Washington: A Life (189 page)

Washington, Richard

Washington, Samuel (brother)

death of

Washington, Samuel (nephew)

Washington, Sarah (niece)

Washington, William Augustine (nephew)

Washington administration

Madison’s anonymous assault on

revolt against

Washington and Lee University (Liberty Hall Academy)

Washington College

“Washington’s Legacy,”

“Washington’s March,”

Watson, Elkanah

Wayne, Anthony “Mad Anthony,”

in Northwest Territory

Wealth of Nations
(Smith)

Webb, Samuel Blachley

Weber, Paul

Webster, Noah

Wedgwood, Josiah

Weedon, George

Weems, Mason L.

Wentworth, Thomas

West, Benjamin

Westchester Light Dragoons

West Indies

British

French

markets shut to Americans in

West Point

military academy at

Wethersfield, Conn.

Wheatley, John

Wheatley, Phillis (slave)

Whigs

Whipple, Joseph

whiskey, tax on

Whiskey Rebellion

White, Joseph

White, Philip

White, William

White House

White House (Martha Washington’s home)

White Mingo

White Plains, N.Y.

Whitting, Anthony

Wiencek, Henry

Wilkinson, James

Willard, Joseph

William III, king of England

William IV, king of England

Williams, Henry

Williams, William Joseph

Williamsburg, Va.

social life in

Wills, Garry

Wills Creek

Wilmington, Del.

Wilmington, N.C.

Wilson, James

Winchester, Va.

Witherspoon, John

Wolcott, Oliver, Jr.

Wollaston, John

Wood, Gordon

Wood, James

“World Turned Upside Down, The,”

Wright, Joseph

Wright, Patience

Wythe, George

XYZ Affair

“Yankee Doodle,”

Yates, Robert

yellow fever

York River

Yorktown, Battle of

Yorktown, Va.

Young, Arthur

Ron Chernow is the prizewinning author of five previous books. His first,
The House of Morgan,
won the National Book Award. His two most recent books,
Alexander Hamilton
and
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.,
were both nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. Chernow lives in Brooklyn, New York.

ALSO BY RON CHERNOW