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A
Adams, John, 23, 233, 241, 245, 250–51, 259–61, 264, 277
Alexander, James, 134–35
Alexander, William, 69–70, 73–74, 76, 78–79, 81
Alien Act, 242
Allegheny County, 216–17
Allen, Anne Penn, 203
Allen, James, 203
American Whigs, 20
Ames, Fisher, 256
Applewhaite, Thomas, 323
Arlington House, 336
Arnold, Benedict, 51, 87–93, 123, 285, 288–89, 335
Articles of Confederation, 162–63, 168, 172, 175, 178
Ashley River, 148
Avery, Bilby H., 223
B
Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 233
Ballston Springs, 190
Barnett, Angelica, 211
Barney, William B., 303
Battle of Brandywine, 77, 97, 150, 179, 285, 287
Battle of Cannae, 287
Battle of Charlotte, 285
Battle of Eutaw Springs, 143–44, 151, 153, 179
Battle of Falkirk Muir, 14
Battle of Fredericksburg, 339
Battle of Great Bridge, 77
Battle of Monmouth, 63, 64, 77, 256, 287
Battle of White Plains, 36
Bayard, James, 266
Beckwith, George, 317–18
Bells Mill, 114
Belvoir, 275
Berkeley, Carter, 290
Bininez, Alexander, 319
Birmingham Friends Meeting House, 47
Black River, 124
Blackburn Family, 7
Blair, Francis P., 339
Bland, Mary, 4
Bogue, John, 292
Boston’s Custom House, 11
Bower Hill, 217–18
Boyd, Andrew, 108
Boyd, James C., 309
Boyd’s Ferry, 109
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 19, 22, 218, 228, 231
Braddock, Edward, 8
Braddock, William, 225
Bradford, David, 218, 221, 227
Brandy Wine River, 46
Breckinridge, James, 280
British 19th Regiment, 139
British 2nd Guards Battalion, 117–18
British East India Trading Company, 27
Britton’s Ferry, 124
Brock, William, 283
Brooke, Robert, 233
Broom, Thomas, 107
Brown, Tarleton, 133
Bruton Parish Church, 13
Burke, Thomas, 85–86
Burr, Aaron, 19, 42, 259, 261, 276
Bush River, 137
Byrd, Otway, 221
C
Calendar, James Thomas, 259
Calhoun, John C., 294
Campbell, George, 103
Carnegie, Lucy, 343
Carnes, Patrick, 64, 90, 102, 162
Carter, Bernard, 273, 274, 287, 294
Carter, Charles, 205–206
Carter, Lucy Lee, 163, 194–95, 203, 269–70, 310
Catawba River, 104
Causten, James, 326–27, 330–31
Champe, John, 62, 89–93, 140, 285
Charles River, 205
Charles the First, 11
Chevaux-de-frise, 49
Cheves, Langdon, 294
Clark, Jonathan, 70–71, 73–74, 76, 80–81
Clarke, Elijah, 13–34
Clinton, Henry, 75, 84, 88, 91, 128, 139, 159
Cliosophic literary society, 20
Cobb Hall, 2
Coffin, John, 141–43
College of New Jersey, 15, 17–19, 21, 23, 26, 32, 41, 101, 165, 228, 262, 265
College of William and Mary, 4
Congressional Committee of the Treasury, 40
Constitutional Convention, 168, 172
Continental Congress, 23, 26, 28, 30–32, 36, 42, 51, 61–62, 99, 144, 161–62, 179, 183, 298
Conyers, John, 125
Cornwallis, Charles, 37, 39, 47, 63, 95–96, 104–11, 113–16, 118, 122–23, 131, 138–40, 143–46, 180
Crewe, Major Richard, 54–55
Cruger, John Harris, 135–37, 141–43, 149
Cumberland Island, 331, 342–43
Custis, George Washington Parke, 336–37
Custis, Mary, 336–38
D’Estaing, Comte, 84
Dance, George, 261
Daverser’s Ferry, 47
Davie, William R., 285–86
Day, Luke, 168
Dearborn, Henry, 294
Declaration of Independence, 163, 175, 239
Declaration of the Rights of Man, 204
Declaratory Act, 11
Delaware Bay, 42
Delaware Continentals, 116, 142
Delaware River, 36–37, 41, 254
Department of State, 237
Dickinson, John, 21
Don Diego de Gardoqui, 164
Doyle, John, 124
E
Edisto River, 148
Edwards, Jonathan, 19
Elizabethtown Point, 91
Eutaw Springs, 141, 143–44, 151, 153, 179
F
Fairfax Courthouse, 272
Fairfax property, 190, 239, 336
Farley, Maria, 205
Fendall, Philip, 158
Fenton, Elijah, 324
Finley, Samuel, 15
First Continental Dragoons, 40, 42
Fithian, Philip, 29
Fitzhugh, William Henry, 292, 295
Fort Billingsport, 49
Fort Cornwallis, 131–32, 134, 319
Fort Cumberland, 223–24
Fort Duquesne, 8
Fort Grierson, 132
Fort Mercer, 49–50
Fort Mifflin, 49–50
Fort Washington, 36
Foulke, Hannah, 50
Francisco de Miranda, 204
Francisco, Peter, 118
Franklin Square, 248
Franklin, Peter, 211
French and Indian War, 10, 26, 64, 69, 77, 223, 225
Freneau, Philip, 19, 22, 197, 211
Friday’s Ferry, 130
G
Gale, Thaddeus, 302
Genet, Edmond-Charles, 209–10, 213–14, 219–20
Gerard, Conrad Alexandre, 65
Germain, George, 109
Giles, William B., 236
Goddard, William, 285
Grayson, William, 175
Great Falls, 183, 186, 190, 193, 212, 234, 238
Great Salisbury road, 116, 118
Green, Ashbel, 18
Greene, Catharine, 65, 75, 327
Greene, Christopher R., 285
Grymes, Charles, 5
Grymes, Lucy, 5
Guilford Courthouse, 105, 115–16, 118–19, 122–23, 143, 179–80, 287, 289, 339
H
Hackensack River, 67–69, 71, 73
Haddrell’s Point, 140
Hamilton, James, 151
Hannah’s Cowpens, 103
Hanson, Alexander Contee, 298–301, 303–10, 327
Harmar, Josiah, 193
Harper, Robert Goodloe, 279–80
Harrison V, Benjamin, 175, 177
Hearts of Oak, 41
Hemmings, Sally, 275
Henderson, William, 141
Henry, Patrick, 11, 28, 33, 36, 172–74, 177, 185, 189, 237, 247, 279
Herndon, Edward, 280
Highlander Regiment, 117
Hoban, James, 212
Hobart Gap, 86
Hollingsworth, Colonel Henry, 57
Holmes Fort, 135–37
House of Burgesses, 2, 4–5, 11, 27, 155, 162
Howe, Robert, 96
Howe, William, 35–36, 42, 46–52, 54, 56, 63, 67, 88
Huger, Isaac, 104
Humphreys, David, 231
Huntington, Samuel, 99
I
Indian Department, 163
Indiana Company, 211
Intolerable Acts, 27
Irby, Edmond, 125
Irvine, Matthew, 129
Irwin’s Ferry, 108
J
Jackson, John, 130
Jacobite Rising, 14
James River, 123, 171, 205–206, 273, 288
Jameson, John, 54
Jamestown, 2
Jay Treaty, 240
Jeffries Ford, 47
Jenkins Hill, 260
Johnson, Robert, 217
Johnston, Zachariah, 215
Jones, Absalom, 258
Jones, Joseph, 166
K
Kentish Guards, 97
King George III, 21, 27, 32, 34, 100, 134
King, Rufus, 317
King’s College, 41
King’s Council, 3
King’s Ferry, 66
Kings American Regiment, 125
Kirkpatrick, Abraham, 218
Knox, Henry, 75, 194, 199, 212, 214–15, 219–20, 223, 237, 242
Knyphausen, Baron Wilhelm von, 86–87
Kosciuszko, Thaddeus, 136, 287
L
Lafayette, Marquis de, 42, 75, 98, 123, 138, 145, 150, 204
Lake Champlain, 87
Laurel Hill, 225–26
Laurens, John, 42, 84, 145, 149–52, 154
Lee, Agnes, 342
Lee, Algernon Sidney, 236, 240
Lee, Anne Kinloch, 260
Lee, Anne, 240, 256, 273, 290, 331, 335–36, 341
Lee, Catherine Mildred, 294
Lee, Charles Carter 244, 269, 321–23, 334–35, 337
Lee, Elizabeth, 240, 244, 260, 271, 273
Lee, Henry II, 4–9, 11, 16–18, 27–28, 30, 155, 167
Lee, Henry, 3–8
Lee, John (Henry’s son), 4
Lee, John, 3
Lee, Mary (Custis), 336–38
Lee, Mary, 4–5
Lee, Matilda, 29, 155–58, 161–63, 167, 174, 187, 190–91, 194, 199, 203, 268, 274, 279–80
Lee, Philip Ludwell, 155, 161, 203, 279
Lee, Portia, 274
Lee, Richard (Henry’s son), 3, 4, 10,
Lee, Richard, 2
Lee, Robert Edward, 275, 336–39
Lee, Sydney Smith, 269, 273, 335, 340
Lee, Thomas Sim, 213
Lee, William Ludwell, 271
Leesylvania, 6–7, 9–11, 18, 28, 32, 63, 124, 167, 251
Lennox, David, 217
Lewis, George, 237
Lincoln, Abraham, 338–40
Lincoln, General Benjamin, 39, 85, 96, 146
Lindsay, William, 34, 55, 61, 79
Little Pee Dee River, 121
Livermore, Samuel, 251–52
Livingston, Brockholst, 19
Livingston, William, 22
Louverture, Toussaint, 201
M
Macon, Nathaniel, 262–63
MacPherson, William, 252
Maham, Hezekiah, 126
Majoribanks, Major John, 141–42
Marion, Francis 100–104, 110, 123–30, 139, 141, 286
Marquis de Malmedy, 141–42
Marshall, James, 212
Marshall, John, 176, 245, 250, 334
Marshall, Thomas, 81
Maryland Regiment, 117–18
Mason, George, 10, 25, 27, 32, 172, 175
Massachusetts 16th Regiment, 65
Massachusetts Bay Sons of Liberty, 32
Maxwell, Andrew, 130
McCarty, Anne Robinson, 334
McClurg, James, 172
McDonald, Angus, 26
McFarlane, James, 218
McHenry, James, 280
McIntosh, John, 319
McKean, Thomas, 144
McLane, Allan, 65, 68, 70–71, 79, 100, 341
McPherson, Donald, 128–29
Meade, Richard Kidder, 68
Meade, William, 313
Mercer, Hugh, 67
Mercer, John, 285
Miami Indians, 193
Middleton, John, 90–91
Miller, David, 107
Miller, William, 217
Monmouth Courthouse, 97
Monroe, James, 259, 297, 315–17
Monticello, 234–35, 246, 259, 276, 289
Morgan, Daniel, 84, 98, 103, 200, 221
Morris, Lewis, 148
Morven, 15
Motte, Rebecca Brewton, 128–29
Moultrie, William, 209
Moylan, Stephen, 58
Mummua, 306–307
Munchhausen, Frederick von, 54, 57
N
Nash, Abner, 119
Nassau Hall, 18–19, 23, 41, 316
Neabsco Creek, 5–7
Nelson, Harry, 301
Nelson, Thomas, 221
Neville, John, 217–18
Nightingale, Phineas Miller, 328,
Ninety-Six (outpost), 131, 135–38, 287
Nomini Hall, 29
O
O’Neal, Ferdinand, 55, 62, 316
Occoquan River, 160
Old South Church, 256
Oldham, Edward, 110
Osgood, Samuel, 191
Otis, Harrison Gray, 266
Oxley, William, 323
P
Page, John, 232
Page, Richard, 308
Parkinson’s Ferry, 219, 225–26
Parliament, 10–11, 27, 30, 34, 245, 296
Passaic River, 98
Peale, Charles Wilson, 158–59, 203, 267
Pee Dee River, 100, 102, 104, 121, 124
Pendleton, Edmund, 175
Pendleton, Nathaniel, 142, 272, 276, 286
Perceval, Spencer, 296
Peyton, Henry, 61, 69, 73, 79, 100
Phillips, William, 138
Pickens, Andrew, 110–13, 131–34, 141, 200
Pickering, Timothy, 237–38
Piece, Ransdell, 272
Pierce, John, 313–14
Pinckney, Thomas, 241–42, 261, 294
Point of Fork, 235
Port’s Ferry, 104
Porteus, Bishop Beilby, 27
Potts, John Jr., 295
Powell, Leven, 246
Power, Robert, 107
Powers, John, 227
Preston, William, 6
Prime Minister Lord North, 159
Princeton, 15–23, 29, 124, 165
Prune Street Prison, 268
Pyle’s Hacking Match, 113
Q
Quarles, Robert, 235
Queens’ Rangers, 54
Raleigh Tavern, 27
Ramsey, Dennis, 185
Ramsey’s Mill, 122–23
Randolph, Edmund, 172, 176, 178, 217
Rappahannock River, 2, 11, 147
Rawdon, Francis, 124, 127–30, 135–37, 140
Redstone Fort, 216
Regiment of Dragoons, 54
Rice, Holman, 34
Richmond Literary Society, 211
Ripon Lodge, 7
Rittenhouse, David, 17
Roche, Patrick, 142–43
Rose, John, 270
Rowarth, Samuel, 131–32
Rudulph, John, 62
Rudulph, Michael, 62, 99–100, 102–103, 144
Rush, Benjamin, 15–16
Rutledge, John, 100
S
Saluda River, 137
Sanford, Robert, 270
Santee Indian, 125
Scarlatti, Domenico, 156
Schuylkill River, 47, 48, 49, 52, 286
Scott, Charles, 64
Secretary of the Navy, 265
Sedgwick, Theodore, 251–52
Sedition Acts, 242
Shaw, James, 328
Shawnee Indians, 193, 194, 198
Shays rebellion, 340
Shays, Daniel, 168
Sheridan, Henry, 142
Shippen, Peggy, 88
Shippen, William Jr., 18–19
Shippen, William Sr., 18
Shirley, 205, 208, 222, 236, 270, 273, 274
Siege of Boston, 30, 35, 83, 105
Siege of Charleston, 101
Siege of Ninety-Six, 287
Slacum, Mary Louisa, 313
Smith, Levi, 130
Smith, William Stephens, 204
Smith’s Clove, 81
Society of Cincinnati, 161, 168, 234
Society of Philadelphia, 213
Spotswood, Alexander, 237, 271
Spotsylvania Courthouse, 283, 286
Sprig, Otho, 300
SS John Adams, 334
St. Clair, Arthur, 88, 92, 147, 194, 198–99, 200
St. Leger, Barry, 42
Stedman, Charles, 288
Steptoe, Elizabeth, 155
Steuben, Baron von, 58
Stevens, Edward, 96
Stewart, Alexander, 140–41, 143
Stewart, John, 67
Storm, Thomas, 319
Stricker, John, 302–306
Stuart, Charles Edward, 14
Stuart, Gilbert, 267–68
Sumter, Thomas, 127, 131, 136, 139, 200
Susquehanna River, 183
Sutherland, William, 67–68, 75
T
Tarleton, Banastre, 55, 62, 95–96, 101, 103–104, 110–14, 116–17, 133
Taylor, George K., 221
Taylor, Robert B., 316
Telegraph Hill, 339
Thatcher, James, 65
Thompson, William, 26
Three Pigeons Tavern, 90
Tilghman, Tench, 41
Todd, Dolley Payne, 222
Tories, 104, 112, 138, 303, 308
Towe, William, 201
U
Union Jack, 160
University of Edinburgh, 13, 15
V
Van Buskirk, Abraham, 68
Van Horne, Philip, 39
Vauxhall bridge, 87
Virginia Convention, 28, 32–33
Virginia Declaration of Rights, 32
Virginia General Assembly, 246
W
Wabash River, 198
Wagner, Jacob, 298
Walker, Elizabeth, 276
Walker, John, 275–76
War for Independence, 38, 162, 314
Warfield, Peregrine, 300
Warren, John Borlase, 316
Washington and Lee University, 343
Washington, Augustine, 7
Washington, George Augustine, 62
Washington, Martha, 65, 249, 267, 336
Washington, William Augustine, 283
Washington, William, 114–115, 142
Watermelon Army, 223
Wayne, Anthony, 57–58, 64, 66–67, 77–78, 83, 85–86, 100, 145, 200
Weedon, George, 80
Weitzel, Adam, 114
Wellford, Robert, 225
Westmoreland Resolves, 11
Whiskey Insurrection, 232, 234
Wilkinson, James, 321
Williams, David, 117
Williams, Otho Holland, 105, 114, 118, 310
Wills River, 223
Wilson, James, 238
Wister, Daniel, 50–51
Wister, Sally, 51
Witherspoon, John, 13–20, 22–23, 30, 316
Wright, Isaac, 106–107
Wright, Joseph, 231–32
Wyatt, Francis, 2
Wyeth, George, 172
Y
Yadkin River, 104–105
York Island, 254
Z