Vermont, soil, 179; becomes a State, 268. Verrazano, John, on the American coast, 32, 41. Virginia, named by Raleigh, 38; Raleigh's land grants, 40; causes of early failures in colonizing, 41-44; geography, 96; settlement, 69-75; character of colonists, 97, 114; landed estates, 58; judiciary, 60; suffrage, 61, 62; first assembly, 62; first charter, 66-69, 70, 113; second charter, 72; development, 75-81; becomes a royal province, 74; Bacon's rebellion, 78, 79, 90; occupations, 102; commerce, 103, 104; education, 107, 108; religion, 108; witch-ducking, 192; conflicts with Dutch, 197, 200; Walloons rejected, 198; piracy, 273; Spotswood's term, 269; Nicholson's term, 273; includes Bermudas, 238; Virginia ideas _versus_ New England ideas, 280; reaching out to the West, 67, 283; population (1688), 97; (1763), 266. "Virginia," the early New England pinnace, 185. Virgin Islands, Leeward group, 237, 238. Walford, Thomas, settles at Charlestown, 122. Walloons, settle in New Netherlands, 198, 201; in Delaware, 207, 208. Warwick, Earl of, interest in American colonization, 37; president of Council for New England, 141, 158. --, R. I., founded, 148; Gorton case, 160. Washington, George, education of, 108; opinion of Bermudas, 239. Watertown, Mass., founded, 127; protest against taxation without representation, 62, 128; emigration to Connecticut, 140. Welsh, American discoveries by, 21; in New England, 180; in Pennsylvania and Delaware, 217, 221. Wesley, Charles, in Georgia, 262. --, John, in Georgia, 262. West Indies, aborigines of, 8; Spanish conquest of, 43, 47; Spanish commerce, 39; piracy, 34; Portuguese in, 48; Dutch in, 50; trade with Southern colonies, 102, 104; trade with New England, 185; trade with middle colonies, 226; intercolonial relations, 234, 235. West Jersey, 212-214, 216, 221. Westminster, treaty of, 205. Wethersfield, Conn., founded, 141; sacked by Indians, 137. Weymouth, George, explores New England coast, 41, 65. Whitefield, George, revival work, 190, 262. William III., king of England, 206, 253. -- and Mary, sovereigns of England, proclaimed in the colonies, 87, 176. William and Mary college, chartered, 80, 81, 103. Williams, Roger, character, 132; at Salem, 132, 133; founds Providence, 133, 146, 147, 149, 160; services in Pequod War, 136; attitude towards Quakers, 165. Williamsburg, capital of Virginia, 81, 98. Wilmington, Del., founded, 201, 208. --, N. C., early French visit to, 32. Windsor, Conn., founded, 136, 137, 140, 141. Windward Islands, English colonies, 236, 237. Wingfield, Edward Maria, member of London Company, 66; president of Jamestown, 70.