Wabash Indians, 211n

Wagner, Jacob

Notes on a Letter from Rühle von Lilienstern, 156

and applicants for appointments, 332n, 357n

prepares blank commissions, 682

letter from cited, 682n, 699

publication of laws in German, 690n

wagons, 4-5, 110

Walker, Benjamin, 126

Walker, George

TJ's opinion on case of, 334-6

Walker, Thomas, 540, 567

Waln, Robert, 14n

Walton, George

letter from, 455

seeks appointment, 3, 4n, 594

recommends J. F. Hull, 455

identified, 455n

wampum, 505, 506

War, U.S. Department of

Federalists in army, viii, 22, 96, 629

M. Lewis's classification of army officers, viii, 629-30

reorganization, reduction, viii, xlii, 81-7, 457, 630n, 645, 695n

Republicans in army, viii, 629

tents, ix, 686

arsenals, armories, 22, 69n, 82-3, 85-6n, 347-8, 614

fire in offices of, 22, 84, 85n, 87n, 111, 112n

cannon for, 46, 82, 83, 86n

superintendent of military stores, 69-70, 82, 96, 97n, 210, 211n

Dearborn's report on, 81-7

military clothing, 82, 84, 85n

military returns, 82-3, 84, 86n

quartermaster department, 83, 85-6n

sells vessels on Great Lakes, 83, 86n

bounties for Revolutionary War veterans, 84

inspectors, 84, 86n

library for, 84, 87n

military academy proposed, 84, 87n, 119

rations for army, 84

regiments of cavalry, 84, 86-7n

use of soldiers as laborers, 84, 87n, 491-2

vacancies in army, 84

courts-martial in army, 150-1

clerks, 172n, 505, 630n

engineers, 207

gunpowder stores, 210

repairs to office of, 370-1

minors in the army, 463-4

provisional army, 494

judge advocates, 674n

See also Dearborn, Henry; Indian affairs, U.S.

Warburton, William, 118n

Wardlaw, William

letter to, 581-2

letter from cited, 375n, 703

TJ sends publications on smallpox to, 580, 581-2

Warfield, William, 102

Warminster, Va., 573-4

War of 1812, 417n, 461n, 567n

Warren, James

letter from, 218-19

reports on Mass. politics, 218-19

Warren, Joseph, 389n, 689n

Warren, Mercy Otis

letter from, 220

congratulates TJ, 220

History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, 220n

identified, 220n

Warren (U.S. ship), 279n

Washington, George

American Revolutionary War

recommends Vermonnet, 207

personal guard, 394n

and Conway Cabal, 456

and W. Tudor, 674n

Death and Memorialization

biographies of, 322n

monument to, in Scotland, 414

legacy of, 455

images of, 690n

Personal Affairs

interest in agriculture, 414

President

relations with France, 24, 27n

appointments, 42, 43n, 126, 131n, 139, 140n, 183n, 260, 393, 394n, 446-7, 449n

and David Humphreys, 60

and American captives in Algiers, 61n

correspondence with governors, 161-2

administration praised, 188n

and Washington, D.C., 225, 487n

influence on the country, 258

and Jay Treaty, 351, 522

and granting of passports, 381n, 396-7

weights and measures, 408

as reference, 486

Retirement

visitors, 475n

Washington, D.C.

reputation as unhealthy, ix, 64, 548, 610, 614, 626, 640

social life, ix, 173, 196, 200, 235, 245-6, 257, 409, 429, 497

Supervisor of Public Buildings, xli

market, 51-2, 452

booksellers, 74n

stationers, 74n, 299

government relocates to, 78, 298, 486

tornadoes at, 111, 112n

design of public buildings, 128

Six Buildings, 193n

surveyor, 199-200n

building regulations in, 225-6

description of, 235, 245-6, 257

prospects for, 235, 245-6, 497

justices of the peace, 303-4

masons, stonecutters at, 313-14

public buildings, 313-14

churches, 368

hotels, boardinghouses, 368, 399n

Presbyterian Meeting House, 368

Lady Washington's Chapel, 369n, 406n

carpenters at, 370-1

upholsterers at, 370-1

wages at, 370-1

price fixing among workmen at, 371

mills, 416

gardens, 420

physicians, 462

cemeteries, 486, 487n

orchards, 486, 487n

President's Square, 487n, 647n

tailors, 489n

streets and roads in, 497, 530

libraries, 578-9, 603n

merchants, 606n

newspapers, 621-4

alterations to plan of, 647-8

See also Anacostia River; District of Columbia

Washington Federalist, 112n, 350n, 377n, 565n

Waterhouse, Benjamin

letters to, 462, 640-1

letters from, 273-7, 629

promotes smallpox vaccination, 273-7, 462, 468, 471

supplies vaccine matter to TJ, 274, 275, 580, 581-2, 629, 640-1

Prospect of Exterminating the Small Pox, 277n

letters from cited, 582n, 629n, 641n, 699, 703, 704

Waties, Thomas, 186

Watson, Benjamin Marston, 531-2

Watson, James, 513

Watson, John

letter to, 240

payments to, 235-6, 240, 375

identified, 240n

letters from cited, 240n, 702, 703

Watson, John (Pa.), 97

Watson, William, 531-4

weather

tornadoes, 111, 112n

hail, 390, 429, 451

Webb, Charles (surgeon)

letter from, 364-8

court-martial of, 364-8, 377-8

identified, 367-8n

letter from cited, 368n

Webb, William, 47

Weems, J., 583n

Weems, Mason Locke

letter to, 321-2

and publication of H. Blair's sermons, 321-2

identified, 322n

letter from cited, 322n, 702

weights and measures, 408, 624-5n

Welsh, James, 171n

Weser River, 281, 285n

Western State Hospital (Staunton, Va.), 270n

West Indies

trade with U.S., 49, 261n, 350n, 456, 531, 670n, 688

U.S. Navy in, 139, 308

French navy in, 260, 261n

suggested U.S. acquisitions in, 613n

admiralty courts in, 671n

West Point, N.Y.

military academy at, proposed, 84, 87n, 119

Weymouth, Capt. William Walker, 362, 364n

whale oil, 311n, 455n

wheat, 452, 595

Whelen, Israel, 82, 85n, 86n

Whipple, Joseph, 357n, 449n

Whiskey Insurrection, 211n

White, Alexander

as D.C. commissioner, 225-6, 335-6n

letter from cited, 335n, 698

White, Hugh

letter from cited, 9n

letter to cited, 9n, 697

White, Joseph Moss

letter from, 55-6

sends pamphlet, news of Conn. politics, 55-6

White, Valentine

letter to cited, 699

letter from cited, 704

Whittemore, Retier, 676n

Whittlesey, Chauncey, 93, 94n

Wilkes, John, 216n

Wilkins, Charles, 244, 245n

Wilkins, John, Jr., 85-6n

Wilkins, Nathaniel, 280

Wilkinson, James

ordered to Niagara, 84, 87n, 558

submits army returns, 84, 87n

and proposed military academy, 87n

appointed Indian commissioner, 129, 130n, 507, 558, 560n

in Miss. Terr., 250

criticism of, 456

replaced as commander at New Orleans, 461n

praise for, 491

Wilkinsonville, Cantonment (army post), 84, 87n

Willcox, Joseph, 344n

Willett, Marinus

letter from, 36-7

advises on N.Y. appointments, 36-7

William and Mary, College of, 67n, 322n

Williams, Benjamin, 483-4

Williams, David Rogerson, 221n

Williams, John, 76, 77n

Williams, John Pugh, 483-4

Williams, Jonathan, 87n

Williamson, Catherine, 705

Williamson, Collen

letter from, 313-14

seeks employment, 313-14

Williamson, Hugh

letters from, 522-3, 693-4

advises on politics, appointments, 522-3

recommends C. Bulfinch, 693-4

Williamson, Maria Apthorpe, 694

Willis, Abel, 106

Willis, Francis

letter from cited, 703

Wills, Colin C.

letter from cited, 697

payments to, 705

Wills, John S., 251

Wills, Willis, 573-4, 577n

Wilmington, Del.

collector at, 170-1, 339, 348-9, 402, 467, 566, 612-13

postal service, 585

physicians, 591

marine hospitals, 681n

Wilmington, N.C.

collector at, 484n, 497, 502n

marine hospital, 681n

Wilson, William, 300n

Windship, Amos

letter from, 15-17

seeks pardon, 15-17

identified, 16n

wine

ordered by TJ, 38, 44, 55, 68-9, 100, 101, 106, 124, 198, 227, 230, 257, 259, 589, 615, 650, 701

Madeira, 38n, 55n, 468-9

trade, 49

Brazil, 55n, 106, 124, 230, 259

claret, 100, 257, 650, 701

London Particular, 106, 124

sherry, 257, 650, 701

prices, 259n

U.S. market for French, 439, 441

adulteration of, 589

Jerez, 589

Malaga, 589

pajarete, 589

Pedro Jimenez, 589

"tent" (tinto), 589

sauterne, 650, 701

Wirt, William, 347n

Wistar, Caspar, ix, 482n, 627

Wolcott, Alexander, 94n, 130, 131n, 341-2

Wolcott, Oliver, Jr.

and McLane, 170

and Priestman's case, 279, 320n, 460

and revenue cutters, 356n

suit against, 371

and T. Coxe, 446

and lease of salt springs, 492, 493n

women

and pregnancy, childbirth, x, 327

education of, 103n, 432-3, 673n

invited to dine at President's House, 193, 200

as shopkeepers, 333n

Woodcock, Thomas

letter from, 180

sends religious statement, 180

Wooddeson, Richard

Systematical View of the Laws of England, 254n

Woodruff, George, 592

Woodside, John, 272

workhouses, 109n

Wrede, John Frederic

letter from cited, 702

Wyoming Valley, Pa., 300n, 442, 449n

Wythe, George

letter to, 421

letter from, 695

and S. Tinsley's debt, 421, 695

letters from cited, 421n, 695n, 698, 699