W

Wallace, Willard M. (Appeal to Arms: A Military History of the American Revolution),45, 456

Walpole, Horace, 207, 287, 353

Wanton, Joseph, 71, 133

Ward, Artemas, 18, 19, 26, 32, 33, 34, 38, 39, 40–41, 42, 92, 95, 392

Ward, Christopher (The War of the Revolution),45, 190, 321, 325, 456

Ward, Joshua, 269

Ward, Samuel, 71, 126, 130, 133

Warner, Lt. Col. Seth, 27, 28, 46, 47–48, 49, 208, 210, 215

Warren, Dr. Joseph, 18, 19, 21, 22, 26, 30, 32, 40–41

Washington, George, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39, 43–45, 46, 50, 61, 67, 72, 76, 91, 92, 94, 95, 97, 99, 116, 134, 135, 137, 142, 150, 155, 156, 173, 181, 182, 187–88, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 195–96, 197–98, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 209–10, 213, 215, 218, 219–20, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 227, 228–29, 230, 232, 239, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 294, 295, 296, 300, 305, 306, 314, 320, 328, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 364, 365, 366, 378, 379, 388, 390, 403, 404, 406, 407, 408, 411, 412, 418, 419, 439, 443

Washington, Lt. Col. William, 329, 330, 331, 334, 336, 337, 339, 348

Watson, Col. John, 338, 339

Wayne, Gen. Anthony (“Mad Anthony”), 219, 220, 221, 222, 227, 228, 230, 280, 283, 345, 348

Webb, Stephen Saunders (“Review of the Browns’ Virginia 1705–86”),157

Webster, Pelatiah, 378–79, 391

Weigley, Russell F. (The Partisan War: The South Carolina Campaign of 1780–1782),330, 457

Wentworth, Gov. John, 130, 427

Western lands, 248–49, 250, 251, 252, 253;

skirmishes on, 350–51, 413, 434, 444;

Virginia’s claims to, 369–70, 371–72

Wharton, Samuel, 371, 413

Wharton, Thomas, 250, 262, 369

Whigs, 59, 60, 61, 118, 125, 135, 145, 182, 188, 204, 205, 206, 207, 225, 234–35, 236, 238, 354, 362, 363–64, 430;

attitude toward the Revolution, 21–22;

Whig Society, 261

Whyte, George, 176

Wieland, Christopher M. (Der Teutsche Merkur),122

Wilkes, John, 21, 35, 118

Willcox, William B. (Portrait of a General: Sir Henry Clinton in the War of Independence),457

Willett, Marinus, 61, 211, 212, 300

William and Mary Quarterly,122, 189, 432, 457, 458, 459, 461

Williams, Col. Otho, 334, 335, 336

Williamsburg Committee of Safety, 83

Williamson, Gen. Andrew, 309

Williamson, Chilton (American Suffrage from Property in Democracy, 1760–1860),129, 445–46, 461

Willing, James, 301

Willing, Thomas, 102, 110–11, 112, 161, 177

Wilson, James, 116, 130, 160, 164, 167, 176, 177, 245, 249, 250, 253, 261, 262, 377, 387, 405, 407, 413

Wisconsin Magazine of History,157

Witherspoon, Reverend Dr. John, 170–71, 248, 378

Wood, Gordon S. (The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787),460

Woodward, Professor Bezaleel, 132, 267

Woolsey, Maj. Melanchthon, 296–97

Wright, Gov. Sir James, 87–88, 308, 310, 427

Wyoming Valley Massacre, 292, 294

Wythe, George, 103