Historic Shrines of America: Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them NotableFaris, John T. (John Thomson)
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Historic Shrines of America: Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable
Faris, John T. (John Thomson)
Historic buildings -- United States; United States -- Biography
Philipse Manor House, Yonkers, New York, 91
Philipse, Mary, 93
Pine Grove, Virginia, 253
Pine-tree shillings, dowry of, 50
Plum pudding, the best dinner, 260
Plymouth, New Hampshire, 66
Pohick Church, Virginia, 249, 311
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 26, 395
Potomac Canal, 218, 285
Prayer at opening of First Continental Congress, 151
Prayer for the King, omitted, 154
President's pew: in St. Paul's Chapel, New York, 96
in St. Peter's, Philadelphia, 154
in Pohick Church, Virginia, 312
Princeton, battle of, 133, 135
Princeton University, 130
Pringle House, Charleston, South Carolina, 336
Providence, Rhode Island, 82
Putnam, William Lowell, 38
"Put Watts into them, boys," 140
Quincy, Dorothy, 52
Quincy, Edmund, 49, 51
Quincy, Edmund, III, 51
Quincy, Josiah, 53
Quincy, Judith, 50
Quincy Mansion, Quincy, Massachusetts, 49
Quincy, Massachusetts, 44
Quincy, Massachusetts Historical Society, 47
Randolph, Edmund, 269, 294
Randolph, John, 228
Read, George, 205
Red Bank, New Jersey, victory at, 181
Redemptioners, purchase of, 186
Red Hill, Virginia, 305
Revere, Paul, 23, 33, 53, 77
Rhode Island, 83
Ridgely, Dr. Charles Greenburg, 209
Rittenhouse, David, 198
Rittenhouse House, Philadelphia, 170
Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Duc de la, 325
Rodney, Caesar, 208, 209
Roosevelt, Theodore, 233, 290
Ross, George, 204
Royall House, Medford, Massachusetts, 66
Royall, Isaac, 67
Royall, William, 67
Rufus Putnam's House, Marietta, Ohio, 377
Rush, Dr. Benjamin, 163, 171
St. John's Church, Richmond, Virginia, 264, 266
St. Luke's Church, Smithfield, Virginia, 318
St. Martins-in-the-Fields, London, 82
St. Michael's Church, Charleston, South Carolina, 333
St. Peter's Church, New Kent County, Virginia, 318
St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, 153
St. Philip's Church, Charleston, South Carolina, 335, 340
Salem, Massachusetts, 80
Savannah, Georgia, Siege of, 341
Schools, free, beginnings of, in Pennsylvania, 186
Schuyler, Catherine, 393
Schuyler, Elizabeth, 100, 127
Schuyler, General Philip, 100, 126
Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York, 391
Scott House, Annapolis, Maryland, 220
Scott, Molly, 382
Scott, Upton, 220
Servants, problem of, in early days, 185
Severance, Frank H., 386
Sewell, Judge Samuel, 50, 74
Shadwell, Virginia, 297, 322
Sharpe, Horatio, 221
Shepherd, Moses, 381
Sherwood Forest, Virginia, 257, 261
Shippen, Dr. William, Jr., 162
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