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Parker, Judge, 36

Paterson, William, 252, 290

Patton, President, of Princeton, 295

Paulding, J., 160

Paulding, J. K., 110

Penn, John, house of, 312

Penn, Letitia, house of, 304

Penn, William, 333;
  founds Philadelphia, 298-307, 316;
  grants charter to Wilmington, 353

Penn family's charter to Pennsylvania annulled, 413

Pennsylvania, charter to, 413;
  dispute with Va., 414

Pennsylvania Historical Society, 323

Pennsylvania Hospital, 314

Pepper, Dr. William, services to the University of Pennsylvania, 324

Percy, Lord, at Brooklyn, 236

Perry, Commodore, 376

Philadelphia, Talcott Williams on, 297-334;
  geographical site, 297;
  early houses, 298;
  coming of William Penn, 300-302;
  rapid growth of city, 302-317;
  in the Revolution, 317-320;
  between 1790 and 1820, 320-323;
  history of water supply, 323;
  the University of Pennsylvania, 324;
  the city before the Civil War, 325-329;
  modern Philadelphia, 329-334

Philadelphia Library, 306

Philips, Frederick, and his Manor, 145-151

Phipps, Henry, conservatory of, 424

Pilgrims compared with Palatines, 113

Pitt, William, statue of, 194;
  befriends colonies, 404

Pittsburgh, S. H. Church on, 393-426;
  site determined by Washington, 393;
  first permanent settlement, 397;
  taken by French, 399;
  the Braddock expedition, 399-404;
  English take Fort Duquesne and name it Pittsburgh, 406;
  Indians attack, 409;
  in the Revolution, 411-413;
  becomes the county seat, 414;
  in the Indian war of 1791, 416;
  the Whiskey Insurrection, 417;
  incorporated, 418;
  the strike of 1877, 420;
  industrial importance, 422;
  higher life of, 423-426

Plymouth Rock, 6

Poe, Edgar Allan, 205

Polhemus, Rev. Mr., at Brooklyn, 220, 221

Pontiac, confederacy of, 408

Poor at Saratoga, 62

Porter, General P. B., in War of 1812, 378, 381;
  favors Erie Canal, 382

Pratt Institute, 248

Prince of Wales, 206

Princess Eulalia, 206

Princeton, W. M. Sloane on, 251-296;
  first settlement, 251;
  College of New Jersey established at Elizabethtown, 252;
  removed to Princeton, 254;
  parting from Yale, 254;
  early character, 256-260;
  Witherspoon and his administration, 260-266;
  Revolutionary spirit in, 266-270;
  the Trenton campaign, 272;
  battle of Princeton, 274-284;
  mutinous Continentals at, 285;
  Congress meets at, 286;
  Washington's visits to, 287;
  contributions to the Convention of 1787, 289-291;
  modern Princeton, 291-296

Prinz, John, in New Sweden, 339-342

Pruyn, John V. L., 35, 36

Putnam, at Brooklyn, 234;
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