Chapter V: Vallandigham, E. N., on Wilmington, 335-365

Van Curler, Arendt, at Schenectady, 75-84, 92

Vanderheyden Palace, 30

Van Rensselaer, Killiaen, 8, 75

Van Rensselaer, Stephen, 25

Van Rensselaer Island, 4

Van Rensselaer Manor-House, 25, 26

Van Slechtenhorst, Brandt, 9

Van Twiller, Walter, 336

Van Wart, Isaac, 160

Van Wyck house, 132

Van Wyck, James, 132

Verplanck house, 131

Verrazzano, 2

Versailles, peace of, 289

Virginia, dispute with Pennsylvania, 414

Vliessingen, _see_ Flushing

Von Königsmark, 346

Von Steuben, _see_ Steuben

W

Waalboght, 213

Wadsworth, Colonel, 122

Wallabout, village of, 224, 233, 242

_Walk-in-the-Water_, first steamboat on Lake Erie, 384

Walworth, E. H., on Saratoga, 39-70

War of 1812, _see_ various chapters

Washington, plan of city, 187, 368

Washington, George, and the site of Pittsburgh, 393;
at Great Meadows, 399;
with Braddock, 404;
opens road to Fort Duquesne, 405;
at Schenectady, 98;
in battle of Long Island, 238-240;
at Trenton and Princeton, 270-290;
at Saratoga, 69;
in New York, 181, 182, 194, 197-202;
at Newburgh, 114, 122, 126-131;
visits Wilmington, 355-358;
instructions to St. Clair, 416;
plan for the National Capital, 367;
quoted, 1, 23, 238

Watkins, Rev. H., 118

Wayne, Anthony, 125, 286, 416

Webb, Captain Thomas, 101

Weigand’s Tavern, Newburgh, 126

Wesley, John, 101

Western University of Pennsylvania, 416

West India Company, 143, 173

West Point, 122, 160, 378

Whiskey Insurrection, 417

Whitefield, George, 256

Whitman, Walt, 205

William and Mary, 91

William III., 177

William IV., 206

Williams, David, 160

Williams, Talcott, on Philadelphia, 297-334

Williams College, 26

Williams house, Newburgh, 122

Williams, William I., 389

Willing, Thomas, founds Wilmington, 352

Willingstown, 352

Willis, N. P., 110, 135

Wilmington, E. N. Vallandigham on, 335-365;
plans of Usselinx, 335;
expedition of Minuit, 336;
settlement on the Christina, 337;
governorship of Prinz, 339;
struggles of the Swedes and Dutch for the Delaware, 341-344;
Dutch rule, 344-346;
English supremacy, 346;
friendly services of Wm. Penn, 346-349;
Old Swedes’ church, 349;
Wilmington laid out, 352;
services of William Shipley, 352;
the earlier city, 353-360;
before and in the Civil War, 360-364;
modern changes, 364

Winthrop, Fitz John, 46

Witherspoon, John, 254, 260-271, 290, 291

Wiedrich, Michael, 390

Wilkeson, Samuel, 384

Wilkeson, John, 390

Worth, Captain, in War of 1812, 381

Wolfe, death of, 19, 52, 407

Wolfert’s Roost, 161

Wyncoop, Gitty, 122

Wyoming Valley, 49

Y

Yale relations with Princeton, 254

Yorktown, 127, 182

Yorkville absorbed by New York, 188

Z

Zoölogical Garden, Philadelphia, 323

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