P

Paca, William, 172, 250

Page, John, 106, 440

Paine, Reverend Ephraim, 275

Paine, Robert Treat, 32, 134, 264

Paine, Thomas, 5, 135–40, 143, 155, 164, 165–66, 168, 180, 233, 234, 261, 359, 371, 377, 402, 403, 436, 460;

“African Slavery in America,” 136;

Common Sense,137–39, 141, 143, 147, 150, 153, 164–65, 426;

The Crisis,198–99;

“Forester’s Letters,” 165–66,

Public Good,371

Palmer, Robert R. (The Age of the Democratic Revolution, A Political History of Europe and America 1760–1800. Vol. 1: The Challenge),425–26, 446, 449, 452–53, 460

Patterson, Eleazer, 416, 417

Patterson, Attorney General William, 424–25, 428

Peale, Charles Willson, 261, 359, 436

Pendleton, Edmund, 106, 154, 155, 369, 435

Penn, John, 126, 168, 270, 427

Pennsylvania Assembly, 161, 163, 166, 167, 168, 169, 257, 350;

“Anti-Constitutionalists,” 261, 262, 387;

Committee of Privates, 163–64;

constitution of 1776, 257–62;

“Constitutionalists,” 261, 387;

Philadelphia Committee, 166, 167

People the Best Governors,149

Phelps, Charles, 267, 419

Phillips, Gen. William, 208, 344

Pickins, Col. Andrew, 309, 317, 324, 330, 331, 335, 338, 339, 340

Pitcairn, Maj. John, 41–42

Pitt, William, 236

Pitt, William the Younger, 22

“Plan of 1776,” 233, 235

Pointe Aux Trembles, 51

Presbyterians, 66, 69, 87, 309

Prevost, Gen. Augustine, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312

Price, Reverend Richard (Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty),237–38, 447

Princeton University (College of New Jersey), 51, 170, 248

Proclamation of Rebellion, 117, 150, 153

Prohibitory Act, 238

Pulaski, Count Casimir, 120, 312

Pulaski, Count Joseph, 120

Purviance, Samuel, 92

Putnam, Israel, 39, 41, 188, 189, 190, 191, 193, 195, 216

Pyle, Col. John, 335, 336