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Paca, William, 9:164, 165; 10:103
Packet, William, 4:42
Packet, William Stuart, 2:65, 66; 3:252, 256, 306-7; 4:334, 335, 389
Packton (Paxton), ----, 2:64
Packwood, Samuel, 2:306, 307
Page, Bryan, 3:253, 259
Page, James, 8:511, 558-65; 9:16, 64, 103, 222, 224, 225, 227, 230, 233
Page, John (1720-1774), 10:81, 82, 142, 185; 351-52, 353
Page, John (of North End; d. 1780), 8:194, 456; 9:374, 377, 394, 400, 478; 10:8
Page, John (of Rosewell; 1743-1808), 9:356; 10:79, 141; letters from: to GW, 9:477-78
Page, Mann, 3:375; 10:23, 297
Page, Mann, Jr. (c.1739-1803), 8:571; 10:99-100, 297
Page, Mann, II (c.1718-c.1781), 7:233, 235, 280, 314, 315; 8:50, 153; 10:297
Page's warehouse, 8:482
Pain, William, 10:343
Painceller, Nicholas, 5:335
Paine, John (captain), 5:234
Paine (Payne), John (of North Carolina), 6:37, 147
Painter, Edward, 6:47
Painter, John, 5:338
Palatines, 9:475-77, 485, 493-96, 506-7, 508-10, 520; 10:4-7, 15, 23-24
Palmer, ---- (Mrs.), 8:376, 377
Palmer, ---- (young), 8:222
Palmer, Cornelius, 8:355, 376, 377
Palmer, Edmund, 8:112
Palmer, George, 4:42
Palmer, Jack (slave; carpenter; New Kent County), 6:220, 282
Palmer, John, 2:164; 3:332, 369, 376-77; 4:283, 289-90; 5:68; 6:255, 263; 7:91
Palmer, Jonathan, 8:356, 479; 9:54, 55, 238; 10:104; cradling and mowing, 8:112; agreement with GW, 8:113; accounts with, 8:121, 222, 290, 306, 323, 376, 405, 431, 441, 522, 527; 9:1, 35, 58, 111, 133, 208, 293, 395; borrows money, 8:244; id., 8:291; moves to John Posey's place, 8:377; leaves Mount Vernon, 10:138
Palmer, Philip, John & Charles, 8:562, 566
Palmer, Thomas, 8:305
Palmer, Thomas (gunsmith), 10:189, 190, 224, 270, 357
Palmer & Fleetwood, 7:204, 205
Palmer & Son & Fleetwood, 6:247-49
Pamocra, 8:581
Paoli, Pasquale, 7:365
Paradise lost, 6:291, 296, 298; 7:345-46; 8:493
Paradise regain'd, 6:291; 7:346
Parismus, 6:293; 7:344
Parke, Daniel, 6:212-13, 300; 7:211; 9:233
Parke, Dunbar. See Dunbar, Thomas (of Antigua)
Parke, George, 1:22
Parke (Park), John, 1:20, 33
Parke, John, Jr., 1:20
Parke, John, Sr., 1:22
Parke, Roger, 1:29
Parker, ----, 3:197
Parker, ---- (George William Fairfax's tenant), 10:85
Parker, Dorcas, 9:253
Parker, George, 2:134, 137, 141; 3:11
Parker, Hugh, 1:59
Parker, James, 9:383, 384; 10:162
Parker, John (of Hampshire County), 1:25; 3:124, 197, 265; 4:10
Parker, John (of New Jersey), 6:188, 190
Parker, Lawson, 9:253; 10:194, 196
Parker, Richard, 7:219-22, 224, 512; 8:63, 153
Parker, Thomas, Sr., 1:22
Parker, William, 7:367; 8:136, 141, 266
Parker's fort. See Cocks's fort
Parker's ordinary, 7:367
Parkes, John (soldier), 6:47
Parkins. See Perkins
Parramore, ---- (colonel), 4:333
Parrell, John, 5:341
Parrell, Joseph, 5:340
Parros (dower slave; King William County), 6:218
Parros (Paros, Peros; slave; Dogue Run), 7:45, 65-67, 139, 228, 313
Parros (Peros, Pieras; dower slave), 7:67, 8:401, 402
Parros (Peros, Pieras; slave; Claiborne's plantation), 6:311; 8:583, 590
Parros (slave; King William County), 6:225
Parrott, Daniel, 6:47
Parson, ----: sells horse, 8:393
Parsons, James, 9:181-82
Parsons, Thomas, 8:395
Parthenissa, 6:293; 7:346
Participant in the Potomac River Enterprise: letters to: from GW, 7:175-78
Partner (horse), 8:83
Pasley, Thomas, 6:252
Passavant (Passavent), ---- (Mrs.), 6:248; 7:325, 326
Passwater, William, 2:224, 272
Pasteur, William, 8:268-9, 460, 487; 9:30, 73, 117, 139, 355, 367, 368, 370
Patapsco River (Maryland), 10:358
Patcy (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Pate, Samuel, 4:332
Pate, Thomas (soldier), 4:332
Pate (Pait), Thomas, 6:267, 281
Paterson, Fleming, 8:145, 146
Pathomyotomia, 6:295
Patishall, William, 4:281
Patrick, John, 4:42
Patrick (dower slave; Hanover County), 6:218
Patrick (slave; Hanover County), 6:231
Patriot Blues. See Gentlemen Associators
Patt (dower slave; King William County), 6:218
Patt (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Patt (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 6:311; 8:583, 590
Patt (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Patt (slave; John Augustine Washington's), 7:173
Patt (slave; King William County), 6:225
Patt (slave; York County), 6:229
Patterson, James (of Pennsylvania), 2:308, 309; 6:36-37
Patterson, James (of Williamsburg), 7:496
Patterson, John (carpenter), 5:434; 7:381; and John Posey, 5:218; id., 5:222-23; 7:109; and George William Fairfax, 5:328; and construction at Mount Vernon, 5:371-72, 391, 407-8, 418, 436, 438, 448; 6:19, 198, 199; account with, 7:105, 107; and Potomac navigation, 7:177; letters from: to GW, 5:222-23, 390-91, 449-50
Patterson, Robert, 4:362, 363
Patterson, Thomas, 10:104, 105
Patterson, William (of Frederick County), 5:335
Patterson, William (of Pennsylvania), 6:92, 93
Patterson (Patterson's) Creek, 1:198; 2:73, 146; 3:35; 4:10, 138; 5:143
Patterson's fort (Frederick County), 4:180, 182, 260, 262, 362; 5:67, 103, 121, 129, 130
Patterson's fort (Pennsylvania), 2:309. See also Pomfret Castle
Pattie, ----: GW buys mare from, 8:522
Patton, James, 1:67, 80, 206, 208; 2:19, 90, 189, 293; 3:434, 435
Patuxent (ship), 8:488
Patuxent River (Maryland), 7:8; 9:347-48
Paul, Aaron, 3:123, 136
Paul, George, 5:335
Paul, Hugh, 9:122, 146
Paul, Little (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Paul (dower slave; Hanover County), 6:218
Paul (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Paul (slave; Dogue Run), 7:443, 516; 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:55
Paul (slave; Hanover County), 6:231
Paul (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Paul (slave; Old Quarter), 8:590
Paul (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Paul (slave; William Waters's), 7:315
Paulin, Henry, 4:266
Pawlins, Henry, 5:356-57, 360
Paxton, Peter, 6:288
Payne, ----: his boat landing, 8:288
Payne, Daniel, 6:443, 444; 7:513; letters from: to GW, 7:502-6
Payne, Edward, 7:361, 381, 384, 428-29, 452, 508; 8:4-5, 147, 221, 247; 10:128
Payne, John (goldsmith), 6:247-49; 7:129, 131, 196, 291, 473; 8:554
Payne, William, 7:106, 110, 361, 384; 8:149, 182; 10:128
Payne, William, Jr., 7:381
Payne's church. See Upper Church
Peachey, Elizabeth Griffin, 5:55
Peachey, Le Roy, 5:56
Peachey, Million Glasscock, 5:55
Peachey, Samuel, 5:56
Peachey, Thomas Griffin, 5:55, 56
Peachey (Peachy), William, 2:211, 260, 298, 344, 347; 3:22, 25-26, 38-39, 65-66, 124, 152-53, 447; 4:22-23, 203; 6:469; companies of, 2:14, 61, 113, 126, 131, 148, 162, 271, 354; 3:156, 169-70, 187, 189, 198, 212, 213, 226, 253, 257, 258, 263, 348, 429; 4:77; 5:268; 6:32; id., 2:28, 341; 3:170; 5:55; 6:35; appointments and assignments, 2:40, 42, 100, 243, 261; 3:9, 252; 4:21, 155, 166, 334, 362, 405; 6:35, 53, 59, 63, 70, 72, 77, 118, 121, 123, 150, 470; 7:122; movements of, 2:82; 3:45, 51; illness of, 2:223-24, 233; orders to, 2:350; 3:153, 191, 254; and misconduct of officers, 3:37; and rumor concerning GW, 3:38; and Landon Carter, 3:185; robbed, 3:328, 332, 368; 4:17; military service, 3:389; 5:287, 311, 318, 325; and criticism of GW, 4:382-83, 411; laments loss of commission, 5:54-55; pay of, 5:56; 6:469; paymaster, 6:112; and provisions for brigade, 6:151; adjutant of militia, 6:364, 384-85; and frontier battalion, 6:470; his pretensions to rank, 7:121; and bounty lands, 8:276; resolution regarding bounty lands, 9:94-95; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22, 381-84; 5:54-56; letters to: from GW, 2:27-28, 117-18; 4:414-15
Peake, Ann (Nancy), 8:405, 474
Peake, Humphrey, 8:147; account with, 6:339, 378; 7:178, 438, 477; 8:67, 355, 473, 486, 487, 556; 9:152; 10:194; id., 6:340, 379; borrows money, 7:4, 9; 8:405, 474; 9:35; kitchen built for, 7:439; hunting, 9:184; shoes ordered for, 9:270, 275; his home, 10:372
Peake, John (d. 1758), 6:339, 340
Peake, John (d. 1761), 6:378, 379
Peake, John (of Fauquier County), 10:372-73
Peake, William, 6:340; 7:297
Peale, Charles Willson, 9:36-37, 49, 50, 51, 367, 370, 433; 10:77, 79
Pearce, Thomas, 6:294
Peareth, William: letters from: to GW, 8:195, 343-44; letters to: from GW, 8:381-82
Pearis, ----, 2:334, 345, 347
Pearis, Richard, 4:105; and Indians, 2:159; 3:391, 426, 445, 446; 4:27, 54, 62, 65, 71, 105, 119-20, 140, 141, 142, 144, 196, 236; 5:5, 7, 278; id., 2:161, 336; 4:196-97; misconduct of, 4:157, 158-59, 196; military service, 4:189, 193, 254; 5:7; 6:119; criticism of, 5:278; letters from: to John Armstrong, 4:195-96
Pearis (Paris), Robert, 2:119, 336; 3:122-23, 230, 384; 4:262; 5:304-5, 341, 391-92; 7:69-70
Pearis's fort, 3:122-23
Pearsal, Job, 1:84; 2:142, 270; 3:96-97, 121, 343, 391; 4:47, 110, 349, 404; 6:26, 27; troops at his residence, 1:82; 4:211; id., 1:83; 2:94; 3:92; 4:149; aids in stationing troops, 3:88, 91; need for blockhouse at his residence, 3:245; ordered to supply provisions, 3:335; wagons and stores sent to his residence, 4:57, 138; mileages to his fort, 5:245
Pearsal's fort, 1:83, 84; 2:94; 3:265, 310; 4:48, 222; commanders at, 2:167; 6:8; skirmish at, 3:120; troops at, 3:127, 137, 146, 159; 4:77; 5:58, 67, 158, 161, 208, 211, 221, 246, 257, 258, 269, 378; 6:8, 118, 135; orders concerning, 3:147, 149, 150, 336; proposals for, 4:128, 146, 154, 220-21; repairs of, 4:340, 352; road to, 5:158; on GW's map, 5:207; provisions for, 5:237; id., 5:386-87
Pearson, Milkey, 7:178, 179, 373
Pearson, Samuel, 5:337
Pearson, Simon, 7:381; 8:146; land transaction with, 7:104, 106, 108, 110, 139, 179, 210, 228, 278, 350, 373; 8:144, 283; 9:431
Pearson, Thomas, 7:381
Peavock, 8:312
Pechey, John, 6:295
Peck (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Peers, Valentine, 9:399; 10:200, 201
Peg (slave), 7:352
Peg (slave; Great House plantation, 1), 8:587
Peg (slave; Great House plantation, 2), 8:587
Peg (slave; Great House plantation, 3), 8:587
Peg (slave; River farm): tithable, 7:139, 228, 313, 377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 357, 479; 9:55, 238; 10:137; midwife for, 7:515; 8:557
Pegg (dower slave; York County), 6:218
Pegg (slave; Samuel Washington's), 7:173
Pegg (slave; York County, 1), 6:229
Pegg (slave; York County, 2), 6:229
Peggy (ship), 7:157, 163
Peggy (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Peggy and Elizabeth (ship), 5:49, 113, 436
Pelham, Peter, 9:260
Pemberton, George, 5:337
Pemberton, Josiah, 5:339
Pence, Lawrence, 5:335
Pendergrass, Derby, 6:478, 479
Pendergrass, Garret, 10:306
Pendergrass's Bottom, 10:306
Pendleton, ---- (brother of Edmund Pendleton), 10:233
Pendleton, B., 6:277
Pendleton, Benjamin, 3:118, 129-31
Pendleton, Edmund, 1:119; 3:438; 10:192-93; appointed justice, 2:296; and military bill, 6:82; accounts with, 6:255, 259; 7:190, 213, 215; 8:140, 262, 266, 346, 456, 531, 532; 9:30, 127, 190, 191, 341, 355; 10:356; and the Armistead estate, 7:366, 367; 9:127; 10:351; as John Robinson's trustee, 7:480; 9:44, 377, 399; and Bernard Moore, 8:26; and Posey-West land dispute, 8:185, 186; and GW's rights to Mount Vernon, 8:223-25; and Savage affair, 8:261; 10:278; and Bryan Fairfax, 8:262; and Daniel McCarty, 8:271; and Dunbar suit, 8:498, 525, 526; 9:312, 313, 366; recommends steward, 8:575, 576, 579; and Eastern Shore suit, 9:232, 285; family of, 9:235, 400; and GW's guardian accounts, 9:370, 372; and William Black's lands, 9:378, 386, 402, 429, 479; 10:22; and Four Mile Run land, 9:410; 10:202; and GW's business, 9:437; and George Muse, 10:76; and meeting at Raleigh Tavern, 10:99-100; delegate to Continental Congress, 10:151, 174, 000, 000; and Joseph Chew, 10:165, 166; and Andrew Morton, 10:250; letters from: to GW, 8:223-25, 345, 576; 9:90-91, 142-43, 399-400; 10:233-34, 340-41; to Joseph Chew, 9:517-18; letters to: from GW, 8:344-45
Pendleton, Edmund, Jr., 9:44, 221; letters from: to GW, 9:234-35
Pendleton, John, 8:579; 9:44, 235; letters from: to GW, 8:575-76
Pendleton, Philip, 8:573; 9:74, 143, 170, 171
Pendleton, Sarah Pollard, 9:399, 400
Penman, Thomas, 6:253
Penn, John, 8:55-56, 58, 207
Penn, Richard, 9:307
Penn, Thomas, 1:215
Penn, William, 6:439; 9:465
Pennington, ----: and Custis estate, 6:257
Pennington, Abraham, 1:28
Pennington, Isaac, 1:26
Penn's Creek (Pennsylvania), 2:121
Pennsylvania. See individual volumes
Pennsylvania Gazette, 4:388
Pennsylvania-Virginia boundary dispute, 8:30, 32, 39; 9:357, 415, 464-66; 10:43-44, 94, 260
Penny (slave; David Meade's), 7:315
Pennywit, John, 5:206
Pennywit's mill, 5:205
Pen Park, 10:350
Pensacola (West Florida), 10:362
Penson, ---- (father), 8:577; 9:290
Penson, ---- (son), 9:290
Penson, Aaron: letters to: from Henry Stuart and Alexander Cameron, 9:207
Pentecost, Dorsey, 9:419, 421
Pepperrell, William, 1:80, 248; 2:286
Percy, Hugh, 10:368
Perkins (Parkins), Charles, 5:335
Perkins (Parkins), Elisha, 4:231, 232
Perkins (Parkins), Isaac, 2:103, 107; 3:106; 5:252-53, 334, 343, 366-67, 373-74, 393
Perkins (Parkins), Jonathan, 5:343
Perkins's (Parkins's) mill, 5:252
Perquimans County, N.C., 9:134
Perrey (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587
Perry, Franklin, 8:146
Perry, Joseph (of North Carolina), 2:182, 183-84, 234, 235
Perry, Joseph (soldier), 3:338, 340
Perry, Peter, 5:342
Perry, Thomas, 5:342
Perry (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Perry (slave; Northampton County, 1), 6:230
Perry (slave; Northampton County, 2), 6:230
Perry Hall (Maryland), 8:464
Perryman, Robert, 4:42
Pert, Griffin, 3:250, 252, 254-55, 429, 447; 4:202, 205, 206, 293, 311; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22
Peter, Robert, 3:239, 241; 7:177
Peter, Thomas, 3:241
Peter (dower slave, Doll's child; New Kent County), 6:217
Peter (slave; blacksmith), 8:20; and smith's accounts, 6:3, 75, 77, 134, 135, 164; illness, 6:4, 25, 135; at Mount Vernon, 6:5; tithable, 6:428; 7:45, 139; shoes for, 6:430; makes items for George William Fairfax, 7:232; id., 7:233
Peter (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Peter (slave; Bullskin plantation; blacksmith), 5:366-67, 373-74
Peter (slave; carpenter), 6:282
Peter (slave; Charles Washington's), 7:173
Peter (slave; Claiborne's plantation), 8:583, 591
Peter (slave; Ferry farm), 9:54, 55, 238; 10:137
Peter (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Peter (slave; Home farm), 8:220, 356; 9:54, 55, 238; 10:137
Peter (slave; Home farm, 1), 8:479
Peter (slave; Home farm, 2), 8:479
Peter (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Peter (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Peter (slave; tradesman), 7:227, 313, 376, 443, 515; 8:104, 220, 356
Peter (slave; York County, 1), 6:229
Peter (slave; York County, 2), 6:229
Peter (William Byrd's slave), 6:313
Peters, Richard, 1:300; 2:115-16; 4:217, 225; 5:108; 6:106; letters to: from GW, 4:429-30
Peterson, Jacob, 3:321-22; 8:368, 371; 9:277; 10:82; carries goods, 8:159, 160, 511; 9:233, 272, 273; and shipments of tobacco, 8:230, 369, 480, 482, 506, 507; 9:27, 63-64, 72, 74, 85, 115, 127, 231, 243, 254, 255-56, 276-77, 284, 297; 10:85
Peterson, William, 9:74, 170, 171, 189, 504
Peter the Great, 5:375, 376
Petet (Pettit), ---- (widow), 10:86
Petit, Thomas, 6:430
Petsworth Parish, 9:487
Petticoat Gap. See Hoop Petticoat Gap
Pettit, Edward, 6:294
Pettyfore, Thomas, 3:112
Pewgh, Samuel, 6:47
Peyrouny. See La Péronie, William
Peyton, ----: expenses at his place, 8:436
Peyton, Craven, 9:185, 307, 340, 347, 348, 351, 448; 10:113; and George William Fairfax's affairs, 10:19, 98, 100, 193, 281-84, 285, 316, 367; George William Fairfax's power of attorney to, 10:37; and plat of Mercer land, 10:203; and list of Fairfax's tenants, 10:368; letters from: to GW, 9:499; 10:37, 188-89; letters to: from GW, 9:184-85
Peyton, Francis, 8:438; 10:19, 20, 193, 196, 211, 239, 326, 328, 358
Peyton, Henry, 3:97-98, 117, 119, 123-24, 128-29, 137, 148, 150; 10:340; letters to: from GW, 3:121-22, 122, 141, 149, 197
Peyton, Valentine, 1:271
Peyton, William, 4:333
Peyton, Yelverton, 8:79, 192, 266, 438, 569, 571; 9:91; 10:80
Peyton's ordinary, 8:79, 192, 193, 438
Ph-- (slave; York County), 6:229
Phaedro, Georgius, 6:295
Pharmacopoeia bateana, 6:288
Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, 6:287
Pharmacopoeia officinalis & extemporanea, 6:296
Pharmacopoeia pauperum, 6:291
Pharmacopoeia Radcliffeana, 6:292-93, 296
Pheasant, The (Indian), 8:395
Phebe (slave, Alce's child; New Kent County), 6:220
Phebe (slave, girl; New Kent County), 6:220
Phelps, John, 2:90
Phil (slave, Esther's child; New Kent County), 6:220
Phil (slave, Eulin's child; York County), 6:229
Philadelphia, 4:400; 5:13, 36, 165; 6:439
Philadelphia, College of, 9:154, 161-62, 164; 10:170
Philadelphia merchants: letters to: from Annapolis merchants, 8:183-84
Philee, 9:340
Philips, Ambrose, 6:291
Philips, Edward, 6:293
Philips, Thomas, 10:195
Philipse, ---- (Mrs. Frederick), 7:156
Philipse, Mary Eliza (Polly), 1:287; 2:323; 4:116, 302, 303, 365; 5:128, 129; 7:156
Phill (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Phill (slave; Great House plantation), 8:587
Phill (slave; Mill Quarter), 8:588
Phill (slave; Thomas Nelson's), 7:314
Phillips, John, 6:292
Phillis (dower slave; New Kent County), 6:217
Phillis (Phyllis; slave; house servant), 6:428; 7:45, 139, 443, 515; 8:104, 169, 220, 221, 356, 479
Phillis (slave; Augustine Washington's), 7:172
Phillis (slave; Bullskin plantation), 6:421
Phillis (slave; Home farm), 10:137, 138
Phillis (slave; Mary Washington's), 7:173
Phillis (slave; Muddy Hole), 7:228, 313, 376
Phillis (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Phillis (slave; spinner), 6:282
"Philo patria," 3:437
Phipps, Benjamin, 1:22
Phipps, Isaiah, 1:30
Phoebe (slave; Harlow's plantation), 8:590
Phoebe (slave; Home farm), 8:104, 220, 356, 479; 9:54, 238; 10:137
Phoebe (slave; Jackson's plantation), 8:587
Phoebe (slave; Muddy Hole), 6:428; 7:45, 139, 228, 313, 376, 443, 516
Phoenix (ship), 7:3, 54, 55, 62
Phripp, Matthew, 7:366, 367; 9:282
Phripp & Newton: letters to: from GW, 9:281-82
Physicall and chymicall works, 6:295
Physico-Theology, 6:300
Pickawillany (Indian town), 3:104
Pickering, William, 5:336
Pickett, William, 2:77, 78-79
Pickett's ordinary, 2:76
Piggot, Benjamin, 6:266, 271
Pigman, Jesse, 10:91-92
Pike, Richard, 4:43
Pinchbeck, Christopher, 8:136
Pine Grove Farm. See Ferry Farm
Pinkney, Robert, 9:7
"Pioneers march," 4:48
Pipe Creek (Ohio country), 8:514; 10:53, 54
Piper, David, 3:203; 7:262, 263
Piper, Harry, 5:217, 448; 7:381; 8:145, 424; id., 5:218; 8:524; account with, 5:284-85; 7:417, 418; 8:531; 9:111, 189, 190, 433; buys tobacco, 6:429, 430; sells rum, 6:443; sells guns, 7:304; and Margaret Savage, 7:504-5; 8:523; 9:10, 11, 12, 83-84, 101, 102; imports servants, 8:25, 112; his fiddler, 8:556; and the bloomery, 9:447, 449; 10:132, 156; letters from: to Dixon & Littledale, 7:504, 504-5; to John Dixon, 7:504, 505; to GW, 9:15; letters to: from GW, 9:9-10, 14
Piper, John, 3:203
Piper, Jonathan, 3:203
Piscataway, Md., 7:6; 8:24, 305; 9:499
Piscataway Creek (Maryland), 7:136
Piscataway Creek (Virginia), 7:286
Pitcher, James, 4:364, 365
Pitt, Robert, 6:288
Pitt, William, the elder, 4:416; 5:203; 6:195; 9:466; and attack on Louisburg, 4:101; 5:71, 328-29; recalls Loudoun, 4:101; 5:98; and John Smith's scheme, 5:105; and temporary rank for officers, 5:126; resigns, 7:39, 98; letters from: to John Blair, 5:115; letters to: from Arthur Dobbs, 3:288; from John Forbes, 5:119, 227
Pitt (ship), 7:410
Pittsburgh (Fort Pitt), 6:160, 343, 361, 364. See also Fort Pitt
Pittsburgh (Loyalhanna), 6:137
Plackett, John, 4:391
A plain account of the nature and end of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, 6:286
Planters Friend (ship), 8:8
Plater, George, 8:63, 64
Plato, 6:400
Platoon, 2:24
Pleasant, Thomas, 10:76
Pleasant Hill, 9:375-79, 383, 385-86, 388-90, 401, 424-28, 458; 10:35, 84
Pliny's panegyrick, 6:290; 7:347
Plowman, Jonathan, 8:526
Pluche, Antoine Noel, 7:346
Plumers (Maryland), 2:76
Plummer, George, 3:301; 4:404, 405
Plummer, Thomas, 1:229
Plummitt, Thomas, 7:441, 451
Plutarch's lives, 6:285; 7:347
Plutarch's morals, 6:290; 7:345
Pocatellico Creek, 10:78
Poe, Samuel, 3:252, 257; 4:164-65, 277
Poems (Milton), 6:291
Poems (Tate), 6:289
Poems (Vaughan), 6:294
Poems (Waller), 6:288
Poems and discourses occasionally written (Norris), 6:292
Poems chiefly consisting of satyres and satyrical epistles (Gould), 6:290
Poems upon several occasions (Behn), 6:290
The poetical histories, 6:292
Poetry (in GW's letterbook), 1:46, 47
Pohick Church (Lower Church), 7:407; 8:246-48, 272, 527-28; 9:275, 349, 396, 463; 10:98, 140, 187, 317, 319
Pohick warehouse, 10:27
Poindexter, William, 6:252
Point Pleasant, 10:88
Point Pleasant, Battle of, 10:44, 164, 183-84, 366
Poker, Michael, 5:335
Poker, Philip, 5:342
Polhill, Edward, 7:293, 295
Pollard, Joshua, 7:454, 455, 464-65; 8:6, 69-70, 105; letters to: from GW, 7:459-60
Pollard, Thomas, 10:128
Pollock, James, 6:92
Pollock, Thomas, 9:406, 408, 463; 10:56; letters to: from GW, 9:387-88
Polly (ship), 6:451, 460; 7:22, 29, 49-50
Polly (slave; Charles Washington's), 7:173
Polly (slave; Northampton County), 6:230
Polly Ogle (ship), 7:306, 334, 335
Polson, ----, 1:79
Polson, John, 2:41, 43, 291; id., 1:79; 2:47; 8:484; appointments and assignments, 2:40, 42; 4:166; military service, 2:45, 47, 229, 232; receives commission in British regiment, 2:227, 279; resignation of, 2:252-53; and bounty lands, 9:116, 122, 128-31, 144, 189, 197; 10:79; letters from: to GW, 8:409, 450; letters to: from GW, 8:483-84
Polson, John, Jr., 8:484
Polson, Rebecca, 1:79
Polson, William, 1:191, 198, 199; 2:40; 3:442; 4:103; and Fort Necessity campaign, 1:78, 156, 162; id., 1:79; 8:484; promoted, 1:208; commended, 1:209; 8:483; and account, 1:222; company of, 1:326, 338; 2:39, 261, 300; death of, 1:336, 338, 339, 342; 2:47; and bounty lands, 8:451; 10:79, 333
Polygraphice, 6:292
Pomet, Pierre, 6:285
Pomfret (Pomphret), Elizabeth, 7:375
Pomfret Castle, 2:308, 309, 316. See also Patterson's fort (Pennsylvania)
Pompey (slave, boy; New Kent County), 6:220
Pompey (slave; Brick House plantation), 8:589
Pompey (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Pond, Joseph, 6:252
Pontiac's War, 7:227, 236-37, 238, 242, 338-40
Poo (Pow; Poe), John, 3:135; 10:40, 42
Poole, Joshua, 6:290
Poole, William, 5:418-19; 6:377, 378; 8:145; letters from: to GW, 5:274-75
Poor, Jeremiah, 4:163
Pope, ---- (corporal), 4:231
Pope, Alexander, 3:410, 412; 6:293, 400; 7:345
Pope, Ephraim, 4:232
Pope, John, 3:252, 257; 4:232, 389
Pope, Walter, 6:291
Popejoy, Nathaniel, 7:381; 8:146, 147
Pope's Creek (Virginia), 1:7, 229; 6:20
Poplar Grove (New Kent County), 6:329
Port Conway, Va., 10:29
Porter, ---- (of Aquia), 10:103
Porter, Catey, 10:31
Port Mahon, Minorca, 3:248, 249-50, 377. See also Minorca
Port Royal, Va., 6:380; 7:268
Port Tobacco, Md., 6:386
Port Tobacco Parish (Maryland), 7:123
Posey, Amelia (Milly), 8:167, 323, 355, 396; 9:132, 288; 10:270
Posey, Elizabeth Adair, 8:212, 214-16, 235-36, 255, 257, 271-72, 470-71
Posey, Hanson, 8:167, 213, 216, 441, 471, 472
Posey, John, 6:414; 7:169; 8:51, 53, 377; 10:9, 103; accounts, 5:217; 6:331, 332, 429, 430; 7:104, 108, 185, 235; 8:59, 268, 323; 9:31; hires GW's carpenter, 5:217-18, 222-23, 439; id., 5:218; company of, 5:258, 268, 287, 364, 383, 384; 6:32, 127; and sale of land to GW, 6:342, 438, 439; 8:187, 212-13, 254, 396, 401, 421, 591-92; 9:53, 54, 111, 112, 151, 199, 200, 205, 207, 431; 10:40, 42; his ferry, 6:407; 7:268, 286; 8:37, 70; GW's loans and gifts to, 7:4, 9, 229, 261, 263, 319, 340, 341, 514; 8:4, 215, 250, 252-54, 441, 486; 9:301, 317, 340; 10:19; pay of, 7:5, 11; his back pay as officer, 7:171; and Thomas Hanson Marshall's account, 7:186; and William Whiting's land, 7:304, 309, 310; elected to Fairfax vestry, 7:361; and House of Burgesses elections, 7:376, 377-84, 384, 508; 8:144-48; elected to Truro vestry, 7:384; GW gives advice to, 8:1-4; and George Mason, 8:35-37; sells slaves, 8:37, 357; dispute with John West, 8:185-87, 344-45; 9:2-4; 10:221; marriage of, 8:214-15, 248; multiple births of slaves, 8:215; and Charles Washington, 8:216, 439; and sale of his estate, 8:220, 249, 250, 254-57, 260, 262, 263, 272, 311, 313, 314, 317, 527, 528; and building of new church, 8:247, 248; dubious practices of, 8:254-56; and Hector Ross, 8:269, 363; in jail, 8:467; 9:140; and St. Lawrence Posey, 9:140-41; 10:177; at Mount Vernon, 10:20; his fishery rented, 10:229; letters from: to GW, 7:516; 8:26, 33, 167, 233, 470-73; 9:301; letters to: from GW, 8:1-4, 34-37, 211-16, 234-37, 429
Posey, John Price, 8:211, 257, 341, 418, 432-33, 470-71, 72, 486; 10:177
Posey, Martha Price Harrison, 1:52; 6:342, 439; 8:37, 59, 167, 185, 186, 212, 470; 9:3
Posey, Richard, 3:253, 259
Posey, St. Lawrence, 8:471, 472; 9:140-41, 301; 10:9, 177
Posey's ferry, 6:407; 8:37, 386, 401, 512; 9:53, 54
Postal service, 3:363-64
Posten, ---- (of Pennsylvania), 10:334
Postgate, Thomas, 5:337
Posthumous works in prose and verse (Butler), 6:292
Potomac district of Maryland, 9:505
Potomack (ship), 7:53, 54, 397
Potomac River, 1:10; 4:10; 8:305, 435, 486, 512
Potomac River Company (Potomac Company), 1:180, 198; 10:244
Potomac River navigation, 10:196, 345; proposals for, 1:179, 196-98; 7:175-78; 8:284-90; and GW's role, 7:175-76, 177; 8:357-60; advertisement for subscriptions, 7:176-77; and Proclamation of 1763, 7:177; documents relating to, 8:289, 293; Maryland and Virginia bills for, 8:289, 290, 294, 352; and John Semple, 8:291-94; Jonathan Boucher's ideas on, 8:324-25; and Thomas Johnson, 8:349-52; 10:266-67; meeting of trustees, 10:221; Normand Bruce's scheme for, 10:238; John Ballendine's plans for, 10:242-44; and Potomac River bill, 10:268; and George Mason, 10:275-76, 298-99. See also Potomac River Company
Potowmack (George Rowe's ship), 10:180
Potowmack (Lyonel Bradstreet's ship), 10:336
Potter, ----: and St. Lawrence Posey, 9:301
Potter, Joseph, 10:9
Pottie (Pattie), George, 8:31
Potts, George, 1:30
Pound, Maurice (Moritz), 6:368-70, 417, 418
Pow, John. See Poo, John
Powell, Ambrose, 8:302, 304
Powell, Benjamin, 6:257
Powell, George, 6:257
Powell, Joseph (of Cacapon River), 1:22
Powell, Joseph (of Fairfax County), 8:146
Powell, Leven, 10:10-12, 29, 239
Powell, William, 9:112, 137, 138
Powells River, 8:31
Power, Jack, 9:428, 429, 479, 481; 10:22
Power, James, 3:436, 437; 5:79, 80
Powers, Machaa., 7:5
Powers mill, 4:220-21. See also Fort George (Powers mill)
Pownall, Thomas, 6:431; 9:304
Poyne (Poynes), ---- (sergeant), 6:15, 16, 27-30, 176
The Practical Builder, or, Workman's General Assistant, 10:343
The practical husbandman, 7:344
A practical treatise of husbandry, 7:299-300, 344, 349
The practice of physick, 6:288; 8:511
Prague, 4:374
Prather, Henry, 5:368-69; letters from: to GW, 5:368
Prather, Thomas, 7:177
Pratt, Marshall, 9:122, 145; 10:40, 42
Praxis medica, 6:287
"Prayer Book," 8:509, 563
"Preceptor," 7:298, 300, 302
Prentis, ----: and Custis estate, 6:253; 8:198, 199, 453; account with, 7:336
Prentis, John, 6:228; 7:337
Prentis, William, 2:291; 7:337; id., 2:113; 7:274; sends supplies, 2:113-14, 127, 128, 168, 294, 295; commissioner to settle Indian accounts, 7:15; accounts with, 7:303; 8:486; 9:30, 367, 368, 370; letters from: to GW, 2:113-14
Prentis, William, & Co., 6:321; 7:262, 263
Prescot, John, 10:19; accounts with, 7:3, 105, 240, 268, 276, 333, 393, 452, 508; 8:5, 41, 156, 199, 201, 437; 9:53, 252; id., 7:8; 8:438; death of, 10:20
Prescot, Susanna, 10:19, 20
A present for the ladies, 6:291; 7:348
The present state of London, 6:292
Presque Isle (Pennsylvania), 6:343, 346, 433
Preston, Thomas, 8:399, 400
Preston, William, 3:260; 9:481; military activities of, 2:90; 4:393, 394; guide to GW, 3:431; id., 3:434; 4:395; and rangers, 5:21, 58; and bounty lands, 9:148, 505, 510, 511-12, 513; 10:280; as county surveyor, 9:418; 10:152; and Crawford's survey, 9:503, 510; his deputy surveyor, 10:71; and scouting party, 10:71; builds fort, 10:152; letters from: to GW, 9:510-12; 10:70-71, 151-52, 245-47, 247-48, 332-33; to William Bowyer, 10:246; letters to: from Andrew Lewis, 5:21; from GW, 9:500-503; 10:214, 311-12; from John Floyd, 10:88
Prestonpans, Battle of, 1:296; 2:173, 174
Preston's fort. See Fort William
Prevost, James, 5:18, 19
Prevost, Richard, 9:22
Price, ---- (captain), 9:518
Price, James, 4:42
Price, Judith Ellridge, 2:149
Price, Leonard, 3:346; appointments and assignments, 2:14, 40, 42, 148, 261; 3:157, 252, 429; 4:166, 167, 205, 206, 432; 5:215; 7:46; id., 2:149; 3:413; 7:47; 9:518; pay of, 5:214; address to GW, 6:178-81; letters from: to GW, 4:18-22
Price, M., 7:25
Price, Thomas (brickmaker), 2:149; 8:18, 19, 25, 143
Price, Thomas (of Maryland), 8:143, 144; 9:493, 504
Price, Thomas (of Middlesex County), 2:149
Price & Nalder, 7:291; 8:47, 132
Prideaux, Humphrey, 7:344
Priestley, John, 9:227
Primus (slave; Robert Tucker's and Mann Page's), 7:314
Prince (dower slave; New Kent County), 6:217
Prince (slave; Charles Washington's), 7:173
Prince (slave; Mary Washington's), 7:173
Prince (slave; New Kent County), 6:220
Prince Bob (slave; Rockahock plantation), 8:588
Prince Edward County, 3:435
Prince Edward Island (Canada). See St. John's Island
Prince George County (Virginia), 4:290
Prince George's County (Maryland), 3:382; 5:38
Princess Ann County, 4:290
Princeton College, 8:168, 214
Prince William County: militia of, 3:27, 28, 55, 56-57, 67-68, 94, 95, 97-98, 99, 117, 119, 120, 121, 122, 127, 128, 137, 141, 146, 149, 159, 266, 267, 277-78, 358-59; 4:222-23, 236-37, 243, 257-58, 265, 267, 275, 276, 278, 290, 304; 5:152, 157, 202, 207, 216, 219, 228, 229; burgess for, 5:185; county lieutenant of, 5:185, 230; clerks of, 8:435; 10:215
Prince William Independent Company, 10:214-15, 216, 240-41, 248, 259, 270, 316, 331, 338-39, 356, 357, 369; letters from: to GW, 10:345-46; letters to: from Spotsylvania Independent Company, 10:345
The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation, 6:333, 336-37
Principles of Moral Philosophy, 9:344, 345
Prior, Matthew, 6:400; 9:6
Prior, Thomas, 7:348
Priscilla (slave; Mill farm), 9:238; 10:137. See also Silla
"Prisoners march," 4:48
Pritchard, ----: and GW's horses, 5:367, 452
Pritchard, Samuel, 5:342
Pritchard, Thomas, 3:301, 302; 5:453
Pritchard, William, 3:185, 206, 239; 5:453
Proby, James, 5:294, 295
Proby, Thomas, 5:294, 295
The proceedings and tryal in the case of . . . William Lord archbishop of Canterbury, 6:293
Proclamation of 1754, 7:44; 8:275, 391-92, 541, 543
Proclamation of 1763, 7:177; 8:303, 308-9; 9:143
Prosser, Thomas, 9:34, 46, 226, 231, 370, 372, 373; 10:75
Provision and supply (military), 1:182, 186, 187, 189, 190, 206; 5:227; instructions concerning, 2:5, 6, 22-23, 29, 33, 37, 55-56, 70-71, 87, 113, 119, 127, 129, 136, 138, 140-41, 145, 146-47, 148, 152-55, 162, 164-65, 167-68, 171, 187, 189, 193-94, 204-5, 216-17, 237, 239, 244-45, 275, 312, 341-42, 350; 3:138, 263, 311, 335, 393; 4:26, 56, 59, 60, 62-63, 70, 135, 180, 181, 211, 342, 349, 351, 357, 363; 5:30-32, 238; 6:1, 2, 18, 54, 64, 79, 83, 107-8, 110, 114-15, 117, 121, 126, 138, 140, 149, 152, 155, 157; for New York, 2:30, 31; from West Indian markets, 2:30, 33, 43; Irish beef, 2:30, 32, 43, 71; 3:47, 66; Irish butter, 2:32; John Robinson on, 2:34; cattle, 2:44, 127-28, 131, 138, 139, 148, 158, 160, 168, 177, 182-84, 193, 194, 198, 199, 200, 204, 222, 234-35; 5:321, 325, 358, 378, 381, 386, 391, 416-17, 420-22, 425, 427; 6:2, 21, 23, 35, 55, 59, 79, 93-94, 105, 108, 126, 132, 136-37, 140-41, 142, 144, 157, 364; returns of, 2:45, 154-55, 171; 3:9, 35, 162, 230, 251, 255; 4:24, 54, 56, 63, 66-67, 135, 138, 183, 210, 325-27, 363-64, 387, 392, 394-95; 5:4, 179, 258-59, 267, 269; 6:80, 89-90, 99, 104, 114, 142-43, 151, 152, 171; scarcity of, 2:58, 64, 79, 83, 87, 106, 110, 115, 154-55, 201, 214, 287-88, 300; at Fort Dinwiddie, 2:60, 300; from innkeepers, 2:78-79; preservation of, 2:79, 172; 3:240; 4:70, 194-95, 259, 360, 385; 5:403; purchases of, 2:79-80, 86, 102, 106, 129, 145, 148, 164, 167, 193-94, 196, 198-99, 204-5, 234, 270, 273, 279-80; 3:98, 151, 361, 404, 420; 4:38, 46, 93-94, 122; 5:153; transport of, 2:113, 127, 225; 3:11, 35, 83, 94, 101, 111, 114, 139, 261-62, 374, 378, 387, 421; 4:35, 38, 39, 53, 57, 59, 60, 62-63, 69, 70, 95, 96, 98, 135, 138; 5:240, 244-45, 280, 310, 311-12, 360, 384-85, 388-89, 391-92, 395, 406, 416-17, 426, 427-28, 440, 444-46; 6:1-2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 14-15, 18, 21, 26, 27, 35, 45, 55, 74-75, 88, 93, 105, 106, 131, 144, 157, 346, 364, 432; need for, 2:115, 167, 183, 184, 204; 3:39, 45, 60, 82, 84, 228, 289, 342, 392, 421; 4:41, 143, 236-37, 393; 5:189, 221, 249, 277, 289, 313, 320, 345, 362, 377, 398; 6:3, 6, 14, 17, 21, 45, 53, 81, 130, 131, 136, 139, 140, 142, 161, 167, 169-71, 172-73, 175, 345; at Winchester, 2:129; 3:49; 4:77, 223-24; contracts for, 2:148; 3:270-71, 272; 4:51, 57, 70-71, 93-94, 96, 104, 122, 292; 5:1, 5, 27, 29-32, 149, 441-42; 6:15, 82; funds for, 2:199; 3:194, 324; 4:46, 57, 75, 249, 266, 304; 5:252; 6:75-76; trough, 2:215, 237, 300, 302; blankets, 3:9, 84, 177, 270, 343, 421, 443; 4:38, 66, 68, 72, 75, 96, 194, 255, 297, 363; 6:99; for settlers, 3:25, 54, 60, 85; for volunteers, 3:25; from settlers, 3:29, 30; storehouses for, 3:34, 39, 40, 49, 66, 96, 100, 113, 161, 324, 326, 366, 415; 6:176; for militia, 3:46, 66, 91, 121, 122, 137, 139; 4:2, 12-13, 87-88, 236-37, 253, 263, 265, 403; allowances of, 3:75, 196, 416; 5:19, 30, 39, 209, 211, 321, 325, 428; 6:120, 145, 151-52, 171, 185; for light horse, 3:100, 178; for Gentlemen Associators, 3:109; orders for, 3:193-94, 293; 4:165-66, 284; 5:247; 6:91; dissatisfaction with, 3:240; 6:23, 110, 142; kettles, 3:262; 4:340; grindstones, 3:302; 5:384, 388; for Pennsylvania forces, 3:318, 361, 397, 425; 5:203; guarding of, 3:326, 441; for forts, 3:420; 5:237; waste of, 4:2, 12-13, 56, 87-88; building materials, 4:35, 165-66; for Indians, 4:51, 71, 130, 135, 143, 163, 255, 297, 359, 421; 5:24-26, 29, 32, 45, 52-53, 59, 82, 86, 88, 90, 110, 116, 225-26, 311, 321, 396, 399; 6:71-72; liquor, 4:70, 202, 359; 5:163-64, 246-47, 251-52, 253, 257, 268, 321, 331-33, 374; 6:1, 2, 15, 21, 35, 81, 105; in Fort Necessity campaign, 4:80-81; 6:17-18; disputes over, 4:122-23, 128, 130, 131, 138, 149, 194-95, 197-98, 255, 259, 297, 304, 385, 399, 408; 5:58, 60, 260, 366, 373, 392; fraud in, 4:151, 424-26; 5:3, 9, 188; in Augusta County, 4:312, 397; for hospital, 4:403; sale of, 5:7, 10-11, 22; for Virginia Regiment in South Carolina, 5:42, 90; for GW, 5:152, 350; 6:4, 82, 166; camp equipage, 5:203; at Fort Loudoun, 5:204, 351, 394, 397-98; at Fort Cumberland, 5:211, 394, 397-98; from Carlisle, 5:236-37; accounts, 5:248; at Pearsal's, 5:250, 257; for Maryland forces, 5:256, 273, 279; 6:1; king's stores, 5:256, 259, 279, 303, 325, 368; storage of, 5:275, 286, 427; 6:176; stolen by Indians, 5:287; forage, 5:310, 419-20; 6:2, 26, 53, 55, 82, 107, 171; on Braddock Road, 5:355; loss of, 5:382; 6:172-73, 346; availability of, 6:87; bakers, 6:114; at Fort Duquesne, 6:115, 123; for Pittsburgh, 6:159, 161; procurement of, 6:171. See also Carlyle, John; Clothing; Dick, Charles; Ordnance; Virginia military forces; Walker, Thomas
The Provok'd Husband, 8:263
Prussia, 6:81
The Prussian Evolutions in Actual Engagements, 10:357, 359
Pseudodoxia epidemica, 6:285
Pucket, Daniel, 4:42
Pucket, Drury, 4:42, 271, 272
Puckett, Jeremiah, 4:389
Pugh, Azariah, 5:342
Pugh, Evan, 1:20
Pugh, Evan, Jr., 1:22
Pugh, Evan, Sr., 1:20
Pugh, Jacob, 1:22
Pugh, Jesse, 2:77, 259; 3:96; 5:336; 8:393
Pugh, Job, 5:335
Pugh, Robert, 1:22, 37
Pugh, Thomas, 5:341
Pugh, William, 7:437
Pugh's ordinary, 2:76
Pullett, Joseph, 7:438, 440
Pullett's tavern, 7:440
Punderson, Jonathan, 9:475; 10:81, 286
Purdie, Alexander, 8:223; 9:259, 260, 297
Purdie, George, 8:50, 52
Purdie and Dixon, 7:349; 8:121, 267, 280, 347, 486, 532; 9:24, 29-30, 355; 10:79
Purgatory Mountain, 4:395
Pursel (Pursley), John, 7:240; 8:222
Pursel (Pursley), Thomas, 7:240; 8:222, 355
Pursley, ----: sells spelts, 7:239
Pursley, Daniel, 1:30, 37
Purviance, Samuel, 1:143, 145
Putney (New Kent County), 9:90
Pyle, Edmund, 2:322
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