Schuyler, Philip, 65.

Senate of U.S., representation of States in, 167.

Seven Years’ War, 27 ff.;
  effect of, 29.

Shays, Daniel, 158.

Shays’s Rebellion, causes of, 157,158.

Shelburne, William Petty, Earl of, 130.

Sherman, Roger, 59, 161, 168.

Shirley, William, 32.

Slave labor, W.’s view of, 38; 68.

Slave trade, question of, settled by compromise, 165, 166.

Slavery, why W. disapproved of, 38, 39, 238;
  question of, settled by compromise, 164, 165.

Slaves, W.’s relations with, 38, 237-239;
  number of, in Colonies, in 1775, 68.

South Carolina, population of, in 1775, 68;
  British victories in, 122; 165.

Sparks, Jared, his Life of Washington, defects of, 3;
  quoted, 113,116 and n., 146.

Spearing, Ann, 31.

Stamp Act, 49, 51, 52, 66.

Stark, John, defeats Burgoyne at Bennington, 92.

State debts, assumption of, by national government, how secured,
    182-185;
  favored by W., 188.

State rights, problem of, 167;
  a fundamental subject of difference, 187.

States of the Confederation, W.’s farewell letter to
    governors of, 135;
  after the Revolution, 152, 156;
  their relations to one another, 152, 153;
  lack of coherence among, 154, 155;
  foreign relations of, ignominious, 155;
  delegates of, in Constitutional Convention, 160-162;
  ratification by, 175, 174. 
  And see Paris, Treaty of (1783).

Statues of W., 148.

Steuben, Baron Frederick W. von, 95, 110, 111.

Stone, F.D., Struggle for the Delaware, quoted, 100, 101.

Strong, Caleb, 161, 168.

Stuart, Gilbert, portraits of W., 149.

Sulgrave, English home of Washington family, 1.

Sullivan, John, defeated on Long Island, 77.

Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles M. de, and the X.Y.Z. mission, 216.

Tariff, W.’s view of a, 189.

Tarleton, Sir Banastre, 122.

“Taxation without representation,” 55, 57.

Thanacarishon, Seneca chief, quoted, on W. 14, 15.

Thomas, John, 71.

Ticonderoga, taken by Burgoyne, 91.

Tobacco-raising in Virginia, 39, 40.

Toner, J.M., The Daily Journal of George Washington, 11
     n.

Trenton, Battle of, and its effect, 86, 87.

Trumbull, Jonathan, letter of W. to, 231.

Tryon, William, 79.

United States, debt of Confederation turned over to, 182;
  excitement in, over Citizen Genet, 195 ff.;
  anomalous position of, between France and England, 205, 206;
  the first country in which free speech existed, 222;
  effect of W.’s example on world’s opinion of, 259.