WINTHROP, ADAM, a member of the
General Court of Massachusetts in 1722,
II. 45.
WINTHROP, JOHN, his family and early
history, I. 229; his large property and
agreeable position in Suffolk, England,
229; chosen Governor of Massachusetts,
20th Oct., 1629, 229; his letters to his
wife and son, 229; sails for New Eng-
land, III. 309; arrives at Salem, 12th
June, 1630, and settles Dorchester,
Charlestown, Boston, and Medford, 171,
173, 215, 226, n.; II. 47, n.; 65, 134,
137, 308; III. 312, 314; appearance
of Shawmut (Boston) on his landing,
II. 308; sufferings of his party, 325,
327-333; establishes himself at Ten
Hills, 134; explores Mistic (Mystic)
River, I. 215; his ship the "Blessing
of the Bay," the first vessel built in
New England, launched 4th July,
1631, II. 137; his son head of an iron
company, 65, 81; his Journal (edited
by James Savage), cited, I. 182, 224,
n.; 230, 238, n.; II. 65, n.; 81, 110,
129; his opinion of the Turks, III. 54;
his impeachment, I. 242; a great and
good man, III. 309; his place among
the leaders and benefactors of the colo-
ny of Massachusetts, II. 173; his sup-
posed speech advocating the founding
of a College, 173-176; referred to, I.
74, 223; III. 241, 296, 315, 316, n.,
321; Address delivered before the
Charlestown Lyceum, 28th June, 1830,
on the two hundredth anniversary of
his arrival, I. 215–245; II. 114, n.
WINTHROP, ROBERT C., a descendant
of the preceding, literary productions
of, II. 140; his Addresses and Speeches
cited, III. 340; a guest at a dinner
given to Emin Bey at Boston, 4th Nov.,
1850, 54; his Oration at the Festival
of the Alumni of Harvard, 22d July,
1852, 113, 119; his speech at the Pub-
lie Dinner of the United States Agri-
cultural Society in Boston, 4th of Oc-
tober, 1855, 382, 389; his communica-
tion of the death of Mr. Thomas Dowse
to the Massachusetts Historical Society,
13th November, 1856, 477; President
of the Boston Provident Association,
1857, 568; his Remarks on the Dowse
Library at the Annual Meeting of the
Massachusetts Historical Society, 9th
April, 1857, 483; his Address at the In-
auguration of the Statue of Franklin in
Boston, 484; as President of the Com-
missioners of the Public Library of
Boston, makes the first address in the
library edifice, 1st Jan., 1858, 610, 612.

WIRT, WILLIAM, one of the counsel for
plaintiff in the case of the Administra-
tors of Tuthill Hubbart v. Peter C.
Brooks, III. 282; his comments on the
case, 283, 284; eloquence of the coun-
sel on both sides, 284.
Wirtemberg, Normal Schools in, II. 339.
Wisconsin, internal improvements in, II.
369; referred to, I. 221.
Wisdom, power, and goodness of the
Creator, II. 528.

WISE, HENRY A., Governor of Virginia,
his commendation of the conduct of J.
Q. Adams in organizing the House of
Representatives in 1839, II. 585; pres-
ent at the presentation of the Cane of
Washington to Edward Everett, 23d
Feb., 1858, III. 620.
"Wiswall's Den," III. 115.
WISWALL, NOAH, wounded on the day
of the Battle of Lexington, I. 563.
Wit, power of, II. 510.
Witchcraft in Europe, II. 129; in New
England, 129-133; III. 54; in Spring-
field in 1645, 129; first execution for, in
Charlestown in 1648 (Margaret Jones),
129; only one of many errors in the
world in that age, 132; equalled by
superstition in modern times, 133; Up-
ham's History of, 140; alleged marvels
of, equalled by modern science, III. 246.
WITHINGTON family, III. 326.
Wives, penalty for striking, in the Old
Colony, I. 333.

Woburn, Massachusetts, Revolutionary
patriots of, I. 563; the birth-place of
Count Rumford, 322; referred to, I.
84.

Woburn, Asahel Porter of, killed at the
Battle of Lexington, I. 555, 562, 563.
WODEN and THOR, the cruel rites of
their worship, III. 241.
WOLCOTT family, III. 325.
WOLFE, Major-General JAMES, Cow-
per's eulogy on, I. 382; his death on
American soil, 1759, 382, 386, 397.
Woman, her proper sphere and incum-
bent duties, II. 325.

Woman's Emigrant Aid Society of the
city of New York, Address on Charity
delivered before the, III. 599, n.
Women of America, their services in the
Revolutionary War, I. 80.

Wood, manufactures of, in the United
States, II. 54, 68.

WOOD, ANTHONY, his "Athena Oxoni-
enses" quoted, III. 307.
WOOD, WILLIAM, account of Dorches-
ter in his New England's Prospect
(London, 1634); III. 314; his ac-
count of Medford in 1633, II. 136.

WOODS, LEONARD, D. D., President of
Bowdoin College, II. 603.
Wool, as an article of clothing, I. 416;
importance of, 444; value of the an-
nual yield of, in Great Britain, II. 73;
manufactures of, in England, 78, n.;
manufactures of, encouraged by the
Continental Congress, 84; manufac-
tures of, in the United States, 54, 68,
70.

Worcester, England, battle of, I. 636.
Worcester county, Massachusetts, in 1675,
I. 645; referred to, II. 207, 340; Wil-
liam Lincoln's History of, 139; Peter
Whitney's History of, 140.
Worcester, Massachusetts, beauty of its
situation, its activity, prosperity, thrift,
and good order, I. 401; drilling of
troops in the vicinity of, in 1774, 534;
designs of the British on the provincial
stores at, in 1775, 79, 541, 542, 548;
early services of, in the Revolutionary
War, 377; railroad to, II. 150; Ab-
bott Lawrence's connection with the
railroad to, III. 369, 376; referred to,
II. 146.

Worcester, Oration delivered at, 4th
July, 1833,-"The Seven Years' War,
the School of the Revolution," II. 377-
401.

WORCESTER, JOSEPH E., LL.D., his
geographical and philological works, II.
140.

WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM, his opposition
to the projected railroad in Westmore-
land and Cumberland, III. 85.
Work, excess of, a fault of the people of
the United States, III. 407.
Working classes, condition of, in Europe
and in the United States, I. 256-282;
clevated condition of, in Lowell, Mas-
sachusetts, II. 63; elevated condition
of, in other manufacturing places in
the United States, 96.

Working-men, Advantage of Knowledge
to, an Address delivered as the Intro-
duction to the Franklin Lectures, Bos-
ton, 14th Nov., 1831, I. 307, 382. (See
Education; Knowledge.)
Working-men's Party, Lecture on the,
delivered before the Charlestown Ly-
ceum, Oct., 1830, I. 283-306; impor-

tance, perpetuity, object, principles, and
members of a working-men's party,
287-290.

World, the, wonderfully adapted to
man's wants and comforts, I. 293, 374.
WORTHILAKE, Captain, and his daugh-
ters, shipwrecked, II. 16.

WOTTON, Sir HENRY, his definition of
an ambassador, III. 371.
WREN, Sir CHRISTOPHER, his monu-
ment, II. 307.

WREN, Bishop MATTHEW, impeachment
of, I. 222.

Wrentham, Massachusetts, III. 315.
Writing, importance of the invention of,
I. 359, 416; II. 240, 241, 249; III. 47;
importance of good, II. 351, 352, 354,
360, 601; as taught in New England
about 1800, 600; as taught in the pub-
lic schools of Massachusetts in 1848,
601.

Writing materials, invention of, I. 300.
Writs of Assistance, Otis's and Thacher's
arguments on, II. 384.

Wrong, ignorance or error lies at the
foundation of, II. 512; the cowardice
involved in the commission of, 513.
Wye River, the scenery of the, II. 471.
WYMAN, JABEZ, kilied on the day of
the battle of Lexington, I. 563.
WYMAN, JAMES, of Capt. Parker's com-
pany of Lexington, I. 562.
WYMAN, NATHANIEL, killed at the bat-
tle of Lexington, I. 562.
WYSE, Mr., his efforts in the cause of
popular education, II. 315.
WYTHE, GEORGE, Chancellor of Vir-
ginia, in conjunction with Jefferson and
Pendleton, revises the laws of Virginia,
1776-77, I. 142.

X.

XENOCLES, of Adramyttium, one of
Cicero's masters, I. 425.
XENOPHON, excellence of his Cyro-
pædia, II. 505; his anecdote relative
to Cyrus the Younger and Lysander,
III. 559; his Memorabilia of Socrates
studied by Franklin when a youth, H.

21.

Xeres, the vintage of, III. 549.

Y.

Yale College, Oration delivered before
the . B. K. Society of, 20th of Au-
gust, 1833, I. 404-441; bond of good
feeling between, and Harvard College,

404, 405, 440; foundation of, 440; ob-
ligation of, to English benefactors, 348;
should be well supported by the State,
II. 613; Benjamin Silliman, Professor
of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geol-
ogy in, 383.

YANCEY, Mr., of Alabama, presented
with the spy-glass of Washington, III.
620; his acknowledgments, 623.
Yanina, description of, II. 402.
Yarn, cotton, manufacture of, in Great
Britain, II. 246.

Yazoo purchase, loss to Bostonians by
the, III. 275.

Year, length of, III. 438; first measured
by a Greek, I. 24; revolution of, closely
connected with man's social, material,
and moral progress, III. 437.

Yellow fever, did it prevail among the
Indians in Massachusetts, in 1612-13?
II. 115.

Yellow Springs, Ohio, Speech delivered
at a public dinner given to Edward
Everett at, 29th June, 1829, I. 207-
214.

Yeomanry, intelligence and honesty of
the American, I. 17.
YORK family, I. 124.

YORK, Duke of, meets Lafayette at Vi-
enna, in 1785, I. 482.

York Minster, Remarks at a meeting held
on the subject of the restoration of, II.
447-450; impression produced upon
the mind of the visitor of, 448, 449;
one of the noblest structures ever raised
by the hands of man, 449; restoration
of, urged, 450.

Yorkshire, character of the population of,
II. 52.

Yorktown, the battle of, I. 109; III. 13,
530; heroes of the battle of, 43; state
of the hostile forces there, at the surren-
der of Cornwallis, I. 396, 479; the vic-
tory at, does away from the French the
reproach of the Seven Years' War, 480.
YOUNG, ALEXANDER, D. D., his histor-
ical and biographical works, II. 140;
his Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers
of the Colony of Plymouth, from 1602
to 1625, cited, 116; III. 306, 309; as-
sists Edward Everett in making out
the list of the works of authors (II. 138-

140) connected with the Massachusetts
Historical Society, II. 140.

"Young America," needs the curb occa-
sionally, III. 227; referred to, 113,
155, 356.

YOUNG, ARTHUR, his Travels in France
cited, I. 450.

YOUNG, EDWARD, his "Night Thoughts"
formerly a favorite in Continental Eu-
rope, I. 31.

YoUNG, Sir JOHN, I. 223.
Young Men of America, Lafayette pro-
posed as the object of their imitation,
I. 523; the life of J. Q. Adams a proper
model for, II. 586.

Young Men's Democratic Club of Boston,
Speech before, 5th July, 1858, III. 637-

647.

YOUNG, THOMAS, M. D., interprets the
hieroglyphics of Egypt, I. 427; rival
pretensions of Champollion and, 420.
(See Pyramids of Egypt.)

Youth, exhorted to a diligent pursuit of
science, II. 634; importance of the
sound education of, I. 408; II. 324-
362; golden hours of, should be profit-
ably employed, III. 81; character of
reading best relished by, II. 1; must
seek knowledge from precedents, III.
120; tendency of, to crowd the profes-
sions in cities, II. 650; dangers of, 529.
Youth of Washington, an Oration at
Beverly, Massachusetts, 4th July,
1835, I. 564-598. (See WASHINGTON,
GEORGE.)

Youths at college, importance of super-
vision and care of, II. 543.

Z.

ZACH, Baron, his "Correspondence As-
tronomique" cited, III. 444; his amus-
ing anecdote of a black astronomer, 444.
ZEISBERGER, his Indian Vocabulary, II.
116, n.

Zodiacal light, speculations on its nature,
III. 430.

Zoology, importance of the study of, II.
209; not taught in American public
schools, about 1800, III. 74; of Mas-
sachusetts, I. 616.