Ships: _Dartmouth_, 24 _Somerset_, 27 _Welcome_, 145 _John and Sarah_, 146 _Surprise_, 223 _Mary_, 245 _Constitution_ and _Guerriere_, _Cyano_ and _Levant_, 317 _Lightning_, 333 Shirley, Virginia, 280 Signers of the Declaration of Independence: John Witherspoon, 132 Benjamin Rush, 162 George Ross, 204 George Read, 205 Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 216 Thomas Nelson, 270 George Wythe, 290 Richard Lightfoot Lee, 314 Skippack, Pennsylvania, 180 Smith, Abigail, 46 Smith, Rev. William, 46 "Snow-Bound," 55 Society for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, 277 _Somerset_, ship, 27 Sons of the Revolution, 99 Springett, Guli, 145 Springfield, battle of, 141 Springfield Meeting House, New Jersey, 138 Stamp Act, 30, 46, 218 Star-Spangled Banner, story of the, 222 Stark, General John, 68 Stark, Molly, 68 State House Clock, Philadelphia, 172 State House Yard, Philadelphia, 163 Steuben, Baron, 176 Stevens, Colonel William, 211 Stockton, Mrs. Richard, 134 Stone Church, Elm Grove, West Virginia, 386 Stony Point, New York, 195 Stuart, Gilbert, 218 Stuyvesant, Petrus, 204 Sullivan, General, 43 Susquehanna, Falls of the, 226 Sweetbrier, Philadelphia, 183 Swett, Martha, 74 Symmes, Rev. Frank R., 123 Taney, Chief Justice R. R., 222 Tayloe, John, 232, 234, 314 Tea meetings, 31 Tecumseh, Indian chief, 375 Tennent, Rev. John, 123 Rev. William, 123 Texas, Republic of, 350 Thames, battle of the, 360 Theatre fire in Richmond, Virginia, 294 Thomson, George, 208 Thornton, Dr. William, 226, 234 Ticonderoga, 193 Tilghman, Tench, 127, 392 Tillinghast, Pardon, 81 Treaty of 1783, 133 Trenton, battle of, 135 Tudor, John, 19 Tyler, Henry, 290 Tyler, Judge John, 257, 258, 294 United States archives, removed to new Capitol at Washington, 227 University of Virginia, the, 326 Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 174, 182, 189, 195, 218 Vanarsdal, Rev. Jacob, 141 Van Buren, Martin, 232 Van Cortlandt, Jacobus, 105 Van Cortlandt Park, 104 Van der Donck, Jonkheer Adriaen, 91, 105 Van Dyke, Henry, 215 Van Dyke, Nicholas, 205 Vane, Sir Harry, 50 Vassall, John, 41 Vassall, Leonard, 48 Venus, transit of, 171 Vincennes, Indiana, 374 Waldo, Albigence, 182 Walker, Rachel, 23 Wallace Nutting Corporation, 70 Walter, Thomas U., 229 Ward, Samuel, 42 Warner House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 399 Warren, General, 26 Washington and Lee University, 248 Washington, burning of, in 1814, 184, 228, 231, 235, 317 Washington College, Lexington, Virginia, 285