P., Mr., 52
Page, Mr., 629
Page, John:
letters to, 7-8, 392-3, 640-1
letters from, 302-4, 419-21
and TJ's account of Logan's speech, 7, 38, 43, 303-4, 322, 392-3, 419
as member of General Assembly, 43
advises TJ to answer opponents, 302-4
on current political situation, 419-21
urged to run for Congress, 641
Page, Mann:
letters to, 8-9, 165-6
letters from, 37-8, 101
and TJ's account of Logan's speech, 8, 37-8, 101, 102n, 103n, 165, 288n, 328
residence, 101
receives political news, 165-6
Page, Margaret Lowther (Mrs. John Page), 7, 393, 641
Page, Mary Tayloe (Mrs. Mann Page), 9
Page, William:
and management of Shadwell, 55-6, 79, 170, 326
characterized by T. M. Randolph, 79, 145
supplies corn, 114, 192
horses for, 177
urged to grow tobacco, 192
and TJ's business affairs, 423n
and slaves hired by TJ, 613
letter to cited, 614n
Paine, Elijah, 653
Paine, Thomas:
honorary French citizen, 196n
Letter to the People of France, and the French Armies, 238-9, 240n
composes "Letter to George Washington", 246, 247n
Age of Reason, 581
Palermo, Italy, 160
Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph, Baron de:
letters from, 293-7, 515-16
on megalonyx, 293-7
returns to France, 293, 295, 297n, 515-16
identified, 297n
Pallas, Peter Simon, 238
Palmer, Thomas F., 565-7
Pamunkey Indians, 564
Pantops (Albemarle Co., Va.), 28
Paradise, Lucy Ludwell (Mrs. John Paradise):
estate of, 287
letter to cited, 644n
Paradise Lost (John Milton): TJ quotes from, 327
Paris:
Short writes from, 146-54
as prime meridian, 162n
U.S. consulate at, 175
Kosciuszko arrives in, 196n
Van Staphorst & Hubbard branch, 292
Park, Mungo, 154n
Parker, Hugh, 19
Parker, Josiah:
as Federalist, 299
favors defense measures, 301n
absent from Congress, 305
Parkhurst, Jabez, 666n
Paschke (Paskie), Frederick, 557-8
patents:
and enumerated powers in Constitution, 173
for T. Martin's threshing machine, 217, 252-4, 347-8, 387-8
sought by B. Dearborn, 617-18
and U.S. revenues, 634, 663, 667
Paterson, Col., 510
Paterson, William, 576
patronage:
land tax as source of, 268
as reward for defeated candidates, 326
Patterson, Robert:
letters to, 224, 234, 234-5
letter from, 230-1
and APS, 160, 161n, 162n, 656n
and TJ's moldboard plow, 207n, 224, 230-1, 234-5
Paul I, Emperor of Russia, 196n, 331n
Paulding, James Kirke:
Salmagundi, 82-3n
Peace Treaty, Definitive (1783), 284n
peaches, 346
peach trees, 37n
Peale, Charles Willson:
and APS, 159n, 656n
recommends TJ's moldboard plow, 208n
and exchanges of specimens, 232-4
museum, 295, 296
employs Palisot de Beauvois, 297n
Peale, Rembrandt, 331n
peas:
exported from N.C., 73
in TJ's crop rotation plan, 210-11
TJ, Strickland exchange, 210, 456
penal institutions, 10, 225
Pendleton, Edmund: letters to, 35, 240-2, 330-1, 661-3
letters from, 64-5, 164-5, 298
TJ praises character, influence of, ix, 661-3
and Short's salary, 35, 36, 317, 320, 452, 561, 588, 603, 608, 609, 622, 669
letter from cited, 35n
and Delamotte's letter, 45
and Lyons, sale of stock, 64-5
and Short's finances, 164-5, 240-1, 298, 330
address "To the respectable Freeholders and other citizens of the county of Caroline", 661-2
Pennsylvania:
dispute with Md., 5-6, 30-1
support for Republicans, republicanism in, 10, 169, 286n, 610, 612, 668
agriculture and industry, 42n
incorporates Vine Co., 42n
and Madison's resolutions on Report on Commerce, 93n
boundaries, 162n
political divisions over banks, 173
legislature considers motion for peace, 228, 229n
elections in, 242, 610, 665
Indians, missionaries in, 265n
and XYZ affair, 353
and disagreements among the states, 389
farmers in, unable to sell wheat and flour, 409
supreme court of, 413
land investments in, 492
protests against Direct Tax, 624n
abatement of XYZ fever in, 665
petitions against Alien and Sedition Acts from, 665-7
Pennsylvania, Bank of:
Kosciuszko's shares, dividends, 195, 196n, 292, 315n, 320, 377, 378, 453, 504
Latrobe designs, 225n
security of investment in, 317-18
and Short's investments, 317-18, 475, 480, 495
Gerry's observations on, 480, 495
Pennsylvania, University of, 162n
perjury, 60
Perkins, John:
Profitable Booke, 594
Peter, Martha Parke Custis, 369, 371
Peters, Richard (judge), 293
Petersburg, Va.:
TJ expects to pass through, 9
as market, 639
Philadelphia:
weather at, 9, 56, 126, 164
economic distress in, 10, 27, 54, 56
political animosities in, 23, 355, 484-6
price of tobacco at, 54, 56, 116, 157, 158, 171, 327, 337-8, 354
price of wheat and flour at, 54, 56, 116, 128, 157, 158, 170-1, 282, 409, 411
glass ordered from, 69, 312, 343
as source for books, 69, 283, 596n, 644n
elections in, 112n, 126, 127n, 344-5
various celebrations in, 112n, 132, 156, 293, 417, 444
interruption of market, travel due to ice on Delaware R., 122, 128, 623, 626, 633, 666
charge to grand jury in, 125n
as market for tobacco, 128, 623, 626, 633, 666, 668, 669
merchants in, 128, 268, 279-80
hotels, boarding houses, 132, 423n, 436, 439, 585
artisans in, 145, 183, 283
longitude, 160, 162n
mercantile employment in, 179
mail service to Va., 192, 235, 282, 381, 637, 667
and transatlantic trade, travel, 194, 197, 223
Latrobe designs waterworks for, 225n late spring in, 236, 248
falling price of stocks in, 241, 298, 330-1
and XYZ petitions, addresses, 268, 279-80, 341-2, 344, 353, 359
inoculation for smallpox at, 283
wheat and flour unsalable in, 283, 305, 354
hardware ordered from, 311-12, 343-5, 358-9, 384
political meetings, disturbances in, 325n, 335-6, 341, 344, 353
theaters, theatrical performances, 325n, 392n
as financial center, 373-4, 476, 494
medicines from, 406
reacts to sedition bill, 440
ship owners from, send memorial to House, 441-3
yellow fever in, 505-6, 526, 560, 564-5, 585, 610
unsafe for dissenters, 521-2
banks and politics in, 557
and Callender, 559, 564-5, 580-2
servants' wages in, 585n
new Republican paper in, 635-7
Senate bill for relief of certain citizens of, 679
Philadelphia Gazette:
news on foreign affairs in, 12n, 62-3, 157n, 450n
articles by T. Coxe in, 125
and XYZ dispatches, 251
prints British instructions, 271
publishes threats against Philadelphia, 336n
prints sedition bill, 443n
prints letters, 660n
Philip II, King of Spain, 595, 602
Philippines:
and U.S. trade, 490
Phill (TJ's slave):
T. M. Randolph takes away mules, 282
carries letter to Eppington, 452
Phillips, Isaac, 611n
Phillips, William, 467n
Philosophia Britannica (Benjamin Martin), 594
Philosophica (Marcus Tullius Cicero), 594
Philosophie de L'Univers (Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours), 502-3
Phipps, Capt. (master of Union), 504n
"Phocion." See Smith, William Loughton
Pickering, Timothy: letter to, 345-6
letter from, 298-9
dispute with Spanish minister, 53, 54-5n
"Scipio" essays attributed to, 96, 121
and TJ's comments on J. Wise, 99-100n
letters sent under cover to, 146-7
and Short's salary, 147-8, 298-9, 317, 330
and politics, 156, 173, 182, 525n
influence on policy, 173, 182, 186
targeted by House of Representatives, 176
performs functions of office, 252, 361n
and Monroe, 282n, 329-30, 350-1, 362n
borrows books, studies boundary issue, 284, 341, 345-6, 385
and Jay Treaty commissions, 284n, 625n
and G. Logan's mission to France, 386n
welcomes J. Marshall, 417
conjuring XYZ mania, 582
defends Alien and Sedition Acts, 584n
protests impressment of seamen, 610-11, 613
and Gerry, 621, 631, 635, 636n, 643
on militia, standing army, 621
praises C. C. Pinckney, 621
See also Message from the President of the United States, Accompanying a Report of the Secretary of State; XYZ affair
Pike, Nicolas: New and Complete System of Arithmetic, 594
Pinckney, Charles, 88-9n
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth:
in cartoon, xl, 364 (illus.)
"not six pence" statement, xl
French opposition to, 119, 174n, 185, 219, 397
considered for War Department post, 173, 182
conduct as envoy criticized, 174n, 339, 490-1, 643n
rumored intrigues of, 185
leaves Paris, 219, 390, 392-3, 394, 396, 397, 417, 636n
relations with Gerry, Marshall, 393, 441, 647
and rank in army, 450n, 612n
attends meetings with Washington, 611n
Pickering praises, 621
not disposed toward peace with France, 647, 649
See also XYZ affair
Pinckney, Eliza Lucas, 390-4
Pinckney, Thomas:
and Blount impeachment, 84-5, 615n, 619n
political views characterized by TJ, 227
on U.S. relations with France, 227, 228n, 231
calls for dispatches, 245
nomination as envoy to Spain, 319, 320n, 481
and payments to Kosciuszko, 454, 498n
in House debates, 472
Pinckney Treaty:
delays in implementation of, 55n
fulfillment of terms of, 115-16, 123-4, 126, 127
pisé construction, 578n
pitch: exported from N.C., 73
Pitt, William, 376n, 584n
Pittsburgh, Pa.:
and Dunmore's War, 76, 78n, 102, 135, 141-2, 307, 511n, 513-14
Logan visits, 136
Republican strength in, 286n
Pius VI, Pope, 66, 67-8
Pleasants, Samuel. See Virginia Argus (Richmond)
"Pliny" (pseudonym):
mocks TJ, 438-9
plow, moldboard: and cover crops, 200
TJ's instructions for construction of, 201-5, 207-8n, 224, 234-5, 376
models of, sent to Britain, 202, 205, 457
of cast iron, 205, 208n
Patterson's views on, 230-1
sent to Britain, 310
TJ's description of, 387-9
praised by Strickland, 457
TJ's design built, used by others, 524
plows:
mules or horses for, 114, 128, 158, 177, 282-3, 312
in Britain, 376n
poetry, 380, 405-6, 511, 512n, 522-3
Point Pleasant, Va., 310n
Poland:
on restoration of, 124
partitioned, 196n, 372n, 399, 400, 507, 508, 591
political reforms, 372n
Polaris (pole star), 160-2, 178
Political Disquisitions: or, An Inquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses (James Burgh), 595
political parties:
necessary for a free society, 388-9
J. Taylor's views on, 430-5
and taxes, 434
and newspapers, 565
Political Progress of Britain (James Thomson Callender), 595
Polybius: Historiarum, 595
Pomona (ship), 147
Pope. See Pius VI, Pope
Poplar Forest (TJ's estate):
sale of tobacco from, 338, 357-8, 372-3, 592, 669
B. Clark overseer at, 407n
Porcupine's Gazette (Philadelphia):
publishes L. Martin's attacks on TJ, 7n, 20n, 34n, 78, 110n, 143n, 392
reacts to Latrobe satire, 226n
and XYZ dispatches, 251
publishes Corbin's vindication of L. Martin, 285-7, 327-8
and attack on Findley, 304n
praises "Hail Columbia", 325n
makes accusations against TJ, 340, 392, 417, 419n
TJ's views on, 389, 486
Callender's opinion of, 564-6
decline in sales, 614
pork: exported from N.C., 73
Port-au-Prince, Saint-Domingue, 438
Portland, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, third Duke of, 271n
Portugal:
Britain occupies forts, 11-12
relations with France, 11-12, 263, 267
Kosciuszko travels through, 288-9, 378
postal service:
appointments at Fredericksburg, Va., 9, 11n, 88
salary of postal rider, 9, 56, 88
irregularities of mail, 26-7, 338, 505, 506, 525, 585, 591, 626-7, 642
at Milton, Va., 56, 282, 381
British influence suspected in, 71
privacy of, distrusted, 71, 244, 247, 272, 274, 434-5, 528, 588, 616, 623-4, 636, 641, 650
in Va., 117, 325, 357, 452, 619
between Va. and Philadelphia, 192, 235, 282, 381, 637, 667
and U.S. revenues, 634, 663, 667
bill to establish post offices and roads, 673
franking privilege for secretary of navy, 677
potatoes:
treatise on, 197
in TJ's crop rotation plan, 210
Potter, Charles, 167, 220
Potter, Edmund: handles shipments for TJ, 192, 265, 343, 357, 362, 374, 382
Pougens, Charles: plan to sell books in U.S., 319, 481, 482n
Pouncey's tract (TJ property):
building materials from, 114
timber on, 312
Powell, John, & Co., 427-30
Powhatan Indians, 564
Pratt & Kintzing (Philadelphia), 321
Précis du droit des gens moderne (Georg Freidrich von Martens): translated by Cobbett, 615-16
"President's March" (melody), 325n
press, freedom of:
limits to, under British law, 60
absence of, in France, 300, 302n, 590n
threats to, 324, 326, 334, 395
Madison fears loss of, 349
Constitutional protection of, 536-7, 542n, 544-5, 551, 646
Congress criticized for impeding, 590n
See also Sedition Act
Priestley, Joseph:
honorary French citizen, 196n
and study of languages, 238
characterized by Callender, 566
Prince, James, 48, 49n
Prince Edward Co., Va.: sends address of protest to president, 582-4
Prince of Wales (ship), 427-30
Princeton, N.J.: address on XYZ affair, 324n
Prince William Co., Va., 9
Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation (Francis Home), 211
Principles of Equity (Henry Home, Lord Kames), 594
printing:
new French process, 153-4, 277, 577, 578n
low cost of in U.S., Ireland, 319, 481
hot-pressed method, 644n
privateers, 273-4
privateers, British, 395n
privateers, French:
ordered to seize U.S. vessels, 336n, 354
U.S. law allowing capture of, 404-5
U.S. ships capture, 447
recalled, 449
Proctor, Joseph, 76
Profitable Booke of Mr. John Perkins . . . Treating of the Lawes of England (John Perkins), 594
proverbs: quoted by Callender, 580
Prussia:
and military movements, 156
and talks of new coalition against France, 449-50
and partition of Poland, 507, 508
Pulaski, Casimir, 558n
pumpkins, 213
Purdie, Alexander, 321
Pyrlæus, John Christopher, 309, 310n
