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Proclamation of Neutrality by, 318

retreat from New York of, 246

on Sands brothers, 272

and slavery, 248, 259

slaves of, 643

statue of, 670, 716

welcome for, 822

Waterlow, Sir Sidney, 1174

Watson, James, 1009

Watson, John E, 314, 680

Watt, Archibald, 792

Watts, John, 168, 178, 191, 210, 220, 224, 281, 320

Watts, Mary, 301

Watts family, 178, 229

Wayne, Anthony, 334

Webb, Isaac, 604

Webb, James Watson, 440, 522, 524, 525, 545, 552, 556, 557, 559, 560, 572, 573, 574, 607, 679, 764-59, 819, 835, 867

Webb, Samuel Blachley, 292

Webb, Thomas, 208, 400

Webb, William, 830

Webb, William Henry, 651

Webster, Daniel, 433, 573

Webster, Noah, 333, 378, 415

Wedgewood, Josiah, 244

Weed, Thurlow, 622-23, 645, 861, 867, 899, 902

Weeks, James, 639

Weitling, Wilhelm, 769-70, 771-72, 773, 801, 834

Wells, Henry, 656

Wells, James N., 448, 578

Wendover, Peter H., 361

Werther, Ralph, 1142, 1144

Wesley, Charles, 157

Wesley, John, 157, 209

Wessels, Metje, 52

West, Benjamin, 178

West, William, 834

Western, Miss, 1148

Westervelt, Jacob, 828

Westinghouse, George, 1067, 1068

Wetmore, Prosper M., 652

Weydemeyer, Joseph, 773, 835, 849

Wharton, Edith, 960, 1075

White, Alfred Tredway, 1174, 1183, 1200, 1229

White, Richard Gant, 1076

White, Stanford, 1075, 1076, 1077, 1080, 1081, 1087, 1147, 1148, 1150

Whitefield, George, 157-58, 165, 208, 397

Whitehead, David, 482

Whitman, George, 881

Whitman, Walter, 465, 511, 631, 641, 678, 694, 705-11, 719, 722, 728, 729, 754, 758, 768, 796, 805, 819, 867, 868, 872, 881, 882, 904, 934, 980, 1166

Whitney, Eli, 335

Whitney, Harry Payne, 1076

Whitney, Pauline, 1084

Whitney, Stephen, 438-39, 830

Whitney, William Collins, 1057, 1074, 1075, 1084, 1109, 1211

Wickendam, William, 60-61

Wickham, William H., 1027, 1028

Wightman, Valentine, 157

Wilberforce, Willia, 384

Wilbour, Charlotte, 984

Wilbruch, Hilletje, 44

Wilde, Oscar, 1144

Wiley, Charles, 441, 469

Wiley, John, 682, 687, 701, 703

Wilkes, George, 684-3481

Wilkes, John, 210, 211, 233

Willemsen, Abraham, 53

Willemsen, Reynier, 47

Willett, Frances, 183

Willett, Marinus, 335, 379, 427

as Assembly candidate, 266-67

and banks, 277

personal and professional background of, 201

raids by, 223, 225

and ratification of Constitution, 291

and sale of confiscated Tory property, 282-83

sheriff, 267

and Sons of Liberty, 200, 201

Willett, Thomas, 78, 100, 101, 106

William IV (king of england), 247-48

William and Mary (king and queen of England), 16, 82-83, 95, 96, 98, 99, 101, 107, 112, 115, 177, 180

Williams, Alexander S. “Clubber,” 959, 998, 999, 1163, 1192, 1201

Williams, Jonathan, 423

Williams, Peter, 398, 400

Williams, Peter Jr., 547, 549,

Williamson, Maria, 484

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 685, 691-92, 700, 701, 706, 714, 715-16, 720, 724, 725, 731, 765, 791

Willis, N.P., 815

Willis, Sarah Payson (“Fanny Fern”), 684, 710, 818, 980, 981

Wilson, Susana, 364

Winthrop, John Jr., 72, 73

Wisner, George, 524

Witmark, Julius, 1146

Wo Kee, 1127

Wolcott, Oliver, 301-2

Wolley, Charles, 6, 87, 88, 89

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 377, 378, 395, 509, 983

Wong Ah Ling, 1129

Wong Ching Foo, 1128, 1130

Wood, Benjamin, 865

Wood, Fernando, 831-41, 847-49, 850-51, 862, 863, 865, 867, 868, 870, 873, 885, 886, 896, 903, 969

Woodhull, Caleb S., 763

Woodhull, Nathaniel, 227

Woodhull, Victoria, 984, 985, 989, 1003, 1014, 1015, 1018, 1019

Woods, Josie, 959

Woodworth, Samuel, 415

Wool, John, 887, 892

Woobnan, John, 400

Woolsey, William, 376

Wortman, Tunis, 319

Wren, Christopher, 176, 177

Wright, Frances (Fanny), 509, 510, 511, 517, 518, 519, 522, 526, 530, 541, 549, 553, 609, 621, 682, 706, 765, 983, 989

Wright, Lizzie, 804

Wright, Silas, 614

Wright, Theodore, 550, 551, 552, 561, 855, 856, 857

Wurster, Frederick, 1234

Wyckoff family, 36

Yates, John Van Ness, 494

Yates, Robert, 288

York, Duke of (James Stuart): Andros recalled by, 90, 91

and Anglo-Dutch relations, 70-74, 82

as Catholic, 72, 94

and Charter of Libertyes, 92

claims New Netherland, 72-74

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