Oglethorpe, James, character, 259; founds Georgia, 259, 260; campaign against Florida Spaniards, 262, 269, 278.
Ohio Company, its colonization efforts, 283.
Pacific ocean, crossed by prehistoric vessels, 2; effect on American exploration, 26, 27, 70; discovery by Balboa, 26.
-- slope, north-shore flora, 2; difficulties of colonizing, 3; geography, 3, 4, 6, 7; early Spanish explorations, 28, 29; Spanish missions, 31; Drake's explorations, 37.
Palatinate War. _See_ King William's War.
Paper money, governors oppose its issue, 272-274, 278, 289.
Parish, the, in England, 55, 57; in the South, 56.
Patroon system, in New York, 198-200; in Delaware, 207, 208.
Pawtuxet, R. I., founded, 160; the Gorton case, 160, 161.
Penn, William, secures grant of Delaware, 210; interested in New Jersey, 212, 213, 215; secures grant of Pennsylvania, 215; his government, 216; relations with Indians, 216, 217; boundary disputes with Maryland, 86; on American climate, 220; supported by aristocrats, 224; introduces physicians, 225; imports Germans, 230; plan for colonial union, 270; death, 217; his heirs resist taxation of their lands, 273, 274.
--, Admiral Sir William, father of foregoing, 215, 240.
Pennsylvania, settlements, 208, 209, 215; geography, 219; social classes, 222-224; occupations, 224, 225; trade and commerce, 225, 226; life and manners, 227-229; education, 229; religion, 108, 229, 230; crime and pauperism, 231; political conditions, 232, 280, 281; annexation of Delaware, 210, 216; development, 216, 217; witchcraft delusion, 192; boundary disputes, 86, 268; disagreement between governor and assembly, 273, 274; Indian affairs, 170, 277; paper money, 278; characteristics, 217; influence of Virgina ideas, 280; population (1700), 221, 222, (1750) 265, 266.
Pequod Indians, uprising of, 136, 137, 140-142.
Philadelphia, first medical school, 184; commerce, 185, 226; first insane hospital, 231; arrival of Scotch, 269; characteristics, 228.
Philip's War, in New England, 169-172, 188.
Phipps, Sir William, governor of Massachusetts, 177, 275, 276; captures Port Royal, 254.
Pilgrims, their staying qualities, 43; in Holland, 115-117; voyage of "Mayflower," 117, 118; settlement of Plymouth, 118-120; land-grant on the Hudson, 197.