W.

• Waale-bocht. See Wallabout Bay.
• Waale-boght. See Wallabout Bay.
• “Waal, Een,” 415.
• Waale-Kerken. See Walloon Churches.
• Wadsworth (Brig.-Gen.), 285.
• Wagon-yard, The British, at Brooklyn, 310, 324.
• Waldeck, Stores, 324.
• Waldron (Capt.), Adolph. 247; Samuel, 217, 219.
• Wallabout Bay, The, 24, 25, 26. 29,44, 86, 88, 91, 115, 141, 155, 198, 207, 217, 239, 250, 337, 414, 415; Committee, 364, 365, 366; District, 381; Settlers, 25, 161, 224; School, 243; and Brooklyn Toll Bridge, 363, 387; Tobacco grown at, 232; Taxation of residents at, 135; Sale of lands in, to U. S, 385.
• Walloons Bay. See Wallabout Bay; Churches, 24.
• Walzogen, Baron. 323.
• Wampum manufactured at L. I., etc, 33.
• Wantenaer, Albert, Cornelissen, 101, 102, 114, 123, 160.
• Ward (Col.), 247.
• Waring, Henry, 309.
• War of 1812, Declaration of, 393, 396.
• Warpoes, 64, 424.
• Wartoun, Thomas, 68.
• Washington, Petition of prisoners to, 356, 357; Arrives at N. Y., 248; Addresses troops at Brooklyn, 259; Headquarters at Brooklyn, 57, 284; Visits the lines on L. I., 259; Death, 195; Park, 251.
• Watch-house, A. 386.
• Watson, Benjamin, 365.
• Webster (Col.), 326.
• Weldon, 79; William, 327.
• Welius, 137.
• Wells, John, 309.
• Wendell, Dr., 391.
• Werpos. See Warpoes.
• Weasels, Warnaer, 116.
• West India Co., earliest deed recorded to, 26; purchases land, 25; Gives bell to Brooklyn church, 143.
• Westerhauge (Capt), 330.
• West Riding. The, 153.
• Weynant. See Wynant.
• Whaley, Alexander, 403.

• Whale boatmen on L. I. Sound, 303.
• Whitby, The prison-ship, 333, 334.
• Wilcox, 88.
• Willemsen, Willem, 68.
• Willet, Edward, 215.
• Williams, Henry, 244, 245.
• Willemsen. Hendrick, 68.
• Williamson Rem, 249.
• Wills, (Lieut.-Col.), 263.
• Williston. Rev. Ralph, 370.
• Wilson (Capt), John, 388, 396; Rev. John, 147.
• Wilward, William, 388.
• Winants. See Wynant.
• Window Curtains, 229.
• Winthrop, Gov., arrives at N. N., 118.
• Woertman, Dirck Janse, 70, 71, 72, 73, 97, 204; Tunis, 403.
• Wolfman, Dirk, 417.
• Wolphertsen, Gerrit, 97, 417.
• Woodhull , Rev. John, 290; Gen. captured, 263, 264, 283.
• Woodlands, The prison-ship, 330,336.
• Woods cut down by the British, 310.
• Woodward, Joseph. 58.
• Work of citizens on fortifications in 1812, 401.
• Worpus. See Warpoes.
• Wooster, Casper, 251.
• Wouterse, Pierre, 120.
• Wragg (Lieut.), 278.
• Wyckoff, Hendrick, 250, 331; John, 55, 58; Peter, 55, 58, 249, 297. 330, 403.
• Wylly’s (Colonel), troops, 263, 272.
• Wynants, 49; Paulus Dircksen, 120; Peter, 60, 66, 203, 424.

Y.

• Yellow Fever In Brooklyn in 1809, 391.
• Yellow Hook, 53; Road from, 268.
• Yellow Mill. See Denton’s Hill.
• Yokam, 120.

Z.

• Zeuw Kamingh, 49.
• Ziekentrooters, or comforters of the sick, 127.
• Zoll (Lieut), 289.