Peter, Thomas, army appointment for brother, letter, 120; letters to, 196,
309, 353, 452; tobacco notes, 197, 309; wife, 292n; Woodstock
Manor, 298n; Mount Vernon, 353, 378; hemp seed, 452; son, 452.
Peter, Walter G., acknowledgments to, 125 n, 1977, 452n.
Petersburg, Va., Pinckney reception, 91.

Peterson, —, shipmaster, 491.

Pettit, Charles, letter to, 549; Mercer affair, bills of exchange, 549, 550.
Peyton, Craven, Fairfax affairs, 502.

Peyton, Francis, Mercer affair, 516, 521, 561.

Peyton, Capt. Garnett, selection of army officers, 242n.

Philadelphia, letters from, 14-58, 510, 555, 559, 574, 575; artillery com-
panies for defense, 39; yellow fever (1799), 352, 355-

Philadelphia campaign, American movement into Pennsylvania, 540;
awaiting development of British plans, 540; care of sick, 541; bag-
gage, 541.

Philadelphia College. See Pennsylvania, University of.

Pichon, Louis André, baron, American negotiations, 142n.
Pickering, Timothy, secretary of state, and commander in chief, 21; let-
ters to, 91, 126, 132, 141, 153, 322, 329, 354, 395, 418, 439, 575; Wash-
ington's foreign correspondence, 91; on Gerry's conduct, letter, 126,
126n, 129; classes of information, 132; on commercial negotiations,
132n; new French mission, 142, 329, 395, 418; yellow fever medi-
cine, 153, 154; Aurora's charges, 323, 324; suggestion for federal
capital, 346, 354; break with Adams, 4287; Woodward, 439, 440;
adjutant general, 542; Board of War, 543n; dispatches abroad, 575.
Piercy, James, letter to, 449; sugar, 449, 450.

Pinckney, Gen. Charles Cotesworth, conferences, 12, 25, 32; letters to,
14, 17, 75, 166, 170, 219, 325, 416; military queries to, 14-17; selec-
tion of officers, 34, 73–75, 242; liaison, field of control, 61, 62, 138;
Mount Vernon, 75; Petersburg reception, 91; return home, 166;
Washington and reports, 167; Georgia frontier garrisons, 167, 219;
jackasses, 170; aides, 220, 326, 334; plumes, 325, 334; movements,
372, 416; wife's illness, and duties, 373, 409; cantonments, 416.
Pinckney, Mary (Stead), illness, 373, 409, 416.

Pinckney, Thomas, Mount Vernon, 170; jackasses, 170, 172; influences
on British mission appointment, 429.

Pintard, John Marsden, wine for Mount Vernon, 583, 584.

Pitt, William, commercial negotiations, 132n.

Pittsburgh, Pa., magazines, 45. See also Fort Pitt.

Plaster of Paris, as fertilizer, purchase, 448-451, 455, 464. -

Plumes, for army officers, 169, 325, 334.

Politics, Langhorne affair, 81; threats of disaster, 428; pamphlets, 576.

See also Republican party.

Pollard, Gov. John, acknowledgment to, 422 n.

Pomona College Library, material from, 574 n.
Pool family, as neighbors, 122-124.
Pope, Bessie, letter possessed by, 217n.

Porcupine's Gazette, to Mount Vernon, 577.
Porterfield, Robert, army appointment, 228.

Portmanteau, for Washington's uniform, 129.

Portraits, Buxton's print, 217.

Posey, Gen. Thomas, selection of army officers, 242n, 255.
Postilions, hats, 451.

Potatoes, culture, in rotation, 464, 465.

Potomac Navigation Company, Washington's gift stock, disposal in will,
280; failure, 281n; Washington's faith, statement in will, 293, 311,
315, 330 Washington's bought stock, 301; meetings, 309, 459; lack
of progress, 311, 315; Virginia representative, 315, 319n, 329; relief,
state aid, 330, 449, 456, 457.

Potomac River, Washington's land on upper, value, use, 296, 339, 454,
505; mud as fertilizer, 466; direct English shipments, 491.

Potts Grove, Pa., letter from, 541.

Powell, Col. Levin, letters to, 274, 418n; selection of officers, 274, 336;
cutting box, 418n.

Powell, William H., army appointment, 255.

Power of attorney, recording, 509.

Powles Hook, N. J., post, 528, 529.

Prescott,, shingles, 580.

Presidency, Washington and candidacy for 1800, 312-314, 349, 428 n;
travel to and from Mount Vernon, 570, 575-577; settling accounts,
577. See also Adams, John.

President of Congress, letter to (1776), 524.

Presidential mansion, moving into, at Philadelphia, 570-572; servants,
571; status of slave servants, 573; clearing, disposal of furniture,
576-578; rent, 578; preparing for Adams, 578.

Presqú' Isle. See Erie.

Price, Sir Uvedale, letter to, 122; essays, gift, 122, 248.

Price, William, letters to, 433, 450; Difficult Run land, 433, 450.

Prices, wheat and flour, 102, 135, 151, 186, 221, 426; jackasses, 103; to-
bacco, 492.

Prior, Allyn, letter to, 415; Washington's land on the Ohio, 416.

Proclamation of 1763, enforcement, 488; Hillsborough's attitude, 506.
Promotion, provisional army, regulations, 51, 273; irregular, 161–163,
191; general officers, Wilkinson, 246, 247, 271; Revolution, foreign
volunteers, Conway, 541.

Providence, protection, 78; trust, 94, 526.
Providence, R. I., letter from, 523.

Provisions, lack in Westchester movement, 534; contract system, 5577.
See also Ration.

Prowell, Maj. Joseph, letter to, 548n.

Prussing, Eugene E., Estate of George Washington, 277n; on Washing-
ton's emancipated slaves, 277n; acknowledgment to, 4197.
Public debt, Washington's stock, 301; federal district loan, 455.
Pumpkins, culture, 463, 465, 470.

Purveyor, office of military, 43; Francis, 352.

Putnam, Col. Rufus, engineer, New Jersey works, 527.

Quartermaster department, uniform, 52. See also Wilkins, John.
Quartermaster general, provisional army, duties, 43; inadequate provi-
sion, 57; Revolution, Kalb and appointment, importance, 545.
Quarters. See Winter quarters.

Raids, British, expected Connecticut, 552.

Rake, mechanical, 196, 220.

Ramnitz, Dr. John Frederick, yellow fever medicine, 153-155, 355; letter

to, 154.

Ramsay, Andrew, letter to, 135n.

Ramsay, William, letter to, 1357.

Randolph, Capt. Archibald Cary, army appointment, 178, 182, 191, 202.
Randolph, Edmund, letter to, 562; Mercer affair, letter, 562-565; educa-
tion of son, 572; slaves in Pennsylvania, 573; Supreme Court opinion
on neutrality, 575.

Randolph, John, departs, 517; Mercer affair, 562.

Rank, relative regimental, 58, 189, 201, 235, 239, 361-363; field officers,
202; regulations, 273.

Ratification, Virginia and New Hampshire, 569, 570; Alexandria cele-
bration, 569; remaining states, 569, 570.

Ration, basis of supply, 22, 41; for recruits, 41; composition, 54-56.

INDEX

627

Rawlins,

overseer, 474.

Rawlins, Albin, draft written by, 183n; survey, 253n; clerk, duties, 432,

474; bears letter, 446.

Raystown, Pa., letter from, 482.

Reading, Pa., Philadelphia campaign sick, 541.

Reconciliation, Howe mission, Washington's comment, 532.

Recruiting, quotas and rendezvous, 15, 40, 41; command, 62; delay, re-
sults, Adams and Hamilton on, 137-139, 157, 159, 160, 168, 171, 175,
189-191, 1907, 192n; arrangement, 181, 182, 190; progress, 228,
242, 246, 326, 334, 373; Revolution, independent company, 538.
See also Winter quarters.

Red Hook, N. Y., post, 529.

Reed, Joseph, letters written by, 528n, 531n; Board of War, 543 n.
Reed & Ford, Washington's bank stock, 251 n.

Regiments, organization, 46-49; numbered, 53.

Republican party, Washington on purpose and conduct, 66, 72, 88, 93,
126, 156, 248, 323, 326, 348.

Returns and rolls, British and American force at siege of Boston, 511,
512; American strength (August 1776), 528.

Rhode Island, officers from, 1927; and ratification, 570.

Rhode Island Historical Society, material from, 324 n.

Richmond, Va., Washington's lots, will on, 283; letter from, 572.

Rifle, Ferguson, 56.

Riflemen, in provisional army, 15, 56; siege of Boston, 513.

Riggs, E. Francis, acknowledgment to, 251 n.

Rings, Washington mourning, 287.

Ritchie, Matthew, estate, Pennsylvania land payment, 146, 251-253, 315,

319, 439, 579.

Rivardi, Maj. John Jacob Ulrich, Niagara post, 139, 141; letter to, 141;
as engineer, 209, 224; artillery command, 583.

River Farm, slaves, 262, 263; bequest, 287, 289; plans for rotation, 463–
472.

Roads, Forbes route, 481, 483.

Roberts, William, miller, conduct and rehiring, 237, 238, 274, 347, 354;
letters to, 237, 274, 310, 347; flour, 310; land dispute, 310.

Robey, Richard, army appointment, 242n.

Robinson, John, character, 179.

Robinsons House, N. Y., letter from, 551.

Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de, Washing-
ton at Newport, 553; reunion of armies, 558.

Rochefontaine, Gen. Mathieu Alexis de, Trenton lines, 537.

Rocky Mount, N. C., arsenal, 45-

Rodney, George Brydges, baron, fleet at New York, 551.

Rootes, John, military land grant, 82, 299n.

Rootes, Philip, letter to, 82; land, 82.

Rosegill, Wormeley estate, 431.

Rosenbach, Abraham S. W., acknowledgments to, 126n, 131n, 214n,
233n, 341n, 389n, 454n.

Ross, James, Washington's Pennsylvania land, 251-253, 579, 580; letter
to, 252; candidacy, 400.

Rotation in cropping, at Mount Vernon, for 1799, 1; basis on corn crop,
1; importation of seed, quality, 458; necessity, precision, 460, 461,
471, 472; instructions, 463-470; order, 464.

Rough Creek, Ky., Washington's land, value, 156, 299, 320–322.
Round Botton, W. Va. (Va.), Washington's land, value, 297; rival claim,
497.

Roy, Ensign James, escort of Indians, 478.

Royal Gift, jackass, death, 104.

Russell, James, draft, 338, 340.

Russell, William, letters to, 85, 216; ram, hogs, 85, 216; chaff machine,
posthole borer, 85.

Russia, commercial negotiations, 132n.

Rutledge, Gov. Edward, letter to, 355; gun carriage improvement, 355.
Rye, exchange for whiskey, 212, 389, 415; culture, in rotation, 463–465,

470.

St. Clair, Gen. Arthur, Trenton lines, 537; Ticonderoga, court-martial,
540.

St. Clair, Sir John, Forbes route, 481.

St. Marys River, artillery company for defense, 40.

Salley, Alexander S., acknowledgment to, 479n.

Santo Domingo, trade, 221, 231.

Sargent, Col. Paul Dudley, Trenton lines, 537.
Saunderson,, shipmaster, 490.

Savage, Edward, letter to, 255; prints, 255.

Savannah, Ga., artillery company for defense, 39.

Scammell, Col. Alexander, joint campaign (1781), 553.
Schott, Hubert M., acknowledgment to, 538n.