:8
Whipple (Whiffle), John, 3:79
Whiston (Whittstone), John, 8:547
Whiston (Whittstone), Restitute, 8:547
White, ---- (of Pennsylvania), 5:152, 153
White, David, 8:22, 24
White, Isaac, 5:334
White, J., 6:288
White, James, 4:276
White, John, 3:55
White, Laurence, 4:391
White, Thomas (merchant), 8:297, 299, 399; 9:108
White, Thomas (soldier), 3:253, 259; 4:277
White, William (of Frederick County), 5:342
White, William (soldier), 4:391
Whitecotton, George, 3:95, 253, 258
White Eyes (Indian), 10:73-74
Whitefield, John, 4:41
Whitefield, Samuel, 4:42
Whitehall (Maryland), 8:417
Whitehead, ----, 7:336
Whitehead, Edward, 3:306-7; 4:389; 6:47
Whitehead, William, 7:336
Whitehorn, Nicholas, 7:352
White House (New Kent County), 5:103; 6:283; 7:191; 9:89, 257
Whiteing, ----, 8:19
Whiteman, James, 4:43
White Marsh (plantation), 3:32
White Oak Ridge (Pennsylvania), 6:85
Whitesides, Roger, 4:42
White's Upholstery Warehouse, 5:153
Whiting, Diana Trenn, 7:310; 8:315
Whiting, Francis, 7:440; 8:511, 512; 9:395; 10:39, 41, 138, 140, 353
Whiting, Henry, 10:41
Whiting, John, 5:49, 111, 113, 436; 7:284
Whiting, Kemp, 9:478
Whiting, Matthew, 9:221, 223, 229, 235, 267
Whiting, Thomas, 10:41, 99-100, 140
Whiting, William, 7:304, 309, 310, 350, 412; 8:20, 283, 315; 9:431
Whitlock, Charles, 6:252, 266
Whitzell, George, 5:335
The whole duty of man, 6:288
The whole pleasures of matrimony, 6:296
The whole works (Sydenham), 6:296
Wickliff, Benjamin, 7:383
Wiggins, Philip, 8:21, 22
Wiggins, Thomas, 1:23, 30; 8:21, 22
Wight, Thomas, 9:519; 10:134, 135, 233, 262, 334, 335, 360, 362
Wignall (Wignell), James, 7:456; 8:81. See also Errata
Wilcox, John, 3:403
Wiley's tavern, 10:79-80
Wilkenson, John & Thomas, & Co., 7:497, 498
Wilkenson, Joseph, 5:338
Wilkenson, Thomas, 10:318
Wilkins, ----: and sale of corn, 9:88, 139; his ship carries tobacco,
9:255-56
Wilkins, John, 6:230; 9:90
Wilkins (Wilkens), Charles, 7:356, 357, 420, 471; 8:131, 295-96, 399;
9:107
Wilkins (Wilkens), Thomas, 6:273, 280, 281; 7:89
Wilkins family, 9:90
Wilkinson, Benjamin, 7:48, 49
Will, Little (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 591
Will, Little (slave; Great House), 9:287
Will (dower slave; King William County), 6:218
Will (dower slave; New Kent County), 6:217
Will (slave), 8:584
Will (slave; at Moncock Hill), 6:312
Will (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Will (slave; Brick House plantation; child), 8:589
Will (slave; carpenter), 6:198, 200, 428; 7:45, 139, 227, 233
Will (slave; Charles Washington's), 7:173
Will (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 6:311
Will (slave; Creek farm), 7:45, 139, 228, 313
Will (slave; Dogue Run), 7:139, 228, 313
Will (slave; George William Fairfax's), 6:443
Will (slave; Home farm, 1), 7:45
Will (slave; Home farm, 2), 7:45
Will (slave; house servant), 9:54, 238; 10:137
Will (slave; King William County), 6:225
Will (slave; Mary Washington's), 7:173
Will (slave; Mr. Chamberlayne's), 6:329
Will (slave; Muddy Hole), 7:139, 227, 313; 8:522
Will (slave; Muddy Hole, 1), 7:376, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 356, 479; 9:54,
238; 10:137
Will (slave; Muddy Hole, 2), 7:376, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 356, 479; 9:54,
238; 10:137
Will (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Will (slave; River farm), 7:377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 357, 479, 522;
9:55, 238; 10:137
Will (slave; Samuel Washington's), 7:173
Will (slave; tradesman), 7:313, 376, 443, 515; 8:104, 220, 356, 479;
9:54
Will (slave; York County), 6:229
Will, Mingo (slave). See Mingo Will
Will Shag (slave; Great House plantation), 8:520-21, 529, 587; 9:47,
58, 73-74, 174, 367-68
Willet, ----, 7:470
Willett, Elizabeth, 9:287
Willett, William, 9:285, 287
William (slave; Hanover County), 6:231
William and Mary, College of, 1:9, 33; 6:387, 389; 7:7, 60; 8:279, 281,
282; 9:154, 161-62, 487
William & Mary (ship), 7:287, 306, 312, 326, 333, 334, 353, 407,
447
William Lee. See Billy (William Lee, Mulatto Will; slave)
Williams, ---- (ferry owner), 9:406
Williams, ---- (of Philadelphia), 9:352, 353
Williams, Charles, 4:395
Williams, Daniel (of Pennsylvania), 8:516-17
Williams, Daniel (sergeant), 3:187, 188
Williams, Edward, 7:383; 8:145; 10:77, 80; tobacco from, 7:4; id., 7:9;
8:474; account with, 7:105, 106, 209, 333, 352, 393, 430, 461, 508; 8:112,
322, 356, 473; 9:53, 237; petition for land grant, 8:31; borrows money,
8:60
Williams, Evan (of Prince William County), 10:215
Williams, George, 8:147
Williams, Henry, 3:253, 257; 4:277; 5:37-38, 38, 270, 271
Williams, James (of Fairfax County), 10:342
Williams, James (soldier), 4:390
Williams, John, 1:33; 2:289; 3:72, 77-79, 152-53, 188; 4:108; military
service, 2:14, 112, 136, 149, 192, 243; 3:153, 281, 429, 456; 4:77; appointments
and assignments, 2:40, 42, 261; 3:252; 4:166, 190, 203, 204, 255; id.,
2:113; 3:18; payment of, 2:191; wounded, 3:74; and skirmish, 3:78; dispute
with John Stewart, 3:387; company of, 3:454; and Indians, 4:119, 120,
124; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22, 151
Williams, John (church elder), 10:251
Williams, John (of Fairfax County), 7:383; 8:146, 147, 148
Williams, John (Run), 7:383
Williams, John (soldier), 6:47
Williams, Joseph (Josiah; soldier; Amelia County), 4:391
Williams, Joseph (soldier; Isle of White County), 4:41
Williams, Owen, 7:383
Williams, Thomas (cooper), 8:222, 531, 533, 556; 9:1, 31, 53
Williams, Thomas (landowner), 1:23
Williams, Thomas (soldier), 6:36, 37
Williams, William, 8:145, 146; 10:77, 80
Williamsburg: troops from, 4:278, 361; postmaster at, 4:375; Custis estate
in, 6:217, 246-47, 283; horse racing at, 6:370, 371, 406, 474; 7:210,
212, 298, 440, 478, 479; 8:192, 193-94; fairs at, 7:5; gunpowder removed
from magazine, 10:340-41, 344, 346
Williamson, ---- (of Fairfax County), 10:129, 144, 150
Williamson, Benjamin, 5:416; 6:428
Williamson, Nathan, 5:415-16, 449
Williamson, William, 10:131
Williamson's farm, 6:428; 7:67
Williams's ferry, 6:407
Williams's Folly (Maryland), 10:304
Williams's Gap. See Snickers's Gap
Willie, William, 6:466
Willinawaw (Woolenawa; Indian), 7:56, 57
Willing, Morris, & Co., 10:358, 359
Willing & Morris, 9:83; 10:367, 369
Willing Maid (ship), 9:166
Willis, Anne Alexander Smith, 9:468
Willis, Anne Carter Champe. See Champe, Anne Carter
Willis, Augustine, 9:351, 355, 396, 412
Willis, Dulick, 7:417, 418
Willis, Elizabeth Carter, 9:468
Willis, Elizabeth Edwards, 10:86
Willis, Francis, Jr., 10:80, 81, 258; id., 9:153; as agent for George
William Fairfax, 9:298, 328, 341, 351, 387, 412, 447; 10:21, 281-84; account
with, 9:355, 396; 10:194; family of, 9:468; at Mount Vernon, 10:60, 198;
and Belvoir sale, 10:86, 193, 199; and rental of Belvoir, 10:94-95; letters
from: to GW, 9:306-7, 319, 324-25, 350-51, 402, 412; 10:60, 74, 85-87,
160, 198-99; letters to: from GW, 10:46, 53; from Thomas Lowry,
10:199
Willis, Francis (c.1718-1782): letters from: to GW, 9:467-68
Willis, Henry (d. 1740), 9:468; 10:347
Willis, John (Fat Jack), 10:346-47
Willis, John (of Brunswick County), 1:104, 109, 211
Willis, John (sergeant), 1:104
Willis, Lewis, 9:468; 10:347
Willis, Mary Champe, 9:468
Willis, Mildred Smith, 1:104
Willis, Mildred Washington Lewis Gregory, 10:347
Willis, Thomas, 6:288
Willis, William (from Isle of Wight County), 4:42
Willis, William (from Surry County), 4:43
Wills, Joseph, 3:253, 258
Wills Creek (Maryland), 1:45, 59, 83, 84, 173, 205, 213-14, 248; 2:312;
4:7; 5:312
Wills family, 8:71-72; 9:42
Will the Hatter, 5:306
Wilper (Woelpper), John David, 2:143, 153; 3:229, 256; 9:315, 345; 10:338;
id., 2:143-44; 3:194-95; 5:251; 6:8; military service, 2:145, 146, 147,
220, 272, 318, 319; 3:252, 271; 4:111; and pay for his men, 6:134; and
ad for GW's western lands, 9:280; and bounty lands, 9:327-28, 329, 331,
359, 360, 363, 364, 366; 10:3, 7, 160, 215, 224, 241; on Thomas Bullitt's
survey trip, 9:392; at Mount Vernon, 10:294; and nullification of surveys,
10:320; letters from: to GW, 6:7-8; 9:356; 10:3-7; letters to:
from George Mercer, 2:149-50; from GW, 4:186-87; 5:250-51; 9:391-93, 468
Wilson, ----: paints chariot, 6:370; account with GW, 7:105; cloth purchased
from, 7:236
Wilson, ---- (corporal), 3:213, 222
Wilson, Aquila, 3:301-2
Wilson, Cumberland, 7:496; 8:382; 9:19, 21
Wilson, George, 3:134; 7:338-39, 340
Wilson, James, 5:337
Wilson, James, & Sons, 9:399
Wilson, Jeremiah, 4:390
Wilson, John (of Augusta County), 5:264
Wilson, John (of Frederick County), 5:340
Wilson, John (of Somerset County), 7:374
Wilson, John (soldier; 1), 9:122, 145
Wilson, John (soldier; 2), 9:122, 145
Wilson, John, & Co., 6:450
Wilson, John & James, 9:399
Wilson, Joseph, 8:222
Wilson, Mary, 8:169, 177, 193
Wilson, Peggy Custis, 7:374
Wilson, Robert, 5:336; 7:105, 108
Wilson, Robert, Jr., 5:337
Wilson, Samuel (of Somerset County), 7:374
Wilson, Samuel (soldier), 3:301-2
Wilson, Stephen, 3:131, 133
Wilson, Thomas, 5:337
Wilson, William (of Alexandria), 9:396, 399; 10:249, 317, 359
Wilson, William (of Augusta County), 3:131, 133
Wilson, William (of Frederick County), 5:337
Wilson, William, & Co., 8:554
Wilson, Wilmore, 9:259, 260
Wilson (ship), 6:460, 461
Wilson's Mill Run. See Bolar Run (Wilson's Mill Run)
Wilton, 5:196; 6:466
Wiltshire, Henry, 4:391
Winchester, 1:263; 3:266; called a "vile hole," 1:290; fort at, 3:49-50,
60, 62, 63, 86, 87-88, 109; troops at, 3:83, 137, 180; 4:244; 5:114, 119,
136, 139, 143; draftees rendezvous at, 3:313; war proclaimed at, 3:397;
petition from inhabitants of, 4:53; and embezzlement of military goods,
5:7, 22; misconduct of tavern keepers at, 5:10-12; Indians at, 5:13, 27,
124, 127; meeting at, 5:169, 170; state of affairs at, 5:199-204; bill
to regulate hogs in, 7:6, 20; curious well near, 7:59. See also
Fort Loudoun (Virginia)
Windle, Augustus, 5:336
Windle, Christopher, 5:336
Windle, Valentine, 5:337
Windsor, Thomas, 7:383; 8:145, 146
Windsor (Westmoreland County), 8:425
Windsor (Winsor), William, 3:321; 4:425
Wingate, Edmund, 6:293
Wingate, Henry, 7:383
Winn, George, 8:146, 147
Winna (slave), 7:173
Winney (slave; house servant), 7:443, 515; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:55
Winney (slave; John Posey's), 8:34
Winney (Winna; slave; Home farm), 9:54, 55, 238; 10:137
Winny (slave; John Augustine Washington's), 7:173
Winny (Winna; slave; John Augustine Washington's), 7:173
Winslow, John, 3:215, 287, 288, 347
Winston, William, 8:157, 158-59
Winter, John, 6:329-30
Winterbottom, John, 3:117, 215, 237, 257
A winter evening conference between neighbours, 6:291; 7:347
Wintle, Rebecca, 6:397, 403
Wintle, Richard, 7:196
Winy (slave; Bullskin plantation), 6:420-21, 445
The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation, 7:346,
349
Wise, ---- (millowner), 8:393
Wise, George, 10:197
Wise, Peter, 8:512, 556, 557; 10:317
Wiseley, Edward, 9:505
Wiseman, Richard, 6:286
Wisheart, Henry, 6:430; 7:383
Wissecapoway (Captain Morgan; Indian), 10:184
With (Waith), Edmond, 3:135; 4:102, 103
Withers, Ralph, 5:340
Withers, William (clerk), 4:107; 5:32; id., 1:208; 2:113-14; 3:426; as
Robert Dinwiddie's clerk, 2:1, 113; 3:62, 444; 4:154-55, 156, 256; sends
supplies, 2:113-14, 127, 128, 168, 294; and payment of accounts, 2:181;
and officers' commissions, 4:166-67; letters from: to GW, 2:113-14,
356; to Andrew Lewis, 4:393-94
Withers, William (soldier), 4:391
Witherspoon, John (Princeton College), 8:548; 9:227, 228
Witherspoon. See also Weatherspoon
Witman, Samuel, 9:280
Wit's common-wealth, 6:294; 7:347
Woddrop, Robert, 7:219-22, 224; 8:153
Wodrow, Alexander (of Virginia), 1:152; id., 1:153; 3:157, 246; 4:425;
5:334, 343; 6:315; praised, 2:288; money borrowed from, 3:156; as sutler,
3:245-46, 256; and John Hamilton, 4:424, 426; 5:11; and House of Burgesses
election, 5:333-34, 343; 7:15, 16; and John Baylis, 5:83-86; and Peter
Steenbergen, 5:164; money paid to, 6:313
Woffing, Edward, 9:1
Wolfe, James, 5:173-74; 6:19
Wolfe, P., 7:129
Wolgamote, Joseph: letters from: to GW, 5:232-33
Wollaston, John, 6:252, 258
Wollaston, William, 9:343, 344
Women: land owned by, 1:20, 22, 26, 28, 29, 31; 9:4, 261; 10:131; arrested,
1:48-49; sentenced to whipping, 1:49; gamble, 1:92; as interpreters, 1:122;
as Indian leaders, 1:135; as merchants, 1:217, 219; 6:248, 334, 337, 397;
7:22, 24, 28, 29, 30, 290; 8:45, 47, 48, 132, 133, 134, 296, 297, 399,
454, 504, 507, 558, 559, 560, 562, 563-64, 566; 9:31, 109-10; 10:106;
own mill, 1:263; accompany army, 1:273, 321; 2:270; 3:339; 4:176, 181,
342; 5:4, 30, 300; 6:1, 60, 128; as nurses, 2:139, 140, 259; 6:1; 7:4,
276; misconduct of, 2:241; sow mutiny among soldiers, 2:241; as indentured
servants, 2:301; 7:508; 10:134, 136, 137-38; captured by Indians, 2:301;
run off with officers, 2:301-3, 321-22; as ministers, 3:119; hire out
slaves, 6:200; 7:508; deal with British merchants, 6:203; lend money,
6:203; manage estates, 6:203; loans made to, 6:255; 7:261; 9:33, 396,
397-98; 10:76; run taverns or ordinaries, 6:340, 481; 7:7, 212; 8:194,
455, 532; 10:80, 357; separated from husband, 7:179; 10:67; as midwives,
7:190, 308, 482, 515; 9:1, 53, 58, 228, 253, 432; 10:20, 39, 168, 196;
as executors of wills, 8:66; Portuguese, 8:75-76; education of, 8:199,
460, 461; land willed to, 8:210, 212, 216, 218, 224, 316, 547; 10:202,
296, 349; married for their wealth, 8:214-15; 9:468; legal action by and
against, 8:216, 465, 472; 9:384; 10:30-31, 66-67, 253; and the Virginia
Association, 8:227; fortunes wasted, 8:244-46; marital disputes, 8:255,
309, 310; 9:488-89; mistreatment of, 8:255, 411, 419; wills of, 8:272,
547; 9:488-89; 10:158; "calamitous Fate" of, 8:309-11; economic distress
of, 8:311; 10:48-50; as newspaper publishers, 8:386; 10:42, 140; convey
land, 8:418; inheritances of, 9:24-25, 42, 53, 54, 261, 283, 305-6, 321,
379; 10:84; clandestine engagement of, 9:209-13; testify in court, 9:233;
wife unwilling to move from home, 9:291, 376, 377; 10:33; rent land, 9:296;
10:86; books for, 9:371; and refusal to sign deed, 9:377-78, 424, 455-56,
458-59, 479; give slaves away, 9:433-34; and refusal to relinquish dower
rights, 9:479-81; 10:33; mortgages given to, 10:12, 188, 326-27, 328-29;
petition colony for husband's losses, 10:48-50; "debauched," 10:187; seduction
of, 10:187; prepare crops, 10:253; sell land, 10:304; rent land, 10:219;
rights as widows, 6:203. See also Savage, Margaret
Wood, ---- (captain), 7:188, 189
Wood, ---- (Mrs.), 7:210, 212
Wood, David, 1:23
Wood, Draper Simon (king's commissary), 1:141-43, 144, 153-54, 188, 221;
6:105, 152, 155-56
Wood, James (landowner), 8:172
Wood, James (1707-1759), 5:334; 6:135; 8:176; id., 1:10; 2:352; 5:271,
323; describes capitulation of Fort Necessity, 1:162; and Frederick court,
2:39; abandons plantation, 2:351; 3:110, 167, 168; and militia, 3:117;
his fort, 3:193; and Frederick County records, 5:6; and GW's Burgesses
election, 5:264, 271, 307, 323, 343, 349; 7:45; illness of, 5:308, 351-52,
393; family of, 9:199; visits John Connolly, 9:245; letters from:
to GW, 5:271; letters to: from GW, 5:349
Wood, James (1741-1813), 9:204, 323-24, 330, 483, 500; 10:99-100; letters
from: to GW, 9:352; letters to: from GW, 9:199-200, 205-7,
490
Wood, James (of Fauquier County), 8:177
Wood, Jeremiah, 1:26; 7:461
Wood, John (servant), 10:134, 136
Wood, John (soldier), 4:275
Wood, Mary Rutherford, 5:271, 349; 9:490
Wood, Thomas (of Frederick County), 4:424, 425; 5:11; 7:3, 8
Wood, William, Jr., 8:170, 177; 9:167
Woodall, John, 6:414
Woodfin, John, 4:404
Woodford, ----, 5:38, 39
Woodford, Thomas, 6:355, 392
Woodford, William, Sr., 3:145
Woodford, William, Jr. (1734-1780), 4:242, 346; and militia, 3:137, 150,
237; id., 3:145; 4:243; 5:39, 163; military service, 4:205, 206, 243,
296, 297, 298, 340, 342; 5:163; 6:102-3; and provisions at Fort Cumberland,
4:360, 385, 387, 428; and Peter Steenbergen, 5:162-63, 174, 187-88; pay
for, 5:216; address to GW, 6:178-81; and bounty lands, 9:94-95; letters
from: to GW, 5:187-88; letters to: from GW, 3:144-45
Woodlief, Robert, 3:189, 190
Woodrow, Alexander (of North Carolina), 1:175, 176
Woodrow. See also Wodrow
Woods, Thomas (sheriff), 8:514
Wood's fort, 3:193
Woodson, Obadiah, 2:299
Woods River. See New River
Woodstock, Va., 7:6, 20; 8:191; 9:489
Woodstock (Stafford County), 6:339, 451
Woodward, Henry, 2:67, 124, 211; 3:91, 101, 107, 113, 191; 4:77, 191,
273, 277, 300, 327, 345, 346-47; 5:455; at Battle of the Monongahela,
1:342; company of, 2:25, 46, 66, 81, 119, 162, 261, 265; 3:156, 212, 240,
251, 253, 258, 263, 429; 4:346, 409; 5:6, 66, 67, 91, 124, 135, 177, 197,
235, 258, 375-76; 6:5, 26, 32, 96, 128, 146; promoted to captain, 2:40,
42; id., 2:66-67; 5:328; 7:57; at Fort Cumberland, 2:76; orders to, 2:86;
3:89, 94, 154, 161, 253; 4:193; military service, 2:114, 136, 160, 288,
289; 3:72, 75, 76, 77-79, 151-54, 188, 206, 238, 242-46, 447; 4:153, 154,
155, 166, 254, 347, 351, 362, 392, 393, 395, 406, 432; 5:201, 417; 6:118;
movements of, 2:159; 5:193, 194, 446; 7:56; pilots for, 3:93; seeks sermons
for soldiers, 3:295; funds for, 4:287; and Peter Steenbergen, 5:164; debt
to Charles Dick, 5:327; tents for, 5:348; address to GW, 6:178-81; and
Thomas Bullitt's defeat, 6:346-47; letters from: to John Dagworthy,
2:234; to GW, 4:18-22; letters to: from GW, 2:78; 3:90, 96-97,
175; 4:350-51
Woolf, Peter, 5:334
Wootton, Thomas Sprigg, 9:493
Work, Patrick, 6:50, 52, 57, 58, 121, 151, 155
Works (Cowley), 6:285
Works (Josephus), 6:287
The works of Alexander Pope, 6:293
The works of King Charles I., both civil and sacred, 6:291; 7:347
The works of Mr. John Oldham, 6:287
The Works of the learned Sir Thomas Brown, 6:292, 293
Wormeley, Ralph, Sr. (1715-1790), 6:198; 7:330, 331; 8:570; 9:404; id.,
6:199; 7:286; 8:153; 9:259; and bill of exchange, 6:259; 7:253; his tobacco,
7:34; and Custis estate, 7:84; GW visits, 7:285; and Mississippi Company,
8:153; lands of, 8:568; recommends steward, 8:579, 580; and Lord Dunmore,
9:258; his hunting lodge, 9:405; his wheat, 10:331
Wormeley, Ralph, Jr. (1744-1806), 8:153; 9:121, 258, 259, 405
Worthington, ----: lives on GW's Hampshire land, 9:439
Worthington, Robert, 1:48; 5:339; 9:168-69
Worthington, Samuel, 1:27
Wotton, William, 6:288
Wraxall, Peter: letters to: from Sir William Johnson, 3:233
Wray, James, 6:254
Wray, Keith, 7:134
Wren, James, 7:362, 383, 384, 407, 441; 8:136, 145-46, 418; 9:181-82,
225-26
Wren, Thomas, 7:362, 383, 384; 8:146, 147
Wren, Thomas, Jr., 7:383
Wren, William, 7:383; 8:146, 147
Wright, Alexander, 3:273; 4:103
Wright, David, 5:336
Wright, George, 2:113, 224; 5:336
Wright, Jacob, 5:336
Wright, James (doctor), 7:342, 440
Wright, James (of Frederick County), 5:335
Wright, James (of London), 1:219
Wright, John (officer), 1:342; 3:257; 9:359
Wright, John (of Frederick County), 5:340
Wright, Peter: letters to: from Charles Yates, 10:78
Wright, Robert, 7:333, 334
Wright, Thomas, 3:253, 259
Wright, William, 1:199, 207; recommended, 1:192; id., 1:193, 200, 269;
promoted, 1:208; at Fort Dinwiddie, 2:19; as cadet, 8:451; and bounty
lands, 9:360, 364, 366, 392; 10:75, 78
Wronghead, Sir Francis, 8:262, 263
Wroughton, Mary, 9:309; 10:12, 188, 195, 213, 326, 327, 328-29
Wyandot (Indians), 6:364. See also Indians
Wyatt, ----: and land near Romancoke, 9:427
Wylie, Hugh, 7:33, 34, 50, 64, 432, 460
Wythe, George, 2:296; 6:426; 9:401; and GW's dispute with Anthony Strother,
5:79; id., 5:80; and Clifton suit, 6:410; petition for land grant, 8:31;
and Byrd lottery, 8:194; and guardian accounts, 8:202, 205, 459, 463;
account with, 8:305, 346; and Dunbar suit, 8:497; and purchase of William
Black's lands, 9:377, 399, 400, 401, 423, 425, 427-28, 429, 470, 471-73,
479; 10:22, 41; and William Byrd's trustees' bond, 9:457; and Savage affair,
10:33, 35; and list of exports and imports, 10:151; and bloomery lands,
10:286; letters from: to GW, 6:422-25, 431; 9:472; letters to:
from GW, 6:422; 9:458-59. See also Errata
Wytheville, Va., 7:52
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Yarrico (slave; Thomas Walker's), 7:315
Yates, Charles, 6:474, 475; 7:366, 367, 437; 8:54; 10:75, 353; letters
from: to GW, 9:336-37; 10:345; to Peter Wright, 10:78
Yates, Michael, 9:398
Yates, Richard, 6:332, 336, 373; 7:61, 62, 63
Yates (Yeats), James, 6:246, 272, 273, 281
Yeats (Yates), Robert, 3:206, 238, 239
Yellow Creek, 1:139; 10:52, 53, 54
Yew Hill, 8:170
Yohogania County, 10:59, 257
York, duke of, 7:283
York, Pa., 2:180
York (ship), 6:411
York (slave; York County), 6:229
York County, 10:150; troops from, 4:290; Custis estate in, 6:217-18,
229, 231, 232, 235, 246-47, 254, 272, 312; 8:126, 587-88; 9:258; sheriff
of, 10:42
Yorke, Charles, 9:466
Yorktown (York), Va., 5:436
Yorktown (York), Va. lottery, 9:20, 21
Youghiogheny River, 1:100; 5:355; 8:40
Youghiogheny River, Great Crossing of, 1:98, 326; 3:166; 5:318, 358
Youghtanno (Indian), 4:140, 142, 144, 158-59, 170, 186, 195-96, 229
Young, ---- (Mrs.), 10:77
Young, ---- (of Alexandria), 9:36
Young, David, 7:383; 8:144
Young, Dorothy, 10:80
Young, George, 9:502, 510, 512-13, 515; 10:17, 47, 48, 137, 154, 163,
165, 169, 334; recommended, 9:440-41; GW hires, 9:441, 450-51, 452-53;
and importation of Palatines, 9:493, 498, 509; expenses of, 9:504, 505;
account with, 10:19, 105, 195, 220, 221; pursues servant, 10:20; id.,
10:137; travels to Youghiogheny, 10:168; and GW's mill, 10:207; letters
to: from GW, 9:452
Young, Henry (Harry), 10:104-5, 106
Young, James (sergeant), 3:253, 258-59; 4:276
Young, John (landowner), 1:29, 35
Young, John (lieutenant colonel), 4:367, 368; 5:15, 19, 91, 92
Young, John (of Frederick County), 5:342
Young, John (sailor), 10:209
Young, John (ship captain), 8:142
Young Briton (horse), 8:42
Younger, ---- (ship captain), 4:39, 400, 401, 402; 5:74
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