P.
Paddock, Ichabod, teaches Nantucket men how to take whales, [315].
Parris, Samuel, witch-finders at his house, [213]; his minutes of examination, [224].
Peabody, George, [218].
Pease, Samuel, fight with pirates, [176].
Pemaquid Point, visit to, [87], et seq.; British descent at, repulsed, [89]; porgee fishery at, [89], [90]; early history, [92]-[101]; Weymouth, at, [92]; Fort Frederick, at, [96], [97]; other fortifications, [97]; Fort William Henry, at, captured, [99]; ancient settlement at, [100]; Indians kidnaped by Weymouth, [105].
Pemetiq. See Mount Desert.
Pentagoët, meaning of the name, [19], note; on Blauw's map, [21]; how settled, [25]. See Castine.
Penobscot Bay and River, Champlain's account of, [18], [19]; called Pemetegoit, [19]; meaning of name, [19], note; called Pembrock's Bay, [21]; Smith's account of, [24]; approach to in a fog, [58], [59]; described, [63], [64].
Penobscot Expedition, history of, [68], [69].
Pepperell, Andrew, his affair with Hannah Waldo, [61].
Pepperell, Sir William, [61]; sketch and residence of, [144]-[147]; portrait of, [145], [146]; his tomb, [147]; Pepperell William, Sen., [188].
Perry, Oliver Hazard, [363]; monument to, [401], [404].
Peters, Hugh, [445].
Philip, King, [349]; seat at Mount Hope, [414]; his capture, [416].
Phips, Sir William, builds Fort William Henry, [97]; his connection with witchcraft, [210]; accusation of his wife, [214].
Pigot, Sir Robert, defends Newport, [387].
Pilgrims, the, not strictly Puritans, [280]; their church, [280], [281], [282]; land at Cape Cod, [307].
Pillory, one described, [365].
Piscataqua, capture proposed, [80]; sail down, [159]; Earl Bellomont's opinion of, [197].
Plymouth Bay, [268], [274], [275].
Plymouth Beach, [269].
Plymouth, on Smith's map, [21]; establishes a trading-house at Castine, [76]; dispossessed, [76], [77]; the colony patents, [133]; Plymouth described, [262]: Pilgrim memorials, [263]-[267]; pictures of the "Landing," [264]; first duel at Plymouth, [266]; the colony seal, [267]; the compact, [267]; first execution, [267]; Pilgrim laws and chronicles, [268]; Burial Hill, [268], [276], [277], [278], [279]; the harbor, [268], [269]; names of the settlement, [270]; why it was chosen, [271]; desolated by a plague, [272], [273]; French make the first landing, [274], [275]; other settlements called Plymouth, [276]; Pilgrims' first church, [278]; church customs, [279], [280]; Leyden Street, [283], et seq.; the town in 1627, [284]; Governor Bradford's, [286]; Allyne House, [287]; Cole's Hill, [288]; Plymouth Rock, [289]; the Landing, [290], [291]; Samoset, [292]; entry of Massasoit, [293], [294]; Clark's Island, [295], et seq. See article, Clark's Island, Plymouth Beach, [296].
Plymouth, England, [270].
Plum Island, [421].
Point Judith, [357]. See note.
Point of Graves, [196], [202].
Poore, Ben Perley, mentioned, [22], note.
Popham, Chief-justice, efforts to colonize New England, [93], [94].
Popham, George, leader of the colony at the Kennebec, [93]; death, [93].
Popular superstitions, some enumerated, [114].
Porcupine Islands, [43].
Port Royal settled, [95].
Port St. Louis. See Plymouth, [275].
Pound, Thomas, a pirate, [176].
Poutrincourt, Biencourt, arrives at Port Royal, [35].
Poutrincourt, Jean de, receives Port Royal from De Monts, [34]; his fight with natives at Cape Cod, [308].
Pownall, Thomas, builds a fort on the Penobscot, [66].
Prior, Matthew, allowed roast beef in Lent, [314].
Provincetown, described, [309]-[312]; Town Hill, [311]; cape names, [312]; Portuguese colony at, [312], [313]; fishery of, [313], et seq.; whaling from, [315]; the desert, [316]; cranberry culture, [317]; walk to Race Point, [316], et seq.; the sand-avalanche, [319]; huts of refuge, Herring Cove, [319]; the terrible winter of 1874-'75, [320]; disasters on the ocean side, [321], [322].
Prudence Island, [380].
Purchas, Samuel, quoted, [24].
Purgatory Bluff, [383].
Puritans distinguished from Separatists, [280].
Putnam, General Israel, birthplace of, [217]; laconic letter to Governor Tryon, [218].