Marshall, John, _Life of Washington_, quoted, 28, 136, 137-139; on X.Y.Z. mission to France, 215; 47, 251, 258.
Mason, George, plan of association, 52, 53; letter to _W_. 56; letter of _W_. to, 56; 161, 168, 169.
Massachusetts, leads in opposing acts of British Crown, 49; charter of, suspended, 58, 59; population of, in 1775, 67, 68; and Virginia, jealousy between, 64; freed from British troops, 74.
Mather, W., _The Young Man's Companion_, 4.
Mifflin, Thomas, of the Conway Cabal, 116; 138, 139, 161.
Military dictatorship under _W_., fear of, 141, 142, 154.
Mississippi River, Lower, closed to Americans by treaty with Spain, 155.
Monroe, James, Minister to France, recalled by _W_., 216; his letter to Committee of Public Safety, 116; 242.
Montgomery, Richard, at Quebec, 71, 72; 77.
Mount Vernon, inherited by Lawrence Washington, 5; hospitality of, 7, 45; _W_. manager of, 12; inherited by _W_., 33; a model plantation of Its kind, 39, 43, 44; _W_. returns to, after the war, 139; his life at, 146; his last days at, 232 _ff_.; his funeral at, 251-253.
Neutrality, Proclamation of, gives offense to both England and France, 204; the only rational course, 205.
New England, manufacturing in, 68; freed from British troops, 74.
New York City, _W_.'s headquarters at, 76; Howe's fleet arrives at, 76; loyalist sentiment in, 78, 79, 121; British troops return to, 105,106; _W_.'s farewell to officers at, 136, 137; _W_. inaugurated as President at, 176, 177; ceases to be national capital, 182 _ff_.
New York State, fails to choose electors in 1788, 175.
North, Frederick, Lord, Prime Minister, 54; his subservience to the King, 54, 55; retires after Yorktown, 130; 60, 61.
North Carolina, British victories in, 122.
Northwest, the, _W_.'s vision of development of, 144, 145.
Paris, Treaty of (1783), 130, 131; _W_. quoted on, 131.
Parliament, passes and repeals Stamp Act, 49; lays duties on paper, tea, etc., 49; other irritating measures passed by, 53, 58; enacts penal laws, 58, 59.
Peale, Charles, portrait of _W_., 148, 150.
Pennsylvania, population of, in 1775, 68; 58, 155.
Philadelphia, non-importation agreement of merchants of, 52; Continental Congresses meet at, 59, 64; _W_. at, 75 _ff_.; British troops at, in 1777-78, 104, 105; _W_. takes possession of, 106; to be national capital for ten years, 183, 185; Genêt at, 196.