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, 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.