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provision made by the will of Washington for the liberation of, iii. 535, 538.

Slave-trade, resolution adverse to the, adopted at the Williamsburg convention, in 1744, i. 405; the American Association agree to discontinue the, i. 441; action of various states in relation to the, before 1790, iii. 152.

Slocum, Lieutenant, in the battle at Moore's-creek bridge--anecdote of the wife of, told by Mrs. Ellett (_note_), ii. 118.

Small-pox, Washington attacked by, in Barbados--permanent traces of, on the countenance of Washington, i. 63; precautions taken against, in the camp at Morristown, ii. 401.

Smallwood, Colonel, regiment of, sent by General Mercer to reinforce the army in New York, ii. 241.

Smallwood's regiment, admirable conduct of, in the battle of Long Island, ii. 275.

Smith, Adam, unfriendly to American freedom, i. 485.

Smith, Colonel, sent by General Gage to seize stores at Concord, i. 503; courthouse at Concord set on fire by troops under--retreat of, from Concord, i. 507; wounded in the leg near Lexington--command of, saved by the arrival of Lord Percy--extreme exhaustion of the soldiers of, i. 508.

Societies, democratic, in 1793, condemnation of, by Washington, iii. 264; excise laws denounced by, iii. 311; letter of Washington to General Henry Lee, in relation to, iii. 313; Washington's opinion of (_note_), iii. 322; denounced by Washington in his sixth annual message--debates in Congress, in relation to, iii. 324; gradual dissolution of, iii. 328; hostility of, to Jay's treaty, iii. 354.

Sons of Liberty, associations of, i. 324.

Sorel, condition of the republican army at the, after the flight from Quebec, ii. 146.

South Carolina, money sent to London from, in support of the Bill of Rights, i. 370; royal power abdicated in, by Lord Campbell, ii. 186; changes in the civil government of--happiness caused among the people of, by the change of government (_note_), ii. 187; comparative quiet in, after the repulse of the British at Charleston,