Underground railroad, 34. Union of New Hampshire towns, 193; the west, 202. Unions dissolved, 234, 235. Valcour, Island of, 134, 135. Vaudreuil, expeditions of, 20; surrender of Canada by, 46. Vergennes, 54, 76. Vermont, 145; its constitution, 147-187; militia of, called out, 226; agents appointed by, 231; refusal of, to break the Unions, 232; an independent republic, 238; included in territory of the United States, 248; admission of, to the Union, 253; unpopularity of war with England in, 270; raises troops, 272; in the Mexican war, 338; unprepared for war in 1861, 340; characteristics of the people of, 365. Vermontensium Res Publica, 248. Walbridge, Colonel, and General Gansevoort, 233. Warner, Seth, 70, 73, 78, 84, 86; takes Crown Point, 111, 115; appointed commander of Green Mountain Boys, 116, 124; recalled to Canada, 128; retreat covered by, 128, 130, 147; New York demands recall of commission of, 144; repels Indian invasion, 154; letter of, 154; at Hubbardton, 157; at Bennington, 175-177; death of, 258, 328. Washington, General, letter from, 234; opinion of, concerning Vermont, 244. Waters, Constable Oliver, 245. Waubanakee, name of, 2. Wentworth, Gov. Benning, grants by, 52, 58, 60. Westminster, 54; massacre at, 90, 240; convention at, 98, 142; declaration of independence at, 144, 179. Wilderness, the, country of, 11, 18, 47, 49. Wilkinson, General, movements of, 277. Windsor, convention at, 146; first legislature at, 191. Winooski, 54. Winthrop, John, 7. Wohjahose, Rock Dunder, 6. Wool-growing, 297; insignificance of, 358. Wright, Captain, scout of, 18. Young, Dr. Thomas, 145. Zooquagese, 34. American Commonwealths. Edited by Horace E. Scudder. VIRGINIA. A History of the People. By John Esten Cooke, author of "Life of Stonewall Jackson," etc. OREGON. The Struggle for Possession. By William Barrows, D. D. MARYLAND. The History of a Palatinate. By William Hand Browne, Associate of Johns Hopkins University. KENTUCKY. A Pioneer Commonwealth. By Nathaniel S. Shaler, S. D., Professor of Palaeontology, Harvard University. MICHIGAN. A History of Governments. By Thomas McIntyre Cooley, LL. D., formerly Chief Justice of Michigan. KANSAS. The Prelude to the War for the Union. By Leverett W. Spring, formerly Professor in English Literature in the University of Kansas. CALIFORNIA. From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco. A Study of American Character. By Josiah Royce, Assistant Professor of Philosophy in Harvard University, formerly Professor in the University of California. NEW YORK. The Planting and the Growth of the Empire State. By the Hon. Ellis H. Roberts, Editor of the Utica Herald. In two volumes.