disapproved of, 38, 39, 238; question of, settled by compromise, 164, 165.
Slaves, _W_.'s relations with, 38, 237-239; number of, in Colonies, in 1775, 68.
South Carolina, population of, in 1775, 68; British victories in, 122; 165.
Sparks, Jared, his _Life of Washington_, defects of, 3; quoted, 113,116 and _n_., 146.
Spearing, Ann, 31.
Stamp Act, 49, 51, 52, 66.
Stark, John, defeats Burgoyne at Bennington, 92.
State debts, assumption of, by national government, how secured, 182-185; favored by _W_., 188.
State rights, problem of, 167; a fundamental subject of difference, 187.
States of the Confederation, _W_.'s farewell letter to governors of, 135; after the Revolution, 152, 156; their relations to one another, 152, 153; lack of coherence among, 154, 155; foreign relations of, ignominious, 155; delegates of, in Constitutional Convention, 160-162; ratification by, 175, 174.
And _see_ Paris, Treaty of (1783).
Statues of _W_., 148.
Steuben, Baron Frederick W.von, 95, 110, 111.
Stone, F.D., _Struggle for the Delaware_, quoted, 100, 101.
Strong, Caleb, 161, 168.
Stuart, Gilbert, portraits of _W_., 149.
Sulgrave, English home of Washington family, 1.
Sullivan, John, defeated on Long Island, 77.
Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles M.de, and the X.Y.Z.mission, 216.
Tariff, _W_.'s view of a, 189.
Tarleton, Sir Banastre, 122.
"Taxation without representation," 55, 57.
Thanacarishon, Seneca chief, quoted, on _W_.

14, 15.
Thomas, John, 71.
Ticonderoga, taken by Burgoyne, 91.
Tobacco-raising in Virginia, 39, 40.
Toner, J.M., _The Daily Journal of George Washington_, 11 _n_.
Trenton, Battle of, and its effect, 86, 87.
Trumbull, Jonathan, letter of _W_.

to, 231.
Tryon, William, 79.
United States, debt of Confederation turned over to, 182; excitement in, over Citizen Genet, 195 _ff_.; anomalous position of, between France and England, 205, 206; the first country in which free speech existed, 222; effect of _W_.'s example on world's opinion of, 259.
United States Bank, 189.
Valley Forge, American army in winter quarters at, 100 _ff_., 118.
Van Braam, Jacob, 14.
Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Count de, favors cause of the Colonies, 94; secures cooeperation of Spain, 99; 142.
Vernon, Edward, Admiral, 5, 9.
Victoria, Queen, 153.
Virginia, effect in, of Braddock's defeat, 24, 25; in the 1750's, 44, 45; fox-hunting and horse-racing, 45,46; opposition in, to acts of the Crown, 50, 51; state of opinion in, 55, 56; population of, in 1775, 67, 68; jealousy between Mass, and, 64; 164, 166.
Virginia House of Burgesses, _W_.

a member of, 36, 37; adopts Mason's plan of association, 53.
Walpole, Horace, 18.
Washington, Augustine, _W.'s_ father, marries Mary Ball, 1.
Washington, George, ancestry, 1; birth, 1, 2; childhood and education, 2; errors of Weems's biography, 2, 3; absurdity of the cherry-tree story, 2; Sparks's ill-advised editing of letters of, 3, 4; and Mather's _Young Man's Companion_, 4; surveys Fairfax estate, 5; results of his experience as surveyor, 5; his journals, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 37, 38, 39, 169; his disposition, 7, 8; attention, to dress, 8, 9; declines appointment as midshipman, 9; commissioned major of militia, 9; visit to Barbados, 9, 10; as manager of Mt.

Vernon, 12; sent by Dinwiddie on mission of warning to French, 14; and the "Half-King," 14, 15; second in command of Fry's expedition, 15_ff_.; was he a "silent man"?
17, 18; a volunteer on Braddock's expedition, 20, 21; his account of the defeat, 22, 23; his conduct in the battle, 23; moral results of his campaigning, 25, 26; his early love-affairs, 30, 31; and Mary Philipse, 31, 32; his physique, 32, 69; a sound thinker, 33, 70; inherits Mt.