Slavery, why _W_. 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-Périgord, 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 Genêt, 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 coöperation 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.