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Pabodie, W, J., Quotation from, [216.]
Para, forewarned of Indian Massacre at Jamestown in 1622, [458.]
Paea, William, Notice of, [402.]
Page, Governor, Notice of, [451.]
Paine, Thomas, his "Common Sense.", [274,] [275;] His "Crisis" ordered to be burned by British Ministry--Not an Atheist--Stanzas to Lord Howe, [275.]
Palace, Tryon's, at Newhern, North Carolina, [570.]
Palatines (German), Settlement of, in South Carolina in 1748055, [746.]
Palisades, Hudson River, Notice of, [195.]
Palmer, Edmund (Spy), Place of his Execution, [172.]
Pamphlets, quaint Titles of, [055.]
Pamunkey River described, [429.]
Paoli Tavern, Pennsylvania, [369.]
Papers found in Andre's Stockings, [153,] [187.]
Parallels defined, [517.]
Parker, Admiral Hyde, Notice of, [078;] His Rudeness to Miss Bryan, [732.]
Parker, Admiral Sir Peter, in command of British Squadron fit Newport in 1776, [073;] At Cape Fear River, [589;] At Charleston, [753.]
Parker, James, Printer, in New York in 1765, [534.]
Parks, John, of Elizabethtown, Maryland, compelled to burn his Tea in 1771, [402.]
Parliament, English, Debates of, in 1775--Address responsive to the King's Speech, [019;] Debate in, relative to sending German Troops to America, [020,] [021;] Warm Debate in, relative to France and America in 1778, [078;] Debate in, relative to American Independence in 1778, [347;] Scene of, painted by Copley, [348;] Proceedings in, on Receipt of Surrender of Cornwallis, [528,] [612;] Declares War ended, [777.]
Parliament, Irish, votes for Troops to enter British Service to fight Americans, [020.]
Paroles of Honor of Burgoyne's captured Army, [025.]
Parsons, General Samuel H., takes Possession of Peekskill after Invasion of British in 1777--Biographical Sketch of, [174.]
Passes, Arnold's, to Smith, Anderson (André), and others, [151;] Negro Slavery, Penalty of, [687.]
Patent Office, United States, Notice of, [a]406.]
"Patricians" and "Tribunes," Parties formed at New York in 1771, [793.]
Patroon System, adopted in New York in 1629, [783.]
Paulding, James K., Quotation from, [448.]
Paulding, John, Monument of, near Peekskill, [171;] Awarded Medal by Congress for Fidelity, [205;] Applies to Congress in 1817 for Augmentation of Annuity--Opposed by Tallmadge, [206.]
Paulding, William, Notice of, [171.]
Peale, Charles Wilson, biographical Sketch of, [409.]
Peck, Bela, Notice of, [031.]
Pedagogue, New England, Notice of, [697.]
Peddler, Yankee, Enterprise of, [555.]
Peekskill, Washington's Head-quarters at, in 1781, [113;] Notice of--Its early Settlement, [169.]
Peggy, Tea Ship, burned at Annapolis in 1771, [401.]
Pemberton, James, Clerk of yearly Quaker Meeting in
Philadelphia in 1775--Testimony of, relative to Provincial Convention, [261;] Sent to Virginia, [262.]
Pemberton, John, Proprietor of London Coffee house, Philadelphia, in 1780--Peculiar Lease, [259.]
Pendleton, Edmund, President of General Convention of Delegates at Williamsburg in 1776, [505.]
Penn, Admiral Sir William, Father of the Founder of Pennsylvania, Notice of, [252;] Pennsylvania named after, [253.]
Penn, Governor William, biographical Sketch of--Receives Grant of Land from Charles II., in 1681, named Pennsylvania--Proceeds with Emigrants to New Castle, in Delaware, in 1682--Annexes Delaware to his Territory--His Treaty, [253;] Effect of his just Dealings with the Indians--Treaty Monument--Treaty Tree, [254;] Founds Pennsylvania Commonwealth and City ol Philadelphia, [255;] Imprisoned on Death of Charles II.--Provincial Government taken from him in 1692--Proprietary Rights restored in 1691--His Heirs--His Seal, [256;] His parting Message to Provincial Assembly in 1708, [257;] Portrait of, in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, [271;] Residence in Philadelphia and near Bordentown, [300;] One of the Proprietors of New Jersey, 78.
Penn, John, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania--Stirs up rebellious Spirit in Colonies--At War with Indians--Offers Bounties for their Scalps in 1761, [257;] Returns to England in 1771, [260;] Arrest and Removal of, [262.]
Penn, Richard, lays Petition of Congress before George III.--Examined before House of Lords, [017;] Appointed Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania in 1771, [260.]
Pennsylvania called upon by Congress for Funds to carry on War in 1780, [097;] Origin of Name of, [233;] Founded by William Penn in 1682--Second Provincial Assembly of, convened at Philadelphia in 1683, [255;] Takes no effective Measures relative to Declaration of Independence, [276;] Constitution of adopted in 1776, [289.]
Pennsylvania Journal, Quotation from, [270.]
Percival, James G., Quotation from, [131,] [373,] [440.]
Percy, Earl, Error corrected concerning his Death, [382;] In command at New York in 1776, [804.]
Percy, George, delegated os President of London Company by Smith, [456.] .
Perkins, Captain Erastus, Notice of, [039;] At Battle of Bunker Hill--Curious Circumstance in Births of his Family, [040.]
Person, Thomas, Notice of, [589.]
Perth Amboy, Origin of Name of--Its early History, [217.]
Peters, Hugh, Quotation from, [051.]
Peters, Richard, Anecdote of, [509.]
Petersburg, early History of, [512;] Topography of, [544,]545; Headquarters of Arnold and Phillips, at Mrs. Bolling's, in 1781, [515.]
Petition of Peter Hams (Indian), [656.]
Phifer, John, Grave of, [616.]
Phifer, Martin, Notiee of, [615.]
Philadelphia, founded by Penn in 1682, [255;] Christ Church, [248,] [249;] Grave of Franklin, [249;] Opposition of Inhabitants to Stamp Act--They resolve to cease importing British Goods while it is in force--Resolve to abstain from Mutton--To restrain usual Expenses of Funerals--Toll muffled Bells on Arrival of Stamps--Hoist Colors half mast, [258;] Rejoicings on Repeal of Stump Act, [259;] Excitement on Declaration of Independence, [285;] Form Non importation League Committees of Correspondence, &c.--Destroy Tea, [260;] Continental Congress, [265;] Declaration of independence, [273;] Its ancient Buildings--Slate-roof House and its Associations, [360;] Penn's House--Loxley's House--Mrs. Dumdi, [301;] Swedish Church--Wharton's Mansion House in 1778 described, [303;] Provost Prison, [307;] Washington Square--Office of Secretary of Foreign Affairs--Secretary's Aids, [308;] British Fortifications--Encampment of Howe--His Residence--Public Buildings in 1779, [309;] Loss of Frigate Delaware--Torpedoes sent down the River from Bordentown--Battle of the Kegs, [310;] Alarm during the Mischianza Fête--Interesting Places in Vicinity of, [311;] Patriotism of its Women, [312;] Value of Contributions in Clothing to Continental Soldiers, [313;] British send Parties from, to plunder neighboring Territory--Queen's Rangers--Advertisements for Recruits, [343;] Evacuated by British in 1778, [353;] Topography of, [388;] Proceedings at, on Receipt of Intelligence of Surrender of Cornwallis, [527;] Removal of Congress from, [837.]
Phillips, General William, left in command of Burgoyne's captive Troops in 1778, [025,] [551;] Character of, [025;] Writes impudent Letter to General Heath while Prisoner of War, [026;] Joins Arnold at Portsmouth in 1781--Proceeds to City Point, [540;] Head quarters at Petersburg, [545;] Burns the Barracks and Flour at Chesterfield Court House--Destroys much Property on James River--Returns to Petersburg--Dies--Biography of, [546.]
Phillipse, Frederick, Notice of, [140;] Manor of, [191,] [832.]
Phillipse, Miss Mary, alleged Refusal to accept Hand of Washington--Marries Roger Morris, [141;] Portrait of, [832.]
Pickaway Plains, Ohio, Topography of, [488.]
Pickens, Colonel Andrew, in Expedition to the Haw in 1781, [592;] At Battle of the Cowpens, in 1781, [639;] In Expedition against Cherokees in 1760, [646,] [648;] At Siege of Augusta--Biographical Sketch of, [717.]
Pickering, General Timothy, succeeds General Reed in 1777, [241.]
Pierson, Jeremiah, Notice of, [211.]
Pigot, Sir Robert, in command of British Troops at Rhode Island in 1778, [081;] Supersedes General Prescott at Newport in 1778, [085.]
Pigot Galley captured and eonveyed to Stonington in 1778, [096.]
Pillory at Oxford, North Carolina, [557.]
Pinckney, General Charles C., succeeds Hamilton as President General of Society of the Cincinnati in 1805, [129;] President of Provincial Congress of South Carolina in 1775, [789;] Biographical Sketch of, [763.]
Pinckney, General Thomas, succeeds General Charles C, Pinekney as President General of Society of the Cincinnati in 1826, [129;] Biographical Sketch of, [758.]
Pine Robbers, Notice of, [454.]
Pipe, Captain, Indian Sachem, in favor of British--Plans frustrated by White Eyes, [250.]
Pirates on Coast of Carolina, preceding 1729, [562;] On New England Coast in 1700, [785.]
Pitt, William (Earl of Chatham), opposed to American Independence--His Speech in Parliament, [347;] Biographical Sketch of--Account of his Death, [348;] His Funeral and Monument, [349,] Commences his Ministry in 1757--Prepares Plan for Campaign against French and Indians in 1758, [479;] Statue of, at New York, [789;] Destroyed by British in 1776--Caricatured in London, [790.]
Pitt, William (the younger), Remarks in Parliament on News of Cornwallis's Defeat, [612;] Causes Assignats to be forged, to depreciate Currency of France, [836.]
Planetarium of Rittenhouse in College of New Jersey, [243.]
Plantations, Providence and Rhode Island, claimed by Plymouth and Massachusetts in 1643--United under the same Government in 1644, [070;] Separation--Governed by Coddington in 1651--Reunited, [071;] Green Spring, [446;] Coke's, [447;] Gee's, [555;] Cameron's, [557;] Howe's at Brunswick, ravaged by Cornwallis in 1776, [589;] O'Neil's, near the Haw, [592;] Colonel Holt's, at Battle-ground of the Haw, [593;] Captain Wallab's Skirmish at, in 1780, [625;] Of Mrs. Motte, [683.]
Platte, Ebenezer S., taken Prisoner in 1775, [726.]
Plum Island, or Plum Point, Topography of, [113;] Redoubt on, [114.]
Plymouth Company, Formation of, in 1606--Names of Members of, [451.]
Pocahontas, Notice of, [446;] Saves the Life of Captain John Smith, [454;] Warns him of Conspiracy to destroy Settlers--Kept as Hostage by Captain Argall--Released--Receives Baptism--Marries Rolfe--Accompanies him to England--Dies--Assumed Name of, [454;] Her Descendants, [454,] [545;] Wash-basin at Petersburg, [553.]
Poe, Edgar A., Quotation from, [389.]
Poe, Mrs., Patriotism of--Her Interview with La Fayette in 1824, [394.]
Polk, Colonel William, at Battle or Cowan's Ford in 1781, [599;] Biographical Sketch of, [700.]
Polk, Colonel Thomas, Notice of, [617;] Biographical Sketch of, [624.]
Polk, Ezekiel, Notice of, [617.]
Polk, President James K., Ancestors of, [617.]
Poison, Captain, in Expedition to Fort Duquesne in 1754, [476.]
Pompey, Negro Spy, at Stony Point--Notice of, [176.]
Pond, Pyle's, described, [593.]
Poor, General Enoch, encampment at Barren Hill, under La Fayette, in 1778--Biographical Sketch of, [328.]
Pope, Alexander, Quotation from, [051.]
Popham, Major, succeeds General Lewis as President General of Society of the Cincinnati in 1844, [129.]
Population of Baltimore in 1850, [390;] Of North Carolina in 1629, [562.]
Portsmouth, Virginia, evacuated by British in 1781, [510;] Taken by British in 1779, [538;] Also in 1780, [539;] Early History of, [540.]
Potter, Charles, Quotation from, [266.] __
Post-office, independent, established at New York in 1775, [793.]
Postelle, Captain, and Major in Southern Campaign, under Marion, [772.]
Potts, Isaac, observes Washington at Prayer at Valley Forge, [336.]
Potts, Stacey G, Notiee of, [245.]
Powder, manufactured in America prior to 1776, [018;] Antiquity of, Use of known by Roger Bacon and the Chinese, [067;] Supposed to have been placed under Magazine at Williamsburg by Dunmore in 1775, [504;] Seizure of, by Loyalists in Carolina, in 1776, [649;] In Georgia in 1774, [726;] Seizure of, by Americans, at St. Angustine, in 1775, [751.]
Powhatan, Settlement of, in 1609, [432.]
Powhatan, visited by Captains Newport and Smith in 1607, [452;] Condemns Smith to Death, [454;] Death of, in 1621, [458.]
Pratt, Charles (Earl of Camden), biographical Sketch of, [400.]
Prayer, first, in Congress, by Rev, Mr. Duché, [267;] Adams's Account of'--Proposed by Cushing--Opposed by Jay and Rutledge, [268;] Of Washington at Valley Forge, [366.]
Premiums offered for Manufactures in North Carolina in 1775, [582.]
Prescott, General, horsewhipped by Alden for Insolence at his Table, [035;] Encampment at Newport in 1777, [067,] [074;] His Character, [074;] Tyranny and bad Conduct, [075;] Captured by Colonel Barton, [076;] Conveyed to the Hudson--Exchanged for General Lee, [077,] [352;] Resumes command of British Forces in Rhode Island, in 1777--Makes predatory Excursion to Warren, Bristol, and Tiverton, [077;] Head-quarters, [076,] [080;] Exchanged for General Sullivan, [814.]
Preston, Senator, Anecdote of, and the old Lady at King's Mountain, [632.]
Princeton, Topography of, [235;] Monument to General Mercer at, [237;] Nassau Hall, Princeton College, [238;] Session ol Congress at, 1783, [837.]
Printing-press, Franklin's, Notice of, [408;] First established in North Carolina in 1764, [566.]
Prisoners of War, American, taken by British during 1776--Brutal Treatment of American, at Fort Griswold, in 1781--Miantononoh, [028;] Their Sufferings mitigated by Miss Ledyard, [045;] General Prescott and his Aid captured near New port in 1777, [077;] Canonchet, [094;] King Phillip, his Wife and Son, in 1676, [095;] British, taken by Americans, [224;] Arnold's Oarsmen released in New York by Clinton, in 1780, [159;] Hessians taken at Battle of Trenton in 1776, [228;] British taken at Nassau Hall in 1777, [238;] American, taken at Brandywine and Germantown--Treatment of, in Philadelphia, [307;] British, taken in Skirmish near Brandywine in 1777, [376;] American, wounded, left after Battle of Brandywine, [385;] British, taken in Chesapeake Bay in 1781, [436;] At Charles City Court House, [441;] At Spencer's Ordinary, [465;] Taken by Washington, near Fort Necessity, in 1754, [475,] [476;] American, taken at Yorktown, [519;] British, taken at Yorktown, [526;] British, at Norfolk, in 1775, [536;] American, taken at Osborne's in 1781, [545;] British, at Charlottesville, [551;] Southern Indians captured by Colonel Moore in 1713, [562;] By Tryon in 1771, [578;] At Moore's Creek Bridge, [588;] Tories taken at Battle of King's Mountain in 1780--At the Cow pens, [634;] To the Cherokees, [646;] At Hanging Rock, [663;] At Rugeley's, [666;] Near Camden, [674;] At Fort Motte, [686;] At Fort Granby, [688;] At Nelson's Ferry, [706;] At Fort Watson, [707;] Tories on Kettle Creek, [712;] At Brier Creek, [714;] At Augusta, [719;] At Savannah, [732;] At Hickory Hill in 1779, [734;] At Charleston, [767;] Taken to St. Augustine in 1780--Their Sufferings at Haddrell's Point, [768;] At Brooklyn, [810;] Exchange of Sullivan for Prescott--Stirling for Brown, [814;] At Fort Washington, [827;] Captured by Major Tallmadge, [833.]
Privateers, sent from Norwich and New London in 1777, [042;] Sent from Newport in 1775, [073;] British, captured in Chesapeake Bay in 1781, [436.]
Prizes, American, brought into Newport by the British in 1775--Recaptured, [073;] Destroyed at New Bedford in 1778, [384;] Galley _Pigot_, captured by Talbot, and brought to Stoning ton in 1778, [096;] British Frigate Romulus, and two Privateers, brought to Yorktown, [436;] The Romulus brought into Newport in 1781, [510.]
Proclamation, cruel, of Clinton, at Charleston in 1780, [767.]
Protestants, French and German, settle in Carolina in 1707; 1709, [562.]
Providence, Rhode Island, founded by Roger Williams in 1636, [054;] Arrival of French Troops at, in 1782--Their Campground described--Burial ground--Head quarters of La Fayette--Roger Williams's Spring, [057;] Old Tavern--Its Associations-Destruction of Tea in Market Square in 1773, [058.]
Provost, attacks Port Royal Island in 1779, [760;] Before Charles ton, [760;] Retreat from Charleston, [761.]
Psalm lxxiv.,3, Quotation from, [421.]
Pugh, James, hung by Tryon in 1771, [577.]
Pulaski, Count Casimir, stationed at Minisink in 1778-79--Or dered to South Carolina, under Lincoln, [101;] At Battle of Germantown in 1777, 318--Appointed Brigadier in Continental Army in 1777--Visits La Fayette while recovering from Wound at Moravian Establishment at Bethlehem, [391;] Receives Banner from Moravian Nuns--Killed in Conflict at Savannah in 1779, [392,] [725;] Biographical Sketch of--His Seal, [735.]
Puritans, narrow Views of, at Salem, in 1634, [053;] Capture and sell Indians as Slaves, [095;] Tolerated in Virginia, [459;] Influence of, [566.]
Putnam, General Israel, at Boston after the Evacuation by the British in 1776, [014;] Letter of, to Washington, on Privations of Soldiers in Hudson Highlands and Valley Forge in 1778, [137;] Plan for attacking British at Staten and Long Islands, Paulus's Honk (Jersey City), and New York, in 1777, [165;] Deceived by Messenger Waterbury, [167;] Laconic Letter to Clinton relative to Spy, [172;] Placed in command of Philadelphia in 1776, [225;] Peremptorily ordered to King's Ferry by Hamilton--Censured on return to Head-quarters, [297;] Biographical Sketch of, [805.]
Pyle, Colonel, Notice of, [576;] Wounded in Battle on the Haw--Escapes, [593.]