Cities and towns -- Middle Atlantic States; Middle Atlantic States -- History
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;
at Philadelphia, 272;
at Princeton, 285
Putnam, Gideon, at Saratoga, 69
Putnam, Harrington, on Brooklyn, 213-249
Q
Quassaick, 107, 114, 118, 127, 128
Quebec, capture of, 407
Queen Anne, 108;
gives bell to Lutherans at Newburgh, 115, 117
Queen Anne’s War, 48, 96
_Queen Charlotte_, British war vessel, 375
Queen Charlotte, portrait of, 184
Queen’s Head Tavern, 184
Queenstown in War of 1812, 380
R
Raymond, President, of Union College, 106
Red Jacket in War of 1812, 380
Rensselaerswyck, 8, 28, 73, 80, 81, 87
Revolution, Philadelphia in the, 318
Reynolds, Marcus, quoted, 28
Rhind’s statue of Moses, 36
Riall, General, burns Buffalo, 377;
retreats, 380, 381
Richardson, H. H., 31, 424
Richardson, William, 390
Richmond Hill, 202
Riedesel, Madame, 64, 65
Ripley, General, at Fort Erie, 381
Rising, John Claudius, 341
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