in winter quarters at, 100 _ff_., 118.

Van Braam, Jacob, 14.

Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Count de, favors cause of the Colonies, 94;
secures cooeperation of Spain, 99; 142.

Vernon, Edward, Admiral, 5, 9.

Victoria, Queen, 153.

Virginia, effect in, of Braddock's defeat, 24, 25;
in the 1750's, 44, 45;
fox-hunting and horse-racing, 45,46;
opposition in, to acts of the Crown, 50, 51;
state of opinion in, 55, 56; population of, in 1775, 67, 68;
jealousy between Mass, and, 64; 164, 166.

Virginia House of Burgesses, _W_. a member of, 36, 37;
adopts Mason's plan of association, 53.

Walpole, Horace, 18.

Washington, Augustine, _W.'s_ father, marries Mary Ball, 1.

Washington, George, ancestry, 1;
birth, 1, 2;
childhood and education, 2;
errors of Weems's biography, 2, 3;
absurdity of the cherry-tree story, 2;
Sparks's ill-advised editing of letters of, 3, 4;
and Mather's _Young Man's Companion_, 4;
surveys Fairfax estate, 5;
results of his experience as surveyor, 5;
his journals, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 37, 38, 39, 169;
his disposition, 7, 8;
attention, to dress, 8, 9;
declines appointment as midshipman, 9;
commissioned major of militia, 9;
visit to Barbados, 9, 10;
as manager of Mt. Vernon, 12;
sent by Dinwiddie on mission of warning to French, 14;
and the "Half-King," 14, 15;
second in command of Fry's expedition, 15_ff_.;
was he a "silent man"? 17, 18;
a volunteer on Braddock's expedition, 20, 21;
his account of the defeat, 22, 23;
his conduct in the battle, 23;
moral results of his campaigning, 25, 26;
his early love-affairs, 30, 31;
and Mary Philipse, 31, 32;
his physique, 32, 69;
a sound thinker, 33, 70;
inherits Mt. Vernon, 33;
courts and marries Mrs. Custis, 33, 34, 35;
in House of Burgesses, 36, 37;
as an agriculturist, 37 _ff_.;
his views on slave labor, 38, and slavery, 38, 39, 238;
relations with his slaves, 38, 237-239;
and his step-children, 40-42;
by nature a man of business, 42, 43;
improves his education, 43, 44;
as a country gentleman, 44_ff_.;
the hospitality of Mt. Vernon, 45.

His view of the Stamp Act and other measures of the British
Government, 51, 52;
a loyal American, 52;
signs Mason's plan of association, 53;
no doubt as to his position, 55, 56, 57;
offers to raise 1000 men at his own expense, 57;
in first Continental Congress, 59, 60;
his mind made up, 62, 63