Parliament, trade charter (1566), 14; sanctions Raleigh's charter, 22; and Virginia, 111-113; and Maryland, 143, 145-147; and Massachusetts, 235, 318; charter to Rhode Island, 235. Patents. _See_ Charters, Grants. Patroonships in New Netherland, 293. Pemaquid, settled, 273. Pequot War, 251-257; killing of Stone, 251, 252; Massachusetts' expedition, 252; Narragansett alliance, 253; settlements attacked, 254; capture of Indian fort, 254-256; Pequots exterminated, 256; results, 257. Percy, George, in Virginia, 43, 64, 65. Pilgrims, English congregation, 155; leaders, 155; flight to Holland, 156; at Leyden, 157, 158; decide to settle in Virginia, 158; James I.'s attitude, 159; patents, 159; financial arrangement, 159; voyage, 160; land-fall, 160; compact, 161; settlement, 161. _See also_ Plymouth. Piscataqua. _See_ Portsmouth. Plymouth, settlement, 161; named, 162; scurvy, 163; and Indians, 163-165, 177; first summer, 164; patents, 164, 172, 178; first cargo, 165; and Weston's settlers, 166; trouble with partners, 167, 169; land division, 167; character of immigrants, 169, 170; conspiracy, 170; Cape Ann trouble, 170; buys out partners, 171; trading-posts, 172; reunion, 172; boundaries, 173; and Merry Mount, 174; and Dutch, 175, 240; French attacks, 176, 177; on Connecticut, 177, 239-242, 245; growth, 178; government, 179; suffrage, 180; code, 180; town government, 180; ministers, 181; education, 181; thrift, 181; significance, 182; and Roger Williams, 217, 218; boundary dispute, 298; bibliography, 334. _See also_ New England, Pilgrims. Plymouth Company, charter, 36-38; patrons, 37; government, 37-39; attempted settlements, 39-41, 150; inactive, 149; Gorges's activity, 151; reorganized, 152. _See also_ Council for New England. Plough patent, 277; resisted and arbitrated, 277, 278. Pocahontas, rescues Smith, 46-48; dance, 48; seized, 71; married, 71; in England, 74; death, 77. Popham, George, colony, 40; death, 41; fate of colony, 41. Popham, Sir John, and Zuniga, 36; patron of Plymouth Company, 37; colony, 40; death, 41. Population, Virginia (1629), 93; (1635), 100; (1652), 114; Maryland (1652), 147; Massachusetts (1634), 205; (1643), 209; New England (1643), 209, 300; (1652), 322; Connecticut (1653), 260. Port Royal, Argall reduces, 72, 149, 289; settlement, 287; rebuilt, 289. Portsmouth (Piscataqua), N.H., settled, 175, 267; feeble existence, 268; Anglicanism, 268; civil contract, 270; annexed by Massachusetts, 271. Portsmouth, R.I., settled, 229. Potato, introduction, 26. Pott, John, in Virginia, 93, 94; and Baltimore, 119. Poutrincourt at Port Royal, 287. Powhatan, chief of confederacy, 44, 45; crowned, 56; and Virginia, 69-71; death, 85. Prado, de, voyage, 7. Presbyterianism, Massachusetts' attitude, 319-321. Pring, Martin, voyage, 35, 39.