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offence taken by, at the promotion of General Putnam, i. 593; sent to New York with a brigade, ii. 82.

Stable of Washington before the Revolution, i. 307.

Stafford county, Virginia, removal of the Washington family to, in 1735, i. 24.

Stamp-act, submitted to the house of commons by George Grenville--the proposal of, how received in the colonies, i. 323: opposition of William Pitt to, in the house of commons, i. 324; signed March 22, 1765--letter of Franklin to Charles Thomson in relation to--provisions of (_note_), i. 325; signed by the king in the incipient stages of insanity, i. 326; excitement in the colonies on the news of its becoming a law--resolutions offered in the Virginia assembly in relation to,