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• Perkins, James (H.C. 1809)
• Perkins, James
• Perkins, James Handasyd
• Perkins, Mr. & Miss (visitors to Winter Hill)
• Perkins, Mr.
• Perkins, Mr., dissolute son of James Perkins
• Perkins, Mrs.
• Perkins, Dr. Nathaniel
• Perkins, Dr. Richard
• Perkins, Sally
• Perkins, Samuel G. (president of Suffolk Insurance Co.)
• Perkins, Sarah (wife of James)
• Perkins, Col. Thomas Handasyd (1764-1854)
• Perkins, Thomas (of Bridgewater)
• Perkins, Thomas (“short Tom”)
• Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, Jr.
• Perkins, William Powell (Harvard student)
• Perkinson v. Bowman
• Perkiomen Creek, Penn.
• Péronne, France
• Perrault, Charles (French writer)
• Perrenot, Abraham, Considérations sur l'étude de la jurisprudence
• Perrenot, Antoine, Cardinal Granvelle (advisor to Margaret of Parma)
• Perron, Anquetil du (French writer)
• Perry, Maine
• Perry, Mr. (son of Mrs. Sumner)
• Perry, Mr.
• Perry, Commodore Oliver Hazard
• Perry, Richard
• Perry, Sarah (wife of Oliver Hazard)
• Perry v. Barker
• Persey, Mornay de
• Persia
• Persian Empire
• Persico, E. Luigi (sculptor)
• Persius (Roman satirist)
• Personal actions
• Personal injury actions, in Mass.
• Perth Amboy, N.J.
• Pertois, Marie Anne (of France)
• Peru
• Peru, Mass.
• Perugia, Italy
• Peruvian bark (quinine)
• “Peruvian Letters”
• Pestel, Frederik Willem (professor at Leyden)
• Petapsco River
• Peter (Adams servant)
• Peter (British privateer)
• Peter, America (daughter of Martha Custis Peter)
• Peter, Martha Parke Custis
• Peterborough, Bishop of
• Peterborough, Earl of
• Peterhoff, Russia
• Peter I (the Great), Emperor of Russia
• Peter II, Emperor of Russia
• Peter II, King of Portugal
• Peter III, Emperor of Russia
• Peters, Rev. Hugh
• Peters, Pond & Co. v. Commonwealth Insurance Co.
• Peters, Richard (Penn. member of Congress)
• Peters, Richard (reporter of U.S. Supreme Court), identified
• Peters, Rev. Samuel (Conn. loyalist)
• Peters, Sarah Robinson (wife of Richard)
• Peters, William (Phila. judge, father of Richard)
• Petersburg, Va.
• Petersburg, Va., Battle of
• Petersham, Mass.
• Peterson, in the Netherlands
• Petit (Pettit), Adrian (Adrien)
• Petition from Braintree troops (1758)
• Petition of Right (1628)
• Petition to the King (“Olive Branch,” 1775)
• Pet of the Petticoats (afterpiece)
• Petrarch
• Petre, Lord, of Kingsbridge, England
• Petre, Robert Edward, 9th baron
• Petrie, Samuel (member of Franklin's circle at Passy)
• Petry, Jean (John) Baptiste (secretary of the Comte de Chastellux)
• Pets
• Pettee (Pitty), of Braintree
• Petticks Island
• Pettit, Charles (of N.J.)
• Pettrich, Ferdinand Friedrich August (sculptor)
• Petty, John, in Form XXIV
• Petty, Sir William, 2d Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquis of Lansdowne
• Pettyfoggers, JA's campaign against
• Petty-grew, William (physician), witness, No. 56
• Petuckaway Mill, Exeter, N.H.
• Pew, Jonathan, in No. 44
• Peyre, Marie Joseph (royal architect)
• Peyron, Claës Bartholomeus von (Swedish consul in St. Petersburg)
• Peyron, Magdalena van Brienen (wife of Claës Bartholomeus von)
• Peyton, V. J., Elémens de la langue angloise
• Pezerat, M.
• Phaedrus (Roman fabulist)
• Phaine, Penet & Co. (Nantes merchants)
• Phalaris (ruler of Agrigentum)
• Phanix (Spanish ship of the line)
• Pharaoh
• Pharsalus, Plains of
• Phebe
• Phelizburg (French ship of the line?)
• Phelps, Dr. Abner
• Phelps, Charles
• Phelps, Charles, Jr.
• Phelps, Henry (H.C. 1788)
• Phelps, John (H.C. 1787)
• Phelps, Josiah, witness, No. 41
• Phemius (Greek poet)
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Philadelphia
• Philadelphia (steamboat)
• Philadelphia, College of
• Philadelphia Associators
• Philadelphia County, Penn.
• Philadelphia Light Horse
• Philalethes
• “Philanthrop” articles by Jonathan Sewall
• “Phileleutherus” (pseudonym), makes proposals for Mass. Constitution
• Philidor (Danican, François André), composer, Le sorcier and Les femmes vengées
• Philip II, King of Spain
• Philip IV, “The Fair,” King of France
• Philip of Macedonia
• Philippa (British ship)
• Philippe, French opera singer
• Philippe Egalité
• Philippi, Greece, Battle of
• Philippine Islands
• Philips (Phillips), Ambrose (British poet)
• Philips, James
• Philips, Jan Caspar (Dutch artist)
• Philips, Maj. Gen. William (British), in Virginia with Arnold
• Philipse's (now Yonkers), N.Y.
• Philip V, King of Spain
• Phillipps, Samuel Marsh, A Treatise on the Law of Evidence
• Phillips, Abigail
• Phillips, Andrew Faneuil
• Phillips, Elizabeth (ABA's cousin, later wife of William Stevens)
• Phillips, Hannah
• Phillips, John
• Phillips, Capt. John
• Phillips, John (H.C. 1788)
• Phillips, John (servant)
• Phillips, John, in No. 60
• Phillips, John, Suffolk County justice
• Phillips, John Charles (H.C. 1826)
• Phillips, Lydia (ABA's cousin)
• Phillips, Lydia Gorham (wife of John; sister of Ann Gorham Brooks)
• Phillips, Mary Ann (later wife of William Gray Brooks)
• Phillips, Miss
• Phillips, Miss
• Phillips, Misses (ABA's cousins, sisters of Mary Ann Phillips Brooks)
• Phillips, Mr.
• Phillips, Mr. (tavernkeeper of Harwinton, Conn.)
• Phillips, Samuel, Jr. (of Andover, Mass.)
• Phillips, Susan (daughter of John Phillips)
• Phillips, Thomas W.
• Phillips, Turner
• Phillips, Wendell
• Phillips, Willard
• Phillips, Maj. Gen. William (British)
• Phillips, William (Boston merchant)
• Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.
• Phillipsburg, N.J.
• Phillips Exeter Academy
• Phillips Foundation
• Philmore, Mr. (“Philip More," of Philadelphia)
• Philo Biblius (translator of Sanconiathon)
• Philo Mentor (pseudonym)
• Philopatria, on reconciliation with Great Britain
• Philosophy
• Phinney, Col. Edmund
• Phinney, Mr.
• Phipping, Charles (ex-prisoner)
• Phipps, Constantine Henry, Marquis of Normandy
• Phipps, Constantine John, 2d baron Mulgrave
• Phipps, Capt. David, R.N., captured
• Phipps, David, defendant, Form XXI
• Phipps, Dr., and Braintree inoculation hospital
• Phipps, Rev. Harrison Gray Otis (of Cohasset; son of Thomas)
• Phipps, Dr. Thomas (older, d.1817
• Phipps, Dr. Thomas (younger, d.1832)
• Phips, Col. David, Sheriff, Middlesex co.
• Phips, Jedediah (of Sherburne, Mass.)
• Phips' Farm
• Phocion
• Phocylides (Greek poet)
• Phoebe (Rev. William Smith's slave or “servant”)
• Phoenicia
• Phoenicians
• Phoenix (Mass. privateer)
• Phoenix (British Navy, ship)
• Phoenix (mythical)
• Phoenix Bank v. Hussey
• Phrenology
• Phrygia
• Physicians
• Physics
• Physiognotrace (artistic device)
• Picard, Louis Benoit, L'exalté
• Picardy, France
• Piccinni, Niccolò
• Pichini
• Pickens, Brig. Gen. Andrew
• Pickens, Francis W. (U.S Repr., S.C.)
• Pickering (Amer. privateer)
• Pickering, Edward
• Pickering, John (of Mass.)
• Pickering, John (of Portsmouth, N.H.)
• Pickering, John, Jr. (of Salem, Mass.)
• Pickering, Mr.
• Pickering, Capt. Thomas (of the Hampden)
• Pickering, Timothy, the younger (1745-1829)
• Pickering, Timothy, the elder, “Deacon” (1703-1778), identified
• Pickering's Reports
• Pickles, Capt. (of the Mercury)
• Pickman, Col. Benjamin
• Pickman, Benjamin, Jr. (of Salem)
• Pickman, Hannah Smith (wife of Benjamin Jr., daughter of AA's cousin William)
• Pidgeon, John, student at Princeton College
• Pidgeon, of Watertown, Mass.
• Piebot, Paris grocer
• Piemont (Paymount), John
• Piemont, Mr. (tavernkeeper of Danvers, Mass.)
• Pierce, Anna
• Pierce, Benjamin
• Pierce, Deacon Edward, notes as juror, No. 64
• Pierce, Isaac, witness, No. 6
• Pierce (Peirce), Isaac, witness, No. 63
• Pierce, Rev. John (of Brookline)
• Pierce, Gen. John (Continental Army paymaster)
• Pierce, Jonathan, witness, No. 19
• Pierce, Miss (of Brookline)
• Pierce, Mr. (Antimason)
• Pierce, Robert, witness, No. 20
• Pierce (Peirce), Deacon Thomas, plaintiff, No. 36
• Pierce's Island, near Portsmouth, N.H.
• Pierce v. The Phoenix
• Pierce v. Wright, No. 36
• Piercy, William (chaplain to Countess of Huntingdon)
• Pierian Sodality (Harvard club)
• Pierpoint, Robert, communication on statue of Catharine Macaulay
• Pierpont, Rev. John (of Boston)
• Pierpont, Joseph, deposition, No. 58
• Pierpont, Robert
• Pierpont v. Cutler
• Pierpont v. Phipps, Form XXI
• Pierrie, William, landscape by
• Pierson, Mr. (tavernkeeper of Newark, N.J.)
• Piganiol de La Force, J. A., Nouveau voyage de France
• “Pig Club”
• Pigeon, John (of Newton Mass.)
• Pignatelli, Michele, Conte (Sicilian diplomat)
• Pignus
• Pigot, Adm. Hugh (Brit.)
• Pigot, Sir Robert
• Pigres (Greek poet)
• Pig Rock, Quincy Bay
• Piis, Pierre Antoine Augustin de, and Pierre Yves Barré
• Pikemen
• Pilaer, Mr. (Antwerp art dealer)
• Pilarty, Capt.
• Pilâtre de Rozier, Jean François
• Pilgrim (Mass. privateer)
• Pilgrims
• Pilo, Comte de
• Pilote Américain
• Pilpay (or Bidpay, ancient author)
• Pincaire, Chevalier de (officer on La Sensible)
• Pinckney, Charles (S.C. member of Congress)
• Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth (of S.C.)
• Pinckney, Henry L. (U.S. Repr., S.C.)
• Pinckney, Thomas
• Pinckney, William (U.S. Sen., Md.)
• Pindall, James, identified
• Pindar (Greek poet)
• Pindar, Peter (pen name of John Wolcot, poet)
• Pindell, Eliza
• Pine, Robert Edge
• Pinelly, M.
• Pinetti, Guiseppe (conjurer)
• Pingo, Lewis (engraver)
• Pingry, Asa, plaintiff, No. 31
• Pingry v. Thurston, No. 31
• Pinkerton, John
• Pintard, John (translator)
• Pinto de Balsamão, Luiz (Portuguese minister to Britain)
• Pinto de Balsamão, Mme. (wife of Luiz)
• Piozzi, Hester Lynch Salusbury Thrale
• Piper, Rev. Asa (of Wakefield, N.H.)
• Piracy
• Pirates
• Pirkins, William (of the Ranger)
• Piron, Alexis
• Pisa, Italy
• Pisander (Greek poet)
• Piscataqua, Maine
• Piscataqua Harbor
• Piscataqua River
• Piscataqua River ports, N.H.
• Piscataway, N.J.
• Pisistratus
• Pissot, Mr. (Paris bookseller)
• Pitaval, F. Gayot de, Causes célèbres et intéressantes
• Pitcairn, Maj. John (British), death of
• Pitkin, Timothy
• Pitt (British whaling ship)
• Pitt, John (later 2d Earl of Chatham), leaves Canada
• Pitt, Thomas, M.P.
• Pitt, William, the elder (1708-1778), 1st Earl of Chatham
• Pitt, William, the younger (1759-1806, Brit. prime minister)
• Pittacus of Mytilene
• Pitt Packet (brig), in No. 56
• Pitts, Elizabeth Bowdoin (wife of James)
• Pitts, James
• Pitts, John
• Pitts, Lendall (Lindall), defendant, No. 6
• Pitts, Mary Ann (servant)
• Pittsburgh, Penn.
• Pittsburgh Times, The, CFA's article in
• Pittsfield, Mass.
• Pittsford, Vt.
• Pitt v. Russell
• Pitty
• Pizarro, Francisco
• Pizarro, or the Spaniards in Peru
• Pjasink (Fjasink, Frasink, Jarink, or Tyarinks), Mr. (Dutch consul at Plymouth, England)
• Place, Elizabeth
• Place, Hannah
• Place v. Atwood
• “Plain Man, A”
• Plains of Abraham, Quebec
• Plaisted, Mr., witness, No. 6
• Plaistow, N.H.
• Planché, James Robinson, The Loan of a Lover
• Planche, Joseph
• Plancher-Valcour, Philippe Alexandre, A bon vin point d'enseigne
• Plane, inclined, theory of
• Planets
• “Plan of Treaties”
• “Plantation Certificate”
• Plantations, unincorporated, exemption from ministerial tax
• Planudes, Maximus (Greek monk)
• Plataea, battle of
• Plato
• Platt, Abigail Pynchon (wife of Jeremiah)
• Platt, Ebenezer Smith
• Platt, Jeremiah
• Platt, Mr. and Mrs., in Paris
• Plattsburg, N.Y.
• Plautus
• Playing cards
• Plea
• Pleading
• Pleadings, JA's list of forms of
• Pleadings Book, JA's
• Plead over
• Pleasanton (Pleasonton), Matilda (later wife of John Goddard Watmough)
• Pleasanton, Mrs. (wife of Stephen)
• Pleasanton (Pleasonton), Stephen
• Pleas in abatement and other nonjury matters
• Pledge
• Pleurisy
• Pleydell, J. L., Field Fortification
• Plimpton, Plimton, Mass.
• Pliny the Younger
• Pliny, elder and younger
• Pliny the Elder
• Ploos van Amstel, Albertus(?)
• Ploos van Amstel, Gebrandt
• Ploughed Hill
• Ploughjogger letters
• Plowden, Edmund
• Pluché, Noël Antoine, Spectacle de la nature
• Plumer, Mr. (singer)
• Plumer, William (1759-1850; former U.S. Sen., N.H.)
• Plumer, William, Jr. (1789-1854, U.S. Repr., N.H.)
• Plummer, Abel, in No. 31
• Plummer, Daniel
• Plummer (Plumer), David, claimant of molasses, No. 47
• Plunket, Dr.
• Plutarch
• Pluton, Le (French warship)
• Plutus
• Plymouth, Mass.
• Plymouth, N.H.
• Plymouth Colony, Mass.
• Plymouth Company
• Plymouth Congressional District, Mass., JQA elected to Congress from
• Plymouth Council
• Plymouth County, Mass.
• Plymouth Rock (“Forefathers Rock”)
• Plymouth Sound, England
• Plympton, England
• Plympton, Mass.
• Plympton v. Middleboro, No. 25
• Pocket Almanach . . . 1786
• Pococke, Richard, Description of the East
• Podolyn, Mr.
• Poetry
• Poggi, Anthony (London printer)
• Poidras, Capt. (of the Duchesse de Grammont)
• Poignestre, Capt. John (of the Hope)
• Poillman, Mr.
• Poindexter, George, speeches
• Poinsett, Joel Roberts (U.S. Repr., S.C.)
• Point Allerton (Alderton), Nantasket peninsula, Mass.
• Pointe de Lévy, Que.
• Pointe du Minden, France
• Point Judith, R.I.
• Point-no-Point, Penn.
• Point Riche, Newfoundland
• Pointsa (Pointea), M. (sculptor)
• Point Shirley, Boston Harbor
• Poisinet, Antoine Alexandre Henri, Le sorcier
• Poisson, Philippe
• Poitiers, France
• Poix, Philippe Louis Marc Antoine de Noailles, Prince de
• Poke, Mrs. (of Maine)
• Poland
• Polastron, Comte de
• Pole (Pool), Reginald, Cardinal
• Polignac, Diane de
• Polignac, Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron, Duchesse de
• Polish language
• Political economy
• Political Register
• Politique hollandais (Amsterdam)
• Polk, James Knox (U.S. Repr., Tenn.)
• Pollard, Benjamin
• Pollard, Robert
• Pollen
• Pollexfen, Sir Henry, Arguments and Reports
• Pollio (unidentified correspondent of Betsy Smith)
• Pöllnitz, Julius Ludwig August von, Baron de
• Pollon, Comte de
• Polly (Adams servant)
• Polly (British sloop)
• Polly (cartel ship)
• Polly (S.C. brig)
• Polly, Mrs.
• Polonius (character in Hamlet)
• Poltava, Battle of
• Poltava, Ukraine
• Polybius (Greek historian)
• Polycrates of Samos
• Pomay, François Antoine, Le grand dictionnaire royale
• Pombal, Sebastian Joseph de Carvalho e Mello, Marquis of
• Pomerania (province of Prussia)
• Pomeroy, Maj. Gen. (Mass.) Seth
• Pomeroy, Thaddeus (H.C. 1786)
• Pomfret, Conn.
• Pomfret, Thomas Fermor, 1st earl of
• Pomona (British frigate)
• Pomona (mythical)
• Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Mme. de
• Pompey (Roman general)
• Pompey (free black)
• Pomroy, Mr., Northampton gunmaker
• Ponce, Gen., in Paris
• Poncett, Mr. (Bordeaux merchant)
• Pondicherry, India
• Pond v. Medway
• Ponferrada, Spain
• Ponte di Scarnafigi, Filippo Maria Giuseppe Ottone, Conte (Sardinian ambassador to France)
• Pontevedra, Spain
• Pontgibaud, Charles-Albert de Moré Chaliers, Comte de
• Pontlever, Comte de (French army)
• Pontois, Edward (French minister)
• Pontoppidan, Erik, Natural History of Norway
• Pont Sainte Maxence, France
• Pool
• Poole (British privateer)
• Poole, England
• Poole, John
• Poole, Mr. Le
• Poona, India
• Poor, action for benefit of
• Poor, Brig. Gen. Enoch (U.S.)
• Poor, Robert (of the Ranger)
• Poor Gentleman, The
• Poor laws
• Poor relief
• Poor Richard (Continental ship of war)
• Poor Soldier, The
• Pope, Alexander
• Pope, Elizabeth Nash (wife of Ralph)
• Pope, Eliza Jennet Dorcas Johnson (wife of John, sister of LCA)
• Pope, Jacob (Amer. prisoner)
• Pope, John (1770-1845, brother-in-law of LCA)
• Pope, Joseph (of Boston), orrery
• Pope, Mr. (youth, Amer. prisoner)
• Pope, Judge Nathaniel
• Pope, Ralph (of Dorchester)
• Pope, Salome
• Pope, Stephen (Mass. State Sen.)
• Popery
• Popes
• Pope's Day (Guy Fawkes Day)
• Popet, The
• Popham, George
• Popkin, John Snelling (Harvard professor)
• Popple, Henry (cartographer)
• Popple, Mr.
• Porcellian Club (Harvard)
• Porcupine (British schooner)
• Poreau, Mackenzie & Co.
• Pork
• Porpas (sloop)
• Porry, John, witness, No. 2
• Port, Miss Jane (landlady in Philadelphia)
• Portail, Gen. du (French)
• Port-au-Prince, Haiti
• Port Egmont, West Falkland Island
• Porten, Sir Stanier
• Porteous, Capt. John
• Porter & Crocker, in No. 7
• Porter, Asa, plaintiff, No. 7
• Porter, Benjamin
• Porter, Capt.
• Porter, Catherine Gray (wife of Jonathan)
• Porter, Commodore Daniel, house at Meridian Hill
• Porter, Capt. David (of the Aurora)
• Porter, Rev. Eliphalet (of Roxbury)
• Porter, Eliphalet (Harvard fellow and Overseer)
• Porter, Col. Elisha, prospect for promotion
• Porter, G. R., Manufactures of Porcelain and Glass
• Porter, Rev. Huntington (of Rye, N.H.)
• Porter, Rev. John (of Bridgewater, Mass.)
• Porter, Rev. John
• Porter, John (of Wenham)
• Porter, Maj. John (U.S.)
• Porter, Jonathan
• Porter, Jonathan Edwards (H.C. 1786)
• Porter, Mr. (of Braintree)
• Porter, Mr. (tavernkeeper)
• Porter, Mr. (of Braintree)
• Porter, Mrs. (wife of Peter Buell)
• Porter, Peter Buell (Secretary of War)
• Porter, Rev. (young parson)
• Porter, Samuel, Salem lawyer
• Porter, Susannah Sargeant (wife of Huntington)
• Porterfield, Capt. (of the Jason)
• Porter's Tavern
• Porter v. Steel, No. 7
• Porteus, Beilby, Bishop of Chester
• Port Folio, The
• Port Glasgow, Scotland
• Portia
• “Portius,” fanciful name of friend of AA2
• Port Kent, N.Y.
• Portland (British ship of war)
• Portland (Falmouth), Maine
• Portland (Maine) Courier
• Portland, Duke of
• Portland, England
• Portland Harbour, England
• Port-Launay, France
• Port-Louis, France
• Port Louis, France
• Port Mahon, Minorca
• Portman, Ludwig Gottlieb, portrait of Jean Luzac
• Porto (now Oporto), Portugal
• Portraits
• Port Royal, Jamaica
• Port Royal, Messrs. de
• Port Royal, New Method of Learning . . . Greek, transl. T. Nugent
• Port Royal, Nova Scotia
• Port Royal, S.C.
• Portsmouth (N.H.) Freeman's Journal
• Portsmouth (N.H. privateer)
• Portsmouth, England
• Portsmouth, N.H.
• Portsmouth, R.I.
• Portsmouth, Va.
• Portugal
• Portuguese language
• Portuguese War
• Posse, Fredrik Arvidsson, Count
• Possession, and wild animals, No. 43
• Post, Rev. Reuben, identified
• Postlethwayt, Malachy, Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce
• Post Office
• Posts
• Post van den Neder Rhyn, De (Cleves)
• Potash
• Pote, Jeremiah
• Potemkin, Prince Grigorii A. (advisor to Catherine II)
• Pothier, M., A Treatise on the Law of Obligations or Contracts
• Potomac (frigate)
• Potomac Company
• Potomac River
• Potosi, Bolivia
• Potsdam, Prussia
• Potter, Rev. Alonso
• Potter, Archbishop John, Antiquities of Greece
• Potter, Dorothy M.
• Potter, Rev. Nathaniel
• Potter, Robert
• Potter, Thomas P. (Harvard student)
• Potter, Rev. William T.
• Potter v. Burchsted
• Potts, Hamilton (Harvard student)
• Pottstown (Potts Grove), Penn.
• Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
• Poultry
• Poussin, Mme. (of Paris)
• Poussin, Gaspar
• Povey, Mary Ann
• Powars, Edward E., publisher, Boston Independent Chronicle
• Powder
• Powder magazines
• Powder mills, erection of, urged
• Powel, John Hare (of Philadelphia), identified
• Powel (Powell), Samuel
• Powell, Alfred A. (U.S. Repr., Va.)
• Powell, Capt.
• Powell, Jeremiah
• Powell, John
• Powell, John
• Powell, John (justice)
• Powell, John, witness, No. 62
• Powell v. Morgan
• Power, Thomas (master of Dove)
• Power, Thomas (master of Pitt Packet), in No. 56
• Power, Tyrone
• Power of attorney, suit under, No. 12
• Powers, Midshipman Pierce (of the Ranger)
• Powers, Peter, identified
• Pownalborough
• Pownalborough, Maine
• Pownall, Hannah Astell (2d wife of Thomas)
• Pownall, Gov. Thomas
• Powys, Thomas (member of Parliament)
• Powys, Sir Thomas, argument in Harcourt v. Fox
• Poyning's Law (1495)
• Prades, Jean Martin, Abbé de
• Pradon, Nicolas (French poet)
• Prague
• Prat, Benjamin
• Prat, Daniel
• Prat, Isabella Auchmuty (wife of Benjamin)
• Pratt, Caleb
• Pratt, Charles, 1st Earl of Camden
• Pratt, Ephraim, juror, No. 59
• Pratt, George W.
• Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
• Pratt, Henry Cheever
• Pratt, Lydia Hunt
• Pratt, Mary Niles
• Pratt, Matthew (Adams tenant in Braintree)
• Pratt, Mr. (Braintree carpenter)
• Pratt, Mr. (Mass. gunmaker)
• Pratt, Mr. (servant of Rev. John Shaw)
• Pratt, Mr. and Mrs.
• Pratt, Samuel (Chelsea selectman)
• Pratt, Samuel Jackson
• Pratt, Sarah Jones
• Pratt, Thomas
• Pratt, Thomas (Chelsea selectman)
• Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. William
• Pratt, William (H.C. 1824)
• Pray, Mr. (of Braintree)
• Preble, Brig. Gen. (Mass.) Jedediah
• Preble, Edward (naval officer)
• Preceptor
• Predestination
• Pré en Pail, France
• Preignac (French wine region)
• Prentice, Mr. (tavernkeeper near Boston)
• Prentice, Nathaniel, witness, Nos. 18 and 19
• Prentice, Samuel (Continental officer)
• Prentice, Rev. Thomas
• Prentiss, Nathaniel Shepherd (H.C. 1787)
• Prentiss, Lt. Col. Samuel, promotion of
• Prentors, Mr. (Halifax lawyer)
• Presbyterian Church
• Presbyterians
• Prescott, Benjamin, in No. 18
• Prescott, Ebenezer, in No. 18
• Prescott, Edward Goldsborough (CFA's classmate)
• Prescott, Judge James
• Prescott, James (of Groton, Mass.)
• Prescott, James (H.C. 1788)
• Prescott (Prescot), Jonas, plaintiff, Nos. 18 and 19
• Prescott, Jonas, Jr., in Nos. 18 and 19
• Prescott, Mary (wife of Jonas)
• Prescott, Gen. Oliver (of Groton)
• Prescott, Oliver or William (H.C. 1783)
• Prescott, Ont.
• Prescott, Maj. Gen. Richard (British)
• Prescott, Col. Robert
• Prescott, Judge Samuel Jackson
• Prescott, Timothy, witness, No. 18
• Prescott, Col. William
• Prescott, William
• Prescott, William H.
• Prescott v. Keep, No. 18
• Prescott v. Priest, No. 19
• Prescription, water rights gained by
• Presgrave v. ——
• President (steamboat)
• Presidential elections
• President Roads (King's Roads)
• President's House
• Presque Isle, Mich
• Press
• Press gang
• Preston (British ship of the line)
• Preston, Maj. Charles, British prisoner
• Preston, Robert
• Preston, Capt. Thomas
• Preston, William Campbell (U.S. Sen., S.C.)
• Prestonpans, Scotland
• Presumptions
• Pretender
• Preudhome la Jeunesse
• Preudhomme de Borre, Philippe Hubert, Chevalier de
• Préville, Chevalier de Gras (officer on the Triomphant)
• Prevost, Anna Grand (wife of Augustine)
• Prevost, Augustine, British general
• Prévost, Bénoit Louis, engravings by
• Prevost, Sir George, British general, identified
• Prevost, Jacques Marc
• Prevost, Theodosia (Stillwell) Bartow
• Prévost d'Exiles, Abbé Antoine François, Manuel lexique des mots françois
• Price, Capt.
• Price, Ezekiel
• Price, George
• Price, James
• Price, Mr. (in Cambridge)
• Price, Mr. (of Montreal?)
• Price, Mr. (of Montreal?)
• Price, Mr. and Mrs. (in Paris)
• Price, Mrs.
• Price, Mrs. (in N.Y.)
• Price, Dr. Richard (Brit. political philosopher and theologian)
• Price, Sarah Blundell (wife of Richard)
• Price, Stephen, The Forty Thieves
• Price, William M. (N.Y. district attorney)
• Price controls
• Prices
• Priest, Joel, defendant, No. 19
• Priestley, Joseph (Brit. scientist and theologian)
• Priestly, Mr. (tavernkeeper of Bristol, Penn.)
• Primage and average, defined
• Prime, Mr. (of N.Y.)
• Prince (AA's farm hand)
• Prince (African American boy)
• Prince, Capt. Job (of Boston), Sr.
• Prince, Capt. Job (of the Concord)
• Prince, Job, Jr. (of Boston)
• Prince, Rev. Joseph (of Candia, N.H.)
• Prince, Miss
• Prince, Newton (Newtown), witness, Nos. 63 and 64
• Prince, Rev. Thomas
• Prince Edward Island
• Prince Frederick (British brigantine)
• Prince of Nassau
• Prince of Orange (Guernsey privateer)
• Prince of Orange (Harwich packet)
• Princessa (Spanish ship of the line)
• Princess Amelia (British ship of the line)
• Princeton, Battle of
• Princeton, Mass.
• Princeton, N.J.
• Princeton University (formerly College of New Jersey)
• Prince William (British ship of the line, formerly Guipuscoa)
• Principal, liability of for act of agent
• Principal and accessory
• Principles of Law and Government
• Pring (Pringle), Martin
• Pringle, Sir John
• Pringle, John J. I. (Harvard student)
• Pringle, John Julius
• Printing
• Prior, James, Memoir of the Life and Character of . . . Edmund Burke
• Prior, Matthew
• Prior, witness, No. 34
• Prior appropriation, rule of in water law
• “Prior Documents”
• Prisoners
• Prisoners of war
• Prisons, CFA on
• Prison ships
• Private acts (legislative)
• Private Debating Society
• Privateers and Privateering
• Privilege, defense of in defamation, No. 36
• Prizes
• Pro, commonplaced
• Probable cause
• Probate
• Probate law, JA's notes on
• Probus (pseudonym)
• Proby, John, 1st earl of Carysfort
• “Proceedings of his Majesty's Privy Council on the Address of Massachusetts”
• Proceedings . . . Respecting Major John André, Adjutant General of the British Army
• Process
• Proclamation of 1763
• Proclus (ancient author)
• Procter, Mrs. A. G. (tenant)
• Procter, Metcalfe
• Procter, Mr., excused as juror, No. 63
• Proctor, Mrs. A. B. (tenant)
• Proctor (Procter), Edward, witness, No. 59
• Proctor, Eliza (tenant)
• Proctor, Mr. (tenant's son)
• Proctor, Samuel
• Proctor, Sir W. B.
• Prodicus of Ceos
• Prodromus (ancient author), “Galeomachia” (“Galeomyomachia”)
• Profert (pleading term)
• Profound, art of the
• Prohibition, writ of
• Prohibitory Act (1775)
• Prometheus
• Promise, breach of gratuitous
• Promises, mutual
• Proof (legal)
• Propaganda
• Property, cases concerning
• Property, private, right to compensation for taking, No. 33
• Property, real, Law of
• “Proposals for a Confederation of the United Colonies,” in Boston Gazette
• Proprietors
• Proprietors of the Common Lands of Ipswich
• Proserpine (Brit. frigate)
• Prospect Hill
• Prospect Hill, N.Y.
• Prostitutes
• Protector (Amer. vessel)
• Protector (Mass. frigate)
• Protector v. Buckner
• Protée (French ship of the line)
• Protest, master's
• Protestando, plea with a
• Protestant Association, England
• Protestantism
• Protestants
• Protestants in Germany
• Proteus (mythical)
• Proud, John G., identified
• Prout, S. (artist)
• Prout, Sarah Jenkins (Sally, wife of William Welsted)
• Prout, Timothy, plaintiff, No. 13
• Prout, William Welsted (of Newburyport)
• Prout v. Minot, No. 13
• Provence, Comte de, later Louis XVIII, King of France
• Provence, David, defendant, Form VII
• Provence, France
• Provence, Marie Joséphine Louise de Savoie, Comtesse de
• Providence (Continental ship of war)
• Providence (Continental sloop)
• Providence (steamboat)
• Providence, R.I.
• Providence Gazette
• Providence Plantations
• Providence Railroad
• Providence River
• Provident (Institution for Savings)
• Province Island (or Fort Island) in Delaware River
• Provincetown, Mass.
• Province v. Paxton
• Provisional Army (1799-1800)
• Provocation
• Provoked Husband, The (by Cibber and Vanbrugh)
• Provoost, Rev. Samuel (of N.Y.)
• Provost
• Provost, Maria
• Prudent, ship
• Prussia
• Prussian (Short) Exercise
• Prussian Army
• Psammetichus (ancient ruler)
• Pseudonyms
• Ptolemy
• Public Advertiser (Boston)
• Public Advertiser (London)
• Public houses
• Public-land policies
• Public Record Office, London
• Publishing
• Puchelberg & Co. (Lorient)
• Puchelberg, Mr. (merchant at Lorient)
• Pucker, “a poor Toad”
• Pudsey v. Pudsey
• Pueckler-Muskau, Hermann Ludwig Heinrich, Prince von
• Puente de la Rada, Spain
• Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
• Puerto Rico
• Pufendorf, Samuel, Baron von
• Puffer (farm hand)
• Pulaski (steam packet)
• Pulaski, Count Casimir
• Puller, Richard & Charles (London bankers)
• Pulley, principle of the
• Pulling Point (Boston Harbor)
• Pulsifer, David, witness, No. 59
• Pulsifurd, Mr. (ex-prisoner)
• Pulsiver, Freeman, witness, No. 59
• Pulteney, Sir William
• Punic war
• Purcell, Henry, The Tempest
• Purchas, Samuel, Purchas His Pilgrimage
• Puritans
• Purmerend, Netherlands
• Purple Heart
• Purrington
• Purviance, Mr., of Baltimore
• Purviance (Purveyance), Mrs. (wife of Robert)
• Purviance (Purveyance), Robert
• Purviance, Robert and Samuel, Jr.
• Purviance (Purveyance), Samuel
• Purviance (Purveyance), Mrs. (wife of Samuel)
• Purysburg, S.C.
• Puss (Adams family pet)
• Putnam, Abigail Bishop (wife of Archelaus)
• Putnam, Dr. Archelaus (of Danvers)
• Putnam, Deborah Lothrop Avery Gardiner (wife of Israel)
• Putnam, Dr. Ebenezer (of Salem)
• Putnam, Edward (of Sutton, Mass.)
• Putnam, Eleanor
• Putnam, Elizabeth Chandler (wife of James)
• Putnam, Rev. George
• Putnam, Maj. Gen. Israel
• Putnam, James
• Putnam, Miss
• Putnam, Gen. Rufus (of Sutton)
• Putnam, Justice Samuel
• Putnam, Samuel (H.C. 1787)
• Putnam, Samuel, JA's law teacher
• Putney, Vt.
• Putrid fever (typhus or diptheria?)
• Puysegur, Marechal de, L'art de la guerre
• Pye, Henry James, A Commentary Illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle
• Pye, Adm. Thomas (Brit.)
• Pym, John (1584-1643, Brit. statesman)
• Pym, William
• Pynchon, Abigail Pease (wife of George)
• Pynchon, George (of Springfield)
• Pynchon, of Springfield, Mass.
• Pynchon, William (Salem barrister and judge)
• Pynchon v. Brewster
• Pyne, William Henry (Ephraim Hardcastle, pseud.), Wine and Walnuts
• Pyrenees
• Pyrrhonism
• Pythagoras

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