Pace, Henry, 437n

packet ships, 179, 388n

Page, Frances Burwell (Mrs. John Page), 286n

Page, Francis, 285, 286n, 429, 525

Page, John

letters from, 124-5, 285-7, 525-6

letters to, 169, 429

offered Petersburg collectorship, 124-5, 169, 285-7, 390, 429, 525-6, 549

wishes to be governor of Va., 285-7

Page, Mann

letter from cited, 464n, 716

recommends aspirants for office, 121, 464

Page, Margaret Lowther (Mrs. John Page), 169, 286, 429, 525-6

Paine, Robert Treat, Jr.

"Rule New England," 689

Paine, Thomas

letter from, 82-4

offered passage in the Maryland, 82

plans return to U.S., 82, 84n, 484

sends news of Europe, 82-4

Palladio, Andrea, x, 115n, 695

Palladium (Boston). See Mercury and New-England Palladium

Palladium (Frankfort, Ky.), 312

Palmer, Beriah, 516

Pamphilon, Thomas, 388n

Pantops (Eppes estate, Albemarle Co., Va.), 134, 448

paper

ruling machines, 224n

Parallèle de l'architecture antique et de la moderne (Charles Errard and Roland Fréart de Chambray), 114-15

pardons

and the Constitution, 207

denied by TJ, x, 200n, 284n

granted by TJ, x, 151-2n, 196n, 478n, 493, 522n

petitions for, ix-x, 151-2, 195-6, 199-200, 283-4, 477-8, 521-2

Paris

banks, 83, 453, 456

consul at, 478n

Hôtel de Salm, 654n

love of society in, 310

manufacturing in, 433

source for books, 233, 234, 352

Tuileries Palace, 485n

Parkinson, William, 720

Parmley, William, 394, 395n

parquet flooring, 313

Parret, William, 692n

Parrish, Jasper, 31

Parrot, William

letter from, 491

recommends aspirants for office, 491

passports, 163, 165n

Patapsco (ship), 81

Patent Balance Compared with Other Instruments for Weighing (Benjamin Dearborn), 541n

patents

British, 561, 669n

eyeglasses, 224n

French, 432, 434n, 560

gunlocks, 490n

medical devices, 234, 235n

nail cutting machines, 490n

paper ruling machine, 224n

pencils, 224n

physiognotrace, 224n

polygraphs, 224n

refrigerators, 651n

ship preservation, 561

steamboats, 490n

steelyards, 541

supervisor of patent office, l

violins, 224n

waterproofing, 669n

water purification, 432, 434n, 560

Paterson, Mr., 301

Paterson, John, 516, 517

Paterson (revenue cutter), 324n

Patricot (of France), 291n

Patricot (of Saint-Domingue and U.S.), 290, 291n

Patterson, Robert

friendship with TJ, 105n

letter from cited, 108n, 715

letters from, 220-2, 254-5, 327-9

letters to, 107-9, 254

as member of APS, 105n

proposes cipher system, x, xlix, 107, 220, 254, 263-4, 267-81, 318 (illus.), 327-9, 332-3

recommends aspirants for office, 107, 108n, 220

TJ orders astronomical instruments from, 107-8, 220-1, 254, 327, 329n

and W. Barnwell, 206

and water purification, 221-2, 254-5, 328

Patterson, William (N.Y.), 527n

Patton, Robert

and Leiper's appointment, 657-8

and letter for P. S. Du Pont, 422

letter from, 422

Patton, Robert (Va.), 710

Payson, Henry, 699, 705, 709

Peace Establishment Act (1801), 121n, 150n

Peale, Charles Willson

family of, xlviii, 596n

letters from, 550-2, 581-2

letter to, 423

and mastodon skeleton, 352n, 423, 550, 552, 566n

and megatherium, 566n

museum, 550, 552n, 566n, 582n

receives bison skull, x, 351-2, 550-1, 563, 565, 566n, 581-2, 583-4

and S. Brown, 490n

and water purification, 221n

Peale, James, xlviii

Peale, Raphaelle

experiments with water purification, 221, 254-5, 328, 432-3, 552, 560, 563n

Peale, Rembrandt

describes bison skull, 582n

displays mastodon skeleton, 423, 550, 551-2

Historical Disquisition on the Mammoth, 582n

Peale, Rubens, 221n, 423n, 550

Pearl (schooner), 613

pearl ash, 194n

Pearsee, Jonathan, Jr., 516, 577, 698, 704, 708

Pearson, William, 210-11

peas, 473, 474

Peckham, Thomas, 376, 698, 703, 708

Pecquet, Antoine

Discours sur l'art de negocier, 229

Pendleton, Edmund, 289

Penn, Fort, 667

Penn, James

identified, 494n

letter from, 493-4

letter to cited, 494n, 714

offers land to TJ, 493-4

Penn, William, 22, 257

Pennock, William, 16n

Pennsylvania

American Revolution in, 205n

attorney general, 592n

banks, 616-17, 654

Beaver Co., 664n

commissioners of bankruptcy, 334, 353, 357, 381-2, 530, 558, 577, 578n, 591-2, 600, 657-9, 697, 698, 701, 702, 704-5, 709

education, 663-4

elections in, 162, 164n

Germantown, 529n

government support for science in, 446, 447n

Indian affairs in, 30

interpreters, 49n

land office, 45, 46n, 164n, 261, 262n

laws from, adopted by Northwest Terr., 379, 608n

lawsuits in, 654

legislature, 446, 447n, 530, 550, 552, 616-17n

Marcus Hook, 667

marshals for, 85-6, 539n, 636

Montgomery Co., 636

Pittsburgh, 29, 32, 40, 41n

Pottsgrove, 636

Presbyterians in, 119n

secretary of, 164n

supervisor for, 162-3, 164n

U.S. district courts, 263n

Washington Co., 585n, 664n

See also Federalists; Republicans

Pennsylvania, Bank of, 616-17, 620-1

Pennsylvania, University of

graduates, 70n, 248n, 351n, 383n

medical school, 68, 69, 70n, 221n, 247-8, 249, 351n, 383n

Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia), 318n

Pennsylvania Hospital, 64n, 68, 194n

Perry, John

letter from cited, 717

letter to cited, 717

payments to, 590

receives smallpox vaccination, 442-3

Peter, Thomas, 556

Peters, Alexander A., 144, 155-6

Peters, Richard (judge), 85-6n, 262, 263n, 658

Petersburg, Va.

attorneys, 511, 549, 705

collector at, 124-5, 169, 285-7, 390, 429, 549, 717

commissioners of bankruptcy, 438, 469, 510-11, 549, 578, 697, 699, 702, 705, 710

merchants, 511, 549, 705

Petit de Villers, Mr., 305

Pettit, Andrew, 530n, 591-2, 600

Pettit, Charles, 293n, 591

Pettit, Elizabeth McKean, 592n

Pettus, Sir John

Constitution of Parliaments in England, 231

Petty, Sir William

Several Essays in Political Arithmetick, 231

Petty, William. See Pudsey, William

Petyt, George

Lex Parliamentaria, 231

Petyt, William

Antient Right, 231

Jus Parliamentarium, 231

Peyton, Craven

letter from, 512

letters to, 557, 558

payments to, 557, 558, 587

purchases land for TJ, 512, 557, 558

Peyton, Francis

advises on appointments, 154-5, 170, 618

appointed commissioner of bankruptcy, 618n, 699, 705, 709

appointed justice of the peace, 154, 170n

and bill for D.C. government, 72

introduces Cowing, 615

letter from cited, 718

letters from, 170, 615, 618

letter to, 154-5

mayor of Alexandria, 170n

Pfeffel, Chretien Frédéric

Nouvel abrégé chronologique de l'histoire et du droit public d'Allemagne, 232

Phelps, Oliver, 460, 461n, 516, 517

Philadelphia

Academy of Natural Sciences, 582n

admiralty surveyors, 405

aldermen, 591

American Revolution in, 404

arsenals, 108n

astronomical, scientific instruments from, 598n

attorneys, 85n, 353

auctioneers, 530n

banks, 61, 110, 616-17, 620-1

barbers, 442n

blacks in, 507n

booksellers, 5, 435n

Catholic Church in, 119n

City Tavern, 221

collector at, 164n, 250-1n, 616

commissioners of bankruptcy, 530, 657-9, 709

courts, 539n, 591

custom house, 161-2, 205n, 261, 616

education in, 507n, 567

Federalists in, 85n, 315-18, 658, 659n

fortifications, 529n

French consul at, 223n

glass manufacturing in, 194n

health of, 257, 259

hospitals, 64n, 194n

inns, hotels, 6n, 130n

insurance companies, 293n

ironmongers, 598n

jewelers, 14n

libraries, 64n

mayors, 591

merchants, 22n, 226n, 299n, 404-5, 529n, 530, 539n, 565, 591

militia, 6n, 539n

museums, 550, 552n

newspapers, 312, 315-18, 658, 659n

physicians, 235n

plan of water street in, 257, 259

postal service, 422, 657

print dealers, 470, 471

printers, publishers, 435n

prisons, 64n

prothonotary, 539n

public market, 541n

public storekeeper at, 107, 108n, 715

register and probate of wills, 539n

Republicans in, 6n, 85n, 315-18, 353n, 658, 659n

revenue cutters, 112, 509-10

riots in, 236-7, 450-1, 464

shipbuilding, 112

silk manufacturing in, 639, 644

smallpox vaccination in, 68, 310-11, 563

Society of Artists and Manufacturers, 318n

Society of Friends in, 507n

Southwark, 236n

State House, 6n, 550, 552n

Tammany Society, 6n

teachers, 22n

TJ's election celebrated in, 5-6

watchmakers, 14n, 194n

waterworks, 471n

wire manufacturing in, 596

yellow fever, 529n

Philadelphia, College of, 18n

Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, 293n

Philadelphia Gazette, 318n, 600n, 658, 659n

Philadelphia Militia Legion, 6n

Philadelphia Repository and Weekly Register, 318n

Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 64n

Phillips, Nathaniel, 200n

Philosophiae Epicuri syntagma (Pierre Gassendi), 113, 114n

Philosophical Magazine (London), 559, 562, 563n, 582n

Physical Investigations & Deductions, From Medical and Surgical Facts (William Barnwell), 113

physiognotrace, 224n

pianos

pianoforte for Monticello, 223-4, 301, 587, 599, 612n, 613-14

for the President's House, 597, 615

Piazzi, Giuseppe, 446

Pichon, Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart, 415n

Pichon, Louis André

and the Berceau, 238-40n

family of, 415n

forwards commissions, 632, 633, 634n

and publication of Volney's Ruines, 297n

and Saint-Domingue, 427-8

W. Barton sends books to, 75

Pickens, Andrew, 51-2, 132, 651-2n

Pickering, Danby

Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, 230

Pickering, John, 462-3

Pickering, Timothy, 50, 457n, 595n

Pierce, Abraham

identified, 118n

letter from, 116-18

seeks removal of A. McLane, 116-18, 543n

Pierce, Isaac, 181

Pierce, John (paymaster general), 125, 197n

Pike, Zebulon, 121n, 159

Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 120-1n

pilots, 112

Pinckney, Charles

appointed minister to Spain, 331n, 674n

letter from, 494-502

sends news of European affairs, 494-502

uses cipher, 494-502

Pinckney Treaty, 8n, 294n

Pinkney, William, 57, 58, 60n, 449, 450n

Pintard, John M., 81

Pitt, William, xlvii

Pittsburgh Gazette, 318n

Pius VII, Pope, 484n, 498

Placita Parlamentaria (William Ryley), 231

"Plaintive Shepherd: A Pastoral Elegy" (Thomas Blacklock), 684, 687n

planetariums, 107, 108n

"Plan of the New Town of Thurso, in the County of Caithness, North Britain now Building on the Property of Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, Bart.” (Sir John Sinclair), 537

plaster of paris, 694

Playfair, William

Tableaux d'arithmétique linéaire, 231

Pleasants, Samuel, 511

Pleas of the Crown (Sir Matthew Hale), 214, 217n

Plees del Cron (William Stanford), 230

Pliny

Natural History, 565n

plows, 95, 105n

Plutarch, 113, 114n

Pluto (Roman god), 499

Poland, 202, 203, 204n

Political Barometer (Poughkeepsie), 580-1, 654

Political Disquisitions: or, An Inquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses (James Burgh), 231

Political Intolerance, or The Violence of Party Spirit; Exemplified in a Recent Removal from Office (Winthrop Sargent), 19-20, 319

polygraphs, 224n

Ponsonby, John

identified, 669n

letter from, 668-9

sends publications, samples of waterproofing, 668-9

Pope, Alexander

Essay on Man, 49n

Poplar Forest (TJ's estate)

land from, given to T. M. Randolph and J. W. Eppes, 448, 449n

lands adjacent to, 493

sale of tobacco from, 244, 441, 590-1, 657

travel to, from, 67

Portas, Louis

identified, 186n

letter from, 185-6

recommends Raymond, 185-6

Port-au-Prince (Port Républicain), Saint-Domingue, 130, 457n

Porter, John, 316

Porter, Moses, 159

Porter, Robert, 705

Port Royal, Va., 134

Portsmouth, N.H.

attorneys, 462, 621

banks, 621-2

commissioners of bankruptcy, 420-1, 462-3, 621

education in, 541

merchants, 462, 621

naval officer at, 23, 53

Portugal

and export of Spanish merino sheep, 674n

royal family of, 500

threatened, attacked by France and Spain, 494

U.S. relations with, 532, 673, 675n

vessels seized by, 346-7

postal service

distrusted, 684

and Federalists, 19

mail stages, 66

postage on newspapers, 308n

postal contracts, 50n

postmaster general, 671n

postmasters, 19, 77-8n, 115, 131, 219, 398, 399n, 421n, 603n, 657, 716

schedules, efficiency of, 16-17, 66, 448, 459, 463, 493, 525, 534

See also Granger, Gideon

Postlethwayt, Malachy

Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, 230

potash, 194n

Potocki, Count Jan, 202, 203, 204n

Potomac Canal Company, 127n, 303n

Potomac District, 302, 303n, 618n

Potomac River, 126-7, 256, 682

Potter, Henry, 187, 325, 348, 614, 716

Potter, Samuel J., 44

Potts, Joseph, 194n

Potts, Joshua, 710

Poulson, Zachariah, Jr.

account with TJ, 64

identified, 64n

TJ orders newspapers from, 312

Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 64n, 312, 318n, 600n

Powell, Cuthbert, 154

Power, Jurisdiction and Priviledge of Parliament (Robert Atkyns), 231

Poyntell, William, 657

Practical Navigator (John Hamilton Moore), 613n

Practical Observations on Vaccination: Or Inoculation for the Cow-Pock (John Redman Coxe), 311n

Preble, Edward, 71

Preble, Henry, 99

Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons (John Hatsell), 231

Prentiss, Joshua, 430, 431n

Prentiss, Samuel, 708

Presbyterians, 119n, 338, 584-5

presents, 422

President (U.S. frigate), 429, 485-6

President's House

blinds for, 615

design of, criticized, 64n

excavating at, 694n

floor cloths for, 597, 615-16

furnishing of, 156, 508-9, 596, 597, 610-11, 615, 617

ice house, 719

and Mammoth Cheese, 719, 721

mangle for, 610-11, 617

piano for, 597, 615

receptions, dinners at, 313n, 314

screens for, 596

servants at, 331-2, 441-2, 443-4, 463, 469-72, 475, 492, 536, 618-19

stable and household accounts, 719-21

staff of, accused of theft, 331-2

visitors to, 507n

See also Jefferson, Thomas: Personal Affairs

press, freedom of, 296, 317, 407, 496, 626

Price, George, 111, 112n

Price, Isaac, 347-8, 394

Price, Joseph, 472, 504

Priestley, Joseph

asks to dedicate book to TJ, 592-3, 593-5

Chart of Biography, 232

General History of the Christian Church, 592-5

health of, 592

letters from, 592-3, 593-5

Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland, 595n

letter to, 625-7

New Chart of History, 232

persecuted by Federalists, 595n

sends coins and medals to TJ, 49n

and TJ's contributions to the U.S. Constitution, 593, 595n, 625-7

Priestley, Joseph, Jr., 316, 592

Prince, Samuel, 307n

Prince Edward Co., Va., 96

Principe de la Paz (Spanish ship), 307n

Principes du droit politique (Jean Jacques Burlamaqui), 229

Principles of Equity (Henry Home, Lord Kames), 230

prisoners of war, 11, 152, 237-8n

prison reform, 64n, 138-40, 141-3

privateers, 7, 8-9n, 26-7, 238n

privies, 327, 653, 655, 695

Privilegia Parliamentaria (William Brown), 231

prizes, naval, 8-9n

See also Berceau (French corvette)

Procter, Thomas

letter from cited, 715

Prout, William, 556

Providence, R.I.

attorneys, 602

commissioners of bankruptcy, 602-3, 700, 704, 708

congratulatory address from, 458n

French prisoners in, 238n

merchants, 458n, 539n, 602

Prussia, 282n, 496

Prynne, William

First Part of a Brief Register, 231

Pryor, Thomas, 194n

Pudsey, William

Constitution and Laws of England Consider'd, 231

Pufendorf, Samuel, Baron von

Devoirs de l'homme, 229

Droit de la Nature et des Gens, 229

Introduction à l'historie générale de l'univers, 232

Law of Nature and Nations, 229

Purviance, John H., 362

Putnam, Henry, 53n, 388-9, 393, 409

pyramids, 295, 297n