INDEX

Walker, Felix: 228, 245, 260; describes Kentucky, 233-231

Walpole, Thomas, 206

Ward, James: 139

Ward, Nancy: 262, 264

Washington District: 260, 277, 314, 326

Washington, George: 47, 55, 72, 134, 256, 291; opinion of royal proclamation, 106; purchases Western lands, 106-107; makes charges against Dunmore, 206-207; secures military grants for Western lands, 208; Preston to, on Henderson purchase and Transylvania Company, 221, 237-238, 242-243

Watauga: ch. XII, 191, 194, 200, 270, 281-282;   commonwealth, 199; valley of, 188, 195, 196, 306;   country, 187, 189; settlers, 195, 196, 197, 200, 259;   Articles of Association, 197;   Association, 224; settlement, 260, 281

"Watauga Plan": commission

form of government, 260 Waxhaws: 32 Webster: 307

Welsh: immigration of, 5;    settlers, 28;-stock, 163

West: 160, 187, 259, 273, 277, 327, 342, 348

West Virginia: 14, 206

Western: leaders, 292;   people, 347;   settlers, 311, 329; territory, 347, 348;   waters, 314, 348

Wharton:     Samuel, 206;   

Thomas, 209-211 White, Dr. James: 331, 332,

338,    346;     emissary of

Franklin, 337 Whitehall: 206 Wilderness Trail: 230 Wilkinson,   General James:

335, 336 Williams, Brigadier-General

James: 291, 294; killed at

King's Mountain, 302 Williams, Col. John: 105, 107,

149, 187, 222, 254; elected

delegate from Transylvania

to Continental Congress, 249 Williams, John: 141 Williams and Henderson, law

firm: 105, 147 Williamsborough: 103 Williamsburg: 210 Williamson, Col. Andrew: 266 Williamson,   Dr.   Hugh: 10,

312-313 Wilmington: 169 Winchester, Kentucky: 117 Winchester, Virginia: 12 Winston, Major Joseph: leads

North     Carolina troops

against    Cherokees,    266;

leads   Surry   riflemen at

King's Mountain, 293, 298,

303-304 Wolf Hills (Abingdon) : 134 Wood, Col. Abraham: 42 Wormley, Ralph: 239 Wythevi'lle: 112

Y

Yadkin:   country,   117, 131,