Namacolin, an Indian chief, 31.
Nassau, New Providence, 68.
National road, 31.
Nave. Leonard, 44.
Neck of land, 110.
Neighbors supply provisions, 51.
Neville. Amelia, 21.
Neville. George, 15, 19, 129.
Neville. Brig. Genl. John, 20.
Neville. Col. Joseph, 20.
Neville. Presley, 21.
Neville's ordinary, 20.
New Providence, 65.
Newton. John, 108.
Nicholas. Robert Carter, 60.
Nickson. George, 101.
Night caps, 69.
No idle boy life, 14.
Norman's ford, 78.
Norman's line, 78.
North American Indians, 52.
North branch, 32.
North mountain, 26, 32.
North river of Cacapehon, 106.
Northern neck of Va., 11, 23, 72, 77.
Note book of memoranda, 54.
Occoquan river, 19, 21.
Old fields, 49, 50.
Old Town, 31, 64.
Oldham. Winifred, 20.
Ohio company, 53, 63, 64, 65.
Ohio river, head of, 25, 31.
Ohio, State of, founded, 55.
Opequon river, 25, 45.
Orange Co., Va., 25.
Oratory of Indians, 32.
Osborne. Jeremiah, 48.
Owen. Thomas, 122.
Parke. John, Jr., 89, 90.
Parke. John, Sr., 98, 113.
Parke. Roger, 113.
Parker. John, 112.
Parker. Thomas, Sr., 100.
Patroons, barons of manor lands in N. Y., 40.
Patterson creek manor, 39.
Patterson's creek, 22, 34.
Peach bottom, 30.
Peaks of Otter, 21.
Pendleton Co., W. Va., 32, 37, 40.
Pennington. Capt. Isaac, 24, 121, 125, 126.
Pennsylvania, 25.
People follow the surveyors, 45, 48, 49.
Pernicious weeds, 27.
Persimon trees, 75.
Picture of a war dance, 34.
Pilot in surveying, 28, 55.
Pine trees, 42.
Pinson. Aaron, 42.
Plat of early surveys, 11.
Plat of "Hell Hole," 11.
Plat of survey, 79.
Plat of turnip field, 11.
Plats drawn, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 95, 98, 100,
101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111, 114, 115,
118, 119, 120, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130.
Plumb. Samuel, 111.
Prince William Co., 19.
Point Lookout, 29.
Poisoned fields, 27, 28.
Polk, Charles, of Md., 30.
Pope's creek, Westmoreland Co., 52.
Poplar trees, 81.
Portrait of Major Washington, 54.
Potomac, head spring of, 80.
Potomac river, 21, 23, 31, 109.
Potomac river, high water, 29.
Powell. Joseph, 90, 91, 92, 93.
Pownall. S., 65.
Pownall's, Gov. map, 20.
President of Council, 68.
Prince William Co., 15, 21, 52.
Proprietary rights, 77.
Provisions exhausted, 51.
Pugh. Evan, 90, 91, 92.
Pugh. Evan, Jr., 91, 93, 100.
Pugh. Jacob, 90, 91, 92.
Pugh. Jacob, Jr., 90, 100.
Pulmonary trouble, 54.
Quebec, storming of, 69.
Ramsay, William, trustee of Alexander, 53.
Randolph. Senator, 77.
Rankon. Hugh, 120.
Rappahannock river, 19, 23.
Rattle snake, 52.
Raynal. Abbe, 32.
Razor in toilet outfit, 69.
Red bud trees, 46.
Red oak trees, 28, 44.
Redstone creek storehouse, 65.
Reed. Peter, 41.
Regar. Anthony, 42.
Reward for man scalps, 33, 34.
Rice. Patrick, 126.
Rich barons, 124.
Rich lands, 24.
Road made over the Alleghany, 31, 65.
Roberts. John, 78.
Robinson. Nicholas, 93, 94, 95.
Roe. Richard, 75.
Rogers. Gov. Wood, 68.
Romans without knives and forks, 35.
Royal charter, 32.
"Rules of civility," 26, 35.
Russell, J. A., Esq., 72.
Rutherford. Capt. Reuben, 115, 119.
Rutledge. James, 37, 38, 39.
Sale at Belvoir, 16, 19.
Salem, Massachusetts, 68.
Salt Lick, 40.
Scalps of Indians, rewards for, 33, 34.
School-house, 75.
Schools attended, 10.
Scott. James, 83, 84, 103.
Sebastian. Stephen, 123.
Sheely. John, 128, 129.
Sheets, clean, on beds, 29.
Shenandoah Co., Va., 39.
Shenandoah river, 21, 22, 26, 47, 52, 114.
Shenandoah valley, 20, 25.
Shepherdstown, Va., 37, 46.
Sheplar. Henry, 48.
Sheriff of Frederick Co., 20.
Sherley. Walter, 120.
Shoker. Harmon, 42.
Silver four-pronged forks, 36.
Simson. James, 46.
Sinclair. John, 15.
Six Nations, 29.
Six pistoles a day, 63.
Skilled director of surveys, 51.
Skipton, England, 30, 31.
Slaughter. Francis, 78.
Sleeping in the open air, 63.
Sleeping on cabin floors, 27.
Smith. George, 122, 123.
Smith. James, 102, 103, 106.
Smith. Silvenus, 71, 88, 98, 99, 112, 113.
Smith's Glade, 120.
South branch manor, 39.
South branch Potomac, 30, 32, 36.
South mountain, 21.
South Potomac, 68.
Southerd. Hannah, 128.
Southerd. Stephen, 128.
Spanish oak, 41, 44, 46, 49.
Spark's Washington, 79.
Spectator, reading, 67.
Spring branch, 46, 48.
Spruce trees, 115.
"Squire" (G. W. Fairfax), 36.
St. John's wort, 27.
Stackhouse. John, 72, 103, 106, 107, 108.
Stafford Co., Va., 21.
Stephenson. Richard, 115, 116.
Stone house built by Cresap, 30.
Stone house built by Hite, 25.
Stone lodge, 23.
Stony creek, 47.
Storehouse at Red stone, 65.
Storehouse at Will's creek, 64.
Strasburg, Va., 46.
Straw house, 49.
Studied surveying, 11.
Stump. Andrew, 103.
Stump. Michael, 38, 40, 41, 44.
Sugar trees, 22.
Surveying in Shenandoah valley, 12.
Surveyor's art, 9, 28.
Surveyors set to work, 51.
Swam horses over Potomac, 30, 34.
Sycamore trees, 45, 48, 111.
Table cloth, 34.
Table knife, history of, 34, 35.
Tarred cotton cap, 70.
Taylor. Richard, 28, 39, 55.
Tent carried off by wind, 45.
Tent pitched, 50.
Thomas. James, 100, 105.
Thomas. Lewis, 116, 117, 118.
Thomas. Nathan, 120.
Thornton's, 69.
Timberless tracts of land, 50.
Titled patron, 12.
Tomahawk blaze, 43.
Tomahawk claims, 43.
"Toner Collection," 77.
Towlston Hall, 24.
Town creek, 63.
Treeless prairies, 50.
Through a narrow pass, 50.
Trout run, 90.
Trustees of Alexandria, 53.
Turkeys become wild, 38.
Undressed for bed, 26.
"Upper Tract," Va., 32.
Urton. John, 126, 128, 129.
"Vacant," a surveyor's term, 43, 46.
Valley of Virginia, 36.
Vance. Alexander, 124, 129.
Vance. John, 123, 124, 125, 126, 128.
Van Meter. Henry, 36, 49, 50.
Van Meter. Isaac, 25, 37.
Van Meter. John, 25, 36, 37.
Van Meter's Marsh, 37.
Van Meters, sketch of, 36.
Vermin in beds, 26.
Vernon. Admiral, 53.
Verses, 54, 70, 71.
Vestall. William, 114.
Vincy. Andrew, 71, 84, 85, 103.
Walker, Major, of Nassau, 68.
Walker. Samuel, 117.
Walker's pioneers in valley, 38.
Walnut bottoms, 31.
Walnut trees, 47.
Walpole grant, 65.
Walpole. Thomas, 65.
Wappotomaka or South branch, 32, 40.
War dance, 34.
Warden. James, 103, 106.
Warden. William, 87, 104.
Warm spring, 29.
Washington and the Ohio Co., 31.
Washington cottage at Bath, 30.
Washington county, Md., 30.
Washington, his reading, 67, 73.
Washington licensed a surveyor, 78.
Washington made Major, 26.
Washington. Anne, 54.
Washington, Augustine, Jr., and Ohio Co., 33, 34.
Washington. Augustine, Sr., 52, 53.
Washington. Mrs. Aug., 66.
Washington. Col., 18.
Washington, George, begins life, 15.
Washington, George, "S C C.", 78.
Washington, George, to leave school, 10.
Washington. Capt. Henry, 67, 75.
Washington, Col. John, the emigrant, 52.
Washington. John Augustine, 116.
Washington. Lawrence, 64, 68, 116, 118, 119, 121.
Washington. Major Lawrence, 10, 12.
Washington, Lawrence, at Bath, 30.
Washington, Lawrence, and Ohio Co., 31.
Washington, Lawrence, half-brother to George, 52.
Washington, Lawrence, married, 53.
Washington, Lawrence, portrait of, 54.
Washington. Mary, 9.
Washington. Richard, 67.
Washington. Sarah, 54.
Washington. Warner, 69.
Washington's diaries, 18, 20.
Washington's purchases at sale, 16, 17.
Watts. John, 74.
Wearing apparel, 69.
Welton. John, 94.
Welton. Henry, 94.
West Indies, 54, 68.
West, William, of Fairfax Co., 52.
Westmoreland Co., 68.
Wharton. Samuel, 65.
White oak trees, 41, 55.
White pine trees, 80, 84.
White walnut trees, 48, 81, 93, 94.
White wood tree, 45, 46.
Wiggans. Thomas, 72, 109, 111.
Wiggans. William, 109, 111.
Wigs worn, 70.
Wild cherry trees, 85.
Wild meadows, 50.
Wild turkey eggs taken to Turkey, 38.
Wild turkey, its name, 38.
Wild turkey killed, 49.
Wild turkey, native of America, 38.
Wild turkeys, 41, 45, 49.
William and Mary College, 78.
Williams' Academy, 11, 66.
Williams' gap, 52.
Williams. Thomas, 110, 111.
Williamsburg, Va., 67.
Willis, Francis, Jr., 18.
Will's creek, 31, 65.
Wilton. John, 71.
Winchester, Frederick Co., 19, 22, 25, 52, 80, 96.
Wine and rum punch, 28.
Wood. Daniel, 106.
Wood. David, 106, 107.
Wood. James, 25, 26.
Wood. Jeremiah, 127.
Woodfin. John, 94, 114.
Woodfin. Samuel, 94.
Woodsman, 26.
Woodstock, Va., 45, 46, 47.
Worthington. Robert, 116, 118, 119, 120, 121, 130.
Wolf. Widow, 47, 48.
Wolf's fort, 47.
Wolf's marsh, 47.
Wright's ferry, 30.
Wirthlington Church, England, 19.