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 852 Index. Oswego, 125 ; destruction of, 126 Otis, James, 179 sq., 190, 193, 204 Otway's regiment (the 35th), 130 Owners and tenants, 713 Paducah, capture of, 463 Paine, Thomas, his Common Sense, 173, 207 Pakenham, Major- General Sir E., 345, 346 Panama canal, the, 637 Paper-money, issues of, 68, 308, 312, 313, 569, 607, 612, 618 Paris, Custom of: in Canada, 82; in Louisiana, 88 Paris, treaty of (1763), 70, 113, 143; (1783), 232, 305 ; the so-called Second Peace of (1816), 366; peace negotiations at (1898), 682-6 Parkman, Francis, 745 Parliament, the British, universal authority of denied, 188 Parties : religious, in the American colonies, 57 ; political, in England (1750), 146 sq., in America (1792), 316 Patents, American, 701 Paterson, William, 246, 247, 252, 266, 269 ; his resolutions, 247, 249, 269 Patterson, General Bobert, 464 sq. Paulding, Commodore, 454 Pauncefote, Sir Julian, 672 Paxton's case, 177 Pemberton, General, 504 sq. Penn, William, 47, 49-51 Pennsylvania, foundation and early history of, 49-51 ; power of the Proprietor, 54 ; ironworks in, 56; education in, 59; the taxation question, 66 ; attitude of legisla- ture with regard to war, 125; General Assembly of, 183; charter of, 199; the Declaration of Eights of, 239; constitu- tion of (1776), 241; manufactures of, 375 ; Lee's invasion of, 486 sq. Penobscot, on coast of Maine, 220 Pensacola, 345 Pentagouet (hi Acadia), 111 Pepperell, General William, 116 Pequod war, the, 19 Percy, Earl, 165 Perry, Commodore, 340, 434 PerryviUe, battle of, 507 " Pet banks," and the surplus revenue, 384 sq. Petersburg, siege and capture of, 533, 538 Philadelphia Convention, see Constitutional Convention Philadelphia, Penn's charter to, 51; Con- gresses at, 161, 166, 173, 181; British capture of, 213 ; quitted by British, 217 ; committee of correspondence appointed by, 311 Philip (Metacam), a Pokanchet Indian chief, 27, 28 Philippine Islands, the, cession of, 683-6 Phillips, General, 230 Philosophy, American, 736-40 Phipps, Sir William, governor of Massa- chusetts, 64, 90 Pierce, Franklin, President of United States, 419, 426 Pierpoint, Francis H., governor of West Virginia, 455 Pig-iron, production of, 714 Pilgrim Fathers, the, 13 Pinckney, Charles, 246, 247, 272, 282, 287, 289, 291, 320, 324, 372 Pinckney, General, 246, 272, 281, 282 Pinckney, Thomas, 328 Piscataqua (Mass.), 21 Piscataqua river, 21 Pitt, William (Earl of Chatham), 132, 150 ; see also Chatham Pitt, William (the younger), 309, 328 Pittsburg Landing, Federal concentration at, 496 Placentia (in Newfoundland), 52 "Platte country," the, 427 Plattsburg, capture of, 341 Plymouth Company, the, 4. 12 Pocahontas (daughter of Powhatan), 7 Poe, Edgar Allan, 743 Pokanoket Indians, the : their invasion of Massachusetts, 27 Politica, de, Chevalier (Kussian minister), 370 Polk, General Leonidas, 457 sq., 462 Polk, James K., President of United States, 393, 397 Pollard, E. A. (journalist and historian), 605 Poll-tax, imposed on Virginian colonists, 9 Pope, General John, 477, 480, 497 sq. Popham, George, expedition of, 12 "Popular Sovereignty," the principle of, 427 Population, growth of, 696 ; and immigra- tion, 703 Populists, the, 665 Port Gibson, battle of, 503 Port Hudson, surrender of, 506 Port Eoyal (in Nova Scotia), 71, 72, 89; taken by Sedgwick, 111 Porter, Admiral, 502 sq., 544, 557 Porter, General Fitz-John, 480 Porto Eico, invasion of, 680 Ports, Southern, Federal seizures or cap- tures of, 552 Portsmouth (Mass.), 24 Portsmouth (Providence Plantations), 24 Post Office, the American, 205 Potomac river, 311 Poutrincourt, de, 71 Powhatan (Indian Chief), 7 Pownall, Governor, 98, 108 Prayer Book, the English, in the New England colonies, 17 Prescott, William Hickling, 745 President of United States, mode of elec- tion of, 290; impeachment of, 292, 630 Preston, trial of, 154