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Williams, John (1664-1729), 70

Williams, Roger, 262

Windsor, 76

Winthrop, John, 62

Wisconsin, 137, 138, 218, 294, 341; development and elements, 233-234; German element, 227, 228, 236; New England element, 228; settlement, 226, 227

Wood, Abraham, 98

Woodstock, 59

World's fairs, 156

World-politics, 246, 315

Wyoming Valley, 79, 124

Yemassee War, 95

"Young America" doctrine, 140

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Transcriber's Notes:

The following words appear in the text with and without hyphens. They have been left as in the original.

battle-field battlefield coast-wise coastwise cow-pens cowpens head-rights headrights iron-master ironmaster new-comers newcomers non-sectional nonsectional out-vote outvote rail-splitter railsplitters sea-board seaboard slave-holding slaveholding tide-water tidewater un-won unwon

The following corrections have been made to the text:

page 25--as the nation marched westward.[period is missing in original]

page 40, footnote 40:5--"American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century,"[quotation mark missing in original]

page 48, footnote 48:4--Sheldon, "Deerfield,"[quotation mark missing in original]

page 49--your honours [original has opening parenthesis]we haue but litel laft

page 53--the frontier Towns.[original has extraneous quotation mark]

page 68, footnote 68:1--Powell, "Physiographic Regions[original has extraneous single quote]"

page 75, footnote 75:1--Egleston[original has Eggleston], "Land System of the New England Colonies,"

page 86--at least three foot within the ground."[quotation mark missing in original]

page 96, footnote 96:3--(N. Y., 1899)[closing parenthesis missing in original], pp. 149, 151;

page 117, footnote 117:3--pp. 440-447[original has 440-437]

page 118--it was being exploited,[original has period]

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