Offices (subsidiary buildings about great house), xx-xxi, 238 as counting-rooms, xxi as foils for great house, xxi, 80-81, 238 as kitchens, xxi, 59, 81, 95, 238 as schoolrooms, xix, xxi, 59, 81 as sleeping quarters, xxi at Mount Airy, 95 at Nomini Hall, xxix-xxx, 79-81 at "Rosegill," xxi Ogle, Samuel, 239 Ohio River, settlements on, 58 Old Sarum, England, xxvii Onions, 190 Orange County, 248 Orangeries, xx Orchards, xx Ordinaries, meaning of term in Virginia, 177 _see also_ Taverns Organs, xxx, 30, 37, 51 Ovens, 75 Overseers, xvi, xxiii, xxix, 37, 38, 50, 86, 129, 146, 185 cruelty to slaves, 85, 129 Oxen, 61, 73 Oxford University, Virginians at, xix Oysters, 29 Oyster shells, walks of, xx, 81 Page, John, Jr., 237 Paintings, xxii, 94-95 Pamphlets, 119 Paneling, in plantation houses, xxi-xxii Panton, Sally, governess, 89, 91, 93, 110, 136, 177, 246 description of, 90 Paris net, 215 Parker, Mr., 181 Richard, 248 Parks, xx, 44 Parks, Tom, 134 William, 245 Parliament, _see_ England Parterres, xx Patapsco River, 18, 240 Patterson, Mr., 12, 15, 17, 103, 104 Patuxent Ferry, Md., 97, 209, 247 Patuxent River, 109, 247 Peachem, Henry, _The Compleat Gentleman_, xvii "Peach Hill," Lancaster County, Heale home, 246 Peaches, 90, 113, 114, 175, 177, 194 Peas, 78, 96 Peck, Mrs., 6, 16, 100, 104, 240 Abby, 16 Ben, 104 John, 16, 18, 25, 102, 105, 107, 118, 128, 146, 149, 150, 169, 171, 177, 179, 202, 203, 205, 206-207, 208, 215, 216, 217, 240 arrives in Virginia, 206 letters to, 112, 143, 159-168 marries Nancy Carter, 240 Rachel, 100 _Peggy_ (ship), 110 Penknives, 119 Pennington, Sir John, 244 Penn's Neck, N. J., 18 Pennsylvania, 83 Fithian visits as missionary, xxxii _see also_ names of towns in _Pennsylvania Gazette_, 40, 69 _Pennsylvania Packet_, 247 Persimmons, 54, 73-74, 86 Peruvian bark, 17, 64 Pettit, Lydia, 136, 179 Philadelphia, 11, 59, 70, 75, 77, 78, 94, 106, 125, 126, 138, 169, 179, 201, 211, 217, 247, 248 Virginians at, 174-176, 180, 194-195 Philosophy, Carter reads, 53, 117 _see also_ titles of catalogue in Appendix Pictet, Benjamin, _Theologia Christiana_, Fithian studies, _passim_ Piedmont Virginia, Presbyterian Church in, 73, 245 Tidewater plantation economy spreads to, 238 Pierce, Miss, 67, 200 Pilasters, xxii Pines, 76, 89, 144 Piscataway, Md., 97, 109, 209, 247 Pitt, William, 91 Plantations, of Robert Carter III, xxviii names of, xxviii separated by wooded tracts, xxiii, 238 size of, xiv-xv typical activity on, xxiii-xxiv _see also_ Manor houses, Manor plantations