Staten Island, 46 Virginian troops, 178 Vischershoeck, 13 Vorsen Reach, 114 Voyage up the Hudson, W. Irving, 115 Vulture, the, 296-298 W Walkill, 350, 452, 454-45S, 470, 473 Wall Street on evacuation of New- York, 27 Wallace, Sir James, 340, 461 Walloonsac River, 551 Walter the Doubter (Van Twiller) , 66, 511, 512, 513 Wanton Island, 488 Wappinger Indians, 16, 416 Wappinger's Creek, 91, 418 War for Independence, 22, 32, 112, 229, 313, 326, 380, 543 War with England, 371; ofi8i2, 523 War vessels, 5 1 Ward, Moses, 291 Waronawanka Indians, 13 Warner, Anna B., 280-282 Warner, Henry, 280 Warner, Susan, 280-282 Warner Sisters, 380 Warren, Admiral Peter, 61 Warren Street, New York, and Vauxhall, 57, 59 Warren County, 571 Warren Road, 62 Washington, Augustine, 191 Washington, General George, 26, 27, 32, 82, 120, 163, 167, 170, 171, 177, 178, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, igo, 191, 192, 228, 229, 237, 305. 306, 3". 313. 315. 316, 331. 332. 33S. 366, 369, 37°. 375. 379. 381, 405-406, 408, 412, 414, 417, 560-561 Washington headquarters, 140, 151, 168, 172, 173, 228, 272, 414, 415 Washington Heights, 155 Washington Hotel, 32 Washington, house built for, 30 Washington, Martha, 460 Washington Square, 61 Waterbury Battery, 169 Waterford,' 554 Watervliet, 551 Water Witch, steamboat, 130 Watts family, 522 Watts, John, 31 Wayne, "General Anthony," 82, 86, 304-306, 311, 312, 335, 411, 415 Wayside Inn, 314 Webb, General James Watson, 237, 241, 285 Weber, 488 Webster, Daniel, 427; Lieutenant- Colonel, 305 Wecquashqueck, 9, 202, 226 Weehawken, 9, 74, 78, 80, 81 Weh-awk-en, 9 Weiser, Captain John Conrad, 475 Wells, Lemuel, 207, 208 Wells, Richard, 344 West, Benjamin, 118 Westbrook, F. E., 469 West Camp, 402, 472-474, 476 Westerloo, Domine, 526 Westerloo Street, 527, 531 West India Company, i, 6, 88, 516, S19 West Indies, 112 ; and Captain Kidd, 69 Westchester County, 9, 11, 91, 331, 337. 417. 457 Westchester, steamboat, 130 West Point, 27, 85, 116, 281, 305, 365-366, 371-372, 375. 379. 380- 382, 384-385, 460 West Shore Road, 429; Terminal, 80 West Street Market, 57 West Tenth Street, 57 West Troy, 551 Wetherell, Elizabeth, 280 Weygat, 116 White House, the, 378 White Plains, 170, 187, 217, 315, 417. 457 White Plains battle, 184, 227 White, Robert, 168 Digitized by Microsoft® 590 Index White Star Wharves, 6i Whitehall Battery, 508 Wier, Robert, 376, 382 Wilbur, 459; farm at Saratoga, 554 Wild Goose Inn, 68, 69, 70,71 Willard's Mountain, 562 Willem Hendrick, fort, 21 Willemstadt, 107, 519 Willett, Colonel, 332 WilUam the Testy, 514 Williams, David, 236 Williams, Captain Daniel, 296 Williams, Rev. Eleazer, 384 Willis, Nathaniel P., 116, 134, 253, 259, 266, 269, 357, 382, 393-398 Willow Point, 226 Wilson Steamship Line, 81 Wilson, General James Grant, 260- 262, 270 Wiltwyck, 444, 447, 451, 453, 456, 459, 466, 468 Wiltwyck Cemetery, 469 Winchenback, 476 Winedecker, Captain Hartman, 475 Wing's Falls, 570-571 Winnakee, 425 Win slow, Margaret, 458 Wisquaqua, 9 Wolfert's Roost, 216, 244, 248 Wolvenhoek, 431 Woodworth, John, 546 World Building, New York, 38 Worth, General William Jenkins, S°4 Worth, Gorham A., 530-531, 546 Wynant's Kill, 551 Wynkoop, 488 Wyoming Valley (Campbell's poem) 13 Yonkers, 10, 184, 188, 202, 206, 208, 223, 230 Yonkers Street, Albany, 528, 538 Yorktown, 26, 411 Zaargertje, 471 Zealand, 18, 24 Digitized by Microsoft® Ji Selection from the Catalogue of G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Complete Catalogues sent on application Digitized by Microsoft® The Ohio River A Course of Empire By Archer Butler Hulbert Associate Professor of American History, Marietta Col- lege. Author of " Historic Highways of America," etc. Ll rge Octavo with loo Full-Page Illustrations and a Map. Net, $3. 50. By express, prepaid, $3.75 AN interesting description from a fresh point of view of the international struggle which ended with the English conquest of the Ohio Basin, and includes many interesting details of the pioneer movement on the Ohio. The most widely read students of the Ohio Valley will find a unique and unexpected interest in Mr. Hulbert's chapters dealing with the Ohio River in the Revolution, the rise of the cities of Pittsburg, Cincin- nati, and Louisville, the fighting Virginians, the old-time methods of navigation, etc. The work presents in a con- secutive narrative the most important historic incidents connected with the river, combined with descriptions of some of its most picturesque scenery and delightful excursions into its legendary lore. Send for Illustrated Desctptive Circular G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS New York London Digitized by Microsoft® The St. Lawrence River Historical Legendary Picturesque By George Waldo Browne Author of " Japan — the Place and the People " " Paradise of the Pacific," etc. <P°. Fully Illustrated. Uniform with "The Hudson River." Net, $3.^0. By express, prepaid, $3.^3 WHILE the St. Lawrence River has been the scene of many important events connected with the discovery