Virginia, early houses in, 11; palisados in, 24; candle-wood in, 32; first fork in, 78; silver in, 91; table furnishings in, 104; deer in, 108-109; birds and fowl in, 110; lobsters in, 118; crabs in, 118; oysters in, 119; plenty of fish in, 118-119; corn in, 127; massacre in, 127; windmills in, 133; toll in, 133; starvation in, 127, 144; pumpkins in, 143; locust groves in, 163; flax culture in, 181-182; wool culture in, 189-190; cloths in, 237; broom-corn in, 256; sumptuary laws in, 285; outfit of settlers, 289; roads in, 331; taverns in, 361; Sunday observance in, 380; churches in, 381-382; cows in, 400; fences in, 402. Virginia fence, 25. Voiders, 106-107. Voorleezer, duties of, 386. Waffle-irons, 61. Wagon. See Conestoga wagon. Warming-pans, 72. Warning out, 392; a mystery in, 393. Warp, 218. Warp-beam, 214. Warping, 217-218. Warping-bars, 217-218. Warping-needle, 219. Warp-threads. See Warp. Washing, domestic, 255. Washington, George, home of, 13; outfit of his stepdaughter, 291; dress of, 293; as canal promoter, 353. Washington, Martha, thrift of, 237-238; netting of, 265. Watches, 299. Watch-chains, 263. Water, as beverage, 147. Watering of flax, 169. Water-fowl, plenty of, 125; enumerated, 125. Watertown, windmill at, 133; restrictions of settlement in, 393. Wax, candles of, 37; bayberry, 39-40. Waynesville, hand-weaving in, 250. Wayside Inn, 357-358. Weather-skirt, 295. Weavers, status of, 212-213; seat of, 221; working-hours of, 228; in Narragansett, 241-244. Weaving, noise of, 212, 220; three motions in, 221-222; disappearance of, 227; on tape-looms, 225-227; race between spinning and, 228-230; of linens, 230-231; of rag carpet, 239-240; of coverlets, 242-246; during Civil War, 249. See Loom. Weaving-room. See Loom-room. Webster, 187. Weeds, once garden flowers, 435-436, 447-449. Weight-timbers, 11. Weld, quoted, 348-349. Well-sweep, 443-444. Westmoreland Revival, 227. Whale-fishing, 41. "Whang," 417. Wheat, planting of, 147. Wheel. See Flax-wheel and Wool-wheel. Wheel-peg, 198. Wheelwrights, early use of wood, 176. Whipping-post, location of, 367. White-Ellery House, 19. Whiteweed, in America, 449. Whitney, Eli, invention of, 208. Whittemore, Amos, invention of, 205. Whittier, quoted, 73-74, 181, 370, 413, 436; homespun attire of, 248. Whittling, 321-323. Wicks for candles, 34, 45. Wigs, wearing of, 296-297; denounced, 296; names of, 296-299; cost of, 297. Wigwams, 3. William and Mary College, tax for, 109. Williams, Roger, quoted, 134, 137, 285. Windmills, Indian fear of, 130; first erected, 133; of John Winthrop, 133; in Virginia, 133. Windows, of glass, 23; of oiled paper, 23. Windsor, boys' pews in, 372. Wine-taster, 87. Winslow house, knocker of, 29.