Pacific Ocean, 127, 130
packet ships, 110, 572, 573
Page, John
letter to, 613-14
offered Petersburg collectorship, 613-14
Page, Mann
letters from cited, 615n, 683
recommends aspirants for office, 615, 683
Page, Margaret Lowther (Mrs. John Page), 614
Paine, Elijah
identified, 100n
letter from, 100-1
recommends Atwater, 100-1
Paine, Thomas
Age of Reason, 31
Panton, Leslie & Co., 135-7, 145, 154n, 157n
Panton, William, 135-7
Paolo Veronese. See Caliarí, Paolo (Paolo Veronese)
paper
foolscap, 694, 698
hot press, 694
stationery, 121, 122n, 366n, 554, 689, 691, 693-4
waterproof, 338, 339, 485n
writing, 695, 697
Papers, in Relation to the Official Conduct of Governour Sargent (Winthrop Sargent), 183-5
pardons
granted by TJ, 260n
petitions for, 164-5, 529-30
Paris, 189, 320, 326, 334
Park, Mr., 695
Parkinson, William, 253
Parliamentary or Constitutional History of England, 607-8
Parrish, Jasper, 634n
parties, political
criticism of, 26
Pasley, Jeffrey L., 248
patents
coffee grinders, 124
dental devices, 124
gas manufacturing, 170n
immigrants seek, 439-40n
lifesaving devices, 439n
perpetual motion, 533-5
screens, 534n
spoon manufacturing, 124
steelyards, 534n
Patterson, Daniel Todd, 174, 175n
Patterson, Edgar, 689
Patterson, John (Pa.), 175n
Patterson, Robert
astronomical research, 22
letter from, 170-5
as member of APS, 230n, 581n
proposes cipher system, 170-5
Patterson, William (N.Y.), 175n, 321, 326, 333
Paul, St., 25, 27n
Paul, Thomas
letter from cited, 682
Paumthe (Shawnee Indian), 514
Paxton, Mr., 695
Payne, Anna, 437n
Peace and Plenty (ship), 667-8n
Peace Establishment Act (1801), 62-3
Peale, Charles Willson
family of, 659n
letter from cited, 369n, 679
letters from, 365-6, 404-5
letters to, 369, 385-6
and mastodon skeleton, 22, 264-6, 365-6, 386, 404-5
offers museum to government, 365-7, 385-6, 404-5
reelection of TJ as president of APS, 369
stationery, 366n
T. J. Randolph stays with, 657n
Peale, Rembrandt, 266n, 690
Pechin, William, 443n
Peggy (French schooner), 122-3, 177n
Pendleton, Edmund, 160, 163n, 456, 457n
penmanship, 540
Pennsylvania
copper mining in, 168, 169n
elections in, 71n, 111-12
German Reformed Church in, 618n
land office, xlvii, 485, 602n
laws from, adopted by Northwest Terr., 467-8, 469n
legislature, 365-7, 404, 405n, 429n, 485-6
marshals for, 317, 324, 329, 333-4
Pittsburgh, 25n, 42
postal service in, 610
Presbyterians in, 435n
Presque Isle collectorship, 428-9
prison reform in, 553
stagecoach lines, 611n
supervisor for, 111-12, 319, 324, 329, 335
U.S. attorneys, 317, 324, 333
U.S. district courts, 587-9
Wilkes-Barre, 408n
Wyoming Valley, 408n
See also Federalists; Republicans
Pennsylvania (ship), 19
Pennsylvania, Bank of, 71n, 126n
Pennsylvania, University of, 175n, 376, 428n
Pennsylvania Hospital, 549n
Pensacola, Fla., 135-8, 148, 151, 154n
perpetual motion, 123, 125n, 533-5
Perry, John
carpenter at Monticello, 98-9, 422, 565
letter from cited, 681
letter to cited, 682
misspells Burnley's name, 530
payments to, 346n
Perry, Reuben
carpenter at Monticello, 98n
letter to cited, 681
payments to, 346n
Peru, 577
Peruzzi, Baldassare, 637
Peter, John, 333
Peter, Thomas
appointed justice of the peace, 314-16, 318, 326, 335
Peters, Richard, 645
Peters, Theodore, 321, 326, 332
pewter, 377n
Peyton, Craven
and lease of Shadwell fields, 11, 618, 619n
letter to, 11
purchases land for TJ, 11
reports on division of Henderson lands, 11
Peyton, Francis
advises on appointments, 313
appointed justice of the peace, 314, 316-17, 326, 335, 546n
Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America, 626n
Phelps, Oliver, 81-2
Philadelphia
banks, 71n, 696
booksellers, 610, 611n
brokers, 114, 115n
care of sick and disabled seamen in, 590-1
collector at, 19, 71, 110, 182n
commerce of, 206
Common Council, 405n
cordwainers, 603n
custom house, 111, 182
fortifications, 500n
French consul at, 297n
hospitals, 590
mayors, 71n
memorial from merchants and traders of, 586-9
merchants, 71n, 133, 307n, 371, 372n, 586-9
militia, 516
museums, 350n, 365-7
naval officer at, 183n
navy agent at, 211n
navy storekeeper at, 211n
observatory at, 22
postal service, 610
printers, 236n
recorder, 486n
Republicans in, 71n, 182
and Revolutionary War, 71n, 307n
roads to, from, xlv
sheriff of, 650
shoe manufacturing, 603
smallpox vaccination in, 80, 177-8, 235, 388, 454, 482
Society of Friends in, 516
State House, 405n
surveyor at, 182, 183n
Tammany Society, 516
watchmakers, 240n
wine merchants, 269
Philadelphia Bank, 71n
Philadelphia Medical Society, 428n
Philadelphia Volunteer Company, 516
"Philanthrophos" (pseudonym)
letter from, 31
sends publications, defends Christianity, 31
Philidor. See Danican, François André
Philippines, 152, 200-1
Philosophical Transactions (Royal Society of London), 265, 266n
Physical Investigations & Deductions, From Medical and Surgical Facts (William Barnwell), 432n
physics, 376
physiognotrace, xlvi, 610
Pichon, Louis André
and Gérard de Rayneval's claim, 11n
and naval prizes in U.S. ports, 12
and Saint-Domingue, 598, 599, 600n
Pickens, Andrew
appointed Indian commissioner, 319, 326, 332, 543
and Indian treaty negotiations, 93, 94n, 190-1, 545n
Pickering, Timothy
accused of misusing public funds, 646, 649-50, 654n
and Barbary affairs, 594, 596-7n
biographical sketch of, 476
and contingent expenses, 640n
defeated for seat in Congress, 120n
as Ga. claims commissioner, 201-2
and Indian affairs, 634n
and Northwest Terr., 463
and Short's salary, 163n, 456, 457n
Pickford, Mr. (Georgetown), 688
Pickman, William, 119, 120n
Pictet, Marc Auguste, 353, 354, 355n, 384
Pierce, John, 318, 323, 334
Pierce, John (paymaster general), 406
Piercy, James, 105, 106n
Pinckney, Charles
appointed minister to Spain, 310, 321, 323, 335
resigns from Congress, 262n
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 476
Pinckney, Thomas, 597n
Pine, Robert Edge, 612n
Pippi de' Gianuzzi, Giulio (Giulio Romano), 637
Pitcairn, Joseph, 488
Pitt, William, 26, 27n
Pius VII, Pope, 451, 453n, 505n
Plain and Concise Projection for Clearing the Lunar Distances from the Effects of Parallax and Refraction (John Garnett), 50, 176
Plan With Proposals for Forming a Company to Work Mines in the United States (Benjamin Henfrey), 168, 169n
plaster of paris, 693
Pleasants, James, 577n
Pleiades, 580-1
plows, 282, 288
Plutarch, 152, 392n
Plymouth, England, 198n
Poems by Thomas Kennedy, l
Point Pleasant, Battle of, 520n
Poland, 99-100
Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire (John Dickinson), 238-9
Polk, Charles Peale
identified, 659n
letter from, 658-9
seeks appointment, charity, 658-9, 698
Polk, William (Md.), 225-6
Polkinhorn & Andrews, 688-9
Polkinhorn & Co., 691
Pollard, Robert, 371n
Pope, Alexander, 641n
Poplar Forest (TJ's estate)
overseers, 531
sale of tobacco from, 9-10
porcelain, 141
Port-au-Prince (Port Républicain), Saint-Domingue, 110, 321, 326, 332, 488
Port Royal, Va., 677
Portsmouth, England, 198n
Portsmouth, N.H.
bills of mortality for, 626
collector at, 319, 323, 334
harbor defenses at, 500n
navy storekeeper at, 211n
physicians, 626n
smallpox vaccination in, 626n
Portugal, 433, 434n, 488n
Portuguese language, 372n
postal service
distrusted, 206, 378
and Federalists, 378-9
income from, 102, 104-5
mail stages, 276
postage on newspapers, 53, 60, 378-9
postal contracts, 379, 489n, 610
postmaster general, 319, 322, 331
postmasters, 104-5, 186, 200n, 536-7, 569, 570-1n, 571, 684
printing contracts, 446
salaries and compensations, 536, 569
schedules, efficiency of, 268, 675
See also Granger, Gideon
potash, 200n
Potomac District, 318, 325, 332
Potomac River, 33-4, 89-91, 417
Potter, Henry, 318, 325, 331
Potts, John, 314
Potts, John, Jr., 90-1
Potts, Joshua, 226-7
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 80n
Powell, Ann, 695
Powell, Cuthbert
appointed justice of the peace, 314-17, 326, 335
Powell, James
delinquent accounts of, 570n
removal of, 311, 320, 325, 329, 330n, 334
Praga, Poland, 99
Pratt, Luther, 673-4
Preble, Henry, 327, 334, 483, 484n
Presbyterians
in Md., 26-7n
in Miss. Terr., 28-9n
in N.C., 28-9n
in Pa., 435n
in Va., 26n, 272n
presents, 202
President (U.S. frigate)
at Algiers, 667n
cutter of, capsizes, 272n
keel damaged, 562n
officers, 3n
at Toulon, 560, 562n
at Tripoli, 394n
President's House
furnishing of, 449
ice house, 687
landscaping, xlv
and Mammoth Cheese, 248
receptions, dinners at, 253, 276, 484-5n
stable and household accounts, 78n, 685-7, 688-97
See also Jefferson, Thomas: Personal Affairs
Presque Isle, Pa., 25n, 281
press, freedom of, 258-9, 474, 479n, 491n
Priam, King of Troy, 142
Price, Chandler, 372n
Priestley, Joseph, 235, 237n, 435
prisoners of war, 110, 349
prison reform, 553-4
privateers, 71n, 307n
prizes, naval, 12, 122-3, 363-4
Procaccini, Giulio Cesare, 637
Prospect Before Us (James Thomson Callender), 475
prostitution, 180n
Public Characters of 1800-1801, 476, 479n
Public Speculation Unfolded; in Sixteen Letters, Addressed to F. Childs & J. H. Lawrence, of New York: By Jonathan Dayton, of New-Jersey, 479n
Pulis, Joseph, 320, 327, 332
Putnam, Rufus, 284n, 433, 434n