Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919). New York. 1906.
Subject Index
| Park Theatre, 203 |
| Parties, political, 49, 61; effect of race on, 75 |
| Passport system, 24 |
| Paternal government, 24, 32, 33 |
| Patriotism of Revolutionary party, 159; of Presbyterian settlers, 161, note. |
| Patronage, early system of, 178; Jefferson’s maxim as to, 195; merciless use of, 197 |
| Patroon, title of, 16 |
| Patroons, troubles with, 17; privileges of, 25; turned into manorial lords, 50; Stuyvesant’s struggles with, 41 |
| Penn, William, advice to James II., 64 |
| Philadelphia, compared with New York in 1710, 108; sentiment about Tea Act, 146; meeting of Congress at, 185 |
| Phillipse family, leaders in court party, 74, 136 |
| Pinkster, observance of, 116 |
| Piracy, premium on, 98 |
| Pirates, 91, 92; success and numbers of, 92, 93; engaged in slave trade, 93; efforts toward abolition of, 96; Bellomont’s crusade against, 101; career of Captain Kidd, 101 |
| Players’ Club, 260 |
| Plots, rumors of Catholic, 77; negro, 120; for abduction or murder of Washington, 160 |
| Plundering, by Continental Army, 161 |
| Plymouth settlers, enter the Connecticut Valley, 21 |
| Police board, 239 |
| Police riots, 239 |
| Polish immigration, 256 |
| Political corruption, 251, 252, 263 |
| Poor-house, 118 |
| Poor-laws, 107 |
| Popular government, fore-shadowing of, 29 |
| Popular party, in 1689, 73; constitution of, 74, 136; in control of the city, 78; downfall of, 86; opposed by Fletcher, 97; corruption of, 104; hated by Cornbury, 104; newspaper of the, 123; known as Whigs, 125; great families in, 136; shrink from independence, 149; excesses by, 151 |
| Popular rights, struggle for, 88 |
| Population, increase of, 18; character of early, 34, 35, 47, 48; at time of second establishment of English rule, 59; fusion of races, 72, 108, 227; in 1710, 108; at outbreak of Revolution, 108; diversity of, 108; line drawn between Provincial and Old World people, 114; Presbyterians, Dutch, and Huguenots, 136; increase after Revolution, 173; at beginning of nineteenth century, 202; condition at close of war of 1812, 210, 211; in 1820, 213; increase of, 215; in 1860, 245; proportion of foreign element in, 256; Americanization of, 256 |
| Portugal, early explorations of, 2 |
| “Potiphar Papers,” 241 |
| Poverty, dangers of, 222 |
| Presbyterians, opposed to aristocracy and episcopacy, 49; persecuted by Cornbury, 104, 105; immigration of, 107; strength in eighteenth century, 110 |
| Press, liberty of, 124 |
| Press-gangs, 139 |
| Princeton College, 116 |
| Prison-ships, horrors of, 170 |
| Privateering, popular and profitable, 91, 92, 93, 210 |
| Privateers, depredations on commerce, 54, 90; capture of French ships by, 84; riots of crews, 92; fitted out in British interests, 166 |
| Protestants, liberty of conscience granted to, 87 |
| Provincial Assembly, demanded and granted, 63; issue of writs for, 65 |
| Public buildings, 19, 257 |
| Public lands, apportionment of, by Fletcher, 97 |
| Puritans hostility to Dutch, 21; insubordination on Long Island, 53; troubles with Colve, 56; hostility of Andros to, 61 |
| Putnam, Gen. Israel, 164 |
| Quakers, refuge for, 26; persecution by Stuyvesant, 42; in the eighteenth century, 109 |
| Queen Anne, appoints Lord Cornbury governor, 104; resemblance of Lord Cornbury to, 104 |
| Race, effect on parties, 75 |
| Race prejudice, early, 49 |
| Races, mixture of, 14 |