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Partition Street, 344. See also Fulton Street

Party politics: in Britain, 111-12, 114, 115, 116

in colonial New York, 112, 116

and Hunter’s administration, 116

in revolutionary New York, 219-22

and taxes, 219. See also specific party

Passaic, New Jersey, 662

Passaic Steam Laundry Factory, 1128

Paternalism, 142-44, 356, 392, 894, 1176, 1196, 1207

Paterson, New Jersey, 662

Patriarchalism, 89, 284

Patriarchs, 963

Patriarch’s Balls, 1071, 1072, 1102, 1181

Patronage: of art, 687

in Britain, 195

in Brooklyn, 1192

in early nineteenth century, 330, 520

and Good Government, 1190, 1192, 1194, 1206

in late nineteenth century, 950, 1027-28, 1107-8, 1190, 1192, 1194, 1206

in mid-nineteenth century, 621, 784, 824-25, 826, 829, 832, 836-37, 850

and Panic of 1857, 850

and reform, 829

and Tammany, 824-25, 826

and Wood, 832, 836-37

Patroonships, 28–29, 78, 151-52

Paulus Hook (New Jersey), 229, 234, 241-42, 261

Pavonia, 28, 37, 38

Pawnbrokers, 638, 749

Peabody bank, 1047

Peace Convention, 886

Peace Democrats, 885, 886, 887, 896, 902, 903

Peach War, 68

Pearl Street, 864

architecture on, 446

book stores on, 683

and British evaculation from New York, 260

in colonial New York, 107, 111, 113, 126, 171, 176, 177

in early nineteenth century, 335, 338, 339, 340, 347, 429, 430, 437-38, 439, 446, 455, 460, 467, 473, 481, 533

Edison’s works on, 1065

in 1830s, 561, 596, 600, 612, 614, 615

as indian land, 8

in late nineteenth century, 944, 945, 1065, 1130

in mid-nineteenth century, 256, 653, 655, 683, 702, 805

in New Amsterdam, 30, 50, 52, 64

parades on, 430

in post-revolutionary New York, 273, 277, 296-97

in proprietary New York, 79, 87

prostitutes on, 805

as River Road, 113

in 1790s and early 1800s, 392

utilities on, 439, 1065

and Washington’s inauguration, 296-97. See also Queen Street

Peck and Carpenter shipyards, 341

Peck Slip, 177, 318, 368, 582

Peck Street, 437-38

Peddlers, 740

Peep shows, 1134

Pelham, 1232

Pelham Neck, 37

Pell Street, 364, 1129, 1131

Pell’s Point (Pelham Bay Park), 242

Penitentiaries. See Jails; Prisons

Penitentiary Wharf, 507

Pennsylvania: American troops from, 235, 236-37

blacks in, 88

coal from, 431, 662, 721

Dutch exodus to, 105

immigrants to, 130, 132

Indians in, 69

and Leister’s reburial, 112

oil to, 874, 1045

and ratification of Constitution, 291, 293

and recession in colonial New York, 150

slavery in, 285

Tories in, 258

trade with, 247

and West Indies trade, 150

Whiskey insurrection in, 322. See also Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Rail Road, 873

Penny Bridge, 751

People’s Party, 985, 1019, 1204-5

Pequot Indians, 23, 37, 39

Pequot War (1637), 37, 39

Perth Amboy, New Jersey, 737

Pesthouse, 181, 357, 503, 504

Peter Remsen and Company, 596

Petersfield, 178, 389

Petticoat Lane. See Marketfield Street

Pfaff’s bar, 796, 872

Pfizer Company, 661

Phalon’s Hair-Dressing Establishment, 671

Pharmaceutical industry, 875

Phelps, Dodge and Company, 434, 875, 1016

Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, 1034

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: banks in, 277, 571, 572, 575

constitutional convention in, 288

electoral procedures in, 152-53

epidemics in, 354, 357, 595

as federal capital, 305

as financial center, 571

geological history of, 4

and Great Fire of 1835, 598

Jews in, 134

merchants to, 134

and Panic of 1857, 843

population of, 122, 172, 194

postal service to, 107

and railroads, 655, 656

and ratification of constitution, 293

resistance to British policies in, 207

Revere rides to, 216

stock market in, 569

and Tea Act, 215

Tories taken to, 227

and trade, 93-94, 120-21, 122, 207

wealth of, 122. See also Continental Congress

Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, 1185

Philanthropy, 380-85, 620-21, 778. See also Charity

Philharmonic Society (Brooklyn), 724

Philippines, 1211

Philipsburgh Manor, 105, 128

Philosophes, 376-77. See also specific person

Phocion Letters (Hamilton), 273-75,