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.]