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and Republicans, 860

and Revolution Settlement, 283

in revolutionary New York, 209, 218, 219-22

and Stagers u Waddington, 278

and sale of confiscated Tory property, 281-82

and slavery, 285, 561, 885

and state debt, 280

supporters of, 621, 822

and suppression of Tories, 267

and Tammany, 823, 824

and theatergoing, 218

Tories alliance with conservative, 278

and Walpole, 151, 152. See also specific person

Whiskey Insurrection (Pennsylvania), 322

White Cross Army, 1165

White Cross Society, 1165

White Fort, 423

White Hall, 87, 117

White House, 878, 900

White Plains, 232, 242, 656, 743, 755, 1058

White Street, 481, 636, 656, 871

White-collar workers, 437-38, 733

Whitehall, 338, 581

Whitehall Slip, 241

Whitehall Street, 50, 54, 79, 85, 261, 372

Whitman’s New York, 705-11

Whitsuntide, 403

Whyos, 998

Widows: in colonial New York, 124, 136, 143, 144, 145, 192

and Dutch culture, 136

in early nineteenth century, 478

as heads of household, 143

and poor relief, 145

in proprietary New York, 93

as prostitutes, 144

in revolutionary New York, 214

in 1790s and early 1800s, 408

voting by, 284

Wiechquaesgeck Indians, 5, 38-39

Willard’s Hotel, 866, 872

Willet Street, 363

William and Mary College, 98

William Street: and British occupation of New York, 250, 252

and Civil War, 877, 900, 904

in colonial New York, 135, 155, 177

in early nineteenth century, 340, 434, 439, 456

in 1830s, 549, 576, 597, 599, 651

and Great Fire of 1835, 597

in late nineteenth century, 1041, 1097

lighting on, 439

in mid-nineteenth century, 726

in proprietary New York, 88

in revolutionary New York, 208, 211

South, 599

Williamsbridge, 1055

Williamsburg: breweries in, 741

and Civil War, 874, 875, 901

and Consolidation, 1227, 1228

in early nineteenth century, 423

in 1830s, 582, 612

Germans in, 773

immigrants in, 1112, 1118, 1123

in late nineteenth century, 976, 991

in mid-nineteenth century, 660-61, 719, 741, 745, 773, 801, 933

working class in, 901

Williamsburg, Virginia, 98

Willoughby Street, 1191

Windsor Terrace, 933

Windsor Theater, 1139

Wine: taxes on, 152

Winter Garden, 903

Wintergreen’s, 721

Witmark and Sons, 1146, 1147

Witzel’s, 994

W.J. Sloane, 669

Woman Suffrage Association, 984

Woman’s Bureau, 983, 984

Woman’s Club, 984

Woman’s Congress, 981

Woman’s Parliament, 981

Women: as abolitionists, 556

black, 406

and Civil War, 870, 871, 880-81, 883, 889, 890

in colonial New York, 124, 125, 136, 137, 143, 144, 183, 184, 189, 197

and Comstock reforms, 1014-15

and culture, 1167

as domestic managers, 375-76

domestic products made by, 125

and draft riot, 889

and Dutch culture, 80-90, 93, 136

in early nineteenth century, 476-78, 486, 509, 511, 530, 535-41

in 1830s, 604, 618

and family name, 137

as heads of household, 143

and history of New York, 1084

and “lady class,” 798-800

in late nineteenth century, 973-74, 981-85, 989, 991, 1014–15, 1017–18, 1032, 1047, 1084, 1086, 1090, 1145, 1153, 1158, 1160, 1162, 1167, 1206

in mid-nineteenth century, 797-98

in New Amsterdam/New Netherland, 34-35, 45, 56, 58

and organized labor, 604, 802, 845, 989, 990-91, 1090

and philanthropy, 382

as poor/poverty, 197, 284-85, 800-801, 811, 883, 991

in post-revolutionary New York, 283-85

in prisons, 1032

as property owners, 284, 285

in proprietary New York, 93

as reformers, 535-41, 880

and relationships among women, 797-98

and Republican Motherhood, 799

and resistance to British policies, 216

and retail shops, 124

as retailers, 183

in revolutionary New York, 214, 216, 230

in 1790s and early 1800s, 375-77, 406-8

sexual equality for, 509

single, 665, 666

sphere for, 798-800, 803

as spies, 255

subordination of, 817-20

as Tories, 246, 284

as traders, 124-25

and two-tiered system of citizenship, 67

as volunteers, 880-8

as working class, 406-8, 476-78. See also Feminism; Working women; specific