The Forgotten Founding Father- Noah Webster (51 page)

“Policy of Connecticut,” essays

Politics, Webster and; candidacy; changes; Constitution ratification; international unity; neutrality; in old age; support of Washington; War of 1812

Porter, Noah

“P.Q.” (pen name)

Prevost, Theodosia

Princeton, New Jersey

“Progress of Dulness” (Trumbull)

Prompter, The; or A Commentary of Common Sayings and Subjects
(Webster)

“Prospect of Peace, The” (Barlow)

Provoked Husband, The
(Vanburgh)

Pseudonymous writings.
See also
Anonymous Writings

Psychological problems; conversion and

Public health, Webster and

Public speaking, education for

Quincy, Josiah

Rambler, The
(Johnson)

Ramsay, David

Raynal, Abbe

Readers.
See also A Grammatical Institute of the English Language

Real estate deals, Greenleaf and

Reed, Joseph

Reeve, Tapping

Relationships; family; Greenleaf; Hamilton; Jefferson; Johnson; parents

Religion, Websters and

Residences of Webster: Amherst; Boston; Hartford; New Haven; New York; Philadelphia

Revolutionary War; events leading to; Websters and

Richardson, Charles;
New Dictionary of the English Language

Richmond, Virginia

Rind, William

Roget, Peter Mark

Romances of Webster; Greenleaf

Royal Library, Paris

Royal Standard English Dictionary, The
(Perry)

Rush, Benjamin

“Rusticus” (pen name)

St. Michael’s Church, Charleston

Scholten, Antonia von

School dictionaries

Schools: colonial; opened by Webster

Schoolteacher, Webster as

Scientific survey, first

Scripps National Spelling Bee

Seaman, Valentine

Second Great Awakening

Sedentary life, health effects

Selected Pronouncing and Accented Dictionary, A
(Elliott and Johnson, Jr.)

Seven Years’ War

Seymour, Thomas

Shakespeare, William

Sharon, Connecticut

Sharon Literary Club

Sharples, James

Shays, Daniel

Sheridan, Thomas

Sherman, Roger

Silliman, Benjamin

Singing, teaching of

Sketches of American Policy
(Webster)

Slavery, opposition to

Smallpox

Smith, Cotton Mather

Smith, Elihu Hubbard

Smith, Elizabeth

Smith, John Cotton

Smith, Juliana

Smith, Samuel Stanhope

Smith, Temperance Gale

Smith, Thomas Mather

Smith, William,
History of the Province of New York

Social insurance system

Social life; Boston; Hartford; New York City

Solar eclipse

Sons of Liberty

Southern states

Southgate, Horatio

Southgate, Mary

Speaker, Webster as; at Yale

Spelling bees

Spelling books;
See also American Spelling Book
(Webster)

Spelling Dictionary
(Entick)

Spelling reform; Franklin and

Sproat, James

Stagecoach, travel by

State legislatures: and copyright law; and national tax

Statistics; yellow fever

Steamboat, invention of

Steele, Eliphalet

Steele, Jerusha

Steele, Mercy.
See also
Webster, Mercy Steele

Stiles, Ezra

Storer, Maria

Strong, Hezekiah Wright

Strong, Jedediah

Strong, Nathan

Stuart, Moses

Stuart, Rosalie

“Suicide, The” (Percival)

Supreme Court, U.S.

Swift, Zephaniah

Synopsis of Words in Twenty Languages
(Webster)

Taxes; Massachusetts; national impost

Teachers, in colonial schools

Thatcher, Peter

Theater, Webster and

Thomas, Isaiah

Todd, Henry John

“Tom Thoughtful” (pen name)

“Tom Tinker, Esq.,” satirist

Tracy, Uriah

Travels; ocean voyage

Treat, Malachi

Treaty of Ghent

Trumbull, John; “McFingal,” “The Progress of Dulness,”

Trumbull, Jonathan

Tully, William

Unemployment insurance, Webster and

Union School, New Haven

Unitarianism; Webster and

Unity, American, Webster and

Universal Dictionary, The
(Webster)

Universal Spelling-Book
(Fenning)

Values, definitions and

Vanburgh, John,
The Provoked Husband

Vaughan, John

Virginia, Webster and

Wadsworth, Jeremiah

War of 1812

Washington, Bushrod

Washington, D.C.; Greenleaf and

Washington, George; biography of; and capital city; and Constitution; death of; and Genet; and neutrality; protests against; and Webster

Washington, Martha

Watson, James

Weather, statistical analysis

Webster, Abraham (brother)

Webster, Calvert Stuart (grandson)

Webster, Charles (brother)

Webster, Daniel (cousin)

Webster, Daniel (grandfather)

Webster, Eliza (daughter).
See also
Jones, Eliza Webster

Webster, Emily Scholten (daughter).
See also
Ellsworth, Emily Webster

Webster, Frances Juliana (daughter)

Webster, Harriet (daughter).
See also
Fowler, Harriet Webster

Webster, Henry (son)

Webster, Jerusha (sister)

Webster, John (forefather)

Webster, John II (forefather)

Webster, Julia (daughter)

Webster, Louisa (daughter); mental illness

Webster, Mary (daughter); death of

Webster, Mercy (sister)

Webster, Mercy Steele (mother); death of

Webster, Noah; biographies of; courtship; dictionaries; European trip; family life; job searches; lecture tours; literary activities; marriage; mid-life activities; old age; political activities; and Revolutionary War

--at Yale; graduation

Webster, Noah, Sr. (father); and education; as judge; and Revolutionary War

Webster, Pelatiah (cousin)

Webster, Rachel Merrill (wife of Abraham)

Webster, Rebecca Greenleaf (wife); birth of first child; and married life.
See also
Greenleaf, Rebecca

Webster, Robert (forefather)

Webster, Rosalie Stuart (wife of William)

Webster, Sarah Hopkins (stepmother)

Webster, William (son); marriage of; trip to Europe

Webster, William Eugene (grandson)

Webster family; family name

Webster House, West Hartford

Wedding of Webster; anniversary

Wells, Ashbel

West Indian, The
(Cumberland)

Wetmore, Ichabod

Whig-Cliosophic Society

White House, dinner at

Whitman, Elizabeth

Whitman, Elnathan

Wild Flowers
(Emily Webster)

Williams, Samuel

Williams College

Williamsburg, Virginia

Wilmington, Delaware

Wilson, James

Winchester, Simon,
The Professor and the Madman

Winthrop, John

Wirt, William

Wisner, Henry

Wolcott, Erastus

Wolcott, Oliver, Jr.

Women, Webster and; Pardee

Wooster, Mary Clap

Worcester, Joseph

Words, Webster and

Workman’s compensation, Webster and

Writers, statistics compilation

Wyllys, George

Wyllys, Hezekiah

Wyllys, Samuel

Wyllys, Susannah

“XYZ Affair,”

Yale College; graduation; master’s degree from; misbehavior at; and Revolutionary War

Yellow fever; history of

Young, William

Youth, declamation on

Joshua Kendall is the author of
The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of
Roget’s Thesaurus, a biography of the Victorian physician and wordsmith Peter Mark Roget. Kendall’s award-winning journalism, which has focused on health care and psychiatry as well as biography, has appeared in numerous publications, including
The Boston Globe, BusinessWeek, The Los Angeles Times, Psychology Today, The Wall Street Journal
and
The Washington Post
. He received his B.A. in comparative literature summa cum laude from Yale College. He also did graduate work in comparative literature at Johns Hopkins. Kendall, who lives in Boston, is currently an Associate Fellow at Yale’s Trumbull College.

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