al power ended in, i. 520;
invasion of, by Cornwallis, ii. 720;
legislature of, in 1794, adverse to British creditors recovering their
just debts, iii. 301;
disunion threatened in, in case Jay's treaty should be ratified,
iii. 355;
property owned in, by Washington, at the time of his death, iii. 542.

Virginia convention proposed, to consider a proposition for a continental
Congress, i. 395;
resolutions adopted at, i. 401-405;
eloquent speech of Washington at--delegates to the general Congress
appointed at, i. 407.

Virginia convention, the second, held at Richmond in 1775, i. 476;
resolutions offered at, by Patrick Henry, i. 477;
eloquent speech of Patrick Henry at, i. 479, 481;
delegates to the second continental Congress elected at, i. 482.

_Virginia Gazette_, slanders of Washington in, in 1756, i. 211.

Virginia house of burgesses, Washington a candidate for, in 1758, i. 275;
cost of Washington's election to, i. 276;
Washington for fifteen years a member of, i. 308;
distinguished members of, in 1769, i. 353;
sympathy of, with Massachusetts--resolutions adopted by, in opposition
to those of Parliament--dissolved by Lord Botetourt, i. 354.

Virginia planters, life of, before the Revolution, i. 305.

Virginia troops, letters of Washington in relation to the command of,
i. 188;
commission as commander of, resigned by Washington--flattering address
to Washington by the officers of, i. 286.

Visitors, Washington annoyed by, at Mount Vernon, iii. 483;
how received by Washington when president, iii. 603.

W.

Waldeck, prince of, mercenaries furnished by, ii. 6.

Wallace, Captain, legalized piracy of--Newport threatened by, ii. 16;
sent in the _Rose_ up the Hudson river, ii. 218.

Walpole, Horace, on young Washington's love of the "whistling of bullets"
(_note_), i. 105.

Wanton, Governor, blunt answer of, to Sir James Wallace, i. 484.

War-dance, Indian, witnessed by Washington and Fairfax, at Colonel
Cresap's, in 1748, i. 54;
in the camp of Braddock at Will's creek, i. 151.

War, directions as to the mode of declaring, given by Dinwiddie to
Washington (_note_), i. 228.

Ward, Ensign, capitulation of, to Contrecoeur, in 1754, i. 98.

Ward, General Artemas, in command of troops in the neighborhood of Boston
after the battle of Lexington, i. 513;
inefficiency of, i. 532;
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