Washington, plan of city, 187, 368 Washington, George, and the site of Pittsburgh, 393; at Great Meadows, 399; with Braddock, 404; opens road to Fort Duquesne, 405; at Schenectady, 98; in battle of Long Island, 238-240; at Trenton and Princeton, 270-290; at Saratoga, 69; in New York, 181, 182, 194, 197-202; at Newburgh, 114, 122, 126-131; visits Wilmington, 355-358; instructions to St. Clair, 416; plan for the National Capital, 367; quoted, 1, 23, 238 Watkins, Rev. H., 118 Wayne, Anthony, 125, 286, 416 Webb, Captain Thomas, 101 Weigand’s Tavern, Newburgh, 126 Wesley, John, 101 Western University of Pennsylvania, 416 West India Company, 143, 173 West Point, 122, 160, 378 Whiskey Insurrection, 417 Whitefield, George, 256 Whitman, Walt, 205 William and Mary, 91 William III., 177 William IV., 206 Williams, David, 160 Williams, Talcott, on Philadelphia, 297-334 Williams College, 26 Williams house, Newburgh, 122 Williams, William I., 389 Willing, Thomas, founds Wilmington, 352 Willingstown, 352 Willis, N. P., 110, 135 Wilmington, E. N. Vallandigham on, 335-365; plans of Usselinx, 335; expedition of Minuit, 336; settlement on the Christina, 337; governorship of Prinz, 339; struggles of the Swedes and Dutch for the Delaware, 341-344; Dutch rule, 344-346; English supremacy, 346; friendly services of Wm. Penn, 346-349; Old Swedes’ church, 349; Wilmington laid out, 352; services of William Shipley, 352; the earlier city, 353-360; before and in the Civil War, 360-364; modern changes, 364 Winthrop, Fitz John, 46 Witherspoon, John, 254, 260-271, 290, 291 Wiedrich, Michael, 390 Wilkeson, Samuel, 384 Wilkeson, John, 390 Worth, Captain, in War of 1812, 381 Wolfe, death of, 19, 52, 407 Wolfert’s Roost, 161 Wyncoop, Gitty, 122 Wyoming Valley, 49 Y Yale relations with Princeton, 254 Yorktown, 127, 182 Yorkville absorbed by New York, 188 Z Zoölogical Garden, Philadelphia, 323 Historic Towns of New England Edited by LYMAN P. POWELL. With introduction by GEORGE P. MORRIS. With 160 illustrations. 8ᵒ, gilt top, $3.50. CONTENTS: =Portland=, by Samuel T. Pickard; =Rutland=, by Edwin D. Mead; =Salem=, by George D. Latimer; =Boston=, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Edward Everett Hale; =Cambridge=, by Samuel A. Eliot; =Concord=, by Frank A. Sanborn; =Plymouth=, by Ellen Watson; =Cape Cod Towns=, by Katharine Lee Bates; =Deerfield=, by George Sheldon; =Newport=, by Susan Coolidge; =Providence=, by William B. Weeden; =Hartford=, by Mary K. Talcott; =New Haven=, by Frederick Hull Cogswell. Historic Towns of the Middle States Edited by LYMAN P. POWELL. With introduction by Dr. ALBERT SHAW. With over 150 illustrations. 8ᵒ, gilt top, $3.50.