Washington

  Ticonderoga guns transported by

  Whiskey Rebellion and

  at Yorktown

  Knox, Lucy Flucker

  Knyphausen, Wilhelm von, Baron

  Lafayette, Adrienne de Noailles

  Lafayette, George Washington

  in America

  Lafayette, James Armistead, see Armistead, James

  Lafayette, Marquis de

  Arnold affair and

  in Battle of Brandywine

  French Revolution and

  on GW

  GW’s closeness to

  GW’s correspondence with

  imprisonment of

  invasion of Canada advocated by

  in release from prison

  in return visit to America

  slavery opposed by

  in Virginia

  at Yorktown

  Lake Champlain

  Lake Erie

  La Luzerne, Chevalier de

  Lancaster, Pa.

  Langdon, Elizabeth

  Langdon, John

  Langdon, Samuel

  Lansdowne portrait

  Lansing, John, Jr.

  Latrobe, Benjamin

  Laurens, Henry

  GW’s correspondence with

  Laurens, John

  death of

  in duel with Lee

  slavery opposed by

  as special envoy to France

  Lauzun, Duke de

  Law, Thomas

  Lear, Polly Long

  Lear, Tobias

  GW’s final illness and

  marriage of Fanny Bassett Washington and

  slavery and

  as surrogate son

  Lee, Ann Fairfax, see Washington, Ann Fairfax

  Lee, Charles (attorney general)

  Lee, Charles (general)

  at Battle of Monmouth

  British capture of

  correspondence with Reed

  court-martial of

  rivalry of GW and

  Lee, Frank (slave)

  Lee, Henry “Light-Horse Harry,”

  funeral oration for GW by

  Whiskey Rebellion and

  Lee, Mary

  Lee, Richard Henry

  GW criticized by

  Lee, William “Billy” (slave)

  portraits of

  Leffingwell, Ebenezer

  Legaux, Peter

  legislative branch

  under Articles of Confederation

  equality between executive and

  supremacy of

  Leibiger, Stuart

  Le Mayeur, Jean-Pierre

  L’Enfant, Pierre Charles

  Lengel, Edward G.

  Lenox, David

  Leslie, Alexander

  Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies (Dickinson)

  Lewis, Betty Washington (sister)

  Lewis, Fielding (brother-in-law)

  Lewis, Fielding, Jr. (nephew)

  Lewis, George W. (nephew)

  Lewis, Howell (nephew)

  Lewis, Lawrence (nephew)

  Lewis, Rachel

  Lewis, Robert (nephew)

  Lexington and Concord, Battle of

  Liberty Hall Academy (Washington and Lee University)

  Life of Washington, The (Weems)

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Lincoln, Benjamin

  Lippincott, Richard

  Lispenard, Leonard

  Little Falls

  Little Hunting Creek

  Little Sarah (La Petite Démocrate)

  Livingston, Edward

  Livingston, Robert R.

  Livingston, William

  Lomax, John

  Long Island

  Loring, Elizabeth Lloyd

  Loring, Joshua, Jr.

  Loudoun, John Campbell, Earl of

  Louis XIV, king of France

  Louis XV, king of France

  Louis XVI, king of France

  execution of

  Louisiana

  Louis-Philippe I, king of France

  Lovell, James

  Loyalists

  in Boston

  GW’s policy toward

  in mid-Atlantic states

  in New Jersey

  in New York

  in Philadelphia

  profiteering and

  as refugees

  southern

  see also Tories

  Lynch, Michael

  Lynch, Thomas

  McCoy, Henry

  Maccubin, Martha Rolle

  McCullough, David

  McCurtin, Daniel

  McDougall, Alexander

  McGillivray, Alexander

  McHenry, James

  as secretary of war

  Mackay, James

  Mackenzie, Frederick

  McKnight, John

  Maclay, William

  Macomb, Alexander

  McWhorter, Alexander

  Madison, James

  on Adams

  anonymous assaults on GW’s administration by

  anti-British policies of

  anti-Hamilton viewpoint of

  on Bill of Rights

  Constitutional Convention and

  deal with Hamilton by Jefferson and

  duplicity of

  Federalist papers and

  on GW

  as GW’s adviser

  GW seen as manipulated by Hamilton

  GW’s falling-out with

  GW’s farewell address drafted by

  GW’s inaugural address and

  honorary French citizenship for

  in House of Representatives

  as influence on GW

  on Jay Treaty

  Jefferson’s alliance with

  national bank opposed by

  neutrality objected to by

  Potomac capital site and

  and slavery

  as states’ rights advocate

  Whiskey Rebellion and

  Magaw, Robert

  Magdalen (ship)

  Magowan, Walter

  Maine

  Manhattan

  manufacturing

  Marat, Jean-Paul

  Marblehead, Mass.

  Marie-Antoinette, queen of France

  Marin, Sieur de

  Marshall, John

  congressional candidacy of

  on GW

  GW’s death announced in Congress by

  Martin, Joseph Plumb

  Martin, Thomas Bryan

  Marye, James

  Maryland

  Constitution ratified by

  in Potomac and James River navigation schemes

  troops from

  war debt paid by

  Mason, Charles

  Mason, George

  at Constitutional Convention

  Declaration of Rights written by

  Fairfax Resolves and

  Virginia militias and

  Masons (Freemasons)

  Massachusetts

  charter of

  at Constitutional Convention

  Constitution ratified in

  equality in

  militia of

  Shays’s Rebellion in

  Massachusetts Provincial Congress

  Mathews, David

  Mauld, John

  Mawhood, Charles

  Maxwell, William

  Mazzei, Philip

  Mercer, George

  Mercer, Hugh

  Mercer, John Francis

  Merrick, Samuel

  Miami nation

  mid-Atlantic states, economy of

  Middle Brook, N.J.

  Mifflin, Thomas

  as president of Congress

  Mifflin, Warner

  militias

  in Continental Army

  Indians vs.

  New England

  romanticization of

  standing armies vs.

  in wake of Battle of Lexington and Concord

  in Whiskey Rebellion
r />   see also specific colonies

  Minerva

  Minute Men

  Mirabeau, Count de

  Mississippi

  Mississippi Land Company

  Mississippi River

  Spain’s blocking of American commerce on

  Mohawk nation

  Moll (slave)

  Monacatoocha

  monarchy:

  American aversion to

  constitutional

  French, abolition of

  Freneau’s crusade against

  GW accused of tendencies toward

  GW’s refusal of

  Jefferson’s fear of

  Madison’s fear of

  Republican opposition to

  money

  America’s lack of

  Continental, devaluation of

  counterfeit

  national bank and

  paper

  Monmouth, Battle of

  Monmouth Court House, N.J.

  Monongahela River

  Monroe, James

  as American minister in France

  on GW

  GW’s alienation from

  and Reynolds scandal

  Montgomery, Richard

  Monticello

  Moore, Bernard

  Moore, John

  Morgan, Daniel

  Morgan, Edmund

  Morgan, J. P., Jr.

  Morgan, Philip

  Morocco

  Morris, Gouverneur

  as envoy to England

  on GW

  as minister to France

  Morris, Mary White

  Morris, Robert

  funds raised by

  Philadelphia presidential mansion rented by

  as superintendent of finance

  treasury secretaryship declined by

  Morris, Robert Hunter

  Morris, Roger

  Morristown, N.J.

  Mortier, Abraham

  Mount Vernon

  approach of British Army to

  attempt to lease out farms at

  Bushrod Washington as heir of

  economic self-sufficiency at

  entertaining at

  fishing at

  five farms at

  GW comes into possession of

  GW’s diversification at

  GW’s farming at

  GW’s final return to

  GW’s funeral at

  GW’s inheritance of

  GW’s postwar return to

  GW’s pre-Yorktown return to

  as GW’s refuge

  GW’s study at

  improvements to

  Lawrence Washington’s ownership of

  management of

  Mansion House at

  market economy at

  modernization of agriculture at

  postwar pilgrimages to

  regimentation at

  swamp reclamation at

  Moustier, Count de

  Muddy Hole

  Muhlenberg, Henry

  mules

  Murray, Williams Vans

  Murthering Town

  Muse, George

  Nancy (ship)

  National Assembly, French

  National Gazette

  National Guard of Paris

  national university, proposed

  Native Americans, see Indians

  Navy, U.S.:

  need for

  origins of

  Navy Department

  Nelson (horse)

  Nelson, Thomas

  Nelson, Thomas, Jr.

  Neptune (slave)

  Neville, John

  Newark, N.J.

  New Brunswick, N.J.

  Newburgh, N.Y.

  uprising in

  Newcastle, Duke of

  New England

  abolitionism in

  blacks accepted among troops in

  British plans for isolation of

  economy of

  GW’s disdain for

  GW’s tour of

  militias from

  Sabbath in

  southern colonies and

  winter in

  Newfoundland

  New Hampshire

  Constitution ratified in

  volunteer troops from

  New Jersey

  British domination of

  Constitution ratified by

  militia of

  retreat across

  New Jersey Line

  New Orleans, La.

  Newport, R.I.

  New Windsor, N.Y.

  New York, N.Y.

  American retreat from

  British evacuation of

  British invasion and occupation of

  financial panic in

  as first capital

  GW’s Broadway residence in

  GW’s Cherry Street residence in

  GW’s defense of

  hopes for French-American invasion of

  recovery from wartime of

  New York Bay

  New York Harbor

  New-York Journal

  New York Manumission Society

  New York Provincial Congress

  New York State

  at Constitutional Convention

  Constitution ratified in

  dissent on Constitution in

  militia from

  Nicholas, Robert Carter

  Nicola, Lewis

  Niemcewicz, Julian

  Norfolk, Va.

  North:

  divide between South and

  financial revolution in

  greater income equality in

  GW’s tour of

  North, Lord

  North Carolina

  Constitution and

  Northwest Territory

  Nova Scotia

  Ogden, Matthias

  O’Hara, Charles

  Ohio Company

  Ohio Country

  bounty lands in

  Ohio River

  Ohio Valley

  Olney, Stephen

  Oneida nation

  Orme, Robert

  Orre, William

  Osborne, William

  Osgood, Samuel

  Otis, Sally Foster

  “Pacificus,”

  pacifism

  Paine, Thomas

  and French Revolution

  on GW

  Paoli massacre

  Paris (slave)

  Parker, Daniel

  Parkinson, Richard

  Parks, Andrew

  Parliament, British

  opposition to war in

  taxation by

  Paterson, James

  Paterson, William

  Paulus Hook (Jersey City)

  Peale, Charles Willson

  Peale, James

  Peale, Raphaelle

  Peale, Rembrandt

  Peale, Titian

  Pearce, William

  Pendleton, Edmund

  Pendleton, Patrick

  Penn, Richard

  Pennington, Isaac

  Pennsylvania

  abolition of slavery in

  Constitution ratified by

  legislature of

  militia of

  Supreme Executive Council of

  troops from

  western

  Whiskey Rebellion in

  Pennsylvania, Executive Council of

  Pennsylvania, University of (College of Philadelphia)

  Pennsylvania Abolition Society

  Pennsylvania assembly

  Pennsylvania Council for Safety

  Pennsylvania Gazette

  Pennsylvania Line

  Pennsylvania Senate

  Pennsylvania State House

  Pennsylvania Supreme Court

  Pennypacker’s Mill

  Peros (slave)

  Perseverance

  Petite Démocrate, La

  Philadelphia, Pa.

  Arnold as military commandant of

  British departure from
br />   British invasion and occupation of

  as capital

  civilian life in

  Constitutional Convention held in

  Continental Army in march through

  Continental Congress’s retreat from

  fears of British advances on

  First Continental Congress in

  GW’s postretirement visit to

  GW’s visit to Congress in

  presidential mansion in

  Second Continental Congress in

  yellow fever outbreak in

  Philipse, Mary “Polly,”

  Phoenix (ship)

  Pickering, Timothy

  as secretary of state

  as secretary of war

  Piel, Jakob

  Pierce, William

  Pinckney, Charles

  Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth

  Pinckney, Thomas

  as Adams’s running mate

  Pine, Robert Edge

  Pintard, John

  Piper, Harry

  pirates, Barbary

  Pitt, William

  Pittsburgh, Pa.

  Pleasants, Robert

  Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (Wheatley)

  Pope’s Creek

  Pope’s Day

  populism

  Porterfield, Robert

  Portsmouth, N.H.

  Portugal

  postmaster general

  Post Office

  Potomac River

  federal district by

  navigation schemes for

  Potomac River Company

  Potts, Isaac

  Powel, Elizabeth Willing

  Powel, Samuel

  Power, James

  Prager, Mark, Sr.

  Pratt, Matthew

  Presbyterian Church

  Prescott (horse)

  President’s House, see White House

  press:

  Alien and Sedition Acts and

  democracy and

  GW and his administration criticized by

  Hamilton criticized in

  transformations of

  Price, Ezekiel

  Princeton, Battle of

  Princeton, N.J.

  Princeton University (College of New Jersey)

  Principio Company

  privateers

  Citizen Genet and

  Proclamation Line

  promissory notes, government

  Prussia

  France’s war with

  public credit

  public debt

  Publius (Hamilton, Madison, and Jay)

  Purple Heart

  Putnam, Israel

  Quakers

  Quebec

  Quesnay, Alexander

  Quincy, Josiah

  Quincy, Mass.

  Raleigh Tavern

  Rall, Johann Gottlieb

  Ramage, John

  Ramsay, David

  Ramsay, Elizabeth

  Ramsay, William

  Randolph, Edmund

  as attorney general

  on bank bill

  Fauchet allegations and resignation of

  as secretary of state

  on Whiskey Rebellion

  Randolph, Peyton

  Rappahannock River

  Raritan River

  Rawdon, Lord

  Rawlins, Albin

  Rawlins, George

  Redick, David

  Reed, Joseph

  as aide to GW

  criticism of GW by

  Reed family

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke)