West Indies, trade of continental colonies with, 120, 150, 166; importance for English colonial system, 138; planters influential in Parliament, 149. West Point, 268. Western lands, ceded to the Federal Government, 265. Westward movement, 104. _See_ Frontier. Wethersfield, 104. Whig oligarchy, attitude toward the colonies, 148 _ff._; and the Seven Years' War, 158. Whigs, 251, 271. Whitefield, the evangelist, 186, 188, 199. Whitehall Ferry, 273. White Plains, battle of, 255. White Woman's Creek, 181. William III, 126, 145. Williams, Roger, 100, 103, 116. Wills Creek, 153. Wilmington, 269. Wilson, John, 93, 102, 120. Windsor, 104. Wingfield, Edward Maria, 56. Winthrop, John, 90, 93, 98, 102-105, 112, 115, 120. Wisconsin River, 141. Wise, John, 195. Witchcraft delusion, 195. Witherspoon, John, 194. Wolfe, James, 159. Woolen manufactures, 151. Writs of assistance, 207. Yale College, 169, 189. Yarkand, 5. Yeardley, Governor of Virginia, 75. York, James, Duke of, 131. Yorktown, surrender of Cornwallis at, 269, 270. Yucatan, 32. Zaiton, 8.