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.]